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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1971
Page
1
The 125th anniversary events will run May 6 to 9 with a four day program. An 8 page blue invitation including the 1896 parade image and full event schedule goes on sale Monday for 25 cents at Fredericksburg Publishing, the Radio Post, and the 125th Committee office.
The 125th Anniversary Committee will select beard contest winners at a gala in Turner Hall on April 16 with Pehl's Old Time Band providing music. The event precedes the May celebration and offers prizes including a $50 Meusebach first prize and two $25 runners up plus trophies for heaviest, most unusual, and best groomed beards.
The city marks its 125th anniversary with front page news and a complete four day events program on page 8. A commemorative plate with an 1846 date error sold briskly. a corrected shipment arrives mid April. Float designs were approved by 20 groups, entries due by May 1, with no late entries. Continued on Page 4, Sec. 1.
A damaged OCR fragment mentions a P O Box 45456 in Dallas Texas 75255 with unclear names and purpose. The readable portion indicates a postal return style address but lacks action or deadline details.
Easter Fires will burn on the hills around Fredericksburg at 7 30 p m Saturday as over 500 performers present a pageant at Gillespie County Fair Grounds. The show blends the Easter Bunny fable with religious themes and features Boy Scouts aiding fires and a vivid hillside tableau with Indians colonists and a frontier tale.
Fredericksburg Public Schools prepare a two night pageant May 7 and 8 titled Fredericksburg Through One Hundred Twenty Five Years. Elementary and intermediate students sing German folk and patriotic songs reenacting the town’s early history.
Thelma McDaniel Phillips, head librarian at Pioneer Memorial Library, was named Librarian of the Year by the Texas Library Association at its Corpus Christi convention. The award honored her state wide service and advisory work on the Library Systems Act Rules.
The 125th anniversary celebration features a home pilgrimage to historic city houses on May 8 from 9am to noon and May 9 from 2pm to 6pm. Tickets at Pioneer Home and Store or participating houses, $2 adults, 75c students, under 10 free with adult. Brochures map sites including Nimtz Museum and Lyndon B. Johnson birthplace.
In Fredericksburg Independent School District the board elected two newcomers Elmer Bierschwale and William Lee Smith while Weston Luckenbach was defeated. Smith received 91 votes and Dr. Kurt Poehlmann 79 votes. Luckenbach 71 and Kenneth Brown 33. New members will be sworn in tonight.
The Fredericksburg Volunteer Fire Department sponsors a Miss Flame contest to choose a successor by appearance and poise. Judges from out of town will select the winner on Monday night April 12 at 8 pm in City Hall. Contenders must be junior girls from Fredericksburg or St. Mary’s High Schools and wear formal dresses.
The spring term of Second 38th District Court convenes here Monday with a grand jury report at 9 a m. Listed jurors include Harald Stehling A C East Hilmar Weinheimer Jr and others. Civil docket begins Monday April 19 and criminal docket on April 26 per District Judge Marvin Blackburn.
The Hill Country Memorial Hospital has been accepted as an Active Institutional Member of the Texas Hospital Association. Membership signals high standards and ethical operation, with access to legal counsel in Austin and collaboration through Group Hospital Service and related programs.
Rainfall data shows 8 for the week and 1.0 total for the year. April 7 low reached 28 degrees and April 3 high reached 74 degrees. The figures compare with last year’s totals.
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