Baron's Creek Wins 71st Schuetzenfest Team Title
Rudy Real of Baron's Creek shot 98 to capture Schuetzenkoenig and lead Baron's Creek to the Standard team trophy at the 71st Gillespie Schuetzenfest on Bear Creek Range. Klein won the center-fire 22 crown with 89, while teammates and rivals earned top scores in a hot two day event.
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Rudy Real
Edgar Klein
Bear Creek Range
Real
San Antonio
Homer Martin
Atlee Lochte
Henry Schmidt
Klein
Center-Fire
Alvin Heimann
Charles Schmidtzinsky
Helmuth Klinksick
Frederick Stehling
Tivydale Club
Chester Kasper
Werner Feller
Baron’s Creek
Scharfschuetzen
Grapetown
Tivydale
Hubertus
Bear Creek
Claude Nobles
Wesley Welgehausen
F. C. Lochte
Guenther Lochte
Scharfschuetzen Club
Willie J. Frantzen
Rubin Wunderlich
Schuetzenkoenig
Barons Creek
Otto Welgenausen
Atlee Lociste
Scharfschuetzer
Gillespie County Tops Nation in Buying Power Study
Nationwide Sales Management survey shows Gillespie County with rising retail volume and higher per household income. Local merchants posted $17,442,000 in sales for the year, up from $15,755,000, with per household income averaging $4,945 after taxes. The gains spanned durable goods, apparel, home decor, travel, and services.
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Gillespie County
Sandra Fikes Crowned Gillespie County Farm Bureau Queen
Sandra Fikes 16, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Fikes, was crowned Gillespie County Farm Bureau Queen at the Community Savings Center Hall before a large crowd. Runner-up Paula Phillips, also 16, will be a Fredericksburg High junior. seven contestants competed. Talent winners included Ricky Burgess and Sharon Langehennig. both will advance to district contests in Brownwood on August 28.
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Sandra Fikes
Gillespie County Farm Bureau
Sharon Hodges
Sandra
Homer Fikes
Rheingold
Community Savings Center
Fredericksburg High School
Paula Phillips
Paul Phillips
FHS
Linda Gass
Judy Ahrens
Linda Patranelli
Sharon Arlitt
Carol Wahrmund
Ricky Burgess
Sharon Langehennig
George Riba
Mary Jane Crenwelge
Queen
Brownwood
Tommie Meier
Kenneth Pahl
Steven Klein
Dennis Meyer
H. F. Treptow
Bethany Lutheran Church
Chester Koennecke
Farm Bureau
Ken Loyd
Texas Electric Cooperatives of
Austin
Curtis Eckhardt
Mary Jane
Irene Crenwelge
Rickey Burgess
Terry Langehennig
Ronnie Immel
Blanco
Fred Hannemann
Kerrville
Dan Adams
Rural Electrification Loan Approved for Central Texas Coop
Senator Ralph Yarborough and Congressman O. C. Fisher announced a 1.616 million dollar Rural Electrification Administration loan to Central Texas Electric Cooperative. Funds will build 124 miles of distribution lines serving 858 new customers and add 59 miles of tie lines upgrades, plus two 5 000 KVA substations and new office and construction equipment. The loan supports converting lines, increasing transformer capacity, purchasing meters and transformers, and widening rights of way within the cooperative area.
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Ralph Yarborough
O. C. Fisher
Rural Electrification Administration
Central Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc
Wilbur Durst
Mason
C.T.E.C
W. C. McWilliams
Fredericksburg
McWilliams
Castell
Hot Dry Weather Drives City Water Use Up
City water demand surged in the past month as hot dry conditions kept pumps running. Walter Fuhrmann the water superintendent said 46 million gallons were pumped, near the record but six million short of August 1964’s 52 million.
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Walter Fuhrmann
TAGRA Show & Sale Opens Here Thursday
The 47th Annual Show and Sale of the Texas Angora Goat Raisers Association comes to Gillespie County Fair Grounds Thursday to Saturday with over 400 Angoras, the largest in history. Judging starts Thursday at 9 30 a m and top sales bucks and does are selected, with events continuing Friday.
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Gillespie County Fair
Texas Angora Goat Raisers Association
Fair Grounds
The
American Goat Breeders Assn
Cindy Williams
Mineral Wells
Gunn Family Awaits Word Of Son S Return
The Gunn family waiting in Marble Falls for Dan Gunn 22 killed in Viet Nam July 23. War Department will notify 48 hours before his body arrives for funeral arrangements. Dan attended Fredericksburg high, 1962, worked at Keidel Drug Store. He is survived by his parents three sisters and three brothers.
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Dan Gunn
Viet Nam
Josephine Gunn
Marble Falls
Austin
War Department
Gunn
Fredericksburg
FHS
Keidel Drug Store
State Grange Opens 32nd Convention Here Sunday
The Texas State Grange opens its four day annual meeting in the Community Savings and Loan Building with registration and a variety show Sunday evening. Jack H. Barton of the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Houston will be principal speaker at the banquet Tuesday night.
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Texas State Grange
Community Savings and Loan
Frank Knight
Jack H. Barton
Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Houston
Mercedes Kiles
Barton
Kaufman County
Texas A & M College
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Texas
Houston Federal Intermediate Credit Bank
American Motors Conservation
Federal Intermedite Credit Bank of Houston
C. Jerome Davis
Davis
Edgar Marshall
James H. Barton
Community Savings Center
Knight
Austin Policeman Who Felled Sniper Named Local Hero
Ramiro Martinez a 29 year old Austin police officer who shot the University of Texas tower sniper on Monday afternoon is identified as the son in law of Mr and Mrs Anton Schmidtzinsky of Austin His wife Vernell Schmidtzinsky is the sister in law and the Martinez family are relatives of the Schmidtzinsky clan as the incident unfolds with family amid the city’s shock and relief.
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Austin
Ramiro Martinez
University of Texas
Anton Schmidtzinsky
Vernell Schmidtzinsky
Alfons Brodbeck
Ramiro Martinezes
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Baron's Creek
Post Office
Congress
Gillespie
REA Okehs
CTEC
Tagra Show & Sale
Son
State Grange
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