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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1952
Page
10
Gillespians of scholastic age will return to classrooms for a new nine month term. Educational facilities keep stride with progress, offering advantages comparable to any region. Regular attendance is vital as funds depend on Average Daily Attendance. Schools belong to the people and require active parental interest and constructive suggestions.
The piece notes past holiday traffic tolls from Memorial Day, July Fourth and Labor Day, urging action to reduce highway deaths. It highlights the role of drivers and mechanical defects, condemns reckless speeding, cutting in, and drinking while driving, and argues safety measures can end holiday fatalities.
The speaker argues taxation based on self assessed value would be harsher, suggesting current taxes are preferable to a system taxing perceived worth.
A Kerr County farm letter from the Pedernales Philosopher critiques editorial writers and praises Ike for admitting when he does not know. The writer jokes about marital and political honesty, urging women to become more politically astute while praising blunt public candor.
The page recounts 1929 and 1919 local events in Fredericksburg including arm injury to Master Alois Baumann. tales of visits by Frank Josephs and Henry Jordans family, a copperhead bite, and wiring work between Fredericksburg and Fredericksburg Junction. Giants baseball results against Kerrville and Johnson City, band entertainment at Comforts anniversary, rain impacts, travel by local garages, and community notices from Harper including church visits and local moves.
Loretta Young stars in Paula as a young wife who cannot bear children and helps a small orphaned boy regain speech after an accident. The Palace features other films including The Naughty Nineties Tarzan's Savage Fury and Just Across The Street with Abbott and Costello and Ann Sheridan co starring.
Kathy Davidson and Tyra Ann Cox hosted a Coke party for twenty guests in the Cox home on Tuesday morning. The serving table featured a green cloth, lupine centerpiece, and a ceramic rooster and hen while guests played games danced and acted out charades with help from their mothers Mesdames Tyrus Cox and A G Davidson.
First Lieutenant Arthur R. Petersen of Fredericksburg becomes assistant legal officer for the 3rd Marine Division at Camp Pendleton California. A 1949 St Marys University Law School graduate and former Ash and Abbott associate, he joined the Marine Corps Reserves in 1947 and went on active duty in June 1951 after completing Naval Justice School training in Newport.
German physician Robert Koch identified the tubercle bacillus in 1882 marking a milestone in tuberculosis science and diagnosis.
The Security State Bank will be closed Monday September 1 in observance of Labor Day.
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