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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1944
Page
1
The Local War Price and Rationing Board urges motorists to apply immediately for their A gas ration books. The deadline is September 21. Restaurant owners are reminded to post the 40 basic items list for the benefit of both owners and customers.
The notice sets a mailing window from September 15 to October 15 for armed forces overseas. It outlines size limits of 15 inches long and 36 inches combined length and girth, requires prepayment of full postage, and specifies Christmas cards are exempt from this period and should be mailed early enough for distant theaters.
Alex Frantzen, local insurance man, is named chairman of Gillespie County 1944 United War Chest Drive to raise 7714 between October 10 and November 11. He joins a committee including Reuben Jordan Benno Weiss Elgin Heimann and Hy Holy and attended a one day Region 8 orientation at Camp Swift with Dr H Grady Harlan and Capt H G Secrest coordinating. Col O P Houston welcomed visitors from the 17 county region as Wayland D Towner outlined orientation and the trustees discussed post hospital reconditioning led by Lt Col Russell L Deter with a weaponry demonstration.
An offer to subscribe to the Standard newspaper for two dollars per year.
The 82nd Airborne Division's parachute infantry regiment, including Sgt. Guenther Burrer, captured Ste. Mere Eglise in Normandy three hours before the Allied landing, crucial to blocking German reinforcements and opening the Cherbourg route. The mayor sought the Fourragere Frances for the regiment's stand amid heavy fighting near Fauville and Neuville au Plain as St Sauveur le Vicomte fell.
Torrential rains struck Gillespie County Tuesday and the county commission ers Court again set the county tax rate at 61 cents per hundred dollars valuation for 1944 at the budget hearing last week. The rate includes 25 cents general fund 15 cents road and bridge 10 cents special road 10 cents Courthouse and Jail bonds and 1 cent jury fund. Independent and common school district levies vary with maintenance taxes rising in two districts. State taxes rise to 55 cents per hundred, though homestead exemptions cushion small homeowners.
The Public School PTA schedules its first meeting of the new year for Friday September 8 at 4 p.m. in the school auditorium featuring Wm Petmecky on Our Town and Mayor Joe Molberg discussing Tomorrow’s Challenges. A full teacher introduction and planned hot lunch program details are announced.
Fredericksburg National and Security State banks will be closed on Monday September 4 in observance of Labor Day.
Mr and Mrs W C Westerfelt and their children stopped visiting the Christian Mathisens and have returned to their home in Austin.
Fredericksburg community officials argue airport plans will aid Kerr County and Gillespie County producers. The airport would improve peach transport and emergency travel for farmers, reducing future maintenance while linking to major centers.
The document lists ration stamp validity for MEATS FATS blue and red stamps, PROCESSED FRUITS and VEGETABLES, SUGAR and canning sugar, GASOLINE A-12 coupons, and SH OES airplane stamps. It notes indefinite validity for many items with September and February deadlines for select stamps.
The Fredericksburg Credit Bureau holds its annual membership meeting tonight at 8 p m at Nimitz Hotel with a barbecue style supper for members and wives. An arrangements committee and nominating committee are named, and Nolan Brown will speak on a message of interest. Officers urge attendance to voice input on new directors for the year, guests to bring their own utensils.
Supt A K Krause announced a long range program to upgrade Fredericksburg public schools. The plan includes hot lunch service, a full physical education program for all students, and football basketball and track. A speech department will be added, the year will be two semesters, and 70 will be the passing grade. Advanced enrollment suggests over 300 students will register in the high school.
A week long downpour drenched Gillespie County with 11.42 inches of moisture. A Tuesday night gully washer dumped 7.12 inches in 12 hours causing floods, overflowing Baron's Creek and Town Creek, inundating Braeutigam's crossing and washing out bridges in 1935's flood area. The Llano Road bridge held as waters rose, with a retaining wall near Dr. Lorence Feller's property affected.
Gillespie County district court, opened a week ago and due to run through next week, has been recessed all week for lack of cases. Court resumes Monday with civil actions and minor criminal matters possible. Last weekend saw a divorce granted in Mildred Solbrig v Ewald Solbrig with property settlement and custody awarded. Alfred Jost, minor, had disabilities removal granted in all matters except voting. Grand jury adjourned after a one-day session with no indictments.
Six Allied columns push toward Germany with Meaux, Reims, and Paris advances. Romania shifts to the Allies, Soviet troops enter Transylvania and the Danube delta, Ostrow Mazowiecka falls, Koenig takes Paris security duties, and October 1 1944 is eyed to finish the German war. Navy anticipates fighting in the Pacific through 1945.
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