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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1967
Page
6
Plans outline a Sunday September 17 event at the Wermann Sons Hall. Advertised details emphasize attendance and pre sale pricing from 4 to 5.
The Texas Department of Public Safety warns 45 deaths expected during Labor Day weekend as officers conduct a large enforcement drive. Radar sets will be deployed statewide to enforce speed limits, with about 12 000 officers aiding the effort and 200 toll-free patrols. Speeding caused 4 percent of total accidents and 29 percent of non fatal incidents.
Vickers Yates Bennett Jr. remains in Vietnam at Phu Cat with the CS armed servicers for several weeks. His wife Elizabeth Anne Evers, now living with her parents Alonzo and Mrs. Evers, works at Knopp and Metz Department Store.
Stephen Feller and companions faced an incident described as Jolest by Shei Sunvilies. Several years of tensions ended this Friday at the Fair. The event occurred at the home of Br. and Mrs. Lawence Feller with friends in attendance.
The Butt-Holdsworth Memorial Library in Kerrville was dedicated on Saturday August 26 with First Lady Lady Bird Johnson as speaker. Mrs Johnson planted a tree grown from an acorn of the David Crockett Oak on the Alamo Grounds at the $750000 facility. The project was funded by Mr and Mrs E Butt of Corpus Christi and a federal grant of $231000 with arts support.
A station wagon and many personal belongings of Ysabel Gonzales of Corpus Christi were burned in a noon hour fire near the Mason Gillespie County line. The vehicle suffered total loss except for the motor and two front tires. A coop of chickens on the tailgate was destroyed. A U-Haul trailer towing by the car was saved. Gonzales and family, en route from New Mexico, were assisted by firemen and later transported by an acquaintance from Corpus Christi who arrived with an empty truck.
Lt. Col. Luther P. Baethge of Fredericksburg received the Air Medal on August 16 in a Fourth U.S. Army ceremony at Fort Sam Houston. He earned it for 25 aerial flights in support of combat operations in Vietnam from April to August 1966 while with the 73rd Aviation Co. Baethge, an aircraft safety inspector in the Fourth Army Aviation Detachment at Randolph AFB, has served since 1956 and also holds a Purple Heart.
Second Lieutenant Charles L. Kuenemann 25, son of Mr and Mrs Henry A Kuenemann of Fredericksburg Texas, finished an officer basic course at the Army Armor School Fort Knox Kentucky August 15. He ranked tenth in a class of 126, earned a BS at Texas A and M College in January 1966 and a Master of Education in May 1967.
Army Captain Werner N. Keidel, 24, son of Dr. and Mrs. Werner Keidel Jr, begins a year long internship at Brooke General Hospital Fort Sam Houston Texas. He is among 36 new officers rotating through surgery medicine pediatrics during the program and earned his MD from Tulane in 1967.
Felix Pehl's Old Time Brass Band will play on Friday September 8 for the opening night dance of the Guadalupe County Fair in Seguin.
Mr and Mrs Hans Hannemann Linda Hannemann and Kenneth Liandig were in Dallas Monday for the snowing of the entire new Dodge line of trucks and cars.
Nathan Hannemann departed Tuesday for duty with the U S Air Force in Istanbul Turkey. His mother Mrs Lillie Hannemann and Mrs Henry Itri accompanied him from San Antonio to the departure point.
Williams Creek Watershed Sites 3 and 4 received final approval after completion last week. Final inspection was conducted by Hugh Lackey of the Fredericksburg SCS unit, with Troy Foster and Robert Gammon overseeing the process. Sites lie on Otto Schumann Edwin Itz land and Truman Odiorne land. Contracts for Sites 1 and 2 are pending.
Kenneth Kruse and Frederick Kruse sons of Mr and Mrs Bill Kruse are home on a 25 day leave arriving from California August 2 Kenneth just returned from a tour in Guam Frederick is stationed at Travis Air Force Base San Francisco California
Eldon R. Kothmann earned a Bachelor of Science in agricultural education from Texas Technological College in Lubbock on August 26. He made the Dean's Honor Roll in spring and will teach at a San Antonio high school this fall. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Silas Rothmann of Mason, with Glenda his sister, and Edmund Woerner of Fredericksburg is his grandfather.
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