Miss Schmidt’s typing class notes and moves to Brackenridge High
News from All Around reports quick classroom updates. Kenneth Walter plans to transfer to Brackenridge High School in San Antonio this week. Teachers discuss busy weeks with notebooks and poetry in English and biology classes. A civics class moment notes a student answering a question. Junior Historians begin Christmas decorations while a wreath with candles decorates the hall. Mr Haas introduces algebra students to a slide rule instrument.
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Miss Schmidt
Kenneth Walter
Brackenridge High School
San Antonio
Shilling
Donie Beckman
Haas
Vanilla fundraiser boosts cups at P. E. games
Mothers of P. E. students sell vanilla extract to raise funds for two free coffee urns. The urns will be used at gym concessions during basketball games, offering hot coffee to attendees as the boys and girls prep for more wins.
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P. E
Easteric Name Shifts in Local Runoff Family Line
A list of misread or altered surnames shows siblings and relatives bearing changed forms. Names such as Willie Gaines, Erwin Weiershausen, Margaret Ann Gold, and Donie Beckmann appear with substituted occupations or middle names. The passage resembles a humorous or erroneous transcription from a genealogy or social column.
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Willie
Gaines
Twins
Erwin
Weiershausen
Margaret Ann
M. B
Humble
St. Clair
Donie
Mike
Herbert
Schumann
Marion
Robert
Reissig
Kurt
Bauer
Bower
Commercial Club Plans Christmas Party and Yuletide Gifts
The Commercial Club met in the Visual Aid Room on Tuesday November 27 and tentative plans were made for a December 17 Christmas party. Members decided to send friendship gift packages to Korean children and a short program followed with varied student acts.
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Commercial Club
Visual Aid Room
St. Nicholas Is Coming
A child friendly notice announces St. Nicholas will come on December 6 and fill good children’s socks with treats. It urges boys and girls to be well behaved and warns socks may remain empty if misbehaving.
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St. Nicholas
St. Nick
Willie’s Defiant Reply in School Scene
A student named Willie responds with a sneer when asked why he won’t answer questions in class. He suggests he would not attend if he could reveal the rules, implying possible defiance or misbehavior in school.
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Willie
FHS Band Prepares Concert After Christmas
The band works on concert music for an unassigned date after Christmas and adds solos and trios with band accompaniment. Last Thursday they served as Pep Band for Harper Regional Football, forming U S and playing The Star Spangled Banner. On December 1 they led the Santa Claus Day parade down Main Street in full uniform.
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Harper High School
FHS
Harper
U. S
Main Street
Saint Nicholas
Coon Season Brings Sleepy Heads Back to School
The article notes many students looked sleepy returning after coon season opening on December first. It jokes that late nights spent chasing coons leave them tired at school for six weeks.
Civics class notes reveal quirky classroom glimpses
The Professor’s Notebook compiles scattered remarks about a student rumored to be "up in her clouds" and a boy named Mr Shilling who flirts, makes others blush, and triggers gossip amid a rural classroom scene.
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Voops
Shilling
Mr. Shilling
Vinny
Know Your Seniors: Gladys Jenke Profile
Gladys Jenke is a blue eyed senior in year from the Commercial Club with prior ties to Homemaking Club and Junior Historians. She has lived here six years, previously in Giddings, and was a pep squad cheerleader football player. She serves as senior class treasurer and plans unclear future yet remains popular.
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Gladys Jenke
Gladys
Giddings
Glady
Grady
Visual Aid Films In Science and English Classes
Students in science and English classes watched films from the visual aid room. Mr Walter showed an Army Air Force film on plane crash causes and Miss Yates had reels on English literature. The films proved entertaining as well as instructive.
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Visual Aid Room
Visual Aid
Mr. Walter
Birthday Wishes for Local Residents
A list of celebrants extends birthday greetings to Fredda Hodges and residents with December birthdays including Willa Mae Filter, Esther Knopp, Kurt Weinheimer, Margie Mitchell, Evelyn Crenwelge, and others.
Curious Curriculum Guzintas Joke Reveals Math Misunderstanding
A humorous exchange shows Sally explaining guzintas as two go into six three times. The mother seeks clarity while Sally asserts the idea as a math concept she studied in school.
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Sally
Real Life Arithmetic
A brief exchange features Mr. Haas asking how many flies remain after killing one of four on a table. Harvey M replies that there would be one the dead one.
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Mr. Haas
Harvey M
Weather and voting age joke in classroom dialogue
A humorous classroom exchange features Miss Yates correcting Willie on spelling weather and a quip about voting age in Texas. Roberta questions the idea, and Mr Shilling notes twenty one as the age of manhood.
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Mr. Shilling
Texas
Roberta
Teacher's Baby Talk Teaches City Founding
Miss Gold asks Hayden when Chicago was founded and Hayden responds with a puzzled remark about it being lost. The exchange captures a playful, educational moment in a classroom setting.
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Miss Gold
Hayden
Chicago
DOSS Football Fans Congratulate Harper Longhorns
Doss notes Harper Longhorns win regional six man football title with Dayton Friedrich starring as a fleet back. Coach Schultz praised for guiding a team that earned respect. recollection echoes Coach Steve Owen on born great players.
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Mason
Doss
Pfe
Richard Neffendorf, Jr
Richard Neffendorf Sr
San Francisco
Calif
Henry Baethge Jr
Rev
T. Don
Covington
Louis Crenwelge
Fredericksburg
Bernhard Crenwelge
Harper Longhorns
Schultz
Dayton Friedrich
Harper
Friedrich
Steve Owen
Longhorns
Johnson City News and Social Roundup
Continued from page 1. Rain Monday expected to aid small grain and pastures. Mr. and Mrs. George Gibson and Opal Ray visited Austin on business. Mrs. M. C. Walker and son Larry of Irving spent Thanksgiving with her parents in Johnson City. M. A. Wolf and family in Fredericksburg on business. M. D. Kitchen of San Marcos visited H. C. Klett in Johnson City. Emil Ludwig and the Rocky Community came through Johnson City Saturday. Myrta Odiorne visited Fredericksburg Saturday. Bill Hirsch and daughter Arlene of San Antonio spent the weekend with Gipson and Opal Ray. Alfred Davis Jr. and sons of Austin visited Johnson City this weekend.
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George Gibson
Opal Ray
Austin
M. C. Walker
Larry of
Irving
A. H. Casparis
M. A. Wolf
Fredericksburg
M. D. Kitchen
San Marcos
Johnson City
H. C. Klett
Emil Ludwig
W. E. Stevenson
Peanuts Move to West Cross Timbers Harvesting Stage
By 1945 combining peanuts in the West Cross Timbers area was experimental. By 1950 an estimated 90 percent of acreage was combined, reducing labor needs by about 69 percent for harvesting peanuts in the region.
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West Cross Timbers
Scouts Call Attention to Regular Meeting on December 8
Moths from eating them. Wish to call attention to all Scouts to attend their regular meeting on Saturday night, December 8. Some important business is to come before the meeting.
Willow City Social Notes Include Local Visits and Birthday Dinner
Willow City community notes list Sunday supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Gold and Dorothy among family visits by Mr. and Mrs. W. Gold and Mrs. Ed. Gold of Fredericksburg. Nora Hardin visited Chas. Young at Keidel Hospital. Young improving. Renick couple accompanied Eva Renick to San Antonio. Sagebie and family plus Sagebiel and Wilmanns hosted a birthday supper for A. G. Sagebie, with many flowers and gifts.
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F. L. Pressler
Edgar Gold
Dorothy
W. Gold
Ed. Gold
Fredericksburg
Paul Pressler Sr
Frances
June
Larry
Nora Hardin
Chas. Young
Keidel Hospital
Young
D. A. Sagebie
Barbara
V. Sagebiel
Joey
Randy
Priscilla
W. R. Wilmann
David Ray
Maso
A. G. Sagebie
Cotton disease resistant strain research in Texas program
Texas Agricultural Experimentation researchers work to develop cotton strains resistant to angular leaf spot boll blight and blackarm. The project aims to reduce crop losses by breeding disease tolerant varieties. Potential benefits include improved yields and farmer protections against fungal threats.
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Texas Agricultural Experimentation Research Workers
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