San Antonio Livestock Show to Feature Gillespie County Scenes
The 1953 San Antonio Livestock Exposition souvenir program will highlight Gillespie County. Photographers captured ranch scenes during visits to local farms and 4 H and FFA activities, including branding, dehorning, and roundups. The group also photographed rural recreation with a duck-hunting scene where three ducks were bagged. Packaging noted tuberculosis case costs estimated at 700 to 750 dollars nationally.
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San Antonio
Gillespie County
San Antonio Livestock Exposition
Clinton Hardin
A. A. Welgehausen
Felix Haun
Otto Welgehausen
August Land
FFA
Chamber of Commerce
Wm. Petmecky
C. A. Stone
Joe Tatum
Warren Percy
Lucille Conrads
Petmecky
Keysers and Greenwaldts to Go to New York
Dr. and Mrs. Lester Keyser and Rev. and Mrs. C A Greenwaldt will spend six weeks in New York City beginning late December 1952. They plan post graduate psychiatry studies and seminary work then travel to Washington for the presidential inauguration.
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Lester Keyser
C. A. Greenwaldt
New York City
Greenwaldt
Kansas City
Keyser
St. Louis
New York
New York University
Rev. Greenwaldt
Union Theological Seminary
Washington, D. C
Heavy Cattle Movement at Gillespie County Sale
Cattle and sheep auction at Gillespie County Livestock Sales Company Wednesday saw steady bidding and favorable prices. Stocker cattle tops reached 22.25 per hundred with common stockers at 15.40. stocker cows 120 per head. butcher yearlings 16.25. canners 12.30. bulls 17.25. Lambs 8.50 to 14.30 per hundred. ewes 7.25 to 8 per head. nannies 7.25 per hundred to 10.50 each. bucks 9.75 per hundred. goats nannies 7.25 per hundred to 10.50 each. muttons 8 per head. Spanish goats with billies 7 per hundred and nannies 9 each. Notable sales include W. F. Patillo stocker calf 22.25 and E. Moellendorf butcher yearling 16.25.
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Gillespie County Livestock Sales Company
W. F. Patillo
Houston
E. Moellendorf
Fredericksburg
Charley Matthews
Llano
Edmund Fiedler
Harper
Conservationist in Lower Palo Alto group praises practices
The record notes a landowner in the Lower Palo Alto Soil Conservation Group praising soil conservation methods for dramatic land improvement. Mrs. Hansen, former Miss Mary Neal Brodie, is identified as a member while the Kurt Hansens, parents of Carol and Chrissy, are active Bethany Lutheran Church members with Mr. Hansen having served on the church council.
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Palo Alto
Hansen
Mary Neal Brodie
Louis Brodie
Waldemar Hansens
Kurt Hansens
Carol
Chrissy
Bethany Lutheran Church
Church Council
Hill Country Day At S A Livestock Exposition Feb 23
Hill Country Day will be observed at the San Antonio Livestock Show on Monday February 23. Wm Petmecky C of C manager has been named Hill Country Chairman for 14 counties to receive special tribute. Special entertainment features and a rodeo that night are planned with local entertainers invited. E W Bickett president of the exposition announced Petmecky’s appointment to the Special Events Committee.
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Wm. Petmecky
C of C
E. W. Bickett
Petmecky
Board of Supervisors Meet Plans for January Convention
The Board of Supervisors met Tuesday afternoon December 16 in the Agriculture Building with all five members present. They discussed attending the State Convention of the Association of Soil Conservation District Supervisors at Mineral Wells January 22 and 23 and approved constructing a grass seeder for spring plantings.
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Board of Supervisors
Association of Soil Conservation District
Mineral Wells
Conservation board approves Eleven plans this year
The board approved eleven conservation plans bringing the yearly total to 180. A year-end report will be issued after January. Landowners report good legume stands. warm weather is needed for root establishment. Some early seeded fields are being grazed as benefits of legumes are highlighted. The board thanks supporters and wishes a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year.
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Board of Supervisors
Operation Santa mobile shops aid soldiers in Korea
The Army rolled out Operation Santa a Christmas shopping tour with ten mobile post exchanges in the Korea war zone. Soldiers picked over 49 000 gifts from 60 cent earrings to 199 dollar silverware, and orders were moved to Yokohama for wrapping and mailing by 30 Army civilians and 70 Japanese staff.
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Post Exchange
Yokohama
Japan
Department of Army
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Hugo Feuge
Keysers
Greenwaldts
Holly
Anderson Construction Company
Rancho
Ike Hargrove
Rickey Gene
Mickey Dene
Hargrove
First Baptist Church
Hillbury
TY Rmi
Rea
Kurt Hansen
St Andarb
K-W
Kurt Wallendorf
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Korea
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