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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1952
Page
25
Special services will be held in Gillespie County and vicinity to herald the Christmas season with area churches inviting participation. Local congregations plan joint and individual observances featuring carols readings and sermons to celebrate the holiday.
Frank French dominated the Christmas Country Lantern contest sweeping three first prizes at Kal l enberg s Pharmacy Quality Cash Grocery and Goodyear Service Store and took the grand Esterbrook Pen and Pencil set from the Standard. Lifton Filter placed second winning ink and brush at William Cameron Co Meanwhile local merchants awarded prizes to Helen Kott Allen Haspager Harriet Ahrens Joe Sagebiel and Susan Meurer with calls for prize pickup. Community services for Christmas Day included church programs across First Methodist Presbyterian Bethany Lutheran Hilda Methodist St Mary s Catholic Zion Lutheran Holy Ghost Trinity Stonewall Edison St Methodist Christ Lutheran St Peter s Doss and St John s Crabapple continuing into Christmas night.
A heavy rainstorm deluged Gillespie County, with up to six inches in places, flooding streams, sweeping a car off the Baron's Creek crossing on the old San Antonio road, and drowning Raymond A. Natho in the Pedernales near Johnson City. Alfred Klein of Luckenbach and Buck Smith fled the rising stream, leaving their 1939 Dodge sedan to be swept away. the car was found later buried in sand near where the creek enters the Pedernales. The Pedernales rose 16 feet at Johnson City, washing out river approaches.
The city will replace curb lights with overhead signals at five intersections on Main Street Fredericksburg in 1953. Mayor Schroeder announced after talks with the City Commission and State Highway Engineer Ed Bluestein and Mulkey Owens. The new system will suspend lights between posts at Nimitz Palace Court House Post Office and Peters Hall, with timing to be visible from both streets. Installation, costing about 9000 dollars, will be funded by the state and should take three to four months after final approval and ordered materials arrive.
Gillespie County placed second in the West Texas Chamber of Commerce Fundamentals of Good Citizenship contest. The county rose one spot since the prior standings. Earlier, Gillespie ranked third before the general election.
Gillespie County churches joined the Red Cross Camp and Hospital committee to send 650 homemade cookies to Brooke Medical Hospital Center Randolph Field Station Hospital and Lackland Field Hospital. Over 200 dozen cookies went to the hospitals along with 250 magazines and sheet music for service members including some wheel chair ex servicemen.
The Double Barred Cross displayed on the Christmas Seal is a copyrighted emblem representing the nation's battle against tuberculosis.
The State Highway Commission approves a two year program in Gillespie County funded by federal and state sources. Plans include 14.4 miles on State Highway 16 from Eckert north to Fredericksburg with four bridge replacements and new bases and surfacing, a 2.5 mile Farm to Market road toward Tivydale, and a 2.5 mile FM road extension from Willow City to the Blanco County line. Gil lespie must provide all necessary right of way at no cost. Existing revisions include re routes of the Austin Highway and elimination of curves on the Mason County line.
Dr. Andrew Edington president of Schreiner Institute Kerrville delivered the Christmas address at the 2nd Annual Community Christmas Program of the Fredericksburg Lions Club in the Public School Auditorium. He urged letting Christ into the heart saying the world today mirrors conditions 2000 years ago with taxes and wars. The program featured a 100 voice choir singing Handel’s Christmas section and opened with Silent Night and Joy to the World led by Dr. Lester Keyser.
Norman Rech announces Fredericksburg Junior Chamber of Commerce will reveal the Outstanding Young Man of the Year at a January 13 banquet at Sunnyside Tavern. The event coincides with Junior Chamber of Commerce Week and the JCI birthday banquet celebrating its 33rd anniversary with local groups. The Distinguished Service Award will be presented to a community leader aged 21 to 35 for notable service this past year.
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