Gillespie County Population Gains Over 60, UT Study Says
Gillespie County is among Texas counties showing a population gain as eight-year state figures are released by the University of Texas Bureau of Business Research.
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Gillespie County
Texas
University of Texas Bureau of Business Research
Bureau
Gillespie
Blanco
Kerr County
Kimble County
Llano County
Mason County
Blanco County
San Antonio-Bexar County
Austin- Travis County
Laredo-Webb County
Nueces County
Corpus Christi
Rio Grande Valley
San Antonio
Houston - Galveston - Texas City
Dallas and
Fort Worth
FHS Band Set to Perform at TMEA Clinic in San Antonio
Fredericksburg High School will perform at the 45th annual Texas Music Educators Association Clinic Convention in San Antonio on Feb 20 21. Director Tom Rhodes leads a sight reading of three pieces while other groups from Texas Tech Del Mar College and U S Army Band participate. Lt Gov Ben Barnes delivers the keynote as 3500 teachers and 1100 top students attend three days of in service training and concerts with proceeds supporting TMEA activities.
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Fredericksburg
Texas Music Educators Association
TMEA
San Antonio
Tom Rhodes
HemisFair Plaza
Texas Tech
del Mar College
Indiana University Baroque Chamber Players
North Texas State
Texas Tech Symphony Orchestra
U. S. Army Field
San Marcos
TCU
NTSU
Texas School For the Blind
Lake Highlands
Richardson
McAllen
Ben Barnes
A. D. Gabriel
U. S. Air Force Band
Washington
Abraham Chavez Jr
University of Colorado School of Music
Paul Salamunovich
Loyola University
Mount St. Mary’s College
Los Angeles
Garretson steer sells for 8500 at Los Angeles auction
The grand champion Angus steer from the San Antonio Livestock Show driven by Susan Garretson sold for 8500 in a Friday sale in Los Angeles. Texstar Corporation of San Antonio bought the steer. Rev Kermit Menking had a Thursday auto accident on U S 87 between Comfort and San Antonio, his pickup overturned after skidding on slick pavement. total loss but no serious injuries.
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San Antonio
Kermit Menking
U. S. 87
Comfort
City Grants Telephone Rate Increase in Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg city officials approved a General Telephone Company rate increase on February 10 after lengthy consideration. Mayor Sidney Henke said the approval was reluctant but necessary as court action loomed. The increase takes effect March 1, 1969, amid ongoing criticism of service.
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Fredericksburg
General Telephone Company
Sidney Henke
City Commission
Henke
Golf Course Fees Set At City Commission Meeting
City Commission set fees for Lady Bird Johnson Park municipal golf course. Weekday greens fee $1.50, holidays and weekends $2.00. high school students 50 cents weekdays, $1.00 holidays and weekends. Family memberships scale from 100 dollars for the first member to 6.25 for the fifth, with out-of-town rates starting at 75 for the first member. Cart rental 6 dollars, own-cart use 3 dollars. Course opening targeted for late March for limited play, full park opening likely late May or early June.
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Lady Bird Johnson Park
City Commission
Carson Benedict
Sidney Henke
Green
Henke
Cushman Golf Cart Co
Benedict
Senator Word Reports On State Work For Lions Club
Senator J P Word of District 16 spoke to a large Lions Club meeting at Sunday House Restaurant Convention Center. He discussed the Nimitz Memorial Museum in Fredericksburg, the push to create a state museum commission, and education topics including Governor allocations and rural school consolidations.
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J. P. Word
Gillespie
Texas
Texas Senate
Sunday House
Ward
Chester Nimitz
Fredericksburg
Gerhardt Schulle
Senate
Nimitz Museum Bill Advances in Texas House
The Texas House approved House Bill 54 to appoint a nine member commission to administer the Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Memorial Naval Museum in Fredericksburg. Representative Gerhardt Schulle introduced the bill and briefed Dr. V B. Spiva before noon as passage occurred. The measure moves to the Senate with Senator J P Word listed as sponsor.
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House
Texas
Chester W. Nimitz
Security State Bank Named County Depository
The Security State Bank and Trust of Fredericksburg was named county depository for 1969 70 by the Gillespie County Commissioners Court after being the sole bidder for the past two years. The court also authorized bids for a courthouse roof, approved cab purchases for motor graders and loaders, allowed a newer front loader for Precinct 4, and granted a petition for new county roads in Precinct 3 including routes near Park Road 49 east of the Junction School Building and from Christadelphian Cemetery.
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Security State Bank and Trust
Fredericksburg
Gillespie County Commissioners Court
Park Road
Gillespie-Blanco County
Christadelphian
Former Local Teacher Dies In Auto Accident
Ruby Berry 46 former fifth grade teacher in Fredericksburg Public School was killed Friday morning February 14 in a auto crash on the way to Cedar Hill School near Dallas. She died at the hospital. Funeral services were held February 16 at 2 30 p m Church of Christ Mans field southeast of Fort Worth. She is survived by husband Mevin Berry two sons Tony and Frwayne and a daughter.
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Ruby Berry
Fredericksburg
Cedar Hill
Dallas
Church of Christ
Mansfield
Fort Worth
Hill Country Memorial Hospital plans near completion
The Hill Country Memorial Hospital drawings near completion are to be received by the hospital board within two weeks. Alfred Crenwelge, board chair, cites a letter from William M. Collier Jr. praising progress and urging fast continuation to have plans released to bidders by April 1 and awarded by May 1 if possible. The 14 acre site on Highway 16 South sits opposite Fredericksburg High School.
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Hill Country Memorial Hospital
Fredericksburg High School
Hospital Board of Trustees
Alfred Crenwelge
Crenwelge
William M. Collier Jr
Texas State Department of Public Health
Collier
Page
Southerland
Board of Trustees
Mathisen
Highway 16
Allen Keller
Madlyn's Formal Begin Today at Hoffmann store opening
Mr and Mrs Ernest Hoffmann open Madlyn's a new exclusive ladies ready to wear shop at West San Antonio and North Milam Streets from Wednesday February 19 through Monday February 24. The remodeled cream brick building formerly at 158 E Main features high fashion brands and updated interiors with green accents and a three way lit mirror.
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Ernest Hoffmann
Madlyn’s
West San Antonio
North Milam Streets
E. Main
Lawrence Nebgen
Fredericksburg
Stein Lumber Company
Edith Flagg
Nardis of
Dallas
Butte Knit
Toni Todd
D & FP Originals
R & R Originals
Jo Hardin
Marcy Lee
Serbia
Vicky Vaughn
Herman Macus
Mrs. Willie Heiner Rites Held Here Tuesday Afternoon
Funeral services for Mrs. Willie Heiner 44 were held Tuesday February 18 at 2 30 pm in Bethany Lutheran Church with Rev Will Rotter officiating Interment was in City Cemetery She lay in state at Beckmann Funeral Home until 12 30 pm and 1 00 to 2 30 pm in church The Bethany Men's Choir sang She died February 16 in Keidel Memorial Hospital after a lengthy illness Survivors include her husband children and several Sagebiel relatives She was born July 14 1924 and married Willie Heiner November 25 1948 in St John’s Lutheran Crabapple Pallbearers were Luther Kuhlmann Obert Sagebiel Charles Koennecke Daniel Sagebiel Reinhard Wehmeyer Jr Werner Heiner
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Willie Heiner
Bethany Lutheran Church
Will Rotter
City Cemetery
Beckmann Funeral
Bethany
Keidel Memorial Hospital
Farmers Grain Grocery
Caroline
Vernon
Paul
Ruth
Carlton Heiner
Arthur Sagediel
Ewald, Ruben
Erwin Sagebiel
Fredericksburg
Nolan Sagebiel
San Antonio
Reinhold Sagebiel
Dallas
Paula
Reinhard Wehmeyer
Esther
Eugene Kuhlmann
Elsie
Chester Koennecke
Hildegard
Harry Oehler
Seguin
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FHS
Garretson
L. A
Word Gives
Lions Group
Alfred Petsch
Lion
Roy Beckmann
Alton Klier
Word
Petsch
Lion Allen Keller
Vern Spiva
Nimitz Museum
Security State Bank
County Depository
Mrs
Madlyn
Chester Langerhans
Gillespie County Historical Society
Community Savings Hall
Margaret Keidel
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