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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1940
Page
3
A campus observer notes the school's current trophy display in the library and suggests donating or building a dedicated trophy case. He hopes alumni or supporters will fund or supply a glass case to house boys and girls champions trophies, inviting officials to provide details.
Calf prices ranged 9.50 to 11.50 with an average of 13.00 this year, led by Udo A. Henke buying 12 head. Lambs topped at 21.50 paid by Harold Kneese for his champion lamb, with Ernest Lochte buying 12 head. Capons averaged higher this year, top price 4.00 paid for a prize capon owned by Oliver Langehennig. many buyers named with varied prices.
Spring training starts with camping across the nation. The Fredericksburg Giants begin Sunday at Seipp's Park. AL teams train in Chicago Pasadena Philadelphia Anaheim Washington Detroit New York Boston Cleveland St. Louis. NL clubs in Philadelphia Miami Beach New York Winter Haven Tampa Clearwater Bradenton St. Louis St Petersburg Pittsburgh San Bernardino Chicago Catalina Island. The St. Louis Browns train in Texas at San Antonio home of the Missions, who announce Marty McManus as their new manager this week.
The Hillbillies head to the District 22 tournament in San Antonio as clear contenders to end their long drought since Coach Klaerner’s era. Billed as the team to beat, they aim to clinch the championship and silence critics.
Coaches clash with Hillbillies amid meet tensions as locals threaten trouble before action. If they break right, they could reach the finals against a San Antonio school for the gonfalon. Jimmy Demaret wins the Western Golf Championship in Houston after a playoff with Tonny Pemina. Sammy Snead finishes third.
The FHS basketball champions of the tri county league travel to San Antonio for District 22 play. Fredericksburg faces stiff tests against Brackenridge Seguin South San Antonio Seguin and New Braunfels in a bracketed meet. Brackenridge and South San Antonio won their leagues and Fredericksburg hopes to defend last year’s tag team. Runnels notes Fredericksburg back with last year’s strong lineup and expects Brackenridge and Fredericksburg to be toughest foes.
Mason County 4 H Club members highlighted the fifth annual South West Texas Boys Fat Stock show in San Antonio with Fritz Lehmberg's Hereford baby calf earning Grand Champion. Mayfield Roth, Wesley Crenwelge and Gillespie County entrants posted strong showing with reserves and high placings including a fifth in calf groups. Mrs Peter Land underwent an operation in a local hospital last week.
In bowling standings Harvey Stein posted the high single game of 231 while Gold led the three-game series with 620. Volun teers set the high team single game at 923 and the high team three-game series at 2607.
R. R. Jackson returning from a visit to San Antonio on Thursday night suffered minor injuries when his car crashed with a truck a few miles north of Boerne. Employee Pedro Gonzales was driving and sustained a broken arm and internal injuries, taken to a San Antonio hospital. The car was completely wrecked.
The Mohair group met on Saturday and again at College Station to assess grading interest. A survey shows about 300,000 pounds expected to be graded this spring, mainly between March 15 and April 1, with attendees from multiple Texas towns and industry groups.
Fredericksburg Giants manager Edgar Klett calls all 1940 candidates to meet Sunday at 12:30 at Seipp's Park for the first training session. He stresses an early start as a tough schedule of games looms with Easter Sunday as the first game date.
The final open game season in Gillespie County ends Thursday February 29, closing the fishing season for this and neighboring counties. All hunting seasons except squirrel and trapping have already closed. The Gillespie fishing season stays shut through March April and May, reopening June 1.
A. B. Lang, who had served for several months as superintendent of construction on a Bastrop Texas church, returned home this week after completing the assignment.
Fredericksburg High School track hopefuls begin their season Monday after classes, with coaches Klaerner and Nix calling the first workout. The team seeks to improve on last year’s narrow miss for the tri county title and will use the school’s new track surrounding the athletic field, the first true home facility in Hillbillies history. The squad, likely to enter several meets before Kerrville on March 30, aims to build on last year’s high point total with few losses.
Gillespie County's WPA rolls list 73 workers including 3 on the city curb project, 13 in the sewing room, and 30 on the Doss Onion Creek road project. 96 families receive commodities via the local Commodity Exchange housed in the former county courthouse. County rolls are smaller than Coleman county's 1000, per the neighboring county paper.
Rural schools in Gillespie County set closing dates and invite officials to submit their name and exact date for the calendar. Only date and name will appear in the calendar with further closing details to follow in upcoming advertisements.
The note lists events and anniversaries at White Oak School on Sunday April 28, Luckenbach School Cave Creek School on Sunday May 12, and Knopp School celebrating its 50th anniversary on Monday May 13.
Mr August Kunz and daughter Elenora visited at the bedside of Norbert Kunz in a Del Rio hospital where the youth lies seriously ill with typhoid fever. Norbert had been working near Del Rio on Pat Bode's ranch when he fell ill several days prior. Elenora remained with him as his father returned home.
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