Gillespie County aims for modern improvements and growth
Memorial Hall and Library projects in Fredericksburg and Gillespie County push rural school consolidation. The plan highlights modernizing business sections, encouraging small industries, bigger and better fairs, and farm cooperatives for grading and sale of fruit and other products. It also envisions a fresh water lake, a recreation and swimming pool for the city.
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Memorial Hall
Gillespie County
City
Centennial Year Opens With Fredericksburg Pride
The 1946 centennial year marks Fredericksburg and Gillespie County's 100th birthday, tracing back to John Meusebach's 1845 settlement plans in the Pedernales Llano valley and urging a year of dedication and effort to honor pioneers and build a prosperous future.
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Fredericksburg
Gillespie
Texas
John Meusebach
New Braunfels
Pedernales
Llano
Gillespie County
Living Memorials for World War II Veterans Planned
Texas towns already plan living memorials honoring World War II heroes. Austin Mc Allen Kerrville Beaumont Marshall Waco Houston and other communities move ahead with auditoriums civic centers parks and libraries as sites. Fredericksburg Gillespie County urged to follow suit urging public support to complete the memorials.
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Texas
Austin
McAllen
Kerrville
Beaumont
Marshall
Waco
Houston
Fredericksburg
Gillespie County
Airport System Planned for Texas In 1946
Asbury W. Meadows, first executive director of the State Aeronautics Commission, outlines a statewide airport system to serve private and non-scheduled air traffic and resort areas. He notes private plane production is rising and that federal funds will require showing commerce or defense benefits. Texas trails other states in starting such projects.
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Texas
CAA
Petrof Bay
Werner A. Land
Fredericksburg
Palau Islands
Okinawa
Astoria
Ore
Peleliu
Leyte
Philippines
Lingayen Gulf
Luzon
Iwo Jima
Jtown
States
Pearl Harbor
Lond
Felix Land
Veterans Help Keep Address List Updated In News of Gillespie County
Local servicemen and women are urged to ensure their addresses are current for the Standard newspaper. Readers note discharge updates and new postings, with reports of several local personnel including Alvin Joseph Novian, Werner Heimann, Hilmar Nebgen, Andrew Woerner, Allen Oestreich, Amos Weed, and others, detailing their units, deployments, and postwar plans.
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Novian
Naval Service
Guam
Leyte
Luzon
Okinawa
Werner Heimann
Wm. Heimann
Fredericksburg
Fort Sam Houston
Werner
Doris Jean Ricke
Galveston
Hilmar O. Nebgen
Xxiv Corps
Korea
Stonewall
Nebgen
Headquarters
Army Service Command 24
Pvt
Albert Nebgen
Stonewall High School
Andrew Woerner
Chas. Woerner
Ft. Sam Houston
Woerner
Boening Motor Sales
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Arthur H. Kowert
Werner A. Kulier
Fredericksburg Publishing Company
Mark Bookkeeper
Wember
Texas Press Association
South Texas Press Association
Greater
New York
Chicago
Detroit
Philadelphia
Predericksburg
News OF
Alvin J. Novian
Camp Wallace
Tex
Alvin Joseph Novian
A. J. Novian
Navy
Allen C. Oestreich
Paul Oestreich
7Th Airforce
Amos F. Weed
Amos Weed
Willow City
France
Camp Fannin
David H. Weed
Japan
24Th Infantry
Werner Land
USS
Antonette Bracher
F. A. Bracher
The
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Washington, D.C
Miss Bracher
John A Moehr
John Alfred Moehr
O. Moehr
United States
Adm
E. W. Eberle
Nagoya
San Pedro
California
Arthur
Robert Koch
Boyce Fisher
Seattle
Washington
City Cafe
Fredericksburg Publishing Co., Inc
Texaco Gas and OS Scientific
Paul Lindenberg
Hill Country Livestock Protective Association
Hill Country Livestock Protective Ass'n
Saenger & Ochs
Phor
ROBT
Blum Warehouse
Harry
Conference of Alcoholis Beverage Industries, Inc
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