City Shows 1966 Building Permits Lead 1965 Totals
City Clerk Herman Leifents reports 1966 building permits totaled 13 for 621,140 up from 16 for 752,685 in 1965. Residential work dominated with 27 new homes costing 328,370. Major permits included Sunday House Motel 150,000 and Gillespie County Courthouse renovation 190,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureg
Herman Leifests
Gillespie County
Birch’s Lunchroom
Frantzen Insurance and Clinic
East Austin Street
Leo J. Blanchard Jr
County Offices To Be Closed On Saturdays
County offices announce closure on Saturdays for a period around December 26 to January and name local officials and residents connected to the notice. The source lists Mainz Mrs Ad Basse Kort and Ricky among those mentioned in the notice regarding the schedule change.
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Mainz
Ad Basse
Kort
Ricky
United States
Acsaemy
Cloradd
Fair Stockholders Annual Meeting Sets Jan 10
An annual stockholders meeting for the Fair Hockbakers Pig Association is planned for January 10. The group notes a successful operation in 1966 and mentions multiple permanent improvements completed since then. Mr. Sauh Loudon, head of the association, invites all members to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fair Stockholders Annual Meeting
Uie
Sau H Fe Ee Me
Loudon
Hockb
Ders Pig Association
Gerald Schmidt Opens Law Office Here
Gerald W. Schmidt has opened a general practice law office at 103 N. Adame St in the former Frantzen Insurance space. A Baylor Law School graduate, he previously worked at Sagebiel and Sagebiel and is a Fredericksburg High School Class of 1960 alum. He is married to Kathy Wahl and resides on his Pecan Creek ranch. They attend Bethany Lutheran Church and he is involved in the local Jaycees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerald W. Schmidt
N. Adame St
Frantzen Insurance
Baylor University Law School
Waco
Sagebiel and
Sagebiel
Ruben Schmidt
Pecan Creek
Fredericksburg High School
Kathy Wahl
Nelda Wahl
Albert
Schmidt
Bethany Lutheran Church
Jaycee
Seabees Honor Nimitz With Fredericksburg Drill Display
The Seabees precision drill team from Davisville performed a noon show in freezing weather in front of the Nimitz Hotel to honor Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz. The 32 man unit, veterans of the Vietnam era, has appeared at Sun Bowl Cotton Bowl Pecan and Bluebonnet Bowls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States “Seabees
Frederickburg
Chester W. Nimitz
Nimitz
Davisville
R. 1
Eastern Coast Command
el Faso
Dallas
Abilene
Houston
Stephens Cloues
U. S. Navy Facilities Engineering Command
Rhode Island
Joe Dickerson
Dickerson
East Main
Navy
Nimitz Hotel
Frank F. Ware
Seabee Veterans of America
Ware
Chester Nimitz
Joe B. Hutchison
Nimitz Naval Museum
Bircks
Fredericksburg
Werner Meyer
Fred Mathisen
Shepperd Named Trustee for LBJ State Park Funds
Gov. John B. Connally named John Ben Shepperd of Odessa as sole trustee of the fund to buy land for the LBJ State Park in Gillespie County. The former Texas attorney general plans to appoint a statewide advisory committee to guide park development and assist plans while land condemnation proceeds continue on remaining parcels.
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John B. Connally
John Ben Shepperd
Odessa
LBJ
Gillespie County
Shepperd
Texas
Texas Historical Survey Committee
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Puan Park
LBI
Will Odom
Parks and Wildlife Commission
Park Fund
Austin
Earl Sweeney
Stonewall
Joe Chapman Jr
San Antonio
Clearing begins on LBJ State Park tract in Gillespie County
The State Parks and Wildlife Commission began fencing a 25 acre tract of the Lyndon B. Johnson State Park near Stonewall. The Hightower Tract will host native wildlife and a perimeter road. underbrush is being cleared while trees are preserved. National Park Service planners assisted, with costs from the park fund. John Ben Shepperd named administrator of the LBJ Park fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Parks and Wildlife Commission
Lyndon B. Johnson State Park
Gillespie County
Stonewall
Austin
Commission
Will Odom
A. W. Mourland
Johnson City
John Ben Shepperd
Odessa
Lyndon B. Johnson
Odom
National Park Service
Parks and Wildlife
Shepperd
Johnson
LBJ
Salvation Army Truck Schedule for Fredericksburg
The Salvation Army will operate a collection truck in Fredericksburg on Tuesday January 17 and Tuesday January 31 to pick up household discard items.
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Salvation Army
Fredericksburg
753 Entries For County Stock Show
The Gillespie County FFA and 4-H Livestock Show on Saturday Jan 21 draws 753 entries from Fredericksburg Harper and county 4-H clubs. Entries include 463 Fredericksburg FFA 121 Harper 169 4-H, with 53 steers 39 Fredericksburg and 16 4-H, 37 Hereford 16 Aberdeen Angus 2 Short horns, 17 beef cattle total, 10 Fredericksburg 7 4-H. Angora goats 36, lambs 241, breeding sheep 49, capons 16, 4-H broilers 40 pens, 144 turkeys 121 Fredericksburg FFA 23 4-H, 86 market hogs 86 FFA 15 4-H 14 Harper, and hog breeding 31 FFA 6 Harper 1 4-H. Youth leaders Joe Tatum Clyde Woerner C A Stone Clayton Massey note top livestock and poultry entries. Sale of lambs hogs turkeys capons broilers to follow show on Saturday night. Judging begins.
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Gillespie County
Fredericksburg
Harper Ffa
FFA
Harper
Joe Tatum
Clyde Woerner
Fredericksburg Ffa
C. A. Stone
Clayton Massey
Five die on fog bound highway in Gillespie County toll rises
Airman Woodrow Vail Jr. 19 died after being struck by a car on foggy U S Highway 87 four and nine tenths miles south of Fredericksburg. The crash involved five vehicles and marked the county s fifth highway death in six days. Vail had just been released on New Year’s leave and was returning to his relatives when the fatal impact occurred.
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Woodrow Wilson, Vail Jr
Fredericksburg
Gillespie
Vail
Buddy Hierholzer
Harry Moellering
Bennie Heinen
Carey Wilke
Pat Klein
Milton Klein
Carlotta Langerhans
Wilke
Newton Henry Holly
Shouck Vail
Moellering
Heinen
Holly
Klein
Pat Wolters
Debbie Reinhart
del Valle
Hierholzer
FHS
Texas Academy of Arts
Houston
Air Force
Lackland Afb
San Antonio
U. S. Air Force
Jaycees DSA Banquet Set For January Nineteenth
The Fredericksburg Jaycees announce their annual Distinguished Service Award banquet for January 19 at 7:30 p.m. at Sunnyside Tavern. Guest speaker Capt Joseph Schott recent Vietnam Special Forces adviser will appear. Nominees for Outstanding Young Man, Farmer, and Educator are sought and to be announced at the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jaycee
Sunnyside Tavern
Joseph Schott
Viet Nam
Special Forces
Joann Beckmann
Here
Travis Street
Fort Sill
Jaycees
City Park Board Reviews Golf Course Plans
Fredericksburg city park board on Thursday reviewed preliminary golf course plans for park development. The designs were prepared by Frank Drought, with George A. Hoffman of San Antonio as the golf course architect. Mayor Pro Tem Werner Meyer and City Commissioner Ewald Geistweidt joined Walter Fuhrmann and the board in the review.
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Ciass
Fredericksburg
Frank Drought
George A. Hoffman
San Antonio
Werner Meyer
Ewald Geistweidt
Walter Fuhrmann
Park Board
Gillespie County Officials Take Oaths For Four Year Terms
In Gillespie County Monday morning officials took oaths after the November general election. Notables sworn in include County Surveyor B L Enderle County Clerk Felix Scherer Treasurer Reinhold Tatsch Justice of the Peace G B Worley Commissioner Precinct 2 Levy Rosenbusch Commissioner Precinct 3 Guido Kuhlmann Commissioner Precinct 1 Maryin Roos District Clerk Alfred Petmecky Commissioner Precinct 4 James Allred County Commissioner and Victor H S Gebiel County Judge Allred the sole new member succeeding Felix Herber Allred elected four year term others reassigned two year terms.
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Gillespie County
B. L. Enderle
Felix Scherer
Reinhold Tatsch
G. B. Worley
Levy Rosenbusch
Guido Kuhlmann
Maryin Roos
Alfred Petmecky
James Allred
Victor H. Sagebiel
Allred
Felix Herber
Kuhlmann
Roos
Also Mentioned on This Page
Gerald Schmidt
R. I
Providence
Hutchison
Seabee Organization
Civil Engineering Corps of the Navy
Seabee
Lbj State Park
Ais Lyne K. Lewis
Pioneer Museum
August Stahl
Ee Rostfendorf
Louis Brodie
Lewis
Emmie Detjen
Benno Stehling
Woodrow Vail
Jaycees Dsa
Woodrow Vail Jr
City Park Board
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