Youth Brings Home Full Grown Porcupine From Squirrel Hunt
Norman Haun, 15, of Fredericksburg, found a full grown porcupine while on a squirrel hunt with his dog on his grandmother's ranch in the Crabapple region. The 60 pound animal with long quills was shot with a 22 rifle and drew crowds on Fredericksburg Main Street. Porcupines are not native to the area, typically living in northern piny woods.
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Gillespie County
Doss
Norman Haun
Mgr
Felix Haun
Young Haun
Emil Welgehausen
Crabapple
Fredericksburg
Kiett Retires From Rural Mail Service After 20 Years
Kiett, longtime Gillespie County rural mail carrier and former census enumerator for 1910, retires after twenty years in office. He helped move records to the new courthouse during his tenure, served as Gillespie County Historical Society president, and remained on its board of directors.
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Grape Creek School
Knopp School
Kiett
Gillespie County
Civil Service
Klett
Herman Usener
Kietz
Fredericksburg Giants
Giants
Bethany Lutheran Church
Washington
Arion
Echo of Knapp School
Knopp
Cave Creek
M. Haag
Bethany Lutheran
Scout Troop No 1 Reorganized Friday Night
Fredericksburg Boy Scout Troop No 1 sponsored by the Lions Club held the first meeting of the year in the courthouse basement. Rev Ivan Donaldson was introduced as new Scoutmaster and Lions Club committee offered encouragement for a great year of scouting.
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Fredericksburg
Lions Club
Ivan ©. Donaldson
Edgar Marshall
Enchanted Rock
Donaldson
Football Rules Shake Up Promises Safer Offense
The National Collegiate Football Rules Committee announced three changes at its Clempton meeting. Substitutions may occur freely, with brief play disruption rules in near endgame. forward handoffs behind the line will count as backward passes. fourth down incomplete passes in the end zone stay with the defense at the spot of the snap. A numbering system proposal and a national fatality survey noted eight gridiron deaths this season, with training and equipment cited as injury-reducing factors.
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National Collegiate Football Rules Committee
Clementon
N. J
Eastwood
Tivy High Opens Season Against Hillbillies Friday
Tivy High meets Fredericksburg High School Hillbillies at home to open the 1941 basketball season. Fredericksburg coach Klaemner notes four days of practice with a returning nucleus from last year’s district finalists led by Ande rreg Luckenbach and Stork. The Hillbillies hope to schedule games with Center Point Comfort Johnson City Mason and Brady as thetri county league stays unsettled.
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Hillbillies
Tivy High
Earrville
Maplewood
Klaemner
Nix
Wek
Brackenridge High School
San Antonio
Dan Anderegg
Weston Luckenbach
Guenther Luckenbach
Clinton Stork
Roy Langerhans
Roland Schmidt
Norman Rech
Louis Wilke
Tony Knopp
Victor Rech
Curtis Juenke
Milton Seipp
Victor Usner
James Eckert
Center Point
Comfort
Johnson City
Mason
Brady
Kla
Roosevelt outlines four freedoms and war production shifts
The speech promotes four essential freedoms and vows resistance to appeasers. Roosevelt names William S. Knudsen and Sidney Hillman to head a new four man production office to speed war material for the U.S. and Britain. British troops seize Bardia in Libya with 25 000 fascists captured as Tobruk eyed. Luftwaffe bombs London while Greece resists Italy and Bulgaria looms in the East.
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William S. Knudsen
Sidney Hilman
Office of Production Management
U. S
Great Britain
Bardia
Libya
Africa
Tobruk
England
London
Greece
Italy
Europe
Bulgaria
Billies Tangle With Tivy in Season Opener
Basketball starts at FHS this Friday as the Billies host the Tivy Antlers in the first game of the season. Tivy recently played in the San Antonio Invitations, won by Austin after a close match with the San Marcos Rattlers last year. The Billies have less than a week of practice, beginning Monday evening.
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FHS
Billies
Tivy High
Tivy
San Antonio
Austin
San Marcos Rattlers
General Tires and Tubes and Steinbeck Drive-In
General Tires and Tubes operates in Fredericksburg with Rubin Crenwelge as proprietor. The drive-in station remains a fixture in the town, offering tubing and related auto services while local residents recall the shop’s long-standing presence.
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Fredericksburg Drive-In Station
Rubin Crenwelge
Russia seeks aid to gauge German troop border stance
Russia asks for help in interpreting whether German forces near the border indicate war or peacetime posture. Officials note ambiguity as tensions rise and diplomatic channels remain open for clarification.
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Russia
Couple Knopp Establish Home in San Antonio
Mr and Mrs Alex Knopp moved to San Antonio on Monday. Alex, long a traveling representative for Wm Van M Hoogenhuyze Hardware Company, recently started a position in the firm office.
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Alex Knopp
San Antonio
Alex
Wm Van _ M Hoogenhuyze Hardware Company
New Year Guests Visit Pfeiffer Family in Dallas and San Antonio
Mr and Mrs Arthur Ressmann and family of San Antonio along with Misses Helen Pfeiffer and Betty Langly of Dallas were New Years Day guests of Dr and Mrs Pfeiffer. Subscribe to the Standard.
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Arthur Ressmann
San Antonio
Helen Pfeiffer
Betty Langly
Dallas
Mrs. Pfeiffer
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