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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1946
Page
4
The drive continues from Page 1 urging more donations to aid overseas and domestic needs. Many contributors left name and address labels on garments last spring and thousands reply with thanks. Officials note millions in need went unmet last year and a second collection aims to reach more people. If you cannot give, urge others to contribute for suffering individuals.
A powerful storm swept through Nacogdoches, Palestine, Anderson County, Lufkin, and Angelina County, killing 28 people and injuring many. More than 100 homes were leveled in Nacogdoches, with over 500 residents left homeless. a Bertram man died after his car collided with a train during the blackout.
Former Lt. Florine Mangel Berger, recently returned from duty with the U S Army Nursing Corps in Europe, is a guest in the home of her aunt Mrs. Richard Henke.
Congressman O C Fisher of the 21st district was critically injured when his car overturned on wet pavement five miles east of Ballinger. He spoke in Ballinger earlier, was treated at a Coleman clinic, received a blood transfusion and underwent emergency surgery in San Angelo. His wife and daughter Rhoda remained at his bedside.
New Hudson is displayed in Fredericksburg at Stiehl Motor Company on West Main Street. The spokesman notes finer materials and workmanship, with new styling inside and out, and highlights a dual braking system with hydraulic and mechanical backups.
The Gillespie District Committee of the Boy Scouts of America will hold its regular meeting on Tuesday January 15 at 730 p m in the District Court room. All scouters of Gillespie County are urged to be present. Mr and Mrs Brant Schandun Jr and children of San Antonio visited relatives here last weekend. Christmas Day guests were Mr and Mrs Joe Linebaugh of Victoria.
Notice states a new shipment of Goodrich batteries has been received by Hirsth Bros located at 246 West Main in 1925.
Final rites were held Saturday afternoon at 2 p m in Beckmann Funeral Home for Henry Bernhard a respected Pilot Knob farmer and ranchman whose body was found in a nearby field by a searching party. He was 52 with a wife who died in 1945 and three sons among survivors and is buried in City Cemetery with Rev Otto Lindenberg officiating.
Twenty nine men in two crews began building extensions to Pedernales Electric Cooperative lines from Fredericksburg covering Gillespie and parts of Kendall and Kerr Counties. Foreman Frank Schmidt expects a two year project to complete the E extension work up to 2000 feet from existing PEC lines, with 700 extension requests on file from 1940.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Hector and Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Brown of San Antonio spent Sunday in town visiting local relatives.
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