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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1949
Page
5
Gillespie County farmers plan fat stock shows from January 14 to 26 with Harper Fredericksburg Kerrville and San Angelo events. Farmers urged to feed sufficient protein and hay to cattle through winter to avoid losses, and Mohair program hopes cited along with a national wool price support.
Thirty Gillespie County FFA and 4 H Club boys will exhibit animals and birds at the Houston Fat Stock Show starting February 2. Twenty five Fredericksburg Future Farmers will present 15 fat steers 34 fat lambs 40 capons 15 fat chicken hens 85 fryers and 3 fat turkeys. Exhibitors include Robert Kott Clinton Hardin Melvin Bonn Chester Bonn Curtis Feller Bodo Feller M J Dittmar Mrs Cohen Donald Dittmar Clinton Hardin Alton Ernst Tommy Brook Elbert Grona G F Henke Alton Oehler Tommy Brooks Wilbert Ransleben Alvin Ransleben Robert Pape Clinton Hardin Elroy Behrends Walter Behrends Roy Beckmann Bodo Feller Kenneth Wilke Walter Behrends Oliver Rode Chester Bonn Milton Grobe Chester Bonn. Lamb exhibitors include Roy Ressmann Robert Kott Roy Crenwelge Alton Crenwelge Dayton Ransleben Wilbert Ransleben Milton Crenwelge Franklin Doebbler Lee Roy Behrends Kenneth Wilke Alton Ochler. Capons shown by Kenneth Wilke Lee Roy Behrends Elroy Behrends Dayton Ransleben Wilbert Ransleben Roy Ressmann Alton Crenwelge Roy Crenwelge. Fat hens by Roy Ressmann Kenneth Wilke Lee Roy Behrends. Fryers by Melvin Itz Marvin Itz Roy Ressmann Kenneth Wilke Reuben Moellering Lee Roy Behrends. Don Smith to exhibit a fat turkey. The following 4 H Club members will exhibit 5 fat steers and 3 lambs Stanley Ernst Alvin Leitz Hayden Grona Elias Rode Elroy Ransleben.
Johnson City Chamber of Commerce met Tuesday night to discuss securing a fire truck and fighting equipment. A committee was named to contact Senator Lyndon B. Johnson for surplus army gear. Earl Johnson died after a months long illness with services held in Kerrville. he was a former resident of Johnson City. Survivors include his wife, a daughter, two brothers and three sisters. Several locals attended the funeral and other residents visited Austin and Fredericksburg events on Saturday.
A fundraiser led by the Harper Community Park committee seeks to install lighting at the rodeo arena and football field in the Harper park space. Reports from Fredericksburg indicate $503.50 raised with plans to solicit in Kerrville Junction and Harper. Eighty-foot poles with reflectors and globes will illuminate night rodeos and football games, with installation targeted for this spring.
Harper FFA and 4 H Club shows start next week led by Harper in Gillespie County with a Hill Country Fat Stock event on January 20. Twenty one classes for goats capons dairy cattle brahman breeding cattle herefords fat calves hogs and sheep. Judging begins at 10 am with classes in listed order. Robert Dittmar supervises the show Worth Howe in charge. A total of 140 animals entered including 17 goats 9 capons 2 dairy animals 6 beef cattle 8 hogs and 98 sheep. The Harper area emphasizes sheep with fine Delaines fat and breeding stock and notable Southdown lamb classes.
A member argues the Farm Bureau, as voice of organized agriculture, would unite Gillespie County farmers against independent price setting by city businesses. He cites population and income figures from the 1940 census and contends farmers, though in the majority, lose income to urban residents under current practices. He promotes collective action through the Farm Bureau as the solution.
The Doss Boy Scouts held a January 8 meeting with ten scouts and leaders to finalize February plans. A Pot Luck Supper is set for February with committee wives organizing the meal. The February hike is planned for February 5 and 6 with transport by James and Lorin Baethge. All scouts should be at Doss School by 3:30 p.m.
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