Soil Conservation News and Essay Contest Details
Soil Conservation Service technicians staked a waterway for Otto Friedrich of Pecan Creek to protect cultivated land from overflow and enable mowing or grazing. The PMA program marks its first year including waterways. The annual Soil Conservation essay contest, sponsored by the Fort Worth Press, opens to Texas students with a March 1, 1952 deadline. regional winners receive cash prizes and medals, with a Colorado trip for the state writer. Herman Maner described the Brownwood meeting with notable speakers and progress in soil conservation.
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Soil Conservation Service
Otto Friedrich
Pecan Creek
Friedrich
The
Fort Worth Press
Colorado
Texas
Kenneth Knopp
Board of Supervisors
Wood
The Kirks Buy A Brahma
Mr and Mrs H C Kirk bought a ten month blue Brahma bull from Jesse Johnsons ranch in Llano County. After arrival the bull charged Kirk, knocking him down and causing injuries while five cow hands restrained it. Mrs Kirk drew attention by slamming the pickup door allowing Kirk to regain footing and rope the animal. The owners plan to avoid another purchase of a wild Brahma.
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H. C. Kirk
Jesse Johnson
Llano County
Johnson Ranch
Bidding Strong In Gillespie Auction Sale
Bidding was strong and prices held firm at the Gillespie County Livestock Sales Company sale. Stocker cattle and calves sold up to 34.50 per hundredweight, with other stockers 20.10 to 28.50. Cattle and sheep segments show gains, cows and calves up to 252.50 per pair, lambs 13.25 to 22.75 per hundred, hogs top at 18.25, goats 11.50 for billies and 11 for nannies.
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Gillespie County Livestock Sales Company
Billies
March of Dimes Grants Awarded on Merit Basis
March of Dimes research funds are awarded based on the merit and qualifications of the study personnel, following recommendations from a Medical Advisory Board composed of the nation’s prominent physicians and scientists serving on a voluntary basis.
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March of Dimes
New 1953 Fords To Be Shown At Boening Showroom
Boening Motor Sales invites the public to view the new 1952 Ford models on Friday February 1 opening at 8 am. The line includes Mainline Customline and Crestline with 13 models and three new utility vehicles the Ranch Wagon Country Sedan and Country Squire.
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Boening Motor Sales
Ford
L. Crusoe
Ford Motor Company
Ford Division
Mr. Crusoe
Crusoe
L. W. Smead
Fords
Smead
Johnson City Livestock Winners Report and Local Mentions
Winners list includes heavyweights Floyd Jenschkeist James Stewart Sultemeier brothers and Hearn with top placings. lightweights Victor Sultemeier Marion Wootton George Haynes and others show. Grand Champion lamb Jack Waters Reserve Jimmy Odierne. Local visits note Mrs Sultemeier in Sandy and trips to Augusta Georgia. Gipson and Barrow families cited. Blanco service station sold to G H Earley. Scottie Early to manage.
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Harry Sultemeier
Lamb
Jack Waters
Jimmy Odierne
Robert Uecker
Jerry Mers
Jimmie Odierne
Jimmie Odiorne
Fielding Reiner
Sth
Raymond Wolf
Bill Wolf
Lyndon Humer
Mary Jane Bergman
Jules Gipson
Jessie Rose
Kermit Danz
Furber Brothers
Barrow
George Danz
Charles Sultemeier
Sandy
Johnson City
George Gipson
M. B. Barrow
Aaron Brodbeck
Baby
Augusta
Georgia
Allen Ray Barrow
G. H. Earley
Blanco
Scottie Early
Mr. Early
Fredericksburg Home Demonstration Club Organized
Twenty nine rural and local women met in the Commissioners Courtroom Friday January 25 to organize the Fredericksburg Home Demonstration Club. Miss Lucille Conrads introduced the new County Home Demonstration Agent and outlined possible teaching topics for the next meeting. Officers were elected with plans to meet monthly starting February 27 in the Court House.
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Fredericksburg
T. W. Neal
County
Lucille Conrads
Walter Doebbler
Ben Kneese
Levi Rusenberger
C. R. Crittenden
B. H. Heinen
Stonewall Organizes Home Demonstration Club
A Stonewall community Home Demonstration Club organized under Miss Lucie Conrads on January 23 at the school house. Officers named: Mrs Ernest Hodges president, Mrs Eugene Petsch vice president, Mrs Rueben Ruebsahm secretary treasurer, Mrs Benno Eckert council delegate, and Mrs Henry Beckmann reporter. Next meeting set for February 20 at Mrs Beckmann home. all local ladies invited.
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Stonewall
Lucie Conrads
Ernest Hodges
Eugene Petsch
Rueben Ruebsahm
Benno Eckert
Henry Beckmann
Bert Allen in Serious Condition After Comfort Highway Crash
The 18 year old Bert Allen remained in serious condition at Fredericksburg Hospital after a January 21 crash on the Comfort Highway. He suffered a broken neck and broken back and is paralyzed from the waist down.
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Bert Allen
Comfort Highway
Fredericksburg Hospital
Allen
Boston Largest State Capital City in the United States
The sentence states that Boston is the largest state capital city in the United States. It is presented as a claim about the city’s status among state capitals.
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Boston
United States
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Texas Soil Conservation District Supervisors
Brown
Kirks
Gillespie
Gillespie County
Standard Office
Fredericksburg Publishing Co., Inc
Hill Country
Gillespie Game Protective Ass’n
Fritz Braeutigam
James Jung
Werner Kordzik
Johnson Cily
H. Welge Lewis
P. O
Fredericksburg, Texas
Dan
Texaco
Cordwood E
Blade
Roy
Frede
Morris Bar
Henke Icksburg
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