Gillespie A M Club To Honor Molberg Friday
Carl Buddy Molberg a star performer on the Texas Aggie and teams of the past three years will be honored at a banquet in the Nimitz Hotel Friday night.
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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1951
Page
1
Carl Buddy Molberg a star performer on the Texas Aggie and teams of the past three years will be honored at a banquet in the Nimitz Hotel Friday night.
The piece attacks a government anti inflation decree as inflating prices to record highs while allowing wage increases. It cites statements by President Truman and cabinet members, and recalls previous price rollbacks after auto price adjustments. The article then shifts to a Fredericksburg event honoring a former FHS star with Aggie guests and a Friday banquet.
District Clerk E L Schmidt announced grand and petit jurors for the February winter term of District Court to open Monday February 19. Judge Thomas Ferguson presides. Gillespie's new sheriff Hugo Klaerner and county attorney Wm Schneider Jr take office. The criminal docket features State of Texas vs Leo Ramos for murder in week two. civil docket includes Nora Maner et al vs Adella Langerhans et al.
Commissioner John C. White addressed Fredericksburg Chamber of Commerce praising agriculture as Texas’s leading industry. He noted Texas produces 10 percent of U S agriculture with 1.75 million on farms, calls for field inspections funding, and urges economy to meet wartime needs.
Fredericksburg's Goodyear Service Store 206 East Main will mark the completion of remodeling with a three day open house celebration on February 1 2 and 3. The event spans Thursday Friday and Saturday and invites customers to tour the revamped facility and learn about new services.
Henry Meurer announces the Goodyear Service store re opening with Thursday Friday and Saturday events this week. The prize drawing will occur Saturday evening February 10 at 7 p m with registration open until drawing time.
February 1 to 3 open house showcases a larger tire tube battery and appliance store. Attendees register for a drawing at 7 p m on February 3 with prizes including a Hotpoint dishwasher Universe Mixmaster and more. Visitors receive gifts and sale items during the two day reopening celebration.
Mass TB X Ray participants from 1949 are requested to undergo repeat surveys when the unit visits March 7 to 10. Tyrus Cox, committee chair, notes repeat X rays help monitor health. C H Hoover, TB Division rep, says repeat surveys aid constant health checks. Gillespie County boasted high survey rates in 1949 and aims to surpass that in 1951.
The Standard launches a Lent season feature titled Know Your Pastor beginning with Rev. F. A. Bracher of Zions Lutheran Church. The column will cover Gillespie County pastors in alphabetical order, with Mrs. Arthur Rowert conducting interviews and writing the pieces.
Texas Hill Country endures worst cold spell as schools close and roads ice over. 12 degree to 28 degree highs and lows cripple travel, with Fredericksburg shut and only 42 percent attendance. Residents rely on gas supply as heating strains and snow piles up in county lanes.
William Reeves 49 of Uvalde suffered critical burns in a trailer house fire four miles south of Fredericksburg on Kerrville Highway Thursday morning. Investigators reported the blaze started while Reeves tried to light a heater. a loose gas line ignited. He was rushed to a local hospital and later to the University of Texas Diagnostic Clinic in Galveston for skin grafting. Reeves’ three sons, ages 13 and 7, were with him and told officers they were traveling from Nocona to Uvalde and stopped at Roadside Park to sleep.
Auto license plates for 1951 will go on sale Monday February 5. Milton C Durst Assessor Collector of Taxes announced. The 1951 tags must be attached to vehicles after April 1 with rates unchanged from 1950. Plates will feature black numbers on an orange background and applicants must show the certificate of title as required by state law.
Mrs. W E Kelley spent last week in Santa Anna and Brownwood Texas with her aunt and attended the funeral of her only uncle John H Ellis of Santa Anna.
The Rev. Frederick Albert Bracher, born October 8 1877 in Langenthal Switzerland, will retire as pastor of Zion Lutheran Church Fredericksburg on May 31 1951 after thirty four years of service. He arrived in the United States in 1883 with his parents and was ordained a Lutheran pastor in 1900.
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