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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1946
Page
2
An editorial urges support for the Emergency Food Collection to aid starving overseas. It notes global famine and US shortfalls in UNRRA promises, urging cash gifts and canned foods. The Gillespie County Junior Chamber of Commerce sponsors the drive with central collection points and a call for widespread public support.
Sales Management figures show Gillespie County 1945 retail sales at 4.956 million, with Kerr 8.44 million, Kimble 2.42 million, Kendall 2.44 million, Banderas 1.029 million, Edwards 865 thousand, and Real 549 thousand. County 1944 sales were 3.969 million. Estimates suggest near 10 million in total county purchases, indicating Fredericksburg merchants win only about half the potential business. Advertising plus modernized stores are urged to grow local retail trade and attract regional buyers.
Gov. Coke R. Stevenson announced he will not seek a third term as governor, leaving a wide field of thirteen Texans on the Democratic primary ballot. The list includes W. J. Minton Sherman, William V. Brown Texarkana, A. J. Burks Odessa, Beauford H. Jester Corsicana, Jerry Sadler Longview, Case March Waco, John Lee Smith Throckmorton, Walter Scott McNutt Jefferson, Grover Sellers Sulphur Springs, Homer P. Rainey Austin, Charles B. Hutchinson Dallas, Floyd Brinkley Baytown, and Reese Turner Cameron ate.
The Memorial Museum hosted 2520 visitors during the Gillespie County centennial celebration at the Pioneer Memorial Building. Girl Scout hostesses and local youth guided tours as displays covered arts crafts and pioneer citizenship from Gillespie and neighboring Texas counties. Donations from locals and outsiders boosted the exhibits while new lighting restored by Gilbert Kaderli.
Lisbet and Gretchen Bohn of Austin joined their mother in Cleveland after traveling with the Austin Recreation Department to the twelfth annual National Folk Festival. They performed in Texas folk songs and dances during the event.
A column recalls the 1927 Santa Claus bank robbery in Cisco and the Eastland jail pole where the culprit was hanged, alongside poetic tributes to teachers and a grim note that 30 fall from scaffolds yearly, 25 in prisons.
A W Moursund of Johnson City Blanco County announces for District Attorney of the 33rd Texas Judicial District subject to the Democratic Primary July 27 1946. The 27 year old veteran UT law graduate and Texas Bar member emphasizes fairness and service. Dorothy Bernhard returns to San Antonio to resume beauty studies. A woman awarded 50000 damages by a jury after losing her thumb in a train wreck.
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