Three Die In Saturday Night Head-On Crash on U.S. 290
Three people die in a head on collision on U S 290 ten miles west of here at 8 30 p m Saturday. Benney Severan 61 and Annie Severan 59 of New Orleans died at the scene. Joseph Young Holt 37 of Austin died at Keidel Memorial Hospital. Annie Mae Severan 43, also from New Orleans, is critically injured. The Severans were in a 1959 Plymouth. Holt in a 1963 Chevrolet. The cars met head on in the eastbound lane near a low mood in the road. Police investigated. Funeral services noted.
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Ere
U.S. 290
Benney Severan
Annie Severan
New Orleans
Joseph Young Holt
Joe Holt Construction Company
Austin
Keidel Memorial Hospital
Annie Mae Severan
Women’s Army Corps
Wac’s
Brooke Medical Hospital
San Antonio
Severans
Holt
Severan
Bob Wright
Kerrville
Bob Werner
Here
California
U. S. 290
Benny Severan
Joseph Y. Holt
California Primary Signals Shifting Party Boundaries
The California Republican contest between Senator Goldwater and Governor Rockefeller highlights a conservative versus liberal divide, with Goldwater winning 59,361 more votes than Rockefeller in a 2,122,885 vote primary. Democrats far outnumber Republicans, and California’s voters have long rejected strict party labels in selecting leaders. Continued on Page 6.
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Goldwater
Rockefeller
California
Senator Goldwater
Lyndon Johnson
U. S
Californ
St Barnabas Church Groundbreaking Set in Fredericksburg
Ground breaking for a new St Barnabas Episcopal Church in Fredericksburg is planned for 7 p m on Thursday June 11 preceded by a 515 p m supper at the Community Center. Attending will be Rt Rev Earl Dicus and Rev Canon Gerald McAllister with Bishop Everett H Jones noting June 11 as St Barnabas Day.
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St. Barnabas Episcopal Church
Fredericksburg
William Walter
St. Barnabas Church
Earl Dicus
Gerald McAllister
San Antonio
Everett H. Jones
West Texas
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lynda Bird
Lucie Baines Johnson
Lbj Ranch
Episcopal Church
Gillespie County Peach Harvest Gears Up for 1964
Gillespie County enters peak peach harvest as Fredericksburg and Stonewall plants shift to every-other-day grading and packing. Enderle and Nixin orchards install a Durand washer and grader, with Victor Nixon forecasting a bumper yield of 15 peach varieties through July and into August, plus plums and later apples.
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Fredericksburg
Stonewall
Enderle
Nixin
Victor Nixon
Gillespie County
Ray Neidigh
Sixth Annual Gillespie County Quarter Horse Show Preview
The sixth annual Gillespie County Fair Quarter Horse Show Sunday June 14 features 15 halter classes at 12 30 p m and evening performance after a Saturday cutting show at 7 00 p m. Entry fee 10 added plus 5 cattle charge closes June 13 at 7 00 p m. Officials include Mrs S A Baxter Bend TX secretary and Curtis Cameron superintendent with co chairs and local stewards. Grandstand admission 50 cents adults 25 cents children for Saturday and Sunday nights. no grounds admission.
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Gillespie County Fair
Central Texas
S. A. Baxter
Bend
Texas
Haiter
American Quarter Horse Association
Quarter Horse Association of
Was Texas
Alamo Quarter Horse Breeder’s Association
Curtis Cameron
Fair Grounds
Rudy Olfers
O. G. Copeland
Goliad
Russell Green
Blanco
Cameron
Cancer Society Annual Meeting Set June 16th
The American Cancer Society annual meeting and dinner will be at 7:30 p m on Tuesday June 16 at Andy s Diner. Dr Joseph R Schaeffer president of the Bexar County ACS will speak He is medical director of Santa Rosa Hospital and assistant dean of the new San Antonio medical school New officers will be introduced and a report on the 1964 Cancer Crusade will be given. L H Reuner president and Mrs James Eckhardt and Mrs H H Fricke co chairmen thank volunteers who helped make the Crusade a success.
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American Cancer Society
Andy’s
Joseph R. Schaeffer
Bexar County
Schaffer
Santa Rosa Hospital
San Antonio
L. H. Reuner
James Eckhardt
H. H. Fricke
Texas
Waggoner Carr
Jaycee Road-E-O Held by Fredericksburg Jaycees
The Fredericksburg Jaycees sponsor their annual teen Road-E-O on Saturday June 13 at 9 am on the Nimitz Park way behind the courthouse. Eligible entrants are licensed drivers under 19 on July 31 1964, unmarried, with no traffic violation in six months. Entry blanks from R L Frantzen at 103 North Adams Street. Cars with automatic transmission provided. Written exam required.
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Fredericksburg
Record Crowd Packs Fredericksburg Field Day
A record 640 Young Farmers and Young Homemakers attended the Area VII Field Day in Fredericksburg to set area and state attendance records. The event featured tours of the LBJ Ranch and local farms, a barbecue, and prize drawings as leaders praised the organizers for a historic gathering.
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Young Farmer and Young Homemaker
Bill Russell
Pittsburg
Sherman Clark
Bill McReynolds
San Antonio
McReynolds
Fredericksburg
Texas Sun
LBJ Ranch
Arthur Stehling
Market Produce Poultry Processing
Donald Eckhardt
Ochard
Eckhardt
Gillespie County Fruit Growers
Simon Burg
Roy
Tom Weinheimer
Gillespie County
James Eckhardt
Alton Ernst
Herbert Grote
Area VII
Gillespie
LBJ
White House
Dale Malachek
Rarge
Harper
Stonewall
Nanded
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U.S
Alfred Petsch
St. Barnabas
Johnson
Jack Langford
Cyprus
Burnet Road
Jack Evers
Lester Immel
Nixons
Nina
Madisonville
E. L. Tiner
Young Farmer
James Eck Nardt
Joe Tatum
Texas Vocational Agriculture Teachers Association
Standing
James Knandel
Gonzales
W. H
Cancer Society
Jaycee Road
E-O
Gillespie County Fruit Growers Assn
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