Stonewall Peach JAMboree Celebrates Peach Week in Stonewall
The 11th annual Stonewall Peach JAMboree returns with peaches as the main draw plus rodeos Friday and Saturday nights. A 4 p.m. Saturday parade on Peach Boulevard features Brigadier General James Cross as parade marshal, followed by festivities at the school and rodeo grounds with the Peach Bowl fruit stand, burgers, beer, and barbecue.
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Stonewall
Stonewall Way
Sloan Williams
Stonewall Motel
Texas
James Cross
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Lyndon B. Johnson
White House
Governor Proclaims Texas Peach Week and Peach Boulevard
Governor Preston Smith signs a proclamation designating June 12 through 18 as Texas Peach Week and naming U.S. Highway 290 Peach Boulevard. The ceremony occurred in the state Capitol reception room with 1971 Peach Queen Cory Lynn Basse and six other contestants, plus Rodney Eckert of the Gillespie County Fruit Growers Association present.
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Preston Smith
U. S. Highway 290
State Capitol
Cory Lynn Basse
Governor Smith
Miss Basse
Margie Schaefer
Connie Klinksick
Anne Strickland
Paula Kuhlmann
Nan Weinheimer
Cathy Holland
Rodney Eckert
Gillespie County Fruit Growers Association
Preserve Your Culture Dr Frantz Tells Audience
Dr Joe B Frantz spoke at the Gillespie County Historical Society annual banquet as new directors were elected. He urged preservation of German and local Texan culture and promoted cultural pluralism while noting Fredericksburg as a living museum.
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Dr. Frantz
Joe B. Frantz
Gillespie County Historical Society
Gillespie County Historical Survey Committee
Community Savings Center
Frantz
University of Texas At Austin
U. S
Texas
Fredericksburg
Williamsburg
Ella Gold
J. Webb Miller
William Petmecky
Petmecky
J. W Harper
Erwin Anderegg
Rudy Becker
Henry Borchers
Joe Frantz
Gillespie County
Bessie Ev
Hubert Molberg
Bil Bench
Guido Klett
Victor Nixon
Tony Knopp Named to FHS Coaching Staff
Tony Knopp, veteran coach from St. Mary's High School Fredericksburg, is added as lead baseball coach and freshman football coach at Fredericksburg High School. He will also teach business. Baseball returns to FHS for 1972-73 along with girls basketball and track.
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Fredericksburg High School
Tony Knopp
St. Mary's High School
Fredericksburg
FHS
Hans Bergner
Alfred Novian County's 14th Traffic Fatality
Alfred Novian 76 a retired farmer from the Albert Community died after a one car crash on Ranch Road 1623 north of Albert at 430 PM Wednesday June 7. He was driving a pickup that overturned and he died at Hill Country Memorial Hospital. His wife a passenger was not seriously injured.
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Alfred Novian
Albert
Eugene Demuth
Novian
Hill Country Memorial Hospital
Jet Fuel Tanks Fall In Pasture North of City
Two jet fuel tanks with 370 gallon capacity each fell from an RF 4C Phantom II during a routine training flight north of Fredericksburg. One tank hit power lines and exploded starting a brush fire. the other disintegrated nearby with no fire. Major Jack Hurley piloted the plane with Lt Leslie Sheckman as system controller. The incident near Upper Crabapple Road on the Ben Moellering Ranch prompted an investigation and the aircraft was impounded at Bergstrom AFB.
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Crabapple Road
Ben
Nolan B. Stanford
Rick Hurst
Bergstrom
Ben Moellering
Cen-Tex
Red Cross Flood Disaster Fund Drive Underway
Gillespie County joins nationwide Red Cross emergency fund drive for flash flood victims in Rapid City South Dakota. Kenneth W Wahl says local goal is about 200 dollars as part of a five million dollar national campaign announced by E Roland Harrison. Funds accepted at Fredericksburg National Bank and Security State Bank and Trust through June 21.
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Gillespie County
American National Red Cross
Rapid City
South Dakota
Kenneth W. Wahl
The
Red Cross
E. Roland Harrison
American Red Cross
Washington
Texas
Wahl
Fredericksburg National Bank and Security State Bank and Trust
Hobby to Join Gillespie County Hunter Jumper Show
Lt Governor-elect Bill Hobby of Houston will compete in the Gillespie County Fair Hunter Jumper Show joining his wife and children. The three day event features 240 to 250 riders and horses with over 20 stables represented. Miss Nancy Moody and Hobby Horse Stables rider participate as well. The show, sanctioned by national and Texas associations, runs Friday to Sunday with multiple performances and trophies from Fredericksburg firms.
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Gillespie County
Texas
Bill Hobby
Houston
Governor Hobby
Edge Park Stables
Nancy Moody
Dan Moody
Governor Moody
Hobby Horse Stables
Austin
Fredericksburg
American Horse Show, Assn
New York
Assn
New Vocational Units Approved For FHS
The Texas Education Agency approved a vocational director and eleven and a half new vocational units at Fredericksburg High School. Joe Tatum was named Vocational Director, Earl Stobaugh as Distributive Education teacher, and CB Chenault as Agriculture Related Mechanical Repair teacher. The district will use Region XIII education services and KRLN TV offerings for 1972 73.
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Texas Education Agency
Fredericksburg High School
Earl Stobaugh
Stobaugh
C .B. Chenault
Dana Sullivan
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Betty McGuire
Chicago
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William H. Grear
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John Kirk
Frank Owens
R. A. Alexander
Evelyn Tatum
Elmer Bierschwabe
Alex Fran
Tzen
Henry Kneese
Wilbert Seipp
Curtis Cameron
Curtis Eckhardt
Daniel Fritz
Gordon Sauer
Melvin Bonn
Calvin Schumann
Kenneth Maner
Oliver Rode
Otto Spaeth
Rudy Olfers
Bill Petmecky
Wallace Ottmers
Fred Dietel
Fair
St. Mary’s
Glen Treibs
U. S. Army
Dora Meier
Betty Moldenhauer
Texas Tech
CVAE
P. E
Earl Schwettman
Charlotte Jung
Region XIII Education Service Center
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