Doss Community Wins First in Texas Improvement Program
The Doss Community Improvement Club earned first place in Extension Service District 7 Division 1 of the Texas Community Improvement Program, with Ben Evers receiving the certificate and a $100 check from C A Stone. Officers include Marcus Rode and Mrs. Arthur Lynn Hahn. Emil Anderegg and Mrs. Elgin Dittmar are directors. Funds come from electric utilities. second year in program follows a $50 prize last year. Fredericksburg volunteers answered two calls, a grass fire on West Main and a car fire on a 1965 Ford.
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Doss
Extension Service District 7
Texas Community Improvement Program
Ben Evers
LaWanda Osbourn
C. A. Stone
Hhe
Texas Agricultural Extension Service of Texas
A & M University
Doss Community Improvement Club
Fredericksburg
West Main
Ford
Kurt Eckhardt
Pastor Hierholzer Assigned to First Methodist Church
The Rev Malford C Hierholzer formerly pastor in Corpus Christi is assigned to First Methodist Church with a sermon set for Sunday June 19 He arrives with Dr Horace M King who will take over Edison Street Methodist Church and both will preach their first sermons in their new posts that day other local assignments are noted including Miller to Blanco Zirkel to Palacios Edge to Brownsville and Kendall to Mason
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malford C. Hierholzer
Corpus Christi
First Methodist Church
Dallas
Hierholzer
Horace M. King
Clifford Edge
Edison Street Methodist Church
Elmer Hierholzer
Austin
John Hierholzer
Edison Street
Fromm
Milford Zirkel
First Methodist
Palacios
Edge
Brownsville
Charles A. Miller
Blanco
David R. Klinger
Hunt
Arthur A. Kendall
Mason
Joe K. Ader
New Braunfels
Gus Schulze
Southwest Texas Conference
San Antonio
Albert E. Loudon
Here
Bethany Methodist Church
B. E. Breihan
Wesley Foundation
University of Texas
Chamber of Commerce Semi-Annual Meeting Thursday
The semi-annual Chamber of Commerce meeting will be held tomorrow at 7 p m in the Community Savings Center Hall. Ru fus Jones of the San Antonio Chamber will deliver a Hemis Fair message. Ladies invited. a turkey steak dinner will be served.
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Chamber of Commerce
Community Savings Center
Rufus Jones
San Antonio Chamber of Commerce
Luckenbach Named President of Fredericksburg Lions Club
Weston Luckenbach laboratory technician at Keidel Memorial Hospital was elected president of the Fredericksburg Lions Club at a Community Savings Center meeting. Officers include A G Davidson Marion Bud Smathers Roy Beckmann Jerry Durr H L Moffett Clarence Durst and two holdover directors E H Becker and Dick Dover. The June 22 Ladies Night installation will feature Dr Clyde Nail Lions Governor of District 2A-2 as speaker and installing officer. Shirleen Schumann the 1966 Lions Queen attended and was among eight finalists at the District convention in Laredo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weston Luckenbach
Keidel Memorial Hospital
Fredericksburg Lions Club
Community Savings Center
Clyde Nail
San Antonio College
Lions
Luckenbach
Frank Johnson
A. G. Davidson
Marion
Bud” Smathers
Roy Beckmann
Jerry Durr
H. L. Moffett
Clarence Durst
Lion Tanner
Hans Bergner
Gilbert Borchers
E. H. Becker
Dick Dover
Richard “Dick” Hoerster
Texas
Johnson
Laredo
Shirleen Schumann
Fredericksburg
Lions Club
Willie Schumann
Five More Peach Queen Candidates Enter 1966 JAMboree
Officials announce five more Hill Country girls join Beverly Burg in the 1966 Stonewall Peach JAMboree race to crown the Texas Peach Queen. The six contestants will tour San Antonio and Austin to build interest. pageants are set for June 24 and 25 at Stonewall Rodeo arena with antique cars, comedy car acts, a parade, dance, fiddlers, and peach events.
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Stonewall
Connie Rothmann
Mason
Sophie Bindseil
Blanco
Susan Stevenson
Johnson City
Kathy Haas
Kathly LeDoux
Beverly Burg
San Antonio
Austin
Bo Bland
Rodeo
Bland
Funny Ford
Aerospace Medical Center
HemisFair ’68
Funeral services held for Mrs. Lee Jacoby 77
Funeral services for Mrs. Lee Jacoby 77 nee Emma Lindig were held today at 2 p m in the Schaetter Funeral Chapel with burial in the Stone wall Cemetery. She died Sunday at 8 05 p m. A complete obituary will follow next week.
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Lee Jacoby
Emma Lindig
Schaetter
Stonewall Cemetery
German Tour Group Visits Fredericksburg Saturday
Thirty members of a tour sponsored by the New Yorker Staats Zeitung and Herald visited Fredericksburg on a chartered bus. Guides from the Gillespie County Historical Society met them at the Vereins Kirche and led them to Cross Mountain Bear Mountain and St Barnabas Episcopal Church with a lunch at Sunnyside Tavern. The group, mostly New York and New Jersey natives from Germany, left June 5 and plan to return June 22 after touring southern states.
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St. Barnabas Episcopal Church
Karl Krenz
Sunnyside
New York
New Jersey
Kentucky
Germany
Fredericksburg
Gillespie County 4-H Youths Win State Honors
Gillespie County 4-H Club members earned top Texas honors at the 1966 State 4-H Round-Up at Texas A and M University. Elaine Mazinke placed second in Favorite Foods, Herschel Esquell of Harper took 10th in Soil Evaluation, and the Llano 4-H Livestock Judging team won first to advance to nationals. Other contestants included Roy Heinemann Dudley Parker Connie Dittmar Brenda Weinheimer Sharon Pehl and coach Mrs Guenther Ottmers Jr with LaWanda Osbourn observing. Werner Moehr received Distinguished News Coverage of Texas 4-H Club Activities from the Texas 4-H Youth Development Foundation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elaine Mazinke
Pilot Knob
Texas A & M University
LaWanda Osbourn
Gillespie
Elaine
Carl Mazinke
Cen-Tex Electric Photo
Gillespie County
Herschel Esquell
Harper
Robert Wilson
Dallas
John Deere, Co
Esquell
Roy Heinemann
Dudley Parker
Connie Dittmar
Stonewall
Brenda Weinheimer
Sharon Pehl
Guenther Ottmers Jr
Werner Moehr
Central Texas Electric Cooperative Inc
Moehr
Texas 4-H Youth Development Foundation
Jerry Whaet
Foundation of Dallas
Llano
Herschell Esquell
John Deere
Night In Old Fredericksburg Plans Progressing
Plans for the third annual Night In Old Fredericksburg on Saturday July 23 move forward at a Chamber of Commerce Public Relations Committee meeting. The German style meal runs 5 to 8 pm with sausage sauerkraut and potato salad plus refreshments. Entertainment includes oompah band singing choral selections and dances. Booths feature Fredericksburg foods and reunion activities are planned by several groups.
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Old Fredericksburg
Chamber of Commerce
Fredericksburg Foods
Chamber of Commerce Office
Fredericksburg
Kneese Wins D A Race After Court Contest in Kerrville
Judge Charles Sherrill Jr. in Kerrville ruled Ray mond L Kneese the winner by 2993 to 2986 over Sam L Darden in a district court election contest. Kneese increased his margin from one to seven votes and thanked Gillespie County witnesses. Darden challenged 23 ballots, Kneese 10, with 26 ballots allowed. one alien registration was excluded and a vote by Mrs. Katie Boos was counted despite her denial of voting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Sherrill Jr
Fort Stockton
Raymond L. Kneese
Fredericksburg
Sam L. Darden
Bandera
Kerrville
Kneese
Democratic Party
Gillespie County
Darden
Gillespie
Court of Civil Appeals
Sherrill
Sherril
Adolph O. Kneese
Jose Ezquievel
Katie Boos
Two Girls Named To Attend Girls State in Austin
Kathy Van Bibber and Mary Ann Kensing have been selected to attend the American Legion Auxiliary Bluebonnet Girls State in Austin June 15 24. The sessions will be held at the Texas School for the Blind and representatives will join the Louis Jordan Post Auxiliary of Fredericksburg and the Sageser Haas Post Auxiliary of Harper.
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Kathy van Bibber
St. Mary's High School
Mary Ann Kensing
Harper High School
American Legion Auxiliary
Bluebonnet Girls
Austin
Texas School For the Blind
Kathy
Richard van Bibber
Louis Jordan Post
Fredericksburg
Mary Ann
Sageser-Haas Post
Harper
James M. Bender rites held after long illness
Funeral services for James M. Bender 70 were held Saturday afternoon at Edison Street Methodist Church with Dr. Clifford Edge officiating. Graveside rites were conducted by Fredericksburg Lodge A F and A M No 794 at Greenwood Cemetery. Bender died June 9 in Keidel Memorial Hospital after an extended illness. He had been a postal employee in Akron Ohio for 37 years before moving to Fredericksburg 15 years ago and serving as Master of the Texas Grange for eight years. He was a Past Master of the Fredericksburg Masonic Lodge No 794 and its secretary at death, active in the church and survived by wife Mary Grace Poole and two daughters in Houston, plus grandchildren and a brother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James M. Bender
Edison Street Methodist Church
Clifford Edge
Edison Street
Fredericksburg Lodge A. F. & A. M
Greenwood Cemetery
Bender
Keidel Memorial Hospital
Beckmann Funeral
Postal Service
Akron
Ohio
Texas Grange
Grange
Fredericksburg
Mary Grace Poole
Grace Williams
Ruth Irene Gann
Houston
James N. Williams
Ruth Ann Williams
Roy M. Bender
Aberdeen
North Carolina
Theodore Bender
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Chamber Commerce
Savings Center Hall
Mrs. Lee Jacoby
New Yorker Staats
Pioneer Memorial Library
Ella Gold
Helen Weirich
D. A
Girls
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