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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1952
Page
8
Harper Church and St James Lutheran Church in Harper provide cookies gift prizes and magazines to Brooke Medical Center San Antonio for the Camp and Hospital Service of Gillespie County Red Cross. The Gillespie unit supplies bed pan covers comic books magazines nylon hose and records to Lackland Air Force Hospital. Holy Ghost Lutheran Church to furnish July quota.
Fredericksburg sisters Imogene and Bernice Wieser received honors at the Mother-Daughter Banquet of the Women’s Physical Education Department at Southwest Texas State Teachers College in San Marcos. Imogene won the Delta Psi Kappa Cup for the second year running plus a scholarship for high Psi grades. Bernice earned an award from the Racket Club led by Dr. Hiawatha Crosslin.
City of Fredericksburg invites sealed proposals by July 3 1952 for construction of municipal bathing facilities. Bids must include 5 percent bid bond and deposit for specs 20 dollars. Project requires prevailing local wages and local labor preference where feasible.
Dr. Leo F. Klein returned to Fredericksburg after the 37th annual Texas State Chiropractic Association convention in Dallas. The event at the Baker Hotel ran June 5 to 7 and featured refresher courses and lectures by leading authorities to advance statewide chiropractic practices.
The week began with a 96 degree high on Sunday and Monday and a low of 67 on Saturday. Rain totaled 16.98 inches for 1952 by midweek, with 12.17 inches by the same date in 1951, per Alfred Neffendorf.
Harvey C Hahn son of Mrs Alwin Oehler has left Beeville to join Stanolind Oil and Gas Company in their engineering training program He earned a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering from Texas A and I College in Kingsville last month.
Mr and Mrs Tyrus Cox and children attended a Cox family reunion at Mrs Coxs sisters home in Houston with three of his brothers and two sisters present. The Ty Coxes and Dutch Coxes from Levelland then fished in the Gulf of Mexico at Lake Charles Louisiana. Ulysses S Grants original name was Hiram Ulysses Grant.
A Texas law column outlines juror conduct to uphold integrity in trials. It urges jurors to avoid contact with trial participants, not discuss cases, rely on evidence, and refrain from guessing or investigating beyond presented facts. When in doubt, ask the judge.
Milton Owens, 14, of San Angelo, was injured late Tuesday when he slipped running across Oakcrest Park dam and struck a concrete guard post. He suffered two six inch gashes and a bruised stomach, and remained in a local hospital through Friday. His 11 year old brother Clyde accompanied them visiting relatives Mr and Mrs Andrew Woerner.
Mr and Mrs Arnold Hummel departed Friday for an extended trip to California and other western states, planning to tour and visit relatives along the way.
The Palace screens The Wild North Thursday and Friday with Stewart Granger Wendell Corey and Cyd Charisse in a rugged Canadian trapping tale. The double bill includes Yellow Fin and Last of the Wild Horses on Saturday, plus Here Come The Nelsons on Sunday and Monday with Ozzie and Harriet. Arabian Nights headlines Tuesday and Wednesday with Flight to Mars on the second half.
Miss Viola Mae Schmidt and Miss Irene Neffendorf depart Thursday for Denver Colorado to enroll at the University of Denver. Neffendorf plans history courses while Schmidt will study business education and join a Typewriting Workshop June 23 to July 9 assisted by Dr. John L. Rowe and Miss Dorothy Davis. Schmidt also attends the Mountain Plains Business Teachers Conference June 26 to 28 featuring leaders in the field.
Pvt Roy Ressmann and Sgt Berthold Pfiester, lifelong friends from Pilot Knob and Fredericksburg High, meet again after three weeks in Osaka Army Hospital Japan where Ressmann fell ill at Eta Jima Specialist School and Pfiester was flown back from Korea. They plan to return to active duty in about a week.
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