Peach JAMboree set for Stonewall on June 30
Plans for the first annual Peach JAMboree in Stonewall are nearly complete with over 50 entries. Judging starts at 9 a m and the parade at 10 a m from the Tip-Top Cafe along Highway 290 to the Wayside Grocery and back.
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Stonewall
Tom Weinheimer
Weinheimer
Highway 290
Wayside
John Pehl
Bill McReynolds
San Antonio
WOAI
Roy Wein
Lyndon B. Johnson
Washington
Texas
Community Savings and Loan set to open July 1 in Fredericksburg
Workmen finish the new main and orange street building as Fredericksburg Savings and Loan Association prepares a July 1 opening. The name changes to Community Savings and Loan Association reflect a broader service area while maintaining policy, management, and staff.
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Fredericksburg Savings and Loan Association
Marble Falls
Burnet
Hill Country
Stein Named New Rotary Chairman in Fredericksburg
J. D. Stein, president of Stein Lumber Company, was installed as the Fredericksburg Rotary Club president at a ladies night in the Hotel Nimtz. He succeeds Rev. Henry F. Treptow and will serve with Joe McCarthy as vice president Ad Dietzel as secretary treasurer and Walter Unger as sergeant at arms. Directors installed included Rev. Treptow E. A. Weimer John Dooley and R. M. Krausse.
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J. D. Stein
Stein Lumber Company
Fredericksburg
Rotary Club
Hotel Nimitz
Stein
Henry F. Treptow
Joe McCarthy
Ad. Dietzel
Walter Unger
Rev. Treptow
E. A. Weimer
John Dooley
R. M. Krausse
Lions Install New Officers at Wednesday Meeting
Fredericksburg Lions Club will install new officers for the year at a ladies night in Community Hall June 27 at 7 30 pm. Raymond Kneese becomes president succeeding Bruce Scully with Walter Moss as installing officer.
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Fredericksburg Lions Club
Community Savings and Loan Association
Raymond Kneese
Bruce Scully
Lion Walter Moss
Kerrville
Kneese
Edgar Stroener
Alton Klier
Stonewall Miss Flame to be Crowned at Benefit Dance
The Stonewall Volunteer Fire Department will crown its Miss Flame at the annual Firemen's Benefit Dance in the Stonewall School Gym Saturday night. Dancing to Cloverleaf Orchestra of New Braunfels begins 8:30 p.m. with the ceremony between 9 and 10 p.m. Public invited.
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Stonewall
Betwen
Arnold Klein
Harvey Eckert
Cloverleaf Orchestra
New Braunfels
City Seeks 90 Day Delay in Phone Rate Hike
The City Commission asked Southwestern States Telephone Co to grant a 90 day delay on proposed rate increases in Fredericksburg to hire an unbiased evaluation engineer. The move aims to value the company’s Fredericksburg exchange properties as the basis for any rate changes.
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City Commission
Southwestern States Telephone Company
Fredericksburg
Arthur Stehling
Allen Keller
Commission
Telephone Company
Joan D. Allen
A. J. Lacy
Brownwood
Stehling
Fredericksburg Fourth of July Festival Opens July 1
Fredericksburg's annual Fourth of July Festival runs four days from Sunday July 1 to Wednesday July 4 with thoroughbred horse racing Appaloosa racing and band music by the Gillespie County Fair Band under Felix Pehl. Racing chairman Walter E Ludwig Jr. notes the event could be one of the largest race meets in history with all 101 stalls rented and 25 more horses housed in livestock barns as Texas breeders bring top horses to compete.
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Fredericksburg
Gillespie County Fair Association
Gillespie County Fair Band
Felix Pehl
America
Walter E. Loudon, Jr
United States
Ohio Man Dies In Freak Auto Accident Thursday
Joe Neal McCollister 28 of Frankfurt Ohio died in a freak auto accident Thursday morning at 7 near the Spring Creek bridge, 12 miles west of Fredericksburg. A pickup, being towed by a car driven by Billie Dilcher, overturned as the tow car lost control. McCollister and hitchhiker Albert Ernst were passengers. Ernst survived.
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Joe Neal McCollister
Frankfurt
Ohio
Fredericksburg
Spring Creek Bridge
McCollister
Henry Ligon
Kerrville
Bob Werner
MacCollister
Albert Erol Ernst
Junction
Billie June Dilcher
Peter Paul Gandinetti
Dilcher
Joe N. McCollister
Billie June Dileher
Uiat
Harold Stehling Installed As New Jaycees President
Harold Stehling teller of Security State Bank was installed as the Fredericksburg Jaycees president during the annual installa tion in the Community Savings and Loan Association hall. Installing officer Al Eckhardt praised Stehling as he succeeded Alton Kher and announced new officers and directors including Alton Oehel er and Kermaf Ernst. The ceremony featured a first time award the C. B. S trophy shovel symbolizing hard work and the dedication of the new assembly hall led by Rev Noel Winkinson.
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Harold Stehling
Security State Bank
Fredericksburg Jaycees
Alton Kher
al Eckhardt
San Antonio
Bob France
Assembly Hall
Summer Interim School Board Studies Fall Staffing and Building Needs
The Public School board and administrators list returning teachers for the 1962 63 term and focus on a building program to handle rising enrollment. They review bond options next September, study the budget and transportation, and note vacancies in Physical Education English and a combined math and boys PE post.
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Board of Education
Bern
Ella Gold
Viola May Gold
Herbert Haas
Keith Hoffmann
Sarah Ann Lewis
Daisy Massey
Esther Mueller
Hubert Nixon
Leste Phillips
Tom Rhodes
Mildred Rowntree
Elbert Schmidt
Cynthia Bauer
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Jare
Miss Flame
Fair Association
The
Jaycees
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