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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1940
Page
1
The county’s commissioners court earned praise for advancing roads, farm work, home demonstration, and a county health nurse. The piece recalls long debates, early opposition, and the belief that public investments improve welfare, with continued advocacy for better health and infrastructure.
Fredericksburg Lions Club approved two city projects. A wildlife film screening, aided by committees led by R W Klingelhoefer, Nolan Brown, and Art Kowert, with Walter Knoche offering the Longhorn Theatre gratis, and a spring mosquito eradication educational campaign led by Leo Thomlinson, Walter Ottmers, Alfred Neffendorf, and Art Kowet. Special medallions and plaques were awarded to officers for new-member gains. Music by Almon Kirchoff.
County Judge Henry Hirsch names school census enumerators for Gillespie County with the Fredericksburg Independent district. The count runs March 1 to April 1 and includes children born Sept 1, 1922 through Sept 1, 1934. Enumerators request parents provide names ages and other details for crippled children.
The Fredericksburg Standard will publish on Friday mornings as an experiment. Copies will be available at the Post Office when windows open, and rural route mail recipients will continue to receive their copies as before.
About 90 Fredericksburg men aged 21 to 35 gathered Tuesday at the Hotel Nimitz ballroom to plan a Junior Chamber of Commerce. Delegations from New Braunfels and Kerrville shared experiences and outlined steps for organizing the Fredericksburg unit.
Merchants and professionals in Fredericksburg cooperate with the Palace Theatre and local papers to sponsor the annual Most Beautiful Yard Contest. The competition is open to all Fredericksburg residents and those in the surrounding community. Entrants need to fill a coupon found in this issue and send it to the contest office. A full prize list will appear in next week’s Standard.
It Happened This Week reports that Secretary of State Hull or Welles completed the first official foreign visit with Mussolini and Count Ciano, receiving cordial treatment. He then departed for Switzerland en route to Germany for talks with Hitler and Goering. Roosevelt urges more planes and guns for canal defense as he returns from the Panama trip. The Red Army advances against Finnish troops as Soviet forces push deeper.
Mayor Edward Krauskopf ordered a general election for April 2 to choose a mayor and two city commissioners. Voting will take place in the former sheriff's office on Courthouse Square. Election judges Ben Kneese and Otto Kiehne. clerks Lawrence Sinopp and Arthur Holly. Petitions to place names on the ballot must be filed nine days before the election with city clerk Bodo Habenicht.
Forty Lubbock attorneys spent Friday afternoon in Fredericksburg as part of a weekend tour through Central Texas. They were greeted by Rep. Alfred Petsch at the Chamber of Commerce, received Fredericksburg wine, and toured the Vereins Kirche and Nimitz Hotel before a Johnson City barbecue.
The Gillespie County Farmers League met Sunday in the Gillespie Courthouse. All officers were reelected: Guido Weinheimer as president, Arthur Jung as vice president, and Thomas Jung as secretary-treasurer. Dues remain 50 cents monthly with January due date. Hugo Jung reported on the State Convention noting a graduate allotment for basic commodities under the AAA and a $5000 payment cap to individuals or corporations under AAA program.
Miss Elberta Martin of Fort Worth was named Home Demonstration Agent for Gillespie County to replace Cornelia Faye Stewart. Her appointment was made by Maurine Hearne district supervisor. Martin, then a home economics teacher at Olden, Texas, will arrive Friday to assume duties. University of Texas geologists say Gillespie County gypsum beds hundreds of acres thick could support large scale processing plants in Houston or San Antonio, with five-county Llano area mapping funded by a $5,000 legislative grant. Only one operating plant exists in Cherry Mountain. another once operated in Doss.
Agricul tural Adjustment Administration officials from Blanco Llano San Saba McCulloch Mason and Gillespie counties met in Gillespie County to discuss 1940 Agricultural Conservation Program rules The meeting led by R H Nelson explained the Farm Plan Sheet to help farmers plan operations and determine conservation practices to earn soil-building payments Participation is voluntary and signing the Farm Plan Sheet does not bind producers Continued on page 2 Col 4.
The Fredericksburg Chamber of Commerce warns merchants to beware of out of town solicitors selling advertising schemes or collecting funds without the vigilance committee’s endorsement. The committee, led by secretary Krauskopf, aims to aid merchants and requires solicitors to carry a committee issued card. Merchants should call the Chamber for information if in doubt.
Old time German dances such as the Schottische Polka and Put Your Little Foot replace jitterbug styles across Gillespie County and beyond. Local orchestras like Pehl's and Herman and His Boys have long featured this music, with radio programs aiding a national sway toward traditional German dance forms.
Speedy dispatch marked the Gillespie County District Court term as eight indictments were disposed of. Elgin Grobe 15 received 2 to 3 years in reform school. Chester Ellebracht gets two years in state prison. John Schmidt two other charges led to five year term with suspension. remaining cases moved to retired docket. continued on page 2.
Rosa Alberthal left funds for Fredericksburg Volunteer Fire Department to buy and replace firefighting equipment. Frederickburg Independent School District receives $100 to plant trees and shrubs and beautify public school grounds.
Clayton Kiler a 15 year old son of Mr and Mrs Arthur Killer of Cave Creek Community broke his left thigh while playing on the Fredericksburg Public Schools tennis courts. A playmate reportedly jumped on him causing the fracture. He was taken to a local hospital for observation this week.
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