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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1941
Page
1
Prominent Gillespie County rancher Adolf Stieler was severely burned and knocked unconscious after touching an ice coated electric line while driving goats to shelter Tuesday. Reports note full line voltage at contact and include a continued item on page 3.
A year after the county court funded a health nurse through the Department of Public Health the program shows remarkable gains. Water supplies in county schools improved, sanitary conditions in Fredericksburg areas corrected, and broad public interest in health classes grew. Miss Kline’s work has delivered substantial community benefits and prompts careful use of tax dollars.
The current license period for 1941 automobile and truck plates ends this month with April 1 as the deadline. Vehicles operated on public roads after April 1 must display the new plates or face a 20 percent penalty. Unused licenses may remain if the owner files an affidavit of nonuse. Over 1,300 auto licenses and 300 truck plates remain to be sold to match last year’s totals.
Men who have become 21 since Oct 16, 1940 are not required to register for Selective Service training unless another registration day is proclaimed by the President. They may volunteer. Announcement by General J Watt Page, State Director of Selective Service.
City and Gillespie County residents will shape a thorough clean-up week agenda at a Friday 7 45 p m meeting in the Gillespie County Courthouse. On Monday, Dr. Lewis Dodson and L J Trotti outlined sanitation dangers and presented a film The Fly to educate local citizens about fly growth stages breeding places and habits.
A committee led by Miss Julia Estill to plan the Gillespie County Founders Day celebration was named at the board meeting with Alfred Neffendorf appointing them. The group will present plans at the April meeting.
Gillespie County Home Demonstration Clubs and 4-H members gathered for the Fifth Anniversary Tea at Hotel Nimitz to review county progress since 1936. Mrs. Louis Stevens recounted early club formations in Doss Harper Klein Branch Eckert Stonewall Albert Palo Alto Willow City Cherry Mountain Morris Ranch Knapp.
The Parent Teacher Association met Friday afternoon March 14 in the Public School auditorium with 73 members present. In the absence of the president, the first vice president presided. Minutes were read and treasurer reported cash on hand of $401.33 with $158.54 available. A letter from Hannah Freeman related Kerrville District Conference on April 15 and 16. The association, with 187 members, will send eighteen delegates. Choral Club members will also attend the program.
Gillespie County civic committees will meet at the Courthouse Thursday night March 20 at 7 45 to discuss the Gillespie County Public Health Service. They aim to petition the County Commissioners Court to reverse the recent decision to discontinue the service at the end of March. The meeting includes Parent Teacher committees among others.
The Fredericksburg Standard publishes its Spring Section this week after a postponement. Spring officially opens Friday March 21. The tabloid sized edition aims to bring early hints of sun, robins, and seasonal warmth to readers.
Gillespie County Graduate Nurses Association will hold its monthly meeting Monday night at 408 North Llano Street hosted by Miss Ruth Kline. Ada Peden will present a book review of Documents of Uprooted America. Judge Hirsch's speech has been postponed.
Fredericksburg would join as an air mail and air express pickup station under a proposed network from Southwest Feeder Airlines based in Oklahoma City. Thomas O. Hardin says the company has filed with the Civil Aeronautics Board for a permanent certificate to operate nearly 10,000 route miles across Oklahoma Texas Iowa Louisiana Arkansas Kansas Illinois and Missouri. The plan, the largest new domestic airline system since 1938, features Pick-up Delivery routes that remove intermediate landings and takeoffs for quicker airmail and express service.
Work to start in April on a new 9000 square foot building for Knopp and Metzger at South Orange and West Main in uptown Fredericksburg. Architects Driscoll and Gross of Austin design modern 100 by 100 foot structure with hollow tile buff brick steel roof, decorative glass trim and a basement storage area.
City officials completed the transfer of the Fredericksburg electric system from Central Power and Light to the city after a Monday meeting in the Federal Reserve Bank in San Antonio. The $148 568 price covers all lines from the Fredericksburg sub station with Rural Colorado River Authority lines included. The deal, financed by a 1936 bond issue, expands to five other South Central Texas cities and brings new low rates effective after April 1. Mayor Edward Krauskopf said consumer bills will reflect the changes.
Congressman Charles South reports on the 1941 42 farm program noting parity and soil conservation payments funded by about 500 million dollars in the Agriculture Appropriation Bill. Rural Electrification gains 100 million financed via RFC loans, and 50 million funds Farm Tenant Purchase continuation.
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