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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1951
Page
13
The Beethoven Singing Society float representing Germany won first prize and the trophy in the Parade of Nations division of the Fiesta Flambeau in San Antonio. The display featured Beethoven imagery, musical scores, six women in costume and a Tyrolean man, celebrating the era with song.
USDA experts report a bright outlook for Texas sheep and goat raisers with strong demand and favorable wool and mohair prices. The 1951 US sheep population rose to 28,065,000 with Texas at 7,036,000, as world production and military demand influence prices. Mohair fetched 75.9 cents per pound in 1950, with Texas sales showing about 1.90 to 2.25 dollars per pound for adult and kid hair, though markets cooled recently.
Final plans were made at a Harper meeting with civic group chairmen named for education homemaking Lions Club Oak Hill Study Club Legion Auxiliary Sewing Circle St James Missionary Society Helping Hand Club Presbyterian Women. The Wool Show opens at 10 a.m. May 12 with a noon Lions Club barbecue lunch in the school lunch room.
Gillespie County Lumber Company announces a Talk of the Town Contest from May 7 to May 11. Entries open to the public except employees and families, with daily prizes of one gallon of Flatlax Paint for the first two correct respondents. Bill Henry on Station KNAF will reveal a jumbled word spelling the town's name. Winners are announced the next evening.
Seventeen church choirs join the second annual Spring Choral Festival at Texas Lutheran College on Sunday May 6. The event, sponsored by the college Music Department, features a chapel service, two massed rehearsals, campus lunch, and an afternoon concert. Zion Lutheran Church of Fredericksburg leads advance registrations.
Seven students from Cherry Spring School were named to the honor roll. The list includes Harriet Ahrens Sylvia Rusche Virginia Crenwelge Doris Roche Myrtle Ahrens James Feuge and Betty Parcke. Betty Parcke attended a Fort Worth visit to see Louisiana Hayride Saturday night. Obert and Arthur Sagcbiel traveled to Lamesa with their parents Friday. The Cherry Springs Comanches defeated the Apache Braves Friday afternoon.
Lieut. Pressley N. O Bannon led Marines who flew the American flag atop the Derne fortress in Tripoli in 1805 marking the first time the stars and stripes waved over an Old World fort and on the African continent.
Gillespie County led six counties by mid April in the American Cancer Society quota. The county sent 800 dollars via its Community Chest with co chairs Alfred Petsch J Hardin Perry and Mrs Hayden Osbourn. The Texas Crusade aims to raise 500000 for cancer clinics research and public education. Other over quota counties include Armstrong Deaf Smith Midland Zavala and Lynn.
A 163 strong gathering of Texas newspaper people at the South Texas Press Association meeting in San Antonio on April 21 unanimously approved Texas efforts to reclaim the Tidelands from federal control. They passed a resolution denouncing the federal takings and the use of those funds to support Texas schools.
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