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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1951
Page
10
Editorial reflects on one hundred graduates from Fredericksburg schools completing high school. It emphasizes democracy as a sacred trust, rights to worship, free speech, jury trials, home ownership, and business, urging graduates to defend freedoms and vote to sustain American liberty.
Last Tuesday night the Texas Safety Association held an awards and appreciation banquet in Austin honoring the Texas Department of Public Safety. The event recognized Highway Patrol and Drivers’ License Examiners along with Texas Rangers for long service to the state, with Fredericksburg noted as a regional HQ hub.
The piece argues that truly busy people rarely avoid obligations and urges readers to join community church and school activities. It asserts that volunteering brings pleasure and fulfillment and warns against using busyness as an excuse.
The House passed the Agriculture appropriation bill cutting the President’s $820 million request to $717 million. It kept Soil Conservation funding but rejected amendments reducing range practices and fertilizer funds from $225 million to $150 million.
Soil Conservation District researchers show clovers vetch and winter peas improve soil structure moisture retention and organic matter. Hubam Madrid and Ohio evergreen clovers break hard pans boost water infiltration provide grazing and raise yields in some cases with measured gains in corn wheat and milk production.
Rollie Adams was appointed Justice of the Peace of the Johnson City precinct by the Commissioners Court to fill the vacancy caused by Clifton Wells resignation. The Johnson City High School seniors left Friday for their senior trip to Galveston.
The Fredericksburg National Bank will be closed on Wednesday May 30 in observance of Memorial Day.
In odd data tilts a list cites Edison inventing gum med paper a camel speed of 16 miles per hour and a human heart weighing 11 ounces. It notes a Chinese radish as heavy as 50 pounds and hints horses sharing two sets of something. Morning glories supposedly bloom before rain.
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