PTA Harvest Festival to Present Show Boat Oct 21
Fredericksburg PTA's Harvest Festival will stage Show Boat on October 21 at the Public School gym. A large cast drawn from grades 1 through 12 will perform under Opal Pitz with help from staff. The high school band will play, and a narrator will guide the production. Admission is fifty cents for adults.
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PTA
Fredericksburg
Opal Pitz
Aoing “O Susanha
Jeanie
Davine Virden
Andrew Alberthal
Kermit Heimann
We Believed In That Account Complaint Against Ourselves Vitamize
Fredericksburgers recount a long delay before incorporating their city finding pride in progress after a hard fought battle. They praise careful tax spending and a reputation as a clean small city while noting citizen effort and local governance. Continues on page 2.
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Chambers of Commerce
Telephone Strike Averted In Llano Settlement Reached
A month of tension ended last Wednesday in Llano as United States Telephone workers avert a strike after a compromise with the Communications Workers of America and company officials. The talks produced a six percent across the board pay raise and added conditions including Sunday pay, holiday double time, company tools, safety measures, and a military leave clause. The agreement followed months of negotiations led by W C White Jimmy Farrel R W Staley Hugo Boos and Mildred Nixon.
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United Telephone System
Llano
Communications Workers of America
W. C. White
Jimmy Farrel
San Angelo
R. W. Staley
Dallas
Hugo Boos
Mildred Nixon
First Freeze Reported Here This Morning
The season's first freeze hit the area with a 31 degree low on Wednesday morning, coming a month earlier than last year. Record rainfall totals for Fredericksburg show 16.38 inches in September and 36.88 inches year to date. Oswald Eckhardt led rural rainfall with 19.10 inches in September.
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Alfred Neffendorf
Fredericksburg
Oswald F. Eckhardt
Rheingold
Elroy Schnelle
Bankersmith
F. B. Riley
Crabapple
Tom Carr
FFA Students Win Santa Fe Awards At State Fair
A. C. East and Clayton Behrends received cash awards from the Santa Fe Railroad Company at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas on October 4. J. P. Cowley presented the honors in a radio broadcast from the Agriculture Building. East was top among the state winning livestock team members, Behrends led the State meat judging team, and both earned pullman car tickets plus funds for travel expenses.
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A. C. East
Fred Welgehausen
Clayton Behrends
Alex Behrends
Dallas
Santa Fe
James Stewart
Behrends
J. P. Cowley
Santa Fe Railroad
Santa Fe Railroad Company
Future Farmer Organization
FFA
Future Farmer Convention
Santa Fe Company
Future Farmer State
Young Behrends
Alton Moellering
Harvey Ellebracht
Levi Ellebracht
Joe Tatum
Hunting Party Heads to Kaibab Forest for Deer Opening
A six man party departed Tuesday for a week long hunt in Kaibab Forest Arizona to take their limit of blacktail deer when the season opens Friday October 10. The group includes B H Heinen Cole Lewis Felix Neffendorf Elgin Kneese Ernest Landis of Fredericksburg and Francis Kuemme San Antonio.
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Kaibab Forest
Arizona
B. H. Heinen
Cole Lewis
Felix Neffendorf
Elgin Kneese
Ernest Landis
Fredericksburg
Francis Kuemme
San Antonio
Weekend guests for Saenger fest listed in San Antonio
Mrs. Christian Hahn hosted weekend visitors including Mrs. Rudolph Walter and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bissell, all from San Antonio, for the Saenger festival event.
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Christian Hahn
Rudolph Walter
Carl Bissell
San Antonio
Firemen to Dedicate Memorial Flagpole and Honor Poster Winners
Fredericksburg Volunteer Fire Department plans a Sunday ceremony at 3 p.m. at City Hall Fire Station to dedicate a memorial flagpole for Ernest F. Lochte. Speakers include Chief Max Schneider and Mayor Wm. Schroeder with Hermann Sons Band providing music. Silver dollar awards will be presented to 376 poster contest entrants and winners.
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Fredericksburg
Max Schneider
Wm. Schroeder
Hermann Sons Band
Lorenz Bading
Milton Zenner
Waldemar Hannemann
City traffic survey eyes blinking lights on highway entrances
State Highway Department crews conducted a traffic survey in Fredericksburg on Tuesday to count autos at major highway corners and assess feasibility of installing blinker lights ahead of city intersections. Mayor Schroeder noted a report will guide work, with speed zoning signs planned and about two miles of paving completed last week. A bridge across Town Creek on North Washington Street is set to begin this week or next.
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State Highway Department
Fredericksburg
Wm. Schroeder
Schroeder
Town Creek
Washington Street
Trinity Lutheran Marks Golden Jubilee in Stonewall
Trinity Lutheran Church near Stonewall celebrated its 50th anniversary with morning and afternoon services featuring sermons by former pastors Otto Lindenberg and Paul Leonhard. The day included a barbecue, coffee and cake, and greetings from district and parish leaders as the church welcomed former members and guests.
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Trinity Lutheran Church of
Near Stonewall
Otto Lindenberg
Holy Ghost Lutheran Church
Trinity Lutheran
G. C. Senff
C. N. Roth
Texas
American Lutheran Church
Ernst Arbelger
Meyersville
Arbelger
Eugene Meier
Ewald Herber
Martin Bauer
Homestead
Paul Leonhard
M. J. Schwarz
Cave Creek
Crabapple
F. A. Bracher
Pstoar
Zion Church
Fredericksburg
Trinity Church
Senff
Rubin Family Visitation At Fair Marks Quiet Moment
Mrs. Rubin hosted Bernhard and her son Rubin Jr a student at Southwestern Medical School Dallas during a visit at the fair Saturday in a brief family gathering noted in local society pages.
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Rubin. Bernhard
Rubin Jr
Southwestern Medical School
Dallas
Knopp Leaves Austin Hospital For Home Next Week
Lawrence Knopp has been confined to a hospital in Austin for several weeks and is recuperating. he will be able to return home next week.
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Lawrence Knopp
Austin
New Braunfels to Host 1952 Texas Gebirg Saengerfest
New Braunfels was named the host city for the 62nd Annual Texas Gebirg Saengerfest with the 1953 event marking 100 years of organized singing in Texas. Joint sponsors Echo Men's Choir Mixed Choir Harmonie and New Braunfels Meannerchor to lead a three day celebration with Houston headquarters participating. The Fredericksburg festival was hailed as highly successful with officials welcoming attendees and honoring German pioneer roots.
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New Braunfels
Texas
Echo
Harmonie
New Braunfels Meannerchor
Houston
Fredericksburg
Texas Gebirg Saengerbund
Walter Ottmers
Arion
Wm. Schroeder
Victor A. Sagebiel
Robert C. Herbst
The
Saengerbund
Community Chest Directors Plan 1953 Fund Drive
Gillespie County Community Chest directors review last year’s results and begin preparations for the 1953 campaign. They set October 22 for the annual membership meeting. The 1951 drive raised 14 336 82 with 2 500 to Red Cross and allocations to Girl Scouts 1 500 Boy Scouts 1 900 Salvation Army 550 Cancer Society 800 Infantile Paralysis 2 000 USD 991 Local Charities 1 884 66.
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Gillespie County Community Chest
Community Chest
Red Cross
Girl Scouts
Boy Scouts
Salvation Army
Cancer Society
Fredericksburg C of C Meets Oct 23 on Deer Turkey Season
The Fredericksburg Chamber of Commerce holds its fall quarterly meeting at Gillespie Fair Park on Thursday October 23. Guest speaker Howard Dodgen of the Texas Game and Fish Commission will discuss a regulatory powers bill affecting hunting seasons and game resource preservation. The program includes hunting and outdoor films and a brief chamber operations report.
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Fredericksburg
Hill
Game Commission
Texas
Chamber of Commerce
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Mary Louise Heinen
Girl Scouts of America
Edgar Klett
Petersburg
Hilmar
Leonard
Evelyn Mazinke
Joyce Crenwelge
Delilah Birck
Kenrick Schiueter
Elaine Crenwelge
Morris Schaefer
Mary Lou Bartholmae
Clifford Staudt
Michaeli Lou Weber
Paul Honig
Clyde Dechert
Betty Weinheimer
Carolyn Fiedler
Lorence Crenwelge
Ruth Kennedy
Richard Suiffel
Eric F. Juenke
Harold Hannemann
C. George
Lewis Dolezal
Texas Gebirgs Saengerbund
Johanna Seidel
Robert H. Thays
Frank Gittinger
Henry Riemer
Otto Seidel
Bodo Holekamp
Robert Herbst
Guido Ransleben
Joe Molberg
Anion
San
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