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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1951
Page
1
A student birthday gathering Tuesday night after Senior practice honored Janice on her 18th birthday with ice cream and cake. The Round-Up notes casual gossip about school life including friendships, crushes, and campus events at the Texas Lutheran College vicinity.
Carolyn Parker daughter of Mr and Mrs James Parker is the seventeenth senior presented at Harper High She is artistic with a quiet friendly personality In sophomore year she was named the most beautiful girl by the student body She was a football team dutchess in sophomore year and a cheerleader in junior year She was the most popular girl by vote In junior year she was Student Council president As a senior she was drummer for the Longhorn pep squad Selected by football team as sweetheart She has five years as pep squad member Three years on girls basketball team as forward Member art and lay out committee of The Longhorn Two years in Girls Choir Four years in FHA Club Height 5 feet 5 inches Eyes blue Hair brown Birthday March 5 1937 Likes Mexican food Color blue Pet peeve snoopers Song How Important Can It Sport swimming Hobby art Pastime eating Subject shorthand Ambition stenographer School SBS Waxahachie The Round-Up autograph sections for the annual are for sale at twenty five cents each for fans The Longhorn annual staff requests full payments Autograph sections are being signed by seniors for their annuals Concessions sold Friday for Inter scholastic League events Seniors played last volleyball game Tuesday night Some seniors hope for a spring track meet The school has hosted three plays turning the campus into Hollywood Talent has been discovered The Round-Up section wraps up
A handwritten letter addressed to St Peter at Pearly Gates was found at a Dallas post office. It bore a Gatlinburg Tennessee postmark with a clerk’s note reading Try Texas.
In a district Inter scholastic League meet, grammar school girls were eliminated after two losses to Bandera. High School boys defeated Bandera then Johnson City to clinch the district title. High School girls beat Bandera in round one, Harpers edged Marble Falls in a hard fought afternoon bout.
The Harper A girls beat London in a 2-1 match with scores 15-10 14-16 15-13. Harper B also won, taking the first two games 15-6 and 15-9.
The Harper high school girls won the district softball title again, beating Bandera 7 6 in eight innings after Cotton Bierschwabe was injured early. Johnson City and Center Point were previous opponents with decisive wins as Harper extended its undefeated streak to six straight district titles and a possible state record.
Miss Viola Schmidt brings Fredericksburg Public School typing students to Harper for a March 29 contest with P. B. Rogers classes. Dorothy Neffendorf wins first in the first year class, LeRoy Kramer second, and Fredericksburg dominates the typing IL contest. Rogers plans a return visit March 31. Next, Susie the Siren, a three act comedy, opens at Harper Gym April 14 and 15 at 8 p.m. Adults 60 cents, children 30 cents.
The Junior class expresses gratitude to sponsors Mr. and Mrs. Harris and Mrs. Schneider for help during school. Gratitude is extended to Mrs. Stevens for prompting, Mrs. Suffel for makeup work, seniors Meldred Wright and Kathy Lang for cooperation, Mrs. M. R. Duderstadt for mimeographing, and to parents, patrons, and friends who aided the production.
A one act play at Comfort on March 26 featured Harper High School students directed by Mr. Rogers. The production placed third with Lew Moellendorf and Eugene Bode earning second and third on the All Star Cast. judges were from SWTC Speech Department in San Marcos Texas.
U S farm exports were 15 percent higher for July to February than the same period a year earlier totaling about 2.2 billion dollars this fiscal year’s first eight months, with gains led by cotton and related products while grains such as wheat flour barley and grain sorghums rose offsetting some rice and corn declines. Several social notes follow detailing visits by local families including the Maurers Schwabs and Parkers with others visiting Kerrville and Rock Springs.
The Red Cross Blondmobile collected 183 pints over two days at Bethany Lutheran Church with 109 donors on day one and 83 on day two, short of a 200 pint goal. Mrs. Ralph Gold chaired the volunteers with Mrs. Pryor Mogford as co chair. many committees and workers are named.
Home Demonstration District 7 will gather from 16 West Texas counties at Trinity Baptist Church Kerrville on April 19. Registration begins 9 a.m. with coffee and cookies. program starts 10 a.m. Guest speakers include Judge Jack L. Pope and Miss Thelma Casey. Lunch at noon. delegates and agents attend from listed counties.
Mrs Gene Carter and children of Oklahoma visited her parents Mr and Mrs Sam Honig and Mrs S S Stewart. Mr and Mrs Felix Kenning attended the WSCS in Kerrville last Friday. Mesd David Schmidt and Paul Suffel attended Junction meeting of the Beta Zeta Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma honorary fraternity for women teachers.
Mr and Mrs V C Russell Jr and their young daughter of Killeen spent the weekend with their parents Mr and Mrs Archie Lennon and Mr and Mrs V C Russell Sr in a family gathering.
James Tarr Steve Ochler Ber Nice Duelerstadt and Mrs Wat kins Tarr attended the 4 H Council meeting in Fredericksburg Thursday night.
Mrs. Bob McElroy spent the past week visiting relatives at Pecos Toyah and other West Texas towns. She returned home Sunday.
Tune in to WOAI each morning at 6 30 for the Devotional by Dr. Paul J Schwab pastor of Harper Presbyterian Church during April.
The Harper Methodist Church seeks to purchase a building to move to its site for Sunday School rooms. Anyone knowing of or having a building for sale should call Carl Ochler at 27 or Rev. Jasper Snow at 11.
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