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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1946
Page
3
A Western observer contrasts Chinese behavior in dress, hospitality, and daily life with American norms. Chinese clerks and officials dress simply, homes lack ornate parlor classes, and entire houses welcome strangers. Hospitality, honesty, and practicality define Chinese conduct at home, work, and public spaces.
Three new members Aubrey Harper Marshal Brown and Roy Roberts joined the Harper Lions Club at the regular luncheon meeting on Wednesday night. Earlier in the month four new members were admitted and guest speaker Callan Graham discussed the U S Constitution and the Bill of Rights with comparisons to other nations.
Rev. H. C. Hoermann of St. James Lutheran Church Harper will be installed as resident pastor Sunday at 10 30 a m by Rev. M J Schwarz Mason. He came from Westhoff Cuero area where he previously served and will reside on the Anna Tatsch place four miles west of Harper with his wife and three children who attend Harper public school. The community welcomes the Hoermann family.
The Fredericksburg Giants begin the 1946 baseball campaign Sunday April 7 at 3 30 p m against the Strong San Antonio 7-Up Bottlers. Ladies can enter free with regular tax. Centennial Band will play. Opening lineup features Wuest or Molberg on the mound and a full batting order led by Jung and Langerhans.
Misses Haroldene Porter and Joe Ann Kinsey entertained about 20 guests at the Porter home Friday night for birthday anniversaries of Tommie Phillips and Aubrey Carter. Wieners cake and cold drinks were served. Pauline and Bonnie Mae Blerschwale visited Bonnie Dadie on a ranch trip afterward.
A passage extols a world where state pomp is absent and a man can live freely. It asserts there are standards, but the supreme standard is sincerity guiding personal conduct and social norms.
Mr and Mrs Fred Nabers of Kerrville visited J S Whitewood's Kerrville home Sunday. Dr and Mrs Theo Holm and son of San Antonio spent the weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs Otto Rahe. Mr and Mrs Forest Green of Kerrville visited Mrs Ida Kneese. Mr and Mrs Tommie Kneese and son near Kerrville visited Mrs Ida Kneese Sunday.
Mr and Mrs Floyd Casper and son Ed L of Fort Clark spent the weekend visiting relatives here. Mr and Mrs Henry Mark worth visited his sister in Kerrville on Sunday.
Governor Cuke Stevenson will visit Fredericksburg on May 8 for the centennial of the town. He will join a historic parade attend the centennial program banquet and the pageant after greeting local guests including Emil Sauer and family. School bands from Fredericksburg and New Braunfels will participate in the celebrations.
Harold B Schmidt of Harpers Texas a senior at Peacock Military Academy earns the Bausch & Lomb Honorary Science Award Medal for top science scholastic record in high school. Established 1932 the national honor leads to five annual Bausch & Lomb Science Scholarships at the University of Rochester valued at 1500 dollars each.
Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon in Fredericksburg for Willie Arthur Klaehn 41 who died Friday at his home from a self inflicted gunshot wound. Surviving wife Amanda Behrends two sons and multiple siblings are listed. Interment was in City Cemetery. The report notes illness preceding death and includes community notices and local visits.
Edmund Kraus, inventor of the Adjustable Metal Awning, moves his plant from San Antonio to a site five miles from Fredericksburg on the Austin highway. The durable, interior-operable awning is touted for hailstorms and all weather use and ships to agents in other cities.
U S gasoline stocks today exceed 3.65 billion gallons, up 250 million from a year ago.
Prominent Kerrville ranchman William Randolph Peril aged 73 died suddenly Friday after a heart attack at his Gillespie County ranch near the Kerr County line. Funeral services were held Sunday at Smith Funeral Home Kerrville with burial in the Veril family cemetery. Surviving are his wife Ollie Peril and two children C. M. Peril and Mrs Thlazel Rogers.
Gillespie County reports fifteen servicemen received honorable discharges from the Army and Navy. The county notes the largest motorcycle license sale in history with February and March totaling 46367.30 dollars. Vehicle registrations include 2576 cars 480 trucks 194 farm trucks 97 trailers with dealer plates up to 10. The road fund may exceed fifty thousand dollars in fees this year.
Police nationwide hunt five criminals highlighted at the Spring Sessions of the FBI Law Enforcement Conferences. Vernice Charta, once released from Alderson in 1942 after impersonation, used aliases and passed fictitious checks totaling 15557.43 in Austin. A Packard and later a 1940 Chevrolet linked to Charta moved through Texas and Oklahoma.
The Veterans Administration moves to San Antonio, transferring veteran records from Waco to the new San Antonio Regional Office. It will serve many Texas counties and counties listed, urging veterans to contract with the San Antonio office starting April 1 to speed benefits and claims processing.
Six boys reaching 18 this March register with Gillespie County Selective Service Board. Named registrants include Victor W. Ersch Richard Hoerster Travis A. Weed Leroy B Sterling Charles L Arhelger and Levi A Kunz.
Mr and Mrs J J Rogers Mrs Ellen Patten and Ted Rogers and Mr and Mrs Bob Rogers and children attended the funeral of Dolf Peril Sunday.
Mr and Mrs Albert Whetstone and their son and father Dee Whetstone visited relatives at Port Arthur and other points several days last week.
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