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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1943
Page
3
Rt. Rev. C F Garbett argues youth today is better educated, with higher ideals and initiative, opposing fears of rising delinquency. The piece contrasts modern youth with past youths, noting improved manners and outlook, while a poem fragment depicts tattoos and rugged youths and ends with a racial hint about Christ.
Launched a year ago by the Salvation Army of Mexico City the crusade aims to plant the gospel in every home. Soldiers visited about 40 000 homes in Mexico City in 1942 and now work in suburbs. Campaigns have occurred in San Luis Potosi Aguascalientes Toluca Pachuca Monterrey Torreon Leon and other cities with hundreds enlisted and over one million gospel portions to be distributed this year.
Government reports show Civilian Public Service camps reassign 865 religious objectors to mental hospitals and 350 to dairy farms with 39 to foreign service and reconstruction. In total 6,589 objectors remain under assignment across CPS camps. Mennonites have the largest number, followed by Brethren, Methodists, Friends, Jehovahs Witnesses, and Congregational groups.
An unnamed Australian soldier was saved after an encounter in the jungle. Details indicate a heroic extraction by comrades and allied forces, highlighting endurance and peril in a remote battlefield setting.
Rev. George A. Taylor a Bronx Negro Methodist pastor is renowned among judges and police for twelve years of work with delinquent and neglected Negro boys. He kept Epworth Church open daily, ran educational programs, organized the Bronx Negro Big Brothers, and served as a city prison chaplain. In the past year he aided over 500 boys referred by the courts, helping most return to society.
Johnny Two-Stars, an American Indian soldier stationed abroad, writes to his family in Sisseton, Dak., describing his longing for St. Mary’s Protestant Episcopal Mission and church back home. He praises army life for living standards but misses his native church and prayers for his St. Mary’s congregation.
A humorous reflection traces a classmate who lost knowledge, shrinking in stature, until the same person reappears as a polished bureau professional. The verse notes irony in personal decline turning into a successful public role.
The column lists visits and relatives traveling between Harper and Fredericksburg. Emil Fritz family hosts Norbert Fritz from Austin and frequent guests include Chas Roeder family, Alvin Juenke, Willie Klein household, and numerous Klein relatives from Dallas, San Antonio, and White Oak. Pfc Klein heads back to Dallas. extended visits wrap up with quilting activity at Mrs Feller’s gathering.
Pvt. Clarence Rehm of Hallettsville writes from Africa about being captured by Germans during the Tunisian campaign and held four days. He recalls dawn attacks, escape efforts, and learning that German soldiers also hoped for an end to the war. He notes German troops treated prisoners humanely before surrender to American forces.
Mrs Sam Booth of Eagle Lake is visiting her sister Mrs Emil Hopf and Mr Hopf along with friends here this week.
Mrs Emil Hopf and Mrs Sam Booth were guests of Mrs Hugo Hopf for supper Tuesday night.
Max Hopf spent several weeks in Austin and has now returned home, marking a homecoming after his extended stay.
Bain Bush, a navy man stationed in California, is spending several days with his parents Mr and Mrs Jack Bush.
Mr and Mrs Carlos Capps and their daughter are visiting the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Jack Bush this week as part of a family gathering.
Descendants of Fred Hahn Sr of Gillespie County held their fifth reunion at Barons Creek with 65 attendees from Streeter Kerrville Center Point Mountain Home Fredericksburg and Doss. The gathering featured lunches and a planned Gillespie County All Star Soft Ball Team to face San Marcos Navigation School All Stars on Aug 22 at Seipp's Diamond after a Fredericksburg Giants game.
San Angelo dealer Ed Webster and San Angelo firm Web ster & Sons warn that government price ceilings on beef hamper feeder operations. They note Missouri bluegrass regions face corn shortages, feeder costs rise, and many cattle may be finished on grass with limited corn, risking a larger meat shortage next year.
Mr and Mrs Oscar Fowler and their daughter Ira from Austin visited the Fred Gamenthaler home on Sunday.
Texas A and M Extension Service launches a campaign to plant late feeds for hay bundle feed or silage as high feed prices and a large Texas cattle population pressure supplies. Farming regions vary by August planting deadlines with row planting favored for higher yields.
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