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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1941
Page
1
The Harper Herald is a weekly newspaper published every Friday in Harper Texas. Warald Diesel is listed as owner with a subscription price of 1.50 per year and Mire A C Wendel is named as advertising solicitor and collector.
The Palace offers a Friday Saturday lineup headlined by Bachelor Daddy with Sandy the baby star and a Border Legion western with Roy Rogers. Sunday to Monday features Paramounts I Wanted Wings a cadet training epic with Milland and Donnelly. Tuesday sets Shining Victory a psychiatry romance with Stephenson and Fitzgerald.
Clark Gable and Rosalind Russell star as confidence operators chasing a diamonds fortune in Bombay. Their clash over loot ends with a joint escape aboard a rusty freighter as war in the East swirls around them.
The governor stresses reducing state government spending to align with the people’s income. He notes government costs have risen sharply while ordinary incomes have not, urging fiscal restraint despite the unpopularity of cuts. He argues that public spending cannot outpace citizens’ earnings indefinitely.
Texas Governor Coke Stevenson links rising state costs to federal defense spending and expanding bureaus. He urges avoiding new agencies, planning current activities, and supporting fair, statewide business and industrial growth without special inducements. He favors irrigation and soil conservation as key to rural prosperity.
An obituary notice details deaths and funeral arrangements. The lead item notes a fall on a dance floor leading to a fatal heart attack in New Braunfels and Comfort areas, with extensive survivor lists and service details. It also records the death of Mrs. Clara Dehnel Siems and Henry Prause with their respective funeral arrangements and surviving relatives.
Two weddings reported from St Marys Church and Sacred Heart mark July and August ceremonies. Helen Schmidtzensky and Howard Fite wed with 35 guests. Ruth Regina Carter and Ernest Stehling also exchanged vows amid family ties, with receptions and honeymoons described.
Texas Game Department creates fish sanctuaries on selected lakes and streams to boost future fish production and enhance angling. Sanctuaries are ordered by the Game Department and county boards and later abandoned once they have served their purpose, as seen with Roy Inks Lake on the Colorado River above Austin.
Texas health officials urge parental diligence to cut infant deaths from diarrhea and dysentery during heat. Dr. George W. Cox cites 1940 mortality and offers practical steps from breastfeeding and water safety to cleanliness and household sanitation to protect babies in hot weather.
Alfred L Beckmann born August 7 1885 Fredericksburg Texas died August 3 1941 in Boerne at 55 years 11 months 2 days. He lived in Kerrville 1906 to 1914 then returned to Fredericksburg before moving to Boerne to run businesses. Survived by brother Max H Beckmann Fredericksburg and sisters Helanda Dietert Stella Fair Ida Gold San Antonio. two sisters Anna and Clara preceded him in death. Funeral August 4 at 4 p.m. Beckmann Funeral Home Rev Theo M Haag officiating. interment City Cemetery.
A Panhandle game warden reports nine huge rattlesnakes killed in six weeks. The largest snake reached 6 feet 2 inches with a 12 inch circumference, and four others exceeded five feet in length. The note ends with a curious aside about the phrase whim.
Otto Hofmann a Kyle near Austin art student donates a large hand built organ to the German Baptist Church at Kyle. He salvaged parts by dismantling old organs paying roughly with his skill and five years study of sound under Dr C P Boner of the University. The instrument will feature about 800 pipes when finished.
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