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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1966
Page
2
The article explains making range cages from used wire to study grazing on pastures. Place cages at representative sites to measure forage consumption and plant vigor, comparing grazed and ungrazed plants. Use cages around low vigor or deferred pasture to assess deer effects over a season.
Gov. John Connally and Attorney General Waggoner Carr call for changes in Texas criminal statutes following three brutal incidents within two weeks. The UT campus sniper Whitman killed six and wounded many, a Roscoe night watchman was murdered, and additional related crimes are noted in state briefings.
Fort Worth officials back stricter laws including mandatory life for murder with insanity defense and harsher penalties for violence and sex crimes. Attorney General requests a blue ribbon committee to draft reforms while lawmakers consider gun, insanity defense, and custody rules.
The annual archery deer season runs Oct 13 through Nov 11 in Gillespie County with bow permits for antlerless deer, three total deer per hunter, two bucks and one doe or one buck and two does, and turkey gobblers allowed. Regular deer season runs Nov 12 to Dec 31. Turkey limits: two gobblers. Permits issued via rancher or landowner.
The August spell has yielded beneficial rains across Harper County improving dryness. Reports show totals near 4 inches at Herman Jung’s place, over 5 inches in town, 1.80 inches at Enchanted Rock, and heavy showers between Austin and Stonewall. Local farmers note ponds and creeks rising though some areas remain dry and seek more rain.
Members of the Gus McDonald family held their annual reunion at Harper Community Park on Sunday August 14. About 60 descendants attended a barbecue dinner, with many unable to attend due to recent heavy rains. They plan to meet again in Harper the second Sunday in August next year. Mr and Mrs Pinky Brown of Libya North Africa visited with W B Brown Jr and Kelly.
Heavy weekend rains caused 9 to 14 inches in Leakey Camp Wood and Uvalde country. The Frio and other streams surged, upper Guadalupe and Medina rivers rose, Medina Lake level climbed from very low after the downpour.
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