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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1961
Page
2
The column urges cautious Christmas clothing buying with tips from extension specialists. It highlights three leaflets Buying Sports Shirts Buying a Street Dress and Buying a Girl's School Dress and notes a National 4-H Congress week in Chicago where exemplary 4-H members are rewarded for keeping records and striving to improve.
Ten months of Savings Bond sales in Gillespie County total 83146 with 18105 bought in October. M F Pyka Jr, chairman of the county committee, announced the figures as Texas October sales hit 1246000 and ten month sales reach 132423000, about 80.2 percent of the 1961 goal. A special Limit Purchase campaign is under way urging groups to buy their limit in E and H Bonds under Treasury rules allowing non bank investors to purchase.
A Weldon Walker home gathering on Saturday welcomed guests including Mr. and Mrs. Olin Walker and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Raiford of Kerrville. Also attending were Mrs. Jesse Childs of Medina, Mr. and Mrs. Henry McGaghny of San Antonio, Mrs. Keiffer Billings with her daughter, and Mrs. Lois Bissett and her daughters from Corpus Christi.
Mr and Mrs Wesley Keilman of San Angelo recently visited Mr and Mrs Victor Harper and other relatives in the area.
Emil Gammenthaler of Houston attended his sister Elizabeth Gammenthaler’s funeral in Fredericksburg and spent Friday through Sunday with his brother Fred Gammenthaler and his wife.
Miss Frances Floyd visited her cousin Mrs. Frank Thomson in Center Point last Friday.
About 600 people from across Texas attended a one day Texans For Tourists conference at the Commodore Perry Hotel in Austin. Governor Price Daniel outlined the need for statewide tourist advertising and proposed a new organization to support the effort.
The Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association now operates from 233 West Twohig in San Angelo after purchasing the former Lorraine B. Leftwich home for 26500. The 3300 square foot Spanish adobe building includes a conference room patio and offices to handle the growing organization thus replacing the Hotel Cactus Annex. Open house planned after the December Fort Worth convention. members welcome for coffee visits.
Gov Price Daniel designates Sunday December 10 as Safety Sunday to launch the Statewide Christmas New Year traffic safety drive. He urges pastors to remind congregations of personal responsibility to obey laws and protect life as DPS prepares an intensified year end effort to keep the 1961 traffic toll near 2280.
Mrs Arthur Baumann hosted Thanksgiving with her family visiting from Victoria Kerrville and Post. Guests included Mr and Mrs Fritzie Baumann and children, Mr and Mrs Maxie Baumann and children, Mr and Mrs Arthur Baumann Jr and his little son, and Miss Martha Rose with Rev A A Gitter.
Mrs Otto Rahe spent several days visiting her daughter Mrs Theo Holm and family in San Antonio last week.
Through cooperation of the Governor's Highway Safety Commission the DPS and other state and citizen support agencies full details will be announced in the near future.
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