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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1975
Page
12
The Roundup, Harper School news, edited by Bernadine Fritz and Howard Ervin with Randy Feller as business manager, presents campus activities and student contributions.
Howard Lee Ervin, born March 10 1957 in Austin, is highlighted for top 10 percent honors at Reagan High and leadership roles including president of Math Club and student council awards. Centre Point Pirates crest Harper gym for five-game night with Harper students starring in basketball and cheer.
Harper girls lost to Mason 27 26 while Harper boys won 40 13 Bryan Ervin led with 16 points. B team boys won 26 16 Kenny Fritz led with 8. B girls beat Mason 29 27 Tammy McDougall top scorer with 12. 1A boys fell 53 46 led by Clint Hill 12. Also notes on 3rd grade to 5th grade classes and San Antonio Stock Show plans.
Excessive Vitamin C intake beyond 45 milligrams daily offers no cold prevention and may cause harm. Doses of 1 to 5 grams daily can deplete Vitamin B12, risk pernicious anemia, and provoke liver, abortion, nausea, diarrhea, and gallstone formation. Experts urge medical guidance and blood testing.
The Harper Longhorns traveled to Medina on Tuesday for junior high and girls and boys games. The girls lost 6 to 26, junior high boys 25 to 52, and the Lady Longhorns 32 to 43, while the junior high girls and boys showed effort. The boys 28 to 34 reflected Medina’s height advantage, and the Horns face Leakey next.
A quip notes growing older as a Saturday night phone call looms, triggering a wary hope the call isn’t for you and a reminder of life’s changing tides.
Short duration grazing is a high intensity low frequency system with eight pastures on average. Livestock rotate through 4 to 12 pastures, each grazing 20 to 60 days, completing the cycle in five to twelve months. Originated at Texas A and M Agriculture Experiment Station near Barnhart over 20 years ago and spread to commercial ranching in the late 1960s with 300+ adopters in five years. Carroll Smith at the Soil Conservation Service offers more information.
Deputy clerks in Gillespie County report brisk sales of the 1975 automobile and commercial plates on Monday Feb 3 the first day of issuance. Over 300 auto plates and about 150 commercial plates were sold with sales continuing through February and March. Tax payments for 1974 were strong as property owners paid by January 31 without penalty.
The Alaska North Slope holds a 1968 10 billion barrel discovery, twice East Texas, with a planned 800 mile Prudhoe Bay to Valdez pipeline. Delays from environmental battles and engineering hurdles push first oil into lower 48 after years of hearings, with 14,000 workers at peak and eventual operation around 450. The project promises two million barrels daily, future state revenues and reduced energy gaps, while costs rise toward billions.
Agriculture Commissioner John C. White forecast a crop production rise for 1975 76 on more than one million additional acres in Texas focusing on sorghum soybeans flaxseed sugar beets and winter wheat while oats and upland cotton declined. Flaxseed led with a more than doubling from 40 000 to 100 000 acres amid higher prices.
Claimants who filed for regular unemployment within a year before January 26 1975 and exhausted benefits may apply for extended benefits. They pay 50 percent of regular benefits unless a new federal program pays them at the regular extended level. Ex servicemen and ex Federal employees may also qualify. Eligibility depends on unemployment rate and law. Files can be made at the nearest Texas Employment Commission office. those who file by February 19 may backdate to include January 26 1975 if meeting requirements.
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