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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1963
Page
3
Bishop Ford reflects on Chinese New Year as a mass nationwide holiday marking the harvest and family reunion. The season closes shops for weeks, uniting multi generational families in celebration while missionaries face isolation from home.
The Harper Centennial Committee reports another shipment of Centennial Books and extra copies and souvenirs at Floy Bode Company or First State Bank in Harper. Demand has erased initial orders. 1000 copies sold, with 100 more delivered last Friday. CARE Food Crusade supports meals for 9,900, mainly children, in Jordanian facilities.
President Lyndon B. Johnson and Chancellor Ludwig Erhard will attend morning services at Bethany Lutheran Church in Fredericksburg after arriving by helicopter for ceremonies at the Pioneer Memorial Library. The visit marks Erhard’s first Texas trip and includes a tour with Dignitaries, a security escort, and a reception at the Herman Sons Hall with press facilities prepared by Salinger and local officials.
The Regional Blood Center of Waco will set up at Edison Street Methodist Church in Fredericksburg on Friday December 27 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. A quota of 88 pints is requested as donors are urged to give life saving blood.
Kerrville based Mooney Aircraft Inc led single engine retractable gear sales in November with 42 units sold. Beech Bonanza and Debonair, Cessna 210, Piper 180 and 250 sales are listed. Mooney totals 453 aircraft through November, up 27.6 percent from 355 last year. Gene Carman, Mooney PR director, says local employment near 191 after starting year around 180.
The Gillespie County Community Chest Drive in Harper has netted over 400 dollars with more expected before year end. Rev. W S Doerr and James Kraus announce the Harper total may reach about 450 dollars as donations continue. The county quota of 12500 dollars nears completion, with drive extending into early January. Donors may give to Rev Doerr or Kraus at Fredericksburg.
The first session of the 88th Congress ends, criticized as a flop for enactments yet praised for restraining deficits. It slowed social program growth, cut foreign aid, funded national defense, and debated Civil Rights amid partisan maneuvering and a stalled pay raise for civilians.
The First Pentecostal Church in Harper hosted the December 21 wedding of Elaine Darene Bode and Jorge C. Notario. The bride, daughter of Floy and Elaine Bode, wore peau de soie satin with lace, and the couple planned a Miami honeymoon with return to Kerrville area.
Local acquaintances recount President Johnson's deep emotional response at Sam Rayburn's funeral. Dr. J P B Dale Jr., a Fredericksburg chiropractor and church minister, shares the moment and notes their past association with Rayburn as he remembered the longtime congressman and statesman.
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