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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1947
Page
4
A critic argues that rising prurience in Hollywood reflects waning creativity and bad business sense. He asserts Americans favor wholesome cinema with clear moral values and urges producers to purge indecency to avoid censorship and protect box office success.
Gillespie County reports higher poll tax receipts for 1946 than 1945 with property tax near 98 percent collected by January 31. Delinquent amounts are low, many servicemen returning to pay poll taxes, and several districts achieved perfect tax records for the year.
Mr and Mrs DL Dikeman of Harper purchased Morris Ranch town site comprising 25 acres and existing buildings A plan to establish a Boys Home involves converting the large store upstairs and the adjacent stone building Both Dikeman descendants previously lived in Bouston and work proceeds on modernization for the new facility
Junior Baumann celebrated his 13th birthday at home. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Hy Jenschke and family of Fredericksburg Mrs. Wm Kaiser Mr. and Mrs. Maxie Baumann Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kaiser of Kerrville. Erato Hopf and daughter arrived to visit his parents and he plans to study at the University of Texas. Mrs Walter Jungmann and daughter returned to San Antonio after visiting Albert Kott and family.
The Gillespie County District Boy Scouts plan an old time pot luck supper Thursday night February 13 at 7 15 in the Public School auditorium. The event closes Boy Scout Week February 8 15 and brings together Scout families leaders and sponsors for a program of speaking singing and fellowship led by guest speaker Joe Carrington Austin business leader and former Capitol Area Council president.
Five Texas 4-H club members gain state awards for 1946 records in Dairy Foods Demonstrations Home Grounds Beautification and Meat Animal activities. Duane Boenig of Converse earns top national Meat Animal rating and a gold watch. Floyd Terrell of Plainview wins Home Grounds honors with a gold watch. Dolores Williams Eastland and team members Joyce Horn Winters Melba Pearce Bradshaw win Dairy Foods Demonstrations with $60 savings bonds each. Awards celebrate long 4-H careers, public speaking, and teamwork under Extension Service and USDA Co operating.
Edgar Brown of Orange Texas set a near record price paying 15000 for Flattop the grand champion show steer at the Houston Fat Stock Show. The steer was sold by Jim Bob Steen a 16 year old 4 H Club member from Goldthwaite. The record steer price is 44000 paid at the Kansas City show last October.
Harper Baseball Club organizes for the 1947 season with practice to start around March 1. Vene Cottle elected president and business manager, Morris DeLorey as field or playing manager, and Dayton Rahe as secretary treasurer at a Friday meeting. The club hopes to use the Harper Community Recreation Park if ready and aims to join a local league. Monte Hale appears at Palace Theatre in Fredericksburg on Sunday February 23 with his film Last Frontiers Uprising, plus a personal appearance.
The Gillespie District opens a year of Boy Scout events with a committee chaired by Benno Weiss and including Art Kowert and Wm. M. Petmecky. Plans for a forthcoming pot luck supper are to be announced next week.
Dr and Mrs Werner Keidel Jr and children from Fredericksburg visited Mr and Mrs Glen Hopf Saturday evening. Mrs Freddie Tatsch and her small son from Fredericksburg visited her mother in law Mrs Arnold Markworth on Tuesday. Mrs Stella Duderstadt Miss Billy Jean and Clonia Roberts from Mountain Home visited Mr and Mrs Belmore Roberts Monday evening. Arnold Markwortt and Frk Staudt made a business trip to Kerrville on Tuesday.
Mr and Mrs Johnnie Sellers and son of Kerrville and Mrs Ed Ross and brother Hubert Jeffers of San Antonio visited the William Casper home on Tuesday. The latter remained for several days.
Mr and Mrs A B Barker and baby and Mr and Mrs Slumer Lee Stevens and their daughter were Kerrville visitors Saturday. Also seen were OL cs Watkins Tarr and their little son and Mrs A C Wendel who visited Kerrville one evening last week.
Gillespie County Girl Scout Council launches a drive to raise 4900 for a region camp near Austin on Lake Travis. The Lower Colorado River Authority donated 1360 acres valued at 300 000 to 400 000 with Travis County leading at 89000 while the county quota funds Harper at 750.
Registration for the 1947 motor vehicle year begins next Monday with window stickers replacing metal plates. Tax officials will issue a numbered sticker with the payment receipt and later provide a metal plate when available. About 78 counties face this process due to metal shortages. truck and trailer plates advance separately. Cars must have stickers by April 1 to operate, with title or duplicate title required to purchase licenses.
Mrs. Homer Lee Stevens and her young daughter Martha Jean spent Monday with their mother and grandmother Mrs. A. C. Wendel in a family gathering noted by local residents.
Belmore Roberts shows marked improvement and recovery progress after illness. Mrs. Roberts also recovers and returns to the lunch room, ending her sick list status.
A compilation of brief remarks from Carlyle Pascal Eddy Geikle Coolidge and Tyron Edwards praising unity justice and universal brotherhood. The passages emphasize love equality liberty and the loss of self in a higher plan or divine fatherhood.
Jack Huffman and Mrs Kenneth Check and Miss Minnie Webb of Eldorado visited here Saturday. Mrs Webb remained with her sister Mire J DL Farris.
The article notes the tentative August 1917 date for the return of America's World War I remains from temporary cemeteries. It mentions Col E V Macatee at San Antonio Depot and plans for Pearl Harbor and other services personnel buried in Hawaii to reach San Francisco Port of Embarkation around August 18, with Belgian Henry Chapelle cemetery burials slated for New York around August.
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