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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1965
Page
3
A satirical piece advises women to treat a husband like a dish to be cooked with care using Love, Neatness, and Cheerfulness. It warns against mistreatment and likens overhandling to burning, noting a husband becomes digestible and agreeable when properly tended.
Harper Lions Club members met February 16 with Roy Roberts presiding. New members H Cochran and Philip Rogers joined. Hugo Arlitt attended as guest. The club agreed to co sponsor the Pedernales river watershed water conservation project and formed a Frontier Day rodeo committee led by Floy Bode as president. March 2 will host the high school athletic letter banquet. The club will sponsor Little League Baseball again and name Miss Beverly Roberts as Miss Mohair Queen duchess candidate with Eileen Behrend as alternate.
St James Junior Lutherans held a February meeting in the parish hall with hymns scripture reading and prayers. A filmstrip on The Bible and the Presidents highlighted George Washington. The group planned March 3 due to a school holiday and Valentines were distributed.
Texas Water Commission to decide on extending Mason's hearing period for the Llano River dam. Mason requests 30 months, saying map inaccuracies block progress. two-year map revision may be needed. San Antonio aid discussed but not confirmed. officials emphasize upper Guadalupe and Colorado as water sources.
The Gillespie ASC County Office announces the 1965 feed train program sign-up led by Raymond Spaeth. Sign-up runs February 8 through March 26, 1965, offering voluntary participation with diverted acre and price support payments, loans, and new grain substitutions between feed grains and wheat. Applications are accepted Monday to Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. through March 26.
The Allen Keller Company of Fredericksburg won the Junction Dam contract with a bid of 184000 dollars for a 27 foot high 320 foot long recreation dam on the South Llano River. The project is funded by a 190000 dollar Junction bond issue to create an 11 acre lake and recreational facilities near U S 290 bridge. Work will start soon as plans proceed with local and regional sponsorships and survey plans for the Pedernales River watershed.
The Radio Post conducts a deer hunting poll inviting public input on deer, does, and bucks laws. Chester Hohmann helps organize and compile results, which the paper plans to publish later, while framing the survey as a neutral information channel for teachers and readers.
Harper High defeats Blanco 38 to 20 to claim the District 73 B championship as Pat Bailey scores 14 and Peg Feller 18. Blanco top scorers include Julie Stobaugh and Lynda Banks with eight and six points respectively. Regional tourney set for March 5–6 at San Marcos.
Jan Brown a 17 year old Harper Texas 4H member and Peach Queen of Texas won three wool and mohair titles at the San Antonio Livestock Exposition including champion fine wool fleece champion range fleece and champion fleece. She is daughter of Mr and Mrs Clint Brown.
The B H Heinen Auto Supply, established by Bennie Heinen, has moved to a new 90 by 90 foot concrete building at South Lincoln and East San Antonio Streets Fredericksburg. Open house continues with coffee punch and cookies as the firm’s son Bobby and staff greet friends and the public.
Harp community records 4.06 inches of rain for February through Thursday, with 1.03 inches in January totaling 5.09 inches for 1965 start. Fredericksburg reports 5.90 inches through Thursday, the most since 1877 and best February since 1903 with 6.55 inches in that year.
Harper Independent School District trustees schedule an election on April 3 1965 at the Harper School Cafetorium. Three seats are open with incumbents Alois Jung Robert Fritz and Robert Dittmar likely on the ballot. Nominations must be in writing to the Gillespie County Judge 30 days before the vote. Absentee voting conducted at the Harper School office of Mrs Mattie McDougall with Paul DeLorey Charles Mains Fred Bierschwale as election officers and Clifford Bode as alternate.
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