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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1973
Page
8
Fragmentary OCR text from a local notice mentions items like public sale and officials but lacks clear names or dates. The readable words suggest a legal or public action context with uncertain details and no complete entities.
POW MIA bracelets are offered at the Admiral Nimitz Center to support returning prisoners of war and those missing in action in Southeast Asia. The piece urges citizens to wear the bracelets as a patriotic gesture following a Paris peace treaty.
FBI annual report says the Revolutionary Union has spread to 10 states and trained in guerrilla warfare. Venceremos members join RU efforts to defeat U S imperialism by force, while laws restricting public safety items threaten law abiding citizens.
Gillespie County Fair will name a queen and two duchesses on March 14 at a Selections program led by Fair President Belton Klinksick. Winners will come from Fredericksburg St Marys and Harper High Schools with parental residency in Gillespie County.
Governor designates March 5 to 9, 1973 as Public Schools Week in Texas. Citizens urged to visit schools and support educators to strengthen science, technology, and moral foundations for tomorrow’s leaders. Austin official signature dated January 23, 1973.
Parks and Wildlife plans to stock about 25 000 eight to nine inch channel catfish in lakes McQueeny Dunlap Placid Meadow and Starke Park Lake on February 9. Fish reared at Olmito Hatchery near Brownsville will be fin clipped for ID and stocked at twenty fish per surface acre to offset 1972 flood losses. Biologists will monitor survival and growth and later census the Guadalupe black bass population for potential supplemental stockings.
The Kerrville Daily Times marked its Progress Edition with a 100-page issue the largest in 64 years. Kerrville’s population stood at 14,704, up 2,032 from 1970 and 16 percent, while bank deposits rose 28.9 percent and building permits jumped 21.8 percent. The editorial calls the decade growth steady and solid, not a boom, with a projected 80 percent rise by the end of the 70s. Unsettled weather and clouds follow.
A mid century ironical Negro saying asserts that trouble comes not from unknowns but from beliefs one is certain are false.
Prom details reveal a Six Flags over Texas theme with red white and blue colors. Prom will be held April 14 1973 with a band contacted but not yet answered. Mrs Elmer Lange heads the menu served by sophomores and decoration materials arrive after April 13.
The piece discusses labor, tariffs, and the Burke Hartke bill aiming to raise import duties. It notes mixed NFIB surveys, fears of offshoring branded goods, rising wool and hide prices, and Japan as a major buyer of U S hides and Australian wool. It questions whether higher costs push American firms from world markets.
Gary Kuhlmann of Doss High School is celebrated in the senior spotlight. Born January 13, 1955 in Fredericksburg he joins St. Peter's Lutheran Church and serves as Luther League vice president. He stars in FFA and science clubs and led the Science Club as president last year. He played Longhorn football three years, earning honorable mention as linebacker this season, and will play in the High School All Star game this summer. He enjoys baseball golf travel and represented the school at the Farm Bureau Citizenship Seminar in Waco. He plans technical training to become a computer programmer.
Students prepare for events including Hous ton stock show senior trip to Austin on March 20 and track meets in Rock Springs and Knippa on March 3 and 10. Faculty address snow days and a new TEA bookkeeping system is explained during a San Antonio Austin trip.
The Harper track team will compete March 9 at the 18th annual Knippa Class B Schools invitational track meet. Both high school and junior high boys and girls will participate, after weeks of practice hindered by snow and rain. This marks their first track and field events of the year.
A noon Tuesday collision near Mountain Home in Kerrville killed three Junction residents, Rev Shelby K McCullough 45 his wife Nona McCullough and daughter Mrs John Cory 99. The truck driver William Joseph Viele 48 of Miami Florida was treated for shock at Peterson Hospital.
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