Stock Show Urges Public Support For Youth Exhibits
Fredericksburg community rally calls for public backing of Gillespie County youth at the annual stock show. Buyers may bid at floor price and pay the difference if keeping the animal, or deliver purchases within the city. Checks can be mailed to Wilbert Seipp or Melvin Bonn.
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Fredericksburg
Gillespie County
Wilbert Setpp
Melvin Bonn
Douglass Wythe
Texas A. & M. College
Wythe
Inter
Gillespie County conservation cooperators advance range practices
District cooperator Richard T. Laurence of Eckert emphasizes on the ground conservation with eleven years of work in the Gillespie Soil Conservation District. He shares methods like deferred grazing, cross fences, brush control, and stocking-rate management to improve rangeland health. Desmond Sagebiel and Theo Koennecke also implement late summer deferments and cedar removal to boost grasses and forage reserves.
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Richard T. Laurence
Eckert
Laurence
Gillespie Soil Conservation District
Theo Koennecke
Nebgen
Koennecke
Kuennecke
Sagebiel
Sudan
Texas
Desmond
Wet West Texas Rainfall Outlook and Local Records
The San Angelo region reports varied rainfall with 1.90 inches at the city, 2.70 at the Village Shopping Center, 2.50 at another site, and 3.00 at Mathis Field. Winters tops with 33.80 inches, while Eldorado and Barnhart see about 3.00 inches. A San Angelo Weather Hobbyist C. C. Cole forecasts a wet 1961 with rain in March to May and again in October to December, and dry July and August. Local 1960 totals include Hugo Albrecht 39.05 and Fred Sauer 39.79 inches at Cypress Creek. Comfort totals 36.33. Kendall County average 29.50, with 1919 the wettest six months and 55.92 inches yearly. The writer recalls the 1919 Guadalupe flood and contrasts with broader Texas river conditions and dam-building notes.
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San Angelo
Times of Sunday
West Texas
Village
Mathis Field
Winters
Texas
Eldorado
Barnhart
Hill Country
C. C. Cole
Cole
Comfort News
Hugo Albrecht
Joshua
Fred Sauer
Cypress Creek
Herman Wille
Waring
August Pressier
Cherry Creek
E. J. Linnartz
Camp Idlewild
In Comfort
Mr. Sauer
Kendall County
Guadalpe River
Guadalupe River
Comfort
Marine obstacle run test of a hill billy recruit
The sergeant asks the recruit his view after a tough obstacle course over rocks icy streams briar bushes barbed wire and a steep hill. The recruit replies he isn’t even puffing and notes their country Ike leads to the barn.
Texas Seniors Top Half Million as Population Ages
Reagan Brown extension rural sociologist notes Texans 65 and older exceed 500 000, about 7 percent of residents or roughly 1 in 12. The share is larger in rural areas.
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Reagan Brown
Extension Rural
Rainfall totals and local visits noted in Kerrville area
The report lists annual rainfall totals for 1960 and 1959 as 26.21 and 40.37 inches respectively and cites 119 inches of rain for a last weekend near Rheingold. It notes Edmund Fiedler of Kerrville and Otto Keine of Fredericksburg attending the First State Bank stockholders meeting in Harper. Mrs. W. M. Keen visited relatives, including daughter Mrs. Walter Parker.
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Chester Eckhardt
Rheingold
Edmund Fiedler
Kerrville
Otto Keine
Fredericksburg
Harper
The
First State Bank
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Rocksprings
Fort Worth
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Bandera
Mueller
Andrew Jenschke
Desmond Sagebiel
Wilbert Seipp
Atlee Lochte
Ruben Ruebsahm
Henry Welge
Roland Bonn
Clifford Bode
Ernest Kott
Ruben Sagebiel
Francis Ko
Herald
TRE Fashion Shop
Harper Herald
Gagates
Deen Roe Y
Wot& Tes Baer State
Ip & Wa
Harper, Texas
Price Daniel
John McKee
Texas Citizens’ Committee For
Purose
Harry Ulla
Irector
Gaines Dog Research Center
Danko
David Hazelwood
Leeds
England
Muncie
Ind
Ss.cill
Fred Downs
Carl Vogt
Ohio
District News
Ranghe
Guadalupe
Hrange & Fielmr
Pedernales
Llano
Gulf
New Braunfels
Manuk & Bield
Kurt Kallenberg
Grapetown
Kallenberg
Emil Fuege
Mason Road
Rangd & Field
N.J.D
W. M. Keen
Walter Parker
Sport Shop
Lehne Lumber & Hardware
Robert Lehne
Zenith Radio & Television Sales & Service
Westinghouse Appliances
Mobil Gas
Mobil Oil
Floy Bode Company
Haxper, Texas
Dial
H. Welge Lewis
Mansfield
P. O
John Deere Quality Farm
Krauskopf Bros
Weat Main &T
Fredesigsburg, Texea
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