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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1941
Page
2
The fragment lists editors and staff roles including managing editor Norma Badhge, classroom editor Julie Grote, sports editor Marvin Crenwelge, and others. It appears as a personnel section from a school or newspaper, with names grouped by roles and departments.
The Fredericksburg group thanks the Harper Herald editor for weekly space and notes seniors will discontinue as amateur journalists in the Radio Post, Fredericksburg Standard, and Harper Herald. The juniors will publish a single mimeographed paper at school under Miss Maurine Smith and Miss Virginia Harrison.
Fredericksburg students gain Texas history interest as Junior Historians receive charter from the Texas State Historical Association. A magazine and writing contest will launch, with plans for a Texas history tour to Austin and an April dinner.
Friday night the Tivy boys defeated the tivy opponents 33 to 20 after a strong defensive effort. The girls began practice and will face nearby schools soon with Miss Davis coaching. Exams reduce classroom news while seniors study economics advertising and geometry.
Five prizes including a first prize of 25 dollars will be awarded for Texas focused writing. Entries may cover travel to historic Texas locations or interviews with elders, with April 15, 1941 as the closing date. The Junior Historian, Texas State Historical Association's new magazine, invites all Texas youths to participate.
The Fredericksburg Mutual Aid Fund Association held its annual meeting at the courthouse on Saturday evening January 11. President Albert F. Klett led the session as secretary treasurer Max T. Henke delivered financials showing 936 members after additions, with 925 in good standing. death claims were paid for Edmund Kott, Ewald Schmidt, and R. S. Klett. Total assets reached 3552.80 with funds in bank, bonds, and insurance, and a motion to switch to semi annual dues was tabled due to low attendance. Directors were reelected.
Canning pecans is feasible with proper air exhaust to prevent rancidity. Grace I Neely of Texas A and M Extension advises tight seals and processing by pressure canner at four to five pounds, or alternative methods in a slow oven or hot water bath for 15 to 26 minutes. December and January are optimal canning months.
Barley is cited as the oldest cultivated cereal, with Stone Age deposits in Switzerland showing three barley varieties. Historians note that barley cultivation accompanies brewing and baking across civilizations. A striking image compares a single tree’s matches to a million trees destroyed.
Violin legend Jascha Heifetz headlines a January San Antonio Auditorium engagement on Tuesday evening January 28 featuring five numbers themed to jitterbug music. Heifetz, renowned as a leading virtuoso, will perform a program prominent in the local arts calendar.
Robert Russell Bennett wrote Hexapoda and Heifetz premiered it at Carnegie Hall on October 30. Critics praised the five Jitteroptera studies as engaging jitterbug music with audience reaction described as jittering and good clean fun. The program included Brahms, Beethoven, Wieniowski, Bach, Schubert, and Dinicu. Reservations via Mrs. James Devoe in San Antonio.
Calomel dipping of peach pits may greatly reduce crown gall losses in seedling peach trees, reports E A Siegler of the Federal bureau of plant industry. The disease has troubled peach growers in southern regions for decades despite nurserymen’s efforts.
85 percent complete for the 1940 cotter mattress demonstration program in Texas. Final December tabulations show 163,197 mattresses made in Texas with 28,798 still to be produced. Compared nationally, Alabama led with 187,333 and Mississippi with 151,321. Texas ranked third at that date. A census taker anecdote follows about a woman answering a family count with humorous political details about family members.
Lynn B. Shaw of the Texas Motor Transportation Association urges community safety units to reduce highway collisions. He notes many crashes stem from driver errors and rights violations, such as disregard of the right of way and dangerous passing, with pedestrians sometimes contributing to accidents.
The 1941 cotton mattress demonstration expands to provide low income rural Texas families a cotton comfort for each mattress. Eligible households can receive 10 yards of percale and four pounds of cotton filling, with materials supplied by the Surplus Marketing Administration.
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