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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1975
Page
1
A listing of services for First Baptist Harper United Methodist and United Presbyterian churches with pastors, service times, and small groups. Includes a local housekeeping/cooking service ad offering home help in the Harper area with contact details.
Prospectus notes Community Service Aide station wagon for individuals 60 or over. Seniors may be transported to Fredericksburg to courthouse, doctor, grocery, or bank. To request pickup call Harper Drug Store before Friday 4 p.m. Five tracts of 13 to 14 acres offered by Penick Real Estate at 104 W. Main Frig Texas or 512-997-5684.
In parts of England a folk belief ties picking marigolds to an urge to drink. The superstition suggests that gathering the flowers signals a path to alcohol consumption and is noted as a local tradition.
Alanzo Franklin Faught a respected stock farmer of Doss died March 21 at Hill Country Memorial Hospital. Born October 24 1886 in Mason County he was survived by his widow two daughters three sons ten grandchildren eight great grandchildren six sisters and a brother. Funeral services were held March 22 at Beckmann Funeral Home with interment in Nixon Cemetery Squaw Creek community.
Admitted this past week were Edgar A. Dodd Thomas J ass Mrs Carl Kammlah Louis W Hohmann of Willow City Herman Teopperwein of Kerrville Mrs Otto Jenschke Kimmery Crouch of Mason Home Geistweidt of Mason Rhonda Weymand Mrs Harry Danz Jr S C Gandre Mrs E T Rushing of Austin James L Massie of Junction Mrs Victor J Nugent Arnell Ahrens of Kerrville Mrs Herman E Below of Comfort Mrs John Paul Jones Max Arhelger Alfred J Reed Elgin Rosenbusch Mrs Morris Meurer Mrs Lynda Bilyeu Mrs Edgar Dietz Mrs Robert W Pape Floy Bode of Harper Father Francis Kalina and Richard T Laurence.
A Texas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service update shows March 1 intentions shifting acres to cotton and grain sorghum. Cotton 4.3 million, sorghum 8.5 million, corn 1.1 million, soybeans 0.4 million acres, with cotton down from 1974 and sorghum up from last year. Cattle on feed in Texas total 1.076 million, down 54 percent from a year ago, signaling a slower cattle feeding period amid rising feed costs. Planting season advances statewide with cotton and grain sorghum progressing in South and Central Texas.
Bill Wright and Joe Ford lead probation operations in Gillespie County and the 216th Judicial District. In 1974 the program cost taxpayers $39.38 per day versus $288 for confinement, with 76 probationers under Wright and 235 adults on probation district wide, most avoiding prison. Wright emphasizes rehab, monthly meetings, and pre delinquent outreach to schools to curb future court referrals.
Rick Timmons of the AAA Texas Division warns rationing would burden drivers with the wider petroleum costs and could fuel black or white markets while failing to reduce prices. The piece cites FEA data on coupon costs and long term energy goals, urging voluntary conservation and broad energy cuts.
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