Lash Sale at Comfort Set for May 8
The Winners Hill Country Lamb Sale at Comfort Show Barn on May 8 at 5 30 p.m. consigns about 150 head of Southdown Hampshire Suffolk and crossbred wethers and ewe lambs. Notables include past champions from Houston San Antonio Kerrville. Auctioneering by Kenneth Gregg. Also invites to Gillespie Kerrville and Reward Farms sales this weekend.
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Comfort Show
Southdown
Hampshire
Suffolk
Cross
Texas
Louisiana
Ray Rust
Elgin Marquart
John Kercheville
Jerry Allen
Rodney Yates
Levy Zoeller
Kenneth Gregg
Plainview
Gillespie County
Reward Farms
Kerrville
Gillespie May 1 Primary Yields Mixed GOP Dem Wins
Gillespie County voters backed Nugent and Krueger in the Texas district and U.S. Senate races while Tuck and Sutton led their party contests. Voter totals showed 1626 ballots in the two parties with Reagan and Carter as presidential choices. District and county offices, including district judge and DA, drew close contests with runoffs planned for June 5.
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Gillespie County
Crop reports from farmers needed for Texas counties
During late May a random sample of about 24 000 Texas farmers will receive a crop acreage questionnaire from W H Walther Agricultural Statistician In Charge of the Texas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service Austin Texas. The data will set planted acreage for the state and each county. The program estimates for counties are provided by the Texas Legislature and a cooperative effort of USDA's Statistical Reporting Service and the Texas Department of Agriculture. Reports are confidential and used only for state and county totals. Farmers are urged to return by mail.
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Texas
W H Walther
Texas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Austin
Texas Legislature
USDA
Statistical Reporting Service
Texas Department of Agriculture
Texas Agriculture
Nugent Wins Democratic Primary For 56th District Seat
Kerrville incumbent District Representative Jim Nugent won about 60 percent of the Democratic primary votes to seek re election for the ten county 56th State Representative District. He totaled 9597 votes to Patrick Ainsworth of Kingsville 6891. County results were reported unofficially from Nugent's Kerrville office.
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Gillespie
Texas
Ronald Reagan
California
Jimmy Carter
Georgia
Reagan
Ford
Carter
Bentsen
Wallace
Jim Nugent
Kerrville
Patrick Ainsworth
Kingland
Nugent
Bob Krueger
Joe Sullivan
Gillespie County
Krueger
Sullivan
Joe Grady Tuck
Joe Mike Evan Jr
Tuck
Spencer W. Brown
Brown
Kingsville
Rainfall totals show April spikes across Gillespie County
April rainfall exceeded previous three months in many areas with totals reported by Range & Field figures. Grapetown and Harper gauges logged high April totals while overall county reports indicated widespread moisture and greened fields. Mohair production rose in 1975 while wool output dipped. Texas prices stayed strong though below 1973 record.
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Range & Field
Elroy Schnelle
Grapetown
Handy Stop
LCRA
Dayton
Bonnie
Harper
Gillespie County
Enchanted Rock
Willow City
Bear Creek
Wolf Creek
Morris Ranch
Tivydale
White Oak
Birthday Message to the President from The Great Westerner
A birthday tribute to E M Stevens on his 74th year honoring his book One More Sun Rise and his vow to use sunrises for the public good. The message says employees are grateful for the gift of one more sunrise and the chance to share in his life.
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E M. Stevens
Also Mentioned on This Page
Cattlemen’s Association
T. A. Cunningham
New Fairgrounds
Kerrville Highway
Community Savings & Loan Assa
Karen Crenwelge Doss
Fredericksburg
Comfort
the Herald
Mary
Radio Post
Bode Feed Store
Kimble County
Bode
Roosevelt
Floy and
Gene Bode
Duane Holmes
Floy Bode
Reagan, Carter
Bill Wright
Junction
William Martin
Bill” Wright
Kimble County Hospital
College Street
Church of Christ
Juncetion
Hodges-Fife Funeral
Mr Wright
San Angelo
Putnam, Guthrie
Old Glory
Howard Payne University
George Washington University
Washington, DC
Lets Me
Craw
Junction Masonic Lodge
Muskrat Temple
Wichita Falls
Omer Wright
Jack Sikes
Junctton
Kendall
Wright
Temple
Victor Sagebiel
Champion
216Th
216Th Judicial District
Kerr and Bandera
Marvin Blackburn
Ronald L. Sutton
Avern D Harris
Sutton
Harris
Locke
Colman
Robert ‘Bob’ Barton
Barton
Jim Newton
Jerry Sadler
Texas Railroad Commission
Newton
Lane Denton
Sadler
Walter Wendlandt
Mark Wieser
Raymond Kneese
Fred E. Dietel
Nugent Winson
Nugent Ainsworth
Gillespie Kerr
Kimble
Llano
Menard
Mason
Schleicher
San Saba
Real
Uvalde
Texas Hills
Gillespie County Schuetzenbund
Barons Creek
Scharfschuetzen
Hubertus
Meusebach
Luckenbach
Mecklenburg
Agriculture
John C. White
White
Beverly
Johnnie Oehler
Kerrville Rd
N.J.D
Democratic
Kerr
Joe Mike Egan
Robert R
Bob
Joe H. Benson
Fairway Court
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