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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1940
Page
6
The article reviews how highways drive the cattle industry from western ranches to urban cafes in the East. It notes rising highway shares in livestock marketing, with 53.4 percent by road, 1939 totals around 6.5 million tons, and average hauls of 135 miles. It emphasizes feeder roads, farm-to-market routes, and the highway system as the industry’s lifeline.
In Austin on May 6 the State NYA Administrator J C Kellam announced about 6300 boys and girls on NYA projects across Texas have received first aid instruction in the past year. Courses cover artificial respiration tourniquets splinters sun stroke heat exhaustion fainting burns minor wounds and broken bones taught by State Highway Department and Red Cross instructors.
Johnson City students end their weeklong strike after agreeing that Athletic Coach L C Davis will finish the term and a school council is approved. The group had walked out over his non reemployment. Mr and Mrs Arthur Bierschwale and son and Miss Esther Wendel visited Fredericksburg Friday morning.
The piece notes public health advocate Dr. Geo W Cox links prenatal care nutrition and disease protection to better child health in Texas. It emphasizes parental role in protecting children from communicable diseases and early defect correction for long term well being.
Experimental fire retardant paints developed at the U S Forest Products Laboratory Madison Wisconsin use lin seed oil with borax as a pigment additive. White lead borax formulations show interior humidity stability for 30 months though exterior use fails due to rain leaching. Titanium or zinc sulfide pigments also show fire resistance but cannot endure continuous high heat. The paint yellowing indoors may be reduced by vehicle changes and the approach remains in development with limited applicability where fire resistance outweighs other properties.
In San Antonio listeners influence air time with requests for more informative daytime broadcasts. Helpful Harry's Household Hints on KTSA airs Wednesdays and Fridays at 8:50 am, sponsored by Park and Tilford, now in its ninth week. Harper School fourth and ninth graders had an all day Cedar Springs picnic chaperoned by Mr and Mrs Rolan Taylor.
At St. Cecelia Catholic Church Dallas Father Robison united Mrs Ethel Ellieson of Dallas with Gus Weinheimer of Fredericksburg in marriage Monday morning. Bridesmaid R T DuBose best man C J Dooley. Organist A Buckling sang Ave Maria. The couple plan to live at Pilot Knob where Weinheimer is ranching after a short honeymoon.
A Brownwood district meeting on checking AAA compliance was held Monday. Attendees included Thomas Jung county committee chairman and Robert C. Walter county performance supervisor along with Dorman D. Sell Ross Billings and Guenther Heimann. Nearby, Mr and Mrs Christian Birch and daughter Lydia May visited Harper relatives. Harper Junction highway hard surface work set to begin in about fifteen days. Rev A W Yell preached at the Presbyterian church Sunday.
Excerpted speech praising John Nance Garner as a liberal conscientious public servant with integrity and strong intellect. Describes him as temperate and capable, ready for his greatest service to America.
Dubois Parker and Hilmar Strackbein were bound over to the August district court term on a burglary charge after a preliminary hearing. Bond set at $1,000 each. They allegedly broke a window at Arthur Lange Beer Parlor and stole beer and cigarettes. Strackbein sustained a cut escaping the scene.
In Santa Rosa Ranch a rattlesnake devoured a quail as ranch workers investigated frantic cries. A three-and-a-half foot snake then swallowed the raccoon and was killed by the Mexicans on site, per local report.
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