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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1940
Page
8
The Harper Herald designates C. W. Granville and his wife as authorized advertising solicitors and collectors. Subscriptions cost 1.50 per year and the notice notes entry on second class matter at the Harper Texas post office on February 25, 1926 under the act of March 3, 1876.
The Palace program lists The Ghost Comes Home featuring Frank Morgan in the second half of a Saturday double bill with George Hayes as Bill and Billie. Edison The Man starring Spencer Tracy comes to Palacette Sunday and Monday May 20, featuring makeup as the inventor at age twenty two.
Max Starcke, former Seguin mayor, is appointed operating manager and general manager of the Lower Colorado River Authority to direct flood control water conservation and low cost power distribution. He succeeds Clarence McDonough who leaves for private work. The move unifies executive direction and expands LCRA power distribution to sixty-seven Central Texas cities and hundreds of miles of rural lines.
A filmic and literary week unfolds with It All Came True featuring Ann Sheridan Jeffry Lynn Humphrey Bogart and Zazu Pitts at Warner Bros plus a nationwide run of The Grapes of Wrath starring Henry Fonda Jane Darwell and John Carradine. The Grapes of Wrath is billed as a landmark modern novel adaptation arriving May 22 and 28 across venues.
Texas oilmen completed eighty five tests to depths under ten thousand feet with forty two of them drilled in the last calendar year.
A report lists the former operating manager along with Clarence McDonough as a former general manager figure.
Gillespie County residents and Fredericksburg operators debated rates and possible sale of rural lines. Company officials proposed 1.75 to 2.00 monthly charges within five to ten miles, pending metallic line upgrades and future extensions.
In Washington this week Representative Charles L. South described a Department of Agriculture program in which fawn families demonstrate making mattresses from locally produced cotton. The program seeks to boost cotton use, noting each mattress requires about 50 pounds of cotton and ten mattresses use a 500-pound bale.
The Social Security and Old Age Pensions Committee urged a national old age annuity system for Americans over 60. It outlines a pay as you go plan funded by broad taxes, no state by state disparity, and pensions tied to federal revenue with possible tax clawbacks for high earners. The group argues such a system would sustain purchasing power and reduce unemployment.
In a rural store, farmers lament potato bugs devastating crops in days to weeks while the shopkeeper claims he saw four or five potato bugs examining his books just before planting time to see who bought seed potatoes.
Texas manufactured oil tools and equipment are sent to every oil producing country, signaling strong export reach. The batch emphasizes global demand and industrial reach of Texas oil service firms.
Mrs Peter Tatsch nee Juliana Baethge born September 21 1852 in Germany came to America in 1854 died May 14 1940 age 87 years 1 month 23 days husband Peter Tatsch deceased surviving children Ferdinand Edmund Emil Reinhold Lina Dina Anna and others noted in obituary with family details
The obituary notes Eckstein and Hilda Mrs. Chas Kott and relatives including Heinrich Baethge of Doss and six great grandchildren. Rev. F A Bracher officiated Wednesday at Beckmann's funeral home Zions church and the city cemetery with both choirs assisting.
The Texas petroleum industry now pays 45 percent of all state taxes exclusive of sales taxes like gasoline tax paid by consumers.
Wilbur Shaw, America's top racing driver, is pictured receiving a Studebaker Champion coupe from Geo. D. Keller. Shaw will use the car as his official ride until Indianapolis race day, when he hopes to win the Champion sedan to pace the race and become the winner.
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