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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1965
Page
3
A radio post photographer captured a large turtle walking down Mueller Street early Wednesday on its way to the Gillespie County Auction Sales, an unusual sight noted by locals.
Doss Boy Scouts vote to enter a floral in the Harper parade and plan a June 5-6 overnight campout at the August Bartage camp grounds six miles southwest of Dosson. Scouts will hike, try marksmanship, and work on merit badges while leaders updated include Samms Geistweidt and Rodney Hartmann.
In Fredericksburg and Harper area the blue Mealy Cup Sage and blue flowers drawing tea tourists are celebrated. Locals note Indian Firewheels and daisies along roads while visitors praise the landscape. Rain brings abundant moisture, full stock tanks, green fields, and hopeful prospects for the year.
JIM COONROD defers one pasture to rest cropland and rangeland in Morris Ranch. BILLY TEAGUE defers cedar controlled pasture to boost forage vigor and seed. OTTO GRONA seeds cowpeas on 30 acres for soil health. BILDGGROCK notes improved coastal bermuda after drought. HAROLD RUSENBERGER reports steady cover and plans an improved sorghum grazing crop. MARLIN ALTHAUS plans a well to water four pastures. ARNOLD SAGERIEL controls cedar by chainsaw with cedar posts and regrowth management in Cave Creek area.
Community notices from Fredericksburg include FFA banquet attendance by Doss and local families, church meetings in Seguin, awards at Bethany Lutheran, and Sunday visitors from nearby towns. A weather report notes thunder storms, heavy rain totals through Sunday with cloudbursts and crop damage.
San Antonio designated a recruiting and screening center for the Women s Job Corps as part of the War on Poverty. Volunteers will run local work under WICS, an inter faith, interracial group. Trainees learn typing and clerical skills, grooming, budgeting, and job application prep with three residential centers planned in Florida Ohio and California.
Report from Palo Alto Creek four miles from Fredericksburg describes a lightning strike near a large pecan tree. Keller found the mares almost crystallized or in a sleep-like state. the tree shows bark damage but remains standing. Three dead mares were found on the property, with signs the animals sought the tree for protection.
Rep Townsend leads a delegation of state legislators on a Cape Kennedy tour aboard a Brooks AFB flight to Cocoa Beach. They inspect launch facilities including the vertical integration building and simulated sound rooms to study space travel effects on humans.
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