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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1939
Page
1
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Granville are authorized advertising solicitors and collectors for the Harper Herald. Subscription rate is $1.50 per year. Retered second class matter at the post office in Harper Texas February 25 1926 under the act of March 3 1876.
Morris Ranch residents hosted gatherings including a 50th birthday party for H. R. Schaeferkoeter with many local families attending. The Red Cross chapter discussed first aid training and a countywide drive from Armistice Day to Thanksgiving, with support offers for headquarters space and local schools promoting volunteer memberships.
The nominating committee submitted a slate for the Red Cross executive committee for the coming year: Mrs. Robi Blum, Mrs. E. H. Riley, Mrs. Edgar Moses, Henry Lewis, Harry Land, Alf Neffendorf, Felix Wilke, Dr. Lester Keyr, S. H. Smyre, and Dr. J. H. Perry. They were unanimously elected. Officers will be elected later by the new executive committee.
The Gillespie County Red Cross Chapter gathered in the district court room Monday evening at 7 30 after a program by the Fredericksburg Junior Band directed by G A Hartmann. Chairman A D Stahl reviewed the year’s activities, with reports from Mrs E H Riley Alfred Neffendorf and Mrs Fred Mathisen detailing home service health disaster and first aid efforts.
Donna Reade, known as the Jane of Judy and Jane, studies sculpture in a long-range course while her uncle Prof. A S Newmark, a noted Australian sculptor, criticizes her work through exchanged letters. Pictured, the Thursday night K.M.H. groove features the Music Maids and John Scott Trotter’s orchestra as Bob Burns takes a vacation.
Maurice Artzt a 1925 UT electrical engineering graduate earned a GE research post in Schenectady. He co devised the radio facsimile news system with Charles J. Young and received high praise for solving key project problems. The transmitter turns printed matter into radio impulses and a receiver re creates print on 8 1 2 by 12 inch pages at about three pages an hour.
The three Marx Brothers appear in a streamlined circus setting with animals acrobats and showgirls as they share a mutual affection for Ference Rice who plays a key role in the film.
Right Out of the Air cast members Eloise Hitz and Helen Wood resume trademark lines on NBC Red and in serials. Ellen Randolph star reuses Hello Mr Morse and Goodbye Mr Penner while Elaine Dascomb actress Helen Wood repeats a script line during a post broadcast call. Felix Mills conducts Silver Theatre and gathers miniature musical instruments.
Under the Agricultural Adjustment Act farmers adopt soil conserving crops to build a production reserve for emergencies creating an ever normal granary of soil fertility.
Sports writer Bill Cunningham warns football cripples youth citing 60,000 to 75,000 annual temporary injuries and up to 1,225,000 lost school days. He notes 17 to 33 deaths yearly, citing cases from Yale, Dartmouth and others, urging his own son avoid the sport despite its character building.
The Screen Guild Theatre plans to relocate its base from Hollywood to New York in late November to utilize screen talent Now on Broadway. Pretty Ann Shepherd takes over the title role in Joyce Jordan Girl Infern e replacing Elspeth Eric. Ann has prior stage experience.
Noel Coward's early fiction in Cosmopolitan features The Wooden Madonna What Mad Pursuit and The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe. The stories lampoon contemporary society through sharp satire of writers socialites and a seemingly virtuous Mrs Radcliffe.
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