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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1961
Page
5
The Round-Up lists staff for the Harper School edition with Elaine Bode as editor and Agnes Risch ner as assistant editor along with social editors Willimae Kaiser and Clark Lang and sports editor Steve Oehler. Typist is Andrew Kramer.
A list of song dedications from FFA boys and FHA girls for February 8 includes titles such as Til Come Running Back To You, Holiday For Love, I'll Do It Every Time, and You Are My Destiny. Names like Patsy, Bonnie, Bobby Cottle, Johnnie, Steve O, Karen, Edith, June, Carolyn, Annie, and others appear with various dedications and school context.
A garbled campus snapshot lists February happenings and gossip. Names like Elaine Kathy Patsy Sally and Mary appear with items about presidents, parties, letters, cars and shows at Kerrville. The fragment hints at a student roundup with social plans and minor mischief.
A glossary of slang style phrases renders common actions into playful labels. Entries include phrases for speaking out, displaying intellect, loudness, and odd metaphors. The list ends with a fragment that hints at a titled item.
Elva Dittmar daughter of Mr and Mrs Edwin Dittmar is noted for twelve years at Harper School She earned Miss H H S junior year and Football Queen later She won first in typing at the District Interscholastic League Meet and was active in plays cheerleading and school organizations The 1940 birth date places her in her senior year with plans for Durham's Business College and a role on the Annual Staff Subscribe to The Herald for $1 50 per year.
The Commission on Higher Education predicts Texas will see a surge in college enrollment by 1962 from 77,913 to about 102,000 across 18 state colleges. It notes rising demand for senior status for junior colleges, prepares firmer recommendations, and cites growth in statewide college prospects to 320,000.
About 210 000 tree seedlings are available to West Texas landowners for spring windbreak planting. Orders must be in by March 1. Species include red cedar Chinese elm Austrian pine and ponderosa pine. Seedlings priced at 3 per hundred with 6 to 9 inch tops for cedar and pine and 12 to 18 inch tops for elm. Roots are ½ inch and packaged in moss and moisture proof paper. Applications via county agents soil conservation districts or the Texas Forest Service director in College Station.
Mrs. Alvie Cosper returns to California after a family visit. Mr. and Mrs. Orville Lurber of Mason spent a day with Mrs. J. C. Cosper. Elmo Lumpkins and son Ronnie visited Glen Lumpkins in Mason. James Parker of Roosevelt visited Harper relatives. Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Jones and son Fred traveled to San Antonio to visit kin. Jack Metzger and children of Kerrville visited Harper relatives.
Mr and Mrs Edgar Ellebracht and daughter Edith and Mrs Ida Kneese visited sister and daughter Mrs Christian Birch and family at Round Mountain Sunday. Mr and Mrs Ted Rogers spent the weekend with relatives in Uvalde. Mrs Aaron Meadows of Mt Home spent several days visiting Mrs J Stevens this week.
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