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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1972
Page
2
Harper area churches list service times and groups for Harper Church Directory. Includes First Baptist Church, Harper United Methodist, St. Anthony's Catholic Church, and notes on events, replacements, memorials, and local social visits. Also a brief ranch real estate ad and weekend visiting notices.
Dr. M. E. Meadows Jr. of the Screwworm Eradication Center at Mission predicts October will be the heaviest infestation period for the 1972 screwworm outbreak with two to three weeks of peak cases. He says September may be lighter than August due to lower reports and notes a potential mid November drop as sterile fly releases rise and cold weather arrives.
Dr James Novy outlines fall fly releases with 3200 per sq mile in a long northwest to southeast line from Langtry to the Rio Grande and 2000 per sq mile in a rectangle east and north of it. A 1000 per sq mile zone covers East Texas with hot spots east of Smith County toward the Louisiana line. National 4-H Week observed October 17 with theme A New Day A New Way.
The Harper Herald lists political notices ahead of the November general election. The Radio Post invites readers to view new samples for invitations and napkins for a forthcoming wedding. The Texas Society for the Prevention of Blindness offers free eye health materials on request. Mr and Mrs Dean Jones and daughter visited Corpus Christi family. NSPB notes 35000 Americans face preventable blindness annually.
The Hill Country Memorial Hospital Auxiliary met in Milam Hall on September 25 to organize the annual hunters sidewalk sale hosted by B's Food Market Security State Bank and Piggly Wiggly. Mrs. Schroeder urged member and non member kitchen donations of breads cakes pies and cookies for the sale set to start at 8 am on November 17 to benefit hospital equipment not funded by the hospital.
Sidewalk sale and fund raising efforts show care for patients and families. The hospital auxiliary invites volunteers to serve. membership forms are at the lobby information desk and an active member will orient new volunteers. Funeral services for Peter F. Stovall were held at Plum mer Fair Funeral Home. He owned Stovall's Golden Ox Restaurant Kerrville and died Sept. 27 in St. Luke's Houston. He was born December 14, 1910 in Louisiana and lived in Kerrville since 1945.
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