Criticism of Ford Foundation’s Fund for the Republic project
A letter argues against the Ford Foundation funding a history of American communism, citing Earl Browder involvement as a source and warning this could pollute textbooks and school materials. It claims Browder is a Communist and under indictment and urges Americans to truthfully recount Communist activity without Communist input.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford Foundation
Fund For the Republic
U. S
Earl Browder
Communist Party
Browder
America
Hitler's death asserted by testimony and rising communist threat
The piece notes Hitler likely died in 1945 as Berlin fell while warning that Nazism's ideas persist ten years after his death. It argues communism now expands globally, sharing aims of tyranny and deception, and urges Americans to recognize the same deadly menace in new form.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolph Hitler
Berlin
Hitler
Europe
Aiter
Local Families Note Weekend Visits Across Texas
Mrs Roy Roberts and Mrs Charlie Barrett with daughter shopped in Kerrville on Friday. Jad Parker and family attended Alamo Revival Center services in San Antonio on Sunday. Robert Lehne and his San Antonio daughter spent the weekend here with relatives and joined the Staudt Kritz wedding Saturday. Pete Nay and daughters from Brownwood visited friends, while Mrs JM Stevens who had been visiting Denton and Brownwood accompanied them to Harper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Roberts
Charlie Barrett
Kerrville
Carlos Parker
Buzzy Parker
Alamo Revival Center
San Antonio
Vuu
Robert Lehne
Staudt
Kritz
Pete Nay
Brownwood
JM. Stevens
Denton
O Harper
Mr and Mrs Frank Staudt Visit Fredericksburg Parents
Mr and Mrs Frank Staudt visited his parents in Fredericksburg Sunday night.
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Frank Staudt Visia
Fredericksburg
Bride Dortha Fritz Weds Rudolph Staudt In Harper ceremony
Miss Dortha Fae Fritz married Rudolph E. Staudt Saturday morning October 22 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church with Rev. Henry Hug presiding. The couple will reside in Harper after a Carlsbad Cavern honeymoon. out of town guests hailed from San Antonio Kerrville Harper Robstown Johnson City and New Braunfels.
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Dortha Fae Fritz
Rudolph E. Staudt
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Henry Hug
Edmund J. Fritz
Cherry Mountain
FHS
Paul J. Staudt
Harper
Harper High School
Japan
Evelyn Riba
Betty Lee Kramer
Betty Jane Behrends
Cheryl la Mae Behrends
Alvin Behhrends
Robert_Feller
Alvin Feller
Aaron Fritz
Lee Roy Tatsch
E. J. Fiedler
Clayton Behrends
Otto Staudt
Joan Sebera
Cecilia Fiedler
Virginia Kramer
Staudt
Carlsbad Cavern
San Antonio
Kerrville
Robstown
Johnson City
New Braunfels
United Dortha Fae Fritz and
Rudolph Staudt
St. Mary's
Return from Hunting Trip Nets Two Bucks
Melvin Anderegg and Edmund Fiedler harvested two bucks on a Colorado hunting trip. Bode and Alonzo Reed both wounded a deer but did not recover theirs.
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Flog Bode
Melvin Anderegg
Edmund Fiedler
Alonzo Reed
Colorado
Anderegg
Fiedler
Bode
Reed
Barbecue at Bode Home Hosts Town Guests
Mr and Mrs Ruben Bode entertained with a barbecue dinner Sunday at their home. Guests included Mr and Mrs Pete Nay and daughters Donnie Bode Mr and Mrs Creighton Stevens and sons and Mr and Mrs J M Stevens. The Hobson Hopf Elgin Kramer Mr and Mrs Louis Kunz and Billy Kunz enjoyed a fishing trip to Junction on the Llano River Sunday and on Tuesday night hosted a fish fry for friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruben Bode
Pete Nay
Donnie Bode
Creighton Stevens
J. M. Stevens
Cosper Family Visit From La Vernia
Mr and Mrs William Cosper of La Vernia spent the weekend with his mother Mrs J C Cosper who accompanied them home for a visit.
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William Cosper
la Vernia
J. C. Cosper
Family Guests Visit Hans Wachhals Home
Sunday guests at Hans Wachhals home in Fredericksburg included his mother Mrs Wachhals sister Mrs Moellen dort Edgar Ellebracht and children and Mr and Mrs Robert Maney.
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Hans Wachhals
Wachhals
Fredericksburg
Moellendort
Edgar Ellebracht
Robert Maney
New Books Arrive for Junior High and High School
Eighth graders get first chance at blue books biographies of famous people and have read up to five since Monday. Ninth and tenth graders are now reading, with seventh graders to follow next week. More titles will be mentioned in the next issue.
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Lincoln
Edison
Burbank
Boone, Crockett
Lou Gehrig
Knute Rockne
Babe Ruth
Clara Barton
Molly Pitcher
Martha Washington
Emelia Earhart
Annual P T A Festival At School Gym Saturday
Harper school hosts the PTA Fall Festival at the school gym on Saturday October 29 from 5:00 to 7:30 pm with a chicken supper for adults 75 cents and children 35 cents. At 8:00 pm the local talent stages A Womanless Wedding followed by a cake coffee sale and sweets. A handmade quilt auction and kids games close the event.
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Parent-Teacher Association
Harper School
Harper Pta
Monarch Butterfly Tagged For Canadian Museum Trace
Joann Esquell, a local second grader, found a Monarch on the Tivy Dale farm tagged with a message to send it back to a Toronto museum. The wing tag bears the number S-307, illustrating a program to trace the butterfly’s migration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joéann Esquell
Joe Esquell
Here
Tivydale
Toronto
Canada
Joann
Tommy Reynolds Telethon Tour Heads to Fredericksburg
TV star Tommy Reynolds brings his Tomfoolery revue to Fredericksburg for a charity benefit. Reynolds, longtime KENS TV host, will be honored by the mayor, visit schools, and appear on KNAF radio. Proceeds fund a business school scholarship. tickets $1 adults, 50 cents students.
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Telethone
Texas
Tommy Reynolds
Fredericksburg
Tommy
San Antonio
Southwest
Jane Russell
Ray Milland
Kens-Tv
Marble Falls
Burnet
KNAF
Dennis James
Bernice
Sharon Ruth
Business and Professional Women’s Club of
Reynolds
Grandmoth
Rev Brown Attending Baptist General Convention
Rev. Darwin W. Brown attends the Baptist General Convention in Houston this week. Mrs. Brown and Wayne visit her parents Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Hill Sr. of Graham with other relatives. Belle Teru, visiting her grandparents, will accompany them home.
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Darwin W. Brown
Baptist General Convention
Houston
PTA Entertains Harper School Faculty With Tea
On Monday afternoon, October 24, Harper Public School faculty joined a PTA hosted tea in the high school living room. Mesd. Charles Mains and C. L. Brown served tea coffee and pecan pie as teachers, busy with duties, enjoyed a social hour and expressed thanks.
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Harper Public School
Mesd
Charles Mains
C. L. Brown
PTA
Gillespie County 4 H Club Banquet Set for November 10
Gillespie County 4 H Club Council completes plans for the annual banquet to be held November 10 in the district court room. Marlene Fritz leads the meeting with committees named for general arrangements, Crabapple, program, food, Willow City, Stonewall, Doss and Cherry Spring. Reports due by November 4 to County Agent C A Stone or Home Demonstration Agent Mrs. Douglas Dittmar. Each club to provide four cakes and some meat. Tickets 50 cents. Eligible clubs urged to have record books at the county agent's office by November 1. Council representatives named for the November 8 county program building meeting: Rosie Lee Lindig, Bernice Duderstadt, and Marlene Fritz.
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Gillespie County 4-H Club Council
District Court Room
Marlene Fritz
Albert
Willow City
Stonewall
Doss
Cherry Spring
C. A. Stone
Douglas Dittmar
Rosie Lee Lindig
Bernice Duderstadt
Local notes from Fredericksburg and area families
Mr and Mrs Raymond Cottle shopped in Fredericksburg Wednesday morning. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs V C Whitworth on October 23 at Keidel Memorial Hospital You. Mr and Mrs Watkins Tarr and daughter Mary Nell spent the first of the week at their ranch near Rock Springs.
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Mrs
Raymond Cottle
Fredericksburg
V. C. Whitworth
Keidel Memorial Hospital
Watkins Tarr
Mary Nell
Rock Springs
Football Scoreboard Report of Texas High School Games
Results list extensive 1960s era style scores including St Marys Smiley Harper Medina Boerne Southwest Brackenridge Brownsville Northeast South San Corpus Miser Jefferson Bandera Northside Pflugerville Nordheim Castroville Comfort Alice Harlingen Lampasas Hamilton Brackettville Rocksprings Lockhart San Marcos Brady Coleman Mason Bangs Killeen San Saba Burnet Goldthwaite Cameron Taylor Johnson City Lometa Blanco Manor Gonzales New Braunfels Seguin Alamo Heights Giddings Smithville Kyle Prairie Lea Hutto Copperas Cove Marble Falls Florence Buda Dripping Springs Liano TMI Sonora Ozona Junction Menard.
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Northeast
South San
Corpus Miser
Jefferson
Bandera
Northside
Pflugerville
Nordheim
Castroville
Comfort
Alice
Harlingen
Lampasas
Hamilton
Brackettville
Rocksprings
Dripping Springs
Liano
TMI
Sonora
Ozona
Junction
Menard
State Teachers Assn To Meet Nov 4-5
Sixty thousand teachers will elect state officers during the first week of November. Floyd W. Parsons of Beeville, nominated for vice president, is a UT graduate and veteran Texas educator, holding multiple district and state posts. LocalBeeville groups back Parsons. Election dates are November 4 and 5, 1955.
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Texas State Teachers Association
Floyd W. Parsons
Beeville
Beeville Faculty Association
Beeville Classroom Teachers Association
University of Texas
Parsons
Public Schools of Texas
Itststa
Texas Association of School Administrators
Committee of Ten
Texas Conference On Public Education
National Education Association Building Fund
NEA
PTA
TSTA
American Association of School Administrators
The
Texas Safety Association
Bee County
Mrs A C Wendel Returns From Visit Near Rock Springs
Mrs A C Wendel came home Monday after a several days visit with her daughter Mrs Jack Jones and family near Rock Springs.
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A. C. Wendel
Jack Jones
Rock Springs
Stevens Family Weekend Visit to Nixon Friends
Mr and Mrs Homer Lee Stevens and daughter and Mrs J Q Stevens visited Mr and Mrs Sid Billings in Nixon over the weekend.
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Homer Lee Stevens
Sid Billings
Nixon
Harper Longhorns Edge Medina 10 6 In Tough District Win
The Harper Longhorns defeated Medina 10 6 in a close district clash. Key plays included a safety by Don LeSturgeon and a 40 yard TD pass from Tooter Parker to Cyrus Schmidt. Medina's LeSturgeon scored late, but a disputed TD nullified by a penalty.
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Harper Longhorns
Medina
Harper
Don LeSturgeon
Tooter Parker
Cyrus Schmidt
Parker
LeSturgeon
Frank Lang
Longhorns
London
Alois Lang
Tatsch Boys
Gene
Douglas
Boy Scouts Ushers at Austin Texas Rice Game
A group of Boy Scouts traveled to Austin on Saturday to usher at the Texas Rice game. Attending were John Tarr John Warren McDougall Jimmie Peril Malcom Marrenall Cody Mar enall Frank Langford Metz ger Hollis Walter John Wad hall Richard Suffel Lamar Itz George Mains and Logan Stevens. Committee men to attend were J R Peril Belton Tatsch Victor Marshall Holland Walker and scout Master Dennis Parker with Mrs Dennis Parker and Mrs Victor Marshall.
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Austin Satuday
John Tarr
John Warren McDougall
Jimmie Peril
Malcom
Cody Marenall
Frank
Langford Metzger
Hollis Walter
John Wadhall
Richard Suffel
Lamar Itz
George Mains
Logan Stevens
J. R. Peril
Belton Tatsch
Victor Marshall
Holland Walker
Dennis Parker
Presbyterian Women Hold Regular Meeting
The Presbyterian Women's Society held its monthly meeting October 20 at the manse with twelve members present. Officers approved a November 18 sweet sale and elected Warren McDougall, Watkins Tarr, and A C Wendel for next year while supporting the Honorary Membership fund for a missionary wagon in Thailand.
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Presbyterian Women’s Society
W. O. Pape
Oliver
H. L. Stevens
J. R. Peril
National Council of Presbyterian Women
U.S. A
Warren McDougall
Watkins Tarr
A. C. Wendel
Thailand
Tarr
Gilbert Anderegg
Ingram
Smithville
Beathea Visit Highlights San Antonio Weekend
Mr and Mrs David Beathea and their infant daughter from San Antonio spent the weekend visiting her mother Mrs Floyd Boatright in the local area and sharing family time.
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David Beathea
San Anetonio
Floyd Boatright
Watkins Family Reunion Brings Kin Together at Community Park
A Watkins family reunion Sunday gathered relatives including Emma Harlan of California and Ella Lee of Quemado Valley. The group shared a noon turkey dinner at the Community Park to honor Emma Harlan and her daughter Carl Ernst of California visiting several weeks.
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L. C. Watkins
Emma Harlan
California
Ella Lee
Quemada Valley
Ted Watkins
Kerrville
Maggie Giles
San Antonio
May Jones
Harper
Junction
Gene Jones
Carl Ernst
Ross Watkins
Floresville
Boy Scouts Plan Paper Drive in Harper Area
The local Boy Scouts organize a house to house paper drive on Saturday November 5. Residents should have papers ready at their front door and in rural areas bring them to Rev. Darwin Brown's Harper garage or the scouts will collect large amounts.
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Rev
Darwin Brown
Harper
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