Harper's Frontier Festival Roundup at Community Park
Harper's 3rd annual Frontier Festival Roundup features rodeo barbecue and dances at Community Park on Sept 2 and 3. Festivities begin 6 p.m. with barbecues. rodeo grand entry at 8 p.m. and dances at 10 p.m. on Saturday. Open show rodeo produced by Lloyd Woodley of Lampasas includes bull riding calf roping bareback bronc girls barrel race and team tying with $65 buckles for winners. Calf scramble also included for children up to 12.
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Lloyd Woodley
Lampasas
Winter Parker and Rob Show Grand Champion Rambouillet Fleece
Winter Parker and his son Rob display Ruberts grand champion wool fleece at the 79th Gillespie Fair in a Rambouillet record showing. Roberts leads with the grand champion fleece overall, as the show crowned the top wool fleece.
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Winter Parker
Robet
Gillespie Fair
Robert
Dudley Parker
Dudley
Parker Brothers
IRC delegates aid Middle East relief amid Geneva Conventions focus
In early June five IRC delegates and six tons of relief left Geneva for Egypt Jordan and Syria to assist the emergency. The group coordinated with Israel to ensure observance of the Geneva Conventions and facilitate prisoner repatriation. Later June missions saw supply transfers and wounded evacuation from Israel, with crews delivering aid and aiding Palestinian civilians.
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International Committee of the Red Cross
IRC
Geneva
Middle East
Egypt
Jordan
Syria
Israel
Israex
Red Cross
Sof
Sinab Desert
Teoh
ICRAV
Pet Trc
Foroe
Caro
Brewch Red Cross
Hardin Rahe Wins National American Farmer Degree
Hardin Rahe son of Mr and Mrs Hubert Rahe will receive the American Farmer Degree at Kansas Co Mo on Oct 10 He is the lone recipient selected from Tex among about a thousand FFA members The item notes his Harper FFA membership and family background.
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Hardin Rahe
Hubert Rahe
Kansas Co. Mo
EEA
FFA
Tex
Beef Production Short Course Set for Harper September
A beef production short course for adult farmers is scheduled for September 4 to 7 in Harper. Sponsored by the Harper High School Vocational Agriculture Department, the Texas Education Agency and Texas A&M University staff will instruct. The program is led by Frank C. Litterst with extensive livestock production background.
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Harper High School Vocational Agriculture Department
Hopf
Massey
Frank C. Litterst
Vocational Agriculture Division
Texas Education Agency
Department of Animal Science
Texas A&m University
Ile
Texas A&m Universius
Litterst
Pinto Beans In Mrs Floyd Boatright's Garden
Lots of beans were planted by Mrs Floyd Boatright with five hills along a fence between two trees. The beans are green and blooming ready for canning for winter use. The text also notes business and agricultural affiliations of a ranch operator and mentions a short course at Harper beginning Sept. 4 in the Vocational Agriculture Building.
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Toto
Floyd Boatright
Rose
Texas
Louisiana
State Shorthorn Breeders Association
American Angus and Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association
Harper
Pfc Lloyd Harper Injured At Lackland Sentry Dog Training
Pfc Lloyd Harper son of Mr and Mrs James Vo tlarper was seriously injured Wednesday at Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio during a sentry dog training exercise. He was the decoy. when the dog scented an intruder he bit him and Harper sustained a severe knee injury. He is hospitalized at Lackland Hospital awaiting knee surgery once infection clearance allows. His parents traveled to San Antonio to be with him.
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Lloyd Harper
James Vo Tlarper O
Pre Harper
Lackland Vire
San Antonio
Medina
Lone
Pfe Harper
Harper
Pfe
Lackland Hospital
James Wotharper
Lloyd
First Lady Delivers Speech at Kerrville Library Dedication
Mrs Lynden Bo Johnson attended the Kerrville library dedication drawing a crowd of about 10 000. The Butt Holdsworth Memorial Library cost 500000 with a 2 million federal grant and local support from Howard Butt and others. Johnson praised the project as a milestone and a dream fulfilled as spectators pressed near the balcony for a closer view.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Butt- Holdsworth Memorial Library
Kerrville
Butt
Water Street
Guadalupe River
Lynden Bo Johnson
Johnson
Holdsworth
Lebiars Oat Thoaom
Or Owiven
On Tena
Howard Butt
Corpus Chrith
Carlton Wendel Receives Doctorate at Texas Tech
Carlton Wendel receives the Doctor of Philosophy degree at Texas Tech's summer commencement in Lubbock. He studied chemistry and geochemistry with mathematics, earned a 1962 B S from Texas Lutheran College Seguin, and a 1960 M S from Texas Tech. He will join Texas Woman's University as chemistry instructor with his wife Jeannine Spitzer and daughter Melissa in Denton.
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Texas Technological College
Lubbock
Carlton Wendel
Victor A Wendel
Ile
Harper High School
Texas Lutheran College
Seguin
Texas Tech
Carttun
Jeannine Spitzer
Melissa
Thea
Denton Perds
Texas Woman's University
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Review OF World Red Cross
Gene Harper
Mayfield Mat Rr
Harper Ffa
Clint Harlow
Clinton Harlow
Llano
Harlow
Harper Community Park
Hillcrest
Harper Presbyterian Church
Edwin Strackbein
Mro
Airs
Marvin Strackbein
Uhrtine Strackbein
New Braunfels
Robert Strackbein
Kingsburg
Kermit Strackbein
Chura Hansen
Clifford Wienecke
Debora Crenwelge
Mroo
Daniel Crenwelge
Rio
Fredericksburg
Clyde Woerner
Deburn
Wayne Rogers
Cullespie
Henry Lochte
Wesley Gold
Exhibition Hall
Rogers
Laurice Solomon
el Paso
Russell Patton
Dolph Peril Place
Harper and
White Oak Road
Cos Army
Charles Mains
Kamberly Ann Mains
George Ma
Oyr- Ville
Presbyterian Church
Vmessr
Er Wehmeyer
Ray
Gene Wehmeyer
Ion
Woods of
Comuert
Lucke Viauins
Charles Wenoat
Atos
Klein of
Werr
Pfc
Lackland Afs
Howard E. Butt
Panion
Lady Deucates
Mike Cox
San Angelo
Standard-Times
Come Nus
John
Masonic Temple
Eileen Hope of
Dale Rain Oy Coreg
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