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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1964
Page
4
The Harper Longhorns announce a 2021 season slate with home games donated. Opponents include Center Point on Sept. 18 and Oct. 23, Leakey on Sept. 26 and Oct. 30, Medina on Oct. 2 and Nov. 6, LaPryor on Oct. 9, Nueces Canyon on Oct. 16 and Nov. 20, plus Neneces Canyon on Nov. 20.
Harper High School band paraded at halftime during the Harper Yancy game on Sept. 11. The group, led by drum major Dolores Duderstadt, performed High School Cadets The Twist Mr Touchdown Washington and Lee Swing while majorettes entertained the crowd.
A list of names and titles appears, including Mike Cottle Farme rs Boy Hardin Race Donkey John Gay Walker Touchdown Glory and Bernhard Fritz Run Searerd Freshmen All Conference Tackle Matt Jung Ring of the Cowboss Ray mond Jones Up from Slavers Sopho more Outlaw Red James Esquell and others. The page also notes Chugalug 4H and FFA GTO Mike Lange and Rochelle Grona among many individuals with varied roles and works. Subscribe to The Herald.
Harper fans erupted as the Longhorns beat the Yancey Tigers 26 to 8 Friday night. Bernard Fritz scored Harper s first TD in the opening quarter with help from Buddy Spaeth and Jerome Esquell, while Spaeth added a second rushing TD and Esquell earned the final score after an interception late in the game.
At Old Harper High a Friday afternoon pep rally featured the Harper Longhorn Band with the fight song Washington and Lee and The Twist. Major ettes and cheerleaders led yells We ve got spirit and 2 4 6 8 as Coach Harry Sultemeier and Superintendent E D Hopf addressed the students.
Students Marcellus and James were sent home from school Wednesday to travel to San Antonio for an Arms Reserve physical. Bruce Parker is ill. The MU Most Apep paths met in the Cafetorium Friday at 3:15 with high spirits. A Junie boy arrived at school with a black eye, source unclear if from the game. PEL boys wear Shorts and play baseball on the tennis court. Pilly Hobbes slid into home plate, scraping asphalt. Officials seek the missing line marker to mark the football field. The speed record was broken as Marcellus cleared for a touchdown. Congratulations Flabby.
On Friday September 18 the Center Point Pirates visit the Pirates Longhorns for the season’s opening district game. Last year Harper swept the Pirates but new players may boost Center Point. Coach Suite Meier promises a rough matchup as the lineup remains from last week.
Hunter McLean, chairman of the State Board of Insurance, will head the Johnson Humphrey campaign in Texas. Gov. Connally announced the selection after months of speculation between moderate conservative and liberal factions. McLean, a close ally of Connally and longtime presidential supporter, will resign from the board and open a campaign office in Austin. Oldwater for president headquarters, run by Tad Smith of El Paso with Peter O'Donnell of Dallas, operate near the state capitol.
A downtown parade opens the three day Comal County Fair in New Braunfels on Friday at 10 a.m. Twenty nine neighbor cities will enter the parade and more than 45 visiting parade units are expected. Attendees include Attorney General and Mrs Waggoner Carr State Senator and Mrs Walter Richter State Representative and Mrs John Traeger and Lt Col and Mrs Wiggins of Ft Sam Houston. The 71st fair offers daily horse racing at 2 p.m nightly rodeo at 7 30 p.m and numerous exhibits. Thursday Sept 24 at 7 30 p.m features a beer garden square dancing and a Saenger Vereine song festival with German food.
Two girls born in local hospitals this week. One by Sept 12 to Mio and Mrs Fran cista Serrato, another Sept 14 to Mio and Mrs A J Langehennig. The Langehennig baby welcomed by 2 year old brother Steven Wayne and relatives in Harper and by great grandmother Mrs Felin Maier.
The annual reunion at Klein's Hall on Labor Dus revealed an intentional omission of a name from the defeased members list, affecting Utne aged 73. The notice highlights the missing individual in the history of the Old Teamster group.
Mrs Harold Woods the Stonewall Chamber of Commerce secretary says youth will enter events at the rodeo Friday and Saturday and hopes for spectators. She notes all Catholics attending Friday night rodeo have been granted a dispensation.
Fire Prevention Week, now in its 43rd international observance, began with a joint proclamation by the President of the United States and the Governor General of Canada.
Two thousand Texas Future Farmers and 4H Club boys and girls will exhibit 2 500 market and purebred breeding animals during October 21 24 at the 1964 State Fair of Texas in Dallas.
The Gillespie County Farm Bureau schedules its annual meeting for Thursday October 15 at the Community Savings and Loan Center Hall. A beef barbecue supper precedes the business meeting with guest speaker Walter Meyer from the Waco Farm Bureau office. Chester Koennecke urges all members to attend and to submit resolutions at the Farm Bureau office promptly.
A 148 ton hydropresser arrived in Kerrville on weekend rail flatcars for the Mooney aircraft plant. It will be installed by month end to boost capacity for forming airplane parts and is described by plant officials as among the largest of its type in Southwest Texas.
Miss Sharon Strackhein of Midland and her brother Howard Dean of California visited their parents Mr and Mrs Edgar Strackhein. Mrs Henry Markworth, visiting in Midland, joined them in Harper. Weldon Walker has returned home Saturday after surgery in San Antonio, accompanied by Mr and Mrs Wayne Barrett.
Lawyers focus on preventing litigation through thorough legal research and advisory work. Texas lawyers support ongoing education via Continuing Legal Education programs, state bar publications, and post graduate seminars funded by practitioners and judges since 1948.
Films of the Texas A and M LSU football games will be shown at 8 00 p m on Tuesday September 22 at Turner Hall in Fredericksburg hosted by the Gillespie County A and M Club. Former students and friends are invited to attend weekly meetings to view Southwest Conference games and relive student years while honoring A and M traditions.
The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association will hold its quarterly meeting in Fort Worth on September 18 and 19. Topics include beet grazing, cattle feeding, conservation, ranch labor and the recent import law, with the public invited to the 9 a.m. business session on September 19.
A report on the recent advances at the A and M campus describes how enduring school traditions are being preserved while integrating contemporary educational ideas. It highlights the balance between ceremony and curriculum, and notes voices from students and faculty.
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