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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1960
Page
3
Harper School News features the Beat The Bulldogs sports report with student reporters and editors listed. The issue highlights school activities and classroom updates from the Harper campus including notable staff and club coverage.
Last Friday September 16 the senior class received personal cards and memory books from Star Engraving Company. The class enjoyed signing and exchanging cards among themselves with their new keepsakes.
The week offers a varied school lunch lineup with meals including Meat with barley sauce and mixed vegetables on Monday, Ham with sweet potatoes on Tuesday, Tamales and bean salad on Wednesday, Meat balls with spaghetti on Thursday, and Beans with okra on Friday. Each day includes bread or rolls and milk.
Longhorn Band director Henry M Streety reports 37 students attended the initial gathering on Monday. The group will perform at the La Pryor Longhorn game this Friday at 8 00 p m with pop songs noted for the halftime and pregame period.
The Junior Pep Squad elected Dolores Duderstadt Jaydean Peril Rochelle Grona Jan Brown as majorettes and Patsy Bailey Patsy Feller as cheerleaders. The Junior Football team named Jim Bob Stevens and Raymond Jones as managers. A home football game vs Center Point is set for Sept 27 at 6 PM.
The class enjoys new language books and makes booklets on Eskimos of North Greenland. Mr Sheppard, the teacher, is kind and skilled in art guiding students to draw a simple house and a harder one. The note ends with Beat The Bulldoes.
The Harper Longhorns host the La Pryor Bulldogs in the first home game of the season at Harper Community Park. Both teams won last Sunday and aim for another win this Friday at 7 30 p m with the public invited.
A compact list of song titles and performer names appears in a cultural page. Sally and Malcolm dedicate tracks while Bobby and Kathy perform classic numbers.
Readable fragments describe Chester’s social scene with a new girl. A Longhorns opening kickoff TD hints at school sports energy. Other lines reference injuries, Monday return to school, and teens’ supper choices with hints of a school band and bus ride tensions.
The list praises the football team for a Friday win and a student named David Sheppard for appearing on the scene while criticizing the Prairie Lea girls for poor cheese sandwiches and Lamar for constant teasing. It also notes praise for Sandra and the Seniors for cooperative conduct, with thorns directed at various missteps and behavior in the school community.
A high school football piece highlights two rival teams The Senior Bass and The Junior Boys facing off against The Bulldogs. Names listed show players such as Malcolm, Logan, Keith, John, Wayne, Eugene, and Cody.
Harper High School senior girls Joyce Kramer LaVerne Klein Bonnie Friedrich Patsy Brehmer and Kathy Duderstadt enter the Betty Crocker Search for the American Homemaker of Tomorrow contest on December 6 1960 in home making classes. Top prizes include 5000 scholarship for All American Homemaker and 4000 for runner up with prizes decreasing after. Kay Cottle tests but is ineligible.
The assembly introduced a student handbook with rules for the year, praised for reducing noise and distractions and improving lunchroom behavior. Car parking was moved to the east side of the lunch room to free space for visitors. The Student Council was chosen with Daniel Fritz as president and outlined plans include citizenship development, assemblies, homecoming programs, student awards, guidance aid, and public relations.
The article details Edwin Eckhardt Jr near Rheingold building about 7000 feet of field terraces with a dozer and scraper, linking them to an established waterway as part of a conservation plan. Hubert Rahe of Harper completed shaping a flat bottom waterway with more terraces and plans to establish grass, while Cooperators Charles Ernst and Walter Lagerquist Jr. add stock ponds and diversions. It also covers Texas law on school bus safety and passing rules, with cautions about fines and safe driving practices.
The item lists several names in a rhythmic pattern, noting glowing, burning and flickering phrases. It reads like a fragmented society notice or poetic catalog from a newspaper page.
The sixth grade held a class meeting to elect officers. President Eileen Hopf, Vice President Jim Bob Stevens, Secretary Wayne Behrens, Treasurer Lynn Parker, Reporter Mary Ann Kensing were chosen for the student government. Kathy D. and Daniel Beat The Bulldogs.
Harper Longhorns routed Prairie Lea 64 to 13 last Friday. They opened with three quick touchdowns after receiving the kickoff and played most of the game with all hands contributing. Scorers for Harper included Fritz Stevens McDougall Hopf Marshhall Lange and Jung with reserves piling on as Prairie Lea managed two TDs against Harper freshmen.
Robert C Wahrmund promoted to staff engineer in the process engineering section of Humble Oil and Refining Company Baytown division. He designed major refinery and chemical units and led special studies to improve design knowledge and economy. He holds UT mechanical engineering BS, Schreiner Phi Theta Kappa, Pi Tau Sigma Tau Beta Pi.
Mr and Mrs H W White of Oklahoma spent Friday night and Saturday morning with Mrs Ola Peril after attending the Centennial at Stonewall. Lt and Mrs Norman Sullivan and children visited here with her parents Mr and Mrs Edwin Lang. Dean Hopf and son David attended a ball game in Austin where David was recognized in the Order of the Arrow. Bateman of Tolectta met her parents in Austin for a weekend visit. Visitors in the Scarborough home included Addison Kindle Lawton Oklahoma sister Arthur Sellers Fort Worth and Nan Mabry Odessa.
James Tarr and Alfonso Do mingoes of Austin visited James' parents Mr. and Mrs. Watkins Tarr. James just returned from Pennsylvania where he worked with a construction company. He will attend Texas University again this fall. Lonnie Mayhugh starts his second term at Baylor University in Waco and Miss Martha Mayhugh now attends SWST College at San Marcos.
Mr. and Mrs. Hilmar Lott were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Mack Scarborough and played several games of 42 last week. Visitors to the J. M. Scarborough home included Mr. and Mrs. Tra Scarborough and their daughter Mrs. C. E. Childress with two children, Mrs. Fay Jones and her daughter from San Antonio, and Mr. and Mrs. Ruben Bode.
Clayton Parker, in Montana for months, visited his aunt and uncle Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Scarborough. He reports a 16 inch snowfall in Montana and shows off a large black bear he killed.
Mr and Mrs Richard Michael and daughter Tracy Ann of Houston visited Mr and Mrs Watkins Tarr on Wednesday and Thursday en route to Garner State Park for a brief stay.
Mr and Mrs Pat Rogers were dinner guests of Mrs F M Floyd and Miss Frances Sunday They also visited Mr and Mrs Ted Rogers that afternoon
The Gillespie County 4-H and FFA Livestock Association set January 21 1961 for the Gillespie County Livestock Show at the Fair Grounds. Five new directors Andrew Jenschke Leroy Crehn Welge Raymond Spaeth Francis Iott and Elme Ellebracht were elected. Officers named Melvin Bonn president Andrew Jenschke 1st vice president Desmond Sagebiel 2nd vice president Wilbert Seipp secretary treasurer.
Mr and Mrs Ira Lackey of Blanco visited Harper on Friday while traveling to Kerrville to see Mrs Charlie Coffey.
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