Newspaper merger of New Braunfels papers in 1957
The Herald-Zeitung and New Braunfels Zeitung merged in 1957, forming the New Braunfels Herald with bilingual print in German and English through 1958, reflecting a transitional period in local press history.
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Comal County Fair Weekend Plans Include Music Fest and Cleanup
Editorial urges Comal County residents to attend the 14th Annual Gruene Music Fest supporting United Way of Comal County with proceeds aiding 25 agencies. The event runs Friday to Sunday at Gruene Hall with Marcia Ball, Clay Blaker, and Jimmy LaFave, plus a Sunday Gospel brunch. Saturday features the 25th annual Trashfest river cleanup at Prince Solms Park with volunteer registration at 7:30 a.m. Contact details for tickets and volunteering are provided.
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Comal County
Jimmy LaFave
Buckner
United Way
Comal
Gruenehall.com
Prince Solms Park
Chuck Boyd
Houston
Today in History Finds Oct 1 Highlight and Dates
On October 1 1949 Mao Tse tung raised the first flag of the People's Republic of China in Beijing. Also on this date in 1800 Spain ceded Louisiana to France in a secret treaty. Other events include 1885 start of special delivery mail, 1896 Rural Free Delivery, 1908 Model T debut, 1940 Pennsylvania Turnpike section opened, and 1943 Naples captured by Allied forces.
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Communist Party
Mao Tse-tung
People’s Republic of China
Beijing
Spain
Louisiana
France
United States
U.S
Henry Ford
Naples
Gore's oil strategy and political theater
The piece argues that tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve five weeks before an election is political theater, citing Gore's shifting stances and alleged dishonesty. It compares calls for policy change to environmental aims, questions motives, and notes Summers and Greenspan oppose tapping the reserve while Saddam Hussein’s oil moves loom as a potential market disruptor.
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Clinton
al Gore
Gore
Bill Bradley
Strategic Reserve
Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Treasury
Lawrence Summers
Alan Greenspan
Wall Street Journal
al Hunt
Iraq
Saddam Hussein
Farouk Kaddoumi
Palestine Liberation Organization
Saddam
Kuwait
Holger Jensen
The
Rocky Mountain News
Scripps Howard News Service
George W. Bush
Privatizing Social Security and the stock market risk
Molly Ivins argues against privatizing Social Security citing historical stock market losses and long-term growth projections. She notes Wall Street profits from fees, warns about returns after costs, highlights Northwest Airlines labor disputes, and links rising inequality to high interest rates and unemployment, urging policy fixes like lower rates and higher minimum wage.
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Austin
Wall Street
Phil Gramm
Dean Baker
The
Economic Policy Institute
Baker
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Northwest Airlines
Northwest
CBS News
al Checchi
California
Fed
Congress
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