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Newspaper
Llano News
Location
Llano, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1972
Page
4
A market study by Standard Rate and Data Service shows Llano County households spent $3,299,000 on home food purchases in the past year, the largest share of retail dollars. Take home food accounted for 24 cents of each dollar spent in local stores, higher than national and Texas averages.
The Hill Country Angus Association will hold its Annual Sale on November 6 1972 at Southwest Livestock Auction Sales Company Round Mountain Texas. Bulls from Gala Test Program with records available on butts offered plus consigned bulls after Gain Tested sale. Females also for sale bred heifers and calved cows. Directors Felix Lindig president Johnson City and secretary Mrs Audrey Schuch Box 431 Fredericksburg TX 78624.
The report shows per household food purchases averaging 1122 dollars if shared equally among locals. Car and automotive equipment sales reached 1.978 million dollars, up from 1.578 million. General merchandise stores sold 769 thousand, up from 683 thousand. Weaving apparel outlets earned 290 thousand, up from 277 thousand. Furniture and home furnishings outlets grossed 78 thousand, up from 63 thousand.
San Saba County commissioners schedule a squor election on August 12 for sale of all alcoholic beverages for off premises consumption. Petition to force the election required 280 signatures but 354 qualified signatures were filed.
Mr and Mrs Guy Clymer came home last week from a two week buying trip to fabric centers in North and South Carolina. They combined business with pleasure.
A study by Hill County suggests some convenience foods cost up to three times the price of identical home prepared meals while others cost less. Frozen dinners for meat loaf fried chicken and turkey typically cost more, with fried chicken dinners about 25 percent higher.
Explo 72, seen as a landmark church event, trained over 80 000 youth to share Christ. about 180 000 attended the Jesus Music Festival. Three hour specials will air on 265 stations July 30 to August 5 featuring Billy Graham Bill Bright Johnny Cash Andrae Crouch and the Disciples. Local listings note time channel. Campus Crusade for Christ International sponsors. Mrs Eugene Osbourn of Valley Spring is in Houston receiving treatment at M D Anderson Hospital.
A collection of local quotes urges impartial thinking and self analysis as paths to success. Llano County Library hosted a meeting for genealogy enthusiasts with an expert speaker and materials, planning future adult programs and inviting public interest.
Hospital notes list multiple admittees including Mrs Sadie Brown T D Swenson Mrs Shirley Crow Mrs Alice Nobles and others. Discharges shown for Evelyn Imler Mary Smith Mary Perry Esther Dalhhan James Smith and Aylis Woodall. Deaths include Tom Karcher and John Herridge son of Mr and Mrs John W Herridge is ill in a Houston hospital.
ASU announces supplemental awards for the Work-Study Program and Educational Opportunity Grants from the Office of Education. New funding totals include about 20 000 for work-study with matching funds raising federal aid to around 139 454 and 14 500 for initial and renewal grants totaling 63 500. The National Defense Student Loan Program is funded at 216 000 with 165 000 federal funds. Guaranteed loans rise from 1500 to 2500 annually, and two new programs will aid veterans enrollment.
Thomas T. Karcher, 73, of Lakewood Forest Mall Kingsland, died Sunday in Slane hospital. Funeral services were held at Zizike Kearns Downing McClaugherty Funeral Home in San Antonio with full military graveside rites at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery. The Rev. Arnold Windeker officiated. He was a former San Antonio resident of 42 years, member of Alamo Masonic Lodge and St. James Lutheran Church of Liano. Survivors include his wife Mabel, a daughter Jack De Mears of San Antonio, a brother Joseph of California, and two grandchildren.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse James Jr welcomed a daughter Linda Jo born at Seton Hospital in Austin on Saturday July 22. The newborn has a brother named Keith. Grandparents include Tilman Warlow of Llano and Jesse James Sr of Pecos. the mother is former Sharon Harlow.
The institution aims to raise its veteran student enrollment by ten percent from the prior year and will receive 300 dollars for each undergraduate veteran receiving federal aid under the GIBU or vocational rehabilitation programs. A second program will offer matching grants to states for need based scholarships or grants.
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