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Newspaper
Llano News
Location
Llano, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1973
Page
6
The Liane Yellowjackets travel to Brady to face the Bulldogs in a key district game. Brady seeks revenge after last year’s 36 40 defeat but faces a Jackets squad aiming to spoil their season and climb the standings amid district title tensions.
Llano Yellowjackets open district 24 AA play with a 20 7 victory over the Marble Falls Mustangs. Howard Barnes scored twice including a 29 yard run, Boyd Gray added a three yard TD and two extra points, while Nesista led the Mustang offense with a late fourth quarter score.
A Halloween Carnival co sponsored by the Llano Activity Club and Alpha Delta Zeta sorority will be held at Babe Ruth Field on Saturday evening October 27. Activities include penny pitch dart game bingo spook house cake walk basketball and football throw fish pond fortune telling roulette wheel sponge throw and costume judging with a 7 30 p m pitch ers mound contest for ages 1 7 and 8 and over three prizes per group for most unusual scariest and weirdest costumes Randolph Franklin Llano Activity Club president said.
The First Baptist Church of Kingsland hosts a free Halloween carnival on Saturday October 27 from 7 30 to 10 p m inviting all. A film titled In the Presence of Mine Enemies screens at 7 30 p m and again around 6 p m. The documentary follows Captain Rutledge held as a North Vietnamese prisoner in 1965 and his Christian faith under torture in the Hanoi Hilton.
The Llano High School Freshman Class schedules a bake sale as a fund-raiser with two Llano locations and one in Kingsland. Activities start at 9 a.m. Friday Oct 26 and continue until pastries run out. A spokesman praised the students and mothers as top cooks in Llano County.
Kingsland Chamber of Commerce will show the color film Ballooning Over LBJ Country at Barrow Hall on Thursday October 25 at 7 36 p m. The event is free and open to the public.
The nation shifts to Standard Time this weekend at 2 a.m. Sunday though Texas counties in the far west and El Paso Hudspeth counties adopt Mountain Time. The move, praised for humane hours, follows a system first proposed in 1883 by Bill Allen and made legal nationally in 1918 after railroad adoption.
The Llano fall Arts and Crafts Exhibition opens its second stage this weekend at Llano Junior High School gym. Senior citizens groups display needlework and quilts, power arrangements, plastic items, oil paintings, craft booths, and hand painted china. Exhibitors must display pictures at 10 a.m. Saturday. The hall is open Friday 1–5 p.m. and 7–10 a.m. Saturday. The fair runs 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Saturday and 1–6 p.m. Sunday.
Marsha Scott was chosen from 14 nominees as LHS Homecoming Queen for 1973. Miss Scott is a Llann High School senior and was escorted by Bobby Dines. Duchesses include Gebra Talley Cindy Crenwelge and Kim Walker with escorts Joe David Ross Stewart Harris and Jeff Ross. A dance followed the football game at the Junior High gym.
The Coon Bust will open the deer hunting season at Liano City Park on Saturday November 17 at end of first hunting day. A raccoon weight-guessing contest features three raccoons in cages with prizes of 50, 35 and 25 dollars. Foods will be sold at concession stands and a free dance closes the evening, per Jerry Brewer of the Llane Chamber of Commerce.
Football scores from last week show Llano 20 over Marble Falls 7 and Kerrville 14, SA Southwest 0. Belton 49 versus Lampasas 6. Bastrop 20 over Westlake 12. Giddings 14 over Round Rock 12. Blanco 46 over Comfort 12. Junction 6 over Eldorado 6. Brady 3 against San Saba 0. Burnet 27 over Leander 0. Cherokee 45 over Pottsville 12. Taylor 20 over Del Valle 0. Flog 40 over Pleasanton 0.
Llano will host the district band contest at Llano High School with a free public concert at 7:36 pm in the auditorium. Guest clinician Ranald Smitt of Monahans and judges include Lane Scott, Walden Many, James Mallow, Kirke McCande, and Robert Lykins. Schools registered include Ballinger Brady Coleman Eldorado Hamilton Lampasas Ilano Mason Menard Santa Anna Sonora and Winters.
Severe electrical power shortage leads to no Christmas lighting contest in Llano this year. City of Llano, Llano Lions Club and Chamber of Commerce sponsor announcement urging decorations with little or no electricity and plan to reduce Christmas street lighting for the season.
People's Savings and Loan Association reported deposits exceeding eight million dollars and total assets over nine million dollars as of October 12. Executive vice-president Les Sansom noted the firm marked its fourth birthday in October.
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