Year in review shows medical progress and optimism for 1967
The piece highlights 1966 advances including artificial heart devices, memory improving drugs, sexual response research, and improved prosthetics. It notes AMA volunteers for Viet Nam, a push for family physicians, and vaccines for mumps rubella and measles. It ends with cautious optimism about fighting heart disease stroke and cancer.
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American Medical Association
AMA Volunteer Physicians
Viet Nam
Calendar predicted peril in 1967 but optimism survives
The Peach Creek Philosopher on his Johnson grass farm reflects on a New Year forecast of war inflation and taxes, arguing the world controls man rather than vice versa. He suggests continuing calendar plans for 1968 onward while noting uncertainty about 1967 and humor about lunar ambitions. Also mentions Christmas visits from El Campo and Alvin relatives.
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Peach Creek
Johnson Grass
Rt. 3
Shiner
Fidel Castro
Ho Chi Min
Earth
J. A
Bunjes Home Demonstration Club Christmas Party
Bunjes Home Demonstration Club members and four guests met at the home of Mrs. James Buske on December 17 for their Christmas party. Gifts for Trinity Home were gathered, secret pals were drawn, and refreshments followed. Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Behlen visited in Gonzales with relatives during the holidays.
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Calvin Pfeil Sr
el Campo
Gus Pfeil
Bennie Svoboda
Alvin
Robert Veit
Point Comfort
Raymond Vincik
Bunjes
James Buske
E. G. Buske
Trinity
Fritz Behlen
Gonzales
Rudy Boothe
Mr. Boothe
Travis Effenberger
Nacogdoches
Adolph Vesely
Taft
Willie Vesely
Corpus Christi
Laddie Vesely
Shiner
J. J. Vesely
Quips and Family Notes From Elo’s and Local Homes
A lighthearted column humor and social notes list jokes about vanity taxes and elephants. The piece also records local readers’ Christmas visits, a Schulenburg bull sale to the Hoffmanns, and holiday gatherings in Houston and Austin. It profiles Shirley Jurica of Shiner High School as December FHA Girl of the Month with four years of activity in FHA and Student Council roles.
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Fred Cook Jr
Shiner
Alfred Hoffmann
Schulenburg
Peter E. Morisak Jr
Peter J. Morisak Sr
Allen J. Hirsch
Houston
J. B. Bednar
Chris
Austin
Bee Bednar
Frank Miculka
James
Shirley Jurica
Shiner High School
FHA
Shirley
SYS
Rudy Jurica
Shiner Public School Menu Preview
Shiner Public School lunch plan approved by Supt Little lists meals for January 3 to 6 including chili and doughnuts, hot dogs, stew with sides, and cheese sandwiches with milk. The notice notes menus may change without notice and records visitors from J J Rohan family and Geral dine Rohan of SWTC visiting Bennie Eicher and Yoakum during Christmas holidays.
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Supt. Little
J. J. Rohan
Sylvia
Poth
Geraldine Rohan
SWTC
San Marcos
Bennie Eicher
Yoakum
John Rohan
Mary
Obituary notices from Trinity Lutheran Home area
Mrs Emma Voelkel longtime Trinity Lutheran Home resident dies at 94. Agnes Hans admitted to Trinity Lutheran Home. Olga Smothers county supervisor dies. Local clergy visit parishioners as Christmas nears. Families gather for Christmas with Vesely and Siegel relatives thanking friends and hospital staff for support during illness and bereavement.
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Emma Voelkel
Trinity Lutheran Home
Voelkel
W. E. Beal
Smithville
Elsie Eissler
Yoakum
Hulda Wessels
Hallettsville
Leona Steiger
Gonzales
Agnes J. Hans
Moulton
Protecting Families After a Father's Death Ad
An advisory encouraging life insurance to support a widow and children after a husband’s death. It urges immediate adjustment challenges and stresses insured security for the surviving family, offering Pan-American Life Insurance Co. with agent Joseph Muras in Shiner Texas.
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Pan-American Life Insurance Co
Joseph Muras
Shiner
Texas
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the Shiner Gasette
Lee J. Sedlmeyer
P. O. Box
Muska
H. B. Gee—Chiropractor
E. Gonzales St
Yoakum, Texas
Flatonia
Gonzales Commission Co
Bunjes HD Club
SE Meats — National
Robin Hood
Orton
Decker
Black
Hunt’s
ALL Flavors
Nabisco Premium
Ysii
Elo’s
Angus Bull
By Elo
Shiner Public School
Osu
Sew. Inc
Dudley Hoskins
On- the- Ee Gonzales
Gonzales County Savings & Loan Association
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
County Savings & Loan Association
Olga Smothers
O. K. Oelke
St. Peter’s Lutheran Church
Barbara Siegel
Pat
Robert
John D. Wagner
Frank Wagner Memorial Hospital
Edward Wagner
Joe Siegel
John J. Hanacek
Charles Carolan
Father Hanacek
Buffington Funeral Home
F. M. Wagner
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