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‘Read Every Tuesday and Friday by 16,000 Central Texansmm—mmFOR CIVIL WARid n jTAKING OVER COMMAND of Stanton Post 55, Grand Army of the Republic. Los Angeles, Calif., Civil War veteran Douglas T Story- 10o isaided to the rontrum by Mr*. Francis Smith At right, Mrs. Margaret Thompson pins an orchid on Mr*. Esther Shore, president of the Women's Relief Corps at the post Story was the lone male oattend. Only other member wa* unable to travel. (Internationa ,t-r-5CVocationalSchoolBegmsNewear»fit snThe Williamson Count Vocational School is beginning a new fiscal year with It. L. Sides as vet**i aria coordinator.Formerly lead teacher in the IGeorgetown veterans school. Mr. Sides took over July t. The position was vacated by Gordon Burks who resigned to become principalof the AQte Fwl School.The school officials have recently completed an inventory or farm equipment and the school is entering into a new contract for the fiscal year 1950-51 with the State Board of Kducation in connection with the Veterans AdministrationAt present there are 300 veterans the largest number yet to be enrolled in the county's fifteen agriculture classes. However, few-GKOKGETOWN, TEXAS* FRIDAY, JULY 7. 1lt;*0NUMBER 12NO PAPER TUESDAYAfter making a prettythorough canvass on the proposition, the Sun has decidedto drop Its Tuesday issue, at least for the summer.Many people feet that by putting all of the news of the week into a single issue and concentrating on that issue to make it outstanding, the Sun can render a higher service to Its subscribers.Recently, the Sun asked its subscribers to choose between a weekly and a st mi-weekly and they chcose the weekly bya 3 to 1 vote.Subscribers who have paid foi a send weekly will havean adjustment coming theirwa and tin* weekly subscription rate has Iwen posted at per year, here and everywhere.IRodeo Arena Described as FinesttheCountryIWillSeat*(Srieulture at Thrall and Bay Brum-low. agriculture teacher el George-town.Robert Bost ?a now taking Mr. Sides place as lead teacher inGeorgetown.The new contract with the State Board of Education is very similar to last year's. Mr Sides said More stringent rules have been made concerning absenteeism. however. Whereas veterans in school formerly could be absent as many as five consecutive times in a 28-day period, they are now allowed only three absences during the period.—c of C Gives Equipment For Safety PatrolThe Georgetown Chamber ofIn (ieorj;elowiiSchool DistrictQualified voters in the George town Independent School Distric* will mark their ballots concerning taxation and bond assumption a the fire station in GeorgetownSaturday, July 8.Election officers will he H. HBennington, presiding judge, and Mrs. R D. Briggs and Mrs. Estha Scoggins, clerks.The fire station in Georgetown will be the onlv voting place. 'There will be no polls at the courthouse u* at the p-st o*.ice in Walburg as It ate d in the Sun Tuesday. |§ Purpose of the election is to determine whether or not to equalizetaxes over the district and whether or not several outstanding bonds ssult; d prior to the ci cation of the iistrict will be assumed and paid.The Georgetown IndependentSchool District has recently been *nlarged by twenty-five square niles of added territory. Tax rates n the newly acquired territory lave been lower than the George-own rate and one purpose of the •lection is to decide whether or not to equalize the tax at the present Georgetown rate which is $1.40 on the one-hundred dollarevaluation.The election will not raise taxes above the present $1.40 maximum.In the past conditions of the schools have been such that it has been necessary to collect only $1.30 of the $1.40. *- ' */i\IISh\nd C♦This is an artist’s description of what the Williamson County Sheriff stil steel and concrete, $M\um arena stadium wdl look like when it is completed ieen in the above drawing, the view is from t te west end, hooking east. » •Posse new, this fall. AsCounty OrdersMOldimers»Reunion•r\1Williamson County Commissioners Omrt in special session Wednesday authorized the purchase of a five-ton, three wheel roller with a gasoline engine and electro starter at $3393 and an indust rial wheel tractor powered by a diesel engine at $3902,The machinery is for Road Diet rice 91 in Precinct 4, Tavlor. a he purchase will be made from the Browning-Ferris Machinery Company in Houston, tin* only firm entering a bid in the ewnpetitiv* bidding.Regular meeting of the Courtwill be Monday, July 10,Starts at Round Rock FrFriday is Move-In Day for old* timers attending the 47th AnnualReunion of the Williamson County Old Bet tiis Association at Harrell Memorial Park in Round Rock. The festivities will begin Saturday, July K, and continue through Saturday, July 15.Free camp-sites. with wood anc water furnished, will be available for those who bring their own tents. Ample parking space, under poire pro action inside the groundhis Cripple (Te h Ranch Hands. Thursday, July 13. Burnet County Pay, will see aqua re dancing and music by the Hayloft Gang” and the Stamps Friendly Quartet. Friday. July 14, Wilt be Old Fiddlers Day Music will be furnished by I.)tide Billy s play boys. The Old Fiddlers will have their content, and hoe will be old time square dancing, with Mark Towery, Taylor, hH the caller, accompanied by his Salty Swing Band. 8at ur day, July 15, will he Stamps Quartet Day, with music by the Stamps Qua i let.( ,oust rue! ionWork on the Williamson County Sheriffs Posse rodeo arena is pro-greasing at a rapid pace and it will be ready for service by September I, in ample time to accomodate the Labor Day opening cere-mom. the Sun was assured this morning.A spokesman for the Posse declared that, when completed, the arena would be the finest open air rodeo arena in the United State?.tt will have h seating capacity of 5,500 and is to be of all steel andconcrete construction.Some of the outstanding features of this ultra modern arena-were described. It will be very safe for spectators; the seats will be above ground level and there will be no way for the animals to break into the stands, or eveninto the box seats.There will be no fences, no wires, no poles, c\ ligh’- T * ' ■ten with the spei ators vision. Lights are to be placed behind the up seats, and city manager Lee Black has informed the Posse dial the field would be perfectly”light!d There will be tv ■ t ■tlances to the arena and ample parking space to accomodate thei will blt; p led 1i he association.Everything wiil be new and modern, including chutes, pens anticonstruction deaigAt present the stadium, with the Godwin biothers in charge of con-at ruction, has reached the stage ior the steel people to come in and install runners and girders for the grandstand. Concrete has already been poured for the box seats The rodeo this year is to be the beat ever staged in this section. T. C, “Buck” Steiner, of Austin, one ot the top producers of the southwest. will open his season with the Georgetown show and has promised that he will consider it his horns” rodeo and produce it in the finest and grandest manner
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The Williamson County Sun
Georgetown, Texas, US
Fri, Jul 07, 1950
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