The Harper Herald (Harper, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, May 28, 1976 Page: 1 of 4
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MILTON COSIER
HARH3R, TEXAS
Harper School Commencement Exercises Friday Night
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4 Pages Population 383 Altitude 2100 Feet
HARPER, GILLESPIE COUNTY, TEXAS 78631 Subscription: $3.15 Per Year, locally; $5.25 outside, includes tax
Friday, May 28, 1976.
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Arts & Crafts Fair Starts Saturday at Kerrville
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From left to right, first row, Lorna Rahe, Virginia
Pruneda, Juanice Beard; second row, Bryan Ervin,
Linda Heinemann, Matthew Schmidt, Julia Adams and
Lester Behrens.
Graduation exercises are slated at the Harper School
Auditorium on Friday night, May 28, 1976.
Record Class Of 26 HHS Seniors Graduate
At Commencement Exercises Friday Night
Lloyd Harper Receives
Master of Science Degree
A record graduating class of
26 senior Harper High School
students will receive diplomas
at commencement exercises to
be held in the Harper High
School Gymnasium-Auditorium
Friday night, tonight, May 28,
beginning promptly at 8 p.m.
Supt. Elbert Schmidt said
that he was of the opinion that
this is the largest class of sen-
ior graduates in the history of
Harper High School. (If this is
incorrect we will be glad to be
so advised and make proper
correction.)
The program will get under-
way with the traditional pro-
cessional with Mrs. Howard
Hamilton at the organ. The
invocation will be brought by
the Rev. Bill Hill, pastor of St.
James Lutheran Church, to be
followed by the Salutatory by
Kulia Ann Adams.
REP. JIM NUGENT
GUEST SPEAKER
State Representative Jim
Nugent of Kerrville, repre-
senting the Texas 56th District,
will be introduced by Elbert
Schmidt, Superintendent of the
Harper Schools, as guests
speaker for the evening’s com-
mencement program.
Following Nugent’s com-
mencement address H. D.
‘Donnie’ Bode, president of the
Harper School system, will pre-
sent diplomas to the graduates,
followed by the Valedictory by
Elgin Matthew Schmidt II.
The benediction will be given
by the Rev. J. C. Turner, pastor
of the First Baptist Church with
the Recessional to be played by
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(CONTRIBUTED)
Two Hundred Years
(Dwayne Laws)
’Cross trackless plains men laid new paths
That led to peace and hope.
To uncleared forests settlers came
With families, to grope
For freedom, and to flee from deep
Oppression, want and woe.
They found our land - America,
Two hundred years ago.
They fashioned well, these austere’men.
America became
A haven for those men who sought
New vistas they could tame.
They did not seek security,
Nor nooks devoid of fears.
The land they made now celebrates
Its first two hundred years.
The future is a trackless plain,
Where men have never trod.
IT BECKONS TO America
To keep its trust in God
And, like our fathers, brave and tame
Each challenge, as it nears.
That free men’s feet may blaze new trails
The next two hundred years.
Mrs. Howard Hamilton at the
organ.
The record class of 26 senior
graduates includes the fol-
lowing:
Julia Ann Adams, Keith Allen
Alberthal, Karel Juanice
Beard, Lester Dale Behrens,
Thomas Lynn Cauthen, Kim
Borinette Barrett Cornelius,
Hugh Nolan Cowen, Charles
Edward Dunn, Bryan Neal Er-
win.
Also: Daniel Alfred Feller,
Linda Ann Heinemann, Clinton
Troy Hill, Cynthia Ann Parker
Holmes, Denise Renee Klein,
Margaret Pauline Kneupper,
Mary June Kramer, Matthew
Wayne Lang, Pamela D’Ann
Massey, Mary Evelyn Walters
Masters,
Also: Rose Marie McDonald,
Virginia C. Pruneda, Lorna
Kay Rahe, Elgin Matthew Sch-
midt II, Steven Lewis Skipper,
Kenneth Ray Stone and Marian
Alma Wendel.
JUNIOR HIGH PROGRAM
THURSDAY NIGHT
Final classes were held in the
Harper School on Thursday
with the Junior High School
graduation program scheduled
for Thursday night, May 27.
A cordial invitation is ex-
tended to the public in general,
to all parents, relatives and
friends, to attend these com-
mencement programs and final
events for the 1975-76 Harper
School year which has been a
most successful and interesting
term.
HARPER LOCALS
Mr. and Mrs. Verlon Masters
are the proud parents of a boy,
born May 18, 1976. The baby
was named Vance Lee and
weighed 7V2 pounds. Mrs. Mas-
ters also underwent major
surgery but is doing fine.
Grandparents are Mr. and
Mrs. Jerry Bierschwale of Har-
per and Mrs. Lora Walker, and
great grandmother is Mrs.
Nettie Thuem of Harper.
BILL HAYMES from Arkansas joins more than 100
Texas performers at the 1976 Kerrville Folk Festival May
27-30 at Rod Kennedy’s Quiet Valley Ranch Memorial
>ay weekend. Haymes was selected by the Kerrville
Music Foundation last year as a New Folk Award Winner
for his original songs.
ANTIQUE Washington Press and an antique proof press
for etching will be operational during the Texas State
Arts and Crafts Fair. Betty Zaggle and her father, A. L.
Hasner will demonstrate four stages of printing and et-
ching.
"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political
prosperity, religion and morality are indispensible supports.’’
(George Washington 1732-1799)
"Religion is not a way of looking at certain things; it is a
way of looking at everything." (Sue Dwyer)
FREE TELEPHONE
CALLS TO
GILLESPIE COUNTY
SHERIFF’S OFFICE
For All Harper
Telephone Exchange
Customers
Call for
ENTERPRISE 80086
to report traffic accidents,
burglaries, robberies, or
whenever officers are
needed!
LLOYD HARPER
Lloyd Harper, son of Mr. and
Mrs. James V. Harper received
his Master of Science Degree in
Agriculture in exercises held at
Tarleton State University, Sun-
day, May 16.
A graduate of Harper High
School, he also holds a B.B.A.
from Southwest Texas State
University.
HARPER LOCALS
Miss Willamae Kaiser of San
Antonio spent the day, Monday,
with her mother, Mrs. Morris
Bein.
Subscribe to The Herald
Absentee Balloting
For 2nd Demo Primary
May 31 Thru June 1
County Clerk Mrs. Doris
Lange this week advised that
absentee balloting for the
Second Primary or Demo-
cratic Run-off election will be
held May 26 thru June 1 from
8 a.m. until 5 p.m. with the4
exception of Monday, May 31,
which is Memorial Day and a
holiday.
Anyone desiring to cast an
absentee ballot, in the event
they are away from home on
the day of the run-off election,
Saturday, June 5, may cast
his or her vote at the County
Clerk’s office on any of the
days designated above.
According to County Demo-
cratic Executive Committee
chairman Raymond Kneese,
the second primary and/or
run-off election will be held at
only one voting booth, in the
Gillespie County Courthouse.
Religious Vacation School
The 44th annual Religious
Vacation School (Bible School)
will be held from June 7 to June
18 at St. Anthony’s Church.
Children from kindergarten
through ninth grade will attend.
Any child of this community is
welcome to attend.
There will be Religious in-
struction (Bible), project work,
films, recreation and singing.
The hours are 8:15 to 11:30.
HARPER LOCALS
Harper seems to have their
share of sick folks. Tommie
Harlan, Oren Parker, Son Par-
ker, Clayton Kneese and Mrs.
Roman Stehling are on the sick
list. We wish them all a speedy
recovery.
Mr and Mrs. Reginald Mc-
Dougall attended the Doss
School Closing and visited with
Mr. and Mrs. Karl Durst,
Saturday.
The Athletic Booster Club
Awards Banquet was held Mon-
day night at the school cafe-
torium with a good attendance.
Mrs. Ronnie, Armstrong and
small son of San Marcos is
spending a few days with her
parents and also attended the
banquet.
Mr. and Mrs. Tommie North
have returned from a month’s
stay in Oroville, California, and
report a wonderful trip.
Mrs. Roy Jones of Austin
spent the weekend with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
McDougall.
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Sivells
attended the wedding of their
nephew, Steven Sivells, at Mar-
ble Falls, Saturday.
Vacation Bible School
To Be Held May 31-June 4
St. James Lutheran Church
will have Vacation Bible School
on May 31 thru June 4 from 8:30
a.m. until a.m. There will
be a closing program June 4 at
8 p.m. in the church.
Teachers will be Karren
Crenwelge, Lin ,
Judy Wienecke and Dianne
Rahe for nursery and kinder-
garten class; Wilke,
Sharon Wanner, Marcelle Mar-
schall and Rachael Molder, pri-
mary class; Mary Ann Parker
and Jan Parker, junior class.
Pastor Hill and Kathy Hill will
teach the pre-teen class.
Mrs. Corrine Wienecke is in
charge of refreshments and
Mrs. John Reddick is Bible
School superintendent.
All children in the com-
munity ages 3 thru 12 are cord-
ially invited to attend.
(Correction on names is
needed for complete report.)
Harper Agriculture
Department Plans
Used Tool Sale
The tools may be inspected at
the Agriculture Building from 8
a.m. to 3:30 p.m. during the
week and until 3 p.m. Saturday,
May 29. Clayton Massey says,
“We will have various tools for
sale at seal bid. There are sev-
eral electric welders, power
hacksaw, band saw, hand tools,
mechanic tools, and various
other assorted tools.”
HARPER LOCAL
Mrs. Belton Tatsch and Mrs.
Ferdinand Tatsch attended the
funerals of Mrs. Skinner Mater
and Mr. Gus Michel, druggist,
on Saturday.
SUBSCRIBE
TO THE HERALD
Bode Feed & Supply to Sponsor
Ral-Gro Implant Demonstration
The Bode Feed & Supply
store will sponsor a free
demonstration of Ral-Gro Im-
plant at their place of business
on Main Street in Harper
Thursday afternoon, June 3,
1976, from 5 to 6 p.m. Allen
Brown, with the Commercial
Solvent Corporation of Ban-
dera, will be in charge of the
demonstration.
Gene Bode, proprietor of the
progressive Harper firm which
recently opened a second store
at Roosevelt, Texas, said that
everyone is invited to come and
visit and ask questions. Free
refreshments will be served
and everyone is invited also to
register for the drawing of a
Ral-Gro Implant Gun.
County Agent Duery Menzies
as well as Harper’s VA instruc-
tor, Clayton Massey, will also
be on hand and all adults as
well as all FFA and 4-H club
members in the county inter-
ested in this implant demon-
stration are urged to come.
Arts & Crafts Show
Starts Saturday at Kerrville
By Mike Reddell
Kerrville Times Staff Writer
Visitors to this year’s version
of the Texas State Arts and
Crafts Fair, which begins next
Saturday at the Schreiner Col-
lege campus, can expect con-
stant “live” entertainment in
the form of arts and crafts
demonstrations and musical
presentations.
A spontaneous celebration is
planned for the fair’s opening
at 10 a.m. Saturday. Maurice
Coats, executive director of the
Texas Commission on the Arts
and Humanities, will cut the
ribbon, while the Country Crit-
ers, a country-western band
from Lackland Air Force Base,
begins playing.
This will begin the fifth Texas
State Arts and Crafts Fair,
which is expected to attract ap-
proximately 50,000 persons this
year, according to Audie
Hamilton, the fair’s executive
director. The fair will be open
from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday
and Sunday and from 10 a.m. to
6 p.m. Monday.
About 50 exhibitors will be
located in the fair’s now
famous Pioneer Village, an
unique section featuring arti-
sans and craftsmen, who ply
skills found during Texas’ early
years.
In addition, Mrs. Hamilton
said visitors can view the work
of about 200 “of the best artists
in the country” in other sec-
tions of the fair.
Located near the entrance of
the fair, a demonstration area
will be set up that features ex-
hibitions of five different arts
and crafts techniques each
hour. According to Mrs. Hamil-
ton, visitors could see about 50
different demonstrations each
day.
Persons also can try their
hands at skills like pottery at
the fair, she added. A learners
area, concentrating on basic
arts and crafts skills for adults
and children, will be located in
the pavilion area.
Another new aspect of this
year’s fair is the concept of
informal entertainment, Mrs
Hamilton said.
“It’s better for the artists and
people if something live is
going on,” she said.
Part of the Kerrville Folk
Festival, which runs con-
currently with the fair, is pre-
sented on the fair grounds festi-
val area.
The music schedule begins at
11 a.m. Saturday with a work-
shop of traditional, bluegrass
and progressive new grass
music; 2 p.m. Saturday, a new
folk concert hosted by Peter
Yarrow of Peter, Paul and
Mary; 2 p.m. Sunday, a concert,
of original songs from the best
of 1976 new folk writers; and 1
p.m. Monday, Texas Old Time
Fiddlers Contest.
Interspersed with these per-
formances, Mrs. Hamilton
said, will be appearances by
Kerrville’s Poverty Playboys
and the New City Jazz Band,
the Feller Family Singers of
Harper as well as several other
groups.
Food, always a popular at-
traction, will be featured at 27
concession booths including
fares for fried chicken, peaches
and cream, a salad bar, beef
kabob, catfish, Mexican foods,
German sausage and a sweet
tooth booth.
Some new and previously
seen exhibits include black-
smiths, Bowie knife makers,
arrowhead making glass blow-
ing, macrame, leather crafts,
dulcimers, doll furniture, oil
painting, crochet, bronze sculp-
tures, jewelry, stained glass,
ivory and bone carving and
hardwood toys.
Another interesting exhibi-
tion includes a sheep shearing
demonstration where the wool
will be carded afterwards, then
spun into yarn, dyed with nat-
ural dyes, dried on racks then
woven, completing the full
cycle.
An antique print shop and its
operation will be demonstrated
by a 75-year-old Waco man who
has spent the last 10 years
putting the shop together.
Former Governor John Con-
nally’s sister-in-law, Kay Con-
nally, who does paintings on
cured deer hides, is another
fair exhibitor.
Fair visitors may park in the
50-acre lot at the east end of
Main Street, where they can be
shuttled to the fair grounds by
three air conditioned buses.
Mrs. Hamilton said that per-
sons would have only a minor
waiting period for the buses, if
any. Travis Street, near the
college, | will be closed off
during the fair, she added.
Admission for the fair is $2
for adults and 50 cents for
children.
The Kerrville Fook Festival
at the Quiet Valley Ranch, nine
miles south of here on Texas 16,
will begin on Thursday and run
through next Sunday. Each of
the concerts will begin at 6 p.m.
and provide a wide range of 35
performers and their bands.
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Dietel, Norman J. The Harper Herald (Harper, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, May 28, 1976, newspaper, May 28, 1976; Harper, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1034531/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Harper Library.