The Harper Herald (Harper, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, November 7, 1969 Page: 1 of 6
six pages : ill. ; page 24 x 17 in. Scanned from physical pages.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
MILTON COSIER
HARPER, TEXAS
WELCOME HUNTERS
“"""THE HARPER HSRALD"£S5
A Wonderful Rem!
BOOSTING HARPER — A PROGRESSIVE COMMUNITY IN THE CENTER OF TEXAS' HILL COUNTRY HUNTING PARADISE!
VOLUME 53 No. 45. HARPER, GILLESPIE COUNTY, TEXAS 78631 Friday, November 7, 1969.Population: 383 (ac. to Tex. 19-69 Almanac). Altitude: 2100 ft.6 Pages This Week - SUBSCRIPTION: $3.00 Per Year
"perhaps hard-felt *s t^>e
loss cf young people, for they carry with them th<^ m s
only real hope for survival. And by leav«n^ ^ \
people—who have been educated a ^ * - ctie
townspeople, become thp ^^le ^ ^ which rural
communities sid''- ^ |^
But the tow O reason for them to stay‘
Nor the i^T-, tor that matter. Faced with the
estimate hat there is now opp' (CONTRIBUTED)
farm boy in 10 to become a succesgfnl rom^rcial farm-
No Shortage of Deer
For Texas Hunters
While the world at large is
concerned over the people pop-
ulation explosion, the hunting
army of Texas is happy over
another type of population ex-
plosion—the deer.
Throughout the United States
where this is any coverts, at
all, the all-time-record popula-
tion of deer to date now stands
at 15,469,494 animals.
Of that great number, Texas
has well over three million, or
about one-fifth of the entire
deer herds of the nation.
While Texas seems to gain in
human population with “prog-
ress’* sprawling well out into
the countryside, deer continue to
multiply.
The hunters of whom probab-
ly half-million deer-hunt, scarce-
ly make a dent in the Texas
deer herds, despite the rather
liberal bag limits and extend-
ed hunting seasons.
This even though hunters are
on the increase with more
places to hunt, which, at first
glance, might be hard to believe
for the unfortunate, few who
find it almost impossible to lo-
cate a place to hunt.
But when you consider that
deer are hunted in 214 of the
254 counties in Texas, and many
of these counties didn’t have
deer ONE until a few years
ago, the statement more places
to hunt is clearly reconciled.
It there are so many deer
y why haven’t the hunters scored
better than they do? Last year,
for instance, the season’s deer
toll was around 280,000.
While many hunters kill their
full quota of deer, two bucks
and a doe, and even a fourth
if a mule deer as to he includ-
ed, hunting success by the en-
tire Texas deer hunting army
figures at less than 50 per cent.
With deer romping all over
premises it seems that killing
one should be relatively easy.
And it is ... in many places,
such as Gillespie, Kerr and
Llano Counties where the deer
congestion is most dense.
But to kill a deer, especially
a trophy deer, in the brush
country, where white-tail deer
are bigger but fewer, is an
entirely different story.
A hunter to be successful at
deer must hunt in a manner
the circumstances call for. In
the hill country, for instance,
where there are more deer and
more hunters per acre, the sit-
uation calls for extreme pa-
tience on the part of the hunter.
And there is positively no
sense in hunting any other way
than from an elevated ambush
and waiting for deer to come
within gun range.
It is to be understood, obvious-
ly, that ambush, blinds or
stands, whatever term is used,
should be so located to provide
Harper Area Set For Year's Biggest
Event... the Annual Hunting Season
EY FRANK STAUDT., HARPER., TEXAS W
All indications are that Harper between two and three million doll- Here at Harper the opening of
will be a very crowded place come ars annually from hunting alone, the hunting season is close to being
Friday November 7. This is the Is there another time during the an official holiday. If you plan to
day before the season opens, hunt- year when there is more flourish- get your house painted, your barn
ers from here and far will be flock- ing business in Mason, Llano, Fre- . repaired or your appendix removed
ing to their respective leases. This dericksburg, Balnco, Kerrville, you better do it before deer and
is also the day set aside by Har- Junction, Doss, Harper and other
per’s American Legion Post No. surrounding towns than during the
650 for their annual turkey shoot, hunting season, we must agree with
By all means attend this worth a great big NO.
while cause and at the same time
turkey become legal game.
We sincerely hope that you and
yours will have good hunting and
by all means safe hunting.
sharpen-up your trigger finger and
your shooting eye. The Legion Post
are selling chances on a very nice
30-30 calibre Teddy Roosevelt Cen-
tennial Rifle which will be given
away to the lucky winner that even
ing at 5 p.m.
Prospects are bright for a better
than average hunting season thru-
out the Harper area. The entire
country is in tip-top shape due to
wonderful rains that have fallen
during September and October,
some ranchers have guaged as
much as 15 inches of rain during
the month of October alone.
Our big bird, the wild turkey,
has made a remarkable comeback
during Hie past two or three years,
many report that bucks throughout
the area are carrying bigger and
better horns than in previous years
The opening of the annual hunt-
ing season tops all other events on
the outdoors calendar. Sportsmen
travel farther from home, make a
greater investment in time, money
and effort than any other time dur-
ing the year. It was estimated
several years ago that the Hill
County grossed about a million
dollars during the hunting season,
this included the following Coun-
ties: Mason, Llano, Kendall, Blan-
co, Kerr, Kimble and Gillespie
this was during the time when a
season lease would cost between
$75 and $100 per gun. Today your
season lease will cost from $150 to
$200 per gun, this in turn means
that the Hill Country is grossing
Harper’s Annual ‘Bull of the Woods’
Membership Closes Midnight Nov. 7
Yes, Midnight Friday Nov. 7 is
the dead-line for you to obtain your
membership in this years “Bull of
the Woods” Contest plus four addi-
tional prizes that will be given a-
gain through courteous donations
by Harper business firms. The
list as of this time is not completed
This yearly contest has grown
greatly during the past fifteen
years and we want to give you the
names of the winners as they ap-
pear on our records during these
fifteen years. They are as follows:
1954 season, Elmer Lee Lange;
1955 season, Elgi n Kramer 1st
prize, Lawrence Roeder 2nd prize;
1956 season, Chas. Klaehn 1st prize,
Charlie Friedrich 2nd prize; 1957
season, Clint Brown 1st prize, Har-
old Pape 2nd prize; 1958 season,
Herbert Feller 1st prize, James
Jung 2nd prize; 1959 season, Law-
rence Roeder 1st prize, Max Hart-
mann 2nd prize; 1960 season, rec-
ord not available at this time.
1961 season, Louis Friedrich 1st
prize, J. M. Scarborough 2nd prize;
1962 season, J. E. Parker 1st prize,
Billy Hogan 2nd prize; 1963 season,
J. E. Parker 1st prize, Warren Mc-
Dougall and Glenn Hopf tied for
2nd prize and they split the prize
between them.
1964 season, Albert Haag 1st
Harper First1 State Bank In Response To Editorial
Directors Honored The editor of the Harper Herald
With Turkey Dinner Retell
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Whitewood iast week’s editorial headed:
entertained with a turkey dinner in “Harper Offers an Ideal Site, the
their home last Saturday, Nov. 1st, Best Year’-Round Climate For a
at 6 p. m. honoring the directors of Rest Home.”
the First State Bank of Harper,
and their wives.
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Peril were
co-hosts fo rthe delightful occa-
sion.
A most enjoyable evening was
spent together by the group.
Band Boosters Extend
Membership Drive
The Harper Band Boosters are
extending their membership drive
to Friday, November 21.
The Band Boosters met Tuesday,
Nov. 4, in the school library when
the decistion was to continue the
membership drive. Membership in
the organization entitles the mem-
ber to a Booster sticker.
The Band Boosters will give first
and second prizes to the boy and
Also, a very interesting “let-
ter - to - the - editor” from one of
our readers in Harper; time and
space, however, will not permit
its reprinting this week.
Copies of the Harper Herald,
with the -editorial marked for
easy recognition, were mailed
last Friday to all ALC members
of the Board of Lutheran Social
Services who are scattered in vari-
ous cities in Texas.
girl selling the most memberships.
Plans for a benefit supper were
discussed.
Mrs. John Honig, Band Booster
president, and Mrs. Alois Jung,
membership drive chairman, urge
all interested patrons and friends
of the band join the organization.
visibility over a great area.
Also, blinds must be placed near
spots where the travel pattern
of deer is definite.
Hunting on tne sprawling, flat
and seldom rolling brush coun-
try makes necessary a different
technique, but there, too, hunt-
ing from blinds will be more re-
warding for the average hunter
than stalking.
The time honored custom of
“horn rattling” at certain peri-
ods of the hunting season is
traditional in the brush coun-
try, where biggest bucks by
weight or in antler beam and
spread are killed during a sea-
son.
Deer hunting is fascinating,
challenging, of course, but it
also can become so ridiculously
easily successful.
I say this despite the fact
many of my friends, especially
a writing amigo named Russ
Tinsley, who authored a book on
deer hunting, insist deer hunt-
ing is never easy. But qualify
(Continued on page 5)
prize, Jack Phillips 2nd prize; 1965
season, Charles J. McDougall 1st
prize, Raymond Spaeth 2nd prize;
1966 season, Mrs. Glenn Hopf 1st
prize, Clarence McDougall 2nd
prize; 1967 season, Herbert Feller
1st prize, Mrs. Chester Itz 2nd
prize; 1968 season, Emil Wahr-
mund 1st prize, Alfre ne 2nd
prize. Four additional do-
nated by business firm; 'y
the following: Cecil Tatsci.
buck; Joe Esquell 119 1!
Mrs. W. A. Hogan 18 inch spread
buck that she killed; Victor Har-
per best turkey gobbler.
Who will be this year’s winners?
Join before the dead-line, you may
be the winner in this year’s con-
test.
Rufus Moore Rites
Held in Harper Sunday
B. “Ruff” Moore of Mil-
ford, Texas, died at 3:31 a.m. Nov.
1, 1969 in a Hillsboro hospital. He
was bora Dec. 17, 1882 in Fayette
County, Texas . .. lived at Harper,
Texas and in Gillespie County most
of his life. He married Ethel Na-
bers on Nov. 21 sixty three years
ago. He was a rancher who served
as Deputy Sheriff in the early 1900s
and as County Commissioner in
Gillespie County for 8 years and in
Kimble County for 12 years. He
was scab inspector for Gillespie
County in early 1900’s and during
this time he cleared up this infec-
tion of sheep with his own formula.
For the last 18 vears he has been a
resident of Milford, Texas where
he was the original owner and op
erator of Mill Creek Ranch ... re-
tiring 10 years ago.
Mr. Moore was a member of the
Presbyterian Church at Harper,
Texas where funeral services were
held at 2 p.m. Sunday, November
2, 1969. Burial was in the Harper
cemetery, with the Rev. Jame^
Engleman of Schreiner Institute,
and an assistant pastor of the Har-
per Pentecostal Church, officiating
at the last rites.
He is survived by his wife. Ethel
two sons, Andy Moore of Hurley,
N. M. AND R. B. Moore, Jr. of
Milford; three daughters: Mrs. El-
mer F. (Libby) Huffman of Stone-
wall. Texas, Mrs. Mike Leonard
(Millie) of Milford, Texas and
Mrs. Murr (Tay) Hodges of Mil-
ford; a grandson, R. B. (Troy)
Moore in of Milford; two sisters:
Mrs. H. H. Delevan of Fairfield,
Texas and Mrs. Denny Dungan of
Snyder, Texas and a brother, Oscar
Moore of Carrazzo, N. M.
A mixed choir sang two hymns
with Mrs. Dean Hopf accompany-
ing at the organ.
Pallbearers were George A. Gib-
son, Pat Rogers, A. B. Barker, Oli-
ver Moore, Roy Roberts and Dean
Hopf.
Among the relatives attending
the funeral of Mr. Rufus B. (Ruff)
Moore Sunday at the Presbyterian
Church were Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
Moore of Carrazzo, New Mexico;
Mr. and Mrs. Denny Duncan of
Snyder; Mr. and Mrs. Horace Dele-
van of Fairfield, Texas; Andy
Moore of Hurley, New Mexico;
Mrs. Nettie Word of Menard, Mr.
and Mrs. Herbert Williams of Com-
manche; Mr. and Mrs. Horace
Hardin of Milford; Mr. and Mrs.
Oliver Moore of Kerrville. Also
Mr. and Mri Johnson of Kerr-
ville; George Delevan of San An-
tonio; Mrs. Wert Watkins of Big
Lake; Mrs. Fred Nabers of Kerr-
ville, Mr. and Mrs. George Gibson
and daughters of Segovia, Mr. and
Mrs. R. B. Moore Jr. and son, Mr.
and Mrs. Mike Leonard, and Mr.
and Mrs. Murr Hodges all of Mil-
ford; Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Huff-
man of Stonewall and Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Wendel of Fredericksburg.
SUBSCRIBE TO THE HERALD
S3.N P#r Year, 3 Yr*. for $7JI
LIGHTNING BOLT is believed to
have caused the fire Tuesday
night which completely destroyed
the four-room house on the Chas.
Adamek ranch eight miles west of
Harper, just off U. S. 290 opposite
the London FM road intersection.
Above, Deputy Sheriff Victor Har-
per, of Harper (right) points to
some of the charred remains and
contents in the burned-out resi-
dence. Francis J. Walch of Radio
Station KNAF also looks at the
burned-out house. No one was at
home at the time lightning struck
during an intense electrical storm
—Staff photo by N. J. Dietel.
last Tuesday evening, the owner
discovering his loss on Friday
morning. Admaek had not esti-
mated the amount of damage. A
nearby tank house, garage and
barn escaped the blaze.
LIGHTNING BOLT SETS FIRE TO HOUSE
Severe Electric Storm Destroys Ranch
Home Near Harper; Service Disrupted
A severe electric storm, accom-
panied by a heavy downpour of
rain of from three to four inches,
struck the Harper community and
surrounding area on Tuesday night
of last week. A bolt of lightning is
believed to have hit an antenna
that caused the fire which com-
pletely destroyed a four-room
frame ranch home, belonging to
Chas. Adamek. off U. S. 290 eight
miles west of Harrer. No one was
at the house at the time of the
fire. All contents in the home
were a complete loss.
Electric power throughout the
Harper was disrupted when the
intense electric storm prevailed
between 9 and 10 p.m. that night,
creating considerable anxiety. Nu-
merous electrical appliances, re-
frigerators, deep freeze units, and
water well pumps were knocked
out of commission. Deputy Sheriff
Virtor Harper said that four light
bulbs in his home were blown out
and some electric appliances were
out. One resident reported an
electric wall clock knocked down.
Apparently there was no strong
wind accompanying the storm but
the heavy deluge of rain sent
creeks and draws on a rampage.
CTEC MEN CALLED
John Klaemer & Remit Klaer-
ner. employees of Central Texas
Electric Coop, were summoned to
repair an oil circuit breaker on the
main electric line on the Tivydale-
Harper road at about 10 p.m. Tues-
day night.
The electric service to the rural
homes of the Langes and Maurers,
and other residents on that line,
had been knocked out of commis-
sion by the storm. Klaemer said
that after they had repaired the
breaker and restored electric cur-
rent they proceeded on to Harper,
wanting to return to Fredericks-
burg through Harper. High water
at the Pedemales River crossing
near Harper prevented them from
getting to Harper, the flood water
appearing to be several feet high
over the low bridge crossing.
Later that night the water rose
to about the six-foot marker on
the flood guage. This flood mark-
er was finally swept away by the
flood waters. Klaerner said they
were caught between the river and
a creek crossing on the Tivydale
road and could not return to Fred-
ericksburg until about 5:30 the next
morning, spending about six hours
on the road waiting for the flood
to recede.
HOUSE DESTROYED
Deputy Sheriff Harper said that
he had called Rufus Jones with the
State Highway Dept, at Freder-
icksburg, for someone to assist in
placing warning signs on the
roads in the area late Tuesday
night. Highway Patrolman Mickey
Cavaness responded and he and
Harper erected a barricade (high
water warning signs) at the Lon-
don FM road and U. S. 290 inter-
section and at other places . Har-
per said that they erected the bar-
ricade at the London road at about
1 a.m. that night and that they did
not notice anything which would
have indicated a fire at the Ghas.
Adamek ranch house which is lo-
cated on the opposite side of U. S.
290 about a third of a mile away.
Harper said that he believed the
house burned down either between
9:30 p.m. and midnight, or some
time after they erected the barri-
cade on the London road.
The Adamek ranch, is known as
the old Whetstone place and at one
time owned by Elgin Schmidt,
Plummer and Gilmore, of Kerr-
ville. Adamek, who resides in
Kerrville where he has a saddle
and leather shop, visited the ranch
Tuesday and left there that after-
noon. He returned on Friday morn-
ing to discover the house in ruins.
CTEC personnel were called to dis-
connect the electric wires from the
transformer to the house. Adamek
-aid he had some insurance on the
building and contents but did not
know as yet the amount of loss in-
volved.
Harper said that indications
were a bolt of lightning had struck
the TV antenna, causing the ball
of fire to explode the interior of the
house Pieces of the asbestos sid-
ing (shingles) were found off to one
side of the building which had not
been charred or burned while the
rest of the asbestos siding and all
frame work were burned in the ap-
parent intense inferno. AH electri-
cal appliances, household fixtures,
bedding clothing, etc., were des-
troyed by the fire.
HARPER LOCKERS OFFER FREE STORAGE TO FIRST
DEER AND TURKEY BROUGHT IN FIRST DAY
The Harper Lockers. Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Moellendorf, proprie-
tors, offer free storage to the lucky
hunter bringing in the first deer
and the first turkey brought into
their place of business on the first
day of the 1969 hunting season, Sat.
The cold storage plant, only
place of this kind in Harper, has
ice cold vaults large enough to
handle the storage of several hund-
red deer. The plant offers com-
plete processing services, custom
mad#-sausage, hams, bacon, smok-
ed turkey, dried beef jerky, as well
as home made bread, etc.
Harper School
Board Met Nov. 3
The Harper School Board met
Nov. 3, 1969.
The School Boasd wishes to ex-
press their thanks and apprecia-
tion to the students of Harper
School for the neat appearance of
the school grounds following Hallo-
ween night.
The following motions were ap-
proved:
1. To pay the bills per agenda.
2. To put Safety Signs on the
School grounds. One stop sign will
be put at the bus entrance between
the Gym and the Ag. building. One
speed limit sign at the bus entrance
off Highway 290. Two Road Closed
signs at the Cafetorium and at the
corner of Gym.
3. The following textbook com-
mittee was approved: E. D. Hopf,
Harry Sultemeier, Ola Mae Hopf,
Mrs. Elizabeth Schmidt, Edward
M. Bailey, Leon P. Dunn, and Lee
B. Feuge.
4. Uniformed extra curricular bu
bus trips for 1968-69are to be allow
ed paid from the Transportation
Fund. Unencumbered bank bal-
ance in Transportation Fund was
Hunters are invited to uce the
facilities and services of the Har-
per Locker Plant during the hunt-
ing season or at all other times.
For the convenience of hunters
and the gneeral public, the Long-
horn Inn, Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Par-
ker, proprietors, only restaurant in
Harper will be ,open from 7 a.m.
until 10 p.m. during the hunting
season, Nov. 8, 1969, through Jan.
1, 1970. The cafe will be closed,
however, all day on Thanksgiving
Day Nov. 27, and Christmas Day,
Dec. 25.
Clint Brown Soils Ranch
Clint Brown sold his 1280 acre
ranch 12 miles north of Harper to
Dick Hoerster of Fredericksburg.
The ranch sale was consumated in
September. A smaller ranch, about
500 acres at Midway (on the Junc-
tion-Kerrville road, was taken into
trade.
Brown still has part of the old
homestead ranch in the Blue Moun-
tains on the London FM road.
$4858 as of Sept. 1. 1969.
5. Extra-Curricular bus trips are
to be financed by the Transporta-
tion Fund if the event attended re-
quires a school uniform to be worn.
For other trips a minimum charge
for the gas, oil, driver, etc. will be
assessed. This policy is to remain
in force as long as th eTransporta-
tion Fund can allow this expendi-
ture in addition to the regular ex-
pense of transportation.
6. The Board Meetings were
changed from 7:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The next meeting will be Decem-
ber 1, 1969.
INNERSPRING SPECIALISTS.
OLD MATTRESSES MADE NEW,
All work FELTED-ALL work is
guaranteed, MAYFIELD MAT-
TRESS CO. Kerrville, Texas, tf.
/
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Dietel, Norman J. The Harper Herald (Harper, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, November 7, 1969, newspaper, November 7, 1969; Harper, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1057959/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Harper Library.