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There was a time when the
wojrd “planning” was a bad word.
At its best it meant New Deal
and, at its worst, bolshevism.
Yet industry “planned” its manu-
facturing and marketing sched-
ules to the last detail; the arm-
ed1' forces had “plans” for every
conceivable type of warfare,
Planning, after all, meant adapt-
ing suitable means to proper
ends. Yet, as applied to the
Government and the economy, it
was all wrong. A planned econ-
omy was anathema to many.
That is no longer true. Every-
thing now is being planned, with
the large influx of military and
business men into the Govern-
ment. Almost every day some de-
partment or the White House it-
self appoints a new task force
to survey something and come up
with a plan. Then there is Mr.
Planner himself, no less a person
than Herbert Hoover, whose
commission has 20 plans and pub-
lishes one every Monday. Con-
gress gets more plans than it
knows how to handle, if indeed it
wishes to handle them.
Ironically, all this planning
seems at first sight to follow the
doctrine of turning most social
and economic problems back to
private initiative. But, closely
examined, it will be seen to in-
volve governmental action of the
strictest kind, and in the end
may mean real intervention.
A good, nearly disastrous, ex-
ample of this may be found in
the muddle of the polio vaccine.
On April 12, the'Government took
over this vaccine from Dr. Salk
and the polio foundation and li-
censed six drug companies to
produce it. This was handing it
over to private industry, with
only sketchy formulas for test-
ing for safety. At least, that
seems indicated by the results,
which startled and. alarmed the
whole country. There was con-
fusion and delay. In the end,
the Public Health Service had to
companies, with a governmental
supervisor in e^ery factory. And
take complete e oitrol of the drug
fhe same <vill, K%pen in the case
of new vaccines on the way.
In a sense this was lack of
planning in the beginning. The
Government knew a year, ago
that difficult problems would
arise upon the transition from
small to. mass production, and
did nothing about it. Then it
had recourse to private initia-
tive, ending with fiasco, turmoil
and then complete Federal con-
trol.
One wonders if the same will
not happen to the other grand-
iose plans coming from the Hoo-
ver’ Commission and all those
task forces. If TVA, REA and
the big power dams are handed
over to private initiative, and
private industry, uncontrolled,
gouges the public, as seems likely,
will not the Government be forc-
ed by public outcry to impose
even tighter controls than we
have seen? If so, the cycle will
have come full turn. The same
thing has often happened be-
fore. — Wilfrid Parsons.—(Amer
ica).
SUBSCRIPTION SI.50 A YEAR
Rev. Dr J. J. Goeraer To Observe
50th Anniversary Friday Jnly 15
Rev. Dr. W. J. Goerner, pastor
of the St. James Lutheran
Church of Harper, will observe
his 50th Anniversary of his ordi-
nation to the ministry on Sunday,
July 15. Special thanksgiving
services will be held at the
church at 3 o’clock that after-
noon with the Rev. C. N. Roth,
president of the Texas District,
American Luth. Church, and Dr.
A. G. Wiederaenders, professor
of religion and history at Texas
Lutheran College, Seguin, sched-
uled to be guest speaker and lit-
urgist, respectively.
NEW FM ROAD NO. 783 — from
Harper to Doss for a distance
of about seven miles has been
completed and paved. Above
County Commissioner Levi
Rosenbusch of Doss, left, and for-
mer Commissioner Arnold Mark-
wordt, are seen as they survey
the newly completed farm-to-
market road a short distance out
of Harper. The Harper school
and the Harper-Kerrville paved
road are in the distance. Re-
mainder of the unfinished Har-
per-Doss road will come up for
construction later. Work is at
present underway on the comple-
tion of FM Road No. 648 from
— Staff photo
Doss to Hilda, with both con-
tracts having been under the
jurisdiction of the Holland-Paigl
construction firm out of Austin,
(Paving of the Doss-Hilda road
was underway this week and was
expected to be completed bv
Thursday).
Bode Family Observes
Centennial
Approximately 275 descendants
of Robert Bode, a long time re-
sident of Mason County met Sat-
urday and Sunday, July 2 and 3,
for their annual family reunion.
The keynote theme of the cel-
ebration this year was the observ-
ance of the arrival of the Bode
family to this country from Ger-
many in 1855. The history of
the Bode family was portrayed in
a pageant on Saturday night.
The pageant was written by the
Rev. F. W. Radetzky of' Mason
and was directed by Erwin W.
Bode of San Angelo.
Another cherished feature of
the weekend was a tour to ail the
pioneer homesites of the Bode
family. On Sunday afternoon a
memorial service was conducted
with Rev. Radetzky giving the
main address.
The - - unusual- -and •remarkable
thing was, that not a death had
occurred among the descendants
numbering more than 500 in the
last 15 months.
Meals were served on the
grounds.
Little is known of the history
of the Bode family before Robert
Bode sailed to this country a
century ago. In the summer of
1855, Robert Bode, his wife, Jo-
hanna, and infant son, Carl, and
accompanied by Robert’s, parents,
Carl and Charlotte Bode, and his
sister, Agnes, and her husband,
Otto Lange, and their young
daughter, Lucy, set sail from the
province of Silesia, Germany.
On July 26, 1855 they landed at
Indianola, Texas. Among the pos-
sessions that they brought with
them were two iron wheel wa-
gons. At Indianola they bought
a yoke of oxen and started out
in search of their new home in
America. In 1858 they came to
the Llano River and settled at
Castell, Texas. After two or
three years the family moved
nine miles north of Castell to
Mason County, near the moun-
tains later known as “Bode's
Peaks”.
In 1872 after several moves,
the ..family established their final
home about 8 miles northwest of
Castell on Martin’s Creek.
One by one the descendants, in-
cluding seven sons and one
daughter, married and establish-
ed homes of their own within a
radius of four miles from their
parent’s home. All of the sons,
as well as the husband of Amalie.
W, A. Buchholz, followed the oc-
cupation of Robert Bode, then
father, they were all stock-farm
ers.
This settlement of the Bode
families was called Bodeviile,
and today it. still bears that
name. One son of Robert, the
younger, is living. He is Alex- '
ander Bode, age 81, now residing
at Pontotoc, Texas.
UK Meets At
Youth Ceciter duly 14
The Harper Home Demonstra;
tion Club will hold its -regular
meeting at 3 p. m. July 14, at i
the Youth Center.
On the program will be the j ;
County Home Demonstration A-1
gent, Mrs. Douglas Dittmar, who
will speak on and demonstrate
accessories. Roll call will be hek
by having each member preserw^
give a written suggestion for ~
the yearbook. The suggestion's
will be turned over to the pres-
ident.
All ladies of the community
are invited to attend the meet-
ing, at which Mrs. W. E. Fletcher
and Mrs. V. M. Harris will be
hostesses.
DR. W, J. GOERNER
MEN LEAVING FOR
INDUCTION JULY 14
Following is a list of names
of men leaving for induction on
July 14, from the Local Board
No. 50:
From Gillespie County:
Hilmar Weinheimer Jr.
Dayton E. L. Eckhardt
Donald E. Eckhardt.
From Kerr County:
John J. Hyde
Wayne B. Archer
Jerry N. Sanders.
Open house and a reception
will be held in the parish hail
immediately following the ser-
vices, at about 4 p. m. to which
everyone is cordially invited.
Dr. Goerner has been in Har-
per six years. He came to Har
per in February 1949 from Kerr-
ville where he was residing with
his son and family, John, who
NAMES OF Men LEAVING
FOR THEIR PHYSICAL
EXAMINATIONS JULY 14
1 ollowing is a list of names of
men leaving for their physical ex-
amination on July 14, 1955:
From Gillespie County:
Carl J. Alexander.
Dalton A. Duecker.
Edwin W. Eckhardt Jr.
Dudley N. Althaus,
Thomas F. Pape.
Liston Z. Maner.
From Kerr County:
Charles L. Sharp,
Jose Santos Jr.
John N. Powell.
From Llano County:
Thomas A. Forehand.
Hudson L. Long.
Billy D. Flint.
From Kendall County:
Ralph C. Kneupper
Elmer L. Pfeiffer.
Clifton L. Kneuppef.
Marvin L. Seewald.
Robert L. Whitworth.
Glen Green of Kerrville visit-
ed his grandmother, Mrs. Ida
Kneese.
Aitnaal lam
Ini Hilly Sale
The annual Gillespie County
Registered Breeders Association
Ram and Billy Sale will be held
at the Fair Grounds, beginning
at 1 p, m., Saturday with Ed-
win Ahrens acting as auctioneer.
A total of 106 animals, consist-
ing of Dalaine, Correidale, Ram-
bouillet and Suffolk sheep and
Angora billies and does, have
been consigned to the sale.
An inspection committee, head-
ed by Jack Groff, county agent
lor Bandera County, 'checked
over all the animals entered in
the sale. The sale is limited to
yearlings and two-year-olds, with
the exception of stud rams and
billies.
A. A. Welgehausen is chair-
man of the billy committee and
other members are Victor Wen-
del, John A. Dittmar, H. T. Fuchs
and B.W. Fuchs. Edmund J. Fritz
serves as chairman of the ram
committee and members are
Frank Basse, Lonnie Itz and
Francis1 Kott.
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M/Sgt. Arthur C. Allen, grand-
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Rogers,
has been transferred from the
the 55th Wing, Forbes Air Force
Base in Kanses to the Gen Guirer
AFB in French Morrocco, North
Africa. He expects to be over-
seas until about the time of his
separation from the airforce in
October.
RWUIUUS auiVlMEK SCHOOL
ended last Friday at St. An-
thony’s Catholic Church in Har-
per in which more than sixty
young girls and boys of the com-
munity and surrounding area
participated. Photo at top of the
girls students, includes Rev. A.
A. Gitter, at left, and the teach-
ers, Sister Aloysius, left, and
Sister Vincent and Mrs. Alfons
Stehling at right. The boys in
—Staff photo
the various classes are grouped
in the bottom picture. The school
was a. big success with splendid
daily attendance according to
Rev. Gitter, pastor of the church.
Home Demo, Club
Meeting Dates
July 11 at 2 p. in. Pilot Knob
HDC at the home of Mrs. Adolph
Cornehl.
July 12 at 2:30 Town & Coun-
try HDC at Agricultural Build-
ing.
July 13, at 2:30 Willow City
HDC.
July 14, at 3 Harper HDC at.
the Youth Center.
July 14 at 8 St. Mary’s 4-H at
school.
July 15, 2:30 Squaw Creek HDC
at the home of Mrs. Pete Cren-
welge.
Fly fisherman—Did you catch
all those trout with nothing but
worms?
B°y—Oh. no. There was brains
at t’other and of the line.
were residing there at that time
while John was employed at the
Kerrville hospital. Dr. Goerner
was completing his graduate
course with the University of Tex-
as at the time and receiving his
Ph. D. there in 1950. He came to
the United States in August 1948
from Germany where he was in
the Lutheran ministry at Fran-
kenheim, Thuringia, Germany,
during World War II. He had
been in America 35 years prior
to returning to Germany in 1939,
having gone to Germany from
the Virgin Islands where he had
served as minister of a church
there. He also served as pastor
in Canada and in the US prior
to his assignment in the Virgin
Islands.
His wife was the former Fred-
ericke Christine Schilling of
Breklum, Schleswig - Holstein.
They were married at Breklum
in 1905.
Dr. and Mrs. Goerner. have one
daughter and three sons. They
are Miss Elizabeth Goerner, who
is in Federal service in Washing-
ton, D. C.; John Goerner, X-ray
technician at. Robert B. Green
Hospital in San Antonio; Capt.
Herbert Goerner, adjutant at
Bryan Air Force Base Hospital,
and Martin Goerner, personnel of-
ficer of the Bethlehem Steel
Works .at Bethlehem, Pennsy-
lvania.
Dr. Goerner was Prof, and
Dean of Texas Lutheran College
in the Pre-Seminary from 1923-
1929, and head of the Correspond-
ence Department and Instructor
of Education and History on
Southwestern University, George-
town, Texas, in 1929 and 1930
prior to graduate studies in the
University of Texas.
He has also written a number
of books on history, education
and religion. He is a member of
the American Society of Church
Histories, an honor conferred
on him last year, and of the
Moravian Historical Society of
the United States.
Rev. and Mrs. Goerner will
also observe their golden wed-
ding anniversary on this day and
the silver.'-'
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Dittmar—
cut their wedding cake follow-
ing their marriage June 2 at the
home of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Barton Smith at Temple.
Mrs. Dittmar, Gillespie County
Home Demonstration Agent, is
the former Miss Marialyee Smith,
Mr. Dittmar is the son of Mr,
and Mrs. Albert J. Dittmar and
is engaged with, the Farmers
Home Administration in Freder-
icksburg.
Perfect Attendance Pins Jtwarlel To
Six Liens Club Members -Wednesday
son, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Goer-
ner.
TS&GRA Aaxiarj
Met At Harper Scfcocl
Saturday
The Hill Country Chapter' of
the Women’s Auxiliary of the
TS&GRA .held its regular quar-
terly meeting at the Harper
School Saturday,
After the business, meeting re-
freshments were served and a.
film, “The Seven Wonders of
Wool” was shown.
Thirty members and some
guests attended the meeting.
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Mrs. Bob -McEIroy is visiting
her daughter in Kingsville, who
is attending A&I College.
Members of the Harper Lions me rate of $i.uo per month and
1 ’■
at the school building with the
newly elected president, W. A.
Brown, presiding. Perfect at-
tendance pins were presented to
six Harper Lions, namely: Carl
Oehler, Fred Whitewood, Alfred
Spaeth, Floy Bode, immediate
past president Hollan Walker and
president W. A. Brown. These
men had a perfect attendance
record for all Lions Club meet-
ings during the past year.
Miss Janice Spaeth, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Spaeth,
has been selected to represent
Harper as duchess to the court of
Miss Mohair in Kerrville at the
annual Texas Angora Goat Rais-
ers’ Association on August 4.
The Harper Lions Club elected
to continue the assessment of
quarterly dues and instead mem-
bers are allowed to pay semi-
annually international dues, at.
when in attendance. Meals are
approximately $1.00. Members
are urged to be sure to notify
the cooks when not planning to
attend so that charges will not
have to be made for their meal
in the event of their .absence.
SI. Janes W1S
let das Si
The St. James Woman’s Mis-
sionary Society held its regular
meeting June 15 with seventeen
members present.
The meeting opened by singing
'My Church, My Church’.
Mrs. Lee Schmidt conducted
the devotional and quiz. Dr,
Goerner gave the Bible Study.
The meeting closed with tbs
Lord’s Prayer and Doxology.
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL —
at the First Baptist Church in
Harper ended on Friday, June
22, with the above group of child-
ren and several teachers enjoy-
ing the summer school. The en-
rollment was 48 and the average
attendance, 43, according to Rev.
Darwin Brown, pastor.
In the picture, first row, left
to right: Gary Wayhe Strack-
bein, Joe Brent Mains, Wayne
Brown, Sue Cottle, ....
Second row, left to right: Belle
Lew Braun, Linda Harper, David
Harris, Barbara and Jo Ann George
Strackbein, Kay Spencer, Patsy
Bailey, Boyd Harper, Mike Cottle,
Benny Barker.
Third row: Rita Klein, Sharon
Kay Strackbein, Beverly Roberts,
Jeanette Rogers, Nadene Barker,
Shay Frederich, — Coswalt, Kay
Frederich, Mary Molder.
Fourth row: Joe SpencerAJ,
Wayne Lennon, Lukie Mai»<JM
—Staff photQ
Mains, Sandra Cottle,
Bennie Frederich, Sharon Gibson,
Sally Spencer, Martha Mayhugh,
Doris Frederich, Carolyn Lennon,
La Vern Klein, — Molder.
Fifth row: Rev. and Mrs. Dar-
win Brown, Mrs: A. B. Barker,
Lonnie Mayhugh, Barbara Len-
non, Mrs. G. D. Lennon, Mrs. B,
Mayhugh, Mrs. V. M. Harris,
Mrs. Edward Bailey.
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Dietel, Norman J. The Harper Herald (Harper, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 27, Ed. 1 Friday, July 8, 1955, newspaper, July 8, 1955; Harper, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1058062/m1/1/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Harper Library.