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Harper, Gillespie County, Texas, Friday, October 25,1946.
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Outlook for Farmers.
Soil Conservation Supervisors Elect Officers
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Farmers are still expected to
repeat all-out production in 1947,
but the Department of Agricul-
ture experts warn that your
cash receipts probably will drop
5%, your net income as much j
as 15%, because of ever mount-
ing costs.
On the other hand non-agricul-
tural income will continue up- |
ward about 10%, with total na- ;
tional income payments of 175
million dollars indicated, as a-
gainst $165 million this year.
Domestic demand will be near
the present level, but exports
may fall off considerably because
of relief slow-down, and rapidly
■ recovering production in other
countries.
An interesting fact brought out
that food costs have risen less
than consumer income, despite
all the CIO and other propagan-
da to the contrary. Even today
consumers are eating 15% more
food than they did in 1935-39,
when it took 23% of their aver-
age income to pay for it. Food
still takes less than 23c out of
each income dollar, and if con-
sumers were satisfied now with
what they ate in those days, it
would cost them only about 18%
of their income.
As to mounting costs, farmers
will pay more for feeds, machin-
ery, equipment, building, materi-
als, fertilizers and other supplies,
together with higher wages. Al-
though more and better farm
help should be available.
No early relief is seen from
shortages of machinery, repair
parts, or building materials. The
same is true of transportation.
There will be more trucks, auto-
mobiles and tires, about the same
amount of fertilizer, plenty of
feed grains, but a scarcity of pro-
tein meals. — Farm Journal.
And So Bill Told Another
His name was not Bill Jones,
but this character did live not
far from Nashville, Tennessee.
He was noted for 'his tall stories
and for the success that he had
in making people believe him at
the time they were told.
Once John and Sally started to
the village to do some shopping.
It was in the horse-and-buggy
days and they were driving their
new rubber-tired buggy. A few
miles from home they met Bill
Jones driving up the hill in a
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Surprise Party
For F. Boatright
Big Game Hunters Bag Thfree Huge Mule
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The Gillespie County Soil Con-; tion Office, Adolph O. Kneese,
servation Supervisors held their j elected chairman; Henry Grote,
:irst meeting and organized their | county agent; Howard H. Goss,
board officials at the A.A.A.
building on Thursday afternoon
last week. Attending the meet-
ing were the group pictured in
the above photo. Reading left
to right, front row: Joseph C.
Hickerson, Local Soil Conserva-
representative State Soil Conser-
vation Board, and Sidney Henke,
Fredericksburg Chamber of Com-
merce secretary-manager.
Reading left to right, rear
row: Arnold , Rode, Herman
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man; Richard Lawrence, elected
secretary; Paul G. Haines, Dept,
of Agriculture, Extension Ser-
vice; Herman Manor, and Wesley
Gold, secretary of the Gillespie
A. C. A.
The next meeting of the board
Weinheimer, elected vice-chair- will be held on Thursday, Oct. 24.
HARPER SCHOOL NEWS
(Note: The Journalism Class
of Harder High School will fur-
nish the school news each week.)
MEET THE SENIORS OF
HARPER HIGH
Name: Richard Harlan.
Age: 17.
Birthday: January 18, 1929.
Place of Birth: Harper. Texas
Color of Hair: Brown.
Color of Eyes: Grey.
Favorite Sport: Football.
Likes: Rodeos.
Dislikes: People who talk too
much.
Intends to Marry: If she has
enough money.
Ambition: To be a Lawyer.
Favorite Subject: Literature.
Favorite Movie Star: Helmut
Dan tine.
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SCHOOL NOTES
Mrs. Bonnie Sheppard, form-
erly Bonnie Mae Bierschwale,
and her husband, Cpl. Harry
two-horse spring wagon. As they ; Sheppard, visited school Tuesday.
Weimar Defeats Harper 44 to 18.
Weimar defeated Harper at
Buda, Friday, October 18, 1946,
44 to 18.
Weimar made most of their
scores the first half. Their
points were made by K. Konz,
their captain.
Harper made three touch-
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GRAMMES SCHOOL NEWS
enrolled in
John Oehler has
the first grade.
Dennis Bernhard was absent
from school Wednesday, due to
illness.
Alfred Kramer cut his foot and
Floyd Boatright was surprised
on his 59th birthday, Oct. 12, at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. H.
Rogers. A birthday cake with
59 candles centered the table.
Those present to enjoy the occa-
sion were: Wiley Boatright and
Mildred Boatright, Mrs. Floyd
Boatright, Mr. and Mrs. Dave
Butler and son, David Wayne,
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Roger and
daughter, Jeanette, Miss Pauline
Greson, William Floyd vJones, C.
Ray Jones, Tom Harlan Sr., Mr.
and Mrs. Tom Harlan Jr., and
sons, Mr. and Mrs. Hiliary Bier-
schwale and J. B. Bierschwale
and Johnnie Bierschwale Jr.
A delicious meal was served
by Mr. and Mrs. Rogers.
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Birthday Party
For Dian Feller
Mr. nd Mrs. Alvin Feller gave
a barbecue dinner Sunday honor-
ing their little daughter, Dian,
in her first birthday. Those who
were present were: Mrs. Christ-
ian Schaefer, Mrs. John Fielder,
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Feller,
Alice and Hubert Feller, Mr. and
Mrs. Arvin Tatsch and son, Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Feller and
children, Mr. and Mrs. Chester
Tatsch and sons, Mr. and Mrs.
Elgin Kramer and children, Mr.
and Mrs. Ervin Kramer and
children, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert
Rahe and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Staudt and son, Mr.
and Mrs. Edmund Fiedler and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Pete
Kramer and son, Mr. and Mrs.
Alfred Kramer, Mr. and Mrs. F.
Gammenthaler, Mr. and Mrs. B.
Gammenthaler, Miss Elizabeth
Gammenthaler, Mr. and Mrs. Ar-
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Reading left to right: Henry j orado, where they bagged the
Cowan, Otto Cowan and Paul! three huge “rnule deer” shown
Hohenberger returned Thursday 1 in the pickup in the above photo,
morning from near Pueblo, Col-1 'i ne large bucks weighed from
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300 to 400 pounds. The deer each
had large sets of horns, as evi-
denced in the photo.
W. Boatright and
Pauline Greeson
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was absent one day.
The third graders received new j nold Markwordt, Mr. and Mrs. E.
readers this week. J Tatsch, Mr. and Mrs. H. Wachals
Bernice Duderstadt was absent | and son, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
passed, John hailed Jones and
asked that he be told a lie.
Bill, strangely grave, replied:
“I haven’t time. Your Uncle Eph
died last night, and I am going
to town for a coffin.” Never stop-
ping, Bill drove right on.
John and Sally stopped, how-
ever, and went into a huddle as
to what they should do. The re-
sult of their consultation was
that they turned around, went j Wednesday,
back home, dressed suitably for j
the occasion and again started j
out—but this time for Uncle
Eph’s home, eight miles distant.
They wondered, of course, if his
death had been sudden and if he
had made a will and what Aunt
Mary would do now. At Uncle
Eph’s house, they tied the horse
and walked sedately up the path
to the porch. At the door stood
Uncle Eph, looking as alive as
ever.
Bill Jones had told another.—
(Southern Agriculturist).
Miss Floyd kas absent from
school Monday because of her
aunt being ill.
The next game for the Harper
Football team will be October 25,
at Cherokee, where they will
play an eleven man game.
Mr. Gill D. McKay, deputy
state school superintendent, and
Mr. Albert Petermann, county
school Superintendent, were here
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downs in the last half and
Weimar to 1 touchdown.
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Pep Squad Goes to Buda
Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock,
thirty-two girls, chaperoned by
Mrs. Fox, Mrs. Groom, and Mrs.
Coplen, left for Buda on Mr.
Robert’s bus to attend the Harp-
er vs. Weimar football game
played at Buda.
The girls are well organized
now except they still do not have
their uniforms. But they expect
to get them soon.
They left in very good spirits,
giving yells and singing for the
“Bobcats” of Harper High
School. They practiced until af-
ter they had eaten supper at
Kyle.
Margaretha Rischner and Ar-
leen Mogford were responsible
for getting everything started
when they arrived at the
grounds about 7:30 p. m.
The pep squad missed the oth-
er cheer leaders, Ona hnd Oma
Maddox, who were not able to
attend the game.
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from school Wednesday.
The first, second, and third
grades are starting on a Christ-
mas program to be given for the
P. T. A. on December 6.
Betty Joy Lennon Mozel Cos-
per, Kenneth Maner, and John-
nie Bierschwale went to the show
during the past week.
The fifth and sixth grade boys
and girls had a baseball game on
Monday. The boys won with a
score of 18 to 1.
The fourth grade regrets very
much that they lost a classmate,
Wanda Richards.
Janice Spaeth was absent from
school Tuesday.
Carolyn Parker spent the week
end at Camp Verde with Mr. and
Mrs. Cecil Bovde.
Bobbie Gibson spent the week-
end at Brady.
Darlene Kramer went to a
birthday party Sunday.
Francis Dittmar had a birth-
day Monday.
Barbara Lennon had a birth-
day picnic Friday evening.
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Liza’s Party Line
Maurer, Mr. and Mrs. Simon
Cosper, E. J. Fiedler and Tommy
Feller and daughter.
There were 2 birthday cakes
baked for the occasion. Little
Diana’s aunts, Mrs. Robt. Lehne
of San Antonio, and Mrs. Paul
Staudt of Harper baked the
cakes. Dian received lots of love-
ly gifts.
Barbecue, potato salad, pickles,
cake, punch, and ice cream were
served.
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NOXVILLE
NEWS
Jo Ann Kinsey,
Antoinette Parker
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Mr. Floyd New of San Antonio
is a guest in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Carlos Parker and fam-
ily.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Parker and
daughter, Carolyn, spent Satur-
day with Mr. and Mrsb. Cecil
Bode and little son, Ronnie, of
Camp Verde. They also visited
with Mr. and Mrs. Jett Parker of
Bandera.
Mr. Fred. Bierschwale spent
Friday night with Vester Parker
and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Haskell Dunn
and son, Mann, of Midland, spent
the week-end with the Walter
Parker family. They also visit-
ed with other friends while they
were here.
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Terminal Leave Pay
Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Oct.
17—Deadline for return of sup-
plemental applicat ons for com-
missions in the Regular Army is
set for midnight, November 30,
according to announcement at
Headquarters Fourth Army to-
day. However, the dead line for
new applications is December 31,
this year, according to the same
notification.
All told 25,000 new officers
will be added to the Regular Ar-
my under the officer increase
authorized by Congress.
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Mrs. A. C. Wendel is visiting
in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Jones at Rocksprings for a
few days.
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Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Parker
visited Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cottle
of Rocksprings over the week-
end.
Wylie Boatright, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Floyd Boatright, and
Mrs. Pauline Greeson, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Biersch-
w7ale, were united in marriage
at the Methodist Church here on
Sunday morning, Oct. 20, at 8:30
a. m.
Rev. B. E. Breihan, pastor of
the Methodist Church, performed
the marriage ceremony.
Reginald McDougall and Miss
Mary Francis Fletcher were the
only attendants. A small group
of relatives and friends witnes-
sed the ceremony. The young
couple left after the ceremony
for a short honeymoon. They
will make their home in Harper.
Mr.Boatright is employed at
Kerrville and Mrs. Boatright is
employed at the Drug Store and
Bus Station here at Harper.
We wish them a long and
happy journey through life.
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. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Hopf were
Kerrville visitors Saturday.
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Harper 6-Man Team Puts Up
Stubborn Fight As Weimar
Wins 44-13 Last Friday
Bureaucracy's Threat
To Liberty
Weimar’s 6-man football team,
which apparently is headed for
the district title, defeated Har-
per’s gridiron machine at Buda
last Friday 44-18. The score, how-
ever, does not indicate the stub-
born resistance and the grand
fight which Harper put up, espec-
ially in the second half of the
game.
According to Coaches "Dean
Hopf, Supt. Fox, and Rex Fox,
the Weimar team found it neces-
sary-for the first time to “kick”
when it was forced to do so on
downs, being unable to budge the
Harper line. This was the first
opponent against which the pow-
erful Weimar backfield was un-
able to make a first down pos-
sible and the first time in num-
erous games that the pigskin was
punted back into Harper terri-
tory.
The score at the end of the
first half was 30-0. During the
second half the Harper team put
forth both a display of defensive
and offensive teamwork which
carried them across the goal line
three times while permitting the
Weimar team to score only twice.
Kenneth Konz, stellar Weimar
fullback who has created a sen-
sation in the entire district, scor-
ed eight extra points for his team
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Top: Special Agent Charles F.
Bullard, FBI, San Antonio, de-
monstrating known techniques
for automobile theft.
Lower left: Special agent in
charge M. W. Acers of the San
piiil
Antonio Field Division, who is
in* charge of the Law Enforce-
ment Conferences.
Lower right: Special agent J.
Peden demonstrating rmo d e r n
judo tactics.
Why was Maggie so blue Fri-
day night? Was it because.
Johnny didn’t go to Buda?
Who was the cute soldier Opal
Mae was talking to in San Mar-
cos?
Felix, were you in a wreck too,
Friday night? Your face look-
ed like it Monday.
Frankie, who was the good
looking guy with you Friday
r.ight?
Ruth seemed to be sick. Inci-
dentally Robert wasn’t on the
bus.
Guess who was on the front
seat with Tony.
We thought Ray was bashful
until Friday night.
Archie, I hear you had a nice
shoulder for a pillow.
Dolly, Don, and Jodie, was it
because you were sleepy in San
Marcos, or was it an Army bus?
Arleen, you must have had a
good time Friday night.
Junior, .that letter you were
talking about Tuesday morning
must have been from P.
The wreck made some of the
girls on Mr. Hopf’s bus nervous.
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Horses Dying Of
Steeping Sickness
In Kerr County
Veterinarians Report First Out-
break In Two Years; Vac-
cination Is Only Pre-
ventative
Address Delivered to the Lions
Club of Harper, Oct. 16th,
by Rev. R. A. Allen■
One of the causes of the Ameri
can Revolution was the number
of government employees sent
by the Tory government of Eng-
land to govern the action of the
Colonists.
Accusing the King personally
of this form of oppression, the
Declaration of Independence stat-
ed: “He has erected a multitude
of new officials and sent hither
swarms to harass our people and
eat ont their sustenance.”
The right of home rule, the
right to govern themselves
through offers of their own
choosing, the right to change
those offers whenever they
should not serve the common in-
terest—these were some of the
reasons for the revolt against
the government of those days.
During the last few years
those same reasons have return-
ed again to menace our freedom.
Again home rule is threatened
in every community and state;
again our right to have our ac-
tions governed by offers of our
own choosing is being outrageous-
ly infringed; again our right to
rid ourselves of uhwanted offi-
cials has been made impossible
to exercise.
And again there are signs of
The total number of Federal
employees in the United States
on April 1, 1943—the latest offi-
cial figures available—not count-
ing the military, is 2,991,327.
The total number of State and
local government employees, in-
cluding school teachers is 3,237,-
000.
More than 48% of our combin-
ed, Federal, State and local gov-
ment employees are at work ad-
ministering the laws of the Cen-
tral Government at Washington.
This is a country which fought
for its freedom from a Govern-
ment that denied the principle
that local affairs should be gov-
erned by local governments con-
sisting of local officials.
There was a time in the mem-
ory of living Americans when
the only contact most persons
had with Federal officials was
when they bought a postage
stamp, saw a United States Mar-
shall ride horseback into town,
or caught a glimpse of a Federal
circuit judge alighting at the
station platform for a short term
of court.
Today, however, Federal Offic-
ials and Federal office-holders are
permanent residents of every city
and county, almost of every
block and township.
There is now hardly a man or
woman bat who must frequently
accomodate his actions to the
by the “drop-kick” route, this be-
ing a revived method of getting
the extra points which has not
been observed often on gridiron
fields for many years,
played a splendid game even
though they were outclassed by
a heavier, more experienced
team.
Harper’s starting line-up in-
cluded Clayton Massey at left
end; Jr. Whitewood, center;
Scotty Kinsey,,right end; Felix
Lang, left half; La Von Parker,
right half; Aubrey Carter, full-
back.
Substitutes who saw action in
the game included: Elbert
Schmidt, Clyde Hagee, Richard
Harlan, Clayton Massey, Forrest
Thurman, Archie Lennon, Ray
Carter and Carroll Walker.
To give the reader a still
further idea as to the strength
of the Weimar team, the Herald
was told that Weimar defeated
the Sweeney, Texas 6-man team
a week previous by a sdore of
26-8. This was the first game
Sweeney had lost in 29 games
played (over a period of the last
three years apparently).
Aubrey Carter and Felix Lange
are reported to have been out-
standing in the game against
Weimar, while all of the boys
Harper Will Pitch 11-Man
Team Against Cherokee
Squad This Friday
Dripping Springs Here Next
Week, November 1st.
Harper will throw a 11-man
football team into play this Fri-
day for the first time in the his-
tory of the school when a picked
team, substitute and coaches,
will journey to Cherokee for a
Supt. Fox this week stated
that other 11-man team games
are being sought for this season,
including perhaps a game at
Fredericksburg with the Hillbil-
ly “B” team and with the John-
son City 11-team if arrangements
can be made.
Next Friday, Nov. 1st., the
game Friday afternoon at 2:30 Dripping Springs six-man foot-
p. m. against a Cherokee eleven. I ball team will come to Harper
Harper’s starting line-up will j for a district event. The visitors
are in tie position with Weimar
include: Ray Carter, left end;
Scotty Kinsey, left tackle; Elbert
Schmidt, left guard; Junior
Whitewood, center; Richard Har-
len, right guard; Clayton Mass-
ey, righttackle; Clyde Hagee,
light end; Carroll Walker, quar-
terback; Lavon Parker and Au-
brey Carter, halfbacks; and Fe-
lix Lange, fullback.
Substitutes will include: Gene
Parker, Archie Lennon, Kenneth
Baethge and Pat Rogers.
a spirit of revolt against a situa-; regulation of some local repre-
Kerrville Mountain Sun. —
Kerr County has had' the first
outbreak of animal sleeping sick-
ness in more than two years, ac-
cording to the veterinarians. The
outbreak, which has been wide-
spread in the State, was first re-
ported at Texas City about two
weeks ago.
David Hill, whose ranch is on
the Harper-Junction Road, re-
ported that two of his horses
had died of the malady last week.
Ernest Love and Dick Burrus, of
the Divide Section, have reported
the loss of animals. Ray Wal-
tion fast becoming intolerable.
When Thomas Jefferson was
President, there was but one Fed-
eral employee for every 5,308
Americans. *
Today there is one Federal em-
ployee for every 45 persons, with-! local interests.
sentative of the strong, central!
ed power in Washington which
which we have allowed to en-
croach upon the rights of States
and communities to govern them-
selves in matters affecting only
out counting the men in uniform.
Figuring the average Amer-
ican family at 4 and one half
persons, this means that one in
every ten families is supported
by the Federal Government, and
help to rule the other nine.
These Federal employees are
not all in Washington. Most of
them are scattered throughout
the states. Less than half were
concerned with the war.
There are 44,000 Federal em-
ployees in the State of Michigan
alone, as compared with 93,000
O.P.A.’s regulations controlling
business transactions fill 5 thick
volumes with 11,000.000.
Even housewives are not im-
mune to the effects of the exten-
sion of Federal power through
the O.P.A.
The regulations proposed to
govern housewives who seek to
for the district honors, neither
having lost a game this season.
Dripping Springs thus far has
won four games in four starts
and defeated Prairie Lee 26-14,
the same team which Harper de-
feated 6-0.
A large crowd of enthusiastic
Harper football fans are expect-
ed to attend the game. The P.
T. A. will sell cold drinks, sand-
wiches, etc., at the game,
G. L Insurance Beneficiaries* and
Payment of Policies ire Devised
All restrictions on the choice
of beneficiaries which were or-
iginally imposed on GI insurance
have been removed by recent -a-
mendments, VA’s insurance ser-
vice reports.
Formally the insured was per-
mitted only to designate benefi-
ciaries who were near relatives.
He now may designate any per-
son or persons, a corporation or
his estate as beneficiary in his
insurance policy.
Payment of the insurance to
beneficiaries also has been lib-
ker, who ranches in the Comfort Michigan State- and local govern-
section, was the first to report1 ment employees — including the
See SLEEPING SICKNESS, pp 4 50,000 engaged in education.
can and preserve food for their | eralized by recent amendments,
familiess fill six newspaper col-1 Insurance maturing on or subse-
umns with technical wordage. | quent to August 1, 1946, can be
It took 500 O.P.A. lawyers in made payable in accordance with
Washington to prepare this agen- the following optional modes of
cie’s maze of regulations.
More than 2,200 more lawyers
have been hired to see that they
settlement:
Option 1. In one lump sum.
Option 2. In equal monthly
See THREAT TO LIBERTY, pp 4 installments of from 36 to 240 in
number, in multiples of 12.
Option 3. In equal monthly
installments for 120 months cer-
tain with such payments contin-
uing during the remaining life-
time of the first beneficiary.
Option 4. As a refund life in-
come in monthly installments
with face value certain, provided
such settlement would not result
in payments over a shorter per-
iod than 120 months.
The new GI insurance amend-
ments do NOT permit beneficia-
ries who were receiving pay-
ments before August 1, 1946, to
change to lump-sum or short-
term of payments.
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Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Granville
and son, Ellis were San Antonio
visitors one day the past week.
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