The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 6, 1955 Page: 1 of 10
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ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY IN THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. MILK AND HONEY
VOL. 50
Boeme. Kendall County, Texas, Thursday, October 6,1955
No. 43
Everybody Welcome To The 64th., Annual Saengerfest Of The Texanischen
Gebirgs Saengerbund At Boerne October 8th., and 9th.
Louis Willke, Sec-Treas., Louis Bergmann, Pres.; Tillie Rahm,
Vice-Pres; Paul Holekamp, Director; Lester Lohman, Pianist.
PAUL HOLEKAMP, Director
Of Men's Mass-Chorus and Mixed Mass-Chorus
EDWIN S. LYON, Director
Boerne High School Band
Gisila Bauer, Director of-
Ladies Mass-Chorus.
First Concert: Saturday, Oct.
8th., at 8 P. M.
Second Concert: Sunday, Oct.
9th., at 2:30 P. M.
ALLEN L. PEARSON
The many Boerne friends of
the Allen L. Pearson’s will be
sorry to learn of Allen’s death
on Saturday, Oct. 1st., at Long
Beach, Calif.
Interment will take place in
Fort Sam Houston National
Cemetery the latter part of this
week,
Mr, and Mrs. Harry Davis and
children, Diane, Nancy and Hal
and Mr. Otto Schuetz spent a
long week-end at Alpine where
Mr. Schuetz and Harry did a
little hunting. Both were lucky
in getting an antelope.
BAND BIRTHDAY
CALENDAR
The Band mothers are again
sponsoring a complete calendar
of all school events beginning
with January 1956.
The calendar will feature
group pictures of all 13 grades
beginning with the Senior class
and going on down the line to
the young beginners. Birthday
and anniversary may be listed
by paying 25c per name. Orders
are now being taken at $1.00 per
calendar. Order yours now and
help the band.
Mr, and Mrs. F. H. Helm, Jr.
were transacting business in
Uvalde on Wednesday
P. T. A; MEMBERSHIP
DRIVE
The annual membership drive
of the Boerne P. T. A. was con-
cluded October 1. Prizes are to
be awarded to the following
rooms for getting the most
members. First prize: Mrs. Dun-
ning’s sixth grade; Second prize
Mrs. Lattimore’s second grade;
and Third prize, Mrs. Linde-
mann’s first grade. Members
so far this year number 258.
Mrs. ’ Alex Fish, Membership
Chairman, reports this is one of
the largest, if not the largest on
record. To those of you who
haven’t yet joined, it’s not too
late, Let’s really make this a
Banner year. Join now.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
FOR GALA SAENGERFEST
The members of the Boerne
Singing Clubs have worked de-
votedly, for many months, mak-
ing arrangements for the 64th.
Saengerfest of the Texas Hill
Country League, and planning
for the reception and entertain-
ment of the visiting clubs. It
is a difficult undertaking, for
one of the numerically smaller
clubs, to make the multitudi-
nous and necessary preparations
for this large Festival.
The Singers and citizens of
Boerne, have greatly contribu-
ted in past years, to the suc-
cess of the'annual conventions,
of the Saengerbund. The first
Saengerfest was held in Boerne
in 1881, as well as the silver
and golden jubilee conventions.
Boerne, in the heart of the
Hill Country, is a fitting locale,
for the Saengerfest, and a gala
celebration is again anticipated.
Here is the schedule of events
for the two-day Song Festival:
Saturday, October 8th., at
Boerne High School Auditorium.
At 10 A. M.' — Official recep-
tion of visiting clubs.
Information and assignment
of lodging.
Salutation by President of
President, Mr. Louis Bergmann,
County Judge C, G. Newton and
Mayor Burt B. Shepard.
Response by Mr. Robert H.
Tays, President of League.
Main Address by Mr. Egbert
Schweppe.
At 2 P. M. — Assembly in
hall at Boerne Fair Grounds.
Rehearsal of Massed Chor-
uses
At 4 P. M. — Luncheon and
entertainment for Singers and
guests. Master of ceremonies,
Guido E. Ransleben and Mr.
Peter Petraitis, Director.
First Festival Concert. >;•"
At 8 P. M. Dedication of Flags
and Banners.
Dance in the Fair Grounds
Hall at the conclusion of the
program.
Sunday, October 9th. at Fair
Grounds Hall:
At 10 A. M. — Business meet-
ing of delegates of Saengerbund.
3t 2:30 P. M. — Second Fes-
tival Concert.
NORTHEAST 12
BOERNE 6
The Northeast Brahmas de-
feated the Boerne Greyhounds
12-6 here last Friday night. It
was an exciting ball game all
the way. The Greyhounds scor-
ed in the first quarter, -and held
the Brahmas scoreless until late
in the game when they scored
twice for the. win There was
only two minutes left when
Northeast scored their second
TD to go ahead.
Kenneth Herbst shook loose
and ran 50 yards to put Boerne
ahead 6-0. Ehman’s try for
point was wide. In the last quar-
ter, Northeast put together a
70 yard drive, with Jim Day go-
ing over from the 2. The Brah-
mas recovered the following
kickoff on the Greyhound 40
and drove on to score again with
only 2 minutes remaining in the
game. Ronald Wright scored
from the 10. Both tries for
points by Day were no good.
It was a nip and tuck game
the first half. The Greyhounds
held the Brahmas twice inside
their own 5 yard line. A fumble,
intercepted pass, and a penalty
kept the Greyhounds from sus-
taining a scoring drive. It was
Northeast’s strong defense that
held the Greyhounds to no first
downs the second half that made
the difference. Outstanding for
Northeast were John Thurmond,
and Jim Day in the backfield,
and Jimmy Norwood in the line.
For the Greyhounds, standouts
were Kenneth Herbst, John Mc-
Bee on offense, and George
Pierce, Phil Wilson and Bill Eh-
man on defense.
Game statistics were:
Boerne Northeast
5
1st downs
10
138
yards gained
Passes
219
4
attempted
1
1
completed
0
0
intercepted
1
4
punts
1
2
fumbled lost
4
3 for 25
penalties
3 for 35
Playing for the Greyhounds
were:
Ends — George Pierce, Bill
Ehman, Carroll Kneupper.
Tackles — Billy Jonas, Char-
les Huff, Travis Stewart.
Guards — Leonard McBee,
Gordon Ammann, Ray Minor,
John Taylor and Lamar Pfeiffer.
Centers — Phil Wilson, Pat
Dawson.
Backs — Allen Whiting, Ken-
enth Herbst, Chris Wright, John
McBee, Terrell Norris and Cecil
Noah.
This week the Greyhounds
travel to Poteet to play the Po-
teet Aggies. The Aggies have
defeated Nixon and Charlotte,
and have lost to Corrizo Springs
and Pleasanton. They have an
outstanding player in Ralph
Reed, their 185 pound fullback.
Be sure to follow your Grey-
hounds. They need and appre-
ciate vour support.
FREE GATE ON
HOSPITAL DAY
No admission will be charged
at the gate for Hospital Day,
November 5th, at Herff Park.
1 The committees are organized
and working hard to provide
entertainment for the huge
crowd expected to attend, from
the noon barbecue to the gigan-
tic night sfyow,
FAIR FLOAT IN
COMAL FAIR
PARADE
The Kendall County Fair
Float with Queen Maydelle Rat-
liff in the garden swing, made
it’s final appearance of the year
at New Braunfels last Friday
in the Comal County Fair pa-
rade. Large crowds were on
hand to see the parade in which
Boerne Turn Verein with Lucy
Anne Schwarz, and Mary Jane
Esser as Sweetheart of South
Texas Fairs and Stock Shows
also participated. Enjoying lun-
cheon at Hotel Faust were the
following local group, Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Kelly, Mr. and Mrs.
Archie Gerfers, Mrs. Chester
Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Es-
her, Maydelle Ratliff, Mary Jane
Esser, Lucy Anne Schwarz and
Garth Gombert, who were join-
ed by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene R.
Krause and Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
bert Hoese of New Braunfels.
The group later attended the
Fair and races.
Lions Club Doings
Lion Ebensberger proved that
‘‘A bird in the hand is not
worth even one in the bush.”
He shot two doves the other day
and held one in each hand to
show off to Lion Young and
Doc. Gregory. One of the birds
decided to take off and flew
right out of his hand. So old
George made like a bulldozer
and took off through the brush
after it. He cleared a path a
hundred yards wide and a mile
long before he caught‘up to the
dove. Say George, how much do
you charge per acre for clearing
brush ?
Lion Atkinson got optimistic
and supported Baylor against
Maryland last Saturday and it
cost him a dollar. Now Lion
Newton has to buy his coffee.
We wouldn’t suggest that any
of our boys were betting but
Newt has found out that he
can’t win anyhow.
Lion Vadnais fined Lion Pres-
ident Knight for appointing him
Tail-twister two nights in a row.
Poor Jack tried to crawl out of
it, but too late, and Arthur kept
his appointment. He managed
to put the “Late Lion” dunce
hat on Lion Hollon, then on Lion
Hawkins, and finally on Lion
Easley. Rae decided that it was
easier to pay a fine than to wear
the hat.
Lion Becker won the attend-
ance prize but there was only
$1.40 in the kitty, so please don’t
try to smootch coffee off Foster.
You all know by now that you
couldn’t do it anyway.
Lion Knight got after Lion
Shepard for not having the
Cibolo Creek Dam and Lake fix-
ed up to where it will hold wat-
er. Old Burt didn’t seem very
perturbed, however, and Lion
Vadnais pointed out that the
subject will be taken up by the
Chamber of Commerce at their
meeting Thursday night. We
would all like to have something-
done about the lake, if we can
find out just what to do and
then raise the money to do it.
Mr. S. E. Johnson was guest
speaker. He is the U. S. Postal
Director for this whole district,
which includes 441 Post Offices.
His talk was very good and very
informative. It is easy to see
how our mail services goes a
million dollars a day in the red.
It is quite simple. Cost of oper-
ations, help and equipment are
far too high for the price of the
stamps for sending the mail
through. Looks like we should
raise the cost of postage to.
catch up with the times. A
million dollars a day, in the hole,
is costing us tax-payers too
much money.
Next meeting Oct. 18, at the
Elite Cafe. See you all soon.
BOERNE’S OLDEST
CITIZEN PASSES
Marion H. Downey passed
away at his home on Friday,
September 30 after a prolonged
illness.
He had attained the age of
97 years, 1 month and 29 days.
He was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. James H. Downey and one
of twelve children, born on
August 1, 1858 at Logansville,
Tenn.
In 1919 he was united in mar-
riage to Sue Lewis White. After
his retirement from the Missouri
Pacific Lines in 1928 he and
Mrs. Downey moved to Boerne.
Funeral services were held on
Saturday, October 1, at 10:30
A. M. from the Ebensberger
Funeral Home, Dean Speck of
the Church of Christ, San Mar-
cos, officiated. Mr. Downey was
a fine Christian gentleman and
a true neighbor to all.
He is survived by his wife.
Pallbearers were C. C. New-
ton, Max Theis, Jim Campbell,
Wm. Janensch, Udo Harz and
Jake Toepperwein.
Interment was in the Boerne
cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Edmundsoti
and son of Kendalia were visi-
tors in Boerne Tuesday.
Mrs. Earle Gurtler and daugh-
ter, Ann spent a few days with
Mrs. H. A, Miller,
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