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Beneficial Rains Last Week Postpones Jr. Rodeo to June 5
Dem.-Rep. Primary Elections Saturday
To Build A Better World .... Start in Your Own Community!
Weather
HARPER WEATHER
REPORT
By Frank E. Staudt
^ Boosting Harper ^High In The Hills
(USPS 235-780)
A Wonderful Region
April 21____
Hi
...52
Lo Rain
38 .20
April 22____
...48
39
.70
April 23____
...63
39
.35
April 24____
...58
42
.00
April 25____
...82
50
.00
April 26____
...80
40
.00
April 27....
...78
42
.00
^ Best Climate In Texas
Rain during week, 1.25”
Rain during month, 2.00’
Rain during year, 5.55”
VOLUME 67, NO. 17 8Pages Population 383 Altitude 2100 Feet HARPER, GILLESPIE COUNTY, TEXAS 78631 Subscription: $5.00 Per Year, locally; $6.00 outside. 10c Per Copy Friday, April30,1982
Harper items
By RICKIE TATSCH
Phone 864-4107
Mrs. Martha Miller from
Loveland, Colorado, is
making an extended visit
with Mr. and Mrs. Victor
Marschall and Mr. and Mrs.
Chester Itz. They all
ttraveled to Many, Ixmis-
iana, this week to see the
beautiful Hodges Gardens.
Allen Wienecke and Chuck
Coffey were home this
weekend from A&M
Cora Kramer of
Fredericksburg, Christine
Kramer of Harper, and Jean
and Tommy Feller of Del
Rio took a 10-day trip to Las
Vegas, Nev., the Grand Can-
yon, National Forest and
Garden of the Gods in Ari-
zona, and on the way home
the Big Bend National Park
and Langtry, Texas.
Joining them in Las Vegas
for a couple of days last
week were Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert Feller and Herbie of
Harper, Mr. and Mrs.
Clarence Feller of Dallas,
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Feller of
New Iberia, La., and Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Feller from
North Platte, Nebraska. All
report an enjoyable time.
Carrie Tarr and
Marguerite Stevens were in
KerrviHe this week visiting
their aunts, Lydia (Mrs. W.
B.) Brown and Grace
Harper at the Jinx Harts.
Bryan Cosper of Fort
Worth spent the weekend
with his grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. Milton Cosper.
Recent guests in the Regi-
nald McDougall home were
her brother and his wife,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles “Bus-
ter” Gammenthaler of Or-
lando, Fla., Mr. and Mrs.
Robert “Bob” Gammen-
thaler, newlyweds from
Houston, Mr. and Mrs. Karl
Durst, Mr. and Mrs. C. A.
Fowler of San Antonio, and
Mr. and Mrs. Orville Gam-
menthaler of New Braun-
fels. They also joined friends
at the park in honor of the
Florida folks.
Mrs. Mildred Valentine of
Kerrville, who has been
staying with Mr. and Mrs.
Tommy Skipper, is in a San
Antonio hospital.
Mrs. Helen Cosper of New
Iberia, La., is spending
some time with her mother,
Mrs. Alfred Kramer, and
her sister, Mr. and Mrs.
Allen Bridges in Kerrville.
Receiving the rite of
confirmation at the
Lutheran Church last
Sunday were Kenny Bode,
David Feller, Jerry Red-
dick, Donald Wilson, Tyler
Wilke, Tammy Martin,
Jason Wanner and Tracy
Wienecke. Tracy celebrated
with her family, friends and
sponsors at the Parish Hall;
Jason and Tammy were
honored at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Perry Wanner;
Kenny by his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Douglas Bode,
David at the home of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Her-
bert Feller; Jerry by his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
Reddick (who also had a
wedding anniversary);
Donald, who also had a
birthday, by his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Delton Wilson;
and Tyler by his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wilke.
;SUR$CfUfeE TO THE'
HARPER HERALD
Saving is one of the
most important financial
decisions you’ll ever make.
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Rodeo Postponed . . .
. . . Too Much Rain!
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KICKIK TATSCH
The Friendly Sewing
Circle met in the home of
Katie Kramer for their
regular monthly meeting
with 12 members present.
A delicious dinner and
fellowship were enjoyed by
all while quilting a quilt for
the benefit of the club.
Next meeting will be May
27 at her home.
The family of Mr. and
Mrs. Hubert Rahe hosted a
celebration at the Harper
Community Park last
Sunday afternoon in honor
of their parents' 40th
wedding anniversary. A
large number of relatives
and friends attended, i A
picture will follow.)
Other anniversaries this
week are the Francis
Fritzes and the Colan
Barretts. Coming up wlil
be the Milton Kramers.
Birthdays coming up this
week are those of Jane
Bailey, Jean Kensing,
Kerry Feller and Randy
Feller.
Sunday, April 25, the St.
Ann’s Society of St. An-
thony’s Catholic Church
hosted the Deanery
meeting of the Council of
Women. Forty-seven
people attended from the
Fredericksburg, Kerrville,
Doss, Stonewall and
Harper areas.
It began with benedic-
tion in the church at 2 p.m.
with the meeting in the
church hall. Deacon Knopp
of Fredericksburg was
guest speaker.
Afterward, refreshments
were served, hosted by
members of St. Ann’s
Society, including Leola
Kramer, president,
Margaret O’Sullivan,
secretary, and Billie Lang,
treasurer.
Mrs. Nita Bowers and
son from Austin visited
with her brother, Arthur
Iang, Sunday Afternoon.
Ed Myers is in the V. A.
Hospital. Everyone wishes
him a speedy recovery.
Monroe and Billie Lang
spent the Easter weekend
in Pasadena, Texas, with
son, Dale Havell, and
daughter, Karen DeVillier,
and her family, husband
Steve, and children Lisa
and Clint.
A reminder that the
Societies of St. Anthony’s
Catholic Church are
having their first flea
market May 15 at the
church hall. Please watch
for coming advertisement.
BABIES BORN
Their were two girls and
one boy born in Hill Coun-
try Memorial Hospital this
past week. They are;
Mr. and Mrs. Eustoiio
Castillo of Comfort, boy,
April 25, 1982, Jorge Luis
Castillo, 12:45 p.m., 8 lbs. 2'
oz.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Sultemeier of Harper, girl
April 26, 1982, Nicole Ann
Sultemeier, 9:10 a.m., 6
lbs., 9 oz.
Mr. and Mrs. Simon
Marquez of Fredericks-
burg, girl, April 26, 1982,
Linda Marie Marquez,
10:08 a.m., 7 lbs., 3 oz.
Believe it or not!
There was too much rain!
Too much mud!
Consequently, rodeo
committees, chairmen,
executives, Lions Club
sponsoring organization
officials, plus the rodeo
secretary, Mrs. Carolyn
Meeks, all combined their
unanimous decision to post-
pone last Saturday’s sched-
uled 25th Frontier Day
Junior Rodeo until Satur-
day, June 5.
Rain is welcome, always
welcome, especially at this
time when the long dry spell
of the past five months was
beginning to become a
dreaded threat to ranchers,
farmers, gardeners, busi-
ness people alike.
So ... have a little
patience. The rodeo has
been reset for six weeks
from now. The program,
events, barbecue, dance,
everything as had been
scheduled for last Saturday,
will be held on Saturday,
June 5, 1982, beginning at 4
o’clock in the afternoon . . .
providing, of course, that it
does not rain again (too
hard, or too much!).
Rain started falling in and
around Harper last Thurs-
day and continued through
Friday night, bringing as
much as two inches of much-
needed moisture in some
places. The official record-
ing of Frank Staudt, rain
reporter for the community,
showed a total of 1.25 inches
of rain for last week, but
outlying areas and other
regions nearby had more
rain. It was the opinion that
the rodeo arena was too
muddy for Saturday’s pro-
gram.
Rain is always welcome!
You can’t postpone that . . .
you can’t even depend on it
when one would like for it to
rain. But, alas, a rodeo ... it
can be postponed and held at
another time!
Thanks a lot to the powers
that be for the much needed
moisture. Your editor was in
the Big Bend country along
the Texas Rio Grande and
up to Fort Davis where it
had not rained for the past
five months and one could
observe the dry grass every-
where! Let’s hope that
everyone from everywhere
will come and be in Harper
for the Frontier Day Rodeo,
25th consecutive time, with
the Harper Lions Club
sponsoring, on Saturday,
June 5,1982!
Make your plans accord-
ingly!
SPECIAL MEETING OF
HARPER ISD
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
The minutes of a special
meeting on April 23 of the
Harper ISD Board of Trus-
tees are as follows:
Call to order by Dan Cren-
welge, president, at 7:30
p.m.
Roll call by Levi Elle-
bracht, secretary.
Present: Dan Crenwelge,
I^evi Ellebracht, Clifford
Wienecke, Garland Black,
James Colwell, Jim Bob
Stevens, Linda Steckelberg.
Absent: None.
The Harper Board dis-
cussed applications for
superintendent of the Har-
per Schools.
Revival May 2 - 8 at Pentecostal Church
sp
BESCH FAMILY
GOP, Demo primary elections
slated for Saturday
Both Republican and Democratic
Primary Elections will be held this
Saturday throughout the state. Those who
expect to be out of the county on May 1
may take advantage of absentee voting in
the office of County Clerk Doris Lange
during regular hours.
On May 1, polling places for both
primaries will be open from 7 a.m. to 7
p.m.
„ The locations of Republican primary
polling places are (Precinct and Poll):
I 1,12,14 — Althaus Acres Furniture
. j 2 — St. Joseph’s Hall
3,7,11 - Hill Country Buick-Olds
4 — Girl Scout Cabin
5 — Harper School
6 — Stonewall C of C
8 — Willow City School
9 — Doss School
10 — Grapetown School
13 —■ Cherry Mountain School
The locations of Democratic primary
polling places are (Precinct and Poll):
1, 8, 12, 14 — First Baptist Church
Educational Bldg., 107 E. Austin St.
2 — County Court House
3, 7, 10, 11 — Holy Ghost Lutheran
Church Educational Bldg., 115 E. San
Antonio
4, 9, 13 — Zion Lutheran Church
Educational Bldgl, 424 W. Main
5 — Ag. Bldg., Harper School
6 — Stonewall Fire Station
Rev. Carlos Parker,
pastor of the Pentecostal
Church in Harper, an-
nounced this week that
there would be a Revival
at the church starting
Sunday, May 2, and con-
tinuing each night through
Saturday, May 8.
The Besch Family
Gospel Singers will be
featured at the week-long
revival. This group of six
family members have
established an excellent
reputation for their out-
standing revival services
wherever they have ap-
peared.
The program starts each
evening at 7:30 p.m.
A cordial invitation is
extended to each and
everyone to attend.
PECAN GRAFTING
A Pecan Grafting Work-
shop will be held on Monday,
May 3, starting at 5:30 p.m.
at the Kimble County Court-
house in Junction.
Dr. John Lipe, extension
horticulturist, will be here to
demonstrate techniques and
applications concerned with
grafting and budding.
variety show Draws Large Audience SoIht Energy Industry Booming
A gathering upwards of
300 people seemed to enjoy
the variety show Tuesday
night, April 20, sponsored by
the Longhorn Band. As the
name implies, there was a
vast array of talent. Music-
ians, dancers, puppetiers,
singers, and comediennes,
all competing for the three
prizes and the class trophy.
Kitty Harper, respected
ballet teacher, helped many
of her students to an excel-
lent performance of jazz and
ballet dancing. There were
western songs, some written
and sung by the performers
themselves, batons twirled,
horns blown, and even frogs
took their turn on stage.
The Longhorn Band mem-
bers are to be commended
for the responsible leader-
ship and sponsorship shown
in the staging and pacing of
the show, the superb lighting
and stage decorations, even
down to keeping watch over
the younger performers who
were not on stage.
Judges for the occasion
were the highly qualified
Richard West with U.S.A.A.
in computer science who
holds a B.A. in drama
education from St. Mary’s
University, Della Esca-
renno, an organist of high
renown in the San Antonio
Ind. School District, and at
La Trinidad Methodist
Church, who is also librar-
ian at Lanier High School,
and Judy Bowyer, coordi-
nator of community educa-
tion with the Kerrville Ind.
School District.
The third grade won the
class competition with their
rendition of Ding! Dong!
The Witch Is Dead!
First place went to Rox-
anne Esquell who sang with
such a stage presence,
second place to a flowing
pantomime done by Lora
and Jenna Weed, and third
to Dalayna Dykstra with a
piano solo.
The cast and crew of the
award winning one act play
entitled "Sparkin’” did a
tribute to show biz’ in a
snappy song and dance
routine to “There’s No Busi-
ness Like Show Business”,
concluding with a presen-
tation of yellow daisies to
Key Garner, the director of
their play and also coordi-
nator and mistress of cere-
monies of the variety show.
Jill Tubbs was asked to
share the spotlight as she
was choreographer and
devoted much of her time
and talent to the presen-
tation.
These young people seem
aware, as do most of the
people of Harper, of how
Mrs. Garner’s many varied
talents have helped students
toward a real appreciation
of the arts. Her guiding hand
can be heard in the quality
of music her students are
able to bring into being,
whether it be in the compli-
cated harmony of the young
children’s voices that she
carefully trains or the
sensitive tone of the French
horn in the high school band.
Mrs. Garner’s unselfish,
friendly, nature combined
with her varied degrees in
teaching, added to her ex-
perience in many different
areas, all total up to a
distinguished addition to this
teaching staff in Harper’s
school.
“We appreciate her ef-
forts toward the variety
show and its success, but
more, we owe her a great
amount of gratitude for her
concern for and attitude
toward our most cherished
treasure, our children,” said
a spokesman.
Interest Earnings Under Treasurer
Harding Set Record for 1981-1982
AUSTIN — Interest earn-
ings on public funds in the
state of Texas reached a
record high as of March 31,
1982, according to State
Treasurer Warren G. Har-
ding.
From April 1981 through
March 1982, earnings on
public money deposited in
Texas banks totaled
$306,092,907, an increase of
$73 million over the amount
earned from April 1980
through March 1981.
Harding credits the in-
crease to his sound money
management policies as
treasurer. “At the end of
March 1982, 99.3 percent of
all public funds had been
invested,” Harding said.
When Harding took office,
only 80 percent of the state’s
money was earning interest.
Interest earned during
March 1982 alone was
$28,453,900. “My office
earned well over a million
dollars per working day in
March,” Harding said.
Harding was appointed
state treasurer in 1977 by
Governor Dolph Briscoe and
was elected to a four-year
term by a landslide victory
in 1978. He is seeking re-
election in the Democratic
primary May 1.
Approximately 69 percent of Americans read a news-
paper at least once a day.
Camels can go without drinking for as much as eight
weeks in cool weather. After such abstinence, they can
consume as much as a hundred quarts in ten minutes.
As our economy has been
tiptoeing through a downhill
minefield of high interest
rates, inflation, unemploy-
ment, high energy costs and
foreign competition, one
industry has experienced an
annual sales increase of
nearly 40 percent in each of
the last five years.
That industry?
Solar energy.
And while the products
and services of this industry
have been demonstrating
sustained market strength
in both the residential and
the commercial sectors of
the American economy,
these same technologies
have been simply booming
in many foreign markets.
This June, in Houston, the
industry will “strut its
stuff” at an international
renewable energy trade fair
expected to attract thou-
sands of buyers, sellers and
lookers. The Exposition,
sponsored by the U.S.
Department of Commerce
and the American Section of
the International Solar
Energy Society (AS ISES),
will run concurrently with
the American Section’s
annual meeting and Tech-
nical Conference.
The Department of Com-
merce is promoting the
exhibition, called The Re-
newable Challenge, as part
of its Foreign Buyers Pro-
gram through all consulates
and Embassies, thus in-
suring the international
flavor of the event. Already
some 100 nations have
responded and over 1000 for-
eign buyers are expected.
The conference and
exhibition is called a
“renewable challenge”
partly because of what Lee
Salmon cGls the “benign
neglect” of the federal
government. Salmon is the
executive director of
AS ISES, the nation’s
largest association of solar
professionals. He points out
that although the industry’s
"health is good and its
future exceedingly bright”,
the elimination of most of
the U.S. Government’s solar
programs has deprived the
industry of needed research
and market stimulation.
The “challenge” is to
continue market growth
without the kinds of subsi-
dies afforded other energy
industries. Most solar
practitioners are confident
this challenge will be met.
And a few actually regard
the withering of government
participation as a positive
sign. As one Texas manu-
facturer put it, “Too much
federal money was going to
re-invent the wheel. We
know what works and how to
build it. The problem is high
interest rates.”
However, renewable
energy technologies, in-
cluding solar, wind and
weatherization, are proving
to be growth industries in
the residential sector in
spite of those inflated in-
terest rates; the use of
alcohol fuels for agricultural
purposes is reducing the
farmer’s energy costs, as
well as enhancing America’s
overall energy picture;
privately-financed photo-
voltaic (solar electric cell)
homes are beginning to ap-
pear on the market; and
small hydro-power projects
are popping up around the
nation like bluebonnets on a
Texas hillside.
Some of these technolo-
gies, such as Passive solar
architecture, have been in
continuous use throughout
the world for over 2,000
years, and solar hot water
systems have been used in
this country for nearly a
hundred years. (Other tech-
nologies are being developed
and market tested today.)
All will be on display .at
the Albert Thomas Conven-
tion and Exhibit Center in
Houston this June 1-5. Long
time solar experts say it will
be the most extensive array
of renewable technologies in
the history of the United
States.
The nearly 300 exhibitors
will feature displays of low
and moderate cost solar and
wind devices; solar thermal
systems for oil recovery,
food processing, power
generation and desalination;
photovoltaics for tele-com-
munications, water-
pumping and rural electrifi-
cation; and an almost end-
less selection of solar hot
water systems.
There will also be exhibits
on solar refrigeration;
thermal walls; green-
houses; computerized
controls; screens, shades,
shutters, and awnings; and
a bazaar of pumps, collec-
tors, meters, panels, valves,
and the other wares of the
solar industry.
With an emphasis on ‘
agriculture, solar cooling,
and trade within the Ameri-
cas, the exhibition, and the
conference, are designed to
be the latest in the state of
the art technology and
market development.
The conference sessions
and workshops will address
solar design for industry;
wind for the home and
farm; oil from plants; small
scale alcohol production;
profit from exporting; solar
utilities; marketing, mort-
gages and sales; the
economics and politics of
energy; and a variety of
other topics.
THE RENEWABLE
CHALLENGE is not only a
look at the current solar
market, but is also a door
wide open to the future. As
the Solar Society’s Salmon
boasts, “The long-run eco-
nomics are with us.”
For more information
(when available) on “The
Renewable Challenge”,
write to American Section of
ISES, RIAT, U.S. Hwy. 190
West, Killeen, TX 76541.
FREDERICKSBURG
WEATHER REPORT
By Norman J. Dietel,
Observer
Hi Lo Rain
April 21........55 48 .12
April 22........52 45 1.20
April 23........63 44 .23
April 24........59 46 .32
April 25........85 55 .00
April 26........81 50 .00
April 27........78 53 .00
Rain the past week totaled
1.75 inches; total rain to
date this month, 4.17, total
rain to date this year, 6.72
inches.
A high of 85 degrees was
recorded for Sunday, April
25; a low of 44 degrees was
registered for Friday
morning, April 23.
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