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VOLUME 31, NO. 33.
Harper, Gillespie County, Texas, Friday, August M, 1946.
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Property Owners Will Cooperate
Jobs Go A-Begging
Estimates are that 2,000,000
jobs go a-begging in the unned
States.
The jobs are there; the work-1
ers do not apply.
One hears that veterans who
want to work cannot find jobs;
yet here are jobs that cannot
find veterans or any other
workers.
Something is decidedly twisted
in all this.
Screwy is a better word for it.
One explanation is that some
workers and veterans have too
much money in their pockets and
therefore they will not take jobs.
Since when does an American
refuse to earn money because he
has some?
What has happened to the
American concept of thrift, of
progress, of advancement?
Another explanation is that
lots of boys and girls, back from
the wars, find actual work on
the job irksome. They require
a longer period of readjustment.
All the hospitals are short of
nurses; yet thousand of nurses
have been released by the army
and the navy. Where have they
disappeared to? They cannot all
have married? And is it pos-
sible that all those who have
married are so well off that they
do not need jobs?
The fact is that even the army
and navy and veteran hospitals
are short of nurses.
The jobs go begging with no
one to fill them.
Miners, particularly in the
West, are scarce. There is good
pay in mining. And there was
no such scarcity before the war.
What makes them scarce now?
And industrialists complain
about another thing: They can-
not get the work out of a man
as they used to. Wages are up;
efficiency is down. Costs are up;
production per man-hour is
down. How come?
We do not know the answer.
It seems that nobody knows
the precise answer to the puzzle.
But it is a very serious one
for the United States. During
the war we built veritable cities
all over the world. American
production won the war by its
startling efficiency. Today, a
year later, try to build some-
thing! Try to get lumber or
hardware. Try to get the work-
ers.
We produced tanks, cars,
ships, airplanes in a profusion
heretofore unknown. Try to get
an ordinary automobile today.
It is not there because it is not
being made. And it is not being
made because labor is both short
end inefficient. .
At first, the strikes cut pro-
duction,
But there are no widespread
strikes now.
Yet, production does not move
with even depression days’ rap-
idity. Government statistics
show great progress in produc-
tion. But we are not interested
in statistics, we want to see
automobiles; we want to build
houses and garages; we want re-
frigerators. We want to buy
things. <•
We want to maintain the Amer-
ican standard of living.
It may be an accident that
around 2,000,000 jobs cannot be
filled. It may be postwar fatigue.
It may be postwar let-down.
If so, it will pass soon.
But if this condition prolongs
itself, we must make sure that
nobody planned it that way.
We must make sure that no
group, no influence is keeping
American production down with
some sinister objective.
We must make sure.
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Barbecue Dinner at
J. M. Stevens
WILL OPEN SEPTEMBER 3
M. Lang Injured
Him 500 Yards
During the past year interested persons and
members ol the Harper Lions Club have investigated
the possibility of securing aid from the Texas State
Highway Department for the paving of the highway f(S If Of 86 0f3f?S
(Main Street) through Harper from curb to curb.
Several years ago, when the highway department
juilt the splendid paved road through Harper, Fred-
ericksburg to Harper (which is U. S. highway No.
290 . . . Houston to El Paso), the impression was
given that sooner or later the road would be paved
from curb to curb, within the Harper community.
This paving project can become a reality, it has
been divulged in a letter recently submitted by D. C.
Greer, state highway engineer, to Senator Penrose
Metcalfe, who took up the cause and presented the
question to the highway department.
However, the only manner in which this paving
project apparently, can be realized is if the property
owners themselves, whose property faces either side
of Main Street in Harper, will erect a substantial
cement curbing. The cost of constructing such a
curbing, would, undoubtedly, increase the value of
all property along Harper’s Main Street. \ -
The letters, as written by Senator Metcalfe to
Mr. Greer, state highway engineer, and the reply, are
in themselves self-explanatory, and we take the
liberty of reproducing them herewith with the sincere
hope and confidence that this proposed project for
the betterment of the Harper community will be
realized in the not too distant future:
Faculty Has Been Completed For
1946-’47 Term
Gillespie Watermelons
A barbecue dinner was given
at the J. M. Stevens ranch on
Sunday honoring Mr. and Mrs.
Murray Hurd of Rockport, Miss.,
who has been visiting at the
Stevens’ ranch.
Those enjoying the occasion
included Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Ste-
vens, Miss Mamie Dell Stevens,
George Delevan, Mr. and Mrs.
Dick Delevan and daughter, all
of San Antonio; Mr. and Mrs.
Reuben Bode, Mr. and Mrs. L. A.
Stevens and Miss Mary Virginia
Stevens, Mr. and Mrs. Belmore
Roberts, Kenneth Parker, Regin-
al McDougall, Otho Delevan and
a friend from Llano; and Mr.
Mrs. Marschall Stevens of Vict-
oria.
The hostesses served barbecued
mutton, broiled steaks, and bar-
becued chicken, salads, pickles,
bread, cake and iced tea.
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Miss Martha Rose Baumann
and Junior Baumann spent sev-
eral days visiting Rev. Hubert
Baumann at Columbus, and Mr.
and Mrs. Fritzie Baumann and
baby at Blessing.
July 20, 1946.
Mr. Dewitt C. Greer,
State Highway Engineer,
Austin, Texas.
Dear Sir and Friend:
Recently when I was in Harper, Texas, I discussed with
some of the people there their situation relative to widening
and curbing U. S. Highway 290 through their city.
I am further advised by them that your District En-
gineer, Mr. Manigault, had advised them some time ago that
funds had been set aside for this purpose but that the labor
shortage had held it up. This was, I believe, in 1944.
Please advise me, at your earliest convenience, the status
of this project. It appears to come well within the program
which you have advised me heretofore is contemplated by
your Department. Also please send copy of your reply to
me to E. Dean Hop and Frank E. Staudt, Harper, Texas.
Sincerely your friend,
Penrose B. Metcalfe
TEXAS HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
Austin 26, Texas
July 23, 1946
Honorable Penrose B. Metcalfe
State Senator
San Angelo, Texas
My dear Senator:
With reference to your letter of July 20 regarding im-
provements of U. S. Highway 290 through the City of Harper,
I wish to advise that the Department has no immediate plans
for further improvements of the highway in this locality.
It is my understanding that Mr. Manigault, who was
District Engineer in 1944, did make certain commitments in
regard to the widening of the highway through Harper on
a cooperative basis whereby the City would stand the cost
of widening beyond the limits of the needed highway facility.
The general policy of the Highway Commission as con-
tained in Minute Order No. 20264, dated October 6, 1943,
provides for cooperative projects for widening pavements in
cities and towns whereby the Department bears the cost of
additional pavement widening between curbs and the City or
town provides curb, gutters, drainage and other required im-
provements behind the curb lines. On this policy the Com-
mission stands ready to provide its share of funds upon
completion of the necessary agreements with the City or town.
Trusting this furnishes the information desired, and with
best personal regards, I am
Sincerely yours,
D. C. Greer
State Highway Engineer
Monroe Lang, son of Arthur
Lang of Harper, was seriously in-
jured on Monday morning of last
week when he was dragged, at
the end of a cowboys’ rope, foi
about 500 yards over rough
ranch country. Monroe, who has
been working on a ranch about
50 miles out of Sonora, Texas,
since he was discharged from
Navy service some time ago, sus-
tained sever body bruises, cuts,
etc., but fortunately suffered no
broken bones.
According to friends of Lang
from the Harper community, who
happened to be in Sonora on
Tuesday of last week for a fire-
man’s convention^ Lang had rop-
ed a goat near the ranch home
where he was working. After
doctoring the goat and releasing
it, his horse suddenly started
running away, one end of the
rope being tied to the saddle.
The other end of the rope
caught Lang around the foot,
threw him to the ground and,
the horse ran wildly around,
;ausing him to strike against
tree stumps, rocks, etc. A lady
at the house attempted to stop
die horse and finally succeeded
in bringing the animal to a halt
after it had dragged Lang around
the place. Monroe managed to
keep his face and head up and
was not injured about the head,
although he was completely ex-
hausted and badly bruised and
cut up about his arms, legs, and
body.
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Arnold Markwordt* &
Airs. Anna Tatsch
United in Marriage
Mrs. Anna Tatsch and Arnold
Markwordt of Harper were unit-
ed in marriage on Saturday night
at St. Anthony’s Rectory in Har-
per. Rev. A. A. Gitter, pastor
of the church, read the marriage
lines.
Attendants were Mr. and Mrs.
Oscar Fiedler, ji
The Herald joins their many
friends in extending best wishes.
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Gillespie Comity
Men Discharged
From Service
The Harper school will start
its 1946-47 school term on Tues-
day, September 3. The faculty
is complete for the year, and will
consist of the following teachers:
Neal B. Fox, superintendent; E.
Dean Hopf, Vocational Agricul-
ture; Mrs. Cora Copien, English;
Mrs. Joe Croom, Homemaking
and Science; Phil Rogers, High
School principal, Social Science;
Miss Frances Floyd, Business Ad-
ministration; Mrs. Kathryn And-
eregg, first grade and part of
second grade; Mrs. Neal B. Fox,
Grammar School Principal, third
grade and part of the second
grade; Mrs. Etna Thurman,
fourth grade and part of fifth
grade; Miss Evelyn Honig, sixth
grade and part of the fifth grade.
Mr. Rogers and Miss Honig
will be new teachers for the
year, but not new to Harper
school and community. The
eighth grade work will be divid-
ed among the High School teach-
ers, and will become a part of
the high school student body.
Everything points toward this
being the best school year that
Harper has ever had. Each per-
ent and patron is urged to help
make it such, as it is only with
your effort that we may have
such a school, so feel free to
come to the school and talk ov-
er your children’s problems with
us. Also visit when you can, as
this proves that you are inter-
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Mrs. V. O. Copple returned
home the past week from a visit
to her daughter, Mrs. H. L. Spen-
cer at Liberty Hill.
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Mr. and Mrs. Clarence McDou-
gall and children spent the week-
end here with relatives.
Harper Baseball Team At
Sisterdale Sunday
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Mr. and Mrs. Belmore Roberts!
received a letter from Lamar I
Parker, who is stationed at Kelly
Field, and he states that he will
probably have a chance to go to
the Technical Aerial Photograph
School in Colorado.
The Harper baseball team will
motor to Sisterdale Sunday after-
noon to engage the Sisterdale
team on their home diamond.
The game is scheduled to be un-
derway at 3 pr 3:30 p. m.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Wedekind
and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Senney of
Bracketville visited relatives and
attended the Gillespie County
Fair during the week-end.
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L. L. Evans of the Eckert com-
munity, showed fifteen large
watermelons grown at his place
which averaged from 75 to 85
rounds each at the 58th
Gillespie County Fair held last
week. A group of fair
visitors inspecting the melons
were, reading left to right: Post-
master Frank Staudt of Harper;
Arno Rode and Emil Mund of
Doss; young man second from
left is unidentified, and, left
Bruno Reeh. —Photo by
Harry Knapp, MacDonald Studio
Harper Girls Win Again
The Harper girls’ softball team
won two more games last week.
On Thursday night the girls de-
feated KIM at Seipp s ball park,
Fredericksburg by a score of 14-
3, and on Friday night the team
won over E S S K A Y, also at
ested in your child and commu- Seipp’s, in a hotly contested game
(See SCHOOL OPENS Page 4) by a 21-17 count-
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Herald Printers Spill Forms
District Court Convened
For Regular Term Monday
Petit
Jurors To Be Summoned
Next Monday
You can blame this on the
Herald printers, but indirectely
the paper shortage is to blame:
Last week, when the publisher
was getting ready to print the
Harper Herald, just a little earl
ier than usual, on Thursday
afternoon, the assistants helping
in our printing department
“spilled” two complete page
forms, pages two and three. Us-
ing th(e newspaper fraternity’s
expression, the forms were
“pied”, and that to the printer,
is no PIE!
Due to the critical newsprint
shortage, at least in the size
which has been used for years
in printing the Herald, the editor
resorted to using a paper which
was smaller in size, necessitat-
ing a change in the lock-up and
page forms.
In rearranging the lock-up, so
as to accomodate the forms for
the smaller size newsprint, one
of the assistants failed to replace
a portion of the page forms
(binding unit) which held the
steel chase together at the cen-
ter. While attempting to lift the
heavy forms from the granite
composing tables to the press,
the two printers were mortified
(perhaps stupified) as they sud-
denly saw an entire days’ work
fall out of the steel chase onto
the floor. It wasn’t funny, yet
aid create a humorous situation
for bystanders!
This was the!first time, in the
history of the publishers’ exper-
ience, that a page, or two, as it
was in this case, were “pied”. As
often as we had talked about it,
yet never before had such an un-
See FORMS SPILLED Page 4)
The fall term of District Court
for Gillespie County convened in
regular session on Monday morn-
ing with district judge Raymond
Gray presiding and all other
officers of the court present. All
of the sixteen men summoned
for grand jury service had ap-
peared and the first twelve men
on the list were sworn in as
jurors for this term, they being:
Martin Dittmar, Harry Jordan,
August H. Land, Henry Feller,
Sylvester Crenwelge, Alvin J.
Stahl, Albert H. Jost, Otto
Grona, Edgar Ahrens, Alfred
Kusenberger, Fitzhugh Lee and
Francis Merz. Mr. Lee was ap-
pointed foreman and Chas. H.
Enderlin and Nace Felps were
appointed as bailiffs.
At the time of this writing the
grand jury had returned ne bills
of indictment, up to Tuesday
night, according to District Clerk
E. L. Schmidt.
The Criminal Docket was set
for next Monday, August 26, and
a list of the Petit Jury to be
summoned included the follow-
ing names:
PETIT JURORS
First Week: Alvin Pehl, Alex
A. Knopp, Elmo Baethge, Walter
Crenwelge, V. A. Cottle, Eli Rode,
Elgin Dittmar, Henry Becker,
Hilmar J. Lott, August Ahrens,
Gus. A. Wahrmund, Edgar Beyer,
Walter Doebbler, Edwin S. F.
Behrens, Alvin Hohenberger.
Louis P. Kunz, Albert F. Elle-
bracht, Alex Behrends, Emil A.
Tatsch, Albert Helmers, Fred
Bierschwale, Earl Brehmer, Er-
win Lindig, Chas. Ernst, Edwin
Dittmar, Alvin Ransleben, Elgin
Crenwelge, Armand Koennecke,
Edgar Feuge, Floy Bode, Harry
Danz, Johnny Evers.
Harry Hopf, Benno Engel,
Arthur Borchers, Otto Baumann,
Archie Brodie, Udo Kusenberger,
Edgar A. Gold, Felix Kuhlmann.
Cases disposed by the court
during the first two days, Mon-
day and Tuesday, were as fol-
lows:
McClaferty heirs vs. Arthur
Kramer and Eddie Kramer. Debt
and foreclosure. Dismissed at
cost of plaintiff.
Celestina Meza vs. Inez Meza.
Dismissed at plaintiffs cost.
Chester Bowles, administrator,
(See DISTRICT COURT Page 4)
The following group of Gilles
pie County servicemen have re-
ceived their honorable discharge
from the army and navy since
the last report published in the
Radio Post recently:
From the Army:
Wilson Mitchell
Chester F. Wallendorf
Arthur H. Jung
Discharged from Navy:
Joachim C. Moellendorf
Harvey H. Rusche
Rubin L. Weiss.
Sixteen Texas Boys Win Opportunity for Education
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FRANK CLELAND
Genoa
JOHN HUNT
Fort Worth
CARL KING, JR.
Dallas
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JIMMY MORROW
Graford
HAROLD MUELLER
Brenham
U.S.
ARMY
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fim'profession now
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Mrs. Ida Smith Honored
With Birthday Party
Mrs. S. S. Stewart and Mrs.
Floyd Boatright were co-hostess-
es to a surprise party last Wed-
nesday evening honoring Mrs.
Ida Smith on her 67th birthday
anniversary at her home. Thir-
teen of her friends and neigh-
bors met at Mrs. S. S. Stewart
and went in a group to her
home singing Happy Birthday To
You, Dear Ida. The honoree re-
ceived a lot of useful and pretty
gifts and the hostesses served
sandwiches, cookies, lemonade,
andMce tea.
Sixteen honor graduates of Texas high schools, repre-
senting every section of the1 State, will enter Texas
A. & M. College in September as the first winners in a
new major scholarships program. The scholarships,
known as “Opportunity Awards/’ are designed to offer
outstanding Texas boys who would otherwise be unable
to attend college an opportunity to secure an education.
The program is sponsored by the Texas A. & M. Col-
lege Development Fund, a joint organization estab-
lished by the College, its former students and its
friends. Ten of the awards were underwritten by the
Association of Former Students through gifts of
A. & M. men, one by A. F. Mitchell of Corsicana, chair-
man of the Development Fund board, and five, for boys
majoring in Agriculture, were financed through a gift
from Mr. and Mrs. Jesse H. Jones.
Winners in a statewide competition each year receive
scholarships which pay $200 to $300 per year through-
out their college careers, plus an opportunity to earn
additional money at student jobs.
Selected on the basis of scholarship, leadership and
character, the first year’s winners of Opportunity
Awards were: Franklin Cleland of Genoa, John Hunt
of Fort Worth, Carl King, Jr., of Dallas, Jimmy Mor-
row of Graford, Harry Mueller of Brenham, Lannon
Stafford of San Antonio, Joe Mullins of Carrizo Springs,
Vernon Porter of Italy, Royce McClure of Dallas, John
Taylor of Rotan and Joe Zumwalt of Hallettsville.
The Jones Scholarship winners were Humberto
Reyes of Berclair, Bobby Bland of Merkel, Robert
Williams of Waco, Henry Simpson of Dallas and James
Robert:on of Plainview.
Highest scholastic average in the group was a four-
year grade average of 97.64, lowest was 93.57. All had
held responsible class or school offices and had excelled
in some extra-curricular activity. All had excellent
records of earnings through after-school and summer
work.
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San Antonio
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Carrizo Springs
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Waco
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HENRY SIMPSON
Dallas
JAMES ROBERTSON
Plainview
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