Hondo Anvil Herald (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 86, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 7, 1974 Page: 4 of 16
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Page 4, Hondo Anvil Herald, Itoe., Nnr. 7. If74
D'HANIS NEWS
All shm wrotm
Mrs. Lawrence Carle visit* several days last wot in
ed M&M Martin Knippa dn Austin witn her grandchild-
M&M Pat Ney and Nicole ren> Mike and Jane
last Wednesday in San Kuehne, while their parents
Antonio. M&M James Kuehne were
On Friday a group of on a 5<lay holiday in
ladies from D Hams and Jamaica. James was award-
Hondo attended a covered gj ^hfe trip as a l^n*'l>r for
dish luncheon at the home Tappan Air Conditioners,
of Mrs. Minnie Rahin and sponsors of the trip,
her daughter Leona Barry
in San Antonio. Those m&M William Wauson
present were Della Tondre, arMj their guests, M&M
Sylvia Mueller, Cora Rothe, David Dunlap of Corpus
Alice Koch, Alma Carle, chirsti spent the weekend
Melvera Carle, Hattie Rein- with relatives. Saturday, a
hart, Josie Finger, Sara
LOCAL WOMEN
ATTEND WORKSHOP
Mrs. Clarence Blount
and her daughter, Mrs. J.
M. Drinkwater (Carole) and
bar son. Drew, of North
Little Rock are spending
this week as the house-
guests of Mrs. Matt Koch
Sr. and are visiting numer-
ous relatives and friends.
M&M Bernard Koch and
family of Winnie returned
to their home after spend-
ing the weekend in D’Hams
and enjoying the Home-
coming Activities.
Billy A. Harrell, Hondo certified condm
High School Band Director, teachers of ban
was (me of 72 new members aim .is to adi
from throughout the Unit- improve this
ed States to be elected to phase of mask i
membership in the Ameri- particularly inst
can School Band Directors students engagi
Association at the Annual study of band i*
Convention held in Port- It is the earnest
land. Oregon, last August, the Assocmtiui
Harrell was one of two ate with school a
new members from Texas, five ofErials and
The organization is com- al organizations
prised of professionally a rewarding ezpi
trained, experienced and aR students off ins
music.
ssssssssassassaga
OUIHI
BUN CLUB
Dance
TEXAS
TOP
HANDS
Engagement
announced
Three representatives of
Bethlehem Lutheran
Church attended the Fall
Workshop for officers of
the American Lutheran
Church Women held at
Trinity Lutheran Church in
San Antonio. They were
Mrs. Melvin Dittmar, presi-
dent; Mrs. Milton Poehler,
Sec. of Education; and
Mrs. Rudy Proctor who
served as alternate for Mrs.
Travis Fowler, Sec. of
Stewardship.
Several women from St.
Paul Lutheran, Hondo, and
Zion Lutheran, Castroville,
also attended the workshop
which is held each fall to
acquaint new and returning
officers of the ALCW with
their roles and with the
Bible Study for the coming
year.
(Me offkisl auys the jr. highs "hope degenerated into
Ay high schools mmd the current grouping of
hSthASthgmders mo longer makes sense academically
■ socialy. Tlnnlifc —ling starts at this level."
Desegregation is amther touchy subject with for A
IfiddL schools” [sack as McDowell in Hondo!) are
I inf IH /bar, to include grades AS or 7-9 only.
Abo proposed is the lowering of mandatory school age
am 17 to 14. Another “lowering would be the
tpiteeacher ratio to Haims of 15 to 25.
Horn tames do change - hopefully, for the better. I
mnwltrr toning taught 37 rural school pupils,
presenting fax grades, in one school room, with
wu uirntnu sir cowditmming in the summer and one
mpemmeutml stove in the winter that smoked more than
heated, tern backets of water (one for the boys, one for
te girts each with one rusting tia dipper, which the
mstees considered "sanitary enough’"). Somehow we
ode it through the entire term without feeling
nudes piiudeged" end l think ua might even hatre learned
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh
Holloway Meyer announce
the engagement of their
daughter, Mary Clara, to
Frederick Peter Doubet,
Captain, United States Air
Force, son of Mrs. Harold
Frederick Doubet and the
late Harold Frederick Dou-
bet, of Peoria. Illinois.
The bride elect attended
Hondo High School, South-
west Texas University in
San Marcos and St. Mary’s
University in San Antonio.
Her fiance is a graduate
of Bradley University in
Peoria. Illinois.
The wedding is planned
for December 28, 1974, at
St. John’s Catholic Church
in Hondo.
TULSA - Gordon W.
Weynand, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Richard H. Weynand
of 2413 St. Anthony, San
Antonio, is the recipient of
a scholarship award from
the Society of Exploration
Geophysicists Foundation
of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Weynand "s scholarship
award, announced today by
G. L. Scott, chairman of the
SEG Foundation Scholar-
ship Committee, was made
possible by a gift from
Texas Instruments Incor-
porated of Dallas. It is one
of 59. awards totaling
$38,275 made by the SEG
Foundation for the aca-
demic year to outstanding
sudents majoring in geo-
physics or related fields.
Weynand is a senior in
geophysics at Texas A&M
University in College Sta-
i tion. He is a graduate of
9 PM to I AM
MEMBERS & GUESTS
Mrs. Mary L. Potter of in this
Central Village. Conn.. Ok
announces the engagement ant ite
of her daughter. Major advise
Janet E. Potter of San
Antonio, to Mr. James W. When
Honig. son of Mr. and Mis. iMmwi
William A. Honig of collect!
Hondo. Major Potter is the you do
T . a daughter of the late Benja- compai
Two students
ore pledges
TURKE
wflUbaat
DAN’S DRUG
Hondo
TUES.NOV.lt
HaLto. to n aua
With purchase of any Gas
or Electric Range purchased
before Thanksgiving.
36 In GAS RANGES
*189.95
GE ELECTRIC RANGES
*218.00
DeMontel's
Across from Courthouse Hondo,Tex»i
We install and service your range
Oaten, "to n similar deal at the Olympics,” if oxen are
Does Medium County Waive any oxen t Eight teams
competed in Cumberland Fair this year, four from New
Essgbmd ami four from Nova Scotia. The oxen pit their
strength qgahbt loads of some 3,000 or more pounds
loaded in u "stone boat” or sledge.
That eleven American Farmer degrees have been earned
by ami awarded to Haeedo FFA members speaks writ for
the community, its schools and the dedicated instructors
mho "go edl the way” to encourage their students in what
meat be equal to a "survival course” through the years of
the pmremtal participation, the STANLEY
MUMMEs must hold the record for having three sons who
mow classify us American Formers, complete with the
Congratulations seem to be in order all the way around
• ••
"There are smiles that make you happy”, says an old
saug. Suck smiles were reflected in the faces of
MARIETTE AELVOET and ANDY GILLIAM as they
praerdty thxpbyed their eumrd certificates presented for
their 4-H achievements at the county level
Look far nmee aemrds tv be aumed at some future date
at even higher levels, in some other field of endeavor since
both are now HHS seniors and will be off and away to new
RAMOCAR
HEARING ADS
with their usually
“on star
Service
SAN MARCOS- Two
Hondo coeds are among the
82 women students who
went through informal so-
rority rush during the
month of October at South-
west Texas State Univer-
«uty,
The local social sorority
pledges are Robin Gaye
Saatnoff and Sharon Elaine
Eckhart.
Ms. Saathoff pledged
Alpha Delta Pi and Ms.
Eckhart pledged Alpha Xi
• ••
LIBBIE McGEHEE but she deserves
She is eight years old and one of
roams to her community is that she
bits to the residents of BROWN‘s
md appreciate her", one of the residents
1710 AVE. M 426-2443 HONDO
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Hondo Anvil Herald (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 86, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 7, 1974, newspaper, November 7, 1974; Hondo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth819778/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hondo Public Library.