The Harper News (Harper, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, August 27, 2004 Page: 1 of 8
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QWS
"On Top of the Texas Hill Country* -
Price: 50 cents
Harper, Texas 78631-0577
hnews@ktc.com
Football Season Opens with Scrimmage
The Harper Longhorn Football Team opened its season with a scrimmage against
Sabinal. Coaches are Cody White, Mark Edwards, Billy Grumbles, Paul Goetzke and
Jim Herring. Most of the players from last year are returning and hoping for another
winning season. Harper will be playing long-time rivals in their new district. For the
season schedule and more pictures of the scrimmage, see page 6.
Harper Elementary Library
Receives Wool & Mohair Books
Frances Dendy,
representing the Hill
Country Chapter of the
Texas Sheep and Goat
Raisers Association
Auxiliary, presented two
hard-back books to the
Harper Elementary Library
on August 17, 2004.
Pictured above from left to
right are JoAnn Rangel,
Librarian, Frances Dendy,
and Jo Ann Spaeth, Library
Assistant.
The two books are
about spinning and mak-
ing cloth from wool and
mohair. They are: The
Goat in the Rug, by
Geraldine as told to
Charles L. Blood & Martin
Link, New York, NY:
Aladdin Paperbacks, 1990
and Charlie Needs A
Cloak, by Tomie DePaola,
New York, NY: Aladdin
Paperbacks, 1973. The
Hill Country TSGRA
Auxiliary is presenting
over fifty of each of these
books to every elementary
school and public library
in our twelve county area.
Friends of the
Library met on August 17,
2004, in the home of
Carrie Tarr with twelve
persons in attendance.
Officers were elected as
follows: Anita Gardener -
President, and Alice Smith-
Secretary/Treasurer.
Final plans were
made for the book sale to
be held on September 4
during Frontier Days.
Money raised will be used
to start a library in
Harper. Public support
and response has been
positive.
Persons wanting to
donate books should drop
them off at the residence
of Bones on the corner of
U. S. Hwy 290 and Park
Street. Volunteers will
pick up the books and get
them sorted and ready for
the sale. All kinds of
books are welcome: text
books, cook books, poetry,
fiction, non-fiction and
children s books. The
group will meet again on
Tuesday, August 31, at
6:00 p.m., at the barn of
Tomi Pugh to sort books
and finalize plans.
For more informa-
tion, email Anita at
whoopteedo@maver-
ickbbs.com or call Martha
at 864-5655 or 864-4174.
Harper Schools Open with 520 Students
Harper Schools gartner teacher, Kelly office.
opened on August 16 with
520 students, the highest
enrollment ever, according
to Superintendent Pari
Whitten.
Harper Schools are
welcoming several new
staff this year: Lou Ellen
Klepper is a new kinder-
Beyer is the new fifth
grade teacher, Paul
Goetzke teaches middle
school history and coach-
es, Kim Krueger is a mid-
dle school special educa-
tion teacher, Alana Bode
works in instructional edu-
cation and Carol Hoffmann
works in the Principal s
A reminder about
the public meeting sched-
uled for August 30, 2004,
to be held in the board-
room. The purpose of this
meeting is to discuss the
school district s budget
that will determine the tax
rate that will be adopted.
Public participation in the
discussion is invited.
New Park Pavilion Under Construction,
Dedication Planned for Sept. 5
Workers finish pouring concrete platform for the new park pavilion on
August 24, 2004. The Park Board is planning to have the dedication
Sunday, September 5, 2004, at 5:00 p.m.
Results of 2003 Deer
Harvest Reviewed
Dove Season
2004
bv Gene Bode
Lookie here, it s
dove season! You need to
check out that shot gun.
Get your license and pick
out that good place to sit.
This year with all the rain
and vegetation, them
doves will probably dress
out around five pounds,
don tyou think?
Dove season has
not brought as many
hunters the past few years
as it used to do. It does
seem that the white wing
doves are more popular to
hunt. Don t miss these
morning doves here!
Don t forget the shells!
Happy hunting!
Lion’s Club
Auction
at Harper
bv Bili White
For all of you auc-
tion fans, Harper is the
place to be on Saturday
morning, Sept. 4. Little
stuff! Big stuff!! Odd stuff
and neat stuff. Come, see
and bid to your heart s
content!! This annual
event helps fund the many
community activities of
the Harper Lions Club.
These activities include
being the Charter
Organization for Boy Scout
Troop 139, funding two
annual college scholar-
ships to graduating Harper
seniors, administering a
privately funded third
scholarship, and supply-
ing glasses to needy per-
sons.
Registration and
inspection of sale items
starts at 9:00 a.m. with
bidding to begin at 10:00
a.m. The action, as
always, takes place in the
front yard of Ernie
Dykstra at 1397 Hwy 783
S, at the corner of Hwy
(Continued on page 2. See
Lion sClub. )
The Harper
Wildlife Management
Association met in the
Harper High School
Library on August 19,
2004, at 7:00 p.m. with
over seventy in atten-
dance.
Officers were elected
for the coming year as fol-
lows: Dick Bateman as
President, Ronnie
Lumpkins as Vice
President and Gayle Reed
as Sec./Treasurer.
Directors were: Keith
Keller to replace Gregory
Parker, Bob Dittmar to
replace David Hopf, and
Sue Smith to replace
Myron Schneider.
It was announced
that census line surveys
would be run during the
following weeks: Aug 23-
28, Sept 6-11, and Sept 20-
25.
Billy Roeder
announced that a field day
would be held at his place
on Saturday, Sept. 11, to
view range sculpturing as
a way to manage pastures.
About twenty members
planned to attend. Tom
mentioned the sample lia-
bility form and made
copies available to the
members.
He then introduced
Joyce Moore who works
for Texas Parks & Wildlife.
She is a new resident of
the Harper area and is the
replacement for Fielding
Harwell who retired this
year. She administers
the Technical Guidance
Program for TX Parks and
Wildlife. Some of the
areas she manages are:
1) Technical
Guidance Program which
gives confidential advice
to landowners with the
landowner's goals in mind.
She discusses habitat man-
agement with the
tools of ax, cow, plow, fire
and gun. She evaluates
the habitat by taking vege-
tation inventories and
measuring browse use.
She evaluates water
Below, Joyce Moore of
Texas Parks & Wildlife
explains what her job is
and services available to
landowners.
improvements and takes
wildlife inventories, using
deer spotlight surveys,
turkey production surveys,
dove coo counts, quail
inventories, and songbird
point counts. She uses
these to estimate popula-
tion and then recommends
harvest numbers and col-
lecting data on the har-
vest. (This tool of data
collection is
extremely important in
watching for trends.)
2) Wildlife Tax
Valuation
3 ) W i 1 d 1 i f e
Management Associations
4) Managed-lands
deer permits
5) Anterless &
Spike deer control permit
6) Lone Star Land
Steward Award
7) Texas Youth
Hunting Program and
8) Texas Public
Hunting Lands
She closed her talk
asking for questions
Bill Botard reviewed
the 2003 Hunting Season
with these statistics.
• 921 bucks were har-
vested
• 1199 does were har-
vested
• 2,120 total deer har-
vested on 71,283
acres or
(Continued on page 2. See
Deer. )
Index:
Movie Review - 2
Report on Anthrax - 2
Am. Legion BBQ - 2
Business Spotlight - 3
Am.Legion Aux.
-3
Gardening
-3
Ask the Nerds
-3
Obituary
- 4
Churches - 4
Little Mr.& Miss Harper - 4
Birthdays - 5
Calendar - 5
Happenings - 6
Football Schedule - 6
Wildlife Field Day - 7
Frontier Days Schedule - 7
Gill.Cty. E.D.B.
-7
Commodity Meeting
-7
Ole Mechanic
-8
Market Report
-8
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