The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 17, 1955 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL. 50
ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY IN THE LAND OF SUNSHINE, MILK AND HONEY
Boeme, Kendall County, Texas, Thursday, February 17, 1955
No. 10
A Queen Is Chosen
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A well attended Valentine
Dance held on Saturday even-
ing at Herff Park was primar-
ily for the purpose of selecting
a Queen to reign during the
Golden Jubilee of the Kendall
County Fair which is to be held
on the 3-4 and 5 of September.
Mr. Archie Gerfers, president
of the Fair Association was
Master of Ceremonies.
As the nine girls, who had
been chosen to compete for this
honor, and their escorts arrived
they were seated at the table
decorated with white flowers
and red hearts. Each girl Was
given a complimentary corsage.
The young ladies and their
escorts were as follows: Miss
Lucy Anne Schwarz, Douglas
Dugosh; Miss Darla Ward, A.
G. Gray; Miss Sue Hilman, John
Kirschke, Jr.; Miss Mary Jane
Esser, Arley Sueltenfuss; Miss
Yvonne Pfeiffer, Jimmie Gour-
ley; Miss Louise Norman, Lloyd
Dietert of Comfort; Miss Caro-
line Marquart, Virgil Habenicht
of Sisterdale; Tommy Jo Ingle,
Tommy Whetstone; Miss May-
dell Ratliff, John Curry.
Judges for the affair were
Tommy Reynolds, announcer at
Radio Station KENS, San An-
tonio and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon
Rose. Mr. Rose is news editor
of the New Braunfels Herald.
They were seated on the stage
and each girl, known to the
judges by number only, was giv-
en an interview. Later the coup-
les circled the dance floor to the
strains of “Sweethearts On
Parade,” played by Buddy Han-
cock and his orchestra.
A quartette “Four Old Fos-
sils,” composed of E. 0. Manley,
George Hopper, Joe Coporal and
J. L. Buese serenaded the guests
during the interviews.
After several tense moments
number nine, Maydell Ratliff,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. A.
Ratliff was declared the winner.
Miss Kay Cartwright, Queen of
1954 entered placing her crown
on the head of the newly named
Queen’s head and also presented
her with a bouquet of red roses.
Choosing a Queen was a dif-
ficult task for the judges as all
nine girls were lovely and beau
tiful. They will serve as duch-
esses to the Queen.
According to Mr. Archie Ger-
fers, each sponsor has been in-
-Photo by Hillmann
vited to feature their candidate
in the Fair Parade.
BI-DISTRICT
CHAMPIONSHIP
GAME SET
The Boerne Greyhounds,
champs .of District 28-A, • will
meet the Industrial Consolidated
(Vanderbilt) Cobras, champs of
District 27-A, for the Bi-Dis-
trict Championship at the Ken-
edy High School Gym in Kenedy
on Tuesday, February 22. Game
time is 7:30 p. m. This is a re-
match of last year’s game in
which the Greyhounds nosed
out the Cobras 40-39. The Grey-
hounds are sporting a 23-1 rec-
ord at present, while the Cobras
have a 25-2 season’s record.
Neither team has been defeated
in District play. This should be
a very good game, so plan now
to go to Kenedy and root for the
Greyhounds.
Advance tickets may be pur-
chased from the Boerne Motor
Company, Post Office Coffee
Shop, Irene Leidl, Dusty Helm,
and Roy Liesman at the High
School. Ticket prices are adults
$1.00 and students 50c.
You might be interested m
knowing how the state playoffs
are arranged for Class A schools
to arrive at a State Champion.
The state is divided into 4 Re-
gions of 8 Districts each. This
makes 32 district champs. Bi-
Districts games are played
which reduces the field to 16
teams. These teams advance to
the 4 Regional Tournaments.
The tournament for this region
will be held at Victoria College
in Victoria on Saturday, Feb.
26. The winners of these 4 tour-
naments will go to Austin for
the State Championship Tour-
nament to be held on March 3,
4 and 5. There are approximate-
ly 225 Class A schools in the
state.
IN APPRECIATION
The. members of the Boerne
Band wish to thank Mr. W. R.
Reid from Corpus Christi for
the donation of $25.00.
The Band Boosters Club
wish to thank all for donating
the cakes and all who bought.
The cake baked by Mrs. Willie
Vogt was awarded to Mrs. Ed-
gar Voges.
GREYHOUNDS WIN
ANOTHER
The Greyhounds traveled to
East Central last Monday and
returned with a 77-48 win to
their credit. This was one of the
team’s harder games this year,
as the Hornets stayed close thru
practically the entire first half
before the ’Hounds started pull-
ing away. First quarter score
was 21-16, and midway hi the
second quarter the score was 25-
21 before Boerne pulled to a 39-
26 half-time lead. John Canavail
again led the scoring with 33
points to run his season’s total
to 727 and keep his average a
little over 30 per game. Other
scorers for Boerne were Jim
Gourley 9, Carroll Kneupper 10,
Kermit Uecker 8, Ed. Henkel 10,
Earl Dunning 1, John Kirschke
2, and Terrell Norris 4.
The Greyhounds have come a
long way in the 4 years that
Coach Vernon Turner has work-
ed with the boys. In his first
year here, with the boys prac-
ticing outdoorsXmd playing all
games away, the Greyhounds
ended with a 6-8 district and a
10- 16 season record. In the 52-
53 season, Boerne’s first with a
gym, Coach Turner brought the
team in with a 16-14 season rec-
ord, with 11-5 in district which
was good for a third place tie in
a 9 team district. Boerne was
the only team to defeat District
Champion Karnes City that sea-
son. The Greyhounds placed sec-
ond in two tournament also.
Last year, Boerne won the Dis-
trict and Bi-District Champion-
ships. Season record was 21-7,
with 10-2 in district. Boerne won
the Northeast Tournament last
year also. This year the Grey-
hounds have a 23-1 record, with
11- 0 in district, and are again
District 28-A champs. This year
Boerne won the Hill Country
Tournament at Kerrville, and
the Northeast Tournament.
The Greyhounds have not
only won games, but have made
friends in every town and school
where they have played. N This
is a very fine record for a team
and a coach. Coach Turner de-
serves a lot of credit for bring-
ing the Greyhounds along in
such a fine way.
Balcones Grange
Balcones Grange met Feb. 10,
with eighteen members and Mas
ter Herbert Voges, presiding.
Due to the severe cold night the
attendance was small. Reports
from various committees were
discussed. It was voted to have
a covered dish supper at our
March meeting. Every family
bring a covered disfy let us have
a big meeting. Literary program
was enjoyed by all. Refresh-
ments were served by the
Zoellers.
BAND CONCERT
On March 19 at 8:00«o’clock,
the public will be able to hear
the Boeme Band giving their
concert. The numbers that they
play here will be the saihe ones
that they plan to play fpr the
Band Contest to be held ip Aus-
tin ‘March 25.
STYLE SHOW
Surrey Village Dress Shop
will again sponsor a Spring and
Summer showing of ladifes and
misses styles.
The show promises tq be a
treat to all attending, for Louise
and Ramsey Yelvington have
put on several real shows in the
past.
The women of St. Helena’s, a
group of unsurpassed cooks will
serve the meal.
The show date is Thursday,
March 3rd, at 7:30 in the even-
ing at St. Helena’s Parish Hall.
As the number of tickets are
limited it is advisable to secure
them early, either from the
Dress Shop or Mrs. Joe Speight.
Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Balser of
Lockhart are sending several
days here as guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Zoeller.
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MRS. JACK SILLS
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MR. JACK SILLS
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sills will
hold open house in their new
photography studio in the Vo-
gel building on Saturday, Feb-
ruary 19 from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.
Mr. and Mrs. Sills have had
twenty five years experience in
the photography business, hav-
ing had studios in Chillicothe,
Haskell and Quanah, Texas.
They do kodak finishing, com-
mercial work and portraits.
Attendance prizes will be giv-
en during the opening hours,
Saturday.
NATIONAL GRANGE
MASTERS TO VISIT
TEXAS
According to State Master
Bender of Fredericksburg,
Texas Grange members will have
the opportunity of hearing Her-
schel O. Newsom, National
Grange leader from Washington
D. C. Mr. Newsom is to speak
at New Braunfels, Seele Parish
Hall on Monday evening, Feb.
21 at 8 o’clock.
Mr. Newsom’s planned visit
to Texas is primarily for the
purpose of attending a confer-
ence with Farm Credit Adminis-
tration officials in Houston Feb.
23 and 24th. However, by re-
quest of State Grange leaders
here, he consented to come early
enough to make a Grange ap-
pearance possible.
Since Mr, Newom is one of the
best informed men in Washing-
ton and a great farm leader, it
is hope that grange members
in driving distance of New
Braunfels make full use of the
opportunity to hear him.
At the same time all Texas
Grangers should feel their re-
sponsibility in aiding to provide
a large audience for this rare
occasion.
News Notes From
County Agent's
Office
YE KENDALL INN
OPENS
Mr. and Mrs. G. Dewey San-
ders are opening Ye Kendall
Inn, which they purchased re-
cently from Mr. and Mrs. K.
Stevens.
The dining room will open on
Saturday, February 19th and
continue to remain open each
day.
They plan to serve breakfast,
lunch and dinner, a la carte and
family style. D. L. Flannery,
chef, will specialize in charcoal
broiling and special steaks.
4-H Club Members From
Kendall County Exhibit At
San Antonio Show
Stalls 991 to 1006 in,the steer
barns will be headquarters for
Kendall County 4-H Club mem-
bers who are exhibiting their
animals a.t the 1955 San Antonio
Livestock Exposition. Members
who will compete in the Junior
steer Show on Saturday, Febru-
ary 19, are Allen and Raymond
Werner and Steve and Sammy
Edmondson, all of the Kendalia
Community, and they are all
showing Hereford steers.'
Then on Monday Yvonne Pfeif
fer of Boerne will show 3 Here-
ford steers in the open compe-
tition. She showed a medium
Weight steer to championship at
the recent Kendall County Jun-
ior Livestock Show, and also
won reserve champion on a
light weight steer. Both of these
animals are included in her San
Antonio show string.
Shorthorns will also have
their open show on Monday, and
in those classes, Harold Zoeller
of the Balcones community has
3 head entered. It will be re-
membered that Harold had
Champion Open Class Short-
horn Steer at the .1954 San An-
tonio Show.
Ralph Kneupper, who showed
steers as a Club member until
reaching the maximum Club age
limit, also is bedding his 3 head
of Angus steers with the group.
So that all Kendall County
steers may be seen at one lo-
cation, Angus steers being
shown by Boerne Vocational Ag
students will also be bedded at
the stalls reserved for the Ken-
dall County group.
4-H Club Members Get
Started for 1955
Getting top calves to feed out
for fat steers next year means
securing these calves early, be-
fore they have been picked over.
With this in mind, Steve and
Sammy Edmondson have each
secured good Hereford calves
from Fair Oaks Ranch, whose
calves they have purchased each
year since 1949. Allen and Ray-
mond Werner have purchased
calves bred by Milton Willmann
of Boerne, and they are good
ones. Harold Zoeller recently
went to the John P. Impson
herd of Shorthorns at Beeville
to make his selections, and has
4 good ones started for next
year. It will be recalled that the
steers he is exhibiting now were
from that herd.
At a recent Houston Fat
Stock Show, Grand -Champion
steer in the Shorthorn division
was a dark roan bred by C. W.
Fenstermakei", whose ranch is
located at Bergheim, and this
steer was sired by Mr. Fenster-
maker’s herd bull, Leveldale
Counsel.
Larry Rogers Exhibiting Out-
Standing Angus Bull Calf
Many cattlemen and others in
terested in Angus breeding cat-
tle will watch with much inter-
est the performance in competi-
tion of the young bull, VR Price
705, owned by Larry Rogers of
Route 1, Boerne. This calf has
been on th Show Circuit since
early last autumn and has made
quite a reputation for himself
in winning or standing well up
in his class. At the Iowa State
Show, which was also the Na-
tional Angus Show for 1954, he
was Junior Champion Angus
bull. This calf is a son of the
$300,000 bull which was recent-
ly in the news when a third in-
terest in him sold for -$100,000.
Mr. Rogers owns the dam of
his bull calf, and also owns the
maternal grandsire. Angus
breeding classs will be judged
on Monday and Tuesday of next
week at th San Antonio Expo-
sition.
Lions Club Doings
The date for our Ladies and
Daughters Night has been
changed from Tuesday to Mon-
day night, February 21st. Next
Monday night, be sure to be at
the Episcopal Church and be
very sure to bring two ladies.
If you don’t have a daughter,
borrow one, and if you don’t
have a wife, let your conscience
be your guide. Knowing some of
you guys, we better take that
last remark back.
The San Antonio clubs will put
on the entertainment. The show
is called, “Hell-a-Poppin’/? and
includes everything from Miss
Fiesta of 1954 to an instrument
player of some kind and a quar-
tet. We don't know what kind
of instrument, but you can be
certain that if Lion Zottarelli
has anything to do with it, the
sky will be the limit.
You are instructed not to
wear your best Sunday “go to
meeting” clothes, but something
a little more conservative. That
is, from the standpoint of pos-
sible damage. We take no re-
sponsibility for anything when
“Zot” takes over.
Guests from the Comfort and
Helotes Clubs have been invited
and we hope to make this meet-
ing as good as the Ladies made
theirs for the Christmas party.
Lions Ebensberger and Fish
have left the ranks of coffee'
drinkers, They usually call for
hot chocolate or a sundae now
days. For shame, George, aren’t
you watching your figure?
The competition between
Lions Newton and Avant is run-
ning hot. It looks like Newt is
about two ahead of Asa accord-
ing to “grapevine scandal.”
Lion Moore seems to be eat-
ing his breakfast down town
pretty regularly. What’s the mat
ter, Clyde, don’t you all get up
early enough, or are you in the
dog house?
See you all Monday night at
seven-thirty, and come prepar-
ed for anything.
EAGLE PASS
INVITATION
The Boerne High School Band
has been invited to Eagle Pass
Feb. 19 to take part in the Wash
ington Day Parade.
They will be seen marching
with Eagle Pass Junior Band,
the Brackettville Band, the San
Felipe Band, the Asherton High
Band and the Uvalde High
School.
The concerts start at 10:00
o’clock and Boerne Band plays
at 1 o’clock to 1:30 on the lawn
in front of the Eagle Pass Court
house. Uvalde will play in Pied-
ras Negras.
The International Parade
starts in Eagle Pass at 2:30 and
will proceed into Piedras Negraa
to the Plaza.
The Duchess representing
each band will ride in the parade
in convertibles furnished by the
parade committee. Miss Mary
Jane Eser has been chosen to
represent Boerne.
The Duchess will be guests of
the Rotor Club in Piedras Neg-
ras for lunch while all band
members will have lunch in
Eagle Pass at the Athletic Club.
At 7:30 the Trinity Universi-
ty Band will give a concert.
Then there will be a program of
Mexican Folk Songs and dances
pressented by Mexican schools.
After this program the Inter-
national Dance 'will begin.
The Band will leave Boerne a-
round 7:00 o’clock Feb. 19, and
are looking forward to a nice
trip. The trip will be made_ on
chartered busses from Kerrville.
CITY ELECTION
CALLED
City election for Mayor, five
Aldermen and a Judge of Corpo-
ration Court for a two year term
will take place April 5, 1955.
Candidates must file with
City Secretary, Edgar Schwarz,
Jr. by 5 p. m. March 5th, 1955.
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Davis, Jack R. The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 17, 1955, newspaper, February 17, 1955; Boerne, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth863814/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Patrick Heath Public Library.