50 YEARS AGO in the Standard - Fredericksburg Standard

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News Staff, on December 23, 2020

50 YEARS AGO in the Standard

DECEMBER 23,1970 Churches across the county will be having Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services this week to celebrate the birth of the Christ Child. A Christmas tree-lighting ceremony will be held this evening at the LBJ State Park in Stonewall where President and Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson’s oldest

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