MAY 28, 1975
A record number of seniors – 170 – will graduate from Fredericksburg High School Friday during commencement exercises at FHS Stadium. Top students include Cindy Olfers, valedictorian; Linda Straube, salutatorian, and Dale Dittmar, highest ranking boy.
Tuesday evening, stockholders of the Gillespie County Fair and Festivals Association, Inc. authorized the sale of the historic “Old Fair Grounds” and endorsed the construction of a “new Fair Grounds” on a site about two miles south of the city on State Highway 16.
Purchasers of the fair grounds are two pioneer Fredericksburg business firms, Knopp & Metzger, Inc. and Stein Lumber Company, Inc. who plan development of the grounds for business purposes. Purchase price was $263,659.
Over five inches of rain fell across the county Friday and Saturday, sending creeks and the Pedernales River out of their banks.
A wedding at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church Saturday evening had to be delayed for an hour by the bridegroom’s failure to get to the church on time due to high water. The organist was also stranded behind a flooded creek, so Pehl’s Old-Time Band, that was scheduled to play outside the church after the ceremony, moved its gig inside to the organ loft to render music as the guests waited for the groom to arrive, as well as slow marches for the processional and recessional.
Two boys and four girls were born at Hill Country Memorial Hospital last week. Boys were born to Mr. and Mrs. Scott J. Harrid, May 22, and Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Geistweidt, May 24. Girls were born to Mr. and Mrs. James Wienecke, Harper, May 19; Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ayala, May 21; Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Pehl, May 21, and Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Harmon, Boerne, May 23.
Officials with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, restoration workers and others got a preview Friday evening at the newly restored Sauer-Beckmann House at the LBJ State Park in Stonewall. The goal was to restore the old Sauer-Beckmann place to a living- working farmstead as it was at the beginning of the 20th century.
Tyrus Cox of Stein Lumber Co. was in charge of the restoration work, and his wife, May Stein Cox, assisted in locating and refinishing the furnishings used in the house.
