The Hondo Anvil Herald from Hondo, Texas • Page 3

More Corn shucking team says 'See COULD HAVE fire call to the Medina Memorial Hospital Tuesday could have been a scary one had it been larger. Fortunately, it was a clothes dryer and caused little damage. Smoke comes out of the laundry room in the top picture as Hondo Volunteer Firemen arrive; Administrator Melvin Finger and Fireman Glenn McWilliams check the dryer in the center shot; and the burning rags lie on the ground outside as firemen make final inspection. by Tony Hondo MD drive slated On September 28, 29 and 30, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, volunteer marchers will condudt a house appeal in Hondo for funds to fight muscular dystrophy and related neuro-muscular diseases. The volunteer marchers will be wearing an official Jerry Lewis identification tag.

Mrs. Mary Jane Marrs is serving as Campaign Chairman. Depository for the funds collected is the Hondo National Bank. Funds raised are used to support world-wide research programs, Muscular Dystrophy Clinics, as well as provide wheel chairs, hospital beds, braces and other orthopedic equipment needed. Anyone wishing to attend the Muscular Dystro- Young Farmers The Hondo Young Farmer members will be attending the Area VII Young Farmer Convention in New Braunfels on Saturday afternoon.

At jresent some eight members and their wives are planning to attend. George Gooding, local chapter president and Area VII treasurer, will be a nominee for the position of Area VII president for the coming school year. Alton Davis will be competing for the honor of being the Outstanding Young Farmer of Area VII. The visiting committee met in Hondo Tuesday afternoon to visit with Alton Davis and discuss his Dairy farming operation. N.

P. POPE AGENCY 202 Hondo Bank Building HONDO, TEXAS Auto-Fire- Casualty-Life Bonds Dial 426-2222 phy Clinic, which is located at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Antonio, shouid the Muscular Dystrophy office, 8310-B Speedway Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78230 or phone 512-341-8674. Texas Style Singing held nightly under a Pioneer Brush Arbor, the largest in the state. The festival will be home base for outstanding Texas characters: yarnspinners, houndsmen, oxen drivers, ranchers, cowboys, rodeo producers, champion bull riders and laconic horse traders. There will be a fun center for kids called where the youngsters can learn to make pivneer toys.

They can work with handloom weaving, paint folk posters, or make pottery. They can play in a giant haystack, see-saw or jump rope. Nostalgically, the festival will recall the spectrum of frontier life with a cane and grist mill, log house raising, Indian Village and Cattle Drive Corral. A process of making pottery learned from Texas Indians will be demonstrated at a dung-pit kiln. Visitors are welcome to help fire the kiln, toss chips into the dung pit, make and polish their own pottery, or even the pots! Baker said groups from 19 area festivals and annual events from throughout the state will participate.

Fifty- one artists and craftsmen will demonstrate full-time diverse skills such as bread crumb sculpture, tinsmith- ing, stained glass, lye soap making, caricatures and western art. Visitors can sprawl on the grassy slopes of the Institute grounds to observe constant entertainment on seven stages. Fmtertainment varies from old-time fiddlers to flamenco guitarists: from country and western groups to bluegrass, folk and jazz. Mixing with champion polka and dulcimer bands will be sturdy German oompah and marching Irish and Scottish bagpipers. Dancing will be a major activity with the largest stage built to accommodate ethnic folk musicians and costumed folk dancers representing Swedish, Greek, Polish, Irish and German- Texans.

Lebanese, Mexican and Spanish-Texan folk dancers will dominate two other stages. Jewish folk dancers will perform in front of their traditional as they celebrate the most colorful of Jewish harvest festivals, the Already scheduled are the statewide Czech Besda Dancers, Tigua and Alabama Coushatta tribal dancers, and pioneer square dancers. Visitors can their way around the world at the festival. They call sample a bit of Indian jerky or fried rattlesnake steak; trv the taste thrills of Alsatain paresa, Danish pastries, Japanese teriyaki or such regional specialties as Gilmer yam pies and Cajun gumbo. There will be hardy cowboy foods prepared by range cooks and served from authentic range wagons with the traditional foods of 18 additional ethnic groups, ranging from Chinese won-ton to Negro Soul Food.

New among the fun and games of Texans at the festival is Irish hurling, a head bashing type of field hockey. Other zany events are Cajun crawfish races, Indian stickball games and a New shooting demonstrations will include old musket-type rifles used by early pioneers and precision shooting and fast- draw' exhibitions. Visitors can participate in several types of do-it- yourself events: arm wrestle with the County enter a domino tournament, compete in corn and shelling or watermelon seed spitting contests. They can also pitch horseshoes, try Belgian bowling or play English darts. going to be a Texas-size party and if you enjoy fun, mark your calendar for September 12-15 at the UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures in San Antonio.

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The Imperials, the hans, the Kincaids, and the natives from the Valentine Nestor tree near the Convent took the lead over Success, Burkett, Desirable and Eastern Schley. Gillespie County has a very poor pecan crop this year. Farm Numbers Decline The iiuiiilx'r of farms in the Unileti States was 2.84 million in 1978, down about one peret'nl from the vious year. USDA estimates the same pereentaMe decline' for 1974, continuing; a downward trend that started in entertain tourists in Moscow. It is the Hotel Rossia.

Hondo Anvil Herald, Sept. 12, 1974, Ptge 3 Been gets wings Navy Lieutenant Junio.r Grade Richard G. Been, son of Mr. and Mrs. Autry Been of Star Route, Hondo, was designated a Naval Aviator and received his of during ceremonies at the Naval Air Station, Beeville.

He has completed more than a year of intensive ground and inflight instruction and will now be assigned to specailized advanced training. He is a 1972 paduate of the U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. The river provides beautiful scenery.

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