From the San Saba News & Star Archives
66 Years Ago September 29, 1955
September 29, 1955
Mr. and Mrs. Lon K. Strickland visited in the home of her sister, Mr. and Mrs. Rom Mayberry, at Mound over the weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Hamrick honored their granddaughters, Ann, age 11, on Sunday, and Sally, age 6, on Monday, with a birthday dinner at their home Sunday. The young ladies' mother, Mrs. John R. Lane, of Killeen, was present for the celebration. Mrs. Hamrick returned home with her daughter and granddaughters for a visit this week.
Randolph Iley, who regularly has been selling more than 100 copies of The News every Thursday in the San Saba business and residential districts, said late Wednesday that he would be moving this morning (Thursday) to Meridian, his old home town, where his mother, Mrs. Pearl B. Iley, has purchased a home. A shortage of cribs developed
A shortage of cribs developed at San Saba Memorial Hospital on Sept. 17 when the number of babies in the nursery approached an all-time high. Babies born that week were Gregg Allen Smith, Glynis Dean Shaw, Gloria Acuna, Samuel Watson Miller and James Christopher Boswell. Ben Kerry Lively and Jesus Henry were late-comers and "had no crib for a bed." Cardboard boxes had to be hustled by the hospital staff.
The San Saba High School Journalism class and its teacher, Mrs. Clyde McKee, visited The News office Thursday, Sept. 22. Editor John Bogard led the group of 15 members through the mechanical department, explaining the different processes that result eventually in the printed page. Those present for the inspection tour included Glenn Barker, Roland Lindsey, Joel Daniel, Delbert Ledbetter, Mabel Blair, Shirley Jones, Marjorie Fitzgerald, Judy Patterson, Wanda Sedberry, Wanda McCoury, Evelyn Gage, Lonette Taff, Dolan Hibler, Betty Jean Gage, Jeanette Moore and Mrs. McKee.
46 Years Ago
October 2, 1975
The San Saba Junior Class is looking for wood and burnable items for the Annual Homecoming Bonfire. The Bonfire will be lit Thursday after the Junior High and "B" team games. It will be followed Friday with the Homecoming game between Llano and San Saba at which time the queen will be selected and the class of 1966 will be honored. Junior class officers are John Reavis, president; Ted Ward, vice president; Robbie Cooksey, secretary; Raymond Barrier, treasurer; and Jack Stafford, reporter.
Winning first place when San Saba Duplicate Bridge Club met Monday night at the Housing Authority were Mrs. Dean Bagley and Mrs. W. E. Hinyard. Second place winners were Mrs. Inez Garret and Mrs. Buster Martin; and placing third were Mrs. Jesse Miles and Mrs. Jimmy Ward.
Olan Tisdale, Texas Tech freshman who is a member of the Red Raider football squad, visited during the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Tisdale, following the Tech-UT game at Austin Saturday night.
Le Elta and Robyn Rawls of San Saba spent Friday night with Mr. and Mrs. Hilly Walker and they all toured the lake area and grilled their hamburgers at the Inks Lake Saturday. San Saba County Judge Jim
San Saba County Judge Jim Baker has proclaimed Oct. 5-11 as "Fire Prevention Week" and added his signature to the document. San Saba County Farm Bureau joined with volunteer fire departments in the county to emphasize fire prevention.
Lester L. Lord, 70, of the Locker and Shiloh area, recently registered at Texas Tech University to take an auditing course. Texas House Bill 696 allows persons 65 or older to audit courses free on a space available basis. After registration, senior citizens are issued free parking permits, allowed free use of the library and get their schedules. They are nonparticipating students -- they attend classes and may take notes but they do not take tests or write papers and are not given any academic credits. Lord graduated from high school in 1930. "When I graduated from high school it was during the depression years and we had eight kids in our family, so it wasn't possible for me to go to college," he said. Instead Lord spend 20 years in the Air Force and 18 years working for a foreign car company. Now he is able to take courses in Spanish, agriculture plant science and accounting, subjects he said always interested him.