Elgin Courier and Four County News (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 15, 1959 Page: 1 of 10
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15
ELGIn COURIER
AND FOUR COUNTY
NEWS
ELGIN, BASTROP COUNTY, TEXAS, JANLARY 15, 1959
VOLUME 68 - NUMBER 44
10 PER COPY
MISSLE BATTERY TO
BE BUILT IN COUNTY
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FOR AIR SHOW SAT.
Most every one is impressed
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BILLY SCOTT
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U.S. ARMY NIKE HERCULES MISSILE BATTERY
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like a close view of them and
that is just what you will have
the privilege of doing Saturday
Elgin Cagers Play
Del Valle This Week
ELGIN NAT’L BANK
ELECTS DIRECTORS
L. WILSON TRAHIN
C OF C BANQUET
People ask you for criticism,
but they only want praise.
William Somerset Maugham.
try to give him the thrill of SPEAKER JAN.22
the year by arranging for him
Mrs. Bill Zapalac is a pa-
tient in the local hospital.
Ionel Staub said. The Nike Her-
cules is a five ton, supersonic
missile with a range of over
75 miles.
One of the U. S. Army’s sur-
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Arbuckle Jr, cashier; Etta Mae In Opening Game
Carter, assistant cashier; E.K.
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father, the late R. Lu Bob) Car-
ter Sr. was for many years may-
or of Elgin and also dealt) in
real estate and oil development
activities in the Elgin area. His
father, Robert L.Carter Jr. has
been with TP&L some 20 years
as local representative. In each
of these eras of Elgin's history
these men have added new blood
ideas and interest to the de-
velopment and progress of the
entire area and the decision of
Robert III to open his office con-
tinues an unbroken line of Car-
ters in Elgin’s business picture
since the founding of the town
and we wish him the success
enjoyed by each of them.
ALVIN CAMP
TRANSFERRED
TO SPUR, TEXAS
Alvin Camp, conservationist
for the Bastrop County Soil
Conservation District has been
transferred to Spur, Texas af-
ter a tenure of service of more
than eight years. He is being
succeeded by Linn Foust, for-
merly of San Benito, Texas who
assumed his new duties in Bas-
trop Monday.
Mr. Camp was widely known
in Elgin and has a host of fri-
ends in and around here who
will regret having him leave
after the many years of plea-
sant associations and splendid
services rendered in this area.
H
to attend this ceremony and
see the big planes at close
range which are the guardian
angels of our nation.
aiding the arrival of the first
. B-52 Stratofortresses and KC-
135 Stratotankers which are
soon to be flying over Central
Texas regulary from this near-
by base, when the 4130 th Wing
will operate some 15 B-52s and
a 24-hour alert will be main-
tained by crews ready to leave
give the Austin area a final
protective air defense against
attack from any known aircraft
or air supported missile,” Co-
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timated cost of over $1,000,
000 each. Each of the batter- '
ies will be capable of defending
an area of 20,000 square miles.
A site selection team com-
posed of representatives of 4th
Rgn ARADCOM and the U. S.
Army Engineers District, Gal-
veston, made a detailed recon-
naissance of the Austin area.
“Many possible site locations
were considered,” Colonel
Staub said, “however, the areas
selected best meet the many
technical and tactical require-
ments of a Nike Hercules bat-
tery site.”
Each of the Nike I lercules bat-
teries will be built on two se-
parate tracts of land located
five-eighths to one and a half
miles apart. One of the tracts,
On Wed., Jan 7th, members of 16; Undivided profits had ri-
Immanuel Lutheran Congrega- sen from $93,301.45 in ’57 to
lion, friends and relatives ga- $111,997.12 in 1958 final report,
thered at the church to cele- Surplus $150,000.00.
brate the 25th ordination of The Elgin National has ser-
Pastor Wilson Hill. Rev. M.A. ved the Elgin area well over
Falkenberg of Houston deliver- a half century and is one of
ed the sermon. the strongest banks in this
Pastor Hill was ordained'in section and with a friendly
St. Johns Lutheran church in personnel rendering splendid
Bartlett on Jan. 7, 1934 by service which makes banking
Rev. Theo Bogisch. there a distinct pleasure.
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hhan
Hill
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Nn1 face-to-air missile battery
—AAA sites is planned about five mi-
les west of Austin city limits
on the road to Bee Cave. The
other battery site of the Aus-
Billy Scott, 12-year-old son of tin defense is planned approx-
Mr. and Mrs. Abner Scott re- imately 13 miles southeast of
cently won the Bastrop County Austin in Bastrop County near
Blue Award on his 4-H Club the Travis County line. f
Poultry Project, sponsored by In describing the effectiveness
Sears Roebuck and Company. He of the Nike Hercules missiles,
also recieved as first prize a which are planned for the Aus-
check in the amount of $15.94, tin defense, Colonel Staub cited
and was awarded a 4-H Club the results of recent firings
pin on the records kept on his at White Sands Missile Range,
chickens. He received 51 baby “During one of these firings
chicks and raised 48. the Nike Hercules destroyed
The award was presented on a target at an altitude of over
Wednesday of last week at 100,000 feet--more than 20 mi-
school in Elgin by JoelR. Reese, les. In another missile shoot
Bastrop County Farm Agent, the the Nike Hercules destroyed
pin having been presented pre- a target traveling over 2,000
viously at Bastrop. miles an hour. As far as is
Billy has been a 4-H Club known this is the first time
member two years and this was any air defense missile has
his first project, altho he had destroyed a target moving at
been interested in poultry and this speed and altitude,
assisted his parents in raising Construction of the battery
chickens for home consumption sites is expected to be com-
as a hobby.
Trahin is a graduate of
Whittier College, Whittier,
California, and has completed
courses in Fundamentals of
Supervision at Texas A & M
College; and Industrial Man-
agement and Manufacturing
Processes at Lamar State
College in Beaumont.
“Luke” served with the U.S.
Navy from 1940 to 1946 and
was honorably discharged with
a citation for outstanding ser-
vice.
Before joining the staff of
the South Texas Chamber of
Commerce, he was manager
of the Industrial Department
iof the Wichita Falls, Texas,
Chamber of Commerce: man-
ager of the San Luis Obispo,
California, Chamber of Com-
merce; and he was the first
paid manager of the Alvin,
Texas, Chamber of Commerce.
Subject of his address will
be “Operation Bootstrap”
lie J. Staub, Commanding
Officer of the 4th Region,
United States Army Air De-
L * fense Command at Kansas City.
“These batteries, when equip-
ped with the Nike Hercules
surface-to-air missiles, can
| by the great “winged birds’
which fly over us daily from - J
Bergstrom AFB and many would a
With a very successful foot-
ball season behind the El Hi
Wildcats, the sportsminded
students have now turned to
basket ball and schedules have
been arranged for both boy’s
and girl’s teams. This game
is very interesting and both
boys and girls will provide
the public with some excellent
entertainment in the coming
(weeks.
The first game will be played
by the girls vs Del Valle, there,
on Jan. 15. On the 16th the
local boys team will meet Del
Valle here.
ROBERT L. CARTER III
Robert L. Carter J H, who re-
"0 cently received his real estate
brokerage license, has entered
the Real Estate field here and
for the present will operate on
8 a part-time basis with his office
at 501 North" Ave F, this city.
Carter is a native of Elgin, the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Car-
a ter Jr, and attended the local
schools, graduating from Elgin
High School with the class of
1956. I le is now a junior student
at the University of Texas.
" I le will be glad to have any one
interested in either the pur-
chase or sale of real estate to
contact him in person or by
Q phone AT 5-4774 for an inter-
view.
Carter is following in the foot-
steps of his foredearsi starting
9 his business career in his
hometown. His great-grandfa-
ther, the late Mr. A. H. (Al-
fred) Carter was a pioneer busi-
4 nessman, schoolteacher and
public surveyor and his grand-
Danklefs, assistant cashier:
Juanita Owen and May Dell
Morgan, bookkeepers, and
James Bryant, porter.
Total assets of the bank as
of December 31, 1957 were re-
ported as $4,142,539.39 and the
latest report on December 31
1958 shows a total of $4,379,
530.18, an increase of $236,
990.79. Total deposits of the
two reports was $3,799,237.90
for 1957 and $4,017,533.06 for
1958, an increase of $218,295.
at a moments notice in the
event of a national emergency.
Col. Howard Moore Comman-
der of the 4130 th Wing will
pilot the first of the B-52s
landing at Bergstrom.
The public will be premitted
a close view of the huge, power-
ful bombers and you may even
take your camera along to re-
cord the christening ceremon-
ies which take place at 2:30
on the ramp in front of Base
Operations. At 2:45 the C-124
will be open to permit, spec-
tators to inspect its interior,
following a static display of
various planes.
The ceremonies begin at 2
p.m.with low altitude fly-over
by the B-52 and KC-135 fol-
lowed by their landing in an
area in full view of the spec-
tators.
Col. Frank E. Marek, Berg-
strom base commander an-
nounced that most other areas
of Bergstrom will also be open
to the public Saturday.
If you have a school age son
The stockholders of Elgin Na-
tional Bank met in annual
session Tuesday afternoon,
January 13, in the Directors
room of the bank and reported
a very successful year of busi-
ness in 1958 with prospects
of a prosperous year ahead
in 1959.
Directors elected include: J. K,
Prewitt, Lo P. Cherry, W. C.
Rivers Jr., Jerry Stach, Law-
son Rivers, Chas. J. Poth,R.1.
Arbuckle, W. H. Rivers Jr.,
W. IL Rivers III and Ray Ar-
buckle Jr.
Officers and employees are:
Wo H. Rivers Jr. chairman;
R. H. Arbuckle, president; W.H.
Rivers III, vice-president; Ray
Selections of the planned U.S.
. Army Nike Hercules missile
SCOTT 15 4-H battery sites in the Austin,
POULTRY WINNER Texas area were officially an-
nounced Jan. 8 by Colonel Les-
pleted this year with an es-
a R L Carter Enters
I “ Real Estate Field
1 ’ mo-m
i • n
L. Wilson Trahin, better
known as “Luke” , manager
of the Community Develop-
ment of the South Texas
Chamber of Commerce, will
be the principal speaker at
the annual banquet of the
Elgin Chamber of Commerce
on Thursday, January 22.
known as the integrated fire
control (IFC) area, will con-
tain the radars and electronic
computers of the guidance sys-
tem. The other tract, the laun-
cher area, will contain the
missile handling and storage
facilities, including the missile
launchers.
Administration buildings,
mess halls and barracks are
constructed in one of the areas
for each battery site. In addi-
tion, approximately 16 houses
are required at each missile
battery for the key married
personnel who must remain
within five minutes driving time
of their jobs. Other married
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Bredlow, Robert L. & Finch, Lena. Elgin Courier and Four County News (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 15, 1959, newspaper, January 15, 1959; Elgin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1562380/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Elgin Public Library.