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VOL? 92
THE ROCKDRLE REPORTER
Rockdale Messenger Established 1873
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ROCKDALE. MILAM COUNTY. TEXAS. THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1964
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NO. 29
That Jim, That's Cheer!
Jf S ALWAYS .t ph-.i ure to
mv Jim Knight come back
t*> vm> ri. »\ . n if only fur a brief
.....rmt:.......hkr fin r‘a\ fhc ATWTI
PH Hun wlv moved to !*.. i
L.i vAt a (iini: HurkiOdv. „{-w
has a good story up hi- s-lec* o.
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Fire Threat, Not Discoloration, is Big Danger
By W. H. C.
Wat<r u.-« i io! .r.. i but
one put o! Rockdale-■ \« del"
woe L< w Pressure trough.-
nr treating Fire risks in
several ar as including thi*
high -sr'iu il. Mi idovvbropk
Bap! i>« Church .it.-: S' J !iij* -
MethndM Chur, f*
This, in effect, is_wha_t
Miiyrr !, f M- * \. \ », .. j
Rockdale Fot;u inn. during
their club l iiirhrrn Tuesday
at Holley’:
Mehaffev aid (ha1 wafer
prer-lire wiH'fuliy weak
in places and that a lire a’
the wioug tltlie could be
dr astrous to area? laic-h nr
t e high -ch.o ul and tin: l a i
churches.
Regarding a possible bond
i; ue to finance cutes lor the
! ta ble-, Mch.iflcj ,(.i;d not
indicate that the cour; il is
contemplating any imme<h;ite
acUou lieuewcr.-lhi at . tun.-,
.1 ii t of water . ystem m ■ u-
tnendaiions from an i ngi> : r-
uig firm and the mayor said
that all. citizen shot;.hi be
interi it •:
Despite the critical needs
that tie outlined, M. at:e:>
nevertheless .said that th< city
should ••eunsiiier ear. . ML
and spend wisely.*’ In urg-
ing caution. he said the city
has paid $305+212 for debt
serucc ui the past,C,re... car,,
and that this amount r -d< ,.m-
cd only Sl'TJKM) m uu.n.d ,
The rest, $208,000+ will lor
interest.
On the other hand, Mo
half. y i d that the city is in
it' pi ak year a> far .. debt
set' ice is. cancer ed Here
lifter, the calc, start point-
ing down as iii,Urcat pay •
nfcm'.V'will b. li.-s.
r^rt? in u v. u iSfcri! 1 loir
engine r- have recommended
installing a number of 12-
inch mains tor the watci
. tan (j .■ ilislnbut.on
piebl.m He said the biggest
hr i in~..U;c. pre * n* s.y.».t«+tt.....w
t .gbt-iHeh
Also r*H-o/T,nteiided In the
engine-rim' firm which sur-
veyed tii city is tiw ms dila-
tion .. n. . fno imp guli tii
ground : 1 - age facility. Al-
though i he engineers did not
P'.-i.Hi i ut i n*N.-sMiy 4m a
i i w water well, C ity "Mgr, N.
K A Unset b-.rht.-v.*-* that a .-tew
well is nu.ch m.ded.
Cos-; of the storage tank
and tii. recommended new
main would run about Mft«>
o *0, and ;i new well about
IU0. U- wa i.siumUftd.—•
M rl: itf o • \ felt thts is a.....rittni-
nvjiii am* mt ru.■■cried and that
if a bond a sue is < died, the
on. unt will he increased to
tak. .an -.! lutun paving
. — .usmlu -—taiali
This- tlrrie it was' about the I
pig arid chicken on a long ho* J
tick down the rood. They tin
oily came to a small restauran* [
and decided to eat something
Tin- waiter said all he had was
ham and eggs and after
careful thought the chick-?!
that w--u
Id b<* okay But
pig wftsn't happy "To you
fold the
chicken, "this
o' a mca
i means only a
tributipr
To me it's total
i,, it men* ’
W:
» PR
a
liat t« prettv go<
? it's nothing cot
* nr '.v hii’h f j,;
-weet little old
haired lady She wa.? sitting
the race track pondering hoy
to place h tet and dev-tderi kv
woytd ri it scientific,.!!? Shi
folded up her program place*
it against the seat in front a
her. but her ryo. and plung
e«t her hat pin through it Sun
* nougfi die punched seven wr.
tier? aed the man who hat
dtti
tire •
cion
111 ptogre-
•g in from
t-und m the
From Jerry
•pHf RE PORTER’S
devil Jerry Maine-;
a note tht- week fr<
York where he had t«-en Uot*?ig
in the fair Jerry is attending
the National Boy Si out J am
h-nee Like any g«K»d r<-d-
h'rw. ien Rmfftrtfln Roy s. =-
Jerry allowed ir* hie note fha*
girl were the mam attraction
a' fhte Y".t fair *T walki-d about
20 mile# today in New York
C'lfi and' the fair.” he wrote,
continuing "Me? some me -
people Saw a couple from
Rock .‘tali’- TttWWfW we inUt
around New York City Haven t
seen the sain ».inr*‘ we te‘'“
Iowa Well it’.* about bedt-m*
a- d we have a lot of walking
to do tomorrow Yours in-
telfectuaHy. Jerry ‘
VERDICT POSSIBLE TONIGHT
Shuffield Trial Near
End in Georgetown
i jurors were picked from a
special venire of 50 men
Tne jury was nut completed
until about 8 p m. Tucsda*
■ hen R W Rh iad. - « t 1 a> i
: bn amt* the 12th j .i os. Other
turor: are Hay Iserpee, Donald
j J.sa-ck. G 1 I’avy Taylor;
Wultti Kokcl. H. H Brock and (
Edu m v’inthcr, Gem g. towi:. 1 ;
P M m u and i). F. i i ider. !
Lcander; S C Inman Jr..:
Re^i'R#-,Rw,fr""* f1
veil: and T F. Statiu - Thrall. •
Jurors were nfit q-j-ittfied on’,
the death penalty However, i
the defense mdie.it "d that Slant ,i
i ieW ill M-t-k a 'impended
sent i net
W< (hu-sd iy
aMci nr -n Del, :v c j
Whetlus
vl
mt ;n ’•
U’ m*
ck
<R
witnes-M: u
o rc being heard to- !
Sbuft teid's
1 );
ik Gro-
t Inn
m
•'U
day, witli ‘!
ac rnd r.i U. sumony j
Hf.ckfl tic
on 12
:w n
and the ju
r> charge ex|.<crtc«l
Oc' I.H* :* 1
3
died ;r
\ Sc?
•n
A-j
today
\V (■ itc Ih-
■pit
ai. Fur
U>lc.
Shu! i sold
has bet-r. -ndictixl
si' hi-ui-
lat
•r.
M0E PERRY RESIGNS
Trustees Set
Local School
Tax at SI.33
School trustees ha\T ad
a ta>. ra'e ol ?1 83 pi r
\nkntions for the Hoc
IndeiH-ndent SchfK.l I";
l'c-r the erwing year Sn
M. M,iiirmati h.r- anno
. TuLiT y itibWtUniMVt oM*. 4,4.
38(1. tic said.
Bloodmobile G<=>ts 35
optjr*
It j The rate ii
the same rate
■ I that lias ijee1
in effect lor
kda 1 -
xevora! years
in the district.
. The district r
hov in cluck s the-
! u-rmor Sharp
rmal school dIa-
n. ed
1 ind which e
ns- lid.ated with
t JUSAua
; i l j i!».
y ---n
Ttrfrtr^ftr
don.ri- n
a. F’. COOK
Captain, AF Reserve
receiv t*d
by Hu-
Red Cross
Hloodiru.
bilc dun:
ig its visit at
In-l-i'1 ri;
l Gcnorai
u ic Cor ipanv
Wcuno-d
ay. ofl'i, ;
■11 s reported
tom pi
( i- ii' c
! i<-iuns and
.* '0 krl'S
week
will :jr p,
.itiiisfivti next
|X
[ h j t <
’U lab
charge assault-
to-murder
In the first trial
which < ruled F -
medic j' test nr nr: v
:i Cameron,
)i uat'y 2H,
was , n’ro-
ot M-ed that relat'd the cause «C
\Vheel’,u- death !<> rmitiention'} Soeciat t- tu<- Riociacr
Tirrher tit am the g instro? wttut
Local AF Reservist Said
One of Nation s Busiestf
. r ail 1
AIN T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN
I-Tgcnd hay it that century plants bloom only once
t*v<*rv 100 years However, this 20-foot-tall century
plant m front <»1 Old City Cemetery bloomed last
year and again this summer O B VlcNiel of Rock-
dale (above) has kept a < lose eye on the plants. The
one at left bloomed last year but not this year.
Henderson had sv'd that he
expected to intrixlucv le^timom
’/in’ would rent It m the niurdti
charge b ring lessen* <! to
a s » a j 1 t - with - intent - to
murder u ,th malice .ih-ie-
th might
The trial proceeding- .pcn.-l
Mondav. with two lull days re
,aired to select i 12-m nitaer
jury. A sfiecial venire ot !f>0 military seivice with
profpective juri»rs wt»« ex-1 tirement credit points
iiausted with only in juror'! tot himself and three
selected. The 11th and I2t.i' servists to «arn
S'! ATIO.N-—L;:rpt..
*{Byron F. Cook Jr of 339 Green
Street Rockdale, may bo the
busiest An Force Reservis* in
the nation
That’s the belief of the 94i 2th
Reserve Recovery Squadron at
Ew-'t'-iwood Airport ut College
Station viHV i e Tapi Coc-k ?rains
one week on I a month.
The Rockdale officer recent-
Iv oompleU c. his 22nd year
217 ie-
enough
other re-
go. d' re-
tirement j
trig ryfjrrit
per year. i
During th • year. Cap' Co"‘k
spent two eeks on active duty •
in training v rth the 9412th j
spent 42 Jays of par1-time :
weekend '.riming and e irnple1- |
ed 435 hours <u cortesporidcma j
stfid\ .it WV-e
"Captain Cook’s efforts lor :
- | self-improvement set a nc. re- I
f.eord in t lie :M12th and m.,y be j
- ; the ni- host n the nation ’ aid
Lt. Col. R:ih E. Miller. ..nil I
commander ’Miis ofiie r’. Re--)
dication and interest iu
When that boy gets bark on
the job bore I’ve got to bar e a
man to man talk with hm
There are »w>me questions. I.r- •
who were the two from R<»- k
dale ii* -aw1 And where did he
get his shoes half-soled , he
sc- -ftid da"- And ’ ■ -v. come ;c » fe-lfci fr->rn a! pvtM vid-
didn’t tel us mori ibout th« (Central Texaa area -i- -\
girls’’ Boy 5v'i>uts are just sup- fM - ted to enter the fust annual
posed to be interested in old, Rockdale Invitational Golf
fedirs ; Tournament which wtH fe r ire
_______ (more than $l,(M>0 in prires
| August 22-23 Bill Corbett.
RCC Plans Big Golf Tournament
There are Laws
MOTE to Mrs R L Hvdcr
The article you -mrit me to
print in The Reporter is a
syndicated mlurnn and covered
by copyrights But Art Ruch-
wald is a Vrrific writer and
that particular column is a
dilly
tourney chairman has anmninc*'
ed
The tournament, which will
become an annual event will i winners, and a shag bag for the
fc»e held on the new Rockdale i third-place winner ;
Country Club nine-hole course
which boasts watered fair-
waff and tiff greens T J
Kyle, grounds committee chair-
l man, said the course will be in
! excellent shape for the tourtii-
j menu
A new set of pmfessional
•*We then that are strong I iron*, valued it *154. will be
ought to bear the infirmities of g t \ e ri to the tournament
the weak and not to please our- medalist. Corbett said
selves. Let every one of u* ! There will bf? five flights,
please his neighbour for His i with a el <»f four woods to be
• l A set of professional irons
The .all also be a driving 1 also 150 given away on
contest, to in? conducted on the August 23.
No « fairway and a chipping; Corbett said that the entry
- df'est W 1>e F.Wd at No 7, fvc will lie ,+ix dollars and that
a pat three holy In each of d will include a barbecue din-
;ta <- contests the prises wilt 1 per Extra barbecue plates may
be i g.dt cart for the first- be purchased at $l.5b each
wtmvers, a set of wood Breakfast will also be available j of 1963. It is a par-37 layout j throughout Central Tex a
at tin- club house on August 23. with two par-3 holes, three par- participate on August 23 ('or-
tho day that out-of-town golfers 5 hole', and jour par-4 holes It bet? s lid that pla\ will begin
play Club members are 1 was designed b> Frank Howard, j at daybreak
ar Minirrurr, tyun- Force Reset-,« have be j- -o
nvu's .,!* ;>(! p..mt> ■ sti'irn-'-nUi:) r,:. :'u . readme.:s ri
j this recovery unit.”
A power plant operator for
Industria! Goneratiog C->mpany
in Rockdale, Cook serves as on- j
the-job training officer for the !
9412th H*. upervi.se- training''
for the 60-man unit which is
one of 200 .squadrons manning
pre-strike dispersal and post- j
strike recovery sites for tactical j
aircratt. |
The father of four children,!
Cook was graduated from i
Greenwood (Louisiana' High I
School and attended Baylor t
University and the University {
of Texas.
His military schooling in-
cludes Officer Candidate School. !
Squadron Officer's Course anti !
Command and Staff College j
Course.
•Cook enlisted, n the Army ■
Air Force in 1942 and served ;
as a 1--17 aerial gunner during
World War II. His warttrm dv-
Moormvi also announced that
the annua! school budge' moot-
ing and hearing ha- been
, schetfu! d foi s\ gust 20 At
that tint* the budget for the
1964--65 .school year will be
; k:i malls adopted.
' Th< .‘.upenntcnder.t esLmat*
d 1 hal tin budget * vpen.-i.tuivs
sv:!I run about >6*4,0(H). is’pr -
, . ct,ng an uicren v of ab<»ut
M9.ilhO o\ ■; i the euneilt budget
■ ’ .s -i about S(;25.uOti.
M C. <Nlo( 1 Berry, schoofe
i heard ureridi nt who is moving
, t* 'I nut-see in August, haw,
no died his forma! resign>-
;-----------
J u n . o r-h i g h summer
school schedules, plus the
start of summer band re
hcars-als, have been an-
r.cunccd. See page 6.
} -k n » f.h<: board H-t> rif.tfefifflC
I has not been named.
The resignations of Bt njamfn?
| and Nanev Jo Timmons* from
| the Ay cock faculty have hem
j accepted by the trustees, and
; Lula Mae Yanry has been*
11retort L " < \vcock faculty .
M u >rj 11 a n ■< ma. .............
Air
City Adds
Land for
Cemetery
by BILI COOKE
f>wr e
('(‘Xern loi the*
asked to play their tournament golf arch it vet **f Corf hi* Christ!
round on Saturday, August 22 j who also designed Austin's now
"Personal carts will be per- Morris Williams municipal
milted during the tournament. course
• *nd rental carts will be avail- u- r,nk„ h !
able " Corbett said ‘ 1 ^ Loekdak Coun- j t*nr»tiona include the Air Meda
amt, v. ortH.it sam. | try Club president, said that with
Rockdale's new golf course the tournament will become an j valoi
■period for play in September j annual event. Golfers from bat
will
BIBLE VERSE
lgi*»
ge<Kt to edification For even
Christ pleased not Himself; but.
as it ii written, the repr* a-.hes
of them that reproaehe'f The-
fell on Mr” —Romans 15.1-3
given to the winner in each
flight The second-place prize
in each flight will be a golf
bag. ind a dozen golf bails will
be go on to the third-place
THE REPORTER S
Footnotes
Honry A. Burqevin of Rockdale who attended the
publican National Convention at San Francisco presents an
eye-witness account ot thi "big show" in a story on page 7.
He a'so gives some of his personal views aooui ihe convention
in a letter to the editor, page lb
★
Mr*. Oaear Groat left Friday night with her daughter and
family. Mr. and Mra. Bob Parrish, tor Newark, Ohio, where
the\ will visit Mrs. Gross’ sen and family, Mr. and Mra.
Chartoa Groaa . . . Mr. and Mra. Robart Hord and tarns Navin,
Robbia. Trivia and Mika are vacationing in Alcoa. Tennessee.
Their trip was alao scheduled to include Cleveland, Ohio . . .
Mr. and Mra. Bill Gnisandori and daughters Backy and Connie
are back at home in Rockdale after a stx-week stay In Austin
where the local band director has been working on his master’4
degree at UT.
★
Interested in the city water issue” Who isn’t?
attention is kindly invited to an editorial, page lb.
Visiting in th- home of their parents, the Bennie D. Wil-
liams. last week were Charles and Kitty Hubert. David and
Carol of Houston, and Frank and Shirley Chmelar, Kim and
bee FOOTNUTfcb, page 1
Your
uiv^uf«r SUui I’huui
NEW ROCKDALE COUNTRY CLUB GOLF COURSE TO HOST FIRST INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT AUGUST 22-2S
Hundreda ol Control Texas goliara oxpactad to play the RCC links that feature watered ieirways and till greens
City omm-ulmm. in vesrion
last Tttevdav. wad-d through
everything from i propi*- m} to
beautify Ham Branch to the
problems of stray dogs within
th* ( Vt y limits. .......www
But arrnd all the discussions
*ne oak leaf cluster for i the council took two much
and the European Com- • reeded tetws They voted to
,,. Theatre Medal with four j bu\ property .idjoinmg the
" j bronze stars for engagements i IOOF c-,' .uMery, i move with
in Normandy. Northern France, the lutiu- in mind, arid they
See COOK, page 4 * voted to install three 13-minute
----——..—---------J parking signs at the Lucy Hill
Fatten on Memorial Library
The parking signs will tie
priced n front of the library-
on Ackerman Street. Parking
•paces are always ssaiee thetwv
,.nd it i.s hoped that library
patrons will have easier access
with Lie new parking regula-
tion.
Mrs H G. Perry met with
the council and made the re-
quest for the parking signs in
ehaif <1 the Patterson Labi ary
board.
Howell Ni wion appeal, rt at
the council ngardng the Butch,
MrUoy prefu liy which adjoins
the IOOF -Oddfellows' Ome-
let v Newton, in behalf of
Phillips 52 Luekey Company
which takes an interest in the
local cemeteries, urged that th©
cit.v purchase the property.
The council gieed that the
cemetery will same day bo
crowded and land will l>c need-
ed They also agreed that the
removal *<f varic ^ couipmcnt
located un the jm pertv will
’ ; gn itly beautify the cemetery
ir< a.
« »n a motion by Alex McLeod
j and a second by Preston Perry,
> the aldermen v oted unanimous-
I !y to purchase the property at
f a cost ot SSOfK).
Abo, the council voted to
fence the Gar/a Eirtatc \vhieh>
adjoins the Negro cemetery.
The e tale wax purchased last
y ear bv the city to provido
extra room in the Negro buriak
ground
The fencing contract waa
given to T. P. Springer, chain-,
link fercr com|>an.v repteren-
lative. with the cost to run 5500.
C. F b ase* Jr. met with the
council and suggested that the
city consider ways to besutify
Ham Branch through the city*
S ggesteri were the imtailatiors
ot dams’, water rontrol aB4
See CITY ADDS, paga I
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