The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 31, 1966 Page: 2 of 16
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DO YOU REMEMBER?
A Tired American
I am a tired American. I am tired of
being called the ugly American. I'm tired
of having the worn I panhandlers use my
country as a whipping boy ,')6f> davs a
year.
I am a tired American
-weary of hav-
- * "in i ii ui■--r# * iii > in inn •
ing American embassies and information
centers stoned, burned, aiul sacked by
mobs operating .under orders from dic-
tators who preach peace and breed con-
flict.
I am a tired American—weary of being
lectured by Lien, de Gaulle (who never
won a battle) who poses as a second
Jehovah in righteousness and wisdom,
I am a tired American—weary of Nas-
ser and all the other blood-sucking
leeches who bleed Uncle Sam white and
kick him on the shins and yank his
beard if the flow falters.
1 am a tired American—weary of the
beatniks who say they should have the
right to determine what laws of the land
they are willing to obey
I am a tired American—fed up with the
mobs of scabby faced, long-haired youths
and short-haired girls who claim they
represent the “new wave” of America
and who sneer at the old-fashioned vir-
tue* of honesty, integrity, and morality
on which America grew to greatness.
I am a tired American—weary unto
death of having my tax dollars go to
dictators who play both aides against
the middle with threats of what will
happen it we cut off the golden stream
of dollars.
I am a tired American—who is tired
of supporting families whr) haven’t
known any other source of income other
than Government relief checks for three
generations.
I am a tired American—who is getting
madder' by the minute at the frith ped-
dlers who have launched Americans in
an obscenity race—who try to foist on
us the belief that filth is an integral part
of culture—in the-arts, the movies, litera-
ture, the stage.
I am a tired American—weary of the
bearded bums who tramp the picket
lines and the sit-ins—who prefer Chinese
Communism to capitalism—who see no
evil in Castro, but sneer at President
Johnson as a thread to peace.
I am a tired American—who has lost
all patience with that civil lights group
which is showing propaganda movies oil
college campuses from coast to coast.
Movies denouncing the United States.
Movies made in Communist China.
I am a tired American—who is anger-
ed by the self-righteous breast-beater
THE ROCKDALE REPORTER
W. H. COOKE & SON. Publisher* •
critics in America, at home and abroad
who set impossible yardsticks for the
United States but never apply the sann
standards to the French, the British, th.
Russians, the Chinese*
I am a tired American —sickened by
the slackjawed bigots who wrap them-
selves in bedsheets in the dead of night
and roam the countryside broking for in-
nocent victims.
I am a tired American who dislikes
( lei gymen who nave mad* a cai ei out
oi integration causes, yt t semi flieli <
dren to private schools.
I am a tired American who resents
those who try to peddle the belief in
schools and colleges that capitalism is a
dirty word and that free enterprise and
private initiative are only svhonvms for
greed. x~
They say they hate capitalism, but they
are always right at th%-bcad of the line
fipmun/linu ihpir uKnro vif ihn Amprimn
F E A
TUF
10, 20 and 40 Years Ago
---FROM THE FILES OF THE REPORTER—r--
X—«UCKT>ALE (Tex.) REPORTER
March 31. 1966
demandmg-lbem-s&mArl -the jVmerican-
way of life. „
I am a tired American—real tired of
those'who are trying to sell me the be-
lief that America is not the greatest Na-
A TIRED FARMER IN A SILLY WORLD
TEN YEARS AGO
Ton years ago manpower
figures showed that the total
number of workers at AleotVa
if' t-kdalo Works, including In-
dustrial Generating Co., was
1552. Of that number (<02 lived
in Hoekdaie, 1GC employment
was 355 with ll!>7 at Alcoa.
discharged Navy pilot, and
Crittenden was a recently-
dischurged gunnel in the Naval
Air Force.
road, was being used in the
testing.
Ten yqais ago' Rockdale
schools entered a finr.l pha*e
of a construction program with
groundwork under way on an
addition to the new elementary
school. The junior high build-
ing was also scheduled to be
lvnovated.
Twenty years ago The Rock-
dale Memorial Company was
opened here by J. B. Newton,
Don Luc key and Edward Luc-
ke.v.
Twenty years ago the RHS
Tigers were concluding spring
grid tmining with a game to be
played against former RHS
footballers.
Forty years ago Guy Cly-
more, mine superintendent of
the Big Lump A Texas Coal
Company, was killed when he
fell under the wheels of a coal
car while the mine-turn local
was kwitrhing e-t the Texas
Coal Company mine two miles
east of Rockdale. He was rid-
ing on the end of a partially
loaded cai when hr lost his
grip and fell under the wheels.
jng to rest awhile before re-
bniting witch the thought hit
Dear editar:
T was sitting'on n bank do-
ing a little fishing the other me
day when I noticed an interest- What’s the matter with
ing item in a newspaper I'd American industry, why not an
tion in all the World—a generous-hearted brought along to sit on in c;;*-c electric fishing pole?
Nation—a Nation dedicated to the policy the ground was damp. stmuldn't b# hard to build,
of trying to help the “have nots” achieve According to it, an Italian r|VH.t,.ic motoi to reel in
some of the good things that our system fir,n is now making a battery- .your line if you use reel,
of free enterprise brought about. powered I'ork that automati- another motor to cast your bait
I am nn American u-hr. tfote -i lnmn in <all-v w'nf1' up spaghetti. with ;1 small computer in the
hi1 fin Ht Whfn ht ’rc K An cloc’tric fork, well ,why^aiuUo t(). aim it automatically
his throat when he ht ais the Star- not, if you re going to tackle aftPr n range-finder has indi-
Spangled Banner and who holds back spr-ghetti, and that got mo to t.atpd whcre it should be toss-
tears when [he hears those chilling high listing all the other things in t,(1 , fu.r V()U, sni:,n radar TCt
notes of tho. brassy trumpets when Old that line, like the electric carv- has shown where the fish are
Glory reaches the top of the flagpole. the electric tooth hiding.
I am a tired American who thanks a citric MMmSf th.rek5fS . As for electric canc pole,
merciful Lord that he was so lucky to blanket, the electric baby t»d M
be born an American citizen—a Nation that tilts or vibrates at the h°t R<>h>« to be easy for si lence
under God, truly with merev and justice push of a button and rocks the J' '1' '',"’11,'"' .^,1'.!* k 1hc
for all.—Alan Mrtrloah. H.,-k Cmmty S6 ol«Wr'S5Klar ’a X
Herald, Luverne. Minn. . (l sh. washer.s/*fec* the meantime science can cer-
? oP^ated ccr windows, . ;m etectric fUh
electric garage doors, electric ,
chafisT well I won't go iriTo t •
that, electric can openers, ctoo 1 C!in ’ think of a single rea-
tri'c- )x»g trough warmers, dec- Pon why in this modern age
trie . . , but about that time sconce can't do something to
1 got a bite and propped tiie lake the drudgery out of fish-
„ newspai>er and grabbed my hig.
conditions, and the number continues to p,,|e. if you don’t like to fish, have
increase, despite progress in science, it was a fairly large fish and you thought of perfecting an
techniques and research? I got him to the bank all right electric golf stick?
Included in this number arc 300.000 and on my Stringer, and was Yours faithfully,
children of school age. Crippling is one catching iny breath and decid- J. A. .
of the state’s greatest health problems. "
The Texas Easter Seal Society says
that the enormity of the problem under-
lies the urgency of the annuaFEaster Seal
Appeal which began March 1 and con-
tinues through Easter Sunday, April 10.
More than 14.000 children and adults
are receiving a variety of services from
the Easter Seal Society and its affiliates
Ten years ago Jim Sonntag
wa$ elected president of the
Rockdi le P-TA; J. JR. Yeager
was named president of the
Chamber of Commerce; and A.
K. Menke was named president
"tv fthe Lions Ctirtv
Twenty years ago three Cam-
eron boys were killed when
light plane they had rented in
Temple crashed near Yanell-
ton. The three were Dougin*
Lee Houston, Gillis Graham,
and Edward R/ Dodson.
Ten years ago Carl Black
was seeking re-election as
sheriff.
Twenty _yoars ago Bill Mor-
rison was sacking the office
of County Attorney.
Ten years ago baking-ln was
started on the new sixth pot-
line ut Alcoa’s Rockdale Works,
w ith production in ihe line due
b.v the end of the week.
Ten ye; rs ago work was In
progress on a $70,000 educa-
tional building at First Baptist
Church.
Ten yeais ago W. T, Pearson
Jr; was named president ol’ the
newly organized Babe Ruth
League.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Forty years ago Judge Ed
Gunn, for 14 ye; rs justice of
the peace here and known as
"Rockdale's Marrying Justice.”
announced lie would retire and
not seek re-election.
Forty years ago the TGN
Railroad was testing lignite as
a locomotive fuel, using a
pa-tent stoker. A large Missouri
Pacific locomotive, laigest ever
run over tins division of" The
Forty years agi Rockdale
wrs set to, be host for the Mi-
lam County Interseholustic
League County Meet, a big
event in those days.
Forty years ago J. C.- Wilk-
erson was re-elected superin-
tendent uf the Rockdale
schools/ - ........... ,
Forty years ago Raymond
Dees wa.oa candidate for road
commissioner.
Forty years ago the resi-
dence of M. S. Cohn on North
Ackerman was destroyed by’
fire.
Forty years ago H. C. Meyer
was re-elected mayor unoppos-
ed; also unopposed for aider-
man, P. H. Perry and E. F,
Ousley; and E. T. Kemp, city
“secretary.
Easter Seals
Did you know that there are more than
1,500,000 Texans suffering from crippling newspapeV and
-NEWS FROM THE COUNTY AGENT—
Milam Agriculture
-By J. D. Moora-
TWEN.'Y YEARS AGO
Twenty years igo Boswell
Newton wrs elected mayor is
149 votes Wei;- cast m the city
primary. Mini Banning wns
named alderman succeeding M.
N. Strieker who did not seek
reflection after IK years ser-
vice. <S. E. Foster was re-elect-
ed alderman as was T- B.
Ryan. C. M. Perry wrs elected
city secretary, assessor 3iid
collector of taxes. John Weed
Bill Howell and Ernest Npack
were named to 1I.0 school
boaid, Noack replacing H. H.
Coffield who did not seek-re-
election after many years ser-
vice. The other two were re-
elected. -. ..
TAXATION WITHOUT
5 RENT
A SIMPLE. FAST VICTOR
ADDING MACHINE TO SOLVE
YOUR TAX PROBLEMS
Subucrlptlon Rnif«: By mail In Milam and adjoining
countie*: 1 year $3 50. Aoywherc else In Texan, 1 year
$4 00. Outside Trx.m, $4 <(0 year. By carrier boy home
delivery iu Rockdale only, 1 year $5.00.
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Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing
or reputation oi any permit, firm dr corporation, which
may appear In the column* of'The Reporler will t>o
g'adly corrected upon being brought to the attention of
Wie publisher..
W. H Cooke, Manager; J W ■ Bill) Cooke, Editor;
Menry Tyler, .Advertising Manager; lamer O. (Sam)
Summers, Mechanical Foreman; Peggy Cooke and Qracvr
Cooke, Woman'* Page Editor*; Helen Seelke and Dorris
Henry, liookkeepini' and Clawotied Ail Department; B ib
Fert-r and Ed'; an! Bonrd*. Typesetter*; Wendell D.\cr
and Roland Law on, Printer*.
■ntered a* second class matter July 10, 1902. at th#
po»« office at Rockdale. Texas, under the Act of March
a, iw. Puhlun-d Every Thur*day. • •
____ _______ __ _____ A peanut meeting held at on a slightly raised bed. Under
in'Texas The' Milam" County Crippled Rockdale last week pointed out irrigation plant on- 4-inch
f’hilriren’K Asuneintinn ic an nffili-ite wa-vs ,0 ‘^crease county yields height bids.
i ditn h As. c|ati Hi IS an aitltidte. f0u0WjRg improved prac- 6 Chemical control for
Ihe Easter Seals have been mailed in ticgg. The 1209 acres of Pea- southern blight—PCNB may be
Milam County. Your help,isf^iuvited and nuts planted in Milam County Ased to support ofiitr pro'due-
needed. ^ ^ in 1905 produced an average tion practices in helping to
*f yield of 599 pounds per acre, avoid Southern Blight dsfindfee
Thoughts of fear seem to crystallize acJ°LdinR ..to ^»rds in, thf where, irrigation; is avalfaW
into WMk and cowardly actions which
often solidify into failure; while thoughts Hen gpears, specialist in pea- th liable under non-irrigated
of courage and self reliance seem to nut production practices,, and conditions unh ;s yield poten-
develop into constructive habits, which Dr. Wendell"' Horne, plant tial is 6n bushels or more. Ap-
go far to insure success. ’ pathologist, stressed the follow- plv. 10 pounds technlfal^ rna-
__‘___.' ing steps to improve peauut terial per acre thoroughly.
rri l. » , , yields and quality: * mixed in the'soil at planting
The human tongue seems to run faster J , n.-tainm—aid*
Twenty years ; go Thelbert
Critti nden and C. E. Moses
opened the Crittenden & Moses
Flying Service one mile south
of Rockdale, with a Uvtee-run-
way lie Id. -The business was to
serve Rockdale ami Cameron,
and had the agency for Cessna
Aircraft. Both were RHS gradu-
ates, Moses was a recently-
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when the brain is in neutral.
L Rotation—aids in disease time,
control and effective fertilizer 7, Weed control—Recommen-
—-;—1--— use. Fertilize previous crop dations are available at the
One thing about ignorance—it causes at optimum level. - ■ county Extension office,
many interesting arguments. ' - 2 Fertilizer—Use soil te-t 8 Leafspot control—Dust
• _ recomnundgtibn. Apply broad- with ■ 15 lbs of sulphur per,
0 , . , , . i .t i prior to spring land pre- acre when spots begin to ap-
Some people want a job With a future, paratum. pear on lower leaves. Repeat
ofhers, a future without a job. 3. Land preparation—Deep application at 14 day intervals
~ - - ......' " ; — plow-Avilh moldboard to turn or at 7 day intervals if weather
——- | undt r s rfac-e trash and ferti- 1 we* «n.d humid. Inertase
lizcr. rate to 25 lbs. per acre for
4. Seed—Plant Starr, Argon- later applications,
tine, Dixie Spanish, or Spantcx 9. Insect control—The Guide
variety treated with Thiram for controlling insects is avail-
type fungicide. Certified seed able at the county Extension
will insure varietal pudity. office.
Use medium or larger size 10. Irrigation—Apply water
seed. Buy seed from a Tepu- after plants begin,, to bloom
table seedsman. when 50 per cent of the soil
5. Planting—Plant with rare moisture has been used from
to prevent seed damage. Plant the top 2 feet of soil.
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bi/ VaM Son/ohd
Otfidic Motor DM*IOA
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It’s 1968.
{Aren't you glad you bought a Pontiac?)
Sura you’re Qlad you pickad a Wida-Track
Catalina back in ‘06. Bacauaa year after
yaar tha record book shows Pontiac with
cna of the boat lasato valuas in the Industry.
After all, uaad car buyers 90 lor that hand-
some Ponfiac styling and lusty perform-
anca, too. For the steady Wide-Track ride,
and every thing else that has mads us third
in sales Ovary yaar since 1601. {We know it s
sum 06—situ time to price a Catalina.)
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Protecting Tent Bcttom
Damp ground quickly deter-
iorates the best of canvas floor
covering. However, if you use
forethought enough to cut an
old rug pad the size of the tmt
fiber you will save the,expen-
sive canvas.
Just lay the old pad on the
ground and. pitch your tent
over it.
Arrow Rett
You archers can make a
clean shot every time by us-
ing a tooth brush. Mount the
head of the toothbrush, cut off
just behind The bristles, on the
ledge of a center shot bow.
Toothbrush head makes a Hue
arrow rest.
Improvised Boat Beat
There naver teems to lie
enough room in a boat. Make
an extra aeat by whacking off
the legs of an old lightweight
chair to the proper height. Slip
rubber Ups on the decapitated
leg ends and you have a non
slip extra s4*a*.
Prelect Camera From Cold
J Nnr-l-tkjl muat sportsmen
j carry cam; rs* with them to re-
| cord their trip In freezing
weather the operation of *.< h
HMMSSHifltakMsMefM,
To prevail* pium shutter-
frees ing--a nil also keep your
] hand* warm—tape, a hand*
warmer tn the cMfcrra bottom,
| or I44t*.
I NIIIIm
Striking an overhead object
can seriously damage a high-
loaded trailer/ •
Such damage is uncalled for
if you will attach a long radio
antenna to your front fender.
Pull antenna out until tip ex-
tends at least six inches above
top of trailer load, then keep
your eye on this antenna.
If it clears an overhead
threat, so will your load.
T«nt Pol* Skid
Here’s a, new use for old hub
caps! ■
Carry one along with you on
your next camping trip and
place it under the center pole
of your umbrella tent. It will
prevent floor damage and pole
slipping.
And, if you don't use this
type tent, hubcap* make great
ash trays for any camp.
Murderous Malt
If you want a really deadly
bait, dip your bucktail lures in
sardine otl, The lunkor* can't
resist it
I.ANGUAGd PROIitJCMT—Th#
Reporter Dfflea baa pocket (**-
tionaries an Spanish-Englian.
<:. rman-Knillsh, French-Eng
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