The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 11, 1957 Page: 1 of 8
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THE ALTO HERALD
isheJ )896
Alto, Texas, Thursday, Juiy ) !, ] 957
Number 5
a.^ VIEWPOMTS DM McKE BEM
BAMEXPLAMEBBYWHITEMM
By Frank
That ts one ques-! I" efforts to build the
hot." mat <s f... i - - -una me 126.000-, vide enough water for a!) m-
^ v,,ucan fmd a ready ,acreMcGee Fiend dam instead of ciuding the coasta) industries
is so hot that the [a tower dam which would in-'until t 'ndustnes.
Ct !t
p the highways is buck-
undateonly 8H.f)00 acres. Gus
Whiteman. Alt;), sees a conflict
between private enterprise and
centralized government.
Speaking before the Hotary club
inJacksonviile Friday at noon,
Whiteman. president of the Nechcs
River Conservation District, pro-
tessedtoseemore than electric
power involved in the dispute
over the size of the project. He
^yuu going to answer mat catled it .. symboi of the "tremen-
dous undercurrent" in the nation.
^ ^ tic said the smatler was promoted
who]]y within the district, to
serve the district, and the larger
project promoted wholly without
the district.
He referred to the targe indus-
tries of the Guif coast as so
anxious to get the take they have
been persuaded they must take
the power project with it.
The danger to
Whiteman said, is the fact that
the additional 40.000 acres is fine
timber lands, needed not only
now but in future generations. He
snid the.smaller dam would pro-
Man ) tnc more grave) the
^§()ii)."'t'"cnt puts on them
L;, ;!" more they buckle.
qu< tion you might ask
H,,w would you iike to
, p per. even a weekly,
[the weather is at this
E] -tart a conversation
:h,'f<rtthm;;
t)y^Nsked *s "Aint it hot.
^^yuu going to answer that
Air .liril^whistle you hear
!in Alto throughout the
that the Canning piant
tti: Quite a fcwdullars
k ring turned loose here,
h- ,,:nong the colored pop-
[T i- is helping those who
Brgc tomato crop left in
after the shipping sea-
t&tn t vouch for his religious
it is a common thing to
Schochler down on his
,-umcof the buildings
isatks around Alto. It de-
Hgtwl trait to say the least
see one of our leading
gg about town with a
on his face, think no-
j it. He lost a large sum of
BGood hard cash out of his
frucsday. Best information
tci that it was more than
Because our information
Krcliable, we are going to
lit. tndwearestiildoubt-
ht i thousand dollars being
} this section.
*
are still talking about
Highway 21 between
the Angelina river. Wc
en writing about this
if.r two years and a half.
Ji ..iil be done some time
f' M' next hundred years.
*
i! "fk at our centra) loca-
ii' setting between I)al-
ii uston. Beaumont and
'' Tyler and Lufkin.
ad Nacogdoches and
Let's also take a
jt <' daily press of Tuesday
that Ideal Baling
i building a $15,000
^ .< t of Nacogdoches
J*' s 2). The building will
Mi. in size and wilt be
"!'.v station for six
inn bread tnNacogdo-
Tyler and Dallas.
' thought to 'he now
r for delivery in Doug-
tlcmphill. Tinipson
well as Nacogdo-
JMt a iittle fore-
warehouse could
''It in Alto, but no-
' t' to think al)out it
' "too small" for a
Commerce.
COUNTY OKAYS
VALUATION
H!KE
untii the year 2000.
Whiteman referred to a mys-
terious "they" as being a sinister
group in Washington bent on de-
stroying private enterprise and
individual initiative in favor of
power projects, like McGee Bend
and Hell's Canyon.
He compared the undefined au-
thority to Bud Wilkerson's foot-
ball coaching at Oklahoma uni-
versity, "just a step ahead ail the
time, determined to defeat every-
thing in its path."
He called the power phase a
"useless waste of money and na-
tural resources,"
The nation, he said, is "men-
tally ill and in need of a spirit of
fight for iiberties and freedom,
to stand up and fight for what is
right."
The mystery forces are mak-
East Texas ^aves °ft;he People* IVhitg-
the fact that ^ called on att to
rally and fight to "save your
children from slavery."
Whiteman said much of the
big-dam advocacy was criticat of
Ernest L. Kurth. Lufkin lumber-
man and industriaiist, whom
! Whiteman lauded as "one of the
greatest living Americans, a man
jwho has created employment for
j thousands, and contributed much
j to the progress of the area."
Kurth, he said, does have pine
timber land in the area, but is
fighting for more than that. Ac-
tually the U.S. Forest Service
has 26,000 acres of profitabie
timber lands which wili be taken
in by the dam project, Whiteman
related. He called the forest the
government's most profitabie
undertaking.
Roy Forrest, program chair-
man, presented Whiteman. Sum-
mers A. Norman presided for the
first time as president of the
ciub, urging fuil attendance.
Guests included Royce Wisen-
baker, Tyler engineer, and Orvai
Jones, attorney.
The Cherokee County commis-
sioners' court wortked short-hand-
ed at its regular monthly meeting
Monday when Commissioner L. L.
Etheridge underwent surgery
earlier in the day in a Jackson-
ville hospital.
Because of Etheridge's illness.
the court transacted onty routine
business and postponed until a
later date final work on. tax
equalization.
The court:
Heard approval of a totat of
$714,000 in increased tax valua-
tions for the next fiscal year on
utilities and other special proper-
ties (oil lands). This was the first
phase of the county's tax structure
considered by the court in session
during June as the board of
equalization.
Renewed for one year the con-
tract of Pritchard and Abbott.
evaluation engineers for spccia! .
properties. Directors of the Rusk Cham-
Approved final payment of $(!.- ber of Commerce arc going all-
out to help Cherokee farmers
RUSK C-C TAKES
STEPS TO !NSURE
TOM MARKET
Sy ; Sixty-first Holcomb
Reunion Juiy 16-17
Marriage Licenses:
Vernell Jones and Biiiy Jo
Beard.
J. L. Richardson and Gertie
Marie Chandler.
Lynfonza Guy Haynos and
Miliy Jean McCail.
County Court Civ)) Cases:
Air Conditioning Training Co.,
vs. James McBride, Joseph F.
Kreger, and MaM* T. Strother,
action for debt.
Cases Filed in District Court:
Frankie Barbara Lee Green vs.
Donovan Bethune Green, divorce.
Cynthia Beth (Burns) Lang-
ston vs. Jerry Lee Langston, di-
vorce.
Judgments Entered in
District Court:
Waiter J. Roark granted a di-
vorce from Gladys Holland Roark.
Minnie Beth Kennedy granted a
divorce from A. J. Kennedy.
DECKER WELL
MADE 50
BARRELS
Official gauge on a new Chero-
kee County oii discovery four
mites northwest of Atto was re-
ported Tuesday.
B. G. Byars' No. 1 E. M. Decker,
Jr., in the Crenshaw survey
pumped 50 barrels of 32 gravity
crude in 24 hours from an open
hole. It made 20 per cent water
on the test. Pay was topped at
5,285 feet and the hole driiled to
5,288 feet. Gas-oil ratio was 200
to one.
The wildcat strike is three and
three-quarter miles south-south-
east of the William Wise Woodbine
oii pooi and is across a fautt
from the established field.
903.49 to HiHcncamp Engineering
company of Jacksonville for the
new courthouse air condition.ng
system.
Extended from July 15 for an-
other year the county's participa-
tion in the surplus commodities
sell their late tomato crops.
Chamber of Commerce Man-
icci Clyde Baker said agricul-
tural economist J. Pcrrin Willis
of Ru k learned in a telephone
conversation with the U. S. De-
program through which surplus^,.^.,,,^^ of Agriculture in Wash-
f - AT
BAPTIST
!
o
SUNDAY
tnvited to attend a
Missionary Baptist
^ ' Sunday afternoon,
to 4:00 o'eiock.
t Brunncr of Jasper.
Misses Janice and
' 'c of Alice, spent
he Clayton Duns-
' iting their daugh-
' Mrs. James Hay
'"is staying with
Dunsmore and at-
hen F. Austin State
in Nacogdoches.
-!!<
' !!lack entered Rusk
'i'al Tuesday night,
' undergo surgery
t'ting.
H, :
I yon entered Nan
! at Jacksonville
^ 'ere she will under-
' ''day morning.
,' ' Mickey left Wcdnes-
^ 'Pcka, Kansas, where
^ !" ad an extended visit
'T, Mrs. C. W. Cams.
§i!i
foods are distributed to needy
families once a month.
County Judge J. W. Chandler
noted, however, that the program
will continue oniy as thes.'
surplus commodities are made
available by the government in
its efforts to stabilize farm prices.
Mrs. Tish Smith is director of the
program in Cherokee County.
Approved the filling of
ington. D. C.. that only California,
Maryland and Virginia now are
getting tomatoes on the market.
WiMis reported that Hurricane
Audrey and its accompanying
storms destroyed most of the crop
in other states.
The Rusk Chamber of Com-
merce will act as a clearing house
for information and attempt to
bring buyers and seilers to-
vacanciosm the office of Tax As-making the program
two
Single
theof-
sessor-Collector WMtcis
tarV. Named deputies in
!ice were Mrs. Hay Smith and Mrs.
Mary Frances Hall, who will as-
sume their new fluties July 15.
Judge Chandler reviewed the
state's agreement to share ui
right-of-way purchase costs tor
U S. Highway M and State High-
way 21.
Chandler earlier had received
the state that it will
cent of the
countywidc.
notice from
contribute 50 per
money paid out for right-of-way
on the two projects after June
23. The ciunt.v is to make the
purchases after which thtstatL
will remit 50 per cent of the cost.
Payment is expccted sometime
next spring.
Men mr.v "vc to be
old in the future, according to Dr.
Edward L. Bortz. former prest-
dent of the American Mcdtcal As-
sociation.- Jacksonville Daily
Progress.
Cherokee County
Extension News
Mr. E. M. Trcw, Agronomist,
Agriculture Extension Service,
will bs guest speaker at Bulah,
Thursday, July i!, at 7:30 p. m.
The Bulah community won
third prize in the Pasture Im-
provement Contest, sponsored by
the Texas Plant Food Educationai
Society and Extension Service.
On behalf of the two sponsoring
agencies. Mr. Trcw will present
Bulah community with a certifi-
cate and check for $65.00.
* * *
Linwood community wilt hold
their regular monthly meeting
Tuesday, July 16, at 7:30 p. m.
The man or woman who is able
to control desires and restrain
appetites will not need old age
pensions in later life.
Leaders Named For
TB Society !n
County Work
The Board of Directors of the
Cherokee County Tuberculosis
Association held its regular quar-
terly meeting in the County Court
RoomatRusk, July3, at3:00p.
m. with Alvin Milstead presiding.
Sixteen board members were
present to hear the president ap-
point the following new commit-
tees:
Case Finding with Mrs. Vir-
ginia Braun, R. N., Jacksonville;
Mrs. Bruce Slover, Dialviile;
Clyde Poore, Alto; Mrs. C. J.
Iiarkins, Rusk; and Mrs. Albertha
Armstrong, Ru^k.
Publicity with John Allen Tem-
pleton. Jacksonvilie; Mrs. Ralph
Kcsler, Jacksonville; Mrs. Charles
Dial. Jacksonville; Mrs. Grady
Singletary, Alto and John C. Wil-
liams, Jr., Rusk.
Nominating Committee with}
Robert Banks. Rusk; Mrs. Terry
Perkins, Ponta; Mrs. E. B. Lewis,
Jadk'sonviHe; Mrs. Ralph Kcsier,
Jacksonvilie and Hubert Owen,
Jacksonville.
The Medical Advisory Board is
appointed by the County Medical
Society with Dr. R. E. Rossman,
Alto; Dr. Floyd H. Grigham,
Rusk and Or. G. W. Bllbro, Jack-
sonville, the appointees.
The board voted to assist in any
way possible the establishment
of a County Health Unit.
Three famiiies were given
tuberculin tests the past week
with two members of one family
showing p<'sitive reaction. These
persons will be given free x-rays.
Medical aid was furnished for
one patient who had been released
from the East Texas Tuberculosis
Hospital at Tyler
It was noted that Mrs. Ralph
Kesler will attend the Texas TB
Association's quarterly meeting
at Austin on July 14.
Descendants of Texas pioneers
Joseph and Zack Holcomb wili
meet Juiy 16 and 17 at Cold
Springs, near Alto, for their an-
nua! reunion. Family pride, ioy-
alty, unity of spirit, and just piain
curiosity about what has hap-
FOUR MEN
CALLED FOR
THIS MONTH
Austin.—Cherokee County Local
Board No. 19 will forward four
(4) men for Induction into the
Armed Forces on August 6, 1057;
no men wiii be forwarded for
Armed Forces Physical Examina-
tion during the month of August.
The state quota for Texas draft
boards in August calls for 547
men, Colonel Morris S. Schwartz,
state Soiective Service director,
said Wednesday.
The state's August call of 547
compares with a quota of 661 for
July and June and 662 for May.
The August cali is the state's
share of a national call for 11.000
men. The nationai call was 13,000
in Juiy.
At the same time he announced
the August quota for induction,
Coionel Schwartz also announced
acailfori,561mentotakepre-
induction physical and mental
examinations in August.
The men to be examined wiil
come from approximately half
the local boards. Those not re-
ceiving such a cail in August wiii
receive one in September.
Local board quotas for the Au-
gust induction and pre-induction
examination are scheduled to be
mailed by state Selective Service
headquarters Wednesday.
The August quota will be filled
with men who are at least 22
years old on August 1, with the
exception of volunteers or delin-
quents, who may be younger.
CHURCHOF
CHR!ST REVIVAL
BEGMSJULYI5
A series of gospel meeting will
begin at the Church of Christ in
Alto Monday, July 15 and will
continue through July 21st.
Bro. Ben A. Thomasson of
LaPorte wit! do the preaching.
Services at 8:00 o'c!oc)k each
evening.
There wi!! a!so be singing at
the church Sunday, July 14, at
2:30 p. m. The public has a cor-
dial invitation to attend a!l these
services.
pened to everyone since last year,
bring them together each year.
They visit, chat and sing as well
as spread a bountifu! tabic under
the trees at mealtime.
A number through the years
have been camping out overnight
to add to the fun. There is also
a sadness midst ati the gaiety as
toved ones are mentioned /vho
have passed on during the pre-
vious months. The real feeting of
"reunion" comes with the realiza-
tion that members are gone, but
new ones are growing up within
the famiiy circle who wiil add
their personal touch to the mem-
ories being buiit. There are a few
remaining who remember at! the
past 60 reunions, and all are
looking forward to this one. J.
C. Holcomb of Alto, who serves
as President, is expecting a large
attendance this year.
NEWECGLAW
W!LL EFFECT
TEXANS
The Texas Egg Law, which be-
comes effective in a few weeks,
wii! have probably a more far-
reaching impact on the citizens of
Texas as a whole than any agri-
cultura! legisiation of recent
times.
Although reguiations will ex-
tend to certain areas of the egg
industry itself, the effect of the
!aw will be fe!t not only by pro-
ducers and other industrymen, but
by consumers as well. And the ef-
fect wii! be a good one.
What the law actuatly does is
to stop misrepresentation of in-
ferior eggs as quaiity merchan-
dise and to piace emphasis on ac-
curate product !abelling of quaiity
eggs and a better product for con-
sumers.
This is accomplished through a
system of egg grading which re-
quires aii eggs offered for saie to
consumers through retail outicts
to be accurately iabeiled accord-
ing to size, grade and condition of
freshness.
Smatl Producers Are Protected
Heretofore, labeiling of eggs as
to grade and condition was a
free and open affair with no re-
course available even in the most
flagrant violations. The new stan-
dards require that no egg betow
actual "A" quality be sold or ad- I
vertised as fresh, selected, infer-
FORESTRY
CAMP NEAR
W00DV!LLE
A forestry camp will be con-
ducted near Woodvilie, August
19-23 for FFA and 4-H Ciub boys,
R. M. Townsend, president of the
Texas Forestry Association an-
nounced today. The camp wiil be
conducted jointiy by the Texas
Forest Service and the Texas
Forestry Association, with the as-
sistance of garden clubs, civic
clubs, and Chamber of Commerce
groups sponsoring individual boys.
The young tree farmers will re-
ceive practical forestry training
that can be apptied on their own
farm woodlands. The camp is de-
signed to provide boys who are
interested in forestry with first-
hand knowledge of recommended
methods of growing, improving,
and utiiizing farm woodlands. Ail
campers will take written tests
over the instruction received.
Prizes will be presented to the
campers making the highest
grades. Instructors at the camp
wilt include graduate foresters
from the Texas Forest Service and
forest industries. William A.
Smith of the Texas Forest Ser-
vice will serve as Camp Director.
In addition to the practical
forestry training, camp activities
wiil include a weil planned rec-
reation program and citizenship
training to occupy the campers
between instruction periods. The
1957 forestry camp is the 12th
camp of its kind. More than 750
young Texas tree farmers have
previously received the benefit of
this forestry training. The forestry
camp is oniy one activity in the
extensive educational program of
the Association.
Organized in 19i4, the Texas
Forestry Association, a non-gov-
ernmentai, non-profit, statewide,
privately supported educational
organization, has promoted the
conservation, extension and wise
use of the forest resources of Tex-
as.
W. Bart Bo!ton s
Funerai Service
Conducted
HELLO NE!GHBOR
Mr. and Mrs. Cary Wayne
Collins of Orange announce the
arrival of a little daaughter bom
June 25. The young lady weighed
eight pounds and nine ounces and
her name is Kathi Annette.
Final rites for W. Bart Bolton.
62. former resident of Jackson-
ville. were held Tuesday of last
week at Jacksonville in Gragard-
Spraggins-Swofford chapel. The
Rev. Don Pevey, officiated.
Burial was in the Jacksonville
City Cemetery.
Bolton died unexpectedly Sun-
day, June 30. at 1:00 p.m.. in his
home. League City. Bolton was
stricken by a heart ailment three
weeks earlier, but had returned
home from the hospital to recu-
perate when he was stricken fa-
tally.
- Bolton was a Jacksonville na-
tive, son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
W. C. "Cal" Bolton. Bolton
operated theatres in Jacksonville
and Alto, was in the automobile
sales business in Jacksonville,
and had been a Galveston paint
store manager several years fol-
lowing 14 years as a salesman In
Galveston. Bolton was a member
of the Methodist Church at Gal-
veston.
itiie, cage, or any word of similar
import.
Producers of eggs who seil oniy
the production of their own flocks
are exempt from provisions of the
act unless they claim some kind of
grade. If producers choose to
eiaim a grade, their eggs must con-
form completely with provisions
of the law.
The act becomes effective Ang-
ust 22. Deadiine for obtaining li-
censes (by retailers, dealers,
wholesalers and processors) is
October 20.
Schoois To Receive
$4 Per Student
More Than 56-57
The State Board of Education
voted this week to make avail-
able $82 per student for distribu-
tion during the 1957-58 school
year under the minimum founda-
tion program.
This compares with a current
allocation of $78.
The action was taken after
Comptroller Robert Calvert esti-
mated 172 million doilars would
be available. From this, 7 million
was deducted to finance the free
textbook program, leaving $165,-
282,875 for per capita funds.
The available school fund
money also included 4 million dol-
lars that came from a transfer for
1 per cent of the permanent school
fund as adopted by the recent
legislature.
MRS. SUD!E
THOMPSON D!ED
!N FORT WORTH
Funerai services were held
Wednesday afternoon of last week
at 4:00 o'clock in Jacksonville for
Mrs. Sudie Thompson, who passed
away Tuesday of last week in a
convalescing home in Fort Worth.
The services were heid in the
Holmes Funeral Home at Jack-
sonvilie, with the Rev. Don Pevy
officiating. Interment was in the
Jacksonville City Cemetery, ar-
rangements being in charge of
the Hoimes Funerai Home of that
city.
Mrs. Thompson was the widow
of the late Sid Thompson of Jack-
sonville. She wiii be remembered
in Aito as Mrs. Sudie Carter, wid-
ow of the late J. W. Carter, who
preceded her in death Dec. 9, 1926.
She is survived by one son, J.
W. Carter of Fort Worth; and onj
daughter, Mrs. George Webb of
Corpus Christi; and six grand-
children.
Those from Alto attending the
funerai included Mr. and Mrs.
John Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Allen. Mr. and Mrs.' Luther Allen.
Alto Methodist Church
Walter Klingle, Pastor
Church School Sunday morning
0:45 o.m.
Morning Worship 11:00 a. m.
M. Y. F. 3:15 p. m.
Evening Service 7:30 p. m.
Choir Rehearsal Wednesday.
7:00 p. m.
Wesleyan Service Guild Second
Tuesday in each month, 7:30 p. m.
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