The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 12, 1957 Page: 1 of 8
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HWit..
THE ALTO HERALD
,hcd 1896
Giancing
Around
By Prank
L)f the warm days and
^stsirts, it's °nly about
Ml Christmas and mer-
ratrendy getting ready
M of the holiday trade.
hants have aiready
kheir Christmas goods
not be too long before
i be displayed in show
ho love to see bucking
Igothrough their paces
[;thc opportunity soon.
Prison Rodeo will get
poon and run each Sun-
)pber.
#
{ fell ou' of a sixth story
landed in the street
pparent harm. A crowd
found him and a cop
^and asked, "What hap-
Jk'iow," said the drunk,
thimselfoff, "I just got
Elf."
*
nto High School Yellow
play their first home
Friday night when
t Woodville in a non-
! contest. The field has
pletcly worked over; a
erected and the field
assed as the best in the
he old rock grandstand
! removed and another
Ht on the west side of the
)dville is a class AA club,
j)ite of this, the Jackets
jigivc them a run for their
t a warning that might be
ore places than London:
vcryonc who enters this
; been converted; please
of your handbags, etc."
Lnemy On
lighway
[nation spends some $40
year to maintain its
^ defenses, in the hope that
, war and toll of death,
H&n and human misery
puld follow can be pre-
ach year, the toll of death,
Ron and human misery
[by highway accidents—
the major cause is cx-
^ypccd—rivals the casualty
wars of the past fought
btivcntional weapons.
[ti le, of course, that a nu-
ar would undoubtedly
casualty lists infinitely
^ than those of convention-
Unit wars. It also looks as
is a percentage of drivers
fe hell-bent on sending the
toll up to the potential
y-'.var level. These are the
t "ho make race-tracks of
^ highways — though they
one of the rare special
]c! the accomplished race-
are at the wheels of
yh-c-'i, whatever their other
have none of the special
[eristics of race-cars,
j-l'ctder is as much a men-
"i enemy soldier bent on
siruction.
ard Of Thanks
^ ' h to express our thanks
ppreciation to those who
kind and thoughtful dur-
^ hath of our loved one.
every act of kindness, the
food, cards and words of
we are very grateful
[<rayer is that God will
' ^ cach of you.
!i:!ly Lyon und Family.
Mrs. Jack Lyon.
"'W is a Chinese or pig-
hword meaning cho-
' 'ken and mixed.
Methodist Church
Wiltcr Klingle. Pastor
r ^ School Sunday moming
* m.
<i;tn Worship 11:00 a. m.
!\F-":15 p.m.
Service 7:30 p. m.
Rehearsal Wednesday,
tn.
Scrvlce Guild Second
piy in ea(<h month, 7:30 P-
A. S. C. ELECTION
HELD FR!DAY
The Cherokee County A.S.C.
Community Elections were held
Friday. September 6th. A 3 man
Community Committee was
elected for each of the 11 A.S.C.
Communities in Cherokee County
to serve for 1958.
Committeemen elected were:
Bullard - Mt Selman, Cecil Carl-
ton. Chairman, Jack Boone and
Marcus Kirby, Mixon, S. L. Stock-
ton, Chairman, J. B. Roark, and H.
E. Bums. Troup - Concord, John
Ross Martin, Chairman, R.C.
Norman, and J. T. Barron. Jack-
sonville - Reese, Louie Lattimore,
Chairman, Car! Williams and M. D.
N u n n a 1 ] y , Jr. Summerfield -
Blackjack - Alton Grove, clavis
Greenwood, Chairman, Boyd
Houghton and Leon Cowan. May-
delle - Ironton, Carl Durrott,
Chairman, O. B. Tillman, Fred
Ezell. Craft - Dialville - Turncy,
Z. T. Baker, Chairman, J. Wylie
Thomason, Johnnie Sides. Gallatin
Ponta - Reklaw, Homer Jenkins,
Chairman, Hugh Richey, and
Wayland Jenkins. Rusk -Atoy, -
Sardis, Ab Littlejohn, Chairman,
Huien Wilcox, Earl Maness. Lin-
wood - Alto - Cold Springs,
Charles R. Murphy, Chairman.
W. Glen Dominy, and Weldon
Hendrick. Forest - Wells, E. F.
Hicks, Chairman, F. T. Sessions,
and W. W. Petty.
The Chairman, of cach Com-
munity Committee is also the Dele-
gate to the County Convention.
This convention will be held Fri-
day, September 27, 1957 in Rusk,
Texas. At this convention the dele-
gates will elect a 3 man County
Committeeman to serve for 1958.
Both Community and County
Committeeman will take office
October 1, 1957.
COURTHOUSE
ROUND-UP
Marriage Licenses:
Jerry Jack Dean and Bessie
Jane Baldwin.
Horace Parter Terry and
Frankie Barbara Lee Green.
Otha L. Yarbrough and Dorothy
Nell Bowie.
M. L. Mosley and Eula Kay
Knight.
Joseph Hugh Albright and Irene
Baily Love.
Dee Waggoner, Jr. and Maurlean
Johnson.
Civil Cases Filed in County Court:
W. W. Holman, et al vs. Curtis
Sanders, ct ux, action for collec-
tion of debt.
Cases Filed in District Court:
Hazel Jean Lanzy Simmons vs.
Elmo Simmons, action for divorce.
Harold Bowers vs. Peggy Elaine
Bowers, action for divorce.
T^erneU Jones vs. Billy Jo Jones.
Judgments Entered in District
Court:
LaSalle Marshall dismissed his
divorce action from Berniece Mar-
shall.
Frankie Barbara Lee Green
granted a divorce from Donovan
Bethune Green.
Cynthia Beth Langston granted
a divorce from Jerry Lee Langs-
ton.
Pauline Hamilton Moore granted
a divorce from Warren Moore.
TRAVELS
The United States Passport Of-
fice is making plans to serve 1,-
000 000 future American travelers
by the end of the next decade. By
fiscal 1960. the number of passport
applications is expected to in-
crease to over 800.000 and fee col-
lections to more than $6,000,000.
The use of jet airliners, seating
about 150 persons, is expected o
usher in many travel changes.
Mr. and M^Tchas. R. Murphy.
Mesdames Homer Arrant. Zola
V""° S""r
were in Houston Tuesday at end-
ing the funeral of Ervin E. W1 son
who died Sunday night at hi.
home in Houston. Burial was in
Houston Tuesday afternoon.
win over a horse because of his
endurance.
Alto, Texas, Thursday, September ) 2, ! 957
Number )4
136
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33
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1957 ALTO YELLOW JACKETS—Pictured before they open the 1957 season in Alto Friday night are the Alto Yellow Jackets. They
include, left to right, front row: David Rice, Carlton Jones, Kenny Williams, C. H. Pittman, Danny Felder, Gary Dominy, Charles
Cummings and Jerry MeCarty; second row: Foster McLain, Kenneth Hays, Gerald Corbin, Gene Gardner, Mike Felder, Tony Tullis, J. R.
Price, Ronnie Hendrick; third row: Assistant Coach Jerry Allen, Doug Smith, Tommy Williams, Tommy Cummings, Marshall Ray
Bynum, Gale Baugh, Jerry Felder, Carroll Hoilis, Jerry Lee Gilcrcase and Coach H. E. (Buck) Terreli; back row: Billy Lindsey, Kenneth
Lawler, David Scott, Lee Rushing, Benny Lloyd (manager) and Wally Gayle, quarterback injured in an early scrimmage, who will
miss the first part of the season with a broken collar bone.
DRAFT CALLS
FOR 338 MEN
IN OCTOBER
Austin. — The state quota for
Texas draft boards in October calls
for 338 men, Colonel Morris S.
Schwartz, state Selective Service
director, said Wednesday.
The state's October call of 338
compares with a quota of 387 for
September and 347 for August. The
October call is the state's share of
a national call for 7,000 men. The
national call is 8.000 in September.
Colonel Schwartz said no men
were scheduled to take pre-in-
duction physical and mental ex-
amintions in September and Oc-
tober except possibly transfers
from other states or "isolated
special cases in Texas."
Local board quotas for the Oc-
tober induction and pre-induction
examination are scheduled to be
mailed by state Selective Service
headquarters Thursday. September
quotas were issued about a month
ago.
The October quota will be filled
with men who are at least 22 years
old on October 1, with the ex-
ception of v o 1 u n te e r s or de-
linquents, who may bo younger.
Free Food Dates
Are Announced
New Butane Business
To Open In Alto
A new butane business is slated
to open in Alto some time in the
near future.
This announcement was made
here sometime ago and is due to
be made public by those going in
the business within a few days.
A complete line of equipment
has already been arranged for and
it is hoped to be dispensing butane
gas before the winter weather
arrives.
Further information will be
given out at a later date.
PEACE OFFICERS
ELECTCHEROKEE
SHERIFF HEAD
Longtview.—Formal commen-
dation was voted bytheEast
Texas peace officers for Arkansas
Gov. Orval Faubus and what they
said were his efforts to maintain
"traditional rights of the sovereign
states."
A resolution to this effect was
among several adopted in the final
business session of the East Tex-
as Peace Officers Assn.
Allen Dotson, Cherokee County
sheriff from Rusk, was elected
director of the group. He succeeds
Tommy Grant of Beaumont, Jef-
ferson County chief deputy sheriff.
The Faubus resolution was one
of two dealing with integration,
and it also applauded what it re-
ferred to as his stand in main-
taining law and order during the
current Little Rock school crisis.
Another policy statement ap-
proved by the group promised
support of moves toward congres-
sional passage of legislation to
nullify U.S. Supreme Court de-
cisions on desegregation.
In other resolutions the East
Texas officers:
1. Backed Texas Gov. Daniel in
urging an advisory committee of
citizens on criminal and legisla-
tive matters.
2. Called for establishment of a
council of Texas law enforcement
officers to promote their common
interests.
Scandal is one thing that never
gets shop worn by being continu-
ally passed around.
The Cherokee County Office of
the Texas State Department of
Public Welfare will issue USDA
commodities, Wednesday, Sept. 18
and Thursday, Sept. 19 on the
East side of the Courthouse
Square according < Mrs. Tish
Smith, administrator of the pro-
gram. These commodities will be
issued alphabetically with the last
name starting with A through K
on Wednesday and those starting
with L through Z on Thursday.
Those hoiding issuing cards, are
reminded to be sure and bring
them in on this date. Those re-
ceiving commodities are asked to
bring containers for their food.
STAMPS"
QUARTET TO BE
HERE MONDAY
Don't forget that the Stamps
Quartette will make a personal
appearance at the High School
Auditorium in Alto Monday. Sept.
16, at 8:00 p. m., under the spon-
sorship of the Alto Chapter, Order
of The Eastern Star.
Admission is 35c for children
and 75c for adults.
For an evening of wholesome
entertainment, hear the Stamps
Quartette, and at the same time
help a worthy organization.
Tickets may be purchased at
the Southwestern Electric Service,
Allen Drug Store, Alto Flower
Shop, or from members of the
Eastern Star.
New Vocational
School Set Up
At Nan Travis
The Jacksonville Independent
School District and Nan Travis
Memorial Hospital announces the
appointment of Mrs. Margaret
Concilio as Director-Instructor of
the Vocational School of Nursing
in Jacksonville. Mrs. Concilio re-
places Mrs. Janie Gibson, who left
on August 31 to work with the
State Board of Examiners for Vo-
cational Nurses. Mrs. Concilio has
been with Nan Travis as super-
visor and private duty nurse for
three years. She is a graduate of
the Providence School of Nursing
in Waco.
On October 14 a new ciass for
Vocational Nursing will start at
Nan Travis Memcrial Hospital in
Jacksonville. Applicants will be
interviewed by Mrs. Concilio at
the hospital starting September 16.
Those interested in Vocational
Nursing should contact Mrs. Con-
cilio before September 16.
The training program is for 12
months and offers excellent op-
portunities after completion. Ap-
plicants should have at least two
years of high school education, be
over 18 years of age and in good
heaith. Books and supplies cost
approximately $50.00. Student re-
ceives pay from the hospital while
in training.
Edwin Boyd and Miss Elizabeth
Ann Hall returned to Marlin Sun-
day night, after spending the
week-end with the former's
brother, Jim Bill Boyd.
TRIBUTE TO DR. J. L. DuBOSE
R. S. Wade of Welis, pays the
following tribute to Dr. J. L.
DuBose:
Dr. James L. DuBose, physician
as I have known him as my per-
sonal physician for 36 years. To
honor him for what he has meant
to me f&r the past 36 years and for
what he did for me in sickness
when I was alone unable to help
myself, not even as much as to
get a drink of water. Lying on the
bed with a high fever and no one
to wait on me but the Doctor when
he would get there some time in
the day as he would have so many
to get to or go and see when he
would have as many as 18 cases of
pneumonia, many of them com-
bined with the flu. Besides the
cases of fl" and other kinds of
sickness which kept him going
day and night, many times two
and three days without sleep, and
in many cases going without stop-
ping to drink a cup of coffee or a
drink of water, covering some 30
square miles which took him into
Angelina, Nacogdoches, Houston
Counties, as well as his home
county, Cherokee. Going by Model
T Ford and horseback and on foot
down in the creek bottoms and
through the flat woods in all kinds
of weather, raining and freezing,
in many cases where he had to get
out and go afoot because he could
not go any further by car or
horseback. At times he hardly
knew he had a home because
homes of sickness seemed to be
his home. That was back in the
days after World War I when
there was very few homes that
did not have some one sick. Even
whole families being in the bed
sick at one time. I have sit up day
and night, you might say 24 hours
a day with as high as four in the
bed sick at one time, not one case
but case after case, where he was
waiting on them. He forgot him-
self and his family for the saving
of precious lives, many of which
have crossed over the Great Divide
to be with them that sleep, and
many still living that could tell
the story. Many of them did not
have the spirit of God enough to
even say, "Thank You Doctor,"
let alone make an honest effort to
pay him for service rendered. But
finally at last his hands has been
stilled and folded where they can-
not help any more but he has
crossed the Great Divide to be
with those that sleep in that home
not made with hands eternal,
beautiful home in heaven, where
his name will be found written in
the Lambs Book of Life.
Cherokee County
Extension News
Linwood Community Organi-
zation will hold their regular
monthly meeting Tuesday, Sept.
17, at 7:30 p.m.
< * <
. The regular monthly meeting of
the Ponta Community Organiza-
tion will be held Thursday, Sept.
19, at 7:30 p. m.
* * *
Reklaw wins three loving cups
at Organized Community Volley-
bail Tournament, which was held
September 6-7, at Ponta.
Reklaw, Ponta, Craft and Lin-
wood participated in the "tourna-
ment and placings are as follows:
Men's Division—1st Place: Rek-
law; Consolation: Craft.
Ladies' Division—1st Place :
Reklaw; Consolation: Linwood.
Junior Division—1st Piace: Rek-
law; Consolation: Ponta.
The Ponta organization provided
a concession stand and sold sand-
wiches and cold drinks for the
purpose of raising funds for their
community treasury.
Approximately three hundred
and fifty people attended the two
night affair.
JACKETS DROP
FIRST GAME TO
GARRISON 12-6
The Alto Yellow Jackets dropped
their first game of the season at
Garrison Friday 12 to 6.
The first half was scoreless,
with neither team able to mount
much of an offensive threat.
Garrison took the kickoff open-
ing the second half and marched
58 yards in 10 plays for the first
touchdown of the game. Quarter-
back Ben Bird's passing and a 24-
yard jaunt by Halfback Wayne
Corley set up the score.
On the first play after the kick-
off, Corley took a pitchout from
Bird and scampered 24 yards to the
Alto 34. Bird hit Corley with a
pass on the next play that tacked
on 10 more yards to the 24, then
Fullback John Wayne Edgar ram-
ed for three to the 21. Bird's sec-
ond down pass was incomplete,
and, on third down, Corley was
trapped back of the line of scrim-
mage for a seven-yard loss to the
28.
With the drive about to fizzle
out, Bird calmly came through
again. On fourth down, he fired
down the middle to Dobbs, with
the pass covering 19 yards to the
five. The Alto line stiffened and it
took the Bulldogs four plays, aided
by an offside penalty against the
Yellow Jackets, to get in the end
zone. Bird sneaked for two to the
three, Corley was stopped for no
gain on second down, Edgar was
stopped cold on the third down
try. But Alto was offside, and
Edgar made it to the two-foot-
line on the new third down try.
Edgar lunged across on the fourth
down play to send Garrison
ahead, 6-0.
Bird passed to Corley for the ex-
tra point, but it was nullified by an
offside penalty. And Bird's pass
fell incomplete on the next try.
Alto promptly surged right back
to gain a 6-6 tie, taking the kickoff
following G a r r i s o n's TD and
marching 67 yards for the tieing
score. It took 12 plays for the Yel-
low Jackets to make it, with two
passes covering most of the dis-
tance. The big play, as far as the
Jackets were concerned, was a
fourth down pass that covered 16
yards and gave Alto a first and
goal on the Garrison seven. Gale
Baugh scored from the one-yard-
line to cap the drive. The Jackets
failed to run the extra point, and
the score remained tied at 6-6.
Garrison put together another
drive iate in the third quarter and
early in the fourth that carried to
the Alto 39. But Bird's deep pass
was intercepted on the Alto 10. The
Jackets failed to move in three
plays and had to punt.
The punt took a bad bounce past
Dobbs and he had trouble fielding
it. But he finally picked it up, cut
to his left where his blockers were
forming, and sped 43 yards down
the east sideline for the winning
touchdown. The try for extra piont
was unsuccessful, but it didn't
matter.
Card Of Thanks
I wish to express my sincere
thanks to all who were so kind to
me during my recent stay at the
Nan Travis Hospital. Every act of
kindness shown me is deeply ap-
preciated.
Mrs. G. S. Hart.
Constitution Week
To Be Observed
In Rusk, Nation
Mrs. James I. Perkins has ac-
cepted the appointment as Nation-
al Defense Chairman for the Nac-
ogdoches Chapter, Daughters of
the American Revolution.
September 17, 1957, marks the
170th Anniversary of the adoption
of the Constitution of the United
States by the Constitutional Con-
vention.
President Eisenhower, acting
under Public Law No. 915, has
designated the period September
17-23 of each year as Constitution
Week. The president issues an-
nually a proclamation inviting the
people of the United States to ob-
serve such week in their schools,
churches and other suitable plac-
es with appropriate ceremonies
and activities.
"It is felt that many ills about
which we complain could be elim-
inated if the general public would
study and be actively loyal to the
Constitution of the United States.
—Rusk Cherokeean.
Business is like oil, it won't mix
with anything but business.
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Frank L. Weimar and Son. The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 12, 1957, newspaper, September 12, 1957; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth215487/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stella Hill Memorial Library.