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THE ALTO HERALD
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this week a new
ntitlcd "Looking A-
appear each week
Ce. Tlie purpose of the
f to lend support to the
^anizations around our
tte the views and ideas
^rspaper, and to keep
) community in general.
to express our stnccre
to the friends and
^associates of F. L.
[or their messages of
! ard the thoughtful re-
ch they made concem-
efulness in life. They
} be remembered by his
happy to leam that a
{ess and Professional
&lub has been organized
j)r the past several years
[been a great need for
ation of this nature.
3ate for the club has
or the first Monday
each month. Mis. Coy
president of the or-
will be glad to talk
Me who is interested in
group. There is still
PPE those who wish to join
to become a charter
ad appears in the Herald
announcing a new bus-
bis area. The business
led Rozelle Bros. Gulf-
any. The Rozelle broth-
and Ralph, have been
the Gulf Service Sta-
for the past several
are now going into the
d Propane gas business
the Service Station,
purchased an Intcma-
tr Truck for their de-
ice and a tract of land
town for their storage
lph and Leland say that
Kts our business" and "if
eds Butane or Propane
y or night, just phone
e'U come a-running."
ce.
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doublets and hose for
and slacks—swap the
Br for the S. S. Ameri-
ch a few sky-scrapers
ckground—and you have
^ture of a group of D. P's
Persons Arriving on
soil in 1957.) Atti-
tho same — Thanksgiv-
safe voyage to a land of
and opportunity. Inten-
Hcntical—to make a home
oppression and to help
^eatnation. In 1620-1760-
in 1957, America was
} by the men and women
Pped ashore with faith in
^rts and a spark of hope
[Leves. Fresh from perse-
hct tyranny, they have al-
tered for the blessings,
tity and the responsibility
government. To such peo-
tnship has always meant
Ortunity to vote without
-to join in civic move-
) serve gladly on juries
!hcir time and strength
[mnity affairs—to do the
'nied them in the lands
[birth. To the extent that
giadiy meet our respon-
"t free citizenship we
"sbcrs of the Mayfiower
y—we are all D. P 's.
those of us who are
I born'' take our citizen-
granted. We forget what
be an American. Wc
the government do it"—
heotherfeilowdoit,"
' 'h..t wouid put our immi-
P tors—or, their modern
"iterpnrtstoshame. We
' we jro the government
and national—only
' we are willing to ex-
'iHhts as a free people.
Hd hate to lose those
- r people have! We
to keep them—today
- ving—and every other
Alto, Texas, Thursday, November 28, !957
Number 25
Farm Bureau
Meets In Rusk
attorney,
of the drive for
will announce
I, .,.= i„r the March of Dimes
! iriho and other communities at
a later date.
set hut
^wr Turner was in Hous-
^Jesday to be with her
J T. Landrum. who
Ff' surgery in a Houston
each year
the polio campa'Kn.
Millard Shivers, director of or- [
ganixattonfor the Texas Farm
Bureau, wili be the main speaker
at a meeting to be heid in the
County Court Room in Rusk Mon-
day. December 2. The time is
7:30 p. m.
Mr. Shivers heads the 12-man
organization department which
carries on organizational and
membership acquisition work for
Texas Farm Bureau.
Gien Mettauer Director of
District 9, and Miss Joyce Gray,
nowiy eteeted Farm Bureau
Queen, will also be present for
the reguiar monthly meeting.
AH Bureau members and their
friends are urged to attend this
meeting.
COTTON VOTE
SET FOR
DECEMBER 10
Cotton growers will make an
important decision on Tuesday,
December to. J. M. Vining, Chair-
man of the Cherokee County
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Committee, reminds
farmers.
On that day, gtowers will vote
in a referendum to decide whether
marketing quotrs will be in effect
for their 1958 upland cotton crop.
All farmers who engaged in the
production of upland cotton in
!957 will be eligible to vote in the
referendum.
"If at least two-thirds of the
growers voting approve the
quotas," Mr. J. M. Vining ex-
plains, "marketing quotas will be
in effect on ail farms growing up-
land cotton, in 1958, penalties will
apply on "excess" cctton, and
price supports to those growers
who comply with their cotton
acreage allotments will be avail-
able at the full level of effective
supports. Under current legisla-
tion, this support will be between
75 and 90 percent of parity, the
minimum level within this range
depending upon the supply sit-
uation at the time the determina-
tion is made.
"If more than one-third of the
growers disapprove quotas, there
will be no marketing quotas or
penalties, and price supports to
eligible growers (who comply with
their allotments) will be available
at 50 percent of parity.
"In cither case, acreage allot-
ments wili continue in effect for
the 1958 cotton crop as a means
of determining eligibility for price
support."
The Chairman pointed out that
legislation directs the Secretary of
Agriculture to proclaim markettng
quotas for the next upland cotton
crop when the cotton suppiy ex-
ceeds normai. Quotas are not put
into operation, however, untess
they are approved by atlcasttwo-
thirds of the growers voting tn a
referendum on the question.
w 0. STANLEY
HEADS COUNTY
D!MEDR!VE
.rirhrrokee County
bccnaopomtcdCmroKn
. '"""T t
writ, chairma" "f t"e
^„,tcr National Assoc.at.on f.
j n ant.-eR'-'ab'sis. has announced.
! Stanley has accepted the post
and named John Spier,
ias chairman
i Jacksonviitc.
COUNTY MAKES
S0!L BANK
PAYMENTS
The Cherokee County A. S. C.
office is now in the process of
paying annual payments on the
Conservation Reserve part of the
Soil Bank. A total of $31,772.95
was paid to farmers this week.
In Cherokee County ninety one
farmers have retired 3,785 acres
of cropland under the Conser-
vation Reserve and they will re-
ceive an annual payment of $38,-
347.43. Under agreements these
farmers must leave part or all of
their cropland out of production
for three, five or ten years.
The Soil Bank Program is still
available to farmers who would
like to retire some or all of their
cropland. Anyone that is interested
should contact the County A. S. C.
office at Rusk, Texas for the de-
tails.
JACKSONVILLE
DRAMATISTS
TOMVEPLAY
Jacksonville.—The Lon Morris
College drama department will
present "Papa Was a Preacher,"
based on the novel by Allene
Porter, on the nights of Dec. 12,
13. and 14 in A. Frank Smith
Fine Arts building auditorium
here.
The play will also be the one
for the college's spring tour of
the Texas Methodist conference
area and already has bookings in
Beaumont, San Jacinto and La-
mar High schools in Houston, and
in Tyler.
Proceeds from the production
will go into the scholarship fund,
a conference-wide project and one
headed locally by Raymond West,
according to President C. E.
Peoples.
Mrs. Arch Pearson, drama de-
partment head, is directing the
play. Jim Swain, department as-
sistant, is in charge of sets.
Robert Fordyce, voice department
head, will direct the choir in
background music for the pro-
duction.
A study of the Dark Ages will
teach us how to avoid a repetition
of that era of ignorance.
ALTO TO
COMPETED
TOURNAMENT
Nacogdoches.—Thirty-one high
school basketball teams have ac-
cepted invitations to compete Dec.
13-14 in the fifteenth annual
tournament sponsored by the S'. F*
Austin State College Basketball
Boosters' Club.
John O. Stephens, SFA coach
and tournament director, said that
this year's participants include
Houston Milby and Nacogdoches
Central Heights, winners of the
two divisions in the 1956 tourna-
ment. Sixteen of the teams, which
comprise Division I, are from
Class A and B schools, while the
fifteen in Division II are from
Class AA, AAA, and AAAA
schools, he pointed out.
Division I entries include
Gaston, Hemphill, Alto, Logans-
port, La., Diboll, West Orange,
Gary-, Huntington, Whitehouse,
Garrison, Central Heights, Timp-
son, Cushing, Broaddus, Zavalla,
and Chireno.
Division II entries are Center,
Hudson, Longview, Carthage,
Woden, Marshall, Central
(Pollok), Lufkin, Houston Milby,
Rusk, Palestine, Houston Sam
Houston, Jacksonville, Nacog-
doches, and Bellaire.
The tournament, which was
held first in 1939, was sponsored
originally by the Nacogdoches
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
It was taken over, however, in
1956 by the SFA Basketball
Boosters' Club headed by Earl
Elliott.
Previous winners: Central
Heights, 1939 and 1940; Silsbce,
1941; Texarkana, 1947 and 1948;
Big Sandy, 1949; Cayuga, 1950;
Minden, Tex., and Houston Lamar,
1951; Big Sandy, 1952; Fenton, La.,
1953; Houston Milby, 1954, 1955,
and 1956; and Central Heights,
1956.
Patch Test To Be Made
Fit Schools Next Week
Wet Weather Wipes Out 10
Percent Of Loca! Potato Crop
BOYSCOUT
MEET!NGTOBE
HELD DEC. 4
A Boy Scout meeting will be
heid Wednesday night, December
4 at 7:30 p. m., in the Lions Club
House. All scouts of Troop 105,
and all boys from age 11 up, that
would like to become scouts, are
urged to attend this meeting.
The troop will be re-registered ! another
October gave East Texas sweet
potato growers, three weeks of
clear dry weather for harvesting
an excellent crop. Approximately
75 per cent of the crop was har-
vested during that period. These
potatoes are the finest quality
that we have seen in years. Then
the rain started and November
has produced nothing but con-
tinued wet fields. It is estimated
that 10-15 per cent of the crop is
still in the ground. Most of the
crop left in the field will never be
harvested. Heavy losses of seed
potatoes have also occurred.
The pre-Thanksglving sales
period usually supplied from
cured sweet potatoes has been
mostly a green deal at uncured
prices. Prices to growers US No. 1
basis range around $3. Cured po-
tatoes are quoted at $4.25-$5. On
November 22nd cured sweet po-
forthe coming year and
films will be showu.
Leonard Graham,
District Scout Executive.
P!NE CONES
COLLECTED!N
COUNTY AREA
Henderson.—During the month
of October 2,290 bushels of pine
cones were collected in the Pa
nola-Rusk-Cherokee County area
of District 2, Texas Forest Ser-
vice, with headquarters at Hen-
derson'. A total of 12,000 bushels
were collected from the entire
piney woods area of East Texas
and will supply pine seed for the
Indian Mound Nursery near Alto
in Chorokee County and the Mag-
nolia Springs Nursery near Kir-
byville in Jasper County. All of
the cones will be processed
through the seed extraction plant
at the Alto Nursery where a four-
year supply of seed can be kept
in cold storage. Pine trees pro-
duce an abundant seed crop only
on an average of every three
years and an all-out drive is
made during a good seed year to
coliect a sufficient amount of
seed to furnish the nurseries dur-
ing the loan years.
Cone collectors were paid $2.00
per bushel and the total paid to
the collectors in District 2 and
throughout East Texas represents
return from our timber
scout j resources and why we should
' exert every elfort to protect our
j forests from fire and poor cutting
practices.
THANKSCMN6
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tatoes sold as follows: Detroit US
No. 1 cured $6, Pittsburg,$5.75 to
$6, St. Louis, $5.75, Kansas City
$4.75-$5.50, and Denver $3.50-
$3.75. As of November 22nd, Lou-
isiana shipments were 2,413 cars
compared to 46,133 cars a year
ago. They too, have had losses
from excessive rainfall.
The 1957 Texas production is
estimated at 935,000 bushels com-
pared to 627,000 bushels in 1956.
The 1949-55 average for Texas is
1,471,000 bushels. The combined
production for the USA is esti-
mated at 17,378,000 bushels for
1957 compared to 16,922,000 bush-
els a year ago and a 1949-55 ave-
rage of 20,179,000 bushels.
Capitalizing on now varieties
originating in Louisiana and
Oklahoma, East Texas growers
and shippers have in recent years
added the Darkskin Goldrush and
Redgold varieties to their regular
Porto Rica's, thus bringing in
golden-fleshed potatoes to the
smooth skins peculiar to the sandy
soils of the area. These two new
varieties now approximate 30-40
per cent of total production. In
October, growers and shippers of
Van Zandt, Rains, Wood, Smith
and Camp counties decided to
add the new Acadia variety. The
County Agents made arrange-
ments with leading growers, one
of the leading buyers furnished a
truck free, and another buyer fur-
nished free storage and distribu-
tion. Enough Acadia sweet pota-
toes were distributed to provide a
substantial start of this Porto
Rico type quality potato in 1958.
Numerous buyers and chain
distributors have expressed
preference for the Darkskin Gold-
rush variety. Redgold has a ten-
der skin at time of harvest and
will move satisfactorily after a
skin toughening period of three
weeks in the curing house. This
variety tops all other varieties in
per acre yields. Acadia is a
smooth dark skin Porto Rica type
sweet potato with tasty golden
colored flesh.
J. F. Rosborough
TALENTSHOW
SLATED FOR
DECEMBER 5
Thursday night, December 5,
in the Alto High School audito-
rium a Talent Show will be pre-
sented. This event will be spon-
sored by the Wesleyan Service
Guild and proceeds will be used
toward furnishing the new Meth-
odist parsonage. The time is 7:30
p. m.
It will be a well spent hour of
entertainment. Numbers by the
best Alto and Wells talent will
be given, from the tiniest tots to
the grandmothers will appear in
numbers.
Three prizes will be offered.
Remember the date and your
evening will be enjoyable. Prices
will be 35c and 50c.
B&PWCLUB
MEETS DEC. 2
The Business & Professional
Women's Club will meet Mon-
day night, 7:30 o'clock in the
Southwestern Electric Service
Community Room.
Roil call wiil be answered by
a project for the benefit of Alto.
All members are urged to
attend.
If you are not a member and
arc eligible for membership, we
invite you to become a member.
Tuberculin "Patch Test" will be
held in the Alto and Wells
schools the week of December 2,
according to J. Alvln Milstead,
President of Cherokee County
Tuberculosis Association.
First grade pupils will be given
the test this year along with the
eighth grade. P. T. A. is buying
the test for the eighth grade in
the Alto Schools as the Cherokee
County Tuberculosis Associa-
tion's budget only allowed for
testing one grade. Their goal is to
be able to test all pupils in the
elementary grades—not because
school children have tuberculosis
as a rule but they point to the
source of infection.
There are now 61 known cases
of tuberculosis in Cherokee
County. Never forget tuberculo-
sis is catching—immunity is not
established by one attack—all pa-
tients face the hazards of relapse.
Are you positive you or your fam-
ily are free of tuberculosis?
Christmas Seals are one small
way everybody can help in the
fight to rid our county of this
tough and complicated disease.
GARR!S0N
W!NS0VER
MAD!SONV!LLE
Nacogdoches. — Coach M o r t
Crawford's District 22-A cham-
pion Garrison Bulldogs slogged
through a sea of m u d in
35-degree cold to nudge past the
21-A Madisonville Mustangs, 6-0,
here Friday night in a bi-district
football game.
After three scoreless periods,
the single touchdown came on the
first play of the fourth quarter on
Memorial Stadium field at
Stephen F. Austin State College.
Garrison had recovered a mud-
slick ball on the Madisonville 19-
yard-line and worked it down to
the one, where Halfback Ben Lee
Bird plunged over for the score.
James McLain missed the extra
point kick.
It was Garrison's 10th victory
in season that saw no defeats
for the Bulldogs. The Mustangs
finished with seven victories, one
loss and a tie.
Only three penetrations by both
teams were made as far as the 20-
yard-line, two being logged by
Garrison and one by Madisonville.
The victors picked up seven
first downs, the losers four. There
were many tumbles, but only one
resulted in a touchdown.
Games this week for the Class
A (Second Round) will find:
White Deer vs. Ralls at Canyon
Friday, 2 p. m.
Sundown vs. Alpine, at Sun-
down Saturday, 2 p. m .
Albany vs. Henrietta, at Gra-
ham, Friday, 1 p. m.
Wilmer-Hutchins vs. White
Oak, at Dallas, Friday, 8 p. m.
Gaston vs. Martin, at Gaston,
Thursday, 8 p. m.
Garrison vs. Tomball, at Liv-
ingston, Friday, 8 p. m.
Jourdanton vs. Bishop, at Bee-
ville, Friday, 8 p. m.
Eagle Lake vs. Pearshall, at
Three Rivers, Friday, 8 p. m.
First Methodist Church
Walter Klingle, Pastor
Church School—9:45 a. m.
Morning Worship—11:00 a. m.
Evening Worship—6:30 p. m.
Senior M. Y. F.—5:30 p. m.
Intermediate M.Y.F.—7:30 p.m.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl A. Kenesson,
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Jeter, Mes-
dames C. E. Ramey, Glen Dominy,
Myrtie Bynum, and Mamie Lee
Carter were in Troup Thursday
night attending a meeting of Troup
Chapter Order of the Eastern
Star.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Lightfoot of
Dailas are the proud parents of a
littic son, born November 25. The
young feliow weighed eleven
pounds and six ounces.
Mrs. Lightfoot wtili be remem-
bered as the former Miss Patricia
Schochler, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Dud Schochler of this city.
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Mrs. Frank L. Weimar and Son. The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 28, 1957, newspaper, November 28, 1957; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth215498/m1/1/?rotate=90: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stella Hill Memorial Library.