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SIljp (Kamrrmt Mtvulb
since 1860
and CENTINEL
VOLUME NUMBER 89
CAMERON, MILAM COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1948
NUMBER 11
"Our,
J. B.WHITC-
Handling Public
Money Is Grave
Responsibility
Every month County Auditor Hom-
er Preibisch audita the reports of
county officials receiving and ad-
ministering public funds, and sub-
mits a complete report of his find-
ings to the court as well as the of-
ficers. Not only has he found each
such county official's fiscal affairs
in perfect condition each time, but
county officials have repeatedly
stated that they not only welcome but
insist on careful audits of their ‘of-
fices, which shows mighty good
judgment. It is good business and to
a great extent avoids the possibility
of misunderstandings.
This week District Attorney J. Lee
Dittert received a copy of a letter
written by the county auditor of a
Texas county, to one of that county’s
commissioners. Here is the copy:
“Dear Commissioner: I
“I want to call your attention to
the following facts about your pre-
cinct.
“I. You have spent over 36% of
the 1948 anticipated income in the
first quarter of the year.
“2. Your precinct at this time is
about $1,500 further in the red than
it was the same date last year.
“3. For the first quarter of 1948
you spent more money than any
other precinct, and precincts Nos. i
and 2 have a much greater anticipat-
ed income than your precinct.
“4. Precinct No. 4 has the same,
anticipated income as Precinct No. 3,
yet you spent $1,740.00 more than
Precinct No. 4, in the first three
months of 1948. Furthermore Pre-
cinct No. 3 had a deficit and Precinct
No. 4 was not in the red.
“I am of the opinion, the people
of Blank county do not expect you
to spend more money on the roads
in the precinct that they provide.
“You are intelligent, capable, and
have the reputation of being a good
business man, or the people would
not have elected you as their com-
missioner. There is no difference in
running the financial affairs of a
county or a precinct than there is in
one’s private business pursuits. A
precinct as you are running yours is
destined to financial failure, whether
you believe it or not.
“I assure you that I as county
auditor, the county judge, and the
other commissioners stand ready to
advise with you.”
That letter took some courage to
write, undoubtedly. It is to the
credit of our county officials that
they ask for periodic and exhaustive
audits of their financial affairs.
Taxpayers are entitled to know
exactly how their money is being
spent, how much is available for im-
mediate use, how much is needed for
retirement of bonds and other in-
debtedness, and how much for other
uses.
School districts, counties, and lar-
ger divisions of government should
regularly publish comprehensive and
detailed statements of income and
money spent. Not only is the public
entitled to have this information at
regular intervals, but having it
would avoid a thousand misunder-
standings. Armed with accurate fig-
ures, arguments for or against public
policies are substantial. Without such
figures, all discussions approach the
status of rumor, and hence have little
weight.
How can we effectively suggest
that more money be spent for roads
and bridges when we don’t know how
much is being collected for that pur-
pose, what part is being spent to
retire bonds, how much goes for
material, for labor, for gasoline, etc. ?
How can we effectively advocate high-
er salaries for teachers, improved
facilities at the schools, etc., if we
do not know what the tax and other
revenues provide to be spent, and
if we don’t know how the revenues
are being spent?
The basis of unfavorable criticism
of honest public officials is almost
always ar lack of information. Pub-
lication of a comprehensive and de-
tailed* statement of income and ex-
penditures for all to see and study,
would do much to avoid misunder-
standings.
(Reprinted from The Beeville Times)
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10 MS FOUND HERE
Tomato growers were wearing
broad smiles to-day with the market
one cent above the opening price.
Tomatoes were bringing 10c a
pound here. The price for the No. 2
tomato was 5c per pound. The market
has rebounded and lc above the
opening day price of 9c per pound
was being paid.
Ripe tomatoes in No. 1 variety
were bringing 10c per pound also.
The tomato crop is short but the
quality is good. At the price which
was being paid Monday and Tuesday
tomatoes were bringing the farmers
$6 per bushel.
REX MARSHALL DIED
IN HOSPITAL HERE
Rex Marshall, priminent cattleman
of Rockdale, and former city mar-
shal there, died in St. Edwards Hos-
pital here Monday, June 7.
Funeral services were being held
in Rockdale Wednesday, June 9 with
interment in the cemetery there and
the Phillips & Luckey funeral home
directing arrangements.
Surviving are his widow, two sis-
ters and three brothers. He had been
in poor health for about one year.
The Marshall family are among the
pioneers who settled the city of
Rockdale.
Long skirts sure have ruined a lot
of American scenery.
The Chamber of Commerce Tues-
day night voted to throw its weight
behind a clean up campaign in Cam-
eron.
The suggested outline of the clean-
up was given by Dr. C. G. Swift, coun-
ty health officer.
L. G. Smith, manager of the Cham-
ber of Commerce, said that a com-
mittee planned to visit Temple Wed-
nesday or Thursday and study the
plan there. The Cameron cleanup
calls for fogging machine to put out
DDT. These machines are expensive
but an effort will be made to get one,
it was said.
Leaders in the movement to get the
city cleaned up regard the demand
as compelling since Polio is on the
increase but on the whole the cleanup
is badly needed, regardless of dan-
ger of Infantile Paralysis.
PYTHIANS HERE WILL
AWARD VETERAN JEWELS
Pythians of Milam Lodge No. 125
are planning an important meeting
for Monday night, June 14 and the
time is 8 o’clock.
Two 25 year veteran jewels will be
presented at this meeting and re-
freshments will be served.
Of interest also is the election of
officers. The following have been
nominated and will be elected at the
meeting on Monday night: John
Davis, Chancellor Commander, Shir-
ley McLean, Vice Chancellor, Torn
Hobson, Prelate, Thomas Brashear,
Master of Works, R. L. McCown,
Master of Arms, E. W. Rutherford,
Inner Guard and W. W. Love, Outer
Guard.
The fiscal year for the lodge be-
ing on July 1st.
Mercury Hits 101
In Cameron Tuesday
The highest temperature ot the
year was recorded in Cameron Tues-
day. It was 101. Temple had 102.
The heat wave has extended over i signs of rain in the brassy sky Tues-
Old Awnings Come
Down In Face Lift
For Buildings
Old awnings, dangerous and pain-
ful to the sight, are coming down.
Workmen are busy scaffolding for
plastered fronts on the Taylor Build-
ing and the Lillian Mondrik Build-
ing across west from the Court
House Squnre.
Awnings have been removed from
over the sidewalks by these buildings
and the hot sunshine was scattering
the germs. The new front look ex-
tends to the corner where Henry
Lippman some time ago removed
the awning from the Moore Building
where the Comer Cafe is located.
This building has been plastered.
Health Unit Retained
By Milam County; Pay
Support Is Hiked
The Milam county health unit will
be retained and with more financial
support from the county.
The Commissioners Court is now
assuming a large share of the cost
of the unit. When the unit was allo-
cated to this county by the state
health department the county paid
30 per cent of the cost and is now
paying 60 per cent of the cost. The
city of Cameron has been paying
$1000 annually to the support of the
unit.
Dr. E. S. Freeman is director and
D. S. Wimberly is sanitarian.
Corsicana Had 10
Million Valuation;
Makes Tax Survey
Now Has 32 Million
CORSICANA, June 8—Corsicana
property valuations were placed at
$32,480,577 by the George C. Ehren-
berg Co., Dallas, appraisal engineers,
as they concluded their re-valuation
for purposes of equalized taxation.
Last year Corsicana paid on a
roll of $10,700,000 but this did not
represent a total valuation, but only
a per cent.
The Enhrenborg report broke down
the valuations as follows: Real Es-
tate, $23,370,365; personal, $5,330,-
212; utilities, etc., $3,780,000.
Unique Feature At
Theatre Shows How
Big Paper Produced
A unique feature at Cameron
Tuesday under the film This is Amer-
ica was a study of how a great news-
paper is produced.
The film tak the patrons of the
Theatre through the maze of work
and detail of producing the New York
Times, World’s greatest daily news-
paper.
Those outside the publishing pro-
fession as well as publishers appre-
ciate the disclosures of this great
film.
Man Escapes Injury
As Train Hits Car
Harlan Dodd narrowly escaped
death at 10 p. m. Sunday when his
car was hit by a Santa Fe Passen-
ger train at Elevation.
Mr. Dodd was brought to a hospi-
tal in Cameron btA it was found he
was not seriously injured, according
to officers who investigated the ac-
cident.
Mr. Dodd’s car stalled on the track
at Elevation between Milano and
Caldwell in the Sand Grove Com-
munity.
TWO YEAR DRAFT IS SEEN
DINOSAUR FOSSIL FOUND AT WACO
POLIO SPREAD I S ALARM IN G
BARTLETT CHID HERD
OTHERS TO HOSPITAL
TO PASS BILL WAV
A two year draft L>ill for young
men from 19 to 25 was expected to
be passed by the Congress by Thurs-
day.
The Senate voted Tuesday night to
limit the peace time draft law to
2 years. The original draft of the
bill proposed a five year measure
but the House passed a 2 year amend-
ment and the Senate has agreed.
The Senate also passed a measure
permitting 25,000 aliens to serve in
the armed forces.
Passage of the measure and the
signature of the President will call
back into action the draft boards
over the nation. The Senate was ex-
pected to pass a civil rights amend-
ment to the draft law permitting
segregation on request.
two pmeInare
TO REPORT FOR DOTY
Texas Department of Public Safety
will assign two Patrolmen for per-
manent duty in the Cameron area be-
ginning about July 1 according to
Homer Garrison, Jr., Director.
Mr. Garrison has written a num-
ber of letters making the assign-
ment.
Representative A. N. Green has
given The Daily Hernld a letter and
in addition the Chamber of Commerce
has received a copy of the letter
written to Representative Henry G.
Lehman of Giddings.
The Chamber also received a let-
ter fr6m Senator Kyle Vick of Waco
apprising the chamber of the desig-
nation. Senator Vick also has enclos-
ed a letter to The Herald.
Mr. Garrison in his letter says:
“It gives me pleasure to advise that
on or about July 1, two Texas High-
way Patrolmen will report for duty
in Cameron. The good people in and
around Cameron have repeatedly re-
quested that we assign two Highway
Patrolmen to this area to enforce
traffic regulations and thereby pre-
vent the needless toll of life, injury
and destruction of property.”
Cameron’s housing situation has
again posed a problem. The Patro-
lmen will need places to live. Steps
were being taken to provide them
with homes and the news of their
coming will be received with ap-
plause by the people and local offi-
cers will give them every possible
co-operation.
El
WACO, June 8—The bones of a
dinosaur which roamed Texas 75,-
000,OLH) to 100,000,000 years ago were
dug out of the shale below Lake
Waco dam.
Zoologists said it was plesiosaurus,
a member of the dinosaur family
which swam the shallow seas which
then existed in Texas.
By night a battalion of Baylor
zoology and geology students direct-
ed by B. C. Brown in charge of the
Baylor museum, and Richard L.
Bronaugh, zoology professor, had
scraped the shale from enough of the
ancient reptile to allow the bones to
stand out in sharp relief against the
blue shale.
They plan to make a plaster cast
of the exposed part of the 20-foot
plesiosaurus, which apparently curl-
ed up in agony and settled on its
side on the bottom of the Mesozoic
era sea, to be preserved for the 20th
century by layers of Eugleford
shale.
Baylor experts do not plan to take
the reptile out as a skeleton, but
were cutting out a large square block
of the shale which will contain the
partly exposed skeleton. The square
of former sea mud will be moved
to the museum.
The reptile which lived in this area
during the upper Cretaceous period
of the Mesozoic era would lie about
20 feet long if part of his tail, which
is missing, could be found. The zool-
ogists say reptiles of this type grew
to a average of about 35 feet.
Infantile Paralysis spread to new
localities in central Texas yesterday.
Edward Lara, 5 year old son of
Fred Lara of Bartlett died Monday
night and his sister, Gloria two and
a half years old was taken to a
Dallas Hospital.
Nolanville in Bell county reported
a case, Jerry Roberts, 6 year old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Layton Earl
Roberts and he was taken to a hos-
pital in Dallas for treatment.
Cameron and Milam county con-
tinued to be fortunate with no cases
yet reported. Clean up and preven-
tative measures on a scale commen-
surate with the need have not been
taken. So far we are just in the
‘calculating” stage but no doubt au-
thorities would be spurred on if cases
are reported here.
ARE CITEO BY FRIENDS
DIED EARLY IDEM
MRS. IDA GARRETT
Hot Winds Threat
To Corn Crop Here
Planters were looking for possible
large sections of the state and the
drouth is taking a heavy toll in grain
crops.
There was little chance that rain
would come, although it would be
cloudy for the next 24 hours and
after that more heat and more brassy
skies.
Cotton is doing well but corn in
some sections will be lost if rain
does not come this week.
Mrs. Betty Odom of Milano is a
surgery patient in Newton Memorial
Hospital.
B. Miller, State Field Representa-
tive of the Farmers Home Adminis-
tration visited the Cameron office
Monday and Tuesday of this week.
day as hot winds and high tempera-
tures threatened the corn crop.
The drouth is very serious in some
sections of central Texas and while
conditions here are not critical if
rain does not come within a few
days corn crops will be ruined.
Cloudy weather was forecast for
Wednesday and some indication of
showers in north and central Texas.
Mrs. W. R. Hoover of Brownsville
on her return from attending the
graduation exercises of her son,
David of Oklahoma spent Sunday in
Cameron visiting old friends. David
received his degree from the Okla-
homa University in a graduating ex-
ercises the past week. The Hoover’s
formerly lived in Cameron.
Mrs. Ida Garrett, 72, died at her
home in Cameron Tuesday, June 8.
Mrs. Garrett was a native of Ma-
con, Georgia and was born on June
27, 1875.
Funeral services were to be held
from the Methodist Church in Cam-
eron at 4 p. m. Thursday, June 10
with services conducted by Rev. Mil-
ler Smith, pastor First Methodist
Church in Rockdale. Interment will
be made in the Murray cemetery. The
body of Mrs. Garrett will L)e at the
Marek-Burns Funeral Home until the
funeral hour on Thursday.
Surviving are her husband, W. H.
Garrett of Cameron, one son, Earl
Laird, Portland, Oregon, one daugh-
ter, Mrs. Earl I,eech of Rockdale.
One brother and five sisters survive
as follows: D. C. Baggett, Fort
Worth; Mrs. Leach Carter, Corpus
Christi; Mrs. Jack Ledl>etter, Quam-
ada, Texas, Mrs. Fred Dierr, Bryan,
Mrs. Cora Baggett, Cameron. There
are four surviving grand children.
Miss Beatrice Dodson, student at
Durham's Business College in Aus-
tin visited this past week in the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. T.
Dodson.
Mrs. John Crawford, 91, died here
Tuesday, June 8 at the home of her
son, T. A. Crawford.
She was the widow of the late
John Crawford, pioneer who died
some years ago. She had been a
resident of Cameron for many years.
Mrs. Crawford was born December
7, 1856 in Monroe County, Kentucky
and came to Texas in the early days.
Funeral services will be held from
the residence of T. A. Crawford on
Wednesday, June 9 at 10 a. m. with
interment in the old city cemetery
with the Marek-Burns Funeral Home
directing arrangements.
Surviving are two sons, T. A.
Crawford of Cameron and J. R.
Crawford of Houston. One brother,
Shad Turner survives and lives in
Cameron. There are 12 grand chil-
dren and 14 great grand children.
DEO HERE TUESDAY FORMER RESIDENES10
Reunion of the Rockdale Home
Coming Association will Lh> held in
that city Sunday, June 13 it was an-
nounced in The Reporter this week
The reunion will be the 15th such
celebration. The Association was oi-
ganized some years ago. Rockdale
was a railroad town before the rails
reached Cameron, although Cameron
is much older. In the years that
have elapsed since the town was
established many prominent Texans
have been proud to name the Regal
City as their home and birthplace.
These reunions bring hundreds
back every year. Cards have been
mailed out announcing the date of
the 1948 reunion to hundreds through-
out the state and out of state. The
association appeals to all who have
lived in Rockdale, not merely to old
timers.
No fixed program has been an-
nounced and the day will be arrang
ed on an informal basis with a get
together in Fair Park.
Mrs. Grady Walston of He*me is
among the patients in Newton Mem-
orial Hospital.
Judge Ed Gunn, formerly of Rock-
dale, hut now of Cameron, where he
has resided for the past six years,
announces his candidacy for the of-
fice of County Attorney subject to
the Democratic Primary to be held
on July 24th.
Judge Gunn is one among the best
known men in Milam County, having
been born in Milam County and has
never lived elsewhere. Prior to six
years ago he had lived in Rockdale
and in the nearby communities, but in
1942 he moved to Cameron and as-
sumed the duties of Criminal District
Attorney for Milam County, but
which office during his term was, by
the Supreme Court of Texas, declar-
ed to be that of County Attorney,
and the duties defined by law require
the County Attorney to represent the
State in the District Court and in all
inferior courts of the county, as
well as to be the advisor and counse-
lor for all the officials of the County,
and to represent the county as well
as the State in all matters concern-
ing the public interests of the County
or its people.
Judge Gurin was born on a farm,
but by close application to his edu-
cational opportunities, began his
public life as a teacher in the public
schools of this County, during which
time he also applied himself to the
study of law, and in a few years was
admitted to the bar of Texas as an
attorney at law, whilch he has fol-
lowed as his life’s vocation .
Judge Gunn has held a number of
public positions which involved the
enforcement and administration of
the law and in asking for the office
of County attorney of Milam County,
he can offer the people a service
gained by actuul knowledge and ex-
perience in the problems connected
with this office and its many duties.
In this announcement, Judge Gunn
appeals to all the people of Milam
County for “your support and votes,
and if chosen as your County Attor-
ney, will assure you that the duties
and responsibilities of this office
shall receive my best care and at-
tention, and I shall render for you a
service well done.”
E. L. Davis Offers
For Constable In
Precinct Five
E. L. Davis, well known citizen in
the Sharpe community, is a candi-
date for Constable Precinct 5, Milam
county, subject to the Democratic
Primary election to be held on Sat-
urday, July 24.
Mr. Davis was glad to have the
support of many friends in the race
he is going to make and they are
pointing out his qualifications for
this office. His formal announce-
ment will appear in the coming
issue of The Herald.
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White, Jefferson B. The Cameron Herald and Centinel (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 10, 1948, newspaper, June 10, 1948; Cameron, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth576693/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.