The Cameron Herald (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 13, 1958 Page: 1 of 10
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VOLUME 98—-NUMBER 46
Alcoa
To Close
2 Lines
Cutback To Start
Saturday Morning;
250 Affected
Aluminum Company of America
:mnounced today it would shut
1 ’own two of six potllnes at the
Kockdale Works starting 12:01 a m.
Saturday.
Officials said the cutback would
ffect 250 employees.
R. R. Sugg, Rockdale Works
manager told The Herald that
existing high inventories of alum-
inum, coupled with currently re-
duced demand prompted the de-
cision to cut back.”
He pointed out that production
in idle facilities can be resumed
quickly when the predicted upturn
in business becomes apparent.
Officials at Industrial Genera-
ting, supplier of power to the huge
1 JOOemployee Alcoa plant, declin-
ed to comment on the effect the
Alcoa layoff would have.
An Alcoa spokesman was quick
to point out that four-line produc-
tion after Saturday will be at the
wune level established at the plant
tn 1964.
The plant went into six potline
production in 1956. It began first
production of aluminum in 1952.
grew to first the four-line opera-
tion and then the six-line set-up,
officials said.
Alcoa plants at Point Comfort,
Texas Alcoa, Tenn., and in Wash-
ington state have all cut back pro-
duction, the spokesman said.
The Tennessee plant already has
cut three lines and both Washing-
ton Alcoa plants have dropped pro-
duction in two potlines. The Point
Comfort plant, operating four
lines, has cut back to three lines.
CAMERON. MILAM COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13. 1938
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WILL YOU BE MY VALENTINE? —
Charlotte McFarland looks hopeful as
Jerry Barton drops a Valentine into
one of the colorful boxes us-ed to dec-
orate the Ben Milam School rooms this
ween, t tiarlotte :s ihe daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Earl McFarland, Route 1 and
Jerrv is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clay-
ton Barton, Salem Road- Both are third
grade students.
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Two More Candidates
File For Offices
Two more candidates have com-
mitted for county public office this
week.
Hinton Pruett, incumbent county
superintendent of schools, has ann-
ounced his candidacy for re-
election while Wayne Wieser, pre-
sent secretary of the City of Ca-
meron, has filed for county clerk..
Homer Nabours. incumbent
county clerk, formally announced
for re-election this week.
School Election Set
For Milam Districts,
Official Announces
Election of school trustees in all
county common and independent j
school districts will be held Sotur- !
day, April 5, according to Hinton 1
Pruett, county superintendent.
Petitions or requests to place a ,
candidate’s name on school trustee
ballots must be filed with the co- i
unty judge at least 30 days prior to
the election, Pruett said. March 6
is last day for filing for trustee 1
ballots.
Provisions will be made for ab-
sentee voting, he pointed out. j
Petitions for candidates may be
filed in independent districts with j
the school board secretary. In
common and rural school districts, !
requests for placing names on ball-
ots should be filed with the county
judge.
Police Still Seek
Shooting Suspect
Pohce are still searching for
Willie McCormick, about 46, Cam-
iwnn M.nrtro pnpnn<*I in Bin oLnni
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death of Ollie Benjamin Milton
January 29, Police Chief Maynard
Byers said Wednesday.
Milton, 28, Cameron, was dead
on arrival at St. Edwards Hos-
pital following the shooting at
1507 West Eighth. Milton was shot
with a 22 rifle.
Stokes Will Speak
To Baptist Youth At
Sweetheart Banquet
Young people at the First Bap-
tist Church and their guests will
hear Dr. George Stokes, head of
the Speech and Radio department |
of Baylor University, this evening ,
• at their “Rnrnnnee of the Stars” j
Sweetheart Banquet starting at!
7:30 pm. in the education build- '
ing.
Stokes, well known after-dinni - j
speaker, was former choir diree-'
tor-of Seventh and James Baptist j
Church in Waco.
Also on the program are Joyce |
Smalley, Margaret Young and i
master of ceremonies, Allen Dod-
son. Mrs. J. H. Angell is in charge ,
of food and the married young j
people of the church will act us •
hosts.
Romance Surrounds
Valentine Legend
Saint Valentines Day is based on a centuries-old
celebration symbolic of lovers, love, and friendship to
people nil over the world.
Many colorful and romantic myths surround the
origin of St Valentine's Day. Originally February 11
was the feast day of eight different Christian martyrs
named Valentine, and in the medieval church, services
were held on that dav in memory of their martyrdom,
thus the name St. Valentine’s Day.
However, the custom of giving gifts or sending val-
entines has nothing to do with the martyrs. For on
February 14, it also happened that a springtime festi-
val was kept by the Romans., and it is from this old
festival that the giving of gilts originated. In time
the gifts came to he known as valentines.
One of the most romantic legends associated with
the holiday is based on the story that a young Roman
priest who had refused to disavow Christianity was
beheaded on February 14 during the reign of Claudio
The young priest signed a farewell message to the
jailer’s blind daughter “From Your Valentine.”
Roman legend tells us that Cupid was the son of
Venus, Goddess of Love, and Mars, God of War. He
had been captivating young lovers for more thai^
2,000 years before the first Valentine
And so the stories go
Today gift-giving is still traditional. Gifts range
from flowers, perfume, and candies to greeting cards,
both sentimental end humorous. Shut-ins, hospital
patients, friends, relatives and sweethearts cherish
the memory of not being forgotten on this day..
Secresf to Speak
4 Announce For Council Posts
As Two Seek Mayor s Position
City Leaders Plan License Sales Open
acoutingrrogram # r
Growth in County At Milam Courthouse
Civic lenders from eight com
muuities' in this urea are to meet
Monday as the first step in organ-
. izing more Cub Packs, Boy Scout
Troops and Explorer Units for the
Scouts’ Tcjas District, according Ado I_ J *
to Bert Kennedy, district scout ‘L/ll iiSld ■ lilQI-u
executive.
Hie district is made up of Falls
and Milam Counties.
The meeting, a "Together Din-
ner,” will be held at the Camct o i
Country Club at 7 p.i.i. represen-
tatives of locwl institutions in Mar-
lin, Cameron, Kockdale, Lott. Rose-
L. J. Ben Arnold, Llano and Gause
are expected to attend.
Dinner chairman R. R. Sugg of
Rockdale said the ‘Together” pro-
gram is designed to provide everv
boy in the two-county area the
chance to become a Scout through
drawing more institutions into
Scouting as sponsors.
He said that of some 2,585 Scout-
aged boys in the district, only 612
are presently enrolled in Scouting.
February 7 to 13 is Boy Scout
week.
The dinner is to feature a Boy
Scout speaker to explain "Why
Scouting’s Fun.” District Scout
leaders will also discuss the steps
in organizing Scout units, and in-
j dividual groups will discuss how to
J rrgriiize the units.
There are over 1,200,000 adult
leaders in scouting today, Kennedy
said.
When a boy joins » troop at his
church, synagogue, school, or oth-
er community institution he be-
comes a member of a patrol. It
is here he gets a lesson in demo-
cracy as he shares in the patrol
planning, elects a patrol leader,
and learns to live with his fellow
patrol members as brother Scouts,
Kennedy said.
The program of Boy Scouting Cprv’ p UrclJ
I keeps a boy busy learning such kJVfl V Ivvo 11C1U
kills as first aid, signaling, cook-
,.ig, and camping while imparting
many traits of good citizenship,
added Kennedy.
Houston, Duncum,
Griffith, Weems
In Council Race
Six candidates have filed for
mayor and two city commission
Reserved license plate numbers ! F'st-s v°fed on April 1 Wayne
n 111 ° 11 I I 675 through 800 are ready for carl"'cser‘ secretary, has ann-
L0i)D W ill LC3.V6 I owncrs 10 Pick up, county tax asse- i ou"c,^k ,
sor Valter White said Wednesday.
Flight Feb. 24
Tk - i’.-.verend Gerald R. Cobb
.,.’.1 leave New York February 24
for Nepal to take cattle purchased
by his congregation to the people
of the Iowa-size nation.
Reverend Cobb, Ben Arnold E&R
pastor, will leave Waco February
22. He will return from the Asian-
Indian area the end of April.
He has received letters from
people he will visit on his round-
the-world flight, Cobb said this
week.
Cobb will fly with a plane-load
of cattle, pigs, and other stock to
New Delhi, India, then on to Kat-
madu, capital of Nepal..
His experiences will be traced
in exclusive Herald by-line feat-
ures from various points around
the globe.
Rev. Cobb will illustrate his
series with pictures starting Prom
Idlewild Airport, New York City,
departure field for the cattle plane.
Rev. Cobb’s itinerary includes
one-day stopovers in Amsterdam
and Damascus, then on to Kara-
chi, Bombay, and New Delhi.
Plane transportation is being fur-
nished by the International Coop-
eration Administration United Na-
tions, Rev. Cobb sai.d The cattle
exchange is under the auspices of:
the Point Four program establish- 1 Forty-nine animals have been
ed by the United States in foreign ; entered in the Milam County Jun-
nations. ! ior Livestock Show set for Satur-
__i day, according to Livestock show
officials.
White added thot reserved lic-
ense plates with higher numbers
will be ready sometime- during
March. Deadline for car registra-
tion is by April 1.
Registration of motor vehicles
for this year opened February 3,
White said. Registration is being
handled by the County Tax Asse-
sors office in the courthouse.
The 1958 tags are black with
white numerals, the opposite of the
1957 tags.
White pointed out that registra-
tion fees are 10 per cent higher
this year than in 1957. The state
legislature increased the fees last
summer to raise money to buy
highway right-of-way, White said.
Motor vehicle owners must pre-
sent the certificate of title and
last year’s registration receipt
when purchasing the new car tags,
White said
Livestock Show
ToBeginFeb.15
In Chamber Event
Filing for city council Place 1
are incumbent Roy Griffith and
Robert Weems. Weems is current-
ly completing a two-year term ns
mayor
For Place 2 Sam Houston and
Coleman Duncum have filed. This
will be Houston’s second race for
a council post and Duncum’s first,
Wieser said.
Mayor candidates to date are
6. B. Harden and Bassell WQrav
Harden is a former councilman
having served for two years, 1*1-
1953, and Wilson was a candidate
for mayor in the 1956 race, Wie-
ser said.
Filing deadline for candidates ia
March 2, Wieser said.
A candidate must be a qualified
voter and tax payer of the city
of Cameron, and have been a resi-
dent and property taxpayer for one
year preceding the filing date. Wie-
ser said.
Council Place 2 is currently held
by Charles Brady.
City poll taxes paid this year
number 926, a jump over 1956’s
804 poll taxes paid, Wieser said.
More poll taxes were paid in the
city as a result of the interest in
the April municipal elections, Wie*
sot said. The number however,
was lower than first expected far
this year, he added
L’Viriri Bureau Will
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Observe Anniversary
Jarrard Secrvst, state senator t Bureau members are invited, Mrs.
representing Milam, Bell, and Me- j Bick-ett added.
| Lcllan counties, will be principal
Voting Slated April 5
For School Board
Three members of the school school board and Curtis is vice-
board of the Cameron Independent'
School District will be determined
in balloting April 5, Wiley W.
Loughmiller, school superintendent
has announced.
Filing deadline for the board
seats is midnight March 6, Lough-
miller added. Candidates must file
in writing with . Max Howard,
school board secretary, ai Burkes-
Hownrd Company before the dead-
line, Loughmiller said.
president.
Voting will be in the Yoe Higli
School gymnasium April 5.
Candidates must be a resident
of the Cameron Independent School
district for at least six months
prior to the date of election, a
property taxpayer, a qualified vo
ter, and able to read and write
the English -language.
Other ' card mem! ers arc Don
Humble, Dr. D u id Shapiro. F. W.
Three meml *rs will be elected i Vog< Isang, and Mrs. Da«a Mo: rue.
in the April election to fill the j School board members rre elect-
expired terms of Howard, Earl j cd to a thn- year term
Cuiiis, and H. B. Pressley. Press- No candidates had filed as of
ley is current president of the | noon Tuesday, Loughmiller said
speaker at the program preceding
the Milam County Farm Bureau
Barbecue Thursday, February 20,
according to Mrs. Lenora Bickett,
Bureau secretary.
The 10th Anniversary celebra-
tion will be held at Simon-
Gcorge Hall.
Pro ram time is 10 a.m. O. G.
Tumlinson, Bureau president, will
be master of ceremonies. Secrest
will speak about 11 am.. Mrs.
Bickett said.
Barbecue will begin at 12 noon.
Tickets have been sold this week
at the farm bureau office and will
be cn sale at the door.
During the afternoon two pigs
will be given away, Mrs. Bickett
said.
Boys ard girls, ages 9-20 whose
parent^ or guardian arc members
of the Farm Bureau may be eli-
gible. Tie- pigs will be presented
about 3 p.m. barbecue day. Mrs.
Bickett added.
The public as well as Farm
Episcopal Women
Set Chili Supper
Women of All Saints Episcopal
Church plan a Shrove Tuesday
Chili Supper February 18 at the
Episcopal Parish House.
Mrs. George Buwman, presi-
dent of the Episcopal Women’s
Auxiliary, announced that’ chili will
be served from 5 until 8 p.m.
Mrs. Bowman added “Shrove
Tuesday, the day before Ash Wed-
nesday, iias been celebra'ed since
medieval days as a time of ‘fare-
well to flesh’ in preparation for
a good lent.”
Tickets may be obtained from
members of the Episcopal church
or Mrs. A. L. Raymond at Schiller
Pharmacy. They will also be avail-
able at the door.
For W. B. Lewis
The show will get underway at
10 a.m. at the Monroe Barn next
to the Cameron fire station: Stock
wall be on the grounds at 10 a.m.
with the main judging set for 1
p.m., John Batte, chairman of
j arrangements said.
Services ear William B. Lewis
retired farmer, were held at 2:30
p.m. Wednesday in Cameron. Will-
iams, 84, died Tuesday morning j A pro-judging contest for the
at the home of his daughter, Route public is set for 11 a.m. with pri-
i 1, Rockdale. j zos to be given, Batte said.
! The Reverend Griggs of Taylor j
i conducted the services Burial was County 4-H f lub members will i Covert from KTBC—TV in Austin.
' in the Salem Cemetery. | °Pera* 3 ™nrcssions stand during I Carnival time is 6 p.m.. accord_
Lewis was born in Lee County f‘'le silow
\ugust 31, 1873. i Entries broken down are 14 bar-
Survhors include six sons, Mar-
Cameron Girl Will
Vie In Thorndale
Sweetheart Contest
Miss Verlene Cochran of Yoe
High School will be one of eight
Future Farmers of America sweet-
hearts competing in a beauty con-
test at the FFA Valentine Carni-
val in Thorndale Thursday night.
Other entries representing FFA
chapters in the area are from
Granger, Lexington, Taylor, Rock-
dale, Thrall, Sharp, and Thorndale.
Judges for the contest will be
Cactus Pryor, Dan Love, and Jean
Weather
Notes
| rows two breeding boars, 10 un-
,aii Lewis <uid uuipii Lew** tu ; bred*gilts weighing 170 pound ups,
Houston, Walker Lewis of Alvin, foar bred .gilts, 200 pounds up,
Ledford Lewis of Hitchcock, Lcs- njne feecjor calves, eight dairy fe-
*cr Lewis of Thorndale. D. L.
Lewis of Gardner, Mass., two dau-
ghters, Mrs. J. T. Foster of Aus- Cash prizes will be awarded by
i in, aau Airs. Wiilie cast oi morn- ; me Clumber ol Commerce, BaUt
dale, one brother, Andrew Lewis of said
Greenville, two sisters, Mrs. C. P
males, and two beef heifers.
White and Mrs. Laura Elliott ol
Houston. Lewis also is survived in
21 grandchildren and 33 great-
grandchildren.
Arrangements were handled bv
Marek-Burns Funeral Home.
Judge for the livestock show will .
be Walter Smith, graduate student |
in the Texas A&M Animal Hus- j
bandry Department.
ing to Herbert L. Sides, vocational
agricultural teacher and general
chairman of the program
‘Carnival aeYiwtfts Include
a country store, fun house, bingo,
fish pond, fortune telling, cake
walk, movies, and a program in
the High School auditorium.
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JUNIOR LIVESTOCK ENTRIES —
Wen'ell Kirk, 18, Yoe High School
Future Farmer of America, is shown
• with his Shorthorn entry. Snow Bird,
in the Junior Livestock Show.
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Weather forecast for Cameron
! occasional rain
and snow flurries
through today,
clearing and
war- j
mer over the weekend..
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Luecke, Frank M. The Cameron Herald (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 13, 1958, newspaper, February 13, 1958; Cameron, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth576778/m1/1/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.