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THE ROCKDHLE REPORTER
Salute to
Leadership
RoekdaU Messenger Established 1873
AND MESSENGER
VOL. 92
10c THE COPY
ROCKDALE. MILAM COUNTY. TEXAS. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13. 1964
RoekdaU Reporter Established 1893
14 PAGES
See Page 8
NO. 6
Rambling
ROUND ROCKDALE
w. H. C.
Fsrmers Friend
T3KV Wm. l’anr.' : Biiptivt
p:i ter at San Gabriel, is a
iv; M-rnanncrcd fellow Some-
irm» ■ hr looks almost meek
But hr i: a ball of fire when
0 iomc" tf, carivibi! the ball
fi>i flic farmer and the people
of *hi' rural areas. He i- their
champion, tried and true.
It - alwuyv a plea: urc to hear
Bill Banner speak, as he did
at Me Rotary Club Tuesday
I t all \oar attention to a story
at the. bottom of this page on
R. \ Farmer ■ talk because I
think some of the things he
had to say Tuesday will make
jgu think
Speaking
plight, Fit"
following >t
This farmer
of tire farmer's
Parwci used the
>ry to illustrate:
wen? into town
i \ erv da> and bough’ a dozen:
I unmet at SI 25 a piece at the
I ardware stare This went on
and Mfi until finally the rner- j
chant asked him what in the
world he was doing with all
those hammer 1 sell them;
'ii my friends for $! apiece,” j
; id the farmer
Trie rcerehar * »» efoll» < v
phoned tha* he couldn't dp ,
that • You're losing 25 cents
< . r> time you sell a hammer." j
he cried Y» said the farm-!
ei, I know that but i?
sure beat* farmin' all to pieces'”
Rev Tanner d"e* not lack for
a sense of humor In fact, he
has one speech he makes that
is devoted to stories he has
heard about preachers of all
faiths One is abmit the farm-j
< r who asked another “What
are rabies and what can you I
do about them11" The reply was
‘ ItaiM* ar< Jewish preachers
i» d vou can't do nothin’ about j
them "
CC Open Meeting
Slated on Feb. 20
FOR AREA STUDENTS
Career Day Set
TIC Director
Main Speaker
For Program
With 60 Topics
:U -
’* ■* •■•v
Harry W Clark, execu-
tive director of the Texas
Industrial Cum mission,.......—
Austin, will be the speaker
Or Don E Edmondson, culls for a coffee. and dou«l>- ,f Uio annual open mem-
. fiat*, prefe sor o, «». h,-; SSheST** ^jp meeting o f the
—............ .......... Rockdale C ha ruber of Com-
«?£ %
the University ot
before lunch, starting at 10:lh
Sec CAREER page 3
Shell Oil Test
Near Gause Now
Below 7000 Feet
Hriniiler Slutf Cliotfi'
RITA MATL. 13, A NEW ROCKDALIAN. AND ONE OF TWO VERY SPECIAL FRIENDS
She may be only youngster in U. S. with Prairie Dogs for pets—doctor's orders
Cecil Jumptr
BACK WHEN I
•if <h'!g
wav a
around the
> h*n of The Hcpor'cr then via
m vuutiii loiifi ten rung to cult
a Linotype machine whose
name was Cecil Jumper, a
genuine Rockdak priduet He
attended fbukdal* High S<hool
and played football and work*
RHS to Reveal
Class Favorites
At Annual Party
Mr and Miss RHS” and
hack t-|ftS5 favorites at the local high
PECULIAR PRESCRIPTION DOES THE JOB «!>!mt|mHti!*iwMt»i>'i.ifiM*it«iiniiniiJnuiiHHHi!mimmunmmim»i.
Furry Little Wonder Drugs
kid
of her new pels, especially on
how to tame them.
school will bo announced
Suturo* v at the annual 'Sw«-t -
hear’ Party
The annual dance and
favorite*?..presentation is upon-
sored by the RHS student coun-
. . «. n . .v - . v ett, according to Don Cumbfe*
cd for The Reix rtei tncn i ufi
^ 4 1 ’ president of the organization
By BILL COOKE > p; nniasion to make Rita a gift
Fbur years ago the following of the little barkers
prescription, which helped cure t entire Mat! family ltn-
a little girl’s rare illnes;, was, mediately began to study abo t
written by a pkvMfiar. n> ' he care and Keeping of prairie
Plain view • ch.g., and Rita's father fixed a
•>T v. > nr.,. ... H,w 1 i«v s' ‘ **><*<** a1 hemp for the newcomers Bulbis, and ‘Dickie” or Walk-
prai.a nog* m ibu«, -n tho fjimijy,g back yard. j er, the park department man.
Dick Walker ot the Lubbock • Rita and her pets wasted
Park Deparment gave Rita little time in Itecommg buddies
careful instructions on the care See PETS, page 3
speaker at RHS Career Day
here Wednesday.
Mr Fred Ray Less*, school
coun elor who is coordinating!
the Career Day program, said
that the event will again
feature speakers from fields
of business industry and odu-
I cation speaking on some 60
1 career fields.
Seniors from Milano, Thorn-
dale, Lexington and Buckholtsi
will attend, in addition to RHS j Shell Oil Company’s Adorn
senii rs i Estate No. 1 near Cause is drill-
Dr Edmond >n in addition mg away at below 7.,000 O'-’U
to his UT post, is a visiting Tuesday.
lecturer for the Mathematics1 The deep test is «rheduL?d
Assn of America; director of to go 16,000 feet or deeper and
the John Von Neumann Sum- being drilled lor Shell by
mrr Institute at Southern Meadows & Walker. drillin,
Methodist University; secretary contractors
and a visiting lecturer for the Location is I32f> feet south of
rexa* Academy of Science; am.L the north line a.,d l32o le t
central director for SMSG (a.^ nf ,i10 VVest line of the
i Secondary Schools in North j Jarnca g. Eldriclge survey in
exa* i Milam County, about live mile
“His field is modern algebra, southwest of Gause
j and he instructs many clause.*' The well spudded in .January
! tor teachers during summer 27. A week ago the depth wa-
institutes at the University of1 around 4500 feet.
Texas." Mrs. Bay less explain- i •-----—
ed.
“This year we wild include!
larger areas of careers in our
conferences, hoping to in-
troduce all of the students to
career fields of their four;
Rita listened closely, and | major fields of academic study:
English, mathematics, social
indies and science. Mis Bay-
less >aid.
when her mother asked what
■he would name them tho
answer v..> “Bubbles," for Dr
White Explains
Federal Voting
Requirements
by mv dad
_____ N<C;:rteev b»r Mr
Cecil learned the trade here *“
, nd on October 7. 1923. went to
Ware to run a Linotype for the
Waco News-Tt ibune And he
and Mi
are J amen
Yc/ak Dorothy Love. Eleanor
New ton, Dickie S u in rn rri,
Nathan Baker and Alan John*
itudent body recently
voted on these favorites with
the winners to br- announced
been doing it ever since That '
ii, up until the tnw* he retired
last week after 40 years, and r*.i
four months with the Waco 1 **,f’ Saturday m the
.,;ijK.r ’ RHS cafeteria.
---- Nominees for t lass favorites,
Cecil goes back to the days witn the wmn> rs also to be
cf the great Jinx Tucker who announced Saturday, arc
waft sports iniitor of the Waco Seniors, James Schternmer.
papers and also operated a * Summers, Miss Yczak and
Linotype machine He didn’i Lmda Abel; juniors. Rome Mli-
botber with a typewriter, just let. Nancy Harrison, Johnny
wrote his stories and his column Pruett and Stephen Tucker;
at- ho set type Cecil used to go sophomores, Charlotte Balch.
to the football games with Jinx Sue Petty, Charle- Bakh and
who always referred to him Dean Stiles, freshmen, Carv
their love and affection to help
in the recovery of a little 9-
year-old girl who in turn must
treat them with all the loving
care that she can ’
A strange prescription in-
deed
Rita Marl is* now 13 and a
Rockdale eighth-grader Her
health is. A OK. her smile is
contagious, and .she > probably
tl.e only youngster in the
nation with prairie dogs for
20.
The meeting will begin
at 7 p. m on the second
floor of City Flail according to
Mrs S. H Curie*:'. Chamber
manager.
H D Maxwell, president,
will preside and report.- of ac-
tivities of the past year will
be given by the various com-
mittee chairmen, Maxwell said.
! “It will be an excellent op-
portunity for members of the
Chamber to learn oniethinjj*
; bout what the organization
has been doing,” Maxwell said.
He said the meeting would
also be open for comments
from any member who has
something to say or some pro-
gram to suggest lor the Cham-
ber to adopt.
Clark, the speaker, became
executive director of the Texas
Industrial Commission in Janu-
ary 1962. He has been active in
this work since 1938. having
served in several capacities in
Mississippi and North Carolina
before coming to Texas.
He was affiliated with tho
Teva1- Power & Light Company
and the Texas and Pacific Rail-
road Company jtnor to taking
up his present duties.
Recognition uf Clark’s work
i in the industrial development
field is indicated by his service
as president in 1954 <>f the
Southern Industrial Develop-
ment Council and in 1957-58 as
president of the American In-
in his column as "my owl laced Of/udd. Harold Steele. Teresa
co-worker ’’ Richardson and Betty Sapp.
The dance will start at H p.m.
This former fearsome tackle , ,he winncrs
at RHS married Mia* Jewell "" ,ne ummr*
It all started when Rita was
9 At that time, she and her
part ids, Mr and Mr Johnnie
Mat I and her si«ter- Karen
and Olivia, lived m Briton
Rita wa- being treated by a
Scott & White Hospital phy-
sician, Dr Mary Bulbis, for a
rare nerve disorder Dr Bulhis >
moved to Plu.nvnrw and the 1
Mat] family d.d likewise .«« j
that Rita coil'd be with the]
physician for two months.
It win one Hinny afternoon '
that tile MLitl family vva< oit
riding and drove into Lubbock
Club Pool Work Due
To Start on March 1
Construction of a swimming is now engaged in drawing de-
P'.’ol at the Rockdale Country j taikd plans and sj>ecifictions,
cheduled to begii according to W. H. Cocke, club
Club u
March 1 and t- due completion
in about three weeks.
The pool committee entered
into a verbal agreement with
a San 'Antonio pool construc-
tion firm Monoay and tlu> firm
to
Water, tax collections and
to be an- i There, they visited Prairie Dog
i> * ,, . , .. . _ , , nounced about 9 or 9.30 pm , ' Town, a 7.5 acre "r*». nicipality” . .
' n U Vl.t j C’umbie explained. Music for in Mackenzie State Park where rJ.’v elections enteicd into the
the dance w^I! be furnished by I about l.iHKi prairie dogs
the Tommy Griffith Combo. I their envn community
BIBLE VERSE
furry, earth - colored
immediately and
fearsome foursome of sons,
two >>f whom were great foot- '
hall players at Waco High One
son Arlen, l* manager o! a j
citrus association in Florida,
Kenneth is vice president of a ]
bank at Odessa; Boyd is a
computer programmer at the
(ideas* bank, and Glenn is a
Linotype operator like his
father Cecil and his wife are j receive them, and ye shall have vv.e-n’t in order
it tiring to Odessa. j them. And when ye stand pray-
- j mg, forgive, if ye have ought
These personal words of con- 1 against any: that your Father
presi dent.
j The pool will be of a clover-
; leaf design with a complete
filtu sy.-u-m and equipment
and the agreement calls for ai
i turn-key job at a price of $7,-
500. Days of College.”
Meeting with the rcpresznta-1 The Career Day
; five were pool committee mem-
Ik;.' Ralph Nichols, Frank,
j Hyder and W P. Hogan, and
Cooke Other members, Harold
M Lackey and Boswell New-
i ton weer out of town.
All officers’ of the Country
; Club were re-elected at the
first meeting of the new board!
of directors Thursday after-
hive ' discussion*, ol city councilmtnq niK,n Cooke was r**tained as
uunng their regular monthlv president, Hogan as tirst \ice-
* ‘ * ...... executive committee
A person who has paid his
In addition, conferences are county and state poll tax by
planned in home economics and deadline Jan 31 is not required . . . n., r-,,-i
vocational agnc.ulti.ro, t h qi to do anything further in order « dU.^l^l^VfKf
medical professions, mental! to vote for iederal offices,
health and religious' education- Valter White, County tax
for interested students she add- j assessor-collector, said todav. . , . ^ , „
,.j u . ,, , ’ ,, program, designated Texas as
” be has not paid his poll b . , _ . ,,
. , , . , , , . ... ., ; the state with the most effec*
As m the past, local com- ’ax he must regtster with the
munitv leaders and industrial tax assetvor-collector office in
rcproenum-M willI play a bit Cameron or the deputy i»x , „clark .. hr addtd, ..hpads
part m out t areer I)a\ as many station at Gaither Motor Co. in
of the speakers are from, j Rockdale before March 6.
Rockdale business and indus- i He will be issued a regular
tax receipt marked "poll tax
not paid.” This will entitle him
to vote for Federal offices but
not in a state contest.
If a person becomes 21 years
>f age 30 days before any elec-
try.” Mi's Bay less- continued.
She also said that a confer-
ence on military obligations
will be held for all male stu-
dents Wednesday. In addition,
there will be a lecture by Dr.
"Recently the Society of In-
dustrial Realtors, through their
Professional Trophy Award
live industrial development pro-
gram for 1963." Maxwell said.
the professional staff of the
Commission i»nd ha- played .»
key part in execution of the
program of the Commission.”
Engineer, City
Officials Meet
Qn Water Needs
L L. Derrick of Southwest tion he can still get his free |
Texa- State College on "What ] exemption. A person over 62 i
Expect during your First years of age docs note have to-
do anything in order to vote in j
schedule1 Milam County.
County s Filing Fees
Hard on Pocketbook
.da Ml in' love with Tu**y « City Hall. WM'e**5'
Having political ambitions;
can be doggoned costly.
Milam County’s Democratic
has an-
crstier-
m- JK’td the filing
or two-year term salary for Hit
office sought by the candidate."
McClaren said.
The highest fee is $1,680 for
the office of district judge..
Citv Mgr N 1 \llord re- I-------- ‘’7. *V*“* Iee^ 1 , j McClaren listed the others as
♦ i \ Li . 1 First action was the appoint- >car. and the low number of folk)W4I.
j „ «. wvni d ond put cd that n j Lo._c<> lections , mpnt llf cu,t>rae Wall to another ! ‘ andirt»»cS and expected higher f-ox* a^se^or-collector <889
-------for a pt. Every ume sne ;* aw* unm.aie.jper cc.ni term sccretan-trea-urcr. i election costs have resulted in. ax asses.or collector, $389.
. talked about the little dogs her Hu,- repor t showed collections j r b M , i ice hikes
’Therefore 1 say unto you, fact, revealed a wistful longing 1 in the amount of $81,098.22 on | qf the* cluh house' i. n- w Th^ f
what things soever you desire, which caused Dr. Hu Ibis' to a total billing of 864.737.99. j 1 tie club house is now | The ,tes
when ye pray, believe that ye wonder if a little therapy ( The aldermen also unani-
| mously adopted a resolution, j ______ _ ^ ^ ______ __ ____ ______________
. So the doctor ••presenbed’ . calling the annual cit> electmai )noved into the building from j Milam were irKreased onT-half I cinct Z * ‘Milano* 0r$69 78- con- ■the Chamber of Commerce’s
•Zwi 13* .XSh-wnh ’ S 2!**,ST ’Tb UTonty buM'"‘ WH?‘ ,m" *w «"• ar" annual Open Meetm* I,ere
* ‘T1 *1 in w,tn ,n ADn,‘ ^llh Uu tum> or! it has been operating. j 3 1/2 per cent of the four-year I $297.33. ! next Thursday.
92; count* attorney, *858.76; i SPEAKER - H a r r y W.
: sheriff. $846.96; ail county com- Clark of Austin, executive
be finished next week
snack bar has already
g rat illations to Cecil on his re- ; also which is m Heaven may
lirement. His friends here will forgive you your trespasses ”
See RAMBLINGS. page 3 —St Mark 11.24-25
Cameron and Local Area
Citizens 'Roll Up Sleeves
got in touch with in April, with the terms of
the Lubbock Park Department ' Mayor L C Mehatfry and al-j
arid tried to buy some dog.-, j riermen M N. Stricl cr and;
but the parks director obtained Frank Hyder expiring
City officials said that no j
candidates h.rd filer! for any
of rhe offices texiav.
Alter hearing a report fromj
Alford on progrens of securing !
an engineering firm to study
local water system needs, the i
council instructed Alford anti
REV. WILLIAM PARMER IS THE AMERICAN FARMER S CHAMP10N«!m;iiimimMiiwfiiaiiimiNi»miuiHNimtwMhiM>HuutflHiiHi
Cooperation Key to Rural Problems
Last October, Milam Coun-
t> a Red Crt*» BI<kk1 Program
was sagging 83 pints behind
quota. However, two highly-
sueceusful Bloodfmobile visit* in
Cameron, one in Rockdale and
one «t Alcoa's Rockdale Works,
have given the program a shot
in the arm.
Four Bloodmobilc visits re-
main for the current fkscal year.
Red Cross officials are hoping
to wipe out the current 20-
donation deficit on the county
cf eta by exceeding the quota.9
during each of the coming
visits.
They are March 20 at In-
dustrial Generating Co.. April
3 at Alcoa's Rockdale Work-,
May 8 at Rockdale and Juno
23 at Cameron.
Rockdale and Cameron chair-
men Byron Cook and Gent*
Smiihermon and their donor
recruiters have done outstand-
ing jobs in boosting the Blood-
mobile turnouts beyond the
quotas recently, Rod Cross of-
ficials said this week.
Cameron turned in the
largest number of donations oL
any stop during the current
fiscal year when 125 donations
wore received by the Bloodmo-
bile there Dec. 3 Each Blood-
mobile visit in Milam County
has a quota of 71 pints.
Actually, the blood program’s
rebound started even be ford
that when Aicoans turned out
74-strong, exceeding the quota
by three donations.
On Jan. 15, Rockdale abo
exceeded the quota by three
pints when 74 citizens donated
blood. Cameron area residents’
again gave full support to the
program on Feb. 5. the most
recent Bloodmobilc visit In
Milam, with 76 donations made
that day.
“Milam County has come h
long way with the past four
vbita,” Cook explained thin
week.
“We axe now only 20 pints;
behind the county <j..ota as
compared to 85 just four
months ago. We’re looping to
w ipe out the remaining 20-pmt
deficit with the remaining four
Bloodmobile vists durng Uris
fiscal year,” he said.
Cook listed the following
figures for Bloodniobile visits
(hiring this fiaeal year:
July 16, Cameron, 55 dona-
tions, 16 short of quota; Sept.
4. Rockdale. 44 donation*, leav-
ing county short of quota by
43: Oct. 1, IGC, 29 donations,
county short of quota by 85;
Nov. 8, Alcoa, 74 donations,
county short by 82; Dec. 3,
Cameron 125 donations', county
short by 28; Jan. 15, Rockdale,
74 donations, county short by
25; Feb. 5, Cameron, 76 dona-
tions, county short by 20.
By W. K. COOKE
If the American farmer ever
water commissioner Hyder toj !'a^ *l Champion he surely must
; be the Rev. William Parmer.
the talks with cn
continue
gineens.
Alford and Hyder
scheduled to meet with Sain
McKenzie Jr., chief engineer of
the Auutin offices of Homer A.
Hunter A txiates. consulting
engineers, here Wednesday at
5 p.m.
Efforts have been under way
for some time to secure an
engineering firm to analyze the.
city's water supply and distri-
bution problem* and submit
recommendations.
Councilmcn have been de-
laying the calling of a bond
iiesue to finance water and,
street needs until such en-
gineering services could be ob-
tained.
The aldermen al«x> acknow-
ledged Tuesday a letter of ac-
ceptance of a franchise granted
by the city to the E. R. Mosebv
Co,, a cable television firm.
The franchise was granted dur-
ing the Jan. 14 council meeting.
Baptist pastor in the rural
were 1 community of San Gabriel. ju>t
' out of Rockdale. *
Bill Parmer has been named
outstanding rural minister and
Lungs like that a time or two.
but the honors he has received
are as nothing compared to his
love for his rural friends andi
'World Day' Event
Friday at St. John's
Women from ail churche*
have been invited to attend a
World Day of Prayer at 9:45
a m. Friday at St. John’s Metho-
dish Church.
The one-hour service will in-
clude speakers from St. John’#
FLrrt Christ!an, St. Thomas
Episcopal and First Presby-
terian churches. The topic will
lie “Sendee of Prayer and
Giving” and the theme “Let Ua
Pray,” a spokesman suid.
a bulldog desire to do some-
thing for them.
He thinks that towns like
Rockdale could help and should
help and the people who make
up the towns and cities should;
start doing a little more think-
ing about the future well be-
ing of these people of the soil
who feed us all.
Speaking before the Rock-
dale Rotary Club Tuenady Rev.
Parmer mentioned such things
as co-operation needed to work,
out rural and urban problems.
He said that the American far-
mer is the ‘'unorganized and!
unrecognized whipping boy of
America. Yet the American
farmer is the only segment of
America that has effectively
whipped communism.”
the farmer gets only about nnal people, the rural pastor
five cents on the dollar of thin I reminded “We country folks
six billion dollars, he said. , are not as; dumb as some folks
To explain this he said that i would have you believe "
a billion dollars is spent on t In the matter of relations!
storage of surplus copimoditiei, ; with the local business man, the
but this money does not go to j preacher told of getting repair
the farmer although it is part
ol the "farm subsidy." Federal
funds, he explained, that are
earmarked for the larm pro-
gram go to such things as the
.•■chool lunch room program,
Food for Peace, research and
regulatory agencies, and the
relief program. He pointed
to these programs a- being
Just a few whose expenses are
charged up to the farm pro-
gram.
“We have no surplus food
problem: the problem Is a lack,
been to Washington and given
( lore study to the Federal bud-
get, spoke of what he called
the Subsidy Myth.
about six billion dollars a year
spent on the farm program hut
what few people realize U that
said. He charged that “If
we could get the State Depart-
ment <rut of the agriculture
business we would not have
“Everyone knows there is* 'htse farm and surplus pro-
blems
Calling for a better under-
standing between urban and
See RURAL, page 3
Rockdale Totals
$938.15 lor MOD
Rockdale's March of Dime*
drive for 1963 totaled $938.15
with the Negro community'*
diive, the final phase, totaling
$79.40, Jiin Whitchurch, city
MOD chairman, announced to-
day.
Whitchurch listed the MOD
campaign breakdown a» fol*
turn
The rural minister, who has»S«* distribution," Bev. Parmer lows: Mothers’ March 9503.19.
BttdMt.Mude $292.0<®«*roi
drive 879.40, Latin
drive 941.92, coin
$21.56.
“Thg Negro drive
ducted through
and churches,"
plained.
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