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Rockdale Messenger Established 1873
VOL. 71
J High School Band
To Present Concert
AND MESSENGER
^OCI^ALeT mILAM COUNTyTtEXAS THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 23. 1950
Rockdale Reoorter Established 1896
NO. 5
Joxell Group
Spring Concert
Set for March 3
The Rockdale High School Band,
ider the direction of E. F. Boxell,
present its Spring Concert
lay, March 3, at 8 p. m. at the
school gym.
!‘*4There will be no admission
£• and a cordial invitation is
to everyone to attend,”
gto£ Boxell said yesterday.
|f j^Mld has been working hard
Will Offer a varied program.
It will l>e made up for the
jpart of standard numbers,
will also be solos for several
and some popular
B will also be offered.
Male Chorus, numbering
20, will assist with at least
umbers, the director said.
»:A complete copy of the program
ba given in The Reporter next
prior to the concert which
ba on Friday night.
Three School Board
Member's Names Are
Filed For Re-Election
The three present members of
the Rockdale school board whose
terms expire this year have agreed
to let their names be placed on
the ballot for re-election, it was
announced this week.
The white man’s primary will
be held Tuesday, March 14. In
the school board phase of the
election those up for re-election
are Ernest Noack, Louis G. Gest
and H. J. Stone. Friends advised
that the three men had consented
to serve another term if re-elected.
18 Tiger Grid
Leltermen Get
Jacket Awards
light, 63, Found
f at Farm Home
iday Afternoon
Levi Knight, 63 year old farmer
Football award jackets for Tiger
lettermen of Rockdale high school
the past season have been made,
with 18 players receiving the
awards, it is announced this week.
Those receiving jackets, and the
number of service stripes for each,
are as follows:
Two stripes: Allen Cummings,
the Hamilton Chapel commu-1 Benito Garza, Bobby Lynch, Glen
was found dead at his home McDonald, Sidney Maxwell, Elton
afternoon. i Dixon, Billy Gene Gest.
It is said that when neighbors | Three stripes: Billy Boyd, George
(ailed to see Mr. Knight for sev-j Haley.
ml days a friend went to the; Letter only: Wayne Skinner,
dome to see if he was ill, and found Donald Kornegay, Junior White-
man dead just on the outside ley, Lexie Boswell, S. C. Bland,
the hou.-r (•!;•.:..::i . Mvounulv .1 W . I.. i .. I > - K.oi C„; o ....I .
laving fallen over from a heart! and Charles Gross (manager).
Six lettermen will return next
Mr. Knight had spent his life year to the 1950 squad, as follows:
i the Hamilton Chapel community Allen Cummings, Wayne Skinner,
* Since the death of his father Benito Garza, Bobby Lynch, Billy
i had lived alone. He was a son Boyd and Elton Dixon.
at Mrs. Emmy Keen Knight, and |
Clark Knight.
Funeral services were held at
11 o'clock Saturday morning from
chapel of Phillips and Luckey
home with Rev. R. A.
officiating. Burial was
In old Salem cemetery.
The surv ivor is a brother, Oscar
Knight of Cameron. Two aunts,
Mrs. J. H. Franklin of Rockdale,
Mrs. W. C. Clayton of California,
Ed Sexton Seeks
Re-Election To
Constable Post
Ed Sexton, who has been serv-
an uncle, Pete Keen of Rockdale, 1 ing Rockdale and Precinct 4 as
and g number of cousins also sur- t Constable the past two years, an-
vive.
Louis Rinn Honored
At Chevrolet Record
Club Zone Meeting
Louis Rinn, parts and accessor-
ies manager of the Louis G. Gest known.
Chevrolet Garage in Rockdale, was
honored at a zone meeting of Rec-
ord Club members at Houston Fri-
day night when he was named
Secretary after having been ranked
third in the Houston zone in total
points out of 78 making up the
Parts Record Club.
Rinn Was awarded an F.lgin De-
Luxe wrist watch, a bill fold, and
inParts set with a small ruby.
The meeting of the Parts and
Iries Record Club members
at the South American
the Rice Hotel Friday
HUht, when winners were an-
nounced and honored.
Fans From Wide Area
Attend Square Dance
Here Saturday Night
Square dance fans from a wide
area converged on Rockdale Sat-
urday night for the session spon-
sored by the American Legion at
Legion Memorial Hall here.
There was a good crowd present,
with dancers here from Corpus
Christi, Thorndale, Minneapolis,
Minn., Giddings, Dime Box, Cam-
eron, Bryan and Caldwell.
Mark Towery called with the
Salty Swingsters playing.
j nounces today that he is a candi-
! date for re-election, subject to the
action of the Democratic Primary
in July.
During his first term in office
Constable Sexton has compiled an
enviable record and has been one
of the best known and best liked
officers the precinct has ever
His friends point out that
he is always on the job, is fearless,
and has brought to the position
a dignity that has demanded re-
spect from everyone.
Sexton was born and raised in
Milam county and has lived in
Rockdale for 23 years. “I am ap-
preciative of the wonderful sup-
port I have received during my
first term, and feel that I am now
equipped to render an even better
service during the next two years
if I am re-elected. I pledge to the
people of my precinct my very
best efforts to continue serving
them to the best of my ability,”
the constable sai<J. ,
Sexton sends his thanks to those
who supported him in his first
race two years ago and solicits a
continuation of this support and
the votes and approval of everyone
in the precinct at election time.
Now Students at
STSTC Include 7 From
Rockdale and Milano
Sani Marcos, Feb. 20.—Five stu-
dents from Rockdale and two stu-
dents from Milano are among the
ikw ftudents who have recently
enrolled lor till' I list time at Soulh-
t Texas State Teachers college,
lents from Rockdale now at-
tg the college in San Marcos
tlhur Winkelman. Mrs. Bern*
jRinn, Elton Mason, Kenneth
BUrgtss, and Nonnie Blackburn.
Those students from Milano arc
See STUDENTS, Page 7
Cameron Man Has
Office in Highway
77 Organization
Camerin, Feb. 20.—L. G. Smith,
manager of the Cameron Chamber
if Commerce, was named secre-
tary-treasurer of a state-wide or-
ganization to improve and pro-
mote U. S. Highway 77 at a meet-
ing in Waco recently. Other of-
ficers are Reuben Silva of Lott,
president; and Judge Oscar Dancey
of Brownsville and C. T. Nall of
Waxahachie, vice-presidents. The
board of directors will be com-
posed of one member from each of
the 21 counties which the highway
serves.
It was pointed out at the meet-
ing that Highway 77 is the only
highway in the United States that
connects three countries—Canada,
the United States, and Mexico. It
extends from Winnipeg, Canada,
to Guatemala City. Guatemala.
The next meeting of the associa-
tion will be held in La Grange,
March 23.
Election Will Decide School
And City Divorce Question
Voters of School
District Urged to
Local All-Star
Cagers Win 7
Out of 8 Games
I This Subscriber
Says Feb. 16 Issue
"Best I9ve Ever Seen
GEORGIA PEACH—Mary Alice Hatcher, 6-ft., is a member of
Hazel Walker’s Arkansas Travelers girls cage team scheduled to
meet the Rockdale men’s All Star team here March 4. With Hazel
and Stubby Winter she was with the Olson’s All Americans who
played the All Stars here last year. She hails from Albany, Georgia,
was ruled All America for two years and is also rated as “the great-
est long-shot artist basketball has ever known—men or women.”
The game is being sponsored by the Rockdale Lions Club and a ca-
pacity crowd is expected.
School Census
For Year 1950-51
Now Under Way
Supt. C. M. Selman announces
that school census and enumera-
tion for the school year of 1950-51
are being made at the present
time.
The enumeration is being taken
through the school and census
blanks are being sent home by all
who are not in school and have
no brother or sister in school is
being done by the census enumera-
tor and tabulator.
Any person who has a child that
will be 6 years old on or before
September 1st, 1950, who is not
contacted by the school for a cen-
sus enumeration is asked to phone
the school in order that the child
be properly enumerated. It is to
the parents’ interest to see that
all children are enumerated on
the school census.
Rockdale’s All-Stars defeated the
Giddings All-Star cagers at Gid-
dings last Thursday night by a
score of 54 to 50.
It was the seventh win of the
season for the Rockdale quintet
which has lost only one game, and
it was the second time they had
beaten the Giddings five.
The All Stars beat Granger and
Thorndale one game each, and
won two victories over each of
the following: Giddings, Milano,
and Buckholts. Theii umy loss
was one game to the Thorndale
team. ,
* At Giddings Thursday night the
line-up was as follows, with points
scored:
J. T. Ellis 13, T. A. Weems 12,
Doug Jackson 1, Pete Owens 4,
Claude Spence 14, Milton Curtis
10.
For Giddings: L. Gacke 12, E.
Tisdale 8, M. Farris 8, K. Davis 6,
D. Davis 8, Winkler 8.
Rockdale, Texas
February 18, 1950
To The Reporter:
Your edition of Feb. 16,
1950, was the best I’ve ever
seen. I like the pictures in
the news section very much.
I’ve been reading The Re-
porter as long as I can re-
member.
A Weekly Reader
Rockdale FFA
Boys Competing
In Area Contests
Cameron Man
Candidate For
Appeals Judge
Filing fee for District Judge
W. A. (Bill) Morrison, of Cameron,
as a candidate for a judge of the
court of criminal appeals was
made at Austin Friday.
Lions Club to
Again Sponsor
Softball Teams
The Rockdale Lions ' Club will
sponsor softball in Rockdale again
this summer, it was decided at a
breakfast meeting of the board
of directors of the club at the
A-l Cafe Wednesday morning.
As last year, the club will spon-
sor both boys and girls softball,
with details of the schedules and
programs to be announced in the
near future.
Those attending the meeting.
President L. C. Mehaffey, Secre-
tary Clayton E. Dark, R. L. Menn,
T. A. Weems, Walter Urban, Clyde
Franklin, Henry Tyler, and Frank
Brandon.
Awards Made
At Cub Scout
Annual Banquet
The annual blue and gold ban-
quet of the Cub Scouts of Troop
88, Rockdale, was held Tuesday
night in the basement of Peace
Lutheran church. Approximately
one hundred people were present.
Cub Master Louis Rinn served
as master of ceremonies, introduc-
ing the guests and the three dens
with their Den Mothers and Den
Chiefs. After a brief program
various awards were presented to
the cubs who had finished their
achievements.
Mr. Faust Nobles, Scout Execu-
tive, provided entertainment and
was in charge of the closing cere-
monies.. ,
The blue and gold color scheme
was beautifully carried out in the
table decorations. One large ta-
ble contained a display of a large
variety of hand craft which the
cubs had made during the past
year.
The banquet meal, consisting of
baked ham, potato salad, and
ranch style beans and soda pop
was greatly enjoyed by all pres-
ent.
Cub Scout advancement awards
were made as follows:
Wolf: Lanier Angel, James
Doss, Jimmie Horton, Wayne Jenk-
ins, W. T. Scurlock III, Lannie
Sager, Lance Dugan, Hal Stanis-
law, Jimmie Newton, Robert Lee
Bounds, Wayne Winkleman, Ver-
non Dymke, Lonnie Urban, Ronnie
Cummings, Billy Joe Brown, Donal
Key.
Bear: Jackie Yount, Courtney
Armstrong, Johnny Timmerman,
Billy Sager.
Cub Awards: Elmer Gootman,
Leroy Ellis, Harvey Lee Holliman,
Charles Hardin Camp.
Lions: Billy Sager, Lee Young.
Members of the Rockdale FFA
chapter are competing in District
and Area Leadership Contests at
Milano today (Thursday) with
chapter members from three coun-
ties: Milam, Burleson and Robert-
son.
The contests are divided into two
groups, according to H. D. Max- 1
well, instructor: The Green Hand
division and the Chapter Farmer-
Division.
In the Chapter Farmer Division
the Rockdale boys entering are as
follows:
Chapter Conducting: Billy Boyd,
president; James Caffey, vice pres-
ident; Jimmy Small, secretary;
Bill Tom McDaniel, treasurer;
W. T. Dyer, historian; Charley
Watson, reporter; Johnny Tyler,
3rd vice president; Graham Young,
Milam U of T Exes
Annual Banquet to
Be Held at Cameron
Cameron, Feb. 20.—University of
Texas exes of Milam county will
hold their annual banquet at the
Milam coffee shop here March 2.
Ernest Sharpe of Austin, former
Cameron man, will be guest speak-
er, L. Van Perkins, program chair-
man, said.
Mr. Sharpe, a professor of Jour-
nalism at the University of Texas,
is a graduate of the university.
Miss Dorothy Matson of Rock-
dale is president of the Milam
county club.
Poage Writes News
From Washington
By W. R. POAGE
Congressman
Washington, D. C., Feb. 17.—This
week has seen a stream of both
Republican and Democratic lead-
ers in Washington. Naturally I
have seen very few of the Repub-
lican visitors. I have, on the other
hand, enjoyed visits with a whole
host of good friends from Texas—
a number from our own District
—who were in Washington to at-
tend the Jefferson-Jackson Day
Dinner. The Democrats put on
a much larger gathering than the
Republicans, and raised more than
half a million dollars for their
See POAGE, Page 12
. ,, , .... oru vice president; uranam loung,
Morrison, well known in Milam 12nd vice president; Ollie Young,
county where he has served as! sentinel
district attorney and is currently' Farm'Skill Demonstration: By-
serving as district judge, is a | ron Brandstetter, Sam Yoakum,
Tommie Sanderson and Thomas
Reed.
FFA Quiz: John Sapp, Johnny
Weise, Benito Garza, Cruz Garza,
and Emory Crump.
Rockdale boys in the Green
Hand division are as follows:
Chapter Conducting: Johnnie
See FFA BOYS, Page 7
candidate for the position now
held by Judge F. L. Hawkins.
A petition for Morrison’s elec-
tion was signed by members of
the Milam County Bar Association
and other Milam county citizens.
Myrtle Ray Initiated
Into Gamma Society
Mary Hardin-Baylor
Special to Reporter
Belton, Feb. 18.—Miss Myrtle
Marie Ray of Rockdale has been
initiated into Gamma literary so- j Milam County Producers have
ciety at Mary Hardin-Baylor Col-(started signing up for Federal
'eSe. i Crop Insurance protection on their
A freshman student, she is the 1950 cotton crops and all eligible
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ollie producers are urged by Alva E.
Ray- Sanders, Administrative Officer of
Gamma literary society is one the Milam County PMA, to make
Producers Urged to
Sign Up for Federal
Cotton Insurance
Vole March 17
An election has been called for
the Rockdale Consolidated School
District for March 17 on the ques-
tion of divorcing the Rockdale
city and school government.
In compliance with the terms
of the Gilmer-Aiken law the
County School Board annexed part
of the outlying districts around
Rockdale for school purposes only
and the city approved the annexa-
tion by ordinance.
There are only a handful of
towns in the state now using dual
operation of city and school gov-
ernments, it is pointed out, and
the attorney general of Texas, as
a result of the Gilmer-Aiken law,
has recommended that those still
having dual operation separate the
two units.
Both the city council and school
board in Rockdale point out that
they want the answer to be given
by the residents of the Consolidat-
ed School District. The tax ques-
tion is mentioned most when the
divorce action is discussed by citi-
zens, and officials have pointed
out that the Gilmer-Aiken law
requires that taxes throughout a
consolidated district be equalized.
This action must be taken by the
city, if there is dual operation of
city or school, or by the school
board itself, if the two units op-
erate independently.
The city council and school
board of Rockdale are anxious that,
every voter in the district have
a clear understanding of the situa-
tion, and that every voter go to
the polls on election day. Neither
organization is making any effort
to tell citizens which way they
should vote, but they do stress
the importance of every voter go-
ing to the polls. C. M. Selman
and Herbert Fieseler have been
named a committee on information
and questions on the election di-
rected to them will be answered
personally or through this news-
paper in an effort to get correct
information on the election to ev-
eryone interested. An advertise-
ment on page 6 gives further in-
formation today.
of three on the Mary Hardin-Bay-
lor campus organized for the bene-
fit of freshmen. The club en-
courages social life, stimulates in-
terest in literature and lectures
this sound business proposition of
protecting their cotton investments
a part of their farming plans.
He points out that the logical
time to take out Federal Crop In-
and promotes a closer unity among surance protection is now so that
students. i See CROP INSURANCE, Page 12
Yegua Philosopher:
J. A. Doesn’t Want World to Put All Its
Wars In One Basket; Advises Vacation
Editor's not*: The Yegua
Philosopher on his Johnson
grass farm on Yegua Creek
sounds serious this week, but
you can't tell about him.
Dear editar:
I never was one to stand in the
way of progress, as far as I’m con-
cerned a man can have all the
gadgets he can pay for and has
the patience to keep runnin, and
I recognize that what the world
has today may
seem as old-
fashioned 100
years from
now as the
walkin plow
looks along-
side a four-
ro w tractor,
but I have
9 \
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been thinkin.
1 M [y
There’s al-
ready enough
gadgets in-
vented to
J. A.
where a man could be fairly com-
fortable if he had a set of each,
and don’t you reckon it would be
advisable to get the scientists and
inventors to slow down?
I don’t believe all I hear about
these new bombs, but . so many
people who are considered smart
are sayin so many serious things
about their awful prospects, a man
can’t help but worry a little. I
even worry a little about my roof
I just from hearin my wife say it’s
] gonna cave in on me some day.
As I understand it, the first atom
| bomb would destroy everything in
a mile area, the later ones about
5 miles, the hydrogen bomb they
claim will destroy everything in
a 25-mile area, and the scientists
have in mind other bombs which
will extend the territory. As I
see it, if the scientists keep goin
they’ll run out of territory, and
somebody is gonna invent some-
thin some day that will sweep
over the earth like ignited gasoline.
Strike a match in one direction
and have your coattail burned off
1 from the other.
Ain’t no sense in man puttin all
his wars in one basket. He ought
to string em out for years to come.
Therefore, I’ve got a proposition
to make. It’s called the J. A. Plan
For Outlawing New Inventions.
Instead of the world spendin bil-
lions of dollars in a race to see
which country gets to destroy all
the rest and . itself too, why not
just appropriate a small amount
and give it to the scientists and
, make em stay out of their labora-
I tories and stop thinkin. Let em
go fishin jj.t the world’s expense
for 25 years. Be the cheapest
money we could spend. I fish
a lot and you ain’t never heard of
me endangerin the life of anybody.
Yours faithfully,
J. A.
A. C. Spencer Speaks
At Friends of Land
Meeting Thursday
An appreciative crowd greeted
the Friends of the Land Meeting at
Legion hall here last Thursday
night to hear an interesting talk
on conservation by A. C. Spencer,
field representative of Friends of
the Land.
Spencer was introduced by H. D.
Maxwell, president of the Young
Men’s Business League and in-
structor of vocational agriculture
at the Rockdale schools. Following
his talk there was a round table
discussion.
Soil conservation from an edu-
cational viewpoint was discussed
by the speaker who encouraged
business men and farmers to util-
ize the facilities that are available
in Milam county today—the Ex-
tension Service and Vocational
Teachers, comparing the educa-
tional phase of the program; soil
conservation services, the techni-
cal advisory group; and the PMA,
which affords the financial assist-
ance to carry on the conservation
program, he said.
Spencer made similar talks at
Cameron, Sharp, Thorndale.
Sharp Presbyterians
Announce Special
Service Friday Night
The Sharp Presbyterian church
will have a special service Friday
night, February 24. at 7:30 o’clock.
The service will be held in the
newly redecorated church.
Mr. Robert W. Bell, professor
at Hastings College, Hastings, Ne-
braska, will be the speaker.
“We invite all of our friends to
come and join in this service of
rejoicing and see the improvement
j in our church building," said the
pastor, Rev. Clinton Edwards.
79TH BIRTHDAY
On Monday of this week Mr.
J. H. Cook celebrated his 79th
birthday. He was honored at i
dinner given by Mrs. Cook with
a number of close relatives attend-
ing. The decorated birthday cake
with lighted candles formed the
main table decoration.
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