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THE ROCKDALE REPORTER
Rockdale Messenger Established 1873
.»ot 77
AND MESSENGER
Rockdale Reoorter Established 1896
Today 16 Pages
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Local Scouters
Attend Annual
Heeling at Waco
The annual meeting of the Heart
, ipexas Boy Scout Council was
!Lj at Waco December 5, when
Sj V. Hays, Scouter in the area,
elected president of the Coun-
(U succeeding H. H. Coffield, of
^tending the dinner meeting
lithe Roosevelt hotel from Rock-
lie were the following: Mr. and
L Louis Rinn, Mr. and Mrs.
jkrold Luckey, Mr. and Mrs. W. T.
Scurlock, Rev. and Mrs. Linwood
ROCKDALE. MILAM COUNTY. TEXAS THURSDAY. DECEMBER 8. 1949
NO. 46
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Peterson,
Rev. and Mrs. F. T.
Sager, Mr. and Mrs. M. N. Strieker,
and Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Maxwell.
H h Coffield was unable to at-
tend because of illness, and J. E.
Johnson presided at the meeting
for him.
Several hundred Scouters of the
jouncil attended the silver anni-
versary dinner in the Roosevelt
ballroom following the business
acting.
Other officers elected during the
business session were H. H. Cof-
lield, Dr. C. C. Baker, Norman
Boyett, Raymond Dillard, and
frank Jones, vice presidents, How-
ard Hambleton, treasurer; Hugh
Thompson, commissioner; H. H.
Coffield, Oliver Winchell, H. M.
Fentress, and J. E. Johnson, na-
tional council members.
‘Put faith in youth and they will
justify that faith,” Dr. W. R.
White, president of Baylor Uni-
versity, challenged several hundred
-outing leaders attending the sil-
ver anniversary dinner of the
council Monday evening.
“There was never a more respon-
sive generation of youth than we
have today,” the former Scout-
master said.
Despite the handicap of current
“vironmental confusion and un-
dainty of the age in which they
living, the youth of today are
timistic, responsive and, avail-
able to be carved into the finest
generation that has ever graced
this earth, Dr. White said in his
address on “The Leadership of
Youth”
Mrs. Rumph Honored
During a presentation ceremony
Mrs. C. C. Rumph, Den Mother of
Pack 209 became the first woman
of the council to receive the train-
ing award for outstanding service
in Scouting. 11. M. Fentress, mem-
ber of the council executive board,
lade the presentation.
The Silver Beaver Award was
sented Alex G. Walsh for out-
standing Scouting service. J. E.
ohnson of Temple made the pres-
pation during a recognition cere-
mony for Scouters who have re-
See SCOUTERS, Page 8
Male Chorus lo
i Present Program
AlMcCloskey
The Rockdale Male Chorus, un- I T%YTfl R ■ ■ J
?vm‘shievodirS 'Kilo Attendance
will give a forty-minute program ]
|| I at the Veterans Hospital (McClos-
key) at Temple Sunday.
The program is a part of Rock-
dale’s contribution to Open House
at the hospital on that day, for
the entertainment of disabled vet-
erans. The Rockdale workers, led
by Mesdames Bill Kyle and N. N.
Newman, will serve refreshments
to the veterans.
Boxell said that sixteen men
from his chorus would make the
trip, inasmuch as some of the
members have found it impossible
to go. Those who will be in the
group are as follows:
H. D. Maxwell, Jr., Sidney Max-
well, Rodney Spence, Lexie Bos
Interest State-Wide in Milk
Bowl Game Next Satur
San Saba and
Cause Pee-Wees lo
Meet al Cameron
Breaks Records
For Pasi7Years
The attendance at the Rockdale
Schools by both elementary and
high school students for the past
three months has exceeded all at-
tendance records in the past seven
years, according to Supt. C. M. Sel-
inan.
The attendance records for each
grade for the past Three months
has averages as follows: 1st, 97%;
2nd, 97%; 3rd, 97 %; 4th, 98%; 5th, I
well, George Haley, Robert Haley, 96'■’< : 6th, 97%; 7th, 98%; 8th, 98% ;
Junior Whiteley, Royce Harwell,, 9th, 96%; 10th, 97%; 11th, 98%;
Charlie Watson, Wylie Gilmore, 12th, 98%<.
Harry Harris, Kenneth Harris, I Few schools in the state can
Johnny Weed, Wilhelm Backhaus.'Hoastofanybetterattendancerec-
Ralph Strieker, and Graham Dick-i °rd considering the large area
erson | from which these students come.
The open house programs are
held at the hospital twice each
month, with different towns furn-
ishing the entertainment and re-
freshments. The programs are
open to everyone and start about
2:45 p. m.
BIG MONEY—The check was bigger than the piccolo it purchased
when Clayton Dark, Lions club secretary, (right) handed it to R. H. S.
Band Director E. F. Boxell, who is holding the instrument. When
the Rockdale Lions voted to donate $125 to the Band for the piccolo
purchase, they had a special check made which measured 17 inches
in length, outdistancing the piccolo by several inches.
Reporter Staff Photo
AMBLING
'ROUND
►ROCKDALE
—With
W. H. C.
Hot That It Matters.
THINGS I am just now finding
out, not that it makes much dif-
ference : An ostrich egg is so big
takes a good forty minutes or
tter to get it thoroughly boiled
•■•It would take 27,143 gallons of
*ater to equal a rainfall of one
ch over one acre of ground . .
d pencils first came into ex-
wnce about 1560 ... a barber’s
aight razor must have been
bout the most perfect of all in-
r*ntions as it still retains it’s same
ho. appearance and usefulness,
“1,e most articles undergo nu-
erous changes through the years
An Ocarina, that little musical
strument often referred to as a
potato, gets its name Ocar-
0 because it also looks like a
r*e • • . Ocarino means “little
■0°se, an Italian word . . . Have
done your Christmas shopping
MORE THAN 600 KIDS TALK TO
SANTA AT CHRISTMAS PARTY
Santa Claus, showing up in his conclusion of the parade at the
red sleigh, got Rockdale off to an lowntown park,
early start on the Christmas sea- Holiday street lighting went on
son last Friday evening at the an- 11 over the business district and
I nual Christmas Party, when a huge judges awarded prizes as follows
crowd thronged the streets down for the best show windows:
| town. p’irst prize, Strieker’s Variety
It is estimated that more than store; second prize, Rockdale
600 kiddies paid a personal visit Flower Shop; third prize, Rock-
to Old Saint Nick at the down town dale Home & Auto Supply. Judges
park and community tree, with were Mesdames Ike Camp, Weldon
sacks of candy going to all of the Gilchrist, and Sid Culp, all of San
kiddies present. Gabriel.
The affair opened at 5 p. m. with At the program at the Commu-
a parade led by the high school ^jty Tree, E. A. Camp gave the
band followed by Santa in his invocation. II. D. Maxwell served
sleigh which was parked at the 1S master of ceremonies. A musi-
cal program was presented by
E. F. Boxell and his R. H. S. Band
and Chorus, and by the fifth and
sixth grade students, under the di-
rection of Mrs. Dorothy Dobbs
, id Miss Lois Randolph, singing
Christmas songs.
The sleigh used by Santa was
made by all of the boys in the
Veterans Cabinet school of Rock-
dale under the direction of “Dutch”
Ziegler. It will be saved for fu-
ture use.
The Party was sponsored by the
Young Men’s Business League.
Prizes are also being offered for
die best residential displays this
year and judging of this event will
iVe a Cigar?
HEN Preacher Miller Smith,
who doesn’t smoke, turned
Jn,u c'gar offered by a friend
other day, Preacher Brigham,
lv° doos smoke and who has a
inr^ur6 °f humor, reprimanded
lako ■* m on yo»’re offered a cigar,
’ he urged, “put it in your
, Ket ancl save it for me; I like
him>S, ^et s this sort of
K from the over-all aspect.”
days later- Preacher Brig-
- talking with a group, lit up a
•f.’and big-hearted as he is,
oun 3 c*gar to all those in the
ud Poacher Smith took one.
milk ‘n h's pocket. Preacher
;Jin doesn’t smoke, but he, too,
a s'y sense of humor.
days later the two preach-
« at the post office, and of
. you know what happened.
0 Brigham was given back
J1 c.‘8ar by the ever-thought-
rr*acher Smith.
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Citizens Urged
To Help Annual
T R. Saa! S?!e
The 43rd annual Christmas Seal
Sale of the Texas Tuberculosis As-
sociation is now on and citizens
everywhere are being asked to
purchase seals to further the work
of the organization. Local chair-
man is I. B. Bullock.
12 Veterans In
40 and 8 Wreck
At Legion Hall
S/SGT. MORRIS J. BEESLEY
Morris J. Beesley
Reburial Services
Held Here Sunday
Reburial services for S/Sgt. Mor-
ris Beesley were held Sunday
Twelve men were initiated into
the Milam County Voiture of the
40-And-8 at the Legion Memorial
Home here Sunday afternoon.
The “Wreck” or initiation was
conducted by a wrecking crew
from the Austin Voiture No. 175.
About twenty men were in the
group from Austin, headed by Paul
Bowman, Past Grand Chef de
Gare.
Those initiated, taking all five j
Agrees, were as follows:
From Rockdale: W. T. Pearson,
Jr., M. N. Strieker, Gilbert A. Of-
fiold, Dr. John T. Richards and I
See 40 AND 8, Page 8
Approximately 38 percent of the
students attending the Rockdale
Schools ride to and from school
on school busses. These busses
cover an area of approximately
140 square miles.
Under the new school program
the attendance of pupils directly
determines the number of teachers
the school is permitted to employ
so the attendance of the students
bears a direct interest to all par- ...
ents. There is a direct relation I from the chapel of Phillips &
between attendance and school ac- j Luckey funeral home at 2:30 p. m.
complishmenfi, also the instruc- with E,mer llby of the Church of
Christ officiating. He was assisted
by Rev. R. A. Brigham of the
First Christian church.
The body arrived here at noon
........... ..... maintain the that day. Pallbearers were from U11 i=>ilLlll.ll.lv
best instructional program poss- Jh(-’ local American Legion Post, cember 10i 1£J49 at 3 p m Yoe
ible, for the educational, and social: an(' the bunul was made in t He: j_j ^ Athletic Field in Cameron
development o( all students. Good I Plot al Oak Lawn cane-| FoSS,U Oaml tMUk
schools are directly dependent up- j aiy. Bowl* between the Cause Pee Wee
on parent assistance, and coop-; S/Sgt. Beesley lost his life on jteam of Cause and San Saba Pee
tional service.
Supt. Selman urges parents to
cooperate with the school in keep-
ing the attendance to the max-
imum in order to
Saturday will be “Kids Day” in
Milam county, by proclamation of
Dan Tyson, county judge, as the
Pee-Wee football teams of Gause
and San Saba meet at 3 p. m. at
Cameron in the first annual Milk
Bowl game. ,
Football interest throughout the
state is being centered on this un-
ique game which will see youngs-
ters no older than 13 and all
weighing less than 100 pounds,
battling for honors in the first
Milk Bowl.
All the trappings of the big bowl
games will be provided and a play
by play account will be broadcast
over WFAA by Ralph Widman,
the station’s sports director. Be-
tween halves there will be a big
show by the San Saba Band and
the Cameron Yoe High Band, with
some extra entertainment prom-
ised, too.
The teams will play regulation
football undei the interscholastic
League rules, with members of
the Texas A. & M. Officials Asso-
ciation officiating. Trophies will
be presented both elevens by
WFAA and The Dallas Morning
News, and an award will go to
the winning team from the Dr.
Pepper company, broadcast spon-
sor.
Proclamation.
County Judge Dan Tyson has is-
sued the following proclamation:
WHEREAS, on Saturday, De-
Rockdale Outlay/
Oagers Beat Milano
1-27 Monday Night
eration, he emphasizes.
All Students of
RHS Are Givan
Dental Checkup
jJan. 2, 1944, in Belgium while in j Weo team of San Saba for champ-
jlhe service of hls country. He was ions of perhaps the first and only
the son of Mrs. W. E. Beesley and | Pee Wec Bowl Game ever , d
:the late Mr Beesley, and was , in our nation and certainly the £irst
reared m and near Rockdale. He | in this section of the <
this# is for
See MILK BOWL, Page 8
Through the assistance of Dr.
E. A. Swafford and Dr. A. A. Ur-
ban all students in the Rockdale]
Schools from grades one through |
eight were checked for their den-
Rockdale's Outlaw basketball!tal needs. Each student was check- j
! had*"ifeen a member 'of7he*Church !•*" WHEREAS, “since a0<l
cf Christ since a lad.
There survive his mother, Mrs. |
W. E. Beesley of Houston; two I
sisters, Mrs. T. J. Kyle of Forest
Grove, and Mrs. Calvin Nelson of
Uvalde. An uncle J. A. Beesley,
resides here.
team took the Milano Outlaws at
the Rockdale gym Monday night,
racing away with an 81-27 count.
The visitors were no match for
the sharp-shooting locals who got
off to a fast start and had a wide
iead at the half that kept building
up until the game’s end.
Playing for Rockdale were T. A.
Weems, Pete Owens, Claude
Spence, Bill White, Milton Curtis
and Darrell Leech.
Yegua Philosopher:
Pupils End Study
01 Transportation
With Twyn Ride
ed for decayed cavities and gen-
eral hygenic conditions of the teeth
and mouth.
A check sheet for each student
was provided for the teacher, who
gave these to the student with their
report cards yesterday. Supt. Sel-1 The two fifth grade sections and
man urges all parents whose child’s j their sponsors, Miss Lois Randolph
dental slip shows dental needs to 1 14<r"~ T''~1 ''''
go to their family dentist and get
these corrections made.
See DENTAL CHECKUP, Page 8
Immunization
Program at RHS
Now Completed
Seals have been mailed to many j take place some time after Dec. 15.
tin the rolls of the Association, and -
if there are others who wish to
purchase seals, Mr. Bullock says
he has a supply available. The
seals sell for $1.00 a sheet of one
hundred seals.
Through the sale of seals, the
Texas Tuberculosis Association has
made many accomplishments: free
chest x-rays have been given dur-
inir the oast three years to 188,521
TeXans Among these "apparent- Supt. C. M. Selman states that
lv hoalthv” people, 3.211 cases the vaccination services from the
n'f tuberculosis were discovered. Milam County Health Unit has
, the majority, however, the di- been completed in the Rockdale
sease was discovered at an early White schools.
stage when proper treatment us- j The work was administered by
ually means early recovery. Dr. E. S. Freeman, Director of Mil-
* The Association says there is yet am County Health Unit, assisted
much to 'be done and estimates by Mrs. Cynthia Saage, Milam
See SEAL SALE, Page 8 'county Public Health Nurse, and
_____—--- i Mrs. Ruby Brown, Milam County
J. A. Admires Method Congressman Has
Of Not Arguing When Caught Red-Handed
Tiger Cage Teams
Play Giddings Here
Next Tuesday Night
The Rockdale Tiger basketball
teams. A and B, will meet the boys
teams from Giddings at he Rock-
dale gym Tuesday night of next
Week. .
The B teams will play at 7 p. m.
and the A teams are due to square
off around 8 o’clock. It will be
the second game of the year for
the Tigers, both A and B teams
dropping one-sided games at Gid-
dings last Tuesday night.
Coach Milton Curtis is jus^ get
ting his boys organized and start-
ing off from scratch this year with
little if any experienced material.
School Health Nurse
There were 21 students who took
| diphtheria immunizations, 99 stu- as the percent-
j dents who took smallpox vaccina- a^e °f ordin-
tions, 317 students took typhoid
booster immunizations, and 71 stu-
dents took 3 shots typhoid immu-
nizations, making a total of 508
immunizations and vaccinations
administered.
Supt Selman says the high per-
centage of students cooperating in
the program of preventing of com-
municable diseases, exemplifies
their interest in better health in
the community for themselves, and
their neighbors.
Immunizations and vaccinations
for students at Aycock School will
be given in January by the County
Health Officials.
Editor's note: The Yegua
Philosopher on his Johnson
grass farm on Yegua Creek
has been reading the papers
again, his letter this week in-
dicates. We doubt if it does
him any good.
Dear editar:
I noticed in a newspaper which
was wrapped around a pair of
shoes I had half-soled year be-
fore last and finally got around
to pickin em up in town Saturday
where another Congressman has
gotten into
• trouble and
while I don’t
erckon the
percentage of
C o ngressmen
runnin afoul
of the law is
half as great
| pretty busy. I understand also
this Congressman didn’t find bein
convicted but he hated like all
get-out to be sent to jail because j with the new types of seats and air
conditioning. They visited the
and Mrs. Deliah McCoy, took a
train trip on the Missouri Pacific
Sunshine passenger train as a cul-
minating activity for their unit on
transportation.
The unit on transportation was
called “From Wheels to Motors.”
The students went by school bus
to Taylor last Wednesday and were
met by the special agent, Mr. W. N.
Fuller, from Austin. Each of-the
37 students bought their own tic-
kets, boarded the train and started
asking the special agent questions
about the train.
The students saw the chair cars
ary folks, I
was interested
in what this J. A.
C o ngressman
had to say.
When he was confronted with
the evidence of gettin the govern-
ment’s money mixed up with his,
he pleaded “nolo contendre” and
threw himself on the mercy of the
court.
As I understand this, it means
“I ain’t sayin whether I’m guilty
or not, but go ahead and sentence
me.” In other words, the Con-
gressman is too busy a man to
argue about it, which is gettin
a jail term would ruin his reputa
tion as a lawyer. Will take this
up with my lawyer friends the
next time I’m in town.
I hadn’t realized it, but I’ve had
that Congressional trait myself for
two years. Many’s the time my
wife, confronted with what a law-
yer probably would call misap-
propriation of egg money, would
unwind her tongue and if I had
been of less than Congressional
stature this part of the country
would have had a big argument,
but I’ve found long ago the best
way is not to argue.
“Nolo contendre" is a great j
phrase, inside of Congress or out. \
Just the other day one of my
neighbors was in a beligerant1 Tu©sday, D©C. 13
mood, tryin to say I borrowed his |
copy of the Reporter out of his i The Parent-Teacher Association
mail box, and I told him right off will meet in regular session Tues-
the thing ain’t worth arguin about.; day, December 13, at 4 p. m. in
Admit nothin and keep walkin, I the school gymnasium,
is my policy. When my cow gets' This will be the final meeting
over in a neighbor’s pasture and, of 1949 and a good program has
he says I’ve got to fix the fence, been planned. It is hoped that all
I don’t argue about it. I don’t fix members will make an effort to
the fence neither, but it saves a attend.
lot of unpleasantness at the time. The program will be as follows:
pullman cars saw a lower and up-
per birth, and learned how to
get into and out of a birth. They
learned what a compartment was
like, and the luxury of this type
of travel. They all saw the din-
ing cars, read the menus and asked
how and where the food was pre-
pared. The lounge and observa-
tion cars were included in the
tour. Some of the students asked
why Diesels were used instead of
See TRAIN RIDE, Page 8
Rockdale P.-T. A.
Will Meet at Gym
I even tried this on a banker
once, when he was contendin my
note was due, but he was the most
un-Congressional man I’ve ev«r
seen and didn’t take to my method
at all.
Yours faithfully,
J. A.
Inspirational thoughts, Mrs. Ro-
land Kaderli.
Order of business.
Special Feature, E. F. Boxell.
Team-Work Between Home and
Church, The Rev. F. T. Sager.
Social Hour, Hostess—Mrs. Bill
Kyle.
J. W. Garner Guest
Speaker at Lions
Luncheon Meeting
J. W. Garner made a hit with
Rockdale Lions at their luncheon
Wednesday at noon with an in-
teresting talk on Rockdale 50 years
ago.
Mr. Garner, well known Rock-
dale attorney, told of many inter-
esting and humorous events of the
old days. His speech was eagerly
received by the Lions and because
of its unusual interest and appeal
the complete text of the talk will
be printed in this newspaper in
the next issue.
Twenty-one Lions were present.
T. A. Weems announced to the
club that the Rockdale Outlaws,
men’s basketball team, would play
a team of girl professional baske-
teers at the local gym Saturday.
March 4. The girls team is known
as Hazel Walker’s Arkansas Trav-
elers. Miss Walker will be re-
membered as the manager and free
throw artist of Olsen’s Red Heads
which played the Outlaws here
last year.
Visitors at the luncheon includ-
ed W. E. Gaither, member of the
Cameron Lions Club; Jerry Jar-
well, member Houston club; and
Walter Urban introduced Hugh
Heflin and Martin Meitzen, engi-
neers with the State Fire Insurance
Department.
Louis Lewis, 76
Dies at Home Here
Last Thursday
Louis Lewis, 76, long time citizen
of Rockdale, passed away at his
home here in the early hours of last
Thursday evening following a pro-
longed illness.
Funeral services were held Fri-
day afternoon at 3:30 o’clock from
the chapel of Phillips and Luckey
funeral home with Rev. T. Miller
Smith of the First Methodist
church officiating. Burial was
made in Oak Lawn cemetery.
Pallbearers were the following
nephews; Jack and Leon Lewis
of Rockdale, Paul Lewis, Marlin
Lewis, R. B. Lewis, Jr„ of Austin
and Clifton Sawyer of Houston.
Louis Lewis was a native of
La Grange, Texas, bom June 11,
1873. He was a son of J. H. and
Lucy Lewis. His parents came
to Milam county when he was i
small child and purchased farm
land south of Rockdale, establish-
ing a home there. Here it was that
See LEWIS. Page 8
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