The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 2, 1956 Page: 6 of 19
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Farmers Social Security
Explained at Farm Clinic
About 20 persons including four
from out ot town, attended the
lirst farm clinic Tuesday night
sponsored by the itockdale Cham-
ber of Commerce at tin new higtt
school vocational building.
Speaker was James 11. Murky,
district manager of the the Austin,
social security office. He spoke
on new social secuity regulations,
particularly affecting farmers.
Chamber Manager Marshall S.
Croft suui the next clinic will be
held Feb. 27. John McHaney of the
Texas A and V College extension
service will discuss the farm out-
look.
Guests other than Marley at the
lirst dmir included Bill Arthur of
Cameron, representing the Milam
county Farm Bureau. John Smith
of Cameron, farm bureau president
end County Agent J. D. Moore.
The chamber's agricultural evtn-
mittee, chairmancd by Ed Dillen,
i.> sponsoring the farm clinics.
Marley was chosen to open thq
series because, said Dillen, he is
a recognized authority in social
security affairs.
Marley said all persons who pay
more than $100 to any one worker
are responsible for the four per
cent social security tax which must
be paid by Jan. 31 each year.
However, the employer may with-
hold two pci cent from the worker's
pay.
Social security benefits for ag-
ricultural workers may be not less
than $30 nor more than $200 per
month for any -me worker, his
widow and children under 18,
Marley said.
/ Orest Grove News
TWO COUNTIES SHARE
IN MARCH OF DIMES
By Mrs. II. <’. Spence
The March of Dimes was given
the Sunday schvol offering Sun-
day morning, totaling $50. Other
donations raised the total to $64.
Since our community is divided
by the county line the amount was
divided equally between Milam
and Leo County March of Dimes
drive. There were 75 present at
Sunday school.
The recent rain was good i'Jt a
starter, but everyone is hoping for
mor> soon.
Mrs. Ada Sanders,
97, of Minerva,
Dies Thursday
Funeral services for Mrs. Ada
F. Sanders, 97 of Minerva were
held at Green Funeral Home in
Cameron. Rev Charles Hall,
Methodist minister from Minerva,
officiated, and burial was in Min-
erva Cemetery.
Mrs. Sanders was born Ada
Pickens March 25, 1858, in Nash-
ville, Term., daughter of the late
Lottie Zellner Pickens and J. F.
Pickens.
Sh died Thursday at her home
in Minerva where she had lived
75 years.
Survivors include three sons.
Willie Sanders of Yoakum, Bur-
lord Sanders of Houston and John
Sanders ot Waco, and four daugh-
ters, Mrs Littie Riggs, Miss Jmo-
g.enc Sander and Miss Sue Sand-
ers, all of Minerva, and Mrs. Wal-
ter B. Smith Sr. of Temple.
H. O. Watson has been ill re-
cently, but at last report he was
improving. He is staying with his
daughter, Mrs. John Hornur.g, in
Lexington. Visiting him in the
Hornung home Sunday were Mr.
end Mrs. A. O. Wats/n and daugh-
ters, and Mr. and Mrs. C». L. Owens
and family.
Visiting in the H. C. Spence
home Sunday were Mr. and Mrs.
Kyle Spence, Giddings; Mr. and
Austin, Mr. and Mrs. Claude
Mrs. S. L. Bingham and son,
Spence, Mr. and Mrs. Rodney
Spence, Mrs. E. If. Brown and Bert,
Rockdale, and Mr. and Mrs. H. K.
Kyle, Dime Box.
I Miss Candace Grabein, better
Known as “Candy”, spent the
weekend with her grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Grabein.
Glenna Keen, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. L. L. Keen, has returned!
to school after being ill with rheu-
matic fever. She spent several
weeks in the hospital and returned
once to school, but the fever came
back and she had to miss school
again last wvek.
Brooder House
Musi Be Ready
For New Chirks
By J. D. Moore County Agent
Texas poultrymen started 8 to
10' of the 1956 replacement of
chicks during January, careful at-
tention should be given t:/ the
cleaning and repairing of the
brooder house in preparation for
growing the chicks.
The brooder house should be
cleaned and put into repair by
making sure that all windows,
(lours ami ventilators sections are
well fitted and working smoothly.
The roof should be checked for
leaks.
Thermostat apparatus on brood-
er stoves should be carefully
checked and stoves cleaned to as-
sure a dependable' source of heat
when it is needed..
Adequate feeder and watering
epace is recognized by poultrvmen
as important to uniform growth
.of all birds. Up to 3 weeks of age,
birds should be provided with 1
Inch of feeder space per bird. It
should be increased to 2 inches,
from 3 t./ 4 weeks of age, and dur-
ing 6 i >v i-kr>, it souuld be in-
creased to 3 inches ,er bird.
These needs can be met by 1
four foot trough for each 100
chicks at the start. At 6 to 7 weeks
of age they will need 3 troughs
4 ft long by 4 in. deep jwr 100
birds.
Five 1 gallon waterers by each
bro .'der having a capacity of 500
(hicks is recommended. From 2
to 3 \yeoks of <im. 2 waterers with
u 3 gallon capacity thould be pro-
vided for each 100 birds. If a
water system is available, a 4 ft
automatic water trough should be
provided for each 250 chicks.
Where chicks have access to
range one square foot of flor/r
spac ■ for cv ry 2 birds, is required.
Since green feed is often not avail-
able on the range, there is a trend
towards grow inv pullet replace-
ment chicks in confinement. Under
these conditions each bird should
be provided with one square foot
space, until they are 8 to 9 weeks
cvf age.
On this basis a 30 ft by 40 ft
house would he required to raise
replacements for u thousand hen
laying flock It will probably be
to the poultry man • advantage to
double t'rb ' aCe, 30 by 80 ft, and.
k< m» the pull. * confined t:> tho
hou*-« in’ll n.iturity
On« n 1 rr< th 'l that is now
irg • o nW.yod ’ ‘ m< imultr.v-
•n-'ft 1 1 \ the «hick in one
g f. r *' 0 rr' nibs growing
u m • fir 1 v n» <>f egg
Plans for New
Guard Armory at
Cameron Outlined
Prospects for a new and larger
Armory building for the Milam
County National Guard unit, Bat-
tery C, 619th Anti-aircraft Artil-
lery Battalion are still about where
they were several months ago, the
organization said today, despite a
growing belief since the first of the
year that consti uction probably
would get under way sometime in
1986.
Last year an announcement was
r leased to the newspapers that a
new Armory building had been
authorized for Cameron, with con-
struction expected t- begin late
in 1955 or in 1950.
The most recent development
in that direction, Battery C said,
was that blue-prints for the new
structure were received here
several weeks ago.
According to the architect’s
sketches, it will be much larger
and have more facilities than the
present building Battery C is us-
ing as an Armory. It will lx? of
tile and reinforced concrete con-
struction. Length is 114 feet, 1 inch
—width 109 feet, 1 inch. The
plans call fur a private office for
the Flattery commander, class-
rooms, supply rooms, lavkor rooms-
and a drill hall measuring 90 feet
long by 61 feet wide.
Cost of the new building is es-
timated to Ixj about sixty thous-
and dollars
Location is expected to be adja-
cent to the present building which,
while called an Armory, really is
a vehicle storage building. The
National Guard has a tract of ap-
proximately 20 acr<*s there which
was donated by the Chamber of
Commerce and local business firms
ana individuals who subscribed to
a fund to purchase the land several
years ago.
Construction of the now' building
will be of real help to the members
uf Battery C who for the past two
years or more have been more and
j There are 10 types of social
! security benefits, said Marley.
There are five types for persons
more than 65 years old and there
aie five types because ol the death
of tbe insured person. Eligibility
lor social protection is determined,
he said by the time il coverage ol
the worker. And tne amount of
monthly payment is determined by
dividing the worker’s total wages
by the total number of months he
was paying social security ,ux.
Maximum monthly payment lor
any acco"nt. Marley said, is $200.
Marley said further information
cn s vial security benefits for ag-
ricultural workers may be learned
in the Farmers Tax Guide distri-
buted b\ the Internal Revenue
Department.
Dairy Herds
Have 4-5 Year
Cycle in Texas
COLLEGE STATION—A year-
end summary of Texas dairy herd
improvement records shows that
23.5 percent of all cows on DHIA
test during 1955 were removed
from herds during the year. Based
on this average, Texas dairymen
will be milking almost a complete-
ly new herd in four to five years,
point out Extension Dairy Hus-
bandmen R. E. Burleson and A. M.
Meekrna.
The level of production and the
profit from the future milking
herd are dependent, say the
specialists, on the herd replace-
ment program that is being fol-
lowed on each dairy farm. Select
the good brood cows and base the
selection on actual production re-
cords. Then breed thorn to the
best bull, of the same breed, avail-
able or obtainable with considera-
tion given to circumstances and
finances. And, point out the
the specialists, the future profit-
ableness of the dairy enterprise
depends upon how well each
dairyman carries out a program of
selection and breeding.
Last year DHIA members re-
moved 3,367 cows fr /m their herds.
Low production was the reason
given for removal of almost 63
percent of these cows. In descend-
ing order of importance, the re-
maining 27 percent were removed
f„v dairy purposes, deaths, udder
trouble, sterility, old age brucell-
osis, accidents, tuberculosis and
miscellaneous reasons.
The extension dairymen believe
the successful dairyman can best
maintain the size of his herd, dis-
ease problems at a minimum and
increase the level of the herd’s
production by combining the best
known herd management-,-and. and
replacement practices. HJords
which do not have the inherited
ability tJ produce large amounts
of milk and butterfat regardless
of the management used may not
prove profitable.
On the other hand, herds with
good breeding have the capacity
and ability to produce at profit If
properly managed. Therefore, says
the specialists, don’t gamble with
the future by playing down the
importance of the herd replace-
ment urogram.
23 Students
On Honor List
At Junior High
February 2. 1956
the St Louis Post-Dispatch 'hci
Pope, Carole Gatewood, Sully Rey-
nolds, Katheryn Layton. Willie
McMillun, Bobby Harris, Weldon
Fritz, William Jacobs, Imogen* ,, _ „
Johnson, Ronald Laurence. Daniel !>rry Sittuyepost story is reviewed
Yuzak. Barbara Joseph and James OWM'lje gerry. as a
jl r(jn tyoungstei luuiiu at the Union Sta-
Kightn grade honor roll members ['.‘‘‘f Jn f' Lom's “ ,mik
t re Harvev Holliman, B bb * " / ' ' """ , ’ 'V,' "' U”a..
Some 23 students in the “middle” Baker und Aimice White. *!,ki il l ,
grades of Rockdale schools (sixth, Eighth graders exempt from 1 1 * hjd com‘‘ t0 bl
sever.ih and eig’:th) made the mid-term tests in addition to the
ROCKDALE (T*x.) REPORTER-4
11 Milam Men
Register for
Draft, February
lust semester honor roll, accord- [above were Sundru Ahrend!, Shun- w/k V ' st r,”!!!'" V** L even young Milam County
hi figure* released this week non Carter. Shirley Cay wood. K t“y foV X* PoSt he , . T'l utt*twd th.f Tt°*
b> Principal Ernie Laurence Carolyn Fincher. Polly Grubbs. ., u , ,u ., ( 'n i s during the month of JahuafT fed
The seventh grade had most B , r b r „ M ishin- ki. Carol n ! ‘ L*d"‘
Louis to b-j a waitress at the Har-
vey House. When George went
scholars with 12 The sixth grade
R. H. GRAY
..... . .station story told how he and! Milam Countv a ft board otflr*
\oung, Nancy Hosenquest, Ren Mamie- talked about »P1 ii>nr>« .ml - drgrl PQUru
!hre““!h1 “nd ‘■"h,h 1!<;•«-»»•, ......? 1SUS X' ,Mowt: Jul.
• i ,’il.ips. 1..U1V Audi i ■'•*!», ( .I Post - Dispatch columnist iigured Ambriz. Jr Ben Arnold Alvin
Kigiit. Th .mas Murray Glenn , G«orge left a lot -it people wonder- Wayne Baggerly, Cameron. Carroll
..... Uf ... r.C,rV ‘th n'1,' !"; Half— WllUam Roecker, Buckholts;
\\il on William Goodman .......a ooked hei up hm.self, ind wrote Joseph Enlee Courtney, Canmon;
Slides. Lei o\ Kile. lohn Mo,. cc.lmr.,; i Lobby Eugene Denman, Milano;
Bishop, K.iyi Kyi' , \\ > un J Curtis England, Cameron; Hubert
Ivoridel ane “Well, then really i a Mamie Milton Jahn, Burlington; Willi*
Ocie
Gas Company
Names Gray
Regional Head
The appointment of I? H. (Dick)
Grey as Regional Manager of
Lone Star Gas Company’s South
Texas Region of Distribution, with
headquarters at Waco and includ-
ing Rockdale has been announced
by M. L. Bird of Dallas, vice presi-
dent in charge of the company’s
General Division of Distribution.
Gray formerly a district mana-
ger at Waco from 1939 to 1951 and
a 30-year career man with Ix>ne
Star, succeeds A. P. Rowland, who
has been promoted to the post of
Assistant General Manager of tho
company’s Fort Worth Division of
Distribution.
The appointment of Gray Be-
came effective Wednesday. lie
Also listed by Laurence were Kight. Th /mas
those students exempt frzm nod- Willard. Richard Griffith
term examinations in certain sub-
jects.
Sixtn grade honor roll members
are Allie Nichol Dyer, Patricia j Springer, Norm i
Hart, lla Mae Kyle, Joe Carr, Put- I j»s,isv Ait mi.
rick Curtis, Collier Perry, Juanita 1
Eugene Wilson and Barbara Yar-
orough.
Sixth graders exempt from rrud-
teim tests in addition to the above
were Cecilia Ruth Owens, Rita
B -tli Albrecht, Sharon Ann Hael- iclub, the third to tie or. niz.ed
hig Peggy Jeannette Mehuffey, | Rockdale.
Johnnie Ott v Sefcik, Shirley Ann 1
Dotkall, Donald Laurence, Pat- | Third time, uppaiviit!y, 1 ! mn
ticia Guthrie, rave ffolliman,
Mamie Milton Jahn, Burlington;
Male, except that isn’t her name Lee Johnson, Cameron; Packard
ai ymon She is now a Mi Harry Patrick McQueriy, Rockdale;
Greenberg She lives at 4434 Me- I Thomas Pe\chouse, Cameron; DU-
Pier on aveiun with her husband . a id Shields, Thorndale.
v. ho a retii i d ph(it )i;rapher. Milam County does not have
uary,
i will
be forwarded to the Induction fit*-
RAMBL1NGS—
• Continued from Page One1
new Lions Club was n-ganized and
charter granted. This is today’s i u,uj_u .......... . --
“Mamie’s ban . gr..y now. but lAh!l.h .n“ .^ }Ual _n£ j*
she’s a spry little woman with
dy
r-mlt She left ilartJyV : J.*“J Milam Counl> dufln<
years ago, after putting in '
Mar> Helen Mitsui, Meredith
Stokes. Kathy Arrington, Bob
Peterson, Mike Roland and Gayle
McCoy.
Seventh grade honor roll mem-
bers are John Crow W C. Gross,
Gloria I)<»ss, Barbara Doss, Jean
Kubiak, Barbara Pimplcr. Robert
Boyer, Melody Carr, John Robert
Rinn, Donnie Simpson and Danny
Wertz.
Seventh graders exempt from
mid-term tests in addition to the
above were Doris Strickei, Kldora
Munoz, Larry Lowe, Wilford Ja-
cvb. Terry Brooks, Gail Hanson.
M.imi« Hale
1 am indebted to Frank H
tor
February.
An induction cull itas been re-
| ceived for March und calls lur five
’ men to be inducted March 20.
There will be no men from
Milam County sent for nreir.duc-
tion physical examination during
•I went on the itne
King, i many years,” she says. ‘ That
general executive of the Associ- dieahs 1 tra\eled, working in dil-
ated Press, for sending me a clip- h'rcnt Harvey Houses across the
ping from the January 25 St Igiu.* , ‘’*»untry. 1 wen* all .he a ay ° i the month of February and a *ali
Post Dispatch The genial \!> San Diego and up a» Yellowstone ’ . " , \ 1 f001 Wiry and • cgll
, pau ii. i m - i an m • , p . has not been received for March,
executive Mid he picked up uie | National lark ; to date, for preinduction physical
paper in Oklahoma City “I cn- ------ j examination.
joyed reading the follow-up stnr.v i Mamie now works it Famous- Milam County now has a total
on the Rockdale angle ot the re- Barr'.-, sixth floor restaurant. “I of forty-three men examined and
cent magazine story by Geor“:<*. remember George Perry when he acceptable and 426 l-A men who
Sessions IVrry and it occurred *o vva> a youngsteishe says. “His ' have not been examined.
me you might be interested," King ■ father had a diug store in our! ------
wrote. home town of Rockdale. 1 re-
member his mother real well. They
course, to used to always come in to see me
'CULPEPPER—
'Continued nom Pag* One*
He was referring, •>(
Clift an Wade, Iui Vida Newman, ' the recent story about the St at the station, just like he said in 1 Olin-Mathieson firm in West Vir-
Cynthia Carter, Glenna Dittmur ! Louis Union Station which George the article. And when he was here ' ginia. Mrs. Lowe and their children
-...... ......... -........—*■ — | Cora Lamb, Judy Lumpkins, Will- wrote for the Saturday Eveni it last time, I heard he wa> at Larry Lee and Marty', wU motrf
served as Superintendent ol Lone yne Luntb, Geraldine Sales. Jackie F°st. In his story George had quite 1 the stoti »n and looked him up He to her mother’s home in Tennessee
Star's Abilene Division of Distri- I .1 a bit. to say about Mamie Hal'*, t ' told me he was going to write an later this month.
former Rockdale woman now
siding in St. Louis.
but ion prior to this ap;.ontment !
In his new position, Gray will more than 100 other communities,
direct the gas service and main-, towns and cities m the South
tenance operations in Rockdale and 1 Texas Region.
i article about the station, but oh,! .......
my goodness, 1 didn't know lie »«. is The Great Smokies cover an
--- going to say anything about me. area of 720 square miles, about
In a column by Dickson Terry in , I’ve nevei been so surprised." bait size of Rhode Island.
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Two School Bond
Issues Approved
For Lexington
LEXINGTON—Two school bond
issues were approved by Lexing-
ton Independent School District
voters Saturday by more than a
2-1 margin.
By a vote of 146-61 the entire
district assumed un old bonded in-
debtedness which had been voted
before Lawhon Springs District
was included in the Lexington dis-
trict.
A 168-92 vote brought approval
for an $83,900 bond issue to con-
struct a six-room elementary
schcxil unit, a band hall, additional
vocational agriculture space, a re-
modelcd snop Pudding for voca-
tional agriculture and remodeled
homemaking building.
more crowded in their present
Armory as the number of Guards-
men increase in the unit,
j
Not Criticizing, but--
THINGS AIN'T WHAT THEY USED
TO BE, CAMP TELLS ROTARY
Developing the theme “Things Austin and Washington that is
a in t what the y used to be as he j common practice in towns across
went along, Judge E. A. Camp ; the country.
addressed the Rockdale Rotary Xo brin^ th(. idea home Judj{,.
nv Camp reminded that it hadn't been
M 1 1;!
urr tha br<* Her hotuw»
•fl.it
*q<l rq ii| i
m nt H a'lfquatr ,m«1 in ,
’ It
gpxt rnpu
tr will piv grind divid-
f
gfpt* it *(
< print ictlrvft (tf N hlg*!
<n\
p» t < Attbig*
rtf f<v“1 qdlitlt v tlft'fnffh
why
,r.b. • f
it. t vr ii h.ying fbwlr
t
Club at its noon luncheon Tuesday
and offered the group some food
for thought.
The well-known Rockdale luw-
>cr and long-time mayor said he
found it hard to kn ,w what to
talk about, “an >ld man talking
to a bunch of young men.” as he
expressed it
“Sometimes,” he said, "w* old
folks wonder where we’re going.”
He explained that in Ids youth he
was taught that the individual
citizen's rights wi re of prime im-
portance. "Wt* don't have that in-
dc pendence as an individual that
w «* us< d t /,’’ lie said Camp went
on to • mphnsi/i that he was not
rritiriztnf present-dav ways and
f r all he knew mavbc today'!
a ay »r* tjetter than yesterday's
they're rertainlv diff*r*n» ”
gri* pretty hard for us ntd
r* t« ad|u*t mtraelves to pre-
condition*.” Camp said llv
>f * sptanntion he p ante«t to
» fi'twh* rrlp fot help to
very long since Rockdale needed 1
a new sew'tr system and got a
quarter at a million dollars from
the Federal government to build it.
“I still wonder whv people in
Georgia or Minnesota or somi
oth* r state should pay taxes to
help build a sewer system in
Rockdale,” Camp quipped.
“Mind you ” he repeated, "I’m
not criticizing, and maybe the pre-
sent-day way is the best; least, I’m
going t v trv to go along with the
mob"
The shaker gave this serious
thought to chib members "There
are inor* children in Rockdale
now than ever befoge They are
o« King f. r vnu to r* t tho example
You rsh’t live unto v airself alone
As yen «#*t tha rxnmple. so wtil
these rliildfen he in later ysir* ”
“You ran't walk xrrr*»« the street
In MjfMhifte without msttng » sht
dot* tu tgi C foft> hided
EVERY HIGHWAY IS
"PASSABLE but DANGEROUS"
Such a warning is not alone for a road under construction or repair.
It’s any road—it’s every road.
The “open road” is engineered for safety. Its curves, grades, over and
under passes, and road markings are all designed for ton to drive and live.
But every road can be as safe or as dangerous as you and millions of other
drivers make it. It’s how you drive, how you respect road controls, speed
limits, stop signs; how >ou think when you drive and how you use or mis-
use the courtesy of the road that determines the degree of safety or danger.
Since the end of the war, rural highway deaths hate climbed until they
account for three-quarters of the toll in dead and injured. In 1952, 28,200
deaths out of n total of 38,000!
Three of every four accidents occurred in clear weather on dry roads.
Eighty percent of vehicles involved in fatal accidents were traveling
straight ahead.
These are stark facts which put the terrific highway carnage straight
up to the driver behind the wheel. A reckless, lawless attitude makes safe
highways dangerous.
Ask yourself, honestly, “Am I a safe, or dangerous driver?”
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