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THE ROCKDALE REPORTER
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Saturday
VOL. 92
Rockdale Meuenger Established 1873
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AND MESSENGER
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ROCKDALE. MILAM COUNTY. TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 26. 1964
Rockdale Reporter Established IMS
16 PAGES
NO. 12
FROM ROSCOE C0N01EY
Trustees Receive
Thorndale Reply
Rockdale school trustees re-
ceived a reply Irnm Thornd if.
school board president Rn#co«
t onwtty this week concern 1041
Rockdale s invitation to Thorn-
dale for school consolidation.
Rockdale board members sent
n letter to the Thorndale board
l.ot week after n movement to! ’he
consolidate the Thrall and!
Easter Sunrise Services
Planned Sunday, 630
letter a few day: agi. concern- '
mg ix) ib:* talks1 b. tween our ’ ;
Boards on con. olidation Since |j
wr will hot haw aril'ihet l
Board meeting until April noth
I feel that i personal reply
should be madi before then. j
Although f cannot peak fork,
chool board oflicially. 1
• ’ l . X .
f out entire
/
trustees for their letter
reply follows:
“Dear Sir*
Thorndale school districts ap- l're 1 d are tie <
penred stymied by a Taylor- j B'*ard
Thiall consolidation, movement “In view of v . * uap*
Conoley expressed his ap- . pened on cun we tern lront1
preciation to the RockdalOj j to thank an i . uric ,0
the Rockdale School Board for
j the straight forward and ethical ;
I received vour ’ manner by which you ha v. ap
*. . j pmached the subject Had this !
approach been i.«cd in the :
Thrall-Taylor affair I’m sun*
that a great deal of hard feel - i
mg', could have been avoided.1
“1 will present the letter to i
the Board and although I do r. ;
personally think we ru > read)
for such meetings at rnw tirn *
that decision will be made b> j
the Board in the ramie straight
forward and ethic d mar nor in
which vou pre*er.t'*d :t
‘ I would like to apologe.'.c ;
for ihc d». 1 av ifi tie '
the western front* h.vi, de-
manded most, of my free tune j
here of late. Again, I wouk
like to thank you personally
for helping re t ’v my m »j;e ,
of human dignity which hav!
l»een shaken somewhat in re- !
cent days
“Sincerely. Ro*eoe Conotev, •
Pres School Board. Thornaale j
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Rambling
ROUND ROCKDALE
W. H. C.
Thafi Nice
JDK tLLYANNA sort o' a fellow
told me the other day that
iherc is one nice thing about
old age You <-an wh}..{!(. s h.ih
> u Brush your teeth
i k
Oop*l
T AST WEEK a Reporter news
story bo * the upcoming
Chamber of Commerce ban-
quet stated that Weldon Owens
of The Dallas News would be
the speak, r That's sort of like
I'i.itmg f e Field in Fort
Worth W* ft!«■- home base is
Tt < Dalhtr Time1- H'lfilri
Hriaorter S'sM Pnoto*
NEW PATROLMAN Leroy Broadus, 29. (left) is the
new member of Milam County’s highway patrol unit,
joining Dei wood Kennedy on April 15. Broadus, a native
of Hearne, has been with the Highway patrol at La
Marque for four sears He and his wife Patricia and
daughter Sandy 5 are living in Cameron Kennedy, also
of Cameron, has been the county's only patrolman since
Oct 1 when Gilbert Smith was transferred.
Hillside Site
Near Si. John s
Church Picked
The Rockdale Ministerial
\ll,iance will sponsor an
Faster Sunrise Service on
Sunday at 6:30 a. rri on the
slope of the hill east of St.
John’s Methodist Church.
“This is a project jointly
sponsored by many of the
churches in Rockdale to which
the public : cordially invited
to come,*' the Rev William
Agee, president of the alliance,
said
The sermon will be delivered
by th<' Rev Frank Cady, pastor
of St John's Methodist Church.
His subjee* will be “Easter.
Then end Now "
Mwu* tk1- led ivy Joe
Preston, music director at
Meadowbruok Baptist Church
Mrs Millard Brown will ac-
company with the accordion,
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INDUSTRIAL WEEK PLANNING—These men formed a committee to plan local
The Rev Ben ftie-sell. pastor activities in observance of Texas Industrial Week April 1-7. They are (seated, L-R),
io t Presbyterian Church, Russell Brooks, IGC superintendent; Glenn Hodges, chairman of the Chamber of
Commerce industrial committee; Joe Yates, manager of Alcoa’s Rockdale Works;
(standing L-R) Claude Collier, co-owner of C-&M Manufacturing Co., and Speedy
Crockett. M&N Minnow' Farm manager.
cnor* tin)i
where f< 1
better bu'
ic of those quirkl*>
re< f> in newspapers
>' of JH'Ople KIIW
nobody thinks.
Consequently we hadn't even
realized *e had moved the Del-
la • Journalist over to the op-
to- lion until w« had a not®
today Corn mir fundoviuc
fr * f d. *|t mmjr Turner of Waco
Tommy i* the Central Texas
Bureau of The Dnilns Times
Her oops, there we go
again He's « Dal!®* News man
Those who attended last
yea»''« Chamber banquet will
remem tier Tommy Turner as
the speaker who had most
everybody rolling In the aisles.
Mrs Cur !»■<■ at th< local ("ham-
bet is not mir to play favorite?
A DM ins News speaker last
year naturally rails for a
I true* H« raid speaker this year
Next year we plan to give the
Milano Gazette editor equal
time.
Library Friends Schedule
Drive for 1,000 Members
A membership • .rmpHign ■ .»•
been opr hod b> Friends of ilv
.
gr-r ./V •>'; . gred to. urrvu. <’<
tfiteraM m, and u«e of, the new
I.urv Hill Patterson Memorial
I .i hr ary
A! M e n k e. \ ire president.
.ad that
u i<
After rifling me considerable
in his letter, Tommy intimated
that elthr r Mi Owen* r The
Dallas New* might he cot . i r-
ing employing a guy by the
name of Belli for auitabh legal
action against us for mrrtu ri-
iug the name Owens and New
in the same breath Personally.
I never hecaerd of Mr Belli.
Murrell Camp
New President
Of Rotary Club
M M Camp was named pre-
ident of *he Rockdale Rntar t
Club at noon Tuesday a’ a
meeting of the board of direc-
tors following t h e c 1 it b
i uhcheoh
Camp will assume his duties
as president at the start of the
chib A new rear July ! He
succeeds Ralph Nichols who
automatically becomes second
v ire president.
W H Cooke war named first
vice-president, Dick Frit/ u*c*
retary, and Clyde Franklin
treasurer. Camp was elevated
to the presidency from the first,
net- presidency.
being planned by the organi/a
turn, including a community
book sale bn April 18
Membership lee- m the or - ,
ganlzMion are one dollar for1
adults and 50 cents for children
per year Mr. and Mrs. Byron
F ("ok are co-chairmen of 'he
membership drive and a go a I ,
of 1 non members has been >et.
Menke said
He • jk! the member<hip drive
will >. ntmue until April 13;
when the organization will hole
its first annual genera! meeting
mg "
The vex k beginning \r>rU IT
is Natainal 1 Jbrarv Week ami
'he community hook *ale has;
been planned for Saturday, j
Apr, 18, to climax the special
veek Mt-nke explained
Mr- Jim r.arming will be
chairman of the book ale.
Cifi/erSi are asked to bring inv ,
heoku then vvi'-h from their
home and to donate them to the
Ubrarv On Aonl 18. they will j
be sold at the llbrarv «< a fund- ;
raring project, with funds to!
he iv**d to purchase new books
Menkr s.nd that the Pidter-
• on library now has 4,300
books, and that the Texas Li- i
will present the call to worship
and the nvocation The Rev.
J N Forman, pastor of First
Baptist Church, vill lead the
responsive reading
J!::; 'L places are drawn
will provine the scripture les-
son. The benediction will be
given bv Rev Aqee. Meadow-
brook Baptist pastor.
Cnmniut.'.ty Good Friday ser- !
vices wi;i not be sponsored by l
the Ministerial Alliance this 1
year, a spokesman said
be
Places on the May 2 Demo-
cratic Primary ballot were
drawn during a meeting of the ! °! Coi^ty' ,Jesse °wrns
... i of Wilbarger County,
Milam County Democratic ex- ,,
Easter Sunrise Serv ices will i ecutive committee last Tuesdav ! SuPre,^e Court of Texas -as- loc'ai mrtusry officials Monday
held in Milano at 6 a m , ecutive t ommittte last I uesday. | sociate Justice, place 1»: Jack morning at the chamber office
M “ “ committee I Pope of Bexar County, Sears ! to plan the project
Sunrise Services
Planned at Milano
brary Board's rocom men fiat, lonu
are 10,000 hooks for a town the
i/e pf Rockdale
Citizens may donate books
for the book sale by leaving
them at the library M Book si
may be dropped in the book-
return chute at the library if
the h tiding ;> not open, Men- ....
^ s?|,,at the Milano High School foot-
, , . ball field.
(.tti/.tfjns interested n mining
t’Jw Friend is of the Libra rv mav ! Th‘‘ program will include a . ,
do .o at the library or bv eon- i service, scripture and in— j cinct convention times for 2:30
tacting an- of the following of- j vocation by the Rev Huey P ”>•- with the Cameron and
fleers <>r boai'd metnb«*rs ! Clements, pastor of the Milano Rockdale conventions set for
Methodist Church, and the ! 7 30 P m The conventions will
I message and benediction by the be held at the respective voting
Rev Richard W Sparks, pas-
tor of the First Baptist Church,
Milano, N
May 2 Primary
Ballot Outlined
Industrial Week
Display Slated
For City Library
Texas Industrial Week will
be observed in Rockdale April
1-7 with a special display in
the Lucy Hill Patterson
Memo rial Library '
Glenn Hodges, chairman of
the Chamber of Commerce m-
dB.striai committer, met with
Supreme Court of Texas -as- 1 local indusry officials Monday
Railroad Commissioner 'un-
were I Phed term1 Jim C. Langdon
Max McClaren.
chairman, has announced.
The committee set rural pre-
Mrs Jim Tonder. president:
Menke. fu -t vico-pn-sident: Mr.
and Mrs Cook, -econd vice
presidenus: Mrs. Buck Henrv.
McGee of Harris County
For Congress: 11th District
Joe McAlister of
The display during the week
at the library will feature pio-
McLennar* ducts from, or relating H>, Al-
Countv, VV. R. (’Bob) Poage of
McLennan County.
State Representative 45th
District: Dan Kubiak, Milton
J. Schiller.
Commissioner Precinct 1: L
secretary -treasurer. Mrs Lee “The public is invited to a»-
Ida Hair ton and Mrs Charles-; tend this worship service,
Thomason Rev Sparks saiu.
Reporter Adds New
Electronic Engraver
boxes in the county, McClaren
said.
The county convention was T. Slavik. Edwin C. Fischer,
scheduled for 7:30 p. in. May IC. S. Raney. Adolph Gresan
Commissioner Precinct 3:
Albert Timmerman Sr 11 N.
* Spud * Cay wood.
Constable Precinct H: John
Zajieck. Jesse Weber.
Constable Precinct 7' Frank
JcKol. Herman Dorner Jr.
Constable Precinct 8: WiL <
liam (Bill) Sheppard, P. S.
Places for the May 2 ballot
were drawn and will appear on
the ballot in the following
order:
For governor: Johnnie Mao
Hackwortbe of Washington
County, John Connally of
Travis County, M T. Banks
eoa’s Rockdale Works, Indus-
trial Generating Co., C&M
Manufacturing Co., and M&N
Minnow Farm.
The C&M firm, now in an
ixpansion program, manufac-
tures industrial woodwork in-
cluding product-hand ling pal-
lets. oar paddles, mallets and
industrial molding.
of Jefferson County. Don Yar-jp •
ar.d boroUgh of Harris County. i S
BIBLE VERSE
Turning to a more serious
vein. Tommy congratulates the Mrs. Torn Underwood pre-
Rockdale Chamber and decribes rented three RHS student, in .» -^IK* He said unto them. Go
Weldon as "a great choice for j special program The three. v«* into ail the world, and
your banquet.” Then he added: i Eleanor Newton, Alfred Moon?, preach the gospel to every
“He’s an old buddy of mine, j and Nancy Lands are from thq i •feature He that belu vcth and
in fact, if you want to really i forensics classes of Mr and baptized shall be saved; but
have a wild banquet. I'll come j Mrs Underwood. Jim Go ley he that Ixilieveth not shall lie
See HAMHL1NUS. page 2 was program chairman damned.*’ —SI. Luk«
metal plate attached to a second
Heavy Ciiy Vole
Expected April 7
A heavy vote is expected in
the Rockdale city election April
7. with 704 voters having paid
poll taxes.
Absentee voting ma; t*e dona
at the City Hall, Ctty Mgr. N.
E. Alford ha* announced. The
city ballot lineup is ns follows:
For Mayor, L. C. Mohaffeyj
for councilman, Ward 1. Frank
Hvder and Donald Herbat;
j for cor.incilman. Ward 2: M. N,
Power troubles at 9 a. m. Strieker: for councilman. Ward
... .. ... ., County, Bill Elkins of Hunt j Monday resulted the shutting j 2 funexptred term of Albert
. n , County. Dan Sullivan of An- down of almost 100 pots at j Titnmerman Sr.>, Preston Perry
and Garland Caffey.
SAYS TRANSPLANT DUSTY ESSARY
Texans, Australians Alike
Publisher W II Cooke an-| drawings, charts, maps
engraving machine to enable* a simplified lathe to which has ' h*rX ^ uen.es Jr., ot Bexar Coun-
the newspaper to iisx* more been added high-fidelity phono-1 '•
photographs and observe later i ffraph amplifiers and optical 1 For U. S. Senator: Ralph W. \
photo deadlines. scanning and cutting heads. Yarborough of Travhs County, i
The machine, a Photo-Lathe! Once started, the machine is i Gordon McLendon of Dallas!
Automated Engraver, scans: e[>^11 * v *-domatic and oper-j County.
original piKrtos which have > "natteru e<t, v rutting <>' For U. S representatjve-at-1
been placed on a revolving i iJ‘wfM " A 1 a'"1C!‘■ upon complex , |arRc; jjob L00nev D{ Harris i
I cylinder and dmultan.vi.,dy i tion of «-ach P!atp
18115-16 j cuts the scanned image into a, ouiuxm wi a»-i—-- ---------
ejx>rtor in its constants drews County, Joe Pool of Dal- Alcoa's Rockdale Works.
The
100 Alcoa Pots
Down Following
Power Trouble
W. Baker
Australians are likable and an.v major adjustments. Dusty
fun-k*ving. They have » lot recalls. "About the only thing
of pride in then country Thev we really miss are hamburgers
arc ambitious, hard-working j and hot dogs They're virtual-
and friendly They like the out- i l> non-existent in Australia,”
d<K>rs, and they like cold Ih-ht. j he noted.
In short, they'r'e a lot hkg f’ish - and - chips- are the
Texans j favorite quick-order dishes in
So wjw a Ti van now Lung Australia rather than Amen-
il. l)T»» v eL*. j standby, .he barnburner
Formerly with Alcoa's Rock-j Language proved no problem.
Motor Co., International Har-
vester and other American in-
dustnes are located then
Geelong is a city of 110,000,
about 48 milts south of Mel-
bourne, and located on the bay.
The Es arys like the climate |
“The humidity is exceptional- |
ly low for a coastal aiea, we j
seldom have a freeze and the
weather is usually mild,
| cylinder ! «°»1 of top-quality photographs |, c 'n • ^£
... . _ . . and photo-news coverage, , „ . v, noocri
Edward Bounds, Reoortcr 'Tttflt'c rnrid * ol oMtiti C ounty,
typesetter and darkroom tech- . The newspaper has Commissioner of Agriculture:
tucian, will operate the engrav- maintained its own photo-! John C. White of Wichita
mg machine, Cooke said ”•’* * graphic and darkroom depart- i County. Millard Shivers of
porter photography is handled | ment i>ut ha, sendinH McLennan County.
by Bill Cooke, editoi photographs to Austin for en- i Commissioner of General
In addition to continuous tonq, graving-. “Having our own Lancl Office: Jerrv Sadler of
photographs, the machine also engraver will enable us to usev Anderson County, Fred H.Wil-
produces block and white print-j more pictures, and get them,, Jiarns ot Dallas'Counts
Cooke said.. ________1_________I__j_______
mg plates from pen and ink Mater in the week.’
HE
dale Works, Dusty, wife Dora; although Dusty recalls the Ans- j i>..sty noted, adding that tho
* * . i * J- ___... Irulitmc' Hrihch ie‘onnt thri'UL' *, • r. - tn.l
Jean and their five-year-old
daughter, Alisa, now reside in
Geelong. Australia.
Dusty is with Alcoa’* Pt.
Henry Works at Geelong. The
company's Australian opera-
tion is a smelting and fabri-
cating plant Dusty, a mechani
cal engineer, has been there
about two years.
Both Mr and Mr*. Essar> call
Waco home. Dusty was at Al-
coa's Rockdale Works almost
ficm its beginning in the early
1950’s until transferring to
Australia in March of 1962.
The Estarys visited friends
In Rockdale this week during a
vacation trip back to Central
Texas. They reported that
there are some other ex-Rock-
dale Aleoans at Pt. Henry, in-
ducing the Dale Cockrells, the
P. L. (Red) Harteocks and th«i
Clarence Simmonses.
Moving to Australia from
Central Texas Old not require
trabans' British accent threw hottest day he'd seen was 104.
him at times. “It took a couple | Children come of school age
of months for me to catch alk at 5 in Australia, and Alisa in
those A's pronounced like I's, a first-grader at Geelong. The
especially in telephone con- j school year is about a month
vernations,” he noted. longer than m Texas,
The »oci»l adjust ment?
S*L
Practically mil. "There atq
many Americans there and we
now have many close friends,
both American and Australian,”
he explained.
In addition to Alcoa. Ford
Gauge Wildcat
At 11.930 F««t
Shell Oil Company’s Smack-
over test five miles southwest
of Gause was drilling early to-
day at 11,930 feet.
One week ago the test was
drilling at 11.297 feet.
The wildcat, scheduled to got
1C.000 feet or deeper, is known
ax Shell's Adouc Estate No. 1.
Du.'ty rates the Australian
schools even or slightly supf
erior to American schools
through the first six or seven
grades.
At the high school level, the
American schools are superior,
as arc tho colleges. Dusty ex-
plained.
He said the Australian en-
gineers come in two categories1:
the diploma engineer and the
university-graduate engineer.
"Diploma engineer.-, complete
three years of college, with
most study relating directly to
their major field and the num-
ber of electives reduced. Tito
graduate engineer completer
four year* of college or uni-
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iRrporUu BUiff Phulol.
NEW ENGRAVER—Edward Bounds of The Reporter staff sets the controls on the
newspaper’s new electronic photo-engraving machine which was put into operation
this week. The engraver will enable The Reporter to use more photographs, and use
later photographic deadlines.
Company officials said thri Two incumbents are unopx
trouble was corrected about 3 j posed in the school board elec-
u. m. Tuesday, but that a week tion which is scheduled Satur-*
or more would be required to i day. April 4 They art Henry
get the pots back into opera- S Tyler and Brice Crow,
tion at the aluminum smelting j---
PlThe p,»v,r .,hor,H„e suited ShOW Nets
when a >uper lieator tube burn- . S800 fOT OhllTCh
; ed out in the No. 1 power unit1
at Industrial Generating Co, A Country Music Spectacular
'There are three power units, j drew a crowd of about 1,150
and one of them, the No. 2 unit, persons to the Milano High
' had been taken out of produc- School gymnasium Thursday,
tion Sunday for routine, three- netting some $800 for the Mi-
week overhaul. j lano Methodist Church rebuild-
Monday's troubles left only j big program.
I one power unit in operation j The church burned to the
i until the troubles were repair-, ground Jan. 26. The building
ed early Tuesday. ! fund to*al is now about $9,500.
CITIZENS COOPERATION URGED»MMM
It s Clean-Up Week
★
Rockdale’s annual Clean-Up Week started Monday
and will continue through Saturday, with city officials
urging citizen* to clean up vacant lots and other prop-
erties.
City trucks have been hauling trash on call. City
Mgr. N. E. A1 lord said city trucks will pick up trash on
request and citizens may get the service by phoning
HI 6-2511 or HI 6-3620.
Also available for use is the city'* mowing machine.
Persons wishing to have their homes checked for fire
hazards arc urged to contact Fire Chief Johnny Weed
or Fire Marshall Raymond Walker.
Officials also requested that citizens replace rusted-
out garbage cans with new galvanized cans. The:
fogging machine has been put into use. Alford
citizens can help the annual fight against if
keeping the city clear of insect
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ght against insec
breeding place*.
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