The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 26, 1964 Page: 4 of 16
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April Bringing Shower
Of Plentiful Groceries
A-m-i] brings a shower of , ward. Dry b»;mi production
foods, along with tradition'll ,,cited a m:.uni 12 per cent
i »«n ihmvn s, as seven jmiiU' -bovr avcmaiio A record rk'p
me ('specially plentiful, reports .0,- ami the possibility- of a ili-
the Texas Agricultural Extent*' omi canned ripe oHve supply
ion Service. j ,iake these big items fur April
Such items as beef, cottage t Most of these foods ,u- pro-
cheese, egg , rice, canned r»pt ! iuced extensively l.i Texas,
Smoked Hams
In Limelight
As Easter Dish
The Reporter Woman’s Page
Pad** A
Irma DunnmRton, Editor
Phone HI 6-5926
Matinee Musical Club
Presents Easter Music
o ' : tile Si l'Vice.
hoods liritd a- ‘‘pieonful”
AMS are expected »o be more
char, adequate to meet normal
r ide needs.
olives, dried h.-an.- uud canned
torn are expected to be notm-
liant, according to the A ncm-
tmal Marketing Service, the U.
S. Department of Agriculture
agency that compiles t h e
monthly list of plentifuls. j ^, . »
Egg prices paid to farmers ' > I (i( (* IjIItll(‘l(til
dropped move than 10 peir cent | o ♦ I O *
between mid-January and late ^ffi*( Mil **1’/ I K PS
February, April supplies are u’ *1.0 1
expected to be above those of j » Mlllilllt. fillll(ld\
a year ago, with prices below .
last year’s attractive retail level, j Grace Lutheran Church will
As of January 1," canned corn 1 hare "spuria! communion -er-
stocks were at a record high, j vice; tonight and special Easter
and heavy supplies also should t seryiet- s-.mday morning,
be much in evidence during Thu comm. nion service to
April. | night will begin at 7:30 p.m.
Substantial January-to-March Sunday morning si. 1 \ ice
increases in the number u£ fed i W‘J| a m- 1 iu 1
Smoked hams for early Eas-
t ter buying are in the limelight
this week, reports Mrs Gwen*
doly ne cry alt, Extension Ser-
vice consumer marketing speel-
j a list.
I There are some excellent
j values on bacon and corned j met Saturday at 3 pm. at tin
| beef, too, along with good buy
I on fresn pork and beef cuts.
Frozen fish pro diets are the
j outstanding fish choices.
S Large eggs, in mu.-t instances,
are the best egg buys. These
| may be bought by weight Cot-
tage cheese -is a -special" item
tin many stores. music sponsor, reported on a
Apple prices remain about day ‘pent at the music cun
Barents Landed
(hi “nth ) ear
Tut!a\ Mr and Mrs. Aug si
M n -ko are ci lebrating tlieir
.■>7 years of marmd life togeth-
ei. They are long-time resi-
dents at Rockdale.
beef cattle have resulted in ajv' !*‘ ^ no } * a'in Venice Sun
much larger meat supply.
day. the church announced.
Members and friends are in-
Ta::1 year’s 787 million pound . thc'JwervAC*N a *pokfc^man *ak1,
Tracy IW <Mil, GIRL SCOUT NEWS
Meets March III
II ith Mrs. Of field
the same as a week ago. with
red and golden delicious more
ecom mical than the cooking
varieties.
Stra.wberry supplies are in-
m and both Mexican and
Hawaiian pineapph arc avail-
able.
Fresh asparagus is available
now and this might be termed
a “sure sign" of spring Other
; good vegetable choices are cat-
! rots, cabbage, potatoes, celery
: evoking greens and head lettuce
The Matinee Mu-ii <1 Club was s»..ng by Mrs Delbert TVs
rett.
McLeod home with Mexdainc- At the close of 1 lie progian.
Alex McLeod and Harold ' organ music wa enjoyed while j Their daughter
M Luc key as h< -’e--t - the hostesses mvi d 1 delirium Map-hall, writ*. * 1
Mi . C. B. Sidons, club lies-cTt plate. j pay tribute to two people win
privident, culled the meeting, ~ I Jtv m vtoJ.y tu aac)
to 01 dm Houtine hu m* wa 1 r-v ~\ ± i ach dav I lov e them more and
tram acted Crane Daughter | ,m grateful t.» go<i c.C uch
Mi ' M. N. Strieker, y.-.uiuia . *, , , .. j wund*. rial paienu".
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Crane au .......... _ __
the pa. ints of a daughter. Ter p,.,„ yj,,Q,
esa Mane, born at U.41 )>,iW. ,
March 24 at Richard* Clinic St ■ y ''.
Hospital. She weighed 6 pound.- j
Match 26 t»64
jhter
Mr at"! Mt CJRnn ft-Ja»
alt the paietu- > I a dwighTei
Gina K* llv, born at 2 32 am
March 22 at Hichaids dime
Hi. pit .d Miss (III 1 .v • ighed
f peund.-. 7 ounce
Grandparents are Mr and
Mi - L. L Rolan of R< rkd.de
Mrs Rip Wood-., .
Bernice i Mr. and
want to | Hanover,
W ork Basket Club
Meeting Held Here
The Tracy Duncan Home
Brownie Troop 268 met Tues-
day at the Girl Scout House
with the leaders, Mrs. W E.
Arlington and Mrs. Jesse Los-
Funeral Today
At Salty Church
For Jackson, 78
ferenei which she and tw
! junior members, Nancy Oldham
| and Barbara Leshikar, attended
i it. Hum tom
The program leader, Mrs.
John T Hale, discus -rd ..great
| composers who lur e left a tie.
heritage ol Easter Mu-ic.
| During her discussion of 1 n . . .... .
i Handel the Hallelujah Chorus \ The vV,,1'ilBu ‘)t-1 Clu,b. nle-nv
wa- play id by Mrs Hal Frank- ^ nD riu.r-day with Mr
lin. Ms, I, F s. hi.,n sang "1 HUn lr ^ f^r, "i! afU!
Know That My Red.,"nm noon of visiting and handwork
Liveth and He Smiled On Me." j A briel business sessibn fob
A CV'Mr. solo, -The Lmb i !,nvt'd- -‘Her w-m h fi/rrt n
Mo i Holy." was played by Mr- 1 freyhments were -eivvd
■ Ralph Nichols. An organ ren-
dition, "Calvary,”wa.- Mis, J
R Yeager’s contribution t<
Easter Music. The final mini-
1 her, ‘‘Holy City," a vocal solo
Dwight B Eiwrn
was born m Denison,
De Leon Daughter
Mr. and Mix. Era-mo D> L. a
are the parents m a daughter
Cynthia Iwu. h .ni at 9:.»0 a ni
March 24 at" Richard- ("-ir.w A j;bark
Hospital The newcomei weigl. i * ------------------—-
id 6 p id . 8 mine ! Support your C of C.
Future Nurses
Visit Hospital
ehtad pai king lot to visit thi
era Siil 1 A White Hospital m
I. triple
riii* gi < p included 20 gm
f 11 m the club. Mi 111 ok»11*
hu h. an R N from the bn-
,h -pital. and Ihi eitaperon
Burk Mi Gia ev y and Mi.- Ruth
] Kirk.
Arriving about 10 am the
i girls were s! owq through the
i link* and ho-pital and tla:»
j the nurses d<»i wituriss who
'questions w* re answered
! After Louring the lu> pital .<
licijic lum h w .. enju.it 1! *■ u 1
J ide of Temple They arrived
h-vittJ at sbsiut ! :*»
De monstration Club met March : ter.
18 iu the home of Mrs. Burford j Activities included songs and
Offield. I decorating Faster baskets. At-
Mrs. Ralph Caffey opened 1 tending wen ITonna Aiford,
the meeting with the club pray-
er. Roll call was answered
with your favorite Bible verse.
Ten members and six visitor,
were present.
Mrs. W’avay Charier, chair-
man of the FEE gave an in-
teresting talk on ‘ School Drop-
outs" and Mrs. Offield gave a
Maleen Arrington, Carla B*rch-
field, Stephanie Boyd, Dianne
Caffey, Becky Cook. Linda El-
lis, Cheryl Green, Lynn Hael-
big, Shirley Hall. Bonnie Hurst,
Vicki Lester, Gwen Loomis,
Carol Mantel. Margaret Mi-
Clung, Sheilah Moony l.ori Vin-
cent. Virginia Weiss- and Rita
F.merai services lor Clarence
j Jackson, 78, were to be held at
2 p.m. today at the Salty Metho-
dist Church with the Rev.
Frank Cady and the Rev. j
George Dos-, Methodist minis •
1 ters, officiating. I Thnrdm
! Burial was scheduled in th< .V' y
Saiu rda.v
Sunday
££j; WEATHER
demonstration on molding Lueitge.
plaques. Miss Arrington and Miss Ley-
Refreshments of sandwiches, ter served refrehment
a salad and cake served by the { ----------——
hostess'. The Union of Soviet Socialist
The next meeting will be . Republics was organized as a
April 1 with Mrs. Roy Harris. federation, December 30. 1922.
Beautiful, Colorful
SHIFTS
by
PRINCESS PEGGY
Cool and comfortable for
those hot summer days
ahead.
\ ^
Others for
2.99
New for Easter!
LADIES HATS
LADIES HAND BAGS
BOY'S SUITS
Easter Shop NOW at
v t VERA'S
\ Heaven-to-Seventeen
Rockdale - Taylor
Salty Cemetery
Mr. Jackson died at 1:30 a m.
Tuesday at St Edward’s Hospl- , ,
tal in Cameron. He had been (; 1 •'
a lifelong resident of the SaRy K,,u';,
community and wa born Nov ’ ( C
29, 1885 there. ,O I AL
His parents were Mr. and j
Mrs Andrew J. Jackson, both j ^
now deceased. Farming was) rhursday
Mr Jackson’s life work. Friday
He was married twice and | Saturday
both vvivev preceded him in ; Sunday
death. His first wife, Edr..i Monday
Hazel Jackson, died on May Tuesday
30, 1923 and his second wife, j Wednesday
Bamma Tucker Jackson, pass- | TOTAL
ROCKDALE
High Low
79 50
58 45
57 34
69 37
Rain
09
Rain
36
The April meeting of the ehjl
will be m the home ol Mrs. O
I. Gee, 2294 Murray
AT THE
Hospital
ADMITTED
Mrs, J. M Moore, Mrs Jack
Crane. Mrs. G R Kirkpatrick.
Mrs. Julie DeLeon, Mr- A unit
Graves, Mrs. Clifford Caffey.
Mr:. Glynn Rolan. Mrs Scott!
Baldridge. Scott Baldridge, BiL
Tyus, Willie Shield's, Mrs. Jim
Gi ley. Mrs. E F Jack n
H- !'! t’lil'MrL R: tjc: '
son.
DISMISSED
Mrs Mary Guzman and baby 1
Mrs \\ A Blocker. Mr J M i
Moore, Mrs We.-ley Woods
Katrina Gibson, Mrs J T j
Ellis, Joe Denham, Mrs Clif
ford Caffey, Mrs, Henry Sea j
well, Mrs G ft Kirkpatrick, ’
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I ed away on Jan 14. 1955.
Mr. Jackson was a member of
the Salty Methodist Church and
I was superintendent of the Sun-
day School fur more than 50
| years.
He also served a-- president
j of the Milam County singing
Convention for more than 40
! years, succeeding his father
j who was the founder of thi
j county singing organization
Survivor include tw - ’in-.
Carlton Jackson ot Flirt Arthui
and Ervin Jackson of Jasper;
two daughters, Mrs. Hi..by Mc-
Clain ol Sacramento, Calif,
and Carol Jackson of the Salty
community; a brother. John
Jackson of Taylor; three sis-
ters. Mr Alice Pugh ol
Cameron, Mrs. Annie Brown
of Orange and Mrs Laura Cook
of Salano, N M
Also surviving are six grand-
children and one great-grand-
child.
Pallbearers s c h e d u I e d to
serve today were Erwin Pugh,
Dalphin Jack so n, Woodrow
Jackson. Clarence Pinkerton,
Leon Towefy and Ralph Jack-
Minerva Center
Plans Barbecue
A barbecue nipper wilt be.
i held at the Minerva Cotnmuni-
1 t\ Center on April 3 to raise
! funds1 for a new roof for the
1 center, it has been announced.
A bruin •!( (,‘bicscr, plate pi •
and drink will lx- prenddea for
J one dollar. Bill Hall, secre-
! tary for the center, s-nd the
! general public is invited.
NEWS FROM
; Tracy
By MRS. WILLIE SCHWARZ
Mrs Sid Allen writes friend
from Baytown where she i-
j visiting her daughter. Mrs L
W. Anderson She wi nt to Bay-
town from Houston where she
I had been with another daugh-
I ter, Mrs C. H Blake.
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Rev. Guy Ezell will be here
| Sunday and deliver tm Easier
me.', age at 9 ju a m We ar<.
expel Lng visite 1 s t ronl utm*i
! churchi.s
Mr and Mr George Riddle1,
and children ol Houston spent
! s> a turn ay and Saturday mgnt
with Mr. ami Mi Dm Drum-
i mond
Mr and Mir. David Pope ot
Houston .‘pent tne weekend
with the Bill Popes and OUy
Cnarles
Mr. and Mrs. John Culp anxJ
j family were Sunday dinner
guest.-- ot her parents anii
grandparents, Mr. arid Mu,
i Otis Charles.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry N a bourn j
; spent tne weekend with Mr.
i and Mrs. Jerry Labour-,
j Mr. and Mr*. Henry Rowen-
i thal and mother Mrs C. L.
Patterson and daughters Gavlu
j and Lisa of Austin were Suri-
; day guests m the L.. L lxicklin
j home.
Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Phillip?'
: and baby of Dallas, Mr. and
; Mrs. Ben Reynolds of Houston
and Mrs. Mary Hienu ol Hous-
ton, spent the weekend in the
, Bill Roseler home.
Sunday dinner guests in the
; Bill Roseler home were Mr.
and Mrs Ben KraaL of I took.-
! dale und Virginia, Mr. and
Mrs. Bennie Wenzel ot Rock-
dale, Mi. and Mrs. Franklin
j Fikts and granddaughter Lorna
I Perry of Houston, Mrs Waver
I J.v Woodley and granddaughter
j Debbie Woodley, Mr. und Mrs.
| Don Woodley and son. all of
J McCamay; Mr? Bill Taylor
and children of Grapevine, Mrs.
David Kerbow and children oL
; Dennison, Mr. and Mrs. Wil->
j bert McCrummms and Ronney*
of Placentia. California; Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Kraatz and1
| family of Irvin, Mr. and Mrs.
' James Halm and children of
( Dallas, Bennie Kraatz. Jr. of
Rockdale. Mrs. Eddie Roberto
! and family ot Houston. In the
j afternoon other guests were:
| Mrs. Steve .Svetlik and family,
J Mrs. Leslie Lock, all of Buck-
| holts; Mr and Mrs. J. B. Mc-
I Crumrneres and daughter of
I Dallas, Charles Ray McCrum-
; mcmes of Dallas and Hunter
Duncan.
Mr and Mrs Ray Armstrong
at Temple v in ted Sunday with'
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Nabours
The English crown Jewels
can be seen in the Jewel House
at the Tower of London.
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Cooke, J. W. The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 26, 1964, newspaper, March 26, 1964; Rockdale, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth694366/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.