The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 6, 1961 Page: 2 of 13
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S-ttOCKDALE (Tic.) WPOKTCT
HEAVEN ON A HILLTOP...
July e. nei
Former Resident Publishes
Book About San Gabriel
“Heaven On a Hilltop,'* a novel
about life in the small com-
munity of San Gabriel, north-
west of Rockdale, by a former
San Gabriel woman, will be pub-
lished July 21.
The author is Louise Johnson
Curlee, who grew up in San
Gabriel, now lives in Boling,
where she teaches school. Van-
tage Press, Inc , of New York, is
the publishing house.
Ix>uise Johnson was born
January 5, 1909. one mile north
Doctors Receive
Draft Board Call
AUSTIN—State Selective Ser-
vice will call its share oi 185
docors ol medicine for the Air
Force and Navy in July, Colonel
Morris S Schwartz, state Selec-
tive Service director, said Wed-
nesday.
The call on the state specified
no exact quota. Physicians select-
id will be non-fathers who an
examined, acceptable, and avail-
able. and who on July 1 are 25
years of age but not yet 26.
Texas has nine of these now.
This number may increase by the
time of the call dole in July, as
other local boards may have
qualified doctors by that time,
also
Local boards will issue orders
to report for induction to the
qualified physicians with a re-
porting date of July 28, notwith-
standing the fact they ma.v already
have applied for commissions as
medical officers.
Doctors receiving the orders
who present evidence of applica-
tion will be postponed until ap-
plications are acted upon.
“This call was made necessary
by the failure of the Military
Medical Services to obtain from
this year's intern group sufficient
volunteers lor commissions and
active duty beginning in July,"
Lieutenant General lewis B. Her-
shey, director of Selective Service,
said in .in official bulletin to
Texas state headquarters.
FILTER TIPSt
^ Now it the time to
check the filter on your
oir conditioners.
^ If your filters ore dirty,
replor* With new onet
or, if you hove a cleon
oble type, clean thor-
oughly.
^ A clean filter improves
the movement of the
oir . . . givei more cool
air . . . cuts dust and
pollen to virtually zero.
^ For information or
assistance, call your
dealer, air condition-
ing serviceman or
TP41.
TEXAS POWER A
LIGHT COMPANY
of San Gabriel in a little 4-room
house the family called Hilltop.
Her father wa- I .on Henry John-
son, who also was born at Salt
Gabriel. Mrs Hattie Gilchri-t,
formerly of San Gabriel, wa a
sister of Johnson, und Weldon, her
son. still lives there
The author said that the only
true character in her book is Non
Lacy, who is my mother. The
other characters oi happenings
rr.u'j or may net have been from
that part of the world,” she add-
ed
Her mother, she explained, was
Nora Lacy Baird, daughter of
Henry Francis and Lucy Baird.
She was one of 14 children.
Miss Johnson graduated from
San Gabriel high school in 1025
with honors, then went to Mary
Hardin Baylor, obtaining a teach-
i rs certilicate, and also a husband,
Aubrev (' Curlee of Temple She
eventually received her dt gree
at Mary Hardin Bay-loir and in
1062 got her M F. degree from
ttu University of Mou>'on Sue
has taught school for 20 ycais
and i prescntl.N at New Gulf in
the Boling independent district
Her husband i a farmer.
The central character of “Heav-
en on a Hnltop is Mora, wno»<-
day i never done. Then there
are the Simpsons, and Old Tube
who i- allergic to work, and his
wife Maude The Waters! are
the community’s well-to-do 1 uni-
ty, and for the love interest there
are David, Nora’s nephew, and
Miriam Waters.
RAMBLINGS—
(continued from page one)
wheat this fall. That’s legal un-
der the rules.
Yes, Virginia, there IS a Santa
Claus.
Army and Appendicitis
IF THIS REPORTER is a little
sub-standard there is good rea-
son. News editor Bill Cooke went
to Fort Hood Sunday for two
weeks annual summer maneuvers,
or whatever it is they call it. And
Saturday night our secretary and
Good Girl Friday, Helen Seelke,
underwent an emergency appen-
dectomy. My sympathy and best
wishes go to both of these good
staff members. They’1! be back
in about two weeks. Both ailments
take just about the same time!
Winning a Habit
•THREE years ago when the
Rockdale Athletic a oei-ition
offered a \r i/e of two free tickets
to the Cotton Bowl game on New
Year’s day for the member who
sold the most memberships in the
Association, H. B. Ellison entered
the contest . . . and won going
away. The following year he didn’t
enter. But last year, he entered
again and, you guessed it, he won
hands down.
It is no wonder, when you think
about this, that when The Report-
er announced its big subscription
eontqst seven weeks ago, Ellison
decided that “this is right down
my alley ” And this is exactly
what it turned out to be. He won
the car.
Henry doesn’t get into member-
ship drives und subscription con-
tests just as a lark. He means
bimiruT* He -gol an early start.
THh third week of the contest he
took one week of his vacation
aw.iv from his job and devoted
full time* to selling subscriptions.
He proved to be a one-man gang,
coming in with almost 13,000,000
votes, or points. His nearest com-
petitor had a little over 5,000,000.
George Doss is
Pastor of Area
Church Groups
Georgi.* Doss has been assigned
to serve as pastor of the Pleasant
Retreat and Salty Methodist
churches; it was announced this
week by Rev Carl Bayer, dis-
trict superintendent, of Bryan.
The Rockdale layman, turned
minister, says that he will conduct
services at tin Pleasant Retreat
church each first Sunday at 11
a m , and each thiid Sunday at
8 p.m.
Services are scheduled for the
Salty church each fmirth Sunday
at both 11 a m and 3 p.m.. he said.
Aycock Student
On Honor Roll
Al Prairie View
Barbara Sue Sansom, 1950
Aycock graduate and student at
Prairie View .%4*M college, has
received information form the
registrar’s office that she has
qualified for the honor roll for
the* second semester of the school
term 1960-61.
To qualify for the honor roll, a
student must have made an aver-
age of “B".
Barbara is a music major and
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs
E .1 Sansom, Rockdale.
This is not meant to take any-
thing away from any of the other
contestants, all of whom were dedi-
cated workers and who deserve
congratulations. I am proud of
every contestant who entered and
deeply indebted to them ull for
getting us a big list of new sub-
scribers in the trade area. Thanks
are more fully given in an edi-
b’ ial on page 7b.
Man Pleads Guilty
To DWI; Assessed
3 Days, $100 Fine
A Rockdale rn a n, Charles/
Edward Andrews, pleaded guilty
to driving while intoxicated last
Friday in county court. He was
assessed a fine of $100 and three
days m county jail
Andrews was arrested Thursday
night following a wreck involving
his car and that of Irina Dean
Williams according to Jack Mason,
cits judge. The Williams car was
parki d in the 300 block of West
Cameron. No one was in her car.
Damages were estimated at $250
to each vehicle.
This was Andrews' first DWI
offense Mason said.
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HERMAN WILLIS
Tracy Man is
Named Veep of
GMAC New York
Herman Willis, formerly of the
Tracy community, has been nam-
'd vice president of General Mot-
ors Acte ptance Corporation in
charge of operations in the east-
ern half of the United States.
Tiie announcement wa- made in
New York this week.
Wiilis lived at Tracy as a boy
and graduated from Yoe high
school at Cameron He joined.
GMAC in Dallas in 1931) and has
held various positions with them
in the southwest area.
He became branch manager in
Louisville, Ky , in 1944; in San
Antonio in 1945, and in Houston
in 1053. Since 1959 Willis has
been regional manager of 19
branch offices in the New York
area.
When the going gets tough and
things become complicated, Willis
says he just remembers fighting
tie vines and Johnson grass in
Little river bottoms near Tracy
when a boy. “Things could never
get any more complicated than
that," h<* nnipperi
Sales Serves on
Tulare in Pacific
WESTERN PACIFIC (FHTNC)
—Once the troops splash ashore,
the next job of th eships of the
amphibious force is to start the
supplies flowtiig in—the gas, guns
and grub that keep the assault
!trees moving toward their ob-
jectives.
Serving aboard the attack cargo
ship USS Tulare, a unit of Am-
phibious Squadron Three in the
Far East, is Gary F. Sales, fire
control technician seaman, USN,
son of Mr and Mrs. Leonard A.
Sales of 531 Evelyn street, Rock-
dale,
The Tulare, like other attack
cargo ships, “assault loads” its
combat cargo so that the most
vita! material is right on top,
ready to go ashore as soon as
possible.
This type of ship, the chief
cargo carrier for amphibious op-
erations, carries nearly 20 land-
ing craft of various sizes to speed
these supplies ashore where and
when tlrev are needed.
The first American car offered
to the public was the Duryea,
made in Springfield, Mass.—April
1. 1892.
ALCOA INCLUDED ...
Lynch Lauded for Aid
In Bringing Industry
A speech honoring W W Lynch of America with a plan whereby
president of Texas Power At Light Ins company would make uvarl-
companv, was read into the Con-
gressional Record Monday in the
U. S House of Representatives by
Congressman W* ight Patman of
Texas
Congressman Patman praised
Lynch foi his assistance in help-
ing locate the new Campbell Soup
company plant in Paris, for
TP&L's aid in locating and deve-
loping the Lone Star Steel com-
pany plant in East Texa- in the
early 1040’s, and Lynch’s help in
able to Alcoa its wide experience
with lignite, certain Milam coun-
ty lignite reserves, the newly de-
veloped Parry process lor drying
lignite, and would act as agent in
building and operating a power
plant fueled by lignite to ope -ate
an aluminum plant. Alcoa became
interested and, as a result, built
the large aluminum plant now in
Milam county, an industry that has
hi v.n a tremendous boost for the
economy of that central Texas
Patman said.
iocstir., the Aluminum Company j al'ea
cf America plant in Rockdale. | “J-doubt that there is a city or
“The C; mpbell Soup company | town that is served by Texas
' ’ Power & Light company that has
at Paris, in all probability, would
never have been attracted to our
area of the country without the
sincere efh i ts of W. W. Lynch,"
Patman stated.
Concerning the Lone Star Steel
company, Patman said TP&L pos-
sessed the basic information that
was adequate to prove the exis-
tence of manganese and coking
coal sufficiently nearby to make
such a project a success.
“W. W. Lynch approached of-
ficials of the Aluminum Company
Martin Studies
Chemistry Eight
Weeks at Institute
WEATHERFORD <Okla.) —
There’s no 40-hour week tor high
school science teachers attending
the second annual National
Science Foundation summer in-
stitute in chemistry at South-
western Oklahoma State college.
The etight-week course ends Julv
28.
A typical day for Bob Martin,
710 Hunter. Rockdale, begins with
a lecture at 7 a m., with Di.
Claude E. Boatman, West Texas
State college, discussing the
i hemistry of solutions. At 8:40
am. Dr. George Cunningham,
Southwestern State college, lec-
tures on the subject of the struc-
ture of matter; at 10:30 a.in.,
Dr Joe Melton. Northwestern
Oklahoma State college, the
chemistry of reaction types, and
at 1 p.m., Dr. Earl A. Reynolds,
Southwestern State, instituU di-
rector, special topics in chemistry
and In teaching high school
chemistry.
From 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.,
Martin is usually in special study
sessions v/it*h stall members or for
library research. After dinner,
usually from P p.m. on, he will
be taking special audio-visual
training in the production of
photographic teaching material
from L. M. Lewis, dean of the
school of watch repair at South-
western State and a nationally-
recogm/.ed authority in that lirid.
These sessions sometimes continue
until 11 p. m. or later.
Martin has his weekends free,
however, after this five-day in-
tensive work period. The in-
stitute is locked up at 4 30 p.m.
each Friday and doesn’t not re-
open until 7 am Monday
Yet the records show that many
of the 43 high school teachers en-
rolled spend part of this time in
study and photographic labora-
tory work on their own.
not received substantia' help and
assistance from this company in
addition to the regular and cus-
tomary service. There are many
industries in our district today in
towns and qities served by the
Texas Power & Light company
that are employing hundreds and
thousands of people in aggregate
that would not be there had it
not been for the intelligent efforts
and generosity of W. W. Lynch
and the Texas Power & Light
company.”
Patman also lauded Lynch for
his recent election as vice presi-
dent of the Edison electric Insti-
tute, the trade organization of the
electric industry in the U. S.
The world has about 917 million
head of cattle.
i Hi-P'ii irl Stall Photo I
GETS »5u BOND—Mrs. Frank Buuuu^ii Ji. iccciVcn u $50
savings bond from Johnny Ralston ol the Rockdale State
Bank as winner of the final week’s jackpot prize for new
subscriptions in The Reporters subscription contest. The
bond was donated by the bank.
Road Reopened
After Repairs
A stretch of Alcoa private road
east from the administration
building, will be back in service
Friday after undergoing repairs
the past two days.
The road from that point on to
the county road which connects
with Highway 77, has been closed
except to one-way traffic while
Slurry seal repairs were being
made Wednesday and Thursday.
HOME AGENT NOTES
By Frances H. Johnson
Milam County HD Agent
La Nell Moraw and Sharon
Lucko oi County-Wide 4-H club
received Fust place honors in tire
senior ai d junior divisions of the
Milam county Dress Revue eli-
mination
They will submit- their records
and dresses to be judged in the
District Dress Revue in Stephen-
vilie in July.
Many of Norway’s fiords pene-
trate 70 to 100 miles inland.
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The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 6, 1961, newspaper, July 6, 1961; Rockdale, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth694670/m1/2/?q=%221961-07%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.