Milam County approves Marak annex to Cameron ISD
Milam County School Board votes to annex Marak Common School District to Cameron Independent School District effective September 1 1965. About 45 Marak students will transfer. Yee High School currently hosts transfer students. Board members listed include John Henderson Sr. and B B McAnulty with changes in trustees.
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Milam County
Marak Common
Cameron Independent School District
H. D. Maxwell
Marak
Transfer High School
Yee High School
Pageant Shows Milam County History Through Schoolers
More than 200 grade and junior high students performed in a Yee Campus Carnival pageant Tuesday night. The history segment traced Milam County from 1744 Spanish missions to 1846 property lines, delighting hundreds of adults despite a missing director credit for Mary Belle Patte.
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Milam County
Mary Belle Patte
Cameron
Methodist Bishop From India to Speak at City Church
Bishop J Waskom Pickett of the Methodist Church in India and U S A will speak on Christianity in India at 7 45 p m on April 28 following a public supper at Cameron First Methodist Church Rev Richard Freemen reports the covered dish gathering is open to all. Pickett is described as a close associate of Gandhi Nehru and Prime Minister Shastri and author of two books.
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Methodist Church In
India
Gandhi
Nehru
Cameron
First Methodist Church
J. Waskom Pickett
D.D., Ltd
U.S.A
Richard Freemen
Cameron First Methodist Church
Pickett
Shastri
Jawarharla Nehru
Chamber Outlines Community and Industrial Plans
Chamber of Commerce directors outlined long range growth efforts for Cameron. Plans include a community wide meeting, industrial foundation reform to non profit status, public relations courses via University Extension, and downtown improvements. A May progress report on legal papers is planned.
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Chamber of Commerce
Texas Power and Light
Dick Freeman
Civic Improvement Committee
Don Humble
Hendersn
Industrial
Monroe Fuchs
Porter Young
Lavert McKinney
Sepp
Cameron
Cameron Threach
Texas University Extension Department
National Guard Armory
First Street
Ray Lester
Sapp
Ed Laywell
Agricultural Committee
Laywell
Aggies Muster in Cameron With Texas A&M Leader Speaker
Dean Frank W. R. Hubert of Texas A&M University delivers the Muster address for the Milam County A&M Club at the Cameron Methodist Fellowship Hall on Wednesday April 21 at 7 29 p m. Hubert, a Milam County native and new president of the Association of Texas Colleges and Universities, has long held top education posts and authored many education publications. The event also honors deceased Aggies with a Master of Aggies and friends ceremony.
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Nual
Milam County
A&m Club
Methodist Fellowship Hall
Cameron
Hubert
Association of Texas Colleges and Universities
Texas A&m
College of Arts and Sciences
Texas Education Agency
Orange
Texas
Texas State Teachers Association
Texas Association of School Administrators
Texas Conference On Teacher Education
University of Texas
Aggies and Friends
Aggies
New Trustees Take Oath Of Office At Cameron School Board
Two new trustees Coleman Duncum and Will Vogel took the oath of office and joined the Cameron school board as officers were elected. C R Roy Law was named president, Duncum vice president, and Forrest Sapp secretary. The board canvassed election returns and hired Theodore Balboa as custodian, accepted Wendell Kirk’s resignation as bus driver, and noted a workshop at Texas A&M University on May 3.
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Coleman Duncum
Will Vogelsang
Niley Smith
Bob Wells
C.R
Roy” Law
Cameron School Board
Duncum
Forrest Sapp
Don Humble
Greer Cowdray
Theodore Balboa
Wendell Kirk
Garler Ingram
Kirk
Charles Zeigler
Area School Board
Texas A&m University
Fuchs Named Outstanding Lion of the Year
Monroe Fuchs was named Outstanding Lion of the Year at the Lions Club Ladies Night Banquet in the Texan Western Room. John Henderson Jr. praised his church school and civic work including library drives, Little League baseball via Lions Club events, Chamber projects, Cameron Jaycees, and Hope Lutheran Church activities. The honor advances him toward the District Lion of the Year consideration as mental health issues and county problems were discussed.
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Monroe Fuchs
Lions Club
Texan Western Room
John Henderson Jr
Fuchs
Library General
Cameron Jaycee
Hope Lutheran Church
Buckholt
Condi
Dinner To Honor Henry N Ivey
An appreciation dinner honoring Henry N Ivey Milam and Burleson County supervisor for Farmers Home Administration is planned by citizens led by Narvie Caperton of Cameron. About 1200 farm and rural families seek improved living conditions through loans. Congressman Bob Poage will be principal speaker. Tickets go on sale this week for the April 23 event at Cameron Methodist Fellowship Hall.
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Henry N. Ivey
Farmers Home Administration
Milam
Burleson
Narvie Caperton
Cameron
Methodist Fellowship Hall
Bob Poage
Henry Ivey
Caperton
Downtown Merchants Plan Good Friday Closures
A downtown survey shows firms will close for Good Friday from 12 noon to 3 p.m. Culpepper's First National Bank Citizens National Bank Duke & Ayres Idea Hatchery Lewis-Chili Shoe Store Wilson's Jewelers will close 12 to 3 and Matula Grocery Safe way Grocery J C Penney's McIntosh's Nabours Variety Store New Cameron Drug Store Dusek Pharmacy Leader Department Store Harden Jewelry & Gifts will close 12:30 to 3 p.m.
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Barbara Smitherman
Culpepper's
First National Bank
Citizens National Bank
Duke & Ayres
Idea Hatchery
Lewis-Chili Shoe Store
Wilson's Jewelers
Matula Grocery
Safeway Grocery
J. C. Penney’s
Mcintosh's
Nabours Variety Store
New Cameron Drug Store
Dusek Pharmacy
Leader Department Store
Harden Jewelry & Gifts
Four Year Old Girl Fatally Struck In Cameron Weekend Crash
Cameron records its first 1965 traffic fatality as Loretta Jefferson, four, dies at a hospital after being struck while darting onto U S Highway 190 and 36 in West Cameron. Six others are injured in three head-on crashes on Saturday and Sunday around Milam County.
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Cameron
Loretta Jefferson
Curtis Jefferson
West Cameron
Kennedy
Milam County
Milano
US 36
Roy Clanton
Newton Memorial Hospital
Scott and White Hospital
Temple
Leroy Broadus
Bennie McCord
A. R. Morgan
St. Edward Hospital
US 190
Derwood Kennedy
McCord
Morgan
Studebaker
Branchville
Fort Hood
Lee Otis Hays
R. A. Fitzpatrick
Orange
Calif
Fitzpatrick
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Milam CO. Board
Cisd
Marak School
John Henderson Sr
B. B. McAnulty
E. A. Perrin
Benny D. Williams
Paul Fuchs
Maxwell
Willie Glaser
Buckholts
Winne of Rosebud
W. J. McIntosh
Cameron Merchants
John Schigut
Luther Hodge
Ronald H. Hayward
Chamber
Texas Power and Light Company
Industrial Foundation
Cameron Industria Foundation
Frank W. R. Hubert
A&m
Dean Frank Hubert
Austin State Hospital
Pogeok
Peep EL
A&m University
Cathy Grimes
Carol Terry
Monica Mikula
Bob Foster
Carol Ann Wilson
Linda Grothe
Jerry Bright
George Bowman
Bucky Wilkinson
Bobby Schiller
Curtis Ray Mathews
Drapers Trading Post
Marek Burns
Progressive Baptist Church
Cameron Cemetery
She
Curtis and
Don Jefferson
Roy Clanton Jr
Henry Hollis
Houston
Broadus
Clanton
Hollis
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