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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1954
Page
8
Editor Milton F Brown Jr lists Cameron Texas publication details including mailing class rules and weekly schedule. Subscription rates show Milam County at 1.75 yearly outside county 2.00 and out of state 2.25.
The Governor-backed tax plan will be signed before higher education and state employee funding bills. After the Communist control bill passed, the Governor sent seventeen new proposals as House and Senate rush to meet deadlines. Emergency orders propose ten new two year special courts across eight areas. A child safety measure bans ice box abandonment. A nearly eleven million dollar appropriation funds construction at Southwestern Medical Dallas and other state facilities. A large vote margins approved teachers and state employees bills. A birth announced March 25 in Weimar Hospital: Dennis Wayne, 7 pounds 9 1/2 ounces, with sister Shirley Jean. grandparents listed from Cameron Schulenburg and Waco.
U.S. Department of Agriculture report by J. D. Moore notes 61,800 acres of spring cantaloups across Texas California Florida and Arizona up 46 percent from last year and 113 percent above average. In Texas the Lower Valley leads plantings with irrigated land common and water ample. peak production expected late May to early June. Early spring tomato crop in Texas Lower Valley estimated at 8,815,000 bushels about 31 percent above 1949-52 average. April through mid-June movement paced by irrigation and favorable weather with harvest rising through April and into June.
In the Texas House of Representatives the thirty day special session ended at noon Tuesday April 13. Teachers were virtually assured an annual pay raise of 402 dollars and state employees received a ten dollar per month salary increase. Governor Shivers has not indicated when the bills will be enacted.
Mr and Mrs Ervin Kleiber of Schulenburg are highlighted as the proud recipients in a local social note detailing a couple's milestone or family event. The blurb focuses on the couple and their origin, with emphasis on a community connection to Schulenburg.
Pvt Alejandro Alejandre 22 son of Mr and Mrs Florincio Alejandre Cameron is serving in Germany with the 443rd Anti Aircraft Artillery Battalion at Wiesbaden. He entered the Army last August and arrived in Europe in February 1954 from Fort Bliss El Paso Texas after completing basic training as combat units of the Seventh Army form a major part of the U S defense cordon in the U S Zone of Germany.
Mr and Mrs Thompson Kemp of Dublin stayed with Mrs Lina R Kemp on return from Washington DC where they visited his sister and family Mr and Mrs William S Brown. The Browns had just returned from a trip to Ireland and England.
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