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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1971
Page
6
Buckholts residents reported multiple weekend visits and travel. Families and friends from Burnet Temple Cameron Cameron and Houston dropped by locals including Kent Peeler Lock Marek Rosell Raney Glaser Baskin and McCall with extended kin from Denver City Haywood and Natchez. Local hospital and home visits highlighted the week.
Two Cameron Boy Scout troops Camp Tahanaga in Tejas District Heart O Texas Council last week working on outdoor merit badges and rank advancement. Troop 701 led by Scoutmaster John Schmidt and Troop 791 led by Ernest Moore with James Hudson. campers include Craig White, James Yager, Joseph Schmidt, Eddie Dodd, Bill Martin, Celestine Aquillor, Craig Harper, Aaron Miller, Robert Miller, Richard Trubee, Brian Wilkinson, James Harden, Tony Stinnett, and David Raymond.
A page lists birthdays for August with names such as Susan Renee Haag Marilyn Raymond Jill Michalka Mrs Ola Williams Lorene Porter on August 2 and others through August 8 including John Jeffrey Jeff Mondrik Debra Deloise Gadison Ruth Riola and more. An unrelated food freezing note discusses freezing casseroles in foil bowls and storing them to save freezer space.
Tem ple Junior College opens its 46th year on August 30 with a two year degree program for law enforcement officers and expanded technical and vocational courses including computer sciences para medical careers automechanics and environmental control A new counselor will specialize in technical areas Evening classes expand to serve the college community National Geographic notes blue men of the Moroccan desert and indigo dye rubs off on skin.
About 600 cattle and calves sold, demand strong across stock classes. Slaughter cattle steady to higher with utilities 18.50 21.20 and bulls 25.50 28.30. calves 29 31. Feeder cattle rose with steers 44 45.50 and heifers 33.50 36.75, stock cows 19 22, cow and calf pairs 245 270. Hog receipts 505 with barrows and gilts up 2.00. US 1-3 19.90 20.60. boars 7.00 9.10. cows up 2.00 with US 1-2 15.50 18.10.
A glossary note clarifies the difference between connotation and denotation. It warns against confusing connotation with annotation and defines annotation as a critical explanatory note.
Three thousand Texas Army National Guard paratroopers from the 71st Airborne Brigade will train with the 82d Airborne Division at Fort Bragg North Carolina from July 31 to August 14. They depart from Bergstrom and Ellington bases and stage an airborne assault on Sicily North drop zone.
Mrs. Mabel Tomasek 73 of Waco and formerly Cameron died Thursday in a Waco hospital. Funeral 2:30 p.m. at Buckholts Brethren Church with Rev. J Henry Brown officiating. Burial Corinth Cemetery. Survived by son Marvin Tomasek Temple, daughter Winnie Brown Waco, brothers William Gilbert Buckholts Oliver Gilbert Austin Newton Gilbert Austin, sister Sadie Johnson Cameron, one grandchild and two great grandchildren. Marek Burns Laywell in charge.
Westbrook Ed Westbrook died at 5 30 a m Friday in a local hospital aged 85 birth May 1 1886 in Milam County and a lifelong Cameron resident funeral 4 30 p m Saturday Marek Burns Laywell Funeral Home burial North Elm Cemetery survivors include wife Rosa Westbrook of Cameron two sons Ray and John Westbrook of Cameron and Houston four daughters Jewel Clark Opal Gooch Ora Harris and Annie Malone two sisters Jess Price Myrl Cray of Waco 21 grandchildren 31 great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren
Hazelwood Sam Hazelwood of Lott and former Cameron resident died Sunday morning in a Marlin hospital. Born July 22, 1876 in Dallas, he was Milam County’s last Spanish American War veteran and a retired farmer. Funeral held 2 pm Tuesday at Marek Burns Laywell with Rev. Thomas Dusek officiating. Burial in Marlow Cemetery. Survived by four sons Linzy Jesse George John. three daughters Jewel Cowdray Bertie Hazelwood Mardirosson. 22 grandchildren. 24 great grandchildren.
Horace P. Dansby Jr. reports Bryan Production Credit Association lent over $9 million to farmers and ranchers in six months of 1971. The Bryan office serves Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Madison, Milam, and Robertson counties. Texas' 34 Production Credit Associations loaned more than $448 million in the first half of 1971, up $33 million from the prior year.
Mr and Mrs Edison Fikes join with Mr and Mrs Leo Plachy to announce marriages of their children. The list includes Mr and Mrs Johnnie Balusek Mr and Mrs Jim Wyrick Mr and Mrs Roger William son Mr and Mrs Monroe Marek Mr and Mrs Herbert Nance Mr and Mrs Leon Kleypas Mr and Mrs Charles Edwards Mr and Mrs Cruz Reyes and Mr and Mrs David Barrett.
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