05 Aug 1954
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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1954
Page
1
City progress on steel street corner posts reaches about 25 percent. Roy Griffith oversees marker setup while Robert Weems recovers. Final naming adopts First Street as dividing line and assigns new street names. full rollout after house numbering and city notices.
Cameron Library will be open Tuesday evenings from 7 to 9 with Mrs Wells and Miss Bynum in charge. Morning hours are 10 to 11:30. Rev. McKeown urges more volunteers for additional evenings and asks interested people to contact him.
Milam County Democratic convention minutes dated July 31 1954 in Cameron Texas list E A Perrin elected chairman M C Perry secretary and temporary officers. Committees named Credentials Emory B Camp chairman O G Tomlinson Hilliard Thomas Resolutions Jack W Prescott chairman R A Michalka J T Richards H H Hartsfield W C Wallace Nominating H H Coffield chairman Oxsheer Smith W P Hogan Milton Schiller.
Union officials and Alcoa announced a Friday night settlement avoiding a strike at about 13 plants nationwide. Details were not released from Pittsburgh. Mediation in Washington followed failed talks to end wage and benefits disputes with the union seeking longer vacations higher insurance pensions and eight cent raises.
County Clerk Homer Nabours is reported to be improving at King Daughters Hospital in Temple after a heart attack. He has been a patient for two weeks and shows considerable progress, with friends in the county glad to hear of his improvement.
An editorial urges voters to scrutinize Judge Yarborough campaign promises. It argues veterans bonuses pensions and dam projects are unachievable without constitutional changes and would cost about four million dollars annually, doubling state taxes.
The Farm Bureau Board of Directors monthly meeting is postponed from August 6 to August 12 due to the Farm Bureau Institute at Texas A and M College campus. Officers and members attend the institute. Mr and Mrs A W MecCullin and Rev and Mrs John Solomon stay this week at Magnolia Beach.
A group of 36 people including 14 4 H girls 11 4 H boys 7 adult leaders and parents visited Belton Park July 27 28 for the Milam County 4 H Camp. Activities included a craft workshop bracelet making assembly electing a camp chairman secretary and song leader and supervised swimming. Rex McClaren Cameron was camp chairman Mary Smith San Gabriel secretary Anna Belle Conn San Gabriel song leader.
Clinton Harbers a Fayette County G I farmer who raised cotton yield from 116 to 738 pounds per acre in seven years will be guest speaker at the Milam County Legume Program in Cameron on August 19. He will show pictures and note a net 211 dollars per acre on cotton in 1953. The program is sponsored by the Milam County Farm Bureau with local business, seed dealers, and agricultural workers supporting soil improvement.
Ned Green 84 died Friday after a weeklong illness at McCloskey Hospital. Born in Hillsboro he lived most of his life in Milam County. He is survived by his widow four sons three daughters a brother and four sisters. Funeral at Greens Funeral Home Chapel with graveside rites by Edwin Hardy Post No 9 at Oak Hill cemetery.
At Tuesday night meeting the council granted a rate increase for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. Four aldermen supported the compromise while Robert Weems did not vote. New rates apply to business lines and residences and take effect with October billing.
The Battery C 649th Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion of the National Guard announced ten promotions before departing for a two week summer camp at Fort Bliss near El Paso Texas. Eight promoted to Corporal included Pfe Charles L Eanes Albert J Michalka Joseph L Mondrick James P Reichert Claudie D Sanders Layton D Scott Marvin R Weide and Otto G Zotz Jr. Also promoted to Private First Class were Pvt John J Dillon and Joe R Jedlicka. One new enlistment Alfred B Rydell was sworn in during drill.
Pro Shivers supporters secured delegates at the Milam County district convention held in the county courthouse. The meeting, led by permanent chairman EF A Perrin, debated whether to count votes from both parties or only Democratic ballots for Shivers in the 1952 election. The convention favored counting the two party totals, despite differing state and county stances.
The Milam County Draft Board asks anyone with knowledge of Leon Taylor's location to report to the local board at the Citizens National Bank Building in Cam to help with vital information. Cooperation is requested and appreciated by both the registrant and the board.
Seventeen Milam County young men registered with Local Draft Board Number 92 during July, turning eighteen and required to file with the Selective Service System. Names include Albert Melton and others from Cameron, Rockdale, Thorndale, Rogers, Ben Arnold, and Minerva. Registrants should note their back certificate numbers for fast file retrieval and avoid duplicate correspondence.
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