J C Penney authorizes special year end payment for associates
J C Penney announced that its board authorized a special year end payment for more than 50 000 associates in 1 638 stores offices and warehouses nationwide The payment equals two weeks pay for full time staff with the full year 1958 and proportional amounts for part time and those employed less than a year The plan excludes management staff aligned to the profit sharing and is payable December 15 based on December 15 pay rate The letter from president A W Hughes notes the payment reflects 1958 results and future payments depend on yearly performance The payment adds to existing benefits and marks the seventh such payment since World War II
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J. C. Penney Company
United States
Penney Associates
A. W. Hughes
Buckholts 4-H Honors State Contest Awards
College and area agricultural leaders attended the presentation of awards for the state contest Monday night. The Central Texas area includes 40 counties with four areas statewide taking part.
Requests Open for 1954 Conservation Program Local Farmers
New applications from Milam County farmers are being accepted in Cameron to participate in the 1954 Agricultural Conservation Program on a cost share basis. Filing runs from November 23 to December 16, 1955, with clerks at the county office assisting in submitting requests for federal cost share on needed conservation practices.
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Milam County
Humble to Broadcast SMU Notre Dame Game
Humble Oil & Refining Company will air the SMU versus Notre Dame football game live from Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend Indiana. Kern Tips will handle play by play with Alec Chesser providing color and halftime notes. Air time is 12 50 p m over WFAA WBAP 820 Dallas Fort Worth PRC Houston and WOAT San Antonio.
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SMU
Notre Dame
Texas
South Bend
Indiana
Humble Oil & Refining Company
Humble
Humble Company
Texans
Kern Tips
WFAA
WBAP
Dallas-Ft. Worth
KPRC
Houston
WOAT
San Antonio
WAC Sgt Opal Sapp Studies in Japan Camp Yokohama
WAC Sgt Opal M Sapp daughter of Mr and Mrs John B Sapp Route 3 Cameron Texas serves at Camp Yokohama Japan as a baker in billeting and housing and spends four hours weekly studying Japanese. The Army Education Center and US Armed Forces Institute program enables WACs to earn high school diplomas or college degrees with courses in typing English psychology personnel management shorthand public speaking and Japanese. Sapp a 1948 Rockdale High School graduate entered the Army in March 1949 and arrived in the Far East in June 1952.
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WAC
Opal M. Sapp
John B. Sapp
Route 3
Cameron
Texas
Army
Camp Yokohama
Japan
Sapp
Army Education Center
U. S. Armed Forces Institute
Rockdale High School
Far East
Former Cameron Pastor Named Baptist Union President
Rev Lester Morriss, former Cameron Baptist Church pastor, is elected president of the Baptist Training Union convention of Texas. He succeeds Rev Sterling of Abilene. Corpus Christi hosted 1954 and Abilene 1955 conventions. Dr Hope Owen of Plainview spoke at the closing session. Morriss now pastors Mt Pleasant.
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Lester Morriss
Cameron
Cameron Girl Joins United States Navy from Cameron
Miss Justine Kolodejcak daughter of Mr and Mrs Florian Kolodejcak of Cameron reported to Dallas Monday November 16 to be sworn into the United States Navy She will then go to Bambridge Maryland to complete ten weeks of Wave LPasic Training She formerly worked in the X ray department at St Edward Hospital in Cameron Also mentions local oil well operations and a home visit by Mrs C B Horstmann in Midland
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Justine Kolodejcak
Florian Kolodejcak
Cameron
Dallas
Unite States Navy
Baimbridge
Maryland
Miss Kolodejeak
St. Edward Hospital
C. B. Horstmann
Lane Horstmann
Midland
Lane
Two Cameron Deer Hunters Return With Game
Cameron hunters Norris Rogers and Lawrence Mueck returned from deer hunting on Criton Ranch at Boerne in Bexar County. Rogers recovered two bucks a ten pointer and a thirteen pointer while Mueck brought two bucks a seven and a ten pointer and two turkey gobblers. Miss Norvine Holder, Baylor University student, returned to Waco after Thanksgiving with her parents.
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Cameron
Norris Rogers
Lawrence Mueck
Criton
Boerne
Fredericksburg
San Antonio
Bexar County
Norvine Holder
Waco
Perry Holder
Norrine
Baylor University
Truck Crash Near Cameron Total Loss No Injuries Reported
Two accidents occurred with one near Cameron on U S Highway 77. Henry J Gebhart of Rockdale drove a dump truck that skidded on wet pavement and struck a large tree. The truck was a total loss but Gebhart sustained no injuries.
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Cameron
Henry J. Gebhart
Rockdale
Gebhart
Blansit
Andrea Brady Holiday Visitor Returns to Austin
Miss Andrea Brady, a freshman at the University of Texas, was a holiday visitor at the home of her parents, Mr and Mrs Charles Brady. She returned to Austin Sunday afternoon.
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Andrea Brady
Charles Brady
Andrea
University of Texas
Austin
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