Cameron council weighs insurance board letter and fire upgrades
City officials read a state insurance commission letter urging Cameron to add a night watchman, upgrade water infrastructure, and replace two way fire plugs with three way plugs. Insurers warn rates stay tied to compliance.
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State Insurance Commission
Cameron
Jack Prescott
City Water Department
Schiller Motors
John B. Bryson
Bryson
Bell and Williamson
Roy Baskin
Insurance Commission
Wayne Wieser
Weather Notes Mild weekend forecast with possible early week cold snap
Temperatures rose to the upper 70s with nights in the upper 50s and no rain reported in the past seven days. Forecast calls for continued mild conditions through the weekend and a potential cold snap early next week.
Santa Pal Project Begins Work Before Distribution
Santa Pal workers in Cameron enter final week of prep painting and repairing toys for hundreds of underprivileged children. Jaycees seek 400 youths served this year. donations and toys like dolls and tricycles needed. Lions Club donated 19.50. schools and city staff host parties to support Santa Pals.
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Santa Pal
The
Cameron
Cameron Junior Chamber of Commoce
Teys
Henry Schattle
Santa Pals
Humble
Schuttle
Santa Visits Pack 213 Scout Meeting Highlights
Santa delivered gifts to Cub Scout Pack 213 Monday night. The regular meeting featured decorating the Christmas tree and singing carols. Wolf Badge recipients were Thomas Shapiro Newton Burnett and Rodney Anderson. Bear Badges went to Gary Litzman and Douglas McFarland. Service pins for 1 year were awarded to Newton Burnett David Gleason and Mary Humble. John Kohl received the Gary service pin and the service pin. Billy Needham earned the Silver Arrow award. Refreshments included cokes coffee and cookies for members and parents.
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Cub Scout Pack
Thomas Shapiro
Newton Burnett
Rodney Anderson
Gary Litzman
Douglas McFarland
David Gleason
Mary Humble
Gary
John Kohl
Billy Needham
Fire Inspection Team Tours Cameron for New Fire Maps
An Austin based five man team from the state insurance commissioner’s office is touring Cameron businesses and real estate to collect data for new fire maps and rates. The inspectors, H. B. Matthews Bill Thurman Jim Schnell Harvey Goslin and Bill Truitt, will complete inspections around January, marking Cameron’s first fire insurance data survey in about a decade.
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Cameron
H. B. Matthews
Bill Thurman
Jim Schnell
Harvey Goslin
Bill Truitt
State Insurance Commissioner's Office
Murder charge filed in four child deaths in Rockdale
Homer Ward age 50 of Rockdale faces murder with malice charges after four children died in a house fire in Rockdale. Ward was caring for the children while their mother was away and reportedly started the blaze. Ward is held without bail in Milam County Jail and bound over to the district grand jury.
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Rockdale
Milam County
Robert Nelson
The
Herald
Homer Ward
General Delivery
Mattie Maye Robinson
Velma Jean Collins
Gwendolyn Deanne Collins
Hal Creig Sheppard
Douglas Bernard Sheppard
Ward
Nelson
Second Ward
Leonard Adams
Santa Pal Toy Drive Pending Need-Based Selections
For five weeks toys were placed for the project and a screening committee selects items by actual need. The Jaycees will deliver the toys on Monday, December 2, Humble officials stated.
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Jaycees
Humble
Ist Methodists Plan Pageant Sunday Night
The First Methodist Church presents its annual Christmas program at 7 30 p m Sunday in the church sanctuary. The pageant Jewels of the King features a cast of church youths with Rev E J Davis delivering the opening prayer. The event closes with Christmas tree activities and musical selections led by Carroll Green Jr and Mrs H S Thomas providing accompaniment.
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First Methodist Church
E. J. Davis
Sandra Smith
Mark Perrin
Vera Ann Perrin
Marie McDermott
Dwight Moody
Bobby Foster
Ray Green
Mary Kestenbaum
Wendell Kirk
Jean Lester
Doris Plasek
Becky Foster Carroll Green, Jr
H. S. Thomas
Joe S Hickman
Final Rites Held For Mrs. Brewer Native Countian
Mrs. W. S. Brewer a lifelong Milam County resident died December 11 in Rosebud after a long illness. Funeral services were at Marek-Burny Funeral Home with Rev. EJ Davis of the First Methodist Church presiding. Interment followed in Oak Hill Cemetery. Born January 23, 1873 in Cameron she lived on the same farm her whole life. She was daughter of James Slocomb who settled the county in 1871 and helped build the first courthouse. A member of the First Methodist Church Woodman Circle and active in organizing Home Demonstration Clubs. Survivors include son Sam Brewer Cameron daughter Mrs Ernest Howard Waco four grandchildren and eight great grandchildren Pallbearers listed.
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Milam County
Rosebud
Marek-Burny
EJ Davis
First Methodist Church
Oak Hill Cemetery
Brewer
Cameron
James Slocomb
Slocomb
We First Court House
Woodman Circle
Sam Brewer
Ernest Howard
Waco
Lester Williams
Coleman Duncum
Walter White
Carl Black
Walter Lester
Bob Bailey
F. A. Perrin
Sam McDermott
Pair Of Charges Filed Against 4 Waco Suspects
Four Waco residents including a 15 year old girl face misdemeanor and felony charges in county and district courts after arrest on shoplifting suspicions in Cameron. The group, two men and two women, posted bond and await hearings next year. two members previously paid fines for unlicensed driving as officials say over 120 dollars worth of merchandise was stolen from a Cameron store.
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Waco
Cameron
Fund Board Calls For Renewed Drive
Seventeen members of the North Milam United Fund voted for renewed efforts to complete the 1967 drive for 11300. Treasurer Hilliard Thomas reported 5600 contributed so far, about half the goal. The board voted to engage Loretta Brock to set up a automatic donor file and urged renewed outreach by campaign workers and chairmen.
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North Milam United Fund
Hilliard Thomas Today
Robert Nelson
United Fund
Wiley Loughmiller
North United Fund
Mra
Loretta Brock
Cameron school board weighs reinstituting baseball
The Cameron city school board debated bringing baseball back to Yee High School athletics and hired W. M. Krueger as basketball coach. Purchases moved funds between athletic, maintenance, and building accounts, and a seven member faculty committee was approved to select texts for 1958 59.
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Cameron City
Yee
Buckholts School Plans Christmas Program
The Buckholts School will present a Christmas program at 7 pm Thursday in the Buckholts Gym. The first seven grades join with the school music department for the event. Santa Claus will distribute gifts to the children.
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Buckholts School
Buckholts
Santa Claus
Hershel Biggs Named Wire Chief in Cameron
Hershel Biggs formerly of Austin has become wire chief in Cameron for about a year. He is 27 and joined Southwestern Bell 18 months ago after Texas Tech and Navy service. Jones 27 advances to acting supervising repair foreman at Galveston, previously wire chief in Cameron since 1956.
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Southwestern Bell Telephone
Hershel Biggs
Austin
Cameron
Jones Jones
Galveston
Biggs
Grand Prairie
Texas Tech
Lubbock
Navy
Jones
Groesbeck
Milton 5. Fuqua
Krueger Named YHS Cage Mentor
W M Krueger, 23, joins Yee High School as basketball coach and physical education social science teacher. A Southwest Texas State Teachers College graduate and former standout athlete, he takes over after Jim Speer and replaces resigned coach Leo Jackson, with duties starting this week in Cameron.
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WM. Krueger
Yee High School
Krueger
Yow High School
Rosebud
Southwest Texas State Teachers College
Jim Speer
Speer
Leo Jackson
Irving
Johnson City
YHS
Principe J. R. Young
Cameron
Hard Work Does Job Anywhere Mentor Says at Banquet
Abe Martin, Texas Christian University grid mentor, told a near capacity crowd at Simon George Hall that education is as vital as football for a college athlete. He urged Yoe High players and families to value knowledge, ability, desire, dependability and loyalty, stressing hard work regardless of school.
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Abe Martin
Texas Christian University
M. C. Charlie Burke
Martin
Cameron Schools Close Today for Christmas Holidays
Cameron public schools will close today and resume January 2 for Christmas holidays. Grade school classes hold Christmas parties in the last period, Yee High School hosts a Christmas assembly, VHS plans traditional music, and the Parent-Teachers Association meeting is rescheduled to January 16.
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Cameron Public Schools
Yee
Cameron Parent-Teachers Association
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