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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1970
Page
1
A post Christmas Herald column urges action after contemplation. The piece cites Erikson on balance, praises a year of global reach, and calls Milam County to momentum with humor and courage as a New Year dawns. Names local notables appear amid festive holiday wishes.
Livingston New Jersey based Wynne's Press Clipping Bureau provides an index of individuals and families across many towns. The list includes residents and associates from Burlington Rosebud Rockdale Gause Austin Houston Deer Park Dallas Corpus Christi Mount Pleasant Danbury Lockney Orange Huffman Portland Center Point Beverly Mass Helena Mont Valley California and other locations credited to the clipping service.
Stores report record sales with last minute shoppers from Rosebud to Hearne filling shelves. Buses carried packed Christmas travelers as 144 boys stuffed gift billfolds and girls played with dolls and hot wheels amid gag gifts and holiday cheer.
A Rockdale group seeks IRS nonprofit status as a first step toward a $1 million, 40 bed hospital to replace Richards Hospital which faces Medicare loss for not meeting HEW standards. A 12 member board led by Emory C. Camp will seek $500,000 Hill Burton funds and rename the site Richards Memorial Hospital honoring Dr. John Richards.
Caldwell voters are to decide January 9 on a bond proposal for 650000 to fund a new high school and general improvements to existing facilities. The district previously rejected a December 5 plan for a new high school and junior high, and Caldwell High now operates classes in the gym basement and other temporary sites.
Round Rock will start after January 1 on a $1.5 million school plant including a new high school for 1200 students, expandable to 2000, and a modern elementary school. Both buildings will be all electric and air conditioned, with a library learning center and band hall. Robert Gray Construction Co. of Austin bid $1,286,800 for the high school and R. E. Butler of Bryan bid $169,692 for Pond Springs Elementary.
County Tax Assessor Walter White notes a January 31 deadline to register for 1970 elections. About sixty 18-year-olds filed applications to vote in 1971. The Supreme Court ruled 18-year-olds can vote in federal elections, leaving state rules to each state. Texas officials discuss a constitutional amendment to allow 18-year-olds in state and local elections. Governor Smith backs it though preferring 20-year-olds. Dual ballots remain for state and federal races until change.
Herald classified ad promotes selling items after Christmas with a deal price of 16 words for one dollar. The item list appears broad and unspecified, inviting readers to place ads for miscellaneous goods.
Aluminum Company of America chairman John D. Harper predicts a 5 percent or more rise in 1971 U.S. shipments as housing, packaging, and transportation demand grows. He notes labor peace as a key factor and highlights Alcoa's Alumi-Frame system and a recycle campaign as drivers of profit and efficiency in the 1970s. Overseas prospects look brighter with rising per capita use in Japan and other free-world regions.
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