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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1959
Page
6
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Cameron and Milam County close 1959 with mixed feelings as construction advances. Chamber of Commerce efforts center on a new business building front program while the Saddie Club aids Western Week and community promotions. The city sees water system approval, utilities upgrades, North Jackson work, Sixth Street paving, a new jail, and US 77 widening. Milam County roads expand under large investment as cotton output doubles from 1958. Alcoa signs a three year pact with United Steelworkers. cattle prices stay steady amid good rains. A new Cameron First Baptist Sanctuary and plans for Newton Memorial Hospital with a $160 000 grant illustrate ongoing growth as 1960 approaches the Silver Sixties era.
The Little River Philosopher offers humorous annual forecasts for 1960. He predicts a modest world ending joke, mixed U S economic fate, and a stubborn United States capable of holding together, with local insights closer to home. He signs off as J A.
A Social Security Administration official will visit Cameron every Tuesday at 9 p.m during January. He will meet clients at the Milam County Health Unit for interviews and processing.
A compact survey by Vern Sanford highlights key 1959 Texas political battles and 1960 expectations. It notes the Speaker’s race results, the $185 million tax bill, budget gaps, property and severance taxes, and new revenue sources. It covers primaries, vehicle registrations, public safety hours, trucking limits, teacher salary questions, tidelands cases, new state buildings, auto insurance rates, Johnson for president chatter, election filings, oil production limits, and December employment near 3 million nonfarm jobs.
A compact roundup of area church schedules lists Cameron congregations with their pastors and Sunday services. Denominations include Episcopal All Saints, Assemblies of God, Baptist, Church of Christ, Nazarene, Christian, Methodist, Spiritualist, Lutheran, and Gospel Tabernacle, showing Sunday School times and worship hours across multiple streets and contact numbers.
A compiled page lists pastors and service times for St. Monica's Milano Community Church and numerous area churches including St Cyril and Methodius Rice Hoyte Rogers Tracy Methodist and Hope Lutheran. It notes masses, Sunday school, training unions, evening worship and midweek services across Buckholts Marak Rogers Tracy and surrounding locales.
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