02 Feb 1956
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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1956
Page
1
Bo Peeps laments errors in last week's paper and defends content amid editorials and letters. Night Marshal Lee Fuller faces burrowing insinuations about a burglary story. A lawyer objects to a legal battle report while City Fathers debate city decorations and liability for tinsel.
The First National Bank promotes a portable sound investment on the streets of Cameron, praising its billboard and an automobile wired for sound. EMIL and about fifty advertisers contribute to the effort, which also supported the MOD and charter votes on Saturday. The piece extols weekly newspaper advertising as lasting and effective in farm homes, noting readers engage daily and ads persist to the last scraps of the issue.
The mayor says he has had little experience living under a charter and expects the question to be met with Haven style insight. The remark appears on the front of Peeps 0.
Secretaries or stenographers sought for overseas work with the American National Red Cross. Interested parties should write to the Midwestern area headquarters in St. Louis Missouri. See HELP on last page.
Two Alcoa employees faced suits with the Texas Employers Insurance Association. Louis L. Parker's trial was set with jurors chosen but testimony not heard before a settlement ended that case and the Edward Garcia suit against the same insurer, scheduled for Monday February 6. A separate Thorndale case involving the City and C. Joe Evans Construction Co with about twenty five defendants including Milam County had a pre trial hearing but no reportable developments yet.
Miss Rosson's second grade class explored certainty and uncertainty in gravity and weather. An Eskimo lecturer joined the lesson at the school on Wednesday Jan 18, with notes on clouds rain snow winds and the earth's poles and equator.
Mr and Mrs T W Grizzard of Tyler take ownership of the Cameron Corner Cafe after remodeling and reopening Monday. The couple bring over thirty years in the food business and plan to offer steaks sea foods Mexican food fried chicken and balanced lunches with a Sunday menu. Alcohol will not be sold and they praise Cameron residents for their hospitality.
World Day of Prayer will be observed in over 20 000 U S communities and 134 other countries on five continents. Services in more than a thousand languages call for world peace and aid to human need with offerings totaling over 460 000 dollars in the last year. The 70th year features a service by American Indian leaders from Cook Training School Phoenix Arizona themed One flock one shepherd.
Cameron voters approve a new city charter 330 to 154 ending 68 years under the old plan. The charter changes include appointive offices such as City Marshal City Clerk and City Attorney while maintaining current officers for now. The April 3 election date follows the charter vote.
Blueprints show a larger Cameron Armory for Battery C 649th AA Artillery with private office classrooms a drill hall and locker areas. The $60 000 construction plan calls for tile and reinforced concrete on a 114 by 109 foot footprint with a 20 acre site donated by the Chamber of Commerce and local sponsors. Battery C notes the facility will relieve crowding as Guardsmen grow.
Walker Creek Home Demonstration Club met January 25 at Mrs Dell Hendersons home nine members attended Mrs Jimmy Angell reported on the Texas Home Demonstration Agents District meeting will be held at Hillsboro April 23 24 The group planned a Farm Bureau Night exhibit February 16 Refreshments of chicken salad on lettuce leaf with crackers and coffee were served Mrs E B Yager served as vice president opening the meeting
The sale of school bonds is ready at the office of Superintendent W. T. Hanes at 2 30 p m on Monday February 6 announced by president of the board Dr C G Swift Wednesday Frank Mikulec and friends were fishing in Freeport last Wednesday reporting a nice catch.
Readers are urged to observe February 2 as Groundhog Day the legend says the woodchuck’s emergence predicts winter’s length. If the shadow appears people are told to wish cross fingers and hope for six more weeks of winter, though few are superstitious.
James Bailes a 17 year old youth of the Friendship community was severely wounded by an accidental shotgun discharge at about 9 PM Sunday. The gun fired as he started to enter the house after his father Joe Bailes left to drive to Houston. He was taken to Newton Memorial Hospital with a large shoulder side wound and doctors predicted a good recovery after a brief hospital stay.
Dallas executive E C McFadden of Employers Casualty Company and Texas Safety Association leader urges state wide traffic safety drive. He says ignorance of traffic laws endangers lives and calls for demonstrations training schools and literature to educate the public and officials. See Traffic Laws on last page.
James W. Wiggs Jr weighing five pounds ten ounces is born at St Edward Hospital Cameron on Tuesday January 21 at 7 16 PM to Mr and Mrs Jimmy Wiggs Sr of Cameron. He is the first grandchild of Mr and Mrs George Childress and marks the seventeenth January birth at the hospital with the baby’s blue diaper noted in the breeze.
The Cameron Ministerial Alliance coordinates simultaneous revival meetings across all churches during March 11 to 18. Evening services start at 7 30 p m with preaching by pastors or visiting ministers. Morning sessions at Milam Theatre March 12 16 run 9 30 to 10 15 a m as joint services with a different minister daily. Employers urged to enable worker attendance.
Milam County A and M Mothers Club met at Mrs. H. D. Maxwell in Rockdale and voted to donate 15 toward an elaborate lectern for A M College. They subscribed to Aggieland Annual for Yee High and Rockdale High School libraries. President Mrs. C W Hudson led the meeting.
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