Space Age Tone Set For Cameron Chamber Banquet
Cameron Chamber plans a Space Age themed banquet on March 8 to install Monroe Fuchs as 1966 Chamber President. Alf Jernigan will be guest speaker. a 5:20 to 6:00 pm reception precedes the 7:20 pm banquet at Methodist Fellowship Hall. Rockets decorations symbolize growth through the Industrial Foundation. Tickets are available through the ticket committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cameron Well
Chamber of Commerce
Monroe Fuchs
Methodist Fellowship Hall
Alf Jernigan
East Texas Chamber of Commerce
Longview
Chamber
Forrest Sapp
Cameron Chainter
Industrial Foundation
Fellowship
McCuilin
LaVert Melknney
Cotton Industry Faces Synthetic Competition and Market Shifts
Calvin Cobb spoke at a Rotary meeting about the cotton sector in Milam and Central Texas. He warned synthetics threaten traditional agriculture economics as cotton income already exceeds many sectors and promoted expanding markets while noting cotton research and promotion lag behind synthetics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calvin
Milam
Texas
Counsios
Cobb
Temple Challenges City's Former Stars To Benefit Game
Temple invites Cameron legends for a 7 30 p m charity basketball game in Yee High Gym to raise funds for the March of Dimes. Players include Cecil Widner Joe Moehring Bert Shumate Byron Wise Jack Ruzicka Warren Rinn Garland Hux Ray Thompson and others. Admission is 50 cents for adults 25 cents for children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bell Finance All Stars of
Temple
Cameron
Yee High
March of Dimes Fund
Cecil Widner
Joe Moehring
Bert Shumate
Byron Wise
Jack Ruzicka
Warren Rinn
Garland Hux
Ray Thompson
Dr. H. B. Halbert
Dub Bryant
Frank Winchester
Besl Finance All Stars
Houston
Cameron School Board to Hold Called Meeting
The Cameron School Board will meet Thursday at 2 p.m. in the superintendent’s office to discuss the resignation of Head Coach George Kirk and screen applicants for the Dr. Herman Brown post. Kirk seeks release to take Littlefield head coaching job March 1. Brown to resign August 31 to join Texas A&M as associate professor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cameron
Coleman Duncum
George Kirk
Herman Brown
Kirk
Littlefield
Dr. Brown
Ada Henderson
Ben Milam
Cameron Churches Observe World Day of Prayer Fui
Cameron churches join global Christians for a World Day of Prayer service at 3 p m Friday February 25 at First Presbyterian Church The service theme is You Are My Witness Organized by the United Council of Church Women Local president Mrs J L Callaway notes 1966 council programs include training for lay and professional workers and study centers in Asia Africa and Latin America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cameron
First Presbyterian Church
United Council of Church Women
J. L. Callaway
Council For 1966
United States
Asia
Africa
Latin America
Duncum Implement Plans Open House Sunday Afternoon
Cameron based Duncum Implement will hold an open house from 2 to 6 pm at its new 7200 square foot farm equipment center on US 77 North. The dealer moved from 105 E. Gillis and now showcases parts sales and service in a steel building with overhead display. Coleman Duncum owns the John Deere farm equipment dealership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duncum Implement of
Cameron
US 77
E. Gillis
Jaycee Membership Drive Report Planned in Cameron
Cameron Jaycees will report results of their membership drive at a meeting Tuesday night in the Chamber of Commerce office. President Rev. Paul McCallum says Bruce Crook and Charles Moran head teams to add active members to the local organization which sponsors Toys for Tots Teen Road-eo and other civic projects. Active members age 21 to 40.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cameron Jaycees
Chamber of Commerce
Jaycee
Paul McCallum
Bruce Crook
Charles Moran
Takahiko Kubo of Nishinomiya Joins Yee High Exchange
Takahiko Kubo a 19 year old student from Nishinomiya Japan lives with the George Bowman family under the International Christian Youth Exchange program He attends Kwansei Gakuin Senior High School in a private 1000 student campus and will graduate with Yee High School's 1966 senior class He holds the title Honorary Texan awarded by Governor Connally and notes many shared interests between Japan and the United States including baseball His family includes his parents Jiro and Mrs Kubo a 14 year old brother Yuki hiko and grandmother Yone The Kubos live in a Western styled home in a suburban city between Kochi and Osaka where his father an amateur photographer has won prizes
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Takahiko Kubo
Yoe High School
Milam Courthouse
Nishinomiya
Japan
Young Kubo
John Connally
George Bowman
Cameron
Takahiko
Kubo
Bowman
Dagmar
Yee High School
Connally
Dagmer
Germany
United States
Takehiko
America
Kochi
Osaka
Jiro Kubo
Yukihiko
Yone
Takzahiko
St. Peter's Episcopal Church
Kwansei Gakuin
Lee Takahiko
Rockdale Rites For John Weed
John Michael Weed Sr. 75 died in Rockdale Monday night after a long career with the Sun Valley Lignite Mine and later as a special consultant to Alcoa. Funeral services at 2 p.m. Thursday at Phillips and Luckey Funeral Home with burial in Oak Lawn Cemetery. Weed, born August 5, 1890, in Del Rin, served in World War I and helped on the Panama Canal project. He moved to Rockdale in 1925 as mining engineer, chaired the local draft board in WWII, chaired the Democratic precinct, and led the Rockdale School Board. He was married to La Elizabeth Henning since 1919 and is survived by his wife, a son, a daughter, a brother, and two sisters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Michael Weed Sr
Rockdale
Sun Valley
Milam County
Phillips and Luckey Funeral Home
Oak Lawn
Weed
Aluminum Company of America
Alcoa
del Rin
la Elizabeth Henning
San Antonio
John Michael Weed Jr
Wood Blakemore Kyle
Austin
Thomas Judson Weed
Washington, D. C
Agnes Ellwood
Katherine Uhl
Snow Blankets Milam County Presses Roads Warm Up Slow
A 4.5 inch snowfall in Milam County lowered temps to 25 degrees and closed Cameron area schools including Milano Buckholts Maysfield Rosebud and Brandyville Recedale Gause and Thorndale. Patrolman Broadus said roads opened late Wednesday with caution urged after two minor weather related accidents. City water official Hefft noted a drop from 72 to 26 degrees as officials tracked temperatures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milam County
Leriuy Broadus
Cameron
Milano
Alvin Hefft
Historic Cameron home preserves era memory on East Seventh Street
The stately home at North Jackson and East Seventh Street, built in 1911 by Adams of a knit goods business, linked to the Rischar hospital history, later sold to Dr. Rischar and his sister Miss Rose Rischar, with family ties reaching Waco and San Antonio. The property changed hands to R. G. Lyon in 1929 before returning to Dr. Rischar’s line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Seventh St
P.O. Adams
Co! Cameron
North Jackson
Br. Rischar
Rischar Hospital
St. Edward's Hospital
Adams
Waco
Jack Adams
Lampasas
Elizabeth Adams
San Antonio
Louise Adams
George Adams
American Amicable Life Insurance Co
Arthur
R. G. Lyon
Dr. Rischar
Lyon
First and
Houston Sts
Irving's
Dept
Rischar
Symphony Tonight in Cameron Marks First Local Show
The Central Texas Symphony will perform March 7 at the National Guard Armory in Cameron as the first local appearance of a symphony orchestra. Led by Dr. James Luck the hour long program includes Peachtree Promenade Frescobaldi Kindler The Sound of Music and Symphony No 2 Giannini. Tickets cost 1 for adults 50 cents for children through Cameron Three Arts Club. Concertmaster Roy W Hedges and players from nine Central Texas towns participate with a 21 member string section and a full wind brass and percussion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Texas
Cameron
James Luck
National Guard Armory
Peachtree
Atlanta Suite
Don Gillis
Frescobaldi-Kindler
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Giannini
Cameron Three Arts Club
Robert Ellett
Cen-Tex Symphony Orchestra
Christy Clark
Linda Davis
Rockdale
Roy W. Hedges
Temple
Marshall Hall
Central
Texas
Methodists Begin Exterior Remodeling of First Methodist Church
The First Methodist Church announces a two to three year remodeling program to restore and waterproof the exterior. Rev. Richard Freeman says a priority list has been set by the Official Church Board and congregation ahead of the church anniversary in 172. A finance campaign is 50 percent complete as invitations go out this week. The current building dates to 1921.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Methods Church
Richard Freeman
Potor
Freeman
Council Meets Briefly Tuesday in City Session
City Secretary Buddy Fuller said the council met Tuesday evening in a brief session to approve bills and hear reports with no new business. He noted no new filings for the upcoming city election, while Mayor Bassel Wilson and Councilmen Lester Turner and R G Wells have filed for re election. Filing deadline for the April vote is midnight March 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buddy Fuller
Fuller
Bassel Wilson
Lester Turner
R. G. Wells
Milam County 1965 Taxes and Funds Detailed in Audit
Milam County’s 1965 ad valorem taxes totaled 278 306 15 with a 95 cent per hundred valuation on a 31 551 305 value. Funds included general 127 202 25 jury 5 757 59 courthouse 15 321 35 road and bridge 125 369 52 and a state and county rate of 1 37. District balances, warrants, and precinct entries are itemized with end balances totaling 305 829 42 plus sinking funds. State ad valorem remitted 106 225 49 and motor vehicle registrations 256 359 04 distributed to state, precincts, and tax collection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milam County
J. C. Andres
General Fund
Andres
R&b
Adolph Gresak
Lavert McKinney
Precinct III
Albert Timmerman, Sr
Precinct IV
Richard H. McCasland
Milam
Hetley
Texas Highway Dept
Also Mentioned on This Page
FML
CNN
Calvin Cobb
Rotary
Cameron Churches
Duncum
John Deere
John Weed
Priistine
Cameroun
Herall Files
John B. Henderson, Sr
Central Texas Symphony Board
Methodists
Milam Review
R&b Fund
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!