New Year Promises Modernization in Cameron Milam Area
The New Year 1969 is seen as a time of continued modernization in Cameron Milam County with school advancement and legislative influence expected. Readers are thanked for a year of change while traffic sprains the area as students return home for holidays and high volume highway travel is anticipated.
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Cameron-Milam
Milam County
Texas
The
Herald
W. H. Cooke
Austin
Bill
Leroy Broadus
71 Pint Goal For Bloodmobile Visit
Cameron aims for a 71 pint goal as flu weather and holidays tighten blood supplies. Seasonal accidents add to the drain on national blood banks amid a critical shortage and a Friday visit.
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Cameron
Bloodmobile visit to Cameron urged for holiday week
The Central Texas Red Cross Bloodmobile will be at Methodist Fellowship Hall in Cameron Friday from noon to 6 p.m. Cameron’s quota is 71 pints and 18 to 61 year olds are urged to donate. Sister Aloysius notes January 3 date could not be moved and winter illness lowers donor numbers while hospitals need blood.
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Central Texas Red Cross
Cameron
Methodist Fellowship Hall
Aloysius
Waco
Milam County Farm Income Shows 1968 Gain
Milam County's gross agricultural income for 1968 rose by about one million dollars from 1967. Crops yielded a $2 million gain versus 1961 while livestock income increased by $1.2 million. government payments totaled $2.54 million. Milam farmers face high costs and interest, with profits not keeping pace with rising input prices.
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Milam County
Cross Ag
J. D. Moore
Moore
Monday Rites For Mrs. John Mode
Mrs. John Mode 83 died early Saturday in a Temple hospital. Born March 7 1885 in Cameron she lived there all her life. Funeral at 2 p.m. at Marek Burns with Rev. Wirt Skinner officiating. Burial Oak Hill Cemetery. Survived by five sons two daughters one brother three sisters sixteen grandchildren and twelve great grandchildren.
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John Mode
Temple Hospital
Cameron
Marek-Burns Funeral Home
Wirt Skinner
Oak Hill Cemetery
J. R. Mode
Monterrey Park
Calif
Wilson Mode
Denver
Colo
Gerald Mode
la Grange
Clayton Mode
San Antonio
Gilbert C. Tindall
D. J. Ratten
Baytown
V.L. Luckett
W. L. Wilson
College Station
Beulah Miles
George Mode
Shaw Afb
W. V. Bryant
Edwards Will Head Milam MOD Drive
I L Edwards of Lone Star Gas Co named drive chairman for the 1969 Milam County March of Dimes. The kickoff coffee starts 7:30 p.m. Tuesday January 7 at The Texan Cafe with directors and workers to receive instructions and literature. Carroll Glaser heads Rockdale and South Milam County drives as part of the effort to fund birth defect programs.
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I. L. Edwards
Lone Star Gas Co
Milam County
Texan Cafe
Max McClaren
Milam Mod
Carroll Glaser
Rockdale
South
McClaren
March of Dimes
Quiet Christmas For 13 In Jail
Thirteen men spent Christmas in Milam County jail with sheriff Carl Black noting few visitors and a special dinner. Highlights include two Minneapolis inmates David Beckman 25 and Walter Phelps 28, held on $3,000 bond. Trial set for January 15. local ministers visited on Christmas Eve.
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Milam County
Milam
Carl Black
David William Beckman
Minneapolis
Walter Boyd Phelps
Rockdale
Black
Holiday period sees grass fires and barn blaze near Cameron
The Cameron area reported several grass fires during the holiday. Warren McCall of the Cameron fire department noted a Christmas Day blaze on a vacant lot at 1506 West 16th Street. Three grass-fire calls on December 27 included a dump-ground burn and a grass fire six miles out on SH 36 between Cameron and Buckholts, burning five to six acres of Bermuda pasture. A barn west of Buckholts burned with 250 bales of hay. High winds helped suppress the fires.
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Cameron
Warren McCall
West 16Th Street
SH 36
Buckholts
Bermuda
McCall
South Orchard Street
Temple Telegram Names All Con-Tex Football Team
Ronnie Richardson a 210 pound Yeoman tackle earned a first team berth on the 1968 Temple Telegram All Con-Tex squad. The selection came from Telegram sports staff and area coaches.
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Ronnie Richardson
Temple Telegram
Telegram Sports
Auto Makes Back Door In Garage In Yarrellton Crash
Ronnie Gen Rubac 19 and James Zelisky received minor injuries when Rubac's car failed to negotiate a sharp turn in Yarrellton. The 11:15 p.m. December 28 crash sent the vehicle into the back of the L. H. Solomon garage and dislodged a pickup, Floyd Mendoza escaped injury. Witnesses noted the car jumped a ditch and a low bush before impact.
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Rt. 1
Buckholts
James Zelisky
Rubac
Yarrellton
Leroy Broadus
Floyd Mendoza
Texas Districts Would Drop To 353 From 1218
Milam County would lose seven districts under COPSE plan to cut Texas districts from 1,218 to 383. Plan favors countywide or 2,600 ADA districts, with Milam ADA at 4,070. Local schools face redistricting, central high school formation, and shifts in Williamson, Falls and Bell counties.
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Milam County
Texas
Ada
H. D. Maxwell
Ada Maysfield
Buckholts
Cameron
Gause
Milano
Rockdale
Thorndale
State Board of Education
Copse
Austin
Maxwell
Milan County
Williamson County
Falls
Bell
Babson Cites 69 concerns as inflation and war loom
Babson cites war in Vietnam and inflation as top 1969 worries. The piece outlines Nixon’s incoming leadership, anticipated arms buildup, space race resumption, and continued price pressures. It notes a cautious approach to inflation and a slow anti inflation policy path for 1969.
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Babson
Nixon
U.S
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