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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1965
Page
1
A reader note from The Herald dated December 31, 1964 jokes about finding the missing "r" in a personal message. It references Dr. E. O. Smith Jr and visits in Virginia, plus a pun about a drunken man and a horse shoe anecdote ending with a funeral notice for tomorrow at 3 p.m.
Narvie L. Caperton was installed Acting Postmaster of Cameron in a public ceremony at 11 am Monday January 4 at the Methodist Fellowship Hall. Debs Hensley administered the oath. Caperton succeeds John Hays who retired after 30 years in Cameron. Caperton returns to Cameron after two years assisting Congressman Poage in Washington and has long served as rural carrier and local store owner.
Dr. A B Templeton president of Sam Houston State Teachers College will speak at the Milan County Teachers Association meeting in Milano at 7 30 p m January 11 The talk titled New Outlook in Education will cover Governor Plan to Upgrade Education and President Economic Opportunity in Education. Officers for the new year and District X delegates will be elected. Public invited.
City poll taxes sales lag with 176 paid to date versus 236 last year. Deadline to pay is January 31. Voters must settle city and county poll taxes to vote in the spring city election. Three council seats open: E. L. Wied, Starrett Hickman, and Jimmy Marek.
Milam County's oldest known citizen Mrs. Reyes Huerta marked her 118th birthday on January 6 at her Cameron home. Surrounded by family including daughter Mrs. Ramairaz and many descendants, she enjoyed gifts, cards, and a 3 p.m. cake. Born January 6, 1847 in Mexico, she has kept active, loves cold baths, and attends St. Sacramento Church, with a long lineage and history in Cameron since 1913.
The Yoe Booster Club will honor gridmen at the annual Football Banquet Thursday January 21 at 7 p.m. in the Guest speaker will be Buddy Dial former all American from Rice University and current Dallas Cowboys end. Three nominees for Football Sweetheart are LaNell Darby Sharon Darby and Becky Graham with the winner announced at the event. Tickets go on sale Monday January 11 priced at 1.50 from Yoe football players.
Alice Marie Rangel became Cameron’s first birth of 1965. She arrived at 6:25 am January 2 at St. Edward Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Simon Rangel of 1711 West Main.
Cameron residents may submit questions for a panel of School Board members at the PTA meeting at 7 30 p m January 7 in the Ben Milam Cafetorium. Question boxes are at Safeway Mondriks Minimax and Matulas. questions should be signed but names not used.
Milam County Farmers Union will meet Tuesday January 12 at Buckholts School to study the farm price situation. Charles Srensley reports a panel of ten Milam and Falls County farmers will share notes from talks with U S Representative W R Poage of Waco about farm price policy and proposed legislation. Plans will be made to protest the $5 per bale cut in cotton price supports for 1965, with 1964 cuts totaling about $17 per bale and a Milam County loss near $285000 annually.
Milam County Young Farmers plan a Livestock and Forage meeting at 7 30 p m Tuesday Jan 12 in Cameron Vocational Agricultural Building. Guest speaker A A Melton associate animal husbandman at the Livestock and Forage Research Center McGregor says the program should interest cattlemen and all livestock producers.
Yoe Booster Club members plan to attend the 17-AA district basketball opener as Cameron Yeomen host Caldwell. The B team starts at 6 30 p.m. followed by the varsity game. Albert MccCullin Jr. leads the club as president.
Fifteen district and county officials were sworn in Friday January 1 in Milam District Court. County Clerk Wayne Weiser administered the oath as new officers William D. Sheppard Adolph Gresak Albert Timmerman Sr. took office. Re-elected officials W C Wallace Carl Black Walter White John B Henderson Jr renewed their oaths. Johnny Andres also renewed for an appointed term.
The Milam County Grand Jury for the November 1964 term met in a recalled session on Thursday December 31 and returned five indictments. Four Austin men Vernon Crelia Billy Joe Turner Gayle Chandler and John B Locke face two burglary charges each from October 29 1964. Jess Alford of Rockdale is indicted for a felony theft on December 20 1964.
Sheriff Ray Stevens said the Alabama Supreme Court is reviewing the papers of Gerald Eaton Buckholts and John Lokos Minnesota, two of four men sentenced to death for the December 1963 murder. The court may take eight to nine months for a decision with each appeal totaling about 980 pages. The four men, Eaton Lokos Edwards Randlett and Coon College City, have been in Alabama death cells since last February after a Sumpter County jury conviction for the Buckholts murder.
A head on crash on U S 77 about 14 miles north of Cameron last Wednesday involved a 1959 Cadillac driven by Jolene Wied and a 1949 pickup towing a jeep. All three occupants were treated. Wied suffered head lacerations and a concussion, Foster escaped injuries, and Cooper was released after minor cuts.
City figures show twelve new homes erected in 1964 at a cost of 108000 while the total permits reached 215286, down from 267910 in 1963. New businesses and expansions rose to 76450 with 29836 in additions, while remodeling totals increased by 6301. A convent for St Edward’s Sisters and hospital expansion began construction by Matula Construction for completion in 1965.
Milam County tax collector Walter White says poll tax collections lag behind prior years with only 600 paid versus about 3,000 expected. Rockdale and Thorndale will report January 3. New 1965 car licenses with three letters and three numbers go on sale February 1 after proof of titles and last year’s registration slips.
The Court of Criminal Appeals in Austin will hear the Oscar Cook murder appeal on Wednesday January 20. Milam County and Falls County attorneys Tom Bartlett and John Henderson Jr. will travel to Austin for oral arguments on Cook's death penalty conviction. Cook, 25, of Rogers was sentenced to death for killing his mother-in-law Mrs Dan Crow.
The Milam County Unit of the American Cancer Society Executive Board will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday January 11 at First Presbyterian Church in Rockdale, as announced by publicity chairman Pat Hillegeist.
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