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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1947
Page
1
Texans urged to pay poll tax as required by law and constitution. The piece defends poll tax as essential to voting, warns against neglecting deadlines, and emphasizes duty to participate in elections despite off year cycles. It argues voting shapes liberties and taxes.
Census report shows Milam County farm income in 1945 at 5 066 075 from 3224 farms. Smaller farms generated most of the revenue, with 1014 earning 2500 to 4000 and 50 in the 10 000 bracket. No 1946 total yet but higher likely due to livestock prices.
Plans to return Milam County war dead from overseas will be discussed Tuesday night February 4 at 2 30 p m in Cameron at the court house. Col C D Castle U S Army quartermaster depot Fort Worth and Shag Floore will explain the plan and answer questions from all armed services. Joe Richter Edwin Hardy Post and Legion members will host Castle and Floore with further information issued by Emmett Streetman.
The report urges a complete and searching probe into pardons in Texas. It notes calls from officials and media for transparency and accountability within 20 days if possible, with emphasis on examining the pardon process and related criminal justice handling.
Boyce House known as the author of I Give You Texas and Tall Talk from Texas will speak to Cameron students in the school auditorium at 1 40 p m on Wednesday February 5. The talk will be broadcast on KTSA and KGKO with no lunch at the Rotary event.
Treasury official Shelby McDaniel toured Cameron meeting local leaders including War Loan director Judge Dan Tyson. He noted that by November 1, 1946 about 69 percent of E Bonds and over 50 percent of F and G series remain with original buyers, signaling strong savings as Americans purchased over seven hundred billion dollars in bonds in the past year.
A public meeting of Shens of Milam county is set for January 24 at 7 30 p m in the court room to discuss the Boy Scout program and line up a course of action for 1947. The public may attend and invite friends. J A Gaskin Scout Executive urges participation to clarify debate over the movement in Milam county.
The statement asserts the United States spends 25 million dollars yearly to maintain individuals in jail. It highlights the high per person cost and suggests ongoing fiscal burden of incarceration.
News reached Cameron of the death of Dr. Edgar Newton in Pine Bluff Arkansas where he served as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church He was born at Maysfield and later ran a Cameron grocery He also pastored churches at McGregor and Lufkin and served on the Official Board of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Austin Immediate survivors include his wife formerly Miss Bessie Rhodes of Bremond four brothers and two sisters with several nieces and nephews
Sam Perry will open Perry's Hardware and Furniture in Rockdale on Saturday February 1. The store in the Raymon building on North Main Street features hardware, furniture, electrical and home appliances. Perry, longtime Texas hardware figure and former manager of Peebles Hardware, has served in Milam County civic roles and chaired the War Price and Rationing Board during the war.
Col C D Castle and Shag Floore of Fort Worth met with Emmett Streeman 11th District Commander of the American Legion in Cameron Tuesday morning to discuss plans for the February 4 meeting at the Cameron Court House at 2 30 p m. They outlined the program to return bodies of war dead buried overseas and answered questions from next of kin. That evening they would address the Legion Post on the role of veterans organizations in the repatriation effort, inviting next of kin and the public.
Mrs. M. D. Hutchins of Scott City Kansas and her husband visit Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Boehner. Mrs. Hutchins fell ill with pneumonia and has been treated in a local hospital. She is recovering and expected to return home soon. Mrs. Hutchins is Mrs. Boehner’s sister.
The text argues that a Republican majority should cut government spending and review allocations like the $5.2 million for the Brazos River Transmission Electric Cooperative. It questions the need for government money to fund transmission coops amid private utilities' sufficient wartime and postwar power, urging a reassessment of federal subsidies and the socialization of power.
Lincoln M. Mondrik announces as Lone Star Beer distributor for Milam County in Cameron his return to business after wartime shipyard work in Port Arthur. He plans expanded Lone Star Beer volume and improved delivery service across his home region.
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