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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1949
Page
21
A quirky Oklahoma item notes one vote decided an election in the Overturf School District near Nowata, where R N Angus cast the solitary vote against selling the abandoned school. The blizzard of oddities includes a Fort Worth dog that ferries strays home, a Ada man winning a car after finding a dollar, and a four eyed kitten in Ponca City.
State engineers confirm the geographical center of Texas about 20 miles north of Brady. The hub lies on the White Ranch in McCulloch county, marked by a limestone rock formation five miles west of Mercury and 6% miles southwest of Winchell. Earlier centers at Center City and Lampasas are noted. Gulf Coast tidelands disputes may affect the center.
Oman Yale, a Bible college student at Phillips University Enid Oklahoma, serves as a weekend preacher flying his Ercoupe from Enid to Hoxie Kansas each Saturday afternoon. He also carries another Phillips student to a Kansas church before returning to Hoxie.
J. H. Bassett, longtime Miami News-Herald circulation director, retires in Afton at 81 after 19 years with the paper. He began in 1930 and, before a 1947 stroke, usually accompanied younger carriers on routes, with an estimated 40,000 miles walked.
Richard Miller of Garland Texas, born without arms or legs, runs a recording company with his father as business manager. He sings hillbilly songs learned from radio, appears on radio and stage, and uses a cheek press to write. Square dancers from Texas and Oklahoma prep to travel to Venice Italy for the first International Folk Musician Festival September 7 to 11, with Mrs Lillie Lee Baker of Austin directing and leading Southwest dancers as festival chairman.
Lew Wentz, a prominent Oklahoma oil man and longtime Republican party leader, died recently at his Ponca City apartment. The bachelor, about 68, hid his age, and used his wealth for various philanthropies.
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