Energy fuels youth events in Cameron Milam County
Cameron and Milam County push progress with tennis tours festivals and youth expos. The Youth Exposition Building Association plans a 12 000 square foot hall across from City Hall and a dirt floor national building. A Chamber committee weighs an auditorium at Exposition Hall but cites parking and school access issues.
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Cameron
Milam County
Youth Exposition Building Association
City Hall
Exposition Hall
Milam Arcans Rockdale restarts Potline No. 3 at Alcoa’s Rockdale Works
At Rockdale Works the Potline No 3 restart returns the nation’s largest aluminum smelter toward 92 percent capacity after 15 months idle. One line remains idle as production resumes amid prior oversupply while independent plants expand elsewhere.
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Alcoa
Rockdale Works
Amnesia Victim Returns From Baton Rouge After Missing
A Somerville man who vanished July 5 called family from Baton Rouge reporting he is in Jacksonville and cannot remember details of the trip. A statewide alert and family reward had been issued. The case ends with an unexpected return and memory gaps.
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Somerville
Baton Rouge
Jacksonville
Fla
Bank Robbery in Thorndale Prompted Multiagency Search
FBI Texas Rangers Milam County and Thorndale officials hunt two white men in ski masks and khaki coveralls who robbed the Thorndale State Bank at about 9:25 a.m. They escaped through the back door with a nominal sum. Bank President Norman Clement did not reveal the amount. Only customer present was Milam County constable Purl Paris and his wife.
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FBI
Texas Rangers
Milam County
Thorndale
Thorndale State
Norman Clement
Nelson Clement
Purl Paris
Milam County Farm Bureau Queen Contest Set for July 24
Five Milam County girls vie for the Farm Bureau Queen title at 8 p.m. Saturday in Cameron. Contestants’ parents list includes Thorndale Buckholts and Cameron families. Winner advances to district, then state pageants. The article also recalls a Paris bank holdup involving a time-locked safe and seven people held in a vault, later released.
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Milam County
Farm Bureau
Methodist Fellowship Hall
Cameron
Texas
Lynne Falke
Edwin Falke
Thorndale
Pam Haisler
Paris
Clement
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hines Named New Precinct 4 Commissioner
Curtis Hines, a 25 year veteran machine operator from Thorndale, was appointed by County Judge O B Harden to fill Precinct 4 after Dalton Caffey’s resignation. Harden said Hines, in his 60s, is familiar with the precinct and was named at a Thursday meeting amid Democratic certification for the November ballot. The court also discussed roof repair for the old county jail, two hydrological gauges for Shell Oil Co mining study, sheriff dispatch status, a $200 MAST emergency service assessment, and a petition to close a disputed county road.
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Thorndale
Curtis Hines
O. B. Harden
Dalton Caffey
Hines
Harden
Davilla, Sharp
County Historical Association
Howard Buchanan
Neil Isto
Shell Oil
Killeen
Milam
Wet July drenches county crops and lawns with heavy rains
July rain totals reach 6.69 inches in the city gauge, lifting the yearly total to 28.51 inches as humidity and storms pummel crops. County Agent Bill McCutchen warns grain sorghum and cotton suffer. leaf spot hits peanuts and armyworms invade Bermuda grass lawns. April leads rainfall for the year at 10.23 inches.
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Bill McCutchen
McCutchen
Mother Nature
City sales tax refunds list by Texas towns
Cameron reports 2 952 87 from June sales tax share. Hearne leads with 4 405 92 refund. Rockdale 1 912 89 Somerville 683 34 Caldwell 2 366 98 Calvert 627 49 Buckholts Rogers no refund. Milam County gross sales 16 558 457 with taxable base 11 065 053.
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Cameron
Hearne
Rockdale
Somerville
Caldwell
Calvert
Buckholts
Rogers
Texas
Milam
Robbery and rape reported at Milam Motel Cameron
A Cameron motel clerk, 18, reported a robbery and rape at gunpoint between 12 30 and 1 am Thursday at the Milam Motel on Highway 36. The suspect, about six feet tall and black, fled after taking about $200. The victim was treated at a local hospital.
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Milam
Highway
Cameron
Kent Butler
Grand Jury Indicts Twelve In July Session
The Milam Grand Jury met on a Wednesday and issued 12 indictments. Charged offenses include forgery rape aggravated robbery burglary theft felonious assault and aggravated rape. Defendants named include Gregory P. Rye Billy Joe Batten Lonnie A Romine Roy Eugene Freeman Annette Stanford Refugio C Banda Johnny Banda William Floyd Tucker Mario Vargas Andrew Bailey Dennis Fewell and Rickie Halpain.
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Milam Grand Jury
Gregory P. Rye
Billy Joe Batten
Lonnie A. Romine
Roy Eugene Freeman
Annette Stanford
Refugio C. Banda
Johnny Banda
William Floyd Tucker
Mario Vargas
Andrew Bailey
Dennis Fewell
Rickie Halpain
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Burleson County Commissioners’ Court
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Georgetown Area
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Farmland Industries
Ann Richardson
Carole Morris
Eleanor Svetlik
New Pot
Bugs County
Milam Motel
Grand Jury
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