Caledonia visit caps famed baseball star Homer Peel career
Homer Peel, once an outfield sensation for the Cameron Comets and a Texas and National League figure, now serves as Chief Specialist Athletic Director in New Caledonia. He has met Admiral Halsey, trained Navy baseball, and played for the Cardinals Red Sox and Giants, later managing Fort Worth and Shreveport clubs.
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Homer Peel
Cameron Comet
Texas
New Caledonia
Peel
Admiral Halsey
Yee High School
Yeemen
Wm. R. Rogers
Houston
St. Louis Cardinals
Boston Red Sox
New York Giants
Joe Moore
Port Sullivan
J. Archie Peel
Ennis
Allies Near Rome After Breakthroughs Across Italian Front
Allied forces in Italy drove to within two and a half miles of the Via Casilina as Artena Ceprano Belmonte fell and Velletri near Rome was probed. The German defense, including the Hermann Goering division, was pressured to keep the escape route open while main thrusts pressed from Anzio toward the coast.
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Italy
Via
Casilina
Rome
Artena
Ceprano
Belmonte
Fifth Army
Velletri
Anzio
Via Casilina
Hermann Goering
Florence
Valmontone
Liri
Nortan
Cassino
Engineers to Select Locker Plant Site in Cameron
Reports indicate the required number of lockers for the Cameron locker plant will be reserved within a day or two. Engineers will be in Cameron Tuesday to choose the site and begin initial construction planning while residents rush to secure lockers. Miss Jerry Baker returned home from Newton Memorial Hospital after injuries from a Friday night automobile crash.
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Cameron
Jerry Baker
Newton Memorial Hospital
Local Births, Visits, and Community Notes in Cameron Area
A son named David Carrol Hudson weighing 7 12 pounds was born Sunday May 28 1944 at Cameron Hospital to Mr and Mrs C W Hudson. The Hudsons also have son Ronald aged 11. District 8 4 H meetings were planned with Dorothy Porter and Lucille Cook attending in Marlin. Plans for a two day 4 H club meeting at Buchanan Dam in June were discussed. Mrs Will Ledbetter visiting Cameron left via Dallas to Arizona to see relatives and her elderly mother on the farm. George K Clement Jr graduates from Washington Lee High School in 1944. Pearl Clement travels to Washington DC for the exercises. Mr and Mrs John House and Mr and Mrs James Bishup with families visited Cameron from Fort Worth and Temple. Mrs Noriie Tyson returns home improved from Bryan Hospital where she underwent an operation and stays with her parents as her husband serves overseas. Mr and Mrs Homer Chambers and son of Grand Prairie visited Mrs M A Chambers. Luther Reese and daughter La Verne of Odessa visit H B Mc Clellens. Miss Mary Petry of J C Penney Co returned from Newton Memorial Hospital after illness.
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David Carrol
C. W. Hudson
Cameron Hospital
Dorothy Porter
Lucille Cook
Marlin
Buchanan Dam
Will Ledbetter
Tom Denson
Dallas
Arizona
Ledbetter
Cameron
Washington Lee High School
Geo. K. Clement, Jr
George
Milam County
George Clement, Sr
Pearl Clement
Washington, D. C
Finshes
Clement
Noriie Tyson
Bryan
Tyson
B. F. Sprodies
Parma Radio Service repairs any make or model
Senora Lorenz of Ben Arnold visited Cameron Wednesday on business. Frank Wiggs Jr and wife ended a visit to Morrilton Arkansas to see his parents. Wiggs, an aerial engineer, is stationed at Hamilton Field near San Francisco. Mrs Wiggs returned to Cameron for her position at Citizens National Bank.
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Pfe
Frank Wiggs, Jr
Morrilton
Ark
Frank Wiggs
Wiggs
Hamilton Feild
Calif
San Francisco
Cameron
Citizens National Bank
California
FFA Champs Defeated by Shirley's Gas Boys
The FFA Champs lost 16 to 3 to Shirley's Gas Boys Friday night at Yee High School Athletic Field. Holloway Hanes and McLerran starred for the Champs while Whitley Short and Clark led the Gas Boys. Hawkins and Clare homered. next week’s game time is un uncertain.
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FFA
Shirley
Yee High School
Holloway
Hanes
McLerran
Whitley
Short
Clark
Hawkins
Clare
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Phillip Reimer
Elm Ridge
du Pont
Lumber Stores
A. E. Matula
J. O. Mitchell
Buckholts
Parma Radio Service
John House
Fort Worth
James Bishup
Temple
Homer Chambers
Grand Prairie
M. A. Chambers
Luther Reese
la Verne
Odessa
H. B. McClellen
Mary Petry
J.C. Penney Co
Senora Lorenz
Ben Arnold
Marshall Terry
Yarrellton
Cameron Monday
Toe Dana
Clayton, Reba, Clara and
Marylyn Devens
Harriett Weems
Gertie Ray Fikes
Waco
Duane Carlton
Shirley'e Gas Boys
Wallace
Attorneys AT Law
First National Bank
Cameron, Texas
Studebaker
Frank M. Durrance
Orlando
Florida
Michalka Motor Company
South Travis
Safe Deposit Boxes
Chattle
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