Cameron City Council okays annexation and raises city salaries
Cameron officials moved to extend city boundaries by annexing the home of acting City Attorney Bill Black and set his monthly salary at 150 dollars. City Judge Baskin received 100 dollars monthly. A 20 mile school zone was created and sewer connections required within 100 feet of lines. A Peeping Tom ordinance passed amid other health and fire safety measures.
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Cameron
Lincoln Mondick
Roy Griffith
Bill Black
Baskin
David Sharpiro
R. G. Grabein
John Bryson
Board of Equalization
John Hays
George McGehee
Dan Gunn
Killeen
Carl Black
Buckholts FFA Deep Sea Fishermen Earn 75b Catch
Buckholts FFA members completed two three day encampments at Lake Granite Shoals near Marble Falls. The group, led by new officers, reported a 75 pound catch of fish and 25 pounds of red snapper plus king fish from a 40 mile Gulf voyage aboard the Big M.
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FFA
Buckholts F.F.A
Lake Granite Shoals Recreation
Marble Falls
Albert Abel
Dwayne Orsag
Howard C. van Gonten
Glenn Hutka
Charles Hund
Joe Zajicek
Bo Titsworth
Edwin Fischer
Louis DeWald
Carl von Gonten
Jack Ruzicka
Antone Svetlik
Frank Tomasek
C. Titsworth
C. R. Criswell
Joe Glaser
Sailors and Bees Lead Vacation Bible School Floats
More than 200 youngsters opened the First Baptist Church Vacation Bible School with a parade of floats and a review by Cameron Herald judges. The primary float Sailing Along to Vacation Bible School won for originality, the junior float Its In The Bag placed second, and the beginner float Bee In VBS impressed the judges.
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Vacation Bible
First Baptist Church
Cameron Herald
Vacation Bible School
Knights Of Pythias Confer Page Rank On Two Members
The Knights of Pythias Milam Lodge 125 conferred the rank of Page on Reverend P. L. Caperton of Cameron and Norman Lee of Minerva at a Monday meeting. Next Monday two more candidates will receive the rank and officer nominations will open. G. A. Rankin is Chancellor-Com.
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Knights of Pythias
Milam Lodge
Page
P. L. Caperton
Cameron
Norman Lee
Minerva
G. A. Rankin
Milam H. D. Counsil Plans Attendance At July Media Meet
Milam County Home Demonstration Club Council met May 28 at the Christian Church Annex Rockdale. The gathering led by the council chairman included five committee chairmen seven club presidents and seven council delegates with 1 lady present. Plans were made for Milam County ladies to attend County Camp at Ft Parker Mexia July 18 and 19.
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Milam County
Burglary Probe Ongoing After Santa Fe Auto Theft
Cameron Police pursue leads in a Santa Fe town theft of about $100 in clothes from an Abilene visitor’s car parked outside a cafe. Mrs. Claudia Hill reported the loss as police review lingering suspects. Also noted: a juvenile confessed to bread truck theft, one Latin American faces an $80 DWI and six month license suspension, a rollover case yields reckless driving and license issues, and city court fines total $451.50. Eleanor Weinfeld and Bennie Ray join a New York family reunion after leaving Waco by train.
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Cameron
Santa Fe
Claudia Hill
Abilene
West Sixth St
George Green
Dolan
Eleanor Weinfeld
Bennie Ray
Waco
New York
Summer Recreation Program Outlined For White Youth
A meeting at Yee High Field outlines a summer program for white youth with adults invited to help. The plan lists daily activities from June 11 to 15 including miniature golf softball tennis bowling golf bowling and archery, with additional free play and various age groups at Yee Gym Yee Athletic Field and KC facilities.
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Yee High Field
O. J Thomas School
Jackson
Ann Hinyard
K. C
K. C. Hall
Yee
K.C. Hall
New
K. C. Golf Greens
Eastern Star installs Worthy Matron and Patron
Mr and Mrs Theodore R Allen were installed as worthy matron and worthy patron of Cameron Chapter No 553 in a traditional open ceremony at the Masonic hall. Pink glass decor festoons and white satin accents framed the hall as officers wore white lace or nylon gowns and carried pink rosebud nose-gays.
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Theodore R. Allen
Cameron Chapter No
Masonic Hall
Star Point
Arlene Bonds
Hattie Wallace
Carrie Lee
Cubbing Seminar For Cub Scout Leaders Staged
Ed Laywell Tejas Training Chairman announces a series of information seminars for Cubmasters assistant Cubmasters pack committee members and den mothers. Sessions run June 12 14 16 and 19 at Rosebud Methodist and Cameron Presbyterian churches with times listed.
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Rosebud Methodist Church
Cameron Presbyterian Church
Ed Laywell Tejas
Gause-Hanover Residents to Meet Austin Road Plan
A Gause and Hanover delegation plus EA Perrin and County Judge Charlie Smith will appear before the Highway Commission in Austin on June 21 at 10 a.m. to push a road linking Gause with the county seat via Hanover. The group, invited by Dixie Walker, includes farmers merchants and local officials who say the road would boost local commerce by allowing area producers to trade within the county.
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Gause
Hanover
EA. Perrin
Charlie Smith
Highway Commission
Austin
Dixie Walker
Frank Shafer
Joe Robinson
Bill Gause
G. R. Warner
Clyde Wilson
Syd Cunningham
D. B. Rains
Juanita Thomas
W. L. Ditto
J. T. Todd
Joe Moore
J. A. Ely
Walker
Hearne
Seventy-Eight Yoe Freshmen Receive Diplomas in Promotion Exercises
Seventy eight students at Yoe High School received diplomas during promotion exercises in the High School Gym. The event opened with a prayer by Jimmy Camp and included remarks by Principal Wiley Loughmiller, a Citizenship award to Joyce Hannon and Edwin Adams, perfect attendance acknowledgments, and diplomas conferred by Superintendent W. T. Hanes.
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Jimmy Camp
Wiley Loughmiller
Gunn
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Nancy Buchanan
Shiloh
Wayne Mann
Hardy American Legion Post
Joyce Hannon
Edwin Adams
Bobby Foster
Darlene Moore
W. T. Hanes
Mark Perrin
Rebecca Terry
Sandra Smith
Bernay Dusek
Gloria Miller
Eileen Jacks
Mary Amaya
Patricia Bailey
Griffin Barrett
Maxine Bell
Della Bickett
Jerold Bowen
Mary Edna Bowley
Ronald Brashear
Burton Bryson
Betty Butler
Kenneth Caldwell
James Camp
Dorene Chollett
Ann Clements
Frank Corona
Wesley Crouch
Sue Crow
Charles Davis
Frank Joseph Dink
Evelyn Dohbnalik
Mary Alice Duncum
Stanley Fisher
James Fontaine
Robert Foster
Barbara
Former Rockdale Homecoming Urges Old Residents Back
Mrs Maude A Crane and Mrs C M Sessions urge former Rockdale residents to attend the Rockdale Homecoming this Sunday June 10. Baptist Bible School sets enrolment record at First Baptist Church with 201 enrollments on Tuesday marking a new first day record.
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Rockdale
Maude A. Crane
C. M. Sessions
Homecoming Association
Texas Methodist Youth Assembly At Lakeview June 11
Youth officers and adult workers from Texas Methodist churches will gather at Lakeview Methodist Assembly near Palestine from June 11 to 16 for the Senior Officers Assembly. Leadership training and spiritual enrichment are the aims under the Board of Education. delegates must be year 1956 57 officers with service plans for the following year.
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Lakeview
Texas Methodist Confession
Auspicence Board of Education
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Woman's Society of Christian Service
Mrs McCord Recovering From Surgery At John Sealy
Mrs B M McCord reports her mother is recovering from surgery at John Sealy Hospital. She was visited by B M McCord on Sunday and by Flo Pawelka and Norbert Mikulec on Saturday. The Pawelkas and family hosted guests in Clute Texas.
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B. M. McCord
Mrs Amy Ford Tops Milam County Lady Golfer
Cameron golfer Mrs Amy Ford won the Champion's Cup on May 29 at Cameron Country Club to become Milam County's top lady golfer. She edged Ann Ruth Denson in the finals by two holes after leading by seven holes after the first eighteen.
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Amy Ford
Cameron
Milam County
Cameron Country Club
Ford
Ann Ruth Denson
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