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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1950
Page
2
Legislative leaders disclosed that Texans should expect the worst to come as the first special session ends. Lawmakers in the 1951 session face financing a $22 million omnibus tax hike plus a $7.5 million annual penny tax on cigarettes to fund hospital improvements, with calls for further increases depending on oil output.
Superintendent and Mrs. W. T. Hanes travel by special train to Atlantic City for the AASA convention from February 25 to March 2. The event draws about 1200 school administrators with notable speakers, exhibits, and entertainments including Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians.
A community TB control program invites residents to chest X rays from March 17 to 25 in Cameron. The unit at Hefley Stedman Motor Co showroom, 211 North Houston, requires no clothing change and costs nothing. Health Department and Milam Medical Society sponsor the event to educate on TB transmission and early treatment.
Frank Brock Jr has accepted a position with the Santa Fe Railroad Company in Talpa indicating a new career move within the transportation sector.
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station tests with 4 226 4 H and Adult demonstrators show corn yields rise 20 to 50 percent with adapted hybrids. Extension Agronomist E A Miller cites average 7.5 extra bushels per acre and 9 727 500 extra bushels statewide, urging wider hybrid use.
Mr and Mrs T J White and their three sons from Houston spent Sunday visiting relatives in Cameron and Burlington, sharing time with family and friends.
Mrs. Dorothea Pritchett, field representative for the Texas State Department of Public Welfare in Austin, traveled to Cameron on departmental business Monday of this week.
Mr and Mrs BE L Kahler and Mr and Mrs V A Kubecka attend the funeral of Joseph Osoba in Austin. Vernon McIntyre Keith Morrow and son visit sister Miss Aetna Smith who is ill in Alpine. Griffin T Burnett of Beaumont visits parents Theo and Griffin Burnett in Cameron and other relatives.
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