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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1953
Page
2
A reader argues for a broad law offering $5,000 to any professional who stays in a small town five years, extending the idea beyond doctors to druggists, blacksmiths, bankers, teachers, and farmers. He notes shortage of services and humorously urges farmers also receive the grant to remain on their farms.
This court page lists marriages including Garland Cecie Ross with Charline Bell Griffin and Kenneth B. Sturdevant with Esther Fuhermann among several others. It also details oil, gas, and land lease transactions and property transfers in Rockdale Cameron Thorndale and surrounding areas with prices ranging from 1 to 10 thousand dollars.
A roster of new car and truck offerings includes J. W. Gaffin Oldsmobile four door J. M. Brock Pontiac four door Louise Smith Ford four door and more. Dealers Powers Calhoun Harris Lott Sims Jekel Hargrove Stanley Taylor Jackson Wied Sartor Slaughter Matula Cash Gro Voltin Bros Hines Wallace Elsie Tomasek Ward Kirk Hays Roepke Quig ley ALCOA and Dubois entries show Ford pickups trucks buses and two door models.
A government expert warned the Southwest faces its worst drought in history, straining half of Texas and most of Oklahoma as of March 1. Merrill of the Soil Conservation Service cited eight Texas reference points with long dry spells and noted 50 Texas and 25 Oklahoma counties lacking enough moisture to plant spring crops. He reported light rains since then offered meager relief and cited wheat conditions, cattle general health, and areas no longer on the critical list, while noting city water supplies like Dallas remain strained. Friends mourn the death of Dr. Walker’s grandmother in Memphis during the same period.
The fragment shows an editor publisher line for a paper established in 1860 and contains partial postal rates. It references Milton F. Brown Jr as editor and publisher and notes subscription costs and post office entry details.
Judge O. D. Graham served as presiding judge at a District Court session held Monday at Franklin on Tuesday in Bryan. He covered for Judge W. S. Barron who was presiding in Houston. The First Methodist church board of stewards plans its regular meeting next Thursday March 12.
Sherwood Cobb of Maysfield conducted business in Cameron on Wednesday, reflecting routine commercial activity in the region.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a fractional rise in the week ended March 3, with the wholesale price index up two tenths of one percent to 100.9 percent of 1947-49 prices. The note closes with a church Sunday attendance line.
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