Three Places I’ve Walked Climbed and Ridden in My Life
The author recalls teen days visiting Billy Sunday Tabernacle in Winona Lake Indiana and Billy Graham crusades in the 1950s. He also notes climbs at the Washington Monument and Haight Street in San Francisco in 1967, contrasting religious gatherings with counterculture eras.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Sunday Tabernacle
Winona Lake
Indiana
Billy Graham
Midwest
Washington Monument
San Jacinto
Houston
Haight Street
Haight-Ashbury
San Francisco
Billy Sunday
Fragmented Imagery of Climb and Walk to Inspiration
The passage uses numbered age phrases to describe a sequence of experiences from a 550-foot climb to national inspiration. It weaves a fortyish climb to inspiration a fiftyish bike ride a stage of clerical inspiration a sixtyish walk down a Street of exasperation and seventyish responses to sacrilege and miscalculation.
Cameron Relays Set at Yoe High Saturday
The 38th Cameron Relays will be held Saturday March 17 with 20 schools from Class A to Class AAA. Field event preliminaries at 11 a.m and running event preliminaries at 12 noon followed by a 5 p.m. coaches barbecue and finals at 7 p.m. Trophies awarded for first place, high point, 440 and mile relays. five girls teams run 440 and 880 relays. Competitors include Brenham A&M Consolidated La Grange Bellville Hearne Mexia Rockdale Lockhart Taylor Copperas Cove Gatesville Lampasas Stephen F Austin Cameron La Vega Marlin Giddings Georgetown.
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Cameron
Yoe
Ed Cauley
Brenham
A&m Consolidated
la Grange
Bellville
Hearne
Mexia
Rockdale
Lockhart
Taylor
Copperas Cove
Gatesville
Lampasas
Stephen F. Austin
Bryan
Calvert, Cameron
la Vega
Marlin, Giddings
Georgetown
Petitions Urge Amtrak Route Restore Texas Chief Stay
petitions circulate across Cameron and surrounding towns urging Amtrak to keep the Fort Worth to Houston Texas Chief route via Cleburne McGregor Temple Brenham arguing the current path serves 350000 more people than the proposed Gainesville Dallas Fort Worth route. the effort runs through post offices banks and stores with a collected deadline of april 15. also notes air force caption hoffson a cameron native and former pow in hanoi among 108 released and residents recall his ties to cameron and nearby families. the yee high school lily day fundraiser for crippled children set for march 24 with students selling lilies downtown to support texas rehabilitation services.
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Amtrak Board of Directors
Fort Worth
Houston
Cameron
Cleburne
McGregor
Temple
Brenham
Amtrak
Gainesville
Dallas
Corsicana
Groesbeck
Bryan
McGregor, Temple, Brenham
Dallas- Fort Worth- Cleburne - McGregor - Temple Brenham - Houston
Fort Worth - Temple
Texas Chief
Inter-American
Air Force
Arthur
Tommy’’ Hoffson
Washington, D. C
Hanoi
Hoffson
William Elmo Powell
Gatesville
Powell
J. H. Thomas
Emma McDermott
Elaine Thomas Hoffson
Washington
Yee National Honor Society
League of Families of Pow’s
MIA
Yee High
Texas
Ed Cauley
Yee High School
Alcoa Reports Record Aluminum Shipments and Profit
Alcoa posted a record 1,650,000 tons of aluminum products sold in 1972 with revenues of 1.75 billion and net income of 102.8 million. The company highlighted strong demand in automotive, construction, packaging, and LNG markets, ongoing capacity expansion, and a new low-cost, clean electrolytic smelting process under patent, with 1973 capex planned at 31 million for environmental controls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Aluminum Company of America
United States
John D. Harper
W. H. Krome George
Alcoa
Texas
Rockdale
Point Comfort
Gulf Coast
Harper and
George
Tenn
Alcoa Technical Center
Warrick
Indiana
Fume Control
Fume
Harper and George
Milam County Sets Tax Value and Approves County Actions
Milam County Commissioners in regular session set personal property tax valuations equal to last year and granted a petition to adjust a property survey for tax purposes. The bond for public weigher O P Organ was approved and bids for six months of county supplies were authorized with bids opening April 9. A policy shift directs public access to court minutes via the County Clerk, removing mailed copies to news outlets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milam County
W. T. White
O. P. Organ
LaVert McKinney
Commissioners Courts
Humble Named Director of Citizens National Bank
Don Humble Cameron attorney was named to the Citizens National Bank board at the annual shareholders meeting. Also re-elected were Oxsheer Smith Goodhue Smith Jr John H Davis Niley Smith and Niley J Smith. Humble, Milam County native and Baylor Law School graduate, has practiced in Cameron since 1950. He heads the Milam County School Board and serves on the Cameron Industrial Foundation and other civic bodies. The year ended in a bank record with deposits up over 1.2 million dollars. William E Kelm promoted to vice president and trust officer after 15 years with the bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Humble
Cameron
Citizens National Bank
Oxsheer Smith
Goodhue Smith Jr
John H. Davis
Niley Smith
Niley J. Smith Humble
Milam County
Baylor University Law School
Cameron Industrial Foundation
Cameron Chamber of Commerce
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Cameron Volunteer Fire Department
Goodhut Smith
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F.M.L
Capt. Horrison
Cameron Urban Renewal Office
Alcoa Building Industries
Humble
Citizens National
William E. Kelm
Kelm
Bank
Trust Department
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