Milam Democratic Exec Committee draws for May ballot
Milam County Democratic Executive Committee met Monday to draw for places on the May 2 primary ballot and appoint a ballot committee. Contested county races listed include Precinct 4 Commissioner and other county offices with their top two choices. A Cameron tour of Hensley Russell Inc. showcased a new five acre plant on the Waco Highway employing 88 women and two men, producing 6,000 dresses a week for brands like Joni J and sales to Sears, Montgomery Ward, and J. C. Penney. expansion plans hinge on sales, with potential mid-summer staff growth to 125-150 operators.
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Milam County
Democratic Executive Committee
Morris Coward
Max McClaren
Ruby Areledge
Dora McCasland
Charles F. Becker
Dalton Caffey
Democratic Committee
Bassel Wilson
Ge R. (Roy) Law
Rock
John M. Wied, Jr
Harold Love
United States
Lloyd Bentsen
Ralph W. Yarborough
Preston Smith
Ben
Selester of
Herwley ~ Russell, Inc
Cameron
Waco Highway
Clyde Hensley
Charles Wickersham
Dallas
Hensley
Sill Lauer
Debuque
Iowa
Shelby Walker
Jackson
Miss
Dee Holiday
San Francisco
Ted Buechele
Chicago
Mike Rodriguez
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Jack McKee
Billings
Mont
Lester Shanks
Sedalia
Larry Vance
Russ Blair
Ted Wiggenhorn
Los Angeles
Calif
Highway 77
Hensley - Russell, Inc
Cameron’s
Industrial Foundation
Hensley - Russell, Inc. Childrens
Sears Roe
Wickersham
Thankful readers join semi weekly Herald readership
A long list of readers from Cameron Buckholts Ben Arnold Burlington Rockdale Temple Texas City Pasadena Waxahachie Dallas Houston Shreveport and California join the Herald. The note reflects on state press leadership in politics schools and controversy as Mart Borger Hamilton Waco Temple and other towns receive daily and community coverage. The piece praises the local newspaper as a staple medium from small weekly to large metro daily with lasting presence.
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Michael Mueck
Texas City
G. C. Barmore
Pasadena
Wayne Baggerly
Waxahachie
Rex B. Jones
Lockney
Grady H. Almon
Dallas
eJohn D. Lewis, Jr
W. F. Pearson
Houston
James Kerasopoulos
Shreveport
Wol Caldwell
Floyd D. Wagner
California
Mart
Borger
Hamilton
Waco
Temple
the Valley
San Angelo
Daily
Community Press
Texas
NFO Meeting Set With George Johnson Cotton Price Talk
National Farmers Organization invites members and interested persons to a 7 30 p m meeting on Thursday March 26 at Seaton Star Hall George Johnson will speak on higher cotton prices with NFO
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NFO
National Farmers Organization
Seaton Star Hall
George Johnson
Churches Plan Easter Services in Cameron Area
Easter services are announced for Cameron and surrounding churches with events from Thursday through Sunday. The Cameron Area Ministerial Alliance sponsors Good Friday and Saturday services, sunrise services occur at Yee Field and Sugar Loaf, and several churches including St. Monica's and Buckholts Evangelical Brethren plan masses and sunrise gatherings. Coffee and donuts follow at the First Baptist Church site after Milano area services.
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Cameron
Cameron Area
Yee Field
James Lafferty
First Baptist Church
St. Monica's Catholic Church
Loaf Mountain
Sugar Loaf
Evangelical Brethren Church
Buckholts
Milano
Firet Baptist Church
Roaring Flames Levels Building in Cameron
Cameron Volunteer Firemen answered three calls Monday and were recalled Tuesday after a large derelict building on 1300 block of N. Travis Street burned in roaring flames drawing hundreds. A second nearby house briefly burned then quickly quelled, with no occupants present. Officials offered no cause.
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Cameron
Emancipation Street
Ebony Club
N. Travis Street
N. Travis St
North Travis St
Cameron Post Office Accepts Mail For Strike Area
Cameron Post Office now accepts first class mail for New Jersey Connecticut and New York City while second third and fourth class mail is held due to a postal workers strike. The strike began in New York City last Tuesday night and a national emergency was declared by President Nixon with 167 000 postal workers off the job. Federal troops were sent to NYC to move accumulated mail, though some magazines may be disrupted as they come from non New York sources.
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Cameron Post Office
New Jersey
Connecticut
New York City
Nixon
United States
New York
Lions Hear Boutwell On Welfare
Roy Boutwell of the State Department of Public Welfare spoke to Cameron Lions about welfare in Texas. He reported Milam County as of August 31, 1969 had 1,388 on Old Age Assistance totaling 1,015,616 annually, 85 families with 245 children on aid to families with dependent children costing 80,710, 29 totally blind receiving 27,163, and 100 permanently disabled totaling 70,037. Welfare payments in Milam County reached 1,196,526 for the year, with Medicare at 610,835. Medicare components included Supplemental Medical Insurance 69,798, Nursing Homes 328,622, Hospital Care 90,663 in-patient, 7,670 out-patient, Doctors 84,958, Lab X-ray 25,793, Other 3,331.
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Roy Boutwell
State Department of Public Welfare
Cameron Lions
Texas
Boutwell
Noon Lions Club
Texan
Milam County
Cameron City Receives Increase in Sales Tax Revenue
Cameron’s 4 1/4 percent city sales tax paid out 15,209.71 for the last quarter of 1969, bringing 1969 total to 51,782.34. Readings show steady growth in retail sales with quarterly receipts rising from 10,746.29 in Q1 to 15,029.71 in Q4, a 1969 increase over 1968 of 16,632.34. State remittances to Cameron lag one quarter behind collections.
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Cameron
Austin
Trial Starts In District Court Suit In Milam County
Jurors were selected and first testimony heard in Milam District Court in a suit by Norman J. Moore of Waco against Cofield Construction Co. of Rockdale seeking 170000 for injuries from a sawhorse falling in an elevator shaft during Milam County courthouse remodeling last April 24.
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Milam District Court
Waco
Coffield Construction Co
Rockdale
Norman J. Moore
Brazos Elevator Co
Milam Courthouse
Brazos Elevator
W. B. Prater
Walter McDaniel
J. R. Hurt
Robert A. Clayton
Johnny I. Balusek
Moore
FHA Conference on Rural Housing Changes
The Farmers Home Administration rural housing program will be discussed at a housing conference on Tuesday March 31 at 7:30 p m in Cameron District Courtroom. County supervisor Henry Ivey says new loan authorizations and interest rates will be covered and invites contractors developers lumber yards and lending institutions to attend. The event is open to all housing field professionals.
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Farmers Home Administration
Cameron
Henry Ivey
Cameron Fha
Ivey
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Jack) Onion
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