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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1977
Page
1
Directory style notice listing numerous individuals and households by town including Buckholts Temple Irving Friendswood Clute Holland Carrollton Chicago Rockdale Lufkin Milano Baytown Rogers and others with titles Mrs Mr and Jr along with several middle initials and surnames across multiple locales.
Milam-Areans aboard a lion? No. On Wednesday morning unknown burglars broke into the McGregor police station. Officers found a broken window in the door and missing money from the fine box along with a tear gas gun.
A Rockdale citizen submitted 321 signatures to the Rockdale school Board on Wednesday urging no progress on the administration building. She cited a new junior high and overcrowding in the kindergarten building as alternate, higher priority needs.
After four hours of deliberation a Williamson County jury sentenced 24 year old James Ray Parker to 99 years in the state penitentiary. He was found guilty of breaking into a Southwestern University coed's Georgetown apartment on September 5 and severely assaulting her in an attempted report of the incident.
Calvert Justice of the Peace ruled the death an accident after an autopsy on a man found in a burned car behind the elementary school on April 5. There was no foul play. the victim reportedly had a heart attack and died while fatally intoxicated.
Dick Ellison reports a bolt of lightning killed 13 Hereford cattle in mid April on his Rosebud area pasture. Twelve died in one group and another pair lay nearby, leaving Ellison shocked by the loss.
DPS narcotics team arrests two suspects after a yearlong investigation near a private dirt airstrip 12 miles west of Gatesville. About 1000 pounds of marijuana were seized on a rural road.
Thorndale superintendent B C Sims backs the Supreme Court decision allowing corporal punishment in schools. He notes this method has always been used sparingly in Thorndale and doubts the ruling will alter conditions, saying teachers act as parents when students are in school.
Lucy Leaf of Surry Maine travels the United States on Igor a horse now four years into the trek She avoids guns prefers a friendly approach and camps with landowner permission along the way Her journey began in 1973 included California and Texas with a return trip planned through Virginia on to Maine She funds the travels by working with horses and notes the feed challenge of 50 pound sacks along the road in Cameron she found smaller feed sacks and a warm reception from Cameron Seed Co Igor wakes her with a nudge and whinny each morning while Leaf contemplates writing a book about her adventures.
County commissioners will study a wolf bounty system to replace the sheriff’s trapper, costing $425 monthly, and will consult other counties about programs and pricing. Rancher Richard Ellison urged keeping the trapper, while noting his own trapping training. The panel also awarded a $35,000 low bid for a Courthouse District 3 leader and heard a cancer insurance presentation.
Dedication services for Cameron’s new VFW Hall drew a large local and nearby crowd. L W Boots Stroup hosted with Alfons Tomek giving the invocation and Rep Dan Kubiak delivering the address. Original founders August Kunz and Albert Michalka were honored alongside Narvie Caperton and others. The Sandifers donated an 8 by 10 nylon flag flown over the capital, obtained via Congressman J J Pickle.
A Texas study shows Milam County received 1.716 million of the state's 5.306 billion travel receipts in 1975. The county also supported 61 of 207 776 travel related jobs with a 309 thousand payroll, and visitors paid 67 thousand in state and 15 thousand in local taxes. The data come from the U S Travel Data Center in Washington D C, using a county by county breakdown of the travel market. The model reflects overnight and long distance day trips and includes Texans and out of state visitors. Texas rank now third in the nation behind California and Florida.
Officers for the Junior Livestock Association were elected with Steve Beatte as president Dennis Tomascik as vice president Melvin Hollas as secretary Jerry Hall as treasurer and Bud Riola as reporter. The group backs fundraisers for Cameron’s new Youth Exposition Building yielding the 1978 junior livestock show there. Tickets to the Yee High All-Sports banquet are on sale until noon May 6 at banks and the Yee principal’s office. The May 9 event at 7 p.m. in Methodist Fellowship Hall features Fred Akers UT head coach as guest speaker.
Buckholts High School will host the annual May Fete on Friday May 6 at 8 p.m. in the school gym with the theme American Heroes. Declarations include high school king Monte Williams and Eleanor Svetlik junior class acts and skits honoring America's heroes with admission of 1 dollar for adults and 50 cents for children.
Sheriff Leroy Broadus announced the arrest of Kenneth Teal David Halpain and Milton Crawford all Cameron residents on burglary charges connected to two Walschak Grocery thefts in Burlington. Teal and Halpain face charges for this month’s burglary and Teal and Crawford for a 1976 break in. They appeared before Justice of the Peace Jess Brock and are held in the county jail with bonds set at 2000 each. Dr Daniel C Pfannstiel of Texas A&M University will speak May 7 at the Youth Exposition Building dedication.
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