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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1959
Page
6
The Cameron Herald lists publishers Frank Luecke Don Scarbrough and John Cardwell with titles Managing Editor and publishers in Milam County. Subscriptions are priced at 2 dollars per year for local residents and 3 dollars per year out of state or 34 dollars per year for yearly delivery.
The Cameron Herald salutes 73 Yee High School graduates and Milam County seniors in a week of decision and achievement. It notes college, military, and career paths and urges continued youth contribution to Cameron and nearby communities. Pictures and stories appear in the second section.
Dear editor letter defends the U S Senate over door fittings in a new office building. The writer jokes about sawing doors, sagging gates, and proposes a Sagging Gate Fund while urging government action on reform and adaptation. He cites Johnson grass farm anecdotes and references to Congress, agriculture, and slum funding.
Austin lawmakers plan to close a 945 million deficit and fund 1960 41 appropriations with a tax package including a bookkeeping bill severance tax on natural gas and higher corporate taxes. They seek a 4000 annual salary for lawmakers and a 12 daily expense allowance, with elections updated to May and June. A prison car theft provision and boat registration plus English pre school instruction for non English speakers are debated amid fiscal year changes.
A roundup of Sunday School and worship times for Episcopal, Baptist, Church of Christ, Nazarene, and Methodist congregations in Cameron. Includes service times, Sunday School start, evening and midweek sessions, and contact details for several churches.
A roster of church schedules appears with times for Jehovahs Witnesses Liberty Community Church St Monicas Catholic Ben Arnold Baptist United Church Burlington Marlow Baptist Maysfield Trinity Lutheran Gospel Tabernacle Rice Hoyte Baptist First Milano Buckholts Baptist Buckholts Full Gospel Brethren Buckholts Czech and Hope Lutheran services. Details include Mass times morning worship Sunday school and evening services across several towns and pastors.
A 40 year flashback notes Earl Moseley receiving a life saving medal for Texas Power and Light Co. Jimmie Angell Jr. benefits. Harold Pressley earns Rotary gold watch. Jeanette McIntyre hosts a 13 guest party of 1939 graduates. Milam County's Young Democrat Club elects H. C. Haraway president and Charles C. Smith Jr. vice president.
Dr TE Crump acting director lists 34 reportable disease cases up to May 16 including one pneumonia four measles and one gonorrhea.
June marks Dairy Month with peak milk production and ample supplies. The USDA lists milk and other dairy products among plentiful foods for June along with eggs broilers fryers small turkeys spring vegetables and vegetable fats and oils.
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