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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1958
Page
1
Wayne Mann president of the Junior Baseball Association says Little League and Babe Ruth teams are selling $1 membership cards this week. Residents are urged to buy to support the association and gain free entry to all 80 games scheduled this summer in Cameron.
Cameron city council discussed paving East 10th and 11th Streets with property owners and approved a master sewer trunkline study. A first reading of a dog ordinance requiring rabies shots and $1 licenses was proposed, and talks with highway engineers and utility managers covered US 77, Yarrellton road, and sewerline priorities.
Yee High School prepares for 98 graduates with diplomas to be handed by School Board President H. B. Pressley at 8 p.m. Friday at Yoe Field. Ruth Matyastik is valedictorian and Marie Mueck salutatorian. Supt. Wiley Loughmiller and Principal J. R. Young oversee scholarships and programs. The VHS band will lead processions and the audience will hear crowd-pleasing music and a salute to the class.
Cameron Adds Boy Scout Troop 191 sponsored by All Saints Episcopal Church. organized weeks ago, 15 boys signed the charter. Troop committee chaired by Sr. D Ripley, with Rev. Richard Bradshaw and Dr. Clifford Swift among members. Richard W. Moseley named Scoutmaster with Bowman, Prescott and Williams as assistants. Weekly meetings Thursdays at 7 p.m. for interested local boys.
Scattered thundershowers are predicted for Cameron and vicinity near the weekend as temperatures hold in the mid 80s. Last week saw .27 inch of rain with additional showers moving through the area. May highs and lows are listed with daily readings from the 14th to 19th, showing mid to upper 80s with several dew points noted.
David Gleason Roger Diver and Herman Schiller Jr will depart by bus Sunday for Camp Hoblitzelle in Midlothian for a week of Salvation Army camp life. The camp is funded in part by local United Fund Drives and Carmon boys attend each summer with all expenses paid by the Salvation Army.
The Cameron school board approved a 3051.50 reroofing bid for Ada Henderson School and bought a quarter-acre Baskin lot across from the VHS Agriculture Building for cultivation. Ellen Malcik was hired as a speech therapist and the 1958-59 calendar set. Equipment for the VHS science department was postponed for further study.
Columnist Frank Luecke muses on economy talk and public apathy in Cameron. He notes dwindling reader engagement, references past column numbers like 99 and 100, and recalls an incident at Main & Houston that left a lasting impression.
Milam County Farms Bureau President O G Tumlinson announced a cotton forum tonight at 8 in the Yee High School Auditorium. Nationa l Cotton Council staff led by Dick Yeager will discuss world competition, market expansion versus shrinking demand, and steps to boost cotton consumption through efficient production and marketing.
Austin reports bids open June 5 for Cameron National Guard Armory a near hundred thousand dollar concrete and tile building 108 by 116 feet with brick front drill hall storage and classrooms for the 649th AAA Battalion Battery C Commander Capt J T Terry to move to the new quarters on a 20 acre site donated by civic leaders and the chamber.
About 140 boys will play on eight teams in Little League and Babe Ruth League this summer. Little League has five teams Indians White Sox Yankees Bears and Braves with 92 players. Babe Ruth has Colts Cats and Owls with about 45 players. Games start at 6 and 7 30 p m with doubleheaders on Monday Tuesday Thursday and Friday and playoffs to decide the championship.
E A Rease aged 29 of Gause died in an April May river drowning near Maulkin Bridge on Little River after a boat capsize. Billy Steele of Hearne aided in the rescue but Rease did not survive as crews from Cameron Bryan and Fort Hood searched on five days and nights. Rease is survived by his wife and three sons.
Curtis Ray Fuchs, Buckholts high school student, won first in the second annual Jaycee Teenage Road-eo in Cameron. William Pagach and Jeanette Richter placed second and third respectively. Winners advance to Groesbeck then a state road-e-o at New Braunfels with the state winner earning a chance at $4,500 in college scholarships.
The Coastal Trend Oil and Gas Company and Skinner Corporation No. 1 G. P. Norman in Milam County was abandoned late last week after a deep wildcat drilling to 6 100 feet two miles southeast of Milano struck salt water in the Edwards Lime. It marks the area’s third deep failure in five years.
Police Chief Maynard Byers issued a warning that anyone entering the city swimming pool after closing hours would be fined for trespassing. He said a group of boys were chased from Ledbetter Park pool Tuesday night.
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