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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1955
Page
2
A series of social visits spans Sealy to Corpus Christi with relatives and friends from Yarrellton. Mrs Mable Mann's surprise birthday party at Ed Page's home features a Bible gift and 23 years of Sunday school teaching. 32 guests attend with refreshments.
A reader on a Johnson grass farm argues farmers curb price rises to prevent inflation, citing not raising cattle hogs cotton and other crops while noting some goods like steel and cars rose. The letter asserts farmers collectively restrain price increases to boost 1956 prosperity.
Local social notes list visits among Jones Prairie area families. Includes Mrs S Hickman and Mr and Mrs Bradley Burnett with Shirley and Sherry Burnett of Beaumont visiting W B Burnett family, and other guests from Cameron Seguin Oxford Cameron Port Arthur Dallas Houston Calvert Maysfield Cambridge.
A line promotes a safety deposit box at Citizens National Bank as a secure option for keeping valuables. The ad emphasizes FDIC membership for institutional protection and suggests a banking setting for secure storage.
Clarence Zieschang farm, five miles southeast of Thrall, constructed about two miles of channel type terraces using a motor grader. The terraces, draining into a Bermuda grass waterway, protect roughly 30 acres of sloping cropland from erosion. The program includes contour farming, winter legumes, and plans to sod another waterway next spring for terrace outlet protection. Zieschang worked with Taylor Soil Conservation District and a Soil Conservation Service technician from Rockdale.
Trade Development Committee chaired by NL Caperton surveyed members on holidays for 1955. Fifty ballots were returned among 80 sent. A majority of 51 of the 80 ballots favored observing Armistice Day on Friday November 11.
Mr and Mrs Bob Peacock left Cameron last week for Baltimore. Bob plans to complete his military school training, with travel to Baltimore due October 28. The couple will stop en route to participate in homecoming activities and Bob’s training may take three months to a year.
Mr George Dean of Anaheim California, born in Milam County Texas, stopped in Cameron en route to Houston for business. He and Mrs Dean recently struck oil on their property with oil rich in Haskell County. Dean also visited Gause, which he last saw in 1922, before they returned to California late in the week.
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