Dodson Brother Serves Across The Warfronts In World War II
Pfc Edward R Dodson son of Mr and Mrs Eddie Dodson Cameron served six months in the European Theatre before transferring to the Pacific His unit Graves Registration Company QMC landed at Manila and then Yokohama He is one of nine Rhodes grandsons of Goliad Texas in World War II seven of whom are in the Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pfe
Edward R. Dodson
Eddie Dodson
Cameron
Pacific
Manila
Yokohama
Pfc
Dodson
Graves Registeration Company
Quartermaster Corps
M. B. Rhodes
Goliad
Texas
Bredt Feed Company Celebrates First Year in Cameron
Cameron marks one year since Bredt Feed and Produce Company began operating in the area. George Bredt owns and runs the Cameron mill and storage facility, with Duke Rentchler as Cameron manager and Rayburn Baker a discharged Marine returning home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bredt Feed Company
Cameron
Bredt Feed and Produce Company
Texas
Bredt Feed & Produce Company
George Bredt
Bredt & Haley Feed and Produce Company
Rockdale
Haley
Bredt
Schuhmacher Wholesale Company
Duke Rentwhler
Rentchler
Turkey Crop Rapidly Processed for One Million Dollar Value
Workers secured labor as the turkey crop moved to market at 29 to 31 cents per pound for prime fowls. Up to 30 car loads are expected locally with several cars shipped to other plants. Each car carries 26 000 pounds and grosses about 8600 dollars, totaling around 100 cars statewide with value near one million dollars plus processing labor.
Mastodon Tooth Found by Waco Angler in Milam County
Waco fisherman O. W. Majors found a grey brown jaw section with three teeth in the Brazos near Blackbridge Milam County. J B White of Cameron Herald says the teeth are one to two million years old from a flesh eating mastodon. Baylor’s Dr Hawkins advised sending it to Austin for study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brazos River
Blackbridge
Milam County
O. W. Majors
South Ninth Street
J. B. White
Cameron Herald
J. E. Hawkins
Baylor University
Majors
Austin
Waco Times-Herald
Weems Tale: Texas Grid Star in Far East Air Forces
Staff Sergeant Thomas A. Weems of Rockdale, former Rice Institute star, serves as supply clerk in the 201st Statistical Control Unit of General Kenny's Far East Air Forces in Manila. He starred at Rice and Rockdale High, captaining three sports, and now leads the FEAF Comets basketball squad after joining the Eastern All Star Grid Club in 1942. His wife Eleanor resides in Rockdale and his parents in Cameron. A month is that long interval between pay days.
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FAR East Air Forces
Manila
Spl
Thomas A
Ted’ Weems
Rockdale
Rice Institute
George C. Kenny
Eleanor H. Weems
New York
Rice
Rockdale High School
Sergeant Weems
Feaf Comets
Melvin Weems
Cameron
Right of Way Survey Under Way for New Road to Yarrellton
Charles Nabors reports the right of way survey for a new farm to market road from Yarrellton to Highway 77 is in progress. The project, funded by the State Highway Department, will provide a mail route and all weather access for a wide area, with construction planned after the new year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yarrellton
Highway 77
Charles Nabors
Nabors
State Highway Department
Mar
Cameron
Commission suit dismissed in Milam county court
In Milam county district court Judge John Watson ruled against S. W. Sibley in a $95,000 commission suit against H. H. Coffield. The case involved a claimed sale of one half interest in the Kirby office building in Dallas to Oxsheer Smith of Cameron. Coffield’s payoff was $700,000 cash with a $1,000,000 lien assumed. Sibley lacked securities or real estate licenses in Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milam County
John Watson
Coffield
S. W. Sibley
H. TH. Coffield
Sibley
H. H. Coffield
Rockdale
Oxsheer Smith
Cameron
Kirby
Dallas
Securities Division of
Texas
C. C. Renfro
Camp & Camp
Rockdays
Weeks, Hankerson & Surles
Tyler
Letters to Santa Claus Wanted By The Cameron Herald
The Cameron Herald invites Santa letters for its Christmas edition on December 20. Children are urged to write and mail letters, with schools across the county encouraged to participate. Teachers have in past years set aside time for writing, and hundreds of letters are published each year. Jeff Wiggins of Marlin visited Cameron on Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Herald
Santa
Jeff Wiggins
Marlin
Cameron
Hoyte Home Demonstration Club Meeting Highlights
The Hoyte club gathered November 14 at Mrs. J. H. Angell’s Cameron home for an all day session with Miss Johnson and four members. Members shared a covered dish luncheon and learned refinishing and reupholstering furniture, plus making hat and shoe racks. Plans were set for a Christmas party December 14 at Mrs. Virgil Coward’s home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoyte
J. H. Angell
Cameron
Miss Johnson
Irgil Coward
First Christian to Hold Reception for Pastor Here Sunday
Members of the First Christian Church plan a reception from 8 00 to 5 00 p m Sunday November 25 1945 to welcome the new pastor and wife Rev and Mrs Roy D Holt of Fort Worth The public is invited Holt is a Texas Christian University student set to receive a Bachelor of Divinity next summer He is a Brite College of the Bible graduate and Phillips University Enid Oklahoma alum 1943 He has served as Associate Minister and Religious Education Director at Magnolia Avenue Christian Church Fort Worth and previously led the Christian Church of Jacksboro Holt and his wife will commute to the church from Fort Worth each weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Christian Church
Roy D. Holt
Fort Worth
Lic
Holt
Texas Christian University
Brite College of the Bible
Phillips University
Enid
Oklahoma
Magnolia Avenue Christian Church
Christian Church of
Jacksboro
Texas
SGT Earl Peck Saw the War with Patton
Earl I. Peck Jr. recently discharged from the Third U S Army visits Cameron. He served from March 29 1942 to October 1945, with General Patton in a unit handling signal intelligence. Peck recalls a demanding wartime record and notes he does not wish for a repeat, while reflecting on his service path through Fort Sam Houston Fort Monmouth Camp Forrest and Camp Charles Wood before overseas briefing.
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Earl I. Peck, Jr
U. S. Army
Cameron
Set
Peck
General Patton
France
Germany
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Austin
Camp Atterbery
Indiana
Yeomen
Carroll Wood
Scarbrough Department Store
Fort Sam Houston
Company E
Fort Monmouth
New Jersey
124Th Radio Signal Intelligence
Camp Forrest
Tennessee
118Th Signal Radio Intelligence Company
Camp Charles Wood
Vent Hill Farms
Virginia
Warrenton
Isbell Chosen Third Year Pastor At Cameron First Methodist
At the Houston conference Rev. Kenner R. Isbell was assigned for a third year as pastor of the First Methodist Church in Cameron. Services are 10 50 a m and 7 00 p m with the Youth Fellowship Choir leading in the evening and Mrs Dana Monroe directing the morning worship. Also mentions local family visits by Olbrich and Water to W F Plocek residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Kenner R. Isbell
First Methodist Church
Cameron
Isbell
Youth Fellowship Choir
Dana Monroe
Catherine Monroe
Knife Fight Fatally Wounds Man on West 23rd Street
J D Allen a 22 year old black man was found dead on West 23rd Street around 3 p m Tuesday with his throat cut and scratches on his face and chest Sheriff Carl C Black said T Riggins a 28 year old black man surrendered to police and is jailed on murder charges Riggins says Allen had paid attention to his wife The fight began at a home then moved to the street where Allen ran and collapsedDetained Wednesday with an examining trial planned for the case
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. D. Allen
West 23Rd Street
Carl C. Black
Allen
T. ©. Riggins
Ben Arnold
Riggins
Milam County Farmers to Elect AAA Committeemen
Milam county farmers will vote in the coming weeks to select three community committeemen, two alternates, and a delegate to the county AAA convention. About 3,000 eligible voters participate in programs like agricultural conservation and crop insurance. Election dates and locations are being set, with full participation urged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milam County
AAA
H. L. Atkinson
AAA Committee
New Equipment For Commissioner Precinct One Is Purchased
W. K Kuzel commissioner for Precinct 1 Milam County announced Saturday a new Caterpillar grader was purchased for 6570 dollars. Bids opened Thursday and R B George Equipment Company earned the contract as the lowest bidder. The grader will be delivered by March 1, 1946 and will help maintain roads more efficiently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. KE. Kuzel
Milam County
R. B. George Equipment Company
Kuzel
Peck Family Reunion in Cameron Welcomes War Returnees
The Peek family held a Cameron reunion with FE I Peek Sr and his wife, sharing a dinner after almost three years apart. Son SEt FE I Peck Jr. returned from European service with honors, joined by Lois P Harris of Bryan and Billy E Peck of the Navy Medical Corps. Oliver Todd Walker moves back to San Antonio from Cameron care duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cameron
FE. I. Peek, Sr
FE. I. Peck, Jr
Europe
Lois P. Harris
Bryan
Billy E. Peck
Medical Corps of the Navy
Oliver Todd Walker
San Antonio
Wofford Arrives From Tennessee to Visit Mother
Nat B. Wofford arrives Friday night from Tennessee where he has worked for several years. He will spend some time with his mother Mrs. Hallie Jones Wofford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nat B. Wofford
Tennessee
Hallie Jones Wofford
Land Owners Urge Dam On Watershed
Four hundred land owners from Milam and Bell counties gathered in Belt to press for a flood control dam on the Little and Leon Rivers. Leaders cited widespread overflow, ruin of thousands of acres, and repeated floods since 1900 with losses mounting annually. they argued the dam’s benefits would far exceed costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little and Leon
Milam
Bell Counties
Belt
Milam County
Oxsheer Smith
Brazos River
Temple Telegram
Niley Smith
Cameron and
Branchville
SW. Law
Jerusha Rogers
Little River Valley
H. B. Culpepper
H. F. Smith
Cameron
G. A. McDermott
W. C. Marshall
State Sail Board
Joe Zajiel
Knitted Garments Donated to Veterans by Red Cross
The Red Cross knitting section led by Mrs. F. C. Fahrendorf has crafted 166 wool items for wounded veterans in the hospital. She thanks the volunteers and urges more knitters to contact the Fahrendorf cotton office in Cameron to obtain wool and convert it into sweaters, stressing urgency as the wool is ready.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Red Cross
F. C. Fahrendorf
Simmons Returns Home From Navy Discharge
M W Simmons of 302 West 10th Street Cameron received an honorable discharge at Camp Wallace under the Navy point-release system. He served as Seaman first class USNR after enlisting in June 1943 and was stationed at Pearl Harbor before release. his wife still resides in Cameron. Mrs Hilliard of Milanos shopped in Cameron this week.
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U. S. Naval Personnel Separation Center
Camp Wallace
M. W. Simmons
West 10Th Street
Cameron
Navy
USNR
Simmons
Pearl Harbor
Also Mentioned on This Page
Rayburn Baker
Marines
Hugh Baker
Buckholts
Turkey
Brazos
Waco
Ted Weems
Far East
Army Air Corps
Grid
Frank Skala
Rosebud
Rev
Sgt
Earl S Peck
Third Army
Earl Peck
Patton
K. R. Isbell
Methodist Church
Ed Olbrich
John Olbrich
Roy Olbrich
Helen Water
W. F. Plocek
Precinct One
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