Cameron Editorial Sees Progress and Big Plans Ahead
The editorial lauds Cameron's progress over the past year with street paving and drainage upgrades, new hospital and facilities, library relocation, and a bustling Western Week. It highlights the Laneport Dam project, a $24 million plan to control flooding and boost industry and tourism, urging continued forward momentum despite setbacks.
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Cameron
Cameron Library
Cameron Chamber
Connally
Waco
Thorndale
Milam
Milam County
Laneport Dam
Little River
Texas
Laneport
State Sales Tax Questions on Agricultural Goods Probed
C H Bates extension farm management specialist notes many questions remain about applying state sales tax to agricultural production goods. He says rulings from the state controller are needed to cover numerous items with gray areas in the statute’s meaning.
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C. H. Bates
Yuletide foods top December USDA list
The December USDA abundance list highlights turkey cranberries and broiler-fryers as top plentiful foods with pork apples fresh grapefruit pecans almonds honey fats and oils peanuts pinto beans and rice also in ample supply. The Texas Agricultural Extension Service comments on using these for festive meals.
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USDA
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Rebecca Fuchs Honored on Eighth Birthday Party
Rebecca Lynn Fuchs was honored with a party November 13 on her eighth birthday. Entertainment featured films taken by her parents Mr and Mrs Alton Fuchs on their trip to Spain. Guests enjoyed a three tiered cake on a musical cake plate with jump rope favors.
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Alton Fuchs
Spain
Spear attacks banking leaders over escheat inquiry in Texas
Rep. Franklin Spears accuses Texas Bankers Association officers of blocking a House Committee escheat inquiry. Despite guidance to ignore the questionnaire, hundreds of banks cooperate while the 57th Legislature exempts banks from reporting. Attorney General Wilson files first escheat suit seeking 1,094,150 in stock and dividends for an unknown owner.
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Austin
Franklin Spears
San Antonio
House
Texas
Spears
Texas Bankers Association
House Committee
Atty
Will Wilson
Henry Braswell
Dallas
Mercantile National Bank of Dallas
Texas Pacific Land Trust
Wilson
State of Texas
Kellis Dibrell
Dibrell
Tom Reavley
Little River Philosopher Calls For Educational Pay Plan
Dear editor argues government paying college students to attend school could raise national income and education levels. He suggests starting with public schools, high school completion, four years of college plus graduate work, then army service, ending at 25, with full independence by 45. He also notes athletes already paid and proposes higher pay to balance. A separate note recommends composting fallen leaves to prevent fires and mulch gardens next year.
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Army
Peace Corps
Aet
Draft Quota Set At 516 For Dec
The Texas draft quota for December is 561 men, 362 fewer than November’s 923. State Selective Service director Colonel Morris S. Schwartz announced that 6,155 men will receive preinduction exams in December, up from 6,071 in November. Local board quotas for December induction and preinduction will be mailed by November 15. The December pool will target men aged 22 on December 1 unless they are volunteers or legally delinquent.
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Austin
Morris S. Schwartz
State Selective Service
Schwarz
Texas
Courthouse Notices And Marriages In Local Listings
Courthouse column lists new car purchases by multiple individuals and dealers, plus marriages, deeds and property transfers. Names include R E Michalka, David A Myron, Beverly Morgan, E A Caffey, and many others with Ford, Chev, Buick, Pontiac entries. Marriages include Mees Patterson, Gott Bomnski, Nunnallee Heath, Lancaster and Dant, Bartlett and Simpson. Deeds show transfers among Freeman, Alford, Wright, Massengale, Thweatt, Hickman, Bozeman, White, Glaser, Brasher, McGrath, and Colorado and Santa Fe Railway holdings.
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R. E. Michalka
Plymouth
Wagon David A Myron
Beverly June Morgan
Ford
Sidney Tarwater
Eugene J. Jistel
Ford Pickup
McLane Company
William A. Knipp
Ford Falcon
Will Ondrej Ford
J. S. Hubert Dodge
Emzy Weise
J. S. Quebe
Pickup
J. O. Birkhead
Rosie Mae Calhoun
Hogan & Co. Inc
Alvin Meyer
Donald William Mees
Thelma
Annette Patterson Tucker Howard Lewis Gott
Margarett
Ann Bomnski
Ray Leon Nunnallee
Gracie Earlene Heath Thomas Elihue Lancaster
Mary Janice Dant
Bobby Earl Bartlett
Betty LaVorene Simpson
Deeds Zula B. Freeman
A. P. Mercer, Jr
Monroe Edwards
C. A. LaCosta
J. Adone
I. H. Hoover Alford
Dan F. Alford
Milano
D. Bowman
N. T. Riggan
D. A. Thompson
Evelyn McCall Wright
A. A. Fritz
Freeman
City of
Cameron
Federal National Mortgage Association
Federal Housing
Coffield
Rockdale
Mariena T. Massengale
Kenneth Thweatt
James Neille
Sarah Wilhelm League
Mabel Bozeman
Lewis White
Eunice Bozeman
Frost League
Eunice Bozeman Et
Frost le
Tillie Grigg
Ernest O. Glaser
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Co
Burnett
Milano Junction
Weekend House Guests Reach Across Towns
A series of social visits featured Frank Gambles hosting Mrs Florence Spiegel and relatives from Yarrelton Fort Worth and Ben Arnold. The rounds included Groveton San Antonio Houston Austin Rogers and Dallas as families reconnect with local kin. Edgewood Buckholts and Minerva ties appear in weekend social notes.
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Florence Spiegel
Frank Gamble
Charie Leonard
Yarrelton
Gerald Leonards
Fort Worth
L. N. McDonald
Fred Foschinsky
Ben Arnold
L. G. McDonald
Groveton
R. E. Faken
Pearl Sapp
Earl Sapp
San Antonio
H. H. Cast
Minerva
C. R. Campbell
Houston
J. D. Pope
J. D. Pope Jr
Austin
Kenneth Springer
Rogers
Oscar Meeck
Howard Coffman
Dallas
H. F. Lange
Herman Jungmann
Shirley Ann
Edgewood
Bill Lange
Buckholts
Ben Arnold area residents visit St Edwards patient
Ben Arnold and Houston families visit Walter Strickler at St Edwards Hospital. Reports note Mrs. A T Swanzy’s guests, and other local visits. Repairs from Hurricane Carla affect the Baptist Church in Ben Arnold.
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Walter Strickler
St. Edwards
A. T. Swanzy
Walter Strickler, Jr
Richard Hellgatter
Jesse Strickler
Houston
St. Edwards Hospital
Charlie Nolte
Carla
Baptist Church
Ben Arnold
Hugo Aigner
Perry Strickler
Austin
Robert Lee Boyls
Gloria
Lana
Harold Pimpler
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Canyon
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Little River Philosopher
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