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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1958
Page
1
A Cameron community pregame parade to Lawless Green and a bonfire rally led to a large turnout for the Cameron Bellville game. The Jaycee Special train carried about 600 Yeoman fans including a 100 piece VHS marching band. Bellville won 22 to 13 in the fourth quarter.
Column notes Beat Generation slang like cool far out and the civic effect of a Bellville area football trip. It highlights Cameron boosters packing 600 700 attendees for a non conference game with enthusiastic welcome by Bellville officials and a blocked highway route to the stadium.
Buckholts hosts Pflugerville Panthers at Badger Field at 8 PM. During halftime last week Peggy Jo Wilhite daughter of Mr and Mrs George Wilhite was crowned Sweetheart of the Buckholts Band. A chicken supper runs 5 30 to 8 PM in the lunch room with proceeds to Buckholts PTA.
Operation Big Push for the United Fund enlists Lions Rotary and Kiwanis volunteers to reach 200 local businesses for pledges before the North Milam drive. Campaign Chairman Don G Humble says less than half of special gifts workers reported. full report due next week. Agencies listed include Salvation Army North Milam Charities Red Cross Boy Scouts Girl Scouts Heart Fund and Library Fund with specified appropriations.
Tax assessor Walter White reports 11,216 statements mailed to property owners in Milam County. The 1958 valuation totals 21.6 million dollars with expected revenue of 300 thousand. County tax rate stands at 95 cents per 100 dollars, state tax over 112 thousand, school district tax about 90 thousand, Brushy Creek Watershed levy 1.35 thousand, and October payments save 3 percent.
F. C. (Fritz) Fahrendorf, 79, died at 7 p m Monday of a heart attack at his Cameron home. Funeral services were held at Marek Burns Funeral Home with Rev Richard J Bradshaw officiating Burial was in Oak Hill Cemetery He was born October 12 1879 in Germany and lived in Milam County since childhood He was a cotton buyer and real estate man and once stockholder in Herald Publishing Company He married Clara Sedelne mayer of Erie Pa on June 6 1912 at the St Monica Parsonage in Cameron Surviving is his wife Pallbearers included Garland Lawrence Pet Susik Emory Camp J C Andres Cecil Chriswell J P Fuller Stanley Swift and P W Davis
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company has received 3,200 copies of the new Cameron Telephone directory and Cameron residents should start receiving them through the mail today. The grey covered book includes 16 pages of alphabetical listings and 24 pages of classified listings. Subscribers are asked to destroy last year's green covered directory.
Postal authorities and Milam Sheriff Carl Black investigated a burglary at the Gause Post Office after a report from postmaster Mrs. Juanita Thomas that the office was entered Monday night.
Twenty two speakers from the Texas Alcohol-Narcotic Education Inc. will visit Milam County on Sunday for a Field Day of Civic Righteousness. Churches in Cameron and nearby invite guests for morning services with Evangelist M. W. Bankston and Glenn W. Bales among speakers.
The 1958 Yoe High Homecoming features a parade in Cameron with four VHS candidate queens and courts. Later, Belton and Cameron meet at Yoe Field in a pivotal 18 AA conference game, both favorites for the title as Rosebud Rogers and Hearne loom. Halftime crowns the queen from Ann Swift Kay Pernice Rebecca Foster and Mary Ann Jones based on ticket sales and float results.
World Community Day observed November 7 at 83 p m in First Presbyterian Church. Mrs Leland Green Sr, president of Cameron United Church Women, says the theme is Exchange of Goods Ideals and People. Attendees bring yarn and yardage for refugee mothers awaiting settlement in Germany Austria Hong Kong and the Middle East. The offering funds Pakistan and the South Sea Islands to teach handicraft and needlework.
A brief note outlines on page layout listing sections such as Editorials, Church, County News, BOGS, Farm News, Classifieds and Sports across pages two, four, six to eight, ten and eleven to twelve.
Forecast for Cameron and vicinity calls for cloudy skies and mild temps with occasional rain today clearing Friday. Past week temperatures show high 88 and 90s with lows around 55 to 71. only .06 inches of rain reported Saturday.
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