Sgt Charlie Tomek recalls bitter battles from Normandy to Czechoslovakia
Sgt Charlie Tomek, recently discharged, spends a few weeks at home near Cameron. He describes 320 days of combat from Omaha Beach on June 7 1944 through Trevieres Brest Paris and into Germany toward Czechoslovakia. He served with the 38th Field Artillery 2nd Division under General Hodges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlie J. Tomek
Germany
Set
Tomek
Cameron
Omahah Beach
France
Normandy
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Trevierres
Brest
Paris
Czechoslovakia
38Th Field Artillery
Courtney Hodges
Fort Sam Houston
Pearl Harbor
America
Camp McCoy
Wisconsin
Ireland
Belfast
Armaugh
Iceland
Wadery
England
Mrs Jesse L Smith Dies In Waco Home At 66
Mrs Jesse L Smith died suddenly at her Waco home on Sunday October 21 1945 at age 66 She was born Emma Bradshaw and farmed near Buckholts and Marlow Survivors include her husband two sons a daughter six grandchildren two brothers a sister and a half brother Funeral services are set for October 23 1945 at 10:00 A M in Waco with burial at Marlow cemetery Interment will follow in Marlow cemetery Also noted is Set W W Billie Loftin arriving in New York after serving with the European Theatre in the Third Army and his wife living in Waco
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse L. Smith
Waco
Smith
Milam County
Emma Bradshaw
Buckholts
Marlow
South Elm
First Baptist Church
Cameron
J. Z. Smith
Port Arthur
A. L. Smith
McAllen
G. P. Haynie
Beaumont
Dee Bradshaw
California
Tom Bradshaw
Gilmer
Texas
Jesse Coley
Temple
Arthur Smith
L. van Perkins
Thomas William Smith
R. L. Batte
Jesse Lee Batte
Geeo
Turner Street Baptist Church
C. W. Sanders
Set. W. W
Billie) Loftin
Third Army
New York
Ben Kennon
Rotary urges Cameron bond election for city plan
Cameron Rotary Club calls on the City Council to order an immediate bond election to fund postwar improvements per the Planning Board. A resolution by P W Davis and John R Hays asks for home rule changes and cost-saving measures while noting low interest rates aid borrowing. The vote would authorize the planned bond issue and governance changes for economic progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cameron Rotary Club
P. W. Davis
John R. Hays
Chas. C. Smith
City of
Cameron
Cameron Planning Board
W. W. Davis
Ten year sentence meted forger in Texas cases
Alton Davis pleaded guilty and was sentenced by Judge John Watson in District Court to 10 years in Texas prison. The court rejected a 4 year concurrent term proposed by the county attorney. Davis forged two checks on a Cameron firm and a Caldwell bank, with a long prior record. Sheriff Carl Black brought him from Sweetwater. Davis claimed innocence and a history of prior prison terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alton Davis
Texas
John Watson
Watson
Gunn
Davis
Cameron
Caldwell
Milam County
Carl Black
Sweetwater
Black
Milam County Soil Promoted by Cameron Chamber
The Cameron Chamber of Commerce launches an illustrated folder to advertise Milam county soil. The brochure will feature photos and data to attract settlers, noting the region's climate rainfall and cheaper lands. Milam has lost about 10 thousand people in ten years and hopes postwar resettlement brings migrants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milam County
Cameron Chamber of Commerce
Cameron
Milam
United States
Rev Paul D Wright Accepts Cameron Presbyterian Call
Rev Paul D Wright of Refugio accepts a call to First Presbyterian Church in Cameron and will become minister there on or about November 1. Wright has served Refugio for years and will move to Cameron with Mrs Wright in a few days after preaching locally several weeks earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul D. Wright
Refugio
First Presbyterian Church
Cameron
Wright
Chamber Chooses November 29 as Thanksgiving Day
Cameron officials report the Chamber of Commerce recommended Thursday November 29 for Thanksgiving Day. Governor Stevenson proclaimed November 22 as Thanksgiving. The Texas A and M football game influenced the Chamber board decision to pick November 29 as the best date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cameron
Chamber of Commerce
Stevenson
Texas
P F Holder Pioneer at Friendships Dead
P F Holder aged 85 died at 4 a m Friday at the home of his son P E Holder with whom he resided. He lived in the Friendship community fifty years as a farmer. Funeral services will be Sunday afternoon at Friendship. Survivors include P E Holder of Friendship W A Holder of Liberty Hill Ellie Holder of Arizona twenty seven grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. The body remains at the family home until burial.
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P. F. Holder
P. E. Holder
Friendship
Pp. E. Holder
W. A. Holder
Liberty Hill
Ellie Holder
Arizona
Norwegian traitor Quisling executed and cremated body found
The article reports Quisling’s death during Tuesday night and body cremation, noting Norway’s traitor was arrested, tried, and sentenced to death. It mentions Laval’s execution and Petain’s life sentence, and briefly questions Texas’s territorial history with Spain after 1819 cession of lands south of the Red River and west of the Sabine.
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Quisling
Norway
France
Holland
Belgium
Balkans
Artried
Pierre Laval
Marshal Petain
Texas
Spain
United States
Red River
Sabine River
Virgil R. Lake Receives Purple Heart and Treatment
Virgil R. Lake, European War hero and Purple Heart recipient, is being treated at Brooks General Hospital in San Antonio while pursuing schooling. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Will V. Lake of Cameron and served in a Mortar Squad under General Patton. Lake was wounded in Germany, flown to France, returned to the front, fell ill with fever, and arrived back in Cameron on a 45 day furlough aboard the George Washington. His wife and child remain with him in San Antonio.
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Set
Virgil R. Lake
Germany
Brooks General Hospital
San Antonio
Set. Lake
Will V. Lake
Cameron
U.S
George Patton
France
States
Sgt. Lake
George Washington
New York
War Bond drive kicks off October 29 in Milam County
Dan Tyson, Milam County Chairman, announced a Victory Loan kick off for October 29 at 7 30 PM in Cameron High School gym. About 300 volunteers from all areas will form a county wide unit to inform workers about bonds and supplies. The drive targets 985 000 total with 210 000 in Series E bonds. They finished their job lets finish ours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan Tyson
Tyson
Milam County
Cameron High School
Ford to display 1946 models Friday in Dearborn
Dearborn Michigan October 23 Ford will display the new 1946 models on Friday the first postwar public showing for a carmaker. H H Stedman of Hefley Stedman Motor Co said one new model will be shown locally and rooms have been enlarged for the display. J R Davis said prices may not be set by OPA yet delaying dealer deliveries but production is moving and hundreds of Fords should reach sales areas within weeks. He will pursue a price arrangement to allow early purchase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. R. Davis
OPA
Ford
Davis
City faces housing shortage spurs survey and housing list
Camerons' acute housing shortage prompts a house to house survey to place returning workers and war plant workers. The Chamber of Commerce led by A W McCuilin will organize a confidential file of available rooms and apartments with hotels listing spare spaces to monthly renters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camerons
A. W. McCuilin
Chamber of Commerce
Centennial Committee List Is Completed
A. W. McCullin, president of the Chamber of Commerce, has completed the Centennial committee list after releasing the first list last week. He plans to add members from organizations as plans develop, ensuring all official participants are included. New additions include Mothers Club Mrs. J. M. Boehner, Daughters of the American Revolution Mrs. Oliver Todd Walker, Daughters of the Confederacy Mrs. J. R. Hays, Rebecca Lodge Mrs. J. M. McLean, Retail Merchants Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. W. McCullin
Chamber of Commerce
McCullin
Mothers Club
J. M. Boehner
Daughters of the American Revolution
Oliver Todd Walker
Daughters of the Confederacy
J. R. Hays
Rebecca Lodge
J. M. McLean
Retail Merchants Association
Chamber of Commerce seeks Cameron bond election
The Cameron Chamber of Commerce urges Cameron City Council to call an immediate bond election to fund planning board recommended improvements. The plan includes street work a city administration building a public library a farmer's marketing center and other projects at low borrowing costs. The chamber commends the council and planning board and asks citizens to approve or disapprove a bond issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Cameron
Texas
Cameron Chamber of Commerce
Planning Board
EK. A. Perrin
J. M. Boehner L. van Perkins
Reddehase wins first in Cameron pig show at Sears contest
Henry Reddehase of Ben Arnold won first with a registered Jersey gift in the Sears Roebuck 4-H Club Pig Show in Cameron. J. W. Davis, Milam county official and ex Lt. in Patton’s 3rd Army, supervised the event. Other winners included Robert Lee Schulte, Carroll Roecker, and Denison Provasek. Exhibitors received cash prizes and Reddehase advances to the district show in Waco on November 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Reddehase
Ben Arnold
Sears & Roebuck
Cameron
J. W. Davis
County Avent
Milam County
Davis
3Rd Army
George Patton
Reddehase
Robert Lee Schulte
Burlington
Carroll William Roecker
Yarrellton
Denison Provasek
Benny Ray Juergens
Vogalsang
Std
Lioyd Steebner
Waco
Robert Lee Felscinsky
W. I. Ross
Falls County
Navy veteran John S Burns joins Capital National Bank Austin
John S Burns a former Navy lieutenant and Silver Star recipient has been appointed assistant cashier at Capital National Bank in Austin. Born in Cameron and educated at the University of Texas, he served aboard the destroyers Walke and Roe during World War II including Luzon Okinawa Casablance Sicily and Salerno landings before entering inactive reserve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John S. Burns
Navy
Capital National Bank
Austin
Burns
Cameron
Beulah Burns
S. M. Burns
Austin American
Texas Warrant Company
Walke
Luzon
Okinawa
Roe
Casablanca
Sicily
Salerno
Normandy
The
Bank
Yoe High Class of 1939 Hosts Cameron Homecoming Meet
Hariet Atkinson of the 1939 class arranges a 6 to 6 45 pm reception in Cameron in the Business and Professional Women club rooms. The gathering precedes the Cameron Hearne football game and invites other classes to sponsor similar homecoming reunions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yoe High School
Cameron
Hearne
Trio arrange funeral services for mother in Cameron
J. Z. Smith of Port Arthur A. L. Smith of McAllen and G. P. Haynie went to Cameron on Monday to arrange funeral services for their mother Mrs Jesse L. Smith who died at Waco on Sunday.
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J. Z. Smith
Port Arthur
A. L. Smith
McAllen
G. P. Haynie
Cameron
Jesse L. Smith
Waco
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Nomandy
Sgt
Paul D. Wai
P F. Holder
Antuime
Sey
Chamber Commerce
Henry Reddewase
Hariet Atkinson
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