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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1949
Page
3
Cameron reports August building permits totaling 15300 dollars, disclosed by city secretary W H Stafford. Residential construction drives totals with new homes and repairs. business district growth lags. Visitors include H C Tindall Jr and Dorothy Lee Johnson returning from Texas trips.
Mrs Gene Blake and her two sons along with her sister Dorothy Merchant are spending the weekend visiting relatives in Houston.
Howard Goss of Temple spoke to the Milam County Farm Bureau on Soil Conservation Districts. He outlined history and organization while J. D. Moore introduced him in W. C. Marshall’s absence. Attendees included E. J. Fisher Arnold Butts and others as S. W. McClaren presided. A March 17 1950 anniversary plan was announced with a special program to follow.
Season tickets for Yeemen football in Cameron go on sale at 3.60 dollars including tax. Five home games are on the schedule and Ada Henderson and Yee High School students will canvass the business district to sell tickets to interested buyers.
R. G. Cone of Route 3 Rockdale traveled to Cameron on Friday for a business visit.
W A Hatfield, 69, Cameron carpenter, was sentenced in Milam County District Court to 25 years in Huntsville for the July 20 pistol slaying of his wife. He pled guilty and offered no comments beyond a terse remark earlier, and was then moved to the prison walls without further statements.
Hatfield fatally shot his wife four times with a .45 caliber pistol after returning home from a 16 day absence amid a stormy marriage. He fled due to a quarrel. both had been married twice.
O L Hairgrove opens downtown offices for National Fidelity Life Insurance Agency in the Zalesky building, occupying the former Gericks Electric space. He specializes in hospital insurance and reports strong reception for his new policy. Office phone 1022 residence 659 J.
Dr. John Wesley Raley will receive Baylor University's honorary doctor of laws degree as the eighth Baylor degree among nine Raley siblings. The Rosebud origin family, headed by Leonidas W. and his wife, already has six earned Baylor degrees, with Dr. Raley having previously earned a bachelor of arts in 1923. He is president of Oklahoma Baptist University at Shawnee.
Mrs. Maude Mullinix returns from a two week vacation in Baton Rouge Louisiana where she visited her daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Patton reported the news items by phoning in.
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