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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1951
Page
8
Health Officer argues for ongoing rat control due to economic losses and home annoyance. He notes rats are a serious menace and carry at least six diseases to humans, including jaundice and tapeworms, while the full history of their role in disease transmission remains unclear.
Texas health official George W. Cox issues an order setting standards and legal status for the vegetable fat frozen dessert. After October 1 any frozen dessert sold in Texas made with vegetable fats instead of butterfat must be called mellorine, ensuring consumers get real ice cream when they ask for it.
Mrs. Minnie Nell Williams of Cameron announces her husband Sergeant Robert Tynes has been promoted to Master Sergeant and returns home after 13 months in the Far East with the 3rd Infantry Division in Korea where he served as a radio repair supervisor. He is son of Mr and Mrs W Lex Tynes of Marietta Mississippi and they have three children.
The Texas Highway Department has added 13 000 miles of farm roads to the state system since 1946 all paved and maintained by the state. A further 5 000 miles are programmed for the next biennium bringing total to 18 000 miles by end of 1953. The plan aims to place a paved road at or near almost every farm and ranch in Texas with continued state maintenance.
During World War II the Texas Highway Commission and the Texas Good Roads Association pushed for farm road inclusion in federal aid. Leaders Brady Gentry Judge Tom Eplen and Charles E Simons lobbied in Washington, convincing Congress to fund a balanced network. Texas became the first state to complete a farm road under the plan and has continued leadership with Colson Briscoe 1949 and 1951 acts speeding farm road construction.
M L Worcester, age 95, enjoyed a birthday dinner at his daughter’s home on September 16. A large embossed cake with two candles drew attention as relatives gathered, including T J Worthington of Port Stockton and other family from Edinburg McAllen Gallatin Tennessee Fort Stockton.
Scientists with the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service attach aluminum bands to a single leg of birds to monitor their individual migrations and movement patterns.
Rains eased drought conditions in Texas last week boosting fall and winter pastures in East Central and South Texas. USDA noted pasture improvement in the central and southern counties, though forage shortages persist in western areas and northern high plains feed remains adequate only in part. Wheat seeding progressed in high plains counties amid fair stands in early seedings.
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