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THE ALTO HERALD
MAR & SON. EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS
Subscription Price $2.00 Per Year In Cherokee County. 32 50 Per YearOutsidt «f County
HED 1896
THE ALTO HERALD, ALTO. TEXAS, JANUARY 18, 1951.
NO. 31.
tctng
AVOMTtd
y to give. The March of
npaign is now underway
kee has a $9,950 quota to
Cherokeeans should not be
his drive, as the National
t is spending more in this
n we are sending the
. We should at least be
take care of our own. Be
your contributions when
ked to give.
little closer cooperation
'Of COt citizens, 1951 could mean
ot to Alto in spite of the
J,,.ts that are hanging over
try. Many improvements
; talked about that couH
tonjr ruition with a little effort
;htedness. Two of the im-
s are of major importance,
n Dro itural gas for Alto and the
of the city limits. Both
i should become a reality
98 would call for bond issues
d have to be decided upon
ty tax paying citizens. The
in? Statural gas has already re-
^ " tt it would require no tax
ural gas in the city, but it
reek, brought here through rev-
irtg bonds. Plans to do that
iy being worked on. Ex-
the city limits is a matter
the talking stage, but by a
t, could be brought into a
e total value of Alto's real
ws up far short on paper,
"of the city that has grown
'n the last ten years sits just
e city limits and while it is
"i part of Alto, the town gets
for it from a financial
. This should not be and
ship shouid have long ago
he city limits another half
1 directions. While the
incially sound at the time,
and sewerage bonds would
far more attractive to
;rs with a large city val-
jack them up. Another ad-
f the extension is that we
likely to get natural gas if
nuyers who purchase these
earing bonds know that
a mile area city limits
if mile as is the case at
et us hope that we can get
* iazy, easy go way of life
up this year and do some-
et the town go forward.
ALTO P. T. A.
MEETS TODAY
The Alto P. T. A. wiii meet Thurs-
day January 18. 1951 in the High
School auditorium at 3:30. This will
be a study led by Jack Nicar on
"The Vaiue of Report Cards."
The eleventh and twelfth grades
will be hostesses for the social hour.
Publicity Chairman.
Thursday Study Club
Meets With
Mrs. Ted Moore
Wt
Com
Op Thursday, January 11, Mrs.
Ted Moore was hostess to a Study
Club meeting at which one of the
most interesting books of the year
was the program basis. The pro-
gram leader, Mrs. Clyde Poore, gave
an interesting and informative study
of Louise Hail Tharp, author of "The
Peabody Sisters of Salem." This
book is the story of three women
whose lives cioseiy touched such
great names as Emerson, Hawthorne,
Channing, Horace Mann, and other
well known contemporaries of these
men.
Mrs. J. C. Erwin introduced the
club to the fascinating Peabody
sisters of Saiem with character
sketches of Elizabeth and Mary Pea-
body and with a comparison of the
delicate Sophia Peabody to present
day heroines. An interesting account
of the contacts between the success-
ful ladies of Saiem and the famous
men of their day was given by M<ss
Ruth May Wiiliams in her talk, "The
Men in the Lives of the Peabody
Sisters."
At the close of the program, Mrs.
Moore delighted the ciub with a de-
licious hot tamaie supper, ending
with after-dinner coffee and a va-
riety of detectable cakes. During the
social period the ladies discussed ihe
fun they had at their Christmas
party in the home of Mrs. Ted
Bowen, their delight with the gifts
they received, and their gratitude
for another fine meeting and fine
program with Mrs. Moore.
Natura! Gas Survey
Starts !n A!to Today
CHEROKEE YOUTHS
Ten To Be
)n Ca!f
Scrambie
iwered magazine salesmen
-iirl in Alto last week and
tiber of sadder but wiser
to fell for their line. They
selling magazines, but giv-
away, all you had to pay
ostage. Naturally when you
g something for nothing it
active. Some of their cus-
)k several of the magazines
years, but the postage had
d in advance. Some of the
n as high as $37.00 and
the lower thirties. We
' get their magazines. For
mation of the public gen-
o publication that goes
he mails can be sold unless
d charges a subscription
trgain rates can be offered
to time, but at no time can
cation be given away ab-
ree. It must have a sub-
price.
*
ite" is scheduled for Thurs-
, January 26 at the VFW
ding to Bill Neal Shattuck,
lgineering the project, as-
a committee appointed from
Club roster. The complete
is now in the making and
announced In the Herald
c. The affair is given to
} Alto's quota in the March
campaign of which Mr.
is local chairman. As the
; goes, it's going to be lots
for everybody, and efforts
iade to get as many peopie
josslble In order to help in
Drive.
People of Alto wiii be asked dur-
ing the next few days whether they
wouid use natural gas, or not, if it
was placed at their disposal in Alto.
Engineers, who have been work-
ing on the gas situation, have now
reached the stage that they would
tike to know just how many poten-
tial users there wiii be in Alto if
natural gas is brought to tti!s city.
Two teams are starting out this
morning to canvass the city and ask
this question. No one is going to be
asked to sign anything or make any
commitment, the question is: "If
natural gas is piped into your yatS!
wouid you connect on and become a
natural gas customer?"
The engineers have already map-
ped out the town, and have a new
city map made that takes in every
residence and business house in Alto,
and the question they must have
answered now is: Is there sufficient
peopie in Aito to want gas and are
wiliing to say they will take it if it
is brought to their home.
This question must be settled be-
fore any further move can be made.
If a sufficient number of customers
are obtained, the city officials wiii
immediateiy get to work and submit
a revenue bearing bond issue to the
peopie of Alto to vote the necessary
bonds to put the gas lines in.
This bond issue wiii not be a tax
bearing bond, but is to be paid from
revenue oniy. That is, the revenue
derived from the gas soid, wiii be
used to pay off ^he bonds. No tax
money wiii or cari be used to pay
the;e bonds. In other words, it will
cost the tax payers nothing, oniy for
the gas they use like everyone eise.
Aito peopie can facilitate this work
greatly by being ready with their
answer when they are asked the
question: Wouid you become a natural
gas customer if it was brought to
Aito?
NOVEMBER FARM
INCOME INCREASE
MADE BY COTTON
Farm cash income in Texas totaled
$320,162,000 in November, 3 per cent
more than October and 7 per cent
' less than November, 1949, the Uni-
versity of Texas Bureau of Business
j Research reported.
j Cotton was the greatest income
source in November, bringing Texas
farmers $162,039,000. Cottonseed in-
come totaled $38,579,000; cattie, $27,-
034,000; and poultry, $15,964,000.
Farmers in the Southern High
Piains turned in the largest doliar
income in November—$103,412,000.
Red Bed Plai s with $61,345,000 and
Biack and Grand Prairies with $37,-
664,000 ranked second and third.
The Lower Rio Grande Vaitey,
recorded the largest increase in farm
cash income in November from Oc-
] tober, 126 per cent. Other gains were
[ South Texas Piains, 107 per cent;
Southern High Piains, 97 per cent;
Northern High Piains, 17 per cent;
Western Cross Timbers. 12 per cent
and Red Bed Piains, 2 per cent,
i Monthiy declines were recorded
j in the Biack and Grand Prairies, 44
^ per cent; Coastal Prairies, 37 per
cent; Edwards Ptateau, 28 per cent;
East Texas Timbered Piains, 21 per
rent; Southern Texas Prairies, 12 per
ccnt and Trans Pecos, 10 per cent.
VFW DANCE
SATURDAY NIGHT
JANUARY 20
We!! Known
Physician
The VFW Post of Aito wiii sponsor
a dance at the VFW Memorial Hail
next Saturday night, January 20.
Admission wiii be 50c per person,
plus the usuai tax. The R. J. Folder
band will furnish music for the oc-
casion.
The VFW Post will sponsor a dance
at their hail on the first and third
Saturday nights of each month, and
the public is cordiaiiy invited to at-
tend any or ail of them-
ALTO WOMAN S
MOTHER BURIED
AT NACOGDOCHES
,LO NEIGHBOR
I Mrs. J. D. Cates are the
rents of a baby son born
January 14. at the Memorial
in Lufkin. The young man
seven pounds and one
d his name Is John Duane.
I Mrs. Jack Bowen of Jack-
announce the arrival of a
. bom at the Nan Travis
n Monday. January 15. He
eight pounds and thirtee n
born and reared
nd Is the sot) of Mrs Deiia
this city.
Ten Cherokee County youths have
I been selected to compete in the.
^ iightning-fast caif scramble of the
] 1951 Houston Fat Stock Show, Jan-!
uary 31 through February H, Presi-
' dent W. A. Lee announced.
I Participants and performances in
which they will compete includes:
Marion Loyd Adams, Aito. FFA
Beef Scramble, Jan. 31; Leon S.
Chapman, Jacksonville, 4H Beef
Scramble, Feb. 6; Royce Cowan, New
Summerfield, FFA Beef Scramble,
Jan. 31; Haroid Davis, Ponta, FFA
Dairy Scramble, Feb.3; Doyle Ed
Hanvy, Aito, FFA Dairy, Fcb.3; Ed-
ward Hasseii. Rusk, 4H Beef Scram-
ble, Feb. 6; Biity Joe Hawthorne,
Jacksonville, 4H Beef Scramble, Feb.
6; Kenneth Petty, Weiis, FFA Beef
Scrambie, Feb. 2; Roxell Sfnith, Weils;
FFA Dairy Scramble, Feb. E; Lavon
Watson, Rusk, 4H Beef Scramble,
, Feb. 6.
At the same time. Mr. Lee naid
Wiiliam (Hopalong Cassidy) Boyd,
Western motion picture, television
and radio star, had been named
honorary vice-chairman for the
scramble and would sound the start-
ing signal at 19 scrambles, which
wiii be staged at the World Champi-
onship Rodeo.
The cowboy star and Eddy Arnold,
the Tennessee Piowboy, and his
! Oklahoma Wrangiers wiii headline
aii performances of the rodeo.
Being selected to compete in the
scramble puts a farm youth in an
enviable position, for only 200 4H
Ciub and Future Farmers of America
members compete in the scrambie
for $125 beef calves and only 180
ciub boys in the dairy scrambie.
Certificates for $200 arc given In
the dairy event.
Nacogdoches, Jan. 13.—Funeral
services for Mrs. Sarah Jane Lucas,
84, were heid here Friday afternoon
by Rev. D. M. Rice of Lufkin and
Rev. J. W. Hoilis, pastor of the Hoya
Hill Baptist Church.
Mrs. Lucas, born near Rusk, was
married in 1881 to Thomas Green-
ville Lucas, who died in 1935. She
had resided here over 40 years.
Survivors are four daughters, Mrs.
Leona Christian of Fabin, Mrs. Salty
Morgan of Nacogdoches, Mrs. Lueila
Harrison of Aito and Mrs. Etta
Bockman of Rusk; three sons, A. J.
and Tom Lucas, both of Nacogdoches,
and W. A. Lucas of Oildaie, Cal.;
one sister, Mrs. Carrie Peterson of
Prisciiia; two brothers, Witburn and
Oiiie Jones, both of Prisciiia.
Aito Man Made
Director E. T. H. A.
G. W. Rice of Aito has been elected
as a director of the East Texas Here-
ford Association. This organization
met in Jacksonville Wednesday of
last week. Highlights of the meeting
was a plan for a short-course per-
taining to beef cattle and pasture im-
provement to be heid May 1-3 at
which time field trips will be made
to East Texas ranches for study of
j the cattie situation.
Also approved was an auction saie
of registered Hetefords to be held
in Tyier March 17, at the East Texas!
Fair Grounds.
Temptation may overwhelm any-
body but not those who inteiligently
avoid temptation.
I AGED ALTO WOMAN
DIED SATURDAY
Mrs. Lila Ridgle, 77. died at the
] family home in southeast Alto Satur-
day after a short illness.
[ Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at Old Palestine Church
with the Rev. W. L. Jones, pastor of
; the Assembly of God Church, offic-
iating. Interment was in Old Pales-
tine Cemetery, directed by the R. R.
} Stribiing Funeral Home.
I Besides her husband, Rufus Ridgie,
she is survived by one son, Luther
Ridgie of Aito; and two daughters,
Miss Rida Ridgie of Aito, and Mrs.
} Monroe Peacock of Weches.
CARD OF THANKS
We want to thank our many friends
for every act of kindness rendered
when our little son was stricken iil
with spinal meningitis. He is at
home now, from the St. Joseph In- t
firmary in Houston, and is improv-
ing. Your thoughtfuiness in coming
to our assistance with comforting
words will ever be remembered, and
may you have as good friends, when
misfortune comes your way.
i Mr. and Mrs. Conway Rice.
r^s.ar:^'
N'
DRAFT SELECTEES
Want Their
Choice Of
Service
Austin, Texas, Jan. 15.—State
Headquarters for Selective Service
and some local draft boards in Tex-
as are being swamped with pieas )f
many young men of draft age to
permit them to join the service of
their choice after the induction pro-
cess has begun.
"We are forbidden by law and
reguiation to permit enlistment in
such cases," commented Brigadier
General Paul L. Wakefield, state
Selective Service Director. "We have
no authority to act favorably on such
requests."
The state director said that Sec-
tion 15 of the Selective Service iaw
states that no person shaii be accept-
ed for entistmmt after the induction
process is once started.
"This prohibition agai ist enlist-
ment has besn interpreted by the
Department of Defense to mean that
no person shait be accepted for ^4-
iistment after he has been notified to
report for armed forces physical ex-
amination by a Selective service lo-
cai board," General Wakefield said.
Local draft boards were advised
of this interpretatipf: by official pub-
lication under date of November 15,
1948, and the official advice has
been in force and effect since that
time.
Before order to report for pre-
induction physical examination is
issued there is no prohibition of
any kind against the enlistment of
any man registered with a draft
board. *
"If the individual is acceptable to
the service concerned, he can be
eniisted before he gets his order for
physical," General Wakefield said.
"Under such circumstances, there is
no need to consult the local board,
as the permission of the board is
not required.
"If the man waits untii the phy-
sical notice is mailed, then it is too
late. The draft board cannot, because
of the prohibition against it, release'
the man to join a service of his pre-
ference," the state director concluded.
Recruiting stations of the different
armed services ask men of draft age
to sign certificates that they have
not received orders for pre-induction
examination. Those who sign false
certificates can be discharged for
fraud and then inducted.
In one such case in federal court
at Houston the induction of a regis-
trant was upheld after the registrant
was dicharged for fraud in connec-
tion with signing a faise certificate.
TREE PLANTING. A group of high school students observe Arbor
Day in Texas by pianting a live oak tree on their school campus.
Planting forest tree seediings for timber production also is encouraged
on Arbor Day, which faiis on the third Friday of January each year.
The need for forest tree plantings in Texas is great. Approximately
800.000 acres in East Texas should be reforested. Consult your local
District Forester or write to Superintendent, Indian Mound Nursery,
Aito, Texas for information on forest tree seediings.
FUNERAL RITES
HELD FOR EUGENE
CRUSETURNER
Funeral services for Eugene Cruse-
turner, 48, of Weiis, were held
Thursday afternoon of last week in
the Hester cemetery.
Cruseturner died at 3:15 p. m.,
Wednesday at the family home in
Weils foitowing a short iilness.
Rev. W. J. Boliier officiated at
the services, and Gipson Funeral
Home at Lufkin had charge of the
arrangements.
Cruseturner was born May 9. 1902,
in Cherokee Cou. ty, and lived in
that vicinity ail of his life.
He was a member of the United
Pentecostal Church.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Lucy Cruseturner, Weiis; five daugh-
ters, Mrs. Aiice Snyder, Mrs. Ruby
Snyder, Mrs. Ruth Hughes, and Betty
Jean Cruseturner, ail of Weiis, and
Mrs. Clara Mae Whisenant, Lufkin;
one son, Eugene Cruseturner, Jr.,
Weiis; five brothers, Jim Cruseturn?r,
Guest, Dan Cruseturner, Kountz,
Canky Cruseturner, Tyier, Finis
Cruseturner, San Antonio, Manuel
Cruseturner, Beaumont; one sister,
Mrs. Lois Robertson, Aivin; his
mother, Mrs. Rosie Snyder, Weiis;
and eight grandchildren.
Dr. W. A. McDonald, practicing
physician in Aito and south Chero-
kee County for the past thirty-six
years, died eariy Thursday morning
of last week at the Nan Travis San-
itarium in Jacksonviiie, where he
had been taken the previous Tues-
day suffering from a paraiytic
stroke at his home in Alto. He had
been in failing heaith for the past
several months, but despite the han-
aicap of bad heaith, continued his
practice up untii the time of his
death.
Dr. McDonald was one of those
faithful doctors who took a personal
interest in his patients, and had been
in practically every home in this sec-
tion during his iifetime. He waited
upon thousands of people without
recompense and devoted his entire
iifetime for the benefit of his nonte
people who had the utmost con-
fidence in his ability to take care
of their physical needs.
Medical associates of Cherokee
County freeiy admitted that Dr. Mc-
Donald was one of the best medical
authorities in this section, and his
outstanding work among his home
peopie gave proof of their assertion.
D.'. Wiiliam A. McDonald was
born Aprii 23, 1887, at Haynesviile,
La. In his boyhood days his am-
bitions turned to that of med-
icine, and after graduating from
high schooi, he entered the Univer-
sity of Tennessee and graduated
from that medical school in 1911.
He came to Texas from Louisiana
in 1913 and began the practice of
medicine in what is now known as
the Lynches Chapel community and
later moved his offices to Aito.
In 1913 he was united in marriage
to Miss Addie Biack, daughter of
the iate J. T. Biack and Mrs. J. T.
Biack, pioneer settiers of the Lynch?
Chapel community. \
Dr. McDonald served as city heaifl'
officer for the City of Alto for the
past sixteen years. He was a mem-
ber of the Southern Medical Asso-
ciation, American Medicai Associa-
tion, Texas State Medical Associa-
tion and Cherokee County Medical
Association. He was a member of the
Methodist Church and Masonic Order.
He carried the distinction of hav-
ing licenses to practice medicine in
Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas and
Texas.
Funeral services were held Friday
afternoon at the Aito Methodist
Church at 2:30, with the Rev. Ferd
Dawson of Groves Methodist Church,
officiating, assisted by the Rev. L. A.
Thigpen, pastor of the Baptist Church
at Dodge, the Rev. J. B. Ousley, pas-
tor of the Alto Baptist Church, and
the Rev. E. J. Davis, Jr., pastor of
the Alto Methodist Church. Inter-
ment was in the family burial ground
at Shiloh Cemetery, directed by the
R. R. Stribiing and O. T. Allen &
Son Funerai Homes of this city.
Pailbearrrs were Carl Yoweli.
H. G. S'ingietary, S. P. Fox, Raiph
Rozeile, Gus Whiteman, T. D. Pear-
man, Melvin Sessions, and J. C. Hiil.
Besides his wife. Dr. McDonaid is
survived by one brother, L. T. Mc-
Donaid of Haynesviile, La.
Out of town relatives and friends
attending the funerai were: L. T.
McDonaid, Mrs. Loy Teague, Mr.
and Mrs. Gordon McDonald, Mrs.
Seth Parker, Haynesviile, La.; Alien
Hiiburn, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stewart,
Mr. and Mrs. Troy Stewart, Mag-
nolia, Ark.; Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Mc-
Donaid, Mr. and Mrs. Biiiic Parker,
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Parker, Mr. and
Mrs. Arnold Parker, Mrs. Ester Giii,
Mrs. Vivian Parrett, Mrs. Clairece
Ratciiff, Mrs.-Oyce Aifred, Mrs.
Dorothy Bolton, Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
B. Organ, Shreveport, La.; Mrs. R.
C. Walling, Lufkin; Mrs. Ura Mae
Melson, Homer, La.; Dr. and Mrs.
[Thomas Cobble. Dr. Eaton, Rusk; Dr.
J. M. Travis, Dr. Boyd, Mrs. R. T.
Travis, Jacksonviiie; Mrs. John W.
j Shattuck, Billie Shattuck, Tyier;
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Moseiey, Mr. and
Mrs. W. E. Shattuck, Mr. and Mrs.
Forest Hasseii, Mr. and Mrs. Aiex
Biack, Winford Biack, Mr. and Mrs.
Robt. Shattuck, Rusk; Mr. and Mrs.
^ Chester Gipson. Mexia; Mr. and
Mrs. Biii Cleary, Kiigore.
CARD OF THANKS
Words are inadequate to express
our thanks and appreciation to our
many friends for their thoughtfui-
ness during the recent iiiness and
! death of our dear wife and mother.
'The floral offering was beautifui. 'or
which we are gratefully appreciative.
R. W. Towniey and Family.
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