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THE ALTO HERALD
[MAR & SON. EDtTORS AND PUBHSHERS
1896
SUBSCR)PT)ON PRtCE. $2.00 PER YEAR IN CHEROKEE COUNTY. $2.50 PER YEAR O'J.StDE COUNTY.
THE ALTO HERALD, ALTO, TEXAS, AUGUST 9, 1956
NO. 9
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Giancing
Around
By Frank
Guest Wrtter
p. Hendrick, pastor of
[ethodist Church, is our
er for this column this
are his comments
and other things of
impression of Alto—
ago when I saw Alto
iirst time I liked it,
Hi reared in Shelby
ar Timpson, I liked
; Texas towns, and Alto
! me as being a typical
ed the compactness of
was smail, you knew
own. I liked the big and
homes that one sees
Mto, no matter from
ection he approaches it,
colonial type homes
become land marks
bmmunity. Atto has at-
good churches and
Mich is one of the great-
i of any town. It seems
[i have always looked
being pastor of your
ne day. I believe it was
thought those dreams
to be realized, how-
I went to Annual
that fait, I was not
Ito but was sent to Ful-
Houston, instead. I had
bop Smith speak of Alto
always with words of
hen I did not come to
hfess I was disappointed.
; I had one of the best
J of my ministry at Ful-
Bsorved them six years.
having been a minister
&!e better than thirty
Save realized my dreams
come to Alto as pastor
ethodist Church. I hope
that we may have a
torate here. I beleive if
Ke will give me their
! and support we will
Aito Soon to fake
On Mew Look
1 may comment a little
Lbout my impression, I
Ke to offer a little friend-
I don't like the red
have here and I am de-
know that plans are
By to top these dirt
^iich I am sure will get,
ne of the dust.
DNLLMIE
STAKE!) SOUTH
FROM ALTO
Site for a 5.500-foot Woodbine
test has been spotted eight miles
southwest of Atto by Garrison
Driiiing Company, Dallas. It is to
be No. ! Southern Pine Lumber
Company. 600 feet from the south-
east and 330 from the southwest
tines of an 80-acre lease in tho
Stephen Burnham survey, Chero-
kee County.
Location is in the old Southern
Tine pooi area which has had con-
siderable prior dritling.
BEN P.POLK
NED !N WELLS
THURSDAY
Ben P. Potk. 70. of Woi'ls. passed
away suddenty early Thursday
morning of !ast week at the H. C.
Potk, Sr., residence in Wells.
Funeral services were held at
2:00 p. m, Friday in the Forest
Baptist Church with the Rey. J.
E. Johnson, officiating, assisted
by the Rev. Gene Tomlin. In-
terment was in the Mt. Zion
Cemetery. Cipson Funerat Home
of Lufkin, was in charge of alt
arrangements.
Born in Houston County, Texas
on February 26, 1886, Mr. Polk
had lived most of his life in
Wetis, where he was a retired
farmer.
He was a member of the Forest
Baptist Church.
Survivors include one brother,
H. C. Potk, Sr., of Wells and a
number of nieces and nephews.
[be sticking my neck out ]
I do not like the color
Cethodist Church. I hope
we can give it a new
paint and change the
color may suit you.
is your privilige, but I
ke a color with a little
) in it.
tc the Editor of the Her-
) h Stating that the sanctuary
church had been air-
d that you should come
eh now and if you didn't
sermon you eould take
yhile the preacher preach-
l true that wc must have
in a building, but I be-
} would be better to be a
Of the church rather than
f y McClendon, former
Director of the Aito
oots. was here Saturday
[ out cigars to his many
His wife had just pre-
'a with a six pound boy.
F ' Grady Singletary is a
M . hoy bom to Mr. and
!y Cariton Singletary
^ The youngster weighed
'"'s at bk-th. Mother and
^ doing nicely and Grand-
Singtetary still denies
^ <n otd man.
Mrs. C. H. Lenard
the birth of a baby
pr born Monday night,
[ 9 at the Rusk Memorial
She weighed eight
) and two ounces and has
atned Annette.
L!TTLE LEAGUE
PLAYOFF BEGINS
NEXT WEEK
The Littte League Baseball
ptayoff. composed of Atto and
Rusk teams, wit! open their piay-
off series Tuesday night at Rusk,
with the Atto Dodgers playing the
Rusk Red Sox.
Thursday night of next week the
Aito Senators will tangte with
the Rusk Giants. This game wil
atso be at Rusk. Att games start
at 7:00 p. m.
Friday night the two winners
of the above two games will P ay
to decide the championship of the
'' Th'^e are eight teams in the
league, six from Rusk and
from Alto, and the tatter city has
both their teams in the ptayoff. as
they were in the first division at
the end of the season, the Senators
at the head of the league and the
Dodgers in second spot.
The world is a great place: stand
on any street corner and watch
the couples go by.
Real estate changes in Alto
during the past few weeks wiil
cause this city to take on a "new
took" before many days.
It all started when the Gulf
Refining Company purchased the
Tittle lot and the Stribling and
Lyons buiidings on the southwest
corner of Highways 69 and 21.
When Mr. Stribling sold his
buitding he immediately pur-
chased the briok building across
the street from C. A. Gipson and
moved his store to this new lo-
cation. This sate also called for
new offices for the Southwestern
Electric Service Company and
they teased a building from H. M
Tread weii on the north side of
main street and now have nice of-
fices there. The Johnson-Shattuck
Insurance Agency has been moved
to the Brunt-Whiteman Ford
building.
Lyons Butane Co., and Furni-
ture store has moved to the
Yowell building on the south side
of main street and now have a
very attractive store in their new
tocation.
Postmaster Dudley Lawson was
advised this week that the post
office department had selected
the O. T. AHen lots on the
corner immediately across the
street from where the post office
now stands, and work will start
on this new building which will
be 30x60 feet, just as soon as all
the red tape can be gone through
and straightened out.
Frank Ed Weimar has pur-
chased the two brick buildings
immediately east of the Herald
building from Mrs. M. J. Hogan
and these buildings are slated for
a face lifting at an early date.
Durward Rogers has purchased
the George Dowiing building and
stock of merchandise and the
latter is now being retailed out at
cost and less as Mr. Rogers wishes
to get the goods out so he can
renovate the building and move
his grocery and market in the
new location.
The new T. D. Littie brick store
building on north Highway 69 has
been completed and the merchan-
dise moved into the new building.
This adds much to the attractive-
ness on the northern part of the
business district.
When atl of these deals are
completed and activity starts on
new buildings and renovation
starts on the ones recently pur-
chased, it will mean more labor
put to work and the business
section of town will present a
much nicer appearance.
Several of the stores on main
street have already done some
work on their store buildings and
painted the fronts which make
them look neater in appearance.
Alto Methodist Church
T. P. Hendrick, Pastor
Church School Sunday morning
9:45 a. m.
Morning Worship 11:00 a. m.
M. Y. F., 6:30 p m.
Evening Service 7:30 p. m.
Choir Rehearsal Wednesday,
7:30 p. m.
Wesleyan Service Guild Second
Tuesday in each month, 7:30 p. i.
AUTO TAXES
GO UP BUT
R!DECHEAPER
Passenger car owners in Cher-
okee County have begun to pay
their share of the $50 billion
road-building program recently
set in motion.
By next Juiy, when the fiscai
year ends, they will have paid
$79,000 in increased taxes.
The figure is based on an esti-
mate by the U. S. Chamber of
Commerce. It is the product of the
number of cars in operation in
Cherokee County and the average
tax rise per car.
Motorists will pay an additional
$8.60 a year, on the average, finds
the Chamber pf Commerce.
The butk of this will come
from the added federal tax of one
cent per gallon of gas. Other
levies, such as the 60 per cent in-
crease in tire taxes, will make up
the rest.
The auto owner's burden may
be enlarged still further at a later
time as state and local govern-
ments get into the act. They will
have added costs, too, due to the
highway development, which will
be passed on to the motorists.
Truckers will also help pay for
the new roads. In addition to the
gas levy, they will be paying
more for equipment, including
tires, as well as a new tax on
F!RE DESTROYS
PRATER PR!CE
HOME HERE
The home of Mr. and Mrs.
Prater Price and all of its con-
tents was destroyed by fire here
Monday about midnight.
According to best available in-
formation a member of the famiiy
was cleaning the stove with gaso-
line when the gas became ignited
and resulted in a flash fire and
went out of control quickly.
The Alto Fire Department was
called but the home was enveloped
in flames by the time they arrived
and nothing could be taken out.
The family lost all of their
clothes, only those that they had
on at the time of the fire.
It is stated that no insurance
was carried.
Paving Program
Mow Underway
trucks weighing
pounds.
over 26,000
PRESENT
BENEF!TS
,,^r.PRWAY—Pictured above is a large main-
oAt/tNG PROGRAM U"?E"WAT ^
K'r grated by Fioyd L.ndsey ^ to be paved in
1 nf isphait topping This t <.an progress. Ptans
^Othejs^ and then the business district.
Washington - President Eisen-
hower signed 3* bill August 1 to
lower the social security benefit
age for women and disabled work-
ers, a short while after he had
criticized some of its provisions as
"unwise."
The Democratic-sponsored law
would benefit nearly 6 million
women, disabled workers and
needy persons.
It lowers the 65-year retirement
age for women to 62 and permits
permanently disabled workers to
start drawing benefits at age 50.
The administration had opposed
both these provisions and there
had been some doubt that Eisen-
hower would sign the bill.
The President told a news con-
ference earlier that he considered
it "unwise" to saddle the social
security system with "something
I don't think should be there." But
in signing the bill he expressed
hope that it would advance the
economic security of the countty.
To finance the extra benefits,
social security payroll taxes for
53 million workers, employers and
self-employed persons will be
boosted by about 850 million dol-
lars annually starting next Jan. 1.
Besides making the first dent in
the retirement age in the system's
20-year history, the bill extends
coverage to about 600,000 addi-
tional farm owners and some
225,000 self-employed lawyers,
dentists and other professional
workers. It also includes pro-
visions to increase iederad aid for
the needy aged, blind and disabled
children.
LOT FOR POST
OFFME BU!LMNG
DES!GNATED
The post office department ad-
vised O. T. AHen this week that
they had accepted his offer for
the two lots across the street
from the present post office for a
new post office building.
The next move will be to ask for
bids on the construction of the
buitding which is to be 30 feet
wide by sixty feet long. It is ex-
pected that these bids will be
called for within the next two
weeks.
This is the time of year to go to
work early and get off early, or at
least to get off early.
CHEROKEE
SLATED FOR
TAX REFUNDS
Austin.—Cherokee County will
get $48,675.89 from the state
gasotine tax fund next month.
Most of the money will go toward
retiring Cherokee's old county
road bonds; the rest will be avail-
able for construction of county
roads.
It's Cherokee County's share of
$7.3 miltion to be distributed by
the state in September to Texas'
254 counties. The amount each
county gets is determined by a
formula based on population, road
mileage and other factors. The
money is distributed once a year
by the Board of County and Dis-
trict Road Indebtedness.
Bonds involved are those is-
sued prior to 1939 to finance
right of way purchases for roads
which later became state high-
ways.
Of Cherokee County's total,
$35,288.56 will be applied to bond
payments. That leaves $13,387.33
available for road construction.
The bond payments are made di-
rectly by the state board. The
construction money will be sent
to the county, with the road com-
missioners deciding how it will be
used.
Of the $7.3 million state total.
$2,544,931.87 will go toward
bond retirement, $4,755,067.13
toward construction. In 23 coun-
ties all the money will be in
bond payments. In 84 counties
which have retired the old bonds,
all the money will go for road
work.
COURTHOUSE
ROUND-UP
Marriage Licenses issued:
Rondal Lynn Jones and Lillian
Lenora Young.
John Holland Irwin and Miss
Nora Frances Cline.
Henry J. Paui, Jr., and Miss
Vonda Lynn Vaughn.
Bobby Joe Dudley and Miss
Barbara Jane Cummins.
Kenneth Ray Helms and Miss
Sunny Terrell.
Granvei L. Wilson and Virginia
Arlynn Brown.
John Alvin Watson and Miss
Cloyce Nell Pike.
Tommy Spencer Kent and Miss
Geneva Ashley.
Fred Charles Eiiington and
Miss Charlotte Isabeil Hiener.
Harold L. Thompson and
Claudie Mae Falks.
Divorce Granted:
Motvin Faye Cooper has been
granted a divorce from Chester
Cooper.
District Court Cases Fited:
Celia Ann Haberte vs. Gerald
Haberle.
Ester Clemons vs. Jim Ciemons.
Dorothy Dale vs. Marvin Dale.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Banks of
Wichita Falls, spent the week-end
with Mr. and Mrs. Tom Banks.
After much planning by the ^
I city council of Alto, the street
j paving project finally got under- !
way here Monday morning when j
work started on the school street,
beginning at the Baptist Church!
and running south to the south- I
west corner of the school grounds [
j and thence over to Highway 69. j
Cutting ditches and getting the
road bed ready for the asphalt
has been going on ait this week,
and when completed a double coat
of asphalt will be laid on this
street.
Just what street will be next
has not yet been fulty decided,
but now that the work has started
there wiil be no iet up until all of
the streets in Alto that see active
service witl be paved.
When this project was started
plans were formutated to get curb
and gutter on all of the paved
streets, but there was sufficient
opposition on most of the streets
to cause the city council to give
the matter up and go ahead and
pave the streets. No doubt, some
of the property owners along these
newly paved streets will
curb and gutter, but as of
now, it was impossible to get it
done on ati streets as a unit, so
the plan was abandoned for the
time being.
VETERANS'
LAND FUNDS
RETURNED
Mrs. Jo Frances Weimar is in
San Antonio this week, attending
the State Conference for Voca-
tional Homemaking Teachers.
T!MEF0R
SPORTFANS
TO WAKE UP
Notice has gone out that the
Alto Quarterback Club will meet
at the City Hall the last Thurs-
day in his month for the first
meeting of the season. At this
gathering new officers will be
elected for the ensuing year and
plans laid to back up the Alto
High School Yellow Jackets in
every way possible.
The Quarterback Ciutb is the
main dependence of the Jackets
in many ways and it is hoped to
have a larger membership this
year than last.
The Jackets were Regional win-
ners last year and they received
the full support of the Quarter-
backers which helped to make
this possible.
We have a new coach this year,
Mr. Johnny Roberson, a former
coach of the Elkhart Eiks, and he
witl need the encouragement of
everyone in Alto to put a winning
team over again this year.
Make your ptans now to attend
this first meeting of the Quarter-
back Club on Thursday, Aug. 30.
Your help and attendance at this
meeting witi be appreciated.
HARPERGETS
$200 AWARD
FOR GOOD WORK
Richard B. Harper, Field Repre-
sentative of the Tyler Social Se-
curity office, was presented with
a $200.00 cash award, Loye M.
Copeland, Manager, announced to-
day. In approving the award,
James H. Bond, Regional Director
of the U. S. Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare, said it
was "in recognition of your su-
perior work performance as n
field representative in the Tyler,
Texas district office." Harper was
cited for his commendable per-
formance of duties in the field of
public relations.
Harper has served Cherokee
County, as representative of the
Social Sccurtty Administration,
for the past five and one-half
years. He is also well known in
the rural areas of Cherokee
County for his work with the
County Agent's office in the or-
ganization of rural communities.
Mr. and Mrs. Travis Brooks and
sons, and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Brooks. Jr., and daughters of
Lufkin. were Sunday guests in
the Arthur Brooks, Sr., home.
State recovery of veterans' land
funds eventuaily could total $3,-
000,000.
An Austin district court has
just awarded the state $112,742
from a South Texas dealer. This
brings the present recovery total
to $1,770,000.
Still pending are suits involving
another $1,130,000.
This recovery program has
been a mammoth job. Few people
realize how intensive this investi-
gation has been. "Investigations
of the Land Office and the Vet-
eran's Land Program," says Atty.
Gen. John Ben Shepperd, "have
been tho most extensive and
thorough in the State's history."
Latest reports irom the At-
torney General's office show that
35 cases have been filed, 24 have
been tried, and the state has won
them all. Twenty-three grand
juries have been active in 18
counties. Every transaction of the
Land Office has been checked.
Over 200 witnesses have been
calted in to testify. And every
bidder on every type of lease has
been contacted. *-
How thorough the investigation
has been is indicated by the fact
that the bank accounts and in-
come tax statements of employees
of the Land Office for the past
ten years were voluntarily sub-
mitted and carefully examined.
In addition each of the 16,000
veterans who purchased land
under the program has been con-
tacted. Also the 3,000 whose ap-
plications had been denied.
A totat of 800 depositions and
30,000 questionaires were exam-
ined and four separate courts of
inquiry held.
Making independent investi-
gations have been the FBI, In-
ternal Revenue Department, U. S.
Post Office, State Auditor, De-
partment of Public Safety, five
Legislative Committees, the AG's
office and the American Legion.
DAMEL162,000
AHEAD IN RACE
FOR GOVERNOR
Senator Price Daniel this week
thanked the 622,000 Texans who
gave him an overwhelming lead
in the first primary race for
Governor, putting him more than
162,000 votes ahead of his run-
off opponent.
"This is the widest iead a can-
didate for Governor ever has had
in a run-off," Daniei said. "I am
confident that, with hard work,
we can win a landslide victory on
August 25."
Daniel, a native of Liberty
County, maintains his family
home on a small ranch near his
birthplace and is a member of
the REA.
His program also includes
stepped-up research into proposals
to create additional water sup-
plies, such as conversion of salt
water and artificial "rainmaking."
Daniei said that as Governor
he would "put the full power of
the State Government behind our
farmers and ranchers, to help
them regain their fair share of
the national income and to help
them fight the worst drouth dis-
aster in our history."
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Cooik and
children arc vacationing in New
York City.
Mr. and Fisher Harrison and
daughter, Sammie Kate, spent
Sunday in Dallas, visiting with
Mr. and Mrs. Carios Murphy.
Sammie Kate remained for a
weeks' visit.
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