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THE ALTO HERALD
L. WEtMAR A SON. EDtTORS AND PUBLISHERS
BUSHED 1896
SUBSCR)PT)ON PRtCE. $2.00 PER YEAR tN CHEROKEE COUNTY. $2.50 PER YEAR OU.S!OE COUNTY.
Gtancing
Around
By Frank
may save a little time
^ we dare to wonder
: on earth
tvxwrth
resting six feet under
#
n^iaincrs are already coming
jout young men driving too
t ov r the newly paved Alto
!. Especially is this true of
Street, leading to the school
t. Five hundred children
ig this street every day
se so-called "fast drivers"
tlty aware of this fact. It is
of every citizen in Aito
only complain about this
ous practice, but to get the
!of the drivers and the num-
^ :hc car or cars and turn
Tinto the law in order that a
^iiMS might be levied. The
iters behind the wheels of
cars are well aware of the
tat they are liable to kill
t:hitdifthe practice con-
and the time to have it
Hi is now and not wait until
fli'tte boy or girl gets kiHed.
*
kittle school girl was killed
enderson Monday after-
tjust after she had alighted
{n school bus. The bus was
g still and the child had
around in front of it,
across the road when a
me whizzing by, striking
id throwing the body more
6 feet. This is another in-
where speed did not pay
tomplaints are still coming
it youngsters speeding up
w school street, throwing
laid rocks in all directions,
minted question now is:
!th:s condition be allowed to
iue until some child is hurt
ted. or stop the practice now
the accident happens?
*
Heraid has continually
d" about free mail de-
but the government de-
i good streets, street
on each corner and
r on the houses. The big
has been jumped. Now
t the signs up and the
numbered. Besides the
^icticc, it will add about
Cr month to the post office
Let's get it.
*
[you ever notice Coach
r Robinson at a football
When his team is on the
wit! walk up and down
of the players bench
)<Knnacigar. There is no
} how many he chews up
ja game, but it is plenty,
arned that while watching
he was coach at Eik-
Rd he had not lost the art
Replayed Garrison here
May night. That boys' cigar
be terrific!
through some old
hits a few days ago we
a strip of "Non-Highway"
p''n stamps. These were
!by the gas ration board of
County, of which we
t member during World
These stamps were issued
for gasoline irons, gas
other gas utilities about
'c This recalls a story of
firmer in this section
before the Board for
with the statement
had over a hundred
of sweet potatoes to plow
M them to town as he
!y sale for them if he
'ke the delivery the fol-
He needed gas for
P'"' *o plow them up and
" his pick-up to bring
' <wn. That came under
m emergency and we
ve the stamps. The next
n the morning, he left
!*"nehof
THE ALTO HERALD, ALTO, TEXAS, SEPTEMBER 13, 1956
NO. 14
Alto Street Paving
Project Completed
OVER"—On the left in this picture is Mayor
Ftank Ed Weimar of Aito. Right is Chester Moore of Lufkin, who
heads the Moore Construction Co., the firm that has been paving
tiie Alto streets for the past two weeks. These two young men have
worked hard on the project and gave a sigh of relief as the job was
completed Tuesday night. They are pictured here on Mills street
that runs from the Baptist Church to the public school. This was
one oi the first streets completed.
Cherokee's 1955Rating
Highly Commended
hunters in his
H headed for the big
A" in Liberty County.
M)ili games played at
fall will be re-broad-
P* Saturday morning at
Pock over KLTV at Rusk,
same on Friday night
^business tfinms are spon-
[the broadcast.
Cherokee County's fiscal affairs
are in good shape, according to
the East Texas Chamber of Com-
merce.
Cherokee County, in a tax sur-
vey, has been awarded five star9
out of a possibie six for its opera-
tion in 1955, the regional body
says.
Cherokee County ranks above
average and wins a star in these
catagories.
1. Operating fund tax rate not
above state average.
2. Ait funds operated on a cash
basis.
3. The county operated within
its budget.
4. Net debt per capita not above
state average.
5. Collected 95 per cent of cur-
rent taxes and or 100 per cent of
current and delinquent.
But in the sixth, "Ratio of net
debt to assessed valuation not
nbove state average." the county
failed to rate a star.
The survey noted that there are
1,452 miles of county roads, with
36 per cent having gravelted or
better surface.
Actua! expense was listed at
$486,568.69 for the year, and the
1956 expense budget is given as
$634,685.80.
The year, the chamber noted
that Cherokee coliected 101.66 per
cent of its current budget, which
means more collected from the
delinquent roll than went on the
roll.
Current tax collection was
$158,924.39. or 89.1! per cent, but
total collection was $179,390.01 for
the year ending in mid-55.
The report showed assessed
valuations climbed from $^'34°-'
020 in !946 to $24,866,073.59 in
19S5 Rate increase in that period
J'
WELLS CALVARY
BAPTtST REVIVAL
BEGINS SEPT. 16
The fall revival of the Calvery
Baptist Church at Weils will beg n
. sout 16. and continue
^tgh Sunday. Sept. 23. Servi-
^ii 'e conducted each morn-
S at 8:30 and each evening at
730' s-.n^mrtv to direct
SSg^K:
"^st^Texas Baptist College and
,he East Texas HP ^
served as p. -r-ming to Ms
,„„r,h.3 ^ grL,„
Pf"!° BIT'-'" Ch"""
the Sunset Av<*"? his
has made rap'd gr°wt"
leadership.
a net ratio of 3.12 per cent,
against a state average of 2.13.
The report showed the assessed
valuation at 50 per cent of actual
value whereas 10 per cent would
come nearer to the actual value.
It was in this net debt ratio Cher-
okee County failed to rate a star.
The net debt per person, how-
ever, was favorable, with $21.74
per capita debt, counting the pop-
ulation at 35,700. The state aver-
age is $29.14. The per capita debt
average in East Texas is $34.19.
Cherokee County has for years
rated four or five stars under the
rating system, which is considered
a tribute to the county's business
management by the commission-
ers court, the county auditor, tax
collector, treasurer and others
having to do with the fiscal af-
fairs of the county.
FARM BUREAU
MEETS AT RUSK
MONDAYMGHT
Gene Leach
The Cherokee County Farm Bu-
reau wili meet at Rusk next Mon-
day night in the district court
room. This meeting will culminate
a membership drive that has been
underway for the past thirty days.
principal feature of the meeting
will be an address by Gene Leach,
Texas Farm Bureau Legislative
Director, who has charge of
directing policy development and
policy execution activities for the
Texas Farm Bureau.
Mr. Leach is an East Texan,
having been bom in I^ilgore and
graduated from the schools there,
later attended Tyler Junior Col-
lege where he graduated in 1949.
The same year he entered Sam
Houston State College where he
received his B. S. Degree in Vo-
cational Agriculture.
He became affiliated with Texas
Farm Bureau iin January 1954,
serving as fieid representative in
the south plains area until his ap-
pointment to his present position
when that post was created in
January 1955.
Final wotik on the street paving
program in Alto was comipietcd
this week and the city now has
approximately six miles of paved
streets.
The work was done by the
Moore Bros. Construction Com-
pany of LUfkin, and has been
under the direct supervision of
Mr. Chester Moore, senior member
of the firm.
Width of the paving varies, run-
ning from 18 to 24 feet wide, de-
pending upon the width of the
street.
We wish it was possible to give
the exact cost of this paving job,
but certain conditions prevent us
doing so, but we can make this
statement. The streets were paved
at about one-third of what it
would have cost had it been under
private contract.
This paving movement was
started several months ago by the
mayor and city council at their
meetings, and Mr. Moore came up
from Lufkin and attended most of
these meetings. As time went on
and the pian to pave the streets
took form, Moore became as en-
thusiastic about it as the city dads.
Through discussions at these
meetings, he learned how the city
expected to finance the movement
without any extra taxes or bond
issue and he joined them in worth-
ing out plans to hold expenses
down to a minimum. The more
he met the different members of
the council and mayor he became
as enthusiastic as they were.
When the plans were all finally
worked out he moved his road
machinery and crew into Alto and
went to work. They had never
asked him what he was going to
charge, he asked for no contract,
there was no bond put up by
either side, no cost of an engineer
or attorney. He just knew his
business and had learned that Alto
wasa town that paid its debts and
he was satisfied to go ahead and
do the work.
He has done an outstanding job.
There was no skimping of ma-
terial. The Alto streets were pre
pared by County Commissioner
Prentiss Burroughs with Floyd
Lindsey doing most of the grading
work, and Moore and his crew
'following it up with a heavy shot
of oil on each street foil owed by
a liberal shot of asphalt topping
and has given Alto a complete set
of streets that will last for many
years.
Concerning the cost, the Herald
has been given permission to state
that the expense was borne by the
city from some funds that were
available and they borrowed the
rest from the bank to finish the
job.
It is the biggest improvement
program that has been put on
since the waterworks and sewer-
age bonds were voted in the early
twenties, and could be done be-
cause of the wise and prudent
manner in which the mayor and
council handled the city money
during the past few years.
Citizens of Alto are delighted
with the improvement and many
have come forward voluntarily
and paid back taxes that they
owed the city and more have sig-
nified that they expected to do the
same thing.
It only goes to show what can
be done when all heads get to-
gether harmoniously without any
personal gain in the making.
REGtSTERED PROFESStONAL
NURSES TO MEET
The members of District Nine-
teen of the Texas Graduate Nurse
Association will be entertained
with its annual banquet on Tues-
day evening, September 18, with
a Smorgasbord at the Liberty
Hotel in Jacksonville.
Sincc the group has not met
since June, the nurses will look
forward to this meeting.
Reservations should be remitted
before September 18 to Mrs. Jante
Gibson, 541 Canada, Jacksonville.
Ralph Crawford left Sunday
for San Antonio, where he has
accepted a position with the Dur-
ham Business College in that city.
NGHWAY
PATROLMEN
WANTED
Applications for appointment
as Texas Highway Patrolmen
wili be accepted from the present
time until October 15, according
to an announcement by Col.
Homer Garrison, Jr., Director of
the Texas Department of Public
Safety.
Examinations for the men
qualifying will be given state-
wide during the latter part of Oc-
tober and those scoring the high-
est will enter the recruit training
school next January.
Garrison said that appoint-
ments will be made to fill the
additional positions authorized the
last Texas Legislature and to fill
existing vacancies caused by pro-
motions and resignations.
Salary of patrolmen is $315
monthly, plus longevity. They are
also paid during training. Other
benefits include annual leave and
benefits of the State Retirement
System and Federal Social Se-
curity.
General requirements for ap-
pointment to the State Highway
Patrol include: 21 to 35 years of
age, inclusive; minimum height
of five teet, eignt mches; weight
in proportion to height; excellent
physical condition; and high
school education or equivalent.
In addition, applicants must be
citizcns of the United States and
residents of Texas for at least a
year immediately prior to filing
of the application. They are also
subject to a rigid character in-
vestigation.
Application blanks or further
details may be obtained by writ-
ing to W. J. Elliott, Chief, Texas
Highway Patrol, at Austin or by
contacting the Captain in com-
mand of the nearest Patrol Dis
trict.
SEEK SENATE
Austin. — Gov. Ailan Shivers
said Thursday he would not be a
candidate for the U. S. Senate
when he leaves office next Jan-
uary.
He indicated he would tell his
future plans "within a few days"
—probably on his return late
next week from a southern gover-
nors' conference at White Sulphur
Springs, W. Va.
The governor told newsmen
with a smile that he and his fam-
ily had been looking at houses in
both Austin and Houston, but
"found them pretty expensive."
Shivers said he would like his
family to make its home at Wood-
ville, site of "Magnolia Hills," a
Tyler County farm home.
Mrs. Shivers and the children
objected on grounds that Wood-
ville is fine in the summer, but
if they "live there the year around,
they couldn't go there in the
summer," he said.
Alto Drops First
Game 13-6
The 1956 football season opened
here iast Friday night with the
Aito High Schoo! Yeiiow Jackets
meeting the Garrison Bulldogs in
a non-conference tilt. The Jackets
came out on the little end of a 13
to 6 score.
As was to be expected in a first
game, there was lots of fumbles
and miss-piays by both teams, but
the contest showed definitely that
Coach Johnny Robinson has the
material for a good football team
and with a little polishing up be-
tween now and October 12 when
the Jackets play their first con-
ference game at Madisonville, he
will have a team on the fieid that
will be very definitely classed as
a good prospect for a district
winner.
Garrison came to Aito Friday
night rated as the underdog for
this particular game, but from
the time the whistie blew for the
opening kick-off until the end of
the game, the Bulldogs showed
that they had been badly under-
rated by the sports writers. They
TEENAGED BOYS
CRED!TED!N
TRIO'S ARREST
Arrest of three persons by Hous-
ton detectives and Cherokee
County sheriff's deputies have
cleared two attempted store bur-
glaries in Wells, according to
Sheriff Allen Dotson.
Dotson identified the men Mon-
day afternoon as Robert Jerald
Grimes, 20, Pollok; Edgar Billie
Martin, 19, and Jessie Ray Hall
also 19, both of Pasadena.
Dotson said Grimes was con-
victed of theft of a school bus
during the last term of district
court in Ruak and had received a
suspended sentence.
AM three will be bound over to
the grand jury.
The trio attempted to burglarize
the Rube Sessions and the Burkes
store at Wells about 11 p. m.
Wednesday, Dotson said, and a
group of teenaged boys observed
them in an alley carrying a sack.
The boys found a screen off and
a window broken and opened at
one store and another screen rip
ped off at the other.
Dotson and his men went to
work immediately and picked up
Grimes at his home. After he
signed a statement admitting the
attempted burglary, Dotson said,
he learned who the other two were
and cailed Houston officers.
Harris County detectives arrest-
ed the other two in Pasadena the
next day. All of them have signed
atatements admitting they entered
one building and were about to
enter the other but were frighten-
ed by the boys. Nothing was
taken.
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TOP AND BOTTOM—Pictured here is the top and bottom of the
Alto High School Yellow Jackets. Big felhiw on the letft is Coach
Johnny Robinson and the tittle fellow on the right is Donald Wayne
Carter, mascot. They have been standing off looking the Jackets
over at a practice tilt. Coach Robinson, chewing a big cigar, astked
Carter: "What do you think of'em Carter?" Carter rubbed his
stomach, squinched his eyes over at the perspiring boys on the
'ram, then looking up at the Coach said: "Dunno, but I guess with a
more fat off and a little more polish on, they'll come out a ball team."
"I'll buy that Carter, I beMove they will too, but remember, as a
Mascot you have to rub your rabbit foot hard and bring 'em lots of
luck." "O. K., will do." says Carter. Carter, who was mascot last
year, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Grogan. He gets a great kick
out of his job.
have a very good bail diub.
Opening the game Garrison re-
ceived the kick-off and moved the
ball to mid-fieid but lost the ball
on downs. The Jackets moved the
bail to the 10 yard line, but were
stopped by the Buildog line.
Fumbles shifted the ball around
several times in the later moments
of the first quarter.
In the second quarter, Garrison
drove deep into Alto territory as
Buddy Pierce, spirited right half,
followed the charging right side
of the Buildog tine. The Bulldogs
lost to the Jackets, but quickly
gained possession of the ball by
forcing the Aito squad to punt.
A pass off of the hands of
Quarterback Ben Byrd to Steve
Hartt sent the Buiidogs 34 yards.
Pierce charged through the line
for 11 yards and scored from the
one, several piays later. Extra
point try was no good.
Time stopped the Jackets from
a scoring threat as half time was
called.
Alto received the ball on the
kick-off and drove across for
their only score. The score was
spearheaded with runs by Doug
Maddux and a pass from Jerry
Gilcrease to Maddux. The score
was made on a 28 yard pass from
Wallace Gayie to George Williams.
Claude McGaughey's try for ex-
tra point failed.
After the ball changed hands
several times, late in the third
quarter, an intercepted pass from
Aito's Williams to Bulldog Dan
McNair set up the finai score for
the pack. A pass from Byrd to
Steve Hartt sent the squad for 56,
and Byrd fired another to Bobby
Reneau for the touchdown. Mc-
Nair's try for extra point was
good. Garrison 13, Alto 6.
Alto's Townley, Gilcrease and
Maddux tried to follow holes
opened by linemen Steed, Clifton,
James, Hopkins and McGaughey,
but were not able to cross the final
stripe.
A Jacket attempt for pay dirt
was snuffed out on the 10 by Gar-
rison's charging Stokes, White,
Russell and Hopper. The cloctc
ran out with Garrison holding the
ball deep in its own territory.
MRS. MAY
WMJAMS
MED FR!DAY
Mrs. May Williams, 61, wife of
George Williams of this city, died
at the family home in west Alto
Friday morning about 9 o'clock.
Funeral services were heid
Sunday morning at 10:00 o'clock
at the family residence, being con-
ducted by the Rev. Marshall
Hampton, former pastor of the
Alto Methodist Church. Inter-
ment was in the family burial
ground at the Bronson cemetery,
near Bronson, Texas, under the
direction of the Stribling-Smith
Funeral Home of this city.
Besides her husband, Mrs. Wil-
liams is survived by three daugh-
ters, Miss Ruthie May Williams,
and Mrs. Lula Sue Bartlett, Alto,
and Mrs. Beth Thomas, Austin;
one son, Pete Williams of Hous-
ton; one sister, Mrs. Co^bit James
of Bronson. Three grandchildren
also survive.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Vann are
the happy parents of a new baby
daughter, born Friday, Septem-
ber 7 at the Memorial Hospital in
Rusk. The ldttle lady weighed six
pounds and six ounces and
been named Geneva Joyce.
Vann will be remembered
friends and school mates as Miss
Edwina Palmer.
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