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ALTO HERALD
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Atto, Texas, Thursday, July 2, ! 959
Number 4
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Dr. Lawrence Franks
To Install Lions
Tuesday Night
y,ught.Juty7, 7:30p.m.j
Ctub wilt instatl;
idftcers at a Ladies
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Use outgoing officers
,;n^ a gaia occasion for
J attd urge every Lion to
^ts'.ititthetr wife so that
may be occupied. It isj
td:;'PP""'menttoplanfor
Jr.,,i,wdandl)aveonlya
[: .r present that we are ]
},^i, the Lionesses (they
, ss .vt ^ uf the Lions) to get
h-tsband into his Sun-
:m) bring him atong
, , ^ir. Lawrence Frank
St.ite t'eactters College,!
< willbetheinstalt-
, , .,ad speaker. Plan now
, i,Mlayt)ight 7:30 pan.
^i ti Ulub House.
#
tnud to believe that July,
the beginning of the
ha ) of 1959, has sneaked
It is the beginning of a
year, and from this
[i,!ivatd. the days will be
; li .rter and shorter—until
bo 22. which wilt be the
, ...r. ,<1 the year. July, the
)] i of the Roman year,
Jp t . ,^-nusQuintilisbut
mlendar was changed itj
the seventh month and
[r, ; July itt honor of Julius
r. This change was made by
Anthony. In the United
the month is remembered
anniversary month of the
! Gettysburg, which oc-
j n July 1st, 2nd and 3rd,
and marked the high tide of
[C r.federacy. Juty4th, isre-
tb'jrrd as Independence Day,
mni r tsary of the adoption of
[Dn\nration of Independence.
[Hh is also the birthday an-
gary of former President
*. Cooiidge who was born at
<uth, Vermont, on July 4,
. There are many other mem-
le dates in Juiy, Hawaii
ng been annexed to the United
P' njuly7th^ 1898, John D.
!ke!ei!er having been bom at
h! rd. New York on July 8th,
I. and John Quincy Adams, the
h President of the United
M. having been born in Brain-
Quincy, .Massachusetts,
' y 11th. 1767. Also the Allied
^ M < f Europe in World War
} actually opened with an in-
fSieily on July 10th, 1943.
!< DwightD. Eisenhower
American and British
' -although this anniversary
too well remembered. July
' : ^'e birthday anniversary
\'..'han Hcdford Forrest, who
f as a cavalry leader in
^'tdLttcrate army and who
''"'"'in Marshall County,
" luty 13th. 1821.Florida!
^ ded to the United States by
l^'ninmi9 in the month of
and John Paui Jones, the
"wus naval commander, was
P n Scotland on July 18th
0nJutv27th 1866, the first
cable was successful,
' ^Kntiipt.. and America by
j^y gQth jg
" d as Crater Day, in
' memory of the battle
"g July 25th is Fron-
' ' in Cheyenne Wyoming,
'-t'-h )s Mormon Pioneer Day
' "< Utah, and the i6th
j - ttiday anniversary of
Eddy, the founder of
'"'hof Christ, Scientist,
tn at Bow New Hatnp-
^ 1821.
#
' ^'s. O. !L. Smith an-
''tiis week that they
" ' ' the Alto Theatre to
'antine of Houston,
'mded the Alto High
'served in the army
ears and for the past
' has been living in
"eand his wife and
[ 'en will move to this
time next week.
EQUALIZATION
BOARD MEETS
JULY 13
The Equalization Board of
Alto Independent School District
I will meet at the high school
j building on Monday. Juiy 13, at
8:30 a. m.
Taxpayers of the district have
been advised by mail what their
property has been assessed for
school purposes.If the individual
tax payer is not satisfied with the
vatue placed on property, it is
your right to appear before the
board. If you are satisfied, then
there is no reason for you to ap-
pear.
Lawrence Franks, of Nacog-
doches will install the officers
for the coming year Tuesday
night at the Lions Clubhouse.
An active member of the Lions
Ciub Dr. Franks is past deputy
district governor and immediate
past president of the Nacogdoches
Lions Club. And he has held other
offices in that club from time to
time. In 1957 he attended the
Internationa! Lions Convention
in San Francisco. The week-end
of May l(! he attended the District
2-S1 Convention in Orange and
James Dover.
Tax Assessor-Collector
Alto Independent School
District.
made the response to the welcome t
address bv the mayor of Orange.
Dr. Lawrence T. Franks, a
native of Stockman in Shelby
County, is the Director of Student
Placement and Alumni Service
and an Associate Professor of
Education at Stephen F. Austin
State College in Nacogdoches. He
joined the SFA faculty in 1946.
Dr. Franks received the B. S.
and M. A. degrees from Stephen F.
Austin State College and took the
Ed D. degree at Indiana Univer
sity.
A Naval Reserve officer during
World War 11. Dr. Franks holds a
reserve commission as lieutenant
commander.
Dr. Franks is a member also of
Phi Delta Kappa, the T.S.T.A., the
Nacogdoches Chamber of Com-
merce, and the Baptist church.
Officers to be installed are.
Jerry Jackson, President; Bill
Shattuck. First Vice-president;
Frank Ed Woimar, Second Vice-
president; G S. Hart Third Vice-
president; T. E. Cummings. Sec-
retary; Gus Rounsaville, Treas-
urer; Jim Biil Boyd, Lion Tamer;
Doug Bradford, Tail Twister.
Hoyt Lyons and Melvin Sessions,
Directors. Dickey Allen and Mar-
tin D. Thomas are hold over di-
Methodists Begin
Vacation Bible
School Monday
The annual Vacation Bible
School of the First Methodist
Church will begin Monday morn-
ing at 8:30 o'clock.
AH boys and girls from three
to twelve years of age are invited
to attend.
Beginning Monday morning
nnd continuing through the fol-
lowing Friday the school will
follow an 8:30 a. m. schedule,
with Bible study, music, hand-
work and refreshments daily.
Commencement exercises and
handwork display will be open
to the public, the time and date
will be announced in next weeks'
Alto Herald.
50th Wedding
^ Anniversary
Celebration July 12
Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Smith of
Palestine will celebrate their 50th
Wedding Anniversary Sunday,
July 12 with Open House at
their home between the hours of
two and four p. m.
Card Of Thanks
I wish to express my sincere
thanks to my friends for the
flowers cards, gifts, visits and
prayers while I was in the hospi-
tal and since I came home. I
want to thank Dr. Rossman and
all the nurses at the hospital and
Bro. Morgan for everything
they did.
May the Lord bless each one of
rectors for another year. ^ ^ ^ ^
The new offtce . ^ George Merriwether.
fic July 14.
^
Pictured above is the Alto Canning Plant which is now in full swing,
canning East Texas tomatoes. The local plant opened Monday, June
29 and started canning Tuesday morning. They buy shade-ripened
and vine-ripened tomatoes that arc in good condition. The plant is
located west of the Cotton Belt depot.
NEWS FROM THE CAPtTAL
By Vern Sanford
"
Austin — Much more than just'
taxes is being written now at the
State Capitol.
Political careers are being
shaped—or broken. Climate is be-
ing determined for business de-
velopment—or freeze. Cost of
living for every Te^an is involved.
That's what the edginess, tem-
perament, fussing and name-call-
ing is all about right now.
Seldom, if ever before, have
lawmakers been so sensitive to
criticism—from governor, from
press, from public.
For the first time in years, the
House met on a Saturday (June
20) to work on the long overdue
tax bill. Knuckling down had
come reluctantly — but surely—
after governor and press had
chided lawmakers for long Thurs-
day-to-Mionday recesses during
the short 30-day special sessions.
Lawmakers fussed back earlier
in that week—but they stayed
late.
For the most part, the fussing
was all bark and little bite. House
members who threatened to evict
Capitol news reporters from their
Capitol quarters and House floor
press table in reprisal weren't
taken seriously. Reporting of leg-
islative affairs is fundamental to
the democratic processes—and no
one realizes it better than do law-
makers.
In brief: pressures mounted—
a safety valve blew—and work
was resumed in earnest.
NEW TAX PROPOSAL — A 2 per
cent — "luxury tax" on items
costing more than $5o is the prin-
cipal new feature of a House com-
mittee-approved revenue bill.
Tax committee voted 12-to-6 to
send the bill by Rep. Frates See-
ligson of San Antonio to the House
floor.
Like several previous bills it
wan an attempt to compromise the
conflicts between the "sales tax-
ers" and "business taxers."It
would raise an estimated $170,-
000,000 for the biennium.
About $36,000,000 would come
from the luxury sales tax. About
$6,100,000 would come from a one
per cent severance beneficiary
tax on natural gas, and about $13,-
000.000 from increased franchise
IT'.
'O THEATRE and the
--t-HALD invites Mavis
"'fatuity to be thctr guest
,6, '' ^*''nd to see "RALLY
' 'HE FLAG BOYS".
dl be a meeting of the
footbatt ptayers
Jn'yn, at6:30p. m.. at
'Kh ehool.
C":
ath
Terry Ted Moore.
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taxes on corporations.
Rest would come from increased
levies on gross receipts of utilities
and sales of automobites tobacco,
wine and liquor.
In the showdown on taxes last
session, the House refused to ap-
prove a bill heavy on sales taxes.
Some committee members voted
against this bill on grounds that a
2 per cent sales tax, even though
it was only on $50 or more items,
would be ruinously unpopular.
A majority of the Senate how-
ever. has shown definite disap-
proval of loading too much of the
new burden on business. They
feet heavy business taxes would
shut out indusry and cut off the
source of new prosperity.
SPENDtNG BILLS RE-PASSED—
Both houses re-passed the appro-
priation bills that went through
the first special session.
They went to same conference
committee that worked before to
some $20,000,000 higher.
Conference committee report-
edly did most of the routine work
on the bilts and set them aside
until a tax bill coutd be passed to
make spending possibilities more
definite.
STILL FEUDING — Abandoned
property bill, which provoked
some of the most heated tegistative
debate this year is having its
third round.
Rep. James Bates of Edinburg,
sponsor, told the House tax com-
mittee the bill wouldn't change
the escheat laws that have been on
the statute books for years. He
declared it would make the old
taw more workable.
Bates' bilt, as introduced this
session, would require banks and
other hotding money or property
unclaimed for seven years to re-
port it to the state within 60 days
after passage of the bill.
It atso woutd give state agen-
cies authority to examine the
books and rceords of businesses
to see if they are hotding such
property.
Bankers labeled it a "free hunt-
ing license into alt bank accounts"
and "unconstitutional search and
seizure."
Bill was sent to subcommittee.
STUDENT FEE BILL MOVES —
Making progress in its second teg-
istative round is a bill that woutd
altow state colleges to require
students to pay an activity fee.
Simitar bitldiedinthe first
special session.
It would attow the colleges to
make mandatory a student fee of
$30 a semester. This would pay
for such campus services as hospi-
Mr. and Mrs. James Hotcomb i tat and medical care, book rentals,
arc the happy parents of a littte, student publications and tickets
Funera! Services
Held Wednesday
For BiH Decker
Funeral services for William
(Bitl) Decker were hetd Wednes-
day afternoon at 3 p.m. in the
First Methodist Church. The Rev.
Sam Duree, pastor of the First
Methodist Church of this city was
in charge of the services. Inter-
ment was in the City Cemetery.
Mr. Decker died Tuesday morn-
ing in Houston where he had been
working for the past severat years-
He was born in Clinton, Louisiana
November 1, 1893, and was 65
years of age at the time of his
death.
Bill spent most of his lifetime
in and around Alto and lived in
the home of Mr. and Mrs. W.T.
Whiteman. He was employed by
the Whiteman and Decker Lumber
Company untit they closed in the
earty forties and moved to Hous-
I ton and had tived there untit the
} time of his death.
Survivors include one son.
Frank Decker of Greggton, Texas.
Pallbearers were Jim Hilt,
Grady Singletary, Jim Bauman,
Jim Hargrove, J. R. Merriwether
and Frank Ed. Weimar.
Funeral arrangements were
under the direction of Stribling-
Smith Funeral Home of this city.
Don't Gamble
On Holiday
Week-End Travel
Austin — "Don't gambte on
your holiday week-end—the cars
may be stacked against you."
This play on words was made
today by J. O Musick, general
manager of the Texas Safety As-
sociation, in an effort to focus the
motoring public's attention on in-
creased dangers of highway travel
during the Fourth of July week-
end.
Musick pointed out that since
the Fourth falls on a Saturday,
this year many Texans wilt re-
ceive a holiday on Friday or Mon-
day. This wilt give famities a
chance to take short vacation trips.
"Week-end travel is normalty
dangerous enough," he said, "but
when you coupte it with a holiday
it literally becomes murderous."
For those who do ptan to make
a trip, Musick had these words of
safety advice: "There is a com-
mon saying which states that
'Accident is just another word
untit one happens to YOU!' Any
motorist witl do wett to remember
this stogan before he gets behind
the steering wheet. He shoutd re-
member, too that the most tragic
accident is not necessarily the one
in which HE might be killed. If
there is any doubt about this, ask
the person who has been in an
accident in which others were
kiited or one in which he lost his
eyesight or was perhaps, perma-
nentty crippted.
"There are many people who
relive an accident every day of
their life, through mental anguish
and physical suffering."
The safety experts emphasized
that traveters should not under-
take journeys of a greater distance
than can be driven at a teisurely
pace with allowance for heavy
traffic and other delays.
26 Persons to be Killed
In Traffic Accidents
Next Week-End
Austin.—The Texas Depart-
ment of Public Safety forecasts
ihat 26 persons wilt be kitted in
traffic accidents next week-end
when the Fourth of July holiday
creates one of the most deadly
three-day driving periods of the
year.
Co). Homer Garrison. Jr.. Di-
rector issued the grim prediction
along with an urgent plea to
motorists to "prove we have over-
estimated by maintaining un-
usual alertness to the added dan-
-gers of hotiday traffic."
He noted that the prediction of
26 traffic fatalities is one more
than the 25 victims counted in a
similar three-day Fourth of July
period tast year. The prediction
is higher this year, he said be-
cause of a definite upward trend
inmotorcides.
"Therefore, it can be said that
the streets and highways of Tex-
as will be potentialty more dan-
gerous during the celebration of
Independence Day this year,"
Garrison said.
The Public Safety Director an-
nounced that "Operation Holi-
day" will be in effect starting at
12:01 a. m. Friday, July 3 untit
midnight Sunday, July 5. During
this period all radar units avail-
able will be in operation, and the
Highway Patrol force will be ex-
panded by some 125 additional
patrolmen from the License and
Weight and Motor Vehicte In-
spection divisions.
"We witl do everything in our
power to stem the tide of motor-
cides next week-end,' he said,
"but the main job belongs to the
driving public who must guard
against dangerous driving factors
such as speed too fast for condi-
tions, drinking and driving, fa-
tigue and just general inatten-
tion."
Garrison reminded atso: "The
fatality list, already nearing the
1,000 mark at mid-year, is shock-
ing. But in addition we must re-
member the untotd suffering of
thousands of persons who are in-
jured in highway wrecks in ad-
dition to the tremendous econo-
mic toss invoived."
He pointed out that traffic
deaths are up about 10 per cent
over tast year, with approximate-
ly 100 more victims counted to
date.
This factor was taken into con-
sideration by N. K. Woemer,
Manager of the Statistical Ser-
vices Section, in arriving at the
estimate of 26 motorcides for the
three-day hotiday. Woemer re-
ported that by coincidence, the
average Fourth of July traffic
death toll over the last eight
years was 26. The highest toll
for the three-day period was in
1954, when 33 persons were killed
in traffic.
"In addition to the greater
traffic hazard, July Fourth cele-
brations involve swimming boat-
ing, picnicking and fireworks,"
Woemer noted. "Drownings, food
poisonings and burns are of high
frequency during this period. To
protect iife and property, the pub-
lic should be extra cautious in atl
their activities."
HELLO NEIGHBOR
Library News
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son, who arrived June 23 at Rusk
Memorial Hospital. The yonug
man weighed seven pounds and
four ounces and his name is
James Gregory.
The proud paternal grandpar-
ents are Mr. and Mrs. Perkins
Holcomb and the matcrnat grand-
parents are Mr. and Mrs. George
Carpenter, all of Alto.
reet of Alto looked Saturday
.sthcway'hemainstr
Top picture f""tvs "^jJ^ Day event. Bottom picture shows
afternoo')'t"''in!4""-A ' ,nc ^ ^tucky persons of the large
C, A. Gipson ^ ^cry Saturday event.
crowd that was on hand
Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Camp-
bell announce the birth of their
baby daughter, born at the Rusk
Memorial Hospital June 27.
weighing seven pounds and 12!
ounces. She has been named
Sandra De.
The paternat grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. Ottie Campbell
and the maternal grandfather is
Mr. Otiie Martin.
to athletic and cultural events.
College presidents are support-
ing the bitt. Those from smatter
schoots, partieularty, say they
need the extra revenue to stay in
the black on these activities.
Spokesmen for student groups
opposed. They said poorer stu-
dents woutd rather do without
these services than pay the fees.
Senate Finance committee
leaned toward the presidents'
view voted the bitl out by a 2-to-
{ 1 majority.
NEW BEACH BILL — Senate has
a simptified substitute for Rep.j
Robert Eckhardt's bitl to protect
pubtic beaches.
New bill says that no one shatl
get in the way of the pubtic's}
(Continued on back page)
The staff of the Stella Hilt City
Library wold like to take this
opportunity to express their
thanks and appreciation to those
who have taken advantage of the
facilities of the local library.
They woutd like to invite and
urge others to visit the library as
they feet that they have avail-
able books of alt types that would
be entertaining, informative, and
interesting to anyone who likes
to read.
Many valuable memorial books
have been ptaced in the library.
Among those recently donated
were several hundred volumes
given in memory of the late Mrs.
E. A. McKenzie. The books and
several book cases were placed in
the library by Mr. McKenzie.
A coltection of the Tarzan se-
nses, which once belonged to her
father, have been given to the
library by Sherri Treadwetl.
Since Saturday July fourth is a
holiday the library will be ctosod.
tt witl open again on July 7 and
remain open during the morning
each Tuesday and Saturday for
the remainder of the summer.
B&PW Club '
Officers !nstalled
At a regular meeting of the
B&-PW Club the fottowing of-
ficers were installed for the new
year:
President. Mrs. Mamie Lea
Carter; Vice-President, Mrs.
Berniece Thomas; Recording Sec-
retary, Mrs. Viva Scott; Corres-
ponding Secretary, Mrs. Gladys
Lawson; Treasurer, Mrs. Coye
May Allen; Parliamentarian, Mrs.
Doris Hartman. Mrs. Allen was
installing officer.
The first meeting of the new
year witl be hetd Monday July 8,
in the home of Mrs. Coye May
Allen at 7:30 p. m.
Alt old members are urged to
be present, and new members are
invited to attend this meeting in
order that the ctub witl get off
to a good start at the beginning
of the new year.
If you arc not a member of the
ctub and woutd tike to join, no-
tify any of the above named of-
ficers and they witl be glad to ex-
plain how you may become a
member.
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