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THE ALTO HERALD
lished !896
60th Wedding Anniversary Celebrated
Alto, Texas, Thursday, April 14, )966
Number 46
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Rev. and Mrs. E. E. Roark
celebrated their 60th wedding
anniversary Sunday, Aprit 3, at
the home of their son, Elbert
Roark, 404 Larel Lane, Nacog-
doches.
Mrs. Roark is the former Ida
Wallace of Palestine.
Rev. and Mrs. Roark were
tEA NEEDS A COMMU- married on Aprii 5, 1906, in a
home ceremony at the home of
Mrs. Roark's sister.
They have four daughters,
Mrs. Ruth Petty, Jacksonville;
Mrs. Modiena Porter, Nacogdo-
ches; Mrs. Lucius Cooper, Pasa-
dena; and Mrs. Eddie Bee Vin-
THINK THAT THE
*q44].?TrER? Several wesks ago
)/] ] ] .h and his wife attended a
of Commerce meeting at
Jons Club house with over
^ d people attending. The
A will only seat about 90
iHlLl! was not only a crowded
but the president of the
of Commerce did not
hair to sit in while the
?aker was talking. The
is Club have had several
Ajietings during the year
from ninety to a hundred
Agent
candles, a 4-tiered wedding cake
with miniature bride and groom.
Mrs. David Roark presided at
the cake service and Mrs. James
Roark and Miss Sue Vining al-
ternated at the punch service.
Mrs. Eddie Scroggins regis-
tered the guests at a table dec-
orated with white azaleas.
Open house plans at the home
place were cancelled due to ill-
ness.
Funeral Services Held
Wednesday For
R. D. (Bcb) Bailey
and David Roark. Nacogdoches;'
iD,-,.^7.., J Bailey, 72, of Wells were held at
James Roark, Baytown and „ w . ^ ^ Tn i
Trr. t D t 3 p. m. Wednesday m the Falv—
Joseph Roark, who is now serv- ' - t ** *t. j- nu u
^ - it. * - ^ Memorial Methodist Church,
mg m the A.r Force m L.bya,, ^ gaitey was born in Chero-
North Aftica. kcH County, December 20. 1893 and
j had resided in Wells all of his life
ing. Rusk. Four sons, Elbert
The couple have 22 grandchil-
attendance which creates! ^ren arid 15 great-grandchildren.
S'nce their marriage. Mr. and
Mrs. Roark have lived near
Alto. Mr. Roark is weil known
locally as a Pentecostal minister,
who now has retired. He preach-
ed for 56 years.
The children honored their
parents with the celebration. All
of the children wre present ex-
l. The young people need
*"nity center to have their
and other activities. A
5h was held Monday
ie meeting started at the
Hall, which is very small,
y ved to another building
, —. o proved to be too small,
ed r lesing had to be held in the
there was not a building
CITY tthst would hoid the two
people attending the
. p I We have a live wire Lions
lest DOt growing Chamber of
e and we think that this
bad need of a community
) serve, not only these
'at need meeting places,
nther meeting that needs
i in this area. WHAT DO
INK?
PERCENT
JCTM3N IN
) FIRE RATE
ate Board of Insurance
ounced a two per cent
in the fire insurance
for Alto which will
savings of some $217 if
amount of insurance is
is year as last.
y rate is the basic pre-
$100 of fire insurance
determined by a system
and credits applied
state agency checks on
fire hazardss protective
^Sj^nt and other factors.
,^!t rate for Alto was re-
?*om 43 to 41 cents, with
^ 'r" charge being 10 cents
" tng a wholly volunteer
" artment. Credits were
* having a booster truck,
atch service, arson re-
ty/^/MCremen's training school
.. teaching fire prevention
/? M/M and principles of fire
in the schools.
Auxiliary
, Officer*
ower-L^
ewertt r^ ,egu!ar meeting of the
er mac ^uxiUary ^
three g April 1, the following
were re-elected to serve
i eiim-' ensuing year:
p for' ent, Hansford Quarles;
r mo- l-President, Mlttie Find-
id the c'. Vice-President, Gertie
;ee foM Secretary - Treasurer.
Lee Carter; Conductress
triotlc Instructor, Mary
onald.
officers elected were:
ain, Odessa McCiure;
!, Lillie Stanley, Lester
y Tand Nona Crawford;
b g Pearl Lenard; Historian,
^^#ison.
of installation of officers
announced at a later
ar meetings are held «n
t Tuesday night of each
st 7:30 tfclodic.
He was a retired rancher and a
member of the Falvey Memorial
Methodist Church.
Mr. Bailey was also a member
of the Wells Masonic Lodge and
a member of the Weils Chapter
of the Order of the Eastern Star.
Survivors include two sons, M.
D. Bailey of Wells, and Robert D.
Bailey of Houston; four sisters,
cept Joseph, and most of the j^rs. Minnie Jones of Wells, Mrs.
grandchildren were there. ^ Gordy Linville of Houston, Mrs.
Out-of-town guests were two: cinra Bobbitt of Dibcll and Mrs.
nieces and their husbands, Mr. Hattie Jones of Wells; four grand-
and Mrs. Meivin Sessions. Alto children.
and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Bow-
man, Baytown. Beta Sigma Phi Sorority of
The table was beautifully dec-, Rusk will have a rummage sale
orated with a silver epergne! Paturday, April 16 from 9 a. m.,
filled with pink carnations,! to 4 p. m„ at the old Mac Phar-
white stock and other Spring tracy building, next door to
flowers and four lighted while Cherokee Theatre in Rusk.
Engagement And Wedding Announced
Funeral Services
Held Friday For
V. S. Reed
Funeral services for Virgil S.
Reed, 74, of the Cold Springs
Community, were held at 2 p.
m. Friday in the Coid Springs
Methodist Church with the Rev.
John Derr officiating. Burial
was in the Alto City Cemetery
under direction of the O. T. Allen
and Son Funeral Home.
Mr. Reed died Wednesday of
last week in a Lufkin hospital
after an extended iilness.
Mr. Reed was a native of
Overton, but had iived in the
Cold Springs Community for the
last 60 years. He was a retired
farmer and rancher and a mem-
ber of the Methodist Church.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs.
Alice Reed, Aito; a son, Arnold
Reed, Dallas; two daughters,
Mrs. Vannette Johnson, Welis,
and Mrs. Hortense Pope of Ok-
iahoma City, Okia.; a brother,
Homer Reed, Alto; a sister, Mrs.
Birdweil Sory, Beaumont; six
grandchildren and two great-
grandchildren.
Pallbearers were L. C. John-
son, Richard Johnson, Jim Wil-
liams, A. J. Reed, Wylie Reed
and Rayford Reed.
Houston Astros
Play In Houston
Monday Night
The Houston Astros first
home stand of the regular sea-
son, which opens Monday night,
April 18, against the World
Champion Los Angeles Dodgers,
will feature three games with
the Dodgers, four with the San
Francisco Giants, one with the
Cincinnati Reds and two with
the St. Louis Cardinals.
The world champions will play
the Astros Tuesday and Wed-
nesday nights, April 19 and 20,
in addition to the April 18
opener. Wednesday night will be
ladies night.
Willie Mays and the Giants
meet the Astros Friday night,
April 22, Saturday at 12:15 and
7:30 in a day-night double-
header, and Sunday, April 24 at
i:30.
The Reds will meet the Astros
in just one night game, Mon-
day, April 25, and the Cards
complete the first home stand
with night games Wednesday.
April 27 and Thursday, April
28. Wednesday will again be
ladies night with all ladies re-
ceiving a one dolllar reduction on
all tickets.
Good seats still remain for
all of these games and may be
purchased at the Astrodome
ticket office, at all three Foley's
Stores in Houston, and all Trans-
Texas Airways' ticket counters
throughout the southwest.
Tickets may also be ordered
by mailing check or money or-
der to Tickets, Houston Astros,
Box 1691. Houston, Texas. Box
seats are $3.50, Reserved seats
$2.50, Pavillion seats $1.50 and
chiidren $.50 in the Pavillion
Section. Pavilion seats sold only
on the day of the game.
Mr. and Mrs. Doyie Wailace of Rusk, announce the engagement
and approaching marriage of their daughter, Arlene, to Ray Reed
Todd, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray R. Todd. Sr. of Alto The
wedding is to be an event of June 10, 1966 and wili take place in
the First Methodist Church of Rusk at 7:30 p. m. Ail friends and
relatives of the couple are invited.
STRAIGHT
FROM THE
CHAMBER POT
Plans ars being readied to
build office space for a dentist.
This will certainly be a needed
and weicome addition to our
town.
There is a most serious prob-
lem that the Chamber of Com-
merce. City Council and indi-
vidual citizens have made no
progress on. Mrs. Emma Wat-
ters has some skunks that have
taken up residence under her
house. If anyone knows how to
make these roomers move,
please let Mrs. Watters know;
t'm sure she wouid appreciate
having them move.
Oliver's building is taking
shape rapidly. That will certain-
ly improve the looks of that
r.rea.
We congratulate the new city
councilmen on a successful cam-
paign. Their work just now is
beginning and we wish to offer
our assistance in any or all of
their problems.
This weeks' column is shorter
than usual because I went out of
town for a couple of days. My
wife's brother is home before
a tour of duty in Viet Nam and
we spent some time with him.
This action over there is getting
more and more involved.
Wiliiam T. Warner,
President Alto Chamber
of Commerce.
Two Hundred Attend
Meeting Monday Night
Alto Fire Department
News For This Week
Tuesday evening, April 5, about
6 p. m., firemen answered a call
to the Carl Dickey home. A large
grease fire in the kitchen was
discovered by Asst. Chief H. B.
(Rip) McGaughey, Lawrence
Smith and Sonny Wallace. The
fire department was called, and
they removed a large pot of
grease, then began to fight the
fire on the walls with water from
the kitchen sink. The fire was
soon controlled but there was
extensive smoke damage to the
kitchen and den area. Fire Mar-
shal J. R. Merriwether, estimat-
ed damage from fire and smoke
at $350.
Friday morning, April 1, fire-
man answered a cail to a grass
fire at the REA Sub-station in
the New Hope Community. A
spark from an electrical breaker
switch had ignited the grass. The
only damage was to a few fence
posts.
At their drill April 5th,
firemen reviewed turn-out pro-
cedures, then made a hydrant
hook-up with the rural truck,
and later watched movies of
pumper races at the East Texas
Firemen's and Fire Marshal's
Convention at Jasper.
About 5 p. m., April 7. fire-
men answered a call to Wilson
Grogan's Pallet Plant. One
stack of lumber plus a shavings
pile was on fire. The fire was
quickly extinguished.
Saturday, April 9, firemen
answered a cali to the Wallace
Lumber Co., planer. They found
a shavings pile on fire and soon
had it under control.
On Tuesday night, April 12,
Alto fireman Albert Dominy,
was returning from Rusk and
was talking from his CB radio
in his car to Fire Chief Charles
L. Page at the Fire Dept. Base
Station. He discovered a grass
fire in the New Hope Community
and radioed in its location. The
truck responded immediately
and the fire was quickiy con-
troiled. Mr. Charles Roark aided
the fire department by using his
CB radio and his telephone to
relay mssages radioed from the
truck. It appears that two-way
radio communications will
greatly benefit our department.
Several individual firemen are
purchasing units for their per-
sonal cars.
The Church Of Christ
In James 3: 1 we read "Be not
many teachers my brethren
knowing that we shall receive
judgement." This was not writ-
ten to discourage us from teach-
ing God's word, but to impress
us with the seriousness of teach-
ing; recognizing that we shall
receive the greater condemna-
tion if we mis-handle the word
of God.
There are entirely too many
teachers who have never real-
ized the seriousness of their
work. They have not realized
that the misinformed teacher
shail receive heavier judgement.
A teacher may have zeal, and
be well qualified on the methods
of teaching and still be misin-
formed with the truth. What
then is needed? The Lord needs
teachers who know the word of
God, and how to rightly divide it.
(2 Tim. 2: 15). Teachers need to
realize that if they fail to teach
the truth they will mislead
others, and cause them to be
tost. (Matt. i5: 14). Teachers
need to take heed to Paul's
warnings; he says "Take heed
unto thyself, and unto thy doc-
trine; continue in them: for in
doing this thou shalt both save
thyself, and them that hear thee"
(1 Tim. 4: 16). Teacher give
these thoughts careful con-
sideration. Box 361, Alto.
—Cecil Stringer.
Card Of Thanks
Members of the V. S. Reed
family wishes to take this oppor-
tunity to express their apprecia-
tion of the love, the kindness,
and the understanding given to
them during the extended illness
and death of V. S. Reed.
May God bless each of you.
Monday night in Alto over two
hundred people met to discuss the
suit filed by Simon Trayior and
Hollie Derrett against W. P.
James, County Commissioner of
Precinct 2, over two hundred
citizens and the City of Alto
authorized the attorney for W. P.
James to prepare for their inter-
est a Petition in Intervention in
the suit. The suit filed by Simon
Trayior and Hollie Derrett seeks
to enjoin W. P. James from using
county road equipment and county
personnel from performing what
plaintiffs allege to be work of a
private nature. The citizens who
met with Commissiotmr James
were from the Alto-Forest-Welis
area and other local communities
in Precinct 2. These citizens were
of the opinion that the work per-
formed in asid precinct is in
furtherance of the public interest,
and they desire an eariy determi-
nation of their rights. Commission-
er W. P. James, aiong with the
other two candidates for the office
of County Commissioner Precinct
2, who are Horace Johnson of
Wells and Jack Byers of Forest,
addressed the group of citizens.
The other two candidates for the
office authorized Mr. James' at-
torney to name them in the Peti-
tion for Intervention.
The hearing has been set for
9:00 a. m. Thursday, April 14.
In Memorian
By C. H. McGaughey
I write this in memory of my
brother who died Feb. 21, 1966:
It was just the other day
My brother passed away
They say he's not dead,
He's just gone to stay.
He didn't weep he didn't moan,
He heard Jesus say "Come on
Home"
I have a place for you up here
And I'll be waiting and meet
you there.
He hated to leave his family so
dear,
But he told his friends he had
no fear.
He was a good son, husband,
father and brother,
Always good and true to his
mother.
We tried the Dermenol and the
Dramamaine
It would not ease that horrible
pain
They gave him a shot of the
Vistaril,
But it seemed weak as the
daffodil.
Jesus said "Son, meet me in the
blue"
I have a good job waiting for
you,
I need some help on that man-
sion fair.
So don't disappoint me, just
meet me there.
Now he lies in a grave just over
the hilltop
And many a day I go by there
and stop,
And wonder why God had to take
him away
But I'm preparing to meet him
some day.
Now as I write these lines in a
tower so high
I'm preparing myself to live in
the sky
1 am hoping to meet ail of you
there
And we'll live forever in that
"mansion" so fair.
Now if I go before you do
I'il wait for you up in the
"blue."
No sin can stop me or bar the
way
For I'm going to see "Bud"
again some day.
ALTO DEFEATS
HUNTINGTON
Alto belteo opposing pitchers
for 12 hits and 10 runs to beat
Huntington 10-7 Thursday. Al-
to's hits were made by Mc-
Gaughey, Felder, Mason, Stark,
Grimes, Dixon, Kesinger,
Adams, and Ted Steahle, who
got three hits. Dixon, Grimes,
Mason and Stark scored one
run each, while Steahie, Mc-
Gaughey and Kesinger scored
two each. The winning pitcher
was Gary McGaughey who gave
up six hits and struck out five.
Mrs. A. E. Danheim spent last
week-end in Freeport visiting in
the home of Mr. and Mrs. David
Danheim.
State Music
Convention Meets In
Arlington April 16-19
The 51st Annual Convention of
the Texas Federation of Music
Clubs will be held April 16-19 in
Arlington, with headquarters at
the Inn of Six Flags, with Ar-
lington and Fort Worth Clubs
acting as hostess groups.
Saturday, April 16, will be the
opening of the Convention with
Junior Clubs making it Junior
Day for the State Convention,
Mrs. Glenn L. Brown, presiding.
The program begins at 10:30 a.
m. with registration — Foyer-
Golden Palace. Luncheon in the
Golden Palace Ballroom. Dr.
Ralph Guenther, TCU Music
Dept. will be guest speaker. At
1:15 the All-State Junior Program
with Junior members from Alto
and Rusk taking part. Virginia
Williams, Alto, and Terry Mar-
tin, Rusk, will play the National
Junior Hymn for the State with
Suzanne Treadweli of Rusk,
leading the hymn. The young
peopie in this area taking part in
the Orkette arrangements are:
Glenda Williams, Diane Crosby,
Nealda Jones, Sharon Jones,
Donna Liles, Mary Maddux,
Carl Foster, Alto; Terry Martin,
Glenn Wilcox, John Guenzel,
Mickey McGuire, Bo Martin,
Linda Meador, Barbara Guen-
zel, Kathy Martin, Weida Jane
Hasseli, Mary Ann Hassell and
Mary Ellen Guenzel, Rusk; with
Suzanne Treadweli directing the
group. Virginia Williams will
play the piano part. Mrs. Annie
E. Fenner of Alto, is the 6th Dis-
trict Counselor and is serving on
the Board of New Compositions.
Sponsors for the trip includes
Mrs. Leahmon Hassell, Mrs.
Neal Jones, Mr. and Mrs. M. M.
Fenner, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Guenzel, Dr. and Mrs. Everett
Martin. Jr., and Mr. and Mrs.
M. G. Williams.
The Convention wiil adjourn
at 3:30 with the right to attend
the Six Flags Over Texas avail-
able with 10 per cent discount to
Music Club members.
By WR. Long u*.
,-^TntmnmtMiiinMMMg
BtRt) HOUSE TROJECT
AT RUSK STATE HOSP!TAL
Stand up and take notice,
those of you who enjoy the out-
doors; and a hand salute for pa-
tients in the Rusk State Hospi-
tal. With an humble beginning
in a garden club, as therapy for
patients, and in an effort to aid
songbirds over Texas, a bird
house project is now in full
swing.
And more important, the
houses are available to the pub-
lic at a low price!
Reading about the disappear-
ing bluebird in a magazine, the
hospital officials gave permis-
sion for patients to produce the
houses as well as a variety of
feeders. Thus far they have
sold 1500 bird feeders at $1 each.
500 bluebird houses (Comprising
4 models). 20 martin houses and
20 wren houses.
One-story martin houses sell
for $2, the two-story house for
$4.
The City of Rusk has been
prociaimed a bird sanctuary,
with many appropriate signs on
public roads, and the house-
feeder-buiiders hope to see the
result of their handicraft blos-
som out over the state.
Orders for the houses may be
placed with the hospital, or by a
letter to Tyler Mental Health
Association, Beckham Terrace
Building. Tyler, Texas.
Patients are especially in-
terested in aiding the Audubon
Society in its interest and con-
servation of wildlife.
ATTENTION!
To all my customers who have
bought tailor-made suits, pants
or shirts: I have just received
the New Spring and Summer
line.
Come to my home and let me
take your measure now. Reason-
ably priced. Sundays only.
Carl A. Dickey,
100 West St.
Alto, Texas. tfc
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