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JOIN THE
H OF DIMES
}MAH & SON. ED)TOR8 AND PUBLtSHERS
gHHU1896
^HE ALTO HERALD
SHOP IN ALTO FOR
BIGGER SAVINGS
SUBSCR!PT)ON PRtCE. $2.00 PER YEAR )N CHEROKEE COUNTY. *2.50 PER YEAR OUTStOE COUNTY.
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LcoftheHeratd goes
Ecrs without the editor
e has issued this
editor has been in
[TrivisHospitatatJack-
liticc'ast Saturday, re-
fron a chest infection.
luck and the he)p of
bit.it staff, the editor
L back home by the first
^eek.
*
in,^'r arc again re-
)i,!hcycangetafree
t :m-irchilds picture
jcr.'id Office. The pic-
to be taken tomorrow
,n and six o'clock,
for the calendar.
jf,t tic child or afamily
§ti)a.:rt'n.
*
,k,nvi!!e and Lufkin
<i nitnances forbidding
i aaoting of fireworks
!:mits. after several
I'.st-rt- injured in those
the holidays. That
tMtiy in effect in the Alto
[limits, but it shouid be
spread out and take in the
itv:imits. asit is just as
to shoot them at home
main street.
iiih ALTO HERALD, ALTO, TEXAS, JANUARY 13. 1955
Photos For TEXAS FARM
NO. 31
Local Childr
en
Tomorrow
i)ries of several business
Aito reveals that 1954
biggest year in history
tne of trade. That state-
^nid not be doubted. The
d State Bank statement
t there is over a million
deposit in that institu-
[ Cherokee cittzens who
tn buying their automo
kse early in order to get
t to match their telephone
I are out of luck this year,
in Cherokee County
with J-900, according
^rs Singletary, tax asses-
4s numbers this year will
on white background,
he purchased after Feb.
not to be used until
v
utcman and son, War-
.htn Bauman and
tor.: left early Friday
h t week for Old
[f-'t a ttunting and fishing
re allowed to take
let]:; each across the
nd ;ire allowed to bring
i'.ick, which means of
h t; we will have to take
r i for what they killed.
^ h end of the deal they
they arc able to and
P' .l!baok.
#
h! 'y in the Tyler Mom-
h about Whit Lanier
-Tcttes and starting
Bmwn Mule brings a
' mind that Phi! Dibert
t' nt of. whit was raised
^ Mule and quit chawing
mi-[) the "white collar"
' he newspaper game,
sf'. ci al outstanding ac-
''< s in his home town
[' ' ' he joined the third
! !er. He was one of
' ' 'to growers in East
^ n he was Chawing
) he could drown a
pares. It was no
' f <r him to step to the
dewalkand spit in
y*" ' 1 the other side of ithe
"i" ' too much effort.
(Friday) is the day t
set to take the children's pictures
and give them a frtv- ptcturc on <t
1955 calendar.
As stated previously, there is no
cost for the calendar with your
child's picture on it. You cat- of
course, buy more picture, if you
want them, but this one on the
calendar is complimentary from
the Alto Herald.
The Welt;; Studios representa-
tive will be here this one day
only, from 10:00 a. m. until (!:00
p. m. to take these pictures and if
you want one of the free calen-
dars with your child's picture,
you should come to the Humid
office on this day and between the
above hours.
It often seems to parents that
children are little one minute and
are grown up the next, so fast
does a child's growing stage ])css.
Here is a splendid opportunity to
catch a likeness of your child at
the present stage for the pleasure
you will get out of it in future
years and for the pleasure you
will enjoy seeing it on a calendar.
There is no charge to the par
ents. There are absolutely no
strings to this invitation. It is
bonafide in every sense of the
word. Parents do not have to be
subscribers, nor even readers of
this newspaper to take advantage
of this feature and receive a new
portrait calendar. Neither are they
obligated to purchase pictures
after they are taken. Those who
want some additional prints may
obtain them by arrangement with
the studio representative when
they select the pose they want
printed on the calendar.
So the Mothers and Fathers of
this community in which this
paper circulates should remember
the date January 14, from 10:00
m. to 8 p. m.. and not fail to
bring their child to the photo-
grapher. You will be mighty glad
afterwards that you did when you
see your child on that new 1955
PORTRAIT CALENDAR.
MISSIONARY AT
BAPTISICHURCH
SUNDAY NIGHT
On Sunday night, Jan. 16, at
7:30. the First Baptist Church will
have as its speaker, the Rev. John
Parker, who is one of our Mis-
sionaries to Chile. He and his
^ ife have done a great work
there and he has been in the
States for several months. He was
at Pincywoods Baptist Encamp-
ment last summer and endeared
himself in the hearts of Me
people. 1 assure you that your
heart will be blessed when you
have heard him. He brings an in-
spiring message and will give you
a new vision of Foreign Missions.
Come and hear this fine Christian
Missionary and man of God.
J. B. Ousley, Pastor.
SMALLEST^
STATE DRAFT
QUOTA
up for solution. The representa-
tive plans to resume his regular
-weekly ltters to the Alto Herald boards have an
and other newspapers, telling of
activities of the legislature from
the outside.
r ' tead is Cherokee
' m for the 1955
Danes. Mr. Milstead,
^ ' the 1954 emergency
said that with the
- Salk polio vaccine
elopments, he hoped
f' v. would be the last
March must seek
'mior amounts. The
'' h of Dimes workers
^ koff meeting last
Rev J. B. Ousley
r ' local drive again this
Doctors at Nan Travis Hospital
in Jacksonville are working this
week in an attempt to save the
eye of a Ponta man. Bryon T.
Parsons. 38. is expected to lose
the sight in his right eye after it
was injured Tuesday by a flying
nail as he and another man were
laying flooring. Parsons was
struck by a nail being driven by
his co-worker. Because the eye
injured severely, doctors
feared that Parsons would not see
out of it again. They were hoping
removal of the eyeball would not
be necessary.
The price of e^yl gasoline went
up a half-cent in Cherokee Coun-
ty this week in most stations. The
pattern was set by Humble Ot
and Refining Company when it
announced that a new improved
gasoline with higher octane was
going on the market in the place
of the previous Esso Extra. The
new product was priced a half-
cent higher. Other brands also
raised their prices the same lew.
but some still retained the older
level. The price of regular gaso-
line was unchanged.
Austin, Texas, Jan. 12.—The
smallest state draft quota in more
than two-and one-half years was
announced recently by Brigadier
General Paul L. Wakefield, state
Selective Service director.
The quota, for February 1955,
calls for the induction of 597 men
into the army during that month.
It is the smallest call for men
since June 1952, when Texas was
asked to supply 384 men.
The February 1955 quota will
be broken down and sent to the
state's 137 draft boards during
the first week in January, the
state Selective Service director
said.
There will be no quotas issued
to local boards for pre-induction
physical and mental examinations
in February, since the local
ample supply of
**' Cherokee Coun-
^ 'ative in the Texas
""<s at his des<k hi
! ''y for the opening of
r'* ' w session. Glass, a
tator, expects a busy
^ 'th water, highways.
' "ate institution# and tax-
TT ont major problems
examined and acceptable men for
the "immediate future," General
Wakefield said.
The quota of 597 Texans for
February is the state's share of a
national call for 11,000 men dur-
ing that month. This is compar-
able to a state call for 1,249 and
a national call for 23,000 men in
January.
With the exception of volun-
teers, the February 1955 call will
be filled only with registrants
who on February 1 are at least 20
years and one month of age.
The average age of men now
being inducted in Texas is just
above 21 years. Currently, around
48 out of every 100 men the draft
boards are sending are volunteers,
and many of these volunteers, are
below the age of 20.
BEE LANDRUM
JOINS API
STAFF_
Auburn, Ala.. Jan. 13—Bee
Landrum of Alto, has joined the
staff of the API Agricultural Ex-
periment Station as assistant ag-
ricultural editor, according to an
announcement by Dr. E. V. Smith,
dean and director.
A 1950 bachelor of science
graduate of Texas A. & M. Col-
lege, Landrum recently was a re-
^ . o T Pinks at Rusk, j porter for the Lufkin Daily News,
tendent ^ aidjLufkin. Texas. He previously held
records i positions as reporter for the Fort
Worth Star-Telegram; editorial
assistant, Texas Agricultural Ex-
periment Station; and associate
county agent, Texas Agricultural
PRICES SHOW
suonjasE
Austin, Texas, Jan. 13.—Mid-
December prices to Texas far-
mers edged up one point from a
month earlier to 260 per cent of
the 1910-14 base, the United
States Department of Agricul-
ture reported.
Lower prices for cotton and
citrus offset price increases for
most other crops. Higher prices
for cattle, calves, tunkeys and
eggs more than offset decreases
for other livestock and livestock
products.
JOE TURNER
MED THURSDAY
MTES SATURDAY
Joe William Turner, 70, died
Thursday morning of last week in
Anderson Hospital at Houston.
Funeral services were held
Saturday afternoon at three
o'clock at the Lynches Chapel
Church. The Rev. Bauman, Bap-
tist minister of Weches, of-
ficiated, and was assisted by the
Rev. Bailes of Cleveland and Rev.
J. B. Ousley, pastor of the Alto
Baptist Church. Interment fol-
lowed in the Lynches Chapel
cemetery with O. T. Allen and
Son, funeral directors, having
charge of the arrangements.
Mr. Turner is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Sarah Turner; one
son, Ager Turner of Cleveland;
one daughter, Mrs. Jack Vaught,
Diboll; one brother, Roe Turner of
Ratcliff; and two grandchildren
and one great-grandchild.
FOUR KILLED IN
TRAIN-TRUCK
WRECK
IMtarch Of Dimes Drive
Underway This Month
Cherokee County educators are
busv this month in the annua
school census. I^cal counts w.ll
forwarded to county superin-
be
State records
figures from the county
based on the actual number of
school-age boys and girls -
races Superintendent Bank.
net. I- ofti" '°r
the proper assistance
state.
We believe in advertising; you
might, too, if you gave it
trial.
real
Extension Servtce.
As an undergraduate at Texas
A & M., Landrum was a staff
member of "Battalion." student
newspaper; and staff member
and editor of the "Agriculturist,
the son of Mr. H. S. Lan-
drum, Route 3, Alto.
A crack Missouri Pacific
streamliner smashed into a truck
in which five women and girls
were jammed Monday, killing
four of them and critically in-
juring the fifth.
The victims were Mrs. Forrest
Walling, about 35, of Grapeland,
and three of her daughters—
16-year-old Virginia and three-
year-old twins, Pamela and Paula.
Her nine-year-old daughter,
Nancy, was given emergency
treatment in Crockett and rushed
to Houston for brain surgery.
Earlier reports had listed Mrs.
W. A. Curry, 33, of Elkhart and
a sister of Mrs. Walling, as a
fatality in the accident, but it
later developed that Mrs. Curry
had not been in the truck.
George Darsey, Jr., has a store
about half a block from the
crossing where the train, the
Texas Eagle, bound from St.
Louis to Houston, hit the truak.
"I was working in frontt of the
store," he said. "I heard the train
whistle and looked up. About that
time I heard a bump.
"It didn't dawn on me what
had happened until I heard a
second bump. The truck had
caught on the cow-catcher of the
diesel (locomotive) and had stay-
ed there until it hit a mail crane."
The crossing where the train
hit the truck is a block from the
Grapeland station. The mail
crane, from which a moving
truck can pluck mail bags, is
halfway between the station and
the crossing.
"That (the mail crane) finished
demolishing the truck," Darsey
said. "There were people all over
the roadway when I looked up.
None had lost limbs, as far as I
could tell, but they were all
banged up."
The woman and four girls were
jammed into the cab of the truck
cn route to Grapeland high school
which Virginia attended. The
weather was cold and the win-
dows of the cab were closed
tight.
Grapeland is a flag stop for the
train but it did not plan to stop
there Monday.
There are times when our .peo-
ple are called upon to contribute
to many worthy causes. January
wilt be remembered as the month
for the March of Dimes. This
year has been a year that some
of you will remember in a spec-
ial way. So let us not tatke lightly
the Campaign that is now on in
our nation. You hear over the ra-
dio and will see on television,
calls and urgent requests to re-
member in a special way the
March of Dimes.
In our town and community
you will see in the store windows
reminders, and coin collectors
which will ask you to give. In
many places of businesses you
will be reminded to give. Why
not open up your thinking and
help provide for a preventative
and for the care of those who
have already been stricken. Polio
was on the march right here in
our community last year. We do
not know but the same could
happen again, who knows?
This year we are called upon
to give as we have never given
before. Our county will retain 50
per cent of the receipts this year,
whereas, last year we could keep
only a third. The Foundation of
our county is ready to help
wherever there is need. No one
has been denied that needed help.
Then let us think about the day
that we can have a preventative
against Polio—it may come sooner
than we think. Great progress
has been made toward that goal.
At this time there is nothing
definite and we cannot say that
we have found the preventative
for Polio. If you have read your
papers you have noted that there
is something in store that will
make us glad that we had a part
in helping to bring about that
which we all look forward to
knowing—that the preventative
has been found.
Several million dollars is being
spent toward this goal and it
looks like that within a reasonable
time, we may hear the good news.
I have been selected to head
the drive here in Alto this year.
Here-to-fore, the people of our
town and community and school
have responded in a great way
and we have gone over the top.
Let us not fail to reach the top
again and do our best for a great
cause.
On January 31, in the evening,
we will have "THE MOTHERS'
MARCH ON POLIO" drive again,
this will be the last night of the
drive and the mothers of our
town and community will again
go out to receive your gift on that
night.
May we ask the organizations
of our town, business houses,
cafes and stations to do your
part and help us render a service
to humanity. Would it not be fine
for us to have a special ball game,
or special event to help in this
worthy cause?
We can win as we work to-
gether and can go over the top
together.
J. B. Ousley, Chairman.
.March of Dimes, Alto.
Rev. J. B. Oustey, Locat Chairman
POLLTAXESMAY
BEPAIDINALTO
AND WELLS
For the convenience of tax-
payers of South Cherokee Coun-
ty, sub-stations have been made
possible in Alto and Wells where
citizens desiring to pay their poll
.taxes may do so in these respec-
tive towns and not have to go to
Rusk.
In Alto, R. R. Stribling has
been authorized to issue poll tax
receipts at the StriMing Hard-
ware. In Wells, William Bailey
has authority to issue them there
This location is at the Bailey
Chevrolet Station in that city.
Watters Singletary,
Tax Assessor-Collector
Cherokee County.
NEW PLANT
LOCATEDIN
JACKSONVILLE
Texas Baptist Genera!
Convention Met !n
Marshall Tuesday
The Joinit Convention of the
Texas Baptist General Conven-
tion of District I and II was held
at the East Texas Baptist College
in Marshall on Tuesday, Jan. 11,
beginning at 10:00 a. m.
Mr. Dexter Riddle of the Col-
lege was in charge of the music.
Some of the program personalities
are: Dr. E. S. James, Editor of the
Baptist Standard; Dr. H. D.
Bruce, President of East Texas
Baptist College; Rev. D. D. Sum-
rail, State Evangelistic Depart-
ment; Rev. James Dixon, Gregg-
ton; Rev. Martirr Wedge, Nacog-
doches; Mrs. L. W. Terrell, Pales-
tine; and Rev. Bill Croak, Nacog-
doches.
Separate Executive Board
meetings of District I and II were
held at 4:00 o'clock.
J. B. Ousley, Pastor
First Baptist Church.
A huge pipe began sucking up
loads of shavings from lumber
mill trucks in Jacksonville this
week, and a huge press mashed
the shavings with 1,350 tons of
pressure to squeeze them into 4x8
sheets of waterproof hardboard
The Wynncwood Products Com-
pany's new plant just south of the
city of Jacksonville provides jobs
for thirty persons, and its vice-
president, Tom B. Johnson, says
orders will require around-the-
clock production.
The boards are used for office
fixtures and furniture, tabletops
drainboards, cabinet work and
scores of other items. The first
boards from the plant were to
line the offices of the company.
Extra-thin inlays can be press-
ed on the boards in any of 82 pat-
terns with no danger of "bleed-
ing" through of original grains.
The shavings are taken from
the trucks and sent through a
hammermill to fiberize them.
Powdered resin is added as a
binding agent, and the resulting
mixture is placed in flat pans
slightly larger than the finished
product is to be.
The material is sent through the
75-ton machine which applies
1,350 tons of pressure through oil
hydraulic gears. The shavings are
mashed so tightly the hardboard
results. The boards then are
trimmed and made ready for
shipment.
Boards to receive the inlay are
sent back into the press, where
the inlay is mashed on.
All of the operation is auto-
matic, and the boards are not
touched by human hands until
they are stacked in the inventory
shed. Each pan of shavings and
resin is weighed and measured
automatically.
4 CHEROKEE MEN
CALLED FOR
SERVICEINFEB.
The following men from Cher-
okee County were inducted into
the Army 6n January 3, 1955 and
were forwarded at Ft. Bliss, Tex-
as for their first eight weeks of
basic training:
Edward Osburn Hassell, Rt. 4,
Rusk. (Volunteer).
Doyie Edward Hanvy, Rt. I,
Alto. (Volunteer).
Frank Newburn Scruggs, Rt. 2,
Jacksonville (Volunteer).
Archie Benjamine Lindow, J"r.,
Rt. 2, Jacksonville.
James Wiley Lee, Rusk.
Lewis Marvin Acker, Jackson-
ville.
David Lee Wellborn, Gallatin.
Only four men will be forward-
ed for induction from this coun-
ty on February 1. Volunteers will
make up most of this cali. No
Armed Forces Physical Examina-
tions are scheduled for the month
of February.
RITEMtjRMRS,
INEZ GIBBINS
HELD TUESDAY
Mrs. Inez Gibbins, 33, died
early Monday morning at John
Scaly Hospital in Galveston, after
a long illness.
The remains were returned to
Alto and funeral services held
Tuesday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock
at Old Palestine Church, with the
Rev. W. L. Jones of Quitman, of-
ficiating, assisted by the Rev. Wil-
lie McClure of Alto. Interment
followed in Old Palestine Ceme-
tery, with arrangements in charge
of the O. T. Allen & Son Funeral
Home.
Mrs. Gibbins is survived by her
husband, Edgar Gibbins, and two
small children; three brothers,
Archie Goodman, Chireno, Delton
and Claude Goodman, Mansfield;
three sisters, Mrs. Vera McBride,
Nacogdoches, Mrs. Odie Gibbins
and Mrs. Willie Wallace, Alto.
TWO CHILDREN
RECEIVE SECOND
DEGREE BURNS
Edith Troy Berry, 2, of Rusk,
and Rita Kay Yarborough, 16-
months, of Dialville, were treated
in a Jacksonville hospital last
week after suffering painful sec-
ond-degree burns in their respec-
tive homes.
Hospital attaches said the Berry
child sat in a pan of boiling water
in which her mother was prepar-
ing to wash clothing.
It was a pulled-over coffee pot
'that caused severe burns to the
Dialville baby. The hot coffee in-
flicted second degree bums to the
Yarborough child's face and
shoulders.
LLIOn NAMED
ON LOCAL
DRAFT BOARD
Alto might as well make up its
mind to fight out its own battles
without waiting on some indus-
trial Santa Claus to furnish em-
ployment for the people here.
Austin. Jan. 10.—Forest B.
Elliott of Jacksonville was in-
formed today that he has been
appointed a member of local
dnaft board No. 19 at Rusk.
Mr. Elliott was appointed by
President Eisenhower after being
recommended by Governor Allan
Shivers. He was advised of his
appointment by Brigadier General
Paul L. Wakefield, state director
of Selective Service.
"I am sure your membership on
this board will reflect great credit
to yourself and your state and
nation," Genera! Wakefield wrote
Mr. EMlott.
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