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. WEIMAR & SON. EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS
THE ALTO HERALD
LISHED 1896
^ ^ Gtancing
Around
By Frank
^]to Quarterback Club will
ay a 14-foot Blue Star
uti boat, Mercury Mark
P. motor and Husky
[Friday night at the half-
riod of the Atto and
a football game. If you
vc a ticket, see or call
Boyd, president of the
any of the Atto Quartcr-
;b members. Jim Bill also
the club members to be
, turn in aU unsold tickets
icy to Bill Neal Shattuck,
- than Friday morning,
t and trailer has been on
^ at local filling stations for
: month. Go by and take a
this 'wonderful gift and
cket and help the Quarter-
nub. the money will be
a worthy cause.
*
; pass from Doug Maddux
prgo Williams in the !ast
of play set up the only
wn for the Jaokets Friday
Elkhart. The entire team
ie touchdown in the last
I of ptay on a quarterback
which found the
! pushing the Elks over the
for the only score of the
Coach Robinson was a
from cigarettes and all
)to fans came home with
indigestion. The game
[defense battle all the way,
ery boy on the Jacket team
heads up football every
} the game. It was truly one
bu read about and seldom
kvirming score the last play
[game.
*
[Junior Jackets, coached by
[Tod Moore, play at Elkhart
(Thursday) at 7:30 p. m.
^ckots defeated the Junior
larlier in the season. The
[jackets have won four and
By one game thus far in the
re ttsing the remainder of
otumn this week to try
!p the voters in the National
Tuesday, November 6.
t'xan and free American
you may vote any way
asc. The Texas Press Ser-
e., explains it this way:
people are trying to raise
'chnicalities about the bal-
3 to tell you that unless
in a certain way, your
AiH not be counted.
is dimply not true,
knowledge of our system
:rnment tolls you truly that
!rp"se of an election is to
'ou the opportunity to ox-
'oursolf.
your right and your
Sc as a citizen of the United
of America.
can vote the Democratic
straight.
can vote the Republican
straight.
'ou can split your ticket,
way you vote, your ballot
counted.
v that governs the way
P ' !' vote is simple and
! W your preference may
vote as suggested below,
"'*t will be counted.
voting precinct does not
' ' machines, and if you
' vute for Eisenhower and
' a spiit ticket, for ex-
' is what you do.
< *ne through the names
y -n and Kefauver in the
tic column and leave the
' ' - Eisenhower and Nixon
^ ' Publican column.
" ark out or leave the
! in and candidates ac-
" your chioce.
) ' -tc a split tidket for
Jt^on Kefauver, run a
f'* '"Hh the names of Eiscn-
and Nixon in the Republi-
^nn and leave the name
'n and Kefauver in the
ratic column.
f" " ark the other part of the
[ ^ choose.
' also vote for Bisen-
' Nixon by writing their
*the Democratic column,
Faking out the names of
and Kefauver, if y<M
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $2.00 PER YEAR IN CHEROKEE COUNTY. $2.60 PER YEAR OUtStOE COUNTY.
TIIE ALTO HERALD, ALTO, TEXAS, NOVEMBER I, 1956
NO. 21
SFA To Ho!d Homecoming
Saturday November 3rd
Nacogdoches.—Stephen F. Aus-
tin State College hotds its twenty-
fourth annua! homecoming cele- <
bration Nov. j with a day-long
progrom highlighted by the ap-
pearance of a nationally-famous
orchestra.
Sponsored by the SFA Ex-Stu-
dents Association, the celebration
opens with a downtown parade
that morning and concludes with
34 ALTO
STUDENTS MAKE
HONOR ROLL
The following students are on
the "A" Honor Roll of Alto High
School for the first nix weeks of
this school year. This requires
that they make "A" in all sub-
jects as well as "A" in citizenship:
Betty Moake, Margie Day, Sue
Tullis, June Arnold, Martha
Moses, Bonnie Lloyd, Sonja Bau-
man. Jo Ann Findley, Carolyn
Jeter.
The following students are on
the "B" Honor Roli for the first
six weeks of this school year.
This requires that they make "B"
or better in their subjects with
an average of "A" in citizenship:
Glenda Davis, Jerry Moore,
Martha Sue Maddux, Shirley
French, George R. Williams, Rosa
Lee Rice, Lois McGaughey, Rich-
ard Townley, Kay Asher, Mary
Quarles, Scharla Arnold, Jerry
MoCarty, Linda Steed, Yvonne
Wallace, Melvin Hahan, Shirley
Derrett, Jalna Whiteman, Birda
Dixon, Ethelda Black, Ida Pearl
Haney, Joyce McGaughey, Dor-
othy Dover, Merry Cosper, Rena
Todd, Barbara Harris.
ALTO BAND TO
PLAY !N SFA
HOMECOMING
The Alto High School band will
participate Nov. 3 in the twenty-
fourth annual homecoming cele-
bration at Stephen F. Austin
State College.
Max Neel announced that his
band will be one of nearly fifty
from East Texas high schools
joining in the celebration. It will
participate in a morning parade
through downtown Nacogdoches
and at the SFA-SUL Ross foot-
ball game that afternoon.
During the halftime activities
at the gJme, the bands will be di-
rected by Fred Waring, nat.onal-
,y.famous radio and Revision
star, who composed the SFA
Alma Mater song. Warrng and
Pennsylvanians will P^nt _a
concert the night of Nov. 3. h^' i
lighting the homecoming celcbra-
"The Alto band is composed of
more than 50 members
a dance that night. In between
will come a luncheon meeting of
the alumni, the SFA-Sul Ross
football game, and a concert by
Fred Waring and the Pennsylva-
nians.
The Waring concert, which
starts at 8:15 p. m. in the new
gymnasium, is designed for family
entertainment. It will feature the
entire cast of more than half a
hundred stars of moticn pictures,
radio, stage, and television.
The parade will feature nearly
half a hundred high schools and
college bands and that number of
floats. And the SFA orchestra, di-
rected by Jimmie M. Hudgins,
will play for the dance.
In charge of homecoming ac-
tivities are these officers of the
Ex-Students' Association: Jerry
Sadler, of Percilla, president;
Homer Bryce, of Henderson, first
vice-president; Mrs. Savannah
Cross Lockey, of Troup, second
vice-president; Mrs. Madge Stal-
lings of Nacogdoches, secretary-
treasurer; and Dr. Lawrence T.
Franks, of Nacogdoches, executive
secretary.
LOCAL WOMAN'S
FATHER KILLED
!N 'DOCHES
Dewitt T. Caveness, 64, was
killed instantly while working on
the Southern Pacific railroad
about 11:30 a. m. near Nacog-
doches Friday.
Death came when the veteran
railroad man was struck by a
steel rail being unloaded from a
car.
He was bom in Cherokee Coun-
ty and had lived in Rusk the last
25 years. A veteran of World War
I. he had been a railroad employe
since 1919.
Rites were held at 2 p. m.
Sunday in the Presbyterian
Church at Rusk with the Rev.
Shirley Gutherio officiating and
burial in Cedar Hills cemetery.
Survivors are his wife, a son,
Lewis Caveness of Rusk; two
daughters, Mrs. Ray Davidson of
Beaumont and Mrs. J. H. Pear-
man, Jr., of Alto; a sister, Mrs.
Alice Smith of Tumey; five
brothers, C. C. Caveness of Jack-
sonville, E. E. Caveness of New
SummerHeld, Waller Caveness of
Houston, Jaak Caveness of Ta-
hoka, and Sherrell Caveness of
Fort Worth, and one grandson,
Bob Pearman, of Alto.
Engagement And
Approaching Wedding
Announced
''*A*ballot so marked Will bo
counted: (Attorney General
Opinion No. V-1531)-
Of course, the reverse n true.
nam^of Eisenhower-Nixon.
names ^ ^ names of
If you write in +ha+
the law says that
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can be ascertained rom
as they are written on ^
For instance- * ^
hower and David Eisen-
V-1531.)
)petand, visitors in tbe
baby of RUjs ' ^ during the
home of Dr. J- ^
week-end.
Mr.
of
co;
baby
Mr. and Mrs. H. G. McCiain of
Sour Lake, announce the engage-
ment of their daughter, Bonnie,
to Marvin G. Hughes, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Doyle Hughes of Center.
The wedding will tatke place in
the home of the bride, November
24 at 4 p< m*
" Miss McCiain is a graduate of
Sour Lake High School, and at-
tended Stephen F. Austin College
in Nacogdoches. . . ^
Mr Hughes attended Center
High 'School before serving two
years in the U. S. Army.
Mr and Mrs. Sam Earle spent
Sunday * Jacksonville with Mo-
tives.
Homeward Bound — Frank L.
Weimar, Publisher of the Alto
Herald, who has been in the Nan
Travis Hospital at Jacksonville
the past five weeks, will be home
the last of this week.
Conservation Board
Met !n Jacksonville
Tuesday
Members of the Neches River
Conservation Board met Tues-
day night with Jacksonville
Mayor R. C. Buckner and his City
Council, together with representa-
tives of the Soil Conservation
District and leaders from other
towns. Mr. Frank Newnam and
Mr. Carruthers of the firm of
Lockwood, Andrews and Newnam,
who are engineers for the District,
presented charts showing progress
to date on the formation of the
master plan for the Neches and
Angelina Rivers watershed.
The next scheduled public
hearing of the Board will be held
in Tyler, November 8 at 7:30 p. m.
in the Mayfair Building located
on the Fair Grounds.
Local Resident s
Relatives Killed !n
Plane Crash
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Clements,
who resided at Vashti, Texas and
operated a Bowie Fiying Service;
their daughter, Cathy Clements,
about 13-months-old, and Mrs.
Clements' parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Ernest Howard, of Bowie,
were killed in a two airplane
crash last week at Midland.
They were flying a private
plane which was involved in a
crash with an Air Force Jet plane
carrying two Air Force men. Both
men were killed in the crash.
The aircraft and bodies rained
down over a three block area.
The body of one woman crashed
through the roof of a home and
landed in a bathtub. The infant
fell in a flower bod near the
house.
Parts of the planes hit several
houses and automobiles as they
fell. Luckily no one was injured
on the ground, however, it did
heavy damage to the houses and
an automobile parked in one
of the driveways.
Mrs. Howard is the niece of
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Vining, Mr. and
Mrs. O. D. Tannery, Mr. and Mrs.
Wade Tannery, and Mr. and Mrs.
Hugh Dickey, all of Alto.
33.014TEXANS
ENTERED ARMED
FORCES
Austin.—A total of 33,014 Tex-
ans entered the armed forccs dur-
ing the first three-quarters of
1956, and 33,501 were separated
from active scrvice during the
same time.
This was revealed Friday in a
report made by state Selective
Service headquartars to the na-
tional Selective Service headquar-
ters in Washington.
Of the 33,014 individuals enter-
ing the uniformed services from
Texas during the first nine months
of the year, only 4,811 were draft-
ed, the remaining 28,203 entering
by enlistment or other voluntary
means.
PIONEER ALTO
CITIZEN PASSES
EARLY TUESDAY
W. F. Dickey, 79, died Tuesday
morning at 1:10 o'clock in the
Memorial Hospital at Rustk after
an illness extending over a period
of years. Mr. Dickey was a native
of Cherokee County, having lived
in Alto his entire lifetime. He
was a retired farmer.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock at Old Palestine Church,
the Rev. Thos. I. Beck of Houston,
officiating. He was assisted by the
Rev. T. P. Hendrick, pastor of the
First Methodist Church, Alto, and
the Rev. J. M. Schwitter, pastor
of Old Palestine Church. Inter-
ment was in Old Palestine Cem-
etery with arrangements in charge
of Cason & Monk of Nacogdoches.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs.
Pearl Dickey; five sons, Earl
Dickey, Tyler, Leonard Dickey,
Pasadena, Finan Dickey, Baytowp,
1. V. Dickey, Quemado, R. L.
Dickey, Hobbs, N. M.; a daughter,
Mrs. T. R. Stanley, Highlands;
two brothers, Frank Dickey, San
Antonio, Fred Dickey, Lilbert;
14 grandchildren and several
nieces and nephews.
LOCALMEN
SERVING IN
NAVAL RESERVE
Nacogdoches. — James Martin
Grammer, principal of the Alto
Elementary School, is serving as
executive officer of Division 8-3
of the U- S. Naval Reserve Elec-
tronics Facility headquarters at
Stephen F. Austin State College
Nacogdoches. Mr. Grammer is a
lieutenant junior grade in the
Naval Reserve.
The Reservists hold their drill
sessions each Thursday night at
SFA College.
Lieut. Grammer is a veteran of
World War II, having participated
in the invasions of Luzon, Philip-
pines, and Okinawa. He has been
a member of the Reserve Facility
since June, 1953.
Another Alto resident is also a
member of the Reserve Facility
in Nacogdoches. He is Berry
Kidwell, a boatswain's mate sec-
ond class and veteran of the Ko-
rean War. He is an instructor in
the Naval Reserve Program, and
a student at Stephen F. Austin
State College.
Mrs. C. D. Schochler's condition
is improved following an opera-
tion about two weeks ago in the
Newburn Hospital in Jacksonville,
but she is still confined to the
hospital.
Jackets Ptay Last
HomeCameFriday
The Alto Yellow Jackets will
face the only unbeaten team in
District 21-A Friday night when
they tie into the Groveton Indians
on the Alto Student Field. Game
time is 7:30 p. m.
The Indians won over the Elk-
hart Eliks 20 to 6 for their first
lOURT HOUSE
ROUND-UP
Marriage Licenses tssued:
James Harvey Hickman and
Miss Carolyn Sue Hampton.
Lee Timothy Horton and Mary
Grace Stein.
Wamen Allen Griffin and Lois
Lacey.
County Criminal Activity:
State vs. Edgar Miles, charged
with DWI, plead guilty and fined
$100.00, 3 days in jail and cost.
State vs. Frank G. Glover,
charged with theft, pending.
State vs. Nettie Mae Cross,
selling liquor in a dry area, pend-
ing.
State vs. Nettie Mae Cross,
possession of liquor for purpose
of resale in dry area.
State vs. Richard Foote, charged
with possession of liquor for pur-
pose of resale.
State vs. Nathan Donald Camp-
bell, charged with DWI, plead
guilty, fined $100.00, cost and 3
days in jail.
State vs. Ray Willis, charged
with DWI, pendiing.
State vs. Kenneth Henry,
charged and tried for DWI, and
fined $100.00, cost and 3 days in
jail.
District Court Cases Filed:
T. D. Jowell vs. Mrs. Clarence
(Thelma) Works, action for dam-
ages stemming from a wreck.
Claude C. Shackleford vs.
Traders and General Insurance
Company, action for damages on
personal injuries.
Judgments entered in
District Court:
Fae Cole granted a divorce
from Howard Cole.
Raymond Hardin granted a di-
vorce from Annie E. Hardin.
Wayne O. Gilliam recovered the
sum of $2700 for personal injuries
from Traders and General In-
surance Company.
Earl A. Cornelius was con-
victed of murdering his brother,
Ennis Cornelius and tried by a
jury and received a term of 10
years in the state penitentiary.
In the State of Texas vs. Robert
G. Grimes, the probation of
Robert Grimes revoked and en-
tencod to the penitentiary.
Approaching Marriage Announced
conference win and came back the
next week and stopped Madison-
ville 25 to 0. Last week they
handed the Trinity Tigers a 60 to
6 defeat to give them three wins
in as many starts.
The Jackets dropped their first
conference game to Madisonville
25 to 13, Week before last they
rolled over the Grapeland Sandies
53 to 13, and last week eked out a
6 to 0 score over the Elkhart Elks.
The Indians now hold first place
in the district with three wins,
and Alto, Madisonville and Trin-
ity are tied for second place with
two wins and one loss each. The
Elks and Sandies are in the cellar
with three straight losses.
The game Friday night will be
the last home game of the season
for the Jackets. They will have
one more game November 9 with
the Trinity Tigers at Trinity.
Game time is 7:30 p. m.
District 21-A Standings
Groveton 3 0 .1000
Alto 2 1 .666
Trinity 2 1 .666
Madisonville 2 1 .666
Grapeland 0 3 .000
Elkhart 0 3 .000
Results Last Week t
Alto 6, Elkhart 0. *<
Madisonville, 39, Grapeland 13.
Groveton 60, Trinity 6.
Games This Week
Groveton at Alto.
Grapeland vs. Elkhart.
Trinity vs. Madisonville.
Prizes Offered In
Child Photograph
Contest
The time is almost here for the
opening of this newspaper's Big
Child Photograph Contest, and
we're urging all of our readers
have their children ready for
the big day.
Winston B. Lucas of Irving,
Texas, will be in Alto on Tuesday,
November 13th from 10:30 a. m.
to 5:30 p. m. at the Alto Herald
office for the purpose of taking
pictures in this vicinity.
In addition to having their
pictures printed in this news-
paper, the children will be com-
peting for $18.20 in prizes, which
are being offered for the three
best photographs made during the
day.
The photographs will be made
absolutely free of charge, and
there is no charge for their pub-
lication in The Alto Herald. Proofs
will be shown and from these you
may select the picture of your
child which you would like to ap-
pear in this newspapor. If you
wish extra photographs, they may
be purchased, but no purchase is
necessary in order to have your
child's picture printed in this
newspaper, or in order to com-
pete for the prizes. It is entirely
up to you, whether you buy pic-
tures or not.
There is no age limit on the
contest, and every child's photo-
graph in this section is wanted so
that they may all appear in The
Alto Herald. However, it is nec-
essary that all pictures must be
of uniform size, so they must be
made by Winston B. Lucas on
Tuesday, November 13th.
Don't wait until little Mary gets
married or baby brother is elected
to some political office to see their
pictures in the paper—matke plans
now to have these photographs
made on Tuesday, November 13.
Tell your friends and neighbors—
the more, the merrier.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Moses of this ctity announce the engagement
and approaching marriage of their daughter, Betty, to Dan Mc-
Gaughey, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. McGaughey, also of Atto. The
wedding will be an event of Saturday, November 10 at the Cold
Springs Methodist Church, 7:30 p. m. Reception will follow the
wedding at the church. The public is Invited.
HELLO NEIGHBOR
Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Townley of
Dallas are the happy parents of a
little daughter, who arrived Oct.
23 in Florence Nightingale Hos-
pital in that city.
The young lady weighed seven
pounds and four ounces and her
name is Donna Kay.
The proud grandparent) are
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Townley of
this city and Mrs. Bessie Arrant
of Dallas. j
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F. L. Weimar & Son. The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 1, 1956, newspaper, November 1, 1956; Alto, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth215443/m1/1/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stella Hill Memorial Library.