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THE ALTO HERALD
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $2.00 PER YEAR IN CHEROKEE COUNTY. $2.50 PER YEAR OUtStDE COUNTY.
Alto, Texas, Thursday, December 20, !956
Number 28
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holidays.
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[have not lived a perfect
en though you may have
t your salt — unless you
tone something for someone
hll never be able to repay
-grief. Last week the Her-
nouneed that the subscrip-
{cc would be $2.50 per year
county and $3.00 outside,
tanuary 1, 1937. Explaining
B<iti. we stated that we used
$2.75 per hundred pounds
vsprint back in 1930 and we
w paying $10.90. Of course,
jotypc machine caught us
gandthe"0" failed to drop
(iiw of type and it camc t)Ut
irhen it should have read
per hundred pounds that
paying now. This only
) show that these machines
'it! mess you up if you don't
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Herald force is working to
bun? Christmas time off. As
this issue, we are already
forking on next weeks'
ivhichwill be issued on
If you have any news
hat you wish to have in
btr. we must have them
[the next two days.
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is no use in telling the
fto do their shopping early,
win be Me rush and
in the stores, and ewry-
ril', be trying to buy their
has presents. Somehow or
we don't believe they
buy early. They get a
I nut of joining in Me
f\'.ith their neighbors and
the Christmas goods that
!<:! :<l:iy in all the stores. If
lr.'. to buy leisurely, better
Thursday, Friday and Sa'.-
ttf this week.
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Jc ! of setting up a new list
K' .:iotisfor 1957, why not
1 !wk over the past twelve
and see how many you
M bcyou can patch some
and use them for 1957.
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i one Christmas gift
s ring given to stockmen
irn.ots right at Me time
It ^ badly needed, and that
t. The situation was getting
! a. i in, but the moisture
s' tew days is going to help
c empty water holes and
ti creeks to flowing again.
0"t Lord always comes
^ in a pinch even if some
I never stop to give Him
j for it. According to their
tnn. it is just their luok to
in when they need it.
ORMAHON
WYOMt
ME TAX
y of ordinary citizens will
conscious of being tax-
right after Christmas,
the Christmas bill prob-
^:cs us feel worse over
' income tax return at this
Internal Revenue folks
[ set of instructions and tax
to every taxpayer on
day after Christmas,
moved from the address
' you won't get your
[ tis and tax returns.
'f taxpayers would like
formation about paying
' ws and Uncle Sam has
<tled "Your Federal In-
^ 1956" which you can
'tie Superintendent of
U. S. Government
' Office, Washington, D
3r^..
Cherokee County
Highways For 57
Mrs. A. H. Jeter spent
" m Fort Worth, visits
of the former's
Mrs Royce Maxey.
Texas Higtiway Depart-
ment wiil spend $63,500 for im-
provements on liigii ways in Cher-
okee County during ]937, j). C
^"".S!atc Higtiway Engineer,
has announced. This is in addi-
tion to the regular construction
and maintenance program.
)tn Slate Highway Commission
has a])proved this appropriation
of $63,500 to improve already
existing highways in this county,
and there wili be little or no ad-
ditional right-of-way require-
ments. Giver said. At the Decem-
ber meeting of the Highway Com-
mission. $30 mittion was allotted
to ]i)6 Texas counties for road im-
provement during 1957. The $30
miilion is being spent for shoulder
widening, seat coat jobs, addition-
al surfacing, and for widening of
structures and highways in these
counties.
The six projects in Cherokee
County wit) he under the super-
vision of the local highway dis-
trict personnel.
"We should have this program
moving by spring." Greer said.
"We Itcliew the $63,500 spent in
Cherokee County will go a long
way toward bringing these high-
ways up to dale."
The $63,500 in Cherokee Coun-
ty will be spent on the following
projects:
Cherokee County:
1.0nPM220 from State 21
south, seal coat, a distance of 4.1
miles.
2. On FM 1911 from US 69 at
Alto to Brunswick, seal coat, a
distance of 4.3 mites.
3. On FM1857 from FM 23,
southwest to Lone Oak, recondi-
tion. widen and resurface, a dis-
tance of 3.5 miles.
4. On FM 22 from US 69 near
Craft to State 110 MM Ponta,
seal coat, a distance of 9.1 miles.
5. On FM 768 from US 69 in
Jacksonville to FM 22 at Gallatin,
seal coat, a distance of 10.0 miles.
6. On US 79 from Rusk County
Line, west, seal coat, a distance
of 9.3 miles.
THREE RILLED
IN CAR-TRUCK
ACCIDENT
Lives of Mrs. Willie Mae Bailey
of Ironton and two of her little
girls were lost at 7 p. m. Sunday
,n the violent crash of their pick-
up and an automobile 2.8 miles
southwest of Jacksonvitle, on U.
S. Higtiway 79.
Seven other persons were m
Memorial Hospital
result of the col-
Merry Christmas
From The Ousleys
Christmas is always a time for
which we are very grateful and
most of all for our Saviour. We
are indeed grateful for all our
many friends in Alto. May we
wish for you, dear Mends, the
happiest Christmas ever and may
the "Christ of Christmas" ever
reign in your heart and give you
"Peace on Earth, good-will toward
all men."
Bruce and Charlotte Ousley
Bill and Jim.
Loca! Pine SeedHngs Cut
40 Per Cent This Year
and Helen
shortly
Margaret Ann.
Nan Travis
Monday as a
lision.
Mrs. Bailey, 26. . ^ ,
Joyce Bailey, 8, were killed out-
right in the hcadon ^"s-on ^ h
an Austin car. and
Martha Mane Bai'ey 'ved
after midnight.
7, and Patsy
*,r.
conditions were not
critical-
mnrec Lee 6'reetcr, 27
George ' ,ngers in the
? r
eastward ^ other
hi. family. Mary
,6; Henry Marion
The injured
members of
Nancy Stater. - g.reet-
Strceter. 51. C _' ^ streeter.
<,r. 46. and W.tHam Ear'
12. ,
.-riousiy
Mrs.
injured was
Most ser.01,.., tnj ^,^11
rtadvs Streeter.
^ ^ is critical
was described -
investigating ^ Streeter
attempting to
They said t"c ^^ilder of
truck had reach ^ impact,
the Highway^tical de-
^
13 YEARS — Clyde Poore, man-
ager of the Southwestern Electric
Scrvice Co., at Alto, hasn't missed
attending a Lions Club meeting in
any week since 1943. He has i3
attendance buttons from the Lions
Jnternationat to prove this state-
ment. Any week Mr. Poore found
he couldn't make the Lions meet-
ing here on Tuesdays, he would
go to some other town during that
week to attend the Lions Club
meeting in that city.
COURTHOUSE
ROUNDUP
County Court:
Marriage licenses issued to the
following:
William Arvie Odom and Miss
Opal Faye Baggett.
Elbert James Spenco and Miss
Jewel Deap Hendrick.
Jerry Francos Hood and Miss
Mary Ellen Hardy.
Criminal Cases:
State of Texas vs. Btex Shamb-
lin, charged and tried for aggra-
vated assault and received as
punishment a fine of $100.00 and
costs.
State of Texas vs. McKinley
Matlook, charged and tried for
transporting liquor in a dry area.
Assessed a fine of $150.00 and
costs.
State of Texas vs. Cleopha
Brantley, charged and tried for
transporting liquor in a dry area.
Assessed a fine of $100.00 and
costs.
State of Texas vs. Clarence Ed-
ward Salyards charged with DWI
and received a fine ef $50.00, costs
and three days in jail.
District Court Cases Filed:
First Federal Savings & Loan
Association vs. Willie Lee Yar-
brough et. ux. action to foreclose
on note.
Georgia Lou Sheets Dison vs.
W. J. Dison, action for divorce.
Wanda Joyce Hamilton vs. Joe
Guinn Hamilton, action for di-
vorce.
Roy S. Taylor vs. Marjorie V.
Taylor, action for divorce.
Judgments Entered )n District
Court:
Mae Culp Dickerson granted a
divorce from Grover L. Dicker-
son.
Thurston Martin granted a di-
vorce from Lonnie Martin.
Hollle R. Martin granted a di-
vorce from Mdlie Martin.
Barbara Cross, et al recovered
judgment in the amount of
$2,500.00 from Willie Lee Howard.
Jr.
FARMERS VOTE
FOR BOTH
QUOTAS
In a very light vote Cherokee
County farmers voted heavily in
favor of Marketing Quotas on
both cotton and peanuts in the
referendum held on December 11,
announces J. M. Vining, chairman
of the A.S.C. Committee Chero-
kee County.
The vote in this county was 173
in favor of quotas and 8 against
on cotton and 13 in favor of
quotas and none against on pea-
nuts. Preliminary returns from
over the nation indicate that
quotas on both cotton and pea
nuts have carried for 1957.
In voting for Marketing Quotas
the farmers have imposed mar-
keting penalties on those farmers
who plant in excess of their acre-
age allotment and have guaran-
teed themselves higher price sup-
ports than if quotas had been
voted down.
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Everything is all right and everyone is happy, from the looks of
Old Santa Claus in this picture which was taken Friday afternoon.
It should be noticed that he has the famous Churchill two-fing?r
victory sign as he waves to the large crowd that was lined up along
the route of the Christmas parade. According to Jimmy Hargrove,
this is a good picture of the old genitleman. Jimmy should know if
anybody does.
SCHEME DOESATT
WORK
Oklahoma City-After recdv-
inn his fifth parking ticket, a
smart local motorist thought he
had fibred out a way to avoid
arrc.! and a Cine. He changed his
auto's license plate numbers with
a paint brush. Alert police arrest-
ed him anyway.
from "'e scene and had to be
loaded on a larger truck to be re-
moved.
Conducting the
were Highway
Guthrie and George
of Jacksonville,
111,000 DEATHS
!N TEXAS
DURING 1956
E. C. McFadden, President of
the Texas Safety Association,
made the grim forecast, this week,
that unless public officials and
citizens' groups take action to
stop the r'ising toll of accidents,
there will be more than 111,000
traffic deaths and injuries in
Texas for 1956.
At the state level, McFadden
said the Texas Safety Association,
the National Safety Council and
the Texas Department of Public
Safety are appealing to individual
drivers and pedestrians to make
safety their personal responsi-
bility to themselves and the com-
munity.
"December is the month when
traffic accidents reach their
peak," McFadden said. " Extreme
vigilance is needed by drivers and
pedestrians. During the harried
holiday season, people have a ten-
dency to be careless. Last year,
for example, there were 21 traffic
deaths on Texas streets and high-
ways on December 25—hardly the
way to have a Merry Christmas."
Edwin P. Boyd is expected
home from the Veterans Hospital
at Marlin, Friday, to spend the
Christmas holidays with relatives
and friends.
GREGG HEADS
MARCH OF
DIMES DRIVE
E. R. Gregg, Jr., Vice-President
of the Texas Bank & Trust Com-
pany of Jacksonville, has been
appointed Cherokee County 1957
March of Dimes Campaign Di
rector. Announcement of the
appointment has been made by
Mr. Porter Brashier, East Texas
State Representative of the Na
tional Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis in Houston.
Last year Cherokee County
contributed more than $12,000.00
to the March of Dimes. "This year
has been one of the worst in the
history of our county for inci-
dence of polio cases," Mr. Gregg
said. "The local March of Dimes
chapter has helped some 10
Cherokee County polio patients
to rebuild their lives during
1956." Gregg stated.
"We need volunteers for the
campaign," Mr. Gregg said, "all
the volunteers we can get."
WILD TURKEYS
AVA!LABLE
The State Game Commission is
offering wild turkeys to hunting
clubs throughout the state. The
fowls have been set t.t'$12.00 each.
Arthur Brooks has sent out a
call to the members of the Brooks
club south of Alto, for $4.00 each
in order to place some of these
birds in the Brooks club.
Mr. Brooks stated that he
hoped to get as many as 20 tur-
keys for the club which will
greatly increase the hunting sport
in this club.
Good advice:
never bet.
Losers should
NACOGDOCHES
COURT HAS
MIXED JURY
Judgment was found for defend-
ant in the civil suit titled Tom-
my Rains versus Angelina Cas-
ualty company which closed in
Second District Court in Nacog-
doches Thursday about 4 o'clock.
Mr. Rains, who Hives in An-
gelina County, was suing for
compensation for a heat stroke
he said he suffered while work-
ing in Nacogdoches County for
Southland Paper Mill of LuCkin.
Judgment was for 52 weeks of
total and permanent disability
and for 96 weeks of partial dis-
ability.
Foreman of thj jury was J. B.
Chambers of Nacogdoches. The
jury, which was composed of
four white men, three white
women, three negro women and
two negro men, deliberated one
hour on twelve issues submitted
to them in a charge by H. T.
Brown of Rusk, district judge.
Business And Socia!
Meeting
A business and social meeting
of the members of the VFW will
be held at their hall on Thursday
night, December 20, starting at
7:30 o'clock.
All members are urged to at-
tend as some important business
is to be transacted.
NOTICE
Please do not hunt on our
premises. One of our cows was
found dead a few days ago with
blood on nose and under her
head.
E. E. Roark.
378 Hunters Vioiate
State Laws This Year
investigation
Patrolmen O. C.
McCardell
aided by mem-
bers
of the sheriff's department.
Austin.—The Director of Law
Enforcement for the Game and
Fish Commission said he con-
sidered cabling an alert to Santa
Claus to "act natural" when he
whizzes through Texas Christmas
Eve.
The warning was prompted,
said the Director, by "some
pretty wild carrying on" during
the current fall wildlife harvest.
He qualified his observation by
Siting that, during the last thirty
days, three hundred seventy-
eight complaints were filed
against hunters who paid a com-
bined total of $10,816.96 in fines
and court costs.
This was one of the highest
overall assessments ever levied In
one month in recent years.
The Director cited one item as
typical of the harem-scarum
antics: forty-eight persons were
charged with shooting game from
an automobile.
Other major offenses included:
No hunting license, 52; talking
game in closed season, 36; hunt-
ing at night, 33; exceeding bag
limit, 22 (including ten over
limits on geese) untagged deer,
22; and using unplugged gun, 8.
The Director called particular
attention to "a rash of complaints"
about hunters not properly fill-
ing out deer tags. He suggested
gunners follow Instructions and
abide by the State Law.
Fishermen also got into the
arrest act. Twenty-four were
fined for lacking licenses and
thirteen were filed on for "tele-
phoning" fish.
"It was a pretty busy month for
our field men," said the Director.
"But the Violations really were
not out of proportion in consider-
ing the hundreds oif thousands
of hunters in the field. They
really coooerated pretty well. I
must admit some of the totals
caught the eye. But I'm confident
we can safely conduct Old Santa
through here when the big night
comes."
Once upon a time there was a
merchant who did not believe in
advertising.
College Station. — Each pine
seedling order at the Indian
Mound Nursery near Alto will
have to be reduced due to the
losses from the severe drouth of
the past year, according to Don
Young, head of the Forest Man-
agement Department of the Tex-
as Forest Service. "We had hoped
to produce about 26 million
seedlings for the 1956-57 plant-
ing season, but present indications
are that the nursery production
will be only 60 per cent of that
figure," Young said.
Lifting operations which re-
cently started at the nursery show
a high percentage of cull seed-
lings. After the seedlings are
lifted, they are graded according
to estimated ability to survive.
Those seedlings which are not
sufficiently developed to survive
are considered culls.
"The large number of culls can
be attributed to the drouth. Even
Viough heavy irrigation was con-
tinued through the entire drouth
period, the artificially applied
water could not off-set the lack
of normal rainfall," Young stated.
With actual production less
than estimated, all seedling orders
Will have to be cut proportionate-
ly. This will assure that requests
on hand at the time the inventory
was committed will receive about
60 per cent of the order. How-
ever. the lowest grade seedlings
will be offered to tree planters
th'is year. Ordinarily many of
these seedlings are culled. M
these seedlings are accepted by
the planters, approximately %
per cent of each order can be
filled. Those seedlings declined
will be offered to other planters
with orders.
Present plans are being made
by the Texas Forest Service to
expand pine seedling nursery
facilities. "We hope next year to
be able to supply additional de-
mands for seedlings resulting
from the Conservation Reserve
portion of the Soil Bank Pro-
gram; these seedlings will come
from increased production facili-
ties," Young said.
FORMERALTO
PASTOR S WIFE
KILLED DEC. 13
Mrs. F. Clyde Woodward, wife
of the pastor of the First Metho-
dist Church at Rusk, was killed
about noon Thursday of last week
when an automobile driven by
her husband overturned nine
miles north of Jasper.
Rev. Woodward sustained sev-
eral broken ribs and suffered
severe shook and was carried to
the hospital at Jasper.
Rev. and Mrs. Woodward were
en route to Jasper, where the
husband had served as pastor for
five years before coming to Rusk
last October, when the accident
occurred. The minister reportedly
lost control of the car after
swerving to avoid several hogs
on the highway.
Rev. Woodward served as pas-
tor of the Alto Methodist Church
for two years, coming here on
Nov. 3, 1935. He was transferred
from Alto to Jacksonville on
April 2, 1935, going from here to
Wills Point.
Mrs. Woodward, the formier
Miss Mary Beth Boring, was A
native of the Dixie Community
near Tyler and was a member of
a pioneer Smith County family,
while Rev. Woodward is a native
of the Pleasant Retreat Commun-
ity and formerly held pastorates
In Overton. Jacksonville and Alto.
Funeral services for Mrs. Wood-
ward were held Saturday morn-
ing at 10:00 o'clock at the First
Methodist Church in Jasper and
taken to Tyler where another
service was held and interment
made in a Tyler cemetery.
We have no way of knowing
but money wilt probably be as
tight next year.
Bp!
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