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VOLUME NUMBER 85.
CAMERON, MILAM COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1044.
JAMES L FERGUSON IS
{JURIED AT AUSTIN
DLOPl TEXAN, HIS
State Mourns Leader
JAMES E. FURGESON
Ferguson Urged the
Late T, S. Henderson
To Run For Governor
Reference in news stories publish-
ed Friday following the death o[
James E. Ferguson, former governor,
to the Cameron friend who was urged
to run for governor, brought to mind
the now historic conference which
took place in Cameron.
The late T. S. Henderson was Fer-
guston’s choice as a candidate that
year. Ferguson came to Cameron by
train from his home in Temple to
plead with Mr. Henderson to make
the race. Mr. Henderson declined to
run and did not support Ferguson and
was one of the big factors which set
up opposition to Ferguson in Texas.
When Mr. Henderson declined to
run, Ferguson announced and that
summer beat Tom Ball of Houston
for the nomination.
Al/fhough a life long anti-prohi-
hlti/iiist, Ferguson was never known
idmUike a drink of any intoxicant,
imtoHused tobacco or profanity and
away from the fire of political battle
was warm and generous and kind and
drew men to him.
ANSTIN, Texas, Sept. 21.—James
E. Ferguson, 73, embattled and dom-
inant figure of Texas political his
tory, died peacefully Thursday at his
home here after a long illness.
Funeral services will be conducted
at 5 p. m. Friday from the Ferguson
home in fashionable West Austin,
with burial at the State Cemetery
here.
Once a Bell County farmer and
hanker, Ferguson twice was elected
Governor of Texas, was removed by
impeachment but remained to see the
voters honor bis wife, Mrs. Miriam
A. Ferguson, with two terms in the
office. Texas annals show no paral-
lel for this achievement.
With the former Government when
lie died were Mrs. Ferguson and then j
two daughters, Mrs. George Nalle
Locker Plant Men
Never Bought Site
I For Building Here
It was revealed here Wednesday
' that no site had been purchased
for tlie proposed locker plant in Cam-
eron. Officials of the company re
I eently came to Cameron and discus*-
| I'd purchase of u site from John 1'.
I Henderson.
Mr. Henderson, acting in good failn
perpared the papers. No forfeit was ,
posted. Plant operators, it was re j
veahd never paid for the site and :l ;
was believed would not now do so.
S. H. McDermott of the Citizers j
National Bank, told The Daily Herald
that a representative of the proposed
plant, requested an inspection of t!
bank’s building now occupied by the
USO, presumably with the view of
changing plans and using another
site.
It was understood that the plant
operators were seeking a loan in
Cameron to help finance their plant
here.
Locker subscribers who paid some
$5000 to the Chamber of Commerce
with the understanding a plant was to
lie built, will be refunded their money,
it was said by a director of the
Chamber.
There appeared to be no disposition
to accept any compromise and unless
the plant is built money must be re-
A Marine Sergeant
SCT. KONALl) J. SHORT
United States Marines
and Mrs. Stuart Watt, both of Austin, ! funded. Already some had .signified
WAR CHEST BUVE GETS
in
The special gifts appeal of the cur-
rent War Chest drive was under way
in Cameron Wednesday with Alber,
Collins, chairman of that, section,
directing workers and personally
making solicitations.
Many here were said ready to taKe
a “Texans Share’ in the United War
Chest subscription.
R. W. Hester who sponsored Capt.
John Collier, speaker at the Rotary
Club luncheon Wednesday was busy
getting ready for the kick off bar-
beciu here on the night of October S.
Mr. Hester, county chairman for the
United War Chest has just compiled
a complete list of the community
chairmen for the drives, all save the
Cameron precincts. Letters are going
out to all to attend the rally here
October 9.
COUNTY GOVERNMENT TO
GET FOUR STAR AWARD
Milam County, recently declared by
the Better Government Bureau in the
East Texas Chamber of Commerce, a
their only children.
For two full decades Ferguson
strode as a giant across the politi-
cal pages of Texas.
“Fer him or agin him,” to repeat
the words Farmer Jim employed so
often in his Forum, Texans knew that
Ferguson had a rugged upbringing
as farm hand, waiter, ranch worker,
hotel bellboy, an itinerant carpenter
and miner in the western states.
Back on his native soil, Ferguson rose
to success as a civic-minded lawyer,
banker and farm operator.
Moderately wealthy and of inquisi-
ive nature, Ferguson happened into
politics at the age of 43 when he
wrote a letter to Houston and Temple
newspapers suggesting that a friend
was a proper candidate for Gover-
nor. The friend declined and called
upon Ferguson to run. Ferguson set
aside $30,000, a phenomenal sum in
those days, for his campaign fund and
went after the state’s highest office.
His first venture brought Fergu-
son victory over Thomas IT. Ball in
the Democratic primary.
The black-haired handsome lawyer
came to Austin as Governor, bringing
into public life a nimble mind, a folk-
sy tongue, and an ambition to help
the tenant farmer.
Political observers reflect upor.
Ferguson’s first term in office as
exemplary. He passed a farm ten-
ancy act designed to help the share-
croppers.
Also looking heck over his entry
into politics, Ferguson said in 194C:
“F believe I would have had greater
success if I bad followed my original
idea of a business career. I believe
I would have avoided lots of trouble
and tribulation.”
That trouble and tribulation snar-d
Ferguson during his second term as
Governor. He tangled with friends
of the University of Texts, (1) stat-
ing “too many people are going hog-
wild over higher education,” (2) op-
posing President Rol>crt E. Vinson
as “a sectarian preacher," and (3)
vetoing the appropriation for continu-
ing the school’s operation despite a
protest march upon the capitol by its
students.
Impeachment proceedings were in-
stituted by the legislature the same
year. Charges included his treat-
ment of the university, alleged de-
posit of state funds in hanks in which
Ferguson was interested, and the
their intention to ask refund because
of a breach of faith responsibility
for which has not as yet been wholly
fixed.
Sgt. Ronald -1. Short volunteered
for the service in February 1943, with
the U, S. Marine Corps. Except for
eleven weeks of Boot training he has
been stationed in Lakehurst. Sgt.
Short was home on furlough last
May to visit with his parents and
wife and baby.
Before entering the service Sgt.
Short attended school at Marlow and
Yoe High. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Jim Short of Cameron, Rt. 3.
Suit For $70,000
Damages Brought
Against Santa Fe
Belton, Sept. 20.—A suit for $70,-
000 was filed against the Gulf Colo-
rado and Santa Fe railway company
Wedensday in the Bell county district
court by Walter G. Marek of Milam
county for alleged damages, future
medical expenses and disability com-
pensation.
Marek, who was a motorcycle-
mounted military policeman in the
MP detachment of Camp Hood, was
commissioned to ride from the MP
station at camp to Hood Village on
4t:g. 23 last year at about 6:30 p. m.
to notify two officers of a riot and
mutiny among prisoners in the camp
stockade. On his way there while
driving west on Spur drive in Camp
Hood, he crossed two railway tracks
between 278 and 279th streets and
while on the western was allegedly
struck by a train of approximately
17 flat cars and enine which was
backing up over the crossing. The
impact hurled him and the motor-
cycle about 25 feet.
Marek alleges that the train was
going too fast at the time and that
no whistles, lights or other signals
I warned of its approach. He claims
1 he suffered bruises, contusions, ab-
j raisons and lacerations all over bis
body and extreme traumatic shock.
Several portions of his body were
I mashed and the end joint of his left
! ring finger cut off, it was further
i alleged. His left thigh above the
, knee, his left knee and both bones of
| left leg below the knee, were frac-
■ tured. Te was in bed for eight
j months, the suit alleges, and is now
under medical care. He sues for
j $30,000 for estimated damages, $5,000
j for future medical care and $35,000
; for earning power that he has lost
I due to the accident.
Sgt. Brasington Here
On Visit; Recruited
For Army in 1941
Sgt. C. \V. Brasington who was
riatinned in Cameron for months in
of
$150,000 1«
■fused to d
which the
recruiti
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have tr
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SUFFERS l5sS OF EYE
Jack Henderson, Cameron Finj
Chief has suffered the loss of an
eye, resulting from injuries sustained
here some weeks ago in an early
morning blaze in which the Slocomb
building on the Santa Fe was des-
troyed.
Chief Henderson is in a Temple
Hospital. He was injured when a
hose line got out of control, the noz-
zle striking him in the face. Jack
,wus taken to a local hospital within
a few minutes after the accident and
was recovering until complications
set up from the eye injury when ho
was removed to Temple.
The injuries sustained by Hender-
son and the loss of an eye has
brought home to the people of Cam-
eron again the truth about tlie sac-
rifices Firemen make to save life
and property.
At a recent meeting of the Volun-
teer Fire Department, the members
discussed plans to get an insurance
contract covering such accidents as
that suffered by Chief Henderson.
It seems the present policy paid
for by the city is inadaquate. This
policy has been in force for years and
apparnetly had not been brought up
to date. The city government will
no doubt take such steps as may be
necessary to correct this deplorable
situation.
The people of Cameron will never
pay their debt to the Firemen, fine
of the things The Herald hopes to rce,
j a thing it has advocated for years,
I in the post war Cameron to which vo
. look with hope, is a municipal build-
ing dedicated to the Cameron Volun-
teer Fire Department. In that building
should be living quarters for them,
j They should have new firetrucks and
; new equipment generally. Nothing
i is too good for them. Te best is not
enough. Yes, we owe a debt to them
we can never pay. Let’s l>egin now
i to plan for their future as well a
I the future of the city.
EMBRY B. CAMP GOES
TO WASHINGTON CITY
Emory B. Camp, United States
i Navy has been transfered to Wash-
i ington, D. C., for duty with the Navy
Department, it was disclosed here
Tue-day by E. A. Camp, his father
1 who is a weekly guest at the IV tary
EIGHT PAGES TODAY
Former Marlin Sheriff
Visits Old Home Here;
Once A Constable
Marcus Reese, one time Constable
at Milano and former Sheriff of
Falls county, spent u few hours here
! Iasi week. He had come over from
| his ranch at Cotulla to attend the
funeral of his nephew the late Cpl.
Aldine Beard, buried at Milano.
Mr. Reese was horn and reared in
Milam county and was a deputy
. heriff under both R. Todd and late
J. E. Holtzelaw.
Mr. Reese said lie had long since
retir'd from politics and is “now
j making an honest living.” In the
I old days lie was a cowboy on the
prairies of Milam county and recall
<1 many herds he gathered and de-
livered to old time cow men here.
He said he once sold R. L. Butte 52
bulls in one herd.
While sheriff of Falls county, Mr.
Reese figured in one of the notal la
manhunts in the Southwest in which
several noted outlaws were brought
to justice.
Roy Johnson, Whitey Walker and
Hlnckii Thompsan robbed the Marlin
National Bank of $59,300 in rush and
bonds and escaped. They also were
charged in the robbery of a lmnk in
j Palestine and also a jewelry store in
1 Bryan. Sheriff Reese joined in the
chase, lie brought Illackie Thomp-
son back from Talalius.se, Florida.
Thompson later escaped and was
killed at Amarillo by officers.
Whitey Walker, Roy Johnson ami
Blackie Thompson were charged with
the robbery of the Buckholts State
Bank.
All save Johnson met violent
deaths. Blaekie Thompson, said Mi.
Reese is the only man to escape from
the death house at Huntsville prison.
Thompson was shot to death on a
bight way near Amarillo by officeis
who sought to arrest him after his
second esccape. He was under dcuth
sentence and elected to die witti his
boots on.
Whitey Walker wos killed try.ng
to escape over the walls at Huntsville
after he had hern let. out of the cell
when a guard, later sentenced, gave
the criminals his keys. They ’.‘t
Blaekie Thompson out of his cell on
death row. Walker who got his name
‘Whitey’ because lie was always
known to he white in his dealings,
stood aside for others to escape up
the ladder and was killed. The late
Sheriff Leonard Blaylock told the
story of how Wilker got his nick
name.
Escaping at I lie time was Raymond
Hamilton who was lati i electrocuted
following his recapture.
A convict by the name of Frazier
was the first to lie captured after the
escape. He wuh later thought to
have been instrumental in the slay-
ing of Clyde Barrow and Botina*
Parker by giving Texas Ranger !
Captain Frank llamei, information..
Mr. Reesd, a handsome Texan, looks
no older for his pioneer experiences.
He has returned to his beloved ranch j
life.
NUMBER 24
T
The Yoemen were able to show oc-
casional flashes of brilliance Friday
night and took the big end of tne
score from Rosebud 13 to 7.
Poor defensive play featured the
game on both sides. Bob Terry, big
tackle and one of the few returning
lettermen, may have averted defeat
for his team mates more than once
for lie was a tower of strength in
the line.
Howard Kennedy scored both touch-
downs, Ha fie;; one on six plays from
the kickoff. The second after a bril-
liant slash down the field to the Rose-
bud ten and then drove off right
tackle for the score, going over
standing up. Terry kicked the extra
point and that was tin* ball game.
Both scores were made at tlie east
goal.
F.ater in the fourth quarter Robc-
bud drove to the Cameron 10 with a
series of passes by Braden. From
there Kilgore and Braden collaborat-
ed and Braden went over. On the try
for extra point Rosebud crossed up
the Yoemen and Kilgore carried the
ball over.
Albert Mutula, quarterback, was a
standout flash in the bacfield and
Johnnie llauk showed up well, as did
Harold (’lore who got off a great
punt in the third quarter to pin the
Panthers on their own 15 yard line.
*!. D. Kovar snarl'd a long pass in the
first quarter to put the ball in scor-
ing position. End play generally was
poor hut all the hoys in the line have
potentialities.
FUNERALHELD SATURDAY
PLASMA BANK GETS
pet
Isaacs. County
along with
Auditor.
Milam county mtri’j the award on
the findings of a recent survey of the
Chamber of Commerce which dis-
closed an exceptional fiscal condition,
lew funded debt and good business
meth-'ds in the management of the
piT-niiemt
barrel
state
Fet
e out
ter the
the I
forever fn
ited
ir thi
nd
rhildr
jre
holding a
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t old l
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fore
um duty
: Sg t
. Brasin
with
th<? anr
trail
ning: woi
ry and wili I
>rk.
primed, and set forth
upon a campaign of vindication
h covered fifteen years, helped
MM
w
| turned to their
i ter week spent
I and friend*. C
I *o his t<aae in
f of the month
wh
him become the only Texan ever
nominated for President of the
United States. brought his wife two
__terms in the Governor’s office, and j
Cpl. 8*th M Corley is spending a kept the Fergusons hi the political ( ^ hu«band is away
few day* furlough visiting relatives limelight until they retired in 1W5 --
and friends m Bocmoft* and Cam- to them spanmM home in West Austin Hillard Overton of
(torn to page five) Cameron this week
Harris fe-
mme in Houston af-
hei» visiting relatives
"'pi Ham* will repor
Florida the latter part
Mrs Harris is main-
taining their hoi
in Houston while
Tracy was in
M O N E
thing
is the cheapest
give!
we can
Oar fighting r
live*. All »e
give is
Give
sen give their
are asked la
atones !
generously to y oar
COUNTY WAR FUND
i
Dr. Clifford G. Swift said Wednes-
day at th*- Rotaiy Club that 180 pints
of blood were given Tuesday by do-
nors to the local bank and the res
use was the best yet encountered
■ *he State Health Department.
More blood might have been recei/
<! but the unit ran out of containers.
Dr. Swift said that four local doc-
t , Dr. Is land Denson, Dr. Rischar
nd Dr. Crump gave their time, by
closing their offices for the day.
The plasma bank will receive 80 per
• fit. of the blood given while 20 ir r
cent will go to communities where no
plasma has been taken.
' *ahy Daughter Born
To Crittenden's at
12:30 a. ni. Wednesday
A baby girl weighing 8 pounds
was born to Seaman First Class, T
A. Crittenden and Mrs. Crittenden
shortly after midnight Wednesday
at a local hospital.
Mrs Crittenden, the former Miss
Ruth Griffith, and baby were Joint
- plead idly and friends were shower-
ing their congratulations.
S! c Critten<kr> ha* been in the city
for several days on a leave having
recently finished a course of train-
ing in the Aviation Radioman school
in Memphis, Tennessee.
He will report for duty in the next
few days in the Naval Air Service, a
radioman aboard naval flying craft.
Funeral services for Mrs. WiBie
Wilkinson Ford, 57, who died at her
home in Lufkin Friday, September
22, 1944, were held at I p. m. Sat-
urday, September 23, in Cameron.
Mrs. Ford, former resident of (Earn
eron, was born and reared here, the
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. L.
Wilkerson. She was married near
Cameron and surviving are two sons
and one daughter, J. L. Ford of
Lufkin and Jack Ford of Houston,
and one daughter, Mrs. Robert l’ow-
ell of Boston, Mass.
Surviving also are an aunt, Mrs.
Tom Armon of Temple and Uncle C.
Henry Ruby of ( ameron.
Two brothers survive as follows:
J( *e Wilkerson of Houston and L.
Wilkerson of Omaha, Neb.
Funeral services were condueted
from the Green Funeral Home in
Cameron with Rev. K. ft. Isbell of
the First Methodist Church, conduct-
ing the services. Interment was
made in Oak Hill Cemtery.
Three Month Old
Twins Are Buried
Gloria Ann and Johnnie C. Eisfeldt,
twins and three months old children
of Mr. and Mrs. John Eisfeldt of
Cameron died in a Temple hospital
Friday, S ptember 22, 1914. They had
! been ill only a few days.
Funeral services were held at 10
a. m. Saturday, September 23, 1944,
I from the Greer Funeral Home in
! Cameron with Rev. C. W. Sanders,
j pastor First Baptist Church in Oant-
• eron conducting. Interment was
I made in Oak Hill Cemetery.
.Surviving are their father and
mother, Mr. and Mrs. John Eisfeldt
who have three other children. Mr.
1 and Mrs. Ed Junek, Sr., of Cameron,
the grand parents, survive. Mrs-
Eisfeldt. the other grand mother also
i servives.
John Eisfeldt, father of the deceas-
! <-d twins, is in the armed service and
could not l*e here for the funeral.
Jim Baskin Says He
Was Dismissed From
Uommission Job
last
sod
and
•be
wsuiord
t ommission
Mr Bask
i letter from
! initiating hi
i said he had received a
the Commissioners ter-
employment. Mr. Hasttin
gave the name of the man whom be
said would succeed him. Raskin waa
an appointee of Ernest O. Thompson,
i a member of the Commission,
i Baskin world war veteran, cam-
paigned for Beauford Jester in 1M$
Back the attack with Bonds!
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