The Cameron Herald and Centinel (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 20, 1947 Page: 1 of 10
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QLhe Ctamrrnn Heralft
since 1860
and CENTINEL
VOLUME NUMBER 87
CAMERON, MILAM COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1947
NUMBER 47
E
WILL BEGIN IIS WORK IS GUTTED BY FIRE
(From the Daily) The Houston Hotel and Apartment
A new regime along commercial House at the corner of North Crock-
row will take over Saturday follow- j ett Avenue and West 19th Street,
ing the unnual banquet of the ( ham- was a|mogt totally destroyed nt 10
EXPERIMENT STATION?
her of Commerce.
The banquet, annual build up of
cnthusiusm among Chamber work-
ers, will bring high resolv£. Defla-
tion in the weeks to come may cut I from St. Edward’s hospital was own-
p. m. Thursday when fire broke out
in the second story.
The hotel located across the street
TmSSCOLD to continue?
down achievement to a baro minium | od by Grady Houston uncT'sister, Miss
but on the whole the banquet is the I Emma Moore.
thing. ! Among the occupants of the house
are Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hohenstein
who live on the first floor. The fire
is said to have originated in the
apartment occupied by Mrs. Moore.
In all 4 families were living in the
second story of the hotel.
Loss was estimated by observers to
be around $10,000 as the roof of the
hotel was burned away and a large
portion of the second story was char-
red and all contents lost.
Furnishings in the lower story were
badly damaged by water and smoke.
The Firemen under Chief Ralph
Michalka did a splendid job under
some difficulties. A second alarm was
turned in. When the second truck
appeared spectators had blocked the
street and some delay in getting to
the plub was encountered. This may
have contributed to-the loss but des-
pite all this the Firemen did their us-
ual good work and are being praised
by the people.
Felix D’Abadie, of the Southern
Pacific Railroad, will be the principal
speaker.
Delegations of business men and
Chamber workers from adjoining
cities are to be here.
The banquet will be held in the
basement of the Methodist church
beginning at 7:30 p. m.
A leak caused premature announce-
ment of the new officers and direc-
tors. A meeting was held Tuesday
night of the New Directors and of-
ficers were named. President Cox at
Rotary Club Wednesday announced
that Lester Williams had been elected
President and Henry Siebman, Sec-
ond Vice President.
The Herald then asked and obtain-
ed permission to bring the announce-
ment complete.
It has been customary for years
to announce the new Directors and
officers at the banquet. The banquet
is the first such gathering to be held
since the end of the war.
court is Med to
Judge Dan Tyson called a meeting
of Commissioners and all interested
citizens for 4 p. m. Friday, March 14
to discuss plans for dedicating the
new bridge across Little River.
Judge Tyson was co-operating with
a committee from the Chamber of
Commerce. The State Highway De-
partment has not indicated when the
bridge can be opened for traffic and
when that time comes Judge Tyson
will be notified officially.
Senator Kyle Vick was here for the
meeting and to be a guest of the
Chamber of Commerce at the annual
banquet. Friday night.
Lighting the new causeway, one of
the longest spans in Texas was not
included in the original contract, an
important need then not taken into
account. The matter of lighting the
bridge is being urged by local inter-
ests.
Two Families Thank
Firemen and Others
Who Aided At Fire
The Herald has been requested to
publish the following expression of
thanks to the Firemen and others
who helped save their household
goods when the apartment house of
Emma Moore and Grady Houston
burned:
“We will always be grateful to the
Cameron Firemen and to all our
neighbors who worked so valiantly
to save our household furnishings
when the fire destroyed the Houston
apartments on Thursday night, March
13. We wish to especially also thank
the loyal telephone workers who re-
mained on the job despite the work
stoppage and so efficiently handled
the fire alarms. May all you be spar-
ed such a disaster and we want you
to know how very much we appre-
ciate your help.”
Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Pugh
Mr. and Mrs. James Edmonds
The New Bridge
SENATOR KYLE VICK
Senator Vick was here Friday af-
ternoon for a meeting with the Com-
missioners Court and representatives
of the Chamber of Commerce over
plans for the opening of the new
mile long bridge over Little River.
He was to be guest of the Chamber
of Commerce Friday night at the an-
nual banquet.
Senator Vick was largely instru-
mental in getting the new bridge
built. The new bridge cost will be
about a half million dollars. There
is no indication now as to the exact
IN era SUNDAY
Belton’s 90 year old hirst Baptist
Church was completely destroyed by
Fire Sunday and adjoining residences
to bring a total loss of $100,000 the
worst in the history of the town.
The church al large rock structure
had some $40,000 in equipment in-
cluding a recently purchased $2500
electric organ and 6 pianos.
Fire fighters from Temple and
Killeen responded and kept the blaze
under control, otherwise it might
have destroyed a large section of
the city since the church was only
two blocks off the plaza.
Rev. James Basden, pastor was
conducting a funeral service a block
away when flames were discovered
issuing from the church. Told of the
fire he rushed outside to see his
church enveloped but returned to hold
the funeral service while his church
was being destroyed.
Southwestern Telephone Union
Workers to-day issued a statement
giving their side of the controversy
at Odessa, Texas. A news release
signed by D. L. McCowen, President
of the Union, who resides in St. Louis,
was received here late Monday by
Mrs. Willie Faulkner, local Union
representative, who in turn released
it to The Herald for publication.
The news release as given out by
Mrs. Faulkner, is in fact a state-
ment to the patrons of the Cameron
exchange of the telephone company
and is as follows:
The reason your telephone service
has been interrupted in Cameron is
failure of the Southwestern Bell Tele-
phone Company Management to re-
cognize or exercise its responsibil-
ity:
To The Public: In failure to agree
with the Union to arbitrate a matter
in Odessa, Texas, before or after
service was interrupted.
To Their Employes: For failure to
provide just, reasonable, capable and
fair supervision when our work is
nerve wracking and strenuous even
under the best of conditions.
To Their Employes: For requiring
them to work as if they were peons
under a tyrant.
To The Public: In forcing the em-
ployees to take action to correct an
| unpleasant situation resulting in
I denying service to them and as a
direct result of grossly mishandled
labor relations and publication of
misleading statements concerning
their employees and the issues invol-
ved.
We, the telephone men and women
do not have the financial resources
of the Bell System but as Texans and
Americans we must fight for what
we believe is right. We think the
telephone using public is entitled to
the truth.”
GOVERNOR TO SPEAK IN ROCKDALE
A. N. GREEN BILLm
House Bill No. 022 by Representa-
tive A. N. Green of Milam county,
proposing the establishment of an
Agricultural Experiment Station in
this county, will get a public hearing
on next Tuesduy, March 25 at 3 p. m.
Mr. Green pledged the people at
his last election that he would in-
troduce this bill. The experiment sta-
tion would serve a hitherto unknown
plan for the better production of
truck and food crops and would be
most beneficial to the sand country
in this and other sections of the
county.
Mr. Green telephoned The Herald
early Wednesday to say that the
hearing will be heard and asks that
a delegation of interested citizens
from this county be on hand next
Tuesday.
The bill is known as a Sandy Land
Experiment Station and would be far
reaching in its benefits to agricul-
ture.
E
Bf FRIDAY FORECAST
There was little hope for relief
from the current cold spell, in fact it j11 ,le*e»ration of Texas celebrities to
was due to get colder by Wednesday I “')Ck(lal° °" Wed"e8da/ ni*ht’ March
. ,, . 2b as guest speaker for the Legion
mght or Thursday morning, accord-1 Birthday Celebration there.
ing to early forecasts to-day. Included in the official party will
GOVERNOR JES1ER TO DE
ROCKDALE LEGION GUEST
Governor Beauford Jester will lead
Asks Phone Stoppage
Be Not Called Strike;
Was ‘A Conference’
The Herald has been asked to make
Rising temperatures were due in
the Panhandle area late Thursday
after a new light cold wave spends
itself getting down to keep up the
chill air in central and east Texas.
If forecasts can he relied upon in
this maze of strange weather, it is
going to be cold and cloudy, but rain
will not be as heavy as was reported
in many sections Tuesday.
There will be no radical changes
in temperatures. By Thursday the
temperature should get as high as
50 degrees. Thursday night the min-
imum may be around 38.
Continued cold and rain has delay-
ed plantings and it is certain that
crops will be late, especially corn and
tomatoes. Frost killed out some 400
to 000 acres of tomatoes in Falls
county. There was no estimate on
the amount of acreage lost in Milam
county.
Much colder weather was due in
Oklahoma and in the Panhandle
Thursday night. Whether the new
front will move in to keep up the
also be Lieut. Governor Alan Shivers,
Attorney General Price Daniel, all
members of the American Legion.
Among other prominent visitors will
he Senator Kyle Vick, and 8 other
Senators, all members of the Ameri-
can Legion.
Carlyle Post No. 358 is to he host
to the officials and is making ar-
rangements for the banquet and
dance. It is the 20th anniversary of
the Legion and the 25th anniversary
of the Rockdale post.
Jess Thompson, former Veterans
Service Officer for Milam county, is
chairman of the committee on ar-
rangements.
IEGS MOM OUT
ON RED CROSS DRIVE
Cameron’s 1947 Red Cross canvass,
slow to start was under way Monday
as some of the committees planned
to contact the people in their areas.
Rudolph Richter, 1947 Director, re-
ported Burlington had oversubscribed
its quota and the first community to
report.
In Cameron considerable work 1ms
been done in the residence sections
with Mrs. Earl Johnson as chairman.
The quota for the city is $2300 and
Henry M. Siebman is chairman for
the canvas in the mercantile area.
It is very important that the com-
mitteemen and workers begin at once
to complete the work. •
To often days are required where
hours would suffice to canvas a few
business blocks.
DEATH HOUSE MEMBER
Telephone Service
s Restored Here
Telephone service was restored
here Friday following a day in which
the exchange was operated for em-
ergency calls only.
Considerable resentment among
phone subscribers resulted when no
a correction in a published story on |current refrigeration of this area,
March 11 regarding stoppage of tele-
phone service here.
Mrs. Willie Faulkner, representing
the Union workers in the Traffic
division of the exchange, says there
was no strike, but instead there was
a “continuous conference.”
Mrs. Faulkner said that their in-
structions to “go into a continuous
conference,” came Wednesday night
and that operators stayed at their
switchboards until 1 p. m. Thursday
and then left for the conference. She
said that service was not interrupted
for a day but that all operators were
back on the job at (5:30 a. m. on Fri-
day.
The Herald tried unsuccessfully to
contact Mrs. Faulkner on Tuesday to
ascertain if local workers had re-
ceived any instructions. The Herald
learned from other sources that at
that hour none had been received.
The paper was not able to bring ad-
vance news because instructions were
received Wedensday night and the
exchange was closed at noon Thurs-
day.
Certain types of service were per-
mitted but none of the workers in-
volved in the “continuous conference”
were on the job until 6:30 a. m. Fri- ]
day, so far as information to this
paper relates.
remains a matter of speculation.
Since the weather has been guilty of
so many strange and unorthodox an-
tics in the past 48 hours just any old
thing can happen.
Thank Cameron Fire
Fighters and Loyal
Telephone Operator
The Herald has been requested to
publish the following thanks to Cam-
eron Firemen and to the loyal em-
ployes at the Telephone exchange:
“We want briefly to say that we
deeply appreciate the splendid work
of the Volunteer Firemen who worked
so efficiently to save our apartment
house property. Although our losses
are heavy we know the firemen per-
formed at peak efficiency. We want
also to thank the loyal employes at
the Telephone exchange for the way
they handled the fire alnrm. We know
that all employes were not on duty
due to the work stoppage but there
were those who felt that tire peo-
ple’s interests came first and so did
what they could in the emergency.
But for the loyal ones the fire might
have been much more disastrous.”
DIED ID FORT WORTH
William J. Andrews, 92, father of
Mrs. Homer Allen, died March 13 at
his home in Fort Worth.
Funeral services were held there
Friday with interment in Fort Worth
where Mr. Andrews had lived for the
past 36 years. He was a native of
Texas. Rev. Williams, pastor of the
Castleberry Christian Church con-
ducted the services.
Surviving are 11 children, six sons
and 5 daughters, one of whom is
Mrs. Homer Allen of Cameron.
There are also 26 grand children
36 great grand children and 3 great
great grand children.
J. D. RECTOR DIED IN
J. B. Rector, former resident here,
died in the Texas-Pacific Railroad
Hospital in Marshall at 1:30 p. rn.
Tuesday, March 18.
Mr. Rector had been ill for more
than a year. He suffered a stroke on
February 10, 1946 and was taken to
the hospital at Marshall. His home
is in Shreveport, La.
The body was being returned to
Cameron by the Marek-Burns Funer-
al Home coach and was due to ar-
rive in Cameron around 2 a. m. Thurs-
E
f t t — • i The exchange remained closed to
Both houses of the Texas Leg.sla- ; commercial an(J ,oca, ^ u
ture adjourned Monday morning be-1 Thurflday but full service was J
notice was given that traffic would re_orJfanization of the ( ameron Rop-
be suspended. The Herald carried a in* < lub> il was announced by John
story that no request had been made Summcr Batto.
of local Union representatives to A mcetinff has been called for Fri-
| strike. ;day evening, March 21 in the District
The next development came when icourt room at the court hou*e in
the exchange was closed. (Cameron and all who are interested
are urged to attend.
r™ Moore and G,.d, Sf ZZ 7Z
~ m * | Hill Cemetery.
New Iheatre Going Mr. Rector was a former resident
I In in Rock fill l(* |bm‘ and was local agent for the
' 1 ! Santa Fe Railroad. He later moved to
A new theatre for Rockdale will ! Buckholts and engaged in the hard-
soon be under construction, it was ware business there and also served
reported by C. W. Matson who oper- i as postmaster in Buckholts.
Plans have been announced for the ates theatres in Rockdale, Caldwell, I When he moved to Shreveport he
Cameron Roping Club
Will Re-Organize
Here Friday Night
Giddings, Somerville and Thorndale.
The newr show house in Rockdale
will he known as a B theatre and
will give that city two motion pic-
ture theatres.
An especial appeal is made to all
the original members of the club to
Miss Lina Lange Buys
Beauty Shop Here
was with the Texas & Pacific rail-
road.
Surviving are his widow, the for-
mer Lula Mae Hefley, sister of the
I late Hubert Hefley and Sam Hefley
I of th> city. Two daughters, Miss
Virginia Rector, now in Cameron and
Mrs. Marion Deputy of Shreveport.
Miss Lina Lange, daughter of Mr. j The following members of the Ord-
sentative H. L. Atkinson.
Mr. Atkinson died from a heart at-
. tack at his home in Beeville. He was
time the dedication can be held and 60 years of age.
the new bridge opened. The State News of the death of Atkinson was
cause of the sudden death of Rcpre- Fume(1 Friday morning as Union Of-,1** Present and addition all who and Mrs. W. H. Lange of Buckholts er Eastern Star Chapter here,
ficials in St. Louis ordered
members back to work.
their
FINED $100.00
Wilford R. Siveaks of Rockdale w'as
Highway Department will inform j telephoned to the Herald Monday ,• ,
^_________ ™™1™ K,. A XT flned 1,00 and costs ln c°unty «<>urt
the Commissioners Court when the
time comes. ,
morning by Representative A. N.
Green. All legislative activities were
suspended.
are interested are urged to attend. has purchased Bernice's Beauty Shop, ; tended a School of Instruction of the
If the club can be re-organized which she is now operating. j O. E. 8. where the Grand Chapter
roping programs which were popular; Miss Lange has had several years officials officiated, when ten chap-
here some months ago will be revived ^of beauty experience, having been ; ters gathered for the instruction;
at the Wilson-Ledbetter Park arena, employed recently with Temple and Mesdames O. B. Horstmann, J. M.
--- •- j Giddings Operators. She has many McLean, W. P. McCall, G. A. Wilker-
HOLL'V WOOD NEWS friends in Milam County who wish son, Alva E. Sanders, Mr. and Mrs.
Mrs. J. M. Coplay, California va- her much success with her new busi- Roy Densely, Mr. and Mrs. John C.
Wednesday morning on a plea of
| guilty to the charge of driving a car
_ while drunk. He had faced a similar cationer from Cameron, was among ness.
her home in Nixon after 3 weeks a Mrs. John Newton, of South Texas. ^eled ' ^ ^ ' Earl’carroll Thlafre-ResUur^nt0m Mrs. Butts his "turned from a
patient in the Newton Memorial Hos- } is here on a visit with her mother,, ---„—- Hollywood Thursday evening. visit with her daughter, Mrs. T. O.
pital. She is much improved and Mrs. Mattie English. Mrs. Newton Dr. Leland Denson and wife have m m Bass and husband in
friends will be glad to know of her ;was reared here and many friends returned from New Orleans where; Walter Srtz of Burlington was a has
recovery- She is the mother of J. B.
White, publisher.
are pleased to welcome her return Dr. Denson attended a medical meet- i business
rtsits. jing. I day.
visitor hi Cameron
Houston, and
as house guest her friend Mrs.
Mon- | Lucille Brady of Temple for a few
j days.
Mayfield and seven of the members
from here received the B. certificate
and one the A. certificate, Mrs. Hen-
sley. There were ten Chapters in this
District that had representatives.
Hinton Pruett of Milano transact-
ed business in Cameron Tuesday.
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White, Jefferson B. The Cameron Herald and Centinel (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 20, 1947, newspaper, March 20, 1947; Cameron, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth577012/m1/1/?q=green+energy: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.