The Cameron Herald and Centinel (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 19, 1946 Page: 4 of 9
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BRIEF TEXAS NEWS-from over the State
TYLER LEADS U. S. IN ROSES
Rose growers in Tyler, Smith coun-
ty, produce two-thirds of all outdoor
rose bushes in the entire United States,
according to the Texas Rose Research
Foundation.
SHORTAGE OF TEACHERS
The Texas State Teachers Associa-
tion says that one out of every four
teachers in the Lone Star State is brand
new at the job and one out of every six
is sub-standard as regards qualifica-
tions. The Association says the turn-
over in teachers is the greatest in his-
tory.
MODERN CHICKEN THIEF
Chicken stealing has gone modern,
said Deputy Sheriff Stanley Mahavier,
of Houston, when a spraygun filled
with chloroform was left behind in a
recent raid He said the thief had evi-
dently sprayed the chloroform through
a window, waited for it to take effect,
then walked in and off with the be-
numbed fowls.
RICE GETS GIFT
Rice Institute, at Houston, recently
received a gift “in excess of $1,000.-
000’’ from Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Weiss
Weiss is president of Humble Oil it Re-
fining Co. and vice-president of the In-
stitute’s board of trustees. The gift
consists of the income of 30.000 shares
of oil stock for 171? years and will be
available for operating expenses.
INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT DOWN
Employment in manufacturing indus-
tries in Texas slumped slightly during
September from an August mark of
315.400 to 311 900 This was a decline
of 1 per cent and an overall decline of
2 5 per cent from September. 1945.
LONG-TERM WEDDING CELE-
BRATED
Mrs. and Mrs. W. A. Nelson, of Sham-
rock, Wheeler county, recently cele-
brated their 65th wedding anniversary
Both remain active despite their ad-
vanced age and both are enthusiastic
members of the Methodist Church.
They have six children.
U. T. STUDIES ROCKETS
The University of Texas has been au-
thorized an expenditure of $600,000 a
year of government funds to conduct
research in guided missiles moving fas-
ter than sound and the causes of deflec-
tion of radar waves. University scien-
tists will also delve into advanced
phases of meteorology.
TEXAS LEADS IN AIRFIELDS
More than one-sixth of all Army air-
fields still in operation are located on
Texas soil Of the 305 fields still active,
53 are in the Lone Star State. As was
the case during the war, most of the
AAF activity is centered around San
Antonio, but there is still a great deal
of Army flying being done elsewhere
in the State.
U. T. BECOMES COSMOPOLITAN
Two hundred and twenty-five foreign
students are registered this year at the
University of Texas, and they come
from 33 different countries Mexico
has the largest representation with 86
students, and Venezuela is second with
18. China is third with 15. Students
come from such widely scattered spots
as Syria, England. Iceland, Lebanon,
Turkey, the Philippines, Belgium and
India.
SCORES PUBLIC ATTITUDE ON
TRAFFIC SAFETY
Public indifference toward traffic ac-
cidents amounts to a “social disease,”
says Capt. J. O. Musick of the State De-
partment of Public Safety. Musick de-
clares that the public must become
acutely conscious of the waste in traf-
fic accidents before any real improve-
ment can be made. He pointed out that
40.000 lives a year are being snuffed
out by accidents on the road, and 90 per
cent of those accidents are preventable.
TEXAS GETS HOSPITAL CASH
Texas stands to get the most Federal
help in the State-aid hospital building
program being discussed by the Fed-
eral Hospital Council. A total of $75,-
000.000 in Federal money will be spent
annually, throughout the entire nation,
for five years. The States have to match
every Federal dollar with two State
dollars, making an overall program of
one and a quarter billion dollars. Tex-
as’ allocation will be 54.800.000, largest
of any State.
BEE REMOVER DE LUXE
Harvey Bevers, of San Antonio, is a
real estate man who makes a hobby of
removing bee-hives from inaccessible
places. This year he has specialized in
getting the hives out of airshafts of of-
fice buildings, attics of houses and the
top branches of tall trees. He has de-
vised a special trap for luring the bees
away from their hives into a perma-
nent, box-like home. His only reward
is to share in the honey when he has
found a new home for the bees.
103-YEAR-OLD VET PASSES
Francis Marion Potter, age 103, a vet-
eran of the Confederate Army and the
Spanish-American war, died at his
home near Brownwood, Brown county,
last month. A native of Virginia, Pot-
ter was graduated from West Point in
1860. He was an Army officer for 15
years and, granted amnesty after fight-
ing for the Confederacy, he saw much
service in the Indian wars. It was said
that he killed Chief Rain-in-the-Face.
the son of Geronimo, while fighting in
Nevada. Potter was also a Baptist min-
ister for more than 50 years.
TEXAN DISCHARGED TWICE
Pvt. Robert E. Kelso, of Houston, is
one of the few men to be discharged
from the Army twice in the same war
while still being ineligible to bear arms.
Three years ago he enlisted at the age
of 13, saw a year of service in Europe,
was wounded twice and won three stars
before the Army found out how young
he was. He was discharged. Last
February, aged 16, he fooled the re-
cruiting officer again and served ten
months before discovery Now the six-
foot ,two-inch youngster declares he
will re-enlist the minute he is old
enough to serve.
BAPTISTS ELECT PRESIDENT
Texas Baptists elected the Rev. Wal-
lace Bassett, of Dallas, as president at
their convention at Mineral Wells, Palo
Pinto county, last month. Bassett is
pastor of the Cliff Temple Baptist
Church in Dallas, a position he has held
since 1918. He was born in Tennessee,
but was ordained in 1905 at Sulphur
Springs, Hopkins county. He was pas-
tor there and at Amarillo, Potter coun-
ty, before going to Dallas.
YOUNG DRIVERS GO TO SCHOOL
The Texas Safety Association reveals
that 286 high schools and several junior
high schools in the State are now offer-
ing driver education and training in
their regular curricula. The theory is
to teach safe driving habits to the
youngsters early before they fall into
careless and fatal driving habits on the
road. -
BUSY MAILMAN
Rudolph A. Sapp, of Marysville.
Cooke county, reckons he has traveled
340,000 miles exclusively in his native
county while carrying out his duties
as rural mail carrier. He operated the
30-mile Delaware Bend route for 20
years and now handles Route 1. Dex-
ter, a 46-mile daily jaunt I have
traveled a distance equal to 14 r.mes
around the world and I have never been
out of Cooke county ’’ Sapp says.
FIVE GENERATIONS PRESENT
Five generations were present when
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Holterman, of San
Marcos. Hayes county, celebrated their
42nd wedding anniversary. Fifth gen-
eration was represented by Mrs. Hol-
terman's great-great-grandson, Robert
Eugene Medlar. Jr. The baby, Robert
Eugene, has four living great-grand-
parents, twelve great-aunts and twelve
great-uncles.
GAINESVILLE CIRCUS REVIVES
The Gainesville, Cooke county, circus
is going to make a post-war comeback.
A community dinner recently saw’ $3.-
275 pledged to purchase permanent
storage space for circus materials, and
plans are being made to rebuild the
city’s circus bigger and better than ever
before.
BUSINESS IS GOOD
There were no busi-
ness failures in the
State of Texas during
the month of October
and only one during
the month of Septem-
ber. according to Dun
& Bradstreet. Texas
had six business fail-
ures during the first
10 months of 1946 and
only five during the
corresponding period
in 1945.
SNAKE OIL RE-
QUEST
The Fort Worth
Chamber of Com-
merce recently receiv-
ed a request from an
out-of-State citizen
for information as to
how he could acquire
some rattlesnake oil.
The gentleman had
heard an enthusiastic
Texan boast of the
medicinal properties
of “snake oil” and he
wanted a bottle for
himself.
“IF YOU PLEASE”
"If You Please” is
the name of the new-
est wrinkle in Hous-
ton businesses. Op-
erated by two veter-
ans, “If You Please”
promises to perform
service miracles for
Houstonians and will "W-
do any odd jobs that
their clients find impossible or merely
tiresome. Services include finding
white shirts, baby-sitting, errands, ca-
tering and entertaining, shopping, rapid
laundry and cleaning, air line and hotel
reservations, and so on. Clients pay a
set fee each month and "If You Please”
takes care of their daily wants.
O Little Town of Bethlehem
1.
0 little town of Bethlehem.
How still we see thee lie 1
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by;
Yet in thy dark street shineth
The everlasting Light;
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight.
2.
0 holy Child of Bethlehem!
Descend to us, we pray;
Cast out our sin, and enter in,
Be born in us today!
We hear the Christmas angels
The great glad tidings tell;
0 come to us, abide with us,
Our Lord Immanuel!
BATTLE FLAG PRE-
SENTED
The battle flag of
the U. S. S. Texas was
presented to the Tex-
as Memorial Museum
of the University of
Texas recently by Col.
Lewis B. Fuller, Ma-
rine Corps hero and
director of the Eighth
Marine Reserve Dis-
trict. Navy Reserve
Lieutenant Fred
■ Red") Harris. State
Senator-el e c t from
Dallas, accepted the
flag on behalf of the
State.
A QUESTION OF
NAMES
When the War As-
sets Administra t i o n
offered Fort Worth
citizens “salt water
soap” at 12 cents a
pound, it found no
buyers. Even when
the price was cut to
6 cents, the public
showed no interest,
despite the soap short-
age. Then someone in
the WAA changed the
name to “all-purpose
laundry and hard-wa-
ter soap” (which it is)
and raised the price
back to 12 cents a
pound. The entire sup-
ply was sold out in 48
hours.
VETS WANT BONDS
A Houston chapter of the American
Legion has .started a movement for a
veteran’s bonus to be granted former
World War II soldiers from Texas. The
Houston plan would cost the taxpayers
$108,000,000. An effort will be made
to pass it through the next Legislature.
Every State voting on a bonus during
the last year, with the single exception
of Maine, has passed a similar plan.
ENGINEERS SCARCE
A shortage of trained engineers and
technicians is slowing down the State's
postwar highway construction program.
New farm roads will be the hardest hit.
Help has been so scarce that engineers
have been called from their drafting
boards to supervise field work and this
bas made it impossible to keep up with
the $5,000,000 a month schedule. State
Highway Engineer D. C. Greer says
that the farm-to-market roads, pro-
grammed after V-J Day, will suffer
most.
TO USE CAMP HOOD
Camp Hood, near Temple, Bell coun-
ty, will soon become one of the major
training areas in the nation when the
Air Transport Command begins to use
it to instruct fliers in the technique of
moving entire armies by air. The pres-
ent landing strips at the camp are in-
adequate for handling the biggest trans-
ports, so strips 7,000 to 8.000 feet long
are being constructed. They will be
sufficiently wide to handle many
planes at one time.
NATIONAL AIR SHOW FOR TEXAS
The National Aircraft Show for 1947
is being planned for Grand Prairie, Dal-
las county, according to national avia-
tion authorities. Plans call for it being
held in the North American aviation
building, now being used as warehouses
by the War Assets Administration. The
show was originally scheduled for 1/OS
Angeles, but recent reports say that, the
Southern California city does not nave
buildings large enough to house the ex-
hibits.
GOLDFISH DOCTOR
James D. King, veteran mail carrier
of El Paso, has made a useful hobby of
doctoring goldfish. He started the
hobby 15 years ago when he ran out of
bait one day and decided to raise his
own. He now has 10,000 goldfish in
his backyard plus 10,000 snails and he
says, “several miles of worms.” His
hobby keeps his telephone busy all day
answering calls from keepers of ailing
fish, and he prescribes proper diet and
treatment to all comers. King keeps
giant spear plants, star lilies and um-
brella plants in his tanks and supple-
ments the fishes’ diet with green flies
caught in special traps. He also feeds
the fish oatmeal and ground shrimp.
TEXANS LIVE LONG
Texans are remarkably long-lived,
according to State Auditor C. H. Cav-
ness. Cavness backed it up by
announcing that 1,607 Lone Star State
residents are still drawing Confederate
pensions. These pensioners were
awarded $83,731 during the month of
August alone. Oldest pensioner is a
104-year-old widow and the youngster
of the lot is a sprightly 70-year-old
widow. Youngest pensioned veteran is
96 years old. Cavness said that the first
obligation to veterans came in 1881
when the State Legislature made a
grant of 1,280 acres of public domain to
each disabled veteran or widow who
had not remarried. Almost two million
acres were given away before the law
NEW EDITOR NAMED
Reverend A. E. Hunter has been
named new editor of the Southwestern
Advocate, a Methodist publication serv-
ing Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico.
The appointment was made by Bishop
Charles C Selecman at the 37th annual
Northwest Texas Methodist Conference
at Pampa, Grey county. Approximately
500 delegates from 225 churches at-
tended the Conference.
TEXAS NAVAL CASUALTIES
Texas suffered a casualty toll of 7,-
258 in the Navy, Marines and Coast
Guard during World War II, according
to figures recently released by the Navy
Department Of the total. 3,023 died
in combat 84 met death as prisoners of
war. 3 584 were wounded and 267 are
released POW’s. The figures bring the
total Lone Star State casualty list in all
branches to 23.022 As a State, Texas
ranks sixth in Naval casualties. Cali-
fonv.a is first with 14.018.
WHOOPING COUGH WARNING
Patients suffering from whooping
cough should be rigidly insolated in or-
der to prevent spread of the disease,
State Health Officer George W. Cox
says. The disease can be contracted
only by direct exposure, he added. Cox
also recommended approved vaccine
and convalescent serum to check the
illness during the seasonal increase ex-
pected this month.
AUSSIES WANT ALAMO STONE
The Australian government has ask-
ed the City of San Antonio to give it a
small piece of stone from the Alamo,
the shrine of Texas independence. The
Australians want the stone to go into
a massive war memorial commemorat-
ing the mutual war efforts of this coun-
try and Australia. Stones from famous
sites within each of the 48 States are
being sought for the monument.
OIL RESERVE AMPLE
The United States still has more than
20 billion barrels of crude oil reserves
and 148 trillion feet of natural gas re-
serves, despite having supplied fuel for
the greatest war in history, according
to Maston Nixon, natural resources ex-
pert, from Corpus Christi, Nueces coun-
ty. Nixon added that this country is
not in any immediate danger of a pe-
troleum shortage.
RETURN OF THE WILD
Wildlife is returning to the Big Bend
National Park after many years’ ab-
sence, Dr. Ross Maxwell, park superin-
tendent, says. Deer were so plentiful
this season that they were almost a
nuisance and smaller game abounded.
Reason is that cattle and goats were
cleared out of the park, giving the grass
a chance to grow. The grass holds the
water and snow and makes the park
less arid, and as this goes on, the park
becomes more attractive to wild game.
Dr. Maxwell said 2,000 people a month
visited the park during the summer.
REVENUE COLLECTIONS DIP *
Federal internal revenue collections
in Texas fell off 4 per cent in Septem-
ber from the amount collected in Sep-,
tember, 1945, according to a report by
the University of Texas Bureau of Busi-
ness Research. Collections in September
amounted to $112,030,497. Income
taxes were $7,000,000 less than in 1945
while the total included under “other”
taxes was 18 per cent higher.
BROWNWOOD REBEL FETED
Flags were flown all day at Brown-
wood, Brown county, when Dr. James
Addison Abney, Confederate veteran,
celebrated his 100th birthday. Congrat-
ulatory telegrams were sent by Presi-
dent Truman, General Wainwright and
Admiral Nimitz, and civic rites were
organized by City Manager Fred S. Ab-
ney. the aged veteran’s son. Dr. Abney
has lived in Brownwood since 1895 and
established the Citizens' National Bank
there in 1906.
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SCHOOLS TO GET BUILDINGS
Surplus government-owned buildings
have been allocated by the Federal
Works Agency to four Texas colleges.
The buildings are war-constructed and .
will be transported and re-erected on
the various campuses. Texas A. & M.
College will get sufficient buildings for
classrooms, offices, laboratories, han-
gars, shops and machine sheds to ac-
commodate 10,084 students, of whom
the majority will be veterans. Wharton
County Junior College will get build-
ings to provide for alteration of the
gymnasium, together with equipment
and classroom furniture to accommo-
date 400 students. Paris Junior Col-
lege will receive materials for cafeteria
and classrooms, with furniture, to pro-
vide for 1.100 students, of whom 850
are veterans. North Texas Agricul-
tural College, Arlington, will receive
surplus structures to house 400 addi-
tional scholars.
UNIFORM TRAFFIC LAWS URGED
A Statewide uniform traffic code has
been urged by the Texas Safety Asso-
ciation and other groups interested in
building safer State highways, as a
means of preventing accidents on the
road. Recommendations also included
a substantial increase in the number of
traffic patrolmen and an increase in the
personnel conducting drivers’ license
tests. George Clarke, managing direc-
tor of the Association, says the cost of
these improvements would be easily
offset by reductions in the accident toll.
Highway accidents cost Texas $60,000.-
000 a year under present conditions.
Clarke also pointed out that there are
only 243 State traffic policemen in Tex-
as patrolling the biggest highway aya-
tem in the country.
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White, Jefferson B. The Cameron Herald and Centinel (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 19, 1946, newspaper, December 19, 1946; Cameron, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth577747/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.