The Cameron Herald (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 29, 1949 Page: 1 of 9
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ESTABLISHED 1860
VOLUME NUMBER 90
NEW 1950 BUICK CARS
CAMERON, MILAM COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1919
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NUMBER 37
FLINT, Mich., Dec. 28—Buick to-
day announced for 1950 its most com-
prehensive line of cars since the pre-
war days, nnd for the first time of-
fered models in a wide range from
the newly-invaded lower price field
to luxury custom models in the up-
per brackets. The cars are completely
new from styling and engineering
standpoints, boasting more powerful
engines, new and roomier bodies,
greater comfort, ar.d sweeping fen-
der lines carried through the length
of the body.
Altogether there are 19 models in
the line with seven in the Special
Series and six models each in the
Super and Roadmaster Series. Basi-
cally the cars are on three different
chasis but one model ire both the
Super and Roadmaster Series is on
a lengthened chasis to accomodate
a mere spacious body.
A new engine is offered in the
Super Series while the Roadmaster
and Special engines have undergone
changes to give increased perform-
ance .
Hghlighting the style of the new
cars are lower lines, the apparent
use of more glass and Buick’s char-
acteristic full taper-through front
fenders flowing in smooth lines
through the entire body length. These
lines are accentuated in the medium
and higher priced models by a stain-
less moulding running most of the
length of the car.
Two distinct body styles are utiliz-
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Milk Bowl Will Be
Formally Organized
Here Late Tuesday
Representatives from Cause where
the Milk Bowl Game iden originated
and Chamber of Commerce officials
were to meet in Cameron late Tues-
day for formal organization.
A charter will he sought and all
rites on the Milk Bowl protected. It
is to be made an annual event in
Cameron. The first such game in the
history of football was played here
on Saturday, December 10 between
San Saba and Gause.
Dixie Walker of Gause was in
Cameron Tuesday and a meeting hns
been called. The purpose was to per-
fect an organization and to make
the movement both permanent and
official.
Mrs. Lelia Batte Is
Winner In Contest
As Poem Writer
Lelia McAnaliy Batte has been
notified that she has won second
place in “Texas Society of Poetry"
contest, (the Hamlet prize for best
quartrain).
Some of the most distinguished
poets won second and third places
in other contests.
Mrs. Batte has had thirty-eight
poems published, and in addition to
her poetry is writing short stories
and hopes to complete her “History
of Milam County” in 1950.
The book will be authentic and
interesting and will present in a most
interesting manner the back-gorund
and events the colorful heroes and
times in early day Texas.
Holiday Death Toll
In America is 611
CHICAGO, Dec. 27—The National
Safety Council warned today that the
Christmas holiday toll of 611 acci-
dental deaths would be repeated dur-
ing the New Year holiday unless
‘The people have sickened of mak-
ing horror days out of their holidays.”
The council said the Christmas
carnage should horrify the nation
as greatly as the Texas City disas-
ter two years ago.
A final tabulation by United Press
showed that 611 persons died in ac-
cidents across the country between
6 p. m. Friday and midnight Monday.
Traffic accidents accounted for 420
of the deaths.
than inn i»
Business was better in 1949 than
it was ire 1'148, especially the Christ,
mas volume of selling.
A limited survey at key merchan-
dising centers in Cameron early
Tuesday brings a fairly unanimous
report on the volume of business here
during December.
Generally business was better in
1940 than it was in 1948 nnd this
was the pattern of business over the
country as a whole. There was more
buying at Christmas than during the
holiday season in 1948, it was re-
ported here, Tuesday by merchants
ire every classification.
Optimisnf was expressed every-
where as the old year drew to a close
and 1950 loomed. There was little
doubt that in the New Year the more
sales conscious merchants would re-
solve to regain Cameron’s once domi-
nant place ns a retail center.
Newspaper advertising played a
leading rols ire the volume of retail
trade, especially during peak season
like that of the Christmas holidays.
Ire the New Year it was expected that
Cameron merchants would launch a
bigger program of advertising be-
cause therein lies the key to larger
volume business.
Buying power was high and ac-
cording to the national index will
continue to be high in the New Year.
1950 IS ELECTION YEAR HERE
TEXAS SOLON ASKS COTTON CHANCE
TAX PAYMENT ON INCREASE
Billy Hanes Home
For Holidays; Has
College Chum Guests
One of the happy home coming de-
velopments for the Christmas holi-
days was the visit of Billy Hanes
from Annapolis Naval Academy and
with him two college chums who came
to spend a portion of the season in
Cameron .
Billy, his first year at Annapolis, is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Hanes.
Bill Powers of Bryan, also a cadet
at. Annapolis, is here and will return
home Wednesday. Both are due back
at the Academy early next week.
Powers is a half back on the Navy
football team and was one of the men
to score a touchdown on Army in
1948 in that great game.
Malcolm Stokes of Littlefield, stu-
dent at the University of Colorado,
at Boulder, is also here and is natur-
ally very proud of the home team
winning state Class A championship
over Mexia December 26. All have
been exchanging tall tales of grid-
iron exploits.
Hanes tried football at Anapolis
but suffered a recurrence of an old
injury, broken collar bone. He hopes
to play baseball.
Two Cameron Boys
On Athletic Award
List At Schreiner
Bob Holloway and Jimmy O’Neill
of Cameron are among the football
great at Schriener Institute in Ker-
ville to receive awards, both being
two lettermen.
Both are former Cameron Yoemen
and starred for three years in high
school here. Both are linemen and
are among Coach Leo Daniels prized
Mountaineer squadmen.
They will be playing their Junior
year next year and are among the
best materials the Institute has had
in years.
Reynaldo Alfaro Pays
$200 Fine For Drunk
Driving; Loses License
Reynaldo Alfaro has paid a fine of
$200 in county court on charge of
driving a car while drunk. To the
fine has been added the costs of
court and ire addition license to drive
has been suspended for 6 months.
Alfaro when arrested was released
on bond in the sum of $300 and re-
tained counsel. As the County Attor-
ney prepared to prosecute the case
Alfaro changed his plea to guilty
an-d was fined as above stated.
Mrs. Clyde Williams of Gause
transacted business here recently.
CITY ACHIEVED MUCH
By LORETTA BROCK
The City was more beautiful in the
residential area than it has ever been
at Christmas time. People for miles
around came to Cameron to view
these unusual and beautiful displays.
There are certainly many unique and
beautiful arrangements.
Out of town judges viewed the
array here when they had the most
difficult job of all, that of deciding
the winners. The judges were: Earl
T. Pate, T. P. & L. of Temple, Mat-
thew Ashley, Temple Floral Com-
pany: Raymond C. Lee, Lee Sigre Ser-
vice of Temple and they were accom-
panied by Arnold Mathias, Assistant
Manager of the Temple Chamber of
Commerce. The judges were given
judging sheets with four points to
judge on—originality, arrangement,
color, lighting. Each entry was giv-
en a score for each of these points
and later these scores were added for
the final average. Only numbers were
used for the judging, the judges did
not know t^ie names of the entries.
After much deliberation on the part
of the Judges, they picked the win-
ners as follows:
First place of $50.0<> to Mrs. W.
J. Donovan, who has a very original
and unique arrangement of Santa
Claus, a lighted 20 foot Christmas
tree ar.d huge packages with little
elfs struggling to get them under
the tree. A door piece with the word-
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CITY PRIMARY TO BE
FIRST OF ELECTIONS
1950 is political year and there will
he, at least six elections for the peo-
ple of Cameron and 4 for the people
at large over the county.
They begin in February when the
City Primary is held. Then will fol-
low the city general election. After
that comes the general state primary
in July, then the run off and the gen-
eral election in November. In between
comes school trustee elections both
in the city and in the county.
It is important that you he armed,
so pay your poll tax. If you reside
in the city you must pay city and
county and state poll tax. It will
cost you and wife $5.50 to qualify
for voting.
Feeling has been growing in Cam-
eron for several years that the city
primary should be abolished. It should
be abolished only because there is no
party competition-. Nomination is
equivalent to election. No good pur-
pose is served by the present set up
in the city since no Democratic Pri-
maries are held in the off years. In
1951 three members of the board of
Aldermen will be elected, enough to
control because a majority, and they
are not party reominated, just elected
in April.
In 1950 all city offices are to be
filled except that of three members
of the board. If the primary is not
called, considerable expense will be
saved candidates since they must
pay for the primary. When elected
in April the city pays the election
cost.
The primary is called by the City
Democratic Executive Committee.
They have elected not to call pri-
mary in the off years, thus they
abandon the nominatng machinery
in the case of electing 3 members of
the Council and take up the machin-
ery when two are nominated.
If the Committee calls an election
for February it will be held on the
second Tuesday.
Politicians, office holders ami those
who want to hold office, will soon be
looking for the first dog wood bloom.
Then it will be time to start, hand-
shaking.
Mrs. Ernest E. Williams is ill and
among the patients n Newton Mem-
orial Hospital.
HOPE FOR INCREASE
IN ACREAGE IS SEEN
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27—Prompt
consideration by congress of changes
in the cotton- area quota law was
urged today by Rep. Lucas (D-Tex).
“Something must be done at once
to remove injustices of the present
program,” he told a reporter.
“I was aghast to learn of the
kind of allotments received by scores
of farmers throughout every county
in my district .
“They were given no credit for
lands they had planted to peanuts in
line with the government’s program
to produce more edible oils. Yet they
had been promised they would get
credit for war crops when quotas
were fixed for a cotton control pro-
gram.
Lucas described the situation as
“so serious with many farmers that
they face financial ruin” unless con-
gress takes some action to change
the program before planting time.
Texas’ share of the national cot-
ton acreage was based on 95 per cent
of the land actually planted in cotton
in 1948. The law provides that alloca-
tion to counties must be based on the
same method used in assigning an
individual state’s share of the total.
Some state quotas reflected war crops
grown in the 1945-48 period.
Lucas said there are hundreds of
farmers throughout Central ar.d
West Texas counties who planted
heavily in peanuts and grain sor-
ghums during the past four or five
years.
He said their plight is identical
with that of growers in Texas Gulf
Coastal Bend counties, where much
land formerly devoted to cottore lmd
been planted in grain sorghums and
flax in recent years.
Ten growers from the coastal bend
sectioi.- have filed a suit against Agri-
culture Secretary Charles Brennan,
seeking credit for the war crops in
computing cotton acreage quotas. The
trial date has been set of Jan. 23.
PHIL IB PAYMENTS
SPEED HP IN COHNU
Tax payments were on the increase
both city and county .
Poll tax payments are speeding up
since 1950 is oleeton year. There was
temporary hesitation due to the un-
certainty of the proposed amendment
to abolish the poll tax, but since it
failed to pass, folks arc getting their
ammunition in tow for the battle of
ballots next year.
A report at the office of V’alter
White, tax collector, showed that tax
paying lias spurted upward in the
past few days. Only three days re-
main before January 1 nnd many will
pay because tnxes are deductible
from income tax reports.
January 31 is the deadline to pay
taxes without penalty. Mr. White
snid that it appeared that poll tax ns
well ns other payments would be
about normal.
In the city W. H. Stafford, city
collector, said that tax payments,
both poll and property tax was ubout
normal. He said that the heavy vol-
ume of payments will come in Jan-
uary but up to Wednesday payments
have been about normal.
Mrs. Jim McMillian of Dallas spent
the week: end in Cameron visiting
relatives
Former Cameron Girl
Hurt In Auto Crash
Gatesville Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. Grady Fellers of
Gatesville are in Hillcrest Hospital
in Waco because of injuries sustained
on Christmas Day when their car
was overturned near their home. A
tire blew out on the machine and it
plunged into a ditch.
They were on their way to Madi-
sonville to visit friends. Mr. Fellers
suffered broken ribs and face las-
cerations while Mrs. Fellers was
badly bruised and suffered from j
shock.
Mrs. Fellers is the former MNs
Una Fay Terry of Cameron and a
sister of Mrs. Douglas Barron at 1
Southwestern Bell Telephone Com-
pany here.
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The^New Year, "reviving old desires," and some-
thing the poet never mentioned — old resolutions, is be-
ing trumpeted in.
It is accorded this fanfare because it is more than a
day in "this petty pace" and continuity of life. It is a
brief halt and a starting over. It is the abandonment
of despair and the donning of hope.
It is a social time. We of this newspaper join all
of you in the celebration. We want to attend the wake
for 1949 and the birth of 1950 with all the blare of horns
and laughter.
Also in your fellowship, we pray that the world may
achieve its goal of peace in 1950 and that our commun-
ity see fulfilled all its plans for betterment.
Strictly on our own, we wish tor you a —
HHH
Josephine Matocha
Publicity Chairman
For College Sports
Miss Josephine Matocha daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Matocha, has
been named publicity chairman of the
Lake Sports Association at Our Lady
of the Lake College, San Antoreio,
where she is a freshman student.
Purpose of the Association, affilia-
ted with the Texas Recreation Fed-
eration for College Women, is to
promote student interest and parti-
cipation in sports and recreational ac-
tivities.
Composed of a number of group
interest clubs, the Association’s ac-
tivities include volleyball, archery,
badminton, basketball, swimming,
riding, tennis and golf.
Miss Gwyn Wilson
One of Ten Most
Beautiful At State
AUSTIN Miss Gwyn Wilson of
Cameron- has been chosen as one of
the “Ten Most Beautiful Girls” at
the University of Texas. The selec-
tion was made by Movie Star John
Derek from pictures of 25 finalists.
The ten co-eds will lie presented at
“Time Staggers On,” musical show
sponsored by Thetn Sigma Phi, wo-
men’s honorary journalism society.
The show will run January 12-14.
Miss Wilson, freshman majoring
in home economics, is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Wilson. She is
a pledge of Alpha Chi Omega sor-
ority and is president of the fresh-
man YWCA group.
18 Milam Boys Will
Enter Dairy Show
In Houston Feb. 1-12
The junior dairy show of the 1950
Houston Fat Stock Show, Feb. 1
through 12, promises to he the most
outstanding in the show’s 18-year
history and Milam county will be
presented among 188 dairy animuls
awarded winners in the show’s dairy
milking race in 1948 and 1949.
Included among those entering the
junior dairy show are: Billy Eubanks,
FFA from Rockdale, Rettig’s Ice
Cream Co. of Houston, Sponsor; Billy
C. Graham, FFA from Thorndale.
South Texas Producers of Houston,
sponsor; Harold Kornegay, FFA
from Gause, Rt. 1, Earl Fuchs of
; Houston, sponsor; Franklin Glaser,
! FFA from Cameron, Rt. 1, Bruce
Carter of Houston, sponsor; Morris
I Cryer, FFA from Buckhoits, Rt. 1,
j Klein’s Ice Cream Co. of Houston,
sponsor; Sidney L. Maxwell, FFA
I from Rockdale, Box 168, Becker’s
Checks totaling more than-eighteen | JewcIry Ctore of jlouston, sponsor;
National Guardsmen
Get Holiday Pay;
Total Is $1800.00
Marvin Rodenbeck, FF9 from Thorn-
dale, Box 125, Milton Underwood Co.
of Houston sponsor.
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hundred dollars were received just in
time to be distributed to the officers
and enlisted men of Battery C, 649th
Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion at
their last weekly drill period before
I Christmas.
It was the largest payroll yet re-
ceived by the local National Guard
unit, Captain Rudolph Mich-ilka said,
and reflected the recent pay increase
granted the Armed Forces, and also | Walter Clay Herndon, 75, co-owner
[the continued growth of the battery, of Herndon Marine Products Co., and
Capt. Michaika also announced that resident of Corpus Christi since 1931,
another application to fill ar. officer died at 2 p. m. yesterday in a local
vacancy if. the unit had been received hospital following a long illness,
and was being considered at this : Born ir. Plantersville, Miss., in
tiroe> 11874, Herndon came to Texas with
In addition, two enlisted men were his parents when he was 3 years old.
added to the battery** rolls recently, He attended schools in Milam and
he said. They are Eugene E. Marak, Lee Counties and a business college
a farmer, and Sammey L. Tyler, a .in Waco.
student and war veterare.
He was married July 28, 1897, to
Miss Carrie Howell of Rockdale and
the couple celebrated their Golden
, Richard J^hns a student at Texas >
University is spending the holidays , Wedding in 1947.
with his mother, Mrs. Ida Johns ami Herndon was employed as
ot’’< friend- nnd relatives. (turn to page eight)
a car
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White, Jefferson B. The Cameron Herald (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 29, 1949, newspaper, December 29, 1949; Cameron, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth578261/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.