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THE ROCKDALE REPORTER
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Rockdale Me*e*eug«r Established 1873
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AND MESSENGER
THE OLDEST AND BEST
Rockdale Reporter Established lSbo
KOCK1JALL, MILAM COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY AUGUST 22, 1935
NO. 28
Si* ROGERS AND POST FUNERALS TODAY
r next Monday August 26, the quali-
ffied voters of Rockdale will in large
Lure decide the fate of the Rook-
ie public school system. That is,
[l deCide whether or not our school
Lm is to go forward, keeping step
tth the times, or whether it shall be
teed in tiie category of those schools
Lch have reached their ultimate in
jvelopment and will hereafter remain
Itionary—or, more probably, g<o into
peried of retrogression.
ENJOY CAMP AT
GEORGETOWN MEET DEATH IN
At ASKAN CRASH
.he National Government has agreed
"give Rockdale the sum of $13,500
' spot cash to be applied on a new
ool building, provided Rockdale will
. up $16,500—the total cost of the
tiding and equipment to be $30,000.
C question to be voted on next
bnday is whether or not Rockdale
Ilf ns will vote 4 per cent bonds In
amount of $16,500 for this purpose.
The Government's $13,500 is already
lotted and will be immediately avail-
lie if the bond issue carries. If the
®d issue fails, Rockdale will lose that
3,500, and there will be no new build-
he Rockdale schools need this new
tiding badly. The present housing
Hides are already taxed to the ut-
st. The schools are growing in
pJerest and attendance all the time,
pless additional housing is provided,
ekdale schools must from here on
refuse admission to any further
pditional enrollment—and that at a
shod when the influx of students
Dm the rural districts is just beginn-
g. Within the next decade, or sooner,
rural schools will begin to dis-
.iear, as applies to high school
Ipilities The State Department of
fucation is gradually putting such a
into effect. The independent
ol districts, such as Rockdale, will
' expected to absorb and care for all
school scholastics in the oounty.
The City Council of Rockdale has
iinfd the local Board of Trustees in
Bvocating and endorsing this new
pilding and its consequent small bond
sue. The Council states that this
ball amount of bonds can be floated
Ithout the necessity of an increase in
Jther city or school tax rate. There-
Jre it would seem the logical thing to
to vote these bonds, grab Uncle
n’s dash donation, build this new
ructure and be ready for the growth
| the school, already being made mani-
it, and sure to become larger.
r° ?rr as this ne wspaper is Informed
Jere has developed no great amount
opposition to the bend issue. It
probable that the voters
Hi vote "yes’’ in a large majority. Yet
I is a fact that often the apathy of
pse citizens who favor a measure,
ft fail to go to the polls and vote, has
Ibsed the defeat of worthy projects,
r his not be the case next Monday,
F let every friend of education, every
pen who has the interests of his
E? heart’ B° 10 the P°lls and vote
I k the bond issue.
Keep date and the object in mind.
Moridav op __
L,.. ........... *0, jun a new
f >ng and the continued develop-
F™ °' the Rockdnip e^hoci system.
^member, Uncue Sam’s $13,500 is
In ‘ xrncl waitinS' subject only to our
L. , 0 further red tape to be un-
L r, ,MAnci remember, too, that the
FdPr^td11^ Wl11 afford a lot of labor
Plans for local citizens
I* need the jobs.
RTERMAN congratulates the
S Co,lnfy Health Council on
\.?nsummation of their long-
w! h°bjf4(it~the employment of a
^nty hea th nur.se. and at the same
ners 0^U®t€1s the county commis-
their “decision to make the
Suable work r° *riati0n t0 SeCUre thiS
ontv „! rk' A grouP of Hne Milam
i? end fm°n have been working to
•ir im/»r3r fSCVeral years, and due to
ndreri ^ u and enthusiasm several
tpeciai f ars ha<1 been accumulated
^ lal fu_™to help the county out.
GRA^ eiland
GETs COLLEGE DEGREE
story
Maxwell’s Delegation is
Largest at District
Encampment
Twenty-four F. F. A. members of the
Rockdale chapter are talking enthusi-
astically of their experiences at the
three-day annual encampment of the
Future Farmers of District 8 held at
Georgetown last week. Sixteen chap-
ters of approximately 175 boys and
their advisors attended the encamp-
ment. The beautiful Georgetown City
Park with its many large shade trees
and lovely San Gabriel river was the
site of the camp. The Rockdale group
went over in one of the school buses.
The boy a pooled liieir food which was
prepared and served by two negro cooks
whom the boys took along. Eating and
playing were the order fo the day.
The first afternoon was taken up
with the swimming and diving con-
tests and preliminary softball games.
In the water events Elbert Vanmeter
won the 100-yard dash; Tommy Cof-
field placed third in 50-yard dash;
Boyd Middleton second in fancy diving;
and George Mackie second in distance
diving. Monday night the group at-
tended a movie.
Tuesday morning the Rockdale boys
played six games of volley ball, never
losing a game. That afternoon Mr.
Burton and Mr. Kelley of Swift and
Co., Taylor, gave educational poultry
talks. Later the local boys played Kil-
leen a soft ball game which placed
them in the finals. After their even-
ing meal the wrestling matches were
held with Harris Neely and George
Mackie winning. Following the wrestl-
nig, Harvey Dean and Caywood of
Cameron tied for honors in the light
weight boxing. Tommy Coffield won
the draw in heavyweight boxing. El-
si ridge Williams won the draw in the
midget boxing.
Wednesday morning the boys won
their final volley ball game. Following
this they won a close softball game
from Thorndale, and lost in the finals
to Friendship.
Boys attending were Elbert Van-
meter, Buck McNamee, Harvey Dean,
Luther Landis, Boyd Middleton, Gra-
nam Kyle, Tommy Coffield, James
Collier Pearson. John Edmonds. Ernest
Lorenz, Larry Scroggins, Malcolm Gee,
David Corder, Thomas Robinson, Tra-
vis Key, Claudie Muston, Harmon
Williams. Woodrow Mackie, George
Mackie, Edward Jones, Eldridge Will-
Airplane Vacation Trip Fatal
To Two Famous Men
In Frozen North
Will Rogers, the world’s most famous
humorist and screen artist, and Wiley
Pest, holder of the world’s record for
around-the-world airplane flights, were
instantly killed about 8 o’clock last
Thursday night when their airplane
crashed 15 miles from Point Barrow,
Alaska, near the northern tip of the
American continent.
Off on a vacation airplane jaunt a
week previous, the two celebrated men
and close friends were hopping about
over Alaska, as a prelude to a flight
to Siberia and Moscow, planned by
Post, for a later date.
They became lost in a fog and land-
ed near an Eskimo village, ate dinner
with the natives and then took off
again. The engine of their plane sud-
denly quit, and hte ship crashed from
a height of only 50 feet. Both bodies
were crushed and the plane demolish-
ed.
WORLD RECORD
HELD BY POST
Famous Aviator Only Man to
Make Solo Flight
Around World
night W. T. Pearson, Eldridge Ragan,
Herbert Caywood, Weldon Williams,
Monk Summers, Carlton Guthrie, and
Alvin Curry were visitors at the Rock-
dale camp.
re-
« "huh «a™s of
•^thefr ^A hWW M re‘
: Co]wP 'A degr«*s this summer.
* the ^n™°rrespondent erred ^ list-
- name of Mrs. Grace Eiland.
fch L ,t pear as Grace Gregory
* Eiland ,er namc before marriage
■School S Princ,pal of the MiUer-
Ounr^dUat?s mentloned were Miss
8111 Ryan Mefi8rS' ,¥ed --------
Graves
SECURITIES ACT
TO BE EXPLAINED
Representative George Mayo
Newton to Acquaint Public
With its Provisions
Austin, August 16—Secretary of
State Gerald C. Mann announced the
appointment of Representative George
Mayo Newton of Cameron, as chair-
man of an educational committee In
Milam county to acquaint the public
with the provisions of the new Texas
Securities Act passed by the 44th Legis-
lature.
The new law was designed to pro-
tect , insofar as possible, the investing
public from the depredations of racket-
teers and gypsters in the securities field.
Prior to the enactment of the new
law conditions in Texas in the various
securities rackets were described as
deplorable, Secretary Mann asserted.
Under the new law all dealers, sales-
men and agents are required to be
registered and licensed by the State.
Permits may be revoked for frauds
made in the sale of securities. Strict
penal provisions were also written into
the measure.
Representative Newton was active in
his support of the measure, and will
be available for speaking engagements
before the various civic and luncheon
clubs of his district.
Daniel B. Strelsky, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Strelsky, has recently en-
listed in the United States Army, and
has been assigned to the Twelfth Field
Artillery, stationed at Ft. 8am Houston.
Burbank, Cal., to New York, the last
lailure June 1, this year.
He used but one ship in all of his
achievements—the “Winnie Mae.”
Minerva Grange to
Hear State Master
Night of September 3
Ralph W. Moore, of Granger, Master
of the Texas State Grange and Harold
W. Gaulrapp, representative of the
National Grange, were in Rockdale
Friday.
In addition to the Grange at Minerva
they report other organizations recent-
ly effected, or soon to be effected, at
Granger, Taylor, San Gabriel, Hutto
and Tanglewood. J. A. Treadwell, of
Tanglewcod Grange, has been honored
with the office of State Chaplain.
Mr. Moore stated that the next meet-
ing of the Minerva Grange will be
held at 8 o’clock on the night of Sep-
tember 3, at which time the degree
team of Friendship Grange will con-
fer the 4th degree and exemplify other
work. Minerva members will offer a
social program, and Moore will speak
on the statewide work of the order.
WILL ROGERS
Two Final Pictures
Made by Will Rogers
Will Be Released
New York, Aug 19— Will Rogers’ two
last motion pictures completed in
Hollywood before his death, are to be
released for public showings.
The Fox Film corporation, producers
of the pictures, announced its plans for
the releases today. “Steamboat Round
The Bend,” a river picture photograph-
ed near Sacramento Cal., will have its
premiere Sept. 6; “In Old Kentucky”
will go on the screen Dec. 6.
NATION MOURNS
AS TWO BURIED
Rogers’ Funeral in California
Post’s in Oklahoma, as
Last Tributes Paid
The crushed bodies of Will Rogers
and Wiley Post arrived in Los Angeles
about dark Monday evening, having
been brought by airplane the entire
3600 miles from Point Barrow, Alaska,
where they met their untimely end
last Thursday, The funeral ship was
flown as far as Seattle, Wash., by Pilot
Joe Crosson, of Alaska. William Win-
ston, Texas airman, was the pilot from
thence to Los Angeles.
Erief private funeral services for
Rogers are to be held in Los Angeles
today, followed by a public memorial
service in the Hollywood Bowl. Rogers’
body will be interred in California.
The body of Post was taken on by
airplane to his home at Maysville,
Okla., where funeral services will pro-
bably be held today, with interment
following there.
FAME OF ROGERS
WASWORLDWIDE
Former Cowboy Was Interna-
tionally Known as Humorist
And Picture Artist
JOHN WEED MADE
HEAD OF PWA
PLAN BOARD
-o-
Funds are Provided For
County Health Wrse
By Commissioners
New York, Aug. 16—Here are the
aerial exploits of Wiley Post, who with
Will Rogers, film comedian, was killed
today in an airplane crash in Alaska.
With Harold Gatty, Post flew around
the world in eight days, 15 hours and
51 minutes in 1931.
In 1933, he made a solo ’round the
world flight in seven days, 18 hours,
and 49-1-2 minutes.
The following year, Post announced
that he would concentrate on the prac-
tical side of aviation. He made two
sensational high altitude trips over his
home town of Bartlesville, Oklahoma,
wearing a “supercharged suit” of his
own design.
Post made four unsuccessful attempts
to make a transcontinental flight
iams, Harris Neely, Benny Watson, A. i though the stratosphere. Each time
G. Brahm. Tuesday and Wednesday | he was forced down on the way from
Caldwell Man Heads
District FERA With
Office In Temple
Paul E. Parker, county relief adminis-
trator, who was recently jhosen dis-
trict administrator with headquarters
at Temple, Monday completed his per
sonnel and officially assumed his duties,
taking with him four former employees
of the county office. These included
Miss Doris Clampitt, who has been
chosen as private secretary to the ad-
ministrator, Miss Mae Ferris, named
assistant district case supervisor, Mrs.
John Fitzgerald, district disbursement
officer and Frank Davis, who is attach-
ed to the auditing department.
The Caldwell office was left in charge
of Seldon Henslee. who will act as tem-
porary case supervisor for this county,
according to announcement.
The county office, it is said, will only
attend to case jobs and will employ
only a few people.
The recent new policy of the state
relief commission, in dispensing with
county administrators, and dSvidfng
the state into only 38 districts, virtually
closed the county office. The district
administrator, however, stated that
only a few, if any of the present relief
employees will lose their jobs.
Mr. Parker spent most of last week
m penecung ms district organization.
He is now permanently located in Tem-
ple, but it is understood, will spend
most of his time in the district which
comprises Bell, Falls. Williamson, Mi-
lam and Burleson counties.
The four Caldwell employees who
were promoted to district positions left
Monday afternoon to assume their new
positions.—Caldwell News.
Mr. and Mrs. Bud Caywood and Mrs.
T. M. Lanford and children, have re-
turned from a ten-day automobile trip
which carried them over a large sec-
tion of West Texas, where they visited
relatives and friends.
Will Rogers to Receive Posthumous
Medal for His Aviation Promotion
St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 16.—The Spirit
of St. Louis Medal for outstanding con-
tribution to aviation will be awarded
posthumously to Will Rogers, It was
announced Friday.
The award was originated in 1929 by
the aeronautics division of the Ameri-
can Society of Mechanical Engineers,
which will hold its next meeting here
Oct. 10.11 and 12.
Rogers, the third person so honored,
was selected for the award weeks ago.
The announcement originally was to
have been withheld until the October
meeting.
Members of the board of award
which selected Rogers are Victor Aibe,
St. Louis consulting engineer, chair-
man; Rear Admiral H. I. Cone, U. 6.
N.; Orville Wright; Major James H.
Doolittle; Prof. Clark Millkan of the
department of aeronautics, California
Institute of Technology, and William
Mayo, former chief engineer of the
Ford Motor Company..
First award of the medal, In 1939, was
to Daniel Guggenheim, who created
the Guggenheim Foundation for the
advance of aeronautics. Second award
was to Paul Litchfield of the Good-
year-Zepipelin Company, in 1932.
Rogers was selected for the honor
because of his consistently construc-
tive publicizing of aeronautics.
A cowboy’s drawl, a shy grin and a
mirthful tongue that convulsed king
and commoner alike made Will Rogers
an international favorite.
At 56 he was known all over the
world, where the motion pictures are
shown or where he had visited, for his
homely humor. An aviation enthusi-
ast, he went to his death while doing
cne of the things he liked best—flying.
He began life as a plain cowboy,
proud cf his Cherokee Indian blood
and of his ability to twirl a lariat. He
ended it as the intimate friend of
presidents, monarchs, dictator, million-
aires—film extras and ’blathering”
cow hands.
Even Made Statesmen Laugh
In homely vein, he could size up in
a paragraph a national crisis that had
statesmen snarling at each other—and
make even the statesmen laugh.
Born in Indian territory, he learned
to throw a rope and ride a horse as a |
youth. He always called Oklahoma1
home though he lived in California.
By way of a wild west show he reach- '
ed the vaudeville stage and from there
it was only a step to the legitimate
with the Rogers’ inimitable brand of
humor making him a star in Ziegfeld’s
follies.
The first time Will Rogers' audience
laughed at him—the important mo-
ment that launched him on his for-
tune-making career as a humorist—
Will was miffed.
jnougnt l nem C hiding
He thought they were chiding his
Oklahoma drawl. That was in 1905
while he was in vaudeville doing a
roping stunt. The show manager told
him he might explain some of the fine
points of trick roping. When Will
started talking, the audience roared.
Will didn’t want to do it again but
was urged and yielded.
His first venture in pictures was not
semational, for it was not enough for
theatregoers to see Rogers. They must
hear him too, to appreciate his art.
When the pictures talked Rogers was
remade—this time far greater than
when he topped the shows on broad- J
way.
He moved steadily forw ard and at his,
death was regarded as the No. 1 at-
traction in films.
The comedian amassed a great for-
tune in the several fields cf entertain-
ment in which he had shown, gave n
great deal of money away to charitable
causes of every description and still
was generally regarded as a million-
aire. He was perhaps the largest land
owner in the motion picture colony.
The Milam County Commissioners
Court had a busy scss.cn last Thursday
and Friday, and transacted important
business.
In addition to setting the county tax
rate and announcing reductions in the
special road bond-taxes in several dis-
tricts, the court adopted the annual
budget as prepared by the county
judge and county auditor, and included
in that budget was an appropriation
for the employment of a county health
nurse
Due to the growth cf interest in home
demonstration avork amnog the negroes
an appropriation was also made for the
establishment of that work among the
negroes and the employment of a negro
home demonstration agent.
Planning Board, Too
The court also named a P'?r.r:"g
Board for the country, to work with
the Works Progress Administration in
the planning of all WPA projects for
Milam county. John M. Weed, of Rock-
dale, was named chairman of the
beard, other members V>eing Chas. Sai-
ler of Thorndale. Walter Fuchs of
Buckholts, Grady Stidham and Stan-
ton Dossett of Cameron. County Judge
Jeff T. Kemp will be an ex-officio
member of the board.
The court opened bids on the refund-
ing of $67,000 worth of road bonds for
the Cameron Road' District (No. 2).
A Dallas firm had the low bid and se-
cured the contract lor the new bonds,
about half of which will bear an in-
terest rate of 4 per cent, the remainder
at 3*6 per cent. The old bonds so re-
funded were 5 per cent bonds, and thus
a big saving in interest is made for
that district.
County Tax Rate
The county tax rate was fixed for
the ensuing year at 70c on the $100
valuation, this being the same rate as
last year. The tax is divided as fol-
lows: General fund 25c, court house
and jail 5c, road and bridge 15c, read
and bridge special 15c. and jury fund
10c. Total valuations for the county
this year are approximately $15,300,-
OjO about $100,000 less than last year.
The following reductions in district
road bend tax rates were authorized:
Gause reduced from 50c to 40c; Buck-
holts reduced from 70c to 60c: Mays-
fielc from 15c to 5c; Branchville from
35c to 25c; Yarrellton from $1.25 to
$1.10; Milano from $1:50 to $1.00.
NEGRO CITIZENS
SPONSOR FAIR
Two-Dav Agricultural Fair to be
Given by Rockdale Colored
Pponlp Next Month
Ten members of the Magnolia “Fra-
ternity" attended a school of instruc-
tion held by their company In Cameron
last week, where they studied scientific
lubrication and other problems per-
taining to their calling. Those attend-
ing were: Geo. B. LumpkinSj whole-
sale dealer; E. L. McGuyer: David, Ver-
non and Vaughan McGuyer; Monroe
Pierce, Leon Towery, Wilbur Williams,
George Johnson and A. C. Kirkland.
Rockdale negro citizens are giving
the white citizenship of this city an
object lesson in civic enterprise next
month. They announce a two-day fair,
sponsored by the Rockdale Negro Fair
Association. The announcement as
made by O. E. Wilhite, principal of the
colored school, states that all plans
have been made, and that they expect
the fair to be up to the standard of
former fairs held by the colored popula-
tion cf this city.
Agriculture and industrial exhibits
to be shown will be under the direc-
tion of the Vocational Agriculture de-
partment of Ayccck High School. Prizes
will be awarded in these two divisions.
Horse races will be featured both
days. Each night a musical concert
will be given by Cherry Lee and his
Dixie Land Band Orchestra, of Austin,
it is stated.
“The Rockdale Negro Pair Associa-
tion is kindly asking the co-operation
of both our white and colored friends
towards making the fair a success,"
Wilhite stated.
Keifer Strickland, the big onion and
cucumber man of Bonham, Tfcxas. came
in Friday for a short vacation visit
with his parents here before taking up
his Fall work as athletic coach of the
Bonham High School.
i A
Mrs. Ben Lowensteln and Miss Car-
rie Lowenstein have returned from
Dallas.
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