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SON. EDITORS PUBLISHERS
THE ALTO HERALD
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SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $2.00 PER YEAR )N CHEROKEE COUNTY. $2.50
PER YEAR OUTSIDE OF COUNTV
THE ALTO HERALD.
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Around COMPLETED
ALTO. TEXAS. AUGUST 9, 1951
NO 8.
(jets State Honorary Degree Today
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t!<im Jack Nicar
of Milburn Ash.
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t students attending
at Stephen F.
at Nacogdoches,
[our wives are ask-
wcre not in that
betieved that we
ound instead of
Maybe the wives
mstance. Anyhow.
ished were sent
by the coltegc.
wern't" in the list.
;t vouch for their
^nday until Friday
}wcck. A sworn af-
head of the collegc
hui of the dog house.
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[it been? Saturday
iter placed a ther-
yass in front of the
#h. ? the sun could
it. Immediately
MO 'id we grabbed
tt5)p oefore it bursted.
as it could register,
iffice with four fans
it dropped down to
we would say
130 in front of
afternoon. If
[' doubts about the
statement, place
' out in the sun
up."
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lis comes up with
}t)iat it was 139 (in
Tyler Sunday
tw the thermometer
vis Thomas went
nd said the water
he had to cool it
take a bath. Any-
r reports'.' We'll be
W
}e comes in from
natty (for publica-
^elling how he is
fe the tax payers
* popular thing to do
H (deftly Mr. Connally
it- iection next year.
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ntown Bible Class
iee cream supper on
Methodist Church
w) night. Allison
Hrunt spent Tues-
ntacting members
overlooked the date,
b'mg their families
ions of this kind arc
of the class and
!*'' alt members are
thier wives and chil-
^ the evening of fel-
;is no charges of any
of the supper is paid
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Malone Knox and
were appointed as a
^ Sunday morning at
Bible Class to find a
hi he purchased and
^scd at the class each
it is our informa-
tive already done
^ possible that we
F '' the class Sunday
'i n are invited and
^ 'he class Sunday
Srhoois
for an
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continues, Bro.
^ be the guest
^''o. Summy is a
'^ito Circuit and
pastor of the
'd Butlard.
'' "0 and everyone
^ he closing ser-
'II be Friday
Mynum, pastor,
was called to
n account of the
vft Tuesday for a
^'etativesinPort
Pasadena.
' "f Iola, is spend-
f ' ^''th her daugh-
''^^er and family.
The faculty for Alto Public
has been completed, except
Elementary School Principal and
Band Director. Every possible effort
is betng made to filt these two place
Teachers and their arguments are
as follows:
High School
Jack Nicar. Principal
1. E. Cummings, Vocational Agri-
culture.
Mrs. B. N. Ener, Commercial.
Mrs. Anola Martin. English
Ted Moore, Science and Coach
James McCauley. Mathematics.
Jo P ranees Robersun, Vocational
Homcmaking.
Josie Alma Watters. English and
Speech.
Elementary School
James Grammer, Eighth Grade and
Assistant Coach.
Mrs. Helen Quarles. Seventh Grade
Mrs. Delia Bowen, Sixth Grade.
Edith Hendrick. Fifth Grade.
Ruthie Mae Williams, Fourth
Grade.
Mrs. Jim Hargrove. Third Grade.
Mrs. Irene Ramsey, Second and
Third Grades.
Mrs. Erna Men iwether, Second
Grade.
Mrs. Verline Danhcim, First Grade.
Mrs. Lois Walter. Co-ordinator.
J. D Boone, Superintendent.
School begins on Tuesday. Septem-
ber 4; books will be issued. Regular !
classes will be taught on Wednesday.
Teachers will meet Friday. August
31.
The school board is requiring birth
certificates of ali pupils who enter
school. These certificates must be
presented for enrollment. Pupils
must be six years of age on or before
September 1, in order to enroll. The
state department will not grant reim-
bursement for pupils under six years
of age. even though the names are
carried on the census roll. All par- j ever.
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revive Harvester Dealer, has been selected to
hiL'h!i"h' m, Honorary State Farmer in special ceremonies
T.?. . n fi-area conference of Vocational Agriculture
hadieis in Beaumont Thursday afternoon, August 9.
rour other East Texans have beensetected to receive this de-
Awh,,, ^ Bt'"ce McMillan, Overton; E. E. Phelps, Timpson;
Aithur Temple. Diboti; and C. R. Heaton, Tyler.
Candidates for this honor are selected on the basis of their con-
tribution to vocational agriculture and Future Farmer work in the
areas which they represent. They are selected by the Vocational Ag-
ncuiture Tcachers of the area and approved by the Texas Associa-
tion of Future Farmers.
'foniteeJciUotiP^Tr Area VII. which is composed
Augustine,
ot fourteen counties. They are: Anderson, Angelina. Cherokee
Gregg. Harrison. Henderson, Rusk, Panola, Sabine, San
Nacogdoches. Shelby. Smith and Van Zandt.
GAS!SSUE
APPROVED BY
ALTO VOTERS
Alto voters cast 112 votes Tuesday
in a $230,000.00 bond election to put
natural gas in Alto under the city's
supervision.
The vote on the issue was 100 to
12 in favor of the issue. One hundred
ninety thousand dollars of the money
will be used to lay mains and run
lines to the back door of every resi-
dence and every business house in j lowing:
Alto. Use of the gas is optional, how-
HOMEMAMNG
G!RLSW!NPR!ZES
FARM FAM!LY DAY
Several Alto Homemaking students
entered exhibits in Jacksonville's
Farm Family Day on Tuesday of this
week. Such entries were grouped
under crafts, garments, canned foods
and hand work. Each display was
completed during the past school year
or while the girl was working on her
summer homemaking project.
Winners from Alto include the fol-
The other $60,000 witl be
used to run a line 11
Alto to Rusk to join a
line.
ents of beginners are urged to get the
birth certificate at once, unless it
has already been sent to the school
by the Bureau of Vital Statistics, j The bonds will be revenue-bearing
Austin. {bonds, which will be paid off from
!f you do not have a certificated the revenue from gas users. They
contact the superintendent or Mrs.
Datiheim. They can tell you whether
Canned Foods — Maggie Hardy,
three first places and one third place;
mites from [Bobbie Martin, two first places; Ed-
natural gas wina Powell, one first prize, one sec-
ond prize.
there is one on fite for your child.
FORTY ONE MEN
TO BE CALLED
!N OCTOBER
Washington. Aug. 6 -The Defense
Department ordered Selective Ser-
vice to draft 4L000 men in October
for assignment to the Army and
Marine corps.
Of the total. 36,000 will go to the
Army and 5.000 to the Marines.
It will bring to 675.000 the num-
ber of men ordered for induction
since the beginning of the Korean
war.
It also will bring to a
]8,000 the number of men
for the Marine corps. AH
draftees have gone to the Army.
The draft call for October is ap-
proximately 6.800 higher than
September call
Calls for August.
October are substantially 'n^c
than those in June when 20,MM were
Inducted and J"!y '
inducted. The sharpest
the call issued h-r August wb eh
called for 33.000 draftees The
temher eatt was for approximately
34.000.
Methodist Church
The Revere,^"
preach attheniorning hoLU i^^ ^
Methodist Church. Iht
the evening message The . -
the morning houi
First Methodist
total of
inducted
other
the
September and
bring
tor will preach at
in Crockett at the
Churr
Announccmf'its f"r 'h-' '],oo]
Sunday- !' 43 a n, Church School
11:00 a.m. Morning
C:43 p. m. M
7:45 p. m
Thursday:
7:45 p T Church
Several of the Juniois of
Marshall Hampton, Fastot
Y. F.
Evening Worship.
witl bear 4'.2 per cent interest and
wilt mature in 40 years.
For the past 12 to 15 years Atto
has used exctusive butane gas from
two companies which have offices
in the town. Atto requested that a
major natural gas company run a
line to Atto several years ago but
was informed that it would be too
costly.
Tuesday, citizens took matters
into their own hands. The city coun-
cil will begin negotiations with the
gas company immediately.
Mr. and Mrs. Elton Conn and chil-
dren of Brooklin, are visiting this
week here with Mrs. Conn's father. C.
F. Weaver and family.
I Crafts—Second prizes were award-
ed Shirley Brooks and Ann Haney
for their throw rugs. Ann Haney also
won a second prize for pillow cases in
the hand work exhibit.
Girls from Rusk. Jacksonville and
Alto entered the contest.
Prize money has been turned over
to Mrs. Dotson, Mrs. Harrison and
Miss Roberson, sponsors of the girls,
and will be distributed among the
winners of the contest.
Deb Priestly of Houston spent
Friday here with his brother, Floyd
Rogers and family. Returning home
Saturday he was accompanied by
Mrs. Betty Witliams. Mrs. Rogers'
mother, who has been here visiting
and getting acquainted with her
new grandson. Terry Earl, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Rogers, born
July 16.
Approaching Marriage Announced
C0MM!TTEE
ST!LL WORKING
ON SCHOOL PLAN
Continuing their efforts to perfec,
plans for a new school building, the
Alto Independent Schoot trustees and
the Lions Ctub committee, met again
Friday night at the City Hall in the
interest of this project.
Mr. Grady Mitter, a representative
)f the Hedricks' Architects, Dallas,
and Bill Hamilton, representing a
Jaltas bonding firm, were in attend-
mce at this meeting.
Mr. Hamilton stated that approx-
imately $85,000.00 worth of bonds
ould be voted with the present val-
uation. He recommended to the
joard and committee that the valua-
:ion be increased at least one-half.
This would place the district valua-
.ion at $2,500,000.00 and the district
vould then be in position to vote
$165,000.00 additional bonds, which
would be ample to take care of the
anticipated program desired.
There is no intention of the schoot
board to raise the tax rate in the
tistrict, but efforts should be made,
md is recommended by the board,
hat the valuation be raised which
-vould be in line with other districts
in this county. Last year Alto ranked
next to the lowest district in the coun-
ty in valuation, and the desired val-
uation increase would only put it on
par with other Cherokee County
schoot districts.
Shoutd the ptans outlined meet the
approval of the people of the district,
the school board will go forward with
the erection of a new high school
building, and have extensive repairs
made on the present school building
and use it for the elementary grades.
The wooden buildings on the cam-
pus would all be torn down and a
gymnasium built from this lumber.
Every precaution is being taken to
make the plans as economical as pos-
sible, and to be as accurate as they
can be made, and when this is done,
they will be sent to the State Depart-
ment of Education for approval.
Mr. Hewitt, a representative of the
Hedricks' Architects, will be here
this week to check the present school
buildings and make the neeessar*
recommendation on the outlined
plans of this committee.
The committee expects to meet
again tomorrow night at which time
Mr. Hewitt will make his report and
recommendations to the school board
and Lions Ctub committee.
MEET!NG TO F!ND
DATA ON
RA!LR0AD
< Mirt Miller of Alto, announce the engagement and
Mr. ""ft of their daughter. Joyce, to Bitl Pyle. son of
approaching , Q] Houston. The wedding to be a late sum-
Mr and Mrs. uoy ie t j
mer event.
MARTIN D!ES !N
RACE FOR SOME
STATE 0FF!CE
Jasper, Aug. 6.—Ex-Congressman
Martin Dies, the first spectacular
Communist chaser of this generation,
is on the political trail again in
Texas.
Adter seven years out of public
office, the tall, husky-voiced East
Texas attorney has set his sight on
one of two statewide jobs in the
1952 Democratic elections.
"It's a little too early to make a
definite announcement, but I'm go-
ing to be in a race next year, defi-
nitely. It'll be either for U. S. senate
or congress-at-large," he said.
The U. S. Senate seat now held by
Tom Connally, who shows no signs
of willingness to leave it voluntarily,
is the choice of the two jobs. Dies
said, I'll probably run for the senate
if I keep getting encouragement like
I've been getting these last two
years."
In that span, Dies has made 221
speeches in every quarter of the
state. He considers that fact and
adequate answer to questions about
his "heatth," which caused him in
1944 to retire from congress after
seven terms as representative from
the second Texas district.
Dies, who will be 50 on Nov. 5,
is still the flambuoyant free-swinger
of his congressional days, when his
Communist-damning special com-
mittee on un-Amcrican activities
and propaganda was known uni-
versity merely as "the Dies commit-
tee."
He made a lot of enemies in those
days, among them the late Franklin
D. Roosevelt.
A meeting between the Texas and
"?ew Orleans Railroad Company
)fficials and the state's legislative
nvestigating committee has been
dated in Houston for tomorrow.
The conference has been arranged
so that the committee might make
inquiries of the company as to why
the T. & N. O. has failed to show a
profit on the Texas State Railroad
operated between Rusk and Pal-
estine.
Three weeks ago, the three-man
state committee and the Board of
Managers, of which Moore Decker,
Jr., is a member, advised the T. &
N. O. of the state cancelling a con-
tract under which the road has been
operated since 1921.
The agreement was that the T. &
N. O. woutd pay the state half of the
profits from the 32-mile railroad
which was first completed in 1909.
The T. & N. O. has never shown a
profit for the state.
The state committee includes Rep.
Jack Bryan of Buffalo, chairman;
Rep. Jim Paxton, Elkhart, and Rep.
Omar Briggs, Denison. In addition
to Decker, the Board of Managers
includes K. A. Anderson, Palestine,
and Alva Sanders, Dallas. The Board
of Managers, however, will not. at-
tend the conference in Houston.
Assisting the state committee wilt
be State Auditor C. H. Caveness.
Should the state take back the
road, it would not plan to operate
it, but to lease to another railroad.
Lender the agreement, the T. & N. O.
would have one year from the time
the contract is terminated to place
the road back in the same condition
it was when it took over the railroad
30 years ago. The Board of Man-
agers has pointed out this would in-
clude extensive repairs to buildings
and equipment.
TO HOLD REVIVAL
AT COLD SPRINGS
jV
Rev. Leon Reed
Revival services for the Cold
Springs Methodist Church will be
held August 12-17. Rev. H. Leon
Reed, who is pastor of the Methodist
Church at Big Sandy, will be the
guest preacher. Bro. Reed is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Reed of this
community.
There will be both morning and
evening services beginning at 10:00
a. m. and 8:00 p. m. The meeting will
close on Friday night with a Quarter-
ly Conference meeting for the Circuit
conducted by Rev. R. C. Terry, Dis-
trict Superintendent of the Palestine
District.
This Sunday morning the pulpit
will be filled by a local layman, Mr.
Jack Nicar, and then Bro. Reed will
preach on Sunday night. Everyone is
invited to attend. See you in church!
Mr. and Mrs. Metvin Sessions re-
turned Sunday night from a few days
vacation to points in Louisiana, Flo-
rida, Tennessee and Atabamg. They
were accompanied on the trip by Mr.
and Mrs. C. C. Bowman and son<
Robert, of Baytown.
nounce that he's not a big enough
man for the job of president and
step down," Dies told a Dallas group
in a recent speech.
He hasn't hit it hard in his public
speeches, but Dies believes the ideal
1952 national ticket would be Gen.
Dies left congress before the Tru- ] Dwight Eisenhower for President
man administration arrived, but he and Sen. Harry Byrd, D. Va., for
spares it none. "Let Truman an- vice president.
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F. L. Weimar & Son. The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 9, 1951, newspaper, August 9, 1951; Alto, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth215196/m1/1/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stella Hill Memorial Library.