The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 23, 1951 Page: 1 of 12
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ALTO, TEXAS. AUGUST 23. 1951.
NO. 10.
QUARTERBACK DIRECTORS PARLEY
oldest electric re-
Alto section? Hoyt
\Ji a) Shattuck, who
. Butane (*as Co., want
they are so anxious
th . have been adver-
[tluee weeks that the
[the oldest one can get
fr: ttor free. That's a
rop tsition We are as-
))(i catch to it and no-
Mst go in and tell them
refi iterator is. and if it
t yours is the oldest,
! you a $444.95 Philco
go: nothing. Nothing
ifalr than that. Yours
Kto he a Phitco. Any
{4t <s the oldest in this
onty requirement. If
)et in the game, register ;
[store.
Upon invitation of the Commis-
sioners' Court of Cherokee County.)
a group of ettizens from Jacksonville!
Rusk. Summerfield and Wells. met
in the district court room at Rusk I
Monday, with the Commissioners to I
discuss the
advisabiiity of issuing
$125,000 it) county warrants to huitd
a courthouse annex on the northeast
corner of the square at Rusk
Speaking for the court. Counts-
Judge J. W Summers stated that
present faeitities in the courthouse
proper were far from adequate to
house the many county, state and
federa) offices that are needed, and [
that we were not filling the govern-
ment requirements in providing
) places for the various agricultural!
offices that the state and federa!
authorities operate
in Cherokee'
don't know how near County "There is a definite need
to be without water. Dur- for more room." stated Judge Sum-
of the storm here Fri-
main pump at the
turned out. and threw
iurden on an auxiliary
Ipld barely keep the
H in cool weather.
Inc. we would have
iwithout water, or just
tc n it tlf out. It took
ting and work to get
t ;r lin. City Council-
or;' who supervises the
ti! K S. Douglass got
Ktiriia.v morning and
mors, "and we must do something if
we expect to hold these agencies in
this county."
The new annex would replace the
old jail building on the northeast
corner of the square that is in a had
state of repair and must cither be
repaired soon or torn away alto-
gether. No substantia) repair- hive
been made on this ^ructuic since it
Was remodeled in 1!)26.
The new annex would be H'4 fcit
.long by 58 feet wide and wou!d be
two stories high, and built of brick.
Pictured above are the Board of Directors of the Att^ Qua'^irback
( !u)i. which heid their first meeting of the season Friday afternoon
in the Summer's Western Auto Store. Plans were laid for a barbecue
tor the members next Thursday night at Duren Lake, and t/rkets are
already on sale for the event.
The ciub lias other plans that are in the making, one being to crcct
a Wiie fence along the lines of the football field to keep spectators off
the field. Repairs on the grandstand will also get their attention and
other projects will be laid before the membership at the barbecue
next Thursday night.
Grouped here from left to right are: Robert McClure. F. L. Weimar.
J. I). Hoone. and OUie Campbell. In the oacx are Jtthn Summers and
Jim Thorn.
te Tvler Armature the same coloi as the courthouse
ami exptained the Judge Summers s'atcd that to build
^ .et evorvthing aside it out ot stone iikc 'he courthouse
fn. l told Messrs. Poorc would be tconomi'.iih uns<mnd.
Bo get the pump up citing the fact that the courthouse
^ wouldn't stop until it,was built with WI'A labor, some-
at this
thing that is not available
time.
The building would have ample
room to house all of the county,
state and federal agricultural offices
as well as that of old age assistance
and V. F. W. offices, all of which are Jacksonville: E.
now. housed in the basement of the
HT.c pump was carried
y worked all day Satur-
[1 three o'clock Sunday
t)' it rewired. It was
hi a "baking machine"
Mi Taking it out of the
§ o'clock Sunday after-
pi ' Armature Works
Kought it to A)to and courthouse
md running by 6:30 According to County Auditor J.
AH A)to apprc- Smith, no increase in the tax
of these men and ,ate would be necessary to finance Dov.-ling. J. C. Hill
it they have citizens project, as there is now $27,000.00
sacrifices to "keep jn the permanent improvement fund.
was also brought out that there is
now S20.000 in the jury fund, and
tuld it be necessary. $15,000 of this
could be t; nsfcrred Into the per-
manent fund, as $5,000 would be ad-
' ua'e to take care of the jury fund.
Alter having the matter fully ex-
plained to them, the group present at
t n meeting gave the. project their
:n!) endorsement, but s'atcd that the
matter should be aiven the widest
publicity in the county and let all of
the citizens become thoroughly ac-
quainted with the matter, and when
this is done, there would be little op-
position to the project and the war-
rants could be issued and the actual
construction of the building begun.
Besides members of the Commis-
sioners' Court, the folowing citizens
from over the county were noted ^ents
among those present: Gus Blankin- j
ship, Summers Norman, E. M. Dec- ;
ker, J. W. Chandler and B. H )
COUNTY BUDGET
FOR NEXT YEAR
APPROVE!)
Cherokee County's budget for the
cns.'.ing fiscal year was approved
Monday by the County Commission-
er's Court at which County Judge
J W. Summers presided.
Based on an estimated valuation
of ? 17.000.000. the budget was de-
scribed by the county judge as be-
ing "about the same as last year's."
The tax levy for 1951 will be made
about September 10, Summers con-
tinued. Present county rate is 70
iand the ten cent levy, which is al-
ready set up in the tax rate wou!d
from [be sufficient to take care of the war-
a period of ten years. It
Tax figures arc based on 40 per
cent valuation and the budget is
based on 90 per cent collections, it
R. Gregg. JJ"'ss explained.
... .. M „i, n ! Total receipts, including delinquent
C. Wiiliams. Elmer Mustek and Em- ^ ' " , . ,
.... , , n 7...!. T... ir... ttaxes, for the past year totaled
met Mhtteicac. c;..„'iS391,319.70. Estimated collections
New Summertield: Littiejohn S mp- ^ ^ $,36,860.40.
son. Weils: Melvm Sessions. Geoige. ... , .
Weimar.!'he budget revealed.
I A copy of the budget is available
___ for public inspection at the office of
returned to her County Clerk Harold Miller. Judge
hrnie in Dailas Tuesday, after Summers said.
tu ttt','!H' a t'A'(J V.St! !i TC '. !ttl t . ' t *. 1 .
" . A dinosaurs egg ts about as large
Iter sister. Mrs. Aibcrt Hoicomb.
touch football.
THE ALTO TORNADO STORY !N PICTURES
m dinmcte!
} rants ovei
... some of the dam;
'^s the brooder house
be galvanized tin to b<
ere is
. -to o'rtock whet) a tornado hit this city. Upper right
Friday cvcninn ^^ b„i!f)inK was being erected and was
j-^d XX & ^ ""
tin to be put on when the stoim u ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ partiatly torn awa).
Pk'tur. shows the planer mill of Hag'ey Bo>. ^ 21. The front porch was torn off. tifted up over the
is the home of Mr. Frank the building, badb daman' H ^ ^ building, carried about 200 feet
J topped down on the barn in tie - nirage The garage roof was
!Hives a view of the Texaco foreground of the picture
f , ' upside down on Highway 2). The roof can
r ' "er home.
STORM FRMAY
CAUSED HEAVY
MAGE HERE
The heat wave that had held this
section in its grip for the past five
weeks, was broken here Saturday
evening about seven o clock, when
a wind of cyclonic proportion roared
into town from the west, leaving
wreckage in its wake for over two
miles.
An undetermined number of barns
were leveled by the high wind, and
many trees uprooted over a strip of
about a half a mile wide. Other
barns and some residences had the
roofs torn partially off.
The more seriously damaged prop-
erty was that of the Texaco filling
station garage that is located im-
mediately north of the station. The
roof in its entirety was lifted from
this building and carried about two
hundred feet east and dropped on
Highway 21, bottom side up. The
freak part of this occurrence was
that tights were burning in the
garage when the roof was tifted and
it carried the wires atong with it.
and when the roof was deposited on
the highway the lights continued to
burn. Three iarge 100-watt lamps
were still burning when attendants
at the station went out to the roof.
Rozelle Bros., Ralph and Leland,
also came in for their share of the
damage caused by the high wind.
They were building a chicken brooder
house and had it ready to put on the
tin roof and wails when the storm
hit. This structure was leveled to the
ground and nothing remained but a
pile of lumber.
The F. M. Inge home, which was
also in the patch of the storm had
the front porch torn off, carried over
the top of the house and dropped
on the barn at the rear of the house,
practically demolishing the barn.
Bagley Box Company paralleling
the Cotton Belt tracks in Alto also
came in for its share of the damage.
A large section of the roof on the
planer mill was ripped off and some
of it blown for several hundred
yards.
It seems that the tornado had
about spent itself by the time it
reached the center of Alto as very
little damage was reported in the
eastern section of the city or beyond
the city limits in that direction.
A drenching rain came in with the
wind, but it too, was limited in a
scope. No rain was reported beyond
the Neches river on the west, and it
did not get as far as Linwood on the
east. South it started getting heavy
at the Archie Hicks store, 4 and one-
half miles south on Highway 69 and
cars were forced to stop on the high-
way between town and that point
until it let up. North, the rain ex-
tended on as far as the Satterwhite
farm and did not get as far as Red-
lawn, four miles north.
While no one was hurt in the
storm, it has been estimated that
at least $20,000 worth of property
damage was done.
F00T8ALL
TRA!N!NG STARTS
NEXT MONDAY
Sweating, groaning, sore muscles,
dieting and "to bed by 9:30" will be
the lot of the Alto Yellow Jackets be-
ginning next Monday, when they
start their practice tilt for the 1951
season.
The training must be fast and
furious if the Jackets get tough
enough to meet the San Augustine
Wolves, who will be here on Septem-
ber 7 for the first game of the season.
The inquiring reporter asked Coach
Moore the same question that has
been propounded every year about
this time: "What kind of a team are
we going to have?" We also got the
same answer with the slow grin from
the coach: "We'll have a fair team,
and hope to win our share of the
games."
This year the Jackets have six
games at home and four away. Five
of the home games are conference
contests. '
The Jackets go into District 19 this
j year, and gives them almost a eom-
i plete change in teams that they have
} played in the past. This year we
) play Diboll, Elkhart. Grapelaild,
Groveton, Lovelady, Trinity, Wood-
ville, and Rusk, all of whom are con-
ference contenders. The two non-
conference games will be with Fair-
field and San Augustine.
Below is the schedule that will be
followed this year:
September 7—San Augustine, here.
September 14—Fairfield, there. *
September 21—Groveton, here.
September 28—Lovelady, here.
October 5—Woodville, there.
October 12—Grapeland, here.
October 19—Elkhart, here.
November 2—Rusk, there.
November 8—Trinity, there.
November 16—Diboll, here.
Schoot Bandmaster
John Brothers
New Bandmaster for the Alto High
School Band. Prof. Brothers comes
to Alto from The University of Hous-
ton, but is a native of Muncie, Ind.
He and Mrs. Brothers and little son
are already here and have an apart-
ment in the Boyd Apartment House
in north Alto.
OPSPRMECUMC
TO BE HELD
!N RUSK MONTHLY
The Rusk Chamber of Commerce
and the Dallas district Office of
Price Stabilization hav* set up a
program to help Cherokee County
businessmen with their OPS pricing
problems, Chamber Manager J. G.
Johnson announced this week.
Starting next Tuesday, price
clinics will be held regularly every
four weeks at the Chamber of Com-
merce in Rusk, Mr. Johnson said.
Clinic days will always come on
Tuesdays, he added. These clinics
will be conducted by an OPS spec-
ialist from Dallas.
The clinics will be on an informal,
come-as-you-are basis. They will be
held from 2:30 p. m. to 5 p. m. Busi-
nessmen should feel free to drop in
without appointment and at their
convenience, Johnson pointed out.
"The price clinic program is u free
public service for Cherokee County
businessmen which has been set
up by the Dallas district OPS of-
fice."
The purpose of the price c)inic is
to thoroughty acquaint the business-
men in this area with the reguia-
tions and to make his 'life under
price controls as easy as possible.
Mathematics Teacher
James McCautey
Pictured above is James McCauiey
who will tcach mathematics in the
Alto High School the coming term.
Mr. McCauiey is a graduate of
Stephen F. Austin College, Nacog-
doches and majored in mathematics
in that college. He is married and
resides at Garrison. Mr. and Mrs.
McCauiey expect to move to Alto a
few days before school starts.
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Wesley Jones, former minister of
the Church of Christ here, now of
Tampa. Fla., visited here last Friday
with Mr. and Mrs. George Hoicomb..
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