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THE ALTO HERALD
HtWElMAR&SON, EDtTORSAND PUBLISHERS
BUSHED 1896
SUBSCRIPTION PRtCE, $200 PER YEAR )N CHEROKEE COUNTY. $2.50 PER /EAR OUTSt&E COUNTY.
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THE ALTO HERALD, ALTO, TEXAS, MAY 21. 1953.
NO. 49.
none. The rain and storm
up; knocked'em down,
n up and it's aM over." The
<ughtful chap rubs his chin
we have tomatoes, maybe
many. They have been
pretty bad. Maybe we tost
n;. ntaybe 30 per ccnt, but
r that. The optimist dishes
Tomatoes come from
;liere to Alto, and they'll be
year. Some growers lost
tircropby hail and water,
!]o-t a few and most of theni
!!)<)*- any. The rain has held
tack, but we'll have a good
more than you think." That's
have heard the past month,
think of what is to come
iut this time next month,
will go around with a long
sadfulty mourn, "We
E'em and shipped'em and they
their destination and were
^ ed waterlogged." Woe is
tttt ? tomato. Man places faith
Ind loses everything but his
he says), and then next
he wit! turn right around and
in nother crop, the buyer wili
Kem and ship them north and
)n o!d complaints come back.
; to all of this from one
another, the bystander can
itn but one conclusion: There
jttions of dollars lost every
m -.he tomato game, and no-
r makes a dime. Still
urow'em and the buyer
How do you put two and
iertomakeit come out
tn'.- item that deserves a
tc: The sun shown at! day
Ky <:id it never rained a
[T reatly news.
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s one we read in a Lions i
Ki -a/ine: "W tch out when
to -trut. ute peacock of
Ityjr be the feather duster of
To
6,956 STUDENTS
ENUMERATED !N
THIS COUNTY
The t.herokee County scholastic
poputation numbers 6,936, accord-
ing to figures just re'.eased by
County Schoot Superintendent
Robert L. Banks.
Figures show 4.9)3 ^hiteschotas.
tics and 2.038 colored.
The different schools and number
of pupils in each are as fottows:
White Col. Totat
CentratHigh 42 28 70
Grange Hati 84 26 ltol
Pine Grove 26 26
Buiah 56 56
Atoy 42 63 107
Shady Grove 32 52
Ponta 47 32 79
Craft 68 9 77,
Turney 93 93
Afton Grove 64 1! 73 ^
Reynolds 87 87 ;
Mixon 83 83'
New Hope t43 28 173 j
Mt. Haven 81 8!
Reese 26 138 164
Ironton 58 20 78
Churchill 8 53 61
Oakland 33 5 58
Rektaw 67 40' 107
Twisting Tornado And Four tnch Rain
Causes Heavy Damage !n A!to Area
1023 614
Independent Schoot Districts:
MM .. 357 226
Diatville 157
Gallatin 202 57
Jacksonvitte 1665 596
Maydetle 182 17
Mt. Selman 59 70
Rusk 728 229
New Summerfield 173 116
Wetls 365 113
Grand Total
3893 1424
49m 2038
1639
583
157
259
2261
199
129
957
294
478
5317
6936
[ATO
;i!NG HERE
!Y 27
!<! F. Rosborough, the District
Httt'.ural will assist in two to-
Hn '.tngs to be held at Jack-
He it 2:00 p. m. and one at
) tt 7 30 p. m. These meetings
^ i: 1 g farmers up to date on
^Hurii.ng of tomatoes for the
Ht- Under the important plans
;oing into the market pro-
Mr Rjsboroughwill present
!i' of slides showing the I
:hat are being used for the j
- 'ing conditions. The far- (
THOt' ''n' county are being in-
1 ' attend these 'meeting;.
!^' .'be other speakers on the
F!RST LUG
BROUGHT TO
ALTO SATURDAY
Raymond Wallace, a veteran to-
mato grower of this scctiM, brought
the first tug of 1933 tomatoes to
town tast Saturday about noon.
The tomatoes were graded as U.
S. No. 1, and accepted by the Alto
Lions Club as a "first lug.
Mr. Wallace was voteu a premium
of $23.00 which will be presented at
the regular meeting of the Lions
Club next Tuesday.
:Ai. WOMAN'S
*ER DIED
)AHAS
-'htiFioyd was called to
I S:;tiday on account of Me
KOfhcr sister, Miss Virginia
! ' rliud in that city Sunday
FK at 2:00 o'clock.
-crvices were held at
I " ' i the remains carried to
A'k.. for interment.
RECITAL
!' invited to the recital of a
my piano students at The
t Church Friday evening.
' 8:00 o'clock. The student
'PPearing:Sammie Kate
f' Jo Ann Boone, Fay Nell
'."ocrt Ear] Cummings. Sha-
''tityn Payne. Sara Lee
P Ladelt Rogers, Floyce
tR'i iia Todd, Merry Cosper.
P - n. Glenda Mae Jones.
F ; Martha Virginia
i-inda Lee Pavne. David
^1
^e Houston, Cathy West,
- lier, Judy Bauman. Sonja
F' I'ttoebe Grace Quartes.
m-oup of students will be
y<i Thursday evening, May
Mamie Latham.
S!NGERSMEET
AT FOREST
MAY 23-24
The Cherokee County Singing
Convention will meet at Forest.
Texas the fourth Saturday night
and Sunday in May (May 23-24)'
Everybody is invited to a .tend
The singing will begin abou. 8:00
o'clock Saturday night and cont:iue
until about 10:00 oclock^ The
singing will be resumed Sunday
morning about ten o'clocK and con-
tinue through the day. There w.H
be dinner on the ground.
A. J. GARNER
HAS FINE
GARDEN !N ALTO
A J. (Allen) Garner can claim
undisputed championship
L tL best and mo^ productive
gnrdeninthecityofAlto
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two rows will produce.
A twisting tornado, accompanied
by torrential rains, hit this im-
mediate section Saturday afternoon
about three o'clock and ieft de-
struction in its path that is various-
ly estimated to be between $30,-
000.00 and $75,000.00.
Roofs were blown off of numer-
ous barns, trees uprooted, telephone
andeiectric tines were knocked
down and many crops, either total-
ly de.-troyed or badiy damaged.
Snow Harvey, who tives three
miles northeast of Alt-o, seemed to
be the heaviest individual toser. He
had a chicken house that was
leveled to the ground and is a com-
plete loss. The building housed
3.000 four weeks otd baby chicks
and all but 400 of these were
kitted or drowned. Across the road
from his home the high wind un-
roofed his barn and carried it for
several hundred yards. Pieces of
tin and timber from the chicken
house were carried for more than a
quarter of a mile. He estimates his
loss at about $3,800.00 with no
insurance.
The farm home of Mrs. W. A.
McDonald, located on the old high-
way three mites south of Atto, and
occupied by the R. M. Peacock
famiiy, had the roof badly torn up
when the tornado hit that section.
It picked up the tin roof of a barn
located near the house and rammed
it into the roof of the house, the
sharp edge of the tin cutting into
the roof of the house and ripped it
from end to end. Nothing else about
the place was badly damaged.
Water poured into one of Me
chicken houses at the Oscar Allen
home just east of Alt-o and before
they could be moved approximately
600 chickens were drowned out of
a house of 3,000.
About two miles south of Alt-o on
and near highway sixty nine, more
than a dozen large trees were up-
rooted. A small tenant house on the
side of the highway had the front
porch Mown completely off. A re-
frigerator that had been on the
front porch was blown off with the
porch and found a few yards trom
the house.
Tomato crops in the path of the
storm suffered heavy damage.
Leonard Lee Cherry, who resides
in the stricken area, stated that the
tornado ripped all of the tomatoes
off of the vines in his patch and all
he had left was the vines. Similar
experiences were narrated by other
growers in that vicinity. Estimates
given state that about 15 acres of
tomatoes were lost in that particu-
lar area.
Television antennas also came in
for their part of the destruction and
many were either blown -off or bent
over to where they were beyond
repair.
The heavy rains that came with
the tornado flooded the creeks and
rivers. Practically every farm road
in south Cherokee County has been
badly washed and even with good
weather it would take at least two
months to get them back in good
shape again.
The creek on Highway 21 at the
east city limits was flooded and
came up to the floor boards on the
bridge. It also backed up and over-
flowed the back yard at the O. T.
Allen home. Further east on the
same highway, the water went
over the bridge near the A. E. Boyd
farm and covered the highway for
several hundred yards.
Both the Angelina and Neches
rivers were thrown out of banks by
the deluge of water. The river over-
sowed the highway on the Nacog-
doches side of the Angeiina, and
traffic was stopped early Saturday
i night and the State Highway
! department stationed men a'.ong
Highway 21 to stop cars and trucks
I from trying to get across the river.
The Nerhes river, seven miles
west of Alto, overflowed its banks
Sunday night and was a mile wide
north of the Neches river bridge. It
threatened to go over Highway 21
immediately we-t of the bridge and
was within eight inches of the
asphalt Sunday night, but the crest
seemed to have been reached and it
began t'O go djwn Monday morning.
The Dad Hale home, located on
the banks of the Neches river,
which is built on high piling, was
about two-t-hirds covered with
Here is how Snow Harvey's chicken house looked after it was hit by the tornado Saturday after-
noon about four miles northeast of Alto. Mr. Harvey is standing in the center surveying the dam-
age. Small white spots in the foreground are some of the 2,600 four weeks old baby chicks that were
kilted when the buitding was leveled. Damage to the house and chickens is estimated at $3,800.00.
Tornado Throws Bam Roof !nto House
Another freak of the tornado last Saturday afternoon is shown
above. This is a tenant house on the farm of Mrs. W. A. McDonald
about tl.rce miles south of Alto on the otd highway near Morritl. A
tin roof on a barn close to the house, which is occupied by Mr. and
Mrs. R. M. Peacock and family, was torn toose and carried through
the air to the house and rammed into the roof of the house as
shown above. A corner of the barn roof penetrated the house roof
and went down through the ceiling of one of the rooms. The family
were all on the opposite side of the house when the storm hit.
RIVER MOVED DAD HALE OUT
High overfowing waters from the Neches river forced Mr. and
Mrs. Dad Hale from their home during the crest of the raging
stream Saturday, Sunday and Monday. As can be seen from the
above picture, the water came up about three feet above the floor
in the house. The house is built on piling about four feet above the
ground and this would indicate that the overflowing water was
about seven feet deep around the house.
CHAS. W. FISHER
RITES HELD
WEDNESDAY
Charles W. Fisher. 64. a native of
Alto, but residing in Houston for
the past 35 years, died Tuesday in
a Jacksonville sanitarium after a
brief illness.
Funeral services were held at the
Alto Methodist Church Wednesday
I afternoon at 3 o'clock with the Rev.
Marshall Hampton, pastor, officiat-
' ing. Interment was in the Alto City
cemetery with Stribling-Smith Fu-
neral Home in charge of arrange-
ments.
Besideshiswife. Mary Helen, Mr.
! Fisher is survived by one daughter,
] Mrs. Dr. A T. Minns. Hereford; one
I brother. Dr. G. A. Fisher, Austin;
four si-ters. Miss Mary Fisher. Miss
Annie Fisher and Mrs. Bryon Blan-
ton. Alto, and Mrs. C. S. Simons,
Edna; and three grandchildren.
WACO RELIEF
FUNDS RAISED
HERE TUESDAY
] Approximately $200.00 was raised
here Tuesday under the sponsor-
ship of the Atto Lions Ctub for
tornado and ftood sutfers. The
money will be sent to the Waco
Lions Ctub and channeled through
relief agencies in that stricken city.
Listed betow are those who made
contributions. Anyone else desiring
to join this group may teave their
contribution with Jim Thorn, post-
master or at the Heratd office and
it will be sent to Waco at once:
Continental State Bank $25.00
Alto Lions Club 25.00
Dr. Roscoe Etter 10.00
Post Office Employees 6.50
Five dollar contributors included
Btanton Brunt. 'Rogers Grocery,
Maltie Houston, A. E. Boyd, Mrs.
A. E. Boyd. Ladies Auxiiiary V. F.
W., Thomas Hardware. Lyons Bu-
tane Gas Co.. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Poore, Pearman Chevrolet Co., Alto
Herald. A. E. Danheim, A. H. Jeter
and Sam Nooner.
Three dollar contribution, Tom
W. Williams.
Two fifty contributions, Willie
Holcomb, Whiteman Foods, Alto
Flower Shop, George Williams,
George Kelly, and John Summers.
Two dollar contributions, Robert
McClure, R. F. Lindsey, Gordon
Cook, Douglass Bradford, Mrs. M.
M. Love, Mrs. Enid Miller, Frank
Knight, and Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
Erwin.
One dollar and under contribu-
tions, Jake Hamilton, Arrant Gro-
cery, J. C. Hill, Alton Singletary,
Ideal Cleaners, J. H. Pearman,
Jtmmie Allen, Edward Bynum, E.
D. Bullock, Fisher Harrison, Jewel
Cole, Horace McLain, A. E. Hicks,
Coil Brooks, Grady Singletary,
Tommie Hugghins, Tom Btack,
George Dowling, Joe Cruseturner,
Jim Burt, Perkins Holcomb, Hall
McGaughey, Ralph Rozette, Leland
Rozelle, Pryor Black, J. L. McClain,
J. A. Smith and R. B. Houston.
CHEROKEE
MDERSTOBE
N R0DE0_
The Cherokee Riders will present
their Square Dance on Horseback
routine at the Henderson Rodeo
Thursday and Friday nights of
this week. This will be the Chero-
kee Riders second annual appear-
ance at the Henderson rodeo.
The Cherokee Riders have just
returned from a three-day appear-
ance at the Fifth Annual Spindte j included: Douglass Bradford. F. E.
Top Charity Horse Show in Beau- ) Weimar. George Williams, T. E.
mont. President Sherlock Holmes jCummings, Tom Witliams. J. D.
stated that in spite of the stormy Boone, Jim Thorn, Gus Rounsa-
ATTENDANCE
PINS GIVEN LION
MEMBERS
Members of the Atto Lions Ctub
were awarded pins for six months
consecutive attendance at the reg-
ular Lions luncheon, Tuesday.
Those in the group receiving pins
water when the river slacked up
and started falling. Measurements
of the river Sunday night registered
24 feet at the Neches river bridge.
weather they were able to give
three shows.
One of the highlights of the
Beaumont trip was the Supper
Dance given bv the Junior League
at the Harvest Club following the
show Friday nicht. During the
evening a Style Show was pre-
sented by Houston Television
ville, Melvin Sessions. H. D. Rogers
and Robert McClure.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Muckleroy of
Tyler, spent Sunday in the home
of the former's sister, Mrs. E. D.
Bullock.
Mr. and MM. Cleon Thomass-on
and sons. Gary and Larry, of
Models showing a collection of dia- Dallas, were week-en-) gu-;sts in
monds valued at one and one-half the home of the former's parents,
million dollars. ' Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Thomasson.
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F. L. Weimar & Son. The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 21, 1953, newspaper, May 21, 1953; Alto, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth215288/m1/1/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stella Hill Memorial Library.