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THE ALTO HERALD
Established i 896
Alto, Texas, Thursday, January 2 ), ! 960
Number 33
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To those who wish to partici-
pate in the Business and Profes-
sional Women's Club project of
encouraging the planting of pine
trees in the Aito area, the trees
are now available at the Alto
Heraid Office.
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How cold was it in Alto the first,
of this week? Dickie Allen said it.
waa colder in the yard than it was
in his house Monday night. Luther
MoCullough said it got so cold
fishing Monday afternoon that he
he had to quit and come home.
iWhen Luther gives up fishing,
brother it's oold. We had just a-
bout given up trying to find out just
how cold it was when we ran up-
on another local citizen and asked
Mm how ccJd it was and he said,
"Too d^tmn cold." Taking it all
the way around, we would guess
that he came closer to it than any-
body we asked.
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Plana are being made this week
through the Alto Lions Club and
KLTV TV Station in Tyler, to
stage a March of Dimes campaign
in this area Saturday and Sunday.
Just call 298, which is Minton's
Gulf Service Station, anytime be-
tween 10 p.m. Saturday night and
4 p.m. Sunday and one of the Lions
will come to your house and pick
up the donations or better yet, just
drop by the station during this
time and leave the money at the
Gulf Station. The Mother's March
of Dimes drive will he heid next
Thursday night January 28, which
is being sponsored this year by the
/ Business and Professional Wo-
men's Club.
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' "A foreigner was quite proud of
the fact that he had learned the
pish language. But I had to
Jhd an awful lot of comic books
to do it," he said.
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An outstanding attorney from
Angelina County, Billy Lee Thomp-
son, of Lufkin, was in Alto Satur-
day morning and announced that,
he would be a candidate for dis-
trict attorney this year. Our good
friend Bob Murphey of Nacog-
doches, announced late last week
that he would not seek re-election.
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T. E. Cummings, Vocationn'
Agriculture Teacher of Alto lli^'
School, entered the Memorial
Hospital in Rusk Sunday for a
general check up. He hopes to be,
able to return home the latter part
of this week.
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ENGAGED—Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Moses of Alto announce the en-
gagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Martha,
to Russell Jones son of Mr. and Mrs. Alton Jones of Rusk.
Card Of Thanks
I wish to thank those who were
so kind and thoughtful of me
during my stay in the hospital
and since returning home. Your
visits, cards, prayers, and flowers
were greatly appreciated.
Especialiy do I want to thank
Bro. E. G- Morgan for his untiring
devotion during this time.
L. L. Cherry.
Alto Man's Mother
Died !n Austin
Saturday
Funeral services for Mrs. Allie
Turney Terrell, 83, were held at
3:00 p. m. Sunday at the First
Baptist Church here with the
Rev. E. G- Morgan, pastor, of-
ficiating. Interment followed in
the Oid Palestine Cemetery with
Stribling-Smith Funeral Home in
charge of arrangements. Mrs.
Terrell was the mother of Lewis
Terrell of Alto. She died Satur-
day, 10:30 3. m., at Austin in the
home of her daughter Mrs. Mary
Brill.
Mrs. Terrell, widow of the late
George B. Terrell, State Agricul-
tural Commissioner, who pre-
ceded her in death in 1947, was
a resident of Cherokee County,
having lived in the Turney com-
munity on a farm in her early
lifetime, later lived in the Lin-
wood community, before going to
live in Austin.
She is survived by two sons,
Turney Terrell, Austin, and Lewis
Terrell, Alto; one daughter, Mrs.
Mary Brill Austin; four sisters,
Mrs. Jim Haws, Mrs. P e n n
Bounds, and Mrs. Lynn Bounds,
Jacksonville, and Mrs. Wylie
Stewart, Turney; six grandchil-
dren and eight great-grandchil-
dren.
Out of town relatives and
friends attending the funeral in-
cluded: Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lewis,
Lone Oak; Mrs. Fannie Speir,
Mr. and Mrs. L. I. Lewis Shreve-
nort, La.; Mrs. Maurine Lollye,
Dallas; Harold J. Spier. Danger-
field; Mr. and Mrs. James H.
Rounsaville, Mrs. Jim Haws, Mrs.
Penn Bounds, Jacksonville; Mr.
and Mrs. Wylie Stewart, Turney;
Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Robison, Ben
and Ester Riske, Austin; Mr. and
Mrs. Bruce Usrey, Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth Helms, Irving.
FUR BUYER 45 YEARS—Pictured on the right is H. A. Lindsey of
Aitto, who is grading ringtails, which were purchased in West
Texas. Mr. Lindsey has been buying furs in Cherokee and ad-
joining counties and around Austin and in West Texas for the past
forty-five years. This year around $30,000 to $33,000 worth
of Mrs have been handled. Also In the picture are Mr. Lindsey's
son-in-law. W. W. Grogan, and his grandson, Mike Carter, who
art assisting Mr. Lindsey in handling the furs.
Assets Of Loan
Company Reach
All-Time High
Assets of First Federal Savings
and Loan Association of Rusk in-
creased by a record $1,666,046.77,
or more than 19 per cent in 1959,
reaching the all-time high figure of
$8,446,249.47 at year's end, Leo W.
Tosh, President, h'*s reported.
Mr. Tosh said in the institution's
annual report that despite intense
nompetition for savings and the
tightest home credit market in,
many ye-irs, First Federal Savings
and Ixrnn Association of Rusk,
made "important gains on the
thrift and home financing fronts in
1959."
He said that many individuals
and families continued and even
stepped up the savings programs
started to offset possible financial
'ill-effects of the 1958 recession.
He added that this continued
high level of savings, coupled
with ever increasing repayments
on loans previously made, enabled
the Association to meet the vastly-
increased demand for home loans,
that occured in the community as
the business climate improved.
The following are the highlights
of First, Federal Savings and Loan
Association of Rusk, 1959 opera-
tion:
—1. A net increase in savin.gr
of $1,301,384.07, or 30 per cent,
bringing totai savings at year's
end to $7,374,894.21.
—2. A gain of 281, or 15 per
cent, in savings account holders,
bringing the total to 2210 as of De
cember 31, 1959.
—3. Record payments of earnings
to saver- for use of their fe.tds.
Dividends totaled $273,613.45, in
1959. 22 per cent above the 195'
figure.
—4. A rise of $2,216,582.11, or
25 per cent in the home mortgage
loan portfolio, increasing the tot.'i i
of souhd, quality home loarr he'd,
by the institution to $7,333,095.59
"t year's end.
Mr. Tosh forecast an excellent
business year for 1960, with re
covery from t'le effects of thr
steel strike to he relatively slow
in the first half of the year, b.:t
picking up momentum afterwards.
Person.".! income should touch new
highs, he said, with consumer ex-
penditures expanding accordingly,
while housing st-irts would de-
ciine to roughly 1.2 million units
from 1959's estimated 1.35 million,
units, the year wouid stlli be ono
o.' tiie best postwar buiiding years,,
he conciuded.
Local High School
Girl Homemaker
Of Tomorrow
Merry Cosper is the 1960 Betty
Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow
in Alto High School. Merry, who
is a senior student received the
highest score in a 50-minute writ-
ten examination on homemaking
knowledge and attitudes taken by
graduating senior girls. She will
receive an award pin, manufac-
tured by Jostens and representing
the slogan, "Home is where the
heart is." Her examination paper
wili be submitted for competition
with other high school winners to
name the state Betty Crocker
Homemaker of Tomorrow.
The test, which was prepared
and judged by Science Research
Associates of Chicago, was taken
by a record number of 379,018
girls in 12,597 schools, an in-
crease of 29,868 girls and 337
schools over last year.
Total enrollment in the six-
year-old $110,000 scholarship pro-
gram sponsored by General Mills
has neared the two million mark
(1,800,152 girls}. Alaska and Ha-
waii are participating for the
first time this year.
Each state Homemaker of To-
morrow will receive a $1^500
scholarship and an educational
trip April 23-29 with her school
advisor. The tour wiil include
New York City and Colonial Wil-
liamsburg and will culminate
with the American Table Ban-
quet in Washington, D. C., on
April 2.8, at the Statler Hilton
hotel where the All-American
Homemaker of Tomorrow wiil be
announced. The runner-up in
each state will receive a $500
scholarship; the school of each
state winner will be given a set
of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
The scholarship of the Ail-
American Homemaker of Tomor-
row will be increased to $5,000.
The second, third and fourth
ranking Homemakers of Tomor-
row in the nation will receive
$4,000, $3,000 and $2,000 scholar-
ships, respectively.
Card Of Thanks
I wish to take this opportunity
to thank my many friends for the
visits, cards, flowers and food
during my stay in the hospital and)
since returning home.
Your thoughtfulness will never
be forgotten.
Mrs. Ernest Moses. p
FOY HOUSTON
MED THURSDAY
!N LOUISIANA
Funeral services for David Foy
Houston. 44, of Bastrop La., were
held at the Methodist church in
Bastrop at 2 p.m. Saturday. His
body was taken overland to Cros-
Kctt, Ark., with burial in the Pine-
crest Memoriai Cemetery, wtith
Masonic graveside rites.
Mr. Houston died Thursday,
January 14, in the Bastrop Hospital
after a weeks' illness. He was born
and reared in Alto, but moved to
Bastrop in his early twenties. He
was employed as Safety Supervisor
for the International Paper Mill,
a member of the Methodist church)
and also a member of the Bastrop
Masonic Lodge.
Survivors include his wife, Mary
Elizabeth Houston; two sctis,
David Edward, age 11. and Wil-
liam Glenn, age 6; two brothers,
N. W. Houston. New Orleans, La.;
R. R. (Buster) Houston, Ft. Worth;
three sisters, Mrs. Paulime John-
son, Ft. Worth, Mrs. Owen Brooks.
Hot Springs, Ark. and Mrs. Glen
Dominy, Alto a:nd an uncle, Mai-
ley Houston of Alto.
Those attending the funeral fronA
Alto were Mr. and Mrs. Glen
Dominy.
Spring Semester
Starts At SFA
January 28
Nacogdoches — Registration for
the Spring Semester at Stephen F
Austin State College wili be on
January 27 and the first meeting
of classes on January 28.
The orientation program for
freshmen students wiil begin at
8:30 a.m. on January 25.
The registration of ali students
not pre-registered wiil be from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m., January 27. in the
Women's Recreation Center.
The first meeting of classes for
regular students will be at 8 a.m.
on January 28.
Registration of students foi-
Saturd*'y and Tuesday night oniy
classes will be from 8 a.m. to 2
p.m. on January 30, with Satur-
day classes meeting for the first
time at 10 a.m. an January 30 and
Tuesday night classes on January
30 per schedule of the students.
For further information, students
should contact S. W. M&Xewo-i,
registrar.
Local Music Teacher
Will Attend Piano
Workshop In Kilgore
Mrs. Annie E. Fenner, local
music teacher wili attend the
Piano Workshop directed by Ber-
nice Frost for the Music Depart-
ment of Kilgore College Febru-
ary 1. at Kilgore.
The morning session begins at
9:30 a. m. until 12:00 noon. The
afternoon session 1:30 p. m. until
4:00 p. m. At the conclusion of
the workshop there will be a
period set aside for questions and
answers. The morning session
will be devoted to preparatory
work and first grade levels. The
afternoon session to second and
third grade levels.
Miss Frost is an outstanding
speaker and educator in the
musical field.
Study Club Hears
Book Review
An interesting and enlighten-
ing review of the book, "Friends
and Enemies," by Adah E. Ktc-
venson was given last week by
Mrs. Tom Kennedy for members
of tlie Thursday Study Club. The
meeting was held in the home of
Mrs. Frank Ed Weimar on Thurs-
day afternoon.
Mrs. Kennedy discussed many
phases of life and -government of
the Russiain people. She con-
cluded her review by discussing
the threat that Russia presents
and gave methods of meeting
this threat. Information for the
book was collected by Stevenson
during his last trip to Russia.
Mrs. J. C. Hill, president, pre-
sided during the business session.
Members voted to observe Na-
tional Library Week, April 3-9.
Mrs. Weimar was appointed as
Library Week chairman. Various
committee members will be ap-
pointed at a later date.
Members answered roll call by
giving an informative fact about
Russia.
During the social hour the
guests were served a two-course
ouffet - style meal. The hostess
was assisted with the serving by
her mother, Mrs. W. N. Roberson.
Card Of Thanks
May we say "Thanks" for your
kind expressions of love and
sympathy, flowers, cards and
food during the loss of our loved
one.
The Famiiy of J. F. Ramey, Jr.
January 28 Set
For Mothers' March
Of Dimes !n Alto
Date for the Mothers' March of
Dimes in Alto has been set for
Thursday evening, January 28,
according to Tommy Lee, Chero-
kee County March of Dimes
chairman.
The Business and Professional
Women's Club will sponsor the
Mothers' March in Alto. Further
announcement will be published
in this newspaper next week.
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ENGAGED—Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Todd of Aito, announce the engagement and approaching mar-
riage of their daughter, Patsy Ann. to Hubert Lange , son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Lange of Alto. The
wedding wili be solemnized Saturday night, February 6, at the Mt. Zion Methodist Church.
P. TA. MEETS
THURSDAY
The regular meeting of the
Alto Parent-Teacher Association
will be Thursday, January 21 at
3 00 o'clock.
Mrs. R. E. Rossman will speak
on "Family Ventures in Cultural
Arts."
The sixth grade wiil have the
program.
A11 members are urged to at-
tend.
Reporter.
Murphey Not To
Seek Re-Election
Robert W. (Bob) Murphey of
Nacogdoches announced that he
will not be a candidate for district
attorney this year.
The decision not to seek re-
election as district attorney of the
Second and 145 Judicial Districts
was made, Mr. Murphey said,
"after much conscientious thought
and consideration."
Mr. Murphey's statement on his
decision not to seek re-election is
as foilows:
After much conscientious thought
and consideration, I have decided
to retire as District Attorney
for the Second and 145th Judicial
Districts of Texas, at the end of
my present term in 1960. I will not
be a candidate for re-election in
the coming election.
This decision has not been an
easy one to reach.
Through the years I have been
dedicated to the principles of hon-
est, effective, and efficient law
enforcement. The District Attor-
ney's office is a trust and a posi-
tion where genuine service can be
rendered in effecting justice and
in protecting the lives and property
of our citizens. I have done my
best in the prosecution of the guilty
without oppressing the rights of
the innocent.
As your District Attorney in
three large counties with a total
population of over 120,000 people,
handling the prosecution of crim-
inal cases in two District Courts'
before two Judges, and meeting
and counselling with a different
Grand Jury the first week of
every month, my job has been a
busy one and often times most
difficult.
I have, however, enjoyed my
wort;.
The job would have been much
more difficult for me had I not
had the help of an interested
citizenship, the assistance and aid
of some outstanding law enforce-
ment officers, good men and wo-
men serving in juries, and espe-
cially the sincere and excellent
service of the men and women
who served on the Grand Juries
during my six years as District
Attorney.
I would express my apprecia-
tion also for the invaluable help
of our two District Judges and the
County Attorneys of each county
la this district.
My interest in law enforcement
shail remain firm.
I shall forever be indebted tq
the people ot tiiis District for their
faith and confidence placed in me.
I shall not forget their kindness
and support.
POLITICAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Congress $40.00
State Senator ... $40.00
District Offices $40.00
County Offices - $35.00
Precinct Offices $16.00
This newspaper is authorized
to announce the foiiowlng as can-
didates for the offices indicated,
subject to the action of the
Democratic Primary eiection:
For Representative:
W. W.GLASS
For County Attorney:
PAUL B. COX
For Sheriff:
HOMER C. SMITH
ALLEN DOTSON
For Commissioner, Precinct No. 1:
THOMAS WALLACE
For Tax Assessor-Coiiector:
JIMMIE H. CONE.
For Constabie Precinct No. 3:
A (Pete) BAILEY.
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