The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 11, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 14, 1947 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL. 53.—NO. 11.
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Camp Offered Council
BOOKINGS NOW
Denied Divorce
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Conditions
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In Letter
Music To Highlight
Drive In Cuero
Rep. Lyle Would. Exempt
Ex-Service People From
Income Levies
LABOR RECORD
HELD LACKING
Employes Benefits Be-
ing Demanded
LEGISLATURE
OPENED TODAY
50,000 VETS
IN COLLEGE
OVER TEXAS
TAX-FREE PLAN
FOR VETS AW
DeWitt county Boy Scout activities were discussed at a
of the DeWitt |
Schlinke Park.h
on the management side
fence.”
Luckman said unions have
Presented in interesting form, it
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The DeWitt County Infan-
tile Paralysis Chapter will
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Stormy Session Expected Ham Friday night
As 4-Month Meeting
Gets Started
STBIKB NOTICE .
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 14.—(til
The CIO United- Steelworker* 7|
is expected to file formal rtriNb
tices today against 50 baste•
companies.
EAST TEXAS—Cleady to partly -
cloedy, Colder in the northwest and ■
north central portions. Tomorrow •
partly cloudy with little change in
temperature. Southerly winds.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—Rep.
John E. Lyle has reintroduced a bill
which would provide a temporary
exclusion from gross income taxes
for veterans of World War n.
The bill, if enacted by the 80th
Beeville Beats Cuero
DUE TO STAGE In District Cage Tilt
EVENT JAN 31
IH-Iill 1 jniT# vFA biers in a doubleheader Monday night at Cuero High Gym,
-- the A team from Beeville taking a district clash, 46-16, and
ilttee Dance By Winkler
44 million members and 110,000 paid !
employes. But he told, the news-
paper advertising executives asso-
ciation in Chicago today that labor
r- as an employer—does not have an
exemplary record.
University «f Texas officials say „ ’The fact Luckman
the over-crowded condition will last
for several years because more than
C Of C Board Concurs ; |
Fall Dale Decided 0h
By Committee _
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lature—expected to be one of the I
stormiest in history—swung into
action today at the crack of noon.
The session will last four months
for sure, and possibly longer.
With gavel-pounding by Secretary
Of State Claude Isbell in the House
of Representatives and by Lieuten-
ant-Governor John Lee Smith in
AUSTIN, Jan. 14. — (UP.) —
There is-still no relief Tn'stWWIfor
over-crowded colleges in Texas.
Adair Leader
Adair led the Beeville point makers
with 12 points op six field goals,
followed by Gene Hutchins with 10;
points on five field goals. Shep- . kuauh
pard and Cage led the Gobbler scor- J Virginia
ing with five points each. ; “
A. B. Moore was outstanding in
the Beeville defense, while Raley,
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A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS ITS COMMUNITY_________
CUERO, TEXAS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14,1947
The C. of <J. Board
the datest suggested b-
tee.
While a Bunctay fti
ond day of the celeb
Cuero Flyers Agr
Make Five Buildi
Available For Evi
J; . for the
of police radio In crime
Son, and Cuero likely
3Ok forward to similar
Ito when it gets ltd own
! radio station into oper-
RECONTACTED
CC Will Assisi In Providing
Market For Watermel-
on Production
Chamber of Commerce Board of
Directors Monday might authorised
the CC secretary to procure de-
finite watermelon buyers for the
early summer watermelon crop as
soon as possible.
Since a larger crop than last year
is anticipated from the Cuero area
and over DeWitt County as a whole,
efforts to assure a market for produ-
cers should be started now, it Was
. declared,
Many watermelons were shipped,
by carload lots, to Oklahoma last
season.
Various phases of the ’ Turkey
Trot were discussed by the directors
at the Monday night session, with
the only definate action being
agreement to the Trot committee’s
suggesion that the date for the event
be Nov. 8—11.
Presiding at the meeting was the
president. Jack Wayne. Present were
Mr. and Mrs. Garland Har-
WM*, Record sabacriben. will be
guests sf the Rialto Theater on
Wednesday far the showing of
Tbs Stranger” if they will pre-
sent this coupon and pay the cus-
bring at least two hig!
dents interested in
Scout troop to be sponMred by the
local group.
JURYREPORT
IS EXPECTED
Cage, Coker and Sheppard led the “agreed" upon i
Continued on Page 4 ’ grounds.
steak fry for 15 Scoutmasters and members
County Boy Scout Council Monday night at
according to Loren Craig, commis-
sioner of Scouting for this county.
Camp Offer
Craig reported that a Boy Scout
camp for DeWitt county was dis-
cussed and that an offer had been
made for land with five miles of riv-
er front. Camping activities were
discussed at the meeting, with most
of the discussion centering on pro-
posed short camping trips held by
the local troops. f
The Scoutmasters also decided to
encourage members of their troops
to attend Camp Wooten near Aus-
tin this summer; The camp is open
to all Boy Scouts fax this area at a
cost of only 88 par week.
S. M. Landry, Scoutmaster of the
Nordheim troop, reported that
scouting was very active in that
section and that hfc troop had an
enrollment of 25 members, with 18
to 25 In attendance at every meet-
ing- * ’ . v ; ‘ ;
Musk lows Club
To Meet Wednesda
m. on the B
IH MMttfc
would be la
Cuero's chu
ing hours oi
to-Church '
in all Uteri
Turkey Tro
ated as a r
activities, it was
Now thsi tfcet
agreed upon, pro
be accelerated in
various events, a
tures for the T)
said.
. These Advance
held up bMtee
not known.
The days select___
Exposition have beei
ixatton, now tearing
Airport, will
buildings u
Trot so thi
except the
football game—can be h
Airport location. ’
The two otater hangen
racks apd the WcmMtoo
Airport Will Mk turned a
Trot qrganMtton tar
Bramlett reported.'
He wan kmd tn ten
Cuero Flyers for pute
to move in fur fbA"’
will virtually enuao al
the firm’s flying an*
for the duration of id
Tentative jjans now sail
Members
Club wtl’m
at the regulaT time at the 111
Mrs. Otto Buchei.. The tei
was originally scheduled for
ary 8.
Mrs. Bill You;
of the program which will bu
Fantasy in Composed Music.'
18-Day-OW hrfari
Has 2 Teeth Pulled
MEMPHIS. Tenn., Jan. 1V=
—Little Ton* Diane Chester
made her first vtett to the dd
and that’s news. Tima is #
days old.
The little girl was born in a
neapolis hospital Dec. 17 wifi
permanent teeth. Yesterdl
Memphis dentist extracted t
them because they were too
for her tiny mouth.
Prause declared.
The band has a style of playing
wffeh is guaranteed to please ,aH
pdBbenC. Prause i
play current modem music as well
as the best known of the older num-
bers. •
Although no quota has been set
for DeWitt county, the Chapter
hepes to raise $1,500 in the county
this year. Prause reported. Last
year the county drive netted $800.
One-half of the funds raised
here in the drive stays in DeWitt
county, and the other half goes to
National Headquarters of the Chap-
ter. The county Chapter, however,
can borrow any sum from the nat-
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II DATE SET FK TURKEY TM
Big Dance Planned For ‘Dimes’
Land For DeWitt Scout CHAPTER HERE
these directors: Oscar AdiCkes, W. O.
White. Walter Wagner, Wayne
Hartman. W. T. McLarty. Ed De-
Leon. Reiffert Blackwell. J.
Bramlette and Jack Howerton.
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they congress, would amend the Internal
• Revenue Code to give veterans an
income tax exemption amounting to
$125 a month for a period equal to
the number of months on active
duty. •
veterans attending college in
state. ,
Miss Lillie Fahr And
Mrs. Margaret Fahr To
Make Home In Rockport
Special Band Mothers
Meet Called Thursday
A special meeting of the Cuero
Bernd Mothers Club has been called
for Thursday afternoon at 3:30
o’^ock in the High School Audi-
The The banquet was attended by ap- torium, it was announced by Mrs.
persons, including > Tate Muenter. president. All mem-
elementary and high s^hcbl ‘e?ch-• officials of the CPT and refctlves -f bers are expected to attend the im-
ers some 16 per cent. i the officials. | portant session, the president said.
at the present time are freshmen.
Altogether there are 50.000 Texas
the ’
) provided their own employes
I anything like the general increases WOrk to obtain all of the facts.
! won last year or the 25 per cent cost j
j of living Adjustments now being;
publicized as labor's major demand.
i He said he had been unable to dis-
cover one international union which
provides its rank and file’ employes
with a guaranteed annual wage. And i
he said a union is asking General
Motors for "life, sickness, accident
and disability benefits,” and yet has
nq. such insurance covering its own
1 employes.
McCARRAN~TO
PUSH BILL TO
AID TEACHERS
Senator Pat Mccarran
says he’ll seek eai ly action on
bill to raise teachers salaries
.bill would boost nav of one million proximately 75
donations to the cause can be made, lead at the third quarter.
Substitutes played the last quart-
Rhine Winkler and his orchestra er for Beeville, but even the subs
the Senate, the centennial fegisla- furnish the music for the big held a bgi height advantage. Charles
This orchestra Hunt Ipd the Trojan subs with six
is well-known throughout the area points in the last quarter,
as the successor of Lee Prause’s or-i r-"“
chestra and has played engagements J not have the experience
in Houston,'
Wednesday morning, Wayne Hart-
man, county attorney, announced
Tuesday morning.
The grand jury ha* already re-
turned a list of tight indictments.
Members of the jury were schedu-
led to investigate the case of four
Negro men charged with taking $600
from Rhoda McNary, Nigro woman
last Saturday. The two other men
involved were brought to the DeWitt
county jail Monday afternoon, the
first two being brought here Satur-
day afternoon. * -
Criminal cases to be tried in this
session of Judge Howard P. Green’s
district court have Men set to
gin Monday, January 20.
Rev. Williams Ij Due
To Reach Here Tonight
Rev. F. Randall Williams,
rector of Grace Episcopal Church, is
expected to arrive Cuero Tuesday
night, according to a telegram re-
ceived Tuesday morning by Paul
Breeden, senior warden of the
church. x
Rev. williams is traveling by car
and sent the telegram from Shreve-
port, La. He will conduct his first
service Sunday morning at
o’clock.
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ture officially opened the gates for a affair, Prause said,
flood of expected legislation.
Controversy Seen
The bulk of the proposed legis-
lions Of Pending Cases
By Wednesday
Members of .the grahd jury re-
-----1 Tuesday morning and
Cuero played hard, but they did
or the
a threat.
Until Trautwtin fouled out in the
second quarter, the local team held
______ ,------ the visitors fairly well, but the issue
said, 'being able to of 'ttee game was never in doubt.
j CHICAGO. Jan. 14.—(UP.) — A
expected I’M? manufacturer charges that
. | fabor unions have failed to grant
*, fheir own employes the benefits they
■< &A th negotiations with business
Dinter Poet No. 8 American Legion
announced ■ postponement 'of its
meeting with high school boys of
over 15.years of age until Mon-
day night, January 26, «t.1 o’clock
at the Legtan HaH, aecording~to
were expected to brtafin their final positon as Senator today, since he,M|AinC Fail Tn fiiuo Awn
report either late Tuesday night or has been elected to serve as lieuten- a/ottviIj ull IU wIYC UWII
Mt governor. But he won’t actually
be sworn In as lieutenant governor
until January 21. So it will be about
seven days of just plain citizen Al-;
lan Shivers. I
Await Messages
No important action is ; A.r
in the legislature’s first week. Most!«bor unions have failed to
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i now
; publicized as labor’s major demand.
- — McAlister is
GIVEN PIN BY
CPL COMPANY
( O. T. McAlister was presented
diamond lapel pin by the Central
Power and Light Company for 50
years continuous service at a ban-
quet in the new dining ropm bf the
Denver Hotel" in Victoria Mondavi'
night, it was learned here Tuesday.
Lcn O Hill, president of the CPL. i
presented the beautiful pin to Mc-
WASHINGTON. Jan 14.—tUP.»— Alister. The local man completed
of Nevada his 50th year with the organization
his 1 December 18. 1946
Cuero’s Turkey Trot i
held four days next Fall
the expanded event U r
ed after suspension
1940. $ ? '
The dates for the Trot mm
sitton were set fpr Nov. 8 1
Nov. 11. The event ------ -
Saturday, Nov. • an
biggest day fafiihg
Nov. 11, the AnnlMl
The dates were i
Turkey Trot comp
and presented to t
Commerce Board ti
day night by J. ©.
general chairman.
c. ft C. CM
latton expected to arouse sharp. Iea^ir‘K hotel
> controversy on suph subjects as the
- state’s labor laws, school teacher
pay.-And the - state's poUctes on
Neither the House nor the Senate
was called to order by the men who
will act as presiding officers through
the aeeston. Following the swearing-
in ceremonies. Representative W. O.
Reed of Dallas is expected to be-
come House Speaker. Reed, a 42-
year-old Dallas attorney. doesn’t
have any announced opponent for
the speaker post, and his election
seems certain. He is < a legislative
veteran, entering on his eighth
two-year term in the Texas lower
chamber. He first joined the House
on January 10th, 1933. <
Lt. Gov.-elect Allan
Port Arthur will ]
Senate after his
January 21. He has
ber ot the senate since 1936. How-
ever, due to a legal peculiarity,
Shivers is without official post at the
present time. He relinquishes lus
Csero officers may look
back on “jobs well done” over
tie Jew days. And, of
cbvnt, the feeling that comes
' from that sort of performance
is almost as good as the,pay
dketit ”
Sheriff BUI Hartman and
his depoty, Charles Clark,
demcffirtAted that, although
they are new on the job, they
know Mr to go into high
gear w^ien crime is afoot.
L. Notmed of a
o woman was reliev-
D at the bus station
officers ,< wasted no
___notifying nearby
towns to be on the lookout for
the fleeing suspects.
It was only about 35 min-
Mites later that the four Ne-
groes sotfcht were nabbed by
a police Officer as they went
through Victoria. The wo-
man’s M0 was recovered.
Of course, radio figured in
such k rhpid arrest. When the
VMfeta sheriffs department
was notified to be on the
lookout for the carload of four
Negfb suspects, the message
waskent out over the Victoria.
Mice raffia to the various po-
I liceirien in the tity- ;
spotted the wanted auto, and’
made the arrest.
TXds speaks well
2FCAUSE of -collation,- Actrem
i. Engels, above, b denied
a divorce from James R. Dennis,
radio executive. A Loe Angeles
judge found that the couple bad
flntteasticasf)
CG Pamphlet Will Give
Answers To 101 Queries
Cuero Chamber of Commerce has prepared for publica-
tion a folder which “tells all” about “the Turkey Capital of
the World.”
The pamphlet is titled “101 Ques- X i,i'j t‘ — ',' 7
ttons and Answers about Cuer0”rf|>fT<7W7VX A WYII f
The front cover carries a drawing KgJ Y (•in \ W 11^
of a fat turkey gobbler, and Cuero I *** r ♦
is designated as the heme of the
famous Turkey Trot.
Also on the front the Cuero sec-
tion to labeled as "An Area of In-
dustrial. and Agricultural Oppor-
’ tunity.”
I • t Questions Answered
and industry. J On the inside, howeJfer. is the
Charles Luckman, president* of the, real “meat” of the matter, when
Lever Brothers Company, says labor; 101 numbered questions are asked
unions now are big businesses, with’and then answered.
The questions cover a broad field,
touching on nearly every aspect of
endeavor here. Statistics are given
concerning taxes, bonded indebt-
edness, number of cattle in the
county, crops, turkey production.
THE WEATHER 1
dance i slx P°irts 10
9 o’clock,
of
. scheduled
tub asMtibar'
itatttee will
school sta-
ke Senior
Policemen don’t stop and
question every stranger they
see in town, naturally. Some-
tinfiB they play hunches, or
sixth sense that
etftoh sends them right to the
flotation of a mystery.
The two girls, for some rea-
son, rated questioning And
after a few questions the offi-
cers discovered that r ,
were runaways from their
homes ta Oklahoma.
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The teen-agers admitted
that hitchhiking across coun-
try tent
all a bed of roses.
II a long way
destination
of • the; The pamphlet is one of the most
extensive and all-inclusive ever
not I issued by the Chamber of Comm-
with i erce, and represents much research
Miss Lillie Fahr and mother, Mrs.
Margaret Fahr, left Cuero Monday
for Rockport, where they will make
their future home.
* A sister. Mrs. Fred Hunt, resides
in Rockport where she and her hus-
band own and operate a tourist
court and a number of cottages and
Miss Fahr and her mother will oc-;
cupy one of them
The Fahr’s lived in Cuero 27
Recently the home they oc-
cupied on Gonzales street back of
the post office, was sold to Bert
Kirk. DeWitt county service officer.
, and th« Fahr’s were unable to find a
to supply almost every’ pharmaecu-»Webb, have bought equal interests in suitable place m which to live Kirk
1 tical product required in the medical thc ownership" of the Yankee team i plans to ere * a law office r th
profession, it was reported here. in the All-America pro league. , property. (
from Ottir destination In
CarfMilB, and their original
fltake of gl.50 was gone.
It tiMn’t take mueb persu-
asion cm the part of officers to
coiflfafoe them that they be-
A call to
thefr ifteriff and transporta-
tion Mck was arranged for
them.
■fifi not Hill and Taylor
bedh bn the alert and stopped
‘ the gfrte her? they still might
be Wnndering around aimless-
ly .With a good head start to*
te ward trouble’of one kind or
another. They’ll probably be
gralbiul in later life that the
local officers nipped their ad-
venture in the bud in Cuero.
Duty Covered
The active duty to be taken into
consideptton is that which , was
served after September 15, 1M0, and
would Include time served up until
the termination of the war by proc-
lamation of the President. If, how-
ever, the termination of any indi-
vidual* first enlistment contracted
after May 31, 1945, is later than the
termination of the war, the later
date would be used.
Veterafis eligible for exemption
will include those who were citizens
or residents of the United States but
who served with the military or na-
val forces of any of the other United
States Nations.
Have eContributed
"It to my feeling,” Lyle said, “that
the men and women who served in I Titrate Mar AutRterr
World War H have already contrib- VWn"’> vl
uted their share and are deserving Van Lap FaaHibII Ttefim
of a period of grace from heavy in- • «IIKUt lUUlUflll I vfllll
come taxe payments during which
they can financially readjust them-
selves. I am most hopeful that this The three men who bought the New
bill will receive favorable considers-1 York Yankeee Baseball Empire from
tion by the Congress.” the Jacob Ruppert estate two years
--------------;--ago now are partners in a football
DRUGS RETURN enterprise
FORT WORTH. Jan. 14.—(UP.)—1 President Dan Topping of
AH vital drug shortages in the Un- New York football Yankees
ited States have been solved, and nounced today that his baseball as-
the drug industry will soon be able’sorites. Larry MacPhail and
“The fact is,” Luckman said death rate, miles of roads and pave-
‘‘that a semptoyers labor leaders ex- ment, fire protection, number of
hibit most of the conservative char- telephones, amount of rainfall, indi-
half the ~eterans~"attending college acteristics <>< thei«" felIow executives ustries located here, etc., etc.
Pitiful living conditions
in war torn Yugoslavia
are described in a letter
of thanks to Miss Sidney Lou
Dedear of Thomaston from 11-
year-old Nick Skarlch of Yugo-
slavia.
The Dedear family sent a
dress to Yugoslavia which was
given to the 11-year-oid girl.
The Dedear name and address •
were put in the pocket of the
dress, and the Yugoslav girl
wrote immediately after finding
the name.
The letter follows:
I received dress which you
sent and in the pocket I find a
letter; it make me happy. I say
sure I am lucky girl to receive
ft.
I am U-year-okl and I am in
fifth grade in school.
- We are three sisters, haven’t
brothers. We are very poor liv-
ing. Our house was bombed of
German airplanes. Our father
wasn’t home in war time, so
we suffer very much from hun-
ger and without shoes and short
of dresses. Here many people
received packages from there
—but we have not any relatives
to send to us and nobody
that we hope to receive.
My father and mother thanks
very much to you and your
father and mother. They send
many regards to you alL We
wtoh to have W pictures. I
hope you win answer to me this
Many regards to you of“the tijffitHaan
xuui Binoftrc iTicnu
Nick Skartch.
PJB . If I do know to writing
in Engltoh, sure I will write
more to you. I wish to you and
your all in family Merry Christ
mas and happy new year. So
wish my staters Morgorit and
Bongo they give their best re-
gards to you and all you good
people. ■
Writer’s, name is Nick Ska-
rich. v ; r
as one of the big events in
the county March of Dimes drive to
raise funds to fight the disease, it
was announced Tuesday morning
By United Press. b'’ Bennie Prause. chairman of the
The state’s fiftieth biennial legis-j drive.
The dance will be a free
and will start at about 9 uwwb.,
Prause said. Members of the
County Chapter will attend the with their tall men dominating play
dance and set up a table at which under the baskets t<o roll to a 31-10
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lee Officers Jesse Taylor
SBtmett H1U also showed
less last week when they
A couple of strange
girls on the street to
out lust what they were
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Beevilk^s towering Trojans overwhelmed the Cuero Gob-
blers in a doubleheader Monday night at Cuero
I _ ■ _ ___ ___ •_
the B team winning. 31-16.
Cuero fought Beeville off their
feet in the first quarter and were
even with the more experienced
visitors at the end of the ^ession,
8- 8. Dan Cage hit the basket for
> three points in this quarter, and^
Gillett Sheppard and Verlin Traut-|
Chanter Will w^in contributed two points each.!
___ . . ..I. » • ! The three point makers with Ray
dan“ the LeglOn R«ley .nd Xrles Coker played!
January 31, j cool, defensive basketbill to break!
up the Beeville plays several times.
f Leaf Briefly «
In the second quarter Cuero took
a temporary lead when Trautwein
sank a free throw to make the score
9- 8. Then Beeville increased the
speed of the pd&y and Al Adair sank
gWfe the Trojans a 10-9;
lead at the half.
Beeville continued its airtight de-
fensive^ play in the third quarter.
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