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THE CUER
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VOL 97 - No. 37
CUERO, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, Sept. 15,1993
Established 1894 - Pulitzer Prize 1955
USPS 781-120
Sixteen Pages - Plus Inserts - 35 Cents
DeWitt Briefs
Court okays budget, rate
Meyersville festival, supper
St. Peter and Paul’s Catholic Church in Meyersville will hold its an-
nual festival and barbeque supper on Sunday, Sept. 26, starting at 4:30
p.m.
The activities will include a raffle, games, bingo, silent auction and a
country store.
Rotary Pancake, Sausage Supper
Cuero Rotary Club has set Tuesday, Oct. 5, for its annual Pancake
and Sausage Supper. It will be at Cuero High School cafeteria from
5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Tickets arc $3 for adults and $1.50 for children and are available
from any Rotary Club member or at the door.
Westhoff annual dinner
The Westhoff Cemetery Association will hold it annual dinner on
Saturday, Sept. 25, at the Westhoff American Legion Hall.
Serving will begin at noon and a free will offering will be taken.
Members are asked to bring a meat dish and side dish by 11:30 a.m.
Cabeza Community Homecoming
The Cabeza Community Homecoming will be Saturday, Sept. 25, at
the Nordheim Lutheran Church Hall beginning at 1 p.m. All former and
present residents are invited to attend. Those attending are asked to
bring a meat dish and a vegetable, salad or dessert.
For more information contact Alice Dreyer Onken at 210-828-4053.
You are asked to bring old pictures of your years in the Cabeza area.
St. Jude Bike-A-Thon Sat.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will sponsor a "Wheels for
Life" Bike-A-Thon in Cuero on Saturday, Sept. 18, in the Cuero City
Park near the rodeo arena from 8 a.m. to noon.
Coordinators arc Martha Hudgeons, 275-6941, and Veronica Brandt,
275-6371. Sponsor forms are available from the coordinators.
Crop loss deadline noted
A new law providing grants for farmers and ranchers who have ex-
perienced 1993 crop losses because of damaging weather has an ap-
plication deadline of March 4th, 1994. Also the law allow producers to
file quality loss claims for the years 1990, 1991, 1992 with a deadline
of Thursday, Sept. 17.
Farmers and ranchers should contact the Agriculture Stabilization
and Conservation Service for detail.
Pork producers fall social
Coastal Bend Pork Producers will have their fall social Sunday, Sept.
19, at the James Koenig place on Hwy. 87 one mile east of Cuero.
Barbeque pork and home ice cream will highlight the meal skirting at
7 p.m. with a social starting at 5 p.m.
Country Schools Homecoming
There will be a Country Schools Homecoming Saturday, Sept. 18, at
Garfield Hall starting at 5 p.m. It will include the music of St. Paul
Lutheran Choir of Yorktown and a dance with music by Adolf Hofner.
Schools included in the homecoming are Post Oak (Goliad County),
Davy, Garfield, Friedland, Clear Creek, Weldon, Gohlke, Buesing,
Cabeza, Metting, Hienzville and Melrose. For more information call
Dolly Ruppert at 512-564-3258.
DeWitt County commissioners
adopted a $4.6 million budget
Monday afternoon while setting a
tax rate that is slightly less than the
current rate.
match the projected expenses in the
new budget so the county will use a
portion of its fund balances to meet
the coming year’s needs.
The new tax rate will be .48209
cents per $100 value. That is
.00002 cents lower than the current
year’s rate of .48211 cents. Tax-
payers will see about a one cent
difference in their tax bills.
Revenues for the new document
will total $3,942,322 which is
down about $190,(X)O from this
year’s budget. County Auditor
Phyllis Massey estimated the cur-
rent year’s fund balances should to-
tal about $2 million while the new
budget will see fund balances of
$1.3 million.
Taxes are expected to generate
$1,468,982 in the coming year
while the remainder of the revenue
will come from permits, fees, and
fines.
Expenses will total $4,661,038
which is $687,845 more than the
current year. As usual the county’s
general fund will provide the
majority of the expenses totalling
S2.4 million. Commissioner’s
precincts, road and bridge expenses
will account for about $1.6 million.
Included in the new budget is a
three percent pay increase for coun-
ty employees and officials. Also
budgeted is $120,000 from the
1990 certificates of obligation for
refurbishing courthouse windows.
The new budget also increased the
sheriffs budget about $77,000 to
$594,137.
Other significant items include
right-of-way acquisition along FM
766 for road improvements to the
new prison totalling $46,000.
Begins in Worthington
Great Gobbler Gallop
Churchmen dinner Sept.21
The annual Cuero area Churchmen and Boy’s Dinner will be Tues-
day, September 21 at 7 p.m. at St Mark’s Lutheran Church in Cuero.
Grilled pork steaks with all the trimmings will be served for $4 per
plate. Tickets may be purchased from any member of St. Mark’s or by
contacting the church at 400 N. Esplanade.
Entertainment will be the Victoria Christian band. Messenger.
Pageant deadline extended
Application deadline for the Miss Turkeyfest Scholarship Pageant
and Little Mister and Miss Turkeyfest Pageant has been extended to
Thursday, September 16.
The pageant, sponsored by Alpha Gamma Psi Chapter of Beta Sigma
Phi Sorority will be Saturday, September 25 at 7:30 p.m. Applications
are available at all schools and may be returned to the Barbecue Sta-
tion.
Gobbler tickets at Keeslers
Reserved and general admission tickets for Friday games of the Gob-
blers will be sold at Keeslers each week Monday thru Friday. With
ticket sales ending on Friday at 10 a.m. Adult tickets are $5 each.
Student tickets will be sold on all Cuero school campuses weekly un-
til Friday at 10 a.m. Student tickets are $2 each.
Dolls and toys at hotel
The Texas Hotel Studios at 107 E. Church will be exhibiting dolls
and toys throughout the month of September with guest artists every
Saturday from 10 to4 p.m.
Lola Tolbert of Cuero will display porcelain dolls on Saturday, Sep-
tember 18 and Terrie Braden will exhibit and demonstrate miniature
quilts on September 25. The exhibits are free and the public is en-
couraged to attend.
TDCJ set
to select
more sites
Representatives from Cuero will
travel to South Padre Island Friday
and Saturday for the next meeting
of the Texas Department of
Criminal Justice.
TDCJ board members are ex-
pected to announce their site selec-
tions for at least three 2,(XX)-bed
state jails. The board announced
three sites last month and stated
five more of the state jails are
planned.
Cuero Prison Project co-
chairman Joe Reuss said he will be
attending the meeting noting that
Cuero has submitted a proposal for
one of the state jails.
Plans by TDCJ call for placing
the state jails close to metropolitan
areas in the state to reduce over-
crowding in city and county jails.
However, plans call for the new
jails to be built on sites where the
state already has prisons.
While several sites in central and
south Texas arc bidding for the new
jails, Cuero will see its strongest
competition from Karnes County
and Bexar County. Karnes County
will soon start construction on a
2,250-bcd prison and Bexar County
is attempting to find a site for the
state jail.
While Cuero’s 21st annual
Turkeyfest celebration is still three
weeks away, one of the highlights
of the event will be staged this
weekend in Worthington, Min-
nesota.
A contingent of 16 Cuero repre-
sentatives accompanied by the
famous turkey "Ruby Begonia" will
leave Thursday for Worthington to
attend that city’s annual King
Turkey Day celebration.
On Saturday Turkeyfest’s race
team of Coach Fred White, Captain
Brett Duckett and Handlers Susan
Prause and Neal Lapp will square
off against Worthington’s
"Paycheck" for die 150-yard race.
This is the first leg of the Great
Gobbler Gallop as the two birds
will race again in Cuero during
Turkeyfest which will be October
8, 9, and 10 at the City Park.
As in the past, the bird posting
the best time of the two races earns
its city the right to proclaim itself
"Turkey Capital of the World." Al-
so the winning city is allowed to
keep the "Traveling Turkey Trophy
of Tumultuous Triumph" for a
year.
This contest was started 21 years
ago when The Cuero Record on be-
half of of the citizens of Cuero
challenged the Worthington Daily
Globe on behalf of the citizens of
Worthington to determine which
community deserves the right to
call itself the "Turkey Capital."
While Ruby Begonia captured
the tide last year, Paycheck has a
12-7 win advantage over Ruby.
Effective
Parenting
training
Family Outreach of DeWitt
County will be offering a parenting
workshop series featuring the "Sys-
tematic Training for Effective
Parenting” beginning on Wednes-
day, September 22 from 9:30 a.m.
to 11:30 a.m.
Eva Aleman, director of Family
Outreach said, "We believe that
being an effective parent is one of
the most rewarding tasks in life and
it’s also one of the most challeng-
ing”. She said S.T.E.P. provides a
practical approach to parent-child
relations.
The workshops are free and will
be held for eight consecutive weeks
at 310 Dunn Street. Instructors will
be Barbara Bowman and Aleman.
For further information contact
Aleman at 275-5063.
This year’s Cuero Turkeyfest race team in-
cludes, from left, Neal Lapp, Susan Prause,
Fred White and Brett Duckett. The group will
leave this week for Worthington, Minnesota
for the first leg of the Great Gobbler Gallop
where they will race Cuero’s Ruby Begonia
against Worthington's Paycheck. The final
race will be in Cuero during Turkeyfest the
second weekend in October. (Record Photo)
Trustees approve plans
Student attendance targeted
By CONNIE YOUNG
______Record Staff Writer______
Increasing TAAS (Texas Assess-
ment of Academic Skills) scores,
improving student attendance and
promoting student learning was ap-
proved last week at a regular meet-
ing of the Cuero Independent
School District board of trustees.
The campus and district im-
provement plans was presented by
the principal of each campus.
Superintendent Dr. Dwight
Winkler said this year’s plans arc
much better than in year’s past and
the teachers put alot of work into
them. He said there was also more
input from the community.
J.C. French Principal Denzil
McMurrcy said in order to improve
student attendance, telephone calls
will be made to parents of absent
children and home visits to children
who are consistently late. Perfect
attendance awards will be given to
students every six weeks.
McMurrey said to increase
parent involvement, a dinner is
planned for Open House and
parents will be asked to serve as veyed for ideas to keep young
classroom aides... people in school.
To increase attendance at the In other action the trustees ap-
monthly PTA meetings, babysitting proved general admission corn-
will be provided, snacks will be plementary passes for all academic
served and a program presented by and athletic events for residents 65
the students, and older.
Hunt Elementary Principal The trustees also approved seek-
Debra Baros said TAAS rcmedia- ing bids to replace a water well on
non classes will be provided for all the high school campus. A hole in
students who did not pass the the casing has caused sand to be in
TAAS/NAPT math in 1992-93 and the water.
transportation will be available for Assistant Superintendent Bill
tutoring students staying after Moore said the water in question is
school, used at the practice field. The
Cuero Junior High School has remainder of the school’s water is
implemented silent reading three supplied by the city.
times a week to help improve the
TAAS reading scores. Principal
David Bright said teachers will also
spend at time providing students
with a variety of writing oppor
tunities to raise writing scores.
Attendance incentives will in-
clude recognition of perfect atten-
dance in assembly programs.
To help lower the dropout rate at
high school, Principal Ray Kelley
said a Career Awareness Week will
be held and students will be sur-
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