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VOL. 61.—NO. 187
CUERO, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1955
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f^Town Talk
Would you like to have a
package of castor bean
seeds.
We have packaged some
and have them at The Re-
cord office, yours for just
the asking.
Castor beans make a
beautifully foliaged green
plant with giant leaves. The
plant reaches a height of
seven to eight feet when
given ample water and has
a beautiful bronze spike
when mature.
The plants thrive in any
temperature but extremely
cold weather and even when
frozen down will come out
when cut back.
* * *
Our orchid today to Dr.
F. A. Prather for the highly
efficient manner in which
he is conducting the Salk
vaccine clinic in this city,
and working without profes-
sional help.
Of course this may come
under the head of the du-
ties of the City Health offi-
cer, but it is never-the-less
a service which Cuero should
highly appreciate and we
are sure that Cuero parents
do appreciate the doctor’s
most cooperative assistance
in this most important pro-
ject.
* * *
Our good friend Commis-
sioner Joe Hunter informs
us that plans for the Farm-
To-Market road to Cheap-
side and Valley View are
moving along in splendid
fashion and that this route
is one of the top projects for
his precinct. We are sure
that there are many who will
welcome the news. Keep up
the good work Joe Hunter.
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Those who argue that the
farmer is hoeing a tough
row while the rest of the
American economy is boom-
ing have just been supplied
some new ammunition. The
Buerau of Labor Statistics
says the spread between
prices of other commodities
is now the widest since the
tnd of World War II.
in March, 1951, the two
price indexes were at almost
the same level. Since then,
farm prices have dropped 23
per cent but prices on all
commodities other than farm
and food items went down
less than 2 per cent. Why?
The biggest factor in keep-
ing non-farm commodity
prices high seems to be the
brisk rise in factory wages.
These have gone up about
17 per cent since 1951.
As for farm prices, they
have declined largely be-
cause production has far ex-
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Rural
Correspondents
Notice
Dun to a change in this
newspaper’s press hour, ru-
ral correspondence must be
received not later than noon
Tuesday. Where correspond-
ents can file their letters In
time for Monday delivery,
such coo[>eration will be ap-
preciated. The Editor.
COAST AWAITS
BLOW; NOW AT
STANDSTILL
Giant Hurricane Still
At Sea But May
Hit Tonight
CAPE HATTERAS, N. C. -
(UP)— Hurricane Connie, a
roaring giant undecided where to
strike, slowed to a virtual stand-
still in the Atlantic 225 miles
southeast of Wilmington, N. C.,
Wednesday.
The Atlantic Seaboard was bat- j
tening down for a blow that was :
measured in terms of the worst I
that was offered in 1954, a dis-j
astrous tropical storm year.
A special 7 a.m. cst bulletin is- efj ^ere Tuesday to students of
sued by the Miami Weather Bu- j Jnhn c French schooi and St.
reau fixed the location of the hur- j Michaej,s Catholic school fell far
ricane and said it was almost | gjlort of t)ie nymber given orig-
i inally several weeks ago, it was
revealed by Dr. F. A. Prather.
Only around 50 percent of the
rip up concrete pavement - andjJohn c French students appear-
ed to receive their second shot.
Approximately 90 per cent of the
St. Michael’s students reported.
John C. French has a heavy
population of Latin American
students, local representatives of
the National Foundation for In-
fantile Paralysis, pointed out and
many of these were probably not
reached by the news agencies
which informed the public that
the second shots were to be giv-
FEWER SALK
SHOTS GIVEN
Fifty Per Cent Of J.C.
French Sfudenfs Fail
To Report
Congress Generous With
14th District Says Bell
FARM BUREAU
QUEEN WILL BE
NAMED TONTTE
Nine Girls Compete For
Honor!; Event Be Held
At Lindenau
Nine DeWitt County girls will
TAKES OFF, LANDS ON WATER, GROUND, ICE, SNOW
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stationary at that hour.
Highest winds were 135 miles
an hour — powerful enough to
Salk vaccine shots administer- compete for honors this evening
at the Queen Contest to be held
hurricane warnings crackled
from North Carolina to Chesa-
peake Bay. Coastal residents as
far north as Provincetown, Mass.,
were put on storm alert.
SUghtly Weakened—
The 7 a.m. weather bulletin
spoke of “some evidence that the
pressure has filled somewhat in
, in the center of the hurricane.”
That generally means a slightly
- weakening effect in intensity.
“Very little movement is ex-
pected during the next six hours,
following by a course toward the
north - northwest or north,” the
weatherman reported.
Winds at Frying Pan-Shoals,
southeast of the busy Wilming-
ton seaport, were up to full gale
force of 60 miles an hour Wed-
nesday morning. Tides were run-
ning two to four feet above nor-
mal on the North Carolina coast.
Exposed beach areas reported
heavy swells and high waves.
The Coast Guard asked all ra-
dio and television stations on the
seaboard to broadcast warnings
to beach residents around More-
head City, N. C. — a place laced
by streams that block escape
when the storms roll in — to get
to safety at once.
Students of Oak View and Park
schools were receiving their sec-
ond shots Wednesday.
GATESVILH
HIT BY STORM
Two Persons Killed As
Stone Building
Crumbled
Church Festival
Be Held Saturday
And Sunday
A benefit church festival will
be held Saturday and Sunday on
the grounds of Our Lady of
Guadalupe, according to the Rev.
August Otto, who extends an in-
vitation to the public to attend.
A Mexican supper and barbe-
cue is slated for Saturday night
with serving to begin at 6 p. rn.,
and a chicken supper will be
served Sunday beginning at 6 1).
m.
An attendance prize will be
given away Saturday at 11 p. m.
and the coronat/sn of the queen
will take place Sunday at 8 p.
m.
A bale of cotton and an attend-
ance prize will be given away
Sunday at 11 p. m.
Refreshments, games, and oth-
er concessions will also be avail-
able. Ernest Jimenez and his
orchestra will provide music for
dances both Saturday and Sun-
day.
at Lindenau hall beginning at 8
o'clock, the event sponsored by
the DeWitt County Farm Bu-
reau.
Contestants are girls between
the ages of 16 and 22 years, sin-
gle, and their father or broth-
er is a member of the Bureau,
according to Herbert Warren,
service agent.
Those who will vie for the
crown are La Nell Natho of Rt.
1, Cuero; Melba Ray Wild, Rt. 1,
Cuero; Ann Elizabeth Chlastak,
Rt. 5, Yoakum; Lenette Rusch-
haupt, Meyersville; Barbara Egg,
Meyersville; Kathleen Nagel,
A&M Rt., Cuero; Alice Jane
Egg, Meyersville; Dorothy Kue-
ker, Rt. 1, Lindenau and Jeanice
Nolte, Westhoff.
Patricia Wendel who was
crowned queen last year, will
crown this year’s winner.
The Cuero Livestock Commis-
sion Company has donated a
beautiful wrist watch to be giv-
en to the winning contestant, ac-
cording to Warren.
Judges will be from surround-
ing towns. . - .
Following the coronation cere-
monies, a dance will be held,
Leon Boldt's orchestra to fur-
nish the music.
Members of the Bureau extend
an invitation to the public to
attend.
Admission to the dance will be
free.
VICTORI A HAS
COSTLY BLAZE
Motel Destroyed With
Damage $50,000 To
$75,000
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THE NEW YC-123E pantobase troop and cargo transport, which can land and taka off on land or
sea, Is ahown during a teat at the Philadelphia Nnvy yard. The plan* I* dcalgned to operate off
snow, Ice, or unprepared runway* as well, via Its “pantobase," or reti actable skill like equipment
which can be seen under the hull. Wheels drop down from underside for regular runways, tftrou-
koff Aircraft corporation, West Trenton. N. J.. built It. f fitter national SmotoyAotoJ
Baptist Assn. To
Hold Meeting
By United Press
A howling, windstorm, possible
a tornado, crumbled two old
stone buildings on the south side
of tin? Gatesville square late
day Aug. 16 at the First Baptist
MRS. SCH0RRE
0NBANKB0ARD
First Time Woman
Ever Elected At
Farmers State
For the first time in the history
of the Farmers State Bapk and
Trust Company a woman Is now
indued on the Board of Direct-
ors, according to Paul Breeden,
chairman, who said Mrs. Aug-
ust Schorre was appointed to the
board Tuesday afternoon at a
meeting of the directors.
Mrs. Schorre was named to fill
the vacancy created by the res-
ignation of Louis Schorre who
(has resigned due to ill health.
Mrs. Schorre has been associ-
ated with the bank for the past
12 years and holds the position
of teller.
According to Breeden, Mrs.
Schorre is most capable and de-
pendable, and has considerable
knowledge of banking activities.
Her late husband, August C.
Schorre, was employed at the
bank for 25 years and at the
time of his death this year, was
cashier.
Louis Schorre, veteran liank-
er, came to the Farmers Bank
about 20 years ago to serve as j
its president until ill health com- j
pelled him to resign several j
years ago. He was succeeded by :
Joe Edgar, Jr.
The present Board of Directors j
includes R. F. Blackwell, S. C.
GETS 25 YEARS AS DESERTER
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in the wreckage and leaving two
of them dead.
Highway patrolmen and volun-
tary firemen poked through the
nibble for possibly more vic-
tims,' but said they didn’t think
there were more.
The dead men were identified
as Charley Brown, 55, a former
cowboy, and Fred Ray, about
50. They were caught in the
hardest hit j Rock
VICTORIA -—A spectacular fire
speeded by south winds swept
through the Boulevard Courts at
609 East Rio Grande late Tues-
day afternoon, completely razing
the 18-unit wooden structure. ^______
Firemen were. forced to fight j^key, Jr., Joe Edgar, Jr., Mrs,
the blaze from outside its horse-1 August Schorre, and Paul Breed-
shoe construction, being unable the latter, chairman,
to penetrate the wall of smoke j
The Guadalupe Assoeiational and heat which covered the cen-
Baptist Brotherhood will hold its ter of the courts.
Damage was estimated at be- t » f.Mtslau
tween $50,000 and $75,000 by PICflK Ufl jlMQdy
Morris Hyak of Hyak Realty Co., j Fmi)]oyees of the Victoria Di-
church at Victoria, according to
S. O. Johnson, Jr., of Yoakum,
president.
Southern Pacific
owners of the motel.
| vision of Southern Pacific lines
Flames cut telephone cables, wjjj finj0„ annual picnic
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A€complb»h*n«nU achiev-
ed and Nnaftta accrued for
the 14th Congressional Dis-
trict during the 1#8» awwhm
of Congress Just cloned, were
highly gratifying to 1/ 8.
Rep. John J. Bell. Just bade
from Washington and now
back home in Cuero to fur-
ther push »omi of the objec-
tives undertaken.
It is s pleasure to report that
the 14th District has had owe of
it* best years, so fsr as Federal
aid ow important projects has
been concerned, ami Just as grati-
fying to report that Congrea* a*
a whole was quirk to respond to
practically all weed* called to He
attention by Texas representa-
tives in the national body.” O’w-
gree smart Bell told The Record
Tuesday afternoon,
He described the Initial appro-
priation for the Canyon Dam
project, a project which Ultimate-
ly will see the construction of a
series of dams along the Guada-
lupe river and Ita tributaries, a#
being Hie beginning of one of the
greatest eras of progress and ex-
pansion ever recorded In thta
fertile river valley.
I am convinced that Cuero,
and every other town along the
river valley and Its vicinity, can
benefit greatly front the natural
resource# which will be Impound-
ed or conserved. The initiative
of those towns end cities writ of
course gunge the benefits they
receive. I am ready to offer my
assistance to any etty to my dis-
trict to go forward”, Bell em-
phasised.
Flood control, and conserva-
tion, Irrigation, facilities tor In-
dustry . . all will stem out of
this project, Bell pointed out,
with initial expenditure eton* be-
ing to the neighborhood of $13,*
000 000.
He pointed to the ft,900.000 ap-
propriation for a new bridge
•panning the channel and boat
basin entrance at Corpus t.'hrlstt,
along with plan* for the straight-
ening and widening of the chan-
nel t« provide additional harbor
In that Mouth Texas city.
The bridge project, according to
estimates, wlU In Its entirety,
call for a Federal expenditure
of around M.IMMWO.
Of tensor importance In terms
of expenditures, but still impor-
tant to cities and cummumtUe
of the 14th District, Bell declar-
The demand lor cotton picket*. Sixty per .cent of the cotton ed, are the Languiltoas Water*
has been steadily growing in De- crop is now open, with 25 percent: shed to Atascosa county, the has*
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PVT. ARTHUR ATHANS Is shown with bis wlf# and family at Oov-
ernors Island. N. Y , before he was sentenced to 20 years at hard
labor as a U. 8. Army deserter. Athans, who deserted at Fort
Knox, Ky., tn lfMt, settled later In Jamestown, N. T, changed
his name to Joseph Trainer and started a successful garage. HI*
wife didn’t know about hts Army record till he was arrested on
a tip taut May, (Inter nut umal Uomuiphoto)
CONGRESSMAN
MAKES REPORT
ON SESSION
Cites Objectives
Achieved For 14th
District
More Cotton Pickers
Needed Over Cotton
Supper will be . served at 7 p. (disrupting service to 400 business Jhe cp & j picnic grounds at; Witt County during the past week, I harvested, according to bor project at f ulton a new post
p m .and residence telephones, and
Principal speakers during the traffic was tied up by blocks
evening will he Dr. L. H. Tap- around the fire scene,
scott of Dallas, and the Rev. J. i Cause >f the fire was still un-
I. Cartledge of the Texas Bap- , known late Tuesday night.
tist Children’s Home at Round da^ged"'toe j ^ement «iv^. i unViHed'cntora' In'’the couniy' eaul
of Carl Morernan, a one | by the^ Victoria Division Service jtlg {oe jgg pickers. The Nord-
Victoi ia on Sunday, with the pub-; according to Elmer A. l.,uddeke,
lie invited to attend along with manager of the Texas Emplny-
their S.P. friends. Admission m(!nj Commission in DeWitt
will be 50c for children und $100 (>)UJ1|yi
for adults according to an an- j said there are now ”8
Truck Line Seeks
Location In (nero
T. W. Dmgtno, sales manager
Buclthorn Cafe, the
andTuriedhthemhwd«-f a°ptleSol‘grIm <h‘ldren W‘U PUt °n " ^ i^tory dwelhng on East Park. Po-ldub. Following the meal games. h(>iin arcg( which has 105 open-[for the Alamo Express Compa-
„„„ bU" - welcome, accord-; lice omcer, broK. 1. .be | ^1”? f.S | t”
need of 85 latxuers.
Lialdcke requests that
workers going to the Nordhelnt freight, the truck tine having be-j
area report to Hubert L Voelkel. KUn optaatkto here Tuesday.
Farm Placement Interviewer, at
Woman Not Seriously Injured— jirrg to Johnson who said election door of the home an ddragged ; tainment
W per™” apM lb tlw ol oifieer, will al.o „k. pl.ee . ,.»ibdly - eleepiog C.rl Mor.men; e»)»y«d. Sewing
deb”, wa, Mr.. Bud Hauler™. !*'™e Ihe meelinc. 'Jr., from the flame,.
starts at 11
50, who was rescued and was not j
seriously injured.
Mrs. Henderson was waiting in
the cafe for her husband, who,
ran a domino parlor in the rear
of the cafe.
Two adjoining businesses — a
barber shop and the City Cafe-- j
also partially collapsed a few
minutes after the Buckhom Cafej
fell in. Ed Beck, employe of an
auto supply store, saw the Buck-
hom roof collapse and ran to the
other businesses, Warning those
jpside to get out.
Pilot Tells Of Flight Into Hurricane
cut of San Antonio, was to
i Cuero today looking for a buiid-
iniv tog to house their
office for Refugio and renovation
of the poet office at New Brau»
fels.
Rep. Bell did not overlook iM
important e of drouth relief, a
project which he declares he will
concentrate on lor the next sev-
eral weeks now that he is back
home.
"The Department of Agricul-
ture contends that the feed pro-
trucks and granrf ha* been a success. On a
national scale, perhaps that la
true. However. 1 find that ranch-
Thr* expression hos been popular
since about 1890. To point at one
time meant to drink. Thus. "To point
■he town red” meant to drink liquor
until the trod,tenet red complexion
Editor’s Note: Cmdr. K. L.
Foster, 39, of ( hatUnooga,
Tenn., after 15'/j years In the
Navy In which he Hew more
than 4.000 hours, made his
first 1®Vj hoar flight Into the
eye of a hurricane aboard a
Navy Neptune patrol bomb-
er with a crew of 10.
i hurricane
| gives up
you.
your enemy
its efforts to
sent and farmers of this are ara
the Wofford Service Station m The Alamo Express, a common j.uu^ diwatUfled,” Bell rtated
jNordhcirn. ThoM desirmg work,carr,w frt^Ut « » mV ««Mnwn. and tha
tin the Cueio «r» a slxniid rcprnt i<drt of Galmton. Houston, Ure-:opinion
I to (he local TEC office. | do, Alice, Sun Antonio. Cor^ colleague., that the real sokttton
of many of my Texas
,, , , , , ,i , t. ns mu I i**»»'«i iirrn i, in ii i in t i-iih a vvn sew \rM«ra»*"»». • iwumc/ii, i » ”
never think about that.
destroy Hands Were I*nil—- | * _,* 71 • * V’ f ^ ' *rw' v"*r'#*lpsn only rom#* in si program
My hands were full, just trying, Th* m»\ mimtei of Imlea chnsti, well as other point* i whirh w;n increase the orom r
| All the elements in. storm like i to hold on to the controls until ginned in. LJcWjtt fJounty tto-ough in th<.. Vai, an<1 ;U thp 0uUH credit faSlitie. /of the farmer
or to the sides is a solid sheet of my copilot could spell nvv t last week » 1945 hale,. Of Urn : and hq ranchcr, not just a tenw
'rain and gray darkness. And if .was as rough and uncomfortable. number, Nordhcirn has ginned} . Walker and I V H*iti»rarv orostram but a lor*
“*■—evcr s-i* —»»»c* ^
‘are just hanging on. They need
By CMDR. E. L. FOSTER
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.-(UP)-
Does this compare with combat? ■ spent much time being
you have time to
were flying as low as 300 feet — j through,
you see that Atlantic Ocean
reaching up for you, and it
jeems about to swallow you up.
I don’t think anyone with me
scared,
When I had a chance to look
down, it would look like the wind
was picking up that whole damn-
ed ocean and trying to send it
up to us
ro, 281; and Hochheim, 100.
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EGYPTIANS TO SEE RUSSIANS
tian Premier Gamal Abdel Nas- You can say that, brother. But I kept thinking of
ser will visit the Soviet Union! The only difference between a do in an emergency, like d one of emphasize that I ve
next spring it was announced! combat nffssion and going into my engines conked out. And I
Tuesday. one of these babies is that in a j didn't have too much time to
Right here, though I’d like to
got pretty
much of a veteran crew. Those
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COMING EVENTS
Thursday
Rotary cUib -12 noon
City Council-7:30 p.
Masonic Lodge—8 p.
SAUK AWARDED .MEDAL
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10—(UP)
—President Eisenhower Tuesday
signed into law a bill awarding
Dr. Jonas E. Salk a $2,500 gold
i medal for his part in developing
the Salk anti-polio vaccine.
money now to recover losses a*
result of the drouth and the time
to repay that loan.”
“In this connection, I favor a
soil conservation program which
would be a “turn-key” program,
one where a concentrated effctft
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