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“A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS ITS COMMUNITY"
VOL. 73—NO. 56
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ihe business firm of -mils
quntely represented
M> th.lt r i 1
st*r\ * 1 are
In this b«iInner. thr olcrnent
partner in
Cloppedce Tire Service. who fil-
ed Kebruan 23fd as a earuli-
date for Councilman Fin e 2 in|-f •'M^neneed knu.ership
t5ie April 4th city election, today
issued the following statement
concerning his candidacy:
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DICK UOrPEDGE
TO ALL CITIZENS OF CUERO
Far the past several months
•enslderable unrest in the City’s
political picture has been felt.
In any sound government
there must be certain cheeks
should always be present
Progress is necessary in
these changing times, however.,
a sound pattern must t>e es-
tablished and followed
Any City Council needs rep-
resi ntation with 'business ex-
perience. The me 'chants and
Citizens of Cuero are entitled to
be represented In an experien-
ced business man.
1 have been a resident of Cu-
ero Community nil my life and
actively engaged in business for
the past 26 years My family
and I are active members of
the First Baptist Church in Cu-
ero. My wife is the former Lil-
lian Kennedy. Our oldest son
Jimmy is with the Marines in
Vietnam, another son, Larry
and our daughter Patty are stu-
dents at Baylor University. j
Therefore I am vitally interest-!
Big Communist Push
Expected by Marines
Pen T enn
Started
By Hoffa
!
UP I
Livestock Show March 16
ed in the future growth of Cu-; LEWIS BURG. Fa
oro. James R. Hoffa. who wi.l VVPr(, announced Tuesday
1 now desire to serve the eiti-! continue to drew a $100,000 -a- <,PI)(,ra] suj»erintendent
zens of Cuero as a City Coun-: year salary as president of tlo- AlilliCnn
Judges Named for 1967
Cuero Livestock Show
Judges for hie 1967 Cuero to be .judged will he de a led by led in t . premium auction
17: the sifting, committee at 2 p
by March 16.
Mike Weber, chairman
commercial exhibits. said sev-
WiLson t Members of the siding coni-1 era) spaces are still available
U. S. Positions
Are Battered
By Mortar Fire
cilman to help fill the need for
experienced leadership. I solicit
your vote and help in the forth-
coming election, and when I
am elected, 1 pledge to work
for the betterment of the entire
Community.
Dick Coppedge
>WN ALK
By ED ANDERSON
THE CENTRAL Intelligence
Agency's secret operations have
become still less secret lately
with disclosures linking it fin-1 approximately one in 40
ancially with college student
agencies and the American
Newspai>er Guild.
The planting of Informers in
student organizations and
among newsmen is. as Secre-
tary of State Dean Rusk des-
cribed it, “a tough struggle go-
ing on in back alleys all over
the world. It's unpleasant and
no one likes it, but espionage is
not a field which can be left
entire^T to the other side. The
baclMOey struggle is a never-
ending war.”
There is no occupation per-
haps so despicable as that of
the informer. He merits the
hate of those he spies on and
the contempt of the very peo-
ple who hire him. Judas Iscar-
iot. one of the first to call him-
self a “Christian” is perhaps
the most notorious of all in-
formers.
The fate of Lee Harvey Os-
wald, who left the U. S. Marin-
es to become a would-be spy in
Russia for the CIA, according
to Mark Lane’s book RUSH TO
JUDGMENT, provides an ex-
ample of the hazardous life of a
spy. He was on the FBI payroll
at $200 a month as an informer
at the time of his assassination
by another informer, Jack
Ruby, according to Lane.
A recent issue of MAN’S mag-
azine says America's CIA has
Its own air force, private army
and merchant marine and can,
at a moment’s notice, send
fighting men and equipment
anv place on earth.
THOUGH ACTUAL figures
about the Central Intelligence
Agency are secret, best avail-
able estimates — according to
“Inside the CIA." the article
000 people on its global payroll
and s|iends between three to
five billion dollars a year.
Only 5.000 of its employees -
are
secret agents. The rest are
clerks, typists, cryptographers,
photographers, pilots, and spe-
cialists in various fields (poli-
tics, metorology, economics,
guerrilla warfare, etc.).
The agency also employs
thousands of paid Informers
w'ho work in their home coun-
tries.
Although many of the CLA
"blunders” have been publiciz-
ed. says Die article, little credit
is given to the agency for its
successful “banana revolt" in
Guatemala, which overthrew
President Jacobo Arbenz Guz-
man’s Communist government.
The CIA has also prevented
Communist takeover in Brazil,
the Dominican Republic, Iran,
the Congo and Indonesia.
All this information pours in-
to CIA Headquarters at Lang-
ley, Virginia. The agency, in-
cidentally, has district offices
in New York, Chicago, Miami,
Los Angeles and 30 other U. S.
cities, but its only telephone
listing is in Washington, D. C.
CIA’S PRIVATE air force is
called Air America, an outfit
that flies unmarked aircraft,
never advertises and never dis-
cusses its operations. At least
50 Air America fliers and 30
aircraft have been lost to ene-
my action; many captured Air
America fliers have been exe-
cuted by the Viet Cong.
The CIA was blamed for the
Bay of Pigs debacle in which
Fidel Castro stemmed an in-
vasion of Cuba. It caused the
father of the late John F. Ken-
nedy to say: ”1 know’ that out-
fit. I wouldn’t pay them $100
bucks a week.”
The CIA is costing U. S. tax-
Teamsters Union, today began j
Judging the beef cattle
mittee ..re Dan Jones, assistant, He requested interested
and county agent of Victoria Gain-i vies to conta. t him soon
School j Bert A. Kick will he
teach- i charge of the carnival at
park during the show.
his orientation period in ,ne sheep will be Bill Ilolzapfe] i ty, and Victoria High
federal prison here. beef" cat-tie. specialist. Texas ' vocational agriculture
The first 30 days for Hoffa , University, with the 1 or Alton Calve/,
will be spent taking physical. jPXas Education Agetic>. j,. Cuero High School Future The show’s bomcmaking divi- sion* massed for an
psychological- and psychiatric j Refugio County Agent Harr- ; Farmers of America and Do-jsion will he under the direr-1 have battered
SAIGON UPI U S Marines divid.ng. North -and South
today poured men and mater- .Vi.-nui;. three U S wa:"=H:’>s
i ll into t. e area iu-t be!.cc including ’ the guided miss >
the' Demilitarized Zone >DMZ' cruiser Canberra dueled with
whore three Common;-; divi- ar-l silenced Communist si to re
sffeusive i batteries while B52 bombers bit
U S. posi-iRed targets in the, South In
tests. During the first month he ,,y Hoerman will judge hogs | Witt County 4-H Club .members j film of D Witt County Home; tions with one o’ the most four raids, three of them today
will he permitted to send 01 . and Bee County Agent Gene ! wall check in their stock on *he - Demonstration agent Mrs. Mil*, intensive mortar barrages of As the American sea and n.r
receive letters only in an gjjanie) ,Gll judge dairy cattle. | show grounds between 8 and ; dred Martin. The high school. the war. j bombardments picked up. Corn-
emergency, and relatives can. Frank Stockton will judge io a.m. March 16.
visit him only three hours^ a j poultry. He is the Gonzal-: Entries include 30 steers, 17
week. Later, he will be allowed ,es County Agent | breeding swine. 36 market
; Judging will be conducted at j swine, 10 dairy- cows, one beef
jS a.m. March 17. The animals breeder and 22 pens of broilers
to send three letters a week
and receive seven.
Despite the restrictions, Hof- j
fa, who entered prison in
handcuffs and in the custody of
two U.S. marshals Tuesday, has
vowed he will run his union
from behind bars.
“1 will return to the union,'
he told newsmen after surren-
dering in Washington.
The most powerful union
leader in the country now wears ;
a blue twill suit, like all the
other 1,600 prisoners in the 1
penitentiary. His mini her.
disclosed, is in the 30,000s.
Hoffa was cottvldted in
January. 1964, of tampering
with a jury that acquitted him
of conspiracy two years before.
He reached the end of his legal
rope earlier this week, wlien the
last of his appeals was turn-
ed down. He has ordered his
attorneys to continue the fight.
Indicates that the CIA ha« 200,- payers billions.
50 Years Given Man
In Killing of Girl, 4
AMARILLO UPI — A district
judge sentenced an Amarillo
man to 50 years in prison Tues-
day on a guilty plea that he
beat a 4-year-old girl to death
with a walking stick and held
her under running water.
Jimmy Wayne Stratton, 29. of
Amarillo, changed his plea
from innocent to guilty just
about the time the prosectuion
rested its case in 47th District
dan.
Jordan took the pl«* and
handed down sentence.
The victim was Marlene Wil-
liams, 4, the daughter of Strat-
ton's divorcee girl friend, Mary
Williams, 23.
Testimony showed that beck
in July of last year, Stratton
and Mrs: Williams, were Ilyin*
together One day Stratton
asked little Marlene if she lov-
ed him and she told him she
did not.
ting the little girl with a walk-
ing cane. He beat her about
the head, shoulders, body and
arms and legs - so much so
that she had bruises from
"head to toe,” a doctor who
performed an autopsy said.
Testimony showed he also held
the girl wider a faucet and ran
the water over her.
Mrs. Williams had told police,
"we did not think Jim was
beating her very hard. When he
Court before Judge E. E. Jop* something was wrong, ha
stopped. We would have taken
her to a hospital, but we did
not have a car.” Stratton went
out in die street and flagged
down a cruising police car and
officers arrested him.
Mrs. WilUute is still to be
tried, also on murder charges
VFW SLATES STEW
The Cuero Veterans of for-
eign Wars will hold a stew be-
fore their regular meeting at
(Chisholm Hall Thursday. '
The statement by Stratton to« Post adjutant Wilfred Leist
polite, admitted as evidence injsatd stew serving will begin at
♦he trial showed he began hit-'7 p m. and the meeting at 7 30
2 Suspects
Make Bonds
Only two of the four youths
originally jailed after a Sun-
day morning armed robbery
remain in DeWitt County jail.
Leonard Thomas. 19. and
Larry Taylor, 17, both of Cue-
ro, werey-releared ~ esday af-
ternoon oil $2,500 bond.
Thomas, Taylor. Levacc
Campliell, 19, and James Ran-
som, 17, were jailed Monday
on charges of robbery by fire-
arms. Campbell and Ransom re-
main in jail in lieu of bond.
The four, plus a juvenile who
was released to his parents, al-
legedly held Victor Heibel and
John Hardegree at gun point
while taking more than $30
from them.
The holdup occurred Sunday
morning while Heibel and Har-
degree, both of Victoria, were
fishing on the Guadalupe Riv-
er near the bridge on the old
San Antonio Highway.
for a total of 147 entries
New Listings
Of Telephones
Here Rise 133
Cuero’s new telephone direc-
tories to be released about May
1st will show a net increase of
113 listing?, George Conn ally,
special representative of the
Southwestern Bell Telephone
Directory Division Informed
The Record today.
Carnally said the total num-
ber of connection* listed in the
Cuero book will number 3,734.
The company received 415 ord-
ers for new phones, 282 were
discontinued, leaving a net in-
crease of 133 and there were
207 address changes, he said.
People
In The
News
Compileil Frem Wir*« UPI
JAAIF.5 H. MEREDITH, the
civil rights movement's moody
loner and the man chosen by
Republicans to oppose Adam
Clayton Powell, today was giv-
en little hope of beating the
veteran Harlem Democrat in
next month's special election.
At the outset of his uphill
campaign, there was an indica-
tion Meredith would employ the
theme of “good versus evil”
as a central Issue in the race
against the ousted congressman,
Harlem’s flamboyant preacher-
politician for more than two
decades.
Meredith, the 33-year- o 1 d
law student and Air Force vet-
eran who in 1962 became the
first Negro to be admitted t, o
the University of Mississippi,
was named late Tuesday after-
noon by New York Republican
leaders as their candidate in
the April 11 election.
MOTIONS by defense attor-
ney Percy Foreman to strike
testimony from the record in
the narcotics trial of Joseph
Stassi were rejected by U. S.
Dist. Judge Reynaldo Gam
Tuesday at Corpus Christ!
Stassi, of Brooklyn, N.Y.. Is
charged with smuggling $4.5
million worth of heroin from
Mexico to the U.S.
Foreman wanted to strike the
testimony of customs officer
William Kline of McAllen. Tex.,
and Houston police officer M.
B. Hightower.
Kline said the officers made
the arrest after receiving an
anonymous tip.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON’S
nearest neighbors, whose farm
and 20 - acre peach orchard
will be swallowed up by Lyndon
B. Johnson State Park, are
(See PEOPLE, Page 16)
I the show.
| Millican said only market an-
; irnals awarded ribbons will be
1 eligible for the premium sale
Future Homemakers "ill oper-i
ate the foods concession at
the show.
The show's. board of directors!
will'meet it 7:30 pm. Friday !
at, Cuero High School Vocation-!
al Ag building to make final j
plans for the show.
Future Farmer entries were j
reported earlier. Following Is a
to be conducted at 7:30 p.m.|list of the 4-H livestock entries:
March 17. Twenty-five awards
' will be offered in the steer di-
vision. 30 in the market hogs.
Steers — Mary Fischer, S.vl-j
via Doehrman, Joel Egg. Shir-
lend Koenning. Judy Fuchs. Di-:
20 in the lambs and 25 in the anna Diebcl. Virginia Busch-
poultry division.
The auction will limil the
youths to two sales with not
more than one animal or pen
in any one division to he offer-
Just to the north of the 'zone ' numists struck again with their
____ I deadly mortars, this time
i against two U.S 9th Infantry
1 Division units and a -South
! Vietnamese popular force unit
in the Mekong Delta below
j Saigon.
Two Americans were killed
! and 23 others wounded n one
j attack of 82 rounds ■ of. s’2
\ millimeter mortar shells at -a
base camp five miles southwest
CORPUS CHRISTI (ITT) j of My Tho. Anoth»r unit 12
- Six of the 11 members of miles northeast of Tan An
the Senate of Priests of the i suffered four dead and two
6 Priests
Object
T o Bishop
haupt, Elmo Munoz. Chris-Corpus Christi diocese of the j wounded.
Doehrman, Shirley Adickes. Ar-; Catholic Church have resigned! Vietnamese troops suffer-d
len Charles Egg. j in a disagreement with Bishop
Sheep Richard Goebel, Har- - Thomas J. Dmry over the com-
Frigid Front Brings
38 Degrees To Cuero
AUXILIARY MEETS
A meeting of the mother's
Auxiliary at Scout Troop 343
was held Tuesday night at the
home of Mit Erne Lee Si-
mon.
The moms met to make
changes in the by-laws of their
constitution, according to John
C. Hamilton, scoutmaster
Troop 343.
One of winter’s hitterest cold
fronts today pushed Texas tem-
peratures down to 4 degrees
at Dalhart in the Panhandle
and to freezing as far south
as Austin and Kerrville.
The weather bureau at Radio
Station KCFH here reported to-
day's low was 38 degrees. Yes-
terday’s high was 68.
Clear to partly cloudy wea-
ther was expected over the
state through Thursday. North-
west Texas will not be as cold
tonight as It was Tuesday night
but southern areas of the state
will be colder.
Rising temperatures
passage
abrupt
drops. For instance, while it j
was near the freezing mark
along the front in South Texas,
tlie overnight low was 60 de-
grees below the front in Corpus
Christi.
The highest reading in the
state Tuesday was 77 degrees
at Presidio. The temperature
did not get above 28 degrees
Tuesday at Dalhart. in the top
of the Panhandle.
(See STOOt SHOW. Page 16) j mitting of two elderly priests
.....Ijr. - — - ............... - to a psychiatric ward
The Right Rev. Msgr. Wil-
liam, chancellor of the diocese,
who signed the committment
order, said the resigned priests
j mainly objected to sending the
| two priests to a non - Catholic
hospital and were afraid that
they might wind up in a state-
operated institution.
The resigned priests, in a let-
iter to Drury, protested both the
were! confinement of the priests and
predicted throughout*"the state the manner in which they were *rts
Thursday. | taken into custody for confine- ' ’
The passage of the front mcn*‘
caused abrupt temperature /**!* r” ,
One of the pnests is report-
ed to have a long illness
which resulted from his con-
finement in European concen-
tration camps. The other, ac-
cording to Williams, "suffers
from extreme mpntal disorder
and should have extensive cus-
todial and psychiatric care.”
The National Catholic Report-
er, printed in Kansas City, dis-
closed the resignations.
The Reporter said that after
10 members of the Senate in-
“heavy” casualties, » govern-
ment spokesman said.
Communist resistance along
the North Vietnamese coast
appeared to be stiffening as the
Keppler and Ingersoll moved in
to pound the supply routes
leading into the DMZ opposite
the Marines.
Shore batteries opened up on
the island of Hon En, 41 miles
southeast of Vinh as the ships
swept in Tuesday. The ships
were not hit and quickly
silenced the enemy batter-
ies. They hit a total of 17 tar-
radar stations, supply
dumps, petroleum storage
areas etc., and set fire to a
port.
Sen. Patman Will Be
Governor for A Day
AUSTIN Sen. William Pat- the 13th District will come to
JCs Elect
Directors
man of Ganado will take the
oath of office as Acting gover-
nor of Texas Tuesday, March
28, at 9 a.m„ beginning a day
of festivity In Austin for the
people of the 14 counties of
the 18th District.
Senator Patman, Presi-
dent Pro Tem of the Texas
Senate, will become acting
governor of the state in the
absence of the governor and
the lieutenant governor from
Texas.
Thousands of persons . from
Austin for the inaugural festi-
vities, which will include an
all-day reception In the gover-
nor’s office, special tours of the
Governor’s Mansion Rnd capi-
tal complex. The acting gover-
nor will make a series of pro-
clamations and honorary ap-
pointments, and sign bills.
The day’s activities, strongly
flavored with historical im-
portance, will be a kind erf re-
turn of the Capital to the 18th
District. In 1845, the seat of
(See SEX. PATMAN, Page 16)
tervened in a Jan. 31 letter to
Bishop Drury, the priests were
released to the care of Senate
members. One is now in a
home for retired priests in San
i Antonio.
i The Senate was organized
last fall and Its members elect-
ed by priests of the diocese.
Vatican Council No. 2 had re-
commended that such bodies
share the policy - making func-
tions of bishops.
Priest* Named
The priests who resigned in
a letter to Bishop Drury are:
Revs. Anthony Geogela of St.
Francis Xavier at Laredo, the
Senate president: Patrick Hig-
gins of St. Anthony's at Violet;
Tom McGettrick erf Our Lady
of the Pillar at Corpus Christi:
William Bogart of Sacred Heart
(See 6 PRIESTS, Page 16)
The Cuero Jaycees elected
three men to the board erf
directors at their Tuesday ev-
ening meeting.
Jerry Sager was elected as
inter-club director and Marion
Russians Mark ‘Ladies
Fetters Jr. and Jan Hiurman
were elected directors of the
organization.
The additional board positions
were added due to an increase
in the new organizations mem-
bership, according to president
Ben E. Prause. The men will
serve until April 1, 1968.
At a board of directors meet-
ing preceding the business
meeting the board voted to
order Jaycee vests.
The vests are to be made of
green and white material. A
large turkey will be picturd on
the back of the vests with
the lettering "Cuero Jaycees,
Cuero Texas-Home of The
Turkey Trot”.
Jaycees not present at the
meeting should contact secreta-
ry Gayle Stimson to give
the correct slse for ordering,
Prause said.
Two new members, Harlan
Fiessner and Ernest Font, wet*
accepted into the organization
at the meeting.
MOSCOW UPI - Today Rus-
sian women laid down their
sickles and hammers and for
24 hours became a weaker sex.
It was Ladies Day in the Sov-
iet Union.
The government told men to
cook the meals and try to
mind the children, to shovel
the snow and run hospitals and
do die work expected of Soviet
women the other 364 days of
the year.
Husbands carried home can-
dy, flowers and other gifts for
of! their wives. Moscow television
broadcast special programs for i
women. The Kremlin announ-
ced it adores Soviet women.
Women Started TrpvMe
"Builders of communism," it
called them and reminded
Russians that ft was a women’s
march for bread that started
the trouble in Petrograd for-
merly St. Petersburg, now
Leningrad that led to the
Bolshevik Revolution.
"You are resolutely against
U.S. aggression in Vietnam,”
the Soviet Communist Par-
ty Central Committee said in a
message to lady comrades
They told the
also are "against the attempts
of imperialists to involve
mankind in the catastrophe of a
new wnrld war.”
The men of the central
committee, which also has
women membefs, said, "In the
USSR the wanton have every
opportunity to apply tbeir
energy and Initiative.’’
Tough Jobe
In practice, this means it is
women who go into the wintry
•tfeets before dawn to shovel
off die snow and do many
tough manual jobs that in
toey i other countries are considered
male jobe.
Besides repairing roads, pour-
ing cement, driving locomo-
tives, Soviet women also
provide most of the nation's
doctors and many of its
A favorite them of the Soviet
men all too often cling to the
"old fashioned” idea that
women, besides working in
the factories, must do all die
housework. Tlie result, they
said, is that the women of
Russia work seven days a
week, 52 weeks a year — ex-
apt on Ladies Day.
Mon Accused
EmQ Vole sky was charged hi
DeWitt County Court Tuesday
with swindling by worthless
cnecK.
Two civil suits were also til-
ed in the county court Tuesday.
Montgomery Ward and Cb
are asking for the collection of
money allegedly owed them by
Alfred Martinez of Yorktoivn in
a suit an account.
The second case, also a suit'
on account, is styled Farmers -
Feed and Supply Cb, vs. Ange-
lo FanellL
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