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“A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS HB COMMUNITY98
CUERO, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12,1957
TlnWMfiMr
M>ITR CEHTOAIL TEXAS -
OanOtimM* etmBdSaeee Gtewsgh
Friday wMa a-asMered sfeaaweira
Mens Hasndeeeliewera. T4»8
warn mtl amfi amrtk peril#® to-
day.
1® PAGES - PRICE 5s
tfrTown Talk
!Vre you a Gobbler Booster
member?
Ilf so, be on hand for the
meeting of the 1957
Dtball year at the Mutl
bffee Shop on Saturday
ornlng at 9 o’clock.
Idub officials are anxious
! get off to a good start,
fou’ll enjoy the meeting,
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ASSIGNMENT
OF TEACHERS
ANNOUNCED
Eighty Seven Will Staff
Schools For Current
Year
Cuero Independent School Dis-;
(trict teacher assignments for the .
id out more about the i current school year were releas-,
bblers, and share in good | ed today by Dr. L. S. Richard-
iinu'chin at the same: son, superintendent.
llow ship at tne same ^ revealed thc ,'ls.
ic. Plan to attend. j trict’s six schools will be staffed
9 * * j by 87 teachers, a majority of
whom will teach in Cuero High
We are going to be accus- j and Junior Schoo, noth schools
' .of over-stressing high-!list 24 instructors.
y safety during this busy! u,e n"eL?ren£f !±
3 3 " ^ . ,, i ministrative personnel. They arc
itball season, but don t Richardson. Mrs. Eunice Heyer,
lievc such an issue can be 1 secretary to the superintendent,
,-r 'Rudy Fuchs, business manager,
jand Henry Heyer, assistant busl-
No one can do everything ncss mana};er.
iut safety, but everyone; High school personnel *n(l
do something”, says ^ their teaching assignments
irge Tinker, state Safety! c Hansel Mangum, principal
.irman of the Travelers l and physics, W. Lamar Fly. as-
.....business
NOW KNOWN AS EXPERT CHIPS
Srotectlvc «**»*. and -
recent visitor in this city.
■The least anyone can do
to learn and obey the
lies,” he adds.
It seems almost unbe-
ivable that persons who
;udy the rules of football,
leball, basketball or
fridge and who spend day
^fter day in perfecting their
(grill in golf or tennis or
will take part year
ir year in the meet dan-
irous and exacting contest
all, without ever thinking
necessary to know thc
Pamela
Ater. homcmaking. Miss Lucy
Barden, homemaking. Miss Mary
Barthlome, English I, Giles Bir-
chum. world history, Richard
Brooks, general science and
freshman coach, Leonard Ger-
mer, bovs' physical education
and coach. Horace Gore, journal-
ism and English H, Adolph Gotts-
chalk, typing I, and general busi-
ness, Ed Harberson. biology and
chemistry, Mrs. Jessie L. Harral,
algebra I, Martin A. Hearnc, gen
eral math and coach.
Everett Holloway, senior band,
Mrs. Adele Larson, English IIL
Mrs. Julia Luddeke. American
history. Texas history and civics.
Dale Magers, Spanish I and II,
Mrs. Virginia McCurdy. English
IV, Mrs. Stella McMichael, librar
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les or acquire the neces-jian- Wilson Millican. vocational
' agriculture, Ray Nichols, science
ry skills.’’ and tennis, Mrs. Byrdie Rickman,
How about you? Are you algebra II and geometry, Mrs.
filling to gamble your life
jj^n your knowledge of traf-
fic laws? You do you know,
every time you venture out
Either walking or riding.”
$, “Knowing and obeying
f Iraffic laws provide the best
Accident insurance availba-
Peggy Sexton, choir and speech,
Langdon Smith, driver educa-
tion and head coach, Mrs. Louise
Wood, girls' physical education,
and Dr. Marshall Doggett, Bible.
Principal of elementary schools.
Junior School and Junior School
(Continued on Page 101
PHONE STRIKE
t>le anywhere. Learn today I _____
before it Is suddenly too late, j TUDp ATpllji1)
•?When traffic laws are obey- 1 llI\Lui 1 LllLI/
down. On:
Screaming Winds And
Hail Sweep Texas
CUEROGEFS
.35 OF AN INCH
EARLY TODAY
lybbock Area Gifs Half
The Size Of Hen
E§§s
Here are the experts who turned out a flae
cowboy Blew earlier in the week as the "old-
sters" or Auxiliary members of the Cuero
Fire Department hosted members of the regu-
lar Volunteer Department. Left to right: Al-
bert Ley, Werner Wolf, Dave Weber, driver
t\ It. Reese. "Just looking on", Carl Rchorre,
Rill la-ubert and driver Tom Kennedy.
(Record Staff Photo)
HURRICANE
HEADS INTO
THE OPEN SEA
Little Chance How That
It Will Hit Main-
land
MIAMI. Sept. 12.- (IT) The
once-mighty Hurricane Carrie ,lln
winds diminished l» 00 mile* per
hour, lurched slowly northward In
the open Atlantic today and
! weathermen hoped to give an
' "all-clcai” t< the I S mainland
by sundown.
Engine trouble forced a Navy
i hurricane hunter plane to aban-
don Its attempt to |»cnetrate the
eye of tlie big storm earl, today.
! but forecaster Arnold Sugg said
to MkmmI
©fcs To (too
A farm placement office op-
erated here the past two months
will be dosed at the end of this
week, Elmer Luddeke. farm
placement Interviewer, Texas
Employment Commission, an-
nounced today.
(losing of tlie office coincides
w’llh the nearly completed har-
vesting of DeWitl county's 1937
cotton crop.
At the end of last week, the
crop was 90 percent open and 88
percent harvested.
The office is maintained to aid
workers In finding Jobs and to
help farmers tn need of laborers.
Thc temporary office Is locat-
ed under tl e old band stand in
City Park.
CAGECLAMS
AT HEARING
Yorktown Man
Faces Charge
WILL
CLOSE SHOP
"the scanty information we. have j .....
‘indicates it Is drifting slowly AUSTIN. Sept. 12. (LI t - In-
northward.” I surancc pioinotrr IlcnJack Cage
Sugg «aid be is "quite opil- rrf,w<,d (,Hliiv to tell a House In
misllc that Carrie will continue j , Committee what, if
to veer northward away from (he i * . , . _
C. S. mainland, gradually picking tl» defunct ICT Insur-
ance Co , on grounds hla answer
might tend to incriminate him.
An attorney for Cage carefully
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DOVER, Del. Sept. 12.
Serve), Inr., thc only U. S. man-
ufacturer of gas refrigeration,
will dispose of all Its assets be-
cause ot more than 25 million
dollars in losses suffered since
Laredo, Texas (UP)— ’Jessie I ment charges the conspiracy
Edwin Strieber of Yorktown was ; toolt f)lace *rorn Nov
——- - - 5va ss? jrss
bezzling from the First State ^ |e^ a rar don|ori for the bnnk.iaai.
Bank of Yorktown while he was . fjnancc most notes and loans Stockholders voted roerwhelm-
executive vice president. Thc in- of) Hraslot s rar sa|,.S( regard- ingly Wednesday to sell the com
dictment was returned by a fed-j Jegs ()f ,ho |)UyCrs' nedit iepu-|pany's air-conditioning division
eral grand jury in session here. ta(jon and ,hp valuc o( the cars,1 and defense plant to the Arkan-
Strieber was indicted indlvidu- t()p jndlclm,.nt alleges. 1 sas Ivouisiana (las Co. for an
When Fogarty approved the i estimated 4 million dollars
loans with a few exceptions, an j President Duncan C. Menzies
additional amount of bank funds j Announced, however, that the
would be paid as part of the pur- firm would continue as a eor-
IContinued on ’ >' * 10)
|r ’ deatfhtp.l° tn I footballi NKW YORK- 'Sep*- 12 ‘W*-
l|your next trip to a football p ^, mediators tried todayto jra and
;ame, remember that the head of{ a thrcatened nationwide | funds of thf
ally for taking $330 from the
bank in March 1954. Three other
indictments also named Strieber
with customers of the bank in
making false entries that amoun-
ted to several thousand dollars.
One of the indictments, nam-
ing Strieber and Bernard Frank
Goehring. charges that Goehring
wrote checks that he did not
have funds to pay and Strieber
allowed the checks to be paid
without authority’, and with in-
tent to defraud thc Yorktown
bank.
The grand jury earlier had in
SUPPER IS
BIG SUCCESS
pot-ation by buying another com-
pany. He estimated that after
sale of all company physlcnl
assets It would have available
more than 15 million dollars plus
a tax advantage of 17 million
dollars to be spread over the
next five yenrs. Current liabili-
ties total some 16 million dol-
Some 150 Lions and members lars.
of their families attended a Fam- Mcnzics said creditor* w-ish thc
Thn oi-anrt inrv earlier had in- '*y M«bt supper and program firm to continue in. some other
ri tcH l iwrencc F Fogirtv and held Wednesday at thc large pi<'- line of business rather than liqui-
.........................
av.ssvm.ww ----- j ncaa on a mieawrncu
vjninutes you attempt to save i strike Monday of 55,000 telephone
misapplication of
North Side State
by speed
destination or your arrival
in reaching your! workers.
Two mediators from the Led-
, eral Mediation and Conciliation
tome, may result in a whole j service formally entered the
ife lost”, Is Tinker’s timely \ deadlocked negotiations between
the Communication Workers of
Western Elec-
varning.
We agree.
* * *
The “Save Foster Field”
rive gained a potent back-
er In the assurance of Rep.
Uarl Vinson, chairman of the
I House Armed Services Com
America and the
trie Co. Until today, the mediat-
ors had been on a standby basis.
Both union and company-
spokesmen expressed hope a set-
tlement could be reached before
the Monday strike deadline, set
Wednesday by the union. But
Bank of Houston.
Trial w ill he held in the Hous-
ton court division. The indict-
EXPECTCROWD
AT RECEPTION
A large number of Rotarlans
and other Cuero citizens are ex-
pected to be on hand tonight
when instructors in the Cuero
school district® are formally
err ■?”. SSSr* as: :«s .*=
Closing Of the big Air Wrce! ^taJ“rict of Columbia sons to attend the open house.
Following the supper, which in-
cluded barbecue furnished by the
club and covered dishes brought
by each family, the group was en-
tertained by a teenage combo
composed of Pat Laake, drums,
Bobby Goebel, guitar, and two
Yorktown youths, James Ladner,
piano, and Ralph Lippke, comet.
The group offered eight selec-
tions.
Waco Laake was program t0 spnd her ba( k to
chairman and C. L. IAickett was
! white high scliool she entered
! Inst week In the midst of an an-
gry demonstration by white stu-
dents and adult*.
next 12
expected
up sliced during the
hours. Acceleration Is
to continue thereafter.
i™.
isa I .......r- r<.“-r*r
52.6 we«t. oi about 1.800 mile*
east-southeast of Miami.
the Fifth Amendment to the fed-
eral constitution. Ikilh cofutllu-
ut-soumeast «* Miami. provide hat a person may
Highest winds were estimated "',n* 1 ' ' B„ainit
at a la iut 90 miles per hour lm. I not la-compelled to testify against
mediately around the center with ,Ujnmonrd ,ltr 9 „ m ,
gales pushing ««t I» cs to | p,,,mptly. He w as ae-
the north and 7o m.lcs to the j ( H ,,y ,„0 .H^y*, M.
“No Important change in l"trn' 'J’ Lu*” /’s*1,!"/!",*mlr"nd "
sity is expected during the next S ^ Hll(flnal( ,<t Mar-
U hours, the advisory l^u rrad a brief statement ex
Nugg said an Air Force hurrl- . , (>n.iltutiona
cane hunter plunc will fly Into
the storm this morning to try to
get more definite information on
the storm.
We re pretty sure she's going
to continue heading away from
thc mainland, but we need one
more good fix before we can say
plaining (age's constitutional
rights.
Huffman asked if (.’age under-
stood the statement.
Repeat* Htotement—
“I think no,” Cage replied. Then
he asked if Huffman would re-
peat the statement. Huffman did.
The committee chairman point-
Thunderstorms, bearing
hut! and screaming winds In
many areas, swept across
Texas Wednesday night and
early Thursday, causing
thousands of dollars dam-
age.
Cuero received a mild blow and
35 of an inch of rain according
to the gauge at Central Power
A Light company dam. .Some
gauges in Cuero showed up to
half an inch.
Andrews, 90 miles southwest of
Lubbock, received winds of gale
force which some believed was
a tornado and others a large
whirlwind. It smashed plate
glass windows, blew a sign on a
car lot on top of 13 cars, collapa-
ed a service nation and over^
turned three trailer houses.
Four pei sons In one of the
trailer houses were Injured. Ilnll
the size of hen eggs fell at An-
drew* and nearby Seminole,
smashing crops and beating
chrome from cur*. Five Ikhho*
were damaged by flying debris.
The Midland weather bureau
would not say it was a tornado.
DeDoyce Lambeth weekly
newspaper publisher at Andrews,
said damage would tun into
"thousands of dollars."
Hall bi-oke windows in cars and
houses at Seminole. And water
flooded U S 285 Ik-tween Fort
Stockton and Sanderson.
A howling wind smnshed a
drive-in theater screen, denuded
a lumber company shed and up-
rooted tree* between Dallas and
Grand Prairie.
Abilene received 1.3 inches of
rain, Ballinger an inch. Tye 1 30
and Beaumont 1 35.
Rain held traffic to a crawl in
Negro Girl Hey
Not Return To
While School
CHARIjOTTE, N. c Sept. 12,
(IP) T)|e family of a 13-year-old
Negro girl was undecided today
in charge of arrangements.
Broiler (hick
ProdadionUp
AUSTIN...Sept. 12.
licks pk
nearly
lor sure,” Sugg explained. pd ,rtlt ( aKC rfB,)d required to
'.M >*•< "* "T1"," IT!!! l»M truffle
,,o™ pn,b„My iJjSSJ j C«rt Wo, Ih -of »
out In the oi ean. although •• mig- |„l|ffman aaid committee had
no intention of doing this.
Rep. H. J. Blanchard <>f I.u'i-
liock then asked: "Is it your in-j
lention to Invoke Article 1, Sec-
tion 10 of the state «.institution.
ht l>e some throat to North At-
lantic shipping.
cars. 'However, no major dam-
age was reported.
DOWLING IS
GIVEN DEATH
HOUSTON. Sept. 12 (UP) A
gaunt, bearded man who played
tlie role of n mad man in defense | »wer,'
against a murder charge. Wednes-
day heard a jury sentence him
for the second time to die.
Hie Jury in District Judge lvl
Duggan's court ilelil*erated for
four hours before William A. *>ow
Cage replied that defended
the question.
-Will you decline to answer on
your constitutional right?'’ Blan-
chard asked.
Decline* To An*wer—
"1 respectfully decline to an-
Cagc replied.
SEEK ACTION
IN NASHVILLE
*nts and artuit*. wa< judged to l>e sune ;
The Rev. Herman Counts said ^ ^ fa,al/ ,„f)l hi, wife,
Wednesday wn* his daughters,^ . Mnv viv,
"roughest day'' M previously •54' ,n May'
DEWTIT4-H
AWARDS MANY
DcWitt county
| NASHVILLE, Tcnn. Sept. 12. -
! HP Federal and city officials
today worked on getting a feder-
i *1 rourt injunction to halt tnter-
j ferenre with first grade Integra-
i tion in Nashville schools.
| U. S District Attorney Fred
i El ledge Ji joined Mayor Ben
West in seeking government aid
jin stopping violence that lnclud-
! ed tile Uimbing of a previously
ail-white *f-lvx.il vvhi< h has Itern
4-H member* integrated.
AUSTIN. Sept. 12. - (J) Broil- aIl.wJ,te Harding High School. an,» r,'“» won 19 pUtM f Th* ‘nJunr“’n . ^C,H,
or chic ks placed on Texas farms i He said he did not know whether «* ^ on^ riversM on ^nior division and eight to the ; to he granb,| today^by Federal
rose nearly four per cent to a Dorothy Geraldine Counts would |“ rwtrial 'u“vrP"?r,,, Junior dlvisicai in Ok- 1957 award. ( Judge VtiiLam Miller. West said
total of 1.874.000 dunng the Week j Sun/ I^^m^^oTSSS. to U- of Extension DUtrlct 10. West also announced he w„l
at noon Wed-1 .
ending Sept. 7. according to the
Ibase.
The words of Vinson will
(Co* ' ”?d tin Pace If*
OU> ACES: The Rcmars thoofiht
that the last teeth that humans
get in thfeir mouths at# Sfflns cf
wisdom because they come at
such an did ege. However, the
- eth appear at very diverse ege*
different individuals. They can
West also announced he will
________ _______________ ________ She left school at noon Wed-1™“ ................ j Announcement of winners came a,k federal authorities to revoke
ana me utsu .c us . held year|y t0 give the public j U. S. Department of Agriculture.! „e*day and did not return tor “T- 4 1 U»k the stand today from Ml** Claudia Wil-, segregation leader JctmM*
y ^..YrjyjTLSS ..VS » r^, ■hTi.^! n. JLmm w .»■.» ftela. mmm. mw.. LT^, dJl i.
if picket lines were set up.
A strike would have little im-
meiluite effect on local calls
six
ulty. j per cent above, that of a year! The window of Use car >n ,pireiful descriptions
| Guests will l>e teadieis of Oak j ago and Texas hatcheries put; which she left school was ahat- hjR eni(,,j(jna (0 demonstrate
! yjeu. John C. Vpemh Park i nut 1 799 (**i hn,i!er chick* dur-! tei-ed. anoarentlv by a crowd
per*
tions for contempt in conne< tu>n
his emotions to demonstrate that
he was irvsarv- and should he "iso-
«. I». ------- 'View John C. French, Park, i out l.m.OOU bmiler chicks dur-jtered. apparently by « ,,wv”‘ he was insane and should be
inedaite effect on local cails junior and Cuero High School, ling the week, five per cent more ; of White youths, who shouted to- • ,afMr ,afhw. than executed,
since 85 per cent of such service (icneral chairman of the acti-' than the preceding week. suits at her brother. , Twf) psychiatrists testified
is provided by automatic dial vifv .R Dr r R Tui,bs. He is Out of state shipments totalkd | -——- in their on.nion Dowling w*i
equipment.
Pays Fine For
No License
| vity is Dr. C. R. Tubbs. He is j Out of state shipments totalkd
j being assisted by Dr. L. S. Rich-1 49.000. 11 per r ent abov e ship-
i ardson. Wilson Miili< an. E. A. j ment* of the week before. Hat-
Krvenig and William Ferguson cheries in other stales brought to
Jr.
203.000 broiler chirks, compared
with 205,000 in the preceding
week.
M Metl
tcimoon when he entered a plea First rr-j|ar meeting or Thf idvertisement should ty q-joted
of guilty to driving while hi^> Gobbler Booster Club is sched- ]5c pound ratlin than 21c
lieense was suspended. uied for the J.luti Hotel coffee
Thc defendant was charged by shop at 9 a. m. Saturday ne-
tt highway patrolman after run- cording to an announcement by
rung a stop sign. When asked for president Rudolph Evers.
I his license. Roger* was unable | Coach Langdon Smith will be
: to preaent one. heard tn a brief comment on the
, . . ! It had been suspended in 1952 Friday night ball game and
au anyShara from lha aoa f when he wa* convicted of driving 1 scores of other games in
i© 65 aod40 percent of m» j while intoxicated. County Attoi* area will i«* announced,
a •» ^ ney James Crapi said. j Free coffee will be served.
this ‘
DORR IXTION
Van Camp's Grated Tuna ap-
pearing in the McClung Grocery
?s printed.__
BIBLE VERSE
Who Is the greatest la Ike
kingdom of Heaven 7 Malt.
I8J.—"
it is he who is thc servant
of all. »
Good Neighbor
Policy Foils
SAN ANTONfO, Sept. 12 (UP)
— John Ferguson, 25 of Brooks
Air Force Base, wondered today
whether he did the right thing
Wednesday night In going after
a can of gasoline for a stiandcd
motorist. ! Unlucky is
Fergusor, put a five gallon can j fXJGAN’SPORT, Ind. Sept J2.
of gas in h,s automobile trunk 1 There * nothing sweet a-
and began driving back to the yor David Wall*. 44. He
place where a man had flagged
him down tor help. On the way,
the gas leaked out on the floor
ahd "caught f!f*. causing 1330
Two psychiatrists testified that
in their opinion Dowling was le-
gally invane. Th»> two other psy-
criatrists said lie was legally
sane.
Dowling stM his wife on a
downtown street in front of a po-
liceman whom he told he killed
Maria "because I wanted to show
her who was boss.”
Dowling later claimed he was
in a mental "blackout.”
was arrested and charged Wed-
nesday with a 16,700 Loan asso-
ciation robbery 16 mtoutea after
the incident. And 10 years ago,
damage «o FerguRon s automo- :*e was arre*ted\tor the robbery
bile. | of A Jeffersonville Ind., bank.
rxr.r:: -
“wtonr?,” to*the^entor"division j locked^up .n the city worktx,use
winners in . Wednesday after city Judge An-
«-ere I/>ne te Rus ' drP,v IVij Ie found him guilty on
girls’ achievement. - * f1Ve rounts ronrerning disorders
gel. first, boys agricultural. J , Nashville in tar-
dy Ann Parker, first, citizenship.
I Robert I^ee Pargmann. first,
dairy achievement’; David G.
Nolen, first. Texas electric, in-
dividual; DeWitt county, first,
Texas electric; David Nolen,
first, national electric; DeWitt
, ounty. first, national electric.
' Irene Faye Meyer, second,
food preparation; Mary Nell
(aid, first, frozen foods; Buchel
Club, first, health; La.Neil Na-
tho, first, home Improvement;
David Warzecha, second, boys'
leadership; Leonette Bolech.
first girl s national conference.
Bobby Goebel, first, recrea-
(Continued m Pa*» Ml
that have kept Nashville in tur-
moil since Monday.
Receive* Phone Call—
Officers at the workhouse re-
ported Kasper received several
anonymous long-distanre call*
Wednesday night but was not
permitted to answer them. One
t aller inquired what it would
cost to free Hie 27 year-old New
Jersey native, police said.
Seek Release
LONDON, Sept. 12, - OI -Tl*
British Foreign Office today
confirmed Cairo report* that
Britain is try ing to /shown the
release of two imprisoned BrF
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