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Port Lavaca Banker
On Drink Bill
Seen In Austin
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AUSTIN I’PI The. House claims that legalization of mix-
Tax Committee today braced
for a heated hearing on what
may be the biggest issue of the
60th Legislature — Gov. John
Connally's bill to legalize mix-
ed drinks.
As a prelude, a Senate <- >m-
mittee was scheduled to consid-
er two constitutional amend-
ments by Sen. V. E. Berry of
San Antonio - one to make the
state completely ’'wet,” the oth-
er to make is completely “dry.”
“I want ’em to either roll out
the barrel or let the water wag-
roll,” Berry explained.
ed drinks increased traffic fa-
talities in that state. The same
Iowa legislature that voted li-
quor by the drink also raised
the speed limit, McKissaek
said.
Field and McKissaek said
they plan to emphasize the bill's
tight restrictions, es|>eciall\ on
sale to minors. “If they will
just listen to logic and reason,
we're going to prove that
there’s no reason to oppose this
bill,” Field said.
McKissaek said he expected
to produce testimony In favor of
Buys Buchel National
The hearing on Connally's lo- | the bill from Roman Catholic,
cal option bill was set for 2:30 j Episcopal, Methodist and Luth-
p.m. today. Dozens of witnesses j eran clergymen.
were clamoring to testify, but
Rep. Ben. Atwell of Dallas, the
committee chairman. limited
each side to two hours.
A single church group wanted
to put on 10 witnesses in oppo-
sition to the bill, Atwell said.
"I told them to boil it down. We
don't want to hear the same
thing 10 times.”
Reps. John Field and Dick
McKissaek of Dallas, floor man-
agers for the bill, said they will
call upon experts to prove Con-
hally’s claim that Texans would
consume less alcolrol if they
could buy it by the drink.
McKissaek said a professor
from Rutgers, the state univer-
sity of New Jersey, would testi-
fy that legalization of liquor by
the drink normally reduces per
capital consumption.
He said the attorney general
of Iowa planned to refute
Atweil said he would send the
bill to a subcommittee on com-
pletion of die hearing.
The bill would legalize sale of
mixed drinks in any area that
allows beer taverns and liquor
stores. Areas that now have
both kinds of outlets would au-
tomatically have mixed drinks
unless rasidets call an election
to outlaw' them. Areas that do
not have beer taverns and
package stores would have to
vote them in before mixed
drinks would be legal.
Mixed drink permits would
cost $1,000 a year and would be
issued only to restaurants, ho-
tels and motels, private clubs
and airlines and railroads.
In both wet and dry areas,
private clubs would be subject-
ed to roughly the same require-
ments as bars serving mixed
drinks.
“A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS ITS COMMUNITY”
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Partly Cloudy
John J. Faubion Jr.
Purchases Control
City’s Oldest Bank
LeRoy Hamilton announced j The new Board of Dtrertnr*
j today the sale of a majority of' will • be as follow*: J. j, Fao
.the stock m the Buchel Nat , h|nn. Jr Chairman of to*
Partly cloudy except mostly
cloudy iate at night and in (lie
early morning Temps 59-80 fc
Cuero, Yorktown and Yoakum
i :onal Bank, to J. J Faubion, ; Board C, L. McDonald, the
| Jr . of Port Lavaca. j new president - James F. Me-
I Faubion is president of file*- Spadden. who is Sen or Vic*
I First State Bank and Tru-t President and Trust Officer <V
die First State Bank and Trust
! Company. Port Lavacji,
Hamilton, after being corh | Company. Pori Lavaca — G’"*-
nected with the Buchel Bank ham Hamilton, presently a dj-
for many years, has sold al! of rector - James K Grain, n.
_ ; the stock owned in the bank by i local attornej in Cuero and pre-
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New officers of the bank elect- • The transaction heralds a
1.25 Inch Rain Eases
Cuero Sector Drought
PEOPLE in the NEWS: 1
The Cuero area received from ! moisture has caused the
1.25 to 1.50 inches of rain < planting of less than 25 per
Monday night and brought smil-lcont of the normal corn crop,
es to not only farmers and | less than 5 tier cent of milo
ADAM CLAYTON POWELL
•ays he has no regrets over
his exclusion from the House of
Representatives because h i s
fall might serve to further the
Hegro’s cause.
"Maybe I can become the
•atalytic agent to bring unit to
the whole black movement.”
Powell conjectured in a tele-
vision interview recorded a-
board his fishing boat, Adam’s
Fancy at Bimini, The Bahamas,
The Harlem Democrat, who
has spent his days fishing,
playing dominoes and occasion-
ally preaching since the House
voted to bar him last month,
added that he now intends to
keep up his position as a lead-
er to his race.
The pistol with Which
Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey
Oswald will be given to the Na-
tional Archieves by Ruby’s
heirs, it was announced today
in Detroit.
Earl Ruby. Jack’s brother
and executor of his will, said
he. his two brothers and three
sisters also had agreed to offer
the archives the suit and hat
Ruby wore When he killed
Oswald.
A MEETING of creditors of
Ernest Medders, the financially
troubled North Texas gentle-
man-farmer, will be held April
7 in Sherman, bankruptcy re-
ceiver Dan Chastain said at
Dallas.
Chastain was named receiver
for the Medders property March
10, after attorney Jack Gray
admitted bankruptcy on be-
half of Medders and his wife.
Four banks and Neiman-Mar-
cus of Dallas claimed the Med-
deres’ farms, including the
swanky Colonial Acres, as pay-
ment of debts.
A WOMAN treated with fer-
tility drugs gave birth Monday
in Vasteras, Sweden, to quintu-
plets, doctors said today. They
said two of the quints died al
most immediately and the oth-
er were in "fair condition con-
sidering the circumstances.”
The quints, bom three months
prematurely, included a boy
and four girls. Two girls, one
weighing a pound and the other
about two pounds, died shortly
(See PEOPLE, Page 8)
ranchers, but townsmen with
gardens and lawns as well.
Accompanied by lightening,
the thunderstorms dumped the
precipitation on the area in
less than a half an hour. It was
the first substantial moisture
here since Feb. 28 when .19 of
an urth was recorded.
The U. S. Weather Bureau
sub-station at KCFH said their
gauge on the Victoria Highway
recorded 1.25 of an inch.
Only yesterday County Agent
Gilbert Heideman reported the
drought here had produced a
“critical” situation. While the
Monday night downpour brought
relief, he said more rain is
needed In the area. Lack of
and 10 per cent in hay.
Ileideman’s office reported
one inch rains fell at Hoch-
hrim and Shiner; 1.2 at Cheap-
side and Cabeza.
Lee Pargman between Cuero
and Yoakum reported .6; Strat-
ton, .50 to .80; Meyersville, .04:
Nordheim .50.
Pat Peebles of the Franklin
area reported one inch.
KCFH reported O. W. Drane
of 208 W. Texas St. in Cuero re-
ceived .70 of an inch; Mrs.
John Leick, 801 Beacon, 1.04;
Roy Parker feed Lot on the
Victoria Hy., 1.50; Concrete,
1.50; Concrete 1.10 with light
hail was reported by L. B.
Edgar;
Henry Hoehne, nine mile*
northwest of Cuero, reported
hail and 1.50.
The high temperature here
Monday was 80 degrees. The
Tuesday morning low was 53.
Official spring entered Texas
with warm and mild weather to-
day as winter departed with
hail and thunderstorms.
Forecasts call for partly
cloudy skies and continued
warm temperatures over the
state through Wednesday.
The showers dropped more
than one inch of rain on Gal-
veston, College Station, Houston
and Lufkin.
Hailstones up to three inches
in diameter fell on San Anton-
io Monday afternoon. Wind-
shields, windows and car tops
were damaged.
High temperatures ranged
from 64 at Amarillo to 88 at
Laredo.
Hospital Site
Deeds Awaited
Deeds were sent by mail
today to the family at Hous-
ton for approval in the sale
of a 20-acre site for the new
new' Cuero Hospital.
Howard Kleinecke, com-
mittee chairman. said i(
would probably be the end
of the week before the
deeds are approved and re-
turned here.
Sale price was $1,000 an
acre with the site costing
approximately $20,000. The
site is located west on U.S.
Hwy. 183 near the north city
limits.
The architects, Page, Su-
therland A Page of Austin
have started work on pre-
paring preliminary plans
.for the new hospital.
i -............. ......... ownership
of the Buchel Bank one of
ed today were: J. J. Faubion,j complete change in
i Jr., Chairman of ihe Board
■ G. L. McDonald, presently with ! the oldest and soundest banks
the First State Bahk, Midland, I in South Texas - having been
j Texas as the new president re- organized in 1873 and long re-
placing Hamilton. McDonald ex- cognized as one of the most
| pects to move to Cuero shortly j conservative and soundest op-
! and assume his new duties a- era'ed hanks in South Texas,
[bout April -1. 1967 j Faubion said that his invest-
Dewey Schorre, Executive j ment in the Buchel Bank is pre-
dicated on a close study of
Vice President who has served
! the bank faithfully for many
years, and Frederick B. Koeh-
Cuero and the surrounding area
over the past several years.
Court Rejects Case
Of Draft Protestor
WASHINGTON UPI - The
Supreme Court refused today to
review a draft protester's con-
tention that he was wrong-
fully prevented from challeng-
ing the legality of the war in
Vietnam.
The brief order left standing
as final the conviction of David
H. Mitchell III of Brooklyn, N.
Y., on March 16, 1966, for fail-
ing to report for induction into
the armed services. He was
sentenced to five years in jail.
Mitchell, a Greenwich Village
bookstore clerk, contended that
the trial court’s refusal to
•dmit testimony on alleged war
crimes in Vietnam denied him
the due process of law guaran-
teed by the 5th Amendment.
The 24-year-old Mitchell was
•onvicted twice in U. S. dis-
trict court in Hartford, Conn.
His first conviction was rever-
sed in January, 1966, by t h e
2nd U. S. Circuit Court of Ap-
peals on the ground that he
was deprived of enough time to
obtain effective counsel.
Convicted for the second time
in March, lie again appealed.
On Dec. 5, the circuit court
affirmed his convictions. It
decided that Mitchell's allega-
tion were not a defense for
failure to report for induction.
The appeals court said his
evidence of alleged war crimes
was properly excluded be-
cause congressional power und-
er the Constitution to “raise and
support armies” is distinct from
use by the executive branch of
pei-sons inducted into the arm-
ed forces.
GIs Repel
Cong Blow
SAIGON UPI — Troops of
the U. S. 4th Infantry Division
defeated a Viet Cong regiment
of nearly 1,500 men in a furious
battle today and sent them
fleeing back Into Cambodia,
leaving 423 dead on the
battlefield.
It was perhaps the greatest
Allied victory of the year and it
cost the Americans 30 killed
10 wounded and three men
missing. But It crushed Hanoi’s
hopes of a propaganda victory
during President Johnson’s
Guam meeting.
The Communists struck with
600 rounds of mortar and rocket
fire in an extremely intense
barrage but were unable t o
harm the big guns in their first
across - the - border attack.
The Long Toms fire from Gio
Linh 20 miles across the DMZ
into North Vietnam where the
Reds have massed three divi-
sions.
Icy Air Marks
Up North Spring
By United Pres* International
Spring, heralded in song and
verse as a time for budding
flowers and first thoughts of
love, was ushered in today up
north by deep snow, freezing
cold and storms.
Spring arrived at 2:37 EST
this morning but winter failed
to leave.
A snowstorm which swept
across the upper Midwest
toward the Northeast left up to
10 inches of snow on the ground,
forcing schools to close and
travelers to stay put.
The snow extended from
Minnesota to the eastern Great
Lakes area and was spreading
east as the day progressed.
Wisconsin was apparently
hardest hit by the spring-winter
5 In Contest Here As
Girls State Envoys
es will be selected to attend the
Austin affair June 14-24, accord-
ing to local Bluebonnet Girls
State chairman Mrs. Bud Fos-
ter.
The 11-day program at the
Legion Auxiliary sponsored ga-
thering covers the functions and
responsibilities of governments.
The girls at the state meeting
will participate is an active
government during their stay.
Alene Frels, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. G. C. Frels, was last
year’s representative to die
girls state.
In other business at tonight’s
meeting the ladles will close
out their campaign to compile
a calender of events for Cuero.
A representative to Bluebon-
net Girls State will be selected
from five contestants at the
tegular meeting of the Ameri-
can Legion Auxiliary, Din ter
fbst No. 3, Tuesday night.
Competing for the honor will
be, all from Cuero, Mary Sue
Bauer, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Garland Bauer; Kay Ja-
cobs, daughter of Pastor and
Mrs. John A. Jacobs; Jan Bar-
ber. daughter of Mrs. Olene
Barber; Barbara Cannon, dau-
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Cannon; and Cynthia Parks,
(laughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ster-
ling Parks.
and two alternate
Baker Denied
Another Trial
WASHINGTON UPI - U. S.
District Judge Oliver Gasch
denied a motion by former Sen-
ate aide Robert G. (Bobby) Ba-
ker for a new trial on his Jar..
2 conviction for larceny, in-
come tax evasion and fraud.
Gasch held that the major at-
tack on the conviction by
Baker's attorneys was "without
merit.”
The defense attack centered
on Jury foreman John M.
Buchanan’s failure to reveal his
connection with the District of
Columbia reserve police work,
a civil defense unit.
Schools Shut
On Good Friday
Cuero Independent School
District classes will be sus-
pended at the end of the
regular day Thursday for
Easter.
A district spokesman said
this morning the pupils will
return to classes Tuesday
morning, thus providing a
holiday Friday through
Monday.
snowstorm which struck Mon-
day. At least four deaths, all
but one of them in traffic
accidents, were linked to the
storm.
Many schools were closed
when authorities saw it w a s
impossible to get school buses
through the mounting piles of
snow. Eight inches were report-
ed at Prairie Du Chien, Wis.,
and 6 inches at Beloit, Wis.
$10,000
Awarded
A default judgement filed in
24th District Court Tuesday
awarded Charles J. Havlik Sr.
of Sweethome $10,000 for per-
sonal injuries and $750 for dam-
ages to his auto in a wreck at
Yoakum April 13. 1965.
The Havlik vehicle was
parked at the curb on a city
street when it was allegedly
struck by a truck owned by
Texas Wholesale Floral Co.,
Inc. of San Antonio.
Tlie floral company was serv-
ed a citation by District Clerk
Pershing Hiller Dec. 2, 1966.
When they did not appear be-
fore the court or answer the cit-
ation within the alloted time
period, Judge Joe Kelly, presid-
ing judge of the 24th District,
rendered a default judgement in
favor of the plaintiff.
Ky Wants
Bigger War
ANDERSEN AIR FORCE
BASE, Guam UPI — President
Johnson flew home Tuesday
from a ‘ very constructive"
conference on toe Vietnam war
in which he stressed peace
efforts and South Vietnam’s
Premier urged escalation of toe
conflict.
Johnson departed on the 9,000
mile flight home with toe
statement that the situation in
Vietnam was "in much better
shape now" than when he
visited Asia five months ago
during a summit meeting at
Manila.
He said his talks with
Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and
other military and diplomatic
officials of both countries did not
reach any far - reaching de-
cisions noi did they develop
new military decisions.
Guam, Ky asked Johnson
why toe United States did not
extend the war to Cambodia
and Laos, how much longer Ha-
noi "would enjoy the advantage
of restricted bombing” and why
the big North Vietnamese port
of Haiphong should not l
sealed.
. ler. ch'-nier. and all other offi- j plus his, further belief that the
1 ccrs and employees will eon- jieople of Cuero and the imme-
j tir.ue to serve in their respec-j diate area would welcome and
j live capacities. No further , support an aggressive and prtv
j changes are anticipated at this 1 gressive bank.
Faubion further stated that
toe philosophy of the Buchel
Bank from this day will be to
assist and encourage any indi-
vidual or business in the Cuero
area which would help to devel-
op the area in a sound and con-
structive manner.
In the ownership reorganiza-
tion the management of the
bank and its Directors will be
ever alert to the banking needs
of the people of this area. The
new management will follow a
policy of being alert, progres-
sive and aggressive. It is anti-
cipated that a TYust Department
will shortly be organized in the
Buchel Bank to serve this par-
i time in the bank personnel.
★ ★ ★
Cuero’s
Growth
Is Seen
James J. Faubion, who Tues-
day morning closed a deal for
the purchase of majority stock
in the Buchel National Bank in
this city denied in an Interview
with a staff member of The Re-
cord that any other neighboring j ticular need,
city banker was associated with Faubion also announced that
him in toe bank purchase.; at a later date stock will be
"It was strictly an individual i made available to the many eus-
deal,” Mr. Faubion said, "Noitomers of the bank who have
one else has any part in it.”
Mr. Faubion said he became
interested in the local bank
property because he is interest-
ed in the growth possibilities
of this immediate area.
“I am tickled to death with
the opportunity to be here,” he
said.
"I feel Cuero is a very
sound and substantial town
with a very bright future. I
consider it like a rosebud wait-
never had the opportunity to
own stock in the Buchel Bank,
as well as to many others in
the area who would like to share
in toe growth of toe Buchel
Bank. Quoting Faubion . . , "If
at all possible, we want every-
one in 'this area who is inter-
ested in owning stock in the
Buchel Bank to have the oppor-
tunity to do so.”
Hamilton, Dewey Schorre,
Mrs. Fritz Koehler, Frederick
B. Koehler, and all other stock-
ing to bloom.
"I think the business people | holders participating ki the sale
and other citizens of Cuero! indicated that they were very
will welcome an agressive ban- pleased to have toe new owner-
king program which create a
feeling of confidence and
able them to move ahead.
Dominoes
An annual domino tourna-
ment will be held by the Bila
Hora Community Center Sun-
day, April 2, In the Hallettsville
Recreation Hall, according to
Hie Lavaca County Tribune
All players must be register-: all private prep schools,
ed by 9:30 a.m. Cash prizes i Miller graduated from toe
will be awarded first, second University of Moscow in 1963
and third place team. j with toe equivalent of a
A barbecue chicken dinner is j master’s degree in physi-
Ex-Russ Star
Inked As Coach
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. UPI -
Carl Miller, who as Vladislov
Kommissarvo was a Russian
Olympic pentathlon star before
he defected to the U.S. in 1965,
has been named head swim-
ming coach at the San Anton-
io Aquatic Club.
Miller, who fled his native
Russia by swimming for eight
hours from Batuni on the
Russian Black Sea Coast to
Turkey-about 15.5 miles, alrea-
dy has been teaching swimming
at Texas Military Institute and
fencing at San Antonio Military
Academy and St. Mary’s Hall,
planned.
I cal education.
tawMM a» i? m* k* %' situ* m s» to
Turkey Trot May Utilize Hangar
By BOB MOORE I proposed sites Monday after-
Record Staff Writer [ noon. Committee chairmen a-
There is a distinct possibility i greed with Allen’s recommen-
the two coronation ceremonies
and dance In connection with
the Nov. 11 Turkey Trot cele-
bration will be held in the cen-
ter hangar at toe old Cuero
Airport, instead of the Cuero
High School gymnasium.
P. J. Allen of Kyle, an expert
in float and stage decorations,
made the recommendation fol-
of the two
dation.
Final decision upon using the
hangar site is contingent upon
the committee’s effort to secure
approval from toe owner,
trim, lives in Houston.
Allot said he favored the pro-
posed hanger site over the gym-
nasium because it would
have a larger seating capacity,
ities for stage decorations.
Prior to inspecting the pro-
posed sites for toe coronations
and dance, Allen met at 2 p.m.
in the Cuero Chamber of Com-
merce conference room with
committee chairmen.
During the roundtable discus-
sion Allen was advised that a
total of seven decorated floats
would be needed for the royal
parade, with a total seating ca-
pacity on the floats for approxi
and it offered better opportun- mately 200 persona. Six sf the
floats would be designed tor
the senior coronation and one
for the junior coronation.
The committee chairmen al-
so discussed proposed street
decoration plans with Allen.
Allen is due to draw desim*
for toe staging of the corona-
tions and the royal floats, after
a final decision is made on the
site for toe coronations.
Dewey Henderson, general
chairman. presided for the
committee chairmen. Chair-
men attending included: Marvin
Kirkman, coronation facili-
ties; Dr. John Wheeler, decora-
tions; Jack Howerton, finance;
Frank Sheppard, dance; Ciete
Ernster, parade seats and
street decorations; Mrs. Sharcn
Steen, senior coronation; Mrs.
Paula High, junior coronation;
Mrs. Kay Reese, co-chairman
senior coronation; and Mrs.
Don SiTrth. chamber of corn-
meeting between Alien and theimerce secretary-
ship in the Buchel Bank, feel-
ing that the experience which
Faubion and his associates
bring with them in toe banking
field would be moat advantage-
ous. not only to the Buchel
Bank, but to toe people of Cue-
(See Buchel Bank. Page 8$
McDonald
Knows
Banking
G. L. McDonald who was
elected president of the Buchel
National Bank at a special meet-
ing of the Board of Directors
Tuesday morning is 53, an ex-
perienced banker, and present-
ly serving as vice president and
cashier of the First Statg
Bank of Midland.
Before moving to Midland he
served as executive vice presi-
dent of the Raymondville State
Bank at Raymondville, Texas,
and prior to that was a resi-
dent of Pecos.
John J. Faubion Jr. of Port
Lavaca who purchased control-
ing stock In the Buchel Na-
tional Bank said he selected
Mr. McDonald to head toe lo-
cal bank because he Is a prov-
en aggressive banker and be-
cause he knows toe people of
Cuero will like him.
He said he first became site
ciated with Mr. McDonald eatoy
in the 1940’s when they
engaged in toe cotton
Mr. McDonald is ex]
visit Cuero within the next <
and to assume ne
there about April 1st
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