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The Weather _
SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS -
Cloudy to partly rloudy wWk
Mattered showers aad ttmader-
whowen today, tonight and
Tuesday. No Important tempera-
ture changes. Highest today a
to n north, aad N to 1M south.
Lowest tonight la the It’s.
VOL. 67—NO. 162
CUERO, TEXAS, MONDAY, JULY 10, 1961
6 PAGES — PRICE 5e
8L\T0Wn Talk Estimated
L> —-300 Perish
Bulletin Helps !T Di
Of A Monday ln Blaze
In, lined to agree with ,he BKIRA. Mozambique UPI - |
undoubtedly many persons who (An est,mated 300 persons died;
have said :' "If ue didn't haVe|«'»>en a Portuguese ship ran a-j
Monday's We would fie much wound and burned in a major,
^ . . , sea disaster off the hast Ain-
*"yup-today is Monday and a 'an coast, semi-official reports
now work week is underway s»id foday.
whether we like it or not j *hlP- ,hr Kave'
Not haying gone anyplace ■ "dh 550 I»ersons aboard appar-i
particularly oyer the week end i was forced aground on a
oilier than to an attractive hou- sandbankJOO miles north of Boi-
se m the ,ountrv where ue en- ™ an,1„W0 m,lp" nor,b of Lau‘
lovcd a delectable serving «-f!™«» Marques during a storm
cibrito and trimmings, have * "day or Saturday. The reports
nothing of importance to report *«>'• the cargo of gasoline and
Vnywav vou folks who do read ammunition in the forward hold
this column will probably get exploded with flames envelop
more kick out of our passing ‘ shlP-
.....•< a •• ■
inc
on which we
The vessel was reported car-:
UK) white Portuguese!
along some of the items appeal -
in the Cuero 1881 Bulletin. ‘'>’inK ,
have 'leaned' the ’roops. 3(K) African laborers rc-!
, ... * turning from mine work in Sou-
past week or so. . r
.i i?11ii11n - j tn Africa and a crew of .8)
CJiioth The Bulletin
-The demand for horses and Most of the dead were reported
mules far exceeds the San Anto-.*0 ^ Africans. j
The Keening Lights! Thp reports said liodies of so-1
SPV|ET SPACESHIP — The Soviet spaceship which carried
\ uri Gagarin around the world in outer apace dangles from
a helicopter in rehearsal for the July 9 Soviet air force pa-
rade in Moscow. The spaceship (or maybe thi« i* g replica)
is white with a red star on its nose. (Radiovhoto)
Attorney Says Charged
Murderer ‘Brainwashed’
nio supply.
says: "As the time rapidly ap-
proaches for the shipment of
cattle the drovers are buy ing | Apparently
all the good stock they can
reach, and there is a continued
drain on this market. As soon
as the grass grows the driving
season will commence
Extensive experiments in
irrigation have been made in
Kansas this season and have
proved very successful, one acre
'’^producing 1 l)0f) bushels of sv e-
rt potatoes It is proposed to
Utilize the waters of the Arkan
cas, on the plains of
Kansas, and sio;k companies
arc forming to take charge of
tire work
was found ly-
me of the victims were washed ,‘ ... ~ en secretary for the First Baptist
ashore in shark-infested waters. .E ,saa_ 1 a-v, lr ,as; Church in Cisco
they drowned vvlii-j
le trying to swim to shore again
st an’ebbing tide.
Survivors reached a remote,
inaccessible beach cut off by
swamps. Planes from the near-
est big town of Quelitnane flew
in some medical help and ferri-
ed out some
in jutted...
Persons Who flow byp<- the
stricken vessel Sunday af'erno-
on reported it was hut wing from
Western stem to stern and that
was a large hole in one side.
Black smoke belched from the
ship and could be seen 50 miles
evidence that the maniac who,. . . ...
killed Mrs. Florence Hussey , a |lng ln her Wood-spattered home
church secretary, is still at lar-1 fbe nt*x1 day when she failed to| nise, after they stopped to aid WASHINGTON UPI - Presi-
ge. | report for work. i him on a road near scenic Dad dent Kennedy has ordered a new
Continue
Search For
Young Girl
MOAB. Utah UPI — For the
sixth straight day searchers sou-.
ght today to answer the qu-j
estion: Where is 15-year-old j
Denise Sullivan or her body?!
Some 90 men resumed the se-
arch for the missing Rockville,
Conn., girl along the Colorado
River and Polar Mesa, while an
inquest was to be held today in-
to the death of the man believed
to be her abductor and the slay-
er of her mother. ,
Authorities said the inquest
was almost certain to result in
a verdict of suicide in the death
of Abel Benny Aragon, 35. of
Price, Utah, unemployed min-!
er and World War II Marine he-
ro.
Aragon shot himself Friday;
night in his car as FBI agents
souht to question him in the kid-
nap-slaying. Authorities believe
Aragon is the man who killed j
Mrs. Jeannette D. Sullivan, 41,
wounded Charles Boothroyd. 55,
also of Rockville, and kidnap-
ed Mrs. Sullivan's daughter. De-
aid
BACK IN PUBIIC— Anthony Eden—now Sir Anthony—hav-
ing recovered from the illness he suffered during the dark
days of the Suez crisis which toppled him from the pnm|
ministership in January, 1957, visits Sir Winston Churchill
at Hyde Park near London. Between them are Lady
Churchill (left) and Lady Eden. Eden became an earl July
5, which puts him in the House of Lords. (Radiophoto)
Kennedy Orders Review
Of Nation’s Defenses
He hinted that the real killer j Charges ‘Brainwash’
may have been a prominent Cis- Dabney clvarged that investi-
co. Tex . businessman or an- Stators "brainwashed" the boy
other boy friend. !fo get him to confess to the
. . ..... Dabney is an attorney for Na- sla-v>nK. and criticized authori-
ty t.,e more l ac.v ,h;m Cilrrv 1:- who c.onfessed i ties for breaking their promise
that he killed Mrs Hussey. 53.1 *° bond for him Saturday so
Hie liight of June 28 by heating1 that he can
her on the head with a brass ‘jail in Eastland,
t"""^, flowerj’ot and stabbing tier 14 "The district attorney promis-
Horse Point July 4
Plans To Attend
Bov Scout Camp
heTe=a?ro;0 To Be Discussed
Members of Boy Scout Troop
times. ed Saturday that he would ac- 241 will make plans to attend
The body of tht* well-respected | cept bond,-’ Dabney said. “But Camp Tom Wooten during a
—--j both he and the sheriff are out , meeting which will start at 7:30
IT T» of pocket and I can't find them p.m. Monday at Legion Hall
\\ i'0 sel bond Leslie Weaver. Scoutmaster.
1 "If they don't today, I'm go urged parents of boys who plan
rene Mauer Announced
livery |>oultry house should aWaY
face the south, and, if possible.!
he imon dry ground. Any avail-1
able ground protected by gro- kj
vev hedges, stone walls or by
buildings of any kind, may be TA • . _ _ T T ~l J
used for this puriio.se. Fovv Is; JVllCS 1J.C1CI
suffer very much from old Mac ha Cleaners last week were , er. He said that it was either a ' of the camp,
storms and wind, any protection j j.-unpra| serv ices were condue- announced Monday by the own-' crime of passioq or that rob- j Scouts of Troop 241 will leav e
ted at 2 p m. Monday at Freund 1 P1 ■ T(k> Maeha. j (Continued on Page 6) July 23.
Funeral Home for Gene Mau- 1 Mi-. I>en Parma won $50
review of the nation's defen-
ses in the light of. Soviet- three's
to Berlin, it. was disclosed to-
day. *
7 Scouts
To Camp
Spvcn Boy Scouts from troop
245 left Sunday for a week of
camping activities at (' imp Tom
Cuero Area
Drenched
By Rains
A Heather Bureau bulle-
tin late .Monday morning
predieted the Guadalupe
River would rise to 29 feet
at Gonzales Tuesday, It
was too early Monday
morning for a prediction on
what the river would do in
the Cuero urea.
Nearly two inches of rain hnd
fallen in the Cuero area by 16:-
30 a m. Monday, and rains were
still falling. The Weather Burctm
predicted scattered thunderehom-
ers through Tuesday.
A rise is expected on the Gu
adalupe River, but it was too
early Monday morning for the
Weather Bureau to predict the
extend of the rise.
McQueeney. which is on the
Guadalupe River abov? Nets
New Braunfels, had 5.5 inches
by 9 a m. Monday. Rain con-
tinued to fall after that time.
Gonzales had 1.32 inches up
to 8 a.m. Monday.
Deputy Defense Secretary Ros- j ne^cJero^KJd lT^hS
well L. Gilpatrio said the Pre-;at 10:30 a.m. This was the see-
s.Jent oidcred the review Satur-; <>nd time precipitation was reco-
day after Sov iet Premier Nikita | *bis month. Other rainfall
in July measured only .02 inch.
From all indications, the rains
were general in this area.
High and low temperatures
here during the 24-hour period
which ended at 8 a.m. Monday
were 94 and 72 degrees.
Five and a half inches of rain
poured dowT' on Austin Sunday
the conousion that military sp-! ' ®en^*nK R°8gy Creek on
ending should be boosted, re-1- 1 y s east side over its banks
S. Khrushchev announced tliat
Russia Was calling off its plan-
ned military manpower reduc-
tions.
GiJpatriek disclosed the Presi-
dent s directive in testimony to
a Senate appropriations sub-
committee.
If I he defense review leads to
... . ,r,u vised budget requests will be sub-! ^ a residential area. Some 50
W- - * - e- sarsi” - - - - i is
More than four and a half in-
against these is very valuable
j, a preventive of cold and
, - ” J *u-‘ 1 “ *u tz, Glen Hallm.tr!: Phil' J.-ck-i ,lleir °"n Personal views on pre-
son and Richard Phillips. The! P'<redness to the subcommittee.
Gilpatric gave assurances- on
of Fairmont.
72. former Cuero resident i cash- O'11*''' cash prizes went io
I who dieii Saturday at his home
Mrs. A. H. Farmer. $20: Ernest
Cl Hip.
George Geddes.
' N. Y who fee ' - ahotit 2.000 j jn Corp|J's (-lu.|st]‘ j W.u htendorf, S10: Mrs. Edwin
bushels of grain annually, after Rpv! <John ,]a(,,jw pastor st.JThieme- S10: Mrs- F w- P^ers, j
thirty years' cx|)erien. e says Mark-S. Lutheran Church, offici- ] 55: i,nrl M,s- T J Muenter, $5.
it is Worse
grind tubs
a ted Burial mas
Cemetery. Pallhearers were Pe-
he is satisfied that
than k»t labor to
for cattle, and that Corn should
hr ground ><s fmc for stock as
f ir bread, live o.bicct being to '
M' fo'luce ti e grai.i that it ran
be the most reail: h acted uoon
In- t'.ie yistne juice -of the sto-
ma, V
■ \ ' of. 1 Yen- h .m-
S’.i.Vs, \v ivo have jn-t lieen ex
p'l'ed f’-nm !■'; to, r> under the.
re rent e'nti nbcious Her gees.
h.rr a: ICC,| in l.ngl uvl and
fire negotixt ng v ith Miinsei-
ja-.eur (iapcl for the pmcha. e
of his r.Viin-ioii at Kensington.
Cm-dinal Manning is bitterly
opposing this contemplated put -'
il-.iise. lie his even gone f.ur-:
the: and written to Rome asking j
the Pope to forbid lue exiles!
from entering on his territory.
"Senator Maxey of Texas. I Funeral set vires for Mrs
told 11ic Washington coriespon ! Gallic W illiamson. SO. were held
,’,■.11*. ,4 toe Bchimoie ,Sun ui i Sunday at b ieund Funeral lio-
Tc. ilav lh.il he was opposed j me. Rev *>uy A. I.einthall
11inn U ginmne. to end to aav | eliange pasor at Fir I M,
JUoVetneitt lo cut lieu states ml! dist Church, oflinatcit
Texas, and that, although j Burial was at Gillette l’all-
theie I»ad been agitation on the hearers were William II Jones.
s-.d-j'cT. nrd the project might j Hubert A. Dromgoole, William
. i ; at I —A Hurt i It >vn If IYvi usv inx/iln
dsidc! diaries Dromgoole wt>n a tran-
sister radio.
Better Advertising
Would Help Retailer
young men, in’addition to pro-
fessional supervisors, will he ac- *bi» fX)int. But he said an ap-
te New man, .1. T Newman, Bill! M;uha said ,v'"as •'xtreme-
Wcrorr Fischer ITirk I ,v ['leased With the tlim-OUt of
Bold! and Bill Barfield.' , visitors and customers during
Survivors arc the wife of Cor- ,ho four-day grand opening. The
Christi: a son Melvin Mi-
F'V
uer of Corpus Chr.-ti: five hn>
iher- t'Ivarles. Bur! and Cl if.
all of Cuero. and Fred and Ro-
land! both of Co’gi'is Clinsti:
two si-ters. Mrs 1' C Coker
1; lid Mr- A. F Alphoilso,
hit!, of Cuero: a grandchild, and
a niimlver of niece, and nephews
Williamson
Rites Held
cleaning and pressing plant
located at 702 E Broadway.
Seventeen Die
In Traffic !n
Texas On Weekend
I Hit, (I Press International
By 8. S. TALBERT
Chairman,
Dept. Of Journalism
University, Mississippi
T raining
uate the need of advertising in
: our economy of plenty.
; There is a principle which
, seems to he well established in
[ nations where the free enter-
Annual income of Americans prise system is working most
lias passed $400 billion. It is in-, effectively:
creasing rapidly. "As consumer goods and con- ^|,().
Government economists expe- sumer wealth increases those
r! the average family income engaged in selling are forced u.'.,
in the Cniled States to be more to budget larger and larger |>or-
than $7,000 this year. | centages of their overhead cos's
Liquid assets of Americans to- to advertising.”
tal nearly $800 billion — an all- In other words, in a situation
Rains that made highways si-1 time high. Yet, installment debts | such as presently faces the Am-
irk beli ed the violent death toll have been decreasing, according erican retailer, many merchants KyndVtfdV Ai?lO»T?OSjl}0 . t''in, 'udcd July 28.
in Texas over the week end sky- to the Department of Commer- vvill find it necessary to inerea-1 * ! Dur.ng this training Cadet
Brocket ce. I se advertising expenditures from Green Parrot Cafe in the 300 fk’dden is receiving practical
Tlie worst accident w as near In short, the American consu- i two per cent of expected gross ’ block of \V. M un St. received experience and instruction tn
• Cr.H'kett shortly after tin- dea- mer has more money to spend j income to perhaps three per: an estimated $25(1 in damages hiclical. technical and adminis-
trative subjects, with special
,f
j companied by Cur*is Brown Sr.
land Marvin Rabke.
Troop 245 is under the leader-
ship of Emil Burhhorn Jr.. Sc<>
, utmaster. and Perry Jackson ;
i assistant Scoutmaster. Ttjiop
committee members are Er ,1
Junker. H IV Bowen. Marvin
Rabke. Rival Ecngerle and T.
L, Edmonds >n.
|' One of ‘tic ]•’•',cti■ 'C - ,,f c ,niit-
in<g ;s thrift. The \-oimg men
demon-tr.-'re.f t i - trad hv pay-,
ine room and board at the camp.
v. ,'th money rai-
sed hv delivering circulars fpr
n*<-, '-ants and peif,inn-
ing other jobs.
pearance by Gen. Maxwell D.
Tayl ,r. Kennedy's new military
adviser, "presents a different
iContinuea on Page 6.)
Bodden In
<Ve Bv
Runaway Automobile
FORT [.EE, Va. lAHTNp -
Cadet Nix O. Bodden. 20. soil
of Mr and Mrs.-- Charles L. liod-
(ion, 1007 E. Morgan. Cuero.
Te\;„- is re civ ing si-x w eeks of
training at the A: my Reserve
Officer Training Corps (ROTCt
summer camp at Fort Lee. Va. j stream
The training is
cheduled to be I families from
mid-June.
Gulf Coast and Southeastern Tex-
as during the night, flooding
streets in low-lying areas of
Houston. At least one tornado
was spotted dipping from A bla-
ck thunderhead. It did not strike
ground.
The rain at Houston totaled
2.57 inches during the 24-hour
period that ended at 6 a.m. Abi-
lene. Childress. Vaco, Victoria.
Station, Palestine, Wink and Pa-
lacios all recorded between one
and two inches.
More Scattered Rains
Scattered rams continued to
fall over the <tate today. Earl/
from 36 at Dalhari to 80 at Cor-
pus Christi. Sunday’s high was
103 at I .a redo and Presidio.
The overflow water from Bog.
gy Creek at Austin quickly dra-
ined hack into the stream this
morning The creek is the same
that chased dozens of
their homes in
ex-
t bo-
th count began. It was a head-' than at any time in history. He | cent. Or. a shop which has been
on crash that killed five (>ei- may lie confident of an even hi-1 spending five per ceni of ts
Mms. three of them' high school gher income in the months a- gross on advertising may find
.football' p ayers head. ! it economically advisable to spe-
A l nite,I Pre.-s International In spite of this condition whi- nd seven per cent of its gross
count fpr the iieriod from 6 pm. ,ch should make for a new econ- on advertising.
Friday until Midnight Sunday omie boom, the consumer is not The reason for relative incr--
shmved at least 29 persons dead rushing to the market. j ase in advertising during times
from violence, and 17 of them Someone, it appears . is not of potential prosperity is obvi-
killed in traffic accidents. Five doing an adequate job of selling, ous: The consumer becomes
l>e brought forward in the Legis-'- A. Burt. Fulton M Dromgoole. drowned and seven persons we-. Or. perhaps, everyone concern- more versatile in his choice of
]atu c, lie was sure it would re- Hamlin Crunk and Leslie l)y- re killed in shootings and mis-1ed — retailers, wholesalers, mu-; goods and more of his purcli-
cef- e' no support of consequence, er. U’cllancous other accidents. i nufactuners — have to re-eval-; ases are of a luxury nature.
-s tb" people were universally ! Mrs. Williamson a lormei __________
cai
Saturday
jumped a
into the huild'ac
Police. Sgi V. iilaid Worthing-
ton said a 1998 Hi ink driven by
Lem Williams ol Meyerxv. die
crashed itvo the laiilding.
Worthington said Williams was
attempiing hi hack ,flit from
the curb when he put the car
in drive instead of reverse.
Worthington estimated $2(1
damage to the car
night, w hen ......, , . .
sired curl) and ran emphasis placed on Hv duties
a second lieutenant in a quart-
ermaster or trahsj*»!'lation unit.
Cadet Bodden, a member of
Alpha Phi Omega and Alpha
Chi Sigma fraternities, is a stu-
dent at the University of Tex-
apin-ed to it
"A sad i asf
Monroe cTtunly
resident of Bay City, died Sat- ,
is roorted in urday in a local rest home Sur-
III Some lour I vtvqrs are a sister. Mrs, Ilom-
yoars ago a bright little girl,
sev«*n years of age was going
)o district school when she was
riel by a mischievous boy some
feu, vcais her senior who had
a dead hlarksnake tied on a
sh-k He shook the snake in
t Continued on Page 61
UlhqUUSan-
to POT$: When you tell
wrnww that you do not "Give
• Tinker's D»m" tod*/, you *re
alluding to sm*ll plug or jtopoer
that rh* traveling tinker (me
chank) m*d to »top up a hole
in a pot.
er Morris of San Antonio; a
nephew, William Bur): and
two nieces.Mrs. Ben Farmer
and Mrs. Henry Burt
Rites For
Poenitzsch
Services for Otto Poenitzsch,
76. were held Sunday at Freund
Funeral Home. Burial was in
Hillside Cemetery.
Rev. John Jacobs, pastor, St.
Mark’s Lutheran Church, offi-
ciated. Pallbearers were Gar-
rett Buenger, Gilbert Wirland.
Herbert Rabke, Ray Gips. Ad-
am Frank and A. E. Schorle-
mer Sr.
Mr. Peonitzsch, who died Sat-
urday in a Yorktown rest home,
is survived by three sons. Jes-
se Poenitzsch and Jack Poen-
itzsch, both of Cuero, and Alvin j
Kubicek of Ganado; a daugh-j
ter. Mrs. Benjamin Smith of j
Fairbanks, Alaska: a brother,
Henry Poenitzsch of Houston: j
12 grandchildren and seven great
grandchildren.
(orporafon Court
Fines Are Announced
Fined in Corporation Court
during the past week were John-
ny R. Weathers and Will Wea-
thers, disturbing the peace in
a public place, $25 each; Her-
bert Hants drunk in
as Austin. He was graduated a Publie place, $25; and Leo Qu-
from Cuero High School in 1958 ' 'n,el;r° disfurb,nR the bV
___ displaying a deadly weapon,
$100.
Filed on in tlie traffic divi-
I sion of Corporation Court were
! David Moreno, no operator's I»-
; cense; Jesse Wayne Neyland.
j careless driving: Edwin Fred
J Hartman, running a red light;
! John R. Coppedge, careless
vdring: Otis Shelton, speeding
45 miles in a 35-mile zone; and
Ben Garcia Lee an,
driving.
T o Discuss
Sea Port
MEXICO CITY UPI A dis-
patch from Tampico Sunday ni-
ght said Maritime Minister Ma-
nuel Zermeno Araicn announ-
j red that a meeting will he held
ion Tuesday in New York City
| to discuss mulit-million dollar
j financing of the proposed Mata-
mo'-os deep-sea port.
I Tlie minister said talks are to
! be he’d with representatives of
i "a powerful United States con-
sortium.'’ but mentioned no na-
| mes, according to the dispatch.
| He said financing would "st-
I art” in tlie neighborhood of four
1o five hundred million pesos
S32-S40 million U.S., the dispatch
stated.
Matamoros will be linked with
Tampico, Gulf Coast port farth-
Alvin H«
Cosily Fire
ALVIN, Tex. UPI—Fire de-
stroyed three buildings in down-
town Alvin Sunday and burned
down telephones lines that han-
dle long distance calls between
Houston ihd Freeport.
Firemen from five neighbor-
ing communities helped bottle
the blaze. It was discovered ov-
er a beer tavern by an Ahrin
er south, via a coastal canal i fireman,
using existing natural sea bar-1 Before it could be
,.^,•3 under control, it bed
s
two appliance
tavern.
stores
WORLD WEEK
j Another government official
j estimated that 75 per cent of
cargo now operating through the
Port of Brow nsville, opposite Ma-: To Visit RllSSiR
: tamoros, is handled for Mexico
' and added that a Matamoros po-
! rt would save Mexico "hunrt-
I reds of millions of pesos” in
'expenses, the dispatch said.
ACCRA, Ghana UH — Pfesk-4
dent Kvvame ^navutojsft^kj
two month tour el 1m ~
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