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-A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS ITS COMMUNITY”
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Cloudy-Warmer
Partly cloudy and warm thru
Saturday. Low tonigiit in 60s,
high Saturday 82-92. High
Thursday 87. Low today 69.
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VOL. 69—NO. 75
CUERO, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1963
YUCCA IN BLOOM — A definite sign of spring is this yucca and the Bluebonnets covering the slopes on which they are
In full bloom Just north of Cuero at the underpass. The yucca growing provide a colorful entrance to Cuero.
CUHO RECORD STAFF PHOTO
Reds Charge U. S
Pushing Attacks
By Cuban Rebels
-LATE NEWS BRIEFS-
TWO DIE IN SAN ANTONIO ACCIDENT
SAN ANTONIO (UPI> — Two persons were killed on a San
Antonio expressway today when two cars collided head-on. one
of them traveling in the wrong lane of traffic at more than 100
miles per hour. The dead were identified by San Antonio police
ps Vickie Jean Bair, 20, of San Antonio and George Edward
Robinson, 22, of Rt. 5, Bexar County. Police said Robinson’s car
was traveling in the wrong direction when it hit the girl’s car.
NOTED CARDINAL IS 71 YEARS OLD
VIENNA (UPI) — Joszef Cardinal Mindszenty. who has ueen
called a living symbol of Communism’s anti-religious policies,
today quietly marked his 71st birthday within the confines of the
United States legation in Budapest. Reports reaching here from
the Hungarian capital indicated the Roman Catholic cardinal
would spend the day much as any other since he took asylum
in the legation Nov. 4, 1956. to prevent arrest by Russian authori-
ties who had crushed the Hungarian revolt.
RANGER BECOMES ‘WET OUTPOST’
EASTLAND, Tex. (UPI) — Ranger, Tex., has become the
only “wet” town between Fort Worth and the Abilene suburb of
Impact. The town voted 643-632 for the sale of alcoholic bever-
ages last Saturday, its fourth referendum in the past year. Three
prior attempts to legalize the sale of such beverages were voted
down.
PARR NEARLY CLEAR OF LEGAL ACTION
SAN ANTONIO (UPI) — George Parr, onetime political king-
pin of four South Texas counties, was nearly clear today of the
last big legal action pending against him. The federal govern-
ment Thursday filed a motion to dismiss an income tax evasion
indictment pending against the “Duke of Duval” since 1955. The
only technicality remaining in the case is for federal Dist. Judge
Ben Rice to sign the order.
FAMED PIANIST TEMPLETON IS DEAD
GREENWICH. Conn. (UPI) — Alec Templeton, blind pianist
who lived by the motto “What I can’t have I don’t think about,”
died Thursday at his home. The 52-year-old entertainer had battled
canoer for nearly a year. Although Templeton was bom without
sight, he was gifted with perfect musical pitch and almost total
musical recall.
Cuero Float, Riders
To Parade Saturday
H. Blanton
Heads Up
Local TPA
Homer Blanton was elected
president of the local Travelers
Protective Assn. (TPA) at the
annual election of officers held
Thursday evening at. 7:30 o’-
clock at Earl’s Place.
Blanton succeeds W. G. “Bud”
Foster as head of Post M.
Other officers elected were
Charles Hurta, 1st vice-presi-
dent; George Trowell. 2nd vice-
pres.; Larry Hausman, 3rd
vice-pres; Carlton Stubbs, chap-
lain •nd*®‘Wd»ng Breeden, Sr.,
secretary.
The board of directors includ-
es Foster, L. A. Bauer, Jr.. Ar-
thur Schodde, Trowell and Bon-
nie Buenger.
Recommended for state direc-
tors were Arthur Schodde, dir-
ector, and Bauer, co-director.
Recommended for the Tiller i
Promoter Convicted
Perjury Hinted
In Estes Trial
EL PASO. Tex (UPI) - Re-
ports circulated today that fed-
eral grand jury will look for
evidence of perjury in a trial
that resulted in conviction of
Billie Sol Estes on five counts
of mail fraud and conspiracy.
4 Die, 20 Hurt
In Hotel Fire
BOSTON (UPI I — A pre-dawn
fire flashed through the upper
three floors of the Sherry Bilt-
more Hotel early today, spread-
ing death and injury among ov-
er 150 guests.
At least four persons were
killed and 20 other were injured,
award for outstanding work dur-1 Three who were seriously burn-
A U.S. District Court jury of
10 men and two women, with a
Negro foreman, found Estes gu-
ilty of four counts of mail fraud
and one count of conspiracy
Thursday after 49 hours and 44
minutes of deliberation.
The jury acquitted him of
eight counts of mail fraud and
one of interstate transportation
of a fraudulent document. U.S.
Dist, Judge R. E. Thomason
dismissed two other counts of
mail fraud before the jury star-
ted deliberation.
Estes, 38. a bankrupt farm fi-
nancier who had high connec-
tions in Washington, could get
a maximum of 25 years in the)
penitentiary when
sentences him in
weeks.
He is already under
Auto Tags
Rush Seen
With only two more days left
to purchase license plates, De-
WItt County car ownera are go-
ing to have to get busy as only
about 7.1 per cent of the IMS
tags have been issued, accord-
ing to Frank ft. Thieme, as-
sessor - collector.
This would be approximately
7„'i00 auto and truck tags,
Thieme said.
Deadline is this Saturday.
The tax office usually closes
Saturday noon, but this Satur-
day Thieme said they would be
on duly “until they quit com-
ing.”
Anyone who drives his car
after the deadline, which Is
March 31st. fat subject to a pen-
alty >f 20 per reat M he does
not have his new license plates.
Thomas o n
about two
ing the year was Blanton.
Committee chairmen are:
Dr. John Davis, air transpar-
tation; Charley Gay. land
transportation; Pat Laake, pub-
licity; Joe Keesler, hotel; John
Beming, welfare: Bill Schodde,
employment: John Ondrusek,
waterways and Wm. G. “Bill”
Nami, safety.
Delegates named for the state
convention in Austin May 10
and 11 were Breeden. Blanton,
Bauer. Nami, Foster. Arthur
Schodde, D. W. Weber and Tro-
well.
ed were on the danger list. Most | court sentence of eight
of the others suffered only srno- for swindling a farmer
ke inhalation.
Firemen struck five alarms
within 10 minutes, bringing
more than 30 pieces of fire
equipment and 25 ambulances
to the scene.
Aerial ladders were quickly
raised to the upper floors of the
six-story hotel at 150 Massachu-
setts Ave. Firefighters helped
dozens of persons to safety.
Most wore only Iheir nightclo-
thes.
state
years [
Estes I
sold 12 big finance companies
mortgages totaling more than.
$24 million on anhydrous am- j
monia fertilizer tanks that nev-;
er existed.
U. S. Assistant Atty. Gen. Ru-
fus D. McLean, who prosecuted
Estes, refused to comment on
courtroom reports of a perjury
investigation. He said any state-
ment vyill have to come from
the Justice Department in Wash-
(Ser ESTES TRIAL, Page •)
U. S. Plans
Record Size
Satellite
American
Ship Is
Fired On
MOSCOW (UPI) - The Sov-
iet government charged offici-
ally today that the United Stat-
es “encourages’’ Cuban rebel
attacks on Soviet ships.
The Soviet charge was con-
tained in the third note in three
days on the Cuban situation. It
was disclosed as Soviet Prem-
ier Nikita Khrushchev, in a!
newspaper interview published I
today, said the immediate dan-
ger of war over Cuba has been!
eliminated. -
The latest note delivered to
the U.S. embassy protest the
"criminal” attack by a hand of
what the Communists called
counter-revolutionaries'’ Wed-
nesday night on the Soviet frei-
ghter Baku.
The note, reported by the of-
ficial Tass news agency, char-
ged that the rebels — anti -Cas-
tro Cubans living in exile —
made their attack "with the ap-
proval and under the protection
of the American authorities.”
It warned that the Soviet gov-
ernment “is compelled to study
(See CUBAN REBELS, Pago fi)
6 PAGES — Be
OWN lAU
By UN MILLS
Managing Editor
I FEEL LIKE a man without
a country who has just got hit
country back.
City and school election* are
coming up next week and I
get to vole. The law says I’ve
lived among you long enough
to have the privilege of casting
a ballot in local elections.
Couldn't vote in the general
election last November or In
the Cuero fire station bond elec-
tion last January.
Never fully appreciated my
voting rights until I lost them
. . . thank goodness only tem-
porarily.
For six months I felt like I
had no ;oico at ali in politics.
FOR A LONf, time I felt
pretty had about not being
able to tell Dick and Coot
Coppedge apart.
But now I don't.
One of the twins him sitting
at the counter when I walked
in for a cup of coffee. Wo
talked lor a while without
mentioning names and he left.
Mayor Newman had come
in in the meantime. 1 asked
him if he could tell which
was Dick and which was Coot.
"I’ve known them since
they were this high,” he said,
‘and I still can't tell them
apart.”
Suppose we could possibly
ask them to wear badges or
some other kind of identifi-
cation?
THE COUNTRYSIDE is real
ly beautiful with wild flowert
these days.
Although we’re not adverti»
ing any wildflower trails like
other communities, we've still
got some mighty pretty coun-
try.
One of the “most glamorous**
areas I’ve seen is from the un-
derpass north of town and on
out on the Yoakuin highway for
a few miles.
The Arneekevitle road is also
radiant for spring.
Delegates to the national con-; — D j-
vention in Miami. Fla.. Junej(jn D6QO iQriTl
Cuero's completely renovated
Turkey Trot float will be a fea-
ture of Yorktown’s Western
Days parade Saturday at 4 p.m.
according to Pat Patters o n,
EggsScrambled
In Wreck Here
Enough scrambled eggs to
feed Cox’s army poured out on
the highway about three miles
south of Cuero on U. S. 183 at
3:45 O'clock this morning when
a truck loaded with 160 cases
overturned, according to Pat-
rolman Hugh Poage.
Poage said Ladik Krhobjak of
(Hidden operating a truck for
McCall Sanders of Weimar, was
driving toward Cuero when he
attempted to dodge a cow, caus-
ing the truck to overturn.
Krhobjak was not seriously in-
utred, but received some bruis-
es, Poage said.
About one-third of the eggs
\«s io6t, the patrolman report-
ed.
24-28, Blanton. Breeden. Bauer,
and Arthur Schodde.
A committee was appointed
to draw up a resolution request-
ing the State Highway Depart-j
ment to work with the city and J
county in an effort to have i
lights installed on the Victoria j
and Yoakum highways.
Guests at the meeting were i
Perry M. Talbot of St. Louis, j
Mo., assistant national secre-|
tary; Eugene Word. Jr., state
secretary from Dallas; E. J.
Gerdes of Victoria, past state
president: C. W. Hindm a n,
state safety chairman and Max
Guiliet, state co-membersh i p
chairman both of Houston.
in the Cuero area has been re-
Cham ber of Commerce manag-
er.
Jim Stone will pull the float
in the parade.
Scheduled to ride on the float
are Gay Lucas, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Lucas, Julie Gips
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Gips, and Betty Theilengerdes,
daughter of Mr. ami Mrs. Ben-
nde Theilengerdes. sel^ai^fr^ 'Dallas; P°rted by Dr. Charles R. Tubbs
Magie Dietze, daughter of Mr ^ victQria past state The animal was killed Wednes-
and Mrs. Lawrence Dietze, wall president. c w Hindman, day morning on the farm of
participate in the coronation of stfl(e safe1y chairman and Max Raymond Bego located four mil-
the queen tonight. Guiliet, state co-membershi p es off the Goliad Highway on the
Iklagie s eso»t7 will be Dayne of Houston. Schroeder Road
Trent, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. _____ ____ Dr Tubbs received a tele-
G. Trent. -rr /-> /, gram Thursday afternoon from
Western Days got underway ^heMTT L-Cn T Dr. J V. Irons at the State
today and will continue through Health Department laboratories
Sunday- KGCQm L/OnOTS in Austin stating that the ani-
Cuero’s Chisholm Trail Rid-j mai was rabid,
ere will meet at Westhoff at 81 BEAUMONT I UPI) — Sus-: Bego killed the skunk with a
a.m. Saturday for the ride to j pended Jefferson County Sheriff (stick after the animal attacked)
Yorktown, where they too will | c. H. (Charley) Meyer testified; his dogs. Dr. Tubbs said thej
participate in the parade. The Thursday at his malfeasance I s|<un|c bit one of the dogs and j
trial that he received $85,000 in ; tried to bite Bego. He said the!
campaign contributions but he) dog would be treated
cannot rememoer who five don- The skunk attacked the* dogs
ors were. ' in Bego's front yard.
Meyer said the contributions Dr Tubbs warned farmers J
came in $1,500 - $1,600 amounts and stockmen to be on the look-)
ISee SHERIFF, Page 8| out for skunks or other wild ani-1
First Rabid Skunk
Of Year Reported
First rabid skunk of the year mals acting peculiar or vicious.
The veterinarian said that if
rabies spreads it will probably
move from south to north, just j
a reverse of the direction it row- j space
ed in the last outbreak
CAPE CANAVERAL lUPK)
- The United States plans to
shoot what may be the heaviest
and oddest satellite ever built
into orbit around earth in Aug-
ust
The satellite will weigh about
33,000 pounds, but it will do lit-
tle more than tell ground track-
ing stations that it is in orbit—
the space-age equivalent of put-
ting the brain of a flea inside
the body of an elephant
But the significance is that
such a shot would mean Amer-j
ica at last is on the verge ofj
matching the Soviet Union pou-
nd-for- pound in space booster!
power. The best estimates to
date place the largest Russian
satellites — the manned Vos-:
toks and unmanned Cosm o s
mooniets — at 18.000 to 20.000
pounds.
This nation's most famous
scientist. Dr
Today's Thought
French writer De La Roche-
fottcaid said: “We always like
those who admire us; we do
not always like those whom we
admire.”
SPEAKING OF driving a-
round, why Ik it Cuero gaa
stations never engage in gas
wars?
I see them all over the placo
but no* here.
(See TOWN TALK, Pago •)
First in 99 Years
Womans Execution
Set at Huntsville
HUNTSVILLE. Tex. (UPI) - an to die in the Texas electrl®
The state of Texas, barring an j chair.
eleventh hour reprieve, will exe-i She is Carolyn Ann Lima, 20,
cute its first woman in 99 years j a prostitute who helped her boy
Wernh e r i a few minutes after midnight to- j friend :n the summer of I960
(See r. S. PLANS, Page •) : "‘Sht. She will be the first worn-
group is to meet at the Ameri
can Legion Hall in Westhoff. ac-
cording to Trail Boss John Ham-
ilton.
Coronation of the Western
Days queen is scheduled for 8
(See CUERO FLOAT, Page 8)
Widening Rift Hinted
Red China Seeks Markets
Beyond the Communist Bloc
Hate America/ Convention Draws 1,000 in Brazil
NITEROI, Brazil (UPI) -A- foreigners,
Ixxit 1,000 persons in an over-'
crowded union hall here cheer-
ed for Cuba’s Premier Fidel
Castro and jeered the United
States Thursday night at the
formal opening of a “hate Am-
erica” convention.
The Communist - sponsored
meeting had been billed as “in-
ternational,” but newsmen cov-
ering the opening session found
only Brazilians in evidence.
There was no sign of about 150
“mostly humble pea- and “one other trho asked that called to order in a room dom-
sants and workers,” who were ; his name be withheld.” Frank.; inated by a huge portrait of Cas-
said to have come here for, the \ who is said to be a Berfin-bom j tro banging over the speakers’
meeting. j graduate of the University of. platform. Nearly twice the
recently wrote an ar-
a Rio newspaper say-
A convention announcement
Thursday said the foreigners
who would attend the congress
I included four men from America,
at least one of whom appar-
ently has been living in Brazil
for some time.
The announcement identified
the four as Scott Nearing, Gun-
ter Frank, Guillermo Martinez
room’s rated capacity of 550]
persons crowded in for the op-’
Chicago,
tide for
ing U.S. aid is bad for Brazil, ening session.
Rank-ard-ftle delegate ro;ii-| The organizers of the conven-
ed around the shipyard work- tion had hoped to hold its first
ers’ union hall for seven hours, meeting in Rio De Janeiro, two
Thursday while four commit- miles across the bay from this
tees made convention plans be- provincial capital,
hind locked doors. I Carlos Laeerda. staunchly an-
The convention eventually was1 (Sew CONVENTION, Pag* •)
LONDON (UPI) — Red China is looking
beyond the Red bloc for economic supplies,
apparently fo free herself from dependence
on Soviet Russia.
This Intention has been spot lighted by
the current visit to Britala of Red China’s
vice minister of foreign trade, La Hsuchaag.
who is touring British industries in search of
machinery, chemicals aad even planes.
This is a considerable change from the
days when Russia sent generous supplies to
her Communist ally aa well as thousands of
experts to build factories aad advice Peking
on a variety of industrial problems.
Russian supplies have dried up in the
wake ol the ideological conflict between the
Iwo Communist giants and the experts have
keen withdrawn or have been told to go.
Coupled with bad harvests aad 111 fatal
saaaomic experiments la China, the Ruaafna
aid-freeze has vtriaaity paralysed a stsahle
Jects, according to
mforeed aa Feh-
loap-forward planners also
to tbo Reid of as
ternal trade.
Peking swallowed Its pride when It had
to look to the West-Can ad a aad Australia—for
wheat supplies in the paet year or two to
ease the country ’s famine conditions.
Now that the harvest has Improved. Red
China's leadership to looking for industrial
supplies, again outside the Red block, thus
Indira Mag they don’t expect much help from
Russia for seme time to came.
Bat they have little to offer la exchange
aad are ostensibly short of foreign currency
to pay for coveted supplies.
Furthermore, the range of goods which
they raa hay la the Went le aloe limited, by
the security embargo which prevents NATO
allies from exportl^ strategic materials be-
hlas the Iron aad Bamboo curtains.
Exports la London boHrvo the current
Chtomr ssauiMugm la Britain are la them
•elves a toBtag todleoWsa that Poking dona
not expert Dtoo Soviet relations to return to
what they used to he. Nor
Peking want to revert to total
Raoola and tons tbo ffcko which such poBcy
shoot Houston real estate man
) Fred Tones during a sex par-
j ty in Tones' office and burn
: the body in a vacant lot.
The boy friend, Douglas Ash-
ley, 25, a female impersonator,
will precede Miss Lima to the
electric chair in Huntsville State
Prison. Texas has only one elec-
tric chair.
Miss Lima promised to march
I to her death "holding my head
i high.” She promised to show
the execution party that she can
face the chair better than any
1 man.
At last report, however, Ash-
ley appeared to be-holding up
better. When a woman prison of-
; ficial told Miss Lima Thursday
i night that three U.S. Supreme
Court justices had turned down
I a plea for a stay of execution.
) she crushed a handkerchief ov-
| er her mouth.
She managed, however, not to
break down. When .Ashley got
the same news, he laughted.
“Well, right now we’re down
■ to the deadline,” he said. “But
I don’t look for a 50-50 chance.”
Supreme Cburt Justices Hugo
I Black and William J. Brennan
! rejected a plea for stays of ex-
' ecution Thursday. Justice Ar-
thur Goldberg turned down the
plea without prejudice.
GvWberg said lawyers far AsR-
ley^and Miss Um -*—“-
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