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Thursday 96-103. High Tues-
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To be Appealed
Meyersville Men
Win Oil-Gas Suit
At Washington
A wdkot in flavor at Fritz and
Meyersville
a compii-
invoived a
pvup at ofl and fk wefc in the
Mqmndt ana, aooording to
Judge Howard P. Green who
Hie suit styled “Claud B. Ha-
mill vs. P. A.Drrier” sms tried
in 3ith Judicial District Court
end the Judgment in flavor at the
defendant is bring entered In
sout today.
The suit . involved ... fere*-
tuths at the oil and gas royal-
ty under 300 acres at Ishd in the
Meyersville ana owned by the
Droier Bros., Fritz, Edmund and
Henry.
Two producing wells were in-
volved in the ease.
The question in fee eaqe was
whether two royalty deeds exe-
cute* by the Drriers in the
years of 1943 and 1945 had expi-
red. Judge Green ruled they
had.
Has is a case of first impress-
ion in Texas and fir this reason
is considered of great import-
ance to the Oil k Gas Law of
the State.
Representing the plaintiff was
file linn of Andrews, Kurth,
Campbell and Jones of Houston.
Defense attorneys included
E. R. Grass of Houston; Bert
Kirk of Cuero; Lang, Byrd,
Cross and Ladon of San Anton-
io, Garrett, Hodges and Steha-
la of Fort Worth and George F.
Manning of San Antonio.
Guittand and Henderson of
Victoria and Chain and Chain of
Cuero represented the Drrier
Bros.
Hie case is the first of its
Had in the State of Texas as
gee Oil-Gas Salt, Page IS
Church Council Sets
World Community Day
World Day will be new form this year, according
observed hero Nov. 1 at St. [to those 1* charge. They are ask-
M ark’s Lutheran Church with
the Cuero Church Council of
women in charge.
For the past 20 years church
women have studied the prob-
lems of peace, believing that the
mission of the church and world
affairs are interdependent and
interlocking. They have worked
together across racial and de-
nominational .lines lo meet hu-
man need, continually express-
ing their faith that lasting peace
can be established with freedom
and justice. Their program of
study, action and worship takes
Town Talk
By UN MILLS
Eldtor
CHIEF JUSTICE Howard P.
Green, finishing up his district
court work in Qieso today,
seems anxious now to begin his
new career down at Corpus Chr-
i*ti on fee 13fe Court of Civil
Appeals.
The jutfce has been trying
luii'J to get the idea acmes that
everyone is invited to attend h]s
inaugural at 10 a.m. Saturday
u I he Driscoll Hotel.
ing the members to help make
this 20th observance a mile-
stone in their peace efforts.
According to Mrs. Wayne Ful-
ler, state chairman of the WCD
& UN, three peace jobs are
waiting to be tackled:
“We can talk about the prob-
lem of peace building and the
task facing the church in dev-
eloping nations. We must dis-
cuss and examine the work of
the United Nations in nation
building and its work in areas
of rapid social change.
"Your hands can help give new
hope to women who are in the
center of change which is af-
fecting their families and the
communities in which they live.
You can assemble friendship
packets as an expression of your
love for children in church in-
stitutions and in areas of acute
human need.
“Take two large-sized wash-
cloths. Pin three sides together
with safety pins. Place inside a
child's toothbrush, a tube of
toothpaste, a bar of soap, a
comb, band-aids, a tube of vase-
line, wrap in hand towel and pin
across fee top. If tiiere is room,
a small toy, a box of crayons
or a pencil and pad
can be added. They also need
layettes of one shirt, one binder,
nne long wrapper, one cap and
a small cot Ion blanket. You can
Thousands Join
Freedom March
WASHINGTON —<UPD— Scor- fee march leaders was on Sen-
es of thousands of demonstra-
tors from North and South and
East and West swarmed into
the nation's capital today in
America’s greatest rally for
Negro rights.
Leaders of the demonstration,
which they caned “the march
on Washington for jobs and
freedom,” stated their purpose
this way:
"We march to redress old
grievances and to help resolve
an American crisis.’’
The demonstrators came a-
board 20 special trains from as
far west as Chicago and as far
north as Hartford, Conn.; a-
board nearly 700 buses and
nine chartered planes by car
and afoot.
They sang and chanted as
they came. From the crowds
pouring into the Washington
Monument staging grounds
came the sonorous chant:
“Freedom, freedom, freedom.”
At 11 a.m. (edt), Washington
Police Chief Robert V. Murray
estimated the mushrooming
crowd at the Washington Mon-
ument and Lincoln Memorial at
70,000. A police spokesman said
the demonstrators appeared to
be In “a holiday, festive mood.”
The ratio of Negroes to whites
was about 15 to 1.
Leaders of the march called
early on congressional leaders
to make their plea for a strong
civil rights bill. They got a
friendly reception but no gu-
arantees that Congress would
be able to advance its time-
table for action on the legisla-
tion.
Demonstration leaders had
promised their best efforts to
maintain order. Two hours be-
fore the scheduled march of
eight-tenths of a mile from the
monument to fee Lincoln Me-
morial, police reported: No ar-
rests, no violence, no incidents.
At the 25 first aid stations
set up for fee rally, health offi-
cials said they had been called
only to administer “a couple of
aspirins for headaches.”
The first congressional call of
ate emooratic Leader Mike
Mansfield of Montana. A. Phil-
ip Randolph "father’’ of the de-
monstration, said they were
received cordially.
Wreck, Fire
Kill Woman
£^EOf Yoakum
Schools In
Area Open
On Sept. 3
The Wcsthoff School will open
Tuesday. Sept. 3, with a full day
of school, according to County
Supt. W. F. Hancock.
The enrollment is listed at 135.
Negroes at the Westhoff Neg-
ro School will total 12.
The Westhoff school faculty
includes Mrs. Evelyn Turk of
Hallettsville, principal; Harvey
Appelt of Hallettsville; Mrs.
Barbara Mueller, Lindenau;
Mrs. Esther Leubert, Westhoff;
Mrs. Jo Nell Gips and Mrs.
Lucille Tips of Yorktown.
The faculty at the Westhoff
Negro School is still not filled
as Roy Hopkins, only teacher,
recently resigned to accept a
position at Carver High School p^ce department today.
Curtailed Mail
Service Possible
Congress was expected today to beat a midnight
strike deadline and enact legislation to avert a nation-
wide railroad strike.
If the strike Is not averted, Cuero Postmaster Henry
Sheppard alerted residents that mall service will he cur-
tailed.
A House leader predicted ap- j
“MUSIC MAN” HELD AS RANK ROBBER SUSHCT-Amsted u
a suspected bank robber during a band concert on the court-
house lawn In Jackson, Mo., Richard Burton Partridge, SB,
high school band director and father of five children, is led
handcuffed to a police car by highway patrol Sft Glen
Lampley. The town’s beloved “music man” confessed to
two armed bank holdups netting 122,41*.
Policeman Hired;
Burglary Reported
A new man joined the Cuero Inn, k<catod ai Woodworth and
in Georgetown.
The Meyersville School will
also open Sept. 3 with a full
day of school. The enrollment
is listed at 75.
Teachers arc Delvin Jaster
of Yorktown, prihcipal; Mrs.
Melba Wolpman and Mrs. Viola
Demmer, Yorktown; J. D. Fra-
nklin, Jr., of Victoria and Mrs.
Frances Peyton of Cuero.
Haneock reminded parents
that the compulsory attendance
law was amended this year
with students now reguired to
attend school 165 days a year.
Prior to this they were required
to attend 120 school days.
r ::m
-- , . . also collect eolton yardage on
SINCE WE’VE ex' boys’ cotton T-shirts and shorts,
reeded our" “quota' of ratol »<>, • Through your offering, < make
it larger this year) you canj
..dents in DeWitt County, we
ought to he particularly obser-
vant when we drive over fee
long Labor Day weekend.
Already we've counted up
f vjv fatal accidents, putting ’us
ahead of last year by two. 1 be-
lieve it is.
n-LE TEXAS Safety Associa-
tion today issued a special La-
bor Day safety bulletin urging
Texas drivers to tfispiay “Mu-
tton” and "courtesy” in ferir
driving during file long holiday
weekend.
"Caution and courtesy can go
a long way in cutting down tra-
ffic accident* Mid fatalities dur
ing the Labor Day weekend,
,T O. Murick. TSA General Man-
ager, arid. _ . .
The safety dimeter-*
vers should put afi ferir driving
skills to wosk far fiumte stay
out of trouble to traffic and
should be prepared tor fiw unex-
pected actions of ofiier driven.
He also urged driven to start
out with a fMOtier driving atti-
tude.
“Your attitude about your
own driving and that of other
driven has a profound effect on
the possibilities of your bring
involved to an accident. Three*
Mrs. Viola Molina Vasquez,
25-year-old Yoakum woman,
met a fiery death’ Tuesday as
result of a car-truck accident
two miles east of Hallettsville
on U. S. 90-A
. , ■ ;ki_ .. ' Aoocrding to Highway Patrol-
keeping efforts. Through an in-
service training program, chur-
ch women will gain new insight
in fee relationship of the mis-
sion of the church and work of
fee UN and the building of a
peaceful world community.
From May until October, 1964
there will be a two-week train-
ing program for women from
every state from each denomi-
nation and from newly-indepen-
dent countries, to be held at the
new Church Center for the Uni-
ted Nations in New York”.
“Our offerings will also help
continue education and welfare
programs in Chile and Brazil”,
Mrs. Fuller concluded.
Vacant House
Fire Minor
Very Uttie damage was done to
a vacant house on Weldon St.
here Tuesday afternoon as re-
sult of a lire, according to local
firemen who answered the call.
ed into a truck and ilic car be-
came engulfed in flames, pin-
ning the woman inside, burning
her to death.
The flames kept would-be j
rescuers away from the death
car.
The patrolman said Mrs.
Vasquez who was driving cast,
crossed the center stripe into
the opposite lane and hit the
left side of a truck driven by
Adolph Sepulveda, 40, of Gon-
zales.
The truck overturned into a
ditch, but Sepulveda received
minor Injuries.
It was reported the woman
was in Cuero quite awfeile Tues-
day morning, and. after leav-
ing here, drove to Yoakum to
visit her parents.
She is survived by a son and
a daughter and her parents.
Funeral services were held
this morning at 11 o'clock from
Buffington Funeral Home fol-
lowed by burial in St. Joseph's
Cemetery at Yoakum.
A break-in was reported at
Woodlake bin, and a dice game
in West Cuero was bunk on up.
The new patrolman is O. T.
"Totsie” McAlister III, 23-ye,ir-
-old son of Mr. and Mrs O. T
McAlister, long-time and well
known Cuero residents
He replaces Weslcv Stewart
who resigned recently to join
the police department at Castle
HIUs near San Antonin
McAlister, w1v> is single, has
been working at fee post office
for about a year.
He goes to work on fee night
shift.
A 1957 graduate erf Cuero High
School, tiic new policeman had
been a member of the auxili-
ary police force for a monih.
"We are vei-y pleased to be
able to get McAlister,” Chief
Clark said. "His family is w’ell-
known here.”
Said McAlister, “I think I’ll
enjoy my new job. I was glad to
get it. I’ve always lieen interes-
ted in police work ' *
lie Is a mend* i of tin- Metho-
dist Church
Weldon Streets, sometime dur-
ing fee night.
The police report said the bur-
glars took a few pennies out of
the cash box, drank some soda
water and a little beer and left
proval of a Senate-passed bill to
refer the two major issues in
the rail dispute — firemen's
jobs and composition of train
crews — to an arbitration board
for a binding decision.
The Senate approved the mea-
-are to President Kennedy’ for
his signature, hopefully before
12:01 a.m. Thursday when the
railroads plan to put strike-
triggering new work rules into
eftect.
Barring any last-minute legis-
lative snags, government offi-
cials predicted there would be
no strike. The railroad unions j
have threatened a walkout if
the work rules are put into ef-
fect.
Sheppard announced that
planes, trucks and busses will
be pressed into service to move
air and first class mail to its
destination and to move other
classes of mall within a 150 mile
radius of the Cuero post office
in the event of a nationwide
rail strike.
However, Shep|iard noted that
he had received instructions not
to accept mailings other than
first class, air mail and Hir par-
cel post which are destined for
points farther than fee second
postal zone, which is generally
approximately 150 miles from
Cuero, for the duration of the
rati strike if it occurs.
“We are prepared to handle
any letters or parcels addressed
to any point provided first class
(«r a.r mail postage is paid on
the iems,” Postmaster Shep-
pard said.
But he cautioned that service
will be temporarily suspended
on second class magazines and
Police said “a dice game and
dnnkfeg going on behind a West newspapers, third class matter,
,; Cuero plant'’ was taken care of. 9ee Rati Strike, Page >2
-LATE NEWS BRIEFS-
FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS INTEGRATION
A federal judge, citing racial tension, Tuesday blocked the
first voluntary school desegregation in the Deep South slate o(
Georgia. The ruling, which stopped the enrollment of six Negroes
at a Brunswick, Ga., high school, was handed down while Negroes
from throughout the nation traveled to Washington for today s
historic freedom march on the nation’s capital.
THOUSANDS COVERING BIG MARCH
WASHINGTON (UPIt — Today’s march on Washington was
covered by one of the largest contingents of newsmen ever as-
sembled in the nation's capital. The police department issued
about 1,000 special press passes, good only for the day of the
march, in addttkm to the 1,200 regular press cards held year-
round by full-time Washington correspondents.
194 INFANTS DIE OF DEHYDRATION
MONTERREY. Mexico lUFII — A total of ltM infants died
A burglar or l*u*glar- broke *|uf dehydration here in a succession of Iteat waves since last l ast- f _Kennedy
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Labor Day
Is Holiday
Cuero will clooe down next
Monday In observance of
Labor Day.
Labor Day is oae of eight
holidays approved earlier
this year by the board af
directors of the Chamber of
Commerce.
Slated to close are ths
banks, post office, utility of-
fices, federal offices, Cham-
i her of Commerce and retail
merchants.
The Cuero Record will pub-
lish a newspaper on Labor
D»y.
Marchers'
Goal Out
Of Reach
WASHINGTON —tUPD— The
principal goal of today’*
“march on Washington” —
s|ie«dy passage of * strong
civil rights bill — was clearly
out of reach before the first
banner wax unfurled.
Ten weeks after President
Kennedy asked for passage of
the most sweeping civil rights
legislation since Civil War Re-
construction days, fee con-
gressional outlook still is too
blurred for detailed predu -
lion.
But two conclusions, based on
past performance and the cur-
rent congressional altitude,
seem safe
- First, Congress will act on
civil rights at its own deliber-
ate pare. TTiose who have been
through civil rights battles be-
fore consider Christmas a
highly optimistic target date for
final action.
-Second, Congress will pass
a bill based on, but not tied to,
Kennedy's recommendations.
Even the most ardent civil
rights supporters in Congress
do not expect the final legisla-
tion to be ax strong as tha
President's request.
Right now, an 11-member
House judiciary subcommittee
is deep in ‘‘general diseussiiai
window to gel duo_
Federal Aid
Turned Down
' t*i
and believed ended with a sharp drop in temperatures 'lues-,
dav Last Sunday, the final day of over-lUO degree temperature-,;
]yu children were treated for dehydration. Temperatures which,
bu HU degrees la.-i April and May dropped to 8H Tuesday
bill
Two parts of ilie Kennedy
See Mari time, Page l:
“WEASEl1 “ITEO—Tiring
to wrap i.| r Viii s $7'»
million "great mail tiam rob-
bery.” Scotland Yard re-
leased this plioto ot tast-
living. racing driver Roy
John Janies. 28, called the
"Weasel," wanted for ques-
tioning. fHiulu-phntot
St. Michael's
CAPITAL BONE DRY FOR MARCH n T i ,
WASHINGTON lUPIl - The nations capital ua- bone-dry kypGnS I UcSGCy
lor today’s civil right march. The District of Columbia commis-
sioners issued an ordei banning the sale or serving of alcoholic St. Michael's Parochial. Sc hool
beverages by bars, restaurants or package stores from midnight will open Tuesday, Sept. 3, *e-
Tuesday until 2 a.m. EDT, Thursday. The Liquor Dealers’ Assn- cordiflg lo ,hr Rev. \Vm. Jan-
riation estimated the shutdown would mean a loss of more titan !ten
H •" regular business Opening time will be 8 a. m
EVANS HOLDS LEAD FOB REELECTION *?***££,*? m
HOUSTON (LTD Texas AFIX-TO Secretary-Treasurer Roy WacuIty for ,his vear Sisfer
Evans holds a healthy lead over challenger Alan Matey of Dallas Stanislau«, superior; Sister Pia,
, , and could win re-election by a 3-1 margin, results of caucuses at
told the board acceptance ot the )hp aFLCTOn state convention showed today. Maley has been;:1*" rK,ells *na ^nesrer
money implied the sc hools ; j,jvon „ good chance of unseating Evans on the basis of supportj UJ'av
would accept federal mandates from Texas labor’s "new faces.” Evans’ long-time running mate,j , '; **ld **7>rP*lma‘
to offer certain courses and president Hank Brown has implied he might resign if Evans were \ *6° chcildren will be en-
supply certain equipment. : not re-elected. roiled.
■ IRVING C!M) The ' -rov-
ing danger of federal control
of Die srhcxd c urriculum “ has
I caused the Irvin School Board
• lo quit laking money from Ihe
federal government.
The school s budget Im the
coming school year ^includes
111.OfXl m fi nds undci tic- ,\at-
i ional Defense Edur.,1.0:1 Ad
1 but school Supt. W P Hanes
Some children playing near- *5 MINERS TRAPPED
Irrigation May Be Threatened
High Plains Water Table Dropping
LUBBOCK. Tex. VUPI* - The; irrigation will become imprap- ( moisture d/'ftined the economy At the present rate erf usage ter is being used, but what feey
lifeblood of the rich High Plains’ rtcai. due to high cost of pump- of fee area.
agricultural area water, may , ing
there is a real danger of deple-
be disappearing.
The Water table in many are-
as of the West Texas-Eastern
New Mexico High Plains, which
has changed from a one-crop re-
gion to a multi-crop area with
the advent of irrigation, has
If that happens the High Pla
ins, now one at the richer agri-| region assumed
With tiie advent of iarge-acaie, tion «T ground water suppl.e- in
irrigation a few years ago the the not so-distant future. But es-
a consistency timates as to when that date
cultural regions in the nation, da .<ught by almost- guaranteed might be reached, if ever, vary j originates.
cVn't know is how fast it ts be-
ing recharged deep down below
the surface in hidden pools, or
where the underground supply
could return to the pre-irrigat-! year to year production af the widely,
ion economy through which i? old standby, wheat, plus grains
struggled for many year- 'sorghum, cotton snd recently
With an average annual rain- the addition of vegetable crops.
One school erf thought is feat
dhsr drivers the way you want, by accidentally set a blanket on
to be toeated - with courtesy,” .j fire causing a smaH hole to be
MOAB. Utah
ti-milhon dollar
dlTIi
One hydrologist estimated wa- far below present water suppl-
ier supplies will be critical in! ie* there is a deep artesian pool
me auveni « —„___...... -..............— ....... ............ ■_________. 60 years, an ther says 5.000 to' <rf water containing a nearly un-
A mui- been dropping alarmingly tire' fall of only 18 to 20 inches, the For example, irrigation has re- 6,000 years. Yet another says in limited supply of water. A deep
area u-ed to subsist mostly on .-ultecl in mot e gram sorghum be- 20 years in some areas Relat- well drilled recently near Here-
neTr^reTros shartl^d JT*! ^GeSfihto.'Wfiogists snd dryland wheat. A "wet” 'year, ing produced :n fee area fean>eiy dry ,year* P**' ««« gj J8
fiery explosion late Tuesday many long-time residents of the produced good crops and money anywhere else in fe* nahomBut seasons haven t helped matters flow ^ ^J^ni ' *t~
he added.
Murick reminded drivers they
haven moral air wriD ax a legal
burned in fee floor.
area "’here me assoc) a non '1 * , few yeftff that year after year at sub - normal, water table » mounting. J Kxperf know how fast the wa-i
, njco ” *
| annually held.
I low fee earth's surface.
ding fuel te the dsap pool the-
fine High Plata*. Page IB
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