The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 311, Ed. 1 Friday, November 27, 1959 Page: 1 of 6
six pages : ill. ; page 24 x 18 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
t
Wm AM
Dial CD 9-3131
fflurfflrnirii
"A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS ITS COMMUNITY"
Tha Waathar
MOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS —
(Irtr to partly rktady SraRk
Saturday. CoMer today aai
■oath portlea tmtght.
VOL. 65—NO. 311
CUERO, TEXAS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1959
6 PAGES - PRICE If
ftflOWn Talk Services
— For Bruce
A proposal to petition city
council to pass some em-
ergency legislation to put
into affect a two-hour park-
ing limit in downtown Cue-
ro during the month of De-
cember on a trial basis is in
the making by several loc-
al merchants, it is under-
stood
We re told such a pro-
gram is successfully carried
on in the city of Yoakum on
a permanent basis.
Repeated efforts to try to
get employes working In the
business district to park
their individual automobil-
es elsewhere than on down-
Smith Held
Funeral services tor Bruce Ed- j
want Smith. 16-year-old Cuero'
High School student who died
Wednesday in a local hospital.I
were conducted at 2 p.m. Friday
in First Baptist Church. Rev. Nor-
man Sanders offi dated.
Burial was in Westside Ceme-
tery at Yorktow-n.
Hnire had been hospitalised in
critical condition since Novem-
ber 30. when a car he was driv-
ing crashed into a tree near Rat-
cliff school.
Others in the car were Bonnie
Luker. who has been in critical
condition with s head injury*. Jo*
lene Wiggins, who Buffered a bro-
ken collar bone, and Jimmy Cop-
pedge. who was not hospitalised
The four youths, ad high school
: students, had been attending a
town streets and thus pro- dance.
vide more space for shop- ! Bruce, whose parents. Mr. and
. . , ... Mrs. Floyd Smith, reside on Rt.
pers have proved fruitless. 4 Cuero vv„ , nativ, of p,Wltt
and for this reason the In- county. He was bom February 7.
stigators of the plan to ask
The lad was well-known to foot-
councll to pass an ordlnan- bal] fani „ m of ^ Cwro
re making It unlawful to Gobblers’ outstanding harks.
park in one space for more th* Parent* other sur-
. vivors are a sister Mrs. Carroll
than two hours are getting zuher of Cuero; a grandmother,
their program rolling. Mrs Kattie Hattenbach of York-
Weve noticed that m L°^: "'Hard..Carl.
Gus and Thomas Hattenbach,
quite a number of instanc- Lawrence Smith, Charles Perkins
NO REIJF.F FOR FMtOOF.O WASHINGTON
—Like ■•■Mlreils of other salleys In western
Washington, the area around Kent fared com
plete Inundation as the Green Klvrr sprang
oat «f It* banks, entering highways and Isolat-
ing farms. Warm (Knook winds from the
south west, melting snows In Ike hlgl* mown
tains, brought a threat of more rain to the
arras suffering the worst floods slam 1031.
Parking Discussed
Santa To Visit Cuero
Saturday, December 5
To Fight
Attempted
Water Grab
A strategy meeting to devise
plans and to coordinate efforts
!>y two agencies, to defeat San
Antonio s latest attempt to divert
water from the (tiiadalii|ie river
and thrrbv protect the future wa-
ter supply of Guadalupe Valley
cities, farms and industries was
held here Wednesday in the pri-
vate dining room of tlir Hotel
Capri.
The City of San Antonio Mon
day filed an application with tlie
Texa Hoard of Water engineers
for a permit to erect two dams,
one on the Guadalupe River a
Give Cuero. the second >>n Sand-
ies Creek, a tributary, that feeds
into the (•iiadalti|M- a few miles
alsive this city and a permit to
divert 2811.258 ac re feet of w.itei
front these two reservoirs to the
City of San Anton: • eac h year
The two agencies repiesrnted at
the 4'uero meeting called by Ma-
yor J. T Newman, were the Gita
clalupe Ilian..) River Authority
and the Guadalupe River Wa'rr-
sheil Development Association of
which Mr Newman is president.
Representing the GItRA ivcie
Robert II Vahrenkomp of Se
Village Bids
Expected To Be
Near $900,000
Bids for construction of Friendship Village are ex-
pected to be near the $900,000 mark, Rev. Oeorge Walker,
Village executive director, told Cuero Lions Wednesday
during their noon luncheon.
He said $1 million plus will probably be spent before
the first retirement residents are able to move In.
__Rev. Walker said the present
Holiday
Death Toll
Climbing
application fur an FHA loan is
ITTO.OOO, hut he does not believe
'his amount will be enough M
got by on
Plans for the retirement vil»
luge were accepted in October.
This important step was made
after plans were changed aeve^
a I times, Rev. Walker said.
Changes ordered hy the FHA
es, employes of certain
stores or businesses never
park their personal cars
in front of the place of ,
their employment but down
or up the street In front of
another business house.
^Whether or not this prac-
tice is intentional Is un-
and Harry Nelson: and two aunts.
Mrs. Alton Krahn and Mr*. Inez
Birch
Cuero Girl Joins
College Social Club
Chamber of Commerce three- asks that the ordinance he In ef
tors voted Wednesday to have I01'* 'lntl* January 10.
Santa Claus visit Cuero IVccm-
ABILENE. Tex . Nov 27. iSpl.f
Sandra I.eske, Abilene Christian
College sophomore from Cuero.
known. Out It eorWlnl, do* • EXT&S “oof7?cS, -JV.T, ESS
social clubs. the visit
A psychology major, Miss l>es- The directors unanimously pas-
ke is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. M II. Leske, 506 Church, cil to pass an emergency ortiin-
C'uero. She was a 1958 graduate ance effective December 1, 01
of Cuero High School. soon thereafter, which would lim-
. At ACC, Miss !.eske ia also a it parking in tertain areas to a
and petitioned the writer member of the Choralaires.
to let the matter drop ra- . -------------------—— —
at a parking area. The resolu
'lion asked that a meeting bo
The directors also will ask Oou- called prior to January to to de-
ni il to clear off the railroad pro- vise a permanent parkin:: plan
her 5 and passed a resolution p^-ty behind City Hall to he used1 Reus* pointed out that flu- pro-
seeking the aid of City Council posed two-hour parking limit is
in helping solve the parking pro- -
blem in the business district. j
Santa will come in*o town at 1
9:30 a m. !
President C I. Duckett appoin-
ted Marvin Junker. Clyde Mc-
011 a com-
arrangements for
I tilled Press International were pointed out as being am of
\ blanket of snow and wide the prineipnl cause, for deleft
dishes nl ( lean ' cranberries *n the projert.
combined lo make Thanksgiving. Once the loan is approved,
1959. reminiscent of an old fash swift progress is anticipated,
nine.) !,oh slc«| tin kev <|,\ Rev. Walker said the village
But the automotive age was will have accomodation, for 92
ei< hed into the nccnlcn’al death residents. Most of the room,
guin director <if i onsc.vat,on and f‘t-*l»rs ■'m'1 »P«rtment.s will open into
assistant general manager and Th‘* fatality toll lounges and patios.
I d K |>cl.con of ( ,iero member ossar***! far beyond the <ki dead Monthly charges per person
of the Hoard of Directors expected bv National Safety Con- will he $133 up to $170, accorrt-
Representing the Guadalupe m'* •'M",i G , intf to Rev. Walker, who raid
River Development Assoi iation I nited Press International fig- admittance applications have
were Mr Newman. Gene Rmwn. mrs fnr the 30 hour holiday show- started coming in. A, soon as
member of the Board of Directors'“I* 1 •-* ['' '-"is killed in auto ac- ij,e FIIA approve* the loan,
and Her* Kirk Jr director and r‘dents 10 dead in fires, 7 air- Ki lendxlup Village officials will
attorney. plane fatalities and 19 persons start signing application con-
Dthers present were City f’oiin- billed in mis. ellaneous necident* tracts, the director stated.
occur.
One merchant has told us
that the parking issue has
been batted around in Cu-
ero for many, many years
Ferguson
Sentenced
Wallace J. Ferguson, Giddings
man < barged here with 19 bur-
glaries, lias been assessed four
seda resolution asking < itv ( 01 in- r^n.tenMary sentences in
District Court in fayette County,
designed to help shoppers find
parking places in the business
district.
j The area that would he in.-lul
ed in the ordinance would be the
' Continued on Rage ft <
Shell Oil WilKaiii
Carroll Well 11,(52
Feel Evly This Week
ther than agitate It further.
Another citizen opines
that no matter what the
subject might be. we will
never get all persons Invol-
ved In an Issue to agree on
Second Annual Turkey
Bowl Contest Saturday
Reserved seat ticket, for the
the final decision Thi« mavi2nd annual Turkey Bowl football
„, ™ Z ie»~ *«*., mm .a m r*" «r'7 r* ">. -'-r'"'
•r may not be true, but. ^ „ K„1,l.r“ ^ o^, ■■ .................-...........
we re Inclined to agree
Nook until 3 pm. Saturday, Joe
! Frank Fdgar. general chairman,
announced Friday.
He said ticket, will also be
sold at the gate.
; Game time is 8 p m. In Gobbler
1,194 Tarkey Dissert
It appears to us that Cu-
ero merchants should be
©pen-minded enough to go
along with the above-nam-
ed proposal since It will be
on a temporary basis only,
and if this plan d.jesnt help $6TVftd §fg (ifcfOPiiS
the situation, we can then
try another. *
¥ ¥ ¥
The one - time buggy
converted by Rollie Brant-
ley into a power - driven
vehicle has caused quite a
bit of comment as he drive*
It arour.d town.
When It was parked
downtown the other day
our friend Albert Hart-
man suggested that If he
owned It h» wci’ild rarry
• long a pair «f buggy shafts
fijst In care the mcitnr quit
and donkey - power was
needed to get the contrap-
tion In motion. Undoubted-
ly Rolhe has more confi-
dence In the machine than
does our rural friend.
¥ * ¥
Cuero Uor.s
an <11 fling to a Houston Post news
story. |
_______ ... ............ .. .. Ferguson entered pleas of guilty Shell Oil To No 1 William M
two-hour limit. The resolution j 'r"Mr charges of burglary before Carroll was drilling'at IN*;:,; feet
Dixtn-t Judge* J. I-ee Dlttert . .. . .
In recent weeks. Ferguson has Mr!-V thn "rrk 11,0 is
admitted some IflfQ burglaries ov- l"r•■|'ed in east Dollitt
rr n Wide area of Texas. He was near the f.avara Iie'.Vilt
arrested at. I.a forte several
weeks ago after allegedly com-
mitting a burglary in Cuero.
I*ep'i*y Sheriff 4 Virlie Clark of ^ derrick
( orp, said Ferguson is being tak- 1(,P,arvK fo ,lrlU HlP
m for investigation to cities pr„d,ir|n£, (n ,.V(
.vliere he ii.-is admitted burglar-
ies. ( : 11k said lie is to be re'urn-
ed to Cijero .before lamiarv 4
when the D-'Witt rr,unty grand
meets
Stadium
The Cuero
team foached bv
is scheduled to go through ns
last workout starting at 7 pm.
Frids .
The game is sponsored I •• the )l,rl
Yoakum and Cuero I.ion < l-jbs
as S money-raising even' fo;‘ ■ bar
ity and civic projects
Half-time attractions will be n
clown art and a performance bv
the Daule Hand, under the direr •
tion of Imvc Hegwood
iJrum major Katie M l>e
Daule seoiot. will le.nl ti.e Icuid
A total of RIM turkey ilinners on the field Mj|oreltes ;ue l-,i-,
were served In Cuero school r ate iby R„*s. fie,id tnafoie-He. f a,
teriu* Wednevlay, Mrs. Kubv u.a Haivry, wla. is also asvis’.u,-!
Lassmann, supervisor, reported drum maim, Stmiev lands.;, and
Ortlinartly, the cafeterias feed Gerdia Harvey,
between 800 and students da- The band vuil .1., se..-r ' pi,
il>*. but tiie excellent holiday cision danre rr.ut:n«‘x and 1 v -,v
meal drew a large ntanber who ia! ie«pie-> j,,
do not eat tejpjlarly at the Mike play ing ' Chen v I'.i.t
Mike placed se, r.nri t.b.s -1- • ,•
Minor Accidents
Reported Friday
By Police Chief
county
county
l,ne
The wildcat reportedK has a
Wilcox pav sc, tion of ftrxi fc< t
is being built for
I /me at a 1
Felix Hiller,
which will he a la flfin frx" lower
Wilcox wildcat three miles sou
•(least of Cuero
Argo Oil Corp. No 1 Mmg u
et Htienger. five miles soutli .of
Cuero, was drilling at 10.545 feet
early this week «,n a 17 <Vi<) f ed
permit
South nf Yorktr vri and near held ‘o show apjire. iation 1
the DeWltt-fJoluuI .ountv hne who worked- for- a sue
< aim an Hill Cush, k, Cuero bank- for ;i ‘olal of R1.1
er ftevsev S'liorre and Re< trial f .ilifurni.i led the nation in
publisher Jack Howerton highway fatalities with IK. fol-
Mt Vahrenkrimp said the I*we.I by Ohm with 9. Michigan
GHRA would liegin immediole anti I'etinsylvania with X each
legal a. tion to prevent the new Okla with ,, New Turk with C
est San Antonio attempted water ,,n‘l Alabama Florida anti Tex-
tual) from being approvr.l and *** with .> en, li
Mr. Newman said lie soon plan- f>l.| fashioned turkev dinners
ned to call a mee'inc of the were spued by old fashioned
Hoard of tlie River Development cranberry sauces tagged with a
Ass... iation new -fangled gov ernment seal of
Newman told the group approv- approval
a! of the San Antonio a. tion Discovery that some cranberry
would net only delay constt u> turn
,f the piojx sd ('uero dam and
teservioi- but it ‘would also en
dangr ihe future vyate-t siippb t.f
1 .uad.ilup. itlies. towns laim<
and industries and would also re
strut arid liniit a, un> Itioustri il
development in the ( .uadalupr
River basin
Farm Bureau Group
Dmner Set Monday
r le’.fitt 1 oun’v Farm Huieau
dir.-, o.i and u . O! f, > hau
men and Mien w n.. " -.II galfiei
at 1,1. <• flak Rcxtaui ant 7 ';i|
p.m Monday for a dihriei
Hob Ma’loew I ,,tm R.uiea i
agerg said the dinner will lx-
those
•, ,'ul
Ider.tk TTiurs
mat. .| damn
Def.ange, Nea’h'-ry and
inel No 1 Marvin II
■v- drilling u 7 »,n fee1
s, b,rii n, -nib.1 -In;, d:.-.. M.i"be.v said l.ri'! , 1, n.n
t. otilke the oigaiuv.itloli m-.i tied Us ,|u.U:i «
of I> SI iiicin ',ei s
Christmas Dinner Date
Set By 4-H C!ub Group
' r“p’. h*i4| h#** n spr.v, *.a 1M1 ;i
[n»ssi).lr ranerr prrMliiu.nff wrod
killer h.«-l sp;irk«*'l fr.irs that
u ->nt)n jr*f| on ^ 1
Employes
Aid Fund
POINT roMKOl:r 14 h., Nov
1TV* i mpl»'\f#'s .1’ V'lmin'im
(■'ifkifort f)porafion^ h.r r s'irp.is
V» f| ,t! p?r\|ftii«x | Rif *1*1 , f'lt roil-
trihijtirvic «t• 41 mu tho \ hi)’
p 1 ■*. 4 « t n:'» ‘I F iri'i <ln <• >• jst
* on pi«‘tf<|
\ t**».il *if ^ 10T \\ is -lonatp-! 't»
nt 14*5 in In W.tt ( ounty Ai
• f tp's
O*. *-r V 1 •.•.;»* p'icil^f**! *0
1 vrii «’s .ifI*I '> 1 .; mi/***! t 111»••• 1
m t»n « oiifiijfvn ;%ti# r *•
i :■*••• !<>••
: <ilh* <-‘l l»\ U »"
-fi t hr 1. 1
1 if!
S t; I n |«• V
r r: • * ft if
I;
uchoois.
gtrident^ paid only 10
ea^t fr»r th^ m^aJ. !♦ thr
third tirr.^ this hon! \#ar tha*
: PRAYER-POEM
1.
FOR JT AT 49? I rWAUfl
GUI NOT.
TTi*r* is sc, much V> ie« d*»r
lyard, when eves ar» liff*d
htgh . . and earth hound
thing* are left hehird as
fhoughfs reaur toward the
sky ... ▼
I live thrrajghout *o many days
as though I had no chance . . .
lo stop for just a moment, I»rd
and take an upward glance ...
are hoping f'orklv* me for the many time*
•Continued on Rage *, »
Kind Ancient Ships
HOM V < I ri r rr r.f*
of thr»# JinriFnT f ■ > -I
foij-d *
h’lildinir A r;*f d rp r* *r
Pr»rr# Tn# i** ■ \ r t f
^h»p« bKr*ij• rr,
f^vjnd h* P.rr.f ^
th» mouth '■‘f T.hr ■
, '1
* i ■ c. r.d i ■ c*
l|>t* r-r • , ♦’ r if *
rr 1 - • J: n •
t(.-t ■' ■ ion* I rr a
=» \r,\ 1 hr f'-k*
in offjr
! .ifHl*'f 1
1 ill h.uvf a
J li t #-t 1, hr- j t,
I ifi* 1' nan par
I'I f • ft »f t!
’■ '.Fid «\ n.^.i
(• f r v '; *
’f r /!' ff.
t if
for-
th !.
K*
* We know we will have more
than 92 ready to move in once
the eonerele i* poured. A total
of 216 person have already
slv.wn interest in living there.
■'Fifty-one have already sign-
ed applications, including sit
Cuoroites," Rev. Walker report-
ed.
He said the Village will have
a staff numbering aho:.t 2(1 Tier-
sons, who will draw an annual
payroll of approximately $60,000.
Rev. Walker was introduced
bv Rev. Norman Sanders, pr&>
grain chairman.
President Frank Sheppard an-
nounced Co- -ressman John
Young will speak December HI
• fore a |omt meeting of th#
Rotary and I.ions Clubs. He Raid
R ons will not meet on their re-
gular date lie. ember 9.
Introduced as a new member
■>-i, Ray Corbett, C :»ro High
basketball coach.
Joe Fiank Kdgar. chairman
"f tlie ;’nd annual Turkey Bovs I
football game Saturday night in
* chiller Stadium announced
!<••.<••••• c«| seat tickets will he *Ok|
K>'< ,|cr s and the Cozy Nook
until 2 p m Saturday.
Alleys For
Gonzales
GtjNZ.yl.T s Rians for .on-
sh notion il ,< J27U.OOU. 12-lane
lH..v!.ng i cir.-r in Gon/ales have
»• **n atiiiuiin, c.i by Carl R. Hagen
•aw iexciit., the Ila"en
I ..nier'-v* s
1 ' o'. . ' v- he,|.,led to lie
; ••'•< I •••■,] Kcfuuary 15 and
I '*>•' \ [K.ition of tne
‘infs, -prui.ts will la* donated
1 •. .1/ c'A'nm Spr ings Foun-
"t a < ominuing basis.
■I ' - -n due to Ivegin
’ '-U.-'-'e I >e ceirer will he
"■■''**<I . .-en ll.glvsav 90-A
a-’d b'1 Y;.’ ea'-1 of i, on rales
v r t
pa-Kag«
•g
•ed
I 8 uU
VILLAIN
for pleasant. riot - too-
cool weather Saturday night
when they stage the second
i Cun tinned on Pag t E )
tha* I have given in ... to
pressures that take hold of rr,e
and one by one begin ... to
bind me to the earthly things
when I sltoulj atop arid raise
u.y rye* lo see ixiie ioxe
1/ iigt.t ti.at spurs u.e or, for
days
_ til
(Z&tUtmM
53 Elementary School
Pupils On Honor Roll
Names of 53 ''.e.o f.>:..«• I f ;
Schf^.l students were or, t.-.c
cond six weeks hor.- : • ... Vor: • y . :
ed Friday by Mrs iS . ,
hard, pr.nc.pul Hwrior »: *-.. . R .
eJr h .1’.. gr I .a;,hr. f.
Hold glade MaTgalct .-tab- D... ‘a, f- -’da . T
•Msl'i S<icf./.j|,fr i .r.’f.j , : . -i ’ ,-1,’n ,,,.xl- lu-t,. f; , |,
haio. Xosafl ti.,c,'.-._r. vbjr-.n I. .... t •■".-i r.i r *.v .x
ey. Huger ! e. V Jay i'.f-’ f f. .. :
Ijre 'alit. ix < f...d ’I ,.-r < <■ w. , v j-
l;,n Wer.«i« V.;r,r..-’t lu i< - ' h ■
a m ' , (r.< , f f , , /• . o
aid /.■--* I’x - • - / , . ,
en Williford
Fou.-h ii i
SANTAS
GIFT SPOTTER
fl.ASSIFIK.l9
PAGE
116 Students Listed On
Daule Hiuh Honor Roll
■ ii.g’ n
! .
1008 PtOPLE: 7n.s v-o;J hed
;r,u e.il try it v.bgr--. it Degan. If
-cr-e> f'C-m- tl e lavn t'villan.s*
c- e v. j . e- m » v « 'i
/. : e . «s L5- i /
tv r: - recr’e -— ‘a- i
T- s C--.-X r‘ ~ V b "A
•—_ v'--> r* • - - - "• • » - ef
w-ea'-n >.•*•* -nntida-a-f ngtcrgl'/
C ■ V C ?5*e».
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 311, Ed. 1 Friday, November 27, 1959, newspaper, November 27, 1959; Cuero, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth697637/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Cuero Public Library.