The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 177, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 28, 1963 Page: 1 of 10
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The picture at lower left shows Octal bum R. Campos and Joe Pena adjusi
the flow of water at the main water plant on South Esplanade. Working
large water pump (picture at lower right) are. lelt to right: Raymond Naval
WATER EMPLOYEES — City water department employees are shown here
carrying out many of their assigned duties. Standing In front of the water
tank on the hill In northeast Taylor (at top left) are City Manager James
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Today's Thought
French author Alexandre Du-
mas said: “Gnat i> truth. Fire
cannot burn, nor water drown
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VOL. 69—NO. m
CUERO, TEXAS, SUNDAY, JULY 28, 1963
10 PAGES - PRICE 5c
Fulton (left) and Water Snpt. Ted Harwood^ Shown nt one of the city’s five
water wells (picture at upper tight) are Motor Moore (left) and Robert Munoz.
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Hector Gonzales and Joe Cortez. Cortez has been an employee of the city for
more than 40 years.
CUERO RECORD STAFF PHOTO
Local Retail
Course Set
For Monday
Beginning Monday, July 29, a
course in Retail Oedit proced-
ures wiU get underway at
city haH, according to Mb. Wil-
lis Lane, owner of the local Oe-
dit Bureau.
Millard S. SneM, credit man-
frorn the University of Texas,
will conduct the series which
will extend through August 1st.
The course will begin at 7 :30
o'clock each evening and con-
tinue until 10 o’clock. The fee is
S3 50 per person for the ten-hour
sprips,
Sound practical Ideas to help
open accounts profitably, re-
duce credit risks, increase cre-
dit volume, control accounts
safely and decrease collection
problems will be offered.
Owners and or managers of
stores, credit managers, credit
office employees and salespeo-
ple are particularly invited to
attend. However, the course is
open to all interested persons,
Mrs. Lane said.
Each anrollee will receive
sample credit forms, sample
credit letters and sample col-
lection letters.
The series is sponsored by the
Retail Merchants Association of
(See LOCAL RETAIL. Page Ift)
'No Water, No City'
Cuero City Water Department
Called Most Valuable Asset
By LIN MILLS
Cuero's water system Is the most valuable asset the city has.
That’s the opinion of veteran Water Superintendent Ted Harwood.
He and his crew of seven assistants keep a million and a half gallons of water
per day flowing through 30 miles of mains to meet the needs of 2,400 customers.
“Thus is the most valuable department we have,” Harwood said. “There’s no
way to make water. The water department is absolutely necessary to sustain human
3 Firemen
Complete
Training
life. We couldn't operate a city
without water. Without water,
we would have no town.”
City Manager James Fulton I
describes the w ater system as (■
adequate to inert the commu-
nity's need
"We have no b,£ problems,’'
lie said ‘"Of course, demand,
for water is increasing alt the]
time and we.- need bigger and
better transmission lines to.
Air Traffic
Is Heavy
At Cuero
to™<*»"1—*!“ “*“"iwRSL !££«<£
Friday evening from attending, {Jp s;||f| ^.t(p (.McaMon, ,,, icipal Airpn-t. according
the Texas A&M Firemen's atvlj areas no, yet served me also Farmer manager.;
Fire Marshals' Training Schoolj |M<pf,ed. ytore than 90 per cent! Faimer said this u,is rlic high
of the area inside the City lim-
its has water or access to
am
Car Hits Pole,
Damage Heavy
A 1955 Pontiac driven by a
Kenedy man was heavily dam-
age Friday when it crashed
into a light pole on North Es-
planade.
Calvert Huffmaster Jr., the
driver, was not Injured.
Damage to his automobile
was estimated at $400.
Police said Huffmaster was
attempting to pass a car on
North Esplanade near the Alex-
ander Street intersection, lost
control and skidded sideways
kite a light pole, tearing up the
mtire left tire of the ear.
demand, mains that are not
targe enough, and “dead end”
water lines (those that are no:
looped).
Harwood, who has been water
superintendent for the past 15
years, points out That the basis
of Cuero's water system arc
five wells measuring in depth
from 900 to 1,200 feet and lo-
cated in various sections of
town. They range ir. age Lem
five years to about 50 years. I
The newest well is tcoacted at!
the corner o‘ Morgan and Hut - ^
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Parish House
at College Station July 21-26.
They were Elroy Peters, as-
sistant fire marshal; Joe Trau-, water
twein, full-time fire truck driver I BC)(0r water
and David Heyer, junior mem-
ber of die Cuero Fire Depart-
ment.
David's late grandfather, Ro-
I bert Heyer Sr., was chief of the
local department for many
years.
His late uncle. Joe Heyer, was
also a hired member of the de-
partment for years.
Fire Chief Lester Frees said
Peters took an advanced course
for fire marshals; Trautwein
studied pump maintenance and
young Heyer took the basic fire-
man’s course.
Approximately 1,700 men en-
rolled in the 34th Training Sch-
ool and of these, 290 were vet-
eran firemen and manufactur-
ers who served as instructors.
| The participants came from
: more than 400 lifexas towns. a-|rhcson. WRKtKs Kill, l.nxo core.':'.' • ;h 'V ,V: rhd.occ- m
bout 20 other dtbteSj arid three Each well is able to juduu'A1 v TIN <1 PI > Ilvur-lmc. bu.l-i.n-, bo#-,. ;-cg i-duig the
foreign countries. Some mili-j 54M> to 800 gallons pci minute of'been l.OSti fata: nG idrnts 'it; pis.-v,
I tarv'personnel were also inciud-l 87-degcce water from various , Texe-. Highways l;u this \car Bids' wii: 'lie >■ "J August'
(See S FIREMEN. Page !•) i (See ClERO WATER. Page 4) causing 1.308 deaths. 'll... !
Flood Plan
Application
Due Soon
Application for - federal assis-
f tance in ttic proposed flood pre-
vention project north of Cuero
probably will be made by mid-
August .
That was the indication this
weekend from County Judge
George Trow ell.
He said Hugo Bachic, secre-
tary' - treasurer of the DeWitt
County Soil Conservation Pis-1
I riot. is staled to mocf w it h the
(-(Minty commissioiici s coin i ai
the 'regular''.August iiieehn-' on
the L'lll
judge-- Trow ell ,.ud lie e.\
[Jr-, led the 4 litll l (• * ld.pl L Jr
oloiu.n ".tnd f-.j it.* ,i't and
-end II in |o Itie pit,-inmeni
He titrleil . "i **\|.etd. this J
Li 11 IT i ■ lo be closed 4. d and in
tin' mail in. the. n< \t i-ouple id 1
w (‘i'';s. '
The county, the <-;|j and the
diaitia-.-.e district, have agreed
to • i4-s| -insol llic project hr
(Minted out
I/wal Tost, to lie split three
ways hay l«-< n <> tnnated a1
V’l.OtRj while the federal gov-i
erntneai would -pciri .-uine-
tliing ‘ike S.it/h tlf)li, if the prn-
iec.t unproved
f ill small wain lied m> Ind !
l.j.MXc ,i< iey. Tv-o creeks on
.... __ side of tne Yoakum
of planes coming in in May. ! highwa- are niosttv responsible,
AU types privately and com-! for (h,. -i,ng.' Something!
pany owned, stop olf at the air-' (Se(, n/K)I> pi.w Page Id)
port most of them utilized by
students, cattlemen flying in on
business and men on oil com-
pany business Som^ contain' _ ..
persons coming in for a brief q IQS C_Q I I GO
visit with relatives and Iriends
Farmer,.-known as the "good-.: The Re 1 /onaid Mai'raj
will ambassador” ■ of Oteros ;jor 0t q,iv Gady of
New Earth Tremor
Rocks Yugoslavia
Express Train Loaded With Vacationers
Reported Lost In Devastated Community
SKOPJE, Yugoslavia —4UPI)—
A new tremor rocked earth-
quake - devastated Skopje Sat-
urday as U. S. planes began a
massive mercy airlift and Pre-
sident Tito inspected the ruins
of the once bustling "model
city” under Which thousands
were feared still buried.
In Munich, West German
railway officials disclosed that
the crack Hellas express train
loaded with hundreds of vaca-
tioning foreign tourists was
missing in the earthquake zone.
They said the Atheas - to - Dort-
mund trair. was due in Skopje’s
main station when the quake
struck, heavily damaging the
terminal. It has not been
heard from since.
Tiie new shock was describ-
ed as “minor” and failed to
ruffle Tito who never flinched
as the earth wobbled under him
as he toured the ruined main
square that bears his name in
this city of 200,000.
A rescue center spokesman
told newsmen the final death
toll would reach at least 2,000.
But unofficial reports said
thousands may have been kill-
ed in the quake that destroyed
about 80 per cent of this Mace-
donian capita] that was to have
been the slxnv-place of Yugo-
slav communism.
The rescue spokesman said
800 bodies had already been re-
covered from the rubble and
said another 2.000 persons had
been hospitalized.
An estimated 100,000 persons
were, homeless.
Yugoslav officials announced
the U. S. Air Force had laun-
ched a major mercy airlift to
bring aid to the shattered
town. They said 27 U. S. Air
Force transports were starting
to arrive at Belgrade airport
at 30-minute intervals.
Each plane carried ions of
American medical aid. blan-
kets and other supplies. In-
cluded in the aid shipments
was an entire U. S. Army field
hospital to minister to the
stricken city. The hospital will
house 120 beds and be manned
by more than 200 U. S. Army
personnel. The mercy planes
were flying in 30 ambulances
and other vehicles for the hos-
pital.
President Kennedy expressed
sorrow over the disaster in a
letter to Tito and announced he
had asked Defense Secretary
Robert McNamara to offer the
help of U. S. forces in Europe
The Soviet Union announced
it was sending 50,000 rubles
($50,500) worth of medicines
and food to the earthquake vic-
tims.
Pope Paul VI, in messages to
Yugoslav prelates, said he was
'‘stricken with great grief.” He
(See NEW TREMOR. Page 10)
Company B
Names Top
Guardsman
The enlisted men of Cuero's
Company B have named S/Sgt.
August V. Williams, 29, as the
"Outstanding National Guards-
man for Summer Field Train-
ing" at Fort Hood this month.
He was presented with a
targe trophy that hears the
names of two other recipients
of the award — M/Sgt. J. J.
Hutchison and M/Sgt Lebelle
Kuecker.
Williams is a resident of Vic-
toria, where he coaches B
Team football in the high
school. He gradualed horn high
scho4)l in Yoakum. where he
played on the football team j water!'
OWN 1ALK
By LIN MIIJ.S
Managing Eldtor
Lions Will
Send Girl
““oBNT -*c,m To Seminar
munity that has hospital pro-
blems.
The hig hospitals in the big
cities do, loo.
Jerry Mauer, former Cuero-
ite now living a' 3403 PoUydale
in San Antonio, recently went
to work as one ol two sccretary-
cierks in the surgical suite at 1
Baptist Memorial Hospital.
"There is a very grave need j
for people in this profession,’ |
stie writes. "San Antonio is
fast becoming a medical center
and the demand for qualified
people is constant anil growing.
Maybe you could stimulate a
compromise campaign — Take
our young people, but not our
that went to the state finals.
He received his degree from
San Marcos State Teachers
College
Sgt. Williams’ wife is Ihe for-
mer Sac Turk of Yoakum. The
couple have two little boys.
Williams has 11 years of ser-
vice in the National Guard. He
is a lank commander and pla-
toon sergeant.
Ciipt. I^ltoy Cobh, com-1
mantling officer of tiie Cuero1
unit, described Williams as "an I
example of a typical Texas Nat-1
tonal Guardsman of die 3(>lh I)i-1
vi-ion, joyal anil deda aled "
Williams" was selei leil by a^
\ i,a- nt Hie enlistcil neii he
si i \ «.-J u itli Die election was
i i«ilitm led tiv secret ballot
'It's an inspiring dung " C.ipt.
( Y/l >f» .I'itil
"Seriously, most young people
in considering a future in the
profession, think only in terms
of med school, nursing and the
years of technical training re-
quired. They cast the idea aside
(See TOWN TALK, rage ft)
At the regular monthly meet-
ing of tiie txmrd of directors of
the Lions Club this week several
items were taken care of, ac-
cording to Howard Kleincckc
president.
The hoard voted to send Lynda
Peters to die youlh seminar in
Austin in August which was cal-
led by Attorney General Wag-
goner Can-.
The club sponsored Lyrvla t. >
Girls' State in Juno.
Girls and hoys who attended
Girls and Boys State in June
have been invited to be guesi-
of the club August 7.
Fifteen Lillie Leaguers, die
all-stars, and two coaches were
invited to attend next Wednes-
day s meeting.
Three hunilred dollars in the
genera] fund were transferred
to the educational fund Tins
(See LIONS WILL. Page 10)
Brand New Uniforms
Ordered For Champs
Cuero'.a disliii t i liuiiipiuu Lil-
lie l.rugilrjS wi'fl hive bl'aUit
rie-.i uniform In wear next I'hur
».ljy at dil in Lulin* when they
June,
Mun-
< IV-n
CSt iiii:ill»cr 4-ri-drrJcd foi
month this 'year
May had die kivve.t number
pressure j- with only 160 dropping in
something else die city is work-j Usually mere n an a'eiage ",
ing at all the time Pressure is j 200- a month.
generally good, except when; Farmer• said i|c c/Miti".’ 11' ..........
demand is high at peak periods | count for the drop in the number ,|)f> ea^,
during the summer.
Main causes of low water
pressure include sudden heavy
pa*-
,,,a, _____, ^. Guadalupe
Aviation group, is usually on j Church rrn id - plans are going
hand when the plane starts n'*-j forward for .'construction of a
mg down for a landing. If he parrh hr ,-r for the cor~rega-
doesii't beat it to hie ground |oK.
he’s on docket shortly after it) Rev Murra. .r, cor/.pany with
lands. j j C'loaiiv! .Stiinm architect. I
..vent o «,m \nuin/i Friday to
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SCiT. AUGUST V WILLIAMS
Top Enlisted Man of Cuero Company
- CUERO RECORD STAFF PHOTO
j play La tiie :4"ii ll trt.r-
Dle -Vit Sij/s nqi ttie di-itn,:
title Si-7 m an excirmg battle Fii
i itay /light (see ,(«j( t- pagei
j Mayor Hill N inu .ml ia! •:
day morning a collection was
• being taken up am mg Limits-1
men to buy t:lw new unitm-ns
i They'll be gray w ith black trim,
j "Cuero'' in black letters will be
! spelled out across the toin* and
! the woirls "All Stars" will- ap-
! [y'-,r m black (»| the gray caps
| There I] be numbers on the
j backs of the uniform'
Narni reported early Saturday
| that $35 of die necessary $125
! had already been raised. He
1 was confident there would be no
difficulty in obtaining the rest of
the money needed to send the
team into tiie sectional clash in
first class dress.
"Tubby" Krueger, president
(Hen New Uniforms. Page i«>)
School Budget
Discussion Due
Cuero school trustees Tuesday
night will oonside-- tiie proposed
tentative budget for 1963-1964
A number at teacher appli-
cants and consideration of the
school depository for the 1963-
64 and 1964-65 school years also
Will be brought up at the snecial
meeting.
Last vear» bnt£v was air
JTViTK;'
Public hearing tin the new bud-
ges K slated for Aug 39.
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