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VOL. 65—NO. 68
‘A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS ITS COMMUNITY
t lERO. TEXAS, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 12. 1959
Tho Woathor
HOCTH CENTRAL TEXAS —
Mostly cloudy with slowly
Irmprnlurrt through Friday.
Scattered showers today.
10 PAGES — PRICE 5e
f flown Talk Freeze May
* " 1 ■ -« it pniicA
It is quite refreshing to
see baseball interest at such
a high pitch as it is in our
neighbor city of Victoria
Just prior to opening of
spring training for the 1959
season and Just prior to a
spring major exhibition
game that will pit
ton Red Sox of the Ameri-
Cause New
Peru Flood
PERU. Ind. fPl A hard freeze
threatened to dam an ire gorge
and send new floodwaters surging
over the hanks of the Wabash
River today at Peru, where 1.200
the Bos- families already have been evac-
uated.
Overnight readings dropped to
call League against the Chi- 10 degrees, freezing floodwaters
cago Cubs Of the National Standing in streets and narrowing
. . and ire gorge four miles down-
League on April ith. stream which is backing the riv-
Tuesday night, February er into this city of 12.000 popu-
3rd more than 110 fans lation.
turned out, despite rainy 'Vabashh, •**>" , ™e*'n*
weather, to attend a Bud degt hjt city along the course of
Booster club barbecue at the rampaging river, after reach-
Aloe Field gym. Among mg its highest flood stage in 46
years Wednesday. The river drop-.
gym.
baseball notables present ped al(OUt one and one . half (eet
were Dick Butler, president to « level of 22 5 feet
of the Texas League and < aH <>M Rr*r,““ Work
Rhyne Duren of the New d(jring th<> nigh, f0 awa|t devel- (
York Yankees who figured „pments R. A. Tillett. county dis-'
so prominently in recent I aster chairman fur the Red Cross. j
, . . . said an Armv helicopter will fly
world series play. i oyer the flooded outlying area to-
Tuesday evening Febru- d„y to determine if any families
ary 10th the Victoria Base- still »re stranded and direct res-
ball club was hosts to news-1cue h08*®- . ...... |
. Two engineers from Louisville,
paper writers and radio an- ^ arrived in the northern Indi-!
nouncers of the Gulf Coast ana city Wednesday night to sur- j
area with an appreciation vey the ice gorge and determine
, „. . . „ if it would be feasible to try and
dinner at the Victoria Coun- dvnainite the gorge,
try club. Fair and somewhat warmer
Wednesday morning Feb- weather was predicted for Indi-!
, ana today, but weathermen warn-1
ruary 11th business man- ed of heavy rain „ the
ager Mack Davenport of the area Friday.
Rosebuds and Elmo Estes. The ice - jammed floodwaters
ripped through sandbagged levees . grass
State Trooper,
Long Neighbor
Testify Today
IHi MAI IINCOIN—These are photos of earliest known portraits of Abraham Lincoln and his
wife, two daguerrotypes given to the Library of Congress in 11137 by the Lincolns' granddaugh-
ter. They were restored at the George Eastman House In Rochester, N. V.. by a new process
developed at the Missouri Historical society. The portraits will be displayed in the Lincoln Sea-
qtnccntennial exhibition upening in the Library of Congrcas Feb. 12, marking birthday of Lmroln.
150th Anniversary
Congress Gathers To Honor
Memory Of Abraham Lincoln
By JAMES BAAK
United Press International
WASHINGTON I’PI The Con-
or the Uniled States gnth-
super Bud booster were in
Cuero wth tilckets for the
Victoria insurance man and w^sdayrinundating^he south- ered in .joint session today with
west section of the city with as; pomp and humility to honor the
mns«ti m of water memory of Abraham Lincoln.
The death toll in the storm The occasion : The 150th nnnl-
Boston-Chicago game. A mounted to at least 41. including versary of the birth of the first
limited number Of tickets 22 persons killed in Tuesday's tor- Republican president in a ven-
.... now ftn sal. at the C07V nado in St. Louis. There were 3 tucky log cabin
are now on sale at the Cozy blamed d<>aths each in southerner and Northerner -
Nook Confectionery and Illlnoi|1 Michigan. Ohio and Wit- Democrat and Republican came
are going fast according to consin. 2 each in Arizona and In- together to hear poet Carl .ani-
diana. and 1 each in Iowa. New burg praise Lincoln as the man
; York state and Pennsylvania.
will.
The last time Congress met in
joint session to honor Lincoln was
a 1 old rainy Monday. Feb. 12,
186(1.
The great Civil War had ended
less lhan a year before Lincoln
was dead murdered. The South nay night at a
was a wasteland conquered, town Washington officially opened
Hate seeped through the land.
Now. . .90 years after Gettys- j
burgh. . .98 years after Bull Run
. . .a century after John Brown. !
Congress met in joint session
again.
President Eisenhower Wednes-
day night at a dinner in down-
No Signs
Of Break
In Strike
PORT ART!II'It. Tex , Fell 12 j
—iCI’li Tight-lipped negotia-
tors and n federal referee con-1
tinned talks liehind closed titans
today with no signs of a break in
the strike that has crippled Gulf,
Oil s huge refinery and thrown
5,7(H) workers out of jobs.
Gulf officials and a workman’s
committee of the Oil. Chemical
anil Atomic Workers Cnioti. head-
ed by E. R. McAdams, met with
Rav Majuro. a federal medator
from Houston.
Neither side would comment on
the progress of Inc talks, which
started Tuesday.
The strike was called Jan. 26
when negotiations between the
company and union broke down.
Picket lines were thrown up. and
and since have spilled over to
J*
$4
m
'WOODEN OVERCOAT’ — Lionel
Rowley, Carpenters union busi-
ness agent in Dea Moines, Is,
tells the Senate labor rackets
subcommittee tn Washington
ihnt he was cursed and told ha
would be eent home tn a "wood-
en overcoat" when he tried to
complain about union corrup-
tion at a Carpenters convention.
Riebschla-
manager Frank
ger. ,
The Buds open the Texas
Leage season in Victoria In
April.
* * *
While baseball interest Is
at a lever pitch in Victoria
it appears quite
that the Cuero Turkey Trot-
who enabled that union to pre-
Student
Wins Award
World Day Of Prayer
Service Friday Night
The World Day of Prayer ser-
unlikely vice to start at 7:30 Friday night
at First Presbyterian Church will
... . . . .. afford Cuero
ters will put a team in the to
field this year. It is not that throughout the world in a bond of
sufficient good material
available but because
is prayer.
The influence of the day is felt
°* around the world and carries on
the year as we share
"Good education keeps growing
if fed by your interest. Visit our
schools during Public Schools
Week."
This is the slogan that has iroon
chosen for the local observance
of I'lllil!»• Schools Week March
2-fi. It was written by Kathryn
Warren, eighth grade student.
The need for funds to carry on Mrs. Earl Eveis, Junior School
all of thse proircts is reported print ipal. aw aided Kathryn $1 foi
to be great and it is suggested winning first plate in the slogan
that the need determine the gift.
Appearing on the program I ri-
serviee stations in the area sell- -d -d T a
1 ing Gulf products. ; I I iTlOlIGS
Both sides hurled public |
charges and counter-charges.
J Gulf accused the union of "fea-
I (her bedding using more
| workmen than was necessary.
1 Gulf said it cost "millions'' last
a year-long series of programs I year.
celebrating the sesquiecntennial I he union said this was
of Lincoln's birth. wash" and charged that
But the full measure of the tri- company was conducting an in- Qf yCar- >j\vo inches were rec-
laim to Lincoln was to lie seen tensive newspaper campaign to! r . r„,rv ,
on Capitol Hill. , spread "false facts” concerning . ‘ .
The program was simple: | the disagreement. I Wednesday. fall brought the
—The Army Band and a Coast j The company offered to pro- year's total to 3.6 inches.
Guard Academy choir filling the dticc its hooks to hack up its High and low temperatures for
House chamber w ith "Dixie” and j "feather - bedding" accusations, j th# 24-hour period which ended
The Battle Hymn of the Repub- Th„ was the announced topic m ? am ^ ^ M and 45
“hog-
thc
dies.
In-service training is provided
in Sunday Schools, clinics, day
Christians the op- nurseries, kindergartens and so-
join with others rial services
lie."
Actor Kredric March reading
Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address."
Sandburg, whose six - volume
hiograph of Lincoln has become
a classic, delivering an 18-minute
poem in prose.
The guest list for the joint ses-
sion included every top official
and diplomat in the nation's cap-
ital,
of discussion in the mediation
talks hut observers say the
issue is so closely related to the
actual strike the discussions
probably would include other ma-
jor issues.
The workman's committee, If
it should reach an agreement to
end the strike, could recommend
a vote by the 4,6(8) union mem-
liers at the plant.
Companion
Of Long In
Courtroom
Tennessee State Trapper Walter
Duffy testified Thursday morning
that identificiation papers owned
hy A. B. Lippman were discovered
! May 20. 1958, when he apprehend*
led William G. Long in Browna-
I ville. Tenn.
Long, charged with the May If,
11958, double slaying of Mr. and
Mrs. Lippman. was arrested by
| Duffy at € :45 p.m.
| In addition to the identification
papers. Duffy’s examination of
of Long'a car also disclosed •
loaded .22 automatic rifle and a
five-gallon gas can.
George Dickey told the court
earlier this morning that a .21
automatic rifle, a ,16-guage shot-
gun and five-gallon gas can had
been taken from hit farm.
Dickey, a neighbor of the Lipp-
mans, employed Long on Me farm.
A rifle, shotgun and gas can
introducted by the state were id*
entitled by Dickey. The defense
ofjected display of the exhibits,
hut was overrulled by District
Judge Howard P. Green.
Dickey said his relatione with
Long had always been pleasant.
When asked by the defense if
he thought Long knew right from
wrong, Dickey replied that from
his observations ha definitely be-
lieves the defendant knew the dif-
ference.
Next on the stand was Monroe
Shield, filling station attendant
from Columbus, who identified
lying as the man ha purchase a
,16-guage shotgun from on the
morning of May 30. According to
Shield's story. Long had a flat
tire fixed at the station and told
Shields he needed money to get
to Louisiana.
, „ , Sandra A. Powell, who waa with
waters across Indiana and Ohio. r when he was picked up in
Mostly fair skies prevailed over- !TennessWj was in the courtroom
today, but It was not known If
Rain Here
The second general rains of Feb-
ruary fell Thursday, leaving an
official 1.1 inches precipitation.
This was the second heaviest fall
The forecast for today was
cloudy and warmer, with spotted
showers.
A storm which blew itself out
in the East today left 22 tornado
dead in St. Louis and spread flood
( oiliest
A committee of teachers select
ehoir of the cdjhe winning slogan ami made
Trotters had . poor *£T' Jo ZS Z& m ......\ '*?<«
-aeon In Itw principally
because they had to travel "* ,v“ ,WaH ^ work an' "‘nk
ton, a .stances. .. neavy ex- 7Z"Z^-
petise, to play their games ran Indians, extending aid to |o"
and had to match Interior income families and raising the
teams for their home ®,*"dar'1 of
camps arross the eountrv.
games or bring in distant Part „f the (,f,enng is used over-
teams at heavy expense. 5f as for leadership training in
i,. .r * Christian education, higher cdu-
„ .. . , cation, aid to overseas students
If the Trotters do not play and Q,ristian pterature. (Tirist-
there is going to be lots of ,an leaderers are trained to as-
baaeball at Cuero Park some responsibility for develoji-
. nient within their own com mu n-
BUdium. The Cuero High 111 1____
Gobblers open their 16 game
season on March 3rd. In ad-
dition there will be Little
League and Teen Age base-
ball and Fred Pridgen s Lone
Stars will again take the
field.
Texas League baseball at
Victoria takes nothing
away from the sport In
Cuero but it does give local
fans an opportunity to wit-
ness professional games
without having to travel to
Ban Antonio. Houston or
Austin as in the past.
Church Women contribute-
Everyone is cordially t°
attend this service of v.i ,-iup.
Families ere urged to < ome and
to sit in family groups__
Karen OJien, third place; and
Carols ri Walker. Ilamia Wallace
ami J.ai ry Keesler, honorable
mention.
Aim of the week-long otiservan-
1 e is t > better ed:n ate the eiti/.ens
.,f Cuero < om erning the puhlir
vlii*'! s\.-te;:i that is theirs and
to (rive each and every citizen
,, r\ til,- si n#,ols a v 11 :t
Public Economy Plea
Is Light-To-Moderate
the eastern two-thirds of the na-
tion for the first time this week.
Flood waters in Peru, Indiana,
forced evacuation of 1,200 persons
Wednesday.
Atomic Weapons Supply
Plan Worry To Kremlin
BIBLE VERSE
They cry. hut iwse (Beth
inwtr.—Jek X:l!.
We cannot deride in what
manner and at what time
God shall reveal Himself to
us. He ctsjoses His own t*ay
tnd Hu own time If v*e
* *Tie <for wives s.ient atui
* listening 1* would hcip more
ih»n »htv \r.z »cd dee r>
10« jI SX cr.
Missile On
Flight Two
CAPE CANAVERAL Kia
Fe!.. 12 *rPI>— A Snaik
missile v ith one round trip al-
ready behind it waa off again
down the Atlantk tracking range
today
Thie Air Foret aatti hs tixivty
weapon rumbling away horn the
test center Ju-t l^foie
dawn for a not liar abet k on its
guidance system.
The 67-foot long Snark the na-
•ior - first ocran-apannmg nn-
sile. was expected la be flown at
least 1 000 miiee. Tha Air Force
planned to turn it arour.d then
ard attempt to land It safelj at
a skid strip bark at th* cape.
This part iutar Snark made a
similiar trip in aa earlier test
and was receive rad intact for the
new fiigi'4.
Unlike a ballistic missile, the
Snark has wings and a tail as-
setnbiy and travels within the
earN'Cs aimosphesa. It 1* m ef-
ta; ft- " boml<e. « apab."
’ rvc 1 hvd oger '» head
c Z‘.’j r.tties.
BONN Feb 12 -UPD- **-
i viet dipkimals lave hut tl.it
their pt u r f<ir di'-*pp.n:; tinea’s
of a new Berlin blockade mivlit
be cancellation ef Wc 'em plans
to pmv ide atomu we'ipo: ^ for
West Germans s growing aim; .
In talks with West Get man
newsmen, these dipiemat.. p.o
fess wholehearted a-rcc rr< nt
v« ith tie Western s'and that
th» ie f-hstll tie "nci 1 on'ft? ons
concession" a promise- to fir< p-
Th'v say that piar.% s:*J»I«iy
«c.„ t,et 1 -an troop- ' fh A-n-
1 :»an--.acje atomic v.e;.p.<r,r
(au-e -he K-eml.n rr-nh n:'ie
ccir.ceiu than the f c!er.<e cf to-
l:cti
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Roof Al New High
School Repaired
Payne Roofing Co cn San An-
tonio Tuvsdav made skv light
leak repairs at Cue-.o H gh
Sc ? c^l.
> .1 7 t '! ': T »,rcc s- •; •*»
•oct ««>. ...a g .a c- . . . i- r,
but nas since Gen repaired. The
r«-p*irs e-..!--nt v uric - es>-
1 i.l since- a-ic.i nn_- M • I * m-
r.ejl. tre r e' h » t«.: . . .« .r-
mg iccent rams.
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say pnv.it'h
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r > hr*
mi\ i# T
t(.r :i fn r*»
..f l auding cue , control
B ,.n iiafiic to local
.n*—t ■ in N.-1 > .-■
' . :.i th-v shrug, "the
t, • ;.| have- to le ave
• -i 1 1. 1 ee vc-ais.
. !:- -. -i.d not amplilv
; 11- |. 1 ■ n.clic that
vi.i pi-.f-sf tins bargain to
, Mini-'* r Ilaicild Mac Mil-
■i • of Mciscow next
r r. lid I CSOIli it (<l: mailv at
r. r ,-.< -i d |.,g j-'enji ronfe-en-
' 11 i‘-- i i.n.
ihr-v ti. -.c- high hopes tha'
ban
fac eel
1 a.-iy
with tnc- pios-
c iection at *
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c-r..
WASHINGTON UPT Congres-
sional mail indicated tndav Presi-
dent liiscnhower has failed to
whip up stong "grass roots" pres-
sure on the lawmakers to hold
the line- cm government spending.
Key legislators, with a few e\-
e options, reported they are get-
ting only a light - to - moderate
volume of mail urging Congress
to economize.
They said "balance - the -bud-
get letters from back home have
linked up noticeabley in recent
uf-cks in the wake of the Presi-
dent's re|a-ated public pleas for
cm ononiv
But congressmen agreed that
the current volume ju-l doesn't
cf.mpaie with the flood <>f ant>-
-[icnding mail generated t-.vo ve-
.-tis age, by George VI. Humphrey,
ttien secretary c>f tlic Treasury,
in a thinly-sfiled attack on the
President's awn budget Humph-
rey said in J.muat .. 19V7. th it
unless fedc iiil s[ienchng wcie cut.
there would be a depression that
will curl your hair Scion there-
after. the folks hark home took
pc n in hand to demand ec onomy
Evangelist And
Singer Return To
(uero March 4th
c,r- )r- I Evangelist Quay Par-
mer an'! Singer Karl Ward will
return to filer, for their third
ronse utive year to direct pre-
;! ■ cc ;c-. •> :i 1 -orvices at
r : -• Vr:< ■ diSj (’h .r< h.
, . -< < - -. . ;*.:'in ’larch
• • r. tor*. Jgh M.- - li 1
..... ,11 U- i.« -• at
id a a,-.i 7 Vi pm
i i* Nc-ai and members
■ >f tr... nuicti invites! tbc- [ieopie
■ « e ’ticfy " - >und.rfc fAi.-
.n. .rut e- to^arclftb
Although a survey showed that
Congress isn't gc-ttrng any such
deluge of anti-spending letters
this year. Republican House lead-
er Charles A. Halleck Inrl. has
assured tlie President that his
balance - the - budget campaign
is c atching fire in the grass roots
Halleck wrote the President
Monclay that he has received thou-
sands of letters from all over the
nation pledging "all out support"
(or the* President's balanced bud-
get H<- sent a f«-w sample letters
to Eisenhower "to encourage you
to keep up the good fight for
thrift in government
-But House la-tnoc ratic Header
John W McCormac k's office said
tic- has icicived only five letters
thus year urging a balanced bud-
get _
Explosion Fatal To
Four Investigated
By Company Officials
PI III J J PSBU RG, N. J. Feb.
12 <UPii Ingersoll - Rand
Co. investigators today sought
the cause of an explosion which
killed four men and injured 28
other employes of the heavy
machinery plant
A turbine-driven air flower
exploded on a testing stand Wed-
nesday and blew out the east
end of a block-and-a-half long
building It showered debris a
quarter mile atvay and shook
buildings over a five-mile radius.
Two men .standing under a 15-
foot high testing platform were
killed hy the rxplc/sion. Two oth-
ers died later at Warren Hospital
of in janes suffered in tie blast.
she would appear on the stand.
Key witnesses in testimony giv-
en Wednesday afternoon were,
(Continued on Page I0»
National Corporation
Commends Cuero Senior
Parker Car
Overturns
Roy Parker of Cuero suffered
a left forefinger cut, which re-
quired five stitches, and a bad
head bruise about 9 a.m. Wednes-
day when his car overturned af-
ter skidding on wet pavement
eight miles north of Sinton.
Parker, who said he was trav-
eling about 55 mph, reported his
1956 Ford two-door turned over
and then returned to rest on its
wheels. A light rain was falling at
the time of the accident.
It is believed that the car is ■
complete loss. It was returned to
Cuero by a Weber Motor C®.
wrecker.
After being released from a Sin-
ton hospital. Parker returned to
Cuero in the wrecker.
lie was traveling from Cuero
to Sinton at the time of the ac*
cident ____
Uthvmsa*"
I -. ,cf
S< fv >1 *.
•v.c r-l< cf
;m ic: f uc ; o High !
■ h.ix been «c,m-
thr National Merit
'■lie >i,p (.I., [p ?C,: his »ii it -
xtavl.rig pcrfcirman'C on a Na-
tionwide- us' of educational de-
•' fr-T*nt
Supf. Iliad M'Donne'1 'aid
h ive her was tG Tcv.is runner-
up in the 1958-59 Merit Scholar-
ship compe'ition
Dust C auses l ire
A’ a i.l. •
(l->w- luri.-icc . :
tha.i uuine, tiib
i aught fire about
u .
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Mr
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i. i'iiu. .c M
5 Mi p 111. We !-
nes-l.iv but c.i'lse!
Fi:e:> en made *
the li'-mc.
no d.image
s.lcnt tun to
John Stalnaker. NMSC ptesi-
students • h'i tc.eivr ire <ont-
mendatton tank in litc top two
•r three |ict cent in ability of the
- mor stiicfrn1 - in their re'pec-
tivc- 'tates
While the student iceeiving
tins c on.-tu-t dation did not quite
tea. Ii the finals of the competi->
fioti, lie has demonstrated highly
sufH-.ior atulity and outstanding
premise to benefit from college
tin -t og " SMlnnl;' - dcclated.
Ill- N’i'C . as ( tubli'hid 111
■V . tin, . ,’l ,|l!t of S.n.5 iml-
ftoi ' <■ rcc.ci Foundation
d ’he < - i ■ (/"ip of New
Yu:.. Ai>. ut Ij ton.panics, loun-
dalaais and other organizations
■ bannel tfn-ir m holarship funds
direct ly
g. am.
thiough the Merit pro
CIVIl WAR: American Infantry
soldiers er* often «sll*d "dough,
boys " Th* nem* storied during
the Civil Wer when U. S. troop*
wo -* uniforms with I erg* round
buttons I
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