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Partly C!ou3y
Partly cloudy and warm
through Sunday. A few late af-
ternoon thundershowers Sunday.
Low Saturday 65-72, high Sunday
12-90. Probability of rain Sun-
day 20 per cent for Cuero, Gcw-
tales, Yoakum and Yorktown.
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VOL. 73 NO. 243
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" "A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS ITS COMMUNITY”
Sunday
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CUERO, TEXAS 77954. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1967
10 PAGES — 10t
people Gobblers down
Sinton, 14-6
in District Win
in the
NEWS
WILUAM d-ARENCE MUSK
EX JR., 18, erf San Angelo.! The Cuero
was found guilty Saturday of from behind to
&"?•"*£ InV-n DistrW 14AAA over | Refugio No'vem^r
Gobblers came 27. Flour Muff comes to town
win their sec- November 3, the Gobblers go to
10 and the
for the death of Larry Dan Wes- th* Sinton Pirates 14-6 Friday final game of the season is slat-
brook, 17. night at Gobbler Stadium. ; ed for Gobbler Stadium with
Westbrook was killed Oct. 29.! . s ^ riday night victory Robstown November 17.
1966, in a Town and Country | |,le Gobblers a 3 won, j in other District 14-AAA ac-
Stnre in San Angelo, wh~re he' •hree Ins.* season record and t|on Friday night, the Beeville
worked ait n clerk. The murder, stand 2 wins and 2 losses Tnijans
happened during a robbery.
(Bee PEOPLE. Page 1»)
Draft
calls
seven
, , picked up their first
,in district play. Sinton with a conference win defeating Flour
I 1*’p stali ,,u<* ,r> Hurrican Beu- Bluff 55-0. The Trojans are 2-3
PAKISTAN PRESIDENT MO-i1,,h' ls 22 fo> (ht‘ season and 1-1 on (he season and 1-2 in district
IIAMMAD AYI R KHAN will districtwise. ! while Flour Bluff is 0-5 and 0-3
visit France for four days be- After to scoreless first period, j Robstown’s Cotton Pickers
ginning Oct. 17, the Foreign tf,e Pirates picked up six points1 ..kfd out an 18-13 victory over
Office announced, lie is expect- early in the second with quarter- the Pleasanton Ragles and Re-
ed to meet w ith French'. Presi-j*>"ck Owrles Land going inj'/ugio’s Bob Cats took the Bears
dent Charles de Gaulle to dis-;f,,r Ihe TT> from the Gobblers af West Oso 14-10. West Oso
cuss the Middle Fast, nucelar three yard line climaxing an 80 , was previously unscored on.
arms non proliferation a bilate-, yard drive. A kick for extra j
ral trade agreement and indo-; I*>*nt failed. | Score by quarters :
Pakistan arms "imbalance .” With three minutes remain- ■ Cuero .................«... 0 6 8 0—14
----- j ing in the first half, the Gob-Sinton -......
PHILIPPINE PRF.KIDENT bier* stiuck back. John Clarke
FERDINAND E. MAIMYM gave intercepted a Pirate pass on
outgoing V. S. Ambassador the 38 to initiate the drive. , f irst Downs
William McCormick Htair Jr. The Gobblers picked up 12 V/'1 ?,a , PushlnK
yards via the air and fleet Eu- rli't Y:iri^s Ibissing
gene Wesley carried to the Sin-iPtUiS<>s Attempted,
ton six in a couple of ground;Pases Completed
plays. Halfback Mark Fischer Basses Ifderoepted by 5
took the pigskin in from thatlNumber of P1*"*’ • 7
point for the s, ore Jim Mayer's Pun,inR Avpra*e 47‘
j kick for extra point was off the */>st on ^
mark and the half ended with the j V(ls- Lott on Ponnlf)PS 70
i score knotted at six and six. j '
' Curro's go-ahead score came
with two minutes and nine soc-j
ond* left in the third period
Tire Gobblers took a Sinton pun!1
on their own 32 from where the
, . r. , , flt«k moved in for the score
Se..an DeWitt and Golmd Mark KudM.r UK)k Ihf. Ull)
county men will leave Monday I foP tfu. siv ,n„ ani1 quarlOT_,
moving from Selective service b,<ck ^ CWk ^1
Heard .54 In Oien, for- indtictkm ,,i|vlf, pH(C fop fW()
mm the Army at San Antonio Th, fourth „r wn, SCore-
They are Woodrow Meivin
'ygrffflSjr
1
Gunfire mars
Yom Kippur
holy day rites
By EIJAY SIMON Yom Kippur was shattered
JERUSALEM 6 PI) Israeli shorti-v before 8 a.m. with small
and artillery blazed away at |of Sheikh Mohammed near the
each other across the River, Jordan on the Jordanian side of
Jordan Saturday in a 45-minute *he river.
sol-! Israeli officials said the flw»
was concentrated on Israeli
ARMY’S NEW DEFENSE—Thla ls a unit of the IT.S. Army's new Chaparral Air Defense
System, to provide low altitude air defense. It utilizes an adaptation of the Sidewinder
air-to-air missile In a ground-to-air arrangement The multiple missile turret ls mounted
on an XM-730 tracked vehicle. The weapon is produced by Phllco-Ford’s Aeroneutronic
Division at Anaheim. Calif.
firefight that marred the
emn stillness of an Israel ob-
serving its holy day of atone- bank, in tern(o;y formerly
m?nt . , !by Jordan. They returned the
Israeli officials reported one !ire with tanks and u ht anns
Israeli wounded. Broadcasts by Hn(1 the fighting escalated int0 .
| Amman % Radio Jordan said sharp clash for 45 minutes
(Israeli fire wounded seven civil-
! ians, including three women,
0 6 0 0-6
Cuero Hinton
. 10 12
140 107'
73 3!
11 15,
. 5 ii
Friday afternoon
Wreckers ring down old jail
Arab dispatches to Beirut,
and ruined three buildings. It! ed'one" hou^ 'and '^Israeli
said a five-year-old boy was|forces suffered casualtles and
mining. losses of military equipment.
Ihe {ieaee of the holy day of | The shooling was the onIy ^
cident reported on Yon Kippur
as Jews converged on Old
Jerusalem’s Wailing Wail for
penitential prayers. Until the
June 5-10 war when Israel seiz-
ed the Jordanian sector of the
city, the wall had been forbid-
den to the Jews of Israel.
The armed forces maintained
„ , , readiness status, but on this day
names of some oMhe more than | of dayg the country virtu^lly
Pope gift
to be sold
at auction
NEW YORK (ITD — The boje-
arm.v kitchens and ran-
Wagner, county commissioners, I had remained in the state withi | u f n|
who were in office when the ! built-in gallows, was more or JJJK for ie fSt that ^
_____________building was constructed in! a problem for a lot of peo-j^^nT ™ the fast that ia
., _ 00 tJie ,E B. Markowsky, L. A. Buehr- 1917-18. ! P^- And not only the ones lock-
“/h1* .f»n|1ay 4 i **• BiU Hartman, Ray Mor- To some people the thud ofjed within.
hall was nulled hi'rh in"fhe 'w1 k(”vs*cy an'f f'- G. Dietze, all the steel on the old landmark! It all started in the eonstruc-
ball was ppi ea high in the sky who occupud the building as i might have sounded like the
and flung with vengeance, or so; '
. 4 , , | It could have been calling the
Traffic stopptd and office; names of John Pace, Gus Lonz,
workers were standing «*» th»!,- — .... . - - .
(See OLD JAIL, Page 10)
it appeared, at the remaining j
concrete skeleton of the 50 year,
old county jail house.
The steel cellhlocks had been
removed from the inside of the
D, *1*1 David Glenn Bu.-nger *** Wl,|i neither team posing a elled papal cross and ring pre-, lock-up and Ihe familiar face
. ' ... .. . serious threat ' sented to the United Nations by of the red brick building strip- ’
and Oiarles Wayne Wanjura of Mike Kf|nrwrdt. the Gobbler Pope Paul VI during his 1965
uiro. •”>r' 1 1 : , senior quarterback and punter visit will be sold at auction for
i.f.gi* h . i v.r •>> an a a-i WitN injured early in the fourth charity Nov. 1, it was announc-
l/7y -"JT'lZ*Tr, rn, ani1 (li(1 k-t back in cd Friday.
Atvirew Cnatles Koenig of I*ol the game. Reports Indicated Sat-j The adornments were ordered
® t iirdny that Reinhardt suffered a s o 1 d by Secretary General
eleven men are slated to go tmdjy hn,jSP<i go,,,. and wd| I Thant. Sharing equally In the
Monday, also for pre-induction ^ available for at least two! proceeds will be the U. N. Oiil-
plivslcAl* weeks and possibly three. j dnrn’s Fund, office of the U. N
ITiey are J« Un ihsrd Black-, ^ Gobblers are scheduled I High Commissioner lor Refu-
weil. Harold Wayne Hartman. mw.t the Apaches in Oofti-j gee». U. N. Relief and Works
f>ed prior to the Friday
out (or up).”
Dr. Jemelka
receives
orientation
break-
Allen Roy Harvey and Hoe /#j^s Eridn\ night at 8 o’clock1 ^Ke,'cv for
Rosales Hernandez Cuero; Den- ;ind have an >n da„. c)f!ob,,r
rus Ray Pakebus' h and Michael
tliarles Sinust, York (own; Mac-1
ario Rpmcriz Cabrera, Golkla;
Deiald Ray Ruppert, Yoakum,
and Refugio B Rodriguez. Belr-
Cl*!!\
Doctor (First Ijeutenanti Er-
Palestine refugees " in D. Jemelka, son of Mr. and
Market
active
Friday
Seventeen bundled cattle, fit-
ly hogs and forty sheep were
mi hand at Friday's sale at the
Otero Livestock Commission
Company's auction ring.
Finley Blackwell, co-owner of
the local ring, reported the mar-
ket very s tive on all classes.
Stocker and feeder calves found
Iota of buyers for all classes.
Prices paid on these were fully j
steady and a little higher In;
spots, Blackwell said
Cows sold gild with prices
paid just a little* off Bulls were
also a little weaker.
Cows with calves sold g<xxl
with lots of Interest In all class-
es
Calve*. Good and choice, 24.00!
to 26.25; Commercial. 2150 to
34 00; Utility. 19.30 to 21.50;
Tight Wt. Stocker Steer Calves,,
31.50 to 34.00; Stocker Heifers,!
36 00 to 29.00; Stocker Year-!
Ilnga, 34 50 to 27.00; Heavy
stoekers 24.00 to 28.00; Heavy
heifers 23.00 to 26.00; Cross bred
Stocker Calves. Steer*. 24.00 to
28.00; Heifers 23.00 to 25.00;
Heavy Weight Bulls. 21.50 to
23.50; Light Weight Bulls. 19.00
to 21.50.
Cows: Good Heavy Weight,
16.00 to 18.00; Cutter Cows, 14.50
817.00; Caner Cows. 11.50 to
Cow and Calf Pairs; Good,
n.00 to 130 00; Medium, 170.00
to 200.00; Aid Worn Out, 130.00
to 170.00
Hoga; Good and Choice 17.00
IB IIJO; Sowa 14.00 ta 16.00:
T.0Q to 12.00 per head.
kNf: Ewes. 6.50 ta 10.00;
Jfcmbs, 16 00 ta 3100; Burks
im tb n.00.
College
Football Scores
in the Near East, and the Free-j Mrs. Daniel E. Jamelka of Rt.
dom from Hunger campaign. j'2, Yoakum, Tex., has completed i
Thant said in giving the Unit-|ibo orientation course for of-
ed Noticns the jewels, the Pope * ficers of the U. S. Air Force
suggested that they be used to Medical Service at Sheppard ;
contribute to the alleviation of AFB, Tex.
human suffering. The cross and The doctor, who recently came
ring originally belonged to Pope;on active duty, was given in-
Pius XII, who was the first, pre- j struction in specialized aero-
Mate elected to the papacy who space medicni subjects and ad-
«-xa» a, Oklahoma 7 (4th Q) j had ever traveled in the United ■ ministrative procedures of the
States. jl'SAF Medical Service.
The cross contains 12 large j He is being assigned to the
round diamonds Weighing 59j 805th Medical Group at W’hite-
carats, 281 small diamonds and j man AFB, Mo., for duty as a
115 small emeralds. The ring veterinarian,
has a large jx md diamond j Dr. Jemelka received his A. A.
weighing 12:75 carats, 110 small-1 degree from Victoria (Tex. ) i
er diamonds and 20 small ru-j College and his D. V. M. degree;
_ 1 from Texas A & M University.'
Houthem «*|. *4, X. Ihune 7
Yale >3, Itroun a
DarUimmith ts Penn •
Ratgera W Delaware it
Navy J7. .Syracuse 14
■ North Car. It II, Maryland 10
Duke 1J, Virginia 6
Michigan 81. 34. Michigan 0
Western Mich. I*. Kent Ht. 7
Kippur observ-
ances.
Rabbis used the occasion to
call on Israelis to develop an
even tighter spirit of unity in
the face of “difficult decisions.”
DE WITT COUNTY JAIL
Committee
wishes
mens names
The DeWitt County Historical
Survey Committee is interested
in compiling a list of persons
who played in the early Turkey
Trot band at the Cuero Band
Stand.
Purpose of tie list is to invita
the surviving men to the dedi-
cation ceremonies of the Early
Texas Bandstand marker to be
; placed in the City Park down-
town Nov. 11 during the Turkey
Trot, according to Mrs. A. W\
Schaffner, president of the com-
; mittee.
She also expressed a desire
to compile a list of the more
that 6,000 men who were con-
nected with Brayton Flying
i School during World War 13.
A marker will be dedicated to
I the school at the same occasion
as the bandstand marker.
Archie Pratt
Centurian observes 110
By JACK RICKMAN
(
Although Tom Pratt was a
The DeWitt County Courthouse! slave, his son was made a frec-
belfry rang out Friday after->?"bef"r* fhe wCT' li 1W"r'
. . , j When he reached the asre of
noon, bong, bong. bong. bong.; about M> Uncle Archie duin-t
and short 1} Rfter 4 p in. im- head west. But. he did move out,
mediately across the street the - _
heavy weight of a wrecking ball!
threw' the final punch wrecking j
the back of an old Cuero land-;
mark, the county jail.
But, at Die same time an
even older “landmark” was a'
long way from being “back!
broken” as he sat rocking in his i A woman lawier turned
New Frontier rocker at his Church work will be the third
home, 504 Schleicher Street. *^e speakers being brought
Archie Pratt was anticipating! by the Episcopal Church wom-
his birthday; the occasion <,t>-! cn’s Association for their month-
served eacii Oct. 15, with today b' program designed to lie of
being the 110th such. interest to the whole parish.
up the famous Chisholm Trail, j His memory* is slow to get I rocking ” there is plenty of tlni#
With such trail personalities as; started today for the 110 years to think about it all.
Sam Coni. “Doc” Burnett and: have taken their toll on his But. maybe he anticipated it
Sam Uenchum. he made several I hearing and seeing, but once I all, for iongivity runs in his
rides up the long trek to Kan-; the question sinks in Uncle j family. Grandma Charlotte Uv-
; Archie can tell you about the j ed to be more than a 100-years-
sns.
Woman speaker slated
for Grace Episcopal
i times when they carried a i old.
The one time Uncle Archie'
was hospitalized back in 196e
due to an upset stomach, he
didn’t want to go home.
He did though, and his young-
est daughter, Cora Mae Bree,
“spare cow dr two” on Die trip
through Indian Territory (Okla-
homa) to let the Indians steal.
“But, we never had too much
trouble with them.”
One time, the centurian re- _______ ________
memhered. he helped to drive is still taking care of him.
to maJor in political science, she about 1,500 head of buffalo up1 As early as Friday cakes and
was graduated from ,he law ;he trail. Mother presents were S5«“J
■school O, St. Marys University,; In 1%3. ten days before the pour into the Fratt home wift
receiving her LL.B. death of the former President; many of the friends and re la-
After law school Miss Villaret John F. Kennedy, Uncle Arc hie! fives wishing him a happy bir&
was employed as auditor in pro j received an engraved greeting i day.
.... j. , . , „ bate matters in the County court congratulating him on reaching! Besides Cora Bree AreM*
Uncle Archie he!;«'d to Recording to Mrs. John BeU, j at Antonio. In 1943 she on- his 106th birthday. It came from, and his wife, the former Maa-
mrve the Irick front Clinton to. P1( Ml {’n • ] listed in the Women’s Reserve the man who started using the1 gie Banks, had five other chit
Die courihouse was; Mary LxMiise Villaret, San An-'of the U. S. Marine Corj's. At Frontier Rocker many a dayjdran.
nio\( eieinlSii. .. was inov- tonio, will sjicak at Proctor Hall| the end of a three year term! after Uncle Archie opened an Still living are Cora Maa
** ** ,he frfs^nt SI,e ol ’ho following a family supper Wed-j she was returned to inactive duty eye. and Lutitia Pratt of Cuero* Mass*
C".U1 <K nesdav fX't. 19, at 6:30 p.m., with ihe rank of captain. Tlie assassinated president. bird Booth of Biddings "and
n Mi 1 rati helped to build Miss Villaret is now director | Tinning to religious work, said that not munv are priviled-: Johnny Pratt of Brady
the coun^v jail liiat was knocked.of tlie Department of Christian;Miss Villaret prepared herself!god to reach the age of 106 <in ‘ ^
down Friday. ! Education of the Diocese '
In 1857, some 20 years after West Texas.
DeW itt county was legally set I
ARCHIE PRATT
110 Years Today . ..
. ^ You would have a hard dm#
of’by taking an M A. at Columbia 1963) and wished ^ the old man noticing that Uncle Archie hag
University. Afterward she se^-lnmny more days <rf rocking. j ta be helped up and down fwZp
. .. na,,vp of •v*n An,on,p* 'Oss-ved three years as director of: One starts to think just what‘his rocker and that his hearing
£-Mucau“,or ,h'
J.e community, son of taking a B A. Degree from the Tapped for national resptosi- j read. KaVe W«u that firm handahai*
(Sea WOMAN, Page ta) And now, “just a sirtui and a that says * Sea you next ym’\
Tom and Qiarlolte Pratt.
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The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 243, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 15, 1967, newspaper, October 15, 1967; Cuero, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth698776/m1/1/?q=Homecoming+queen+1966+North+Texas+State+University: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Cuero Public Library.