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VOL. 66—NO. 216
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CUERO, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1960
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Bid For Cuero
Rodeo Arena Is
Dropped Friday
Cuero Rodeo Association’s fight to get the city to re-
build facilities at the rodeo arena in Cuero Municipal
Park has been given up. Association President Albert
Ley loid the Cuero Record Friday morning.
Ley said the association decided to stop promoting
the project after City Council's Thursday night meeting,
When Council agreed to lease the rodeo grounds for a
two-year period, but refused to rebuild it.
Council's agreement to negoti-
jate a two-year lease was no
I gain at all for local rodeo en-
thusiasts, Ley stated. He said
! the association feels it is evident
that Council does not want to
_____ I rebuild the arena for the good
a* j___ ii 'Of city and rural residents.
NO K0Q60S Al Ley said Council had its mind
made up all along that it did
not want to bring the arena up
to shape.
However, two councilmen, L.
A. Bauer Jr. and Pete Bluntzer,
said at an earlier meeting that
they would like to see the city
undertake the job if the city
would get profits from eacli
show.
Councilmen Bob Wagner and
foTown Talk
Cuero Park
ACROSS THI ATLANTIC ALONi—Jesn La combe itand* In his
21-foot sailboat tt Babylon. N. Y„ after crossing the Atlan-
tic alone from Plymouth. England. The voyage took 69
daya. Lacombe. a Frenchman, lives in New York.
Africa Film To Be
Shown Here Sunday
Cuero City Council which tore
down live fence and stands at
the Cuero rodeo arena three
months ago declined Thursday
night to rebuild the stands so
that two rodeo performances
could be staged here during ihe
Turkey Trot.
Cost of staging the rodeo had
already been guaranteed by a
groyp of local businessmen and
stockmen who had underwritten
$1200 for the purpose. They
planned to turn Ihe profits over
to the Turkey Trot Association
Bill Cusack spoke against the
Billy Graham’s historic 17,000
mile "Safari for Souls” across
Africa is the theme of a new
feature length motion picture,
"Africa on- The Bridge”, which
has its Cuero premiere at First
Baptist Church Sunday at 7:30
p.m.
Photographed in authentic
sound and natural color in 17
Grand Jury
Indicts 4
On Friday
Ferdinand Friesenhahn and
John A. Williams were indicted
on charges of car theft Thurs-
day by the DeWitt county grand
jury. Friesenhahn is charged
with stealing a car owned by
Leo Cowey and Williams was
indicted for taking one owned
by Clifton Weber.
The jury also returned three
other indictments before adjour-
ning for the summer-fall term of
24th District Court. Names of
I three other persons indicted are
being withheld until the parties
! are arrested.
The indictments are for ob-
itaining money with a worthless
J check, theft and forgery of a
prescription.
Members of the grand jury
were R. M. Cranberry of Yoa-
kum, foreman: Elmer G. Wil-
son of Yoakum; Mrs. Agatha
Wagner of Cuero; Carl Hatten-
bach of Westhoff; Charles Mey-
er of Yorktown; Rev. N. A. San-
ders of Cuero; Mrs. Alice Low-
rance of Yoakum; Arthur Koe-
ler of Cuero; Carl C. Adix of
Rt. 2, Yorktown; Dr. Carl Hold-
er of Cuero; Ed Lassman of Rt.
1, Victoria; And J. F. Elder of
Cheapside.
Populous Mi
Now In Range 4|
Hurricane Donna
city putting out an estimated $1,----------
000 needed to rebuild pens and I principal cities across Africa
a fence. They said they believe I from Monrovia, Liberia, to Cai-
the profits wouldn't pay for the ro. Egypt, the document captur-
C0S( jes the spirit of Africa during
,u .R. _____________ Cusack said the park fund isithese current crucial years.
to help defray expenses of the already in the rod and the city! Frequently called “The Awak-
celehration. * has a'long way to go before ening Giant", Africa is depicted
Councilmen Bob Wagner and completing its current fiscal!to be in a transition period on
Billy Cusack opposed rebuilding | year. Wagner said earlier that i a bridge — between ancient trip-
the stands under any conditions, he wonders if there is a large alism and the shining 80** 0
Councilmen Bauer and Blunt- number of people here w h o ] independence from colonial rule,
zor said they would vote to re- would support rodeos. He said During this significant^penod,
build the stands provided the!most of the promoting for a re-
city would get all the profits j built arena lias been done only
from all the rodeos. by a small group of people.
Dr. Towery
Is Speaker
Mayor Newman was known to
favor giving the profits from the
Turkey Trot rodeo to the Tur-
key Trot Association but was
helpless in the face of council
opposition.
Gobblers Shoot
For First Win
Although Bauer and Bluntzer
said earlier that they are in fav-
or of the city doing the rebuild-
ing, they backed off when the
stipulation was made that the
Turkey Trot Association would
get profits from two shows plan-
ned during live November cele-
bration.
The Turkey Trot Association
came into the picture when the
i need arose for 51,200 to under-
Tonight, live Cuero high school write two performances planned
Gobblers will attempt to break! (Continued on Page .6)
into the win column for the first I
time in I960 when they take on]
1he question-mark Hallettsville
Brahmas, pre-season favorites j
to repeat as champs in their own ]
District 27-A A this year.
The surprising Brahmas slip-
ped in under the wire in 1959 to
take the pennant although few
fans in the area had picked
them to do so.
However, they were set back
in thoir own opener last week
bv a stout La Grange team 31-8,
but this corner does not know
whether the Brahmas are over-
rated ibis y ear or the La Grange
American Evangelist Billy Gra-
ham was accorded an unprece-
dented welcome by Africans
ranging from chiefs of state
down to the general population
of bush, desert and jungle.
A'total of 500,000 persons at-
tended outdoor mass meetings
with nearly 33.000 inquirers re-
maining for further help and
instruction.
"Africa On The Bridge” has
great pictorial scope, ranging
from sequences depicting primi-
tive village life to scenes of
modern city and industrial ac-
tivity. Exciting and colorful pa-
gan rites and ceremonies are
featured, together with some of
the most remarkable- big-game
footage ever filmed.
Climaxing the story' of the
spiritual thrust of the Billy Gra-
ham team is a tribute to the
missionaries whose years of
faithful labors were in a large
measure responsible for the spir-
itual harvest experienced by the
Evangelist.
Missionary leaders and minis- Dr Glenn Towery, former
ters joined with State and Civic j Gobbler letterman, was guest
officials to extend the invitation j speaker at the Cuero High
for Mr. Graham to visit the | School pep rally held Friday
—.!—* morning for the Cuero-Halletts-
ville game in Hallettsville Fri-
| day night.
I The rally was opened vvIQj the
; Gobbler fight song "Aggie War
j Hymn,” played by the Gobbler
| Band.
i The assembly was also ad-
dressed by Gobbler Coach Joe
Swann and Fullback Donnie Kas-
per. A skit, "Testing School
Spirit,” was also on the pro-
gram.
« Yells were led by the CHS
cheerleaders.
Coca Cola Company
Gets Safety Plaque
The Coca Cola Bottling Co. i H. W. Barnett, Hardware Mu-
was given special recognition tuals Loss Prevention Engine-
yesterday for working a full er> ma(je the presentation with
firm’s insurance carrier, Hard-
ware Mutuals, honored mana-
gement and employes for this
outstanding safety achievement
Farmer Trapped
I ill t H Him jtnk ............ iimavuinuiife —------
Hub is unusually iwtent. W e ] by presenting a safety plaque
rinmf fhnt 1hr» srnrp WflS montirnr nf nil omoloVCS.
can't deny that the score was
quite decisive. /
All of us here know the Gobb-
lers took it on the chin, 37-20
last Friday night at the hands
of the Refugio Bobcats, also of
A.\ classification.
With another week of work be-
hind them, the Gobbler* should
definitely demonstrate some im-
provement over the opening-
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PRAYER-POEM
gy GEORGE gliBY WALKER
1 HEARD THE SYMPHONY
1 went to hear the symphony-
it’s strings, its winds and
drums . . . but. Lord, when I
was driving home near city
* slums . . .
My heart was overflowing with
symphonic melodies . . . but
when I neared tlvis part of
town, where filth and foul dis-
ease . . . are rampant, lx»rd,
1 felt a deep and earnest sense
of wrong . . .
Why do not all around tills
world-more people bear a
song . . . within their hearts
when in this world there is
enough to share? . . .
May I help folk* in such a way
they’ll sing more everywhere.
Thll Sroynr-eoem » t>y orher at
'1H Quail tima. A ColiKlwr* «>•
PlOyjl Potms,' pcb'ish«cf by Vcin*og«
Pr»$$, Yo'k City Tfc# twlht* **
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at a meeting of all employes.
The Coca Cola Bottling Co. is
engaged in the bottling and dis-
tribution of soft drinks in Cuero,
Yoakum, Victoria and Port La-
vaca areas. It employs 36 peo-
ple. This is the 3rd time this
firm has earned special honors
for its accident prevention work.
It was previously awarded pla-
ques in 1953 and 1950.
Confesses
To Theft
A 16-year-old Cuero youth, al-
ready under commitment to
Gatesville School for Boys, con-
fessed Thursday to stealing a
billfold owned by Ernest Bui>
nett and containing $80 In cash
and three checks totaling $153.-
07.
Deputy Sheriff Charles Clark
said the boy admitted taking the
billfold from the Red Dot Gro-
cery on W. Broadway Wednes-
day. Clark said the youth had
already spent about $20 of the
$80. The three checks were re-
covered.
According to Clark, the youth
will serve at Gatesville until he
is 17 on February 1. He will then
he returned to Cuero to face
the charge of stealing the pock-
et book.
Clark said the youth was coni
organizations are able to go for
such a length of time with (not
a single compensable industrial
injury* (a minimum of compen-
sable industrial injuries*." He
added, "The entire community
can join with the Coca Cola
Bottling Co. in taking pride in
this outstanding achievement
because it makes the commun-
ity a better and safer place in
which to work and live. Rec-
ords such as this local firm
established are a direct result
of splendid cooperation between
management and employes. It
means that immeasurable ben-
efits have accured in the way of
fewer injuries, less pain and
suffering, less waste of time
and material, and greater pro-
duction.”
In accepting the plaque for
his company, Mr. E. T. Sum-
mers Jr., V.P. k Gen. Mgr. at-
tributed the record to “the eom-
( Continued on Page 6)
continent.
Cuero T rio
At Meeting
Three Cuero American Legion
officials were in Beeville Thurs-
day night to attend a meeting of
commanders and post adjutants
of the 14th District. Present
from here were Walter Boehl,
commander Elroy Peters, adju-
tant, and Bill Nami, past 3rd
Division commander. , -
Purpose of the meeting was to Tuifl Nlflhff And
discuss means of getting veter-1
ans of both World Wars to join
the Legion.
"If the veterans only realiz-
ed the danger the country is in,
they would join the Legion of
their own free will to help fight
Communism," Department Co-
mmander Pete Turner of Mid-
land told the gathering.
Present with Turner were J.
Ward Moody of Austin, depart-
ed adjutant, and Artruo Bene-
vidas of Laredo, 3rd Division
commander.
Turner issued a plea for all
post commanders to see that
their unit reaches its 1961
membership goal. Boehl promis-
ed a quota of 378 riiembers for
the Cuero post.
“This means we will have
some hard driving to do this
coming year," Boehl stated.
Sister Of Mrs.
Froelich Dies
Funeral services were held
this week in McGregor for Mrs.
Paul Fischer, sister of Mr?. Leo
Froelich. Mrs. Fischer died of a
heart attack Saturday in a Wa-
co hospital. ■
Services were held in the Zion
Lutheran Church in McGregor.
Survivors are the mother, Mrs.
J. Brandt of McGregor; two sis-
ters, Mrs. Froelich of Cuero and
Miss Hilda Brandt of McGre-
gor; ami a brother, B. W. Ban-
dt of McGregor.
Days By Trador
PALESTINE, Tex. UPI - For
two days and two nights, Qrcn
Vermillion, 72, a farmer, lay
trapped underneath the wreck-
age of his tractor, calling for
help.
He wasn’t hurt so bad, but he
was pinned by the tractor seat
and the harrow attached to the
machine. Battery acid and gaso-
line spilled out and burned hol-
es in his clothing.
Thursday morning, Mike Gra-
ham. 18, was chopping wood
nearby and heard weak cries
for help. He discovered Vermil-
lion und got help. It took six
men to lift the tractor enough
to free the elderly farmer.
Trio Fined
And Jailed
In Yoakum
Rufus McElroy and two,sons,
all of Yoakum, paid a tot«V of
$125 in fines after being in an
altercation with Yoakum Police
Chief Norvan "Cutter" Dietze
Tuesday morning.
Dietze said the father and his
18-year-old son, Fabian, were
each fined $50. An older son,
R. J., was fined $25.
Dietze said the father was
charged with using abusive lan-
guage and resisting arrest; Fa-
bian was charged with resisting
arrest and assault on a peace
officer; and R. J. was charged
with threatening a peace officer.
The police chief said McElroy
and his sons came to the Yoa-
kum police station Tuesday
morning and cursed City Clerk
Dave Swensen, Corporation
Court Judge Rueben Koether
and himself. He said the trio
was angry about Fabian being
fined $25 for fighting and dis-
turbing the peace early Sunday
morning.
Dietze reported the fight be-
gan when he started to put the
father in jail. The chief said the
father and both sons were in-
volved in the fight. All three of
( Continued on Page 6)
Khrushchev Leaves
Today On First Leg
Of Trip To The U. 5.
MOSCOW —(UPI)- Premier
Nikita Khrushchev left today j
for Kaliningrad on the first leg J
of his air and sea trip to New j
York for the United Nations
General Assembly session start-
ing Sept. 20.
Khrushchev was seen off at
Vnukovo airport by First Depu-
ty Premier Anastas Mikoyan j
and other top members of the!
presidium and the council of
ministers.
Also on hand at the flag-be-
decked airport was the foreign
diplomatic corps .including the
U. S. minister - counselor, Ed-
ward L. Freers Jr.
He was scheduled to arrive at
the Baltic seaport of Kaliini-
grad tonight and sail shortly af-
terward for New York aboard
the liner Baltika.
Benson F. Mitchell
Link Defectors With
Probe Of U-2 Flight
WASHINGTON UPI — Two
turncoat U. S. code clerks, br-
anded as sex deviates, were lin-
ked today with an investigat-
tion of how the Russians were
alerted to the ill-fated U2 flight.
This was certain to be a key
topic in two congressional in-
vestigations of the defection to
Russia of Bemon F. Mitchell and
William H. Martin, employes of
the top secret national security
agency.
Mitchell and Martin, long-ti-
me bachelor pals, were said in
a published report to have fled
to Moscow when a U.S. and
NATO investigation of the U2
episode narrowed down to the
cryptographic room where they
worked.
Tipped or Flights
The New York Mirror said it
learned from Intelligence sour-
ces that the inquiry looked into
the possibility that someone told
the Russians how to break U.S.
( Continued on Page 6)
High Tides
Warnings
Are Issued
MIAMI UPI -The Weather
Bureau today extended the hur-
ieane warnings for Donna tp in-
clude the million-population Mi-
| ami area. 3^;
An advisory said the storm’s
shift slightly northward "now
threatens most of extreme soo-
th Florida." Warnings were in
effect cm the East Coast as ter
north as Fort Lauderdale and
on the Gulf Coast to Punta Got-
da. ...
MARATHON, Fla. UPI- Hur-
ricanne Donna bore down on the
Florida keys today with 150-mi-
le-an-hour winds and a virtual
wall of water. The Miami Wea-
ther Bureau issued an emer-
gency warning that tides ofeix
to 11 feet above normal would
smash into the low-lying island
chain. -*MipteW****-
The hurricane grazed the nor-
thern edge of Cuba early today
and thousands at Cubans fled
inland from torrential rains,
high seas and violent winds.
Widespread coastal damage
was reported.
Many residents and vacation-
ers fled north from the Florida
keys but most of the stouthear-
ted residents of the tiny islands
hammered at their stores and
houses throughout the night
and early today to prepare for
the winds and rain.
The storm already had taken
a toll of more than 100 lives in
(Continued oa Page 0)
Resigns
FromBoard
The State Board of Education
at its September 5 meeting in
! Austin accepted the resigna-
tion of Mr. Neal B. Marriott of
Corpus Christi from the Board.
Marriott’s successor will be
appointed by members of the
State Board of Education to
hold office until the next gen-
eral election. —
To be eligible for membership
on the State Board of Educa-
, tion. a person must have been
Cuero Independent School Dis- in continuous residence in the
trict enrollment by Thursdayj district he is to represent five
. , , ,. years prior to hts election or
had reached 1,969 students. Supt. appojntmenf He must be a cit-
Thad McDonnell told Cuero izen ^ ^ United States, a quaJ-
School Board at its monthly, ified eiect0r in his district, and
meeting Thursday night. . I at least thirty ycars of age.
Opening day enrollment Sept- Marriott, who resigned at this
ember 1 was 1,854. I time because he is moving from
Corpus Christi to Houston, the-
reby becoming ineligible to ser-
ve from the 14th Congressional
District, did not seek reflection
to the office for the sLvyear
IVilliam H. Martin
SHOWED UP—Just as sus-
pected, the two National Se-
curity agency junior mathe-
maticians who dropped out
of sight last June are in Mos-
cow as defectors. Bemon F.
Mitchell, 31, and William H.
Martin, 29, said in a pre-
pared statement: “We con-
sider that from a social point
of view we shall feel hap-
pier," and that they defected
because the U.S."knowingly
makes false and deceptive
statements to defend Its own
policy and condemn the ac-
tions of other nations."
Enrollment
Climbing
Writer Contends Guidebook Should Be
Read After Visiting Attractions
By DICK WEST
United Press International
WASHINGTON UPI — I have
developed a theory about tour-
ist travel which might be meta-
phorically defined as "locking
the barn door after someone has
stolen the cart before the horse.”
It is my contention that the
In the book. That way you know
immediately what you missed.
Guidebooks written about pla-
ces I am getting ready to visit
hold no interest for me. But af
ter I have been there, I enjoy Galde To Capital
them immensely.
turned I read a guide book about
Washington.
The upshot is that I wish now
I had spent my vacation here
at home.
The book, called "a Modem
rni jiiiiiiciidwjj. -------- ~—, . ,
This year, I decided to impro- Guide to the Nation t Capital,
vise on this theme a bit and ; was authored by Michael Frome,
VJOJK-Z SSiK I J, L’7,„ „.T, su"d,lH»k . 1u Srtw UtfMl .plMwl tourlft who dwli-
I have visited the place described vacatiqd in Texas and when I re- monial gratuity,
| from Burt's Bui Station.
Briefly stated, the formula
holds that a married couple set-
ting out an a vacation will bene-
fit financially if the husband
jets the wife do the tipping.
Since tens of thousands of
Americans visited the capital
this summer, and since the to-
urist season here is almost over,
I figured this would be a good
time to review some of the hi-
(Orattmwd oa Page 8)
McDonnell said the district’s
cafeterias have been feeding a-
bout 900 students daily.
McDonnell said the district
will have to borrow money if
the state's September per cap-
ita payment is not more than
$1 per student and if the dis-
trict does not receive money
due from last year.
He reported the September
payment will be low, perhaps
$1. He said the state owes the
district about $5,400 on last ye-
ar’s payment.
Three new teachers were hir-
ed. They are Mrs. Elmer Battle,
grade six, Cuero Elementary
School; Warren H. Hawkins,
Daule band director: and Joe
A. Williams, Daule science tea-
cher.
The board also combined its
sinking funds into one bank ac-
count, agreed to reverse a rou-
te going into Ameckevilie, dis-
cussed a Civil Defense program
and accepted a car from Gay
Implement ami Motor Ca for
use in Drivers education.
Teamsters Pledge Aid
WASHINGTON UPI -Teams-]
ters President James R. Hoff a
announced Thursday that mem-
bers of his union have pledged
$5,000 worth of food and cloth-
ing to aid Puerto Rican victims
of hurricane Donna. I
term beginning January 1, 1961.
Counties in the 14th Congress-
tonal District include the fol-
lowing : Aransas, Atascoaa. B^a.
Brooks, Comal, DeW*#. Boval,
Gonzales, Guadalupe, Jim Well*
Karnes, Kenedy, Kleberg, Uva
Oak, McMullen, Nueces. Refug-
io. San Patricio, and Wilson.
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