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Fair through Sunday. Low
tonight low 40s. High Sunday
near 70 for Cuero, Gonzales,
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VOL. 74 NO. 291
CUERO, TEXAS 77954, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8,1968
12 PAGES
OFFICERS of the DeWitt County Home
DraxMMtntflna Council Installed Friday after-
noon are, (. R, Mr*. A V. Jj»mb, Till)A
rhalrmou; Mr*. Edmund Tirkrn, atrrrury!
Mr*. Walter Koenig, second vice president;
Mrs. (ierhnrdt Gerdes, first vice president
nnd Mr*. Arthur Schumacher, council chair-
man. Not shown Is Mra. Rudolph I.lppke,
treasurer.
~ Record Photo by Floyd Hendricks
United Fund Still
$760 Short of Goal
Cucro s 1369 United Fund and treasurer of Cuero Fede-
eampaign moved to within $760jral Savings A Loan Association
•f its $11,000 goal Friday as; made a $20 contribution For
•ifht mom donors added $2281 him and his wife Mra. Grafe
to the fund, Jack Howerton, delivered the check to The Re-
<Mve chairman reported Saiur- cor<j jrriday.
day morning
Contribution* to the fund
now total $10,240 or 93 per cent
of the campaign. The money!
will be used to help finan e J
1969 activities of the ten
Metpeunx
the School Milk FUnd and the
Summer Youth Program the
chairman pointed out.
Largest contribution Friday
! ten par-
John Braden Jr., prominent
Cuero farmer, pecan grower and
civic worker, who Uvea on Rte.
4 mailed in a check for $20.
HD Council
Officers
Installed
The DeWitt County Home De-
monstration Council installed
Mrs. Arthur Schumacher as Its
l%9 chairman in ceremonies
Friday at the DeWitt County
Klee trie Cooperative building.
Other officers Installed were
Mrs. Gerhardt Cleric*, first
eaine from Sanders Equipment
Rental located Just south of the
GotUebait Brothers, k*ai j *** president; Waiter
bowse mwiai contra: tori who - Koenig, second vice president;
maintain headquarter* at 403‘Mrs. Edmund Tieken, treasur-
E. French mailed in a cheek er; Mrs Rudolph Lippke, trea-
for $10. It bore the signature | surer: and Mr*. J. V. Lamb,
ot Norris Lee Gottachalt. | Texas Home Demonstration
> A,
W. C. Krueger, engineer for ■ Association
the DeWitt County Electric Cb-1 inK officer
eity limifs on the San Antonio i operative, renewed the annualj Pieper.
highway. T?»* Sanders have pledge for $18 he ami Mrs. j
chairman,
was Mrs.
Bombing Of
Horbor Is
Remembered
By EDWARD JNOUYE
PEARL HARBOR (UPli - It
is 27 years since the “day of
infamy” when the bombing of
Pearl Harbor plunged the
United States into World War
II.
Each year the anniversary
passes quietly.
A brief ceremony Saturday
on the USS Arizona Memorial
was specially authorized by
the Navy to allow a group of
state legislators to pay their
respects to the 2,409 Americans
1 who died on Dec. 7, 1941
Two years ago, on the 25th
anniversary of the attack, hun-
dreds of Pearl Harbor surviv-
ors gathered here for memorial
services.
“Normally there is no formal
ceremony on Dec 7," a naval
officer explained. "This is be-
j cause of all our nation’s war
dead are honored on Memorial
i Day.”
The gleaming white Arizona
memorial rests above the fa-
mous battleship ot the spot
where she went down — the
victim of a 500-pound bomb
which dropped through her
stack into the fire room.
The bodies of more than 1,000
of her crewmen remain en-
tombed in the ship and oil still
seeps to the surface from her
rusting hull.
The sneak attack ^dted the
world and enraged the Ameri-
can people.
Honolulu radio stations flay-
ing breakfast music broke the
calm of a Sunday morning with
the startling announcement:
‘The islands are under attack.
... this is not a drill.’* Many
mainland Americans were lis-
tening to a pro football game
when the stunning news Oaftt
came.
Three-hundred and fifty-three
Japanese war planes roared
over Pearl Harbor in three
waves. Forty-nine big bombers,
each lugging a 1,600-pound an-
chor-piercing bomb, came
first They were followed by
40 torpedo bombers and 51 diva
$10,600 Gained Already
Pledges Mount In
Foundation Here
Membership contributions to I industrial development report-land one-half days sf the cam-
the Cuero Industrial Founda- ed to The Record. paign amounted to $10,870
tion totaled $20,620 at mxm Sa- Conrad laid signed member- which added to the $9,750 pre-
turday, Jim Conrad chairman j ship contributions and pledges viously subscribed brought the
of the drive to raise $40,000 for J secured during the opening one * total Foundation membership
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ly'.M .^n"pW*TT
flVIf COAST workman roR off the first Items
from tko sew Gulf Cooat Wood Product* door
and panel division for an order for the U. 8.
Navy at Great Lakes, 111. The order la ached-
sled Id he shipped to the Naval training center
this menttu The panel* are first glued on both
aide*, with n finishing material being placed
•• afterward. After eompiesson, the ward-
robe deers will he ready to be finished and
shipped. The door factory to managed by
Don Barlow and Joins two other Gulf Coast
Plante to operation on South Railroad Street.
— Record Photo by Floyd Hendricks
juai relumed to Cuero from an
extended stay in North and
South Carolina and Virginia
where the participated in sev-
eral large construction projects.
Walter Brown McQung. own-
er and operator of McClunga
Grocery A Market, 120 N, Es-
planade bnuight a check tor
$25 us a gift from his firm.
Powia Tnrkington, retired
cotton merchant brought in a
$25 check tor him and Mra
Tazfeington.
Gene Grafe. vice president
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Krueger have been making for
years.
Mrs Edwins Hnusman of
614 E Court House sent in
check for $10 in November
which had not been previously
acknowledged. Mrs Hausman
Is a regular annual UF contri-
but<*r.
“If contributions continue to
come in at the rate they have
during the past week the Cuero
UF will be able to meet its
goal by Dec. 15,” the chairman
said.
bombers. Squadron* of zeros
The meeting was opened with fiew overhead and on the flat**
the Christmas carol “Silent
Night,” The council also con-
ducted a business meeting and
a j had a Christmas party. Mrs.
Mildred Martin, county home
demonstration agent, and Mrs.
Schumacher prepared refresh-
ments which included a tantal-
izing spiced tea. for which the
recipe was made known.
The organization reported
that the bus, owned by the
council and the DeWitt Coun-
ty 4-H organization, is for sale.
(See HD COUNCIL. Page 12)
for protection.
There were 97 ships in the
harbor, which was an inferno in
minutes. Of these, 46 were
warship* of destroyer size or
larger. Eighteen of die war-
ship* were sunk or heavily da-
maged in the attack, which
lasted two hours.
Of nearly 400 U.S. planes on
the ground at nearby airfields,
only 38 got into the air, and 13
of these were shot down. The
Japanese lost 29 planes, one
large submarines the dry of
the attack.
Of the Americans killed, 2.-
004 were Navy, 228 Army, 109
Marines and 68 civilians.
Of the U.S. warships knocked
out of commission in the bomb-
ing, 15 were repaired and saw
(Sec Peart Harbor, Page M)
Reds Say NLF Must
Be Seated In Talks
By GEORGE 8IBERA
PARIS <UPD — North Vietnam
has informed the United States
that.unless the National Libera-
tion Front NLF is seated as
an entirely independent party
the expanded Paris Vietnam
war talks cannot open, high
Hanoi offciials said Saturday.
* The North Vietnamese diplo-
mats said their delegation told
American diplomats in behind-
the-scene talks that “the con-
ference must unfailingly meet
around a square table, with
each of the four parties acting
as an independent negotiating
entity.”
The Communist officials said
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Letters To Santa Keep
Coming; AreThey Cute!
Letters to Santa Claus kei
coming.
Hie latest ones read:
"Dear Santa Claws,
My name la Tonja and my
sister is Kim. We have bin
very gud. I am 6 and Kim is 4
yeres old.
I would like a pare of rolar
■cates, a blsisck, a puppet to
kepe Kim’s kat kumpani, a doll
and lots of dose for her. Kim
wants a doll ana a kitte, a stuf-
let rabet,
brother.
We will
and milk
Rudolf.
leev u sum eookees
and an oranje for
FOTH’S PIRATES, with a swashbuckling of
tense, boarded the Tigers of Tide haven hero
Friday night and rode though a storm of
the Tigers M-6 la »
‘ter* b Ones A
sun
One ef the largest crowds ever at
the stadtum watched as the Pintos hoarded
the scoring vessel, and the Pirate defense
caged flro scoreless Tiger*.
— Record Photo bp Floyd Hendricks
trcUBTNU
Cuero, Texas
Deoember 5, 1968
Dear Santa Claus,
I want a buggy and a Mrs.
Beasley and a chalk board so
I won’t have to write on Mich-
ael’s. And chalk with the chalk
board. Please put some nice
things in my stocking and re-
member all the other boys and
girls all over the world. I have
tried to be a good girl this
year. Constance and Michael
have been nice to me so bring
them something good.
love,
Jennie
Need any more be said?
Former Cueroite
Dies In Midland
Word was received here Sat-
urday of the death of Mrs. S.
M. Melton, 66, a former resi-
dent of Cuero when her hus-
band was superintendent of the
Cuero Public Schools.
Mrs. Melton, a native of
Waco, had lived the last 21
years in Dallas. She died in
Midland and was buried Tues-
day in Dallas.
She is survived by her hus-
band, 7538 Midbury, Dallas;
two sons, Morris and William H.
both of Dallas; one daughter,
Mrs. Carolyn Fitz-Gerald of
Midland; and four grandchild-
ren.
Rawhide Riders
Set Sunday Ride
to the $20,620.
The drive chairman said Sa-
turday he had been unable, a*
yet, to contact two of the three
local banks and a number of
the larger Cuero business con-
cerns the opening day and a
half of the campaign and that
he felt certain another $5,000 to
$7,000 would be added to the
fund Monday.
Conrad released a list of
those who purchased member-
ships or additional member-
hips in the Industril Foundation
Friday and Saturday morning.
Topping the list with a $2,000
membership contribution was
Gulf Coast Wood Products.
Farmers State Bank A Trust
Co., Western Auto Store and
C. J. Riebschlager each con-
tributed $1,000.
Coca-Cola Bottling Co., Duc-
kett Motor Co., Woodworth A
Dent, The Cuero Record, Web-
er Motor Co., Sanders Equip-
ment Rental, Dr. Harold R.
High, and Dr. John Davis «each
subscribed $500, Jimmy Reif-
ferts Phillips 66 Station $600
and L. L. Buttery $200.
A complete list of the new
extra contributors appears at
the bottom of this oricle.
the bottom of this article.
Immeriate purpose of ths
j have enough capital to obtain a
i loan from Cuero’j three finan-
i cial Institutions in the amount
|of $100,000 to build a building
for the proposed furniture fac-
tory for Cuero. The building,
including seven acres of land,
will be leased by the firm for
a period of 15 years during
which the rental paid will ro-
ver the $140,000 invested by
Cuero plus interest.
The money will be paid back
to the bank, and the $40,000
will be kept in the Cuero In-
dustrial Foundation to assist in
such projects in the future.
The fund-raising began Fri-
day morning with a breakfast
meeting of local merchants
and the foundation at the Ame-
rican Legion Civic Center.
During the meeting an explana-
they were skeptical about Am-
erican predictions that the cun- ition of ,ho operation was offer-
ference would open next week. ! (See FOUNDATION, Page 12)
“We are ready to start the j
talks today — if we have our
way and NI2F is seated as an
equal partner.” they said.
The talks already have been
delayed about a month, first by
the refusal of Saigon to take
part and they by wrangling over
procedural issues.
South Vietnam ended, its boy-
cott and its delegation was ei>
route to Paris Saturday.
Earlier in the day. diplomats
(See REDS SAY, Page 12)
Tpyno T PR
Nets State
$51 Million
Awards Given By
Bottling Company
AUSTIN, Tex. <UID - The
Texas Liquor Control Board
netted the state more than $51
million in profit in fiscal 1968,
most of it from taxes on alco-
holic beverages, administrator
O. N. Humphreys Jr. said Sat-
urday.
In its annual financial report
The Annual Christmas Party to the goveror, the ageqcy re-
and Awards Night of the Coca- ported gross revenue of 55,583,-
Cola Bottling Company was held j 000 and total expenditures of
at the Cuero Country Clpbj $3,571,185, leaving the slate a
Thursday with 80 employees and j profit of $51,098,016.
guests present ^ Humphreys said the ALTB
One year service awards received $15.38 in return for ev-
were made to Stephen Ledwigjery dollar it spent in its opera-
ami Robert Bustos of Cuero, J tion during the fiscal vear.
Joe Martinez and Maurice Ross | The $51 million net profit for
of Victoria. Edwin Martinez
_ of ! fiscal 1968 is a jump of almost
The Rawhide Riders will make j Yoakum, and Brie Gonzales of! $5 million from fiscal 1967,
a short ride Sunday afternoon J Port Lavaca. I when' the net earnings- were
beginning from Earl’s Drive-In j A 10-year award was given $47.2 million,
on North Esplanade at 1:30 i Bill Mitchon of Hallettsviile.
p.m. and ending at the Lapp I Fifteen-year Awards were made
Ranch off the Yoakum High- j to Clarence Thomas of Cuero
way. I and Carl Garvel of Victoria. The
The riders will have a weiner j 20-year Award was made to
roast when they arrive
ranch.
Arrangements have also been
made for a Christmas party at
the American Legion Civic Cen-
ter for the Rawhide Riders. The
party will be held Dec. 21.
Jack Rohan of Cuero. The 25-
vear award went to Leslie
Thomas of Cuero. A 30-.vear
award was made to
Paries of Cuero.
Of the 1968 revenue, $52.1
million came from taxes on
alcoholic beverages, including
S22.5 million in liquor taxes
and $28 million in beer tax re-
venue.
The agency took in $2 5 mil-
lion through issuance of per-
Storling * in its and licenses.
The TLCB earned $36,129
High School
Football Scores
Total service represented by ; through ante
the employees is 121 years. merchandise.
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Tidehaven
0
Plano
0
Big Lake
0
Randolph
8
White Oak
27
Refugio
17
Alvin
35
Daingerfield
42
Sonora
26
Clifton
14
Miaatnn
8
Silsbie
13
San Saba
6
Sudan
0
Ranger
12
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