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Page 4 THE CUERO RECORD Thurs., Jan. 9, 1969
Editorial
Flying Round The Moon
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The superlative achievement of America’s successful I
Apollo 8 flight is certain to remain forever as one of j
mankind's milestones of progress.
The successful flight means men (perhaps Russian
as well as American) will almost certainly land on the
moon in 1939 the*ron! s«t yrirs ego by the late Presi-
dent John F. Kennedy. Put the major significance
r.s history will record it of the Apollo 3 flioht is that
man for the first time has broken the shackles which
have bound him to earth, and thus the age of explora-
tion of other-celestial bodies is at hand.
There were several dramatic moments during the
Apollo 8 mission. The first was. as alwa. s, blast-off. The
second was when the spacecraft succeeded in setting a
correct course for the moon. The next was ultra-dramatic
for it was new to man. At 4:69 a.m. December 25th, the
three astronauts. Col. Frank Borman. Capt. James Love’l
and Maj. William Anders fired their main rocket to
bring them into orbit around the moon.
They were behind the moon and at Houston and
across the nation and world there was some twenty
minutes of suspense, as the big rocket slowed the space- c.V(,n
craft from something over 5,000 m.p.h. to something ovtr ; It r- ads:
3.000 and slanted downward into an orbtt around the TOSiBU. to,.. dvn; :
moon. Finally, the voice of Anders ended the suspense. ct n drive-in? Parents with!
"Go ahead, Houston, Apollo 8. Burn complete. Our orbit opinions about samp write Bix
is 1691 by 60.o.” That message produced Jubilation at1™-
Houston and sent a thrill throughout the world.
The next dramatic moment came on
morning, when the astronauts fired their rocket again,
to thrust themselves out of lunar orbit (after ten orbits)
and on a homeward course for the earth. This was also quae obviously, more to this
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of
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served
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piecea
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British
style
24. Intend
25. Swell
26. A little bird 34. Son of
of prey
27. Venetian
blind part
28. Cause
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covering
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tit" 1) nK.cra.t-. tin- fact tii.u
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lion, c .uld any other Demo-!
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classified ad which intrigued i
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As a parent, I should say it
is possible to get a great many
Christmas j tires >me and dangerous things
! at a drive-in, but I would not
! have thought a speeding p.,uli
was one of them. There is,
The importance of Apollo 8 s achievement can
scarcely be over-estimated. And Americans can take
Justified pride in the fact that their countrymen have
become the first ever to orbit another celestial body,
in effect paving the way for man’s exploration of outer
space by rocket vehicles.
of Apollo
It may be a come-on for some
sales pitch. For fear it might
be the latter — and I would be-
come one more sucker on one
more su< ker list — I have not
written Box K-563; but, if you
care to, you might oblige me
with details of your reply,
i Clossified ads are marvelous
i little things, and I read them
in newspapers and magazines
. . fur amusement and edification.
One of the first things that greeted every w 5 | it is my considered judgment
person with the dawn of the new year will be an in- j that if we could get the edito-
crease m «*>" security payment j “'uTSfianaS ST2Z
deductions from wage and salary checks rose to 4.8 per ads_ we would havp accom.
the Review reader. Perhaps it
is some inside or “office’’ joke.
News Report From
Washington
Washington, D.C. The con-
Greelings!
among people than the placing j
of a want ad and the commer-
cial result. A lady thankfully j
past worrying about the pill j
advertises the baby buggy for j
sale; and another lady, many'
years her junior, gives $5 for It. j
Only the government could in- j
vade this must skeletal tran-
saction. posing rules and! tinuing throb of good business
dassn’ts all over the place. Isj in the United States (a slump
the buggy a Whitey or a Beau- ■ had been expected in the, latter
tiful Black color? It is for a \ half of the year) has poured
boy or girl baby? Call the man . money into the treasury at a
from the anti-discrimination I faster clip than offieiaLs had
bureau. j anticipated. If current estim-
The government seems to j ales prove accurate, there’ll bi-
have a paranoid thing about | no budget deficit at the end of
simplicity. Bureaucracy has a j---
compulsion to complicate, har- j annual parish meeting of Grace
ass and frustrate. Another ad Episcopal Church was set for
in the Review offers a wall I Jan. 14. . . Julia McCoy Faries
one for my congressman. Tt
reads: “Eschew Ogfuscation.”
—American Way Features
cent of earnings Up to $7,800. This means that any em- , pii.shed something significant. p]Mque for sale and I might buv j and Mrs. Seana Reynolds visit
thus, the total tax take in the name of ‘ social security < |]1(, guvmint. Henceforth it is
win reach nearly 10 per cent of taxable payrolls. Nearly , going to be offensive to the ge-!
■0 per cent of every dollar up to maxima™ taxable earn- j£ ZST
ings will go to the federal government to pay for social ( me want ads. if a gent ws
June.
If tliis happens. H will be the
first time in many years that
the nation has achieved a sur-
plus, and even though unintend-
ed, it will act to restore inter-
national confidence in the dol-
; lar, the U.S. economy and the
i U.S. system of g wernment. Of
: course, rosy predictions of the
moment are n it yet hatched.
If should be noted that all too
often emergencies aris^.which
wipe out hoped-for surpluses.
! If a small surplus Is achiev-
ed. it will come at a most criti-
cal time, when interest rates
• are reaching all-time highs.
The government is paying an
enormous price for money it
keeps on loan — well over 300
billions. Already the annual in-
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15 Girl s name.
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measure
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football
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Spain
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years
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At
dent-elect Richard Nixon and
his aides actively considered
(even sounded out several pros-
pective nominees) appointing a
Negro to a Cabinet position in
the new government
What they found was disturb-
security and medicare — as much as $748.80 per em-
ployee. And more increases in this tax are coming in the
years ahead. By 1987, it will amount to 5.9 per cent eac^
for employee and employer.
A little pamphlet issued by the Associated Industries
of Alabama, entitled “Another Chunk Out of Your
“Am
Check ” explains why social security costs are lncreas- ' man could lay himself open to
in, ao'rapuuy. Them are two main reasons. One. a grea. | =. all™ jj-
number or people are now getting benefits wnicn coin*: ProbaWy there is ^ Sjmp]er
to more than the taxes they and their employers have j and more effective transaction
paid into social security. Two, Congress has changed the |-
law many times to (a) add more groups to the ^program, _ //rN . .// -t-i . p* .
St.NI Defend Their Borders
employees and employers more money.
BO remember, among those who was first to greet
you in the new year was the tax collector.
distinguish
in ]
wants
a companion to ride from New
York to San Francisco with
him and share expenses and
accommodations, he Ls forbid-
den by federal fiat to specify
what brand he prefers. Con-
ceivably. then, by obeying the
law against discrimination a
From Record Files...
TEN YEARS
January 9, 1959
The DeWitt County Grand
Jury returned 27 indictments,
one for assault with intent to
murder. . . Pete Kempf, tem-
p irary Video theater manager,
was to leave Cuepo in a few
days. . . Walter Hingst and Gid
Dreyer were in Kenedy Thurs-
day night to attend a Ford ser-
vice and parts meeting. . . The
ed Cuero and Record Publisher
Jack Howerton. . . The city
council was faced with finan-
cial problems of extending uti-
lities service lnes to Friendship
Village.
TWENTY YEARS
January 9, 1949
Funeral services for C. J
Coker of Cuero, who died from
injuries suffered in a collision
near Gonzales, were held in
Cuero. . . Ralph Cerra return-
ed from a two-week visit in
New York. . . Mrs. Raymond
Cook was a visitor in Ottine . . .
R. F. Blackwell was added as
a director of the Farmers
State Bank at the annual stock-
holders and directors meeting.
terest debt alone totals more ing, not only to Republicans
than the entire defense budget; but to all Americans. The hate
in the years immediately fol-1 and distortion campaign against
lowing World War II. ! whites and against the Repu-
No one seriously anticipates ( blican Party has been so suc-
paying off the huge national' cessfully pushed by some De-
debt; however, a slight reduc-1 mocrats and radical leaders
tion in the total, plus lower in-1 that many Negroes feared ser-
terest rates, would save the ; ving in a Nixon Administra-
The reason some people talk so much about them-
selves is that they know so little about anything else.
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Critics of youth forget that boys and girls become
'•■'ts after being trained and educated by their elders.
* * *
if you know a better place in which to live, why not
move there and settle down in peace?
* * *
When humans try to explain the creation of the
world they might a* well go on and tell us about the
universe, of which the earth is a very small part.
nation billions of dollars a year
and this Ls the most hopeful
possibility among economists
looking to the Nixon Adminis-
tration to end many years of
deficit spending, greater and
greater debt and higher and
higher interest rates.
It’s now known that Presi-
tion. They suspected it would
be the kiss of death, that they
would lose all influence over
members of their rare if they
joined the Nixon team.
One of the men reportedly
sounded out, who reportedly
turned down a Cabinet post,
was Whitney Young of the Ur-
ban League. Others were either
offered posts or actively consi
dered.
Thus the failure of Nixon tt
name any member of the N*
gro race, which numbers 22,-
000,000 Americans to his Cabi*
et, was not because of lack oi
thought or effort. This is a di4
turbing reflection of the result!
of bloc voting and un-Americar
efforts of some politicians and
rights leaders who have coif
vinccd so many Negroes, un-
truthfully, that Nixon is the ent-
my.
The Texas Highway Depart
ment has 2,579 miles of full m
partial oontrolled-access free-
ways open to traffic, and anotl*
er 611 are under construction.
There are a total of 4,717 mile*
of divided highway on the 68.$
thousand mile Texas highway
system.
Girls Win Statewide 4-H
Honors, Plan Chicago Trip
(Eurro Utrorb
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Published Each Afternoon Except Saturday and
Sunday Morning
By THE CUERO PUBLISHING CO., Inc.
HI E. Main, Cuero, Ten* _P. O. Box 381
Second class postage paid at Cuero, Texas
/969
An eight year veteran of 4-H fashion design. In which she
Club work, Miss Hairell has will major at the University of
been an office-holder for five Texas,
years. She has the distinction Helen Matus, daughter of Mr.
of being the only girl in Me- and Mrs. Jerry Matus, is state
dina County to have placed first champion in the home manage,
and alternate to the district 4-H ment program sponsored by
dress revue contest five times Tupperware.
in * row She is an old hand at homo
She has won honors with her management and won a blue
food project and through her ribbon at the state money man-
poultry work hag learned many agement demonstration contest,
varied ways of serving the fowl She won three blue ribbons for
she has raised. Her swine proj- home management project rec-
ect has helped her raise money ort^* in Lavaca County, and
to further her 4-H projects. first place in the district
Miss Hairell credits the con- *JS°
sumer education side of her 4-H blue ribbons for
Texas may be full of wide- s*«dies with teaching her that £££ T^rda^n I?!®*
uk? f/riarSiS’s "“«•»»“ p»
the money in the long run.
home.
led by the Comet, the Common Riding reateort* the borders are safe.
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OtOaUI Organ of the City of Cuero and County of DeWitt
)NE tw ain I
By JOSEPH WHITT
Central Press Association Correspondent
LONDON—Scots are still wary about “invaders’’ from south of
the border—England—and each year they hold a ceremony, the
Common Riding, tc symbolise the defense of their land.
Banners wave, bands play and horsemen gallop around the
boundaries of various towns to reassert the right of the town
to the common land.
"Common Ridings started long ago when borders were inspect-
ed by horsemen to make sure no outsiders had seized a piece of
our land,” said a rider from Hawick, one of the towns that per-
form this ceremony.
“These counties are part of
the Border Country, where
raiders and defenders used to
ride when England and Scot-
land were separate and warring
countries.''
Today a cavalcade, led by a
Ftandard-bearer known as the
Cornet, rides along the boun-
aries. He is elected by popu-
lar vote to perform this ritual.
On the first day of the Com-
mon Riding, a parade is held
with a drum and fife band and
town officials carrying halberds,
ar.c-.ent long-handled weapons.
Singing Scottish songs, the pro-
cession converges on the town
bail, where a special banner—
a gold diagonal cross on a blue
field—is decorated with ribbons.
The Comet, dressed to a tra-
ditional green coat and a sash,
is commissioned by a town offi-
cial to ride the boundaries and
to bring back the banner un-
sullied.
• • •
AT DAWN the next day the
town is awakened by the band.
The people gather in the mar-
ket place to hear the town
crier, who stands on the back
of a horse, read the orders to
the riders.
The cavalcade moves off Var-
ious landmarks are encircled.
At one point the Comet dis-
mounts and cuts a sod from the
common land. Later he enters s
pool on horseback to mark ar
ancient boundary.
Finally, the horsemen splash
through a river and ride off
a wild gallop—known as thf
I Comet’s Chase. “The chasr
I symbolizes the capture of th»
trophy and the bravery of th<
inhabitants,” said the Hawick
rider.
In the afternoon there ar«
horse races, country-style
wrestling and other athletic
events. At sunset the band sum-
mons the people to accompany
the emblems and the Comet to
the town hall
It is a slow procession. Every
fUut yards the marchers stop and
duce. Finally, beneath an elec-
trically illuminated crown, the
Cornet hands back the banner
and shouts: “Safe oot, safe in!”
The crowd sings "Auld Lang
Syne.”
Said the rider: "And Scot-
land is safe from invaders for
another year.’* .
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sewr 57 garments, raised nine
They are Brenda Ha by, 17, of Marjorie York, daughter of Kea'^I.SwTeaU. Sh2
?J° M®djna- Annette Hairell, Mr. and Mrs. John York, is state plans to study journalism next
16, of Devine; Marjorie York, 17, winner m the achievement pro- year,
of Wharton, and Helen Matus,
16, of Schulenburg.
Their 4 H projects have been
judged 1968 state winners by
the Cooperative Extension Ser-
vice, and they have been award-
ed all-expense paid trips to the
National 4-H Congress to be
held Dec. 1-5 in Chicago.
Miss Haby, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. James Haby, is state
champion in the clothing pro-
gram, sponsored by Coats &
Clark Inc.
Miss Haby, who has been a
4H member for seven years,
previously had been chosen as
dress revue teen queen of Me-
dina County. She has presented
demonstrations on
care
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Marjori* York
Irtnda Haby
Arniatta Hairall
gram, sponsored by the pprd “Commitment to Responsibll-
Motor Company Fund. f ity” U the theme of the 4-H
Miss York has taken the 4-H Congreas. Delegate* will stay at
clothing Achievement project for eight the Conrad Hilton, the world’*
years. In that time, she has largeit hoteL
She has been a junior leader made 86 garments, won 36 coun- While in Chicago they will
for four years and has held an ty blue ribbons, been awarded tour the city as well as its ma-
office in her local club for six the dress revue medal, and re- jor museums. Among these w ill
years Besides using her sewing reived first place awards at be the Art Institute of Chicago,
skills, she has instructed her Wharton County and district the Field Museum of Natural
4-H Club in food and nutrition dress revues. History and the Museum of Sci*
study. she has taken such projects ence and Industry.
-Annette Hairell. daughter of as food preservation, horticul A particular treat await*
Mr. and Mrs Oscar Hairell, is ture, poultry, photography, elec- them when they hear Arthur
winner in the home economics- tricity, soil evaluation and lead- Fiedler of the Boston Pops (is
consumer education program, ership Miss Y'ork plans to u*e chestra conduct the wot-<J.
sponsored by Montgomery these experiences as back- famous Chicago Symphony Qte
Ward. ground for har future career in chestra.
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