The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 53, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 4, 1969 Page: 1 of 6
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VOL. 75 NO. 53
CUERO, TEXAS 77554, TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1555
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Newman Job
Again Climbs
Out of Mud
99 ». i> mmat
the sun out again today,
;wo important city projects are
mowing progress again, al-
though one wasn’t slowed much
Joy yesterday’s mud.
/ City crews got back to work
on the Newman Street paving
Job today, City Manager Wil
Cockrell said, after being call-
ed off yesterday due to muddy
conditions.
The Newman Street Job has
been plagued by mud for some
And Cockrell said that Wilk-
inson Welding Co., is almost fin-
ished with die major water
main extension from the Inter-
section of Villa and Newman
Streets to MacArthur and east-
ward on MacArthur.
CfeckreH said only two more
need to be made
and tbf Job should be finished
this week.
The new water main is plan-
ned to alleviate a serious an-
nual drop in Water pressure
during the summer months for
the southeast section of the city.
Water use in that section also
is due to be greatly incre
when die new Chare Nursing
Home Inc. facility is completed
on MacArthur. Work is progre-
sing rapidly on that project,
which will have SO beds.
The city manager today re-
minded Cueroites that the City
Council will meet Thursday at
4:00 p.m. instead of 9:45 p.m.
for its monthly session.
Cockrell said he expects the
agenda and action to be brief,
with officials wanting to get
through the session early in ord-
er to attend a Texas Municipal
League meeting in BeevOle
later.
Jury Is Selected
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ATTORNEY GENERAL
Am
Tax Proposal
Held Illegal
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AUSTIN «n
tional.
- Atty. Gen.
today ruled
’ unooostitu-
Gov.
ruling is a
only and does not have
of « court
general’s
to provide 171.6
Hon of the $318 m
’ revenue that his *5,9 bil-
budget would require.
I Eft Id ruling
fa the state's at-
wii honor and
of fi
"Either
of revenue must be
or we wiU havu to cut
found «
back on
ha and Ms Muff have
bean waiting for Mhrtin’i rul-
Dads
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C. Hamilton, par-
kl a Soouters Outdoor
ttasaion at
tty" to offer p
I by former State Audi-
Ca vases and Is now
ter C. H
by Ma aw Hap. Don
Cavness of Austin.
At present all royally
goes into the permanent school
fund, a 1786 million trust fond.
That money la invested pfl-
ty to government bo
state spends only the
TTOop SIS were
id Patrol” and
a good time at
‘ to spite of
have two mom
to attend In
to complete the
AUSTIN m - Sponsors of
Troop Mi a proposed constitutional
wdnwnt seen as a major
step toward implementing the
long-range Texas water plan
predicted the measure would
(See UUUnni, Page 6)
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uero Native
D’ 2S in Wreck
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Mi the
e grandson of Cheroltea
and Mrs. Liandro Flores,
ffasmunMf Ipkj.mis I',, /t-,1
sergeant Domingo Oar
da Jr., of 502 W. Palmle, Who
had survived three tours of
in Vtetoam, was Mfiad in
t Sunday nfor-
■&Ss
years old,
wn - bom bi
foero, waa stationed at Port
Sam Houston, and was report-
edly taking a Wend to Port
suv^Sii
HHitoi Texas. :Th» aoddsnt liHIrrad
at akout 4:15 a.m.
The wr failed to
make a
overturned about
times, toe Associated
reported. The accident
also claimed fitt life of Sgt. Ri-
Rodriguez, 22. who Was
stationed at Fort Hood.
was file son of Mr*.
Otelia Garcia, now of Victoria.
Is father died in 1962.
Garcia spent two yean in
the Navy and three years in
the Army- fifc had been pre-
sented the UJS. Army Com-
mendation Medal and several
other citations for action in
Vietnam,'
f^neral^services are pending
Other survivors include three
sisters, Mrs. Estolia Garcia,
Miss Linda Garcia and Miss
Hhpafe, fAnthonythar*’
y, aTdf victoria; and i
il grandmother, Mrs. i
De Lew of Victoria.
Garden Club
Site Changed
Ex-Cueroits
Listed Killed
In Viet War
The Cuero Garden Club will
meet tomorrow at 3:90 p.m. in
the Women’s Club Building, la-
id of at file home of Mrs.
Ed F. DeLeon, due to illness of
! drs. DeLeon. ’’
Mrs. Earl Adcock win present
a program on African Violets.
Nixon Said Planning
•vision of Cabinet
a; all; (2) whether
there is a better way of doing
them, and (3) whether the go-
vernment is getting Us money's
"rTtbis end, he said. Nixon
soon stftt set up a
SZStS
will not be a* Drew as
of the
reorgan-
proposed a wholesale
ration of federal activities, be-
wail that
ffouse aide
reorganisation
■on gular Cabinet departments hi-
ve- eluding Health, Education ami
Marine Private ttjrst Class
LSrry J. Boehm, 19, who was
bom in Cuero and is related to
the Boehms of the Linder au
Community, was killed in a Viet
Gong mortar attack Feb. 23 in
file Quang Tri Province of South
Vietnam.
The action took place about
35 miles south of Vindergrift
Air Base.
Boehm, who was a resident of
San Felipe, was a 1968 graduate
of Seedy High School He had
been in the Republic of Vietnam
since November of 1968.
Survivors include his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar J. Boehm
of San Felipe; a sister, Sandra
Kay Boehm of San Felipe;
half-sister, Barbara Ann Ma-
baffey of Charleston, S. C.; and
five half-brothers, Sgt. James
T. Mahaffey of Austin, William
Mahaffey and CoOin Mahaffey
of San Felipe, Alvin Boehm of
Seattle, Wash., and Ernest Boe-
hm of Shreveport, La.
Ftmeral services will he con-
ducted Thursday morning in the
dispel of a funeral homa fat
Scaly. j
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first testa of the hmar «
1 estimony IN ear
In MdCord Case
today to
too minder
Oari. A, o
dulcd for <
99th District Cburt,
trial of X. J. Mw
ef Yoakum to
Judge Joa E.
roam]
to atxrf at tto
Another
Norther
On Way
1)0 second
rxf« ■ a*
PanhandW today and by Watt-
wen
Kelly’s
•sore-
an& — all here
Xam and Lndl
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tomfamtS Qctu
meamtVafrnm*
8tag and Marsto
Paid
all of Yon-
Hare-
Babbs of
to fire btobra at
Travelers’ wamtod for now
and lee on highways ware posh
tola
Panhandle,
KiIBi
big hi* wife to ttaato In t Yoa-
pftrtrfjMP fatat Kovt^bci
District Attorney Wiley Chta.
nm was quaMfjtog^forere for
str»-
C-CA DIRECTORS
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Community Effort
Result Described
Working together to a eo
munity effort was stressed in a
program Monday night present-
ed to the Ouero Chamber of
Flag Rite
Celebrated
At School
of Texas Public
Drink Charge
Is FHod Horn
while
County Court
intoSted^to DeWitt
^rethe county
SU3
Commerce board of director’s
early today over Amarillo. One
inch of snow already was
at Amarillo and
Monday's now at
Childress had about «m
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• ; 'Tempore fores In too srfia to-
day and tmnoniDW will top to
file 30s, while early
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OWS Wrrf HI iw lOw sUS.
Smai craft warnings were
posted on the Gulf Cbast ho-
of winds up to SO
an hour.
Clear dries greete
tog Texans this morning tut a
cloud eoO# was to develop
later to file day to advance af
If,- a,Ln| raifilela Mian
uHf iimn, wnicn was
to brim anywhere from
to dplzzlo
tiona of file state which (fid not
receive mow.
Wind gustint to to mflee
hour and fitunderatorms were
exnected along the coast tonight
and Wednesday.
Of "An
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kte questions to
on whether they be-
in the old Biblical into
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whan ho
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his qasofiaii to one witness,
which apparently admitted tac-
itly that his client, who is a
man, had killed a woman.
Otherwise the questioning by
both skies followed a normal
pattern. Attorney Robert Post
(boo Jury Belated, Page «>
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which showed how toe aty of
Lockhart washed its tray Into
Schools Week, March 3-7, got a
ittle boost fills morning at
Elementary School when the
entire student body and facul-
ty turned out for a flag raising
ceremony.
Boy Scouts raised the United
States Flag, the State of Texas
Flag and a green flag with a
child on it denoting file observ-
ance of safety. Mrs. Ruth
Koehler led Jbe students in
singing the haflohal anthem
and another song. Principal
Glenn Portia led the student
body in the Pledge of Allegi-
ance. , V-‘
Portia 644 the students the
school would conduct a flag-
raising each month until school
was out.
On Thursday evening, foe
Cuero Independent School Dis-
trict board of trustees will have
dinner to the
pertinent at Cuero High School
prior to their March
Other activities fad
house at the various district
schools. -
Freemasonry to Texas has
been largely responsible for
bringing tawob to the atten-
ttab of Texans. Masonic Lodgm
throughout the state have fought
atooe the early MOO’S for the
advancement of schooling for
everyone to fids state, and to-
day are behind the Texas Pub-
lie 8cboois Week promotion.
McWhorter Is the local
the finals of the All-American
City Awards Contest against
cities from across the nation.
(toe hundred color slides were
shown on the city's improve-
ment*, including everything
from lighting the court house to
sidewalks in the
area. The program
was presented by Frank Schul-
te Jr., Jaycee president; Dar-
rell Voight, city manager of
Lockhart; Bill Schroeder, past
president erf the Chamber of
Commerce and Lonnie Pittman,
chamber member.
The chamber diraatora then
began their 'own meeting wife
the information being noted
that the Alamo Exprt ss Go., has
closed its Yorktown and Cuero
The services to York-
town will be operated from Ken-
edy and Cbero service will come
from Victoria. ■ *
(boo OCA Mreetere, Page 6)
Goliad Fork
Work Approved
By State Panel
A 186,738.50 oanstructlao pro-
ject at Goliad State Park to
Goliad County recently gained
final acceptance by the Texas
Parks and Wildlife Department.
New fecffltles to the 208-acre
park include one service build-
ing, one restroom with showers,
five screened shelters, 20 trailer
campsites, 25 picnic sites, ..a
water and electrical distribution
system, a sewage system, and
road and parking areas.
The new facilities will supple-
ment the 17 picnic sites already
In the park.
Goliad State Historical Park,
located on the Safi Antonio Riv-
er, contains a replica of the Mis-
sion Nuestro Senora del'Esp-
iritu Santo de Zuniga, originally
established to 1722 and settled to
1749. .* f!
World Day
Of Praytr Set
Hero Friday f
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Cuero Church Women
will observe World Day of
qr Friday at 4 p.m. at
KXjSTJr., «nd
serve |a
ffoft
representatives
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Gilbert Saenz, Our La*
Chapel AME i
Mrs. filfeed
Michael’s CMholic Church.
Mrs. John J. Bell. Gnu*
Episcopal Church.
jMrs.H.AJfenaon,atlfark%
Lutheran Church.
Mn. H. L. Burt, First United
Methodist Church. h -
Mra. J. W. Jackson, Fh«
Presbyterian Church,
'.T1iem*;gf.: _ __
"Growing Together in
Mrs. Charles Sodden,
city chairman, Invites all i
to attend World Day of P*
Guest speaker wifi be
ma Lee of Fort Worth, who .
for a number of year* acted
prayer hoe teas
meetings. She
Bible groups to the Fort
-ages, and vtetiad
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57TH BIRTHDAY
Girl Scout Week
Starting Sunday
Sunday, March I is
'I
ginning of IGrI Scout Week and
the celebration of the flfty-se-
rl Scout
birthday of the Girl
Founded by Juliette
Low in Savannah, Georgia on
March 12, MU with 12 mem-
bers, Girl Scouting has grown
to more than three and three-
quarter million members to-
day.
The Girt Scout troops In Cue-
ro are served for the Pateano
Girl Soout Council with the of-
flee in Corpus Chriati. This
b
the be- Aransas, Bee, Brooks,
De Witt, Duval, Goliad. Jack-
son. Jim Hogg, Jim Write.
Karnes, Kenedy, Kleberg, La
Salle, Lavaca, Live Oak, Mc-
Mullen, Nueces, Refugio, San
Patricia, Victoria, Webb, and
Zapata Counties.
In 1968 almost 1,000 girls
were in Girl Scouting in the
Paisano Girl Scout
Over 1,«
vide the Girl Scout program.
Girl Sc mting is for girls seven
through 17 and they are to four
Council
1,600 adults helped to pro-
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