The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 115, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 15, 1969 Page: 1 of 6
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a 1, ip iii- iipiilci Wednesday ati'l tunnel,
; ; i. • la..mil.', , li'tills. n . n e ! o. 1 c n i n..' tile .
muni!, is‘‘it reported in West'
K..<: and North Contra] Texas.!
i'i.,’nr 1.a.si.iAviTs lornn'il in the.
kin Antoivo area today and,
'u.'it'ii'd tint tin'. i>.i\n aril Tile San,
Antoni'. W'-athor Bureau wam-i
cm! id it fi 'vli flooding.
\\ inils Hit Henderson
Tori...il"-l:ko win is c- i-
-.1, nts, hi .1 loud roaring:
,i- se ii.it saw. no funnol hit
II nd- rs -n in Past Texas Wed-*
tii sds> ni‘,dit.
■ Gas' iuie pumps were blown!
1.; 1 ‘.lie side, a metal awning,
w as ni -wii inn a lei and dam- J
,, ;ed several .ears, several trees!
wer- hiown over, signs were
k.nui ki'd-down, an i windows at j
a hit? Henderson supermarket
were .hi'>wn in.
A Wednesday night and early ,
today rain at Cleburne, .south, of1
Fort Worth, raised Fast . nd;
Wed Buffalo creeks ntenaeing-
,\ hu: they tailed tp K ' v)\er i;
hi.'ir hanks. Total rainfall in.
CM'U.rne was 3.5 inches.
'dorms and floods last week
in Cli burne and the area south
ot it took four lives and did se-
veral, million dollars damage.
•Storms were widespri ad Wed-
n scl y night.
tornado, s touched ground
today near Slew Home and O'-:
Pionnell, south of. Lubbock. anil
ni'.ar Stratford, north ot Lub-j
!»«•'• lit. No damage was retsarteri
from either twister.
Kain l-cts Up
Hal was n'jCrted in Abilene
.rid neat' Lubbock
Ski. s wete ca ar to partly
cloudy . East Texas:
Sh iv. 'a and' thundershowers j
lerreased. in intensity today hut j
Fortas Gives Up
Top Court Post
l our of the six lane* p!u» the guard rail are down there.
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a! hank had
I c iit'm buy s
were stiil ‘airly numerous over
W. ter l.eW'fS,
Works, was
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1 r.e to iii'l .in "ie '. ."ih wntn • ,,r the state'west of a line
*' lI;' ;n ‘b’’ running from Corpus Chr'L«ti to
t:vm Cit-rniany. Wl; lUld Kails. Clear to partly
- ci'.iidy skies j>iTvailed east of
%v*'.s tins line.
K.i.riy ti'niperiitures ranged
tie Kmd lh .- he t tjK'ir , . upper iitls in tne Pan-
with inli-j hanrtlc to the mid 70s along the
, iower coast.
I At times . the -tornado alert.
a.N.jed siKiradi.-ally Wednesday
j. 1 -\ the U. S. Weather.- Hur-id.
; -Vt‘1'- d -It •• ••unties. Fui lilt i
.•I. aids .were sighted near Vaten-
: tine, in mountainous .Jeff Da-
f'»ji , vis CountN it: West Texas; 10
. utirVe pm''rttient has e.stab- , ritiit’.s north of Plainxiew, 10
--,1 the "National Family ! miles southeast of Sulphut
Woman Service" to let ! Springs and near lleiibro 'k.
tilers kt’iOW' what state social riie Weather liureau said none
,\ ,.| of the misters touched ground.
Nixon
Accepts
At Once
WASHJNOTON CPJ - Ahe
Fortas anno'inced toiiav Ins ie-
sign 11ion as an associate .iiis-
tu.- nf Mi. Supreme Court and.
President Nixon acci-pled ilyet-
IcetiVe ininii'diately.
Cti.ter lire for taking, though
later returning, a tee said to
tv Wit,null from the family of
now-imprisoned financjci l/>uis
Wolf son. Fortas chose to ipiit
rattier than face p .ssible 1111-
peuchllHiiil prix-eedings in the
House.
Fortas' letter of resign.ition
to Nixon was delivered to the .
White House Wednesday night \
md the President signed a let- |
ter of aeceplanee and sent it
t.o For is shortly before lb a m. ■
' FUT today, according to Press'
Secretary Ronald Ziegler
Ziegler refused to answer any
rpipstions atsiui tl'*' contents of,
the exchange ( letters.
lie s iid Fortas' letter nn«s
received by the President almtll
• D:30 p m. LDT Wednesday
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to 69 miles from the Moon on Apollo 10. Shown suited up for space flight at ths caps
are (from left) Thomas P Stafford, John W. Young and Eugene A. Cenun.
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FOUR-LANt WASHOUT—Recent heavy rains caught up with
Interstate 80, a main highway between the San Francisco
Bay area and eastern points, and left tills chasm near Pinole.
Four of tiie six lanes are way down in the big washout, and
traffic la reduced to a single lane for safety.
DEWITT COUNTY
Cotton Growers
Okay T ransf ers
OLD WELSH SPORT INVADES U.S.—Winners of a gaming com-
petition at Carroll College In Helena, Mont., Pat Gray (left)
and Rod Luck get In some practice after challenging llar-
vard to a gurn-out. For those few persons who might not
know, gvming is en old Welsh sport of making faces.
TvWitt County cotton pro-
ducers approved till' transfer by
producer provision by a vote ot
7-16 pel cent, aeeording to the
County ASCS Office . Tlie vote
was by mad f re, in May a
through May ft
Under the piovision appro\o<i..
cotton pnelueei'K in the county
Dr. Stratton
State President
Of Osteopath
L>I. If,eiK.rd,Stratton, owner of
Stratton Hospital, has taken ov-
er his new pasition as pri'ident
of the Texas- Association of Os-
teopathic Phy sicans aud Suo
geo.is, winch tic will hold unti.
May TITO.
Dr. Stratton assumed His new
'position at the group's state.
convention in Dallas over the
weekend The state convention
I next year wilt lie m l.ubtwk.
may trtirisfer cotton ailatnient
by sale or ie sc 'iMtsid-' tile
county but within the state.
Dance Recital
Slated Friday
K .;■ i W'Hiitit i.t.;e S.m An-
!■ mo, at. attoi'rn y lor the Cirshd
Dnige ot the Order of the Sons
of Hermann, wall tie the sp, ,.k-
er at tii'■ annual 1 ■ ci; ,i of the
Cucio Hernu'inn Sons Sehixil of
I ' lneing at 3 p.m. Friday, in St.
Mack> ' Fn'ueran Foilowsriip
!1 cording t i >.!’•' Ha H--
iv a P?. r "f the-dan. mg 6-lass.
S mine] i„ Ahr. Sab -Antonio,
Grand La«1.;• dis'tia'et : supervis-
or .also Will- att-i'M-i.
Smith’s Med School
Nixed by Lawmakers
Bn DAVID ANDERSON
AOSTLN UPI U'gislators j
have given favorable treatment ;
to hills creating new education- ■
si institutions in Houston, San
Antonio, Odessa-Midland, Tex-1
arkana and Corpus Christ), but
delayed action on a new medi- j
nd school in Gov. Preston I
Smith's hometown.
Sen. Joe Christie, D-F) Paso,
who prevented passage of the
Lubbock school. measure Wed-
nesday, said hi- expel led Jo ol -
fer "some more disc’as.sion'' a-
bout it today,
Cliristie contends El Paso Is
a better site than Lubliock for
tlie new West Texas school.
He indicated, however, he did
not plan to try to singlehanded-
ly block the Lubbock school in-
definitely through an extended
minister.
Tlie Senate gave filial approv-
al Wednesday to a new medical
school in Houston and a n u.--
mg school; in Sun Antonio, both j
as part ol the University Of :
Texas' system. Both had been |
approve,' earlier by the House. (
'Ihe Senate State Affairs Com- j
mittee, over tiie objections of
its chairman, approved hills
creating upper-level colleges ai
Odessa-Midland, Texarkana and
Corpus Christ!.
The Oil,1' .1 hill already lias
pas.-ed the House and now needs
only the Senate approval, but
the Texarkana and Corpus
Christi schools have yet to be
be vob-1, njsin by cither bouse.
Sen William T. Moore, 1 >-
Bryan. , ba rman of the Stale
Affairs Committee, said the leg-
islature is creating too many
new senojis.
A SLEEPY FIREMAN - Bob
Dwyer, Dcs M01r.es, Iowa,
Fire Department dispatcher,
looks tired as he mans ths
switchboard, where he has
been working around - the -
clock, with only catnaps,
since about 300 Bremen went
on strike April 28 The de-
partment is being manned
by supervisors, volunteers,
police, national guardsmen.
This was 4 • hours before |
Nixon s major television ad- I
dress to the nation on Vietnam |
Wednesday. i
-No word leaked of tlie action J
until this morning
The 58-year-old Fortas made .
the announcement through a j
, Supreme Omit spokesman
11k- court spokesman, Ban- j
mng F. Whittington, said there
! would be no further amplified- ‘
t.i"n of tlie statement.
Asked whether tlie letter |
would he made public. Whitting- ;
ton said, "I don't know. He j
didn't say anything more to j
me."
The Fortas resignation came
11 days after late magazine
made public for the first tim’e
Fortas' receipt of a S20.000 fee !
from the family foundation of i
Louis VVolfson. weathy finan- j
1 ifi-, after Fortas heeame a
, member ol the court in T(65
Fortas issued a statement, the |
! same day. May 1. acknowledge- !
i ing that he did re, ■••ive a tee
1 he did not suy how much--from ;
the foundation. He said he latet 1
■ returned it Life said he dal not I
1 return it until 11 months later
j after Wolfson wi>s indicted on;
j federal charges of stock matu-
: pulation.
j Wolfson is now serving a ;
vear's prison sentence in Flon-
! da. !
Die resignation came as the ;
: first moves were afoot on Cap-;
it at Hill - amid strong' criti- !
eism or his alleged impropriety ;
in taking the fee toward 1
■ possible impeachment of the '
| eigth ranked of the nine justices. I
Rep. Clark MacGregor. R- 1
Minn., asked the House .ludieia-
' ry Committiv Wednesday to he-
i gin a [irelintinary inquiry into
tit- Fortas - Wolfson relation-!
ship.,
While MacGregor did not j
characterize this as the begin- :
ning of impeachment proceed- |
ings, some lawmakers viewed it
that way. Rep Emanuel Celler. ;
D-N Y., chairman of the Judici-
ary Commitlhe, had indicated he
wnuid go along with flip Mac-
Gregor ’request.
Rep. H R. Gross, R-IovVa.'j
had served notice da vs ago that j
lie was prepared to begin im-;
perudiment proceedings He was
-holding this in abeyance pond- (
ing the possible judiciary in- j
quirv. i
MacGergor demanded that |
Fortas h,- summoni-ii to testify ,
along with Atty. Gen. John N
Mitchell.
He also asked that Mitenell
he called to testify about what
tie might know ahnit the For-.:
tas - Wolfson relationship. The •
! attorney general dis.-losed eer-
1 li«r in the week that he Con- J.
| fwml eight days ago with Uhief .
! JustlC Earl Warren at Warren's ’
' office
1 Mitchell said he asked for th«
■ meeting to git,* Warren crtain ■
iuforma'ion he said he felt
would he of aid to the chief
' I'istiee in connection with the:
Fortas case. I
Mike’s Big Nite
Is Huge Success
Tokyo Nile tor Mike whs 11 huge suciess last night, aemrding
to Lions Cluh President C. I- Duckett.
Duckett s.iid today the event—singed to raise funds to help
send Lions President-elect Mike Weber to the Lions International
July convention In Tokyo—raised an estimated Fafitt-pluN.
The chicken barbecue suppef plus 'entertainment drew he
tween X50 and 100 guests, iie es^niated.
The eNonl was moved from tlie originally planned site at Hu-
old < ity Pumphouse „A the (.uadaUipe Itiver to the baseball park
at Municipal Park, to ease |.uking prolrlems.
Among the guests were four officials from Regency Turuiture
Manufacturing < o.. which Is nearing production in its new plant
on West Sarah—-I. It. Blankenship, president; I W Rucks, sales
manager plus llershe! Pannell and (ill'll Ton, who will he pro
duction managers when the plant goes Into operation.
-V
Legion Officers
Are Nominated
Or, n Tui is'Ville was nimuuat-
e<l for Tkl9-70 ena inlander "f
American Iicgion Mini or Post
N'i. 3 at a meting, this w eek.
Older officer n, mii'iieos are C.
L. Duckett, first viee-eointtian-
der Salvador Gonzales, .second |
vice-eoniniatHk't'; Ltis Car[H'nt-
er. adjutant; Jim Stun., finance
oil teer; Marvin R'tbke. eh..|e-
lain: Join HudgiOte, servile
officer: Alfred Marijuis. Iiistor-
ian; W T Smith, 'nii.-'-n offic-
er. and Ia'I'vj K'li'u: ; and Wal-
lace Staffl. .s,T ;i'.in;-al-arnis.
Norhnaled as tin exe-utivc,
coinniiUee wer, Fete Webb,
eiiairm.-n: A. Bauer Jr., A.
R Rain !i. Ji"' B. Reu.ss an 1
Jeny llanyo N.urunat, d -is
trustees vviT" ili.H Barfield, 1
Raucii. Marijuis. Cai'jn'nier anil
Reuss. ;
Members are ur.’ed La attend
the June Id meeting when of-
ficers are elected Webb is "id-
going euiniininder.
Four Cuero High S tt,»>l juniors
have been seleetKi for Ame-
rican D-gion Birys St.ite in Aus-
tin this itirnmiT. They are- Tom-
my',Klunt/er, Troy Fox Wil-
liam Mot r "v; and Terry Koeh-
ler
Seaman James K.Heard Kurtz,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Fdwafd
Kurtz ot C'tero attended He
meeting Kurtz is one of the
p.,sl’s n.uihber.s who are serv-
ing during The Vietnam War.
Correction
Tlie Hillside ( rmeti r.v As-
sedation niintial meeting will
be at 5 p.m. F riday, in tlie
Dit.v (’ouncil Chambers, not
Thursday a.s re|x>rted in yes-
terday’s Record.
New Push
For Peace
Is Made
WASHINGTON UPI - Presi-
dent Nixon, asking the Ameri-
can people to hold hun account-
able for whatever happens in
Vietnam, has offered the Com-
muiu.sts a new peace plan de-
signed to end the war within
one year.
In -n effort to nudge the Par-
is talks into action, and in re-
spniise to the 10-point Viet Nam
peace proposal made earlier
tins month, ivi.xon went on radio
and t'di vision Wednesday night
at what he called a "critical
turning point" to offer:
■ Withdrawal, in stages, of
US. and Allied troops from
South Vietnam over the next 12
months, provided the North
Vietnamese do the same. After
12 months, fighting would stop.
- A promise the United States
j will accept whatever govern-
! rhent the South Vietnamese peo-
| p!e want, including rounitica-
1 lion with North Vietnam if ne-
: cessary arid full participation of
j the Viet Cong, the Communist
1 guerrillas, in the government
A w-.rning the United
States will never pull its 540,000
| troops out unless the Commu-
' nists do likewise, and 1 pledge
i tlie United States' will not ac-
j cept: a settlement at Paris that
• is only a "disguised defeat-."
1 Nixon’s 22-minute address
I combined a flexible peace pro-
posal wiih a reaffirmation of
U.S. resolve and acknowledge-
ment the war he inherited from
i President Johnson is now his
i war, for good or bad
! "If I fail to do so," he said 01
I his campaign prom se to ao
j hiev'e peace. I expect the A-
j merfean jieople to h 'ld me ac-
I countable for that failure "
1 The initial congressional roao-
i tier, to Nixon's speech was gen-
j eraliy favorable even optimis-
1 tip in some ip,at 'ers. Sen. Jacob
jK Jiivits. R-N.V-. one of 11
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/ORKTOWN
New Nursing Home
Progress Reported
Fiesta Hi f’asu. tiie nursing
home in Yurktown !»• uig rrftir- -
bished and exp-i-ndi-t i<> Mrs.
Eileen Burt o! Curro. is m.ik-
ing ro.il progress; .site says
Mrs. Burt and h r nretiiteeL
Jack Ktifsiniin .>r« going to'
Austin tom ;i r i.v u cont-o ,-n
the final ' plan* on tin ground
with Howard C. A..e:'. consult-
ing architect f ” ’In Division
,,[ Nursing and Convalescent
Homes,' Medical Cart Adniini.s-
U,ition Texas Se ti"t;
Mis fkirt s.u'l t*»e riome is
getting rev Suanish-ty pv tri’n1..'
and Spar.isii-ty !>•' walkways
d'ne iw c instructioii is in-
cluding facilities fur retirement
space for individuals as well as
t- I'.iplcs.
Mi s. Burt in March pur, ’;, s-
cd ihe former Last' i' N u-'in..
Home in Yurktown
The etiiarad nus-ang home
recently Was reeei'lllie.l 'as ft
•'Class 3" nursing ‘loin,
Mr.-. B trt is tiie wi'i' w ot the
•ate D:a J. C. Burt M adron
-n'i is fit niotii' r I u erni-
dren Sr." was in the Slat,- \tci-
fare Den;dtmint hr lO > ,u'S
and I,"' tie’ las' tout years has
b. , n 1 tie d w ,rk" for the d"-
[11. to ,111
sin- resigned her p ot as of
April !. in * ni->v xJ to Yn.k-
tuwn to t.iKe active suiierviNion
of the nursing hr,me th-'r*
?,lr. and Mrs. Last" hvrs
plans ready fir a row 3>Vd
nuts ing home for Otero and
currently . considering se-
ver.,1 ImSSU’ -■ Site.-
Tii" n<".v Cm ro IL'rr.e w ill of-
fer four types "i t—- ut'", "' vie
cure, ax ..•••rifing t M.'« Ln <■'?.
Ill "" il t" :■ r -f
tiler,■ win tie L c s lor M>
«• 1: e e ,sns. M die il ra. 3,
and tii.- n en,tor type of par.-’-ht.
Mrs But'! said' see plans to
retam the fua statuanls of :lw
YorktoNvn home, with hall ser-
vices and with ti> present staff
trt us entirety.
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