The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 183, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 17, 1941 Page: 1 of 6
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VOL. 47.— NO. 183.
NEWSPAPER REFLECTS
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ITS COMMUNITY
CUERO, TEXAS, SUNDAY, AUGUST 17. 1941
SIX PAGES
The Weather
Generally fair Sunday. Light to
moderate variable viols,, mltffj
south and southwest on the coast.
IT-
other business in
benefited from the com-
6t the big Brayton family
Cuero, and incidentally, all!
bpsihess firms do. then gaso- [
dbt dealers and local garages
Id benefit enough to make
venture worth-while. The
Brbyton personnel, combined
with the U. 8. Army personnel,
have added exactly 103 cars to
Cuero’s automobile popula-
and that doesn’t include, ■ lu . ff .
'owned by Cadets Wheft CldllT) Ukrd 1(16 Victory
to thfiik of that fact
S, we can see just what an
the Brayton Flying
is to the city of Cuero
can deny, the airport
been a “live-saver” to
entire community. Cuero
has not only gained business
tat ihe has gained a group of
fine young men and women
who are rapidly becoming to
know Cuero as “home.” We
are indebted to Clyde Brayton
and his entire personnel, and
•f pot on the back now
BEGIN OVERPASS PLANS
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BERLIN SAYS
PACT WILL NOT
AFFECTWAR
Now Only Matter Of
Few Hours
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STALIN FAVORS PACT
Red Leader<Jrges Meeting
Of Three Chiefs
Immediately
President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill "Somewhere at Sea
then certainly is deserved.
¥> to » i
And speaking
the
Service, the United States , statement was a “flop and blunder
of “pats
Brayton
By International News 8ervice.
The world today still talked of
nothing else but the 8-point- expo-
arid ] sition of war and peace aims by
President Roosevelt and Prime Min-
ister Winston Churchill. ;
on Berlin, jubilant over further vic-
Fly- ! tories in the Ukraine, insisted the
personnel and flying in- j
at the Cuero field |
certainly in line for a j
I Ten weeks ago i
one youngsters left the j
flld for Randolph and J
more
and intended only to ‘reassure the
Red Cttator” without doing any-1
thing practical to aid Russia or af-;
feet the outcome of the war. ,ij|
The German high command an?
nounced that the lfato drive into,
the Ukraine was progressing at a
weeks of afiyanced j blitz pace and that complete victory I
All thirty one sue- !ln of war was only a j
‘ m~ i oa*u*r days, it not hoars.
Stren* j Moscow had nothing to say about
Their specific engagements on any front-
bat deelfcia*’Bovfet - troop* were-
“stubbornly resisting" in the Uk- i
PLANS FOR
KElftlHi
YOAKUM jOFFICIi
Actual construction plans for the approach ttH. the
overpay near Thomas ton are now being laid outm the
kum office of the Highway Department, according to j
Mugge of the Cuero office of the Highway Department. An
propriation of $120,000 for the two and one-half' mile
, proach was approved Tuesday, August 5, while a grant of 1
\ 000 for toe overpass itself had been approved earlier
Plans for the overpass, which will be 3,000 feet long
be drawn up in Austin, Mugge salid. The approach will be 1
" j from the Victoria count$
ITCH HDIUr to the overpass, althc*
UuU 1/lVI ? lu actual time has as ye
__ J* set for the beginning of
NEAR QUOTA
Work on the unde
U. 8. Highway 87 to
tonlo is progressing
Dance On August I Nets ^"^'
Fund $20.70; Total
5 Now $452.20
the approach to the
sometime this wed
yards of dirt have
from the site.
Cuero's United 8ervice Organiza- stiM i
tkm drive has now netted $452.29
of its $609 quota, according to John
With the
highwam
Page,
H. Berning, chairman of the Cuero the .Yi
:<•
U.
mm
they received
Cuero field, upon the
of instructors at the
field for Randolph and
and the ability of the
personnel to select only
"best” for continued ac-
tivity in the Army Air Corps
* * *
An out of state visitor to
CtoeraTriday expressed keen
interest in the moss which
coven the trees of this city {
snd'even went so far as to
bow long It took the
of the town to deeor-
the trees. That may sound
to you and me, but to
who have seen very lit S
tM moss and particularly thej
sfeolah type moss
abounds in this area, it’s not
ftlnny at all.
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Mrs J. P. Bridges has called
our attention to the fact
that there are no city water
Tin— .nor gas Lines serving
the surburban neighborhood
Ip which she lives. It is like-
ly fchatf the city of Cuero and
the Southwest gas company
a* weli could find several good
cpstoffiers in that vicinity
should they choose to extend
their lines. The
Within the city
should be given*
mty of enjoying
lances of both water and gas
What about it Mr. Mayor and
Wr. Morgan?
The two .—-j™* _
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notions .on
“somewhere In theKgrth Atlantic,
war aims expressing a determination t
Minister Winston Churchill
Assentation*] development of yre-op^ereoee was the
stamp out .Germany tynmyr ’ • ~ ^
drive. Several other possible con-
tributors are also tQ be heard from,
Berning aaid Friday,
pictured } The daJace staged
woe thn *
Mnmwhue. premie, joeet sum. Beaverbrook Meets Halifax After Bomber Flight
Speedily accepted the Roosevelt-j
Churchill proposal for a three-power j
war conference in the Soviet capita\j
He urged that the meeting be held -
as soon as possible, and British
authorities expected that sessions
might begin within a few days, f
Russian Airmen Bomb
Berlin Without Lou
MOSCOW. Aug. ' 16.—(INS.) —
The Red air force blasted Berlin
once more during the night add!
ranged over the industrial city of
Stetting. setting fires and rocking,
military objectives, an official an-,
nouncement said today.
Although not a Russian plane was
lost, according to the statement. |
which I "military objectives were hit, many
j fires were started and great num-
bers of Ugh explosives and Incen-
diary bombs were dropped.”
MOSCOW IN DANGER
NEW YORK. Aug. 16.—(INS.)—Lj
I If America. Britain and Russia are'
i going to hold a conference In Mos- ‘
cow, they’d better hurry up—pr the
Germans will get there first, the
Berlin radio picked up by CBS. said
today.
TERM OPENS
(NEW HOUSES
j UL
TO BE BUT "
Friday, Aug
':.fr aul>-a^g°?^ S “SIX
erty M*ntormm to fglNT -ftnKfef for h ‘ *
tthe USO, while it did not net as T*
much as was anticipated still clear- Cree*t
i ed $20.70 for the fund. Johnny 411
Lucas. Fay Ruth Moore and Mrs. J.! “*ve no"
Woodworth worked on the dance H» ^estlmafcad
committee and deserve a lot of
credit for their work along with the
Lions Club Swing Band. Berning
stated.
ing the
t#xoe|
facing with
other two
Highway
Building This Week Hits
- New High Mark
Of $8,980
Cuero experienced its busiest week
in building in several months dur-
ing the past week when ten per-
mits totaling $81160 were issued by
the city comptroller’s office. This
week's mark topped the high mark
of recent- months set last week by
$1.585last week’s record being
$7,394.08.
The Newman Lumber Company
1 received the greatest number of con-
tracts during the week, being given
contracts to build two new houses
and to renovate another. Newman
slabs which will be
ing to piling contains
concrete alone. With tU,
tion ‘of the wosfc there
The Brayton Flying Service also, former bridges will be f<
contributed $25 to the fund to raise
it Nabove the three-quarter mark
toward the quota.
road’s flexible
ARGENTINE
only one bridge by the
the six new q
The Goliad
base is
ished, 1
will be the main
on the road.
BACKS ALLIES RETAIL a
OPENS
*
More Than 2,000,000
Workers Demonstrate
Against Nazis There
/
BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 16 —(INS.)
—A giant nation-wide demonstra-
Kr Carld
Street at if cost of $2,690. dhd thejactW^, throughout Argentine, as
contract was the largest made out Imore lhan 2.000.000
Class* On Show
tering Under
Moore Begins
homes are
limits, and
the opportu- Two Colored Men Face
the conven-
during the week.
Another new house to be built by J
Newman s Company will be a home \
for T. W. Montgomery’
Lord Beaverbrook, British Minister of Supply, is pictured with Lord Halifax (left) British Ambassador
to the United States, as the two met in Washington after Beaverbrook arrived in the Capital aboard a U. S.
bombing plane which flew him frojn the momentous sea conference between President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill. Beaverbrook will confere with Amerifan officials on plans to speed aid to Britain and
Russia.
workers
;,down their tools as a gesture of
I “solidarity ;with Britain, the United,
States mla Russia.’
Ea„( Only public utilities and
Newman Street, the house to cost j pers “^•biued to operate.
.$1,400. In addition to these two! A great anti-Nazi meeting was
> contracts, Newman was issued a per- ^beduled for Buenos Aires tonight
fmit Saturday morning for the ren. : by thousands of persons in-
j eluding provincial union delegations.
German stores which opened
ovation 'Of the home
Continued On Page 5
Glasses in Show Card
laid will be started Monday, i
Cuero Municipal At ‘
o’clock, under the direction, of i
|6. Moore, a member of fliif‘
newspa- the University of Texas,
Extension, according to
ceived by the Cuero
c ommerot .
There will be no tuition
the classes which will be
by -the Cuero Chamber of
Belden Poll Indicates Gerald Mann Holds Big Lead
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1 usual thig morning were closed in a' and ^ Cuero Fhiblic
, hurry after the windows of several! enrollment fee
were broken.
Trial Monday For "“loverStevenson, O’Daniel in Next Gubernatorial Race on^Srchar^e
Theft
will be
Monday throufik I
New Yoakum Bonds
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The county court session will be.
fomally opened for jury trials with
County Judge 8tephen P. Hebert
presiding Monday, August 18 with
two cases on tne docket for that
Only 13 Per Cent Favor
Senator O'Daniel For
Third Term
YOKUM. Aug
W. Sheckles has received
faom the attorney general of Texas
that he has approved the
By JOE BELDEN
16.—City Manager date, according to Stanley Kulawik. j Editor. Texas Snrveys Of
Public
word county attorney
Oscar Lawson, colored, will be
new re- tried at 9 oclock in the county
court room on a charge
theft in connection with
bonds of the city of Yoa-
These bonds bear only 3 1-4
cent Interest ae (Compared with of brass and copper from a Yoakum
-2 and $ per cent of the bonds warehouse He was Indicted at the
are replacing. last session of .the grand jury. Elmo
The cky owned utilities plant has Williams, colored, will be* tried In
jOOO worth of the the afternoon tn connection with the
Opinion
• Copyright, 1941)
AUSTIN. Aug. 16.—Although Mr
of petty. o’Daniel has just gone to ’Washlng-
the theft! (on and Mr. Stevenson now lives ini little
g
WkU within the next same offense.
years be able to buy in all out- C. Gary will be heard on an ap-1 in the elections next summer, it is
the Mansion, it is 34 year old Ger-
ald C. Mann who ip Texas's man of
the hour
The voters have the youthful at-
torney general uppermost in their
minds as their choice for governor! "At this time, whom
# ♦ ?
cut to find from the people them-
selves the answers to these ques-
tions:
1 Who are at present the most
popular possibilities for governor in
1942? *
2. Where does Stevenson rank
with the electorate as he begins his
tenure as governor?
3 V^at are O'Daniel's chances
today, should he decide to run for a
third term? *
The Surveys finds that it makes
difference how the idea is
presented—Gerald C. Mann is the
favorite of about half of the elect-
ors. His defeat in the recent U. S.
2 Mann Pavnrari Ru >17 Dor! 7101 **artlnez » A* of $9.10
presented.< * ■Clllll rClVUrcU D)f / 1 61 |in the city court Saturday morning
C6nt Of VoterS In En !a*tcr Pleadln« guilty to a charge of marking the thirtieth
X- * *
Others
Then this query was ;
naming three men currently men
tioned as most, probable candidate;:!
for governor next summer, "If vouj
had to choose from one of these i
three men for governor. Which do:
you think you-might favor—Gerald j ^ _ ____________
C Mann, W Lee O'Daniel Coke :t. I low ebb of O Daniel s popularity, the two men were fighting on West practice.
charged.
The classes
nightly from
day beginning at $ o’clock
be open to any person over
of age employed In
retail work.
Moore has been conductng
es in Weimar this week.
tire State
I fighting. Marcella Morello, arrest- which he has taught
{ed in connection with the same of-} P®-5* vear. He is a
Koester School of Retail1
I fense. entered a plea of not guilty
and will be tried ln the city court Chicago and has, himself.
What cannot escape notice is the Monday morning. It is alleged that «<i thirteen years of successful
II
Stevenson?" The answers:
Gerald C. Mann 57r-.
Coke R. Stevenson ... * 27
W. Lee O Daniel 16
Weeks before the recent senatorial (Main Street,
election the Surveys pointed to the!
stiffest contest he wa? yet to face, a1
fart confirmed by his extremely'
Senate race seems to have left him By virtue of his prestige as gover-
unscathed. First, interviewers asked.
do you think
/ou would like to see elected gover-
This study is not to bo interpreted narrow victory Upon leaving for
as a sign that Governor Stevenson j Washington. O’Daniel’s popularity-
will have no chance against Mann if as-governor index indicated his
they should both nm Tor the office Support was at its lowest point dur-
ing his second term.
48 per cent.
$fevenson Camels
Speaking Appearances
Persons interested in
course and who desire mor
formation about the course
(contact J. W. Arnold at the
her of Commerce or the
A. Zimmerman superint
city schools.
CARTER PAINTS
L. A Carter, local artist.
bonds of the city. In ad- plication for habeas corpus at 2 i found in a poll that covered Texas jnof of Texas next summer?" sug-
to this, the plant, which was
1$ years ago at a cost of
has already paid off $237 -
tta debt. This will be entirely
•at in
o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Kulawik I from the Panhandle to the Lower | gesting no names. These were the
said. Gary filed the application last! Valley. Texas Surveys of Public results:
week, claiming that he could not Opinion, using the same scientific Gerald C. Mann 47'o
pay the fine and that he had been I technique that enabled it to predict: Coke R. Stevenson 25
the nine-yaw period unlawfully confined,"but the hear- i five state elections with an average ; W. Lee ODaniel 13
wa* postponed by Judge Hebert I error of 2.5 per centage points, set* Lyndon B Johnson ...... 13 '
• , n La** ?*-'■'! .•' v ' - < ,
AUSTIN, Aug. 16.— (INS.)—Plans
of Governor Stevenson to make sev-
nor, Stevenson will likely increase' today lie would be no match against;eral appearances and a radio ad-
his following. This poll merely {-Mann and Stevenson. This may weil dress tomorrow hi the Fort Worth- hibit an oil
records his iiosition as he takes up pe due to a great extent to the be. Dallas area were cancelled today on house at the Ouero
his new duties. What will happen lief of many voters -that G Daniel the advice: of his physician. Gov. in the window of his
to his. Mann s, and O Daniel's for- will seek re-election to the senate. Stevenson is suffering from a throat on East Main Street.
not the governorship, in 1942. It is ailment.
during his
tunes during the next nine.or ten not the
months*before the poiiticah fireworks ' recalled.
show*-the clubhouse, the
Pending a return to his office, the and several of the
however, that
are ignited once more . Texas Sm - last campaign O’Daniel promised he Governor has taken no action on
veys will chart and publish in this (might be back for a third term if, ssveral pending appointments, it
newspaper month by month. ' (Continued on Page d) ~ > was stated.
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Putman, Harry C. The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 183, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 17, 1941, newspaper, August 17, 1941; Cuero, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1097405/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cuero Public Library.