The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 149, Ed. 1 Monday, June 28, 1948 Page: 1 of 6
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THE WEATHER
CUERO, TEXAS, MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1948
Formal Call For City Election Issued
Talk
ARMY
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1
548XMJ0
837,000
NAVY
469,000
Mayor J, J. Fischer Mon
502,000
towqsgmd village*
jcowt north and
The election cell by the Mayor
gait with
i Gear
on the
Guara
inform Secretly
: Texas, of 501 acre* of land, known as
cause they found no
IS EXPLAINED
with the 1933
Disaster Iftlef trains
But damaged
current
tants were lef
evere
The
NEWB
i To AcceDt.Prinfing Or- Emergency Declared
ders, Run Business
In London Strike
has been fortunate in-
28—
t* rins
I
i
W
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TID4L WIVES HIT JJP
I TO RECRUITS
the Council by the Chamber of Corn-
Johnson
President
by AFL
in
a
on
his
no
ers are not the only Texans
called upon to reduce sprink-
ling of lawns and flowers.
ject until this year,
plans called for an all-steel
structlon.
AIRPORT SALE
TOBE DECIDED
ON BY VOTERS
certain
welcome
ROMA, June 28. — CUP.) — The
swollen Rio Grande is rushihg its
debris-laden waters into the Gulf of
Mexico.
The little border town of Roma
reports 33 fest of water — and toe
j people who’ve been charting the
RIO GRANDE
FLOOD WATER
REACHES GULF
F’oM'ng Of I
In Stricken
wrack down. There is ab-
Btely no excuse for speed-
the residential areas.
NEW BUILDING
STARTED HERE
from the ground.’
“Then,” Mb sayi
flat on my face. When I
about me
further construction and impr
ment of the Weber Motor Co.
Construction of the Job will
maied by Tam C. Weaver, 1
slightly.
British
nounce that 10 barges; load
with food and freight from West
July
or
air-
New
Fires Sweeps Through
Austin Firm Sunday
at
fact reflects the
of the water
South Texas,
shortage of wa-
means local.
express their approval or dUap-
xl of the sale of the 501 acre
to a
Do Yoo Have
AV1SIT0R
Phone The Record
in the City Hall,
vote of Cuero tax payers
future. When a town
that town
EAST TEXAS—Partly cloudy with
Scattered thundershower*, mostly in
the north portion this afternoon,
tonight and tomorrow. No so warm
in th enorthwest and west central
portion tonight. Fresh southerly
winds on the coast
Enlistments in the Texas
National Guard are still op-
en according to a statement
by Lt. Harvey Wehman, com-
mander of ehe Cuero Guard
Company Monday morning.
> It. Wehman stated that hs had
received no official word from
guard headquarters closing enlist-
DEMO SLATE
WASHINGTON. June
Paint And Body Shop,
Shed For Truck Repairs
Has Been Started
tea at Convention
tije most colorful‘
(I nternational Soundphoto)
sum of 184,000.00.”
J. J. Fischer,
Mayor, City of Cuero, Texas.
FINNISH ELECTION
HELSINKI,
Leaders
parties
another
Powers,
swing to
national
’Pursuant to an order issued by
the Mayer of the--<rf Cuero, Tee-
Recruiting Sergeant Giver
Explanation Of Trade
Schools Training '
I Advantages offered by the Army
' and Air Force to high school grad-
! uates were explained Monday By
for the| S Sgt. George Horecka, in charge
E. C. Barnard acted as installing
officer and H. E. Miller as marshall,
j Cuero Lodge members attending
the meeting were Barnard, Miller, H.
Howell, A. Carter and Dr. W. R.
Town*.
Sandwiches and coffe were served
after the jneeting.
out from London fo Liverpool
June
of five major
in Finland are
boost for the
They expect
the right in the Finnish ficials estimate the d
elections early next from* $75,000 to $100,900.
month. They believe the Commun- ~'
Lsts will lose strength—with the
coup d'etat in Czechoslovakia serv-
ing as a Red warning flag to Fin-
nish voters.
te to drive carefully,
warning has been sound -
We have only ourselves
blame should we run afoul
the law in the future.
1 LABOR SECRETARY
HNGTON, June 28.—<UP>
led sources in the nation’s
says former Governor
t Johnson of Kentucky will be
kited secretary of labor with-
h next few days,
amended to
en Saturday
William Green.
Plans for construction of t n*w
paint and body shop and a shed for
mechanical and repair work on
trucks, were revealed Monday morn-
ing by M. Clifton Weber, partner In
the Weber Motor Co. of Cuero. *
ha; -> tei'un
‘accepting tl
they
land
turn
do everything possible
along European recovery’
make some special
* this country.
LI. Wehman Reports No
, Official Word Received
From Headquarters
means that at leSst the water-borne
traffic to Berlin la normal again.
Even es the new supplies got
through, high American And British
authorities were discuetong the Ber-
lin crisis in London. The American
undersecretary of ths Army William
Draper, and British Foreign Secre-
tary Bevin took up the Russian ef-
forts to force the western powers
out of the German capital. A for-
eign office spokesman says the lead-
ers may frame a three-power note of
protest to Russia—with Frarice the
third signer.
A fairly serious riot broke out
among thousands of Germans in the
Russian zone of Berlin today. They
were waiting at the Soviet currency
exchange to turn in did marks tor
new when a rumor spread that
money could no longer be exchanged.
A Russian news agency says four to
six persons were injured seriously.
Unconfirmed reports had six to eight
killed and scores hurt.
A. Carter Takes Office As
Worshipful Master
At Wesfhoff
men of draft age might not
an exemption from the* draftJpg!
enlisting in the National Guard,
such men wouia still gain valuable
military experience and training
in the event that they are drafted
later.
j ■ It also is possible for yoi
men under 18 1-2 years -of age
j join the guard, and enlistments of
■ men with previous - service *" ar?
sought ty the local company. Any
i veteran may enlist in grade, • and
t every guardsman draws a full
! day’s pay for his rank, for ever?
j two hour drill period that he
.tends.
voters will go to
oils on Tuesday,
to decide whether
ie Cuero Municipal
BALLOONS AND STASSEN SIGNS umbrellaH jammed floorful of Bl
hall, Philadelphia, as-backers of the former Minnesota governor
demonstration of all during a night of long, noisy parades.
At Least 300 Die In Seri®
Of Quakes Along Coast
North 01 Tokyo
constructed of reinforced concrete s
and hollow tOe and will have'a fire
The shop will be”
ed at Roma. Already, in Roma, the 45 by 25 feet in size. The shed j
waters are clearing up. with no more which will be constructed In order to
livestock and little debris visible. j give more adequate service to large
But on. down the river the bodies trucks wfll jonslt of a large cotfCtelb
of cattle, hor.es and hogs arc float-; slab covering 7,800 squrre feet The.
ing by. This morning at Hiladgo, a slab will be open sided but roofed
little red squirrel drifted by. eying' over.
the big sea of muddy water from the! Weber said that constructioa and ,
limb of a floating log. j of th? shop,'and shed are a small »
The crest is expected to roll by part of a large over-all plan fog
Ria Grand? City at 6 o'clock this
evening. And it’s figured to lap
over into the Lower Valley’s flood -
v | _______
' KAUTZ SELLS
EQUIPMENT
pie s and a
and a flat bed
T ue equipment
weekend
will op-
shop ,n
statfw
FROM PARTY M°ves Into
Robinson Truck Lines Be • meeting held in Romania around the
1 middle of the month
CASUALTIES
I TOTAL 1,000
IN MSASTB
alrwrif? miacue oi me mon tn. pa non in ner classes had picked up
ylfl AClUdl LOnSlrUClIOn I According to th ecommunique, every day with most progress made
; Yugoslavia refused to atend the! (Continued from Page 2)
WOrK meeting. Tito was said to be angry • " Carter, junior deacon.
German capital. Several • more
aarges were allowed to cross the
Soviet zone border en . route- to
Berlin.
These were the first shipments to
ge through to Western Berlin since
the Russians closed th£ boundary cto
June 19th, after the announcement
of the western zone currency re-
form. •
It is not clear yet whether today’s
'let-up means the Russians are lift-
ing the barriers entirely. But the
-j 30 Passengers Hurl
In Big Bus Accident
SAN FRANCISCO. June
‘UP>—Thirty passengers on a Pa-
cific Greyhound Bus were injures
early toda'- when the bus wr
struck broadside by another v°
ticle at an intersection just souf
of San Francisco. But only one
passenger—-Jack Goldberg of San (
Francisco—is reporedly seriously f
njured. Goldberg was pinned just
behind the .driver’s seat for almost flow think the waters are now crest- resisting roof,
two hours before he X'duld be put1 " -- - ——■- .
r loose by workmen using acetyler.
torches.
LONDON, June 28— (UP)-
Britain has declared a state of J
°rrergency in the London dock;
strike.
ord- I The government sent more than j
of his bust- -ne-fi°usand troops to the water-!
■ front to unload foed cargoes t!°d j
he plans ’o'up t*-v tw'° of wildcat strik-1
equipment ■ And moie than five-thousand j
ho has a’ -|otllcr trocps are standing by.
cf his1 Frinte Minister Clement Attl°? j
Commons the gevernment de- (
He cided to assume the extraordinary I
I powers when the walkouts branch- 1
ed
rrir .__-____ the
to thia city and that
on July 20th win j
Be the council to'
he airport, with pro- of for
that the industrialist total g^B of moou :
re privilege of buy-!.
field at the md of ]
225.000 In Draft
■table of organisation strength, Lt.
'Wehman urged that all men who
7 Cuero’s youth program moved into high ge^r last week are interested in joining the
...... ... ■ a | guard see him at the Texas Em-
a ployment Commission office, or
cati the Armory at 766.
! The Cuero National
company will hold two drills this
week, from 7:30 to 9:30 o’clock on
Monday and Wednesday nights.
to swing the wavs tomorrow morning near Hi- hanaied by
dalgo. ( ’pontrartov.
W. F. Kautz. owner of the
con-
his
> Garfield
, Kiel at Secuin. but skid he would
continue
ers and
ne=s as
| Kautz
specialize
■and business
‘ranged for the
| pi inting orders
j mers will te taken
' said
Actukl construction work on the
new Robinson Truck Lines building
on 8. Esplanade has been started
and should be completed within the
nex t80 day*, it was reported by E.
H. Jenkins, construction superin-
. tendent of the Robinson Truck
they intend to continue Lines.
The building is being constructed
| of hollow tile, and stucco will be ap-
I plied*on the outside of the hollow
tile. The roof will have steel roof
trusses throughout, Jenkins said.
The north half of the building will
be used as a freight depot and as
offices for the Roblnoon firm. The
i other half will be up for lease.
STASSEN TRAFFIC JAMS THE CONVENTION AISLES GUARD UNIT
STILL OPEN
no fatalities in
. . . _U4., . 1 The new building will have ap-
> but with youngsters : proximately 9,ooo square feet of floor
g on the streets in ev- I space.
I lection of the city, death The building firs twas started dur-
IV strike unless we take i - g th* war’ “nd the foundation and'
unless we iaxe j floor wer. eompiet€d at that time
held in voting upon the following questions
..uMULM to the voters ot the City. XOmmUllitSf F(OfTl COTO’
By United Pres*. , _
The Russian blocMe ot
AUSTIN, June
28 — (UP)-- , 100.003 feet of
political j up in flames in Austin.
predicting! The fire swept a sto:
Western! ing of the Longhorn
a general. Door Company vcsterclav. And
mage
to accept printing
to take care
usual.
said, while
lit office
machine;
jobbing
and all his eusto'-
care cf
he has tentative plans fn:
!fne erection of a new business
j building on E Church Street w
-<UP>—Some/'f Burts Cafe and That hf .i
iave gone printing equipment will be install
led when that is done.
igr buiTd-d Equipment sold by Kautz to Ki
Sa. h and included a late mod*-! Intertype. :
:f- Kh:ege automatic
pt large platen press
inewspapEr press.
’was moved to Seguin last
where Kiel and associates
I en a Commercial priming
convection with a iar.15
itliey plan to opeiate.
MARSHALL FLAN
HTTv’CrlON. Jure 23—'UP'
Marlin!! plan ■ou’ trie-, WASHINGTON. June 281—<UP'
agreements! —Democrats in the District of Co-
under which ilumhia are voting today on ;
wall get aid. Italy and I'e-j slate of delegates to the Demo-
already have signed Li re-jcrati? National Convention—nov
for the aid they agreed to only ' two- weeks away. Supporter:
t> help of General Ei enhewer - for thr
and toj democratic nomination have been
concessions to Working overtime
election Ins way-.
' Texas Universe
j ..ustln* Texas
(EiiTrn SUrnrh
* A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS ITS COMMUNITY
Firemen brought the flames uh
der control within an hour savin
a nearby lumber yard and oil mu'
The fire is believed to have start
' ed in a sawdust bin.
ing all tihprtwemente for the sum of By United Press
184,0081)0. i Russia has kicked Marshal
.__ . .. “Agrtnst the sale by the City of Tito of Yugoslavia out of the
river has the wa- Cuero, Texas, of Ml scres ot land, onmmiiniRf n->rtv
been as low accord- knoWn * «>• Cuero Municipal Afr- pom°iynist party- -the' took part in his tumbling cle*,
: port, including all improvements for|^rca^ 15 seen as first fav-! Masur said that Tuesday morning at
to water engineers at j.— «— w__a ---------- .
to. This
ling class which is for older youths
of high school age. He urged that ’
all youths possible enroll in this
class.
Rapid Movement
Masur reported that his beginning
swimmers had shown rapid improve-
ment and that some of the children
AIR
FORCE 382XXXH
Mayor Fischer Sets July
19 As Date Of Voting I
Af City Hall Box
: A. Carter was installed as worship-
ful master of Lester Lodge No. 799 A.
F. & A. M. of Westhoff at the reg-
ular meeting of the Lodge Saturday
night.
Other officers installed for tLc j o.ogi,. viturue nunxia, ui cuaigr
coming year were C. C. Small, senior t of the local recruiting office,
warden: R. L. Barnes, junior warden;, Sgt. Horecka explained that the
C. C. Segrest. treasurer; E. T. Teller/ Army and Air Force each offers a
secretary; R. A. Miller, tiler; Wm. number of trade schools to high
Fertsch, senior deacon and R. A. J school graduates and that they are
allowed to select the trade school
they wish to attend.
If the graduates enlist in the Air
Force, they w’ill spend the first 13
weeks at Lackland Air Base ane
then select the school of their choice
Sgt. Horecka added that the pro-
gram offers graduates a chance tc
stay together, il Urey select the same
trade. Also, the program offers ar
excellent chance of attending Of-
ficers’ Candidate Schools.
FurtHfer details may be obtained af
the recruiting ofJce in the Post-
office.
arable news for the West in 9 o’clock he will start another tumb-
the European ccld war.
The announcement confirms re-
port sby Western European experts
that Russia has been having trouble
with some of her sattelites.
Seeret Meeting
The Czechoslovak Communist
newspaper broke the news in Pra- who were in the beginners’ clacs two
gue today. It reveals that the weeks ago had moved into interme-
Yugoslav Communists were read out J diate and advanced classes last week,
j of the Cominform — or Communist ( Mrs. BUI Young, who is teaci ;
•information bureau—at a secret! swimming to a group of smaller
children stated Monday that partici-
pation in her classes had picked up
by law the voting
place of the City of Cuero, DeWitt' - - -
County, Texas lor the purpose EXDClS YUQOSlflV ParticiPation in aU phases of the program showed
® (Sharp rise over the previous week.
E. B. “Hoot” Masur, who is direct- ——
ing several swimming and diving VBTnqp till TI AIT
classes and a tumbling class, repgyj- |A|\ I Al I A I II l|\|
ed that his beginners, intermediate- 1 11V11
and advanced swimming classes to- CDDVirr UDI h' ADMV DDATD AM
taled about 58 young people last ijEA V ILt tltLU Al\nl I IllVUlvAlll
week and that about 40 youngsters
tumbling
within the
MmttB ot Cuero was to be
tolerated appar-
was no false warning,
rs are cracking down
this is the “shot day issued a formal call for
’ Cuero has been a special city election to be
those to close on Tuesday, July 20, in 1
deal are order that the Voters may1
because foreign minister Molotov
called a Danube conference in Bel-
grade without informing him. ■
Moccow accuses Tito and his fol-1
lowers of a Imost every crime in the!
Communist book. ‘ >
The wartime partisan leader
Yugslovia is accused of being a . if*- t . I
Trotskyite—that is, a Communist Local Printer To Continue
who follows the policies of Lecn ■ _
Trotsky instead of Joseph Stalin—i
and of going agains’ Russiin tactics.
Plans Net Known
Just what steps the party plans to
take against the Yugoslav Cofmun-
ists is not explained. But the com-
munique tells ' YugsJav Communists ^tanciard Printer?. Monday,
loyal to Moscow to make their lead- Firmed a renort he has sold
ers see the so-called “error of their e<Tuipnient to
ways.”
However. London observers feel
that Tito has such a firm grip
Yugoslavia that even if a lot of
Communists turn against horn,
precaution. It is up to | However, a scarcity of material revolt could de ^cessful.
and every one Of US to I caused the abandonment of the pro- !
—HI ----- -The originnl
con-
manufacturing plant
astlc products. The op-
iR8 agreed to have
stry employing at
people, to operation
ary 1, 1049 and his
for expansion call for
to employment of
about
north of Itricken
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