The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 54, Ed. 1 Friday, March 5, 1948 Page: 1 of 6
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A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS ITS COMMUNITY
CUERO, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1948
SIX PAGES TODAY
TOWBOAT SINK
Talk Dalhart Mercury Hits 8 Below
SEAMAN CLAIMS RESCUE ‘MIRACLE
COMMUNISTS IN PRAGUE CELEBRATE RED COUP
SINKS IT 30
(Continued on page 6.)
TUTOR STRIKE
IS CRITICIZED
(UP)
halted Jan.
Funeral services for W
ROB 9 STORES
Stanolind May Buy
Big Trad For Plant
Ford To Lay Off Men
To Make Model Changes
MORE CASES
OF INFLUENZA
Raymondville were burglarized last
night an dearly this morning. About’ Iteat
$200 in cash was taken
Plane 500 Miles Out
Gets Back On 3 Motors
RAIN AND COLD
I ARE RECORDED
UMn fell over central and East
Texas yesterday and 1g contnuing
today- Heavy falls include 1.18 in-
ehes at Corpus Christi and .33 of an
say . 13 of thfie
that 13 are b
bodies have be
still are mtaM
The elevdr
have been
share in the
Teachers Must Be Respon
stole for Pupils Run-
ning On Streete
day to convince resident of
Dalhart in the panhandle that
iWthter has just about left Tex-
Money Comes To State
Under Slate Control
PauFS
ate and burial will be ta Wes
Cemeterey. - .j,.-'JS
Cpi. Geffert is the fourth 1
town war hero to be brought
for burial at home. A grpdua
Yorktwri High, Cpl. Geffert e
ed in the V. a Marine Corps,
served with distinction in
branch of the service, and was I
in action do Guadalcanal in
early days of the war.
EAST TEXAS— Cloudy with raia
except for freezing rain or snow in
the extreme northwest tonight, To-
morrow, partly cloudy with rain in
the east. No important change in
temperatures.
2 Troops Fundion Now,
With Church Groups
- As Sponsors
parents are four sisters, Mrs. .3
Schlein of Cuero, Mrs. Ruby Ooa <
Kenedy. Mrs. Ruth Dybowskl
Yorktown and Mrs Viola Rayner
San Antonio; and one brother, Ui
Geffert of Yorktown.
BACK IN NEW YORK, Tomas Montanez, 32-year-old whip's carpenter.
Credits his rescue after three-hour swim in the Caribbean to the
power of prayer. The sailor fell overboard from the Santa Clara
and was not missed until the ship had gpne over the horizon.
Skillful navigation and Passenger Norbert Berfchoffta sharp eyes
found Montanez in time for rescue. (International Soundphotos)
Dalhart Reading Is Cold
est For Year,- To Mod-
erate Tomorrow
Hollywood Man To Make
Records Despite Pe-
trillo's Ban
AUSTIN, May; 5.—(UP.) — The
MM, WIHWUW
Texans than normally
time o.f the yfcar. .
A Civil Service Commission ex-
amination for filling health Pro.?,
gram specialist positions in the Pup?*
lie Health Service will be Bald soon,
it was reported by the local post-
office.
Salaries range from $3,397 to IT,*
102 per cent. No written test ta
required, but a minimum of three
years4 experience in several phases
of health work is necessary. Further
information about the position* may
be obtained from Walter Boehl at
the local postoffice.
DEATH TAKES
HILLER BABY;
RITES FRIDAY
Yorktown Banker's
Funeral Conducted
There On Thursday
a former air
a number of
His latest,
Takes a
latest edition
had six, Big Spring 24, Lubbock 18
and El Paso 28.
Moving eastward, the norther
pushed the mercury down to 38 at
Dallas. Snow or freezing rain ta ex-
pected in the northwest portion of
East Texas this afternoon and to-
night. No important changes in
temperatures are forecast in East
AUSTIN,
that the
makes “better and harder” - con-
tract* with oil companies were re-
Jdiy enough, a Texan,
r General Tom Clark,
Inf the government’s
wrest the State’s con-
ty from it. As he has
oct, however, it is his
fight it, whatever may
Mreonal: yiewB on the
Rain continued to fall in Cuero
after a rainfall of .20 inches was re-
ceived for the 24-hotir period end-
ing at 8 o’clock Friday, according to
Mrs. Marion Lponardt, government
weather recorder.-X •
The rain was accompanied by a
sharp drop in temperature which
sent the mercury down to a low of
42 for the same 24-hour period. High
for the* same length of time was 58
degrees.
Continued rainfall was making the
outlook gloomy fox' a fine opening
day for the Beaumont Exporters’
training, as the rain has slowed
down the work at Cuero Municipal
Stadium. . ,
Cuero, however, was luckier than
other sections of ' the state. A
blanket of snow was covering the
Panhandle Friday morning, and the
thermometer slid to 6 degrees at
AmarHIo. A coating of ice on the
highways in the Panhandle has
made driving in that area hazard-
ous.
it of the situation
as much as $50,-
I be realized on a
excitement over the
Is case. Texas la fight-*
,in Washington to be
retain control and ow-
of lhe oil lands under
ttai waters.
Hiccough Attack Is
Fatal To Texas Boy
YORKTOWN, Mar. 8. —
for Cpl. Lester Geffert of Yoe;
will be held here Bunday at 3
in the home of hi* parents, Ml
Mrs. *H. J. Geffert.
R«r’( J. G. Hankammer of
Church, will
DETROIT, Mar. 5.—(UP (—Some
25,000 employes at the Ford Motor
Company’s Detroit plant face the
first post-war layoff other than
from strikes or shortages. Layoffs
will range from two to six weeks in
duration.
nounced in Austin today that some
3,100 cases of influedta were report-
ed last week. That’s almost double
the average number for the period.
Other above average records were
reported fo$ pneumonia, tuberculosis,
GONZALES. Mar. 5.—(UP.)— The
state water board has been present- |
ed a request to allow the daily use
of 30C million gallons of Guadalupe
river water at Victoria.
John W. Prichell of the State
Board says he hasn't been advised
what industrial expansion is con-
templated at the south Texas town.
But he said that tbe amount of
water sought is in excess of Guada-
lupe's minimum daily flow at Vic-
toria.
Packing Plant And D
mile Truck Figure I
Fatal Explosions
HONOLULU, Mar. 5.—(UP)—A
I four engined C-54 transport plane
I returned to Honolulu safely last
night after one engine broke down
during a flight to California.
The plane was carrying no pas-
sengers, only mail and cargo. It
! turned back about 500 miles out be-
cause an engine froze in flight and
the propeller could not be feathered.
Flood Relaxes
The Trinity river has relaxed Its
The bar committee cited bonus,
rental and royalty figures to show
that oil lands under state super-
vision are returning several times
as much money for free public edu-
cation in Texas as the U. S. Depart-
ment of Interior -is getting from
o claimed
had yielded
j Texas Lionghorn Band under the
direction of Col. George E. Hurt at
the Gonzales High School Audi-
Former Resident QI
Cuero Succumbs In
Home Af Karnes City
MINNEAPOLIS, Ma/ 5.—(UP)—
Superintendent Willard Goslin says
Minneapolis union teachers^ must
carry the responsibility of children
on the street If the ’ strikebound
schools aren’t opened immediately.
Representatives of 1100 teachers
in two locate of the AFL Teachers'
Union—who have been on strike
since February 24—withdrew from
a meeting with school board offi-
cials. The officiate rejected a union
demand for an $100 increase in an-
nual salaries.
I Goslin said negotiations have
been suspended, but were not brok-
l en off. He said the board went more
{than half way toward meeting the
teachers’ demands when it agreed
I to give up its plan to shorten the
! school year.
Charles Boyer and Margaret Tup-
iper, president of the Men's and
| Women’s Teachers Locals, say Gos-
■ lin has adopted a “get tough" atti-
' tude.
iVBITOl
Rbcwd
Be. 1
13 Of Crew Survive Whi
Vessel Goes Down In
r Mississippi >
VICTORIANS
‘ASK TO USE
RIVER WATER
Pershing Frank Hiller, Jr., 14-day-
old son of Mr. and Mr*. Pershing
Frank Hiller, 8r., died Thursday
night at 9:15 o’clock at a local hos-
pital after a brief, illness of about
a day. z
- The baby was born fn Hallettsville
February 19. j
Surviving are his parents of
Cuero and grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Gus Hiller of Cuero and Mr.
and Mrs. Leo-Lay ton of Yoakum.
Funeral services were held Friday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Freund
Funeral Home, with Rev. A. A. Car-
ter officiating. Burial was in Hill-
side Cemetery.
MANY VETS
REINSTATING
INSURANCE
suddenly in the
river near1, Gn
night after a tre
rate, it did present
Me to the matter
ad heard tittle about.*
le opinions we heard
Texas might get as
more for the Public
nd from federal coak
had or would from
Cuew Higb Band Aa
Choral Club Participate
In Festival
Metz, I
63. vice president of the First State;
Bank of Yorktown were held Thurs-J
day afternoon a,t 4 o’clock. Burial |
was in the West Side Cemetery in!
Yorktown under the direction of the >
Ideus Funeral Mome
died at his home Tuesday afternoon
after a sudden illness.
A native and lifelong resident of
Yorktown, he had been active in
civic affairs and was a chrter mem-
ber of the Yorktown Chamber of
Commerce.
•Wending Rotary lunch-
demonstration of
MMsentary procedure in
•MMffig the meeting as stag-
LW the Cuero boys, was
WELLINGTON, Mar. 5.—(UP.) —
A five-day attack of hiccoughs has
proved fatal to a 19-year-old Well-
ington youth.
BACK IN CAPITAL I Billy Wayne Goodloe died at the
WASHINGTON, Mar. 5.—(UP) — ( home of his parents. A brain hem-
Pre*ident Truman has arrived back orrhage blamed on the long hic-
: is believed to have
e, like every oth-
there are two
Tidelands issue.
20 Hundreds Of An Inch Of
. Rainfall Measured
During Night
Sore freezing rain is forecast for
thjd afternoon and tonight ,for the
arA lying east of the Pecos Valley
in West Texas. A gradual warm-up,
originally scheduled for today, is
now forecast for tomorrow.
k retd the rise in temperature* win
be welcomed by West Texan*. For
- GARDEN CITY, Kan., Mar. 5.—
(UP)—Stanolind Oil and Gas Com-
pany today filed options to pur-
chase 1280 acres as the site for its
80-tnillion-dollar synthesis plant, at
the. highest price ever paid for un-
irrigated wheat land.
The options stated the company
would pay $120 an acre for the land
within 90 days, provided soil tests
are satisfactory.
Writer Of Magazine
Stories Visits City
Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Patterson, for-
merly of Miami. Fla., are visiting his
father, S. M. Patterson.
Young Patterson is
RAYMONDVILLE. Mar. 5.—(UP.) i Pilot and has written
■Nine business establishments in stories on aviation.
Nellie's Nightmare
appears in the
of the magazine “Sky Fighter.
DALLAS Mar. 3— (UP.)—Thous-
ands of veterans are reinstating
their lapsed GI insurance.
A veteran administration official
at Dallas says that some 5,000 GI
policies are being reinstated month-
ly by veterans in Texas, Louisaina
and Mississippi. The face value of
the policies is $30,000,000. The dead-
line for reinstating lapsed policies 1*
Metz July 31st.
Mrs. August C. Dietzc, 78, a form-
er resident of Cuero, died at her
home in Karnes City Thursday after
a long illness, it was learned here
Friday. Mrs. Dietze was a native
of Indianola.
Ehe is survived by four daughters.
Mrs. Joe E. Yeary and Mrs. Don W.
Seale of Karnes City, Mrs. P. J. Dod-
son of Bastrop and Mrs. S. W. Fer-
rell of Caracas, Venezuela; one son
H. Leroy Dietze of San Antonio and
two sisters. Mrs. F. W. Abel of Cuero
and Mrs. L. A. Bauer, Sr of Corpus
Christi and nine grandchildren.) Th® company announces that
Funeral services were held Friday manufaturing changes for the 1949
afternoon at 4 o’clock. Burial was model will necessitate the tempor-
in the Karnes City Cemetery. )ary shutdown.
Figure* on 194a royalties to .the
interior Department were taken by
the committee from a letter by Os-
car Chapman, Undersecretary of In-
terior, to the Senate Judiciary Com-
mittee under date of January S,
1948. Texas statistics were supplied
by the General Land Office.
Texas royalties range from 12 1-2
to 51 1-2 per cent on leases inrprov-
(Continued on page «-)
|tan» baa to ait up
Kt notice Thursday
I group of Junior FFA
IBcked a parliamentary
ire whip for them. - <1
youngsters, while dhief-
gpd in learning how to
lad raise livestock in
twA program, aCTiniue-
earning how to conduct
El diacuMion or meeting,
should stand them in
toad when they have
R tor in modern times
we believe, would
U reaction in any
yerrnia federal
Texa3
W ^ustlnif Texae
More leaders add helpers are
needed to carry out the wqrk of the
{Girl Scouts in Cuero, according to
officials Friday.
Tiyo troops are now organized,
with the Woman’s Society of the
. Methodist Church sponsor of a troop
I led by Mrs. H. B. Holloway, and the
, Lutheran Ladies group sponsoring
the troop iij charge of Mrs. Jessie
PoenitzscH.
The girls and Scout officials are
appreciative of the sponsorship, it
was said, as well as the generous
cash donations nkde by Mrs. Jean-
nette Woodworth and her offer <rf
assistance .in a first aid course.
Mrs. T. A. Reuss and Mrs. Ione
Bell have offered to give one day
per month to the Girls Scouts in the
teaching of sewing and cooking if
arrangements can be made to use
the home economic rodrns at the
High
The mercury dropped to
ight below zero there this morning,
in® that’s the coldest reading in
he. state this year.
^Complicating mattem in the pan-
andle ta a blanket of snow which
s making driving hazardous. A wide
.ret of West Texas was hit yester-
law by snow, sleet and freezing
aw. The latest onslaught of winter
•amicularly hit the region north-
reA from a line drawn between
Vishita Falta and Big Spring.
Fkecarfag Rain
.Cuero High Band and Choral club
left Friday morning to participate in
the Gontales Music Festival at Gon-
zales/ ■ >
The music festival ta being spon-
sored by the Gonzales Lions Club
and will include 15 bands and eight
choral groups. <
The Cuero band will not take part ? incfc at port worth,
in the marching contest but will1
play In the section of the Festival ________ ____ _
where bands are judged. Thq local flood grip on the Dallas area, but ta
unit also was scheduled to enter the
parade which was to be held at 11:30
Friday morning, weather permitting.
The two groups were accompanied
by Edgar Miles, band director, and
Mrs. Chester Buenning, adviser for
the Choral Club.
One of the features of the day’s
* — program will be a concert at 8
A Hollywood record manufacturer j tonight by the University of
has announced plans to defy the
American Federation of Musicians'
ban on recordings. ’ _
Harry Schooler, president of the torium.
Madri Gras Record Company, says
he win put six numbers on wax
1 Monday. The musicians, he says,
I were* obtained through a’ union-
I sanctioned booking organization.
Schooler says most of the band
members who will record for him
had withdrawn from the - union
headed by James Petrillo because
they had difficulty getting jobs af-
ter record-making was
uary 1st.
Schooler says plans
made for musicians to
royalties received on his records.
SNOW, SLEET
KEP0R1ED IN
NORTH TEXAS
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Aldridge, C. C., Jr. The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 54, Ed. 1 Friday, March 5, 1948, newspaper, March 5, 1948; Cuero, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1189646/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cuero Public Library.