The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 9, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 12, 1949 Page: 1 of 8
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Of The Record
Flying Bullets Danger
To Golfers On
Course
Membership Drive Is
Lagging, Post
Advised
New Magazine Hits
New$$land$-$30 a Copy
More Asked
For Planning On
Guadalupe
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RIFLERANGE
AUTHORIZED
EDGAR SMITH
NEW DIRECTOR
EHon E. Bohach
Enlists in Air Force
more by
and cer-
Rotary io Hear Talks
By Exchange Students
“The Library”
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NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—(UP. — A
new magazine hit the newstands in
It’s called
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MILL OPERATION
A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS ITS COMMUNITY
CUERO, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1949
partment Intends to see that
law is enforced strictly.
LIGHT VOTE
nUri'it. at- ___
HINTS BOND
ISSUE LOSING
EM
EAST TEXAS—Occasional
rain or drizzle, except... freezing
rain in northwest portion and to-
night. Tomorrow
and not so cold.
ORDINANCE :
WOULD BAN
CRASH TAKES
joh„ SECOND LIFE
Expected To—Suddenly
| $20,000,000 Rural Road
Program Urged
By Governor
Buchel National Bank
Election at Annual
Meeting Tuesday
FILM SHOWN
TO LEGION
Commissioners Approve Deputy Plan
CONSTABLES
PLACED ON
SALARY BASIS
will remain on the job while Con-
grfess considers the president's de-
fense budget. , . .. T „
___________________ at the Legion Hall.
New York City today.
“Nation's Heritage.”
Its editor is not looking to break
any circulation figures.
F. A to work in light.
A 100-watt globe costs an
cento
TRAIN KILLS TOT
SILSBEE. Texas, Jan. 12.—(UP.)
—Barbara Ann Frisby. 17-months-
xJ buxn all
t. TifSt seems Hire
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The little clown with the toq
breeches will be remem beuqMj
the way he baited BrahmaTWi
from fallen riders in the Ptyl
arena. Most of all, he will IB
membered for the rubber-ocwqi
barrel Into which he would
to escape the charging bulla. ,
He narrowly escaped death au
times. His most recent brurt w
fate was in 1946 at the SouIMt
ern Exposition and Fat Stock flh
in Fort Worth. Fulkerson i
gored severely by a Brahma1
but a short time later he Wat be
in the ring flirting with
death again. A
Members of Dintcr Post No. 3|
American Legion saw a film, “It’s
at the regular ■
Every observing person knows
that land will 'wear out’ un-
'leas it is properly cared for.
Through observation and ex-
perience, ways have ' been
found to not only hold our soil
fertility, but bring the land
back to its former production,
or make it even better than
it ever was. Yes, sir, the best
land the county can be
made to produce
proper treatment,
tainly much can be done to
improve low producing land.”
This arga was signally hon-
ored Tuesday with the election
by proclamation of Represent-
ative Durwood Manford of
Smiley as Speaker of the
House of Representatives in
t|ie 51st Texas Legislature.
Rep. Manford is a young at-
torney who is beginning his
fifth session of legislative
service.
C. F. Combs was re-elected chair-
man of the Guadalupe Blanco Riv-
er Authority at a meeting of the
group Monday in New Braunfels,
it was reported here Wednesday.
Other officers elected at the meet-
ing included W. H. Smith of Vic-
toria, vice-chairman; Harry Wagen-
fuehr of New Braunfels, secretary-
treasurer; W. H. Burnett of Wim-
berly, assistant secretary-treasurer
and Robert Vahnenkamp. district
soil conservation director.
President Harry Truman has ask-
ed Congress for a new appropria-
tion of $150,000 to be used for plan-
ning on the Guadalupe, Combs an-
nounced Wednesday. The money will
be used for planning purposes on
two or three projects, he said.
The sum is in addition to the
$140,000 voted by the last session of
Congress. Of this amount; $90,000
was to be used for the planning of
the Canyon Dam project near New
Braunfels and $50,000 for planning
expenditures on canalization of the
Guadalupe from Seadrift to Victor-
ia. Combs said.
Combs expressed the hope that
actual work on the Canyon Dam
project would be started this year.
develandL»Newapaper
Collect Iona
University of Texas
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Exclusive Dealei
These Applied
In Cuero
All But Necessary Car
Must Halt When
Alarm Sounds
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Announcement of the agp
ment of Newman’s of Cuero
Newman-Marquis Hardware «
elusive deataga for Frigidaire
pliances in this ettyf Is
full-page advertisement appt
elsewhere in this issue of The
ord.
One of the most attra
of electrical appliances f<
where in the city has
sembled at both stores and
housewives are invited
Childress and Lubbock, reported a either Newman’s 1
Newman-Marquis and
In the tip of the Panhandle, at [handsome models
HUGE ICE STORM
KEEPS GRIP ON
Al Least three Persons
Die As Result Of
Ice Storm
By UNITED PRESS
The gigantic ice storm is hanging
onto West Texas and the Panhandle.
But the latest U. S. Weather Bu-
reau forecasts indicate some relief
may be expected by Thursday.
structed drivers to pull
right-hand curb and remi
for the five-minute peris
explained that in the ba
trict a farming oat proc
have tai be used because
parting space.
Second auction of the
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Sheriff Warns Stockmen
To Keep Livestock
Off Highways
Prayers Of Crippled
Girl May Be Answered
, way in the building. Had that
electric light not been burn-
ing to guard the store, the po-
ice chief might not have been
able to detect the incipient
blaze in the darkness and the
fife could have gotten a good
head start.
That is Just one real-life 11-
terooon to the
be was rxsta
> the other
• dents «f thosF
, ev- eutitiedtauacot
Commlmtanert agteeffto place five
constables in the county on a sal-
ary basis at $60 per month and one
on a salary basis of $30 per month.
VOL. 55.—NO. 9.
ffrTown Talk
It wasn’t a very big or ex-
pensive item—merely an elec-
tric light bulb left burning
during the night—but it prob-
ably saved the building where
it was keeping a lonely vig-
il from serious fire damage.
Police Chief Rufus Taylor,
on patrol duty in the wee,
small hours recently, saw
smoka curling up from an
electric motor in the Bohne
Meat Market and was able to
turn in a fire alarm before the
blaze could make any head-
FORT WORTH, Jan. 12.—(UP)
— In a way, Jasbo Fulkerson died
the way he might have expected
to die.
Death came suddenly for the
44-year-old rodeo clown who be-
came famous for the way he flirted
with the grim reaper in arenas
from the smallest Southwestern
cow town to New York’s Madison
Square Garden.
Fulkerson was killed yesterday
old, was killed yesterday when she when his pickup truck overturned
wandered into the pah of a speed- near Watauga, Texas. He appar-
ing passenger train. The child’s ently was thrown from the truck
body was not discovered until a half as it skidded and overturned on the
hour after the train passed. | slippery road. y
G. M. Blackburn Traces
Progress of Cotton
Through Mill
HAILED AS A fclFTED pianist-com-
poser, 17-year-old Merrill Ken-
neth Wolf of Cleveland, looks
over score of his piano concerto
which he will play in home town
with Detroit Symphony Feb. 28.
With him is Detroit’s conductor,
Dr. Karl Krueger. The lad was
graduated from Yale at 14.
youngest graduate in the univer-
sity’s history. (InttrnaHonal)
a
injuries
succeeded in suffered in a collision Saturday .
approximately 250 night on the Gonzales-Cuero road, , _
any circulation figures. The mag-
[ azine will be published twice month-
ly with about 220 pages and no ad-
vertising.
The price is $30 per copy.
prises YM acres is owned by Ruiz.
Settlement of claims of Charlie
Flessner was approved at the
meeting. Flessner suffered the loss
of several fingers in an accident at
the city gravel pits on September
28 The claim was settled for $2,-
431.65 and payment of Flessner"s
hospital and doctor bills.
Claim of Allie Simon against thw
city for opening of a street on his
property in south Cuero was re-
jected. as Council could find no
evidence the City had opened the
street, although it was agreed the
city had graded the street. Council
agreed to level the property again
and put it in the same condition
that it was in before opening of
the street, except for replacing
trees.
Day discussed the need for re-
pairs to the City water tower and
recommended installation of elec-
tric equipment to prevent rust at
some future date. Council deferred
action until the guarantee of the
Cuero Rotarians win hear an out-
standing program consisting of talks
by two exchange students at South-
west Texas State College at San
Marcos at the regular meeting
Thursday noon.
The program has been arranged
by Rev. A. A. Hahn and Roy Park-
er. program chairman for the meet-
ing. Such a program was suggested
at a recent visit of District Gover-
nor Paul Pogue of pel Rio.
GetU'ense to Wed
Mta. PRIORITY FOR
SCHOOL FUNDS
sued a Warning to stockmen of the
—r—VM tfiC
highways. He explained the doun-
ty has a stock law, and that his de-
the
last firm repairing the tower could
be studied more fully.
A check from Tupper-Texas.
Inc., for $1,500 for rental of Cuero
Municipal Airport for
1949, was received.
vtatoea of take tmU
the third eecttarf
firemen, doctors, ambukH
era, police and drivers ta
trucks on official duty to
operate any vehicle on fl
or alleys of Cuero fcr
five minutes after the
the fire alarm. The
At least three persons have died
as a result of the storm. The latest
victim was the famed rodeo circus
clown, Jasbo Fulkerson, who was
thrown out of his truck when it
overturned on an icy highway.
A light plane is missing on a
flight from San Angelo to Tulsa,
Oklahoma. It took off Sunday morn-
ing, and it’s feared that Pilot J. W.
Thomas, Jr., may have ruA into the
advance portion of the winter storm
as it poured into West Texas.
Amarillo reported a Wednesday
morning's low of 16 degrees, but a
wanning process is underway. At
mid-morning, the temperature was
up to 25 degrees at Amarillo. No-
where in the ice-box country has
the big thaw started; however.
Southwestern Beil Telephone
Company estimates that the storm
will cost it $3^0,000 for repair of
broken lines and poles. Eight hun-
dred circuits are torn out by ice,
1,300 poles are down, and there are
an estimated 5XXX) wire breaks.
A glistening coat of ice is paralyz-
ing highway travel and normal
channels of communication in the
Panhandle and West Texas.
Several towns are still virtually
isolated.
At Abilene, light rain and snow
fell as the, dawn came. Mineral
Wells and Fort Worth, along with
The City Council Tt
afternoon passed an e
ency ordinance prohl
Interference with fire fi|
In the City of Cuero and
ed the first reading of i
dmance prohibiting thi
and discharge of firewb
the city.
The emergency ordinatoi
hibiting interference with fin
ing repealed aB other ordina
conflict with U and fixed a i
of not exceeding $100 for *
of the ordinance.
It was passed at the r«f
Fire Chief William Kleineek
told Council that spectatora 1
terfqred with firemen recently
scene of the fire.
First section of the emerge
dtnanry prohtWed any peota
ping on or driving upon w
ary h e host while the hoee
ing used in fighting firee, Hi
I tlce or while being dratn^
> prohibition specified, that a
Farmers and ranchers lir- •w»owskyjvednesdai
ing in the Middle Guadalupe county to keep all livestock off
Basin Soil conservation Dis-
DeWitt and Gonsales counties
—will see two most important
motion pictures on soil con-
servation at the
scheduled for Friday night at
7:45 o’clock in the Meyers-
ville School.
We have the word of Coun-
ty Agent J. W. Jackson that
these two films are among the
best on soils and their proper
treatment. Jackson explains
the importance of the subject
this way in his letter an-
nouncing the meeting:
“Everybody is conscious of
the importance of keeping up
the production of our soils,
Lake Success, New York. The Unit-
ed Nations body discussed the new
between the Dutch and
MSiaxis. .GnteraationaD.
EIM Council approved the opening __________
UR f iaik iipiD nr
rmn 1 ”*•* Oaero at end IdlVluJ llLt/UlAJI
|_|<K A burger Street. The addition com-
I AUSTIN. Jan. 12.—(UP.)—Gov.
. Jester told a joint session of the
! 51st Texas Legislature that he wants
■fI priority treatment for $13,700,000
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In the tip of the Panhandle, at [handsome models on display.
Canadian, the ice, snow and sleet The two firms will be in
blanket combined has reached an sition to supply any type n||
daire appliance.
was taken after tt’
to the attention at
golfers on the golf '
were endangered by bullets j
which ricocheted from the rifle I
range.
Council also
GONZALES. Jan. 12.—<Sp.) —
f It was reported at the meeting Mrs. Lula Butler. .75, Negro from
that the membership drive was Pilgrim, died early Monday in
fell off her tricycle and broke her November the member- Gonzales hospital from
left leg just below the knee. The shlp workers had succeeded in suffered in a collision
accident turned out to be a blessing
in disguise. -
Doctors set Mary Ann’s
straight and thereby made it strong-
Now she can walk short dis-
The Cuero Park Board was au-, i
thorized to close the rifle range at
Cuero Municipal Park at the regu- i
lar City Council meeting Tuesday j
afternoon.
The action
was brought
Council that
course
Voting in the city bond election
for street improvements was light
Wednesday morning Mid early Wed-
nesday afternoon, and indications at
that time were that ttie'$100,000 pro-
posal was being defeated.
At 1:45 o’clock only 115 ballots
had been cast on the proposal to is-
sue bonds of up to $100,000 for
drainage and paving of Cuero
both cultivated and pasture, streets and for the purchase of ad-
ditional street equipment.
The election returns will be can-
vassed at a meeting of City Council
Thursday morning at 10 o’clock.
[Priority treatment for ___________
?ix-' ; 'f 4 5011001 an<1 Prison appropriations
The governor says $9,000,000 is
needed for rural school aid, and $4,-
700,000 for modernization and over-
haul of the Texas prison system.
Jester’s appearance before the
| joint session was not a lengthy one.
He traced the accomplishments of
his first term and told the Legisla-
tors his views on needed laws in
the coming two years.
He said the report of the Gilmer.
Aikin committee will be presented
for emergency consideration.
He said: “The comprehensive
report of the Glimer-Aikin commit-
tee will be presented as a basis for
legislation designed to give u$. q.
system of public education as ade.
quate as any in America.”
Jester told the legislature it
should prepare to spend $20,000,000
on rtiral road building.
He also recommended that it adopt
emergency legislation in connection
wih the state’s fight to keep poses-
sion of the mineral rich tidelands.
On other matters, he governor said
he wanted legislation for complete
modernization of all state hospitals
and schols of special instruction
and he waned a voter refrendum
on proposals to raise the present
ceiling on welfare payments.
The ceiling now is $35,000,000. It
ha$ brought much criticism, especi-
ally from old age pensioners. That
$35,000,000 represents the top
amount the state can pay out in old
age assistance, aid tq the needy
blind and aid to dependent children.
The limit is fixed by the state con-
stitution.
A condensed but thoroughly
formative address on operations at
the Guadalupe Valley Cotton Mill
by G. M. Blackbum, textile engi-
neer at the Cuero mill, featured
the program of the Cuero Lions
club Wednesday.
Blackburn’s talk, which traced
the progress of raw cotton through
the various phases of manufacture
until it emerged the finished pro-
duct of duck or cloth, proved one
of the most interesting classifica-
tion talks heard &y the club
months.
The young engineer described
the textile industry, which inci-
dentally is the third largest manu-
facturing industry in the world,
as the industry which keeps cot-
ton King.
His address was enthusiastically
received and Lions voted to visit
the mill as a group at an early
date to get further information on
this industry which plays so vital
a part in Cuero’s industrial
business activity.
The club voted to sponsor col-
lection of March of Dimes contri-
butions through the placing of
collection containers in various
stores of the pity and a committee
composed of Ira Wilkes and Harry
i Putman will be in charge of this
project.
FORRESTAL TO STAY
WASHINGTON, Jan.
—A high official in the adminis- [
tration says that James Forrestal I
has agreed to stay as Secretary of I
Defense for three more months.!
The official added that Forrestal,
Your America,” at me regular a ■
meeting of the post Tuesday night I i ALES
at the Legion Hall
The film was obtained by T. Sgt.
George HoreCka and was shown on j
a projector furnished by
Monroe. It portrayed the career of
a soldier in finding just
America stands for.
Edgar Smith, cashier of the Bu-
chel National Bank, was elected a
director of the bank at the annual
meeting of the stockholders and di-
recors Tuesday afternoon at the
bank.
The other directors, all of whom
were re-elected, were LeRoy Hamil-
ton, Dewey Schorre, Mrs.
Koehler. Werner Fischer and Gra-
ham Hamilton.
LeRoy Hamilton was re-elected
president of the bank at the meet,
ing. Other officers who were re-
named included Dewey Schorre, ex-
ecutive vice president; Graham
Hamilton, vice president, inactive,
and Smith, cashier.
Henneke spoke brief- crash. Cleveland Jesse Coker, 39, of
; ly on tlle composite air group re- Cuero died en route to a Gonzales
McMahon says the next step will serve unit being formed at Vic- hospital shortly after the crash;
be an operation on her right leg. in tona and urged members of the Coker was driving a bread truck
___/ . ') too may be post to take part. which collided with a car driven by
McMahon, say Mary Ann has re- strengthened and straightened. He Lawrence Tiffin reported that a Frank James Harris of Pilgrim.
gained the partial use of her legs
by virtue of what they call a “for-
tunate accident.” Soon after her
return from Lourdes the blonde child accident.
Elton E. Bohach. son of Mrs.
Freida Bohach of Nordheim, has
signed up with the U. 8. Air Force
for a three-year period and re-
quested assignment to supply activ-
ities
THE NEW CHAIEMAN of the UN. authorized
Security Council, General A. G. L. of Everett Day, Ted Har-
McNaughton of Canada presides at wood ftnd T- ° Buchel to a short
the first malting of the CramrU gf course at Texas A. and M. in con-
- - — 1 nection with the American Water-
works Association. Harwood and
Day will be eligible for B Licenses
in waterworks operation by attend-
ing the sCfiool.
Council approved the opening of
for the night.
The police chief stressed
that the cooperation of most
business men has been fine in
this respect, and he credited
the fact that the recent wave
of biMglaries in other nearby
towns has steered clear of
Cuero because of the plain
HUN STARLET Wanda Hendrix and
Audie Murphy, most decorated GI
in World War II, are shown after
they obtained a marriage license in
Glendale, Calif. They’ve been en-
gaged for a year. The wedding was
delayed while Wanda was in Italy
IMking a movie. (InteniationaJ)'
that the membership
lagging. In November the member- Gonzales hospital
ship workers had succeeded in suffered in
signing up
members and only about 50 mem- abcut 11 miles from the Gonzales
bers had been added since that city limits
It was the second fatality of the
• 'Commissioners Court Wed-
lustraUon 'to Chief nesday mornlne approved the
. .“7 , stables of the county on a
!n y salary basis.
Martowsky has requested one
chief deputy, one office deputy and
four deputies in other towns. The
chief deputy Will receive a salary of
$187.50 per month, the office deputy
$146.25 per month and the deputies
in Nordhetan, Yoakum, Yorktown
and Westhoff $60 per month.
The plan proposed by Sheriff
»a. MW- Martowsky is similar to that used
fact that burglars (fon t like 1Hr He MQnday
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the
leg i
time.
Lawrence
ALBANY, Calif., Jan. 12.—(UP.) —
A six-year-old California girl, crip-
|pled since birth, made a trip to the
; shrine of St. Bernadette in Lourdes,,
' France, recently prayed for the
J use of her legs. er.
Today it appears that little Mary tances without help.
'Ann McMahon’s prayer may be an- 1_____________ _
swered.
Her parents. Dr. and Mrs. Robert the hopes that it
says doctors will break the leg pur- bid for a sink at the Legion Hall
posely in almost exactly the same had been received for $76.73. The woman and also an occupant of the
place the left leg was broken in the post voted to defer action until Harris car. still was in a serious
; ether bids had been received. 1 1 condition in ? Gonzales hospital,
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