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THE CUEKO KECOKD, CUERO, TEXAS
SUNDAY, AUGUST 1, 1953
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In fact, the administration decided to seek the rate
hike this year because it knew it wouldn't stand a
chance if it waited until the second session of the
83rd Congress—with the elections just around the
corner. So it submitted its request rather later in the
Postage
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Ta Ge Up
Miss Freddie Drawe out of the
hospital after many weeks there,
is able to sit up and Friday she
was catching up on some over-due
mending.
Dr. Cornelius Mueller and little
son, Bobby, will soon be here from
Santa Barbara, California, to visit
his mother, Mrs. Olga Mueller.
Bobby will celebrate his seventh
birthday while here.
icans voted for a change,
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Where Honor Is Due
Most Solens Pay Clese Meed
To "Way Man k Running"
Your Letters to Congressman
Receive Personat Altention
them.
The officer drove the couple to a
tourist court, fund them a room,
then, "as a wedding gift," didn't
write them a ticket.
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Entered in the post office at Cuero, Texas, as second class matter
Under Act of Congress March 3, 1897.
POLLIWOGS
By POLLY HOWERTON
went out of it when Tim died—for
you, I mean. I thought, even in the
Arst shock, that we would be closer
than ever. Instead, further apart
than seemed credible.
"I ean accomplish a lot here and
am lucky to be here in spring, not
on a tour of motels near the edge!
of the city when Calloway stopped
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men and women I represent and serve as a guide
in helping me chart my course."
Most lawmakers agree with Johnson when he says: "I am glad to
get all those letters."
Susie Windham, pretty little blonde
haired girl, up town Friday morn-
ing with her mother, Mrs. S. L.
Windham.
first session, hoping for the best. It felt that cutting the Post Office
deficit by $240 million a year would help considerably in its budget-
balancing efforts.
But opposition to the bill was strong, both among Democrats and
Republicans, many of whom considered even a one-cent boost in first-
class out-of-town mailing charges and in air mail stamps as just an-
other tax.
Next year, there'll be even less of a desire to pass the postal bill.
CUERO FEDERAL
SAVINGS & LOAM ASSOCIATION
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ernment rent controls in many areas are expiring and the cost of
living has continued at record high levels.
All in all, the nation's legislators, who are frequently politicians as
well, may be glad to return to Washington next January where they,
can become statesmen rather than a guy who runs for office in 1954.
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STAMP LICKING—The Eisenhower administration has given up
on getting congressional approval of I its request for higher postal
rates. Despite assurances that the measure will be considered again
when Congress reconvenes in January, there will be even less chance
of passage in 1954 than there was this year.
“It seems to me," the letter went
I on, "that we nad a better than
average marriage but a great deal
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those with a fresh catch-phrase that may prove
helpful in debate will be called to the lawmaker's
personal attention.
Congressmen are little impressed with form let-
ters on any issue. These are likely to come from
pressure groups whose views are well known. What
counts is a personally-penned letter, or even a
typewritten one which is clearly the sole work of
the author.
Most congressmen consider "the way the mail is
running" before making up their minds on how
to vote on a disputed issue.
Senate Democratic leader Lyndon Johnson of
Texas receives an average of 400 letters a day. He
says they "do much to keep me in touch with the
• HAPPY HOMECOMING— The end of the fighting in Korea put
Senate and House members in a happy frame of mind for the con-
gressional recess.
None of the lawmakers is expected to be’brash enough to claim
any personal credit for achievement of the truce but it will enable
them to point with pride rather than view with alarm.
Farm bloc congressman probably face the roughest fence-mending
task of all. Declining farm incomes, the drought and the uncertainty
about the Eisenhower administration's price support program means
midwestern congressmen from rural areas will be confronted by a
number of acute questions.
House members from areas where there are large foreign-born
populations were given some last minute ammunition with congres-
sional enactment of a bill permitting the entry of over 200,000 iron
curtain refugees.
tairly, straighten out one thing. After
on the highway or at the favorite re-
rF budget worries— usually there isn't
Vacation trips iter
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Following a slap in the face from the Government's most
ush-hush bureau, the Central Intelligence Agency, Senator
rosepn McCarthy has asked to be allowed to subpoena toe
wad-man. Allen Dmes, brother of Secretary of State John
foster Dulles.
Senator McCarthy told the Senate that William P. Bundy,
.op aide to Mr. Allen Dulles and a son-in-law of former Sec-
cetary of State Den Acesqn, had been scheduled to testify
before his committee; udat a|c official had told hm Mr.
Bundy would be unable to testify, having suddenly gone on
vacation no one knew where; and further that it was Mr.
IftcU to Central Preas
wy ASHINGTON-Do letters to members of Congresa ever get read f
W This question is asked frequently, and the anawer to yea, all
letters do get personal attention, although not always by the senator
or representative to whom they are addressed.
A lawmaker may get one or two sacks of mail on a highly contro-
versial issue. In this case, staff aides will read an the letters, analyze
them and give a report to the boss. The more pertinent letters or
what that—if it was true—had to
do with you and me. I don’t now.
r‘ve never thought of myself as an
especially strong person nor lack-
ing in humor. We used to have so
many little jokes, privately, be-
tween us and Tim—"
He stopped reading. He couldn't
see the words. After a while he
read the rest:
Dulles’ policy that no CIA employes would be permitted to
estify before Congressional committees. This, the Senator
contended, was "the most blatant attempt" he had yet en-
ountered at “flouting the authority of the Senate.”
Mr. Bundy, according to Senator McCarthy, is up for a
lew job as liaison between the National Security Council and
he Atomic Energy Commission, and he thought it would be
nice, before confirmation: In this sensitive post, to have Mr.
Bundy tell his committee why he gave $400 to the Alger Hiss
defense fund.
The Senator says he already knows why, since Mr. Bundy
nad given three reasons in writing: 1. To help out father-in-
aw Acheson. 2. That iwas “imperative” to "exonerate",Hiss.
I. That the trial was’unportant" to the DemocraticsPart.
(The quoted words are McCarthy's.)
Whether the shy Mr. Bundy will be snatched from some
sylvan dell or surf-embroidered beach and escorted to a stuffy
nearing room in broiling Washington, or whether his boss, or
both, will receive te’treatmnt, seems less important at this
late date than the question of why we still have three New
Deal-Fair Deal bleeding hearts in the Executive wood-work.
Eight months ago, more than thirty-three million Amer-
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Texas cotton crop was the light-
est in ten years with estimates
placed at only 3,541,000 bales ...
Freeman Schultz's novel window
display in the ”M” System Store
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the Continental Congress
of the chief framers of
Constitution and one of
was attracting a great deal ofiMr. and Mrs. Bill Thedin, were
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A letter from Erna Koehler who
is vacationing in Canon City. Cola-
ratio. with Frances and Stumpy
Witcher. She has been in Denver
with Doris Brokaw for a visit. She
is, of course, relating of the won-
derful cool weather and hating to
even contemplate leaving it later
this month to return home.
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$08-9 Bus Terminal Bldg., Denver, Colo.
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sabscriptions Rates i2a
and Sunday: one year $10.00, six
one month $1.00. By mail inDeWitt,
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(op Stops Speeders,
Helps Honeymooners
HOUSTON, Tex. <UP' -Police-
man J. B. Calloway stopped a
couple for speeding in downtown
Houston and found himself serv-
ing as a sort of Dan Cupid. | nesses and humor.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Baker said
on vacation .... Lt. Hugh
Greetings received from our
friend Alice Naylor who is vaca-
tioning in Florida. She is trying
to entice us over there with the
bait that we could fly to the Bah-
amas, round-trip, for $45.
“Yeah !"
"I‘ve a good many contacts
through the business. If you and
Louise ever decide to make a dras-
tic change about Sheila, I hope
you’ll feel free to call on me. I'm
sure an arrangement c o u l d ghe
made which would .mean the best
possible care for her at the least
possible burden to you.”
Hank cleared his throat
’Thanks,” he said. "I’ll remember.
Sounds like you were planning to
shove off.”
"Not for a while. Emily—my
wife—writes that she won’t be
back from her work in Europe
until late summer and, far as I
know. I’m not being missed at the
office.”
Later he sounded Cas out
“If Joe decides to go on to col-
lege, perhaps when the matter of
his subjects comes up he'd talk to
me? Td like to have him for a
visit, some vacation, so he could
look at our set-up. If he took to it
his courses could be steered in that
direction, and then, 11 he was of
the same mind on graduation,
there’a be a job and, I believe, con-
siderable future. My brother has
no sons: I suppose he'll have sons-
in-law some day, but at this dis-
tance we don't know what they'd
want to do. Besides, there’d be
room. The business has never stood
still."
Cas was silent for a moment
Then he said: "It’d be up to Joe.
He wants to go to college, all right,
now. Tour doin' mostly. He thinks
a lot of you. I appreciate the offer,
but you ain't in no way obliged.”
“I’m obliged, all right,” Dave
said, "but I don't make the offer
because of that I like Joe. I like
both your kids. If Joe came to
us of his free will, and fitted in,
why not? He’d work hard. It
isn't a case of making a job or
showing favoritism. My father
didn't George and I were under
a lash; he was harder on us than
on the rest of the employes. I
might have been just as tough
with Tim. Don't get any foolish
notions about this, Cas. Joe's good
material. And, as you say, it's up
to him. I wouldn’t want him In-
fluenced, least of all by me.”
"Better not say anything to him
yet, Dave. Like Mrs. Rogers says,
he thinks you're gold. I'll talk it
over with her; we always do, hcr'n
me. She has a good head on her
shoulders. I've been worried some,
that’s a fact. The farm ain’t big
or productive enough to make a
livin’ for two families after we re
gone. Two families ahouldn’t be
together anyway, not even if
there’s two houses. But I’ve known
for quite a time that Joe ain’t ir.-
terested in farmin’. He does his
chorea, like any farm kid, maybe
better’n moat but grumblin’. Herb
likes the farm; maybe he don’t
work as good but he’s younger,
and I don’t expect it But the in-
terest’s there. Like I say, it wor-
ried me. I’ll think about what you
said, Dave.”
With May the punkies arrived,
an invasion at irritants, and Dave
bought insect repellent. No Eden
without its serpent All around,
Dave heard the clear ringing of
axes, the rasping of saws. There
was another sound, the peepers
calling from every pond and
swamp
/T•. Be Oentnued)
All one ecould hear in Victoria
last week was complaints about
the water bills. One couple had
moved into their newly purchased
home on the 15th and the water
meter was read on the 19th, and
their bill was $8.17 for the four
days which does seem a bit high.
One girl said her bill had been
$1.50 all the time, and it was nine
dollars. And it was reported that
one man's bill that usually ran
around twenty dollars had gone to
$105. We folks who live in Cuero
should be pleased that our rates on
utilities compare favorably with
low rates thruout the state.
Laster who had expected to arrive from Joplin,
Houston for|Mo., where they had been mak-
in Cucro ing their home .... Mrs. E. B. Ed-
family .... gerton had returned from a three
J. J. Olson of Yoakum was a I week visit in San Antonio .... S-Sgt.
Cuero visitor .... Miss Jessie Lee
Mobley of Yoakum was a Cuero
visitor .... Emil Markowsky was
back from Houston where he at-
tended the reunion of the 143 In-
fantry Band of which he was a
member in World War I..... Misses
Eunice and Joyce Kopecky of
Moulton were visiting in the E.
J. Prey home .... Marion Davies
was playing here in "Peg O’ My
Heart" .... Mr. and Mrs. Leslie
Dahme had returned to Big
that there’s much time to think of
seasons. Dave, you know bow I
feel about divorce. I haven’t
changed. Yet, If there were a rea-
son—if you met someone with
whom you could start again, and
be happy, I suppose rd consent,
if you asked. I know I would. Now
we've been separated for months.
“It could be legalized as the next
step, if you like. I can't take up
where we left off. If we are to be
together again, it must be on a
new basis, as I suppose it couldn't
be on the old. Don't try to answer
thia. Fil let you know when I plan
to return and I’ll leave my decision
until we've talked. I want to be-
lieve we can work it out; I pray
for that, every day. But I don’t
know, I honestly don’t know.”
He put the letter away; from
time to time he would reread it,
and think about it, sentence by
sentence. Thia much was clear:
she wouldn’t divorce him unless
there was what she called a rea-
son; but would, if he wished, agree
to a legal separation. In a limited
sense she offered him his freedom
now. But what he would do with
it, if he accepted, he did not know.
For the present he went on liv-
ing his two lives, not always inte-
grated: that of the body and that
of the mind. And sometimes he
tried to recapture a blurred, dis-
solving memory, less substantial
than the residue of a dream. In
the storm when he was close to
the limit of endurance, had he
heard Tim's voice? Occasionally,
between sleeping and waking, he
could almost grasp and, so, relive
this. Not quite. It had probably
been a fantasy of exhaustion. If
he could persuade himself that, in
his extremity, Tim had made him-
self heard and known, his entire
world must again be altered. He
would then eta id where his mother
stood, where Roger Newton and
Em stood—rooted in certainty,
with nothing to fear.
But he could not be persuaded;
this was scarcely memory, being
so nebulous; and perhaps it hadn’t
even seemed to happen during the
storm, but had been part later of
a pattern of fever, pain and semi-
consciousness.
You couldn't build on it; this
was the sort of thing that sent
tragic people to mediums, sitting
around tables in th* dark, listen-
ing to bells ringing and thinking
they heard voices. . . .
He took pads and peneils and
went out to sketch the hesitant
spring, and soon tired of it; want
Ashing, alone and with the boys,
drove to town to have dinner with
the Dawaons and to speak private-
ly to Hank.
“How about Peters?"
"I’m working on him. Can’t
make up his mind. Vera—his wife
—she's on our side."
Dave said: "ra like to own the
place. I suppose there are others,
if Peters refuses. But rm used
to this one; it would be fine to
come back to, vacations and hunt-
ing seasons. And I don't want to
lose touch up here." Dave hesi-
toted. He hadn’t seen Sheila to-
night. She’d taken an aversion to
strangers and Hank had apolo-
gized: “It's too hard on Louise
getting her eatoned down."
"Hank?"
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Spring after a visit here . . Mrs.
Florence Jones and Margaret
Kennon drov- to Austin to visit.
they had just been married earlier
in the evening and drove to Gal-
veston to spend their weddingg
night. But hotels there were filled
and they returned to Houston
where the downtown hotels also
were filled. They were embarking
Johnston spent the weekend in
Baton Rouge, La..... Congressman
Richard Kleberg spoke here ..
Nazi Army retreated in distress ...
Scorched earth policy followed.
August 9, 1913
Services for Miss Patti \ •
were held here, the Rev. W. A.
McLeod officiating .... Mr. and
Mrs. Ab Mueller had received
word their daughter and husband.
authors of the Federalist
papers. During his two Presi-
dential terms, the War of 1812
was fought. Who was he?
4. The 16th President of the Unit-
ed States had less than one
year of formal schooling. He
joined the new Republican
party in 1856 and was defeat-
ed as its candidate for the Un-
ited States Senate after a series
of campaign debates with his
successful opponent, Steven A
Douglas. Who was he?
5. This great patriot was the first
United States President to be
Commander-in-Chief of the U.
S. Army. Who was he"
"Classified Has the Ansswers."
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MRS. J. C. HOWERTON —
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CARRY C. PUTMAN------
Fortunate, indeed, is the child who appreciates the satis
. faction of watching a savings account grow! The habit of
thrift learned at an early age is a sure stepping-stone to a
worthwhile future. Your savings earn 3% (current annu-
al dividends) and your investment insured by an agency of
the Federal Government.
Clarence Pakebusch and wif
from the South Pacific visitea ms
uncle *.1 aunt, Mr. and Mrs.
Julius Gohmert .... Capt. Richard
Steele and Lt. Russell Chambers
were expected to arrive back
from Minnesota where they had
t > Bronze busts of F. W. Woolwortn, Marshal Field, John P.
Wanamaker and George Huntington Hartford were unveil*
ed in Chicago's Merchandise Mart the other day, hailing these
men as the nation’s outstanding "store-keepers," and the
first to be memoralized in the newly-dedicated "Merchants of
America Hall of Fame."
The winners of this posthumous honor were selected by
America’s top marketing authorities and business and finan-
rial analysts from a panel of ten nominees, which in turn,
had been chosen by today's best-known merchandising exe-
cutives.
We doubt that anyone will quibble at the electors’ choice,
since the lasting significance of this new Hall qf Fame is to
-remind us of the vital work that every sincere merchant ev-
| . prywhere has done, and is doing, in building and maintaining
his nation’s economic leadership. And we should be grateful
indeed to the Merchandise Mart, which has nothing to sell
:pu our Americanie enterprise system for turning the spot-
igbt on some long-neslected truths.
mWe have accepted mass production as the peculiarly
American miracle that has lifted our living standards above
•all others . . . and:now.at Ing last, we stop to realise that it
t wAs our store-keepers whb kept it going by selling these tre-
l nepdcus volumes of all hianner of goods ... by policing the
• dality of these goods ... by continually Introducing us to new
• and better things : . by developing and maintaining honest
2 and fair merchandising practices, so that Americans may shop
t without hagglingi artel merchants need not bite the coin . . . .
* as is still done in older countries!
” 1 And as we hohor the names of Woolworth and Field and
Wanamaker and. Hartford, we see them as symbols of high-
ninded public service, that is exemplified today by men we
ill know—in our owntcommunity.
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Motorists are no safer than the tires beneath them. And
hotter the weather, the weaker the cushion. The wise
iriver slows down these days and gives the tires and himself
break. Mfi/ ’
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
EM TOOK her time writing,
Dave thought. March went out in a
snowstorm and April came in with
another. Bets on the day the ice
would go out had been placed be-
fore he heard from his wife.
Em had been transferred to
Italy; his letter, missing her in
Greece, had been forwarded. She
wrote:
"Pm not coming home yet. When
I undertook the job I promised to
stay six months. Before the time
was up they asked me to extend it.
Recently I was offered a perma-
nent, salaried job. It entails re-
sponsibility and at the same time
a moderately free hand. There’d be
a lot of traveling, for inspection,
organization, and reorganization.
"I asked for time to consider. By
early fall I must decide. Before
then ru come home; either for
good or for a leave before taking
up the offer.
"You have no plans. I have to
have a plan, Dave. And you're
right, our situation can't be settled
by letter. I think a great deal
about it and try to see it as clearly
as I can. It was Tim who held you
to me. Fm putting this badly, I
know. But I didn't feel that way
about you. You were my husband
as well as Tim's father; we had a
separate relationship. I could see
you apart from him. And yet
wher he left us, you left me—al-
most at once—within a matter of
weeks. What kind of life would
we have together now? You say
your experiment has failed. If this
to ao, it would be a life of tolerance
and habit It's not good enough.
Before we were married I remem-
ber ypu asked me what I’d do if
you fell in love with someone else,
after. I had fixed ideas, and was
emphatic about .them. But you
didn't fall in love with someone
else; if you had, I'd have known,
and I'm sure you would have told
me. I believe I could have dealt
with it as long as I was certain
you loved me: also there was Tim.
I’ve always realized you were a
little susceptible but it never really
worried me. I thought you loved
me. You haven’t been in love with
me for a long time but, I suspect,
that happens to most couples, still,
they go on loving each other. I
did. jou. There was never anyone
else, not even for a foolish mo-
ment. But if you’d loved me I
would have been able to help you.
Belore I went away I asked Pete
where I'd failed you. He said I
hadn't I asked him what I lacked,
and, after a while, he said, weak-
LAST NOVEMBER
YOU DDN
approve OFC
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Do you know your presidents"
If you remember your American
history, you will have no trouble
identifying the Presidents describ-
ed in the following quiz-questions.
Turn to the classified page for the
answers.
1. The 7th President of the United
States came from Tennessee,
fought in the War of 1812, was
appointed governor of Florida
and was defeated by John
Qulacy Adams when he first ran
for the presidency. He was
elected in 1828 and was re-elect-
ed in 1832. Who was he?
2. This big game hunter became
President of the United States
upon the assassinaiton of his
predecessor. He had the Rough
Riders in the Spanish-Ameri-
can War and was responsible
for the building of the Panama
Canal. Who was he? .
3. The 4th President of the
United States was a r.ember of
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