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Caskey
Investments
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Ranch bales
Local Investments
202 E. Broadway
275-5764
Meet the
Gobblers
(See Section B, Page 1)
Letters to
the Editor
(See Section A, Page 2)
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IE CUERO 1
VOL. 97 - NO. 35
CUERO TEXAS WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 1 1993Established 1894 - Pulitzer Prize 1955
CUEHOEAAD WEDNESPATJEPTEMDEN 1993
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After six day run
DeWitt Briefs Escapee surrenders Monday
Jobless rate improving here
According to Texas Employment Commission figures, the un-
employment rate in DeWitt County is improving. For July the rate was
4.8% compared the same time last year when it was 5%. That reflects a
labor force of 8,313 with 7,918 employed.
By way of comparison, area counties posted the following rates: Cal-
houn, 8.1%; Goliad, 5%; Gonzales, 5.4%; Jackson, 4.9%; Lavaca,
2.8%; and Victoria, 5.5%.
Tax office to close for lunch
DeWitt County Tax Assessor-Collector Margaret Mueller reports her
office will begin closing for lunch at the county courthouse. She said
the new office hours will be from 8 a.m. to noon and from 1 p.m. to 5
p.m.
Mrs. Mueller listed the reason for closing the office at noon was due
to a reduction of her staff.
Flood aid donation deadline
A drive to aid flood victims in the Mid-West by the Cuero Lions
Club and Retama Manor West will end Saturday, Sept. 4. Items for the
drive may be taken to the nursing home, located next to Cuero Com-
munity Hospital.
If you have items to donate but are unable to deliver them, they will
be picked-up if you call 275-3421. For additional information call Kris
Castillo or Debbie Guinan at that number.
Thomaston firemen to meet
The Thomaston Volunteer Fire Department will hold its monthly
meeting Thursday, Sept. 2, at the Thomaston Community Church start-
ing at 7 p.m.
Officers note that refreshments will be served following the meeting
and the meeting is open to the public.
Mistrial called in drug case
District Judge W.W. Kilgore declared a mistrial last week in a case
involving Carl Wayne Enoch, 29, of Yoakum. Enoch had been charged
with delivery of cocaine.
’ The mistrial ruling was announced after the court learned certain
pieces of evidence that had not been admitted into the court’s record
had been given to the jury during deliberations.
Monday, Sept. 6, Labor Day
Most governmental offices will be closed Monday, Sept. 6, in obser-
vance of Labor Day. That would include city offices, county offices
and the Post Office.
Also observing the holiday will the financial offices and the Cuero
schools.
67th Jamaica Sept. 5
Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish of Cuero will hold its 67th Annual
Jamaica on Sunday, September 5 at the parish hall and grounds located
at 207 Graham Street.
Festivities include breakfast tacos served at 7 a.m.; beef barbecue
dinner at 11 a.m. with also a drive thru, cost is $4 per plate; Mexican
dinner at 5 p.m. at $3.50 each and homemade tamales for $3.75 per
dozen.
1974 class plans reunion
The Cuero High School class of 1974 is planning a reunion for next
June.
A planning meeting will be Sunday, September 5, at 2 p.m. at the
home of Tricia Leske Priest at 206 E. Prairie. All class members arc en-
couraged to attend.
Supperclub September 7
The Cuero Community Hospital monthly Supperclub will be Tues-
day, September 7 at 6 p.m.
Administrator Larry Krupala will give an update on the present
hospital construction of the new physicians clinic, EMS building and
emergency room. For reservations call 275-6191.
Defensive driving class
A Defensive Driving Course sponsored by the Cuero Chamber of
Commerce and Agriculture will be Tuesday and Wednesday, Septem-
ber 14 and 15,6 p.m. to 10 p.m. each evening.
Fee is $25 and registration should be made at the Chamber office,
128 E. Church.
Ribbon cutting Thursday
A ribbon cutting ceremony and open house sponsored by the Cuero
Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture for its new members will be
held Thursday, September 2 at 10:30 a.m. at The Paperback Exchange,
103 N. Esplanade.
Everyone is invited to attend and meet Sara and George Maggclct,
newest retailers in the downtown area.
Gobbler tickets at Keeslers
Reserved and general admission tickets for Friday games of the Gob-
blers will be sold at Keeslers each week Monday thru Friday. With
ticket sales ending on Friday at 10 a.m. Adult tickets are $5 each.
Student tickets will be sold on all Cuero school campuses weekly un-
til Friday at 10 a.m. Student tickets are $2 each.
By GLENN REA
Record Editor
After six days of freedom,
DeWitt County Jail escapee Leroy
Rosales turned himself in late Mon-
day night to County Commissioner
Billy Moore.
Rosales, 24, of Yoakum escaped
from the jail recreation yard last
Wednesday morning by apparently
kicking a portion of the fence loose
at its base.
Precinct 2 Commissioner Moore
said he received a call from Rosales
Monday evening and that the man
was wanting to turn himself in. "He
asked me if I would come get him
(at a roadside park near LaGrange)
and bring him back to jail," said
Moore who noted he had known
Rosales most of his life.
Rosales was returned to the jail
at about 11:30 where he was met
by District Attorney Wiley
Cheatham, Justice of the Peace
John Glaze and Sheriff’s Deputy
Chamber cuts ribbon
Directors and members of the Cuero Chamber
of Commerce and Agriculture held an Open
House and ribbon cutting ceremony last week
for the new Chamber offices located in the
Federal Building on Church Street. Assisting
in cutting the ribbon were Mayor John Post,
left center and Chamber President Ray Reese.
(Record Photo)
Apartments possible here
Council considers incentives
Cuero City Council is consider-
ing an idea to spur home and apart-
ment construction here.
While construction of the 1,000-
bed prison is well underway, places
for the prison employees to live are
scarce. The prison is expected to
open next spring and employ over
300 people.
At Thursday’s special council
meeting, Mayor John Post reported
that he and prison committee co-
chairman Joe Reuss attended a
seminar recently hosted by the
Texas Department of Commerce.
The seminar was aimed at com-
munitics that have been awarded
new prisons.
He said attending the seminar
were officials from communities
with new prisons and hous-
ing/apartment developers. Il was
suggested at the seminar that com-
munities offer tax abatements to
developers to get housing construc-
tion started.
Post said after the seminar, one
of the developers indicated he was
interested in building apartments in
Cuero and wanted to know about
this city’s abatement plans.
The mayor suggested the council
consider amending the city’s cur-
rent abatement plan to offer incen-
tive’s to developers. "We need to
entice these people here now," he
said.
Post stated that he is working
with one of the developers to build
apartments in Cuero but that the tax
incentives may be necessary to get
the project here instead of another
community.
He emphasized.
"I
have
City plans tax vote
at Thursday meeting
Cuero City Council is expected
to adopt its tax rate and budget for
the coming year during their
regular meeting Thursday, Sept. 2,
at City Hall. The meeting will start
at 5:45 p.m.
City staff is recommending the
council approve a total tax rate of
.28788 cents per $100 valuation.
Mavorev:l1, That would include .23563 cents
CIVIC for maintenance and operation and
. .05225 cents for debt retirement.
burglary Inv. Also the council is expected to
P • call an election for November 2 to
DeWitt County Sheriff Wayne ask voters to approve changing the
Mills reports his office is inves- boundaries of the single-member
ligating a burglary of the districts. The boundary-change
Mcycrsvillc School which occurred would reflect recent changes in
sometime during the night on minority percentages in the city’s
August 14,. . four districts.
He said the school reported com- Another item on the agenda in-
puters, monitors, a VCR, color eludes a petition asking that Cuero
television and laser disc player be included in the Extended Area
were taken. The items were es- Service of the Victoria telephone
timated to be worth about $8,100. exchange. The petition seeks to al-
Sheriff Mills said there were no low calling from the Cuero ex-
signs of forced entry and the change to the Victoria exchange on
burglary is still under investigation, an optional flat-rate basis.
proposed some apartments that I
will not be an owner of but I would
be the general contractor. I would
not own onc/one-thousands of it."
The mayor said even with the tax
abatements (possibly for two years)
the city would still receive about
$18,000 a year in taxes and the
revenues from utilities. "What we
would be getting is the water,
sewer, electric income and
whatever the people spend in Cuero
and then after two years, full
taxes," Post said.
Councilwoman Sue Wheat sug-
gested the tax abatement should al-
so apply to new home construction.
Reuss agreed adding, "I would
definitely agree that housing should
be included in this. Anything we
can do, we should do to create ad-
ditional housing here, if just for the
prison employees."
Wheat noted any changes to the
city’s tax abatement plan would
have to be approved by the other
taxing entities which includes the
county, hospital, school district,
and drainage district.
Post asked City Manager John
Tray han to talk to the leaders of the
other taxing entities before the next
council meeting. The council sug-
(See CITY, Page 2)
Rick Loosicr.
Judge Glaze arraigned Rosales
on escape charges and set his bond
at $20,000.
Judge Glaze arraigned Rosales
on escape charges and set his bond
at $20,000. Rosales was originally
in jail on car theft charges filed by
Yoakum officers.
The incident garnered area-wide
attention last week when Rosales
escaped but was not discovered
missing for about 14 hours.
Sheriff Wayne Mills explained
he had called a surprise drug search
of the jail Wednesday morning
which resulted in about 50 inmates
being sent to. the recreation yard
while officers and the drug dog
searched the cells.
But while the inmates were in
the recreation yard, Rosales ap-
parently used the opportunity to
kick a portion of the fence open to
allow his escape. Reportedly there
was no outside help with the es-
cape.
Jailers, however, were not aware
of the escape until the next day.
According to Mills, Rosales had
about a 14 hour head start.
Sheriff Mills said he is consider-
ing filing charges against about
nine inmates that shielded Rosales
from view of the jailers and surveil-
lance camera in the recreation yard.
Mills said he refer the incident to
the DeWitt County Grand Jury.
Apparently, when the inmates
were returned to their cells,
Rosales’ bunk was stuffed to make
it look like he was in the cell.
It was about 9 or 10 a.m.
Thursday that jailers discovered
Rosales had escaped.
Head jailer Herb Zielonka stated,
"It was the jailers’ fault for taking
so long to discover the escape." He
explained the jailers were supposed
to make head-counts every hour.
Mills said part of the problem
can also be blamed on an inade-
quate surveillance system in the
yard. "There is about a 10-foot span
out there that can’t be seen with the
surveillance camera," he said. He
has requested additional monitoring
equipment from the county.
Another problem Mills noted
was, "We are operating about three
jailers short. We should have 10
but we only have seven, it’s kinda
tough." He was referring to a Texas
Jail Standards Commission recom-
mendation that this jail have 10
jailers.
Rotary
readies
for sale
Cuero Rotary Club will hold a
massive garage sale Saturday, Sept.
4, between X a.m. and 1 p.m. at
Bob Farris Chevrolet located at 712
E. Broadway.
The club recently sent $1,000 to
the Des Moines, Iowa Rotary Club
to aid in their flood relief efforts in
that area. Proceeds from this garage
sale will help offset that donation.
Garage sale coordinator Ronnie
Farris said this sale will include a
complete deer camp set-up includ-
ing furniture, appliances and uten-
sils.
Also there will be a rare collec-
tion of Jim Beam decanters and an-
tique bottles.
Other items will include toys,
clothes, televisions, vacuums and
miscellaneous items.
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