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TWO FRAtl, AMtliUW nuns
marched out into > bullet-splash-
ed street and halted u civil
wai rHfpng around » l+ixur> h«>
ti I where 1-1 otlicr l’. S. citizens
were boinp- held as rebel hostag-
es, diplomats said today.
They saiil Sisters Mary
Arthur of I»s Angeles and
Jeanne Teresa Deintan <>( St.
' HOI SK SPEAKER Ben Bar-
j'hrs said to lay fund - raising
; elubs organized by his eotisti-
1 turn's to help pay his political
expanses were “not my idea."
i ‘'This was initiated by nn
I constituents. It was not my
j idea, but certainly I'm very
I pleased and gratified ", he said
He said the “Bert Barnes
Clubs" m Ins West Texas legis-
Few showers early tonight,
!lemming parjh cloudy and
turning a little cooler tonight
and Wednesday, Probability of
rain BO per cent tonight and less
t h a ti 20 per cent Werlnes-
day. Temps 54-65* foi Cuero,
Yorktoivn and Yoakum.
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"A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS fTS COMMUNITY"
Price
VOL. 73—NO. 20
CUERO, TEXAS 77954, TUESDAY. JANUARY 24, 1967
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Paul, Minn, .probably saved the | Iative district were organized
lives of the Americans trapped: more than a year ago. Club
in tlie downtown hotel during | members - alxnit lfid. of them
Monday's day-long civil war in — pay $10 a month into n fund
Managua. that is available to Barnes foi
The Roman Catholic sisters
first persuadril their rebel
captors to let them leave the
Gran Hotel which was
attacked by tank and
political expenses.
STATK SEN. JIM BATHS of
living j Kdinburg Monday introduced
small-1 legislation to abolish Texas Sun-<
arms fire from government 1 day closing laws,
troops. Then, waving a white; Bates said the bill would re-
flag, the nuns paraded out into j peal the. present laws, which
the street. [are for the most part unenforc-,
j able, and rid the state of "anti-'
STATE REP. l-AlTiO (III 17 qua ted statutes" on the subject
of Houston planned to introduce The hi!) was one of four in- i
In the Texas Legislature in
Austin today a bill to make
Lower Rio Grande Valley
farm workers’ demands for a
11.25 state minimum wage a
reality.
Cruz planned to file what he
called a “Fair Wage” bill at
1 30 p.m. with leaders of a
farm workers’ march wilncss-
ing.
Cruz said Rev. Antonio Gon-
lales and Rev. Joe Navarro,
who led demonstrators on a 400-
mile march from Rio Grande
City to Austin last summer,
would bless the bill and its
sponsors.
Postal Rate Increase
Is Asked By Johnson
troduced by Bates in the
ate Monday.
Sen-
SOUKT PRESIDENT Nikolai j
Podgorny flew into heavily
guarded Rome today for an of-1
ficial state visit to Italy and a
history - making audience with
tlie Pope. He said he fell the
visit would aid tlie cause of
international peace. j
During the week-long state,
visit Podgorny was expected to
discuss Vietnam peace effort
and better Kremlin-Vatican re-
lations in becoming the first
president of atheist Russia to
meet a Roman Catholic Pontiff.
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Anti-War Aussies
Battle Police Dogs
AUCKLAND, New Zealand
UPI — Anti-war demonstrators
hurled themselves in the path of
South Vietnamese Premier
Nguyen Cao Ky's motorcade
Innight and one of them was
run over by the police chief’s
ear. Police with dogs battled
ether protestors and five were
arrested.
Collision Is
Confusion
For Everyone
A complicated auto accident
Monday afternoon left ene man
injured and a number ot people
eonfused.
State Highway Patrolman
Hugh Poage laid the accident
started when one vehicle at-
tempted to pas* a school bus.
Oncoming traffie left the road-
way to miss the ear passing the
school bus. Other traffic was
forced to take evasive action to
miss them.
Joseph Y. Taylor was stop-
ped in a private driveway. He
told Patrolman Poage, "I
was just sitting there watching
it all happen and the first
thing I know there's a car
hitting me and I wasn’t even
moving.”
Taylor, a 60-year-old farm
employee of J. Carter Thomas
of Cuero, had his vehicle stop-
ped in the drive going to the
Thomas farm about 1.9 miles
from Cuero on the Victoria
Highway.
Katherine Sue Diamond, a 19-
year-old Victoria student, was
the driver of the auto that col-
lided with the Taylor vehicle.
The Taylor car was damag-
ed beyond repair. The Diamond
vehicle suffered moderate dam-
age, Poage said. Taylor com-
plained of leg Injuries.
Charges In the accident have
not been filed.
An unidentified youth received
leg injuries when he hurled
himself in front of Police Chief
Curl Spencer’s car at Auckland
airixjrt just after Ky arrived
from Wellington. He was rush-
ed to a hospital.
Minutes later, police hurled
several of about 150 anti-
Vietnam protesters to the
pavement outside Ky's hotel
when the youths, mostly vaca-
tioning students, broke through
cordons as Ky drove up.
At least five persons were
arrested in a 15-minute clash
during which police used dogs;
to keep demonstrators on the
sidewalks.
It was the second violent
outburst during Ky's goodwill
tour at Australia and New-
Zealand to thank the two ,
nations for their support in the [
Vietnam war.
Fights erupted outside Ky's-
hotel in Brisbane, Australia, j
several days ago.
CUERO (.AIN'S NEW TEACHERS — Monday
was the llrst day of school In (lie spring se-
mester for Cuero students and it was also the
first day on the job for lour new teachers in
the Cuero school district. Pictured above are
three new teachers at the High School. On the
left is Mm. Dixie Davis, who is teaching book
keeping; renter la Charlee Blackley, ninth
grade English, and on the right, Misa Sarah
Ann Long, girls P. E. Not shown is Mrs. Boyd
Harris of Cuero who is teaching the third
grade.
New Bond Election
Here Slated Feb. 21
PTA Meeting
Set Tonight;
Prizes on Top
By ED ANDERSON
1 Record Staff Writer
Cuero's City Council in a spe-
cial session at 10 a.m. today
passed an ”emergency” ordi-
| nance calling for tlie resubmis-
i sion to voters here Feb. ill of a
! proposed $950,001) bond issue for
a municipal capital improve-
The Cuero P.T.A. will hold, ment program,
its third regular meeting of the! Tlie three propositions which
_ . . ____. „ were defeated Iasi Nov. 29 re-
year Tuesday. in the Junior jmftin the same
High School auditorium at 7:30 Repeating that the new elec-
p.m. tion is an “emergency for the
A musical program will be [welfare and health of the city,"
presented by students of the j the call was made on tlie mo-
Hunt Elementary School under [tion of Councilman Lias (Bub-
the direction of Mrs. Ruth Koeh-1 ba> Steen and seconded b y
I'd like to sop every coun-1 sanitary sewer system was
oil meeting attended by such a , turncd down 563 to 251.
turnout, said Mayor Bill Nami.! proposition No. 3 which sought
i Engineer Don Frazor and the; • .
.city’s financial adviser. Tom,p-'>-000 i'trce1 *“^**“““*
Anderlitch, both of San Antonio.' l)or^s "lth !ocal
j answered questions raised by,1”? r0'°,s- "as beatCn 480 t0
the audience.
1 ISO.
The Feb. 21 dale provides
Some political observers here
carrying
The
State Health Department has
already earmarked a $99,000
A prize of $5. will be awarded
for the room from each of the
four elementary sclwols which
has the highest adult attendan-
ce. The children of tlie winning
rooms will also receive an hour
during the regular school day
in which to enjoy their treat
and have a party with the $5.
prize.
Councilman H. E. Weatherly
passed unanimously.
Absent from the morning
meeting due to illness was Coun-
cilman Pete Bluntzer. He has
been one of the most active sup-
porters of the bond issue, how-
ever.
Today's action followed a pub-
lic meeting last night in the
council chambers. It was filled.
i four
[and their supporters will again ja.tmua “ T**5!, “VT
try to “sell” the three pn>i»si-!the uPcoming cleutl0n’
■ lions. j
In tlie last election Proposi-,____, . . . .. .. .-
; tion No. 1 which sought the is- j on ,h t P^
Isuance of $200,000 in revenue' * 'L.J1, J . ’. ,
tads to- the ■ W-i Jt'lim.wa,
"S5UKS ; jj* SrSTaSSrJ*
posed the issuance of $225,000 in sacV St<?€n and
^ , ” * . j made appearances before civic
revenue *>mLs to extend the' heP£ and other organiza.
| lions.
A total of only 684 votes were
cast in the last election. Coun-
: cilmen hope to See a bigger
[turnout in February.
Anderlitch repeated at the
[Monday night meeting that the
financial situation of Cuero is
such that its bond issue can be
readily sold.
“This is the biggest thing
Jaycees
Get Hall
Plans for the March of Dimes
Bucket Brigade Saturday will
be discussed Tuesday night
when tlie Cuero Jaycees meet'that ever happened to Cuero,
for the first time in the recent- Afa?'°r Naml told Monday
iy acquired Jaycee Hall.
Tentative plans for tlie MOD
fund raising event call for Jay-
cees to solicit donations at two
street intersections on Saturday.
President Ben E. Prause said a
vork schedule will be drawn up
, at the meeting tonight.
The new meeting site is locat-
ed in the 200 block of East Gon-
zales Street. The hall is on the
second floor of a building own-
ed by Mike Weber across from
the post office. It was former-
ly the Masonic Hall and re-
cently headquarters for the De-
Witt Republicans. The entrance
is on Church Street.
The group will hear a report
on ticket sales for the charter
night banquet and dance Feb.
10. Chairman Jerry Sager has
requested members to turn in
money for tickets already sold.
Ticket Sales will continue
through early February.
night’s gathering.
Engineer Frazor said people
bought their automobiles on cre-
dit and homes and enjoyed
them while they were paying
such out. He said Cuero’s posi-
tion as a city was the same.
ATLEE PARK DIES
BENAVIDES, Tex. UPI -
Funeral services were schedul-
ed Wednesday tor Atlee Parr,
Duval County commissioner and
brother of long-time South Tex-
as political power George Part.
Parr, 63, died Monday after a
heart attack.
Pay Raise
Is Issue
In Austin
AUSTIN lUPt Two multi-
million dollar emergency spend-
ing proposals - one tor San An-
tonio's HemisFair and the oth-
er tor an immediate state work-
er pay raise - could collide head-
on today to the corridors be-
tween the Teoras House and
Senate
In a move that caught every-
one but a few in the senate by
surprise. Sen. Charles Herring
of Austin got the upper cham-
ber to agree to interrupt its reg-
ular business Monday and give
urgent consideration to his bill
for 35.2 milion in state pay
raises.
Even Herring’s fellow Travis
County lawmakers in the House
were caught by surprise. Bill
Cobb, the governor’s budget
specialist, said “it certainly sur-
prised ns. I’ve no idea what it
will cost."
Qtock AeOoa
i Herring’s bill got quick action
; by tlie Senate Finance Commit-
tee. Two senators - Henry Grov-
| er of Houston and Joe Bernal
of San Antonio - wanted slow-
er action, but they were over-
, ruled. Floor action on the pro-
, posal was expected today.
1 Tlie speedy action in the sen-j
ate, which had the obvious full |
support of Lt. Gov. Preston1
Smith, came shortly after the |
House Appropriations t Commit-
tee passed out tor floor debate
the emergency $5.5 million
measure to complete the state
exhibit building for HemisFair
196$.
The move in the senate was
interpreted by some as an act
on the part erf Smith to take
som? of the initiative from
Gov. John Connally.
Urge Approval
Smith personally went before
the Senate Finance Committee
to urge quick approval of the
emergency measure, although
he also threw in his favorite
plug that it was time someone
"should practice a little bit of
economy in this state.’’
Smith said he saw no reason
to wait on the governor’s rec-
ommendation of a $75 million
pay raise tor state employes ef-
fective next Sept. 1.
"We have the money on hand,
some $300 million surplus, and
we can take care of our long-
suffering state employes right
now," Smith said.
rsrr for some
The Herring proposal would
raise the lowest - paid state
workers by some 34 per cent
— from the present low of $2,-
388 a year to $3,216. He said
there are 3,047 state workers
now making less than $227 a
month.
Employes at the highest end
of the scale would get a 12.2
per cent raise, and about 36,-
000 workers would get an aver-
age increase of 14 per cent.
Meanwhile, a flood of bills
were sent to committees for
hearings Monday. This was the
first chance for senators to in-
troduce Mils, and they threw in
a total of 46 on first ottering.
$172.4 Billion
Budget Of LBJ
Sets A Record
AIRWAYS BOUGHT
HOUSTON UPI - Minnesota
Enterprises, Inc., a Minneapo-
lis holding firm, bought control-
ling interest in Trans-Texas Air-
ways Ine. for $10 million Mo»
day.
-Legalised gambling on horse
and dog nets on • local option
lens. Jim Bates of
Wayne OormaDy of
______ Joe Bernal erf Si
Antonio and Chet Brooks erf
Pasadena.
-Repealing all Sunday closing
laws. Bates. . .
WASHINGTON UPI Pres-
ident Johnson today sent
congress a record -smash-
ing $172.4 billion budget heav-
ily weighted with spending for
the war in Vietnam and high-
er taxes to pay for it
The spending total is the so-
called cash budget. which
includes Social Security, high-
way and other trust funds.
Johnson soft-pedaled the tradi-
tional administrative budget,
which excludes the trust funds
and comes to only $135 billion.
The cash budget also shows a
smaller deficit - $4.3 billion,
compared with $6.1 billion in the
administrative budget.
To prevent the deficit from
climbing any higher, Johnson
called for a penny-a-letter
increase in postal rates in
addition to his previously
announced 6 per cent income
tax hike.
The President’s program tor
fiscal 1968, which begins July 1,
includes $3.5 billion more, tor
defense, $5 billion more tor
Social Security, and 81.9 billion
* • •
Pay Checks
To Be Less
WASHINGTON UPI Pres-
ident Johnson’s new budget
means less take-home pay for
the average American family-
provided Congress goes along.
Johnson announced in his
State of the Union message that
he wanted a 6 per cent
surcharge on personal and
corporate income taxes to help
pay for the Vietnam war.
That means more withholding
from workers’ paychecks start-
ing July 1 If Johnson has his
way. ,
In his budget message, the
President said he not only
wants corporations to pa;, more,
but also faster. Noting that
Congress last year approved an
accelerated corporate tax sche-
dule, Johnson asked the new
congress to impose an even
faster payment rate.
The surtax plan is designed
to pump another $4-7 billion a
year into the treesirry over a
two-year period.
For a family of tour making
$7,500 this year, lt would mean
a tax increase of about $21. In
other words, that family would
owe $707 on April 15, 1968, com-
pared with $686 this April.
Johnson also proposed an
average 30 per cent boost in
Social Security benefits. For
most people this also will mean
higher taxes.
Under the President’s formu-
la, Social Security withholding
would rise in stages from a
total of $290.40 for a $10,800-a-
year man in 1967 to 3569 in 1974.
Here’s how the plan would
work: A worker now pays 4.4
per cent of the first 16.600 of his
salary, with the employer
kicking in an equal amount. On
Jan. 1, 1366 he would pay 4.4
par cant erf his first $7,800. By
1374, be would ha paying a total
tax of 5.55 per cent on his first
$10,806 in salary. Again, the
employer would match Ms
contribution.
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more tor the Great Society.
It also assumes that the
government can sell $5 MDtosi
in mortgages and ether finan-
cial assets to help keep the de-
ficit down
Vietnam Osetly
Vietnam outlays alone would
total $22.4 billion under John-
son’s new budget, including $50#
million in economic aid. Thir-
teen cents out of every budget
dollar would he spent «n
Vietnam
Overall military spending
would be $73.1 biltien, third
highest in history and topped
only by the peak World War TJ
years of 1944 and IMS.
Assuming the war doesn’t get
any worse than Johnson ex-
pects. the new Vietnam funds
would bring to $467 billion the
total spent by the United States
in four years resisting commu-
nism in the Southeast Asian
country. The total includes
$1.5 billion of economic aid.
Johnson held out hope that
spending for the war might he
levelling off. He indicated he
expecta such outlays to Increase
only $2-1 billion in the n e w
fiscal year compared to a
whopping $13.6 billion jump
(Nee POSTAL RATE. Fag» «)
Schaffner
Closes
Feed Mill
A. W. Schaffner confirmed to-
day he has dosed his feed and
grain mill located on the old
San Antonio highway near the
western edge of the city end
will liquidate the business.
Schaffner who lives in a sub-
urban home 2 1/3 miles out an
the Yoakum highway gays he
does not plan to leave Otero
He says he hat future plans
which cannot be made public
at titis time. His wife, Mr*
Isabella Schaffner is s teacher
in the Victoria pubBe schools.
With the closing erf Sehaffner’a
Feed A Grain, SehaflUer
cllmaxes 25 yean in the teed
and grain business in Cuero
He returned to Cuero alter
the war and arranged for the
purchase orf the properties ef
the Buchel Milling Company. •
cotton gin, which he converted
into tiie Farmfailt Mills, and
built into one of South Texas
largest teed mills. He lost t h e
properties during an over-ex-
pansion program It was
eventually add to Quaker
Oats Company and to now be-
ing operated at toll capacity.
Schaffner then purchased ac-
reage on the old San Antonio
highway and establish-
ed his own feed and grain mis
He also offered meddle teed
grinding service.
Schaffner said the new feder-
al wage and hoar law. extended
employment compensation cov-
erage and countless govern-
ment regulations and controls
prompted Ms decision to close
the business.
He also said several erf the
largest customers lor hit mobtl
teed service had put in grain
Republicans Say LBJ Dishonest
PTAIN GIVEN WATCH - Capt
key accepts a wrist watch tram 1st. Sgt-
bell Kuecker of Company B, Cuero Nat-
d Guard. The presentation wae made at
nge of Command Ceremonies Jan. W.
it. Richey turned over command of the
it unit to First IA. Thomas A. Garner Jr.
reft Uvms laadsj. The anit is a part of
the 6th BatteUea, Utth Armor, Mtk Division
Cap*. Richey said Sunday he would net be go
tag to aa assignment in the 4fth Division as
originally reported, hat to active duty for N
weeks to attend aa Army school yet to be aa-
Dee. 17. ISM. I-eft to right are Capt. Richey,
LL Gamer aad 1st Sgt. Knocker.
WASHINGTON UPI - Re-
publicans today assailed Presi-
dent Johnson's $171.4 billion
budget as dishonest. They said
it understated speeding, over-
stated income* and came up
[with an artificially low deficit]
L figure,
i Key
to cut toe Chief wifl ha fought I
Executive's spending plans, but gross, said that
gave Johnson credit ter having
already made some herd
economy judgments.
Chairman George H. Mahon.
JVTex . of the House Appropria-
tion* Committee, where some
the past
i budgets
have proven to fee more ac-
curate than those of his re-
cent predecessors.
Rep. Melvin R. laird Wi*..
chairman erf the Hoilse RepuMF
Democrats promised,of the crucial money
.can Conference, sounded the,ily
OOP toftoi to
budget as "highly confusing” as
well as larded with tat.
Senate OOP Leader Everett
M. Dirksen, 01.. wae somewhat
lass outspoken. But he said
ther^were “a number of tilings
to the budget that 4b not road-
see when toe
toe eye
had
war
a- tsr j
wHbowt any slkmance for
; further sscalauota
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