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VOL. 71—NO. 152
CUERO, TEXAS 77954, MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1965
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Holoii Keller of the age el 75. Birthplace in Toscwmbia, Ala., now ie a state shrine.
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White House vMl with President Eisenhower ip 1953.
A graduate cum laude
from Raddiffo College.
•5TH BMtTHOAY—Helen Keller, whom rneslng life story to
known to miliums, to observing her 85th Mrtlxtoy Sunday,
Typing her biography of
hor teachor, Anne Sullivan.
June >7. Above are some ot the photo* of her life from the
day Anne MBvu started te teach the blind and deaf girL
WORLD NEWS I Tire Explosion Is
IN A CAPSULE !pa^aj Qjero Youth
FLOOD
HUTCHINSON. Kan 71k ' Martin Lopez, 30-year-old Cuc-
«ice-angry Arkansas River lost; nl man ,v^° resided at 60S Ev-
more of its punch today with !ers St., Cuero, succumbed Sat-
floodwater* diminishing in their urda.v around noon in John Sea-
slow movement downstream to-; i>‘ Hospital in Galveston from
ward Wichita. injuriejs suffered June 24 while
____ putting ajr into a tire at a Yoa-
Helen Keller
I Spends Quiet
85th Birthday
Ten Hour
Gospel
Songfest
TLSHOMINGO. Okia (UPIi -
About 12,000 persons are ex-
pected to pour into this small
town near the banks of Lake
Texoma for a full night of gos-
pel singing Saturday.
More ttian 30 gospel quartets
from Texas, Kansas, Arkansas
and Oklahoma will be featured i
In the 10-hour songfest.
The all-night ring will climax
the Chickasaw Indian Festival,
which marks the 110th anniver-
sary of the Chickasaw nation. •
The festival begins with a par-
ade, and continues with Indian
war dances. Indian games and
a rodeo
The gospel singing will begin
at 7 pm. in the Tishomingo
Baseball Park, which officials
expect t0 be more than filled
to capacity The singing is
scheduled to end a? 5am. Sun-
day.
Five thousand persons via Jed
through rmid from a two -inch *
rain last year To aite:.d the *11-
nigi’.t singing, held at Roady. in
i south - central Oklahoma. Some
j 1.300 staved around until the
1 last note faded into the sunrise.
! Among the groups scheduled
1 to participate. Sharver said,
are five Inspirational* of Fort j
Worth; Kills Family Quartet of
Arlington. Tex.; Ambassadors
Quartet of Oexarkansa?. Ark.;
Harvestors Quartet of Dallas;
! Stamps All-Indian Quartet of
liberal. Kan.; Pilgrims Quar-
1 tet of Fort Smith, Ark.: Patsy,
j cites Trio of Hot Springs. Ark.,
! and the Good Family of Lavv-
■ ton, Okla.
Funeral Rites Today
For Cuero Business
Leader, Penn Beakley
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station a week and had manned
Angora Rocha of Cuero a week
before. -
Lopez was bom here June 6. !
1945. a son of Louis and Librada I
De Hoyas Lopez. He was educa-
Albert
Kohutek
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tecl in Cuero public schools
Funeral services will be held
Tuesday at 8:45 a m. at Freund
EASTON, ton. if PI' — |
Helen Keller, who^e triumph |
over blindness ...and deafness r
has become legend, quietly cel- —— «
j ebrated her 85th birthday Sun- ft-C-jj |*l p/1
Still
day.
Now frail with age but
Funeral services for William Penn
Beakley, 56-year-old prominent Cuero
businessman and civic leader who died
around midnight Saturday In a local hos-
pital, will be held this afternoon' at 2 o'-
clock from Freund Chapel. The Rev. Wal-
ter Guln, Presbyterian minister of Cuero,
will officiate and interment will be in
Hillside Cemetery.
Mr. Beakley who owned and operated
Western Auto Store here since 1947 when
he first moved to Cuero from Austin, be-
came 111 about two months ago. He had
been hospitalized here sincp the first week
in June.
On June 8. he was presented with the
annual ‘‘Citizen of t^ Year” award by the
Cuero Chamber of Commerce in recogni-
tion of his generous participation in civic
activities in Cuero
At the time of his death. Mr. Beakley
was chairman of Selective Service Board
No. ,34, DeWitt-Goli^d County, a position
he had held for the past seven years. In
January, 1963, he was presented with a
five-year plaque for his service on the
board
He served two terms on the Cuero
■ ■ ------- City Council, was past president
of the Cuero tuons Club in
which he was most active. H<*
was also a past director in die
organization and a past direc-
tor in the Chamber of Com-
j Two persons were hcwp.tahzed[ I.-' <* Oak, according to city po-jmerce
early Sunday morning and one j Lee. j Mr. Beak’.ev was bom in Mer
man was charged with failure! Hospitalized were Mrs. Ger- cury, Texas, Brown County, on
j to yield right-of-way as result j tie Thomas of Cuero, driver of j March 15. 1909. a son of Ernest
: of a two-car collision at the in-; one of die cars and Hulda Krue- H >nd Dorothy Perjl ^
His marriage to the former
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PEND. BEAKLEY
From a recent photograph taken when he
wa* presented a plaque In. appreciation
for ft vear» voluntary service a* n mem-
ber of'the DeWitt Goliad Counts- Selective
Service Board.
Two Are Hospitalized
After Sunday Wreck
i toreection of N. Esplanade and j ger. a passenger in the othei- car
, ■ . ____driven by Henry Charles Ress-
alcrr. Miss Keller sipped
favorite champ a g n e
kum service station
WASHINGTON rmetrm. | *' ’
atonal investigators looking on-1 mto a tire on a trailer belonging j Mass at 9 a m. at Our Lady of ; f . .. ”.vhjte
lo the activities of the Ku Klux j to A. E. Coker of Rte. 4. Cuero, I Guadalupe Church. Hie R®'*-! house V’lich crowns her little
Klan have found that potential! when it blew out. Tie -tire was ! Donald Miy-ray will officiate and ' ,^( here "
witnesses are being frightened hurled 12 to 14.feet into the air; interment will be in San Pedro1
off by threats of violence or of and through a pane! of the ov- Cemetery at Concrete.
economic and social reprisals. erhead door to the station Survivors are the widow * his • -J TJ 1
■ grease room. : mother. Mrs. Librada -Treyino ld| |l Jl 3-CfC
Lopez.was stnick in the fore-, of Cuero: one sister. Mrs. Fran-,
'j head by. a • flying object. | ees Trevino of Cuero- eight
, ... ’i He was taken to a Yoakum: brothers. Izrui* I/>pez Jr of
victs armed with zifeguns and
homemade .bombs P»>k two
guards hostage Sunday night
and made art ''extremely stu-
pid” attempt to slwiot their
w-av out of Western State Peni-
! Three Wrecks
ro.wirrs
PITTSBIT.GH
h e r i Funeral services for Albert
and Kohutek, 60, longtime resident _
of Cuero who died here early 111 GOUfliy
a,ir s r Over Weekend
A brief prayer seme# was Three accidents in the ummy
conducted at I 30 a m. at investigated durin , the
Freund Chapel after which the, weekend by patro’ir.an Hugh w-as estimated
body wa* taken to St. Michael*! poage who reported no injuries i10 ,^'e'.srnan sf.
i man of Curo. I Miss Laverne Bennett took
! Re.-nman was charged with I place May 23. 1931 in Houston
failure to yield right-of - way.
police report.
According to police, Ressman
driving a 1961 Falcon collided
with a '61 Comet driven by Mrs.
Thomas.
Damage to the Thomas car
at J200 to S300
Mr. and Mrs. Beakiey'is
dence is at 515 Fourth St
Tluee con-1
hos[iital immediately : t h e n -Beaumont; David. Alex. August
j transferred to Gaheston the’ and John I-opez of Cuero: Jesse
. same night. ; of Yoakum: I-cRov of New
He had been employed a* the Braunfels and Joe of Victoria.
' Church where Requiem Mass l0 those involved, but moderat-
j was celebrated at 9 :45 a m. byjejy jjeaiy damage to some of
the Rev John Flynn, assistant j the vehicles.
I pastor. Bur.ai was in Hillside' Friday night about 9 50
Oil) Scout Pack .Ml. Cuero. i Cemetery. o'clock Alien Ray Gloor. 17. o:
will bold us June pack meeting Pallbearers were Kenneth’Rt. 4. York town, driving a 1956
' . .. .Scheffler. Charles Kohutek. I Mercury, was involved ;n a coi-
fanuly get-together Tues-!, '
Meeting
tentiary. The attempt failed
PRINCESS
THE HAGUE Queen Juliana
of the Netherlands today formal-
ly announced the engagement
of her daughter. Crown Prin-
reas Beatrix, to Claus Von Ants-
bert, a West fiennan diplormit
who served in a Nazi Panzer
division during World War U
CO«1IKAN’
GUATEMALA CITY Gust.
maia Police today uiie'ii.tat.d
the mysterious death of a. t.u
Sieve CiK-ltr»n whose patiialiy
decomposed body: was found
»;<oatd his yht lit "Rogue” drift
ing off Guatemala with tw..
tcen-aged .Mexican gilds- end a
Mexican woman.
Choral
Workshop
Buenning anil
<n
at a
I day. June 29 at Cuero Municipal
! Park beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Games will be played after
which ice cold watermelons will
j be served. A business meeting.
PACK CENTER ' Houst o n ! will also be conducted during the
it Six scientists will step j luting.
Moon T rip
Recruits
Michael Hermes, Bernard Ko- ilision with a 1955 Oldsmobile ;
hutek. Charles Hermes and Joe i driven by- Dougias Wayne Me-.
! Donald, 19. of Yorktown. •
Friday afternoon poi.oe in-
vestigated a minor accident
which occurred at K Main and
Gonzales Sr.
A 1961 Ford driven by Eula
Mae Blackwell of 211 T L Over-
ture collided with a truck driv-
en by Edmond Plascryk of Rt.
1, Cuero.
A number of Cuero hu»i-
ness firms closed their doors
f#)m 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Mon-
day to allow their employees
to attend funeral services for
Cuero businessman Penn
Beakley. The service w as
scheduled for 2:00 pm
The closing was suggested
by the Chamber of Commer-
ce but the store closing was
sti-.ctly on a voluntary basis.
Kohutek: ting a left turn into - his drive- j
Mrt. Chester __________._ ...... „
son. Billy, took some Cuero j officiary into the glare of pub-, Aj, Cljbs of Pack m are en. i Mrs. Gary Murphree of Bay-
girls to Huntsville Sunday t0 Hetty Tuesday. They are Mw t0 b^nR along each,Cltyu seven tons. Arlen, Jea*e
look over the campus of - Sam natlon * > r^-niits for mom(>er o( his family. The fam-
H.aision State College and to at- ( moon men
Alen Kohutek.
Sumvora include the widow, | Poage said Gloor was attemp- reported
Mrt. Lottie Viola
four daughters, Mrs. Ray Le-
I Galley of Cuero; Mrs. Phil
; Howard of Point Comfort; Mrs.
Henry Wauson of Houston and
the truck and none to the car
way 1-1/2 miles north of York- ■
town on State 72 when McDor- Area Man
aid. driving south, struck the #
right rear of Gloor s ear. Mod- j AsSIQ 1160 To
U«nd a choral -workshop briny ■ ^ h:*!f -d,'‘7''n will
la-ld there this week. 8 ,rooP of » -"'lonsuts al-
A, .-onipinv ing Mrs, Buenninf ’ traimn.-; for AtTie- .-a »
m-. 1 her son were Nli-ses, I biikt
run you
KNOW THAT.
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S FOREST Fll
EVERY 24hr*.
r*.r. for Ik* • ton
wn 1,*00 fun towns wmiuUt to
On plnt-htrdwwd ant to Ken
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■bto UnbnUndi. la .du.tlm, to-
prntnoa wwA *• h»mn, bartu,
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ftnuwrto The., firn «t« mto
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t«uis (.»>. been pio.ei.-fS 41 hwt«-
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wfu to i® ewi m»-
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Kurma*.
iv.eldi-ruml Vim' Adco. k who
w II enioll at 'lie . ileHi,,
fail and M s, I»>nna Wemlel of
rue o an,. K.-> sti-.m.hhian of
M.’liltoii v ho are amending {' >-
work,hoi.
finest < tinii-i in -s Paul Uli: .„
iiansen of (Yxieir ■ 1 i1 College/'
Mrs. Dorothy \,|,-ock art
icachei at Cucm II gh i« atten-
ding summer school a* Sam
Houston
I'wo Jailed
After Fight
Two Cueroites. a father and
hi* daughter, were remanded to
LVWitt County jail Saturday ev-
ening as result of a fight near
an ice cream parlor in Yoakum,
according to Deputy Willard
Worthington.
Jailed were Jo** Gonule* and
daughter, Adelia.
Five more person* involved in
ti.e fracas, were jailed la Yoa-
kum
Gonzales was charged with un-
lawfully carrying s pistol and
Adelia fin simple assault.
un.ui
i-.ilt on. the morift.
Aiihuujih ofLc.hi iiv
n. ti'i.'ed, thev are-
r»: F.l-v i:-.t G () '„
S >ri ('I. tnenie.
1 <-M i\ I , , ■ 24.
of Pilo Vito. (V f
r>" F Oirli- * M K,d V.
Ilousf.ll
Dr. Diane F Gi-kvelui.e 54.
Houston
Dr. Joseph p Kerw.n .33
Jacksonville. Fla
Dr Harrison H Schmitt.
"*>. Flagstaff, An?
Tl:< new spa^a mainces.
llies are requested to bring eat-i
| mg utensils for their grout* |
I Oihs are to wear their uni-1
forms, according to l.eeUKI
Kite, ker s.-ouim i-iei
President Johnson
Back In Washington
VVA'inNGTOX .UP!. P.v,-
.ient Joimson was back at b;«
icsk in the White Hou.-e today.!
Tlic. President and Mrs. John-
son returned to Washington a ‘
2 36 e.m KPT .ailcr spending I
a throe - day w eekend at their j
ranch in Johnson City.. Tex
Johnson spent vaster day.
and Dennis of Houston; Robert
of San Antonio. Albert Wayne
of Ft Benning. Ga ; Allen sta-
tioned in the Panama Canal
Zone; a stepson. A J. Del>ear
of Cuero: two sisters, Mrs.
Kffie Nethe Hand of 8an An-
toni.-,: Mrs. Cal Adcock of Cj** 19U) Chevrolet
e;\>: and four brothers, Adam
of San. Antoniqt Ar.dy of Rosen-
iriry; Willie of Gonzales and
Km of Cuero; and a nurrtbei
of grandchildren.
erately heavy- damage was in-;
flicted on b)th vehicles. Fort HOOfj
Sunday morning about, 8:50 j
o'clock an accident occurred! FORT H0OP Tex. 'AHTNC»
about «H miles south of Cuero Warrant Officer
on State Hw-y. 72 *
Akiis Bienu-r. 79, who lives on J L»n-y A B Mueller M. son of
Rt. 1, Yorktown, was driving a Mr. and .Mrs llariy O Muei-
In addition to his widow, Mr.'
, Beakley is survived by his par-
About UD carnage w as done to ^ ^ „vf ,n Ausfjn; , broth.
| er. Homer Beakley of Free-
port; two sisters, Mrs. Homer
T. Nitschke and Mrs. Don Jack-
son both of Austin.
Pallbearers at today s Jf4f*
will be Dr O. E. Hall. J* D.
1 Bramlette Jr., Dr. John Wheel-
er, Clete Emster, Nick Camer-
on and Walter Richter.
1949 Ford which collided w ih a
pi. ktirv’ oaera-eil
sr of Rt.
Kidney Transplant
Is Reported At
Dallas Hospital
DALLAS (CPI > - Within
ler. Route 1 Box 64 Yo-ktowr.
Tex., wa- assigned jo Head-
u urters Cor-ip.my. Ill Co:-?-,
at Fort Hood. T -... Jure 15
Mueller enter.-- 1 -lie Army in
1954 and .s stipp. otfr er of t *
company.
The warrant .o:t:oer , a- gra-
duate of Yorktown High School.
H.s wife, Irene lives in Belton.
selected after almost a y ear of • motor boating with his vs ife and , . ____
searching by the federal space friends on a lake named after iu.tPS * ."°unK gunshot vie-, said.
! Urn died, surgeons at Parkland
1 agency, are the nation * fourth him about 40 miles from the
group of astronauts. They are ranch. He attended services "in
the most educated I Austin.
by William S. Brown
1. ft: inge
Poage said Biemer .was a:tem-
pting a left turn onto a ooijnty
; road when tiie collision oc.-itr-
i red. Light damage was done to
both vehicles.
Richard R Ochoa. 19 of Po-nt
Comfort driving a I960 Buick - --
Sunday about 2:40 p.m.. ran off ATET NAM
the road about 6-1/2 miles south j SAIGON - Communist gu»r-
of Cuero on V. S. 87. the vehicle nllas broadened their monsoon
{striking a bridge Heavy dam- offensive today by attacking
"^'{age was done to the Buick Po- another district capital. Amen-|
j can planes struck back and si- j
I The patrolman aaid Ochoa , lenced the assault with a dead-'
Melvin Powers
Bock In Miami
'MIAMI UP! Melvin I an*
P.z-vers han.itu.fcd u a sh#*v
deputy. v.a\i re-. lined
Aliapi: early today tb si’.J
trial for the bludgeo:*.-*1 abb jig
murder lu-i June 30 of mi-lior
vie Jacques Mosslei.
T ie JS-yeai-o'.d handsome a
hu*i.y Powers has been in the
county jail in Houston since
last July 4 whi> hss attorney
Percy Foreman, fought a !e;*
battle against extradition
1 Hospital early today w4ieeled in j him someone ran him off j ly show er of bombs, machine-
Temperature Here 96
Degrees; 107 At Presidio
The temperature soared to a
high 96 degree* in Cuero Sun-
day it was reported by H. A
Taylor,local weather observer
at the CPAL dam Low reading
wa*, 72 degrees recorded esriy
Monday morning. Die re was
no measurable local rainfall.-
a patient and gave him one of; ^
the slain man's kidneys in a
fivre-hour operation.
The operation was a eucoees
The patient, whose name was
withheld at his family’s re-
quest, was placed in the inten-
sive care unit and was listed
in critical condition.
It was the fourth
transplant at Parkland.
1 gun fire and cannon shells.
kidney
opportunity to escape for 150
campers trapped by flood wa-
ters in Palo Duro Canyon.
The campers two-thirds ot
them children, have beer,
stranded In trie Canyon since
torrentidt rains hit Friday { 1 will forgtve (bets Iniquity,
nu-ht. and I will remember tbelr ton
BIBLE THOUGHT
TOR TODAY
Texas Traffic Toll
Is Lowest in Weeks
In other-weather n.ws-United
Worthington and Deputy Jesse . Pi es* International reports vio-i
•Taylor went to Yoakum af*ei lent weekend rains m tlie Pan-
tile pi-isonert who still rema.n handle drifted northward mto
tin jail. ' Kansas early today bringing the I
V to ted Prase International
Texas recorded its lowest vio-
lent death toil in weeks over
| the weekend.
A United Press International
survey tor the period which be-
gan at 6 p.m. Friday and con-
tinued until midnight Sun day
showed 18 deaths, 11 in tvattic.
They were David Henry
Strathse. 27, and Richard An-
thony Fahey. M.
Another double fatality wreck
occurred Saturday near Weath-
erford. Lowell Williams, 57. of
Dallas and Lloyd Ray Green,
25. of Weatherford, were killed.
Joe H. Mi-Quarters. 69 for-
TVe Pra, D>e Town Fork no more. —Jeremiah-SI :M.
of the Red River burst its The', miracle of God's forgive-' Two heaidents of the Dallas j mer president of the Waxa-
b»nk« ane an 11 inch del i«e ness is sure Both kmg and pea- wburb of Irving were killed in har.hie Bank and Trust Co wa*
hit. The stream surged <i\ fee’ «*m rewiee m God • goodness a *wo ear head-on eolhsion 8un- killed Sundav when his s a r
(See ’ U LI I HER, Pag* •) Forgive your snsemie*. | day an 8ra*e Highway IK. j (is* TRAFFIC TOLL, Page •> itala.
Commercial Satellite
Operations Begun
WASHINGTON -4U7P— Pre-
sident Johnson helped inaugu-
rate commercial operations af
the - Early Bird satellite today
by expressing hope that all , na-
tions will participate in the
venture.
Speaking into a beige tele-
phone while seated at a table
In the cabinet room. Johnson
■aid the Early Bird system
"marks a milestone in commu-
nications between people and
nations."
The ceremony launched the
world's first commercial satel-
lite operation. Participants im-
mediately began making tele-
phone calls and sending n#«*
stories and phoros between
Washington and European cap-
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