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‘A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS ITS COMMUNITY”
VOL. 72—NO. 109
CUERO, TEXAS 77954, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1966
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Textile Workers
Plan Mass Meeting
Here On Sunday
.........
Members of Local !«M, Tcv *a:.i food will continue to be
nle Worker* Union of America, distributed throughout the
will bold a mas* meeting Sun-1 strike,
dav at $ p m. In Our Lady of.
John (. Hamilton
”™ Hinted Adult Leider
The union will begin its third
week of the strike at the Lone \ < Hamilton, tcoutma,-
Vir Textiles, Inc ., Guadalupe ter of Bay Scout Troop No MS
F*vision. we* recently honored by being!
Rood wilt be distributed Mon-; elected a* an adult leader 1<>!
ds> * ^a,*r* «_ *^1 represent the Capitol Ares j
un on headquarters snd Kltsack Jor me philmont Kxpe-;
“' dition due to leave Austin on'
July 2
‘ Hamilton will be in charge of
30 Scouts and Explorers from
the Capitol Area Council who
j are going to the huge Scout
Ranch in the mountains of New
Town T
All
Tomorrow is election
: Mexico for two week*.
arid every De\V:tt County ci*. The group will return July IS t
t.^eh interested in good govern-! To date, three boys from Cu-
• en* Should visit the polls and •**> have Indicated they are in-1
cast h:i hattot for the men he m attending. Harm]-j
ton said. They are Pat Peyton. I
v .«> es to be the most, eotnpe-
i-.T. and capable to 613 the pub-
1 offices they seek and who
} City Council Considers
Post Office Location
The City Conned -on*:d- evening, when hie eounr
i ering the possibility of property .n regular session,
now being leased by Dinter Post Tie .-ounri! -authorized City
No. 5 American Legion Attorney George Middaugi tc
.as the site for a new >v-* offi-e prepare a statement that •vd!
for Cuero- The city own' this • express the city's desire to
property. ftir.'ter pursue the rnstt.er
This was disc'isDPd Ti:ur«da•
met told the roijncsl :a*t night, the
Post Office Department want*
to knew now if the city is or n
not interested In the proposal.
The department- already ha*
a site option on property owned
Labor Relations Board
Dismisses Tex-Tan Case
Billy Spear* and Chad Teen-
ies.
Any Scout from this area who
would like to attend this “once- *
YOI'RE OUT: — Elroy Peter* wield* a mean
hose as (Ur re firemen douse a burning man
re** at the TV Motel. 151* North Esplanade.
The alarm waa turned in at noon Thursday.
and Ihe boy# quickly got the fire under eon
trol, with only minor damage reported. —
Photo by Alike Radough.
Postmaster fferny *-epj»-d -ov Chtef Justice Howard l»
Green located at the comer of
Terrell and Church Sts.
After objections were raised
by a number of Cuero citizen.*
as to this site. Department re-
presentatives began study-
ing other possible locations.
Coumdl members expressed
According to the Yoakum Her- in*.of National Labor Relations general agreement to cooperate
ald-Times, the National La- • Act". <See, S-a. 3 and 1 ofwith the Cuero Hospital District
w o,.-,ri j;,.:,™ t!:» Ac* t He -hen . ordered by making adequate utilitie*
to. Re.auons Boatd d.\«*ion lfl|A d>mtesed. available at the sir,* that is to
of trwl examinet < m Washing ^ earmg concerning m» be selected for a new hoso.ta!
ton. D. C.. ha* dismissed the ’ complaint was- heard at Victor- Dewey Schorre. member of
union complaint against Tex :a De--. 7th through the ttii on the board • of directors of tie
Tan Western Leather Co. and; the,■amplaint is-ued kept. 22nd.! Cuero Hospital restrict, said
Te\ Tin Welhausen Company. 1965 on a charge dated. Jour sites'are being considered.
Die union charged that two- July 6th, last year and amend- They are the Dahlman property
employees, both members' of'ed Sent. 30. Tex Tan denied the located just beyond the city
Amalgamated Meat , Cutters alleged unfair labor practices. J limits on the Yoakum Htghwsp
and Butcher Workmen of Prior to the walkout- last: property across from the Na-
V A . AFL-CIO and members November, the union had de- - tional Guard .Armory and the
of tiie Leather Workers Local: manded tiiat the two dismissed. Texas Eastern Transmission
103 of Yoakum, were discrim- union workers, Maldie Debault! Corp.. warehouse, the Abercro-
re-'
*«■ qot under obligation to stip-
port ipec.al privilege legis'a-: bi-a-lifetime" experience 1*
t an sought by labor bosses «r*Lqmml *, contact Hamilton im-
other minority group* ! mediately as the deadline 1*
— fast approaching for reeerva- i
Senator Ralph Yarborough i*-tions.
•ued another appeal to hi* philmont k an Uf.OMVocr*
* ©porters to help him take Scout r.vnch located near Om-
c.tszen* and put It under coo-j United Stale*.
trot of minority group* to a
»!at4UMMt attacking t!ie leader-
ship' of Texas gov-emor Jtton
-CioemaBy. Cbn*erv*tive sound
t. Ink mg DeWTti citizens must
ny xttow this to happen The
gxe*t bulk of Yarborough aup-
port come* from the labor boa--
#<** v.y> control his vote in
tiie U S Senate from racial agi-
tato* in tlie ranks of die var-
ious minority group*, pension-
ers, thyme on public welfare rol-,
c». who consider pertvmal bene-j to the weather and the
fils of far more importance than date will be *et later on
*he general good and pro- n)g
gre-ss of the nation. "■■■ ......* ..........
Board Hears Report
On School Program
inatorily discharged.
and Millard Vaika. be re-instat-: mbie propertv located off V.
Unfair labor practices charge ed and ©ven back oav.
was one of she issues which,
sparked the strike against the
companies in YoaU m last 1
Not. A and which i* still in
>rogress.
Trial Examiner Rober* I-
Piper, in his decision, said the Gerald Weatherly of Houston -urn complete responsibility' of
leather companies had “not as ; former Cueroite. who was form-i the baseball stadium over to
alleged m the complaint dis- erly with Horton and Horton, jCarl Gustafson Jr.
Gerald Weatherly Now
With Virginia Firm
Bailey and pnoperTv on Dunn
Sr
A site h to be selected with-
in two or three months.
Council members \toted to
nay $300 still owed on light*
at Cuero Pari* Stadium and to
Lindtaw Hay Feast
Hay ken Postponed
The annual May Feast sche-
duled to be held at Ltndenau
Sunday, May * has been pos-
tponed, according to A1 Boenig.
of Cuero. secretary of the Lind-
en,! u Rifle Club.
The feast was postponed due
new
Roe-
uraninated.against, or inten'er-;lac ^ Houston will direct1 The' S300 is owed to a group
red with, restrained, or coerced, activities in the ' ’* —- — *’-*
TTw Cuero Independent School |unit* and contain 10.240 square| Sc.*»1 ami Junior Itgh Vimoi emnloyees wlthm me mean- U" "‘e’ ,n
of iridhlduals who put up the
'i:' *! money a, number of years ago
Board heard a detailed re- > feet of space. Kirkmart told the' studen's will fie eligible
port on the Area Vocational, ^ hc'%vevrr ^ amouat. sJody thw
T O
| School program
study at last night's
now
space may
Schumacher Graduates
Af Sheppard AFBr Tex.
* subject j,
. (r» .. ..~v .— . . OccupatiunaLl oppartuaities of-;
tuiitei j,)wn ;n an attempt to save a* j fered by Industrial Co-operative;
regular - much money as possible, ; Training include such subjects
me*‘ting. ^ The units include watamal as automobile repairing, me- WICHITA FALLS. Ter
Supf. Marvin Kirkman out agriculture, building and tmd- chanics. auto parts man, ear- .Airman Third Class Harry
lined the preliminary planning os air-conditioning and refrig-1 penter. commercial' artist, den-; Schumacher, son af Mr.
Coas’ area for Concrete Pipe to provide the present lighting
apd Products Ct% of Richmond, j facilities at the stadium. Mo--
Va., according to hi* parents.'of the money ha* been repaid
'Mr. and Sirs. II E Weatherly. through rents Is charged team*
1 of Cuero. I that have used the stadium
Two Houston pipe companies. | Tlte members also voted to
j .Coastal Concrete Pipe Co. andi remove the traffic signal at
ana Sudani Pipe Sales Co. have j the intersection of Esplanade
and displayed file architectural ^ eration. vocational office ed'.i-,tal technician, draftsman, dry Mrs. Arthur J. Schumacher of j acquired by the Concrete and Sarah >t
drawing of the project. cation, Industrial Co-operative j cleaning, photographer, plumb- Rt, 4. Cuero. Tex., has been . Products Co. Counci-man —las B. Steen
Die .settoo! is to be located Training and Distributive Edu- er, printer, radio repairman, re- graduated at Sheppard AFB,' Included in the transaction j pointed out police records sho e
at tlie east end of the vocational j (-alion. | frigerator mechanic, water - Tex. from the training course ar*. tour Gildings on 12 acres, more accidents have occurred
agriculture building at Cuero j g;v subjects will be offered. pairmac. welder, painter, me. 1 “* c«<uv - ' "* **
High School, will house 6\e, afKj students may eant two ■ cutter, and many others.
for Air Force electrical power of -and at 6»» Helmers. Con-j at the intersection since
specialist*.
crete Pipe, a firm with $10 mil-
signal lights were erected.
Tec Win County residents can
. •uroly find no good reason to
i *s; their vote for Wood for
governor, Speers for Attorney
General. Haring for Railroad
|>>mmi*si<mer or Kazen for Con-1
gre**. All of these candidates j
a ie known to have Hose a*»o-1
elation and obligation
union bosses
to the
Keyes Carson Returns
From 26,000-Mile Trip
Keye* Car*on of Oieapwde India, Beirut. Jerusalem, Bcui-
credita. per year toward grad-; Students must be 16 years of] The airman, a graduate of ^Ior) »nmial «aies and 400 em-
uation. age to engage in tills traming- Cuero High School, is being as-. P*ans *° addition-^
.The project is a co-operative I must be from grades 11 and 12,! signed to a U.S. Air Force sup- i ^ ‘*cUi6es on a 54-acre tract (owned vehicles. A drop injunce
Council voted ro re-ad vertise
for bids on gasoline for city-
f'robapjy the moe» interested
i,it.e tnom the jdundfwint of
lAfWltt voteiw i* tiiat between
Win. N, Patman of Ganado and
Culp Krueger of EJ Campo
(dee Tov* Talk, Page •)
hits relumed from a 26,000-mlle
trip around the world during
which he delivered ■ prize
turkey to Prime Minister Eisa-
ku Sato in Tokyo, Japan
On his trip Carson vt.uved j
measure between tjve state. k>- j must have the consent of their [port unit in Turkey,
cal an 1 national governments.. parents, must be capable of
oO percent of the cost -to be j and must have a true interest
lome by the state and federal jin the occupation to be learn-
! government and 50 percent by, ed i ___Tlli* Fw An inn
the school. In other business. Kirkman; liCf™ IHIj CvvIHily
Three- laboratories will be (See School Program. Page 61
Caldwell Services
laliem, Rome and France. (located on the campus Ths
Carson left Cuero March 21, located on the campus These hji-,,- ru.J. Q.i,
arriving in Tokyo on March 23 i include vocational agriculture, r flllllall jldfluS rdl,
lie arrived back In New York ^ air-conditioning ar*1 icfrigera- «* • a l. » cl
on April 23 and was hick tion and building and trades l#6nieS BonKvf I AtldlQc
home April 22 | Stiwlenls enrolled in these
A detailed account of his ad- classes will get their experience Senator William N
which the company also bought ] is due next week, Herbert Frels,
near Houston. j local Humble distributor,
Weatherly,' noted for his grid- : told the council,
iron feats at Rice University j New bids vill be opened May
and with the Chicago Bears.; 16.
joined Horton and Horton inj Six companies submitted bid*
1936 and Concrete Pipe this, Thursday- night, each com-
past January-. I pany's bid 1T4 per gallon. Th*
He lived in Cuero from 1941! single bid price did not include
Hong Kong. Bangkok Thailand,!venture* will be carried in the right on the campus a* these Patman said today
Calcutta and New Delhi. I Cuero Record Stuida'
lahoratoi'ies
Light Rains Continue
To Plague South Texas
*! | lute* Frew Internatioaal inch in BiuMiisville 1 an inch ui rain Tliursduy
fight rain fell-at some j ’The Guadalupe River now The high for Thursday \va>
<" •» 2Stf ITS K “* k'" '
from Houston to Brownsville i crest at Victoria this morning.
Graveside sendees for F. A.
Caldwell. Jr... of Big Lake, who
died there Wednesday morning, ; to 1946, graduating from Cuero ] tax.
will be held this evening at 6 j High School in 1946. j Gene Hobart of Weslaco, mu-
o'cioik at Hillside. Tlie Rev. j Following his graduation, !nicipal fdaruier. ’aiked on city
Joe Ray, Methodist Minister • Weatherly entered Rice Univer-j planning.
(Bill' from Big Lake will officiate. sity in Sept 1946. graduating] .Albert Ley,, president of the
that he Mr. aldwell is survived by from there in J une. 1950. ' Cuero Roded Association, was
stood pat on his ctmsistem re- his widow, Mrs. Roberta Sher- He played in the Cotton Bowl j authorized to get a cost eatun-
rnits to he available to 10th, cord 'as 'an independent sena- rod Caldw ell: one son. R. A in Dallas at one time j ate on fencing at the rodeo a-
j]Th anct 12th evadei* include tor who bow's to no pressures Caldwell tH; his mother. Mrs.:, Gerald is married and he and,rena in Municipal Park. The
vocational agrioulture building up in Austin, except my con- R- -A. Caldwell Sr., of' Corsica-; bis wife have three daughters, j proposal is to move the few*
,nd trades and air-conditioning science and the good faith of na and a brother. Fr ink Cald- They will conunue to live m! line out to provide more space
and refrigeration die people at borne.” "ell of Dallas. Houston. for 'he rodeo grounds.
Unites to be open to tllh and “This battle is obviously: -—— -------------- ---------.............- ............. . ................................
12 graders include Distributive Krueger, the lobbyists, ami the
Education. .Industrial Co-opera-, political machine versus Pat-
live. Training and Vocational man and the people. and the
Offce Educated- I people are w inning.” Patman
'Die wocKl-wui king area is to’said.
today Thirty-one persons flood-] Taylor reported we had .75 of
morning. 63 degree.-, according
to H. A. Taylor, weatherman
at CPI. Dam near Curio
l expected the big bank
lobby to come out against me.
because Krueger helped them
in their attempt to raise their:
interest rates last session. But
I didn't expect them to deny
acts every lawyer, reporter.
Albeit Roth of Hoi liheim was ami, for -that matter every :
be moved to the Elementary
Hochheim Man Fined
On Assault Charge
More Donations To
Local Hospital Fund
ed out of their home* in toe ■ —— ....
I/wer Rio Gr*n.i« Valley city i . _ _
: rLSLTteS: Sj Kerns Furniture Co. To
Th* rain spread into Central
and East Texas but there were'
s gns it was letting up along j
the South Texaa Coast. Wav**
Three new donations totaling i tlie campaign's total now-
fined $230 Thursday in DcWtti newspapej reader, knows about Al.tiOO were made this week to: $135,275.
Put Plant In Yoakum
and tides caused a* much trou-
hle a* accumulations of rain
along th* edast.
A combination of rain, high
tide* and waves kicked up by
strong northeast wind cut the
highway to tlie Naval Air Sta-
tion and the University of Cor-
pus Christi. The university was
Tides and waves ha vs caused
tliuusands of dollars in damage
aiong the Corpus Christ! water-
front Score* of street* have
been hit by flash flood*.
T:e lower Rio Grande Val-
ley hit Thursday by local
ijroris, reported continued rain,
but it was light-a 24-hour tots
Th# Yoakum Industrial Foun-. South T«\a* are* extending
datlon and th# nationally know n
Kerns Furniture Oo. of Pendle-
ton, Oregon, have jointly an-
nounced that Kerns has purcha-
sed a tract at land in Yoakum
and will build a furniture as-
sembly plant here near the
main Tex Tan plants on Hickey
St, the Yoakum Herald-Times
reported.
Pre-cut sections of furniture
will be shipped ia uy rail to
be assembled In Yoakum and
distributed hare by company
truck*.
The Kern, Yoakum plant Is
expected to be a satellite plant
of the Corsicana operation. Tlie
Yoakum plant will supply whai
is known as pin* snd softwood da tion then followed up with the - Tue i#cepu<* will be m
County Court after entering lie bill.•’'
a pica of nolo contendre on a ‘The bulletin is very shaky
charge of aggravated assault ..<nd misleading, from a legal
w ith a motor vehicle point of mow. " said Patman
Roth was the driver of a who is a iiracticing attorney in
pickup truck which collided With Ganado. T would advise Mr.
% car on Farm Road 443 Klmberlin to get a lawyer s ad-
ncar Yoakum on Aug. 28. 1965. vice, before he issues such a
In the complaint. Roth was questionable description ol SB
charged with aggravated as- ,59 again. ’
the dr;c-e for donations and
pledges will end. Pledges may
from BrwnisviiIe jio th to San wu|t on Mrs Adela Hanys Filla
ant*, of Victoria who was a passen-
ger in the car
Mrs. Filla. Roth rnd other
passengers in the Filla car
were ihjured
Roth had been free on bond
prior to Thursday.
Jr.-Sr. Reception
1 to I P.M. Sstarisy
Antonio, Austin, Houston
Beaumont
The furniture company has
purchased a six-acre tract from
H. M. Means, now of Grand Sa-
line, Texas.
Furniture assembly operations
are expected to begin around
July 1 with aome IS people
employed at first Some will
be brought in by the company;
others will be hired from Yoa-
kum.
The location of the new
plant began with in inquiry on
Texas Leather Co. To
Observe Anniversary
The Texas Leather Company
at Yoakum, which 1 egan opera-
tions May 1, 1961, will observe
its fifth anniversary Saturday
with open house at the office
and headquarters of the firm.
From an economic standpoint,
official*
tlie Cuero Hospital District fin- • A goal of $200,000 is being . _ ,
once campaign which inareasos sought bv the end of Mav when 941 'tr 1 nvae-jear peri
'___! tod.
j The hr.ar.--e committee w ill
hold its next meeting next Wed-
nesday,»May U at 5 pun.
Persons interested are invited
to attend.
Funds donated will be used
for a new- hospital for the Ctiero
Hospital District.
Last Saturday, residents of
(the district approved the is-
suance of $750,000 in bonds in
Fifth Shooting Victim
Dies At Corpus Christi
j CORPUS CHRISTI — (IPP - , him Arnl 75
I Francisco Perez, 60, died Perez, father of Vietona Pe-
; Thursday, fifth fatal victim of
rez, 21, was shot when she;
shootings that started when a,spurned the attentions of John-. ...
young man's girl friend spurn- -ny Rudy Enriquez, 19. .t the emUle “d
ed his demand that she marry
an election hVl he-e, at Mey-
Weslhoff
BIBLE THOUGHT
FOB TODAY
Create to nee a -1—- heart,
O God, and renew a right tpir
, wuswii of the company _ ^ ___ _ _
The reception prior to the ;omt out that an estimated $100- JI ”ltl.’ln ‘
Junior - Senior Prom Sunirda. uOO will be earned by the: '
Feb. 21, liWS to the Yoakum Will be held from 7 to s p.m.' employees of Texas Iaiatiie: j Most of the problems of to-
Oiambcr of Commci-.-e instead of 8 to 9 pm a< first C.impan.v this year and that] day would be promptly solved {flight.
Tlie Yoakum Industrial Foun- announced. practically ali of this amount if only people had a right at-- He was arrested
Perez farm home near Ban- j Application for ^federal Hfflr
quette, Tex., west of Corpus i ^J750'000 ^ b«
Chrisu. The girl was f.Uhy ,made ^ mor‘th-
•hot.
Enriquez was also accused W O W !
of killing the girl * brother.'
Federico, 74; Highway Patrol- WASHINGTON UPI _ Trea,
man Darviu K. Hogg. at ] sury accounts . for the fiscal
Stockdale, 26. mat Mrs. Philip]year through itfay 2:
Foss. 25. cf BeevJle in his ' Withdrawals
df 55 inch m Me Alien and .JTifunuture la retailers in a project.
2
• Cuero High School gymnasium , s.nessmen.
M17.0»427,W%ri
Deposit* 7 fK,58t ,7t9,T2A.Cl
in Qe*ro Cash Baiam-e «9M,?S2.IR.7fl
the will be spent with Yoakum but utude tow arri (>d to fir aeigh- wearing women * clothe* and a Pubiig Debt 319.720,TSg.713'
1 bon and toeaeelvu
aee^ ewer his head.
Goi4 Ai
319,720,7to,7IS.7g
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