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Showers
Cloudy to partly cloudy. Snif-
tered showers tonight, Low in
Till-,. High Wednesday mid 70.*
for Cuero, Gonzales, York town
and Yoakum.
II. S. W«oth*« ftur»<iu Porvtovt
For Chtr* «nd D*Wltf County
VOL. 73 NO. 286
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J -A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS ITS COMMUNITY”
"A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS ITS COMMUNITY”
CUERO, TEXAS 77954, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1967
PRICE
5
Sales Tax Up
In 64 Cities
By I niti-ri Pres* International Park, Van Al.styne, Waco, Wax-
Voters from a large part of aharhie, Weatherford. West,
Texas will decide today 10 a i White Settlement. Woods boro
great extent on how the 1 per I and Woodway.
rent municipal sales tax is go-: Voters of Alvin, Heeville, Del
Ing to fare in the state. j Wo. Denton Duncanville, Far-'
Sixty four Texas towns and > mers Branch, Gilmer, Merkel
rit’cs, including fotir of the lar- and Rockwall will go to the
gi st, are holding s|iecial . elec-, polls Saturday,
tioris on die issue todav. j A week fiotn today the Rio
And if previous votes In 37 1'.ramie Valley communities of
other cornmun ties in the state Donna, F.dinburg, Harlingen, Me- j
*re anv indication, tlx* measure, Allen, Mercedes, San Benito and
will pass I W.-sluro vote.
Houston. Dalht* Vote | Athens votes Dec. 13 and
The largest cities voting today j Highland Park votes Dec. 16.
• re Houston, wath l,lO5,(K»0 resi- ! —■ - - -"1 — ■■ ■ —-
COLLEGE ROLL
dents. Dallas with 930,000, San
Antonio with 701 500 and f ort
Worth with 3%.000.
Spirited campaign tor and
against the tax were waged In
I i.iilas and Fort Worth and Hous-
ton Mayor Itoute Welch was re-
elected on a platform that in-,
eluded the tax.
I.uhor groups generally on-’
p c the tax, saying It would j
fall hardest on the woiking man
end the poor. , i
•St.j.jiorters »:gued cities could
get fiy without raising property
ta.Xcs for nwh,lic and that mu-
rd<-tpuiifies would have more
money to improve such services
as .peace and fire departments
Two Rejections.
Only Lufkin and I lectria have
turned down the isue.
Here are the cities which vote
on the ta\ today ;
Abilene, Anson. Alvarado. Ar- j daughter of Mr. and
Im ton, Baich Springs, Bellaire, Mr, Lloyd George Frttz of 116
N. Terry. Cuero, was named to
Area Three
Win Honors
&AN ANTONIO — Cuero, and Incarnate Word in January
DeWitt County were well repre-| 1968 with the bachelor of science
vented as Incarnate Word Col-1 degree .n medical record
leg? in San Antonio announced' science. Site has been the Trea-
dle members of tor Alpha Chi surer and Vice-President of the
National Honor Society tor Student Council and parliamen-
1967-68 I tarian of Sigma Rho Lambda, an
Sister Martha Anne Kirk. ■ organization for medical re-
CCVI, daughter of Mr. awl Mrs. j students.
IVrt Kirk of 912 N. Hum St..! Miss Banos sister, Donna, and
Cuero, was named to senior! «J*r 'Martha Anne s mother.
Mrs Cattv rme 1 Ada Koenig Kirk, are alumnae
(See AREA, Page 6)
Reds Slaughter
300 Civilians
UF Exceeds
$5,000 Mark
Quota $10,800
Cuero
United Fund
HONOR ROLL FOR IMS
Cuero's 1968 United Fund Cam-, the Arkansas - Louisiana Gas Champ Traylor 51,000.
paign climbed past the $5,000 'Company, brought in a U25 Weber Motor Co. 100.
mark Monday as- three new ccm- chef,k lssu,'d the company s j Mr .Mrs Graham Hamilton 100.
____________„« .. headquarters office in Shreve-| a)ppedge Tjre Service 100.
port. Ark-I-a. Gas, whose Cuero i j^rt Kirk Jr.
tributors added $225 to the fund.
The three contributors were office ar. i display room is locat-1 'vir-Tvirit D. M. Stiles
Mi-, and Mrs. Reiffert Black- j ed at 106 N. Gonzales Street,; (-ucro Foodcraft Store
well and W. A. Blackwell Es-j ** 1 public spirited public ser-1 Hlecka * Center Phcy.
taie which each added $50 to,'** firm which has liberally; stimson Furniture Co.
. contributed to a number of i vieUon 7-TTn Rot Co
the fund and Arkansas-Louisia- j community projects during the,' Fran|t r. Sheppard
na Gas Company which con-j past year, including the Commu-1 Freund Funeral Home
tributed $125. j nity Hospital, the American Le-1 Gujf Coast Wood Prod.
Contributions now total $5,1551 8'on home. toe Turkey Trot and. straftnn Hospital
or 47.7 per cent of the
150 .1
100. |
100 i
100. ;
100.
100 .
100. I
100.1
membership.
PATSY HAROS
paign goal of $10,800, Jack How-
I erton, drive chairman reported
Tuesday morning.
Reiffert Blackwell, chairman
of the Board of Farmers State
Bank Trust Company handed
Hellnirad, Reyerly Hill*, Bnnvrv
w*> d. f.’arrolton. Cletaime Cock-
rell Hill, Corsicana, Dallas,
Innison, Desoto, Dublin, Ennie,
Euless Ferris, Fewest Hills,
Fort Worth, Frisco.
Ai.so Garland, Grand prairie,
Grapevine, Haltom CJty, Hewitt,
Holland, Houston, Hurst, Hutch-
in* Irving, Kaufman. Killeen,
l«akc Worth, ijinraxter, Tviredo,
1^-w isv iiV, , Ixwtgvievv, Mabank,
Mansfield Mi Kinney, Mesquite,
Mineral wells.
Other (Ilk* IJskd
Palestine, Plano, Refugio,
Richardson. Rii bland Hills, San
Antonio, Seagovdie, Sherman,
.St- phenville. Temple. University
Junior membership.
Miss Patsy Ban**, daughter
at Mr and Mrs. Gus Ban** of
Westhoff, was accepted Into the
society tor the second year in a
row.
Membership in Alpha Oil B
open tn college upperclassmen
who rank in the upper 10 per
cent of their class.
SBter Martha Anne, an art
major who will receive the B
A from Incarnate Word next
Miv, i« a graduate of Incarnate
( Word High 5cIk- .1 and s mem-
ber of ttie Congregation of tb* ,
(Sisters of Charity of the I"- ^ ...... „ .....
carnate Word. In additirsi to her1
SS Benefits
Talks Slated
r
— I busy life as a student-Slstcr.
she has joined the Alpha Ps;
Omega National Drama frater-
nit and last spring designed
j the rover of the student liter-
\ ary miga/.ine. "The Word.” She
: has also been listed on t he
! College's honor mil.
Mrs Moody, a junior nursing . .. „
major is working for the bach- by the House in
i elor of science degree and plans! Au/llst- . . !
to graduate ,n May Of 1969 At A™nf fhe rt,fferenCM to V i
IWC she has served a* his tor-1 re“)lvrd;
freshman honor so-' R^efits: The Senate voted a|
anf),15 per cent acmss-the - board,
increase in Social Security him-1
WASHINGTON UPI - House I increases - a $10 800 base by
and Senate negotiators meet! 3972 -— may not survive. In 1969
today to begin tint hard bar- for a worker earning $8,800, the
gaining needed to produce a | annual payroll tas would go
compromise version ot Pic si- j from the current $290.40 to $422 -
dent Johnson's multibillkm dol- 40. compared to a House lev-
lar Social Security and welfare! el of $364.80.
i E;,Pni"W exemptions: Almost j torneyFrank sheppaid said
D-, certain death awaits the Senate, q-Pe
Ark., of the Houaa Ways provision increasing the earn-
Means Committee and Chair- mgs exemption from $1,500 to
man Russell B Long. D-l.fi , of $2,400 a year. Tlie figure is
the United Fund, the chairman Cuero Federal S and L
sai,k i Buehel Natl. Bank
Tlie chairman expressed the s. W. Bell Tel. Co.
hof*e now that the campaign has j Quaker Oats Co.
picked up some momentum af-J'L. L. Buttery Ph.G
ter a three day luli. that contri-j Cuero Record
butions will begin coming in at | Farmers State Bank
a much faster rate. LeRov Hamilton
, ,, . _ , . . , , , "We know there are dozens of; Dr.-Mrs. Harold High
tlie United Fund drive chairman, fjrrns an(j individuals who give (whites Auto Store
the two $50 checks during a; to the United Fund each year j Texas Eastern
routine visit to the bank Mon- j who have not yet responded to i Mr.-Mrs. Alfred Friar
day afternoon. Similar contribu- j fhe cal) for funds for 1968. Many i Duckett Motor Co.
tions were made to the 1967 can- of these are planning to give j Barfield Meat Co.
paign. . but have just not gotten around ! j, T. Newman
to sending in their check or call-! Mrs. Ema B. Koehler
ing in their pledge, he said, j Beming A Wagner
He said the Reiffert Black- j Mr.-Mrs. Carter Thomas
well and W. A Blackwell Fs- (Dewey & Vallie Schorre
tate contributions raised the (Koenig’s Drive In
number of donors in toe $50 to I Woodworth & Den Ins.
$75 group to 11, while the Ark- (Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
La Gas gift raised the number! Lila Brown
Jim Stone, local manager for
Beer Charge
Fine Assessed
Ramon Vargas, operator of j _________
Varela’s Place on West Main °f contributions of $100 or more : A Friend
Street, pleaded guilty Tuesday; to 30
morning to a charge of serving
beer during prohibited hours
and was fined $100, County At-
charge. according to
Sheppard, stemmed from a se-
ries of invsetigations and sul>-
sequent charges made by the
Finance Coinmitioc j how much a [x-rson may earn j Liquor Contri,, Board in Oeto-
1 nH crot full itc U,— /'til______ _______ . . ,
the Senate
led the teams from their res-1 and still get full _ —
pective rhamhi'rs Tlie expect a-! $- 400 level would cost almost $1, ty and the cases were disposed
tion was a final bill smaller
benefits. The ber. Others charged plead guil-
• han that voted by the Senate
Inst month but larger than
billion a year more. The new! of. Vargas plead not guilty ear-
lovel would probably be slight-; lier hut changed his plea Tues-
Lv higher than the $1,680 voted day before County G.urt Judge1
Refugee
Village
Overrun
SAIGON UPI - Communist
troops overran a South Vietna-
mese refugee village near the
Cambodian border and killed
about 300 civilians today in the
war’s greatest slaughter of in-
nocents, American spokesm e n
said.
They said about 800 Commu-
nists stormed into the Dak Son
KX) i New L.fe hamlet 90 miles north
100. of Saigon and hurled hand
200. grenades into the shelters where
200. nien, women and children hud-
bFL died for safely in toe attack.
150. -phe Communists then used
1,N) (flame throwers on tlie houses of
120. refugees who had tried to es-
cape to warn nearby residents,
100.; spokesmen said,
100. The slaughter exceeded that
-*20-: at Lidice. j.he Czech village
200. where Nazi SS troops killed
200. more than 190 persons and salt-
50, ed the earth June 10. 1942 in
50. one of World War TI’s most in-
60. famous atrocities.
100. The Communists struck the
60. village before dawn in appar-
100. ent revenge. Near the hamlet
50. lay Bo Due, the South Vritna-
60. | mese-Ameriean bastion which
60. i toe 272nd Viet Cong regimen*
200. fried to overrun last week - and
50. suffered hundreds of casualties
60. Allied Viotorv
The atrocity raid followed i
‘toinnirv* altied victory in to"
Mekong Delta. There. U. S. and
South Vietnamese troons took
'"dvantage of a guerrilla’s itchy
by the House.
i George Trowell.
' ,an of the
ctety. Al|>ha Lambda Delta,
is a member of the execu-
tive hoard of the nursing soror-
ity. Phi I^ambdu Oli
Miss Bunw wiN graduate from
CAPE
Check Charge
Filed Here
HIS 18-MONTH furlough over,
rf«. Joe Allen Smith, 23, la
ehown beck at the Preeldlo
in Sen Francleco, where he
le trying to get out at the
UR Army. After besle
training he got e month’s
furlough, then he said s tele-
gram to await further orders
arrived. The time stretched
to 18 monttue He figures his
two years are about up.
I Cuero h is l>e« n arrested on
(■fits for an estimated 22 8 mil- (
lion persons plus an Increase in]
the minimum monthly payment!
for the current $14 to $70.. The]
House approved a 12.5 per cent . , . . , . ,
increase and a $5<i min,mum. ^u’ ,h‘n
Payroll Taxes: The Senate i",th ,he worlJ s f,rM Iransplant-
would increase the payroll base, e,,r ht’art IO(1i‘>' hroUi’ht “ nlid-
from $6,600 to $8,000 Jan 1. ,il‘‘ u-'’d grocer a treatment by
meaning a tax increase for [ari,1;,t,on drid tht* treat of <oft
ooiled eggs.
IXictors at Groote Schuur
said they were bom-
Heart Transplant
Radiation Given
lvWitt County Sheriff N. G
! ■•Cutter” Diet/e said Tuesday middle and upper income work-
1 morning that James Barfield of ers next year. By delaying a
tax rate increase - from 4 4 to Ho i’l,al
TOWN, South Africa (member team in
surgery, said, "It is very dilfi- j city and taken out of jiolice!
cult to say at this moment” if; hands, but that no action of this,
success if assured. "But so far1_1
the patient is doing well. I
think this will be a success.”
Suffering Heart Diseaae
Washkansky had
, Mr.-Mrs. Reiffert Blackwell 50.
A quota of 30 has been set by W. A. Blackwell Estate 50
the United Fund Executive Com- Ark-La Gas Gimpany 125.
mittee for the $50 to $75 group j ___
before public acknowledgement \ Total to date $5,155.
is given to smaller contributors j You can add your name to the finder and <toashed a Commu-
under present campaign rules. | Hon. r Roll by calling CR 5-3131. ( n;st 3mhnsh hntpd on in one of
11 — ■ ....... the greatest victories in
Souto Vi-tn’1 m’s rice howl urea
} A!ert'’d by a cmerriiD Brine
! too earlv in whit U S. Brie,
: Gen. William Fi’hon cal’ed a
! “hell of a mistake.” the allied
troops swarmed ashore from
i armored hattlebnats and shatter-
( ed toe Viet Cong that tried to
i snare them and cut off Saigon’s
Six persons were arrested and nature can be accomplished , mf,in food suonlv highway,
jailed on Dec. 1 and Dec 2 but1 without a hearing by the City1 American Infantry today still
their names had not vet beem Council. ! hun*ed down Kuerrllla survivors
placed on the City Police Crim- Hc sai(i docket had al- m the mangrove swamps
inai Diniket by 10 anv Tuesday read>' beea turned over to the j miles southwest of Saigon.
Police Chief Jack Wilder said' Person, as yet unidentifie.1. but: readv
the Police Docket is to be turn-: had been sent back to police au- stood
ed over for processing to some- j thority until the council can act,
Sunday's tone to be designated by the,1 ~ '
Police Docket
Is Incomplete
FREIGHTER ARRIVES
I LE ARVE. France (UPI)
Court Allows
Cash Payment
65
Al-
the Communist losses
at 235 killed and 15
guerrillas caught trying to
hide under water by breathing
through reed tubes.
Allied losses totalled 54 dead
and 203 wounded. This included
13 Americans killed and 128
wounded. UPI correspondents
Robert Taylor and ■ Thomas
per-
barding Louis Washkahsky
l(.ss wilh cohalt radiation to help his
bite 'b°dy accept the heart of a 25-
year-old unman traffic accident
victim he received Sunday in a
| charge of check forgery, and is, 4.8 per cent until 1969.
] in city jail in lieu of $5,000 build. , sons making $6,600 and
| He said Barfield was arrested ! would not feel the extra
j ,,n a Cuero street on a wan ant1 until after the elections.
1 issued by Justice of the Peace j The House wants the same
\ltxTt rA... (rate increase scheduled hut only uve-.i >:u opeiation.
! The sheriff’s office, to make : a $1,000 base increase, to $7,500 su'd he was recovering
(matters more complicated, also But the House would probably, ^ell and drank milk and fruit
to serve on go along with a slightly larger ‘‘flay they ordered his
The future Senate tax post-operation solid food, the had been injured in the
___ ; easily digested soft boiled eggs. I accident that killed her mother
. Comhiil Rejection System
A settlement of $1,900 was __________ _____
snffeiwri '^ Communist Cliinese freighter( awar(jed Mike Sylvester in 24th Cheatham reported the South
from iieart disease !arrived ,miay in this ma-i°r District Court Monday. (Vietnamese marines lost 41
irom neart disease for seven Drench Atlantic port, the first
a5., years. He had been in Groote
Schuur three months with heart
failure. He had l*een expected
to die within weeks. Washkan-
sky’s date with history and his
apparent salvation came Sun-
day afternoon.
Doctors had lost their
i hud divorce papers
Barfield.
K'l
base
District Court Monday.
The Court ordered the defend-! men killed in a moment of high
since the Cultural Revolution an( Superior Insurance Com- courage that turned the tide of
began in Red China in 1966. j pany. to pay $650 to Sylvester' .See VTFT CONG. Page 61
------------: for injuries he received on Sept. __— »
AEROTRAIN SUCCESS 1 2, 1965 while employed at the
PARIS CPI) ■- Tiie Aerotrain, I Coca Cola Co. in Cuero. Sylves-
which French transi*ortation ex- j ter also was awarded $1,250 for
j perts say will revolutionize com- i another injury at the plant on
i muter travel, passed a major Fob. 9, 1966.
Tlie judgment noted that Syl-
fii st to stotoJMiss^Dan,all s^Jife She i test Monday by attaining a speed j
same I Qf o.M miles per hour over its t vester was not permanently or
Brainy Leatherneck
New Corps Chief
Saturday. Weeping, toe young
j Tl«' rad it ion treatment was! woman’s father okaved the!
( crucial Many previous attempts! transplant of the heart from her |
| at transplanting human organs; body: He also approved toe kid-'
have faded because the body nev
automatically goes to work re- The kidney went to a 10-year-,
iecting foreign tissue. Wash-(old colored bov, Jonathan Van
knnskv already has been treat-(Vyk. He was reported making
ed with drugs to combat his ho-i "satisfactory” progress.
1 dy’x reji'etion system, I ____________
WASHINGTON CPD — PresI- for manpower and former j Vietnam before transfer to the TN. cohalt bombardment rkt MEETINO
4ent Johnson * ehoice to be the' Marine commanderton Vietnam, nuclear earner DsS Fntei- miglit prove the deriding factor' LONDON CPI) British and
Krulak.!11 ise' an lls 1 lv in the w eek of treatment and j American officials are conduct-'
] now a platoon leader m a i-e, i, i. *—---- :«l
k a brainy Leatherneck general1
Whose two Marine sons served in
Vietnam.
The President named Lt Gen. Vietnam war policy was read j battalion, and won toe ix-gion Doctors used toe words 'ike. ton government officials eon
Leonard F. Chapman. 54, dc-1 Into the appointment and John- of Merit and Bronze Star during “excellent” to describe Wash- firmed todav
puty to retiring Commandant (son emphasized he considered it Marine operations on Peleliu kanskv's progress so far They ''J_
Gen. Wallace M. Greene and aia routine promotion. jand Okinawa. i reported that between sips of PLANT MINES
32-year Marine known for in-, ‘'One man is going out and his | After the war, Oiapnian iield a , water, milk and luiee he said; HONG KONG ftJPP British
tciligence rather than swagger. (first assistant Is going
Johnson ended months of in- Johnson said. "That’s not un-i port ant commands and was nam- bettor
fighting within the corps Mon-j usual.” jed deputy commandant of the Dr Christian Barnard the
day watt i the announcement of j Introduced to newsmen, Chap-, Corps July 1. 1967. lsw-to ItX'Vn" 44-ve.ar-old med>-
; quarter-inch air cushion astride; totally injured in either acci-
a concrete rail.
i dent.
15
Shopping
Days till
Christmas
r
Defector Says Cong
Starving GI Captives
SAIGON UPI
' ‘™ . Xf , | now a platoon -leader in a tests IsJore it is known if line talks to set a date nrobahlv Americans
commander of the Fleet Marine Mar|np amiJi.bious force there, w.ishkanskv’s .body accepts the! jVnuaJ. hr^?r-me^!im ' ■“de by
Force. Pacific, at Honolulu. | IHinng World War
No significance in terms ofinian commanded an
Vietnam war policy was read j battalion, anti won tlie
Captured tor for the Viet Cong’s "enemy i little by little, never attempting
arc being killed j proselytizing commitzee.” j to solve the problem of food and
mid-January for Prime 8lin-’ "utue ny little" under a Com- He said prisoners made re- ( medical shortages,” he said.
'■ haI>- heart from the bnidy of Denise1 Harold Wilson to visit! munist policy of providing them j peated attempts to escape! Thuong said lie had contact
artillery DavvalL i prc-sjclent Johnson in Washing- w’*h t<X) little fcxxl and medi- what he called “miserable” con- with six Americans during hit
cine, according to a report to-
a
day by a Viet Cong defector.
In a document made available
by United Press International,
ditions. j service w .th the Viet Cong.
"There was not enough to; Among them were Army Sgfts.
eat.” Thuong said. “There was Daniel Lee Pitzer and Edward
no medicine. Some of the pris- i R. Johnson, two of the three U.
in.”(series of increasingly more im- Mond ay. “I am feeling much j military officials
Chapman's appointment. He
was picked ever two other lead-
fctg oontondeiw, Lt. Gen. LewB
man vowed "to do my very best) Ten years ago he was tagged rr>* hero of South Africa. told
for my country and the Marine j by his
Corpa.” smarlMt
Chatman's older aw oorvod ■Corps.”
colleagues as "tlie newsmen his patient "seemed
man in the Marine , pretty cheerful "
i The surgeon who M t 10 •
said today
| mines have lieen planted along
the Communist Chinese border
to inqieiie Communist terrorists
entering the crown colony to
wage a campaign k> humble
British authority.
the defector. Phumi Van loners were sick for years.” j S. soldiers released by the Viet
Thuong, said the prisoners re- j He told of an Army captain Cong in Cambodia last month,
sisted Communist “reeduca-: who weighed 230 pounds when Tlie defector said that of the
tion” attempts and maintained captured and was down to less remaining four prisoners two
strong military discipline ■ than 100 [>ounds before he died died of malnutrition and lack of
Thuong was questioned by U ”1 feci it was the policy of the medical nttertion and the other
S. intelligence officials follow- N'FL National liberation twx> were presumably still in
j ing hi* defection about • month
'ago. He served as an irrterroga-
Front. the political arm of the captivity _
Viet Cong to kill the prisoners (See DEFECTOR, Fogs «)
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