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leWN
we’re keeping "big men” in «f-
Tenrjr Newman ia a good ste-
ed fellow hlimelf.
“Heavyweight" BUI Nami tip*
fte scales a* 940 pounds!
That’s a lot of weight to throw
•round.
f DEWITT COUNTY produces
# good bit of crude oil, accord-
ihg to figures released in a story
elsewhere on this page
*'• The county produces some-
thing like 4,000 barrels of oil a
day, or about 1.4 million a year.
- For comparative purposes, Go-
liad County has an annual pro-
duction of 1.3 million barrels,
Gonzales 36 thousand, Live Oak
£? million, and Victoria 4 mil-
lion
Some of the West Texas coun-
Newman Serving
Last Day a
the April 2 election.
ties run much higher, but for
eur area we’re doing real well
rOUR ELECTRIC distribution
system's economic importance
it. revealed in the new city bud-
get.
The distribution system will
bring in $414,796.90, it is estima-
ted. Expenses will run $345,944
90.
, That leaves $68,852.60 that can
be transferred to other depart-
ments for other uses.
piTY MANAGER James Ful-
ton points out that all phases of
the distribution system serves
more than 2,700 accounts.
^ About this department .he ma-
kes this comment, "Aspects of
the engineer’s report are being
carried out. Improved service
pjus better planning and upgrad-
ing of record keeping thrugh
new metering equipment will en-
able electric distribution system
to be maintained in its present
fctee’TOWN TALK, Page J)
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Steel Developments Clouded In Mystery
WASHINGTON
White House clouded k> mystery
— The dona of the Wheeling Steel Carp
lru*.
The “old veteran" of 34 years I **■ * ****■
in the city’s highest elective of- He baked for e two or tore
flee turn over the reigns of city 4+V because "the city
government to William G. "BiU” oepewt ^attord it." He had asked
Nami tonight. '* I^J*.**”*1 *»* **
Nami defeated’F. L. Barber in | MmM* to Ms flmiqmar plan
or might
Kennedy’s
municipal utility improve^
Newman had announced eari- estimated wou
ier he would not seek re-elec-1M $2o3,000.
don this year, stating that he I people, however, voted
would devote more time to his I heavily in favor of the new $85,
business interests. J ^00 fire ^station when it was put
ing up politics, he left the gate
open in case he changes his
mind later on. He stated he i —^ ■ *-• . •
might be Interested in reen- | OQQV S I hOUQlYt
tering city politics at some fu-l 7 57
ture date." | U. N. Ambassador Adlai
1 1. T. NEWMAN
CUflO RECORD STAFF FNOTO
revive Prealdsnt
a 1962 price-rise battle
with steelmakers.
Kennedy scheduled a 1:15 a.
m. CST departure from the
White House for an Easter va-
cation St Palm Beadi, Fla., af-
ter twice postponing K Wednes-
day with toe slimmest explana-
tions.
While steel shares yo-yoed up-
down- and- up on Wall Street,
Presidential Press Secretary Pi-
erre Salinger led newsmen thru
a day- long chase that included:
— A lost-noon "no comment”
an whether Kennedy had met
with cabinet aides on implica-
averaging $6 a ton on some pro-
duets.
— Recollection of Salinger’s
having said In a March 22 spe-
ech that Washington is s place
"where ‘no comment’ has long
been synonymous with ‘yet’."
— Announcement at 1:34 p.m.
EST that “the President has
poetpBMd Ms departure from
the White House until 9:15 s.m.
EST tomorrow." Originally Ken-
nedy had planned to leave for
Palm Beach at 4 p.m. Wednes-
day.
— Further word shortly after
5 p.m. EST that Kennedy wou-
ld not leave for Palm Beach
before 12:30 p.m. EST today,
remaii “vague" untiF taheeff.
Surface indications, as Ken
nedy went through hastily called,
secret conferences with oahinet
members and other aides, were
that strategy was being worked
out to cope with any spread of
Wheeling’s price rise through
the industry.
A year ago Wednesday U.S.
Steel Corp. announced a simil-
ar price boost and other firms
followed. Kennedy commanded a
huge administration assault that
reversed the increase.
Then, Kennedy was angered
because the companies announc-
ed their increase after his admi-
nistration had helped effect a
“non -inflationary" contract set-
workem UMon CAFLOO).
This year the situation was
diffemit Instead of U.S. Steal,
the giant of toe industry, mak-
ing the announcement, it was
Wheeling, the 11th largest
And instead of smaller firms
following the lead of the larg-
est, there was silence among toe
bigger nenpanies while the gov-
ernment waited to see whether
they would follow the smaller
plant’s lead.
The White House acknowledg-
ed early ki the day that Ken-
nedy was watching the steel
price situation “with great in-
terest.”
This came during a flurry of
(See STEEL, Page •)
SffPUated
Nami and two city commis-j Stevenson said: “Let’s talk
stoners who were re-elected wi-1 iense to the American people,
thout opposition. Mayor Pro- Let’s tell them the truth, that
Tern LeRoy Oobb and C. Pete there are no gains without
Bluntzer, will be sworn in *t I pains."
tonight's re-organisational meet- ,X:
tog at City Hall at 7:30 p.m. ■■r.-AfofoAae.
I VOL. 69—NO. 86
various appointments, and can-
vassing of the election no busi-
ness is on the agenda. The cou-
ncil met
the new
wise wipe toe slate dean of ma-
jor old business.
Nami’s platform advocated
leadership ip our city adminis-
tration to keep it abreast of the
demands for public improve-
ments which are constant in a
growing small dty, and to took
at least a little ahead toward
what the future might bring.
He stated further that "CUero
belongs to the people, and the
decisions of it* city government
should be a .qgrrying out of the
wishes expressed by toe people
themselves
(tern Hrrnrd
A Newspaper Reflects Its Community’
Mice *r.sfct"'
Partly Cloudy
Partly cloudy through Friday.
Low tonight 60 to 70. High Fri-
day in 90s.
U. a WwHw Bureau FarecaS
Far Cuara and OaWItt County
CUERO, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1963
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—LATE NEWS BRIEFS—|
SECRET SESSION ON MISSILES CALLED
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Senate planned its.Jir»L secret j
session since the middle of World War n today oyer a debate on
the need of a controversial anti-missile system. The unusual exe-
cutive session, last used in 1943, was expected on a motion by
Sen. Strom Thurmond. D-S.C., who said he cannot support the
$196 million appropriation for the Nike Zeus anti-missile missile |
without using classified information.
BULLET NARROWLY MISSES GEN. WALKER
DALLAS (UPI» — A bullet from a high-powered rifle whizzed I
through a window Wednesday night, narrov^F losing former
Mai. Gen. Edwin A. Walker who was sitting at a desk filling out)
his Income tax. The bullet bored a one-inch hold in the wall and
fell out on the other side on some packages. Splinters from the
bullet's casing struck Walker in the arm.
NO RELIEF SEEN FROM HEAT
A sluggish cool air mass shoved into the Texas Panhandle
today, bringing some relief from record-breaking springtime heat
for North Texas. Forecasters said the cool air would have little
immediate- effect j-«n stifling, record-breaking . lenypdratura* in
South Texas.
WASSAR ASSURED OF FEDERATION ROLE
CAIRO iUPl> — Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser
seemed assured today ot a dominant role in the new Arab federa-
tion that is certain to alter the balance of power in the Middle
East. Premier Aly Sabry announced Wednesday that Syria, Iraq
and Nasser's Egypt have agreed to merge their states into a
single nation of 38-million citizens. ; ,
NUCLEAR FORCE AGREEMENT NEAR
PARIS <UPI» — The United States and its European Allies to-
day were reported near agreement on a plan for an inter-Allied
nuclear force, possibly with French participation. The blueprint
Is expected to be ready for approval by the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization ( NATO ) council of ministers to Ottawa in May, au-
thoritative sources said.
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“TJTHEN he (Pilate) was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him,
$Y saying; Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered
maity*4hkqgs Jftisday in a dream because of Him. But the chief priests and elders
persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus."—
SL Matthew 27: 19, 20.
House Seeks Gobblers Play
$33 Million Here T"'19'"
New Money
The taero High School
Gohler* will play their first
night game of the seat-on on
the home field tonight at 1:M
at Cnero Park Ktadium.
Opposition for the Gobblers
will be the New Braunfels
Unicorns.
It will be a District 14 AAA
contest.
JFK, Cuba Exiles
Split Down Middle
MIAMI i UPI I — The Cuban
exile colony, demonstrating un-
accustomed unity of purpose,
rallied today behind Revolution-
ary Council President Dr. Jose
Mini Cardona in his break with
MurrayResigns
In Oil Deal
AUSTIN. Tex. (UPI) — Rail-
road commissioner William J.
Murray Jr., insisting he Was not
running in the face et attack,
resigned Wednesday in the wake
of revelations he made money kt
a West Texas oil deal. Gov.
John Connelly accepted the re-
signation "effective immediate-
Jy *** » 0
“I am retuty to fight on any
implication of Improper action,”
Murray said.
Connally aaid it was regret-
table that facts hi the case “in-
dicated a question of propriety
or legality of his Murray's out-
aide business transactions."
He said to view of "document-
ed facts" concerning Murray's
admitted oil in vest merits “it la
my judgment that Mr. Murray’*
resignation Is in the best inter-
est* of our state."
Murray, who had just been re-
elected to a n4w six-year term
So toe Railroad Commission ef-
fective bud January, had serv-
ed m toe commission for 17
paan.
the Kennedy administration.
The council unanimously rejec-
ted Minos resignation, submit-
ted to anger at the administra-
tion's decision to curb anti-Cas-
tro raiding parties and the ap-
parent lack of a comprenshivc
plan to destroy toe regime of
AUSTIN (UPI) - The House
turned today to tax proposal* to
raise $33 million in new revenue
to bridge toe gap between ex-
pected state income and Gov.
John Oormaily's budget requests.
The House scheduled automa-
tic debate on a combined pro-
posal to revise the sales tax law |
and extend the added corporate
franchise tax another year to
meet expected state spending
I BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI)-
Trie bills were combined ®nd ( Alabama football coach Paul
passed out for debate Monday: Bl-yant today filed a $5 million
'■v Atwell Is Revenue sU|, agUjnsi a national ma-
and Taxation Committee. ‘ gazine which sum! the 1962 Ala-
The House action comes on bama- Georgia football game
tiie lieels of Senate approval I was fixed.
Wednesday of its $3.1 billion ap-j The suit, against the Saturday
proprialions bill. Senate appro- Evening Host, asked for $5 mil-
Bryant Files
Big Libel Suit
val sends the proposal back to
the House where the lower
chamber will ask for a confer-
ence committee to combine the
House and Senate bills.
lion in actual and punitive da-
mages. It said the article caus-
ed Bryant embarrassment and
dmaged his reputation.
, The Post, in its March 23 is-J exception of acreage allotments
The House State Affairs Com-' sue said former Georgia at hie- ’ would he removed,
mittee Wednesday night quickly j tic director Wallace Butts gave | Current parity is $2 44 per
up a Brvanf Georgia game secrets j bushel. Under toe new program
Wheat Vote
Coming Up
On May 21
DeWitt County's handful of
wheat farmers probably will be
eligible to vote in the May 21
national wheat referendum.
The local ASC office and the
county agent said the county
has only a few farmers who
grow wheat.
John E. Hutchison, director of
the Texas A4M Extension Ser-
vice. said 65,281 wheat growers
in Texas are eligible to vote.
The result of the national vote
will affect 3.6 million allocat-
ed acres in wheat land in Texas,
he said.
Basically, the referendum will
decide f<«r one year wlietlier
Wheat production b ivgulated
acreage controls or controls on
actual production.
If adopted by a two-thiids vote,
it would place a national market-
ing quota of 1.22 billion bushels
of wheat. If the vote fails all
production on controls with the
129 Believed Dead
In N-Sub Disaster
Broom Sale Set
Kleinecke Elected
President of Lions
Howard Kleinecke, executive
vice president of the Cuero Fed-
eral Savings and Loan Assn.,
Wednesday was elected presi-
dent of the 93-member Cuero
Liana Club.
He will succeed Fire Chief Les-
ter Frwrs to toe club’s top of-
fice on July 1.
Other officers for the coming
year will be Dr. John Wheeler,
first vice president; Leon Potato,
second vice president; Murray
Taritington, third vice presi-
dent; Jim Stone, secretary and
treasurer; tail twister, Mike
Weber; assistant tail twister,
Dr. Charles Tubbs: and lion
tamer Judge George Trowell.
New directors are Gene Grafe
Marion Weber, T. L. Edmond-
son and Dr. John Davis.
Final plans are being made
for the annual Lions Club brown
and mop sale next Wednesday
evening.
Kleinecke, chairman of the ev-
ent to raise funds to cariy on
dub projects, has named his
team captains and their work-
ers.
All are to meet at the fire
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Sub Lost
'Forever'
In Depths
WASHINGTON -JTT1V- AS
hope was abandoned today for
the nuclear-powered submar-
ine US8 Thresher, loot with
US men aboard where the
stormy North Atlantic la 8,<W
feet deep.
The Threaheh “haa Indeed
beam toe*/' Adn. George w,
Anderson reported at a news
conferees hi the lata morn-
tog-
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
U. S. nuclear- powered submar-
ine Thresher with 129 men a-
board today was feared lost for-
ever to mile and a half deep
waters of the northern Atlantic.
Little hope was held that the
Thresher, which vanished with-
out apparent word during div-
ing exercises, would ever be
found. But more than a dozen
search ships and squadrons of
planes scoured the ocean 229
miles east of Boston.
Aboard were a crew of US
plus 17 civilians.
The Navy said it had receiv-
ed no late word from the scene
of the search, almost 94 hours •
after the Thresher disappeared.
A spokesman said this indicat-
ed no trace had been found of
the 3.57V1- tan vessel. The last
message from the sub was a*
about 9 a m. Wednesday.
The Navy said the last mes-
sage was a routine advisory say-
ing the Thresher was beginning
diving exercises. Then silence.
| Adm. George W. Anderson,
The Court of Criminal Ap-j sentenced to sene 99 years in chief^uf naval operations, said
peals at Austin has upheld the pri-son for the murder of
conviction of Arthur Baker, 52- wife, Laura.
HOWARD KLEINECKE
CUERO RECORD STAFF FHOTO
station at 5 p.m. next Wednes-
day. They will cover toe town
to groups with their mops,
brooms and other articles.
High Court Upholds
Baker Conviction
hi*
year-old Cuero man who was
School Holidays
Begin Today
passed out a hill to sel
Baker was sentenced here by
an all-male jury Wednesday,
Sent ember 13. 1962.
His case was appealed by de-
fense attorneys Dick Cullen. Ar-
thur Lapham of Victoria who at-
When the school bell rings j templed to establish, through
Premier Fidel Castro and
Communist cohorts.
the council, heretofore recog-
nised by the Kennedy adminis-
tration aa the vaiice of the 250,000
Cuban refugees in tiie United
States, vowed to continue the
fight to liberate their homeland
from international communism
regardless of official U.S. poli-
cy
Exiles here openly stated their
belief that the U. S. government
haa decided to “coexist with
Communist Cuba."
Exiles who formerly Opposed
Miro praised Mm for Ms firm
stand against U. 8. Cuban policy.
A report from Washington that
Miro praaanfod his resignation
because he failed to get $E0 mil-
lkm from the United States to
mount ao invasion force appears
locally to have backfired.
Ret a t urns between Cuban exU*
6a and the Kennedy administra-
tion are split from top to bottom,
and may be beyond repair, ob-
servers said in Washington to-
day.
his i five-man general investigating 1 heforp last fall’s game. Both i it would be $2 per bushel on the this afternoon, Cuero public testimony of Baker that Mrs.
W) per cent of production and parochial school children ^ ^ £TverP bead
will begin their Easter holi-
committee, and a resolution cal- ‘ Butts and Bryant had denied the ! first
ling for a study of the scope of j accusation and Butts filed a lib- and $1.30 per bushel on the re-
toe Railroad Commission. jel suit asking $10 million. mainder.
The proposals came out of Rep. | Bryant last year filed a $500.-
John Allen's State Affairs Com- 000 libel suit against the Satur-
mittee shortly after railroad
commissioner William Murray
Jr. resigned over a controversy
(See HOUSE SEEKS, Page 6)
day Evening Post because of an
article last October which he
James E. Kirby, economist for
tiie extension service, said the
surplus wheat problem persists
despite acreage controls be-
said claimed be condoned brut-1 cause yields per acre have in-
ality by his players. (See WHEAT VOTE, Ppge •)
days.
Puhlic school students will
have four consecutive days off
including Friday and Monday,
while parochial students will
return to class Monday.
Foreign News Commentary
Khrushchev Leadership Under Review
By K. C. THALER | control is discounted la most confidential diplomatic advices from
United Press International I Moscow.
PARIS — Despite claims from Mosrow that all Is well In tiie Nevertheless there ars new and heavy pressures on Khriuh-
Kretnln there Is growing conviction that Premier Nikita Khruafa ! chev, not the least of them the Slno-Rovtet ideological conflict,
cbev’s leadership role is under review. ! The differences between the Chinese “hard line” ot International
The ballet la some of Western Europe’s beet Informed dip-, communism and Khntshcbev’a peaceful coexistence policy have
tenth circles Is Mai he 1* seriously considering giving up some continued te worsen.
at Me centre!, perhaps by surrendering the premiership while | It Is only a few weeks ago that Red China was disclosed _____ _
retaining the office of first secretary ef the Communist party— to have called for the ouster of the present Kremlin leaders, pre- known
eWce that really counts la the Soviet Union and wields the samahly Including Khrushchev himself. Since then Peking hus j tetter received here Wed-
"We first over-
which caused her
injuries
death.
Judge Howard P Green said
Thursday morriing that the de-
fendant has 15 day* from April
10 to file a motion with the
clerk of the Court of Criminal
Appeals for a re-hearing of the
case
Due to the fact the Court ef
Criminal Appeals usually goes
on vacation July first. Judge
Green said the case will probab-
ly’ be deliberated to May or
June.
The indictment charged that
on or about the 31st day of Aug-
ust, 1962, the appellant did "un-
lawfully, voluntarily and with
malice aforethought kill and
murder Laura Baker in some
way or manner, and by some
means, instruments and wea-
pons to the Grand Jurors un-
the Thresher “appears to be
lost.” He said if it sank, as be-
lieved. in the 8.400 feet of wat-
er from its last reporting pomfo
there is "no possibility (he men
could be alive.”
If the 129 men died as fee red
— either by drowning or from
ennrmou* pressure of the ocean
depths — it would be the wuret
submarine disaster in history
and the first involving a nuclear-
powered sub. There la no way
to escape from a deeply mb-
(See N-Sah Disaster, Page |)
fostered the idea that Khnuhebev'a days ia power are numbered. . stated
Ae party secretary Khrushchev still could direct foreign Diplomats who here seen Khrushchev receetly have re
Oil Production
Figures Given
DeWitt
4M.1M barrels ef
19M.
Per
barrels.
1, 1M1, was M.MS.MS
Theve
leased by
Oil A Gas
John W. Wa
Administration officials Warn- ,W*lr* ** as coatinue running the Internal Communist scene, ported to their governments that he la looking weary. He is M is Citwuffic!«itthto
ea have foot been
*Tbe figures are
date as ire weald !
lag experienced
official figures ea which
are based prevents tie
veers old. Evea some Cemmaaist diplomats think Khrushchev
There Is nothing in this thinking that denies Khrushchev’s may he looking for some relief from his present load.
ed the rilt on the exilea' refusal
to accept President Kennedy’s____
tojtoase offensive action j that is naming things sad the repeated expressions ot loyalty most likely to toko the post to Deputy Premier Frol Kotlov.
(ETcCTARRMJfe, m gj j ®r*1* ti^*t^<nt^m^hers jstust *' tore value. whs^ already to haadtiag many day to day chares previously J
be said.
support the conviction because t
held ea fee Kremlin leadership. It Is his own hand-picked team Should Khrushchev give up the premiership the man rated ^ state failed to prove the cor-, Cow
“ - -- -- -- - - — - Kotlov, m. pus delecti. The evidence addu- ad.
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