The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 246, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 18, 1953 Page: 3 of 10
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER IS, 1955
THE CUERO RECORD, CUERO, TEXAS
—P AGETHREE
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The Sprawling King Ranch
Observes 100th Anniversary
brated the 100th anniversary
New York City rode through a
brushcovered wasteland and
founded the largest ranch in the
world. -----.
The 940,000-acre King Ranch
marked its lOOlh 1 birthday with
the opening of a conference on
"Breeding Cattle Adapted to Un-
favorable Enviornment.”
The ranch’s founder, _ Capt.
Richard King, ran away from his evolved from
home in New York at the age of uian cross.
10. He became a cabin boy on the __
river boats that sailed through ■ r * * a
muddy Southern waterways. I OlOi Of 4>4,Z I U
Came To Texas In 1847 • n • ■ «•
King later became a seaman, III DUIIOin0
and then a pilot. He came to South; £ •« • - «
Texas in 1847. Six years later hell GTIDIlS ISSUCCJ
rode through the rugged. dry!
country south of Corpus Christ!, j A relatively light week
By THOMAS MACCABE -----
KINGSVILLE, Tex., Oct. 17 — won the Kentucky Derby, Assault j
ItTP)— South Texas Saturday cele- in 1910 and midlegrounri in 1950. j
0J The King Ranch spreads out
! over seven South Texas counties,
the day a steamboat captain from j jt has a farm in Kentucky,
pasture land in Pennsylvania and
experimental stations in Cuba andf
Australia.
Ranch officials regard the de-
velopment of the Santa Gertrudis
as their greatest achievement.
The Santa Gertrudis was the first
all-American breed as well as the
first new breed in two centuries,
according to Kleberg. The breed
a Shorthorn-Brah-
Home Builders Should Build
Schools, Says Economist
on the bed. leaving a call for 7 a
m. at that time I told Western
Union where 1 was.
We cooled our heels for two days j
and I began to lose hope. At 4 a. m.
Tuesday, Oct. 6, we drove back to
Won’t Tell Story Again
Mrs. Heady told the nun she *
was the boy’s aunt and said Mrs.
Grecnleasc. his mother, had suf-1
fried a heart attack.
We never made any attempt to
MARKETS
J fryers
Cream,
No. 1 ..
No. 2 *
Sweet
v o Local Grain Market
Kansas City. The llext morning wc chisel the kidnaper. His every in- %r .
learned that Carl Austin Hall andjstruction was followed to-the lot-j ‘ ow s e 1 c°171 P°r
it was impossi- °" ear FaJrm Pcr bu 12j
* MalurAt*AH nnt*
rested and the boy was dead. It; bio to comply.
was my duty
ents.
to inform his
By NEIL MACNEIL
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—(UPi-
A Washington economist has come
up with a plan toto build better
schools cheaper and pay teachers
higher salaries: Have the schools1 ument to the ages to teach chil-
Warrcn G. Harding was
first United States President
use an automobile in an inaugu-
Bonnv Brown Headv had been ar-;ter except where it was impossi- c“* r“‘‘“ ‘ p" ral parade.
- | Delivered per bu. 1 3a ------—-
i ... . , Hogari ..... ........ 2.30 per 100 lbs
par- We were never covered by the p 1
FBI. police or anyone else’ during !Ml1” ........‘ !U [H>r 10° bs
Never at any time did the family |our runs. The press was very eo- j ,0D counesy 0 arm
hold any resentment for the sis- operative, particularly the Kansas;
ter, the Catholic nun. who released]City Star. I had to tell some "white j
Bobby from school to the kidnap- j lies'' to keep the negorions sec-j
city — are used on school con- jer. It w as a perfectly natural thing I ret, but the reporters understood. | ^gKS
struction projects. He proposes the j for the nun to do. in view of the It is a terrible story. I don’t ^' ns
“whole hoi-polioi of the building j woman's story, 'want to toll it over again
trades" be used to produce schools.
"You don’t have to build a mon-
CT'ERO MARKETS
doz. 50c
--------- " ............. lb. 26c
Cuero Lodge No. 409 A. F.
St A. M meets every sec-
on! and fourth Thursday
»ach month at 7:30 p. m.
Visiting brothers are al-
ways welcome.
\ Earl Dodds. W. M.
O A Zimmerman. Sect*
among
King -saw tremendous possibili-, Cuero’s builders was reported this
ties in the land. He bought huge week by Building permits issued
tracts and became a rancher. He a( |hp cj Ha„ A t0,al o( o10
Imported Mexican beef cattle to
Stock his land. But he was dis-.in Pcrmi,s 'vcre lsM1'>d for ,he
satisfied with the rawboned, long- week ending Saturday,. October
lorned cattle of a century ago. | l'th.
King began a systematic program; Largest sjnglc permi, uas to
II. Dombluth for the addition of
I a kitchen. I has estimated the nat ion needs an
| ,J. C. Bowen, G. I'. Pepau*reroof additional 325,000 classrooms to
Robert J. Kleberg Jr., hits car-'and addition of 2 porches and sid-
ried on the breeding program with inK- S900.
The Texas Poll
built by home builders. |dren,” O’Connor said. “The place
Tire economist, Donald J. O’Con-'to spend your money is on teach-
nor, said the home builders could ers.”
cut costs drastically in school con- The key to O'Connor's plan is!
struction by using the same ma-jto do away with the "conventional!
terials and techniques they now huge roof mass” that covers most
use in putting up houses. American schools. These schools!
Eisenhower Popularity
Now Lower In Texas
By JOE BEIJtEN
I
The elimination of structural
beams, use of mass-produced
home building materials and sin-
gle story construction would cut
the average cost of a school room
from its present level of $40,000 to
aboutj$10,000, he said.
Maryland Considers Plan
A Maryland businessman’s group
now is considering O'Connor's idea
for possible use in their commu-
nity. OConnor said he plans to
visit the governor of Virginia to
present his plan for possible use
usually have two or three floors.
Would Help Teachers
By building the classrooms on
a single story and in a row, the
need for expensive steel—girded
roofs is gone, the children get
more light and the dangers of fire
and stair accidents are slashed,
he said.
By splitting the classrooms off i
this way, O’Connor said, it is eas-j.^
ier to move children from one class
to another and noise also is re-
duced .This design also has the
They were asked this question:
Copyright, 1953, by The Texas Poll! "Suppose that Eisenhower runs
Disaliusionment"of many' voters i aKai",ln «* a* ,hr. Rt’I,bbli' an
, . Icanuiuato for President, and
by the HPniinli^nn natinnnl uHmin.1 .
« I. WILKES, M*r. PHONE 5 3251
W. R. Garrett Abstract Co.
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Successor to
DeWITT COUNTY ABSTRACT CO. '
UES. rilONE 5-4173
Ad-
Itis Demo-
Republican national admin-Stevenson - runs
istration is indicated by results of1,-ratio opponent. Whom would you
a statewide survey by The Texas j favor?
Voters All
In IU.V> Adults!
Poll which shows President Risen-1
| bower, in spite of his tremendous!
personal popularity in the
would do as well today in
against Adlai Stevenson as
Ei/en/bodijs Clwice
of improving Ins
only the host
b'ceding.
The present head of King Ranch,
cattle,, selecting!
specimens for
the result the ranch developed the! Willie Koehler, self, 6x8, addi-
first new beef breed in more than C°n' $35.
200 years. j Glenn Sigmund, self, shed, $50.
’ Also Have Top Ho^ese | H. Dombluth, Adiekes, add kitch-
Klehcrg also introduced thorou- cn, $2.50(1.
ghhred racing at the ranch.) J. Keseiing, F. Kuecker, add ga-
Since the ranch started raising rage. $500.
thoroughbreds in 1935 its horses1 \V. F. Fritz, Cliff Mauer, repairs,
have won virtually every racing!$225.
honor. Two King Ranch horses' Total $4,210.00.
in that state. j advantage that extra classrooms
The U. S. Office of Education can easily he added when needed.
He said if the savings made by
his proposal were added to teach-
ers' salaries, the teaching profes-
sion would be "transformed.” It
would permit "capable people
who want to teach" to enter the
profession instead of working else-
where they arc now* better paid,
paid.
teach the nation's growing child
population property. To build these
an estimated $10.7 bilion is,need-
ed, but only $5.8 million is avail-
able..
’Connor said now only "special-
ists"—one or two companied in a
Ransom Paid; The Long
Wait; The Story Ends
state,
Favor Stevenson
4M%
47%
a race
Kisenlumer
4\
30
he did
Kefused to say
1
2
Fndeelded
10
1?
Eisenhower in 1952 captured the
electoral vote of traditionally-Dom-
oerntic Texas by winning 53
Opinion undoubtedly is shilling
as a result of disillusionment in!
Ilir
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MARION FETTERS
GENERAL CONTRACTOR
Phone 5-4081 Cuero, Texas
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EDITOR'S NOTE: This is
the last of three dispatches in
which Robert L. Ledterman,
Tulsa, tells of the ransom
dealings in the Bobby Green-
lease kidnap case at Kansas
City. Ledterman, a long-time
friend of the Greenlease fam-
ily, has given this account ~to
the Tulsa World and the
United Press. In the earlier
stories, Ledterman told how
the kidpappers first demand-
ed the $600,000 ransom be de-
livered. When the first deliv-
ery failed, new instructions
were received from the man
who called himself "M.”
By ItOBEKT L. LEDTERMAN
TULSA, Oct. 17,-lUPl— On the
from North Kansas City and said
delivery had been made and re-
turned to the home about 4 a. m.
"M" called and said we had miss-
ed the second message .which we
had not. I told him the money
was deposited. He said, "for good-
ness sake ,go back and get it." He
never used any profanity although
I must confess I did.
I fully expected to find the
money gone and the boy's body in
its place, but the money was still
there. We put it back in the trunk
and got back home about daylight
"M" called about 8:30,a. m. Sun-
day and said he would contact us
later,
’’M’
p. m.
per|iiie Republican 'national (idjiiims-
cent of the popular votes to 47 per j ii ation, as such, and not because
cent for Stevenson ,thc Democratic j President I isenhower is losing ,
presidential candidate. j personal popularity. For in tin's,
If the two were opposing each'same survey, 71 per cent of those,
other in an election today, Steven-j interviewed said (hey approved o!
son ns the Democratic sUindard ;r, way Eisenhower is haiifdhng his |
bearer would have an advantage1 office and only 12 per rent iiuli-J
over Eisenhower. This conclusion h ated definite disapproval. llui;
'is based on study of a statew ide j only one hah of those appi)pving of j
sampling of opinion, including a ; his conduct as President sit a they |
cross section of persons who in j would vote for him for I'o-clertion
1952 favored Eisenhower ovei joh the Republican ticket against
Stevenson by a ratio of 53 to 47; Stevenson,
per cent. ! ___.
These voters, a majority of
whom say they cast ballots for
Eisenhower in the last presiden-
tial election, now lean 48 per cent
toward Stevenson and 1) per cent
toward Eisenhower. One per cent
refused to disclose their standing, j Voting Cah in Jennings and Jim-
and the remaining 10-pee cent were!my Prause are f’uero's new chain-
undecided. ^ , pion snake killers.
Personal interviews were eon- j The two pint sized youngsters
ducted with these voters, as well ns ' visited The Record office Snlur-
with adults who failed to vote .in’!day with a big,prairie runner they
1952, in a survey that eoveied^per-! kiljed til the Jennings home,
sons of all walks of life in all! It was one of two snakes killed
party of the state. I by the boys Saturday, they said.
Snake Ventures
Into Town; Boys
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’ called again about 8:30
that day. I admonished him
ransom delivery at 1:30 a. m. Sun- that it appeared he had been read-
,day, Od 4, we were supposed to ing a 10-rent detective novel and
find a note written in red crayon that he was amateurish I told
|jundei a rock north of N. Kansas;hini it wasn't necessary for us to
CU,\. We had a hell of a time find- climb a tree and look in a bird's
ing it. 1 his note sent us back to an-|ncst or crawl through a culvert on
: intersection where wc were to turnjour bellie* looking for a note I
;right, drive until we came to a saidi ..Gjve us simple ,ns,rucHons.
;certain farm and turn into a road.ni meet you in the middle of Main
| opposite it. j Street or anyw here you say and
Wc couldn t find that road. Wc givp you the money. You product
jeame to o' nightclub and found a ihe boy."
I boy who.lived in the neighborhood) ' Re At The Phone
|i**nd he led us hack to it. It was; J{e said he couldn’t do that but;
a narrow lane, precipitous on,that I.should be at a certain phone
e.uli side. We drove in 75 feet, as number at 11:30 p. m. I had to
I instructed .laid the money along- talk for some time to get him to
side the road and hacked out. jgive me the location of the phone.
Missed Money It was at the Berkshire Hotel, right
Wc phoned the Greenlease home across the street from the LaSalle,
_■ • j where according to the newspapers
; the kidnaper is supposed to have
been staying.
I was at Ihe phone at 11 25 p
m. It rang at 11 31. It was "M ’
lie asked me, "Were you tailed?"
1 told him no. "Can you talk?" 1
said yes, and give it to me simple
He said he wouldn't lie very I n
behind us. I told him when O'Neil
and I returned to the house foi
turn to call, and tell us hr had
the money and where we could get
the boy. lie said lie would.
Money Not ConrcaJi-d
Following his instructions, wc
drove east several miles on U. S
.40 to a restaurant and lafne-d
fight,,,ito . the fust wooden bridge
about a mile. We laid the mon<•>
only partially ronrcaled. next io
’he bridge on the left side of »h
road. Anyone driving along might
have seen it there. It was 12 US
a. m. Monday. Oct. 5.
Then we drove home. In about
five minute s he railed and sa;d he
had the money. I always tV-d to
keep him 9n the phone as lone as
possible and I asked him lr^it
wasn't quite a bit of money. He
Isaid, "We made more money this
week than we did last."
"He told me to go to Pittsburgh
Kan , register at the Besse Hotel
and inform Western Union of my
whereabouts. I asked him how soon
would we get fet boy. He -aid in
about 24 hoar* - \Ve have to
count the money.” I told h.m; "I
hope to meet you some time. ' He
replied:
* "I hope you never do ”
We drove to Pituburgh *mv-
.ng about 5 a m. at this f»int 1
itm.il bfcea iv Duuia. i mi’ dosva*
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