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TIIE CUERO RECORD, CUERO, TEXAS
uJljp (Hufrn SeroriJ
Established In 1394
Published Each Afternoon Except Saturday. and Sunday Morn Inf.
By THE Ct'EBO PUBLISHING CO., Inc.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1953
Entered In the post office at Cueru. Texas, as second class matter
Under Act of Congress March 3, 1897.
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Official Organ of The City of Cucro and County of DeWitt.
Melba and Lamar Fly rcwlez-
vous-ing with old friends in Cor
sicana, Dallas, and Fort Worth
this week-end. This is an annual
affair with the group, and they
planned to take in a couple of
football games Saturday.
Rosemary Steele Sheppard,
wearing pretty red organdy apron,
greeting a few friends who drop-
ped in to have a cup of coffer
with her and her parents Friday
morning. Everyone took occasion
to look over the house which had
been re-decorated for the newly-
weds.
TELEPHONE NO. 5 3131
The prettiest lot of goldcnglow
we've seen—growing at the home
of Dr. Lena Hoffman on North
Gonzales Street.
squad and the show at the half,
but admitted that she woir^tt have
enjoyed a hull fight much more.
Judith Anderson writing from
Dalton, Massachusetts that she
is having a wonderful time. Site
Key To Survival
No phrase In the military lexicon is more familiar to us
all than that of “buying time." America, being a peculiarly
unwarllke nation, with no designs on anybody else's real es-
tate, and rich enough in our own accomplishments that there
can be no envy In our hearts for the possessions of others,
has always had to "buy time'1 as best it could when war clouds
gathered.
It used to be, before World War I, and even World War II,
that we were able to buy years of It. But it will never be that
way again. While we have all realized this vaguely, we are
indebted to the man who should know best, General Curtis
E. LcMay, commander of the Air Force’s Strategic Air Com-
mand, for rubbing our noses in this fact of national existence.
“The long-range bomber and the atomic bomb with its
terrible destructive capacity turn the factor of time against
the defender,” says General LeMay. “Every important target,
in even world's largest nation, can be reached at the most
within two hours after bombers cross its frontier. Time is of
the utmost value. There may not be enough of it once an
atomic attack Is launched.’’
Quoting these biting words in an editorial in the maga-
zine Planes, Admiral DeWitt C. Rasey, USN Ret., goes on to
point out that even though-the atomic bomb dropped on Hir-
oshima is far outclassed by the new models, it never-the-less
did as much damage as two hundred B-29 loads of block-
busters; and that all the damage suffered by Germany In
three-and-a-half years of steady bombing could now be In-1
flicted overnight. "If an attack comes,” says Admiral Ramsey,
“we must operate from the mobilization base which Is in ex- To rcmovc roffec s(nins on whiI0i
lstence on the day the war starts. Time, as never before, has j cotton or linen, pour boiling |
water thru the stain front r
height of two or three feet. If it!
10 and 20 Years Ago
From Record Files
Oct. 18, 1943
Antonio visitors Stanley Kula
svik and daughter Margaret oi
Yorktown, visited here enroute to
Austin ,... Mrs. Harry Lee Wood-
all of Port Arthur was visiting
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. E.
Matthews Mrs. W. R. Rath-
Bishop Jones was greeted hcreiponc of Austin was visiting th«
by scores of friends with a dinner Newton Crains Sterling Booths
at Proctor Hall honoring him and1'eh for Victoria to take part in
Mrs. Jones ... John W. Luddeke, j the pageant of the Queen's Court
Charles M. Reese, and Theodore' • Bil1 Hedges drove to Victoria
A. Reuss were Cadets at SAC, San'10 attend the horse races .... James
Antonio .... Eldred
volunteered in the
Corps, left for the Marine Basei President, were touring Texas
at San Diego, Calif..... Mrs. E. F.jScrviees wcrc Bold in Yorktown
Miles was visiting her mother 'or Warzecha Budwiscr keg
while awaiting Mr. Miles,’ trans- j 'Je0r dropped $1 per 16-gallon keg
fer from San Angelo where he, Lindbergh kidnaping case was
was located ... Mrs. J. R. More- reopened.___
land of Houston was the guest ofj
Schultz who' A. Farley, postmaster general,
U. S. Marine!3™1 Jo,ln Nance Gamer, vice-
Wife Preservers
Bonnie Harrison and Bill Fro*,
bese mighty proud of the new
1954 Plymouth now on display at
their showrooms on. South Esp-
lanade. They have four coming to
them, but only two arrived for
the early showing, and then they
got big-hearted and loaned one to
the dealer in Yorktown who
hadn't received his quota at all.
The one on display here is a good
looking four door model of San
Diego gold.
Mercedes and John Bums Eckert
of Mexico City accompanied us 1o
the football game Friday night,
and we were doubly delighted
that the Gobblers came out on top.!
This was the first game Mercedes' *M'r Af the Alamo Area Council of District and is a former manager 1 years,
had'witnessed, and to say the B<»y Scouts, editor of the I .one of the Scguin unit Guadalupe!
least she was a little confused, j Star Messenger, the official organ County Chamber of Commerce. |
She enjoyed the antics of the pop- „[ nj(, Texas District Brotherhood,j Mr. and Mrs. Kiel, both of
president of the Seguin White Sox, whom are former students of
and a member of the Scguin Lions T.L.C., have three children;. Gar-
Club, the II. U. Wood Post of tin oh. 11; Beverly, 9: and Karen
I American Legion, and Emanuel's' Sue, 4.
j Lutheran Church.: j Kiel formerly made his home!
i He served for a number of in Cucro serving as editor of the!
terms on tlic Itoard of trustees of!Guadalupe Valley Standard, a
j the Seguin independent School ; weekly newspaper for several1
Mrs. David Stiles ... Robert Tay-
lor was starring in ' Bataan’’ ...,!
Lt. Henry Dick Morisse, bomber
navigator, and son of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Morisse at Nordheim,
had been killed in action in|
Europe, they were advised .... Lt.j
Jeter Bentley was home on
leave.
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Oct. 18th, 1933 f
Mrs. Garner Henry and Mrs. [L
J. C. Lambert were injured when Whca you make coleslaw, pyTusTn*
their ear hit a dead calf on the1 8alf led cabbage for a pretty contrast
Cucro-Victoria highway ... Mr.| wC
and Mrs. F, D. Nance were San c*6baiie.
YOU MAKE MORE PROFIT
WHEN YOU GET
LOW COST GAINS
GUEE^Ea *
WANTADS
said the flight to New York was
pleasant and the W. I. Andersens
Jr., met her there. They went'
sight seeing and then drove to I
Dalton arriving at eight o'clock
in th# evening.
Sunday, October 18, is well filled!
with birthdays. George Eckert is|
celebrating his 89th birthday to-'
day, and son John is here from i
Mexico City to celebrate his also.
Ruth Hatfield is also having a
birthday today. Congratulations to
ail.
Home Hint for Today- Lipstick
stains on your best dinner
nap-
with cold;
cream and iben launder as usual. j
kins? Soften them
persists, bleach and rinse thoroly.
become the key factor In our planning for notional survival
In a tlmOf peril.’’
Thus, our brightest hope would seem to He In the adoption j ----
and relentless continuance of that long-range aircraft pro- former fiigrn NpvVimdn
curement program that Congressional and military leaders
have been urging since the close of World War II. If we sit JOIflS jlfllf Al TIC
on our hands now, there will not be billions enough, or work-
ers enough or brains enough In all America once a war start-
ed, to meet our desperate needs fast enough.
"Ask of me anything but time. It Is the one thing I can
not spare,” said Napoleon to one of his officers. And that was
150 years ago!
Sf. Louis Blues
The fat-cats of the AFL heirarchy, lt looks from here,
have declared war on the Elsenhower Administration. The
Garfield Kiel, Seguin business-
man. wijl join the Texas Lutheran
College staff as director of public!
relations, President \V.
haar has announced.
President Kraushaar said Kiel
would assume Ins duties at the
college sometime after January 1
He will succeed Herbert Wovtek.
who recently submitted his resi-
gnation to the board of regents.
Kiel, who is publisher of the
Scguin Enterprise, president of
hostility of the recent St. Louis convention to the courageous Ifhe* ^t^'\1'c.\aSanpi ntin'-' ctT
Vice President Nixon when he appeared to read President |,hp second Seguin businessman to;
Elsenhower’s message, the mocking laughter of the delegates (join the College staff Edward
when he called the Durkin dispute a “misunderstanding,”j.SaKebie.i, president-elect, will ns-J
J‘ ' the College
and the misplaced applause after Mr. Nixon’s statement that: January'*! <lm'PS
If the people felt the Elsenhower Administration was serving: Kiel served as director of pui>-
“the greedy few," lt would lose In 1956 “and lt will deserve relations at the college from
to lose,” were strong Indications. 1194.°,10 1944\ "**’n he rn,0lrJ
__ i military sen ire. He has served as
The rift was further widened by the hour-long, wildly ap- a mcfhbcr of the board of regents
plauded speech of Senator Wayne Morse, the one-man inde-j since 1950 and is a member of the
pendent Party, who declared that he took Mr. Durkin's word rxo<u,lve of the board
that he had an agreement with the President In spite of White fnmtcc!*^"1^ °f ,h° n'hkllc l'om\
House denials, and who called for a Democratic Congress next; lie has taken an active interest
•year, saying, “Government by the country club must be ,n community and church affairs,
brought to an end by November 1954.” [He is an executive hoard niem-
And if further Indication of AFL defection is required,
James L. McDevitt, the big union's political director, In call-
ing on the ten million members for political contributions for
1954 electioneering, said: “We can keep a ground swell of pub-
lic opinion going that Elsenhower and all his moneyed back-
ers will hesitate to buck.”
As we may have mentioned before, one of the more re-
assuring facts of American life is that men and women who
go to work as union members, go to the polls as free citizens.
There is no reason to suspect that they enjoy being told how-
to vote any more than anyone else.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
BY THE TIME the elevator
stopped at the floor occupied by
the office or Spencer and Charles,
and she saw the large black letters
of those names on the door, that
old feeling of fear was clutching
at her heart again. She felt both
hot and cold.
Humphrey Charles made short
work of her dismissal.
He said that he had warned her
what to expect. He didn't care to
have the name of his tirm men-
tioned again in connection with her
indiscretions. He said he didn't
think she was the type of girl he
cared to have tn his organization.
He handed Nancy a check for
two weeks’ pay.
That night a gossip columnist
hinted of the coming engagement
of a prominent young millionaire
and an exotic, black-haired new-
comer from the cast who had be-
F Kr uicJ come an interesting new figure in
j the city's Gold Coast set.
That night Nancy received n
note troni Linda Van V'licL
Would Nancy have luncheon
with her at the Colony Inn tomor-
row at twd?
When Nancy arrived home at the
usual time on the day that she lost
her job she was humming snatches
of a gay song. Mother Kelly gave
her a Quick, searching glance.
**It seems to me you’re pretty
gay for vourself tonight."
Nancy's song was a bluff and
she knew it She was acting,
was whistling in the dark,
mother, with that sharp intuition
of mothers toward their children
knew it and Nancy knew she knew
it.
A babe in the crib, we sometimes observe, hasn't a care
In the waorld. On second thought, the child might be cor
eemed iCUe realized he hat years to go. Is out of a job af
owes the government two thousand dollars.
After Humphrey Charles had
handed Nancy a check tor two
weeks pay, she had been over-
whelmed with an Impulse to tear
it into bits and fling' it Into his
tare.
Instead, she had taken it. taken
both the check and his cutting re-
marks because in that instant be-
tween the time ne had held the
check and the time that' she had
taken it Iron his hand, a succes-
sion ol pictures went flashing
through her brain.
Proud as she might be. there
was the picture ot Benjamin Stig-
gms, the landlord, cabling for his
rent that very night
Proud as she might be, there
Pete, the elevator man, tried to
make conversation on the way
down. She wanted to scream, "Oh,
Pete, shut up." She conquered the
impulse and replied mechanically
to the tact that It looked as
though a storm was coming. She
didn't know what she was saying.
She only knew that she had to get
off somewhere by herself and think.
A tow minutes IB^tr she found
herself m the reading room of the
public library. She couldn't re-
member how she got there, or why
she went there. Something in her
subconscious mind must have told
her that there it would be quiet.
She could try to think things out
She took a book from the
shelves. She sat With It open in
front of her for half an hour pre-
tending to , read before she was
even conscious of the title, ft was
"Heavens My Destination," by
Thornton Wilder. It brought an
ironic smile lo ncr lips that mir-
rored the thought:
"I wonder what mine is?"
Her quo; tlon started a new line
of thought and she pursued the
idea of ones destiny so intently
that sue torgot her surroundings,
forgot everything but her own de-
termination not lo sit passively by
and lot destiny take whatever
course it would.
She slammed the book shuL
"I'll make my own destiny."
The slamming ot the book and
Nancy s declaration that she meant
to be a whisper, but somehow came
She lout a most audible statement, star-
Her I tied the bespectacled librarian who
had been arranging books behind
Nancy s chair. Nancy hadn t
heard her silent approach.
The woman jerked. She had
nerves written all over her. Her
Angers started fluttering about her
throat in Zasu Pitts fashion.
"Oh, my, you frightened me so
What wit* it you said?"
i "1 said one s destiny is what one
makes it. I've just had another
battle with myself and I think I've
won.”
The bespectacled ones Jaw
dropped.
"Wh a-a-a-t?"
“oh, nothing. I'm sorry I
frightened you." ,
Nancy left the building, her mind
set on one thing. Site would not
announce the loss ot her job s;
home that night. She had two
weeks' pay in tier purse. Two
was the picture of her father, sit- weeks ffi which to find another Job.
lir.g in his stocking (ecL getting ! Two weeks of grace. She would
gloomier and gloomier with the rr- | keep up her spirits at any cost,
ports each night that he bad found I She reflected that Moira and
no work lha* day. j Sam were out of town. They had
Proud as sne might be. there i gone to New Orleans Sam was
was the picture ot herself Uesper- ■ following the races. Well, all the
ately snatching #verv edition of I better. Even It she didn't get a
every newspaper to scan the coJ- job in two weeks, she would be
ufnns, "Help. Wanted. Female." saved from a lot ot Moira's gabble
She had taken the cheek and j Nancy spent the rest ot the
•he had rushed from the office : afternoon at a movie. How strange
ithout bothering lo take a few it seemed lo be in the theater ui j
rsor.ai belongings from her desk. ! the daytime. It was filled with'
hex of powder. »<omt finger nail j women. Nancy pondered upon how
;sh. She even left a new pair many of them, like herself, mufht
„f rubbers and an umbrella. [be snatching at a few hours or es-
cape before they laced realities
again.
The movie was over before her
regular quitting time—what had
been her quitting time. She walked
home to kill time and timed her-
self to arrive at the usual hour.
She had started to sing as she
entered the house and had been
met with:
"It seems to me you're pretty
gay tor yourselt tonight." Her
mother nodded toward a letter ly-
ing on the labio beneath the
cracked lampshade.
“There's a letter for you. It's got
some awful tancy writing.”
Nancy picked up the letter. The
envelope was of heavy, expensive
hnen. It was addressed in bold,
vertical strokes, with little circles
instead ot dots above the I's. It
struck Nancy as being studied
sophistication in penmanship.
In the letter Linda Van Vliet
said that she had something to
teLl that Nancy ought to know
about, and she thought the Colony
Inn after the rush of the luncheon
hour would be a quiet and pleas-
ant place in which to cat. She said
she knew Nancy would take a half
holiday.
Nancy read the letter, her ,
mother’s curious eves upon ncr.
"Who's that from?"
Nancy found herself telling her
mother, the person she loved dear-
est in all the world, another fib.
"Oh. it's just another ad Some
new stufit they call personalized
advertising. There s going to be a
sale. They make the announce-
ments read like personal letters.
It's a form of flattery in advertis-
ing they re using now."
Mother Kelly resumed her rock-
ing.
"H-u-m-p-h. If that am t non- ;
sense."
Nancy agreed that it was and
hurried to her bedroom, where sne j
re-read the tetter, tore it in two
and then neld the pieces together
to re-read it.
She rememtx red her decision
that ones destiny Is what one
makes it. remaps this letter was
a link in the chain of n-r destiny.
She decided to accept L.ie invita-
tion. He intuition told her to be
on ncr guard.
Linda Van Vhet was sitting in
a booth near the fireplace of the
almost deserted Colony Inn when
Nancy arrived. She was dressed
in black and with that Duchess
of Windsor simplicity. She knew
how to acccctliate her good points,
ana Nancy knew it.
She spied Nancy.
“Oh. Miss Kelly, Tm so glad you
came."
"Thank you—what Is It?"
“Won t you havc*omething ?"
"I've nad luncheon, thank you."
Sh4 Hadn't.
Not even a pot of tea?"
Well, if this was going to be a
catfesl It might as well be over
tea.
“Yes, I'll have tea.*
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