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A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS ITS COMMUNITY
Tho Weather
SOUTH CENTEAL TEXAS —
Partly cloudy, turning slightly
cooler extreme aorth Friday and
north portion Friday night. Satur-
day partly cloudy aad mild. Mod-
erate southerly winds on the coast,
becoming east to northeast Friday
night and Saturday.
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CUERO, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1955
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f%TbwnTaIIC 470 Cuero Youngsters
■ -1May Get Salk Vaccine
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the city
An all-out war against ar- I Detailed plans now are being
I
madlllOS appears to be worked out for the possible admin-
istration of polio vaccine to 470
Cuero children who will be elig-
ible to receive it if it is licensed,
Dr. F. A. Prather, city Health Of-
ficer, declared today.
As has been announced by state
necessary within
limits of Cuero.
More thn one neighbor-
hood has reported. an inva-
sion of thf pests which have
been known to undermine
house foundations.
They wreck havoc with
shrubs, flotters and lawns.
We’re nbt going to recom-
mend traps.' They pull out
of them, ifaft will we recom-
mend a poison. Contact your
County Agent and get de-
tails of-the poison which
does the trick.
* * #
Mrs. J. C. Dobbs, recently
named by the Music Lovers
Club as the “outstanding
woman of the year,” has won
a long merited honor.
Mrs. Dobbs has contribut-
ed much to the community
life of £uero, to the civic
and church life of Cuero.
She has earned her or-
chid.-
To Mr* Carolyn Ferguson
goes another orchid. Mrs.
Ferguson was runner-up for
the honor and we are sure
will be a likely successor to
Mrs. Dobbs in the years to
come.
Our heartiest of con’gratu-
laUons to- both of these out- vaccinating at
w, * " * ^ p066It*< ■ WC P8
standing Cuero women.
* * *
Say kids . „ get out those
'brgyote or -paint brushes . ..
watch Sunday’s Record and
try to-win Iree passes to the
Holiday on Ice, big ice car-
nival to be staged in San
Antonio April 9 and 10.
Two separate contests
will be run In The Record.
You may enter both.
Get your entries in early.
Remember, the first cartoon
for you to color will appear
tn Sunday’s Record.
Decoration Day will be ob-
served at Hillside cemetery
on April 17 and we are sure
that all property owners
whose lots. ,»re not under
perpetual care will have
their lots'In most attractive
condition for the observ-
ance.
Visitors from distant cit-
ies annually make this pil-
grimage to Hillside and all,
we are certain, want the
tional Foundation without charge
for the product to State Health
Officers for use in the above
groups, if licensed by the Feder-
al Government. Supplies also will
be distributed through usual
channels at the same time.
The National Foundation has fi-
nanced the development and pro-
health officials, all first end sec-1 duction of the Salk vaccine. Con-
grade pupils in public, private j tracts were made with manufac-
and parochial schools in the state j turers for a supply of viccine cost-
and all children who were part
of the test groups in the 1954 vac-
cine field trial but did not re-
ceive vaccine at that time, are in-
cluded in the planned program, he
explained. It also will be avail-
able to others through physicins
at the same time.
But parents were warned by Dr.
Prather not to jump to the conclu-
sion that the current planning in-
dicated the vaccine already had
been proved effective.
"The vaccine which will be Tur-
ing $9,000,000 in March of Dimes
funds. This enabled manufacturers
to keep their production facilities
in operation during the waiting
period and be ready to go into full
production as soon as the vac-
cine is licensed.
"Vaccine would be given by
the Health Department this spring
only to those eligible children
whose parents sign forms request-
ing it,” Dr. Prather added. "It
is a completely voluntary program.
The forms will be distributed
nished by the National Founda- {through the schools beginning this
tion for Infantile Paralysis is the
same vaccine that was given to
440,000 children last spring,” he
said. "We do not know yet
whether it really prevents paraly-
tic polio . Until April, when we
will learn the results of the evalu-
ation study now being conducted
at the University of Michigan, we
cannot know if the vaccine is ef-
fective.
"But we fannot wait until then
for planning for the protection of
as many of our children as pos-
sible. Vaccinating large numbers
of children is a big and impor-
tant job, entailing many procedur-
al tasks that can’t be performed
over night.
‘If the license is granted In
April, we must be ready to start
once, so that, if
can before «uw
schools close and the polio sea-
son starts. We want to give the
vaccine early so that many chil-
dren can be protected before polio
appears in their communities,
i.. "This program would not be an-
T other test but the first use of a
newly established preventive mea-
sure.”
Under the direction of the State
Health Department, Dr. Prather
has been conferring with school
authorities and physicians who
have pledged their full coopera-
tion.
The polio vaccine will be fur-
nished from a supply being pur-
chased by the National Foundation
with March of Dimes funds. It
month. We should like to know as
soon as possible how many eligible
children we must provide for, if
the vaccination program is carried
out. If the vaccine is not licens-
ed, there will be no program.’*
Germans Approve Treaty
Making Nation Sovereign
Over 300 To ComDete
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ROSILYN RANGE of Fort Sam
Houston. Tex., la ahown In the
leap that won him a first place
In the broad Jump at the Pan
American games In Mexico City.
He did 26 feet, four and one-
eighth Inches. (International)
Gobblers To Defend
Relay Records Here
Telephone Tax
Report Correct
Says Bradshaw
Goliad State Park May
Get Funds For Up Keep
GOLIAD, (Sp) — The hopes of
a group of Goliad citizens, with
the backing of the whole township,
who have been active in endeaver-
ing to secure State aid for the
improvement and upkeep of the
historic Goliad State Park are near
realization. _ __„ ^ .
On ThursdayTTftarch 14, the T ex-
as Senate approved a special ap-
propriation in the budget of $20,000
annually lor two years fnr the
Park. This appropriation still ha»
to go before the House of Repre-
sentatives where a special appro-
priation of $5000 for two years has
been recommended. It is the aim
chairman of the group, and invit-
ed Frank Quinn, chairman of the
State Parks Goard to talk to the
Goliad Chamber of Commerce on
the subject of park maintainence.
Senator William Fly of Victoria
and Representative Tom Cheatham
of Cuero were brought to Goliad
and were shownthc condition of
die GolTSd StaTeT’aVk.
Letters were written to Gover-
nor Allan Shivers, outlining the
marked reed for aid by the park;
as well as to all Senators and
Representatives in the State. Club
members from the various local
clubs wrote letters to Congress-
me, and pictures showing the ter-
to recommend this amount be
raised to $20,000 annually for two
years.
This action came about in this
way: In November- of 1954, a com-
mittee of citizen* including Sha-
dow Mabry, Oscar Walker, O’Lee
Schultze, R. L. Person, H. P.
Clarke, and Bobby Ramsey was
formed to work for the improve-
will be made available by the Na- ment of the park. Mabry was made
of Representative Tcm Cheatham rible ot ,he park were
Gas Reserve For Area
Is Good, Rotary Told
Sid Windham of Cuero, superin- tion.
tendent of measurements and dis- The speaker said the system has
sent. Then Senator Fly and repre-
sentative Cheatham became in-
strumental in getting the measure
before the Appropriations Com-
mittee. The Special Appropriation
was then put into the Budget, and
the outcome is now anxiously and
hopefully awaited.
Five Mile HD Club Hears
Talk On Civil Defense
More than three hundred South
Texas high school athletes, repre-
senting thirty cities, have been
entered in the 1955 Gobbler Re-
lays to be staged in Gobbler stad-
ium on Saturday, Hansel Mang-
um. Director of Athletics at Cuero
High announced Friday morning
upon closing of entry lists.
Teams from Boeme, Floresvllle,
Ganado, Goliad, Gonzales, Hallet-
tsville, Karnes City, Kenedy, Lu-
ling, Port Lavaca, Refugio, Schul-
enburg, San Marcos Academy,
Sheridan,Shine, Sinton, St. Josephs
of Victoria, Stockdale, Taft, Three
Rivers, Yorktown, Woodsboro, La
Coste, Flatonia, Weimar, Beeville,
George West, Edna, Lockhart and
Yoakum, will compete in the meet
which gets underway at 9:30 a. m.
The Cuero Gobblers will be de-
fending champions.
This year’s Relays promise to be
the most spectacular ever staged
here and will be recognized as
one qf the top high school track
and ^ield meets staged in Texas.
Such top notch performers as
Chambers of Luling, a mile run-
nerj who placed second in the
Borider Relays, Zamzoe of Three
Rivfcrs and Buzzy Muenter of
in the quarter mile, Wat-
Port Lavaca Ip the .springs
who has been clocked at 9.9
100 yard dash, the mile re-
ams from Cuero and Three
, afid the'TTee» footed Bob-
focha of Gonzales, will be
in action along with the
creMm of the crop from many
otl/fr towns in this area.
inals in the meet begin at 1:15.
rents include the 120 yard
higlfl hurdles; 100 yard dash; 440
yard!dash; 180 yard low hurdles;
880 j4rd run; 220 yard dash; mile
GRAND JURY
IN RECESS
The Five Mile
Wednesday with
patching for the Wilcox Trend
Gas Gathering System, Inc. de-
livered a very interesting talk
Thursday to Cuero Rotarians at
their weekly meetjpg.
He was introduced by Elmer
Luddeke, program chairman.
Mr. Windham spoke on the es-
, tablishment of the organization
cemetery to present its most | j,ere jn January 1953 and explain-
attractive appearance
this occasion.
* ¥ ¥
ted their system of operation.
He told the group that a number
J of people have inquired as to
I what the title of the company j
Ouero’s Cancer Fund drive means. He explained that Wilcox
goes Into It* final two weeks refers to the gas producing geo-
within a verv few davs logical zone; Trend geographical-
Withln a very e y | jy speaking means the sand- has
Drive leaders are anxious a definite trend; and Gathering re-
(hat Cuero and Dewitt coun-: fers to the company’s chief func-
fy be the first to report the
(Continued on Page 6i
MAOHCAO
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TMt utan. far soma one who
fains admission without paring,
atartad in hemps I wham most of Rw
I eovWrft road or writs. Tha
Na atshan mf tha theatre was
I whh two ifcvHs and Rwaa
ns tham become known as
Captain Of Finnish
Ship Refuses To Put
In To Neutral Harbor
| HELSINKI, Mar. 18.—(UP)—
The captain of the Finnish tanker
Aruba refused Friday to put into
Ceylon as demanded by his rebel-
lious crew and prepared if neces-
sary to transfer his jet fuel car-
go at a rendezvous in
sea.
It was not known whether the
trans-shipment would be attempt-
ed in an effort to get the cargo
to Communist China to which the
kerosene was originally consign-
ed, hr whether the cargo was op-
en for dickering.
The United States bought the
China-bound fuel cargo of the Fin-
nish tanker Wiima off Singapore
CUERO, Tex., Mar. 18.-(UP)
—A DeWitt county grand jury in-
j vestigating the veterans land pro-
IIr> _. gram was in week-long recess
HD Club met | Friday nfl(,r u s Rpp John Bel,
Mrs. Lawrence ^ a former state senator, conferred
Keseling presiding. Jwith the group for a little more
Twenty-eight members and two thnn ,wo hours Thursday,
visitors heard Mmes. W. F. Bueh- Bell, a Cuero attorney, returned
rig, Clifford Spies, Bernardlfmnl VVashinS‘°" af,<,r testimony
_ . T. „ . I before House and Senate investi-
Lernpe, and Jim Peyton g.ve a|eatin!? committees identlfled hlm
splendid talk on civil defense, ac- j as the recipient of legal fees stem-
cording to Miss Ema Gohmert, > ming from block land deals now
publicity chairman. (under inquiry.
Mrs; Buehrig is chairman of the Th? former state senator said
civil defense program. earlier he would seek opportunity
The women are to conduct a to appear before the legislative
food concession at the livestock j committees, but no definite date
show next month. , has been announced.
At Wednesday’s meeting, Mrs.! The DeWitt county grand jury,
Newton Gohmert gave a demon-1 which returned for a one-day ses-
stration on how to remove stains, sion Thursday, recessed until next
Tho Wai Co-hostesses at the social hour Thursday when it was anticipated
The local personnel includes 30 ■ were Mrs. Walter Du Bose
persons. The executive office is Mrs. Edwjn Goebel.
located at Dallas, a small office I _
is operated at Three Rivers, and
four people are employed at an
office in Beeville.
The compressor nation at Tho-
rn as ton is 2200 HP, he explained.
“We operate 24 hours a day,
and ours is said to be the longest
wet gas system in the world,”
Windham declared.
The system's operations extend
run; 440 yard relay; mile relay;
high jump; shot put; pole vault;
broad jump and discus.
If fair weather prevails, several
Gobbler relay records are slated
to fall, observers believe.
Refreshments including food and
cold drinks will be available on
the grounds during the day.
Excessive Speed
Charge Filed
After Four Hurt
Four out-of-county persons who
evidently left their four leaf clov-
ers behind were hospitalized here
in Burns Hospital Thursday night
as result of a traffic accident .1
mil* southeast of Westhoff on FM
240, according to Patrolman F. B.
Byrne, who said all but one were
later dismissed following treat-
ment for cuts and bruises.
A charge was filed against the
driver in Justice Court at West-
hoff.
Byrne said a 1954 Buick owned
and operated by Richard Anton
Radicke, 31, of 106 Kashmuir
Place, San Antonio, hit a parked
pickup truck belonging to Joe
Rayna, knocking the vehicle into
Aaytia s house, damSfeing it slignt*
ly.
The occupant* of the house es-
caped Injury. . *
In the ear with Radicke were
his wife, and Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Kreuger of 2317 10th Street, Bay
City.
Mrs. Radicke remained in the
hospital for further treatment. The
officer reported that Radicke lost
C. C. F.radshaw, district manag-
er for the Southwestern Bell Tele*
phone Company, in a telephone
interview with The Record from
Uvalde Thursday, said he regret-
ted that the statement issued by
the telephone company Wednesday
concerning tax payments was mis-! Parjs accordg
understood by some.
The. company, thru Tom Gieb, Germans/as a major force in the
Agreement
Permits
Rearming
By JOSEPH W. GR1GO
BONN, Germany, Mar. 19.—
(UP)—The Bonn government com-
pleted ratification Friday of the
to rearm 500,000
staff assistant, announced Wednes-
day it had made payment of $2,041-
.39 to the city in settlement of the
lax on gross receipts for 1954.
Gieb further stated “with this
payment the telephone company*
local tax bill for the year totaled
$13,262.16.”
"We stand by the $13,262.16
statement," Bradshaw said, "but
we sineerely regret that our state-
ment was misunderstood by some,
to mean we claimed we had paid
western defense system against
Communist aggression.
The West German upper house
set its final stamp of approval on
the set of treaties which restores
German sovereignty, ends the Al-
lied occupation and permits Ger*
many to arm as a part of the
western European union and
NATO.
"What happened today means
wiping out of Yalta,” Chancellor
the total amount to the city of i Konrad Adenauer said after the
Cuero.
"The $2,041.39 went to the city
ns gross receipt tax and the com-
pany had previously paid the city
a property tax of $2,961.38. That
was all.
The remainder of the $13,262.16
paid locally by the telephone com-
pany represented school district
and county taxes. The county tax
payments went to both DeWitt
and Gonzales counties as Gieb ex-
plained In his original statement,
Bradshaw said.
control of his car as he rounded
a sharp curve, causing it to skid
into Rayna's truck which was
parked on the roadside. He was
traveling toward Westhoff.
The charge was "exceeding safe
speed”.
Time of the accident was about
10:30 p.m. according to Byrne.
145 miles of large diameter pipe-
lines, and 140 miles of small lines.
The trend begins near Seven
Sisters which is located at the
Duval-McMullen county line, and
terminates at Sheridan In Lavaca
county.
The system began full-scali oper-
ations here August 1, 1953.
“The gas reserve picture looks
more favorable now than when we
first began here,” the speaker in-
formed the Rotarians.
and the group might hand down an in-
terim report on its inquiry.
Reservations For CDA
Banquet Are Available
All those wishing reservations
for Sunday evening's banquet to
be held at the Civic Center by the
Catholic Daughters of America
following their district meeting
are requested to get in touch with
Mrs. Ben Prause, she has an-
nounced.
St. Michael’s Court No. 347 will
host courts from Yoakum, York-
town, HallettsviUe, and Shiner,
Mrs. Joe Hoffman, district deputy,
to preside.
Stockmen Meet
AtXive Oak
For Beef Study
ApproxIinctely ” DeV.'Ut Coun-
ty stockmen were present Thurs-
! day evening at a gathering of the
Texas Beef Council at the Live
Oak Club which Reiffert Black-
well presided.
Texas Beef was featured, and
the affair was sponsored by Farm-
hilt Mills.
Leo Welder of Victoria, district
chairman, spoke on the purposes
of the Council and why it was
established.
He pointed out that/the present
annual per capita consumption of
beef is 80 pounds, and that the
Council is endeavoring to double
this.
At the close of his talk, Welder
introduced Bill Sewell of Fort
Worth, a representative of the
Council, who is in charge of the
campaign now underway to per-
suade Texans to eat more beef.
Enough Travel
HAMONY, Minn. (UP)- Gran-
ville Bates, postoffice employee
here for 37 years, traveled 458,000
miles without a single accident as
n rural mall carrier.
HIS ONLY BIRTHDAY PHOTO
Band Parents Contribute
$1,000 Toward Uniforms
A check For $1,000 denoting many | football games in all types of
hours of hard labor during the weather, promoting magazine
present school term was presented sales, and sponsoring similar pro-
through 54 oil fields, and 170 gas to the Cuero Independent School jeots at which all worked very
wells, according to Windham, who Board Friday morning by Mrs. diligently. None of the funds were
said lines run through Duval, Live j Charles Riebsclager, treasurer secured through downtown solici-
Oak, Karnes, Bee, • McMullen. ; for the Cuero Band Parents or- tations.
Goliad, DeWitt. and Lavaca coun- ganization. as their portion of a "The Band Parents Association
| pledge toward pag-ment of the (is to be highly commended
ties.
The reflector atop the building
the open adjoining the local office was ex-
plained by Windham who said the
apparatus is a part of the com-
pany's micro-wave system. It en-
ables them to have a picture at
all times of how much gas is going
through their lines and what the
pressure is.
Another interesting angle point-
ed out by Windham is that gas
accounts, like bank accounts, must
balance.
for
Morrison concluded.
band uniforms, according to Supt their efforts,
E. B. Morrion. i - — —..........
coSIS. £ Si Guard Team Defeats
for, Morrison said, the Band Par-
ents pledging to pay $1,500, and!
the balance defrayed by the
Board.
The Band Parents will pay the
remainder of their pledge, $500,
next school term, the superintend-
Rifle Club Members
A five-man team from the Cue-
ro National Guard defeated a five-
man team from the Cuero Rifle
and Pistol Club Thursday evening
in a match held at the armory,
, *"* ' , according to W. B. MeClurg, who
. . .. ,__,. Prior to presenting the speaker, Mrs Gordon Thompson is pres- said the score ended up 1581- 1877.
two >cars ago and took it aboard ^ Tiffin toki the members next ident of the organization. jt
a U. S. Navy tanker in the open ; week's luncheon will be held at1 Morrison said the
sea to end an earlier Aruba in- the Brothers Chapel of the Metho- raised the hard way. the mothers ‘ followed by LeRoy Cobb and Wiley
t,dcr/ Church. maintaining concessions at the Cheatham.
was a four-position match
money was ( with Bobby Fischer. high man
successful conclusion of his long
and hard fight for ratification.
France to Vote Next Week—
Of the major posters only
France has not completed ratifi-
cation. The French upper house
votes next week and if the ac-
cords pass then Belgium, The
Netherlands and Luxembourg wer#
expected to follow swiftly. Brit-
ain and Italy have ratified the
pacts.
At the same time the Bundes-
rat upper-Awiac final
proval to the crisis-loaded Fran-
co-German pact to Europeanize
tha *09-square-rude eoal and steel
territory between the two coun-
tries.
Passage of the Paris accords
was a certainty. Approval of the
unpopular agreement to place the
Saar under a neutral commission- 0
er until a German peace treaty/^
was a different matter and there
were fears that publication of the
Yalta agreements would provide a
fatal snag.
Seise on Yalta Secrets—
Opponents of the Saar agree,
ment seized upon the Yalta se-
crets as proof of Anglo-American
Irresponsibility and French hatred.
But Socialist efforts to delay this
part of the "package agreement”
was voted down by 21 to 17.
Altogether there w-ere four
agreements—all of them passed
by the Bundestag at the end of
last month. Passage of all four
was necessary for them to come
Into effect. The four pacts were:
1. Italian and West German
membership in the Western Eu-
ropean Union WEU with Britain.
France, Belgium and The Neth-
erlands.
2. The restoration of West Gen.
man sovereignty, signed by the
three occupying powers, the
United States^ Britain and France.
3. Admission of West Germany
to the North Atlantic Treaty Or-
ganization, signed by the 14 NATO
members. Germany pledges not to
use its forces for reunification of
Germany or to change the West
German frontiers.
4. The Saar agreement, signed
by France and West Germany.
A
WOtlD-fAMID scientist Dr. Albert Einstein poses tn Princeton.
N. J, for Us only 76th birthday photo. He la shown with artist
BanjaaMa Certuana who presents him with a painting of himself.
Photo was mags with Dr, Einstein a camera (lutrmaiionoij
Architect Tells
P-TA Of Modern
School Building
A g/wl attendance a* the JNa
C. French Parent-Teacher Asso-
ciation meeting held Thursday
evening at the Cuero High
School auditorium heard Arthur
Fehr. Austin architect, speak on
"Modern School Architecture,” ac-
cording to Mrs. W. L. Ferguson,
Jr., program chairman.
Mr. Fehr who arrived in Cuero
Thursday afternoon, was taken on
a tour of the schools by Supt. E.
B. Morrison, following his arrival.
During his address to the group,
Mr. Fehr showed slides illustrat-
ing modem school architecture,
and commented on them.
A graduate of the University of
Texas, the architect has traveled
extensively, and two yean ago
was selected one of ten architects
from throughout the country to
make an inspection tour of the re-
construction and post war planning
in Germany
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