The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 158, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 6, 1965 Page: 1 of 6
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-Local Weather-
Partly eloudy and warm. Af-
ternoon sad evening showers
over about 20 per cent of area.
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Otero, Gonzales, Branham.
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VOL. 71—NO. 158
Fighting In
Viet Nam
Is Severe
SAIGON (UPl.i — American,
Australian and Vietnam e s e
troops carried out another mas-
live sweep through the Commu-
nists' notorious Zone D area 30
miles north of Saigon today in
he second joint search and de-
stroy operation In a week.
The operation was a few miles
from the area where U. S. Air
(•’orce B52 strategic bomb e r s
from Guam hit the war zone
-m Monday morning in the sec- j
md such strike of the war.
Zone D is an area of jungles j
and swamps believed tn contain
many secret Viet Cong head-
quarters and supply dumps. Pre-
vious raids have netted vast
quantities x of supplies but i n
every case the elusive guerril-
las could not be found. No con-
ract had been made in today’s
operation by late afternoon.
Far to the north 80 valiant de-
fenders of the Ba Gia garrison
330 miles northeast of Saigon
were reported holding out
against repeated human wave 1
assaults by Communist guerril-
las who overran the outpost
Monday. L
A. IT. S spokesman said casu- \ C AH A a T a /''* a
aide, among govemmest troops; 541 /\t LftXft LOUIlt
CUERO, TEXAS 77954, TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1965
6 PAGES - Sc
More Than 3,000 Attend
Lions Charity Carnival
at Cuero Municipal Park
RESULT OF DA NANG IMPENETRABILITY—This is oos of ths planes, a C-130 Hercules, de-
stroyed by Viet Cong mortar attack at that big "impenetrable” Da Nang airbase in South
Viet Nam. The infiltrator* attack destroyed me damaged 2S aircraft and killed four
Americans, injured acme 80 others. /RadiopKoto I
Highway Traffic Toil
mcluded 30 dead, 42 wounded
and 109 missing. Among them Bt { nUrd Press International
were one dead American, three , to„ or highway deaths
wounded and two missing. j during the Fourth of July
Heavy fighting continued there j w ecken<3 set a record for the
today with die defender fight- sccond consecutive year. Amer-
ing off the Reds with rifle fire
with the help of V. S. Air Force
B57 jets. The Viet Cong was re-
ported bombarding the defend-
ers with mortars.
IT. S. planes flew more than _
100 sorties during the day in an j
effort to locate and destroy two !
long-range 105 millimeter hosvit- j
tiers captured by the Viet Cong
in their first assault. It was the
first time the Viet Cong had cap-
tured such heavy' weapons i n
good working order and with
ammunition.
Tn Saigon American authori-
ties evacuated the Rex Bachelor
officers quarters in downtown
Sen. Richter Named
To Southern Regional
Education Board
AUSTIN IU Pi < -*'«Gwvr» "John
Connally today named State
Sen. Walter Richter of Gonzal-
es to the Southern Regional Ed-
ucation Board of Gmtrol and
Rep. Don Caveness of Austin to
the board's legislative advisory
council. . '
Ricliter also will serve a s
Texas' second member of the
Saigon after receiving a report | Legislative Advisory Council,
a bomb had been planted in the
d.ning area. The six story’ ma-
sonry’ building is the most im-
;x>rtant BOQ in Saigon, housing J
field grade officers major and
above.
IT. .5. and Vietnamese military
police and a squad of bomb f
specialists carefully searched th _ _ ,
building Police Chief Charley Clark
The fighting at Ba G.a was .
leans died at the rate of more'
than one every nine minutes. |
A United Press International
count at 9:30 a m. EDT showed!
541 traffic deaths. The old kill-;
er, fireworks, claimed only;
three lives. The breakdown of
all accidents:
Traffic ............ *41
f)runnings .............. . 15S I
Plane* ...........................8
Miscellaneous ....... IS
fIrm uiVs ^ ■ n.h S
ToUl ........... 7*5
California led the* nation with
52 traffic deaths, folknved by
Ohio 37, New York 35, Missouri
31, Texas 27, Illinois 24 and
Michigan 21. Only Alaska and
Delaware were spared deaths
of any kind. *
The National Safety Council
n.j^iciaui r. > rwi > wum ii. , ----- - -------- -----— —-----
Richter succeeds Rep. George! predicted between 470 and 570
Hinson of Mineola for a term | persons would die during the 72
expiring June 30. 1968.
Cuero Police Chief
Back From Vacation
hour period from 6 p.m. local
| time Friday until midnight
'Monday night.
Rifle And Pistol
Club Meets Tonight
In its tiilrd day.
Airman Caraway
Due Back After
Carribean Trip
LSS AMERICA - July 3
Airman I-arrv B. Caraw a y,
L'SN. son of L. B. Caraway of
406 W. French St.. Cuero. will
return to Norfolk, Va., in early
July aboard the attack aircraft
carrier USS America after a
*wo month deployment to the
< 'aribbean.
Operating out of Guantanamo
Bay. Cuba. America underwent
tier- first operational readiness
training and Inspection since
she wgs eqmmi,ssipned in Janu-
uy, The deployment also let the
carrier fire her 'Terrier” sur-
lace-to-air missiles "for hie first
time.
During be; deployment. Am-.
»nca v isited Sti Thomas in the
Virgin Islands
DID YOU
KS’fiW THAT:
Police Chief
has returned from hi* vacation
which took h:m to various An important meeting of the
' parts of the state. Cuero Rifle and Pistol Club will
Clarks said he more or less i be held this evening at *7:30
! went on an '"officers’ tour . vis- j o’clock at the DeWitt County El-
I iting officers all the way from ! ectric Co-operative Inc., accord-
| Uvalde to El Paso; then back ! ing to Howard Gandy, pre-
! through North Texas before re-; sident.
|-turning home. He said be had j Chief discussion w ill be the
a most delightful and tnlsreist- rifle and shotgun range and
mg time while away. , committee report*.
Cops Kill
Gunman In
Pittsburgh
By ROBERT S.MIZDi
Lulled Press International
PITTSBURGH (UPTV - A love-
crazed gunman killed the father
of his teen-aged girlfriend and
a pro football player turned po-
liceman today before lie was
shot to death while cowering in
a willow tree.
Leroy Scott, 25, an albino Ne-
gro with blond hair and hazel-
colored eyes, held more than 300
policemen at bay under cover
of night.
When day broke, an army of
police moved into a heavily
wooded area where he had taken
refuge. Three of them found
him 25 feet off a narrow- path
known as Sylvan Av. They
opened fire simultaneously and
he fell dead from four bullet j
wounds of the chest. 1 j
Scott. w!x> had a record of
burglary and reckless driving.
Adcock
Buried At
Thomaston
Last riles for Rennie Marvin
Adcock, 87, who resided at 312
VT. Court House St., were held
Monday at J p.m. at Freund
Chapel. The Rev. O. A. Frank*
lin. Assembly of God pastor of-
ficiated and burial was i n
Thomaston cemetery.
Mr. Adcock died Sunday at
3:45 am. in a local hospital.
He was born May 15, 1878 in
Goliad Co., a mm of Julius and
Manda Sparks Adcock.
His marriage to Miss Lillie
Jones took place July 10. 1898.
Surviving are the widow: ten
^taM^era|X°n
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MORE I.OSA THAN PROFIT •» jr ■%
As ha.-’ been widely publiciz- j IVlOIlflBy
ed on stage and screen, in songi •'
and story, ' You cant take it Funeral seri.ces for Zebuion
with you ” Bui. as Congress-
man Eugene J. Keogh of New
York pointed out on the floor
of the House. the other day.
you can't leave it either!
Vance Nixon. 76-year-o!d retir-
ed lawy er who died Sunday at
5 a.m. in a rest home at York-
town. were held Monday at 10
Rev. Louis Solomon, Presbyter-
ian minister from Gonzales offi-
That is. if you have worked a m_ at Freund Chapel. The
hard enough to own a business 1
or otherwise achieve estate tax
brackets, you can’t leave any
part of it to the people you; ciated and interment was in Me-
would choose to hate it until rrvory Gardens Ccmtery.
Uncle has been cut in, and ex- j yjr x,-lxon who was a native of
travagantly' _ Luling, resided at 1009 E.
Church St.
He was a veteran odior W f
He was a veteran of World
Originally passed in 1916 as a
revenue measure, the Federal
estate lax levied one percent;
on estates of 850,000 and upward » j , «
children. o, „n p,™«. Bo., | <*..
.Mrs. Adam Kohutek of San An-
tonio; Mrs, Roy Pearson of
Yorktown; Miss Evie Adcock.
Mrs. P. J. Harris and Mrs.
Rueben Harwood all of Cuero;
sons. Cal Adcock of Cuero;
Ocylee of Point Comfort; John-
ny of Springfield, Mo.; Dsve of
Kerrville and Tom Adcock of
Kenedy; 22 grandchildren; 38
great grandchildren; a broth-
er, W. C. Adcock of Houston
and one sister, Mrs. Laura
Watkins of Thomaston.
Pallbearers were grandsons
of the deceased.
See Cop* Kill, Page a
Two Minor
Accidents
Two minor traffic accidents
seized upon later as a device
for redistributing private weal-
th, the rates have sky-rocket-
ed. With the exemption now at
160,000, the tax rate starts at
three percent on the first
$5,000 above the exemption and
escalates to a confiscatory 77
percent on whatever estates of
$190 million or more may re-
main.
Realistically, the present law
is weak on revenue since it
produces less than three per-
cent of the total. As Mr.
! Keogh told his colleagues in the
| House "the estate tax is a bad
tax and the least we can pro-
perly do under the present fis-
cal circumstances is to reduce
it.” (The Keogh BUI would re-
duce the rates 20 percent and
equalize the deduction of 25
yeans ago, when dollars were
Nation Is
Calm After
Holiday
lolled Press IntemtUonaJ
Resort areas in four states
rocked by youthful Fourth of
July weekend noting and van-
dalism settled back to normal
today.
Throughout Monday thousands
of teen - age and college - age
youths headed for their homes,
leaving in several areas mute
reminders of the weekend dis-
turbances.
The major trouble spot.- were
Lake George. X.Y.: Itoekaway
Beach. Mo.: Arnolds Park. Iowa
and Geneva - (Jn-The-I.akc, and :
; occurred is the county over the
| weekend with no one injured and
l little damage done to the vehi-
; cles in wived, according to Pa-
1 trolman Hugh Poage.
About 9 p.m. Friday, Oliver
Chandler Taylor of Yoakum dri-
ring a 1965 Chevrolet about half
a mile southeast of Yoakum on j abilities and capita! -- by with-
FM 682 ran off the road and hit; drawing some of both from ef-
some brush, Poage reported, j fective channels into sterile ar-
Moderate damage was done to, rangements to meet this often
1888. a son of Robert and Fan-
nie Andrews Nixon.
Oh December 15, 1915 he mar-
ried Miss Florence Anders o n
in San Antonio.
Survivors include the widow;
two daughters. Mrs. Walter Le-
wis of Cuero and Mrs. H. F.
Murray of Laurinburg, N. C.;
six grandchildren; two sister*.
Mrs. J. E. Fischer Of Mathis,
Texas and Mrs. Ed Wood of Lu-
ling; one brother, Dr. P. I.
Nixon of, San Antonio.
Pallbearers at the rites were
Gene S. Brown. Pat Dunn. Jim
McCurdy, Utls Carpenter, Fred
Hansen and Ralph Reiffert.
Accident Reported
At City Intersection
worth nvwe as much, by rais-' mram Bryant * ^
,ng i o $120,000. ero was charged with failure to
The present bad ’ax thejyield r.,htK)f.way ,ar!y Mon.
■ day morning as result of a two-
Mrs. Thedin Wins
Attendence Prize
Of Half Baby Beef
Crowds estimated at least 3.-
000 attended the Cuero Lions
Club's annual Independence Day
carnival and barbecue , staged
Monday. 'July 5. at Oaerq Muni-
cipal Park.
According to Jim Stone, sec-'
retary - treasurer, it was the
larges; crowd in the past 15
years. He said net proceeds
have not as yet been estimated,
but Mill be available as soon as
all the bills have been received.
However, he said he believed it
was also the biggest financial
success in years.
Proceeds deni ed are used
for charities and to promote ci-
vic programs.
Among the activities provid-
ed throughout the afternoon and
evening were a barbecue sup-
per at 6 p.m.. game tournament
cold drink stands, balloon darts,
snow cones and popcorn, fish
pond, dish pitch, cake walk.
Panda bears, ferns wheel and
other rides such as pony rides,
fire truck, rides, boat rides and
gold fish pitch.
Chairmen of the affair were
Leon Polzin. incoming presi-
dent; and John Wheeler, outgo
Ing president. They were aa-
isted by* numerous other com-
mitteemen.
Dave Weber and Jerome Kee-
ning were chairmen for the bar-
becue.
Mrs. Bill Thedin of Cuero
won the half baby beef given
away during the evening
Mrs. Ernst Lemke of 513 5
Gonzales St., won the 16” x 36''
cake donated to the Lions Cub
by H. E. B. Grocery' The cake
was decorated on top with a
small airplane, ferris wheel
and other miniature toys «c-
^ectfvT^i?r’*toNth^ wayT c« at ** intersection ***** * Bill Kuester. mans-
1. It prevents many business-
men and investors from mak-
Espla-
the car. ; crushing obligation
Monday about 3 :30 p.m . Ray-j 2. It tends to foster mono-
mood M. Iz»w of Corpus Christi . poly. Where, as often happens,
driving a 1961 Oievrolet hit the | it is necessary’ to sell a small
rear of a 1960 Ford operated by 1 business to pay the tax. the
See Twe Minor Page 8 1 See Town Talk, Page *
of Reuss Blvd. and N
nade, city police report.
------ . Bryant driving a 1956 Chev-
ing hdiest use of their business ^ w ^ &vd about
fikd’tiAa oniH nonrtl! hlf f■ ’ItK. ■
12:55 a.m. failed to stop for the
blinker and his car collided
with a 1962 Pontiac, operated by
Carl Irrin Johnson of Kenedy.
Johnson was traveling south on
Esplanade, police reported
About $100 damage was done
to Bryant's car and approxi-
mately $300 to Johnson's.
Russels Point Ohio.
A number of youths were ar-
rested in other areas, such as
Newport, R.I.. Portsmouth. N' H.
and Hyannis. Mass
Police in seven states counted
| nearly 1,300 arrests during the
three day weekend.
Of an estimated 50.000 persons
who spent the weekend near
tiny mountain village of Lake
George, 350 unmiy youths ve>-e
arrested, chiefly on alcoholic
beverages violations and disor-
derly conduct charges
In two nights at drunken
brawling Arnolds Park, Iowa,
about 100 persons. most 1 y
youths, were arrested.
The fighting was brought un-
der control, but not until the
city council banned alcoholic
beverage*' and Gov. Harold E.
Hughes called out National
Roe Katina Calm Page 8
ger of the store.
Dedication of the courgar ,iet
was postponed for the time be-
ing as no Navy personnel was
present yesterday.
Attendance prizes awarded in-
cluded a vacuum cleaner, edjer
set of cookware, fishing rod and
reel, fishing gear, picnic table
and several other items. Nam-
es of the winners are os fol-
lows:
First prize a portable TY set
was von by Mrs. Manning
\ Harryroan of Cuero; second
prize. 29-gauge shotgun. Mrs
. Frank Kuecker, Cuero; third
i prize, vacuum cleaner. Mrs
Boh Osterloh. Cuero: fewrth
WASHINGTON (UPL The pr;re, edger. C. C. Pal-
three federal banking agencies -ner. Jr.. Cuero: f i f t b
today called on the nation's pr;-/t,, Red-,iWd three-piece p e
14.000 bank- to report on their ■ „;c set, VerLin Sauer. Cuero;
financial cond lion as of the sixth priae. three-piece alu-
etose of bus me.-■? June 30. mihum cooking ware, Marion
The bank call was one a t. Johnson. Cuero; seventh pr.ze.
four issued each yea--. Lion* Club. Taae *
Bank Call For
June 30 Issued
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peal to the Great Spirit for rata for the drought-parched re-
gion. The shower esma half an hour after Black Claud*
“Ta-JUh-Tah-Wa-Kst Ofaat Spmi * ate”
BIBLE THOUGHT
FOR TODAY
Father, I hav* sinned agalast
hcavaa and la thy sight, and an
ae more worthy to be called thy
• on,—tube 1S:?I.
To see the sinfulness of sin is
always a problem. We rail it
fun. »nd evnect it to bring us
I happine**. the Father waits
i for us to mm home. *
CON GARRf—C«*vict Charles Thomas. 23. Is shown on rat-
walk at th* tOO-foot-higli prison water tow er in Jchet fit.,
ea the JOtb diy at his rarolt. He went up there with candy
bars, bread peanut buttar and a ct.p m a strin* for getting
9oh took. Ms • doing tt y aara for roboery and rape
Plans Complete For
Boy Scout Trail Hike
Fin*! plans for the forth com-, barbecue supper at Lockhart
ipg Boy Soout-Chisholm Tra i 1 j Hamilton said any help would
hike to he made to Austin by; be appreciated as this hike is
45 Boy Scouts from three troops j due to receive national pubhcitj'
in Cuero and ten adults have J and will definitely be an asset
been completed, according to to the entire area. It also imxfl-
John C. Hamilton, scoutmaster ves tie youth of our commuA-
of Troop 243.. j ity wliich should be a prime reo-
Other troops to participate in-1 son for tlse CUero area to back
chide 241 and 345. j these boys 100 percent. Hamii-
Hikes are being held daily by ; ton went on to state,
each of the three troops to get In other scouting news Troop
in shape for tlie 100-mile long j 243 took part in am-sher h’kf
trip. Fifty mile* will be hiked [ Saturday aftenwon. Their we*-k-
and the tvmai/ur*g jj win be via'!-Ay Monday nlgtit session wit! be
ap«ered wagots i held’ at 7 p.m. at Si Michael**
Any adults who wish to Wke aid school bunding,
part or tielp in ary mariner are. The troop will conduct several
urged to contact any adult scou-1 hikes during th* next fe-.v day*
ter in Cuero. Hamilton said. j and ail member* are urged to
! At a recent meeting held jo keep in touch for the time and
discuss plans it v as nd.ca'ed so fortli for these hike*. O L.
’that settle ri\.c organiiations Faves, scoutmaster for Troop
from Cuero would sponsor 245. «ent to Austin today 1s*
meals during the week for the make final ariangemenia tor
hoys At i directors' meetin* siortg the waj. last
Held b\ rh* l.ioo* Club las* week FrsdgF Hamilton w ent to AusQS
i they voted to toed the boys a i to discus*
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