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Yugoslavia
Jolted By
Earthquake
Reports Say
Dozens Hurt
BELGRADE (UPIi A sharp
earthquake rocked hundreds of
square miles at northern Yugo-
slavia today, smashing frame
buildings in six fines and in-
juring dozens of persons, Radio
Belgrade reported
At least one person was re -
polled killed in the quake, res-!
cue officials said a B-vear-pld
g.rl died when the stairs of the
village school collapsed at Sirko
Brer
Reports from Osijok: largest
city of the stricken . Slavonian
region ps.it the toll of injured
at at least 70
The shock was also felt a t
Belgrade, where school children
wre sent home and many 'ac-
ton and office workers were
given the day off as a pgecau -
Uon.
Die quake registered eight
degrees of magnitude oh the
Richter scale at its epicenter
between the Bo Sninn 1owns of
Derventa and Rlavonski Brod
When rt struck at 9:23 a m
thousands of Yugoslavs, tre -
mor - shy since last July's earth-
quake which devastated Skopje
and killed more than 1 500 per-
sons, rushed into the streets in
panic.
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Today's Thought
Abraham Lincoln once said:
"While the people retain their
virtue and vigilance, no ad-
ministration, by any extreme
of wickedness or folly, can very
seriously injure the govern-
ment in the sliort space of four
years."
(Eumi Umirii
‘ANewspaper Reflects Its Community’
COOLER
fclear to partly cloudy through
Tuesday . Little t cooler, tonight.
Low tonight!32-62,. high Tuesday
82-92 High Sunday 82. low Mon-
day 61. Rainfall .02.
U % W#ot*•# *vr»oi
l^a» Cu#fc ane OaWiti County
VOL 70—NO. 88
CUERO, TEXAS, MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1964
10 PAGES - PRICE 5c
Polish Communists
Back up Nikita
Draft Board Reports
PUDDLE JUMPER—To avoid
being splashed when nego-
tiating puddles, Gary Hohf.
14, rides his bicycle with the
frame upaide down is St.
Petersburg, Fla.
Firemen Plan Drive,
Convention Reports
Cuero volunteer firemen wail f gust Hulzapfcl. I .ester Peers,
meet tonight to make final plans
•or their annual finance drive
starting today and to hear a re-
port on the semi-annual con -
vention of Hie Gumlilujie Fire-
men s and Eire Marshal * As-
sociation in Seguin Sunday,
The chairman of the finance
mmmitti'e Arthur Rauch, said j
all Imsiness anil pnfessional
Ailiert Stollies. Walton Cage, Ar-
thur Rauch, Mr. and Mrs. John
Junker, Mr and Mrs, John
Zuher Mr and Mrs. Carroll
1-cy. Dave Kauffman Gem Ho
gan and Mr and Mrs Roy Binz.
More than 1,000 delegates at-
tended the conventasi.
Die Cuero men s racing team
composed of John Zuber. Geno
Hogan, lister Krers. Carroll
5 To Be Inducted,
22 Due Physicals
Five aien will leave for in-
duction Tuesday and 22 for
physical , according to Mrs.
Claude Moore, clerk for Selec-
tive Service Board No 34.
A chartered bus will take
the group to San Antonio.
Going for induction will be
William M Moore, Victoria;
James I.. Slade Jr., and Ray
L. Lewis of Cuero, Henry
O'Neal Byerly from Nordheim.
and Joseph Lee Waer, York-
town.
Reporting for physicals will
be : Jesse David Ruiz. Clarence
Charles Robinson, Kirby lee
ALhrecht, Hiss and lee Pullen
Ciarti* Aien Trammell, IJoyd
Shows. William Leslie and Tho-
mas O. Pinn all of Cuero; I>are
ry Wayne Lincke, Bobby Jam-
es Sievers, Felix Garcia Ochoa,
Borgfeid. Hor-
Summit
Session
Indicated
Mud Storms
Lash Texas
profile in Cuero would lie con- Ley and Artfiur Rauch cumpet-
tacted for a contribution to the ed against 29 olher teams,
fine department, the rrviney to; Kiil«m. Granger and Irvings-
fie used to finance attendance by
members to various conventions
and s-xiais and to fsrvtuiKe
material and equipment
TTie annual Imriiecue will be
hell May IS at the ball |wtrk in
City Park.
8 xteen Cuero delegates at -
feuded the Seguin o nventsn
They were J. B Hudgeens. Au-
ton took the top three lionurs I
rn that ordrr. Killeen's time be-
ing 16 2 seconds.
'the Killeen deportment net a
new state txxxird breaking the
old record of 16.3 seconds set by
Richmond hack in 1951
The next convention will be
held in Gonzales in toe spring
<rf 1965
acc^BrJtTjr Stephen | Premier Nitata S.
James Ledwig, Gilbert B. Var-
gas, Robert I. Broil all of
Yorktown; Hilberto Garcia and
Leandro P. Hernandez of Ber-
clair; Edward Becerra of Yoa-
kum ; Jerry James Kurvkel, Es-
tanislao P. Gonzales Jr., and
Bruce Michael Bednorz of Gol-
iad.
Goebel, Nagel
Food Winners
Janice Goebel and Sandra
Nagel were winners in the Sen-
ior Division of the District Fav-
orite Food Sbwv Saturday.
Janice won in the Milk Foods
Group and Sandra in the Bread
A Cereal Group TViev were en-
rolled m Favorite Food Unit
III. Mrs. Victor Goebel is lead-
er
in the
MOSCOW (UPI) - Polish Onm-
munist party leader Wyaidy -
Khrush-
with Premier Nikita S. Khrush-
chev today against Peking.
Flying in from Warsaw for
what may be a restricted East
European Communist summit
meeting. Gomuika told Khrush-
chev at the airport:
"Our parties hold identical
views on the tasks of the so -
cialist camp, on the strategy
and tactics of the international
revolutionary workers’ move-
ment ... the unity of the Com -
munist camp is of paramount
significance and actions direct-
oil against that unity are irre-
sponsible ami extremely harm-
ful "
Other East European lead -
ers were believed heading for
Moscow to discuss the loomingI Johhsbn is pulling the woo! oxer
possibility of a breakup of ! the eyes of American voters by
world communism into rival; being more skillful at politics
THEY'RE CALLING A DOCTOR—A throng at scan* 5,000 persons is massed to Liege, protest-
ing ths “strike" at doctors to Belgium. The doctors walked out (wouldn't walk in, that U)
because at a new health law they claim will result eventually to socialization of medicine.
President's
Political
Skill Hit
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Re-
publican Gov George Romney
of Michigan say* President
Scmot and Chinese branches.
than a* salving the nation’s
Texas Politics
Big Papers Back
Gordon McLendon
Terms Explained
No Reflection On
Cuero Hospitals
Fritz Takes
Contest Honor
By JACK HOWERTON
The idea prevailing among a
small segment of the k- «1 po-
pu'ation that hospital services
nnd patient rare at Cuero bos
pttaLs do not equal ttaise oflor-
ed by hospitals in some of our
neighboring towns ami cities, is
completely erroneous accord-
ing to administrators at the
three loenl institutions backed
by statements from Royce L.
Ashcraft, Director of 33ie Div-
ision of Hospital Licensing for
ttie Texas Stale Department of
Health.
In fact services ami car* at
l<s-.if liokpitals are in some
v. ays sujs'i’ior to timtse offered
in neighboring cities. This is
because of ttie large number at
h ,gbiy skilled pi iv sic i a tvs ami
surge*to', whose services are
so Table la-re and be< auxe of
the sjM'cial interest and per-
soil a I attention shown by hospi-
tal attendants to patients whom
they know
’Hie erroneous impression
held by some that Cuero hos-
pitals are "unacceptable" pixv
bahly resulted from use of the
term, witJva.it profier explana-
tion. at a public meeting held
to create interest in a propos-
ed area hospital distrust to pro-
mote newer and larger hospi-
tal facilities here, and also use
of the term by the Texas State
Department of Health to desig-
nate hospital buddings which
do not meet construction stan-
qarris r.vcrnbed In the Hill-Bur-
ton Act
By United Trews International
A one-two punch of rain and
dust storms left a muddy trail
across a wide area of Texas to-
day.
The combination of a wind-
whipped. thunderstorm - laden
squall line and an intense dust
storm reminiscent of the devas-
tating dust storms of the 1920s
and 1930s had alviut blown it-
self out of the Mat* by day-
break.
But, In its wake the dust had
settled on everything still
damp from the rnin and left a
thin layer of mud on exposed | «* Braunfels on May 12.
surfaces.
A United Press International
survey stiowed 14 persons died
in Texas highway wrecks this
week end. and four people
t drowned, three of tliem w hen
; their boat w as overturned on
il,ake Taw akoni by high winds. (
; Two others were still missing
and presumed dead.
They will participate
State Favorite Foods Show j The Polish leader's brief air-
June 2-4 at Texas AA-M Uni- P°n speech did not mention toe
versity, according to Mrs. Mil- Kremlin - propped world Corn-
dred Martin, county home de- munist summit conferen e e,
monstration agent Avhtch some of Khrushchev's al-
| lies apparently feared might
formalize and make permanent
the Sino-Soviet breach.
While otherwise supporting
Gomulka s party, diplomats, , .
said, is a key factor in Mos - jf,ro eTns'
cow’s attempt to control the di-! The Michigan leader, a GOP
ixyction of world communism, (presidential possibility, s,ud
Sunday that Johnson w-as adept
at convincing opposing grrsips
United Press International
Newspapers made the news
on the Texas political scene
over the weekend.
Two of the state's largest.
The Dallas Morning Nws and
The Fort Worth Star -Telegram
Sunday endorsed Dallas broad-
casting executive Gordon Me -
London’s bid to grab the Dem-
ocratic senatorial nomination i
from Sen. Ralph Yarborough.
McLendon answered by prais-
he supports each of their posi- j jj-ig the state's news media. He
Cat hen ne Fntz, junior at
Cu<>ro High, placed second at
the regional level in the state-
wiile "Save the Sort and SavT
Texas'' conservation eutvay con-
test She wall receive her award
Linda Fetters and Betty Sue
Montz. second - year P'rench
stivlerrts at Cuero High, will en-
ter a nationwide French eon -
test to tie held in San Antoni'
on Apnl 18.
Khmshchev fully, the PrJish
party has apparently heen
draggaig its feet on the world
summit idea
Khrushchev confined his re-
(See POIJSH, Page 6)
Town T
ALK
By UN Mil J A
Managing Editor
lias advised Sister M Xaveria,
administrator of the Bums i
Hospital Rof^rt C^r, *<\rmn- KfiirS(i RrTKAYrD
I rat or nl Qum HospMal Foun-; Rr,jUNG BETRA1 ™
datjon and I>i ('. R. Stratton, | HALIFAX, N. S. ‘ILL — A
of the Stratton H<«pital. 11‘lot t/i assassinate Fide) Castro
”1 hA*.e hr«'n informed hv ttie durinc a television address to
Division of Hospital Services ' the Cuban nation was bet raved
that this term will l>e chan^tnl in its final h»urs, three Cuban
C ueniiloHptUih. Page C) I defectors said.
British Battle Field
For Academy Oscars
Meitzen 2nd
In Shotput
SANTA MONICA C«hf
.lUPIt If* ttie British agionM
the field in t'toiglif* Academy
Awards with "Tom Jones" ex-
|meted to win die best picture
award.
Almost fvilf tlie performers
nominated hit the 36th annual
Oscar awards were Britons, in-
cluding three nominee*, for best
actor: Albert Finney, Richard
Harris and Rex Harrison.
Di ] iper Jack I z-mmon will be
master of ceremonies tor the
two-hour show at the Santa
Monica Civic Auditorium
Some 2,500 celebrities were to
be on hand for the motion pic-
ture wingding which held such
contrasts as "CJeopatra,'’ the
most expensive movie ($40 mil-
lion i, competing against "Lilies
Marl June
'Inna I.
1 Vice i,
Patricia Neal 'Hud', P.aehel
Roberts (Thn Sporting Lifei.
Natalie Wood (Liwe with tlie
Prrgvr Staanger' aixi Leslie ! New Braunfels was defeated by
Caron (Tile GShaped Room.l ■ San Marcos.
(See British Bottle. Page S) The golf team placed fourth
Botitiy Meitzen qualified for
pai-ticipaixm in the Regional
neeting to be held April 25 in
San Antonio when he placed se-;
otod in toe shotput event held i
last Saturday in Seguin. j
Other faero Hurh S< h<xil stu- j
dents wtai placed in toe Univer-
sity Iniersctiolastic League meet j
in- Seguin were Ann Adcix k l
thinl in externpiraneuus sp»'uk-
ing; Jackie Schultz, third in per-
suasive speoking; and Grev
Sims, second in singles divis-
ion of s'toior hoys' tennis
The high sclxxil girls' volley-
Ixi.'l team placed tliiixl. They <U‘- ,
feattsl Beeville and Seguin. lxit i
hist to New Braunfels, accoixL i
itig to PrirK'i|>al Milton Kaseh
i HAD NO IDEA there were so
i many youth rodeos in this part
I of the country.
| The Texas Youth Rodeo Assn
j has just come out with its list
| of roda*. (with datesl for 1964.
i and there are 21 of them.
( Some of those closest to
home include Victoria (Aug.
27-291, Wharton (July 9-ID,
Hallettsi ille ( June 17-20f Alice
(June 10-13), and Bryan (June
3-6 f
There ire a whole lot more
just a ! rle further away than
that
The list certainly upholds
what woNe tieen hearing about
the increasing |*>pularity of
youth ro>le<»<
lions "whereas their pisui'Cir
are in great conflict."
Romney said the Johnson
administration has ignored "eco-
nomic concentration of power”
which he called a fundamental
problem confronting the coun -
try. He cited the five-year-old
dispute between railroad man-
agement and labor that threat-
ens a nationwide rail strike
A[iril 24 as an important eco -
nomic problem he said tlie na-
tion is "ducking."
Tlie former auto manuf.ictur-, rally, Lt
or also said that the challenge j Railroad
faced by his own parry is to
deal with the "fundamental iss-
ues" and "position itself to
meet the needs of this nation."
Romney said it wviuld he up
said Texas is "twice blessed
with a courageous, temperature
Fourth Estate ... I will have to
thank the news media for
its impartial, fair treatment.!
not only of a novice in politics,:
but of toe facts themselves." |
The News stressed that its |
endorsement applied to die pri-
mary race only, and m No -!
vember "we shall take a new
look in view of toe good nomi-|
nees running as Republican'
The News also called for the
re-election of Gov. J'lhn Con - i
Gov. Preston Sm.th
Commissioner Jim
Langdon. and Congressman -at-
I-arge Joe Pool
Also speaking to the banquet
was Rep. Albert Thomas o f
Houston, who was given a pda-
que for his work in Congress
to benefit the oldsters. He said
President Johnson's anti-pov-
erty campaign will be fought
mainly on two . fronts - medical
care and education - and be -
come the "lasting greatness'’ at
the Johnson administration.
A candidate for the Republi-
can senatorial nommati o n ,
Robert Morris, said in Dallas
Sunday that President Johnson
is supporting peaceful coexis -
tonco with the Soviets, and this
is; leading to spectacular succes-
ses for the Russians.
Morris planned to campaign
along the Gulf Coast today and
(See MrI,EYDO.V. Page «)
New Lights
Cut Down
Speeding
(of toe Fieki," one of toe least
To other void.' local h*pi-! expensive at J450.000.
i. - i.iram: g.d F'xferal aid for! The English pnrtuction of the
treatment.’of p.ihents tinder the I Henry Fiekling classic, "Tom
Uto r.urt«m \u, liecause their! Jones.' led all other* with 10
b'r'.d'ivl's, (k> rv* meet of the
picscr.tied Feueral building
standards That is as far as it
Tlie term "unacceptable'' has
tux'll dropped by th/' rhl i'ion
<»; Hospital Sen <e* and will
no longer ( be tired because it
doe* not e\|Vain and create* an
eironeou' impression in toe
ni.nria jf some, Mi Ashcraft
nomimuions. It* star. .Ailiert
Finney, wm favored »o win
best actor.
Other candidates hr top actor
honors include Rex Harrison
(Cleopatra.) Paul Newman
'Hud(. Richard Harris (This
S(>c«1in*: Izfei and Sidney Pr>i-
krr (fjlie* of the fVld'
Beet aeti-es* nominees mdurie
Shader
ANcrn 11 :k interesting
thing is that nearly all of
i the ■ .youih rodeos are being
sta -d l<<r at least three days
Many are running four days, j
j You remember, no doubt,
j alxiut how our local rodeo peo-;
pie w ere wninlenng if they
j slsxiid increase toe number of
! performances, here from two
to three
i They dal, and our rodeo will ]
be helil July 16-17-18.
Out of the list of 1964 rodeos j
in this part of the country, *ix!
! are running four day*.
to the Republican party at its
national convention this sum -
mer to define clearly where it
stands. Whether it will, he said
"I don't know."
Romney reiterated that he
was not a candidate for toe
GOP presidential norm nation or
for any other national office.
Despite reports that he might
get a vice presidential choice if
Ambassador Henry Cabot I/xige
receives to*1 Republican nomi-
nafion. toe Michigan governor
said lie had never given that
role any consideration nor was
lie inclined to do so
for agricultural commissioner i UK*av credited the new traffi*
and former Dallas Mayor Earle i signal lights on Broadway and
Cabell as congressman from i Esplanade with "cutting down
toe Dallas area m the Demo - j speeding to a great extent."
cratic primary’- ! His "Exhibit A" was the fact
The Star - Telegram said Me- , that not a single traffic ticket
I.<endon should replace YarUir-
ough because Yarborough
"does not speak for the ma -
jority of Texans when he ex -
presses his ultra-liberal views ”
Yarborough, meanwhile,
spike Sunday at an 89-cent-a-
plate "war on poverty’’ han -
quet in Houston.
He told the Texas Council of
Senior Citizens that poverty
stems from the nation'* failure
of any kind was issued during
the past week. This is highly un-
usual
It's on Broadway and Esplan-
ade that police issue a large
percentage of their speeding
tickets.
The new lights, placed Just a
few blocks out from the more
congested areas have helped cut
diiwn speeders.
There was one fine in corpor-
to "use wisely the abundance: .toon court during the past
He also declined to say
whether he will run for re-elec- we have." He said Texas i s ! week
tion in Michigan this year, far behind in putting up match-; John S. Zielonka was fined $25
"Tliis is pit tlie time or place; ng funds to secure available for icing drunk in a publi*
to do so” tie said. government old age assLstam e. i plaiX'.
nm»miK»»n»»H»mui»»»iiimi»ni»H:nmHti»»»»»»init»iiiiim»»ut»tr!»tHi«tttmmiMHKnmii
Spending, Tax Collections, Debt
Running Well Ahead of Last Year
By LYl.E C. WTIAON
United Pt«m intemattonal
Goiemment spending, t a x
- — coilecti ms and the public debt
THE FRONT PAGE of The ^ , 1Q_. „ ,
Cuero Record of Nov. 22. 1963. m the c'“Tent 1964 ttsce}
Is one of a number from across arp running well ahead of a
Texas to be reproduced in j year ago.
book form by The Texas Daily |
Spending and debt trends def- 1961 interest wai approximate,
indtely are upward. This is a ! ly 9 billion.
Kennedy - Johnson fiscal year i
for which neither President is
i Press
That of
day that
("iirse was toe black
When the Treasurey closed its
books on the fire' rune months
of fiscal 64. rt reported with-
wbolly responsible President
Johnson holds that he has
made big re-duct ions in expen-
ditures originally planned for
fiscal 1965. Republican critics
contend that this has been
achieved more bv artistic hook- j and that
FYom toe day JFK took of •
fice to the day he wa* shot, the
public debt increased to $3111
billion The Johnson budget es-
timates that lnteros't on 1 h »
;iuhl c debt in the current fi»-
leal year will be $10.7 billior
$11.1
President Kcmxxly; drawats of $94 biiiior, depi.isits J keeping and by shifting expend-; tnllion next vear
‘of $87 1 billion and a public! itures into toe current fiscal | to prove to he
if will rise to
was assassinated in Dallas
Newspapers were cliafiengedj debt of $310 billion That
33us » likely
an undo rest
of M<iri h 31.
that day to inform Americans, i as
quickly and accurately, of The cjmesporsling figures for
something they themselves
SHE'S A WITCH—Plump Mr*. Svbil I.eek. <2. who rluini. to
b* th* "chief lemate witch" of the world give* gome grit of
hex *ign in New Tork on girival from England to pubhcire
h«r book on antique*. Mr*. Leek u high priestess of th*
N*w Forest C©v*n. That 1 * witches dupur.
found difficult to behove
Editors and publisher* had to
stop presses, organize wire sere
vice takes! and replate, using,
in many, many instances, that
rarely - employed "M-e-md
aiming ly pe
THIS.' IS also ' QO Week
(See TOWN TAL1L. fa** S)
toe first nine months of fiscal
63 were withdrawals $89.6 bil-
lion; deposit^ $81.7 bilhon; pub-
lic debt $303 billion. Witbdraw-
spending deponits approximate
was! year than by true economy ] mate
The outcome of thi* argu -> To comprehend toe enormity
ment wiil be determined large- j 01 the cost .4 the interest bur-
ly on the final figures for fo-'riien ipipised by tlie public
oal 1965. which will not b.' j debt consider; The average **v
available until after June 30 of; nual expenditure in each of to*
that year Meantime, tliere is a
red-ink flood tide. Jo)in F. Ken-
tax collections. The ;>ublic del it j nedv tiok office as Pre-:dcn'
slows precisely bow niu< h lie- ; on Jan X). 1962 On Jan. 1 9
ynnd 11s income ttie govenunem that yesr - ttie last day the
has heen living Interns' on toe second Eisenhower artmimstra-
ruhlic debt h estimated «o be tmn - the public debt w a* ap
1*10.7 btUun tea yaw:.
pcoMmMedy *200 btlfeon. Th# deoC
four years at Franklin D.
Roosevelt's first New Deal ad -
ministration was only $6.5 bil-
l)‘>n In fiscal years' 1933-34-35-
36 FDR spent 826 1 billion and
he was beginning to be de-
no moed as a M**tvilhnfl preas-
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