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CUERO, TEXAS 77954. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 21. 1967
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Bigger Turnout Seen
In Cuero Bond Voting
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By ED ANDERSOH
THE CUERO RECORD’S
wire news service — the UPI
—reported the other day that
Defense Secretary Robert S.
McNamara has identified 50 cit-
ies that might be included in
an enthusiastic missile .(ABMl
defense system if one is ever
deployed by the United States.
Rut McNamara said he is <>(>-
posed to the deployment of an
ARM system because one would
not effectively ward off a Rus-
sian missile attack and besides
cost $10 billion.
The same report said the Sov-
iets are deploying an ABM sys-
tem of their own around Mos-
cow and some congressional
leaders Insist that a U. S. ABM
system is essential to Ameri-
can security.
Coincident with this UPI re-
port on McNamara's views, the
widely circulated magazine in
Mexico called POLITICO de-
votes an article to the antibal-
ILstic missile defense system be-
ing set up in Soviet Russia and
in particular around Moscow
and Leningrad.
THE SOVIETS have appropri-
ated billions of rubles more
for their defense system this
year than last year, POUTICO
says. It adds: "The gigantic dis-
position of its air defense mak-
es its major cities invulnerable.
Moreover it has nuclear secret
weapons which can launch a
formidable offense after de-
fensive action.’’
The lengthy article says, in-
cident ally, that when Presi-
dent John F. Kennedy and Pre-
mier Nikita Khruschev made
their deal in which the Rus-
sians agreed to remove their
nuclear weapons froVn Cuba,
the U. S. agreed to take theirs
out of Turkey and Iran.
The Mexican indication is
pro-Russia and anti-American.
The article makes American
cities appear "defensively help-
less” while Russian cities are
"invulnerable.”
That the Russians are pri-
marily defensive warriors
should be indicated by history.
Napoleon of the French invad-
ed Russia to the very gates of
Moscow and then was sent in-
to a headlong retreat. In World
War II. the Germans also bat-
tered their W’ay to the gates of
Moscow and history was re-
peated. The end of that was the
conquest of Berlin by the Rus-
sians who remain there to this
day.
THE SIGNIFICANCE of
the article is however, we con-
sider, that the Russians are
preparing to survive a nuclear
attack. And moreover they are
designing a massive counter
blow.
Civil defense authorities
have agreed the most likely
Texas cities to tie nuclear
bombed would be Houston, San
Antonio, the Dallas-Fort Worth
area and El Paso. It is rec-
ognized that the smaller towns
like Cuero would escape bomb-
ing although radioactive fallout
might be felt. The problem for
such a town as Cuero would be
supplied by stricken refugees
and these could number in the
thousands descending upon a
town like starving locusts.
Baptists Want
Bill Defeated
DALLAS UPI - The Texas
• Baptist Christian Lile Commis-
sion Monday called for the Tex-
as Legislature to defeat a bill
authorizing liquor by the drink,
saying the measure was
“against the best interests of
the state.”
The commission also urged a
complete review of the Texas
Liquor Congrol Board s person-
nel and policies.
In doing so, the commission
said its largest concern was the
manner in which some private
clubs are allowed to continue
to operate, although they come
nowhere near the true meaning
ol a private club.
50 Veniremen Called
For Jury Service Here
A 50-member jury venire for Pargmann. lx*e Pargmnnn. I Ju)‘) nutters facing Judge
the 24th District Court has L. Petering. Fred J. Pospisil.; Joe Kelli's District Court Mon-
Balloting Is
Heavier Than
In November
the
been oril red to re pi >rt to
DeWitt County Courthouse
10 a m. Feb. 27.
On tlie jury list, released
Tuesday by District Clerk
Pershing Hiller, are Don Bell,
J. S. McCurdy, Claudius Green,
Albert W. Wolf. Mrs. Evelyn
Riebschlager, Mrs. Mildred
Jones, Mrs. Lydia Villareal, C.
A. Gay. Clifton E. Gips. Raleigh
Coppedge, Lewis Blank, Lee
Boothe Jr., Clctus P. Ernster,
Herbert Dombluth, Allan Dielze,
Mrs. Juanita Stiles Mbs
Paula High, Adam Rameriz,
Hilbert Crahmann, Roy E.
Binz, Ranny Ilunnam. Victor
Goebel, Eusebio Saenz. W. H.
Minton, Dutton Lane, Floyd
Smith Mrs. Ruby Christian, Fin-
ley Goodwyn, Wilfred Peters,
Bennie Baros, Iziuis A. Bauer,
Jr.. Charles E. Meyers, Mrs.
Ann Tubbs, Mrs. Kay Reese
and Mrs. C. 1,. Fineh. all of
Cuero.
From Yoakum are Cecil
Women On
Speck Jury
PF.ORIA, 111. UPI — The
prosecution will demand Rich-
am Franklin Speck be sent to
the electric chair on charges of
murdering eight young nurses
(Si Chicago's South Side.
Speck's trial opened Monday
in the modern Peoria County
Courthouse. Two prospec-
tive jurors - both womon-were
tentatively seated after being
told by the chief prosecutor, As-
st. Slate’s Atty. William Martin,
that the state would demand the
death penalty.
A list of more than 2,500 pros-
pective jurors confronted the
attorneys and Judge Herbert C.
Paschen trxlay as the jury sel-
ection continued. The process
could take up to three weeks
Speck, a 25 - year - old , high
school dropout from Dallas,
spent the night In the court-
house "bullpen," equipped with
a canvas cot.
For Security
Peoria County Sheriff Wil-
lard Koeppol said Speck was
being kept, in the courthouse ov-
ernight "for security reasons"
but did not elaborate.
Paschen Monday gave the
oath to the first 52 of the pros-
pective jurors, and read the
indictments which charged
Speck with entering the dormi-
tory duplex apartment shared
by eight nurses and then killing
them one by one. Reading of
the indictments took about 15
minutes. Then he told the
prospective jurors the jury
"must decide this case solely on
the evidence you hear here in
Cecil Rowan. Charres Seekamp.! day .'will lx- six civil suits.
I Tin*)' are styled H. W. M.vier
I Sidney Kaiser.
;vt! Charles L. Gaebler. Frank 1. vs. Marvin H. Gohlke; Frank
iBoldt, Hi Inter Sauermilch. Mrs. • Zn-ruha vs Eugene J. Janak; j here than was manifested
June M. Schwab, Mrs. Clemen- Adam Cuellar vs. Aetna Casual- ■ last November was indicated at
tine Knandel and Eliz Enke. |ty and Surety Co.; Antonio i p.m. today with more Ilian
of Yorktown. j Villarreal vs. Aetna Casualty j 37s casting ballots.
In the last Nov. 29 election a
noontime check showed only
17ti votes had been cast.
More votes were being cast
by citizens of the West Side, it
was reported.
Tlie increased voting reported
by Election Judge E. B. Mey-
nard at the City Hall jolling
place caused .political obssrvers
here to predict a possible turn-
out of 800 voters.
In the last election, only 684
votes were cast. All three pro-
posals were soundly defeated.
These included Proposition
No. t which geeks the issuance
of $200,000 in revenue bonds for
the waterworks. (It was rejected
391 to 251.)
And Proposition No 2 which
calls for $225,000 in revenue
bond? to extend the sanitary
It was beaten
A heavier turnout ol voters [sewer system
on a pr<>|Msod $950,000 bond is-126J to 251
And Proposition No. I calling|cltles wh,ch has *nJ°yed many years of honest and
Oharjjes IrrrsrpomfMe
City Has Long Enjoyed
Honest Government
BY JACK HOWERTON Record Publisher
Numerous charges, which we believe to be complete-
ly Irresponsible and groundless, have bee: voiced by the
manager of the local radio station In hi.s zeal to pro
mote passage of the city's proposed bond Issue alleging
dishonesty on the part of former city officials and city
employees.
Only Monday Mr Farr broadcast the following state-
ment and we quote "Some of the former city official*
and former city employees arc terrified of the present
j City Council They know that such honesty as Is present
jon the Council right now could destroy them by pro-
ducing old city records."
We can say truthfully and conscientiously If there
jts any evidence of dishonesty on the part of any city
official or city employee during the past 30 years we at
;The Record are completely unaware of it. We also state
publicly to Mr Farr, Mr 1)111 or any of the present Coun
ell members that If any evidence exists which will re
veal dishonest dealings by any city official or employee
acceptance of kickbacks on purchases or discrepance-
in city or City Electric Department financial record'
The Record will join hands with them in publicizing
| these alleged misdoings.
This newspaper has closely observed and factually
[reported City Council proceedings for a great many
|years We have no reason to question the integrity of
[any member of the present Council or those who have
1 served before them.
I We believe Cuero to be one of those fortunate Texas
Lawrence Schulz, and E F. j and Surety Co.; T E. Williams
Wagner of Nordheim and Ed-1 et us vs. Western Geophysical
ward Ruschhaupt of Meyersvil- i Co., and James Yates vs. Aetna
Ip. 1 Casualty and Surety Co.
Scout Troop 245
Is Re-organized
Boy Scout Troop 245 has com- and William Klelneeke; health
plcted re-organization with 201 and safety, Paul Breeden and
signed up. according to O. L. j Milton D Ruie; parent notiii-
Eaves, who was retained as cation and finances. John O.
scoutmaster of the Lutheran j Coppedge; troop chaplains.
Churchmen sponsored troop.
Boys of the troop who re-
registered arc Timmy Edmond-
son. Wayne Tiffin. Lynn Wright.
David Tiffin, Natividad Puente,
.Tacky St, Clair. Rodney Brown.
Nea! Salcher, Fred Sager. Dav-
id Buie. Greg Holster, Ixsslic Ra-
hke, Michey Moore, Gary Bar-
nett, Karl Marks. Richy Cop-
pedge. Greg Wendel, A 1 fr e d
Boenig, Bruce Goodwyn and
Wayne Green.
Adult leaders of the troop are
James Wright and Arthur Koeh-
ler, and personal fitness, Geor-
ge Salcher.
Tie troop committeemen and
the scouts parents will meet
March 3 for a dutch treat
meal at the El Patio restaurant.
A Mother's Auxiliary will be
organized at the meeting.
Summer camp for the troop
has been scheduled for June
25-July 1 at Camp Tom Wooten's
Kowa campsite.
A Junior leaders Training
will be conducted at the
in
camp ’
Eaves assistant scoutmaster , _ ....
Liny l Honneke; chairman-j American Legion Building
troop committee. A. E. Boenig; j Flntonia March 10-11,
institutional representative and
treasurer, Marvin Rabke; ad-1
vancement, Harold Tiffin and j
Ralph Tucker; public rela-
tions, T. L. Edmondson; trans-
portation, Fred Junker and B.
D. Bowen: outdoor. Bert Mauer
Chilly 35 is
KetorM Here
The Cuero area had a chilly
low of 35 degrees early to-
day. but a. wanning trend is
setting in.
Tie KCFH weather station
reported yesterday's high
was 63 degrees. Tlie noonday
reading here today was 49
degrees.
Light snow drifted out of
clouds in West Texas today
from Big Spring westward to
the Pecos River and in the
El Paso area.
Dalhart was the state's cold-
est spot with 13 degrees to-
day. Lubbock had 18.
The U. S. Weather Bureau
said a eold front will bring
more Canadian air into North-
west Texns Wednesday.
Bombs Rip
Hideaways
SAIGON UPI - U. S Air
Force B52s today bombed
mountain hideaways of a
battered Communist force that
lias lost an estimated .2,500 men
in week-long battles with Allies
throughout five northern provin-
ces in South Vietnam.
U. S. military spokesmen said
the strategic bombers each
dropped up to 30 tons of
explosives on a string of
mountain passes where rem-
nants of two Communist re-
giments were reported to have
sought refuge. Tie targets were
centered a bout 19 miles west
of Quang Ngai, about 330 miles
northeast of Saigon.
In the air war on Monday,
two American jets were report-
ed shot down.
I REFUSES PAYMENT
I LUBBOCK UPI - An aulo
dealership was paid a back
debt - but would not accept It.
A man walked in with a bar-
rel and dumped its contents on
the floor. More, than $433, all
in pennies and nickels, rolled
across the showroom
open court
Students
Heckle
Humphrey
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -
•Vice President Hubert H.
Humphrey pressed for banish-
ment of poverty from rural
America and defended adminis-
tration Vietnam policies Mon-
day during a 36-hour bay area
visit marred by pesky anti-war
hecklers. Tiey called him a
"War criminal."
The major discordant note in
a predominantly harmonious
day occurred at Stanford Un-
iversity in nearby Palo Alto
where some 250 demonstrators
surged around Humphrey as he
left Memorial Auditorium.
However, a cordon of Secret
Service agents and sheriff’s
deputies joined arms to block
the protestors and the vice
president reached his limou-
sine safely.
One man. Jeffrey Collins. 21.
a nonstudent, suffered minor
injuries and had his eyeglasses
broken when he was tunbled to
the pavement by an agent as
the car sped away.
Humphrey later addressed the
25th annual meeting of the
National Rural Electric, Cooper-
I ative Association as about 75
pickets paraded across the
street from Civic Auditorium.
The vice president departed
from his text to say that there
are “not many pickets” in rural
America. He added that the
serious college students "don’t
have time to harass you every
day.”
for $525,000 in street impn;Ye-
men! bonds with local citizens
sharing die cost. (It was turn-
ed down 480 to 186.)
Proponents of the propositions
waged a stronger campaign
in the current election than in
the initial one. They received
endorsements from the newly-
formed Jayeees here and also
the Cuero Young Homemakers.
quite efficient city government.
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PEOPLE in the NEWS:
QUEEN ELIZABETH 11 has, With three wardens,
bee confined to hod because
of an Inflammation in her , ARTHUR M. ROSS, contmis-
Voters from the West Side and j stomach and Intestines. Buck- J .-doner ot labor statistics, expects
other parts of the city were Ingham palace announced to- ; February’s cost of living to
day. | be "up a IRtJ.e" from Dooem
Tie 40-year-old Bi it sh mon-! t*>r and January,
ar il was seen this morning at
the palace by her physician, Sir
Ronald Bod ley Scott
Tlie announcement said she
being supplied transportation to
the polling place which opens
today at 8 a m. and will remain
so until 7 p.m.
As in the last election. the
voting today is expected to re-
flect the feelings of many citi-
zens here on the way City
Manager Jim Dill ha' been con-
ducting city business. He has
heen the target of considerable
opposition.
Chief support to Dill has come
from City Oouncilmen Lias
(Bubba) Steen, Pete Bluntzer
and William Cusack.
It is said here that from a 2
p.m. count of votes, doubled,
turnout.
Ross made tlie broadcast to-
day as he reported January's
consumer price index star-
ed at its December level of
WRECK VICTIM DIES
AMARILLO UPI - Mrs.
Mary McCarthy, 24. of Amaril-
lo Injured Sunday in a two-car
collision at the intersection of
U. S 60 and 66, died. Six other
persons were injured in t h e i tendent whom Gov. Winthrop
wreck. 'Rockefeller fired recently along
was confined to bed with an I P*1 av‘
attack of* acute gastro enteritis. ; ,>r‘25f' ,
_____ j For shoppers, tins meant that
PRISONERS at Tucker Pris- j jn hot'1 mon,hs u cost $11 47 to
on Farm will no longer feel the j 1fhp ^ marker ba<ke* rf
lash of • leather strap for pun- w'Tlc« cwt »n
ishment. nine years ago.
Thomas O. Murton. 38. who Although doctor b.IJs, rents
took over as assistant prison othor consumer sennees
assistant
superintendent in charge of the
Arkansas farm Monday, said the
whip would no longer be used
to punish inmates. He said he
planned to take away their pri-
vileges instead.
Murton, a former associate
professor of criminology at
Southern Illinois University, was
hired last week to replace Pink
Booher, the assistant superin-
Films On Cancer Due
In Cuero Wednesday
The showings of the Ameri-
can Cancer Society Public Edu-
cation films is scheduled for
Cuero Wednesday when the
“Life Story" and “Tie Other
City” will show at the Rialto
Theatre at 2 p.m. and at the
District Courtroom in the Court-
house for 7:30 p.m showings
of "Investment tn Life" and
“Life Story".
A physician will be present
to discuss the film and to an-
swer question*.
The showings are being spon-
sored by the DeWitt County un-
it of the American Cancer So-
ciety', of which Mrs. Eileene
Burl of Cuero is president, and
the Cuero Pilot Club. Mrs.
Adele Larson is education chair-
man for the Pilot Club.
The cancer society estimate*
300.000 lives are currently lost
each year* to all forms of can-
cer. They also estimate three
out of four now being kmt
could be saved through proper
BEUBrBf®*- Ip: WW
Texas ‘Millionaire’ Up to Neck In Debt
MUENSTER, Tex. UPI -
Ernest Medders, a former me-
chanics helper who lived as a
Texas millionaire is supposed
to live, finds himself in the
midst of a lefeal whirl today ov-
er alleged past-due debts.
Medders, 45, has already giv-
en up his lift » »c»e farm, a
showplaee called Colonial
Acres, to satisfy an $810,000
mortgage, and on Friday will
go to court to face an indebted-
ness suit filed by a grain deal-
er who says Medders owes him
$3.07131 for cattle feed.
clerk’s office also showed that
Medders had filed a deed of
trust, awarding 330 acre* of
land to the Neiman-Marau spe-
cialty (ton hi Dalla* lor pay-
ment of a $330,624 debt. Other
records showed that three other
companies had filed four finan-
cial statements in Cooke County
indicating Medders had in-
curred debts with them.
Those debts came from pur-
chases of farm machinery, of-
fice machinery, a diamond
ring, a necklace, 310 head of
cattle and 15 Appaktoca horses.
Meddem MM* Comment
After word of Medders’ finan-
cial dealings came to light, he
was contacted by UPI. But he
refused comment on his present
Records in the Cooke County [situation, saying:
' "You know much, you re
not going to know any more.'
Dun and Bradstreet records
show Medders worked u a m«-
fining Co. in Memphis, Tenn.
for from $50 to $75 a week un-
til 1960. The records showed he
declared personal bankruptcy in
1951, 1952 and 1955. Each time
his indebtedness was less than
$3,000.
But in 1962 Meddlers arrived
in Texas and began buying land
near Muenster, a town settled
by German immigrants 80
miles northwest of Dallas. He
purchased the Colonial Acres
farm, and owned several hun-
dred of acres of land nearby.
Soon Medders and his wife
moved into the social elite of
Dallas’ upper crust set They
were seen at all the top social
events - the debutante balls .the
Neiman-Mareus French Port-
Hoata Giant Party
Medders himself hosted a
king-sized party in 1965, at
which Guy Lombardo’s band
played and Sheraton-Dallas ho-
tel caterers served. About 850
persona turned out for Med-
ders’ "bam warming."
Last New Year's Eve, the
Medders’ hosted 350 guests at
a party tor one of their daugh-
ters, a high school student at
a private Dallas school. The
guests were brought from Dak
las tn a chartered seven - car
train.
Dun and Bradstreet said it
understood Medders’ quick rise
to wealth came train an inheri-
tance. But A. V. Grand, an a*,
tocney who filed suit tor a Med-
riom’ relative in an effort la
gain part of any inheritance,
said Medders did not inherit the
money.
Although Medders has never
publicly said where he obtained
the cash to buy all file land and
other filings that vartoua people
say he owes them money Ire,
he made a deposition to Grant.
"He testified that almost
every cent of the IS million er
$3 million he has spent up her*
has been borrowed," Grant
•aid.
Part at the money he borrow-
ed came from the Muenster
State Bank, record* showed. On
Feb 15, to satisfy a mortgage
held by the bank, Medders
he term to Ear! J.
Fisher, vice prssMswt and cash-
ier
detection.
The showing* are open to
both men and women. The
county-wide schedule Is:
YOAKUM: Wednesday. E*b.
St, IS A. M., Grand Theatre,
Films: "Time and Two Wom-
en” and "Breast Self - Examin-
ation”.
CUERO: Wednesday. Feb.
it, S P. M., Rialto Theatre,
Films: "life Story” and "The
Other tlty.”
7:30 F.M., DeWitt Ooanty
Courtroom, Courthouse, Films:
“Investment In life” and
"life Storey”.
YORKTOWN: Thursday, Fob.
S3. S PM Yorktown High
School Auditorium, PUms. "In-
vestment In life" and "life
Story".
rose during January', decline* in
food, clothing and car price.;
offset, the increase.
Cloth in? prices fell nine
tenths of 1 per cent. Food pri-
ces dropped three - tenths of
1 per cent .Used car prices drop-
ped 1 per cent.
A BILL by Sen. George Park-
house of Dallas to repeal a sec-
tion of the 1961 state Sunday
closing law was approved 16-1
Monday by the Senate State
Affairs Committee.
Parkhouse’s bill would re-
peal the section which allows a
purchaser to *ign a certificate
that the item he Is buying is
an emergency.
The closing law, which re-
quires a store to close down
either Saturday or Sunday, has
not been enforced in most areas
since a 1964 Texas Supreme
Court decision. The court ruled
(flee People, Page •)
Post Office To
Shut Wednesday
The Cuero Post Office will be
closed Wednesday In observance
of Washington’s birthday.
Postmat ter Henry Sheppard
said Tuesday there would be no
city or rural delivery on the
holiday. Special delivery maP
wfl] be distributed
Spring Conference Set
On Mental Retardation
Mental health-mental retarda-
tion at the local and regional
level will be the aubjeet ot a
Spring Conference to be held in
Victoria March • and 10. The
Hogg Foundation on Mental
Health waa instrumental in the
planning ot the conference.
The Gulf Bend Center for
Children and Youth, a youth
problem ev'luatior center,
which is the co-operative ven-
ture of six counties, will pres-
ent their approach to mental
health problems at the local
level. For I months the Gulf
■and Center has been operating
• traveling clink for anyone un-
der 21 years of age with a
serious problem, in each of
the six counties.
Other topics to be discussed
will be the relationship of the
al program Three pan ficiptnts
in the program are of national
prominence: Dr. Edith Fatter,
Prof, of Obstetric* and Gyneco-
logy at the University of Chica-
go; Dr. Burgon Blatt, Prof, of
Special Eduatkm at Bostor
University; and Luther Stringh-
am, National Director tor the
National Assn, for Retarded
Children. Many other Texas Di-
gnitaries In the fields of Law,
Education, and Medicine wig be
participating in the program.
The conference is open to the
Public. Anyone wishing further
Information concerning the
conference should contact the
Gulf Bend Center tor
and Youth in Victoria. e
Holiday Inn will be bsndgun <-
ters for the Conference. P*
. Mr. Richard H
rner director of
____L . early Bend Canter. wiB a*
mental retardation, j orary Chairman far tee
a Meal or
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