The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 171, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 21, 1957 Page: 2 of 10
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Texas Digital Newspaper Program and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the Cuero Public Library.
- Highlighting
- Highlighting On/Off
- Color:
- Adjust Image
- Rotate Left
- Rotate Right
- Brightness, Contrast, etc. (Experimental)
- Cropping Tool
- Download Sizes
- Preview all sizes/dimensions or...
- Download Thumbnail
- Download Small
- Download Medium
- Download Large
- High Resolution Files
- IIIF Image JSON
- IIIF Image URL
- Accessibility
- View Extracted Text
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
| WE U«BO BMAUUK ouudaj, duly ^ IHi
French Foreign Legion
Still Story Book Unit
ha for any number tt jmn from
on* to (In.
The Legion Am not taka all
comers but takes nearly alL
First-degree murders are not gen-
erally welcomed, qpd, assumed
names or no, the Legion’s MdU-
gence service can check up on
such types.
But each ease Is considered in-
dividually.
If a man is sane and healthy
his past doesn't count.” one Le-
gion officer said, “We’ll usually
take any man we think we can
Fmnch Foreign Legion are true,
you leant with a sigh of relief at
thia Legion headquarters town in
Algeria.
First stop for recruits — the
Legion calls “Les Bleus” "the
raw ones) — is still Sidi-Bel-Ab-
bes just as it was in Beau Geste'a
day.
After a few days of processing,
recruits go to instruction camps
in the countryside nearby for four I make a legionnaire of.
months of very basic training. j Once a man is 18. age is no ob-
Legionnaims still wear their jeet. Although the rest of the
white kepis although helmets or French army takes nobody over
(for parachutists) green berets 45, the Legion has taken men of
are their headgear in combat. or even older as long as they
Any healthy man of any nation-' were sound of wind and heart
ality aged IB or over can join the j N© PeHtice—
Legion. As always, a Frenchman i Refugees from alimony pay-
who wants to join must pretend ments are admitted (and shielded
he was born in Brussels or Ge- from process servers) and so are
neva. j political refugees—even if they
Identity Guarded— happen to be Frenchmen who
The Legion jealously guards, fought against France in the sec-
every legionnaire’s identity. It1 and World War.
even pretends, officially, that a1 "We're not interested in pod-
recruit has joined up under an tics.” an officer said. “If we
assumed name ever if he gives! were, we wouldn't have a La-
his right name. gion.
y^g|)| XlMT
'3 * - • 'fv' gSv
« i s
■" k V
4 :r*4' $.
OCTTINe SACK to Chicago from a Minnesota vacation, Mr. and Mrs. Howard W. Coate© bad to put
themselves up in their vacation tent The «-30-ineb rain left their basement apartment not fit for
chickens, even. Here Coates sets the alarm dock. f International BoussdpAoto;
The first hitch is still five years,
and no man can buy an early dis-
charge. Subsequent hitches can
The Legion is recruited from
among the victims of political and
economic upheavals. Every revo-
lution, War or depression brings
a new flood of recruits.”
Just after World War n, for
example, four out of five legion-
naires were Germans.
Now the porportion has drop; d
to about 40 per cent' Germans,
plus about 30 per cent Slava (ti e
present commanding officer of
the 5th Foreign Legion infantry
regiment is a White Russian who
went to St. Cyr. — the French
West Point) and about 30 per cent
Latins (Spaniards, Italians and
Frenchmen for the most parti.
Fifty Nations............
All told, about 50 nations are re-
DON'T
Let Your Grass Si Shrubbery
SUFFER
From Lack Of Care!
WE HAVE A COMPLETE LINE OF:
• Garden Hose & Sprinklers
• Garden Push Carts
• Garden Hoes & Rakes
• Power Mowers & Edgers
• And All Other Garden Tools
WAGNER
HARDWARE & Machinery Co.
To This Community.
The Stor\, With A Record of 76 Years of Service
MRS. WALTER WAGNER. Owner
210 N. Esplanade — CUERO. TEXAS - Phone 5-5134
No Wonder It’s
The Best Truck
Tire In Its Class!
has exclusive
3-T cord body
... yet low
priced
MB M4MLER
presented in the Legion at any
one time.
The Legion has had numerous
princes amoung its recruits, in-
cluding Prince Norodom Sihan-1
ouk of Cambodia and Prince Pier-
re of Serbia, both of whom
later became kings. Also the two
present pretenders to the French
throne, the Count of Paris (he
served brefly as a private in 1940
under the name of d’Orliac) and
Prince Napoleon.
Prince Louis of Monaco, whose
granddaughter-in-law is the f '-
mer Grace Kelly of Hollywood,
was a major in the Legion.
The Legion expe -ted a flood of
Hungarians after the Hungarian
revolution iaat November, but it
never materialized.
"We got a few but we could
have used more,” a Legion of-
ficer said.
"They make wonderful soilders.
“There was a proposed to form
a Hungarian battalion in the For-
eign Legion. But for the Legion,
that’s out.”
Chicagoan’s Ashes.......
At first Legion units were or-
ganized by nationality—all Ger-
mans in one battalion, all Italians
in another. But this led to con-
stant bickering and unhealthy riv-
alries.
Within a few years the Legion
started mixing nationalities right
down to the smallest detached-
duty detail, and this system has
continued without exception.
The American, Alan Seeger,
wrote the poem, “I have a rend-
ezvous with death,” while serving
with the Legion on the western
front in the first World War. He
was killed in action a few months
later, at Belloy-En-Santerre, June
28, 1916, less than a week after
his 28th birthday.
In the outside wall of the le-
gion’s hi.il of honor are buried the
ashes of WiUiam Moll, a Chica-
goan who was wounded fighting
with the Legion in the Darda-
nelles in 1915. After his death in
Chicago in 1937, according to the
plaque in the wall, his ashes were
brought here because it was "his
last desire to rest with the Le-
gion.
LmIi Philippe Founder—
Foreign troops have served
France since the year 886 when
Charles I-eGros (Charles The
Fat) recruited a bodyguard of
Scotsmen.
StMtor Mrsob Shows Sights to Shaross
hnlw trade* i. Mmm pahSs eat tifhti of A* Natim'i Capital to Sharon Thai©
■aa of Callta CeaMr, Tama. Share*, IS, daughter at Mr. and Mrt. lewta f. Thompson,
Mala Ceeaty termers, wae eelatled "MJaa Taaag America ha wr at a recant Matlnnal
4-M Cnnference in WatMngtnn.
The Swiss Guards were massa-
cred to the last man while try-
ing to defend Louis XVI from the
Paris mob at the outset of the
French Revolution.
dered the following: there will be
formed a legion composed of for-
eigners. This legion will take the
name of the Foreign Legion.”
"La legion Etrangere" has
The Foreign Legion as such was fought in every French war from
founded a century and a quarter
ago by King Louis Philippe. He is
not one of France's favorite kings.
the first Algerian to the present
Algerian. It has fought in the
Crimea, Dahomey, Formosa, Sy-
but he is helmed by the Legion as ria, Indochina, and, of course, on
its creator. ! the many battlefields of the two
The Legion began with this ; World Wars. Its battle streamers
proclamation: include Sebastopol, Magenta, Nar-
"Paris, March 10, 1831. Louis vik and Dien Bien Phu.
Philippe, King-of the French, to Mexican Adventure-
all present and all to come, salu-1 Its best-remembered battle was ,
tations. In view of the law of fought at Camerone, not in Africa
March 9. 1831. in view of the re- but in Mexico, during the Ameri-;
port of our minister of state to can Civil War when France put
the war department, we have or- the puppet Maximilian on the
Third company- ©ww
Imcnt. composed of three officers
I and 63 own under Captain Danjou,
was escorting a supply
when aet upon by an army of
[2.050 Mexicans. All but three
| men, a corporal and two privates,
jwataJdlled or wounded in the 11-
uriof. hi- 1? .AT*
“Thia fall, lor example, wall
have a TV series starring Fran*
ees Langford. And there won’t
be any shoestring budget for the
series. It’s three million dollars
The Mexicans erected a menu*
mart at the spot with a vena say-
ing, ’These French soldiers gave
I up their lives before they gave
I up their courage.”
The anniversary of the date,
I April 30. 1863, is still celebrated
as the Legion holiday around the
(worlds
The most punishing combat for
[the Legion was the eight-year-
long Indochina war. On the walls
of the hall of honor are engraved
the names of all Legion officers
killed in action. More than 300
were killed in Indochina—more
in those eight years than In all
the previous years of Legion bat-
Itles put together.
The Legion’s present strength
I is 22,000 men, formed into 10 reg-
iments (six infantry), two armor-
led, two parachutist).
Except for small units in
[France, French West Africa and
Madagascar, the Legion today is
back where it started—in Algeria.
HOLLYWOOD
FILM SHOP
By RON BURTON
HOLLYWOOD, — OR — Call it
[inflation, call it competition,
call it progress or call it any-
thing you like, but what It
mounts to is a trend in which
the main object will be the mul-
ti-million dollar film and TV pro-
Iduction.
Charles Wick, chief of Splen-
[dex Enterprises, believes in the
old saw about money making
more money. His associated be-
lief is that the very expensive
TV or film production actually
will promote popularity of high-
priced productions. This means
more demand for more such pro-
| ductions, he believes.
“Our company is splurging in
| both TV and motion picture su-
per-duper, million-dollar produc-
tions," he said. "Movies with
huge budgets which permit
them to be epics with special
camera techniques and color
treatment started thia trend.
Wick admits Ms theory is that
you'va got to spend some money
to make some money, but he
phrases it; “you must invest be-
fore you may realize a profit."
Wick said he also planned to
produce one super musical film
with Miss Langford, using the
same techniques found in today’s
hit movie musicals.
“We’re also keeping in mind
technical advances which these
super-productions will bring
about,” he said. “That means
perhaps newer camera and
screens and more and more
color.”
He likes to think of the Splen-
dex firm as one which really
isn’t emproidered In the movie-
TV battle.
"We always thought that was
silly,” he said. “That’s why we
make both movies and TV
shows.”
». Mev. JWy JO, — * „
fog ticket when ha mailed the fl
fine to the raimldpe! oourt clerk
several days ago. VMdagr he m.
eeived • short eoagratulatesy
message from the court—atom
with the |I ho had mailed to $$
the fine.
wdto th*
five times daily.
Your
MILO
MARKET PRICES
EVERY DAY
CONTACT
1.1. ELDER
Cuero, Texas • - 5-5539
MATHIS GRAIN &
m#* i nu elevator co.
Mathis, Texas
Big 6 and Early Fat Feeds
GOODYEAR
Tile Triple - Tempered 3-T
Cord body provides far
greater sirength and more re-
ccys. A flatter tread gives you
increased mileage, and the
improved breaker provides
" -er body protection.
4-00 m 14
f4 pty term*)
Obama and
WWW
As low as $1.25 a week
#■— —$ «« NMU> M CM8TIM TRVC8 TMCS T8M M MT 8780 RIM
SEE US FOR EXPERT WHEEL BALANCING.
(Help Build Friendship Village)
Th# other day, Bill suddenly,
announced that ha foot had to
have a workshop. "And white I’m
at it.” he decided, ‘Til fix up tha
basement—tile the floor ahd pub
up some wood paneling—make it
Into a real game room. How about i
that*”
"I don’t want to curb your 1
enthusiasm.” I replied, "but need
I remind you that your golf bag j
mildewed down there? Our base-
ment is so damp, we could grow
mushrooms in it!"
It so hap-
pens, my dear,
that I think of
everything," |
Bill grinned.
’ Before I buy
a foot of pan-
eling, wa’rs
getting an
RCA Whirl-
pool dehumidifier."
"A what?” I yelped, visualizing
a monstrous machine.
BUI explained patiently that
this appliance Osesa t look Ilka a
machine at all. X was rsftersd
when he described a compact
green and gold cabinet teas than
18 Inches high.
"If it’s that small." I suggested,
“maybe we need two."
BUI laughed at my
“Hardly! This
moves over three galtem at
moisture (ram tha air a day—
enough to control tha humidity
la a room 40 by 80 tost And it
can be booked up to a Orate to
dispose of the accumulated water.
Incidentally, it* moM* tea.
Rolls on casters so yaa caa taka
U where you a©ed tt."
Well, who am I to tail ayaatf
««t of a game ream? Well get j
j the tUe and the ereai paadfetf
j as •©©■ as we gst that dska- i
qudififTi
Attention Housewives ....
lediat. . wavld yav Hka te wva e covet# #♦ dollar! each week #" y#w feed bill •* bvy bet# er
comerio? SerteeVy. we went te Ante tb# bvtiaett ie Cuere and we knew Ibat we can rove yav deltere
** yew meet ewebotet abotbot yew bvy (er tbe n('i©ereter er (be Seen (reete.
We bvy ie nvnetby end fbere(ert con tell cbeoner. It it at timplt *t tbet.
»<*v tt* yaw meat cwt ie tb* weifbt yaw wet (t... a*d (be nvality yew dear*.
(t take* tv© a ednat* or two ta Wive net ea Ibe eld San Aetewit Wfbway ... order y*vr meal cut*...
er« wt or* (be oeoi wbe take tb* order*... net only (er yew pwebatt bvt jtar enaetly at yav went ©
cut. Ow bea'eett It bed! ween tatitSed Wittomtit.
Barfield Meat Company
«
t
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 171, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 21, 1957, newspaper, July 21, 1957; Cuero, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth699217/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cuero Public Library.