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Mostly Cloudy
Mostly cloudy. A little warm-
er tonight, turning cooler bits
.Saturday afternoon. Occasional
light rain or drizzzle tonight and
widely scattered showers Satur-
day. U,w high SOfij High Satur-
day mid f.iK for Cuoro. Gonzales,
Yoakum and Yorktown.
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VOL. 73 NO. 289
CUERO, TEXAS 77954, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1967
6 PAGER - Sc
Grandstand
Cost Slash
Discussed
By D. L. PRENTICE
Record Staff Writer
Cuero's City Council agreed informatlly Thursday
ifternoon to look at plans for a less expensive grand-
stand for thp new baseball park at Cuero Municipal Park,
ind later explained the citys paving plans to a small but
Interested group at a public hearing.
. i A proposed roof, the type of
• fencing and the presslmx came
KUSSianS in extended disrution.
r The council agreed to ask
Q|L-p irl jiiockwood, Andrews and New-
•*. lIIVv a Vlvl ; n.im_ victoria engineering firm
___ j to prepare alternate spaifica-
I j tons for the grandstand; with
» jand without a roof over the cen-
LONtON CPD Ttie Soviet ter section
.. . . .. ■ . After sortie diseusion. the
Union is Mcauting Hs aid to
council agreed on a solid fence.
EgvPt in return for wider con- a,th(MIffh c,)Unrilni:in Huhba ‘
tml* and base facilities, dip, Steen pressed for a ■ hainlini
lomatie reports said today. , type feme on the basis of cheap-,
Tb doing so, the Soviets havener maintenance
, . , , „ i Member* of the council aiso
decided to hack ITcoden’ f.amal , , .
agreed to ask a cheajper system
Abdel Nasser as the leaflet of ^ pIt,Ss facilities than those pro-
thr 1'ntted Arab Repuliiic and ;„w-d by the architects.
mt the Arab world beyond | Councilman Dick Coppedge!
Communist diplomau dls- tor * roof on thi‘ Krand'|
. .. , . ■ ., • stand for better appearance
«Je^d that Moscow, after initial punj> for ,h„ alP„ in
hesitation following die Ar.,1, j)u. p,,-^ W||l f<e discUsed furthei
defeat at tlie hands of Israel m at a later date,
June, luii decided to put its After the informal work scs-
sion with engineer !>>n Frazer,
money once mote on Nasser as , . . , ,
the council ojiened a public hear-
the only chrxec and to back him mj. „n rh„ p;u.mK for
sufficiently so that he can section* of Third and Johnson
‘last,” despite some Aral) Street*.
rumtiling *f dissatisfaction. , Ten f*’rv’n* showed up for the
Having opted for Nasser
M iS' iws' now is pushing all out
for the penetration of Egypt in
rt.e political, economic and
City Schools Run
Short of Money
UF Total
Goes Over
Half-Way
Quota $10,800
Cuero
United Fund
THIS IS “NUCLEAR ENERGY," the newlv-unveiled sculpture
on the spot in Chicago where sustained atomic fission waa
achieved for the first time 25 years ago.
Cuero businessmen and inch- H. Leske. The company Is a
viduals have now contribut e d ; wholesale and retail dealer in
and pledged 52 percent of their I gasoline and motor oils and
1968 United Fund quota. Jack ! Armstrong Tiros, and Mr. la?s-
Howerton, campaign chairman 1 ke has t*en a regular cont
3-DAY FIGHT
Reds Slain
Exceed 200
reiiorted Friday morning.
The chairman said two more
gifts to the fund totaling $110
| Thursday raised total contribu-
j tions and pledges received thus
! far to 55,655 and increased the
j number of contributor* in the
$50 to $T5 group to 20. This
number is . still 10 short of the
30
goal of 30 net by the UF Exe-1
tor to United Fund campaign
for years.
Dr. Hall is a local physician
and surgeon, who maintains his|
clinic office at 104 W. Reuss.
Mrs. Hall is a well known local
club and civic worker and di-
rect'd the Miss Cuero contest to
help raise funds for staging the
paving bearing with some com-
plaint's and requests.
Not all present were concerned
with the present paving plan
’Dave Spellman o[ 210 W. Prairie
came before the council to re-
nt litary sphere*,
Keplare Military Equipment
The Soviet Unkm, which 1u*’!d f>a'ing
boast* of replacing some Wi [»*t I-nwrence Kr-eling had a pro-
cent of Egypt* destroyed ,,‘M’ M,vinK ,hu living on
military equipment, now is also N<nvmfln had been proposed for
sen trig a refiners to make up,
St ensr jui.r-tly, for the one de-
stroyed recently in a reprisal at-
t»< k by Israel.
Moscow aiso has pledged to
send badly needed wheat and
foodstuff* as well ns rations
economic supplies
All this is done on credit, but
the supplies are Ircing neked off
against the mortgaged Egyptian:
cotton harvre«t and base factli-
tle*
Egypt h is rienl'd fha’ she is
granting ' base* ' to anyone But
ro. matter how the e fa( Hides
are labelled, they amount to the
same The Soviet Union nou h i*
full fledged naval facilities in,
Alexandria and Fort Said, un
addition to those in I aitakia.
Syria There is also persistent
talk of base facilities to be ex-
tended to the Soviet Union by,
\ mien
Advisers Brought In
The Kremlin was reputed ti>
have paired several thousand
exjierf* and ■'advisers' int,,
Egypt and Syria, seemingly m
train ttie mirgani/ed ' Egyptian
..ears, had been paid for, bur
had never been installed Kesel-
ing showed copies of The Cuero
Daily Record dating back to,
IV< 17, 1!>51, in support of hi*
protests
There were considerable dis-
cussion of details on the paving
plan* an<l the method of reim-
hirscmcnt by prnjierty holders.
Mayor Lester Frets outlined
the ril>s plans, and told tfie
group that no changes could lie
made in the odrinance at Thurs-
day night's meeting
In answer to the appeals for
SAIGON 'ITU Allied troops
hxl.iv r> [>,rted killing m ,re
than 200 Communists in .i three-
day .battle raging on the coast-
Storms Hit
Areas With
Snow, Hail
By United Press International
S> parafe storms pushed into
the central Rockies today and
lashed the Northeastern states
wiih strong winds, hail and
snow.
Travelers warnings were ex-
panded biday t ) include the
panhandle of Nebraska where
snow was expected to create
hazard >us driving conditions.
Pocatello, Idaho, reported
three inches of new snow during
a six-hour period extending into
today, raising the ground cover
to four inches.
In the more mountainous
ar* as, the snow cover was hen-
al Bong S m plains. On the Cam-
bodian border U. S soldiers
fighting at close quarters
smashed assaults by about 500
Viet Cong against a new Ame-
rican base.
Near Bong Son, UPI corre-
spindent William Reilly report-
ed up to 2.000 U. S. and South
Vietnamese troops closing in on| Three more contributions have
a surrounded North Vietnamese been added to the Honor Roie
regiment. Thus far 209 Gmimu- of donors to the American legion
nists, eight South Vietnamese Hbme-
,,, i Finance Officer Bill Barfield.
| ftnd f,ve GIS havc fx‘‘'n rePorted I Dinter Post No. 3. reported con-
killed in the battle 300 miles fributions by “friend number
| north of Saigon. j eight” of $35, Mr. and Mrs. H.
I Near Bu D ip, 90 miles north j C. Chaddoek of $25 and a Beaeh-
cutive Committee.
New contributions announced
Friday were made by M. H. Les-
ke Oil Company of 413 W Es-
planade who gave $50 and Dr.
and Mrs. O. E. Hall of 401 E. | number of gifts of under $50
3rd Street who donated $60. j have also been received which
M. H. Leske Oil Company is j will not be
1967 Turkey Trot
The campaign chairman said
members of the Cuero United
Fund committee are greatly
encouraged by response received
during the past week. He said a
owned and operated by Martin
Legion Home
Donors Told
publicly acknowledg-
ed until the goal of 30 contribut-
ors of $50 to $75 is attained.
He said contributions ind
pledges can be made by address-
ing checks payable to Cuero
United Fund to The Cuero Re-
cord. Box 351 and pledges may
be reported by calling The Re-
cord business office CR 5-3131,
| of Saigon and four miles from
! Cambodia,
Hamilton mixer donated
! Boy sen’s Super Market.
a more extended paving pro- vu,r aii indicated by the IS Inch-
giatn, the City Manager Will ,,s reputed at Logan Canyon in
Most mountain
least six inches
Cockrell explained that more
paving would have to wait on
completion of the citys water and
sewer improvement program.
Clown Group
Praises Trot
The Cueivi Fair and Turkey
Trot Association has received
letter from the Clowns Inc. of
. , . . . Corpus Christ! praising the city
army in (he use of *o,,h..xt,cBted
UVr": . f , Die letter contained a rcsolu-
Dm Soviet I .non was said to „(>d (t a lVov0nthe. 2S
have reserved the right to eon- „f C1,wns ,r)c H„(,
tro| the use .of the new equip- slj.ned hy Mrs Claudia GoUell-
m-nt. The .Soviets retain n finger i(., secret,,rv. The resolution
on the tugger, presumably to stated that " to all of Cuero.
a’. eri the danger of being, in- Texas. Clowns Ine
-19 guerrillas trying to wipe out
the American artillery base
being built there.
< lose l ighting
Sawada said four U. S. »ol-
dlets were killed and 14 wound-
ed in fighting at such close
range that American artillery-
men kept their big guns silent
es reputed at log an Canyon in j {ur /,.ar of hitting GIs. The ar-
northern Utah. Most mountain j tdlerymen fired rifles instead,
passes had at least six inches j m other Wa -"velopments, u
of snmv and deep drifting I u. S spikesm.n said the bo-
Sltowers were rejerted along I dies of 202 civilians have been
the Pacific Coast from Canada j counted so far in the ruins of !
to Mexico. j Dak Son village destroyed by
In the East, thunderstorms j viet Cong flanu throwers in the |
accompanied the storm system | conflirt s blr»>diest terror raid,
plaguing the Northeastern j said another 500 men, wo-
staies. vvhile showers were re-! ,n,,n Mnd children remain unac-
]>nti'<l southward along a cold1 counted for after Tuesday's
a front from Pennsylvania to Ala-, Communist massacre.
j hi the Mekong Delta below
In the Midwest fog conditions 1 Saigon. Viet Cong mortars kill-
played havoc with airline opera- S!x ,K-rs.ms and wounded 35
tions and highway travel, ; an ;tttack on the district ca-
A seven-vehicle plleup on in- pit,-d of Mo Cai. Just
UPI Ptilizer Prize-, , ... ,
! Memorial donors added were
winning photographer Kyoirhi Mrs. George F, Dickson to the;
Sawada reported outnumbered John Beming Memorial: Mr. and j
U. S. Infantrymen killed at least Mrs. Fain McDougal, to the Ray ;
Smith Memorial; and Mrs. J. W.
Haak. to the J,xe M Reuss Mem-
orial.
Santa Claus
Is Clobbered
Jumpin' Jingle Bells 1
Santa Claus, one of them
decorating the front of City
Hall at least, must have been
run into by some door — he
sport* a real shiner of a black
eye.
HONOR ROLL FOR
196*
Mrs. Champ Traylor
$1,000.
Weber Motor Co.
100.
Mr -Mrs. Graham Hamilton 100.
Coppcdge Tire Service
100.
Bert Kirk. Jr.
150.
Mr.-Mrs. D. M. Stiles
too.
Cuero Foodcrsft Store
100.
Kletka - Center Phcy.
too.:
| Stimson Furniture Co.
too.
j Nielsen 7-Up Bot Co
100.
Frank B. Sheppard
100.;
| Freund Funeral Home
100.;
j Gulf Coast Wood Prod
100.
' Stratton Hospital
100.
! Cuero Federal S and L
200.
1 Buehel Natl. Bank
200.
S. W. Bell Tel. Co
140.
; Quaker Oats Co.
150.
! L. L. Buttery Ph.G
luo.
| Cuero Record
130.
; Farmers State Bank
150.
I^eRoy Hamilton
100.
Dr.-Mis. Harold High
10C.
Whites Auto Store
120.
I Texas Eastern
200.
! Mr.-Mrs. Alfred Friar
200.
I Duckett Motor Co.
50.
(Barfield Meat Co.
50.
• J. T. Newman
60.
Mrs. Ema B. Koehler
100.
1 Berning & Wagner
60.
Mr.-Mrs. Carter Thomas
100.
Dewey & Vallie Schorre
50.
j Koenig's Drive In
60.1
Woodworth & Den Ins.
60.1
Coca-Cola Bottling Co
LOO.
Lila Brown
50.
A Friend
60.
Mr.-Mrs. Reiffert Blacka • !! 50.
W. A. Blackwell Estate
50.
Ark-La Gas Company
125. I
Reuss Drug Store
60. 1
Dr. John F. Wheeler
60.
Judge Geo. W. Trowel]
60. i
Leske Motor Gimpany
5o.:
Gay Irnplmt. & Motor Co
50.
F. W. Rabke
30.
William G. Nami
60.
M. H. Leske Oil Co.
50.,
Dr.-Mrs 0. E. Hall
60.
Total to date
$5,655
You can add your name to the
__ ..Honor Rod by calling CR 5-3131.
ac»w»»nmimn»»mn»HH»nt1
HUNDREDS KILLED
Tribesmen Didn’t
Know the Language
(••estate 40. at Memphis, Tenn... | North-South Vietnam border,
W'lis blained on the fog. Vtisibi-j the second major Communist
Dty w as as low as Six feet In j artillery barrage in two days
southeastern Michigan, ' leading i killed seven U. S. Marines and
w ishes to say to the closing of the Detroit wounded 71. Sjsikesmen said
By KATE WEBB ing families. They laid a mother
DAK SON, Vietnam UP! — ! and her sLx children together in
Hundreds of the mountain one hole.
people, men, women and Montagnards wound up the
children, huddled in holes under hill, chanting dirges in their
their huts and hoard the Viet -wn tongue, still not under-
Cong shouting, “Come with us standing
or -tie!". “Why? Why these people?
Most of the Montagnards of anyone. They're such a
beliav the'this village hear the Camlxodian' gentle people," said an Army
State Cash
Is Reported
Overdue
Fv FLOYD HENDRICKS
Record Staff Writer
The Cuero Independent School
District Board does not have
the money to pay its cafeteria
bills for November because
of “overdue state reimburse-
ment" funds, according to Rudy
Fuchs, business manager. The
hoard Tuesday night ytoted to
pay the bills, $6,1.35.51 worth,
"when the money becomes
available.’’
Super,ntendem Joe Ward taid
the state funds are due here this
month.
The board aiso voted to pay $1,
083.79 in transportation services
and $12,145 59 in local mainten-
ance casts, for the month of
November. Funds are available
for those items, Fuchs said.
The board will pay back tax-
es assessed for the curr r n t
year on some 51 acres of l?nd
not owned hy the Wofford Es-
tate. which had been paying fix-
es on the excess acreage since
I960 Tlie error was d seovered
and the request for the rebate
made
The board voted to inform fh»
estate of the state attorney gen-
eral’s opinion regarding the
refund of taxes other than ’hose
for the current vear when a mis-
take is made. The opinion sa’d
“It is a general nrincinsl of
law tha* taxes Which are volun-
tarily paid are pot there-fD’
recoverable"
Die i«sue of legal arid more!
responsibility arose on tlm mat-
ter. The statement nr de \va«
that legally, the board docs no*
hive to nay any over - assessed
taxes other’ than *br current
year. But when a mistake Is
mad” and known hi' 'he heard,
is the board not mo-ally obligat-
ed to pav the rebate’
Superintendent Joe Ward said
the monev was re nr; id to the
Wofford Estate, it would have
to come out of local mainten-
ance funds, and would onen the
wav to other claims
The board continued in the
three - hour meeting bv appoint-
ing a textbook committee to
select books for a six - year
contract, according to Ward,
who will serve as the commit-
tee chairman
Other mem hers are Mrs. Cor-
inne Haywood. Mrs. Lottie Cok-
j er, Mrs Bess Jemigin. Mrs.
| Sara Breeden, Mrs. Faye Hay*
| es. Mrs. Elinor Goodwvn. Lang-
don Smith. George Balcar. Mrs.
| Nan Milligan. Bifly C. Cooper,
.Tames Robe. Rancv Busch.
Haeeker and Mrs. Rena
laved against their will in any thanks for n very congenial and • area's major airports. ; pe first barrage Wednesday,
confrontation with the 1 mted receptive audience, making the: Bozeman. Mont., recorded the' lulled seven and wounded 77.
States hy nnv hasty
yentuious Nasser mine
n,i- clowns happy, and proud to say
i ‘We were there in ’67.'- ”
Quick Action Due
For Benefits Hike
WASHINGTON HIT* f„n- Under the hill. 23 8 million, Children tAFDCt program. This! P,J,titati« >rts and hit the new base
nail ,n's low at 2 a.in. EST, aj j„ the air. U. S. giant 1152
C(X,1 12 degrees. | Strattifortresses smashed Com-
| munist positions around Saigon
and smaller U. S jets Thursday
struck deep into North Vietnam
hitting targets near Hanoi.
Drive Olf Communists
At Bu Dop, Sawada reported
the Communists unleashed a
one hour mortar aback today
border do not sjieak Vietname-
se. They did not understand. 1
Communist flamethrowers
swooshed. The flames engulfed
the huts and flashed into the
hideout holes below.
Today, four days after the
raid, the survivors are not sure
how many died. Die lowest es-
timate is 100. The official guess
es run to more than 300 I ask-j
ed the opinion of Col. William |
F. West of Portland. Ore., who
is trying to bring order ouf of!
chaos. ;
He gestured up the hill, to-i
ward the big lx, tree underNvhich!
they thought their attackers
were speaking Chinese. They
couldn’t even understand they! Cass
| were told ’Come with us or j Aldrich.
i die."' said Dr. Larry Nix of j Cosmetology and Shorthand IT
j Fresno, Calif. : are not taught at Cuero High
The Montagnards had come! School, but selections of texts
(to Dak Son to find peace, That; will he made in those fields, as
; started ’heir trouble. They were1 a “precautionary measure"
! among 20,000 mountain folk who; should the school p-esent the
1 came to government - protected! courses at a later date, at
; hamlets to escape Viet Cong ter-i which time purchase of books
: rorisin. That angered the Com- would not be permissible, »f-
! .musists. j cording to Ward.
At midnight Monday night the! Tnsurancemen Jim Conrad
j Communists swarmed out of the! and Murray Tarkington agreed
to come up with more figures on
(See SCHOOLS. Page «)
and then stormed from sur- swarms of flies whirled and from
rounding jungles and rubber where the worst odor of war
gross wa* ready today to give j Social Security recipients would; move was op|K,sed by the ad-
priority handling to a eomprom- get a 13 per cent benefit in ministration,
fee $3 6 billion hill increasing crease; maximum monthly pay-1 Under the compromise bill.
Social Security benefit* by 13 nients would rise from the cur-j the government would oniv pay
per cent and authorizing a rent $44 to $55. The increase its share of tie* federal-state
freeze on the nations largest would take effect next February,
welfare program The compromise was close to
House action on the final ver- i the House bill, which would have
■ion.of the huge measure could|provided a 12.5 per cent In-
come Wednesday with the Sen- j crease with a $50 monthly mini-
ate following uj, later in the mum. The Senate version, just | ly financed with state and local
week. I as requested hy Johnson, was a ! funds.
The measure, which was con- 15 per cent increase and a $70 Local welfare agencies, how-
siderabiy less than President minimum. ever, would nor tie required to
One provision of the bill would
fre«M the level of federal con-
tribution* to the eocrtroverxia!
AM to PtootohM Mtk Daomdant
Johnson asked for last January,
was hammered out by House
and Senate negotiators Thun-
welfare program ai the level of
recipient* set as of Jan. 1, 1968.
Persons going on AFDC rolls
above that level would get pay-
ments, but only those complete-
start the freeze until next July
1. Diere at* an estimated 5
million persons gettng welfare
from two sides They broke;
through one U. S company. The
GIs fell luck. sti„,i! their ground 1
and drove back the Commun-
i>ts. In one spot lay eight. Com- j
munists bodies.
At nearby Dak Son. James ;
Teague, the senior area Ameri-i
can government adviser, said j
some of the 500 missing Mon-!
tagnard tribesmen may be hid-
ing in nearby jungles after
Tuesday's raid. The Viet Cong
swarmed into the refugee vil-
lage and fired their flame-
throwers into the huts and hide-
out holes where men, women
and children huddled foe aaiet> :
toey did not find. 1
,*>
came with an unwelcome breeze.
“You can go out and count
the >xx!ies yourself if you want
to But I don't advise you to.
There are large numbers of
very dead people out there,"
West said
Vietnamese troops with hand-
kerchiefs over their faces made
large graves They we re bury-
12
Shopping
Days HU
Christmas
doctor, Henry K, Wirts of York.
Pa. He was one of three Amer-
ican physicians who have been
working, stripped to the waist,
in a makeshift hospital they put
together since help came to Dak
Son Tuesday morning.
"These people' don't under- ! jungle, up the hill and through
stand Vietnamese. They told us ! (See VIET NAM. Page «)
Cong Peace Attempt
Stirs Speculations
WASINGTON 'I’Pft - Official
disclosure of a Viet Cong effort
to send representatives to the
United Nations gave rise to
speculation here today that one
segment of the enemy in Viet-
nam may want' to explore the
pathway to peace.
Top administration officials
discounted this view, expressing
the belief that the indirect ap-
proach made hs the National
Liberation Front, the Viet Cong's
! political arm, to U. N. Ambassa-
dor Arthur J. Goldberg was
simply an attempt to stir up
propaganda.
But this official attitude was
Mt entirely borne out by the
remarks of Vice President Hu-
bert H. Humphrey during a re-
corded radio interview CBS-
Classroom U. S.A.
Without making a direct ref-
erence to the Viet Cong effort
to send representatives to New
York, he held out the possibility
of “a split within the N'LJF’’
which would offer the possibility
of bringing the non-Conununist
elements into a coalition with
Saigon government.
The vice president said he
knew that the South Vietnamese
government had “contacts with
individual member* <rf the
Nl-F."
“Thera are many moo-Cotn-
munist members the NLF is
not all Communists . . Now, it ia
passible that there may be a
split within the NIS . . . and it
may be that at Home future date,
that some of fhe non-Communista
will want to be brought into a
government and may very well
be the very ones we have to
negotiate with.” he said.
Humphrey's aides and other
officials later asserted that he
was speaking about an eventual
possibility, not a present reality,
and that his remarks had bean
edited by the broadcasters, thua
eliminating some nf the qualifi-
cations he expressed.
(Me CONG PEACE, Page Q
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