The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, February 26, 1971 Page: 1 of 6
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:
MICROFILM CENT2S, TNC.
P. o. JJOX 45436
DALLAS, TEXAS 75235
Cooler
Windy and turning cooler to-
night. Fair and cooler Satur-
day. High in the low 60s, low
in the low 50s for Otero, Yoa-
kum, Yorktown.
U. L WMI*
hi Cuor* and
OaWHt County
3hp (Eutro SxTrnrii
* “A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS IT’S COMMUNITY”
Horn*
Of The
Fighting
Cuero
Gobbler*
High School
Football
Triple "A"
Finalist*
VOL. 77 NO. 48
CUERO, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26,1971
6 PAGES — 10c
Town Talk
By D. L. PRENTICE
Record Staff Writer
Rrp. Curtis Graves, the black
legislator from Houston, is
mighty upset because Army In-
telligence is said to have kept
him under surveillance for 10
years.
The Rev. Rolfe Eberhardt of
San Antonio's First Unitarian
Church says he couldn’t care
less if his rhurrh and he him-
self are kept under surveil-
lance.
"I'd rather be investigated
and have a clean bill of health
than be under suspi ion,'' he
said.
The pastor said the Unitarian
Church does tend to be a ra-1
ther liberal group, and he feels
intelHgence interest in his •
church probably came because
of the large military member-
shm in his congregation.
R p Graves, on the other
hand, said in Washington yes-
terday 1 literally have lost
faith in this country. 1 *»m tend-
ing to wonder right now whet-
her this country may have been
taken ov-r by a military coup
— and I'm dead serious."
Maybe he is or maybe his
eons-rnee just might not he so
clear as that of the San An-
tonio pastor
Realizing you are being spied
ut>on by your fellow-' untrymen ;
probably comes as a shock. But
there's a lot of that probing,
particularly when national se-
curity is involved
I know I was investigated
thoroughly by Naval Intellig-
ence not just once but several
times. But those checks were
in connection with specific job*
Board Studying
Bids on Schools
P. Fielding Breeden
Is Claimed by Death
140.4-INCH RECORD SNOW—Mrs. Albert Gerin-Lajoie shows how high the snow
is at door of her town house in Ottawa, Ont This year * 140.4 inches of snow
breaks a record set in 1915.
Rain-Over an Inch-
Reaches Cuero Area
The rains —- up to I 41 inches i issued dust storm w arnings.
— finally came to Cuero and Forecasters Said the w ind might
the surrounding area last night reach a velocity of 60 miles
I was going to he called on to! accompanied by spectacular | an hour in gusts over the area,
do In th- Naval Reserve. | displays of lightning. I The cold weather, however,
I'd rcnllv have been shocked ! The 1.41 reading w as at did not set off nearly as many
Radio Station KOFH, and the thunderstorms as expected. A
official-type rain gauge here southwest wind swept most of
ha,i recorded 1.08 inches of the the moisture out. of the air
total by midnight Ctppcdge j over the northern half of the
it I hadn't been thoroughly in-
vestigated,
T roop 243
Advances
Are Noted
state and the front was expect-
ed to cause thunderstorms over
only the southeastern half of
Texas.
Tornado Watch lifted
The National Weather Ser-
vice lifted a tornado watch at
1 a m. on 50 North Central
Northeast, Southwest, Southeast!
(See Weather, Page 4)
Paul Fielding Rreixien, 73,
prominent Cuero business exe-
cutive, civic leader and church-
man, died at Cuero Communi-
ty Hospital this morning at
i 9:15 o'clock.
Mr. Breeden, who had been
a resident of Cuero almost his
entire life, had been in the hos-
pital about four weeks and suf-
fered a heart attack which led
to the calling of his son ami
daughter to his bedside. He
rallied however and had ap-
peared well on the road to re-
covery until stricken again in
the early morning hours today.
Funeral arrangements had
not been completed at noon to-
day.
His daughter, Mrs Bebe Ben-
son of Honolulu returned to her
home in Hawaii last Sunday
after spending two weeks with
her parents, and their son
l • ing Breeden Jr., had gone
b„ :k to Austin to his business.
Mr. Breeden had headed the
Fielding Breeden Insurance
Agency the last 20 years of his
life until he consolidated with
Herbert Dombluth and J. J.
Fischer to form the Breeden-
Dombluth-Fischer Agency in
9i 1ST J.
He had previously engaged in
Boy Scout Troop 243, sponsor-
ed by the Citizens Club of Cu-
ero, held its 9th annual Troop
Recognition Night Monday even-
ing.
Randy Johnson, quarterback
for the Atlanta Fal on* profes- proa hing
slonal froithall team, and pre-
sently associated with Conrad
and Tarkington Insurance A-
gency, was a visitor during the
recognition activities. Mr. John-
son spoke briefly to the scouts
and parents of Troop 243 and
stated that "all the good qual*-
ties that he talks to youth or-
ganization* about could be found j
in the membership of buys j
tu Troop 243." Randv also ]
praised highly Troop 243 for
having received the National
George Washington Honor Me-
dal by the Freedoms Founda-
tion of Valley Forge. Pennsyl-
vania for outstanding contribu-
tion to community programs
and activities for the year 1970.
Scoutmaster John Hamilton
into dueed Francis Blakeslee,
who was the first scoutmaster
of Troop 243 in Maroh of 1925.
(See Troop ?!*. Page •)
Service Station on North Ks-
planaBt recorded 1.1 inches
Mrs, Bill Ruschhaupt who
lives near Meyertville recorded
1.4 inches and heard of reading.*, ;
of 2 bp he* in Meyersviile j
The rains were welcomed by ,
farmer! and rancher* who lave
been contemplating baked fields
and parched pastures f o r
months.
Thunderstorms dropped up to
an inch of rain today in the
southeastern half of Texas and
along the Gulf Coast and ap-
cold weather prom-
SOMETHING NEW?
Try Daule Elementary
To Learn the Latest
By ■IKA.ME RI.AI.O< K
Record Spiff Writer
Would you like to know a
little more about the PBI, wit-
ised to set oft still more rain. a tasting contest, see
according to United Press In- „ female chin-up champion in
ternational. , action or read the latest edi-
A cold front was ' moving ■ ,jon flf Cuero's fastest-growing
through the state, lowering tern- tri-semester newspaper, Daule
peratures and in West Texas j Dynamitp?
kicking up so much dust that
the National Weather Sendee
Drop by Daule Elementary
School during Cuero Public
Schools week March 1-5 and
you just might get a glimpse
of ail four.
Principal Glenn Portis is in-
viting parents and the public
to drop by the school during
next week to see the daily
round of classroom activities.
Open house at Daule will he
held Monday from 3:3b p.m. to
5:30 p.m. Parent* may also eat
lunch with their children dur-
| ing the week. They are asked
All mothers are urged to at- to call the school the morning
tend according to Mrs. Don | of the day they plan to eat at
Smith, president. the cafeteria, Portis said.
Troop Mothers
Meet Monday
A June Bake Sale will ho
discussed at a meeting of the
Mothers Auxiliary f Boy Scout
Troop 241 Monda at 7 30 p.m
in the basement of First United
Methidist Church.
Other business will include
discussion of a court of honor.
Smith's Man Taking
Park Position Today
'By ROLAND LINDSEY
AUSTIN fUPli - The man ex-
pected to swing the policy ol
the paries and wddlife commis-
head the college coordinating
board.
Debusk got on 12 vote* and
needed 21 for confirmation. A
number of senators voted a-
sion in line with Gov. Preston i gainst Debusk for political rea-
Smitli's views takes the oath j son* but most blamed the ro-
of office today, wiping sway jectlon on Smith failure to “do
some of the sting S nith has
suffered when another of his
appilntees was rejected by the
Senate.
Jack Stone of Wells, was
scheduled to be sworn in as a
parks and wildlife eommission-
cr at 3:3(1 p in. today replacing
I. P. Cihin of Amarillo. Stone's
appointment gives Smith’s al-
lies e two-to-ane majority on
the commission, particularly in
the feud over the purchase of
part of Mustang Island for a
state park site.
But tite governor suffered a
personal defeat Thursday when
the Senate overwhelmingly
turned down his nomination of
Manuel C. Debusk at Dalles to
i i
his homework” on the appoint-
ment.
Sen. O. H Harris. R-Dallas,
who represents the district
where Debusk lives, said neith-
er the governor nor Debusk
contacted him to line up sup-
port for the nomination.
Debusk worked for political
exponents <4 two other Dallas
senators — Oscar Mauzy and
Mike McKool.
Within hours after the Sen-
ate reiected Debusk’s appoint-
| ment, Smith designated Wayne
, Thomas of Hereford as chair-
man of the coordinating board.
Thomas was confirmed in the
*ame Senate session where De-
busk was tossed out
House tax writers, m»an- j
while, continued to wrestle with
a proposed SG00 million tax
package lac°d with increases
and expansions of the state
sales tax.
Speaker Gus Mutscher said
he hopes to put the finishing
touches on that package this
weekend and bring it out of
committee Monday for floor de-
bate later in the week. Mutsch-
er said public reaction to the
plan has been “about as favor-
able ns we ever get on any
tax bill.”
But Sen. Murray Watson, D-
Wato. said the House tax writ-
ers are continuing to “sock the
consumers” with the sales tax
hikes.
"We are nearing the break-
ing point in taxation and it be-
hooves each of us who repre-
sent you to do all we can to
keep the cost af our govern-
ment as law as passible,“ Wat-
son said.
I accepted Portis' invitation
and dropped by the school this
week for 1 look into today's
elementary education system.
The moat notieable innovation
in recent years are visual aids
which are used in some de-
gree in every course.
This includes the remedial
reading class in which I en-
countered the above-mentioned
PBI This is Pig Bureau of
Investigation and for further
details it will be well worth
your time to read the entire
book written by a student in
the reading class.
Just going to the above class
has to improve the student's
vocabulary. It's no longer re-
medial reading. I was told, but
Remedial Computational Skills
Laboratory.
Students in these classes are
currently writing their own
books. Upon completion, they
will record the hooks on tapes
for judging by another read-
ing class. Some of the catchier
titles include:
“Tiie Juicy Worm,” “Wha-
ley Paley,” "Dog, Rooster and
Duck" and "Mother Turtle Lays
An Egg.”
Today's elementary reading
program includes extensive use
of the award-winning New-
berry Gold Medal Books and
Caldecott Books. Displays,
made by the students and illus-
trating the books, will be found
in some of the classrooms dur- j
ing Public School Week.
The food-tasting contest in
which «vidents b» blind-
folded and have nands tied be-
hind backs and clothespines en
their noses will be held Mon-
day during science classes at
Daule.
The chin-up champions may
be seen trying out for the
Presidential Physical Fitness
Tests now being conducted by
the school. The test, which con-
sists of seven different events,
is administered twice annually
in the physical education class-
es.
Daule has three units of spe-
cial education classes with 15
students enrolled is each unit.
A student is taught as much as
he can learn ia each subject
.Special education students are
the wholesale grocery business I her of the same high school
with his father, Robert Breed- graduating class. They were
en, and his uncles, Charles G. married after h> completed his'
anil Waiter K. Breeden prior | education at Te xas A&M Uni-
to its sale to Groce-Wearden versity.
Co.
He was a former member of
the Cuero City Council, a past
president of the Rotary Club,
a past president of the Cham-
ber of Commerce and was sec-
re'ary of Post M. Travelers
Protective Association at the
time of his death. He had pre-
viously served as state mem-
bership chairman for TPA and
was a national director for four
years. •
Mr Breeden was. a lifelong
member of Grace Episcopal
Church and had served several
terms as senior warden and as
a member of the church ves-
try.
His wife, Mrs. Jane Harris
Breeden, who survives with
their two children, is a daugh-
ter of the late W. F. Harris,
Cuero attorney and was a mem-
PAUL FIELDING BREEDEN
. . . Dies In Hospital
Of special interest to local
history buffs will be the minia-
ture museum exhibit at the
school, known as the "Memora-j student at Boys State in Austin
bills of Cuero’s Past Selected | this summer. An application has
by Cuero's Future Citizens.”) been mailed fw a Cuero youth
Articles displayed range from j to attend the Lions Crippled
square nails, and tin type pic-: Children's Camp at Kerrville
tures to old aspirin and per- [ in the summer, Jim Stone,
fume bottles and family heir-j secretary said,
kwms nf students. President Gene Grafe ap-
Lions Directors
OK Youth Fund
Board of Directors of the 1 pointed a committee to select
Cuero Lions Club approved the j the outstanding distributive
use of $275 in funds on youth education student at Cuero High
programs Thursday night. School. Members are Ken
The club will be a sustaining Adams, chairman, Jim Conrad
member- in the Texas Youth | and Harold Tifin.
Conference for J100 and w ill | The annual Independence Day
sponsor a Little League team j carnival was scheduled for July
for $125. The club will donate) 5. The board approved spend-
$50 to the Cuero Livestock Show ing $700 for prizes,
for youths. j The club will seat at Cuero
The board also approved ! High School cafeteria Tuesday
sponsoring a Cuero High School i at 6 p.m. in observance af Pub-
lic School Week.
Musical Planned
By Yoakum Choir
A Youth Choir consisting of
50 Senior-High young people
from Holy Cross Lutheran
Church in Yoakum will present
“Life,” a dynamic new "young
world” Christian musical by Ot-
is Skillings at St. Mark's Lu-
theran Fellowship Hall at 7.30
p.m., Sunday.
This group has presented
“Good News” and “Tell It Like
It Is” during 1969-70 and have
done admirable jobs in their
presentations.
Pastor Del Dolton of Holy
Cross, Yoakum, reports that the
youth are performing under the
direction nf David Bernshausen,
with 'horeography supervised
by Bob Daugherty. The costum-
ing has been provided by the
members of the choir themsel-
ves.
The theme of the musical is:
"You can have a brand new
way of Pving. You can have
LIFE! A moves through gay
numbers like “I’m Only Young
Once and I Want T» Live” and
humorous songs like “Don’t Be
A Phony” to solemnly stirring
sections like “God Gave Man
the Power To Choose Bad or
Good, Wrong or Right, Night
or Day, Dark or Light, Death
or LIFE” and “Christ Is the
WAY, He Is the TRUTH, He
Is the LIFE!”
The Youth chorus has pre-
sented this program to the two
public schools and the Catholic
school in Yoakum as well as
two concerts for the Holy Cross
eangregation.
TMs group will have coocerts
at Teens Tadhenui College. Se-
Yorktown Fire
Destroys Auto
A&A Firm
Figure
Lowest
By JKAMR BI.AIXV K
Record Staff Writer
Bids on the new school build-
ing program were opened by
Cuero Schixil Board last night.
None ol the bids was accepted
bill a contract is expected to be
awarded at a meeting at 6 p.m.
Tuesday.
A & A Construction Go. at
Victoria submitted the tow base
bid of $1,168,100 on the pro-
gram which includes a new
junior high school and addi-
tions to John C. French, Hunt
Elementary and Cuero High
School.
A & A*s total bid. tociudyi,
alternates, is $1,320,494. The
company's bids on alternates af
the high school are eooitlinaled
vocational academic education
classroom and language labora-
tory, $35,300: band hall addi-
tion. $46,200; cafeteria addition,
$27,300 and air-conditioning for
the high school. $36,394.
Six other contractors also bid
on the alternates which are ex-
pected to be included in the
contract.
Total bids submitted by oth-
er firms were:
Burnett Construction Go. of
Carpus Christ!, $1,589,400: Dry-
malla General Construction of
Columbus. $1,700,625: Krueger
Construction Company of Vic-
toria, $1,408,404: and Lantphier
Construction Co. of Corpus
Christi. $1 417,900.
Bids on three additions were
submitted by A. Bohlmann and
sons of Schulenburg. They were
J«4m C. French addition. $144.-
000: Hunt Elementary Addition,
$74,400 and high school addi-
tion. $124,300.
A lone bid cm air condition-
ing at the high school was sub-
mitted by Arkansas-Lauisiana
Gas Co. at $41,271.99.
The construction phase of (be
building program has $12 mil-
lion m funds available. Voters
approved issuance of S3.4 mil-
lion for the total budding pro-
gram in November nf 1969.
The total cost will include
equipment and furniture. $80-
000; architect fees. $76 800: uti-
lity connection, $22,815: land
i purchase, $12,000 and fiscal a-
| gent fees, $8,385.
At Tuesday’s special meeting
an Church, El Campo and now
at St. Mark’s Cuero.
The public is cordially invit-
ed. A free-will offering will be
received to defray travel ex-
pense and casting of the pro-j
dia l ion.
A 1967 Pontiac belonging to
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Wolf til
of Yorktown was completely
destroyed by fire around 3 p m
Thursday afternoon.
Warner Borth, Yorktowm Fire the board will meet with Archi-
Chief, said the car was coni- tect Lynn Evans. AAA Con-
pletely engulfed in flames when struetion representatives and
fire truck* answered the eall sub-contractors,
and arrived at the scene. in other school board news,
Mrs. Wolf was visiting at the two members, I-awrence Dietze
J. E. Wolf Sr. residence when and Herbert Frols, have filed
she looked out and saw flames for re-election to throe year
near the dash «*f the car, she terms. The trustee election will
be held April J.
YOAKUM LUTHERAN CHURCH YOUTH CHOIR
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.
Prentice, D. L. The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, February 26, 1971, newspaper, February 26, 1971; Cuero, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth701758/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cuero Public Library.