The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 197, Ed. 1 Friday, August 20, 1971 Page: 1 of 6
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Shower Chance
Partly cloudy and warm with
slight chance of showers. High
in the low 90s, low in the mid
70s for Cuero, Yorktown, Yoa-
kum.
U. S. Waolhet Bureau Foreeotf
For Cuero and DeWitt County
VOL. 77 NO. 197
CUERO, TEXAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1971
Home
Of The
Fmliting
Cur re
Gobblers
High Sf'hool
Football
Triple A"
Finalists
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Town Talk
By D. L. PRENTICE
Record Staff Writer
This business of forced inte-
gration of schools is reaching
the ultimately ridiculous stage.
Parents down in Corpus Chris-,
ti have started giving tempor- 1
ary guardianship of their child- j
• ren to other persons. Just to
avoid busing.
And, according to United j
Press International, lawyers ex-
pect a flood of guardianship
cases. j
Now the question is, will the j
NAACP and Raza now rush to j
the ledrral courts to try to oyer- ,
turn those temporary guardian-1
ships.
The first such cases in Cor- j
piis involved football teams and j
the players, on them, not educa- •
tion in itself.
Up in Austin the School Board
is closing Anderson High School,
which was practically all black.
It was a good high school. No-
b.dy has argued otherwise.
Anderson High always has
had some prime football teams,
too. So I imagine the coaches
at the other Austin high schools,
who will be getting those fast,
eager gfidsters, are tickled to
death.
Trustees of the Austin Inde-
pendent School District deseg-
regated the schools up there
quite a few years ago — one
of the first good-sized school
systems in the state to do so,
and without anybody going to
c amt to force it. The system
Was put on a free-choice basis.
That seemed fair enough to
me. And it S(>( merl delightfully
fair to some of the football
c -aches at Austin high schools
other than Anderson, because
it gave them a chance to go
over into Past Austin to recruit
some of those star players J
Much to the disgust of the
lure a tie rats in Health, Educa-j
ion and Welfare though, most (
of the '.aingslers in the minori
tv races preferred to stay with
the youngsters in their own
neighborhood? the youngsters;
Tey knew and had grown up j
with.
That , kind ot human feeling I
upsets bureaucrats.
I’m not going to be snide
enough to suggest that some of
the bureaucrats just might be
personally interested in the
school tins business, hut you
might think so at first thought.
Meyersville
4-H Officers
Are Selected
Governor Spurns
State Pay Freeze
f Smith Okays
Full Liability
by ANN ARNOLD
AUSTIN, Tex. UPI — The governor of Texas has
ehallenged the President of the United States and has
ordered the state to defy President Nixon’s freeze on
wages.
“This flagrant violation of Texas law and the Con-
stitution must be challened and that is exactly what
, I’m doing,” Coy. Preston Smith
' said. "I accept full resfxinsi-
| bility for my action.’’
Smith ordered the stale to pay
more than iOO.OOO teachers and
slate employes pay raises pass-
THHKE RIVERS, Tex.
Flood waters of tht
UPI
Frio!
Budget
Hearing
Called
By I). I- I'KKNTK E
Record Staff Writer
The City Council last night
set Sept.- 1 for a public hear-
ing on the city’s 1871-72 budget,
with action on adoption to fol-
low at the formal meeting of
the council.
5 Thp Wednesday hearing and
! council meeting was selected to
avoid conflict with the annua)
! banquet of the Cuero Chamber
of Commerce and Agriculture
scheduled for Thursday, Sept.
2, when the council normally
I would have met:.
City Manager Larry Smith,
■ who met with council members
i last night in a work session on
| the budget, said today the new
j budget calls for no change in
! the tax structure.
Smith was working on the
1967 j budget today, incorporating nii-
' nor changes suggested by the
by rains accompanying Hurri- j "It. hasn’t been too long since j council al last night's work ses-
od by ih<* Tf*x?is IPK-islRtuir i
carlipr this y<»nr but that wpip
not supposed to go into ptfeef
until the Texas fiscal year,
started Sept. 1. White House re-
action was swift.
“It appears the governor of
Texas for a motivation of
which only he is aware, is
seeking to single out a group
of Texans for preferential treat - j
rnenf,” a White House state- i
I
ment. said.
President Nixon, ii|k>m arriv- j
ing at the Western White House I
in San Clemonto, Calif., was i
asked about Smith's action.
"I think Gov. Connallv can
handle it,’’ Nixon said, break-
ing into a wide grin.
Nixon referred to Treasury
Secretary John B. Connally who
was Smith’s predecessor as
(Se* Smith, Pa#** 81
CIRCLES OF BARBEb WIRE frame this South Vietnamese soldier on guard at an
outpost in the U Minh Forest. The forest has been a Viet Cong lair for two decades.
It is in the southeast area of the Mekong Delta.
1,500 Persons Flee
Frio River Flooding
(h-urge West.
The flooding,
the worst since
River rose steadily today, keep- j the town was inundated in 1967 j Rood.
the tvvoli evacuated, because
bitter memories of the
ing 1,500 evacuated residents a-
way front their homes.
The rivpr reached 11 feet
above flood stage Thursday and J that soaked the area upstream j they are getting out now taking
came Beulah, was the delayed ] Beulah,” he said. "They lost j
runoff of 20-inch cloudbursts i everything they had then. So
I i
was expected to reach a crest
sometime today of 16 feet over
the 25-flood flood stage.
"Five more feet of w'ater will
put half this town under wat-
last week.
Hedrick said
75 per rpnt of I
lot, of their belongings with
(See Her, Page fi)
sion. The final budget figures
were to he made available la-
ter today.
Officers for 1371-72 of the
Meyersville 4-H Club were in- ,.....
stalled at the August 16 meet-jPr,” Said Texaco Oil Co, agent |
ing at the Meyersville Recrea-1 Smokey Bomar.
tion Center.
PAUL GATHINGS
They are Brne.e .Tank, presi-
dent; Michael Kueker, vice
president; Wanda Piebel, secre-
tary; M’Liss Mueller, treasur-
er; Fred Mueller, rounril dele-
gate; Diana Diebel, alternate
council delegate; Bruce Goh-
mert, parliamentarian and
Rhonda Doehrman, reporter.
Game Warden Biil Drehr pre-
sented a film on thp life of
birds. A question and answer
session followed.
Teresa Diebel led the opening
exercise and led in singing “My
Darling Clementine.” Jeffery
Haun led in reciting the club
pledge, prayer and motto.
Fred Mueller, council dele-
gate, reistrted lhal Achievement
Night will be held October 4.
Hf urged all members to take
part in the Pecan Show in Nov-
ember.
The Rev. Larry Bailey, pas-
tor of the ThrPe Rivers Metho-
dist Church, said, "We have
moved our furniture and be-
longings to the tops of tables.
“The plare downtown where
it is worst is near the First
State Bank. The water is up ov-
er the curb there and onto the
sidewalk. Elsewhere in town
the water is just curb high.”
But dozens ot homes in this
town of 2,000 were flooded. Re-
fugees from thp high water
were not expected to return
heme before Sunday, assuming
the Nueces River, which aiso
passes near Three Rivers, does
not spill into the city.
"The Nueces is full too, and
if it gets »sit of its banks be-
fore the Frio goes down, it will
he flooded good,” said Live
Oak County sheriff’s dispatched
Kenneth Hedrick In nearby
Penney’s Gets
New Manager
Hospital
Auxiliary
Convenes
The Cuero Community Hospt- :
tal Auxiliary Hoard of Direr- i
held their monthly meet-!
No Injury In
Minor Wreck
Martha Ann Noble, 20, of
106 Royal, Victoria was unin-
jured and her car recevied only j
minor damage in an accident on
U.S. 87, 1.2 miles southeast of \
Cuero at 6:15 p.m. Thursday.!
She was driving toward Vic-[
toria but when her late model
ear spun around in a 180 de-j
gree turn in the accident’, her j
ear was headed in tile opposite j
direction, facing Cuero.
While enrollle to Victoria, she
spotted a dog in the road and |
tried to avoid hitting him She j
swerved to the left and lost !
control of her c ar it made a ;
180-degree turn, tearing up one ,
big fence post and parts of the
fence along the W'ay.
SA Campaign
For Flood Aid
Started Here
tors
Paul Gathings, 48, is the new
manager of the J. C. Penr y
Co. here, replacing J. C. S- tt
who resigned recently to dir
private business.
Gathings came to Cuero from
Penney’s in Odessa where he
was department manager.
He has been v.,tn tne Pen-
ney organization tor 8tz years
and in the
25 years. i
He came to Cuero several
days ago, and has been busy |
looking for a house to rent so j
his wife, Roberta, can join him. '
They are both members of
the Baptist Church.
One of his hobbies is poetry
writing and he is listed in the j
International Who’s Who of
Living Poets, He has published |
several Works, lie is also listed
in the Intel national Who’s Who!
Blue Boot; oi Leaders of
lish-Speaking people.
He j
Poetiy Society and trie Acade-
retail business for! my of American Poets.
As a graduate of Odessa Col-
lege, (lathings served as in-
structor al the school.
He is a former member of
Lions Cl.uh,
His other hobbies include
fishing, hunting, and football.
ir.g recently with Mrs. Harold
High, president, presiding.
Directors decided to hold the
annual Hospital Christmas Ba-
zaar in the Community Build-
ing of the Cuero Housing Au-
thority on Nov. 21.
Affiliated active members
were reminded lo pay dues foi
i ng- the current year by Sept. I.
! Mrs. C. L. Dickett, Landscape
a Member ot the Texas j Committee chairman rtportert
$981 Ins been received in gifts
for hospital grounds plantings.
Mrs. Joe Sanders, Junior Vol-
unteers chairman, reported that
Miss Karon High and Miss Jan-
ice Wimbish Fare joined the
group. Membership is open to
boys and girls between the
ages of 15 and 18.
GOOD NEIGHBOR OFFER
Mexico Plans Statue of Christ
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. UPI —
Mexico will give • giant statue
of Jesus Christ with an obser-
vation tower in the crown of
thorns to the United States as
a present for America’s 200th
birthday celebration in 1976, it
was learned Thursday.
The statute, toiler than the
Statute of Liberty, will overlook
Genius Qirictt Bey on the Test-
es coast.
City officials said foe idea
bad been considered for several
years but foe city has neither
•mnph'toly rejected or necepted
any brw Otar. C* Manager
Marvin Townsend denied any
knowledge of the statute.
The San Antonio Evening
News re(x>rted Thursday a
group of architects from Mexi-
co City discussed plans for the
statute last week.
Mexican authorities brought
sketches of the statue to Corpus
Chnsti this week. They asked
that it be placed in Conus
Christi bay on a high base so
that tt can be seen for miles.
According to a source who
wished to remain anonymous,
the statue will be sitnilai to the
Statue of Liberty in New York
harbor.
It will be -hollow and eleva-
tors will carry sightseers into
the head of the statue to an
observation tower located in the
crown of thorns. It will be made
ot steel with an exterior of mar-
bie. The Statue of Liberty, giv-
en to America as i present f' xm
France is L88C. is also hollow
but made «t brcr..c.
Oflicials said they chose Cor-
pus Christ! for the statue be-
cause the city's name means
"body ot Christ” in Spanish.
T he , oy is l.V) miles from tht
Mexican border.
Onp of the statue's architects
said it will be ”a genuine mon-
ument to peace and goodwill
among men.” The architects
said special railroad cars will
be buiit to cany sections of the
statue to Corpus ChrUti as
they are constructed in Mexico.
The Statue 54 Liberty is a
national monsrr.ect. administer-
ed by the Ncticra.' Park Ser-
vice. Edward de Laboulaye,
French historian and admirer
of the U.S. political system.
Slirrextod the gift a« a symbol
of liberty to welcome foreigners
to New York harbor.
Clothing and cooking utensils
for relief of recent flood v ir-
tims in southwest Texas are be-
ing collected by the local unit !
of the Salvation Army.
Persons wishing to donate
these items are asked lo bring
them, packed in Ixivcs, lo the
old Trill Ship building al die!
corner of Newman and Indian
ola streets Monday
if the building is not open,
'persons are asked lo leave tie
boxed items outside the build- I
ing and someone will pick them
up ori the hour, according to
Mrs. ,|, vt Herring, social work-
er with the SA.
County Commissioner Ronnie
Buenzer will take the truckload
of articles to the stricken area
' Monday afternoon Anyone- v. ish-
| ing to donate items is asked to
do so that day as no donations
! will be accepted after Monday,
j Mrs. Herring said.
DOLLAR WOES PLAGUE U.S. TOURISTS — With major
F.uropean gold and money markets in a turmoil follow-
ing President Nixon’s s’ave-the-dnllar moves, American
tourists are finding the going rough. One flop) finds nut
that the National Bank in Zurich, Switzerland, has lim-
ited to $30 the amount of money tourists ran exchange
for francs per day. Lower, a sign over a teller's windo w
in Rome says no mot e than $5 w ill he accepted from one
person at Leonardo de Vinci Aiiport. (CahlrpImlPi)
PRE-SCHOOL
Immunization
Clinic Dated
An inmiiinizaliun i line fur all Him no s diphibri in
vaccinations required before rn- pol’orrW litr; rri' *- 9
faring school will hr held Mon
day, Aug, ?3 from 1 to ;i p e-
rn the Ouero-DeWitt. County
Heaith Department Clinic locat-
ed at 207 E. Main
The elinte wall give immuni-
iiianiis,
.1, rubella,
-tote law
a nr] , n- ,'! p vv T he
says The Stole Dr-partmf-nt of
H-' ilth shall.. provide, the re-
quired immunizations to child-
ren m areas where no 'oral
prevision exists to prov ide these
zation shots for the following services.
Will Wilson
Summons Set
AUSTIN UPI — A House in-
vestigation Committee plans to
call assistant U.S. Attorney
General Will Wilson and possi-
bly three other federal officials
to answer questions about poli-
tical implications of the Texas
stock fraud scandal.
Former Texas Attorney Gen-
eral Waggoner Carr has called
the stock scandal a poutical
hatchet job designed to ruin tne
. !• The vaccinations at the chnio
wail be available to children
I whose parents are modinliv in-
jdigent, affording to Mrs..Bette
| M. O’Dell, B .N., public health
Inurse fob the Cflor<vDeW*itt
j County Health Department,
j Any person having previously
! rei-merl immunizations at the
| clinic was given a record at
j the time. • Please bring 'these
records with you on Monday,
Aug:. 23.”.
! Tne Boy Scout Troops of
Cuero wnl again assist the
Luther League
Picks Officers
Officers of St. Mark’s I.uther
League were elec led at the Au-
gust. 18 meeting at 8 p.m.
They are Lorraine Bosnrl,
president, Karen Bade, vice
president; Glenda Carter, trea-
surer; Gladys Stall, secretary;
Jeanie Korth, reporter; Marsha
Brown, so.iai chairman; Sand-
ra Spears, food chairman and
Brenda Bade, telephone chair-1.health department in a vaccin-
man.
A covered dish supper was
held after the meeting.
Twenty-four people attended
reputation of Texas elected offi- j including members and guests
cislsj and promised lo toil vvi.r
tv called “the hill story" *t
a later time aad place.
Mrs. Tam's Korth. xjxinxor and
Hv Rev. w A. Hansen, pastor
i were present
alien drive, Mrs. O’Dell said.
Thc-y did a splendid job during
the rubella campaign.
Without their excellent coop-
er.a li.m. t lie campaign could
not have been such a great
success, she added.
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Prentice, D. L. The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 197, Ed. 1 Friday, August 20, 1971, newspaper, August 20, 1971; Cuero, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth702491/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cuero Public Library.