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Thundershowers
Fifty r*er cert scfitt.-T-.1’! rho
W'-rs and thundershowers to-
night, JO per cent Tuesday "V7irl
•Cs to mid 80s for Cuero, G. ,n-
**ies, Yoakum, Yorktown
U. I ktKMu For*r«tl
*OT C*J«rr ant* D*Wit. County
MICROFILM CENTER, INC.
P. 0, BOX U5436
DALLAS, TEXAS 75235
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VOL. 76 NO. 130
A Newspaper Reflects Its Community
CUERO, TEXAS, MONDAY. JUNE 1, 1970
4 PAGES
You think things ntr *bantu
Ir the world today ”
You ttnr.K mat tip , history
never rep' irs Itself Tlleti read
ttie foil winy tittle ; tei n that
T'nited Press International
farr.f up with out of the nat-
ion * capital ,
Speerhwn.tr rs dor Ad hi. ■ Th1'*
»r,as H Moorer eh.ief of naval !
operations; 'found what they j
thought was d,.n apt eomnrent i
for today'« times in a well
known An.era an n apa/me |t
read
"It is a gemmy mot'siit m
history No* it, the ; I'febme of
*hy man who' reads- tins p.u > r
fias there been so tiaa Is pi at e ;
arid -deep apiprehen*. at ne- er
ha* the future seeni"d so dark
and .incalculable
■ In France the (nolit.u ah
eauidron seethes still bubbles
with uhrertainfv
1 nr! and an tl;,e I'm .;-h
empire is hemp so 1 toed and
exhausted in a soma, and
economic Str uveio,
'The t "tiitefi Slates as beset
with jh< t'a! dr.dtisti 'a and
eommercnil ilia .* dn't'iiig w<
ktiw hot -where
patS5i-a- harnfs- -bke—*—Sfoen-r
elou-i on the horizon ot I iro; o
dark and silent It is a s.ierVn
moment, nod no man '.an 6 •
inddferen. e wt.i< p happU’. hn
rr an pretends to feel in, 'to
issue "f events
' Of -sir own troubles c> rr in
ear see the end
The rjii"'! a; peared ir the
r* . t tn ?R-iT issue of. Harjers
m aca/ine
Yorktown
Honor Roll
Released
.St a tents ns tiled to die fifth
•tv. weeks "A and I' ’ ■ tv>ro.f
fobs a* Yorktown f cmrrttrv
Sy fte,ol have ben n ni"i >un. - 1 in
Fnnripal Johrinv Lev
1 V" h'-nor col! .tuderi's *:•
ft ijjr'h IP >■ le K: : B 1 "net-
Michael Hlusrhk... Karen K - di-
ms nn Susan M* king'. J.-ri Me-
ting Martha M"t'in • At a-m*
Sebtfoeder, Lisa H'olpnu.nn.
Fifth pr.' de - Heth l-.r tndt,
Peisirah Cord'es. Che:*! L.nd-
*.*•, Kcdh .Melting imd Bruce
Wieland Sixth mod • • V:rn-:.:t
Adtx. fovtus Boldt, Hal Kuesing.
Plane ftwpnu. k K.m Kimp
rr Kun LeieKr and Rose /o'-
lonka.
Seventh it. R It - Piit-iii-hi
Hsrdt and B- l v Weise Eighth
It:ade • Tbeicsa- P.-ldt Kristy
H>hn. Bn.’ Vu--;' *. lo F an
Stmerek ' '• 1 ' di Wirwiis .and
K tnev Zc'mka.
' B" hot. . roll stud’nt u
Fourth Gra te Marilyn A x,
Mario At t;ti-’11 eg, Jilin H it.
Tina PiNu'a.e Arthur (1 >■ i mu.
Pegg* Ives Mtmydte K-mne,
Wesley McAiia, H;. d/tr.1 Mato-
jek, Melis-a M.utir . 1 >.•»»•:• re.*
Migura, Susan Sparek. Eva Ste-
panski. Cathy T.am and Debra
Volkmer.
Fifth Grade D iwn Bottli,
Nancy Brandt. El one Broil, .Su-
san Gohlke. Christine Jendi ze>,
Morris Kemper. Teddy Maddox.
Robert Matej.-k, Pat.i ina,
Meeks C.ythy Moritz and Doug-
las Warwnx-
Sixth Grade -■ Stephen Rlas-
«nke. Cynthia G.*rf;-«, l an
Goehring. Linda Kmi>'i. Jan
(Are Yorktnwn. Page I)
New Downpours
Hit South Texas
4 6 BILLION YEARS OLD Thie X.t gTfin. Moon rock brought bark bx the Apollo 12 mis* 1 on
analyze* to 4 ■. billion years old. It i* being studied at the Space Center iri Houston Its
uianmm, thorium and poUsfium.concentrations »r« 20 times that of any other lunar rock.
Summer Programs
Signups Going On
at at-'-n will be held tics
w>ek f-.if s iiiriii-i ac.iideniic and
rei r "it'>n prog; ams f-u C i' t -
y,rifb
• Tlie 1<IV0. Head Start pFogram
w ii -'b Is 0’ er •., children . f
s[,i. cifie ei'o.tv-rr’.;r h ickg: C'iin-1
W'l’O W'T i: he SIX , 'v> old S,-;,t
1 will la-g-n 'vine 8.
P i: efts -in.| Cl . isi rhildr
r-'n Ft .<1 *s fn./c k « n tr> p rr,
.pi the . .di, e ot Mi s M irv F in-
net; pidncipkl » f .1- Hn <T. Flench
Kion'ie.htary T.hcy ina., also re-
gister the fiixt ft.ij of the new
prognirn
This year's Head Start ses-
sion vetli tic held fn.fii June *
t.hri'iiith July 31, t;v« d. a
Family
Watches
Drowning
PORT O'CONNOR Tex (CPI
I .elite Buegler, his wife and
their three children were on a
t»siting trip with another faint
|y ,.vi r the Meruorril Day Week-
end when they decided to re
t u n to shore bt'< au.se of bad
weather
The Bungler's boat ran onto
a sandbar near the Matagorda
! insula Bueglei lumped • “it
"t the boat pushed it off the
xandbar and lumped bark inside
again But then the 15-foot Ix>at
lodged' on another sandbat
Again tie jump, ' into the wa-
ter. But tins time there was a
dropoff.
Delores Bungler and their chil-
dren. Michael. 13. Kenneth 10.
and/Lj»rue 4, threw lines and
lite 'p; egervet h as Buegler'.tried
desperately to stay afloat. But
the U>at nnd Buegler drifted in
opposite directions.
"Sound your horn and cal! for
help." Bungler rr; ■<! and then
disap|K>ared.
It was ust terrible " Mrs
Buegler said Sunday, "There
was nothing we could do but sit
(See tuiiulv, Page I)
r
week from 8 a m to 3 p m
'daily. .
Registr ill"" for afni'dT nr
tic if.t- will tiegin totn irr-av
Thrlecn and 14 .e.it.onts who
plan to.'plav iti 'he pony Base-
l-ill League will register at. the
high sch'Kil gymnasium lr<••n 1
!,', 'v p in tomorrow a-.d W ••d-i.-s-
ilay The '• ams will p1 June
S tins'uph: July IT.
Registratiiin for the 'ottnts
program will ilso be field H’
ttie gymnacnim foiin 1 to j tom
; ne r >w •. - 1 V-'• 'i, - a Hi s
program will begin j ui-' k and
.end JuN 3
Rcgistrat'bn- for the swim-
rr.irg program will be held m
front of the gymni-iurfi from
10 a to 'o 1 pm- Thiisdt; »nl
h'rid.i.'
Th. , • Will be three, bo -we’;
-ex-, ns ,f lessors. Miss Lathy
Aldrich brad of he swimming
pr> gr.on. announced
(’iis.'s v. .11 include. Bi gmni >
Troop To Hold
Eagle Court
An Facie Court of Honor will
be held b\ Boy Scout. Tr-pop 245
*t St Mark's Lutheran Fellow-
ship Hail tonight
The program will begin at 8
P/fn othei news from St.
Mark's. memVa'rs of the Parish
Kdm ation Committee "f the -
church will a.ten! a M-‘tl of
the Ministry program Tlim sd-y
,-it 7 W p ni at Trinity l.utberan
Church m .Victoria
The program i* Vieing s|xm-
sored by the Luther m S, h.,ol
of Thcaiogy of Chicago Young
nipti of high school or Junior
high school age are also urged
to attend
Church council meeting will
he held at 7i3l) p m toinurtow,
with all standing comm dices
urged to he present. The Senior
Choir will meet Wednesday at
7 p.m Sewing Bee members
meet Thursday at 2 30 pm.
Confirmands of 1H70 ot St.
Mark's will receive their First
Communion at the 10 45 am
service Sunday.
r throng.l smi..r life saving.
Senior er.d junior llte saving
will n • t..tight during the first
se.s^ior. ,'dy. Miss AlJrii h *aid.
The '(.IvrnAsiunt will I* ofw’.i
from euiie X through Ju.v 17,
Busier (« Ibreth, head ot the
junira- i progratp. reporte.<l.
.KiHh through eighth graders
will Us-* rh gym from B a.rn. to
12, n> si, The arym will be open
to ninth through tweif.h *r«d-
eis from I to 5 pm A conch
will be ot du'y
Anti* ids at Oie gym will )n-
•dud. table t.-rinis, basketball,
bn lmir. on, iumhling we.ght
lifting cod volleyball.
'Fra^edy
Finishes
Outing
PORT ARANSAS, Tev Il'PI)
Hilitry Gene Went 23, spent
"his last hiom v’’ on a J34 r*d
am! reel. He wax going fishing
over the Memorial Day week-
end., It ttai a trip planned
month* ;n advance.
lav West biught the boat Fri-
dn.v. morning the day they were
going d-.wn to Port Aransas
from Alls; in for the big outing.
This was to ire the first tim*
xu h a 1'amiiy outing could be
held because th*. Memorial Day
week.eiv) sas the first time all
the JVes: men were off work at
the, same time It was "seine
thing special” beeaiise they
were goinc/ to get off by them-
selves without, the wives nnd
children./
Then a: the last second O D
West. 3.5 decided to lake his 15-
ycar-sild son Marion ilonf.
O D. West. Bobby Gefle West
and Marion West lyere/missing
.and feared dro'vned tddriy. lwe
West, Jackie Rav West nnd
Douglas West somehow manag-
ed to swim three mile* to
slv.re.
The survivors said t storm
struck suddenly where they
were fishing out in the gulf Al-
most without warning the five
(See Tragedy, Page 4)
Methodist
Charges
Announced
Tire Rev. Ca.vut peter sfut. has
tieen formwliy appointed pasu-r
of the Client First Lotted Me-
b,sbst-Westhoff Oi,uge (<-r the
c -sung year and the Rev Char-
les W Smith t.. th* Brother*
'Oh.ii-Yorktown Chai gel
App*)intmetlU ■>( p.'.'-tfiis for
the coming year were announ-
ced Fr iday by it • bo; 0 Fit
gene Slater of San Am mio *t
the close of * histoi vtn A:.ng
AatiuiU-
ted N’i hobs! Cnor, h wmc ri saw
Hie old Southwest Texas Con-
ference. for many .soars ah
white, »tid itself and merge.,
w ith the West Texas C infer-
ence, which was *;t black, to
create a new Soufhwext Texas
Conference, which never again
will know racial' nr skin-color
barriers.
Th* old Jtouthwest Texas
Conference meeting in its 112th
annua! session, terminated it- (
self Wednesday and it* dele-
gates me* Thursday through
Frill a v with the deli gates from
pie West Texai Conference as
the new Southwest Texas Con
ference
Apftoit tments at pastors bv
ehurchei, of the newlv merged
Southwest Texas Conference ht
Cuero area charges follow.
COR PCS CHRIS"! DISTRICT
— District Superintendent: Jack
b Hracock: Aransas Pass.
Milton R Zuke' ’r : Beeville
First. Doyle W Morton; Jones -j
Chapel L. D Washington: |
Bloomington - Seadriff, Wilaon
Wade; Cuer*eWe*tiioff, Calvin1
Peterson: Cuero- < Brothers'
Chapelt - Yorktown, Oiarles W.
Smith l.d’i •. Firsi, Wesley J.
Sehlijze; Scruggs Chap.el-Mfu 4-
les, J«a* Carter', K) Cimpu'
First Mliion Bibrnfalk. K1
Carnpo Par'Rb. 1 M M reland;
FI Camp St Pm. x Owen H
Ackley: C.anad.. Dfiiip**" G.
(«4e, MrthaUst Pag* 4.
C/uero’s
KTI CREAM RVfR- Rgxal. 34-vear-Cd Mexican double vel-
lowhead parrot, spoons himself a big helping ol ice creum tn
home of Mr*. Margaret Boudeat, Bradford, Pa. It's hia fa-
Vvrit* delicacy w warm weather. Th* breed lives to 70 years
TOO OPTIMISTIC?
Texas Tally
Disappointing
Young Farmers
See Movies
On Horses
The Cuero Young Farmer
Chapter held it's re4uiar mon-
thly educational meeting re-
cently at tlw Vova'i.inal Agri-
culture Butldi-ig Cuero High
School wth 12 member* in at
tendance
Program cnurmnn J t m
Spring ptesented a film pio-
gram bn rile AnieriC .n (JuaWer
H'.rse The first film gave » de-
tail.ii present•■•t'O.i on h..w *o
Judge the Quart*' Hors* and
the second film was on the util-
ity >f *he Quai'e,' Horse. rr*p-
;ng r'c
New busine-s discussed in-
c >i led selection th<* sr.<: •'
ecu', e* that the Chat ter would
Ilk' to co-sponsor next \exr
The chapter selected Beet Pro-
duction, Electric Motors, Swine
Production, and Oxyacetylere
Welding
Artec G "bel rave i . • -* ,,n
(See Farmem. Page 4)
By l nit*d Pr*w« nternatlonul
PrebiiHtmry n ixirtk Iron* 22U
ol ttie state s 254 counties in-
dicate tt-a' early predietiotis ol
s 1U70 Texas f» ■; r'.it' -n 0! '; -ri;
71,307.000 to 12.134.M7 probably
were fat !.• • <»:•' r
It w • i! takl S|.e. t.o 111 >i r
g-r*n*th figures fr<-tr Houutor. .1
the t.uif ('oast Dallas - Fort
W, .r't and the .’nea arout'..t t!-•
capita! at Austin all frill un-
reported t.. even ruake a s* -
ious run at the 11 tu 12 .million
figures.
The 220 counties rej«)r:t.thg
thus far show j.fi22."7ti people
'courted, a .4.0.7 pi t cent growth
rate >1 229.834 met the 1900
cm I* is figures, of .5394 136 for
these game 220 (..unties
And. more than half of that
came from one county ftexat.
which tumfied more than 20 |>* r
cent to 8.70.661.
Projects 12 Million
Th*- f nhersity of Texas Bu
reau of Business Research pro-
■ci ted th. 1970 Texas |s>(ni!ation
figure ol 12 134.647 wiiile the
t , S Bureau of the Census
calculations placed the figure at
at between 11,307,000 and 11.
452.000.
Snne 5 5 million persons will
have to be counted in the miss-
ing Vt eountie* wtucti con-
tained oruy 1.174 ’.85 in 1960, lo
even hit 11 million.
7'he dozen most ;sifmiou* at
these missing counties Harris
Dallas, Tarrant Jetferson, Nu-
t-, <• s Travis Galvestuh. Brazo-
ria Orange Fort Bend and San
Patricio estimated • their 1969
population at 4 921 084.
And. so .far; very few ev
ttniat.es have proven to be e\ en
1 lose
Gxsses h a v t •umun tiered
. gaijis mote than two to one. with
1 149 ol the 220 counties showing
del lines against only 71 re|«>t't
ing gains
Increases m Ft Towns
However ttie tterji was al
most exactly i»f>fs .site' am >tn
th'.' 1 9 t. >v\ns of on tf• rr 'I. ilo.
- popu!,.')' >n which havt been re-
po 'I Iro is-axes ucr in.tc.l ip
4 : ol them, !'.ssi's in 26
Hie bulk iif the 1.1,sses iti thi
cities and towns (ante in West
Texas where 13 Paso. Lubbock
and San Anv lo were the only
larger cities showing Increase
Such points as Amarillo, Wn h
it i Falls Abilene Odessa and
Midland all reported drops Su
did Waco in Central Texas
But ' thrmighi nit North Central
(See Texas Tally, Page 4)
Total
1.2 Inches
B* l mtnl Pn ss International
A T old ft 1 »ri; edging ifs wtyd
thrmigh Contial Texas toir bed
.,!! a mi .if,. ’onrsl 11* 11 drip.: tv *•
Sunday tiigig .rid efi’.'iv tiniav.
As nnii !. can tlii Ju s •' in
li'iLat Bit:' 'Spring before nud-
im'i.i Sunday a.nd ine trailer
tv,uus wen- destroyi'd by winds
..I 75 "min's at h- • a;
H.uiis .if .two inif.es .ii more
wc-e eonimon as the front
Cuero downtown t : 4 in h
during tins • morning's snower
on tup of 8 Satut day-rtight a d
Sunday fur « tot.i! of 1.2: .nebes
There was iioj.i ht.iwevfT.
that the from would at last
bring a clearing trend to re-
lieve the state of more than 1
week ot .steady storm warnings.
Skies were clear in El Paso
early today and they were slow-
ly clearing in the Panhandl' .
Lowers Temperature*
Not only did the front pro-
duce more ram. but.it also was
potent enough to bring » mark-
ed change in temperatures.
Dalhart recorded * low of 47
degrees early today, and a low
in the mid-40s was forecast in
the northern Panhandle before
dawn Tuesday.
Winds gust id tv> 40 miles an
hour in Sweetwater early today.
and more than two inches of
ram struck the town. Hailstones
pelted nearby Roseoe
More rain fell on San Antonio
during the morning. The city,
already hit by an almost con-
stant barrage of rain for *
week received only a quarter of
an inch ot moisture today Po-
lice closed tw<> strep's because
(See W“nth r. Page 4(
Meyersville
Honor Group
Announced
Students named V- the fifh
six weeks' honor roll at Meyers-
vjvc School V.ve been announ-
ce. !
High!* commendable .Myden'S
are grade tw -. John Muelier;
grade four Rhon ia - Dnehrman
and Brian Hum grade five -
Paula Ant'e--st -in and Rebecca
K •> . g-ade s.-.en - Bmce
.Link, and gi vie eight - Daniel
I' ,.g a nil Pc . ;,'x B'-rger
Commenda ole students are
mi Jr *vo - fti.i an Friedrichs
and ('bus Parma; grade three -
Cent hi a Dic.bci Troy Geary,
Mitcbei' J .nk. Tat] via Nigel.
'sp.pl . a Th mu.1 arri Bi'ian
'Vciidei Grade f mr - Susie J.is-
ubke: grade five - To esn Dm-
Ivi-l Cliarles Kueker and M List
iftiellef grade six - Gregory
Egg, T f r r* Hw a">1 Fro t
M „ her grade seven - Wanda
Dio** atxi grade etgh' John
L v<J Gohmo t and Catoi, *
A x.
Walter Schorre
Rites Tomorrow
Jrr**
SHIRTSLEEVE COMMENCEMENT More than 590 Oberltn students march to graduation ceie-
monies In Oberlin, Ohio, nun us the usual caps and gowns —- first time in the college s his-
tory. The graduates voted to forego the getup tn protest against Indochina ant the fatah-
taee al Kant gut*. The rental money La to go tor eampua wtlfaie and social program*.
Waiter A Schorre. 82. form-
er long tine local manager for
Southwestern Bell Telephone
Co., died at 115 pm Si-ndav
in a local hospital following a
long dlni-ss
Mr. Schorre was ie-rn Dee
21. Iks,7, in (’uei <1 :i* v, * ma,
, ned De* ■ lb. 1917. t.. the fvtrn-
e. I It la 13<>ldt who survives him
An. Schorre was » member
of the Cuero Rotaiy Club and
the M'lf imr. : ode • tr*i mo'-e
tin ii 5(1 v ears He a ns chnit-
■ man .*( the bu'ndiiu’- -committee
of St. Murk's Lutheran Church
, at the tin..* the pre.se.m church
j was constructed.
He retired f.r**n; hes position of
Sou tme .tern Pell ,r 1952
The body will lit in state
from 2 to ^ p rv. tomorrow a*
St. Marks Lutiieian (Tuireh
Services will, be held at 3 p m
zRth the Rev H A IT t*sott <>f
ficiating Burial will tie in HiII-
sidR Cemetery under rtie direc-
tion of ftartd Funeral Home.
A i.iayer setvic.* will be heb
at 7 3(1 p.m, ' might ft- tn !■ re-
11..! Furfral H inr Chapel.
Sut v i\'i irs. r addition t" iva
wife, are a foster d„,1 vut'i,
Mrs .Tame* °T. Smith Jr. M
Paris Texas: a btother. Dvwev^
Schorre of Cuercg and tar**j
grandchildren.
HELLO MIRV -A T'SAF transport erector stands upright to ease its big MTRV mtaajle into
M «iMl«»gioui*d silo about 2<j miles northwest of Parshall. NI> The site and the contro-
versially-involved mlasUe are expexted to be operational this June.
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