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VOL. 75
NO. 9
CUERO, TEXAS 77954, SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 1969
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By D. L. PRENTICE
Record Staff Writer
Tlie Cuero Record won an
award — an anniversary cer-
tificate, yesterday a' the United
Press International Editors As-
sociation state convention in
Longview.
Only trouble is, I'm not sure
about the wording in the story
©n the wire.
The story said an anniver- j
aar.v certificate for "Cuero Re-
cord More Than 25.” Well, the
Record has been here nearly i
three times that long. The
atory also said the Houston'
Chronicle "more than 10" and
the San Antonio Light the
came.
It looks from here (and
everywhere else I've heard
about) that Texas taxes are
going to go up somehow, some-
where, with the Legislature
convening this week.
It’s the same old story, ever
since I can remember?*
If anybody has any idea
where and/or when it will stop,
I'd like to hear from them.
Just looking at it with the
very simple arithmetic that
newspaperman can fathom
there’s only one answer.
Sooner or later, if taxes keep
«m going up every year or two
— then the government is
going to own everything, lock
stock and barrel. Or maybe
•‘lock stock and barrel" is an
ugly phrase nowadals with all
the gun control pressure the
hysterical do-gooders are push-
ing for.
Anyway, K seems simple to
(See TOWN TALK, Pag* X*)
Tax Boost Seen
By Rep. Newman
1969 Session
Outlook Cited
DPS Told
To Study
Gatesville
AUSTIN <UPP - Despite re-
ports of brutaillty at the Gates-
ville State School for Boys, Lt.
Gov.-elect Ben Barnes is con-
vinced the “vast majority” of
workers at the institution for
delinquent boys are not mis-
treating inmates.
But he said Friday he has
referred the brutality charges
to the Department of Public
Safety for investigation.
After a day-long closed-door
meeting with members of a
legislative committee investi-
gating the alleged guard bru-
tality, Barnes said he favors
“an in-depth evaluation” of the
Texas Youth Gained, which
operates the school.
He said the suggestion for an
evaluation was “in no way an
Indictment” of TYC members.
“There are many problems,
many places that improvements
«an be made without indicting
anyone,” Barnes said.
NOT FOR PUTTING now Is No. 1 green on
the Cuero golf course as a city front end
loader stirs up dust spreading gravel. The
greens have been shaved down and will be
rebuilt completely, according to City Public
Works Director Hercel Thompson. Coarse
rock, gravel and sand will be spread first to
make for good drainage in the future. Then
will come the topping and grass. The golf
course will be closed down until the end of
March or early April for the renovation.
— Record Photo by D. L. Prentice
Pecan Sessions
Are Slated Here
A pecan shortoours* is sche-, Palmer, weed control specialist
duled to be held in DeWitt
County at the DeWitt County
Electric Cooperative building
in Cuero on Thursday nights,
Jan. 23 and 30 and Feb. 6 and
13, according to Gilbert Heide-
man, DeWitt County agent.
Each session will begin at
7:30 p.m. and last for two
hours.
A refreshment break is plan-
ned midway of each session.
Bluefford Hancock, Agricul-
tural Extension horticulturist
will discuss marketing and pe-
can propagation at the first ses-
sion.
The second session will be
devoted to discussions on pe-
can insects and diseases and
their control. John Thomas, en-
tomologist, headquartered at
Texas A&M will discuss the in-
sect portion of the program and
Dr. Jerral Johnson, plant pa-
thologist from Texas AAM will
discuss the disease phase.
Hie third session will feature
Dr. C. D. Welch, Extension soil
chemist, who will discuss soil
fertility and requirements for
pecans and grass. Dr. Rupert
is also scheduled and will dis-
cuss weed control in pecan or-
chards. Both men are from
Texas AAM.
This last session will be de-
voted to pecan varieties and
work being done at the USDA
Pecan Field Station at Brown-
wood. George Madden of the
station will be on hand for this
part of the program.
This short course is a part of
the program of work of the
DeWitt County Pecan Growers
(See Pecan gesslon, Page 10)
Meeting Dated
On Cemetery
The Thomaston Cemetery
Association w’ill hold its regu-
lar annual meeting Thursday,
Jan. 16, at 7 p.m. at the Sidney
DeDear home in Thomaston,
according to Mrs. Sidney De-
Dear, secretary, treasurer.
William Milligan, TCA presi-
dent, urges all members to at-
tend. Election of officers and
business discussions are on the
agenda for the meeting.
Schools
Plan Given
No Chance
LONGVIEW, Tex. (UPD — The
Texas legislature will not ap-
prove consolidation of school
districts as proposed by Gov
John Connally's e,ommittee on
public education Gov.-elect
Preston Smith said Friday.
Smith spoke at the convention
of the Texas United Press In-
ternational Editors Association
In one recommendation, the
school committee said districts
should be forced to consolidate
so that each district would have
at least 2,600 pupils except in
j sparsely populated areas. The
proposal would cut the number
of school districts in the state
by more than half.
“I don't think the legislature
would approve it,” Smith told
the UPI editors. "I don't know
where the cutoff should be —
maybe 300 to 500 students.”
A panel of Austin political
writers Friday predicted the
1969 state legislature will pass
new and higher taxes and may
let state voters decide on mak-
ing liquor by the drink law-
ful.
Bo Byers, Austin bureau chief
for the Houston Chronicle, told
the editors Jhe question
was not whether^" new taxes
would bp levied, but “how
much tax will be needed and
who gets stuck with that tax.”
Houston Post political affairs
re [Kir ter Bill Gardner, also on
D. L. PRENTIC E
Record Staff Writer
The 61st Legislature convening at noon Tuesday Is
going to have to consider a lot more questions than the
last Legislature, Cuero’s State Representative J. T.
Terry” Newman said on the eve of his departure for
Austin.
The lawmaker, representing the 42nd Legislative
District comprising DeWitt, Gol-1 ~~ “ „ " ~
iad, Lavaca and Jackson Coun- j 'I H be able to walk to work
lies, left la: t night with Mrs. ! and won t have to contend with
Newman for Austin, where theyj Vying to find a place to park
—- — a car, Rep. Newman said.
Trail Ride
Planning
Started
Plans for the Eighth Annual
Old Chisholm Trail Drive offi-
cially got under way here Fri-
day night with meeting of the
Rawhide Riders at the Doll
House which saw a dance and
barbecue supper slated for Feb.
1.
A barbecued sausage supper
will be served at 5 p.m. Feb.
1 at the camping area near the
city’s new rodeo arena. The
dance will be held at the Na-
tional Guard Armory at 8 p.m.
with music by the Country
Kings.
Attendance prizes will be
given away at the dance. They ; l^s; Gardner said of
are a 19-ineh portable television i '!ta*e s hquor laws,
set, a Polaroid camera and a
portable radio.
The Rawhide Riders will also
select a queen for the journey
to San Antonio. The ride will
start the morning of Feb. 2
from Cuero Municipal Park.
Free coffee and doughnuts
will be served to the riders by
Tex-Tan Western Leather Co.
before the trek starts.
Committee chairmen for the
(See TRAIL RIDE. Page 10)
JUDGE TOM REAVLEY
. . . Church Speaker Here
have rented an apartment only
two and a half blocks from the
State Capitol.
UNTITED METHODIST
High Jurist
Speaker Here
Associate Justice Tom Reav-
ley of the Texas Supreme
Court In Austin will be guest
speaker today at the 11 a.m.
worship service at First United
Methodist Church.
A dinner for the congregation
and visitors will be held fol-
lowing the service in the
church basement. Prices will
the panel, said the Texas Leg- j be 75 cents for adults and 50
cents for children with drinks
being furnished by the church.
Judge Reavley will give a
talk alter the meal on the civil
disobedience report passed at
the United General Conference
islature was “an unpredictable
creature," but he thought it wall
approve a constitutional amend-
ment to let voters decide wheth-
er to legalize liquor by the
drink.
"I believe the people of Texas ; held in Dallas last April and
May. A question-answer
sion will follow.
The public is invited, accord-
ing to the Rev. T. Irving King,
pastor.
are just about to the point
where the)’ realize the system
we have is antiquated and does
not fit our school mores of the
the
Cuero Adults
Get Another
I Study Chance
“If the people of Texas get a I
chance to vote on liquor by the
drink, I think they will pass it”
he said.
Other panel mambers were
Ernie Stromberger, capitol cor- !
respondent for the Dallas Times {
Herald and David Anderson |
UPI Austin bureau manager.
Discussing the chances for
the 56-year-old Smith’s success
as a governor, Stromberger
said his age is “a liability."
“Smith will be the oldest gov-
ernor since 1903,” Stromtierger
said.
He said the governor elect, a
Lub'xjck native, faces a "gen-
Lions Camp
For Kids
Scheduled
The judge is a graduate of
the University of Texas and
Harvard Law School. He was
secretary of state for Texas
from 1955 to 1957 and a visiting
professor of law at the Univer-
sity of Texas School of Law in
1958-59.
He had served since June 1,
1964, as judge of the 167th Dis-
trict in Travis County until
election to the Supreme Court
of Texas in November, 1968
He took office Jan. 1.
I
Judge Reavley was elected
Southwest Texas Conference
Lay Leader of the United Me-
thodist Church at the 1968 ari-
ses- | nuai conference in Austin. He
! was elected for the 1968-72 qtia-
drennium, succeeding Jarnor.
Walker of Seguin.
Judge Reavley is also chair-
man of the board of laity of
the Southwest Texas Annual
Conference of the Methodist
Church.
He served as an elected de-
legate to the Uniting General
Conference in Dallas in 1968.
(See HIGH JURIST. Page 10)
Arneckeville
Club Outlines
Year's Activity
oration gap" with the youth of ,
Texas and a “confidence gap" j *'11
with the press.
“He doesn’t trust the press j
and the press doesn’t trust i
Applications for a summer
vacation full of fun for handi-!
capped children in the Cuero!
area are now being accepted I
by members of the Cuero Lions |
Club. i The Arneckeville Home De-
This unique Texas Lions 1 monstration Club planned its
Camp for Crippled Children at j activities tor 1969, passed on
Kerrville will open its first two- recommendation , and reviewed
By FIX)YD HENDRICKS
Record Staff Writer
Opportunity knocks but once?
It ain’t necessarily so.
Adults in the Cuero area
getting another chance to reg-
ister for basic adult education
classes, after a previous at-
tempt by Cuero Senior High
Principal Billy C. Cooper to get | of trustees
the program off the “terra
firma" here which saw only
several persons register,
t i Registration is being offered
again, as is a new spot for the
classes to be held.
Registration will be at Daule
School Tuesday from 7 p.m.
until 8 p.m. Classes will be
held on Tuesday and Friday
Cooper said, "All citizens of
Cuero and the surrounding area
who did not finish the eighth
grade are urg 'd to attend. There
him,” Stromberger said.
Civic Center
Here Topic
For Yoakum
Y )akuin Mayor H.
officer's duties at its urst meet-
ing of the year Wednesday.
A five-minute magazine pro-
gram was given by Mrs. J. V.
Umb. An explanation of the
club's yearbook was also glv-
1969. Five sessions will be held
this summer for youngsters
from seven through 16 years of
age.
The earnii is free to eligible
blind, deaf, mute or crippled \ en,
children. Transportation to arid i Mrs. A. R. Rabel and Mrs.
from the camp is supplied byEdwin Nagel were named as
the Cuero Lions. All requests members of the food commit-
tor summer camp are handled j tee They will attend a
in Cuero by Lion®. , ing meeting Feb. 25.
For more de tailed inform;)-1 . Mrs. Edwin Egg joint d the j
O Gibson : tton about the Camp' contact C. | club as a new member. She |
Duckett of the Cuero Lions
calling 275-6161.
i and Mrs. Ben Burdine
! guests for the day.
.no,, expenses involved ex- j arKj Councilman Henry Mattli-1 D.
your own transportation.” i e>v made reports on visits they 6y (
Transportation was one of the made to the- American Legion In the past years, Lions have I Refreshments were served by
prime reasons Cooper obtained Civic Center in Cuero and to I sent over 10,000. youngsters to j hostesses Mrs. Felix Koenig
permission from the Cuero In- me community center in Hal-' camp. i and Mrs. Ivy Junker.
dependent School District board letsville at the Yoakum city I --————-
to utilize the un-l.(( o u n c i 1 meeting Thursday; ti i r* Trv AC D/^l I
used Daule school facilities for; nights. I fit I lAAj tULL
the classes. It is a little closer \ The mayor and conn ilman! -
to the people who need the class- 1 viewed the Cuero and Ballets- |
es. Cooper also noted a lack of vjile facilities with on eye tow- J
communication. So, for those of , ard a new civic center being j
you w ho read this, tell a friend. 1 planned by the City of Y".ik-
Rep. Newman said he looks to
the same old questions to con-
front the legislature, plus
some major new questions ifi
education, water resources, soil
conservation and air and water
pollution.
And the new questions will
raise the question of new money,
he said.
“Tlie state has, or will have,
the money to take one of its
needs if no new programs are
initiated,” he said.
“But the new questions are
going to come tip and they will
have to be taken care of," he
added.
’’That’s going to take more
money."
Mr. Newman said he feels the
most feasible source of new tax
money will lie in an across-the-
board application of the sales
tax -- that is — eliminating the
present exemptions
“That will raise upward of
$200 million,’’ he said, “and
most of the businessmen and
others i have talked to think
that’s tlie answer."
Rep. Newman feels education
is the biggest problem, perhaps,
that faces the fist Legislature.
“That's going to he the big
money item," he said.
Mr. Newman said he sup-
ports, basicaliy, the teachers’
request for a $1,000 salary in-
crease. but not perhaps in the
way they want it.
He feels that education in
Texas is going to have to be
streamlined in its methods in
order to give Texas children
the best education there is
without wasting money and per-
sonnel.
The big education improve-
ment program outlined in the
pn>])osals of the Governor’s
Committee on Public School
Education which calls for a
drastic consolidation of the
state’s school districts, he
thinks is a big step in the right
direction.
“I feel we’re fping to have to
have a more equalized educa-
I tion-money system,” he saidk
j “so that every child in Texas
j gets the same oportunity any
where he goes to school."
! And Rep. Newman stressed
that while a great many legisla-
tors from rural districts, tflf
their constituents, will be op-
posed to the drastic county-
train- I wide consolidation proposals, he
; thinks they had better give
some ground in this session.
"I think we ought to com-
werc I promise," he said, “to avoid
; something worse in the 1971 ses-
j sion.”
I Mr. Newman pointed out that
(See REP. NEWMAN, Page 10)
If you know someone who! urn.
could make good and purp 'se-1 An airport advisory board
ful use of the classes, tell them.! was appointed by etty council
Yes sir, opportunity is knock- ; following passage of the final
ing at least twice in Cuero. ; reading of an ordinance creat-
evenings from 7 p.m. until 9
I p.m. and will cover education in j Maybe it is too mucli to hope for j :ng the board.
third time. Register for the
Gov. Connally’s
Still Pleasing to
Record
Most
H BELONG* TO THE HORSE ftunily, fell eqnine goat,
Mgkl It Be Mt of coDMimtag » rather large cardboard box
It a lat at Morgan and Gonzales. The weather mast have
HUM M Mt supply mt gras* to feed on and with the animal
MMMI *f aaif present ttoa, it tamed te whatever lt could
— lUttri Photo hr Fk*4 Hendricks
j grades one through eight with _ ______ ______ ...
’ emphasis on general education classes now, and
development - that's “readin'
and ‘rltin’ and ’rithmptic’ — for
the Texas equivalency diploma.
That maens that if you success-
fully complete the courses giv-
en, you will be eligible to re-
ceive a diploma from the State
mt Texas.
Appointed to serve were
if you don’t! Jamt* Ray Witte. C. L. (Jerry)
need them, help someone who j Dobbs Jr. and Mitchell Harbus
•lot's. j Tne b iard, which will act in
At least 10 applicants are re-1 an advisory capacity’, will work | constituents approving of his
quired for funds for one teach- toward general improvement of i administration and his efforts
er. The Cuero area can get as j the airport. Members of the j in the field of education winning
the greatest praise.
By JOE BE1JBEN
Director. The Texas Poll
John B. Connally leaves the i
Texas governorship on Jan. 21
with a decided majority of his
many as three teachers if 30 ap-; board, who will serve without
plicants register. Bring a j pay, will select their own chair-
friend with y*U. I (See CIVIC CENTER. Page M)
A state-wide Texas Poll con-
ducted « lew weak* age ash-
ing the question, “What do you
think have been the major
achievements of Governor Con-
nally's administration,” reveals
a wide array of views. If we
combine those who said educa-
tional “■dvances was the great-
est act mplishment with those
who mentioned raises in
era’
pey, we find about a filth of j parly ^
gress in education. Highway im-
provement, tourism, and state
finances and taxation . re other
achievement mentioned by at
least 6 per cent each.
The Governor is given credit
for accomplishments in just
about the shme way by mem-
bers of Ms owh Democrat!*
non-Democratl
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