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Cloudy, Cooler
Cloudy and cooler with show-
ers. IjOw near 50. High Thurs-
day low 60s for Cuero, Gonza-
les, Yoalrum, Yorktown.
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VOL. 74
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CUERO, TEXAS 77954, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1968
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Mflbwn TalK
Spring started at 7:2C this
morning, so, as you might ex-
pect, the Panhandle was get-
ting a snowstorm.
And Cuero was getting more
rainfall.
This wet winter ought to be
a boon to eattle raisers. The
pastures and rangeland ought
to be soaked to a good depth,
which will help the grass to
flourish for quite a while.
Cuero gets another benefit
from the rains.
The Highland Lakes on the
Colorado River up above Austin
are brim full, which means an
ample supply of water to gen-
erate electricity to be used over
a wide area.
The Lower Colorado River
Authority sells power to many
cities outside the immediate vi-
cinity of the river, and on occa-
sion sells power to other power
systems when needed.
Cuero gets its electricity from
the LCRA, transmitted over
CPL lines.
City Dads in for a busy ses-
sion Thursday evening with
budget up for discussion and
many other Items on the agen-
da.
SCOUT AWARD — Scoutmaster John C.
Hamilton presents the Boy Scout Appreciation
Statue to Troop MS’s new assistant scout-
master, Donald Bomba, earlier this week.
Donald, who has Just turned 18, has completed
seven yean of service with the troop. The
Eagle Scout Is die son of Hr. and Mrs. Alois
Bomba, who are partially obscured la the
background.
—Record Photo by D. L. Prentice
Spring Gives
More Snow
To Panhandle
By United Press International
Calendar spring came to Tex-
as at 7:22 a.m. today with an
unaeasonaJ. snowstorm over
West Texas and the Panhandle
and seasonal -thunderstorms in
North Central Texas.
Appearance
By Choir
Scheduled
The University of Corpus
Christi Concert Choir will ap-
pear at Cuero’s First Baptist
Church Sunday at 7 p.m., the
Rev. N. A Sanders, pastor, an-
nounced today
The choir is made up of IS
selected students, 12 women and
6 men, who come from many
states including New York, New
Mexico, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania, and Texas
The gpiup meets twice a week
for rehearsals and performs
frequently in churches and
schools. The repertoire is com-
posed of a group of sacred an-
thems from many periods of
music history and a seeul a r
group of chansons, madrigals,
folk songs, and show tunes.
The choir is currently on a
spring tour of Texas, with a
dozen concerts scheduled in an
area from Corpus Christi to
San Angelo. Dallas, and back
to Corpus Christi. The group
is under the direction of Mel-
ton James. Chairman of t h e
Division of Fine Arts at UOC.
Snow fell from 20 miles west
of Shamrock to 40 miles south
of Childress to 30 miles west of
Lubbock and to 25 mils* .south-
west ot Hartford.
North winds up to
an hour whipped the snow
about like a curtain, cutting vis-
ibility to 1.5 miles on some
High Plains areas. Tempera-
tures
Closed.
Heavy thunderstorms pounded
North Central Texas before
dawn and continued into the day,
causing the Weather Bureau to
(See KNOW, Page U)
ws Were below freezing and
Hi&i Plains schools were
Magazine
Push Set
By Students
The Cuero High School Stud-
1 ent Council will sponsor a mag-
azine drive to help defray the
expenses of campaign mater-
ial in running for State Pres-
ident of the Texas Association
of Student Councils.
The drive will begin Thurs-
day and will last for 10 days.
C. W. Hamilton, representative
of the Curtis Circulation Com-
pany will be working with the
council.
Renewal subscriptions will
count the same as new subscrip-
tions. Also, discount cou-
I<on$ will be accepted for the
price printed on them.
NEW MASCOT — Sally, above center, Is the new mascot of
Scout Troop 248. Getting chummy with their new friend are
Kurt Fetters, left, and Tim Burt. The donkey will get a
green and white blanket and will accompany the troop on
trips.
Legion Auxiliary Tags
Barbara Lane as Envoy
New Trouble
Facing Dill
Hie American Legion Auxili-
ary met last night, and select-
ed Miss Barbara Lane, as rep-
resentative to Girls State, to
be held June 11 thru June 21.
Miss Kathy Egg, is first alter-
nate and Miss Kathy Aldrich is
second alternate.
Miss Lane is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. “Fritz” Lane, Miss
Egg is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Egg, and Miss Aid-
rich is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Riley Aldrich.
The auxiliary also voted to
donate 110.00 to Rn/io Free
Europe, and to subscribe to
“Firing Line,” a Legion publica-
tion, and have It sent to the
Cuero High School library.
Plans for the Legion birthday
party were made and auxiliary
members an- asked to bring
either salad or dessert. The
event will take place March 29.
May 24 was the date decided
on for Poppy Day this year.
Mrs. Lias Steen is chairman.
Public Hearing
On Budget Is Set
Big Slash
In Budget
Expected
«
WASHINGTON UP! - In «
new maneuver to dislodge hls
long-stalled tax increase propo-
sal, President Johnson report-
edly is ready to send Congress
recommendations tor cutting
810 billion from his fiscal 1968
appropriations requests.
Congressional sources said the
Chief Executive discussed such
a plan at a meeting of House
and Senate Democratic leaders
at the White House Tuesday
night.
Johnson did not tell the
lawmakers where he proposed
to make the cuts, but said he
hoped the move would help
spring his 18 per cent Income
tax surcharge proposal from the
House Ways and Means Com-
mittee.
There seemed la be little
likelihood, however, that the
President’s latest hints of
spending reductions would move
the key man hi the stalemate:
Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, I>Ark ,
Ways and Means chairman.
A H8 billion cut in appropriar
tion* for the fiaoal year
beginning July 1 would mean a
crjt in actual government spen-
ding of about 85 billion. The
spending reduction figure is
lower because money appropri-
ated in one year is not all spent
in that year but is eJJocat e d
over several years.
Last weekend, there were
strong reports that the Presi-
dent was willing to see
Congress make budget appro-
priations cuts of between J8 bil-
lion and S9 billion and about $4
billion In actual spending in
order to gain approval of hls in-
come tax surcharge.
But Mills, who has steadfast-
ly insisted on spending cuts as
the price for a tax increase,
indicated he wanted deeper cuts
than that. "They're not my fig-
ures,” he told newsmen.
Big Bombers
Tear Into
Tank Force
SAIGON UPI — U. S. Air
Force B52 Stratnfortresses to-
day bombed a North Vietnam-
ese tank position within strik-
ing distance of the surrounded
Murine fort of Khe Sanh on
South Vietnam’s northern fron-
tier.
The eight-engined Strateg i c
Air Command bombers hit the
armor base built up by the
Communists at the site of the
U. S. Army special forces camp
at Lang Vei, overrun by tanks
Feb. 7.
More of the biggest American
bombers staged three other
raids late Tuesday and today
against the 16,000 North Vietna-
mese that U S. intelligence said
have ringed Khe Sanh. western
anchor of the allied anti-in-
vasion line on the northern bor-
der.
In other action, the toll of
Communist dead in the 10-day-
old allied antiguerrilla drive
around Saigon - the war’s lar-
gest campaign the 50-battalion
Operation Resolved To Win —
has risen to 903. Angther 204
Communists have been captur-
said South Vietnamese Rangers
Tuesday night killed 21 of the
Viet Cong just five mile* north
of Saigon.
The Rangers also captured a
large guerrilla arms dump
hidden on the banks of the
Saigon River. The dump held
more than 250 rounds of mortar
awl rocket shells and lay within
firing distance of the Tan Son
Nhut Air Base headquarters uf
Gen. William C. Westmoreland,
U S. commi%ider in Vietnam
and leader of Resolved To Win.
U. S. Army helicopter guns hips
killed at least 35 Communists in
scattered action. Military
sjiokesmen saM a UH1 helicop-
ter was shot down by guerrilla
groundfire while aiding ground
troops in the Mekong Delta rice
bowl below Saigon. The crew
escaped harm.
At Khe Sanh, about four mile*
northeast of Lang Vei and Just
under the North Vietn a m
frontier area, the Marine de-
fenders said their Communist
besiegers fired in about TL5
rounds of mortar and reck e t
Tuesday. Commanders reported
Marian Jacobs
Gats Scholarship
Marian Jacobs, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John Jacobs of
434 Columbia Circle, Irving, has
been awarded a 83400 scholar-
ship by the University of Dallas.
Miss Jacobs is a Senior at Cue-
ro High School, a member of
the National Honor Society and
the Student Council.
Also, a fine pianist, she has
received top honors in the Na-
tional Piano Playing Auditions.
Miss Jacobs Intends to major
in foreign languages at the uni-
versity.
ed. Government spokesmen "light” casualties.
FOR OLD GLORY
Cuero Love-In
Plans Growing
| this week she said. Names of
1 winners will be announced at
By FLOYD HENDRICKS
Record Staff Writer
Participants, supporters and | the love-in.
organizer* for the "Love - In
For Old Glory,’’ planned for
April 6, met at Cuero High
School last night and plans de-
veloped which will make the
event apparently the biggest in
Cuero since Turkey Trot.
A parade, with Veterans of
Foreign Wars and American Le-,
gk>n color guards, will be held. During the week pieced i n g
Boy Scouts, Giri Scouts. Camp j the rally, clerk* and business-
Students of schools will make
house to house calls during the
week preceding the rally to
sell flags so that on rally day
"we will have hundred* of
flags flying." The students,
Mrs. Cheatham said, "Intend to
find out where the Americans
are.”
Fire Girls and the National
Guard have been invited to par-
ticipate in the parade. Tire
parade will precede the love-in
rally for the Star Spangled Ban-
ner at Municipal Park.
Mrs. Rosemary Cheatham,
who teaches the class of Voca-
tional Office Education which
thought up the whole thing,
said civic clubs have stated
they would sponsor awards for
Americanism jxwters in each
school, including Meyersvil-
le and Westhoff, in conjunction
with the love-in and parade
for the Flag. Rides governing
the poster contest will be distri-
buted to schools by Friday of
men will be asked to wear
small, paper flags promoting
the rally, and displays on Ame-
ricanism will be placed In "ev-
ery vacant show window” in
the downtown area, Mrs. Cheat-
ham said
Hot dogs, soda water ami oth-
er refreshments will be avail-
able at the rally. The Cuero
High Sciviol Choir will sing sev-
eral songs and a band of Dis-
tributive Education students
will play patriotic songs.
Political candidates have been
invited, and local servicemen
who have served in Vietn a m
Will be honored at the special
(See LOVE-IN, Page It)
Council
To Meet
Tomorrow
By D. L. TRENTO
Record Staff Writer
Public hearing an the propon-
ed city budget will be the me*
>»r item ot business before the
Outre City Council at Hi mon-
thly meeting tomorrow night.
The hearing will start at 7:38
p.m. in the council room at
City Hall. The budget log fite
six months beginning April 1
calls for an outlay of 8684,0tUk
City Manager Wil Cooler e 11
said today he expected the
council would take final aetfca
on the budget after the publie
hearing. V not, a special coun-
cil meeting will have to to
held as less than two weeks
remains before the budget w4B
have to be put Into effect
Another major item will to
consideration of an ordinance
adopting a city housing code.
The housing code is an essen-
tial hem In getting Caere’s re-
certification of its Woricabto
Program, needed In order to
participate in a number ot fed-
r al programs.
The council also will open
bids on a new elevated water
storage tank, which will be the
first hem in theflMfweed wat-
er and sewer improvement plan.
Another ordinance to be con-
sidered will be a sanitation mea-
sure.
Purchase ot material for the
new riding arena also is en the
agenda. Bids for the material
—used piping and sucker reds
— have been opened already
and Cockrell Has inspected the
material for quality.
The council wfll appoint a
city health officer and amend
the 1967-68 budget.
A deed on Washington Street
Is expected to be accepted and
the council will hear the city
attorney’s report on land for
the cemetery.
Other items en the agenda In-
clude :
—Approving payment at MTIe.
—Approving construction es-
timate* on the sewage dispos-
al plant.
—Consideration of invoice# tar
engineering service* from
Lockwood, Andrews and News
nam, Inc.
—Setting a bid date aw elec-
trical Improvements.
- Discussion ed wiring
ances.
—Hearing the efty
report on a number ot
4-H Clubbers
At Meyersviile
Hare Session
V
Former City Manager James “Other counci) members how-.
Dill is In trouble again this time | ever said they were pleased j
at Bedford. Texas, where he is i with Dill’s work. ,
now serving as City Manager. J “The city manager made no,
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram ; comment on Smith’s motion,
in its morning edition of Wed- “Smith, who will not seek re-j
nesday, March 13, carried the election in the April 6 municipal j
following dispatch: - election, has been in the minor-
“BEDFORD - City Cowcilr ity on many issues raised by — ^ C^utoty“£nt«l
men Tuesday night gave a cold ; the council in recent months, j r. „ „ , . _1 ...
shoulder to a motion by Mayor! A later dispatch published in! ** MorSTcalled^Sll
Pro-Tern James Smith that] the afternoon edition of The( . '... . . . , -
City Manager Jame;, Dill be “re-; Star Telegram at March 13 read: in ^ pledge,
lieved of his position.” j "BEDFORD
“Mayor W. E. Wolf declared, Wolf said that City Manager j
the motion ded because of lack James Dill’s services to Bed- j by‘^fr d L Brown” Game Bh>
ot second. ford have been “eminently satis- ](^ist of Parks and Wi]dlife He
“Smith made no comment to factory.”
the council why he wanted to j “The statement was in reply
oust Bedford's first city man- j to Mayor Pro-Tern James
ager. f
“Later he said he was not;Dill be relieved of his position,
pleased with the services which j "Smith asked that someone be
-Mayo^ W^E. prayer and motto.
The Program was presented
showed slides on the poisonous
snakes of this area.
Rebecca Kainer and Randy
Insurance
Move Made
By Jaycees
TV CUero Jaycee board ti
directors Monday night Moaaad
to make sure they are prepew
ly covered with insurance lag
the bus which is used by ofvla
clubs and Boy Scouts and their
own Boys Club.
Ralph Tucker, president, a-rifl
the Jaycees are covered whew
they operate the bus. but there
was some question as to vto
thor or not other elubs war a
covered with the current tmar-
a nee services.
The directors also accepted
John Oiivarri as a new Mem-
ber. and accepted an audit re-
port from Ed Sager end Baa
Albrecht.
I Smith’s motion last night that Weruiel were accepted as new
members.
had been rendered by Dill.
1 appointed temporarily to carry
“Asked to list specific com-.-on Dili's duties until a successor
plaints. Smith said he would
have to get a sheet of paper
end make a list
Twenty six members, seven
visitors, and one leader present.
, The next meeting will be
could be named. April 15 with Mr. Sam Tomlin-
"There was no second to the j son. Rural Electrical Advisor,
motion for dismissal.” i giving the program.
CUERO
practice
Monday
four
the in-tows
it a real
some passing sntoe were dose to
point from the wet pavement and
Inter moved from die tracks to s
north for more practice. The practice
mveral pausing citiint* who watched as U a fire
-Record Photo by Floyd Hendricks
PALMER’S AILMENT
| TAMPA, Fla. (UPI) — Balti-
more righthander Jim Palmer
complained of shoulder paint
Tuesday while warming up for
: an exhibition gam* with Cbteht
i nati.
Palmer, plagued with a tim-
i ilar ailment last season pitched
. against the New York Yankees
; and Washington Senators with
a sore shoulder, but said it
did not become painful until Mi
last workout
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