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Cloudy, Cool
Fair. Gusty northerly winds
Jiminishing tonight. Mid 40s to
low 70s for Cuero, Yoakum,
and Yorktown.
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Jury Panel Called For
District Court Here
Seventy-five citizens have
been summoned for jury duty
in the 24th District Court at
1:30 p.m. Monday, District
Clerk Pershing Hiller said.
Monday morning starting at
9 a.m will be devoted to crimi-
nal and civil cases that can he
heard without a jury, he added.
Citizens that werp summoned
for jury duty are as follows:
Cuero — Waltpr B. McClung.
Mrs. Mike Weber, Mrs. Olene
Prasek, Mrs. Irene Parma, Mrs.
Elna Grube. Willie C. Pickens,
Beniamin Rosales Jr., J. A.
McMichen, Mrs. Geneva Hard-
away, Mrs. Angeiita Cervantes,
Donald L. Miller, Albert Wayne
Wolf, Socoro Pena, Herbert L.
Ramsey. Mrs. Janeth Hargrove,
Lias F. Steen, Mrs. Katie Mitch-
ell, R. F. Stieber Mrs. Lillie
Littles, Mrs. Sue Trammell,
Mrs. Lillie Richerson, Noah
Williams, Mis. Eunice Faulk-
ner, Mrs. Mary Sanchez, Mrs.
Vera Ridyolph, Mrs. Rosalie
Dreyer. Mrs. Wanda Campbell,
Mrs. Merle Baker, C. O. White,
Caesar Hoehne, Charles Fless- \
ner and Miss Phylma Bush.
Yorktown — Mrs. Margaret;
Town Talk
H. H. BERNER
Record Staff Writer
Random thoughts, sense and
nonsense . . . •
Well I’ve gone all winter with-
out the "bug” while those
around me were falling by the
wayside and now. with spring
just around the comer, guess
what? Yt*p. I’ve got the bug
Some people say it's always
a rmraoie that., w* *eee »We -to
get Ye Old Record out every-
day .... believe me it’s no
miracle iust a lot of blood,
sweat and tears.
From all reports "First Mon-
day” was again n rousing suc-
cess with a lot of people in town
taking advantage of some migh-
ty good bargains.
It looks like all is In readiness
for the Livestock Show coming
up Thursday and Friday. I won-
der why Victoria’s Livestock
Show is scheduled for the same
time. You’d think the communi-
ties could work out some sort
of an arrangement where the
dates wouldn’t conflict.
CHS is very fortunate to have
the fine coaching stiff headed
by top kick Buster Gilbreth.
Their record certainly speaks
for itself.
IN A WORLD LOOKING FOR
ANSWERS MAYBE GOD IS
THE PLACE TO START.
"Dear Lady, be cautious of
Cupid, list weil to the lines of
this verse: to let a fool kiss
you it stupid ... to let a kiss
fool you is worse.” — Stolen.
DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE
AGGIE WHO .... put iodine
on his paycheck because he got
• cut in pay?
That’s all ... .
Jaeger, Mrs. M. A. Melting,
Clarence J. Warzecha, Mrs.
Mary Ann Watson, Mrs M. Ser-
rano, Mrs. Elvira Roehl, Mrs.
Barbara Jalufka Mrs. Marga-
reto Stehle, Edwin W. Stein-
mnnn, Mrs. Elenora S jiulze,
Mrs. Tdella Rios, Pedro Rodri-
quez, Mrs. Elaine Straube, Roy
Boeckmann, Englebert .1 Bie-
mer, Mrs. Lottie Wojtasczyk,
Mrs. Gloria Cardenas and Myles
Patillo,
Meycrsville — Merton Ideus,
Fred A. Wendel and Mrs. Bar-
bara Mueller.
Yoakum — Mrs. Ella Jack-
son, Mrs. Mary McGrew,
Charles Pate, Marcin Seitz, Er-
win Staehr, August E. Johnson,
Sidney Roden, Mrs. Dorothy
Mvlius. Mrs. Jewel M. Parker,
Mrs. Lorine Glass, Armando
Fernandez, Johnnie B. Rice,
Samuel C. Orr, Eiroy Adams
and Mrs. Mabel Hermann.
Nordheim Gilbert Parg-
mann, Gus O. Mueller, Mrs.
Mary Mueller, Mrs. Sharon
Klar, Mrs Frances Ckodre and
Leon Charpenlier.
Westhoff — Mrs. Edna Hatten-
barh.
A $25,009 personal injury suit
was filed by Edward Meyer of
Cuero against Southwestern Bell
Telephone Co. and Joe Green of
San Antonio.
Candidates
Fail To
Qualify
Two candidates for the office
of DeWitt County Sheriff have
failed to qualify, according to
Mrs. Hazel Bland of Yoakum,
DeWitt County chairman of the
Democratic Party.
Hubert Barber and Edgar
Pullin failed to qualify either
by paying their filing fees or in
their petitions, Mrs. Bland said.
Livestock Show
Opens Thursday
Old Friends Meet
After 60 Years
Mr. and Mrs. John H. D.
Blanke of Barrington, Illinois,
a village of Chicago, are visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Gerhard (Lena)
BULLETIN
3 Persons Killed
In Headon Crash
VICTORIA, Tex. (UPI) — A headon collision
Tuesday night between two cars on farm road
1823, 7.9 miles south of Victoria, killed three per-
sons and injured two others.
The victims were Loretta Myers Strauss, 32,
and her son, James Alvin Strauss, I, and Antonio
Peres, 36, all of Lolita, Tex ^
The two injured were In the Stratiss car. Tfttsir
Injuries were not serious.
No further details were available from the
Department of Public Safety.
Abortions OK’d
By Most Adults
WASHINGTON UPI — A go-
vernment-sponsored public opin-
ion poll today showed that six
out of 10 American adults fa-
vor abortions for reasons other
than saving a mother's life,
while half would remove all le-
gal restrictiona on the opera-
tlons.
The survey, which will be In-
cluded In a report delivered
Sunday to President Nixon and
Congress by the U. S. Commis-
sion on Population Growth and
the American Future, also allow-
ed 87 per cent of Americana
believe the government should
make birth control information
universally available.
The report said persons favor-
ing liberalized abortion tended
to be younger, better educated
and earning higher incomes.
'•Whites tend to be more per-
missive about abortion than
blacks, younger people more so
than older, and Jews more so
than Protestants and Catholics,'
the commission said.
The commission was created
by Congress in March 1970, to
study the impact of population
growth on the economy, the en-
vironment and the government
by the year 2000.
The nationwide survey of a
■ample of 1,708 men and women
age 16 and older was conducted
last summer for the commission
(See Abortion, Page It)
Shortage Of Nurses
Very Acute In Nation
Mueller, 211 E. Alexander St,
Cuero.
Blanke and Gerhard Mueller
were neighbors and schoolmates
in Germany more than 60 years
ago.
This Is the first time they
have seen each other since 1912
when the Blanke family immi-
grated to Le Mars, Iowa.
In 1923, Mueller left Germany
and came to Texas where he
has been a resident of the
Yoakum-Cuero area since.
There had been no communi-
cation between the two school-
mates for nearly 60 years.
About a year ago, they learn-
ed of each other’s whereabouts
quite by accident. Correspon-
dence between the two began
immediately and resulted in a
happy reunion when Mr. and
Mrs. Blanke arrived in Cuero
after a trip through California.
Old memories of their former
sehool days were revived where
they learned not so much of
their own fzae will as by their
strict teacher’s 24-inch ruler,
They remembered the time that
they went swimming in the
North Sea behind the dikes that
protect the northern coast of
Oldenburg, Germany.
Another big topic of their con-
versation has been how they
made it in this new and wonder-
ful country. They both agree
that those born and raised in a
foreign country can better rea-
lize what a wonderful country
we have here in the U.S.
Blanke has now more or less
retired except for some writing
for his local newspaper. He can
look back on a distinguished
career in his life.
Blanke came to toe U.S. at
the age of 17 years old with
only an 8th grade education and
no knowledge of the English
language. He worked his way
through high school and college
and received his B. A. degree
in Wontona College in LeMars,
Iowa.
He was a writer for news-
papers, magazines, and techni-
cal editor for an engineering
magazine for 33 years.
He was also interested in
community affairs. He was a
member of the city council for
27 years, and then served for
8 years as elected mayor of
Barrington.
Blanke is listed in the Inter-
national Who’s Who, published
in London England and is a
member of the International
Platform Association.
Library Friends
To Have Booth
At Stock Show
Friends of the Cuero Public
Library will have a booth at the
DeWitt County 4-H and FFA
Livestock Show to be held Mar.
9 - 10.
The booth will be partly filled
with volumes on Texas, ac-
cording to Mrs. Joe Boothe,
librarian.
The booth will provide space
where one can rest and browse
through the volumes at their
leisure, she added.
The opening of the booth Is (
the beginning of a membership
drive to encourage everyone to
donate one volume or more to (
the library, according to Mrs.,
FV-ank Sheppard, president.
The library has received a
number of new books recently,
and some of them were donated
by Friends of the Library, Mrs.
Boothe said.
HEB Has
New Bread
The biggest news In bread
since somebody sliced it is Gol-
den Indian Bread introduced this
week at Cuero’s H.E.B.
Golden Indian Bread le a dis-
tinctive loaf of bread, unspoiled
by preservatives, naturally pro-
cessed to retain the flavor and
value of the choice blend of
American grains and meals, un-
bleached enriched spring wheat
flour, stone ground whole wheat
flour , com, rye and flax-
seed meals, wheat grits and
toasted soy bits combined with
pure vegetable shortening and
brown sugar to let the rich nut-
ty flavor of the grain come
through.
A notable part of the Golden
Indian Bread tradition is its con-
tribution to the American peo-
ple. Directed by the all-Indian
panel of the Golden Indian
Bread foundation, a portion of
the proceeds from every loaf
of Golden Indian Bread you buy
directly benefits the Indian peo-
ple.
H.E.B. has exclusive rights In
Texas to this bread, from the
Golden Indian Bread Company
in Denver.
Local H.E.B. manager. Bill
Kuester indicated that the In-
troduction sales of this new
bread has been fantastic and
H.E.B.'s bakery has been work-
ing around the clock to fill or-
ders.
Help Wanted
Volunteers are still needed in planning the
various events in connection with the Cuero
Centennial and Turkey Trot scheduled for
October 20 through 23 according to Murray
Tarkington, Co-Chairman of the Executive
committee.
If you have not already been contacted or
have not had the opportunity to volunteer
your services you may do so by contacting ona
of the committee chairmen. If you have a pre-
ference rest assured that your services will be
used In that area.
The committees and their chairmen are:
Downtown Mall, Howard Bennett; Home
Tours, Frank Sheppard; Publicity, C. L. Duc-
kett; Finance and Budget, Charles Riebschlae-
ger; Parade, Mike Weber; Coronation and
Pageant, Betty Henneke and Junior Corona-
tion, Merle Bramlette.
The permanent office of the Cuero Centen-
nial Turkey Trot Association Is scheduled to
open at 212 N. Gonzales on March 15. In
charge of the office will be Paula High and
Adele Lucas. All activities concerning the cele-
bration will be coordinated from this office.
‘‘Everyone will be given the opportunity to
help in any way possible and no one will be
turned away,” said co-chairman Tarkington.
Old Timers Baseball
Group Slates Reunion
South-Central Texas’ Old
Timers’ Baseball Association
will hold its annual reunion this
coming Sunday, March 12 at
Blase’s Place on Highway 90A
between Hallettsville and
Shiner.
Festivities will get under way
at 1 p.m. with a guest speaker
and a late evening barbecue.
The highlight of the reunion will
be the induction ceremony dur-
ing which time some 83 players
of the past will be inducted into
the Hall of Fame.
Those wishing to attend may
purchase tickets from Henry
Wood, Elmer Luddeke or Jim
Crain.
Those from Cuero receiving
Hall of Fame Certificates will
be Newton Crain, Jack Hower-
ton, Albert Harper, Sr., Walter
(Bully) Wagner, Walter New-
man, Jess Newman, U. L.
Rusche, and Hfcnry Wood.
From the Yorktown communi-
ty are Jesse Devcreaux, Joe
(See Old-Timers. Page Id)
Girl Escapes
Death In Crash
By LOUIS CAMELS
United Press International
The doctor shortage is serious
and has rightly received a lot
of attention.
But there’s an ever bigger
Shortage of nurses, which you
don't hear so much about.
The Division of Nursing of
(he National Institutes of
Health estimate that America
Seeds a minimum of 880,000
regiatered nurses right now to
staff hospitals, clinics. Public
health facilities, convaleMSBt
bimes and other institutions.
Ry nr*""11'’ have only 723,000
R.Oi.'which leaves a shortage
shortage.
Moreover, if we had more by
norm, they could relieve the
doctor slwrtajse by taking met
some .jobs such as pediatric
care and midwifery now done
mostly by M.D.S.
| To • ^
Iff jgooci
putting some real money Into a
solution of this problem.
The 1971 Nurse Training act,
which slid through Congress
with little publicity during the
closing weeks of the last ses-
sion, authorizes an outlay of
$855 million during the next
three years to expand nursing
schools and provide more fin-
ancial aid for girls or boys who
wish to attend them.
It’s important to add, "or
boys,” because die new law con-
tains a clause specifically pro-
hibiting sex discrimination
against males In this traditkm-
of 157,000 That’s three time* ally female profession.
the Size o1 the estimated doctor* V The objective of the program
Is to end the nursing shenage
1974, but that’s probably
Jftoptan. Even cutting it in- half
would be a monumental contri-
bution to improvement of health
care in America.
Here are some of the things
the government will do under
toe new law to
training;
—Pay up to 75 per cent of the
cost of new or enlarged build-
ings far schools of nursing.
—Make emergency bail-out
grants to existing nursing
schools that are ‘‘in serious
financial distress.”
—Provide "start-up” grants
of up to $100,000 per year for
new nursing schools.
—Encourage nursing schools
to expand their enrollment by
paying them annual subsidies
ranging from $250 to $900 per
student
—Provide more scholarships
and loans for student nurses.
The maximum scholarship
would be $2,000 a year. Those
who don't qualify tor scholar-
ships can get loans of up to
$2,500 a year, with toe provi-
sion that up to 85 per cent of
the loan will be cancelled if the
nurse after graduation works at
least 5 years in a public or non-
profit private institution, or 3
Bobtail Cow Has
2 Bobtail Calves
Ruth Ann Goebel, 17, a stu-
dent at Cuero High School, nar-
rowly escaped death when her
car flipped over and landed on
its top on the Arneckeville Road
(FM 236) today at 7:20 a.m.
Miss Goebel was taken by an
Oak Memorial ambulance to
Cuero Community Hospital
where she was treated and re-
leased. Miss Gobel’s address is
Route 4, Box 119, Cuero.
The accident happened about
.8 mile southeast of Cuero, ac-
cording to Texas Highway Pat-
rolman Robert Dobbins.
Miss Goebel, driving a 1971
model car was euroute to Cue-
ro, traveling northwest on FM
236. Her car went into a skid
on wet pavement in a curve,
and she lost control, Dobbins
said. Her car flipped over land-
ing on its top with its wheels
in the air, in a barrow ditch,
he added.
159 Entries
In T wo-Day
Exhibition
The Cuero Livestock Show wiM
open Thursday, March 9. and
continue through Friday, March
10 at the exhibition buildings
in Municipal Park, according to
Charles Reibschlapger, presi-
dent. The 4-H Clubs and The
Future Farmers of America
iFFA) have 159 entries m the
show.
Entries wdW be checked in be-
ginning at 7 a.m. Thursday, ac-
cording to DeWitt County Agent
Orvai Wright.
At 1 p.m. Thursday, sifting
will begin, Wright said.
At 2 p.m. Thursday, market
broilers will be judged.
Friday, 8 a m., market hogs
wil Ibe judged
At 9 a.m. Friday, market
Iambs will he judged, Wright
stated.
The judging of steers will take
place at 10:30 a m. he added.
At 11:30 a.m. Friday, judging
of the breeding classes, beef,
dairy, and sheep.
The auction sale of the pre-
mium livestock wilt be held Fri-
day at 8:00 p.m,, Wright pointed
out.
The judges of the show are
as follows:
Tom Woodward of Texas Aif-M
University, sheep, swore, and
beef; Frank Stockton. Genzates
County Agent, broilers: Edward
Migtira. Bastrop County Agent,
dairy; Don Brandenherger of
Cuero, showmanship: J i m
Springs of Cuero. good house-
keeping: Harvey Hoennan. Re-
fugio County Agent and Vernon
Bippert, Wilson County Agent,
sifting.
Officials of the show are as
follows: Mike Herrington, ge-
neral superintendent: Lem Du-
derstadt. Jr. in charge of beef;
Edwin Nagel in charge of swine;
Louis Dreier is the supervisor
of dairy rattle; J. S. McCurdy,
overseer of sheep; Arlpn Goe-
bel in charge of broilers; Dave
Weber, chairman of the resale
committee; and Roy Parker,
weigher.
The auction will be under the
supervision of Riebschiaeger,
Paul Lucas, and Bob Bishop.
Among the commercial firms
and organizations who will have
exhibits at the two-day show
are: Hansen Feed & Seed Co.,
Montgomery-Ward, Retail Mer-
chants Association of the Cuero
Chamber of Commerce. Guada-
lupe-Bianco River Authority, Ve-
terans of Foreign Wars, Live-
stock Breeding Service, Duckett
Motor Go., Weber Motor Co., and
I-eske Motor Co., the Cuero Art
Guild. Friends of the Library,
and toe Alpha Sigma Phi Sorori-
ty.
As customary, the Guero Art
Guild will hold an exhibition dur-
(See Entries. Page 16$
A bobtail cow owned by J. D.
Neyland of Westhoff has two
bobtail calves.
Several year* ago, Mrs. Ney-
land was hauling a heifer calf
in a trailer and her tail got out
off, so they called her ‘‘Bobbie’’.
The Neylands decided to keep
her and the second calf she
had was bom with a regular
tail but a abort tone later, part
cf it withered and died, and
dropped off.
The third calf that ‘‘Bobbie’’
had also was born with a normal
tall but it soon withered and
dropped off, leaving Mm with a
Teacher Uses Puzzles
For Class Instruction
i bobtails
like their mother, NeyfciBd said,
and he can prove it
arc all living cm Ms ranch.
Primaries Cannot Be
Funded By The State
AUSTIN UPI — The Texas
Supreme Court ruled today B»t
the state cannot
marv elections without prior ap-
proval of the legislature.
to pay
Calvert
an the
The decision apparently means
Gov. Preston Smith will have
to call the legislature into spe-
By ROBERT SHEPARD
SALEM, Ore. UPI - Ninth
grade world geography teacher
Bruce Boatman was once one
at those people who never work-
ed a crossword puzzle to com-
pletion. Now he not only works
them, but creates his own puz-
zles for use as classroom teach-
ing tools.
Boatman, a teacher at Salen's
parrish Junior High School, says
be got the Idea for using cross-
word puzzles while attending a
summer program at toe Univer-
sity of Florida. Teachers taking
part in the program were con-
stantly being told to “try some-
thing new.” he says.
That suggestion plus some
Vie led to
and Is developing a game which
he hopes will help students learn
toe relation between U. S. his-
tory and the stock market
His geography crossword puz-
zles are based an key words the
students are expected to learn
from the particular unit they
are studying. For a unit on is-
lands, the puzzle clues will in-
volve such things as location,
ownership, or historical or cur-
rent events related to the island.
To complete a puzzle tor a
mountain ranges study unit toe
students have to know the de-
ference between a hill, a knoll
or a mountain, in additoB ftl
names and locations.
Boatman also throws in a few
when needed as fillers. He tries
to make them “educational” al-
so and may use words from
other fields such aa science,
math or English.
The puzzles are worked on dun.
ing class and toe students are
allowed to use whatever refer-
ence materials are in the room.
The problem is In the prepa-
ration. Boatman said It takes
Mm anywhere from 50 to 100
hours to make up one of the
puzzles.
Boatman's prize project now
is Ms history - stock market
game. With tt he hopes to teach
his students the connection be-
tween the nation’s historical »-
m
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