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A NEWSPAPER REFLECTS IT’S COMMUNITY”
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Of The
Fighting
Cuero
Gobblers
High School
Football
Triple "A"
Finalists
VOL. 77 NO. 70
Town Talk
B.V I>. L PRENTICE
Record Staff Writer
VA HOSPITAL, HOUSTON -
You folks who thought you were
rid of me for a while get a sur-
prise today — an extra column.
I checked In here thinking I
was due for five or six weeks'
treatment. But they already
have used two weeks just for
testing, mostly uncomfortable
testing.
I’m writing this Sunday, and
the doetnrs say they expect to
•tart my treatments this week.
They had to order a special
gadget of some sort to imbed in
the base of my tongue.
And they say the radiation
treatment will take about eight
weeks. They'll send me over to
Baylor Hospital or possibly
M. D. Anderson for the radia-
tion five days a week.
The radiation is supposed to
give you a stood cas- of sun-
burn, inside and out.
But the doctors say it will
do the job and that* what’s
Important to me.
This hospital is enormous fit’s
about a one-mile walk around
the main buildings*, I’m lucky
to be able to feel like walking.
Most of these patients are too
sick, one way or another, to
get around much.
And there’s a very good lib-
rary, which la what keeps me
sane as I’m a bookworm of
long Standing.
The hospital's facilities are
Vm best, and as I said, they
are thorough with their tests.
CUERO, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1971
16 PAGES — 10c
Gulf Coast Wood
Adds A Division
Intensive Lobby Precedes
Vote On Supersonic Plane
TWO OCIAN-COINO vessels, the 28,000-ton passenger liner Oronsay and the 35-
foot passenger rowboat Britannia II, meet under the Golden Gate Bridge in San
Francisco. The Oronsay is inbound from Australia. The Britannia II will be out-
bound for Australia April 2, with John Fairfax and Sylvia Cook at the oars.
WASHINGTON d!PI) The
Senate, its members subjected
to one of the most intensive
lobbying campaigns in memory,
decides today whether to con-
tinue government financing of
the controversial Supersonic;
Transport Plane SST.
The 100-member Senate ap-
peared split squarely down the j
middle in advance of the 4
faster-than-sound airliner were bert H. Humphrey.
President Nixon and his admi-j Gf a|J the fj0tPntial Dpmof.ra.
njstration, the aircraft industry'
and most of organized laty.r.; fac tand,da,es. Humphrey ap-
Lawrmee Stir! of N’ordheim
is an the same ward with me.
He’s due for surgery on a
throat cancer Friday.
I met Ms son Ernest, who Is
a pharmacy student at the
University of Houston with only
a couple at months to go.
What I really started to write
about h to thank the many,
many at you from Cbcro and
thereabout* (Including the en-
tire tteyoravUte 4-H dub. the
Oty Hall gang, the cuero Re-
cord crew and hosts of folks
some of whom I’ve never even
met! who have sent me their
prayers and good wishes.
It helps me a lot. and I’m
way too lazy to try to send in-
dividual ackmwie.tqemcnt*.
Ill he back as soon as I cm.
Small Possibility Of
Rain Exists ThJune 3rd
First checks to Inch
Bft«z V ’nl*«d WPw ■ ■ i *—*- —— — el —- a _
Environmentalists led the oppo-
sition.
'Hie Senate last session voted
against the SST, but later bow-
ed to House demands to con-
tinue the financing through
March. Last week the House re-
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j Operation
Underway
At Airport
A new div ision of Gulf Owist
Woods Products Inc. is now un-
derway at the old Brayton Air-
field C, P. Ernster. president
and general manager confirm-
ed today.
■ ,u|.|a. i ... fc,niii.ru i.inf! Tilt1 nrv di\ ision Modular
and AFL-CIO President George Components'" has leased two of
pea red the only one for whom
the decision was a tortuous one
- and with good reason He
has always banked heavily on
the support of organized labor
p.m. EST vote. Battling for the ! versed itself and voted to end
•-— governmental funding.
The ballot offered the leading
1972 Democratic presidential
contenders their first chance in
Increased
S.S. Checks
the large hangars with 85.000
square feet of floor spa. r at
the old Army training school
base two miles north of Otero.
By United Prtn International
Warm Gulf air stripped • cool
front deep in South Texa* early
today and began pushing back
to toe north spreading ekiuds
and promising rain in South and
Southeast Texas and warmer
temperatures throughout the
state.
Early morning readings rang-
ed from near freezing in toe
Panhandle to the tropical 70s
in far South Texas. Clouds built
up over the southern half of toe
state and were spreading north-
ward.
Ught drizzle fell Tuesdkqr
Houston and Galveston, as the
clouds began to form. Porta of
West Texas meanwhile reported
powerful winds kicking up scat-
tered dust storms.
Rain and snow spread ot«r
the western half of the nation
early today, while east of the
Rockies cold weather bit into
states as far south as South
Caroline
Gold rain fell in the Pacific
Northwest, turning to snow fur-
ther inland across the plateau,
central Rockies and plaina.
Heavy snow warnings were is-
sued for Wyoming and northern
Colorado and portions of west-
ern Nebraska with accumula-
tions of four inches expected.
Visibility was down to rear
aero at Sidney. Neb., because of
blowing snow and fog.
Snow flurries also dusted the
Great Lakes to the Applachians.
Overnight cold wave or frost
and freeze warnings were post-
ed in South Carolina and north-
ern Georgia.
The cold, however, avoided
southern Florida and- Texas.
Early morning temperatures
ranged from one degree above
zero at International Falls,
Minn., to 74 at Brownsville,
Tex.
Jaycec, 5 Ring Circus
Features Top Acts
Rural Housing Loans
Available Cooper Says
Residents of Cuero and Yoa-
kum are now eligible to apply
for Rural Housing Loans from
the Farmers Home Administra-
tion, County Supervisor Darrell
Cooper announced today.
Mr. Cooper said the law has
recently been changed to en-
able bis agency to make loans
in towns larger than the pre-
vious population limit of 5,500.
“Our total budget nationally
for housing purposes this year
is moil than >1.4 billion," Mr.
Cooper said. "Npxt year it will
go above 110 billion — triple
a minimum adequate si to on
which to build the home.
Houses for families with a tow
or moderate income must be
modest In size, design, and coat.
Ixmds average around 712,000
and vary in size depending on
the needs of the applicants.
New home* average about 1,200
square feet of living area.
To be eligible for a Rural
Housing Loan an applicant
must: <1> be without decent,
safe, and sanitary housing for
his own use; (2) be a natural:
The Carson A Barnes Five
Ring Wild Animal Circus is
coming to Cuero on Monday.
April 5 and will present two
performances at 4:30 p.m. and
8:00 p.m at the Cuero Rodeo
Ground!. The circus to being
sponsored by the Cuero Jay-
cees and proceeds from the
ticket sale will be used for
supporting toe Bluebonnet Boys
Housewarming
Planned For
Jerry Gartmans
The First United Methodist
Church will hold a housewarm-
ing and old fashioned pounding
for Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Gart-
man in the church parlors Sun-
day evening at 7 o ’clock.
Rev. Calvin Peterson made
this announcement today.
The affair will be preceded
with a brief prayer service led
Ranch.
Bigger and better than ever
this year, the Carson k Barnes
Circus is presenting an array
o# top notch circus arts from
all parts of the world. The per-
formance will be presented un-
der the world’s largest big top
and will include wild ano domes,
tic animal acts, ’clowns, acrial-
ists, acrobats, wirewalkers,
novelty acts, trained horses and
ponies, performing elephants
and many othrr exciting acts
for young and old. The circus
w a great American institution
and is the only form of 'mter-
tainment that has never been
censoaed down thru toe ages.
The Jaycee members have
advance tickets on sale and will
benefit the most by your buying
your circus tickets from their
members before circus day. The
proceeds from the Jaycees cir-
cus project will be used for
Bluebonnet Boys Ranch,
include the I
10 per cent monthly bene-!
fit increase authorized by Con-
gress Will reach 28 million soc-
ial security beneficiaries on •
June 3.
Robert M Ball, Commission-
er of Social Security, said that j
the regular June 3 checks cover-
ing benefits for the month of
May v ;11 reflect the new higher
monthly amount. Separate
checks, scheduled to reach
beneficiaries later in June will
cover toe amount of the in-
crease for toe months of Jan-
Meany has stumped long and
hard for the plane, and the
jobs its continuation represent-
ed,
Jackson had none of Hum- i has completed its test runs and
----------................— — phrey’s problems since he re- is now in business, Ernster
this session of Congress to \ote presents the state of Washing-, said.
on a ma jor and controversial. ton where Boeing Co. is build- The new division as the name
issue . Most of the potential ing the two prototypes whose implies will manufacture ready-
Democratic contenders already future was at stake built interior comimncnts for
were lined up against the SST j Already plagued by heavy tin- housing
But there were exceptions, in-, employment, Seattle faced the They will include kitchen un-
i hiding Sen. Henry M. Jack-; possibility of an even morej if*, hath units, stair rases,
son of Washington, the jetlin- drastic curtailment of jobs with-
er^ No. 1 booster, and possi-|out federal backing for the
bly former Vice President Hu-1 plane's development.
Jones Takes Stand
In Murder Trial
Victor M Jones, on trial in | sentence in the state peniten-
24th District Court for murder ' tiary.
of Willie Coleman, took toe • In ^ginning testimony Wed-
cn'Mnor nt n ion ms ot oan-j . . | nesday morning, Jones said
u#ry through Aprflr Bair Wednesday morning and i h d b Dlavimr dominoes
ohasfzrd that social securitv admitted shooting Coleman in | rtomj"ws
an incident at Huey Jonea Cafe ! 3L 3
in Yoakum June 4. 1970. < broke thP Rame
phasized that aocial security
beneficiaries do not need to get.
hi touch with a aocial security
office to get the checks. The
payments Will be mailed to
beneficiaries automatically.
It will take a little over one
month, Ball said, to re figure
the benefit amounts for all
beneficiaries, including the ad-
justment to take account of
eventi that have affected their
closet units and interior walls
All of these components will
he completely finished w-.th a!'
. plumbing, electrical fixtures
and electric wiring. They will
he delivered to building site*,
j by truck, ready to plug ir. and
install, Ernster said. Manufac-
turing will he on an assembly
; line basis.
The (iulf Coast Wood Pfn-
j ducts head said Modular Com-
ponents has orders to- '0
town house type ins do com.
ponents which m <t he do!
ed to a building site in Port
he Arthur by October of <itk -
It also holds letters •?! in'tot
bout three hours before Onleman for construction
of fip.o.
11-
Jones testified the shooting
occurred following a domino
game earlier in the evening
in which he and three other i
men were playing and which I
Coleman had broken up.
After breaking up the game i
oroxe me game up. He said
he had taken Coleman's place
: when he went to get a haircut
; He said Abraham. “Goat" Ellis
was collecting money for the
■ house during Coleman's ab-
sence.
Coleman was shot in thp neck
around 10 p.m that night. Me
in a dispute over payment ui , .. ...
j a nickel to the house, Jones * d,ed thrpp d iVS latpr- Dl'
individual benefit payments for ! salfl CW®W*n ,olf* him ar|d the
a particular month in the retro- j o^er players to get out.
—.- . - -- •— Coleman, 55, of Yoakum, was
employed
■■ a iibiui at as »v* pt v i axti * lA-XT nru
»" «* ■> — u>i’«-1 citizen; (31 be unable to finance; by Rev. A. C. Peterson of Bren-
toe figure for toe 1989 fiscal) the needed improvements with) ham. (toffee will be served to
pear. The need is pressing for j his own resources or with ere- * *" —u- -*•—1
Improved housing, and we are
moving rapidly to meet tha
Deed.’*
Rural Housing Loans are
made to enable families with
low or moderate incomes to
have a decent, safe, and sani-
tary house. Rural Housing
Loans may be used to build,
Improve, or repair homes and
related facilities. Loan funds
also may be used to buy an ex-
lsting house and lot or to buy
Could Not Take
It With Her
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UP!)
— Irene G Reed, a wfcfow,
wanted to go home to Portugal,
and she didn't want to leave
anything behird.
St she took some gasoline
and set fire to the 11-room
rooming house she owned,
“She said she started a little
fire because she did not want
anything left to come back to,”
•aid probation officer Vernon
V. Ferguson after Mrs. Reed,
33. pleaded guilty to an ars?n
charge. “She explained that she
did not know it wis a crime to
burn your own property.”
dlt from other sources, and (4)
have adequate and dependably
available Income to meet his
family living expenses, make
(See Housing Loans, Page l«)
all who attend.
The Gartmans lost most of
their personal belongings in a
fire which destroyed the home
•they occupied near Cuero Wed-
nesday, March 17.
Shirer To Hold Big
July 4th Celebration
The people of toe Shiner com-
munity are setting plans for a
! huge celebration to be held qn
| Sunday, July 4, 1971. This pro-
' miset to be an old fashioned
type of celebration with a pa-
rade, music, dancing, auction
food, refreshments of all kinds,
interesting booths, and an out-
door "Garden of Refreshments”
with a Bavarian band to fur-
nish music. The event will kick
off a parade at 10:30 a.m. and
will continue through the dayj
until midnight.
The purjoae of the celebration
is to raise money for the local
hospital, which is in need of re-
pairs and expansion. All or-
ganizations and civic groups
have joined hands to help make
this an event to suit all ages.
They are giving the best of
their entertainment abilities to
provide a place for a good en-
joyable celebration.
The food committee are mak-
ing plans for a dinner and sup-
per, to consist of country sau-
sage and famous Shiner Picnic
Stew, with all trimmings.
This appears to be a good
place to spend a safe and joy-
ous July 4th,
Eastern Star
Holds Buffet
A buffet supper held Tuesday
evening by the Eastern Star
honored all past Worthy Mat-
rons and past Worthy Patrons
at the Masonic Hall.
Twenty past Worthy Matrons
and Worthy Patrons were a-
mong the thirty-five in- atten-
dance. Also present were Mrs.
Lias Steen and Charles Kilpat-
rick, current Worthy Matron
and Worthy Patron.
Out of town guests attended
from Galveston, Kountze, Aus-
tin and Blanco.
The regular meeting was
held and a social hour follow-
ed. Mrs. Henry Wood was in
charge of the aocial.
PHILIPPINE TOURISM
MANILA (UPI) _ A total of
66,019 tourists visited the Philip-
pines in the first six months of
1970, according to the Board of
Tourist and Travel Industry
Officials said the total repre-
sented a 13.37 per cent Increase
over the first half of 1969.
CAUGHT BY TV
DETROIT (UPI) - One of
Detroit’s more luxurious East
Side apartment dwellings re-
cently installed a television
camera in its lobby as a securi-
ty measure with a hookup to
each tenant's TV set.
But it seems one young wo-
man resident viewed her fiance
entering the building with ano-
ther woman, with “two cham-
pagne glasses and a bottle,”
and immediately broke their
engagement.
active period. Over 2.5 million
such adjustments are required
in a typical month, he said,
for such reasons as the death
of a beneficiary, the remarri-
age of a widow, a child's at-
tainment of age 18, etc. The
refiguring of benefit amounts
is being scheduled so as to
avoid delay in the regular de-
livery of the April 3 and May
3 checks, he said. Those checks
will be for the amounts payable
to beneficiaries before enact-
ment of the 10 per cent in-
crease.
By the first of May, the new
records will have been produc-
ed by the computers on mag-
netic tapes showing the new
monthly amount of each bene-
ficiary and the amount of his
retroactive increase. The Treas-
ury Department will need the
month of May to print the
checks and turn them over to
the Post Office Department for
delivery to social security bene-
ficiaries on June 3.
. „ at the establishment,
and was responsible for collect-
ing money lost by players in
the domino games.
Jones said after the game
broke up he went to the bar,
David Watson of Yoakum said
Coleman's death was a result
of the gunshot wound.
In testimony Tuesday after-
noon, state witnesses claimed
Coleman was shot after Jones
refused to pay him a nickel he
lost in a domino game.
W. S. Brown, radio dispatcher
I for the Yoakum Police Depart-
units to hr cons true'nri
fhr nr.vt yrar
All kite hrn rahinr'K. h , .
inots and doors used in M
Components units will 'b>
tic clad and mar ifnrhr'->d >
(Iulf Coast Wood Prr>du< ts !V> ,
Division plant also located hr- >
in Cur no.
Modular Components is u •
der contract with Zap,v i Fn-
(Se^ fitilf ('oast Wood. Pace tfi)
Meyersville
Tax Bill
Is Approved
spoke to his wife, and then an- ! F \'K ™“*u,n .*Jc^aF I Al?STIN Swwtor F-' ■
swered a telephone call. After "F ' u ? Cam<> ° the I ma" ,nrt;n' Passpd
answering the call at a phone i S,atM" ** was on du,-v ! N'°' «•’ h' R-'Presen. die-
j around 10:05 p.m. that night. Von Dohlcn. This N!1 wa
r i
IV!
booth in the bar. Jones testified
he re-entered the back room to
use the restroom.
Upon re-entering the back
room Jones said Coleman, who ■
was standing in the room with
a broom in his hand said, “I)
thought I told you to stay out.” i
Jones said Coleman drew back;
his hand with thp broom in it.
When confronted by Coleman,
Jones said he stepped back-
wards into some cans lined
against the wall and as Cole-
man advanced he shot him with
V pistol he ha<J in his pocket.
Jones said he was afraid .of
Coleman whom he said, had
reputation for being touchy.
Paul Hahn Is
Honored For
Sales Record
He also said Coleman had
once told him he’d been involv-
ed in a murder in Corpus Chris-
ti in 1952.
The defense introduced into
“He was standing there with
a gun in the palm of his hand.
He asked me to take the gun
and lock him up, said he'd just,
shot a man at Jones' Domino
(See Jones Trial, Page IS)
Parks Home fro
Cosfr Over $18,000
i
The Sterling Parks’ called
] The Record Wednesday morn-
! ing to report the home they are
! erecting at 805 W. Johnson
j Street will cost in excess of
*18.000.
| The *18,000 figure published
by the Record Tuesday was
from a building permit issued
at City Hall.
Mrs. Parks failed to reveal
reived h\ the Senate Mhivlcv
morning, referred io t;,e Com-
mittee on Education, but re-
referred, on motion by Senator
Patman, to the Committee on
Counties. Districts and Urban
Affairs in order that a floor re-
tort could bp obtained, and the
bill pxpff1 ed.
The bib was reported to the
Senate from a committee on
Monday.
It is a Joan bill affecting the
Meyersville Common School
District and (he Westhoff Rural
High School District of the De-
Witt, Goliad and Victoria Coun-
| Coleman by a Grand Jury in
HOUSTON, Tex. — Paul Hahn j 1952, in a judgment returned,
of Weber Motor Co., Cuero. was j Coleman pleaded guilty, was
exhibit an indictment of murder | to,al P°*sible
with malice returned against ! * h°mP W1" uatK,n u'
an
lot)
in
ty areas. The bui pprmits
additional tax of *2.00 on
valuation of taxable property
each district. This additional
tax, when added to the present
maximum of $1.50, will raise the
total possible tax per *100 val-
arraigned, found guilty of mur-
der and was' given a five-year
- ■ - Sproul Promoted
- JSSTTSC'To Ronk of M°l-
honored for an outstanding sal-
es performance during 1970 at
a banquet in Houston. Saturday,
March 20.
D. M. Schultz, Houston dis-
trict sales manager, said a se-
lect number
salesmen was presented _____
500 Club membership award for.
“excellent retail sales 'perfor-
mance. The Ford 300-500 Club Parks of Cuero has been pro-
was founded in 1950 to recog- moted to the rank of major
mre the performance of out- her parents Mr. and Mrs. Ster-
standmg Ford salesmen ling Parks have been informed,
throughout the country. i Capt. Sproul has also recefv-
Mr. Bchultz said toe average ed the Air Medal for merito-
300-*f Club member sold near- nous service in Vietnam,
ly *500,OOP worth of automotive The Sprouts have four ehiid-
merchandiae in ’970 to qualify! ren and now Mve in Dover,
for he national i.onor | Delaware.
Mary Fanett Wheeler
Gets Ph. D. From Rice
of toe Am-
Cap#. Lawrence Sproul, hus-
band of the former
Houston, daughter of Mrs. Ma-
ry Fanett, prim ipal of John C.
French School, completed her
work for her Ph D degree on
j Friday, March 19, in Houston.
Mrs. Wheeler is the second
woman to earn her Ph D in
mathematics from Rice Uni-
versity. (The first was in 19-
25).
Mrs. Wheeler will be visiting
her mother in Cuero tote week
jjfar*.1io4** where
*he will deliver a .to rmnute ad
erican Mathematical Society
and guests from various parts
of the world on the significance
of her dissertation. She will be
introduced by Dr. Jim Doug-
las, Jr. of Chicago University,
formerly of Houston.
Mrs. Wheeier s husband. John
A. Wheeler, is a chemical re-
seareh engineer with the Hum-
We Co. in Houston. They have
one child, 3-year oM Mary
wha win be vtelting
her at *.
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