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Newspaper
Cuero Record
Location
Cuero, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1971
Page
1
A rambling column thanks Irvin Maxey for cigarettes at bingo. It shares anecdotes of married life, bread ends, and regrets, plus portraits of local personalities and a caution to watch children driving. It ends with a tale of two rivals, Big Bill and Little Bill, and long friendship.
The Pilot Club of Cuero sponsors a Law Day poster contest for students at St. Michael's Catholic School John C French Daule Hunt Elementary and Junior High Schools. Entries due April 29 with judging April 30 and winners announced May 1. Awards given at each campus next week with first second and third places. Theme I play By The Rules. Winning posters exhibited downtown afterward.
Robert D. Lee of San Antonio Goodwill Industries, a double amputee from Cuero who lost both hands in 1966, has been chosen as National Goodwill Worker of the Year. He began as a sales trainee in 1970 and became director of sales later that year. He will attend National Goodwill Week events in Washington and the National Awards Banquet in Milwaukee.
Forty seven Model A antique cars join Alamo A's of San Antonio and Houston A's Club members in Cuero for a weekend tour. They visit Bert Kirk Jr. at the Sands Motel and stop at Hillside Cemetery, the American Legion Civic Center, nursing homes in Cuero Yoakum and Shiner, Spoetzl Brewery, and a Legion Center supper. James R. Kormanik notes San Antonio group outnumbers Houston group 22 to 17.
Meyersville 4 H Club hosted its annual Buyer Appreciation Supper with home cooked displays. Fred Mueller gave the invocation, Dianna Diebel led the gathering, and Wanda Diebel shared four H news noting her scholarship for a Washington D C trip to attend the National Citizenship Short course and Tour. Chris Doehrman thanked buyers of animals from the Cuero Livestock Show.
The Texas Poll reports that Texas motorists prefer keeping uniform rates under the State Board of Insurance. Half favor the status quo while 30 percent support allowing each company to set its own rates in competition.
The Cuero Scouts receive a Freedoms Award as state leaders weigh a 1972 73 budget. Governor warns taxes may rise as Texas studies general appropriation bills. He aims to limit the tax bill by curbing welfare and education spending despite calls for larger programs.
Troop 243 BSA received the Freedoms Foundation George Washington Honor Medal and a $100 cash award at the Emerald Room of the Shamrock Hilton in Houston. Ninety scouts and seventeen parents attended the ceremony, with recognition for citizenship actions such as flagpole projects, color guards, and community cleanup. The troop donated the cash to banquet tickets and was supported by Cuero civic groups.
Daylight saving time resumes on Sunday with clocks moved forward one hour at 2 a m in most states. Arizona Hawaii Michigan and Indiana retain standard time by state action under the Uniform Time Act of 1966. The lost hour is soon recovered on October 31 when clocks revert.
Local banks across Cueros and surrounding towns report significant increases in deposits for April 1971 compared with April 1970. Buchel Bank & Trust rose to $11,273,274. Farmers State Bank & Trust $7,602,909. Yorktown two banks total $12,345,367. First National Bank Yorktown $7,986,998. Yorktown Community Banks $4,358,369. Nordheim First National $1,167,500. Westhoff Home State $773,795. Yoakum banks combined $18,408,718.
Victor M. Jones, 57, of Yoakum, received a five year Texas Department of Corrections sentence after a DeWitt County grand jury found him guilty of murder without malice in 24th District Court. The shooting victim was Willie Coleman, 50, also of Yoakum, who died three days after the June 4, 970 incident. A separate hearing on a motion to suppress evidence in Norman Powell’s marijuana case was held with no decision reached.
Selective Service local Cuero office announces new hours effective May 3. The office will open 8 to 1 on Monday to Wednesday and 1 to 5 p.m. Thursdays. Executive secretary is Betty Henneke.
At the DeWitt Lavaca League of Vocational Nurses meeting at Stevens Nursing Home in Hallettsville, Mrs. Chris Kilpatrick was named Nurse of the Year. She advances to compete with other candidates from state societies, with the state convention in June 1971 in Beaumont, Texas. Kilpatrick works at Cuero Community Hospital and trained as LVN in 1966 at Cuero Hospital Foundation.
Mrs Hubert Laake of the Fred Hansen place one mile east of Cuero visited the Record office Friday to display three garden onions weighing 4 pounds 8 ounces. The onions were planted November 1 and reflect her varied vegetable growing in the garden.
Seventy five persons attended a dinner honoring Cuero Masonic Lodge members and their wives at the Masonic lodge Thursday evening. The Cuero chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star hosted the event with Worthy Patron Charles Kilpatrick giving the invocation. Kilpatrick praised the Eastern Star ladies for a job well done. The next Cuero Eastern Star meeting is set for Tuesday April 27 at 7 p.m. at the Masonic lodge with officers to be elected.
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