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Newspaper
Cuero Record
Location
Cuero, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1972
Page
3
Readers discuss gender verification in Olympic history, noting Budapest 1967 findings that five of eleven women champions had masculine traits. A new Munich test uses hair analysis to reveal chromosomal makeup while debates on hormone use and ethics persist.
Midco Construction Co. won curb and gutter work at 2.20 per linear foot with the city supplying grades and forms. Council will consider erecting a marker in City Park for former Governor Fletcher Stockdale and Gustave Schleicher who donated park land, costing 200 to 400 dollars if sponsored by the city.
Eight and was fined 200 dollars. James Wiley Pridgen received 10 days in jail with license suspension and a 200 dollar fine. Joseph Labron Gibbs was fined 100 dollars. Donald Eugene Brasher received 60 days in jail for possessing a dangerous drug. Elvin Wright was fined 50 dollars and 10 days in county jail with probation for one year.
South Vietnamese marines pressed the push toward Quang Tri with a captured bunker after days of heavy fighting. In a 10 hour battle they claimed 49 North Vietnamese casualties, while U S and Vietnamese forces suffered losses. Rockets hit Hue killing three government soldiers as jets attacked bunkers near the city.
The BLS reported July unemployment at 4.7 million and employment at 81.7 million after seasonal adjustment, with jobless rate at 5.5 percent for June and July. Unemployment rose in June due to student influx but fell 250,000 in July. average weekly earnings rose to 136.7 dollars, up 1.09, or 6.7 percent from a year earlier. Wood products led a 1.3 percent price rise.
Jim Vick is listed under admissions and Frank Cisneros under dismissals at Cuero Community Hospital. The note records personnel changes for the facility.
The Cuero City float publicizing the Centennial and Turkey Trot will enter the Schulenberg Festival parade Sunday at 11 a.m. Saralee Olson and Susan Davis will ride the float with George Olson driving the city car.
Quartermaster Charles Kilpatrick reports July additions to the Cuero post including new members W. H. Block O. A. Fikes P. R. Simmons of Cuero Floyd Doehrman of Meyersville and W. G. Edwards of Yoakum plus reinstatements John Culver and Curtis Lucas of Cuero The post is progressing toward its 1973 quota of 237 with about thirty percent filled.
Fulbright and others debate a five year freeze on ICBMs as the White House backs Sen. Jackson's reservations. The plan limits missiles to 100 per site and prompts talk of DC area deployment and equal force on both sides. Nixon must sign before it takes effect.
Funeral services were held Friday at Christ Episcopal Church in San Antonio for Edith Ratcliffe formerly of Cuero. Interment followed at Mission Burial Park. She lived at 324 E Ruisache and died Wednesday in a local hospital. Survivors include three daughters and nine grandchildren. She served on several boards including Cuero Cotton Mill director prior to sale. The piece also notes Michigan health trends with rising cigarette sales and taxes.
Dr W R Towery was elected a director for District 3 of the Texas Chiropractors Association at a San Antonio meeting on Sunday Also in Cuero Ann Towry attended the gathering Billy C Foster won top prize money in the fifth annual golf tournament at Municipal Golf Course on Sunday Five years ago Kathy Egg Miss Cuero 1967 rode in the Cuero parade float at the Austin Aqua Festival in Austin Dollie Nielsen and sister Mrs Yancy Grimes plan to return to Dallas Saturday Ann Koehler visits Dallas with Helen and Wag Bywaters
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