Local Groups Gather Aid for Gale Victims
Groups across the area collect aid for Hurricane Celia victims in Corpus Christi Aransas Pass Port Aransas Rockport. Cuero unit Company C 141st Infantry remains on duty with no release time.
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Corpus Christi
Aransas Pass
Port Aransas
Rockport
Cuero
National Guard
141St Inf
Explorer
Police Department
LeRoy Hamilton
DeWitt County Red Cross
Victoria
Calhoun
Goliad
Yorktown
Nordheim
Westhoff
Beulah
Navy Bean Recipe Shared By Del Rio Visitor
A Del Rio visitor Mr E M Scurlock shared a baked navy bean recipe in Cuero. He claims the Navy recipe is not his and offers boiled beans with mustard ketchup brown sugar molasses salt pepper baked with bacon until crisp for a tasty dish.
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Someboy
Navy
del Rio
Cuero
E. M. Scurlock
Rotary Club Hears Draft System Talk
Joe Reuss of the DeWitt Goliad County Selective Service Board spoke at the Rotary Club about the draft system. He said 7 059 people are registered with the board and more than 4 000 have served or are past draft age, with many failing mental tests or disqualified for physical defects. He noted repeated physicals may occur and introduced by program chairman Dewey Henderson.
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Joe Reuss
Rotary Club
Reuss
DeWitt-Goliad County
Selective Service Board
Dewey Henderson
City Council Sets Public Hearings On Rates And Budget
The Cuero City Council ordered public hearings on a proposed Southwestern Bell rate increase and the 1970 71 city budget for September 2 at 5 45 p m The council also asked for two appraisals of the Crescent Valley Creamery property for a federal grant use and Library relocation plans.
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Southwestern Bell Telephone
Cuero
Yoakum
Yorktown
Nordheim
Wil Cockrell
Telephone Company
Hugo Geck
Geck
Westhoff
Thomaston
Cock- Tell
Crescent Valley
Courthouse
Terry Streets
Hurricane Celia Wrecks Gulf Coast Newsprint Capacity
Storm damage from Hurricane Celia disrupted Gulf Coast newspapers. Corpus Christi Caller Times lost their warehouse and $250000 in print stock, missing Tuesday editions and printing new copies in San Antonio Express plant. Robstown Record and Port Lavaca Wave shifted printing to Kingsville, while Taft Aransas Pass Mathis areas suffered power and communications outages.
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Gulf Coast Area
Texas Press Association
Aransas Pass
Taft
Robstown
Mathis
Corpus Christi
San Antonio Express
Caller-Times
Kingsville
Port Lavaca
Linton Enteprise
Refugio County
Carter Snooks
Church Plans Flag Ceremony at First United Methodist
A flag dedication will be held during the Sunday morning service at First United Methodist Church. Flags and stands donated in memory of John M. Johnson by Mrs. Johnson and her son Kenneth Johnson and Eugenia Logue of Houston. Boy Scouts Troop 241 will participate in the ceremony.
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First United Methodist Church
John M. Johnson
Johnson
Kenneth Johnson
Eugenia Logue
Houston
Boy Scouts of
Troop 241
Judge Green Describes Corpus Christi Storm Hardship
Corpus Christi judge Howard P. Green and his wife shelter in Cuero as Corpus Christi endures a storm blackout. He reports widespread damage, curfew and National Guard enforcement, looting concerns, disrupted utilities, and scarce fuel and water.
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Howard P. Green
Corpus Christi
Cuero
VEW Post Party Slated Tomorrow
A VFW Post 3972 membership barbecue is set for 7 p.m. at Cuero Municipal Park with a social hour 6 to 7. About 300 guests, past and auxiliary members and families, are invited. A dance after the barbecue from 8 p.m. to midnight at the NYA building features the Music Ramblers of Moulton.
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VFW Post
Cuero Municipal Park
NYA
Music Ramblers of
Moulton
Coastal Bend faces massive losses from Celia hurricane
A two day on the spot survey led by District Agricultural Agent J D Selman Jr finds heavy damage across the Coastal Bend with losses nearing half a billion dollars. Texas Crop losses include cotton and grain damage and farm real estate destruction. The 12 South Texas counties designated as a major disaster area unlock federal funds for housing unemployment relief and infrastructure repairs.
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Celia
Corpus Christi
Winter Garden
Mexico
J. D. Selman Jr
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Selman
Texas A&m University Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Weslaco
Jim Wells
Karnes
Live Oak
McMuillen
Nueces
Refugio
San Patricio
Wilson
Aransas
Texas Agriculture
John C. White
Coastal Bend
White
Dan Pawlik
City Defends Suit Over Suppressed Evidence in Baker Case
Arthur Baker sues the City of Cuero and Officer Willard Worthington for 250000 in DeWitt County alleging illegal search and seizure and suppression of evidence leading to Baker’s murder conviction. He claims Worthington arrived early, watched abuse, and failed to disclose witnesses and seized items without a warrant.
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Cuero
Willard Worthington
Arthur Baker
Baker
Texas State Department of Corrections
DeWitt County
Worthington
Texas
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Calvary Baptist Church
Jerard Thornton
Ruby Rogers
Bayside
Corpus Chris
Rev
Thornton
Albert Johnson
Rev. Thornton
Evelyn Riebschlaeger
J. Riebschlaeger
Kiecka Drug Co
Center Pharmacy
Palm Harbor
Riebschlaeger
D. L. Prentice
Tex
Judge Green
By Jeanie Blalock
Green
Central Power and Light Company
Jack Blackman
Blackman
VEW
Fagle Pass
City
Baker Action
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