Paving Program Near Completion Town unveils final blocks paved this year
City completes paving on Hunt Street and Hill Street between Morgan and Newman, with one coat left on Hunt. Street crews plan major repairs and seal coatings, including Gonzales repaving for a new water main. The 45-block program focused south of town. next year will add more paving and a storm sewer from Hunt to Valley. DeWitt County Drainage District No. 1 contributed 15 000 to drainage work easing floods near Hunt School. Hollywood update notes Art Carney returns in Valentines Day at Universal.
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Hunt Street
Hill Street
Morgan
Newman
Wil Cockrell
Hunt
Cockrell
Gonzales
Indianola
West Newman
Screwworm threat rises after Celia in South Texas
Lowy Tus Hurricane Celia increases moisture and warmth, boosting screwworm breeding in South Texas. Two new Texas cases this week bring the year total to nine. Texas leads with 78 cases nationwide. Mission Screwworm Program urges sample collection, larva mail, and preturnment wound treatment and herd spraying on ranches.
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Texas
Brewster
New Mexico
Luna
Grant
U. S
Arizona
California
Mission Screwworm Proram
Mission Screwworm Laboratory
Mission
I Am Legend Movie at Warner Bros Producing
Hollywood reports Walter Seltzer will produce the science fiction film I Am Legend at Warner Bros based on the idea of the last man on earth with a likely major market impact and star appeal.
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Hollywood
I Am Legend
Walter Seltzer
Warner Bros
Yoakum Schools Set 1176 Enrollment For 1970 71 Year
Supt Harold Knape announced Yoakum school system will enroll about 1176 students for the 1970 71 year. The four schools open Aug 21 at 9 00 a.m. with buses returning at 11 00 a.m. First day Aug 24 begins ensuring cafeteria service.
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Yoakum
Harold Khape
Supt
Knape
Yoankuin
West Grand Ave
Carl D. Snyder
Yoakum Intermediate
Yoakum Junior High
Harvey Schneider
Melvin Borchert
St. Joseph
Tomorrow Bicycle Drawing At Rialto Theatre
Yesterday's event invites children to the last free Coke show of the season at the Rialto Theatre with a bicycle drawing for a Western Flyer. Tickets on hand via the Western Auto Store provide eligibility, and Rialto Manager Henry Cox thanks attendees and a local bottling firm for support.
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Rialto Theatre
Western Auto Store
Rial
Henry Cox
Witnesses Return From SA District Convention
Jehovahs Witnesses from Cuero and Yoakum area returned home refreshed after three days of study and memories of delegates who survived Hurricane Celia. Howard R. Hodge said 268 new ministers were publicly ordained, delegates from 90 congregations attended with Central America representation. Blasco Muscariello urged that God will establish a righteous government on earth ending injustice, war and death, with Jesus Christ as the ruler.
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Jehovah's Witnesses
Cuero
Yoakum
San Antonio
Celia
Howard R. Hodge
Corpus Christi
Central America
Blasco Musccariello
Muscariello
New York
Jesus Christ
Cuero High School Outlines 1970 Dress and Grooming Rules
Cuero High School Principal Bill Cooper announces guidelines for the 1970 71 school year detailing student dress and grooming. Girls should wear modest skirts, avoid pant-suits and bare midriffs, and refrain from hair in curlers. Boys must be clean shaven with conservative haircuts not extending beyond collar or ears. Sleeveless shirts and slogan tees discouraged. shirts buttoned to collar and socks worn. The article emphasizes maintaining a well groomed, respectful campus climate praised by Dr. Paul Hensarling and others.
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Cuero High School
Bill Cooper
Paul Hensaring
Southern Association
Cuero
Cuero High
Dr. Hensarling
Hensarling
Death claims ex publisher from Cuero
Vachel Weldon Crisp 73 former Cuero resident and longtime editor of The Cuero Daily Star died Tuesday August 11 in Seagoville after a Dallas life of 40 years and a decade in Seagoville survivors include wife brother and three sisters funeral at Calvary Hill Dallas with burial there in Dallas Calvary Hill Cemetery
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Vachel Weldon Crisp
Cuero
A. S. Crisp
Cuero Daily Star
Seagoville
Star
The
Record
Crisp
Dallas
Youth Reporter to Cover Texas Youth Conference at Legion Meeting
Miss Becky Newsome of Cuero High School will report on the Texas Youth Conference at tomorrow night's American Legion Winter Post 3 gathering. A supper is served at 7 90 p.m. and the business meeting follows at o o'clock, per Commander Calvin Webb.
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Becky Newsome
Cuero High School
Texas
American Legion
Calvin ‘Pete’ Webb
Red Cross Drive Appeals for Hurricane Celia Aid
DeWitt County Red Cross chairman LeRoy Hamilton urges donations for the Celia disaster relief. He states DeWitt's share of a four county target of 6000 dollars within a statewide drive to raise six million dollars led by former Gov. John Connally. He notes funds go to the disaster area and not elsewhere.
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LeRoy Hamilton
DeWitt County Red Cross
DeWitt County
Hamilton
Texas
John Connally
VFW Post 3972 Initiates Three New Members
Three new members joined VFW Post 3972 at Thursday’s meeting: David G. Buenger Disidoro Garza and Edmund R. Tieken. Post membership stands at 107 of 1971 with a goal of 211. A $75 donation aids Hurricane CelA victims for baby supplies delivered to the Ingle side VFW post. Wilfred Peters reports on the membership barbecue and dance while Mary Ann Bomba prepares youth conference notes for the August 27 meeting.
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VFW Post
David G. Buenger
Disidoro Garza
Edmund R. Tieken
Post
Ingleside
Wilfred Peters
Mary Ann Bomba
Seguin
Miss Bomba
Cuero High School
Hess Fund Receives Fresh International Donations
Sixty six dollars and 60 cents were added to the Jerry Hess Fund Friday with gifts from Germany and Yorktown. Mrs. Raleigh Coppedge sent five dollars from Germany where she and Captain Coppedge live, praising Cuero’s fundraising. Yorktown contributors include Gertrude Lundschin ten dollars and other locals, totaling funds to support 12-year-old Jerry Hess of Stratton Route for a kidney transplant operation deemed necessary.
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Raleigh Coppedge
Germany
Captain Coppedge
Jerry Hess
Cuero Record
Cuero
Vicki
Yorktown Jaycees
Lee Roy Griffin
Yorkwowe News
Nive
Yorktown
Gertrude Lundschin
Victor
Helen) Jendrzey, Sr
Verda Mae Podsim
Jean Gohmert
John Koledine Jczyk
Fiona Day Rose
Zoa Shows
Jaycnes
Buscher Bank and Trust
Farmers State Bank & Trust Co
Vernon Hess
Stratton Rte
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UPI
Art Carney
Doug McClure
Universal
Sacramento
Calif
Fem
Legion States Youth Report
RED Cross Drive
Hamton
Guero
Red Cross
VFW
Hess Fund
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