Wide blackout hits Victoria area caused by dragline fault
A large power outage struck Victoria and surrounding Cuero area as a dragline knocked out a major line at 5:40 p.m. Central Power and Light lines carried power while Cuero switched to alternate routes. Moored transformers failed briefly and many services resumed within minutes.
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Cuero
Victoria
Charley Coker
Second Street
Morgan
Hamilton
Coker
Central Power and Light
Lower
Colorado River Authority
Austin
Cp&l
DeWitt County Electric
Cuero Youth Injured in Broadway Henry Collision
Ronnie Stratton age 17 of Cuero was badly hurt when his motorcycle collided with a car at Broadway and Henry Wednesday at 12 56 pm. He sustained arm and body injuries and was rushed to Cuero Community Hospital then Cruz Hospital Gonzales. Driver Mabel Shropshire 59 of Cuero reported southbound on Henry. Police Chief Clinton Wright and off duty Patrolman Tony Allen investigated.
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Ronnie Stratton
Second St
Cuero
Broadway
Henry
Cuero Community Hospital
the Cruz Hospital
Gonzales
Mabel Shropshire
W. Morgen
Young Stratton
Clinton Wright
Tony Allen
Frio River Flood Forces Evacuations Near Three Rivers
Frio River floodwaters drive 15 families from homes on the northern edge of Three Rivers Texas. Mayor Joe Bright says no wholesale evacuation planned though crest may reach 40 feet at the confluence with the Nueces as rain runoff swells Frio basins. Nearby Tilden and Calliham report high water with dozens evacuated and cattle seen floating as the river rises toward Three Rivers.
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Three Rivers
Tex
Frio
Olds Slough
Joe Bright
Nueces
Bright
Tilden
Calliham
McMullien
Melvin Naylor
Sharp ties Mutscher to stock pass for aid in bills
Austin financier Frank W. Sharp testified before a House committee that House Speaker Gus Mutscher agreed to back two banking bills in exchange for stock profits. Sharp described a July 1969 Houston Rice Hotel meeting outlining the deal and implicated Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes and others. He told investigators he could not recall a formal promise from Mutscher.
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Roland Lindsey
Austin
UPI
Frank W. Sharp
Gus Mutscher
Sharp
House
Mutscher
Houston
Security and Exchange Commission
Travis County Grand Jury
Dallas
SEC
House Investigating Committee
Rice Hotel
Ben Barnes
A. R. Schwartz
D-Galveston
William S. Heatly
D-Paducah
Wage Price Freeze Q&A From the Cost of Living Council
The Cost of Living Council provides guidance on the wage price and rent freeze including taxes, surcharges, and which prices are frozen. Questions cover whether taxes affect base prices, if pre Aug 15 increases can take effect, tuition, stock and bond prices, used commodities, insurance, carriers, utilities, wholesale and retail prices, pricing new products, recordkeeping, import pricing with a 10 percent surcharge, and exports.
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Nixon
Office of Emergency Preparedness
Philadelphia
Girl Scout
Washington
UPI
President’s
Cost of Living Council
Hay Show Winners Announced in DeWitt County
Twenty six entries were judged at the DeWitt County Hay Show held at the DeWitt County Electric Cooperative Building. Judge Al Novosad presented on forage production and grass varieties while County Agent Orval Wright announced blue red and white ribbon results for Coastal Bermuda Hegari Kleinrass Sudan Hybrids and Johnsongrass with protein content ranging from 4.1 to 14.2 percent highlighting hay quality differences.
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DeWitt County
al Novosad
DeWitt County Electric Cooperative
Novosad
Orval Wright
Bermuda
James Alvis
Hubert Voelkel
W. L. Cusack
Julius Schiebe Jr
Bonnie
Johnsongrass
Earl Buenger
Raetzsch Wagener
Gilbert Prause
Wright
Draft Boards Keeping Busy Inface of stalled draft extension
Dr Curtiss Tarr head of Selective Service warns youths to stay in touch with Local Board No 34 serving DeWitt and Goliad Counties as Congress debates extending the draft. He notes ongoing registration classification and physicals while a DoD plan to induct 16000 in July August is delayed awaiting congressional action. Local board secretary Mrs Betty Henneke adds that under old law deferments extend liability and some with low numbers plan to enlist. A December 4 birthday list member James W Parr has joined the U S Marines with others expected to enlist.
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Curtiss Tarr
Selective Service
Tarr
Selective Service Local Board No
DeWitt
Goliad
Betty Henneke
Dr. Tarr
Department of Defense
Congress
Henneke
Funeral set for Yoakum youth killed in crash
Wesley Wayne Stevens 18 of Yoakum died in an early morning accident five miles north of Victoria on the Hallettsville Highway. He was a Yoakum High School graduate and Maverick Market employee. Funeral services are 10 a.m. Friday at Buffington Funeral Home Chapel with Albert Jennings of the Church of Christ officiating. Burial will be in Hebron Cemetery. Stevens was killed when his car left the road, rolled, and landed on its top after traveling over 50 feet in the air. A truck driver found the wreck around 3:50 a.m. and assisted authorities.
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Yoakum
Wesley Wayne Stevens
Buffington Funeral Home
Albert Jennings
Church — of Christ
Hebron
Stevens
Duate
Yoakum High School
Maverick Market
Victoria
Hallettsville
Morgan Miller
Miller
Equalization work to start in DeWitt County this month
Southwestern Appraisal Co will begin county wide field work on the DeWitt County equalization program after completing ownership lists from Steck Co. They will hire local workers for an eight to nine month survey while maintaining the current tax rate of 1.15. The effort aims to fairly tax property without raising overall rates, focusing on productive land values rather than market values.
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DeWitt County
Southwestern Appraisal Co. Inc
George Trowell
Steck Co
Austin
Cuero
Lawrence Henneke
E- Witt County Commission
Southwestern Appraisal Co
Henneke
Chad
Scout Troop 243 Plans Swim Meet in Cuero
Members of Boy Scout Troop 243 plan to attend a swim meet at Cuero Municipal Park Pool next Monday at 7:00 p.m. Cuero troops are invited. Scoutmaster John C. Hamilton and volunteers organized the event after a 40 mile hike by Troop 243 from Cuero to Goliad.
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J. W Bridges
Earl Ray
Bridges
Cuero
Cuero Municipal Park
John C. Hamilton
Goliad
Donkey Sally
Hamilton
John Roller
Stanley Fuchs
Carl Krueger
Lonnie Lyman
Kenney Barber
Kenneth Schumacher
Daryl Bluntzer
Jose Trevino
Mark Roller
Steve Mazurek
Marvin Bluntzer
Hubert Barber
Elmer Krueger
Goliad State Park
Goliad Recreation Club
Leonard von Dohlen
Tim von Dohlen
Rotary luncheon features Rep. Tin Von Dohlen remarks
Rep Tin Von Dohlen of Go spoke at the El Patio Restaurant noon meeting of the Von Dohlen Rotary Club. Henderson, chair of the program committee, said he discussed state legislation affecting business men.
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Tin von Dohlen
Rotary Club
el Patio
von Donhlen
Dewey Henderson
Mt Zion District Meeting Opens Aug 23 at Cuero
The Mt Zion District Missionary Association begins its 2000th anniversary session at the L E Meadow Encampment Grounds Cuero on Monday August 23 with Rev Z Broadus of Victoria as president and Dr George W Edwards as moderator. Sessions run through Friday with Founders Day Missionary Day and Association Day on the agenda.
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Mt. Zion
West Cuero
Mit. Zion District Sunday School & Training Union Congress
Z. Broadus
Victoria
George W. Edwards
Association
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Austin Hearing
Hay Show
Yoakum Youth
Frank Thieme
Scout
L. E. Meadow
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