Cuero Christmas Notes Share Teeth Tale and Family News
A Cuero reader recalls seven year old Karla Ware losing a front tooth at John C. French school and the Tooth Fairy leaving a note. Cards from Bessye Ward and Lea Sanders highlight family stories, handicapped resilience, new Cuero resident Frances Gale, and a large Christmas trip planned by the Carters and Tinsleys departing December 20 from San Antonio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuero
Karla Ware
Burch Wares
John C. French School
Karla
Lea
Carl Sanders
San Angelo
Ann Adams
Truman Listed Critical But Improves Slightly
Former President Harry S Truman at 88 is listed as critically ill after lung congestion and heart failure. Doctors report a very slight improvement with stabilized vital signs, while his wife and daughter stay by his bedside at Research Hospital.
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James A. Kidney
Kansas City, Mo
UPI
Harry S Truman
Truman
John Drewes
Bess
Margaret Daniel
Research Hospital
Independence
1000 More Books Needed At Cuero Public Library
Cuero Chamber of Commerce sponsored a book drive has collected about 1000 volumes for the Cuero public Library to reach a 10 000 volume inventory. If achieved by 1973 the library can stay in the state program and qualify for federal aid. Deposition boxes and cash gifts are being accepted and New York publishers are arranging hardcover book purchases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wanda Buckner
Joe Boothe
Cuero Public Library
Cuero Chamber of Commerce
Cuero Public
Apollo 17 Heads For Moon In Final US Lunar Quest
Apollo 17 blasted from Cape Kennedy toward the moon on a mission noted as the final major lunar expedition. An electronic circuit failure delayed liftoff nearly three hours, but ground crews rerouted to start the flight. A Monday moon landing is planned with half a million observers watching.
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Cape Kennedy
Cape
Alabama
Cuero Turkey Trot association refunds 31 percent plan
The Cuero Fair and Turkey Trot Association approved refunds totaling 431222? no, 4322.95 from an initial 13945 pledged for the 1972 Cuero Centennial and Turkey Trot. Finance chairman Lester Frers said 5175.15 remained after expenses with 831.40 returned to the association and 20.80 added to its balance.
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Lester Frers
Frers
Cuero Fair
Turkey Trot Assn
Cuero High students plan trip to Victoria to hear David Wilkerson
Mrs. Raymond Reese sponsors a car caravan from Cuero to Victoria on Saturday December 9 to attend author David Wilkerson speaking at Victoria College Auditorium. Students meet at 5 30 p.m. at the Teen Coffee House, with First Baptist Church of Cuero furnishing cars. A sellout crowd is expected, the program begins at 7 30 p.m. and includes youth rock music. Afterward the group returns for a rap session and refreshments.
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Raymond Reese
Cuero High School
Victoria
David Wilkerson
Wilkerson
Victoria College
Reese
First Baptist Church of
Cuero
Apollo 17 countdown halted by Saturn V fault
The first countdown for Apollo 17 is paused due to a computer sequencing system failure preventing pressurization of the third stage of the Saturn V rocket delaying the mission. Paris peace talks continue in two tracks with Kissinger and Hanoi envoys and a Paris newspaper cites near settlement. Saigon reports heavy Communist shelling and attacks at Tan Son Nhut and other bases marking a two week high in South Vietnam.
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Apollo
Cape Kennedy
U.S
Paris
Henry A. Kissinger
Hanoi
Saigon
Tan Son Nhut
South Vietnam
Truman in critical condition death may be imminent
In Brief Kansas City the condition of former President Harry S Truman is listed as critical by doctors at Research Hospital. They say death may be imminent and patients await further updates.
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Truman
Kansas City
Harry S Truman
Research Hospital
Bulgerin to Attend Texas Tax Officials Conference
DeWitt County Tax Assessor and Collector Mrs Helen Bulgerin will attend a tax assessors and collectors conference in Austin on December 10 11 and 12. The event aims to train personnel in basic duties and expand understanding of responsibilities facing tax officials.
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DeWitt County
Helen Bulgerin
Austin
Bulgerin
Tax Assessor-Collectors Association of Texas
Sun's Heat May Change Earth's Atmosphere
Scientists Carl Sagan and George Mullen of Cornell predict that the sun's increasing brightness will trigger a runaway greenhouse on Earth in a few billion years, turning the atmosphere to thick steam and raising temperatures beyond the boiling point of water. Mars and Venus are also discussed as warming to resemble early Earth and present-day conditions, respectively.
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Cape Kennedy
UPI
Earth
Carl Sagan
George Mullen
Cornell University
Laboratory For Planetary Studies
Mars
Sagan and
Mullen
Sagan and Mullen
Venus
Ben Prause Entertains Cuero Lions Club
Cuero Lions Club heard Don Albrecht name the American Legion Civic Center as regular meeting site. Bennie B. Prause performed a Christmas piano program as Bill Nami introduced him. A Wharton trip was announced by VP Glenn Portis with several members planning to go.
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Cuero Lions Club
Don Albrecht
American Legion Civic Center
Bennie B. Prause
Bill Nami
Lions Club
Wharton
Glenn Portis
Werner Kautz
Wallace Beck
Harold Tiffin
W. A. Laake
Jim Stone
Jud Levey
Houston
Max Roesch
Corpus Christi
Gordon Hardin
Boy Scout
Shiner
Lion Jim Stone
Bookside Lions Club
Brookside Village
Cuero Lions
Stone
Dietze to Be Installed as Scouting Head
The Live Oak District of the Boy Scouts of America will honor Errol John Dietze, a Cuero attorney and former Eagle Scout, as chairman for 1973 at a 7:30 p.m. banquet in Gonzales Elementary School. Jack Swenson, Austin Scout Executive, will be guest speaker as scouters and troops are recognized.
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Live Oak
Boy Scouts of America
Gonzales
Gordon Hardin
Cuero
Errol John Dietze
John C Hamilton
Jack Swenson
Austin
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Taurus Mountains
Littrow Crater
Polliwogs
Bessye Cowden Ward
Bar F. Ranch
Odessa
Jess Ward
Toni
Farmers State Bank & Trust Co
Gayle Buchhorn
Emil Buchhorns, Jr
Frances A. Gale
East Main Street
Rayford
Jerry Putman
Louis Edward Haas
Stanley Moore
Robert Carter
Luling
Jeanette P. Cook
Hawaii
San Antonio
Ann Carter Scow
Billy and
John Carter Tinsley
Virginia
Roberta Ann Tinsley
Robert Carter Jr
Tinsleys
Cook
Harry S. Truman
Moon
Edward K. Delong
Turkey
Association
Ken Long
Record News
Ben Prause
Dietze
Scouting
Rells’ Pharmacy
Esplanade
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