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Newspaper
Cuero Record
Location
Cuero, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1972
Page
1
In a Star Light column Austin reader asks about lambs quarters and how grandma in West Texas cooks it. Cuero native architect Scooter Cheatham says the plant is common across the U.S. and prepared like spinach or greens. He notes its greens, seeds, and uses, and spring harvest is best.
Cuero Community Hospital will be decorated for Christmas by the hospital auxiliary. Mrs. Joe D. Sanders says members will meet Monday December 11 at 6 30 p.m. to decorate led by Mrs Burns McAlister. The tree in the lobby will be under Mrs Leon Polzin and active members who request donations of ornaments or other decorations.
Kenneth Buenger aged 28 announced the purchase of the Arco Service Station at 310 North Esplanade Cuero. He offers mechanical repair alongside regular service and cites eight years of auto experience and training at National Technical Schools Los Angeles and Auto Mechanic's Institute of Los Angeles. Buenger a Cuero High School 1962 graduate and Vietnam Veteran resides with wife Dolores on Stratton Route. He reports weekday hours 6:30 to 6:30 open and Sundays closed. Board meeting notice for December 13 at 9:30 a.m.
Cuero High School bands and Concert Choir perform Christmas music Tuesday night December 12 at 7 30 in the new Junior High Cafetorium. Both groups will play sacred and secular numbers followed by an old fashioned audience sing along. Choir director Mrs Jo Boening and band director Nat Alewine announce the program and admission is free.
Cuero High School musicians were named to the District Band after 14 auditioned. Of the nine selected, two advanced to the regional band. Ensemble members include Zane McElroy, Rudy Salazar, Miss Candy Lane, Miss Robyn Morgan, Miss Sharon Olson, John Bade, Miss Becky Atkinson, Miss Camille Whitten, and Miss Karen Wells.
Eight Cuero Community Hospital student nurses were capped in a ceremony in the hospital recreation room. Sister Lucilla welcomed attendees, Dr. Homer Judge spoke, and clergy led devotional and benediction. Caps were placed by Sister Barbara and Mrs. Young. graduates include Sylvia Flores Perez, Rudy Perez, Lorent Holman, Jacqueline Kibler, Mary Wolf, Sue Fox, Diane Kubala, and Rosie McNary. next September they graduate.
Cuero hosts its first Book Fair next week in the city library with pre school to young adult titles under five dollars. Hours are Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Proceeds fund library improvements. Featured titles include Too Many Pockets and Heidi.
A United Air Lines Boeing 737 crash near Midway Airport tears into three homes. Sixty-one aboard perished while eighteen survived. Police and fire crews paused debris search at midnight with work resuming today. Forty-three bodies recovered. survivors treated, including a neighborhood resident. One of the dead is a congressman.
A family argument ended with what is believed to be a self inflicted gunshot wound to Lucio Sierra at 310 W Liveoak Street Cuero Texas. Sierra was found by Sgt O Campos with a 22 cal pistol beside him and rushed to Cuero Community Hospital in emergency surgery with condition unknown.
Kansas City doctors report former President Harry S Truman's heart is critically weak and deteriorating though showing slight improvement later. Apollo 17 astronauts report their landing craft in good shape after initial inspection at Space Center Houston. Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, after 19 hours of talks, plan to meet again to pursue an end to the Vietnam war. President Nixon overhauls the Justice Department while keeping Richard Kleindienst as attorney general at Camp David.
In brief from Washington Defense Secretary Melvin R Laird states some military bases will close next year to save about 1 billion dollars. In Belfast police report a gunman shot a passenger on a bus, marking Northern Ireland's 108th killing this year in what is seen as a sectarian vendetta. In Washington Democrats clash over leadership while Life magazine faces folding after 36 years of photojournalism.
Washington report on remarks by Sen. Schweiker and Sen. Nelson about spending priorities. The column analyzes how comparing care of bodies to care of cars can mislead, noting potential misinterpretations at hearings and the idea that some ailments resemble car lemons or hyperchondria.
A series of wildcat and dry holes are reported around Yorktown Meyersville and Goliad. Termo Co. of Texas plans Agnes Gips No 1 west of Yorktown to 3500 feet. George L. Long seeks 8500 foot well east of Meyersville De Witt County. No 2 Fred Wendel gas well near Meyersville yields 570000 cu ft daily through perforations. Sheldon Petroleum dry No 1 V Albrecht northwest of Goliad at 9012 feet. Cluster southwest of Murchison also dry at 4726 feet.
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