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Newspaper
Cuero Record
Location
Cuero, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1972
Page
1
The 1973 United Fund gathers momentum with $250 raised from three donors. Campaign leaders urge annual gifts via monthly pledges or payroll deduction, noting the ease of giving to worthwhile projects. A $100 check from Jerry Hangs for Cuero Gin marks the 32nd contribution.
Polly Howerton writes from Tucson sending Christmas wishes and plans to return by next Christmas. Ruth McArdle recalls Cuero ties as Albert Fischer celebrates a birthday with a decorated cake. Cuero guests, birthdays, sleet reports, and holiday fruit cake baking fill the week.
Icy conditions on Cuero area roads caused two minor crashes. At 5 20 a m a 1966 pickup driven by Mary Leonhardt 49 of Cuero slid on the Guadalupe River bridge and hit the guardrail with minor damage and no injuries. At 7 55 a m a 1964 car driven by Gracie Gips Wolpman 34 of Yorktown side swiped a 1970 pickup driven by Richard Thompson 37 of Houston near the Guadalupe River bridge on U S 87 no injuries and minor damage reported.
Mrs. Virginia Lewis reports icy streets make travel unsafe so the Presbyterian group’s Ladies Circle Three meeting at her home tonight at 7 30 is cancelled.
A day long celebration at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Cuero marked the feast with mananitas at 6:00 a.m. rev. jerry mackin led mass at the shrine and the 7:00 a.m. service. An 11:00 a.m. Spanish mass followed as twelve children in Indian costumes and six teens joined an entrance procession with U.S. and Mexican flags.
Estate planning classes start tonight at the DeWitt County Courthouse with sessions at 7:30 p.m. lasting two hours. Topics include need for estate planning, using wills, minimizing taxes, guardianship, and insurance planning. Attendees will hear from professionals Don Parks Jimmy Crain Robert Post Errol Dietze Mike Kelly Marion Weber Mike Crawford and Orval Wright.
Roy Parker and Bob Bishop of the local Masonic Lodge visited the Grand Lodge of Texas in Waco on Wednesday and Thursday of last week. Bishop was appointed District Deputy Grand Master of the 34th Masonic district, including Yorktown Hochheim and Yoakum.
Freezing temperatures and drizzle coated highways with ice across South Texas. San Antonio suffered heavy crashes with over 106 accidents overnight while Interstates 35 37 and the 410 bypass faced closures. Police and crews battled slick conditions as drivers unfamiliar with ice left ditches and center markers.
SPACE CENTER Houston UPS Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Jack Schmitt landed on the moon at 2 55 p m EST to begin a 75 hour stay which will end Americas bold Apollo lunar adventure The landing ship Challenger touched down at 2 55 p m EST between mountains 5400 to 7800 feet high.
Cuero Chamber of Commerce sports committee chair John Post announces a regular meeting on Thursday December 14 at the Chamber office starting 6 PM. The session will review Gobbler Stadium playoff games Boling Devine December 1 Schulenburg Falls City December 9 and the Cuero Livestock Show and golf tournament.
Scout Pack 244 cancels tonight's session at the NYA Building due to icy roads. Rev Jim Rabe says the meeting is postponed to next Monday, December 18, at the regular time.
The Emergency School Assistance Aid Committee met with Dr. E. E. Sims to finalize a proposal for funds to operate community communication, remedial services, and staff development programs. If approved, the plan would begin February 1, 1973 and includes four professional aides to liaison between school and community to address integration related issues.
VFW Post 3972 held a Christmas party at the Cuero VFW Hall with a dinner and a Santa visit. Members received 5, 10, and 15 year pins, and the Voice of Democracy winners from Cuero High School were named and taped for radio broadcast.
Washington columnist Dick West argues DC should replace litter fines with classes and a breath test for litterbugs. He mocks a proposed littering school and promotes a system of returnable drunks rather than returnable bottles.
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