Christmas gift contest and local visits adorn Cuero area
The CueroSmart Shop offers a free $25 Christmas gift certificate drawing on December 18 as visitors from Yoakum and Cuero area register. Local Lions clubs hosted guests including Cuero and Hallettsville members while Rosemary Cheatham, a vocational counselor, recuperates at home. The community notes include visits by the Kueker family, a Buchhorn Golden Wedding anniversary, and a birthday greeting for John Arnold Moore Jr.
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Smart Shop
Cueroado
Maloney Seeks Change of Venue Amid Bates Case Coverage
Maloney submitted 10 motions in a Texas trial context but did not seek venue change yet. Petes, a Lower Rio Grande Valley incumbent, was indicted Sept 20 by Nueces County grand jury for receiving a diamond ring stolen from a Corpus Christi attorney. He allegedly got the ring from Adrian Lambert, convicted of murder in a separate Houston case, as media scrutiny looms over Bates case.
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Page Qne
Maloney
Petes
Rio Grande Valley
Nueces County
Grand Jury
Corpus Christi
Adrian Lambert
Bates
Evdence
Tuesday Livestock Fort Worth Market Report Summary
Fort Worth buyers see steady to firm tone across cattle and hogs with slaughter cows and bulls and feeders holding steady and limited test on lambs. In Los Angeles Judge Raymond Choate sentences Charles Manson to the last two of nine life terms in a hippie cult case, calling him a petty thief not mystically engaging.
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Fort Worth
USDA
Billy
Tioma OO
Los Angeles
Raymond Choate
Charles Manson
Mr. Manson
Cuero Arts and Crafts Shop note and columnist tips
A Cuero column reflects a misprint about Cuero being unusual not usual and thanks readers Cathy Lee and Evelyn Putman for cake and help. The piece includes humorous asides, quotes, and moral maxims from Werner Kautz and local figures, ending with a cheeky line about Homer.
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Cuero Arts and Crafts Shop
Indian forces near Dacca amid stalled cease fire
Indian advance units moved within six miles of Dacca as Manekshaw urged surrender. Pakistan’s Lt Gen Niazi vowed to fight to the last. the U.N. cease fire proposal was vetoed by the Soviet Union for the third time. City residents fled, with estimates of 30,000 to 37,000 Pakistani troops in the area and foreign personnel evacuated.
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S.H.F.J. Manekshaw
United Nations
Dacca
Soviet Union
U.S
U.N. Security Council
A. A. K. Niazi
Niazi
Radio
Pakistan
UPI
Joseph L. Galloway
Red Cross
Royal Air Force
RAF
Air Line Pilots Leader Proposes Ground Duty for Marshals
Captain J J O Donnell of the Air Line Pilots Association argues that 75 percent of the nations 1400 sky marshals should be assigned to ground duty to prevent hijacking. He says more marshals at gates would bolster passenger surveillance and deter hijackers from boarding planes.
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Washington
J. J O'Donnell
Air Line Pilots Association
Navy C 2 Greyhound Disappears Over South China Sea
A US Navy C 2 Greyhound with six passengers and four crew aboard vanished Sunday on a flight to Saigon and apparently crashed in the South China Sea according to a navy spokesman.
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Manila
UPS
Saigon
South China Sea
Navy
70-Story Tokyo Tower Planned On Sugamo Prison Site
Tokyo officials revealed a 70 story building will rise on the Sugamo Prison site in Tokyo. The structure aims to become Japan’s tallest, with completion planned for 1975 at the execution site of wartime premier Hideki Tojo.
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Tokyo
UPI
Japan
Polliwogs by Polly Howlton
Lena Koenig and Myrt Boehl Christmas shopping on Monday afternoon. Sarah Westerbeck buying ingredients for Christmas candies and baking. Seth and Rugene Bell return from north Texas visits and shuttle grandchildren to school. Doors and windows fill with decorations. City of Cuero contest deadline noon Friday December 17. Paula Stiles out with daughter. LeRoy Hamilton home after Cuero Hospital stay and surgery. Birthday greetings to Mary Polzin Don Markowsky and A. C. Ater.
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Seth
Rugene Bell
North Texas
Jeannine
Cuero
Easy Chafing Dish Dessert Instructions
Heat spiced peaches maraschino cherries and pear halves in a chafing dish. Blend the pear and peach syrups with cornstarch to a cup of syrup, then stir into hot fruit and thicken. Add a jigger of brandy or rum if desired. Serve in compotes with roasted almonds.
Burglar escapes police by stealing cruiser in Denver
A handcuffed burglary suspect escaped Sunday by driving off in a police car. Patrolman Bracle said the suspect slipped free, drove away, and the squad car was found eight blocks away while the man remained missing. In England a cake contest surprise saw a 9 year old win over a housewife.
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Denver
Apt
Paul Bracle
Bracle
Walthamstow
England
Maggie Moncrieff
Christopher Levoir
We Will Contest to the Last Man for Golden East Pakistan
The resolution proclaims unwavering resistance in East Pakistan, pledging to contest to the hitter end and to the last man for the golden cause, signaling resolve amid mounting crisis.
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Golden East
Pakistan
Nixon Pompidou agree on currency realignment talks
Nixon and Pompidou reached a joint plan to broaden exchange rate margins and devalue the dollar with other nations. They said talks with the European Common Market would aim to improve trade relations, with the two leaders speaking in their own languages to reporters in a sunlit courtyard.
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Nixon
Pompidou
Ronald L. Ziegler
White House
Denis Baudoin
Junta Geral
General Assembly
Nixon meets allied leaders ahead of Peking and Moscow trips
Pompidou quotes positive tone as Nixon concludes a second of five preparatory talks with key allies over five weeks before planned February Peking and May Moscow visits. Bermuda summit with Edward Heath follows, with finance topics on the agenda. Nixon travels to Washington with Connally and Rogers.
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Japan
Nixon
Washington
Treasury
John B. Connally
William P. Rogers
Freed trio stays private after Honolulu flight
Miss Harbert and Fecteau refused to meet photographers and speaking with newsmen at McGuire. Johnson described a space program briefing and noted the last plane remembered was the old 47. State Dept official Romberg said privacy would be respected and the government would assist as needed.
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Fecteau
Johnson
Honolulu
Alan Romberg
State Department
Romberg
Miss Harbert
Fectau
McGuire
Air Force
Frederick Nollenberger
County Board Acts on Road Projects and Bids
The DeWitt County commissioners authorized participation in widening US 87 from Cuero to Irish Creek and approved right of way purchase for the Green-DeWitt road. They also agreed to fund a blind student’s trip to the School for the Blind and accepted low bids for machinery and a two ton truck.
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Buenger
Dave Weber
US 87
Cuero City Limits
Irish Creek
Weber
Green-DeWitt Road
Bertha Atzenhoffer
Louis Miller
Raul Salinas
Holt Machinery Co
San Antonio
DeWitt Motor Co
Koopman
George Trower
Sheriff Department
N. G. “Cutter
Dietze
Lawrence Henneke
Youth Group Meeting Held at Cuero Clubhouse
The Texas Youth Conference held its regular meeting and Christmas Party at the Cuero Clubhouse in Municipal Park. Members planned voter registration drives for January 19 and 26 and set final bake sale arrangements for December 18 from 9 am until all items are sold.
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Texas Youth Conference
Cuero
Municipal Park
DeWitt ASCS to Elect Leaders at Wednesday Session
The DeWitt County ASCS will convene Wednesday at 10 a.m. in the DeWitt County Courthouse to elect a chairman and vice chairman. Leo Pargmann is ending his term as chairman while Don Chesser, ASCS manager, confirms the meeting details.
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DeWitt County
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Don Chesser
ASCS
Leo Pargmann
County Panel Sets Meeting for DeWitt County Schools
The Board of Trustees of DeWitt County Schools will hold its regular meeting Friday December 17 at 9 30 a m in the DeWitt County Courthouse to discuss appointing a textbook committee per Superintendent W F Hancock.
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DeWitt County
Hospital News Cuero Admissions and Removals
Cuero Community Hospital reports admissions for Sylvia Mueller Susie Carruthers Sister Alphomse Grahmann Bertha Dunmon Mrs Mable Gray Winfred Mehnert Mrs Gladys Billings and Mrs Bonnie Keane. Discharges include Gary Meyers Edgar Parker Otis Carpenter Frances Redies Johnny Barrea Jr Margaret Berman and Herbert Berman.
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Cuero Community Hospital
Sylvia Mueller
Susie Carruthers
Alphomse Grahmann
Bertha Dunmon
Mable Gray
Winfred Mehnert
Gladys Billings
Bonnie Keane
Gary Meyers
Edgar Parker
Otis Carpenter
Frances Redies
Johnny Barrera, Jr
Margaret Berman
Herbert Berman
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Rosemary Cheatham
Cuero Country Club
John Kueker
Evelyn Barfield
F. J. Kloesel
Shiner
John Arnold Moore, Jr
John A. Wioorme
Sen. Bates
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Pat Sez
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Jo Brown
Bud Holloway
Cliff Mauer
Henry Parker
Evelyn Putman
Caretia
Rad Company
Mere Cecil
Guere
Homer
United Press International
San Jose
Costa Rica
Jose Figueres
Zulfiquar Ali Bhutto
India
Security Council
Japanery Skyscraper
Hideki Tojo
W. Reuss Blvd
Electric Motors
Tel-A-Win CO
N. Esplanade
Rainbo Rock
Nathan Post Lumber CO
Esplanade — Cuero
Polliwogs
Polly Howlton
Lena Koenig
Myrt Boehl
Sarah Westerbeck
Paula Stiles
LeRoy Hamilton
Margaret
Grady Lofton
Mary Polzin
Don Markowsky
A. C. Ater
Acrobatic Thug
Reuss
American Legion Civic Center
Emil Buchhern, Jr
City Park
Wilfred Peters
Wilfred List
Auxhaary
Cuero V.F.W
Carl Culpepper
Treas
Pilot Club
Doll House
Corione Carlton
Cuero Lodge
A. F
A. M
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Freund Funeral Home
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