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Newspaper
Cuero Record
Location
Cuero, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1972
Page
2
Letters discuss tipping in beauty shops with high costs and a reader urging a boycott. Ann Landers notes tipping is standard in many service jobs and favors appreciation through gratuities despite the gripe.
The credentials committee divided the 2,865 eligible delegates to reflect the California primary results, reducing McGovern by 151 votes. McGovern and allied liberal supporters sought to fuse busing welfare and defense planks to counter Wallace and push back the split delegation. The committee decision drew McGovern’s condemnation as evil as the convention opened after a nine hour session ending at 4 33 a m EDT.
Reports from advisers describe heavy shelling along a demarcation line from the DMZ toward China with Quang Tri city in ruins. Despite naval gunfire air strikes including a B 52 raid, about 500 Communist troops hold fortified bunkers while one officer recalls a near miss of a 500 pound bomb within 20 meters.
An Air Force research jet from Los Alamos chased the total eclipse shadow near Fort Churchill on Hudson Bay to study the sun's corona. About 50 American observers camped at Stanhope Beach, Prince Edward Island, aiding Smithsonian and Harvard Observatory instruments to scan the corona and hunt faint comets.
Mrs. Jim McCurdy traveled to Corpus Christi to escort her mother Mrs. T J Rich for a short visit with relatives. She returned the same day.
The Cuero chamber names J B McAlister Robert Pickens Gus Cage and Lawrence Dietze to fill term vacancies. Mrs Sharon Steen reports Cuero’s visit by America the Beautiful Fund representatives and a $100 grant with potential for more for a forthcoming book. Dave Weber and Joe Reuss were assigned to replace road sign frames that have blown over.
American investors in Singapore reached 310 million dollars in investments by 1971, highlighting continuing economic ties between the United States and Singapore during the period.
Soviet and U S space scientists enter the third day of talks at Houston on planning the Apollo Soyuz joint flight in 1975. The two teams discuss schedules communication life support and spacecraft structure as they prepare for a docking mission of up to 48 hours. The U S groups total 22 Soviet delegates are led by Boris N Petrov while the American team is headed by Glynn Lunney.
Washington Former Texas Attorney General Waggoner Carr was named in an indictment of seven men by a federal grand jury. The charges cover insurance mail and securities sale fraud. The indictments were returned Monday and include multiple defendants with ties to the case.
County officials vote to extend about 2600 in tax money to the Housing Authority for operating costs including janitorial and utilities and to set April as open season for payroll deductions. Separate fraud indictment in Dallas names Carr Osorio and No votny in a $582,000 National Bankers Life scheme with related loans and a South Atlantic Co. stake.
A retrospective note recalls John Quincy Adams veteran officer cited in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin July 1947. Local families announce twins born July 10 at Cucro Hospital with weights 7 lb 1 oz and 5 lb 15 oz.
Mr and Mrs Jackie Walker welcome a baby girl Vonda Renee born Sunday at 2 21 p m in Cuero Community Hospital weighing pounds and 7 3 4 ounces. Mr and Mrs Herman Fryer announce LaDawn Cheresse born Sunday at 5 09 p m in Cuero Community Hospital weighing 7 pounds 5 ounces. Mr and Mrs Phillip Coney report Suzanne Renee born July 1 weighing 7 pounds 13 ounces. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Frank Ulman of Victoria and Mr and Mrs Buddy Cowey of Cucro.
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