Cuero City Budget Hopes to Hold Tax Line
City Manager Wil Cockrell says Cuero will not raise city taxes for the coming fiscal year. A formal budget session is planned with the City Council next week and a public hearing is expected next month before the Sept. 1 adoption. County tax rate up 10 cents and Cuero ISD tax bills rise due to a $1.4 million bond and teacher raises. Rain halted drainage work as 15 inches fell in about an hour.
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Cuero
Wil Cockrell
Hikers Reach 100 Mile Trek With Scout Troop 243
Ten scouts from Troop 243 and guest hiked a 100 mile stretch toward San Antonio staying overnight at Lavernia park. Local volunteers from Lavernia supplied supper and drinks with a watermelon feast noted. crew includes Alan and Kenneth Schumacher Carl Krueger Billy Bridges Brownie McClung Allen Moeller Daryl Bluntzer Jeff Ray David Noack and guest Les Muchmore of Ponca City Okla.
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San Antonio
Lavernia
Navy deep sea mission maps Puerto Rico Trench for GEOS-2 calibration
NASA and Vanguard crew conduct a June 23 to July 12 survey of the Puerto Rico Trench measuring surface lows with radar tracked GEOS-2 in known orbit. Otto Thiele notes precise vessel position enables direct surface low mood readings and gravity deflection data to calibrate an altimeter on GEOS-3.
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Davy Jones
NASA
Vanguard
Inset
Otto Thiele
Winners Named in DeWitt County 4-H Dress Revue
DeWitt County 4-H dress revue winners announced at St. Mark's Lutheran Hall. M'Liss Mueller won Young Miss, Brenda Means Junior Miss, Terrie Means Senior Miss. Alternates include Teresa Diebel Carla Drehr and Sylvia Dohrman. District revue set for July 28 in San Antonio. County Agent Orval Wright notes see Dress Revue on page 6.
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St. Mark's Laitheran
Terrie Means
Teresa Diebel
Carla Drehr
Sylvia Doehrman
San Antonio
Orval Wricht
Troop 241 Charter Presentation at Cuero Camp
Troop 241 sponsored by First United Methodist Church held a weekend campout and charter presentation at John Braden ranch north of Cuero. Twenty eight Scouts and three adults attended. Awards included Totem Chips and various rank pins with Eagle Palm recognition noted.
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First United Methodist Church
John Braden
Cuero
Live Oak
Kurl Wyatt
Calvin Peterson
John Davis
Ralph A. Hartman Jr
Wyatt
Elroy Hearn
Robert Post Appointed DeWitt County Chairman to Steering Committee
County Head Robert Post named DeWitt County Chairman of the Governors Steering Committee for the White House Conference on Children. County Judge George Trowell announced the appointment this morning. Counties statewide will join to identify child issues and propose programs. Post will chair a local committee to gather information for the conference.
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Robert Post
DeWitt County
White House
DeWitt County Sets 1.19 Tax Rate for 1970
DeWitt County commissioners approve a total 1.19 tax rate for 1970, up 10 cents from the previous year. The increase funds road and bond needs with 0.63 to operating funds, 0.29 to interest and sinking, and 0.27 to farm to market and lat eral road funds. Bonded indebtedness per capita remains low at 25.68 as of Jan 1, 1970.
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DeWitt County
Henneke
Hennecke
General Fund
Supreme Court
DeWitt County Court Sets Tax Rates and Appoints Attorney
The court approved 1970 tax rates for Cuero Hospital District DeWitt County Drainage District No 1 and Esleto Creek Watershed District Westhoff Rural High School Meyersville Common School District saw increases Cuero Hospital District and others kept steady. County Attorney Robert Post bond set at 2500 and Itek Business Products won 8800 bid for a photocopier.
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DeWitt County
Ecleto Creek
Westhoff Rural
Meyersville Common
Evleto
Robert Post
Post
Frank Sheppard
Crain and Crain Law Firm
Itek Business Products
Houston
Screwworm cases rise in Texas and nearby states
Texas reports 16 screwworm cases the week of July 6 to 10, up over 50 percent from the prior week. Texas totals reach 41 for 1970 with cases in Terrell, Brewster, Pecos, Medina, Irion, Uvalde and Presidio counties. Arizona adds one case in Pima and one in Santa Cruz. Officials urge livestock owners to inspect animals, collect larvae, and mail samples to the Mission Screwworm Laboratory for identification.
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Texas
Terrell County
Brewster County
Pecos County
Medina
Irion
Uvalde
Presidio
Arizona
Pima County
Santa Cruz County
Labora
Califo
United States
Mission Lab
Texas to receive 793500 federal funds for wildlife restoration
The State of Texas will receive 793500 in federal money this month for its wildlife restoration program. Acting Regional Director W O Nelson Jr of the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife in Albuquerque announced the allocation from the 11 percent excise tax on sporting arms and ammunition. Funds are distributed under the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act of 1937 with a formula based on hunting license holders and area. An additional apportionment will be made in the fall, supporting the July 1 to fall period.
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of Texas
W. O. Nelson Jr
Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife
Albuquerque
N. M
Pitman - Robertson
Interior
UN Uder
Aide Hunted Region Council Nears Deadline
The Golden Crescent Council of Governments must hire a staff planning director by August 1 or subcontract a rural water and sewer study. Executive Director George Staples notes a Beaumont planner backed out and a Texas City staffer is still in place. A candidate remains undecided and another delay could trigger a consulting firm. The $28,300 Farm Home Administration grant funds the study for five of six counties excluding Lavaca.
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Golden Crescent
George Staples
COG
Beaumont
Staples
Texas
Farm Home Administration
Lavaca
Local Golfer Scores Ace at Cuero Park
Jimmy Springs aced the number four at Cuero Municipal Park while in a threesome with City Manager Wil Cockrell and Raymond Hawke yesterday. The shot described as a once in a lifetime moment.
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Jimmy Springs
Cuero Municipal
Springs
Wil Cockrell
Raymond Hawke
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