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Newspaper
Cuero Record
Location
Cuero, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1972
Page
1
Local items report visitors at a remodeled plant and the arrival of new tenants in Caer. Royalties include Biveden and Warzechs families, birthday notices, and travel mentions. Washington news notes Nixon choosing Agnew to run with him again, with Dole praising the ticket.
Senator Tower urges Texans to scrutinize McGovern and his backers platform and rhetoric. He cites Henry Jackson and a Dallas Times Herald editorial calling McGovern's program profoundly radical and aims to stop forced busing, claiming progress against the trend.
County auditors from Area MI of the County Auditor's Association of Texas will meet in the DeWitt County courtroom in Cuero on July 27 at 10 30 a m. The informal gathering aims to discuss problems facing county auditors amid recent legislative and court decisions. Lawrence Henneke DeWitt County Auditor notes three topics of discussion.
Top Dollar Stores will open a branch in Cuero in the old Perry Brothers location on Main Street with Jerry Marshall of Wichita Falls in charge. He arrives Monday to arrange the Cuero store as part of the Jasper Alabama chain with 17 Texas branches. County officials discuss Nixon wage freeze impacts and tort claim insurance.
Arriba Resources Corp announces a 9 500 foot wildcat well in DeWitt County. The test at No 1 L P F Hahn lies in the Southwest Wamsley Field about 2 1 2 miles northeast of Nordheim. Location specifics include proximity to lease lines and E Taylor Survey.
Registration for the Cuero Centennial Beard Growing Contest closed July 20 with 70 men signed up according to C L Duckett publicity chairman. Official entry began July 3 and judging will be at 2:00 p.m. October 22 during the centennial celebration. Categories include longest beard, most unique beard with moustache, best groomed beard, shaggiest beard, and longest moustache.
DeWise County Electric Cooperative will meet Tuesday July 25 at 8 a.m. in Cuero Hardball Stadium Municipal Park to discuss business matters and elect four directors for staggered 3 year terms. Directors will serve on positions 1 3 7 and 12. The meeting aims to fill these roles and set terms. An additional note reports Soviet spacecraft Venus Venera 8 reached Venus atmosphere at 4:35 am EDT after a 180 million mile flight with Tass signaling possible soft landing.
Vickie Ann Pish, 1972 Rawhide Rider Assn. Queen and 1972 Cuero TYRA Queen, won the Freer TYRA Queen's Contest. Thursday night she secured a spot in the 1972 TYRA finals in Kingsville Texas set for late August.
Maurice Angly, candidate for Texas State Treasurer, addressed a GOP picnic fundraiser at Bubba Steen ranch in Cuero. Sponsored by DeWitt County Republican Women president Mrs. Burns McAlister, the event included remarks on Jesse James and the Sharpstown scandal and an auction that raised over $200.
United Press reports President Nixon and George S. McGovern plan strategy with top aides after Lawrence F. O'Brien accuses Democrats of being lured into the GOP. Nixon and Connally discussed at a mountain retreat as McGovern flew from Washington to South Carolina with reporters and aides following a wage bill vote.
A UPI profile of Silver Hill Foundation in New Canaan, Connecticut, describes voluntary admissions with no locks, a 50 percent cure rate over seven years, and a multi therapy program for alcoholics including executives. It notes the staff, the Alcoholics Anonymous program, and the hospital’s philosophy of treating alcoholism as illness rather than moral failing.
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