Cuero Housing Authority Approves Bond Sale Plan
The Cuero Housing Authority voted to issue 1.7 million dollars in bonds to finance 110 low rent units completed locally. It joins 25 authorities in a 22.045 million bond sale with the Sherman Housing Authority named as agent. Costs total about 11 thousand dollars and each authority pays its share by size. Financing has relied on the federal housing department with six month interest intervals.
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Cuero Housing Authority
Howard Bennett
CHA
Bennett
Sherman Housing Authority
Federal Housing and Urban Development Department
City Officials Readying For Texas Travel Busy Month
City Manager Larry Smith plans to attend the Galveston sessions of the Texas City Managers Association from June 13 to 15. He will then hurry to Austin for the annual pilgrimage under the Lower Colorado River Authority, an event that always draws a large crowd.
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Larry Smith
Galveston
Texas City Managers Association
Austin
Lower
Colorado River Authority
Lawmakers End Special Session
The Texas Legislature closed a four day special session with a redistricting bill creating a 24th U. S. representative. It links Democrat Graham Purcell of Wichita Falls with Republican Bob Price of Pampa, consolidating two incumbents in one district. Also approved were reduced filing fees for local and district offices, a $41 million liquor tax hike, a non binding daylight saving referendum, and updated ethics disclosure requirements.
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Roland Lindsey Austin
UPI
Texas
U. S
U.S
Graham Purcell
Wichita Falls
Bob Price
Pampa
Wright Patman
Texarkana
Pilot Club Honor Roll honors Pvt Eugene Wesley Jr
Pvt Eugene Wesley Jr of the U S Army is named Serviceman of the Week on the Cuero Record and Pilot Club Honor Roll. He is visiting parents on leave in Cuero and previously served with the 1011th Airborne Division in Vietnam. His next duty station is Fort Riley Kansas with the First Infantry Division.
Bluebonnet Youth Ranch receives two boosts toward first cottage
Funds are still needed to finish the Bluebonnet Youth Ranch first cottage though last week brought two boosts. Yoakum Lions Club donated 500 for the roof, while other donations support the project. Texas House unanimously passed a resolution commending the ranch and its sponsors for providing a home for needy children. Rep Tim Von Doblen noted the need for such projects across Texas.
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Bluebonnet
John Zeigler
Yoakum Lions Club
Bluebonnet Youth Ranch
Tim von Doblen
Goliad
Texas
Youth Ranch
Tom Tom Festivity Winds Up in Yoakum Rodeo Dance
YOAKUM The 42nd annual Tom Tom celebration concluded with a Friday rodeo at p.m. followed by a Turner Hall dance. The final rodeo performance capped the event after earlier activities and a reference to Tom Tom on Page 10.
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P.m
Turner Hall
62nd Session Slated For Failure Note
The 62nd Texas Legislature is remembered more for in-fighting than achievements after a 140-day session. Lawmakers enacted a record 7.1 billion budget and a 600 million tax bill while leaving welfare funding incomplete and failing to overhaul the penal code abortion laws or marijuana penalties. An upcoming special session likely to address welfare, new taxes, and further reforms.
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Austin
Urb
Preston Smith
Smith
House
Senate
Ben Barnes
Foundation Concrete Is Poured For Cuero Junior High
The Cuero ISD reports Site A foundation poured for the new Cuero Junior High School with 26 classrooms, gym, labs, library, and offices on a 20 acre site near the high school. Site B foundations to be poured Wednesday. Sites C and D next. The project, built by A and A Construction, targets 1972 occupancy. after completion, the old junior high will be razed for Hunt Elementary expansion. Darrel Orr is construction supervisor. Lynn Evans and Associates are architects.
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Cuero Junior High School
E. E. Sims
French and Hunt
Sims
A & A Construction Company
Victoria
Darrel Orr
Lynn Evans and
Local Minister Bennett Takes New Post in Delhi Louisiana
Gerald Bennett, former minister of the Church of Christ in Cuero, has accepted the pastorate of a church in Delhi Louisiana. Bennett and his family left Cuero for Delhi this past week. He served as Cuero’s minister for a year and a half, coming from Houston. This is his first full-time pastorate. The Bennetts have two children, Tommy, 8, and Sherry, 2. Two or three people have requested interviews with the local church, but a successor has not yet been chosen.
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Gerald Bennett
Church of Christ In
Cuero
Delhi
Louisiana
Bennett
Houston
Bennett's
Tommy
Sherry
VEW Fete Scheduled Friday at Cuero VFW Post
Cuero Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3972 will hold its annual Businessmen's Barbecue Friday from 6 to 11 p.m. at the post on the Yoakum Highway. Admission is by ticket for members and guests. Committee members A. W. Schaffner Wilfred Liest Paul Loos and Lloyd Henneke urge all members to attend.
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Cuero Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3972
Yoakum Highway
the Post
A. W. Schaffner
Wilfred Liest
Paul Loos
Lloyd Henneke
Rites Planned Monday for Victim of Wreck
Funeral services for Johnny Wayne Stratmann 25 of Cuero, killed in a Friday night car crash near Yoakum, will be Monday at 2 p.m. in Buffington Funeral Home Chapel Yoakum. Burial in Oak Grove Cemetery Yoakum. Stratmann son of Elo and Stratmann of Cuero. Survived by three brothers. Accident occurred at the Texas 95 and US 77 intersection. Ronald Dean Harabis 17 of Yoakum was driver of the other car and treated and released. The investigation was turned over to the Hallettsville county attorney to determine possible charges.
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Johnny Wayne Stratmann
Cueroite
Yoakum
Buffington Funeral Home
D. ST. Dalton
Holy Cross Lutheran Church
Oakgrove
Mr. Stratmann
Elo H. Stratmann
Cuero
Lawrence Stratmann
Victoria
Gene Stratmann
Mont Belvieu
Roy Stratmann
Austin
Stratmann
Ronald Dean Harabis
Leo Harabis
Harabis
Huth Memorial Hospital
Highway Patrol
Dudley Thomas
Johnny Aycock
L. B. Gamble
Hallettsville
Set
Thomas
Texas 9
TTA
Grand Jury to Hear 27 Complaints Big Task Monday
Grand jurors summoned for the summer term of the 24th District Court will hear 27 complaints including 13 burglary counts and three felony thefts. District Judge Joe Kelly will preside at 9 a m in Victoria. County Attorney Robert Post predicts the proceedings may span several days and finish by Wednesday or Thursday.
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Grand Jury
Joe Kelly
Victoria
Robert Post
Yorktown area petitions protest post route cut
Over 150 residents signed a mail protest petition at the Green Lantern in Yorktown urging reversal of a June 30 termination of the Cuero Yorktown Kenedy mail route. Signers target 300 by pickup for transmission to Washington. Petitions also at First National Bank Cuero Record and in Nordheim Runge.
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Yorktown Area
Green Lantern
Yorktown
Ben Ziese
U.S. Postal Service
Washington
National Director of Highway Transportation
Cooper joins Jim Conrad Real Estate as manager in Cuero
Darrell Cooper, former county supervisor for the Farmers Home Administration in DeWitt County, becomes real estate manager at Jim Conrad Real Estate. After 13 years in U S Department of Agriculture posts, he declines a travel assignment to Richmond Texas to stay in Cuero with his wife Elaine and two sons. He was born in Victoria in August 1933, attended Patti Welder High School, served in the Marines, studied at Victoria College, and earned a B S from Texas A M in 1958. The family resides at 100 Boleman Street, Cuero.
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Darrell Cooper
Farmers’ Home Administration
DeWitt County
Jim Conrad
United States Marines
Victoria College
Texas A&m University
A&m
Cooper
Elaine
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D. L. Prentice Record
Pilot Club
Eugene Wesley Jr
Pvt
The
U. S. Army
Pilot Club of
Mrs
Eugene Wes
Ley
1011St Airborne Division
Mobile
Vietnam
Fort
Riley, Kansas
First Infantry
Texas House of Repres
U.S. Supreme Court
Bill
Johnny Stratmann
Cooper Takes
Cuero Independent School District
Darrel Wayne
Gary
Boleman Street
Cuere
Barrell Cooper
Bow Pontes
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