Teen advice and letters in a Cuero Texas column
A Cuero Record reader asks about teen issues from babysitting at night to dating and body language. EZ Ryder answers with guidance on parental rules, safety, and communication plus general teen concerns about religion music and swimming fears.
Have Fun and Embrace The Good Life Today
A cheerful note invites readers to enjoy the good life with playful enthusiasm. It encourages personal expression, positivity, and making the most of everyday moments. The piece frames happiness as an active choice and shared joy.
Legislature closes session with failed bills and vetoes
The Texas legislature failed to advance key measures in the closing hours. A proposed constitutional amendment to raise welfare spending died in the House, and highway beautification plans were scuttled after a rejected Senate compromise. Attempts to reform school funding, lower the voting age, aid parochial schools, and adopt a comparative negligence standard also faltered, with governors vetoes cited as driving insurance concerns.
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Aesson
Gus. Mutscher
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Alamo City Rock Boom Amid Concert Lottery
A fragmentary music page notes rock and pop acts like Aretha Franklin and the Doors touring near the Alamo City with dates teased for July or August. References include Elton John, Stephen Stills, Paul Humphrey, and a playful nod to a group name Cool Aid as readers speculate on upcoming shows and record plans.
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Alamo City
Jetiroe
Stephen Stills
Creed
62nd Legislature Faces Fiscal Shifts and Redistricting Fight
The 62nd Legislature struggled with unity among urban liberals and rural conservatives, failing to enact a corporate profits tax and raising sales and excise taxes starting July 1. Redistricting sparked battles, a court challenge loomed, and a stock manipulation scandal tainted leaders including Mutscher and Baum. Yet some progress occurred with voter registration reforms and tax related measures.
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Mutscher
Texas to Vote on Equal Rights Amendment in 1972
A state constitutional amendment proposed to grant women equal rights with men will be put to voters in 1972. The measure accompanies plans for mandatory immunization of children in public schools and kindergartens and a shift from a semester to a yearly calendar with year round operation for districts choosing it.
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Texas
DeWitt County Courthouse Named to National Register
DeWitt County Historical Survey Committee learns the DeWitt County Courthouse is listed on the National Historic Register after a nomination by the Texas State Historical Survey Committee. Albert Holik notes the Covey College Historical Marker erected and plans for the Hochheim and James Norman Smith markers, with inscriptions being prepared.
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DeWitt County
Isabella K. Schattner
Albert Holik
DeWitt ‘County
State Historical Survey Committee
James ‘Noreman Smith
Hochheim
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