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Newspaper
Cuero Record
Location
Cuero, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1970
Page
1
The Record notes frequent complaints about missed deliveries when house numbers are not visible. Missing street signs and non through streets confuse staff trying to locate addresses. Readers are urged to display clear house numbers. Thoreau quote concludes the notice.
Dr W C Newberry well known philosopher and humorist will be guest speaker at the chamber of commerce banquet in Yorktown. The banquet is at the Yorktown Community Hall at 8 p.m. June 18. Newberry is assistant professor of education at Southwest Texas University in San Marcos. Newly elected directors will be named. nominees are Warren J Schorimer William W McCluskey and Kenneth R Graham. Nominating committee members are Fred B Hamilton chairman Walter H Butshek and Leeroy Griffin Jr Lou A Sloma is chairman of the ballot committee.
President of the Yoakum Chamber of Commerce Lewis Shows resigns. First vice president Raetzich Wagner to succeed. Shows will move to Fort Worth to manage Tandy Corp interests in the Fort Worth Dallas area. Board also votes to contribute $100 to legal counsel fund protesting railroad service abandonment between Yoakum and Yorktown.
Cincinnati police charged 21 year old Joseph Rahn with reckless driving after he struck a police cruiser. He told officers I just felt like ramming a police car and had no defense.
Liberal Texas lawmakers secured three of four Senate runoff victories over the weekend. Don Kennard won reelection in Fort Worth and will face no November opposition. Glenn Rothmann narrowly defeated LaMoine Holland in San Antonio, with James Shipley winning in Houston and Max Sherman victorious in Amarillo to advance. November matchups set against Nowlin, Farrior, and Abraham respectively.
DeWitt County brucellosis testing moves to Precinct 2 with Orval Wright announcing start. Precinct 1 work winds down as two lab staff prepare for full time by June 15. W. R. Miller leads the Animal Health Committee aiding the program with volunteers and testing crew named.
The State Board of Health authorized a lease to Yoakum Industrial Foundation to build a 4000 square foot meat inspector school at the municipal airport. The facility supports a sanitation program covering 1250 slaughterhouses and plants within 40 miles. The state may buy the building after four years. James Cross of the Yoakum Foundation submitted the proposal. More than 590 inspectors are needed for the program.
Victor M. Jones, 55, of Yoakum, faces a murder accusation after William M. Coleman, 54, died yesterday in a Yoakum hospital from a .22 caliber gunshot wound to the throat after an argument at Huey Jones Cafe Thursday night. Jones is held on a 5060 bond and has prior assault with intent to murder charges.
Four DeWitt County 4-H members accompany County Home Demonstration Agent Mrs Mildred Martin at the Junior Leadership Workshop and District 4-H Council held at Texas Lutheran College in Seguin. Attendees include Sylvia Doehrmann Michael Ku ecker Terrie Means and Arlen Buchhorn. The session lasts through Wednesday.
The House Appropriations Committee cut funding for two Texas aviation maintenance projects from the military construction bill. The Kelly Air Force Base overhaul facility near San Antonio and a Naval Air Station Corpus Christi engine maintenance shop were removed, with officials citing adequate capacity in existing facilities. The decision affects related Texas items at Reese AFB Bergstrom AFB and Kelly AFB headquarters, while other programs such as the Brooks AFB aerospace medical research facility remain funded.
Gov Preston Smith spoke to Cuero attendees at a Victoria luncheon on the Texas Communities Tomorrow program aiding cities under 12 000 population. The Golden Crescent Council of Governments conference accompanied the event with Caera officials listed including Judge George Trowell Mayor Jack Edgar and others.
Cuero school superintendent Dr E E Sims will participate in the School Administrators and Supervisors Conference at Texas A M University from today to Wednesday. He will read sessions on priorities in use of funds while about 500 participants discuss new concepts and techniques in education. The event is sponsored by the Texas School Administrators Association and others.
Julius Mooney of Cuero is jailed under a $5000 bond for the murder of Robert Cox of Cuero. Cox was shot Sunday night at his residence with a .22 pistol. Sheriff N G Dietze said officers were alerted about 8 05 pm and Cox died at the hospital. Mooney, living near Cox, was arrested shortly after the shooting as witnesses are sought and the case remains under investigation.
Mrs Walter Sager outlined 4H youth activities at the DeWitt County Home Demonstration Council meeting. Attendees include Terrie Means Sylvia Doehrmann Arien Buchhorn and Michael Kuecker headed to the district junior leadership workshop in Seguin. A July 13 dress revue is planned along with Citizenship Day in Austin and a state home demonstration convention in Galveston September 15 to 17. The national convention will be held in Las Vegas in November. The float is ready for parades and members toured Regency Furniture Mfg Co after the meeting.
Preliminary census figures for 252 of Texas 524 counties show a 7.8 percent population rise since 1960, totaling 7,951,339. Excluded are Harris and Dallas counties, whose higher projections could bridge the gap to last year’s predicted range, but most other cities report smaller gains than expected.
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