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Newspaper
Cuero Record
Location
Cuero, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1971
Page
1
Old Timers recall simpler times and warn of youth discipline and temptation as Cuero faces new residents from big cities. The piece notes two Supreme Court decisions unpopular with hippies and warns parents to maintain control to guide children toward responsibility by age 21, ending with a call to faith.
Officials confirm the fifth screwworm case in the South Central United States near Bebbronville with the first case in Jim Howe County and the fourth in the nation. Sterile fly control continues, producers urged to spray herds, inspect for wounds, collect larvae, and mail samples to Mission for lab diagnosis at the Screwworm Center.
The Texas Lions League expands its Kerrville camp with a three week session for diabetic children in cooperation with the Diabetes Associations of Texas. June 7 to June 25 at Camp Manison near Friendswood will host 110 youths ages 6 to 16 with Dr. Luther B. Travis as medical director and Tom Manison as camp director.
Herbert Rainwater Commander-in-Chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will visit Victoria on Wednesday March 24 and attend a banquet at Victoria Post 4146 at 7 00 p m Cuero Post 3972 members have been invited Host Post extends the invitation This marks his second Texas visit in 1971 and District 24 posts are urged to attend according to A W Schaffner Cuero
Richard Koenig visits Cuero Texas at 312 First Street with parents Mr and Mrs Charles L Koenig during a days leave before reporting to Fort Belvoir. He first served January to November 1967 in Vietnam then served June 1969 again and completed a third tour. He plans to leave military service and spoke of the long journey home from Tokyo to Travis Air Force Base.
Cuero High School senior Mary Ann Bomba named Outstanding DE Student of the year at the chapter banquet held at the American Legion Civic Center. She received a plaque from DE coordinator Cass Haecker and was among 12 finalists in the state competition in Fort Worth March 5–8.
Three held in Cuero area burglaries as George Ragland 27 of Cuero faces burglary charges in DeWitt County jail with $5,000 bond. Two Cuero suspects arrested at their homes are also held on $5,000 bonds each after warrants issued by Judge Ley. Ragland was nabbed around 4 a.m. inside the Friendly House after officers spotted him breaking into a cigarette vending machine.
A lunar rock sample from Apollo missions will be on display at WCJC in Wharton April 2 3. The exhibit runs 9 a.m. 9 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. 12 noon Saturday with NASA scientist Dr John Dornbach giving a lecture. Local officials designate April 2 Moon Day and plan tight security with volunteer firemen guarding the specimen.
A humorous column imagines a man born under a dark cloud when misfortune follows him. It lists playful examples like failed investments and endless military sendings and ends with the notion that such signs prove a cloud shrouds him.
Sterling Parks filed a permit for an $18 000 brick veneer home at 605 W. Johnson Street. The project was recorded by Cuero City Hall with notes from Tax Collector and Assessor Glen Sigmund.
Jack Howerton thanks Cuero residents for aid after his family lost their country home to a fire. He credits the Cuero volunteer fire department landlord Jesse Poenitzsch Polzin and Rev. Calvin Peterson for comfort and assistance during the crisis.
Jury selection completed in the Victor Marshall Jones murder case in Yoakum with jurors including Ewald Metting and Al Morene Bucek added to the panel. Other district court notes include DWI sentences for Alfred Joe Mathis and Jon Satterfield and a pending trial date for Ronald Rhodes after a request for a jury trial.
A 1971 DeWitt County Bar Association resolution honors Bert A Kirk Jr a Cuero attorney and former Army Captain who died March 1 1971. The document recounts his West Virginia roots WVU Law education service in the Army Air Forces and Texas legal career and notes survivors Ada Koenig Mrs Martha Ann Kirk and Robbie Kirk.
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