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Newspaper
Cuero Record
Location
Cuero, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1971
Page
1
DeWitt County residents are urged to share local happenings as Cuero prep editor covers town news while D L Prentice is ill. The piece praises personal columns, notes friendly figures like SMP, and invites readers to drop by. It references past local names and a nod to Okla football coach Bud Wilkerson.
A representative of the Social Security Office in Victoria Texas will be in Cuero at 9 am in the County Courtroom on Tuesday April 6. The visit offers to file retirement survivor disability or Medicare claims and to answer questions about the program.
Two citizen groups form to boost turnout for the April 6 Cuero election. One backs the present mayor and two reelecting councilmen. the other, Voters League Club, backs W D Carroll for the school board and Rev Charles W Smith and Gregory Arroyo for city council. The effort aims to preserve city government harmony and efficient operations after a four year past period of discord.
Cuero High School entry The Lesson earned a district competition slot after zone judges selected it for April. Oran Davis and Judy Aldrich won acting honors with honorable mentions for Deiuia Rusche and Lisa Hansen. Drama instructor Francis Ashby noted the cast includes Delula Rusche and Catylon Johnson.
Cuero High School choir of 35 students directed by Mrs. Jo Buening won two first place divisions in concert and sight reading at University Interscholastic League contests in Wharton on Saturday. Selections included E’en So Lord Jesus Vecchi and Never Tell Thy Love Houston Bright. The group will also perform Week services next week at First Baptist Church from 12 05 to 12 30 p.m.
Refugio County reports its first screwworm case of the year on a Bayside Bonnie View ranch in Mission. It marks the eighth U S outbreak in the Southwest and Texas thus far, with sterile fly grid work to begin nearby. Dr Gartman warns of northward fly migrations. ranchers should inspect livestock, sample larvae, and treat wounds.
About 500 people attended Cuero High School’s Spring Band Concert in the gym Monday. Music director Nat Alewine noted the largest turnout yet and that proceeds will fund annual operating expenses. The seventh and eighth grade bands under Larry Wolf joined the high school band in the program.
Car owners who have not yet purchased 1971 license plates have another chance tonight. The county tax assessor collector’s office will stay open until 9 p.m. and again Thursday with hours 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The deadline to install new plates is midnight Thursday.
Bob Aldridge, former The Record managing editor from 1945 to 1948, is back in Cuero this week filling in for D. L. Prentice who is undergoing cancer treatment. He will oversee news coverage for the Wednesday through Sunday editions assisted by Jeanie Blalock and Pat Laake.
Cuero High School announces third nine weeks honor roll results. Gilt edge seniors include Lois Bade Dianne Dingosch Nelson Hensley Linda Lassman Enola Ross Gladys Sager Vicki Shows Marvin Warzecha Keith Wells Debbie Wishert Gregory Yanta. Juniors list Alice Bitterly Lorraine Bosart Orville Buchhorn Marie Clarke Susan Gohmert Virginia Goode Shirlene Koennig Jeanie Korth Kathryn Moritz Franke McClung Ann McLerran Carol Ross Joe L Sheppard. sophomores Denise Arndt Susan Arnold Judy Basher Fernando Fernandez John Freis Karen High Donna Lord Judy Nagel Sylvia Orozco Sharon Peters Timothy Riedesal Almeta Schober Gladys Stall. Freshmen Patty Banda Kenneth Bell Jay Cooley Darla Drehr Daniel Egg Rose Guenther Beverly Henneke Patricia Ideus Stephen Keane Patricia Leslie Bruce Liesman Robyn Morgan Saralee Olson Marsha Rangnow Jerry Salcher Wes Wallis Karen Wells Irma Orozco. CVAE Elaine Berger Virginia Martinez Georgia Moore. Honor roll seniors include Brad Abel Ella See Honor Roll Page 15.
Mateo Perez of Cuero wins a one year term on the executive committee of the Alamo Area Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association. Perez learned of the election from Robert Larkin, the committee's executive director, after serving two years on the board and heading the Christmas Seal campaign in DeWitt County.
Mayor Jack Elgar Lester Frers Rev Hubert Henson and chamber of commerce manager Dewey Henderson plan to attend the Legislative breakfast at the Downtowner Motel in Austin Thursday morning. The chamber event will review proposed legislation from the current session.
The Cuero City Council will meet at 5 45 p m Thursday with routine items on the agenda. Bids will be opened for six inch water pipe purchases and the annexation ordinance faces its third reading. Bill payments are to be approved and the city manager will present a report.
Residents and veterans in Cuero react strongly to the military tribunal verdict finding Lt. William Calley Jr. guilty of premeditated murder for My Lai killings. Citizens call for harsher penalties and question the purpose of service, while some plan to contact officials over the decision.
Hilton E. Schorre 58, a Corpus Christi peace officer and chief deputy U.S. marshal, was killed Tuesday in a south Oklahoma City area crash while transporting two prisoners to a federal institution in Texarkana. Also dead were Marcelo Moya 34 of Corpus Christi and the two prisoners. James Ditto 48 was critically injured. Schorre, a 28 year federal service veteran, had led Corpus Christi division of the Southern District of Texas and previously served in the Border Patrol and Agriculture Department. Survivors include his parents Mr. and Mrs. Will G. Schorre of Cuero.
Rev. L C Browning w as in Cuero to raise part of the 100000 needed for a Youth Crime Prevention League headqu arters in Dallas. The group aims to build good citizenship among Texas black youth and has raised 15000 toward a building site with 850000 to be sent to First National Bank, Dallas.
Voters will cast ballots at the junior high school from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. today. The location is open for the school election and related notices.
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