Texas towns win All-America City honors
Borger Cuero and El Paso are among 11 Texas cities cited by the National Municipal League and Look Magazine for civic achievement. Cuero earned the honor by expanding industrial medical and other facilities. El Paso was noted for a hospital fund drive a youth program and other efforts.
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Borger
Cuero
Fl Paso
Texas
National Municipal League
Look Magazine
Texas Town
Texas Municipal League
DeWitt County
el Paso
Uncle Sam
Confirmands to be reviewed at St Mark's Lutheran Church
Confirmands of St Mark's Lutheran Church will be reviewed at 8 p m Friday in the church fellowship hall. Confirmation service is set for 10 45 a m Sunday May 7 with Rev H A Hanson pastor officiating. An all Lutheran baccalaureate service follows at 8 p m May 24 at St Mark's with Rev Harold Sager of Texas Lutheran College as speaker.
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St Mark's Lutheran Church
Church Fellowship
H. A. Hanson
St. Mark's
Harold Sager
Texas Lutheran College
Burns Hospital Auxiliary honors two members at luncheon
Mrs Elsa Bongiovi and Mrs Dorothy Trowell were named outstanding auxiliary members at Burns Hospital Auxiliary awards luncheon in El Patio. They received plaques. service awards went to Wanda Reuss for 50 hours and 200 hours to seven members. Trowell noted 300 hours. a hospital tour followed amid remarks on the auxiliary's 1965 charter and a proposed memorial scholarship fund.
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Burns Hospital
Elsa Bongiovi
George Trowell
Jeanie Blalock
Dorothy Trowell
Burns Hospital Auxiliary
el Patio
Bongiovi
Trowell
Eugene Kach
Lucilla
Wanda Reuss
Erna Braten
Ruby Christian
Pauline Kach
Sharon Steen
Eleanor Havens
Helen Goodenough
Sarah Post
Cuero Community Hospital Auxiliary
Kach
Burns Hospital Memorial
Barbara
Henrietta
Ursula
Williams
Xaveria
Huth Memorial
Henrietta Fields
Huth Memorial Auxlery
Five Cuero FFA Members Win With Records
Five Cuero FFA members Allen Hartman Johnny Jank Robert Nagel Marvin Warg echa and Mark Doehrman passed Area X record checks at Texas A I S Saturday earning Lone Star Farmer Degree and American Farmer Degree with state level competition ahead. Cuero scrap book also won Area X first place and advances to state checking session for honors among nine areas.
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Cuero Ffa
Area X
Texas A&i
Allen Hartman
Johnny Jank
Robert Nagel
Marvin Wargecha
Lone Star Farmer
Mark Doehrman
Texas State Association
National
America
Texas Association of Future Farmers of America
DeWitt County Plans Meeting at Courthouse
County commissioners meet at the county courthouse at 1 30 pm to approve monthly claims and file the 1963 financial statement. Bids will be opened on pipe and road materials, with discussion on subdivision plat approval for Cypress Valley by J C Murphree.
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DeWitt County
Cypress Valley
J. C. Murphree
Cuero wraps up arc welding course for youths
Thirteen men completed a four day arc welding short course co sponsored by the Cuero Young Farmer Chapter and Cuero High School Vocational Agriculture Department. Participants included Elmo Anderson Tomm y Hensley O T Rails and others. Instructor was Joel Barton from Texas A M University. President Blank said the Cuero Young Farmer Chapter concluded its 1969 70 program.
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Cuero Young Farmer
Cuero High School Vocational Agriculture Department
Cuero Yong
Elmo Anderson
Tommy Hensley
O. T. Rails
Gus Leak
Glynn Carter
Byron Wolf
Gerald Sager
Jim Spring
Clint Stiles
Arlen Goebel
Harvey Schumacher
Robert Thamm
Carroll Blank
Joel Barton
Texas A&m University
Blank
Cuero Soldier Receives Air Medal Near An Khe Vietnam
R. Vargas, son of Mrs. Augustina Vargas of Cuero Texas, earned the Air Medal for meritorious service while participating in aerial flight supporting ground operations in Vietnam. He serves as a rifleman in Company C, 3rd Battalion, 4th Infantry Division, 12th Infantry.
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Army Sp
R. Vargas
Augustina Vargas
W. Morgan ,&J
Cuero
Tex
An Khe
Vietnam
Vargas
DWI Suspect Jailed Here
Frank Henry Bryant is held at DeWitt County Jail on charges of driving while intoxicated and red light violations.
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DWI
Frank Henry Bryant
DeWitt
Red
Demo Unit Rule Upheld in Texas
Texas Democrats vow to stick to the unit rule in state affairs despite its outlawing at the 1968 national convention. County conventions mostly adopt the unit rule and pledge to support the Sept. 15 state convention. Cambodia policy splits Republicans and some Democrats while Travis County calls for US withdrawal.
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Texas
Chicago
John Connally
GOP
Cambodia
Nixon
Travis
Austin
United States
Bill Steger
Tyler
Stewer
Republican Party
Southeast Asia
Harris
Tarrant
Cuero Senior Wins Editorial Writing Honors at State Meet
Cuero High School senior Barbara Bohman won first place in editorial writing and second in news writing at the University Interacho League meet in Austin as part of the 60th Annual State Meet. She is editor of Turkey Talk and plans to attend the University of Texas.
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Austin
Bohman
A. J. Bohman
Cuero
University of Texas
Walter Lewis
Turkey Talk
Members of Union Mourning Reuther
Pellston Michigan United Auto Workers recount Walter Reuther’s impact as a major labor leader. James Blackwell, a 24 year UAW member, hails Reuther as the greatest man for workers and notes his death in a Learjet crash while Reuther had traveled to examine a family education center to foster new leadership for the 1.6 million member union.
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Michael J. Kapler
Pellston
Mich
UPI
James Blackwell
United Auto Workers
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
Blackwell
Reuther
Antiwar Protest To Grow
Large antiwar rally near the White House spurs a plan to expand the movement with student strikes, organized labor backing, and efforts to elect peace candidates to Congress. Protest leaders say they will mobilize hometowns, publicize Congress votes, and proceed with hearings by House members as the November election approaches.
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Congress
Nixon
U.S
Cambodia
Kent State University
Capitol
House
Final Vote Returns Show 1 533 992 Cast Ballots
Final returns from Texas show 1 553 992 votes cast in Democratic Senate primary with no runoff needed in statewide races. Lloyd Bentsen Jr leads with 12 365 votes to Ralph Yarborough 721 627 in the GOP Senate contest. Bush leads Morris in Houston. Several races await canvass results and runoffs.
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UPI
Senate
Texas Election Bureau
Lloyd Bentsen Jr
Houston
Ralph Yarborough
U.S. Senate
George Bush
Robert Morris
Bentsen
Bush
TEB
Texas Supreme Court
James Denton
Matt Davis
Hawthorne Phillips
Denton
Yarborough
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Cueroite
United Press International
Cuero Nursing Home
Frieda Sager
Jimmy Nichols
Heston
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Reuben Sager
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Ouero
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CHS
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Paul Egeers
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