Cuero News Briefs Include Local Visits Flooded Streets and Ads
Polliwogs bloom at First Presbyterian Church while streets flood again on Wednesday. Robert Beasley on leave visits his Cuero mother Jane Beasley. Local illness updates note Mary Mayer in intensive care with husband Rowdy returning from Rockport. Keith info on new Cuero and Windberg covered Travel magazine. Art show planned by Sakowitz at Post Oak Houston June 4. Health department road studies by Rob Spears and Jim Laake in Gonzales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pfe
Robert Beasley
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Cuero
Jane Beasley
W. End Ave
Beasley
Cuero High
Mary Mayer
Rowdy
Rockport
Jerry
Ft. Worth
Jimmy
Johnny Lewis
Victoria
Rob Spears
Jim Laake
Department of Health
State of Texas
Gonzales
W. A. Laake
Retired Cueroite Leonard F. McCollum Led Continental Global Growth
Leonard F. McCollum, born 1902 in Tennessee and raised in Fordtran and Cuero, retires after twenty years as president of Continental Oil Company. He steered the firm into a large international energy group with properties in 52 countries and ventures in oil gas coal chemicals and uranium. He serves on multiple boards and advisory groups including Baylor College of Medicine and Morgan Guaranty Trust Co.
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Leonard F. McCollum
Cueroite
Continental Oil Company
Tennessee
McCollum
Fordtran
Cuero
University of Texas
Humble Oil and Refining Company
Continental
Nixon and Soviet Trade Minister Meet at White House
President Nixon hosted Nikolai Patolichev Soviet minister of foreign trade in a cordial White House meeting described as a courtesy call The session included Henry Kissinger Peter Peterson and Peter Flanigan with Anatoly Dobrynin present The talks followed Tass reports on the naval blockade reaction prior to Patolichev’s arrival as a guest to discuss economic trade relations.
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Nixon
Washington
UPI
White House
Nikolai Patelichev
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
Patolichev
Tass
Soviet Union
Oval Office
Henry A. Kissinger
Commerce
Peter G. Peterson
Peter M. Flanigan
Patoliche
Peterson
Troop 241 Holds Meet on Parent Child Communication
Boy Scout Troop 241 held a meeting focusing on communications between parents and children. Senior Patrol Leader Ralph Hartman commented on the importance for children, while Allen Leist reported scouts paid for summer camp. Charles Davis blew taps to close.
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Boy Scout Troop 241
Ralph Hartman
Allen Leist
Charles Davis
Troop 242 Plans Campout and Summer Camp
Boy Scout Troop 242 discusses a campout for second class requirements with potential rain postponement to May 27. They plan an anti litter campaign with the National Guard, accept summer camp funds, and confirm thirty scouts will attend summer camp June 11 to June 17 at Lost Pines Scout Camp site A.
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Boy Scout Troop 242
National Guard
Marilynn Dietze
Troop 242
Lost Pines
Police, Students Clash on UNM Campus in Demonstrations
Police and antiwar demonstrators clashed on the University of New Mexico campus ending in the early hours. Three students were shot with shotgun pellets and treated at the health center while 43 others were arrested as tear gas filled the campus.
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Albuquerque
N.M
University of New Mexico
Mines In Viet Harbors Become Active Today
The United States blocked North Vietnamese war supplies as mines in Haiphong and other harbors activated at 7 a.m. EDT. The U S 7th Fleet enforced the blockade while Soviet protests warned of escalating tensions. Fighter operations dropped to about 200 daytime raids with 10 MIGs claimed shot down.
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Viet
United Press International
Soviet Union
United States
North Vietnam
Haiphong
U.S. 7Th Fleet
Hanoi
Nixon
Kremlin
Paris
Moscow
Saigon
U.S. Command
Haiphong Harbor
Navy
U.S
Hanoi-Haiphong
Randy Cunningham
Mira Mesa
San Diego
Calif
William Driscoll
Framingham
Mass
China Sea
Melvin Laird
Architects Urge City Building Program In Urban Renovation Plan
The American Institute of Architects urged government support for a 4 million dollar program to renovate 65 major U.S. cities over 28 years. The proposal calls for acquiring one million acres in core city areas for neighborhood improvements and prompts debate over representation and bidding rules.
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American Institute of Architects
AIA
Boston
Pietro Belluschi
Belluschi
School of Architecture and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Police Get Possible Lead On Skyjacker
Police questioned a barber in Tela Honduras who says he shaved the skyjacker who parachuted from an Eastern Airlines plane with 300000 dollars in ransom. The man fit the police description and fled toward Tela after bail out over Siemprevive. Honduran forces scoured Yoro for the suspect with no success.
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Tela
Honduras
UPI
Eastern Airlines
Gregorio Reyes
Caribbean
Siempreviva
la Prensa
San Pedro Sula
Siem Previva
Yoro
Brownies and Scouts Host Family Night at Cuero First Church
Brownies To Meet Brownies To Meet Brownies and Girl Scouts of Cuero plan a Thursday 7 pm family night at the First United Methodist Church. Members advancing to the next age level will receive wings and badges. Families urged to attend per troop leader Mrs. Paul Gebauer.
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Brownies
Girl Scouts
Cuero
First United Methodist Church
Paul Gebauer
Plan Outlined For Relations With Peking By Barnett
A former U.S. diplomat, Robert W. Barnett, urges Nixon to remove all U.S. military forces on Taiwan related to Vietnam logistics to speed formally recognizing Peking. He argues a smaller Taiwan role and trade incentives could push Beijing and Taipei toward settlement and eventual rapprochement while honoring 1954 defense commitments.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Peking
Taiwan
U.S
Vietnam
Foreign Service
Robert W. Barnett
The
Asia Society
Chiang Kai-shek
Peoples Republic of China
Barnett
China
Taipei
Chou En-lai
Chiang
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Polliwogs
First Presbyterian Church
Main
Esplanade
Cuero and the Lovely
Dalhart Windberg
Travel” Magazine
New Zealand
Bob Sollock
Cuero Foodcraft
Ollie Cadell
Refugio
Raleigh Blackwell, Jr
Sakowitz
Post Oak
Houston
By Polly Hovereon
East Broadway
Cuero Wed
By Joan Gonzales
API
Bruner
Haddon Township
N.J
Rogers
Justice Department
Keyes
By Stewart Hensley
East Asia
House
Wan
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