Evacuation Ordered as Hanoi Prepares Amid Bombing
North Vietnamese authorities order the evacuation of Hanoi as U S bombing intensifies near An Loc and Haiphong remains blocked. Reports say two U S Air Force planes were shot down and casualties ensued while Washington weighs Nixon peace terms and a broader Indochina cease fire.
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Hanoi
Saigon
U.S
Haiphong
South Vietnam
An Loc
Washington
Senate
Nixon
Indochina
Vietnam
Local Notices Roundup Of Community Life And Visits
In our office on Thursday Mrs Albert Pahmiyer wore a navy and white pant suit and reclaimed a package she left. Invitations to Senior High graduation exercises are disappearing from the office as twenty or more remain. Ron Callander remains in intensive care after major surgery at Community Hospital Monday, per wife Janice. Harold Martin tends his eighty ish mother’s garden. John Kahlich plans to attend the Truck Sales Honor Club Banquet in Houston Zone at Sea Gun Sports Inn on May 19 and 20, skipping golf to fish. Mr and Mrs Wilfred Leist and sons Allen Ray and Daryl and sister-in-law Mrs Gerhard Blank and Calvin plan to visit Houston Sunday afternoon to see the Astros. A redbird nest outside our kitchen window now hosts two hungry hatchlings. Mrs R S Wilkinson returned to Sanderson after two weeks with her mother Mrs J M Bass and sister Avis Reiffert, noting her mother can walk to meals again. Old cookbooks are resurfacing, including a Grace Episcopal Church dessert volume edited by women with Mrs Fritz Koehler as president, dating to the early twenties. Ben Allen Carpenter visited his mother Selina Carpenter. Otis Red Carpenter is in a Houston hospital after undergoing further plastic surgery Thursday.
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Wilfred Leist
Allen Ray
Daryl
Gerhard Blank
Calvin
Houston
Astros
Gonzales Dam Break Triggers Citywide Emergency
Gonzales faces a state of emergency as Dam No 5 ruptures flooding the area. National Weather Service predicts 37 feet of water, 16 feet above flood stage, with evacuations underway and roads closed.
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Gonzales
National Weather Service
San Antonio
Cox
DPS
DeWitt County
Cuero
Gonzales Dam
Last 40 Men Dead in Sunshine Mine Disaster
After nine days of underground search the Sunshine mine in Kellogg Idaho recovered the bodies of the last 40 missing miners. In total 91 men died in the fire and cave in the worst Idaho mining tragedy. Only two of the original trapped survivors remained.
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Richard Charnock Kellogg
Idaho
UPI
Sunshine
Marvin C. Chase
House Votes to Raise Minimum Wage to Two Dollars
The House backed a GOP substitute raising the federal minimum wage from 1.60 to 2.00 over time, with a final 330 to 78 Senate-bound vote. The plan would lift pre 1966 workers to 2.00 within a year, and post 1966 workers to 2.00 after two years, affecting millions and costing about 3 million for those under 2.00.
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Washington
UPI
House
House Education and Labor Committee
Senate
Congress
Open House at Cuero Nursing Home Showcases New 30-Bed Wing
The Cuero Nursing Home at 1010 E Mac Arthur hosts an Open House Sunday May 14 from 2 to 4 pm led by administrator Patsy Goebel. Visitors will see the new 30 bed wing, while the existing facility holds 60 beds, part of National Nursing Home Week observance May 14 21.
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Jack Edgar
Mary Saenz
The
Cuero Nursing Home
Patsy Goebel
E. MacArthur
Century Bath
Portis Named Principal of Three Cuero Schools
Glenn C Portis was named principal of Hunt Daule and John C French Schools by the Cuero Independent School District board at its Thursday meeting Portis has served the district five years and currently leads Daule while John C French awaits a head teacher Portis replaces Bess Jernigan who resigns at year end Also approved were two teachers and a school nurse for 1972 73 and resignations for Gene and Agnes Parks and Mrs Parks at Daule.
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In C. Portis
Hunt, Daule
John C
John C. French
Bill Blackwell
Douglas Newbern
Agnes Southers
Gene Parks
Parks
Daule
Portis
Page
Woods Grandchild Drowns in New Braunfels Flood
Sarah Lynn Teague, 1, died when flash floods swept away the Teague family home in New Braunfels where Mr. and Mrs. Robert Teague of Houston were visiting. The child, granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wood of Cuero and Mrs. Dorothy Teague of Houston, is survived by her parents and two siblings. Funeral services are pending.
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Robert Teague
Houston
New Braunfels
Sarah Lynn Teague
Sarah Lynn
Henry Wood
Cuero
Dorothy Teague
Robert
Amy Lynn
Guadalupe Floods Drowning Toll Rises Across Central Texas
The Guadalupe River burst its banks after week of rain flooding cities from New Braunfels to Seguin. At least six dead, thousands evacuated in San Antonio and surrounding communities. many more reported missing as rescuers search door to door by boat.
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New Braunfels
Tex
Seguin
Treasure Island
Lake McQueeny
Bodden Heads to 68th Knights of Columbus Convention
Grand Knight Bodden and Mrs Bodden travel to Fort Worth for the 68th annual State Convention of the Knights of Columbus. He serves as chairman of the Mileage and Per Diem Committee and will certify delegates. the convention runs from May 13 to May 15.
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Chareles L. Bodden
Fort Worth
Order of the Knights of Columbus
Cuere Council of the Knights of Columbus
Bodden
Will Revenue Sharing Be Discussed In 1972
Washington UPI reports lawmakers question if revenue sharing will move in 1972 as Ways and Means backs a $50 billion, five year measure. Mills and Nixon favor passage, but Rules hearings and Memorial Day delay push floor action to June with Senate relief stalled until July. The piece notes a prior minimum tax controversy affecting high earners.
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Washington
UPI
House
Congress
Ways and Means
Wilbur D. Mills
Nixon
Senate
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Polliwogs
By Polly Howen
Sy United Press International
Albert Pahmiyer
Ron Callander
Community Hospital
Janice
Harold Martin
John Kahlich
Houston Zone
Sea Gun Sports Inn
R. S. Wilkinson
Sanderson
J. M. Bass
Avis Reiffert
Kaye Tarkington
Grace Episcopal Church
Fritz Koehler
Ben Allen Carpenter
Selina Carpenter
Otis “Red” Carpenter
Larry Vasbinder
Yorktown
Farm Bureau
Brownwood
Don Neumann
Waco
Texas
TFB
Frank Cox
Emergency Operations Center
Department of Public Safety
Austin
Goebel
Glenn C. Portis
Woods
Guadalupe
By K. Mack Sisk
Boddens
Eleazer
Mills
May
Rules Committee
Rules
William M. Colmer
D-Miss
Carl Albert
Finance Committee
Henry
Reuss
D-Wis
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