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Newspaper
Cuero Record
Location
Cuero, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1972
Page
2
The piece notes Mother's Day began in Philadelphia in 1907 after Anna Jarvis promoted the idea. By 1911 it reached every state and spread worldwide with the red flower for living mothers and white for deceased. It laments materialism and praises mothers as the core of family, society, and moral life.
A strong critique condemns the fashion industry for promoting ultra thin beauty standards. It argues that magazines glorify skeletal figures, pressuring women to starve themselves to fit a curveless ideal while men reportedly prefer fuller figures.
Mrs. John Young, wife of the Apollo 16 astronaut, will not speak to reporters during the moon mission. The decision is praised as preserving privacy and dignity amid publicity, with Mrs Young cited as a model against staged media attention.
The article notes street mobs by college students protesting Nixon’s bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong. It cites campus shutdowns and property damage as actions by student leaders, while asserting most Americans view students as learners, not decision makers.
The Manion Forum aired Braden remarks warning that Latin America faces serious Communist influence. Braden cites Chile and Cuba expropriations, hints at Hickenlooper Amendment repeal, and recalls past assurances about danger to Cuba and wider region.
A local column records warm worded greetings from Mrs. Howard Bennett and remarks about residents Elmer Luddeke Dorothy Burmiester and Bertha Brown. It notes Ike Babel Alfonso Gonzalez Frank Hadamek and Sue Rerner visiting temporary offices and mentions a homemade ice cream windig at Green DeWitt center and a quip on diplomacy.
A reader describes turning a closet full of dolls into a display by washing outfits, ironing clothes, and hanging each doll on picture hangers with safety pins. The activity creates a decorative, organized display in the child's room.
A mixed column of playful poems and reader letters from a 1972 Heloise page. Jokes about aging athletes, homemaking tips, and light humor on daily life with personal anecdotes and thank you notes to the columnist.
The piece reflects on U S government funded study abroad for Latin American youth who studied at American universities and colleges. It notes a shift leftward upon returning to Colombia and contrasts views on communism with references to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Worry Clinic details Dr. Crane advising a dry cell shock method to wake a bed-wetter in Findlay Ohio. Critics decry it as inhumane while defending horse sense and opposing costly psychiatry and welfare bureaucrats. The piece railes against tax funded health schemes.
Dr Earl Butz new Secretary of Agriculture told the Foundation for American Agriculture that ecological extremes threaten mankind and that humans have long resisted natural limits. He warned against overreaching ecological changes in farming saying God placed natural checks which humans have removed.
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