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Newspaper
Cuero Record
Location
Cuero, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1970
Page
1
The piece argues that spending at Cuero merchants and services circulates money within the community. Each dollar supports multiple local businesses and wages, helping taxes, with out-of-town spending leaving the local economy permanently.
Albert Leypres of the Cuero Rodeo Association announced the Cuero Youth Rodeo entries must be mailed by midnight May 31 to Cuero Youth Rodeo P O Box 407 Cuero Forms available by writing the same address. Contestants receive numbers at City Hall June 9. A queen contest accompanies the rodeo with events including tiedown calf roping calf saddling bull riding bareback bronc riding girls and boys breakaway barrel racing pole bending ribbon roping and running.
Cuero Hospital Auxiliary will meet tomorrow at 7 p.m. in the homemaking lab at Cuero High School. Mrs. Robert Post, president, urges all members to attend and participate in planned activities.
The First Baptist Church building committee, led by Dr. Raymond Reese, approved interior furnishings from L. L. Sams Company of Waco after a six hour study. The package includes furniture, paneling, carpeting, wall coloring, faceted glass windows, air conditioning and heating equipment.
Poppy Day is Friday in Cuero as the American Legion Auxiliary Memorial Poppy program launches its Spring Showing for the 1970 model. President Mrs Otis Carpenter emphasizes May as a month of remembrance for loved ones and those who served, noting the poppy honors over half a million American war dead.
A delegation of fourteen members from Cuero and surrounding areas attended the annual membership meeting of the six county Gulf Bend Center for Children and Youth. District Judge Joe F. Kelly was chosen to head the regional board for the second straight year. Attendees included Judge George W. Trowell, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Polkin, Mr. and Mrs. Bubba Steen, various others from Cuero and nearby towns.
Showers and scattered thundershowers spread across southern two thirds of Texas with funnel clouds reported Friday night. A two car crash in Cleburne killed Mrs. Rosie Winton and injured four others including Weldon Brant Hart and his family. Meteorologists predicted more showers statewide except the High Plains. Three funnel clouds sighted in North Dallas and several counties under tornado alert. Three inches of rain fell Friday.
President Nixon designated the week starting May 24 as Drug Abuse Prevention Week. He warned that drug abuse has shifted from a local police issue to a national health threat, with hundreds of thousands addicted and rising crime linked to addiction.
WO 1 Charles M. Stone, son of Mr and Mrs Jesse M Stone, earns Pilot Club Cuero Record Honor Roll serviceman of the week. A 1968 Cuero High graduate, he excelled in Distributive Education and state salesmanship, joined the army in 1968, trained at Fort Bliss Fort Ord Fort Wolters and Fort Rucker, and serves with the 123rd Aviation Battalion in Vietnam. He values hometown letters and the Record.
Regen cy Furniture Manufacturing Co announces that Billi Campbell, vice president and general manager at the Cuero plant, has been transferred back to the company home area. Campbell was named VP at the directors meeting in Cuero on Feb 24 during the plant open house. Other officers include Clete Erns ter of Cuero as president and J O Blankenship as principal stock holder and new director. Billy H Bre land and Mrs I W Rucks also named directors.
Federal Savings and Loan Association announces new office hours effective June 1. Hours will be 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday with Saturday closed. The noon hour closure from 12 a.m. to 1 p.m. ends. The notice invites customers to see Hours Page 4 for details.
Troop 244 received its charter in a Friday ceremony at Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish Hall. Earl Wyatt of the Live Oak District presented the charter and highlighted growth, noting 1270 area scouts now vs 12 in 1967. Scoutmaster Martin Torres and institutional rep Lalo Quintanilla lead, with sponsorship by the Holy Name Society.
Texas A M University Police Training Division begins a six week general law enforcement course for officers in the mid coast region starting June 1 at Cuero City Hall. Sponsored by the Golden Crescent Council of Governments, about 50 officers from Cuero Victoria area are expected to enroll.
The Cuero-Victoria 1970 Water Safari preliminary runs began at 8 54 a m with 12 boats from Cuero near the San Antonio Highway bridge. Winners from last year, Charlie Hall and Lee Van Siekle of Port Lavaca, set a record time of five hours 11 minutes 5 seconds for the event. Sixty? seven teams registered, including crews from San Antonio Houston and Long Mutt, with river conditions described as high and swift and weather sticky.
In Austin UPI reports that despite clinching the Democratic Senate nomination Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. faces voter apathy threats ahead of the November race with Republican George Bush. A campaign official warned it may be all downhill after the May 2 primary, while Bush supporters note Bentsen’s weaknesses include party, Northeastern roots, and public dissatisfaction among labor leaders and liberals.
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