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Newspaper
Cuero Record
Location
Cuero, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1971
Page
1
Town Talk echoes readers requests for more Ex Cueroites making good elsewhere while sharing quirky anecdotes. The column mentions Ludeke’s birthday, local personalities, bus encounters, coffee purchases, town feedback on Paul Lucas, farmer sayings, and humorous reflections on memory and community life sourced from the South Dakota Newsletter.
Report notes election results to be counted by Dewitt County election commissioners in court Monday at 2 29 p m. The fragment confirms a proceeding related to vote tallying and the official timing for court action.
DeWitt County Sheriff reports no leads in the escape of two prisoners from the county jail Sunday afternoon. Edwin Hooper Jr. of Baltimore and George Ragland of Cuero disappeared after sharing a cell. Hooper was last seen in the office around 5 15 p m and Ragland found missing at 6 15 p m. An area wide alert was issued. Hooper, a car theft suspect, wore a blue plaid shirt and blue jeans. Ragland wore a green short sleeve shirt and green pants.
The Palmer State Bank and another group provided funds to landscape a new hospital site. Donation guidance indicates that any excess funds or overages will be tested and allocated, with details about site boundaries and use. The description mentions a foundation endowment and a loan association involvement totaling $150 among others.
Cuero Chamber of Commerce will nominate ten new board members at a June nominating committee meeting. The committee is appointed by President Lester Frers. The seven highest votes will elect directors to serve with seven holdovers. Holdovers include Al Champion and others. outgoing directors listed.
Cuero Lions Club led by J A DeLander and J C McNeill topped District 284 honors at the Lions International convention in Victoria. Ray Young of Brookside Village named camp director of the Texas Lions League for Crippled Children. Over 300 attendees heard guest speaker Gra dy R Pulliam Jr of Winston Salem NC. The convention site selected for 1972 will be Galveston.
Election details from a band parents meeting show officers to be elected at 7:30 pm Monday in the high school hall. Harold Tiffin is the outgoing president and will not seek reelection.
Mrs Harold High was elected president of the Cuero Community Hospital Auxiliary for 1971 The annual awards luncheon Saturday named new officers including Mrs Joe B Reuss first vice president and Mrs William Kleincke second vice president Others received hospital pins for service and hours logged since September 1970 at Cuero Community Hospital Sister M Lucilla and Mrs Cr Duet presented awards and pins to longtime helpers from the auxiliary
The DeWitt County Cancer Crusade chapter reports records across towns. Westhott contributed 143.18. Yorktown volunteers led by George Roper raised funds. Nordweien under Mrs. Crosse gathered 292.75. the Chi sorority BetasSigma collected 1117.71 in a door to door drive. remarks by Mrs. Duckett summarize county progress.
Irven Denim Coury Jai Feix Respondek and Ernest Naranjo were released on personal bonds after arrests in the West End. Feix Respondek posted 9100 bond and faces a drunk in public charge. Ernest Naranjo posted 325 bond on the same charge.
A motion for a change of venue in the trial of C Spencer Reed was filed in De Witt County Court by Reed’s attorney Ted Dunnam of Port Lavaca. Reed is charged with aggravated assault on a Cuero police officer J R Adams. The court will rule Wednesday as a 18 member jury panel is to report. other cases include Daniel Friesenhahn and James Friesenhahn charged with assaulting Don McFarland of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission.
Winners Pat Oxsheer of Angleton and Tom Goynes of Houston won the River Race from Cuero to Victoria with a time of 6 hours 56 minutes 35 seconds, earning a trophy presented by Victoria Helen Shook and Becky Balls. Second place went to Gary Knight and Charlie Hall of Woodsboro. the event is a preliminary to the Texas Water Safari starting June 8 in San Marcos.
Moscow reports the Soviet Union launched an unmanned spacecraft named Cosmos 422, placing it into a wide elliptical orbit extending up to 632 miles from Earth. Tast news agency provided no mission details, continuing its usual terse briefing.
Joyce Bonnet wins Miss DeWitt County at the Cuero Rotary Club pageant in Cuero. Bonnet, a Yoakum High School sophomore, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David B Bonnet and named Susie Howard of Cuero as Miss DeWitt County. Venoma Bonnet attended as a special guest. Lisa Adams was chosen Little Miss DeWitt County, daughter of Ken and Mrs. Adams of Cuero. Allan Rath named Mister DeWitt County, son of Mr. and Mrs. Newton Rath of Cuero. Other finalists included Rebecca Reynolds, Kathryn Morite, Cindy Rischneider, Becky Osterloh, and Joy Buch among others.
Prentice announces return as editor after cobalt radiation therapy at VA Hospital Heniston for throat cancer. He expects to be back on Monday May 31 and plans to work part time for a month before full duties resume.
Approval of a watershed project in the district surfaced after testimony before the Mone Subcommittee on Watershed Development. The Ecleto Creek plan envisions 11 new water retain structures to curb flooding and erosion and five recreation areas for South Texans, benefiting farmers and farm produce. The article cites Senator Herman E. Talmadge and rural problems discussions with Hubert Humphrey, noting broad concerns about rural out-migration.
Dallas era publisher Charles Craig Woodson aged 74 died Sunday in Brownwood Texas his body sent there for funeral arrangements He owned stakes in Miami News Record Alice Daily Keho Del Rio News Herald Stephenville Empire Waxahachie Daily Lis Port Lavaca Wave Times and El Campo Leader News He served on the State Democratic Executive Committee Funeral services set for 5 pm Tuesday at First Baptist Church Brownwood with burial at East Lawn Memorial Park.
The Golden Crescent Council of Governments will host a 9 30 a m meeting on May 26 at Town Hall First Victoria National Barn Building. The session, urged by the Health Facilities Coalition of the State Department of Health, aims to review and discuss the Texas State Plan for Construction and Modernization of Hospitals and related medical facilities. Officials from regional hospitals and health committees are invited to attend along with community administrators.
The Ups story reports that the postcard originated in Austria in 186. The brief note credits United Press International insight and frames the historical detail as a quick knowledge item.
A call to action to preserve a mail route faced with discontinuation. Citizens urged to write protests to Congressmen Abraham Karaman, Mouse Ottlew, and others, including officials in Washington and Fort Worth, to the Postal Service and logistics directorates. The notice emphasizes public input as the route's fate is decided.
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