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Newspaper
Cuero Record
Location
Cuero, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1971
Page
1
A light local column recalls S M P Pat Wall and notes on guests Walter Koenig and his wife traveling to Long Beach for three weeks. Memories of C C Howerton gate duties, Marked Tree Arkansas, and Cuero settlers appear amid a chatty mix of personal anecdotes and jokes about cooking ham.
A special church program organized by Elder Billy J. Walden runs Friday to Sunday with services at 7 30 p m Friday and 10 30 a m Saturday and Sunday Lunch is served in the church dining room Saturday and Sunday A guest minister will preside and the public is invited.
Four DeWitt County 4-H members Faye Goebel Terrie Means Malcom Jacob and Charles Koenig are selected as delegates to the District 4-H Junior Recreation Workshop at Texas Lutheran College Seguin June 7 9. Orval Wright the County Agricultural Agent will accompany them for training to relay activities to local clubs.
Austin report says no state takeover of public education costs this session. Senate debate multiple crippling amendments. House defeats Nugent measure 62 to 83 as it seeks to alter the Minimum Foundation School Program.
A Buchel Bank foyer exhibit features paintings valued at hundreds of thousands plus bronzes by Charles Russell George Phippen and Melvin C Warren. Works include Renoir and Chagall pieces, with realism and western art by Remington Salinas and Montague. Prices range 195 to 49000 dollars. Public invited daily nine to five.
A Head Start planning meeting at John C. French School on May 25 attracted about 28 parents teachers and aides. Louis Liendo was elected president and Eunice Faulkner recording secretary. The program begins June 7 at 8 00 am at Hunt Elementary School with room for more enrollees.
Dr. Forrest Windel is the new president of the Cuero Band Parents succeeding Harold Tiffin. Other officers include Mrs. Juddeke first vice president Mrs. Wagner second vice president Mrs. High secretary Bob Kleinecke treasurer and Mrs. Kleinecke parliamentarian. Members approved 15 new band uniforms and plumes ordered and pledged financial support for twirlers to attend camp this summer.
The Pilot Club of Cuero installed new officers Tuesday at the Doll House. Corinne Carlton became president succeeding Lester Frers. Other officers include Charles Riebschlaeger first VP Leon Polzin second VP Mary Beth Poth treasurer Harold Tiffin secretary. Frers and George Trowell named directors with Frank Burns continuing as director.
Brig. Gen. Kenneth C Royall the last man to hold the cabinet post of Secretary of War died in Durham North Carolina Tuesday night at age 76 His long career spanned law military and politics Royall rose to brigadier general in World War II and was undersecretary of war in 1945 before becoming secretary in 1947 Judge Royall died Tuesday night in Durham North Carolina.
Cheryl Webb known as Little Miss Poppy sold the first flower to Mayor Jack Edgar. Edgar issued a proclamation naming Friday May 28 as Poppy Day in Cuero. The event supports American Legion and Auxiliary efforts to honor veterans and aid families with food and shelter.
Sixteen members of Boy Scout Troop 243 plus seven adult scouters completed a 50 mile canoe trip down the Guadalupe River from below the Cuero Dam to Nursery Texas. Camp Tom Wooten supplied canoes paddles and life vests.
Otis Carpenter reports the American Legion snack bar is now managed by Carl Garrett of Yoakum with about 15 years cooking experience. Garrett, previously a chef for the Texas Prison System in Huntsville, also spent five years with the 77-Motor in Yoakum and seven years with Storm Drilling Co inviting patrons to drop in.
Errol John Dietze chairman of the Cuero Fair and Turkey Trot Association calls a committee meeting for 5 o clock this afternoon. The session takes place in the Directors Room at Cuero Federal Savings and Loan Association.
The Rev. Arthur B. Hokett and his wife Doris, Assemblies of God missionaries to Ghana, will guest speak Sunday May 30 at 11 00 a m at the Assembly of God Church Cuero Texas The program includes slides curios costumes and African testimonies and invites the public to attend Mr Hokett has helped establish ten new Ghanaian churches and worked with 38 other missionaries their work among Mamprusi Frafra and Kassena tribes is noted The Hoketts reside in Walewale Ghana and have one son Jeffrey Alan
Cuero Chapter 618 of the Order of the Eastern Star held its annual memorial service at Tuesday’s meeting. Officers and members including Mrs. El ise Phillips as pianist and Mrs. Ellie Creel seeking affiliation attended. incoming matron Eaves announced a closed installation June 8 at 8 p.m. in the Masonic Lodge with practice June 7 at 7 p.m.
A motion for a change of venue in the trial of Charles Spencer Reed, a former Cuero school teacher, was granted by DeWitt County Judge George Trowell on Tuesday afternoon due to publicity. Reed is charged with aggravated assault on Cuero Police Officer J R Adams last September. Ruling followed testimony from Adams County Attorney Robert Post and others. The definite trial venue and date remain unsettled with an 18 member jury panel dismissed.
During Louisa May Alcott childhood, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Thoreau were her early friends, and Nathan Hawthorne was her neighbor. The UPI report surveys Alcott’s formative influences shaping her later literary career.
The Rubella Immunization Clinic in Cuero, sponsored by the Cuero Independent School District, was a great success. About 1300 children aged 1 to 10 were immunized under supervision of the Medical Society with support from local civic groups. Boy Scout Troop 243 assisted crowd control and parking. Beta Sigma Phi Sorority managed clerical tasks.
The Cuero Daily Record Pony Express delivery and postal protest ride scheduled for June 12 at 2 30 PM is set after a delay granted by Trail Boss John C Hamilton and the Rawhide Riders. Riders will be stationed 29 miles apart to cover 17 miles to Yorktown in under two hours to protest the Cuero Kenedy route discontinuance.
President Nixon plans to nominate Assistant Defense Secretary Robert F. Froehike to be secretary of the Army subject to Senate confirmation. He would succeed Stanley R. Resor who resigned after six years. Froehike a lifelong friend of Melvin Laird was recommended by the defense secretary and was previously an insurance executive.
England app Army experts will run a metal detector over an ostrich at the Sherwood Zoo to help officials learn what ailing the bird. They suspect nails and washers fed in schoolboys.
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