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Newspaper
Cuero Record
Location
Cuero, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1971
Page
1
A guest column recounts Roy Hamilton’s claim of early DeWitt County settlement in 1850 and notes plans for a law enforcing day. It lists local figures and adages, and ends with a street scene at East Main and Esplanade at 1 05 p m with four potential shoppers.
D. L. Prentice reports from the Record staff that after nearly three months in the hospital he has returned. He explains a hospital diet and weight loss, and notes doctors only declare a cancer cured after five years with probability.
Rev H A Hanson pastor of St Mark's Lutheran Church Heinie Bade and Arthur Koeh ler will attend the Texas Louisiana Synod Convention of the Lutheran Church Friday Saturday and Sunday. Convention will be at Texas Lutheran College Seguin. Family Night at St Mark's June 9 features film The Gift of Love and a short silent reel from the church building project with refreshments.
Seventy two Yorktown residents sign a petition urging the U S Postal Service to reverse its plan to discontinue the daily Cuero Yorktown Kenedy mail run. Signatures collected at the Green Lantern and other local offices. petitions stay open until after the Pony Express ride on June 12.
Farmer Celestino de la Cruz Paredes in Palmira fails to register his son with the name Canonero II after authorities reject the homage to the horse that won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness.
Dissidents known as the Dirty 30 withdrew their blanket objection, clearing the way for banking reform acts and more than 10 Senate bills to pass on a cosnet calendar. The session neared midnight with a $7.1 billion budget and redistricting bills in play as leaders expected final votes within hours.
The Texas House approved a bill to establish Tyler State College while insiders say a Victoria upper level college will not be acted on due to other business. Rep. Billy Williamson stressed the Tyler institution will not become a four year college. The Senate backed Tyler and Victoria recommendations from the State College Coordinating Board.
A newborn girl about 30 minutes old weighing 4 pounds 9.75 ounces was found in an aluminum pan on the back doorstep of the High and Davis Clinic Saturday morning. She is alive and in Cuero Community Hospital under welfare Department care. police have no leads.
Ronald Eugene Brasher, 6, of Cuero, was admitted to Cuero Community Hospital at 12:30 a.m. Sunday after a collision with an oncoming car on the old San Antonio Highway near 11 p.m. Saturday. He suffered bruises and abrasions and was transported by private auto. Texas Highway Patrolman Jim Fitzpatrick investigated the incident two miles outside Cuero.
A United Press International tally at 1 p.m. EDT reports 426 traffic deaths. Breakdown shows 456 traffic, 53 other accidental, 4 plane deaths, 54 other categories. California 35, Ohio 29, Illinois 25, New York 24, Texas 17 reported. Alaska Hawaii and North Dakota had none.
The Most Rev Patrick F Flores auxiliary bishop of the San Antonio Archdiocese will offer a Field Mass behind Our Lady of Guadalupe Church on Tuesday June 1 at 7 pm The Mass honors CCD students and infirm parish members If weather is bad the Mass moves to the church and the CCD exercises are planned for the page.
Larry A. Smith formerly of Yoakum will report for duty as Cuero City Manager tomorrow June 1 at a salary of 13500. He and his family reside at 516 EK Lavaca St. Smith has held multiple city management and administrative posts in Snyder Big Spring Yoakum and Midland. He was born in Tonkawa Oklahoma and earned degrees from Northern Oklahoma Junior College and Oklahoma State University.
A small crowd gathered Monday at 9 a.m. on the Cuero courthouse lawn for a memorial service honoring DeWitt County war dead. Cuero VFW Post 2972 American Legion Winter Post 3 and Boy Scout Troop 243 provided a color guard and sang Taps. Reverend A F Hanks of the Assembly of God delivered an address stressing that the memory of soldiers who fought and died preserves liberty democracy and freedom. He quoted Lincoln's Gettysburg Address concluding with a call to dedicate the unfinished work.
A state comptroller statement five senators and the House speaker sealed an agreement saving 300 jobs at the University of Texas and funding ongoing research at Texas colleges and universities. The deal, reached Saturday by budget writers, preserves support for organized research programs statewide.
Officers of the DeWitt County Unit of the American Cancer Society will be elected at 7 30 p m Thursday at the Cuero Community Hospital. Nomination committee members are Mrs August C Schorre Mrs Frank Thieme and Maurice Aronstein. Delegates to the North District meeting in Corpus Christi June 16 will be chosen. A crusade report notes donations of 4898 53 and the unit will receive the Achievement Award from the society.
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