Local Visitors And Birthday Greetings Highlight Cuero Weekend
Mr and Mrs Leonard Aitkens and son John Patrick of Beeville visited Cuero on Saturday and Sunday. Mrs Al Range of Yorktown visited Cuero on Monday. Congratulations to Mrs Fain M Proural on her birthday. Miss Diane Henneke of San Antonio planned to visit her parents Mr and Mrs Lawrence E Henneke and Mr and Mrs Mertes Koenig. The Henekes vacationed on the coast over Memorial Day weekend. Second Lieutenant Lawrence E Speedy Heneke U S Air Force celebrated his birthday Saturday. Speedy and his wife Joyce returned to Grand Forks North Dakota after visiting his parents.
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Leonard Aitkens
John Patrick
Beeville
Cuero
Diane Henneke
San Antonio
Mrs
Lawrence E. Henneke
Lawrence E. “Speedy
DeWitt County ACS thanks Cuero Daily Record for April drive
Publicity chairman Polita Adams thanks Cuero Daily Record editor for April campaign support aiding the 1970 71 fund drive in Cuero Texas. The note expresses appreciation and goal achievement. A separate Durham England item reports jailers asking cooks to bake cakes with a lighter touch after a prisoner threw a cake injuring a jailer.
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DeWitt County
American Cancer Society
Cuero Daily Record
Durham
England
UPI
Kennedy lays roses at graves of JFK and RFK
Senator Edward M. Kennedy and his family laid roses and carnations on the graves of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy in Arlington. The act followed the assassinations that left two Kennedy brothers dead and highlighted the family's enduring memorial rituals.
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Arlington
UPI
Edward M. Kennedy
Dmass
John F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Robert
Rawhide Riders Plan Yoakum Parade and Youth Ride
The Rawhide Riders Association outlines its June events in Yoakum with a morning assembly at 8 30 at Y on the Cuero Yoakum highway and a 9 00 departure for the Tom Tom parade starting at 3 00 in Yoakum. They also announce a third annual Youth Ride on June 26 departing Cuero Community Hospital at 2 00 ending at John Braden ranch with a 5 00 wiener roast.
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Rawhide Riders Association
Yoakum
Louis Wishert
Cuero- Yoakum
Rawhide
Cuero Community Hospital
John Braden Ranch
Legislature faces taxing session as filibuster, turbulence rise
Legislators clash over redistricting and a four year UT Dallas bill with Sen Don Kennard’s record filibuster. Lt Gov Barnes adjourns Senate after 10 p.m. House workings continue past midnight amid a volatile session marked by security scares and a stock manipulation suit against Mutscher and allies.
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Don Kennard
D-Fort Worth
Senate
University of Texas At Dallas
Ben Barnes
House
Texas
Mutscher
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Formal wreathlaying honors late President on 54th birthday
Ren also attended as ceremonies were held Saturday to commemorate the late President’s 54th birthday anniversary with formal military wreathlaying events and tributes.
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Ren
Livestock Market Steady At Cuero Sale Reflects Dry Weather
Buy attendance was good at the Cuero Livestock Commission sale where prices held steady across most cattle classes. Receipts totaled 1,475 cattle, 75 sheep, and 50 hogs with best stocker steer calves $40 to $48 and lighter calves $44 to $52. cows and bulls also posted notable results as buyers from out of state sought good quality stock despite drought conditions.
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Cuero Livestock Commission
Finley Blackwell
Commission
Blackwell
Memorial Day weekend among nation’s deadliest highway periods
Record files note the 1961 Memorial Day week end as the second bloodiest summertime highway period in U S history. President Kennedy began historic talks with President Charles De Gaulle in Paris shortly after arrival to a large welcoming crowd. Sgt James A Mayer and family visited Cuero to see his father J M Mayer.
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Kennedy
Charles DeGaulle
France
Paris
James A. Mayer
Cuero
J. M. Mayer
Allied forces advance stalled by rain on Korean front
May 31 1951 reports Allied troops gaining two miles on the east central Korean front but heavy rain and Red resistance slow the hot pursuit of the Chinese forces. Other notes include Cuero school out for the year and Houston tallying polio cases, with visitants from San Antonio at the Hiller home.
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Cuero
Houston
W. R. Tinney
San Antonio
Felix Hiller
Texas Senate actions save Victoria College and hunting license reform
Sen. Lindley Beckworth introduced Victoria college support with Sen. William Patman sponsoring. Weekend action sent to the House includes a consumer credit protection bill by Sen. Oscar Mauzy and a hunting license reform bill by Sen. Don Kennard tightening age exemptions.
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Lindley Beckworth
D-Gladewater
Victoria School
William N. Patman
D-Ganado
Senate
House
Oscar Mauzy
Dallas
Don Kennard
D Fort Worth
Polliwogs and People In a Busy Local Scene
Graduation gifts delight Mark Junker while his sister Jean in Corpus Christi paints a self portrait. Mrs. Peavy and Doll Heisig plan El Paso trip as Hu bert Humphrey headlines presidential talk. Family gatherings, moves to California and Fort Stockton plots fill a weekend. A Home Hint urges summer shape up with protein guidelines.
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Mark Junker
Jean
Corpus Christi
Almanac Note May 31 1971 Historical Highlights
May 31, 1971 marks Whitman birth anniversary and several historical events. Boer War ended in 1902 with a peace treaty between Britain and South Africa. 1949 anniversary of broadcaster Mary Margaret McBride at Yankee Stadium. Eichmann hanged in 1962 for Nazi crimes. 1970 Peru earthquake killed tens of thousands.
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Walt Whitman
Great Britain
Mary Margaret McBride
Yankee Stadium
New York City
Adolph Eichmann
Nazi Germany
Peru
Two Americans among five killed in Dutch train crash
In a collision of two passenger trains near Amsterdam, five people died and at least 35 were injured. Among the dead were Maureen Louise Praddy, 17, of Cumberland Maryland, and Anthony Power, 18, of Minnesota. Power’s hometown was not immediately known.
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Amsterdam
Maureen Louise Praddy
Cumberland
Anthony Power
Minnesota
Power
Roof and rafters stolen from outbuilding in Vandalia
Elwood Durbin discovered thieves had removed the roof and rafters from an outbuilding. He reported the theft to police, and while he was there the thieves returned to take the rest of the structure including metal siding studs and joints, leaving the concrete floor.
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UPI
Elwood Durbin
Os Ve a Cuero Community Hospital Admissions
Admissions list include Donnie Brasher Gwendolyn Middleton John Diebel and Henry Angerstein. Dismissals list Gayle Schumacher Raymond Cano and Leonard Kuntz.
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Cuero Community Hospital
Donnie Brasher
Gwendolyn Middleton
John Diebel
Henry Angerstein
Gayle Schumacher
Raymond Cano
Leonard Kuntz
Memorial Speech Excerpt From Lincoln Dedication
Excerpt recalls President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address urging dedication to the cause of liberty. It emphasizes that the honored dead gave their lives for a nation governed by the people and a new birth of freedom.
Sheriff sees more remains after 23 bodies found near Feather River
Yuba City California Sheriff Roy Whiteaker says more bodies are likely hidden as 23 corpses are unearthed near the Feather River. In Mississippi Reverend Ralph D Abernathy eulogizes an 18 year old girl shot from a passing car urging peaceful rights action. In England Norton Simon describes marrying Jennifer Jones aboard a yacht in choppy Channel waters with views of the White Cliffs.
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Yuba City
Calif
Roy Whiteaker
Feather River
Drew
Miss
Ralph D. Abernathy
Mississippi
London
California
Norton Simon
Jennifer Jones
English Channel
Dover
Panama fighter Duran stops Marshall in sixth round
Panama's Robert Duran stopped Lloyd Marshall of Newark by technical knockout in the sixth round after Marshall was floored for a fourth time in 33 bouts. Duran weighed 123 to 134 pounds for the match.
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Panama
Lloyd Marshall
Newark
Robert Duran
Duran
Marshall
Murtaugh to Return for Pirates After Heart Tests
Danny Murtaugh will rejoin the Pittsburgh Pirates next Sunday for the Houston game after undergoing heart tests since May 20. The United States won the Women archery title with Dorene Wipber scoring 2 291 points across four days, while Vadzim Reznikov of Russia won the men's championship.
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Pittsburgh
Danny Murtaugh
Pittsburgh Pirates
Bucs
Houston
U.S
Moscow
United States
Dorene Wipber
Vadzim Reznikov
Russia
Special Mass fish hall concelebrated by bishop and clergy
Bishop Flores will be principal celebrant at a 7 p.m. concelebrated Mass with co priests from Cuero Meyersville Yorktown Victoria and Donna. Rev Francis Kunz M S F will be master of ceremonies. Holy Rosary Society will serve refreshments and public invitation is extended.
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Fish Hall
Bishop Flores
Peter Higgins
St. Michael’s Church
Cuero
Francis Smerke
O.S.C
St. Peter and Paul Church
Meyersville
Henry Moczygemba
San Luis Church
Yorktown
Vincent Patrizi
O.S.S.T
Our Lady of Sorrows
Victoria
Walter Schloessner
M.S.F
St. Joseph
Donna
Francis J. Kunz
Our Lady of Guadalupe Church
Holy Rosary Society
Kunz
Town Talk reports from Cuero amid hospital treatment
The column notes ongoing recovery from radiation treatment in South Texas, plans to return to work, and appreciation for reader cards. It mentions the new city manager starting duties and a planned photo of John Hamilton and the Rawhide Riders delivering The Cuero Record to Yorktown. It also highlights the U S Postal Service stamp launch on July 1 and contrasts historic Pony Express symbolism with modern mail delivery.
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South Texas
John Hamilton
Rawhide
Pony Express
Cuero Record
Yorktown
U.S. Postal Service
U.S. Post Office
Curco
Youth Fatality Near Cuero Involving Hoodless Car
Four youths were riding in a 1953 Ford toward Cuero when the hood blew off and a crash occurred. Brasher was struck by an oncoming car driven by James Wiley Pridgen of Cuero after he reentered the roadway while three companions fixed the hood. Pridgen reportedly lost control on a curve, veered onto the shoulder, returned to the road, and hit Brasher as the other vehicle partially occupied the roadway.
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Brasher
Cuero
David Knox
Fitzpatrick
James Wiley Pridgen
Pridgen
Bresher
Canada Covers Vast Area of About Three Million Square Miles
Canada spans roughly 3.75 million square miles in area, making it one of the largest nations by land size. It encompasses diverse regions, from coast to coast, with varied geography and climate.
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Canada
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