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Newspaper
Cuero Record
Location
Cuero, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1972
Page
1
In the past week in DeWitt County justice court six people were charged with speeding by various agencies. Cuero police charged Clancey Leiis Ill for allegedly being drunk in a public place.
Local column notes a morning office visit by Mrs. Fred Bohne and Santa letters from Sharon Steen. Marilyn Dietze promotes a luncheon at the Country Club. A Reader’s Digest extract questions Head Start risks. City workers finish Christmas decorations as Santa Clauses hang on street corners. Carver Richards visits from Amarillo seeking his first deer. his father, John Richards, hunts in Liveoak County and brings home game. The community mourns Margaret McCollum, wife of Leonard F. McCollum of Houston. An error in a name is corrected to Marine Colonel John Scharfen. Parish dinner at Proctor Hall follows Evening Service. coiled turkey mentions.
Local Cuero firms and organizations donated items to the Bluebonnet Youth Ranch near Cuero. Dr. Ferman R. Weedon says the ranch is now a home with two girls and three boys, supported by community generosity. Major needs include a 12 passenger van a tractor a pickup truck and a riding lawn mower.
The Cuero Fire Department hosts its annual Christmas dance sponsored by the Ladies Auxiliary on Saturday December 2 at the VFW Hall Cuero. Bennie Prause Orchestra provides music from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Proceeds aid department volunteers. Co chairs are Mrs Marvin Bade and Mrs Wilfred Leist. Decoration chair is Mrs Nathan Garrett.
Cape Kennedy UPI reports the countdown for Apollo 17 begins the 104 hour 30 minute prep as launch pad power is applied to the Saturn 5. Astronauts Eugene A. Cernan Ronald E. Evans and Harrison H Jack Schmitt rehearse one final time before lift off.
Cuero 1973 United Fund Drive surpassed $4000 on Wednesday with five more donations. J D Bramlette Jr and Ed Pat Mixon praised early contributors as 24 donors appear on the Honor Roll and 16 more gifts of $100 or more will complete the first phase. The Stileses sent $100, duplicating past gifts. Howard Parlor and Philip Ernster manage firms contributing $100 each. W G Foster of Surface Burial Vault Co also pledged $100.
Members of the Historical and Restoration Committee of the Cuero Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture met at the Chamber office. Chairman Mrs. L. B. Steen outlined goals and appointed committee heads to start projects including downtown restoration, alleys, trash barrels, benches and lighting. A committee of Louis Drier H. C. Cox and Jimmie Rieffert was named to continue restoration work. Mrs. J. B. McAlister was named to chair another committee.
Cuero Postmaster Henry Sheppard announced the 1972 Commemorative Stamp Folders are available for citizens in the Cuero area. Each 8½ by 11 folder includes stamp descriptions and a packet of 31 stamps issued in 1972 with see-through mounts. A Mini-Album reproduces the first U.S. postage stamp and Benjamin Franklin portrait, and the release is pitched as a fine gift for the holiday season.
Cuero Fair and Turkey Trot Assn plans a two day festival on Main Street with a mall style setup. Tentative dates October 6 and 7 1973 include turkey trot parade turkey races calling contest style shows street dances art show Miss Cuero pageant and various booths and live entertainment.
A retrospective recount traces Project Apollo from its 1960 origins and Kennedy era goals to the planned end with Apollo 17 in December. It notes cost, fatalities, and the pivotal role of von Braun and NASA leaders in achieving lunar landing before the decade’s end.
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