Polliwogs and museum plans feature Cuero notes
Local items report Polly Howerton and families visiting Houston and Cuero for the Centennial. Thelma Teller seeks German help for a 200 year old cookie cutter to enter the museum in the old Reuss Drug Store building. Other notes include home moves, building work, and birthday wishes.
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Thelma Teller
Germany
Cuero Butane Gas Co
Bert Marie McAlister
Burns
Reuss Drug Store
Lions Club Candy Sale Tonight At American Legion Center
Cuero Lions Club to hold its annual candy sale this evening chaired by Robert Post. Volunteers meet at the American Legion Center at 5 p.m. for residential sales. Proceeds go to Lions charities including eye sight programs and sight testing machines. Team captains include Heinie. See Lions, Page 3.
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Lions Club
Cuero Lions Club
Robert Post
American Legion Center
Lions
Eye Sight
Heinie
Commissioners Approve Bond Investment for DeWitt Schools
DeWitt County Commissioners met Monday at 1 30 PM. Superintendent W F Hancock asked to invest 500 in a Series H U S Government bond from the Permanent School fund which holds 609 94. Commissioner Ruppert moved to approve.
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DeWitt County
W. F. Hancock
Hancock
Herbert Ruppert
Record VIEWS In Brief From War and Politics
Saigon recaptures a rural hamlet near Cam bo dia within 10 miles of Saigon. Kissinger and North Vietnamese negotiators move talks to a private hideout for a third day. Congress backs measures to cut noise from modern life. Southerners seek to block a Northern filibuster on forced busing. McGovern plans a TV address on ending the Indochina war. Amtrak resists major summer cuts amid a travel surge. A Belgian duel over tobacco taxes escalates. British troops seize a Provisional IRA leader as Strabane town hall is bombed.
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Paris
Henry A. Kissinger
Centennial Tickets Available for Cuero Celebration
Tickets for Cuero Centennial events including parade seats coronations and the parade of homes go on sale at the Centennial office in Cuero. Mail orders accepted until October 16 with a self addressed stamped envelope and checks made to Cuero Centennial and Turkey Trot.
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Cuero
Centennial
North
Gonzales
Murray Tarkington
Centennial Cochairman
Centennial Office
Turkey
All Seats Good At Coronations
Murray Tarkington co-chairman of the Centennial and Turkey Trot Executive committee told the Record that all seats are good for the Junior and Senior Coronation due to the stage height and seating placement. He noted discussions about good and bad seats but affirmed the arrangement as suitable.
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Murray Tarkington
Tarkington
Plan To Reimburse Parents Of Private School Kids
The Supreme Court struck down Ohio’s plan to reimburse parents of public school children from public funds. Citing prior rulings, the Court upheld a 1972 Columbus panel decision voiding the private school aid reimbursement.
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Washington
UPI
Supreme Court
Ohio
Columbus
Byron R. White
U.S. Supreme Court
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
American Civil Liberties Union
ACLU
William J. Brown
Home Demonstration Club Work Outlined
The DeWitt County Home Demonstration Clubs held their annual Achievement Day at the Cuero Housing Authority Community Center in Cuero. The event opened with a Home Demonstration Council session followed by delegates attending the State Texas proceedings.
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DeWitt County
Cuero Housing Authority
Cuero
Texas
Home Demonstration Association
Houston
Emil Buchhorn
THDA
Walter Koenig
Emmie Pflug
Walter Pieper
Pieper
Cuerolles Attend Meeting and Awards Dinner
Wayne Wolf and Charles T Hahn attended Area X Young Farmer Awards meeting in Laredo with Ronald La Duque of Central Power and Light as guest speaker on Opportunities. Officers elected included Charles Smith George West Three Rivers president and others. Event covered many local Home Demonstration discussions and a future Christmas party plan.
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Wayne Wolf
Charles T Hahn
Laredo
Ronald LaDuque
Central Power & Light Co
Uvalde
America
Charles Smith
George West-Three Rivers
John Matchacup
Cotulla
Larry Hartman
Orange Grove
Carroll Lahee
Mathis
Four charged with DWI weekend in DeWitt County
Four individuals faced DWI charges in DeWitt County Court after weekend incidents. Orlando Vela 28 of Yorktown allegedly drove intoxicated when stopped at Terrell and Broadway Cuero. Laddie Joe Patek 45 of Victoria stopped on U S 77. Modesto Magorga 31 of Weimar charged on U S 111. Larry Wayne Nelson 21 of Cuero on U S 87 fined 100 dollars and 10 days in jail with one year probation.
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DeWitt County
Orlando Vela
Yorktown
Texas Highway Patrol
Terrell and
Broadway
Cuero
Laddie Joe Patek
Victoria
Highway Patrol
U.S. 77
Modesto Magorga
Weimar
U.S. 111
Larry Wayne Nelson
East Courthouse
U.S. 87
Nelson
Weather forecast for Cuero Yoakum Yorktown warms
Partly cloudy conditions push temperatures higher with highs in the upper 80s and nightly lows around the mid 60s for Cuero Yoakum and Yorktown. A mild warm spell continues across the area.
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Cuero
Yoakum
Yorktown
Campaign tide turners in 1972 race noted by Dick West
West reports a McGovern Rural North Carolina for McGovern Shriver campaign forming to build momentum and Nixon responds with a counter move by creating a Indians Aleuts Eskimos for President Nixon group. The letter hints these early October maneuvers helped shape the election outcome.
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Dick West Washington
UPI
Miss Pringle
Theodore White
North Carolina
McGovern-Shriver
Nixon
McGovern
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Polliwogs
By Polly Howerton
Charles Cole
Mary Blanche Fannett Wheeler
San Antonio
Peggy Schulte
J. K. Winslett
Citizens Memorial Hospital
John Richardses
North Terrell
Buchel
North Esplanade
Texas Eastern
Shirley Leggett
Wenatchee
Raychel
Jane
Bill Barfield
Greg
Sharon
Larry Barfield
Hoffman-Rother
Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church
Boyce Rother
Larry
Mary Margaret Breeden
Rogers McLane
Bob Bishop
Don Albrecht
G. R. Towery
W. F. Kautz
J. E. Stone
Commissioners Court
Saigon
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
Congress
Senate
Indochina
George McGovern
Amtrak
Washington—Amtrack
Brussels
Ulster
Belfast
Provisional
IRA
Town Hall
Strabane
Court
Conrad and Tarkington Insurance Agency
Relss’ Pharmacy
N. Esplanade
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