Cuero touted as All America City by Look Magazine visit
Look Magazine evaluators praised Cuero Community Hospital for its impact on Cuero as a model All America City. They noted the Hospital District bond issue and private donations, plus Cuero residents’ city-building efforts. The piece also contrasts 1960 census population 7500 with a current 6969 and compares first day school enrollment 1843 to 1951, excluding 29 kindergarten entrants.
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Cuero Community Hospital
Cuero
Look Magazine
Cueroites
Correction Names Steve Perez in Scout Hike List
Correction states Steve Perez of Boy Scout Troop 244 was among twelve scouts completing a three day 50 mile hike to Gouiad State Park over the weekend. His name was inadvertently omitted from the original hikers list.
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Steve Perez
Boy Scout Troop
Gouiad State Park
Steve
St Michaels Fall Festival Planned at Cuero Park
St Michael's Catholic Church will host its annual Fall Festival at Cuero Municipal Park on September 20. General Chairman Jim Peyton announced events include a 4 30 p m barbecue supper an 7 30 p m auction and prizes such as a color television set swivel rocker stereo tape player bicycle and electric ice cream freezer. Parishioners are asked to donate calves hogs and books of stamps to secure prizes and support activities.
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St. Michael's Catholic Church
Cuero Municipal Park
Jim Peyton
Brucellosis Curbs Take Effect Today in Texas
New brucellosis rules started today governing cattle movement as DeWitt County reports 34 114 cattle tested with 249 reactors and Victoria County begins testing leaving three counties Kenedy Kleberg and Willacy outside the program. Non quarantined cattle move freely within the state while interstate moves follow destination rules.
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DeWitt County
Orval Wright
Victoria County
Kenedy
Klebere
Willacy
Ballots Mailed for ASC Community Committee Elections
DeWitt County farmers receive mail ballots for electing ASC community committees. Voters may cast for up to three candidates in each of eight communities and must return marked ballots by September 11. Committeemen and alternate committeemen serve one year and aid the County ASC in administering farm programs.
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DeWitt County
ASC
Lee Pargmann
County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation
ASCS
Tee
Alligator Bite Injures Yoakum Man
Yoakum resident William Schaefer was attacked by a seven foot alligator in Chicolette Creek Jackson County. He suffered a leg fracture and 23 wounds requiring stitches with the incident dated August 22 and the fracture only recently discovered by X rays.
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Yoakum
William Schaefer
Maple
Chicolete Creek
Jackson County
Schaefer
Cuero Hospital Auxiliary Charter Membership Ends This Week
Cuero Community Hospital Auxiliary membership closes this week. President Mrs. Robert Post urges interested parties to contact Mrs. Bubba Steen or Mrs. Post for applications. Photo of charter members set for Thursday September 3 at 5 45 p.m. in front of the new hospital. Active members wear uniforms. others may wear street clothes.
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Cuero Community Hospital
Robert Post
Bubba Steen
Distribution Of Food From DeWitt County Center
Approximately 2 206 persons will receive commodities this month from the DeWitt County Commodity Distribution Center. Food will be distributed Sept 14 18 Sept 21 25 and Sept 28 29. Included are beans butter cheese corn meal flour shortening canned meat non fat dry milk rolled oats peanut butter potatoes raisins rice scrambled egg mix tomatoes evaporated milk corn syrup grits prunes macaroni apple sauce turkey and peaches.
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DeWitt County
Textile sale actions hover amid bankruptcy filings
Two trustee sale auctions for the bankrupt Lone Star Textile Co were planned at the DeWitt County Courthouse between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. today but the press time left their occurrence uncertain. Walter E. Heller and Co of Chicago held a second lien and was negotiating. Cuero Federal Savings and Loan Association held the first mortgage and had not yet received permission to foreclose from Houston bankruptcy court, expected within a month. If bids exceed Cuero Federal’s mortgage, the surplus may go to the Heller firm. action would respect the first mortgage owner’s rights.
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Heller
Federal Bankruptcy Courts
Houston
Howard
Kleinecke
Cuero Federal
Area Three Inducts Three Soldiers From Local Counties
Three men from DeWitt and Goliad Counties are to be inducted into the U S Army in San Antonio today. They include Robert Sykora of Yoakum and Jose Martinez along with Frederico Hernandez of Goliad. Twenty five men are receiving pre induction physicals with lists of candidates from Cuero Morris Hawke III Robert Fritz Anathy Fuchs Richard Boethel Johnny Sal dana Clyde Alstadt Dan King Reynaldo Soliz John Garibay Riley Williams from Goliad Hector Baldillez Timothy Lott Marcelio Camacho Jr Mariano Camacho Bernardo Garcia Silvette Edison Ronald Wilms and others from Yoakum Jay Nyles Stein mann Leslie Koenig Ernest Cuellar Jerry Mybuss Wayne Brazil Yorktown Terry Lamprecht Alvin Zielonka Donald Jansky.
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DeWitt
Goliad
U. S. Army
San Antonio
Robert Sykora
Yoakum
Jose Martinez
Frederico Hernandez
Cuero — Morris Hawke III
Robert Fritz
Anathy Fuchs
Richard Boethel
Johnny Saldana
Clyde Alstadt
Dan King
Reynaldo Soliz
John Garibay
Riley Williams
Mobil Oil well near Meyersyville plugged after depletion
The Mobil Oil Corp. No. 2 BE. C. Schaefer "B" field three miles northwest of Meyersyville in the South Cottonwood Creek Field is being plugged rather than reopened as a new gas pay well after about three years of operation.
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Mobil Oil Corp. No. 2
BE. C. Schaefer
Meyersyville
Cottonwood Creek
Cuero Hospital Foundation Keeps Two Floors Open
Cuero Foundation and Cuero Community Hospital remain open with patients on two floors delaying the planned closure. Burns Hospital will close only after the new facility opens on Sept 8 as beds at the old site wind down. Fain McDougal says the transition aids employee orientation and patient care during the shift to the new hospital.
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Cuero Community Hospital
Cuero Foundation
Burns Hospital
Fain McDougal
Cuero Foundation Board
McDougall
Cuero Hospital Foundaton
Bohman Hospital
A. J. Bohman
Cuero Hospital Fundation
Dircepital Foundation
Nathan Post
W. L. Ferguson Jr
E. T. Summers Jr
Jimmie Reiffert
Religion Teachers To Meet At St Michael's Church
Teachers for both grade and high school at St Michael's Catholic Church will hold orientations this week. High school orientation is at 7 30 p m Wednesday at the rectory led by Rev Peter Higgins. Grade school orientation is at 10 a m Saturday in St Michael's School library. A student registration date will be announced later. More teachers are needed for both levels.
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St. Michael's Catholic Church
Peter Higgins
St. Michael's School
Higgins
Specifications Of New School To Be Released
Yoakum plans to release Monday specifications to bidders for a permanent Meat Inspectors Training Center building near Eddy Packing Co and Yoakum Airport. The State Department of Health contracts for at least 4000 square feet of classroom and lab space, moving from City Hall to the new site.
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Yoakum
Yoakum Industrial Foundation
Meat Inspectors Training Center
Eddy Packing Co
State Department of Health
Cuero Board Amends 1969 70 Budget and Buys Vehicle
Cuero School Board raised the 1969 70 total from 1 294 000 to 1 353 000 in a special Monday meeting marking the year's end. Supt E E Sims cited higher government funds and more cafeteria equipment. a 1963 Army vehicle was bought for 144 50 for custodial use. Bids were authorized for an electric transformer to meet higher electricity needs from the new cafeteria equipment.
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Cuero
E. E. Sims
Labor disputes hit Texas and Southwest hard last year
A Dallas Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows 90,000 Texas workers involved in disputes in 1969 across 298 stoppages in five states AR, LA, NM, OK, TX. Texas idleness rose sharply with 141 strikes in 1969 vs 149 in 1968, driven by longer stoppages.
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Texas
Southwest
Arkansas
Louisiana
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Dallas
U. S. Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor
Sta
Tistics
Bureau
Jack Strickland
Bureaus
Little Rock
Albuquerque
Oklahoma City
Corpus Christi
Fl Paso
San Antonio
Waco
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da Nang
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Brass Rail
Los Angeles
Angela Davis
UCLA
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San Rafael
Jonathan Jackson
Plimpton
Miss Davis
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Cambodia
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Lone Star
Army
Cuero Hospital Foundation
Riley Aldrich
New York
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