Town warns of hurricane Fern as Sandy Boone predicts it
Sandy Boone warns the town that Hurricane Fern is approaching and recalls past storms Celia and a hospital hit in Corpus Christi. Her father C. E. Boone of Evans Louisiana recently visited, while relatives were in a Corpus Christi hospital during Celia.
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Sandy Boone
Fern
Sandy
C. E. Boone
Evans
Rockport
Mr. Boone
Corpus Christi
Celia
Pete
Claire Hoverton
Lions Club Welcomes Two New Cuero Members
The Cuero Lions Club welcomed Ralph Hartman and Rod Jones as new members. Hartman teaches industrial cooperative training and Jones teaches distributive education at Cuero High School. Vice President Robert Post presided at the ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuere Lions Club
Ralph Hartman
Rod Jones
Cuero High School
Hartman
Jones
Robert Post
Roy K, Wickerham
San Antonio
Tons
Lions Club
A Bible Thought FOR TODAY on Kindness and Sin
A devotional note quotes James 4 17 to urge doing good. It says kindness warms the soul and helping the weak lifting the fallen strengthens the weary and binds the wounded spirit. It warns that withholding kindness makes one a miserable creature.
Open House Marks Cuero Community Hospital Birthday
Cuero Community Hospital celebrated its first birthday with an open house attended by about 200 visitors. The event followed last year’s opening when some 3 500 people toured the facility. The hospital district, created in 1965, is governed by the same board of directors led by Chairman Clifton Weber.
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Sandy
Cuero
Philomena Young
Cuero Community Hospital
Grant Sorrel
Cuero Community — Hospital
Lucilla
Clifton Weber
Howard Kleinecke
Dewey Henderson
Patricia Leskie
Dewey Schorre
Page, Southerland and
Page of Austin
Cuero Hospital Foundation
Reus Boulevard
Cuero Civic Clubs
Cuero Hospital
Driver Unhurt In Car Wreck Near Yorktown
Thomas John Styra seventeen of Route 1 Box 134 Yorktown escaped injury when his car rolled over on a DeWitt County road about 1.8 miles southwest of Yorktown at 6 30 p m. He swerved to avoid a car cresting the hill and lost control. The vehicle ended up right side up in the opposite direction. Styra was ticketed for unsafe speed.
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Thomas John Styra
Box 134
Yorktown
DeWitt
Donation Tonight Buys New Hearing Device for Cuero Hospital
The Cuero Pilot Club will donate a $500 Vicon Apriton hearing test device to Cuero Community Hospital at 7 30 p m with Sister Laila accepting. Local leaders Mrs Corine Carlton and community service committee members will attend along with guests from Yoakum and Victoria to hear how the Apriton aids newborn hearing screening.
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Cuero Community Hospital
Cuero Pilot Club
Laila
Vicon Company
Cuero
United States
Corine Carlton
Community Service
J. Bo Mallister
Ed de- Lem
George Trowel
John Blackwell
Jerome Koenig
Mildred Martin
Fete Matthew
Yoakum
Heat Foundation
Victoria
Matthew
Vicon
Civil Defense Unit Calls Meeting on Refugee Provisions
DeWitt County Civil Defense coordinator Dewey Henderson called a Cuero DeWitt County Civil Defense Committee meeting for 4 p.m. at Civil Defense HQ. The session will discuss emergency food and shelter as refugees may arrive after Hurricane Celia touched Corpus Christi area. Henderson placed Fern 115 miles south southeast of Galveston with 115 mph winds.
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Cuero
Celia
Corpus Christi
Araneae Pass
Henderson
Fern
Galveston
Cuero Area Gets Overnight First Class Mail Service
Cuero postmaster Henry F. Sheppard outlines a new overnight delivery program expanding to 37 contiguous areas including Yoakum Victoria Port Lavaca and Port O Connor. He notes the plan unveiled by Postmaster General Blount aims to speed first class mail nationwide and will affect over half of all such mail.
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Washington
Sheppard
Cero
Winton M. Blount
Yoakum
Victoria
Port Lavaca
Point Comfort
Westhoff
Thomaston
Goliad
Hallettsville
Cheapside
Hochheim
Kidna
Port O'Connor
Yorktown
Nordheim
Range
Kenedy
San Antonio
Cuere
Blounton Sungiust
United States
Cuero
Yoakum Commission Sets Bond Election
Yoakum City Commission votes to call a bond election tentatively for Oct 19. The $952,000 improvement program would use $451,000 federal funds and $481,000 local funds with no tax increase. Projects include sewage plant, sewer, and drainage work with local and federal shares.
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Yoakum City Compression
Laddie T. Janecek
San Antonio
Comrise
Yoakum
Jerry Hess Doing Nicely After Kidney Transplant
Jerry Hess, who received a borrowed kidney on August 3 at Bexar County Hospital, is reported by his mother to be doing fine. He visits the hospital every other day for blood tests and medication to prevent rejection, and his donated kidney is functioning normally with no signs of rejection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerry Hess
Bexar County Hospital
Vernon Hess
Stratton
Federal funds available for Cuero watershed work
Federal funds are available for fall contracts to revegetate sites I and II and construct a drainage channel in the North Cuero Watershed. The article notes Her schel McDonald district conservationist for the Soil Conservation Service.
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North Cuero
Herschel McDonald
DeWitt County Highway Upgrades Planned for 1972
The Texas Highway Commission approved 17.1 miles of highway improvements in DeWitt County for 1972 at an estimated cost of 961,100. Projects include base repairs near Cuero and Yoakum, resurfacing along State Roads 72 and 11, and widening near Cuero High School. Yuakum and Cuero engineers will oversee work slated to begin in summer 1972.
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DeWitt County
Texas Highway Commission
F. A. Riha
Yoakum
Albert L. Holik Jr
Cuero
Holik
Cuero-Yoakum Highway
US Tia
Broadway
Fisplanade
North Street
Tia
Esplanade
Victoria Highway
Yorktown
Nomiheim
State 11
Us WA
Loopot
State TI
Lavap
Lavaca County
North Cuero
Nadalime
Cuere
DeWitt County Sol and Walter Conservation District
DeWitt County Commissioners Court
DeWitt County Drainage District
Fern Threatens Texas Coastline As Hurricane Fern Advances
Fern veered north through the Gulf of Mexico threatening 450 miles of Texas coast with 90 mph winds. An Air Force plane relocated the storm center 140 miles south-southeast of Galveston. Civil defense and Red Cross were alerted along the Gulf Coast as watch areas extended from Brownsville to Port Arthur.
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Edmund Glen Johnson
Galveston, Tex
UPI
Fern
Gulf of Mexico
Texas
Galveston
National Weather Service
Brownsville
Port Arthur
Tex
Civil Defense
Red Cross
Texas Gulf Coast
Edith
Caribbean
Honduras
Bidith
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D. L. Prentice Record
Jumor Auxilians
Orp. A. Mae
D. L. Prentice
Fischer
Ing
Cuero DeWitt
Cuero Area
Henry F
Yoakum Commission
Servation
McDonald
Alfred Vanderstucken
North Caere
George Trowell
Trowell
Jack Edgar
Crome
Weather Service
Longtitude
Cabezas
Cape Gra
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