Letter to the Cuero Record prompts debate on relief and poverty
A letter from Illinois criticizes an unspecified Cuero Texas Record editorial about relief rolls, arguing that welfare facts show most recipients are not loafers. It cites U.S. labor data, notes white poverty, and contrasts welfare with debt and military spending. The writer calls the paper biased and evasive.
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D. L. Prentice Record
Cuero Record
Record
Illi-nois
Illinois
Texas
U.S
Addison
Big City
Chicago
Cuero Texas Record
U.S. Department of Labor
Doles
United States
Viet Nam
Hurricane Ella Aims at Coast Near Brownsville
Brownsville area residents flee as Hurricane Ella bears down toward the Texas coast. Winds near 90 mph, center 160 miles east-southeast moving northwest at 20 mph. Forecasters warn of increasing intensity with hurricane warnings from Brownsville to Port Aransas and a coast-wide watch elsewhere. The article recalls past Texas hurricanes and their tolls, noting Galveston 1900 as the worst, with Beulah in 1967 and Celia in 1961 among notable past storms.
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Brownsville
Ella
Seward
Texas
Civil Defense
Red Cross
Texas Gulf Coast
Corpus Christi
Port Aransas
Sabine
Jefferson County
Port Arthur
Galveston
U.S
Velasco
Brazoria County
Audrey
Texas-Louisiana Line
Louisiana
Carla
Port O'Connor
Port Lavaca
Beulah
Celia
Conservation Talk Dated for Cuero Teachers
A conservation education workshop for Cuero teachers is set for Tuesday September 5 at 2 30 p m in Cuero High School. Topics include land water air and recreation in DeWitt County and the county soil and water district. Car Wood of the DE GO LA area will present the program. The session is a joint effort by Cuero Independent School District the DeWitt County Soil and Water Conservation District and DEGQLA Resource Conservation and Development Area.
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Cuero
Cuero High School
DeWitt County
Toronto alderman links welfare rise to sterilization proof
Toronto alderman Karl Mallette warns welfare costs may drive a demand for proof of sterilization before accepting larger families on relief rolls. He calls it selfish to have too many children when unaffordable. Welfare recipients have risen 22 percent in one year due to unemployment.
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Toronto
UPI
Karl Mallette
Maillette
Cuero district sets October 20 bond bid opening for 1.4 million
Cuero School Board set October 20 as the date to open bids on 1.4 million dollars in bonds to fund a school building program including a new junior high. The date may shift after the October 8 regular meeting. George Meade of Dittmar and Co. discussed market conditions and predicted favorable timing within 30 days. The district will pay Southern Pacific $300 per acre for a 20 acre site near the present high school.
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Cuero
George Meade
San Antonio
Dittmar and Co
Meade
Southern Pacific
CISD
Cuero VFW Plans Reorganized Junior Rifle Group
Cuero VFW Post 3972 members decided to reorganize a junior rifle club. The group will accept youths 8 to 18 with parent VFW membership or 12 to 18 otherwise. No official title chosen yet. The club will support the NRA program and promote good citizenship.
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Cuero Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
Cuero
Cuero Junior Rifle Club
VFW
National Rifle Association
Burns Hospital Auxiliary ends five and a half years of service
After five and a half years of volunteer work the Burns Hospital Auxiliary concluded Sept. 8 as patients were moved to the new Community Hospital. Members will continue as volunteers in the combined auxiliary, funding, equipment, and nursing school support through a memorial scholarship trust.
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Burns Hospital
Burns Auxiliary
Xaveria
Leslie McBride
Texas Association of Hospital Auxiliaries
Frank Sheppard
George Trowell
Joe Reuss
Eugene Kach
Pink Ladies
Community Hospital
Community Auxiliary
Burns Hospital Auiliary
Burns Hospital Memorial Medical Scholarship Trust
Friends of the Hospital
Auxiliary
Cuero Federal Savings & Loan Association
Burns Hospital Auxiliary
John Arthur Burns
Houston
Church Plans Exterior Painting Renovation Work
First United Methodist Church admin board approves exterior painting of main and children buildings plus stucco cleaning. O White bid 2680 for white stucco and brown woodwork two coats. board also approves parsonage trim, Northwest Vestibule interior, and NW church steps carpet. Trustees authorized to borrow funds for the projects.
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First United Methodist Church
O. White
Calvin Peterson
Pas
Tor
Cuero Chamber Sets Tuesday Meeting on August Event
The Cuero Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture Board of Directors will hear a report Tuesday on the annual August chamber membership meeting. The monthly meeting, postponed from Labor Day, marks the first for newly elected officers and will discuss committees for 1970 71.
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The
Cuero Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture
Gobbler Gridsters Open 1970 Season Against Yoakum Bulldogs
The Cuero Gobblers host Yoakum Bulldogs to open the 1970 season at home with 8 p.m. kickoff. Coach Bill Gilbreth starts QB David Cusack alongside a lineup featuring Larry Pickens, Robert Hopkins, Lucian Johnson, Henry Sheppard, John Cruz, Rufus Ridolph, Darrell Rangnow, and David Fox. Backfield includes Frank Wesley, Robert Beasley, and Leroy Wesley. Yoakum likely counters with Marcellus Minor and Mike Benbow at QB and a front with Bobby Manning, Thomas Lite, Mike Rinehart, Don Long or Bobby Orr, Alman Loos, C Berkovsky, Jimmy Williams, Lonzo Giles. Other east zone Class 14 AAA games: Fast Central vs St. Gerards, Samuel Clemens vs Del Valle, Floresville vs Mathis, Pleasanton vs Standolph, Gonzales vs Columbus.
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Bill Gilbreth
David Cusack
Larry Pickens
Robert Hopkins
Lucian Johnson
Tac
Kle Henry Sheppard
John Cruz
Rufus Ridolph
Darrell Rangnow
David Fox
Frank Wesley
Robert Beasley
Leroy Wesley
Bulldogs
Marcellus Minor
Mike Benbow
Bobby Manning
Thomas Lite
Mike Rinehart
Don Long
Bobby Orr
Almon Loos
C Berkovsky
Jimmy Williams
Lonzo Giles
Fast Central
St. Gerards
Samuel Clemens
del Valle
Austin
Floresville
Mathis
Pleasanton
Standolph and
Gonzales Ie
Columbus
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