THIS SPACIOUS 40,000 SQUARE FOOT structure houses the Bottom Dollar Discount Store part of the complex which willeventually house a discount supermarket and several smaller speciality shops. Ribbon cutting ceremony will be held tomorrow at 9 a.m. heralding four weeks of grand openingJoseph Lebow, President Bottom Dollar Stores, Inc.(Staff Photo)Charles Boatwright Store Manager(Staff Photo)Judging Teams WinThird Place HonorsThe junior and senior livestock judging teams representing De Witt County won third place awards at the District 10 con test recently held at Texas AliM University at College Sta tion.Egg All junior members are from the Meyersville 4-H Club.Senior members are Gregory Egg, Bruce Gohmert, and Fred Mueller of the Meyersville 4 HClub and Mark Jacob of theBear Creek 4-H ClubThe junior team consists of Rhonda Doehrman, Gordon Wendel, John Mueller, and VanceThe teams were accompanied by Rubert Egg, and county a gentOrval WrightFiesta Zaragoza AtcAlinMO W7specials President of Bottom Dollar Stores, Inc., JosephLebow said After viewing Cuero and talking with its leaders and citiiens, we feel that this community future and we want to be part of it We hop* to the economy and growth of Cuerohas an excellentthat we can add• •(Staff Photo)Bottom Dollar OpensCuero Store WednesdayBottom Dollar's new Cuero Discount Store will start the longest Grand Opening in this area’s history (4 weeks of grand opening specials) at 9 a m , Wednesday, April 11 The store is located at 1101 North F.vplanade in Cuero Regular store hours will be 9 a m. to 9 p in daily, except SundayThe new store encompasses approximately40,000 square feet of merchandising space and parking facilities for 250 cars The new Bottom Dollar DiscountStore will employ approximately 65 local people, some of which are high school students from area schoolsThe store is spacious with six foot walk ways between every aisle. It is stocked with namebrand merchandise, ranging fromparing knives to electric meat grinders A wide variety of mer chandise is under one roof— ashopper might otherwise have to shop as many as 15 stores to find the variety contained in the new gigantic Bottom DollarDiscount StoreClothing for the entire family is offered in the store, along with complete lines of hardware,housewares, infants needs, sport mg goods, drugs and thousands of other items normally found in a large department store Joseph Lebow, president of Bottom Dollar Stores Inc statedthat he felt the need for sucha store in Cuero after making an extensive market study of the future growth of a 30 mil*radius of Cuero, plus the urgent need to satisfy the present demand for our variety of merchandise fnm 20,000 homes that are in the general Cuero Trade(See Bottom Dollar, Page 3)Weather CausesHighway DamageAbnormal weather conditions during the winter 1972-73 resulted in appropriately $28.4 million damage to highways throughout the State Some late-developing damage may be disclosed laterA survey just completed by the Texas Highway Department indicated that extensive freeie-tliaw damage was reported virtually throughout the State Inaddition, two Districts—Pharrand Beaumont reported extensive wet weather damage approximating $B50 thousand and $900 thousand, respectively.Reports of damage in tbe Department’s 25 Distnets ranged upward to $10 million in the Amarillo District Each Highway District is comprised of approximately 10 countiesEstimates of the more extensive freeze-thaw damage in some representative Districts included