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VERSE FOR THIS WEEK
Bear ye one another $ burdens and so
fulfill the law of Christ. Gal. 6:2
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED PRESS
The Denison Press
LAKE TEXOMA REPORT
Water level 604.69 Water temperature 79
Barometer 30.03, steady. Winds So. 15
High 100; low 76
VOLUME 28—NUMBER 7
City Council cuts tax rate for Denisonians to $1.16
Daniel leaps into yet “Sir Citing higher tax rates
more sain over Ralph ^™:" ^^=lhree neiShbor cities with
as votes are counted
By ALLEN DUCKWORTH
Political Editor of The New*
Sen. Price Daniel increased his
lead in the Governor race to 155,-
898 votes Monday.
That was the margin he led his
iun-off opponent, Rnlph W. Yar-
borough. The urnffi ial tabulation
by the Texas Election Bureau is
nearly complete with an estimat-
ed 40,000 votes to be accounted
for. About 20,000 of those are in
Tarrant County.
Daniel and Yarborough were
making plans for their 3-week
second round campaign and took
digs at each other.
The Senator was relaxing at his
farm near Liberty with his fam-
ily after issuing a statement say
ing “I shall continue to run a
clean, high-level campaign, wor-
thy of the dignity of the office
of Governor of Texas, but I warn
the people to prepare for another
month of bitter name-calling, per-
sonal abuse and misrepresenta-
tion by the opposition.”
Yarborough injected national
politics in the campaign by stat-
ing :
“I will support the nominees of
the Democratic Party for Pres-
ident and Vice-President to be
named at the Democratic Nation-
al Convention in August and will
actively and publicly campaign
for these nominees as I did in
1952.
“1 challenge my opponent to
tell Texans whether he will again
deliver Texas to the Republican
Party as he did in 1952.’', \
(Daniel backed Eisenhower for
President after Adlai Stevenson
refused to support Texas owner-
ship of tidelands.)
Daniel’s headquarters cited re-
turns from home counties of the
candidates, pointing out that the
Senator cat l ied his home box by
more than 2 to l and carried Lib-
erty County. He also carried Yar-
borough’s voting box in Austin by
close to 3 to 1 over the latter,
Daniel's office said.
Yarborough announced that
two active leaders in Travis Coun-
ty for W. Lee O’Daniel had prom-
ised him support. Both Yarbor-
ough and Daniel want the votes
that went to O’Daniel, who fin-
ished third.
At Houston, Daniel’s Harris
County manager, ,1. D. Sartwelle,
charged that Yarborough was
backed by the NAACP and cited
overwhelming votes for him in
negro boxes there.
The Election Bureau^ally at 6
p.m. Monday gave Daniel 600,-
877 votes, Haley 84,583, Holmes
10,612 O’Daniel 337,523, Sen-
terfitt 36,889, Yarborough 450,-
979.
Besides the runoff for Gover-
nor there will he two other- sec-
ond primary races. Will Wilson
of Dallas barely short of a major-
ity, is in a runoff with Dist. Atty.
Tom Moore of Waco, and Lt. Gov.
Ben Ramsey faces Sen. A. M.
Aikin of Waco.
Daniel's lead of more than 155,
000 is far greater than that which
Gov. Allan Shivers led Yarbor-
ough in the first primary two
years ago. Shivers led by only 22,-
919. But in that race, there were
only four candidates, instead of
six this time, and there wasn’t a
big vote puller such as W. Lee
O’Daniel, who received thousands
of ballots in rural areas that or-
dinarily would have gone to Yar-
borough,
The history of run-offs for
Governor shows that the leader
in the first primary has been the
winner more times that the sec-
ond man.
Runoffs were started in 1918
when the law was changed to re-
quire a candidate to have more
votes than all opponents combin-
ed to v. in without running it off
with the second high man.
There have been eight runoffs
(S.. DANIEL, Pag* 4)
The actors in the Governor’s runoff
Four
Deaths
60
Injuries
Since Jan.
1st, 1956
RALPH YARBOROUGH
SENATOR DANIEL
ALONG THE
N?IS
■V THE IOITOR
We Lack Bombastic.?
If bombastics is the disposition
to strut one’s honors received
from a commit-
tee who has
checked one for
one’s work done,
whether it be a
piece of marble
almost ready to
breathe, or for
writing some
one article or
another in an
editorial con-
test, then this writer pleads guil-
ty'. Rather the more we feel like
falling in the dust and weeping
out loud and ask our God to keep
us humble and withdraw from the
vanity that could beset us, and
which at times we find creeping
into the innermost of our heart.
If breaking a record in the
world of being a top prize win-
ner in the best ads submitted to
the Texas Press Association in
its various contests held among
its more than 400 members; also
a like honor for presenting the
best column on Western Hills Ho-
tel and its service, and a top hon-
or as having submitted the best
editorial among all Texas news-
papers in towns of 5,000 popu-
lation and over, we beg leave to
submit the fact to our readers
that these should be something of
which to be proud. But the Lord
spare us from being- anything but
humble and one worthy only to
speak slow in the ranks where
really only the great men who
write from their hearts are as-
sembled.
It is a new challenge, this thing
of being counted among- the win-
ners in any rank in this life
where men are always trying to
excell themselves. We do not be-
lieve that any man can paint the
best picture he treasures in his
soul; sing the greatest song that
warms his love for music, nor
write his very best on any parch-
ment or roll it out on any type-
writer. For men are born to be
greater than anything they can
do. All men are better than what
they really do in act. Even the
lowest in life is a better man
than the thing he is doing. Man
was born for more than to be a
grocerman, a tradesman, or even
a gambler or drunkard.,All men
are better than what they do,
for they are a soul, clothed for
a while with a physical body. A
soul is more precious than all and
outlasts more than seven bodies.
(S.. ALONG, Pag. 4)
Fifteen year old
boy arrested for
indecent exposure
A fit teen year old Denison boy
who lives on E. Main street, was
airested and placed in jail after
confessing to charges of indecent
exposure and using filthy and ob-
scene language to a woman over
the telephone.
Police were called by friends
of a young married woman who
ran into their house and told
them of being frightened by the
youth as she passed an alley on
her way home. Description of the
youth led to his quick arrest and
he confessed to the charge.
He also confessed to being the
person who phoned a young Den-
ison business woman making-
threats and using filthy and ob-
scene language to her.
The boy was turned over to
the juvenile officers.
KATY JUNE INCOME 1956
SHOWS GAIN OVER FORMER
Gross revenue of the Missouri-
Kansas-Texas Lines for June.
1956, totaled $6,631,000, com-
pared with $6,317,000 for the
same month of 1955. Net income,
afier adjustment bond interest
payment, came to $293,000, as
eg. inst $371,000 for June, 1955.
Gross revenue for the six
months ended June 30, 1956, was
$37,216,000, compared with $35,-
728.000 for the same period of
1955. The six-month net income
totaled $1,038,000, as against $1,-
627.000 for the first six months
of last year.
KATY CARLOADINGS
Revenue freight cars loaded on
the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Lines
during the week ended July 20,
1956, totaled 4,188, compared
with 4,868 for the corresponding
week of 1955.
There were 3,778 revenue cars
received from connecting rail-
roads, as against 4,264 for the
same week last year, bringing to
7,966 the total of revenue cars
handled during the week, compar-
ed with 9,132 last year.
The Katy has handled 250,262
revenue freight cars this year as
against 246,459 at the same time
in 1955.
LOCAL MARKETS
Egg's ........
Butter .......
Fryers ...............
Hens ............
Peaches, bushel
Watermelons
Cantaloupes
Fat cows
Slaughter steers
Slaughter calves
Stocker steer
calves
............... 40c
...............65c
............ 22c
............ 12-lSo
... $2.50 to $3
lV4c
................. 4c
$9.50 to $11.50
$16.50 to $21.50
$15 to $17.50
$16 to $19.50
Fat lambs ............ $20 to $22
Top hogs ............. $16.75 to $17
iort for the
vs a total of
16 accidents
and three in-
i’ u l- i e s ,
gainst a to-
al of 48 ac-
idents and 8
njuries for
he preceding
nonth.
The acci-
lent report
or the year
to date shows a total of 295 ac-
cidents, lour deaths and sixty' in-
juries and several thousand dol-
lars in property damage.
$229 million to be
spent on highways
of Texas in 1957
AUSTIN—The State Highway
Department announced recently it
will spend $229,800,000 on road
building in 1957.
This is in addition to $35,600,-
000 for maintenance.
The department released this
breakdown:
1. $180,400,000 will come from
$117,400,000 in federal aid and
63 millions in matching state
funds.
2. $15,000,000 is the annual
amount in state funds to be spent
on farm-to-market roads.
3. $34,400,000 is in state funds
to be used on state highways and
farm-to-market roads.
The maintenance figure is an
increase of two million dollars
over the present fiscal year.
The maintenance budget allo-
cation to each of the 25 highway
districts for 1956-57 fiscal year,
with headquarters, are:
Dist. 1, Paris $1,687,910; Dist.
2, Fort Worth $1,319,920; Dist.
3, Wichita Falls $1,012,390; Dist.
1, Amarillo $1,379,380; Dist. 5,
Lubbock $1,638,810; Dist. 6,
Pecos $1,050,770; Dist 7, San
Angelo $934,040; Dist. 8, Abilene
$1,339 040; Dist. 9, Waco, $1,-
343,900; Dist. 10, Tyler $1,606,-
340; Dist. 11, Lufkin $11,117,-
490; Dist. 12, Houston, $2,317,-
259; Dist. 13, Yoakum, 81,334,-
870; Dist. 14, Austin, $1,353,-
680; Dist. 15, San Antonio $1,-
563,910; Dist. 16, Corpus Christi
$1,294,000; Dist. 17, Bryan $1 ,-
165 600; Dist. 18, Dallas $1,900,-
410; Dist. 19, Atlanta $1,129,-
710; Dist. 20, Beaumont $1,358,-
510; Dist. 21, Pharr $1,185,730;
Dist. 22, Del Rio $788,740; Dist.
23, Brownwood $959,620; Dist.
24 El Paso $739,320; Dist. 25,
Childress, $922,030; State main-
tenance contingent fund and mis-
cellaneous $3,205,000.
Special events
will highlight
four day rodeo
Thrills aplenty are in stole for
all rodeo fans, both young and
old, in this week’s four day event
sponsored by the Denison Round-
Up Club. Special events, many of
them new in this area, will high-
light the wild west 1 ow every
night beginning Wednesday and
continuing through Saturday in
Munson arena north of town.
The annual rodeo put on by the
Round Up Club and Promoter
Reuben Pointer feature-' bronc
riding, calf roping, bull riding,
bull dogging, barrel races and
other stunts and is guaranteed to
be rough and tough, according to
Round Up Club president St bison
Hatfield.
Competition is open to every-
one, Hatfield says, and $150 in
prize money is to he given away
during the four day show.
A colorful parade Wednesday
afternoon, opening day of the
rodeo, was witnessed by hundreds
of fans lining Main street. The
participants then moved on to the
rodeo arena for the first per-
formance of the four day show.
manager-council operation
Council handles
routine matters
in short session
I he tax payers of the city of Denison received a pre-
Christmas gift in the way of a tax rate cut for the year 1956
when the city council took such action at its Tuesday meeting.
The new rate will be $1.16'A as compared to the old rate
for the past several years of $ 1.17Va.
The
Major amendments
announced by PAF
civil service jobs
Major amendments to several
positions available at Perrin Air
Force Base for civilians are an-
nounced from the local field this
week." Matters such as salary,
conditions of making acceptable
applications and time for filing
are indicated in the changes.
Such positions as senior weld-
er, $1.99 per hour; senior auto
painter, $1.81 per hour and air-
craft hydraulic systems mechan-
ic, $1.89 per hour are included
in the amendments.
Applications must be filed with
the executive secretary, board of
U.S. Civil Service Examiners,
Perrin Air Force Base, Texas,
not later ffian August 15, 1956.
Applications received after that
date will not be accepted unless
they arc received by mail and
bear a postmark on or before the
date, August 15, 1956, according
to announcement from PAFB.
THREE DENISON STUDENTS
ENROLL. GRADUATE D1V.
ETEX TEACHERS
COMMERCE—Three residents
of Denison have enrolled in the
graduate division of summer
school at East Texas State Teach-
ers college.
They are Johnny K. Vaugh,
Physical Education; Mrs. Clarine
The Denison City Council in
regular session Tuesday after-
noon approved tne purchase of
359 tons of stone for the asphalt
plant; approved and emergency
resolution to annex a portion of
property in the Magnolia addi-
tion; authorized the sale of some
350 old water meters and turn-
ed down a request for a sewer
line of S. 7th avenue.
Mrs. Katie Berry sat in City
Secretary Harold Schmitzer’s seat
during the meeting while he is
on vacation.
Petitions Rejected
Commissioner Walter Lebrecht
presented the request for a sewer
line on S. 7th Avenue in the
name of Kenneth Burget. En-
gineer E. C. Drurnb estimated the
cost of the project, which would
necessitate laying 736 feet sewer
pipe and constructing two man
hole-, at $1,170. Mayor Glidden
said he wouldn’t go along with
any such plan because he didn’t
see where the city would be just-
ified in spending that much mon-
ey to service one piece of prop-
erty or two or three. On his re-
commendation, the request was
rejected.
Another petition, first present-
ed at last, week’s meeting, and
which was held over until En-
gineer Drurnb could make an es-
timate of the cost, was also re-
jected at Tuesday’s meeting. The
petition asked that the concrete
foundation for the old standpipe
in the southwest part of own, and
the two water mains adjacent to
it, be removed. Engineer Drurnb
brought information to the coun-
cil showing that the city had a
deed to this piece of land dated
April 23, 1886, and that it was
purchased by the city at that
time for the erection of a water
storage tank. The cost of remov-
ing the concrete foundation and
the water mains, according to
Drumb’s figures, would be ap-
proximately $4,620; $1,570 for
removing the foundation, $2,200
for removing the mains, and ap-
proximately $850 f oi* grading.
Drurnb
Bessie Bishop, General Education.
Blanton and Newman are
easy winners as run-off
faces VanZandt-Korioth
With Woody Blanton ah easy
winner and for his fourth term
as sheriff of Grayson County,
possibly the most unusual thing
for that high office in the way
of a recoi’d has been made in the
ranks of voters in North Texas.
The final count shows his victory
almost four to one over a new-
comer “Red” Wilsford in Gray-
son county politics.
In the race for representative,
another record wifts made by a
seasoned and well-loved servant
in the ranks of politics in this
and adjoining counties, however,
there awaits a run-off in the last
analysis to determine if this sea-
soned political figure, Olan R.
VanZandt, can make the grade.
He lead the field of three can-
didates, but there remains a vote
to come from the friends of the
losing third man in the race,
"Bob” Rylee, a newcomer, but a
vote getter. He may be heard
from again in the future.
The offices for which Grayson
county contestants arc still in-
Tittle Weldon, Homemaking; and
1 another storage tank in the future
this location would be the one
most suitable, and in that event
it would not be justifiable for tfie
city to sell the property a$ti re-
move the foundation.
Drurnb was authorized to con-
struct a fence around the spot in
question as a safety measure.
Drurnb was authorized to pur-
chase 359 tons of stone for the
asphalt machine which would cost
$1,974.09.
Lot 27, Block 6 in the Magnol-
ia Park Addition, belonging to E.
E. Eubank was annexed to the
city through an emergency resolu-
tion. The property lies at 701 W.
Brock.
A petition for relief in their
water situation from residents in
the 1500 block W. Woodard was
approved. Engineer Drurnb was
authorized to make the necessary
changes in the water line in that
block which would give homes in
that area more water pressure.
Cost of the project, which was ex-
plained by Drurnb as having
something to do with the Katy
water lines through that section,
was estimated at $150.
The 102nd report from the col-
lector of delinquent taxes show-
ed $361.40 had been collected.
Hiway Crew in City
Mayor Glidden explained the
presence of State Highway crews
on Austin avenue in the three
blocks unpaved by them, as being
a crew to make soundings on
these three blocks for necessary
information for the highway de-
(S.» COUNCIL, P«(, 4)
terested show them to he in the
representative race and possibly
commissioners in other than Den-
ison’s area.
Here are the returns on repre-
sentative, county attorney grid
sheriff contests as given out
Tuesday:
REPRESENTATIVE
Rylee ....................... 3,150
Korioth ...... 4,373
VanZandt ......... 4,421
COUNTY ATTORNEY
Brown ............................. 5,135
Newman ......................... 6,999
SHERIFF
Blanton 9,479
Wilsford ......................... 2,886
By a big majority in the three
propositions authorizing an
amendment to the state constitu-
tion as regards white and black
mixing in schools, marriage and
the interposition question, Gray-
son joined the thousands in the
state and voted overwhelmingly
in favor of the proposed amend-
ment.
System-wide head is
established at Dallas
by Katy railroad
ST. LOUIS—Establshment of a
new system-wide passenger traf-
fic headquarters at Dallas, Texas,
and appointment of a new freight
sales manager and passenger traf-
fic manager, effective August 1,
were announced recently by J. F.
Hennessey, Vice-President—Sales
and Service, of the Missouri-Kan-
sas-Texas Railroad Company.
The Katy’s genera! passenger
traffic departments at St. Louis,
Mo., and Dallas, Texas, are being
consolidated into one general
headquarters at 912 Commerce
Street, Dallas, Hennessey said.
Elmer A. Bohmeyer, since 1946
passenger traffic manager, has
been named freight sales manager
with headquarters at St. Louis.
He will have jurisdiction over the
Katy’s sales and service agencies
reason given was that the
tax valuation in Denison had in
the past six years jumped from
around $11 million to around the
$15 million mark. The exact in-
crease in taxable property was an-
nounced by the mayor, which gain
Lad been made since 1950, total-
ed $3,759,570.
Something to ponder over as to
the why of it, was the fact that
the mayor, after stating the new-
low tax rate, indicated that the
cities of Paris, $2.15 rate;
Greenville, $1.65 rate, and Sher-
man $2.02 rate all had a higher
rate of taxes.
It will be recalled by followers
of the mayor’s pronunciamentos
that these same three cities car-
ry the council-manager form of
city government. Also the mayor
has spared no comparison, invid-
ious or otherwise to pay his bit-
ter opposition to the idea of Den-
ison going in for a ntanager-coun-
iil form of government.
Mayor Glilden took occasion to
in the Southwest and at Minnea- 't-ate the gains in valuation
polis, Minn., and Milwaukee, Wis. jwus occasioned by the increase
Bohmeyer is being succeeded
as passenger traffic manager by
Tom C. Connally, formerly gen-
eral passenger agent with head-
quarters at Dallas. Connally will
continue to make his headquarters
in Dallas where he will head the
newly consolidated department.
Bohmeyer, a native of St
Louis, entered Katy employ in
1920 and has spent his entire ca-
reer in the passenger traffic de-
partment. He started a.- a steno-
grapher and won promotion to
secretary to the general passenger
pgent, rate clerk, passenger agent
and traveling passenger agent. In
1932 he was named city passen-
ger agent at New Cork City, then
returned to St. Louis five years
later as division passenger agent
Promoted to assistant passenget
traffic manager in 1944 he was
elevated to the top position in
the passenger department in
1946. Bohmeyer is married.
Connally was born in San Mar-
cos, Texas, and entered Katy ser-
vice there in 1924 in the operat-
ing department. In 1929 he was
promoted to ticket seller in Fort
Worth and later transferred to
Dallas in the same capacity. From
1933 until 1946 he was assistant
city ticket agent, city ticket agent
and city passenger agent at Dal-
las, then was named assistant div-
ision passenger agent at that
point. In 1948 he was promoted
to division passenger agent at San
Antonio, then returned to Dallas
in 1954 as general passenger
agent.
Connally is married and has
three sons.
Consolidation of all passenger
headquarters activities at Dallas,
and appointment of an addition-
al freight sales manager—the
fourth for the company—are
moves designed to strengthen the
Katy’s entire sales and service de-
partment for more effective ser-
vice to patrons, Hennessey said.
THEFTS REPORTED
Police are investigating reports
from various individuals and bus-
iness firms of theft of property
during the week.
Bob Miller Motors reported
several hub caps stolen from their
place of business, Austin and
Chestnut.
Joseph Bilder, Jr., 1700 Ridge-
wood reported the theft of a
spare tire and wheel from his
1955 Plymouth.
A girl’s bicycle was stolen from
the Moore home at 427 W. Gan-
dy.
Mack’s Freight Terminal at
Travis and Main was broken into
Sometime during Sunday night
and several items stolen.
in real estate activities and the
spreading out of border lines of
the residential section.
Also the liberal policy of the
zoning board was given credit in
permitting petitions for improve-
ments in most cases being look-
ed upon favorably by that hoard.
This, hr declared, materially con-
tributed to the increase in real
estate value of the city
Charles Goodyear first manu-
factured rubber overshoes.
Grayson Co. Farm
Bureau takes steps
to secure relief
Grayson County Farm Bureau
Board of Directors met in a call-
ed meeting July 26, in the office
at 112 E, Lamar. The drought
situation was discussed and due to
its severity President W. H. Han-
ning was directed to send a let-
ter to J. Walter Hammond, pres-
ident of Texas State Farm Bur-
eau, requesting assistance of the
State Farm Bureau to help ex-
pedite approval for Grayson
County. It is necessary for the
State Drought Committee to ap-
prove the ' request for aid from
Grayson County before any other
action can be taken, it is stated.
Texas Farm Bureau has work-
ed closely with the State Com-
mittee on the drought problems,
states Mr. Hanning. “We feel
that this is an opportunity for
your Grayson County Farm Bur-
eau to be of service to the farm-
ers and ranchers of this area. If
there are any suggestions from
members or non-members we will
be happy to do all we can to act
on these requests,” he concluded.
Katy lets bid for
$31/2 million trust
equipment issue
ST. LOUIS—Salomon Brothers
& Hutzler of New York was the
successful bidder on Missouri-
Kansas-Texas Railroad Company’s
$3,645,000 15-year equipment
trust issue, Donald V. Fraser,
Katy President, announced re-
cently.
The successful bid carried a
price of 98.584, with a dividend
rate of 3-5/8 per cent; average
interest cost to maturity is 3.80.
The Equipment Trust Certificates
will be dated Sept. 1, 1956, will
mature in fifteen equal annual
installments, and will be secured
by 550 all-steel, welded, 50-ton
box cars, estimated to cost ap-
proximately $4,566,000.
Bids were opened in the gen-
eral offices of the company at
12:00 noon. Another bid was sub-
mitted by Halsey, Stuart & Co.,
of Chicago, 111.
A pound of ice occupies more
space than a pound of water.
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