Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 51, Ed. 1 Monday, October 14, 1946 Page: 8 of 8
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THE STATUE OF LIBERTY IS
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FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY
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BIT OF NEW YORK IN JERSEY
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DON’T FAIL
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Phone 29
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DON'T let your car develop major defects.
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VOTE FOR ALL OF THE BOM) ISSUE PROPOSALS IN THE
CITY ELECTION TUESDAY. OCT. 15th.
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We are supporting the Medical Asso-
ciation in their plea that the citizens of
Denton County vote for the passage of
the $ 150,000 Bond Issue which would give
Denton a New $500,000 County Hospital
JUNK yard to be placed in the defunct
With our help you can
KEEP t in A-l condition, so that
IT will be able to keep
• flOING until the new cars arrive.
209 N. Locust Street Phone 780
“Cash if you have it—Credit if you want it”
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Moat Oompleto Stock of Oauu-
InoObovroM Parts in Sorth Tamm
COMPANY
■oath Locust st. in Daatoa
Visit Our
Completely Modem
SERVICE
DEPARTMENT
TODAY
Mrs Will Rlckrich, whose arm was
injured in a fall recently, is im-
proving.
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LET us check your engine and
YOUR chassis thoroughly and repair your
CAR when necessary. Do not fail to
GO to Head lee's when you need
TO have it serviced. Do it regularly.
THE car will not need to be sent to the
YARBROUGH, Mayor of Denton
COMMISSIONERS:
51,000 BI T Coleman Oil Heaters
Portable Combination Radio
12-in. Emerson Osc. Fans
Radio Recorder - .Makes Records
Arvin Elec. Heaters - With Fan
Gibson Home Freezer. 6 ( u. Ft.
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Free Delivery
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Your Mayor and City Commission have tried to bring you a program of
city development that will answer many of Denton's civic problems and
make this one of the finest places to live and do business in America We
feel rhat the future of Denton is unlimited, but we are not asking you to
spend a lot of money at this time on "future prospects "
Oust whc.n av«ue«t>
Thinks h&s a suexeu
ausng-comc* tmc -rmc
WHEN HE'S CMXW UPON
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No matter how you watch your ex-
penditures. there occasionally is an
emergency when you need extra cash
and need it promptly. You can secure
a loan on your automobile, furniture
or salary at—
Therefore, we are asking you to support the bond issues we are pro-
posing because it is the only orderly, intelligent way we know of to provide
all of these necessities. We believe that the best interests of Denton, both
now and in the future, will be served by your support of the program of
city development which we have proposed.
W. D. BARROW
J. HOLFORD RUSSELL
W. W. KING
DEWEY BALL
HEI^RY CADDELL
(By live Associated Pressi
Bedloe’s Island, on which the Statue of Liberty stands is part of
New York State, but the water around it is part of New Jersey
Seven families of National Park Service employes—20 persons—
live on Bedloe's Island They vote and pay taxes hi the Borough of
Manhattan, New York City.
The sheet copper In the statue, which has a green patina from
oxidization, is three-32nds of an inch thick, about the thickness of a
sliver dollar.
The statue weighs 225 tons, including 100 Lons of copper and 125
tons of wrought-lron framework.
Tiie head of the statue was first exhibited In Purls and the right
arm and torch in Philadelphia at the centennial of American Inde-
pendence
The statue, made up of more than 300 pieces of copper, first was
assembled hi Paris, two years before its New York dedication.
It was brought to the United States in crates aboard the bark-
rigged French naval vessel Isere.
Gustave Eiffel, builder of the Eiffel Tower in Purls, designed the
framework of the statue.
Upkeep of the Statue of Liberty national monument Is budgeted at
about $60,000 a year. Because of elevator fees, the sale of concessions
and the like the monument is about 50 percent self supporting
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Mr. and Mrs. N II. Erwin have
returned from u month's vacation
in Tennessee. WasUhtflwi. Q. C.,
and Virginia
Joe Lee, wim has been ill at his
home for two weeks, is reported
improved
Mrs. Du lias Hollar has hud
guests the pusl several days
daughters. Misses Nita M
Helen Hollar, of Denison.
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Mrs David Rudd, wlw has been
ill, is reported improved
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All of the things outlined in our program which has been openly and
freely discussed is of vital importance NOW All of the propositions we
are recommending in tomorrow's bond election will have to be done if the
City of Denton is to meet the demand which the citizens are making upon
it.
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Marshall, who be-
st pt.
of a maintenance force of 20. is too [ couples
small to cope witii the vandals. The 1 •—1— •
best they can do is scrub off the
names
One day an evangelist of sorts
got loose on Bedloe's Island and
lipsticked "Jesus Saves" in some
50 spots. The staff, on the theory
that cleanliness is next to godliness
and there's a time and place for
everything, rubbed out every in-
scription but one in soft sandstone
which withstood all their efforst
and is still getting across its mes-
sage
In Chicago last July 22, C. P
Reynolds of Toledo told the Monu-
ment Builders of America. Inc . of
which he is president, that the
statue was badly defaced with lip-
stick and knife marks and the ter-
race in front was grassless and lit-
tered with partly eaten fruit, sand-
wiches and soda bottles
Marshall, who says he believes
Reynolds lias not been near
statue and must have got the Idea
from New York newspapers, con-
on
of
cedes the point on lipstick but
terms the rest of the criticism
"gross exaggeration "
He points to the terrace, which
has v scattering of wastepaper und
orange peels but no bottles nor
sandwiches, und to the grass,
which is thin in spots, and says
they are no worse than other pub-
lic places and not bad considering
that a half million people u year
walk there.
A ‘Tragic ludiclinenl'
Reynolds sain too that the situa-
tion was a "tragic indictment" of
here
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Mr and Mrs Otto Hinzman and
children visited her parents ut
Gainesville Bunday
Mr and Mrs. Virgil Parker had
as guests Sunday Mrs. and Mrs.
Esten Parker ot Whitesboro.
Mrs Sue Garrison of Fort Worth
is visiting her son, Bailey Garrison.
Mrs. Jim Rlcljardson has returned
from u trip to Detroit, Mich
Miss Bue Depeu of Healdton.
Okla., visited friends here
week
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Bentley
Ben Harvev at- l
Fair in Dallas '
leave their names on the premises another problem Before Mur-
His eight guided and guards, part shall’s time, Ite understands, some
.x.r , have gone so tar—right
under Miss Liberty's eyes, too—
that they've got themselves ar-
rested.
Yearly on the anniversary of the
stutue's dedication, the Ladies'
Auxiliary of the Veterans of For-
eign Wars and the American Com-
mittee for Protection of Foreign
Born hold separate ceremonies at
the monument.
Nothlngelse has peen planned
for the sixtieth birthday, but some
notice may be taken of the fact
that the National Park Service is
30 years old this year
The statue, designed
Alsatian sculptor
guste Bartholdi,
the alliance oi
tiie American public, and
Marshall tends to agree
"Nothing is really going to solve
this lipstick problem," he says,
"except a change in the habits of
the people who come here."
Marshall himself is dissatisfied
with the grass and with the old
wooden pier, which he would re-
place if he had the money. He
doesn't think too much of the stat-
us Itself as a work of art.
“I think it's much more signifi-
cant as a symbol than as an
artistic job," he says, looking up
"She has a kind of pregnant look
A lot of people have commented
on that."
Necking on Lawn
Lovers necking on the lawn
Admirers’ Lipstick Marks
Statue of Liberty-Inside
By NATHAN OATIS
' YORK. Oct. 14 —Miss
old fashioned and near-
ing her sixtieth birthday, wears no
’ lipstick, even though she is hostess
this year to a guest list expected
! to run to a record 550,000 or
675,000. But inside she is smeared
with the stuff.
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name.
World—lias been standing on
. acre Bedloe s Island, holding
classic torch of freedom
above New York Harbor,
her dedication Oct. 28. 1886
In that time she has accumulated
tour inscriptions in metal or on
wood—which are historic and pa-
triotic and belong there—quite a
few in pencil, and thousands in
every shade of lip rouge from
magenta to scarlet—which are
purely personal and are there in
spite of the best efforts of Nation-
al Park Service guards to keep
them off
) Even Climb the Girders
These latter inscriptions are
najnes, home towns and dates left
(By visitors who in recording their
presence preferred the sheet-cop-
per statue and its stone-and-con-
crete pedestal to the official guest
register.
Tiie inside of Liberty's head is
covered with names — Kitty.
Frank. Ralph. Dot. Wayne and
hundreds of others—in letters two
Inches tall. Below, people from
places like Granby. Canada, and
Loose Greek. Mo., have sjxjtted
their names on the inside of the
torso from the heel to the head 11
feet above
» Some, unable to reach Liberty's
lining from the 12-story spiral
staircase to the cop. nave risked
their lives to inch across girders
$0 feet above the floor and leave
lipslicked calling cards.
Guards Can’t Stop Them
Danger can't stop them. The In-
terior Department's National Park
iServlce. custodian of the national
monument since 1933 and in sole
charge of thfc island since the
Army left in 1937, can’t stop them
either.
Charles S.
came superintendent Sept. 21.
1M5, has worried ever since about
what he calLs "the lipstick prob-
lem." but It is still with him.
Marshall, a slim, serious-man-
nered man ot 33 from the Plains.
Va.( estimates that tae number of
Sightseers at the statue in the trav-
el year ending Sept 30 will sur-
pass the 1944-45 record total of
Ml .040 by 50,000 to 75,000
i Many of them, he is afraid, will
by the
Frederic Au-
commemorates
the French and
Americans that won this country's
independence from England The
French gave $250,(XX) for the cop-
per figure and the Americans
$280,000 for the pedestal.
Edouurd de Luboulaye. profes-
sor and writer, proposed the statue
in 1865 to mark the independence
centennial July 4. 1876. but be-
cause the fund piled up too slowly
the project was not finished till 10
years later
President Grover Cleveland
spoke at tile dedication, sand-
wiched between u parade und fire-
works. Tradition has it that as soon
as the President had finished, a
dignitary on the platform was to
wave his handkerchief as a signal
for a gun salute from ships in the
harbor Midway in the speech, tiie
story goes, the man felt a sneeze
coming on and pulled out his hand-
kerchief. und booming camions
threw the ceremony into con-
fusion
Througli the late 19th and early
20th centuries. Liberty cheered
hordes of immigrants traveling
steerage toward the nearby Ellis
Island quarantine station and the
“land of the free." In both world
wars, she watched soldiers going
to battle and coming home.
Her Wartime Role
Througlmut Wor.a War
blackout, two 100-watt incandes-
cent bulbs burned nightly in the
torch, though the idea was to warn
fliers and not greet GIs. Whenever
an Army transport or naval vessel
passed, the pier wutcljman saluted
with three fog-siren blasts. The
Army usually returned the salute,
Marshall says; the Navy did not.
Between Dec 7. 1941, und July
31. 1946, men in uniform visited
the statue to the number of 262.024
They got cut rates on the Francis
Scott Key. the concessionaire-op-
erated 900-passenger steamer that
brings visitors to the island and
did not have to pay the usual el-
evator fee of five cents each way
to and from the statue's foot.
Some were heard to remark that
this was the kind oi thing they
were fighting for. This was not in
the style of some crusty customers
recalled by J Fred Roush, monu-
ment historian
"They've got their minds made
up to go to the head. You can t
stop tfiem," he says. "Then after
they've been up there they come
down and they say they wouldn't
go again."
and Mr and Mrs
tended the State
Bunday night.
W. J. Knox of Fort Worth visited
Lynn Knox Bunday.
Ruel Chitham and son of Dallas I
recently visited Mrs. Harriett
Downs.
Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Muncy of
Oklahoma City, Okla , visited here
last week.
Mr and Mrs. L. T Odum huua
moved to California.
FILOt X’OINT
Mrs. Tom Ferguson is ill
influenza
Tommy Ferguson. 3-yeur-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Ferguson,
who underwent u tonsilectomy at
the Wilson-Jones Hospital in Sher-
man last week, is reported re-
Statue of Liberty—full
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Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 51, Ed. 1 Monday, October 14, 1946, newspaper, October 14, 1946; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1312918/m1/8/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Denton Public Library.