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VOL. XLIX
NO. 274
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DENTON. TEXAS.
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22 Texas Taft Delegates
Seated; Ike Is Given 16
Deaths
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Polio Cases In
Ike, Taft War
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Today’s News Today
Latest Denton, Denton County,
Texas, National And World
News And Pictures
while their friends peek out of windows are Earlane Tripplett of Pilot Point, Mary
Lou Mullins, Margie Crawford and Yvonne Allen, all of Argyle, Jon Pierce of Pilot
Point and Richard Gainsford of Ponder. (Record-Chronicle Staff Photos).
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Jea W. Nichelt Insurance Agency.
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Town" column will be resum-
ed in a few days.
Burned Wreckage
Of Plane Found
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and*Taft backer Henry Zweifel
of Fort Worth, present a study
of contrasting moods, indicative
of their individual feelings about
the Eisenhower victory on the
rules issue of the Republican
national convention in Chicago
(AP Wirephoto).
Vocational School Chief
Says He’ll Seek Other
Work After Sept. 1
Wayne Cox, co-ordinator for the
Denton County Vocational School
for Veterans, Tuesday tendered his
resignation to the County Board of
School Trustees.
He asked to leave his post Sept.
1 to seek other employment.
Board members accepted the
resignation and then appointed H.
O. Harris of Denton to succeed
Cox. Harris, who started the vo-
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Starts Slowly
Absentee voting, which got off
to a late sfart Monday, lagged
Tuesday.
Forty-five ballots were mailed
to absentee voters Monday and
Tuesday, but only one person voted
at the county clerk’s office.
County Clerk A. J. Barnett had j
to turn away several voters Mon-
day because the ballots, which
were due in the morning, did not
arrive until afternoon.
Absentee i
ir/un lll ivn 11V*1 un,7\,o--»-ii »•<«•* wo V’’V
before they left Denton Tuesday for Haywood County, N. C. Tacking up the sign
Contract is scheduled to be
awarded next Wednesday for pav-
ing of U. S. Highway 77 from the
south city limits of Denton to the
town of Lake Dallas.
Specifications call for 8 3 miles
A total of only *29 cases had B^ing, atructures. roadbed
through July 28—throe days before
the Democratic primary.
Voters who expect to be out of
town on July 26 should go to the
clerk's office to vote during this
20-day period. Those who will be
out of town during the entire
period may write for ballots.
Poll tax receipts must be sent
to the clerk either with the request
or with the ballot after it has been
voted.
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ALL ABOARD—Climbing aboard the bus that is taking
32 Denton County 4-H boys and girls to North Carolina
on an “exchange” vacation study trip are Peggy Smith
of Argyle, on steps, and Carol Glendinning of Green
Valley, Earlane Tripplett, Jon Pierce and Troy Tomlin,
all of Pilot Point. They will return July 19.
t integrity of the Republican Par-
ty,” Cecil aaid. "If thia committee
recognizes the injustice done to
Texas Republicans, the infamy of
Mineral Wells will be wiped out
and the party can go before the ’
l i>eople in November with clean
hands We will show you the
scheme that resulted in the dis-
enfranchisement of thousands of
Republicans ’*
Mineral Wells was the site of
the party's Texas state convention
in May.
Mne argued there were 964 del-
egates at Mineral Wells but 500
of them were arbitrarily disquai-
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same type of agreement
Trustees appointed William
Carse of Denton as county super-
visor and counselor. He will work
with teachers in all schools on im-
provement of teaching techniques
and curriculum.
For elementary supervisor, the
group again chose Mrs Julia E
Hogan of Denton. She will work
with the students in the county.
Al) teachers were recommended
by County Schoo) Superintendent
■Charles Silk.
In other actions, the trustees:
Reclassified all county schools
conducted an autopsy but refused
to release the results.
Justice of the Peace C. D. Caffal
of Mathis said he had not returned
an inquest verdict.
“I cannot comment on the case,”
he said, adding that he had just
talked at length with FBI agents.
.State Highway Patrolman R. E.
School! said the occupants of Ma-
rch's car estimated the Wheeler
car came across the bridge at a
speed of from 85 to 50 miles an
hour. The Wheeler car remained
on its aide of the road for a short
distance, then veered into the oth-
er lane and crashed into the Ma-
reth car.
The Caller said that none of the
witnesses to the auto accident nor
any person that came on the scene
later apparently bad any contact
with the murderer.
more discour-
ir. Cox said.
"a short time earlier he reported
polio cases had dropped to 168 last
week, but that was still the second
See POLIO CASES, Page 2
chances of winning 1
presidential nominal
They were buebtag a long
well planned faft campaign that
started months before Eisenhower
officially entered the race. A ma-
jority of Republican national com-
mitteemen and committeewomen
were staunchly behind the senator.
Ho had a firm grip on large chunks
of the party organization. His top
men had been operating effectively
in the field.
And all of this had been trans-
lated, through the veins and arter-
ies of party organization, into dele-
gates—convention votes for Taft.
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LAKE DALLAS—Eldon Carter
took extra precautions to keep his
new cor out of the wsy of the
heavy traffic that usually passed
his filling station here.
He kept the shiny ISM vehicle
tucked away in a-private drive-
way between the station and his
houM*
It. worked. . until Monday..
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Davie of
Mount Calm stopped at the station
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Mareth received a crushed arm.
Three others in Mareth's car were
not seriously injured
FBI agents, the border patrol
and various Texas law agencies
worked together today in attempt-
ing to track down the killer. Few
details of the shooting and accident
could be obtained from officers,
the Caller said.
The only official 'announcement
came from John W Holland, San
Antonio district director of the
Bureau of Imigration and Natural-
isation.
“A bullet definitely was found
in Wheeler's head,” Holland said,
“it definitely was not a bullet from
his service revolver. Tlie FBI is
in charge of the investigation, but
the Houston office of the FBI has
agreed to permit me to announce
that Wheeler hid a bullet in his
head and that it apparently is a
case of murder."
1 Dr. J. F. Pilcher, Corpus Christi,
Partly Cloudy 4
GONZALES tfl — An Air
Force B 29 crashed in flames 16
miles southwest of here about 8
a tn. today. All 11 men aboard
were reported to have bailed out
safely.
The ship was from Randolph
Field at San Antonio.
One of the crew, identified only
as Air Crew Officer Frost, told
William Shelton, who lives near
the crash scene, the only injury
waa a sprained ankle received by
one man.
The big plane plummeted to
earth with its number four engine,
the one on the far right, on fire.
Gonzales is east of San Antonio
in South Central Texas.
AUSTIN in — State Health
Officer George W. Cox, greatly dis-
couraged about the record outbreak
of polio, said today his department
is handicapped by totally inade
quate funds.
“I go out to look at this polio
situation over the state, and I
come back feeling
aged than ever,” Di
t the "Taft can’t-win” theme. It
went out in countless thousands of
messages, verbal and writtee, to
delegates, potential delegates and
plain voters all over the country.
Taft still says, “It’s the only argu-
ment they have against me.**
His counter contentions, natu-
rally, also were delugiqg the voters
throughout the land. And both sides
urged people to write their repre-
sentstives, telling them how te
vote and whom to support.
Then, on May 27, the Texas state
convention took place at Mineral
Weils. That issue is being fought
out now in thia convention. It is a
pivotal point in the whole battle
over delegates.
Glamorous Names
Chosen For Hills -
TOKYO (JI — Naming/ hills-Old
Baldy or Pork chop Ridge - is
strictly army.
The Marines do it more glam
ously says a publicity handout,
wit:
Frontlioe Marines nsmed bills
Ruth Roman, Marjorie Main or
Eiiiabeth Taylor.
Patrol leaders then radio back
sueb interesting messages as
“We re at the foot of Susan Hay
Ward.” or “InvcM'iiaiinc the con
tours of Marilyn Monroe.”
to determine the cause of the mid-
air collision in which Don E.
Walker and Paul W. Brower Jr. of
Denton were killed.
CAB regional officials in Fort
Worth told the Record Chronicle
the hearing will begin at 9 a m.
1 each of the two days. It will be
held at the Mercantile Bank Build-
ing auditorium, Dallas.
More than 25 witnesses will be
heard, said Leon Tanguay, of the
CAB regional office at Fort Worth.
Three CAB officials from Wash-
ington, D C —E. S. Bosworth, Fred
Powell and R. W. Christ — will
serve as the hearing officers to-
gether with Tanguay.
Walker, 20, and Brower, 19, died
June 28 when Brower's two-seater
monoplane collided over Love
Field, Dallas, with an American
Airlines DC-6 as
tempted to land.
Walker and Brower were em-
ployed by Central Airlines at Love
Field ind commuted from Den-
ton daily*
The small planes wing was
sheared off and the ship crashed
The national committee, which
had first crack at the contests last
week, followed a suggestion from
Sen. Taft and split the Texas votes
22 for Taft and 16 for Eiaenhower
This decision was carried before
Highway 77 Paving
treatment and concrete pavement.
A temporary aaphalt surface will
be provided on the aouth iane be-
fore concrete ia poured for the
north lane,' it waa explained by
J. R.. Kirkpatrick, reaident engi-
neer, for the State Highway De-
partment.
Traffic then will be routed from
the present old highway to the
temporary road while the perma-
nent concrete surfacing job ia
completed
Meanwhile, work ia being com-
pleted on one farm-market high-
way through the northwest corner
of Denton County, a resurfacing
job ia about to begin on another
county road, and work has just
started oa still another farm high-
way.
FM 51, linking Cooke and Wise
Counties across the northwest tip
of Denton County, will be opened
te traffic within a week.
Resurfacing of FM 156 from a
point four miles south of Ponder
northward to Krum is scheduled to
start next week, while work be-
gan last week on FM 1885, near the
Mustang community, Kirkpatrick
aaid.
senator's name placed in nomina-
tion for the presidency tonight.
Until ber illness Martha Taft took
an active part in her husband's
political campaigns. There are
practical politicians who say ber
speeches had a great den? to do
with first electing Taft to the Sen-
ate in 1938.
She stumped the nation in his
first unsuccessful try for the Re-
publican nomination in IMO. She
was again a familiar figure
throughout Ohio when be cam-
paigned for Ms second Senate
term. He had to make his third
race alone, for her flteaao bad ’
struck by that time.
Last Sunday she returned ta the
political arena. With the senator
heaida her, aba helped receive aav-
eral thousand at a roeepttaa. But
she found it overtired her and she
has been resting since in ber hotel
antte.
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Veteran Combat
Pilot Is Killed
PHOENIX. Aria.,. « - A
veteran of 40 aerial cot ‘ *
sions in Korea waa killed
in the crash of » 1
at Gila Bend Gunnery Range hear
Luke Air Force Base
First y. William B Cowart. »
of Houston was training as for IB »
stntctnr in gunnery. i
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CONVENTION HALL, Chicago (AP)—Taft forces
put acrosa 27 to 24 in the credentials committee today
their plan for splitting up the 38 Texas votes in the Re-
publican National C-onvention. Thin gives 22 votes to
Sen. Robert A. Taft and 16 to Gen Dwight I). Eisen-
hower.
Eisenhower men had made a bid for 33 of the votes,
and will take to the convention floor their fight for
these and other contested Southern delegates.
Additional Convention Nows and Pictures on Peyes 2, 3 end- 4.
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MMILINB, fiLUM-Tht leaders
of the twe Texas Republican
factions, Ike supporter Jack
Porter of Houston I standing)
CHICAGO iJi-The battle of Chi To counter it. Eisenhower’s
cago Is nearing a climax now (lieutenants were hammering hard —
These are the last, desperate ■ at '
hours for Sen Taft and Gen. Ei-
senbower, and the men who are
down on the firing line They con-
ceal the tension, with varying de-
grees of success, behind a mask
of optimism. Time is runnirv out
for both sides And the space for
maneuver has narrowed to a thin
edge.
This ia the laat paragraph in a
strange chapter in American pol-
itics
The story behind it is a story
of months, and in fact years, of
political strategy, counter - ma-
neuver—and accident.
A week ago at this time, some
if not all of Eisenhower's backers _
were far from cheerful about his
Martha Awaits
‘Big Moment'
CHICAGO (*—Mrs. Robert Taft.
Confined to a wheelchair since a
paralytic stroke two yean ago. is
conserving her strength for what
she hopes will be "the big mo-
ment” in her husband's political
career.
She wants to go out to Republi
___________—T— — cao convention Hall to hear the
Contract Near For
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Texas State College in lire, was
the first co-ordinator before Cox.
The county took over the program
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ed shortly afterward to become
rliatrict supervisor of agricultural
education, a state office.
“I have weighed the matter
carefully and looked at it from
every angle. I think my resigna-
tion is the best thing,” Cox told
the school board Tuesday.
“Mr. Cox has talked to me on
many occasions,” County School
Superintendent Charles Silk said.
“This is not a hasty decision on
his part.”
Silk praised Cox's work and
promised him the "best of recom-
mendation ''
"I tried to get him to stay,” he
said.
In reporting bn vocational school
activities, Cox said a new fiscal
year had just begun for the insti-
tution.
“We’re operating under an ex-
tension of last year's contract
through October,” he explained.
“The Texas Education Agency
hasn't received a contract ap;
proval from tha Veterans Adminis-
tration, because the Korean veter-
ans' bill has not yet been signed
by the President.”
Cox reported the school now has
two part-time distributive educa-
tion classes, three agriculture
classes and one advanced agricu-
See COX RESIGNS, Page 2
ALBUQUEBQU
Searchers early toaay
bunted wreckage of a Mavy am-
phibian plane ta which six saw
The twa-eagtaad JRF4. baaed at
Saafor, FIs., crashed Memtay
night just' aervs the tap «
the Sanida Mouatataa aasi et Al-
buquerque.
R asada a wtt» circle i
stattaa tad ewept cede a
misstag nesrhy trees i
tags.
TIM it ftrnck Cartar’i
wMeh suffered heavy dti
Davie auto w«s dasaagud
driven a car in her lite I
tried it at the CartA
tiea. .
And the last
fross the Cai
fieattag Bate
night.
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the credentials committee on ap-1
peal
Ixinai Cecil of Beaumont made
the opening statement for the Port
er faction
"The real issue is the honor and
V/VA. aims i so, wiivf oiattcu vaio vv
Rational pr og r i m with North 1
I to a street near Love FIrtd. None
| of the 55 passengers and 5 crew
i. u.wwi. members aboard the airliner were
in November. 1947. Hgrri, resign- injured big plane wa> ghghtly
damaged but made a safe landing.
Walker was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. E. J. Walker of 1140 Frame.
, Brower's parents are Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Biggerstaff, who live on
the Golden Hoof Ranch west of
Denton.
FOUR TEACHERS WIN
OK OF COUNTY BOARD
voting will continu#*
; Four special service teachers
for Denton County schools were
approved by the County Board of
School Trustees here Tuesday.
I They will begin their duties this
I fall.
Mrs. Sam Mitchell of Denton
was named librarian for the Krum
and Sanger schools. She was li-
brarian at Port Lavaca during the
past year Both schools are work-
ing under a co-operative agree-
ment.
Tom Lindsey of Pilot Point will
be shop teacher for the Aubrey
■ and Pilot Point schools under the
as they were in 1951-52, with the
following grades: Aubrey Rural
High School, 10, and Argyle, Little
Elm, Lake Dallas and Double
Oak, eight grade* each. Independ-
ent schools, Denton High, Krum,
Lewisville, Pilot Point, Sanger,
Ponder and Northwest, will again
have 12 grades.
Approved a contract with the
Texas Education Agency for re-
imbursement on school lunches
served during the coming school
year. This contract affects only
the common and rural (chooi dia-
tricta.
Approved 1952-53 school bus
routes as they were last year.
Agreed to allow all county in-
dependent schools to operate their
own transportation systems this
year. Silk explained all schools ex-
cept Lewisville had asked to do
this.
“We encouraged the schools to
request this last year,” the super-
intendent said.
I^wisville waa included in Mon-
day’s agreement.
Set up a new transportation
policy, providing for payment of
bus transportation at common and
rural high school districts directly
See TEACHERS, Page 2
for some water. The as
their car died. While Da
ed tbe car backward, hia. .wife
slipped under the wheel to control
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CONVENTION HALL, Chicago.
<J) — Rival Texas delegations i
this morning began laying their!
aims before the Republican Na-1
tional Credentials Committee in tbe |
bitter contest as to whic h group,
will get tbe bulk of the i-one Star j
State’s 38 seats.
The way for tbe bearing of the
Texas contest was cleared when <
the backers of Sen. Robert A. Taft
yielded 13 contested ixtuisisna
seats to the Elsenhowei forces.
On one side was a* Texas del-
egation beaded by Hpnry Zweifel.
It lined up with 80 for Taft. 4
for Eiaenhower and 4 for Mac-
Arthur. The other delegation, led I
by Jack Porter and Alvin l.ane, |
lists 33 for Eisenhower and 5 for
Taft. I
DENTON AND VICINITY-Partly
cloudy tonight and Thursday
Warmer Thursday.
EAST TEXAS—Partly cloudy with
scattered thundershower* near
the coast. Warmer Thursday.
WEST TEXAS—Partly cloudy and
a little warmer tonight, Warmer
Thursday with widely scattered
thundershower*
TIMMRATURII
Ixperlmww ttatiew
Hlgb Tuesday .........
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Attempted Cover-Up Foiled
CORPUS CHRISTI UP—
The Corpus Christi Caller said to-
day that a border patrolman was
murdered and placed at the wheel
of his car which crashed into an-
other auto Sunday night.
The death of Edwin H. Wheeler,
43, chief of the patrol at Alice wal
first believed caused by a highway
accident.
The Caller story said:
“All evidence indicates that who-
ever shot Wheeler, propped him in
the front seat, got partially under
the wheel, put the car in gear,
jammed the accelerator down and
then jumped out.”
Wheeler’s car roared onto the
Nuecaa River bridge near Sandia,
Tex., and crashed headon into a
car driven by Milton Maietii of
Oraug* Grove, Tas.
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Special Price an Caladlum plant*
for yard planting.
Selby OreenheuM*
MM Seuth Lecuat
1951 Figur es
By THK ASSOCIATED FRKSS
Texas polio cases
than double those r<
time laat year.
State Health Officer 'George W,
Cox said Wednesday 163 cases re-
ported last week brought the
state's total to 1,309. compared
with only 436 for the similar 1951
period.
Forty-three of the state’
counties reported new polio
last week, Cox said. Harris County,
with 52, and Dallas County, with
24, accounted for almost half the
163 case* added during the week.
Lavaca County reported 24 cases
but this was a cumulative figure
covering a longer period than last
week. Grayson County reportq0
five cases, first in 1952 for the
Northeast Texas area
Other incidence by counties last
week: Tarrant, 13; Dawson and
Martin. 6 each: Travis and Vic-
tegta.4 each; Jtawls, lUUnnan
and Nneces, 3 each; * Anderson,
Bexar, Calhoun, Hidalgo, Parker
and San Patricio, 2 each; and
Aransas, Brazoria. Castor, Coke,
Edwards, Fort Bend, Gonzales,
Gregg, Hamilton, Hardin. Hays,
Hockley, Jefferson. Midland. Rusk.
Smith, Stephens, Taylor, Upshur,
Upton, Wichita, Wilbarger. Wil-
liamson, Wood and Young. 1 each.
The armed forces reported two
cases not located by county.
Houston's city health department
reported eight more polio cases
Wednesday and 16 “possibles”—
patients with polio symptoms not
yet confirmed.
With only three day* left for the j
i big experiment at Houston, inocu-
lation of children between the age*
of 1 and 6 was being stepped up.
Through Tuesday night 18,836 chil-
dren had received the gamma
globulin shots which may prevent
paralysis. The goal of 15,000 is
scheduled to be reached by Friday
night
Dallas reported five new victim*,
making a total of128 far the year.
A total „ . r
reported on July 8, 1951
Fort Worth hoipitals admitted
two new patients, one from Weatb-
' erford and one from Sherman.
In San Antonio, an entire Big
Spring family is in the hospital.
Airman Alvin Miller, 20, and hia
wife, 19, from Webb Air Force
Base, ara both in a serious con-
dition from polio Their 16 months
old son, Alvin Miller Jr., is in the
hospital but hia case ha* not been
diagnosed as polio.
Woman At Wheel First Ti
Brings Woe To Lake Dalla^j
_i *_ tu- The engine sputtered and roar it made a widn eirele moubB the H
ed The auto zoomed backward,
out of control.
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