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HELICOPTER READIED
FOR DALLAS MANHUNT
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youth;
A Pilot Point youth received sec-
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gas tank, Erwin said.
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Condition Of Denton County Banks
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$6,578,780.78
$2, 790,341 a
$2,730, 200.80
$2,956,408.10
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793,020.50
223,869.70
447,091 A
466,945.16
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Bank Deposits Show
Increase In County
Senate Plans
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Denton Water
Barometer
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Use water wisely. Conserve dur-
in* Texas' serious drought.
... Miss Jane MeBriert, beautiful
brunette senior student of Texas
State College Jar Women, is the
Sweetheart For ’54
Chosen By Aggies
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call, June 30.
Loans and discounts report!
the banks were $173,338.47 h
early today
charge of a
inches had
1960. San
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Deposits in Denton County's eight
banks are up more than a million
dollars compared with deposits at
a similar period last year.
In response < to a call from the
U.S. comptroller of currency and
the state banking department for
statements of condition at the close
of business Sept. 30, Denton Coun-
ty's banks reported $21,271,354.37
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fly A. J. (Mb) gDWAKM
For men must He often have
suffered since the foundation of
the world; but now once in the
end of the world hath he appeared
to put away sin by the sacrifice of
Himself.—Hebrews 9:26.
Jesus did all the saving-work.
He brought the cross to our level.
Get saved by looking to Him, and
then live in God.—W. P. Mackey.
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The total
inches.
52,899,874.40-
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The front lata Saturday exta
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Sept. 30 than for
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MMYls DEAD—Joe Bill Parker,
tractor unaware that his mothers
, 29, was murdered brutal!
‛ “Our son, Creswell Dean Davis,
has been working with an engineer-
ing firm in Jackson, Mich., this
summer and I thought he might
have come up to see you while
there," said Ed Davis? "I guess he
didn't have time to make the 150-
mile drive, as they were at work
just about seven days a week.”
Jackson boasts — or regrets, prob-
1 ably — the largest prison system
in the United States and prison au-
thorities have learned that the sys-
tem is entirely too large for the
best interest of the state and the
system itself. Creswell, graduate
of NTSC, entered the Law Depart-
ment of the University of Texas
this fall.
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MAYBE SHE
SAW TOO MANY
TV FIGHTS
435,947.71
-nce.
A six member executive com-
mittee for Denton County’s United
Fund campaign has been named
by Committee Chairman Ed J.
Williams.
The United Fund board of dir-
$8,247,971.59, while the 1952 figure
was $8,074,633.1a.
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The Red teams have the tremen-
dous job of interviewing nearly 23.-
000 balky prismners whereas the
U. N. Command has to talk only
to 23 Americans a Briton and 333
South Koreans reportedly reluctant
to return home
bring renults and that is
is running the ad again
Have Yon Trted the Wai
, Paul Taliaferro of Tulsa, Okla.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Talia-
ferro of Denton, has been named
president and director of the Ucan
Products Co., which recently let
' a contract on a multi million dol-
lar coking unit to be built near
Duncan, Okla., at Sunray Village,
in conjunction with the Sunray Oil
Corporation’s catalytic cracking
refinery. The plant is expected to
get in operation to the late part
of 1954 with a capacity of 9,000
barrels per day. Paul Taliaferro
' is also executive vice president
and general counsek of the Sunray
Oil Company of Tulsa. •t “
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B. E. Looney has returned from
San Antonio, where he attended a
meeting of the Alumni Council of
Trinity University. Looney is at
present president of the National
Trinity Alumm Association which
has 16 council members. Looney
graduated from Trinity University
( when it was in Tehuacana in the
class of 1894; taught there and also
was a member of the faculty when
it was in Waxahachie. The school
was founded in 1869 at Tehuacana
with about 500 students'. It now has
enrolled something over 1,500 stu-
dents.
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L Deposits Loans and Discounts
Sept..,1953 Sept., 1952. Sept. 30, 1953
i add E. Hickory.
Walter Hudson, 19-year-old hot
I rod enthusiast, was in a satisfac-
tory condition in Denton Hospital
i and Clinic, attendants said late
last night.
PANMUNJOM Sunday Oct. 4 (f)
—South Korea’s threat to fight In-
dian custodial troops and Nation-
aliat China s proo of the UN. Com-
mand to get torgh added compli-
cations today to the task of re-
patriating nearly 23,000 anti-Red
prisoners of wor
The new developments arose aft-
er Indian troops put down two dis-
Hudson and Clifton Erwin were
working on the Model B Ford in
MISS JANE Mesler
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era and wounding 10
More than 14,000 of these men
balking at a return to Red rule
are Chinese and nearly 6,000 are
Koreans.
Here is a quick rundown of the
latest developmvnts:
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to
bridge under which Mrs. Parker
was attacked.
. He had slumped into uncon
sciousness after muttering: “Oh,
the body the body/the body.”
He was sent in an ambulance to
a hospital and later taken to the
city jail.
Of slight build and blue-eyed,' the
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swept into T«
. brought soak
ge part of drou
i there since May
o had 1.77 inches
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Saturday was a .
$7,936,944.55
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bomes," said Hansson.
Police sought a Dallas Negro
who fled from a state hospital’s
criminal ward at Rusk, Tex., only
four days before Mrs. H C. Parker,
29, was raped and slain Wednes-
day night. She staggered onto a
street near Love Field, the muni-
cipal airport, and died in police
officers' arms from a stab wound
in the throat after gasping that
she had been stabbed by a Negro.
SMOKE EATERS—Denton firemen fight the $6,000
blaze which da
SUNDAY
there?”
“A man was down there.” he
replied. "I think he may be the
one doing all this trouble. He was '
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Sooner Prison,
seeking war prisopers."
1 In Tokyo, Gen. Mark Clar,
the U.N. Far East commander,
flatly turned down a request by
the Neutral Nations Repatriation
Commission which would afford
the Red teams more time to in-
terview the balky captives. The
Armistice terms cal! foi such ex-
planations to be ended by Dec. 24.
Delays in getting the explanations
when police took
white youth on a
in deposits. Deposits on Sept. 5,
1952, totaled $20,111,365.73, some
$1,159,988.64 less than this year’s
figure.
Deposits for Sept. 30 were some-'
what lower than a total of $22,-
334,920.20 deposits reported by
the eight banks at the test bank
Associated Preas Leased Wire
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By THB A
A cool ir
Saturday a
rains over a
nis, last year also won the other
coveted honor bestowed on TSCW
girls by the Aggies when she was
named queen of the Cotton Ball
in the spring. She also has been
an Aggie Sweetheart nominee for
the past two years.
She will be presented at the Tex-
as ARM TCU football game Oct
17, at which time TSCW students
will make their annual Corps Trip
to an A&M game.
The 20-year-old Tessie is a mem-
ber of the TSCW Caperettes, danc-
ing group and has held class of-
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2 Break Fro
questioned since Mrs. Parker's
death.
Her death climaxed a series of
attacks on white women in Dallas
in recent months.
Thirty suspects remained in jail,
open area where
aged three b
on a hot rod gas
Hickory. The fU
maimed a Negro women here in
1948, was adjudged sane at the
time of the crime but insane when
brought to trial. The sheriff at
Rusk. Frank Brunt told Dallas
authorities the man may have
come back here and may be res
ponsible for recent sex crimes.
Scores of suspects have been!
northeastward to the ellahoma
border and was scheduled to drive
deeper into Texas Sunday, bring-
ing showers and tower tempera-
tures. .
The heaviest rains were re-
ported in one of the areas hard-
est hit by the current drought-
the region extending from Big
Spring southward through San An-
gelo. . .....
Big Spring received 2.69 inches,
the first time that as much aa 2
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gte
there are no
dustrial. Will P. Austin, who owned
' the food, said yesterday.
In Kidnaping
KANSAS CITY, Oct. 3 I—An
unnatural quiet settled about the
big, ivy fringed home of little
Bobby Greenlease tonight as his
wealthy family prayed foi a week-
end break in the six-day-old kid-
naping.
The multi millionaire father,
Robert C. Greenlease appeared to
be working quietly in the seclusion
of his home in an effort to nego-
tiate the release of his son.
Police continued to stand aside
at the family's request. Police
Chief Bernard Brannon discounted
reports that the police felt they
had waited long enough and were
about to begin a concentrated man-
hunt by saying,
“We will not make a move-with-
out permission of the parents. •We
are marking time. Our chief con-
cern is getting this child back
See KIDNAPING, Page 2
DALLAS. Oct 3 (P—A helicop-
ter equipped with pcwerful search-
lights was brought in tonight for
possible emergency use in the
search for the phsntom rapist-kill-
ler of a pretty dime store clerk.
For the third night, augmented
police patrolled a city tense and
jittery from a aeries of sex attacks.
Self-appointed vigilantes formed
neighborhood protective groups.
Police wsrned against use of fire-
arms in unfamiliar handa.
Police Chief Carl Hansson re-
quested the helicopter from. the
nearby Bell Aircraft Plant. “We
won't use it unless we have a
prowler who has escaped into an
1. Cho Chung Whan, South Ko- L
reas acting foreign minister, said n
yesterday the deathz were "erim-
but police indicated no big break
was in the immediate offing.
Meanwhile, a reward fund in-
creased to more than $8,000. Busi-
ness firms and individuals, includ-
ing Negro residents, were contribu-
tors.
Some excitement was generated
23-year old youth told officers he
was an ex-Marine knife-fighting in-
structor, now employed at a Dallas
airplane plant.
Officers questioned him closely,
but emphasized the strong possi-
bility that the man was in a men-
tally unbalanced state and might
have been trying to attract atten-
tion.
At the hospital in the presence of
a newsman, officers asked the
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were you doing down,
months after the ad expired, a
lady looking through some old
papers rood the ad and bought
anwnAlaoha siuA -.a »
some ciotnes line poles
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that Record -Chronicle Want Ada.
PHOENIX, Oct 3 (fl—There
are drawbacks to owning the
only television set in a neigh-
borhood, Laura Davis told po-
lice today.
She complained she was
struck by an angry neighbor
who hadn’t been invited to view
the World Series. 1
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Mr. and Mrs. A. C Bryant, 403
Marietta Street, have gone to
} ( Washington, D.C., where they will
visit their son, Alton Bryant, and
family. Alton is associated with
the FBI and stationed in Washing-
ton. His .parents are taking their
vacation at the same time as their
son takes his, and they will tour
parts of the North and Eastern
States while away during the next
two weeks or more.
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Hot Rod Explodes,
Fires 2 Buildings
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Two women told Police Sgt.
Stavis Ellis the youth, who plays
in a dance band at night, offered
to take them home from a night
spot when it closed.
Chairman Bridges (R-NH) said to-
day the Senate Appropriations
Committee pians to call Harold E.
Stassen to explain what it says
may have been "capricious" fhr-
ings in the Foreign Operations Ad-
ministration.
Stassen, who-heads the agency,
has been engaged in an overturn
of personnel which so angered
some employes that they hung
crepe on FOA filing cases and said
they were being "Stassinated."
As chairman of the committee
which will have to pass on FOA ~
personnel funds in the next ses-
DENTON AND
siderable eta
ed stowen
Sunday and
: Monday; coo
Denton Com
this month: .’
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Sunday: fair,
cTEMP
turbances in the demilitarized zone
I last week by killing three prison-
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which flashed through two build- Erwin's repair shop on Industrial,
toga when a bet rod exploded about The motor aborted and ignited the
5:30 p.m yesterday on Industrial gas tank, Erwin said.
submitted their budgets and ap-
plied for participating member-
ship in United Fund
Executive committee members
who will plan the fund raising
campaign for this year s $40,872
goal include Chairman Williams,
Stanley Monroe Dr. E G. Bal
lard, Ben Ivey, Dr. Paul P. Young,
all of Denton, and Roy Perry of
Lewisville. Holford Russell, presi-
dent of the United Fund board of
directors, was named an ex-officio
member of the committee.
Several committee members will
meet with United Fund workers
in Fort Worth Monday to discuss
campaign plans and problems.
Definite plans lor the Denton
County campaign will be announc-
ed soon, according to United Fund
officials.
Nine agencies whose budgets
See UlF. PLAN, Page 2
The blase shot out at Hudson,
who had spilled gasoline on his
arms.
“He started running out the
door but I grabbed him and tried
to put out the fire," Erwin said.
J. C. Belcher, who Thursday took
over the lease of the garage ad-
joining Erwin’s on Hickory, said
“at least $5,000" worth of damage
was done to his garage. Mrs. Lula
Bolton, Dallas, owns the building.
Belcher and Erwin did not carry
fire insurance and did not know if
Mrs. Bolton had insured the build-
ing.
About $500-worth of feed was
damaegd by water to the structure
which, touches the bulding on In-
The Denton County Tuberculosis
/ Association offers free Chest X-ray
examinations at the Palace Theatre
building, west aide of the square,
and the courtesy will continue
through Oct. 10. An examination
now may save some a lot of grief
Ah years to come, so it would be
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inal acta of murer" by the Indian
guards and declared "we shall be
forced- to take up arms against
them" unless there is e swift
change in policy. /
1 2. On Formnsa, Chiang Kai-
Shek’s Nationast government,
obviously interested in the fate of
the Chinese prisoners—announced
today it had called attention of the
U.N. Command and the United
Mrs. Harry C. Parker, 29, was murdered brutally by a
sex killer in Dallas. Joe Bill was told only that she had
gone away. Mrs,Parker was attacked near a busy traffic
anserscstreinnamtastoswatt shopping.
started on schedule Sept. 22
ectors Thursday approved a $40,4 prompted the Reds to seek an ex-
3ustin
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ated .75 inch shower
i thirsty Denton before ।
ry, hot days. .j
s have hovered over the:
F riday. The shower hit
art 8 p.m.
rein fell here Sept 3.
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business and agricultural condi-
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State hospital Aug. 30 raped and
naped during a morning prison
break.
The pair at large reportedly
used a pistol and knife to force
the prison worker, Luther Brooks,
28, to cut through a gate to free-
dom with an acetylene torch, then
took him and the three fellow in-
mates hostage.
The convicts, all trusties at the
reformatory here, and Brooks
were freed near Lugert, Okla,
about nightfall and made their
way to a roadblock set up by po-
lice.
They reported Norman Daven-
port. Pryor, Okla., who engineered
the break, herded them into the
brush. Gerald Stanton, 18, Lewis-
ton, Idaho, the other fugitive, then
drove off in Brooks’ car, also leav-
ing Davenport stranded. He and -
See ESCAPE, Page 2
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tions remain generally good in Den
ton County despite such handieaps
as the dry weather. Denton Coun-
ty’s grain crop thia year was term-
ed the beet in the county’s history.
Total resources of the eight
banks era up more than a million
dollars this year with a report of
$23,271,686.74 as compared to $22,-
100,780.40 reported Sept. 5. 1853.
Water pumped Oct. 2, 1952—
2,210,000 gallons.
1953’s highest daily figure—
4,538,000 gallons, June 24.
1952‛s highest daily figure--
2,210,000 gallons, July 29.
. 1,235,19410 - n,038,812.53
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VOL. 51 NO. 55
. dirty, rotten tawatanspumpadrridaxsrom Den
mess, he said when asked why
he was prowling around the area.
Last summer she worked in the ___
Sweetheart, or 2953-54 .. Washington.ofticeslVS"Repre-takes
was hosenfr amhg 15 Teague or Irfan, tests"
nominees by an Aggiecom- 7 T the Indians th* responsibility for
, the betrayal of these freedom-
E., mate. » gapltap. States to the "unneutral" unjust
Her major is seeretartal and inhuman actions” of the in-
'zh.dian troope. • announcement
Mithe said unless the U N Comma*!
BELIEVE IT
Oft NOT
...... Mr. Anthony placed the follow-
J lag ad to the Record-Chronicle
Classtfied Section and three
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“It scares me I’ve got two sis-
ters.”
H. Mitchell of Galveston. The Ag-
gies visited the TSCW campus all
day Friday and announced their rI nF w TI
selection Saturday I q Hlan I H
Miss McBrierty. daughter of Mr “ • * Hill • 1
and Mrs. H. J. McBrierty of En-
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S. Koreans Threaten V
Against POW Custodi
In Rare Rain
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Denton’s rare shower at 9 p.m.
last- night may have flustered at
least two traffic violators.
There just didn’t seem to be
enough offenses to go around for
awhile. • /
Bryant Earl Nuckels, 823 N.
Elm, told police that a hit and run
driver struck his 1948 Chevrolet
which was parked in front (A his
house. A pickup for the car was
immediately radioed from police
headquarters.
Upon hearing the report, a pa-
trol car arrested a auspect who
confessed to hitting a car on N.
Elm. Less than five mnutes later,
another patrol car reported the ar-
rest of a motorist who also ad-
mitted hitting a car on N. Elm.
Further investigation disclosed
the missing collision.
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GRANITE, Okla., Oct. 3 ifl—A
manhunt centered in the rugged
Southwest Oklahoma hills tonight
for two state reformatory fugi-
tives after the rescue of three
other convicts and a prison em-
ploye who said they were kid-
Price 10c •<
Per Copy
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