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DENTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AFTERNOON, AUGUST 5, 1954
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McCraw Spearheads
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A half mile avay from the burn
made by party leaders
When the issues are presented
Barker Fund
Iran Oil To
Nears $5,000
RED SUBS POSE
Flow Again
PACIFIC THREAT
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again in about two months.
Costs $70
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To Probe Conduct
Employer
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Engineers Set
Report Tonight
New Blasts
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Good rains in sun-burned sec-
tions of the South and East have
Sen. John C. Stennis (D-Miss).
Sen. Sam J. Ervi (D-NC).
While Nixon announced the ap-
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you desire to accevt her into em-
ployment. We no iepger remain.
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him out They did.
Callaghan, the .first skipper of
the famed battleship Missouri, is a
veteran of both world wars, He
was in charge of the Military Sea
Transportation Service during the
Korean War.
We’ve sailed with some of them,
but we can’t say that we’re over
e. thusiastic about the sport. There
is too much inactivity for this old
restless boy. There’s just too much
sitting in one spot which isn’t par-
ticularly comfortable. Guess we’re
getting long too far in life to
enjoy a sport that isn't comfor-
table to the spine.
ship.
Stennis, 55. is a former Mississip-
camp
visitors.
TEHRAN, Iran (— Representa-
tives of eight big Western oil com-
panies and the Iranian government
announced broad agreement today
to restart Iran’s froxen oil indus-
try. They said they hoped to begin
shipping at least some of the oil
driving. . •
Municipal Judge Charles Lynch
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TOKYO (P— The Russian Navy I John E. Hull, Far East command-
may nave as many as 90 subma- cr.
Mrs. Charles Bosworth of Cin-
cinatti, another Resorter here, has
left her cottage for the month of
See ROUNDABOUT, Page 2
The Senate Democratic Policy
Committee had an early morning
meeting to decide fnally on the
Democratic members.
At its conclusion. Sen. Lyndon
B. Johnson’Un’ex.iSftDemodratic
floor leader, said,, without disclos-
By SCOTT BROOKSHIRE
Record-Chronicle Staff Writer
Adventist Church
Garland Bronstad
Etta Voorhees
Anonymous
Dr. J. Edwin Taylor
Mr. and Mrs. Homer
Bronstad
Nat Harwell
J. P. Simmons
Monroe Pearson Co.
Employes of Easy Way
Grocery
Stone’s Shoe Store
Bob Tice
BENEFIT DANCE—Members of the.Venture Club are shown above sorting tickets
and getting them ready for advance sales to the Charles Barker Benefit Dance at
NTSC Saturday night. The tickets cost $1. ’Fessor Floyd Graham’s Aces are to fur-
nish the music free. The dance will be on the Slab behind the Union Building. All pro-
ceeds will go to the Barker fund. From left to right the Venture members above are
Alice Riney, Nancy Graves and Mary Riney. (Record-Chronicle Staff Photo)
tion.
The city is now trying to se-
cure the services of a competent
would make no comment on the
actual wording of the letter.
Boyer said the terms of the note
were not being complied with and
voiced the opinion that the work
might be a “practical joke.”
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for an all-out campaign to gain
votes in the gubernatorial run-off.
Shivers’ supporters from Denton,
Wise, Parker, and Montague Coun-
ties met in the City Hall auditor-
ium and heard addresses by Mc-
Craw, Dillard, and reports from
the counties having representatives
at the meeting.
“I doubt if there has ever been
a governor who could measure up
to Allan Shivers,” McCraw said,
Mr., Mrs. Paul B. Wilson,
Orlando, Fla.
Murray Kendrick
Buddy and Kathleen
. Henderson
Anonymous
Anonymous
Dr. Marion B. Ray Jr.
Mrs. T. C. Dobbins
Anonymous
crusading preacher, rebuffed in his
initial effort to visit Sunshine Gar-
dens yesterday, vowed to return
today and resume his fight against
“the national threat of nudisn."
Dr.* Braxton Sawyer of Fort
Smith, Ark., went to the Battle
Creek Area Sunbathing Club armed
with an invitation to attend the
American Sunbathing Assn, con-
vention. He also carried e movie
camera.
He was asked to remove his
elothes before enterine the nudist
dent Nixon today appointed a six-
member Senate committee to make
an investigation of the conduct of
Sen. McCarthy (R wis) and con-
sider proposals that be be censured
The members:
. Sen. Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah).
Sen. Frank. Carls on (R-Kans).
Sen. Francis Case (R-SD).
him.
After charging intota male nu-
Late Shopping Hours Scheduled By Denton
Three Kansas City engineers who
arrived by plane in Dallas this
morning were bringing with them
to Denton recommendations for
what they believe is the best fu-
ture for municipal power here—
and they planned to make their
reports public tonight in a City
Commission meeting called for
7:45 p.m. in the Denton City HalL
The recommendations for expan-
sion or revision of the power situ-
ation together with recommenda-
tions another set of engineers is
to furnish on a water intake struc-
ture that will bring water here
from Garza-Little Elm lake, are
to serve as the basis for a bond
issue taking shape.
Kansas. City representatives of
Black and Vcatch Building En-
gineers who are to make tonight’s
report ar- R. D. Woodson, H. F.
Si a inhour end G. C. Scheufele
They arrived by commercial air-
liner in Dallas at 10:58 a.m. and
were met by City Engineer Grady
Creel.
Freese-Nichols, Fort Worth en-
। gineers who are engaged to solve
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from the dust and raid*. “Some-
body stomped on me. ’
"He then prowled back and forth
to front of the gateway and chal-
lenged the nudists ta s fight:
“There comes a time when Sam-
iges
her
side of the aisle.”
Colorado’* Edwin Johnson is the
i senior senator to whom Lyndon
.Johnson referred.
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also ask local citizens to approve
the re financing of present water
and power bonds.
They tentatively plan to call in
present indebtedness and issue it
gave her this iestimonial:
“to whom it may concern:
"This is to certify that Miss ...
has been in our employ since 1953
to March 31, 1954, to our extreme
regret. During he* employment
ers Glum, Dispirited
sake of our economic future, we
have to help the li’tle farmer and
rancher stay on the farm. We can’t
High Wednesday
Low today ........
High year ago .
Low year ago ?....
The Lord la the portion of mine
inheritance and of my cup: Thou
maintained my lot.— Psalms 16-5.
Faith in the hereafter is as nec-
essary for the intellectual as the
mural character; and to the man
of letter* as well as to the Chris-
tian, the present forms but the
uightest portion of his existence.
—Southey.
raised dab* of grern in some of
See DROUGHT, Page 2
droop and cattle graze on brown
pastures.
“Unless we assist in every pos-
sible way,” says Agriculture Com-
missioner John White of Texas,
“thousand* of our Tut al people will
have to abandon the land.” ■
White speaks for only one state.
But drought still rules all the great
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to the charge. Officers had reported
they found Morris "weaving all
By ROBERT M. JOHNSON JR.
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Our neighbor, Bert Kroupa, born
on the same farm he now lives
on 76 yeais ago, said, ‘We’re not
suffering for rain as yet, but the
corn could used some moisture. We
plow our land as late as we can
and the sandy soil when kept stir-
red does not cake on top and it
*> ems to absorb moisture from
the night air. My corn looks fine
so far and this last rain should
see it through the season.”
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Finance yew car with Waldrip’s
Auto Fin. and save mopey. C-4054
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Ervin, 57, was appointed to the
Senate only last June 5 on the
death of the vetern Sen. Clyde
Hoey (D-NC). Ervin stepped down
from his state s Supreme Court
bench to accept the appointment.
Sen. Knowland oi California, the
Republican leader, described his
task in advance as ore of selecting
men of judicious temperament who
had not become deody involved in
the controversy over McCarthy.
Watkins, 67, is a former judge
in Utah. He was f leeted to the
Senate in 1946.
Carlson, 61, is a former governor
of Kansas. He was elected to the
Senate in 1950.
Carlson had previously served
six terms in the House. 1935-47. ’.
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BATTLE CREEK, Mich. t - A who says he’s a Baptist minister. I Rev: Sawyer was tae by Eher
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Here is what men who live on
the Beared land throughout the dis-
aster areas say:
Only a lot more rain, and then
still more, can finally beat the
drought and save them- and when
that happy day wil. arrive is an
impossible guess. Meanwhile, they
need federal nelp to hang on —
and, they grumble, they aren’t get-
DWI Charge Pat
-9^^" Rider : result that in being sued for dam-
PIQUA, Ohio •P — Even though ages we have been driven bank-
he hadn't even been inside an rupt, hence the reason for her
automobile, Elton M Morris of termination of service, as we found
Piqu drew a three day jail sen- we were not in s pncition to sup-
tence and a $100 fine for drunk port her and her chi’dren any long-
•t—
" to the public was most shocking,
resulting In clients taking defama-
tory action against us with the
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of the -Cora Products Refining Co. -
The continuing fire, capped by a
dazzling, nighttime, atomic-like ex-
plosion seen 75 miler away, de- - -
stroyed much of the company’s
prawling plant faculties in this
central Illinois city.
Damage already is well into the
millions of dollars
The explosion last night lifted the
roof and walls of one rackhouse—
a six story brick building—high
into the air. The debris rained
down on firemem and plant work-
ers fighting to halt the fierce,
whisky-fed blsxe tuched off 17
hours earlier daring a severe elec-
trical storm.
Bricks buried two tiie trucks and
a fire chiefs car.
Firemen who were drawing their
water from the Illinois Rivet and
reportedly han.licapped by a lack
of sufficient pressure, were order-
ed to retreat a quarter of a mile
because of the threat of new ex-
plosions.
The fire yesterday morning con-
sumed two 8-story rackhouses
where whisky is stored in barrels
for aging and a 4-skory brick cus-
toms storage house Some 42.000
barrels of whisky wert up in this
fire.
Firemen from Peoria and a half
See FIRE, Page 2
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Sawyer furiou
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his movie cal
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When any of the newcomers to
the Resort ask about fishing, they
are told to ask Johnny Eaton, 15-
year-old youngster of Cincinatti,
who has spent most of his Bum-
mers here on the Penninsula. He s
known as the best angler of Neah-
tawanta and if any one catches
’em, well, it’s Johnny Eaton. Mr*.
William Minor of Cincinnati, who
has had her summer home at the
Resort for a good many years, said
of Johnny Eaton, “Ho knows about
fish, their habits and hot to catch
them. Johnny would make an
ideal instructor on fishing for boys
in camp for the summer months.
Hr could make them fish-wise.”
He added that before Shivers be- ing rackhouse is the huge works
came governor of Texas, ‘mentally
ill persons were forced to stay in
A threatening extortion note re- i the city’s water expansion prob-;
reived by U. N. Clary of the Pro*- " mhe ---------- "
per Bank in Collin County was
Texas’ strongest labor districts,
McCraw added.
“While he was Lt. Governor of
Texas he accomplished great
things with the legislature,” be
said, adding "Allan Shivers’ record
reflects a fine sense of responsi-
bility.”
"The Texas prison system was
one of the most wretched in the
country before Allan Shivers be-
came governor,” McCraw said,
noting that “we have had no riots
at our state prison like ether
Farmers and ranchers are glum been more helpful- but not enough
and dispirited in the vast drought to save most crops.
country where corn and-neotton
fortium will operate the vast
Abadan refinery and the surround-
ing oil fields. They will buy the
ml output from Iran ad wil sell
the production abroad. Iran will
ret in title to the fields and the ।
refining facilities.
Settlement of the three-year dip-
lomatic battle' was announced in a
joint statement by Iranian Finance
Minister Ali Amini and Howard
Page of Standard Oli of New Jer-
sey, chairman of the negotiators
for the oil companies.
Their statement did not detail the
rate of payment to Iran but in-
formed sources said it was virtual-
ly the same 50-50 split that pre-
valla elsewhere in the Middle East.
Associated Press Leased Wire
The bay of Lake Michigan in
hunt of our house is known as
"Neahtawanta Bay,” which to the
Indian language means “Placid
Water”, is ideal for sailing of
-small boats and this year the boys
and girls have quite a few such
boats in action. Today there were
twelve of the sail boats out; it
was quite a beautiful sight to
watch them in their maneuvers
over the bay. We’ve never seen so
many sails afloat on this little
bay at one time before.
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Stores To
viet capability-is concerned,” Cal-
laghan said.
Two week* ago, Gen. Earle E.
Partridge, Far East Air Forces
commander said Combined Soviet,
Chinese snd North Korean air
forces had 7,500 planes, most of
” stormed Dr. Sawyer,
thing in her power to demoralize _TRIES TO CRASH GATE
ea lgpeh
son has to take the jawbone of an
ass and whip a pack of. fools,”
thundered the preacher. .
Still, as of todav, the situation
appears slightly better than it was
10 days ago,, when nothing but
heat soaked the country from
Georgia to Wyoming and Canada
to Mexico. 4
Since then, spotted rains have
it’s the same way with fishing.
Too much sitting in a little boat
isn't conducive to comfort, though
we used to like to fish by the
hcur from a boat. Fishing, ac-
cording to the boys we hear about
hus been pretty good. Especially
black bass, which we understand
are biting better this aummer than
they have for years. Many fine
catches nnve been reported, six
and seven pounders.
states because Allan Shivers gave Firemen were puller back.
Texas an improved prison sytem." A hele mila - —- Cwm “
barechested nudists who stopped off his clothes was pa 5 of the rules
., . '*•--■ —h and everybody follow* the rules.
Sawyer said they'd better call
county jail* because there was no
other place for them. “That was
true up until the very hour that
Allan Shivers became governor,”
McCraw said, adding that “our
great Texas hospitals for the in-
sane of today are a great tribute
to Governor Shivers.”
The former Texas political fig-
ure who is now a Dallas lawyer
told the group that the Texas
See SHIVERS, Page 2
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Edwin C. Johnson, 70, has been
; in the Senate since 1937 and is out-
ranked by only seven senators in
point of service.
dist, who like the minister was ______
big. Rev. Sawyer nicked himself and deputies arrived
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cific fleet also has 50 destroyers
and two cruisers, but no aircraft —A 17-year old girl typist has been
carriers or battleships. awarded $70 damages in Magis-
“Submarines and air power are trate’s Court because her employer
their greatest threat, so far as So-
over” Main Street on his bicycle, yours faithfully ,, *
——------—-—The judge commented:
A former Colorado governor
(1933-37), he has announced his in-
tention to retire from the Senate
and run again for the governor-
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ng
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to the voers. Commissions 'may William (Bill) McCraw, former
Attorney General of Texas, told
Homes Evacuated At
approximately 100 conservative
Democrat* Wednesday evening
that they must band together, work,
and make personal contacts in
order to insure their candidate,
Allan Shivers, a victory in the
Aug. 28 governor’s run-off.
“And we mUst win,* McCraw,
' who, with Jack Dillard of the gov-
i ernor’s staff, is touring the state
erovacuamcmmursacacmn” mnaddul- -X
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Contributors to the Charles
Barker Fund here boosted the total
cash fund to $4,756.75 today after
Wednesday’s $209.15 total was reg-
istered. Donators as far as Or-
lando, Fla., appear on the list.
Denton Seventh Day
er.
"Please don't fea sorry for us
set of bond attorn*vs to advise
local leadera on what the best
procedure will be.
In preliminary reports, the en-
gineers who arrived today have
indicated that Denton needs and
can have a steam turbine power
plant in operation by next sum-
mer.
Present growth trends indicate
to the Fort Worth engineers that
the city will need the water at
Garza -Little Elm by the time it
is available.
Commissioners stressed Monday
that the situation was “serious”
but said that the city was not
in the position where it would
have to "shut down.”
The program being planned is
a long-term project. Commission-
ers have said
.plains, in spite of recent rains and ting enough.
federal aid already granted to six “I don’t think they're
telling the group that th elder
Shivers was a country store keeper
and had a family that has con-
ducted honorable businesses in
Texas.
Giving the group a short history
of Shivers’ political career, Mc-
Craw said that the governor was
first elected County Judge and
later held the office of District
Judge. “While he was at the Uni-
versity of Texas he was elected
president of the student body,” the
: former Texas Attorney General
said.
For three times Shivers was
elected state senator from one of
rines in the Pacific area, Vic
Adm. William Callaghan, com-
mander of U.S. naval forces in
I the Far Fast, estimated today.
“These submarines definitely
would be a threat to maintaining
sea lines of communication,” said
the tall, grey-haired admiral,
whose job would be to fight them
in the event of war with the So-
viets.
“Russia has a total of 375 sub-
marines," Callaghan said in an in-
terview, “and we feel it would be
reaaonable to expect that one-quar-
ter of them are in the Pacific.”
He estimated the Russian Pa
TRAVERSE CITY Rt., 1, Mich.
—We are into August now, but
we can’t help but think of what
a wonderful month July was. We’ve
spent quite a few Julys in this
spot and we can't think of any
that have been as pleasant as
has this one. There have been
only two days when the thermom-
eter went as high as 84 with most
of the day in the middle seven-
es and considerably lower at
night. However, the farmers here
would have had some different
weather had they gotten what they
wented. L has been on the dry
side and rain would have been
welcomed. It rained .22 inch July
10 and no more rain fell until the
29th, when about one inch of mois-
ture came.
Under the agreement announced I pi circuit judge. He has been in the
simultaneously in Tehran and Lon- Senate since 1947.
dun, the eight companies as a con-
35 combat divisions by a high-rank-, sm.p.hna tuninc ana veen '
ini o. Go. ingrrosthow a andgraee-i
fill. The type of lang age she used
BOBO LAUGHS — Smiling hap-
pily, Barbara Sears (Bobo)
Rockefelller is •shown as she
. .. cials as the work of a “crackpot
fetfinm were ■>
1 Collin County Sheriff’s Depart-
Entire Area
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PEKIN, 111. (—Homes were
pipeline and pumping facilities I Shivers Rally Here
soon. *
Both projects will be in the mil B JIM KOETHE
5 Rerd-chronicle Staff Writer
Mrs. O. O. Bell, C. P. Whisenant. ■ defendant in ten Jed It to be a jest,
_ .. B. A W. Insurance Agency- i but he went too far."
Huge Distillery Fire
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ment deputies were making an in-
vestigation this morning a spokes-
man told the Record-Chronicle but
would not disclose any other facts
in the case,
A deputy said that the' FBI had .
not been called in on the case. ; at the same time the new bonds
Ralph Boyer, Prosper bank of- would take effect.
ficial, told the Record-Chronicle ! The coupling of water and puwer
this morning that the note demand- , finances into one set of bunds
ed a “little money.” ■ | would create what Commissioners
He said it was handprinted but call “utility” bonds. r
But as a special meeting of the for Goveror Allan Shivers, told
Commission indicated Monday, all the group as they locked togetaer
talk of finances is purely specula-
VOL. 52 NO. 3 PRICE: FIVE CENTS
Sen. Edwin C. Johnson
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Wednesday Total $ 209.15
Total to Date $4,756.75
joshed with her attorneys and
newsmen after she was granted
a divorce in Reno, Nev., district
_ — —_ court from 42-year-old Winthrop
Commissioners also made plain Rockefeller. She will get a re-
Monday that it was their belief ported 5% million dollar cash
that the revenue b-nds could be and property settlement from the
handled without raising taxes. I wealthy oil heir. (AP Wirephoto)
DENTON AND VICINITY: Clear
to partly cloudy and hot thia
afternoon, tonight and Friday.
Denton County rainfall so far
thia month: 1.28 inches; so far this
year: 14.62 inches. Sun sets today
at 7:25 p.m., rises Friday at 5:46
a.m. Fishing today: poor, Friday:
good.
TEMPERATURES
(Experiment Station Report)
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lion-plus bracket ore-e -T wurd
help them if chey are forced to
drift into the cities to seek em-
ployment." *.
The number of states eligible for
federal aid reached six this week
when klahoma and Missouri were
added to Colorado, Wyoming, New
Mexico and Texas..
Six more states - Alabama,
Georgia end Tenneasee — have,
asked to be included
ing the names, that his party’s se-
n ! lections “are men wh are symbols
for patriotism, integrity and judical
temperament.”
Johnson added:
“Two of them have had eminent
। careers as jurists. The third is one
। of the most be’oved and respected
' senior senators on the minority
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J. Adams, Garden proprietor, that
his invitation stood, but that taking
evacuated today near a distillery
fire and civil workers were sum-
moned for fear new blasts might
knock over other storage buildings .
“like dominoes.”
Fire fighters were ordered back
from a flaming whisky rackhouse
of the American Distilling Co. be-
cause a huge store 4 alcohol might
ignite and explode.
Eight persona may have been
killed. One person was known
dead, seven ere missing and feared
dead,-and more than 30 were in*
jured in two explosions and fires
since Wednesday morning.
The threat that the fire might
spread and touch off new blasts
prompted Pekin air raid wardens
to ask all civil defense workers to
be ready to report for emergency
action.
Many civil defense workers from
Pekin and nearby communities al-
ready had reported for duty at the
fire scene.
Some 110,000 barrels of aging
whisky—the equivalent of 17,325,000
fifths—have been destroyed. This
loss, plus the plant and equipment'
destruction, sent the cost of the
fire into the miliongof dollars.
The section of the plant burning
this morning is only 70 feet from
a building where 60".000 gallons of
alcohol are stored.
The danger area was roped off. ”
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