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51 YEARS
WEATHER
Of Daily Service
Partly Cloudy
The Hometown Daily Newspaper for Everybody in The Denton County Area
VOL. 52
NO. 58
Associated Press Leased Wire
PRICE: FIVE CENTS
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DENTON, TEXAS. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 8, 1954
Hazel Heads Toward
Gulf Coast, One Hurt
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TV A Power
Amat ile
Plan Under
IAGERMAN
Dual Probe
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In Floyd Case
Free Chest X-Rays
Start Here Today
the local program will be greatly other review of the proposal next
Gooden had about two dollars
political ambush death of a South
years.
chest X-ray program opened this
the board" that he felt was
morning at 8:30 a.m. when Den-
Schuman Blasts
“I wasn’t even talking to that tonites starting
getting pictures
mento Mountains, left tour known
and are absolutely free to any
three presumed dead and
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dead.
one who will come in and be
X-
French Debate
man than he, “kept coming.”
The unit, sponsored by the Den-
I
Women's Medical Auxiliary, mov-
eration Monday to the Palace Thea-
main there until Oct. 16.
thur
IKE ON FIRING LINE
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Weather
be more closely tied to Western
Partv Leaders
Push Campaigns
cent days dry. Rio Hondo crested
‘Water Well’
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Starts Gonzales
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A review of the report of the phones at 9:30 p.m. EST from
Foundation
quarterly
ever made.
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MAURY POLLARD
LAST SESSION
FOR POLLARD
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Runaway Car
Kills 2 Youths
Alaniz Speed
Claim Refuted
Anti-Momopoly, Joint
Atomic Energy Groups
Set Additional Hearings
WASHINGTON (_ President Ei-
Negro Killed
After Squabble
in Dice Game
As the head of the Republican
party prepared for his big TV-
By nightfall last night, the flood
threat had eased considerably and
Community he had helped plan.
Schuman spoke in debate in the
French National Assembly, where
building committee
made at the regular
sonnel, such as the woman
victims from all walks of
Storm Brewing
115-Mile Winds
Police expect traffic this ’year to
be no less than in previous years
—the bulk of it coming late today
iditorium.
House said
court today after an agreement'
had shortened the state's case.
Denton and Denton County resi-
dents over 15 years of age will
register at the theatre and will
be X-rayed, which takes about one
minute and requires no unrobing
The unit will remain open from
PARIS O— Former French For-
eign Minister Robert Schuman de-
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Eisenhower steps up to
the political firing line again to-
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end of Roswell up to seven feet
in depth. An estimated 200 fam-
imilies were forced to leave their
homes here.
London.
He maintained Germany would
youth had testified Alaniz had told
him Alaniz had driven 90 miles
an hour from Rio Grande City to
warn him of an ambush.
Alaniz, charged in the so-called
are the weaker portion of the hur-
ricane. Its highest velocities are in
the east and north portions.
Grady Norton, chief storm fore-
caster at Miami, said Hazel “is
getting to be a very severe storm."
sons) and the boy running the
game I wanted my money,” Good-
en said.
lions.
Prolonged heavy rains sent the
waters tumbling into the Pecos
Valley, bringing swollen rivers,
“He kept grabbing my money
and I told him if he didn't quit we
we was gonna have to get up and
hit each other in the mouth a lit-
tle,” Gooden said.
Gooden then stated that Finch l
told him he didn't want to fight
and left the room.
“I didn’t think anything about
it, but the boys who knew him
GETS X-RAY—Mrs. C. J. Bovell, Rt. 1, Denton, is one
of the early subscribers to the free chest X-ray pro-
gram supported by the Denton County TB Association.
With Mrs. Bovell is George Strickland, State Health
Department official with the Mobile Unit here.
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Chihuahua
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for! The savage waters, pouring off
the eastern slopes of the Sacre-
government supporters seek pas-
sage of a resolution endorsing the
work of Premier Pierre Mendes-
France in London and expressing .
that more Dentonites must be X-
police rayed this year than last year or!
This is one of a series of stories
about participating agencies in
the Denton County United Fund
campaign this year,
themselves to their abilities. The
again a part of the Denton County
By JIM KOETHE
Record-Chronicle Staff Writer
reaches the latitude of Jamaica
seven-power and eastern Cuba.
i lence extreme in squalls. Ne furth-
er penetration advised." . •
The south and west quadrant
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use iwsi prugram wm or greauy------ ------ — — vor-----—t a week ago dasperately in need
reduced by the state headquarters.! Wednesday by the Senate-House of rain, remained awash today
- • - - - -—- - “—!- F—C---'——- from its most devastating flood in
senhower’s plan to send electric;
power from a private plant over j
Tennessee Valley Authority public
power lines headed today into dual
Senate inquiries which may run si-
multaneously.
The Atomic Energy Commission ■
the streams of muddy water began Europe, as it would have been in I
to subside. But fresh rains in the the six-power European Defense
mountainous area to the west of
I night for what an aide said would
j be the President’s “hardest hit-
| ting” speech of the campaign for
control of the next Congress.
Eisenhower and Vice President
Nixon were due to go before tele-
vision cameras and radio micro-
Mrs. Dorothy MeClister and other
interested citizens.
The subject of incorporation
merely will be studied and citizens
of Krum will be given a chance to
express their opinions, it was ex-
plained.
In past years, the incorporation
of Krum has been discussed on
numerous occasions but do def
ROSWELL, N.M. en — A fertile at 22 feet at its peak yesterday,
southeastern New Mexico valley, afternoon, pouring into the west
aosWEL/.
ARTESIA;
Carisbad *
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An oil exploration in 1909 that
struck water was the beginning of
the Gonzales Warm Springs Foun-
dation — a statewide organization
dedicated to the welfare of phys-
ically handicapped Texas children
of every race, color, and creed.
A participating agency in the
Denton County United Fund, the
Gonzales Warm Springs Founda-
tion this year will receive $1,000
from here — a like amount having
been appropriated last year.
The water flowing from the aban-
doned oil exploration at Gonzales
comes out of the ground at about
106 degrees in quantities up to
200,000 gallons daily.
The water has no curative or
and when I got back he was there. ;;
“I told “Pussy Cat Red” (Per-
life,” Mrs. Henderson said.
Dr. J. David Thomas, president
of the Denton County Medical As-
sociation has urged everyone to
turn out for the free chest J-ravs
in order to catch tuberculosis, for
which there are usually no early
symptoms, in its earliest and easi-
est-to-fight stage.
Working with the state officials
X-RAY UNIT, Page 2
farms and ranches.
The damage cannot yet be esti-
mated, but it will run in the mil-
A
p.m. Sept. 8, 1952.
The witnesses differed on the
When the TSCW Board of Re-
gents met today, one of its mem-
bers was attending his last regu-
lar session after 12 years of public
service.
He is D. Maury PoUard of Beau-
mont, who was appointed to the
board by Gov. Coke Stevnson in
1943 and re-appointed to the pres-
ent six-year term by the late Gov.
Beauford Jester in 1949 A suc-
cessor will be named by Gov. Al-
lan Shivers, probably in January.
Pollard has been actively idnti-
fled with TSCW during these years
and served on various committees,
including the chairmanship of the
building committee which planned
the Capps Hall addition, Hubbard
Dining Hall, Household Arts and
Sciences Building, and Smith-Car
roll dormitory.
"My life has been enriched by
Texas politician's son, was expect- on
ed to open his defense in district [due him.
Library Science and Gymnasium-
contract for which is expected to
be let in January. Total cost is
expected to reach $900,000.
Reagan Houston III, San Anton-
io, vie-chairman of the’board, is
chairman of the building com-
mittee. Other members are R.
H. Coifee, Vernon; mrs. Arthur F.
Dieterich, Dorchester, and Mrs.
John T. Jones Jr., Houston.
pa »
-gedn
| 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. each day
1 Monday through Saturday while it >
is in downtown Denton
Mrs. Kathlene Henderson, exe-
I cutive vice president of the Denton |
: County TB Association, stressed
LEARNING TO WA
here were reported late last night
and officials continued a close
watch.
Severed communications, washed
out highways and bridges, broken
rail lines and livestock missing re-
mained today for the cleanup.
This young man takes his first try at’indeper
the Gonzales Warm Springs Foundation near 4
Texas. He is experiencing a great day in his :
recovery from polio. Graduating to crutches coi
independence and a new life of his own. Trai
pictured above ti
life and help ther
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Adlai Stevenson spoke in Wichita,
Kan., of what he called “the fool-
ish boasts an broken promises” of
the Eisenhower administration.
Stevenson, the Democratic stand-
ard bearer whom Eisenhower de-
feated for the presidency two years
ago, told a rally he detects in Kan-
sas a revolt against "the family
"I got to the front door of the j ton County TB Association and the
। hotel and he wouldn't stop and I Women's Medical Auxiliary, mov-
aimed to hit him in the arm,” ed from NTSC where it began op-
Gooden said.
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buffeted in public vs. private pow-
er debates in and out of Congress
for months. He directed AEC to
negotiate a contract with two
privately owned power companies
headed by Edgar H. Dixon and E.
A. Yates.
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to some degree, half a dozen com ( A„mA Pont ill
munities and an untold number of UCI IIldII l dUL Ul
was to
’ ANyu.ey
A J.
Be ..
PITTSBURGH (R — “I saw the
, car coming and I saw Minadeo
; push several back out of the way.
The car hit the curb and struck
a bunch of kids and threw;them
across the street ”
That's how. William Bair, a
school patrol boy, tearfully de-
scribed the deaths of another pa-
trol boy, John Minadeo, 14, and
Ella Cornelious, 14, who were
struck by a runaway auto near
the Gladstone Junior High School
yesterday.
Four other children were in-
jured.
The driver, George A. King, 54.
suffered a broken arm. King told
police his brakes failed on a step
hill about three blocks from a bus
stop where the children were
standing.
King said he veiled ano blew
his horn after he lost control of
th car.
The Minadeo boy his back to the
careening auto, was trying to save
his schoolmates when be was hit.
Co,
uu[ wau waa cnze mi azu J will preside at the atomic com- ------ . ,
rayed. “And it might save your mittee’s hearings, is due back to- seven missing in its wake. It hit,
day from a trip to South America.; *-----J----- hi" ‘ J
He may confirm or change the
tentative hearing date.
Eisenhower's proposal has been
Williams of Dallas, are proud of
their family.
See REGENT, Page 2linite decisions were reached.
410 gauge shotgun. Officers Rob-
ert Vaughn and H. B. Oliver made
the arrest.
Assistant County Attorney W. A.
Riggs took a statement from
Gooden this morning in the Den-
ton County Court House and
charged him with murder with
malice.
The slaying occurred in a name-
less hotel in east Denton next door
to a Negro cafe, The Groovy Grill,
on East Prairie Street.
Gooden, the father of eight chil-
dren, was playing dice with seven
other Negro men.
Witnesses to the shooting, the
gamblers present, were Willie Dal-
las, Robert Persons, Howard Lu-
cas, Willis Wilson, J. R. Whitaker,
and a man known only as “Big
ime Crip.”
In an interview this morning with
a Record-Chronicle reporter, Good-
en gave the following account of
| the events that led to the shooting
and death of Finch:
you come up on me."
Gooden said Finch,
makes the decision an issue of
confidence. In that case the vote
would have to be postponed until
. Monday. He will speak at the close
of the debate. ,
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my association With TSCW, its ad-
ministration, its faculty, and its
students,” Pollard said this morn-
ing. “I will take away many cheer-
ful memories of the college after
my retirement from the board."
Pollard retired in 1952 after 41
yearn in the insurance field, where
he was associated with the Cale-
donian Netherlands Group of Hart
ford, Conn.
He has been active in politics,
not as an office helder “but to
elect to office the best men qual-
ified to hold office," he said. The
TSCW regents membership Is the
only political appointment he ever
has accepted.
The veteran business man and
his wife, the former Miss Lucille
the mobile unit will be in down-
a larger town Denton.
“He was reaching back all the tre Thursday afternoon and will re-
time like he had a g," Gooden main there until Oct. 16.
be Denver’s Municipal Ag
The summer White
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STATUTE MlltS
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boy,” Gooden said in referring to taken of their chests in the Old
Finch. Palace Theatre.
Gooden said that Finch then ‘ And Dentonites hav been urged
started at him and he said he told I to stop in for the free chest X-
confirmed yesterday it has
; approved th* form of the Dixon- well, Artesia ... .....,
Yates contract to put the politi- where flash floods occurred. j
callv controversial plan into op-i (AP Wirephoto) (See Wire stor- ling
eration. i ies) •----
Angry protest came from Sen ___
ators Langer (R-ND) and Kefau-TT A/ ( F ■ 1 T T T T "T
ver (D-Tenn), who disclosed plans “ VI • I I I . I . I "
to step up their investigation of--’- — X °
the project as members of the .
j Senate Antimonopoly subcommit- FLOOD S GRIP
Langer and Kefauver said they
i will resume their now-recessed in-
[ quiry Oct. 18, five days after the
' tentatively scheduled start of an-!
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FOOTBALL IN
SPOTLIGHT
Football's still in the news
and the Record-Chronicle
is well equipped to bring to
its readers the best in the
field. Starting in today's is-
sue are the pictures and
stories on the Denton High-
Tech and Junior High-
Greenville games Thursday
night plus other county re
suits.
- Sunday's sports section
will include stories and pic-
tures on NTSC's game Sat-
urday night with Hardin-
Simmons in ’addition to the
top-flight grid tussles all
over the country.
For tops in sports, fea
tures, and spot news in
Denton and the rest of the
world, don't mis Sunday's
Record-Chronicle.
Krum Studies
Incorporation
Special to the Record-Chronicle
KRUM — The possibility of in-
corporating the communty of
Krum will be discussed by resi-
dents of the area in an open meet-1
ing tonight in the Krum High
School gymnasium. Arrangements
for the meeting were made by |
; It continued to move almost due
1 west, but its forward motion had
slowed down to less than 10 miles
an hour.
“That sometmes indicates a
change in course," said Norton.
"We av watching its path very
closely."
Only open water lay ahead of
the storm for 1,000 miles if its
westward course is continued. Nor-
ton had predicted a more north-
westerly curve when the storm
By SCOTT BROOKSHIRE
Record-Chronicle Staff Writer
Jessie Lee Finch, Denton Negro,
died today at 5:30 a.m. in Flow
Memorial Hospital of gunshot
-wounds in the right shoulder and
chest—the wounds being the result
of an eruption of a dice game in
east Denton about 3 a m.
Charged in the slaying was an-
other Denton Negro, J. C. Gooden
of 823 East Prairie Street. He sur-
rendered to police shortly after
he says he blasted Finch with an
“over and under” .22 rifle and
ment with accomplice to murder. [ State, county and city
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creeks and arroyo, bubbling into Germany would be tempted to
parts of Roswell Carlsbad, Dexter, withdraw from the s.p.c.
Hagreman, Artesia and Lake Ar- European alliance agreed upon at !
medicinal value, but medical sci-
ence has developed treatment tech-
niques in a water medium to bene-
fit muscles affected by neuromus-
cular diseases and disorders.
The site was first ready for pa-
tients in 1941 with a 16-bed capac-
ity. In 1947 the site was expanded
with four new buildings, including
a wheel-chair chapel.
The chapel is designed for pa-
tients and has no furniture sinside.
The Foundation itself is located ;
about 12 miles northwest of Gon-
zales and its property adjoins Pal-
metto State Park. The 40 acres
at land and its buildings represent
more than a million dollars.
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BIST IN DINTON FOR AUTO
LOANS. WAL DR IM, 649*4.
about 25 miles in diameter.
Many spiral bands converg-
ing towards center. Maxi-
mum winds 100 knots (115
miles an hour) in west quadrant
20 miles from eye, higher velocity
believed in squall bands. Turbu-
and eariy Saturdav morning ’ meeting of the TSCW Board of the TV coverage would be the most
“We’ll have traffic troubles " | Regents on the campus today, Pre- extensive of any political speech
predicted a Fort Worth Highway sident John A. Guinn said. ever made
Patrolman here Thursday,” and ! e report deals with the con-
we are just hoping that nobody templated construction of four new
gets killed.” I units—Administrative, Classroom, radio appeal to American voters,
Denton Highway Patrolmen plan
a constant alert during peak traf-
fic periods for the onslaught. They
have asked that Denton County
drivers stay off the main traffic
arteries as much as possible until
Monday.
were watching with a sharp eye --------------------------------
late Thursday as the “stream of m . m
Cadillacs" from Oklahoma began Knorr KAvrAxArg
to flow through Denton County—DUdIU IUVIUW3
the parade of traffic being head-
Building Plans
homa football classic in the Dal- | O
las Cotton Bowl.
WACO IPP— The stats through,
testimony today placed Nago Alan-
iz within 30 miles of Alice late
the afternoon of the day Jacob S.
(Buddy) Floyd Jr. was killed.
Jesus Rios and Victor Gonzales
testified they had a beer with!
Alaniz in a saloon at Rios in Duval I
County between 4 p m. and 6:30
exact time. The father of the slain! "I went home and got my gun
Finch, “I’m not after you—don't ! ray anytime during the eight days
„„ - ... confidence in his ability to nego-
The normally placid, and in re-|Uate formal treaties.
A vote may come late tonight or
tomorrow unless Mendes France;
said he would sure be back,
Gooden said.
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quarrels and hopeless divisions of
the Republicans and against poli-
cies which consistently favor the
few at the expense of the many.”
In Denver, Eisenhower was pic-
tured as being in a fighting mood
as he awaited the hour to make
what Murray Snyder, assistant
White House press secretary, said
would be a “straight from the
shoulder” speech patterned after
the President’s Hollywood Bowl
address two weeks ago.
After a conference with Eisen-
hower yesterday, Nixon announced
the President has agreed to make
at least one additional major ad-
diess, but the vice president
stressed the President is not swerv-
ing from his policy of not cam- !
paigning for individual GOP can-
didates.
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DENTON AND VICINITY: Partly
cloudy this afternoon, tonight
and Saturday. Warmer in north-
west this afternoon.
TEMPERATURES
(Experiment Station Report}
High Thursday ... 78
Low Thursday .. ........ 61
High year ago .?...... .. 76
Low year ago ......... 45
Sun sets today at 6:05 p.m.,
rises Saturday at 6:34 a.m. Fish-
ing better today and Saturday.
Denton County rainfall so far
this month: 1.60 inches, so far
this year: 18.30 inches. This time
last year: 23.69 inches.
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Mobile Tubercular X-Ray Unit Starts City Operation
Denton Record-Chronicle
Santa F•
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Albuquerque
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Clovis*
A local goal of 10,000 persons to Atomic Energy Committee Langer
Denton s annual tuberculosis free be x-rayed has been set ! and Kefauver said the AEC had
““ v--------“"e onened this The x-rays are paid for entirely not shown "proper respect’
by the local and state agencies their inquiry.
Sen. Hickenlooper (R-lowa), who
The prosecution • and defense
agreed last night in a meeting to
stipulate the testimony of 15 wit-
nesses who would testify to seeing
the dapper Alaniz at certain times
and places on Sept 8, 1952.
That waa the night young Jacob
S. Floyd Jr., son of a sworn politi-
cal enemy of George B. Parr, was
shot down in the driveway of the
Floyd home at Alice, Tex. The
elder Floyd said he was the in-
tent ed victim, not his son.
Alaniz’ chief defense counsel, ' related. .. , .
Atty. Percy Foreman of Houston, ________$— SHOOTIND, Page 2
told the court late yesterday that;
the defense would agree to the Affe * I Q .
physical facts to which the 15 state I tt101A IG BAt
witnesses could testify. Dial. Atty. -------
Bill Allcorn of Brownwood said I (I I 119
elimination of the 15 witnesses; Har Honthell
would shorten state testimony by " •I * •V-o-I
two days.
Alaniz, former law partner ofj‛E,.n#fi. I.wc
79th Dist. Atty. Ra eborn Norris, I I dll IC JdllS
is charged in a three-count indict-1
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Toda
The radio report from the plane gave no details of the
injury to the crewman and did not identify him. A crew of.
flood ARFA — Map locates 10 was on board. After penetrating the eye, the fliers emerg-
the New MexiconGitea or Ros- ed and headed for the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
“ ‛ Reporting on its flight, the crew of the hurricane hunt-
plane based at Jacksonville stated:
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spect the new home for the col-
lege president now nearing com-
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MIAMI, Fla. (AP) — Violent turbulence in hurricine
Hazel today in jured a crewman aboard a Navy storm
hunting plane.
The hurricane, hurling 115-mile winds around its well-
defined eye, has become so turbulent that the Navy pilot
radioed “no further penetration advised.”
Hazel, eighth tropical storm of the season, then was
centered about latitude 13.5 north, longitude 71.44 west, or |
about 100 miles due north of the Gulf of Venezuela on the I
southern coast of the Caribbean Sea. It was about 1,009
miles southeast of Florida.
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