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The Hometown Newspaper for Everybody in The Denton County Area
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Five Wrecks
so bad was that “this is. the first trouble we’ve had
Chinese Reds
Set800 Planes
ers and some local thunderstorms
Near Formosa
in the Panhandle were expected
him to accompany two men to the
have 800 combat planes within a
of Denison, administration backer
DeLay in Lewisville High
LOUISIANA IN
TIDELAND TIFF
1.08
from light up to 15 inches near
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said.
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were identified today.
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little future for it.
Mrs. Dormer,
pardons board
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Get New
Tax Plan
Convicted Housewife Rapist
Electrocuted At Huntsville
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WORLD Runoffs Heavy
EVENTS As Skies Clear
$70 Million Bill
Tossed Ia For
Informal Debate
GOVERNMENT TO
SUPPORT PRICES
LITTLE MERIT IN
GRUFFER ZONE' •
TO SELL OR BUY
DIAL .2551
into the school when the lightning
struck.
on
he
Webster estimated damage to both
vehicles at $1,300. Webster said
' Four school boys were killed by
a lightning bolt at Kingsville. The
85 per cent of parity under the
new flexible farm price support
law which permits supports this
year as low as 82% per cent of
parity and as high as 90 per cent.
Last year's rate was 90 per cent
Rep. Stanton Stone of Freeport and
Sen. George Moffett of Chillicothe.
TAIPEI, Formosa •—The chief
of Nationalist China's air force to-
day reported the Chinese Reds
Alabama Bank
Of $90,000 “
accumulation of record quantities
under price support operations.
LIVING COSTS
DOWN A FRACTION
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Four Men Rob
RAINFALL
BOX SCORE
IN AREA
Postal Workers
In Denton *
Disappointed
Denton Postmaster M. D. Penry
said today that local postal em-
ployes were "generally disappoint-
ed” over President Eisenhower’s
veto Thursday of a bill to give
them an 8.6 per cent pay raise.
ed last November.
The governor's offer drew mixed
reaction, ranging from hearty ap-
proval by Rep. Will Smith of Beau-
mont to violent opposition by lib-
Pilot Point ...
Lake Dallas .
Sanger ......
the sale.
Tanner said the safe-crackers
might have been “flushed away"
before they finished their work.
Nothing was reported missing
from the building.
sharply-worded message offering
to call a special session “if a ma-
jority of you (the Legislature) feel
that the personal financial hard-
ships facing you will not permit
the present session to complete its
work.”
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JACKSONVILLE, Ala. I-Four
armed white men robbed the First
National Bank of Jacksonville of
between 885,000 and 890 000 today,
after kidnaping a bank official
from his home. •
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“Maybe that's why I backslid,"
he said. i
He gave his mother a delayed
Mother's Day gift Wednesday. He
said "She was so happy.”
The rate is designed to reflect Burglary Fails
thought they could save the bridge. “It’s one of our
oldest ones, but it’s one of the stoutest in the county.”
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52ND YEAR OF DAILY SERVICE—
WASHINGTON • — V. S. of-
ficials find little practical merit
so far in proposals for the creation
of a European buffer zoe of
ried it off in a repossessed bank oldest member of the Legislature
See ROBBERY, Page 2 in point of service.
to end Friday night
Meanwhile, heavy fog and clouds
covered the Texas Gulf Coast.
Zero visibility was reported at
Brownsville at 4:30 a m. The fog
extended as far inland as Lufkin
and College Station.
Clearing conditions across the
state followed nearly a week of
heavy, mostly beneficial rains and
more than a score of tornadoes
that danced menacingly across the
The President reportedly was in
favor of a 7.8 per cent pay raise-
not the 8.6 per cent set forth bv
the Congress Ip the legislation sent
to him for approval.
Lufkin. But except for the Pan-
handle and Red River districts and
along the Gulf Coast, skies were
no more than partly cloudy.
Forecasts called for clearing
’weather in East Texas with show-
said she and her husband wrote
the board of pardons asking that
the sentence be commuted.
The board of pardons said it
hadn't received such a letter.
AaTkMt
go AG’ , , " ai,.
siwawva
The Scott home was empty at the time of the 1
The house faces the center of East Hickory .)
reaches a “dead end” at Wood Street (Recon
icle Staff Photo)
School.
City Marshall Harold Tanner in
Lewisville today made an investi-
gation of the attempted break-in
and notified City Police and the
Denton County Sheriff’s Depart-
ment here.
Tanner said the thieves gained
entrance to the high school build-
ing through a window on the north
is
Other accidents included a city
wreck Thursday just after noon in
the 100 block of Avenue A that in-
volved a 1950 Chevrolet driven by
Marvin Leon Schulz of Vernon and
a 1953 Ford driven by Walter E.
Aber of Jacksonville.
About 8 p.m. Thursday a 1953
Oldsmobile driven by Mrs. B. W.
Voth of Sanger was in collision with
a 1950 Ford pickup driven by Les-
ter O. McLaughlin of Sanger on
FM road 455. Deputy Gentle of the
Denton County Sheriff's office
made the investigation. He estimat-
ed damage to both vehicles at 8300.
F. Butcher, 29. convicted rapist
of a Texas housewife, died today
in the Mate prison electric chair,
apparently praying silently.
"Praise God in the bighest,"
Butcher said just before he was
strapped into the chair. He had
waited in seeming good cheer, but
kept his eyes closed and moved
. his lips silently as he awaited
death.
He received the first charge of
electricity at 12:04 a.m. and was
pronounced dead at 12:06.
Butcher's body was to be ship-
ped today to his family home.
South Bend, Ind. Hu mother, Mrs.
‘ mnrr.".r" I
.e .
ln .h,te
like this in five years, and this has been piling up
us all that time.” He indicated, however, that
in the north partion by I
morning. A few scattered
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appealing to the
Tuesday, said an
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PRICE: FIVE CENTS
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RELY O WANT ADS
HUNTSVILLE, Tex. (—Harry I E. M. Dormer of South Bend, was
AUSTIN (-A* new tax plan—one
that would raise roughly 70 million
dollars a year in new levies on
gasoline, cigarettes and beer—was
tossed to lawmakers for informal
consideration today.
It was offered by four senators
on the State Affairs ommittee
which has been struggling with the
tough problem of keeping the state
out of the red.
At least a partial answer was
expected this afternoon in the
Senate State Affairs Committee
meeting, scheduled for more work
on the administration's omnibus
tax bill.
The tax bill, necessary if Texas
is to balance her 1% billion dollar
budget during the next two years,
has been the big stumbling block
between the Legislature and ad-
journment. Until it is either passed
or finally rejected. the mammoth
general appropriations bill and a
host of minor appropriation meas-
■ ures must be held up.
Shivers set the Legislature back
on its heels yesterday with a
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Denton Record - Chronicle
state but did little damage. . I
An unroofed supermarket Thurs-
day at Lufkin, from which 80 cus-
tomers ran unscathed, and a com-
munity theater destroyed by a
lightning-started fire in Waco
Wednesday were the heaviest loss-
es. The supermarket damage was
estimated at 825,000.
Some cattle drowned in flash
floods across West Texas, but
WASHINGTON OR - Living costs
cased down a fraction in April to
the lowest point in nearly two
years.
The government reported today
in index declined one-tenth of one
per cent to 114.2 per cent of the
1947-49 average. This is three-
tenths of one per cent less than
in April last year. It is the lowest
the index has been since May,
1953, when it Ws 114.0.
Lower prices for automobiles
and a fractional decline in rents
were mainly responsible for the
lower index reading.
BERLIN IP—Pvt. William T. Marchuk of Norristown, Pa.,
held captive in Russia for six years, was sentenced today to 12
years in prison for giving U.S. military secrets to the Soviet Union.
The sentence was handed down by an Army court-martial which
had also convicted Marchuk of deserting to the Communists in
East Berlin in February, 1949, when he was drunk. The sentence
includes a dishonorable discharge and forfeiture of all pay and
allowances. .
The 39-year-old soldier was near tears as the sentence was
announced by the seven-officer court. Its findings are subject to
review by higher military authorities.
2 Jailed After
Gen. (Tiger) Wang Shu-ming
said the Red air units include
MIG15s and some MIG17 jets,
TUSs and II28s. The TU2 is a twin-
engine bomber. The IL28 is a twin-
jet bomber.
Shanghai and Nanking are
among the bases in the 600-mite
radius from which Communist
planes could attack Okinawa and
the Philippines, as well as For-
mosa, Wang said at a news con-
ference.
He said the Reds were building
four more new airfields and im-
proving old ones on the mainland
PVT. MARCHUK GETS 12 YEARS
for giving secrets to reds Threatened
WASHINGTON (- The federal • courts the determination of where
government and the state of Louis- hisoric boundaries lie. Beyond
DENTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 20, 1955
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LOG JAM ENDANGERS CLEAR CREEK BRIDGE
County and state highway department workers and Commissioner Loran Tisdell, who was working side-
many volunteers worked frantically Friday to clear a by-side with his crews, said what made the situation
They were:
The driver of one car. Johnny
, Dolphus Dunlap. 43, who recently
moved to Big Spring after living
Overflowing Creeks
Cause Problem Here
involved, sent at least one person
for medical treatment, and partial-
ly wrecked a home at the Intersec-
tion of Wood and East Hickory
streets here.
City and county officers making
investigations into the accidents
jailed two of the drivers for driving
while intoxicated — one of the men
jailed being the driver of the car
that hi the house here.
City officers arrested 19-year-old
Robert L. Garrett at the scene of
the Wood and Hickory streets ac-
cident after his borrowed 1948
Buick had rammed a bedroom of
the home occupied by Mrs. Nanny
Scott and her five school-age chil-
dren.
Mrs. Scott said the home was
empty at the time of the accident.
A bed near the front of the house
The U.S. Supreme Court will be miles offshore,
the referee if it agrees to hear the -gau
case. Sdei
The decision would determine d
whether the state or the federal I
. . 2 . ■ v mild < olie l toyalties
and leasing fees on oil produced EMS ,
from a wide strip. Bmama
Ally. Gen Brownell asked ’he ci \ 8
court yesterday to rule that louis- adeMa
iana's rights to the oil rich sub- Eid
merged lands are limited to the E
area within three geozraphic miles
of that state's coast line E
Gov. Robert Kennon of Iouisiana m
said in a statement his office E
would fight for what he called his E
state s "just claim for the full ex-
tent of Louisiana's offshore bound- m
ary " He said the state "is justiv E
entitled to the entire continental
E
Any actual fight, however, ap- E
parent ly would be staged over E
whether the limit should be three
miles or 10': miles offshore. E
Congress avoided that issue E
when it passed the Submerged m
Lands Act of 1953 it gave each E
state title to the lands within its E
historic boundaries lie. Beyond E
whole idea at this point. They be-
, lieve it to be a project in which
the Soviet government is in-
terested. probably for devious pur-
The thieves then broke into the
superintendent's office by smash-
ing the glass panels in the door
with a broom.
Officers said the "knob" on the youths, all 13 and 14 years of age.
safe was damaged and marks - were among 42 junior high school
made by a safe-crackers "punch” l students a teacher was herding
could be seen on the outside of...........* • ■
borrowed the car from a relative
here. Mrs. Scott said she witnessed
the wreck from a neighbor's home
on East ’Hickory Street. Garrett
was not Injured in the accident.
The other DWI charge came
poses. But there are now so many _ .
unanswered questions that they see nt Odessa, Midland and Chilton,
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was tossed across a room and -
smashed as were several other •
pieces of furniture. -vre : -
Garrett told City Police he had
huge jam of logs brought down Clear Creek to the
bridge on Highway 10 which threatened to take out
the structure. Waters were still rising at noon, bring-
ing more and more debris with it, as workers barely
were able to dent the accumulation on hand. County
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iana squared off today for a new i those boundaries. Congress took
legal battle over ownership of sub- full Tederal control over the re-
merged lands rin_the GulfaMex- mainder of the continental' shelf,
ico. which in some cases extends 109
side. Tanner said the window had -X thomrtnerarnssthatnstted
a broken lock. q •• • • -- • •— 1
Brady and nearly 11 inches
Eastland. - - -
Sun sets today at 7:25 p.m.,
rises Saturday at 5:26 a.m. Fishing
poor today and Saturday.
Denton County rainfall so far
this month: 4.37 inches: so far this
year, 10:66 inches; this time last
year. 9.50 inches.
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n. - ee,
charged with driving while intoxi-
cated.
The accident Involving an injury
occurred this morning about 9 a.m.
between Justin and Argyle. In-
volved were a 1954 Studebaker
driven by George Gann of Spring-
town and a 1948 Ford pickup driven
by Barney F. Huth of 1316 West
Mulberry,
Gann was taken to a Justin doc-
neutral nations between Russia persons killed last night in a fiery
and the Western Powers. head-on auto crash on State High-;
Like President Eisenhower. they > way 350 nine miles north of here
are not willing to write off the were identified today.
to accompany the body.
Butcher was executed for the
March 14, 1954. rape of an Odessa.
Tex., housewife. The Board of
Pardons and Paroles yesterday
Butcher ordered fried chicken. " .-T
gravy, ice tea and white bread Just arrived’ Davy Crockett shirts,
for his last meal. j Sizes 4 to 12- Paul’s Western Shop.
when Chief Deputy Bud Gentle in- _____ __ ...... —....
eral leader Rep. D. B. Hardeman -vestigated an accident south at 600-mile radius "e Formosa.
-2— -d-iit-- hmlez Sanger near Clear Creak about 7
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Texas after some of the most bene-
ficial rains in. years.
The Weather Bureau reported
WASHINGTON w-The.gricul- rainsstillfaling at Sherman. Wis-
ture Department announced today DWTW
it will support grower prices ot
this year's rice crop at an average T • •IT
of not less than $4.66 a hundred | AWIKVIIIA
pounds compared with $4.92 last HVV-PV-I-V
opposite Formosa.
tor for treatment of "arm lacera- The Communists are capable of Justin ...........a
tions.’ Highway Patrolman Felix launching air attacks against For- Experiment Station -
“ mosa any. time they choose, he ____________
Mrs. Nanny Scott, a resident near the intersection of
East Hickory and Wood streets, stares at the wreck-
age in her home after a 1948 Buick rammed the bed-
room about 2 p.m. Thursday. The young Negro driver
was jailed by City Police for driving while intoxicated.
------- Penry said today. "We feel that
Odss ltorney named. Young had something on a pay raise will Be :
contacted the woman involved and worked out later.”
USS The bandits suzgrised Jesse, have been.working
NuIS Wood, ssstant’ee president and Witnout pay since May 10. when
cashier, at hit house and forcad Sheirnstitdeondr.nnanasnd undet
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Of Important News By THE associated press
11"5 Reservoirs were rising from
-- heavy runoffs Friday but sky.
clearing conditions had set in over
p.m. Thursday. Gentle said a 1955
DeSoto driven by Jack Haney of
Tulsa, Okla., hit the Clear Creek
bridge inflicting "about $500 to
81.000 damage" to the car.
Haney was jailed by Gentle and
Sanger Constable Bill Carter and
Five accidents in Denton and the collision was almost head-on
Denton County in the past 24 hours and occurred on a curve on the
inflicted heavy damage to vehicles farm-market road.
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DENTON AND VICINITY: Cloudy
Three Killed In J
Ri. Gnr;no W,p,L afternoon and early tonight. Set-
•5 PPI-8 wTeek urday generally fair. Not much
• * change in temperatures.
BIG SPRING, Tex. (—Three .
TEMPERATURES
(Experiment Station Report)
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turned down a last plea to com-
mute his sentence to life imprison-
ment.
Before the board's decision was
announced. Butcher said "My only
hope is that I can get my sentence
commuted so I can get others to
follow the teachings of Jesus,"
Re was baptized last night in
the Catholic faith. He said he had
been baptized once before, but “It
wasn’t the real thing."
bank while tet other two guarded
his wife ando children.
At the bank they waited inside,
meeting employes as they arrived
for work, tieing them up and put-
ting them in a back room.
When a time lock opened the
bank vault they scooped up be-
tween 885,000 and 890,000 and car-
The efforts of what officers
termed "professionals'* failed
Thursday night to crack the Lewis-
of parity. The department said it viUe walk-in, wall safe of Supt. J.
reduced the rate because of the K
By Water
By ALLEN BOGAN
Record-Chronicle Staff Writer
This week’s beneficial
showers in the Denton Coun-
ty area had developed into a
muddy, swirling Franken-
stein by today, as streams ov-
erflowed, cattle drowned
crops were washed out, roads
were flooded and some bridg-
es threatened.
Rainfall, ranging from light
showers to near-cloudbursts,
deluged the Denton County '
area again Thursday night
and early today — on top of
the heavy rains that soaked
the county Wednesday night
MORE OF SAME
And the U.S. Weather Bureau to-
day predicted “more of the same,"
calling for cloudy to partly cloudy
skies and scattered showers tor the
local area.
Thursday night's rainfall total
ranged from 1.7 inches in the Co-
rinth community southeast of Den-
ton to a mere .10 of an inch at the
Denton Experiment Station.
But heavier showers fell in the
upper Trinity River watershed, es-
pecially in Cooke County. Nearly
10 inches of rain was reported in
the upper Duck Creek area over
the last 48 hours, and that stream
roared out of banks over a wide
area this morning.
Clear Creek was at flood stage
and for a period this morning a
log-Jam threatened the State High-
1 way 10 bridge over the stream
about six miles northeast of Den-
' ton. Elm Fork of the Trinity River
1 also was rparing out ofybenkssfor
the first time to nearly four years.
LAIUS FILL UP
Hundreds of thousands of gallons •
of water were pouring into Lake
Garza and Lake Dallas, and of-
ficials predicted major gains in
both reservoirs. In the southwest
part of the county, Grapevine Lake
also was catching a good runoff,
although apparently not ax great
as in the other two reservoirs.
Generally, rainfall average over
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