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DENTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1957
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government excess list, the Corps
nature of questions in store for
to remake his party.
-building was all
Compromise Sought As Syria
Situation Starts Cooling Off
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Woman Lauded
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Krum Joins List Of
Flu-Closed Schools
Wednesday's discussions
met
with overwhelming support of the
the Rev. Raymond Corrigan of Decatur • First Methodist.
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Given Chamber
Area May Get
Another Front
Mystery Explosion Shakes
Area Near Lone Star Steel
MENNEN CO.
SUBPENAED
TEXANS HELD IN SHOTGUN CASE
Lone Star Worker’s Home Was Struck
ALCOHOLIC TREAT
DONATED FOR DAD
WASHINGTON ( - President
Eisenhower may be risking a po-
litical black eye in his enthusi-
astic endorsement of Republican
These bridges were built by the
county but are now on roads that
were turned over to the govern-
ment and adandoned. Since they
are now the property of the govern-
ment. the bridges cannot be touch-
ed by the county. However, by
who back him on major is-
As for those who are against
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Lew fear !«• ...
“shows how a business firm, op-
erating in good faith, can find it-
self dealing with racketeers under
the guise of labor organizations.”
Kennedy told reporters the com-
mittee is more interested in Shef-
ferman’s activities than in how
Dio got the labor union contract.
Dio, a New York racketeer, is now
serving a jail term for conspiracy
to take money from New York
employer*.
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This Month
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This Year
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father complained to police
that his child came home with
three bottles of beer in his
trick-or-treat bag.
Police found the beer-donor,
a man who explained: “I ran
out of cookies and candy so J
gave the kids some beer and
told them to take it home to
their fathers."
vine meet Friday in the fea-
ture game of District 10-AA,
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dey 4* 545 a.m. Fishingi Bad.
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discussed. The
gravel for roa
but settled.
possible go-between and promis-
ing some kind of investigation.
Hammarskjold told reporters he
might issue a statement today, de-
pending on the “state of develop-
ments.”
An Assembly session scheduled
for today was postponed until
10:30 a.m. tomorrow.
It seemed unlikely that the 82-
nation Assembly would five the
needed two-thirds majority to Sy-
•.yim
AN ORCHID FROM ONE
Mrs.L. Kyle Humphries And
bridges on abandoned road* were
of getting
A large number of Denton
Chamber of Commerce members
responded to an emergency ses-
sion Wednesday, meeting in the
City Hall Auditorium to discuss
the possibility of Denton's getting
the proposed two million dollar
state school for mentally retarded
children.
It was the first time that the
general CC membership had heard
details- -on the program of a eham-
DENTON COUNTY is get-
ting near its 153,000 United
Fund goal. Page 3. Sec. 1.
TITO of Yugoslavia has U.S
of Engineer* could be authorized
to sell the bridges back to the
county for a nominal fee.
In a matter at several county
roads in the reservoir area being
flooded, Col. Wells said the county
would be paid damages for these
road*. In several cases families
were stranded for as long as two
months by the spring floods and
Judge Baldridge questioned Col.
Wells on the possibility of relocat-
ing the road*.
Col. Wells pointed out that when
damages are paid, the county can
move the roads if it wants, and
the Corps of Engineers will give
the county new right-of-way on
higher land if toe county so
desires.
work should start on the road and
bridge in the near future with any
minor specification changes being
made, such as the necessity for
using more fill dirt than specified
in the current plans.
In the matter of getting gravel
for building roads, the county’s
main concern was attempting to
cut down hauling distances. With
this in mind, the county asked for
the rights to buy gravel from the
government pools near the Garza-
Little Elm dam. Col. Wells said
that a letter of information aa to
amount and a statement of how
much the county would pay would
probably be sufficient to approve
the county’s dipping into the gov-
ernment pits.
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dren.
In Lewisville and Decatur member* of the Methodist Youth
Fellowships will collect fund* for the Christian Rural Oversea*
Program (CROP). Following the collection periods in both kew-
isvile and Decatur the participating youth* will have a Hal-
loween party *
The youths in all three cities will wear arm band* and carry
identification cards or letters Pastors assisting the three group*
are the Rev. Joe David Ruffin at Denton's First Presbyterian
USA, the Rev. Eldon Traster of Lewisville's First Methodist and
On the other hand, Eisenhow-
er's plug for Forbes in a contest
some Republican* regard as a
long-shot gamble may be of more
significance to the GOP in the
1958 battle for control of Congress
than what happens at the polls in
New Jersey.
Forbes is running against Dem-
ocratic Gov. Robert B. Meyner.
If Forbes wins next Tuesday, it
would provide — as Eisenhower
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Denton ^Record . Chronicle
At the outset it appeared that
the county was about to be thrown
for a loss when Cd. Walter Wells,
district engineer denied the
countya request for altering spec
ifications for bunding Garza-Little
Elm Road No 1 and the bridge
across Haggard Creek. It was the
county’s contention that the road
would be at an elevation consider-
ed too low and that the bridge
would not withstand a flow of
water like that which came down
arm” for Republicans.
TEST DUE
If Forties loses, Eisenhower will
have put himself into a situation
many will regard as confirmation
of reports his own political pop-
ularity is slipping noticeably.
At his news conference, Eisen-
hower was asked only about the
Forbes-Meyner race. But press
secretary James C. Hagerty said
later the President hopes for a
victory by Republican Ted Dalton
over Democrat J.• Lindsay Al-
mond for governor of Virginia.
Politicians here read the Pres-
ident's action as indicating he in-
tends to make a stiff fight for the
kind of candidates he likes, even
if he has to take some political
bumps in the process
These politicians are contrast-
ing this new attitude to the con-
siderably more cautious course
Eisenhower followed in 1956, when
his own re-election was at stake.
In discussing his attitude toward
the 1958 campaign, Eisenhower
said last May 22 that he will sup-
brought out a point of which
County Judge W. K. Baldridge
and the commissioners were not
DENTON ano VICINITY Partly eloudy this
afternoon and tonighte Mealy cloudy Fri-
day with slightiy cooler temperatures.
WES TEXAS: increasing cloudines tonight
with iMwm Friday.
EAST, SOUTH CENTRAL TEXASt Partly elor
dy thi afternoon and tonight.
TEMPINATURES
statien Repor)
engineers that accompanied hjm
disagreed with this proposition
and stood fast behind the spocifica-
I marked the strike since it be-*
। gan Sept. 21 and which has
: divided- this rich industrial
section in northeast Texas
into armed camps at times.
Ranger Capt. E. J. Banks at I
Dallas headed into the trouble
area today to increase the Ranger
force to six. An undetermined
number of state patrolmen and lo-
cal officers aided the Rangers in
i trying to keep peace.
ARMS CARRYING <
The fact that non-strikers were
carrying pistol* and other arm*
to work was revealed last night.
# Just like at a Wild West social
Krum Independent School joined
the list of. flu stricken schools in
Denton County Wednesday, clos-
ing its doors for the remainder of
tb« week. 1
Schools within the sprawling
Northwest Ir.dependent District in
Denton, WiK and Tarrar’ coun-
ties reopened this morning. but
absenteeism still hovered near the
23 per cent levei. That mar k would
moan more than 200 students out
of elasses beeause at siekness.
Denton Scnool Supt. Chester
Strickland today estimated absen
teeism in tha nine schools is run-
ning about 15 per cent as compar-
ed to the normal eight to 10 per
cent
Strickland said the highest ab-
senteeism rate seems to be in
Demion High School and Denton
Junior High School.
Col. Wells and the battery of move grew in the United Nations
‘ ‘ “ today to seek some compromise
approach to dissipate the tension
between Turkey and Syria Rival
resolutions already submitted to
the Assembly appeared doomed to
failure.
Statements by Russian and Sy-
Supt Ben Smith this morning
ordered the Pilot Point schools
closed for the remainder of the
week after 23 per cent of the stu-
dents — 118 in all — failed to ap-
pear for classes. The school has
been closed since last Thursday.
Krum Wedneday had 35 of the
school’s 185 enrollment absent, in-
creasing suddenly from the day
before when only a few of the stu-
dents were absent, officials said.
Thus far. schools tn Sanger, Pi-
lot Point. Valley View. Celina.
Era, Northwest, Decatur, Bridge-
port and Boyd have closed down
because of influenza epidemics
during recent weeks
Tioga, north of Pilot Point also
remains closed for the rest of the
week in attempt* to hold average
daily attendance figures necessary
ter increased state aid. -
Neither Pilot Point nor North-
west High Schools have cancelled
football games Friday night.
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Committee member* have been
working night and day for the
past three weeks to ready Den-
ton's presentation to the site se-
lection; committee of the hoard
for Tekas State Hospitals and Spe-
cial School*..
The facts were presented heore
the site selecting committee Fri-.
day in Dalia*. j
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in the party who don’t like the
White House brand of ''modern
Republicanism.”
To some this looked like a new
determination by Eisenhower to
carry out his post-election pledge
rian spokesmen abroad mean-
while indicated that the crisis over
Russian military aid to Syria and
Turkish troop reinforcements
along the Turkish-Syrian border
was simmering down. The United
States and Turkey have contended
all along that Russia whipped up
the tension to win the Arab* to
the Soviet side
PLAN EYED
.. Many U. N delegates believe
the only plan likely to get Assem-
bly approval would be a watered-
down proposal citing Secretary
General Dag Hammarskjold asaa
DAINGERFIELD (AP)—An increased Texas Ranger
force clamped down today on gun-carrying non-strikers at •
the Lone Star Steel Plant- here as violence flared up over-
night in the prolonged wildcat walkout.
The latest violence was a massive, mysterious explosion
which shook this area during the night.
The explosion followed repeated violence which has
or replacement of damaged roads
or structures over creeks when
damage is caused by operation of
a spillway on a government reser-
voir.
This statement cleared away
the cloud that if the road and
bridge were built and were sub-
sequently washed out by new flood-
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Gty’s Park
Under Study
Denton officials today were
studying several new ideas inter-
jected Wednesday in the city’s
plans for a parksite at Garza-Lit-
tie Elm Reservoir.
The study came after the Army's
district engineer explained the
reasons behind the Army's award-
ing to Lewisville a park which
Denton also had requested Sitting
on the conference with the city
commission was U.S. Rep. Frank
Ikard.
* Col. Walter Wells of Fort Worth,
the army’s district engineer, told
the commission Eagle Point Park
was awarded to Lewisville be-
cause, according to records in the
engineers’ office, Lewisville show-
ed interest in Eagle Point before
Denton. Denton officials until Wed-
nesday were under the impres-
sion their application had been
submitted before Lewisville’s,
Garza-Little Elm resident en-
gineer Stan Lovett* told the group
he personally thinks the Hickory
Creek site on the north shores of -
the Hickory Creek arm of the lake
has the best natural harbor of any
reservoir location
Rep. Ikard asked the engineers
in what he called a hypothetical
question, if it would be possible
for two cities to be granted a site
on a co-operative basis. Col. Wells ‘
said such a plan is possible but
that must be worked out between
the two cities. Denton officials did
not indicate publicly that such a
plan would or would not meet
their approval
Col. Well* told the Denton of-
ficials. however, that if they de-
cided to apply for the Hickory
Creek site, the engineers would
build a new road to make th*
area more easily accessible to
U.S. Highway 77. Hickory Creek
Park already has one road.
Parksite* on the shores of th*
huge reservoir are available to
municipalities for leasing if the
cities submit plans for improve- '
ments for the public’* welfare.
Th* cities involved then franchise
the areas to private enterprise to
furnish boating and other recrea-
tional facilities. All profits real-
ized by the oities must be reinvest-
ed in park improvement*.
Kennedy declined to discus* the J Mylelmernoorsheg rncthe New Jer
favor of the secretary general. I-
India Delegate V. K. Krishna 825
Menon has suggested that both Sues
Th* Money that slips through your
fingers will pay the loan that pays
your bills. Complete personal loan
service. Industrial Credit Com-
pany, ever Russells.
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ing the county would have to, . . -
stand for the repairs or replace-fretting these bridge* put on the
ment. The group then agreed that
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Col. Wells
Eisenhower described Forbes as
“the young, vigorous type of can-
didate we should have in plitics."
"I believe he is a man of fin*
character," the President said.
"He has a fine family and I think
he would make an effective gov-
ernor. so I am for him."
Several hours later, Hagerty
was asked how Eisenhower felt
about Virginia’s Dalton.
"He feels about Dalton exactly
th* same way he feels about Mr.
Forbes," Hagerty replied. "He
hopes he’s elected."
Probers Widen Scope
Of Union Activities
To Toilet Goods Firm
WASHINGTON us—Senate rack-
et* probers called top officials at
the Mennen Co., today to tell why
they hired Nathan W. Sheffer-
man’s alleged union busting firm.
Robert F. Kennedy, chief coun-
sel of the special Senate commit-
tee who has described Shefferman
as a union buster, told newsmen
in advance of the hearing that
Michigan’s Democratic Gov. G.
Mennen William* "had no part”
in the incident and will not be
a witness.
Witnesses to be questioned, he
said, include th* governor's cous-
in, George Mennen, a vice presi-
dent of the Morristown, N.J., com-
pany, and Louis Jackson, who
handles the toilet good* company’*
labor relation* problem*. Jackson
formerly was one of Shefferman'*
top lieutenant*.
William*, serving his fifth term
as governor, is a Mennen Co.
stockholder and director He had
announced in Lansing, Mich., he
would be glad to tesify but had
no first hand knowledge of what
went on. He contended the com-
pany hired Shefferman in good
faith, after learning that Johnny
Dio, who headed a labor union
with which it had a contract was
a racketeer.
This, Williams hii stated.
SPOOKS IN THREE CITIES
TO HELP OTHERS TONIGHT
Residents of Denton, Lewisville and Decatur tonight may pee^..
a new kind of Halloween spook when they answer their doorbells
The spooks will be collecting coins for two overseas children's re-
Haggard Creek during th* spring
flood*.
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George Mennen, Jackson and
other witnesses.
Gov. Williams said he got his
information from his cousin. He
said Shefferman came into th*
company's employment in 1954 as
a sequel to a labor dispute when
Mennen employes were trying to
throw but the racketeer-infested
Local 649 at the old AFL United
Auto Workers Union.
event in pie old days, they checked
their arms at the gate.
When the morning shift reported
today, however, not a single gun
was turned in at the plant gates.
Ranger Sgt. Arthur Hill said,
"We've always discouraged the
Idea of anyone carrying any weap-
ons. We've given no one the right
to carry a gun. Those found vio-
lating the laws concerning the
carrying of weapon* will be prose-
cuted.”
Prominent around the sprawling
plant ar* black and white posters
offering 110,000 reward for the ar-
rest and conviction of any persons
injuring an employe of the com-
pany or their families.
on Star Steel also offers a re-
ward of 85,000 for conviction of
anyone damaging an employe’s
property. Another 81,000 award
awaitsianyone proving the compa-
ny hasn't lfved up to arbitration
decisions.
UNION MEETING
A mass meeting of union work-
er* was scheduled for this after-
noon. but newsmen were told
pomtedly that they would not be
welcome.
Bob Hollingsworth of the Dallas
Times Herald reported that strik-
er* “graphically suggested that
newsmen would do well to leave
town.”
Officers spirited two men
charged with strike violence out
of the jail at Gilmer and would
not say where they were taken or
why they were removed.
The men are James Duffy, 48.
and Robert Blount, about 53. They
are under technical charges of
burglary after a non-striker’s
home was riddled with buckshot.
It was obvious to reporters the
strike created an economic pinch.
The United Steelworkers Union
has been issuing script to strikers
for groceries. The men have
missed two twice-monthly pay-
days.
REMEHRER WHEN
Crop rotation had never been
put in practice on Denton
County farms?
port "enthusiastically" Republi-
By GENE WILLIAMS
Record-Chronicle Staff Writer
In what was termed on* of th*
most cooperative sessions of its
kind in many moons, Denton
County commissioners, represent
atives of th* U.S. Corp of Engine-
•r* and U.S. Rep. Frank Ikard
Wednesday hasseled over flood
damage to th* county and came up
with some solutions which all
favor th* county.
The group talked in an air of
goodwill and Denton County got
th* green light on building roads
without fear of future costs for
repair*. Garza-Little Elm Road No.
1 and a bridge over Haggard
Creek will be repaired and the
Corp* of Engineers agreed to pay
damages on certain county road*
damaged in the flooding of Garza-
Little Elm Reservoir. Relocation
of these roads and recovery of
told his new* conference
day—"* great big shot
CC members present. Over 100
member* attended.
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By Her ‘Boys’
A little gray-headed Denton wo- ■
man who ha* provided temporary
housing for 13 federal officials
beamed with happiness Wednesday
as her “boys" paid her tribute.
Mrs. L. Kyle Humphries, former
history teacher at TWU, said" “I
just can’t believe it. This is about
the most wonderful thing that ha*
ever happened to me."
HONORS
Officials of Region 8, Federal
Civil Defense Administration, pre-
sented Mrs. Humphries with a
certificate of appreciation and an
orchid corsage. Then they took her
to lunch at th* Southern Hotel.
< Mrs. Humphries lives across th*
street from the FCD offices on
Bell Avenue and has long been
associated with TWU.
Seven of the region’s present
officials and six other previous
ones have stayed at her home until
they could find homes of their own.
A native of Goliad County, Mrs. ,
Humphries first came to Denton In'
1910 and later graduated from
TWU, then known as. the College ■
of Industrial. Arts, when the school
wa* only 10 years old.---------------
MET THERE
Mrs. Humphries also met her
late husband at the school and
both of them taught there, she in
the history department, he in eco-
nomics.
Welcome W. Wilson, Region 8
administrator, declared Wednes-
day to be "Mr«. L. Kyle Humph-
ries Day" for the region and as-
signed a member of th* staff as
her honorary guard for th* day.
YAWN PATEOL - C:88 to 8:00"
every morning—KDNT 1440.
ria’s proposal to send a fact-find-
ing commission to investigate the
border situation, or to the seven-
nation Western resolution ex-
pressing confidence that Hammar-
skjold would mediate th* dispute.
WEST VIEW
Western diplomats expressed
the view that Russia n-Syrian
warnings that the United States
and Turkey are about to touch off
a war are so phoney that to ap-
point an inquiry commission
would give them urvarranted
dignity. -
Syria, on th* other hand, was
reported to have told Hammar-
skjold she would not approve his
appointment as mediator on
grounds It would mean the As-
sembly was shirking its duty in
' Recovery of bridges on abandon-
ed roads appear* to be a feasible
plan, the conferees indicated
tax money.
Syria and Turkey agree on a fact-
finding process to help settle their
differences and use Hammar-
skjold’s good offices.
Syria has insisted she will press
for a vote on her resolution and
will accept no substitute plans
However, it was felt she might
agree to some face-saving plan
such as Menon'*.
SYRIAN HOPE
In Damascus. acting Foreign
Minister Hkalil Kallas told the Sy-
rian Parliament's Foreign Affairs
Committee he hoped the crisis
was fading.
Soviet Communist party boss
Nikita Khrushchev also told West-
ern newsmen at a reception in
Moscow Tuesday night that the
Middle East situation "has gone a
little way toward peace."
tions. However,
Break out th* coats and sweat-
ers again. Mom, cool weather is on
its way back.
A weak cool front started this
way today, bringing with it the
promise of a few showers and
some cooler weather. It was over
Wyoming this morning, and is ex-
pected to edge into Texas Friday.
Meanwhile, skies over the ben-
ton County area are expected to
be partly cloudy tonight and most-
ly cloudy Friday.
Wednesday's high was 77 de-
gree*. the highest temperature re-
corded since Oct. 11. Today's
minimum. 42 degrees, was the
lowest since Monday * freezing
29. It also matched the low for
the state, recorded in Amarillo.
Maximum temperatures over the
state, reported the Associated
Press, rauged from 88 a Laredo
to 70 at Wink.
The only moisture recorded was
.02 of an inch at Lufkin and .01
at Presidio. .
BOYS’
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him, he Mid, he’ll be for them
"merely because they are Repub-
lican."
CHANCE GONE
In the case of Forbes, Eisen-
hower wiped‘out any chance the
Republicans could alibi defeat by
contending that local—and not na-
tional-Aissues decided the contest.
By the same token, he went a
long way toward making any
Forbes victory a lesson to those
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Classified ............. 8
Comics ................ 9
Editorials ............. 4
Food News .......... 8, 4
Sports ....... 1, 2
TV Log ..... 8
Women’s News ........8
"eProaramsthe campaign will be conducted by teenagers from kber committeein trying to locate
several Denton churros who are member* of the United Chris- thesshoohhere:
tian Youth Movement Money collected will go to UNICEF, the
United Nation's fund for helping the world's underprivileged chil-
SITE OF FATAL CRASH _
Paul Neiman of Albuquerque points across a mile-wide ravine to a black, moon-shap-
ed scar on the side of Gray Mountain, near Flagstaff, Ariz., where a four-engined
Air Force tanker crashed. All IB aboard died. (AP Wirephoto)
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