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rockets, satellites and missiles.
Right now it is financing the mis-
are much ahead of the Americana,
and all told are probably equal.”
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States 31.30 oer month,
Late in 1951, Moacow issued an
order which barred German sci-
entists from doing any further
work on secret rocket projects. But
there was apparently one excep-
tion: A Moscow group that was
working on guidance systems.
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City area. Families in New .Or-
leans eat five times as much veal
as those in Wisconsin. The aver-
age Californian consumes 25
pounds more beef a year than the
residents of any other state.
That a survey by the Hotel Ed-
sles pi
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missile man and most prominent
in the group of German rocket
scientists who are working in the
United States.
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LONELY ISLAND
The station was located on a
Soviet leader Nikita Khrush-
- chev, in discussing a grandiose
new 15-year plan to build in
Russia the industrial might
which the United States has to-
paign for ratification. Negro
spokesmen by contrast have f
little to say but they are known
to be opposed to the abolition
POOIMA, Calif U—When po-
lice refused to detour traffic off
her unpaved street simply be-
cause she was painting her house
and didn't want the dust to spoil
the job. Mrt. Fern Lewis decided
to establish her own detour.
Police say she took her .22 rifle
yesterday, stood at the intersec-
tion of Sharp Avenue and Osborne
Street and persuaded motorists
not to drive on Sharp Avenue.
Officers said her roadblock was
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Macon County, the home of the
famed Negro school Tuskegee In-
stitute. has long been the center
of racial tension because of the
heavy preponderance of Negroes.
A State Revenue Department is-
timat in 1955 fixed the population
at 27.394 Negroes and 4,709 white
residents.
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Siegmund gave a full picture of
the German scientists' life in the
Soviet Union, one which sharply
contrasts with the career of those
who came to the United States.
He was captured in 1945. In
1946, he was taken to Russia for
work at a super secret rocket sta-
tion.
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(Advertisement) Let this Christ-
mas be different from the others.
Give your family a real Christmas
gift — one that will be remember-
ed. A Maxwell Touring Car for the
family will be the grandest gift
you could give to your family.
Don’t disappoint your family this
Christmas — get a Maxwell from
J. B. Donoho. Maxwell agent, at
the Wright Co. Garage on West
Hickory.
That a week off is usually fol-
lowed by an off week.
That pink elephants really do
exist. In some parts of Africa
they give themselves a dust bath
with reddish soil and,it sticks to
their moist Hides.
That the average man has 66
pounds of muscle but only 9.9
pounds of brains.
That you can hide the scratches
on red - finished mahogany. by
painting with fresh iodine.
That one of the smallest brains
ever recorded belonged to Dante,
the Italian poet, and one of the
largest was found in an idiot.
That Arthur W. A. Cowan asks:
"Remember when it was only
Washington's face that was on our
money? Now it's Washington's
hands as well.”
That it was Rudyard Kipling
who observed, "The silliest wom-
an can manage a clever man; but
it needs a very clever women to
manage a fool!” .
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We don't have any big military installations here in
Denton nor do we have any major government pro-
jects. But that doesn’t mean Denton citizens aren't in-
terested in how their (the taxpayers') money is wasted
* by bureaucrats and high government brass.
A typical example of how the taxpayers’ money is
being tossed around is found at the Army depot in Og-
den. Utah. In a recent issue of the Houston Chronicle.
. a newspaper that isn’t afraid to speak up in defense of
the “little man", it was noted that the Ogden depot re-
cently announced that 100 locomotives had beeiv
“mothballed" for use in an emergency.
Now, these locomotives, varying in size from 45-ton
to 181-ton types, have an over-all value of >9.000,000.
The “mothballing” process consisted of wrapping each
in a layer of burlap on which three coats of plastic
material has been sprayed. Then came a coating of tar
and an outside film of aluminum paint. Total cost of
this work: >220,000.
We are given no explanation of what kind of emer-
gency is anticipated where 100 locomotives would be-
come crucial in addition to the 30,500 owned and used
daily by qur operating railroads. Neither we are told
how long it would take in that emergency to rush the
engines into service from their cocoons.
The stupidity of this project is obvious. How long
are these locomotives to be held in idleness? Perhaps
until they become obsolete. At all events, our railroads
today are operating 26,200 diesel-electric locomotives
out of the total of 30,500.
A few years ago most of the engines were steam lo-
comotives, of which there are now but 3,700 left in ser-
vice. Improvements are coming with each year and
only recently the forecast was made that within 10
years we would have an atomic locomotive.
The proper course for the Army would have been to
sell or lease these locomotives to the operating rail-
roads. They would still be available for “emergency"
along with all other equipment owned by the railroads.
In the past, we have always found the railroads ready
when the nation had need of their services.
Apparently no one in authority cares what blunders
are made in lower echelons because no countermand-
ing order was ever issued despite the public announce-
ment of “mothballing "
which would give the Legislature
authority to erase Macon County
from the map and divide its land-
ed area and population among
neighboring counties will be voted
on in a statewide election Tues-
day.
Negroes, many of them college
educated, outnumber white resi-
dents of the county nearly 7 to 1.
Sponsors of the abolition amend-
ment hope to break up the heavy
concentration of Negroes by divid-
ing them among counties which
have white population majorities.
RED TAPE
Twenty-four other constitutional
amendments will be ratified or re-
jected in the special referendum.
Eight of them are of statewide
significance, providing funds for
river development, medical and
educational facilities and financial
relief for small towns. The re-
maining 16 are purely local, af-
fecting only one county or another.
A relatively light vote is likely
in the offyear election.
Ratification of a constitutional
amendment requires A majority of
the voters throughout the state
even though it affects only one
county. And the affected county's
vote alone has no bearing on the
outcome.
If the people In Macon County
should vote against abolition and
a majority elsewhere vote for it,
for example, the amendment
would carry.
CAMPAIGN PUSHED
State Sen. Sam Engelhardt of
Macon County, a White Citizens
Council leader and sponsor of the
amendment is pushing a cam-
viet turbojet projects until 1956.
SUPER FUEL?
All thought the Russians may
have shot their Sputniks into
space with ordinary fuels. “I don’t
believe they have a super-fuel.”
Siegmund said. He figured the
Russians probably used a mixture
of kerosene and oxygen—the same
fuels that powered one Nazi V-Fs.
The men who developed Ger-
DETROIT U — Willie Houston.
47, pleaded guilty In Recorder's
Court to a panhandling charge.
Before Judge Paul E. Krause
handed out a 30-day jail term.
Houston said:. "Your honor. I
want you to know I appreciate
that officer taking me through the
front door after he arrested me.
Every other time I’ve been picked
■p I was always hauled la by the
aide door or basement."
NEW YORK I—Things a col-
umnist might never know, if he
didn't open his mail:
That if you check up on the
average husband who brags he
runs things in his house. you’ll-ind
the things he runs are the errands
and the vacuum cleaner.
That more than half of all the
dec: 16. 1947
Fire losses in Denton for the
first 11 months of the year have
shown a marked improvement
over the 1946 record as this year
draws to a close with a total loss
oi about $8,000 less.
The First Presbyterian Church.
USA. swept well past its $75,000
expansion fund goal Monday night
when 20 teams turned in 989,285
at a victory dinner report.
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1937. King Feurur Syndicane. Ime, worla ripnbrenerea
irogram to the tune of about
,000.000 a year. In the gov-
ernment's next fiscal year, start-
Princess Grace of Monaco was to.
become an FBI agent.
That a bear cub may weigh less
than a pound at birth, but a baby
elephant enters this world weigh-
ing nearly 200 pounds.
That comic George De Witt
gives this description of an annoy-
ing salesman: “He’s the firm’s
affront man."
mans couldn't get away and
snoopers couldn’t get in. 1_______
ATT told, the Russians had about
work on secret rocket projects al-
togethe"MAJOk STRIDES
Since 1952, when most of the
Germans were released and aent
home, the Russians obviously
made major strides on their own,
the three experts said.
But none wm willing to say that
Russia could not be overtaken.
And former Maj. Gen. Leo Zans-
aer, who helped run the Nazi’s V-2
rocket establishment at Peenemu-
ende but did not work in the
USSR, asserted:
By WALTER BREEDE JR.
NEW YORK, t — Businessmen
viewing the economic picture from
all angles could reach one com-
forting conclusion this week: it
probably wasn’t as bad as it look-
ed.
There was no denying that most
key indicators pointed lower.
Unemployment had pased the
three million mark and was still
growing. But nearly 65 milion
Americans still had paying jobs.
Christmas retail sales were
down from last year. Transit
strikes throttled Christmas busi-
nw in Toledo, Pittsburgh, Loa
Angeles and New York. Even so,
many merchants counted on a
frenzied 11th-hour shopping spre
to help met or beat last year's
record totals.
Activity in the nation's mines,
mils and factories was on the
downbeat. In this sector of the
economy there was scant hope of
improvement for some time.
Steel production trailed last
year by 29 per cent. Production
of crude oil was down 5 per cent,
soft coal 14% per cent, and paper
board 6.2 per cent.
AUTO OUTPUT
Auto output scored a 6% per
cent gain over the comparable
little more than a brief flareup.
Detroit sources said production
schedules for the next 3% months
had been revised downward be-
cause of lower than expected
sales.
Railroad carloadings in the
latest week were down 16%4 per
cent from a year ago. check clear-
ings down 9 per cent, and depart-
ment store sales down 5 per cent.
, Also on the gloomy side, the
U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
said private housing starts will
fall below one million thia year
lor the first limo since 1948. A
came back about the same time; —including
and Ferdinand Brandner, an air-
craft engineer who worked on So-
ison here showed the item most
often .left behind by guests was a
comb. . •
That a guided missile office in
the Pentagon is reported to have
had this sign on the door: "Out
to launch."
PE C2URSe TIL
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day a price is two- packs for 25 J 4a^" l/ BM -
cents.———-------------------- * muron _____
ing July 1, an increase of about
Sorerdcentiis qxpectedas,
ing ia expected to free a "Parde
amount of capital for investment
In home mortgages, school con-
struction, road building, and the
like.
The .overage consumer is still
in pretty good shape. Savings de-
posits. war bonds, and other li-
quid Nets of Americans are at
a record peak. There has been a
slight Increase In charge account
delinquencies and auto reposses
sions, but total Ins
outstanding is hot
economists as loo
winged bomber capable of flying
more than 1,500 miles per hour
The announcement aald a spe-
cial weapons command develop-
ment directorate at Kirtland Air
Force Base here has been carry-
ing on “many projects to mate
special weapons with carriers . ..
this year.”
"Bombers Involved." the an-
nouncement said, "are the B36,
B47 RB47, B62, B66 and B97.
Fighters in the program include
the fw, FB6F, rwoc. FIOOD,
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. EDITORIALS ________-
DEC. 16- 1917
Denton merchant O. M. Curtis
Mid today that taxes were the
reasons behind the current cig-
arette price hike. Former price
wm 10 cents for a pack of 20; to-
DEC. 16, 1937
Denton County marketed an ap-
proximately 960,000 Christmas
Turkey crop during the past 10
days, it wm estimated today. The
figure wm far ahead of last year's
turkey market at this time.
Letters to Santa: Dear Santa:
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DIFFICULTIES
Research at Siegmund's Island
station was difficult for a variety
of reasons. Vital metals, chemi-
cals and manufactured parts were
frequently in scarce supply.
One of the Germans' major func-
tions wm to train Russian scien-
tists and technicians in rocketry,
and one of the toughest problems
wm teaching workmen to build
what the scientists designed.
The Germans brought along new
ideas which they had been unable
to try out before the collapse of
Germany. But the Russians were
frequently unable to exploit them
for lack of proper materials.
"However,** says Siegmund,
"maybe this wm to their advan-
tage. It forced them to develop
some of their own techniques and
perhaps some of these turned out
to be quite good."
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“Even with our rich experi-
ence in running a planned
economy It is difficult to fore- .
see with absolute exactitude
the growth of production in
various fields, particularly if
one takes into consideration
contemporary science and
techniques and the further
growth of our corps of trained
personnel, which can give ad-
ditional sources of acceleration
of growth of production."
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“I do not believe the Russians ad the 42-year-old woman on a the rocket scientists were sent
charge of displaying a firearm in home.
had Si. "hhe KSS bafdedTbanuan You Just Can’t
own ly all German scientists from
MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1957
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HAL BOYLE S^YS
Hubby Runs Things - Sure,
Like Errands, Dishwasher
AUSTIN. ( — The Bureau of
Business Research has forecast
that final figures on Texas con-
struction activity in 1957 would
show "a small but significant up-
ward movement from 1956.”
The University of Texas agency
said that generally construction in
November took a sharp decline
lower than other months of the
year except March and April.
"The unadjusted value of total
construction authorized in the
state in November wm estimated
at $61564 000 down 29 per cent
from October." the bureau Mid.
"For the January-November pe-
riod 'total authorisations were 9
per cent above authorisations for
the same 1956 period. New con-
struction author ized, although
down 19 per cent from October
was 8 per cent ahead of 1956 in
the 11 -month comparison.
"It is unlikely that December
authorizations will alter either of
these increases over last year sig-
nificantly. After allowing for price
increases, It appears that both
total building construction and
new construction authorized in
TexM in 1957 will show a small
but significant upward movement
from 1956."
Building permits during No-
vember included Dallas $12,309,-
470: Houston, $10,043,640; Fort
Worth. 88.889.074: San Antonio.
63.706.221: El Paso, 83,252,312;
and Austin $3,145,245.
GROWING PAINS
FRANKFURT, • - When the
Russians smashed Into Germany
in 1945, they captured a number
of Nazi scientists and put them to
work on rocket research.
Among the moat intriguing ques-
tions since the Soviets started
shooting up Sputniks have been;
How much help were these Ger-
mans? Was it their knowhow
which put Russia ahead of the
United States in the missile race?
Three German experts, back in
their homeland, believe the Rus-
sians got where they are largely
on their own.
They paint a picture of German
scientists playing a kind of blind
man's buff because the Russians
evidently didn't trust their unwill-
ing collaborators too far. f
One individual research station
staffed by Germans didn’t know
exactly what the others were do-
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Buck Passing In Traffic Issue
No facet of our modern civilization has more buck-
passers than what all communities refer to as “our
traffic problem."
In anygiven community where this problem is para-
mount, you'll find 90 percent of the population, figura-
tively speaking, jumping up and down, waving their
arms and shouting: “Why doesn’t somebody do some-
thing!"
Usually they cum the cops for inattention to duty.
But if enough people cuss enough cops for inattention
to duty, and the cops start getting really tough, the
tone and nature of the cop-cussers' cussing'changes
overnight They start howling that the copa are too
tough, they should be cut down to size, and how do
they get that way pushing us free-born American citi*
sen's around? We’re taxpayers, ain't we? Why, they
even dragged my old lady down to city hall and made
her pay a $15 fine or driving 48 miles in a 30-mile
sone; she wasn't doing no such of a thing—she was
only doing 45.______
That “why doesn’t somebody do something” stuff
is human nature at work, a buck-passers' delight
Why don’t you do something? Just start obeying
the traffic laws in a conscientious way, and our so-call-
ed traffic problem would ease up overnight. That is
if a large percentage of people did it. And among
them would have to be a great many chronic complain-
ers.
Do you always drive within the set speed limit? Do
you always signal a left or right turn; Are you always
in the proper lane before making such a turn? Do
you stay a safe distance behind the car ahead of you?
Are your brakes in proper working order? Is your
tail light burning, and both headlamps brightly beam-
ing? Where's your right foot as you approach an in-
tersection—on the accelerator or on the brake pedal
where it belongs for safety’s sake?
When you think no policeman is looking, do you
push her up to 35, 40 or 45 in a 30-mile zone? What's
the hurry?
As a pedestrian, do you wait on the curb for the
light to change in your favor, or edge out into the traf-
fic stream to interefere with motorists who have the
right of way? Do you walk against a red light because
you consider yourself a law unto yourself?
If all of us who complain about traffic conditions
t would ask ourselves these and many other questions,
and resolve to improve our traffic manners, this would
be a happier and safer community in which to live and
breathe and have our being.
Aa someone said of the weather, everybody talks
about it, but nobody does anything about it.
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MONTGOMERY. ( - White
segregationists, fearful that Negro
voters ultimately may control
troubled Macon County, propose
to abolish the county if need be in
order to prevent it.
A constitutional amendment
Huntsville, Ala, where a number
J Von Braun himself—
have become american citizens.
FOR PETE’S SAKE- VOURE ’
PACKING ENOUGH JUNK FOR
AWOR-D TOUR! AU TM
—t TAKING IS A PAZOR ‘
SlAND A tooth brush,
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The scientists who served in
Russia were Gerhard Siegmund,
42, a rocket fuel expert who
worked on the V-2 and wm in the
Soviet Union from 1946 to 1952;
Dr. Werner Schulz, 48, a rocket
ballistics mathematician- who
Please bring me a streamline'
train and track, cowboy boots,
boot pants, boxing gloves, a drum
and a toy truck. Don't forget the
SCW kindergarten children too.
Thanks, Santa. Bobby Schmitz, 590
TexM.
That there are more than 50.000
lamb marketed, in the United lightbulbs in the United Nations
States is eaten in the New York TLat the childhood ambition of
lonely island in a lake near Osta-
is_DrWernhervon shkov — about halfway between
the U.S. Army s top Moscow and Leningrad. The lake
‘ formed a natural moat—the Ger-
12 to 14 “pure" rocket scientists
from Germany, Siegmund esti-
mated. Most of the other Germans
were either highly skilled techni-
cians or aircraft engineers who
were given captured V-2 models
and told to go on from there.
promising pickup In the fall fiz-
zled out in November.
Government economists also
forecast a reversal of the long up-
ward trend in buxines spending.
Since early 1955 business firms
have boon spending heavily on
new plants and‘equipment. They
borrowed so much money for fac-
tories. office buildings, refineries,
machine tools, warehouses and
other facilltlM that funds avail-
able for home mortgages and
short-term., business loas became
The total of such spending in
1966 wm more than 22 per cent
greater than in 1955. Thia year it
showed a gain of 7 per cent. Now
a downturn is in prospect. Busi-
nes outlays for the first three
months of 1968 will be down an
estimated five per cent from the
current quarter. It will be the
first such decline in nearly three
years. ’ _
FEDERAL SPENDING
Partly' offsetting the dip in busi-
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U.S. Warplanes
Are Equipped For
Nuclear Weapons
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. w_The ‘
Air Force said that “virtually —
all front-line U.S. fighters and
bombers have nuclear or thermo- •
nuclear capabilities " ,
It said the newest aircraft to bo
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