Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 234, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 2, 1956 Page: 7 of 12
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bumps. I. more fortunate, was giv-
en a horse and saddle. We left
Justin early in the morning end-
reached Dentn late in the after-
noon—the first persons to reach
the town from the outside world
since the preceding Saturday.
That was the only time within
the memory of man that Denton
was completely isolated, for the
railroad bridge at Mingo and the
one below Lewisville also had been
swept out by the raging waters,
and it was almost a week later
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SUNDAY-MAY 6
Sponsored By Denton High School
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THIS AD COURTESY
LINWOOD ROBERSON FLORIST
Santa Fe, to Krum and from there
by wagon: or buggy into Denton.
ENDS AT JUSTIN
We started, but the trip ended
at Justin, for the Santa Fe bridge
over Denton Creek also had gone
out during the night. The W. E.
Smoot family gave us a welcome
for qur Justin stay, and it was the
following Wednesday when Den-
ton Creek had fallen back into its
banks and travel by horseback or
high-wheeled wagon was possible.
The several Denton people who
like us had tried the Santa Fe
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By WILL EDWARDS
" Former Record-Chroniele
’ By a somewhat Interesting coin-
cidence,-I have personal reasons
for remembering two of the major
floods in Denton's history. The first
was in 1888 and the second came
20 years later, in 1908. -One coin*
cidence is that in both I was away
from home and, because of the
high waters, unable to get back
until the floods subsided. Anoth-
er is that the rains responsible (or
both started on Saturday.
On a cloudy day in the late
Spring of 1888—May. I think ‘it
was—my father, a physician, had
a call from a patient living across
Elm Creek. Just where the pati-
ent's home was I cannot remem-
ber except that it was somewhere
northeast of5 Lunn's Lake, which
was four or five miles north of the
McKinney Road. It had begun to
rain when my father asked if I
wanted to go with him; and since
it was Saturday and no school, I
was glad to accept.
The rain poured down steadily
as we drove the eight or ten miles
to the patient’s place. And when
the call was completed it was still
raining in sheets. The man's fami-
ly insisted that we spend the night
there so as . to have a daylight
journey next day: Since under the
conditions the night trip would have
been hazardous, we stayed.
RAIN CONTINUES
The rain continued throughout
the night and when we were ready
to siart next morning, it was still
falling. We reached the east side
of the Elm “bottom" only to find
that the flood water extended from
hill to hill, a distance of more
than two miles, and was continu-
ing to rise.
There we met up with a Den-
ton fishing party which had been
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DUCHESS FROM HEMPHILL
Mrs. James Payne Jr., the former Miss Shirley Harris,
was chosen by the Lions Club to represent Hemphill
st, the ninth annual Jaspar Lions Club Rodeo and pa-
rade April 25-28. Mrs. Payne was a visiting duchess
who participated on horseback in both events. Other
duchesses were from Beaumont, Orange, Livingston,
San Augustine and Port Arthur. Mrs. Payne is the -
daughter of Mrs. Helen Harris, 2007 W. Hickory. She
' is a former student of NTSC where she belonged to
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Zneraal gas range
ice being restored. My father, who
had the old ante-bellum idea that
friends were to be welcomed for as
long asthey wanted to stay, felt
no hesitancy -tn going to the home
of Uncle Joshua Zumwalt. and
there we stayed until the trains
started running throi days later.
' TAKES TRAIN
I was put on the first train and
sent home so as not to miss any
more'school, while my father re-
mained to bring his buggy snd
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BYGONE DAYS IN DENTON '
driven out of the lowlands by the
rising water- They had a perilous
time getting out, having 'to cross
several fast-running sloughs that
ordinarily were dry gullies.
Deciding there was no chance
of getting home by the McKinney
Road bridge, my father decided
we would go north to Aubrey in
the idea of returning home from
there by train. But at Aubrey we
discovered that the railroad bridge
Now offhand you might think
that Barbara Nichols’ criticising.
Monroe is akin to a rookie s telling
Ted Williams .how to bat. You
could be right. But the qualifica-
tions- for being a starlet include
an ability to speak brashly. --
“I think Marilyn is making a
mistake becoming a corporation."
she said. "There’s something un-
feminine about a girl going into
business. I think men resent it. It
places the girl in a position of
competing with them,"
This probably won’t cause Dou-
hle M to abandon Marilyn Monroe
Productions, Inc., but Barbara
was serious about her opinion.
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They had accompanied "tome young
women to a school commencement
near Aubrey and had been caught wagon filled’wit straw toease the
by the floods.
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By BOB THOMAS,
HOLLYWOOD I - Is Marilyn
Monroe sexy? As a girl, yes. As
a corporation, no.
So says Barbara Nichols, latest
addition to the siren ranks.
downito meet me, planning to go before rail traffic again was nor-
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team home as soon as the dirt
roads became passable. In Aubrey
were several other Denton people,
marooned as we were. Two of them
I recall were young men both of
whom later became highly success-
ful and affluent business men— J.
Frank Raley and Tobe Madden.
at the Mingo crossing had been 210 uul. auuu JI 000 wa.
swept out and that there was no evenworse thanthatof 1888, which
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Hollywood is now taking advan-
tage of them in movies.
She was a reddish brunette when'
she attended high school in Ja-
maica. Long Island, N. Y. (where
she got good grades, so she's real-
ly neither dumb nor blonds).
Her career led her to the chorus '
line at New York’s Latin Quarter .
to the Broadway revival of “Pal *
Joey." A bit on Sid Caesar's show
brought her the role of a stripper
in "Miracl in the Rain." Now
she's playing a stripper in RKO’s j
“Beyond a Reasonable Doubt.”
- But she claims she isn't being
typed. Next she plays a gangster’s
mod in "The Best Things in Life
Are Free," then portrays Doris
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PLATTEVILLE, Ill. IA - Elite
Hampson is- wondering what to do
with 3-day-old Siamese twin pigs,
borne by a crossbred sow along
with 15 normal brothers and sis-
ters.
“I ‘hate to think of killing
them," he said. “They seem to be
as healthy and lively as any pigs
we have, but they are joined at
the chest and can’t walk.
"My wife Marjorie and I have
been feeding them milk from a
bottle ever)' half hour, but we {
can't keep that up for long.
“It beats me. What would you
do with them if they were yours?" I
Mother’s Day is May 13th! |fg the
most important day on the calendar
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had been relatively local on the
Elm Fork watershed. It caught me
at Mineral Wells attending a Tex-
as Press Association meeting. It
was raining hard as we left Min-
eral Wells at noon, and it contin-
ued to fall all the way into Fort
Worth, where I expected to catch
the night train for Denton. But
the night train' for that night did
not run. The railroad bridge over
Denton Creek had gone out in the
flood. ।
To complicate matters my sister,
Mrs. Janey Rucker. had brought
my son James, then a lad of six.
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rate themselves," she remarked.
"That seems to be the only way
they can save any of the money
they make. But I think it destroys
their glamor to go into business."
She vowed that she would never
become Barbara Nichols, Inc.
' “I'm not interested in money,"
she claimed "I'm only interested
in finding a husbind"
She explained that sho' was all
of 23 and" still hasn't wed. Nor
does she have any prospects.
I feel certain that this situation
will soon be- remedied. Barbara's
assets are too noteworthy to be
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