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Denton Recor^Chronicle
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FAIR AND HOT
A Growing Newspaper For A Growing Area
DENTON, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 15, 1555
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WORLD
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were a
Nixon was “perfectly acceptable'
Sidestep
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Solons Nominated
Court Decision
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FROWN ON CITY PLANS
Mothers Want Guarantee
Of Trade Square Cleanup
right
WEATHER
the canal
AUSTIN (‘- Texas reservoirs
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DAMS LEAD IN
SURFACE WATER
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from the square, and
Ike, Dewey
Slate Talk
PLANET VENUS
NOISES HEARD
BY US. PROF
SEN. LYNDON JOHNSON
Holding Texas Delegates
High Winds,
Rain Flirt
words
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Street
t they
Busy Session
Held By City
Commission
Mrs McDonald pointed out that
one of her committee's biggest ob-
jections was to the barn adjacent
to the Trade Square. The barn,
owned by Mark Hannah, was the
cause of the odors that assail the
school all day, she charged.
Mayor Jack Bryson said that
Hannah had agreed to a meeting
with the commission at 3 p.m. to-
day to see about tearing down the
barn and leasing the land to the
Summer evenings were cool
enough for lawn parties?
change when Harold E. Stassen
changz when Harold E. Stassen
launched a campaign last month
to dump Nixon from the Republi-
can ticket in favor of Gov. Chris-
tian A. Herter of Massachusetts.
With County
Isolated thundershowers accom-
panied by occasionally high winds
brought relief from the heat and
caused some damage in several
who pay their utility biMs
10 days and a short discus
the budget.
The unexpected items
Defense Chief
Says U.S. Enemy
Would Be Beaten
NOW READ THU . . .
If you are in need of good used
furniture, sporting goods, or
any miscellaneous items, the
place to find them is in the
Want Ads.
But—if they are not listed in
.WANT DS WILL .
FURNISH A ROOM OR
A BOOMER. Ph. C 2551
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were appointed
Chairman W. F.
he said,
i pretty bad
er Hank Fort sang a song in his
honor.
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shape," he concluded.
“There has been a lot of crit-
icism about the city's saying the
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whether the court ruling would be
mentioned.
Early today the platform draft-
ers voted 12-5 for the specific
Civil Rights plank they have ham-
mered out in hearings. It was de
scribed by most of them as mod-
erate enough to avoid a serious
party fight.
It was accepted by the 17-dele-
gate drafting group with the five
Southerner members casting what
was described as “a token protest
for the record.”
Informed sources said the pro-
posed plank refers to the Supreme
Court in general terms but avoid
mention of its decision ordering an
end to racial segregation in the
public schools.
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if the city police would patrol it
during echool hours.
Police Chief Glen Lanford point-
ed out that if the squdre were
converted to a parking lot with
meters, it would be patrolled every
30 minutes.
plan to
(Record-
DENTON AND VICINITY: Clear
to partly cloudy with only a few
isolated afternoon and evening
should express—in so mi
‘ ‘ ‘ approval of
54TH YEAR OF DAILY SERVICE— NO. 11
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Another section dealing specif-
ically with civil rights was due to
be handed out shortly.
It was in this plank that friends
and fees of the Supreme Court
decision carried out their battle
tele Want Ade.
This advertiser found just what
he needed and at a bargain:
WANT TO RUY UMd. elMB,
She said, however, that the park-
ing lot idea “might be acceptable"
subjected the children to eights
of "drunkenness, carousing, pro-
fanity, obscenities, gambling and
took a sharp drop,
"We’re just in
are continuing to L—g
the surface water in the state but
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LONDON U—Pakistan’s foreign
minister said today President
Nasser of Egypt told him he would
agree to maritime nations advising
in Sues Canal operations but in-
up the bad elements?” a
lan in the audience asked.
ed showers were forecast for to-
day, bringing some hope that the
fantastic heat wave might be
broken, at least temporarily.
Before the wind-laden clouds
dumped their showers on widely
separated areas of the county, the
mercury rose to a sizzling IM de-
grees at midafternoon Tuesday. It
marked the 21st consecutive day
of temperatures 100 degrees or
higher and it was the 44th day the
mercury has reached the century
mark or above during the summer.
Wind damage was reported in
the Justin area, where as much as
one inch of rain was reported.
Wind damaged a shed and blew
down power lines at the Mc-Pher-
son dairy farm southeast of Jus-
tin. Rainfall totaled approximately
one inch on the McPherson farm
and on the farms of Howard Fos-
ter and Fred Smith. Several other
reports were received of light
damage to outbuildings.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. • - Ar-
kansas voters nominated Reps.
W. F. Norrell of MonticeUo and
Brooks Hays of Little Rock for
new terms in the House in the
only congressional contests- in
Tuesday's Democratic preferen-
tial primary.
Water Shortage
At Crisis Stage
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The petitions also described the
square as a health menace.
“Your plans as they now stand
are entirely unacceptable,” Mrs.
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tribunal's action.
The draft made public today
was that of the “Human Welfare"
section at the platform.
It included references to such
things as social security, jobless
insurthice, public assistance and
sisted "it is the sovereign
of Egypt to run the canal.”
Foreign Minister Hamidul Haq
Chowdry, arriving for the Suez
Canal conference from talks with
Nasser, said the Egyptian presi-
dent is ready to enter into a
covenant with all nations who
signed the 1888 conventions guar-
anteeing freedom of navigation in
capTtmemEsanonEport)
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Stevenson
CHICAGO (AP)—Adlai E.
Stevenson took a long stride
today toward clinching anoth-
er chance to run against
President Eisenhower by
racking up 31 1/2 of Mich-
igan’s 44 Democratic presi-
dential nominating votes.
Stevenson's forces broke through
the ranks of favorite son candi-
dates in the party’s convention
when Gov. G. Mennen Williams
threw his support behind the 1952
nominee at a Michigan delegation
caucus.
The delegation decided to give
31% votes to Stevenson, 11 to Gov.
Averell Harriman of New York
and a half to Sen. Stuart Syming-
ton of Missouri. One vote re-
mained uncommitted.
UNANIMOUS VOTE
Technically the group is bound
by its state convention to vote for
Williams on the first ballot. How-
ever, the governor said this in-
struction may be waived. He said
he would urge a unanimous dele-
gation vote for Stevenson.
To this spurt, Stevenson’s forces
expected to add later in the day
majority support from New Jer-
sey's 36-vote group. State leaders
predicted Gov. Robert B. Meyner
City commissioners, meeting in
the City Hall Auditorium because
of the large number of people with
commission business, Tuesday
night took up six controversial
matters—two of them unexpected.
Included among the expected
were the passing of an ordinance
prohibiting the keeping of rabbits
and chickens within 200 feet of an
occupied dwelling, the problem of
extension of city utilities to newly-
developed areas. the passing of an
ordinance doing away with the 10
per cent discount given to people
Work is progressing steadily on Denton’s modernistic new high
scheduled for completion by this time next year. Located on Ful
present Bronco Stadium, the new school is the key element in the master
relieve crowded conditions in the entire Denton Independent School District.
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• By JIM NEAL
Record-Chronicle Staff Writer
"We’ve got to go on some kind of water rationing pro-
gram today or we’ll be out of water tonight."
These words came from Water Production Superinten-
dent W. T. Elliott when he told Mayor Jack Bryson and
Acting City Engineer Robert Courtney of the city’s dan-
gerously low water reserve-—despite the regular rationing
day's pumpage Tuesday. (
Elliott said that two city wells were "darn near dry."
City Reported
$184,901 in Red
The City of Denton overdrafts
now total $184,901.52.
Of the four major funds. only
the electric system is in the
black. It showed a total of $35,-
733.17 on the profit side of the
ledger.__________
In the red were the general
fund by $135,097.22, the water and
sewer fund by 379.787.02, and the
working capital fund by $5,770.45.
work with Mrs. McDonald in mak-
ing the requested change in the
plane
Mrs. McDonald, however, said
that even with the piano change,
the P-TA would demand a guaran-
tee from the city of sanitary facul-
ties to get rid of flies. and a police
patrol to eventually shove the
undesirable element entirely off
the square.”
thundershowers this afternoon,
‘ ‘"‘and Thursday. Little
Commission
boks Jr.’to
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STEVENSON GETS
NEW JERSEY VOTE
CHICAGO New Jersey today
threw its 36 Democratic national
convention votes to Adlai Steven-
son.
Gov. Robert B. Meyner An-
nounced the action after a caucus
of the state's 1M delegates and
alternates.
Stevenson previously had been
credited with 6% votes, in an Asso-
ciated Press poll of the delega-
tion
The poll gave Averell Harriman
8 votes.
Stevenson himself appeared at
the New Jersey caucus today and
told the delegates he was "very
happy.”
to him. he has stopped short of
actual endorsement of him. He
said the GOP National Convention
starting in San Francisco Monday
should be "open” with the dele-
gates free to choose a vice presi-
dential candidate.
Nixon and Dewey met in Wash-
ington last Thursday evening for
a long dinner conference. Also
present was Nixon’s good friend,
Dep. Atty. Gen. William P. Rog-
ers.
All three insisted the meeting
had no political significance, but
it is regarded as almost certain
that the Stassen move to ditch
Nixon was discussed.
Hell hath no fury like that of the
Lee School Parent-Teachers Asso-
ciation representatives concerned
with the "complete dissolution" of
the Trade Square.
So the city commissioners found
out in their Tuesday night meet-
ing. when Mrs. Marvin T McDon-
ald, chairman of the P-TA Trade
Square committee. Mid the com-
mission's plans for the square
were unacceptable.
“After looking over your plans
to convert part of the Trade Square
to a parking lot, still with a place
for the undesirable element, we
petition, signed by a number of
Negro citizens of Denton, request-
ing a Negro policeman for their
area, and two requests for the
sale of water outside the city
limits.
In the first item, the commission-
ers instructed City Attorney Rog-
ers Teel to prepare an ordinance
to prohibit rabbits or poultry from
being raised for hobby or profit
within a 200-foot area in which is
included any occupied dwelling.
RAISERS GIVEN TIME
Rabbit and poultry raisers will,
however, be given until Jan. 1.
1957 to get rid of their stock.
After some discussion of the sec-
ond matter, it was decided to call
a special meeting Thursday night
at 7:30 p.m. to try to settle the
problem of who pays for the ex-
tension of city utilities—the city or
the developers.
Two motions for ordinances were
passed — one calling for the city
to give a payback plan to the de-
velopers and the other calling for
the developers to pay their own
coots, of extension. Both ordinanc-
es will be drawn up by Teel, and
although Commission Chairman W.
F. Brooks Jr. would not promise
See CITY, Page 8
called for converting the square
to a park for children, a parking
lot or a post office site.
The petitions also charged that
people who lounge on the Trade
Square were a bad influence on
the children of the school, locted
would announce he is for Steven-
son and eliminate himself as a
possible favorite son aspirant.
Behind that might come an ef-
fort to bring Tennessee's 32-vote
delegation into line quickly for
Stevenson. The state's vote now is
pledged to Gov. Frank G. Clem-
ent. convention keynoter who is
angling for second place on the
ticket
While they had no commitments,
the Stvenson forces had the pub-
lic word of Gov. Frank J Lausche,
the favorite son of Ohio’s 58-vote
delegation, that he is not support-
ing Harriman for the nomination.
Undecided Wisconsin gave Stev-
WISCONSIN EDGE
enson a 4-2 edge qver Harriman
in a poll of its 28-vote delegation.
George Rock, head of the Colo-
rado delegation, indicated he may
announce all of the state's 30 votes
for Stevenson and let Harriman
supporters in the group challenge
him on the convention floor
The Associated Press tabulation
of first ballot choices publicly
avowed gave Stevenson 572%
votes to 232% for Harriman. Other
See ADLAI, Page 2
streams of topflight convention
figures.
Among them Tuesday were
Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Min-
nesota, Gov. William Marland of
West Virginia, Sen. John Stennis
of Mississippi, Rep. Carl Albert of
Oklahoma, Sen. Richard Russell
of Georgia, Sen. Clinton Anderson
of New Mexico, Rep. Wright Pat-
man of Texas and Thomas Cor-
coran, attorney and well-known
Washington figure in New Deal
days. > .
Johnson insisted that these talks
are concerned chiefly with party
policy—the kind of talks he would
have with colleagues as Senate
majority leader.
He said there was "no mystery"
about them, and that no political
deals were being made bearing on
the presidential nomination.
Johnson and Rayburn went to
the party given Tuesday night by
Perle Mesta, famed Washington
hostess. Rayburn and Johnson,
with his wife, arrived about an
hour after the convention adjourn-
ed at 10:30 p.m.
were down 30 per cent as com-
pared to the same month in 1955,
the State Water Board said Tues-
day. ....
. 30 KATY FREIGHT
CARS DERAILED
DENISON, Tex., m—About 30
crs at a Missouri-Kansas-Texas
frejght train were derailed 14
miles southwest of Denison Tues-
day night__
Carrier Air Conditloning.
cam Red Gien, Argyle as
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CHICAGO (AP)—Sen. Lyn-
don B. Johnson kept the im-
portant 56-vote Texas delega-
tion in his own deep freeze
today as the critical hour of
balloting on the presidential
nomination neared.
Tuesday night Johnson called in
reporters to say that rumors of his
imminent withdrawal were "base-
less” and "panicky.”
The reports were that backers
of Adlai Stevenson were stepping
up their pressure on Johnson, and
also .that some Southerners were
urging him to say soon what his
plans are beyond being a favorite
son.
Of the Stevenson pressure report,
Johnson first said:
“You will always find a lot of
paniky folks trying to Blitz things
in the hours just before balloting
begins on the nomination.”
Later he added: "The Steven-
son people naturally are going to
do everything possible to blitz
their campaign through to a first
ballot victory.”
PRESSURE DENIED
Aho in regard to reported Steve-
son pressure, the Senate majority
leader said:
"If he has brought any pressure,
it hasn’t reached me. I’m used to
pressure and I know how to handle
it.”
Johnson said again—as he has
several times lately—that the most
important thing now before the
convention is to write a platform
that the party can use to win. Next,
he /said. comes the selection of
thel ticket.
Ahother Texan touched off a
noiy demonstration at Conven-
Jjcm Hall Tuesday night for Speaker
Sam Rayburn, who got an ovation
as he was inducted as permanent
chairman.
A parade led by John Connally,
delegation vice chairman carrying
the Texas standard, was joined by
many other states as the band
played "Dixie" "and "The Eyes
of Texas Are Upon You.”
Raybum's acceptance speech
hit hard and directly at President
Eisenhower and the Republican
administration. He predicted that
the Democrats will stampede
every precinct in November—pre-
sumably including Texas—-which
went for Eisenhower in 1952. Ray-
bum managed the Stevenson cam-
paign in Texas.
SEES LEADERS
Johnson continued seeing
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toaa,
2ud
Light Co. transformer. The heavi-
est showers skirted Justin and
played hop-scotch around Argyle.
A heavy shower was reported
about two miles southeast of Ar-
gyle. a barn was destroyed and
trees were blown down.
Many other sections of the coun-
ty reported light but widely scat-
tered showers. Some sections of
Denton were cooled by brief show-
ers. while only light sprinkles were
reported elsewhere. Not even a
trace of moisture was recorded at
the Denton Agriculture Experi-
ment Station. In fact, the rain
gauge at the station has been bone-
dry during the entire month.
tabling 105 names, to add to the _______
other petitions with 013 names. ' “But would you issue orders to
making a total of 1,117 names. At ‘
the same time she read the last
teFestbwnen"washhngtonntongoiJit- Denton County areas' late Tuesday
Justin was without power for a
Although Eisenhower has said few minutes when lightning appar-
iven ... ently struck a Texas Power &
won't be any dust. We do not ac-
cept these plans at all," Mr*. Mc-
Donald repeated.
She also presented the commis-
sion with two more petitions, con
CHICAGO Uh—The proposed
education plank of the Democratic
platform made public today
■kipped any mention of the Su-
preme Court desegregation deci-
sion but said:
“Every American child, irre-
spective of race or national origin,
economic status or place of resi-
dence. has full right under the law
and the Constitution, without dis-
crimination, to every educational
opportunity to develop his poten-
tialities.
By leaving out any reference to
the 1954 Supreme Court decision
outlawing racial segregation in
the nation’* public schools, the
Democratic National Convention
platform drafters were making a
bid for-Southern support at the
risk of a floor fight by Northern
elements which wanted a specific
mention of the decree.
Both front - running Adla E.
Stevenson and his most serious
contender, Averell Harriman,
have said they felt the platform
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Today’s Demo
Parley Menu
CHICAGO UHere is th* pro-
gram for the Democratic National
Convention session today and to-
morrow:
Wednesday —
Opens at a p.m. EST, with in-
vocation. "Star Spangled Banner.”
Report of Resolutions and Plat-
form Committee — House Demo-
cratic Leader John W. McCor-
mack of Massachusetts, chair-
man.
Addressee—Sen Robert S. Kerr
of Oklahoma and Rep. William L
Dawson of Illinois.
Thursday —
Afternoon session opens 18 noon
with invocation, "Star Spangled
Banner.”
Roll call of states to nominate
candidates for the presidential
nomination.
Night session opens 8 p.m. with
invocation. "Star Spangled Ban-
ner."
Balloting on candidates for pres-
idential nomination.
He Mid the city well on*
the Trade Square could only
be run for three hours and
had to be shut off for six
hours, and that the well in
the northeast part of Denton
was “failing rapidly."
Elliott Mid Denton's need was
caused by lack of water in the
ground. He said the wells were
pumping practically all of the
water out of the ground. "The
yield from the wells is declining
steadily," he said.
“At 7 am. this morning we had
53 feet of water in the McKenna ,
Park tank,” he said. "Monday ,
morning, a non-rationing day. we .
used 66 feet from the tank—we .
went down to less than five feet
that day.
"With only 58 feet now, we sure 1
can’t use any M feet today,” he
Mid.'
At noon today thre was only ,
40 feet of water in the McKenna
Park tank — a difference of 13
foot in five hours.
VOLUNTARY RATIONING ।
Calling for voluntav water ra-
tioning for the third time within I
the two-month period of Denton’s I
water shortage, Bryson said. "The
water situation here is critical. I
We're going to have to ask every-
one not to water lawns or shrubs,
and not to wash cars.
"We’re still hoping we won't
have to go on rationing like they
have in Sherman." Bryson said.
"There, the people are allowed to
water only three hours a day
three days a week — and the 1
city's still in trouble,” he added.
“In the past three weeks,” El-
liott said, "we’ve lost about 400,-
000 gallons a day in water produc-
tion. And Thursday is another non-
rationing day.
"The last non-rationing day,
Monday.‘we lost water at an av-
erage of about four feet an hour
from the McKenna Park tank. We
lost water then at about three and
a half feet between 7 a.m. and I
p.m. After 5 p.m., the water level
HOUSTON UR - Dr. John
Kraus of Ohio State Universi-
ty, who says he has picked up
radio signals from the planet
Venus, said Tuesday they
probably came from an atmos-
pheric disturbance similar to
thunderstorms,
Kraus, an electronic engineer
and astronomer, grinned aside
queries as to whether the sig-
nals were sent by intelligent
beings.
They may be related to some
type of lightning discharge but
the origin is not known."
Kraus said. However, he add-
ed, "it is probably some at-
mospheric disturbance similar
to thunderstorms on earth."
Mrs. McDonald said that with
certain changes, the half parking
lot, half Trade Square idea might
be acceptable. Lanford. Acting
City Engineer Robert Courtney
and Commissioner Charles Floyd
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find the plant are not what we
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you change the square like these “
plana call for, will be to give that
element a nice place where there
before the platform hearings.
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change in temperature.
EAST AND WEST TEXAS: Partly
cloudy, some isolated thunder-
showers. Little . temperature
change.
WASHINGTON » - President
Eisenhower arranged to talk pol-
itics with Thomas E. Dewey to-
day amid speculation they may
discuss the controversy over pick-
ing a GOP vice presidential can-
didate.
Dewey, former governor of New
York, is on record as favoring a
second term for Richard M. Nix-
on. Dewey’s position did not
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CROSS BURNED AT
IKE BIRTHPLACE
DENISON. Tex Un—A burning
ross. traditionally the symbol of
Lhe Ku Klux Klan, was found on
the edge of the lawn of th« Presi-
dent Eisenhower birthplace here
last night.
Police Chief Paul Borum dis
missed the incident as the work
of a crank
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HITLER FOREIGN
MINISTER DIES
STUTTGART, Germany w -
Baron Konstantin von Neurath,
83, Hitler s foreign minister for
a time and “protector” of oc-
cupied Czechoslovakia, died Tues-
day, his family announced today,
day. ....
NOTARY TESTIFIES
IN LAND TRIAL
LUBBOCK un — Miss Doris
Sayles, notary public of Big
spring. formerly of Brady, be-
came the fourth state witness to
he presented in the B. R. Sheffield
veterans land case trial as she
testified Tuesday
Miu Sayles testified that she
notarised numerous veterans’ ap-
plications for land at the request
at Sheffield when the veterans
themselves were not present.
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NASSER CLAIMED
READY TO AGREE
DALLAS, Tex. UB—Secretary of
Defense Charles E. Wilson said
today he was confident the United
States has “the weapons snd the
military power to inflict a disas-
trous defeat on any enemy.”
Wilson said, however, in a
speech prepared for delivery that
military men have differences of
opinion on how to keep U. S
defenses secure.
He spoke before the 57th En-
campment of the Veterans of For-
eign Wars. Tuesday night he stood
in the reviewing stand as the
VFW parade glittered and blared
its way through Dallas. Police es-
timated that 100,000 persons
watched the spectacle.
Some 10,000 persons took part.
Bands, drill teams and high step-
ping majorettes strutted down the
streets while a tour-plane flight of
FOO Shooting Star jets streaked
overhead. Close behind came a
flight of giant B47 and BM bomb-
Wilson said he felt that a sound
defense required a proper bal-
ance.
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