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Denton Record . Chronicle
WANT ADS WILL
PARTLY CLOUDY
A Growing Newspaper For A Growing Area
DENTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 24, 1956
54TH YEAR OF DAILY SERVICE— NO. 1»
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300 Hear
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Infant’s Body Found,
Cab Driver Is Charged
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Child Abandoned'
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On Fifth Of July
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See Picture Page 2
"Peaches"' Browning—the over-
headline-making child
WORLD
summer
Farmers Union.
EVENTS
Most comical entry—Claud How-
Best decorated bicycles- Danny attorney general said, "And that
Best saddle horse and rider —1
time" as the goal of the Repub- his formal speech.
SMALLER TURNOUT SEEN SATURDAY
Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower, in roy-
ted abandoning the child after be-
White House.
TOKYO (P—Search planes
ships today found wreckage
Dentn County gave Daniel 3,-
named this year — Adlai E. Stev.
enson
the opening, vote wars.
Will Wilson of Dallas goes into
he declared
level in Denton County today.
President To
Take A Rest
first primary when only 75 per
borough in the first voting .
I
Nixon. Eisenhower pitched his bid
tinuously until election eve.
The President, arrived at near*
hours earlier he had accepted
Home Adminis-
OVER $2,000 NOW
A strike
NEW YORK IP
KING
IN TODAY'S PAPER
.M
Big Dope Haul
cramme
rises Saturday at 1:97 a m.
up mili-
PRIZE
Denton County
and seised 70 pounds of marijuana
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Denton County Voters Are
Complacent About Runoff
’56 Sanger Fair Gets
Off To Flying Start
Adlai Begins
Tour Monday
ANNUAL BACK TO SCHOOL
EDITION SET FOR SUNDAY
Talk By
Hopeful
1,700 Fail To
Solve Puzzle 19
Degrees In
TSCW Rites
i FURNISH A ROOM OR
A ROOMER. Ph. C 2551
and wearing a small moustache.]
was picked up at his ' home in
vision. He said both were armed
and asked him for money.-----
TEACHES9 IS
DEAD AT 46
SHEFFIELD IS
FOUND GUILTY
It was not known whether the then went looking for a child to
child had died or was killed be- kidnap
A Streamlined Report
Of. Important News
TEXAS GOP
HAPPY OVER
PROSPECTS
ception given him and his running
mate, Vice President Richard M.
SEARCH PLANES
FIND WRECKAGE
| but happy, put politics on the shelf
temporarily today and looked for-
PHONE WORKERS
STRIKE LOOMS
votes Miss Campbell is sponsored
by the Sanger Home Demonstra-
tion Club in third place is Miss
by Farmers Union; and Miss Val-
one Brumbaugh, who is sponsored
by Wednesday Study Club. Ballot-
ing will close at 9 p m. Saturday.
WEST READY
ON SUEZ PLAN
LONDON (—A five-nation com-
mittee today charted plans to
and
and
night of the third annual commu-
nity fair last night
The program calls for a direct
payment to the producer of $7.50
per ton for purchase of cotton seed
hulls, peanut hulls, corncobs, sor-
ghum bundles, ensilage or loose or
baled hay.
Applications for the program,
which will provide assistance for
roughage purchase to carry herds
haven't built the schools and pro-
vided the facilities to give the
youth of Texas the opportunities
they deserve,"’he said.
"With our natural resources be-
ing the richest of any state we
should have the best educational.
system in the world. but just look
how little our undergrond wealth
Junior Hudspeth
Best kid pony and rider — Alton
Lynch, Rusty Armstrong and Ron-
nie Cline.
of Pilot Point, and the Bachelor’s
Club of Sanger.
a better fair year after year They ...... ..... ..00.
work at it and they put on a better ard and his treedcpon. Gene Sitz
show each year. ‘ ---- - -
RED GILES
Phon 32. Argyle
SAFEW AY STORES
STRIKE ENDED
DALLAS w-A nine day strike
at Safeway Stores main distribu:
tion warehouse at Garland ended
yesterday with a wage accord with
19 truck repairmen.
the a big sheaf of red roses, as did
Mrs. Pat Nixon.
P-d* * •ud
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honeysuckle vines and leaves to Morris Weinberger, but prepared
I blanket the body, the ransom note in advance and
child on July 5. the day after he took the baby.
' LaMarea, 31, father of two children, was arrested Thurs- §
plazedthe real host to.an expect Johnnie Rivers, Joy Parker and
ea ,U people IOI ine opening - — -
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Others seeking the crown are
Miss Darlene Ramsey, sponsored
storms whipped up the child's parents. Mr. and Mrs I sdsreitnethatirdemdott,
vines and leaves to Morris Weinberger, but Drepared New York apartment Saturday.
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By NORRIS JACKSON
Record-Chronicle Staff Writer
SANGER — There's a reason
why this small community, fourth
largest in Denton County, stage.
nor said he stood for as much
local government as possible "and
that is more than the ‘dollarcrats'
can say.”
Most political observers--
cate a smaller turnout of voters primary, but O Daniel,
Saturday than was shown in the "bed hie "e *
"There is only one peace now.
and that is peace for all time,"1
maximum penalty of death in New: lican ,
York, accepting formally its nomination at purple hat and dress, earned
where the thay"hdbder tS it is not enough to promise "the that won in 1952 against a Demo-
a nap in his carriage young who fight the wars that crslic ticket headed by the same
LaMarca, stocky, dark-haired.'
County once again will be compil-
ed by the Record-Chronicle Staff
for its readers and for the Texas
against the Western Electric Co.,
by 19,000 telephone equipment in-
stallers in 44 states could occur
soon. Joseph Bi er ne, president of
the Communications Workers of
America, said today.
Beirne says « walkout "depends
on the inclination of the company
to reach.an agreement.”
mary continued on a complacent
High year ago ...........
Low year ago ...........
Sun seta today at .7:01
promise to for "* brave and
shining new world ... a world
PARADE PRIZE WINNER
Second place float in the spectacular parade opening the 1956 Sanger Community
Fair was the entry above sponsored by the Methodist Church. First place went to
the high school Future Homemakers of America The fair, which attracted more
than 5,000 people last night, continues through Saturday night. (Record-Chronicle
Staff Photo)
Featured tonight will be a style
show at 8 pm, prsented by the
home demonstration club and the
high school home economics de-
partment. The event will be staged
in the high school auditorium.
DENTON NIGHT
Tonight also will be a special
night for visitors from Denton.
Lewisville and Justin.
Judging of entries gets under
way today for home and varied
arts, agricultural, dairy cattle,
and general exhibits. Saturday's
judging will be for beef cattle,
swine and sheep.
made recommendations of candi-
dates for degrees: the Rev. Ed-
ward H. Campbell, rector of St
David's Episcopal Church, gave
the invocation. and Dr J. Wilgus
Eberly, TSCW music director, was
organist
Denton residents among the 110
students receiving degrees were:
Mrs. Louise Crosby, 913 Emery
Dr, master's degree in business
Mrs. Crosby is- the daughter of
See TSCW. Page 3
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP)—The decomposed body of kid- I
naped Peter Weinberger, with a safety ,pin still intact, was I
found today in roadside shrubbery 51 days after he was
taken from the patio of his Westbury, Long Island, home. |
It was found where FBI agents said Angelo J. LaMarca. 8
a cab driver, told them he had abandoned the month-old )
’ 4
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. W—Adlai
Stevenson stepped up the pace of
his speech writing today in prep-
aration for his departure Monday
on a campaign schedule that will
livestock producers hold their bas- Election Bureau, a statewide or-
ic herds together during the pres- ganization charged with collecting
ent severe drought was put into results from over the state,
elfect today by members of the .
graduates and visitors at the sum-
mer commencement program this
, ta
K!
from only those places where he
has registered.
Sharpen your wits and pencils
and get busy on the Puzae No. 20.
The entries are due by midnight
Tuesday and the answers will be
published next Friday.
See EXPLANATIONS. Page 11
bl
PUZZLE NO. 19
morning.
Dr. Fenton Keyes. TSCW dean.
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Roughage Plan
Starts Today
Roughage purchase assistance
program to help Denton County
the 1,500 residents of the commu- I Tommy McDaniels
nity hitched up their belts and
A 10 cent movie and a big
bottle of pop provided the per-
fect Saturday afternoon? i
SAN FRANCISCO IP—Texas
Republicans expressed belief
today the Republican Nation-
al Convention had given a good
kickoff to their campaign to
put the state in the' isenhow-
er-Nixon column again
John Adams of Flarlingen,
the Texas GOP chairman, said
the state's delegates to the
convention are going home
confident of carrying the stale
again but "not with an idea
that it will be an easy cam-
paign."
ments of 3% years."
It was a gay. colorful conven-
tion Session that stormed appro-
val for Its two nominees. "I like
Ike" balloons floated down from
the ceiling. Eisenhower joined in
bouncing them around as he wait-
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ing frightened away by the pres-' Accepting "humbly but confi- When he arose before the
ence of police and newsmen when dently" command of the GOP’s throng, the 65-year-old Eisenhow-
he showed up at an appointed spot 1956 campaign for national lead- er said he wanted to express his
to pick up 32,000 ransom money, ership. he told cheering delegates I "great satisfaction" that the con-
A ransom note was found on the at last night's windup session of vention had decided to keep intact
the party s centennial convention for this year's race the same team
Sundiy'g paper will be a big one—seven sections
id with a wide variety of news and will feature -
three sections devoted entirely to NTSC, TSCW and
Yarborough, introduced by Tom 1 1 A n •
Laney, deplored what he called I I II K AcAl VA
Texas' low educational rating "We • 1XWV1 v •
President John
"party of the future" in
• Few Sanger residents were stroll ,
ing the fair grounds They were in
booths selling hot dogs and ham
SAN FRANCISCO ( President ed through preliminary cere-
the public schools of the Denton County area.
Get your orders in today or Saturday for extra
copies of this big Back-To-School Special. Send copies
to friends or ex-students. If ordered'in advance, the
price will be only 10 cents.
using as a probe. _ . - ____
Conviction of kidnaping like Eisenhower fixed "peace for ail monies on the platform to begin
first degree murder, carries .a time" as the goal of the Repub- his formal speech.
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iuLmldi
truthfully say." “ . (
Yarboroyshyritized Daniel for
not resigning his seat in the Sen-
ate before running for governor.]
He pointed out that when his op-
ponent was Speaker of the Texas
See YARBOROUGH. Page 1
rested three Nuevo Laredo men
Even with a major address here seen in Saturday’s voting, with _______
‘ * some observers predicting a coun 130 votes in the first primary as
praise the work of Lyndon John-
son and" Sam Rayburn, who he
said did so much to get a Demo-
cratic platform that appealed to
Texans.
"And I'm going to remain loyal
and show my gratitude and sup
port the Democratic candidates in
Nobember,” the former assistant
kk * k
Winners in Thursday evening's
parade were:
Best decorated vehicles—Future
Homemakers of America, First
Methodist Church, and Sanger
Authorities said LaMarca admit- for another four years in
Back-to-school time in Denton and the entire Denton
County area is big news. It involves thousands of per-
sons directly linked with education and sets in motion
machinery valued at millions of dollars.
The Denton Record-Chronicle Sunday will recognize
the thousands of students, teachers and parents who
are directly or indirectly involved in the gigantic
back-to-school movement. The big event will be covered
in pictures and, stories to be published in the Record-
Chronicle’s annual Back-To-School Edition.
agent carried a four-foot slender
pole, which apparently he was
CASHIER HELD
RANK ROBBED
RIO VISTA. Tex. in—Two ban
dits kidnaped the vice president
and cashier of the First State
bank last night, forced him to
case the
the polls. . * county Farmers 1
Reduced voting with absentee tration committee,
ballots, down 90 per cent from the
first primary, also points o a re-
Beaming at the thunderous re- PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. • —,
“ President Eisenhower, a bit tired
for re-election primarily on his ward to whacking a few balls at
..... ‘ this golfers' paradise on the Pa-
cific Ocean
He said thermonuclear war had
become "not just tragic, but pre-
posterous ”
"With such. weapons," he said,
“there can be no victory for any-
one Plainly. the objective now
must be to see that such a war
does not occur at all.”
there will be "peace in our time." man the GOP's opposition has
A. Guinn told
in which back-breaking toil and -----
long hours will not be necessary ” by Monterey by special train last
1 Nixon told the delegates shortly night from San Francisco A few
before in accepting his second- hours earlier he had accepted
place nomination that "we have nomination for a second term at
peace in the world today, but we the closing session of the Repub-
are not going to rest on our laurels Mean National Convention.
Election judges at Denton
Candy's 28 voting precincts
can be of great help In provid-
tag early tabulation at voting
Saturday by ealling results of
their precinct as early as pos-
sible following the close of
the polls. Call Central 2551,
celleet,--------—------------
never regained consciousness
and died yesterday in a hospital.
' AP Wirephoto •
hand Egypt's President Nasser a
West-sponsored proposal for inter-
national control of the Sues Canal.
But the French stepped
tary preparations to i
Arab leader says no
Daniel piled bp a 500-vote mar- the run-off voting with a three
indi- gin over Yarborough in the first • to-one margin over Tom Moore in
~ who has the battle for Attorney General.
| asked his supporters to cast their receiving 5,504 votes to Moore's :
- . ballots for Yarborough Saturday 1,945 in the first primary.
—1*« only 300 votes behind Yar Alex Dickie Sr., chairman of
I ty majority for the Austin attor- compared to 2.652 for Yarborough
ney, reversing Daniel's lead in and 2,427 for O’Daniel.
duced vote tomorrow, observers
report.
County residents will vote on
only two offices, that of governor
and attorney general.
Results of the alliance between
former Governor W. Lee O'Daniel
and Yarborough remains to be
The Pot-O-Gold puttie tripped
contestants again this week and
the attractive prize now glitters
more brightly. About 1,700 -con-
testants failed to get the correct
combinations.
The prise money for Puzzle No.
20 has now reached 9400 plus mer- .
chandise and money worth $1,-
639.25. The basic prize for any win-
ner will be 1200, plus an additional
$100 if he is a regular subscriber
and another $100 if he has secured
a new subscriber since the Pot-O-
Gold contest has been underway.
The merchandise and cash total- '
ing $1,639.25 is available to any
winner who has registered in the
stores offering the prises during
the week just prior to his winning.
A winner will receive the prizes
Yarborough Blasts
Texas ’Low-Rated'
Educational Setup
By JOE ORVENPORr
Record-Chronicle Staff Writer
"I'm not running against any-
body but am running for some-
thing a government for you.”
Ralph Yarborough told an esti-
mated 300 persons Thursday aft-
ernoon on the court house lawn
as the candidate for governor be-
gan wrapping up his campaign
which will end tonight with a TV
program
With his speech being accented
by audience remarks of "tell'em |
Ralph,” the candidate for gover-
cent of the county's eligible voters
cast their ballots. That percen-
tage. however, set a new record
for first primary balloting, with
more than 9,300 persons going to
I ‘ d
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Page
Church News .......... 6
Clasified ...................10
Pot-O-Gold ... .13
Sports -................... 9
TV Log ............. 3
Women’s News ............9
day by FBI agents and*--.------t.-----— j
Nassau County police and . Plainview early yesterday by an
charged with kidnaping. Fi- FBI agent and a Nassau County
' nancial difficulties apparent- policeman. *
ly caused his act. He had Since the kidnaping. thousands
asked $2,000 ransom. of handwriting specimens were
More than 50 Nassau County scrutinized from public records
police and FBI agents moved on and compared with the ransom
the abandonment spot at 9:15 am. note and other letters received by
It was ‘Situated alongside a cut- the Weinbergers. It was not dis-
off road from Northern Slate closed how, and from what source.
Parkway leading to Plainview authorities picked up the writ-
where LaMarca lives. It is only ing clue which led them to La-
8 miles east of the Weinberger Marca.
home. Police said the kidnaping ]
Forming a line an arm's length seemed to have been a one - man
apart, the searchers moved slowly job. LaMarca’s only previous ar-
through the underbrush Shortly rest record was on a bootlegging
run-off voting. declaring this year
to be one of the most important
for Democrats in many years.
Reairtti of the voting in Denton‘S
LAREDO M-Customs agents ing Belter
and Corpus Christi detectives ar- — “
the county Democratic Executive
committee, earlier this week ex-
pressed a desire for all qualified
voters to cast their ballots in the
alter 10:30 am. the body was charge for which he was given a
found. suspended sentence last year.
puppy Asst. Chief Inspector James LaMarca moved to Plainview
_ ._____ _________ greater Farrell said the baby had not been four months ago from another sec- (
numbers of our citizens, TSCW s buried. He apparently had been tion of Long Island, weight
....... * placed in the underbrush. then It was said he does not know - • ■
mazmuzun: saz ”
McDaniels. Jackie Gheene and is more than some candidates can
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$400 In Cash, Over #1,600 In Merchandise Prizes For New Poi-O-Gold Contest-
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Barnett Trial
In Fourth Day
TYLER — FBI gent Gasdon
Thompson told today of tracing
31 duplicate deposit slips to the
Barnett account in the defunct
Lewisville First National Bank.
Joseph Barnett, charged on 19
counts with willful misappropria-
tion of bank funds, was on trial
for the fourth day.
Thompson used government ex-
hibits to trace the duplicates to
the bank ledger. Each deposit slip
was shown as being deposited in
Barnett's account
Paul Barfknecht, assistant cash-
ier of the bank, testified Thurs-
day he knew Cashier Jack Wolters
was making entries in wrong ac-
counts.
open a bank safe, and fled with
about $254 in change JoAnn Dyer. with 2.425. who is a
Doyle Ball, the victim, said two candidate of the Lions < lub ~
came to his Central Texas home
last night as he sat watching tele
Facing the 1962 landslide team
of Eisenhower and Nixon again,
he has told friends that his hopes
for victory lie in personal con-
tacts with thousands of voters in
every crucial state.
The - Democratic presidential
nominee got an idea of what he
is up against last night as he
watched a telecast of President
Eisenhower's acceptance speech
at the Republican National Con-
vention. But he had no comment
on his rival's talk before retiring
at his sheep-farm home near here.
From the opening gun of a spec
tacular parade, excelled by none
anywhere in the county anytime.
" y,
- P iua
REMEMBER WHEN -
and be satisfied with the achieve- A police-estimated crowd of 1
LUBBOCK I-Brady, real es-
tate operator B. R. Sheffield was
convicted yesterday of forgery in
a Veterans Land Program deal.
His punishment was fixed at 10
years.
Sheffield opened his mouth
slightly when the verdict was read
and pulled hard on a cigarette
when the sentence was recom-
mended.
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The nation faces no greater need
helps us and its because it is lit- t in this perilous era. than the
“datrtfrrugnvernortsnid out to in greater volume for '
i •
him on the road almost can
two empty life rafts presumed to and there were religious exhibits,
be from a U.S. Navy patrol plane all welded together in a greatly Eve w.. . -----------
which disappeared after radioing varied spectacle. ■ , Thursday by Gubernatorial Candi-
it was being attacked off the Red pw. App. 1 date Ralph Yarborough of Austin.
China coast, ' _ .TO CROWN Ml EEN interest in Saturday's second pci-1
Continuing for two more nights. - -1
* * ".° _ the fair will be climaxed with
coronation of a Fair Queen at 9
p.m. Saturday. Balloting is close
among three contenders, with
Miss Paula Harborson, sponsored
by Fire Department, leading Miss
Nancy Campbell 2.544 to 2.541
burgers. operating doll rack, and
dunking boards, and doing the
trillion other chore, necessary for
a growing fair.
A mile-long parade led by Den
ton motorcycle policemen and
Sheriff Wylie Barnes, featured
horsemen and pretty girls, gaily
deeorated floats and a treed coon.
There were commercial entries
through December 31, may be
made with the county FHA com
mittee through December 3. Rudolf
Schluter of Argyle, chairman, said.
The county committee will de-
termine eligiblilty of each produc-
er as they have in the present
grain feed program. Eligibility to
particpate in the roughage section
will be the same as for the older
grain assistance plan, the commit-
toe said.------------------------
The county committee will Issue
certificates — actually negotiable
checks—to the producer, who will
use those certificates for part pay-
ment for the roughage. The rough-
age may be purchased from any
See ROUGHAGE. Page 3
fore he was abandoned. _ --
“Even if the child was alive
zmaIKE IS HUMBLE
Gulottafki,
““■“-“BUT CONFIDENT
12 Pages PRICE; FIVE CENTS
5,000 persons was on hand to greet
him and Mrs. Eisenhower as they
HIM AND Mrs. Eisenhower as they
stepped from their private car
here.
Mayor Dan Searle, who served
under Eisenhower in Africa as a
lieutenant colonel in World War
II, was on hand. He asked Eisen-
hower about his golf game. The
President—back at it only a few
weeks since his June 9 abdominal
operation—laughed and remarked,
"These days any time I make a
95 I’m really happy.” I
The President and his party
were driven immediately to the
swanky Cypress Point Chib, where
he will vacation three or four days
SB' a guest of the members.
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« WEATHER
WEATHER
TEMPERATURES
DENTON AND VICINITY: Clear
to partly cloudy and hot through
Saturday.
(Experiment Sttion Report) ■
High Thursday .......... 98
Low this morning.......... 64
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