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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY' 4, 1958
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AFTER THE SOUND AND FURY
Americans In The New Age
Mature Look At Ourselves
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Bows And Arrows
As Big Weapons
WASHINGTON U—That secret
bow and arrow study locked deep
in government mystery proposes
suits of some bow and arrow ex-
periments directed as a sideline
during World War II by a scientist
who was an archery enthusiast.
He gave no details.
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ARE YOU K(DDIN‘?
buy as new car, but second-hand
they sell for more money than any
car selling for more than *413. I
have a few Buicks in stock."
George E. Frits, north side of the
square. (Advertisement*
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By JAMES MARLOW
Associated Press News Analyst
WASHINGTON W—Is he jump-
ing or is he being pushed?
That's the question being asked
about the ambitious Harold Stas-
also warns:
“In the face of the Russian suc-
cesses it behooves us not to lose
our heads in a mad effort to find
thousands of new scientists and
engineers. We do face a serious
emergency... but an exaggerated
emphasis on science will not serve
our nation's best interest.
OTHER PROBLEMS
“For we have countless other
problems which bear on our na-
tional good health and safety as
much as do the production of
rockets and rocket fuels or nu-
clear engines. Mental ills, broken
homes, crime-ridden cities, mis-
guided young people—these are all
problems which must be attacked
by other means than by the strict-
ly scientific."
A general • turned educator.
Mark W. Clark of World War II
fame. now head of The Citadel in
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known to the government. Why
was it necessary to wait for Sput-
nik. .. to arouse the public and,
disconcertingly, the government?
“Must we in a democracy only
be spurred by dramatic events
and neglect to heed or read the
equally significant but less spec-
tacular signs of the trend of
events? The moral of Sputnik may
well be lost in a frenzy of buck-
passing, olutpourings of hindsight
and frantic spending. It occurs to
me that there are a number of
other Sputniks in the making.
HAL BOYLE SAYS
Mounties’ Horses Go Modern,
Have Reflective Hoof Lights
ery gptimistic about
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FEB. 4, 1938
Prompt purchase of tickets to
the annual membership banquet
of the Denton Chamber of Com-
Yesteryear
Looking Baek Through
Record - Chronicle Files
FEB. 4, 1918
A big American Flag, surmount-
ing a 75-foot iron pole, now floats
over the College of Industrial Arts
Campus from sunrise to sunset.
The flag, 15 by 25 feet, was raised,
with appropriate ceremonies Tues-1
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The current flurry of disagreement over zoning in .
the Westway-Fulton-Highway 24 area is regrettable,
just as is any matter of its kind.
. regrettable it is to both sides, the WMtway.....
’ neighborhood controversy does point out a fallacy that
has needed correcting for several years.
Denton's zoning ordinances are about as modern as
a 1924 Rolls-Royce but they don’t operate as smoothly
as most Rolls-Royces of that vintage. In Denton, we
have onlv two types of zoning: business and resi-
dential. That could—and does—mean anything. For
' instance, is a fraternity house or an apartment house
a business or a residence? Is a parking lot a residential
or a business venture even if no charges are involved
for its use? Is a college classroom building a residence
or a business?
And the list of complications that could—and have
—arisen is endless simply because we have failed to
keep pace with zoning ordinances.
What Denton needs is a modernized zoning code,
establishing several types of business and commer-
cial zones. For instance, there should be a zone for
multi-family apartments, another one for single fam-
ily dwellings. In the comerical zones, there should be
separate areas for light and heavy industry, small and
large retail outlets.
Zoning is a headache, but it’s the only sensible way
in which a growing city can guarantee the proper de-
velopment of its growth. And zoning is the only way
property values as a whole can be maintained.
Much of the City Planning Board’s work is taken up
with zoning headaches; it shouldn’t be that way. The
City Planning Board ought to do just what its name
implies: help the policy making branch of the muni-
cipal government carry out and set long-range plans
for everything from utilities to streets to streamlined
governmental operations.
If Denton is granted the federal appropriation for
a master plan, part of the money will go toward study-
ing Denton's zoning ordinances and recommending
improvements on any deficiency found.
There are plenty of deficiencies and it’s time we did
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“Nobody seems to appre-
ciate art around here. I made
some very clever cracks from
the stage, but the audience
knew from nothing. Take it
off,* is all they would shout.
Ugh."
Dorothy Thompson looks at education: “Most Am-
erican parents do not want their children to be edu-
cated. They want them to be trained,for a specific
function. They despise ‘useless’ knowledge. So our
high schools are forced to teach everything under the
sun, typing, home economics, mechanics, parenthood,
and many other things that young people once learned
at home, in specialized schools, or as apprentices. But
a real educational institution is not a job factory...
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Westway Controversy Proves of
Need For Better Zoning Law
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Nathan M. Pusey, president of
Harvard University, credits. Rus-
sia's Sputniks with “waking this
nation to a sense of its responsi-
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• Precision Merchandising
Now is the time for all good men (and women) to
come to the aid of the income tax examiner. It’s time
to start practicing the Arabic numerals— 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
6, 7, 8,9, 0.
Right now, all good citizens are busy accumulating
—and trying to find—the records and memos and can-
celled checks they’re going to need in filling out that
tax form. For most people, this is the most important
document of the year. But with all the fretting* that
goes on over whst to report, mighty little attention is
paid to how to write the figures.
It’s not much wonder that the examiners are prone
to get the idea that the public is trying to confuse them.
Actually, they find far more errors in arithmetic than
in interpretation—more mathematical mistakes even
than efforts to deceive, mislead or just plain cheat.
And the handwriting itself is of prime concern to
the government. The Internal Revenue people have
found that most personal income tax forms are hand-
written, as are almost half of all corporate returns. In
fact, they note an increasing use of handwriting by
businessmen.
Most of the deception in income tax reports is self
deception. Many individuals arent too .sure of their
own writing after it has cooled off—7‛s look like l’s, ,
3‛s like 5’s or 8's, or 6‛s like O's. And when dealing
with the important money involved in the Big Divide
with Uncle Sam, careless calligraphy can be mighty
expensive.
Sloppy figures make plenty of trouble on the job,
in social life and at the bank—and combined with ille-
gible handwriting, cause business losses that run into
millions of dollars a year. Banks, for instance, com-
Bargain Penguins
May Prove More
Than Just Cheap
PORTLAND, Ore. ( - Port-
land's bargain-basement penguins
may not turn out to be much of a
bargain. If they keep dying, Port-
land may have nothing but water
to put in a new 350.000 penguin
pool.
Zoo Director Jack Marks caught
67 penguins in Antarctica last No-
vember. hitching rides both ways
on military plants. The city spent
only $500 on the trip.
Marks had hoped it would be
the first successful transplanting
01 the big Emperor penguins.
Only 17 of the Portland penguins
still are alive. The remainder
were victims of aspergillosis. a
r pore-carried fungus disease of
the lungs.
“Every time one dies it's like
losing kinfolk," Marks said.
"But I’m not a bit sorry we got
the penguins. Their aesthetic val-
ue is very great. I realised we
would lose some but I didn't think
we would lose so many.”
Marks added that “the veterin-
But he came to Washington with
Elsenhower in 1953, first as direc-
tor of mutual security and then
as a specialist on disarmament,
and has been here ever since.
In that time he has butted heads
with two very important men, Vice
President Nixon and Secretary of
State Dulles. In this case two
heads seem to have been better
than one.’
At least Stassen's light began
to dim after his attempt in 1956
Dr. Wallace R. Brode, science
adviser to Secretary of State
meet was urged today by C-C
• Secretary - Manager O. L. Fowler,
• The affair will be held at Lowry
Hall at State College for Women
Monday at 7:30: p.m.
With the addition this semester
of the Holbert twins, Woodrow and
Wilson, to the Teachers College
track team. Coach Choc Sports-
man's freshman squad now has
FEB. 4, 1949
Request for an immediate rate
Increase in the type of service now
offered and approval of a long-
term franchise appeared today to
be possible stumbling blocks in the
way of Denton’s progress toward
an improved telephone service
which seems to be headed for a
showdown within the next 10 days.
A record enrollment for a spring
semester was set Tuesday at
NTSC when registration figures
revealed 4,135 students. The total
represents a 367 student gain over
the previous year's registration fi-
gure.
That beauty queens are getting
taller. Grace Downs, director of
a contest to pick Miss New York
State, found the entrants averaged ,
T feet T. the height of the aver- ~
age doughboy in World War I.
That the traveling salesman
now has to travel farther to make
his sales. A survey showed that
those who journeyy by auto aver-
aged 2,006 miles last June, 2,419
miles last December.
Tht the hand that rocks the
cradle threatens to rule the ballot,
box. American women now out-
vote men. and in India's last elec-
tion nearly half the votes were
That archery as a sport has
grown 500 per cent in America
in the last five years. The nation's
316,000 bow and arrow hunts-
men bagged 7.635 deer in 1957.
That an average of one person
a day gets struck by lightning
in the United States. If he sur-
vives, he never quits bragging.,
That the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police have fitted. red
reflectors to their horses’ hoofs
so that headlights can pick them
out at night.
That some Manhattan kids now
are insisting their parents buy
them two space helmets. The ex-
tra one is for their pet dog.
That Henry Castello, an ex-
machine gunner for the Army who
operates the Press Box Restau-
rant. tells of the golfer who kept
his buddies waiting a half hour on
the greens. The golfer apologize
breathlessly: “Sorry I'm late — I
got married this morning."
That if your youngster objects
to letting you look into his throat,
you can quiet him by holding his
tongue down with a small lolli-
pop instead of a stick or spoon.
I've tried this; it works.
By WILLIAM FERRIS
Associated Press Writer
The United States is undergoing
a revolution in transportation.
It is as significant as the shift
from the canal barge and the lake
steamer to the train, as profound
as the change from the horse and
buggy to the trolley and interur-
ban express. It affects us all.
It is a revolution which will ac-
celerate enormously in the next
few years. It will leave us a dif-
ferent country than we were at
’ the end of World War II.
There are these immediate de-
velopments.
TRAINS DROPPED
Railroads all over the country
are cutting down on passenger
service. Famous-name trains are
being curtailed or consolidated
just as surely as branch line lo-
cals. Says Ben Heineman. board
chairman of the Chicago & North
Western: “Our competitor is not
the bus or the airplane. It is the
private automobile."
Airplane travel has become the
top method of public long-distance
transportation. Yet the airlines
themselves are hard pressed to
make money, wondering how they
can finance the movement into
the jet age.
The intercity bus line is falling
behind in the race to keep up with
airplanes and private automobiles.
As for the smaller urban and
suburban lines—in many a town
the last bus has rolled Into the
garage, the doors have been
locked and the company has gone
out of business. Still more lines
have cut back on service.
The bus lines have folded be-
cause of lack of patronage. The
attitude of Dr. Gerald Timmis, a
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alive."
The veterinarians, though, also
were very optimistic Jan. 4. They
said then they were certain no
more penguins would die. Ten
more have, though.
The big Emperor penguins,
which weigh as much as 95
pounds usually look majestic. But
the 11 remaining here looked like
shabby tramps as a stiff wind
fanned their moulting black and
white feathcri. .
spect for hard work and an under-
standing of each child's intellec-
tual needs, so that each child will
be given opportunity to develop
into the wisest and most respon-
sible person he can possibly be-
come."
Lyndon Johnson, Senate majori-
ty leader, agrees that the most
drastic changes in our national
viewpoint will have to revolve
around education.
“It is not difficult," he said, “to
foresee a future which will de-
mand that the average man have
the same knowledge that is now
possessed only by teachers of
monly maintain what they call "Who Am I?" accounts
in which they carry the deposits of those whose deposit
slips they can't read—until the worried depositor can
prove his own hieroglyphics.
So, tonight perhaps, when the kids get down to
their homework, maybe you’d better join them. 1, 2,
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0.
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day. although its raising .and the-o Secretary of Defense McElroy.
matic transmissions, power steer-
ing. power brakes, greater use of
the V9 engine Cara have grown
more dependable.
As Americana have rushed to
buy cars, the cars themselves
have undergone a transition. They
are longer, wider, sleeker. This is
Detroit stylo and* underneath its
wide acceptance e curious revolt
appears to be growing.
The smaller car—a little less ex-
pensive to buy and considerably
cheaper to operate—is gaining fa-
vor.
Yet the large auto companies
are convinced they are giving the
public what it wants. Numerous
consumer surveys have proved the
appeal of the longer, lower cars.
Most Americans like to roll in a
style to impress other Americans.
special assistant on disarmament
— now reported on his way out.
Administration officials said
during the weekend it is almost
certain that Stassen will resign
to run for the Republican nomi-
nation for governor in Pennsyl-
vania.
Two newspapers went further.
The New York Herald Tribune
quoted a “high source” as saying
Stassen is definitely leaving. The
New York Tinies said Eisenhower
has decided to accept Stassen's
resignation and. if he doesn't get
it. to ask for it,
White House press secretary
James C. Hagerty said he knew
nothing about the stories, “so how
can I comment?"
Stassen, three-time governor of
Minnesota and three-time loser as
a candidate for the Republican
presidential nomination, has no
broad national following.
to have a monopoly on brands, track sextet unique in the
science or education." But Pusey
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World righta reserved.
. resident physician at Harper Hos-
- pltar in Detroit. Is typical: “I
drive 10 miles because I can make
it much faster than commuting on
the Detroit street railway."
THE CAR
Everywhere there is the auto-
mobile.
Three out of every four families
in the United States own a car.
There are 56 million cars on the
road today compared with 26 mil-
lion at the end of World War II.
Twelve out of every hundred fam-
ilies own more than one car, com-
pared with only three such fam-
ilies a decade ago.
Suburban living has increased
the demand. Improved vehicles
have stimulated demand — auto-
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science."
A leading anthropologist, Harry
L. Shapiro of the American Mu-
seum of Natural History, 'thinks
America needs to question far
more than its educational system:
WHY WAIT?
“Long before Sputnik, reports
on Russian progress in scientific
education, on their missile pro-
gram and on their research had
been reported and were well
ar. w. anino aL.. L-. Charleston, 8.C., evaluates the
Wha.. are we doing about them Sputniks as the' greatest p^yehe-
now logical advantage the Russians
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
It is four months since the Rus-
sians shot their first Sputnik into
space—four months of a new age
in history.
A second Soviet satellite has
been joined by America’s first,
and Americans now are assured
that this country's scientists also
have the basic know-how to put
a moon in orbit But the questions
still linger: Why Russia first?
Where did the US. fall down?
What can be done about it?
In the light of a look four
months later, what have been the
most important effects on Amer-
ica of that first electrifying shot?
FIRST RESULT
The initial result was that
Americans, like the rest of the
world, looked up in wonderment.
But then, they looked back down,
at themselves, at their collective
attitudes and scheme of values,
at their science and their learning
and their technology and. what
probably hurt most of all. at their
self-confidence.
Ahd this, agree leaders in gov-
ernment~ science, education and
military affairs, was probably the
most important consequence of the
fact that mankind was now reach-
ing into the outer voids and the
first groping fingers were Rus-
sian.
In the self-questioning that
Sputnik raised on this side of the
Atlantic, one scientist sternly
asks: Why do Americans need a
dramatie -event to wake them up
to their shortcomings?
THE EGGS
But trying to cure those weak-
nesses, warns a prominent educa-
tor, we dare not put all our eggs
in one basket. We need more
scientists and engineers, he says,
but we also need more experts to
deal with social, economic and po-
litical problems.
Rear Adm. Hyman G. Rickover.
like others queried by The Associ-
ated Press, thinks Sputnik has
forced us to change our thinking
drastically.
“It is generally true that people
get what they want," said the ad-
miral, who is chief of the Atomic
Energy Commission's naval reac-
tors branch and assistant chief of
the Bureau of Ships for nuclear
propulsion.
“If we think of education not
as a serious business but as a
convenient place to relegate the
children when the mother and
father are both working, and when
we pay our teachers as second
class citisens, we will get an in-
ferior grade of education...
•’The military is merely the cut-
ting edge of the sword. The heft
of the sword is constituted by our
social institutions, our industry,
our agriculture and all of the
other things which go to make up
the nation. The quality of these
things in turn depends to a great
degree on the quality of our edu-
cation.
LOVE OF LEARNING
“Therefore nothing seems to me
as important as a thorough-going
reform of our educational system.
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In fact, he's almost a politician
without a home. After losing out
on his presidential hopes in 1949,
he moved his residence from
three bow and arrow-type dart
gun weapons.
They are nicknamed “Little
Joe,” “Big Joe” and “Joe Louis,”
and the biggest of them reportedly
can throw a half-pound metal
dart
So reported a staff memoran-
dum for the House Government
I Information subcommittee made
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to keep Nixon from being renom-
inated. He suggested that Gov.
Christian A. Herter of Massachu-
setts would do better on the
ticket with Eisenhower.
have had in many years.
“I feel," he adds. "That Ameri-
ca has the know-how and re-
sources to catch up and get ahead
within a reasonable time, pro-
vided all the essential resources
of the country are mobilized un-
der the most dynamic leadership
in America.. Me have been too
complacent and we have got to
wake up fast...”
BLESSINGS
Dr. Alan T. Waterman, director
of the national science foundation,
sees some ultimate blessings as a
possibility:
“Points we have been trying to
make for years about the need
for increased emphasis on basie
research and on quality of train-
ing of scientists and engineers
have suddenly become national
issues.
“If this interest is sustained,
and followed up by balanced and
well-considered programs... on
the long-term as well as a short-
term basis, then I think we may
be grateful to the Russians for
having called so forcefully to our
attention certain shortcomings. ."
NEW YORK I - Things a cob
umnist might never know if he
didn't open his mail:
That if you are worried about
• the faet your dollar buys less, it
might console you to know that
George Washington had the same
kind of trouble. He lost about
130,000 during the Revolutionary
War through a depreciation of
money.
That the Pacific Ocean is con-
sidered to be the oldest of the
earth's vast bodies of water. And
that fish which live in the deep-
est parts of the ocean are usu-
ally the poorest swimmers.
That the full moon is nine times
as bright as the half moon.
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