Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 249, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 25, 1958 Page: 5 of 43
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1,600 miles away . . . Harold Stas-
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MATHEMATICIAN PARRISH
Less Memory Work
To Proble
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i in studying poems and stories by
' famous authors, they looked for
| descriptive phrases. The children
realized a cuten kitten doesn't, say
much — but a fluffy ball of fur
writing. "We suggested the chil-
dren listen to the rhythm in things
about them, such as In lumping
ter of attention in the country, an-
nounced that he has no intention
of. becoming dictator, but is ready
to "lead the country out of chaos."
His announcement eased no fears
since he made it clear if he be-
comes leader he doesn’t want any
many major pieces of legislation
in such a short time. .
The bills have ranged from low-
ering income taxes to extending
the Wool Act to suggesting a fed-
eral loan fund for college students.
None of his major bills has pass-
ed; some are still in committees,
a part of the long involvment of
all proposed legislation.
the average,of once a week. The
writing was begun with an ex-
tremely simple form — a story
about someone the children knew
well. It was suggested that it was
to be a picture made with words.
In writing book reviews, the chil-
dren have learned to bring to life
the book characters, to find an in-
teresting phase of the story, lead-
ing up to the exciting part—but
The newly appointed director of
NTSC's mathematics department
thinks the impact of Sputnik has
been a good thing for the scientific
future of America. —
That's what Dr. Herbert Par-
By OLIN CHISM
Record-hronicie Staff Writer
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not giving away the secret. And
most of the children had never be-
fore attempted to write a poem be
fore the study of poetry. Mood set-
ting was stressed in poetry writ-
ing more than in other forms of
Henderson County. He now
Austin home.
WEST POINT
His education includes a
wart Oman *
Tom Gentry and the courthouse clock ‘works*
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Technology while serving as a
radar officer in the Navy during
World War II. He is now a lieu-
tenant commander in the, local
Naval Reserve unit on the NTSC
from among the works of the eight-
year . old children.
The stories, poems and book re-
views submitted are read and the
class selects the stories they like
best. Names of the writers are not
revealed at the time of reading so
the merits of each entry can be
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RECORD-CHRONICLE TO
PUBLISH KIDS’ WORKS
The Record-Chronicle, beginning Jude IS. plans to publish some
of the literary works of elementary school children.
Mrs. Hood Barlow's third graders, who will be in school for six
weeks this summer, will act as the editing group.
Children from other schools who would like to attend the weekly
sessions, beginning June 10, and scheduled every Tuesday for six
weeks, have been invited to participate. Exact time will be an-
nounced later.
Published material will be chosen on the basis of originality,
quality of writing and amount of space available.
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. Many Dentonites commute many
miles each day to work in major
industries in the North Texas area.
This process also works in reverse.
Take, for instance, Charles Ray
Ellis, 20. who's working toward a
degree in mathematics at NTSC.
He’s one of 124 Temco Aircraft
Corp.'s staff of engineers who are
enrolled in 54 different courses at
several colleges in the North Tex-
as area, proving that “school
days" are never quite over.
And Ellis travels 120 miles a
day to prove it.
Under arrangement with the
corporation, Ellis is enrolled this
semester in three one - hour cours-
es Temco pays one - half of the
tuition fees at the outset and
agrees to pay the remainder if El-
lis maintains a grade average of at
least “C".
Ellis operates electronic .compu-
ters for the engineering depart-
ment. _Aftar t a* mi . AL.asua.
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he expects to code for the math-
ines. He "punches buttons" on the
IRM machines, working on the
night shift. He and his wife, who
also works for Temco, live in Gar-
land because of its nearness to the
job.
To lessen the expense of com-
muting from Garland. Ellis is in a
carpool with other Temco employ-
es. When his car is used he travels
more than 120 miles every day.
Ellis, who intends to remain with
a '
CANDIDATE YARBOROUGH
Sixth Time Was A Charm
against a corrupt political ma-
chine — one which, through de-
ceptions and evasions, multiplied
and extended by a cynical skill in
the employment of money-hun-
gry modern media of mass com-
munications — big dailies, radio-
TV. magazine, organized whisper-
ing campaigns — had dominated
the government of Texas for the
better part of a generation."
In Washington, Yarborough is •
member of three Senate commit-
toes —Post Office and Civil Ser-
vice, Interstate and Foreign Com-
merce and Labor and Public Wel-
fare. In addition to his commit-
tee work (which often takes up
the majority of a senator's time),
Yarborough has found time to in-
■ construction matters?
■I The idea — the flowing of
M thoughts — in all creative work
■ should begin with the desire to
. create an idea. The same is true
if in ergative writing, says Mrs. C.
n. Hood Barlow, third grade teacher
M at NTSC Laboratory School.
MI And Mrs. Barlow believes the
E time to encourage creative imagi-
m nation is in the elementary grades
■ since the older the person is in
■ learning to express thoughts the
■ more inhibited he becomes.
3 With this thought, Mrs. Elizabeth
M Vickerman, a student in Mrs,
■ Mary Llenn Peery's /'education
|H classes, has begun a project of
creative writing in Mrs. Barlow's'
■ class.
f EXPRESS THOUGHTS
campus.
LActive members of Grace
Temple Baptist Church, he. his
with a pink nose tand tiny toes
pains a mental picture.
It was interesting to note, said
Mrs. Barlow, that a child excell-
ing in poetry writing may not be
capable of writing a good story or
a book review, while still another
may be more ou'standing in story
writing.
GUEST WRITERS
The class has also. invited guest
writers from other schools to par-
ticipate in the publication. Their
works are evaluated the same as
those submitted by the Lab stu-
dents.
Some of the mechanics of pub-
locationwork has been brought be-
fore the children with the maga-
zine too. They have written fillers
and have learned how important
they are, even though brief, to
balance a page. Some of the chil-
dren so enjoyed writing fillers they
submitted complete pages of them.
And classroom visitors have
been amazed at the quality M the
creative writing.
It's almost certain'now that the
price of postage stamps will go
up.
Congress last week approved a
bill raising the rates to four cents
for first - class letters and seven
cents for airmail letters. If Presi-
dent Eisenhower signs the bill,
as is expected, the rates will- go
Into effect on Aug. 1.
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In other news last week:
A group of Nikes exploded in a
New Jersey missile site, killing
10 men and injuring three more
SUNDAY, M
Despite Red threats, the U.S. is
shipping tanks and riot
equipment to Lebanon to 1r ___
government control fighting there.
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defiance of Paris. Officials in Al-
This is the second of two
looks at the candidates for
U.S. senator in the July Demo-
cratie primary election. An
article on William Blakley ap-
peared on this page last Sun-
day.
troduce scores of bills. This
prompted one Washington column-
ist to write that "pernaps no new
I senator has ever Introduced as
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To further complicate matters, a
French bomb was dropped on a
Tunisian airport near the Algerian
border. This led to clashes be-
tween French and Tunisian forc-
es. . - w
The United States, in the mean-
oma.
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Yarborough, who will be 55 next
I month, had been a teacher, prac-
! ticing lawyer, assistant state at-
I torney general, district judge and
soldier before going to the Senate.
He was born the seventh in a farm
family of 11 children in Chandler.
Record-Chronicle Staff Writer
_ ITS DOUBTFUL that any other modern-day politician
has had such a long road to political success in
- Texas as U.S. Sen. Ralph Yarborough.
From all appearances, he’s a tireless man who refuses
to give up. That’s pretty well evidenced in his making
bids for state offices on six different occasions before fin-
ally winning the job at hand.
Presently he's campaigning for
a six - year term in the United
States Senate, where he’s served
since last year when he won a spe-
cial election to fill the unexpired
term of now Gov. Price Daniel.
As a result of his campaigning,
the junior senator is well known
to Texas — and to Denton County:
I fact, Denton County voters in
four of the six statewide elections
Yarborough has entered, have giv-
en him a winning margin over his
opponent four times. Only in July
1956, when Yarborough and. Gov. .
Danil were vying for the Demo-
cratic nomination as governor, and |
in 1952, when Yarborough and for-
flier Gov. Allan Shivers sought
the same post, did Denton County
fall to give its overall pod to Yar-
borough.
STRONG OPINIONS
Since becoming a senator he has
many times expressed strong opin- l
tons on everything from agricul-
ture to education. He has particu-
lar distastes for Secretary of Agri-
culture Ezra Taft Benson, even I
has introduced a resolution urg- I
fog his resignation. In Denton Yar- I
By ETHEL WOGDBY
. Record-Chronicle Staff Writer
Would a dress designer first plan
the construction of a garment—
, down to the last zipper and but-
ton hole' —-and then attempt to
be creative with a flair bordering
on “passion? Or would he first
drape his materials and let his
creation take form as his imagina-
Jan tion guides his hands, later being
concerned with corrections and
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vtemebil ’
man, and so delicately balanced and cast that the slap
' of a hand produces a clear tone. On its side, near the
top, are the words, “Buckeye Bell Foundry 1896.”
The complicated levers that run the clock are_now
operated by electricity, but the mechanical system of
weights and pendulums that went out of use four or
five years ago are still there, stretching down into the
shaft of the dome.
Tom ignored the elevator and led the way down the
tightly winding staircase to the gables beneath the
dome which are now used for storage space. Off in
one corner was a large pile of brightly covered tinsel
and decorations, with several signs that said, “Merry
Christmas.”
___Down one more flight, around a corner, through a
door and we were on the third floor of the courthouse
in the modernistic new courtroom. Directly below is
the old courtroom. Tom explained that before the
" two rooms were renovated the topmost had formed a
balcony that overlooked the main courtroom, taking
in the second and third floors of the building. Then
three years ago the balcoy was extended to form the
roof of the lower courtroom, the restrooms and sev-
eral of the offices were remodeled, and the interior of
the courthouse took on a new' look.
RESPONSIBLE CREW
In the basement, Tom pointed out “where the Sher-
iff’s boys hang out,” and was greeted with grins and
a chorus of “Hi, Toms.” Then he led the way to the
building superintendent’s office, the headquarters for
the crew that cares for the courthouse and its sur-
water. ■
Stepping inside the tower, Tom pointed out the mech-
anism of the clock, an imposing jumble of motors, gears
and levers. He pointed out a steel rod that led lip-
ward into the dome and disappeared into a loti near,
the top. “That leads to the bell. Climb up that ladder
and take a look.” S roe tow
(LEAR TONE FROM A SLAP a Semak--
The belli* a huge thing, half the height of a tall hers
couraged to look over, his work-
look for spelling and grammatical
errors. “But even then, we do not
discourage him by picking his
efforts apart by suggesting a
change of wording," the teacher
says.
-:Of course we have our drills in
language usage,Mrs. Barlow
hastily added, but not in connec-
tion with our creative writing."
The writing sessions are not re-
quired class room procedures. If a
child has no desire to participate,
he may read a book. However,
the students have been so enthus-
iastic about the idea, there haven’t
been any book readers during the
sessions.
It pleases the children too, said
the teachers, to see their names in
print. So Mrs. Vickerman has put
in magazine form the children’s
writings. Three mimeographed is-
sued of “The Children’s Story
Magazine" have been compiled
the return of De Gaulle to power
the Sahara." This
each at the U.S. Military Academy
at West Point and at Sam Hous-
ton State Teachers College. He
was graduated from the law school
at the University of Texas, after
having worked his way through.
His wife taught school three years
after graduating from CIA, now
TWU. They have one son, Rich-
ard. also an attorney.
Yarborough’s total vote in the
1957 special election, against a
field of 22. other candidates, was
364,605. He led the No. 2 man
(Martin Dies) by 74,000 votes,
carrying 160 of Texas’ 254 coun-
ties. In the 1956 gubernatorial pri-
mary he received 49.9 per cent of
the votes, carrying 147 of 254.
counties.
And he's probably shook hands
in all 254 of those counties, for
there seems to be no end to the
energy of Ralph Yarborough when
it comes to campaigning. He hopes
it'll pay off come July.
geria said they intend to run the
No end appeared in sight last show without interference f rom
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With the magazine, the teachers rope, popping corn and listening to
feel they have proven the point—; raJn,_ .Mrs. Barlow says,
eight-year - old children not only
can write creatively, but they can
write well if given the opportunity.
The writing sessions are held on
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ed what several other midair
crashes had failed to do. It spur-
red the government to take action _____________ —_______
to prevent recurrence of such lost -hisbid to become governor at
accidents
roundings. Guy Turner, the county auditor, is in
charge, and besides Tom Gentry there are Charlie
Eben, who assists Tom in the building, and Leon Hurt.
Hurt is the caretaker of the courthouse lawn, and
the pride he takes in his work is obvious from the
beptiful aroan earnat alwave girnmnde fli* huilA.
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interference from the National As-
sembly. eral North
The Assembly, unified by the
DeGaulle threat, gave Premier
Pierre Pflimlin special powers to
deal with the crisis at home and _
in rebellious Algeria. Pflimlin or- •
dered the commander of all A midair collision over Mary-
French military forces to Algeria land last week finally accomplish-
to discuss the’situation with the -J - -----’ ehe
rebel junta, but this move appar-
ently accomplished little
rish said in an interview. He has
been named by the NTSC Board of
Regents to succeed Dr. E. H. Han-
son as department director. At the
same time he will become a full , , ....
professor ' and advance within the corpor-
.xsv as
the country's scientific future: periods of recession and wage cute
"Our eyes have been turned more recently, experienced by the air-
strongly toward the academic sub- craft industries._____________
jects." r., ae *
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HOW TO THINK
Students should be taught “how
to think" with the emphasis on
“understanding," said Dr. Par
rish. He continued to say that in-
terest and understanding run hand
in hand. If the student under-
stands he will “be happy." More
emphasis should be placed on the
real processes of- learning and.
less emphasis on pure memory
work.
The problems of better instruc-
tion in the scientific fields are
numerous, he said. They include
salaries, which must compete with
those in other jobs. But by far
the biggest “bottleneck” is the
lack of well trained math and sci-
ene teachers, he believes.
MATH IN COLLEGE
When a math student gets to col-
Ibge, Dr. Parrish said he should
have a thorough understanding of
algebra, geometry, nd trigonom-
etry. and possibly an introduction
to the fundamental idea of calcu-
lus. High schools should not be-
come "overambitious," however,'
and try to cram too much ad-
vanced knowledge into the stu-
dent on the high school level.
Some things should be left to the
eel leges. Dr Parrish made elear.
Dr. Pariah received his bache-
lor of science degree in 1939 and
his master of science degree in
1941. both from NTSC. He earned
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borough has publicly shot missiles
at former Defense Secretary Char-
les Wilson and former Atty. Gon
Herbert Brownell. And when he
was in Denton last November, he
•aid he wouldn’t be happy until
Benson and Secretary of State
John Footer Dulles resign. Neith-
er has, buf not because Ralph Yar-
borough hasn’t tried.
Another of his peeves is Texas
newspapers in general, most of
which have .usually given their ed-
itorial support to Yarborough's op-
ponents. In a newly issued book-
let called "Yarborough: Portrait
of a People's Senator,” the «u-
thors (Mark Adams and Creek-
more Fath) wrote in the preface:
“. . . Yarborough (is) a rugged
Individual who (believes) it is his
duty to Texas and to American
democracy to enlist in • crusade
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Pennsylvania ... and pay raises
for everyone but the draftees
guu. .0., .ojg. —__.e______- -__Were approved when President El-_______________ ...
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By LEE COTTON
Record-Chronicle Staff Writer
From the top of the Denton courthouse, you can see
for miles and miles. The land stretches away flatly,
and at a glance it is Obvious that Denton is a big,
sprawling town that is only beginning to grow.
Tom Gentry, building superintendent of the court-
house. rolled a cigarette and waved a hand out over
the railing beneath the big clock in the dome of Den-
ton's most prominent landmark. “Why, just five years
ago,” he said, “most of what you see out yonder was
just land.” .
He leaned on the stone railing and looked down at
Denton.
Off to his left he could see some workmen on the
roof of a building several blocks away; apparently,
repairing the hail damage from spring storms..
To the north, Highway 24 Stretched away, a ribbon V
of white leading west.
And below, the stores on the square faced the green
carpet of the courthouse lawn.
LOT OF CHANGES
“There’s been a lot of changes since I came to Den-
ton to put my daughters through school here,” Toni
said.That was 18 years ago, in 1940, and Tom Gentry
has worked for the courthouse ever since.
And he loves it. The many-spired old stone build-
ing is a’fascinating place that has changed along with
the town.
. The stone is interlaced with shells and skeletons, and
came from a quarry near here that once was under-
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Yarborough in ’58
Still Well Known
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