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DOGGONE STUDENT
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ATTORNEY EMPHASIZES
CHARTER’S EFFICIENCY
WEATHER
CLEAR CREEK AREA
Water Control
"We owe it to ourselves and to
Lew jeer
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Plans Pushed
REMEMBER WHEN
AN ORDINARY FRIDAY?
SUNDAY: Finances.
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for them to move, they refused to
Bentonites will vote for approval
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Biggest raise in costs.
IN Toners PAPER
The judge will not be a full-time
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FUN WITH A TOOTH BRUSH
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with a pretty big brush, but there's
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No Sir, Not For
The Superstitious
since this cnurt often is the only
branch of city government many
Over Japan’s
Transfer Plan
once established, _
Plans are to limit
A close study of the proposed i proposed charter have done a most
new city charter in its entirety ■ excellent job and it certainly is
should convince anyone that it pro- sufficient to meet our needs in city
The bill will be
State Sens. Floyd
other cities shows that the indi-
vidual citizen doesn’t have the
time to study and properly eval-
uate the qualifications of would-
be candidates for city attorney. So
the five men who are elected by
the people and who are directly
answerable to the people are left
to choose the city attorney, based
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Denton High as part of
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Surgery
A Success
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survivors still in it.
All four were from- SB to 35
years and married, mine officials
said
Loy Bennett of Fredericktown,
tors heard
vey work
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Students who failed to re-
cite their daily lessons prop-
erly were kept after school by
the teacher and were required
to do the lessons over?
our children to do everythin* with-
in our power to see that Denton
has the best possible form of muni-
cipal government. Our city’s fut-
ure depends upon a more efficient
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BASIC RIGHT
Kishi told Parliament the criti-
cal issue would be approached
Bun set today 41 Slit p.m.; rises Satur-
dey at 7112 a.m. Fishing Poor. .
srsuo* LEVELS: Garza-ittie Eim 91 toe
feet abeve sea level (3.91 feet belew 44*
servation level), Grepeyine $30.71 ieet
ebove M4 level (4.29 teet below cunser-
-vatien levei).
and Special Schools
awarded a SI.227.000 con-
progress reports of sur-
being done within th*
many hours are not claiming the
proposed charter is a perfect do-
cument. Neither was’ the constitu-
tinn of the United States. which
wes amended shortl after it was
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“56TH YEAR OF DAILY SERVICE NO. 167
a curious history.
If 13 people meet in a room, one
of them will die within a year,
according to a popular supersti-
tion in Europe. For this reason.
‘-Recerd-Chrenicle Staft Phet
MAN ON A
TOTEM POLE 1
Delmar Barnes isn’t sitting atop
tion and rest
The secretary underwent sur-
gery at Walter Reed in 1956 to
remove a cancerous portion of his
lower intestine
No French city or town has a
single house or hotel room num-
bered 13, legend says, and this is
See FRIDAY, Page 2
"on the basis of the basic human
right to freedom of residence."
Presumably North Korea will
charter ships to transport those
cleared for repairial ion. It is un-
derstood Japan will not furnish
ships, and all Japanese compan-
ies whose ships operate between
Japan and South Korea have can-
celed sailings because of the
crisis.
Rhee’s government has charged
that the 600,000 or more Koreans
living in Japan — most of them
poverty stricken and 95 per. cent
of them originally from South Ko-
rea—are being cajoled, threatened
and bribed bx North Korean sym4
pathizers to go to the North. The
South Koreans charge they will be
sent into Red slavery
Weatherford and Ray Roberts of
McKinney, in whose districts the
watershed lies. Rep. Alonso Jami-
son has said he will back such
a bill in the House
PROGRESS REPORTS
Meeting in Muenster Thursday,
the association a board of direc-
roan government warning that it
would resist the transfer "with
every power at its disposal."
radio transmitter tower on the
new city hall-post office build-
ing at Sanger. The tower is 73
feet high.
esented by
adshaw of
carries him high at times The
Gainesville man is installing a
. cal condition. ___
Junior Gillam of Potosi and Don
Hall of Fredericktown were killed.
Gillam was thrown our of the
bucket. The bucket was lifted out
could levy and collect small taxes
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PRICE FIVE CENT!
Dulles4
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reason The big teeth are part of the exhibits displayed at
Dental Health Week, being observed by the health education classes. The students,
from left, are Martha Bupp, Susanne Sparks, Kent Ledlow and David Walvoord. <
Lynn Hamilton is holding the teeth. The exhibits were arranged by James Magill.
George Hoagland and Mitt Joanna Weils. health teachers, and Mrs. Griffin Huev and
Mrs. W. A. Crawford of the Women's Auxiliary to the Denton County Dental Society.
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Work Begins
AUSTIN (AP)—The Board
for Texas State Hospitals
ton in aimost half a century. Min-'
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There was no immediate indica-
tion when construction will begin,
but the bid stipulated that 400 cal-
endar days will be allowed for
the work.
FIRST PROJECT
The first project calls for the
construction of six cottages with
SO beds each and two homes, for
staff members plus road construc-
tion. grading and utility lines on
the 200-acre site three miles south-
’ east of Denton.
The cdntract carries a provision
where the board may accept an
alternate bid for adding one or two
additional cottages within the next
totem pole, but his job
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Attorney Would
Be Appointed
Denton's proposed new charter citizens contact. The new charter
calls for the city attorney to be provides the framework for this
appointed by the city council. modernisation.
Under the present charter he The present charter specifies
gains his office through a city-wide that the mayor is the judge of
vote. Experience of hundreds of corporation court.
Secretary Reported
Satisfactory After
Short Operation
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Secretary of State John Fos-
ter Dulles today underwent
a successful operation for
a hernia.
State Department press chief
Lincoln White announced the sur-
gery was successful and Dulles’
immediate postoperative condition
was quite satisfactory.
White said tissue and fluid were
removed during the operation "for
microscopical examination.”
Such an examination would be
to determine whether there was a
cancerous condition.
White said Dulles was on the
operating table less than an hour.
White's announcement to news-
men was made at the Army’s
Walter Reed Medical Center. The
operation was performed there by
the hospital commandant, Maj.
Gen Leonard D Heaton
White indicated no word had
come from the doctors on the re-
sults of the examination of tissues
and fluids.
Word that surgery had begun
was relayed to newsmen around
3:1* am
The announcement of results
came about 2% hours later.
The secretary, who will be 71
Feb. 25, entered the hospital last
Tuesday. Since then each State
Department bulletin on his condi-
tion has been almost identical
sleeping well, eating well, in good
spirits.---:----------—
Gen Heaton said the operation
was relatively simple. a bit more
complicated than, say, an adenoid
operation.
Heaton told newsmen Tuesday
he found Dulles worn out" and
in need of a rest. The secretary
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HAVE YOl READ
THE PROPOSED
CITY CHARTER?
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vides the framework — or neces- government for many years to
sary legislation — to establish such come.
an efficient operation in municipal “We owe it to ourselves and to
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tract for construction of the
first unit of the new Denton
’ State School.
In a called meeting at Austin,
the board gave the contract to the
Eitze-Kitchens Construction Co. of
Austin which submitted the low-
est-of 1 bids.
Final drafts of special legisla-
tion that would create a water
control and improvement district
for the Clear Creek watershed are
being prepared for introduction in
the Legislature.
Backed by the Clear Creek Wat-
ershed Assn., the legislation would
open one of the final gates in ob-
taining approval of a flood con-
trol program along the creek by
providing a source of revenue for
maintenance of small retard dams
and reservoirs. -
still is suffering from the colon
inflammation which hit him Nov.
30. Heaon said he wants to try to a
clear that up, too, with medica- C
chips-down situation tonight tn
the Men’s Gym at NTSC when
they play host to the Garland
Owls in the first game of a
best two-of-three series lor the
District 7-AAAA cage title.
Page 3.
SOLVING THE problem of
the smaller school districts
would go a long way toward
improving the quality of Tex-
as education. Page 4.
- Aneciates Pren Mats
FLOODWATERS BATTER LEVIES
The water pressure of the flood-swollen Wabash River was too much for these
flood walls in the vicinity of South Peru Ind., Thursday. This is only one of sev-
• eral places along the river’s route that water spilled out onto farmlands and into
towns. While the flood threat eased for some parts of Indiana, other areas faced
even graver flood damage as huge ice jams and more rains intensified the already
dangerous situation.
found that they would not move or rejection of the new charter on on their studies-interviews and
on a Friday, even after they had Feb. 34. The present charter waa sereening p candidates.
been threatened with eviction by drafted in 1314. ) I The powers and duties of the
the sheriff. I "We are today confronted with । city attorney are prescribed by
The number 13, long associated the greatest challenge that has. state law. leaving Htie to be de-
with bad luck in superstition, has , come to the voting citizens of Den-cided otherwise in the charter.
Under t h e present charter.
United States has in the Far East
Both governments held hurried
consultations with American rep-
resentatives in Tokyo and Seoul.
There seemed little of do likeli-
hood that the quarrel, so far con-
fined to verbal blasts and implied
threats from South Korea, would
blow up into a shooting conflict.
Butdhere was a danger of a break
in economic relations and in dip-
lomatic negotiations going s* be-
tween the two countries.
USE OF FORCE
The United States, whose voice
is the dominant one in the U.N.
armed forces in Koreg, would be
sure to stop South Korea from us-
ing either its navy or air force in
this dispute. They are under U.N.
operational command. South Ko-
rea has only a small coast guard
The Japanese government was
moving cautiously in an obvious
effort to placate—or at least not
further arouse - President Syng
man Rhee s government
Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi
and his Cabinet after a long meet-
ing approved Foreign Minister
Aiichiro Fujiyama’s recommenda-
tion for the repatriation but in ef-
fect tossed the whole scheme into
the laps of the International Red
Cross.
two others survived, ahough day to let poverty -stricker
gravely injured. They are in criti- reans here go to Communist
The deepening crisis threatened
an hour later with Hall and the to create new divisions between
two of the firmest friends the
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By PHILIP TAPLEY
Record-Chroniele Staff Writer
Today is Friday — just an ordi-
nary Friday. It is also the 13th,
which will mean nothing to you
unless you are superstitious, then
K’S a day when anything may hap-
pen.
If you had the hard hick to be
born on this day, your destiny is
hopeless. If you marry, take a new
job, cut your fingernails or visit
a sick person on this day, super-
stition says, you will bring all
aorta of calamities upon yourself.
If you turned your bed today. ior
example, you will not be able to
sleep. If you are a criminal you’d
better be inactive today, for you
can expect a hard sentence if you
are unlucky enough to be tried on
a Friday. ___
CRUCIFIXION
Long regarded among the super-
stitious as an unlucky day. Friday
derives its reputation of bad luck
from its association with the Cru-
cifixion of Christ.
If you are Irish, you probably
know that it is good to die onra
Friday, be buried on Saturday
and he prayed for on Sunday..
Friday the 13th superstitions
are so thoroughly instilled in some
people that in 1931 on a Friday
the 13th. the sailings of two At-
lantic liners were postponed from
Friday until one minute after
midnight, following protests of the
Friday sailing from a large num-
ber of superstitious passengers.
WOULDN’T MOVE
Ten poor Irish women who in
1900 lived in hovels unfit for hu-
man habitatiin were given free
mw homcs. When the day armed
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MONROE, La. (AP)— Fritz Hans Frederick Jr., wag
enrolled two weeks ago as a general business student at
Northeast State College here.____- ______________
A number of things tripped up his continued enroll-
ment. The most obvious was that his registration forma
were not in proper order, his admission fee was not
. paid and the certificate from a high school principal
required under Louisiana’s segregation statutes could
not be found.
Dr. Clint Hanna, director of admissions, examined
the registration card further. Under special talents
and hobbies were listed: “Bone burying, flea scratch-
ing, sleeping, swimming bayou."
Club affiliations: “Member Northeast Student Cen*
ter four years, honorary member Feline Chasers of
America, president of Dog Lovers Society.**
The head of the journalism department Annie Lea
West Stahl, remembered the name from a local feature
story about three weeks earlier. The story told how
Fritz swam Bayou Desiard each day and generally had
the run of the campus as unofficial school mascot
Prof. Wilbur Lee Perkins, head of the commerce de*
. partment, called Fritz’ name in class the first day and
was told Fritz was hit by a car and couldn't attend. It
was true that he had been bumped by a car, but wasn’t
Willie Taft Smith, accounting instructor, complain-
ing of excessive absences, dropped Fritz from his
class roll and sent his class card back to the registra- ..
tion office.
Fritz still has the run of the campus, excepting the
cafeteria, and he is somewhat better known. School
officiate hadn’t solved the mystery of who enrolled
him.
Fritz is a boxer dog, owned by O. N. McNeil.
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VIBERNUM, Mo. (AP-A wire
cable splice parted and dropped a
heavy hoist bucket containing four
men 100 feet or more to the bot-I
tom of a lead mine shaft late I
"Thursday:
Two miners were killed. The
they said, likely would be reflect-
ed in normal increases in costs ai
conservation.
PROPERTY OWNERS
If approved by the legislature,
the WCD bill would organize th*
property owners into a type of
■elf governing organisation that
236,000-acre watershed.
Thus far, 45 tentative flood re-
tarding sites have been scheduled
out of a possible 11. Economic sur-
veys to determine benefits of th*
project in relation to costs also are
being made Eleven easements
also have been obtained for the
site*, but none of the 45 sites
has been cleared for construction,
directors reported
Dr Charles Saunders of Denton,
vice president of the association, r
Mid this morning that first con-
struction may begin in tow
Original flood control surveys
on the creek. made in 1930 a d
1951, called for a benefit-cost ra-
tio of 1,7-1, returning SI 76 in
benefits to each 11 of construction
costs.
Even though the number of
sites has been doubled in the new
study Soil Conservation Service
personnel Mid total costs would
not advance at that rate sine* dams
at the new sites would be much
eight months. These would cost
$147,000 each. -
The board said it would decide
within the next eight months
whether it would be able to get
sufficient federal funds through
the Hill-Burton Act to build the
additional cottages. The federal
aid has been tentatively approved.
IBM OPENING
Although no definite time was
indicated for construction to be-
gin. state board officials have said
they expect the new school to be
open by the summer of 1960.
The new school will be built
on property purchased for $100.-1
006 by Denton area residents in
late 1937 and early 1958.
Bids on the construction were
originally considered by the board
in a Jan. 16 meeting but officials
threw out all IS proposals which
exceeded by at least $42,000 the
■mount budgeted for the first
construction.
Lowest of the first bids taken
was for $1,407,000. The board had
budgeted $1,365,000 for the first
coratyuction project.
or said, “This is certainly the | which was written 45 years ago.
greatest challenge since our fore- the city judge isn't required to
bearers wrote and adopted our pre- J have a knowledge of legal mat-
aent city charter in 1314. ters. This was probably proper in
no European hostess dares have "The present city charter was an i 1614 when Dentons' corporation
13 guest at a dinner table. excellent charter for those days, court didn't have but about two or
but times have changed. It is three cases per month.
doubtful is a sinle member of1 But in this day of increasing cor-
the charter committee that drafted nation court activitv, especial-
the charter under which we now ly involving traffic violations, it
live owned an automobile. Certain- is felt that the city judge should
ly none owned a radio, andtelevis- be experienced in jurisprudence,
ion was undreamed of . .The pre- Thus the vroposed charter speci-
sent charter has servedla useful fies that the city judge, who pre-
purpose, but the tune has come sides over corporation court, shall
when we must no longer stand with be a qualified attorney licensed to
our backs to the future: but In- practice in Texas. To insure that
stead we must face the future and the judge wi)l be a local itizer it
accept the responsibilities which J is sopcified that he will have the
are ours to see that the future qualifications veouired for mem-
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Two Men DieCrisis Grows
in Blunge Oi
government that Denton citizens
will get much more for their tax
dollar than they do now
That's what Fred Minor, a Den-
ton attorney pointed out in a KDNT
radio address heard Thursday
night by hundreds of Dentonites
attending neighborhood meetings
in homes and by individual listen-
ers throughout the city. The home
study sessions were arranged and
hosted for the most part by mem-
bers of the 84 - member Denton
Citizens Advisory Council
Minor. a former speaker of the
Texas House of Representatives
and an ex . city corfmissioner,
said the net result of this more ef-
ficient operation would be the Mme
as a reduction in taxes. He point-
ed out that the article on public
utilities in the proposed charter
“certainly provides the structure
for efficient administration of the
utilities, which should eventually
result in lower electric rates.”
FEB. 24 ELECTION
whose right arm was severed
and I loy d Francis of Dillard, who
suffered multiple fractures, were
conscious when brought up
it happened in a flash. Bennett
said Almost incoherent. Bennett
said that a moment after the ex-
plosive impact tt the heavy buck-
eton the ehaft's bottom 171 feet
of the heavy wire cable rained
down oo them.
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DENTON HIGH'S Bronco
basketball players face a
growth of our city is not hamver- bership on the city council,
ed by an outmoded form of munici-
pal government",", citv emolove since he will he re-
.0 Ihl. IG-Md »W estyfquired only fo preside over the
municinalcour.whichuprdinartty
adoptedEreb"z"ousht not to re- div inereaone -ehlcuUr traffic
9 ire an rg have , , violations, experience of other
Thoseaiwhosh given Eene time cities shows th” the old-time cum-
and ei «. Jiven,,thelmtime bersome machinery of corpora-
and worked so arduously formany. tion cort should he modernized
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to five cents per 1106 valuation.
Dr Saunders Mid The tax would
be limited to property ewhers with-
in the watershed, which has to
• portions of Montague. Cooke, Wise
f and Denton Counties,
L SCS personnel iteM** ’ the
meeting Thursday night estimat-
ed that revenues from th* water-
shed. even if the five-cent rate
were collected, would return only
II.IN a year.
DENTON AHO VICINITV: Coneidereble eloudi-
NM and wermer withposibie Thnder-
ahowen tonight. Saturday pamty cludy
and cooler.
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