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Published every evening (except Saturday) and Sunday morning by:
A Denton Publishing Co., Inc., 314 E. Hickory St
Archery Pays Off
CHARLESTOWN, R. 1. u -
Ronald Kenyon, who had never
fired a bow and arrow until six
Townsend Is
Still Pushing
Pension Plan
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which he keeps most of the time
up on Lake Texoma," he said.
A Mrs. Royce Whitten, Mrs. D. B.
East.
The new federal highway
gram was reported coming
well.
Leonard W. Hall resigned after
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can leader in 1953, said he would
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ed. SO per cent said they decided
career while still
Signs of consumer resistance to
price increase, were reported by
gasoline dealers in Texas. Auto
dealers said some customers were
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who can’t win for' losing. lost out
in a contest for a seat on the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit-
tee.
"I havemore turnips and tur-
nip greens than I can use," said
with Knowland in a resolution to
permit two-thirds of the Senators
present and voting to close off
debate.
This could be quite a weapon
Peterson, J. H. Fultz, Jr.
Paul Williamson
I ving their birthd
steel. Prices of foreign-grown raw
sugar for future delivery touched
their highest level since 1951. The
New York Central Railroad ap-
However, it did not estimate
what percentage Df water has
been used from underground or
the amounts still scattered and un- _
ROUND
ABOUT
TOWN
By R. J. (Bob) EDWARDS
Montana’s male land commissioner, Lou Bretzke,
has been honored by having a river island named aft-
er him despite Montana custom which provides that
all such lands in Montana Riven be given a feminine
name. The island was called “Lou Island."
plied for-a 33 per cent increase fa
commutation fares in New York s
spokesman for the group. "May-
be it’s the weather, but I know
TpcncAziV
NAUDiBLE/
AUSTIN, w—The Blate Board
of Water Engineers said in ef-
fect Texans pumped more water
from underground reservoirs than
was available in major surface
What would be your guess as to
the hounddog population of Den-
ton County? Our guess was en-
calling back workers laid off
around the middle of last year
when business went into a slump.
International Harvester said its
payroll at the start of the year
was the biggest it’s been since
lakes.
"From all available .sources it
is estimated that about 7.498,000
acre feet of ground water was used
from 1
on a teaching
in high school.
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Pointing to the outlook for a
rise in farm income, Harvester
predicted a 10 per cent gain in
agricultural machinery- sales this
year. Deere & Co., forecast an
increase of 10 to 30 per cent. "TThe
1957 outlook.’’ said president Rob-
THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW!
Moving Ahead
V . Private enterprise — no less than interested govern-
ment agencies — is making noteworthy and orderly
progress hi applying nuclear energy to the arts of
peace. F' ■
As an example, the nation’s independent electric
companies are backing a stepped-up program for the
development of nuclear power. A recent conference
on the subject was sponsored by the Edison Electric
New price boosts were .an-
nounced for specialty grades H
civil rights bills and other legis- critics.
lation. . 1 Townsend read from the plat-
Present rules require the af- form, in a voice soft but firm:
firmative vote of 64 of the 90 sen- The pension would be financed
atari to force an end to debate, by a gross income tax of at least
Some northern and western sen- 3 per cent on all sales of goods
ators have been trying to get a and services. Wage and salary
against inflation at home a
Communist mwaca abroad.
•jackpot’, but I didn’t, so gave up
in disgust." .
Irrigators were the big users
of underground water throughout
the state They pumped 6,209,400
acre feet of the grand total, about
— search programs and projects. 3. To study and ap-
praise the technical and economic factors to be achiev-
ed by the design and construction at different times
of prototype or full scale nuclear plants. 4. To act as
a liaison agency with the members on any nuclearjre-
actor evaluation group that may be set up on a na-
tional level t
Broadly speaking, the objective of the utility indus-
try is to find out what kind of reactors will most ef-
ficiently, economically and safely produce power -- .
and to bring them into being on a commercial scale. ■
That is the way to real leadership in the nuclear field.
by a majority of the senators on their first $250 of monthly
present. ’ earnings. '
. . . Proceeds would be divided
To cover that territory it keeps
Simons pretty busy.
Johnson’s Senate Debate
rise To Solons
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era was below expectations—that
a hopedMor deluge of orders had
not come about. But no letup was
foreseen in the frenzied demand
for structural steel and oil drill-
the United States 51 30 per month, 315.00 per year.
COMBINATION MAIL AND CARRIER: Delivered to your home by
mail on weekdays and Sunday Morning Delivery by Motor Route where
this service is available, $1.25 per month, SIAM per year (must be
paid in advance).
MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS
a big week in Washington, and
more than offset the lack of any-
thing really new in President Ei-
senhower s State of the Union
were:,
The opportunity and challenge of
working with youngsters; a chance
to make a contribution to demo-
cratic living -and work in a pro-
fession that permits continuous
growth while in service.
Men rated salary at 14th, while ।
women rated in 12th.
JessPinckley, who has been in
the business eye of Denton for the
past 45 years, recently retired.
His last'association was with Jack
Schmitz & Son and prior to that
he was with the John B. Schmitz -
Furniture and Undertaking busi-
ness. He was clerk at the - South- •
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WASHINGTON. W — The Re-
publican and Democratic leaders
in the Senate came up with a
couple of good-sized surprises this
first full week of the new Con-
gress.
There was much talk and con-
siderable eyebrow-lifting when:
1. Sen. Willia mKnowland (R-
Calif) announced he would not run
for re-election ext year,
2. Sen. Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex)
came out for a new scheme for
limiting Senate debate, something
ward.
Builders said the new year had
been ushered fa by a rash of price
increases for cement and lumber,
stemming, in part from higher
freight rates. They said wage
rates of construction workers had
moved up.since the start of the
year in at least half a dozen ma-
jor cities. . --------
Teach--me to do thy will; for
thou art my God: thy spirit is
good; lead me into the land of
uprightness. - Psalms 143-14.
The body of all true religion
consists, to be sure, in obedience
to the will of the Sovereign of the
world, in a confidence in His
declarations, and in imitation of
His perfections. - Edmund Burke.
We hear much about the teach-
ing profession these days; why
there is a shortage of teachers and
about the low income offered them
in that profession. The GainesviHe
record in an editorial, “Why Are
Teachers’’, gives the following in-
formation:
Why Do people become teach-
ers?
According to a poll of 330 future
Institute and attended by top-level representatives of
125 of these companies. A newly-formed Technical
• . Appraisal Task Force was given -four principal func-
. tions. These, as reported by Electrical world, are: “1.
To keep the industry informed on the status of re-
search and development work, in this country and else-
where. of importance to the achievement of compef
tive nuclear powers. 2. To study and report on all re-
urday mornings. His office hours
on Wednesday are 3 to 12; 1 to
5. Saturday mornings only. A
as, the board said in a IPU,
prepared with the U.S. Gological
Survey.1
drighesienctved.
Lon Rowlettt, 617 South Elm.
"Quite a few people- have been
coming for some of them and I
can well afford to have others get
them, as they're going to waste.
There is no charge for them'-
only the gathering."
Mrs. Nick Akin of Lewisville,
former Denton resident, was in
Fort Worth recently and wanted
to telephone one of her friends.
It seems that she went to a booth,
deposited the necessary dune and
waited for a. connection, which
didn't come. She said, “I pulled
every attachment J thought Was
needed for a while and finally
I thought I had hit the ’jackpot',
V five dimes rolled down jnto
•y.
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techers enrolled hl an introduc- —
tion course the three most impor-
tant reasons given were:
_ 1. Exposure to an inspirational
teacher,
2 . Encouragement from friends
and relatives. ' -
3 Newspaper accounts of teach-
er shortages. L
■ Of the future teachers interview-
The trend toward higher news-
print prices broadened. Crude oil
price boosts became industry-
wide. Humble OH Refining Co.
had initiated the increases Jan.
3; Shell Oil Co., the last major
holdout,jjumped aboard the band,
wagon Jan. 10. In many parts oF
the country there was a compen-
sating rise of one-cnt a gallon in
the price of gesolne and heating
oil.
Biggest question at week’s end
was: Would the Suez-inspired oil
and gas increases hold?
The answer of a statewide asso-
ciation: there’s a possibility of
“disastrous nationwide gasoline
NEW, YORK. ( — Businessmen
in many lines found themselves
under increasing pressure this
week to stem the tide of rising
prices.
President Eisenhower set the
tone.
Inflation, he declared in his
State of the Union message, to
“•the principal threat’’ to our econ-
omy now. And he added: "Busi-
nessmen ... should avoid unnec-
essary price increases, especially-
at a’time like the present when
demand in so many areas presses
hard on short supplies ... in-
creases in wages must be reason-
ably related to improvements in
productivity."
Meanwhile there was evidence
that pressure to halt price rises
was being applied at several other
tirely too small, according to ’Po
tato Chip* Jones,.who has a pack
of IS dogs. "I believe there are at
least 1,000 hounds 11 the county
and maybe a few more if we ,
count the pack of Col. Tom Cote
par cent, .___’
industry used 7 per cent, while
6 per cent went for city supply
and 5 per cent for rural areas to
takecare of domestic and- live-
stock needs. .. .
The report branded two major
factors for the increased pump-
age during the past five years.
. -The most important are ex-
panding agricultural and industri-
al economies and the existence of
the most severe drought of climat-
ic record," the report said.
The report did not include in
its estimates th* underground
water which is used by nature to
provide an average of about 13 *
livestock uses throughout Texas
streams. The amount varies from
8 per cent for the Neche# River
at Rockland to 88 per cent for the
Devils River near Del Rio.
The report said domestic and
livestock uses throughout Texas
consumed 280,000 acre feet of wat-
er.
Estimated uses of underground
water by river basins, in acre feet:
Red-Sulphur Cypress 130,400, Sa •
bine t 200. Neches-Angeline-93,-—-
100, Trinity 151,000.-San Jacinto
360,700, Brazos 172.300, Guadalupe-
San Antonio 161,400, Nueces 325--
100, Coastal 174,400, Pecos-Devils
870,100. High Plains 4,473,000. And
the total is 7,218,400.
Thereport said the Gulf Coastal
Plain of East Texas apparently
has been affected by the drought.
family in disposable income. ------t---1----------
Thu was more than the $5,672 per family average
in the United States. The West South Central states
t averaged $4,910 per family. In Denton, these family
earnings went into bigger purchases in the local stores,
with people spending more for food, merchandise and
services. , . \
While the boom has slackened from its rapid pace,
the advance still goes on. Even though housing, autd
production and agriculture have not shared in the
buoyancy, the slack has been absorbed by growth in
_.. other, lines. . _ ■ • -
Public confidence in the future is unshaken. People
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dogocqsza
"I don’t know if I can go fish-
ing with one of my old fishing-
partners," said C. H Jackson,
who was downtown this past week.
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sales of most makes Of new auto-
mobiles were trending lower.
One of the economy’s brighter a
spots was the long dormant farm
equipment business. Major manu- '
facturers of farm machinery were
KNOWLAND - The hard work- -t---------- — ----- — -
ing Californian, who was Sen. rule to permit a limit to be voted | groups would be exempt Eromtx
RObert. A. Taft's choice to suc-
ceed him as the 'Senate Republi:
Texas’ 30 major surface. reser-
voirs held about 0 to 7 million
acre feet of water which could be
used by cities, industry and irri-
gators during the year. _
The big underground producer
was the High Plains' Ogallala for;
——mation. It yas e up 62 percent .9
the water pumped from within the
state. The report said a total 4,478.-
800 acre feet of water - mostly .
for irrigation - was pumped-in touched by drills,
the 41 counties which includes
most of the Panhandle and parts
of 'West Texas. Of the total, 78,900
acre feet were used by industry
and 74,800 for municipal purpose.
h.
per cent had one or more parents
who Were teachers:
Other reasons for the decision
Land costs In areas suitable for
home building, were reported inch-
ing higher. Building trade spokes-
men predicted that, despite an ex-
pected decline of 20 per cent in the---------
number of new homes to be built Manufacturing Co., “to bright”
this year, prices woud be up by
"I hope.we both can make it —
E. D. Massey and myself. I ought
to be able to do some good fish-
ing despite the old broken leg, as
I surely know how and I really
know the right places." .
ing equipment
tump about two billion this century to kill
ionthintothe nation's I in Rhode Island.
prior to that he was engaged in
the furniture business for himself.
He said, "After 45 yean in the
harness, active work became
somewhat arduous so I decided
to retire. I may accept some lit-
tle job one of these days but at
present I am trying to eateh up
on some personal affairs that I
have been neglecting."
now has three cities under his
supervision — Denton, Gainesville —- —-- — ...
and Decatur. He is at his officeL..These-surprises helped make it
in Denton on Wednesdays and Sat- winehinetnn and
one thing: business to off."
Regardless of whether consum- ----------
er price resistance was to blame. -a
there was no question but that -
a most successful tour as Repub- aguus. .uny., ga. .u ------
Ucan National Chairman. been used to .talk down proposed visionary and rdreamer-
And Sen. Kefauver fD-Tenn), ' " - "" ’ " i ln
‘Guinn Simons. Texas Depart-
ti----meat of Publie Safety, who gives
Larry Campbell, 12. member of
the basketball team of the NTSC
Lab School North Texas State,
won’t be able to play with his
teammates for several days. A
few days ago, in diving at the bail
• he sustained a broken little finger
on his right hand and that mem-
ber to now in a cast. He said. "I
don’t know when I’ll be able to re-
sume play with the other boys, but
it can't bee too soon to suit me. I
hope some day to be one of the
regulars on the Eagle Quint;” He
is a son of Mr. and Mrs Rob R.
Campbell, 1221 Linden Drive.
Some of the opposing players,
with -whom L. G. (Bitsy) McCray
* has been matched, hope he gets
over his present game. He said,
• when asked about his play, "H's
.very sporadic," Some of the op-
E ponents remarked they didn't just
know what that meant, but hope
he gets over it saon.
. things went:- 2
Argument continued over Eisen-
hower’s plan for blocking Com-
munist aggression in the Middle
THE DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE t:::
has mmie him a messiah tq counts
against fiilbusters, which haveless thousands, of oldsters and.a
- • - .. . - ------ —j --—to his
Commerce Weeks happily report-
ed that the 33-billion-dollar high-
way construction program is M
and running. He said work al-
ready has started on $1,700,000,000
worth
Weeks also said his department
to thinking of asking for legisla-
tion to restrict the erection of bill-
boards along interstate routes, for
reasons of safety and beauty.
COPS HALL - The Republi-
can chairman said his resignation
would become effective Feb. 1.
First, he’ll go to Florida for a
vacation.
* It appeared likely that Hall will
LOS ANGELES. ( - Dt.
; Francis Everett Townsend was 91
years old Sunday — and was still
pushing his 25-year-old. pension
plan with a new, political pitch
to women.
He proposes formation of the
women's antipoverty party. -
The platform says women
"maintain that the elimination of
poverty in the United States as
, quickly as possible, is a sacred
I duty of our government.”
It then advocates the pension
program—“universal insurance,”
Dr. Townsned now calls it—that
balking at higher price tags on
new cars, particularly "medium
id auc. priced” models.
“ - 2 The over-all drift was still up-
‘ The steel industry continued to
operate at near-record levels this
in- week-estimated production:
of 2,517,000 tons. Mills said demand -
- for sheet steel from the auto mak-
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COMMUNIST LOVE MATCH
JOHNSON — The Democratic
leader announced he would 'join
..and
ram wunamson are today obser- commutauon xares u
ving their birthday anniversaries. Westchester County.
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EDITORIALS .
Business Vitality Is Seen
In Denton Despite Drought
—Business i Denton during 1956 was good, even sur-
. passing that of the previous year in some fields. A
mid-year report, made by the Standard Rate and Data
Service, shows that Denton retail merchants did- a
gross volume of $31,693,000 for the 12-month period.
, ending June 30, 1956. ) .
1 The survey of retail business activity in Denton re-
veals increased earnings and freer spending on the
part of the public.
Tire strongest support for the big spending rate was
the record amount of income and the high rate of em-
ployment. There have been some soft spots. Farmers,
‘for instance, have been hardest hit. But many of them
have found good employment in defense plants and
— - elsewhere. ■ ■ ------------------——a.
Thus, people in genera i have loosened their purse
-strings in full confidence that the good conditions will
not only continue but will grow better. In Denton, for
its estimated 8,280 families, net income after taxes
reached the impressive figure of $42,462,000 in the 12-
month period, the SRDS survey shows. Divided by the •
number of families, it amounted to $6,761 per Denton
in praising him to the skies.
Some figured that Knowland
would very likely run for Gov-
ernor of California in 1958 as a
stepping stone for the Republi-
can Presi dential nomination in
1960. ~~
price wars by spring.” "Custom-
Kl donusinothesnrpasnio,d land in some federal job - per
_s
frervreo
seem to feel that, yes, there may be some minor set-
backs, but 1957 will be the best year on record for
business and employment.
, The outlook is even brighter .in Denton than in the
average city. If the average disposable income of Den-
ton families was $6,761 for the 12-month period from
June 1955 to June 1956 — a period of exceedingly dry
weather — then the sky may be the limit if the drought
ends this year.
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____________ STATE OF THE UNION - Ei- among persons above 60, cripples,
wnirw in January 19^ senhower made his message brief the. chronically lick, blind, stone
emocrats joined Republicans on Thursday — 33 minutes — and ldeaf, aj» widows supporting mi-
mi mbers. at .Congress ..didn't pro- por children.
long it much by the five bits of Recipients-about 20 million — days -age, bagged a 140 pound
applause they gave would get about 3135 a month deerwith that weapon. He be-
Eisenhower spoke out. as he has teach, Townsend said. Their pend:
before. on the need to be —— 1 ine wnld numn: ahn tun hillinn
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More Water Pumped From
Wells Than From Lakes
message.
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Letters To The Editor
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Record-Chronicle has received several
interesting letters recently but has withheld publication because
the letters were unsigned or the writer requested that his name
be withheld. It to the polcy of this paper to publish only letters
that have the writer's signature and address attached. The let-
ters will be published on the condition that the names and ad-
. dresses ean be used. Utters should be 150 words or less. If
the report saida; The rest was for
irrigatlon. N /.
He repeated his call for fed-1 1 ■ ■ - "
SL “to VXJ.ulU home, sweet home By Bud »lake
in the civil rights field. 1
Denton Record-Chronicle
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Th High Plains pumpage would .
be enough water to take care of — .
Dallas for about 4,000 years or a
city of almost 70.0OT like San An-
gelo for more thah 43,000 yean.
•This High Plains Is the Inde-
pendent cuss of tlie underground — — -
Zito in 1955 throughout Tex-j reservoirs," a geologist explained. 1 .
the board said in a report "The area has no well developed
me Doa" -- drainage. The groundwater reser- >
voir is not connected underground
geologically or on the surface to .
any- major drainage system. But °
It puts out more than any other."
The report said heavy pumping .
has caused a substantial produc- —
tion decrease in some High Pleins
wells end other areas in the state.
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MIDDLE EAST — Secretary of
State Dulles trudged back nd
forth to Capitol Hill, carrying the
administration plea that Eisen-
hower be given standby authority
to use American armed forces in
the Middle East if necessary.
The secretary got considerable
support, notably from chairman
Gordon (D-ID of the House For-
eign Affairs Committee.
He also got a suggestion from
Sen. Scott (D-NC) that he resign
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HIGHWAYS — Secretary of
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