Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 143, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 17, 1957 Page: 1 of 16
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" DENTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 17, 1H7
ACTRESS TELES
KIDNAP STQRY
Stove Said
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that the underground water sup-
ply below the present producing
Poll Tax List Can
Be Ready For Vote
Break Out
In Roanoke
Teenager Dead
From Wounds
the Denton Citizens Water Com-
mittee. the city water plant sup-
Continuation of the Water Re*
sources Committee during the see-
next summer
new well. The
overworked. One death in Denton
was caused by bums from a home
HEARING CALLS
yesterday, killing three workmen
and threatening natural gas sup-
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The recommendation for deepen-
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age assistance legislation to raise
the maximum of 958 a month to
with the people convinced of the
honesty and integrity of our pub-
lic officers and employes,” Daniel
said.
"I welcome any other sugges-
lage of ’ federal money
pay oldsters’ medical
at people to make puts. but I
think a lot of people will make
some cuts. I think we will do so
in the Treasury.” _____’__c.
But he added soberly that
if “terrific” spending and taxing
are not halted will predict that
you will have a depression that
will curl your hair.”
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temperatures have remained be-
low freezing.
The unexpected fury of the win-
drilling a
> plan adds
cold wave; that has
state most of the wet
tinue through Friday.
by surprise. Many homes report-
ed water lines frozen this morn-
140.000. based on 1956 surveys.
Further study of the two plans
emphasis on local control.
Daniel made a strong plea for
school districts both whites and
Negroes want to continue separate
b "Leeupglaschocim and Christian
like" approach to the problem
Ings to the legislature, the gover-
nor and local grand juries.
Ing the wells was made .
and Nichols consulting water en-
$60, plus study of plans to take
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Scotland Yard today summoned
a long list of witnesses in an at-
[ — 4empi4to prove that society doctor
John Bodkin Adams drove a rich
— City fathers indicated the well-
deepening plan was certain to be
approved, since much of the pro-
posed work must be done in order
to get the wells to top working
order for the summer season.
Nichols made a detailed report
on his firm’s study of Denton’s un-
LOS ANGELES I - Marie Mc-
Donald tells her kidriaping story
to the county grand jury today.
British actor Michael Wilding,
her escort of recent months, also
has been subpoenaed_totell what
he knows of it. So have 13 other
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nesday of undetermined origin,
was fought by firemen from four
trucks. Three trucks answered the
alarm at the other fire of unknown
causes Tuesday at 115 p.m. Each
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penses.
Also, repeal of the law permit-
combined insurance <surety!
__banking ft rust' businesses,
more money for the Insurance
commission and steps to "finish
The Associated Press reported
that even Hell was frozen over to-
day. In fact, Hell. a tiny Michigan
community, reported io degrees
below zero.
The Weather Bureau said the
proposals, by announcing that ris:
ing government spending "should
promptly be stopped."
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\ will be Goergee Pierro Richard.
The ether, names for a girl will
__be Louise Marguerite.
The baby is expected in the .next
few days.
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a good supply in the deep Travis
Peak sands, but water is salty,
though not unpalitable, the studies
show,
However, Nichols did not rule
out the possibility of drilling the
well. He said he would leave it to
the city commission to make the
decisions.
The city water supply was dan-
See WATER, Page 1,
tax lists can be ready
judges within 60 days
Mm Humphrey
its at a news conference.
President Eisenhower’s budget is
too'big, doesn't talk, like a man
quarreling with the boss. He talks
like a man whose boss agrees with
him.
Irving said yesterday.
Cooper said M. K. Meredith told
him he warned his nephew, James
Sims, 11, to halt three times be-
fore he fired two blasts from a
double-barreled shotgun.
Meredith told police he and the
boy had quarreled several times
over doing household chores.
He said the boy had lived with
him since the boy’s parents sepa-
rated last October.
plies as far east as Detroit.
Officials of. Panhandle Eastern
Hi . Pipeline Co. said they hoped to
restore deliveries to 70 per cent
No frdst was reported in the
Lower Rio Grande Valley Marlin-
By ALLEN BOGAN
Record-Chronicle Managing Editor
. Harassed city leaders have un-
covered a plan to alleviate the an-
ticipated DentonVater shortage
Sun seta today at 5:46 p m; ris.
p.rnday at 728 Uh. Piahinet
gineering firm of Fort Worth. The ,
recommendation was supported by
Begins Whittling On
Record Outlay Bid
WASHINGTON IF - The House
Appropriations Committee set out
today to try to whittle down Pres-
ident Eisenhower's request to
spend $71,807,000.000 during the
next fiscal year.
One day after receiving Eisen-
hower's budget message, subcom-
mittees arranged to begin scan-
ning behind closed doors the fiscal
needs of the interior. Post Office
and Treasury departments.
Members hope to chop substan-
tial sums from the 973,300,000,000
in requests for new appropria-
hlAne — r — af —«k»«uanana aarpu
lions. 806 of Wnen woof a <niry
over to later years.
Some Democrats and some Re-
even though we can’t start on
them until Feb. 11, O. N. (Newt)
Seagraves. Denton County tax as-
.sessor and collector, said today.
On Wednesday, Gov. Price Dan-
iel asked clerks of the 93 largest
counties—Denton wasn’t inchided
—to tell him whether their lists
acking plant, two
town, in flames.
said the
indetinite
said the subfreezing temperi
forced a 25 per cent reduct _
gas service to large industrial
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The mercury pli
grees at Amarillo
at Brownsville, .03 at Mission, .09
at Weslaco and .01 at Harlingen.
A week-long cold wave eased up
a bit in the Midwest today but
struck more record - crumbling
blows in the East.
No general relief from the sea-
eon's longest cold snap across the
eastern half of the nation ap-
peared imminent.
The mercury slid to -11 degrees
in Youngstown, Ohio, for a new
all-time low.1 These record low
PRINCE. GRACE
DECIDE ON NAMES
was not immediately known.
The H. B. Base home a mile
east of Roanoke was struck first
By fire. The fire started about 9
P m . and "seemed to be all over
the house at the same time,” Mr.
and Mrs. Baas reported.
They managed to save only a I -
few personal belongings, before _ .
being blocked from the burning
structure. ,
Mr.rand Mrs. W. H. Herring re- ‘
turned home from a visit to Roan-
oke about 9 p.m Wednesday night'
northwest of the new Denton High
School building. His house was,,
just off Crescent street.
. Left homeless were the J. B.
Rogers family of 719 Bailey and
the B. C. Evans family of 315
the emergency category along
with Water conservation. He
urged modernization of eminent
domain laws to help highway ex-
CLINGS TO FAITH
Joan Eckert, 14, clutches rosary beads as she lies near a car that pinned her and a
girl companion to a pole in an accident in front of a Brooklyn, N.Y. school. Joan died,
four hours later in a hospital where a team of six surgeons worked to save her life.
Her companion was reported in good condition. The accident oceurred when the
driver lost control of the car turning the corner after the gas pedal jammed. (AP
crime.
Ths jury has seen two films
and heard a reading of her 47-
page statement to police.
= “The films are mutually incon-
sistent. and thevstetements in the
films and the re-enactments In the
films are Inconsistent with them-
selves," the spokesman said.
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MONTE CARLO GT — If it’s a
boy. Prince Rainier and Princess
f Grace are going to name him
I Gregoire. A girl will be called
, Caroline, Prince Rainier told a
, a . news conference today.
The other names of the prince
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from each Supreme Judicial Dis-
trict plus one member named by
the Supreme Court's chief justice
to “investigate allegations of mis-
conduct on the part of state offi-
ials and employes." It would not
be a state grand jury. he said,
but a body authorized to hold pub-
lic hearingsand report its find-
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"idow prelimsjdty hearing on a
murder charge filed against the
pudgy doctor went into its fourth
day in this seaside Victorian re-
sort where the deaths of-numer-
ous rich old ladies have turned
into one of Britain's most fascin-
ating mysteries of the century.
Officially. Adama is accused
only of murdering 81.- year - old
Mrs. Edith Morrell to profit from
her will. But prosecutor Melford
Stevenson said he would also
prove in court that the 260-pound
soft-talking doctor got Mrs. Ger-
trude J. Hullett to take drugs,
then gave her enough barbitur-
ates to kill a horse.
THREE KILLED
IN EXPLOSION
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The alternate plan, submitted
as a recommendation by water
experts at a meeting of the city
commission Wednesday, calls for
deepening of all present city wells.
to pry the door from its hinges;
When he entered the building he
saw I ightsey sprawled on his bed.
apparently overcome by smoke.
Firemen quoted Welborn as say-
ing that he crossed the room, pull-i
Bee FIRES, Pawl
HEAVY
. Two Blazes
Small pieces of equipment were
salvaged from the smoke-filled
building, a sheet-iron structure
opened by the Herrings a year ago
this March.
Only a small portion of the Her*
ring losses was covered by insur-
ance, Herring said
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brought only slight relief from the
icy weather. The U. S. Weather
Bureau said this area could ex-
pect the arctic air to hold on
through tonight and early Friday.
Lows of 19 to 34 degrees are
forecast for tonight Residents
were again warned to take pre-
cautions against a moderate to
severe freeze, e
The mercury remained in the
mid-90s all day Wednesday, mark-
ing the second straight day that
up to a saving of 150,000 or more.
Since a new well and all its
equipment would cost Denton
9100,008 or more, city officials
were ready to onsider any alter-
nate feasible plan that would be
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carpenter shot and killed his teen-
age nephew when the boy ad-
caneed wn J1” witpan axe-roic Trinity sands contains an excess
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problems and said he would back
every legal means to make sure
they are "respected and not over-
ruled by federal force."
In his first major message to
the Legislature, Daniel said he
still believed, the U.S. Supreme
Court's anti-segregation decision
and Humphrey demurred.
“I don't believe it is up to me
start now to, point the finger
Denton County rainfall so far
this month: 40 of an inch. So far
this year: 40 ef an took. This tme
last year: Trace.
plies cut 29 per cent. Industries
as far south as Temple and Bryan
had supplies curtailed by up to 40
per cent, the spokesman said.
A similar cutback was started
at Fort Worth, but was lifted.
The spokesman said the indus-
trial curtallment was to conserve
gas for home users.
Four Suspended
At Aggieland
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gonhomorag were sugpended by
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Texas ABM College yesterday for
hazing freshman students. Eight-
Within a 36-hour period
three Denton house fires left
one dead and 14 persons.
completely “burned out.”
D|l|| was L. J. Lightsey,
80, who was fatally burned
about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday
when his small frame home was
completely destroyed by fire.
Lightsey, a Denton horsebreeder
making necessarv revairs or re- ri---
placemenu will increase water w reporter?
production by approximately 750,- ”
000 to 1.000.000 gallons daily. pre-
diminry estimates show. This is
as much as a new well could be
-- terest charges.
Some members are known to
feel that if Congress could cut the
Wells
sion; the finest system of public
education with state money. in-
raises for public
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slowly rising , temperatures
through Friday. Lowest 18.24 to.
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T<X AS: Fair,shightly warm-
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Fair and cold through Friday.
TEMPERATURES
(Experiment Station Report)
They indicated this would mean
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hold use along Panhandle East- state and federal activities with
era's system in Kansas, Missouri,
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Michi-
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DEATH SCENE — William Ealmes points out the place where the body of L. J. flames sSonshudren
Lightsey was found only minutes after Denton firemen extinguished the blaze at The ftre at the Lightsey home
Lightsey’s home just off Crescent Street. William L. (Mike) Welborn of 1401 Mal- w“. discovered when William L
One received severe hurn on his hands and legs when Jie made an unsuccessful^ at- drove " teg-thesack otume
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publicans complained about the
• size of the budget for the year
starting next July 1, referring to
it as inflationary.
this step will cost approximately er intendant and the city engineer.
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i kicked. He said he spotted a
, grubbing hoe nearby and usad it
Th size of the budget, a record
for a peace year and the fifth
highest in the nation's history,
spurred • congressional demands
for sharp cuts in appropriations, .
on which spending is based.
TAXCUT WANTED
The President forecast a year-
end surplus of >1,800,000,000 which
he said would be applied toward
reduction of the 272-billion-dollar
national debt, now costing more
than seven billions annually in in-
events Might Cure
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water Woes
He placed restoration of public tions whereby we can ejablteh an
confidence in state government in agency .which let the people
planned spending total several bil-
___lion more, there might be enough
of a surplus to provide tax relief
Lin 1968, a congressional election
He urged doubling of the pro-
posed 100 million dollars revolving
fund to help local districts build
conservation dams, and urged the — —-----------
lawmakers tn approach the water "Nothing else that we attempt
emergency “without timidity." He or accomplish ii h- "
suggested long range research
through a state agency to
local districts eoordinate
IN TODAY'S PAPER
WHO SAID teenagers don t
’ like the movies? It certainly
wasn’t their statement. Page
9. Sec.1.
LADY IN RED had a reason
for leading the FBI to John
Dillinger. Page 5, Sec. 1
WHAT ABOUT those glass
backboards on a basketball
court? They came in handy
. for Denton High the other day.
Page L Sec. 2.1
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tions are for an
of not less than
customers.
GAS CUT
.derground water supply. Hia. stu-
mnemnloveSidy, authorized by the city com-
“ mission Sept. 13, 1956, indicated
can be ready within 60 days. The
Associated Press reported today
that all of the 23 counties except
Harris, the state’s largest, would
have no trouble in readying the
voting lists
The new governor has from 60
to 90 days to call a special elec-
tion in the Senate race and one
problem has been whether or not
the poll tax Hate can be ready in
time to use in the election.
The election will be held to
name a senator to fill Daniel’s
unexpired term . William Blakley
of Dallas was named Tuesday as
temporary imator until the spec-
ial election can be held.
Seagraves said the poll tax lists
would have to be separated as to
boxes then alphabetized. Denton
County has 28 ballot boxes plus
the absentee box handled by Coun-
ty Clerk A. J. Barnett.
At 'noon Wednesday? 1,778 poll
tax receipts and exemptions had
been issued by Seagraves’ staff.
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Presumably "The Body," as the
shapely blonde has been tagged by
press agents, will be asked to ex-
plain what a grand jury spokes-
man described as "glaring incon-
sistencies'’ in her accounts of the
advertising: improved labor rela- Sports ■
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due” in workmens compensation Women •
Daniel proposed that the Legis-
lative create a state law enforce-
ment commission with a member cucne.Pa!,
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. . ... ... . ... — ____low of 14 degrees here this morn-
in this budget that can be cut,” ing.
But today’s bright' sunshine
Jan 31 is deadline for serving eg, ; Industrialusers in the Sherman-
emptions on purchasing the $1.75 Denison area also had their sup-
poll tax receipts which must be
obtained in order to vote in the
the job" on insurance regulation
with, improved penal statutes on
insurance and security regulation;
a constitutional amendment to Feed News d fe •
persons, including hr former hus-
band, shoe magnate Harry Karl, .
and her mother Mrs. Marie .
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After 14-Degree Low
startled
Shivering Denton residents
shook off the icicles today and
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destructton was already at the
I will be conducted before the city
commission takes ifhal action but
a definite move is expected, within
a week.
Lowering of the pumps and
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set: Harrisburg, Pa., 9 above; fires Wednesday afternoon .and
Pittsburgh, 4; Parkersburg, W. night destroyed a Roanoke home
Va.. -9; Columbus, Ohio, -7; and heavily damaged a meat
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called today for a local option ays- ficials or employes, added that
tern of handling school integration “purveyors of false charges" in
IrOLlems and said he would back trat connection should be exposed.
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the coldest weather this area hasitry biMta caught many Dentonitea of 39 degrqes Rainfall
recorded in three years. The tern-
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early Thursday. The high mini-
mum was 34 at Brownsville.
Overnight rain included .03 of
an inch at Palacios and .01 at
Amarillo. Beaumont, Lufkin and
Dalhart. Skies were clear in the
north and partly cloudy in the
south.
A ridge of cold air extending
from Canada to the Gulf kept the
air frigid.
11 AT DALHART
Other overnight lows included:
Dalhart II, Abilene and Wichita.
Falla 14, San Angelo 15. Texar-
kana 18, Dallas 17, Lufkin 19, El
Palo 24. Houston, San Antonio
and Beaumont 96. Gorpus Christi
and Del Rio 38, Galveston 30 and
Laredo 31.
Wednesday's highs ranged from
30 at Amarillo to 80 at Presidio.
The Lone Star Gas Co. at Dallas
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NEW TENANTS
Preparing to move into the Governor's Mansjon
Austin is Gov. Price Daniel and his family. Ld
right, front: John. 8 Mrs, Daniel and Houston.
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printer, told firemen be noticed
smoke "boiling” out of the stove-
pipe when he drove past, but that
it wasn't until he had left Me ear-
that he saw the flames.
. Racing to the small wood strue-
ture, he tried the door but found
ing. Many broken pipes are ex-
pected when the lines thaw.
From the number of cars mak-
ing like steam engines this morn-
ing. cracked blocks will be num-
erous when the weather moder-
ates.
FIRES RESULT i
The cold weather indirectly
caused an outbreak of house fires
as heaters and stoves became
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