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DENTON. TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 19, 1957
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Shivers’ Plan
Grow Beards
Gov. Allan Shivers.
servers.
would have appointed them my-
"I have a reputation for bring-
The press secretary said the
“You’re hired,” shouted some-
main reason was that the Presi-
BVT DANGER GREATEST HERE
Texans Not Alone When It
the area "is to mine it out for
LEWISVILE — Three members
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WEATHER
years or more.”
TEXAS:
resignation of R. C. Wilson of
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These were the appointment.* by
Shivers: Joe Thompson of Dallas;
Thornton Hardie of El Paso, and
J, P. Bryan of Freeport as re-
gents; and L. H Ridout Jr. of
Dallas, Eugene Darby of Pharr
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ing rain wherever I handle
pageant,” he added.
Before the meeting broke up.
Derrington brought the subject
back to beards. “Later, we'll set
up a ‘kangaroo court' that will fine
anyone without a beard,” he ex-
plained.
High Monday _—
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Women's News
Iowa underlain by artesian sand-
stone; and the Yazoo delta of
northwest Mississippi.
“We have no reason at this time
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Sanger.
In other business, 16 delegates
were chosen to attend the district
meeting in Dallas on March 1 and
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RIGHT TIME
Farmers hailed the rain as the
best in seven years in some areas
and said the precipitation came
at just the right .time. Up to 5
inches of rain nave fallen in some
drought • stricken regions since
the general statewide rains start-
ed last weekend.
rency during the celebration.
Darrington spent most of the
meeting talking over routine cele-
bration items and becoming ac-
quainted with committee heads.
The commission's executive di-
rector Ed J. Williams and com-
and Herman Heep of Buda as
ARM directors.
"No incoming governor in the
history of Texas has ever been
denied representation on these two
important boards," Daniel said.
"I realize that the names sub-
the “duty or privilege of appoint-
ment. in this instance, is that of
the incoming administration, gath-
er than the outgoing governor,”
Daniel said.
Daniel submitted his message
to the Senate which has not acted
working as hard as their mayor
and two other councilmen. but
they won't be paid during the
coming year.
The coutcil Monday night drew
up an ordinance which, for the
first time, calls for payment to
the mayor and aidermen. But it
will apply only to those elected to
their post this year.
State law prohibits a public of-
fice holder from raising his own
salary or in the case of Lewis-
ville. from establishing pay rates
for service.
withdrew today six appointments
to the Board of Regents of the
University of Texas and the board
of directors of the Texas ARM
it will probably be the middle
of March, or later, before any fur-
ther action is taken by the Legis-
lature on a bill designed to raise
teachers' salaries In Texas. That's
what John H. Lovelady told some
150 members of the Denton Coun-
ty unit of the Texas State Teach-
ers Assn. Monday night.
Lovelady is an assistant direc
tor of field service for the state-
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nesota. - Wisconsin, Illinois and
Mostly cloudy and cool with oc-
casional rain
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to northerly because of a high
pressure system that will create
cooler weather and touch off more
light rain, the Weather Bureau
said.
At Marfa, in drought • seared
west Texas, half an inch of rain
fell earlv today, boosting the total
in the past four days to 2% inches.
That's more than the area has
ever received In the month of Feb-
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self. I will no doubt resubmit some
if not all of them for your consid-
eration.” Daniel said.
CONTRARY TO LAW
“Unless and until this is done,
there is and will remain a qyes-
tion as to the legality of their ap-
pointments. Clearly they are con-
trary to the law as interpreted by
the attorney general and hereto-
fore followed, by the governor and
the Senate.
“In my oath of office I swore
to uphold and follow the law. I
do so now by withdrawing the
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AUSTIN UT—Gov. Price Daniel
tion intends to line up with 27
Afro-Asian bloc countries in the
United Nations demanding that
the U.N. invoke economic sanc-
tions against Israel, Hagerty re-
plied;
“I have nothing to say on that.”
In announcing Eisenhower's de-
City Council
To Get Salary
Staff Special
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FOR QUICK ACTION •.
WANT AD RESULTS
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WHAT A NOSE
A youngster views American B52 jet bombers, the type that recently completed
a non-stop 16,000-mile flight in 31% hours. The nose of the giant aircraft resem-
bles a small building. The picture was made at the Baltimore, Md. airport. (AP
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DENTON MERCHANTS will
have an opportunity to sell
Centennial novelties. Page M.
TEXAS ISN'T the only state*
hard-pressed to find money for
its expenses. Page 9.
FEDERAL AID for building
schools isn't all its cracked
High School Auditorium was
James W. Harvey of Archer City.
Harvey, member of the state
board of education from the 13th
district, briefly explained the du-
ties and responsibilities of the
state board.
MRS. HELVEY ELECTED
In the business portion of the
meeting, held prior to the talks
by Harvey and Lovelady. Mrs.
Lois L. Helvey, 815 Cordell, Den-
ton. was elected president of the
Denton County unit. Mrs. Helvey
out opposition.
TWO OTHER BILLS
The assistant director also told
the group that the TSTA is vital-
ly interested In two other bills now
in legislation . b bill for improved
payment for school transportation
and a bill that would bring im-
provement of the state school film
library, service. A
- Also attending the Monday night
meeting eondunted f at Denton
kinking of irrigation wells “has
accelerated at a rate unmatched
elsewhere in the nation,” said
Fiedler. "Each year a new record
is set in the number of wells
in use and quantity of water
pumped.” He said most of this
has been in Texas.
Because the area was cut off
centuries ago from the rocky
would run five nights as per con-
tract with the Rogers Co., Dar-
rington was asked what would hap-
pen if it rained.
“If it rains. we’ll put the page-
ant on an extra night,” he said.
"These appointments by the out-
going governor were made con-
trary to an oipnion of the attorney — ---- -
general of Texas dated Jan. 16. been recommended to me, and i
1933 in which it was held that “ " ited m"
JACKSON, Miss. I—The United
States is not running out of water,
an expert said today, but some
areas must act to prevent short-
ages.
The greatest danger is in the
southern High Plains of Texas and
New Mexico where increased well-
drilling is draining an under-
ground supply which won't be re-
placed for centuries, said Albert
Fiedler.
Real problems also exist or
threaten, he said, In Long Island,
Tomorrow morning Eisenhower
will meet with Democratic and
Republican congressional leaders
for a full scale review of the en-
tire Middle East picture and quite
likely to give them a preview of
what the administration's next
moves will be.
In advance of the sessions with
Dulles and the congressional lead-
ers, White House press secretary
James C. Hagerty declined to shed
any light on what those moves
will be.
evaporation high, and the subsoil
tight, with the result only a frac-
tion of an inch of moisture per
year penetrates.
“No one knows exactly how this
region is going to meet the prob-
lem of depletion of stored ground
water,” he said. 'If events are
allowed to run their course, irri-
gation'from wells will have t be
abandoned in areas that will be-
gin at centers of heavy pumping
and will grow outward from those
centers as the water is depleted.”
STORAGE NOT ENOUGH
dorage of surface stream water
is not the answer because there
is not enough of it, he said. The
area is part of the severe drought
country recently inspected by
President Elsenhower. Importa-
tion of water from more humid
SHOWERS HELP
STOCK PRICES
mitted to you by my predecessor
are those oL capable and quail- ruary, according to weather ob
tied persons. Some of them had
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“All outgoing governors had
respected the rights and privilege
of incoming governors to make the
appointments except outgoing
Gov, Pat Neff, whose appoint-
ments in 1925 were rejected by
the Senate,” Daniel said.
“It his (Shivers) outgoing. ap-
pointments of the remaining three
are allowed to stand contrary to
the law as heretofore interpreted
and followed, I would have no rep-
resentation on either board during
the two-year term to which I have
been elected.”
TEACHERS TOLD
OF PAY RAISE
The ordinance authorizes 315 per
month for the mayor, and $750
Tn the southern High Plains, perj month for each of the newly-
.. elected aldermen. All members
good." He said rain is light, quently made by incoming Gov.
........ ’ ■ Miriam Ferguson,” Daniel said.
their prices around 364 and $68
at some points.
The cattle market showed its
effect wh.. buyers sought cattle
to put on new growth of oats and
wheat in efforts to hold back
growth until after the last cold
spell due in early March.
OPTIMISTIC
Throughout the region farmers
and stockmen were optimistic of
the rains. In Denton County the
average total during the past two
days has been near the half-Inch
mark.
Official reading for the county
will be .36 of an inch, including
only .08 of an inch reported from
Monday nigi.t. Lewisville, Frisco,
Krum, and Sanger each reported
between .40 and .50 of an inch in
the two days. Justin had .25 and
Celina .35.
The Associated Press reported
snow in the Panhandle, heading
up a cold front that Is pushing
into Texas. Winds were shifting
of the council will receive pay
IN TODAYS PAPER starting in 1958. .
Posts being vacated this year
les. Merchants will give th wood-
ennickles in.change,cand cur* NY-= Miami; the Roswell basin
wooden coins will be used as cur- 4. Nr n, NiM
City Studies
Well Pumping
City commissioners took the first
concrete step this morning in as-
suring Denton a wetter summer
than the one of 1966.
Meeting with officials of two
water pumping companies, acting
city engineer Robert Courtney and
water production superintendent
W. T. (Bill) Elliott, the five city
fathers discussed specifications
for new pumping equipment for
city wells.
The new equipment will be need-
ed when wells are deepened to
increase the water supply. Pre-
liminary estimates indicate this
step will cost approximately $40,-
000, based on 1956 surveys of the
Denton Citizen's Water Commit-
tee and Freeze and Nichols, Den-
ton’s water consulting engineer-
ing firm from Fort Worth.
The plan for lowering existing
wells was reached Jan. 16 and
was expected then to save the city
some 350,000 as compared to the
estimated cost of 3100.000 ior drill-
ing an entirely new well.
Represented at this morning's
meeting were the Lane Texas Co.,
Inc., and J. L. Myers and Sons of
Denton Courtney pointed out
that eight of the 11 city wells are
equipped with Lane Co. water
machinery.
AskedPwhetterctETAaministra. collegesystem.madebytormer
and Aidermen Bester Berry and
L L Thomas. Holdover gmem-
bers—who will not be paid for an-
other year—are C. E. Duve, C. N.
Fellers, and Douglas 0 Phillips.
Thus far no candidates have
filed for the city election this year.
Deadline for filing is March 2. 1
In other business Monday night,
the council purchased a new
Chevrolet for the police depart-
ment. paying 31,678.20 for the four-
door vehicle on the basis of low
-bids The department's 1952 Ford
will be kept for other city em-
ployees. / ,
cision to return to Washington to-
, day. Hagerty said it was prompted
* by no emergency development.
to fear that our nation or our of Lewisville's city council will be
planet is gradually drying up. .....
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won't find anybody mad at you.” in the UN- General Assembly in
the Mideast impasse.
I President Due Today
| For New Conferences
I Oh Troop Withdrawal
I THOMASVILLE, Ga u——Presi.
dent' Eisenhower flies back to
a Washington today to deal at closer
I range in new conferences with the
। tough problem of getting Israeli
I troops out of disputed territory.
I Reportedly much concerned
I about the Mideast stalemate, the
I President decided late yesterday
to cut short his south Georgia va-
cation and return to the capital.
• He had planned until then, the
White House said, to stay on here
I until Friday.
I Eisenhower arranged to leave
the plantation estate of his host,
i Secretary of the Treasury Humph-
rey, in the late morning and drive
to Spence airfield at Moultrie, Ga.,
35 miles north. Take-off aboard his
i private plane was scheduled for
about noon. Eisenhower was ex-
pected to arrive in Washington
about 3 p.m. —• —
NEW EVALUATION
The President set up a White
House conference with Secretary
of State Dulles as the first order
_- of business on his return. They
planned a fresh evaluation of the
Mideast situation. '
sr.
1 man of the Nominations Commit-
areas he described as “still a
dream of the future,” as is con-
version of whatever saline (salt)
water may be present.”
Fiedler said the solution will
'involve means that have never
been used before because a prob-
lem of this kind and on this scale
has never been faced before.”
declared Fiedler, assistant chief
of the U.S. Geological Survey's
ground water supply branch. His
paper was prepared for the Amer-
ican Society of Civil Engineers.
IN PERIODS
"Our national water supply is
not diminishing, so far as we can
ascertain, but is remaining about
the same over the long term.
There ire wet and dry cycles
ranging in length from a few
years to a few decades that must
be reckoned with, and less defi-
wide teacher group.
In discussing the TSTA legis-
lative program Lovelady said _______ ...
that the salary biU is now in the nils a vacancy created by the
house after being introduced by
81 co-sponsors The bill passed the
senate education committee with-
AUSTIN (AP) — The Rail-
road Commission ordered
today an increase of 210,901
barrels daily in crude oil
production for March com-
pared with February.
The oil control body's action
was an apparent answer to insist-
ent demands that Texas help ease
the international oil situation.
Most of the major purchasers of
oil told the commission today that
they were in a position to absorb
and market the flow of oil that
would result from 18 days of pro-
duction.
Independent operators, who have
urged a go-slow policy in boosting
Texas oil allowables, made no def-
inite recommendations on the •
number of producing days. In-
stead, they produced a number of
witnesses who testified that their
wells were unable to get connec-
tionf with the major pipelines, and
therefore they felt the commission
should continue a conservative
production policy.
ALL-TIME HIGH
. The eommission’s order was de-
signed to produce 3,733.066 barrels
daily from February allowable of
3,543,672 barrels, based on 15 days
of production. Last month was an
all time high in production and so
is this month.
The increase in oil ., production
by the Texas group could have :
far-reaching effects in supplying
vital oil supplies to gas-rationed
Europe.
Since the seizure of the Sues
Canal by Egypt, most of Europe
has been forced to curtail exten-"
sively the use of oil for such day-
to-day activities as heating, man-
ufacturing and transportation.
OIL FROM AMERICAS
Closing of the vital Suez Canal
. ended the speedy access of Europe
to huge oil deposits in the Middle
East Aa a result, Europe has -
been forced to get its crude oil
from the Americas.
And not until this month has the
Texas Railroad Commission bow-
ed to increased demands from Eu-
rope to hike the oil production
which it vitally needs.
Only this week the Suez Canal
was cleared enough to allow a
small ship to make its way
through the entire length of the
waterway.
Several major purchasers testi-
fied they would prefer 17 days but
"could handle'' the. flow from 18
days.
Herman Pressler said for Hum-
ble Oil the firm had a firm de-
mand for 564.686 barrels and that
since November there have been
''substantial increases” in Hum-
ble's pipeline capacity. He said
Humble's demand included a sub-
stantial increase in oil for export
to Europe “for which we are told
tankers are available.”
NO SUPPORT
A. E. Herrmann, spokesman for
a large group of independents,
told the commission there has
been no statistical support of the
claims of some larger companies
that they intended to reduce re-
finery intake so as to increase
crude oil available for export.
The latest records, he said, show
“much of our Texas crude pre-
duction is being misused by being
turned into gasoline supplies which
are seriously surplus to demand
here and definitely unwanted
abroad." .
mission president H. V. Shepard
presided with Darrington at the
Monday night meeting.
RAIN?
Explaining that the pageant
North Texas cattlemen got the
breaks from alow gentle rains
during the past 48 hours, which
left up to half an inch of mois-
ture throughout the Denton reg-
ion. And more light rains are on
their way.
Cattle markets' strengthened
slightly in view of an upsurge in
buying from West Texas to take
advantage of expected growth on
winter grains and pasture.
The feed market also was re-
ported weakening, but the effect
on prices has not reached the re-
tail levels as yet. Speculators late
Monday reported cuts in prices of
cottonseed meal and pellets aver-
aging 33 a yon. The drop left
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are those of Mayor F. C. Conner, EAST“SOUTACEFTRAL
following appointments and res-
pectfully requesting your consent
thereto.” *.
Shivers appointed the men five
days before he left office.
Daniel said the 1933 attorney
general's opinion came after the
outgoing governor, Ross Sterling,
had submitted the names of three
new appointees to the Texas
board of regents. A legal question
was raised, Daniel said, as to his
authority to make these appoint-
ments, and the governor asked the
attorney general for the opinion.
FURTHER QUOTES
“Upon recelving this opinion.
Gov. Sterling withdrew the ap-
pointments and they were aubse-
Four representatives of the National Guard pose with Rep. Overton Brooks (D- . >
La) in Washington before the hearings on the Guard-Army row over compulsory
, active duty training for recruits. Left to right are Maj. Gen. Maxwell Rich of
Utah, Maj. Gen. Edward Sirois of Massachusetts, Maj. Gen. Hal Muldrow of Okla-
homa, Rep. Brooks and Maj. Gen. Ellard A. Walsh, president of the National Guard
Assn Brooks is chairman of a House armed services sub-committee conducting the L
Oil Output Hiked
in Wake Of Pleas
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REMEMBER WHEN
’Denton had a social elite.
known as “The 300"?
Sun seta today at 6:16 p.m.; rises
Wednesday at 1.06 am. rjshing:
Fair
Danton County rainfall Monday:
.06 of an inch
Denton County rainfall so far
thia month: 2.10 inches So far
thia year: 389 inches. .This Uma
last year: 3.0a inches.
. 54TH YEAR OF DAILY SERVICE—
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INDICTED ON
TWO COUNTS -
Arthur Miller, Pulitzer Prize
winning playwright ("Death of
a Salesman” etc.) has been in-
dicted on two charges of con-
tempt of Congress stemming
from his refusal to reveal nam-
es of fellow writers with whom
he admitted attending Commun-
ist Party meetings in 1939 and
1940. (AP Wirephot) 4
AUSTIN U_Backers of a bill
designed to insure a Democratic
victory in Texas' special UJ.
Senate election today prepared to
, C muster strength for another try
r at getting the measure brought up
l i"‛for debate in the state Senate.
The bffl. by Rep. Joe Pool of
Dallas, suffered a staggering blow
yesterday when only 18 votes were
cast of the 22 needed to suspend
procedural rules to open debate
on it. . L -
A Republican victory in the Tex-
as election could mean reorgan-
ization of the U.S. Senate under
GOP control. It would bring the
Senate lineup to 46 Democrats
and 46 Republicans and Vice Pres-
ident Nixon could cast the tie-
breaking vote on reorganization.
BLAKELY SERVING
william Blakley of Dallas b
prying as interim senator until
the special election April 2a
which time a senator will be elect-
ed to serve the unexpired two
yeaf of the term of Price Daniel
who resigned to become governor.
Blakley is voting Democratic.
The Pool bill, already passed by
the House and given an emergen-
cy tag by Gov. Daniel, would pro-
vide for a runoff election between
the two top candidates if the high
man doesn't poll a majority over
his combined opposition. Nine can-
didates are running in the sena-
torial race, including one Repub-
lican, Thad Hutcheson of Houston.
Hutcheson is backed by Presi-
dent Eisenhower. Democrate fear
he could win under present law
governing special elections which
gives the office to the high man.
even though Democratic votes
would be in the majority, but split
among the large field.
MAJORITY RULE
A runoff,6they contend, would
insure majority rule in tradition-
ally Democratic Texas.
State Sen Grady. Hazlewood,
sponsor of the Pool bill to the
House, said he would make an-
other attempt to muster the votes
necessary to put it in effect
Wednesday when it comes up
again on the calendar. He must
switch three of the 13 votes cast
against it yesterday.
Another bill pending in the state
Senate would abolish the special
election entirely and let Blakley
serve out the unexpired term.
Denton grocers and druggists
can prepare to see cobwebs cover
their stocks of razor blades. And
the cobwebs will remain there
through April.
Or so said Harry S. Darrington,
business manager of the Denton
Centennial. Monday evening to
membes of the Denton Centennial
Commission and celebration com
mittee herds.
Sporting-a young beard himself.
Darrington called for the coopera-
tion of the committee leaders in
growing the chin whiskers.
"The growing of beards here
can do more to publicize Denton
all over Texas than anything else”
he said
Spotting teveral beards already
started by men in 'his audience,
he also commended the growers
and offered encouragement to one
who complained that his beard
"itched.”
Darrington. sent to Denton by
the John B. Rogers Producing Co.
of Fostoria, Ohio, has already tak-
en over the business matters of
the centennial, and will later dou-
ble up as pageant director >
FIVE-NIGHT STAND
The pageant, called "The Den-
ton Centennial”. la scheduled for
presentation five nights during
Easter week.
At present, however, the busi-
ness man. ger pageant director is
more interested in promotion of
the centennial, he explained. He
'said cente nnlal ties and hats, in-
cluding "toppers” and derbies,
were on sale now at centennial
headquarters, 113 E. Hickory.
Later, sunbonnets and probably
floor-length dresses will be on sale
for the women.
Another promotional stunt that
will be arranged in the near fut-
ure is the issuing of wooden nick-
Pool Backers '
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Muster Votes
After Defeat
ISRAEL WOE „
SchmitiFloyd-Hamlett Ambulance
. . Phones C.2214 and C-4147.
A nominating committee was
elected to prepare nomination of
officers for next year. Selected
were Mrs. Kate Smoote of Denton.
Scott Walker of Lewisville. Alfred
Greer of Ponder and Mrs. Nina
Macklin and Mrs. Julia Hogan. -
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DENTON AND VICINITY: Cloudy
•nd cool with occaslonal rain .
through Wednesday.
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