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Centennial Fun Nat In Good Taste
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THE WORLD TODAY
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you when you kiss a pretty girl:
anweea as mcond elaa mall matter at the pomtottice at Denton, Tezas
January 18. 1931, ecoording to Ac ot Congredk Marab 8, 1872.
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ible carry on like this! — Al-
irt F. Gonzales in Reader's Di-
Joints, but the worst trouble I have
with them, when under a house,
is when I got my face in a spider
web.”
"I don't get to Denton as often
as I did years ago,” said E. E.
Fairman of the Krum community.
"Parking space seems to get hard-
er to find every day." When asked
about crop conditions, he replied
they're good. "I have been a cot-
ton man most of my life, planting
in some years in the past as much
as NO acres, but now the regula-
tions have cut me down to less
than 30 acres.”
A pair of spectacles, belonging
to a woman, were left at the Sou-
thern Hotel and turned over to
Roundabout, who now has the glas-
ses. They will be gladly returned
to the owner by giving a descrip-
tion of them.
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By PAUL HARVEY
Dr. Grabriel Hauge, the Presi-
dent's chief economics advisor,
says the outlook for 1957 is that
it will be a better year even than
1956.
Commerce Secretary Weeks says
our nation is not even remotely
close to a depression. Do you see
what I’m saying’
It makes no difference whether
the stock market declines again
and again and again. Ultimately
it will reflect business conditions
as they are and when those con-
The second Hoover Commission
In 1955 and the government's Gen-
eral Accounting Office havo both
recommended the system be
scrappod. So the Eisenhower ad-
ministration is following suit in
urging the same.
The House Post Office Commit-
tee approved a bill — although it
won't become law unless the full
House and Senate approve — to
end the system after either of
these two things happen: the de-
posits fall below one billion dollars
or the system, which last year had
a profit of 6% million dollars,
shows a loss.
Then the government would re-
fuse new accounts, stop interest
on those it holds and start giving
depositors back their money. This
job would take two years.
After that the unclaimed depos-
its would go into the U.S. Treasury
where depositors who later turn
up could claim their money.
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The forecasts so confidently
1930s, when the marriage and
NEW YORK (—Things a col-
umnist might never know if he
didn't open his mail:
That the American tourist in-
dustry is the greatest on earth.
HEY, kips!
I BETTER START
HOME NOW—MOMME
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a bad taste in the mouths of many, many per-
iod” enforcement of the laws. I, as well as oth-
The economy must continue to expand at a rapid
rate or the standard of living will decline. Construc-
tion of homes must go on at a high level. Incidental-
ly, the Census Bureau has reported that six out of 10
American families now own their homes, a new record
MMNER or tsi ASSOCIATED raEBs
Asoosmsoe Prw m enuued excluniven » M IN for publcatiav. ot
ho sum nows printd us this newapaper, as well m an AP newa ata-
be detained for not being
the above mentioned arti-
The E. D. Trester family had an
idea that the family weight. Tres-
ter end Mrs. Trailer, should be
reduced by 100 pounds. They are
well on the road to achieving that
goal, as 90 pounds have been lost.
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•Tm going to have a garden
this year, in fact have already
some of it up and growing nicely."
said Mrs. V. E. Carrigan. Ill Car-
roll Street. "For the past several
years, I haven't attempted a gar*
den as the drought has interfered
in the effort. This year I'm ready
for a real home garden.”
Frank Mayfield is one of the
Mrs. Robert W. Chambers is ob-
serving her birthday anniversary
today.
S0TROWACOKON
INT52 SOLO JOB
WITH MORE K1D6
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DIVIION - 4
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Dr. A. M. Sampley of Teachers
College read one of his recently-
published plays, "The Marriage of
Francis Arden” at the meeting
of the Rotary Club Thursday
noon.
Joan Crawford and Clark Gable
star today in "Love On the Run”
at the Palace.----------------
N per cent have never traveled
by train.
That this country may not be
going to the bow-wows—it now
has one dog for every seven per-
sons.
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pounds have been lost.
Id. "Only 10 pounds to
go and all of it from me.”
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the President's good intentions
about curtailing inflation, that is
the trend.
Since he became President liv-
ing costs are up another 3.6 per
cent personal income when he bo-
camo President totaled 237 billion
— today it's 288 billion — after
taxes. Wages in manufacturing
went from 71 dollars a week to
84 dollars.
In 1967 AFL-CIO leaders are
counting on pay raises averaging
ten cents an hour and more cost-
of-living clauses in union con-
tracts which throw more dollars
into the inflation fire and no really
bigstrickes to soften the economy.
Consumer spending continues at
the same rate that made INC our
best year. Neither rising prices nor
tight credit has discouraged that
spending. The people are confi-
dent.
Twenty economists, with repu-
tations for guessing right more
often than wrong, were questioned.
Here is the consensus:
There is inflation in our future.
Creeping inflation, comparatively
painless. This will discriminate
against retired persons with fixed
incomes. It will favor the indivi-
aual who invests in the stock mar-
ket. It will favor the ownership of
things — rather than cash.
This does not diminish the im-
portance of proper balance. Mon-
ey in the bank is an important
cushion — a shock absorber to
Ude us over the rough spots. If
we have that "insurance” then in-
vestment is justified.
Wards Automotive is betting on
a big first quarter in passenger
car production. Paul Harvey is
betting that one major manufac-
turer will come out with 1958
models in midyear and so stimu-
late the car market further.
Our population is increasing fast.
A baby to bom in the United
States every eight seconds. Some-
body dies every Si seconds. An-
other immigrant comes ashore
here every two minutes.
Our population is Increasing by
one every 11 seconds. They'll need
more of everything By 1960
there’ll be 11 million more of us.
Almost three million more house-
holds. We’ll be earning 11 per
cent more and spending 18 per
cent more.
_________________are dubious about coming here for
the celebration for fear that they will......
properly dressed or for not purchasing
" it seema that there to too much commercialism in the affair
by trying to force people to buy the aforementioned articls. Let's
clear this up in everyone‘s mind and all have fun.
Mrs. Mary L. Williams,
Route 1,
Denton.
HAL BOYLE SAYS
Kiss A Pretty Girl Or Rub
Around Block: Same Results
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the pituitary gland begins secret-
'__like crazy, the adrenal glands
are stimulated, the blood pres-
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des. Lotto not run our out-of-town guests off: let's let them en-
joy it Quito n few I have heard to remark would just have to stay
home during the time and not go to town as they didn't have the
required artils.
Dear Sirt
I would like to express the opinion of quite a few persons and
ysel concerning the Denton Ytontontoial celebration. - It to be-
During one of Vladimar de Pach-
mann’s recitals in Spain, the great
pianist was distracted by a wo-
man fanning herself. Finally with
a smile, Pachmann said, "Lady
you are fanning two-four and I'm
the White House appears
one I' S bill—the double
ROUND
ABOUT
TOWN
By R. A (Bob) EDWABDB
Really Done
NEW YORK M_The boom lost
a little more of its sip this week.
You could see the signs most
dearly in four key fields ■steel,
autos, retail trade and housing.
Except possibly for housing. the
symptoms were pretty mild. A few
steel furnaces were shut down, but
nobody was laid off. A Detroit
trade journal said auto dealers,
after a good February, had re-
turned to the prictice of granting
discounts. Department store sales
for the week ended March 9
trailed year-ago business by 10
per cent Retailers said part—but
by no means all — of the decline
was due to last year’s earlier
Easter. At this time last year
Easter was only a few weeks
away.-
Home builders for some time
now have been complaining bitter-
ly about the government's "tight
money” policy. Last week, at con-
gressional hearings in Washington,
they really let down their hair.
Credit is tight now because busi-
ness expanded at a whirlwind
pace last year and had to borrow
billions of dollars to pay for the
new factories, machinery and
equipment. The growth in this
type of spending was fantastic —
6% billion dollars more than in
1965, or a gain of 22 per cent
This year, according to a govern-
ment study, the rise will continue
but at a much slower rate. It's
estimated businessmen will spend
37 billions on various types of im-
provements in 1957—an increase of
3 billions or 6% per cent About
half the 1957 increase will be due
to higher costs.
Utility companies will be in the
foreground of this year's expan-
sion drive. Cutbacks in new con-
struction are planned by manufac-
turers of automobiles, building
materials and textiles. One excep-
tion will be the nation’s largest
building materials producer.
Johns-Manville Corp., which has
budgeted a record 37 millions for
expansion.
Steel production this week
dipped to a new 1957 low with
output scheduled at 92.7 per cent
of capacity or 2,373,000 tons.
That’s 4.2 per cent less than the
ditions are truly bearish the Ad-
ministration can relax credit curbs
and use sundry other stimulants
now purposely hold In reserve.
Cushion? Our aircraft industry
has a backlog of 19 million dol-
lars worth of unfilled orders.
In 1967 the cash registers or re-
tail merchants in the United States
will ring up a record for 300 bil-
lion dollars.
The question is not will there
be bread for everybody, but
merely a question of how much
butter will we have on it. Despite
tonnage produced in the like week
last year.
Cutbacks were in prospect, too,
for the oil industry. Louisiana and
New Mexico announced plans for
sharp curtailment of their crude
oil production "allowables” for
April and there waa every sign
that Texas, the nation’s top pro-
ducer. would take similar action
in a day or two. In recent weeks
U. S. fields have been producing
to the hilt. But Arab oil is flowing
through Middle East pipelines
again and the Suez Canal may be
reopened to tanker traffic soon.
With Middle East crude available.
Europe will no longer need vast
amounts of Western Hemisphere
oil.
Biggest question among oil men
at week's end was whether the
crude price increases made in
January would stick. Best guess
was that present prices would
hold if the major producing states
reduce their output.
"No. I’m not planting any corn
thia year and I believe that moot
of my neighbors will go the sor-
ghum or maize route instead of the
corn, " said W. J. Pilgrim of the
Cooper Creek community. “The
last rain, while not particularly
needed for present use, may come
in handy later on, and it has not
Interfered with any of my plant-
ing."
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Yet a recent survey showed 78
per cent of U. S. adults never]. That
nave made n journey by air,50
per cent haven’t made a trip of
more than 100 miles by bus, and
made during the early
_______________birth rate* dropped be-
“ . cause of the depression, that the United States popu-
f lation would stabilize at 150,000,000 and then go into
■ a slow decline, are almost forgotten today.
As 1957 nears the end of the first Quarter, the pop-
ulation is estimated at 169,600,000. This is an increase
of 2,800,000 in a year.
Our gain in population during the past 20 years has
confounded the experts as well as the pessimists. And
current indications are that the nation faces what is
described is "a population explosion” within the next
two decades.
Denton and Denton County certainly are to become
vital areas in the population boom. In fact, the hand-
writing already is on the wall.
In 1950 the City of Denton had a population of
-- 21,372. Today its estimated population, including su-
burbs, is 27,016.
It is true that most of the population growth in this
area since 1950 has been within the Denton city
limits. But with the completion of four-lane U.S.
Highway 77 into Dallas and the filling of Denton
County's three major lakes, the suburban population
is expected to show a decided increase.
Denton County's population in 1950 was 41,365. At
the present time, officials are estimating it at close
to 50,000.
Denton County is the second largest county in the •
13th Congressional District, which embraces 15 count-
ies. Only Wichita, with 127,00 population, is larger.
Experts have estimated that the united States pop-
ulation will be 228,500,000 by 1957. This would be
nearly 60,000,000 more people to be added in less
than two decades. This sensational increase in pro-
spective population means that tremendous changes >
will take place in the greater Denton area, as well as
in other sections where the boom is to be felt
287 —
if I had not come and spoken
unto them, they had not had sin;
but now they have no cloak for
their sin. — John 15:22
Our tins, like to our shadows
when our day ia in ita glory, scarce
appeared; towards our evening
how great and monstrous they are!
— Suckling
Farmers, with whom we've talk-
ed, are of the opinion that the
most recent rain will be of parti-
cular benefit to the grain, however
those crops were not suffering.
They agreed that the only bad
thing about the rain was that it
would delay planting of corn, maize
and some other row crops. But all
were pleased with the rain since
for the past six or seven years
they've seen so little moisture.
Gardeners, too, were pleased, and
those who had recent plantings of
shrubs snd trees were particularly
glad of the rsin, as that moisture
will get the plants and trees off to
a good start.
From The Washington Bureau of
the Dellas News:
President Eisenhower Thursday
nominated William H. Francis Jr.
of Houston, Texas Republican fi-
nance chairman, to be Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Manpow-
er, Personnel and Reserve. He
would succeed Carter Burgess,
who has resigned.
Francis was born in Fort Worth
in 1914. He received his bachelor
of arts degree from Rice Institute
in 1935 snd his law degree from the
University of Texas in 1938. Ho
practiced law before serving in the
Army from 1941 to 1946 and then
returned to private lew practice.
He became self-employed in 1949
in ranching and investments
Senate Democratic leader Lyn-
don B. Johnson said bo thought
Francis would be confirmed and
that he would do a good job. John-
eon said Francis wm his long-time
friend, and that he would support
him.
Francis a son of the late W. H.
Francis, former Denton citizen,
end is a nephew of Mrs. Helen
Harris of Denton.
By JAMES MARLOW
Associated Press News Analyst
WASHINGTON - Eisen-
hower administration wants to
junk the postal savings system.
After 47 years it has about out-
lived its usefulness. So Congress
may end IL
This sevings system, govern-
ment-run snd government-backed.
wm created in 1910 to serve three
main purposes:
1. To give many Americans,
shaken by the bank failures in the
financial crisis of 1907, a place
where they could deposit their
savings with a feeling of confi-
dence.
3. To encourage immigrants —
it was.a time of big immigration
and many of the newcomers were
hoarding or sending their money
back home to start savings
accounts which were safe and
would give them interest.
3. To provide an essy snd con-
venient iucans of saving for Amer-
icans living in out-of-the-way rural
areas, miles from banks and
towns when automobiles were few
and roads bad. They could do
their saving by mail.
By 1915. reports showed 73 per
cent of the postal savings depos-
its were held by the foreign-born.
The minimum deposit now is $5
and the maximum 83,500. The in-
terest is 3 per cent.
Total deposits averaged 135 mil-
lion dollars for the first 18 years.
They shot up after the 1929 Wall
Street crash and again after World
War II started. They reached a
peak of $3,393,000,000 in 1947. Since
then they’ve declined.
New deposits are about $1,700,-
ON. The number of depositors
also declined In the past 10 years:
from four million in 1947 to 2,400,-
000 now. One good reason for the
decline: most banks now pay
more than 3 per cent interest.
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in this country.
School construction must expand. This year 3,500,-
000 first-graders will enter school. In 1967 there will
, be 13,000,000 more children in elementary 8
than now. College enrollment will double if the
proportion of young people seek higher education aa
do today.
a. The prospectiye big increase in population will
bring many problems. It may solve one—that of over-
production of food. In any event, it will be far more
interesting to live in an expanding country than a
static one, as many an expert predicted only two de-
cades ago we would have by now.
but it to Lthnt carried to the extreme__________________T _
hat or bonnet, mugt buy a pin. must buy a chicken button if they
dpn’t grow a beard, etc. There are many people who would like to
enter into all this, but are financially unbl1to de m, and have
no money to pay Bum or the time to bo detained in the "jail”
when they run into town a minute after something
The practice of taking women out of cars to fine them___ .
not have on centennial clothes to quite absurd, and in the opinion
of many, constitutes kidnaping. I would like for everyone to enjoy
the centennial like I expect to do, but even this early in the cele-
bration, there is m much talk and bitterness about how it to being
c* ried on that I, for one, would like to see these potato cleared
M ‘ it.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Tickets were put on sale today
for the Mischa Elman violin per-
formance. to be given at the
Normal College Saturday. Den-
Unites are acquainted with El-
man's wonderful playing through
the numerous victrola records he
made.
Under the agreement made in
contract with county commission-
erg court March 13, repair work
on the county jail should have be-
gun within five days. The time
expired yesterday, however, with
nothing done on the building.
Yesteryear
Looking Back Through
Record-Chronicle Files
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boys who has grown a nice Cen-
tennial beard. One of his patrons
asked, "Frank, what do you do
when your whiskers get tangled ____
up in the water or gas pipes yqu I’ll play
are repairing? They must give you possible
some trouble.” Mayfield replied bert F.
I "Well, I’ve had 'em tangled in pipe i
THE DENTON RECORDCHRONICLE III!
EDITOR’S NOTE—The Record-Chronicle has received several
similar letters lately. One letter, unsigned "for obvious reasons,"
said. in pert: "If the brothers of the brush want to grow beards
and belles to wear their costumes, it is fine. But what right have
they to force these practices on others? By what authority do
they held kangaroo courts for the purpose of intimidation? It to
well known that . . . some regular Thursday night shoppers post-
poned their purchases. They prefer to do this rather than risk
humiliation end embarrassment at the hands of the local vigilan-
1 s
Have you secured that 1887 auto-
mobile license plate? There are
only a few more days for regis-
tration. aa all cars are expected
to bear the 1187 variety by April 1.
It seems that the sale of the plates
has been rather on the slow side
so far, but the men of the tax col-
lector's office say that to nothing
unusual. Moat people seemingly
prefer to wait for the last minute
rush. They always have to wait
in line for service, but they may
get a kick out of being one of the
big crowd.
TEN YEARS AGO
C. E. Burke, 1111 W. Sycamore,
was the winner of a purchase
chance of a new Mercury auto-
mobile at the formal opening of
the John Morrison Motors.
LONDON—A government source
said today there wm reason to
believe the British government
would not opose a marriage be-
tween Princess Elizabeth Md for-
mer Prince Phillip of Greece.
Tom Rush, district manager of
the Texas Power A Light Co. dis-
trict office in Decatur waa in Den-
ton Monday on business Decatur
had its Centennial Celebration,
last October and November, which
Rush said wm a groat success.
"We induced C. P. Dodson, retired
business man of Decatur, to or-
ganize the various committees,
which had did in fine style. He
waa made head of alt committees.
It was a real success and every
community in the county took part
and the parade required an hour
to pass the reviewing stand. The
profit made from the colebration
gave sufficient money to build a
Sheriffs Posse quonset hut Wise
County has a wonderful Sheriff's
Posse, of which we are very
proud.”
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sure rises, some white blood cells
break down, the pulse quickens,
you breathe faster, the circula-
tion increases and your heart ac-
tion speeds up. If there is no pret-
ty girl handy, you can get the
same results by running around
the block.
That the phrase "passing the
buck," meaning to shift respon-
sibility. originated in cardrooms
from the custom of placing a coun-
ter or marker, called a “buck.”
before a player to remind him
it's his turn to deal.
That if you like living in towns
with old names you might con-
sider moving to Bumble Bee,
Ariz., Hygiene, Colo., Heck, N.M.,
Bourbon, Ind., Frostproof, Fla.,
Social Circle, Ga., or Cannon
Ball, N. D.
That chocdlate, vanilla and
strawberry are still the three
most popular kinds of ice cream.
Among the 200 flavors available
are asparagus, tomato sherbet
and spinach.
That the 75,000 miniature rail-
road fans in America spend 18
million dollars a year on their
hobby. The average fan is 33
years old, earns $6,222 a year, has
his own home, a wife and three
kids, spends 6.8 hours a week and
$2.88 maintaining his toy trains.
That it was William Bolitho who
Mid, "Freeing oppressed nation-
alities is perhaps the most dan-
gerous of all philanthropic enter-
prises.”
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