Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 241, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 14, 1957 Page: 7 of 10
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DALLAS —A first cousin Harry Truman had not seen in four
decades renewed acquaintance with the former president Mon-
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in 1953 and both times Orange,
just above the river’s mouth, had
to summon volunteers for emer-
DEWEYVILLE FLOODED
Deweyville did not exist in 1945
but in 1953 it was inundated.
Both Orange and Deweyville
now are watchfully waiting be-
cause a near-record volume of
floodwater from the upper reaches
is backed up against the Sabine
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arrival in
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ORANGE (HThe Sabine, which
flooded some areas upstream and
scared downstream residents dur-
ing Texas' siege of rains, is a
peculiar river.
By highway it’s about 275 miles
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K ton and his wife, Dona, received
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ing last fall’s Hungarian revolt.’
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Medical reports each year
state, that because of new drug
discoveries and perfected meth-
ods of diagnosis and treatment
the average life expectancy is
continuously increasing.
This means that you probab-
ly will stay young longer. Medi-
cal science can help you to keep
old age away.
was on.
This dispute has been going on
for over 100 years.
To carry on * joint watershed
development program, the two
states decided to forget the con-
troversy. and officially agreed
that as far as the division of water
is concerned the boundary is in
the middle of the stream.
These things are not all that
make the Sabine peculiar.
A major flood in the upper wa-
tershed does not necessarily mean
a major flood in the lower river.
A ridge called the Sabine uplift
crosses the river about midway
of its course, a few miles south of
Logansport, La.
This ridge is composed mainly
of tough iron ore rocks and the
river finds the going tough at that
point
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For about half that time a boat-
er would be traveling along the
Louisiana-Texas boundary. Louisi-
ana claims the boater would be in
that state for all of this stretch
of the river.------
TEXAS CLAIMS
By Texas claims, the boater
might be in either state, depend-
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ridge is much narrower than the
rest of its channel. Floodwaters
from the upper basin thus are
partially dammed up and slowed
there.
othy. angry, went to a shed and
gota .22 caliber rifle
Utah patrolman Willis Vincent,
who investigated, said Timothy
reported be checked to make sure
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luxuries in my country, where
there b, for instance, regular
scarcity in toilet ’paper. Not to
speak about the quality of this
important commodity.
This reminds me of a typical
“behind - the - Iron - Curtain"
story. It might have happened in
Budapest, Sofia, or even in Mos-
cow.
A man bought a loaf of bread
in a state-run shop and — what
insolence — requested that it
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liver promptly without extra
charge. A great many people
entrust us with the responsi-
bility of filling their prescrip
lions. May we compound
yours?
or malice or lack of charity, neith-
er I nor anybody else in Denton
ever discovered it.
Once recalling his seedy appear-
ance, I spoke to one of hb par-
ishioners about it, thinking it was
his small salary that was the ex-
planation. We've given him money
for new clothes time and again.1’
my friend replied, "and we have
even bought articles of clothing and
given them to him. But the money
he turns over to some family which
he thinks needs it worse than he.
and the other articles he passes out
to the first illy-clothed man he
comes across. We have stocked his
larder time and time again, only
to see him packing food out to
some indignent man or woman."
OLD NEWS OR
GOOD NEWS?'
Journalism students, who
have been taught that a cer-
tain amount of novelty makes
a better news story, have a
By WILL EDWARDS
The first Catholic church in Den-
ton was built at the turn of the
century, and it brought to the city
its first permanent Catholic priest
He was an interesting and most
admirable character. His name
was Raymond Vernimont. He was
not "so much'' on looks, for he
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thre hours after the
the United States,
CHICAGO • - Police seized a
5-year - old boy here after,
they said, they caught him rifling
an auto glove compartment and
earlier had watched him attempt
to enter half a dozen parked cars.
When two policemen attempted
to take the youngster into custody
he rolled up the car windows and
locked the doors. However, they
coaxed him into unlocking the
doors when they warned him he
PLENTIFUL FOOD SURPRISES HUNGARIAN REFUGEES
Mn Marton, Kati and Julie Wander Through New York Store
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CAMBRIDGE, Mesa. ( -A
"tranquilizer" for telescopes b
getting clearer pictures of our
neighbor planets, and may solve
the mystery of Mara’ so-called
canals.
It’s a TV device that stops the
nervous jumping-about of a plan-
et when viewed through a tele-
scope. The earth's shimmering
blanket of air causes this whirling
dervish effect.
STEADIES IMAGE
The television device steadies or ।
tranquilizes the dancing image ।
picked up by a telescope. Snap-
shot or time - exposure photo-
graphs of the TV screen then can
be taken to seo better how the
planet really looks.
This promising new technique
was described to the American
Astronomical Society by John
H. DeWitt, Robert H. Hardie and
Dr. Carl K. Seyfert of the Dyer
Observatory, Vanderbilt Univer-
sity. Nashville, Tenn.
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xat.i 1956. I left the prison of the Hun-
MEfL garian secret police. I was set
I add free on parole Exactly one year
. • later I landed in the United States.
W,a I was a parolee again. Quite a
. difference, though.
I Em It would be easy to fill a book
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HHkJ and mother coming from behind
the Iron Curtain. I just list them,
8 as they occur to me. after several
K2 weeks of observation.
and steadied, correcting for ner-
vous shimmering when light rays
from the planet pass through the
earth’s air.
MARS VISIT
The device was not ready when
Mars made a very close visit last
summer. Astronomers-hoped-then
to solve the puzzle of its faint
lines sometimes seen visually by
telescope. The lines gave rise to
popular speculation they might be
"canals."
- Mars comes pie tty doeeigatn
this summer, and if the canals
can be photographed, the Nash-
ville team hopes to pick them up,
Dr. Seyfert said
The TV stabilizer b being used
on a 24-inch telescope. Adapted to
larger telescopes, it might reveal
more detail of "tranquilized"
planets.
"Where’s Elmer?" the Missouri Truman asked after he step-
ped from his train, took shelter from the rain under an umbrella
and exchanged amenities with greeters.
Elmer, who's with a chemical firm at Waco, moved forward,
reaching back to pull Fred through the crowd with him. Fred
was introduced, and the former president exclaimed:
"Why, Fred, I'd never have known you."
Later he said it had been 40 years since they last met. He and
Elmer Truman met at Waco “a couple of years ago” when the
former president was there to receive an honorary degree from .
Baylor University, the Missourian said.
should be packed. When the as-
sistant patiently explained to him
tnat a well-disciplined Communist
citizen should not make a fuss
about such trifling things but be
happy that he gets bread at all,
packed or unpacked, the unruly
reactionary asked for the "book
of complaints," in which custo-
mers can enter their complaints
in the satellite countries When
the book was handed to him, he
tore out two pages, wrapped his
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uplift and will be pouring through contributing to the delinquency of
most of this week. F a minor. Police said Michael will
things, to be used apparently only
once and then to be thrown away.
When, after a week, we left our
New York hotel room, it was
filled with junk, ranging from
plastic forks and spoons we got
on the airplane to cellophane bags
in which I do not know what was
packed. How can one discard such
precious things? It needs time.
I repeat, to get accustomed to it.
on their plates. I’m sure the butter
New Yorkers leave carelessly on
their plates every day could easily
supply the 1,800,000 inhabitanta of
, Budapest.
LUXURY IMPRESSES
This easy-gqing luxury is cer-
tainly something the average
Hungarian refugee will need time-
to understand. Take one thing:
The image seen by the tele-
scope is picked up by a TV tube.
= An ingenious electronic arrange-
ment keeps the image centered
through the opening in the ridge, might have trouble breathing with
That happened in 1945 and again the windows closed.
On Peculiar River SS?
RICHNESS
Doubtless the greatest impres-
। sion this country makes on some-
one coming from Communist
Hungary is the immense richness,
the abundance of everything. This
is a lasting impression. Some time
will elapse till one geta accus-
tomed to it.
This richness is combined with
he lived his celibate life, doing his
own housekeeping and preparing
his own meals except when ho was
invited out by friends, among
whom I was glad to be counted
as one.
If Raymond Vernimont had an
obsession, it lay in the fact that
he was a persistent and consis-
tent contributor to the public for-
am columns of the daily newspap-
ers Files of the Dallas News of
those years would reveal few is-
sues in which there was not some
contribution from the Denton
priest.
They must have been attrac-
tive o the editors of those col-
umns in the first place, they were
always brief—r do not recall one
that ran more than 150 to 300
words, and in the second, they
were always optimistic. always
designed to be helpful. While he
sometimes deplored some specific
evil or misdoing, he invariably had
some charitable hope for the evil-
doer and some measure of exten-
uation for his misdeed
UHIGHLY EDUCATED
Father Vernimont was always a
welcome visitor at the Record-
Chronicle office. He was highly
educated, and he could spout Latin
about as fluently as the average
man can talk English. But, as a
matter of fact, so far as com-
monsense was concerned, he was
just a bit dumb—of the kind that
“will never set the Thames on
fire." But about him there was a
wholesomeness that bespoke the
kind of man he was. And if he
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per. was awarded an All-Amer-
ican rating for the 33rd con-
secutive time by the Associa.
ted Collegiate Press.
The highest award in college
journalism, the latest honor
was given to fall semester is-
sues edited by Mrs. Frances
Graves Rogers, now of Odessa.
Apparently aware that this
was becoming something less
than astonishing, the editors
buried the announcement in
the fifth paragraph of a story
about winners of a campus lit-
erary contest
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paper. The laundry sends two
shirts of my husband nicely
packed in lota of silk
Asked what he was doing in the
car, the boy replied, “Looking
for money.”
“He's the youngest prisoner I’ve
ever seen held for a.felony in 34
years on the job," said Police Lt.
James E. Gorman, who identified
the boy as Michael Finneran.
Gorman said that Michael’s
father Edward, 30. when Informed
of the boy’s action, exclaimed:
“Oh, he’s done that before!"
Death Brings End Ta
Water Pistol Fight
CARTERVILLE, Utah w.Tim.
othy Allan, 13, and his 7-pear-old
brother Kurt shot at each other
with water pistols yesterday.Tim-—
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To Serve Up
Old Programs ।
NEW YORK wNow approach- ’
es summer, the season when we,
the viewers, move into a world
- crowded with reruns and repeats.
By casual count—it has to be I
casual, for the plans of two of the
three major networks are still in
a state of flux and mind-changing
—at least 33 popular shows from
Sir Launcelot to Sgt. Preston,
from Rin-Tn-Tin to the Mickey
Mouse Club, from This is Your
Life to You Bet Your Life. will
serve up repetition of the past sea-
son's programs as entertainment.
Those of us who feel strongly
that once is enough must rely on
a score or so of the stalwarts to
provide us with relief from the
' heat. These include the three top
big-money quiz shows, a continu-
, ation of the Sullivan-Allen rat-
ings war. Meet the Press. I’veCot
a Secret. To Tell the Truth.
What’s My Line, Talent Scouts.
For theater-type entertainment
there remaina^Studfo^On^NH^
the (^minute shows Wednesday
night on both NBC and CBS.
Obviously there must be two
schools of thought about summer
television. Ed Sullivan, for one.
has been running a successful,
highly rated show for years. And
now, It appears, the brains of .the
> Steve Allen show fool It unwise
to give their hard core viewers
an opportunity to switch alleg‛
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home about. Moreover, the priest
usually had a rather seedy look,
incident to ill-fitting and hard-worn
. clothing, and there were times
when his footwear showed imper-
" ative need for such repairs as half-
soling
But. In a community that was
overwhelmingly Protestant and
that at times in the past had in-
dicated antagonism to the Roman
— ChurcW. the reverend father soon
won the respect and admiration of
the community by his kindliness,
his willingness to help anybody in
need regardless of his church af-
filiation. and by his attitude of
Christian simplicity and goodness,
with tolerance for all things that
were good.
HIM OWN COOK
His parishioners built for him
a barnlike structure away out on
Blivar Street I served first as
a church, but secondly it also was
the priest's home when in Denton.
‛ (He served as missionary to one
or two other communities in Den-
ton and Cooke Counties). There
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ee {enanet to compare life behind the iron
In Curtain with life in America. This
is her story.
> THROWAWAYS
A.nelshi By ILONA NYILAS-MARTON Then, in the United States, there
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