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DENTON URGED TO GET
BUSY ON IMPROVEMENTS
Area Group
Is Formed
WIDE FOOTBALL COVERAGE
AWAITING YOU ON SUNDAY
Planning Committee which got its
start in Denton—has been perma-
nently organised. <
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a large number of health, welfare
and character building agencies. -
So Saturday, for the sixth con-
secutive year, housewives and mo-
thers — numbering nearly ISO vol-
unteer workers — will ‘unch the
annual solicitation in the residen-
tial areas of the city on behalf of
the i960 Denton County United
Fund.
Saturday at 10 a.m. these volun-
Market Summaries On The Three
Quarter Hour, KDNI, 14410.
and in encouraging our people to
make it part of their concern.
"I am sure that as always we
iast 24 Hours
This Month
October Average '
This vear •
Last Year
Lee Preston, tax assessor-collec-
tof for the Denton Indevendent
School District, sent out about 8,-
000 individual mailings. Again,
some of these envelopes contain-
ed several tax statements.
Preston said the assesed school
district valuation is 335,378.978
From this will come $590,828 91
in taxes if all are collected.
the pros-
country
Macmillan is counting strongly on
his stature in world affairs, his re-
cent talks with Presiden Eisen-
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be interpreted as ma
poet of reunifying
even more remote.
Ranchers began the
of selling their live
auction sale barns?
years will be needed for the city's
part of this program. About $55,-
000 will be needed to pay the city’s
part in building new streets and
bridges.
ASSESSMENT PROGRAM
The committee urges that the
assessment program be started im-
"How this is accomplished is be-
yond the Committee's comprehen-
sion." the report says
The present plant1 is adequate
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SCHOOL TAXES
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affecting all four counties
Denton County representatives
on the permanent council are Rill
Utter. Denton CMC president, and
Zan Burroughs of Lewisville and
Howard Mathison of Sanger Ut-
ter was unable to. attend the Dal-
las session Si Ragsdale, chamber
manager, represented him.
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rubles in th
lent to $125
’ If you are very lucky you may
have found one from all three.
And inside these envelopes—in
your final payment isn't due until
March 31.
If you want to pay your county
taxes in two installments your first
payment is due Nov. 31. Your sec-
ond isn't due until June 30, 1M0.
But if you don’t come across
Related Story, Page 7, See. 8
It's that time of the year again.
Chances are pretty good that
when you checked your maiilbox
today if you are a taxpayer—you
found an envelope with either the
city, county or school district let-
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Storm-battered western cities in Oklahoma and Colorado
faced mammoth cleanup jobs today after flash floods and
heavy snow.
stand ready to Join our civic lead-
ers in a cause that includes us all
and to so far « reaching. The lead-
ers and workers in the campaign
will be counting on us to make it
a part of our day next Sunday.”
Dr. Armstrong pointed out three
ways in which the ministers may
be of assistance: (1) By making
announcements of the United Fund
campaign, (2) through special
prayers, and (3) sermons that
would be timely and appropriate
to the occasion.
. The annual drive opening break-
fast for approximately 150 penton
and Denton County businessmen
who are volunteer workers in the
annual campaign will be held at
7 a.m. Tuesday in Hubbard Hall
on the TWU campus
rounding out
term in pew
a keep-the pi
l tax bill for the year.
Tax statements from all three
on any of these three mailing lists
you have until Jan. 31, 1960 to
come across with the money. That's
if ypu want to pay it all in one
lump.
But the city, county and school
district—like just about everybody
else—will let you use the install-
ment plan.
You can divide your tax state-
Denton Record-Chronicle
A Growing Newspaper For A Growing Area
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Sun set today at 6:12 ».«! rim Satur-
dey at 6121 e.m. Fishingi Poor.
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Lightning Hits It‘s That Til
Denton Home,
comment on possibilities of an
early end to the costly strike.
Today's session was the third in
two days since President Eisen-
hower told both sides he wanted
to see quick progress.
The negotiators moved from
New York to Pittsburgh one day
after President Elsenhower called
both sides to Washington and—in
for letting the costly dispute drag
on
The President returns from a
vacation Wednesday and his re-
marks were widely interpreted as
meaning the United Steelworkers
and the industry have only until
then to break the long impasse
without direct government inter-
vention.
Except for a brief exchange of
quips with newsmen before the
opening session Thursday, the
negotiators acted like busy men
with much on their minds.
If Oct. 3 actually is a deadline,
it means only seven days remain,
for the union and industry to
show some indication that the
half million striking steelworkers
soon will return to the mills.
The group became official at a
meeting in Dallas Thursday when
chamber of commerce representa-
tives from Dallas, Collin, EUis and
Denton counties named a chair-
man He's Harold M. Young of
the South and East Dallas Cham-
ber of Commerce, Choice McClure,
president of the McKinney C-C.
FOOTBALL GAME TICKETS ON
SALE AT THREE LOCATIONS
Tickets for Saturday night’s NTSC-West Texas State football
game in Fouts Field are on sale at three locations in Denton-Den-
ton Sports A Toy Center. 531 N. Elm. Perryman-Williams Drugs.
125 Avenue A, and the Student Trading Poet in the Union Building
at NT. ’ .
The tickets are priced at 32.50 for adults and 31 for children of
public school age and will be sold until three hours prior to game
time.
Season coupon books for 35 and student season cards at 32 are
still on sale also. The season books contain tickets to all five NT
home games and represent a saving of 83 50 over tickets purch-
ased game-by-game. The coupon books are being sold at the
three above mentioned locations, plus Tobin Drug on the north
side of Courthouse Square They ata will be sold at the sta-
dium box office Saturday night.
4 bower and as somewhat of an ar-
bitrer between the world’s nations
to keep him in office. The news-
paper polls indicate the Conserva-
tives will win again, but the Con-
servatives' margin over the Labor-
ites in the polls has narrowed in
the last two weeks.
The Labor Party, led by Hugh '
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Schools in many places
still suspended.--
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High Water
.said Thursday the watch was
"very poorly made.”
Khrushchev gave the watch
to Kenneth Jackey of Pleasant
Hills last Thursday during the
BERLIN (API — President Ei-
senhower and Soviet Premier Ni-
kita Khrushchev have laid the
basis for an agreement on Bor-
. lin, the West Berlin newspaper
Telegraf reported today from
what it called a reliable source.
The Telegraf has close ties with
West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt.
According to the newspaper,
there are three main points of an
accord reached at the Camp Da-
vid talks:
1 A corridor would be estab-
lished across the 119 miles of
' Communist East German terri-
tory separating West Berlin from
the remainder of West Gemany.
2 Western troops would remain
in Berlin, not as occupants, but
to guarantee and supervise the
new arrangements.
3 The United States would not
object to a separate peace treaty
( between the Soviet Union and
y Communist East Germany.
Such an agreement would prob-
ably be opposed by the West Ger-
man government as giving in-
- creased prestige to the Commu-
nist German state. It would also
and to receive kits and final in-
structions. Dr. L. L. Armstrong,
pastor, will give the inspirational
message.
John Shrader Jr., president of the
United Fund, and O. C. Knight,
executive secretary, will make
brief talks. The cam. jn by the
women is being coordinated by
Mrs. Sam Barton.
"The main thing to remember
when you donate to the United
Fund is that you are helping not
one organization but 13 agencies
meet the welfare and charity needs
of. Denton County," Shrader said
on the eve of the women’s meet-
ing.
Meanwhile, Dr. Armstrong, who
is president of the Denton Minis-
ton. reported by Gene Williams with pictures by Bob Porter. DEN-
TON HIGH at MeKINNEY, reported by Chuck Green with pictures
by Jim Blanton GRAPEVINE at, LEWISVILLE, reported by
Carl Dingier PILOT POINT at CELINA. by Jim Neal. SANGER
at ALVORD, by Vern Griffin. And you'll find staff-written reports
on these high school games: VALEY VIEW at EBA. BELLS at
FRISCO, BRIDGEPORT at KELLER, DECATUR at ELECTRA,
LANERI at NORTHWEST and CALLISBURG at CHICO.
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Denton Opens
College Grid
Year Saturday
Two college bands, a football queen and an undefeated
Eagle team in its 1959 home debut from the ingredients
for Denton’s first big collegiate weekend df the fall.
The main show will be North Texas State vs, West Tex-
as State at Fouts Field at 8 p.m. Saturday. -1
But there’ll be something colorful on the schedule from
7:45 p.m. until the final gun. , ,
Entertainment begins with the crowning of the 1959 foot-
ball queen' at 7:45. She was elected this week by mem-
bers of the team but her identity won’t be known—until
Saturday night. The queen will be escorted to the center
Premier’s tour tt the
Machine Co. plant The
was in exchange for a
The personal property to valued
at 87,387,171.
The Denton Independent School
District includes a large area not
in the Denton city limits, so you
may just get bills from the school
district and the county. You might
just get a bill from the county if
you live outside the school district
But if you Jive in Denton you’ll
catch all three.
COUNTY TAXES
Denton County has an assessed
valuation this year of $40,798,127.
Out of this will come $686,004 81
in county taxes
If you are lucky enough to be
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ters Assn., called on his fellow
clergymen to join in the observ-
ance of United Fund Sunday. In a
letter to over 30 ministers of Den-
ton and Denton County, the asso-
i elation president said:
। "The voice of our churches can
■ be of great help in getting the
< ‘United Fund campaign underway.
IN TOD ATS PAPER
SAFE DRIVERS in Texas
stand to gain from a new state
insurance plan. Page s, Sec. 1.
TED Kluszewski hero of
Thursday's World Series game,
While most Dentonites weren't
thinking much about the brief hard
rain and electrical storm that hit
the city Thursday night about 7.
the Carroll Goens of 320 W Oak
wiH remember the night for a
long time.
Lightning struck the Goens' gar-
age apartment and threatened to
send their home bursting into
flames. While the Goens, opera-
tors of Goes Funeral Home, watch-
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MOMS TO RAISE
MONEY FOR U.F.
STRIKE END
NOTSEENBY
UNION HEAD
PITTSBURGH (AP_David J.
.McDonald, president of the strik-
ing United Steelworkers Union,
ion, expressed pessimism today
about a quick end to the nation-
wide 80-day old steel strike.
As he arrived at a midtown ho-
tel to resume negotiations with
the steel industry representatives,
McDonald was asked if he was
still as hopeful as he had been
Thursday.
"WWell, I’m afraid I'm not hope-
ful," he replied. •
R. Conrad Cooper, chief indus-
try negotiator, arrived moments
after McDonald but declined to
comment on McDonald's state-
^t*^ south- loca
_______ mediately without any regard to
for a city of 25,000. Denton's es* any -percentage of property own-
High water forced the evacuation of scores of families
in Oklahoma. Two deaths were reported today.
In Denver, military men, state prisoners and volunteers
were to help in the cleanup as intermittent snow and rain
spit out of leaden skies for*---------—--------------
the fifth straight day. - At
least five deaths were blam-
traveled all the way around the
metal trim of the, hoof. The bolt
finally grounded itself on the ap-
partment’s television antenna at
the northwest corner of the apart-
ment, burning the antenna to the
ground.
Practically all electrical trans-
formers and appliances in the
house were knocked out — tele-
vision set, the intercon to the tu-
neral home, the doorbell.,
air conditioner transformer, lights
and telephone. The vicious light-
ning knocked a chunk of concrete
out of the apartment s foundation
too.
The house itself did not catch
fire, however, due to the heavy
rain. Goen couldn't estimate the
damage this morning.
The Denton Lions Club, holding
an outdoor barbecue at Ruddell
Street Scout Hut, suddenly found
itself with cold, soggy meat and
no fire in the broilers. The party
moved indoors.
The weather conditions this
See LIGHTNING. Page 2
with your part of the city, county
or school taxes by the final dead-
------- lines, your account will be declar-
ments into two parts. For the city ed delinquent. Then you must pay
and schools the first half must be interest from the deadline until
paid on or before Dec. 31 Then your biH is paid.
capacity of the present plant is 1,-
400,000 gallons a day Right now,
the commitlee report says, the
plant is processing 1,500,000 gal-
lons of sewage a day.
Denton is -in poor shape and
needs to get started on a vast
capital improvement program
right away.
And it looks like a bond issue
will be necessary to finance the
much-needed expenditures.
That just about sums up the
reports of Denton’s Municipal re-
search Council. The council— a
group of Dentonites interested in
seeing the city grow as it should
—indicates Denton needs to spend
at least—and this is a conserva-
tive estimate—38.445,000 in the next
five years.
And spending that much money
means a bond issue
WHAT WAS STUDIED
The council divided itself up in-
to committees to study the various
phases of the city's needs. Com-
mittees studied city utilities, street
paving, drainage and long-range
street and thoroughfare extension.
The most important thing right
now. judging from the council’s
summary and recommendations, is
a new sewage plant.
The city has obligated itself to
provide sewage facilities for the
Denton State School by June L The
KHRUSHCHEVS
WATCHi $14
PITTSBURGH an - Soviet •
Premier Nikita Khrushchev
gave a watch worth 814 to a »
West Homestead niliworker,
-haegtgopere quslure of
JohnM. Roberts & Son Co.,
DENTON AND VICINITY ANO AU OF TEXAS:
Cloudy to portly cloudy and warmer
through Saturdey with more scaftered
thundershowers.
♦of the field by USNT Presi-
dent Dan Hinkle of Denton.
d iThsctrea valued7 t thesscho workers will meet in Denton's
Under Cold,
z •f -,m J
Gaitskell who would become
prime minister if the Conser-
vatives are unseated, to promising
increased pensions, repeal of the
purchase (sales) tax and no in-
crease in the income tax.
From all Indications, the Con-
servatives’ plank on keeping the
prosperity may well have some
Soo BRITISH, Page 3
By RILEY CROSS
Record-Chronicle Staff Writer
LONDON - Britain may be 4,.
000 miles from Denton but the
conversations you hear on London
streets are amazingly like those
in Texas
The British are talking about
weather and politics.
The weather itself has always
been a source of conversation all
over Britain. But this year it's
something of a little summit meet-
ing every time two or more Lon-
doners get together. The reason:
this is the hottest, driest summer
in memory.
Thursday, for instance, was
the hottest October day since Lon-
don weather bureau records have
been kept. The official reading was
76.5 but just outside London the
mercury reached 30. This doesn’t
sound hot to Texans, hot to Leo-
Denton County groups converged
on the Denton Post office Wednes-
day as Oct. 1—a new fiscal year-
CITY TAXES
Denton city tax collector-asses-
sor W. D Buttrill sent his state-
ments off Wednesday. His office
mailed 8.727 envelopes containing
13,652 statements". As you may
well know—some of the enveloves
contained more than one tax bill.
The city has an assessed tax roll
of 829,566.497 this year that will
return $443,497 38 in taxes if every-
body comes across.
Buttrill breaks this amount down
to $23,544,529 worth of real pr-
perty, 34,092.788 worth of busi-
ness property and 81.929,180 worth
of personal property. Most of the
e Again
— Asseclajad Press Phete
SIGN (OR SIN?) TROUBLE IN WASHINGTON
When part of the wiring burned out, the big neon ered the letters didn’t quite read right, jumped quick-
sign pointing to the Clarkston, Wash., business dis- ly to make repairs lest a casual visitor get the wrong
trict, had this look. City officials, once they’d discov- idea. *
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Until six years ago, Danton
housewives experienced the stea-
dy ringing of their doorbells as
various fund solicitations were
conducted throughout the year,
each on behalf of a single but dif-
ferent worthwhile cause.
Denton in general and the wom-
en in particular get tired of a
multiplicity of fund campaigns ev-
er a 12-month period and were
quick to accept the idea of a sin-
Two persons drowned when their
truck plunged off a water-covered
bridge near Riplev in north cen-
tral Oklahoma. Names were not
available at once.
Ripley to near the Cimarron
River 10 miles southeast of Still-
water which was hardest hit by
the floods. The National Guard
was called out there and a plea
issued for heavy boats to evacu-
ate families from low-lying areas.
Many rural bridges were
washed out and schools were
forced to dose Schools were
dosed et Coyle, five miles east
of Guthrie. and at Mulhall, eight
miles north of Guthrie.
The worst was revorted at Stil-
water in north central Oklahoma
where families left low-lying are-
as. The city was hit by an early
morning deluge, estimated -pt five
inches in an hour. /
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ed on the savage storm that
struck with midwinter fury Mon-
day night.
Denver Mayor Dick Batterton.
who said Denver's damage runs
into millions, said nearby Lowry
Air Force Base has assigned 50
men to help the city clean up.
The U.S. Forest Service is
bringing in mechanized equipment
to dispose of broken limbs lining
almost every street in the city.
A half-dozen other, cities were
in the same plight as Denver.
Streets were plugged with broken
branches ripped loose as the
snow, ranging from 15 inches at
Denver to more than 31 inches at
Colorado Springs, piled crushing
weight on full-leafed trees.
At Canyon City, volunteers from
the state prison joined city offi-
cials in clearing away the batter-
ed foliage. City officials said the
job will take a month.
Kal -
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The organization is an outgrowth busy tonight and Saturday to give more than 19.800 families first-
of a meeting held in Denton this - - - ----- -
summer. At that time, represen- _ __ __ __ __ _____ ____
tatives agreed that an area-wide ported by the Associated Press, you‘Hfindtthese storie* in the Sun-
group should be formed to pro- .day Record-Chronicle sports pages
" “ — -----hi" The NORTH TEXAS STATE-WEST TEXAS STATE game in Den-
foreign affairs. The A-------- Russian
now. And it will take at least two
more years to build a new sewage
plant.
WATER PLANT
The same committee also sug-
gests doubling the city’s water
plant. The four million gallons a
day to adequate right now but if
the present rate of growth con-
tinues the city will need twice as
much water by 1963. That will cost
about a million dollars, the com-
mittee said.
And a new 22,000-watt electric
generator will be needed by 1962.
Since it takes two years for de-
livery of such a generator the con-
tract will have to be let by May,
1M0.
The street improvement commit-
tee recommends that a bond issue
of 81.395,000 be voted as soon as
possible to improve Denton's
streets. The report says 800 of the
city's 1,145 blocks need to be re-
surfaced immediately and practi-
cally all will need resumfacing
within five years. At 81.060 per
block the 000 blocks will cost $840,-
000 to resurface. •
The remaining 345 blocks can
be resurfaced from savings of the
350,000 a year spent now just to
patch the present paving, the group
says. 7
The committee on streets also
urged the city to start an asses-
ment program to pave Denton
Streets not already paved. At least
>100,000 a year for the next five
i .. .
There she’ll be crowned by
a reprsentative of the foot-
ball squad.
The 10o-piece NTSC marching
band will make its first appear-
ance with a pre-game fanfare en-
trance and a salute to the two
teams.
MARCHING DEMONSTRATION
At halftime, the visiting West
Texas State band will play and
present a precision marching dem-
onstration. Although there's no
official student body trip planned
for West Texas, advance tickets
were requested by the Canyon
school and a sizeable group to
expected to follow the Buffaloes
into town.
The NTSC band’s portion of the
halftime show wiH be based on mu-
sic from the stage and scren show
"GiGi".
The group will enter the field
under the leadership of Gerald
Moore of Dallas, the drum major,
and Jean Ruyle of Delias will give
an exhibition of trick tumbling.
SPECIAL FORMATIONS
Special formations will be pre-
sented to the music of “GiGi,"
"The Night They Invented Cham-
pagne." "Thank Heaven for Lit-
tie Girls," "Waltz at Maxim’s"
and “Say a Prayer for Me "
One of the numbers will feature
a twirling routine by the four
NTSC majorettes: Gail Burnett,
Odessa; Ana Gaughan, Dallas;
Virginia Berber. Andrews; and
Charlene Miller. Jacksboro
The band to under the direction
of Maurice McAdow His assis-
tants are John Parnell and Dean
Nelsen
ers who may not favor such a
proposal. Also, an assessment pro-
gram should be launched on any
unpaved street where 60 per cent
of the property owners on that
street have deposited their mon-
ey for the owners' share of the
cost. This program covers 27
streets and sections of streets the
committee feels need repaving or
paving.
The city presently to working on
such an assessment program.
The Research Council will make
its report to the City Council pro-
bably at the next City Council
meeting Oct. 13.
AVERAGE NET
PAID CIRCULATION
This to the first of several
exclusive special reports on
the mood of Europe as report
edby Record-Chronicle pub-
Gsher Riley Cross. The article*
will appear from time to time
during the next month.
doners it’s pretty warm. There’s
an old saying to London that sum-
mer comes on the second Tuesday
in August each year. When sum-
mer lasts more than a day — as it
has this year - everyone feels it
since air conditioning is not com-
monplace simply because it’s rare-
ly needed.
RAINS
However, the Londoners are tak-
ing the heat in their stride. They’re
proud of it just as they're proud
of the drought in a city where
it usually rains — or sprinkles -
almost every day.
There’s no droueht on the politi-
cal front, however.
In preparation for Thursday’s
national election, political cam-
paigns now are in full swing Poli
ticians and newspapers are loaded
with all shades of opinion. prom-
ises, charges and countercharges.
It's not exactlv the no-mud sling-
ing campaign Prime Minister Har-
old Macvillan called for when the
election date was set.
PROSPERITY THEME
The Conservative Party, now
for a while was a
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