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DENTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 8, 1860
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Councilmen Set Jan. 30
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CONGRESS CHALLENGES
IKE ON BUDGET SURPLUS
TWU Accepts $16,000
Radiation Study Grant
Hate-Mongers Hit
In Many Nations
Gets Okay
Of Citizens
Vast Program
For Streets,
Utilities Set
i In Fair Shape
One man was hospitalized and
another was slightly Injured In a
DENTON FEELS
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POLICE CHIEF ANDY ANDERSON, YOUNGSTER SURVEY DAMAGE
One Man HospHtllzed in Thicc*Car Smaihup in Dentnir iluirsdity
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first aid treatment by an ambu-
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ported by a series of grants-in-
aid from the National Institutes of
Health. The latter are concerned
with effects of various levels of
X-ray exposure or growth and
skeletal status in experimental ani-
mals.
Dr. Robert M. Lockwood and
Dr. Alexander M. Finlay Jr., both
of Denton, are serving as radiolo-
gical consultants in the TWU radi-
ation research program.
“Who's Who of American Wom-
en.”
The TWU College of Arts and Sci-
ences includes the departments of
biology, business and economics,
chemistry, English, foreign lan-
guages, history and government,
journalism, mathematics, physics,
religious education, sociology and
speech..
three-car smashup on
Street at exactly 5 p.m. Thursday.
Simon R. Riffe, 56, who live t
a Denton tourist court, was hospi-
talized with a severe leg cut and
possible chest injuries. His condi-
tion was described as fair this
morning by a Flow Memorial Hos-
pital authority.
Denton Patrolman Muri Calvert
said Riffe was driving north on
North Elm and hit a parked car.
Mrs. W. O. Bishop of 804 Sierra
had just parked her car in front
of 1019 N. Elm and was still in the
car when Riffe’s car collided with
the rear of her auto.
Calvert said Riffe's car carom-
ed off Mrs. Bishop's auto, cross-
ed the street’s center lane and hit
another auto headoil.
The third car was driven by
Charles Willingham, 28, of 1320
Myrtle Neither Mrs Bishop nor
Willingham was injured in the
wreck, but James Dawson, 27,
a passenger in Willingham's car.
was injured slightly. Dawson, who
lives at 202 Massey, was given
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ment officials, Jewish leaders and
social workers still disagreed in
trying to place the blame for the
continuing situation.
West Germany’s Minister of In-
terior Gerhardt Schroeder told
British radio listeners Thursday
night that anti-Semitism “repre-
sents no political power in Ger-
many today.”
"In our opinion, the anti-Semitic
outrages primarily involve ques-
tions of moral attitudes and hu-
manity,” he said.
Many Jewish leaders and groups
from other churches blamed left-
overs from Hitler’s fascism.
DAILY AVERAGE
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By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON (AP)-A skepti-
cal Democratic Congress called on
the Eisenhower administration to-
day to demonstrate it can produce
a budget surplus without weaken-
ing America’s defenses.
President Eisenhower's estimate
in his State of the Union address
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Of Projects?
How much will the $11,885,000 bond issue cost you
if it’s approved Jan. 30?
Although councilmen can’t pinpoint the actual amount
of a tax increase, if it’s necessary to have one, they do
agree the voters should know an increase is a possibility.
“I think the people are aware we need these improve-
ments badly,” Mayor Frank Barrow told the council Thurs-
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January's hectic weather in
Denton took another twist to-
day — the city had the atmos-
phere of London in the fog.
The thick fog cut visibility
to less than a .10 of a mile this
morning. Or, to put it another
way, you could stand on the
sidewalk on the square and fail
to make out the time of day
from the big courthouse clock.
If it’s still too cold for you,
the Weather Bureau predicts a
change to slightly warmer
weather for the weekend. It’s
expected to be clear to partly
cloudy. The overnight low was
a freezing 30 degrees. Thurs-
day's maximum temperature
reached _______________________
Last 24 Hours
This Month
January Average
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rious types of dietary deficiencies.
Gamma radiation is similar to
atomic fall-out.
Based on the assumption that, in
case of atomic attack, some per-
sons will experience fractures while
many of the population will not
have optimum nutrition, possible
effects of atomic fall-out on such
persons will be investigated.
The gamma radiation research
series in progress at TWU is being
conducted in cooperation with Dr.
Sidney O. Brown and his collea-
gues in the department of biology
at Texas A&M College.
Observations on various combi-
nations of skeletal fracture, die-
tary deficiencies and radiation ex-
posure of experimental animals
representing ages ranging from
the prenatal to the, geriatric, or
old age state, are included in the
studies.
TWU’s gamma radiation studies
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Dr. Autrey Nell Wiley, director
of the TWU department of Eng-
lish, is the new dean of the TWU
College of Arts and Sciences.
She succeeds the late Dr. Max
L. Shipley who was director of
history and government until his
death in June.
Dr. Wiley was appointed to the
post by President John A. Guinn.
She has been director of the Eng-
lish department since 1947, and a
member of the English faculty
since 1922.
She is a graduate of TWU and
received heir master’s degree from
Columbia University and the Ph.D.
from the University of Texas.
Dr. Wiley recently was among
25 leading teachers in the Eng-
lish and education fields who par-
ticipated in a series of conferences
held to define basic issues in the
teaching of English in this coun-
try. Dr. Wiley was the only Texas
representative to the conference,
which was financed by a grant
from the Ford Foundation.
She is a national director of the
College English Assn., vice presi-
dent of the South-Central Modern
Language Assn, and bibliographer
and editor for the Committee on
the Preparation and Certification
of the Teacher of English for the
National Council of Teachers of
English. In addition, she holds
membership in several other hon-
orary and professional organiza-
tions
Dr. Wiley has contributed arti-
cles to many American and Eng-
lish magazines and is the author
of book, "Rare Prologues and
Epilogues (1642-1700)." •
She is listed in several Who’s
Who volumes, including the recent
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hit and run hate-mongers oper-
ating under the cover of darkness
continued their smear campaign
against Jews unabated Thursday
night. Attempts to track them
down were meeting with little suc-
cess.
’ More swastikas and abusive slo-
gans appeared in widely scattered
countries—most of them crudely
splashed on synagogues, homes
and public buildings.
Sixteen days after the outbursts
began with the desecration of a
synagogue in Cologne, govern-
Thursday that his new budget
will have a $4,200,000,000 surplus
was challenged by leading Demo-
crats and even some Republicans.
Influential Democrats made it
clear they remain unconvinced
that the "enormous defense pow-
er" Eisenhower said the nation
has is sufficient to offset growing
Soviet military might.
Democrats generally joined Re-
publicans in applauding Eisenhow-
er's forecast of prosperity at home
and peace in the world—if the
Soviets cooperate But most Dem-
ocrats thought this no time to
stand on a 41 billion dollar defense
budget when military costs are
rising.
Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass),
an announced candidate for the
Democratic presidential nomina-
tion, sounded a note echoed by
many of his party colleagues.
“I am alarmed at the Presi-
dent's proposals to reduce the
budget at a time when we are
moving into a deteriorating mili-
tary situation,” he said.
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-
Minn), another avowed candidate
for the party nomination, said that
Elsenhower's reports on space re-
search, rockets and missiles "do
not reflect that we are closing
thperilous miwilr gup nr TP-
building our ability to deal with
A $16,000 research grant, gamma radiation on experimental are conducted parallel with the X-
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Dr. Wiley Named
TWU College Dean
Cost, Income
Squeeze Due
Again In ’60
By NORRIS JACKSON
Record-Chronicle Farm Editor
LITTLE ELM — North Texas
farmers and ranchers can look for
another year of cost-income squeez-
es and further reduction in parity
levels during 1960.
John G. McHaney, Texas Ex-
tension Service agricultural econo-
mist, told the Denton County Live-
stock Assn. Thursday night that
"the parity level at the close of
1959 was at its lowest point since
its depression bottom of 1932.
“We think it will dip even fur-
ther this year," he told the largest
number of members and guests
ever assembled for one of the as-
sociation's monthly educational
programs. More than 100 persons
heard the economist report a pari-
ty level of 92 to 83 per cent at the
close of 1959. Parity is a measure
of farm product values in a cost-
income relationship.
On the other hand, the nation’s
general economy is prosperous and
probably will remain high because
the people will demand it, he said.
“During the depression years,
40 per cent of our people were liv-
ing on farms and ranches. They
demanded — and got because they
held voting power— props or situa-
tions by the government which
would raise farm prices. Today,
only 11 per cent of our people make
their living on farms, and the re-
maining 89 per cent of the popula-
tion who make their living on
wages and business won't permit
a decline in general prosperity,”
he declared.
“You can expect to see more
and more federal controls in agri-
culture and all other industries
because those props or conditions
are necessary for continued pros-
perity,” he said.
All-out war is the only other
means of high farm prices, as evi-
denced during the past 160 years.
Since 1800, he said, the four peaks
in prices came during wars — the
War of 1812, Civil War, World War
I, and World War Il-Korea. The
Korean war, he indicated, cut off
a price decline as it was begin-
ning to dip sharply.
The cattleman’s day of high pric-
es also is about over, the economist
indicated. Beef cattle prices were
forced upwards in 1956 and 1957
after a plunge during the extend-
ed drought. More heifers were
kept for breeding, and fewer num-
See SQUEEZE, Page 2
non-nuclear military threats and
attacks.”
Chairman Richard B. Russell
(D-Ga) of the Senate Armed Ser-
vice Committee said Eisenhower
had painted too rosy a picture of
the nation's defenses. Comrent-
ing on Eisenhower’s report that
14 Atlas intercontinental missiles
had been fired successfully, Rus-
sell said all shots were by scien-
tists or contractors.
"I'd feel better if these missiles
were in the hands of troops rather
than contractors,” he said.
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TWU College of Household
Arts and Sciences to conduct
radiation studies, President
John A. Guinn announced to-
day.
Given by the U. S. Army Medi-
cal Research and Development
Command, the grant was allocat-
ed by the Office of the Surgeon
General to support investigations
in progress on the effects on skele-
tal status of radiations similar to
atomic fall-out. Dr. Gunn .explain-
ed.
Dr. Pauline Beery Mack, dean
and director of research of the
College of Household Arts and Sci-
ences. is serving as principal in-
vestigator in these studies. Asso-
ciate professor George P. Vose
and Dr. Ralph E. Pyke have been
designated as principal profession-
al associates.
This series of research projects
is designed to find the effects of
has been awarded to the animals with skeletal fractures as
well as those suffering from va-
REMEMBER WHEN
The first Golden Gloves box-
• ing match was held in Den-
, ton?__
at 7133 «.m.
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By CHUCK GREEN
Record-Chronicle Staff Writer
Denton voters will get to
put the mark of approval—
or disapproval—on the city’s
proposed $11,885,000 bond
issue Jan. 30.
That’s the date Denton City
Councilmen have chosen for the
bond election. The official ordi-
nance calling the election was
passed without opposition at a
special Thursday afternoon meet-
ing.
And to date councilmen say they
have heard no organized opposition
to the bond issue. It would finance
a five year program of utility,
street and fire protection improve-
ments.
The Municipal Building polling
place will be open from 8 a.m. un-
til 7 p.m. the day of the elec-
tion. Jewell Smith was appointed
election judge by the ccouncil.
TAX INCREASE?
Wether the bond issue will mean
a general tax increase caused a
little discussion among councilmen
Thursday. They agreed it pro-
bably won’t right away, possibly
won’t at all and if it does the in-
crease will be slight.” '
"Here’s the reason for the dis-
cussion:
The bonds would be spent over
a five year period. Only $2,485,-
000 of the proposed issue would be
in general ogligation bonds most
of this—82,400,000—is for streets.
Those are the kind that can raise
tax rates. But if the money is
spent over a five-year period—say
about $500,000 a year—the natur-
al increase in taxable property in
Denton may account for enough
money to pay off the bonds.
But that isn’t a sure thing, so
councilmen want to make sure
the voters understand there may
be a tax increase before the five-
year plan is up. So many relative
things are connected to the bonds
that it’s hard to pinpoint an ac-
tual tax increase estimate.
However, if the entire $2,485,-
000 were spent the day after the
election, councilmen would have to
raise the tax rate 50 cents per
1100 of taxable property.
• Of course they aren’t going to
do this because it is practically
impossible to spend that much
money doing work on Denton's
streets all at once and still have
streets to drive on.
ANOTHER LOOK
Another way to look at it, ac-
cording to fiscal agent Frank Me-
danich: Using the tax roll the
city has right now the bonds will
mean a 10 cent-a-year tax increase.
But that tax roll is going to get
larger and the assessed valuation
of Denton property will naturally
grow with the city. In the past
eight years the assessed valuation
has risen about 1% million dollars
a year
If the bonds were issued at the
rate of $500,000 a year, an increase
of about two million dollars a year
on the assessed valuation is neces-
sary to get the city out of debt.
One new industry in Denton
might make that much of a bulge
on the roll.
When the issue goes to the voters
Jan. 30, five proposals will he on
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DENTON ANO VICINITY, EAST TEXAS, CEN:
TRAL TEXAS: Clear to portly cloudy and
a little warmer through Saforday.
NORTHWEST TEXAS: Clear to portly cloudy
through Saturday. Warmer this afternoon.
Windy and mild Saturday.
SOUTHWEST TEXAS: Clear to partiy cloudy
through Saturday. Warmer this afternoon.
TEMPERATURES
(Experiment Station Report)
Migh Thursday ................................- M
low today .. 30
Migh year ag• 44
Low year ag• ............ 35
Sun sets todoy ot 5139 p.m.; rises Saturday
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day, “and I think they realize
they will cost money.”
Just how much money the
bond issue would actually
cost Denton can’t be known
until the bonds are approved
and sold.
MARKET FLUCTUATES
The bond market—many corpor-
ations buy bonds as investments--
fluctuates just about like the stock
market. The maximum interest
rate authorized by the council is
5% per cent. Just as an ordinary
citizen must pay interest when he
borrows money, so must a city.
And the bonds are similar to the
promisory note the citizen signs
when he borrows money from a
bank.
The bond market*is a pretty
competive business, so Denton
may get a good—or low—interest
rate. The Denton Independent
School District sold some bonds in
November and the interest rate
was very good. -
Fiscal agent Frank Medanich
told councilmen about the best
interest rate they can hope for is
4% per cent. At that rate the In-
terest will amount to about $505,112
on the entire bond issue. The
bonds must be paid within 40
years.
UNPAID BONDS
The city already has $812,000 in
water and sewer revenue bonds
that haven’t been paid. These
bonds have a clause that says no
other bonds can be Issued until
these are paid.
So the city will have to trade
new bonds for the old ones. Hie
new bonds won’t be the same as
the ones now up for approval.
Since they have already been ap-
proved by voters it will be a
simple matter of ex-changing the
old bonds for a new promise to
pay—but probably at a higher in-
terest rate.
There is $615,343 in general ob-
ligation bonds still to be paid and
$6,513,000 still to be paid on elec-
tric revenue bonds. These previous
bonds, however, have no bearing
on the proposed bond issue. The
debt was taken into consideration
when the new bonds were proposed
to councilmen.
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Price Charge
WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice
President Richard M Nixon’s of-
fice discounted as politics a Dem-
ocratic charge that Nixon per-
suaded the steel industry to hold
off any price increases until after
the November elections.
The charge was made Thursday
by Democratic National Chairman
Paul M. Butler. The denial came
from Nixon’s press aide, Herbert
G. Klein. Nixon himself could not
be reached for comment.
Butler told the Women’s Nation-
al Democratic Club that "Nixon
secured the agreement to hold off
price boosts until after the elec-
tion.” He added "the sky is the
limit if they elect Nixon.”
Butler said the steel executives
swapped less than a year of
“slightly reduced excess steel
profits for what they hope will be
eight years of security to raise
prices under a Republican admin-
istration.”
Klein said Butler’s remarks
about a price deal "were totally
absurd. It sounds like talk by
someone who was more interested
in politics than having the strike
settled."
Butler refused to credit Nixon,
as some have done, with quarter-
backing Monday’s settlement of
the 116-day steel strike. Butler
said the industry was "defeated
and forced into a settlement by
the steel workers."
David J. McDonald, Steelwork-
ers Union president, Thursday
credited financier Joseph P. Ken-
nedy with helping to end the steel
dispute. McDonald said he under-
stood Kennedy, father of Sen.
John F. Kennedy (D-Mass)
helped encourage the view in Wall
Street that the long strike ought
to- be settled.
Secretary of Labor James P.
Mitchell, also widely credited with
engineering the settlement, said
he didn't see Kennedy around
"any time while I was negotiat-
ing."
-Associated Press
ENDANGERED SCIENCE OUTPOST AWAITS RESCUE
' Set on a now-breaking up ice floe, Camp Charlie— men say there’ll be "no sweat” in rescuing the scien-
about 400 miles north of Barrow, Alaska, in the Arctic tists and military personnel from the bleak scientific
Ocean—is in danger of breaking up. But Air Force outpost. Rescue operations are already underway. ,
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Active support of Denton’s
capital improvements pro-
gram was pledged by mem-
bers of the Municipal Re-
search Council in a unani-
mous vote Thursday night.
After hearing details of the pro-
gram and proposed bond issue to
finance the five-year package plan,
members of the council and other
citizens attending the meeting
were enthusiastic in their accept-
ance of the plan.
The proposed program actually
is the beginning of the city's Mas-
ter Plan to be carried out over a
25-year period, it was explained
during a panel discussion by mem-
bers of the City Council.
FOUR WAYS
The research group, a represen-
tative citizens committee with
delegates from most of the city’s
clubs and civic organizations, im-
mediately initiated plans to sup-
port the Jan. 30 bond election as
follows:
1. Sponsor a series of home
study or neighborhood meetings
between now and election time in
order to acquaint as many citi-
zens as possible with the package
plan for city improvements;
2. The executive committee
and other members to serve as a
telephone committee to help in-
form citizens to the importance of
the bond issue and urge a heavy
turnout at the polls Jan. 30.
3. Sponsor information booths
to be set up in the lobbies of Den-
ton banks;
4. Assist in coordinating plans
for various service clubs to devote
a program to the subject, with
members of the City Council avail-
able to serve as a panel to explain
the plan.
UTILITY RATES
In the panel discussion Thurs-
day night, Councilman George
Spuller drew the question “How
much will the bond issue cost the
average citizen?” Spuller said no
increase in utility rates is antici-
pated. As for taxes, he explained
that the bond issue could be fi-
nanced without an Increase in the
tax rate for the first two years,
but emphasized the possibility of
a slight tax increase after that
period.
Echoing the words spoken ear-
lier by Mayor Frank Barrow,
Spuller said “We can’t expect to
get something for nothing.”
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IN TOD ATS PAPER
TWO STATE officials hold
conflicting views on the con-
troversial new Texas auto in-
surance law. These men air
their views today. Page 4.
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Classified ................. 8
Comics ................. 9
Editorials .................. 4
Sports ................ 18
Town Topics ............... 2
TV Log ...... 8
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