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Denton Record - Chronicle
BARGAINS BETTER
THAN EVER
IN CLASSIFIEDS
60 Page* In 4 Section*
PRICE TEN
Embattled Judge Quits
After Stormy Hearing
HEART ATTACK VICTIM
He Dies But
Cited Here
Now He Lives
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— Denton Record-Chronicle
NO TIME WASTED HERE
DENTONITE
Lunch Counter Effort
KILLED IN
Spreads To Marshall
JET CRASH
MARSHALL (API-Nine Negro
10 a m. The store was closed at
college students and a professor 10:90 a.m. but reopened later.
WEATHER
In Amarillo Probe
Red Premier
Starts Tour
law
Exp. Sta. Gauge
late Saturday.
"They traveled a lot then and I
lived in many places, including
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Home Repairs ...... 1-20
the rest from their African back- didn’t even know it happened.
Wise County News .... 3
Family Weekly ..... 1-20
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2-5
Women’s News
Farm News
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FOR BEMUSED, CONCERNED AMARILLO
Three Hectic Days Of Shock Treatment Come To End
turned to pore ever morning and
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Dangers In
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ground. “And all of this in 300
years,” he said. “Who will guess
what the complexion of North.
Americans will be in 1,000 years?"
The Newspaper Written And Edited WithY^u In Mind
DENTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH M, 1960 *
Last 24 Hour*
This Month
March Average
This Year
Last Year
None
1.61
1.24
5.83
1.63
Wichita Falls and Denison.
Witts, a former FBI ag<
now a partner in the Dalls
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REMEMBER W HEN
Denton telephone numbers
contained seldom more than
two digits?
Oil News ..
Sports .....
TV Log ...
He stopped talking, his color
faded, there was no pulse. His
heart had ceased.
The race with time then began.
R-C Gauge
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Ex-Dentonite Aided
Classified .
Comics ...
Editorials
Schmitz-Floyd-Hamlett Ambulance
Phones DU2-2214 and DU2-4147.
(Adv.)
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inner explosion occurred.
This one hit so hard Treuhaft
An East Texas area is going to
get the next scrutny by the Texas
House General Investigations Com-
mittee', the former Dentonite who
is chief counsel for the commit-
tee told the Record-Chronicle Sat-
urday night.
David A. Witts said the com-
mittee will start holding public
hearings “sometime in the mid-
dle of April” in an East Texas
town. The purpose of the investi-
gation will be to probe labor vio-
lence, terrorism and lack of ade-
quate law enforcement, he said.
He is completing the investiga-
tion’s executive session now.
Witts was bom in Denton in
1920. He didn’t stay long.
“My parents were more or less
passing though,” he said in a tele-
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Archer Jr., an Amarillo lawyer.
She said, however, that she never
saw Bagley receive any money.
Like Stevens, all the other pub-
lic officials and Archer denied any
guilt. Present or former sheriffs
deputies named by Mrs. Davis are
Curtis Travis, G. E. Bufkin, T. H.
Nall and W. W. Riner.
House probers said most of
their witnesses, except those en-
tering denials, took lie detector
tests prior to the hearing or
agreed to undergo tests.
Summing up findings, the com-
mittee noted that its assigned
task is to seek out and recommend
cures for weak spots in the Texas
statues. It declared in a statement
read by David Witts, Dallas law-
yer, who is chief counsel for the
group:
"This committee has not and
will not interpose itself in local
DENTON AND VICINITY AND MOST OF TEX-
AS: Partly cloudy and mild today and
Monday.
TEMPERATURES
(Experiment Station Report)
Sun sets today at 6:46 p.m.; rises Monday
at 6:23 a.m.
RAINFALL
(in Inehes)
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dozier moved in to start cleaning up the remaining
66 acres of the park Deutsch purchased for $40,000
cash. The developer, who’s built more than 700 Den-
ton County homes in 5%2 years, plans an intensive pro-
motional campaign to develop the park for industry.
Money that slips through your
fingers will pay the •*» that pays
year blits. Complete personal lean
service. Industrial Credit Com
pany. ever Russelis (Adv.
INSIDE TOD ArS PAPER
H. L. HUNT, considered to be the world’s second richest man,
is a Dallasite with paradoxes galore. The AP’S Saul Pett takes an
unusual look at a man who rarely grants an interview. Page 5,
See 1.
THERE’S GOOD REASON for the wide public acclaim given the
sale of Shady Oaks Industrial Park in Denton. Page 4, Sec. 1.
SIX NEW BUILDINGS and a newly remodeled one will be dedi-
cated at TWU this week. Page 1, Sec. 2 and Page 10, Sec. 2.
By BLAIR JUSTICE
FORT WORTH (AP)—This is
the story of a man who had a
heart attack, a man who was dead
—and was brought back.
Allan F. Treuhaft, 36, a trav-
eling salesman, was through work
for the week. He had sold some
dresses and now he was going to
stop at Fort Worth for a social
call before returning to his bache-
lor apartment in Dallas.
It was Friday and as Treuhaft
drove up to the Chic Shoppe, he
remembered that he was sup-
posed to see his doctor for a
checkup next morning in Dallas.
He had done just what the doc-
tor ordered—lost weight, trimmed
10 pounds off his 6-foot-2 frame
and was down to 240. He felt fine.
Inside the shop, his friend, Mrs.
Minnie Bernstein, was talking on
the phone to a mutual acquaint-
ance. She beckoned Treuhaft to
the phone to say a few words,
which he did.
Then it hit him.
He managed to gasp: “Minn...I
don’t feel well."
Then he collapsed.
NO WARNING
There was no warning, no pain
—at least no memory of it.
And Treuhaft, hard-driving trav-
eling salesman, entered he foggy
world between life and death.
He could faintly hear voices.
Then two grey circles opened
ever wide, began to close into
darkness—and there was nothing.
The circles opened again, how
much later Treuhaft didn’t know.
He heard the siren of an am-
bulance, he felt an oxygen mask on
his face.
He thought: I’ve had a heart
attack
“You’re going to be all right"—
in a Negro college sought service
Saturday at a Woolworth lunch
counter. The manager first closed
the counter and then the store.
Officers swarmed to the variety
store when the sitdown began at
Deputy Sheriff M. R. Rippey
took the names of four of the
demonstrators and identified them
all as from Bishop or Wiley Col-
leges, both located in this far
East Texas city. Their home
towns all were listed as outside
Texas.
Late Wednesday night Denton developer George
Deutsch (left) completed negotiations with directors
of Denton Industries Inc. to purchase the non-profit
corporation’s Shady Oaks Industrial Park on Dallas
Drive. Saturday morning Deutsch had this huge bull-
“Wo feel that these matters af-
fecting so many people are much
too vital for anyone to make po-
litical capital of them."
Joining Blanchard at the Ama-
rillo hearing were Rep. Tom
James of Dallas, a former Ama-
rillo resident credited by the
chairman with a major role in
this phase of the committee’s
work; and Reps. John Allen of
Longview and Gari Conley of
Raymondville.
Major credit was given state
undercover men for a huge mass
of evidence, much of it previous-
ly heard in secret by the law-
makers. -
Dozens of newspaper pictures
and television established the Tex-
as House members an: counse as
local celebrities. Two stations tele-
vised full proceedings of the in-
quiry. .which lasted about eight
hours each day excluding lunch-
time recesses.
stores voluntarily integrated about
10 days ago.
Deputy Rippey identified the
professor as D. A. Wilkerson, a
teacher at Bishop College, who
gave his home town as Kansas
City.
The deputy listed others as R.
J. Peabody, Wiley College, from
East St. Louis, Ill.; Donald Je-
rome Guinyard, Bishop College,
from Orlando, Fla.; and Mark B.
Hannon Jr., Bishop College, from
Wichita, Kan.
ready."
Dr. Glass, a graduate of Baylor
University and the University of
Texas, earlier had said approxi-
mately four per cent of the babies
bom each year have hereditary
defects due to mutations in the
genes. Any widespread uncon-
trolled radiation would at least
double that figure. Dr. Glass said.
Aside from radiation, mutations
can be caused by a change in tem-
perature and by chemical com-
pounds. Dr. Glass used caffeine
as an example of the latter, al-
though observation of change in
human genes as a result of use
of caffeine has not been made,
he admitted. He did say, however,
caffeine produces rapid mutations
in the genes of bacteria.
TEXTBOOK ERRORS
Dr. Glass opened his talk with
the revelation that current text-
books are in error when they say
individuals get 48 chromsomes
(the units in our bodies which car-
ry the genes). Biologists now have
found that persons have only 46
chromosomes, 23 from each par-
ent.
Dr. Glass also said studies prove
approximately 25-30 per cent of
the genes possessed by Negroes
come from white ancestors and
A 22-year-old Deaton man serv-
tag in the Navy was one of two
crew members killed Saturday
near Harrington, Wash , when the
tail section of a Navy jet bomber
came off at 35,000 feet.
He was Stewart Edwin Jackson,
son of Mrs. Lorene Jackson of
1708 Wayne.
No further details of the accident
were known immediately. Mrs.
Jackson was notified by telegram
Saturday. She was expecting a
letter to amplify the details.
A graduate of Denton High. Mr.
Jackson attended NTSC, and was
a former employe of Perryman-
Williams Drug Store. He was a
member of the Pearl Street Church
of Christ. He was born Nov. 11.
1937. in Fort Worth.
Other survivors include a broth-
er, J. M. Harpole of Denton.
Schmitz-Floyd-Hamlett Funeral
Home will announce funeral plans.
The A3D Sky Warrior twin jet
was flying on a simulated bomb-
ing attack, the AP reported.
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Noted Biologist Says
Any Amount Harmful
To Units Of Heredity
By GENE WILIAMS
Record-Chronicle Staff Writer
A stern warning was is-
sued in Denton Saturday on
how radiation can disrupt
heredity.
Dr. H. Bentley Glass, noted pro-
fessor of biology at Johns Hopkins
Univeristy, said radiation of any
kind or amount can seriously dam-
age a person’s units of heredity—
his genes.
“There is no amount of radia-
tion — no matter how small —
that won’t effect the genes," Dr.
Glass said. “The extent of damage
can be controlled by the way the
radiation is administered. Slow
administration, such as we get
from nuclear fallout from atomic
and hydrogen bomb tests, is not
as harmful as radiation adminis-
tered quickly in large amounts
such as in the X-ray.”
Dr. Glass, a native Texan, spoke
at TWU’s annual Science Day.
Dr. Glass picked out radiation
as the largest and most far-reach-
ing cause of mutations in the genes
of the body. These mutations —
changes in the genes nearly al-
ways are for the worst — can lead
to serious defects in body func-
tions, the biologist said. The
chances are only one in 1,000 that
a mutation won’t have harmful
effects, he added.
GRAVE DANGER
“We must learn to control radia-
tion in industry and in military
functions or we stand in grave
danger,” the scientist said. “We
cannot stand any greater amount
firm of Witts, Gery, Hamilton.
Brice and Lewis. He finished high
school in Denison and was gradu-
ated from the SMU law school
in 1947.
He has been chief counsel for
the investigatiing committee dur-
ing the past two sessions of the
Legislature.
And he seems to like his job.
“It is most gratifying,” he said,
to do a job like we did in Amaril-
lo. I had people stop me on the
street and shake my hand," he
said.
“I was walking one day and a
man stopped his car — holding up
traffic — and yelled at me ’Go get
’em boy.’ A woman stopped me.
shook my hand and said ’God bless
you son, somebody should have
done this 20 years ago.’ "
Witts’ uncle, Sam Copeland of
822 Crestoak, has lived in Denton
many years.
Witts and the legislators making
the investigation in Amarillo had
See EX-DENTONITE, Page 2
Signify Guilt
AMARILLO (AP) — Em-
battled Randall County Judge
Roy Joe Stevens, smothered
in charges of corruption and
misconduct in office, re-
signed Saturday.
Stevens, 34, handed his resigna-
tion to a Randall County Commis-
sioner, J. Y. Johnson, and asked
that Johnson distribute it to the
press. He said he was quitting be-
cause be feared his “effectiveness
as your county judge" had been
destroyed.
Stevens was the principal target
of a three-day crime and vice In-
vestigation by the Texas House
General Investigating Committee.
His resignation is effective Ap-
ril 1 and will be formally present-
ed to the Randall County Com-
missioners Court in Canyon Mon-
day at 10 a.m.
“This resignation," he said, “is
not to be construed as an admis-
sion of guilt of any of the charges,
allegations, and insinuations that
have been made against me. I feel
however that it is for the best
interest of the citizens of the coun-
ty, under present conditions, I
withdraw from office.”
Stevens said Saturday he was
not through, that he would do
something about the charges level-
ed against him. “They’ve accused .
me of everything in the Texas
Penal Code," he remarked.
Besides Stevens, four sheriffs
officers and a district attorney
faced the problem of clearint
themselves, if they can, of charges
they violated their fellow citize is’
trust.
It was the collective headache
left by the investigation which re-
vealed what was termed Sensa-
tional and shameful conditions by
the committee members.
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By FINNIS MOTHERSHEAD
The Associated Press
BEMUSED Amarilloans jug-
gled a civic hot potato Sat-
urday — what to do about
public officials accused of
greedy excesses in satisfying
cravings for women, liquor
and money.
They settled back, meanwhile,
to workaday humdrum, surfeited
by real-life drama and big, black
headlines, about a seeming break-
down in some branches of local
government.
Even though the county judge
quit Saturday, four sheriff’s
officers and a district attor-
ney faced the problem of clearing
themselves, If they can, of charges
they violated fellow citizens’ trust.
This was the collective head-
ache left by three days of shock
treatment administered in a pub-
lic hearing by a crime probing
Texas House General Investiga-
tions Committee.
The lawmakers, baring only part
of the things turned up in two
years of mostly secret digging, in
effect declared:
“Here’s a sordid mess. What
are you going to do about it?"
Even more searching investiga-
tions by county grand juries may
be in the future. Some commu-
nity loaders talked of hiring a spe-
cial prosecutor to help gather and
present evidence.
While Amarillo is the Potter
County seat, much of the city
stretches across the Randall
County line, and the inquiry af-
fected residents of both counties.
More than 150,000 people live in
this bustling center of the Texas
Panhandle.
Headed by Rep. H. J. Blanchard
pf Lubbock, the committee closed
a sensation-packed hearin,, Friday
with sharp censure for Randall
County Judge Roy Jos Stevens
evening editions of the Amarillo
Daily News and Globe - Times,
which reproduced testimony al-
most word for word.
"Dishes went unwashed, beds
unmade, babies unchanged."
wrote Globe - Times columnist
Thomas Thompson. “Clerks didn’t
wait on the trade, and the trade
didn’t care. Bridge, gin rummy
and talk of the Weather took *
back seat.”
A woman who declined to give
her name telephoned the House
committee: "My ironing has been
piling up for three weeks at home.
I don’t know how I’d ever have
caught up if you weren’t on TV."
An hour after the hearing ended,
a telev/siov rente firm’ ruck
pulled up at the county courthouse.
The driver stepped through a door
to the sheriff’s office, which fig-
ured uncomfortably in testimony.
In a couple of minutes he wheeled
out a TV set, leaded it and drove
private legal work while neglect-
ing public duties, and (3) question-
able relations with known crimi-
nals.
There likewise is clear evidence,
committeemen asserted, of organ-
ized gambling and protection pay-
offs in Amarillo for at least a
decade. They pointed to Lester.
Davis, a gambler with a long po-
lice record, as the central figure.
At last report, Davis was in Okla-
homa City.
Davis’ wife Golda*-who said she
defied his threat to “blow me in
two with a shotgun” after a cruel
beating—proved a bombshell wit-
ness. A trim ex-prostitute in her
mid-40s, she told of seeing four
Potter County sheriff’s deputies
collect money every week for
keeping her husband’s big-stake
dice, poker and blackjack games
undisturbed.
Mrs. Davis testified a share in
the payoffs, totaling $500 a week
for four to five years, likewise
went to Amarillo Dist, Atty.
Wayne Bagley through Branab
PAU, France (AP) — Premier
Nikita Khrushchev launched a six-
day tour of France Saturday in
a French Caravelle jet named
Champagne. Provincial townspeo-
ple received him with reserved po-
liteness and little effervescence.
Through Bordeaux, Tarbes,
Lacq and Pau in the foothills of
the snow-capped Pyrenees, the
chunky master salesman pursued
his campaign to sell the French
the idea of closer ties with the
Soviet Union.
Khrushchev spoke genially and
smiled readily, even where a spar-
sity of spectators might have sug-
gested considreable indifference
to his presence.
At only a few spots were the
crowds large, as in the Bordeaux
square where about 10,000 gath-
ered. Most seemed curious and
good natured in a Saturday holi-
day atmosphere.
tween life and death, was in the
emergency room at Harris Hos-
pital. The time was 1:15 p.m.,
Feb. 26.
Within 45 minutes Treuhaft,
Cleveland native transplanted to
Texas, would be dead—his heart
arrested.
What happened then can be told
only by the living who were there.
CORONARY
The diagnosis was coronary oc-
clusion—which means that the ar-
teries feeding his heart with blood
and oxygen had clogged and the
heart muscle was not getting the
nourishment it needed.
Mrs. Bernstein had phoned for
a doctor before the ambulance ar-
rived for Treuhaft. The doctor was
at the hospital emergency room
when the patient was brought in.
Emergency measures were tak-
en and Treuhaft was transferred
to the hospital’s Intensive Care
Unit.
Though he has no memory of
it, Treuhaft was able to talk and
complain of the severe pain in
his chest. . _
He was placed in an oxygen tent, phone interview
At 2 p.m., about 1 hour and 20 "The” treveled ‘
minutes after the first, the second
The brain can live without oxy-
gen just so long. Deprived of oxy-
gen beyond a certain point it
either dies—and the patient with
it—or becomes crippled, some-
times leaving the patient "a
human vegetable.”
Doctors and nurses raced with
time to save Treuhaft‘s life and to
save him a life worth living.
The attending physician ordered
the Bennett Machine and cardiac
massage.
As the machine, an oxygen-feed-
ing breathing apparatus, was
wheeled to Treuhaft’s bedside, the
head nurse quickly phoned the
operating room.
“Is there a surgeon up there?
We need him right away! Car-
diac arrest!”
TIME RUNS OUT
The surgeon knew time was run-
ning out. He ran for the stairs,
racing six flights down.
The Bennett Machine was al-
ready feeding Treuhaft oxygen,
helping to keep his brain alive.
Another machine, the Pace-
maker, also was sending electric
stimulation to Treuhaft’s heart.
The surgeon made his incision
into the chest at 2:05 p.m. From
the standpoint of the patient’s
heart, Treuhaft had been dead five
minutes.
Reacching the heart, the surgeon
began the cardiac massage—a
manual manipulation of the mus-
cle.
It felt like a “handful of wiggling
worms" to the surgeon. He knew
what that meant; Ventricular
fibrillation, the dread of surgeons.
When the heart fibrillates, it
tremors with rapid irregular beats.
That means the muscle isn’t get-
ting the job done and the pump
isn’t supplying the body and brain
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— the one who quit Saturday.
After' hearing Stevens explode
that testimony against him was
“nothing but a character asassi-
nation,” the lawmakers methodi-
caHy recorded a mountain of evi-
dence.
The heard witnesses accuse the
37-year-od judge who’s the father
of five children of a number of
things, including intimacies and
drinking parties with under-age
girls in his private law office here;
murder threats against an associate
crossing him; links with gamblers,
prostitutes and pornographic pic-
ture taking; and plots—never car-
ried out, according to the evidence
—for bombing and blackmail.
At the windur the committee
suggested that Stevens, since he
also is juvenile judge, was open
to (l) charges of official miscon-
duct. (2) unethical practices as a
lawyer because witnesses said he
spent 90 per cent of his time in
SNAPDRAGON PLANTS, $1,00
DOZEN. Selby’s Flower Shop,
600 N. Locust.
NO VIOLENCE
There was no violence. The Ne-
groes left quietly when the store
closed.
Negroes in mid-afternoon sought
to be served at the union bus
terminal and a second time at
the Woolworth store.
At each place they were told
the lunch counters were closed,
and the Negroes left quietly. Eight
or nine appeared at each place
but officers could not determine
whether there were two groups or
one group going to two places.
Officers prowled throughout the
town, prepared to deal with any
violence before it could get well
under way. All sheriff’s, police
and state highway patrolmen
available were on duty.
In the morning derhonst ration at
Woolworth’s. the men came into
the store through two entrances
and sat on lunch counter stools.
PASSIVE
Store Manager W. W. Hall said
20 minutes later that “I think
every peace officer in the county
is here.” He said the demonstra-
tion was "passive."
Other protests of segregated eat-
ing facilities have occurred at
Houston, Waco and Galveston but
the lunch counters were not in-
tegrated. About 30 San Antonio
government or in affairs which
can be remedied at the local lev-
el.
"The correction of the evils re-
vealed by these hearings is a job
to be done by the people of Pot-
ter and Randall counties, through
an enlightened and active elector-
ate and bar association and a
grand jury dedicated to this end,”
How Amarilloans and Texans at
large react may determine the
time and place for other legisla-
tive investigations.
Tentatively the five-man com-
mittee has scheduled another pub-
lic hearing for April, but is dis-
closing neither the site nor exact
dates. It reported "instantaneous
ar overwhe ming resvense" .om
persons applauding the Amarillo
disclosures and offering fresh tips.
“But if there is even the least
indication that these investigations
might become a political foot-
ball,” Blanchard vowed, "we
won’t hold any more hearings un-
til after May 7"—the date of
Texas’ Demoncratic primary elec-
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