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65TH YEAR 01 DAILY SERVICE— NO 236
Smith, Yarborough Win Runoff Spots
SMITH SECOND
Locke Leads
In County
Lt.'Gov, Preston Smith and
• Houston law
■ . i Gov. John Connally got pree-
/
ious
precincts in his quest to be the ernot Saturday.
control of the Democratic Party
man
in Denton County early Sunday
PRESTON SMITH
BEN BARNES
DON YARBOROUGH
Dallas
them were Waggoner Carr
"Tme-
had been counted for horse-race
ized.
The Democratic runoff will
i
— Calvert. 01 ERn HELMED
GEORGE LASATER
WALT-PARKER
WYLIE BARNES
Lasater had 4.525 votes to 2,186
Gainesville or Bob Scofield of
treme humility and sincerest Lewisville:
See COUNTY. Page S thanks . .
Views
By Bill Bites
By BOB COLE
box which polled 872 candidates receiving
catur
York at the testimonial dinner rn the county commissioner’s
boxes reported in
unofficial returns eark S
r 214.29
ing up stronger than anyone."
challenge that statement
The “expert" claims that a work addict suffers withdrawal
withdrawal symptoms that cause suffering
W-o-r k is a four-letter word that should be banned
good morning!
Thompson
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litdpx... gimI • • - H rather
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from Houston His first words
were
Dick
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V ote Totals
Are Gicett
Hl RRIS IS \EXT
J. R. Branch Leads
Wise Sheriff Race
Gladden. 1.048
For Comptroller
Smith ran very well in me-'
dium-vote-strength counties
this
We
hopes up. I'm still going to
Denton''' Then he outlined his
Wichita Falls
er‘of the Reput
ssibilities
ndustral-
governor*.
"I feel fine Were counting
the lead and I think the lead
will increase. I think the other
candidates are getting along
pretty good but I think Don
EGGERS THAXKS
HORKER EFFORTS
national nominating convention
in August.
SMITH SAY S
HE'S FIXE
AUSTIN (AP) - L Gov
Preston Smith issued the fo 1-
Place 1 to 1,501 for Matt Davis:
Tom Reavley had 3,166 votes for
Supreme Court Place 2 to 2,505
for James Denton.
All three propositions on the
ballot were losing in Denton
County. The vote on liquor by
A 525; Noles, 2 186
For County Chairman — Phil-
ips 3.038: Inman, 2,595.
For County Commissioner —
er Don Yarborough
pots in the Demo-
r 1
e
gers
winr
inati
this
race
in the constable's race in Pre-
cinct 4. Sam Gentry had 926
votes. Dan Cockrell 741 and
D B Boyd 579
In Precinct 2, the only re-
turns showed Jack Ceat with
31 votes to 24 for James Mar-
vin Foutch.
______________ c, Connally’s selection as favo-
little help from Denton cratic primary election for goV-rite son shows he is in strong
By KEITH SHELTON
Staff Writer
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Dallas attorney and business-1 Mae Hackworthe 10, and Al
Eugene Locke was leading, Veloz 3.
House Speaker Ben Barnes
^BARNES IS
in incomplete, unofficial returns held a big leed in the county
With five precincts unreport with 5,228 votes to 1.048 for Don
ed. Locke had 1,473 votes in the Gladden Gene Smith had 515.
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convention to get a similar reso- ernor with ease.
A psychiatrist from Illinois said at Houston that
country is being-swept by an epidemic of work addiction
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Governor
Dolph Briscoe 132,013. Wag-
goner Carr 143,514, Johnnie Mae
Hackworthe 3104 John Hill 87,-
441. Eugen Locke 106.194, Fat
O’Daniel 27,359, Preston Smith
214919, Al \- Ip 4 907, Edw ird
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RANFALL
areh Staften
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mast
sauri Valley Confer-
bee selected as the
at the Denton Sports
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Regional Editor • ----- —
DECATUR — With in of 12 (votes, enough to make a dif- numbers o1Vote5
. Ponder all approved resolutions
calling for Connally to be the 1:3.514 and Dolph Brbc1
favorite son candidate 132.013 He also ran well in counties
Whether the Connally forces House Speaker Ben Barnes with smaller yote P
have enough votes at the county w n the race for lieutenant gov- but which are heavily
gav 40 'c f Low tonignt 38 *9
rEMPERATURES
(tiorfh Teras Research Safion)
N<9* saturdav
Lw Saturda/
High Fridav
county Preston Smith was run-l in other races Robert Calvert
ning second with 1,374, Don ’had 3,906 votes for state comp-
t
Denton Record- Chronicle
3.182 votes for Supreme Court-
. . but never had I hoped for Walt Parker. Denton home-
the heavy majority that I builder, apparently will be in a
have apparently received in runnoff for state representative
today's election I accept this with either Billy Ray Hill of
Yarborough had 1,366, Waggoner
Carr 1.305. Dolph Briscoe 695 .
John Hill 560. Pat O'Daniel 203.
Edward Whittenburg 61. Johnnie
Vote totals in Denton County the drink was 3.047 for and 3.443
with 22 of 27 precinct s reported against A total of 2,275 votes 1
in the 'Democratic primary. had been counted for horse-race I
For Governor — Hill, 560; betting to 3.675 against The |
Smith. 1.374; Locke. 1.473: Whit- vote on creation of a Texas |
the Democratic nomination
tenburg, 61; Carr 1 305 Valoz, Dairy Commission in the coun-
3; Hackworthe 10: Yarborough, ty was Funning 1,572 for and
1,366; 0‘Daniel, 203 Briscoe. 4,562 against.
' - . --
For Lieutenant Governor —
’in this race was the South De- were fairly well split
133 count ies of
months old, I started bawling
that I W anted ' 1T
as ")
Morri* grew up in Lufkin,
where his father had a cloth-
ing store But Morris didn t
follow in his father’s footsteps
AUSTIN (AP
ners—you name it. He wowed man
em at Toots Shor's in New Chester Sparks took the lead
6, 7 1
1 3
1 . 3
Sheriff Wylie Barnes was lead-
ing Jim Chism. George Lasater
was leading £at Noles for tax lowing statement Saturday
collector and Wilham P.Phillips night after 10 30 pm reports
Jr was leading George Inman showed him leading in the
for Democratic county chair- Democratic primary race for
for golfer Jimmy Demaret , race with 956 votes. Bill Cole-
He's had the U S. Supreme man had 789 and incumbent
Court justices clutching their Loran TisdeH had 769 Bobby
ummie. with laughter For* Redfearn had 16 votes. . .
tum Vice President Richard in the sheriffs race. .Barnes Yarborough is probably com:
Nixon. after hearing him at had 4 138 to 2.649 for Chism.
•the Touchdown Club in Wash-
ington. called him the great-
or -325,169,
With five Denton County pre-
rincts still unreported early
Sunday morning, Parker had
-3,884 votes in the district, which
Now. don't get your
3,906 Blankenship. 1.686
For Supreme Court. Place 1
-McGee. 3.182; Davis, 1.501
For Supreme Court. Place 2-
• Reavley. 3.166; Denton, 2,505
For State Representative —
Imperiali, 81: Hill. 312; Shep-
pard. 1.210: Scofield. 1,615;
Parker. 3.291
For Sheriff — Chism 2,649;
Barnes, 4,138
For Tax Collector — Lasater,
I it in full force this year for
he first.time after the elimina-
ion of the poll tax
Yarborough's best advantage
£
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which contain more than a third
of the state's potential ballots.
_ i t
Gov. Connally
Isn’t Helped
By Precincts
> came in thebig-vote counties
Smith, 515: Barnes.
troller to 1,686 for
with live las Blankenship 201 -2
abstantial Supreme Court; Place 1 Matt
Davis 328.963. Sears McGee 389,-
Tisdell,, 769; Coleman, 789; 1 ,
Sparks. 956. Redfearn. 16 1 vote of confidence with ex-
For Constable, Precinet 1 — tee humilup —a
includes Denton and Cooke
counties Hill had 2 675 and
. Scofield 2.632 Wallace Sheppard
- of Denton was lagging with 1,-
792 votes.
In Denton County races.
Milk contro
against 481,197
Republican,
254 62 comple
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DENTON TEXAS, SI NIEV^MORNING. MAY 5. 1968
rth Texa
as' two y
won runoff
a way that you won't get an- A a .
grv although you may look GFAKArATf H4 clorag
a little sheepish and uncom- ULC VV CLI I LUU
fortable, and squirm around C. —
S, - For Local GOP Leadership
er day. he telephoned
. Whittenburg 10,572, DAn Yar-
borough 215,315
Lieutenant governor:
-Ren Barnes 677,131, Don Glad-
den 120;035.Gene Smith 88.626.
Comptroller
Robert S. Calvert 553.983. Dal-
for 10,351,
An unusual treat is in store
for those persons attending
the Denton Sports Association
banquet Tuesday night in the
Community Building (and
those persons could include’
you, because it's open to the
public).
Some outstanding athletes
and prominent sports person-
alities will be honored, but
the unusual treat is going to
come jn the presence of Mor-
ns Frank as toastmaster
Morris Frank is a column-
ist for the Houston Chronicle
But that is just an avocation
His real business is making
people happy. He spends his
time filling the air around
him with laughter, the laugh-
ter of those who hear him
His trademark is a smile
Morris Frank is one of the
most sought-after masters of
ceremonies in the nation He
is virtually a living legend in
-the Southwest, where he has
lived all his life.
(Well. almost all his life
Actually. he was born in
Perth Amboy NJ., but. he
savs. “Soon as I was six
Paul Eg
apparem
ican nom
years it appears he wa5 re
nominated without a runoff
Votes in the goyernor race
were still uncounted in the Pre- with two boxes out
cinct 1 < South Decatur I box and Holms had 8,584 votes in un-
est after-dinner speaker in the ,
nation
_ Ive heard Moris Frank
scores of times but he always
‘ comes across as fresh new
personality. His humor is
■ strictly original. He has no
gag writers, nor any stock
jokes or pilfered gags He
doesn't need any
His humor is clean, gentle
barbed. raucous, wry and
satirical He kids himself as
much as he kids others He
never really hurts anyone .
He'll poke fun at you in such
in Texas Ifo- has asked that the
for 22,826,
ere heavtly favoring
Ben Barnes tot lieutenant gover-
nor by a margin of 1.859 over his
“I want to thank all those
people who helped make this
victory possible t will wage
an all-out, hard - hitting cam-
paien for the general election
and I expect to wm The vote
ttal today reflecs significant
grass root; growth of ’he Re
publican party in Texa' This
is the year we are going to
build a true tuo-party system
that will benefit all Texins
nearest opponent - Gene Smi
favorite son candidate for Pres- They outdistanced eight other
i ident. opponents, some of whom ran/delegation remain unpledged to
I Only one Denton precinct. strongly. " ,n. major presidential candi-
Precinct 1 passed a pro-Cona -The runoff between Smith, a date at this time.
nally resolution. One other < on- conservative, and Yarborough. Yarborough jumped off to ear-
vention, in Precnct 2, Passed a liberal, will he held June 1 fv leads in some of the counties
an aflt. - Connally resolution. The winner win meet Republi- vidh heaviest votes — where
Howeveruanumberofpreican Paur Eggers, wichita F . . free vote registration was
Denton did come through for the lawyerin me novemDer gen- ectedotohavesthe.grenet
lgovernor. era! election efft f The free registration was
i Precinct 20. Sanger; Precinct w ith. returns from 22 9 countie
7 Corinth: Precinct 15. Justin, -of the state s 254, with 104 com-
Precinct 16 Argyle. Precinct plete, Yarborough was bare!
28, North Lewisville, Precinct, leading Smith wih 215.315
19, Bolivar. and Precinct 17. e- Smith had 214.919. Next to
Jution passed there, however. is Gov John Connally swept
doubtful into control of most precinct
. A liberal leader said the lb conventions the Associated
Lerals-hac-d08 votes in Denton Pr . ported meaning he win pit ' man W th 18 y‛ rs of pub-
, and need only 104 votes to con be the "favorite son" of Texas Ue service— smith-against the
trol the county convention land benominated for president younger Yarboroygh, who al-
Therefore, Denton County like-lin the national Democratic con- most beat GoV. John Connally
ly will send a liberal delega- vention in Chie ago starting Aug in 1962 but wa swarmed under
ition to the state convention in he when he tried again two years
See PRECINCTS. Page 6, Sec. 1, . n c . g later
--—--------- Preferential polls on Satur- smith Yarborough is
— a n
Part pt* s Anparentv in
rarKer is Apparently iu
■ B g l • 11 4”4” commission which would fix C
r or Kepresentalve hunoll StateTotals
I Party. headed by former Ala-
’ . 1 the legislative race, HIl Parker aid as well in Dentot Sa S SSW Are Listed
tor Noles in “he tax collector s racked up a big lead in Cooke County. Parker had 3291 vote effort to get enough names to.
County. where he lives Hill got in the incomplete Denton County insure Wallace a place on the Texas election bureau totals
2,363 votes in final, unofifleal totals Scofield had 1,615, Shep- presidential ballot in Texas in from 229 counties of the
Cooke County returns Scofied, November However no figures 254 IM complete:
who used to live in Gainesville, para 121, hi. d"u 25 _ Pelcased Democratic:
got 1.017 Parker,got 593 and Imperiali 81 Imperiali did not were reieasta. . I
Sheppard 582 in Cooke County file in Cooke County _______ Sen John Tower was picked
ereneegmmbe
31 724 Walace
Trice 14 OH
983 against 20,-
By MIKE MOON County by 248 to 231 GOP can- Thompson said after the ele-
‘Staff Writer didate for governor Wallace tion. “I wish to thank everyone
Stewart was elected Sisk, polled 56 votes who voted for me and second.
Denton County Republican Party The only other contests on I feel that there were two men
travel plans chairman by a slim margin the Republicans' ballot were the running for the same position-
inu»?d he went into tee Morris Frank you -might during Saturdays primary eke- three "straw vote" propositions so you couidnt lose
“le huenecs as a have guessed is a man with tion over Charles M Thompson. The Republicans voted in "Lets get behind Dick
7 "2 horter for the Luf- manv friends Ie‛s the only The unofficial total vote in favpr of liquor by the drink with Stewart and produce a winning
7 v ‘ . ’ nerson ] know who has re- th: tight race was Stewart with 295 voting for and 256 voting team.' Thompson said
Epgonwlv he became reived three gif’ antomobtles 8 votes andThompson with against the proposal Republican .precinct conven-
Eyenuauy: T th. Houston -t testimonial tinners in his 236 Stewart has been cotinty Parimutuel betting at horse tfom endorsed Sen. John Tower
sports editor of the Houston atatestmonla "nn r. in . chairman of the party since
races was voted down with 263 as a favorite son candidate for
*
“"rfamza"rnncum.ha hamdF " r state* c^rTTda^S
made a P ddn't selimit..... ditamiettAmbu- was also voted down by the 22-23-2425, and 21 endorsed
pearaneesul hrchpouns, j cn hardv wait for Tues- tance Piwones 382-7214 and 387 Denton County Republicans with Tower andPrecinets 5. 78, and
on for governor, issued
statement Saturday night
Paul F Little II me* Wed. at the Campus, a minute to
52-5361 Sosathridge 387-2586 pray a Secohd to die. (Adv.}
urn in oi zvoLes, envugu w iu-w- . - .......— • 853 pta ce 2 Jame sDe nt on M4.-
r
leading his nearest oppohent,lcumbent Tom Holmes’of Gran- "A Waggoet, . L5 36 non Race -bettin
H B Burris of Alvord, in the bury had a total vote which1vDoPn 5n ma 0 agam-' 415.709
Wise County sheriffs race, 1.612 doubled the vote totals of his Hg"
to 521. two opponents in the race for 30;
However, an estimated 1 900 representative for District 51 A iters were
AUSTIN (AP) - Speaker
Ben Barnes, apparent winner
of the Democratic nomination
for lieutenant governor issued
•he following sfatement Satur-
day night:
“I am overwhelmed and ex-
tremely grateful tonight for
, the tremendous vote I have
been given by the people of
Texas. I had hoped to win
The World's Fare-
_ _ , Precinct 13 in Bridgeport official totals, which de not tn* a, I! 7 Paul Egzers
-Bz um Fouler.B
still out. Branch needed approx- podp Bradshaw of Weath- of1.38 to 385 in C0 P aginst 26 523
mately 500 to win without a erford was a distant second Matt Dals w as ( (ling Se ars Mik controts
- - runoff. with 3 358 votes and .1 Lou, See BRANCH Page 6 gainst 37,395.
symptoms without it. Those pay check deductions are the only In the only other county race, of stephenville received
-----t -------"3 Buck Lipsey was leading T. F votesin the in omplete re
• • Cook for county commissioner
in. Precinct 1 by a margin 01 “Holmes, a livestock broker
37910 । : v . . has served as representative of
The only ether box to figure the district for the last four
Briscoe, Locke
Show Strongly
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS by the Republican precinct con-
ventions as "favorite son" in the
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