Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 109, Ed. 1 Friday, December 7, 1979 Page: 5 of 32
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A directory of social agencies in
Denton County is being sold by the
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a corner on the fourth floor of the
library building.
Many of the men and women in-
terviewed remember exactly what
they were doing when they saw the
first planes or heard the first alarms.
Many of the men remember their
utter disappointment at realizing they
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- Lake Dallas City Planner Charles
Cryan was scheduled to hold a 2:15
p m. press conference today at which
he was expected to announce his
candidacy for a four year term as
. Precinct 3 county commissioner.
Although employed by the City of
Lake Dallas, Cryan is a resident of
Precinct 3.
city and county offices and school
officials, are $7.50. For those who
have last year's directory, an insert is
available lot $5.
Kockwell int’I
Safeway
St Regis Paper Co
Sears
Southland Corp
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Texaco
Texas Industries
Texas Instruments
Texas Utilities
Union Oil of Calif
U S. Industries
U.S. Steel
Zales
• The Denton • County Historical
Commission has encountered a
rather weighty problem in its plans
for the John B. Denton College bell.
The last surviving relic from one
of Denton's early educational in-
stitutions. the bell ,was donated to.
the commission earlier this fail by
the Denton school board
“We had hopd to display it in the
museum (on the second floor of the
courthouse on the square > or maybe
put it in the courthouse tower and
ring it during the Victorian
Christmas celebration next Thur-
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Dr. Jacqueline Simpson was elected
president of the Community Council.
Other officers are Dr. Ethelyn Davis,
first vice president; Ruth Tompkins,
second vice president; and Hope
Guajardo, secretary-treasurer
Special recognition was given to
torpedo bombers coming in. .
"We would see them coming in and
pass and go right to the battleships.
It's kind of a helpless and frustrating
thing to see those planes coming in
and flying so low, actually ignoring
you. And you can't do a thing,” White
said “The reality hadn’t sunk in yet
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explosions of the battleships being
hit.”
Because the New Orleans was
docked for repairs, ammunition was
stored away and power was cut off It
took some time for the 5-inch anti-
aircraft guns to be made manually
operable Meanwhile, the frustrated
men fired small arms at the bombers
as they passed by on their way to the
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deliberately run aground after the
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we got underway, they (the Japanese i
concentrated on us very heavily. L .
they sent everything at us. That's
when we got the brunt of the attack."
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Nevada when the attack came. He had
NEW YORK
STOCK EXCHANGE
Selected tabulation of stock prices as of
10:00a.m. New York time today as quoted
by Weber Hall of Dallas. Figures include
last sale and change from previous day’s
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situation."
At 8:25a m. a heavy armor-piercing
shell hit the California. "How it ever
went through our armored decks,
w h ich , I th ink, were 5. inches thick,
and got down to the main deck and
exploded was unbelievable."
Luckenbach was in the library when
it exploded in a dressing area and
blew some men down the passageway
past the library. Because of the
location, a lot of soldiers were there
with a lot of skin exposed. Some were
killed and others badly burned.
“The concussion knocked me all the
way across the compartment, and I
hit the other end of the bulkhead in the
dark. It dazed me for a moment. I
didn't know what had really hap-
pened, but I felt around and found my
hat again and went back to see what
was going on and what I culd do, but
it was complete shambles That one
bomb hit did more damage than
anything that you could compare it
with."
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the Nevada," "he said .
The California, which Luckenbach
was on, was torpedoed the first time
at 8:05 a m. “The ship lifted about 20
feet and fell back down," he said
The ship was “taking water rapidly
and going down fairly rapidly. At first
you hit mud. and then it s slower,” he
said The USS Oklahoma was on
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had to run around the hatch — the big
gun turret — to keep out of his way.
They were there to do as much
damage as they could, and no matter
who you were, they were trying to get
you It was a very, very horrifying
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LB Luckenbach. the handmaster
aboard the battleship USS California,
was in the heart of the battle also He
saw the Nevada heading for the
channel.
"The bombers were still overhead
dropping bombs, and they were hit-
ting in the water between us and the
Nevada. I guess we must have been 40
feet away. They were farther out
Because of this tremendous wait of
the 4 to 8 a.m. watch that Sunday and
was relieved early, at 7:30 a m He
was in the shower when the alarm
sounde.
“There were two or three other guys
in the shower who said, ‘Aw, of all the
damn times to have a drill!' And then
somebody said, “well, that’s a crazy
time! A lot of guys are not here.’”.
( The advisory committee was
established by Denton County com-
missioners and the Denton City
Council to study all projects jointly
funded by the two bodies and to try to
work out a funding formula ao-
ceptable to both.
The council and commissioners
each appointed three members and
the six chose Jamison to serve as the
seventh member and chairman
No other action was taken at the
meeting, but the committee will meet
again at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the
Denton Civil Defense room at city
hall.
OVER THE
COUNTER STOCKS
Quotations from the National Association .
of Securities Dealers are representative e
interdealer prices as of 10 00 a.m New
York ' time. Interdealer market change
throughout retail markup, markdown and .
Is your voter registration certificate
current for City of Denton elections?
If not. you have through Dec 20 to
register if you are to be eligible to vote
in the Jan. 19 city charter amendment
election.
State election laws require voters to
be registered 30 days before an
election in which they vote. That
makes Dec 20 the last day of
registration for eligibility to vote Jan. *
19, according to a spokesman in the
voter registration division of the
county tax office
A long list of charter amendments
will be on the Jan. 19 ballot, including
increasing the number of City Council
members from five to seven, with four
of those to be elected from, single-
member districts, plus at-large
election of the mayor
The mayor is now selected by other
members of the council.
Other proposed changes include a
limit of three consecutive two-year
terms in office for council members
and a number of revisions to remove
obsolete provisions and bring the
current charter into compliance with
state laws, ‛
Councilmen approved preliminary
drafts of the proposed amendments
two weeks ago, ordering some
changes, and will review final drafts
Tuesday night
Americans recall another crisis: Pearl Harbor
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Justin Industries
Moore Corp.
Morrison Inc.
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Wentreck said
While Wentreck was scurrying to
his battle station from the shower, the
Nevada was hit "It felt like that
whole ship was raised up," he said
It is "a feeling or a sound you'll
never forget. I mean, it is just a
rending of the metal . like it (the
explosion) was picking it < the ship) up
out of the water and bobbing it
around,” he said
Wentreck’s duty was to help fire the
It is a time for consolidation of
previous gains and a time for a new
morality and a new sense of
responsibility going into the ’80s, Dr.
Mary Evelyn Huey told the Com-
munity Council at its annual meeting
Thursday.
The president of Texas Woman's
University said there is a need to
recognize that, there are ‘some
restrictions on the things that can be
done and that there are limits to our
resources.
“We need a pruning of those things
that are no longer of use to us,” she
said. This applies, shejadded, to
government which can abolish as well
as create agencies, to volunteer ac-
tivities and to personal lives.
“When a function is no longer im-
portant. we should turn to a fresh,
needed one, or the structure can be
abolished," Dr. Huey said.
She called for a “new harmony" of
the various populations in the com-
munity in sharing of wealth, in finding
So plans for the bell will be put on
the back burner for awhile until the
commission can conduct a fund
drive to build a concrete pedestal for
the bell on the lawn of the cour
’house she said
Meanwhile trebeilwilir-maa
the school district w arehouse where
it has been in storage for the past 20-
odd years
The schoo’ district obtained the "
bell when the college property was
acquired in 1912.
Over the years, the college
buildings have been demolished and
Cryan joined the city staff in 1977
while studying for a master s degree
in public administration at North
Texas State University He received
both his bachelor's degree in
sociology and a master of divinity
degree from -Texas Christian
University
Incumbent C R Happy" Salmon,
who has served two terms on the
commissioner's court, announced his
candidacy for re-election Thursday
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Dan Wentreck, also a Denton boilers to get the ship moving out of
what is now Congress Junior High
School built in their place
The bell remained on display in
front of the junior high until 1957
when it was taken down from its
pedestal after the principal ex
pressed concer tha Students m gh
be hurt climbing on it.
Since then the bell has been stored
at the district warehouse
"It's being well cared for," Ms
Stevens said "Maybe we'll have it
to herald in the Victorian Christmas
next year.”
a "new morality to replace the non-
morality” of the times.
.She .said there needs to be a new
harmony "of love for beauty and
creativity” and a new sense of respon-
sibility. "I’m getting a little bit weary
of hearing so much about rights
without hearing about the
corresponding responsibility,” she
said.
There is a need, she added, for more
self-discipline and more externally
applied(discipline. "If a teacher can't
tell a student he can’t use profanity
because of freedom of speech or tell
him he can't "have-a switchknife
because of a right to bear arms or
something, then the teacher can’t be
effective,” Dr. Huey said.
On the subject of volunteer work,
she said there may need to be a
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By JANIE LEIGH FRANK were cayght completely off guard,
Staff Writer after months and months of preparing
Memories of the surprise Japanese for Japanese attack.
attack on Pearl Harbor are especially "Something peculiar came over
poignant this year Americans are me,” said Jack J. White in his in-
remembering Dec. 7, 1941, as the last terview. White, a Denton resident, is
time they were so unified as they are the purchasing director for NTSU. "I
today in outrage at Americans being didn't want to watch the ships, the
held hostage in Iran. smoke and everything.. I felt kind of
Thirty-eight years ago today at 8 ashamed to see all of the destruction
a m. on what began as a pleasant that was going on and had happened in
morning, the Japanese bombers just a relatively short time, and not
shelled and torpedoed ship after ship being able to do anything about it
in the harbor, plane after plane on the after working and training for two
airfields. The attack led to the United years," he said
States' entry into World War II. ' "I think this was what was sc
Memories of this attack from some frustrating to so many of us — to have
100 individuals who were at Pearl actually gone through this wartime
Harbor at the time have been condition anticipating and preparing
recorded for posterity as the Pearl for it and then to be caught completely
Harbor Project in North Texas State by surprise, unprepared as it were,’’
University's Oral History Collection, he said
Taped interviews and transcripts Over the stern of the USS New '
are available for reading or research Orleans, the cruiser on which White
The Citizens Advisory Board on
Denton City-County Joint Projects
met for the first time Thursday night
and elected Dr Alonzo Jamison Jr
chairman of the committee.
. Jamison, a former state
representative" from Denton, is
an assistant professor of history and
government at Texas Woman’s
University.
sday night,” said Thelma Stevens,
director of the museum.
“But Dr. (Robert) McGee (school
superintendent) called me this
morning and said, 'Yqu know
history doesni come in small
packages she said .
"As it turns out, that bell is 40
inches in diameter arid weighs
between 1,000 and 1,500 pounds
There is no way to get the blasted
thing in the courthouse elevator, and
even if we were able to get it up here,
I don't kn.ow if the floor could hold
it,” Ms Stevens said.
Friday, December 7, 1979 DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE Page 5A
"battleship row” behind the
California; when it was torpedoed,
about the same tim, it capsized,
Luckenbach’s battle station was in
' the first aid station set up on a lower
deck and he only saw the planes when
he went topside to rescue someone.
“Then you see them, and they'd chase
you around, in fact.
"I was trying to get to the forward
end of the ship, and some Japs came
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Staff Photo
DISD Superintendent Robert McGee examines the duty John B. Plans to display the bell at the Courthouse on the Square were stymied
Denton College bell in the storage space it has filled for some 20 years, by the sheer weight of the historic piece.
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17 in county join
Connally campaign
Seventeen Denton County residents
. # havsbeen named to the John Connally
"tor President Steering Commftee - a
The local group is part of • a
v . statewide delegation of more than
2,700 citizens who support the former
Texas governor s effort
The committee includes Mary
Denny of Aubrey:- Joe G Alford,
- Tommy -Caruthers, Robert .
Castleberry, Harry Down, Robert H.
Hankins. Grant Jacobson. Ms Billie
Johnson, Morris Kibler, Mr and Mrs
Fred Patterson, Ronald Pokorny,
Ronald Siebler, Dr V W Redman and
Randolph S Smith, all of Dentn, Dr
Don Anderson of Lewisville; and
Byron Nelson of Roanoke
local food center
The Denton Youth Council will
sponsor a combination scavenger
hunt-food drive in Denton Sunday to
benefit the Deploy CommunityFood
Center.
Members will meet at First
Presbyterian Church, 1114 W
University Drive, at 12:30 p.m to
share a sack lunch fellowship They
will begin the hunt in groups at 1:30
and will return to the church at 3 p.m.
for a party.
Youth groups are welcome to join
the event, and should call Richard
Skiles at 387-1755 (day only) if in -
terested. So far, groups from the
following churches are participating:
First Baptist, First Christian. First
Presbyterian, Immaculate ’ Con-
ception Catholic, Saint Andrew
Presbyterian and Trinity
Presbyterian
redefinition of volunteer since Carol Fights for her work with the
volunteers seem to be reluctant to Community Food Center, Homer
work on their own time. “In this case Reese for his “leadership and
it is the employer who is the volun- assistance" and to outgoing president
teer," she said. Dr. Waymon Dever.
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