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THE DENISON PRESS
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED PRESS
DENISON, TEXAS, FRipAY, DECEMBER 1, 1944
VOLUME 1G—NO. 24
5,000 Additional Japs Sent Below
ALONG THE
NEWS BEAT
BY THE EDITOR
'A Tragedy of Tragedies
Nothing has bo shaken the
city with grief and moved bo
deeply o n its
t
■ 1
Ten Deaths ?Ty Rei“rie<! Denis’nDam Ma"> p»“>* Total Now
Water NESSES Leyte Job
90FeetDeep
. As Favoring Rid
Last Count Denison of Butane
Butane Gas
heartstrings as
t li e frightful
tragedy here
Nov. 21 which
took tiie lives
of ten per-
sons and
maimed o t h-
s| ers f o r life
i a n d severely
!k.. .l burned a
quarter o f a
bundled other persons when the
butane gas disaster rocked the
city from one to the other and
had its reverberations, in far dis-
tant cities. While it is true!
that no accident may be termed
‘‘unavoidable’’ still the occur-
rance has come to us and our
loved ones and friends have been
snatched literally by the liquid
flames of death from us while
in the midst of laughter and
orderly processes of life and
business. It was all done sol
Denison and other cities this
past week were admixing burial
services with the dying hours of
additional sufferers from the bu-
tane gas 'blast which occurred
Tuesday the 21st when a butane
gas truck and a passenger car
collided at West Morton an
Maurice.
At first the death toll was
placed at five, then seven,
later an additional two passed
away and Friday morning the
24th the list stood at ten dead
witli two additional lives hang-
ing in the balance.
The last three persons dying
since the report or the Press last
week were Mrs. John Mar-
shall, Sherman; 'Mrs C. A. Bliss,
Denison, and Mrs. Otto Ahlers
Sherman.
Those remaining alive Satur-
day morning at the hospitals
were Mrs. Ed Kilgore, 1427 W.
Morton; Lonnie Joe Hammons,
12. 132(1 W. Washington, Deni-
with child and with no ormor-1 :‘on> und Mrs. R. B. Marshall
quickly as travel upon a woman
with child and with no oppor
tunity for escape. Only those I .Dallas.
who divined that something was Funeral services were con
imminent in the way of danger ducted from points as fai
were able to cheat the hand oP'iorth as Kansas City, and at
death at this time, and even I arious points in Texas for the
then some of those fleeing from other victims, some of whom
the wrath of the flames were
caught in its deathly embrace.
That something will be done
in the way of taking steps to
prevent like tragedies, we arc
promised by Mayoi W. L.
Ashburn. Some time back in a
sitting at the city hall when the
were visiting in the city,
passing through and happened ti
he at the fatal spot at the time
A» lo Safety Measure*
While the holocaust was on
the lips of thousands, newspa-
pers and city and state officials
and handlers of butane an'1
hazards of fire were up during 1 ther explosives v-ere consider
the administration of the late
Dr. T. J. Long, discussion was
had of the dangers of butane
gas as well as that of the un-
ing a restudy of the whole
field with the idea of bette1
safety steps to protect the pul
lie against any >iko sources o'
called for practice of local’ danger No dorbt wise and ma-
wholesale gas dealers in parking! ture thinking will he given t1
leaded gasoline trucks in down | whole matter, which i< the sane
town areas for long hours at a, and reasonable way to take 111"
time. However, nothing was j matter
done- | The whole thine* has centered
We can not bring back those Kj,e eyPS 0f the world on Deni-
dear to us now through post-1 son am| enlisted the svmpathv
death action, but we can do|f,f thousands who have let their
something for thd living andI feelings he known by letter-
guard as far as possible against j telegrams and personal word
any like holocaust. The senti-( ppp s„fferers among the im-
ment of the people now is for| .^odjate families as well as tin
such and no doubt all possible j patients who were lingering In-
steps will be taken to guard life threads of life were the sub-
and property from such sources. jec.^s 0f special prayer at the
of danger. The butane people Thanksgiving day services held
no doubt were doing all the j.pre Thursday. The milk of
present regulations call for. But pimian kindness has been mani-
this must bring on a new study fested in commendable ways in
of the whole field of dangers |-)enj,inn nnd the whole city h r
from gas and butane and the Fgen brought to a more sober
best of information and intelti- frRmp of rn;n(j
gent leadership is needed to fer-
ret it out. And no doubt, in
the front rank of these seekers Rpport for CrRyson
for more safety will be the very. Accordi to a re„ort released
men who deal in such commodi- wef^ ln. p, o. Peterson
ties. Back in the dark days and, stfttistjrian for the gov
the practice of wnheraft "uch, ernment. a total of 28,708 bales
dangerous article would he bar-! ^ potton werp pinnpd as 0r
red entirely from the woild of| ^ Th;., eoTOpnres with
things and the men dealing m r ^ the same date last yea-
Following the blast of butane
gas here the ,21 st which resulted
in the death of ten persons,
Commissioner Carl Flanery stat-
ed to newspaper reporters that
“We must rid Denison of bu-
tane.’’
Mr. Flanery stated also, ac-
cording to the published report
that while he had not dis-
cussed the matter at the time
with other officials, he as-
serted that he knew that Deni-
son must take the step indicat-
ed.
Mr. Flanery’s further state-
ment was reported as saying
that he thought that some
cities prohibited the use of the
gas inside the town limits.
“Another explosion may nevei
happen, yet one similar to the
one which took nine lives may
happen tomorrow.” Mr. Flan-
ery said. “If this accident had
happened on Main street during
a busy shopping period, the
toll may have been 100 lives.
\nd the next one might he on
Main street.”
Mr. Flanery said he would
urge the council to study the
"fate laws governing the gas
and then to draft the most
•tringent ordinance possible.
Kildeau,Head of
Kraft Cheese W.
Division, Dies
more
acres
of
land
water.
The
next
foot
will
inundate
a
slightly
The water at the Denison
dam for some distane from the
dam proper are reported stand-
ing this week at a depth of
•>0 feet and the lake eovers near
the (55,GOO acre mark, accord-
ing to a statement from the
U. & Engineer offices here.
The lake waters ha've risen a
depth of more than two feet in
the past two months, the chief
rise following the recent heavy
rains.
The lake stood Tuesday
morning at the 600.70 foot con
tour.
It took the reservoir slightly
longer than one month to rise
from 599 to the 6010-foot mark,
which put approximately 1,600
under
climb
lar-
ger area.
The lake now is around 90
feet deep against the main
embankment, and sprawlin'
water is fingering its way up
the many streams dumping into
the basin, such as Big .Mineral
and others, to form the r 'els,
large and small, that are so
dear to anglers and duck hunt-
ers.
-V--
All Dope Free
On Bait to Use
InLakeTexoma
If you want the low down on
the kind of dope to use in ang-
ling in the big lake above the
Denison dam, all you need to do
! is to go to the (Denison Cham-
ber of Commerce and contact
the office force. A booklet is
free for the asking and it is
j not necessary to have live bait
to get a mess of fish. Since
live bait is declared to lie
i scarce, the information on, other
|Iind of bait is for the asking.
(Manger Bill Harwell announ-
ces,
--—V--
E, A. Kildeau, manager of the
Southwestern Division of the
Kraft Cheese Co., who died
at Dallas Wednesday follow-
ing a brief illness.
High Schoal To
Supply Tools
Denison, following the butane
blast here the 21st of No
vember, became the focal point
for scores of cities and towns
with a view of better harness-
ing the dangers of handling
butane gas. All of those who
intelligently approached the
matter, and who represented
the cities interested, as well at
the state department of pub-
lic safety, expressed the posi-
tion in substance, that while
butane gas wfas a deadly thing
in tne proper setting, so also
were other commodities now on
the market and handled daily
in homes and shops and busi-
ness houses.
The gist of all who made
statements was that they were
seeking all facts about the ex-
plosion that were available so
as to the better understanding
of how to handle the gas so as
to harness it for further and
even wider use by the people
of the state.
Butane gas is available in a
large volume, and with the
coming of synthetic rubber and
other war-time development, and
post-war possibilities, the need
for harnessing the use of bu-
tane becomes still more need-
ful rather than the destructive
step iif doing away with its
presence in communities.
The Dallas News carried a
story Saturday in part as fol-
lows, pointing out that two of
its public servants, Fire Mar-
shal Hilton and City Building
Inspector R- H. Cummings
would visit the city. These gen-
tlemen, with others from the
state and lire and accident in-
surance companies were here
and cohered carefully the
ground and secured all availa
hie information. This will be
Is 26,000
LEYTE, P. I., Dec, 1—In an-
other crushing blow delivered on
the Japs trying to make Leyte
with reinforcements for their
trapped soldiers, the air forces
of the U. S. sank a convoy of a
reported 5,000 Nippons Friday,
making a total of 26,000 sent to
the bottom of the sea so far in
the Leyte job, it was announced
today.
Although the convoy was cau-
tiously scattered over a wide area
the Yanks’ fighters tracked down
all of it, sinking a 9,000-ton
transport and three small freight-
ers and engulfing a 5,000-ton
freighter and destroyer in flames.
One freighter was bagged as
far west as Mindoro by a night
patdol plane. Others, including
one heavily loaded transpoit,
were blasted off Masbate and off
Cebu-
Civil Air Patrol
Formed WithT.
McBee As Head
Denison now has a full-
fledged Civil Air Patrol Organi-
zation which shall lend what
suppot it can to war-tune ac-
tivities and add its contribution
(also to post-war development of
aeronautics. The head of the
.. „ , , . , , . organization has been named as
carefully analyzed in laborator- I... ,, „ c“
. ,. , , | iom McBee, an expert llier
!«s and whatever practical bene- , , , . ’ . * . , ,
... , ,, „ , t and head of a local flving school
may accrue from the mat- , . ,, , , :
.,, , . . ., ___, conducted at Gray Field east of
ter will be given to the public
and also to those interested in
framing the proper regulation
for butane and other highly |
combustible commodities,
The Denison high school is to
furnish the students of the
vocational class interested in
. ... iarm work a regular full
Funeral services for Arthur . . , ... ,
, .. (size tractor and will have ac-
E. Kildeau, general manager ol , , . , ...
,, .. ... , ... ..Dual experience in handling it.
the Southwestern division ol/,, , * .... . , ,
the Kraft Cheese organization, ’I0*'10 ^ ,n chaV,fe °f
Frets First As Usual
As indicated in the first
newspaper article appearing on
the matter of safety steps was
in the Press, days ahead of
Rnv ft Iothers’ even though the paper
* * A *.41111 UvF^'aj;,. present forced to run as
a weekly with its chief help
of 25,565.
them hanged. But in
ligent age man must harness
the dangerous things and make
them his servant. That is the we understood to be the
enlightened age of things ami, lacts from u party who wa-
llow to handle them. | present and heard the statement,
NOTE—The Press was the | us perrin Fiekl was in the topic
first paper in this section to of thy convcl.stttj,m along with
raise the question of safety i otjjer matters, The intelligence
measures needed in connection i department 0f parrin promptly
with the butane blast. The po- pp the matter to check on
sition is not that of absolute who ^iay made such a
were conducted here Thursday
afternoon from the Short-Mur-
ray chapel, (Rev. Guy Newman
j of the First Baptist church,
and Rev. James E. Spivey of
the First Presbyterian church
officiating. Interment was at
Fairview with the Masonic or
der in charge at the grave.
crushing of the butane business,
nor drastic and immature legis-
lation That is the easy and
novice way out. Any steps
taken to curb the dangers of
butane should also consider the
whole field of explosives, includ-
ing gasoline, which is just as
deadly, especially the "ewer and
more highly volatiliztd kind.
Not 1\ Perrin Field Chaplain
The Press is glad to learn that
the chaplain of whom it was
stated in an article on Nov.
3rd in this publication had said
before a group of negroes in n
chapel service that they had won
the war fnek in 1918 and were
going to win this world war
also, and then followed with an
appeal that they “tm out and
fight for their rights” was NOT
a chaplain connected with _ Per-
rin Field. That was the tnfor-
statement and were prepared to
take suitable action. However
it now- develops that the inci
dent happened, all right, but it
was at a neighbor flying field
in this state. For that reason
no action will be taken here,
we are informed. However, we
join with the intelligence de-
partment here in their delight
that Perrin skirts are free from
such angles of dissension, and
also congratulate the intelli-
gence department and the public
relations section for thcii
speedy and efficient work in
running down any and all sub
versiveness. Perrin F ield is clean
in every way from such tactics
and is one of the outstanding
the vocational agricultural class
revealed here this week. The
machine was purchased at a
price of about $1,500.
Through the Future Farmer
of American chapter, the equip-
ment, a Farmali and all equip-
ment, was obtained. Included
in the equipment is a cultiva-
Mr. Kiideeu died at a Dallas tor« Planter- llst.er and pl°"'
sanitarium where he had gone ^
following an attack of illness i j- ▼ ,« 1 ¥ I *4.
while in his office. He was U£n, U gll, LtfOOKll
under care of specialists, bui | j. A IT •* • t *
after a lingering fight of two j |JUt A JLlttlC /\S
weeks death ended the strug- 1 .
gie. Pleasure Riding
iMr. Kildeau was horn in S.vd-
at the front in this war. The
Press indicated the position of
Mayor \V. L. Ashburn, who
said that all possible investiga-
tion and step would be taken
in the matter to guard against
any future dangers.
Speaking of the blast the
News says:
Denison,
He is commanding officer and
has been given the rank of
lieutenant.
\\ esley Barnhill, another
Denison pilot and former civil-
ian instructor, probably will be
the executive officer of the new'
unit and other officers tenta-
tively appointed w'ith ranks of
second lieutenant include W. E.
Marsico, George Linskie, Johnny
Jaques, and Jack Maguire.
Capt. Wilson Germany, com-
mander of a squadron at Dal-
las, and First Lt. Harry Reed,
executive officer of the Dallas
\V ing of the CAP, were in
charge of the organization of
the Denison squadron. They
were assisted bv Lt. F. C- Taneo
The recent Denison butane of Pen-in Field, a member of
explosion tragedy Friday had ! the Perrin aviation cadet board
made Dallas sit up and take and advisor to CAP unts.
ney, Australia, May 7, 1893, and
came to America when he was
nine years old He resided on
the Pacific coast a number of
years before joining Kraft- He
was married here in 1937 to
the former Miss Anna Mae
Russell and the couple has re-
sided northwest of Denison on
Highway 91-
Active in business and civic
affairs here. Mr. Kildeeau was
a director of the State Nation#,'
Bnnjc and headed the Third
War Loan and a United War
Chest drive. tHe was a direc-
tor of the Chamber of Com-
merce and a Mason,
Mr. Kildeau was made a
member of the Texas 'Manufac-
turers Association last June
and was a councillor of the
United States Chamber of Com
notice of its own need to ex-
ercise safety measures against
such accidents.
Butane, the liquefied petro-
leum gas, colorless and odorless1
has popularly spread in use as
a fuel in Dallas County rural
areas, but is used in less than
100 business houses and resi
deuces in the city of Dallas.
“The Denison explosion and
others similar to it shouldn't
fields in America and we are pierce,
glad to aid in any way In J Surviving are the widow; a
keeping it that way and also I" brother, A. J. Barhieri, Ran
know we have such loyal men to; Antonio, and a nephew', David
head up the various departments [ a, Barhieri, San Antonio.
I
Lookout a little bit about
taking that planned pleasure
trip if you have in mind one
these days as Christmas nears-
You recall that a lot of people
were caught last year with
their “gas points down’’ around
F'lorida and other watering
places and had a hard time
getting back home. ,
The Ration Board does not
want you to be caught that
way again, if you like that
way of saying that they are
cut after bear now on gas
users bent solely on pleasure
trips these days.
You not only will likely not
he able to finish the trip hut
will also lose all gas rationing
cards and maybe some other
penalty added 11 you do start
out to break the contract under
which (you are getting gas
cards these days.
That’s the final word of the
OPA, so you can take it or
letve it,
Purposes Outlined
Lt. Reed, in introducing plans
for the squadron to the more
than 30 aviation enthusiasts
w’ho attended, said that the
original purpose of the Civil
Air Patrol w'as to assist the
armed services in defense
work by patrolling coastal
areas, flying special missions,
and performing other services.
1 With the passing of the na-
make people afraid to use bu-1 tional emergency, however, the
tane, but they should serve as j CAP was removed from the jur-
a warning that all inflammable J isdiction of the Office of Civil-
fluids and gases must be re-; ian Defense and madP an aux-
rpeeted, transported and used , iliary of the army air forces,
only in the devices and the J Its purpose, he said, is “to
manner which the best knowl- help 130,000.0:010 people get
edge of them has proven safe,”,their feet wet in aviation
D. M. Kintz, supervising engi
neer of the health and safety
department of the Bureau of
Mines, said FYiday.
Dallas' Control. Transportation j Purpose general military
The squadron here, which
will he made up of both fliers
and non-fliers, will have as its
and
l
Dallas, one of the few' Texas
cities which has an ordinance
governing the use and trans-
portation of liquefied petroleum
gas, will immediately feel a
tightening up on inspections
and enforcement of the ordi-
nance, 'Fire Marshal B. C.
iliiton said Friday.
The ordinance prohibits bu-
tane truck traffic in the area
bounded by Houston, Pacific,
Harwood and Young Streets,
the parking of the vehicles on
(C ntinutd on Pag** 4)
aviation training as well as the
training of cadets in ground
school work. The CAP is not
permitted to give flight in-
struction and those desiring it
must obtain it from private in-
structors at their own expense.
For Men \And Women
Members of the DeulsJii
squadron will buy their own
uniforms and will enlist under
military regulations. The squad-
ron will be open to both men
and wmmen are eligible for
officer commissions,
i
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