The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, February 10, 1950 Page: 1 of 8
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DENISON, TEXAS
/orld’s Greatest Earthen Dam and Lake
Poultry, Dairy, Farming Center
THE DENISON PRESS
DENISON, TEXAS
Has Largest Wood Treating Plant in World
World’s Largest Manufacturers Land
Clearing Equipment
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED PRESS
DENISON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1950
VOLUME 21—NUMBER 33
Denison Back to Normal After Severe Ice Storm
School Jobs Accepted By City Dads With “Reservations” Transmission Lines and
Phone and Gas Service
Perform Remarkable Job
Fear Lamar Council Takes Position Den|s°'1 Election
Job Carries On Parking Meters After Th?rdaReadingets
Grief Ahead Lone Complaint Is
Made
Fear that the Lamar school
building may carry with it in the
not too far days ahead, some form
of grief and (.ostly maintenance,
the city council Tuesday voted to
put their O.K. on the order of the
school board to pay the sum of
$11,611.50 to the Ash-Abels con-
struction company. This was the
balance due the company on the
four buildings on which work was
done for the schools of the city by
that firm.
For some time the matter has
been hanging fire and the city
dads have felt that while they
could accept the work done on
Houston, Raynal and Peabody
school buildings, they could not
gi\e their full indorsement of the
job done at Lamar.
City Engineer E. C. Drumh in-land Mr. Lilley stated he was per-
dicated that as he saw it, the con- j fertly satisfied with the present
traitors had carried out the blue meter steup. He indicated also to
prints, but the expanding and con-jthe mayor that he wished the
trading of cement blocks used, I best meters possible so as to keep
and which were specified in the [the traffic moving,
blue print, carried with it pos- J. C. Haynes, manager of the .1.
sible era,"king in a relatively short c. Penney company, stated he was
time. It was explained that the in favor of the present setup on
contractors will make any correc- the meters and thought they
tions in such case on their own. j served the shoppers long enough.
However, the members of the | He thought streets where no met-
body felt that in future years Urs were placed should be used
when the record is read they want by those who had reason to believe
it to be on the minutes of the ithoir shopping trips required long-
council that they accepted with Pr period for completing it.
Following a lone complaint reg-
istered with Mayor Harry Glidden
that parking meters were interfer-
ing with business in department
stores in that women patrons did
not have enough time to do their
shopping, a. report was made to
the city commissioners Tuesday
afternoon by the mayor. Mayor
Glidden reported he had interview-
ed heads of the J. C. Penny com-
pany, K. Wolens and Lilley-Ayres,
following a complaint from 0. W.
Hayes of the J. W. Madden com-
pany.
The complaint was that the
narking time did not give the
women customers opportunity to
have their dresses fitted. Mayor
Glidden stated he got in touch with
E. .1. Lilley of the Lilley Ayres,
The third and last reading of a
proclamation calling a city elec-
tion April 4th and naming the
boxes and election judges was giv-
en Tuesday at the regular meeting
of the city commissioners.
The election is to name a com-
missioner for the city to replace
the vacancy by reason of expira-
jtion of the term of office of
j George Stratton. Mr. Stratton
j has served the city for two years
I but did not choose to run again
because of heavy pressure of busi-
ness and inability to give the time
he felt the office required.
The election will be held 1k-
EVF.RY MAN A SECRETARY
Down in Austin where the sol-
ons are in a special called session j tween the hours of 8 a. m. and 7
p. m. The following voting places
to see what
they can do in
the way of rais-
ing more taxes
to fasten on the
dear “Peepul”,
the news comes
that the speak-
er of the house
is housed in a
nine -room
and the presiding judge and judge
in each case is given.
Ward 1—Adams Electric and
Supply, 127 W. Woodard, J. T.
Smith, presiding judge; Mrs. Hal
Murphy, judge.
Ward 2—Educational building,
City
Give
Keeping Alleys Clean
Takes Steps
Full Service
To
In
Lines of T.P.L.
Helii Up Under
Late Ice Storm
Transmission line electric serv-
ice into Denison was maintained
without interruption throughout
one of the most intense ice storms
ever experienced by this city, A.
G. McRae, Texas Power and Light
Company district manager, stated
here this week. Falling trees and
branches and heavy ice loading
caused service over some distri-
First Haptist church, Harry Kain, Ibution lines within the city to he
presiding judge; Mrs. Willie Ben-j disrupted temporarily, but the
nett, judge. (new' 12,000-volt loop around the
If the full time service of the
j three trucks manned with three
men to the truck, keeping Deni-
son’s alleys clean, is inaugurated,
j which is the new plan proposed for
I Denison, then Denison will soon
take its place among the “spotless
towns” of the South.
(• The city officials are long-past
due, they say, in doing something
positive and permanent to take
j the place of the desultory manner
of the past in keeping the alleys
and streets cleaned. On the pre-
sentation of a plan by City Engin-
eer E. C. Drumh, the council will
introduce, beginning March 1st
the proposed plan which will give
permanent and regular cleaning of
all alleys in the city.
The proposed step is, first, to
rid the city as far a.s possible of
all trash, debris and waste which
usually piles up over the city in
the alleys and which forms a
City Votes Adding
McKinney’s2 Lots
To Denison
Denison swung back into its
normal activity within a few hours
aftej the recent ice storm had
done its best to cripple the service
ol the power, phone and gas com-
panies.
Except for a brief few moments
after the storm first struck which
were consumed by the trouble
Following a request made form-; shootei s in getting to the points
ally by R. L. McKinney that the , where trouble was located, the
city take in two of his residence service of all the service corn-
lots located next to his property panje. went on as if nothing had
on 1601 W. Hull, favorable action : happened. The storm tried to do
was taken by the city commission it, best in the way of destruction,
ers Tuesday afternoon. Mr Me- but the two other ice storms, and
Kinney stated he had two lots ad- especially the one of last year,
joining his home immediately to carried with them ideas for prep-
the west and wished it included in aration for like -torms on the part
the city proper. of the service companies which
The city was informed he would took tb0 destructive edge off inso-
let them take over his own private fal as Denison was concerned,
water line in the deal. The city ac- j Poles which a,.e down in the
cepted the water line with the un- lu,.a| al.eas> alon}, with other dam-
derstanding that it would not j
maintain that part, if any, of the
| water line which might still remain I
lout of the city limits when thej,
! lots are taken in.
Ward .1—First Christian church, Lty withstood the storm and made i‘term‘laden condition which carries que9‘ed that something be done to Denison soon had thej)
n t...i.....1. ‘ ... . the ..e .....repair the street in front of his <• .. .
The manager of K. Wolens, P.
Hartholtz, took the position that
time
sug-
reservation the matter of taking
over the Lamar job.
The letter recommending pay-j he was satisfied with the
mont of the $11,611.50 balance I Piement on the meters and
due* the contractors was signed by Lcsted they be kept in
Ben Munson III, chairman of the I working order at all times of shop-
Denison school hoard. I pinfr hours so as to keep the traf-
---Ifiee moving.
rp | | Following the report of the
L/SI* Uwners 1 Oldimay°r’ Commissioner George
Strattan moved that Mr. Hayes be
. informed that the council, after
careful study, elected to let the
apartment with
two baths. The house was recently | W. C. Darby, presiding judge; |jt possible to sectlonalize thc|tbe Possibilities of epidemic
worked over at a cost of several j Mrs. Tom
| thousand dollars. I Ward 4—nrignam s nnoe nnop, ja sb0vt
Since the speaker is so comfort-1Bugur Bottom, ( has. Brigham, L|on was without power for ap-
ably ensconced, we are told by |presiding judge; Mrs. Lola Perry, |pioximately twenty minutes, and|td-' a -potless town.
Austin correspondence, it was a.u [ jud(ge. iin only a few isolated instances In order to carry through the
easy matter for each of the mem-j M ard 5 V.F.W. hall, Fred j where secondary distribution lines program, it will ho necessary
bers of the legislature to get forjUahnel, presiding judge; Mrs. .1 were broken by falling debris was
themselves a prriate secretary.j Wright, judge. service discontinued for longer
The speaker could not afford to Ward 6 Trinity Methodist jperiods.
The new 60,000-volt transmis-
of I reTail'
I home.
the street in front of his
rnnni-n<l inHo-o I” Ti , ........7...... -.,7 I various kinds ’ I home. Ho declared that when he
-Brigham’s Shoe Shop, L s|10Vt time. The business sec- The second point in the program (Purchased the place some time
Chas. Brigham, |tion wns without nower for an- Iis that of civie P«''d* making the I bark he was t0,d the 'streets
j that locality were to be graveled
at an early date. He cited
I ill Ulliy ll lew isuiiUCU maioiaciii .......... «■« '-»****» mivw^u me r ,
5—V.F.W. hall, Fred whpio sppondarv distribution lines program, it will bo necessary to
create a permanent budget which
will insure covering till costs and
age in connection with the ice
-toi ni are being replaced by crews
working day and night Every
emergency has been met by the
really service which is made avail-
A. i . Hines, 720 E. Walker, ap- ;able by the private companies.
peared before the body and re- Tl ,
• the various railway lines into
repair
Ward
raise a howl, else they would point I church, Wayne Bruce, presiding
to the mutton in his own teeth, judge; Mrs, J. W. Taylor, judge.
So, these boys wdio are so bent on
a special session to tax the peo- R, B. George 1$
perfect >’,e '<> Ulk“ ;a,e, ‘>f a sit“at‘on Named Director
which neglect in large part in the __ _
past has created, they do not seem M-K- I . RR Company
to be able to know how themselves
to cut down cost to the people.
of
force out covering this area with
men and material for making any
needed repairs. Most of the poles
skirting the rail track- out of the
city were down, and telephone and
, , \11 ! telegraph lines were promised to
fact that at present it required a i,„ . , .... ,,
, , , . , . , ”, bo fully restored within the next
half hour, which involved damage j ^
to his new car, to negotiate the
Which will not impose a burden on | Z^Tm^Z were^S * '»<* *>" ‘b* J* * -condition-
ing streets by the end of the
week, City Engineei E. C. Drumb
says, weather permitting. Many
places over the city will need re-
conditioning where the ice and
heavy rains have eaten into the
The street force of Denison will
To Register Now
Avoid Late Rush
Owners of motor vehicles are
urged to purchase their 1050 li-
cense tags as soon as possible to
avoid standing in line when the
last hurried rush comes.
The Denison auto tag office has
two deputies on duty to serve the
public, and persons can usually
get yvaited upon without delay,
according to a statement by Ros-
ser Bell, in charge of the Denison
office. It is pointed out by Mr.
Bell that more than 6,00(1 passeng-
er cars will be registered in the
Denison office, which means that
an average of 116 passenger cars
alone must be registered each day
to conic under tho deadline. Thi-
does not take into consideration
other types of vehicles and trans-
fers that must also be made dur-
ing the registration period from
Feb. 1 to April 1.
New license plates may be at-
tached to vehicles any time after
Feb. 1. Applicants must have
their certificate of title and 1949
registration receipt when applying
for registration.
25,000 motor vehicles were reg-
istered in Grayson county in 1949.
meters and the
carry remain
regulation
as they are.
they
KATY CAR LOADINGS
Car loadings for the M-K-T.
railroad for the week ending Jan,
27 were, local, 4,612, compared
to 4,450 for last year; connective
loadings, 4,331 compared to 3,753
for, last year. For the year to
date local loadings numbered 16,-
764 compared to 19,365 for last
year, and loads received from con-
nections up to Jan. 27 totaled 15,-
702 compared to 14,825 for last
year.
The total for both local and
connective loadings for the year to
date are 32,466 which is 1,724
loads shoit of last year’s total of
34,190.
Broken Windows
On Main Street
‘Look Like Heck’
“Those broken windows on
Main street with the birds flying
in and out of the building look
like heck and 1 wish something
could be done about it,” declared
Commissioner Glen Hanan at the
Tuesday meeting of the city com-
missioners. He followed through
by declaring he had counted ill
least 18 broken glasses.
“We can look out of our win-
dows here in the city hall and see
lie broken windows with the birds
flying in and out of the buildings
and it looks like we are letting
the (ity take a civic licking. If
'here is anything that we may do
about it, I am in favor of taking
steps,” he added.
Mayor Harry Glidden joined in
the sentiment expressed and said
the city attorney would first write
the owners of the buildings in
such condition before any other
steps would be taken.
Tho situation could be handled
by the city ordinance covering
such cases, was the position of
City Attorney Win. M. Malone.
sion line from 1’aync substation to
Denison held up under conditions
which brought about as much ice
as did last year’s storm," Mr. Mc-
Rae said. “This is the line Texas
Power & Light Company con-
S. LOUIS, Mo.—R. B. George, s,ructed in fulfillment of its prom-
With 150 members of the low-1 ^jp^n^Conwnv, Ilallas! ^Tcx*- they^voted^to extend the TP&I.
er house having a $7.50 per day ....... elected to ,jle boan, of ()i. franchise here last summer. It is
secretary, most of these fellows |
who never dictated a letter to a
stenographer in their life, will
wonder what it’s all about. But
like the Israelites, who wanted a
king like the heathens around
them, they clamored for one and
then did not know what to do with
it, we have a group of members
of the legislative body with a sec-
retary drawing $7.50 and at the
same time not being able to keep
her busy.
If you write the members, most
of the time they will forward a
form letter turned out on a mimeo-
graph. The letter is framed like
politicians generally do things—
say a lot of words and tell noth-
ing about the case in hand, espec-
ially if your letter calls for some
kind of a stand on an issue.
But, gentle reader, with 150
members of the legislature, each
mc-
Missouri-Kansas on<‘ of the strongest lines
, jchanically ever built in this area
as, was
rectors of the
Texas Railroad company at a
meeting of the board here this and 'vas ^signed withstand the
week, R. J. Morfa. Katy hoard mnst severe weather conri,t,ons
chairman, announced. Ikn°"n to thl* v,c,mty'’
George succeeds Henry H. Cate, i In addition to the new heavy-
Kansas City, president of the Flour duty transmission line completed
Mills of America, Inc., who
signed.
A red dye is made from
cochineal bug.
re- recently, the company was in the
process of strengthening its trans-
mission system throughout North
the j Texas when the recent ice storm
Istruck, Mr. McRae said.
Chamber of Commerce
Names A. ./. Martin .4s
President For Year 1950
anyone, but will be leveled dowp
°o that all will have a part in
the program.
It is proposed to place a defi- j
nite sum of 50 cents on each wat-
er connection, and a like charge |
on all dry closets. Where there is
more than one family in a build-
ing, the city has a way to deter-
mine how many families are being
served and a price of 50 cents
per each family additional will be
placed. Where there is only one
! capped by the bad corner of the
I -trcct with a hig mud hole several
(inches deep.
Engineer E. C. Drumb stated he
was familiar with the spot and
said it needed reconditioning.
Commissioner George Stratton, in
charge of streets, stated that the
city had only three blocks of grav-
eling ahead of the Hines case and
as soon as weather permitted the
three would he treated and then
j the relief given at the East Walk-
meter, it will be up to the party , ^ .
in whose name the meter is carried '
to collect the additional fifty A st0T sif*n al Milick an(l Tex‘
cents from such occupant or occu- a< "hich "‘as redUes*d by Homer
inrds ! Gaddy was requested to take care
. , , , | of the hazard. Action favorable.
At present a total of something
over 6,000 water connections are
serving the people of Denison.
Numerous shade trees will re-
quire trimming off limbs broken
by the he weight, however, the
ice storm last yeai left relatively
little in the way of limbs.
With many parts of the state
needing ’'iin, Grayson and other
counties of Texas have been well
supplied with rains and moisture
for wheat and oat crops will meet
all the needs, farmers state.
City Engineer Drumb estimates
that three trucks manned with
three men to the truck will be
necessary operating all the time
to do the job. He has two trucks
already and reported that the city
owned a third which needed a
flat bed. He stated the bed could
be built for the sum of $338.40
The council voted to go ahead on
A request for a signal light at
Day and Armstrong was held in
abeyance.
City Attorney William M. Ma-
lone stated the city was working
on the case of K. Mills vs. the city
of Denison, suit for damages in
connection with an explosion at
his home when being treated by
the city’s fog machine and it would A wide variety of
lie ready for trial w ithin the next! day bargains ranging
Wide Variety Of
Super Value Buys
On Denison’s Day
-upei value
from baby
two months.
tho job of readying the truck.
Albert J. Martin, president of humor and faith in the future that On the basis of figures prepared
the Citizens National Bank was|ho addressed the 200 members and and submitted to the council by
. , |guests present at the meeting. Mi. Drumb, the program of keep
having a secretary drawing $7.50ieRtuu |M1 "" 111 u 1 Brief talks were made by Mr. ina the city clean will permit tak-
a day, you can see these friends j Chamber ot Commerce at the an- _\ja|.tjn> t)K, newly elected presi-jing care of all costs with enough
of the people are working to keepjmu l banquet
down cost of government and re- Friday night
duction of taxes. Hoofing off son.
Feast of the Passover commem-
orates the time the Angel of Death
took the first born of every fam-
ily in the Nile Valley, save those
which had the mark of a lamb’s
blood over the door sill. The Jews
had so marked their houses so the
Angel might pass over.
that the uxis of the earth is not
perpendicular to the rays of the
sun.
Church Census
Completed Here
By Protestants
Representatives frenn
clotted president of
the an-; Martin, the newly elected presi-jing care of all cost- with enough Representatives frqjn each of
ot the organization, deni and by E. J. Lilley, retiring I surplus to maintain upkeep and j the Protestant churches taking
at the Hotel Deni- president, who was presented a take care of obsolescence and cap-;part in the religious census Sun
______ certificate of merit for his services ital replacements. The money col-j day, are meeting this wee'; to sep-
$11,250 a day for 150 secretaries Other officers elected to serve as president last year. Paul Mar-j looted by the fifty cent tux on aratc and distribute the
for men, who, in the main, never with Mr. Martin are Ed 11. Young, j able, manager of the local Cham- each meter will be kept inviolate [turned n by tin 250
had a secretary and who would! fjvst vice-president; Win. J. Ry- her was given special recognition j in the special fund and for noth- worker
not think of hiring one for them-jiee, second vice-president; Free- for his services. The invocation j iug else, according to action of i With Rev B. C. Brown a gen-
selves if they had to foot the-bill, man Carney, secretary and treas- was. given by the Rev. Richard the council. oral chairman, churches co-opernt-
is something they might answer I m-er. i Crews, pastor of the First Chris-J Details in the matter will holing in the work are First Assenv
when they get back home. j New directors named are Jack jtion church. , .prepared by the city attorney and bly of God, Calvary Baptist, First
Asking the people lo send let-j Darker, R. II. Ivey, A. G. McRae, Special guests included Col. R.
ters urging new taxes to take R. p. Montgomery, Ben Munson, \. Livingston, of Perrin Air Firce
care of a ease they brought on
themselves by slack business meth-
ods in the past, while they hire
secretaries to sit around, eat thick
steaks and talk about the need for
more taxes to care for their own
created condition is something
that rather galls the average voter
when he knows the score.
Well, wc shall see what we shall
see when those boys come back
home* and start campaigning for
reelection at the July primaries.
an ordinance
Robinson! Crusoe named the man
who become his fnmnus helper
after the day on which he found
him, Friday.
Harris, Joe Sullivan, W. L. Ash
burn, B. V. Hammond, C. A. Birge,
Judd Sampson, J. R. Haynes, F.
H. Fohfeldt.
Jeff Williams of Chickasha,
Okla., was the guest speaker of
the evening. Mr. Williams, a na-
tive Denisonian, has been named
the ambassador of good will by
the governors of two states, and
Ross Stoddard and Mr. Young, j Base;; Robert Hunter, Tulsa dis-
Holdover directors include Fredjtrtct U. S. engineers; C. W.
Conn, Orvln Franklin, Fred Harv-1 Scheurer and Melvin Sisk, presi-
ey, E. J. Lilley, Freeman Carney, dent and manager of the Sherman
W. L. Peterson and Mr. Martin. Chamber;; George Shook and Mrs.
Directors whose terms expire Elwynn Seely, Whitesboro; B. F.
include F. O. Bahcock, Charles Clements, Pottsboro; Jack Meador,
B. W. Newman, Whitewright; J.
F. MeKnight, Virgil Wilson, Bon-Jth
ham; lien Marablc, Paris; James
Monroe, Paul Hardin, McKinney;
Fayette Walker; Gerald McCar-
thy, Madill, Okla.; David Bates,
E. G. Long, Durant; Charles Fti-
gitt, Bill Martin, of the public
relations department of the East
Texas Chamber of Commerce at
will be carried in
duly advertised.
The motion to carry on with the
program in detail was by Council-
man George Stratton and was sec-
onded by Commissioner Glen llan-
an, who stated he had long favor-
ed something being done along the
diapers to Laundromats and cow-
feed to top coats may be found of-
fered in the Denison Press spe-
cial double truck layout pages 4
and 5 in this issue of the Press.
It might be said also that some
of the receivers of this copy of the
Press have never had such valu-
able information as to these super
bargain days delivered to them
" ids through the mail. The paper has
volunteer K°ne a!1 out t0 lel1 the l,e°Ple of
the trade territory aiound Deni-
son about the good buys, just a
few of which are mentioned in
this special ad announcement.
To those who are wanting some
Baptist, East Baptist, Park Side ; > eal buys, they will find them by
Baptist, Trinity Methodist, Harless | coming to our city and looking
Chapel Methodist, Waples Memor- over things. The day this time is
ial Methodist, Church of the Naz- set for Tuesday, the 14th rather
arctic, First Presbyterian, Hyde Allan Monday, because Monday is
Park, First Christian, Memorial la bank holiday and doubtless many
Christian. of our visitors will wish to have
access to oni banks and the serv-
it was with his characteristic good Longview.
line. Mayor Harry Glidden con- auspices of the Denison Ministev-
otirred, stating he wished to see ial Alliance.
e city made and kept clean and---
felt
The censusVas taken under the
; ice they arc willing to render our
visitors.
If you will follow the big signs
that all public spirited citi- Worshippers of the God .lugger- in the windows which have been
sens would gladly join in the naut are said to throw themselves placed by the merchants telling of
steps taken. under the huge car of .lugger- the special bargains and good
He indicated that some details j naut as it is dragged through the values, our visitors can’t go
might he difficult to work out streets, seeking to be crushed by [wrong. Look for the big signs,
where more than one family was jits wheels. size 11x17, in the windows, tell-
being served by the same meter, f--ing of the big day in Denison and
j but believed it could be worked, A female figure u. cd ir. arch: out •mnrisl Super
lout satisfactorily to all concerned, Itecture as a pillar is a caryatid. Value Day Bargains.
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