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of the year
activities speed
up at Terrell Hi
Activities at Terrell hitch school
have continuously gained momen-
tum in the last several weeks as
graduates watch the calendar as the
two most important dates in the
school year draw nearer.
Beginning with a Mother’s Day
dinner on May 13, an annual af-
fair given by the senior class,
and continuing through recitals,
band concerts, a dinner party for
the Denison school board, prac-
tice for plays and cramming for
exams, events at Terrell have
kept the seniors in a whirl.
The Rev. Prince Hilliard was
guest speaker at the Mother’s Day-
dinner which was the sixth such
event to be given by Terrell sen-
iors. Levora Cage was master of
ceremonies and Joe Louis Ross
gave the address of welcome.
Many Jane Smith read a poem
to mothers. Betty Cox introduced
the speaker and the response was
given by Mrs. R. McKnight.
Parents of seniors and Princi-
pal and Mrs. E. T. Hardeman
were guests.
The Homcmaking department,
directed by Mrs. M. K. Howard,
cooked and served a formal din-
ner to members of the Denison
school board and Superintendent
B. McDaniel on May 7.
The Parent Teacher Associa-
tion, in their final meeting of the
year, presented two electric
water coolers to the school as
their project for the 1955-56
year, and contributed $25 to a
deserving student to be presented
on Commencement night. The
PTA with Mrs. G. W. Wilson as
president, had already purchased
three water coolers for the school
and had also accomplished several
other outstanding projects for the
good of the system.
Special Gift
One of the outstanding features
of closing activities involving the
faculty was the presentation of a
$100 gift certificate to Mr. Mc-
Daniel, retiring superintendent.
The gift certificate was signfed by
twenty nine members of the three
schools, Terrell High and Terrell
Elementary and Walton and
Langston. The gift was presented
in a special ceremony attended
by faculty members.
Commencement
Terrell's commencement prog-
lam actually begins on Friday
night of this week and continues
until Thursday night, May 31,
when graduates receive their dip-
lomas and awards.
On Friday night two one-act
plays, “The Future” and “A
Backward Glance” will be pre-
sented in the school auditorium.
Awards will be presented to
outstanding students by the PTA,
the Safety Council, The Links,
and the Athletic department.
Sunday afternoon at 4 the Rev.
J. W. Presley, pastor of Pleasant
Grove Baptist church, Denton will
deliver the baccalaureate sermon,
and on Thursday evening, May
31 at 8:15 Dr. Christine B. Cash
of Bishop College, Marshall, Tex-
as will deliver the graduation ad-
dress.
Certificate!
Certificates for completion of
work in the Building and Trades
department and in the Cosmetol-
ogy class will be awarded. Build-
ing and Trades certificates will
be presented to Frank Brown,
William Jackson and Joe Louis
Ross.
Cosmetology certificates will
be awarded four students who
have already passed the state ex-
amination as licensed operators.
The four students are Robert Fin-
ley, James Jones, Roy McKnight
and Patsy Furr.
In India and China otters are
trained for fishing.
Ahead is Success 1956 Graduates
and may each tomorrow bring to you
a greater measure of success
MYLES VARIETY STORE
CONGRATULATIONS
CLASS OF 1956
May success be yours in all of your future undertakings
is our wish to you.
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faring hardships is at the Bottom
of most of the groat productions
in the world, whether of art, poot-
ty, essays, or other creations
born of not “having too much.*’
The king’s son^ seeing the brok-
en sword lying almost hidden in
the said, which sword was cast
aside by a heart not brave
enough, seized the cast-off half-
sword and won a glorious victory
that day. The Roman’s proverb
was “If the sword is too short,
add a step to it, young man."
Gieat things are created in the
imagination first long before
they are set before the world a
finished production.
When Napoleon in 1786 was
told that he was to succeed the
General Count Marhoeuf he set
himself to a life of study which
lasted until 1796, a period of ten
years. Young men of Napoleon’s
age in the ranks of the army at-
tributed financial matters as the
reason for his keeping himself
from their social functions. The
why was far from that. Napoleon
-pent that ten years studying for
his life’s work in the ranks of the
army. When Napoleon appeared
to take over an army disgruntled,
broken, hungry and ill-equipped
he was told: “You are too young.”
He replied: “In one year I shall
be dead or old.”
He knew he had implemented
himself in those ten years with
that which would be required to
reveal the fact he had added dur-
ing the years the required abil-
ity to make him one who would
be considered "old in experience.”
The other end of the dilemma
would be death in trying.
® Gird for the War
Many of us only gird for a bat-
tle. And when the going is bad,
we break tile sword, cast it into
the sand and run away. If life
were only a battle! But, far from
it—it is a war. And a long and
constant one at that. Whether in
business, the sciences, journalism,
or music—all of it means a grind
that never lets up if we keep
contemporaneous and meet the
hour which brings the testing.
• A Diet for Canary Birds?
Men who face today’s business
test tubes are men who are of the
Elbert Hubbard type whose slog-
an was "Give me poverty and vul-
gar health."
Men who live on the food of
relative poverty do not die of
heart trouble nor suffer ghout
or indigestion. It is vulgar health
that follows through when ones
diet is corn bread, sow bosom,
greens, and buttermilk. v
When we get so anxious about
making a dollar that we lose our
appetite, nurse anxiety and coax
depression and bad business smog,
we soon slip into the mood that
brings in the golden calf that
will kick us to death. We expect
the preacher to say over our cask-
et that we came to untimely death
while in the midst of our prime.
Love for the golden calf got us
too close to his heels and we are
kicked to death. We call it heart
trouble.
No, we just “had too much”
of the wrong kind of what this
world holds and not enough of the
treasure that time can not cor-
rode nor thieves take away.
To outline the
world cotton status
at Lubbock meeting
“Just what is the world cotton
situation today?” Participants in
the 17th annual American Cotton
Congress in Lubbock, Texas on
May 31, June 1-2 will find out
from the man who probably
knows more about cotton than
anyone else.
He’s Lamar Fleming, Jr., chair-
man of the board of Anderson,
Clayton & Co., worldwide cotton
merchants. His address will be one
of the highlights of the opening
session of the Congress on Thurs-
day, May 31.
Marvin L. McLain, assistant
secretary of agriculture, Wash-
ington, D. C., will speak at a din-
ner session the second day. His
subject will be “The Challenge
Facing Cotton.”
Other speakers include: Dr. M.
K. Horne, National Cotton Coun-
cil, Memphis, Tenn.; Don L.
Jones, Texas Agricultural Exper-
iment Station, Lubbock; Isaac
Holmes, High Plains cotton grow-
er; F. Marion Rhodes, USDA,
Washington, D. C.; Carl Cox, U.
S. Testing Laboratory, Dallas;
Jack Towery, Cotton Research
Committee of Texas; George
Pfeiffenberger, National Cotton
Council, Memphis; Dr. Earl E.
Heard, West Point Mfg. Co., Ala..
E. W. S. Calkins, U. S. Rubber
( o., Winnsboro, S. C.; and George
Bass, Swift Mfg. Co., Columbus,
Ga.
Burris C. Jackson of Hillsboro,
Texas, general chairman of the
Congress, will deliver the keynote
address. Chancellor M. T. Har-
rington of Texas A & M College
is chairman of the program com-
mittee.
The principal addresses and
panel discussions will deal with
problems facing the cotton indus-
try. Special sessions will bo do-
. ■•***
Plata* ot
' A Gold trip, farm machinery
exhibit* and an open house nt the
textile engineering laboratory
have been arranged in coopera-
tion with Texas Technological
College.
Long range attack
on tuberculosis
announced as started
AUSTIN—A long-range attack
on the state’s tuberculosis prob-
lem was presented Monday to the
Board for Texas State Hospitals
and Special Schools for possible
final approval.
Dr. Janies A. Bethea, executive
director, said representatives of
the board for several months
lia\ e worked closely with State
Health Department officials in
developing a comprehensive prog-
ram for tuberculosis control in
Texus.
Effective control measures, he
said, must include prevention and
discovery of new eases which are
piimary responsibilities of the
health department, as well as
treatment which the state has
delegated to the hospital board.
Two other state agencies, the
Vocational Rehabilitation Divis-
ion of the Texas Education
Agency and the State Welfare
Department also have been as-
signed specific roles by the legis-
lature in combatting the disease,
Dr. Bethea said. Officials of both
have assisted in drafting the
program.
Dr. Bethea attributed much of
the hospital system’s work on the
program to Dr. Richard F. Al-
lison, superintendent of McKnight
State Tuberculosis Hospital, near
San Angelo. Since the resigna-
tion of Dr. Roger Hanna last year,
he said, the board lias been with
out a director of TB hospitals.
Dr. Patrick I. McShane of Wash-
ington, D. C. has been appointed
to this post and is expected to as-
sume his duties on July 1.
Chairman Durwood Manford
of Smiley said the Hospital Board
will meet at 9:30 a.m., Monday.
May 14 in the Capitol reception
room of the house.
Members are Mrs. Howard E.
Butt, Corpus Christi; Dr. James
H. Wooten, Columbus; R. F.
Higgs, Stcphenville; Dr. Herbert
Martin, Mexia; John G. Dudley,
Houston; Dr. Raleigh Ross, Aus-
tin; James M. Windham, Livings-
ton; and Howard Tcllepsen, Hous-
ton.
Survey S. Dakota
reveals news to
be suppressed
BROOKINGS, S. D. — Some
South Dakota public boards and
officials, particularly on the coun-
ty level, frequently suppress pub-
lic information by keeping it out
of the newspapers.
They also refuse citizens access
to public records, according to a
survey completed by the depart-
ment of printing and rural jour-
nalism of South Dakota State col-
lege.
The survey was made because
of the many charges of news sup-
pression in all parts of govern-
ment—local, state and national
during the past few years.
Questionnaires were sent by the
journalism department to all daily
and weekly newspapers in South
Dakota. A total of 77 were re-
turned, in which 22 of the pub-
lishers indicated they had en-
countered public officials who
had attempted to keep public re-
cords out of the public press.
The general opinion of the 22
newspapers who reported some at-
tempt at suppression was that
public officials, particularly the
county officials, frequently give
only part of the news instead of tell-
The questionnaire also asked
about refusal of puBUe board* to
let newspaper representatives at-
tend official meetings, and to
give legitimate news to the news-
papers.
Most of the publishers who
found suppression, however, at-
tributed it to partial withholding
of news.
Some of the comments made
were:
“No actual refusal, but held up
minutes until after the next re-
gular meeting . . . also don’t
publish all the information the
public is entitled to.”
“Occasional instances of where
news has been politely by-passed
by an official in the interest of
protecting some person . . . also
sometimes a meeting involving im-
portant news is held without the
Paper being informed about it in
advance.”
“. . . No refusal but notice-
able lack of information con-
cerning specific actions ... , "
A few publishers named spec-
ific boards and officials who sup-
pressed news.
One stated: "Board of Educa-
tion refuses to publish in its pro-
ceedings a complete listing of all
wan ants drawn, even though the
state laws require this. They con-
tend that the amount of the
teacher’s salary and when the con-
tracts are signed is all the public
needs to know.”
Others ielt officials were most
cooperative. Three papers com-
mended their officials.
Newsmen urged to
stimulate interest
in government
COLUMBIA, Mo.—“Politicians,
pundits and press agents.”
This is the title of a speech de-
livered by Boyd F. Carroll, Jef-
ferson City correspondent for the
St. Louis Post Dispatch, during
the University of Missouri Jour-
nalism week at the Sigma Delta
dinner.
“The field of government is
filled with politicians, pundits,
pressure groups and press agents,
some full of zeal and many full
of poltiivs;” Mr. Carroll said.
However, he emphasized there
is great opportunity for greater
participation in governmental af-
fairs, at all levels, by those most
affected by government — the
mass of people governed, the peo-
ple “who pay.”
The veteran political observer
expressed alarm over the increas-
ing number of people who show
little interest in voting in elec-
tions.
“These people grumble about
growing governmental regulation
costs, but do not have time or in-
terest enough to vote,” he said.
An informed electorate is im-
portant in a large measure to the
maintenance of effective govern-
ment year in and year out, Mr.
Carroll declared.
“Naturally I believe the best
medium to keep the people in-
formed as to what goes on in
their government is the news-
paper, supplemented by radio and
television.
"Certainly not by political com-
mittee chairman and spokesmen.”
“Quality and ethics of govern-
mental coverage by a newspaper
therefore has considerable bear-
ing on and contributes to better
government, whether at the local,
state or national level.
Mr. Carroll stressed the impor-
tance of reporters and corres-
pondents in a government center
doing a thorough and intelligent
job of investigation and unbiased
job of writing.
aiding race unity
progress is cited
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. —
Frank L. Stanley discussed the
need for a responsible press to
furnish news and leadership on
racial integration in a speech
here.
Mr. Stanley, editor of the
Louisville Defender, addressed
the annual Headliner Week ban-
quet at Lincoln university.
Recalling recent events that
have caused tension, such as the
Mississippi Till case and the mob
scene at the University of Ala-
bama, Mr. Stanley said:
“It is most obvious then that
the frontiers of civilized society
were not all conquered when wo
built a nation, wrote a constitu-
tion, fought a civil war to end
slavery, engaged in two world
global conflicts to preserve demo-
cracy, created the “A” and "H”
bombs and rendered a series of
court decisions outlawing racial
discrimination educationally, re-
creationally and in public trans-
portation.”
To achieve harmony, but to still
maintain the rights of all citizens,
and to gain those rights where
they have been denied, calls for
great work and skill, Mr. Stanley
•said.
“This responsibility is gravely
incumbent upon those of us of
the fourth estate in these soul
testing times,” the Louisville edi-
tor said. “We must adhere strict-
ly to the principles of objectivity,
fair play and abstract truth.
"We must avoid placing our-
selves in the role of partisans,
solely to placate assumed preval-
ing opinion. We must lefuse to
exhibit violent and biased attit-
udes toward groups and ideas.
“We must desist from journal-
istic convictions, ugly rumors and
conduct all debates on the rules
of fairness, giving equal space
and treatment to both sides of
the question. We must ever guard
our conscience and readily ex-
pose fully and openly every evi-
dence of unfairness, inaccuracy
and distortion.
“We must ferret out the news
and present a balance sheet un-
remittingly. We must keep the is-
sue of social equality clear, and
refuse to let reactionaries cloud
or hog the picture.”
In this manner, Mr. Stanley
stressed, newsmen of today can
uphold the heritage of American
journalism, which is “replete with
famous warriors in the public's
interest, who, true to their heri-
tage of birth, in passion and pro-
test dedicated themselves to the
welfare of all of the people, and
not to the interests of one exclus-
ive and fortunate class."
Pulitzer prize
winner named in
New York State
NEW YORK — The Watson-
ville (Calif.) Register Pajaron-
ian has been awarded the Pulit-
zer Prize for meritorious public
service.
The California daily was recog-
nized "for its courageous expos-
ure of corruption in public office
which led to the resignation of a
district attorney and the convic-
tion of one of his associates.”
Three newspapermen divided
the award for international re-
porting.
They are William Randolph
foptif* ‘ Smith W
International Now* Sorvic*
Frank Conniff, editorial amirtant
to Mr. Hoarst.
They wore recognised for a ser-
ies of exclusive interviews with
Soviet Union leaders.
Lee Hills, executive editor of
the Detroit Free Press, and Ar-
thur Daley of the New York
Times shared the award for local
reporting.
Mr. Hills was cited for “aggres-
sive, resourceful and comprehen-
sive” coverage of the United
Auto Workers’ negotiations with
Ford and General Motors for sup-
plemental unemployment pay.
Mr. Daley’s award was for out-
standing coverage of sports events
in his column “Sports of the
Times.”
Charles L. Bartlett of the Chat-
tanooga (Tenn.) Times won the
award for outstanding national re-
porting. He was cited “for the ori-
ginal disclosures that led to the
resignation of Harold E. Talbott
as secretary of the Air Force.”
An editorial inviting a farm
delegation from the Soviet Union
to visit Iowa won the Pulitzer
Prize for Lauren K. Sotli of the
Des Moines Register and Tribune.
Robert York of the Louisville
Times won the cartoon prize for
his work “Achilles,” showing a
bulging figure of American pros-
perity tapering to a week heel la-
beled “Farm Prices.”
And the news photograph award
wfcnt to the New York Daily News
“for its consistently excellent
news picture coverage in 1955, an
outstanding example of which is
its photograph "Bomber Crashes
in Street.”
The Ovenbird builds a dome
shaped nest, divided into two
rooms, the inside one containing
the eggs.
to party growing
less, says speaker
CARBONDALE, IU. — Many
Missouri non metropolitan news-
papers continue to align them-
selves with a political party in
name and fact, but almost none
retain the slavish loyalty to the
party common in earlier press
history.
That is the conclusion of D.
Wayne Rowland, Southern Illinois
university professor of journal
ism, in an article “What’s in a
Name,” in the current issue of
the Missouri Press News, publi-
cation of the Missouri Press assn.
Prof. Rowland reported on 98
questionnaire replies from Mis-
souri weekly and daily newspaper
editors and publishers outside St
Louis and Jackson counties.
He found today’s political al-
legiance of a newspaper usually
indicates the publisher’s normal
party loyalty or the political com
j plexion of the area served.
In only a few instances did the
decision seem based on obtaining
a business advantage. The declin-
ing number of weekly and small
daily newspapers in Missouri
seems to have permitted and en-
couraged a trend toward a more
independent, free and responsible
press, he said.
Most newspapers in one paper
towns accept the responsibility
for presenting all sides of most
issues in spite of the wide range
of answers received to the ques-
tions, Prof. Rowland said.
Generally editors felt they
could express their own views in
editorial columns regardless of a
full presentation of facts in the
news columns.
An ensign is a flag flown on
ships.
CONGRATULATIONS
GRADUATES OF 1956
A bright future is
in prospect for you
GOOD LUCK TO YOU.
Best of Luck
1956 Class
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Anderson, LeRoy M., Sr. The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, May 25, 1956, newspaper, May 25, 1956; Denison, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth737448/m1/4/: accessed July 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Grayson County Frontier Village.