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Freezing rain or snow also was
BEAUMONT. Feb. 4 a, mis-
trial was declared today for Mrs.
North-Central and East Texan.
Two More Far
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INTERPOSITION FIGHT
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HEARING THURSDAY
Retired Santa Fe Official
Phone Rate Hike
J.P. Cowley Dies At Temple
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Ante Financing, Waldrip's, C-40$4.
rton came
‘ 1952,and
Dallas Children
Are Stricken
Utility Extension
Costs Are Studied
High year ago
Low year ago ..
MOASIure *---i
Sun sets today
rises 7:22 am. Fil
prayers will be offered on schedule.
Much of Texas still needs moisture
and one blizzard won't end the
drought.
Grave Sentence
Given Two Boys
CORSICANA. Feb. 4 M-Two
boys, 13 and 14. were ordered by
Bist. Judge A. P. Mays today to
place flowers on three graves in
a local cemetery each week for
the next eight weeks. e
It was their sentence on charges
of desecrating the graves Jan. 4
with air rifles by shooting down
pictures on grave markers. The
parents also were directed to pay
for damages to the grave markers.
AND USE WANT ADS
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“Dixie” as they paraded. Some
shouted “keep ’Bama white. To
hell with Autherine”—the Negro
enrollee.
The demonstration began about
are expectel to range from 12 to
22 degrees.
Although no official record ex-
ists. exempted voters in the coun
ty may total around 2,000. bring-
ing the true Denton County voting
strength to around 14,000.
that initial leadership of the rally
came from “a few inebriated fra-
ternity men.” The bureau said
fraternity officers helped keep “the
general situation from becoming
more difficult." > . .
• • • •
be
Keith and Fred Minor.
The hearing on the telephone
TUSCALOOSA, Ala., Feb. 4 m
—Resentment over presence of, the
AUSTIN, Fob, 4 i-A statewide
drive was informally launched to-
•day to win legislative support of
the "interposition" doctrine in the
fight to maintain racial segrega-
tion in Texas.
Basic organization to direct the
campaign will be the Association
of Texas Citizens Councils, whose
executive committee is scheduled
to reach formal decision on this
issue Fob. 19 at Waco.
Today’s endorsement of such a
movement came from 30 persons
from 10 cities after a three-hour
conference with Atty. Gen. John
Ben Shepperd. -
The meeting with Shepperd was
held at the request of Dallas at*
torney Ross Carlton, chairfhan of
the executive committee of the
Citizens Councils Assn.
Carlton, who said the group was
calling on Shepperd "merely for
information” on legal questions,
urged Citizens Council members to
inject the seoregation issue into
this year's coming elections by
BILL PROBED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 u-
ate leaders said today they
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Cause 3 Wrecks
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TEMPERA
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Benton Record - Chronicle
The Hometown Newspaper For The Denton, Wise, Collin and Cooke County Area
It was lighter
observers said
Denton County voting strength
for 1956 topped all records, 0. N.
County’s 1956
Voting Strength
Marks Record
AllrzotHduty city police were
called out to help control the crowd
but the students forced their way
past a blockade of police can to
reach the flagpole in the heart of
the city.
The university news bureau said
11:19 p.m. and went on for nearly
three hours.
will
g-
a shouting demonstration of 1.009
men students during which a car
occupied by Negroes was damaged.
The excited students burned a
mercial disturbance will be removed today and Mon-
day by higher temperatures. (Record-Chronicle Staff
Photo).
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TEMPLE, Feb. 4 (f) — Paul
Cowley, retired vice president and
general manager of the Santa Fe
Railway's Gulf lines, died in the
Santa Fe hospital here early today.
He had been UI for about a
month.
Cowley, 70, spent 91 years with
the Santa Fe until he retired June
30, 1955. He rose from stenographer
to the chief operating officer on
the Gulf Lines. •
He also was a director of Galves-
ton’sharves and a director of the
First National Bank of Galveston.
Services will be held at 1 p.m.
Monday to Temple with burial in
Hillcrest cemetery. f-e
Survivors include his widow and
a son, Paul Jr., an apprentice
telegraph operator in Dublin, Tex.
Cowley was born in Schulenburg,
Dec. 21, 1895. He started at Temple
place the rate increase into effect
until final settlement of the case.
The City of Denton, opposing the
telephone company's rate increase,
proposed a rate scale drawn up
by the city. The city's proposed
scale was turned down by the tele-
phone company.
Representing the City's interests
in the case is the local law firm
of Coleman & Whitten. Attorneys
pike Authority officials,
multi-million dollar ti
agree to remove millions of acres
of croplands from production. .
This “soil bank” plan is part of
the Eisenhower administration pro-
posals, but Democrats claim it.as
their own. They say they thought
of it first but the Republicans took
it over in this election year after
first opposing it.
Chairman Ellender (D-La) told
newsmen when the Agriculture
Committee recessed for lunch that
he would ask committeemen to
ing k newly born
Beaumont hospital I
gardless of the segregation issue. .
.. -Im for interposition down the I
The Attorney General said Texas 1
might be in a tough spot in trying
to use the interposition theory to
oppose school segregation in view 1
of the fact that the state Supreme
Court already has upheld Integra- 1
tion of Negro end white students
in public schools.
But he said interposition also
may be the lost resort in trying ’
to heed off federal control in such 1
matters as segregation In public
Deep Is Reported
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
was heaviest in the area from the
Canadian River, which cuts across
the Panhandle, and south into the
Lubbock area. .
Snow drifted to the eaves of
of homes in Plainview. Six and
eight-foot drifts blocked streets.
Mayor C. L. Abernethy sent city
trucks and road maintainers out
to try to break paths. Most Texas
cities do not have adequate snow-
removal equipment.
Plainview had been without mall
since 1:39 p.m. Friday and mail
‘See SNOW, Page 8
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on. announced Saturday he had
accepted on appointment as dean
of the Collate of Liberal Arts of
Southwestern Lpuisiana; Institute,
A Streamlined Report
Off Important News
Near-Riots Follow Negro
Press photographer who flew
over the desolate South
The worst blizzard in SO years paralysed much of the
Texas Panhandle and South Plains Saturday with snow 29
or more inches deep and drifts 9 feet high.
with Hereford the
whether the city or the developer
should pay the costs of extending
ity utilities to areas under de-
elopment.
City Engineer Grady Creel told
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Plains- in an icing, single
engined plane Saturday to
shoot pictures for AP mem-
ning Friday.
The heavy snow held out prom-
ise of restoring long-depleted sub-
soil moistures.
The storm also earns as Texas
Baptists, in line with plans made
last month, prepared to pray to-
gether next Saturday and Sunday
for an end to the drought. The
emption from paying a pol
present their claim at the
they vote, Seagraves said.
called out to a home on Bel
Avenue Friday.
But firemen, making their
64th f ire run of the . year,
learned to a hurry that whore
there’s smoke sometimes
there’s no fire.
The "fire" turned out to be
steam escaping from a bath-
room window.
At nightfall, Plainview — along
hardest hit city—-reported snow still fallin
than earlier, but the skies were dark, i___
more heavy snow could come down at any moment. At the
time, the snow was more than 29 inches at Plainview.
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Citizens got a strange look at empty parking spaces
on the west side of the Denton square all day Friday
and early Saturday morning as traffic was stale-
mated by the ice and slush. The cause of the coin*
THE THAW BEGINS
head price of natural gas, and det-
element of labor disputes.
Shepperd apeared to bo careful .
not to give a definite legal oinion-:
on any of the various proposals
advanced for maintaining segrega-
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TSCW Dean
Accepts Post
in Louisiana
This story indudes the latest
developments in the Alabama
demonstration against a Negro
student A story sent earlier
by Associated Press is on Page
5, Section 1.
2-hour special session of the com-
mission Friday. The commission-
ers will discuss utility costs with
officials of the lending agency,
the veterans’ organization and the
contractors to determine what ef-
fect such costs might have on VA-
981 were exemptions issued to City
of Denton residents.
According to state law, Sea-
graves said, only in cities of 10,-
000 population or more is the tax
assessor-collector required to is-
sue exemption certificates. Coun-
ty residents who qualify forwex-
Newest development in the
smouldering Texas Telephone Co.
case, pending here in district court
against the city, was the filing this
week of an application by the tele
phone company asking the court
to appoint a master in chancery.
A master in chancery is an un-
biased person who hears evidence
presented by both sides in a civil,
suit and returns his findings to
the court by whom he to appointed
-Hearing on the application filed
by the telephone company is sched-
uled Thursday.
The Texas Telephone Company,
seeking to place a rate increase
into effect a year ago this month,
was granted a temporary injunc-
tion by the district court here to
backing those legislative candi-
dates who favor interposition. -
Interposition to a legal doctrine
by which a state seeks to halt
federal action which the state feds
violates rights reserved for the
states.
Shepperd did not specifically en-
dorse the Citizens Councils move-
ment with respect to maintaining
segregation in public schools, but
he told the delegation:
“Interposition is the last line of
defense that the state has, re-.
The committee, in an unusual
night session, tentatively approved
by a tight 8-7 vote a directive to
restore rigid mandatory price sp.
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ports on cotton, wheat, corn, rice
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and peanuts. •
This would sink the flexible and
lower pricesupports which Presi-
dent Eisenhower won from Con-
gross in ISM after a teas battle.
NATURAL hGAS
Mrs. Sephas
Enrolls At
North Texas
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Mrs? L E. L. Sephas, 4Lyar-old
Fort Worth housewife, Friday be-
came the first undergraduate Ne-
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Low Saturday ,...........
High Saturday .
guaranteed and FH/A home loans
if the developer of new housing
areas places the added costs on
the purchase price of the home.
Friday's meeting, originally
scheduled for 8 p.m., started an
hour earlier so that commissioners
could discuss the question of
Many stores closed and some ____
LOOMS ON RACE ISSUE .
Lubbock city buses had quit.run- „ -
Dallas Turnpike
Bids To Open
DALLAS, Feb. 4 UB—TOxat Turn.
Dr. Vernon L. Whorton, Dean of investigate a reported i
“ ----•t- College for Worn- money allegedly designe
S"teieisi
ficials, along with local builders,
will be asked to attend a proposed
city commission meeting here
il tax next week, It was decided in the
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Blizzard Paralyzes
pictures for AP mem* heavy at LUBBOCK
described it this way: . The new snow, possibly too tag-
...... * 1 end of a storm that has spread
keep working to complete decisions
on a bulky omnibus bill that would
DALLAS, Feb. 4 I—-About 700
.. - children were evacuated from a
. theater here today after about 30
youngsters were stricken with un-
explained-headaches and nausea.
Three were hospitalized and
about 15 others were given oxygen
treatment at the scene. None was
la serious condition.
1955 PLYMOUTH V4, Suburban,
' 1500 miles, like new, Thornten
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sleet. Warmer Monday.
SOUTH-CENTRAL TEXAS: Gen-
erally fair and a little warmer
today and Monday.
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__chancery win bp presented and Monday, peer Tuesi
before Judge Floyd Jones, Breck- ton County rainfall to
abridge, who will bear the appli-
cation District Judge Ray Winder
here has disqualified himself from
the case, and Judge Jones will
preside in Judge Winder's court
on the rate case.
Unless toe weather suddenly
changes to mere snow-or too,
Denton public eekesto are ev*
, pected to reopen Monday morn-
■ tag. County schools aloe were
expected to resume classes
Monday, following a shutdown
Friday because of toe and
sleet-covered highways.
like a huge white sheet thrown
over a world-sized bed ... do
signs of roads or people.”
At nightfall, the Weather Bureau
said additional snow was falling at
Amarillo and Lubbock also, and
freezing drizzle fell at Wichita
Falls. ...
MORE SNOW DUE
Official U.S. Weather Bureau
forecasts gave no hope of a letup
in the snow at least through early
Sunday. Temperatures early Sun-
day morning are expected to range
as low as 5 degrees above zero
/ . J .E. Kite, 89, McKiney, was
the only victim in three accidents
on Denton County area ice covered
highways investigated Thursday
and Friday by Highway Patrolman
Felix Webster and Sheriff Wylie
Barnes.
Kife was a passenger in a 1980
Ford, driven by C. William In-
gram, 30, McKinney, that turned
over when it skidded on ice on
State Highway 121. Ingram was
ticketed for speeding, Webster
said. ..
. A car driven by Air Force Lt.
R. D. Walker turned over on U.S.
Highway 77 Friday night but
Walker was not injured. Webster
estimated damage at $1,200 to the
new model car.
The other accident occurred
when two cars attempted to slow
down on Highway 121. William
Arthur Elliott, 39, 324 Bonnie Brae,
and Marvin Foutch, 99, Pilot Point
.were the drivers fo the two cars.
Neither was injured and combin-
ed damage amounted to around
$650, Webster said.
“A gigantic white no-man’s land . ----- --------
as far as the eye could see . . . mow, sleet and freezing rain over
The Money that slips through your
fingers will pay the loan that pays
your MBs. Complete Personal loan
service. Indutrial Credit Com-
pany, ever Russell's.
Skies were clearing in a large
part of Southwest Texas.
The South Plains and parts of
the Panhandle were the hardest bit
by the storm of snow.
Most inter-city buses quit running
after a number were stranded and
passengers had to be rescued by
tractor.
STORES CLOSE
gro to enroll at Nrs----tir mstreatHerwisezethe“Qows
Mrs. Sephas. a sophomore, reg- Een--erw"‛ —
istered just before closing time
Friday afternoon, according to Dr.
Alex Dickie, registrar. .---- —------ _2 .
A former student of Huston-TI. forecast for. the upper port of
By EDWIN B. HAAKINSON-
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (fl - Ad-
ministration proposals to put extra
millions of dollars in farmers’
pockets this year won quick ap-
proval today from the Senate Ag-
riculture Committee.
Working behind closed doors at
an unusual Saturday session, the
group added 10 million dollars to
free milk funds for use in school
lunches before July 1. Another two
millions was added for eradication
of brucellosis, a cattle disease.
Tentative approval also was ex-
pected soon for paying up to a
billion dollars to farmers who
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commissioners that estimates of
the added cost of utilities amount
to around 8105 on a 70-foot lot. He
also informed them of policies in
effect in other Texas cities com-
parable in size to Denton.
Creel’s - information, supplied
from a report prepared by the
Texas League of Municipalities, In-
dicated that most growing Texas
cities require the developer to
pay the utility costs, qualified in
some cases by a "'pay-back" plan
that results in the developer event-
ually getting his money back.
Creel said that Denton, in the
See UTILITY, Page 2
include the soil bank payments.
He reported general agreement
on the proposals to offer soil bank
payments in an effort to cut pro-
duction that has put billions of dol-
lars worth of farm products into
government warehouses.
Complicating plans to push the
farm bill on to the Senate next
week was the old battie over high
and rigid vs. lower and flexible
farm price supports.
Even before a formal vote, El-
lender predicted a majority of the
15-member committee would line
up for mandatory high-level sup-
ports.
Sen. Anderson (D-NM). a former
secretary of agriculture who has
backed the-flexible supports ad-
vocated by the President and Sec-
retary Benson, said “there could
be an 8-7 vote for the 90 per cent
supports.”
cold; some
(Newt) Seagraves said Saturday
when a final tabulation by his of-
fice revealed that 12,056 poll tax
receipts and exemptions were is-
sued from his office. Of that num-
ber, 10,075 were paid poll taxes,
Seagraves said. The remaining 1,-
lotson College at Austin, .Mrs.
Sephas enrolled for courses in the
School of Business.
She was the first undergraduate
to enroll at the college since the
Dec. 2 ruling ending segregation
at the state-supported institution
granted in Sherman by Judge Joe
W. Sheehy.
Prior to the ruling the policy of
the college had been to admit only
Negroes applying for doctors’ de-
grees.
Mrs. Sephas plans to commute
to college from her home in Fort
Worth. '
She is the daughter of the Rev.
J. L. Loud, a retired Methodist
minister.
In Fort Worth, Mrs. Sephas op.
erates a small bookkeeping serv-
ice and * caches piano at her home.
She also is an apprentice funeral
director, and is organist and pi-
anist at St. John’s Baptist Church
at Grand Prairie.
OFER NOTHING
ed by.urgent,pers
ness reasons, he suu muruay.
“I will leave TSCW and the Den
Em mistezanencase
The appointment by the Louis
ana Board of Education as an- L -
nounced by Dr. Joel L. Fletcher, Pauline
president of Southwestern Louisi-
ana Institute.
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with the Santa Fe anlater worked
at Galveston. Longview. Beaumont
and elsewhere. He became trans-
portation inspector in Galveston in
1911 and trainmaster .to 1912.
He was appointed su-
perintendent of the Gulf Division
in 1930. assistant general manager
in 1939,, and became vice president
and general manager in 1948.
After his retirement Cewley lived
in Temple.
Also surviving are two sisters,
Mrs. John Adriance of Galveston
and Mrs. Willis Blanton of Beau-
mont.
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fluence a senator to vote for the •
controversial Natural Gas Bill.
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DENTON AND VICINITY (Includ-
Ing North Central Texas);
Cloudy and slightly warmer to-
day; chances of some freezing j
rain or snow tonight to north
portion Warmer Monday.
WEST TEXAS: Cloudy and cold
today; cloudy and warmer Mon-
day.
EAST TEXAS. Cloudy and rather
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WEATHER
CLOUDY, WARMER
pteeQ M 1
tween Dallas and Fort Worth, will
open bids late this month on Dallas
County construction estimated to
cost $4,980,735.
Construction on the 30-mile turn-
pike already is under way over a
25-mile distance to Dallas and Tar-
rant counties. Approximately 29
milea Of the necessary right of way
has been acquired for the project.
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Dr. Wharton came to TSCW from
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SOIL BANK GETS
PANEL APPROVAL :
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 U_The ■
Senate Agriculture Committee to-
night approved the administra-
tion’s billion dollar soil bank pro-
gram but tacked on amendments ,
certain to cause a political battle
in the Senate later.
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