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EDITORIALS AND FEATURES
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EXAMPLES OF POOR PLANNING
land requisition pro-
dinawa.
It sems that E. . Hanks has
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By Bud Blake
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Sagging Sales, Layoffs
Plague Equipment Firms
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Bennett Rice
1205 Linden Dr.
Denton, Texas.
students were sampled along with some of the high
’ income groups. If this method was used in Denton,
Okinawa Return
Urged By Japs
TOKYO u - The Japanese So-
cialist party called on the govern-
said. “I think in a week or 10
days, Buddy will be able to return
for part-time duty at the store."
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and his father, who has been tak-'
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go by, our past mistakes are harder to
it is one reason why Denton should plan
for vital and ultimtaely necessary street
Entered aa wecona elass mail matter at the poutomnce at Denton, Texas
January IS. 1921. according to Act of Congresa, March 8. 1873.
J. A. (Buddy) Anderson, who
suffered a heart attack about five
weeks ago, is now. recuperating
at his home, 1827 Scripture. He isi
and high inventories plague most
of the companies. Much of the in-
dustry ruefully admits It probably
will go right on the rest of the
year being one of the, economy's
soft spots.
But John L. McCaffrey, Interna-
tional Harvester chairman, sees a
turning point now in the farmer's
psychology which could make him
less of a hard sell next spring.
He cites the recent uptrend in
hog prices, removing one of the
severest of farmers' gripes this
year—two years ago it was the
dairy farmer who was hurting.
back to his office &
is correct, but seu
he saw him when i
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THE FELLOW WUOS BEEN
MEANING TO CUT POWN ON
SMOKING SURVEYS HIS _
FATHERS DAY LOOT- P
“YOuR 0*116 WRAPPED UP 90 DANNT !
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EveRYONE CLAMORS FOR ONE UTTLE PEN-
Elmer Frazier. associated with
the Public Construction Company,
lived in Fannin County on Red
Rover for a good many years be-
fore coming to Denton. “The wa-
ter in Big Elm now at the Den-
ton-Aubrey crowing looks just like
water I knew in Red River for
so many years. It's as red and
I guesss as full of minerals, since
that water does come from Lake
Texoma." Frazier spent eight years
in the Army, during which time
he was stationed in 65 different
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“You see Luther Allen bought a
motor for his son's boat and Luth-
er feels that he must give the mo-
tor boat the
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market areas, .scorching tempera-
tures suddenly burst upon the
scene, dispelling the damp, raw
weather that had chilled con-
______ ___should help out
in that work, so I do some fishing
with him.”
family house in the first three
months of -1956 was 5.7 per cent
higher than at the same time last
year, exclusive of land costs—
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up to 86 per cent of the steel plate
and tin it uses, instead of buying
the material ready-made. Presi-
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ABOUT
TOWN
By R. J. (Bob) EDWARDS
Make thy face to shine upon Thy
servant—Psalm 119:135
Love makes the face shine. We
may be very sure of the love of
our Infinite Father. When our
earthly father and mother forsake
us the Lord takes us up.
Steel industry apparently falls to
realise that its basic material
(steel for tin cans) is in"the strong-
est sort of competition with many
other packaging materials.*"
The volunteer fire crew never dreamed there were
so many things in Big Lake, Minn., that could burn.
They got their first alarm at 2 p.m. and kept spraying
water steadily until midnight. Their assignments in-
cluded a grass fire, a burning cottage, another grass
fire, one at a brooder house and barn, a flaming car
and a third grass fire. Then the car broke out in
flames again and had to be doused for good.
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few of the Stags in Denton, and
they'll be there, If at al possible.
“I am npt, much of a fisher-
man. but I am forced to go
at times," said R. B. Shannon.
which are higher, too-and the
builder's profit. This week prices
of cement were hiked by at least
throe major producers.
General- Foods Corp, tacked on
another three cents this week to
the wholesale price of its Maxwell
House coffee. Other producers fol-
lowed suit.
“I can't think of any entertainer
in hisotry, man or woman, who ■
......record, unless it's
BY MAH ONLY: In Denton, Wise, Collin and Cooke counties, $1.00
per month. $9.50 per year (must be paid In advance). Elsewhere in
the United States $1.30 per month, 815.00 per year.
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Letters To The Editor
* MOTICk TO PUBLIC:
Any emoM— reneotlon •pan the character, reputation or standing of
any am, individual er corporation win be gladly cortected upon being
Yesteryear
Looking Back Through
Record-Chronicle Files
the curbs around walks and flower
beds, that he is willing to sell at
a discount. He said. “Mrs. Hanks
The Big Party of the year in
Denton County comes off this com-
ing Thursday night nt 6:40 o'clock,
when J. Winston Ped, Ear Selz
and pa* Massey throw their an-
nual Stag Barbecue. Invitations
have beeen received by quite a
ga.
See editorialon this page
Two of Denton's many examples of poor street plannnig. Both pictures taken on
Oakland, a street that logically should be the main thoroughfare leading to TSCW.
The top picture, looking south on Oakland at East McKinney, shows the first of
City of Denton should not wait another year to
eps toward elimination of our many traffic bot-
a narrow streets and dead-end streets. Now
time to act, while the 1956-57 budget is still
three offsets on Oakland. It zigs at McKinney and zags at Oak, then offsets again
at Hickory. Twenty-five years ago it was recommended that these offsets be elim-
inated and that Oakland be made into a wide, beautiful thoroughfare leading from
I the lower part of the business section to TSCW. The bottom photo looks north on
Oakland and shows the dogleg that starts at Withers. (Record-Chronicle Staff
Photos).
week on news that President El-
senhower was making a good re-
covery from an intestinal opera-
tion. The heavy June 8 loss that
followed first reports of the Presi-
dent's illness was more than
made up. Biggest uncertainty hov-
ering over the market at week's
end was the tightening deadlock in
steel wage negotiations.
American Can Co. announced
plans for a 27-million-dollar “do-
t-yourself" project intended to
I feel sure the census takers would use the same method in Abi-
lene. (or example, because they would have no reason to discrimi-
nate +
It is general knowledge that all college towns are low salaried.
Thia could be proved if the 2,000 (approximate) commuters who
leave Denton every morning wore questioned as to the reason
they work outside the city.
Yes, figures and statistics can sometimes mislead or distort
the issue, as was the case in the last presidential election, but
figures never mislead on bank statements and tombstones, and I
doubt that the U. S. Bureau of the Census will ever be caught
in any gross errors.
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We see horrible examples of non-planning in all
parts of the city. Other Texas cities are doing some-
* thing about their street programs, doing away with
narrow streets and converting thm into wide, modern,
paved thoroughfares, it can be done here.
For instance, the city council of Paris this week
adopted and pledged support to a comprehensive 1956-
57 street program submitted by the Paris city man-
ager. Does Denton have the same idea?
The street prograin adopted by Paris on the eve of
preparing the final draft for the 1956-57 city budget
shows foresight on the part of our good neighbors to
the northeast. 1 . ,
It won’t cost much to get started on such planning
IT LOOKS LIKE IT CAME FROM A HOBO
I JUNOLff
By SAM DAWSON
CHICAGO (—If farmers would
go for two-tone tractors with pas-
tel seat covers it might help the
farm equipment industry work its
way onto firmer ground. But a
business soft today with most
signs pointing to even softer
ground lying immedtately ahead
Sagging sales, mounting layoffs
of Chula Vista, Cak., — —.....
.duty because of illness, he likes the biggest one best.
Thirty second grade students remembered Kelly had
taken them on a tour of the police station and decided
they wanted to send a greeting. The students- put to-
• gether their 30 separate greetings into one card. It
measures 36 by 96 inches.
ldwest.In thene the"prme.Sr Stek painnd
. corehine temneehltin has soared 91 per cent since
1946 while can prices have risen
only 75 per cent. Said he: "The
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ment today to oppose actively the
U.S. military
gram on Oki
The Record-Chronicle welcomes and will publish letters from L2.
its readers However, each letter must be signed by the author. . It Mems that E. A. Hanks has
The Record-Chronicle reserves the right to print excerpts if the • brand new hoe. the kind that is
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for sheer pleasure."
“Yes," said Collins dryly, as he
forked up a bit of shrimp lunch-
eon salad “You go money to go
home on.” .
Kate, who started as a teen-age
singer whose plumpness often
made her the butt of Broadway
musical comedy jokes, proved
that most of the country oan be
made to love a fat girt' with a
stout heart. .
Since her first broadcast in May
1931 she has starred on 10.342
radio shows, made 1,040 television
appearances and recorded more
than 3,300 songs. She has received
as much as 138,000 a week. and
her gross lifetime earnings exceed
35 million dollars.
. .1 —farmer doesn't buy to keep up with
brags about being a grandad aa the Joneses. He can hold off buy-
Clyde Hou t ann Mrn ing machinery if his future be-
sumer appetites. There was a
sudden rush for suntan lotion,
swimsuits and summer slacks, air
conditioners and aerosol insect
bombs, barbecues, ' shorts and
beach umbrellas.
The. stock market bounded
I NEW YORK Uh - “Each day haven't had a check bounce yet.
.1 now, said Kate Smith, "is like a ' -------"
■ gift greater than gold."
FIVE YEARS AGO
Building permits in Denton
curved upward lut week as Build-
ing Inspector Eugene Cook issued
two bids totaling 022,000.
One blaze and a false alarm
brought local firemen running over
the weekend. Smoke eaters an-
swered a call in the 700 block of
North Locust Saturday about 1:55
p.m. to extinguish a blaze in a
light pole transformer and a false
alarm brought firemen out on Mc-
Kinney at about 11 a.m.
here. , .
A wide, straight street in place of a narrow street
with offsets certainly boosts the value of property on
either aide of the thoroughfare. From a business point
of view it makes good sense to widen and straighten
our streets. From the standpoint of traffic engineer-
ing — looking 10 years ahead — auch improvements
are vital if the city is to continue its growth.
Twenty-five years have elapsed since the first mod-
ern city plan was recommended for Denton? Few. if
any of those recommendations were followed.
Let’s get going.
tail sales took a lusty jump ahead,
particularly in the densely popu-
lated metropolitan centers of the
East and Mid*
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countries. “I learned to speak 20
different languages during that
time and I was accepted as a na-
tional from several countries, in-
• eluding the Indian race."
7:20 p.m., at the Methodist Hospi-
tal. Of course Mrs. Baldridge (Ka-
therine* became a granny at the
same time Sonny said. "The boy
hasn't been named the last I
heard, as all the names' that had
been selected were names for
girls You know the late 0, W.
Martin family chose girls for chil-
dren.” Mrs. Hesse is the former
Miss Betty Baldridge of Denton.
A cost-cutting program was also
launched by Continental Can Co.
"The Federal Housing and Home
Finance Agency r
Published every evehing (except Saturday) and Sunday morning by:
Denton Publishing Co., Inc., 314 E. Hickory SL
After 25 fabulous years in radio
and television, the "Hello Every-
body" girl is going to take it easy
I from now on.
“I plan only dimited guest ap-
I pearances- maybe six or eight a
I year." said Kate. "I've reached a
I stage of life where it is time to
I start slowing down."
She reached the decision after
I her longtime manager and part-
l ner. Ted Collins, was stricken
with a heart attack early this
I year.
, “I saw him lying under an
i oxygen tent, week after week, try-
I ing to breathe,” she recalled. “We
I had worked so long and so hard.
I And I asked myself—'For what?'
I What is the point in killing your-
I. self?
“If I didn't want to work an-
! other day, I wouldn't have to. I
"No, the water frm Little Elm-
Garza Lake hasn't as yet cover-
ed up much of Little Elm,” said
Gordon Hutson of the eastern part
of the county, "ft will sure take
a lot of rain to put the lake in
sight of us Little Elmians, The
only ‘difference I can see la that
the lower reaches of Little Elm
creek has some backwater from
the lake and that ..affords some
better fishing in that locality.”
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have made a comparison with other college towns. If this were
done. Denton family median income per year would still be the
lowest of any college town in the state with the exception of Col-
lege Station. A quick rundown of some of them are: Abilene $2,-
473, Austin 82.130. Belton $1,889, Brownwood $1,932, Canyon Sl.800.
Commerce $1,308 Deecatur 01.813. El Paso 03.483, Georgetown
11.878, Lubbock 01.045, San Marcos 11,071, Stephenville 91,100.
and Waco, 82.274
It might be well to state here that the Bureau of the. Census
arrived at these figures from a 10 per cent sampling of the
population. Therefore, it would be logical to assume that some of
TEN YEARS AGO
The first gubernatorial candidate
to visit Denton. Jerry Sadler, for-
mer state railroad commissioner,
will bring his campaign for gov-
ernor here Thursday with an ad-
dress at 8 p.m. on the court house
lawn.
Merchandise and furnishings at
the Boston Store were damaged
early today when a city water
line on North Locust burst and
sprayed water into the building
through windows.
—
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Results showing at the relief
cannery, being operated under City
of Denton sponshorship wra prais-
ed by Mayor J. L. Wright Thurs-
day after an inspection of the
plant. The plant is handling an
average of 110 cans per day.
Woolridge, Stoveall, Castleberry
and Gay headed a Central Fire-
man tatack that downed the Sev-
en-Uppers in their Industrial
League engagement Wednesday
night with a 10 to 6 score.
Good rains have ended drought
conditions in important farming
areas. There's a chance of a good
corn crop and perhaps a bigger
pig crop. And the uncertainty over
farm legislation has finally been
removed with the signing of the
farm bill with its soil bank pro-
gram.
The normal farm implement
sales year starts gathering speed
around February, crests by mid
April or the first of May. By June
the machinery salesman has had
it. He may get a minor revival
by selling some tractors for fall
plowing.
International Harvester reports
that layoffs In its farm machinery
division now stands at 11,000 and
expects It to go even higher while
sizable inventories are being work-
ed off. It has a layoff plan, like
that in the auto industry, which
goes into effect Sept. 1.
McCaffrey also reports that in
the six months ended April 30 his
company's sales of farm equip-
ment in the United States dropped
23 million dollars from the year
ago figure. Gains in foreign sales
offset this somewhat. And a boom
in its sales of trucks and construc-
tion equipment pulled its over-all
earnings ahead of a year ago.
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By WALTER BREEDE JR.
NEW YORK, June 19 M-The
consumer front provided welcome
news for many businessmen this
week. At long last, Mr. and Mrs.
American Consumer were la a
free spending mood again.
The loosening of consumer
purse strings was dramatically
apparent in the nation's auto
showrooms, where the long-await-
ed “spring upturn" finally swung
into high gear.
m Immediately
et Improvements
HAL BOYLE SAYS - —-
Kate Smith To . Take It
Easy-After 25 Years
Singapore stands on a 220-
square-mile island.
A Socialist spokesman said the
United States apparently plans to
put its Okinawa bases on a semi-
permanent basis.
The delegation urged the gov-’
ernment to take all possible steps
to win the return of Okinawa to
Japan. The island now has a na-
tive civil government under U.S.
superivision.
L. A. Dungan, salesman for Rus-
sell-Newman in Arkansas and
Louisiana, isn't often seen up town
these days. but he comes home
quite frequently at nights and ov-
er the weekends. One of his friends
remarked. “L. A.-has been in Ark-
ansas so often that he now has a
pack of hounds which he uses in!
raccoon races,” but Dungan didn’t
admit to bringing them back to
Denton with him
Kate is proud of the fact that
over the years she has received
some 25 million fan letters. She
is proud that in a number of pub-
lic polls she has been named
among the 10 most important and
best-loved women of her time. But
she is proudest of all of the day
when President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, presenting her to King
George and Queen Elizabeth of
England, said: _
“This is Kate Smith: this is
America."
“Most of the time I'm happy.”
she said. "I learned eariy that
it’s largely up to the individual
whether he goes throunh life
moody and sad or makes the best
of it."
She has always been a woman
of many enthusiasms. She collects
antiques. likes golf, and says she
can still swim a mile easily. She
has always been athletic.
"I have only two secrets,” she
remarked. "My golf score—and
my weight."
Elsewhere .along Main street, „„ aapug pucus „
dry goods, hardware, and depart- and tin. New equipment will ena-
ment.store merchant.couid Re blethe company to manufacture
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“I note the discussion in your
column about the Old Wire Road."
said J. A. Chandler. sp I want
to give the history of that mat-j
ter. It was called the ‘wire road' ।
because of the Army telegraph I
line which traversed Denton Coun-i
ty in the days of Indian raids.
The Army used it to keep up with
such depredations. My father, thei
late J. M. Chandler, told me about
the telegraph line and he was J
one of the men of that commu-
nity who got some of the tele-
graph poles after the line was dis-
continued by the Army. He said
the poles were of large cedars and
he used them for fence posts aft-
erward.”’
• letter is too long for publication. . .» a
Venton Median Income
Sir:
In my previous letter to you, my contention was that since in-
comses of Denton families are low, the tax rate should also be tow.
Because it seemed important to be brief, my tetter withheld
some facts which could, conceivably, alter the question for better
or for worse. )
The cities, which were used in my comhparison, were the same
ones which had appeared in your editorial of June 6. I will agree
with your friend that it was not equitable to compare Denton
with some of the other cities because some of our students were
included in the 1050 census It would have been much better to
wanted one of those hoes. so I got
BUSINESS MIRROR
to use it. so it to stored away in —
the garage. '
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' 2 Ma.
He is taking care ofhis.gran-
son, Pat Roberts Courtney, 22
month-old son of Mr. and Mn.
Robert C. Courtney, 909 Ector.
Both Pats seemed to be enjoying
the work.
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The National Review in its is-
sue of May 2 gives some views of
labor in Communist China. The ar-
ticle was taken from the official
organ of the Typographers' Un-
ion, which gleaned the informa-
tion from stories in the Chinese
Communist press 1 In some
plants workers are forced tq labor
34 to 32 consecutive hours. 2. At
a public meeting Communist Par-
ty representatives laud the com-
mendable spirit of certain work-
ers who stayed on the job for two
days and nights. 3. Workers on
special emergency jobs toil five
days and five nights in succession.
4. Workers are recalled from sick
leave and forced to produce on
a 32-hour shift. Overtime in the
Chinese People's Republic to usu-
ally regarded as advance work or
as a “contribution’ to the state."
That is quite a comparison to
labor conditions of this country;
who wants, a Communist govern-
ment?
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