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THE WORLD TODAY
Little Progress Made In
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GROWING PAINS
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The Soil Bank Program:
What Some Farmers Think
They note that in the 1953-84
slump the economy bumped along
on bottom for about six months
try. the Jupiter-C made a perfect
flight, placing the 30-pound Ex-
plorer In such a firm orbit that
Yesteryear
Looking Baok Through
Record-Chronicle Files
By JAMES MARLOW
Assoclated Preu News Analyst
WASHINGTON I_Still no an-
swer to the question: Who decides
a president is disabled when he
can't or won't decde himself?
Congress may do again this year
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no sure indication yet that the re-
cession has hit bottom. Some add
that it may bump along there for
some time before starting up
what's going on."
Glaucoma, a disease which also
afflicted two of her daughters,
left Mrs. Bampfield blind some 35
years ago.
She has remained devout to her
church and her Ged. and she gives
that credit for her long life.
ments by setting a record for the
month, largely due to record
spendings for a January by public
utilities and office buildings.
Although the utilities find that
the industrial slump has cut back
power output, they still are going
ahead with expansion plans. Their
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FEB. 11, 1918
Drives for food conservation, the
sale of thrift stamps and Liberty
Bonds, and support of both the
YMCA and the Red Cross will be
the major projects for the Denton
Chamber of Commerce during
1218, C-C President O. M. Curtis
diounced.
Wiley Blair, state fuel adminis-
trator. has authorised the propor-
tional distribution of 43 carloads of
coal between Denton. Aubrey. Pilot
Point and Roanoke. He warned
. FEB. 11, 1938
John Mason Brown, drama critic
for the New York Evening Post
and prominent lecturer, will be
presented in the State College for
Women Main Auditorium tonight
at 3:15 as a Drama Series num-
ber. He will speak on what is hap-
pening on Broadway this season.
Rehearsals for the 13th Annual
Kiwanis Minstrel, scheduled for
presentation Friday Feb. 18 at the
Teachers College Auditorium, are
well under way. Ben Ivey, director,
said today.
Any erroneous reflection upon the character, reputation or standing of
any firin, individual or corporation will be gladly corrected upon
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SCIENCE
Vanguard May Have Failed
But Design Is Sophisticated
what it has always done before:
nothing.
The Constitution simply says
that if a president can’t perform
his duties, they shall “devolve on
the vibe president.*'
Congress and constitutional law-
yers have argued the problem for
and her best dress is eight years
old and you see nothing ahead for
your kids except to follow in your
weary, profitless footsteps . . .
finally the politicians offer to buy
your vote with a vulgar, obvious
brihe . . . what are you going to
do about it?
You’re going to accept it. Not
because you're not a good, free-
dom-loving, God - fearing. inde-
pendent American. You are.
But you're siek and tired of-be.
tag penalised for it.
(Paul Harvey's views are his
own and not necessarily those of
the Record-Chronicle . (Copyright-
1938, General Features Corp.).
county residents not to use too
much coal, however, because the
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1959
gave the former
Editor John Fischer of Harper’s Magazine tells of
the policy certain California judges have adopted tow-
ard litterbugs: “When a culprit is hailed into their
courts for littering the roadside with beer cans, sand-
wich wrappen, and similar debris, these judges do not
impose a fine. Instead they sentence the guilty mot-
orist to a term—ranging from a few hours to a few
days—of picking up trash along the highways."
Readers of a California newspaper were asked if
they believed the paper should print the names of
juveniles who commit serious offenses. The result:
58 per cent voted "yes", 27 per cent voted "no" and
15 per cent gave no opinion.
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previous years. Only J out of .71
utilities reporting so far have
tower net profits after taxes than
in IMS. As a whole the 75‘s net
income is 6 per cent higher.
Wall Street thinks it‘s sighted a
different economic moon on the
horizon — renewed inflation —
and has bid up stocks accordingly.
The belief la based on reports that
Congress is in a mood to spend
even more than the additional
amount the President asks.
If Congress also should cut
taxes, the result would be s fair,
sized Treasury deficit. This would
be inflationary because the gov-
ernment would be pumping into
the economy more money in
spending than it would be taking
out in taxes.
And thia. Wall Street figures,
would give business an inflatior-
ary psychology, renewing expan-
sion programs—and, alas, boost-
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FEB. 11, 1948
There will be no Denton County
Fair ttiU year, it Via decided at
a mooting of the Board of Directors
of the Denton County Fair Assn.
Tuesday. The apparently abrupt
decision was made after “conoid-
erable discussion" of the directors.
Chief reason for the decision
againat holding the 1048 fair were
poor location of the fair grounds.
Inadequate parking facilites and
poor attendance.
A total of 3,300 tickets to the
12nd annual Kiwanis Minstrel, to
be presented Feb. 19-30, were is-
sued to Denton Kiwanians Tues-
day at their luncheon meeting.
Fred Minor, veteran performer of
the shows, was in charge of the
program.
nois, Nebraska and Tennessee
have signed up for the Govern-
ment's new experimental pro-
gram of cutting farm surpluses
. . . by paying farmers to let
their land lie idle.
The 18-month-old soil bank pro-
gram enabled growers to idle
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Faith In The Future
The chain store industry has a deep and abiding
faith in the economic future of this country—as some
facts and figures disclosed by Chain Store Age dem-
onstrate.
Last year the chains spent the gigantic sum of $1,;
206 million on building and remodeling stores. And
this year that spending will be even greater—about
11,348 million. As the magazine’s editor, Godfrey M.
Lebhar, puts it: “These plans are obviously not based
on the outlook for 1958 alone. They reveal a determ-
ination to keep pace with the growth of our economy—
a growth which even the most pessimistic will concede
is inevitable, whether it suffers from a temporary set-
back in 1958 or not.”
In other words, the chains are demonstrating their
belief that consumption will continue at a high level,
alone with continued high employment, continued high
purchasing power and continued high industrial pro-
duction. ----
This is good news. Chain stores, like other retailers,
are hardheaded business men. They have to be in
this high cost, intensely competitive business ors. Their
forecasts and anticipationsare solidly based on the best
evidence that can be assembled. And it’s certainly
clear that they look forward to a growing, expanding
and improving America—irrespective of the ups and
downs in the economic cycle that inevitably occur.
Remember When In Denton
Dear Sir
I am vary much interested in your "Remember When” feature
every day on Page 1 and remember almost all of them. t lived
in Denton continuously, from the time I entered high school until
1 moved here to Athena, Ga.
The “Remember When” about when there wore ne sidewalks
in Denton particularly interested ma.
At I remember, the first sidewalk in Denton was in front of
the Bottorff home on Woet Oak Street. We would ge out of our
way in order to walk on that sidewalk.
I saw the first automobile bought in Denton and when the owner
drove down North Elm Street people were in their front yards to
see the car go by.
I also saw the first airplane to fly over Denton. Crowda fath-
ered near the home of J. M. Taylor in the southwest part-of the
city to see the plane flying overhead. It was a thrilling experience.
Mra. C. C. Yancey
, Athena, Ga.
Intelligence and re-
By JOIN A. BARBOUR
AP Momo Reporter •
NEW YORK (fl - Vanguard’s
rocket—which failed in its climb
toward space—11 more than just a
satelllte taxi cab.
Vanguard is the proving ground
for a highly sophiticated rocket
design.
Actually Vanguard's advanced
design is a hazard as well as an
advantge.
Army rocket expert Wernher
von Brun, whose Jupiter-C rock-
et system sent the first American
By SAM DAWSON
NEW YORK (nPresident Ei-
senhower may have set a style
for a new type of moon-watching
teams—spotting the first signa of
an upturn in business.
He thinks they'll begin showing
up before summer. But ‘already
some watchers think they’ve spot-
ted a sign here and there, all but
leal among the more numerous
atatistjcs pointing to a deepening
recesnion. Some of the hopeful
sina:
Retail sales M January set rec-
erds in e number of cities, just as
Christmas sales managed to la a
last-minute spurt.
Enough companies are report-
leg record earnings and sales to
leaven the soggy mass of profit
statements by many other caught
in the squeeze on profit margins.
A slight pickup in new orders in
the last two or three weeks to
reported by the heads of the twe
largest steel companies
Like many other producers of
primary materials they hope that
the day of living off inventories
is near or at its end. Metals com-
panies stress that for aome time
the end Use of their products has
been running well ahead of new
orders for industrial commodities
—A condition which to self-correct-
int if continued at the present
Construction in January pleased
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Deciding Presidential Acts
years. Should the President decide
If he to disabled, or the vice pres-
Bampfield belleves her erages in a • nr
-wni h. »ImiM with Moro than 20.080 farmers in Illi-
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earnings statements .show about
the same gain as usual over the 1
ing prices
But while some point to these
signs of better days returning, the
slave a commanding position as a
Negro leader throughout the war
and the years which followed.
Mrs. Bampfield sat in the living
room of the home of her youngest
daughter, Mra. C. E. Boulware,
wife of a mathematics professor
at nearby North Carolina College.
Now sightless, she reminisced
to a voice brittle with age.
“We were making for freedom.
The Rebs were trying to keep him
from taking the boat. I was too
young to remember — a mere
baby, just about walking.”
After the war, Smalls moved his
family into his former master’s
home in the South Carolina town
of Beaufort. The ex-stove had
bought the house for unpaid taxes.
“My grandmother went to the
mountains With mistress when the
war came," Mrs. Bampfield said.
Sho laughed lightly. "When they
camo back, they lived with us.
The white folk* moved to with
us."
Her father took them in until
they were settled in a place of
their own, she said. “Ho waa very
kind to them. He did everything
for them."
The house remained in the
family's posesssion until it was
sold about five years ago.
Elizabeth left Beaufort for
boarding school at West Newton;
Mass., when she was 15. About 1
three years later, her father waa
elected to Congress.
"I went to Washington as his
private secretary," she aald.
Before sho waa 38, she married
Samuel Jones Bampfield, a grad-
uate of Lincoln University who
had studied law at Howard Uni-
versity. He served as clerk of
court in Beaufort for 20 years, and
waa postmastet there about two
years before hie death at the turn
of the century.
Daughter Julia arrlved on the .
young couple’s first wedding anni-
versary. Ten other children were
born. Five daughters and two sons I
are living. I
Election law changes made
South Carolina s vote “lily White” 1
and retired Smalla from Con- i
gress. But he was appointed col- l
lector of customs for the port of |
Beaufort, and remained an impor-
tant figure.
"He was a great man for edu- ,
cation. He wanted everybody to ।
know how to reed and write." (
Mid Mrs. Bampfield.
A tribute to that interest to the
Robert Smalls High School at <
Beaufort. It to for Negro students j
only. under South Carolina’s aeg-
regation laws.
Those laws are threatened now
by the .S. Supreme Court de- ,
cision outlawing segregation in
DURHAM, NC. UR - Three
candles will light the cake for
Mrs. Elizabeth Smalls Bampfield
tomorrow, her 100th birthday.
The turbulent, upward march of
her race over those years echoed
in the life of the wispy, white-
haired woman born in slavery.
She rode on a Confederate
steamer her father piloted out of
Charleston to the Yankee fleet.
Sho went to Washington when her
father was elected a South Caro-
lina congressman during Recon-
struction
Robert Smell's daring in de-
livering the paddle-wheel steam-
er, the Plarfter, Into union hands
made him a celebrity in the North
early in the Civil War. A book
has just been published about his
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The March Of Science Also
Includes Brushing Teeth
It's not everyday that a man makes news by brushing ;
his teeth. But that appeared to be the case today of
- Donald G. Farrell, 23. ’ •
Farrell, as you probably already know, is making
some sort of history down in San Antonio-t-he a con-
fined to an experimental sealed cabin at the School of
Space Medicine at Randolph Air Force Base. This
morning at 9:35 he completed his first 24 hours which
meant he has stayed longer than anyone else in a seal-
ed cabin where the occupant breathes the same.air
over and over. What’s more, authorities think he will
remain in the thing until next Sunday, then emerge
unharmed. . .
The tests given the airman are problems similar to
those that would face a crewman of an actual apace
8 For instance, he can’t see outside of his own little
shPe has a panel of switches and buttons facing him
and that’s the way he converses with scientists out-
side—by pushing buttons.
You’d think that his little cabin would be privacy
personified.
Butitisn’t. ____ ____.. ,
A battery of movie cameras and a small television
camera record and watch every movement he makes.
So this morning when Airman Ferrell brushed his
teeth, science looked on via television and movie film.
Probably never before have ao many watched with
such great intereat the brushing of one’s teeth.
Science marches on.
satellite iota orbit. compared the
Vanguard with the Jupiter-C.
He said the Vanguard rocket
waa superior, needing only a third
of the thrust and the weight of
the Jupiter-C.
But in practice, he said, the
Vanguard to so sophisticated it to
a little difficult to launch; while .
the Jupiter-C is based on older
and more proven—even more ob>
aotete—designs.
Kurt R. Stehling, the man la
charge of Vanguard’* propulsion
aystem, says that the Vanguard to
facing a whole battery of rocket
questions—more than other rock-
ets had tackled at one time.
Everything about the Vanguard
to designed for close to peak eft- >
etoncy. - .
That goes for the way it burns
Its fuel. the amount of fuel It
burns, the guidance system, the
alignment, weight and the way the
various engine* separate in flight
and fall-away.
White some other rockets are
allowed margins of error, the
Vanguard allows for little error.
In overcoming errors and the
problems which have twice de-
stroyed their flight teats, Van- 4
guard's builders hope for a major
advance in rocket propulsion as
well as an orbiting satellite.
In Washington, Dr. John P.
Hagen, director of project Van.
guard, sain another attempt to
launch another of the rockets
would be made as soon as pos-
sible
He would not estimate when
that might be, nor would he com.
ment on the effect of today's fail-
ure on a schedule calling for fir
ing of a fully:instrumented, 20-
inch Vanguard satellite next
month.
The Navy originally waa given
an exclusive assignment to launch
America’* first earthantellite
with the Vanguard. After the Sput-
nik* were put Into orbit, there was
a furious public demand for a
speedup in the Vanguard target
data.
It wias this insistene on speed.
Navy sources said, that resulted
to the Dec. 8 blowup. The rocket,
still an experimental bird. Just
wasn't ready for the test, they
said.
After that failure. America and
her allies waited impatiently for
the next Vanguard try. Then, as
one long delay ran into another
the Army was told to stop in and
attempt a launching with the Ju-
piter-C.
The Army had said it could
have done the job long before the
Sputniks if 11 had been given aa
opportunity.
Asked to make good on the
claim, the Army did. la ita first
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By PAUL HARVEY
The White House is making a
feeble effort to lower price-sup-
port ceilings to 60 per cent of
parity.
The farm-belt Republican on the
House Agriculture Committee says
the proposal “hasn't a chance.”
Nor will they plow under the “soil
bank."
This is an election year.
The Wall Street Journal sent re-
porters into the field to sample
the sentiment of the men with
their feet in the furrow and found
many . .. had gone fishin'.
In Murphysboro, Ill., Milford
Morgan, larmer and father of
nine, has offered to take his 133
acre* of corn and wheat out of
production, if Uncle Sam will pay
him $2,660 a year for the next five
years.
That’s what he figures he ev-
ident, or some kind of commis-
sion?
No president in history, no mat-
ter how ill, has stepped aside even
temporarily for his vice president.
The word "temporarily” raises
still another question:
-i Suppose a disabled president
turns his duties over to the vice
president, then recovers end
wants to resume the presidency
but the vice president won’t turn
the job back to him. What then?
The Constitution doesn’t say.
Nor does it say anything on this:
a president is too disabled to de
his job but won’t admit it or, per-
haps, through unconsciousness,
can't Mk the vice president to act
for him.
What then? Does the vice pres-
ident make the decision? Suppose
he's unscrupulous and wants the
presidency oven to the point of
declaring an able president dis-
abled.
Is a commission the answer?
But what kind of commission?
Members of the President’s Cabi-
net? The Supremo Court? Doc-
tors? Members of Congress? Or
members from all three branches
of government?
Recently Chief Justice Warren,
in a negative action, took the moot
positive action ever taken on this
subject: he Mid he and the eight
other justices wanted no part in
passing on presidential disability.
The reason since the court
might some day have to decide on
the constitutionality of some ar-
rangement for declaring a presi-
dent disabled, the justices wanted
no part in making the disability
decision.
This year a forward step — if
it can be called that — was taken
In Congress. Key Democrats and
Republicans in the House agreed
on this:
A commission should be creat-
ed to decide presidential disabil-
ity. Ita members: the vice presi-
dent. secretary of state, speaker
Of the House, president pro tem-
pore of the Senate, and the Demo-
cratic and Republicans leaders
from House and Senate. Total:
eight.
But the vice president, speaker
and president pro tempore should
have no vote. Thus only the sec-
retary of state and the Democrat-
ic and Republican leaders of
House and Senate could vote, or
• total of five.
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only a portion of their acreage.
But many “banked" the poor
acres and poured fertilizer on
the good acres and so produced
as much as ever.
It cost you more than half a
billion tax dollars last year to
finance this experiment that back-
fired.
Now the Potomac River plow-
boys are trying out this new idea
in certain tent states: accepting
bide from farmers.
The government asks, “How
much will you take to remove all
your land from production for five
years?"
Milford Morgan says 33.860 a
year. Ho says if Uncle Sam will
pay him that much for not work-
ing, he'll gladly go fishing.
And at least 135 of his neigh-
bors in Jackson County have sent
in their "asking price for doing
nothing.'*
It is inconceivable that one
committee of the Congress can
take such a firm stand against
union featherbedding while an-
other committee condones using
your tax dollars to finance feath-
erbedding on the farm.
But put yourself in the furrow.
You get up at four in the morn-
ing to start milking and ll'a nine
at night beore your day’s work is
finished. You've done it seven
days a week for- years. Even
while your income stagnated or
decreased, and prices of farm
machinery and taxes and shoes
for the baby have increased . .
. still you went on, uncomplain-
ing.
But then, every spring city-
spawned unions rub your nose
deeper in the dirt with their “ne-
gotiated gains.”
Industry hikes prices further on
all you buy.
Congress funnels money — some
of it yours — down a 100 alien
ratholes of extravagance.
You wife’s hat ia homemade
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