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. DENTON, TEXAS, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 17, 1957
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Senatorial Candidate Goes
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Injured Girl
Will Recover
Philippine
President’s
More Farm Surplus Shipments
To Red-Captive Lands Urged
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It took three or four hours
to drive to Dallas'
from 'Judge Ralph Yarborough to
vote for me," he said.
Police said Foerster was the
first Senatorial candidate in his-
tory, so far as they knew, who had
ever been in the alligator pen-
even when they were no alligators
in it.
Business News
Cashward Puzzle
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"Round The Region.
FOR QUICK ACTION
WANT AD RESULTS
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stroyer, the Barton, had been re-
fueled earlier.
The warm, sunny weather was
a welcome change from yester-
day when rain, moderately rough
seas and a murky overcast kept
the President in his cabin all day.
As the Wood pulled alongside
the Canberra the ships were about
300 miles southeast of Miami, Fla.,
and about 85 miles east of Nassau.
important second round of polio shots this week. Page 3, See. 1.
IF ABSENTEE VOTING Is any indication, few Denton Coun- V
tians have much intereat in the upcoming school board elections. . “
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A one-time advisor to President
Roosevelt said today labor unions
are taking over the Democratic
Party.
Unless the trend is stopped, the
ultimate result will be a central-
ized, socialistic government con-
trolled by major unions, said
Raymond Moley of New York,
contributing editor of Newsweek.
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against filing of charges against
the candidate and police took him
back to the Plaza after telling
him “to make all the speeches he
wants for U.S. Senator, but to stay
out of the alligator pen."
The alligators, used to prank-,
stars climbing into the pit or trans-
porting them to places such as
Texas Western College, did not
seem to mind Foerster's com-
pany at all.
The officers made it plain they
were not angry because of the
speeches.
According to the police report:
“The subject (Foerster: white
male American, Elsa, Texas, was
not brought to the station because
he was making speeches, but pri-
marily because he was ... in
such a place that might create
an immediate hazard to him . . .
and to the alligators in said pen.”
Foerster, a Democrat, himself
was pleased, he said later.
“I told the police all about it,
and when I got through talking I
think I had converted all of 'em
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Ford said Dies is “b
lead the voting public
formed.”
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Womem’s News
INSIDE TODAVS PAPER
ITS PLANTING TIME again—and this is the first year in a
long time Denton area farmers predict a good crop. There's still
an "if" involved, however.- Page 8, Sec. L
ONE DECATUR FAMILY goes all out in "poking around" for
artifacts, It's great fun, too, they say. Page 5, Sec. L
STUDENTS IN DENTON COUNTY schools will get their all-
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By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH
EN ROUTE WITH EISENHOW-
ER. March 16I—A beaming Pres-
ident Eisenhower waved happily
from the deck of the cruiser Can-
berra today after finding warm
sunshine in the Bahama Islands
area southeast of Florida, ____
Newsmen traveling on escorting
EL PASO, March 16 kN—Texas
Senatorial candidate C.O. Foerster
Jr., 43, made a trip to the city
jail here at request of police to-
day for “agitating alligators” in
San Jacinto Plaxa Park.
“I never laid a hand on 'em,"
he declared.
Radio Patrolmen A.A. Pedregon,
Ed Placencia and D.L. Lazenberry
arrested the candidate while he
was performing with a 1848 mus-
ket, a bulwhip and a garbage
can for a “crowd of about 100 or
150 people."
They said he was nabbed for
“the offense of being in the alli-
gator pen, cracking a whip and
apparently agitating the alliga-
tors."
Wiser heads, however, decided
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destroyers got their first look at
the President late in the morning
since he sailed from Norfolk.
Va.. Thursday evening.
He to on a leisurely six-day
cruise to Bermuda in the hope of
building up his health.
The President smiled broadly
and waved a greeting from the
deck just outside his quarters on
the Canberra's main deck as the
destroyer William M. Wood plled
alongside for refueling. From a
distance of about 130 feet Eisen-
hower looked well. He was wear-
ing a brown sports jacket, tan
slacks, a red-checked sports shirt
and a red bow tie.
The blue waters of the Atlantic
sparkled as the Canberra lay in
Exuma Sound just west of Cat
Island in the Bahamas. The tem-
perature was 78 degrees.
Eisenhower watched with inter-
est as the Canberra crew shot a
line to the deck of the Wood. The
crew on the destroyer then hauled
in a fuel hose attached to the line.
The two ships cruised side by
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One of two Republicans in the
race, Thad Hutcheson of Houston,
said Thursday at Waco and Tem-
ple he was an “Ike admiring Re-
publican and will support the
president on all Issues that I feel
are good for Texas and the coun-
try."
James P. Hart said in Lamesa
he had been telling Texans for the
past six months where he stands
on "the Important Issues" in the
Senate race. •
Hart said the Issues he has dis-
cussed include those of foreign aid.
education, water, constitutional
rights, civil defense, and decen-
tralization of industry.
THAT’S NO TOY!
That thing Denton Police Chief Glen Lanford is hold-
ing is no toy. It may look like a highly ornate, if some-
what large, can pistol, but don't stand in front of it
It shoots .38-40 calibre slugs. Lanford wore the gun,
hat, string tie and vest Saturday as a part of his cen-
tennial regalia. (Record-Chronicle Staff Photo)
arable cloudiness
through Monday.
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Funeral services for Miss Mary
Crockett Sweet, 68, an NTSC fac-
ulty member for 42 years, will be
held at the Jack Schmitz and Son
chapel today at 4 p m
pronounced dead on arrival at
Flow Memorial Hospital.
Dr. Umphrey Lee, chancellor of
Southern Methodist University and
a lifelong friend of Miss Sweet,
will conduct services. Interment
will be in the Greenleaf Cemetery
in Brownwood, Miss Sweet’s birth-
place. following graveside services
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side for about an hour during
refueling operation. A second
rest in Soviet-dominated coun-
tries, it may prove useful to give
the administrators of the pro-
grams additional freedom of ac-
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peared his branch was going to
let the House act first on the
measure.
GOP. leaders said early in the
1957 session they hoped the House
could carry the ball first on civil
rights this year, while the Senate
led off with the school measure.
But Smith said it now appeared
this was contrary to the wishes
of the Democratic leadership so
far as schools were concerned.
Sen. Hill (D-Ala), chairman of
the Senate Labor Committee
which handles school legislation,
confirmed he had no plans to
start hearings until the House
sends over a bill.
"The Senate has passed school
bills by overwhelming votes sev-
eral times, bills which provided
money for operations as well as
construction, only to see them die
in the House,” Hill said.
Smith said he was sure there
would be “foot dragging" on the
bill this year because of wide-
spread concern over Eisenhower's
$71,800,000,000 budget. But he said
he had not given up hope on it.
WASHINGTON, March 16 IP -
Sen. H. Alexander Smith (R-NJ)
said today that "to a certain ex-
tent” he believed the current wave
of economy talk in Congress had
hurt chances for President Eisen-
hower’s school construction bill.
Smith, chief administration
spokesman on the issue in the Sen-
ate, also told a reporter that con-
trary to Republican hopes, it ap-
The spokesman declared:'*
“This would mean a further
serious deterioriation of the
situation in the area and
would have a grave bearing
on Israel’s attitude.”
In New York, a member of the
Israeli U.N. delegation spoke of
the danger of a new conflict over
the Gaza Strip or the Gulf of
Aqaba, on which lies Israel's port
of Eilat.
The delegation source said Is-
rael received renewed U.S. assur-
ances only this week on the U.N.
role in the Gaza Strip and freedom
of shipping in the gulf.
•ONLY ALTERNATIVE’
“The prevention of raids and
blockades is ... the only alterna-
tive to the danger of war ensuing
from Egyptian belligerence,” he
said.
Israel withdrew its army last
week from the gulf and from the
Gaza Strip on the assumption that
U.N. Emergency Force would
maintain order in both regions
pending a settlement.
"Israel," the spokesman told re-
porters, “will restate to the
U.S.A, its determination to fight
against any forcible attempt to
hold up shipping in the Gulf of
Aqaba and to defend its rights
if conditions in Gaza continue to
deteriorate."
The informant added that Mrs.
Meir is expected to ask Secretary
pointment of U.S. Supreme Court
Justicese out of the hands of the
President
"Virtually all of the social and
economic problems our country
faces today," Dies said, “have
stemmed, directly or indirectly
from illegal or unconstitutional
acts of the United States Supreme
Court, in disregarding legal pre-
cedent and basing decisions on
ideology rather than law.”
A former state Representative
from Corpus Christi, Curtis Ford,
complained about a campaign
statement by Dies that referred to
"The oddly assorted field of can-
didates who do not have one day's
Legislative experience among
them."
MANILA, Sunday, March 17 u
President Ramon Magsaysay was
missing today on a flight from the
south-central Philippines to Ma-
nila.
U.S. Air Force and Navy planes
Joined the Philippine air force in
a giant search for the twin-engine
plane of the hero of the Philip-
pines.
Magsaysay left Cebu City early
today after making two commenc-
ment addresses. With him were
two of his top aides.
The government press office
said not a word had come from
his twin-engine C47 since the ra-
dio contact on takeoff.
Much of the 388-mile flight from
Cebu to Manila would be over
large stretches of the inland
Visayan and Sibuyan Seas.
U.S. ships were sped to the
area to aid in the search.
The plane carried a total of 36
persons, including a crew of 5.
"We do not discount the possi-
bility of Communist-inspired sab-
otage.” said J. V. Cruz, govern-
ment spokesman.
Cruz and other government of-
vicials kept an anxious vigil" at
the Manila airport
Magsaysay, one of Asia’s meat
outspoken foes of communism,
bad Just delivered two speeches
attacking communism and neu-
tralism at Cebu city.
The plane took off from Cebu
in perfect flying weather, the gov-
ernment press office reported.
Visibility was unlimited.
When the alarm spread, 22
planes were immediately sent out
to search for the Magsaysay par-
ty. Commercial airlines diverted
their planes to help.
In the party with Magsaysay
were Gen. Benito Ebuen, chief of
the Philippine Air Force, and
Secretary of Education Gregorio
Hernandez.
Others included former Sen.
Tomas Cabili. Rep. Pedro Lopez
of Cebu, newsmen and assistants.
A giant meteor, visible over
the southwestern and south-
eastern parts of the United
States as it hurtled through
the skies Friday night, was
also visible In Denton.
At least one resident report-
ed seeing the near-daytime
brilliance of the fiery object
at about 10 p.m.
An amateur Fort Worth as-
tronomer said bearings taken
on the object indicate it prob-
ably plunged into the Gulf of :
Mexico southwest of New Or-
~ leans.
Dr. J. F. Thomson, associ-
ate professor of astronomy at
Tulane University, said, "It
was a very unusual meteor
because very few of them
create that much light. It must
have been a large one. Most
of them burn up earlier.”
Cage promoted the ICT Insur- of State Dulles what action the
United States plans to back up the
assurances when she reaches
FOR COOKBOOK EDITION
Family recipes—ones that your family and friends
have enjoyed for years—are needed for the Record-
Chronicle’s giant Centennial Cookbook to be publish-
ed in April.
Features of the special section will be recipes which
have been handed down in your family or from your
friends through the years. While some 100-year-old
- recipes are wanted, other recipes which have been
used throughout the last 100 years, are also desired.
Recipes should be clearly written out and sent or
brought to the Record-Chronicle along with the send-
er’s name, address and telephone number. Send yours
today and add your favorite recipes to the cookbook
—a supplement to the Record-Chronicle which you ’
will want to keep and use for years to come. Dead-
line for recipes is Wednesday.
A REAL SIGN OF SPRING
Peach trees are blooming over the greater Denton
area, and if the weatherman is correct, more buds will
be popping open this week. The weather forecast
calls for mild temperatures and perhaps more rain
today and Monday. The blossoms in the picture are
on a tree in the yard of the Payne home, 408 Fry. See
weather story, Page 2. (Record-Chronicle Staff Photo)
of the NTSC English Dept staff
since the spring semester of 1915.
She had previously taught one
semester at Austin High School in
1812-13. and one year at Texar-
kena High School in 1913-14.
She held the bachelor of arts
degree from Daniel Baker College
and the University of Texas and
the master of arts from the Uni-$
versity of Texas
See MISS SWEET, Page 8 I
is Sought Rumblings From Israel
Cage OU Land Deal,
GAZA, March 16 (AP>—The swift Egyptian takeover in
the Gaza Strip brought ominous rumbling from Israel to-
night.
An Israeli spokesman in Jerusalem declared Foreign
Minister Golda Meir’s flying trip to the United States is
“the last diplomatic effort to safeguard an exclusive U.N.
regime in the Gaza Strip.”
“The spokesman referred to reports Egyptian military
police already are on duty under the new governor, Maj.
Gen. Mohammed Hassan Abdel Latif.
ance Co. Ra principal investors
were unions and merbers affiliat-
ed with the State Federation of
Labor.
news conference last week that if
government negotiators decide aid
to Poland was in this country's In-
terest he would ask Congress to
examine the question and consid-
er legal changes.
widely eattered thundershowers.
WEST TEXAS: Partly cloudy and
warm.
BAST. SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS:
Partly cloudy and warm with
widely scattered thundershowers.
TEMPERATURES
Experiment Station Report) _
WASHINGTON, March 16 —
Congress was urged tonight to
give government officials a freer
hand to ship farm surpluses be-
hind the Iron Curtain to advance
“the aspirations of freedom lov-
ing peoples.”
r The recommendation, by the
National Planning Assn., was
made public by a special Senate
committee studying the foreign
aid program. The report came in
the midst of talks between U. S.
officials and a Polish delegation
seeking farm products and finan-
cial aid.
A second report by the same as-
sociation, released simultaneously,
said that the cost of all foreign
aid, seen in “the perspective of
the economy as a whole” has been
"relatively small.”
H Christian Sonne, chairman
of the association’s board of trus-
tees. said it was up to Congress
to determine whether foreign aid
spending is justified on policy
grounds, since the reports did not
aim to settle such questions.
The first report recommended a
number of changes in the surplus
agricultural disposal programs,
and declared:
"The administrators of the pro-
gram should be free to make dis-
posal agreements with Iron Cur-
tain countries when and il there
is an opportunity thereby to ad-
vance the alma nd aspirations of
freedom-loving peoples."
It added:
“With increasing signs of un-
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said she would talk to Dulles
about “the grave situation created
by the entrance into the Gaza
Strip of Egyptian personnel.” She
told reporters she was satisfied
with talks she had with Premier
Guy Mollet and other officials in
Paris.
The fatal wounding of an Arab
in the city of Gaza threatened
to create a crisis between the
population and the UNEF.
Egyptian military police said a
bullet from UNEF headquarters
struck down Ismail Yacoub Bakka
in a street 300 yards away.
A UNEF announcement said an
investigation showed a UNEF
guard on a balcony saw some per-
sons trying to enter the headquar-
ters area, shouted a warning, then
fired one shot into the ground and
one into the air.
PROBE UNDER WAY
The UNEF said the guard was
a member of the Danish-Norwe-
gian battalion and an investiga-
tion is under way.
“If an investigation shows shots
fired by the guard caused the
death of Ismail Yacoub Bakka,"
the UNEF announced, “appropri-
ate legal action will be taken."
Egyptian military police serv-
ing under the new governor, Maj.
Gen. Mohamed Hassan Abdel La-
tif, said witnesses told them the
shots came from the top
of the headquarters, where armed
guards are posted.
There were other scattered inci-
dents of violence, apparently un-
related.
Six-year-old Linda Jo Pennington,
of Denton, injured Friday after-
noon when she darted into the
path of a moving car, was re-
ported to be in good condition fol-
lowing surgery in St. Joseph’s Hos-
pital in Fort Worth.
The child is the daughter of
Frank Pennington of Justin and
Mrs. Hazel Earline Pennington of
. 1018 Ave. C.
The accident occurred Friday at
2:50 p.m. when Linda Jo stepped
out from between two parked cars
on West Highland in front of the
NTSC Womens’ Gym. She was go-
ing home from classes at Sam
Houston Elementary School.
She stepped directly into the path
of a car driven by Robert Dean
Franklin, an NTSC student from
San Angelo. Investigating officers
Capt. J. B. Graham and patrol-
man H. B. (Shorty) Oliver said
later that marks showed the Frank-
lin car skidded six feet before
striking the child and two feet
after the collision. G
Graham and Oliver said the rim
of the headlight cut the child’s
nose and pierced her lip, knocking
out six teeth.
She was rushed to Flow Mem-
’ trial Hospital for emergency treat-
ment and then with a police es-
cort, a Schmitz-Floyd-Hamlett am-
bulance carried Linda Jo to the
Fort Worth Hospital, where she
underwent plastic surgery.
Doctors at Fort Worth said the
only mark the child is likely to
have will be a small scar on the
nose. They said the missing teeth
were baby teeth and that they will
grow back.
Sun sate today at 636 pm.; rises
Monday at 6:34 a.m. Pishng: Good.
Danton County rainfall so far
this month: 1.09 inches. So far this
year: 5.58 inches. This time last
year 3.47 inches.
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Egyptian Action Brings
By DAVE CRAIGHEAD
The Assoclated Press •- -
Candidates in the special U.S.
Senate election vied for the ears of
Texas voters Saturday, as the ele-
ment of time became an ever-in-
creasing factor in their cam-
The calendar gave them only 17
more days of stumping until the
April 2 election.
State Sen, Searcy Bracewell told
a Plainview/ audience that about
350,000 votes would win the elec-
tion.
Bracewell said he felt “extreme-
ly encouraged" by the reception
he received on a three-day tour
of the Panhandle and South Plains
area, but added he thought that
"fifty per cent or more of the
voters have not yet made a deci-
sion.”
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Wreck Victim Is
Reported ‘Fair’
Six-year-old Mary Alice James
spent her sixth day in Flow Me-
morial Hospital on the "fair” list
Saturday, with little or no change
in sight, hospital officials report
ed.
The child was critically injured
in the March 10 two-car collision
that claimed the lives of her par-
ents, her three brothers and two
Whitesboro men The accident,
near Lewisville, was called the
worst la Denton County's history.
MISS MARY C. SWEET
NTSC Faculty Member ‛
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Other Activities Are
Still Under Study
AUSTIN, March 16 w—Legisla-
tive investigators dug today for
new evidence bearing on official
acts and business deals allegedly
involving men whose duty it was
to protect the public interest in
Texas’ scandal-rocked insurance
industry.
Both the House and Senate ICT
Committees took a weekend re-
cess while their attorneys, audi-
tors and investigators sought to
unravel the complicated network
of BenJack Cage's alleged con-
nections with the state's insur-
ance-regulating agency.
Atty. Gen. Will Wilson, heading
up the House ICT Committee's
legal staff, said some matters de-
veloped this week on an oil land
deal between Cage and former
Insurance Commission Chairman
Bryon Saunders were still under
study.
DETERMINED
“We want to get to the bottom
of R,” Wilson said.
Dist. Judge Charles Betts made
Renne Allred Jr., attorney for the
ICT Insurance Co. receiver, mast-
er in chancery in the case.
Betts said the effects of the
action was to give Allred broader
powers to subpoena records and
witnesses in winding up the af-
fairs of the defunct firm Betts pre-
viously had put the ICT in receiv-
ership.
The probers are expected to hold
new public hearings next week.
Both committees recessed subject
to Immediate call after inviting
Cage, now in Rio de Janeiro, to
come home and tell his story.
Cage told The Associated Press
in Rio De Janeiro today that
"I’ll be glad to discuss this with
any official body upon my return.”
WORKING MAN
"Obviously I have a job and
have t omake a living,” he said,'
“If business conditions permit, I
will go to Texas before April 10.
If not it will be later.”
The senate committee was in-
stracted to make its report April
10.
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