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DENTON TEXAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 25, 1960
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Weekend Dem Meet
Gas War Now
Doesn’t Boost Anyone
Hits Denton
4-LETTER VARIETY
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Stuns Stars
With Word
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IN TODAY'S PAPER
WEATHER
Officials To Make
Bond Issue Talks
HEIRESS SHUNS
FATHER’S HELP
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U.S. LAGS IN ROCKETS
Ships Crash
U.S. Freighter, Oil-Laden
Tanker Collide In Channel
SOME JOKE
Shots Panic
At 3:30 p.m. today the first of
the meetings — with the Women's
Shakespeare Club in the Denton
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Denton’s city officials start a
round of club meetings today—but
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a business basis rather than for
pleasure.
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club members with the city’s side
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ASSESSMENT BACKED
Both sharp and Budget Director
Maurice Stans defended the new
intelligence assessment.
Vice Adm. Hyman G. Rickover
said in a television interview the
Navy should have more nuclear
Polaris-firing submarines and that
he was not satisfied with the
numtier now being produced.
Rickover also had this sugges-
tion for getting work done quick-
er at the Pentagon: "Cut the peo-
ple in the Pentagon by about 20
to 30 per cent."
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WASHINGTON (?) - Demo-
cratic leaders controlling major
blocs of party power remained un-
committed on a party nominee to-
day after a weekend parade, of
presidential hopefuls.
With former President Harry S.
Truman setting a "give ’em hell"
pace, four major and several min-
or contenders for top place on the
tickets tried out their personalities
and oratorical persuasion on 2,500
party members at a $100 a plate
fund-raising dinner here.
NO BAND WAGONS
The upshot seemed to be that
nobody started any bandwagons
rolling. This was confirmed by a
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tioned what he called "the missile
gap” in strongly criticizing Secre-
tary of Defense Thomas S. Gates
Jr.
NEW YORK (AP>—Dr. James
Douglass Sharpe says he will take
legal action if necessary to see
his daughter. Gamble Benedict, 19,
the heiress who has been returned
here after running away with a
married chauffeur.
Sharpe, a Brattleboro; Vt., psy-
chiatrist. was turned away twice
Sunday from the East Side man-
sion of Miss Benedict’s grand-
mother, Katherine Gedes Bene-
dict. • -
"This is typical,” Sharpe com-
mented.
Miss Benedict's brother. Doug-
- las. 21, and Mrs. Benedict's at-
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Bevan Condition
Reported Worse
LONDON (AP>—Aneurin Bevan,
deputy leader of the British Labor
party, has suffered another re-
lapse in his fight to raaoveMrom
a major operation. )
"Mr. Bevan has had a ‘ poor
night and is not so well," the hos-
pital said in a medical bulletin
today.
By JAMES BACON
AP Movie-TV Writer
HOLLYWOOD (AP)—Eva Marie
Saint, the screen’s favorite nice
girl, Sunday night shocked the mo-
vie colony with her use of a four-
letter word before a house full of
the biggest names in the industry.
The occasion was the annual
Screen Producers Guild dinner,
one of the year’s fanciest turn-
outs. The men who make the mo-
vies were there to honor Jack L.
Warner, boss of Warner Bros.,
who was to receive the annual
Milestone Award of the Guild.
JACK BENNY
Jack Benny was the master of
ceremonies and Miss Saint was the
first person he introduced. She
was to present the Jesse L. Lasky
inter-collegiate film award.
Benny explained: "This girl is
so ethereal, so nice, that I could
not do justice to presenting her.
So I asked my friend, George Jes-
sel, to write me an introduction
for Miss Saint.”
Benny then proceded with a
flowery introduction, occasionally
interrupting to say it was Jessel
talking, not him.
MISS SAINT
When Miss Saint came to the
podium to acknowledge the flow-
ery introduction, she could only
mutter: “Aw ---- !”
It brought a gasp from the star-
studded audience. As Benny com-
mitted later, “George Burns at a
stag Frior’s testimonial never said
anything like this.”
EXPERTS’ VIEW OF 1960S:
BETTER LIFE FOR RETIRED
What do the 1960s hold for America's retired and retiring?
A promise of a better life — in all respects.
These are the conclusions of business, labor, professional and
government leaders who set down their opinions in a nine-part
series for "Security for You," a regular feature of the Record-
Chronicle The series begins Tuesday.
The 1960s. these experts feel, will see vastly improved housing,
medical care, retirement plans and job opportunities for the over-
65 group, as medical advances promise an even longer life.
Guest columnists are Carl T Mitnick, president of the National
Assn, of Home Builders; Wilbur J. Cohen, professor of public
. welfare at the University of Michigan; Semour L. Wolfbein, depu-
ty assistant secretary of labor; James R. Williams, vice president,
Health Insurance Institute; George Meany, President, AFL-CIO;
Erwin D. Canham, president. Chamber of Commerce of the United
States: Louis M. Orr. president of the American Medical Assn.,
and Dr. James A. Shannon, director of National Institutes of
Health.
STEVENSON
Truman also took what ap-
peared to be an indirect swipe at
Adlai Stevenson, the man he want-
ed as a candidate in 1952 and
didn’t want in 1956. Stevenson
won the nomination but lost the
election both times.
Truman said that, in addition to
having the necessary qualifica-
tions for office, the man he sup-
ports is going to have "the ability
as well to arouse the support of
the people to vote him into of-
fice.”
In Atlanta, Ga., Atlanta Journal-
Constitution correspondents from
four states Sunday agreed that
Sen. Lyndon B. Johson (D-Tex) is
the favorite Democratic candidate
among politicians of the Southwest.
The correspondents were inter-
nated by the mere stroke of a pen.
We certainly cannot afford to
Tiny Rocket
Developed For
Use In Space
By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE
Associated Press Science Writer
NEW YORK (AP)-A new Tom
Thumb rocket motor looks good
for vital tasks in exploring space,
a physicist said today.
This midget motor is no bigger
than a man’s thumb.
It works by shooting out electri-
fied atoms and electrons at speeds
of 22,000 miles an hour. This pro-
duces thrust, just as does the ex-
haust of chemical fuels to thrust
up rockets.
The tiny engine is not strong
enough to propel a rocket or satel-
lite as its main energy.
But it could produce sidewise,
forward or backward thrust to
control the position and direction-
ing of a satellite in space, said
Dr. W H. Bostick of Stevens In-
stitute of Technobgy, Hoboken,
N.J.
Such controls can be important
in keeping a weather-watcher or
communications satellite in a pre-
cise orbit around the earth, or
making it drop down lower, or fly
up higher, to intercept a space
ship, or refueling, or reseuse mis-
sions. Or to keep a photographic
eye pointing at the moon or dis-
tant stars for pictures.
Bostick and associates developed
a laboratory model of the midget
motor just last month. He de-
scribed it today at opening ses-
sions of teh annual meeting of the
Institute of Aeronautical Sciences.
The midget is a plasma rocket
motor he explained.
Electrical energy vaporizes the
tip of a wire in the motor. Off
come positively charged atoms
(ions) and electrons, which fly out
I of the engiM, produeuig IhruwL—
Strollers
In Algiers
The following dispatch came
through censorship in Algiers.
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By COLIN FROST
ABOARD A PLANE OVER THE
ENGLISH COAST (AP) - On the
crinkled waters of the Spithead
Channel today six ships played
tug-of-war—with life or death as
the prize.
Four of the ships were British
tugs. Their task was to pull apart
an American freighter and a Nor-
wegian tanker locked together aft-
er a shattering collision. The
American ship's nose was firmly
fixed in the tanker’s port bow as
gradually the two drifted toward
the shallows.
Fire was the biggest danger.
The tanker's cargo was highly in-
flammable oil. Yet another peril
was a big fort planted in the chan-
nel to beat off mine-laying planes
in World War II.
The tugs won their battle—and
just in time. Soon the two ships
were under tow and on their way
to safety.
This correspondent watched the
last stages of the drama from a
low-circling plane. A big gap
showed in the tanker’s side, like
a slice from a gigantic cake. The
American ship's bow was shat-
ter Ad. As the plane swooped low,
you could see right into the
freighter's forward hold, littered
with crumpled packing cases, and
see waves on the other side.
Three men stood on the foredeck
of the tanker, the 11,000-ton Gorm
of Loso. One looked up briefly to
wave to the plane. Then he turned
back with the others anxiously
watching the waves lapping over
the listing ship’s port side.
The freighter, the 6,125-ton San-
ta Alicia, showed not a sign of
life above decks. Twenty of the
crew had been taken off because
of the risk of fire.
But men were still at work down
below. Soon after the ships came
apart the Santa Alicia's crew
started churning to help the tugs
avoid the dangerous shallows.
A tug called the Flying Kestrel
took the Santa Alicia in charge,
towing her stern first to keep sea-
water out of her gaping forward
hold.
The tanker, heavily laden and
much the larger ship, had two
REVISION
Johnson was out of town last
week when Gates said on Capitol
Hill that prior U.S. intelligence es-
timates of Soviet missiles and
military power had been revised
downward Gates said this was.
done by basing estimates on
"what the Soviet Union probably
would do, as opposed to former
estimates which were made on
what they were capable of doing.”
Johnson issued a weekend state-
ment saying Gates had adopted a
dangerous new method for os-
Denton Record - Chronicle
By ANDREW BOROWIEC
ALGIERS (AP) - The broad
Boulevard Laferriere was jammed
by crowds shouting slogans when
the first shots were fired.
A cry of panic went up.
Men and women screamed,
fleeing blindly from a barricade
flying a tattered tricolor, away
from armed men who threatened
to march on the government build-
ings.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Will the
Soviet Union have more ready-to-
go missiles than the United States
in any period through 1963?
"They might. I think it is doubt-
ful. but they might. But in no way
will we have an over-all deterrent
gap,” said Secertary of the Air
Force Dudley C. Sharp.
Over-all deterrent strength is the
important point. Sharp said Sun-
day in a television interview.
"It isn't whether they have a
few more missiles than we have.
The important thing is that our to-
tal over-all posture is such that
they wouldn’t dare attack without
receiving such a formidable at-
tack themselves that they would
never want to do it.” he added.
How big might the missile gap
be?
If there is one, Sharp said, it
In Fighting
ALGIERS (AP) — Armed
die-hard French rightists held
out today behind makeshift
barricades in the heart of
Algiers. ,
Dawn found the capital
quiet but tense in the wake
of Sunday night’s fighting
and panic that left 21 persons
dead, including 10 police-
men, and 153 wounded.
The army seemed firmly in con-
trol. except for two pockets where
about 1,000 insurgents were holed
up.
The uprising against President
Charles de Gaulle’s self-deter-
mination policy pitted Frenchman
against Frenchman in Algeria, al-
ready bleeding from a five-year
revolt of nationalists.
A stiff military censorship was
imposed on outgoing news dis-
patches, but there was no objec-
tion to calling Sunday's rising a
fight to keep Algeria French.
PARATROOPERS
Trucks of paratroopers lined
Avenue Pasteur along the western
flank of the barricaded areas. The
holdouts showed signs of their all-
night watch as they silently stared
at passers-by who hurried along
in the bleak dawn.
Despite a military order ban-
ning assembly of more than three
persons, groups gathered around
the barricaded area and stared
grimly at the insurgents who had
hoisted tattered French tricolors.
Here and there merchants who
shuttered their windows when the
rioting broke out Sunday night be-
gan to open their stores.
The three Algiers morning daily
newspapers, all censored, sold
quickly. They printed dispatches
reporting minor demonstrations of
sympathy in Oran and Constan-
tine
MARSEILLAISE SUNG
Inside the barricaded area re-
bellious groups sang a rousing
Marseillaise.
The government Building on
Forum Hill, scene of Sunday
night's clash, looked like an armed
camp. Steel-helmeted .police and
riot squads spread out army ra-
tions in the lobbies and corridors.
The Echo d'Alger said in a front
page editorial that "French blood
has been spilled climaxing the dis-
illusionment of which we are
drinking the bitter chalice for so
many years.” Alain de Serigny,
publisher of the newspaper, took
part in Sunday's demonstration.
check of the men in a position to
control the big-vote delegations
likely to have the final say in any
down-to-the-wire contest that de-
velops in the Los Angeles conven-
tion.
Truman, who retains strong in-
fluence with a minority segment
of the party, dealt something of a
blow to the incipient candidacy of
Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo),
when he told the group he has no
commitments on any presidential
aspirant. Symington has been
counting heavily on Truman's sup-
port.
tugs. One was ahead and the oth-
er alongside.
As slowly they moved up chan-
nel toward Southampton, fire
floats cruised with them. Two de-
stroyers and a frigate kept guard
to clear other shipping from their
path.
The Santa Alicia, owned by
Grace Lines of New York, was
sailing out of Southhampton for
New York when she collided
head-on with the Gorm. out of
Oslo, in pre-dawn darkness.
The ships were doing about six
knots in a choppy sea. There was
no fog. There were no casualties
from the collision.
viewed on a television panel show.
Some of the writers, however, felt
that Johnson did not stand much
chance of winning the Democratic
nomination for president.
Grover Hall Jr., editor of the
Montgomery (Ala) Adver-
tiser, said, "here is no wide-
spread support, but the politicians
are going to play it straight and
support Johnson. They will prob-
ably vote for him to the bitter end.
Sen. Kennedy’s being a Catholic
will cost him support in Ala-
bama."
Miami Daily News w r i t e r
Charles Hasser said, "In 8 or 10
years we may have a Republican
governor, the professionals are
trying to draft a movement for
the Democratic convention to sup-
port Sen Smathers (D-Fla) as a
favorite son, but will probably
wind up supporting Johnson. Sy-
mington looks like the No. 2 man."
S. L. Latimer Jr., editor of the
Columbia (S.C.) State, said Mis-
souri Sen. Symington and Adlai
Stevenson had a good bit of sup-
port in South Carolina, but that
“Johnson probably will have the
support of the delegates, who will
go to the convention uninstruct-
ed.”
Joe Hatch, staff writer for The
Nashville Tennessean, said “John-
son is considered as being a seri-
ous candidate in Tennessee.”
will be smaller than the 3-1 super-
iority which former Secretary of
Defense Neil McElroy said a year
ago the Soviets might move to in
long - range missile superiority.
Sharp declined to give a more spe-
cific estimate.
SALTONSTALL
The Pentagon's view that there
is no deterrent gap got support
Sunday from Sen. Leverett Salton-
stall (R-Mass). He said in a radio
interview “I do not agree that
there is this great missile gap.”
Saltonstall, senior Republican on
the Senate Armed Services Com-
mittee. said “we are ahead of the
Russians in the general opinion
on certain parts of the missile
problem. They are ahead of us in
the question of thrust.”
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (RTex)
Senate Democratic leader, men-
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175 million Americans on the abil- Women s building-was to start.
COALBROOK, South Africa
(AP) — A high speed drill today
bored steadily toward 440 men
trapped deep in a coal mine since
Thursday.
Fresh rockslides clogged the
main shaft with tons of earth,
halting underground rescue ef-
forts. Mine officials ordered an
emergency shaft sunk to try to get
food and air to the men if they
are still alive.
Managers of the Clydersdale
colliery, where the massive rock-
fall occurred, rushed the drill here
from an iron mine in the northern
Transvaal.
The drill which bores a hole 15
inches in diameter, pentrated 80
feet within a couple of hours, then
struck a rock formation. En-
ineers estimated It would take 40
hours to reach the area where the
men are trapped.
torney. Robert Hoffman, returned
the debutante to her grandmoth-
er’s home Saturday night. They
flew her home from Paris on a
court order from French authori-
ties.
The Romanian-born chauffeur.
Andre Porumbeanu, 35, with
whom Miss Benedict sailed on a
freighter for an escapade in Paris,
remained there in mournful seclu-
sion. He and the girl had said
they wanted to marry after he
could get a divorce.
The New York Daily News said
in a copyrighted story that he
talked Sunday by phone with Miss
Benedict.
Sharpe, who gave custody of the
girl and her brother to Mrs. Ben-
edict after the 1946 suicide of the
children's mother, Josephine Ben-
edict Sharpe, insisted that he has
“every right” to see his daughter.
After he and his present wife,
Marylyn, were turned away at the
door of the Benedict mansion, his
son told newsmen: i “My sister
does not want to talk to my father
She told me that as emphatically
at 7:02 a.m.
RAINFALL
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lap. Sta. Gause
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A Fort Worth gas price war
has apparently carried north to
Denton as service station own-
ers began slashing prices
This morning, prices for major
company regular gasoline had
dropped as low as 25 cents a gal-
lon at some stations.
The gas price battle has been
closely developing in Denton for
at least a month, one station own-
er said. Prices began fluctuating
early in January, he said. The
price would drop a cent or two
one day, then go up the next.
The present prices—26.9 cents or
regular and 30.9 cents for ethyl—
are the lowest for most stations
in many months. Early today one
major station had dropped to an
even 25 cents a gallon for regular.
All station owners questioned
agreed the Fort Worth price war
—which has prices down now as
low as 20.9 cents a gallon for ma-
jor brands of regular—was the
major factor in starting the Den-
ton price skirmish.
No operator would predict how
long the war would continue or
how cheap Denton gas would be-
come.
But all said they were ready-
but not necessarily willing—to cut
prices as much as necessary to
keep up with competition.
meetings this week—councilmen
were to outline the reasons behind
the bond.., election and why the
council thinks Denton voters should
approve the program.
At noon Tuesday the councilmen
will meet with one of Denton's
largest clubs—the Kiwanis Club.
The meeting will be in TWU's Hub-
bard Hall.
Wednesday the Optimist Club
will host city leaders at noon at
the Pat Boone Country Inn
Thursday councilmen will be
guests at two club meetings—the
Rotary Club at noon at the Coun-
try Inn and the Lions Club at
6:30 p.m. at the same place.
>0b Friday the men will meet
timating Soviet might.
Johnson’s criticism said in part: of the proposed $11,885,000 bond
"The missile gap cannot be elimi- issue coming to a vote Saturday.
DENTON ANO VICINITY ANO All OF TEXAS:
Partly cloudy through Tuesday, warmer
in afternoons and tonight.
TEMPERATURES
(Experiment Station Repert)
Low Sunday ....... .....................- 19
High Sunday -----------—.......-....... 47
Low today 26
High year age .........-......................... 73
Low year ago ......... # 50
gun sets today at 5154 p.m.; rises Tuesday
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TOMMYGUN
Someone fired a tommygun to-
ward steel-hehmeted gendarmes.
Someone shouted "Forward,
forward.”
Others screamed, “Take cover,
they’re shooting.”
Besides men with tricolor arm-
bands and uniformed National
Guardsmen summoned by their
leaders for the rising, many of
those in the crowd were Sunday
strollers.
They came to watch the show.
To them it was another political
demonstration, a popular picnic.
They had seen many.
There were girls in high heels
with their yung men and mothers
with children.
There were people in their Sun-
day best who joked while heated
appeals came from loudspeakers.
CROWD DISPERSES >
Within minutes after the shoot-
ing the crowd dispersed. Heavy
army trucks began arriving on
nearby streets. Ambulances
whizzed by with sirens screaming.
Sporadic shooting continued for
10 minutes.
The crowd lingered on the side-
walks away from the bloody
square—waiting.
A hysterical woman screamed
that it was an infamous day, that
she never thought Frenchmen
would shoot at Frenchmen in Al-
giers.
Dusk fell on the city.
with the Hi-Noon Lions Club at
the same restaurant to wind up
the service club meetings.
Councilmen also will be busy
explaining the bond issue two
nights this week in "Fireside chats’
in the homes of several Denton-
ites.
At 8 p.m. tonight persons liv-
ing near W. C. Orr Jr. will meet
in his home at 820 Greenwood to
hear part of the council.
At the same time neighbors of
J. J. Spurlock at 1315 Panhandle
will get together with the rest
of the council.
Four meetings will attract coun-
cilmen Tuesday night. The meet-
ings. all at 8 p.m., will take
place in the home of the Rev.
H. D Webb at 107 S. Wood, the
Rev. James E. Grant at 1107 East
Oak, Robert Muntyn at 529 N.
Elm and Frank Martino at 122g
Emerson.
The Denton County United
Fund will hold its annual
meeting in Denton Tuesday.
Page 8,
Open warfare is threatened
over baseball territorial rights
in Houston, Page 6.
What do you do with a
teen-ager who loses all regard
for time? See Dorothy Ricker,
Page IX
Classified ................. 16
Comics .................... 11
Editorials .................. 4
Sports -.................. 6
Town'Topics ........2
TV Log ..... 9
Women's News ............ 8
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SUNSHINE AND SLEDDING IN KANSAS
Some 400 youngsters used a hillside near a Topeka, • Eastern. Kansas since the winter’s heaviest snowfall
Kan., elementary school for sledding Sunday afternoon. to date left an eight-inch cover a week ago.
A bright sun caused the first significant melting in
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