Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 176, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 25, 1960 Page: 1 of 16
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Denton Record . Chronicle
WEATHER
POSSIBLE SNOW
A Newspaper Designed With You In Mind
57TH YEAR OF DAILY SERVICE— NO. 176
16 Pages In 2 Sections
PRICE FIVE CENTS
DENTON, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 25, 1960
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Winter scene matches anything New England can offer
WILL USE HOTEL BUILDING
BRAZILIANS
Police Use Fire Hose
CHEER IKE
To Disperse NT Crowd
IN RAIN
promote in any way the welfare
president of the
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Clip and mail to Denton Chamber of Commerce. Rm 560
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University’s Foundation
Got Its Start In 1952
BOOKS VALUED AT $350
ARE CONTEST PRIZES
12-Degree Reading Today
Comes After One-Inch Fall
Southwest by encouraging a pro-
gram of benefactions to the Texas
Woman’s University, and to pro-
vide an agency authorized to re-
ceive and administer donations of
money or other gifts designed to
Last 24 Houri
This Month
Feb. Average
This Year
Last Year
The Money that slips through year
fingers will pay the loan that pays
your bills. Complete personal loan
advantages as authorized by Sub-
division 5 of Article 1302 of the
Revised Civil Statutes of the State
of Texas, and in this connection to
strengthen the higher educational
resources of Texas and the great
1 Do Not Come To
UNION BLDG.
in swim wear
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REMEMBER WHEN
Copperheads and rattlesnak-
es could be seen almost every
day on Denton County farms
and ranches?
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Comics .......
Editorials .....
Food News ...
Sports .........
Town Topics .,
TV Log .......
Women's News
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Bovis. A spokesman for the col-
lege registrar's office said Bovis
was enrolled the fall semester but
b not enrolled ttiW
PRESIDENT’S STATEMENT
NTSC President J. C. Matthews
said:
"Some of the students were in
the wrong and there will be pen-
alties assessed when all the facts
are known."
Dr. Matthews said Anderson gave
him a written report on the inci-
dent. listing the seven who were
arrested. The report said all sev-
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Giant snowdrift is novelty in Denton
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City and Highway Department,
crews dumped sand on bridges and
DAILY AVERAGE
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president of the Campus Govern-
ment Assn. (Mary Martha Monroe,
senior from El Paso); a represen-
tative of the administrative staff
and faculty (Francis W. Emerson,
dean of admissions - registrar*;
and four members at large, two
of whom must be graduates of
TWU.
The foundation’s charter states
its purposes as follows:
"For educational and literary
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Bathing suit weather?
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wanted pipes thawed out. Most
of the calls to plumbers. how-
See WEATHER, Page 2
Simpkins answered a complaint
about 10:15 p.m. Wednesday. Some
students were making use of the
ice on a hill on Chestnut Street in
front of the NTSC Student Union
Building. Some were being towed
by cars and some were sliding
down the hill in lawn chairs. Sim-
kins was alone in the patrol car.
50 AT FIRST
Anderson said Simpkins asked
them to stop because it was dan-
gerous to them and it created a
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A 20-volume encyclopedia and
five desk-sized dictionaries valued
at $350 will be awarded as prizes
in the contest to pick a name for
Denton's new guided missile base.
The prizes will be awarded by
Family Weekly, the Sunday mag-
azine of the Denton Record-Chron-
icle. The newspaper is co-sponsor-
ing the contest with the civic af-
fairs division of the Denton Cham-
ber of Commerce
Everyone except chamber of
commerce directors and newwspap-
er employes can enter the con-
test. said Howard Gentry, chair-
man of the civic affairs division.
A suggested entry blank appears
in today’s Record-Chronicle. Dead-
line is March 15.
The contest came as a result
of the Army’s request that Denton
offer d suggested name for the
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DENTON ANO VICINITY: Fair and cold to-
night with lowest 12-22. Friday increas-
ing cloudiness and continued cold with
occesional snow beginning in afternoon
or at night.
TEMPERATURES
(Experiment Station Report)
High Wednesday ........ ... 25
Low this morning ........ 12
High year (go ................................ 62
low year age 39
Sun sets today it 6:23 p.m.; rises Friday at
7:02 a m.
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porter earlier that six were charg-
ed with disturbance and one was
charged with intoxication.
Denton attorney Hal Jackson
posted a $100 bond for Smith this
morning. Trainer. Harris, Hopsen
and Griffith were freed on $25
bonds.
A Monday trial in Denton's Cor-
poration Court was set for Smith,
See FIRE HOSE, Page 2
ning in the afternoon or Fri-
day night.
The same story was true
all over Texas where residents
fought back against the most de-
structive sweep of bitter weather
of the season. The blizzard and
ice storm dropped temperatures
to as low as an unofficial 16 de-
grees below zero and covered parts
of East Texas with damaging ice.
Wednesday's high temperature
in Denton was unable to climb past
the 25-degree mark for a maxi-
mum mercury reading of seven
degrees below freezing.
The sleet and snow which began
whipping down in Wednesday’s
called a full scale riot at NTSC
Wednesday night.
Denton Police Chief Andy An-
derson estimated about 1,000 male
and female students were involv-
ed before it was over. Police dis-
persed the crowd by using fire
hoses and threatening to use tear
gas grenades.
No one was injured, but seven
men students were jailed.
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The sun today barely had begun to warm up the inch-deep
covering of snow left on the Denton area Wednesday when
the Weather Bureau came up with a prediction for more
cold, more clouds and more snow Friday.
The prediction came on the heels of the coldest morning
in the Denton County area since Jan. 4, 1959's eight degree
minimum. The temperature dropped this morning to 12
degrees, 20 degrees below the freezing point.
The Weather Bureau said skies will remain fair and tem-
peratures cold—between 12 and 18 degrees — tonight.
Friday, however, will be marked by increasing cloudiness,
more bone-chilling, ear-nipping cold and, to the disgust of
motorists, more snow begin-*----====
N.T. STUDENTS
COME TO RESCUE
An unidentified Denton mot-
orist had some kind words to-
day for some unidentified
SAO PAULO, Brazil <AP> —
President Eisenhower doffed his
gray felt hat and rode barehead-
ed in a heavy rain today to ac-
knowledge the cheers of a half
million or more fans in this in-
dustrial heart of Brazil. Confetti
and ticker tape Httered drenched
streets.
Later at a luncheon Eisenhow-
er extoHed the free-enterprise sys-
tem and pledged continued U. S.
support for Brazil's economic de-
veopmornhnity without discrimina. Anderson said patrolman Robert
tion is a vital aspect of democ-
city streets. The Highway De- '
partment crews worked most of the
night trying to keep bridges clear (
of ice.
During the period when the+
snow was actually falling, store
owners were kept busy attempting
to keep sidewalks free from the
slick coating. Grocery stores,
reported a run on ice cream salt,
another popular method used to
melt snow and ice from sidewalks
A number of residents reported
frozen plumbing this morning as
a result of the 12-degree minimum
temperature. Plumbers reported
a few calls from persons who
Greenwood. All were scheduled
to reopen Friday—if weather per-
mits.
The Texas Woman’s University | increase the renown, extend the
activities as suggesting broad areas services, improve the facilities or
the Southern Hotel in Denton to be । ** — ”
What started as a snow ball
fight erupted into what police
of the Texas Woman's University."
Dr. Guinn, chairman of the foun-
dation's board of directors, point-
ed out that most of the nation's
leading colleges and universities
have devleopment boards. Typical
boards with similar objectives are
those at Texas A&M College, Texas
Tech and the University of Texas.
Dr. Guinn listed scholarships,
fellowships, enrichment, funda-
mental research and development
Foundation, which has leased
pelting the policeman with snow
balls, be said.
Anderson toid a reporter Simp-
kins paid no attention to the snow
balls and got back in his patrol
car to leave the scene.
Some students started rocking
the car in an apparent attempt to
overturn it, Anderson said. Simp-
kins radioed for help and every
available police, sheriff and high-
way patrol unit was sent to the
scene.
By the time all the lawmen ar-
rived the crowd had grown to what
Andersron called a huge size.
Snowballs — some concealing rock
centers — were still flying.
Soon there wasn’t even much
snow around the rocks, Anderson
said.
CAR WINDOW BROKEN
A police car window was broken.
A student allegedly assaulted a
highway patrolman when the pa-
trolman tried to get the student
to leave the scene, Anderson said.
An emergency call,was sent to
the Denton fire station and the
station's booster truck was sent to
the Union Building.
The truck, using maximum hose
pressure, sprayed water on the
congregated students. Anderson
aimed the hose.
The disturbance was broken up
about 11:30 p.m.
"If it had lasted much longer
we were going to use the tear
gas," Anderson said. “We don’t
like to do that and only use it as
NTSC students.
In a letter to the Record-
Chronicle, the motorist had
this to say:
“Many motorists who were
pushed out of the icy gutter
Wednesday night owe a debt
of thanks to the NTSC boys
who came to their rescue. If
it hadn't been for them, I think
West Hickory street in parti-
cular would have been impas-
sable.”
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service. Industrial Credit
Krum Pilot Point. Sanger. Para- —• - -------- -
dise. Boyd, Bridgeport, Slidell and TWU Alumnae Assn. (Mrs.
en were charged with creating a Braving the frigid temperatures
disturbance. Anderson told a re- and icy roads were students in
schools at Prosper, Aubrey, Pon-
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enter the contest. It is not con-
fined to persons who live in Den-
ton.
Judges will be presidents of the
Denton service clubs. Their de-
cisions will be final. Ties will.be
broken by reasons contestants give
for naming the base for their pro-
posed name. Winners will be an-
nounced after March 15 at the
same time the presentation date
will he revealed
The first - place winner will re-
ceive the 20-volume set of the
American. People's Encyclopedia,
which retails for about $200 The
next five winners will receive a
dictionary-encyclopedia valued at
$30 each..
All entries should be mailed to
the Denton Chamber of Commerce.
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a last resort.”
NTSC Dean of Men William G.
Woods was called to the scene.
The seven arrested were David
Trainer of West Dorm, David Har-
ris of 1202 W. Hickory, Maury
Hopsen of Quad 2, Thomas Rich-
ard Smith of 922 W. Sycamore. Ed-
ward Earl Griffith of Quad 1,
Julis Philip Bovis of 917 W. Mul-
berry and James Henry Lackey
of 2043% Scripture.
All are NTSC students except
traffic hazard. The chief said
Simpkins got cooperation from
about half of the 50 students then
involved.
The remaining students started
IN TODAYS PAPER
PRESIDENT EISENHOWER
will meet a more relaxed Ar-
gentine President Arturo Fron-
dizi in Argentina than he saw
in Washington a year ago.
Page 3 Sue 1
THE UNITED States now ap-
pears to have a good chance
for a gold medal in ice hockey
in the Winter Olympics. Page
6, Sec. 1.
operated eventually as a graduate
center for the university, is a non-
profit corporation organized in
1952. It is TWU's “development
board."
The charter provides that t h e
nine - member board includes the
chairman of the TWU Board of Re-
gents । Ed Gossett, DaHas); the
president of TWU (Dr. John A.
at an even one inch at the Experi-
ment Station. The dry, powdery
+ stuff contained little moisture,
racy in both Brazil and the Unit-
ed States, he said, and freedom
in the long run yields the most
productive economic system ever
devised by man.
“Our socially conscious private-
enterprise system benefits all the
people, owners and workers
alike,” he said. "It has resulted
in high productivity, high con-
, high wages, and a rea-
sonable return on investment.
Baanced progress is our watch-
word.”
Eisenhower pledged that “with-
in our financial and economic ca-
pacity, we shall continue to sup-
port Brazilian development." Bra-
zil has received more than 2%
billion dollars in U. S. public and
private credits.
A thousand guests attended the
luncheon, sponsored by the Com-
mercial Assn., the Industrial Assn,
and the Rural Society.
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of need which he said must be met
and should be met with private
funds.
"The term enrichment suggests a
multitude of possibilities directly
related to the operation and even-
tual acquisition of the Southern Ho-
tel property," he said.
"With this splendid new physi-
cal resource at the disposal of the
university as a graduate center, we
shall be able to encourage grad-
uate students and graduate stud-
ies in many ways," he added.
The TWU president expressed
appreciation for the generosity of
Mr. and Mrs. J. Newton Rayzor
of Houston for donation of $20,000
in cash for the purchase of a park-
ing lot near the Southern Hotel
property. Rayzor, a native of Den-
ton. Is the hotel owner.
"Without the assurance that
parking space will be permanent-
ly available, the utilization of the
Southern Hotel property by the
foundation could probably not have
been undertaken," he said.
The foundation conducts a yearly
Loyalty Fund drive among alum-
nae and friends of TWU. Its most
ambitious campaign for funds
was a nationwide drive conducted
in 1956
The 60-room Southern Hotel, ta
Downtown Denton at South Etna
and Sycamore, closed for busineea
Tuesday. The foundation lease, an-
nounced Wednesday, becomes nd*
fective March 1.
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new installation, located three
miles north of Denton on Locust.
Capt. A. P. Raposa, commanding
officer of the base, said the Army
has granted authority for the guid-
tn basu to be named for
a local war hero or in memory of
a hero. For instance, it could be
named "The Denton Missile Base"
in memory of John Doc Or it
could' he named the "John Doc
Missile Base "
Capt Raposa said the person
commemorated should have served
in the U.S Army, preferably in
the anti-aircraft artillery the
forerunner of the missilemen’s
Army branch.
Members of Denton's civic and
service clubs will be given an op-
portunity this week and next to
nominate names at club meetings.
Children in the public schools also
are participating.
However, Gentry emphasized that
however. When melted, the inch
of snow contained only .05 of an
inch of water.
ICY ROADS
But the effect of the virtually
moistureless snow was far-reach-
ing. City streets and roads made
for hazarduous driving. Denton
city policemen counted 14 minor
accidents between Wednesday
morning and 10 a.m. today. In
Decatur, there were five mis-
haps reported.
No one was able to estimate the
number of unreported "fender
benders.”
With the exception of NTSC and
TWU, all 14 schools in Denton
were closed this morning. In the
Denton area, schools were closed
at Frisco. Celina. Double Oak,
Lewisville, Argyle, Lake Dallas,
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der, Decatur, Northwest High
School and its elementary schools
at Justin, Roanoke, Rhome and
Haslet, all of which were open
today.
ROADS OPEN
No roads were reported closed
today, although the Highway Pa-
trol said driving conditions—wheth-
er on the highway or on city streets
—may continue to be hazardous
through Friday morning.
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