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Mixing Milk W ith Blood
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Grim Slave Island
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That event may not sound
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DEATH BY
ACCIDENT
1960 TOTAL: 114,093
dust-covered island served as one
of Africa’s first links with the New
World
Thousands of black slaves from
the African mainland, two miles
paper advertising to sell their
ducts to the public—the invest
ALREADY THE combatants have and set to work investigating the
poured $30 million plus into the Murchison stewardship
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base charged with repression of
slave traffic
NOW THE green-white-red flag
small one There are more than 800
tribes and languages in Africa and
each is different — yet the African
countries make up one-fourth of
the United Nations
FBve students and their instruc-
tor have planned a trip to the con-
tinent next summer to see first-
hand what they .study in a class-
room
In other universities, other pro-
grams are of different format—all
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The Johns Hopkins University at
Baltimore, Md . has begun a ca-
reer training and practical research
program in Latin American stu-
dies to be developed by the School
of Advanced International Studies.
Already active there are educa-
tion-research programs on the Mid-
dle East, Southeast Asia and Afri-
ca
At Randolph-Macon Woman’s Col-
lege, 14 students have enrolled in
a new course on Africa South of
the Sahara—one of the first class-
es of its kind at any woman's col-
lege
After four months of research
and investigation each of the 14
students is expected to be an au-
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A Senegalese family has settled
on the upper floor of the old slave
house and a toothless Negro takes
visitors around.
From a grim, dark, airless dun-
geon. the slaves were led through
a small opening to boats that took
them across the Atlantic
Thousands died on the island of
hunger and thirst and thousands
more died during the crossing.
Few people live on Goree The is-
land was depopulated by assaults
and yellow fever Most of the
picturesque, Spanish-style houses
are abandoned
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Their time is limited. The clock live of a dozen firms dealing in ,
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ROAD TO SLAVERY—The small door to the rear of
a hall of the “Maison des Esclaves" on Goree Island
was long the point of departure for Africans en route
to the New World and slavery,
The politically oriented will rec-
ognize two Murchison partisans—
Frank E. McKinney and Dan A.
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Kirby, 68, now rules the Alle-
ghany roost as corporation chair-
man. His fortune, built on in-
herited Woolworth five-and-dime
store wealth, is estimated at up
to $300 million.
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tourists from nearby Dakar to the
rocky island On the beach where
swashbuckling adventurers once
landed. girls in bikinis lie in teeven an interested tourist
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ed more about a different society
than could be communicated to
its past glory
Some take pictures of old foils
others scratch their names on the
walls of the slave house
"The white man has changed."
grins the toothless guide, stretch-
ing his hand for a tip.
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AP Business News Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - Ths lines
are drawn for what may turn into
the most exciting financial battle
since the days of the 19th Cen-
tury rail and oil barons.
The stakes dwarf what they
fought over.
Control of assets of $5 5 billion
—yes. billion; that's the prize.
They make up the rich domain
of Alleghany Corp., a New York
holding company.
The cast in the drama includes
men of vast wealth, men who
shuffle millions like dominoes. It
includes well known names in
icle <382-2551» ask for Town
Topics. There 6 never a charge
for an item in Town Topics,
one of the most widely read
daily features of the newspap-
er.
Kirby and Phillips made peace
business, politics and even prize- on Christmas Eve of 1959. A few
fighting. There are some grudge months later. Phillips landed in
fight overtones, a $2,500 a month post with IDS
measured against stakes never sons retaliated with a conspiracy
before equalled in an American suit against Kirby, Phillips and
proxy fight. others. It is pending Phillips sued
The $2.5 billion New York Cen-1 back, alleging the Murchisons
tral Railroad, subject in 1954 of abused discretion in handling of
the most spectacular proxy battle ; IDS funds—to the advantage of
in decades, is one of the Alle- I their personal credit.
ghany properties. This time it’s a The JDS assets, instead of a
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vision channels by the Federal
Communications Commission to-
day. But the channels likely are
to remain unclaimed for some
time because of the large amount
of capital required for a television
station.
More than 3,300 American para-
trooper* made a surprise combat
landing today behind communist
lines north of Seoul,
will remember Gene Tunney as
the boxer who lifted the world’s '
sometimes erratic Young took
over Alleghany in 1937 as it teet-
ered on the brink of bankruptcy
From the background, he helped
Young topple the bank-dominated ,
New York Central management '
seven years ago. In 1958. Young
committed suicide, and Kirby—at
first hesitantly-stepped forward
goodly supply of chips — mostly
blue."
They do.
Commanders of the clashing
forces, Allan P. Kirby and John
D. Murchison, are men of im-
mense wealth.
Both have loosened. their purse
strings and promised more slack.
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away, passed through Goree's
"transit camp," which is shown
to tourists today as "Maison des
Esclaves."
THE TRADE, was part of the
triangular exchange between Afri.
ca, America and Europe, which
eventually brought alcohol, fire-
arms and textiles to the dark con-
tinent.
For more than two centuries, ex-
panding colonial powers fought
bitterly for strategically located
Goree, The tiny island <900 by
300 yards> changed hands 10 timer'
after its discovery by Portuguese 1
adventurers in the 15th Century.
The French tricolor finally settl-
ed over it in 1802. In 1818, with the i
definite aholition of the slave
Charter Association
Deserves Your Support
LOCAL ELECTIONS in a city of Denton’s size rarely
are decided on issues. Instead, the personality of the
candidate often spells 'victory or defeat.
For that reason, the Record-Chronicle normally tak-
es no editorial stand in City Council races, although the
newspaper never has hesitated to take a stand on def-
inite issues that affect the community.
This year's City Council race has drawn a field of 10
candidates seeking three posts. Three of the candi-
dates are seeking re-election because of their having
been drafted by the city-wide Denton Charter Associa-
tion. The three, all of whom have served only one
term on the council, are Mayor Pro-Tern George Spul-
ler and Councilmen W F. Brooks Sr. and G. Emery
Taylor.
It is not difficult for a voter to understand what the
charter-endorsed candidates stand for. The associa-
tion is made up of a large cross-section of Dentonites
who believe in the council-manager form of municipal
government and who believe efficient, well managed
local government is the only kind of local government
Denton ought to have. The association endorsed, in-
deed drafted, the five present city councilmen who
have had the difficult task of initiating a-new form
of government.
With the still relatively new form of municipal gov-
ernment. there naturally have been some changes.
And no change of any kind made anywhere always has
met with universal approval. This newspaper has
not agreed with every municipal action and with every
change in the last 2% years. But when looking at
the municipal government as a whole today and look-
ing at it four, five or six years ago, the progress and
the improvements have been nothing short of remarka-
ble. It wasn’t long ago that the city was miserably in
debt, for example.
Much of the improvements just now are being felt.
Many more likely will materialize in the near future
Plans for still further improvements are in various
stages of study and completion.
Thus, common sense, if nothing more, would seem
to show that the Denton Charter Association has chos-
en well in its efforts to insure the continued, orderly
development of Denton.
Without casting any reflection on the other candi-
dates, the Record-Chronicle believes the Denton Char-
ter Association deserves your support in the April 4
election.
two decades in the shadow of the 1 ---------------- -
late, flamboyant Robert R. Young. the Navy from 1951 to 1953, also
by appointment of Truman.
____ McKinney is an Indianapolis
A RETIRING MAN, Kirby was banker At one time he was na-
dragged by fate three years ago tional chairman of the Democratic
into the spotlight he shunned for party under President Truman
—— point, it is a nutritional custom of
THE ISLAND livens up on Sun
day. when tourists come to look at i country. This is a start—but a
Even Wall Street, stronghold of j shops. boil down to a huge huge
j conservatism, has had its aplomb j pile of other people's money. _
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It added: "And those that sit money—now well over $3 billion-
in this game had better have a
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holders — about 20,000 strong — ping, publishing
choose between opposing forces at razors.
As to personalities, sports fans nwriendndchslingDeathaynthe
and Harvard universities, the La-
tin American summer was listed
as a regular course in the sum-
mer sessions of each university.
I Each participating students was
ISLE OF GOREE—The “Maison des Esclaves.” from required to submit, a written re-
whichth ousandssof Africans laves were once shipped to PoThere therendenerhis JI “trip
the New World, is indicated by the arrow. not necessarily considered so by
i participants at the time of the
trip With the native Latin-Amer-
i icans they suffered health hazard,
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Be it ever so humble there's no
place like home—for accidents.
Last year four million Ameri-
cans suffered disabling injuries in
the home falling off stepladders,
down. cellar stairs, tripping over
tricycles or slicing a finger while
doing it themselves on a buzz saw.
And if that didn't hurt enough,
home dwellers were further injur-
ed by a gigantic bill for all this
mayhem totalling $930 million in
lost wages, medical expenses and
overhead costs of insurance.
Such statistics might lead one .
to believe the home is the nation’s
biggest accidental killer. It isn't.
It's only second. The automobile is
first.
In 1960 $8,300 persons died in the
United States in traffic accidents.
Another 1,400,000 suffered disabling
injuries. Home accident fatalities
were 27,500 last year, an increase
of 500 over 1959.
ALL TOLD, accidents killed 93,-
000 persons last year. Ranking be-
hind the automobile and the home
as killers were: work accidents
13,800; public 16,500; fires 7.300;
drownings 6.500; firearms 2,300.
Over all, the odds last year were
19 to 1 you would suffer a dis-
abling injury. However, figures of
the National Safety Council report
the accidental death rate of 51.7
fatalities for every 100,000 persons
—just over one death per 2,000
population—was the lowest on rec-
ord.
The 1959 rate was 52 2
Despite the heavy highway toll,
the actual death rate was an all-
time low of' 5.3 persons per every
100 million miles of motor vehicle
travel. While traffic fatalities in-
creased 1 per cent in 1960 over
1959, this was more than off-set
by a 2 per cent increase in mile-
age travelled.
DESPITE a rash of airplane
crashes, the council’s figures in-
dicate the traveller is much safer
in the air than in his own car.
Ten crashes in I960 claimed 363
victims on scheduled lines—a rate
of 1 per 100 million passenger-
miles. In 1959 the rate was 69
By comparison 27 passengers died
in train accidents during the first
nine months of I960 compared to
nine the year before
The bill for on-the-job accidents
was staggering. In dollars the loss
was $4 1 billion last year with time
lost, the equivalent to a million
men being out of work for a whole
year.
The most fatal automobile acci-
dents were multi-vehicle collisions.
They killed 14,800 motorists. Auto
accidents not involving this type of
collision took 12,000 lives.
Other categories: pedestrian ac-
cidents 7.950; collisions with fixed
objects 1,500; trains 1.400; bicy-
cles 450 and animals 80
One statistic illustrates the
changing pattern of highway travel.
Only five persons died in collisions
with street cars. (The Associated
Press ।
Clint W. Murchison Jr. of Dallas.
Tex , sons of fabulous Clint Sr.
who struck it rich in oil and mul-
tiplied his millions in a bewilder-
ing variety of other fields.
ALTHOUGH they were in knee-
pants when Kirby started bank-
rolling Young, Yale-schooled John,
now 39, and Clint Jr., 37, learned
fast. They are seasoned, success-
ful businessmen, respected by
their adversaries.
Six years ago at 33 and 31, the
brothers started running Investors
Diversified Services, the $3-billion
Minneapolis based investment
company complex.
Net assets and profits more
than doubled in the next five
years.
A tangled web of financial and
legal events set the stage for a
falling out with Kirby. Last Sep-
tember he used Alleghany's con-
trolling stock interest to kick the
Murchisons off the IDS board.
Before this happened, the broth-
ers had established a beachhead
in Alleghany by buying up Alle-
ghany stockholdings in the Young
estate.
AFTER THEIR ouster, they re-
solved to use this holding as a base
to unhorse Kirby—and the fight
was on.
Two separate efforts to negoti-
ate a settlement failed. Stock buy-
ing began in earnest with the sec-
ond failure. The day afterwards,
March 10, Kirby went into the
market for $3 million.
Every drama has a secondary
character whose antics ripen the
plot, hastening the climax.
In this one, it's Randolph Phil-
lips, 50. a New York financial
consultant presently allied with
Kirby. His forte is law suits ques-
tioning management practices of
corporation executives
A one time aide to Young,
Phillips fought Young in the
courts in the financier's last
the corporation's annual meeting Tunney, an incumbent Alle-
ghany director, is in Kirby’s cor-
ner this time
Shaping up is a financial bat-
tle that will make the strug.
glee of the 19th Century rail
and ell barons look like penny
ante poker games. At stake is
control of the Alleghany Corpo-
ration. and Ito 15.5 billion em-
pire. Business writer Roger
Lane takes you behind the scen-
es in this fascinating story and
brings you a closeup of the
leading characters.
INTERURBAN RAIL '
SERVICE PLANNED
MARCH M. 1921
An Interurban railway from Dal-
las to Denton seemed likely today.
The Texas Interurban Railway Co.,
with $2,500.00 capital stock, filed
for incorporation with the pur-
pose of operating interurban rail-
ways from Dallas to Denton, Ter-
rell, Tyler, Greenville and Paris.
Communist riots in Hamburg,
Germany, today killed 15 civilians
and one policeman. A mob of com-
munists attempted to disarm po-
licemen at the shipyards in Ham-
burg.
REDBI D QUEEN
GETS A CROWN
MARCH 26, 1941
Miss Naomi Boutwell of Terrell
was named “Queen of the Red-
buds'' at Texas State College for
Women. President L H. Hubbard
presented the queen with her
crown.
Angry strikers seized two police
ears and threw gas bombs at po-
licemen as mass picketing began
at the Bethlehem Steel Co. plant
in Bethlehem, Pa.
: several different schools
Last year three teams of Am-
erican students, with Carnegie
support, spent the summer months
living among peoples of small vil-
lages in Latin America
Their purpose was to study a
। foreign culture under the guidance
of professional anthropologists To
participate in the "field" program
they had achieved a working com-
mand of spoken Spanish and each
had taken a special semester
course devoted to a survey of high-
land Latin American cultures.
Sponsored by Columbia. Cornell
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It takes more than ordinary poise sot dawn at
for an American visitor.insAtfrica fended his German chef , who
to drink his milk mixed with he prides himself on an unusual abi-
warm blood, of an ox lity with seasoning
But in East Africa, where the But if America is to win her
spotlight of world history is focus war .of ideas with an opposing po-
ed with great intensity at this litical theory, it must provide for
the world a staff of young people
trained in international relations
and sensitive to cultures different
the principal communicable discas-traint, in dealing with a farmer fromethenrvorsnhies o( the nation
es of childhood—measles, scarlet who insisted on breeding economi- are offering travel and study
Kimball served as "secretary of fever, whooping cough, and dip- ed the ay stheDnkedon the abroad1in many forms to give their
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‘100,000 population ( it might take months for an .The ideazsofutravel away from
home and tutors from other parts
of the world isn't a new teaching
| theory. It was successfully in
practice when Philip of Macedon
brought Aristotle from Athens to
teach young Alexander.
The Carnegie Corp. of New York
> recently has given a number of
’ grants for overseas study programs
1 for American undergraduates in
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$1 75 million a year in national
newspaper advertising.
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Jesus said, "Father, forgive
them; for they know not what they
do." (Luke 23:34. RSV.)
PRAYER: O laird. Thou who didst
die to allow ua that we are loved
and accepted, forgive us who are
no unworthy of forgiveness, so slow
to forgive. Help us to receive Thee
that through Thy grace we may
learn to forgive all those who, in
any ny, reject m. la Thy name
we pray. Amen.
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