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The Denisqn Press
REPRESENTATIVE OP THE UNITED PRESS
DHNISON, TEXAS,
FRIDAY,
SEPTEMBER 10, 1943
VOLUME XV—NO. 12
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Allies Hammer Bridgehead At Naples
ALONG THE
NEWS BEAT
By THE EDITOR
DtlU. Doean't .Know All Yet
That burg down south of Deni-
son known as Dallas does not
know it alt yet by a whole lot,
especially about the Denison
$>54,000,000 dam, and lake which
is itp be there next year with a
1,100 mile coast line and the
power possibilities and fishing:
and boating and the wide drive-
way of 30 fecJL that will run atop
the huge earthen dam that will
holfd back the mamoth lake of
water.
On a visit down there lart
week contact was made with some
of ithe men who make the city
hum ibut they are so buried in
their own affairs they do not
know what Denison, a neighbor
town 72 miles north, really has.
A case is typical. He is one
of (the top officials in the First
National Bank in Dallas. He had
no idea of the vast measure-
ments of the dam and when that
will be filled up with oceans of
waiter very likely , by next
spring barring unusually dry
spells. He had no idea of the
proportions of the lake that will
follow closing the dam to catch
ithe rainfall. He was dumfounded
\to know the lake shore line will
be eleven hundred miles around
it. He had no idea that the main
dam was something over two
miltes end to end and that the
lake would be the largest in the
world.
Many think the lake will be
filled with sifit in a short while
and wonder why we buiVt such a
vast llake at such a cost. They
have no idea of the report of
the engineers on the fallacy of
such an eventuality. They are
astonished when they are told the)
lake can accommodate steam
boats and thousands of yachts
and that the waves of water will
reach gulf coast proportions
on the average. ,
"Why don't you tell the people
about it?" asked the bank offi-
cial.
Well, that's what some of the
rest of the people who are dum-
founded at the dam's proportions
ask when they learn of the thing
that is on the lips of many over
the country—why don't we tell
«(bout it?
The trouble is that there are
hundreds of people right in our
home town who themselves do
not know what is going on up on
Red River. And also, It is a
fadt, that some of us who do
know about it have iflost the first
kick we got out of it and there
is a letting down of our enthu-
siasm on the subject. If all of
us would fitart talking about it
Just w if we had just heard of it,
the lights in some of the homes
and places of business over the
country would nth go out until
they would be writing here to
leara of the advantages that will
follow when 'the lake is thrown
open to the rest of the world.
We have a standing committee
•n the possibilities of the lake as
to fishing and pleasure resorting
and they are working at the job
of getting; everything In readi-
ness so when the hour comes that
the war is over and money for
completing the paik. is available,
work can get under way in the
shortens possible time at fixing
the park into one of the nation's
greatest pleasure and fishing re-
sorts.
Thousands of dollars are being
spent by the government in
sketching the park area that is to
fringe the mammoth lake and it
will be a national spdt for beauty
and pleasure and sports.
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Work Start* Anew On
Randall Lake
After being temporarily dis-
turbed by the rains of last week,
work was renewed on recondi-
tioning Randell lake Tuesday.
Th« work of replacing: the washed
out section of the dam is nearly
through, City Engineer A. L.
Cornell states that he expects,
weather permitting:, to complete
the job by She first of November.
Joint Meet Tex.-0kla.
Of
Citizens
Madill
With Locals
Here
Park Board ^andinf.,s
Proceeding
In a joint meeting of represen-
tative citizens from both Madill,
Oklahoma and Denison in interest
of the National Park Service
work planned at the Denison dam
a conference was had here Wed-
nesday by the two groups at
Hotel Denison for a noon lunch-
eon and general study of the
project.
An interesting outline of the
work as completed was given the
group by L. C. Fuller, of the
local Park Service, the work be-
ing recently completed, according
to Mr. Fuller. The report was
exhaustive and indicated a vast
network of park improvement
which will gird the important sec-
tors of the vast lake line.
In a letter sent to local mem-
bers of the park improvement
committee by the local chairman,
H. G. Webster, that gentleman
stated "in view of the fact that
development on the Texas side
can occur no faster than that of
the Oklahoma side, anything
Denisoii cfln do" to further 'the
general program is justified."
Delegate* Here
Citizens here to attend the
meeting were from both Kings-
ton and Madill. From Kingston
were Monte Blakely, Sid Willis
and Julian Smith.
From Madill were men
senting farming, auto dealers,
senators, physicians, attorneys,
and represented several million
dollars in ' investment. They
were Senator Raymond Say, C. C.
Pate, Mayor R. W. Liltle, F. L.
Lewis, Dr. J. F. York, W. L. Ray-
burn, M. E. Ewing, J. D. Leeper,
W. "W. jFori^ren, Herbert iWte,
publisher Madill News, B. E. Ad-
amson, C. N. Jones and E. L.
Flint.
The group, meeting with the
Denison members of the park
improvement board, had a noon
luncheon at Hotel Denison, with
chairman .of the board, H. G.
Webster, acting as chairman.
The group was welcomed by Bill
"Harwell, secretary of the Deni-
son Chamber of Commerce, who
stated the task was one callingi
for cooperation of all the peoples
of all the towns of this section.
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Dad's Club To
Make Campaign
I,500 Members
A campaign launched this week
to increase the membership of
'the Denison Dad's club to 1,600
was announced by Verne W. Mur-
ray chairman, (the campaign timed
to start contemporaneously with
(he opening of the 1943 school
term.
The Denison club ait one time
boasted of the largest member-
ship of any Dad's club in the
state and the response to the
call for members is expected to
be satisfactory this year.
Membership tickdts are availa-
ble at the two banks here, the
coat being SO certs for the year.
Women will also permitted to
purchase membership tickets it is
declared.
Promotion of scholastic activi-
ties, support of the athletic, mu-
sical, and other inter-scholastle
Interests form the objectives of
the club.
Associated with Mr. Murray in
the campaign are Adolph Johnson,
Roy Ownby, Kenneth Ransom,
Ernest J. Lilly, R. N. Sandlin.
Ben Burget, Kenneth Mills,
II- H. Manning and Charles Jack-
son.
Denison Launches Front To fa Planned
Buy Eigh t Bl ock Bus tersln
Lriie To Raise $1,300,000
Lake Resort
Equals Any
InU. S.,Say
"The proposed park plans for
the Denison dam lake will, if
adopted finally by Congress,
equal anything in the line of
lake resorts to be found in the
United States, Florida, Great
Lakes, and other known resorts,
not excepted, fit is something
that should be done on a big
scale and calls for full' coopera-
tion of all in thi9 area, or It
should be let alone." That is the
substance of the statement made
by L. Fuller here Wednesday.
"The park board which has
been working on the plans and
designs for the proposed Deni-
son dam park area are only sug
gestive and will be sumitted aft
an early date to the Chicago
office and la'ter to Congress for
repre- acceptance or rejection, and while
' we are working under direction
of the government to outline the
plans, at best they are only sug-
gestive," declared Mr. Fuller, head
of the park project office here in
an explanatory address Wednes-
day. The address was delivered
before a group of Madill and
Kingston citizens, together with
the membership of the Denison
area on parking development and
recreational advantages the dam
will offer.
Mr. Fuller declared that the
size of the dam precluded any
local setup or opportunity for
any particular community taking
over the recreational benefits of
e lake, but thrft it offered an
area proposition and was such as
to be of advantage alike to all
sections wythin many miles of
the dam.
He explained that the suggest-
ed plans anticipated two general
larger recreational centers, on the
Texas side at the Preston Bend
peninsula, and one on the Okla-
homa side where the Washita
branch of the lake merges with
the Red section. Also (there are
anticipated something like seven
minor area resorts scattered on
the Washita end of the lake and
on the Red, extending far 'toward
the terminus of each and at in-
tervals between the two master
resorts.
He said that that 'Ahe lake was
as large as the largest in the
world and called for master plan-
ning and not any small projects.
Designated roads to the lake are
to be suggested and numerous
private ones frowned on, for rea-
sons of erosion danger as well as
other patent reasons.
The plans as outlined by the
designing board here will give
the lake as fine pleasure and
fishing resold as may he found in
Florida, or any one of the other
Uke shore resoita in the country,
he indicated.
Mr. Fuller explained that the
dam across Red River, an earthen
one, would be the largest of its
kind in the whole world, and that
the shore lines will be 1200 miles
around the perimeter.
News has been received here
of the birth of a daughter, Kath-
ryn Lois, to Lt. and tMrs. Free-
man L. Jones at Del Rio. Mr.
Jones is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Jones, 205 W. Acheson.
Meeting Called Of
Red River Valley
Improve'entAss'n
A meeting of the Red River
Valley Improvement Association
scheduled to be held in Shreve-
port Friday the 10th, will be at-
tended by some of the members
of tihe organization, it is planned.
The meeting is to be held in the
Washington-Youree hotel in that
city.
The object of the meeting is
announced by Ed C. Burris, sec-
retary as being reorganization,
and the election of directors and
officers. The chief topic for
consideration is the matter of
what particular project shall re
ceive priority of consideration as
a wa(r-time activity, as well as to
plans for post-war matters for
the organization to work for.
Since the death of the presi-
dent, W. <H. Hodges, the organiza
tion has been left without a head
in the Shreveport area. J. W.
Madden of this city is vice-presi-
dent of the old organization.
Other members of the official
staff of the organization arc
Homer H. Harris, second vice
president, Alexandria, La., and
George M. Hearne, treasurer,
Shrevepoitt.
The meeting was held in Deni-
son at Hotel Denison <tlhe last
time the organization me(t and
the chief abjective aside from a
completion of the Denison dam
was construction of a canal from
the mouth of Red River to a
point near Tyler, the cost to be
approximately $40,000,000. Gov-
ernment aid was planned to be
secured.
Labor Day Here
WasObservedln
A Quiet Manner
Denison's Labor Day was ob-
served in a quiet way this year,
about the only outward signs be-
ing that all down town stores
were closed for the day, with the
exception that drug stores, cafes
and some service stations re-
mained closed only pait of the
day.
All local engineer offices re-
mained open and the several hun-
dred employes worked as usual.
No parades were had as is the
general practice of the large
body of labor union members
here, the only feature being a
lahoj day dance being sponsored
by the unions for soldiers and
their families. The evertt was
held at a night club.
Denison reported no casualties
for the day, the only tragedy be-
ing that of a dam worker, Her-
shell Ray Nix, who was killed
when his car turtled into a small
swollen branch on highway 75
near Colbert. He lived in Deni-
son.
A daughter was born to Lt.
and Mrs. Ray K. Freeman at the
City hospital here Saturday. Lt.
Freeman is stationed at Moori
Field and is the son of Dr. and
Mrs. Wm. Freeman. Mrs. Free-
man makes her home with her
parents in Sherman.
Car Stolen, Found, San* Tire*
All that the thief wanted from
the automobile of a Dallas man,
O. E. Weaver who had his car
parked at Oak View Inn Monday
night was a matter of five tires.
The car, found later in Collin
county, was all together, but the
practically new tires were gone..
A gas snooper from the OPA
might have made masters worse.
Allied Headquarters, North Af-
rica, Sept. 10—With both the U.
S. and British forces landing as
planned on Italian shores near
Naples Thursday, a bridgehead
is formed and numerous German
prisoners have been taken.
Reinforcements are still landing
almost at will and the number is
steadily increasing, while the Ger-
mans, embittered by the news of
Italy's surrender, are fighting
desperately to maintain a foothold
on Italian soil.
The troops were led by Lt. Gen.
Mark W. Clark of the American
forces w^o also directed the force
of the British. Clark is the man
who led the submarine mission to
North Africa and paved the way
Gate City's
Quota Set At
$1,300,000
Denison is all set this week to
raise its quota of $1,300,000 in
the third war bond sale, and that
amount is enough to place a total
of eight block busters in the!for successful Allied forces to in-
field, according to figures of vade last November.
L. S. Omohundro, county chair-
man of the effort to raise a
total in the county of $3,497,000.
Denison's chairman, William H.
Howell, who successfully led the
campaign of the second war loan
which resulted in oversubscribing
by nearly $300,000, is confident
the people of Denison will meet
the new goal set and that the
money necessary to buy the eight
ships will be foiVhcoming.
The city has been divided into
sectors and man-powered by vari-
German troops are declared to
be sftrongly resisted by Italians at
Genoa. Reports also skate that
Italian and German forces are
fighting in the streets of Tortona,
near Genoa. Fighting between
Italians and Germans is also re-
ported at several other points, in-
cluding Pavia, the Tessin bridge,
and other point.
Reports from London indicate
that following a conference of the
Axis war council, the determina-
tion is declared to have been de-
ous workers totaling more than a I cided on to make a stand to the
half hundred and the effort to| last German at the Po river in
do the job in the quickest time Italy. '
launched here
possible was
Thursday.
In a letter 'to the Press Mr.
Omohundro writes of the present
campaign as follows:
"With the invasion of Europe
already underway, bond money
(today means more than ever in
terms of actual attack and de-
struction of the enemy.
"Attack means bombers and
blockbusters, as well as invasion
craft, fighter planes, tanks, glid-
ers and jeeps will be needed in
Careless Smoker
To Be Object Of
October Attack
When the October 3-9 Fire
Prevention Week rolls around,
\ihe chief person to be attacked
as a *'re causer is to be the care-
increasing numbers to continue [ ^ess smoker, it is planned. That
carrying the fight to Berlin,) particular biped has been the sole
Tokio and their satellites. cause of more than 50 per cent
"Grayson county's quota in the the fires of late, it is shown.
Third Victory Loan, $3,497,000, and among them are the women
tfill buf 20 bombers." smokers, many of whom are
known to have been the careless
Calling for those who will tendj party. Recently in Dallas a big
assistance in making the >cam- apartment house werit up in
paign, Mr. Howell asks that they J flames and destroyed all the per-
leave their names with the local sonal property and household
Chamber of Commerce. He add-j goods of nearly two score per-
ed that the campaign for ithis>,
amount will mean that every
possible available person must be
enlisted in covering the field
/thoroughly and in contacting all
sources of sales of bonds.
W. L. Peterson, president of | against the careless smoker,
the State National* Bank of Deni-| Nat only ^ schools be scenes
R,°n! , J*' J^nl'kham, presi-, 0j activity against fires, display*
of by the student body made, steps
sons.
Past campaigns have been
scattered over a wide variety of
causes of fires, many of them
quite infrequent causes, but this
year the war is to be waged
denL of the M. & P. Bank
Sherman, have been appointed
co-chairmen of this area, includ-
ing Grayson, Fannin and COoke
counties.
of educational nature employed
by the Boy Scouts, but merchants
will he asked to cooperate In
many ways.
Warnings will be sent through
the mail along with the monthly
Statements of accounts, displays
in windows will be employed.
Groups will meet and discuss the
harmful effect of caseless smok-
ers and the local service clubs
will be asked to give cooperation
in the maftter.
City Fire Marshal Joe Capelle
will conduct drills in schools,
and make rigid inspection over
the city and employ the rtfandsrd
4teps for such an annual cam-
The North Texas district isj paign of Fire Prevention Week.
handled ouft of Denison and the| V —
superintendent's office shows Scout* Have Treasure Hunt
Katy Payroll In
Aug. Outstrips
That Last Year
The payroll of the M.K.T. Rail-
way in Denison for August this
year exceeds that of the same
month last year by more than
$50,000, records revealed here
this week.
Back up our soldiers-
ber Bonds make bombs.
-Romem
that the sum of $717,640 repre-
sented the sum for Vhe August
payrojl.
The largest payroll for the
Katy was this last March when it
In a treasure hunt which led
them a distance of nearly three
miles, a total of 101 Boyte Scouts
of Denison's 11 patrols joined
Monday night in this annual
reached $7&3,438. July of this <<vcnt of scoutdom. Leading the
year the sum was 9754,974. The
number of men and women on
the payroll and living in Denison,
lacks only 100 of being 2,000.
The others are scattered over
North Texas and totals
2,100.
hunt in its planning were Ken-
neth Mills. Bill Marsico and Cecil
Hardy. The Scouts met ^t Lamar
school and picked their way by a
marked trail to <lheir secret point
about! of general assembly near PswPsw
Hill.
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Anderson, LeRoy M. The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, September 10, 1943, newspaper, September 10, 1943; Denison, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth328636/m1/1/: accessed March 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Grayson County Frontier Village.