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REPRESENTATIVE
THE UNITED PRESS
DENISON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEjMBER 15, 1944
VOLUME 16—NO. 26
ArtilleryPoundmgSiegfriedLine
ALONG THE
NEWS BEAT
BY THE EDITOR
Deniton Doet It Aqain
It takes a pood sort of a town
to come up to the calls TOO per
cent
that are
sent
out to
them
t o alle-
viate
the suf-
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Denison Launches Jobs For Boys Move j
By 7 Army
Shows Way
For Others
i n i l Covered
Is Declared
thing and that i
son ' why we lix
mensely. We h
Of COUl
sis City Star, and >me otnei
papers or wxi; u I Deni-
son as a “small town on Ited
liver, we know that v, e have the
stuff of which gn-L.i communi-
ties are built and that we are
making such progress as to at-
tract the attention and arouse
the desire in many othei towns
to have what we possess in the
way of attractions, resorts, great
(plants of industry and natural
assets.
Located on Red river and with
the largest earthen dam in the
world at our very door, and hold
ing back the largest man-made
la!ke in this country, stocked with
fish galore and offering a para-
dise for boating, regattas and
other resort angles of a kind
longed for by the outing world,
we have something really on the
ball.
When you add to that the
great cheese plant od' the Kraft
people, the immense wood treat
ing plant of the Smith company,
the egg breaking plant of Hen-
ningsen Denison, Inc. and Deni-
son Poultry company, along with
the great railroad facilities and
natural health resort, you get a
close preview of a real town.
Yes, we have something t.o
scream about and we should
spare no time nor effort in let-
ting the natives know about it.
Inaugurating a formal move-
| .nent to do everything possible
| ii cooperating with ail federal
| and state plans for the return-
i mg' soldier to be plated as near
as may be done in permanent
urn, proper positions in the vari-
ous lines of industry, business,
arming or the trades or schools,
Denison led out here this week
in a meeting ealed by .Mayor
VV. L. Ashburn. Cooperating
with the movement were state
and county agents of the vari-
ous government agencies having
to do with properly placing re-
luming soldiers in places to their
desire and choosing.
Declared to be the first meet-
ing of the kind to be held in
tile state, officials from Dallas
in charge of the state work were
interested and were here to lend
support to the movement to get
things stui ted right. 'Mayor Ash-
burn was commended for h
leadership in taking hold of the
matter at this stage of the game
to do what could be accom-
plished in getting the breaks in
every way for the returning boys
who are coming back at the rate
of many thousands each week.
Attending from out of town
were W. 0. Erringer, area
director of the war man power
commission; James T. Black, as-
sistant director, Ralph Fladger,
in charge of veterans placements
of the Pallas area, and Ka
iluell Jeffries, training speent.
ist for the WMC,
Special Local Committee Named
The task of providing post-
war positions for the returning
men will be vigorously and sys-
tematically attacked by a special
group of local men who will ac-
quaint themselves with the locn.
field and with the plans of the
.... government and the G. I. Bill of
the- Rights for the b ys so as to
get the maximum results for
Citizens Want Dangers
And Gas Alike
By Ordinance
New Baptist Folk
Formed Here Plan
Aggressive Work
Although the city commission
;oine months back at the time of
the occupancy of the mayorship
by the late Dr. T. J. Long, dis-
cussed the hazards of both bu-
tane gas trucks parked in the
city, and those of gas trucks
also, the latter standing for
long hours in the business area,
nothing was done about it until
the recent butane gas incident Headed by and directed under
when eleven lives were lost and ^ 4he personal efforts of Rev. Roy
others were left hanging in tl: ARTailand, /Denison young man
just returned from a long train-
ing course under Rev. J. Frank
Norris of the famous Baptist.
known as Funda-
a new Baptist church
movement was
in Denison Wednesday
night. The church will worship
at 205 % W. Main street where
the i they have secured quarters for a
j permanent stay in the city, it
is announced by Rev.•UIcFarland.
balance.
However, according to an-
nouncement, the proposed new
legislation to cover butane gas| c'hurch work
truck? does not include those of, Bientalist,
high-powered gasoline trucks,'evangelistic
which carry as much deadliness -started
as butane when released, ac-
cording to a report made by
Fire Chief Pat Lowe at
time of the discussion of fire
hazards under Mayor Long.
According to the proposed
new ordinance, butane gas
trucks will have added restric-
‘‘We are launching the move
ment on faith strictly and the
, .... j Lord is giving us wonderful
lions, among them being inhibit- an<1 many
ing them from h-—
down town areas
mm mng ^pa^i j expressing themselves as being
1 I willing to enlist and many are
j actually giving support fitian
at its regu-J daily., in work and otherwise to
I he limits over night
The city council
]ar meeting last Friday started the movement,” Rev, .McFarland
stated Thursday.
cn its program of framing an
ordinance to further tighten up,
and it is announced in advance
that part of the new regulations
will be that butane trucks pass-
ing through the city will be
allowed to stop only on street
crossing, making deliveries, o
the latter Moore acted as secreturp of the
I The initial meeting held V
nesday night saw things get
under way satisfactorily and
headed by Rev. McFarland who
presided at the meeting and de-
livered a short talk. Mrs. Janie
Hrnori for Maj. Gen. Clay
Tho Press was the first paper
in North Texas to announce
fact that Maj. Gen. Lucius D.
Clay had been named as the t.>p| them
The gentlemen were named
breakdowns. In
tase, the local fire station must
be immediately informed.
The city is seeking added in
formation on the nature of leg-
i i 'alien needed to meet the situa-
tion a it is today known and is
cooperating with the National^
Safety Council, Interstate Com-j
other
were
following a general line of in
1‘ormational talks and expressions
the mattei
to start:
F. 0. Babcock, chairman, T un
l’enn, H. G. Webster, \V.
Steakley and Leon J. Womack.
These gentlemen, along with
Mayor Ashburn, will work on
man in the new movement by
the government to speed up pro-
duction on the assembly line
front and get them to the front | oJ personal ideas in
lines for the boys. Living among and the list includes
us for several years everybody
fell for him as a fine gentleman
and scholary citizen, and a fel-
low of the real cloth. He did a
man,clous piece of work in sup-
ervising getting the big $54,-j initial steps and submit a more
OOO.OUO Denison dam started and. definite plan at an early meeting
it was a child of his in fact.] to which it is hoped all business
!He stated to the writer while the men and! heads of plants and
work was under v. ay on a large j personnel departments will be
scale that “I will be hack for the j present. Some fifty men were
dedication of Denison dam if I in attendance at the meeting
have to crawl.’’ ; here Wednesday night held at
The dedication was held but 'Intel Denison,
he was in foreign soil pushing 1 Following talks by the visitors
angles of the war. lie received! and Mayor Ashburn, Ralph
one promotion after another, Geisenhoner was in charge of a
starting in while here, and now j general discussion in which nu-
is placed at the head of the new 1 merous local men took part
movement at Washington to get i and were along the lines of whai
production. j local business and industrial
Denison know him as a man In ms could do to cooperate ivi
able to get things done, and he; the government agencies an
has the can do and the know! the boys in providing jobs fo
how and it may be taken for all or rendering other
mooting and a detailed and accu
rate account of all stated meet
ings to form a history for ti
church will be kept. J. L. Gos
din was named chairman of th'
finance committee and Elme
Gosdin was elected choir direc-
tor.
11th Victim
Butane Fire
Is Claimed
Grim death with its persistent
hand has claimed its eleventh
victim of the recent butane gas
explosion which happened here
Nov. 21st at the intersection of
Morton street and Maurice ave-
nue, when a butane gas truck
and a private sedan collided.
The eleventh person
by death is Mrs. Ed. Kilgore,
who expired at the Long-Sneed
hospital at 3:25 Thursday morn-
ing following a struggle of
twenty-one days to live. F’un-
eral services will be held Fri-
day.
The remaining two who were
hospitalized immediately after
t he explosion are still making a
heroic fight for life, one of
them, Mrs. Bob (Marshall, Dallas,
who is in a hospital at Sherman,
reported with chances to re-
cover not so well, although hold-
ing her own as well as could be
expected under the circumstan-
ces.
Another victim is 12-year old
Lonnie Joe Hammons, of this
city who is reported Thursday
as being in a serious condition.
He is at the Long-Sneed hospital.
PARIS, Dec. 15.—The U. S.
Army is now within xtrixing dis-
tance of the Siegfried line and
j is pouring volley after volley
from the heavy artillery into
the German stronghold. Already
the Seventh army has smashed
across the Rhine Plain and rolled
seven miles through nearly a
dozen eastern French lines and
is also shelling tne big enemy
city of Karlsruhe.
The first and ninth armies
have reached a point near the
plioer along a solid front of fif-
claimed teen miles and are at the edge
of the Cologne Plain. Retreat-
ing Germans have blown up the
last remaining bridges over the
river at the key city of Duren.
Bridges on the super-highway to
Cologne have also been blown up
in their retreat.
-V-
The third army forced a new
< rossing into Saar basin cast of
Sarregumines, captured the town
of Habkirchen which was strong-
ly fortified and pushed beyond
still another mile.
Four American armies are
hammering at the gates of the
Reich, while Allied war planes
swarmed out in clearing wea-
ther, pounding IXiren, the French
frontier city of Wissembourg in
the path of the Seventh army
and Siegfried fortifications east
of the Saar river,
Y
The
church name will •>
Central Baptist church
n ere e Commission and
ities to bring about the best j known as
elution in safety regulations. according to action of the initial
meeting held Wednesday night.
Regular services including Sun-
granted that he will do the job
in a fine way and that produc-
tion will get along on the larg-
est scale humanly possible.
Strike* and Need for Worker*
Anybody now who strikes on a
job that in the remotest way
has a part in pushing to a ii
this war, is very low in the
standard of patriotism, no mat-
ter what the fancied grievance.
The boys are not quitting—EX-
'CEPT—and we say it shamefac-
edly for the strikers—except for
the reason that strikes have held
bar}; productions so much that
the hoys are dropping dummies;
in the way of torpedoes, and
slacking up on shells because
they just simply don’t have any
thing to shoot with. They are
using ammunition now that wn
intended to the held hack fo-
three months yet—in other
words they are three months
which may be desired
ed by the boys.
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Deniton Girl lAmong WACS
Serving With Italy Force*
servit-
or need-
No doubt something of a state-
wide nature to bring uniform
iaws to bear will be taken up at
ihe January meeting of the
Texas Legislature. Some ol the
lestrictions which may he urged
will) be a more pronounced and
warning paint job on ail trucks,
also a double safety valve which
controls the flow of butane and
othei* gas from trucks. Had an
inner safety valve cock been on
Die ill-fated truck here
tiagedy of Nov. 21st might havej
been prevented. There "'as only
one gas line and it was exposed
day School at 10 altO and preach-
ing Sunday morning and eve-
I ning, and prayer r.ieetlTig Wed-
nesday nights are to be held,
along with reg-ular meetings of
committees and young people.
Young people meet at 6:30. Choir
will meet Thursday evening
Rev. McFarland states he will
accept offerings from friends an
(llel properly account for same, and
| also the church needs a pian
organ and other article-
I rral benches and a number o
| song books have been gi' e- ‘b
friends. The
Ft Worth church of which Rev
V till liu tiiiivi > * , ,
to protect the flow bT°>™ is the pastor ts gmn-
about ! material aid to the movement.
Visitations will he Monda
evening-
and when the truck and car col
w -he *»w» >■">*»! ^
disconnected. With no inner;
gauge cock
of gas, the tragedy came
However, there are many citi j
zens who think that further andi
more rigid legislation is needed I
in the handling of gasoline I
trucks anti other explosives,
since all of the inflammable ex-J
plosives come front the same
general source, and the dangers
of one become the dangers of
all.
Sloan Here On Denison Sends
Inspection Of MoreyoungMen
Katy Property 'to ArntedKanks
In his periodical inspection Denison this week sends an
trips of property of the Katy I additional numbei ol its young
lines in /Denison. Matthew Sloan, |niei1 totaling 37 into the ranks
president of the road was here j °* the armed service, according
this past weekend for several I
hours. He expressed himself as
being pleased wit h the physical I
property of the lines here and in [
the manner in which the busi !
ness of the road is _____„ _____
ducted. He left for Parsons, J* au* -'lassie, U. M. Jackson.
Kas.. after spending a while)'anles Emmett Fd-
]lere I mon Caddell, Robert Brown
| Derebery, John Andrew Schind-
Alr. Sloan was on his annual her, tied Aaron ( ark, Robert
inspection trip of the railroadh.ee Henderson, J B. I’ilkilton.
and was using both his privat j Elva ©vert Hud - n, Thomas!
car and his railmobile. He ar-, William Riddle, .1 T. Greer,
rived aboard his business car Virgil L. Brown, Ju ian Thomas
Friday night from San Antonio, Chi ism an, Edward Lyle Swink,
visited J. H. (Jac.k) Little, sup- James Waterson Cook. Dale
erintendent of transportation.! Monroe Dickey, William Thomas
and C. W. Campbell, districtj Center Jr., Preston Olli Law-
before cen-
to a report released from th
local draft board. The list fo,
lows:
John Thomas Sanders Jr.,
Robert Walker McKellai. Eu-
being- con-j *ene Wentzlous Hoedebeck, Leo
north
superintendent here,
tinuing north.
He was accompanied
Saturday
Muskogee
of the Choctaw Division, and
Andy Underwood, division engi-
neer. His business car left
Denison aboard the Katy Flyer
shortly before noon.
rence, Roy Ray Sloan.
Otto Frederick Kusch Jr., J. P-
Francis, Jack Moser, Vernon Mr-
by Frank Sehaller, I Alister, Morris James Smith.
Okla., superintendent | Arthur Goalder Lee, lack Haw-
kins, F. A. Asheroft, L. C- Car-
dell, Emery Wandell Booe, J. I.
Gilliam Brileg, Hubert Leo Siss-
r.ey, T.. V. Franklin Perry, and
Don William Bailey Jr.
.V--„
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Denison Gagers Old Should See
Workers 65 \ rs Don’tForgetour
County Clerk Office 1*
Started for New Year
County Clerk-Elect J. C. Bu
chanan, has named his staff of
assistants for the coming year,
and his office deputy being the
retiring county clerk, H. TL
Thompson, who has served sev-
eral years in that capacity.
Others of his staff will be
| O. I* Jones of Whitewright will
| continue as chief deputy. Miss
, . .. . D , - Iva |Medlin of) Howe, who has
aC J°0 S.’,,WaS been absent from the office be-
of illness, will return as
probate clerk. Miss Annie May
O'Hanlon of Sherman and Miss
will
A )Denison girl Corpl. Carolyn'
Brennan, daughter of 'Mrs.
Charles T. Brennan, 523V4 Gan-
dy, is among the Texas girls now
serving their country as a mem-j
her of the WACS, according to j
a special message to the Press i
from Allied Force Headquarters j
Miss Brennan, a former home
economics teacher in the Dallas
8 in R
and civilian defense activities
before joining the WAGS. She 1 BUSe
served as an air raid warden.
behind on ammunition neede
and it is all because we have
had the strikers in this country
to lay down on the job. Well,
there’ll he a reckoning day, and
you can bet on that.
.Sue Sneed of Southmnyd
continue as recorders
Miss Marguerite Berry, who
has been a recorder in the of-
fice, is to become a deputy in
ihe office of the county conimis
sioners’ court.
Enter Contest
To Be At Dallas
The contest for championship
cagers to be held in Dallas Dec.
26 through Dec. 30 will see a
team from Denison fighting for
honors, it was revealed here this
week by Coach Leroy Crabtree
of the Denison high school.
Included in the field are de-
fending State Champion Sunset
(Dallas) and Goose Creek and
Highland Park (Dallas), which
also played in the state tourna-
ment at Austin.
Other entries are: Waco, Arl-
ington Heights and North Side,
Fort Worth; Forney. Tyler, Mar-
tin Mills, Gladewater, Pampa,
Bowie, Denton, Grand Prairie,
Salem Consolidated of Troup,
Mount Vernon, Blossom, Plano,
Klondike, Iowa Park, and Cru-
stier Tech, Adamson, North Dal
'as, Woodrow Wilson, Forst and
Jesuit of Dallas.
The entry will he limited to 32
teams.
Social Sec. Man
Ernest L. Tutt, Manager of
the Dallas Social Security
Board—Bureau of Old-Age and
Survivors Insurance states that
many wage earners who are 65
years of age or older are now-
leaving employment covered by
the Social Security Law. In
order that their rights may be
protected, and that they will not
lose possible benefits, or suffer
a reduction in monthly benefts,
which many of them are entitled
to, they should at, or write to
the Social Security Board Field
Office at ,V)6 Terminal Annex
Bldg., or see the Social Security
Board Representative at the
Sherman Post Office at 8:30
a. m. Tuesday, December 19,
and at the Denison Post Office
at 8:30 a. m. /December 20, and
request an explanation as to
their status under the Old-Age
and Survivors Insurance Pro-
ram. This also applies to sur
vlvors of wage earners who have
died before reaching age 65.
Needy Folk At
Home, is Plea
While we are raising our eyes
to the fields of need in the far-
flung lines of the world today,
attention is called this week to
the very urgent needs right
here at home this Christmas sea-
son, as that need is represented
in the people served from time
to time by the offices of the
Denison City Mission, of which
Ma and Pa Batson are the
head.
This couple for the past third
of a century has been here giv-
ing of their services and dis-
tributing to the worthy needy the
articles left by the good people
of Denison to distribute. Christ,
mas is especially a period of
need and opportunity for such
service, and the call is sent out
this week for cash, groceries,
bedding, clothing, shoes, and any
other article one may ust> in any
home Call the mission and they
will see that your offering is
placed right, it is announced this
week by the Batsons.
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