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unison Press
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED PRESS
DENISON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1R43
VOLUME XV—NO. 26
Texans Spearhead Way To Arawe
Denison Hopes For No R. R. Strike ScraP Metal ^nej! ®
Campaign Is F°r
ALONG THE
NEWS BEAT
BY THE EDITOH
Freak Hunters for 'News
Recently a
"ft, story got on the
wires tjhat Gov.
Stevenson of
Texas might be
the r u n n ing
mate with Roose-
velt in 1944. The
reporter who
sent out the
story worked
trick question
which had for its purpose more
the desire to get something on
the wires than, to send a factual
story out to tffie public.
The direct question was put
to the governor if he should be
nominated for Vice-President by
the Democratic Party in 1944, as
the running mate of President
Roosevelt, would he accept. Of
course, the governor replied he
would accept, either Roosevelt,
or ‘‘whoever else might be on
the ticket-”
He added, also that he had no
ambitions in that direction, but
as a regular party man, would
‘‘serve in whatever capacity, with
whoever else might be on the
ticket.”
Simmering it all down to the
trick question, it would be about
as sensible for the reporter to
have asked the governor if he
loved his mother or if he wished
to go to Heaven when he died.
That would have made about as
bright a story as the one sent
out by the would be astute re-
porter who was more anxious
for what he called a scoop than
he was to put the governor in
the right sort of light.
The governor has made a
great man at the head of Texas’
affairs and he says also that
he has certain freedom of action
in Texas to which lie is accus-
tomed and he would lose that in
Washington. He is not liable to
be caught in a position where he
will lose that freedom.
Entire City
Would Feel,
One States
Recreational Privileges
Denison Lake Will Be
Fully Protected, Stated
What at first was (thought to was that the policy of leasing the
offer a material obstacle in th®
wary of the best interest of the
Denison dam for recreational
purposes, and which called for a
special meeting1 of the recrea-
tional committee, Monday, turned
out to he more fears than facts,
according to a statement made
here Monday afternoon by Col.
R. R. Neyland, who came up
from Dallas. Col. Neyland is a
division army engineer and went
into the matter with representa-
tives of the Chamber of Com-
merce and the recreational
group.
The fear that had arisen here
i McKinney Joins the
Maiiiime Ser«u e
R. L. McKinney, Jr., Denison
young business man, and active
in civic affairs, ha
Our Crow to Eat
That man who lives and does
not make a mistake is more
scarce than the man. for whom
Diogones was looking. Of course
a wooden Indian never makes a
‘‘Denison would be haru !rt
should the proposed strike of
railroad workers be arr.c-d
through,” declared a well known
railroad man who has lived here
for more than a quarter of a
century, as he recalled how be-
fore when the strike was more
local than universal, the city
was hard hit, not the least of
Whom were the strikers them-
selves. “We have never quite
recovered from that, and the
Lord only knows what would
happen to us should this strike
now threatened materialize on
Dec. 30 as now announced,” he
added.
However, the same gentleman
stated that as he understood the
recent strike vote, it was some-
thing that was mre a form than
anything else, as it was required
of them in their constitution and
by-laws to conduct such a vote.
He stated also that in his opin-
ion there would be no strike as
the men were more patriotic than
to lay down their jobs as serv-
ants of the public, esperally in
times of war. He indicated that
in his opinion- a settlement would
be made before any strike could
be called. conduct the insurance business in
A total of 350,000 union mem-1111(1 absence of her husband. The
bers are involves in the present j couple has one son, R. L. III.
move to strike unless their raisei and reside at 1601 W. Hull,
demand is met. Less than three
per cent) voted to not strike.
Heads of the five brotherhoods) f) Jill 1 r\
involved declare that tlv> moveIxctnOCllLclKC l/cLUl
“is a strike against inflation fori
the privileged few and deflation
for the many.” However, it is
declared here, that no matter
whether “privileged flaw” or the
“many,” all here will feel the
strike in a drastic manner as The fina, touch on the r„con.
Denison lives and has its being ditioned Randell lake dam which
on the railroad industry. WB8 washed out two years ago
S*y* ,Co7 0u‘ , by heavy rains, will be made this
The brotherhoods asked pay
land in the dam area which
would be covered with water
later on mif^it interfere with
both the recreational rights and
the matter of having the lake
supplied with fish by the state
and possibly other angles.
Col. Neyland went into the
lease form that is being used to
permit farmers to use the land
for grazing purposes and pointed
out that every precaution has
InFuilSwaySWJaP!
J Headquarters in New Guinea,
Jhe county-wide drive for Dec. 17—With Texas fighters >n
scrap metal being conducted by large numbers spearheading the
a company of U. S. Soldiers us- way into Arawe in New Guinea
ing a total of 14it trucks is ;ind pushing the advance line to
something n®w in the history of' consolidation points ten mil-
gathering scrap metal. It is the, back, the death knell was sound-
largest number of soldiers to be'ed to the Japs in the Southwest
used in such effort, only a Pacific today,
platoon being used generally.; Texaa troops bore the Lone
? ,,ISV ela‘rSt( Thpr °f StiU' f,a* alongside that of the
trucks ever sent into the county Stars and Stripes and the offen-
for a similar job. siv(, WM declared by Gen Mac.
. A conference attended by rep- Arthur to be the greatest and
"»u> atives »om over the most successful of the campaign,
county was held in Sherman Tu ,, , „
Tuesday to rush the drive . [h,‘ ln'le(J -Slate“ S,xth Army
“W,3 simply have to gather 7 30 ^ ^
every hit of steel and iron and
other metal that is possible
a. m. under cover
one of the greatest bombard-
been taken to protect the public,
including hunters and fishermen
in their rights and privileges at
the lake, and declared that the - aavance ar- droppd bv the bj bat,eHhj .
leases were not indefinite 0r; ™ngements He stated that the air,!]ane boniardmout wind, was
continuous, but ran for one year! equipping the quicklv effect,, ,. overcoming
without option. boys with fighting material at jap defenders.
It is the sense of the citizens!,lle front was the reason for all
generally that no profiteering orj^o turn in every bit of scrap---V----
find.” declared one of the met ♦T**', X hi“t0ry in, which more
in the city to make advance.....> ° ^ of explos,ves
undue advantage should be per-j they had.
mitted along the borders of the, The trucks are covering every MpniQr'TI FifrKtd*e
left for a lake, nor any contracts or leases! niail route in the county and 4 IglllviS
gone into which
period of training at St. Peters-
burg, Fla., in preparation for manner prevent the
service in the Maritime branch of
the II. S. forces. He will be in
the merchant marines. He came
to Denison in 1936 from Little
Rock and has been operating an
insurance business and was con-
nected with the Munson Realty
company. Mrs. McKinney will
shall in any
lake from
In Ranks Germans
Declare Tough
-v .
raises of 30 per o?nti in proceed-
ings which began last January,
and object to an emergency
board’s .award of increases of 4
week and the announcement is
made that the structure will be
ready for whatever comes in the
way of rises in the future. The
. , . .14l , job under City Engineer A. L.
cents an hou- undet *he "Little wt ,n • i i
. , , . , .. Cordell has required eleven
steel formula, which permits , , .. .
. ... . months to do it, who announces
raises only up to 15 per cent,,. , , . .
, .. - , - a .. I i mu • that he has every reason to bc-
above the Jan. 1, 1941, level. The ,. ,, . .,
1 neve that it will meet every
test of the future.
A weak spot in,
farmers and citizens generally
are asked to plane their scrap
lunctioning to its fullest intent,I m^tal at their mail boxes or at;
namely for pleasureable activi-’the front of (heir homes and the
ties, recreational and hunting! trucks will call for it.
and fishing and boating. j Handling Large Piece*
Col. Neyland indicated that Where the pieces of scrap are ^bile bttle word is coming
rather than any steps being too large for the family to han ,1‘r(‘,’tl-v t0 Denison relatives of
taken that would deny the pen-,; dl? easily, if word will be left (heii fighting men known to bp
pie those rights and privileges, any scrap captain, newspaper, wltl1 tbe 36th division in Italy,
the whole idea was to se® that‘county or city official, the enou(?h is coming through to in-
such recreational advantages) trucks arp equipped to handle (0rm them they are seeing action
were maintained to the fullest; such and load it and get it to an<1 ;dsr> that the Germans are
and that no hardship would the freight train to haul. looking on the Texas fighters as
j come to any one. j The metal is not being sold to:8,‘*nP plenty tough and wild and
v j a middle man hut is being a |a<t01 to !,e feared.
shipped directly to the factory ln a S,0I-V sen* by th? INS
fy f • I where it is turned int si,, •
l Onf USION Ifnr making needed war equip- r:,Ptu,<'d in lh(’ th 'rmy sectoi
■in* VM( enti it is explained
Every house in every town and ,old them 1*>lor(* i,uo the
I every home on all rural routes, hl*t^p thal they "were facing
n ac ft n 1
Program Of U S and from thp < ■"
* I lain VI the lB1.Kest in metal is desired, ofjyal
Along with several other cities A,my s,a,0li 'vhile . makin,v hau 'g'^r^taiN of'‘‘"'xlrird
over the country weeU,| arrangements for the dr,ve. ^ of thV
Denison, through George S.I 1 . ch,‘,rJ1ia'] troops from the Lone Star
Knaur of the local draft board,;"*™1 some tw" hack , t0 State. The vi. torv they had at
charges that confusion reign.’ the °,ty 18 Salerno which was achieved in
in the matter of laying out the 1 _ t)le facf of every obstacle, in-
policy by which draft boards),
Says
Completed,Ready shown Dr>f|
ror Emergencies
Deiison Group In
15 non-operating unions also have
taken a strike ballot, but are
awaiting final congressional ac-
the original
re-
hour-the same amount vetoed,th? 9 ra,n “f J h'«y ia,ni
by Stabilization Directo" Vinson *u,te‘ the forced openings ot
after it was recommended last]the f1(>odgat(3s and tihe losing of
May by an emergency board.
a wooden Indian never makes a; . ' , ‘ ..Idam shortly after ,being complet
mistake, but who wants to be a llon " a T^° V0"f''s,ch J°u J ed which had developed under
sign for a cigar stand? ! ^,ve thcm « rn,se of 8 cpnts an ........ ......
All of which is to say that we
ate our crow this week and the
story is under a news heading in
another part of the Press col-
umns. In some manner our brain
in writing tihe story last week
mixed the two-state compact to
handle the pecreational feature
of the Denison dam with the
power commission. The fat got
into the fire when we had our
Secrtary-Manager of the Cham-
ber of Commerce officiating as
an agent to mill out the electric
power. That stirred Bill up
and rightly so. He got all over
our alabaster neck and wanted to
know whereinell we got the
story. After reading it again,
we think he had some reason to
Hiway Northwest
enough water to supply the city
Declaring they were “thor-|101 u ycal
oughly aware” of a strikes’s “im- Immediately the city took up
mediate effects,” the brother- the mattev of reconditioning the
hood presidents contended “in dam and it is stated now that
the long run” such action “will the work is such as to witfo-
redound both to the military) stand any further dangers from
success of the war and the pres-, such sources,
ent and postwar welfare of the| The work of reconstructing
common people of this Nation.”! the dam was done under the
___ ,y----j direction of consulting Engineer
Kildeau .Named Direcor On ,0. N. Floyd of Dallas, a man
State National Bank Staff ! known for his ability in
should work, and calls for some-
thing to be done about it in
Washington. 'While complaining, a -• £
of the matter,'Mr. Knaur stated1 lO uCCUTC
he did it as a private citizen and;
not as a member of the local j
hoard.
Mr. Knaur memorializes Sena-, Denison parties, interested m
tors Connall.v and O Daniel and j pushing the state highway Iron
Congressman Sam Rayburn and; pottsboro to Gordonville to con-
charges that repetition of the nect with the proposed bridge
rules under which the board is j across Red River at Willis, OkV,
now working characterized re-jwere in Austin this week to »p-
cent legislation on the matter, peaj. with others in the mutter
and says it all tends to eonfu-j before the Texas State Uig.iway
sion. Mr. Knaur states that; commission.
Congress is spending time and the; with the closing of toe old
eluding rain and mud is declared
to have spread confidence not
only among the Americans them-
selves but gave Texans a terrify-
ing reputation among Germans
on the opposite line.
V —
Compact Group
No Relation To
Power Of Dam
Inadvertantly, an a tide in
the Press of last week identified
th® two-state compact which has
to do with strictly the recrea-
on the matter which has been in (be highway 91 conne, ting; , u * ' , ”,l! ’
effect for some months and; [)cnjson with Oklahoma north isj w,th tha> of.the P°wer admim-
people’s money in passing a law, pi-pston bridge and its disini.nt-
which the local board lias been j jeft wjt|10ut a bridge and
* he
(ration of t'lie dam, and in the
A. E. KTdeau, manager of the; line,
southwest division of the Kraft; The new dam when filled with
Cheese company, was natv^d a)water, will give Hie city
director of the State National pacity of water double that
Bank, it is announced this week, the old supply.
complain, but maybe n,ot enough Hp ^jn succeed g. R Bishop,
to threaten a heart attack or
raise his blood pressure unduly.
We had no idea of emharassing
the secretary, the Chamber of
Commerce or anybody else. Of
course, we knew batte'1 as to the
ca-
of
----V-
who died recently.
Mr. Kildeau, formerly sules \xi Club to Pre»eni
manager of the organization, was Gjf,t lo Service Men
placed as manager when A. J. Departing from their
using as its rule of eon<\;ict. | move recently started here by-
Riddle, fnr several years mana-
ger, was transferred to the Chi-
senaraite functioning of the two cajf0 offjce ,ast year
bodies, the power administration
and the compact commission, but
it was one of those things that
comes tlo an editor who is trving
to do the work that before the
war started was dope by our two
sons, our city editor,, -and our ad-
vertising man. So, we guess
that’s “w^hereincll" the article
came from.
U. S. Paper money of all de-
nominations measures six and
one-quarter inches in length.
Junior Red Cron Will
Furn’nh IWen Napkin*
Announcement is made by
Mrs. Frank Fay county director
of the (b’aysop County Junior
Red Cross that the organization
has been requested to furnish
additional napkins for Christmas
to be used at hospitals where
service men are stationed. The
napkins will -be mad,*-' by the
elementary and high schools in
the county where Red Cross or-
ganizations are maintained.
annual
custom of exchanging gifts with
each other, the members of the
XXI club will this year present
their gifts to service men who
happen to be passing through
Denison at th? Union station.
The date of the shower for the
men is set for Christina;' Eve.
Wrapped gifts will he tnken to
the canteen operated at the
Union Station and Hie gifts will
he handed out to m?n passing
through on that date.
Louisiana is th,? only state in
the Union divided into parishes
instead of counties.
story had our Chamber of Com-
Mr. Knaur says “we have been; the Denison Chamber of Com-, Sacreta'-y Manager W O.
trying to run our board accord-)merce secure the new route is an)P . -l " ' ' ■ ,l '
that i„g to the selective service law endavor to handle the i e\v ,P.KU atin^ 1(9 P"'V<M' 1,1 a‘~
and not the law as doled out to)^uation. m,n,stored from lie dam
us by Hie director.” I The proposed new stretch of As a matter *ct 1 leye ,a
i v j, no connection whatever between
Indicating the confusion about11011 ''ou an p *u a",l the compact and the powei eom-
tho matter, Mr. Knaur in his nort wist -- Ik nty to a ’pttu mjS8j0n and to that degree the
memorial letter stated also "thkla 'iint->ge ,0,n a tiatt - -lam ,(rtjc|e was jn Pn-or.
, i r __noint and it is believed the corn-
people never know from one;|J. .
minute until the next just how it mission will hear the petition to Mr. Harwell sat in on a meet-
will work, all on account of pub>'ant thfi !,trotch of new road’1'^ d,sc.uss,n'r str,ftl>’ ,ho recreB‘
licity that ne\ et mat., rializesj compani,es of national guards- 9ented the Denison Chambei of
into action.”
(Mr. Knaur challenged the idea
that the need for men in the
service is as great as is repre-
sented, saying “from the infor-
men in the service. They did not; Commerce,
have to register, nor did those) 'pbp compact commission which
who enlisted rally. We have a bad the meeting Douglas G.
credit of about 8.0 men for those Wright,, head of the Southwest
two companies, and w-e have .Power Administration, did not
^"c'.nd.d.^h.rl ",int 10 ^ ‘1<1‘1i,io""'i function th.t in the
need men in the numbers we are
credits.
capacity of the power, but onlv
'In September, we received a|as be was related to the compact
taking them. e do not get « rcport that we had 2,079 men m ,and the compact commission
fa.r deal from our headquarters sen,icf {rom 0Ur district,!recreational use of flu- lake.
—or, we feel that we do not
W(B cannot find out how many
men we have in the service, for
the reports sent hack to us are
inaccurate.”
In offering the proof of the
above statement, Mr. Knauri
cited the fact that “we have two
which has about 26,000 or 27,000 Tb? Press gladly makes the
population. At that rate, our correction and can onlv defend
armed services would have bad. ourselves by tb< fact where we
more than 10,000,000 men. ^e,on(.e had five other to help us
are kept in the dark about too. jn getting out the paper, the war
many things. Darkness breeds! has reduced u> to one and that
suspicion, mosquitoes, ami snakes.: we should gum up something
They are all had.” : some time is to be expected.
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Anderson, LeRoy. The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, December 17, 1943, newspaper, December 17, 1943; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth527314/m1/1/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Grayson County Frontier Village.