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THE DENISON PRESS
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED PRESS
DENISON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1941
VOLUME 15—NO. 49
German Defense Cracked Dp In Italy
ALONG THE
NEWS BEAT
By THE EDITOR
Are We ln Thi* War?
Speaking before the recent
gathering of the North and East
Texan Press
Association, L t-
Com. J. B. Hoi-
Gov.
Guest
Stevenson
Speaker
To Be
Sunday
At Afternoon Memorial
Hon. Coke Stevenson, gov-| —
ernor of Texas, will arrive in
the city Sunday morning arid!
will .be the guest speaker Sunday)
afternoon at 2:90 at the Deni-
|won High school, the event be-
ing the annual memorial service
j| ton, officer in j which is held by the Memoria,
charge of t h e Christian church of which the
g Naval Air P r i- iltev. 0. C. Minor is) pastor. The
| j maty Training governor will have headquarters
if Command R e-j at Hotel Denison and will be
i gional Of fieri in greeted by a committee ot!
■ Dallas, s tit i'riendfc.
ed that w e had1 Several church leaders wilt
ia Ur the least,1 have part on the program and1
s i x more years ‘ many local citizens end visitors
. an/d bemoaned the! will have a place on the plat-
laot that po many of our people form. Judge Tom Suggs will
were trying to forget it by1 introduce the speaker of the
bridge, golf awl in afternoon. j
it off then! The prelude will be by Mrs
GUEST SPEAKER
1
of this war.
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Denison High To Have March On
Commencement Program Rome ^ow
Next Wednesday Night m , Move
Setting Up
HereOnWar
Loan No. 5
'Commencement exercises for
the -Denison high school will In
conducted Wednesday night a,
8:30 at the auditorium with th«
menage of the evening being
brought by Stanley W. Foran
business and civic leader of ,Dal
ias. A total of 107 graduate:
are slated to receive diploma,
this year.
playing
other ways keep
mind. lie cited sop-eral cased oi S. V. Earnest and the invocation
such that came to his own by Rev. Raymond S. Ottens-
knowledge and contrasted it meyter, rector of St. Luke’s. Rev
with cases Where parents Jackson C. Oglesby of Waples
brought out baby playthings 1 Memorial church will offer the
then the high school graduation1 prayer, followed ,by the me-
certificate, the diploma from mento for the dead delivered by
the college and finally the boy1 Rev. T. S. Zachry, pastor St.
in uniform, closing the story1 Patrick’s Vatholic church. Cap
with the statement that then 'M. Schultz, of the medical
so,n had finally given his all to‘ corps, Perrin Fieki, will give the
niteike this country a home fgt IMetmorial for the dead (Kad
thoise who love liberty. j dish).
He cited the fact that some Private Paul Ukena will sing
eclared that those here whe “The Loi-d’k Prayer’’ and the
HON. COKE R. STF^VENSON
Governor of Texas, who wilt
be hero Sunday as guest
speaker Sunday afternoon at
a Memorial Sen-ice conducted
by LMenvorial Christian church
Dertison Life
Song—Lot Us Have
try to dodge the thoughts of tin I’rayer
vai were only a few, “That’.- Peace, will be1 JWrs. G. C. Minor. qn » <« j ai «
too damn.many if there be only The benediction will bo offered i O AttGnU MCGl
one, ’ he emphasized. He dfc ! by Rev. E. F. Williams, chaplain!
dared that some of us will have „f the Gabe City Post Veterans 'Den^n l,le msuraniC(i men
1 burned up and shown tc' 0f Foreign Wars. and women will receive practical I f A chapter.
Ushers and the Guard of Hon,- IeSaons *n war-time selling fiom The fjncl prjZes will go to
some of the narion s top-fhgh. thp two pwsons ihavini, )h(. hi?h.
The diploma will he presen
ed by the chairman of the
school board, W. L. Peterson
T(he valedictorian is 'Myra Mac
Post and the saiutatorian is
Patsy NewcoMb. The invocatio
will be by Leland Aiton, ministei
of the Church of Christ. An,
| strong avenue.
Special awards and prizes ti
be given this year include tlhret
awards for outstanding essay,
on fire prevention, awards t<
the athlete having the most let
ters in sports, the senior stu
! dent having the highest scholas
I tic average for the ninth, tenti
and eleventh grades, a prize t
| the senior boy with the bight-
I Scholastic average lettering ,
i football and in basketball, to th
j boy with the highest attendance
I record, and to the hoy with th*
highest scholastic record engag
ing in tennis. Three case
prizqs will be awarded to lit
erary participants in the Inter
scholastic League and two prize
will he given senior boys doin-
cutstanding work in 'the local
or will be members of Troop 1
Girl Scouts of America.
Honor Roll For
Denison High
to be
be the felackei-g we are, who are
to (be located only with the
enemy when we are showing
such utter indifferences tiu the
war’s winning.
One wife was heard to pay
he stated that "husband and my-
self are playing all the bridge Cjv fr$
We can thqse days to keep our »-t*3 All
'minds off this war,” Jia-’t con-
trast that kind of person with
the boy who shows an empty
sleeve, or the parent ' who is
proud of the (son who has pari
the great price,” he emphasized
as tears streamed down his
cheek at the thought of such a
Strain of «orry patriotism against
such a glorious background ol!
unselfish loyalty that
not the cost.
Those who are trying to /for '
get the war here—and there j
may be some—have nothing ot!
which to be at all proud. They
have every reason to skulk intcj
the dark corners of forgetful
ness with the rest of those here
out
annual
in their sen-
these
- underwriters when they gather ^ scho]a^c recor(,
| in Dallas with salesmen through .. , iwid(,s
the state for the three-day . • , 1 , ,.
meeting of the Texas,?™*’. ,.ncta*n*
Association of Life Underwriter.- , he ,Hl Y, C.up °rf. ,Co"Rllete ¥f"’
at the Hotel Adolphus, June i^Vod and t.:e Girl Reserve (.up
it was pointed out by Clyde'of Complete Wo anhood w.ll
be presented. An athletic cup
will he awarded the student it
Students of Denison High
making 90 or higher as an av
erage in four or more subjects
for the past six months accord-
ing to grades, from 12 down to
the 9th, are as follows, accord-
ing to a report released Thurs-
counted | jrjth grade—Ina JJozarth
Betty Brenneke, Clara Calvird
Wanda) Denney, Jean Dennis
Bob Gibson, Pauline Hanna
Peggy (Munson, Patsy Newcomb
Myra Post, Frances White.
11th Grade—Betsy Bulloch
i Billie Bates, Helen Forisha
who are doing their dead level I }***" 'Co'Tine. JaAhf>n
entering the frothy Foster, Lew.s Adrian
1-1
Ford of Sherman, president,
the North Texas Association ...
Life Underwriters. (any grrde having tftie highest
Announcement of two more scholastic record who has letteied
national Jleaders has been made in any sport. Each local Parent-
for tjie 'main program, (Mr. Fore,'Teacher Association also will
said. They are Cecil Woods oijontribute to the list of prizes
Chattanooga, Tenn,, president with cash awards to the boy or
of tthn Volunsteer State Life In- girl with the highest scholastic
Durante Company, and E. B record from each elementary
Stevenson of Nashville, Tenn. school,
executive vice president of the
National Life and Accident In
surance Company, i The baccalaureate services will
Prompt registration for the lm held on Sunday, (May 28, with
Dallas meeting to insure bote Austin Sihurt, minister of the
accommodations was urged upon Central dhurrh of Christ, pre
the Denison underwriters by (Mr senting the baecaureate sermon
Ford. and the chureih choir presentin'
Baccalaureate Services
best to keep front
service throug, one makeshift
Murr , jMarg e Presson, Peggy
•-More than 4KN) of the life
surance leaders representing
of the local associations of
•t-t imuug. diiu llltlK' .Mill i n, , .mil , .. . ul wlV nrvai arviuviabiuns 1
another. It is rather sig ^0(RK Peggy Fodd, Joyce Vans gja^0 are pypcctpd t0 gather
in j special music. That evening ti
2s iunior-senior reception will 1
the h(,ld.
nificant h<»w interested some be-| 1o1"’ Charles We deman
come in getting into another n 10^ T
line of woitk that promises ref- 'Davt'>'- H.llmrd Patt-.c.a
uge from going into the activ. | foor*, Aus*fr Re>’nolds
David Thomas, ,v"
Thomason, Lora
Jennie
Turner,
Iserviee, anid on this basis quit
their former line of work oi
profession and become worker?1 " eat hero y.
In "deferred” lines. ' 9th Grade-Luwanda Baggett
Lack of Patriotic Appeal 'MarV Ann Bond, Ernestine Brit
Dallas for the three-day meeting *^',p ^nai netivityy "ill he the
for which entertainment fea- aTvnual Alumni Association par-
tures will include a dinner Spon- achedu ed for June 2 at the
sored by the Life Insurance high school.
Managers’ Club of ,Dallas and a ---
* all:''N dinmer-danye with the South- .... .
I western Life Insurance Company! Puttee of six chairmen to
of Dallas as hast. ser;e ,wo. monXhf 'n arranff,ne
A highlight of the opening’ an([ ‘'aTV>'"’? out, the Pro!rram''
Allied Headquarters Italy—Tt o
j merged forces of the 5ih Army
with that of t;e forces at Anzio
! beachhead made the days of the
j whirlwind attack on Nazi for-es
a reality and the hack of the en-
jemy has been cracked in Italy
and their defense lines reduced
|tc almost ~ helplessness. Many
Setting DenLjon s quota lot thousands of prisoners were taken
the Fifth War Bond drive at T, , ,,
$1,420,500 and the entire county! lhe mar<h °n Kome ls noW the
at $3,080,000, the task of fi- next steP witJl the Appian way
nancing the loan is to be severed in half by the Allies and
launched in, an inten.se campaign the last of snipers being wiped
through July out. Xh)3 mareh on Rome
the county
Jiuie 12 and last
8. The citizens of
are asked to purchase in Series
E bonds the sum of $1,100,000
Denison is aiked to purchase in
Scjries E the sum of $425,200.
Quotas were set for each town
on the basis of combined bank
leposits less war loans and de-
posits from other banks.
Denison also has one of its
local banker, named as county
chairman otf the drive in the
person of Hai p. Watkins, on<
W. L. Peterson of the State Na
tional bail!:. He succeeded L fe
<>mohundro of the Shermai
Farmers and Planters bank.
W. L. Peterson of the State Na
tional hank i-> district co-chair-
man
Henry Etter Jemains Denison
treasurer and James A. Fant
on Home is on-
ly a matter of twenty miles. Su-
premaey in the air made it easy
to beat lown the re: rearing Ger-
mans, taking a terrific toll of men
and (equipment.
Nabs Car, Joy-
Ride,Wreckand
Then Hoosegow
M hen Dr. J. A. Mayes aske.
a negro to park hi,s car across
the street from the barbel
shop in Hotel Denison when he
shine.
ed the keys to a negro whom he
jo supposed wa, the barber shop
Sherman’s local treasurer, whh B. stopped to vet a nhave, he hand-
Frank Spindle of that city as co- When the doctor got ready to
chairman with Mr. Watkins.
Committee groups will sooi
be natned and the formal launch-
ing of the drive will start witi
June ,12.
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leave his car was not across
the street, noi had it been. He
soon learned the negro was not
employed at the shop and in-
stead of parking it, he got a
woman companion! and starter
for Oklahoma. But the car
was wrecked and had to be
hauled back.
The negro is in the hoose-
gow and the car is in, the garage
repair shop.
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Editors N&E Tex.
Publicize Denison
On Recent Meet Old Paper Drive
The Frehs continues this wees Q 1
words of appreciation from " ®
those those newspaper men and' Opening a campaign for gath-
Others Who visited (Denison foi ering up all oi!d papers of Deni-
son May 31v-t is announced by
local chairman Carl Akins,
Boy Scouts having charge
the recent meeting of the North
and East Texas Press Aasocia-
tion. ^the
The following is from the of gathering the papers,
■mill of T. J. White, editor of!
rile Pittsburg Gazette, that gen-
tleman being named president oi
the organization for the ensuing
year:
Mae
recruiter here for) toa- Ja<* Oopkburm Joyce Buch- day wi„ bp a roUn(ltahle cotlfer «nd entertainment.
Recently _ _________ —„ _
workers in government officer !Ulan- Betty Dennington, Dortf
in Washington, and who e-ay.- Ff'vcett, ’Madeline Foster, Jim-
the vendition here he found to "lie I.ou Fryer, Bobby Hawkins
be generally true in the cities Marline 4Iarde.il,umk, Lou__Jear
he contacts, indicated that in Johnson,
oilder to secure help in the war! Frances
offices the enticing end of sala ' Nfelson,
ry ojr advantages of a personal] r'p
nature proves to he the chi el
Betty Tom Kimble
McClure, Anna Mae
Alvin Parker, Uiura
Dorothy Smith, Davk
Ruble, Pat Sitted, Betty Jean
Wall, Marjorie Webster, Martha
White, Ada Winter, (Dick Wood
Charleye Wright.
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SCOUT DRIVE GOING GOOD
Reports late Thursday af-
ternoon following partial re-
ports of committees on the
Boy Scut drive, indicated the
amount so fa • raised to be
$3,531.75. This is slightly
morp than half the necessary
amount of $6,500.
the hoy who will neiver
Ihaek? hike rente, grasping merchant.
How can such face the boys who take every advantage they
when they return with the new can ami im other ways which
Declaration of our Tndepence'i! register the fact) we are not a
How cani they cheer when the yet into this war as we (shorn
boys come marching down the M, be as to produce from tfie
street waving the flag they soldier who comes home from
have so gloriously and unself the front and sees all this it.
idhly made secure? j contrast to what he has been
Patriotism forsooth. We an through, that those who pre not
nirtVited with selfishness i* ,joo shamefaced about it all wha.
this country as exemplified in one said to u.s the other day
point of inti rq-t for those they
would enroll in the service. Th<
patriotic appeal gets no place af
compared tp the selfish appeal
the deearation was (made.
And just how does that look
in juxtaposition with an empty
(sleeve, a blinded returned sol-
dier, or a badly maimed Ma
rine., a legless member of the j
‘flying squad or a telegram say-
ing “we regret to inform you’
and so into the tragic story o.
coni |
such reports and in needles;
strikes, covetous landlords whe
“Whattheell are we fighting foi
anyhow?’’
enice of the Lenders’ Round Ta
hie of Texas, comprised of those
agenti who qualified on the
basis of outstanding sales and
service records during the past
year. Sam ]Ro-e of Beaumont
will J,e the presiding chairman
The opening day program wit
also include a conference of or-
dinary life insurance managers
and general agents presided over
Iby Starkey Duncan of San An-
tonio.
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New Hottess Unit Head
Named A* Chelcy Bowlet
AnnfounCemene that tlheslejy
Bowles has 'been named as the
U. S. Engineers representative
to the USO hostess corps, was
nvade this week. The new idea
of the engineer group is to op-
erate as a club and will have
officers and regular meetings
Mr. Bowles is president of the
Engineer club-
1 The utliei officers are *Mi«
Wanda Ransom, vice-president ,
who is employed at Kraft and
Biddie 'Marie Rowland, serve {
tary-treasurer, representing the
Business and Professional Worn-]
en’s Club. |Mrs. A. J- Wavis will
continue to work with the corps
as advisor.
The president will appoint a
SPEAKS IN DALLAS
'Citizens are asked to tie their
paper,-, up in bundles and place
at handy places for the boys to
gather them up. A caill foi
truths an<l other means of gath-
ering the papers is issued by Mr.
The North and East Texas Akins.
Profe Association, the largest re- ___
gional association in the United
States, held its annual meeting ing the North and East Texae
in Denison Friday and Saturday Press Association last Friday
of last week. Approximately 100 ^ °u have a wonderful young
newspaper men and women were city and the big hike was a
present at the convention.
The feature attraction at tile
meeting wajs a visit to the Deni-
son Dam which is being com-
pleted at a cost of 54 million dol-
lars. The dam will create a lake
with an approximate shore line
of 1,250 miles, which will no
doubt heco-me one of
I playgrounds of the Southwest.
revelation to me and I predict
that Denison’s future will find
the lake one of the major as-
sets.”
Cecil Woods,, a former life in-
surance producer who quali-
fied for the Million (Dollai
From Royse City |American
(Bob’s Column)
The wife and I went up to
"iii nu Denison on last Friday and Sat-
UJc urelay to attend the Regional
meet of the North and East
The purpose of the dam is! for Texas Press, We got an awful
the control of floods and for the of good out of the meeting,
development of hydroelectric «s well as getting to see the
power. huge Denison Dam, which is one
Your local associate editoi of the largest engineering project*
T. J- White, was chosen president "'o have had the pleasure ot
of tihe association, Bob Mathern seeing. It would be uselesy for
o,f Gouh> Creek, vice-president- !,’e to try to toll you of the
Fred JMassengill of Terrell immense size of the thing, but
secretary-treasurer and Rev the day we were there water
L. B. Trone of Gainesville chap- stood 73 feet, deep at the dam-
lain. The directors are jR. A The power lifts for the locks
Gaines of Rockwall, W. C and the large turbines are ready
Pooile of Greenville. G. R. New to he set in motion. We under-
by of Bonham, J. H. Waggoner stand that a line was built this
of Whitewright, Claude Counci ‘week to connect with the Texas
of Detroit, W. E- Reed ot Power & Light Company’s net-
ot work- And, surely we enjoyed
’ | 'he two days of renewing ae-
I quaintanres with ou-r friends of
I the press. We will also say
that the people of Denison treat-
Italy and
Mineola,
R. H Carraway
From Mr. Satterwhite
And from ,Lee Satterwhite
Round) Table of the National. Austin, comes the following ex-
Association of Life 1 nderwrit | cerpt from an interesting letter
ens before becoming chief ex ] “I take this
ecutive of the ,Volunteer State! express to
,Life in 1939, will also address
the salefe congress.
opportunity- tr
ed us royally, of course, my
| wife came home with a souve-
ln,r a P°t holder for the kitch-
vou mv nersona)'e" WiLh thi' in8criptionj “Deni-
th.nk, .* .ppreeSL ta ,*"* *
courtesies shown me while visit- R Rood advertise^nt^1 lt
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