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VERSE FOR THIS WEEK
Whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do
all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving
thanks to God and the Father by him.—
Col. 3:17
REPRESENTATIVE of the united press
The Denison Press
LAKE TEXOMA REPORT
Water level 603 19 Wafer temperature 76
Barometer 30 07, steady.
Winds Southerly 10 High 94, low 69
DENISON. TEXAS. FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1956^
VOLUME 28—NUMBER 10
JOHNS-MANVILLE SMIJJON DEAL HERE
Trash hauling outside
city limits is given the
axe from city council
Following action at Tuesday's
council meeting, the hauling of
trash and garbage from resi-
dences outside the city limits was
ordered discontinued. When ask-
ed how the city trucks happened
to be picking up trash and gar-
bage from homes outside the
city limits, when their facilities
were inadequate to take care of
those in the city, Engineer E. C.
Drumb, who recommended the
discontinuance of the service, ex-
plained that this service had been
going on for a number of years
and no new customers had been
taken in on the schedule. He did
not know when it started. In an-
swer to questions from Commis-
sioner Walter I.ebrecht, Drumb
stated that approximately fifty
homes, skirting the city, were be-
ing serviced by the city trucks.
Mayor Glidden then recommend-
ed the city discontinue the ser-
vice immediately as they were
not able t< serve the city effic-
iently under the present tiash
and garbage provisions, and that
people outside the city limits
were not entitled to city service.
Tfie commissioners approved the
action.
City Attorney Bill Malone read
a short ordinance which had been
diawn up with an emergency
clause attached, which would
bring into the city limits all the
land belonging to the old Den-
ison Water Works Co. in the
Waterloo Lake area. The old ord-
inance, Malone explained, did
not include all the land actually
belonging to the Denison Water
Works Co. The new ordinance
he explained, was to rectify this
ommission and extend the city
limits to include this area.
A. request from the adminis-
trator of Mrs. Sue Hibbard’s
property at 631 W. Woodard, for
a rezoning of the four lots, 7,
8, 9, 10 in Block 11, Miller 1st
Addition, from residential to re-
tail district was ordered turned
over to the zoning commissio-
lor action.
Mayor Glidden read a lette*
from District Highway Engineer
L. D. Cabiness, ^vhieh included
detailed description of the kind
of traffic control system which
will have to he installed along
Austin Avenue from Hull through
the city to Gandy on the new
route of Highway 75. The instruc-
tions and explanation included
recommendations for traffic
lights at each street mentioned at
a cost of approximately $1,000
each. The signal lights, plus othei
necessary paraphernalia including
speed signs every two blocks,
would cost about $10,000, it was
stated.
A street light for the West-
ridge Addition has been request-
ed, and the city council approv-
ed Mayor Glidden’s recommenda-
tion that the TP&L Co., make a
survey of the area and report to
the council before action is tak-
Charter group
presents plan
to city council
A copy of the revised city
charter prepared by the Charter
Commission was presented to the
city council at Tuesday’s meet-
ing with recommendation that an
(lection be called for October 9
to^ive voters an opportunity to
accept or reject the charter call-
ing for the city manager form
of government.
Mayor Glidden turned the copy
over to City Attorney Malone
who will advertise for bids on
printing the proposed charter to
be mailed out to all qualified vot-
ers of the city.
Carl Flanery is chairman of
the charter change commission.
Deep sea divers are now ex-
ploring the sea bottom along our
coast to get accurate geological
Information to help locate new
gai and ill fields.
me
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Demlican or Republocrat?
Juggling u few letters as re-
lated to Democrat or Republican
hardly be
can
any worse than
the antics both
of the parties
are performing
cov e r i n g up
what they want
to say right out
on the public
p o <1 i u m. You
spell your party
with either a
cap D or a cap R or juggle the
spelling until one is a Demlican
or a Republocrat — it does not
matter.
The late Woodrow Wilson said
in his day that to call_ a man’s
name "Hairpin” sounded exactly
like one said “Hairpin.” And
making his application said
“when a man says he is a Dem-
ocrat, it sounds exactly like he
said Republican, and vice versa.”
The manner in which the Dem-
ocrats handled that part of the
platform on the “civil rights” is
about a parallel. It sounded ex-
actly like the platform on “civil
rights” via the Supreme Court,
order, was to be implemented
with force to carry it out. But
no such thing can be read into
the report of the committee on
civil rights as related to doing
away with segregation in schools.
That matter, local or state’s
rights, is a thing of local auton-
omy. The Supreme Court is re-
lieved of “force" in carrying its
mandate through. In its stead is
the local law, or will of the state.
This is seen in the paragraph
which is herewith quoted from
the platform adopted at the Dem-
ocratic national convention:
The Democratic Party em-
phatically reaffirms its support
of the historic principle that
ours is a government of laws
and not of men; it recognizes
the Supreme Court of the
United States as ONE of the
three constitutional and coordi-
ated branches of the Federal
Government, superior and sep-
arate from any political party,
decisions of which are PART
of the law of the land.”
In this one paragraph the
shrewdness of the lawyer aspect
is shown in the two words in
caps “ONE” and “PART.” The
same set of resolutions on civil
rights points out “We reject all
proposals for the use of force
to interfere with the orderly de-
termination of these matters by
the courts.” This disarms the
court, Supreme and others to use
force, hence the individual states
may make their own decision as
to what is their “PART" of “the
law of the land.” In other words,
segregation can go on its peace-
ful way if the local voice of the
law so orders.
# Where Wti Tex**?
The recent Democratic conven-
tion lacked a lot of having the
voice of Texas raised as it was
in the convention four years ago.
Mr. Johnson, who was chosen by
Speaker Rayburn to be the chos-
en son and the leader of the Tex-
as delegation, did not do much
insofar as the spotlight of TV
was concerned. Reporters said he
spent his time in a room to him-
self, with a few assistants, the
mike and the TV, and entrance
to his quarters was hard to get.
On the other hand Speaker Sam
was presiding and cutting off or
on as he pleased, men who want-
ed to say a word to the conven-
tion. The people, for the first
(See ALONG, Page •)
Four
Deaths
62
Injuries
Since Jan.
1st, 1956
Local youth hurt
when bike crashes
into automobile
Dale Starnes, 13 year old Den-
ison youth, of 1603 Lyndana
Drive, narrowly escaped serious
injury Tues-
d a y after-
noon at 3:50
when he
crashed into
the side of an
automobile at
the Austin
Avenue, Main
Street cross-
in g . The
youth was
taken to Madonna hospital in a
Bratcher ambulance where he was
given emergency treatment and
released.
The driver of the car was Per-
cell Ben Albert of Durant. Mr.
Albert told investigating police
that he was traveling north on
Austin Avenue on a green light,
and was almost through the inter-
section when the boy on the bi-
cycle ran out in front of him.
He stopped as quickly as he
could, he said, but not before the
boy was thrown into the air to
land on top the hood of his car.
The car was not damaged but the
bicycle was a total loss. No
charges were filed.
This injury marks the second
for the month of August accord-
ing to accident files in the police
department, and the 62nd for the
year to date.
There hav ‘ been 26 accidents
so far this month (Aug. 21) ac-
cording to police records.
A serious accident occurred in
the 300 block W. Main Monday
morning when Miss Johny Beck’s
1956 Plymouth station wagon
was rammed in the side by Mrs.
Mattie Anderson’s 1950 Chevro
let sedan, as she was hacking out
of a parking stall in the 300
block Main. Damage to the sta-
tion wagon was estimated at $200
and to the sedan, $50. No injur-
ies were sustained by the drivers.
Miss Beck a Denison school
teacher lives at llo N. Barrett,
a id Mrs. Anderson on Route 1.
The record of accidents for the
year to date is 321 accidents, 62
injuries and four deaths.
Stiff contest in
Roadeo group
closes at PFAB
The Roadeo of Crew Training
Air Force entered final rounds of
competition Wednesday at Perrin
Air Force Base. Preliminary
competition Tuesday cut the field
to three finalists in each class of
competition with the exception
of the lefueling trucks for which
both preliminary and final events
were held Wednesday.
Wednesday’s competition will
determine how the three remain-
ing competitors in each of the six
classes will place in the finals.
Two of Perrin’s representatives
temuined in the competition to
the last day. S-Sgt. Austin D.
Talley placed second during pre-
liminaries in the sedan class and
A-1C Eulen Beaird came in sec-
ond in the bus class.
An awards banquet was held
Wednesday honoring Roadeo con-
testants at which time Col. Thom-
as B. Whitehouse presented prizes
to the winners of each class. First
place winners received $100 sav-
ings bonds and will advance to
the Air Training Command semi-
finals September 4-6 at. Tyndall
AFB, Florida. Second and third
place winners received $50 and
$25 savings bonds respectively.
The curient USAF Roadeo
program determines, through a
series of contests, the most intell-
igent and skillful driver in each
class of competition which ultim-
ately results in that driver being
established as a “World-Wide
Air Force Champ.”
Located on hiway 75 north
payroll of $1,200,000 year
employment list of 270
Denied taxi permit by Plant Slated tO 1)6
council, Kiliough says operating late ’57
ne will operate it Free
Local newspaper as
power discussed by
ad bureau official
If true, let's all
editors go to work
for somebody else
TORONTO — Members of the
American Newspaper Guild may
find themselves making a min-
imum wage of $200 for a four-
day wee!:. Well, not right now,
but someday . . .
The Guild however added a
word of caution, saying that while
they are shooting toward this
mark it might be some time com-
ing.
President Joseph Collis outlined
the objectives to the delegates at-
tend ng the Guild’s 23rd annual
convention here, in his opening
speech.
Mr. Collis said they were jus-
tified because the newspaper in-
dustry is at the peak of a 10-year
period of prosperity.
In urging the -union to set it3
sights on bigger salaries and
shorter work weeks, Mr. Collis
singled out $200 per week min-
imums and a four-day work week
as ultimate objectives.
He said one guild contract al-
ready had achieved such a salary
for senior reporters and that a
lour day work week may not be
far off on another publication.
"We should start conditioning
our members for better things to
c( me ” the Guild’s chief officer
declared. "We should spread these
benefits around.
'1 don’t think we will uttain
this’ objectives immediately, but
we should start moving toward
the larger goal.”
Mr. Collis said the guild’s cur
rent wage goal of $150 weekly
minimum for key employees al-
leady was in effect on many pub-
luations, and about one-third of
the 28,000 membership was cov
ered by contracts providing for a
35-hour week.
PHILADELPHIA Newspaper-
are a tremendous local medium,
land the Bureau of Advertising is
jconducring an intensive campaign
to make sure the advertiser knows
it.
This point was stressed by
Richard W. Slocum, executive
vice president of the Philadelphia
Bulletin, in a talk at the 52nd
annual convention of the Adver-
I tising Federation of America here.
Mr. Slocum, who took part in
ja panel on “How Will Media !
I Meet the Changing Trends in
Marketing,” said the Bureau of
Advertising of the American
Newspaper Publishers assn, is
spending two million dollars in
1956 to stress the power of news-
papers as a local medium.
"I remember,” he said “when
the Bureau was spending only
$400,000 a year.”
Stressing the fact that news-
papers are well accepted locally,
he said, "We are geared to do a
job, but we have many improve-
ments to make in our product.”
He said television competition
has been an incentive for news-
papers to seek better methods of
production and news presentation.
He added that "All media are
doing a better job of advertising
to seiverthe needs of a growing
American fconomy. Newspapers
are ready to meet expected
changes in the mass market.”
He told his audience that three
fourths of the daily newspapers
in the country are now offering
color to advertisers.
"We are becoming more useful
in serving our readers and our
advertisers,” he continued. “But
all of us can do a better job. We
are especially proud of the work
we are doing individually and at
the ANPA laboratory at Easton
in devising methods for better
production.
“With a growing market, 'we
should pay special attention to re-
search -to learn more about both
reading and buying habits. Our ed-
itors are alert to the needs of the
people.” .
He also stressed the need for
economy in production, to give the
advertiser a better price.
"There is," Mr. Slocum said,
"a special crying need in the
newspaper field for more auto
mation. We are lagging behind
other fields In that respect. We
need to catch up.”
Underground storage of natur-
al gas has helped promote the
eonierotlon ef natural resources.
When the city council Tuesday
refused a permit to operate his
taxi business, Bill Kiliough, who
operated a taxi business some
time back here, announced his
stand as to the position of the
council.
In substance Mr. Kiliough
stated when the position of the
council was made known: “Gen-
tlemen, I have bought my own
cars, have a building rented, and
am going to operate a free taxi
service. If the customers wish to
pay any fare, it will be up to
them, but the business will be on
a free basis. If you can stop me
from operating that way, all
right. I thought this was a free
country and a man could oper-
ate a legitimate business with his
Checkup for first
year students is
urged by Dr, Holle
AUST IN — "Children are not
really ready to enter school until
they have had a complete physi-
cal examination,” Dr. Henry A-
Holle, Commissioner of Health
reminds parents. All boys and
girls enrolling in the kindergar-
den or first grade classes of Tex-
as schools should he taken to
their physicians or to a public
health clinic, for an immediate
physical check-up if they have not
had such an examination in re-
cent months.
It is important to act as
promptly as possible. This is re-
commended in order to allow
time for medical treatments or
corrections that may be necessary
before school opens. No young-
ster should be permitted to begin
a school career with less than
the best nossible equipment.
As most parents know, vaccina-
tion against smallpox is neces-
sary. Those who received this im-
munization in infancy should be
vaccinated again in order to as-
sure a high degree of immunity,
and those who have never receiv-
ed this protection should be vac-
cinated without delay.
Dr. Holle urges parents whose
children have not received Salk
poliomyelitis vaccine to have this
administered before entering
school. The safety and efficiency
of this prevention has been prov-
en and all children should be pro-
tected against this crippling dis-
ease.
Diphtheria immunization is al-
so an important safeguard for all
boys and girls about to enter
school. Those who have never
been immunized against this dis-
ease should receive toxoid shots
now. Children who were inoculat-
ed against diphtheria when they
were babies should now have a
"booster dose” in order to main-
tain their immunity at a suffic-
iently high level'
Other immunizations that the
individual physician may recom-
mend are also desirable as fur-
ther health protection. Whooping
cough, typhoid fever and tetanus
are among the diseases against
which the doctor may advise safe-
guard*.
money at his own risk if he wish-
ed."'
At this point the mayor stated
that if Mr. Kiliough wished to
take recourse to the courts, it was
his privilege, stating if the taxi
business was shown to be in vio-
lation of the rulings of the city
council which denied a permit to
operate, the council would have
no other recourse. “However,”
■•dated the mayor, "I am inclined
to agree with you that you have
certain rights. It may be, how-
ever, that out younder somewhere
down the line, the number of
taxis and the need of regulations
may conic about. The council can
act on the recommendation of
committee on taxis as to the num-
ber needed here to take care of
the business.” The mayor said
something about, the necessity of
competition in the taxi field, how-
ever the council’s action was as
indicated.
Salaries of Drivers
In the recommendation of
Capt. Faecke to the council he
stated that with the present num-
ber of taxis serving the city the
average salary was something
around $35.00 per week. In his
opinion, the statement declared,
the business for additional taxis
would not justify further permits.
The Mayor asked for the opin-
ion of the other members of the
council and Commissioner C. A.
Weideman stated that the recom-
mendation of the committee of
which Faecke is a member and
chairman, was acceptable to him
and he would go along with the
recommendation. Commissioner
Walter Lebrecht seconded the mo-
tion, it was put and the action
was unanimously indorsed.
If there were other reasons as
to why Mr. Kiliough should not
be granted licenses, they were
not raised.
Mr. Kiliough left the council
stating he was going to operate
a free taxi, ask no charges, but
if the people wished to donate to
him, that was their business.
Jointly with an announcement that Denison is to have lo-
cated here a million dollar plus plant of the Johns-Manville
Corporation, which announcement came from New York offices,
representatives of the corporation were in Denison Wednesday
to bring die good news.
The three representatives in Denison Wednesday were Ho-
ward W.- Allen, vice-president and director of public relations,-
Gurdon W. Leete, of the public relations department, and Wil-
liam H. Waring, Houston, sales manager for this region.
We owe a great deal to your Mr. Freeman Carney, secre-
tary of the Denison Chamber of Commerce for his helpful part
in aiding us on our decision to locate here," stated Mr, Allen.
One of the determining factors aside fi'om abundance of
water, ample ground for the plant and its desirable location as
to highway 75 and railroad facilities, Mr, Allen stated, was the
cordiality of the Denison people.
Ground Observer
Corps alert held
A Ground Observer Corps alert
was held Sunday from 1 to 6, un-
der the direction of District
Supervisor, A. B. Jones, with
participants being members of a
class which has just finished a
three months training course in
plane spotting.
The alert was held on the pent-
house of Hotel Denison which is
the GOC’s observation tower. Mrs.
Barney Palmer is chief observer.
LOCAL MARKETS
Eggs .....%................... 35c
Butter ................................ 65c
Watermelons ..................... 2: Jc
Fat cows $9 to $11.50
Bulls ................. $8 to $13
Slaughter calves $14.50 to $17.50
Stocker steer
yearlings $15.50 to $17.50
Choice fat lambs
topped at ...................... $19
Kids .......................... $15 to $19,
Choice fat hogs $17,50 to $17.75 entirely new industry to Texts,"
A Dynamic Stimulus
Mr. Allen declared that work
will start at the very earliest date
and the plant will be ready for
operation the latter part of 1957.
A resident engineer for the cor-
poration to oversee erection of
! the plant, will soon move to Den-
ison he stated and get the work
I underway.
The news, which has been hop-
ed for by those of the city with-
in a small circle and who had
been working for months on the
deal, came as an dynamic stim-
ulus, not only to them, but the
citizens in general.
The following news release
which was sent over the wires
from Denison to the entire field
of news service connections was
handed the Press at 9:30 a.m.
CST:
DENISON — Johns-Manville
Corporation will start construc-
tion soon of a large Transite as-
bestos-cement pipe plant in Den-
ison which will employ about 270
people with an annual payroll of
over $1,200,000.
Announcement of the com-
pany’s decision to locate its plant
in Denison was made here today
(Wednesday, August 22, 1956)
by Howard W. Allen of New
York, Vice President and Direc-
tor of Public Relations for Johns-
Manville. Simultaneously, an-
nouncement of the Denison plant
was made in New York by A. R.
Fisher, President of the Johns-
Manville Corporation.
The plant will be located just
north of Denison on about 400
acres comprising the Ditto and
Morrison properties adjacent to
Highway 75. The plant will be
served by the MKT Railroad.
It is expected that construc-
tion will start soon and.be com-
pleted in the latter part of 1957.
The plant will cover 350,000
square feet including production,
curing, storage and shipping fac-
ilities.
Part of $40 Million Expansion
“The Denison construction :s
part of an approximate $40 mil-
lion Transite pipe expansion
program initiated by Johns-Man-
ville this year. A new pipe plant
is now under construction at
Stockton, California and addition-
al production facilities have been
or are now being installed at J-M
plants in Marrero, I,a.; Wauk-
egan, 111.; Watson, California;
and Manville, New Jersey," Mr.
Allen said.
New Industry to Texas
"Denison will be J-M’s seventh
Transite pipe plant in the United
States and Canada and brings an
Mr. Allen said. "The company
also operates another plant in
Texas at Fort Worth, producing
asphalt roofing products and
other building materials.”
Principal markets for J-M
Transite pipe include municipal
water and sewerage systems and
industrial process and irrigation
lines for which J-M makes pipe
up to 36 inches in diameter.
House pipe such as building,
sewer, plumbing vent, gas vent,
and air duct pipes also account
for an increasing portion of J-M’s
Transite pipe sales volume as do
asbestos-cement electrical con-
duits for telephone and power
lines.
Johns-Manville introduced as-
bestos-cement pipe into the Unit-
ed States in 1929. It is made from
a scientifically determined com-
bination of asbestos fibre, port-
land cement and silica, formed
under high pressure on polished
steel mandrels.
Denison Close to Market
"The Denison operation will
enable Johns-Manville to better
meet the needs of the rapidly ex-
panding Transite pipe markets in
the states of Texas, Oklahoma,
New Mexico and Arkansas and
oiher Southwest areas,” Mr. Al-
len said.
“Our Fort Worth plant, acquir-
ed in 1952, has clearly demon-
strated the value of having pro-
duction facilities in this growing
section of the country, and we
anticipate that the Denison plant
will follow the successful pattern
established at Fort Worth.”
I’rior to deciding upon Den-
ison as the location for the com-
pany’s newest Transite pipe plant,
a number of Johns-Manville exec-
utives visited this city to inspect
possible plant sites, water re-
sources and other facilities af-
forded by Denison.
These executives included A.
R. Fisher, President of Johns
Manville Corporation; K. W. Huf-
fine, Vice President for Produc-
tion; R. F. Orth, Vice President
and General Manager of the Pipe
Division; T. R. Turnbull, Vice
President and Production Man-
ager of the Division; G. S. Smith,
Vice President and Director of
Engineering; and H. M. Ball, Sec-
retary and General Attorney of
the Corporation.
Mr. Allen emphasized that
Johns-Manville’* President, A. R.
Fisher and other company offic-
ials felt that Denison was a nat-
ural location for the company’s
newest Transite pipe plant be-
cause of the high standard of po-
(S«. JOHNS-MANVILLE,
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