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BINTON (Tex.) EECORD-CHRONICLE Sunday. Nor. M. 1MI MMMUl Chrlstmti Seal aale will start tomorrow morning as bearing the seals go out to Denton residents, Mrs. Kathleen Henderson, secretary of the tuberculosis association, announced: faculties the Deuton Public will meet at 3 p.

in. Monday at the school building. They will bear Sam Davis, chief probation officer from Dallas on "Juvenile Judge Ger aid Stockard will introduce him. All parents are invited to attend. The City Health Council will meet Monday at 1:30 p.m.

at the Denton High School. J. T. Koon, an architectur al student from Bice Institute, is visiting hit parents, Mr. and Mrs.

T. 620 Colt. With him Is Lyon Williams from Laredo, also a student tt Rice. Mr. and Mrs.

William D. Bay- lias and son, David, have recently moved to Henderson, where Mr. Bayless has purchased Rain Expected Over Week End By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Bains sweeping into the state from the Gulf of Mexico were expected to spread to the Red Elver on the Texas Oklahoma line by early today. Tbe rains hit the Houston Galveston area In Southeast Texas early Friday and fanned out to westward and eastward as they moved slowly toward the north. More than a dosen points over a wide area reported rainfall ranging from .03 Inches at Tyler to .66 inches at Laredo on the Texas- Mexico border in South Texas.

Considerable cloudiness was forecast with rain today and tomorrow in the south and extreme CMt portions of East Texas. Occasional rains were predicted In the Pecoa Valley and eastward tomorrow In West Texas. were expected to remain about the same as Saturday when a high of 77 was reported at Brownsville and a low maximum of 66 wai reported at and Presidio. Tbe rainfall between 1:30 p.m. Friday and 6:30 P.m.

Saturday included: Austin .36, Brownsville 14, San Antonio .44, Beaumont .28 Crystal City .63, Lorado .86, Del Rio .03, Qalveston .26, Junction Victoria .19, Tyler .02, San Angelo .03, Alice 22 and Bryan .04. Rescue Squad Seeks Man In Stone Quarry LAMBERTVILLE, N. J. Nov. 13 Ifl by rain and the increi3lng threat of a new rock slide, rescue operations proceeded slowly Saturday at the quarry where Edgar S.

Snydcr, 64, is buried somewhat amid 200,000 tons of cru: stone. Hope that Snydcr will be found alive was still held by his four sons, but police and officials of the Lambertvllle quarry Co. felt otherwise. Snyder and Raymond Wellman. 48, plunged from the top of the 185-foot.

openifaced quarry last Monday when the perimeter gave missed Saturday from the Elm, vvellman's body was recov the McPhfrsoi- Gift Shop, has been associated with the Bussell Newman Manufacturing Company In Denton for the past two years. He the son of Mr. ana Mrs. T. Bayless, 1814 West Sycamore Street.

HOSPITAL NOTES Billle Lantrlp of Aubrey was dismissed from the EJm Street Hospital and Clinic Saturday. Mrs. Albert Hart. and Infant son of Fort Worth Were dismissed Saturday from the Elm Street Hospital and Clinic. Dana Benson of Aubrey was dts- NOTICE TO BIDDERS BUILDINGS FOB SALE: The trailers of the Flnt Baptist Church, Denton, TeiM, Invite you to make sealed bids OB three frame building! located on the Charch pnperty in 3M block West Oak' Street, between aqd 7 P.

M. November 19, ml which time they will be opened and publicly react aloud. It it requuted that each building be separately. Privilege to reject any or all bidi is reserved. Ben Boyd, ChairmaB Trustees.

NOT. 1-Z-J-12-13-H Btreet Hospital and Clinic. Carol Lee Hooper, 1620 Wesl Congress was dismissed Friday from the Elm Street Hospital anc Clinic. Mrs. L.

A. Glbbs of rort Worth underwent surgery Satur day at the Elm Street Hospital and Clinic. Mrs. J. J.

Kubala and son of Tioga were dismissed Saturday from the Elm Street Hospital and Clinic. Mrs. L. E. Miller of Argyle was dismissed Saturday from the Elm Street Hospital and Clinic.

Mrs. C. K. Justice, Aubrey, was admitted to the Denton Hospita and Clinic Friday as a medical patient. Mrs.

O. W. Irby and baby of Coppell, Texas, were dismissed from the Denton Hospital and Clinic Friday afternoon. B. L.

Cole, Krum, was admitted as a medical patient to the Denton Hospital and Clinic Saturday night. J. L. Elliot, 307 Bryan, was admitted as a medical patient to Denton HocpiUl and Clinic Saturday night. Mrs.

J. W. Cockran, Denton, underwent major surgery Saturday morning at the Denton Hospital tnd Clinic. Mrs. Aline Hllger, Rt.

2, Denton, who underwent major surgery at the Denton Hospital and Clinic was dismissed Saturday mofnlng. Miss Kate' Kilgore, Ills Congress, underwent an a'ppen- dentomy at the Denton 'Hospital and Clinic Saturday morning. BIRTHS Born to Mrs. J. B.

Woolen, 1002 Panhandle, Saturday morning, a boy. British Official Missing in Plane VERACRUZ, Mexico, Nov. 13 Wl' A blrootored plane, believed flown, by Col. A. S.

F. Johnston, British embassy air attache, was reported missing Saturday night. Mexican army planes and ground search parties were sent to comb the Jalapa area where an automobllist reported seeing a plane crash. He neglected to give the location, and th: search was unsuccessful. Airport authorities said the plane left here at 2 p.m.

bound fur Mexico City. They sai'l Johnston and an unidentifed passenger were aboard. The Meiioo City airport said the plane has not arrived there. ered 85 feet from the top. Nicholas J.

McGowan, a quarry official, pointed out that Snyder must have fallen at least that distance and possibly is buried under the thousands of tons of rock piled up at the base. Appeal to Governor Snyder's son. still clinging to the belief their father may be trapped in' a crevice, appealed Frllay to Gov. Alfred E. Drlscoll for help.

He dispatched highway department, engineers to the ccene, but they reported the rescue work was proceeding as rapidly as possibly "under very hazardous conditions." McQowan said about 100,000 tons of rock will be blasted from the" quarry face Monday as as a massive electric shovel can be moved to safety. The shovel is the only equipment available in New Jersey to clear away the huge boulders which fell Monday. It was damaged in the slide. The rock which will be dynamited is a constant threat to rescue workers. McGowan said a six-Inch seam has opened behind it and that It might fall at any time.

in JMtyMIOUEUE mi MVSNTHN Minx Modei fitn Enlutittly Bauble with you $lor In thii turnabout two-piecer. The ikirt is ftngham on rayon faille on the '2 Actually two outfiti in I Blue and liWrtlinal, and Junior 7-1J. $19.95 Miss Hendley's Shop from TSCW 1323 Oakland Chinese Reds (Continued from Page 1) avoid a winter stalemate. Reporters, as usual, are prevented from reaching the battle zone. Neither side wants or will permit impartial onlookers.

There Is noth. Ing to do but wait and see. Harold K. Milks, Associated Press, correspondent in Nankin; reports that Chiang Kai-Shek alone is holding the national government together by his fierce Insistence on continuing the fight In Jie face of repeated military and economic disasters. Chiang Is- supported hi this by a handful of with the majority of his officialdom believing the time has come to try to negotiate for peace, Milks reports.

May Move to Canton There Is continuing talk of possible flight by thp government to Canton or some other southern city. Some foreign diplomats, however share a belief that some of Chiang's officials might choose not to follow him In such a move. Meanwhile; foreign residents all over China are. trying to decide whether to stay or head for home. Most foreigners are staying but ships and planes are jammed with those who are principally women and children.

Dependents of the TJ. S. military advisory group will mostly be gone within a week. The military group itself is staying, but probably will leave, too, If a Communist-dominated government should take over. During the past three weeks this correspondent has visited a number of North China cities vitally affected by the sharp break in the war which followed Commun- conquest of Manchuria.

The contrast 1 hi attitudes are At Tsingtao, where the United States Western Pacific- Fleet is based, the main worry is whether the Navy will null not whether the encircling Reds will come in. The Navy has said it will stay. The refugee-swollen population of that old German treaty port feels safe as long as there are American warships In the harbor and American planes on the airfield. The gracious city of Peining. treasure-trove ot ancient Cathay, expecta the Communists to come soon, but remains calm and orderly.

Nobody seems afraid. A Peiping friend said everyone felt a changeover be bloodless. POTATO regular storaTe space filled to capacity with this year's bumper potato crop, the overflow is being dumped into deep trenches on a Hicksville, Long Island, New York, farm to safeguard them against frost until they can be marketed. (AP Wirephoto). ENDURANCE PLANE CRASH light plane which endurance fliers Pred Vinmont and Bert Simons kept aloft for 5:9 hours nestles under a tree near Longview, Texas, after crash-landing.

The en--ine of the specially-equipped "Miss Texas" froze during cold, rainy weather. Vinmont and Simons had hoped to double the world record of 726 hours aloft. Neither flyer was seriously hurt. (AP Wirephoto). A drop -of one's blood put under a rose tree will insure rosy cheeks, according to a belief prevalent in some parU of Europe.

Pecos River (Continued from Page 45 per cent to New Mexico's 55. Tipton observed that the amount of water to be salvaged is no 1 great and suggested a compromise giving Texas 43 per cent" and New delegations. Meets Dec. 1 The commission scheduled FHA Pledges In Special Program Tf you drove by the campus of North Texas State High School last week and saw aome'Uhij; that caused you to rib your eyes and take another look, don't worry any longer, it was the National Future Homemaker's of America Week and the future members were serving their pledgeship. They did wear different color socks and aprons put on back- wardS, and carried egg and thimbles, but that was just part of the fun.

The activities of week ended with a party given in the education annex from 5 until 7:30 p. m. Friday. Approximately 50 persons attended and the club furnished the punch, potato salad and dossert. After eating, the pledges gave skits and a singing period was held by Margie Nell Briggs, Glenadeen Oliver and Charlene Whit- loct.

The pledges who became new members at the party were Dorothy Collan, Dorothy Smith. Leona Harris, Joan Williams, Betty Cantrell, Mildred Lancaster, Clarice Ausband. Nellie Pannel. Shir-, ly Batey, Jean Taylor, Charlene and Linda Tjlley. UN Chiefs (Continued from Page 1) on the Security Council's commission for conventional armaments to continue work on the general question of arms reductions.

plan submitted by the acting Palestine mediator. Dr. Ralph tts Bundle, to repair the broken next meeting Dec. 1 at Santa truce online The plan tt-here it will study the compact drafted at Denver. Among other principles to be incorporated in the compr.ct are the following: "Unappropriated flood waters (waters which otherwise would spill from Red Bluff Reservoir and pass Girvin, unused with present storage facilities) shall be apportioned 50 per cent to Texas and 50 per cent to New Mexico." Both states agree to encourage the authorization and construction of a federally financed project to bypass the salt cedars now consuming water at the head oi Lake McMillan in New Mexico.

Whitlock. Margie' Nell Briggs, Shirley Stewart. Glenda Harrisson, Joy Powell, Iva Nell Mulkey UNVKIL TABLET AT FOOT i bronze tablet commamoratinfr. the Centennial of Fort Bliss, Tex. is unveiled by Lt.

Gordon R. Davia, left, and LI. Robert D. Marmaduke, impersonating the first commander of the fort, Major Jefferson Van Ilornc. (APWirephoto).

apparently would demilitarize and place under U. N. control most of the disputed southern desert region. Truman Gets Appeal The Lie-Evatt appeal was transmitted to President TrumEm, Prime Minister Stalin, Prime Minister Attlee and Premier Queuille in the form of a joint letter handed to the hands of the United States, Russian, British and French delegations here. It was known by many that Lie and Evatt were in consultation, but few expected them to deliver an appeal above the level of the delegation chiefs.

Lie and Evatt said: "Every day that the deadlock over Berlin continues, the danger to the peace and security of all nations continues undlminished. "Fear of another war is crip- the efforts of all nations to repair the damage of the last war and return once more to the ways of peace. The work of the General Assembly and of the United Nations as a whole in every field of its endeavor Is being delayed and undermined. "End "It is within the power of the leaders of the great nations, to which this communication is addressed to end this danger to the peace." Evatt and Lie reminded the fom great powers they had voted, with everyone else in the U. for a Mexican resolution which ca'itd on the big powers to try to settle Ihelr differences peacefully.

They told the big four the world ex pects them to carry out the assembly's resolution. Finally, the two U. N. officials offered to give the big powers all possible assistance In Ironing out the Berlin crisis. With that deadlock out of the way.

they raid, the big powers could resume negotiations on the peace treaties with Germany, Austria and Japan. Western power delegates reacted cautiously to the letter, saying it was up to higher quarters to make any statement. British and American delegates said privately the western pow-1 crs would not negotiate on Bar-1 lln under pressure of the RiiK.ian blockade. Secretary of Slate Marshall 1m-1 ivsdlately sent the letter to Wasl-- Ingtcn. It was expected here it would be forwarded to Predidfmt Truman on vacation at Key West, Fla.

KOkl WOKTH LIVESTOCK FORT WORTH. Nov. 13 --(API KecrlpU of nil classes of livestock were well in Mcess of supplies here and uround the nmjur marketing circle week. Trade was uneven on most classes. Hogs and dromied Sl.60 per hundred plgl lott per hundred.

Slaughter and yearling! steady to II low- tr, Heady to S5. cents lower, bulU steady; itockera tnd feeder! with good and cholco Ion strong to 80 ctntj or more higher. QoM and choice and ranny calves steady. Between or common and medium slaughter calves were! weak to eg cents lower. Sheep and I were unevenly steady, Slaughter fleers, yearlings mid lulf-! ers 10.00-3J.OO, slaughter cows 10.50-' 31.60: bulls 14.50-JO.OO; slaughter calves 14 stockcr Etoer calves 85.50 down; hellers 24.25 down; stocK- yearlings 25.60 down; stockor smew dowu; Btocker cows 19.00 doun.

Closing nogs top 33.50; sows 21.50 uown: feeder pigs 32.00 down. Slaughter lambs 13.00-25.00; teeder lambs 19.60 downward: slaughter yearlings stocker yearlings 17.60 down; slaughter ewes 8.00-9.50. SATCItllAY UIIA1NS PORT WORTH. Nov. 13 Wheat No.

1 hard 2.46-2.48. OaU No. 2 white 1.01 1,4. Corn No. 2 whilo 1.82-1.87.

Sorghurrut No 2 yellow mllo per 1UO IDS. 2.67-2.73. Dollar Volume Drops Slightly NEW YORK. NOV. 13 -W- Retali dollar volume during tin past week showed a decline from the preceding week.

Dun and Bradstreet reported Friday. The trade review pointed out that unseasonably rainy and mild weather prevailed lu much of the country. The week's dollar volume of re- tall trade remained slightly above that of a year ago, but unit volume In some dipped below 1947. levels. dollar volume was estimated at to per cent ahead of the of last year.

Good Neighbor Week Will Begin AUSTIN, Nov. 13 Statewide observance of Good- Neighbor Week in Texas begins Monday when Gov. Beauford H. Jester will make.a radio address. Ceremonies will follow in cities throughout the state.

Tom Sutherland, exec wive tary of the Good Neighbor Commission, said there is "definite progress shown in the you neighbor program over the stale." R. E. Smith, chairnmn oE the Good Neighbor Commission, will present a special broadcast in Houston during the week. East Texas State Teachers College at Commerce has invited Consul Efrain Domingiiez of Austin to spealc before the student body next Thursday. In San Angelo.

radio programs, window displays and school grams celebrating Good Neighbor Week have been arranged. Greet-j ings were sent to President Ale-j man and tu the governors of the bordering states of Mexico, and Mexican consul p.I rial Hin. Luis Witter Marin, has been Invited to speak at San Angelo. Round About (Continued from Page buying all the feedstuff, not raising any-of it." George Owens of Ponder, who has been growing wheat in this county for around 50 years, was in Denton and when seen he wasn't i at all optimistic about the crorj this year. He said, "The top soil, about two inches down, has some mokture left In it, but from there on down to about six inches deep.

there isn't a particle of moisture. I don't know how long the grata will live without a good rain soon." Denton is known for its beautiful trees and a great many oi them are not only beautiful but help pay taxes. One doesn't realize how many fine pecan there are in the city limits until he takes a look over the town. There are hundreds of them bearing fruit. Some of the finest are to be found on the Mlnnis yard, 1604 North Elm Street.

The late J. A. Minnls gathered enough pecans for sale nearly every year to pay the taxes on (he home. It won't be lonr; now till you be planting some trees on your lot. Pecans are beautiful trees as well as productive of fine rats.

SGT. MAXWELL'S BODY WILL ARRIVE TUESDAY The body of Tech. Sgt. Billy Tnm Maxwell, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Clarence Maxwell. 125 Bonnie Brae, will arrive Tuesday at 12 noon for reburial services. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. The Schmitz Funeral Home will be in arrangements. Order Your Christmas Piano Now JOHN E.

LAWHON Baldwin Piano Agency for Denton 202 Robert! Bldg, 1216 Egan St. Denton Texai Phone 1738-M DIAMOND RINGS A. COPLEY Ring 200.00 Also in platinum $300 Wedding Ring B. EVE Ring Wedding Ring AURORA Ring Wedding Ring To speak your love forever, choose most precious symbol, a genuine registered Keepsake Diamond Ring. You'll find an outstanding collection of famous Keepsake Diamond Rings on display at this store.

Matched Wedding Sets $25.00 and up Convenient Credit Terms McCRAY'S Denton't Finest Jewelers West Side Square.

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