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'1j 0 A I Y'W I tg 4 C1 tt 4 4 i 144 i )11 4 tj 4 1 A 4 4 0 0 I 4 ri rdp L-Q 000000 4-1 1 0 ammuos01 '144' 70 a----- 4 i e- 4 -t f0 1-J I It I 4 4 0 l'14-' ''''4 1 i i '1 t'7 1 '1'''' stbss i 1 A i i 1 4 71 lo 4- f1 4'''' 440 l' 1( tt 1::1 '-'41: i 130 44 4 Taking part in the ceremony will be 400 emploes of the playground dressed in the costumes they wear as they go about their dales in the park Tickets for opening day will not be available at the gate Saturday because sales of tickets for Saturday were handled by the Fort Worth and Dallas Junior Leagues Only 1i3O00 tickets were sold to prevent overcrowding at the park which can handle up to 30000 people a day Preview Tours Six Flags begins operations on a regular basis Saturday For the past week employes of area industries and underprivileged children made preview tours of the park Six Flags will remain open from 10 a until 12 midnight seven days a week until its season closes at Thanksgiving The normal operating season will stretch from Easter through Thanksgiving Admission to the park is $175 for adults and $225 for children which includes admission to special shows and rides Extra charges will be made within the park for souvenirs and food Parking will cost 50 cents Park officials say it will take from four to four and a hall hours to tour the whole park Six nags is reached by exitirg at Highway 360 from the Dallas-Fort Worth 'turnpike or by turning on Highway 360 from Highways 80 or 153 Saturday is the day that Six Flags Over Tenets throws its gates open to the general public The $1000000 park has been under constructea for almost a )ear On a 105-acre tract on the Dallas-Fort Worth Turnpike midwly between the two cities Opening ceremonies at Six Flags are set to begin at 9 a Saturday on the Star Mall the entrance plaza to the park Mzgr Vincent Wolf pastor of St Patrick's Co-Cathedral in Fort Worth will deliver the invocation at the ceremonies and the dedicatory prayer will be given by Rev William Dickinson Jr pastor of Highland Park Methodist Church in Dallas Special guests at the ceremonies will be the mayors of area cities including Mayor John Justin of Fort Worth Mayor Tom Vandergriff of Arlington Mayor Gene Goree of Grand Prairie Mayor Earle Gabel' of Dallas nd Mayor Lynn Brown of Irving Flag Ceremony Alter a brief address by Angus Wynne Jr president of Great Southwest Corporation and Six Flags Over Texas an honor guard of Dallas Marines will raise the American flag The Six Flags security guards then will raise the flags of Mexico Spain France the Confederacy and the Republic of Texas signal for the Dancing Waters to start up at the base of the flagpoles and for the park's band to strike up the Six Flags March ii 5E te th tu SINGING Milnor of Dallas gives an impromptu folksong concert in Mrs Goff's Frozen Sweets Shop in the Confederacy section of Six Flags Little do the boys in gray know that their sing Stale Forecast 100 AM 1ST c'1212U 3013 Untii Scholia) Mornivio tow lowpostwes ylliwowl FOR I ing friend is a Yznkee spy but if all goes well as it does several times daily Milnor will be found out and shot to death by rebel forces 7::::: 1'11: 1I 41i! 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Well that privilege will be yours if you buy a special "Six Flags Over Texas" Star-Telegram edition which will go on sale at the mammoth amusement center when it opens Saturday The special edition to sell for a copy is published by the Star-Telegram and includes four pages of stories about early and present-day Fort Worth However the headline is missing So here's your opportunity to "tailor" your own your own attendance or some such thing 411 -th at in nc th of DENISON Aug 4 death of James Desmond Wallace 43 of Sherman whose body was found Wednesday on a lonely road north of Loy Lake Park was ivied a suicide Thursday by Peace Justice Homer Gaddy A bullet fired from a 71 rifle passed through Wallace's mouth and entered Ma skull The rifle had been purchased Monday in Denison Gaddy said The inquest verdict was returned after Gaddy received reports from an autopsy and a Dallas toxicologist Officers were puzzled by the fact Wallace's body lay six feet from the car in which the rifle was found resting on the floor of the back seat Wallace was a native of Lubbock and a veteran of World War He was a salesman for a Scranton Pa Arm Survivors include his wife and a daughter Miss Helen Marie Wallace of Sherman Funeral services were held at 10 a Friday in Waldo Chapel in Sherman with burial In West 11111 Cemetery there TSTA Fund Sought For Teachers Home et Mexico is one of the most beautiful of Six Flags' adventures Visitors reach the Mexico section from the park's entrance plaza the Star Mall by way of a canopied garden The low adobe buildings of this area are lined with the warts of street makers serape weavers and silversmiths More nat I ve Mexican wares are on display in an air-conditioned bazar building Across the street authentic Mexican food is available at the El Chico Restaurant where guests can dine on a shaded patio serenaded by the Charms Beautiful senoritas stroll the streets of the Mexican section followed by guitar-strumming admirers who burst into song from time to time and occasionally stop crowds with their dancing Lighter refreshments are available in this section from La Tarrazza the thatched-roof refreshment stand The park's gayest ride the Ferrocarril Fiesta Train takes on passengers at a depot near La tarrazza Riding in cars pulled by trolleys and shaded by vast sombreros Fiesta Train passengers see animated figures riding burros and dancing the cha-cha As the train passes a miniature Plaza de Toros a matador executes a veronica the bull's horns missing Cold is the lure of the Spanish adventure al Si Flags Over Texas The entrance to the section is a replica of the first Spanish rrisrion to be built in Texas the San Francisco de los Tejas mision named after the Indian tribe which the Spanish missionaries came to help Inside the mission sits a hooded figure telling the story of the first men who came to convert the Indians and the fate which befell them The men of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado make their headquarters near by and are happy to take on recruits for a burro-hack expedition in search of the Seven Cities of Cino la legendary treasure cities of the Southwest Armored Spanish soldiers lead the mule trains into the Palo Duro Canyon They're armed against Indian warriors who have been known to attack the conquistadores as they thread along the trail AUSTLN Aug 4 kickoff sum of $200000 is needed for a housing community for retired Texas teachers The Texas State Teachers As sociation budget committee heard a request for the money State forecasts issued Friday by the Weather Bureau: North Central and 'Northeast cloudy with widely scattered thundershowers through Saturday Low Friday night 70-78 high Saturday 92-100 Northwestern to partly cloudy with isolated thundershowers mainly in south portion through Saturday Low Friday night 85-75 high Saturday 90-98 Southwest Texas Fair and warm through Saturday Low Friday night 85-73 high Saturday 94-98 Southeast cloudy through Saturday with isolated daytime thundershowers near the coast Low Friday night in 70s high Saturday 9498 Extreme Southwestern Fair to partly cloudy through Saturday Low Friday night 55- 70 high Saturday 85-100 State forecasts issued Friday by the Weather Bureau: North Central and Northeast cloudy with wide- ly scatiered thundershowers through Saturday Low Friday night 70-78 high Saturday 92-100 Northwestern to partly cloudy with isolated thun- dershowers mainly in south por- tion through Saturday Low Fri- day night as-a high Saturday 90-98 Southwest Texas and Press Wirephoto MAPPING THE is forecast Friday night for the extreme northern states from North Dakota to Upper Michigan while warmer weather is expected in Lower Michigan and Indiana Drizzle is again predicted along with fog for the Washington and Oregon coast with showers and thunderstorms likely in the Great Lakes midMississippi And Ohio Valleys New England and the Gulf Coast region Phoenician Writings Unearthed in Jordan Residents of the community will be retired l'eltAS teachers and their wives Or husbands who are OS or older A registered nurfie will serve fulitime Infirmary facilities will be built in The project is a memorial to the late Dr Henry Stilwell president of Texarkana Junior College and past president and legislative representative for TSTA A survey of retired teachers in larger cities shows 2 per cent would like to live at the project reported Miss Ella Smith of Fort Worth president of the Tex as Retired Teachers Association Miss Quata Woods of Dallas said various 'rSTA chapters are already donating to the Stilwell memorial fund for the project More help is expected from the 80000 teachers of Texas as well other groups and individuals she said Foreign governments have corn plained that the customs tariffs on autos and farm tractors are too high in Spain Thursday The housing project will told $1000000 The request for one-fifth that sum was made by Attorney General Will Wilson on behalf of the board of the Texas Retired Teachers Residence Corporat ion Wilson asked that the TSTA either set aside $200000 in its budget or $1 per year from each member's dues for a 10-year perind A government loan would finance the rest of the cost A site for the project has not been selected "We are under an obligation to provide comfortable and secure surroundings for the people who have dedicated themselves to leaching our children" Wilson said Tunisia Invites France to Talk 6 dz fl A PI in nc de tu nc 311 er tr -de ne rn ih :94 er 111 111 11 4 AM-MAN Jordan Aug 4 Mew number of stone slabs covered with writings dating to the Phoenician era about MO have been discovered here the antiquities department announced Thursday They were uncovered at the site of an ancient Roman citadel where excavations began in June Phoenician earthen plates statues and figurines were also found '-I4 two see a these 13uJ ICAL il A 1101IDERFUL PICTURE OPPORTIMITY Stire 61101 1 rr611f-111 TUNIS Aug 4 iP1 Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba openly invited France Thursday to settle theBizerte dispute through negotiations He hinted that future co-operation between the two countries is still possible The Tunisian president also ap pealed indirectly (o the United States to put pressure on France to induce it to negotiate on gradual evacuation of its troops from the big naval base at Bizerte He promised a "reasonable evacuation calendar" and said once the problem is solved "we could start again the work of construction" Bourguiba's statement made at a news conference and simultaneously broadcast over the national radio struck an optimistic echo among Western diplomats in the Tunisian capital WI $1 I 1 fiJag Vb3 I if 0 II FLAGS C'-- ME 1 Half of Expressway In Sherman to Open 7t- r'- 1 ft vt 14 84 eIi: si I ff firts -Atf Ok 11 --c--- mt tr Ali 'r 4 -4iIi tt rAi -i 4 Z'-' tA II SHERMAN Aug 4 SO) The south half of the new Highway 75 expressway through West Sherman will be opened to traffic Friday said Texas Highway Department Resident Engl neT Cagle of Sherman Cagle said completion of the expressway through Sherman is scheduled for February 1962 Cagle said also that from six to seven weeks will see the routing of traffic on 75 from the M-K-T underpass north of Sherman to the Cherry St underpass two blocks south of Houston St where traffic will then travel on the expressway south The Westinghouse exhibit "Kitchens of Yesterday Today and Tomorrow" a fascinating contrast of the old and the new showing progress in kitchen design from many years ago to the modern albelectric kitchen of today and tomorrow The Texas Electric Service Company exhibit a pictorial panorama of power for progress in The Opportunity Frontier of Texas Exhibits Across from the Petting Zoo Be sure to take your camera with you to capture all the exciting fun-filled adventures at SIX FLAGS OVER TEXAS When you're in the USA section stop by THE CAMERA SHOP in the KODAK building You'll find Kodak film and cameras right there when you need them Then for the fastest and best possible finishing for your exposed film visit the Camra Shop in Fort Worth TAKE YOUR CAMERA TOO A Trial Court Justice Subject for Seminar AUSTIN Aug 4 014--A seminar on furthering justice in trial courts will be held in Austin Nov 2-Dec 2 the State Bar of Texas announced About 100 trial judges from seven states will attend the seminar the first of its kind The National Conference of the State Trial Judges and the Uni- versity of Texas School of Law will sponsor the affair in co-op eration with the American Bar Association Ike camera TEXAS ELECTRIC SERVICE COMPANY 1 709 Throckmorton Downtown 3116 Sixth West Side YOUR VERIFAXIKTALITH DEALER ms 0 1.