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...Denison University...
...Night. Without notice, the Katy secretly closed most of its St. Louis offices, moved them 500 miles southwest to Denison, Tex. In the dead of night, outside movers cleaned out the 15th floor of the Railway Exchange Building, and the third floor of the freight house on the fringe of downtown, quietly hauled away desks, cabinets and records aboard 23 moving vans. On Monday morning unsuspecting Katy employees reported with lunchboxes in hand to find an armed security officer on guard before darkened, empty offices. Cried one woman clerk of 33 years' service: "Oh heavens! I left my glasses...
...Blind River field is Rio Tinto's. The mine which many geologists say has probably the biggest (136 million tons) reserve of uranium ore in the Western world is Consolidated Denison Mines Ltd., under the control of Latecomer Steve Roman. He expects to begin production next month, holds $201.2 million in government contracts...
Instantly the denizens of Denison (pop. 19,984) leaped into a bipartisan fury, charging that Ike indeed was born in Denison and was so registered in the county records. Not so reckoned one Paul Bunting of Tyler (pop. 51,540): Ike's father bought a home in Tyler when Ike was 11 months old, and if it is true, as Ike's mother has said, that she "carried" Ike in Tyler, why then he "might" have been born there. From a rancher came a letter insisting that Ike came from Commerce, Texas (pop. 6,200). Then the word...
Publisher Stauffer was born in Hope, Kans., where his father had taken over a general store from the father of President Eisenhower before the Eisenhowers moved to Denison, Texas, where Ike was born.† At the University of Kansas one of Stauffer's closest friends was Classmate Alf M. Landon, and Stauffer headed a Landon-for-President committee...