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Stocky, cheerful W. O. Hodges, 45, was sheriff of Denton County (pop. 41,365), Texas for only four years, but he died last week a famous man. Before taking office, Hodges was just an ordinary sort of fellow; he grew up in a little cow town named Aubrey, spent a year at Texas Christian University, got a Depression job as a cop in the county seat, went to war as a coast guardsman, came home and started running for sheriff. He made it the second time...
...Year's Eve was 46, a county sheriff by occupation and a fine figure of a man. But for months he had had such severe pains in his back and belly that he had to be given opiates several times a day. Drs. Michael E. De Bakey and Denton A. Cooley found from X rays that the sheriff had a massive aneurysm of the descending aorta-an enlargement of the great artery which carries blood from the heart to the abdomi nal organs and the legs. The aneurysm, formed where the artery's walls had been weakened...
...Colonel Ashley Denton, Deputy Chief of Staff, Personnel, Directorate of Training, HQUSAF, last night stated that the addition of another year of service to non-ROTC commissions was due largely to the continuation of two-year maximum for "desk" ROTC graduates...
...Denton doubted that the two-year maximum would be changed in the near future. "I've seen a paper going around the Pentagon now on ROTC commissions, and it still lists the two year requirement," he said...
...Banker Denton proved that in banking, as in retailing, it pays to merchandise. In two days, 100,000 people swarmed through the new headquarters and the bank, whose accounts had numbered 125,000 signed up 20,000 new customers with $1,300,000 in deposits...