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wo Men Held
Atomic Base
’ fe-Cracking
LBUQUERQUE, N.M., Nov. 9
B—The FBI held two men in
oenix, Ariz., today on charges
y are the nervy, big-footed bur-
:rs who cracked up a branch
ik safe at closely-guarded San-
atomic weapons base here and
ted it of $47,655.
ihe two, both identified as “big
Sn,” were identified as Robert
Lde Sanders, 26, and Joseph
irr Gullahorn, 34, both of Phoe-
They were held in the Mari-
a county jail under $50,000 bond
ih.
Neither Armad
FBI moved in on the pair at
llahorn’s Phoenix residence.
. d e r a 1 authorities recovered
me money," although they said
y were “not sure how much,"
i two .38 calibre pistols. Neither
oders nor Gullahorn were armed
the time of the arrest,
rhe burglary was apparently an
Jtside job.” D. A. Bryce, special
;nt in charge of the FBI office
re, said in Phoenix that both
m are civilians and not connect-
with the base in any way.
rhe burglars entered the top-
■ret base over the weekend of
jt. 22 and under cover of dark-
is jimmied their way into the
kety barracks building serving
a branch for the Bank of New
'•xico.
hey then "peeled" open the
c, a floor type vault, and took
tually "all the cash" on the
;miscs. They left $4,700 in silver
ittered on the bank floor.
Visitors Registered
e FBI said it was not prepared
say how the two men entered
base. But visitors can enter
-classified areas merely by
istering with military police at
base gates.
e bank, however, is located di-
tly across the street from the
e’s main street which is con-
ntly patrolled by armed motor
rds.
e FBI had sent out an alort
two "big-footed" burglars wear-
shoes sizes 11VS and I2t*.
OP) MEANS ASSOCIATED PRESS
El Reno, Oklahoma, Wednesday, November 9, 1955
(IMS MEANS UNITED PRESS
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NEW STRUCTURE HERE—Work is expected to start immediately on a new $50,000
Knights of Columbus structure at the southwest corner of Bickford and Sunset where a
quarter of a block of business buildings was destroyed by one of the most severe blazes in
El Reno’s history last June 27. The new building "will be 50 by 118 feet and will be erect-
ed by Fred Corlee who secured the permit late Tuesday. It will be of concrete blocks on a
concrete foundation, one story in height with a built-up roof.
Reds Accused of Plans
To Sovietize Germany
Polio Vaccine Tests Finished
Bids Are Opened
On U. S. 66 Jobs
rive Is Set
n Detection
f Diabetics
e eighth annual diabetes de-
.tion drive wall be observed in
Reno during Diabetes Week,
>v. 13 to 19, under chairmanship
Dr. James Jobe, appointed by
e Canadian county medical so-
fty.
The week will mark the renewal
a nationwide search for an esti-
ated one million men, women
d children who have diabetes
it are unaware of it.
Dr. Jobe said the goal is “to
id the undetected diabetics as
on as possible so that they may
ceive proper medical attention
d thus escape the serious com-
ications associated with neglect
this chronic disease."
He said adequate facilities will
provided to assure diabetes de-
ction tests for every person in
e community who wants it and
{at the tests will be made free of
,arge.
Arrangements may be made by
(crested persons by contacting
:eir family physicians, the drive
{airman said. He stressed that
he detection test is free, simple
id only takes a few minutes."
Veterans Day
Closings Slated
City offices and those in the
county courthouse along with the
Citizens National Bank will be
closed Friday in observation of
Veterans day but other El Reno
i business will continue as usual.
Commissioners of the county said
I "it will be a holiday for all county
I employes including roadmen." The
city hall will be closed too except
' for the fire and police departments.
The American Legion has an-
nounced that it will hold an annual
program in observation of the day
at the highschool, and that an open
house scheduled Saturday in the
Legion hall will be an additional
observance.
Entertainment will be offered at
| the open house and food will be
served from 11:30 a m. to 1 p.m
and from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
Veterans of Foreign Wars will
observe the day with an open
house at the VFW building during
the afternoon and early evening.
BTW To Meet
Dunjee Team
In Grid Game
Rotarians To Hear
Dr. R. T. Klemme
Dr. Randall T. Klemme, director
the Oklahoma department of
mmcrce and industries will
>eak to Rotary club members and
eir farmer guests at a dinner be-
nning at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in
e Presbyterian church. 1
Each Rotarian is inviting at
st one farmer guest for the event
ich is held annually. There are
Rotary members meaning at
st three dozen county farmers
111 attend.
Dr. Klemme is expected to dis-
iss his experiences while with the
ird Foundation and serving in
archi-Pakistan where he spent
ree years.
ity Manager Plans To
ttend Ada Meeting
ity Manager C. A. Bentley
ursday and Friday will attend a
ting of the Oklahoma Mana-
rs association at Ada and cx-
ted today to return to his of-
sometime Saturday,
e announced that due to his
sence the adjourned session of
city council probably will not
held until next Tuesday. At the
uncil meeting, members will con-
'er bids on lead and jute the
y uses in packing joints of pipe.
Booker T. Washington school's
grid team will bring its 1955 foot-
ball schedule to a close when it
| meets the Dunjee highschool team !
from Choctaw at 8 p. m. Thursday j
in Adams park Memorial stadium
Coach George Clark said two
members of the Panthers squad
will be playing their last home-
coming in the Thursday night en-
counter. They are Co-captains Mar-
vin Richey and Capp Wormley.
A feature of half-time ceremonies
will be announcement and coro-
nation of this season's BTW foot-
ball queen and “Miss BTW,” along
with a marching demonstration by
the school's band.
The game will be the third en-
counter by BTW and Dunjee play-
ers, with past victories evenly di-
vided.
Mother, Children
Die in Accident
ADA, Nov. 9—iiT)—A Sulphur
woman and her two children were
killed today when a Frisco freight
train collided with her car at a
crossing at Hickory, 25 miles
southwest of here.
Killed were Mrs. Bessie Gep-
hart, 46, Sulphur, route 2, her 11-
year-old daughter Mary Frances
and 12-year-old son William Louis.
Highway Patrol Trooper Lee
Ellyson said the three were thrown
out of the car when it was hit
by the southbound freight about 9
a. m. The auto rolled 234 feet
along the track after the collision.
The three deaths raised Okla-
homa's highway accident fatality
toll for this year to 498 compared
with 493 at the same time last
year.
Live Virus Found
In Suspect Lots
Of Cutter Shots
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9—tfii
—The public health service an-
nounced today that “live” j
virus has now been found in
all six originally suspect lots of
Cutter polio vaccine. An earl-
ier study had indicated live
virus was present in only three [
of the lots.
The announcement said that type j
1 virus—the most virulent kind—
was found in all six lots, and that,
in addition, type 2 was found in
one of the lots and type 3 in two
others.
The health service gave these
new details in saying that official
laboratory tests of Salk polio vac-
cine produced by the Cutter labora-
tories of Berkeley, Calif., prior to
adoption of new government stand-
ards, have been concluded.
In a report on Aug. 25, the health
service had said it found nothing
to indicate the presence of the live
virus in the vaccine was attribu-
table to contamination.
In effect, it blamed the faulty
vaccine on "fundamental weakness-
es” in the government's own safety
testing standards of that time. New,
more rigid tests have since been
put into effect, and the health ser-
vice has repeatedly said it con-
siders the polio vaccine now being
used to be a safe one.
Out-of-State
Drivers Pay
Traffic Fines
Five out-of-the-state motorists
paid traffic violation fines Tuesday
before El Reno justices of the peace
in the amount of $66 after pleas of
guilty.
Justice J. H. Craven fined Eldon
Boyer, Mt. Clement, Mich., $10
and costs after his arrest for
speeding six miles west of El Reno
on US 66.
Four were fined by Justice W.
H. Gilbert. They were Benard
Goodin, sr., Los Angeles, Calif.,
$15 and costs for speeding at a
point 1U4 miles west of El Reno
on US 66, John Henry Ruckman,
San Bernardino, Calif., $5 and
costs for passing in a no-passing
zone west of the city, William A.
Hartley, Afton, 111., a dollar and
costs for passing in a no passing
zone, and Charles A. Bacon, Cleve-
land, Ohio, $35 and costs for driv-
ing 85 miles per hour at night at
a point seven miles west of El
Reno on US 66.
Improvement projects on the U S.
66 route, including widening work
on the Six Mile creek bridge, south-
east of El Reno, came up when
bids were opened by the state high-
way commission in its Novembe/
letting Tuesday.
W. W. Hodges was apparent low
bidder, with an offer of $5,679.40
on the proposed 108-foot bridge at
Six Mile creek. Seven bidders made
offers on the project which had
been estimated to cost $6,001 40.
Tulsa Firm Low
Two other U.S. 66 projects were in
Tulsa county. Layman and Sons of
Tulsa, with an offer of $1,196,582.02
was apparently low among five
bidders on the U.S. by-pass from .3
mile west of Lewis avenue, east
to east of Yale avenue, Tulsa on a
job which includes 2.715 miles of
four-lane grading, drainage, crush-
ed rock base, asphaltic concrete
paving, a 49-foot reinforced con-
crete culvert. Estimated cost had
been $1,201,266.52.
Other Bids Opened
The Henryetta Construction com-
pany of Henryetta, with an offer of
$118,731.04, was low among four
bidders on the U.S. 66 by-pass at
the intersection of the by-pass and
Lewis avenue in Tulsa county. The
project includes a 72-foot concrete-
steel highway—highway separation
structure 48 feet wide. Estimated
cost was $143,215.65.
In Beckham county the Clark
Construction company of Wood-
ward, was low among seven bid-
ders with $78,783.48 on a U.S. 66
project one mile east of Erick,
northeast. The project includes
5.796 miles of grading and drain-
age work which previously had
been estimated at $92,156.80.
Democrats Win
'Test' Vote But
GOP Unworried
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9-rtPl-Re-
publican National Chairman Leon-
ard W. Hall said today the state
and local elections in which Demo-
crats made some smashing gains
"had no national significance."
Democrats saw their victories as
giving them new power in the
"grass roots" political organiza-
tions for the 1956 presidential cam-
paign.
But Hall said in a statement that
it is traditional for the party out
of power to make some gains in
off-year elections, just as the Re-
publicans did in 1946.
Victory Forecast
“But as we learned to our sor-
row in 1948,” he added, "those
gains did not forecast a national
victory at the general election.”
That was the year Harry S. Tru-
man sucessfully waged his “give-
em-hell" campaign for the pre-
sidency.
Hall said that a year from to-
day when voters go to the polls in
the national elections he was con-
fident there would be a resound-
ing “vote of confidence" in the
GOP and the Eisenhower admin-
istration.
Neither Raca Upset'
He claimed Republicans made a
"good showing in some places."
He conceded they “did not do so
well in others."
Democrats retained the gov-
ernorship of Kentucky and control
of the mayor’s office in Philadelp-
hia. Hall commented neither race
was an “upset.”
The Democrats also won 74 of
the 105 Municipal contests in In-
diana. a peak never before reach-
ed even under the landslide sweeps
.of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Trade' Is Noted
Hall merely noted: "We won
some mayoralty seats from the
Democrats while losing othors; we
elected Republican supervisors in
Fairfax county, Va., for the first
time in history and held both
houses of the New Jersey legis-
lature despite a determined effort
by the Democrat governor to win
control.” (The Democrats did take
three state senate seats away from
the Republicans in New Jersey al-
though not winning control of the
legislature.)
The GOP chieftain insisted "it
is a mistake" to read a national
trend into the local elections.
4-H Youth Quality Wheat
Program Set for County
First steps in launching a 4-H club quality wheat program
in Canadian county were taken today by Dave Williams,
assistant county agent, as he mailed letters to all 4-H club
boys.
The program is sponsored by the Oklahoma wheat re-
search foundation and the Enid board of trade in cooperation
with the Oklahoma A and M extension service.
Any county 4-H club boy may take part in the program
by filling out an entry blank mailed to nim by Williams, by
planting five acres or more of Comanche, Concho, Pawnee,
Ponca, Triumph, Westar or Wichita varieties of wheat, and
---1 by submitting a 15-pound
pie of that wheat.
sam-
Tax Collection
Due In County
Collection of 1955 Canadian coun-
ty taxes amounting to $1,218,932.22
will start Monday in the office of
Miss Helen March, county treasur-
er, she announced today.
The 1955 taxes show an increase
of $194,928.02 over the 1954 figure
of $1,024,004.20.
Greatest Increase in taxos this
year is in the corporation division
where the break-down gives the
1955 figures at $460,753.54 com-
pared to the 1954 total of $291,-
282.84, an increase of $169,470.70,
just $25,457.32 less than the total
increase for the year.
Building la Causa
Miss March attributed the cor-
poration increase to building done
during the year by corporations j third.
operating in the county. Importance Stressed
Statements to all persons who Williams’ letter to regularly cn-
owe taxes were mailed by Miss rolled 4-H boys above 12 years of
March this morning. age asked that those interested re-
She said first-half delinquencies turn enrolment blanks as soon as
arc effective January 1; second possible.
half penalties goes into effect u streased the imporUnce of the
April 1. | project in this county where wheat
Porsonal Taxes Up is the major crop.
Personal taxes this year are, Additional information wiU be
$185,464.44, just $4,249.14 more than I gent to those enrolling by the as-
1954’s total of $181,215.30. sistant county agent.
Property or real estate taxes; _
amount to $572,714.24. This is anj
increase of $21,208.18 over the 19541
figure of $551,506.06.
Awards and trips valued at
$1,000 are offered in the program
which Williams says provides 4-H
boys an opportunity to learn about
Oklahoma quality wheat and the
export market, to earn an income
from project work and cash
awards, and to gain valuable
experience and make new friends.
Gold Medal Offered
Awards include one gold medal
to honor the winner in each county;
40 district awards worth $250; and
ail entering are competing for state
awards that include an educational
trip to a seaport to view the oper-
ations of the wheat export market
for first, second and third place
state winners, these three boys to
be accompanied by the county
agent of the “4-H Wheat King.”
State winners also will receive
a wheat king trophy and $50 in
cash for first; $25 in cash for sec-
ond; and a similar amount for
Dulles Charges
Russian Policy
Menaces Peace
GENEVA, Nov. 9—(JP>—The
West angrily accused Russia
today of seeking the “Soviet-
ization” of all Germany, and
U.S. Secretary of State Dulles
charged Russian policy perpe-
uates a danger to the “peace
of Europe.”
In rapid succession, Dulles,
British Foreign^ Secretary Mac-
eign
the
Deadline On
Cof C Vote
Is Set Dec. 25
Three Men Killed
As Plane Explodes
Indian Land Sale
Brings in $90,780
A total of 13 tracts of land out of
24 offered in an Indian land sale
at Concho have been sold for a
total of $90,780.20.
This information came today
from Edward Edzard, area field
director for the Indian service at
Concho.
BOND IS $1
Mrs. Charles Canon, 800 block
Allison drive, posted bond of one
dollar with city police Wednesday
on a charge of blocking the side-
walk.
Baptists To Study
Home for Aged
TULSA, Nov. 9—LP—The Okla-
homa Baptist general convention's
board of directors today recom-
mended setting aside $10,000 of
next year's budget toward build-
ing a state Baptist home for the
aged.
The recommendation was in a
report by Dr. T. B. Lackey, the
convention’s executive secretary,
who suggested the proposed home
be known as “the Baptist Golden
Age home."
"A statewide dedicated dollar
day” offering this year netted $1,-
619 for the home, he said, and the
Baptist foundation has received
gifts of more than $1,800 for that
purpose.
Lackey said: "We are thinking
in terms of a two million dollar
home that will adequately care for
400 residents."
MARLIN, Texas, Nov. 9—l*—
Three captains were ktUed last
night when their B47B jet from
Biggs airforce base, El Paso, Tex.,
exploded and crashed only five
minutes after making a routine
j radio report.
Christmas Day has been named Bl^s authorities identified the
as the deadline for returning bal- dead as:
lots to the chamber of commerce Captain E. O. Tilton, 39, plane
office here in the annual board of commander, Brady, Tex., survived
directors election of the organiza- by a w*^c an<* three children,
tion. Captain A. G. Sterling, 29, pilot,
Jack Burmeier, chamber mana-1 Ea8le Grove, Iowa, survived by a
ger, said today that the ballots will w^e an<* three children,
be mailed out December 15 and Captain H. T. Courcier, 38, Wich-
chamber members have 10 days in ha Falls, Tex., survived by a wife
which to make their votes. ant* two children.
Each ballot that goes out has the The bodies were located today,
names of Don Arnold, Fred Beck- one with his parachute still strap-
ett, Bud Conway, Ray Dyer, Mar- Ped to his back, the others some
garet Edsel Fitch, Marion Hensley, distance from the wreckage
Oscar Limestall, Wayman Hum- Biggs said the plane left El Paso
phrey, Bill Mabcrry, Vestus Mor- al 5:55 p.m. yesterday on a rou-
ris, Robert Pease, Bob Trimble tine navigational flight. It report-
and Morris Wright. , ed to Midland by radio at 6:20 p.m.
Five of the 13 persons listed and to Waco at 7:24, just five min-
will be named for three-year of- utes before the craft exploded in
fices on the board which is made the air.
up of 15 elected members, and four -
ex-officio members. The president
of the junior chamber also is con-1
sidered a member as is the past j
president if he is not reelected.
Millan and French Foreign
Minister Pinay denounced the
stand which Soviet Minister
Molotov took against German
reunification yesterday upon
his return here from Moscow.
They appealed to the Soviet gov-
ernment to reconsider its position.
'Failure' Is Sean
MacMillan called the Big Four
conference efforts on Germany a
failure and declared that the So-
viet Union is using "the happiness,
unity and independence of the Ger-
man people as pawns in its game"
to break up the Atlantic alliance
and the western European union.
Dulles emphasized two points at
the very outset of his blunt state-
ment to Molotov at today's session
—the ninth of this Geneva confer-
ence.
'Crippling Blow'
First, he said, the Soviet position,
if persisted in, will "perpetuate
conditions which put in jeopardy
the peace of Europe.”
Second, he said, Molotov’s speech
yesterday "strikes a crippling
blow" at the development of rela-
tions of confidence between the
west and Russia.
Loyal Defeats Calumet Teams
In Doubleheader Cage Contest
Calumet basketball players
just couldn't get started Tuesday
night in games at Loyal as the
boys fell by a scant margin of
32 to 30 and the girls lost 39
to 29.
It was the second defeat suf-
fered by the girls team. The boys’
conference standing is one won
and one lost. They hold a victory
over Okarche in conference play
and won from Piedmont but lost
to Mustang in a basketball festi-
val at Calumet last Friday.
The Calumet boys did not seem
able to hit the bucket as they
failed on five shots in the last
15 seconds of play to tie up the
score.
The game started out with the
Calumet boys setting up a zone
defense and proceeded so slowly
that they switched to man to
man at halftime with only three
points separating the two teams.
Loyal was in the lead of a 10
to 7 score.
Peggy Stas was high scorer
for the girls with 12 points and
Virginia Stults was in a close sec-
ond with 11. Others seeing action
with the girls club were Sue
Tully, Roxie Paulk, Gayle Craw-
ford, Delores Reimers, Margie
Gleason and Carol Griffith.
Charles Reese hit 12 points for
the Calumet boys. Also playing
were Don and Bob Kennedy,
Kent Thompson, Wayne Miller,
Bobby Girard, Fred Bushyhead,
Jack Heffron and C. L. Lang-
ham.
The Calumet girls will host
teams from Mustang, East Wal-
nut and Piedmont in a basket-
ball festival Friday.
Two Men Arrested
Over Bank Holdup
ANADARKO, Nov. 9—DPI—State,
county and federal officers arrest-
ed two men today as suspects in
the $5,000 holdup last Friday of the
First National bank at Cement.
Caddo County Sheriff Ray Laris-
on identified the men as Jimmy
Spann, about 21, an oilfield work-
er living at Anadarko, and How-
ard Shaw, 30. Shaw was arrested
in Oklahoma City.
Larison refused to give details
of the Investigation or arrest until
interrogation of the two men is
complete. He said none of the
money has been recovered, and
the two men deny being involved.
Two men, their faces blackened
with burnt cork, held up the bank
shortly before noon Friday, es-
caping with between $4,000 and
$5,000.
Tickets For
Ardmore Grid
Game on Hand
Bureau Hit
Over Secrecy
'Right'Claim
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9—OPU-Rep-
resontative John E. Moss (Demo-
crat, California) today described as
"fantastic" a federal agency’s
claim that it has an "inherent
right" to withhold information
from the public.
"There is no inherent right to
withhold information," he told
newsmen, "and certainly not on
the broad basis claimed by the
| civil service commission. I think
that is fantastic."
The commission was the first
agency called yesterday by Moss’
: government operations subcommit-
tee to justify withholding of in-
formation from the public, the
press and congress.
The subcommittee today sum-
moned officials of the postoffice
iepartment to explain, among
ither things, the use of their own
secrecy labels on non-defense in-
formation. The department has re-
| vealed that it uses "confidential,"
“restricted for use of principal
staff,” and “restricted to head-
quarters" on non-defense material
it wants kept secret.
The subcommitte also called for
an explanation of Postmaster Gen-
eral Arthur E. Summerfield’s re-
quest for secrecy on the names of
men determined to be eligible for
postmaster appointments.
WELCOME PLANNED
DENVER, Nov. 9—tffV—President
Eisenhower set up a program of
welcome today for the president
of Guatemala as his last official
visitor before he leaves Fitzsim-
mons army hospital Friday.
Tickets for the El Reno high-
school Indians last game of the
season, to be played at Ardmore
Friday, are available at the high-
school.
M. A. Mitchell, registrar, said
the tickets will be available at his
office in the highschool until 1
p.m. Friday.
Both reserved seats and general
admission tickets have been re-
ceived for El Reno grid fans, he
added.
SCHOOL STUDY ASKED
OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 9-W-
A legislative study of Oklahoma's
highschools was proposed today by
State Senator Oliver Walker of
Dale, chairman of the legislative
council education committee.
Weather
State Forecast
Partly cloudy through Thursday
Not so cold tonight. Turning cool-
er Thursday. Low temperatures
tonight 30 to 35. High Thursday 50
in the panhandle to 60 southeast.
Rock Island Freight
Involved in Mishap
Rock Island Railway wrecker
crews returned to El Reno about
5 a. m. today from near Anadarko
where they were called Tuesday
morning after train difficulties
there.
Officials of the company would
say only that, "one car got away
and ran into another causing some
damage.”
They gave the site of the trouble
as Richard Spur near Anadarko
and said that a freight train was
involved.
John Donham Joins
Auto Firm's Staff
John Donham, Oklahoma City,
has been employed by Marshall
Chevrolet as a used car salesman
and plans to move to El Reno with
his family in the near future.
Donham, who has worked for the
past 12 years with an automotive
firm in Oklahoma City, is married
and has two children, John David,
18, and Dorene, 16. Mrs. Donham
is the former Mildred Muir, whose
mother, Mrs. Rose Mttir, lives
southesst of El Reno.
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