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<U.PJ MEAN8 UNITED PRESS
President Truman Gets Reward
El Reno, Oklahoma, Sunday, May 18, 1947
UP) MEANS ASSOCIATED PRESS
With a re-sounding smack, Betty Lou Hall, orphan of a World War
I veteran and a ward of the Veterans of Foreign Wars national home
a aiton Rapids, Mich., plants a kiss on the cheek of President Tru-
reward to the chief executive for his purchase
V 1*. w. buddy poppy.
of a
Buddy Poppies
To Be Ottered
V.F.VV. Arranges
Annual Sale
El Reno post of the Veterans
of Foreign Wars has completed
plans for the 26th annual sale of
t buddy poppies, to be conducted on
El Reno streets Saturday, May 24,
It was announced by Otis Arndt,
chairman of the post poppy com-
mittee.
Distribution of memorial easels
will be effected Monday, Arndt
said, and all businesses in El Reno
will be given an oportunity to
obtain one for display during the
next two weeks, ending Memorial
day, May 30.
i The S<)uaws. El Reno highscliool
pep club, sponsored by Miss May
Shunklin, Will offer the buddy pop-
pies on downtown streets, and
members of the post auxiliary,
headed by Mrs, Clyde Lewis, presi-
dent. also will take an active part.
In announcing the annual sale,
Arndt emphasized the fact that
all persons assisting in the buddy
poppy distribution are voluntary
workers, and recounted the uses to
a which the proceeds are put.
Beginning with the disabled hos-
pitalized veteran who is paid for
making buddy poppies, the entire
amoirnt is used for veteran relief
and rehabiliation A portion of the
sum collected will be sent to
Woodward, to aid all needy veter-
ans in that stricken city. Some is
used to assist veterans seeking
hospitalization, education, and in
solving other veterans problems,
and a part of the money collected
remains in El Reno to assist local
vets with such problems, Arndt
pointed out.
"Three years ago today, the men
who will benefit from the sale of
buddy poppies stood between our
homes and two of the most brutal-
ly efficient warring nations in all
history. We haven't forgotten their
sacrifices then, and we are con-,
fldent the people or El Reno and
community haven't either," Arndt
concluded.
Faultless Cops
Withers Stakes
Belmont Dash Is
Mere Cakewalk
NEW YORK. May 17- i/r> -They
threw a (25,000 party for a Faultless
at Belmont in the Withers stakes
today, and last week's Prcakncss
winner did just what the guest of
honor is expected to do in such
cases—only easier.
Ordinarily, this three-quarter
century old one-mile dash Is recard-
erl as a sprinters' derby, which isn't
cut out for the longer-running
Kentucky derby and Preakness
horses. But both Faultless and Jet
Pilot. Who won at Churchill downs
this spring, turned out for it. and
it wound up a cake walk for Fault-
less.
All the tall rangy galloper from
the blue grass did was wait until
Jet Pilot and Owner's Choice ran
each other's legs off from three-
quarters of a mile Then Jockey
Doug Dodson turned the son of
Bull Lea loose from fifth place,
seven lengths back, and he waltzed
in by two lengths for the crowd of
49,810 who had backed liiiW down
the $4.30 for $2 favorite’s spot.
The Pilot petered out to fourth,
just as he did in the Preakness, and
Owner's Choice, who is the choice
of owner John D. Hertz, staggered
in a sixth. The only horse he beat
was Uncle Reinus.
The Virginia-bred Brabancon
I Was second by a wide open four
lengths over Earl Sande's Stage
Kid. who nipped Jet Pilot- at the
wire for third money Blue Border
quietly slip to fifth.
.laycees To Seek
More Members
M. J. Meyer announced May 19
as the opening of the annual
membership drive when he appear-
ed before the junior chamber of
commerce at their meeting Friday
noon in the Oxford cafe.
Meyer is chwnnan of the mem-
bership committee which will begin
their campaign for new members
this week.
Dr. Riley Strong, chairman of
the nominating committee, report-
ed on work of the committee In
choosing officers and directors to
be submitted at. the meeting next,
week. They will take office July 1.
Robert Evans, chairman of the
cleanup campaign, outlined plans
of dividing El Reno Into four zones
to collect trash and spray as a
part of the cleanup drive. He re-
IMirled that six men from the Junior
chamber will work each day with
the El Reno sanitary departmen'
in the DDT spray program.
Harvest Labor Service
Established at Alva
ALVA. May 17—(ll.R)— A harvest
labor service office was set up here
today at the chamber of commerce
hs an aid to laborers and farm em-
ployers.
A survey will be conducted to
determine the amount of farm labor .will
needed during the harvest.
Fines Suspended
Tn County Court
Fines assessed against three Yu-
kon youths, charged with malLlous
mischief, were suspended by Judge
Roy M. Faubion in Canadian coun-
ty court Saturday.
Frank H. Herman. 23. Charlie
Johnson. 18, and Niels Rickard, 18.
who pleaded guilty at their ar-
raignment 111 the county court May
7. were assessed fines ranging from
(10 to $25, with each being sus-
pended.
At the same lime, the court dis-
missed charged against Billy D.
Anderson, 16, Don Taylor, 16, and
Seymour Christian, 16, all of Yu-
kon. who were charged jointly with
the other three defendants and
who also had pleaded guilty at the
original arraignment.
Information filed by Harry Lo-
renzen, county attorney, charged
,'hat on May 6 the six youths over-
turned an outbuilding on the
grounds of the Emerald Valley
school, located two miles north of
Yukon.
Curtis Will Be Speaker
At Lions Club Luncheon
Rev. Gilbert. O. Curtis, vl~ar of
Christ Memorial Episcopal church,
will speak at the noon meeting of
the El Reno Lions club Tuesday
,at the Oxford cafe, It was an-
nounced Saturday by Judge Roy
•M. Faubion. club president.
At the luncheon meeting of the
club on Tuesday, May 27, the Lions
will be addressed by Captain Rob-
ert G. Dygert of Fort Reno, who j
discuss universal military
Are Graduating
Certificates Will
He Presented In
Program Thursday
Promotion certificates will be
awarded to 136 eighth grade stud
ents of Etta Dale junior high-
school in the promotion program
to be held at 2 p. m. Thursday
hi tlie auditorium.
There are 67 boys and 69 girls
in the eighth grade class who will
receive certificates from. Paul R.
Taylor, superintendent of El Reno
schools.
Mrs. Sanford Babcock will play
the processional before Rev. A. C
Dubberstein, pastor of Trinity
Lutheran church, gives the Invoca-
tion.
Robert Lee Ferguson will play
"Licbesfruling." by Elirlck, accomp-
anied by Clarence *Brady. Other
musical numbers will be the solo,
"Allegro from Sonata Number
One," by Beethoven, by Elaine
Bailey, and "Serenade,” by Friml,
by a sextet composed of Jimmie
Lou Freeman, Myrna Yant, Carol
Cosby, Jane Huddart, Doris Cul-
ley and Patricia Wynes.
Walter P. Marsh, principal of El
Reno highschool, will welcome the
group being promoted, and long
term attendance certificates will
be awarded by Asa Mayfield, Juni-
or higsehool principal.
Rev. Dubberstein will pronounce
the benediction before the reces-
sional Is played by Mrs. Sanford
Babcock.
Graduates Are Listed
Students who will lie promoted
Include Dale Abbitt, Billy Abies,
John Akins, Corby Arthur, Harvey
Auld, Betty Bailey, Elaine Bailey,
James Barks. Virginia Best. Leat-
rice Bond. Tommy Brower, Ray
Brunkhurst. Barbara Brush. Char-
les Cahill. Ruth Ann Carter.
Marcia Chappeil. Harold Child-
ers. Wanda Childers. Charles Clovis,
Melvin Corn, Carol Cosby, Joyce
Cranmcr, Arthur Croak. Joyce Cul-
lers. Doris Culley, Andrew Cum-
mins. Billy Curtis, Georgia Dis-
ney, Eunice Dorsey, Melba Due,
Marilyn Dubberstein.
Dorothy Eberhart, Louvis Eich-
liolz, Margaret El tel, Othel Ann
Emerson. Franklin Estes, Tbrnmy
Fahey, Robert Lee Ferguson. Sally
Finch. Lou Ann Fisher. Robert
Foster, Charles Faster. Jimmie Lou
Freeman. Billy Funk. Willia Gre-
gory. Mary Frances Hale.
Billy Hall. William Harrison.
Dale Henry. Jack Hickman, Mar-
garet Holt, Jolene Hough. Dorothy
Howard. Barbara Hrotnada. Janet
Huddart. Jack Hutchinson, Bobby
Hutton, Jerry James, Beverly
Johnston, Jack Keller, Billy Ken-
nedy, Julia Ann Kerr. Jerry Kintz.
Others Being Promoted
Ronald Knox. L. E. Krause,
Betty Kreager, Wenfred Lawson.
Demia Mae Le Bleu. Lavon Leeds.
Wray Littlejohn, _ Bob Marshall,
Jerry McCulley, Herman Memberg.
William Metzger. Jimmy Moore,
Alan Moulton, Patricia Mow’rey,
Eugene Needham, W Dean Niles,
Loretta Noah. -
Charles Nortnau. Alvin Owens.
Ernestine Ownby. Donald Palish,
Jean Peterka. Betty Ruth Pitts,
Bessie Pitts. Charles Plato, Tom-
my Poole, Katherine Potts. Phyllis
Preno. Sue Ellen Priebe. M.vnell
Powell, Hazel Rainey, Bill Jack
Reuter, Jackson Reynolds.
Jimmie Lee Rice. Dolores Rob-
inson. Wilma Rogers. Shirley Rol-
lins, Shirley Rowe, pick Runnells,
Mary Lynn Schwab, Nadine Sex-
ton. Leo Shaw, Jimmy Sherman,
Joanna Simpson, Richard Smith,
Barabara Southern, Bob Standifer
Sue Stephenson, R L. Stuart, Guy
Taylor.
Neal Taylor, Glendina Thomas.
Beverly Thompson. Raymond Til-
lery, Joe Todd. Tommy Tolbert.
Joan Townsend. Carol Von Tungeln,
Warren Dale Watson. James Weed,
Ozella Welliver. DcWitt Wells.
Aldene Whilacre, Ferrill White.
Wendell Whiteman, Luann Wilder.
Laquita Wilson, Mabel Wilson, Lou
Ellen Winebarger, Carl Winslow.
Patricia Wynes, Myrna Yant and
Curtis Yant.
Tornado Fund
Totals $2,390
/ lONTRIBimONS to t h e
Woodward tornado relief
fund received by The Tribune
office totaled $2,390.52 Satur-
day night when the newspaper
concluded its campaign In be-
half of the storm sufferers.
Donations received by The
Tribune Saturday amounted to
$31. Latest contributors were:
Brownie troop No. 23 of Cen-
tral school. $1.
Margaret F. Leininger. $5.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Hofmann. $25.
Since the latter part of April,
newspapers and radio stations
throughout Oklahoma have been
accepting funds for the Wood-
ward relief committee after an
appeal was Issued for $500,000.
All money contributed is be-
ing used in the rehabilitation of
the Oklahoma town which was
devastated by a tornado Apr. 9
Telephone Bells
Start Jangling
Again Saturday
Normal Service
Restored Quickly
As Strike Ends
Gesture of Economy
i training.
Girl Scouts Aid
At Toy Library
Girl Scouts of troop .No. 11 have
been in charge of the El Reno toy
library Ht 113'* South Bickford
avenue the past two weeks.
Groups who have served include
Mrs. Eugene Vorhes, assistant
leader, with Jane Bailey. Kay-
charlet Waller, Janet Johnson and
Karen Searcy; and the group di-
rected by Mrs. George R. Angell
including Betty Bob Wallace, Bar-
bara lshmacl and Sandra Sue
Johnson.
Because of limited space at the
headquarters, repair and painting
work is being completed In the
garage at. the home of Mrs. Charles
Overton, 915 West Wade street. A
number of new items will be ready
to be added to the toys in the
checking room soon.
Jury Deadlocks
In Damage Suit
No Verdict Reached
In Ronspiez. Case
Jurors serving in the damage ac-
tion of Leonard Ronsplez. El Reno,
against L. A. Chambers, Lloyd
Chambers and William Brown, a
partnership doing business as
Brownie's Flying Service, were un-
able to reach a verdict and were
dismissed at 9 p. m. Friday after
deliberating five hours after trial
of the case was concluded in Can-
adian county district court.
Ronsplez sought judgments total-
ing $104,000.
Trial of the case opened Thurs-
day with Judge Baker H. Melone
presiding.
The plaintiff's petition, filed
May 21, 1946. related that on Nov.
19. 1945, while he was flying one
of the defendants' planes for hire,
the plane was struck by another
craft while Ronspiez was going in
over the airfield for a lauding.
Brown, the petition said, was
operating the other plane In the
normal course of business and col-
lided with the plane flown by
Ronspiez.
Brown the plaintiff STleged.
failed to circle the field before
coming in for a landing and flew
into the pattern of the plane oper-
ated by Ronspiez, causing it to
crash.
Ronspiez. in detailing the extent
of serious and permanent injuries
which he allegedly suffered In the
crash, asked $25,000 for physical
pain he was caused to suffer. $25.-
000 for disfigurement. $50,000 for
decreased earning power, and $4,000
for hospitalization and medical
care.
Serving as Jurors in the trial of
the case were David DeLana.
Frank Bomhoff. Vernon Funck.
Paul Piatt, Wilbur Royse, Guy
Pruett, Ralph Cooksey, Harvey
Dozier, Gordon Bennett. Albert
Specht, Dick Jensen and Ora
Beyer.
Paper Collection
Set Wednesday
Newspapers, magazines, and
other types of scrap paper will be
collected Wednesday from the bus-
iness and residential areas by
members of the senior class at El
Reno highschool.
Proceeds from the sale of scrap
paper collected this week will be
used to go into a fund started in
1946 to purchase an electric organ
to be placed in the highschool
auditorium.
Mrs. Avant Taylor, chairman of
the senior class sponsors, said Sat-
urday that a committee of girls of
the 1947 class will distribute heavy
twine to each home in El Reno
to be used in bundling the paper
Early Wednesday^ the senior boys,
and a few of the senior girls, will
begin collection of the scrap paper.
The business area, where merch-
ants have been asked to place
scrap paper in the alleys, will be
canvassed firsl.
The trucks will be furnished by
members of the senior class who
have obtained use of eight trucks.
They will move into the residential
areas about 8:30 a. m.
Seniors have asked residents to
put their scrap paper on the curbs
to speed collection.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
Telephone bells, silent over most
of Oklahoma the last six weeks,
were jangling again Saturday night
|>'fter operators and other workers
Streamed back to work following
pelt lenient uf the Southwestern Bell
Telephone company strike.
At mid-afternoon. Bell company
Spokesmen declared service normal
throughout the state.
Immediately upon settlement of
the strike through negotiations In
Ft Louis early Saturday, workers
began trooping back to the ex-
glianges, and in the smaller cities,
Switchboards were completely map-
ped and service was normal early
p the day.
Tn Oklahoma City and other
larger Oklahoma cities, the restora-
tion of service was more gradual
with more time required to put the
big exchanges back in full-scale op-
erations. Also complicating the pie-
hire for a time was the presence
61 Western Electric pickets at the
larger exchanges.
Pickets Called Off
The Western El^tric strike con-
tinued. but union" officials called
off pickets early In the morning
"pending developments" in their
own negotiations, and there was no
Interference with the returning tele-
phone union workers.
In Oklahoma City, the Bell com-
pany said all calls long distance
and local with a few exceptions
were being accepted by state ex-
changes. Only emergency calls are
being taken for Houston, Kansas
City, st. Louis and certain other
Cities where phone company workers
arc still refusing to cross Western
Electric picket lines.
Everett E. Cotter, general counsel
for the Southwestern Telephone
Workers union, said the settlement
iurhided wage Increases averaging
*4 42 per week for 35,000 workers In
five states.
Settlement, or the 39-day strike
was reached after several hours of
1 continuous negotiations lasting into
me early hours or the morning.
Telephone strikes In most other sec-
tions of the nation already had been
settled.
Cotter said the terms of the
settlement were “the most satis-
factory reached by any union in
bargaining with companies of the
Bell system." He said the new con-
tract will provide "flat, aerbss the
board Increases of $4 per week in
basic wages, with increases of 42
cents per week in fringe Items.”
Company spokesmen, however,
said that starting wages had been
raised in some instances only $2 or
$3 weekly.
Slower in Larger Cities
Tlie union said it would direct Its
members to return to work ‘‘imme-
diately, except In larger cities where
picket lines still are maintained by
affiliated unions on strike against
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company's subsidiaries
Cities where such picket lines still
are in force include St. Louis. Kan-
sas City, and Houston and Dallas.
No ratification of the contract by
union members was necessary,
union officials said.
Company spokesmen said it would
take several days for service to re-
turn to normal In larger cities and
asked subscribers to continue limit-
ing their calls.
The raises were effective on the
date the workers returned and con-
tinue in effect for one year. The
union failed to win its campaign for
a union shop and dues checkoff.
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Uasoluie from a derailed tank car drips into a wash basin (arrow)
Placed there as the gesture ol an economy-minded crew member of
the Georglu-Florida railroad freight train which was derailed near
Blythe, Ga. No one was injured in the wreck. (NEA Telephoto.)
Petit Larceny Charge Is
Denied at Arraignment
Bulan Owens, El Reno, charged
with petit larceny, pleaded not
guilty when he was arraigned be-
fore Judge Roy M. Faubion in Ca-
nadian coiuity court Friday. Bond
was set at $250 pending trial.
Information filed In the case by
I tarry Lorenzen, county attorney,
charged that on May 13 the de-
fendant. took a purse containing
$15 from Nora Mayberry.
Owens, arrested by the city po-
lice department, was turned over
to county officers for investigation,
Drunk Driving
Charge Denied
Cecil Thomas Overton. 41, Okla-
homa City, rharged with drunk
driving, pleaded not guilty when !ip
was arraigned before Judge Roy M.
Faubion in Canadian county court
Saturday after the automobile he
was driving was involved in a col-
lision .
Bond was set at $500 pending
trial.
Information filed In the case by
Harry Lorenzen. county attorney,
charged Overton with operating an
automobile on U. S. highway 66 at
a point one-tenth of a mile west of
Hie Oklahoma-Canadlan county
line Friday while under the in-
fluence of liquor.
Earl Janssen, state highway pa-
trolman who signed the complaint,
said the automobile driven by Over-
ton. a sedan traveling west, col-
lided with an automobile driven
east by Lamont L. Conn. Clinton.
Agreement For
Combines Made
Extension Service
To Aid in Harvest
STILLWATER, May 17—(Spe-
cial!—Canadian combines will be
'available to help out in harvest of
Oklahoma's expected bumper wheat
•crop this year—if they are needed.
Shawnee Brown, extension director,
announced Saturday.
Effective inunrdiately, the stale
department and Canada have
worked out an agreement whereby
Canadian combines will do custom
cutting work as a supplement to
domestic combines in Oklahoma
and other United Stales wheat-
growing • areas. • — —
While the agreement is effective
lmmedlately.no Canadian combines
will enter this country until after
May 25, and then only at the re-
quest of the state growers needing
machines. Every effort will be
made to use local combines to har-
vest Oklahoma wheat crops, Brown
said.
However. If Canadian machines
are needed, the extension service
through its established channels,
and through its farm labor organi-
zation. will direct Canadian com-
bines to areas where they are
needed.
Oklahoma wheat growers are ex-
pected to start harvesting their
6,785,000 acres of wheat around
June 1. At the present time the
harvest is two weeks behind the
1946 harvest, according to reports
from several areas in the state.
Rains over the state the past week
have delayed grain ripening.
ADDRESS ERRONEOUS
In booking a man charged with
disturbing the peace early Friday,
officers on duty at the police station
reco feted his address as 410 West
Wade street, Lee Harvey, chief of ________________
I$>lice. said Saturday. The address, erty settlement was approved
should have been listed as 410 West ~
London street, Harvey said.
El Reno Playing
Wilson Packers
El Reuo Merchants will meet
Wilson Packers of Oklahoma City
In Legdon park here at 2:30 p. m.
today. Tlie game is in the Okla-
homa City Commercial Baseball
league play.
El Reno's starting lineup will
•include Ngthan Rose, first base;
Carl Wahl secoudbase; Reese
Thompson, shortstop; Clyde Uiton
or Raymond Roblyer, thlrdbase;
Bill Bowers, leftfield: Jack Robly-
er, centerfleld; Archie Reynolds,
riglitfleld; Bud Connaster. catcher;
John Witt, Jules Hudson or Ferret
Hawkins, pitcher.
Tlie Merchants have shown con-
siderable improvement in their play
during the past week. At Okla-
homa City Tuesday night. El Reno
shaded Bell Clothiers 3-2 in league
competition.
At the present time the Mer-
chants have lost one g^me and
chalked one victory in league play.
The Wilson Packers have ail iden-
tical record.
Divorce Is Granted In
Dislricl Court Hearing
Orlan D. Robinson was granted
a decree of divorce from Helen
C, Robinson after a hearing was
conducted before Judge Baker H
Melone In Canadian county court
Friday, records in the office of
Frank Taylor, court clerk, dis-
closed Saturday.
The defendant was given custody
of two children. Arlan Dean, 8,
and Jay Lynn, 4, together with $lo
per week as maintenance. A prop-
School Areas
Seek Elections
Petitions Are Filed
From Four Districts
Four ol Canadian county's rural
school districts have filed petitions
asking for elections to be held in
their districts to determine annexa-
tion plans under provisions of the
new school organization bill passed
by the state legislature.
Miss Glen Evelyn McCarty, coun-
ty superintendent of schools, has
received the petitions and set elec-
tions for three of the four districts.
Each election will be between 2
and 4 p. in.
Two elections to be held May 29
are ui tlie Henderson and Eureka
districts.
Henderson patrons will vote on
.annexing one quarter section to
Mountain View district and the re-
mainder of the district to Okarche
district 105 in Kingfisher county.
Patrons of Eureka district will
vote on annexation of all their
district to Midland district in the
election set for May 23.
Reno district will vote May 31
on annexation of a part of the
district to Darlington and a part
to El Reno.
The fourth petition was from
Canadian district. An election date
will be set later for voters to de-
cide on annexation of parts of
their district to Hazeldale and
Minco districts, both in Grady
county.
Miss McCarty pointed out Sat-
urday that all school districts
where an election is desired to de-
termine which district will be
chosen for annexation must pre-
pare petitions and hold elections
before June 8.
The petitions calling for an elec-
tion must be signed by 60 percent
of the legal voters of the district,
and Miss McCarty then Is quali-
fied to post notices calling for an
election.
Acquittal Given
In Assault Case
Ida Bell Frazier, El Reno Negro
charted with assault with Intent
to kill, was found not guilty In a
veruict returned by a Canadian
county district court Jury Saturday
afternoon.
Trial of the case opened Friday
night with Judge Baker H. Melone
presiding,
information filed by Harry Lor-
enzen. county attorney, charged that
oil last Nov. 21 the defendant cut
Marie Green. El Reno Negro, in
the throat and on the right wrist
with a knife.
Jurors deliberated about an hour
lelore reaching their verdict ac-
quitting the woman.
Serving as jurors were B. A.
Brown. Tony Albers. C. R Messen-
ger. E. W Todd. T. C. Shacklett.
Robert J Ahern. R. E. Pyle, Avery
A. Johnson, Harry Herberger. H. O
Mitchell, William Carel and C. L.
F#hodes.
Volume 56, No. 67
Is Isolated By
Flood Waters
Lindsay Cut Off;
Pauls Valley And
Maysville Threatened
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
Flood waters from the Washita
river Saturday night had Isolated
Lindsay In south central Oklahoma
and continued rushing down stream
where Maysville and Pauls Valley
faced the threats of inundation.
All the principal highways into
Lindsay have been cut off by the
flood waters which have lapped into
the southeast residential section
which was reported knee deep in
water. However, no casualties have
been reported and Mayor W. L.
Brown said little damage was done.
The powerful flow of the water
washed a new channel through state
highway 19 about five miles north-
west of Lindsay, cutting the town
off from neighboring Chickasha.
The roads south to Ratliff City
and east to Maysville and Pauls
Valley were cut off by the spread
of the water over the bottom lands.
Tlie flood mainly confined Itself
to the bottom lauds adjacent to
the channel of the river. There was
damage to crops, farm equipment
and homes and to some livestock
but no accurate estimate could be
made.
North Canadian Receding
Rains of the past five days also
sent the North Canadian river out
of its banks at both Woodward and
Canton Friday night, but the waters
were receding Saturday night. The
weather bureau predicted little dan-
ger of serious floods on the Cana-
dian although at Whitefield on the
lower Canadian, lowlands were
flooded and state highway 2 be-
tween Whitefield and Brlartown was
closed.
The Washita's rampage was
blamed on a four- to five-inch
downpour which occurred in Caddo,
Grady and Comanche counties
Thursday and Friday.
Highway Director H. E. Bailey
said the WaslUta had reached the
highest level on record In the west-
ern Garvin county area. Thousands
of acres of fertile farmland in the
bottoms iiad been Inundated. Hun-
dreds of residents had fled to high-
er ground.
Cattle Are Drowned
Tlie North Canadian, a tradi-
tionally flood-sensitive stream, pour-
ed over its banks in southeastern
Oklahoma county. Several dozen
head of cattle were reported drown-
ed on one farm after they had been
surrounded by high water.
Bailey said the South Canadian
river had washed out an approach
to a bridge between Briartown and
Whitefield on the Haskell-Muskogee
county line. Tlie river was expected
to absorb most of the Washita’s
flood without additional overflowing
unless heavy rains continue.
No serious flooding was expected
along the North Canadian in north-
west Oklahoma, although two state
highways at Canton were closed
temporarily by high water.
U. S highway 75 at Owasso in
Tulsa county was blocked by high
water, and state highway 20 east
of Skiatook remained closed.
Roads closed In the Lindsay area
included state highways 76 and 19.
Weather
The couple was married Feb.
1935, at Marietta.
State Forecast
Partly cloudy Sunday; no import-
ant change in temperatures.
El Reno Weather
For the 24-hour period ending at
8:30 a. in. Saturday: High. 75; low,
54; at 8:30 a m., 62.
State of weather: Unsettled and
wanner.
Rainfall: None.
Von Tungeln Herd
To Be Inspected
Elmer Von Tungeln will be host
to the statewide tour of the Milk-
ing Shorthorn association on
Thursday from 12:30 until 1:30 p.
m. at his farm southwest of El
Reno.
The tour begins in Tulsa Mon-
day, will move to Perry on Tues-
day. leave Clinton at 8 a. m. on
Thursday and move into Canadian
county that day.
Von Tungeln's farm is one mile
south and four and one-half miles
west of the El Reno mills. W. E.
Dixson, a representative of the
American Milking Shorthorn as-
sociation. will be Included in the
group on the tour which is open
to all Interested stockmen.
The state association meeting
will be in Alva Sunday In con-
nection with the picnic which has
been planned. The tour reaches
Alva Friday.
Directors To Discuss
Sewer Line Extensions
Plans for the proposed extension
of sewer lines in El Reno will be
presented to directors of the
chamber of commerce at the
monthly meeting scheduled for 7
P- m. Monday in the chamber of-
fices.
M. S. Morris, president, will pre-
side at the meeting. City Manager
C A Bentley will discuss the sew-
er extension plans, and other mat-
ters to be discussed at the
will concern the hospital
at Fort Reno and the
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Dyer, Ray J. The El Reno Daily Tribune (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 56, No. 67, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 18, 1947, newspaper, May 18, 1947; El Reno, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc924099/m1/1/: accessed May 6, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.