Payne County News (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 43, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, January 25, 1935 Page: 2 of 8
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THE PAYNE COUNTY NEWS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1935
The Payne County News
Published by The Stillwater Publishing Company, Inc.
WILLIS F. ALLEN, Editor
MR. FARMER
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New York state is considering
THE BELL SYSTEM
1
AT A GLANCE
■ Mr. .
IO* WHICH I HI iOUTHWU’UN lit! HU*HONt COVFANT IS OHtl
How a nation-wide telephone network is organized
parts that go into the telephone plant.
AMERICAN TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO.’
WESTERN ELECTRIC COMPANY
BELL TELEPHONE LABORATORIES
24
COMPANIES
The most encouraging thing
we saw last week was the pric-
es paid for livestock at the
monthly sales day, when the to-
tal receipts were approximately
$7,500. Think of a horse selling
for $115, cows as high as $56,
and hogs at $30. The farmer
can beat back on such prices and
not have to piddle around look-
ing for emergency relief jobs.
t<«ke pic-
has been
progress
in th. NEW 1933 TfLBPHONI ALMANAC
Aik for your FRH copy ot th. IuiIhom Offtc*.
The activities of any organiza-
tion depend largely on its finan-
cial backing. The budget of the
Stillwater Chamber of Commerce
should be at least double what
it was last year, if it plays the
part it is expected to in 1935.
Under the leadership of Presi-
dent A. B. Alcott every dollar
will be wisely invested in pro-
moting Stillwater’s welfare.
Provide telephone services ond facilities within
their respective territories, with the aid of staff
services of the American Telephone ond Tele-
graph Company.
The election in Perkins last
week to vote $15,000 in bonds
for a sewer system carried 3 to
1. The materials and tools will
be purchased from the sale of
the bonds, and the labor will be
done by FERA workers. The
project is expected to give work
to all the unemployed citizens in
and near Perkins.
Research and development work
far the Bell System
Associated companies are not re-
quired to buy from Western . . . but
experience has led all to do so, for two
reasons: (1) Because W'estern Electric
parts have the advantage of uniform-
ity. They fit equally well into the
telephone system anywhere. (2) West-
ern prices are about a fourth below
the prices for similar equipment in
the competitive market.
Bell Laboratories is a non-profit cor-
poration, whose 4,000 workers con-
stantly carry on a great program of
scientific research to find better and
cheaper ways to give your telephone
service.
General staff services to operating com-
panies, and operation of long distance
lines giving service between and through
the territories of the operating companies.
* Owned by some 675,000 stockholders
Each part of the Bell System • lists
because the function it performs b
essential to the job of giving good tele-
phone service at fair cost to yots.
Photograph Gallery Is
Addition to County Jail i
Stranger—Is the cashier in?
Manager—No.
Stranger—Gone for a rest?
Manager (sadly)—No; gone to
avoid arrest.
Put a new ribbon on the type-
writer, but it only makes our
crucifixion of the King’s Eng-
That amount may be considered
small for the demands made upon
these persons, but the senate action
is a step in the right direction. When
a big appropriation is made for re-
lief purposes, it is the hope of tax-
payers that practically all this money
go to the persons who actually need
it, and not for expensive administra-
tion.
Manufacturing, warehousing and general
purchasing for Bell System.
W. K. Belknap, jalier, will be pho-
tographer, and will keep the records
of prisoners. At the present time he
has what is considered one of the
most complete fingerprint classifica-
tion records found in an office of its
size in the state.
Special!
Saturday Only!
Our old-fashioned underwear
is mighty comfortable these days
. . . laugh, young man, but we
wouldn’t trade them for a half
dozen pnirs of “shorts”.
. No one cares to wait
long for his ham and.
Trade Ins
ON THE NEW 1935 CHEVROLET
A photograph gallery to
tures of county prisoners
installed as arrangements
toward making the local jail one of
the most up-to-date in the state. The i
new studio will be located directly ■
outside the county jail.
Each prisoner will be photo- j
graphed at the time he is booked, the ‘
photograph showing number of the 1
ment. A rack is being provided to I
hold movable numbers for the photo- |
SOMETHING
To Think About
By R. E. C.
This office has used all that
small pile of coal in the rear of
neighbor Murphy’s office. An-
other cold snap is coming down
from the north ... guess we will
have to buy a jag of coal.
Two young bank employes
were given promotions at a re-
cent meeting of the directors of
the Stillwater National bank.
A. B. Alcott was elevated to the
position of active vice president
and manager, while Lieutenant i
Governor Berry is at the state
capital, and Paul C. Wise was
made cashier, upon his return to
the bank after spending nearly
a year as an assistant national
bank examiner. Congratulations
are extended to these young
men. ___
More gasoline tax and higher .sales
tax lacks economic soundness. It is
poor reasoning to expect a doubled
sales tax to raise twice as much
revenue, or for a 1-cent increase in
the gasoline tax to raise 20 per cent
more money. When the risk proves
profitable the bootlegger thrives. A
gasoline bootlegger would not run
the risk of prosecution for 1 or 2
cents a gallon profit, but when the
profit amounts to 5 or 6 cents a gal-
lon, the taxcollectors will discover
that there is less legal gasoline be-
ing bought.
A doubled or trebled sales tax
would work a hardship on the family
that must eat, yet has only a limited |
amount to spend for food. Three
cents on the dollar tax appears to be
very little, but over a period of a
year the total is staggering. Anyway
we look at it, we are in for higher
taxes. Those of us who are able to
pay must find solace in the fact that
we have the money with which to
pay taxes, and that these tax de- I
mands go for worthy purposes and
not for graft and waste.
- I
Another consoling feature of state
tax programs is that they appear to
be temporary. These taxes amount to
an increase in the price of commodi-
ties. Commodities have been higher, I
even without the tax added, and wc ;
managed to exist.
W. P. Wood Auto Supply
Sixth and Lewis St. Stillwater, Oklahoma
1 he Bell System is big...but its or-
ganization is not complex.
The A. T. & T. Is parent company,
service and research organization,
and financial headquarters of the
System. It owns Western Electric and
jointly with Western, owns Bell Lab-
oratories. Also, it owns more than 90
per cent of the voting stock of the 24
associated companies (of which the
Southwestern Bell Telephone Com-
pany is one.) It operates the long
distance trunk lines linking the ter-
ritories of these companies.
Its staff carries on for these 24 asso-
ciated companies an intensive study
to find better, more economical meth-
ods of giving good telephone service.
Western Electric buys
supplies for the Sys-
tem, and turns out for
it the 100.000 different
Little Horace was wearing his first
prir of real pants. He felt that at
last he was a man among men. He
strutted up and down, and finally he
went up to his mother and asked:
“Muvver, can I call pa Bill now?”
Commendable is the recent action
of the state senate limiting the
amount to be paid local distributors
of relief. Time was when these fa-
vored individuals received more than
4300 a month in some counties, but
the senate has decided to limit pay- r______________„
ments to these individuals to 1100 a prisoner and the place of his confine- |
month. ‘ - - - -
Ward Chevrolet Co
Eighth and Lewis St.
Julia—Carl, before we got married
you said your love for me was undy-
ing. Would you really be willing to
die for me?
Carl—I never said I would die for
you. On the contrary, I said my love
was “undying"—which meant that. L
would not die for you.
years and turn it into public do-
main, because it would be cheap-
Our legislators must bear in er to buy these tracts than to
mind that it is an easy matter to keep on providing highways,
make hbge appropriations, but it schools, and other public ser-
takes money to pay for the ap- vices for them. Here in Payne
propriations, and money must county federal government agen-
come by taxation, 'rhat’s the cies have appraisers at work on
reason Governor Marland is submarginal land southwest of
seeking new revenue. Units of ,Stillwater, and 40,000 to 50,000
government, as well as individ- acres will be bought at the ap-
oals, are willing to spend freely praised value of the land and the
with little thought of the income, improvements. L_
inat s the reason we have a will not be forced to sell, and the J earned on a job building a pond or
huge state debt. Getting out of project, which is the first in Ok-1 making a field immune to erosion
debt is a slow, tedious task. We lahoma, will be abandoned in *in.buj; as n\uch frrLoceries “ a do1:
are pleased that Governor Mar- i Payne county if a large acreage exists "l^en^^o^Vh^aTrag^pelson
I AHU IS not undertaking to de- cannot be secured at the ap- will find a greater pleasure in spend-
cedve the people in the fact that praised value. , j inK an earned dollar than a dollar
to bring the New Deal tn Okfa-! ***— | that makes him an object of charity
and pity.
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Perhaps the greatest legislative
session in the history of Oklahoma
is in convention at Oklahoma City j
today Great problems face this !
group in raising money to finance a
mammoth program. Organizations
and groups are sending paid lobby-
ists to request special concessions in
tax matters. Higher taxes must come
if we have old age pensions, money
for relief and finance a greater pros-
perity for Oklahoma.
It is i mpossible to lower taxes
while passing old age pension laws.
It is hard to expect the present
group of homeowners and people
with small incomes to finance the en-
tire New Deal program for Okla-
homa yet these people have no
monev with which to hire trained
lobbyists. They will make less fuss
about the tax burden because they
have no lobbyists.
How to raise twice the revenue
that now goes to the state without
heaping an enormous burden on those
already taxed too high is a problem
that must be met. Heaping taxation
on industries Is not always a good
plan, since these high taxes might
react in restricted business on the
part of these industrialists. It must
be remembered that there will be
nearby states with low taxes that
would serve just as well for a home
for these industries.
j The Stillwater Chamber of
He believes it is im- Commerce has been drifting a-
long the last two years without
a paid manager and on a very
small budget. The matter of in-
creasing the budget to provide
for a manager and more funds
for activities will be discussed at
the Friday luncheon. Stillwater
is facing a bright future, but it
will require leadership and con-
certed action to get the good
things that should come to Still-
water. President Arthur Alcott
and his directors are ready to go
forward if business firms and
other citizens wish to increase
their pledges. It will take more
than “hot air”. Attend the
hmcheon and express your opin-
ion.
The civic organizations will
unite in a used clothing drive
Sunday afternoon. The Red
Cross chapter is receiving many |
calls for clothing and bedding'
and will be in charge of tiio dis-
tribution of the same. St’,Jw.'.tc
citizens are urged to have then
packages on the front porch ear-
ly Sunday afternoon so they can
be picked up by trucks that will
make the rounds of the residen-
tial sections of the city between
the residential sections of the 1
city between the hours of 1 and '
4 o’clock Sunday afternoon.
TIRE PUMP
A regular 75c value
And a Universal Tire Boot
Regular 25c value
All for . . . .
The first cash customer of the
first scheduled air line was a
grocer who put in a rush order
of hams and bacon from Tampa,
ruoiunea uy ine suiiwawr ruDiianuig company, inc. n . _, _
Ab independent newspaper of general circulation in Stillwater and to r>t. 1 etersburg, January
Payne county. Published Friday of each wack and entered as aeeond-dasa 12, 1914. r ----_____ 1_
■Mil matter at Stillwater pcatoffice. long for his ham and.
Winter weather can erne to ;
sunny Oklahoma ... the mer- department of Oklahoma A. and
cury was hugging the zero mark M. college, under the supervis-
Monday .. . one old codger back-Jon of Prof. DeWitt Hunt, have
ed up to the wall stove in the’
bathroom Monday morning and
his nighty caught fire . . . the
conflagration was discovered
shortly and flames extinguished
withdut the help of Chief Pence.
The thermometer registered 40
degrees in The News office Mon-
day morning, although two gas
stoves were left burning all night
. . . the printers looked like they
were preparing to join Byrd at
the South Pole, as they put on
all the coveralls and sweaters in
the office in order to operate the
typecasting machines . . . Made
a raid on a small pile of coal back
of Murphy’s office and fired up
the old Oak stove . . . mercury
was up to 55 degrees at 9:30 ...
guess the old cylinder press will
be thawed out by afternoon.
Back in the early nineties we
were the devil in a small daily were from convicts or relatives
office in El Dorado, Kansas, and of convicts, seeking pardons or
there were many blizzards in paroles. The most of the pleas
those days ... The printers went for clemency were addressed to
to work at 7 o’clock and the dev-[ Mrs. Haskell. If we had been
il had to have the 150 foot room more thoughtful, we would have
warm or they would not begin1 retained that historic desk when
setting type, and the boss would the plant was sold.
come down at 9 o’clock and raise -----------
cane . . . Anyway, Ray Heath
was happy this morning ... he » plan to buy six million acres of
had been complaining about the submarginal land over a term of
mild weather.
---------------------------- We notice in Otis Wile’s “A
Students of the industrial arts Little Daily” column that Bill
Brooks donned a pair of those
“heavy-ribbed, long-handled un-
mentionables” and will no longer
shiver as he writes those ads for
Katz’ store. Welcome to my
group, Bill.
cedve the people in the fact that praised value,
to bring the New Deal to Okla- •—
homa it will require increased;
Taxation. He believes it is im-
portant to maintain the credit
of Oklahoma, . ,
made and presented an office
desk to Governor E. W. Marland.
Four years ago Governor Mur-
ray received a desk from the
same department. Speaking of
governors’ desks, when w e
tough t the Vinita Leader in
1919, among the office equip-
ment was a roller-top desk that
had been in the governor’s of-
fice during the administration of
lx)th Charles N. Haskell and Lee
Cruce. F. S. E. Amos, from
whom we bought The Leader,
was Governor Cruce’s private
secretary and when he returned lish more glaring,
to his paper in Vinita he must
have taken the desk. Searching
through the compartments of^
the desk one day we found many
letters addressed to Governor
Haskell and Mrs. Haskell. The
major portions of these letters
Governor Marland also deserves a
vote of confidence for his attitude on
relief. When he spends a dollar of
the state’s money he plans to have a
receipt for 100 per cent value for the
expenditure. Permanent improve-
• ments are possible from this money
. . . .,: that must he spent to provide an in-
owners, conie for needy people. A dollar
a job building a pond or
will buy as much groceries as a dol-
lar handed out just because the need
1930
Ford Tudor Sedan
New paint, new tires, good
mechanical condition
$195.°o
1931 Ford
Closed Cab Pick-up
Extra good; only
$225-°o
1933 Plymouth Sedan
New tires; finish and upholstery good. Has free wheel-
ing and automatic clutch. Only
$475.00
1929
Buick Coupe
Motor perfect; good tires;
good finish; only
$175.00
1929
Chevrolet Coach
New finish; good tires;
good motor
$175.00
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