Oklahoma State Register (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 44, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 27, 1936 Page: 1 of 8
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Oklahoma State register
THE OLDEST PAPER PUBLISHED CONTINUOUSLY IN OKLAHOMA
$1.50 Year
Guthrie, Oklahoma, Thursday, February 27, 1936.
(SCHOOL BOARD “ifeTic., S?®?™J®.
| Where Uncle Sam Will Store His Gold Holdings |
ogan County
the
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man appeared from behind
Alf
Guthrians Pay
y local |
Fred Green.
The officers then started look- waB named chairman of the county
Will Meet Here
A convention ot representatives
$2,500,000 Road
Program Planned j to J. G. Adams, manager of the
For WPA Project
In-
County P. T. A.
pended for materials is scheduled plants.
.mjortiion in Oklahoma at
Convention Set
board members Monday
; Beautification
Help AvailabI
trees
RITES HELD HERE
is
at was an
committee will approve the bill
of my two aaugnters na»o - —— — -
I from 100 to 70 quarto of fruit, [with 40 quart capacity, to uss for
plains
Okla-
of
een
EXPLAINS NEW
SCHOOL PLANS
one
off
the
the
the
GREEN CHOSEN
HEADOFCOP
The sub-committee of the house
judiciary committee now appears
the World
conducted
I p. tn. in
corner of
Landon Endorsed At
County Conclave
fu-
ad-
his
LOCAL PRAYER
DAY OUTLINED
Requisition blanks for I
school beautification work a
sored by the rural rehabilita
corps may be secured from
Blanche Farley, county sups
tendent of schools. Work will ■
gin the first week In March
there are sufficient applications.
Cooperation of the rehablUtatii
corps may be obtained at 11
cost to the rural schools. r
corps will furnish labor, to
fresnoes and other equipment.
District No. 95 school board
applied for construction of a a
cellar and sowing of Ben
grass in the school yard, aa
ing to Frank Dunaway, county
habllitatlon supervisor. Ths aw
cation was made by O. A. Nuaa.
COYLE COUPLE GLAD TO BI
BACK IN OKLAHOMA AC'
CLOSE SCHOOL
AS RESULT OF
FLU EPIDEMIC
delegation of Guthrie sports
is expected to appear befort
quarts of the prettiest pumpkin
from pumpkin stored in the cellar
last fall.”
Mrs. Maker thinks a lot of the
advantages offered her two daugh-
ters through 4-H club work. They
have been members of the club for
several years and have won a num-
ber of prises. Their mother said
It was especially helping the eld-
est girl in her high school home-
making studies.
The Maker family has outgrown
but not discarded the IS quart pres-
sure cooker. It Is still used for
cooking meals. Now the family
has a small factory sise cannsr,
Bowen Says He Hopes for
Less Excitement
from the
planning to
SEEK REPEAL
OF ORDINANCE
THREE NABBED
IN HIJACKING
AND IN THEFT
Logan County—
A prosperous area
of diversified agri-
culture.
GUTHRIE MAN IN HOSPITAL
AT WEWOKA RESULT OF FALL
The recent article appearing in i
the Oklahoma State Register and
the Guthrie News about Mrs. C. L.
Simpson, who has been a success-
ful gardener in Logan county for
the past forty years, started the
ball rolling on recollections of
past gardening experiences.
Mrs. Simpson has a daughter,
Mrs. George Maker, who also lives
making some splendid gardens for
south of Guthrie, who has been
the past twenty years. She says
she believes in using up-to-date
methods of caring for gardens af-
ter they are made.
Mrs. Maker follows her mother’s
method of gardening to a great
extent She has a light garden
plow which she uses to run be-
Police Have Lively Time
Wednesday Night
Guthrie—
The hospitable fra-
ternal capital of
Oklahoma
has started on a bed
rock on the road betwi
and the May avenue high-
western Logan county, ac-
to announcement Thurs-
2 Million Trees
Will Be Planted
Colored Group Learns
Why Only One Building
tween the rows on the worst windy
days to stop the soil blowing.
Her garden plot does not have
sail quite as sandy as that on her
mother s place, but the entire farm
is located on an unprotected hill
and blows rather badly.
She grows about everything in
the garden that can be grown in
Oklnaboma and says she has tried
some of the things that cant be
grown here.
Mrs. Maker feels that her 4.H
club work In her younger years
helped her discover the way to
make the most of her gardens. A
4-H club wss organised at the
school she atended when she was
about 15 years of age. She snd her
, sister became members. It was the
be a great improvement
Lincoln and Douglass
Day To Be Observed Here
By Local Ministers
Work
crushed
Cashion
way, in
cording
day.
Men have been busy on the pro-
ject for several weeks, quarrying
rock, and grader work was started
Monday. Hauling of crushed rock
began Wednesday, according to Sid
Ewing, county engineer.
This work is being undertaken
as a WPA project and will require
the expenditure of approximately
>17,800, according to Clark Bowen,
member of the Logan county board
of commissioners from the second
district
It was stated that 400 feet of rock
was put on the road Wednesday,
when hauling started.
Guthrie attorney
a rn. to
church.
Second-st. by
and L and also mother, learned
to use mors up-to-date methods
and were far more successful in
canning vegetables and meats. We
learned that no matter what a tine
garden and abundance ot vege-
tables we raised, if we ueed poor
methods to preserve It, we would
fail.”
A pressure cooker Is ene con-
venience that Mrs. Maker would
not be without “I felt the need
of a pressure cooker a few years
after I married and started rearing
a family. I bought an 18 quart
sise,” she said, “and with the help
of my two daughters have canned
The Crescent Lions club will en-
tertain Lions and their wives from
Guthrie, Marshall, Hennessey and
Kingfisher at a special ladies’
night meeting at Crescent at 7:30
next Tuesday evening
nounced this week.
A large delegation
Guthrie Lions club is
attend the meeting, according to
Loren Hutchins, local club secre-
tary. Plans to attend will be dis-
cussed at tne club meeting here,
Friday noon.
■i ciuw >u ™ ____________ meats and vegetables each year.
rroTthatTttie club my sister I Just the other day I canned JI
Logan county farmers were re-
funded >4,832.11 in gasoline tax
from May 1. 1935 to December 31.
1935, because of exemption of gas-1
oline for agricultural purposes ac-
cording to a report issued this
week by the Oklahoma state tax
commission.
The total amount exempted in
Logan county was 123,268 gallons.
There are 442 tractor registrations
in the county so the exemption
was on an average ot 278.9 gallons
per tractor.
The tax commission reported
that the total amount refunded to
farmers throughout the state was
$556,253.13 during the period from
May 1, to December 31, last year.
Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Watson,
have been in southern Texas
several months returned to
home in Coyle last Thursday
The Coyle couple reported
some ot the southern cltia
perieitced freezing
while they were there. They •
that while they had a pleasant
they are glad to bo back in C
home.
Maxwell Services MeH
Funeral service! were haM
Oklahoma City Monday for M
Maxwell, brother ot F. W. 1
superintendent of the C
Valley Wooley hospital In (
Maxwell died Saturday ed
trouble.
the
the
for
the
The total amount of sales tax (
collections made in Logan county (
during the last six months of 1935
was >519,585.20. Total collected ,
throughout the state was $2,4 <6,- (
619.99. In other words, Logan
county residents paid .79 of 1 per
cent of the total tax collected in
the state during the half-year per-
iod.
Per Capita sales tax collections
amounted to >1 for the state as a
whole during these six months.
Counties reporting the highest per
capita sales tex collections are:
Tulsa county, >1.99; Oklahoma
county, >1.85; Washington county,
>1.39; Garfield county. >1.26 Kay
county, >1.17. These are all pre-
ponderantly “urban” counties.
Counties reporting the lowest
per capita sales are: Delaware, 18c
Beaver, 24c; Wagoner, 23c; Se-
quoyah, 27c; Haskell, 28c Harmon.
28c; McIntosh, 33c; All of these
counties are preponderantly "ru-
ral” in population. Some “rural'
counties, however, report a fairly
high per capita figure: (Grant 96a
Alfalfa, 95c Kingfisher, 97c; Lo-
(Continued on page 5-
School Prayer Service
A World Day of Prayer program
will be presented in the Guthrie
high school aaaembly at 9:65 on
Friday morning, Rev. Everette
Poole, pastor of the Guthrie First
Presbyterian church, announced
Thursday.
FORTY FOURTH YEAR No. 50.
Logan county residents who live
outside of Guthrie, however, paid
an average of only 30 cents in
sales tax during the last five
months of last year, the tax com-
mission survey shows. This brings
average for each individual in
entire county down to 62 cents
that period, or about >1.50 for
entire year.
Townsend Meeting Set
Regular meeting of the Townsend
Plan club will be held at 8:80 Sun-
day at the Court House in Guth-
rie, at which time Ray Stebbin
will be the principal apoakor.
Guthrie Fairmont plant.
Adams said that about 30 per-
sons will attend the meeting,
eluded will be the factory manager,
territorial managers and plant
managers of the three Kansas
| plants and the two Oklahoma
Large Group Expected
Change Is Asked
men
the City Council at its regular see
sion next Tuesday night to protes
an ordinance passed last year per
mitting anyone to buy a license t
fish in the Guthrie city reservoir
"Local people paid for the laiu
and sportsmen here have seen tha
it was kept well stocked with fish”
said Judge A. G. C. Bierer, loca
attorney ami sportsman, as he ex
plained why lie was opposed ti
opening the reservoir to everyom
tor fishing purposes, lie said hi
hoped every local resident inter
ested would turn out for the Coun
di meeting to help in securing tin
recently passed ordinance.
Meanwhile, City Clerk Ixiyd Ja;
said Thursday that he had receiv
ed instructions not to sell any fish
ing licenses for the reservoir t
anyone living outside of Logai
county until the Council meet
Monday night.
Jay explained that no license ha4
been sold to outside parties as yr*
due to tlie fact that the new on
nance was passed about the tl
the fishing season closed last yi
Those living outside of Lo
county, according to the new
dinanee, must pay >10 per year
the license to fish in the loal ret
voir. Any resident of Guthrie
Logan county may purchase a
cense for two dollars.
Local agitation te seek repeal
the new ordinance was star
when sportsmen here discove
that a minnow dealer, south
Guthrie, had passed out circul
in Oklahoma City advertising t
the reservoir here was open a
inviting fishermen there to coi
to the Guthrie reservoir it th
wanted to catch the big ones.
Judge Bierer stated that immt
lately after the "open-door" ord
ance was passed, last summer,
prepared an ordinance to rep
the new ordinance and re-enact 1
old one and presented it to I
Council. The delegation will
expected to seek such action
the Tuesday night session.
ing for an additional federal judge
in Oklahoma, according to word
received this week from Will Ro-
gers, Oklahoma congressman-at-
large.
It was expected that the sub-
committee would report the bill fa-
j vorably to the whole committee at
Gas Tax Refund COUNTY BOARD
Is Over $4,800.00 JQ TALK WITH
WALTER BERRY
canning.
"Thanks to my parents who
taught me patience, persistence and
work, the pressure canner and the
knowledge and information my
girls and I havs gained through
reading and 4-H club work, ws feel
that we are well prepared to take
care of ’Dad’ and the boys at msal
time,” Mrs. Maker declared, "es-
pecially since they help in the
garden to raise the stuff for ns to
can.”
Mrs. Maker, like her mother, also
loves flowers. She also dislikes
untidiness and, being active and
energetic, she even enjoys doing
a little work on the side with a
scythe, keeping the weeds down
about the yard.
CCC Boys Fight Fire
A force of 80 CC camp boys were
called out to fight a grass fire on
the Nick Seick farm, south of
Guthrie Sunday afternoon accord-
ing to Mrs. Roy Morgan State Re-
gister correspondent for the Prai-
rie Grove community. The fire
was soon under control.
Three Tulsa men were in the
jails in Guthrie Thursday charged
with a hi-jacking here Wednesday
night and theft of a quantity of
gasoline.
Earl Heilman, Guthrie business
called the police station at
Wednesday night and re-
that he had been hi-jacked
stepped on his front porch,
E. Cleveland-av. He said a
ing for the third man and arrested
Cecil Hunter in the 200 block on
E. Oklahoma-av, who was charged
with the hi-jacking earlier in the
evening. Officers said. Hunter
denied being with the other two
men but that one of them admitted
that he was one of their party.
A Buick coupe and trailer, the
property of the three, was found
parked in the 600 block on E. Ok-
lahoma-av. in front of the residence
of Policeman Emil Hunt Police
said they were thought to be the
men that drove into the Shell sta-
tion, on S. Division-st, earlier Wed-
nesday evening, knocking down
of the pumps as they drove
when the boy who stays in
station turned on the lights.
l. oeal observance of
Day of Prayer will be
Friday from 9
the Nazarene
Noble-av and
ministers. ,
The first observance as a united]
iterdenominational day for both <
home and foreign missions was first
held in 192(1. It became world-
wide in 1927, according to the Guth-
rie Ministerial alliance.
l/oeal services conducted by
members of the Ministerial alliance
are scheduled as follow: 9 a. m.
to 10 a. m., Rev. C. W. Burpo,
Nazarene church; 10 a. m. to 11
a. m.. Rev. L. L. Scott, Tubernaele
Baptist church; 11 a. m. to 12 noon,
Rev. J. L. Glass, West Guthrie
Methodist church; 12 noon to 1
p. tn., Rev. W. C. McCrory, United
Presbyterian church; 1 p. m. to
2 p. m. Rev. W. R. Glbble. First
Christian church; 2 p. in. to 3 p.
m. , Rev. J. W. Coontz, First Meth-
> odist church; 3 p. m. to 4 p. m.
. Rev. H. H. Boston. First Baptist
church; Special observance at high
school assembly, 9:55 a. m., Rev.
Everett Poole, First Presbyterian
church.
School was dismissed for the re-
mainder of the week at Meridian
Monday because of an epidemic of
influenza according to Mrs. Bryan
Hall, Correspondent for the Ok-t
lahoma State Register.
It was reported that Mrs. Eva
Faylor, one of the teachers, and
44 students were ill with the flu.
Crescent Lions
Will Entertain
Birth Is Announced
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Whalen, 516
E. Okla. av. announce the birth
of a son on Tuesday, February 25.
The baby has been named Charles
Albert. Mrs. Whalen was former-
ly Miss Juanita Canfield.
resentatlves. The senate has al-
Oklahoma City, Feb. 27—(Spec-
ial)—Approximately 2,000,000 trees
will be planted this year as the
federal government proceeds with
work on the 9,000,000 acre
shelterbelt area in Western
homa.
Two hundred thousand
were planted in this section last
year, it was announced today.
About 200 men, all taken from
the relief rolls, have been work-
ing on the project thus far this
year. That number will probably
be doubled next month as more
favorable weather for planting
expected.
Approximately 300 Logan county
Republicans gathered for their
county convention Thursday after-
noon io the Court House at Guth-
rie, endorsing Alf Landon, gover-
nor of Kansas, for the presidential
nomination and W. G. Skelly, Tulsa,
national com-
Ixtgan co had 5.610 regis-
tered automo >. during 1935, ac-
cording to ree of the Oklaho-
ma tax commix ’ released on
Thursday. Estima’^ the popula-
tion at 27,800 lher. o. one car to
every five persons in the county.
License tag collections on auto-
mobiles in Logan county during
the year totaled $39,789.29, or an
average of >1.43 per person. The
average collection per motor ve-
hicle was >5.67.
The semi-annual convention of
the Logan county Parent-Teachers
association will be held Saturday,
March 14, at Navina.
An all-day meeting Is planned.
The session will be 1
Navina school bouse. -------
will be served at noon by members
of the W. C. T. U. who will be
hostesses for the convention. Mrs.
Rachel Maplee la president
The Guthrie school board Monday
explained to a special delegation
of local colored citizens why it was
necessary to replace tke Lincoln
and Douglass colored grade schools
with a single building, to be lo-
cated near Faver high school.
Present to hear the explanation
by the board of education were
eight of the leaders among the
Negro residents of the community
They were called in for the con-
ference because of a number of
protests that had been made due to
the fact that but one school build
ing is to be constructed to re-
place the two Negro grade schools.
The Lincoln school, located in
the west portion ot the colored
part of the city, was condemned
last summer and students have been
required to attend school in two
churches that have been rented
since school started in September
by the school board. It was point-
ed out to the colored delegation.
Tlie Works Progress administra-
tion offered to assist in replacing
the condemned school and
Douglass school. However,
school beard was required to fur-
nish the materials and it was found
that only enough material could
be salvaged from the two build-
ings to construct one good, mod-
ern school, Marley Smith, school
board president, explained.
“This was the only feasible plan
by which we could give the colored
citizens an up-to-date school ut this
time,” Mr. Smith stated, “and it
would be impossible to change the
plan now because we would pro-
bably lose the entire project."
The new school building will be
constructed on the same plan as
the Banner school, also being re-
built us a WPA project. It will
have 10 rooms and an auditorium
and will
over the
schools.
School
night also discussed with the color-
ed delegation the possibility of
putting on a school bus for the
younger children when the new
school is finished. President Smith
said this matter would be seriously
considered by the board.
had come back to the Gobble car 1 f()r re-election as
to get the gasoline can they walked mitteeman.
off and left.
Members of the Logan county-
board of commissioners are plan-
ning a conference in the near
titre with Walter Berry. WPA
ministrator for this district, at
offices in Enid.
Clark Bowen, member of
board representing the second dis-
trict, said Thursday that the pur-
pose of the meeting would be to
discuss Logan county WPA projects
now underway and proposed. He
said he hoped there would not be
"as much excitement over the con-
ference as there was on February
3 when Chairman George Ross and
I called on Administrator Berry-
on a similiar mission."
Bowen referred to the occasion
when a special committee of tlie
Guthrie Chamber of Commerce met
and called Berry by long distance
telephone to request that the coun-
ty commissioners not be permitted
to draw down any funds pledged
for WPA projects in Logan coun-
ty. Ross and Bowen were in
Berry’s office when the call was
made.
Questioned about the second
’ grand jury petition that was being
1 circulated throughout the county
- this week, Bowen declared he un-
’ derstood that "the signers of the
first petition, which was found in-
-1 sufficient, were getting away from
‘ signing the second petition faster
than tlie circulators could find new
signers.”
Charlie Johnson, sen of Mr. and vorably to ’
Mrs. Earl Johnson, 702 W. Warner- its regular meeting Thu - J,
parents this week. i . ....
Johnson is an oil gauger em |ieaoy passed the bill,
ployed by the Magnolia Petroleum
Co.
Average Of $3
Year Sale Tax
man,
11:35
ported
as he
at 410
young
the shrubbery, poked a gun in his
back, and relieved him of his money,
which was a small amount of
change.
As police were looking for the
hi-jacker, Estelle Gobble, 606 E.
Harrison-av, called ajtd notified |
the desk sergeant that when she|
arrived home in a taxi she found
three three men stealing gasoline
from her car, parked in front of
her home. They walked off as the
taxicab approached.
Chief of Police Ira Minter and
Patrolmen Deming, Fields and Hunt
rushed out to the Gobble resident
in time to arrest two men, giving
their names as Dill Martin, alias
Hill Van Brunt, 28, and Delmar Van
Brunt, 25, both of Tulsa. They
Oklahoma City, Feb. 27. ( Spec-
ial)—A state highway improvement
program in which $1,500,000 will
be spent for labor and $1000,000
exi
to bo undertaken in Oklahoma at
once.
Works Progress Administration
I officials have announced designa-
tion of the $1,500,000 fund for la-
bor costs while the state highway-
commission has completed plans for ]
.*’ .p,.a“T. | purchase of >1.000,000 worth of ma-
,“ “ “ | terials, the National Emergency ,
L ' Council for Oklahoma reported.
Approximately 200 miles of oil,
asphalt grading and drainage work
will be included in the program.
Widely separated sections of the
state will be included. Work will
___----- (be done only on state highways.
FOR MRS. HETZEL as the program does not call for I
-- improvements on any federal desig-
Funeral services for Mrs. Mar- nate(i routes.
garet Ann Hetzel, 77, were held on Labor employed by WPA on the
Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock at, highway project will be men cer-
the Davis funeral home. Burial from the labor rolls for em-
was made in a Topeka. Kansas, ployment under the new works
cemetery Thursday morning. program.
Mrs. Hetzel died at her home In --------------
Guthrie, 502 E. Oklahoma-av., "committee favors
c. i“‘X.|FEDERAL JUDGESHIP
pastor of the United Presbyterian
church, officiated at the services
^Surviving ar. one daughter. Mis. |'favorable to the Gore^B^^vid-
Gertrude Hetzel, Guthrie, and two
sons, E. T. Hetzel. Roosevelt Okla.
and George Hetzel, Passaic. N. J-
If you are an average Guthrian, so far as expenditure
of your money is concerned, you paid a total of $1.24 in sales
tax on purchases made during the last five months of 1935,
according to figures released this week by the Oklahoma tax
commission. ., , ...... .
In other words, the ayrage resident of Guthrie will pay
a little less than $3 in safas tax over a period of one year.
And it will take 3,000 mills to pay that amount, in case you
are worrying about how many of these little tax tokens w ill
pass through your hands during 1936.
CASHION ROAD
WORKSfARTED
Crushed Rock Being Put
On 5-Mile Stretch
DELEGATION TO OPPO8E OPEN
DOOR POLICY AT RESERVOIR
FORT KNOX, Ky. . . . Construction work in now well under way on
Uncle Bam’n gold vault here where the U. 8. Government plans to atone
it’s immense gold holding* in the central part of the nation. The vault
proper, when completed late in May, will be 64 x 40 feet and two etonee
high, all underground, topped by > building of bomb-proof granite.
Woman Breaks Hip
Mrs. J. W. Allendar, formerly of
the Union Valley community, la a
patient at the Clmai^’on Galley
Weale yhoapital in Guthrie where
she was taken after she fell and
broke her hip, according to Billy
Brisby, State Register correspond-
ent for the Union Valley neighbor-
hood. Mrs. Allendar’a daughter,
Mrs. Viola Hunt, of Tahlequah, is
with her.
Banes Visitor Here
Harry W. Banes, of Perry, dis-
trict finance officer for the WPA,
was a visitor in the Guthrie office
Tuesday.
Republican committee, receiving 24
votes to 14 for C. Emory Smith,
former Logan county judge.
Mrs. Helen Friable was named _ , p,
vice-chairman of tlie county or- |4 311*1110111 1/1*0110
ganization, Ed Robertson was _______
chosen as state committeeman. and I
Miss Ernestine Adams was named ■■---
state committeewoman.
C. E. Barnes, county attorney,
presided as temporary chairman j from Oklahoma and Kansas plants
prior to the selection of officers of the Fajrmont Creamery organ-
ization will hold a two day conven-
tion in Guthrie next Monday and
Tuesday, March 2 and 3, according
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