Harlow's Weekly (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 48, No. 23, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 4, 1937 Page: 3 of 16
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HARLOW’S WEEKLY
First Turkey Pools DESULTS of turkey pools in Oklaho-
« „ a. Z a____ A* vonr spptyi to have been
At present, em-
report each month.
to
piGURING on the
I* materials and
the State into four
Divides Authority
1.920 blind persons
Draws Criticism
(*(*<>1101)1 i<* problems in
ami
up of (lumarea-
is drawn. The
— ma this year seem to have been
quite satisfactory, if the marketing
Oklahoma. One of
from the report:
< rough
no way
OFFICIAL reports from the WPA un-
employment survey are not at all
palatable up in the northeastern part of
the reasons is to be found in this excel pt
in 1937. However,
s increased cost of
labor, Oklahoma
Citv contractors have estimated that
no obvious contribution to a long time plan to provide work for
its more permanent population groups. It is surrounded on all sides
bv oil fields now producing little. Its speculators have gone to
newer fields and the real estate value has decreased approximately
60 per cent. . . . „ ,
“The farmers cannot he self-supporting at present prices and
with present farming methods. There is no source for a constant
supply <>f trade dollars to keep its wholesale and retail stores in
general merchandise active.
problem is great because
tion between farm groups
ifoil has been nonproducti\<
sified farming is little <1'\
for the present resources
eight-hour shifts, to complete the job by June 30, next.
The lake, created in 1910, is fed by Medicine Creek and
supplies water to Lawton, Fort Sill, Cameron State Agricul-
tural College, Kiowa-Comanche Indian Reservation, the United
States experimental dry farm station and Medicine Park, all
by gravity flow.
is Tulsa,
permanency in mind than the average oil
industrial employment is in refining operations
of oil field equipment. Its employment and popula-
not increasing because oil activity is very much on the
Outside of oil field machinery factories, Tulsa has made
Prove Satisfactory
specialist at A. and M. College has the right slant on things.
There were three dressed turkey pools, centering at Guthrie,
Mangum and Madill, where a total of 10,700 of the birds
were marketed during November from 15 counties, by pro-
ducers who joined the cooperative system. This, of course,
did not include all the turkeys sold in those counties.
At Guthrie, producers in the counties of Logan, Payne,
Pawnee, Canadian, Kingfisher, and Lincoln, delivered
about 5,200, where an advance payment on the best grade was
14 cents; at Mangum, producers in Greer, Beckham, Kiowa,
Jackson and Harmon counties who delivered about 3,500, re-
ceived an advance on prime of 12 cents; at Madill, 2.000 birds
were delivered by producers in Marshall, Atoka, Johnston and
Carter counties, at a top advance approximating that at
Mangum.
This was the first experience of Oklahoma turkey grow-
ers in selling turkeys on a dressed basis, in large quantities,
using federal dressed grades. Advances were assumed to be
about 50 per cent of the estimated market price on the date of
pooling, after deducting 6 cents per pound.
uses of the various social ami
Oklahoma are many ami chronic.
DKidesTuthority commissioner districts, each to con-
tain two divisions and to be under con-
trol of one of the commissioners, is now being worked out by
Ihe Highway Commission. While this has been the general
idea in the Commission, the fact there have been u si.
sinns has caused an overlapping of authority.
Under the new plan. Grisso would take the sou e,
Commons the northeast, Arnold the northwest and Coffey th
southwest.
Gain for Oklahoma IN its annual report of the estimated
In Census Estimate 1 population changes in the I nited
States, the Census Bureau has just
issued a bulletin indicating that the population of Oklahoma
has increased from 2,396,040 in 1930 to 2.548.000 on July 1.
thlS These estimates are based upon the trend ot population
between 1920 and 1930, and while they do not pretend to be
accurate, they usually come close to the mark.
Gain for the fiscal year ending July 1 was estimated to
have been 20,000.
General Fund Has WHILE predicting that the State will
Been Wiped Out " “go $1,000,000 in the red" this week
when the common school aid claims are
filed, State Auditor Childers said that warrants will be issued
New Reports Coming VROM an estimated 35,000 business
For Social Security 1 institutions, large and small, that
the federal government has listed in
Oklahoma as subject to payment of social security tax, 22,-
695 have either failed to make returns or their reports are er-
roneous. That was the figure given out at the bureau ot
internal revenue in Oklahoma City Friday.
Of the delinquents, 12845 firms failed to make the re-
quired monthly reports of taxes paid in by employes; 6,257
failed to make the semi-annual report of wages paid, and
3 593 made errors in their reports. All requires a clean-up
squad in action until January 1, when the record must be
ClearNew regulations to be in effect after the first of the
year are expected to eliminate much of the confusion tha
has occurred in the first year of operation. At present, em-
ployers are required
of malnutrition. A sharp In
and town and city groups
for many years; acreage i
loped; and the population
and industries. Much ot the
and rocky—unfit for farming and the lead and zinc mines in
provide sufficient demand for the supply of labor.
Which the Bartlesville Examiner is led to think may be
slightly off in its coloring. But the worst is yet to come; for
in the report on Tulsa, it is said:
“The largest city is Tulsa, and it was founded on the oil field
basis but with more
town. Tulsa's
the production
tion are
wane.
Large Increase in
Home Building Cost
the cost cf a new home in’ the city has mounted 24 per cent
since earlv in 1934. Material costs show an increase of 8 per
cent, while labor cost, based upon the union scale in botn
years, has jumped 40 per cent. , > v_
Average increase in wages in the seven trades
layers plasterers, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, painters
ind'hod carriers s shown to be 39 per cent, this average ris-
ing from $6.88 per day in 1934 to $9.57 in 1937. However
the wage scale during the depression low was not maintaine
closely, it was said.
Jderit System May CONSIDERATION of a revised merit
Mean Efficiency system, under which experience and
competency rather than a civil sei vice
plan is proposed, will be considered at the next meeting of
the Public Welfare Commission. At the meeting week
the Commission approved an old age pension roll of 0.
persons for December. For this an appropriation ot $1,042,-
309, an average of $15.02 a person, was made.
In November there were 68,870 persons on rolls who drew
an average of $14.95 each, or a total of $1,029,472.
The Commission also appropriated $223,088 for 32,G3-
dependent children, compared with $214,077 for 31,386 chil-
dren in November. Approval was given to a roll ot 1,J8^
Jlind persons who will draw a total of $33,193. Last month
received $32,102.
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Harlow, Victor E. Harlow's Weekly (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 48, No. 23, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 4, 1937, newspaper, December 4, 1937; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1600715/m1/3/: accessed May 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.