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Big New Program
Today is the day for unveiling of a big new program for
the Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce, and Ardmore has
a big part in it.
By MAX SKELTON
Associated Press Oil Writ<
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new program emphasizes state-
wide participation and opera-
tions.
Colvert has observed that the
state chamber is our best means
for statewide action and
operation in growth and de-
velopment.
Ardmore apparently is tak-
ing a good part in the state
chamber, although more can be
done. Membership of individuals
anid businesses is on direct
basis, and there are about 25
members here.
Included are Harold Dexter,
D. C. Fitzgerald, Jr., Peoples
Federal, Noble Foundation,
OG&E, Oklahoma Natural, Mer-
ricks, Exchange National Bank,
First National Bank, Louis Fis-
ch], Medical Arts Clinic and
Colverts.
Also Cooper Farms, Daily
Ardmoreite and KVSO, Scot-
tas, Owens Furniture, Neu-
stadts’, Ardmore Chamber of
Commerce, Ken Milbum Ford,
and Samedan Oil Corp.
The event is taking place in Tulsa during the annual con-
vention of the state chamber.
Ardmore has four citizens taking direct part in the con-
vention and the new statewide program.
There is Raymond Colvert, member of the board of direc-
tors and one of the nine-member executive committee. The
recommendations for a n e wk-
program are presented first to
the directors, and then to the
general membership in the con-
vention.
Then there is Albert “Bud”
Riesen, also a member of the
board and chairman of the Pro-
jects and Policies committee.
This committee held a series
of 84 meetings around the state
last spring to gather the ideas
and suggestions of local lead-
ers on what the state chamber
of commerce can and should
be doing for progress through-
out the state.
The new program was made
up of these ideas and sugges-
tions. Details will be released
after and as the program is
approved by the board and the
membership.
We are proud, of course, that
Bud is the one to present the
new program to the board and
the members of the big state
group. This puts Ardmore in the
No. 1 position in the convention
and in promotion of the new
program.
Next on the list of citizens
taking part is Mayor Woodrow
Hulme. Woodrow is representing
Ardmore and the Oklahoma
Municipal League as member
of a panel on cooperation be-
tween officials and citizens in
public service in all levels of
government.
Official title of his panel is
“Meshing of Elected Leaders
and Voluntary Leaders.”
Woodrow believes that
elected officials of any elvel
of government from the city
and county on up to the Gover-
nor and the President of the
United States can have the
time and talents to do a good
job without the use of able
citizens who are willing to serve
in various advisory capacities.
Most elected officials do have
a number of volunteer citizens
groups .
Last and least of the Ard-
more citizens taking part at
Tulsa is me. The Governor’s
Council on Town and Country
Development is meeting in con-
junction with the state cham-
ber meeting. I am a member
of the council, and on the com-
mittee on economic development
of the state.
The goals of the council, to
further the growth and develop-
ment of rural areas and small
towns over the state, are the
same as goals of the state
chamber in these areas. Work
of the two groups is to be co-
ordinated as fully as possible.
The state Chamber of Com-
merce, as a statewide organ-
ization of citizens and leaders
and businesses, is the logical
organization to take the lead in
a statewide improvement pro-
gram of the kind we obviously
need. As I understand it, the
general goal of the new pro-
gram is to provide the leader-
ship and means needed for a
stepped up program.
I have heard complaints in
the past that the state chamber
is under the thumb of Oklahoma
City and Tulsa, and always
will be so, but why should it
be? The membership and man-
agement of the organization is
dispersed over the state, and the
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