4-A THE DAILY ARDMOREITE, Ardmore, Okla., Sunday, September 6, 1970
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Random Notes From The Notebook
Several months ago, Fred Beaver, our Indian art-
ist, told me Jack Gregory and Rennard Strickland,
collectors of Indian tales and legends, had asked him
to illustrate their next book, a collection of Creek-
Seminole legends. Fred was very pleased. This is an
honor for the artist, helps promote sale of his paint-
ings, and if the book sells good it makes him some
money. But months passed with no word from the
writers. Gregory and Strickland (shown in photo at
right with Fred) live in Florida and Virginia. Recent-
ly, Fred told me in his Indian English, “I heard nothing
from those guys. I guess they forgot all about it.” His
discouragement showed. I tried to reassure him, “Writ-
ers are all like that. They work on Indian time . . .
when the Great Spirit moves them.”
Then last Wednesday my words proved true. The
Great Spirit finally moved them, and Gregory and
Strickland showed up here in Ardmore with the first
batch of legends for Fred to illustrate. We had a story
on this visit in last Thursday’s Ardmoreite, so won’t
go into it here except to correct a couple of errors.
These writers are both natives of Muskogee, not Ok-
mulgee; and the new book with Fred’s illustrations is
to be published before Christmas, not some time next
year. I’m looking forward to getting a copy. It will be
a limited edition, and will be a collector’s item when
it comes off the press.
Fred is showing his paintings this weekend in an
Indian Arts and Crafts show in the Cherokee Village
at Tahlequah, Okla. He will return Monday and be-
gin an exhibit at the Chickasaw Library in Broadlawn
Village here in Ardmore. This exhibit will run through
Sept 16 and give city and area people an opportunity
to see some of Fred’s current paintings. The library is
open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays, and from Sam.
to 5 pm. on Saturdays. I’m sure we can persuade Fred
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WRITERS ADMIRE INDIAN PAINTING . . . Jack
Gregory and Rennard Strickland, at right, smile in ad-
miration as Fred Beaver, Ardmore Indian artist, shows
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them his painting of stick-ball players. Beaver is il-
lustrating a book on Creek-Seminole Legends written
by Gregory and Strickland.
to take some time off from his painting to be at the
Chickasaw Library some evening between 5 and 8
p.m. to visit about his work and his trips to art shows
and Indian pow-wows around the country.
Fred recently returned from a trip to the annual
Indian Market Day at the old Governor’s Palace in
Santa Fe, where one of his paintings, “Seminole Wo-
men Preparing Food,” won first prize and sold by
the time they put, the blue ribbon on it; and from the
49th annual Inter-tribal Indian Ceremonial at Gallup,
N. M., where he had a booth in the exhibits building. !
His schedule for the near future includes the Ckla-
homa Indian Trade Fair at Shepherd Mall in Okla- <
homa City on Sept. 18-20; he will sing at a banquet in i
Tulsa on Sept. 25 honoring Louis Ballard, Indian com- {
poser, who is the Outstanding Indian of . 1970; and on
Oct. 23-25, he will be at the Fin and Feather Lodge '
annual Arts and Crafts Show at Lake Tenkiller. Fred
also plans to show about 30 paintings at the All-
American Indian Week show at Pomona, Calif., Nov.
6-8, on special invitation.
All-America Cities Show
The Chickasaw Library has invited us to put on
the All-America Cities contest presentation at the li-
brary in Broadlawn Village Thursday night, 8 p.m., as
a feature of their regular film show night.
Dick Thomas, assistant city manager, and I will
put on the presentation, with Dick showing the color
slides of Ardmore while I tell the story . . . just like
our team put it on before the judges in Portland,
Oregon.
The public is invited, of course.
Thoughtful Ardmoreite Subscribers
Jim Hefley, in the Circulation Department, passed j
along a letter from the Robert H. Igo family who re- I
cently moved from Ardmore to New Martinsville, Vir-
ginia. It reads, “Enclosed you will find $2, and would
you please pass this along to our paper boy. In the
process of moving, we overlooked it.”
Jim says this happens1 quite often, that families
move away and forget to pay their Ardmoreite paper
boy. Not all of them remember as the Igo family did,
but Jim wishes they would. It is encouraging to the
boys, and keeps them from taking a loss.
Meeting For Cattlemen
Production of beef cattle on winter pastures in
Southern Oklahoma is now big business running into
millions of dollars. Roy Tompkins, agricultural vice
president, reminded us of this Thursday night when
the Exchange National Bank hosted a dinner for their
cattlemen customers and a number of guests. The No-
ble Foundation has been the spark plug of the winter
pasture program and was represented by Gary Sim-
mons, director, and several members of the Agricul-
tural Division. Also present were other Exchange
National officials, veterinarians, cattle buyers, feed
dealers, and of course a number of ranchers. Roy also
invited some local industry people, including Howard
Drew and Ed Estes of Uniroyal, Jess Craig of the Ard-
more Development Authority, and Bob Gow, Cham-
ber president.
The cattlemen included Bill Brannan and Bill
Riley from Love County; Trig Meek from the Fitz-
gerald Ranch; Leo Roberts, Daube ranch manager;
Wendell Wallace, Noble ranch manager; Wendell
Sparks, of the big Sparks Ranch in the Arbuckles;
Andy Knight, from Milo; and Glenn Cantrell, Lone
Grove rancher and outstanding cattle industry leader
who is now affiliated with the Master Feeders feedlots
at Guymon where they can feed 35,000 cattle at once.
Ray Kimsey was there from the Texas County Feed-
lots where they can feed 50,00 to 60,000 cattle at one
time. Other local cattlemen included Dr. Charlie Love,
R. C. and Charles Allen, Charles Swindell, J. W. and
Johnny DeHart, and Bert Powers, Jr. It was a good
meeting, and a reminder that agriculture, and the cat-
tle industry in particular, is still a major factor in the
Southern Oklahoma economy.