Weleetka American (Weleetka, Okla.), Vol. 52, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 2, 1954 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 52
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Weleetka Okfuskee County Oklahoma
Thursday September 2 1954
Number 24
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A lot of towns are haring
‘trouble with crickets A few have
found their way to Weleetka but
most of them haven’t been so for-
hmate Coming from the south ScOllt8 Plait Regular
tfaeyll have a hard time getting J
here They have to cross the North
Bill Burris Services
Will Be Friday
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Bill Burris Henryetta a Pub-
lic Service company employee
died of a heart attack while driv-
ing near Henryetta Wednesday
morning
Services will be at 10 a m
Friday at the Presbyterian church
in Henryetta
Burris was well known in We-
leetka and this area
Canadian In it’s present condi-
tion if the crickets can survive
the heat while crossing the dry
bed the sand will choke ’em to
death
Oldtimers here say this is the
first time the river has been com-
pletely dry
Let’s hope it doesn’t get as
bad here as up by Oklahoma City
where the moonshiners had to
operate on the banks of Lake
Overholser That would be bad
Bill McGarr and I were dis-
cussing the way people say nice
things about others when they
leave this world About all we
can expect to have said about us
is “How much did he owe"
Modem songwriters have it
made Like perfume manufactur-
ers all they have to do is use a
French phrase put it in a song
and it becomes a hit
So don’t be surprised if tle
younger set starts muttering for-
eign lingo It’s your own fault if
you can’t understand — you just
haven’t learned the latest lyrics
A letter from Gerald Wade
tells us he really enjoys The
Paper Drive Meeting
Night Now Monday
Don’t throw away that clean
waste paper
Weleetka Troop 34 of the Boy
Scouts of America will have a
paper drive every three months
Stanley Crawley' senior patrol
leader announced at the meeting
Friday night
That will give local people a
chance to collect paper regularly
knowing that it will be picked up
later he said and announced that
the next drive would be the first
Saturday in November Magasines
and newspapers should be kept
separate in bundles
Meeting nights will be each
Monday night beginning this week
to coordinate with school activi-
tes Scoutmaster J B Trottmann
said Tuesday The meetings will
begin following the Chamber of
Commerce meeting and will be at
7:30 at the Scout Hut on Main
street
Scouts had a special guest Frl
day night He was Gerald Tenney
who was recently discharged
from the marines He demon-
strated some judo holds and
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School Enrollment
Higher This Year
418 Studets Enroll for Fall Term!
Labor Day Is Holiday for Students
y School enrollment In the Weleetka system showed a
good increase over last year Supt C M Johnson announced
Tuesday afternoon
CLAIM C1TPKE8 Greek atadeats la Athens agitate fer return
of Isle of Cyprus from British rale to Greece Scene Is at tomb of
Greece's “Unknown Warrior" I
Chamber Commerce J
Sessions to Begin '
On September 13 ‘
The Weleetka Chamber of Com-
merce will begin their regular
weekly meetings Monday- Sep-
tember 13 it was announced Wed-
nesday The’ dinner-businesa ses-
sions were scheduled to begin
September 6 which is Labor day
but no meeting will be held then
Scheduled for the first program
is a meeting with representatives
strated some judo holds and 1 0f Southwestern Bell telephone
taught them how to fall without Anyone interested in civic im
American and that he gets lots
‘Of sleep lots of food and adds
that there are a few officers
there who are “trying to act
tough” r
We have quite a few service
men who got the paper through
the courtesy of Fleming Chevrolet
which bears the cost of sending
the home town paper to them
Emergency Food
Relief Applications
Are Being Taken
Applications for emergency re-
’lief food had reached 870 this
week after county commissioners
made application for federal sur-
plus food to food needy Okfuskee
county families
The applications are being ta-
ken ut the engineer’s -office In
the county courthouse
being hurt and some points on
self protection Several visitors
and about 15 boys were present
Scouts are preparing now for
the board of review and court of
honor which will be held about
the middle of September in con-
nection with a acout leader’s con-
ference Time and place will be
announced later
Area Soldiers Are
With Unit in Korea
Pfe Marvin D Thomason son
of Mr and Mrs John Thomason
of route one and Pfc Clyde Dear-
man son of Mr snd Mrs M D
Dearman of route one Wetumka
recently helped th 7th Infantry
division’s 81st regiment celebrate
the 88th anniversary in Korea
They are both members of Com-
pany H which wa organised in
1916 The anniversary was marked
in Korea by athletic and military
is county courthouse events staged by men of the 81st
Many more are expected aa Th soldiers entered the army
during March 1963 and arrived
in Korea the following Septem
many people did not know appli-
cations were being taken
All persona interested in mak-
ing application for the emergency
relief are urged to do eo soon
Approval by the Emergency re-
lief board la possible only when
the number of applications are
turned in
Plans have been completed for
the ' storage and transportation
of the commodities as quickly as
the application are approved
Durbin Sends Call
For Band Parents
The Weleetka Band Parents
club will meet Tuesday Septem-
ber 7 at 7:30 p m In the band
room
Delbert Durbin president of the
club urges all parents to be pres-
’ent at this meeting the first
since the end of school last year
Important buaineas willbe dm
cussed and plana will he made to
help our children for the coming
year Durbin said v
Beaver Is Fined
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Roman Beaver wa arrested for
fighting and disturbing the pwca
August 20 He was fined 199B
by Charley Mclntlre justice Of
peace Police Chief B B Harper
made th arrest
Four others wera arrested for
drunkenness last week and vrers
fined $1160 each Mclntira said
They wars Raymond Harjo Al-
bert Chatam Willy Band and a
Mr Huggins
her after completing basic train-
ing at Camp Roberts Calif
County Gets New '
Assistant Agent
Troy Ward former assistant
county agent at McAlester has
accepted the position of associate
county agent for Okfuskee coun-
ty Ward will take up his duties
in Okemah immediately
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Most of Town Will
Close September 6
Most of Weleetka’s business
houses snd offices will be
closed Monday September 6
tn observance of Labor Day
Some of the cafes and drag
stores will probably remain
open '
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provements is invited to attend
the meetings
New Home to Be
Built in Weleetka
Mr snd Mrs James Taylor
who live eight miles south of
Dustin are building a new 6-room
home in block 138 in Weleetka
It will be located near the M S
Douglass home
Charley George local carpenter
contracted the job and said it
would be finished about Novem-
ber 1
Retail Business Up
In County for July
A sizeable gain was noted in
the retail sales tax collectad from
Okfuskee county during July
of 1964 over 1963 This was the
first gain In several months and
indicates business conditions in
the county '
Collections for July of this year
were $1147989 In 1963 it waa
$1098799 for the month
The gain was 447 per cent
THE WEATHER
Max Min Ave
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Courtesy Public Service Co
Special Interceptors
To Be Used by State
Highway Patrol
Oklahoma speeders already be
set with radar unmarked care
nnd airplanes now have another
deterrent The highway patrol is
putting specially built intercept
ors on the highs ays
State safety commissioner Law-
rence Bellatti announced today
that two of the hlghpowered cars
have already been added to the
unmarked fleet that turnpike
troopers are now using intercept-
ors and that more are on order
to replace regular black and white
units v
' “Interceptors or -their equiva-
lent will be used exclusively in
the future We intend to have the
trooper in the best equipment
that we can secure for them”
Bellatti said
He explained that by the equl
valent of an interceptor he
meant stock cars which would
be their equal in power speed
and maneuverability Patrol cara
are replaced on a low bid basis
and bidders will make the re-
placements when their cars ful-
fill the requirements
The added cost of changing to
the more hlghpowered ears is
negligible according to Bellatti
W K Blood assistant comm-
issioner of public safety explained
that the extra equipment which
the patrol must install on all of
its cars adds extra weight which
the ordinary stock car connot
carry at top efficiency
The special built police inter-
ceptor are constructed to carry
the extra weight of necessary
patrol equipment and also have
larger brakes r
Blood explained that with the
extra power and speed many long
and dangerous pursuits can be
eliminated thus reducing chances
of accidents and injury to the
trooper
4000 New Traffic
Dangers Face County
Auto Drivers Now
Another school year has begun
for Okfuskee county school chil-
dren which means - that about
4000 children will be going to
and from school each week day
A serious hasard confronts the
county driver and the local
highway patrol reminds of the
laws governing school crossings
and the loading and unloading of
school busses
Dangers are probably greater
during the first few weeks of
school when drivers are not ac-
customed to the speed cones and
the routes of school busses and
drivers should be particularly
careful
In rural school cones tha state
speed limit is 25 miles an hour
Cities may set their own limits
Weleetka’s is 15 miles ner hour
When meeting or following A
school bus that is loading or un-
loading children a car must
come to a complete stop before
proceeding Troopers warned that
this law will be enforced
September li bus inspection
month during which all vehicles
must be checked snd defects fixed
before it ie okayed
When school officials are ready
to have their buses checked
Strang said they ehould contact
the patrol The patrol will come
to the school and inspect the
vehicle Should it pass the troop-
ers will issue an okay sticker
Schools who have buses that do
not measure up to state inspection
may have their state aid cut off
until the bus la fixed
There are about 85 school buses
in the county
At noon Tuesday 418 student
had enrolled as compared with
360 last year with several new
families having moved into tha
district snd a new policy by tha
Interior Department concerning
the education of Indiana Several t
who had previously gone to In
dian schools this year are In
school here ‘
68 of the 418 are lnr the Ros-
enwald school where ' Principal
Kyle Spencer said enrollment waa
down some He added that there
would be more enrolling later In
the week
Teachers there are Mrs Aman-
da Brown and Mrs Kyle Spencer
In the first six grades in th
white school there were 173 with
101 in tha three junior high
grades snd 86 in the senior high
I 36 in Largest Class
The first and ninth grades have
the largest number with 86'
A breakdown showed the fol-
lowing number of students in each
grade at' noon Tuesday:
First grade 86 second 80
third 26 fourth 30 fifth 29$
sixth 22 seventh 84 eighth 81
ninth 86 tenth 29 eleventh
29 and twelfth 28
School Days Are Short
Supt Johnson said that school
would turn out early the rest of
this week due to the exceptional
heat which makes study difficult
One room with the window
down showed a temperature of
108 degrees about 4 p m and
with little circulation' ih'othttV'
school officials are holding classes
only part of each day with each
class period being cut down
No School Monday
There will be no school Monday
due to the Labor day holiday
and many students would prob-
ably be away
School is expected to return to
normal Tuesday
Where Angels Fear to Trod —
Bowlegs Picked Conference Champs
Angels won’t go into this sub-I aide chance at first place with
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ject but there some editors who
do Who’s going to win the East
Central football conference this
year! It’ll be either Weleetka
Bowlegs Maud Konawa or Al-
len as those are the only teams
In the conference which inci-
dentally is made up this year of
class C schools only -
- That makes It tough for th
Bowlegs the team to beat for
first Then Konawa Maud and
Allen finishing hi that order
Looks at present like Weleetka
should be in the top two prob-
ably in second
Not too much la known about
the opponents so let's take a
look at the Outlaw’s 1964 version
Weleetka Coaches will spend
much of the pre-season time
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and It’s football we’ro talking
about And with no large schools
to have a decided advantage It
isn’t any easier
But hon It cornea the tint end
probably th last time this editor
purposely lists himself with th
fools '
We’ll give Weleetka aa out-
only one with much experience
carrying the ball He’ll have th
down-under Job as quarterback
with Don Crawley Jimmie Beat-
tie and Fred Larney also trail
ing the formation 5
Th line shows promise of
strength with most of last ysar
Smart Freshman in
FFA to Get Prize
Freshmen members of the FFA
at Weleetka high school should
really be out trying for high
grades at least for the first nine
The boy with the highest grade
at the end of that time will he
given a white face hereford by
Earl Payne local cattle man
FFA reporter Keith Vencill said
Wednesday
Doves Beware!
Seasons Opens With
Good Supply Seen
The dove shooting season has
opened and game officials say
prospects are for the best supply
in years with later season good
for both qusil and pheasant
Officials said the warm weather
will keep doves her long enough
for hunters to get plenty of good
hooting during the 40-day sea-
son The shortage of water will make
for good hunting in areas where
there is water
Shooting ia allowed from a
half hour before sunrise to sun-
set Dove may be bagged only
with shotgun plugged to tako
no more than three shells Daily
bag and possession limits are 10
doves
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weight fomning a strong unbsl
znced line which will be the style
this year Expected to give it
the power will be John Boosa
and Frank Asbury at ends both
able to catch an occasional pass
Ted Thomas and Gerald Kitch
guards Bill Lollls and Don Mad-
dox tackles and Joe Dale BroWn
starting the plays at center
Coaches have about 28 suits
checked out when practice started
with several dropping out and
others beginning
Others who will give impetus
to a hoped-for successful s Cason
will be Nail Winn David Reddick
Stanley Crawley Dwalq Stephans
Ronald Thomas Glee Payne Don
Payne David Lollls Frank Bur-
ton Tommy Curran Jimmla Trail
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Shown above are part of the vehicles used In an oil operation last
week north of Weleetka The largi truck facing forward is th pump
truck which forces oil from the truck on 'the left and sand from
tho truck on the left into th oil sands several thousand ft dew
in an effortt to improvs an old well
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