Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 59, No. 283, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 25, 1948 Page: 2 of 12
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Plunges to Death
NEW YORK. Dec. 25—(IP)—The
body of an unidentified woman,
clothed in garment* from fashionable
Fifth avenue shops, was found Satur-
day on the roof of a one-«tory exten-
sion of a Parr avenue apartment
house.
Police said the woman, about 40
years old, apparently fell or jumped
from the roof of the 18-story building.
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Former City Man,
M. C. Kelley, Dies
M. C. Kelley, 73, long-time Major
county resident and former Oklahoma
City water well contractor, died Fri-
day night in a local rest home follow-
ing a two-year illness.
He was born Aug. 23. 1875. In Iowa,
and made the run Into Oklahoma In
’89, homesteading a farm in Major
county. He operated a farm and ranch
there until he established the Okla-
homa City contracting business in
1921.
He is survived by his wife. Mrs. Nel-
lie M. Kelley. Wichita, Kan.; six sons,
E. L.. 208 NW 36; F. H. Buffalo, Har-
per county; Earl R., NW 16 and Mac-
Arthur; O. A., Pampa, Texas; R. E„
Ventura, Calif., and N. A.. 729 NE 36;
one daughter, Mrs. Irma Haynes,
Chester, Major county; a sister, Mrs.
Ruby Mills. Los Angeles, and 25
grandchildren.
Arrangements will be announced by
the -Guardian funeral home.
NORFOLK, Va., Dec. 35—0P>—
The aircraft carrier Saipan sets out
Saturday on a mercy mission to
Greenland.
By Monday morning, the flattop
is due to launch one or more of its
five helicopters in redoubled ef-
forts to rescue 11 airmen from the
7,500-foot icecap where they have
been stranded for from 16 to 18
days.
That is, if the airforce doesn’t get
the men out before then. Bad
weather and bad breaks have
thwarted previous rescue attempts.
The Saipan is under command of
Capt. Joseph L. Kane of Wash-
] ington.
Two single-rotor helicopters
landed aboard the carrier Friday.
Three twin-rotor jobs were due to
touch down on the flight deck
Saturday morning.
These larger copters, each cap-
able of carrying eight persons,
should be able to reach the stranded
men easily, weather permitting.
They have a ceiling of 15,000 feet
—double the elevation of the Ice-
cap.
. Kane ordered the Saipan to make
the run at 26 knots (30 miles an
hour); a speed which should put
it off the west coast of Greenland
around mid-morning Monday.
The navy has ordered an ice-
breaker to rendezvous with the car-
rier off the coast to help it reach
the shoreline.
The icecap is located about 100
miles Inland.
Seven of the men have been there
since December 9, when their C-47
plane cracked up. Two others
Flattop to Try Icecap Rescue
joined them four days later when
snow drifts balked their rescue ef-
forts in a B-17. The last two gilded
onto the icecap late last week but
their "air snatch” maneuver was
fruitless.
The Saipan is taking a motley
crew to Greenland. Half of the car-
rier’s regular complement was on
Christmas leave when the decision
was made Thursday to undertake
the mission. >
Only about 130 of the regular
crewmen were recalled. Another 300
or so men were borrowed from other
ships tied up in the navy yard here.
A Christmas eve party for 40
under-privileged children from a
nearby housing project was held on
the Saipan’s hangar deck Friday
afternoon.
The airforce dropped Christmas
dinners for the stranded airmen
along with emergency rations and
other supplies earlier in the week.
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express our thanks to our many
customers among the hard-of-
hearing • . . may the coming
years be filled with joy for you
and yours.
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Amateurs Plan
Theater Talks
In Washington
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path of the oncoming express.
the first car overturned. '
train was traveling about 30 miles
hour when the accident occurred.
MORAN INSURANCE AGENCY
133 West Second St * Phone 2 5164
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Overcoat Reported Stolen—Paul Lee
. 31. 1526 W Grand, greeted
Christmas early Saturday with a
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Hits Hospital
EAU CLAIRE, Wis., Dec. 25
—(U.R)—Ninety patients were
rescued early Christmas when
the Mount Washington tu-
berculosis sanitorium was
damaged by fire.
Authorities said that only "split-
second action” by nurses, doctors,
firemen, police and sheriff's depu-
ties ’’prevented a disaster.”
No one was reported injured.
The fire destroyed a frame sec-
tion of the building that was con-
structed in 1913. A brick and stone
section, completed recently, was
damaged by smoke and water.
An investigation was launched
immediately to determine the cause
of the fire.
The patient*, many of them bed-
ridden and in critical condition
from their sickness, were brought
here to Luther Sacred Heart hos-
pital by bus and ambulance. Many
were later removed to other hos-
pitals wtthln the city.
The sanitorium is located just
south of the city on Mount Wash-
ington. the highest point of land in
this area. >
BARBATE
BEARDED
Mangum Postmaster
Dies; Funeral Sunday
MANGUM. Dec. 35—'Special)—
Funeral services for Linn Norman. 50.
Mangum postmaster for the past three
years, will be at 2:30 p. m. Sunday In
Central Christian church here.
Norman, a victim of cancer, died
In a Wellington. Texas, hospital. Fri-
day. He is survived by his wife,
Vivian of Mangum.
Burial will be here.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24—(CDN)—
The men and women who are helping
to develop Broadway s talent of to-
morrow will meet here late this
month to plan for 1949.
The American Educational Theater
Association will hold its 13th annual
convention December 28-30.
While professional Broadway re-
mains skeptical of its future, AETA
represents a section of America’s
theater that has developed steadily
with the years.
Some Tackle Broadway
It Includes more than 1,500 instruc-
tors, artists and craftsmen of amateur
educational theaters throughout the
country. Its backbone is student
theaters at nearly 1.000 colleges and
universities. Also affiliated are hun-
dreds of schools and children's thea-
ter*.
Each year under AETA guidance
everything from ancient Greek trag-
edies to contemporary drama is pre-
sented to thousands of Americans who
seldom, if ever, get to see Broadway
productions.
And in the process hundreds of
young persons, from grade school
pupils to college seniors, learn to love
the theater—some of them enough to
tackle the heartbreaks of Broadway.
Top Men to Speak
Their Instructors this year will dis-
cuss "The Broadway Theater” and
"The American Theater Scene” with
top men from the bright lights belt.
Among the latter will be Clarence
Derwent, president of actors equity,
and Gilbert Miller, the producer.
There also will be sectional sessions
on such topics as acting and direct-
ing, drama criticism, and history of
the theater.
These will be. led by leading in-
structors in theaters of colleges and
universities.
One of the best of these academic
theaters, that at Catholic university
here, will present Aristophanes' "The
Birds” for the AETA convention.
Double Wreck
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Kills Engineer
PITTSBURGH. Dec. 25 — OP) — An
engineer died and two crewmen were
injured—one critically—as a 13-car
Pennsylvania railroad express train
ploughed into the wreckage of an ear-
lier freight accident.
The victim was identified by a PRR
spokesman as Park Wlnegar of Pitts-
burgh. Fireman W. L. Skultety was
I reported in critical condition at .the]
i Rochester (Pa.) hospital. ,
P. E. Shuler was released after treat- on a charge of assault with a danger-
i ment. Both are from Pittsburgh. lous weapon in the knifing of Sterling
The express train was enroute from Weaver. 49. 200 E Choctaw, at Henry's
Chicago to Pittsburgh. The railroad I bar. 126 S Broadway. The victim was
spokesman said: treated at Mercy hospital for a cheek
’’Five cars of a freight train had de- wound.
railed on a nearby track. One of the
• cars hit a parked train and a car from q
the latter was pushed directly into the Hunt?
path of the incoming express. Christmas eariy oaiuruay w im »
”nie locomotive of the express and -chill.” He told police some one lifted
the first car overturned. The express his top coat while he was eating a late
train was traveling about 30 miles an snack at the Golden Pheasant, Main
and Broadway.
Merry Christmas
Assault Is Charged—L o n n i e B.
] Huffman, 300 block N Lottie, was
Brakeman booked at headquarters Friday night
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He’s No •Friend.* After All—The
next time Bob Myers. 49. 401 SW 23,
buys a casual acquaintance a bottle of
beer, he will keep a firm grip on his
overcoat. Myers told police the ”friend"
walked away with his coat ’’after I
bought him a bottle of beer at 21 S
Broadway.”
OKLAHOMA CITY'S
EXCLUSIVE CORSET SHOP
109 N. Harvey
U. S. Yale Story to Be Aired
WASHINGTON. Dec. 25—(U.RV—The
atate department’s "Voice of America”
planned Saturday to tell the world
how Americans observe Christmas.
The Voice scheduled a worldwide
broadcast of interviews with typical
American families.
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Our Sincere
Yuletide Wish
For A
MERRY CHRISTMAS
And
HAPPY NEW YEAR
has a special meaning this year . . .
there will be a wonderful New
Sylvia's to serve you next year.
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comas, and who make provision for the inev-
it able expenses involved, are being both prac-
tical and sensible. tf one is taken first, the
SMITH & KERN KE
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
1401 N.W. 23rd St.
Phone 58-7542
plane — and spared the financial burden tab-
posed by the funeral and interment.
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Farm Price Aid
By Jo Fischer
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Hysteria and the Gang.
Pottery Firm Beats Back
SCIO, Ohio, Dec. 25—</P>—The
Scio-Ohio Pottery Co. held a bonus-
less "cheer up” Christmas party last
year because a fire wrecked the plant.
This year is different: “We'll be out
of debt by Christmas,” Lou P. Reese,
company owner, said Saturday.
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WASHINGTON. Dec. 25—(45—
What sort of a farm price support
program would be fair to both the
farmer and the city dweller?
Ever since the first World war, con-
gress has been trying to find one.
The issue is sure to be debated again
soon after the new congress meets in
January.
Farmers are beginning to fear that
when the present price support pro-
gram ends in 1950 their income will
drop too abruptly.
Many city dwellers, who have to
buy the food the fanner raises, believe
the government price support program
has tended to keep food prices high.
Some want the price support program
stopped.
Various Methods Tried
The problem is to find a method
for guaranteeing or insuring the far-
mer a "fair” price for his crops with-
out keeping the cost of food too high
for the city dweller.
The government has attempted to
do this In various ways. Outright sub-
sidies have been pUd. There have been
production control programs, market-
ing agreements, export subsidies and
loan programs. Then the price sup-
port program was tried. It is still in
effect
Agricultural economists seeking a
method to determine a "fair” price at
which crops should be supported came
up in 1933 with the ‘‘parity” plan. It
was Included in the agricultural ad-
justment act that year.
The economists adopted a base pe-
riod from August 1909 to July 1914 in
whicb they believed prices for most
farm products were more stable than
in other years for which records were
kept.
Parity was figured this way:
First an index was made of the
prices the farm family had to pay In I
the base period for 180 articles needed,
for family living and to operate a
farm, and the cost of take* and inter-
est. These were national average
pricea.
National Averages Used
Next an index was made of the
prices farmers received for their pro-
ducts in the base period. There were
national averages also.
Each Index was given the same
numerical value—100.
On January 15, 1947, the prices of
the 180 articles in the index of things
the fanners have to buy stood at 215.
This means the prices of these 180 ■
articles had gone up 115 points since
1909-1914.
In the 1909-1914 period wheat av-
eraged 88.4 cents a bushel. Therefore,
the parity price for wheat on January j
15. 1947 would be 88.4 multiplied by
3.15 or 81.90 a bushel.
This 81.90 would buy the farmer
the same proportion of the 180 articles I
in the index in January 1947 at the
88.4 cents he received in 1909-1914 ■
would have bought at the time.
The parity prices for any group of x
crop* may be added together on any
date and a parity ratio may be es-1
tablished. This shows whether the
farmer, on any date, is making more
or less return on his crops, expressed
in terms of goods—not money—than
Of 1909-1914.
Guarantee* Made
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from the Vatican. He urged mankind
to pray for peace, lest civilization pass
over a precipice into oblivion.
Christmas brought no letup In Ger-
many* east-west propaganda war.
Nor did it bring respite to the men
who fly the Berlin airlift. The air
crew* did take time off. however, to
•tuff down Christmas turkey.
Russia Pays Bonus
•Die Russians bid again for German
support. They announced a Christmas
bony* of an extra month's pay for
leading employes of coal and power
Industries of the soviet-occupied zone
of Germany. Those industries were
credited w’ith meeting all 1948 pro-
duction goals.
From Indonesia, where the security
council has ordered shooting stopped,
eame a holiday note in greetings
Dutch Lt. Gen. 8. B. Spoor sent his
troop*:
"May Christmas be a symbol from
which you may draw strength to carry
out your orders with the beautiful
objective: to bring peace to Indo-
nesia.”
er, in various ways since 1933. that
he will receive the parity price or near
it for some crops he raises. If the
market price doesn't equal the parity
price, the government stands ready to ployes.
make up the difference. The union’s contract required the
The parity formula attempts to tie : nurses to give up their jobs within
prices to the farmer's cost of I 30 days after marriage.
rr h- ■ Mrs. Helen Koval Dalsanto and
has to buy go up. so do the support I Mrs. Charlotte Boncela Chruby,
prices. If the farmer's cost* go down, nuraes, who left the hospital after
so do support prices. ■ | their marriages a few months ago.
The parity formula was "modem- i took their complaint to the national
Ized” by the 80th congress in 1948.1
The 1909-1914 base period still Is
used, but in addition the i------
prices paid and received by farmers |
tn the 10-year period preceding the
date for which a parity price is being
also are taken into consideration.
Nurses Protest, Quit Union
-Because of Ban on Marriage
CHICAGO. Dec. 25—<CDN)—
„ . Nurses at the Standard Oil Cb.’s
farmers did in the yardstick period > hospital at suburban Whiilhg, Ind.,
have quit their union because the
union made them quit their jobs
Congress has guaranteed the farm- | after marriage.
They had been represented by
local 100, Central States Petroleum
union, independent, which bargains
on a plant-wide basis for 6,000 em-
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Jobs Offered Group
Of Estonian Refugees
SOUTHPORT. N. C.. Dec. 25—(UR)
—A Southport fishing fleet operator
offered his own kind of Christmas
present Saturday to the Estonian refu-
gee* who landed here last autumn,
and Insisted stoutly that "It's no sort
of charity, either.”
Bill Wells said he wanted to hire
the 10 men in the little group who
crossed the ocean to man his fishing
boat*.
“I need good men, snd I believe
these people are just what I want,”
Wells said.
Wells said "a lot of government red
tape” kept him from taking his offer
directly to the Estonians, who were
held at Ellis island immigration
station.
labor mediations board.
NLRB field examiners Meyer G.
Heines and Richard Simon investi-
gated.
They held a ‘‘decertification" elec-
tion. Nine nurses were eligible to
vote. Seven showed up—the score:
7 to 0 against local 100.
“Now. as a professional group,
we're going to bargain with the
company,” said nurse Theresa Mur-
xyn. 23.
“We want to have the clause that
nurses have to quit after their mar-
riage knocked out.”
Miss Murzyn said that none of
the nurses contemplated marriage
at the present time—but they want-
ed job protection just in case.
Child Gets Sight
In Time for Yule
HOLLIS, Dec. 25—<U.P)—Linda Jean
Ables, 19 month* old, saw Christmas
tree lights Saturday and said
word, "Pretty.” That word was
ward enough for the mother who had
waited through five operations for
that moment.
Linda Jean, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Hurley S. Ables, was bom
blinded by congenital cataracts. She
had her first operation when she was
4 months old. and four more before
her first birthday.
The Ables mortgaged their house to
help payTor Linda Jean's operations
and tiny glasses. But the mortgage
doesn't count.
"It isn't for much.” Mrs. Ables said
"It will be all right.”
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men play the part of Christ. And
those men insist on carrying a full-
size, solid cross up the hill to Cal-
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> Minister SUU Wishing
Hundreds of hours Mr. Wallock
ha* spent In the hills of his city,
dreaming and planning. It has come
to mean Nazareth and Bethlehem of
Judea.
Ruhl Wallock, one of the 12 boys
he reered, sit* for hours beside his
bed. thinking . . . and wishing.
One thing he adshes as the little
minister struggle* for life on the
bed is for the great, white stone
statue of Christ. The Christ of the
Wichita*, Mr. Wallock want* to
call 1L T
Th* great white statue would cost
thousand* of dollar* . . . and Mr.
Wallock never wanted to earn any-
thing for himself.
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father, standing near the rock-baaed
cram, said once after another
■ertous heart attack.
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