The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 34, No. 235, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 3, 1948 Page: 1 of 12
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AStudcnt Newspaper Serving the University of Oklahoma
83th Year X M
NORMAN OKLAHOMA WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER S IMS
Member Aaaoriatrd Press
—Til take Missouri and
shutupT
BY ADAIR SMITH
Clashing - comment smeared the student ticket color scheme
Tuesday when a portion of the disgruntled yellow card holders
received seats In the 8 to 18 yardline zone '
At the same time sale of general admission tickets for the game
Saturday was halted' This action Immediately brought on ticket
scalping
Bill Cross athletic business manager said he had received
reports that some scalpers were getting $25 for 50-yard seats
scaling downward to $15 for seats near the end zones
On the student seating situation Cross said that the larger
percent of first-day student fans that picked up their tickets Monday
pushed the other groups toward the end zone sections
He Continued that each color section fills about two and one-half
sections in the east stand
Only 1500 students can squeeze into one section and approxi-
mately 3JS00 tampus football followers comprise one color group
In past games this year many of the students did not attempt to
secure their reserved seats Hence the more crowded situation this
Homecoming ’
' The business manager verified the report that some reserved
student seats may be in the end zone sector
Cross commented on the student senate rating that permits
Raf-Xeks and dates to obtain tickets in a choke section as do the
Rufettes These tickets are reserved In blocks near the mid-field
stripe
Yellow card holders were receiving tickets in the S M N and 0
sections Tuesday
Including the section alloted to Missouri rooters the arithmetic
answer reveals that the east side housing 15046 will be com-
pletely filled
At 8 am Saturday 1500 additional general admission paste-
boards will again go on sale to the general public expanding total
general entrance sales to 7200 Cross said the postponed sale date
was due to printing delays
He also explained the move as a way to avoid any possibility
of forgers duplicating the tickets The Saturday editions will not be
as ropy-proof as the present ones
Already 5700 of the general tickets have been sold The price
is $3 each
Total sales are expected to exceed 38000 by gametime Saturday
Prior to this encounter the largest crowd to view a home contest
numbered slightly more than 35000 spectators
Saturday seating plans to control the flood of ticket holders in-
cludes a 1700 folding chair arrangement on the track that encircles
the field
Jack Bales senate president announced that the Floyd Johnston
ticket committee will report their findings In a senate meeting today
Bales said the senate has been investigating the A&M contract and
the general ticket situation
Dolores Sanmenn Is Named
For Sequoyah Homecoming
Dolores Sanmenn lioer- 'was
chosen 1948 Indian riinceiis by
the Sequoyah rlul Tuesday niarht
She will he crowned by Chief
Hegry InokingGinsn Friday
night at the Sequoyah homecom-
ing cel Aral loti in the mmi-clrcle
In front of the Geology and Art
buildings
- Mrs Sanmenn junior in edu-
cation and secretary of the cam-
pus Indian club Is a Klown-
Chlckasaw She succeeds Uuey
oazous 1947 Indian Princess
The snake dance which will
form following the pep rally
Friday night will wind down Asp
from the stadium to furry the
scene of Sooner homecoining
activities to the Indian teepee
I- at 8 pm
Seven dancers and four sing-
ers from near Anadarko will bo
present In costumes to Nrfurm
traditional Indian dunces All
re members of the dancing
group formed by Spencer Asah
former OU art student who is
twenty points bud— put up or
now recognized as one of the
nation’s leading Indian artists
Asah will be a special guest of the
Sequoyah club over the weekend
Scott Tonemoh former Se-
quovah chief described the
dancers as being unsurpassed in
the art of Indian dancing: All
have won Individual champion-
ships in Indian dancing at the
American Indian exposition held
annually at Anadarko They par-
ticipated in the railroad centen-
nial exposition held In August
In Chicago
Four principle dances-’ to be
given hv the dancing club are a
shield dnnre simulating a duel
- ltctween two warriors an eagle
dance squat dance and a round
dance
Following the ceremonial danc-
ing and coronation of the Indian
princess Sequoyah club will lnlt-
ntc 13 pledges This ritual will
take place Inside the teepee will
lie si “heap dark secret"
A continuous beat of the tom
Harry Holds
in Nip-Tuck
Demos Win
National 1 State I
By the Associated Press
President ' Harry S Truman led
Gov Thomas E Dewey on the basis
of the first 7000000 votes counted
from Tuesday’s presidential elec-
tion but many of the returns were
from Democratic city strongholds
with 7091357 votes tabulated
the country stood: Truman 3604-
249 Dewey 3186630 '
Gov J Strom Thurmond ' of
South Carolina States’ Rights
Party nominee had 247296 and 1
Henry A1 Wallace only 53182
The president was ahead In 23
states with an electoral vote of 272
Dewey In 20 states with 213 elec-
toral votes and Thurmond won 19
In Alabama and South Carolina
and was leading In Louisiana and
Mississippi with 19 more Wallace
stood no chance of capturing any
electoral votes although he polled
206000 popular votes out of 11-
000000 cast
M Million Vote Predicted
Some 50000000 votes were cast
according to all advance Indications
so the tallies of the moment were
far from a safe guide
But Dewey’s managers trimmed
somewhat the sweeping nature of
their victory claims and the De-
mocratic manager! expressed
“great confidence'
After predicting earlier in the
night that Dewey would sweep two
thirds of the 48 states Republican
manager Herbert Brownell jr said
the GOP nominee was assured of
24 states with 295 electoral votes
(266 are needed to win)
Senator J Howard McGrath of
Rhode Island Democratic national
chairman said:
"As of the moment our candidat-
es have a majority of the votes as
tabulated In the majority of the
'states If this trend continues the
Democratic candidate could get In
excess of 300 electoral votes
Demos Advance in Senate
In the crucial battle for con
trol of the senate Democratic can-
didates were in the vatf in nine of
the 11 pay-off contests But here
again the returns were rather frag
mentary
As for the house cf representa-
tives four Democrats had captured
seats held by Republicans while
one Republican succeeded in win-
ning a hitherto Democratic chair
That made a net gain of three for
the Democrats as of the moment
Altogether they would need 31 to
throw the GOP out of eontrol of
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Princess
Celebration
toms will be heard over the cam-
pus from sunset Friday until
sunrise Saturday Sequoyah pled-
ges doing the beating as part of
their Initiation This according
to will assure the Big Red of
success In their homecoming tilt
Approximately 15 braves and
squaws will escort Chief Henry
LooklngGlass and student senate
President Jack Bales to midfield
during halftime ceremonies Sat
urday at Owen field As the two
Soonera smoke the pcaccplpe
with Missouri representatives
the costumed Indians will form a
circle around the delegations
But contrary to the original de-
signs which call for the represen-
tation of a united Oklahoma by
a red man ‘and a whits man In
the pipe smoking the Indians
will predominate Jack Bales the
“white man" has applied for
membership In the Sequoyah club
and has the qualifications to be
admitted LooklngGlass a i d
Tuesday
- OKLAHOMA CITY Nov 2 — UP)—
President Truman captured Okla-
homa’s ten electoral votes tonight
and former Gov Robert S Kerr a
Democrat won a Republican-held
Senate seat
- Both Truman and Kerr held two-to-one
leads over their Republican
opponents with well over half the
state’s 3701 precincts reported
Returns from 2861 precincts
gave Truman 315682 Dewey 162-
566
In the senate race 2260 pre-
cincts gave Kerr 228579 Rep Rosa
Rlzley Republican 115431 The
seat they seek Is held by a Repub-
lican Ed H Moore who declined
to seek reelectlon
The Daily- Oklahoman which
supported Dewey conceded Tru-
man and Kerr had won in the
state The paper said the trend In-
dicated the Democratic majorities
might exceed the 125000 edge by
which the late President Roose-
velt carried the state against Wen-
dell L Wlllkle In 1940
In 1944 Roosevelt carried Okla-
homa over Dewey 401549 to 319-
424 There were Indications the Dem-
ocrats might gain at least one ho jse
seat also Six of Oklahoma’s pre-
sent congressmen are Democrats
and two Republicans As counting
passed the halfway mark the Dem-
ocrats were leading in all eight
districts
The biggest surprises were in
the normally Republican first and
eighth districts
In the first Dixie Gilmer was
leading Republican Rep George B
Schwabe by 21203 to 10724 with
211 of 595 precincts
George Howard Wilson led the
Republican Martin Garber 226705
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Embryo Politicians Battle
Today for Senate Seats
Forty-four embryo politicians from the university col-
lege today will compete in a battle of ballots for 10 seats in
the student senate Voting starting in the Union lounge at
3 am will be by the preferential system approved by re-
ferendum last week
Since scats are allotted on a pro-rata basis the university
college with 10 senators has the largest representation in the
40-seat senate ® ir4'
Jack Dales president of the sen-
ate said "We anticipate a heavier
vote In this election than the one
on the adoption of preferential
voting Most of the candidates can
be expected to bring all their bud-
dies for support"
To avoid confusion In the new
election method Instructions have
been printed on the ballots To
simplify the voting and save time
four steps were formulated
These steps will appear on the
ballot sheets:
A Sign stub below
n Tear off stub and deposit It
In stub box
C Mark ballot in space by can-
didate’s name with the number of
the choice you have chosen to
give him Mark the number (1)
In the space beside the name of
your first choice Mark number
(2) beside the name of your second
choice on down to and including
your tenth choice
For example If John Doe is your
fourth choire mark the number
(4) beside his name If John Han-
cock la your sixth choice mark
the number (6) beside his name
D Deposit your ballot In the
ballot box Do not fold the ballot
Edge
M ace
State
Norman
The Democrats made a clean
sweep in Norman registering near-
ly a three to one majority with the
presidential race the tightest re-
sults from 43 out of 45 precincts
showed late Tuesday night
In many of the city precincts a
record number of voters turned
out to cast ballots in local state
and national elections
In the 43 precincts President
Truman was leading Governor
Dewey in popular vote 5940 to
3251
A few write in votes were cast
for Henry Wallace the Progressive
Party presidential candidate and
for Governor J Strom Thurmond
States’ Rights Democrat candidate
Former governor Robert S Kerr
(D) was leading Ross Rlzley (R)
6139 to 2832
Norman voters cast ballots- 3 to
1 In favor of Incumbent Mike Mon-
roney (D) over Cannon Harris (R)
In the 5th district congressional
race the vote being 6679 to 2121
For state corporation commis-
sioner Reford Bond (D) received
an overwhelming 6JS36 to 1953
vote majority over his opponent
John C Burns (R)
Bert B Barefoot (D) swept the'
city In the race for Judge of the
Criminal Court of Appeals south-
ern district chalking up a 6283
to 1829 lead over Paul F Cooper
For Justice of the Supreme
Court first district N B Johnson
(D) received 6225 votes to 1921
for his opponent L L Roberts (R)
In the sixth district race for
Justice of the Supreme Court Her-
ry Halley (D) led -Leslie W Lisle
(R) by 6118 to 1838
Joe A Smalley (D) led by a
substantial majority his opponent
Richard S McDermott (R) In the
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Den Harned president of the
Alpha Phi Omega sendee organi-
zation conducting the election em-
phasized that only students of the
university college will be allowed
to cast ballots and that Identifi-
cation must be made Harned said
the polls will be open until 5 pm
Thursday
Candidates fill’" are: Charles
Ablard Sam Lovj Attebury Flo-
rence Baggett Clssle Bickenheu-
scr Morris Blumenthal Jack C
Bolander Bedford Bond Gloria
Bouldln John A Brock Joyce Cal-
kins and George Edward Cobb
John Cox Jimmy Crews Johnny
Dobbs Nelson Edge Ellen Fish-
back Howard Frankel Jack H
Gardner Beverly Jean Goudelock
Bob R Hail David Hall and Fred
Harris
George A Hicks Charles Ivle
LI -wellyn Keller Anita Kimball
M Cecil Klem Shirley Koontz Saul
Mandcl Maureen McBride Corky
McMakln Jack Merritt and James
Miller
Jimmy P Miller William George
Paul Ca'rolyn Rexroat Haeworth
Robertson Don Ryan Jack
Schneps Ronald L Senn Glenn
Smith Lee Sneed Mike Stelnel
and Joanne S tough
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McClung, Paul. The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 34, No. 235, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 3, 1948, newspaper, November 3, 1948; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1801541/m1/1/?q=virtual+music+rare+book: accessed June 12, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.