Woodward County Journal (Woodward, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 5, 1956 Page: 4 of 8
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The Woodward County Journal - Woodward Oklahoma
Thursday April 5 1956
by RAYMOND GARY
As they say about most works of
fiction any resemblance between
Oklahoma’s training schools and
some of the things written about
them recently is purely coinciden-
tal We haven’t devised the perfect
system for rehabilitating every de-
linquent youngster placed in the
state’s care Unfortunately we
probably never will
The average boy or girl In one
of Oklahoma’s training schools has
passed through a lot of hands be-
fore getting there These other
hands failed in their efforts at
rehabilitation
It should be remembered that
we have no majoc wand for per-
forming miracles unknown to
others These youngsters come to
us after all agencies have thrown
up their hands in despair
Most juvenile homes getting pub-
lic recognition have the option of
refusal or no readmission when
certain rules are violated We
have no option but must take ev-
ery youngster the courts send us
To put it mildly many of them
arc hard to handle We can’t
change overnight the- quirks of
character they have spent many
years acquiring
We try hard however and often
succeed We are also in the pro-
cess of making changes in the
program which we feel will give
us a better chance of rehabilitat-
ing more of these youngsters
What we hope will be a model
training school for boys is now
under construction at Helena It
will be ready for occupancy this
summer
Meantime Stringtown and the
land surrounding it is being con-
verted into a prison farm provid-
ing healthy outdoor work for trus-
tees and relieving overcrowding at
the McAlester penitentiary At Hel-
ena the emphasis will be on
school vocational and athletic
training and we intend to add a
social worker and psychologist to
the staff
These are improvements which
have been underway since shortly
after I became governor We be-
lieve they will provide greater op-
portunities for inmates of our state
Institutions
I also want to make clear how-
ever that nobody is being mis-
treated at our present training
schools The other day I received
a letter from the mother of a boy
at Stringtown who made this com-
ment: "I think you should know what
a wonderful job the superintendent
W B Jones is doing with the
boys there My son has been there
almost six months and the change
in his attitude is remarkable I
imagine It’s rather a thankless
job but I will always be thankful
for the help my eon received”
Tes it’s a thankless job the
WANTADS
! Wanted
WANTED — Man or woman with
car to sell Rawleigh products in
Woodward county Contact Mrs M
G Merritt 823 Center Alva Okla
We urgently need your butcher
cattle to supply our many regular
packer buyers If you have any
kind of cattle suitable for slaughter
bring them in or contact us We
have the best butcher cattle auction
in Oklahoma
Three of the big 4 and several
independent packers are here ev-
ery Friday to purchase your butch-
er and fed cattle — Farmers Live-
stock Commission Company Enid
Oklahoma 44
ir For Sale
RONSON LIGHTERS REPAIRED
We carry a complete stock of
genuine Ronson lighter parts and
give you fast service Jacklyn’s
Jewelry 904 Main Woodward tf
SAWS FILED gummed retoothed
and set 'most any kind J C
Weir 503 Okla Ave 20tf
ALWAYS a good place to buy your
' used furniture Good selection of
dining -room living room and
dinettes Sooner Furniture Co 47tf
Well Drilling
Good Equipment
Work Guaranteed
Orval Hughes
511 Texas
Woodward Okla
Phone 1494
LETTERS
To the Editor
Editor’s Note: The Rev and
Mrs Alden Grim who serve the
Woodward Church of the Naza-
rene are now touring the Holy
Land From time to time reports
of their experiences will be car-
ried in The Journal)
Dear Friends:
We have been so busy traveling
that we haven’t taken time to
write the promised letters but hope
this will show that we haven’t
forgotten our Woodward friends
completely
We left Woodward on March 12
and our trip to New York via
auto was difficult because of the
heavy rain followed by sleet and
snow Traveling the mountain
roads in the section of Ohio we
passed through was hazardous due
to weather conditions
In Pennsylvania we were much
impressed with the Gettysburg
battlefield and recalled the great
Statesman’s “Fourscore and sev-
en years ago ” It was also in
Pennsylvania that we encountered
one of the worst blizzards of a
lifetime We had to seek shelter
in a farm house for the night
However from that experience we I
learned again how small the world j
is Our hosts were acquainted with
the family of the man who served
as Mr Grim’s clerk during his
last tour of duty with the army
When we finally made it in to
New York we were again greeted
with snow Much to our chagrin it
snowed most of the day Sunday
and nearly alj of Monday leaving
13Vi inches of snow on the streets
We truly wished that we might
have some way of funnelling the
excessive moisture to Oklahoma
In New York we boarded a j
Dutch airliner which took us to !
Holland where we spent two days
sightseeing We then went to Gen-
va and are now in Beruit Leban-
on where we are staying with the
superintendent of the Nazarene
Mission Bible school We saw the
ruins of a marvelous temple at
Bybles and we will go to Tyre
Sidon and Balbeck Damascus be-
fore going to Jerusalem for Eas-
ter We’ll write more about our won-
derful trip later — The Grims
News of the Week
At Mooreland Hospital
Admittances week ending April
3: Mrs Francis McElwain Suzie
Ruttman Rita Kay Gantz Rose
Lintner Clyde Hayes Mark
Smith Edwin Smith Bob Miller
all of Mooreland Mrs L H Ma-
thews Mutual Mrs Wilson Cofer
B L Cook Selling Melvin Deck-
er uinlan Jerry Brace Vici
Mrs F P Becker Shattuck O
A Nelson A G Hartley Char-
ley W Culp all of Woodward
M L Cobb Waynoka Mrs W L
Miller Longdale
Dismissals: Rose Lintner Mrs
F P Becker Mrs Wilson Cofer
Mrs Francis McElwain O A
McCollom Louise Cohlmia Mrs
W R Bowman Mrs Loren
Schneider and baby Dennis Fuqua
Mrs Verlon Chance and baby
Mrs James Criswell Willie Hayn-
es Mrs Pearl Crooks Mrs Virgil
Green Mrs Lonnie Squires Mrs
George Ritterhouse and baby
Mrs H E Thomas and Mrs Ev-
eret Teter
Kite Flyers Beware
Of Electric Wires
Bill Fr ass OG&E manager is
cautioning kite flyers against us-
ing wires or tinselled cord for kite j
strings and against flying kites
near electric power lines
If wire or tinselled cord such
as that used for Christmas gift i
wrapping are used for flying khes '
they could carry electricity fom
an electric line to the hand of the
person flying the kite electrocut-
ing him or burning him badly i
Mr Frass explained i
Not only kites with metal strings
but any kites can be dangerous
when flown near electric lines
Mr Frass explained that once
a kite becomes entangled in an
electric line the wind changing
direction is likely to wrap the
kite string around the system of
wires pulling them together until
two wires touch When this hap-
pens an electric short occurs and
then a transformer fuse is blown
or the wires are burned to the
ground In either case service is
immediately cut off to all custom-
ers served by those lines and in
the latter case the exposed wires '
which may have fallen to the '
ground can be very dangerous
Kite flyers whose kites become
entangled among electric lines
should not try to disentangle the j
kites themselves They should call
the utility company immediately
so that a member of the service
department can remove the kite
before the wires are allowed to
touch each other
supervisors have at our state
training schools Fortunately most
of them aren’t in the work for
glory
It would be much easier to get
and keep qualified personnel how-1
ever if their efforts got a little
more sympathetic hearing
The Journal does the finest
printing
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STOKELY’S HONEY POD
TENDER GREEN PEAS
DON’T MISS THIS BUY!
LIBBY’S FANCY
CUT BEETS
DEL MONTE
FANCY
SPINACH
LIBBY’S or HUNT’S
HALVES OR SLICED
IN HEAVY SYRUP
A SAFEWAY
SPECIAL!
SUNDOWN
4
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No 303
Cans
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No 2 2
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Cans
P Stock up on your
Favorite Brands of
Canned Foods a t
Money-Saving Prices
dur i n g Safeway’s
Big April Sale!
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Highway Vac Pack Whole Kernel Golden
CORN 4 12-oz cans 55c
Gardenside Cream Style Golden
CORN 6 No 303 cans 69c
Brlargate Cut Green Beans
BEANS 4 8-oz cans 49c
Briargate Cut Green Beans
BEANS N 4 No 303 cans 65c
Briargate Jumble Whole Green Beans
BEANS 4 No 303 cans 85c
Briargate Vertical Pack Green Beans
BEANS 4 No 303 cans 95c
Gardenside Green Peas
PEAS 4 No 303 cans 49c
Taste Tell Blackeyed Dried Peas
PEAS 6 No 303 cans 49c
Del Monte Diced Beets
BEETS 4 No 303 cns 55c
Banjo
HOMINY 6 No 300 cans 49c
Gardenside
SPINACH 10 No 303 cans $100
Town House Grapefruit
JUICE
V B Apple Sauce
SAUCE
Sundown
PEACHES
Castle Crest Halves or Sliced
PEACHES
Lalani Crushed
PINEAPPLE
Allen’s Green
LIMA BEANS
Highway Whole
POTATOES
Allen’s Stewed
TOMATOES
Van Camp
PORK & BEANS 2 16-ox cans 25c
Bel-Air Frozen
ORANGE JUICE 4 6-ox cans 65c
Hunt’s
Tomato Juice 10 No 300 cans $1
2 46-ox cans 45c
4 No 303 cans 65c
3 No 22 cans 69c
3 No 2V2 cans 89c
2 No 2 cans 49c
4 No 300 cans 49c
4 No 300 cans 39c
4 No 303 cans 49c
Other Safeway Values
46-oz cans 35c
quart 25c
quart 35c
Full-O-Gold
Orange Juice
Tea Garden
Apple Juice
Sunsweet
Prune Juice
Libby’s
Pineapple Juice 46-oz can 29c
Tea Garden Elderberry
JELLY 12-oz jar 29c
Tea Garden Blackberry
Preserves 12-oz jar 33c
Beverly’s
Peanut Butter 12-oz jar 40c
Kitchen Craft All-Purpose
FLOUR 10-lb pkg 97c
Pillsbury Orange
Cake Mix 17-ozpkg26c
Pillsbury Chocolate Angel Food
Cake Mix
Krispy
CRACKERS
Crust Mix
PI - DO 2 9-oz pkgs 17c
Carnation
Instant Milk
Sta-Flo
Liquid Starch
25-oz pkg 69c
quart 43c
Tea Garden Fancy
JELLY or
PRESERVES
12-oz Jar 12
12-oz
JARS
29® $539
STEAK
U S GOOD
HEAVY BEEF
CENTER CUT
CHUCK ROAST
Safeway Trimmed
LB
U S GOOD HEAVY
BEEF ROUND BONE
ARM CUT SWISS STEAK
LB
BUS
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SLICED
BACON
27c
29c
KC Brand LB
Tray Pack PKG
Banquet LB
Tray Pack PKG
CUDAHY SUGAR CURED
Bacon
Squares
1 7r
Trimmed LB JL V
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CANADIAN BACON
Wilson’s Tendermade
By the Piece LB 89c
WILSON’S CERTIFIED
SLICED
BACON
THICK SLICED
2 LB
PKG
73c
5
Vi pound of Rodeo All-Meat Bo-
logna with the purchase of one
pound at the regular retail price'
RODEO BRAND ALL MEAT
BOLOGNA
37c
Prices Effective
in Woodward
Personal Size
Ivory
SOAP
BAES 25C
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Ivory
SOAP
227c
Ivory
SOAP
15c
LG
BAR
TIDE
ERGENT
73C
DETERGENT
GT
PKG
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KIRK’S CASTILE
SOAP
3 ££ 29c
Breeze
ERGENT
32C
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Cashmere Bouquet
SOAP
3 Bs 27c
Cashmere Bouquet
SOAP
2 BABS 21C
Florient
Deodorant
89c
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Newby, Gaylord T. Woodward County Journal (Woodward, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 5, 1956, newspaper, April 5, 1956; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1818032/m1/4/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.