The Quapaw Chieftain (Quapaw, Okla.), Vol. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, April 19, 1946 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME 12
QUAPAW OTTAWA COUNTY OKLAHOMA
FRIDAY APRIL 19 1946
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SEMINOLE PLANS McBUFF DAY
IN HONOR OF HOME-TOWN
CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR
Republicans Sslsd Nsw Quapaw Win Top
EIMINOLX April lT(Sp
dal)— Fred McDufl Seminole
candidate for the 1 Democratic
nomination for Governor an-
nounced today that final arrange-
ment! had been made to accom-
modate 15000 people due to be In
FEED McDUFF
Seminole for the McDuff
celebration on April 22
The day’ program call! for
flower show and ipecial merchan
dicing value in the morning a
tract parade free barbecue and
Owe free dance In the afternoon
1 end evening Climaxing Monday’
D-day celebration will be a state
wide radio broadcait at 0 pjn -
On the air McDuff will outline
hi program of “Advancement and
Security" He will itrea that part
of hi plan which provide a itate
bonui for veteran of World War
II of one dollar per day from
Pearl Harbor to V-J Day Veteran
have been extended a ipecial in-
vitation to attend Monday’s fes-
tivities and to hear hi broadcast
Other points that McDuff will
cover in his address Include "in-
creased aid to our old people:
elimination of state income taxes
revision of the state tax structure1
to encourage industrial develop-
ment improvement of state schools
and institutions state pension for
school teachers similar to those of
other states and a state farm im-
provement program"
McDuff will also make n strong
appeal to the laboring people e
Oklahoma and propose a pha
that will include everyone in the
present Social Security program
A plea for dose unity between la-
bor and capital is also a pert c
the McDuff plan
James T Jackson publisher of
the Seminole Producer and a vet-
eran of World Wars 1 and H I
also scheduled to broadcast Jack-
son who for years has been active
in state and national politics is
expected to urge the American
Legion and other veterans organi-
zations to enter into politics
Sponsors of Seminole's McDuff
Day program anticipate that the
event will be the biggest celebra-
tion ever held in this section m
Oklahoma with visitors
from all parts of the state
County Chairman
County Party Flays State Ad-
ministration— Henry Walk
er Elected Chairman -
Ottawa County Republicans in I
convention at Miami Saturday nem I
ed Henry P Walker Miami lawyer school one of tha smallest member
to head district activities for the I of the lucky seven conference prov-
next two years I ed to be In a mental elan by them-
Walker who succeeds Wayne And selves Friday when they walked off
erson retiring chairman will head with the championship of the elr-
list of new officers including Mra cults scholastic meek staged nt the
Dick Todd of Commerce vice-chair Northeastern A and M college
man Mrs Frank Zajie Miami sec-
retary and Charles Fox Miami
treasurer
Convention delegate at the court
house session named Joe S Thomp-
son of Miami to he State committee
man and Mra Fred Victor of Wyan
dotte aa stats committee-women
Rep George Sehwabe and
ator Ed H Moor were officially
commended for their work in eon
gress by the resolutions as was C
R Nixon for his duties as chair-
man of the state committee
Committees selected at the coun
ty meeing included:
Credentials— Joe Payton Fred
Victor and Dr H Ettleman order I rial geography tied for first in
of business — Judge D H Wilson I pisne geometry and pieced third in
delegates— W E Lykins J S Ms-1 physical geography world history
bon and Jim Elliot and resolutions I and sophomore EngUab '
Joe S Thompson Lawrence Voyles I Following is the Quspaw and
end Ralph TnthilL I Picher list of winner!
Jim Victor of Alton presided ov-1 Biology: (1) Wanda McGuire
er the convention acting as temp-1 Civics: (1) Delila June Neel
orary chairman with Mrs George I Quspaw 2’ Bill Bingham Quapaw
Celled to Garden City Kens
J S Amphlett was called to Gar-
den City Kana last Tuesday by
the death of hia sister-in-law Mrs
J B Amphlett who passed away
Sunday and was buried Monday
afternoon Mr Amphlett plans to
visit with his brother awhile before
returning home
5
George Raoul Improving at
Picher Hospital
George Raoula Picher postmas-
ter who has been seriously ill for
the past three weeks in the Picher
hospital is showing improvement
it was reported early Wednesday
morning George has the best wish-
es of the whole city for a speedy
recovery “ - -
Mrs Bob Root and Mra A N
Taylor were in Miami Friday
Commencement Exercise and Other
School Activities Planned
5
Rev Guy Tetirick of the Metho-
dist church in Miami wiU deliver
the Baccaiureate sermon May 12
according to Supt L E Tennant
The service will start at 8:00 p m
The high school commencement
exercises will be held May 16 The
speaker will be John Vaughan
President of the Northeastern State
College at Tahlequah starting at
8:00 o’clock p m
The Junior High commencement
exercises will be held Tuesday ev-
ening May 14 at 8:00 p m The
Rev Dwight Hunt pastor of the
Methodist church of Vinita will
deliver the address
Henry Hemphill was In Chelsea
on business Tuesday
89ers’ Day
Legal Holiday
April 22 is a legal holiday
This Bank will not be open for business
Bank of Quapaw
I Honors in Scholastic
I Moot
I Picher Ties With Wyandotte
for Second is Lucky Seven -
Students from Quapaw high
Winning first places in eight of
the 82 events Quapaw amassed 9
points to win top honors IB more
than Wyandotte and Picher pupils
who tied for runner-up position
The nine circuit schools in order
of scoring include: Quapaw (
Wyandotte end Picheif 60 (tie)
Commerce 89 F airland 28 Al-
ton 25 Grove 18 Cheslea 14 and
Jay 8 The basis of scoring was
fiv point for bach 1st place three
for 2nd end one for Sni '
Omer Kircher Fairland sopho-
more grabbed top individual honors
by placing in five different depart-
ments He ranked first in indust-
Riee noting as secretary
Honor Roll for Qaapew Schools
The honor roll for the fifth six
week period in the Quapaw ecbools
has been announced ns follows:
HIGH SCHOOL— '
Seniors: Bonnytea Carpenter and
Velme Bingham
Juniors: Josephine Taylor Mary
Douthitt
Sophomores: Jessie Ussery Jack
King Margie Pees
Ninth grade: Delila: Keel Valeria
Brewer Wanda Sanders Laura
Mae Busse Nine Hamilton
Eighth grade: Betty Singleton
LaVoy Peck Junior Grsy-
Seventh grade: Robert Hamer
Irby Taylor Connie Hall Bobbit
Cole
Qnapaw Grade— ' v
Sixth ' grade Bobby Sanders
Ruth Baker Kenneth Lewis
Fifth grade: Carol Bingham
Georgarma Root Sue Ann Hamil-
ton Fourth grade: Carolyn Ann Mc-
Farland Clarence Dawson Billy
Watson and Donald Besson tied for
3rd
Third grade: Mary Ellen Root
Larry Dealing Viola Jones Davie
Eby
Second grade: Sonny Dixon Al-
ene McFarland Phyliss Grist Be'
thany Ann Root
First Grade: Betty Foster El-
dridge Martin Nancy Root ‘
HockerviUo School-
First grade: Marion Gideon Vir-
ginia Johnson
Second grade: Emma Lou Gideon
and Patsy Moreland
Third grade: Beverly Anne
Hodge
Fourth grade: France Colleen
Hodge
Fifth grade: Donna Ruth Dou-
thitt Hazel Sissel
Sixth grade: Harlow Vasburgh
Albert Brown Opal Williams
Dress Up Your House
for Spring
Lovely Sheer Curtains
HEAVY CHENILLE BEDSPREADS
SHAG THROW RUGS
Chenille Bath Mat Seta in Assorted Colors
Pillow Slips of First Grade Sheeting '
Cannon Crash Hand Towels
CLOTHES FOR THE FAMILY
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Ready-to-Wcar
QUAPAW
PHONE £3
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Army Recruiters Her Each Week
Shorthand: (1) Thelma Hodge
Quapaw
Sociology: (1) Mery Martin
Quapaw (2) Mary Douthitt Qua
paw (3) Bonnylea Carpenter Qus-
paw Dramatic Declamation: (2) Way
na Wallis Picher
Humorous declamation: (2) Juan
its Kennedy Picher J
Standard oration: (8) Helen Van
trease Picher
Original oration: (1) Jo Ann My
era Picher
Typing I: (3) Josephine Taylor
Qua pew
(foe-act plays: (1) Picher
Freshman English: (8) Norman
Bradbury Picher
Junior English: (1) Delphi
Wheeler Picher (2) Kathryn Sue
Todhuater Quapaw (3) Josephine
Taylor Quapaw " I
Senior 'English (it's Bonnylea
Carpenter Quapaw (3) Nadine
Clark Quapaw
Industrial geography: (2) Nor-
ma Jennings Quapaw (3) Twyla
McNeely Quapaw
Physical geography: (1) Twyla
McNeely Quapaw (2) Billie Wil-
liams Quapaw
American history: (1) Virginia
Whittiey Picher (3) Bill Skaggs
Quapaw
World history: (1) Wayne Wal-
lis Picher
Oklahoma history: ( (3) Edgar
Wilkinson Picher
Homemaking 1: (1) Bonnylea
Carpenter Quapaw (3) Ardina Re
vard Quapaw
Homemaking 2: (1) Inez Jordan
Picher
Algehra 1: (2) Valeria Brewer
Quapaw (3) Juanita Kennedy
Picher
Manual training: (1) Jack King
Quapaw (2) Billy Costlow Qua-
paw (3) Leo Bunce Quapaw
General science: (1) Jessie Us-
sery Quspaw
Local Odd Fellows mad Rebakahe
Planning Anniversary Meeting
The U S Army Recruiting Team
will make the following iteniary ev-
ery week Thursday they will seek
enlistments at Commerce Picher
and Quapaw
The Army Recruiting team will
bt at th postoffices of the above
listed town If you desire any in-
formation or if you want to enlist
be there or tell your postmaster
where the Recruiting team can
find you
The Army Recruiting team is
working out of Miami Oklahoma
whert there is a sub-station locat-
ed in tha Federal building Room
305 and is open from eight a m to
five p m Monday through Saturday
For any information or any prob
lem that you may have writ or
see them Address U S Army Re-
cruiting 8ub-Station Room 305
Federal Building Miami Oklahoma
Remember that you have until
th 6th of October of this year to
nlist under th G I Bill of rights
The Army give you th best of as-
he
-vwrer--
local Odd Felloprs and Re-
bekah lodges have about completed
their arrangement for a big meet-
ing in observance of the 127th anni-
versary of the founding of Amer-
ican Odd Fellowship It will be a
public meeting to be held in the
American Legion hell First and
Main street IPicher on Thursday
evening April 25
An eztensiv program has been
arranged including a mixed drill
team from Baxter Spring which
will put on a fancy drill in front
of the hall beginning at 7 praH
with music furnished by the Pic-
her high school bend
The fancy drill team of the Pic-
her Rebekah lodge will put on their
drill inside the halL Th principal
address will b delivered by Past
Grand Master Wilburn Cartwright
of the State of Oklahoma Other
state end Grand Ledge officers will
be present as will also some other
musical organisations and speaker
Supt L O Toanont Lists
argo Group la Schools
Tith Perfect Attendance
Student Of Quapaw High and
Grade and HoekerriDt
Included in Liat i
Following la the Uat of students
in th Quapaw schools who succeed-
ed in marking up a perfect at-
tendance record for themselves dur-
ing the past fifth six-weeks period:
HIGH SCHOOL-
Seniors: Leo Bunce Carl Cog-
hill Bill Costlow Jerome Shawnee
LeRoy Elliott Norms Jean Buz-
zard Velme Bingham Nadine
Clark Betty Lou Clogston Bertie
Comeliaon Patsy Ferris Lillian
Gray
Juniors: Darrell Chambers Char-
les Costlow Curtis Kidwell Ken-
neth Nivens Jim Pees Bex Stan-
ley Ruth Brock Genevieve Tipton
Sophomores: Ray Baker Billy
Burkeybile Jack King Robert Ran-
dall lorene Clark Betty Davis
Norma Jennings Lois Kluge Twy-
McNeely Margie Pees Claudine
Stanley Helen Singleton Jessie
Ussery Billie Williams Joyce Bail-
ey Ninth grade: Norma Brown
Maxine Gilmore Christine Grub
Delila Neal Wanda Sanders Nor-
man Sills Lloyd Randall John
Powers Donald Lewis Hike Kid-
well Oliver Clark
Eighth grade: Howard Beason
Billy Luster Carl Sill John Webb
Junior Gray Betty Anderson Del
n Brown Shirley Davis Robadean
Dawson Joan Gaither Carlene
Sills Betty Singleton Charles Tip-
ton Lorene Ussery June Harring-
ton Nellie Jo Hoper
Seventh grade: £lifton Bunco
Irvin Bunco Charles Button Thom-
as Crawford Charles Ferris LeRoy
Golden Connie Hall Robert Ham
er Virgil Hamilton Jimmy Luster
Travis McNeely Irby Taylor Fred
Potter John Clark Darlene Ander-
son Rome Brown Clare Davidson
Virgil Sills Miladean Singleton
Wills Dean Sissel Mona Lee Her-
bison Quapaw Grade School-
First grade: Don Budiselic Pat
Greenlee Eldridge Martin Larry
Owens Wayne Tipton Shirley Dix-
on Betty Foiter Phylias Foote
Mary Fern Van pool Carolyn Roy
Second grade Lawrence
ford Arthur Veil ‘ ffoose Bobby
Joe Burns Ray Gene Crawford
Ray Deatherage Sonny Dixon Jay
Ferris Allen McFarland Jimmie
Shockley Richard Stone Carol
Hamlin Alene McFarland Mammie
Radford Bethany Root Gladys
Ussery Kathryn Yost Pauline
Potter Flossie Eby
Third grade: Donald Costlow
Gary Holden Ray Lewis Jackie
Ray Skippy Sherin Bessie Dixon
Viola Jones Peggy Owens Mary
Ellen Boot Velma VanHoose Bet-
ty Potter
Fourth grade Jesse Comeliaon
Clarence Dawson Bobby Foster
Gene Owens Marion White Arthur
Eby Shirley Brown Christine
Bunce Shirley Davis Carolyn Ann
McFarland
Fifth grade:
Howard Dawson Billy Garrison
Boyce Stanley Curtis Endicott
Paul Duree Clarence Marshall
Freddy Marshall Harvey Dooley
Carol Bingham Sue Ann Hamilton
Georgianna Root Barbara Williams
Shirlty Sue Bums
Sixth Grade: Jimmie Costlow
Kenneth Lewis William Dixon El-
mer Robison Glenn Robison Bob-
by Sanders Eugene Stanley How
aid Tipton Tommie Ussery Roy
William Ruth Baker Patricia
Davis Billie Harper Rhita Jones
Dori Potter
Hockervile School —
First grade: Marion Gideon
Louise Cansten Wilma Hodge
Carolyn Mathia
Second grade: Billy Roher Billy
Collins Jimmy Collins Patsy More-
land Dosha Pendergraft Janet
Thompson
Third grade: Jimmy Harrington
Diana Gilbert Janice Goddard
Beverly Hodge Gwen Mathis
Fourth grade: Ernest Brown
Gene Couch Jimmy Harmon Vera
Brown Frances Colleen Hodge
Fifth grade: Donna Ruth Dou-
thitt Haael Sissel Shirley Bryant
L H Rohror
Sixth grads: Albert Brown Har-
low Votburgh Opal William Dor-
othy Button Maurino Bunce
OT$OMEBODY COOK THAT CAM!
-arge Crowd Heart CIO
-eader Discuss Workers'
Problems '
erythin Food Clothing Training1 Th Publi nviud
and a GOOD Job with a aecura fut- ttend nd thr wUI U dmit
ur and to those whe want an edu-
cation thro yean will give you
four yuan In any school In th Unit
ed States THINK IT OVER AND
8EE US
tance charges
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Mra Sarah Atwood who ha
baen seriously ill is reported get-
ting along nicely '
Speaker Advocated 18 Vi Cent Aa
Hour Increase ia Standard Baa
Pay and a 46-Hoar Week
A large crowd attended a
meeting at the Legion Hall last
Thursday evening when Reid Rob-
inson president of the International
Union of Mine Mill and Smelter
worker addressed the assembly on
the topic "The Worker’s Stake in
the Victory" He outlined the un-
ion’s efforts to eliminate the cause
of war thru unity of workers pro-
vide job for all and maintain
decent standard of living -
It was announced by Howard Lea
another representative of the un-
ion that tha Eagla-Picher organi-
zation committee of th union had
petitioned for an election among
employee of the Central Mill
Cardin and other key aurfae prop-
erties of the company on selection
of the onion as bargaining agent
Eagle-Picher workers are not union
ized
Among other things discussed
were an 18H cent hour increase and
a 40-hour week
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AUCTION SALE Galena Kan 213
Main April 16 Tuesday at 1 p m
Hat to Harness New and Used
Merchandise 61-lp
t Christian Church Service
(Rev R N Patrick Pastor) j
Rev R N Patrick report th
Pre-Easter Loyalty Campaign as
going nicely Candle light com-
munion services wen held Thurs-
day evening
Claudine Shewmak sang at tha
service Monday and Tuesday and
Lester La whom of Baxter Spring
sang Wednesday night
First Christina Chock
"When Friends Mart Friends"
R M Patrick Minister
Bible School 10:00 a m Ronald
Goings Supt A class with sbl
teacher for all ago - y
Communion service 11:00 a ns 1
Sermon by th pastor 11:15 a as 1
Night service beginning st 7:30
p m with old time song terries
songs you' will like to sing Samoa '
by th pastor 8:00 p m
A friendly church with wel-
come Pre-Easter 'icampaifB hcglaahg C
Sunday April 14 through Easter
Sunday April Hat
First Method! Chstth
(Rev A P Johnson Pastor)
Sunday School 10:00 a m
Evening worship services 7 JO
p m
An Easter program ia planned
for Sunday morning Thera will ha
special music at tha evening services
CAREFUL FITTING
CORRECT STYLING
BEAUTIFUL FINISH
UTMOST VALUE
Mr and Mrs Alvin Steele left
Sunday night for their home in
Dresser Wis Mra Steel ha been
taying with her mother Mra
Katit Highlty while her- husband
waa In the service
MMMM
MEET YOUR FRIENDS AT
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for
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Post, M. L. The Quapaw Chieftain (Quapaw, Okla.), Vol. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, April 19, 1946, newspaper, April 19, 1946; Quapaw, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1850911/m1/1/: accessed April 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.