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POUft
Leap Year Mixup
Not Like 46 B.C.
BOSTON Dee. H B Tfcere
cm special thing to bo thankful
fnr ai tho Leap Year ISM begins.
It Juct cant bo auch a oijy mix-
ed up year ai the Nggast Leap
Year on record juit 00 year ago
Mi B.C.)
' That year waa 14 month! long.
Initead at adding one day to the
year the calendar maken added
two month!.
That! why 4i B.C. went down
In history aa "the year of coofu-
sion. Just adding or aubtracting
a daylight laving hour in the
apring and the faO in modem
timea cauaee plenty of eonfustan.
. The eaxly calendar! had gone
wrong becauae the calendar mak-
er had got the lunar (moon) year
fmUif up with the aolar (cun)
year. If you were to apell "month"
thia way "moonth you'd aee
It waa originally linked with the
moona cycles. The trouble waa that
fiie Homan' month or moon
cycle and the aolar year Juat
didnt come out even.
No matter what the Roman did
about fitting the apare 10 or 11
day each year Into their calen-
dar it kept drifting away from
the aolar year. And that wai the
dickena when the farmer uaed old
rhyme to tell them when to plant
their crop. Especially when the
Serious Crimes
Decline In '55
WASHINGTON. Dec. 31 III A
slight decree ae in serioua crimes
in 1955 the first dropoff In eight
years was reported today by
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
. Hoover said in an annual report
to Atty. Gen. Brownell that pre-
liminary figures Indicate 55000
major offeneea this year down
about 04 per cent from 1951.
"While thia preliminary report
indicate that 1955 will be the first
year sine 1947 in which crime has
not increased- there is little cause
for rejoicing" the FBI chief said.
Record High
It must be remembered that
in 1954 more crimes were commit-
ted than in any prior ycar on rec-
ord. Afore than four serious of-
fenses have been committed every
minute line Jan. 1 making 1955
the fourth consecutive- year in
which more than two million major
crimes have been recorded."
Available data shows 1955 in-
creases in rape negligent men-
eleughtcr larceny and auto theft.
But murder and non negligent mao-
laughter aggravated aaeault rob-
bery and burglary dropped c ft.
Exact etatlxtice will not be avail-
able until early spring after the
FBI has correlated date from po-
lice department throughout the
country with He own records in
die federal field.
Hoover again praised tha aarv-
icea of confidential informant! in
both lubveralve and general
tnal Inveetigetkxie.
Orphan Starts
Life In U.S.
KANSAS CITY Dee. U (B-A
new life began today for five-year-aid
Eul Ja Kim pretty little Ko-
rean war orphan.
Rom now on aha will be known
ee Mery Kira Casey and will live
in Forsythe Missouri end Harri-
son Arkansas the adopted daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill R. Casey
Who maintain homes in both cities.
Traveling - alone ell the w
from Tokyo the little girl reached
Kansas City by Broniff Airways
piano today end was mat at the
airport by the Caseys. She wee
wearing an ankle length red dress
embroidered in gold in tha Ko-
rean custom and to onlookers it
Was os if ea Oriental doll were
walking into their arms.
Both of Mery Kim Casey's nat-
ural parents ere missing and pre-
sumed deed in the Korean war.
She was placed in an orphanage
end came to the Caseys atten-
tion through a picture published
in a magazine two years ago.
Twenty-five youngsters ware In
the pictures but the Caseys de-
cided it was Mary Kim (or Sul
Ja) they wanted. They drew a cir-
cle around her picture end made
known their desire. Formalities of
adoption and immigration ha vs
been going on ever since. The
Caseys have no other children.
No. 2
Continued
From Page 1
agreement.
Rieir foreign ministers later were
unable to make any progress at
all on German unification Euro-
pean oecurity. disarmament or on
lowering barriers of the Iron Cur-
tain. In the interview released today.
Bulganin was asked whether ha
eonalderad that tha ipirit displayed
at Geneva "la aUU alive end will
continue to live.'
Bulganin answered: "The his tor-
!e significance of the Geneva con-
ference of the four-power heads of
government lay In the fact that
tha ipirit of co"puretlon end mu-
tual understanding displayed by
its participants created reel pos-
sibilities for improving relations
between states end created pros-
pects far safeguarding a stable
pearo between tha people.
"The peoples of au eourtrle
want peace and hat war. They
want the Geneva ipirit and with
It the hopei for peace and a bat-
ter future to grow in strength and
For that ream he said he was
convinced the spirit of Geneva
will not 1st itself bo buried."
calender finally got nearly two
month off-beat from the tint day
of apring.
Emperor Juluia Caeaar with
the help of a Greek eatronomer
Sosigenes introduced the Julian
Calendar. It mad every fourth
year a leap year and added aa
extra day.
But there waa atill inaccuracy.
The extra time In the aolar year
waa really S hour 48 minute 4i
aeeanda about 11 minute Chart-
er than a quarter of a day. Every
130 year that margin grew into
a one-day deficiency.
New Calendar
finally a doctor la Verona
Italy named Luigi Lilio Ghiraldi
worked out an idea for a new
calendar. It waa finally accepted
after Ghiraldi' death by Pope
Gregory XIII. The resulting Greg-
orian Calendar was accepted na-
tion by nation of the Western world
between 1583 and 1918.'
The Gregorian Calendar take
care of the deficiency in the Julian
Calendar by knocking out the cen-
tury years ending in even hun-
dred as leap years and making
them Into common year of 365
day a. With this exception: every
fourth century year which can be
divided by four still remains
leap year. Thus. 1900 wasnt a
leap year but 3000 will be.
Car Abandoned
After Accident
Fast Cop Chase
City patrolmen are searching tor
the driver of a '49 Lincoln sedan
wrecked and abandoned during a
chase Friday night which origin-
ated on South Third.
The driver a man refused te
atop tor City Patrolmen Gw lx
Fltspatrtek and Bill Harris after
the officers flashed the red light
cud mended the siren an the
petrel eruiaer.
At Tennessee the car turned east
to First then headed for the coun-
try. Apparently well acquainted
with the countryside the driver
slowed momentarily to make e
left turn onto Grand- then attempt-
ed to turn at the lntereeclon at
too great a speed and the car qua
around.
Still refusing to stop the drivtr
headed seat on the dusty country
roods with the city patrolmen in
shots were fired
pursuit Warning
into the air. The driver still paid
no heed. y
Following the ear for several
miles southeast of team the chase
turned northward toward U. S. 62.
The fleeing motorist turned one
curve of a Jog in the road but the
ear bounced into on embankment
on the east causing him to lose
control. It swerved to tho left and
into a gully narrowly missing the
Washita river.
Apparently nnhnri toe d
didn't wait around to farm
eeptiee eemmitte tor the
officers who were at toe i
within seconds.
A aearch of tho countryside re-
vealed no trace of tho motorist
Tho officers had merely wanted
to stop the man to caution him
about his driving.
Police Seek
Missing Car
City patrolmen are searching
for a red 55 Mercury sedan which
left the scene of an accident at
10:20 p.m. Friday in the 1500 block
on South Third.
Police reported e ll tudor driv-
en by Jimmie Lee Criy 19 Minco
route one wee making a left turn
from Third onto Tennessee
The 55 nr wee said to have
rammed into the left rear of tho
Cuiy tar then left the scene.
The left front of tho Mercury
ia believed to have been damaged.
No. 3
Continued
From Fage 1
net of Fairvtew early Saturday.
Tha nr driven by Don Robin-
eon of Enid ran into a daep ditch
on a county road. Robinson wai
injured and waa taken to an EnM
hospital. Both youths were atudmta
In tho ninth grade at Enid's Emer-
son Junior High School.
AU-Out Patrol
Meanwhile state highway patrol-
men continued their round-the-clock
petrolling of atete highway!
in an effort to cut down tho number
of accidents. LL Gov. Cowboy Pink
Williams acting governor since
Gov. Raymond Gary wont to Flor-
ida for the Orange Bowl football
gma sent a telegram to Sately
mmlatloner Jim Lookabaugh
calling on tha patrol "to bo tspeo-
tally vigilant through out thia week-
end" and urging all citizens to
main Oklahoma's highways eato."
The patrol uid motorists appear-
ntly were driving more carefully
as the holiday weekend got under-
way. Only 14 accidents were re-
ported throughout the state Friday
night resulting in tour minor in-
juries. Um patrol mad 310 arrests
fnr a 34-hour period end stopped
1349 motor lit in their "penoo-
topereon" campaign for safe driv-
ing. Tha Oklahoma Safety Council
has predicted five persona will die
on slate highways over the holiday
weekend.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to extend our haart-
felt thanks and appreciation far
tho acts of kindness mesasgn of
sympathy end beautiful floral of-
ferings received from our many
friends during our sod baresve-
mont in the Illness and death of
our mother. Mr. and Mrs. Glen
Mitchell and Richard.
According to the Federation ef
Malaya Annual Report of 1953
there were 17411 people employed
in its tin mines.
Ike Entered
In Primaries
WASHINGTON Dee. 31 HI
Without welting for President El-
senhower to make up his mind.
Republicans la fix states have
taken preliminary steps to enter
hie name in primaries starting in
March.
TheM etatee ere New Hamp-
shire Pennsylvania Indiana Ore-
goo. South Dakota and Wisconsin.
In two othsr states when the
ciadidate'o consent is required
rHfnmt and Ohio-favorite eon
candidates have announced with
tha idee of bidding Amm delega-
tions for Eisenhower.
The President'i doctors have
Mid it would bo around mid-Fsb-ruary
bafora they could give him
a report on bis recovery from a
heart attack upon which ho could
decide about his political future.
Latest Maras
Latest move to enter Elsenhow-
er In preference - and delegate
primaries to be held in 1956 in
19 etatee Alaska and the District
of Columbia cam fids week in
Indiana and Pennsylvania.
In the Booster State Gov.
George N. Craig Mid the Presi-
dent's name would ho entered in
that etatei May 8 primary unless
he decides not to run. The winner
will get Indiana's I national con-
vention delegates to be chosen
later fat a state convention. This
will be Indianas first presidential
primary.
Republican factions in Penasyl-
vania also got together this WMk
to plaM Elsenhower's name on the
primary ballot there April 34.
Sixty district delegatee are elected
in the primary. The GOP state
committee nanus in additional 10
delegates at large.
1)m Keystone State leaden em-
phasised they were going ahead
on their own without consulting
tho President
Hearst Says Ike
To Be Candidate
NEW YORK Dec. 31 (N William
Randolph Hearst Jr. editor-in-chief
of the Hearst newspapers.
Mid tonight that President Eisen-
hower has "definitely decided to
run again with Richard Nixon as
hte vice president.
Hearst in a frontpage "Edi-
tors Report" in tha Now- York
JournaLAmorleaaa Sunday edition
uld this wm file Presidents de-
cision "barring unexpected medi-
cal complications."
"This is not Just wishful think-
lng on my part" Hearst added.
. . This information comes to
me from persons who have been
in contact with tha President's
hitiMfig about hte heart ailment
as nesnfiy as the past few days-"
Barbituates Causa
Socialite's Death
IARTA FE N. M. Dee. 31 IF-
A coroners Jury late today found
that Mrs. Elizabeth Roberts 64-
yaar-old prominent Lincoln Neb.
socialite died from an "overdos-
age of bacMtuates and possible
A physician who performed an
autopsy on the woman found W
day in an arroyo Just outside the
irity limits estimated she had
been dead "two to four days."
Mrs. Roberta walked away from
an inn here Monday morning and
eat off a widespread search. She
left a note to her husband telling
him not to spend any "money
time or energy'' looking for her.
Her husband retired road con-
tractor C. W. Roberta told police
she had been nervous and upset.
No. 6
Continued
From Pggel
against repetition of disastrous lo-
cal casualty records. In at teait
four states Arianna. Till noli
Michigan and Wlsootisln freffie
policemen were reinforced by
members of the National Guard.
In tho Chicago am including
outlying Cook County Sheriff
Joseph Lehman estimated that
1000 policeman and guardsmen
were working overtime on freffie
duty.
Ned H. Dearborn president of
tho Safety Council railed tha early
traffic onto record "encourag-
ing" adding "The big test win
of course come later tonight"
Dearborn urged one primary safe-
ty rule for motorists: "Don't drink
if you drive.
The record traffic toll for a New
Ynr period te 497 set In a four-
day observance in 195243.
Last New Year's a two day-44
hour periefi 294 persona wars
kilted in traffic and the over-all
accident death list numbered 363.
Tho record traffic death toll for
ny three-day New Years holiday
was 317 recorded at the 1953 ynn
and. Tha traffic totality record for
ny holiday ever observed in too
United States was test wash's 909.
tore On Fcnrth
Th overall accident toll court-
ing ell types of accident deaths
for last week's Christmas holiday
was 78L Including M deaths fa
fire end 191 miscellaneous. This
was short ef th threfrday fade-
pendenn Day period ef 1951 when
991 died from all types ef acci-
dents. .
The rale ef freffie dntoa dur-
ing the first 39 hours ef tho cur-
rent holiday 'was well under tone
aa hour a rate which compand
favorably with that ef Safe-Driving
Day a 24-hour period Dec. 1 tote
year when only M traffic deaths
wen counted fa the aeUoa.-Tha
traffic Onto rate for this ysars
Christmas holiday was nearly sight
an hour
Dei tha by stats te traffic fins
and miscellaneous acektento in-
cluded: Arkansas 10 1: Illinois III;
lows 1 1; Kansas 3 9 9; Nebraska
1 0s Oklahoma lit.
THI CKICKASHA DAILY
Did You Hear
Tfeo Put Matrons Chib of
Chichasha Chapter 39 QES will
meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday In the
home at Mrs. R. E. Glover 1321
South Seventh
The Disabled American Yetenae
will bold a regular meeting at 7:30
p.m. Monday in the IOOF Hall. AU
members are urged to attend.
N Um wm reported as re salt ef
a grass fir caused by burning
trash Friday afternoon at 1111
South 13th.
Pvt. Jack gtarrheel. Pert Eestls
V. mat the Christmas holidays
with his grandparents Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Rasberry Cement. He
1a a member of tho First Student
Enlistment Company of Fort
Eustte.
Jimmy C. Richard airman ap-
prentice USN Minco is serving
with Am Blue Sharks of the Navy's
Petrol Squadron 8ix at Barber's
Print Naval Air Station Oahu
T. H.
James B. Workman IS. son of
Oscar Workmen rout one Ninna-
kah ia completing his Air Force
basic braining at Lackland Air
Force Bom Tbx.
AU ef to grandchildren and
great - grandchildren of H. W.
Rowe were present for hte funeral
services except one. Those attend-
ing were: Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Mom of Coley Kan. Mr. and Mrs.
HerahaU O. Graves of Anchorage
Alaska TSgt? and Mrs. Bob L.
Odom of Puerto Rico Robert W.
Graves of Rush Springe and Mrs.
Melvin C. Bennett. Other out-of-town
relatives were: Ira Rowe end
Raymond Rowe of Ponca City
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Butler Mr. and
Mrs. Dug Rowe Mr. and Mrs.
Omer Rowe Mrs. Myrtle Pondera
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Ponders and
Mr. and Mrs. Perce Rowe all of
Ardmore Mrs. Mary West of Ada
Mrs. Peart James of Dallas Tex.
and Mrs. Lillie Jones and son.
Bill of Arlington Tex. Out-of-town
friends attending were: Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Bond and sans Mrs.
Harmon Spencer Mr. and Mrs.
Don Ferguson and Mr. and Mrs.
Emry Ferguion of Oklahoma City:
Mrs. Lois Pryon of Granite Mr.
and Mrs. D- D. Hargrove of Sny-
der Mrp. Jewel McCain and Mrs.
Ruth Coleman of Marlow; Mr. and
Mrs. L. C. Ledbetter of El Reno;
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Birmingham
of Comanche; Mr. and Mrs. Devs
Woods of Lawton; and Mr. end
Mrs. Ttit Webb and daughter of
Clyde Tax.
Dr. G- K. ML Kleberg reparted
to tha police department hte home
at 1105 Iowa had been entered
sometime between 9 a.m. and
12:15 p.m. Saturday. Missing wen
an etectrie razor end a woman's
yellow gold wrist watch. Accord-
ing to tn police report tin house
wee not locked.
Frank Laws To Form
Firm In Capital City
Dal Jonas has resigned as driv-
er Improvement supervisor for
the state Department of Public
Safety to form a partnership with
Frank Laws Chic kasha in
ganisfag a driving school fa Okla-
homa City.
The resignation was announead
Saturday far State Safety Com-
missioner Jbn Lookabaugh.
Mr. Laws former safety depart-
ment employe waa assigned to
tha Chichasha area as driver
license examiner for several years
bafora resigning nriiar this year
to enter private business.
Mr. and Mrs. Laws have al-
ready moved to Oklahoma City
Janes' successor is Tulio Scari-
mued who also will bo senior ex-
aminer in charge of the Oklahoma
City Stillwater and Shawnee of-
fices. Commissioner Iooksheugh also
announced the promotion of James
Sardis to rank of senior examiner
with headquarters at Ada. Ha wiU
have chargs of all driver exam-
in southeastern Oklahoma.
No. 4
Continued
From Fag 1
moat no expectation that Congress
will allow these business taxes to
drop to tower levels.
Tha corporation Income tax rate
due to drop to 47 per cent la ex-
pected to he eon tinned at the prate
ent 52 per cent rate for another
year. Excise taxes are expected to
bo continued at present levels.
Te teallsw
Uncertainly over individual tax
cute seems likely to continue until
too budget picture becomes dear-
A surplus for tho 1957 fiical ynr
starting July 1 la being widely
predicted ben us of th revenue
"windfall" accruing as toe result
ef the economic boom.
But with toe new government
pending in prospect particularly
on "cold war" requirements doubt
exists whether tha surplus will bo
targe enough to permit more then
a token tan cut without mating
another deficit.
The conviction persists ftat an
individual Income tan cut ia duo.
Aa Associated Press poll of
member of the tax-writing House
Ways and Meins Commute pro-
duced n surprisingly strong sfflrin-
ativo reply to too question of prob-
able individual tax outs at the
coming session.
Only Om No
Answers thus far received from
about one-hall the members have
produced onto om flat "no" to the
question: Will Congress reduce to-
eome taxes at toe coming sesslonf
Xn the Senate which lest ynr
halved a House ten reduction bill
similar undercurrent ef feeling
was apparent that some kind ef
tax out la fa the works
Tha strongest Senate oppoelllan
to tax reduction cornea from Son.
Byrd (D-Va) chairman ef tha Fi-
nance Committee. He believes toe
budget must bo balanced first and
something done to cut to national
debt before Usee are ooniktorad.
EXPRESS lnAy Jimry 1
Funeral Set
At 2 Tuesday
Funeral services for Mrs. Stella
McGarvin Freeman 72 1128 Iowa
wiU be at 3 p.m. Tuesday in the
chapel of Chicks she Funeral
home. Dr. David G. Ha use. pea-
tor of First Baptist Church of-
ficiating. She died at 1:35 p.m. Seturdhy
in e local hospital.
Mrs. McGarvin Freeman had
titered n heart attack three
weeks ago. A Mood chib formed
later and she underwent surgery.
Boro Oct.- IS 1883 in Big Spring
Mb she had ben a resident of
Grady County since 1910 coming
hero from Now Florence. Mol
Her family were pioneer torus-
era and stockmen in Grady Coun-
ty. She resided ia Meridian and
Norge communities until 1938.
Mrs. McGarvin Freeman had bean
resident of Chicks eha the past
19 years.
She was a member of tho Tint
Baptist Church and a member of
its Willing Workers Sunday School
class.
Thurston McGarvin preceded hte
wife in death on Dec. 14 1935. On
March 10 1955 eha waa married
to Ancil Freeman.
Survivors include her husband
Ancil Freeman; four daughters
Mrs. Sarah Davie of Los Angeles
Calif. Mrs. Pauline Dixon and
Mrs. Zelta Fathereo of Oklahoma
City and Mrs. Dol'te Church well
of Chichasha; two aons. Rolls Mo-
Garvin of Landcaster Calif. and
Loren McGarvin of Anadarko; one
sister Mrs. W. A. Carter of Po-
c asset route one; a brother S. C.
Anderson of Pocasset; 13 grand-
children and 13 great-grandchildren.
Interment will be in Rose Hill
cemetery under direction of Chich-
asha Funeral home.
No. 5
Continued
From Pag 1
nied by her mother Mrs. John S.
Doud of Denver; and Mrs. Howard
M. Snyder wife of tho White House
physician who arrived with the
President Wednesday.
Mis. Eisenhower had remained
in th capital until today to be
with her daughter-in-law Mrs.
John Elsenhower who gave birth
test week to a fourth child Mary
Jnn. The mother and baby now
have left Walter Reed Army Hospi-
tal in Washington and are at their
home in Ft Belvoir Va.
Here also for tonight's welcome
to 1956 was the President's young-
est brother. Dr. Milton S. Elsen-
hower head of Pennsylvania State
University. Milton whoso counsel
the President often seeks has been
assisting with the Jan. 5 State of
tho Union message to Congress.
Its likely that if the President
is talking privately to anyone about
his political plans he te doing so
to Milton.
No. 7
Continued
FfcomFagnl
cress in foreign aid fluids
fern a fight In Congress.
Another big battle te shaping up
over farm legislation which Sen.
Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas tha
Democratic floor leader said will
get early attention.
Johnson back fa Washington aft-
er what hte doctor called s most
satisfactory recovery" from
heart attack test July Hid the
Senate will meet briefly Tuesday
and then recess until Thursday
when President Elsenhower's State
of tho Union message will be read
by clerks fa both houses.
Conference
After the presidential
mends tions have been heard John-
son said he krill confer with tho
committee chairmen all Demo-
crats end Shan call the Senate
Democratic Policy Committee to-
gether to map a legislative pro-
gram. "There te no priority on any MU
right now" Johnson told reporters.
He indicated tint farm legislation
and disaster relief Mils Inspired
far flood damage at both cads of
tho country this year will get early
consideration.
Tax cut proposals appeared reU
egsted to the background for tho
time being.
There was an air of sweetness
and good wiU among the tawmak-
era ee they streamed beck to
Washington to take their places in
the opposing firing lines. This may
have been due to tho holiday sea-
son aa weU as to th absence of
any immediate crises.
Net 9e Stormy
House Republican Leader Martin
of Massachusetts Hid for example
that he doesn't think tha coming
aoeston te going to bo aa stormy
as soma people think '. '
"It looks like a normal election
year session Martin told a
porter. "I don't think there wiU
be any MtterneH.
"Of coune" he added "then
wQl be politics you have to
pact that"
Tha politics he was talking about
ia the special kind that comet ev-
ery four years when th rival par-
ties do their best to Implant the
most vivid Impressions on the
greatest number of voters.
The presidency tha entire Houm
membership and 33 Senate seats
are up for decision at tha polls
next November with control of
both tho executive and legislative
branches of the government riding
on dm outcome.
AdJourmtiift
Martin spoke of adjourning July
1 but If put performance fa any
guide tho acutea probably will
keep going until it is time for tho
Democrats to leave for their na-
tional nominating convention
Chicago Aug. 13. Tho Republican
convention opens In Sen Francisco
n week later on Aug. 39.
Fhrm legislation seems Ukaly to
hit th floor first with tha moot
firework. Thera te general agree-
ment among members of both par-
ties that something will have te
be don to halt tha steady decline
fa form prices. The balltallnes wiU
bo (krewa over how and how much.
15
Area Farmers
To Start Filing
Social Security
Many self-employed formers in
Grady County will soon bo filing
income tax returns for the first
time and plying their social se-
curity tax if their gross minings
an as much as 8800 or tfasir not
aarninga amount to 8409
for tho ynr.
Walter McRae field
tativa from the Oklahoma City
si se mrity office advised
these new taxpayers to make sure
th report fa complete and cor-
rect by Itemising aU sources of
Ho reminded them te
their social seearity umber te
all places .It te called tor on the
farms and te keep aa extra copy
of tbs letsm at bam er in a
e plan together with ail
business record from which the
return was prepared.
Mr. McRae emphasized tha self-
employed former who follows
these three steps will have little
trouble in proving hte claim to
benefits when the time comes.
Mr. McBaa visits the Chlchssha
regularly. He will bo in
Chteheehn from a.m. to 3 p.m.
Wednesday Jan. 4 and U. in the
po toffies building.
Stampede Kills
120 At Shrine
NIIGATA Japan Sunday Jan. 1
(Thirty thounnd New Years
worshipers stampeded five minute
after midnight at a famed Shinto
shrine and police working into tho
daylight hours today already had
recovered 113 bodies.
Doeene at worshipers still were
missing. SeventHlve were injured.
It was J span's wont recorded
New Year's tragedy.
Reports Vary
There were conflicting reports oo
what caused the Jammed man of
worshlpen to break fa terror from
tho Koytsu Shrine major Shinto
; lace of worship at this seaport
:I87 miles northwest of Tokyo on
the Sea of Japan.
Soma uld a Moot ancient stone
wall on high ground had collapsed
and tha stones hurtled down on
tho worshipers below.
Others ssid single worshiper
dipped and fen down a steep state-
open air shrine.
Hie tragedy struck is fhouunds
way leading to tha altar of the
of temple bells aU over Japan were
ringing in the new year and hun-
dreds of thousands Jammed the
Shinto shrines hanking their gods
for bumper crops and praying for
good fortune in 1956.
Residents Dig Out
Of Alaska Snowfall
ANCHORAGE Alaska Dec.
lit 8now stopped felling in fate
snowbound city overnight and vir-
tually the whole community effort
wee aimed today at digging out.
A total of 5 feet 3 inches of smw
was on tho ground. Moot of it fell
in tho storm which started last
Monday night and spread a itesd-
S increasing case of white psraly-
over the region. It was the
lwavtest snowfall ever recorded
her. .
Care were buried in snowdrifts
everywhere. Highways were Mock-
ed. Air traffic was reduced to
minimum.
Construction Pacts
Reach Record Mark
OKLAHOMA CITY Dec. 31 IF-
Contracts awarded for future con-
struction in the Oklahoma City
area reached tha highest dollar
volur in history for the first 11
man. 1955 tho F. W. Dodge
Corn. ..ported tods?.
The construction uewe agency
uld the record sum also passed
tha entire 1954 total and 11-month
figure stretched 14 per cent above
the comparable period of last year.
The total for the first 11 months
of this year was 885461000 the
report laid.
Gift Hooks Woman
But Cops Save Day
PORTLAND Ore. Dec. 31 III
Rom V. Williams deeply troubled
over e Christmu gift called police
last night She said aha had bean
Patrolmen Marlon S. Hockstetter
and Elliott Corbett investigated
and Mid it wu true. Mrs. Williams
they Hid. had reached back to
hook up a Christmas gift corset
when one ef her rings benms
hooked on the book.
She couldnt free her imprisoned
band. But the policemen could and
they did then hooked up the
let they said.
D
Ray Weems Dies;
Services Tuesday
OKLAHOMA CITY Dee. 31 IB
Ray O. Weems 89 veteran state
political figure and member at the
Oklahoma Corporation Commission
for nearly 17 years died at hte
home bore early today.
Weems who bad bean in fll
health suffering from n diabetic
condition for about two years had
been in critical condition tho past
several days. Ha underwent an
pulation of on leg test February.
Funeral services will be held at
Street k Draper Amend home hero
at 3 p. m. Tuesday.
Weems resigned from th Cor-
soratlon Com mission Oct 38. He
1 served chairman of tho
commission which regulates rates
of most utillttei end sets oil well
production allowables for some
time but asked to be relieved ef
the chairmanship fast July. Ray
C. Jones then vice chairman took
over tiie post and Weems served
as e member until hte resignation.
Had he remained on the commis-
sion Weems would have completed
17 years a a member on New
Years Day.
Weems was a newspaper pub-
lisher and banker at Sallteaw In
Sequoyah County before entering
state office.
Born Nov. 15 1886 in Newtonia
Mo. Weems moved to Oklahoma
with hie family in 1893 when tha
Many Queries Arise
About Future Years
By W. G. ROGERS
Associated Frees Arte Editor
NEW YORK Dec. 31 IF-What
arc the prospects for a new world
as we enter the new year?
Are we going to be regimented
and herded Into concentration
romps?
Are wo going to bo th happy
inhabitants of a cooperative com-
monwealth? Win we live in a New
Harmony or a Brook Farm?
Are wa going to occupy a push-
button world where we wont have
to lift a finger or lift n finger-
hut no more In order to enjoy
ell the benefits of unlimited power
channeled into our kitchens end
shops freeing us of almost all
labor delivering us up to tha life
of Reilly?
TheM matters have interested
writers in an ages perhaps be-
cause writers have a tougher time
in the immediate present than the
zest of us.
New Hsnaroy and Brook
Farm whet experiment la
New Topcoats
For City Police
City patrolmen are starting off
tho new year with a new lor.
Their new overcoats arrived Sat-
urday. TheM wiU replace our winter
Mouses which were converted
during the summer into Eisen-
hower type jackets" Mid police
Chief Roy Carmen.
Th new three-quarter length
overcoats are of heavy 24-ounce
melton.
Staton of thfe fitted avertwate
were ordered for the department.
The desk officers decided they
did net went the heavy eesls at
the present time explained
Chief Carmen.
Costing approximately $900 the
coats were purchased at no t
pense to th city. They are being
paid out of the proceed from tho
annual police benefit dance and
the departments civic supporters.
Del City Child
Loses One Eye
OKLAHOMA CITY Dee. 31 (F-
A 10-year-old Del City girl hoe lost
tho eight of one eye and may face
a eeriea of operations as tha re-
sult of a shotgun wound accidental-
ly inflloted by her Hysarold
brother.
Tha accident occurred as Larry
Shafer son of Mr. and Mrs. Elbert
B. Shafer was posing for a picture
with til gun a Christmas present
The gun accidentally discharged
striking Larrys lister Marsha in
the foes.
Deputy Sheriff Rou Blggers said
tho girt underwent surgery on tha
injured ays lest night He said tha
eye wee not removed but that eight
wee loot She is expected to re-
rown funeral fflome
WALTER BROWN WENDELL BROWN
Phone 141
Many
Cherokee Strip wee opened. He
Joined the First National Bank at
Sallluw in 1917 and in 1924 ho-
lme a director.
h 1923 he began publishing the
Sequoyah County Democrat- The
following year he joined th Gam
and fish Department as a game
warden. He sold his newspaper
holdings shortly before leaving tha
department in IBS.
Weems was state treasurer from
1881 until 1935 and served on th
state Tbx Commission from 1939
to 1939.
Loses Races
Near the end of his term nt of-
fice as slate treasurer fa 1934.
Weems ran for lieutenant governor
losing to farmer Lit Gov. JamM
E. Berry. He resigned from tho
tax commission fa 1939 to run for
tha Corporation Commission. He
was elected and began his first
term in 1939.
.Survivor Infaude th widow
Mrs. India Weems; two eons
George Weems Oklahoma City
end Ray O. Weems Jr.. Houston
Tax.; n sister Mrs. C. B. Uimaiu
Deltas; a brother Earnest Weems
Jacksonville Fla.; and three grand
children.
Weems at ons time wu financial
manager of tha Federal Housing
Administration at Oklahoma City
and wu state president at th
League of Young Democrats in
1914.
semmsnsl Bvisg. B wee news-
paperman Edward Bellamy whs
to "Leaking Backward" looked
forward te tlM year 2499 whea
his JuHas West wosld Uva in an
Meal state where all worked aad
shared alike.
George Orwells date was
"Nineteen Eighty-Four." in which
he warned dramatically of the dir
prospects of Russian-Communist
totalitarianism.
But a cheerier note has aounded
lately. It ia not a forecast for
1969 but wa dont have to wait
very tong at. that Thera is
already in existence a "Society of
Utopians" con listing at a pair of
smiling optimistic charter mem-
ber one invited member and the
chance of some more.
Charter members are Morris
Erast author of "Utopia 1979."
and Sylvester (Pat) Weaver who
throe months ago produced tho
NBC-TV "1979 program about
tile rosy outlook for tomorrow v 1
Weaver has a book of hte own on
the way too Tomorrow." Gerga
Soiite author of "Tim for Liv-
tM Jg th jftWiqts.
iheir insignia will be a glass
of win which they call half full
though their opposite members
the pessimists would say half
empty." They plan a breakfast
meeting once e year for 19 years
9 far nine years and a
Mg sptarga of a dinner on Jan. L
1878 tiw year of tho 299th anni-
versary of th United States and
of th realization of tiw Utopians'
dreams.
Erasts prespeetss te the mast
detailed though there's an
Englishman Nobel prtaewtaner
Geers Thompson whose "Fore-
seeable Fsture" ha probably
tha Mendest scientific xnder-
ptanlng; Thempsro ha been In-
vited te Join the society bet
hssat yet sent hla answer.
A Ernest says 1976 1 so new
that lot of u alive today will
liv to see and enjoy the fabuloui
future he predicts: . . .
Every deserving boy and girl
wiU have hi way paid through
college; plastic automobiles wiU
run just a Mt short of forever:
tha common cold end cancer wiU
diuppear or be curable; every
family will earn the equivalent of
a present-day 325409 a year; the
work week wiU last 30 hours.
Weaver alto foresees men lei-
sure for aU; more interest and
participation in sports; new re-
producing media In home so that
wa can have on file any tha pio-
turcs of the greet museums or
tha newest TV progrsm which w
happened to miss far being out.
Soule too tn "Tima for Living1
hope well enjoy more sports
see more of th world have more
time for tho good things fa life
and give more to -them. .
Thompson considers soberly the
scientific prospects for Interplane-
tary travel for changing the cli-
mate for being older and yst
healthier for producing more food
for more people for training ani-
mals Uke monkeys to do
for us.
Families Have
Our
Found
' Funeral
Security Plan
Policies Very Helpful In Meet-
ing Funeral Expenses. If In-1
terestad. We Will Be Glad to
Explain The Plan
i
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