FOUR-A
TIIR CHICKASHA STAB
THURSDAY JULY IS 1053
dedicated to
THE GOLDEN RULE
To unc nt hou!iI he serve I what
Letter s(;r.d-irJ c.in 'e hold in our de?:
responsibility to the community. To serve
in a manner to give greatest measures of
comfort and help to those ia sorrow is
our profeMMior.nl rode. Our service ia always
complete.
CHICKASHA
FUNERAL HOME
Ihone 276 Jodie Sevier 702 Chickasha
COMPlETrjFUNERAltSfRyjC
J. W. Kayser Back
From Canada Trip
1 Editors note: Mr. Kayuer to: Oklahoma. One farmer uiid lt
home but this letter received bud year too cold too much
1 just thin moraine will prove in-1 ruin. Hundreds of acres of land
1c resting we believe to reader! rould not be planted because of
; tj1(1 K(ur ' ; the e:ifrs rainfall. And they hati
price for wheat wai $1.30 this
weekend.
Canadian
cattle raisers art' sure
about the low price of cattle. The
cattle pripe to the. same as In the
United . States . only . they dont
have any drouth stricken cattle
country.
They are cutting their first hay
crop timothy clover and .some
alfalfa. They only get two crops
of hay a. season here. In the last
few years they .have tried the
automatic baler and we raw
hundreds of ..acres baled and
standing in (he field. It hod rain-
ed so much they couldnt hau
on' the crop.
Thvv have a way saving IF .
I u tornado something that had
I ' I. ions Head. Canada ! ni ycr happened before in. the
' July 9 WM history of the Province ul On-
; When we ot o.'f th- C r.rd urj0 ye caine through t.:e tor-
! Tiui.k Limited this mo: -'.'R the r.ado area and Ontario tornadoes
ortor greeted us with .t's ( have the same devastating effect (crop that night be udj" Okla
I fine mumlng. V.'e hat a little tft the Oklahoma variety. homa. They winrow the h:r ant"
frost last ni'jht hut dont think). Cunuda handles its relief situ- let it dry a little. Then they taki
lit hurt anylhinK." As we spud j stiims a little different from the
! through the In Ids in tie curly United States. If a community
: mnriiinn. the frost on the eat tie's rinses $1011000 lor the relief .of
its distressed Parliament which
eoi 1-ct.ponds to our legislature
gives them an equal amount.
The crops up here are fur lie-
hind Oklahoma corn is only
about six inches high oats are
Curiosity Shop
Uulifelc nd Kaivon
1320 So. 4th
lnduMi Good
Bouvtn'rs
Cm Us Km Your
MINNOWS'
a machiue that chops up tlie hay
and blows it into a wagon. Tin
wuguu takes it to the three story
barns and a blower sucks the crop
out of the .wagon and blows it
into tne barn. It keeps perfectly
and makes fine winter feed.
They only get two crops of hay
a year here and the farmer who
just heading out and wheat ia hasn't his own equipment sells
beginning to turn yellow. Lust it in the field. Hay never got
year lor the first . time they higher than $20 a ton last year
combined some of their wheat and they are paying $6.00 a ton in
Always before. ' the wheat 'has the field the buyer to do all the
been bound and threshed from work of saying the crop
the shock. The wheat furnier has ' Lions Head is situated on the
troubles up here too. The rarh tiergian Bay one of the prettiest
H'' ft H
On May 12th the taxpayers in Chkkasha voted in favor of a
$1100000 bond issue to insult a municipal gas system in
Chick ashs.
You acted in good faith. You voted for these bonds because
you were given facts and figures which led you to believe that n
municipal gas system would result in lower gas rates for
Chkkasha.
We urge you now to re-examine these figures. We urge you
to take a closer k '
look and see how the true facts add up.
Instead of winding up with the lower gaa fates you have
been promised you may find yourself with higher taxes and
another hie bond issue on your hands. This greatly increased
bonded indebtedness will put Chickasha so dose to the allowable
limits of municipal debt that it will be virtually impossible to :
I bunds for necessary and needed
issue additional
in the future.
for necessary and
improvemenu
Here are some plain facet that deserve your most serious
consideration.
The well-meaning folks who backed the hood issue have
told you repeatedly that a municipal gas system in Chickasha
can be built for $1100000. Qualified engineers do nbt agree.
They say that Chickasha will be lucky tf it can build a gaa
system capable of serving the entire city for $1634000. We
will frankly admit that we could not duplicate Consolidated's
system here for a penny less than that.
So what? Somewhere down die line yon will have to do
one of two things. You will either have to vote another half
a million dollar bond issue or you will have to settle for a
gas system that will serve only two-thirds of your fine city.
Neit"
Neither is e very welcome thought.
These same bond-backers and advocates of municipal
ownership have optimisrirrijr promised that you can tell these
t bonds at aw loMiint rate of and maybe less. Here are
their own wards from the Chickasha Star April 30 1953
"Am interest rote of 21 btu item assured jor tbt proposed
bond issue. It is beliesred the! ms issterest rote Ust tbass this
Mmesnst will be secured" That tots ia wishful thinking.
WATCH WHAT THE INTEREST RATE IS IF AND
WHEN THE BONDS ARE SOLD
Fact is Chickasha will be lucky to borrow money at any
figure below 4 according to unbiased bond experts. If Chick-
asha does have to pay 4 interest instead of the 2 rate
which has been promised the difference in interest alone would
be W9j02J MOR " '"
IRE. That much difference in interest rates can
completely change the financial picture of a municipal gas system.
Look at your neighboring city of Pauls Valley. They me
peyimg issterest for bonds jssst voted.
In order that you may see tor yourself how die facts add
u. we give you some figures below that will open your eyes.
Rese figures show what it will cost to build a gas system in
Chkkasha; what it will cost to operate it; what vour anticipated
revenue will be from the rates which have Men suggested.
These figures will give you something to think about.
Using a qualified engineers estimated cost of $1634000
to build a municipal gas system in Chickasha and an interest
tare of 32 on 15 years bonds ...
HERES WHAT THE FIRST FULL YEAR OF OPERAT-
ING A MUNICIPAL GAS PLANT WILL COST
BASED ON THE ABOVE ESTIMATES:
Interest on bonds 
Annual payment on principal
Coat of gna
Operating expenses
.$ 57190
. 109000
205073
87790
.$459053
HERE IS ONE YEAR'S REVENUE BASED ON THE
CITIZEN'S COMMITTEE SUGGESTED RATE !t
1st 1000 C.F. $1.00 month
Residential  AS per MCF
Commercial .30 " jl' 
Industrial .17 " . s
Annual revenue at above rote $333145.00
i Total Cost of Operation ...$4190134)0
Income from Rato 1 323145.00
Annual lots on Rato 1 .....$ 135208.00
HERE IS ONE YEARS REVENUE BASED ON THE
CITIZEN'S COMMITTEE SUGGESTED BATE 2i
' 1st 1000 C.F. $1.00 month
Besidantial .SI per MCF
. Commercial .2S .." ...
Industrial .19 " "
Annual revenue at above rate $362470.00
Total Cost of Operation ...I.'.. .7. .$4 5905 3. 00
Income from Bate 2 362470.00
Annual Loss on Rato 2 -..-$ 96313.00
But the above figures are based upon the municipal gaa
system securing all of the gas business in Chkkasha.. Let's
assume that the municipal system gets only 50 W 75 of the
total business and see what happens.
Income from 50 of Soles
Rste 1 $161922.00
Operating expenses 336000.00
Annual Loss ...... .......$1 94073.00
income from 75 of Solos
' Rato 1 242883.00
Operating Expanses .................. 407779.00
Annual Loss $1 64896.00
' Now then let's do a little more supposing. Let's suppose
that the plant could be built for the amount of the present
bond issue even though that is an impossibility.' Lets also
suppose th the city had no competition from the present
company now serving Chkkasha which will be equally untrue.
What would happen? The municipal gns system svossld lose
over fflOjOOO msnnnlly bnsed oss Suggested Rote 1. . .  or-
over S42J000 o year based oss Suggested Rote 2.
Well carry it even further. Lets -assume that die plant
'can be built for the amount of die present bond issue which
it certainly cant. See how the picture changes when the munici-
pal owned system is faced with competition from the present
- company serving Chickasha.
Based on Suggested Rate 1 the munkipel system would
lose $140000 a year if it served 50 of the city or $110000
annually if it does 75 of the gas business.
Based on Suggested Rare 2 the nrmkipal system would
lose $1204)00 annually if it served 50 of the total requirements
of Chkkasha ... or would lore $81000 a year if it served
75 of the business.
Now lets look at it another way. If the advocates of
municipal ownership blindly pursue the Building of a municipal
gas system with only $1100000 it can result in only one thing.
The city of Chickasha will wind up with a plant capable of
serving only about of the gas users in Chickasha. .Should
such a system secure all of the gas business in the limited area
. it served which is unlikely in tne face of competition it would
lace $1194)00 annually under the Citizen's Committee Suggested
Rate 1 or $934100 under the Citizens Committee Suggested
Rate 2.
From die figures you have just read one dung stands out
like a sore thumb. A munkipaf gas system will ft a money-
losing proposition for the taxpayers of Chickasha despite the
rosy picture that has been painted. ... ... .
Before its too late every thinking citizen in ChkLasha
owes it to himself and to his city to ask "How do the tacts
odd opr . 
CONSOLIDATED GAS
bodies of water In America. Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Spearing oi
Chickasha have one of the pret-
tiest $urtimer homes on the bay.
It to a great tourist center for
bilks from the northern United
Stntcs.
This afternoon we went arrow
the Bruce Peninsula to lish for
small-mouthed bass in Lake Hur-
on. I-ike Huron is the home of
the fight inest small-mouthed bam
ir. the United Stales. We struck
it lucky and brought back the
limits six apiece weighing frum 1
a pound to two pound- Tne
?m: 1 -mouth"! tsss breaks water 
irnm three to io;ir t ris before J
you can' bind Lvc our
I'.rr'-son list Diem fur a wh''
but final'y rwtwd Ih? tech-
nique and landed them just like
u CunaJian. They arc wonderful
uni mg and a two pound small-
mouth will give more '.ip.ht Ilian:
a five pound black bass.
So lung for this time 1
J. W. Kayser j
meet at 2:30 -on the Lincoln Park
picnic grounds. Tbs members will
bring basket lunches.. The group
will . elect : officers' and plan to
jhold annual aneeti.s. .
Mrs.' Curley' Knis and Don and
Mrs. Robert Bowers left over the
weekend lor a vacation in Colo-
rado. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Shipley re-
turned Friday from Nebraska
with load of hay. Thia ii the
second load of hay the Shipley
have purchased and hauled home.
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Prybkho urns July
MERCURY RUNS TEST
ON NO. 1 WHITENER
Mercury Drilling Co. is run-
ning a Scliluinbei'Ker end nucro-
lug mi their No. I W.iti'in-r in
23-5-7 i-Mst of AKiiwani. They
ure rutin iiir the log to a ruro-ni
total depth of 9720 feel. A drill
stem lest of the zone at 93(5.1 HT
I fret open ene .hour recovered
1370 feet of clean nil and 90 I.1!
I of oil Hind from Jloxbsr.
Maeroia Petroleum Co. is
jnimp'eiipg a surr'sdul rxpan-
1 ion effort ir the Chitwood area
I Their No. 1 Bnwen-Uewbei ry ir
j 34-5-6 three miles southwest of
Alex penetrated 12 56? fcil and
Iplungid batk to 12.527 'feet. Perf
! orations at 12 642-12 503 feet were
treated to establish a flow r f 42f
barrels of oil per day lrom Hnat-
wugt.t sand.
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Childrens
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Dress Shirts
Jut a few ML
Sizes 14 IS
Values
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Mens
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Assorted Colors
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Mr. Ella Hale of OrtinR Wash
visited last week with Mrs. Mil-
dred Wallace of Ainlx-r and a
skter Mrs. Roy Page near Chick-
asha. Mr. and Mrs. Stanlev Rodgers.
Mrs. Ruth Kitti-r ard Wayne and
; Mrs. Allie Richards?;: returned
'over the weekend from Los An-
gelcs Calif. where they huve
been visiting.
! Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Cuthbcrtson
I received word t.'.eir two sons have
1 reached their ports. RM2c O. E.
' Fleming Jr. is in Rio De Janicro
South Amerka and SN Paul D.
Fleming hios arrived in Cuba.
Saturday of (his week the alum-
na of Amber High School will
Mens Straw Hats : .1-3 off
Ilig Savings On Summer Slacks
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