The Ft. Towson Sentinel (Fort Towson, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, October 30, 1942 Page: 1 of 8
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REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR! BUY A BOND!
The FltTow§on
Volume 6
FT TOWSON OKLAHOMA FRIDAY OCTOBER 30 1942
Number 5
Car Owners Are
Warned To Sell
Tires to U S
Owners of passenger can hove
been given another warning by
Rex A Hayes state OPa director
that they must sell all tires above
five to the government before they
will be eligible to receive a gaso-
line rationing book Dean Walker
Executive Secretary of the local
war nrice and rationing board
said today
The procedure of disposing of ex-
cess tires is simple and little
trouble is required on (be part of
tbe owner it was pointed out Here
is 'ail a person owoiug more than
live tires has to do '
1 lake your excess tires to any
Railway Express Agency office or
its delivery zone call the
express agency and it will pick
them op
2 Accept tbe receipt from the
Railway Express Agency and in
due tune payment has ed on OPA
- price schedules will be made by
the Defense Supplies Cotporation
which is government-owned Tbe
Op A emphasises tba’t the ‘ people
are dealing directly witb tbe gov-
ernment end all extra tires that
are sold by tbe people win be ured
for essential Transportation needs
Extra tires cannot be aoldgiv'
en away or otberwiee disposed of
because tbev have been “frczeo”
by tbe OP A Useable idle tires bold
by tbe consumer can be sold or
' given only to the government un-
der tbe idle tire purchase plan
Hayes pointed out '
Woman Found
Mysteriously Shot
Hugo — Officers still bad ro state
ment from Mrs- Anna K Scurlock
43-year-ol-J woman from Lancaster
Texas found near here witb a gun-
shot wonod in the head early Wed-
nesday Sheriff M U (Cap) Dun-
can said
Search of tbe car Wednesday
brought tc light a 22 calibre pistol
and a ton note of which the full
text was not made public
The woman was brought to Hugo
Hospital after being ioiiud in a
Plymouth sedan parsed along
Hub way 70 four miles west of
towu She bad been ibere appar-
ently for some hours and officers
thought first she had been beaten
on (be head due to the amoudt of
blood on it Examination showed a
guosbot wouud the bullet haviug
entered just below ihe hairiiuv and
emerged juet above it
While aha was reported semi-
rational at the hospital ehe refus-
ed to make any statement to offi-
cers Sheriff Duncan said
Assembly Uf God
Revival Still In Progress
y
The Revival at the Assembly of
God Church hero is sail in progress
and fine crcwds are attending ac
cording to Rov G M Billings
pastor
Rev- DeGraffenrsid of Oklahoma
City is conducting the services
W J Heflin
Died Thurs
John Walter Johnson Heflin
age 69 years long tima resident of
this community died at hia home
early Thursday morning after an
Hues of aeveral weeks'
Funeral services were held at
tbe Fort Towson Cemetery Tburs
day afternoon conducted by I'PlieSdflV’S VotCfS
G M Billings pastor of the Assent: I
bly of God cbnrcb assisted by iv6C ill 16(1 I O SHOW
Evangelist Do Graffeoried Burial
was under tha directiou of Senna
Fuueral Home
Mr Heflin U aurvived by one Presentation of certificates of
brother Joe Halim and one sitter I regur8t0a wi0 be
Mrs Minnie Smith both of Fort
Towson two neices Mrs Etta
Martin and Mre Audra Halkum ofTue8°y
this community and two nephews I The procedure will be tha feme
Rev Merman omith of Haskell waa fallowed at the Democratic
primary in July The certificate'
Texas and Billiard Smitb of Fort
Towsou
AC A Election Here
w
Next Saturday
r ci
held at Fort Towaon nest 8ur-
dayNovembe 7 io the Commun
ity Building by members of tbe
Choctaw County Agricultural Coo
servation Association it has been
announced- I
One delegate and an alternate!
delegate to tho Conoty Convention I
will be selected A'ao three regu-
Saturday I
J
Pursuant to call of the Demo-
cratic Committee of Cboctaw
Oouutv ail of the Precincts in Wil:
sun Township met Saturday Get
ober 21st at 2 UO’P M in Justice
Whiles office m Ft Towsjii and
orgauiz-d the Wilson Township
Democratic Catnnaign Committee
to a!d and nssist the Democratic
party in setting up township com-
mittees for Wilson Township to
properly get tbe Democrntic vote
out on November 3rd and insure
a Democratic victory for tbe whole
Demojtatic ticket Mr O B Mid-
lord was elected Chairman of the
loroiuittee Mrs Luis Ortun Sec
Treasurer nod other committees
were appointed
FARMERS
(tuirc every market-
dar BOND DAY!
For our fighting men
for our country’s future
and for freedom we
miter meet and beat our
county War Bond
quota and keep oa doing it
Pick up your War Bond and
Stampa oa your second stop in
town right after you’ve sold
your eggs milk poultry stock
or grain No investment ia too
email and no investment i too
Urge the important thing
it to buy every time yon aelf
- V S Troarmrv l)rprtmtni
will be presented by the voter on j
arrival at tbe voting box to tbe
judge who will check and stamp j
it to indicate that the bolder ia 1
Vk w eordiaiiy invited to meet tbe Sena-
co vote in tbe election held on that-tof h( MnMrUe HeadqaWto
date trrs 212 Duke Street at R H
exception to this procedure Stanleys office Senator Paul Stew-
wbicb the 8W proviJei i§ that the8rt Congressman elect and Damo
voter may U be has no certificate Dcmjoe-s will J8J be present
shew by his natb that be voted in
tha general election on
fohowiog the first Monday in
y ember 19t0 The)aw contem
plates that the voter shall present
his registration certificate et the
time be o'ers to vote and if be
has not registered shad make an
affidavit to tbe fact (bat be did
vote at tbe date above set It is
the duty of the election officials to
challenge those who seek (J vote
without a registration certificate
- 0' when challenged it is the duty
of the man seeking to vote to make
the affidavit reqjirtd by law
PotU in Huge and adjoining pre-
emets will open at 6 o’clock a m Executive Secretary of tbe Board-
nd close at 7 o’clock
ail other pods in ihe
open at 3 o’clock a m and close
at 6 o’clock p m-
Uncle Sam Needs Your Scrap!
What you &u4f With
WAR BONDS
The Navy is making a plea to
civilian to turn in their binoculars
for military use during the War The
Army and Navy both need binocu -
lars for navigation and scouting
purposes Depending on the power
of the lenses they £ost from $50
to $80 each
It you have a set of 6 x 30 up to
7 x 50-power lense binoculars load
them to the Army or Navy It not
your purchase of War Bonds and j
Stamps will help buy this equip-
ment tor our fighting forces At least
ten percent of your income in War
Bonds every payday will do the
job and provide the eyea’’
through which a scouting pilot may
spot an enemy battleship'
V S J miv) Otfertmemt
Josh Lee To Speak
At Hugo Sat
U S Senator Josh - Lee will
speak in Hugo Oklahoma un Duke
and Broadway October 31st at
8 30 P M After tbs speech from
430 to 330 all tne Democrats ar’
r fyo'd " S'"'
?) Ti
Must Turn
In Absent
Member’s Ration Book
It has been called to the atten-
tion of tbe local war price and
rationing board by Joseph M
Griffin State Rationing ufficer
that in a large number of cases
War Ratiou Books are Dot being
turned in to the Local Offices in
tne case of deaths end entrance
into (be Armed Forces
It is imperative hat these books
be turned in to local office imme-
diately according to Dean Walker
Funera! Held For
Earley Stone
Funeral services were held at
tbs Fort Towson Cemetery Thurs-
day afiercoon for Earle'y Frank
Stons age five years who died
Tuesday at tbe Crippled Childrens
Hospital in Oklahoma City Rev
1 De Graff ended of Oklahoma City
! officiated and was assisted by Rev
Assembly of God church
1
I
G M Billings local pstor of tne
ants Mr and Mre Bob Stone -OI8ee (bjs attraction as A e urtesy
tbia community three brothers I of tbe Fort Toweoo Sentinel and
Joe D of Honolulu Hawaii’ Dsn- Dwight Seymour manager of thg
tel and Bobby of Fort Towson and Erie Theatre
six sisters Mrs Lizzie Long uf
Briukmuo Mrs Mabel Beckett and
Misses Alice Edna Vivian ' aud
Rosie Lee Stone all of Fort Tow-
fr UvSWAIt BONDS
Coffee Rationing:
: To Be Started
November 28
t -- 1 " v
Washington— Coffee will be re-
‘j°ned 8artu l midD‘ht Nov
f8’ of one
five weeks for each person over IS
yeare old the Office of Price Ad-
ministration announced Monday
Ou tbe basis of 35 or 40 cups to
the pound tbe ration means slight
ly more than a cup a day per person
Retail sales will be halted ’ at -miduight
Nov 2 Price Admims-
irator Leon Henderson said for
week-long freeze during which
arocera wiH stock their shelves for '
the start of rationing
Tbe first rauoaed coffee will be
purchased ou the last stamp in b6
sugar ratiou book using stamps
No 28 to No 19 in sequence
Ihe War Production Board order-
ed OPA to tsko control of consum-
er distribution and assure an equal
supply for all Henderson said '
aud attributed the emergeocy ac-
tion mainly to "txcessive buying
by consumers" Repors of hoard-
ing over buying and runs on deal-
ers supplies have been reaching
Washington from many citiea for
three weeks
There is no reason for anyone
to run to the corner groesr put the
squeeze on bun and -iry'to force
mm to help a hoarder” Henderson
declared “Thae ir absolutely no
excuse for hoarding coffee at thia
time”
Eligibility aih be determined by
the age shewn oo War Ration Book
No 1— the sugar book it tbe age
shown when tbe boox was issued
jo May was 13 or older the holder
is entitled to coffee rations If 14 or
younger the book is oot valid for
coffee purchase Use of the book
lor sugar will continue as in the
pas t
‘Tales Of Man-
hattan” Erie Sun
With a big array of stars rha
“Tales of Manhattan” come t? the
screen at tbe Erie Theatre Hugo
Saturday night irevue Sunday
Monday gij luesdav Stars in-
clude Rita Havworth Charles Boy
er Thomas Mitchell Ginger Rog-
ers Herrjr Fonda and Charles
Laughton
If Mr and Mrs" W A Hall
We wish -to thaak each aid
everyone for their prayers ayrapa -thv
respect shown us in our grief
Also the help they gave us in plac :
mg our dear boy awayv We pray
God’s richest b'esaiogs oa all of
you You mothers and 'athers give
your hearts to God while you have
your baby still slive and don’t Wait
for God co take it away front you
iu orde: that it will draw you to
God like we did ' -' ' V
Ur and Mrs Bob Stone
and family
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Summers, Fay. The Ft. Towson Sentinel (Fort Towson, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, October 30, 1942, newspaper, October 30, 1942; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1934574/m1/1/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Journalism%22: accessed July 4, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.