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OKLAHOMA CITY TIMES SATURDAY, DEC27, m» 5
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burns me up, and I resent it. I
Mrs. J. E. West.....“It just seemed homier
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smaller community, you can get
I
just hate to leave this house and
Mrs. Ruland agreed, "Out here
and get something done right my neighbors."
they (the town board) watch ex-
for the good of the whole com-
Amid the comfortable holiday
estate woman.
clutter, Mrs. Elliott sat down to
explain she and her accountant
OVER COFFEE, before she
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Schools (Nichols Hills, John
for the outside-the-city factor,
enters my mind that we
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and soft-hearted sympathy to
ance in Milton and Shakespeare
search grants, including a Gug-
Academic circles know him as
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New OU Research Under Way
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SUNDAY SERVICES
Morning
Worshi
Bible Study
7:44
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earned.
cease-fire because of the holiday.
When the figures differ, the tax-
an even day.
gotiate on an acceptable figure.
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Oregon Beats State Pay
Colorful OU Prof Going
Church School 9:30 A.M.
7:00 P.M. Youth Meeting
AROUND THE CORNER at
6610 Trenton road, Mrs. J. C. El-
liott called cheerfully, "Just sit
down a minute; I’m putting my
grandbaby to bed.” An older
WHEN DEE DEE, 13, Ricky,'
9, and Kenneth, 4, outgrew the
earlier home, "we hunted a
three-bedroom house we could
afford," they explained. Their 17-
year-old choice was "more like
the homes we were brought up
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*:45/a.m.
"If you have a problem, you can
take it up with the town ball
SEVERAL HOUSEHOLDERS
said they frankly haven't thought
about disadvantages or advant-
ages of joining Oklahoma City,
if the question ever came up.
Mrs. Eckles has, however.
’ -"No I wouldn’t want it. In a
W. H. Altxander
Ministtr
story home at 1110 Tedford way
from The Village 5% years ago.
We found Dick, co-director of
the Oklahoma City Blood bank,
half-hidden in his fireplace doing
a caulking job, while his auburn-
haired wife tried to make him
finish recuperating from pneu-
monia.
King) drew favorable mention all
along the line.
BETHANY
CAPITOL HILL
CENTRAL AVENUE
MAYFAIR
HILLCREST
DEL CITY
MIDWEST CITY
PUTNAM CITY
SOUTHEAST
SOUTHWEST
SOUTHWEST 36th
SOUTH WOODWARD
VILLAGE
IOTH & FRANCIS
I2TH A DREXEL
25TH A GERALDINE
' and professional societies, as well
. as a fellow of the 104-year-old
Royal Society of Arts whose
n membership roster dates back to
■j Samuel Johnson and James Bos-
H well.
Milton."
Svendsen is a prominent mem-
ber of several American learned
Tax Collecting
Guessing Game
ROME ( — The Rome tax
collector and the city’s biggest
money earners were embroiled
Saturday in their annual guessing
game.
The tax office pulished the re-
ports of taxable income for 1957
submitted by leading taxpayers.
a
ia
of Oklahome City
Invite You To Attend Their Services
CONGREGATION ADDRESS EVANGELIST
in Creston Hills. "It just seemed
to be my house," she said.
THE WESTS had told the agent
to look in Nichols Hills "be-
cause it seemed homier: we liked
the secluded, country look with
the advantages of being in a
city."
They like living 10 minutes
away from Wests’ downtown in-
surance office, and have the feel-
ing that town service! are "very
well organized.” >
Stover E. Smith, 1114 Tedford
way, settled back in his favo-
rite armchair, near the Christ-
mas tree his five grandchildren
had decorated, and said mildly:
“Jeeminy Christmas! This idea
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NORMAN—Dr. Kester Svend- t
sen, international Milton authority I
who holds top University of Okla- |
homa faculty rank after 18 years’ t
service here, is the latest Sooner J
scholar lost to a higher-paying |
state.
The University of Oregon, Eu- |
10:30 A.M.
Rev. W. H. Alexander
Preaching
China Resumes
Shelling of Isle
TAIPEI, Formosa U—The Chi-
nese communists resumed shell-
145a.m.
9:45a.m.
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standardization."
Down the way, at 1106 Tedford
Way, Mrs. Frank C. Ruland said,
"Come in—we’re redecorating."
Remodeling is creating happy
confusion at the house which
prompted their move to Nichols
Hills 4% years ago after more
than 10 years in Warr Acres.
BUSTLING AROUND to open
doors for men coming in with
new carpet and keeping the pit
bull, Dusty, out of their way, Mrs.
Stover E. Smith .... “This talk about evading
taxes burns me up and I resent it; I’m carrying my
share.”
‘45a.m.
9345 .m.
9345a.m.
7:41 o.m.
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uncle during his four years (1943-
47) as master of Franklin fresh-
man dormitory. Others chuckled
at Svendsen’s Shakespearean lec-
tures, polished for drawing room
entertainment and presented as a
World war II benefit fund-raising
project.
OWNER OF CAPITOL Towel
Supply Co., and of a house in
northwest Oklahoma City, Smith
said he and his wife bought the
house when his son, Stover jr.,
came home from the navy and
needed the one in the city.
"A friend out here noticed this
one was for sale. I didn't even
consider about it being in Nich-
ols Hills. I sure don't think of
Mses,
Nichols Hills school is real
good.”
This way important because of
Annette, now 11. Mrs. Elliott
was an Oklahoma Cityan, and
her husband grew up in Snyder.
After many years of living inside
the city, they considered they
moved, north, but not "outside.”
"WE'VE NEVER had any rea-
son to think of it that way,” she
mused.
question. Smith feels "there
should be some way to work out
a fair system for the little com-
munities to contribute something
to help carry the load (on urban
services used by all)."
But annexation? No, "I think
all these suburbs are an asset
to the city. With various smaller
areas built up, people coming in
can choose their own type of
community.
"EACH OF THE suburbs has
something different to offer. I
centive interact as determinants
of performance is unknown."
The OU investigation, she said,
is designed to study the validity
of the two most plausible hypoth-
eses—that drive and incentive
combine in an additive or in a
multiplicative manner.
NSF, through the OU Research
ects to be supported by the so-
cial science division of the Na-
tional Science foundation is un-
der way at the University of
Oklahoma.
Dr. Irene Hulicka, OU assist-
ant professor of psychology, is
conducting the study in the psy-
chology of learning. "It has lobg
been known," Dr. Hulicka said,
"that both drive and incentive,
M seven-volume Yale University
7 press “Complete Prose Works of
Busy preparing for luncheon
guests, and worrying a bit about
17-year-old Jim who is a brand
new marine, Mrs. Bates paused
to consider what she would miss
if forced to leave the commu-
nity:
"I don't think it's a bit nicer
here than anywhere else where
you have made friends. I would
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10:45a.m.
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islands early Saturday after
more than 35 hours of silence.
According to the Reds' time-
table the Quemoys are shelled
on odd-numbered days only. But
His professional chores this win-
ter have included preparing a
paper, "Satan and Science," for
presentation at the Modern Lan-
guage association's annual meet-
ing this weekend in New York.
Easter Trip Planned
As many students who rang his
doorbell learned over the years,
Svendsen has varied outside in-
terests, from golf to cabinet-
making. On the side, he plays
chess by mail with other leaders
in the U. S. Chess federation and
corresponds for the international
"Chess Review.”
Graduate students throughout
the state also remember Svend-
sen's wife, Margaret, who was a
longtime worker in the OU gradu-
ate college office. Their daughter,
Jenifer, 15, attends Casady school
in Oklahoma City.
Svendsen will go to Eugene
during the Easter holidays to be-
Institute, is providing $2,100 to
support the one-year project.
Working with Dr. Hulicka are
OU graduate students Kendall
Davis of Tulsa and Lee Bailey
of Yukon.
"An extremely simple learning
situation has been selected for
initial study,” Dr. Hulicka said.
A testing box contains two re-
tractable bars, one of which will
offer a large reward of food,
and another which offers a small
reward.
Sixty rats will be used in the
experiment. Their responses in
free responding trials will supply
a measure of the effect al incen-
tive, or striving for'the larger
reward.
ing periods of time before the
tests. Some will be deprived of
food for three hours, another
group for 13 hours, and a third
group for 24 hours.
. Later investigations will in-
volve other drives and other in-
centives, Dr. Hulicka indicated,
as well as variations in habit
an expert on the English literary
giant, John Milton, and the ren-
aissance. Svendsen has written
Mrs. J. C. Elliott......“We’ve never
any reason to think of ourselves as living qu
of Oklahoma Cit"
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munity. There's not a bit of poli-
tics in the spending."
Ruland cited police service as
an example of the "different at-
titude in government. Out hire,
we feel’their attitude is entirely
protective, where in a big city
the police must be more aggres-
sive and corrective."
THE RULANDS fear the close-
to-home government would be
swallowed up in ahnexation.
"You'd lose everything,” he said.
He doesn’t feel a suburban con-
tribution is needed. “We already
contribute our share. We get what
we want—a residential town—and
the city gets what it needs, which
is all our business,” he said.
eon, she said she just naturally
likes "the beautiful territory. It's
so much quieter out here; you
feel like you're away from the
hustle-bustle."
Her businesswoman’s-eye view
of the taxes: "For value re-
ceived, they’re no higher out
here.”
Dr. and Mrs. L. F. Bates, at
1115 Park Manor, were two more
who "didn't come to Nichols
Hills to live, especially—we came
because we wanted this house.”
AFTER FOUR YEARS of mull-
w
The J. E. West home, 1108
Tedford way, was terribly quiet
Turned out son Bill was study-
ing hard for Casady mid-term
exams.
He vanished for a Coke break
while Mrs. West told us the fam-
e0 ,
ors, Protection
Kester Svendsen
In later years, Svendsen has
had a wider audience, in exten-
sion courses, on Norman's station
WNAD and on KETA-TV educa-
tional telecasts. Sunday Oklaho-
man book page readers have
noted more than 1,000 of his con-
temporary literary reviews.
Svendsen came to OU in 1940
as an assistant professor of Eng-
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A ‘Tough’ Teacher
The 46-year-old South Carolini-
an has bumped the ceiling in
OU's teaching budget, it was
pointed out. Svendsen last year
was accorded a David Ross Boyd
professorship, granted only for
longrange excellence in teaching,
counseling and guidance.
Four college generations, most-
ly unaware of Svendsen's tower-
ing academic stature, remember
him more as a tough teacher who
uses equal parts of astringent wit
Evaning
WoriMp
You’rt Wiltomt At
First
Christian
36th & N. Walker
Church
of
Tomorrow
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FINST CHURCH.
NICHOLS HILLS
1203 Sherwood Lane
Sunday School—1:11 A.M.
Servlet—II A.M.
hag
don’t see why the chamber of
commerce can’t use the status
quo as a sales talking point."
Mrs. Smith put in, "After all,
no two families are from exactly
the-same background or looking
pay more taxes in Oklahoma Mrs. J. E. West.....“It just seemed homier
City than I do out here, and I out here.” (Times staff photos by Dick Peterson and
feel like I’m carrying my share," Bob Albright).
he said.
a
away. On a' larger scale, you’re
not going to get as much per-
sonal attention."
Mrs. Hazel Scott, 1117 Park
Manor, turned out to be a Roger
Mills county girl who moved to
Nichols Hills in 1952, bought her
present home two years ago after
a divorce and is now a busy real
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CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE
Ltuon Strmon
Sundav, Dec. nth
Subjtct:
Christian Science
FIRST CHURCH, USS N. Roh.
Services 11:00 A.M. 6 l:N P.M.
Keading Room 447 N.W. »
Houri 7 to 7
Mrs. Vernon Eckles......“If you have a prob-
lem, you can take it to town hall and get something
done right away.”
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explanations of why they like the
status quo.'
With vivid memories of buck-
ing the Pendergast machine as
a college youth in Kansas City,
Ruland frankly distrusts central-
ization. "Out here your vote
means more," he said.
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FIRST CHURCH, MIOWIST CITY
HUS. Midweitllvd.
orvice 11 a.m.
Midweit City
c. ovenuocna ____ _____gin mapping next year’s pro-
than 75 scholarly journal gram. His teaching hours at Ore- 8
' ' gon will be trimmed to his fa- l
vorite fields of Milton and the I
With two sons to carry on, I
Smith is in semi-retirement and I
values a friendly place to spend I
his leisure.
"SECOND OR third week after I
we moved here, the neighbors 1.
had a big backyard party, and |
they all gathered around and F
said, ‘Now, don't call me Mis- i
ter,'” he mused.
Smith might have been speak- I
ing for all his neighbors when I
he ticked off the things he likes I
(closer protection, fast action at I
town hall, convenient routes I
downtown, privacy, scenery and I
friends) and added comfortably: 5
"We've decided to stay here 2
the rest of our lives."
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ads as a .Sunday Marshal, Casady and ‘Christ
pastime, the dentist and his wife —.........
found the right home in 1950. As
articles and authored a book,
"Milton and Science," published .
in 1956 by the Harvard University renaissance period.
One of the first research proj- when manipulated independently.
‘ ' affect performance. However, the
manner in which drive and in-
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fillo) was already college age |
so the location wouldn’t involve I
hauling." And Birdseye whips I
home for lunch almost daily from I
his downtown job with Southwest I
Adjustment Co.
Down the, block at 1111 Park I
Manor, Mrs. Vernon C. Eckles I
explained she and her husband I
moved out 10 years ago because I
"we just thought it was the pret- I
tiest part of Oklahoma City."
THE VETERAN cafe manager, I
who now owns his own restau- I
rant, and his wife like the sub- I
urban quiet and cordial neigh- 1
bors after many years of apart- i
ment life. "You just couldn't ask I
for better neighbors," she de- I
dared.
"And out here, I'm never wor- I
ried about staying alone, and I I
am by myself much of the time. I
There aren't any solicitors and I
they don't allow any parked cars I
on the streets after midnight." .
. Police protection, especially I
the close street patrol and daily E
checks of vacationing residents’
homs, rated mention at nearly |
every home visited. However, "
several people added, "but we’ve
had some burglaries lately . .|
It also published its own esti-; after firing 4g rounds Christmas
mates of how much they really!
A Oirl.H.n Science program
broadeest everv Sundav
7:11 a.m-kTOK
KOCO-TV 12:45 P.M.
Ch. $ Enid
in than the ranch style ones."
rushed off to a civic dub lunch- husband moved there seven
years ago. Several friends lived
in the area, "and we knew the
SecMeji Suburb Attract City Dwellers?
Nichols Hills Clan Likes Neighb
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By MARY GODDARD
If it’s possible to live in two
piaces at once-and love both-
Michols Hills folks have turned
the trick.
That conclusion comes from a
day's visit with the friendly fam-
ilies of one sample block in the
secluded suburb bounded entire-
ly on the west and east and part-
ly on the north and south by
Oklahoma City.
Amid current pro-and-con talk
of suburban satellites' depend-
ence upon Oklahoma City, The
Times sent a visitor to meet the
people behind the problem. We
sought the human "X" factor
that never shows on the tax rate,
water supply and street repair
charts.
THE VISITOR came away
loaded with coffee and informa-
tion about who lives there, how
they came to settle across the
boundary line, why they like
their town—and why they want
to keep it just like it is.
Strictly at random, doorbells
were rung in the 1100 block just
off Western, along Park Manor
and across the back fences on
Tedford Way, plus Trenton road
bounding the block on the east.
First of all, you find these
folks don’t think about a bounda-
ry line. Most have roots in Okla-
homa City; they all make and
spend their money in the city,
and none moved out to "get
away” from urban life.
MRS. GEORGE Birdseye. 1105
Park Manor, echoed the reason
cited most frequently: "We just
found a bouse we fell in love
studies. -----..
Many turned to him aa a Dutch genheim fellowship.
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penses. They don't spend except myself as living over a boundary
for the good of the whole com- line."
gene, Ore., Saturday announced
Svendsen’s selection as English t
department head, beginning with t
the 1959 summer session. His OU g
resignation becomes effective &
May 31.
Svendsen's Oregon salary was
not announced, but friends here
understood the figure is about |
$3,500 above his present nine- .
month income. A wide-open op- g
tion on summer teaching, any m
time, at extra pay, was also of- l
fered.
auu ___, - lish, with ■ new doctorate from
draw out students' best perform- the University of North Carolina.
He has since rated numerous re-
ior exacuy uro name nluu • -----"— .------------.
neighborhood. We just don't like Uy moved there four years ago.
....... after 10 years in Britton and 10
just in time for some emphatic people bring up about moving out
............here to get away from taxes
grandson sald helptfully, "Mama aThervhidonuburnan SK
go shop.
when the ngures outer, me tax-----~ - strengths and a study of the
payers and the tax office will ne- Red guns remained silent Friday, range over which the results ob-
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are not part ot okiahoma City." they
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Drive will be introduced by de-
Ing the nationalist-held Quemoy priving the rats of food for vary-
"OUR INTERESTS are the
same in a residential area with-
Mrs. Dick Smith with Kenneth, 4....... out businesses - namely our
e guu, y. . g. "Every suburb has something special of its own to homes—where in a city you have
together better," she said firmly. Offer . . " so manyr cross-current interests
-- -- among the people in govern-
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Servic 11 a.m.
Reading Reom, 1711 N.W. 3%
Mon. ifr Fi. 7 to 4
nm. 7.M. 7 t 7
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Survlcut— 7:10 and 11 A.M.
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Houri 7 to 7
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Service II IM.
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' Sunday-3tos
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Wednesday Evening Meetings
at 1 pm. inelude tesimonles of
OsMba sclence hiealinu.
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lend these services and to one ,
Die Readies Room.
CMtottol Science Readins Room
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Dabs 1 to t Sunday 1-4 p.m.
morning, they announced a
Ruland explained, “We had
looked every place, and when I
stepped inside this front door,
I felt at home."
Ruland, a traveling factory
representative for Columbia Rib-
bon Carbon Co., arrived then,
with." <
Leading the way back to the
den, where the ironing board
stood next to a flickering fire-
place, the attractive matron with
short-cropped black hair ex-.
plained, ."We had just never
found a house before that exactly
suited us."
They found it five years ago
and pulled up stakes from Okla-
homa City, where Birdseye was
born and his wife attended Cen-
tral highschool as Vivian Hoyt.
Now they wouldn’t change for
the world.
"WE'D JUST LIKE to keep it
the way it is, small and neigh-
borly-! think everybody likes
his own little town," Mrs. Birds-
eye smiled. "And we love the
beauty of the place."
Distance is no problem, she
testified. "Our daughter (now
Mrs. Stanley Alexander, Ama-
w'oa
mmwrmmewpeen press as the first basic reference
m h ’ work available on the extent to
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