McCurtain Gazette (Idabel, Okla.), Vol. 54, No. 86, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 21, 1960 Page: 1 of 24
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THIS ISSUE is perhaps the big-
rest "Christmas Card" you will
receive this year24 pages of it
signed by scores of your friends
and neighbors
The issue has grown in the past
half century to something of a
tradition for Mc Curtain county
In addition to the regular ads of
the day— found in the first sec-
tion—you will find in the other
sections scores of ads designed
with but one purpose in mind:
Wishing you and yours a Merry
Christmds and a Happy New Year
complete with all the best wishes
and friendly good will that go with
the seasons greetings
Someday we may look through
the files to discover who started it
all with the first greeting ad more
than 50 years ago The idea of
sending greetings through the
hometown paper caught on and
has continued through five decades
and more
This issue is as big as any ever
published with two eight-page sec-
tions of greetings and good wishes
from your neighbors
Most of the reading of the issue
has been contributed by the future
leaders of our area:their all-important
"Letters to Santa" Occa-
sionally in looking back through
the old files we run across simi-
lar letters written years ago by
men and women who are now civ-
ic and business leaders in our
county
All who have had a hand in get-
ting out this issue—including those
who had the ads those who wrote
the "Santa Letters" those who
turned in the stories of the Christ-
mas parties and the other news
cf the day as well as the staff
cf the Gazette—all join in hoping
that you will have a joyous
happy and safe
MERRY CHRISTMAS
WE REGRET very much re-
ceiving the report that Interna-
tional Paper company will close
its woodyard here after the first
cf the year
The woodyard is worth more
than $250000 a year to the econ-
omy of this area and it has been
the source of income for 50 or
more county families
That will be a good problem for
the C of C to tackle at an early
date
IF YOU HAVE a good chicken
recipe you might forward it to
the Raymond Crowell family
The other day Ray's 11-monthold
bird dog got into the chicken
house and started breaking necks
and biting heads There were no
survivors and the Crowe Ils had a
real day of chicken cleaning 32 of
them
Now they can have chicken for
Christmas New Year's Easter
and other special occasions for
some time to come Mrs Crowell
said they will have fried chicken
stewed chicketi baked chicken
chicken salad chicken soup a n d
so on
She will welcome the recipes
Haworth Cogers
Set Rematch On
Thursday Night
The Haworth Lions and Lion-
ettes will battle the teams from
leen City Tex in a rematch
Thursday night in McClendon gym-
nasium of Haworth highschool
In Queen City last Friday night
the Lions overthrew the Queen
City quintet 52-40 while the Queen
City girls were taking the range
on the Lionettes 47-45 in a thrill a
minute play -
Pacing the Lions to victory was
Bruce Martin who bucketed 22
points assisted by Bill Holt with
12 points Ed Jones with nine
points and Jim Staley with six
points
This gives the Lions a season
record to date of six wins in seven
starts with their only loss a one
point squeaker to the red hot
Eagletown Eagles
Harriett Powers led the Lion-
ettes in their 4745 loss to the
Queen City sextet with 26 points
This was the Lii)nette's second
loss in seven starts
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PARISH NAMED
TO ALL-STATE
FOOTBALL TEAM
Parish Is First
Local All-Stater
Since Late '40s
Donnie Parish Idabel Warrior
fullback was announced Sunday
as one of the 50 top football play-
ers the state of Oklahoma and
a member of the All-State South
squad
Parish who has just completed
his second year of spectacular
football play for the Warriors is
the first Idabel player tapped for
All-State since Bob Faulkner re-
ceived an All-State rating in t h e
late 1940s
As an All-State player Parish
will appear in the annual North-
South game in Skelly stadium
Tulsa on August 10 during t he
annual meetiug of the Oklahoma
Coaches association
The five foot 11 inch 182 pound-
er switched to fullback from a
halfback slot in his senior year
was undoubtedly the top player in
the southeastern Oklahoma area
during the past season
During the regular season of
play in 1960 Parish averaged 58
yards per carry 03 144 carries
gaining 892 yards or 40 percent of
all ground gains earned by Idabel
Despite Idabel's playoff loss to
Seminole Parish emerged as a
hero belting out 114of Idabel's 193
yards rushing on 20 carries to
earn high plaudits from the Sem-
inole coaching staff
This gives Parish a grand total
for all games of the 1960 season ig
the offense department of a total
gain of 1046 yards on 164 carries
or an average of 63 yards per
carry
As a junior halfback in 1959
Parish- carried the ball a total of
104 times gaining 716 yards for an
average of 68 yards per carry
And actually Parish is a better
defensive player than he is a star
on offecisive play He played f o r
Idabel in the position of middle
linebacker (or close man) on a
seven diamond defense pattern
Parish is highly effective as a
diagnostician of plays and is able
to crash a line or cut a rurraer off
around end with equal ease
While truly accurate figures are
not available it is estimated that
Parish accounted for more than 50
percent of all of ' Idabel's defen-
sive tackles during the regular
season
And according to coach Wayne
Mantooth Ili several games he
made more than 65 percent of all
tackles made by Idabel Warriors
on defensive play
- BIRTH OF A SON
Mr and Mrs Joe Alvin Milam
Arkinda route 2 are parents of a
seven pound four ounce son born
Friday December le in McCur-
tain Memorial hospital He has
been named Chris Mvon Milam
merry
Insisfmas
frormall of us to all ofyou
International Paper company to-
'day announced the suspension of
I operatiuns at its Idabel Woodyard
R E Leslie operations super-intendent
for the Company's West-
ern Region explained that due to
the present economic conditions
the company found it necessary to
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leted Man Driving On
s is:One Highway Has
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re- Wreck On Another
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i In a freak accident about 10 a
I m Saturday a Broken Bow youth
had a wreck on SH 21 although he
I was driving on US 70 when t h e
'chain of events started Trooper
iBob Pogue reports
' Leon Henry Hill 16 Broken
I Bow was driving east on US 70
in a 1958 Chevrolet pickup about
Ili miles east of Idabel at the Y
when another vehicle attempted to
make a left turn in front of him
I In order to avoid a head-on col-
lision Hill cut his vehicle to the
right
As a result of his evasive actions
in avoiding the first collision Hill's
pickup skidded into the right front
of a 1955 Ford pickup being steer-
ed by David Lee Armer 17 Ha-
worth The latter pickup was be-
ing towed by a 1959 Ford pickup
Idriven by Mrs Eva Mae Armer
53 Haworth mother of David Lee
i Both were stopped on SH 21 at the
stop sign at the time of the acci-
dent i
1 The vehicle attempting the left
turn in front of Hill did not stop
Damage was about 8175 to t h e
Hill pickup and about 8175 to t h e
1
1 pickup being towed Mrs Armer's
I
pickup was not damaged
IHill was given a summons to
the county attorney for being on
the left side of the road in meet-
Services Held For
Mrs Fronk Allen
Funeral services for Mrs Frank
Allen 71 Broken Bow who died
Monday of last week at her home
were held at 2 pm Sunday at
Broken Bow Assembly of G o d
church with Rev Lawrence Lang-
ley officiating
Arrangements and burial in
Broken Bow cemetery were un-
der direction of Norwood-Welch
funeral home
- BIRTH OF A SON
Mr and Mrs Chess ler Alfred
Bearden Broken Bow are pa-
rents of a seven pound seven
ounce son born Sunday December
18 in McCurtain Memorial hospit-
al He has been named Randy Al-
fred Beardon '
MR AND MRS TROY ESTES
LaMARR SMITH JAMES WHALA
LEN GREEN PAIGE WILLIAMS WADE HIGHFILL
BOBBIE DOLLARIIIDE JO ANN CIIAPMAN
IRA J BANTA
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Most Thoroughly Read Newspaper In McCurtain County
IDABEL McCURTAIN COUNTY OKLAHOMA WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 21 1960
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International Paper To
Close Idabel Woodyard
concentrate its wood procurement
activities in those areas offering
more favorable freight rates than
the rates available at Idabel
It is anticipated that the Idabel
woodyard and the other wood-
yards scheduled to be closed will
cease operations after the first of
January
Leslie spoke very favorable of
the cooperation that the company
had received from the people of
Idabel and McCurtain county in
the purchase of wood and he
further noted that when the pre-
sent economic situation changes
that the woodyard would be re-
opened The personnel presently employ-
ed at the woodyard have been of-
fered positions in other parts of
the Western Region
Two Coalitions
In Rodeo Finals
I Two from Mc Curtain county are
in the contingent of 25 Oklaho-
I mans who will take part in t he
1960 National Finals Rodeo in
Dallas Tex December 26 through
'January 1
IThey are Tom Nesmith Bethel
calf roping entr y and Marvin
Holmes Pickens saddle br onci
riding entry
Monday December 26 will be al
full business holiday as Christ-
mas falls on Sunday this year
All county offices city offices I
and business houses will be closed
and federal offices and agencies
will observe the Monday holiday
The Postoffice will be closed
Mcoday with regular holiday mail
distribution being made according
to Tom F Bonner Idabel Post-
master -
Eery effort will be made to
' complete distribution of Christ-1
imas parcels on Christmas Eve he
I said Late arriving gift parcels will
be distributed in the city on
Christmas day if necessary
Cooperating i the business hol-
iday effort was the retail mer-
chant's association of the Idabel
IChamber of Commerce who con-
ducted a survey
'Traffic Arrests
Are Reported
The following traffic arr e st s
were r e p or t ed this week by
Troopers Bob Pogue and Hubert
Hibben:
David Lawrence Hochatown no
driver's license
1
I Dillard Earl Murray Idabel op-
erating a motor vehicle with de-
fective muffler
Arvie L Batchelor Br oke n
Bow speeding at night 75 miles
I per hour
Paul Murl Jones Broken Bow
Irunning stop sign
ITravis Dean Minyard Oklaho-
ma City running stop sign
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MRS STRUTTON
Mrs John Strutton Bristow for-
merly of Idabel died there Sun-
day morning following an extend-
ed illness
She formerly resided here f ive
years while her husband was pas-
tor of the First Baptist church
They left in 1954 when Rev Strut-
ton resigned in order to become
administrator of tlaenew hospital
at Bristow the position he now
holds
Funeral services were held at 3
pm Tuesday at the First Baptist
church of Granite
She is survived by her husband
and four daughters
Shooting Scene Is
Not Ode's Place
Charges Filed
Charges of discharging firearms
in a public place were filed this
week against Hubert Lee Taylor
34 Broken Bow in connection
with the shooting of Haskell Milli-
gan 30 Golden County Attorney
Lewis T Martin said this morn-
ing Milligan was critically PIjured
when struck by a 22 slug Thurs-
day evening
The shooting was erroneously re-
ported to have been at Ode's
place However the information
lists the scene of the shooting as
"a beer tavern operated by O D
Monday" located about 8 miles
west of Broken Bow on SI! 7
Officers said the 'lame of t h e
place is Oil Center
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WILTING HANDS freed Lonnie Mayer from under his car and helped rush him to the Norwood-
Welch ambulance which sped to the scene but he was dead on arrival at the hospital Shown here
are the men who helped get him back to the road and the ambulance -
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THIS WRECKAGE is the car that Lonnie Mayer was driving when he was apparently stricken
with a heart attack just west of Garvin The car was a total loss
MONDAY TO BE Is ILLNESS LONNIE -MAYER
FULL 110LIDAY It4:::1-S-11litTgoN I 1 IES FRIDAY
Wreck And Death
Believed Caused
By Heart Attack '
I Lonnie F Mayer 63 Idabel
was dead on arrival at McCurtaia
Memorial hos pit a 1 following a
Iwreck at 4:45 pm Friday 2 miles
west of Garvin on US 70 Trooper
Bob Pogue reports
I Both Deputy Dick Johnson an
eyewitness and Trooper Pogue-
' are of the opinion that death was
due to natural causes and that the
I wreck was caused by Mayer suf-
1 fering a heart attack
i Johnson was driving west a n d
meeting Mayer when he saw the
latter drop off the slab on t h e
right Mayer's car then cut back
across the road and forced John-
son to leave the road then cut
back to the right again and went
loff the road
The 1948 Chevrolet coupe went
!120 feet off the road and overturn
ed 112 times coming to rest on its
i top with Mayer's legs beneath the
top of the car
IJohnson and other men at the
iscene pulled Mayer from under
1 the vehicle Johnson said he did
not believe Mayer was injured
badly enough by the wreck to
cause death
1 "He was not driving fast" John-
' son said "Something was wrong
with him He appeared to be driv-
ing with difficulty and he appear-
ed to be cramped up over t h e
!steering wheel"
Mayer's family doctor told t h e
I trooper that Mayer had had a
number of heart attacks previous-
ly Fellow workers said Mayer
had complained of feeling bad
earlier in the day
Lonnie F Mayer was born Oct-
ober 12 1897 at Bryarly TeK Ile
had resided at Idabel 35 years
moving from Garvin He was a
dry cleaner and a member of the
1Presbyterian church
Ile is survived by his widow
one daughter Mrs Carol Cleveng-
I er Idabel: one brother Charley
Mayer Valliant: one sister Mrs
Sam Holman Pauls Valley a n d
two grandchildren
Funeral services were held at
2:30 pm Sunday at Norwood-
Welch chapel with Rev Frank Al-
verson and Rev W R Merry of-
ficiating Arrangements and burial in
Denison cemetery were under di-
rection of Norwood-Welch funeral
home
Bearers were Maurice Street
Carl Clark Cecil Stribling Clem -
Williams Roy Holman all of Ida-
' bet Johnny Ray Farris Valliant
and Paul Anderson and Wilbur La-
Gasse both of Broken Bow
BIRTH OF A SON
Mr and Mrs Halton B Sullivan
Idabel are parents of a seven
pound four ounce son born Sat-
urday December 17 in McCurtain
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