Oklahoma Federationist (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, March 1, 1929 Page: 6 of 16
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manu fact uring concerns and other industries
N t ) GENERAL CITY TAX
That a municipally Owned public
utility can be made to pay handsome
profits has been fully demonstrated in
Ponca City For the seven-year period
ending e 30 1928 the municipal
electric plant here has cleared over
$750000 Ivith the citizens paying no
larger rates for "juice" than are paid
elsewhere in the State and in some
instances less
The result is that for the fifth year
in succession there has been no gen-
eral municipal tax here although the
city has provided many facilities
through expenditures far in zolvance
of the amount the law provides could
be raised by a general tax It is sim-
ply the result of putting the municipal
plant on a lousiness basis the same
plan as would be adopted for any in-
dustry or by any privately owned pub-
lic utility
That the citizens of Ponca City have
the utmost faith in the municipal
plant continuing to pay profits hand-
somely has been demonstrated through
them 'Vol in g in a special election $300-
000 with N hich a fleW plant was coin-
ple:ed in 1928 Under the law it is
necessary to vote the bonds putting
the city back of them but in reality
the bonds are toeing paid at the rate
of $50000 annually for a period of six
years out of the profits of the muni-
cipal plant mid N it bout a cent ad-
ditional taxation to the people This
will leave at least $100000 annually in
profits to be used by the city in car-
rying on other improvements
Gomm RAILWAY FACILITIES
The Ponca City Chamber of Com-
succeeded during the past year
ill making certain the building of a
Hock Island railroad extension into
this city a project completedduring
1927 thus connecting Ponca City with
the 10000 miles of Hock Island lines
Ponca City already has the main line
south of the great Santa Fe system
and also the Hutchinson & Southern
branch of the Santa Fe northwest to
Hutchinson Kans The obtaining of
the MA 'Island makes Ponca City a
splendid transportation point
Ponca City has inter-city lous lines
radiating north south east and west
covering 420 miles
OKLAHO3Lt
THE MARIANO GARDENS
Ernest W Mar land maintains his
permanent borne in Ponca City and
has established therewith what are
among the most attractive floral gar-
dens in America open to the public
Mr Marhnd has assembled here more
plant life native to America than is
true of any other place in the United
States Ile has completed also a 300-
acre bird refuge and game preserve
another at beauty spot and is
maintaining for the benefit Of the pub-
lie a golf course of the greatest beauty
Ile is arranging to erect a 60-foot-high
sLi tue to the pioneer w'omen of Okla-
homa Ponca City is the greatest center in
the entire U'est for equine sports in-
cluding polo and fox hunting primar-
ily The city has four separate polo
tournament teams four playing fields
and 0 men playing polo with a (lady
schedule of games This community
is becoming one of the greatest dis-
tricts in ik merica in raising polo
horses and hunters In this connec-
tion an annual state horse and hound
show is being held each spring in Pon-
ca City
In an athletic way Ponca City has
a l0-acre at field for baseball and
other athletic sports The grandstand
seats 1700 The field is equipped
with dressing rooms and showers
II(Te are held the annual rural school
at meets for Kay County under
the auspices of the Chamber of Com-
merce the most important meet for
rural schools in all Oklahoma
The Rock Cliff County Club was
recently established with a4 18-hole
di' course 35-acre lake and club
house on a tract of land amounting to
over 320 acres just northeast of the
city The city has a number of at-
tractive parks
In the local junior high school
building Ponca City has the largest
gymnasium floor in the State An ex-
tensive athletic field is being provided
in connection with the recent com-
pletion of a new high school structure
The Arkansas Salt Fork and Chi-
kaskia rivers afford unusual outing op-
portunities together with the Lake
Supreme grounds of the Wentz Oil
company the Rock Falls on the ChiT
kaskia the Chilocco Indian school
grounds and the 101 Hanel
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FEDERATIONIST
My bnpression of Ponca City
The readers will note by this issue
of The Federationist that the writer
has visited the good city of Ponca
City To say that this visit was a
pleasant one is presenting the matter
lightly for to spend a week with the
wide-awake and optimistic trade un-
ionists of that good town is looked
forward to each year
I arrived in Ponca on an early morn-
ing train and proceeded to the union
hall which is locted On the principal
business street The sign "Union La-
bor Hair is a pretentious one and
hangs over the street where hundreds
pass daily and impresses one with
the fact that a really aggressive la-
bor movement prevails At the hall
despite the early mornnig hour I
found O W Cook business represen-
tative of the carpenters union engaged
ill the affairs of that organization Af-
ter a brief visit with that prince of
good fellows in walked O B Yeo-
man president of the Central Labor
Union of Ponca City and also Fifth
Vice President of the Oklahoma State
Federation of Labor and the three of
us outlined the work for the produc-
tion of the Ponca City section of this
edition
Brother Yeaman volunteered to ac-
company and assist me in the work
so after preliminaries we began in-
terviewing the business men and worn
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HARSH & BUSH
Ponca City Okla
Phones 222 and 925
Groceries and
Queensware
Satisfaction guaranteed
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(By JACK Wool))
en and right here I want to say that
all credit for the success of our ef-
forts goes to that energetic consci-
entious worker for organized labor in
Ponca City O B Yeaman Ile is
well and favorably known by most
every merchant in the town and his
honesty and integrity are doubted by
none
In face of the fact that a clause in
the by-laws of the Ponca City Retail-
ers Association prohibits the adver-
tising committee of that splendid or-
ganization from endorsing our annual
solicitation Brother Yeaman and I
had a very pleasant visit with most
every business man and woman in the
city and without exception they re-
ceived us courteously and expressed a
friendship for and interest in the la-
bor unions Many members of the
Retailers Association in regard for
the by-law relative to advertising had
to forego placing their representations
in this issue of The Federationist but
were frank in the statement that they
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Shoe Repair Men
MARCH 1929
would be glad to give organized labor
a nice ad each year in its official pub-
lication All in all even though we did not
secure the representation from the
good merchants of Ponca City that the
members hoped we would Brother
Yeaman and I did much good for he
will truthfully report to the Central
Labor Union that the business men
and women of the city are willing to
co-operate with the trade unionists at
all times and that an exceptional feel-
ing of friendship exists and that if
at all possible by this time next year
The Federationist will receive the en-
dorsement from the Retailers of Ponca
RICKMAN SHOE SHOP
P M Rickman and J W Off ill
FOR BETTER SHOE
REPAIRING
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Phone 887 110 S Third St
Ponca City Okla
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Purdy, Victor S. Oklahoma Federationist (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, March 1, 1929, newspaper, March 1, 1929; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2091840/m1/6/: accessed August 15, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.