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ARDMORE OKLAHOMA THURSDAY JANUARY 9 1958
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Report Given
On Missiles
More Funds Are Needed
For Production Work
AF Official Testifies
WASHINGTON (A') — Senators
reported today they got an opti-
mistic report on development of
intermediate and intercontinental
missiles from the Air Force's bal-
listic missiles director
But Sen Johnson (D-Texas)
quoted the officer Maj Gen Ber-
nard A Schriever as saying funds
for actual production had been
held up on schedules that can and
should be accelerated
Schriever testified behind closed
doors before the Senate Prepared
'less subcommittee which is look-
ing into the nation's missile and
earth satellite programs
Johns° n the subcommittee
chairman said his reaction to tes-
timony of top Army and Air Force
missile experts is that production
must be stepped up
Sen Saltonstall (R-Mass) said
Schriever had given "encouraging
testimony as to the development
of our IRBM (intermediate) and
ICBM (intercontinental) P r o-
grams" Sen Stennis (D-Miss) said in a
separate interview he was en-
couraged "on the development of
Thor' Thor is a 1500-mile inter-
mediate - range missile being
unshed by the Air Force
Two of Schriever's superiors
testified yesterday more money is
needed for the ICBM program
Johnson said testimony by Gen
Thomas D White Air Force chief
of staff opens up an important
field for inquiry
"In his view" Johnson added
"we are not -doing everything we
can and we are not planning to
do everything we can" to develop
the ICBM
Johnson told newsmen that
White said "hundreds of millions
of dollars" had been cut from the
funds the Air Force needed for
Its programs of missiles and
manned bombers
The senator said White and
Gen Curtis E LeMay deputy
chief of staff testified they had
not obtained enough funds to step
up projects for intercontinental
ballistic missiles "as much as
they can be and should be"
"We are presently not getting
enough manned bombers fast
enough for this transition period"
before missiles become available
Johnson quoted White
The senator said White told of
some increases in the Atlas ICBM
project but "testified that the Ti-
tan prrt—t had not been speeded
up at all'
U S Lottery Chances
Better Says Solon
WASHINGTON IA — Congress'
No I advocate of a government-
run lottery said today prospects
never were brighter
Not that I am so naive I think
my lottery bill will pass right
away" added Rep Paul H Finn
"But things are moving our way"
Finn a well-groomed Republi-
can from a prosperous middle-
class New York City district said
the government can have a yearly
income boost of at least 10 billion
dollars without new taxes any
time Congress authorizes a lot
tery He said two things encour-
age him to think the time may be
coming:
I The drive to pour more funds
into military and scientific efforts
to counter Soviet gains "Maybe
you can balance a 74-billion-dollar
budget on paper" he remarked
Three Tests
Are Staked
Three new locations have been
- scheduled in Carter County along
with several sites in area coun-
ties Several completions were re-
ported also
0 Kirkpatrick Oil Co has spotted
The site for its No 3 Sinclair in
SE NW SE of 33-4s-3w in the
Joiner City field in Carter County
for a 7500-foot venture
In the Brock area of the county
Ovie Holmes will go to 1400 feet
at the No 2 Postoak in NW SE
SE of 34-5s-le and to 1150 feet
at the No 2 McCharen in NW NW
SE of 34
The Paso lex Petroleum Co has
staked another location in the Siv-
ells Bend region of Love County
It is the No 2 Kunkel in SE SE
NE of 10-8s-lw for a 6850-foot
effort In Garvin County Tom
Jack et al's No 4 Freeman Heirs
in NE SE SW SW of 24-in-lw is
to be a 2000-foot test in the
Hoover sector Cities Service has
started Its No I Hamilton-Fallon
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AMONG THE SEVERAL HUNDRED women attending the opening March of Dimes
coffee Thursday morning in the Dunlap home 813 McLish were Mrs Loyd Long Jr
left Mrs Wayne Lawler center and Mrs Edna Williamson Guests registered with Mrs
Williamson for the orchid which was given away at the close of the coffee (Staff Photo)
RIGHT-OF-WAY AVAILABLE
Tipps Says US 70
Will Be Approved
Senator Torn T Tipps today re-
plied to the challenge issued by
Carter County Commissioners on
the widening and resurfacing of
US Highway 70 east of Ardmore
Tipps said "US 70 east is pro-
grammed and will be widened
and resurfaced as planned"
In a written statement Tipps
pointed out that he could not ap-
pear at a special meeting with
Highway Commissioner J
Gains State Highway Depart-
ment engineers and county com-
missioners Wednesday because of
an investigating committee meet-
ing on government matters effect-
ing many people from Carter
County which was held in Okla
but when they really start spend
ing
2 A swing in public sentiment
he said is evidenced by such
things as New Yorkers' referen
dum vote last November to legal
ize bingo
As he has at regular intervals
since he came to Congress in 1953
Fin() took the floor to advise his
colleagues they can't afford to
neglect such a bonanza as a "well
regulated all-government-run lot-
tery" Fino's bill would set up a fed
eral commission to make the
rules and administer the lottery
"Tickets would be printed by
the Bureau of Engraving—the bu-
reau that prints the money" he
said "They wouldn't be sold by
street vendors but at post offices
just like stamps"
Court Slows Effort
To Register Reds
WASHINGTON (ifl — The US
Court of Appeals today directed
the government to conduct further
proceedings in its seven-year ef-
fort to require the Communist
party to register as a tool of
Moscow
The court said the Subversive
Activities Control Board if it is
to rely upon the testimony of one
Mrs Mary Stalcup Markward
must make available to the Com-
munist party certain reports she
made to the FBI
This apparently left the board
with the alternative of eliminating
Mrs Markward's testimony and
writing another report or con-
ducting further hearings
The registration proceeding
against the party was initiated in
November 1950 after passage over
the veto of former President Tru-
man of the Subversives Activities
homa City
At the special meeting held
here the coun- commissioners
rejected plans calling for a widen-
ing and resurfacing project be-
ginning at the Johnston County
line and ending six and a half
miles east of Ardmore on US 70
The county commissioners said
a bond issue for road construction
did not include US 70 east Com-
missioner Lonnie Rooney said
since Sen Tipps had stated right-of-way
would be granted free
for the project there was no need
for the county to participate in
the project
Today Tipps issued the follow-
ing written statement:
"US Highway 70 east has been
programmed and I have the ut-
most confidence in the people
along Highway 70 east because
they have assured me both orally
and by a signed petition of all
property owners that they would
without charge to the state furn-
ish right-of-way for this project
"The easements have all been
drawn up and within the next 10
days the people concerned will
be contacted and these easements
can be gotten without any cost to
the state
"The state has agreed to make
an appraisal within the next three
weeks and any property which
has to be moved or fences re-
placed the state will pay the com-
plete cost of this
"In my opinion this is a fight
for the very survival of highway
70 east being retained at its
present route The widening and
resurfacing of this road is not a
diversion of any traffic route buz
merely an improvement for orr
highway system This road wtrn
let will be contracted in two sep-
arate contracts and will be built
See HIGHWAY 70 Page 2A
Control Act
This is the second time the ease
has reached the Court of Appeals
It got all the way to the Su-
preme Court once but the high
court sent It back for further pro-
ceedings without reaching the
question of constitutionality of the
law The Supreme Court told the
board to either eliminate the tes-
timony of three witnesses — Paul
Crouch Harvey Matu sow and
Manning Johnson — or to give
party lawyers another chance to
test their credibility
The board eliminated the testi-
mony of the three witnesses and
got out a new report again hold-
ing that the US Communist party
Is substantially dominated and
controlled by Moscow
In view of the appellate court's
action today the case more than
likely will reach the Supreme
Court again
go
OOPS PARDON
OUR WRECKER
MILWAUKEE (IP)—Wreck-
ing crews sent to demolish a
filling station to make way
for an expressway made one
big error—they began to rip
apart the wrong station
But the workers realized
their mistake soon after they
strrted to work on the closed
station which was across the
street from the doomed build-
ing They hurriedly replaced
such things as doors and ra-
diators SUBSTITUTES HIRED
Board Re-Elects
School Officials
All city school administartive
personnel was re-elected at a din-
ner meeting of the Ardmore
Board of Education 10 r!7ht in
the junior-senior cafeteria
Retained for the coming year
were George D Hann superintend
ent J W Bruce assistant super-
intendent Winifred D Brown at-
tendance supervisor Irene P
Mc Goodwin coordinator of instruc
Bitter Cold
Stings East
Chills Florida
By The Associated Press
Bitter cold stung the East Coast
today on the heels of one of the
region's worst snowstorms in
years The freeze struck a fresh
blow at previously damaged Flor-
ida crops
The mercury slid below zero in
parts of snow-covered New Eng-
land and western Pennsylvania
Early morning temperatures
sank into the dangerous 20s in the
crop-gre Ying areas of the north-
ern half of Florida The plunging
temperatures came after snow fell
over much of the state including
the citrus-producing areas
Nearly half Florida's potential
orange crop was wiped out by a
freeze in December
A hard freeze also was forecast
for most of the Gulf states
The center of a storm that
dumped up to 1912 inches of snow
In parts of the northeastern United
States moved into eastern Canada
losing much of its punch
The storm was blamed for 33
deaths Most of the victims died
in auto accidents or from heart
seizures while shoveling snow
Henryetta Calls Vote
On Water Bond Issue
HENRYETTA Henryet-
ta City Council has voted to call a
$300000 water bond issue election
at the earliest possible date
(1Strengitn4
Gen Gavin's
Retirement
Is Approved
WASHINGTON — Lt Gen
James M Gavin's request for re-
tirement has been approved by
Secretary of the Army Brucker
after a final effort to keep the
critic of defense policies in uni-
form "I have done my best to per-
suade him to stay" Brucker said
in announcing that he had "re-
luctantly" approved Gavin's ap-
plication to retire March 31 after
completing 30 years of Army serv-
ice Gavin chief of Army research
and development earlier in the
day had told the Senate Prepared-
ness subcommittee his decision to
retire was final Brucker said he
made one more try at getting Gav-
in to change his mind even after
the general had taken this posi-
tion Spurning Pentagon offers of pro-
motion to full general within 14
months and a choice of two as-
signments until then Gavin told
senators "I can do better for the
Army outside than in"
"He spoke of the Army's posi-
tion as deteriorating rapidly
He complained that Army
strength and budget allocations
have been whittled down over the
past four years while Russian
strength has been growing He
contends the Army needs thou-
sands of plane s missiles and
much more freedom in planning
Talking with newsmen after his
appearance before the Senate sub-
committee Gavin said "there is
not one red penny" for the Army
in President Eisenhower's emer-
gency request for $1260000000 in
additional defense funds for this
fiscal year ending June 30
The general added that "I have
been begging for money—money
for the antimissile money for a
space program"
A number of Congress members
have expressed concern over Gav-
in's plan to retire saying offi-
cers of his caliber are needed bad-
ly now
Gavin gave no clear idea of
what he hoped to accomplish for
the Army when he becomes
a civilian or how he plans to go
about it He told newsmen he had
no particular plans for the future
Maj Gen Harry Storke chief
of Army information said Gavin's
letter of resignation gave no rea-
son for retirement beyond noting
that Gavin 50 will have com-
pleted 30 years of service March
31
Um Frances Essary secretary to
the superintendent: Elizabeth Min-
zes business office secretary and
Charles A B'aker plant supervisor
and custodian
The board will consider all prin-
cipals at its next meeting and at
the following meeting will elect all
teachers upon recommendation of
the principals Time of the next
regularly adjourned meeting of the
board was announced for Wed-
nesday night Feb 12
Attention was called to the
school board election filings to
start Feb 19 Sam Noble is con-
cluding his term EIS board member
and will be eligible for re-election
it was said
Substitute teachers list was
changed by the resienation of Mrs
Donna Hosse and Mrs Jean Fritz
whose husbands are being trans-
ferred The board added Mrs
Virginia Brooks 525 Cottonwood
to the list Resignation of Mrs
Sharlyn Lewis primary teacher at
Jefferson was accepted Elected to
her place to begin work Jan 27
is Miss Betty Hardy a graduate
of East Central State College now
teaching in California
The board discussed high school
baseball and was unanimous in its
decision to develop this program
They believe the diamonds near
Cardinal Park should be used for
practice and the games played at
the park The schedule would
of course be set up so it does not
interfere in any way with the Car-
See SCHOOL Page 2-A
WEATHER
Year
Temperature Today Ago
11 a in reading 52 72
Low last night 32 17
High yesterday 49 81
(Data recorded at tire station)
FORECASTS
LOCAL! Some high cloudiness to-
night and Friday: mild tonight and
Friday lows tonight 32-37
OKLAHOMA! Fair throuth Friday
a little warmer In the southeast te
night a little colder north and west
tonight and over the state Friday
lows tonight 27-37 high Friday In the
50s Further ant10081 Fair and 8110141
hattuday
REAL COOL
WORKSHOP
OKLAHOMA CITY ('P)--
Employes of the Baptist Book
Store in a hurry to get a
religious workshop scooped
up a bunch of religious rec-
ords that had just arrived
At the workshop they stack-
ed them on a record player
and sat back to listen
Suddenly they were all
startled by a jumping Elvis
Presley song No one could
figure out how the Presley
record got into the religious
stack
Canada Wampum
Jinx Indians Say
VANCOUVER B C 05—That
new Canadian dollar may just be
more wampum to the white folks
but to West Coast Indians it's
memloose chickman death
money
The design for the new dollar
struck to commemorate the Brit-
ish Columbia centennial this year
was submitted by Stephen Trenka
of Thornhill Ont
Trenka used a totem pole motif
which he said was inspired by the
raven myth of the Haida Indians
of British Columbia
Then Guy Williams a spokes-
man for the Native Brotherhood
of British Columbia saw the coin
He said it pictured the Tmimp-
sean Indian mortuary totem
which has as its crowning figures
the likeness of a bear mother and
her son
' Thereorelnentn3 said ifie
dollar was memloose chickman
death money and no West Coast
Indian would dare handle the
new coin
Williams is supported by Mrs
Ellen Neel of Vancouver an au-
thority on the vanishing art of
totem carving
Wilson Duff curator of anthro-
pology at the Provincial Museum
at Victoria says the design close-
ly follows the top portion of a
sketch in the museum of a Haida
totem
The Haida myth of the raven
tells how a supernatural raven
transformed primeval darkness
into order by stealing the sun
from its hiding place and bring
trig light to the world
Even if the new coin's design
Is derived from the raven myth
It is not suitable Mrs Neel con
Funds Okayed
For Texama
Meeting Hall
OKLAHOMA CITY (RI — The
Planning and Resources Board
tentatively has approved plans to
build $100000 recreation and con-
vention halls at Lake Texoma
lodge and Western Hills lodge
The hall at Western Hills lodge
will be rented by the contract
holder at the lodge at about $7500
a year
The board also agreed to accept
a deed on 37 acres of land at the
old Boggy Depot site in Atoka
County A historical marker will
be erected at the site which once
was a stage coach stop on a route
between Fort Smith and Texas
Requests to build a golf course
at Roman Nose Park near Wa-
tonga and a swimming pool at
Grove on Grand Lake will be
studied by the board A delega-
tion from Watonga offered to
help finance the golf course
Kelly De Busk board chairman
said residents of the Grove area
have indicated they would donate
money to go with $40000 appro
priated by the last Legislature to
build the swimming pool
Serial Novelist Dies
SANTA MONICA Calif VP —
Vida Hurst who wrote 52 serial
ized novels for newspapers in 32
years is dead at 67
INSIDE YOUR
Australian Officers Visit Ardmore AFB Page 3A
5 Young Would-Be Robbers Routed by
Bank President Page 6A
Women's News Page 7A
Elks Schedule Minstrel Show Page 10A
Rambler Page 13A
Doyle May's Sports Beat Page I4A
Markets Drilling Report Page 15A
Editorials Features Page 2B
Noble to Host SODA Officials Page 3B
Idaho Youths Have Rocket Club Page 4B
Nelsod Rockefeller Influential in GovernmentPage 5B
Classified Ads Page 6B
Comics Page 7B
Marietta Highway ilearing Set -Page 8B
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Program
President Calls
For Sacrifices
WASHINGTON (Al—President Eisenhower today gave
Congress an eight-point "safety through strength" program
for dealing with the Russian space age threat It included
defense reorganization to unify control and end inter-service
rivalries
In an eagerly awaited State of the Union message Eisen-
hower said America's military strength at present is great
and is a powerful deterrent to war
But he said the dangers the United States faces are reaL
He sasid that unless we act wisely and promptly "we could
lose that capacity to defend ourselves" and deter any Soviet
attack
The president in an address carried nationwide on tele-
vision and radio said too that the country could make no more
4tragic mistake "than to con
tends
She said some variations of the
raven myth are pornographic and
unsuitable for general explana-
tion Canadian Sen Thomas Reid of
New Westminster B C advised
provincial authorities he has
asked the government for an "of
ficial statement on the exact sig-
nificance of the totem on the
coin"
$100000 Fire
Hits Historic
Fort Towson
FORT TOWSON (RI — The see-
ond bledre 'within a)revir struck
this historic southeast Oklahoma
community early today gutting
a large section of its business dis-
trict No one was hurt in the blaze
which was discovered at 2 a m
Damage was estimated between
2100000 and 2150000 by property
owners
Last spring a fire hit half of
the business block in Fort Tow
son with damage of more than
2100000
The blaze today virtually de-
stroyed the other half of this
block and left few business build-
ings in town
Harry Kitterman who lives
above the cafe he operates said
he heard a noise about 2 a m
went downstairs and saw flames
shooting from the office of a bu-
tane company There was no bu-
tane stored in the building
The fire quickly spread to the
Milton May store Fort Towson
cafe and a beauty shop The beau-
ty shop and butane office were
housed in the old drugstore build-
ing Damaged was the old bank
building and a theater
A telephone cable was burned
out by the fire cutting service
in and out of town Someone had
to be dispatched to an outside
phone to summon assistance from
Hugo while voluntetrs tried to con
thin the blaze
The other half of the block
which was destroyed earlier by
fire has not been rebuilt
Cattlemen Pick
Ex-Ardmoreite
Vice-President
A former Ardmore resident
Dorris Ballew was re-elected vice
president of the National Cattle-
men's Association at their elst
annual convention in Oklahoma
City this week
He is the son of another well
known and remembered Carter
County rancher the late Bud Bal-
lew who also served many years
as deputy sheriff under Buck Gar-
rett Ballew was in charge of the
Phillips Petroleum Co drilling
operations in Carter County back
In the 1930s and early 1940s He
now resides in Natchez Miss
where he is an independent drill-
ing contractor and cattle breeder
ARDMOREITE
centrate merely on military
strength" That he said could
lead us to an age of terror
of even greater danger than the
military threat posed by Russia's
space era advances Eisenhower
said Is a massive economic of-
fensive already launched by the
Soviet Union against the United
States and the rest of the free
world
The Senate and House as-
sembled in Joint session in the
House chamber to hear the Pres-
ident deliver his message person-
ally There was almost a wartime
solemnity in the general mood of
Congress — shaken by the nation-
al concern over Russia's space
and rocket feats
And in the same note of the
critical world situation Eisenhow-
er made his eighth point a direct
appeal to the people of the Soviet
Union — over the heads of theft
Kremlin leaders — to join in a
drive for enduring world peace
and take part in a first step to-
ward disarmament
The seven other points of his
program will require legislative
action by Congress:
Defense4 Reorganization —
Eisenhower obviously with
mounting interservice rivalries in
mind said the nation's first need
is to assure that military organ'
zation speeds rather than hinders
the functioning of the military
establishment
Eisenhower said he will have
specific proposals later in a ape
cial defense message
2 Accelerated Defense Effort—
Eisenhower called for a speedup
all along the line including pro-
tection and further dispersal of
US striking forces and more
adequate warning facilities in
case of attack
He said freedom of the seas
must be maintained and said that
See IKE Page 2
Gary Names
City Lawyer
To State Post
OKLAHOMA CITY tA11 — Goy
Raymond Gary today filled a va-
cancy on the state Securities Corn-
mission which had not even been
realized until the commission's
study of Selected Investments
Corp developed
Gary appointed Earl Q Gray
Ardmore attorney He was cho-
sen from a list of nine names sub-
mitted by the Oklahoma Bar As-
sociation Gray succeeds D A Stovall
Hugo who resigned some four
years ago When the hearings
started Gary said he did not
know there was a vacancy
Retention of Herschal K Ross
as securities commissioner one
member of the three-man board
is still in doubt The governor
said yesterday he has not reach-
ed a final decision on a request
of the Legislative Council Insur-
ance Committee that Ross be re-
moved He said Arthur Foster Bristow
the other member will be kept on
the commission The committee
also had recommended Foster's
removal
The commission has asked a
contempt citation against Select-
ed Investments after six officials
either failed to appear at a hear-
ing earlier this week or declined
to take the witness stand
Sen Don Baldwin Anadarko
Legislative Council chairman sent
Gary a letter asking that Ross
and Foster be removed because of
their action in the Legislative
Council committee's recent at
tempt to investigate the proposed
reorganization of Selected Invest
ments Corp of Oklahoma City
Southerly Winds
Boost Mercury
A warming sun combined with
southerly winds today to puss
mercury readings upward here and
across the state
Temperatures overnight ranged
from 10 to 20 degrees warmer than
the previous night Yesterday's
high was a 66 at Guymon
Fair weather is expected to con-
tinue into the weekend although it
will be slightly cooler as winds
shift back into the north starting
tonight in the west
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