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VOLUME XXXVIII
A
COLUMN
OF
COMMENT
By E M DEINizsz
"I wholly disapprove of what
you say but will defend to the
death your right to say it"
—Voltaire
"Honesty and competency
require vo shield of secrecy"
—Woodrow Wilson
We Need Much
More of This
THERE IS NO WAY of estimat-
ing the amount of good accomplish-
ed in lectures given in Choctaw
and Mc Curtain counties last week
by Dr H A Shoemaker director
of the Oklahoma Poison Informa-
tion Center and professor of pharm-
acology in the University of Okla-
homa school of medicine
If no more than half of those
in the Hugo Rotary club alone who
said they were going home that
evening tell their wives what they
had heard and together take a look
at their medicine cabinets actually
got around to doing that the talk
was very much worthwhile Multiply
it by results of other lectures Dr
Shoemaker gave and the benefits
may be infinite
In fact we hope that Dr Shoe-
maker can come back for another
series of lectures as many as re-
quired to give all of our people a
chance to learn the dangers of poi-
sons in the home—and of medical
preparations not dangerous to
adults but which may be lethal to
little children
The Oldahoma Poison Informa-
tion Center of the existence of
which most of us were completely
ignorant prior to the coming here
of Dr Shoemaker is one of the
most sensible and most useful in-
novations Oklahoma has had in
many a year No civic or school or-
ganization can do better work than
to co-operate with it to the utmost
offering Dr Shoemaker or anyone
he may designate time to explain
the vital necessity for its work
Boswell Will
Make It Succeed
ANNOUNCEMENT that prepara-
tions are beginning to shape un for
the annual Boswell Homecoming
celebration on June 30 moves us to
express best wishes for that event
Of this we may be sure: the pro-
gram will be good and Boswell resi-
dents and former residents will
turn out in surprising numbers
Its positively amazing the dis-
tances people who formerly lived in
that town drive to attend its home-
coming That they do speaks mighty
well for Boswell—then and now
Colleges Due
What They Ask
THE GOVERNOR and legislative
leaders cannot but heed the ap-
peal of the presidents of Okla-
homes 18 state colleges and univer-
sities that they take steps to assure
the institutions of higher learning
the full $23 millions approved by
the legislature for operations dur-
ing the next fiscal year
The legislature approved $23 mil-
lions for higher education the sec-
ond year of the biennium but pro-
vided $3 millions of this amount
would come from surplus funds left
over after all other appropriations
were met
The latest estimate of the state
budget officer indicates higher edu-
cation will get only about $702000
In surplus funds instead of the an-
ticipated $3 millions The legislature
made only $20 millions appropria-
tion from the general revenue fund
compared with $22 millions appro-
priation for the current year
In order to make the additional
$3 millions available for the next
fiscal year the next legislature
would have to make a supplemental
appropriation when it meets next
January
Actually such action would do
no more than provide what the leg-
islature told the institutions they
would have
As stated "such assurance is hn-
perative if the youth of Oklahoma
are to have the kind of college edu-
cation to which they are entitled
and need under accreditable stan-
dards" When we are putting heavier
burdens on our colleges and univer-
sities we will be in poor grace to
deny them the money the legislature
told them they would get — and
which they need desperately
Who Sent Nixon
To South America?
WE WONDER who insisted on
Vice-president Nixon's trip to South
America when the state department
as senators were informed Monday
warned in advance of the danger
of disturbance That ought to have
been obvious to most anyone who
reads the newspapers
Communists always are on the
lookout to make this country look
Continued on Paco Two
AREA PEOPLE
DUE DEGREES
FROM COLLEGE
Due to receive degrees from 1 :
ibutheastern ' State College Du-
rant in ceremonies Thursday May
29 are a number of area residents
1 ?Ir Az
A total of 230 students are degree
candidates with 209 due bachelor i
degrees and 21 master of teaching I
degrees It
"
Bachelor of arts degrees in edu-
cation are to go to Gary Landreth
and Larry Landreth of Hugo An- t
drew McGough Wright City t—4
Charles Wayne Manning Miller-
ton Bonnnie D Offutt Boswell
Mary Redwine Hugo Ruth Nelle
Stephenson and Scotty Thompson1 !1'
Boswell and Charles H Walls I i101
Antlers 1
Candidates for the bachelor of
sc!ence degree in education include
Balbara Lenix Bowman Broken
Bow: June Davis Akar& Finley:
Clinton Brown Wright City Floyd
Wayne Burks Grant Jim Clark
Jr Boswell: Ro lone Nell Coffman
Haworth: Jimmie Ray Collins Ft
Towson Duane L Hammer Broken
Bow Elmer Max Harris Haworth:
Ross Haynie Valliant: Frank N
Loar FL Towson Charles Ray Lo-
gan Ft Towson: Joy Fagan Mc-
Brayer Broken Bow: Annie Henson
Gentry Clayton: Leonard McDon-
ald Finley Phyllis McDougal
Adams Broken Bow Sandra Mob-
ley Hugo Bobby Gene Moore Bro-
ken Bow Carolyn Noble Ft Tow-
son Loretta Sherrer Westbrook
Snoiv
Also Billie Fay Shields Rattan
Ruben Lee Songer Broken Bow
Jo Ann Thompson Boswell Mar-
tha Weaver Valliant Paul Wiley
Eagletown
Durant Lions Give
Gary Landreth
Service Honor
Gary Landreth Hugo senior was
chosen to receive the Durant Lions
Club award given to the person
who has been of the greatest serv-
ice to Southeastern State college
Landreth who has—servea this
year as president of the student
senate is an honor gradwee major-
ing in social studies He RS select-
ed to Mins' Who in American Col-
leges and Universities and is a
member of Blue Key national lead-
ership fraternity for men
He is a member of Kappa Delta
Pi national honorary education fra-
ternity and Sigma Tau Gamma
social fraternity
FOY O'NEAL IS
NEW OWNER OF
1PONTIAC FIRM
Purchase of Adams Pontiac Com-
pany here by Foy O'Neal long-time
resident of Hugo was announced
today by the Pontiac Motor Divi-
sion of General Motors Corporation
The business was sold by J Frank
Richardson and Hershel Bright
owners since the death early this
year of Hoyt Adams The firm was
established In 1951 by Richardson
O'Neal already has assumed man-
agement He announces there will
be no changes in policies or the
present personnel which includes
Harold Caldwell sales James
Clark shop foreman and parts
manager Joe Thompson mechanic
and Pete Noland wash and lubri-
cation Mrs O'Neal will join the
staff as bookkeeper
The new owner 38-year-old
O'Neal is not new in the car agency
field having practically grown up
In the autoombile business of his
late father George T O'Neal for
many years aevrolet and Oldsmo-
bile dealer here Later Foy O'Neal
owned the Chevrolet and Buick
agency in Holyoke Colo for four
years returning here to own and
operate the Dodge-Plymouth agen-
cy He is a deacon in the Hugo
Church of Crist past president of
Hugo Jaycees member of the Cham-
ber of Commerce and is past pres-
ident of the Hugo Automobile Deal-
ers Asociation He is a graduate of
Hugo High school and Harding Col-
lege at Searcy Ark
Southwestern Bell
Defendant in Big
Damage Suit Here
Southwestern Bell Telephone
Company is defendant in a $228486
damage suit filed in district court
In Hugo by T H Coffman whose
home is two miles east of Pt Tow-
son Petition alleges that on September
15 1957 a bolt of lightning entered
Coffman's home "over and by means
or' the telephone system and that
Coffman sitting nearby was injur-
ed by the bolt causing he alleges
"great physical pain and mental
anguish" and causing injury to his
eyesight to an extent he no longer
can be gainfully employed
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THE SENIOR CLASS OF 1957-1958—(Left to right (Front row: Wanda Tanner Margaret Fincher
Jonye Sears Peggy O'Neal Polly Sanguin Carol Caldwell Janice Flush Linda Payne Pat Griffith Jacque lla
Jones Barbara Wright Madolyn Roper Betty Smith Second row! Mona Nowell Anna Lumpkin Martha
Allen Jean Henderson Linda Darnell Gerene Rho les Wanda Moore Helen Neece Ruth Bell Shirley
Rhodes Third row: Paul Loftin Freddie Miller Anita Lewis Vickie McCorkle Jimmie Rankin Sue Bates
Vernie York Norma Bostic Sharon Payne Carolyn Jacobs Fairy Castleberry Lorna Trammel Fourth
row: Guy Burrous Charles Park Phillip Wood Pat Gray Joan Wyche Nel la Jones Pat Ruffin Wanda
Thompson Janice Montgomery Floyd Davis Fifth row: Wendell Smith Flyod Green Howard Stinson
Nola Taylor Stephen Podany Margaret Mathis Harry Griffin Paul Horton Howard Gilliam Dwight
Sharpe Sixth row: Phillip Fry Wayne Taylor Jack Testerman Don Butler Robert Woffard Jay
Jarmes Donald McKenzie Gary Alexander Bob Grant Arlie Cox Edwin Risenhoover Seventh row:
Barry Dunham Carroll Walker Jarrett Totty Jams Har less James Beasley Andy Feco Ashley Jarvis
Jerry Glass Phil Craft Raymond HaytUpper left: Ralph Flue lien Carl White Harold Able& Upper
right: Ronald McKenzie J C Patterson
Candidate Speakin's
Get Under Way in
County May 31
That old familiar election year
event—candidates speakin's—is due
to get underway in Choctaw coun-
ty Saturday night May 31 at 8
o'clock in the roadside park triangle
at the intersection of Highways 70
and 271 seven miles west of Hugo
A total of 13 dates are set at
which candidates for political of-
fice will have the privilege to speak
in behalf of their various candi-
dacies All the meetings will begin
at 8 o'clock with the exception of
the meeting on Saturday June 28
at Boswell This will begin at 2
Candidates have agreed not to
speak at pie suppers but there is
no rule against their-"working" the
suppers and campaigning privately
and individually
Candidates for state office may
speak at the scheduled meetings 1
but must watt until all county can- I
didates have had opportunity to lay
their causes before the people
Thus far in Choctaw county the
campaign has been quiet There is
only one county-wide race That Is
for sheriff Candidates are the en-1
cumbent Ed Thornton and Bird
Collins who was an opponent of
Thornton the first time the present
sheriff ran for the office two years t
ago
Complete speaking schedule is an-
nounced as follows:
Saturday May 31—Y intersection
park west of Hugo
Tuesday June 3—Sawyer
Friday June 6—Speer
Tuesday June 10—Nelson
Friday June 13—Grant
Saturday June 14—Frogville
Tuesday June 17—Swink
Friday June 20—Crowder Springs
Tuesday June 24—Soper
Thursday June 26—Ft Towson
Friday June 27—Spencerville
Saturday June 28—Boswell
Monday June 30—Hugo
Area Youths Plan
To Attend Camp
Boy Scouts from five area troops
have made reservations to attend
Glover Scout Camp during its sum-
mer season
Junior High
Hugo Junior High school and
Benjamin Franklin school awards
to be made this week by Principal
Walter Leonard are announced to-
day The annual citizenship award for
one boy and one girl in the eighth
grade class has been discontinued
Instead the American Legion and
Legion Auxiliary give a certificate
to the top boy and girl in each
of the home rooms The winners
were named by vote of the teachers
judging points for boys being honor
courage scholarship leadership and
service Girls were judged for char-
acter courage scholarship com-
panionship and service
AN INDEPENUNT NENSPAREB
HUGO OKLAHOMA THURSDAY MAY 22 1958
L"Odir
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THREE DIE IN -
PUSH COUNTY
ROAD ACCIDENT
Funeral services for two of the
three victims Of a Saturday after-
noon Pushmataha county highway
accident were conducted in Antlers
this week
Oscar M Nelson 64-eyar-old Ant-
lers carpenter and Calvin West Jr
30 of Norman were buried Tues-
day and Wednesday mornings re-
spectively Services were to be in
Mountain View Ark for the third
accident victim Orville Lee Cope-
land 28 Norman Nelson and Cope-
land died instantly in the two-cal
crash three miles east of Antlers
West was dead on arrival at a Parts
Tex hospital
The three deaths comprised Push-
ma taha county's first highway fa-
talities of 1958
Services for Mr Nelson were held
Tuesday mornilig at the Antlers
213
days have passed since Choctaw
county's last highway or road
traffic accident death was re-
corded Drive safely all this week and
make it
220 DAYS
CHOCTAW COUNTY HAD 6
HIGHWAY TRAFFIC DEATHS
IN 1957 AND THE SAME NUM-
BER IN 1956
Assembly of God church conducted
by the Rev Herbert Davis pastor
and the Rev Clifford Reneau
Church of the Nazarene pastor Cof-
fey Funeral Home Antlers mtuie
burial in Antlers City cemetery
Survivors of Mr Nelson are his
wife Mrs Daisy Nelson four sons
and a daughter They include Fran-
cis Nelson Thomas J Nelson and
Isaac Nelson of the home address
A brother and two sisters include
(Set THREE DIE Page Four)
and Benjamin Franklin
The winners of these awards are
Tommy Joe Crane Judyth Ann
Bills Adrian Totty Jane Wyatt
Wesley Higgins Cheryl Keller
Johnny Houser Toni thard John
Ables Judy Holmes and Mary
Adams who tied John Mashburn
and Pat Manfra
The National Science Teachers
Association gave science awards to
Richard Williams Marian Simmons
Judy White Jane Wyatt Kerry
Little Vennis Wren Joyce Alexan-
der and Gail Bohanon
Safety Patrol awards went to
Ronnie Kizer Charles McKenzie
Don Beard Don Jones Franklin
Hinton Robert Wilson Thomas
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OKLAi' 2:0MAN
of 1958
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$50000 to Be
Invested in Cabins
At Beaver's Bend
Fifty thousand dollars still unused
from a $7200000 bond issue will
be spent on new cabins at Beavers
Bend state park the planning and
resources board has voted
The vote was 7-1 with Bob Lee
Kidd Jr Poteau opposing it He
said Wister state park needed the
cabins more than )3eavers Bend
The board also voted to take bids
for furnishing the new restaurant
building at Beavers Bend state
park with the hopes of having it
open in June
The board also voted to buy 10
more air conditioners for Beavers
Bend park which will cotnplete the
air conditioning of all cabins
The money will be used for the
construction of at least eight more
two-bedroom cabins
The eight new cabins will be in
addition to the two new duplexes
being built with $30000 voted earlier
this year
The park already has 19 cabins
Including one duplex
The new cabins will give a total
of at least 29 The two-bedroom
cabins can sleep as many as eight
with the addition of oots and the
duplexes house 10 or 12 each
Even with the new cabins com-
pleted there will be a shortage of
housing Demand has been running
several times more than can be ac-
comodated and it is necessary to
make reservations far in advance
At times scores of families are
turned away after the last cabin has
been filled An even larger demand
for cabins is anticipated after US
59 is completed through the coun
ty
To Sell Memorial
Poppies Saturday
on Hugo Streets
Hugo Ameriacn Legion Auxiliary
will sell' memorial poppies on the
streets here Saturday
The paper poppies made of blood
red material memorialize the war
dead and are made by disabled war
veterans The money earned by the
sale of these momentos is used in
child welfare and rehabilitation
work by the local American Legion
post and auxiliary
Awards Announced
Herndon Willie Hulsey Dale Sos-
samon and John Daniels
Work of these boys as playground
recreation supervisors wu recogniz-
ed with awards: Jamie Wolfe Lance
Wyche Sport Pollard Jack Good-
rich John Mashburn Joey Brind-
ley and Cecil Elizondo Jr
Student librarians receiving
awards were Judy Holmes Mary
Adams Pat Mantra Christie Ford
Jean! Wood and Susie Gillham
Perfect attendance awards for
varying lengths of time went to
Kathryn Bostic seven years Pran-
ces Kernel five years: Johnny
Houser and Floyd White four
years: Connie Stinson Wayne Big
NT
Jay Jarrnes Wins
Annual Renewable
OU Scholarship
An annually renewable scholar-
ship for four years has been award-
ed to Jay Jarmes 18-year-old son
of Mr and Mrs Olen J Jarmes
Hugo according to announcement
by Jodie C Smith chairman of the
University of Oklahoma's scholar-
ship committee
James a 1958 graduate Of Hugo
High school plans an engineering
major at the university where the
scholarship will be renewable an-
nually for a full year contingent
on grades and other work being
maintained at a high standard
Jni'llieS had a four-year grade av-
erage of 378 out of a Possible 400
He was named Hugo Jaycee's out-
standing high school boy and was
chosen for membership in both state
nd national Honor Societies He
was a member of the school's county
champion basketball team and last
year was chosen Boys State repre-
ienta tive from Postvilloo Iowa
IRO RESIDENT
DIRECTOR OF
SSC INSTITUTE
Dr Dorothy Leake of Hugo head
of the biology department of
southeastern State College Durant
has been named director of one of
85 teacher-training institutes to be
held in the United States this year
Dactor Leake is the wife of the Rev
H H Leake vicar of St Mark's
Episcopal church here
Southeastern State college is one
if only 85 institutions in the United
States selected to receive grants for
the in-service teacher-training in-
stitutes for the 1958-59 academic
year
The institutes will be for second-
ary school science and mathematics
teachers and will be held outside
regular school hours so that teach-
ers may continue to teach full time
Participants will be selected from
teachers within 50 miles of Durant
They will have travel expenses
tuition and fees paid by grants from
the National Science Foundation
District Masons
To Meet Friday
In Hugo Temple
Frank Fodge Ant lors district
deputy worshipful master of Okla-
homa Masons will attend a district
40 A F and A M meeting in the
Hugo Niasonic Temple Friday night
at 7:30 o'clock
All master masons of the district
regardless Of where they are mem-
bers are invited to attend the fel-
lowship and instructions meeting
NEARLY THIRD
OF GRADUATES
ENTER SERVICE
!Nearly a third of the Hugo High
school senior boys receiving diplo-
mas this week plan to leave in a
: few days for service in the armed
forces a check reveals and others
I are expected to make the same de-
cision a little later
! Enlisting for three or four year
: navy duty and due to leave next
week by plane from Dallas for San
Diego Calif are Ron McKenzie
Wendell Smith Barry Dunham J
C Patterson Donald White Harold
Ables and Flyod Green
i Ordered to report to Ft Chaffee
Ark for six months army duty are
these Army Reservists who also
i are graduating from Hugo High
school Pvt 2 Arlie Cox Pvt 2
i Donnie H Butler Pvt 2 James L
Harlem Pvt 2 Paul E Loftin Pvt
12 Bernard W Taylor and Pvt 2
i Robert L Wofford
Joining the latter groan from
area points will be these additional
reservists: Pvt 2 Willis D Warren
Pvt 2 James O Smith Pvt 2 Ledell
Daniels Pvt 2 Charlie J Chatman
all of Idabel Pvt 2 Roscoe Cherry
Broken Bow Pvt 2 Billy O Park-
wood Glover Pvt 2 Geary A Dial
Pvt I Victor E Helm Pvt 1 Jerry
W Hill Pvt I Otis E Martin and
Pvt 1 James D Horton all of Ant-
lers and Pvt I Richard M Brame
Moyers
by Principal
ginbotham and Don Jones three
years each
One year records of being neither
absent nor tardy brought certifi-
cates to Clayton Pulliam Terry
Tice Van Linkswiler Judy White
Richard Rountree Edward Dale
Riley Clark Ronnie Thurman Joan
Keller Jayne Payne Eleanor Bram-
lett Sue Jones Corlyss King Tom-
my Chastain Johnny Houser Jackie
Wyley Charles McKenzie Bobby
Sossaman Floyd White Judy San-
guin Tommye Dee McKinney Wil-
liam Green Wayne Higginbotham
Jamie Wolfe Frances Kerneli and
Don Jones
On His Record
2ND TERM AS
SHERIFF ASKED
BY THORNTON
Seeking his second term as sheriff
of Choctaw county Ed Thornton
this week issued a statement in
which he declares he is running
"an the record of Ed Thornton as
sherif f"
In the statement Sheriff Thorn-
ton refers voters to his record for
total arrests munber of criminal
eases solved and efficiency of serv-
ice in matters of civil nature
Thornton's full statement follows:
"TO 1HE VOTERS OF CHOC-
TAW COUNTY:
respectfully ask that you elect
me for a second term as your
heriff
'I am running an the record of
Ed Thornton as sheriff
"That I ecord can be found by any
ED THORNTON
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interested person by checking the
number of arrests during my term
the number of cases solve and the
efficient service myoffice has given
in the service of process In civil
eases
"I have made it a point during my
term to cooperate with peace offi-
cers in surrounding counties and
states As a result we have been
able to solve crimes and arrest the
offenders sometimes within hours
ifter the commission of the crime
When I was elected sheriff I
promised the people that I would
e'en the office either open or on
I call basis 24 hours a day I have
kept that promise We do not take
holidays and my deputies and I are
ivallable for help at any time of
the day or night
t em especially interested in
children and believe crime could al-
most be eliminated fmm the face of
the earth if we could solve the
invenile problem A vote for Ed
Thornton is a guarantee that I will
rOntinqe my work with the youth
of our county
"I am proud of the fact that re-
cently the producer of a television
:how dealing with the problem of
crime visited my office and re-
marked latnr that the office was
operated efficiently and that 'Ed
Thnrnton is a good sheriff'
"Some time ago Choctaw county
was noted among the underworld
as 'a good place to hole up' Be-
cause we have been on the job the
(See THORNTON Page Four)
WYATT RITES
To BE FRIDAY
Funeral services for Mrs Joe
Henry Wyatt of Grant are set for
Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock in
the Grant Baptist church burial
in Grant ceinetety to be in charge
of Coffey Funeral Home The Rev
Leroy Hogue officiated
Mrs Wyatt died Monday morning
in a Grants N M hospital where
she was taken when she suffered a
heart attack en route to Flagstaff
Ariz Mrs Wyatt was traveling with
her husband and daughter Mrs
Paul Roland with whom they plan-
ned an extensive visit in Flagstaff
Mrs Wyatt was born Mary Belle
Rice a daughter of James and Mol-
ly Lewis Rice in Cove Ark on No-
vember S 1884 She was reared in
the Boswell area and at Grant and
had lived in the latter community
most of her life
She and Mr Wyatt were married
on her birthday in 1901 in Harrison-
burg La She was a member of
the Grant Baptist church in which
she was active until her health fail-
ed due to a heart condition
Mrs Wyatt is survived by her
husband and in addition to the
daughter with whom she was trav-
eling when she became Ill these
sons and a daughter: Joe H Wyatt
and Woodrow Wyatt both of
Grant: A L Wyatt Idabel: Wil-
liam H Wyatt Tulsa: and Mrs
Bland Landers Jr Grand Prairie
Tex Seventeen grandchildren and
12 great grandchildren also survive
along with two brothers Oscar Rice
Cisco Tex and Walter Rice of
Sidney Tex
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NUMBER 21
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Car Crashes into
Utility Pole and
Tears Down Fence
Max Turner 46 was in Memorial
hospital here Saturday suffering
from shock as a result of an kiuto-
mobile accident which occurred That
aftemon
Jerry Turner was driving a 1955
Ford on West Main when he lost
control of the vehicle The car cross-
ed the road in front of his home
811 W Main knocked down an es-
timated 50 feet of fencing proceeded
across the intersection of I street
then crashed into and snapped a
utility pole
The vehicle is reported as a total
loss
COUNCIL EYES
ZONING NEEDS
FOR THE CITY
Hugo City Council did nothing
about it at the Tuesday night meet-
ing but it appeared the city is
nudging along a little at a time
toward net j011 to vone the town for
establishment of new btrinesses
and-or construction of new resi-
dences Admitted as a big need here for
ninny years the necessity "for ac-
tion rather than jawbone" was em-
phasized in around-the-table re-
marks by Councilmen Orville Fry
V C Stiefer and H L (Zeke)
Lentz Each of these three declared
several times "We ought to get to
work on it now" "Let's get
started toward this careful study
we first must make" "We should
begin now Why wait?" and oth-
er similar remarks Mayor Fowler
White expressed agreement with the
trio of council members as did
City Attorney James Bounds that
problems resulting from the city's
non-zoned system would continue to
arise until clearly defined zoning
laws were made But action neither
Was taken nor was the problem ac-
tion tabled or dropped It was left
in the air
Other council members listened
carefully to the remarks and dis-
cussions about zoning but did not
enter into the matter actively -
Need for zoning was emphasized
by appearances of Paul Hamilton
before the council He stated that a
major oil company wanted to buy
some Fast Jackson street property
from him known as the old Carl
Krauter home property
City Ordinance No 421 requires
that before an automobile service
station (which is planned for the
site) may be erected written con-
sent must be obtained
from all property owners and ten-
ants within 250 feet of the proposed
site After considerable discussion
action was taken to authorize the
city attorney to amend this ordi-
nance to reduce 100 per cent agree-
ment to 90 per cent of the area
property owners and tenants and
to reduce the distance from 250 feet
to 200 feet
This action was taken it was
pointed out in compatability with
the city' policy to do everything
possible to allow establishment of
new businesses and industries in
Hugo
Following this action emphasis
again was placed on the need for
zoning as a permanent cure for fre-
quently recurring problems result-
ing from the towns sporadic growth
J A Phinney discussing a few
problems which have arisen from
enforcement of the city's plumbing
and electric installation codes was
assured again by the council that
it will back him to the hilt in en-
forcinent of the law "Most of the
people have been very cooperative"
Phinney declared and the mayor
named Sherman Fuller L B An
derson and Leroy (Perk) Nesbit
a committee to seek the friendly
cooperation of all
NATIONAL REA
ADMINISTRATOR
INVITED HERE
David Hama administrator of —
the national Rural Electrification
Administration may be in Hugo
for the eighteenth annual meeting
of Choctaw Electric Cooperative
Inc Manager Jack Gambrell said
this week
Hamil has made a tentative ac-
ceptance of the cooperative's invi-
tation to be the principal speaker at
the meeting on Tuesday Septem-
ber 2
Robert Conradi
Named Circuit Man
For Church Group
Robert Conradi presiding minis-
ter of Jehovah's Witnesses in Hugo
has been appointed p circuit or trav-
eling minister for the Watchtower
Bible and Tract Society to serve in
a supervisory capacity over more
than 20 congregations In Northern
Louisiana and Southern Arkansas
His successor here has not been
named
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Imon, Frances C. The Southeast Oklahoman (Hugo, Okla.), Vol. 38, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 22, 1958, newspaper, May 22, 1958; Hugo, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2111141/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.