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SERVING CUSTER B LAINE AND DEWEY COUNTIES
Volume 57
Thomas Oklahoma Thursday September 25 1958
No 14
historical Society '
SERVING CUST E R B LAI N E AND DEWEY COUNTIES
a alit:
A Chat
With The
Editor
Fall officially arrived Tues-
day but warm humid weather
Tuesday didn't seem much like
fall Some rain showers fell
but not enough to halt the ma-
ny wheat drills from their work
long Hundreds of acres of
small grains are already up to
a good stand and with Just a
little rain this fall should pro-
vide the best wheat pasture in
years
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Work on signing up right-cfway
for SH 54 south of town
is reported going along at a
fast pace We are in hopes that
everything is soon signed up
and the contract let for work
is issued in the near future
—o—
Can't remember when a week
has passed but what we haven't
had from one to a half-dozen
calls from people wanting to
Know if we knew of a house for
rent Had a letter this week
from an elderly couple in Dill
City who want to move to Tho-
mas — mainly because we have
the best two doctors and hospi-
tal in the state
Thomas has numerous vac-
ant lots that could be purchaied
at a reasonable price that
would be ideal to build or move
In homes for income property
True — the lots are not all on
paving but near enough that
the cost of gravel or black-
topping would not be excessfve
Also know of some good tots
on paving that would make
wonderful sites for a new home
If interested drop in We are
not in the real estate business
but will do our best to get you
fixed up
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A recent report from the Col-
orado Springs (Colo) chamber
of commerce tells how to have
a ghost town It Is an Interest-
ing tongue-in-cheek report that
will hold just as true In our
town as it does in that town1
It went as 4!Nllows:
Results are certain for those
working to create more "Ghost
Towns" of these simple direc-
tions are followed either by ac-
cident or design Hundreds of
former thriving communities
which are now silent towns
prove there is more truth than
poetry to the simple statement
"It Could Happen Here"
Here are methods proved by
experience to guarantee bank-
ruptcy insanity disappoint-
ment suicides—all by-products
1
of ghost towns
I Tell everyone you meal
that you never buy anything atil
home the merchants are a
bunch of crooks robbers and
cheats
2 Belittle all efforts for corn-'
munity betterment—the people
trying to do these things are
secretly making a lot of mon-
ey want to "run things" and
their way of doing things is
all wrong anyway
3 Never waste money by ad-
vertising or waste time trying
to attract trade to the town--
nobody reads the ads there s
never anything In the paper
it's always late and why should
anyone want to come to town—
it's a dead place
4 Turn down all appeals for
contributions and do it in a
nasty way so you won't be both-
ered again because the money
collected is eventually stolen
by some "higher-ups" anyway
5 Refuse to serve on all com-
mittees have nothing to do with
civic organizations—the Cham-
ber of Commerce never does
anything and Is run by a bunch
of dimwits who want only to
get their names before the pub-
lic All the city officials are in
office to get a sl re of the
graft
'There you have it—five sim-
ple directions for producing a
ghost town It's hard for one
person to do it but if you keep
at it eventually you'll get some
converts and a Ghost Town
—o—
Friday Is a big day for state
newspapermen at the state fat
We look forward to this event
each year when we are guests
of the state fair board and meet
snd mingle with other publish-
ers The Tribune has also been
entered in several of the news-
PaPer Judging contests — we
don't expect to come home load-
ed with prizes but do feel
(Continued on page 4)
Thomas Has Four
Mail Deliveries
An Alva-Clinton star route be-
gan operating through Thomas
this week to replace the mail
service formerly carried by the
Santa Fe railroad
Four deliveries are made dai-
ly and two on Sunday by the
star route carriers In the past
Thomas and Custer City post-
offices had been served twice
daily by the Santa Fe and twice
daily by the Clinton-Canton star
route Passenger and mail ser-
vice was discontinued Sunday
by the Santa Fe railway
Scheduled mail service here
now is as follows:
Clinton to Fairview star route
comes through Thomas going
north at 6:04 am bringing
mail from Clinton The same
route come back through after
the local office is closed at
night delivering mail from
Fairview and picking up the
dispatch for Clinton All mail
going south scould be in the
post office before 5 pm
Clinton-Alva star route due
here nom the north at 9:50 a
m leaving mail and picking
up mail dispatched to Clinton
The same route returns from
Clinton at 3:25 pm Mail for
dispatch should be in the local
offices by 9:30 am and 3 pm
respectively
Rural carriers will wait up
to an hour for the mail from
Alva due here at 9:50 am be-
fore making deliveries The di-
livery Is usually late as the
star route must wait for the
train at Alva before starting
their run south
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Smith Services
Held Sunday
Funeral services for Virgil
Earl Smith 70-year-old former
resident of this area were held
Sunday afternoon in the Lock-
stone Funeral Home Chapel
with ev Ray Smee offteating
Buriet war: !a the B?thany cem-
etery He died last Thursday at a
hospital in Norman following
an extended illness He was a
member of the United Brethren
Church
Survivors include a twin sis-
ter Mrs Verla Speer Thomas
seven nephews one niece and
a host of friends
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DANCE SCHOOL
SCHEDULED HERE
The Mary Lou Dance Studio
Clinton will schedule instruc-
tions in tap ballet and ball
room dancing for every Satur-
day from 3:30 to 7 pm at the
Thomas VFW Hall Mrs Joe
Ross announced this week
Enrollment for the school will
be held this Saturday from 4
to 6 pm at the VFW Hall A
minimum of 20 pupils must be
enrolled before the school gets
underway
Instructors will be Mary Lou
Davis who will teach tap and
ball room dancing and Betty
Bean who will teach classical
ballet
Miss Davis has six years of
professional work taught two
years in Oklahoma City dance
workshop and at Clinton five
years
Miss Bean has four years
professional experience taught
two years in the Oklahoma City
park dept and four years in
the Oklahoma City dance work-
shop She also studied uncier
Franie Ashhar well known bal-
let dance instructor
Further details on the school
may be had by calling Mrs Joe
Ross Thomas
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1
Missionary Pictures To Be
Shown At Local Church
Miss Edna Switzer mission-
ary for six years in Northern
and Southern Rhodesia in Afri-
ca will show slides and speak
of her work at the Church of
the Brethren next Sunday night
at 7:30 according to Rev Byr-
on E Dell pastor
Miss Switzer was engaged in
teaching as a missionary under
the Brethren in Christ church
All who are not attending
church elsewhere are cordially
Invited to see these pictures
and hear Miss Switzer speak
NEXT WEEKEND
Is DOLLAR DAY
Friday and Saturday of noxt
week October Srd and 4th will
again be Dollar Days in Thom-
as Local merchants have indi-
cated they will come up with
some real money-savers many
of which will be listed in next
week's issue of the Tribune
Several hundred extra copies
oi next weeks Tribune will be
mailed in the Thomas trade
territory Advertisers must has e
their ad copy In early next
week as the Tribune will be
printed Wednesday
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Most County
Offices Closed
On Saturday
All but two of the offiecs at
the county courthouse in Ara-
paho will be closed on Satw-
day from now on according to
an announcem -mt made this
week
An agreement signed by all
but two county officers sets the
working hours at 8 am to 5
pm Monday through Friday
Previously the offices were re-
quired to be open every Satur-
day morning until noon
Now the only two offices sche-
duled for opening on Saturday
'mornings are those of Treasur-
er Jesse Hatchett and Sheriff
Albert Gorshing
Saturday closing affects tho
staffs of County Attorney J B
Harvey farm agent Alton R
Patrick Clerk M S Eslicx
Court Clerk Libby L McAbee
Superintendent of Schools Glen
Sheppard Assessor Allman Rus-
sell and Judge Joe F Gibson
Harvey who prepared the a-
greement for closing said that
any of the offices could be op-
ened at the discretion of the
Individual officer in case of
emergency or important busi-
ness matters
The "majority rule" agree-
ment was authorized by the 19-
attorney gerif:!141 ruling and
Is in line with a recent execu-
tive proclamation from Gov
Raymond Gary allowing most
state employes to go on a 40-
hour work week
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National Day Of
Prayer Scheduled
The Thomas Ministerial Alli-
ance is sponsoring an inter-denominational
day of prayer
bere at 9:00 am Wednesday
October 1 at the Methodist
church
This service :y In line with
a proclamation issued by Pre-
sident Isenhower asking that
next Wednesday be set aside
for all citizens to pray for
peace
The program here will be
from 9 to 10 am with all chu:-
ches participating Everyone is
invited to attend
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Custer Band Parents
Elect New Officers
Custer band parents have el-
ected officers for this school
year Mrs Chas Barran re-
ports Named president of the group
was Mrs Jesse Ferguson and
Mrs Boyd Miller vice-president
Mrs Wayne Foster was
elected secretary-treasurer and
Mrs Chas Harrall reporter
The next meeting will be held
at 7:30 pm on October 21 Ev-
eryone interested in the band
are urged to attend
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NEW DAUGHTER
M nand Mrs Ralph Blanken-
ship of Custer City annonnce
the arrival of a baby girl born
at the Thomas Memorial Hospi-
tal She has been named Ruth
Aileene and she weighed 5 lbs
and 9 ounces Mr and Mrs
Blankenship have two other
children
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Attended Legion Meeting
In Oklahoma City
Mr and Mrs Chester Bender
attended the executive meetings
of the American Legion and
American Legion Auxiliary Sa-
turday and Sunday In Okla'io-
ma City
Deadline Near
For Excise Tax
Gasoline Refund
Taxpayers have until Seutem-
ber 30 to file claims for refund
of Federal excise taxes paid on
certain gasoline purchases from
July 1 1957 to June 30 1958
Earl R Wiseman District Dir-
ector of Internal Revenue an-
nounced today
Mr Wiseman said farmers
who purchased gasoline during
that time for use on the farm
are entitled to refund of the
full 3 cents a gallon tax by fil-
ing Form 2240
Other taxpayers he said who
purchased gasoline for nonhigh-
way use may claim refund of
1 cent a gallon by filing Form
843
Mr Wiseman said taxpayers
who file by mail must have
th ir claims postmarked no la-
ter than September 30
Mr Wiseman said helpful in-
formation about these two re-
fund provisions of the law can
be found in Internal Revenue
Service booklets "Farmers
Gas Tax Refund" Publication
Number 308 (6-58) and "Feder-
al Gas Tax Refund for Nonhigh-
way and Transit Users" Publi-
cation Number 378 (6-58)
He said these booklets and
claim forms can be obtained
from any Internal Revenue of-
fice 000
Legion National
Commander M
Be Honored Oct 4
All American Legion and Aux
iliary members are invited to
attend a homecoming for Na-
tional Commander Preston J
Moore at Stillwater on Satur-
day October 4 according to
Chester E Bender 7th District
Commander
Members of the Stillwater
Post and other organizations
are planning the homecoming
events Commander Moore was
named National Commander at
the recent American LegOn
convention in Chicago and is
Oklahoma's first National Com-
mander The day of events begins at
11 am with a barbecue dinner
at the OSU football field
huge parade will start at 2 pm
in downtown Stillwater followed
by a reception in the Grand
Ball Room OSU A banquet
is scheduled for 7 pm with a
dance to follow
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Custer Bandsmen
Win In Contest
The Custer Band traveled to
Oklahoma City Saturday Sep-
tember 20 to participate in the
parade opening the Oklahoma
State Fair Fifty-six bands par
ticipated in the marching event
The Custer Band in class D
competition was awarded 3rd
place
After the parade the band
members visited the fairgrounds
where band members were ad-
mitted free to the Stock car
races
The band director this year
Is Mr J n Schaff ler Mr
Schaff ler is formerly from Or-
lando The thirty-one member band
is planning a big year with
both marching and conceA
playing events The next event
scheduled for the marching
Panthers will be the parade at
Weatherford on October 11 cele-
brating Southwestern State Col-
lege Homecoming
The band is currently spon-
soring a magazine subscription
drive for the purpose of raising
money for new equipment
000
E U B CHURCH WILL
HAVE SUN SPEAKER
The Thorns Church
will now have a speaker for the
Sunday morning services ac-
cording to Ernest Taylor
Rev Dewey Bayless Oklaho-
ma City has accepted part-
time pastoral duties at the
church
Those not attending services
elsewhere are invited to attend
HEAVY FOOTBALL
TRAFFIC EXPECTED
THIS WEEKEND
Oklahoma's collegiate football
season gets under way this Sa-
turday with both of the states
major schools entertaining out-of-state
opponents The Big Rel
entertains West Virginia while
0SU hosts North Texas State
The double opener bids fair to
produce an all time high a-
mount of traffic on state high-
ways The Oklahoma Highway Pa-
trol is ready for the expected
throng of fans to Stillwater and
Norman with extra units and
both patrol planes assigned to
the University areas
Lt Jack Herbert officer in
charge of the football assign-
ment at Norman says that 52
troopers will be on duty on
roads leading to Owens Sta-
dium The highway department has
made arrangements to elimi-
nate detour bottlenecks that
caused a king size traffic jam
at the Phildelphia-Detroit pro
game two weeks ago
U Clyde Awtrey in charge
of the Stillwater assignment has
designated 20 troopers for duty
at Lewis Field
Both men had the same ad-
vice for fans Leave early stay
In line and move with traffic
They also caution that plenty
of space should be maintained
between vehicles to avoid rear
end collisions which are tt
most common type of accident
in heavy traffic
Herbert cautions that it may
be necessary to reroute some
traffic in and near Norman due
to construction projects He
asks that motorists obey direc-
tions of troopers in order to
facilitate the movement of traf-
fic Kickoff time at Stillwater wirr
be at 1:30 PM and at Norman
2 PM Fans should allow at
least 30 minutes more than nor-
mal driving time in order to
be on hand for the opening
kickoff
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State Farm
Family Named
A Greer county family th it
started married life in a dug-
out half a century ago and sent
five children through college
enroute to outstanding careers
of their own today was named
Oklahoma's Farm Family of
the Year
The family selected as repre-
sentative of Oklahoma's farm
progress is Mr and Mrs D O
Givens who live five miles
southwest of Mangum
The Givens married when he
was 19 and she was 14 started
married life with a stake of
i51 cash 16 suckling pigs two
sows buggy two horses and
their clothing on a farm in
northern Harmon county
The dougout was replaced by
a succession of Improved homes
—their farms were plagued by
drouth flood fires and insects
—their family had the usual
quota of sickness but weathered
these and financial adversity
Their proudest achievement---
their five children Today one
son is an engineer who is vice-
president of a petroleum engin-
eering company one son is a
successful farmer another an
etomologist one daughter Is a
teacher and farm wife and ano-
ther is a missionary in Brazil
The plaque was awarded by
Oklahoma Farm Bureau and
presented in the bandshell of
the fairgrounds State Fair of
Oklahoma b y Congressman
Carl Albert of McAlester
A total of 31 nominations for
the honor was made by county
Farm Bureaus and most of the
county winners were present for
the ceremonies
Entries were Judged on pro-
gress in farming adoption of
modern farm practices ability
to meet adversities level of
living and home improvement
achievements of children and
community activities of all the
family
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NOTICE
The Thomas Eastern
dies will hold a oake
turday Sept 27 at
Grocery Baked goods
on sale at 9:30 am
Star la-
sale Sa
Brown's
will go
THS Homecoming Set For Tonight
Terriers Meet Okeene At 8:00 P M
Jr High Loses
To Watonga 30-6
The Watonga Junior high lads
proved to be too much for the
Thomas junior high team Tues-
day night on the Watonga grid-
iron Thomas came out on the
short end of a 30-6 score
Watonga took the opening
kickoff and drove 65 yards with
Grissom scoring from the eight
Bohlmen added the extra points
Watonga scored their second
TD on the last play of the first
half on a pass from Bohlman
to Bull good for 12 yds and
then took a 22-0 lead In the
third quarter on a 33 yd run
by Grissom
Thomas scorPc1 In the third
period on a 75 yd drive Rich-
ard Keller throwed in runs of
26 and 8 yds Buddy Taylor
completed two passes on the
drive one to Keller for 17 yds
and the other to Ronnie Balton
for 13 yds Butch Comer com-
pleted the march by scoring
from I yd out
Watonga made the final count
30 6 in the fourth quarter with
a 51 yd march with Bohlinen
scoring the orD and extra points
The game in figures:
Thomas Watonga
Score 6 30
Yds rushing 153 269
Lost rushing 0 5
Yds passing 43 12
Net yds 196 276
The young Terriers will go
to Okeene for a game Ilext
Tuesday night
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Rites Today For
Fay Pioneer
Funeral services for Mrs
Rose Boyd 87-year-old Fay re-
sident will be held at 2 pm
today (Thurs) in the Fay au-
ditorium She passed away ear-
ly Sunday morning at the home
of her son Farrol Boyd after
a long illness
Mrs Boyd was born in Boone
County Iowa and came to the
Fay area in early womanhood
She and her late husband lived
on their homestead near Fay
since before the turn of the
century
Survivol's include three other
sons Fred of Fay Lester of
California and Glen of Colora-
do and one daughter Mrs
Claude Woo ley of Phoenix Ariz
000
Oil Test Report
The No 1 Boyd Miller oil
test west of Thomas was col--
ing at 15509 feet in the Brom-
ide formation early Wednesday
morning
000
WCTU Will Meet
Friday Afternoon
The Custer-Thomas W C T
U will meet at the FALB
church in Thomas at 2:00 pm
Friday afternoon Mrs C D
Combs reports
The guest speaker will be
Henry Hayes Clinton former
county commissimer There will
also be special music and guest
from Arapaho and Clinton Mrs
L R Hoffman president of
the WCTU of Clinton will
also be present
Refreshments will be served
In the basement following the
meeting
All people who are interested
In this work are urged to be
present
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MRS ALVIS WINS
BONUS JACKPOT
Thomas merchants made a-
wards of $5 each last Saturday
to Carl Royalty and Martha
Christensen C S Dobbins 7'as
not present for his $5 award
Mrs Floyd Alvis claimed 30
percent of the Jackpot good for
$7800
This Saturday at 3:30 pm
local merchants will again oi-
fer three awards of $5 eaca
and up to 50 percent of the Jack-
pot which now contains $21000
Thomas Tied Weatherford
In Last Weeks Game
The annual homecoming foot-
ball game is slated for tonight
iThurs) with the Thomas Ter-
riers meeting the Okeene Whip-
pets on the gridiron and color-
ful halftime ceremonies by the
Thomas band The Custer school
band has also been invited to
participate
Crowning of the THS football
queens will be the highlight of
the halftime ceremonies Queens
this year are Francis Chitten-
den Priscilla Self and Elaine
Huckins Tr-Captains of the
Terriers are Gary Helzer Jac-
kie Friesen and Larry Crowd's
Okeene is fielding a good
squad this year and although
they have lost their first two
games of the season against
Fairview and Watonga they
are expected to give the Ter-
riers a rough game to win The
Whippets have four regulars
from last season on their team
this year
Weatherford-Thomas Deadlock
The Weatherford Eagles bat-
tled the Terriers to a 14-14
deadlock last Thursday night
before a large crowd at Wea-
therford It was a thriller from
start to finish and kept the fans
from leaving the stadium until
the final play was made
Weatherford QB Larry Hoff-
man opened the scoring with
only 35 seconds remaining in
the first period Their try for
the extra point failed and the
Eagles were in the lead 6-0
Thomas got back into the
game with two TD's in the sec-
ond period A-4B J E Jones
passed to Sam Hooper who car-
ried to the 3 yd line Steve
Caldwell then carried over for
the TD The try for the extra
point failed and the score was
tied 6-6
Thomas took the lead just be-
fore halftime as Quarterback
Jones flipped a pass to Jack
Friesen good for 20 yards and
a touchdown Caldwell carried
for the two-pointer and the Ter
riers led 14-6 at the intermis-
sion The third period went score-
less but with about five min-
utes gone in the four quarter
Eagle Quarterback Larry Hoff-
man sneaked over from two
yards out for Weatherford's se-
cond TD The drive had origin-
ated on the Weatherford 46
Climaxing the scoring Morris
carried on the two-point conver-
sion play to tie it up
Jack Friesen and Larry Crow-
dis were the work horses for
Thomas on both offense and de-
fense Coach Joe Ross stated
Better blocking and tackling is
needed before the Terriers will
be able to show much progress
and work is underway now to
improve their faults Ross sad
Victor porter Don Ely and Eu-
gene Medicene Chips are im-
proving and expected to bolter
the Terrier line
The game in figures:
Thomas W'ford
Score 14 14
Penetrations 2 2
First downs 10 12
Yardage 193 2013
Yds lost 21 23
Net yards 172 183
Pass interc 1 4
Penalties 3 for 35 6 for 50
Other grid scores last week-
end: Selling 38 Canton 0 Wa-
tonga 32 Okeene 22 Moorelani
24 Greenfield 6 Clinton 52 Elk
City 8 Crescent 8 Geary 0 El
Reno Booker T 20 Tuttle 8
and Shattuck 42 Alva B O
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Band Students Conclude
Magazine Subscription Sale
The Thomas band cleared
S25064 on their magazine sub-
scription sales that ended Mon-
day Melvin Westmoreland band
director announced this week
Students sold a total of $84062
with a gross profit of $30229
Two students Danny Payne
and Emmalita lirusenhan were
the top salesmen and were a-
warded flash camera kits cost-
ing $5165 leaving a net profit
of $25064
Receiving citation awards for
salesmanship were Marlene
Hansen Larry Brandt and 33:-
kie Brundage
Profits from the magazine
sales will go toward purchas-
ing senior band Jackets
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