The Granite Enterprise (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 60, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 11, 1959 Page: 1 of 8
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Malcolm Morris
Granted Scholarship
Norman (special)—Malcolm Mor-
ris Granite who will receive his
Masters degree in Business Admin-
istration from the University of
Oklahoma in August has been
granted a $2200 scholarship for
Doctoral studies at the University
of Indiana Dr Horace B Brown
dean of the College of Business Ad-
ministration has announced
Morris will teach marketing at
Indiana while studying for his doc-
toral degree He is the son of Mrs
G V Morris Granite Morris earned
his bachelor's degree also at the
University
This is the second such fellow-
ship granted by Indiana University
to University of Oklahoma market-
ing students Norman Kangrun Der-
e'en New Jersey who Traduated In
-May receved a $1000 seholarshin
to wrorle toward a Masters dea-ree
In Marketine at the University
a As an undergraduaie Morris was
ravil ROTC scholar and served In
the armed services after 1113 bach-
elors devree Het was active in the
TYlen'pt glee club on the Norman
campus and a member of the Pi
-Kappa 'Alpha social fraternity
'Blue Cross-Blue Shield
Enrollment Open
- 'A "Non-Group Membership" en-
rollment drive for those unable to
join Blue Cross and Blue Shield hog
pital and medical care plans through
an "employee-group" was announced
today for Greer County residents by
Bob Hudson area representative
The drive will begin today and
continue through June 22 1959 Dur-
In that time additional Information
about non-group membership in Blue
Cross and Blue Shield may be ob
tabled from enrollment centers lo-
cated at: '
First National Bank Guarantee
State Bank City Hall S D Gray
Ins office Chamber of Commerce
office and Southwest Baptist Hos-
pital all in Mangum First National
Bank and Granite Enterprise in
Granite Lake Creek Store north of
Granite Day's Grocery and John-
SOWS Grocery in Russell First State
Bank Willow Bill Boyd Grocery
Reed or most any doctor's office in
Greer county '
'These enrollment centers are
serving the best Interests of the
community in making space avail-
sble for the little packets of Blue
' Cross and Blue Shield information
t- We deeply appreciate their help in
- this effort so that residents of this
county may have available to them
the best healh care proection plan
' offered" the area representative
stated
"Non-Group membership enroll-
ments are held so that county resi-
dents who work where there are
-fewer than 10 employees may en
roll" he said Residents who are
self-employed—such as farmers den-
tists lawyers "between-job" con
struction workers and architects—
along with retired or unemployed
persons are also Included as eligible
for non-group memberships
Employees of the 'United States
government civil or military may
enroll as '"non-group" members
since the government does not at
this time make payroll deduction
possible through which they can en-
roll as "employee groups"
Those who qualify and are under
135 as of the effective date of mem-
bership may enroll
The first quarterly or monthly
dues are not payable until the ef-
fective date The effective date of I
' membership for those enrolled Is t
August 1 1959 -
Once enrolled members may con- r
tinue their coverage in the Plans I
past age 65 "They must be under
65 at the time of the original en
rollment however" he said 3
County residents who work for
firms with 10 or more employees
may only enroll In Blue Cross and b
Blue Shield through an "employee s
group" at their place of employ- 0
ment Blue Cross and Blue Shield t
employee groups may be formed by h
tin employer at any time" be stated h
In effect Blue Cross and Blue r
Shield are owned by the members
who subscribe to or join it The two
boards of trustees representing the T
public doctors and hospitals control I
the Plarl and act In the member's
name As a further means of main-
taining a close contact with individ- I
ral members he reported Member
Councils have been organized In each
of Oklahoma's 77 counties n
These Councils are composed of a al
representative group of county citi-
zens At the meetings Blue Cross 1
and Blue Shield personnel and local 11
members exchange views and dis-
cuss the programs
"Certainly with this excellent pro- 01
tection and service it Is no wonder g
that there are now more than 50- S'
n00000 Americans covered by Blue tc
Cross and Blue Shield" the Blue
Cross and Blue Shield representative G
hi
concluded
THELMA OLIVE Reader
MARILYN BOYD' Pianist
Church Auditorium
June14pm1959
2 :00
—PROGRAM—
But the Lord is Mindful of Hi3 Mendelssohn
From "St Paul" ' ' -
Come and Trip It Frederick Handle'
From 011Aliegm Ill iensieroso ed Ii Moderato"
Love Has It Bishop
Let My Song Fill Your Heart ---Ernest Charles
Tulips- 1' Harry Robert Wilson
Th1ips
The First Baptist Church
of
Granite Oklahoma
—presents--
Lillian Stump Carver
MEZZO-SOPRANO
—assisted by—
A Coquette Conquered Paul Lawrence Dunbar'
Mary Stuart —:Arranged from the dram's by'SchIlling
: Mother Goes Athletic---------------Alice Evans
Out of My Soul's Great SuccesS—' —–Robert Franz -
Clorinda ---
-BULLETIN-Mrs
E R McCurdy phoned the
Enterprise Wednesday to report
that Donna Babek 7-year-old girl
was run ' over by a truck Tuesday
morning and in a critical condition
In the Southwest Baptist Hospital
at Mangum
Donna is the daughter of Mr and
Mrs Leon Babek of the Lake Creek
community
Full details were not available
but Mrs McCurdy said she under-
stood the girl was riding on a load
of wheat on a truck and when the
truck turned a corner the girl lost
her balance and fell to the ground
in front of the back wheels that
ran over her
Doyle Boyd s Adopt
Korean Girl
Mr and Mrs Doyle Boyd of VI-
nita Okla anounce the adoption of
an eight-month-old daughter named
Keron Kay The young lady weighs
18 pounds and was born Sept 9
1958 in Korea She is blue eyed and
has brown hair
Mrs Boyd went by car with an-
other lady to Portland Oregon to
get the girl that came in by plane
She was one of 121 babies brought
to the United States for adoption
Mr and Mrs Gradus Johnson of
Granite spent the weekend in the
home of Mr and Mrs Boyd and
got acquainted with the new grand-
daughter Mr and Mrs Boyd have three
other children all boys Mark 9
1rohn Pat 7 and Kevin 2
TO HOSPITAL
--- Orlando Morgan
When I bring to you colour'd toya—John Alden Carpenter
Sigmund Romberg
One Fine Day (tin be! Ruccinl
From oMme Butterfly'
Lillian Carver is a former pupil of Jack Lyall Merle Taft'
and Helen Edwards She is now director of music for the First
Baptist Church and instructor of music in the Granite Public
School
Thelma Olive is speech and English tescher in the Granite
Public School
Marilyn Boyd is a former student of Mrs James D Murphy
and at present is a senior in the Granite Public School
Porter Cannatly Busy
Killing Rattlesnakes
Porter Cannady farmer living 3
miles west and VAN north of Gran-
ite has been pretty busy the last
couple of weeks doing a job he does
not particular relish—that of kill-
ing rattlesaakes
Porter has killed four thLs year
all in the past two weeks By count
the snakes had 9 rattles 6 5 and 4
The last one the biggest had the
9 rattles and was as big around
ag Porter's forearm Mrs Cannady
had been out in the yard and as
she walked by the snake gave a
buzz yarning She told Porter who
immediately fetched the shotgun and
sent the big rattler to reptile heaven
via buckshot route
Not too long ago Porter and a
helper wcre putting in posts Por-
ter picked up a post right off a
rattler's back and collecting his
wits after smoothing down the
straight up hair on his head he
killed that mister by cutting his
head off with a shovel -
Two of the snakes were found in
the yard and two in the field this
year
This is not Porter's first experi-
ence with the crawling pieces of
poison lightning The first year they
lived there—in 1941—he killed 30
of the unwanted reptiles
Tom Adams was admitted to the
Southwest Baptist Hospital Man-
gum last 'Mir 3day night as a med-
ical patient He was taken by Irwin
ambulance
At The Kozy—Sat Nite Sun' Mon
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JACK LEMMONI
ERNIE KOVACS!
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Sales Tax Off Feed
me 0 vs OW S 'kW La ab '10 a 1141y
Used implenients
I Farmers of Oklahoma no longer
must pay sales tax on feed and on
the trade-in value of used farm
machinery provided they sign a
statement certifying theyare using
those materials to produce goods
for human consumption 1
The official announcement came
from the Oklahoma Tax Commis-
sion effective June 1 as they
rushed frantically to get the ex-
emption forms and instructions to
dealers Over the state following a
Supreme Court decision May19 on
the contested law according to Ok-
lahoma Farm Bureau
Decision did not become final un-
til May 22 when remaining legal
technicalities about the protested
referendum petitions were cleared
away and the Tax Commission gave
the official go-signal to dealers to
exempt the farm items even though
they were not completely ready to
administer the new law
The sales tax exemption climaxes
a battle started in 1943 by Okla-
homa Farm Bureau Joined in recent
years by other farm organizations
The law was passed in 1957 but a
referendum petition by pension pro-
moter Ora J Fox had kept it tied
up for two years
Farm Bureau President Lewis
Munn said the petition by Fox had
Cost the six cooperating farm or-
ganizations in excess of $20000
plus thousands of man-honrs of
work In circulating a counter-petition
and in checking the validity
of the Fox petition Other farm or
ganizations active on the measure
were the Oklahoma Cattlemen's As- I
sociation Oklahoma Farmers Union 1
Oklahoma State Grange Okla Milk
Marketing Federation and Okla-
llama Poultry Improvement Associ-
ation plus some local commodity
groups
additicat Vox cost the wet-
fare funds nearly $2 millions in the 4
past two years by his action The I
bill reallocated sales tax revenue I
giving welfare 99 per cent instead I
of 97 per cent or aflout $t millions
more per year The welfare fund I
has not gotten the money because
of the Fox petition" I
The tax commission said dealers
are being furnished with samples of
forms to ) e signed by farmers
when they buy feed and farm ma-
chinery (with a trade-in)
The new law provides that farm- 1
era must certify they will use the c
exenpt items in the production of
goods for human consumption OTC 8
said dealers will be short of the
Nails until they get a supply print- c
ed or mimeographed but that they (
can write the needed information on c
their regular invoices during the d
Interim
Thus Oklahoma law finally rec-
ognizes farmers as "manufacturers" c
of food and fiber Other industries f
manufacturing goods for resale have
been exempt from the tax for many
years on the premise that the fin- 1
ished product would be taxed at re-
tail Goods bought by state mer-
chants for resale likewise do not
bear a sales tax until sold at re-
tail Munn predicted the new law will c
benefit merchants in border coun-
ties substantially since many farm- T
ers living near the border have been ti
able to drive over the line to pur- g
chase at a two per cent discount II
"The effects will not be as great a
as we would like since everything
except feed and farm machinery E
still bears a sales tax However this w
will put us on nearly an even corn- tz
petitive level with Kansa and Ark-
ansas'l a
He said Missouri and Texas will tx
continue to attract a lot of farm 01
trade from Oklahoma since Miss -()art
exempts all farm raw mater- la
Isis from the tax and Texas haa
no sales tax
Originally Farm Bureau had st
asked the legislature to exempt
feed seed fertilizer farm chemi-
cals baby chicks and farm ma- o(
chinery from the tax but the legis- g
lature trimmed the hot issue down to
to Only feed and the trade-in value to
of farm machinery
GREER COUNTY LISTED
FOR ROAD PROJECT
Greer 'county is included in a rec-
ord number of rural road improve-
ments the state highway commis-
sion has aproved for county com-
missioners and forwarded to the
US Bureau of Public Roads for re-
view and concurrent action
The deluge is made up of 25
projects exclusive of several that
provide for railway crossing flash-
in light signals according to Geo
L Johnston state highway depart-
ment farm-to-market road engineer
Engineer Johnston says the pro-
posals are for 65 miles Of construc-
tion in which 498 miles provide
hard surracing and six bridge and
culvert jobs
Total estimated cost is $1028700
Greer county is listed for 3 miles
rradIng drainage paving from 35
miles northwest of Willow west at
an estimated cost of $54200
Will Make Trip
Around The World
heat Harvest
bout Fifth
FORMER RESIDENT DIES -
Funeral services were held Satur-
day from the Capitol Hill Funeral
Home for E L Watkins a former
employee at OSR Me Watkins died
Thursday - ' '
New Marriage Law
Changes Requirements
Ruth Miller Court Clerk reports
that the New Marriage Law effec-
tive June 2nd 1959 seta up ' the
following general requirement to
be net by persons applying for a
marriage license
When applying for a marriage li-
cense both parties must personally
appear before the Court Clerk with
certificates of blood test and proof
of age and identity A certified copy
of a birth certificate a current
motor vehicle operator's chauffeur's
or commercial license or current
voter's registration certificate (with
full name day month and year of
Li"th shown) are acceptable proof
Males under the age of twenty-
one years and females under the
age of eighteen years when apply-
ing for a license must be accompan-
ied by parent or guardian who
signs the consent before the court
clerk
If parent or guardian is unable
by reasnn of health or incapacity
to be present in person a certificate
of a duly licensed medical doctor or
osteopath certifying that such dis-
ability exists acknowledged before
a notary public and presented with
the written consent of parent or
guardian acknowledged in the same
manner the license may issue
If one or both of the parties to
married are under age such ap-
plication must be on file three (3)
days in the office of the Court
Clerk before the license can be Is-
sued (The day application is filed
and the day the license is issued
are both excluded from the three
day period)
When both parties pre over the
age of twenty-five (25) years on
joint application by the parties
showing an emergency exists the
County Judge if satisfied by medi-
cal testimony may make an order
dispensing with the blood test
Fee for marriage license is $500
and the license is valid only in the
county in which it is issued and
for a period of ten (10) days
Mrs Opal Hunt formerly Miss
Opal Mullamuc of the Lake Creek
community leaves Oklahoma City
Thursday June 11 on a trip around
the world She will fly to Los An-
geles then continue on to Honolulu
In China she will visit a mission-
ary friend Miss Lucy Smith
Miss Smith is from the Olivet
Baptist church in Oklahoma 'City
where Mrs Hunt is church secre-
tary It is in China that she will join
a conducted tour for the rest of the
trip From Tokyo she will visit
other Chinese cities and the Phil-
lipines Singapore Indonesia Thai-
land India and Nepal Egypt Jor-
dan and the Holy Land Turkey
Greece Italy France Germany
Switzerland and Belgium
She has written her cousin Mrs
Wiley Copelln that her passport
covers every country except Hun-
gary and that she wants very much
to go into Russia The trip will
take three months
Mrs Hunt is the daughter of the
late Mr and Mrs John Mullanax
Greer county pioneers Mrs Malan-
ax was a Granite resident for many
years
Mrs Hunt i3 a graduate of the
Brinkman high school
ver
Wheat farmers in this part of the
county were hoping the hot south
wind that started Wednesday morn-
ing would keep it up for a few days
and thus dry out the wheat that
as of Wednesday was still too wet
to harvest Temperatures went into
the 903 and the wind Was dry a
change of the past week when the
humidity was high and the air cool
delaying ripening of the golden
grain
With less than 10 cars shipped as
of noon Wednesday the crop is esti-
mated at Only about 20 percent fin-
shed ' '
By this timo next week though if
the weather cooperates the harvest
should be fifty percent complete ac-
cording to observers
Yields were running from very
sorry to very good depending from
where the wheat was harvested-
Reportm ef up to 28 bushels per
acre have been heard yet others
barely getting &led back A lot of
wheat was plowed - up being such
a poor stand
Apparently the weather is being
kind to cotton farmers with most
of them reporting good stands Now
clear skies and sunny weather is
providing Just the right mixture at
the strategic moment
Wheat being brought in is testing
good with 60 or better
June Roberts Attends
Girls State Meeting
Chickasha (special)--Miss June
Roberts Granite daughter of Mr
and Mrs Henry Roberts has been
elected chairman of the Boomer
party ' in Akin city at Oklahoma's
1959 Girls State which opened Sat-
urday on Oklahoma College - for
Women campus under auspioes of
Oklahoma Department of American
Legion Atudliary
Upon arriveng on the OCW cam-
pus each of the 390 delegates Wa3
ai3signed to a city and drew for
membership In either the Boomer
or Sooner party
This year Girls State for the first
time has 13 cities to take care of
the slightly larger attendance Girls
State has two permanent cities
Reed and Akin The remaining 10
cities are named for the Immediate
Ipast 10 state presidents Of Okla-
homa's American Legion Auxiliary
Permanent cities are named for
Mrs Willis C Reed of Vinita past
national president of the Auxiliary
and the late Mrs L D Akin of
Shawnee who was state auxiliary
president the first year Girls State
was held
Mrs W A Biggert of El Reno
past state president of the awdi-
lary and a past director of Girls
State has been named 1959 direc-
tor by Mrs Roy McAlister of Ard-
more current 0!clahoma Auxiliary
president
Dr Samuel W Evans head of
the history department at OCW is
serving his 14th year as educational
director for Girls State which is one
weeks' intensive program in prac-
tical government
During the week Girls Staters
will move from city party to city
to county to state government
with each division to be placed in
operation as the program advances
Miss Roberts is being sponsored
at Girls State by the American Le-
gion Auxiliary in Granite She is a
Junior In high school Granite
Vacation Bible School
Open House Sunday
Greer county pioneers Mrs Man-
ax was a Granite resident for many The Methodist church Daily Va-
years cation Bible School Open House will
Mrs Hunt is a graduate of the be held Sunday morning after ser-
Brinkman high school vices according to Mrs Bud Henry
superintendent of the children's de-
partment at the church During the
SPECIAL MEETING OF services Sunday morning several
numbers will be given by the Bible
EASTERN STAR CHAPTER School students
The school started Monday morn-
Mrs J T Penhall has announced
ing of this week and will continue
a special meeting of the Order ' of
through Friday morning There were
Eastern Star Granite chapter will
35 in attendance at Tuesday morn-
be held Tuesday June 16 in the
ing's session Ntrs Henry said The
hall All members are urged to be
students have been working on
present for this meeting and all
handcraft making birds trees and
visiting Eastern Stars invited
finger-painting
Hostesses for the social hour will
A sack lunch picnic will be held
be Mrs Fred Jackson Mrs Jess
Friday morning on the public school
Banks and Mrs Dill Lott
playground so the children- may
use the school playground equip-
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Mrs henry issued an invitation to
Mr and Mrs Chralie Christian all to attend the open house Sun-
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McCurdy, Mrs. E. R. The Granite Enterprise (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 60, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 11, 1959, newspaper, June 11, 1959; Granite, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2135047/m1/1/?q=+%22Latimer%22: accessed July 5, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.