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Volume 45
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Human Interest
By Fred R Kreiger
SHALL WE BE A PRODIGAL
NATION TO WELCOME THE
BOYS BACK HOME?
This life has been one epkh
after another for me as I have
ascended the hill of time to get
to the very peak—now able to look
down into the valley of tomorrow
where I can read plainly the in-
scriptioins On sign posts of the
road taat leads to eternity
The first thrill in my climb
of the ladder of time was a ride
on the mighty deep in a steam-
ship when I gazed into the tre-
mendous blue waters wondering
just why a man wasn't equippe(l
like a fish should he fall over-
board Then I experienced other
thrills viten I rode on my first
train and heard the first circus
band And when I saw the Ameri-
can soldiers coming through (yur
old home town on a special train
enroute to Cuba to enter the
Spanish-American War I had
great patriotic fervor
But this week as I stood in
front of the show window and
looked at the pictures of young
men of Cimarron county who are
in the armed service of our coun-
try today I experienced my great-
est emotion blended with pride A
great majority of them at least to
us oldsters have baby faces—
clean-cut unscarred youthful
unafraid and bouyant And as
looked at these boys most of them
my personal friends this thought
ran through iny mind: "Remem
be Hitler and Hirohito in the
Atule Ull do everyt)ing in my'
power to make you pay dearly for
4-ery scar you inflict on the coun-
tenance for every limb you man-1
gle and for every chest you
crush of this our select young !
ianhood of America"
And I'm wondering if the old'
parable of the Bible will be re-
versed when these young men
come "back home" to us? Will we
be the prodigal nation endeavor-
ing Feebly to prepare a feast for
them
From tlkis date tmJet us all re-
solve to lay aside all strife and
bickering profiteering and ra-
cketeering—and become cemented
as a unit to perpetuate the ideals
for ‘N i h these boys are now
fighting and that we may do our
part in the rehabilitation of the
world when the great conflict is
over
A LARGE FAMILY OF
FINE PEOPLE
The Bollinger family of Tyrone
is a prolific tribe Monday of this
week Mr and Mrs J J Bollinger
and three daughters Mrs Mildred
Barnes of Caldwell Kansas Mrs
Ethel Rogers of Gallup N M and
Mrs Marion Rush also of Gallup
a granddaughter Mrs Charley
Gillogly and a great-grandson'
James Hugh Gillogly of Gallup
visited at the home of another:
daughter of Mr and Mrs Bollin-
ger Mrs Grady Lucas in Boise
City where they all enjoyed a!
fine dinner Besides these (laugh-
tcrs and grandchildren Mr and
Mrs Bollinger are the parents of
tie following sons: Hugh W Bol-
linger a business man of Sacra-
mento California J J Bollinger
Jr general contractor for the fed-
eral governtnent with headquar
ters at Oklahoma City James R
Bollinger in the U S Navy head-
quarters at Washington D C and
William H Bollinger first lieu-
tenant in the U S Army at Fort
Bragg Mr and Mrs Bollinger
the parents have been residents!
of Tyrone for over a quarter of a'
century where Mr Bollinger was
in the mercantile business for
many years
Johnnie Good son of Mr and
Airs E J GocKI of Boise City has
a responsible position in the parts
department of the Douglas Air-
craft Corporation plant in Santa
Monica Calif In a letter to his
parents he states he likes his work
Of course his work has to do with
he production of flying equipment
for the armed forces of the nation
An effort is being 'made in
W'ashineton to outlaw the poll tax
law of several states Nvh ere the
pument of the tax is a prerequi-
Pite to voting for national officers
I've always contended that to pro-
hibit a person from voting for fed-
eral officers because of failure to
pay this tax in any subdivision of
the union is un-American
r-ong the scrap metal collected
by citizens of Stillwater were five I!
German field guns captured during
World War
'FHE
Sales Frozen
On Farming
linplements
Action Is Prelude
To Rationing of
Farm Machinery
Those who tried to buy new
pieces of farm machinery or equip-
ment within the past week found
no doubt that Uncle Sam has
placed control on such sales—a
prelude to rationing
Government agencies have de-
cided that the all-out agricultural
production program scheduled for
the coming year is so important
that it is necessary to place pre-
sent stocks uf new farm machin-
ery in the hands of farmers who
lieed it most Stocks of such equip-
ment Were ordered tern poraril y
''frozen" by the U S Agricultural
Department with the order to re-
main in effect until machinery for
rationing can be set up by the
USDA
1 Under the proposed rationing
plans details of each state will be
handled by state USDA War
Boards and in each county by the
County Farm 1Var Board of
(which the couuty AAA committee
chairman is head In addition to
the chairman the county rationing
committee will be composed of two
farmer members and their alter-
nates appointed by the County
War Board
The temporary rationing plan
classifies farm machinery and
equipment in three groups
Items in the first group (Group
A) include farm machinery vitally
i to current agricultural
needs and which hereafter may not
be sold by a dealer unless the
farmer has obtained a purchase
certificate from his county ration-
)1 committee—not the county war
price rationing board In this
group are included combines disc
harrows feed grinders grain
drills iilay balers milking ma-
chines beet lifters beet loaders
corn picker grain elevators lime
and manure spreaders milk cool-
ers pickup balers potato diggers
shredders and tractors (including
garden tractors)
In the second group (Group B)
are other farm machinery and
equipment not in the first group
and which may be sold on certili-
eation by the farmer to his dealer
that the equipment is essential for
current agricultural production
needs In the third group are such
items as (hand tools and smaller
horse-drawn equipment which may
be sold without restrictions The
temporary rationing plan does not
apply to repair
There are no restrictions on sale
or transfer of used farm machinery
equipment or repair parts
Eligibility requirements for
group A purchases include inade-
quacy of present equipment and
inability to meet farm production
goals by repairing or by purchas-
ing or renting used machinery or
by custom or exchange work A
purchaser must turn in replaced
equipment and agree either to rent
do custom wDrk or do cooperative
or exchange work with the new
machinery on specified terms and
conditions The purchaser must
present a satisfactory reason If
changing from horses or mule
power or from hand labor to
machinery
Applicants who are refused cer-
tification for machinery purchase
may appeal to the State USDA
War Board and then to the Special
War Board Assistant to the Secre-
tary of Agriculture
Circus Plays Here
Next Wednesday
Arrangements have been made
for the appearance in Boise City
Wednesday Sept 30 afternoon and
night of the Al G Kelly and
Miller Bros circus
Under spunsorship of the Meth-
odist Choir the circus comes to
Boise City highly recommended by
some of the towns in which the
show has played earlier this sea-
son Balancing acts aerial perform-
ers and other feature attractions
are said to be among the best
working in this type of show busi-
ness Management of the circus prides
itself in the fact that no obscene
or objectionable side shows or other
rackets usually found on a circus
lot are permitted by the company
The performances start at 2:00
and 8:00 p m with the doors
opening one hour earlier The
circus will use the fair grounds
FORMERLY THE CLMAIZRON NEWS
Boise City Cimarron County Oklahoma Thursday September 24 1942
Spy Gets 30 Years
School Milk
Plans Made
Herbert Karl Bahr convicted Ger-
man spy is led away to start his 30-
year sentence in a federal prison
He was sentenced at Newark N J
by Federal Jtu:ge W:Iliam F Smith
Bahr former Rensselaer (Ind) stu-
dent was arrested while posing as
a Jewish refugee on the diplomatic
exchange liner Drottningholm last
June
All County Children
Eligible To Benefits
Pointing out the benefits of the
School Milk program to farmers
and school children alike Carter
M Fears area supervisor for the
FSA ‘lms announced that all
schools in Cimarron county are eh-
gible for the program
All children in participating
schools are eligible for all the milk
they want each day the official
explained Milk used is purchased
locally with the Agricultural Mar-
keting Administration paying the
farmers' price and schools or
other sponsoring agencies assum-
ing responsibility for processing
bottling and delivery Children
able to pay may be charged up to
a penny a half pint to help pay
handling costs
"As a part of the nationwide
nutrition calopaign the program
is helping to build a stronger
America" Fears said "At the
same time necessary new outlets
are created for the vital increase
in milk production under the Food
for Freedom program"
Democrats Choose
State Delegation
The principal item of business
transacted in the Cimarron county
democratic convention held here
last Saturday was that of electing
delegates to the state convention
to be held in Oklahoma City Sat-
urday Mrs Homer Johnson Mrs Ed
Phillips and C E Strong are the
delegates elected and alternates
are Homer Johnson Raymond
Board and Julius Cox
Oklahoma's two United States
senators Elmer Thomas and Josh
Lee are scheduled to make speech-
es in the convention
The party's platform for the
November general election Nvill be
formed by the convention and it
is expected that most of Guber-
natorial Nominee Robert S Kerr's
primary campaign ideas will be
included
The general election campaign is
slated to open October 1 State
Democratic Chairman France Paris
says but activities will be curtail
ed this year because of a lack of
interest in state politics
Herbert Sweem
Dies At Chelsea
Herbert 11 Sweem 41 former
resident of Boise City and Elkhart
died in Chelsea Okla Sept 13
after an illness extending over a
period of two years friends learn-
ed this week
Known here as "Heavy" Sweem
he and his father F A Sweem
operated a shoe shop here follow-
ing the boom days of 1927
lie is survived by his widuw Eu la
B Sweem three daughters Rosa
Mae Betty Franci and Shirley
Ann and his mother Mrs Ger-
trude Sweem
OISE CITY NEWS
Cimarron
Utilities Co
In Merger
Operations Will Be
Under Sw Public
Service Company
Effective last Friday morning
the Cimarron Utilities company
became merged with the new
Southwestern Public Service Co
and hereafter its properties will
be operated as the "Panhandle
!Division of Southwestern Public
Service Company"
This is the culmination of efforts
on the part of thi)se financially
interested in the companies to form
a stronger and more diversified
operating- company financed with-
out aid Of holding companies and
standing on its ow n feet it is
pointed out by spokesmen for the
companies
They continued "It is not con-
templated that material changes
in tIle local personnel or operating
policies N'ill be made but it is
safe to assume that the new or-
ganization which has been approv-
ed by the Surities and Exchange
I Commission Mill be financially
strong and that the service to the
I people in this territory will be
I improved thereby"
t The transfer affects former
Cimarron Utilities properties in
Cimarron Texas Braver and Rog-
er Mills counties in Oklahoma
home offices Of the company
are in New York City
Blanks Will Be
Mailed By ODT
Owners of commercial vehicles
will be mailed blanks on which to
apply for the certificates of nec-
essity required by our for con-
tinucd operation of their vehicles
after November 15 Due to begin
about September 23 mailing of
the blanks will be completed in
time for each eligible operator to
oaain his certificate
Each application blank will be
accompanied by a self-addressed
envelope in which it is to be re-
turned to the central ODT mailing
office in Detroit Mich
Cream Sales
Schedule Cut
W P 13 Orders Buyers
On Three Day Service
Oklahoma City---Four thousand
man-days per week will be added
to the available labor supply
when the butter industry in Okla-
homa begins its three-day per
week buying schedule in two
thousand cream buying stations
on September 28 as recommended
by the War Production Board
Instead of buying cream from
producers six days a week the
cream stations will remain open
only on Tuesdays Thursdays and
Saturdays and farmers who pro
duce cream will be notified to sell
!their cream only on those days
Under this plan cream buyers
graders and testers will be avail-
able to perform other work (hiring
the remainder of the week the
War Production Board believes
Joe C Scott president of the
State Board uf Agriculture pre-
dicted that this telescoped buying
schedule would work no hardship
on most farmers and cream buyers
since the volume of cream bought
and sold can be handled in three
days per week when buyers and
sellers become familiar with the
routine
This revision in the butter in-
dustry operations in Oklahoma
came on recommendation of the
WPB after it had asked for sug-
gestions from the industry for
conserving labor rubber and gaso-
line Supervision of this new pro-
gram will be conducted by the
dairy division of the State De-
partment of Agriculture working
in conjunction with the Oklahoma
Butter Institute an organization of
state butter manufacturers
Other WPB-approved plans for
curtailing waste will be put into
operation later Scott said
lie pointed out that the release
of personnel from cream buying
duties on three days per week
would make approximately 1600-
000 additional manhours of labor
per year available to agricultural
and war industries
Some people just never learn
that it's a lot e2sier to push
something that's rolling than some-
thing standing still
'"1F
U S Signs Aid Pacts With Great Britain
!oAlt 01 —4
MR:
In a 1110VC designed to strengthen the bonds of unity between the U S
and four of its Allies a series of agreements was signed with Great Brit-
ain Australia New Zealand and the Fighting French Shown left to
right are: Sir Owen Dixon minister of Australia: British Ambassador
Halifax Secretary Cordell Hull and Walter Nash minister of New Zealand
FSA Lending Program
Liberalized For War
Group Purchase of Farm
Machinery Authorized
The small farmer is ill-equipped
and poorly prepared to meet the
demands of the war effort in the
opinion of Carl Rizley Rural Re-
habilitation Supervisor for the
Farm Security Administratbm in
Cimarron county
Also recognizing this critical
situation tne secretary of agri-
culture has directed the Farm Se-
curity Administration to shift its
the manpower of the small farmer
program to the war effort so that
can be utilized to the fullest ex-
tent according to Rizley
''It is expected that Farm Se-
curity's new wartime lending
program will release the man-
power of 500000 farmers for war
production" he said "The Cim-
arron county FSA office is ex-
pected to make a great many more
loans this year to farmers in this
county than ever before because
our lending program has been lib-
eralized and our program put on
a full wartime basis"
The county supervisor said that
the lack of equipment and replace-
ments has retarded production and
for this reason a share-the-machinery
program is to he re-emphasized
this year Loans to groups of
farmers to purchase machinery '0
be used cooperatively will be made
to farm operators in addition to
many other types of food produc-
tion loans
Loan funds are immediately
available to eligible borrowers in
Cimarron county to conserve feed
crops for current needs and future
use to increase the production of
dairy products beef and pork to
preserve food to purchase equip-
ment tools shelter for livestock
and poultry and many other pur-
poses Anxious to meet the immediate
needs rarm families as well as
to help 11 em get ready for in-
creased production next year Mr
Rizley invites all interested per-
sons to contact him at his office
in the courthouse in Boise City
All-Purpose Ration
Books To Printer
OPA last week sent to Lhe
printers the first of the nation's
all-purpose ration books designed
to provide a swift means for ra-
tioning of at least two major
groups of commodities for a min-
imum of six months Three more
ration books of similar character
are now in preparation by OVA
One hundred fifty million copies
of the new books will be printed
and probably will be ready for
distribution shortly before Christ
Wildcats To Clash
With Springfield
The Boise City high school Wild-
cats will open their football sea-
son Friday afternoon in a game
with Springfield Cole at Spring-
field The squad is light this season
but what the team lacks in weight
will probably be offset in speed
and the will to win Nine letter-
men are on the team this season
Kickoff for the Springfield
game will be at 2:30
The first home game on the
Wildcats' schedule will be October
2 with the Elkhart Kansas Wildcats
With the Men
In Service
ramzur:rm
Calvin Ehns of Kerrick Texas
arrived home Thursday for a visit
with relatives Calvin is stationed
at Fort Berating Ga
Vernon Witten who entered the
army Sept lfith at Fort MacAr-
thur Calif has been transferred
to the army air corps at Sheppard
Field Texas
A communication this week from
Royal White Jr states that he will
be stationed in Chicago until Jan
1 lie is in the Naval training
iichool there
- Earl McDaniel of Kerrick broth-
er of Misses Ina and Inez Mc-
Daniel graduated with the bomb-
ardier class at Midland Texas to-
day Earl la ilow a second lieu-
tenant in the Army Air Force
Rev and Mrs J P Groom are
in receipt of a letter from their
son John who is on board ship
somewhere in the Pacific John is
now a first class hospital appren-
tice and is enjoying his work
Marlin Henson who enlisted in
the navy Sept 3 is now stationed
at the U S Naval hospital at
Great Lakes Ill Marlin is a
Pharmacist's mate third class and
writes that he is thrilled with his
work
Paul llobgood second class sea-
man in the United States Navy ar-
rived Wednesday for a visit with
friends Ile has been in a hospital
in Norfo lk Va the past few
weeks suffering from a heart ail-
ment and expects his official dis-
charge from the service noon
Federal Auto Use
Tax Delinquent
11 C Jones collector of internal
revenue has announced that mo-
torists have been given their last
warning to post the Federal Auto
Use Tax Stamp on their motor ve-
hicles Beginning Monday Sept 21 the
owners of all cars or trucks which
do not have the stamp displayed
on the windshield and owners of
all motorcycles motor scooters
and other motor vehicles on which
the stamp is not displayed in some
conspicuous place will be referred
to the United States attorney for
prosecution Motorists who have
not bought the stamp are subject to
$25 fine and 30 days in jail and
those who fail to display the
stamp in accordance with the regu-
lations are subject to $25 fine even
though the stamp may be in their
possession or has been lost
Jones indicated however that
violators who could show just
cause why they should not be pro-
secuted would be given the privil-
ege of paying a $500 penalty as a
compromise to avoid prosecution
and the necessity of appearing in
court
"If the war is costing us a fear-
ful price it is also developing for
us new techniques and new abilit-
ies It is placing at our disposal an
industrial plant—a set of develop-
ed resources—that will simply be
beyond price We shall have the
most magnificent opportunity any
nation ever had"—Donald M Nel-
son chairman of the WPB
Number 12
Cooperation
Is Urged In
Scrap Drive
Every Individual
Can Help Enlarge
County Collection
Salvage collection the greatest
opportunity for civilian participa-
tion in the war will enter a new
phase next week with the opening
Monday of Oklahoma's newspaper
sponsored drive to collect every
possible pound of scrap metal in
the state and move it to collection
centers for shipment to the na-
tion's steel mills which will need
millions of tons of it before the
war can be won by the United
Nations
The job of supplying scrap to
the steel mills must be a never-
ending one until the war is won
but the ctmpaign opening Monday
is a special effort to cover a
three-weeks period in which school
children and every other individual
in the county are urged to take
part
War bond prizes totaling $4000
are being offered for the largest
collections MOO of this going to
the county turning in the most
scrap on a per capita basis Other
prizes are offered individuals
schools business firms and organ-
izations Every person in the
county is eligible to compete ex-
cept those connected with the junk
buying industry Every man wo-
man and child is urged to cooper-
ate in the campaign either indiv-
idually or through some organiza-
tion in his or her community Try
for some of the prizes but above
all help get the scrap to a local
buyer
Perhaps many of the folks are
tired hearing of scrap drives but
should we be? Isn't it asking
little enough of us who are at
home Hundreds of Cimarron
county young men are preparing
to go through a living hell for the
sake of home and country—some
have attready made the supreme
sacrifice or are undergoing the
unthinkable tonures of Axis
prison camps Even today the
United States Navy announced the
loss of two more warships in the
Solomon Islands area This rep-
resents the loss of some 275 lives
and the loss of thousands of tons
of equipment
Cimarron county can do no less
than a perfect job of getting its
scrap into the collection
Season's First Frost
In County Is Light
Cimarron county's temperature
hit a new low of 35 degrees for
the season last Sunday Some
signs of frost were seen on very
tender plants Little damage was
done to crops generally
High temperature for the week
came last Thursday when the mer-
cury reached 93 degrees
Only 06 of an inch of moisture
was recorded
Baptist Revival
Starts Sunday
A revival meeting will start at
the Baptist church in Boise City
Sunday and will continue until
Oct 11 Rev O L Dennis of
Tucumeari N 31 will conduct
the services
Rev W O Leach who had plan-
ned to be here for the revival be-
came suddenly ill at his home in
Oklahoma City Tuesday and will
be unable to participate
Orphanage Truck
Gathers Donations
Dan Curb field representative
for the Baptist Orphans Home at
Oklahoma City was here Monday
night and showed motion pictures
of activity at the home at the
Baptist church He came in the
big truck and a number of articles
were donated by Boise City peo-
ple to the home Also a cash of-
fering was given
RAILS WILL CO TO WAR
Rails from the Elkhart and
Santa Fe line which for more than
ten years carried produce and
cattle between Farley N M and
Boise City soon will go to war
under a WPB requisitioning order
WI'13 Chairman Donald M Nelson
stated the rails are urgently need-
ed in naval supply depots of the
Pacific coast In addition a large
amount of the 9S00000 feet of
track to be recovered will be used
to speed completion of the giant
new arsenal at McAlester Okla
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