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Okemah's
Golden 'Jubilee
April 22
Don't Miss This
AILY TLEAbEt
The Weather
Partly cloudy tonight and tomor-
row with occasional showers or
Thunderstorms in the East por-
tion Lows tonight 50s and 410s
II( E AM A H
Golden Opportunity
Giving Complete and Dependable Coverage of All New s of Interest to Okemah and Okfuskee County Residents
Volume 27 No 92
OFFICIAL CITY PAPER
THE OKE)d1AH (OKLA) DAILY LEADER TUESDAY APRIL 8 1952
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Boys Win Contest
Okemah's Future Farmers of America chapter and
Mason's 4-H club were successful in contests Monday to
tietermine which organizations would represent the coun
ti in the first national land judging contestMay and 2
in Oklahoma City
The Okemah FFA b o y s were competing against
chapters at Paden Weleetka and Mason and the Mason
441 boys were matching wits with the Bearden club The
' S FFA placings were in this order: Okemah Paden We
leetka and Mason
of the 75 entries in the contest
Okemah placed the six high men sRE compRomisE
Out of a possible 200-point score
Franklin -Moore tallied 183 for HINTED IN TALKs
first place and James Bennett and
David Westbrook scored 178 points
apiece Other Okemah chapter
boys among the six high were MUNSAN Korea Apr 8--411--
Jimmie Ponder Burton Williams Communist negotiators hinted to-
0 and Burl Rhyans in that order day they are ready to give in on
s Russia as a "Neutral Nation" to
"i' Three-man teams from t h e
Masop 4-H club and Okemah FFA
chapter will be allciwcd to enter
the national contest where they
will compete against other teams
i from all over the nation Harvey
' Russell vocational agriculture in-
structor said the composition of
the Okemah team is not definite
The Mason representatives will be
Wendell Baker Denny Fox and
Terrel Weatherly according to
Warren Jones assistant county
agent I
Each contestant was given
soil judging cards for various
fields Each field was judged
for surface texture a u bsoil
permeability depth of surface
soil and subsoil slope wind and
water erosion drainage and land
capability After the judging
was done the contestant had to
recommend soil conservation
practices to build up or main-
tain the soil
The master cards by which the
contestants were k graded were
"filled out before the contest by
Roscoe Long Holdenville district
' ioil specialist Jones and the fol-
' '1 iowing Votational agriculture ki-
' structors: tlarvey kusaell Oke-
mail Harry Frank Weleetka'llce
Holman Paden and Leslie An-
( derson Mason
Russell said today that he has
-1 4 beenr emphasizing the ' need for
i lanclJudging and soil conservation
practices in his classes "People
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should not underestimate the va-
k 2 lite of soil conservation or soil lin-
t i
i1 1 provement" he said In one way
or another nearly everything we
A have comes from the soil— We
101 stress livestock and crop improve-
1 ments but these are products of
ithe soil So if we improve the soil
we improve crops livestock and
4 the people"
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Ike Request for
Release Rumored
PARIS April 8-4ll—Officers at
Gen Eisenhower's headquarters
here today seemed to think the
general has asked to be released
from his' post as Supreme Allied
Commander in Europe although
no one wanted o be quoted
Officially - there was no com-
ment on a report published in the
New York Times that a letter
from Eisenhower asking for his
release is en route to Defense
Secretary Robert A Lovett in
Washington
"If and when any such iletter
were sent any comment on its
r contents would obviously come
frOm Washington" said a SHAPE
public relations officer
In Washington the Defense De-
' rimrtment declined comment on the
Times report
Induction Orders
Are Sent to Five
Five men who are registered
with the ckfuskee county Selec-
tive Service board have been ord-
ered to report for induction in
Oklahoma City on April 15 '
The five men are Stacy Deward
Little Byron Edward Sams Tom
Snell Lloyd Eugene Seaton and
Kytus Spears
DIVORCE FILED
Bernice Burdine has filed a pe-
- tition in the District court for di-
vorce from Loyd'Burdine
PADEN GIRLS WIN
The Paden high school girls'
softball team trimmed the Mason
'nine 12-10 in a game Monday at
Mason'
MUNSAN Korea Apr 8—al--
Communist negotiators hinted to-
day they are ready to give in on
Russia as a "Neutral Nation" to
help supervise a Korean truce if
the Allies would permit the Reds
to repair their airfields r
The hint was indirect It was so
broad it might have been overlook-
ed if Communist newsmen had not
previously said the Reds were
ready to make such a trade
The hint came from Chinese
Maj Gen Hsieh Fank in a 312
minute session of a subcommittee
of truce negotiators He was ex-
plaining why the Reds asked the
subcommittee to take the question
of truce supervision out of the
hands of staff officers
Hsieh said the purpose was "to
settle" the two key questions "to-
gether" U N Command negotiators took
no official notice of the hint Hsieh
did not elaborate and the meeting
adjourned
Almost simultaneously with the
brief meeting Gen Omar Brad-
ley speaking in Macon Ga said
be had great hope for a peaceful
settlement of the Korean war
The chairman of the U S joint
chits of staff denounced as ab-
surd the Red demand Soviet
kussia help pollee On armistice
Observers suggested the Reds
might be jockeying to get the U N
delegates to propose a trade The
Allies are waiting for the Reds to
make their moves :
On the War front Red artillery
s ails splashed all around the
American minesweeper Endicott
when she swept into Chongjin har-
bor 70 miles from Soviet Russia
the Navy reported today
Shore batteries tired 75 rounds
of 120-millimeter shells at the
converted destroyer the Navy
said and the Endicott was
"straddled many times" by the
shell bursts
The Endicott other U N war-
ships and planes from the U S4
aircraft c a rrier Philippine Sea
opened up on the Red' batteries and
silenced them The Navy's report
did not say whether the Endicott
was hit j
Warships furnished most of yes-
terday's action and today started
out the same way as clouds and
rain dampened air and round ac-
tion ' The U S Eighth Army reported
the Reds attempted three light
probes this m or ni n g along the!
ground front All were thrown
back
Fog and clouds were so thick
over Korea that not even weather
reconnaissanc c! planes took off be-
fore noon
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VAN FLEETS SON MISSING IN ACTION—Lt James A Van
Fleet Tr son of Gen James A Van Fleet Eighth Army com-
mander in Korea is listed as missing in action following a night
combat flight over North Korea according to Fifth Air Force offi-
dials It was yan Fleet's fourth combat mission in the Korean
theater The general's son is shown above with his wife the
former Yvonne Cloud Lewis at the time of their wedding at West
Point in 1948 (NEA Telephoto)
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UNDER THE MARINES' WING—An American Marine protec-
tively places his arms about two homeless Korean children as he
reads a plaque of dedication al the U S Marine Orphanage near
Pohang Korea Officers and enlisted men of the First Marine Air
Wing in Korea contributed over $3500 to pay for the orphanage
and the land on which it stands
THUNDERBIRDS ARE ENROUTE HOME
Twelve county Thunderbirds are enroute to the Uni- I same suggestio'ns to the UniOn
ted States in the second phase-out group of the 45th Di- The projected strike in steel al-
vision According to Jinformation sent the Leader by the ready has idled about 100000
division public information office workers That meant more than
Ten of the returning Thunderbirds are Okemahns 200000 were absent from work
In the nation's two major labor
one each being froom Bearden and Castle The group in-
disputes—steel and communica
rcludes: Hons
miNsTREL SHOW M rM taSngdt Mrs ADiparrdeeni
son Green of 1 f communications re ed n
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Okemah who served with the 1sY rtrike's against the Western Union
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Service company of the 180th in-
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I Telegraph Co the American Tele-
fantry as regimental supply ser-
! phone & Telegraph system and
geant While ' in Korea he was Western Electric Co manufactur-
A minstrel show will be staged awarded the combat infantry ing subsidiary of A T & T
Thursday night by adults or-the badge L: In all the disputes wages are the
Bearden community with pro- WOJG Richard D Hall km of chief issue
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1 cee s going to the senior class for Mr and Mrs Thomas Hall ' and f All shipments of civilian steel
its trip fund husband of Hazel Marie Hall Oke- were ordered frozen by the Nation-
'' " ' mah - member of the S' ervice 1 al Production authority which said
The show will be presented at it acted as a precaution to pre-
cOmparly ' Hall serVed as assistant 1
8 pm in the high school audi- adjutant of the 180th He Wears I serve steel for national defense
torium and admission prices are
15 25 and 35 cents Telephone service did not ap-
-- - the tömbat Infantry badge
- pear seriously affected by the
ausgt Murl Newton Cowan
7 Music dancing and skits will strikes which started yesterday
son of Mr and Mrs J L Cowan
comprise the minstrel which' will by 51 000 operators and clerks
and husband of Billie M Cowan o
be under-the direction of Miss Lo- with the A T & T in Michigan
- Okemah who has been regimen-
rene PetersonRalph Taylor
will bring a little grand ale opery Ohio New Jersey and Northern
tal operations ger eant with the I California At the same time IC-
180thp Cowan was awwarded ' a
group ' from Okfuskeo to furnish meritorious achievement medal 000 Western Electric company
music for the producti6n employes struck in 43 states and
' shortly before leaving Korea
Members of the cast include the the District of Columbia
Sgt Harry E Liles son of Mr
following: Mrs Ralph Casey Mrs and Mrs Richard Liles and hus-
Supervisory employees replaced
Roman Harjo Mrs Arthur Dun-band of Bobby Liles Okemah
regular long distance operators in
can! Mr and Mrs Floyd Shults Wearer of the combat infantry I some cities Dial service barring
Mr and Mrs Gaines Shults Mr badgel Liles served as regimental
' equipment breakdowns was not
and Mrs Paul Thomas Sherman truckmaster for the 180th !expected to be disrupted
Parker Kenneth Johnston Mr SFC John Edward Stafford I The strike by about 30000 mem-
and Mrs Van Shults and Harley son of Mr and Mrs G D Staf-
bers of the AFL Commercial Tele-
Dean Morrow ford Lindsay and husband of I graphers union against Western
1 Mrs O L Hamilton Mrs Har-Mrs John E Stafford Okemah
!Union Telegraph Co was in its
ley Morrow Mr Harley Johns- sixth day The company claimed
Stafford was supply sergeant and'
ton Ron Atkins Kenneth Epley regimental labor non-commission-
that service has been restored be-
Mr and Mrs Howard McDowell tween 82 key cities The union
ed officer He was with the Ser-
Mrs Melba Faulkener and Mrs vice company of the 180th
however disputed the claim and
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Edith Schafer Cpl Cecil Dallis Young son of Said the strike has "The Country
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Mr and Mrs J A Young Rt 4' sewed up" outside of New York
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KIWANIS SPEAKER Okemah Young was a member of where an independent union repre-
I Cnrrtnninv 14 nf tha Iftlith And Rpm- sents employes
Mr and Mrs Howard McDowell
Mrs Melba Faulkener and Mrs
Edith Schafer
KIWANIS SPEAKER
Rev Joe Ingram new pastor of
the First Baptist church will be
the guest speaker at the regular
meeting of the Kiwanis club to-
night at 6:15 in the Okemah Co!-
fee shop Program chairmen' are
A T Atwood and O D Bras —
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vice company of the 180th
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Cpl Cecil Dallis Young son of
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Mr and Mrs J A Young Rt 4'
I Okemah Young was a member of
Company H of the 180th and serv-
ed as mortar platoon transporta-
tion corporal
Mr and d
Sgt 'Howard 'Woods Jr son of
r- an Mrs! goward S WOods
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kemah Woods was a member of
the Medical company of the 180th regiment and served as a medical
aid man He wears the combat
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medical esagl t ibadge Lb eo Loveless 1
ess N Eary son
I Eary and husband
of er ru e Eary Okemah Eary
who wears the combat infantry
badge was first sergeant for the
Service company 180th
Sgt Timer C Barr son of
Mrs Dan Barr and husband of
Minnie Barr Okemah Barr
who served as cook with the
Service company 180th wears
a star on his combat infantry
badge He is an infantry veter-
an of World War
SFC Glenn E Clay son of Mrs
Edith Clay and husband of Vir-
ginia Clay Okemah Clay was a
member of the Service company
and served as food service techni-
cian Clp Lem ley Sands son of Mr
and Mrs John Sands and husband
of Iona Sands Castle Sands was
a driver for the Service company
He wears the combat infantry
badge
MSgt AVis E Hartsell son of
Mr and Mrs R iai Hartsell
Konawa and husband of Erma Jo
Hartsell Bearden Hartsell was a
member of the Service company
and served as regimental person-
nel sergeant major He wears the
combat infantry badge
ove n ton e n t Ready to Run
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ountry s Steel Industry
Decision up to
Scheduled for
By The Associated Press
Washington officials said today the Department of
Commerce is ready to operate the steel industry in the
event President Truman decides on government seizure
-A strike of 650000 steelworkers is set for midnight
tcnight
Commerce Secretary Sawyer flew from Detroit to
Washington today on the President's orders to lend a hand
in the situation A spokesman for the Office of Defense
Mobilization said the President wanted Sawyer back to
advise on government policy He described seizure as only
one of several possibilities
Other officials said seizure or- mANy IGNORE wu
ders have been drafted but there
apparently had been no definite de-
cision to seize the industry
Meantime Nathan Feinsinger sTRIKEIN ciTy
wage stabilization board chairman
intensified government efforts to
prevent the strike He met in New I OKLAHOMA CITY April 8
York with steel industry execu- irt)--A back-to-work movement
tives where he made "suggestions" was reported here today by the
as a basis for settlement strikebound Western Union office
He said he planned to offer the while the telephone installers
same suggestions to the union strike entered its second day
The projected strike In steel al- without serious effect on corn-
ready has idled about 100000 munications
ready has Idled about 100000 munications
workers That meant more than Frank J Rohrer Western Union
200000 were absent from work superintendent said more em-
In the nation's two major labor ployes were on the job today than
Hons
disputes—steel and communica- yesterday and business was pick-
1 ng up
In communications approximate-
Y 97000 workers are involved in "We have plenty of help and
trikes against the Western Union are getting along in good fashion"
'elegraph Co the American Tele- Rohrer said
hone & Telegraph system and Spokesmen for the striking
Vestern Electric Co manufactur- AFL Commercial Telegraphers
lg subsidiary of A T & T union could not be reached for
In all the disputes wages are the comment But the union yester-
hief issue day admitted more of its mem-
All shipments of civilian steel hers were ignoring the national
ere ordered frozen by the Nation- strike here than any other of-
1 Production authority which said fice in the country
acted as a precaution to pre- Earl Ellis president of the CTU
erve steel for national defense local estimated two-thirds of
Telephone service did not ap- some 70 workers were off the job
pear seriously affected by the There were no figures from the
strikes which started yesterday company The Tulsa office claims
by 51000 operators and clerks the company handled 23 per cent
with the A T & T in Michigan of norndal business volume yester-
Ohio New Jersey and Northern
California ay Operations are restricted over
alifornia At the same time 16-
most of the rest of the state
)00 Western Electric company
tmployes struck in 43 states and Meanwhile installation work
the District of Columbia both at telephone exchanges and
Supervisory employees replaced on the television microwave relay
agular long distance operators in system between here and Dallas
)me cities Dial service barring was at a standstill for the second
uipment breakdowns was not day due to the strike against
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xpected to be disrupted Western Electric
The strike by about 30000 mem-
The full impact of the walk-
ers of the AFL Commercial Tele-
out of CIO Communications
raphers union against Western
Workers of America is expect-
nion Telegraph Co was in its ed to be felt tomorrow when
xth day The company claimed
nationwide picketing is sched-
lot service has been restored be- uled
veen 82 key cities The union Fellow CWA members working
awever disputed the claim and for Southwestern Bell Telephone
lid the strike has "The Country Co have announced their inten-
?wed up" outside of New York tion to respect picket lines which
here an independent union repre- may be set up all over the state
mts employes as was done two years ago
The union
tween 82 key cities
however disputed the claim and
Said the strike has "The Country
sewed up" outside of New York
where an independent union repre
sents employes
Emergency Power
Extension Okayed
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WASHINGTON April 8---4P1-- The House Judiciary committee
today approved a 60-day exten-
sion of President Truman's war-
time emergency powers Leaders
hope to speed it through the house
before recessing Thursday
Truman sent congress an urgent
request yesterday for an extension
of his emergency powers includ-
ing authority to seize and operate
the Tailroads until congress can
act on a long-term extension
iThen telephone communications
were disrupted by small bands of
Emergency Power roving pickets who paraded in
Extension Okayed front of manually operated ex-
changes just long enough to get
WASHINGTON April I union operators to leave jobs
The House Judiciary committee Long distance service likewise has
today approved a 60-day exten- hampered at dial exchanges
sion of President Truman's war- I Union officials here have an-
time emergency powers Leaders notinced plans for the same
hope to speed it through the house strategy once again
before recessing Thursday
Truman sent congress an urgent '
request yesterday for an extension TruckersCharged
of his emergency powers includ- w-th Drunk Driving
-
ing authority to seize and operate " i
the railroads until congress can A Russellville Ark truck driv-
act on a long-term extension ler was arrested for drunken driv-
i ing Monday night by Trooper Cal-
HOSPITAL NEWS
vin Bingham after his truck turn
I ed over in a ditch 99 miles east
MEMORIAL I of Okemah
Admissions: Edith W i t h a m I
According to Bingham Perry E
Felix Tucker J M Gettings Mrs 'Stacy the driver had pulled the
Lee Rowan Mrs J C Purcell truck over on the shoulder and
Mrs Leroy Bath and Natt D Dos- went over too far his truck land-
sey t ing on Its top He was hauling
Dismissals: Gene Deel Jess Mc- ! hardwood 1
Kinnon Mrs Martin McLemore I Charges of drunken driving
and infant son Paulann Osborne wer filed today by Coleman Nol-
Judy Heffington Bobby Cox en county attorney
Mary Purcell Troy Bogle Mrs
Roy James and Mrs Lee Rowan
and infant son PURCHASE MADE
The spades of the Ford tract-
EARNEST SELECTED I or and Dearborn Farming Imple- I
The city council selected J J I ment company have been purchas- I
Earnest Jr as new superintend-ed from Ira Cowan by J S and
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ent of utilities in the regular Lewis Fisher it was announced
meeting last night ' today !
Earnest replaces Hoyt Mogridge 1 The products will now be hand- I
who resigned from the post April I led in Okemah by the Fisher Mo- !
tor company j
Truman Strike
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BOON TO WINDOW WASHERS—Window washers will ride up
and down to their jobs on the 24-story Lever Brothers Building
in New York The completely air-conditioned building has sealed
windows so architects designed a trolley above from which Is
suspended an elevator which gives access to all four sides of the
building Vertical rails set into the building's side guide the car
which is under nush-Putton eontrol of the men ridine the niatfewm
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ORA FOX SEEKS
FUNDS FROM OLD
OKLAHOMA City Apr8--4A1-- A
drive for funds to work for the pro-
posed 3 per cent sales tax to be
voted upon next November has
been launched by Ora J Fox state
president of Welfare Federation
Inc
Fox' letter to old age assistance
recipients says that the election
campaign will be expensive and
that the group's finances are ex-
hausted Fox sponsored initiative peti-
tions calling for the 3 per cent tax
an increase from the present 2
per cent It has been tipheld by the
courts and will go on the Novem-
ber ballot in all probability
Fox' letter said in part:
"Our pension bill will be on the
ballot this year but if we do not
launch a big campaign for the bill
no doubt it will be defeated and
pensions will not be increased
"This is what you should do now
Place two dollars in the enclosed
envelope and mail at once and let
me get started on this campaign
for this bill"
Wilbourn Honored
At Tulsa Banquet
A W Wilbourn Okemah was
one of the 30-year employees of
the Texas company who were hon-
ored at a banquet in Tulsa Sat-
urday night
The banquet was also held to
observe the 50th anniversary of
the company
MASONS TO MEET
The regular meeting of the Oke-
mah Masonic lodge will be held
tonight at 8 according to Doyle
Donaghe worshipful master
The change in meeting time ef-
fective tonight will remain in ef-
fect through the spring and sum-
mer months
RESIGN AT MIDWAY
Mr and Mrs Earnest Riddle
teachers at the Midway school for
the past five years have resign-
ed to teach at Lone Star Their
resignations will become effective
at the end of the present school
term
PAPER DRIVE
'rhe Okemah high school senior
class will conduct a paper drive
on Friday April 18 Okemahns are
asked to leave paper on their
porches and it will be called for
Pioneer Pastor
Dies on Monday
I Rev William Stoddard 79 whq
was born in Okfuskee county
died Monday in his home near
Okemah Services will be held at
I pm Friday at the Montezuma
Indian Baptist church near Hay-
donville of which Stoddard
was pastor for 48 years
The pioneer minister leaves his
widow Mrs LrusLnna Stoddard
of the home f ur daughter Mrs
Mamie Tecu-isch and Mrs Gladys
1 Mouss both of Okemah Mrs
I Estilline Eu:lett Okmulgee and
1 Mrs June Panoske Oklahoma
City rnld three grandchildren
! Re-! A W Hancock McAlister
I will officiate at the services He
will be assisted by Rev Coleman
C Lewis Eufaula Interment will
be in the family cemetery The
Barry Funeral home is in charge
of arrangements -
Two Okemahns Will
Attend Speech Clinic
Charlotte Standby daughter of
Mr and Mrs Roger StandleY: :and
Kent Kennedy son of Mr and
Mrs Gail Kennedy will attend a
I four-week speech clinic in June
and July at the University of Ok-
lahoma I The students were admitted to
I the special clinic on the bas of
!recommendation of Mrs Mary
1McGraw Okemah high ZiLlIonl
speech and English instructor -
1
OC Market
OKLAHOMA CITY Apr a-M-
(USDA)--Cattle 2450 Calve i 100
Several 'loads and lots goott And
choice steers 3100-3150 Utility
and commercial cows 195d-2250
Utility and commercial bulls 2300-
2600 Good and choice killing
calves 3000-3400
WU
Hogs 1150 Fairly active mostly
25 lower few early sales steady at
1725
Sheep 500 Market active and ful-
ly steady Choice to prime spring
lambs 2950-3000
SPECIAL SERVICE
A special service will be held
Easter Sunday at the Highway
Mission north of Castle on State
highway 27
COMMITTEE MEETING '"
The entertainment comma&
for Okemah's Golden Jubilee will
meet at 7:30 tonight at the Oke-
mah cafe
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