The Oklahoma County News and The Luther Citizen (Jones City, Okla.), Vol. 58, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 29, 1959 Page: 1 of 12
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Fifty-Eighth Year
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With the Editor
Postmasters of Oklahoma
county have been advised that
all United States Attorneys
have been alerted to a growing
number of schemes victimizing
the public and have been in-
structed to cooperate with post-
al inspectors to press prosecu-
tion whenever violations of fed-
eral criminal statutes have been
disclosed
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Among the schemes that may
be of special interest to mem-
bers of this community are:
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Offers to act as agents—The
swindler offers to perform serv-
ices which will aid the victim
in his attempt to negotiate a
particular transaction An ad-
vance fee is paid and no serv-
ices of appreciable value are
ever rendered
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Vending machines—The pros-
pect of obtaining large profits
in return for a relatively minor
investment and no physical labor
is often irresistible Swindlers
find it relatively easy to sell
vending machines by overexag-
gerating the profits that can be
realized by the sale of candy
peanuts etc
Work at home schemes—This
type of scheme creates the be-
lief that there is a ready and
substantial market for cer-
tain goods which can be produc-
ed at home The victim purch-
ases the machine and the swindl-
er who promised to purchase
and resell any goods produced
disappears when he receives pay-
ment for the machine
Easy-to-win contests — These
contests usually are an invita-
tion to the public to win a
-"prize" by the performance of
a relatively simple task For ex-
emple an advertisement shows
a woman attired in a polka dot
dress a cash prize is to be a-
warded to the person who cor-
erctly counts the number of
polka dots a feat requiring no
more than a mastery of elemen-
tary arithmetic All entrants of
course are winners and are
told to call for their prizes The
winner then learns that his
''Cash prize" can be obtained
only as ft credit against the
purchase of merchandise sold by
the advertiser In spite of the
credit the prize actually paid is
-usually more than the cost of
the merchandise if purchased
elsewhere and is often of an
inferior quality
Our readers may be interested
to know we refuse hundreds of
dollars of this type of advertis-
ing each month and have been
refusing it for a long time
Some publications publish this
sort of advertising all the time
but we think more of our sub-
scribers than to do so
Women's eyes are peculiar—
they can spot a blonde hair on
a husband's coat at ten paces
but can't find a garage door
opening
We're in Favor of Putting All Crooks Where They Belong—in Jail—Not in Office
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and TIIE LUTHER CITIZEN — Consolidated July 31 1958
Jones City Oklahoma Thursday January 29 1959
and Clinic At
Harrah Feb 5th
Choctaw Trucker
Pleads Innocent
A 27-year-old trucker of near
Choctaw accused of fatally beat-
ing James C Campbell 24 CAA
employe and part-time Oklahoma
City university student pleaded
innocent Friday in district court
to a charge of second degree
manslaughter
Melvin A Wise denied the
crime and charged prosecution
testimony in justiec court failed
to establish a crime had been
committed
Wise is alleged to have struck
the victim during an argument
in front of a beer tavern in the
2500 block SW 29 on December
18 causing Campbell to fall to
the sidewalk and fracture his
skull
The defendant filed a motion
to quash the charge and Judge
'William L Fogg ordered Wise
teleased on $2000 bond until
the motion can be ruled on
Repeal Committee
Meets Sunday
State Senator George Mis-
kovsky chairman o f The
Citizens Committee to Repeal
Bootleg Control will meet
with the committee at the
Huckins hotel in Oklahoma
City Sunday 2 pm for the
final report of the commit-
tee All petitions must be turn-
ed in at that time in order
that they may be processed
for filing with the Secretary
of State says the committee
Miskovsky will make an an-
nouncement a t the meeting
"that will insure the future
success of repeal" according
to a news release received by
this publication
Each year through New York
City's 45-year-old Grand Central
Station some 50 million rail-
road passengers are whisked to
and from their destinations over
67 tracks
The third annual band clinic
will be presented at the Harrah
school Thursday February 5
7 pm
Participating bands include
Harrah Jones Deer Creek and
Prague
Jack Sisson picture at left
has become more widely recog-
nized each year for his direc-
tion of the Central State college
band This year will be his third
as a clinician at Harrah
James "Doe" Walker super-
visor of instrumental music in
the Putnam City schools will
be the other clinician
Harry Haines is band director
at the Harrah schools
Fatal Car Crash
North Of Jones
Floyd 11 Hi Herby 44 of
Bethany met death in a car
accident Sunday night at the
intersection of the Hiwassee
and Memorial roads three miles
north of Jones Two others were
hurt
Hi Herby was dead when he
reached Wesley hospital from in-
juries suffered when the car be
was driving collided with one
driven by A D Hardimon 20
Arcadia
Alonzo Allensworth '19 Ar-
cadia a passenger in the liar-
dimon car suffered cuts in the
accident He received treatment
at Wesley hospital Also taken
to Wesley with injuries were
Hi llerby's wife Ileta 37 and
Hardimon trooper Bob Black-
burn said
Former Arcadian
Dies In California
Harold D Lee Sr who was
born in Arcadia 53 years ago
died a few days ago at San
Mateo Calif He was buried at
Daly City that state
He was employed several
years at the Railway Express
office in Oklahoma City and
was transferred to Texas in
1911 In 1945 he was transferred
to San Bruno Calif where he
lived until his death
A member of the Christian
church he is survived by his
wife Olive of the San Bruno
home a daughter Gayle also
of the home a son Harold D
:fr of Oklahoma City a sis-
ter Mrs Mildred Johnson Ni-
coma Park and one granddaughter
Th Navy's newest floating
airbase the aircraft carrier
USS Independence is equipped
with a modern 81-bed hospital
and a dental department with
the latest equipment
Aged Woman
Fatally Burned
Historical (z6 ci et y
(-3t'at e Capitol Bldg
Oklahoma City Okla
Miss Lulia Blackburn 83 who
lived alone near Britton died
Tuesday at her home of burns
She was discovered by a friend
who lives in the same house
Miss Blackbma was rolling on
the bed attempting to put out
the fire
Mrs Ethel Wilkerson 39
told officer V L McConnell she
was attracted to Miss Black-
burn's apartment after smelling
smoke
Officers said the woman's
hair was burned completely off
They said she apparently had
leaned over the stove while sit-
ting in a rocking chair
Fatal Accident
On Turnpike
Charles E Burgess 29 of
Lima Ohio died Monday in an
Oklahoma City hospital from in-
juries received Thursday in a
car accident a mile east of the
Witcher entrance to the Turner
turnpike His brother Richard
F Burgess private in the Ma-
rine Corps on his way to re-
port for duty at Camp Pend le-
ton Calif was seriously hurt
and is in a City hospital
Highway patrolmen said the
Burgess car crashed into a con-
crete birdge They said it was
the worst accident that has oc-
curred on the turnpike
Pleads Guilty
Mail Carrier
An Oklahoma City Christmas
assistant mail carrier entered a
plea of guilty in federal court
Friday to a charge of embezzl-
ing from the mails
Jack Parr assistant Ti S at-
torney said defendant Paul
Taylor Larkin 33 was accused
of stealing a $709 government
check while working as a holi-
day postman December 19
Postal inspectors said the
check was found in an opened
envelope in an apartment from
which Larkin had recently mov-
ed U S District Judge Ross
Rizley accepted the guilty plea
and allowed Larkin to remain
free on $500 bond pending a
pre-sentencing report from fed-
eral probation officers
WE'LL SQUELCH
THIS RUMOR
Word was fly ing fast
around and about the past two
days that the Jones-Choctaw
Telephone Company had sold
out to Southwestern Bell Tele-
phone Company
The News checked on the
rumor and according to the
Jones - Choctaw company
"There's nothing to it" they
said
"We are now in the process
of expansion and will spend a
large amout of money in the
next few months" Mrs Lloyd
Williamson said
A deal was in the making
a few months ago whereby
the local exchange would be
sold to Bell but it fell through
flu
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AUTO DEATH
PLEA ENTERED
A 19-year-old Oklahoma City
youth charged with first de-
gree manslaughter in the high-
way death of a companion
pleaded innocent Friday at dis-
trict court arraignment
His plea was accepted by
Judge William L Fogg who
ordered Robert C Watt the de-
fendant released on a $5000
bond pending jury trial later
The charge was filed after
an auto driven by Watts crash-
ed into a bridge abutment on
E Reno one and one-half mil-
es east of Oklahoma City and
fatally injured a passenger
George E Murphy 21 of the
City
Watts is accused of driving
while under the influence of in-
toxicants at the time of the
fatal crash
Second Accident
Victim Buried
Services were held Friday in
the Edmond Presbyterian church
for Ted Joseph Hartman who
died from injuries received Jan
14 in an accident just north of
the State Capitol Leslie Charl-
ton of Edmond was instantly
killed in the same accident
Hartman was buried in Me-
morial cemetery lie was em-
ployed by the employment se-
curity commission
He was a member of Messiah
Lutheran church in Oklahoma
City
Survivors include his wife
Zella three sons Ted jr John
and Martin one daughter Chris-
tine all of the home two sis-
tersMrs Maudie Werner Monte
Mira Calif and 'Mrs Lois J
Dixon Norman
Girl Recovering
From Burns
Attendants at Mercy hospital
report that Eileen Wilburn 10-
year-old Luther girl who was
badly burned last Thursday has
a chance for recovery
The girl's mother Mrs Blan-
che Wilburn said the accident
occurred last Thursday when the
child backed into an open heater
and the flames ignited her night
clothes
Mrs Wilburn said she grab-
bed a blanket to smother flam-
es as they leaped over the girl's
body She was badly burned a-
bout the face legs and abdomen
Mrs Wilburn was burned a-
bout the hands as she attempt-
ed to smother the flaming night
clothes
Theft From
Corpse Sends
Man To Prison
A 26-year-old man who stole
a watch from a dead woman's
arm at Oklahoma City in 1955
was sentenced to two years in
prison Tuesday after be pleaded
guilty to a grand larceny charge
arising from the theft
Ralph Boomer Gravett an
admitted parole violator from
Nebraska admitted the theft
from a corpse in a city funeral
home
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Keyes, George C. The Oklahoma County News and The Luther Citizen (Jones City, Okla.), Vol. 58, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 29, 1959, newspaper, January 29, 1959; Jones, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2194092/m1/1/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 21, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.