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FORTY-FIFTH YEAR
CUSHING POWER PLANT
GETS $350060 GRAM
Seven Months Work for 100 Men Li
Plan Will Bu :Id Own Plant
and Distribution System
Cushing received a big slice of
PWA Christmas cake Friday when
the Public Works Administration
gave final approval of the Cushing
power plant project The job calls
for the expenditure of $350000
Secretary of Intnior Ickes approv-
ed the loan and grant It is the first
approval for a municipal power plant i
in Oklahoma
Installation of three 503-kw Diesel-driven
generators and complete
electric distribution system 13 plan-
ned the entire outlay to be included
In the $350000 fund
The government is giving $11003
as an outright grant and the balance
Is a loan secured by 4 per cent gen-
eral obligation bonds of the city
Work is expected to start within a
month and to continue for seven
months- giving jobs to 100 men dur-
ing construction
VAUGHAN PETITION IS
REFERRED TO ATTORNEY
County commissioners in session
Monday voted unanimously to as
County Attorney Guy Horton for an
opinion on the petition filed by At-
torney John Vaughan asking them to
file suit against former commission-
ers to recover monies allegedly ille-
gally paid
Vaughan asked the connnission to
file suit and the matter was taken
under advisement Before action
could be taken Vaughan filed the
suit 'personally- ' As Vaughan made
the same charges in his personal suit
as he did in his petition commission-
ers think the petition may be inval-
idated 4 '
Horton will 'make the decision re-
garding future official action
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Johnston fórmer goveinor an-
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race for cangressman7ai-large next
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More Than a Million in These Requesis
Project No 5—Oklahoma A and M College Athletic associa-
tion additions to concrete stadium loan $40000 grant $12000
Project No 56—Oklahoma A and M coUge library building
loan requeLted $503003 grant requested $134000
Project No 37—Oklahoma A and M college residence hall for
women students loan requested $450000 grant requested $114000
(Given final approval)
Project No 55—Stillwater city elevated water storage tank
loan requested none grant requested $4500
Project No 56—Stillwater ci ty trunk line sewer loan request-
ed none grant requested $366450 (Raised to $4000 and given final
approval)
Project No 68—Stillwater city water main extension loan re-
quested none grant requested $168810 (Given final approval)
Project No 72—Stillwater school district school building re-
modeling and other work in city schools loan requested $130000
grant requested $39000
Project No 90—Stillwater city paving and improvements on
streets loan requested $529572 grant requested $825
TWO MEN WOMAN HELD
AFTER HARNESS THEFT
Harley Hurst Mrs Bessie Penix
and Mrs Penix's brother whose
name could not be learned were be-
ing held in a Perry Jail Wednesday
after officers in three cities had
traced two sets of stolen harness to
Newkirk where Mrs Penix is alleged
to have disposed of them at a com-
munity sale
Hurst recently completed a year's
sentence at McAlester penitiary for
assault with intent to ill
The harness which brought $4650
at the sale was stolen Sunday from
a farm home near Norman A large
Cadillac automobile was observed
near the scene of robbery by a high-
way patrolman who obtained the li-
cense tag number ' and traced the
ownership to Hurst in Payne county
Acting on this information Payne
county officers raided ' the Hurst
home two miles west and four miles
south of Stillwater early Monday
morning Occupants of the house
were gone
Newkirk officers offered the next
clues that brought arrest of the trio
Suspicioning the harness might be
stolen sales day officials at Newkirk
called Stillwater to ask if Mrs Bessie
Penix was known here Jailer Bill
Edwards informed Newkirk officers
of the Norman looting and described
the harness
The suspected trio did not return
to Stillwater the arrests being made
in Perry Newkirk officials will view
the suspects and attempt to identify
Mrs Penix A charge of grand lar-
ceny may be filed in Cleveland coun-
ty or one of selling stolen property
in Kay county
TWOTIME DRUNK GETS
THE WORKS FROM JUDGE
'John Funnel' fined $2i3 and AS-
sessed $9 and costs for being drunk
in a miblic place was in the county
jail 'when the 'nation Went wet by re-
pealing the Eighteenth amendment
: That is thirty-six slates went wet
but not Oklahltna
Funnel' was released December 1
Friday he was back again "sobering
I up" under the extra-heavy sentence
of thirty days and $50 fine imposed
by Peace Justice F W Worsham at
Cushing Before sentencing Fumiell
the official explained it is possible
for the nation to repeal an amend-
ment without affecting Oklahoma's
dry status Still puzzled John has
apprhimately three months to think
it over
Another heavy sentence given by
Peace Justice Worsham Thursday
was thirty days in jail and $50 fine
to W E Bryant for petty larceny
Tic plead7d guilty
INGALLS SCI1001 60IN6
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First actuaIePritstXtIction con any 4
of Ihejorty-odd Payne county school'
improvement projects isoulit from I
the Iederal goyernmtlit began at In-
galls :Mouday mpraing : The old
franbuilding is being Asirn down
and a more modern one constructed
at an estimated cost of $195740
Students are attending school in
the Masonic hail while construction
Is under way The new building is of
two-room construction
The government will pay all bills I
both for const:uction and labor 1
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FIT? ST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN 'PAYNE CO EIN'IT
tailored et the Stillwater Ok Peetetitte oe second-4mm moil under tht Act of March 3 We
STILLWATER PAYNE COUNTY OKLAHOMA FRIDAY
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HUGE FEDERAL IMPETUS
IS IMPROVING BUSINESS
Major Construction ark Looms as
Smaller CWA Jobs Bridge Gap
Should be Merry Christmas
With Christmas just around the
corner and merchants for the most
part finding themselves rushed for
the first time in many months a
summarization of work requested or
approved in Stillwater ' and Payne
county is in order
Almost staggering is'the amount
of work contemplated through the
various federal agencies- Much of
the Public Morita Administration
jobs (the major building construc-
tion) is not yet started although
much is approved To -bridge the
gap before these building jobs get
under way the Civil Works Adminis-
tration is employing hundreds during
the pre-Christmas season
Wet weather was holding some of
the CWA workers from their tasks
Monday and Tuesday and threaten-
ed to cut a few days of needed work
off their Christmas checks but the
helping hand of the CWA has put
money in the pockets of hundreds of
county laborers during the last few
weeks
Asks for 1050 Men
N E Winters regional soil erosion
director for Oklahoma handed an
order to Ralph Boyd re-employment
service agent for Payne county for
1050 men this week to swing the
county erosion program into actual
work Some already are working
Boyd indicated the men would be as-
signed to erosion work as fast as
needed
The CWA nationally has shifted
$237000 into the erosion service for
use in the Stillwater creek watershed
project Some of it must go for
equipment most to farmer workmen
It is difficult to estimate the total
of salary claims that will be and
have been already poured into la-
borer's hands through the CWA work
in the county as the small jobs pro-
gress Some of the Little him
At present in Stillwater lifty men
are working on sidewalks twenty-
five are on the Washington street
grading job twenty-five more on the
Ramsey street drainage ditch twent-
ty are working at the Fairgrounds
park and four are assigned to work
on cross walks of Main street This
Is but a handful of the number over
1000 employed in the county through
CWA
Work will go ahead as soon as ma-
terials arrive on 3200 feet of lateral
sewers in Tucker addition and terri-
tory just- west of Tucker The city
has $5000 In CWA funds for park
improvement at the Fairgrounds
' Big Christmas Presents
Of the major projects in the coun-
ty outside of Stillwater consider the
$350000 approved fund in PWA for
the municipal power plant at Cush-'
ing the approximate $70000 for
home loans in Payne county' already
granted and the Home Owners Loan
organization is jusrgetting its mach-
inery Into 'high gear keep hi'? mind
the $237000 erosion fund for county-
wide distributicat and the CWA that
Is touching the unemployment prob-
lem in every school district of the
County' ! 1 ' '
In the box printed alongside are
the Stillwater and the C itlahcma AP
ricultural and Mechanicai
projects some approved others pend-
ing It has been pointed out that Still-
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REVIEWING THE NEWS I
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By GEORGE IT DAVIS
The Brookings institution endowed
organization devoted to "economic
research and the Interpretation of
current economic problems" Sunday
arrayed Itself in opposition to the
Roosevelt monetary program and
challenged its batic theory—that
commodity prices will move upward
automatically when the price of gold
is Increased
Fifty persons were hurt Sunday as
3000 parading members of the Uk-
ranian national societies protesting
Russian treatment of likranians in
the homeland were set upon by a
band of 500 rioters said by police to
be Communists
The Edward Budd Manufactur-
ing company Philadelphia has an-
nounced it: would not abide by the
ruling of the national labor board
that th6 firm take all striking' em-
ployes back to work and to allow a
new election of employes represen-
tatives -
A new kind of Electrical furnace
which produces hot spots of hun-
deeds of thousands of degrees tre-
mendously exceeding anything known
on the surface of the sun was an-
nounced Sunday night at the Mama-
chusetts Institute of Technology
The automobile industry has filed
with N1124 a request that itS- code be
extended until September 1 1934
and Ilugh Johnson said Sunclay the
request will begranted
A practical improvement of nearly
60 per cei4 bi the'500 cases of 'sub-
normal vision'treald by live optical
devices wet claitnea bY Dr William
Peinbloom of New York in a paper
presented tq the Anaican Academy
of Optometry
Education of Catholic children in
Catholic schools was urged Sunday
night by Al smith in his speech of
acceptance of a medal as the layman
who has performed the greatest
"Calpolic action" of the year
-
Robert W Chambers noted author
and artist will be buried Monday on
his famous estate "Broad-Albin
House"
First withdrawal of a 1934 guber-
natorial possibility came Monday
with a statement from Ray O Weems
- treasurer tha4 he would not be a
caddidate Another interesting de-
velopment: The Daily Oklahoman
reprints a lengthy editorial from the
Tulsa Tribune demanding that Lew
Wentz the 100 per cent Sooner run
for governor on a Fusion ticket La-
Guardia smashed Tammany Hall
with a Fusionist group
With an odyssey from northern
lights to the equator behind them
the flying Lindberghs came home to
Christmas and the baby Tuesday
In 164 days flying time the Lind-
berghs have touched four continents
I d
an traveled more than28000 miles
the most thrilling hop being an over-
night flight from Africa to South
America
William Woodin secretary of the
treasury forced to come west because
of a throat ailment was removed to
the desert sanatorium near Ttleson
Ariz Tuesday where he will bt con-
fined for some time
An eleven-day truce has been ar-
ranged and the Gran Chaco war be-
tween Bolivia and Paraguay is being
negotiated by a league of nations
commission
An alleged plot to kidnap and
murder Orval Mosier city manager
of Oklahoma City and John Watt'
police chief was revealed to police
Tuesday by a man who said he over-
heard three conspirators lay their
plans in a downtown office building
and saw' $1000 change hands in a
preliminary payoff:: : -
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Rep James S Parker t New York
Republican died at his home in
':ashington Wednesday at the age
of 66
-Governor Murray Is playing Santa
Claus for state-employes and federal
relief workers He istued a proclam-
ation declaring a holiday from Fri-
day until Wednesday While many
state departments do not observe the
governor's rulings it is probable they
Will observe thla one
DECEMBER 22 1933
ARRESTS ARE MADE IN
MOVIE SHOW TEST CASE
Three Local Movies nun Programs
Sunday Short Interruptions
Occur During Matinees
With the test case for Sunday
thows Echeduled for hearing at
2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon
Mayor Harry Jones as municipal
Judge grew impatient when at-
torneys for both parties — the
city and the moving picture peo-
ple—failed to make their ap-
pearance until 3 o'clock "I'm
getting tired of lawyers making
municiAl court into a shoe-
bhining parlor" Judge Jones
said However the 3 o'clock ap-
pearance of Attorney James M
Springer for the defense and
Attorney T A Higgins for the
city brought action en the case
Attorney Springer asked that
the case be continued until Sat-
urtlay afternoon 2 o'clock The
continuance was granted The
attorney's reason He wanted
additional time to determine to
which of three higher courts be
would appeal the case in the
event of an unfavorable verdict
in municipal court
The battle for Sunday motion
picture shows reached the second
stage Monday with the scheduled ap-
pearance in municipal court of five
defendant showmen to explain be-
fore Mayor Harry Jones why the
city's three thLaters were in opera-
tion yesterday in violatiorf of Ordi-
nance No 180
Arrested Sunday and released a
few minutes later on Weir OWn re-
cognizance to'appear 'at '2':30 o'clock
Monday for trial Were Claudelkhch-
man Aggie manager R H Russ
Camera manager Clark W Abbott
Glen Blackledge and Fred Turner
three projectionists These five will
be represented in city court by At-
torney J M Springer with T A Hig-
gins representing the city of Still-
water as city attorney
First step in the move many be-
lieve will definitely establish the
right of Sunday theater operation
was taken as planned Sunday Show
operators opened as advertised and
the administration acted according to
schedule and placed five representa-
tives of the alleged offending houses
under arrest
Each of the three shows had nearly
completed the first program before
officers made their appearance with
warrants Theater men anticipating
the action had relief workers ready
and as one group of employes was
removed another set took their
places The Aggie machine never
stopped the Mecca and Camera for
about a minute Officer Ashmore
caused a slight commotion at the
Mecca by announcing the show was
over hut as patrons began to file
from the theater they were turned
back by show employes and the pro-
gram was continued
If his clients are found guilty and
fined in municipal court it is prob-
able Attorney Springer will ask for
a writ of prohibition in district court
or may go direct to the supreme
court' This writ would prevent en-
forcement of the punishment Mayor
Jones may inflict Because of the
test ease nature of the entire pro-
ceedings it i3 qUite probable the five
'Al be fined giving their counsel lee-
way to swing into action toward
higher courts
Stillwater Council of Churches
leaders in anti-Sunday theater elec-
tion of 1930 when the electorate de-
cided against Sabbath shows had not
taken action at mid-afternoon Mon-
day Stillwater Ministerial alliance
was In session Monday morning it
being the regular weekly session of
the group but the show question
was not considered No action is con-
templated at this time it was re-
ported Each of the three shows was coin-
firtably' filled at ' the first $tinday
performances
Afttr Delinquent Taxes
If Sheriff 14JBraciley and his
force get around to IL several hun-
dred Payne county residents may get
personal tax warrants for a Christ-
mas present The taxes are for 1932
The delinquent 'warrants draw 12
per tent interest and the ' luckless
ones must pay an additional charge
for service by officers Treasu:er
George Taber issued the warrants
Docnmter 15 and SherIff Bradley
has sixty days to make service
TkroommaltricT
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CHRISTMAS AGAIN
And again the old and lovely mel-
odies of Christmas carols ring out
from every school house and church
building telling the old and yet ever
new story of how the Christ child
came to earth and the ' changes
wrought then and ever since in the
hearts of men
Wreaths and candles holly mis-
tletoe Christmas trees spicy things
to eat bright colored candies ruddy
cheeks and laughter We include
them all in our wish to you when we
say—Merry Christmas! '
Edna Eaton Wilson
NEW GIRLS' DORMITORY
TO BE "MURRAY HALL"
Immature Plans for Naming Co-ed
Structure Dropped BOard as
Called for Construction
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Immature plans that bad not been
publicly launched to name the new
Agricultural and Mechanical college
dormitory Scott Hall honoring Dr
A C Scott were expected to be
dropped with the announcement Sat
urday by the board - of agriculture
that the college's new building would
be named honoring Gov William H
Murray
Membeis Zs tile board of agricul-
ture passed the motion Friday nam-
ing the 6450000 'Ws dormitory
Murray Hall L A Clinkenbeard put
the motion and all members voted for
it—including Harry B Cordell pres-
ident of the board No public men-
tion of a name for the building had
been made previously
Dottor Scott president of A and
M from 1890 to 1908 longest tenure
of any Aggie president had not been
informed that old friends here were
considering the perpetuation of his
name He spoke at Founders' day
exercies Thursday
Bids will be received January 4 on
the new building the board decided
Friday Layton Hicks & Forsythe
zachitects were retained to draw
plans and supervise construction at
a 5 per cent fee which it was stated
will b73 622500 if the entire Public
Works Administration fund of $450-
000 is expended Of the fund 6135-
will be a direct federal grant and
1'315000 will be repaid by the state
over a period of years from earnings
of the building
It will be A and M'a fourth dormi-
tory building the others being Jessie
Thatcher Hall Maude Gardiner Hall
Carter Harmer Hall and Crutchfield
Hall the first two named being co-ed
buildings It IS the plan of Dr Henry
G Bennett president to make part
of the old dormtory space into office
and class rooms upon 'completion of
the new fire-proof building
Thatcher Hall was named for Jes-
sie Thatcher-Bost first woman grad-
uate of the college Gardiner Hall
was named for Mrs Maude Gardiner
Obrecht early home economics head
at the college Hanner Hall was
named for Carter C Hanner A and
M man who died in the front lines
in France Crutchfield Hall com-
memorates an early secretary of the
Y M C A by that name who was
once a resident of the' building and
a beloved favorite of the students
' State Fourth in Cotton
Oklahoma ranks fourth in cotton
production this year according to
the preliminary government cotton
report Texas Mississippi and
Georgia lead Oklahoma
There were 10319 bales of cotton
ginned in Payne county prior to De-
cember 1 compared with 6998 the
same period last year according to
statistics received by Oscar A Fried-
emann statistician
Seeking State Aid
Superintendent Norma Johnson
accompanied by school board mem-
bers from Glencoe end Ripley schools
went td Oklahoma City Tuesday to
confer with officials regarding the
pdssibility ' of securing 1 immediate
state aid for the two schools
- New Automobile Stolen
IA 1933 Chevrolet automobile owned
by Virgil Beard Enid student at Ok-
lahoma Agricultural and Mechanical
college was stolen Sunday night
from a parking place on Knoblock
street '
Jarvis on Tax Job
Joe H Jarvis Stillwater has been
appointed pecial tax examiner for
the Frisco Railway company work-
ing in counties of Oklahoma where
the company has holdings
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PLANES START SOON TO
PtIOTOGRAPH PAYNE CO'
Preparing Equipment for Stint of
Actual Erosion Job Farmer!
- to Be Favored for Work
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The steady roar of airplanes
swinging back and forth across
Payne county as powerful photog-
raphic lenses making pictures of every
foot of the approximately 200 'square
miles of land ' in the government's
vast erosion and flood control w-
arm will be heard in this 'viciPity
soon Dr N E Winters regional pro-
gram director for Oklahoma an-
nounced Saturday at an organization
meeting in Old Central - ' '
This modern mfthod of charting
will expedite the government's! work
of preparing topographical data of
the vast area to be improved Also a
photograph of the acres involved will
accompany each erosion-flood non-
trolcontract signett with land lawn-
ers( '' - i ' 4 - 1:
The pictures will be ik secticaui
measurir)g 24X50 Inches and tphese
will be assembled Jibe a gianigig-saw
puzzle The measuring scale 3 anch
to each 500 feel utge enough to Pro-
vide a bleat-it' Suction otlancl
characteriatielocatiori of fces
improvements andtother data 'to be
used in planning wprk to be tioaebY
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1050 in withi the ' next ttwo
monthe the peri 0ending pebraary
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Bids for the' photographic 'Vet
one of the smiles bits but certainly
the moat colorfill f the boil conger
vatten program lave been 'Opened
andthe contracs alvarded Additipnal
details as to the mil) making are net
available at present however Di-
rector Winters said l''' 1'' '!' ' '''
One must attend suit' a roiettlik as
ivas held Saturday 'in Old Contra!' ---k
to catch the immenaity of the work
being planned the war-time drive
with which a handful of chosen lead-
ers are getting tile program under
way the enthusiasin with which Di-
rector Winters and others have
swung into the drive for the perma-
nent recovery of agriculture
"The government doesn't intend to
force any farmer - to participate in
this work" Director Winters told his
hearers Saturday 'In my mind the
farmer who fails to sign a contract
is missing one of the biggest oppor-
tunities of his life"
With engineers blready in the field
measuring and checking farms list-
ing probable improvements taking
soil tests and preparing rough maps
Director Winters announced farmers
are being asked to register with
Ralph Boyd Stillwater's reemploy-
ment agent Because of the nature
of the work fanners will be given
first choice in tde agriculture pro-
gram either worktng on their own
farms or those of others
Emergency orders for BOO fresnos
plows 1000 tons of sand ten cater-
pillar tractors ancl:a carload of con-
crete have been 'rushed to federal
headquarters by ! district erosion -
workers This early equipment will
be used to prepare working models
and samples of the many types of
mechanical and natural devices to be
used in erosion and flood control
"b Excepting the tools and machinery
Continued oi Page Two
ARREST LIGE 'JOHNSON
IN CHANDLER SUNDAY
Lige Johnson 20-year-old son of
Irvin Johnson charged in a warrant
issued last October 10 with attempt-
ing to assault two Cushing sisters
one 12 and the other 13 years of age
was arrested in Chandler Sunday
and has been brought to Sthlwater
and arraigned before Peace Justice
O C Whipple
The young man pleaded not guilty
and bond wow fixed at $1000 in each
case preliminary hearing to be IPri-
clay morning at 10 o'clock
The father has been in the county 1
jail since late in October unable to
make bond of $2500 in each case Be I
was ordered held after a preliminary f
hearing at which testimony was 04
en by the two young girls now in the
Industrial training school at Teem- '
Following the filing of charges by
County Judge Henry noel Irvin was
arrested along with his father who
too bears the name of the recently
arrested Johnson that of Lige Iden-
tity of names caused the confusion
and the elder Johnson who is 10
was soon released when he disclosed
a mistake had been made His son
Irvin was held and the search con-
tinued for the younger Lige
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