The Wilson Post-Democrat (Wilson, Okla.), Vol. 52, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 7, 1960 Page: 1 of 4
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About Folks You Know
Mrs Nettie Bettes returned
Monday from attending funeral
services held Sunday in Henry-
eta Texas for her sister Mrs
T 11 Hodges Mrs Hodges died
Friday after a long illness Mrs
Bettes had just returned from Ok-
lahoma City where she has been
ill for several days
Sgt and Mrs Leonard Crabb
and family of Columbia S Caro-
lina left ‘Vednesday after spend
big a couple of weeks in IVi lson
with Mrs Bessie Crabb and oth-
er relatives on their way to Japan
where they will be the next three
years
10 m
Mr and Mrs II H Puckett
have as their guests their son
thdrles who is attending school
at Colorado Springs Colo and
had as weekend guests Mr and
Mrs Vernon Schmidt and son 0
Greenville Texas
Mr and Mrs O L Malone
and granddaughter of Chickasha
and Mrs Essie Pruitt of Spring-
field Missouri have been the
guests of Mr and Mrs M P
Patterson
0o oefte mod
Pierce Patterson of Wilson re-
turned home the last of the week
after visiting Mr and Mrs Lloyd
Patterson of Brady Texas and
Mr and Mrs Orvil Patterson of
Level land Texas
Mr and Mrs Frank Mitchell
and daughter of Childress Tex
have been the guests of Mr and
Mrs R D Patrick and Mr and
Mrs Joe Patrick
Mrs Olan Mitchell and sons
had as their guests Friday night
Mr and Mrs J B Thorne and
children and Rev and Mrs Jack
Hays of Gainesville Texas
Mr and Mrs Burney Rose
have had as their guests Mr and
Mrs B R Hutson and sons of
Tulsa and Mrs Leo Bacon of
Homer La
POW fts0 Oaf
Mrs Hazel Couch and Mr and
Mrs Lonnie Price spent the
weekend in Odessa Texas with
Mr told Mrs jack Williams and
daughter
ONE 00 MO
Mr and Mrs Vernon Lacascus
and children moved to Ardmore
Monday to make their home
obbbornorh loeeA dnL B Bsan
Mr and Mrs Bud Carson and
Mrs Doris Miller and their m:ah-
er of Oklahoma City were busi
ness visitors in Wilson Monday
Ronnie Leslie returned to
school in Florida after spending
the spring vacation in Wilson
with Mr and Mrs Homer Leslie
Mr and Mrs Kelsie Horton of
Phillips Texas have been the
guests of Mr and Mrs M L
Sullivan
At 'O ieo
Mr and Mrs C A Gooding
of Wilson are spending a couple
of weeks in Missouri
Mr and Mrs Lowell Lee and
family spent Sunday in Ft Worth
with relatives
Son Born To
W C Bohannons
Mr and Mrs W C Bohannon
announce the birth of a son
March 17th Mr and Mrs Bo-
hannon who have been living in
Wilson moved Saturday to Vel-
ma -4p--
Billy Sullivans Are
Parents Of Baby Boy
Mr and Mrs Billy Sullivan of
Wilson announce the birth of a
son Saturday April 2nd They
have named the baby Randy Ray
Mr and Mrs Clair Self and Mrs
M L Sullivan of Wilson are the
grandparents
WILSON STUDENTS
ON GRADUATE LIST
AT SOUTHEASTERN
Three Wilson students are
among two hundred eighteen nam-
ed on the tentative list of spring
graduates f rom Southeastern
State College
Candidates for a bachelor of
science in education are Carol
Turner and Roger Mikeal
Jimmy D Chance is an appli:
cant for a Bachelor of science degree
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THE
VOLUME LII
County Has Sales Tax
Dip Along With Others
Carter county was among those
In the area to show a decrease in
sales tax returns during the month
of February compared to the same
Period a year ago
Only Marshall county showed a
small gain of 01 percent while
others followed the state pattern
of decreased returns
For the 77 counties in the state
there was a decrease of $13910482
or 342 percent Total collections
amounted to $392851612
What's New? E
Radio-Activity Cl
In Milk Son! :"
A testing program to deter-
mine the amount of radioac-
tivity in milk will be undertak-
en by the State Department of
Health this month It repre-
sents a joint effort of the state
department and the U S Pub-
lic Health Service It is some-
thing new in Oklahoma and is
an expansion of the USPHS
activities in the milk surveil
lance program
Milk samples examined will
be representative of milk pro-
duced in 32 counties in central
Oklahoma Samples will be
sent to the new USPHS ra-
diation laboratory in Montgom-
ery Ala for determination of
Strontium-90 Strontium-89 I0dine-131
Barium-140 and Cesium-137
Harold Malone director Di-
vision of Sanitary Engineering
of the State Department of
Health said that milk was
chosen for the initial study of
specific isotopes In foods be-
cause it is the most practical
to sample and is produced
throughout the year in all sec-
tions of the country
The program is a part of the
state health department's ov-
erall radiological protection
program of which William C
Galegar is in charge
Good Weather
Good Fishin'
---and Goodbye!
The weather bureau has lost
words for forecasting the wea-
ther for this weekend
About the best we can do
is sum it all up in the follow-
ing manne r: Good fishin'
weather
The thermometer rushed
near the 90-degree mark Wed-
nesday and fruit trees burst
forth with blossoms and gard-
eners got out the hoes and
rakes etc
On the other hand there
were the fishermen busy with
all the fixings for a trip to
the favorite fishing hole So
whatever you do to pass a-
way the time of day or for a
hobby chances are it's just
as well you go fishin' too!
Oh the weather? It's fair to
partly cloudy with warm tem-
peratures for t h e weekend
Good weather for working in
the yard and garden — and
for going fishin'
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NEWS OF WILSON SCHOOLS
THE EAGLE'S
REPORTERS:
STUDENTS WIN AT DURANT
Saturday April 2 at a curricu-
la meet at Southeastern State Col-
lege Durant Wilson sent stu-
dents in various subjects The
ones that placed are: Sue Snow
1st and Laura Herrell 2nd in
Spanish Rosalyn Pride 3rd in
HomemakingI James Taylor 1st
and Karen Holloway 3rd in geo-
graphy and Ronald Renzleman
1st in Plain Geometry
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F H A NEWS
The F H A executive com-
mittee met Tuesday noon in the
Homemaking department New
business taken up was ideas to
carry out during National FHA
week April 3-9 This meeting
had to be delayed because of so
many activities last week Other
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ILSON P
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Carter coun t y collections a
mounted to $6668237 during Feb-
ruary of 1960 Which was 1027 per
cent less than a year ago Garvin
$4639115 or 547 per cent less:
Jefferson $804308 or a decrease
of 3313 percent Johnston $5386-
23 or a decrease of 707 percent
Love $458579 or a decrease of
732 percent Murray $1131841
or a decrease of 1601 percent
Marshall collections amounted
to $873856
Courthouse To
Get Face lifting
Dome Repaired
Commissioners
Give Approval To
More 'Fixing Up'
Another phase in giving county
courthouse a new facelifting was
approved last Friday by the Car-
ter county commissioners
The commissioners gave the alp
proval of repairing and repainting
of the courthouse dome in last
week's session
Near the completion is the re-
novation of the district courtroom
and Jury deliberation room
The facelighting began when
Courthouse Superintendent Matt
Alexander repainted most of the
Interior of the courthouse and land-
scaped t h e grounds surrounding
the building
Right now Alexander is shap-
ing up the flowerbeds and the
courthouse lawn for the coming
spring and summer season
According to Huss Standifer
board chairman bids w ill be
sought for renovation of the court-
house dome The commiseion will
meet again tomorrow Friday and
possibly hear other phases or pro-
posed repairing or repainting
ZANEIS ALUMNI -
BANQUET SATURDAY
Thurman Jones a former stu-
dent at Zane is will be the guest
speaker at the annual Zaneis
alumni banquet Saturday in the
high school gym
Jones is now in business in Dal-
las and was a former well known
Texas high school football coach
He had a state championship
team at Highland Park in Dal-
las in 1957
Some 175 persons are expected
to attend the affair Reserva-
tions should be made with Mrs
H T Griffin Wilson as soon
as possible
A new slate of officers will be
elected and members of the
Zaneis senior class will be initiat-
ed into the Alumni association at
the meeting Harold Tipps of
Ardmore is present president
Dr Pruitt Attends
Postgraduate Course
Dr Raymond Pruitt attended a
Postgraduate Contact Lens Fitting
course at the University of Hou-
ston on March 26-29 The course
was taught by members of the
faculty of the University of Hou-
ston 'College of Optometry and in-
cluded discussion of t h e latest
techniques and methods used in
the fitting of contact lenses
From The Healchoo Herald
Sharan Haines Senior
business discussed was the "Ma
Pa and Me Banquet" to be held
May 17 Dr Kenneth Martin
of Ardmore has been engaged for
the guest speaker for the group
The theme for the banquet has
not been decided but the girls
are working on ideas
Miss Thompson attended a
professional meeting of Home-
making teachers from Sub-Dist
trict II of Southeast District at
Latta High School Tuesday
night The group met to discuss
the new materials that have been
sent out from the State Depart-
ment and to exchange teaching
ideas Miss May Ro llow South-
east District Supervisor and Mrs
Noreen Hardin teacher at Latta
were hostesses for the group
Thought for the week:
WILSON CARTER couNry OKLAHOMA THURSDAY APRIL 7 1960
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WHAT AN EASTER!—Finding this big Easter egg is just too
much for Marilyn Moncrief 4 left and her sister Carol 6
They came upon the relic in the museum of University of
Michigan Ann Arbor It is a reconstruction of the egg of an
extinct Aepyornis a bird which lived in Madagascar
Growth Development Reflected
In Release OM Annual Report
Ten years of continuous growth
and development of Oklahoma and
Western Arkansas are reflected by
the 1959 annual report issued to-
day by the Oklahoma Gas and El-
ectric conmpany
"The year 1959 was a period of
fine achievement" the OG&E re-
port states "Totalaeles were 67
above the previous year and the
company served 33700 customers
at the end of the year This was a
gain of 5600 customers during
1959"
Each new customer represents a
family business enterprise or in-
stitution in the OG&E territory
which covers a substantial portion
of Oklahoma plus part of western
Arkansas
008tE kilowatt hour sales in-
creased by 160 percent during the
past ten years indicating an im-
provement of the area's- economy
and the vigor of the company's
sales effort All of OG&E's revenue
comes from the sale of electricity
The nurnber of customers in-
creased 32 peicent in the past de-
cade while the electricity used In
that period rose 160 percent
During 1959 the company sold
3080000000 kilowatt hours of el-
ectricity as compared with 1186-
000000 kilowatt hours sold in 1949
The report showed that the aver-
age cost of electricity to residential
customers was 306 cents per kilo-
watt hour compared with 265
cents in 1949- This decrease was
made despite the fact that the av-
erage fuel cost per million btu had
increased from 1005 to 1358 cents
Construction Cited
The general increase in the use
In electricity coupled with con-
stantly improved efficiency in pro-
ducing and distributing electricity
has accounted for this decrease in
the cost of electric power accord-
ing to Donald S Kennedy 0G&E
JENNYE SCOTT JONES
VOICE
Karen Tolbert Junior Shirley John son Sophomcre Guinn Henson Freshmen Donna
Peggy Snow 7th Grade Mary Clark Judy Scarberry FHA Sheron Couch Band
'Prejudice is an opinion with-
out judgement"
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SENIOR NEWS
Last week the seniors were in
charge of the morning devotional
We are happy to have the oppor-
tunity to start each day with a
scripture reading and a prayer
Most of the characters of the
Senior play "Hillbilly Weddin"
have been selected however
there are a few that have not been
chosen yet We are all anxious to
start work on the play
The seniors are in a predica-
ment — May 6 1960 has been
selected as the date for our "Sen-
ior Trip" but we haven't decided
on a place to go! Grand Lake
and Beaver's Bend State Park
have been mentioned
STDEMOC
president
Construction expenditures total-
ling $203000000 have been made
during the ten year period to sat-
isfy the demand upon the company
system which has trebled during
this period
The company owns and operates
major generating stations in Ok-
lahoma C I t y Ilarrah Muskogee
Sulphur Ponca City plus small sta-
tions at Byng Woodward and Shat-
tuck In addition Oa&E has facil-
ities for interconnection with ad-
joining electric utility companies
for the interchange of power
"No financing was required dur-
ing 1959 and none is planed for
1960" the report stated "This is
the first time in 15 years the com-
pany has been able to finance its
construction programs without ad-
ditional capital"
The annual report pointed out
that many new industries were es-
tablished in the company service
area during the past year while
a number of existing Industries
were enlarged
Capsule descriptions of some of
the new and expanded industries
were in the °CAE annual report
Included from Oklahoma City
were Western Electric company
Federal Aviation agency Wake-
field c o lU p a n y Wilsey-Bennett
company Br own Manufacturing
company Hereford Heaven brands
Line Scale company a n d Nortek
Brothers Printing company
Fort Smith industries described
in the report included Borg Warn-
er company Dixie Cup company
Berkley Models Inc OK Proces-
sors Cagle Foundry company and
Ohio Rubber company
report were Callery Chemical ('OmAlso receiving write-ups in the
patty of Muskogee Blue Bell com-
pany of Seminole Texoma Furni-
ture Industries of Durant Hazel
Sponsor
The seniors met last week and
voted on a class motto We se-
lected "Not Finished — Just be-
gun" JUNIOR NEWS
The Juniors are proud to an-
nounce that their Junior rings
have finally arrived Everyone
seems to be very happy with their
rings considering that they are
the prettiest ones yet So don't
be shocked if you see the Juniors
with their hands in the air!
Saturday several members of
the Junior class attended the cur-
riculum meet at Durant Those
attending were: Betty Johnson
Cloyce McKee Wayne Turner
Anna Lee Mi lam and Karen Tol-
bert Alsol the Junior stunts went
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PRICE 5c
Whispers of Politics
Ride the 'Grapevine'
First Volume On
Communism Series
Sent To Libraries
Copies of the first volume of a
new series entitled "Facts on Com-
munism" have been sent to every
public library in the Third Con-
gressional district by Congressman
Carl Albert
"In this time of serious world
tension resulting from the threat
posed by the Communist ideology
to freedom loving people I be-
lieve it is extremely important
that we be well informed on the
doctrines and precepts of Com-
munism" Congressman Albert Ha
in a letter to librarians accom-
panying the publication
As additional volumes in the
series are published they will be
kient to the libraries in order that
their contents may be made a-
vailable to the reading public
The first volume presents a com-
prehensive view of Communist
Ideology as drawn from the works
of Marx Lenin Engels and Stalin
It was publsihed under the ausices
of the House of Representatives
Un-American Activities Commit-
tee Earl Garrison Speaker
At Rotary Luncheon
Earl Garrison of Ardmore who
is with the Oklahoma Natural
Gas Co was the speaker at the
noon luncheon of the Rotary club
Tuesday Ile spoke on a new
gas that will be installed in this
area Wilson will be the first
town to have this gas It will be
odorized so that leaks can easily
be found and sealed off
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Bobby Barker In Cast of
Little Theater Production
Bobby Barker of 'Wilson was
one of the six students and nine
faculty members who are appear-
ing in the first little theatre stag
ing of "The Visit" which Town
and Gown opened Monday in the
Stillwater Union ballroom at O
S U in Stillwater
Barker is the son of Mr and
Mrs Robert Barker of Wilson
and is a sophomore
McCann Children
Visit Parents Recently
During the past two weeks all
of the children of Mr and Mrs
S E McCann have been home to
see Mr McCann who is seriously
ill in an Ardmore hospital
Those who have been here are
Mr- and Mrs Joe Patterson of
Farmington New Mexico Mrs
Lorene Stubbs and Rural Mc-
Cann of Oklahoma City Dr A
C McCann Beaver Mrs Marie
Robisek Midland Tex Mrs
Robbie Thompson Gainesville
and from Chicago J W McCann
and Mr McCann's two daugh-
ters Colleen and Ernestine
Atlas Glass division of Continental
Can company in Ada Frankoma
Pottery company of Sapulpa and
Seamprufe company of Rate liff
Ark
141111T I SHARION BROWN Editor-in-Chief
SHARON HAINES Associate Editor
Nancy Newell Judy Adams Typists
Rooney Eighth Grade Joy Lynn Wooldridge Speech & Library
Roy Beck Jr Band Doyle Stewart Sports Ronald Renzelman 4-H
over well last Thursday The
juniors would like to say that all
the rest of the stunts were to be
commended We hope we will
have just as much fun again next
year
Well next week its time once
again for six-weeks tests We
know that everyone will be study
ing hard to make a good grade
It's not too long until our sum-
mer vacation!
EIGHTH GRADE NEWS
We finally decided to have our
class party this corning Friday
night We are going to "Ele-
phant Rock" at Lake Murray
We are going to have hot dogs
pops potato chips and cookies
I'm sure all of us will have a
good time
AT
NUMBER TWENTYTWO
Commissioner's
Race Drawing
Much Interest
Candidates Eye
April 25 Filing
Date In County
A combination of political out-
bursta and spring fever brought a-
newed pressure on Carter county
would-be office holders this week
The handshaking contest among
candidates is on as most incum-
bents have announced intentions of
filing the very first day the fil-
ing period opens which is April
25
In District 2 race for commis-
sioner at least t w o candidates
have tossed their hat into the ring
Ilamp Bak e r Fox oilfield con-
struction owner
is in the race
The Joyce Tallaterro
assistant under
Political the late Mont
Kern is definite-
Pot ly running It
could not be
learned whotherr
or not Jesse Phipps recently ap-
pointed commissioner to serve out
Kerns' unexpired term would seek
the office or not However it Is
believed by f r tend s here that
Phipps would be a candidate
Others To Run
Meanwhile Jim Payne will be
running for a second term for
county attorney W IL (Bill)
France will be seeking re-election
for tax assessor Ancel Graham
will announce for court clerk a-
gain and It J Meek will be seek—
ing a second term for county
clerk
0 A Sparks has not said wheth-
er he will be a contender for the
office of county treasurer or not
Some observers believe he will not
seek reelecton to that office
State Senator Tom Tipps seems
assured of several contenders for
that post Mentioned in the run
fling will be Robert C Cavins Ard-
more city manager and Elbert
King Carter county election board
secretary is another Also men-
tioned as a likely candidate is
Howard Lindell Ardmore Insur-
ance man
At any rate politics—the Carter
county style seems to be warm-
ing up or a good season come
April 25 the first day of the fil-
ing period The first primary is
July 5 and the run-off primary is
July 26
Dyer Runnnig
Martin Dyer told The Herald to-
day that he would be seeking re-
election as state representative
office number one
Claud Smith Ardmore lawyer
will lip opposing Jim Payne in
the county attorney's race Smith
commandee a large vote in the last
election azainst Payne and it is
anticipated that this race will be
a "hot" one
No announcements have been
forthcoming from the sheriff's de-
partment or from the office of
county judge
Mr and Mrs Gene Walker of
Ada spent the weekend in Wilson
with relatives
Mr and Mrs Dee Porter and
Gerald spent Sunday in Shawnee
with Mr and Mrs J B Cudd
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We had a bake sale last Satur-
day We are trying to raise
enough money for our graduation
We selected our ushers and usher-
ettes The ushers are Mike
Francis Billy Henson and Bill
Cockrell
We are all crossing our fingers
hoping that we will pass
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BAND NEWS
Everyone had fun when they
went to Durant last Friday al-
though we didn't get to play
We are very happy to welcome
Jimmy Cumpton back into band
The band will have a weiner
roast at Lake Murray April 15
We plan to leave for the lake at
5:30 Everyone is planning a
lot for this semester party
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