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74th Year — No. 274
Oklshoma Historical Society
Historical Building
Oklahoma City, Okla.
73105
‘If You Would Avoid Criticism, Say Nothing, Do Nothing and Be Nothing’
The Perry Daily Jo
urnal
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Friday, Nov. 10, 1967
(AP) Means Associated Press
Perry, Oklahoma
Your Home Newspaper
5 Cents
HE WILL ARRIVE BY AIRPLANE
Santa Is Invited Here Nov. 25
briefly
stated...
perry
One of the most important
features of events planned here
Saturday, Nov. 25, is under ne-
gotiation by John Divine, man-
ager of the Chamber of Com-
merce.
Divine has written a letter to
Santa Claus asking him to
make his official visit to Perry
on the afternoon of Nov. 25. He
has been asked to arrive by air,
landing at the Charles Machine
Works air strip, and then to
make the trip to the
S. Claus And Friend
Students Of
MonthPicked
For October
Pat Bryant, Donna Hughes
and Cindy Dauman, all seniors,
Thursday were named students
of the month at Perry high
school for October in a pro-
square by fire truck.
The day's activities will start
with revival of the pet parade
around the square, starting at
10:30 a.m. At that time, those
12 years of age and under are
Perry: invited to take pets to the pa-
PH BLAZERS CLUB
PLANNING ACTIVITY
rade and to show them off in a , The Noble county 4-H Trail
march around the square. Dec- 1 1 1
orated bicycles, tricycles and Blazers horse club will have a
wagons are also invited. Each play day activity beginning at
child who participates will be 10 a.m. Saturday at the Cher
given a 50-cent piece. | okee strip Saddle club arena on
At 2 o’clock that same after-the stadium grounds.
noon, Santa is scheduled to : .„,,, ,
make his grand entrance Activities will include barrel
around the square and will set racing, pole bending, ribbon
up headquarters in his own spe- racing, goat tying, flag race and
cial house, which will be in the a rescue race.
courthouse park.
“I know you are very busy
this time of the year,” Divine
CITY EMPLOYES GO
TO MUNICIPAL MEET
Mrs. Harry Edgar, city clerk.
wrote to Saint Nick. “But we
have many boys and girls in
Perry, Okla., who would like and Mrs. R. K. Kelsey, book-
for vou to visit us. | keeper at City Hall, Thursday
“Therefore j have arranged attended a northwest Oklahoma
to have you’ brought here by district meeting of the Oklaho-
plane where you will land one- ma Municipal league at Enid
half mile west of the main part The meeting, attended by
of town at 2 p.m., Nov. 25, if about 50 people, was to discuss
weather is favorable. You will pending state legislation affect
then be brought to our square ing cities and towns.
by our local fire truck. If the
News Of County Men
And Women Serving
In the Armed Forces
gram sponsored by the Nation-
al Honor society.
The students are selected
with assistance of the faculty for
academic achievement and for
their extra efforts outside regu-
lar class activity. Mary Louise
Sadler and Ross Chaffin were
the outstanding students for
September.
The honor society also has
selected Mrs. Nelson Ehrlich,
school librarian, as the out-
standing school leader for the
first nine weeks of the present
term of school. Mrs. Ehrlich is
faculty sponsor of the Red Hots,
school pep club.
The honor group recognized
her for her work in adding to
school spirit by sponsoring the
pep club and for an outstanding
effort in arranging the details
for the annual Perry high school
homecoming pep rally and cere-
monies.
Officers of the honor society
include Mary Ann Martin, pres-
ident; Gib Dolezal, vice presi-
CAPT. DARRELL SIMMONDS
HAS DOWNED TWO MIGS
weather will not permit you to COUNTYANS HAVE PAID
fly, please call my office and $102,509 IN TAXES
we will make other arrange-, .
ments." Noble countyans have paid
The pet parade, first visit by I $102,509.81 in ad valorem taxes
i Santa and several other pre since collections began Monday
: holiday festivities are part of a at the office of Mrs. R. H
program planned by the retail (Mary) Powers, county treas-
committee of the Chamber of Urer
Commerce. oalX bl2.o02.2n van alncangaue"where our beliefs and future
i are at test
taxes.
The total ad valorem tax bill
for Noble county is $1,118,723.25
with the intangible bill amount-
ing to $14,077.05.
Noble countyans may pay the
first half of taxes between now
and Dec. 31 and then have until
High Interest
Rates Doom
Tulsa 'Pike
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — April 15 to pay the other half
Chances of financing any addi- without penalty. All taxes are
Capt. Darrell D. Simmonds, Bamal oll 16 a a
90,j tional Oklahoma turnpikes this
33, formerly of Perry and now year died Thursday in the
y W e orce in! squeeze between soaring nation- SMOKE DAMAGE
al interest rates and Oklahoma RESULTS FROM FIRE
law.Fire damaged a mattress and
Gov. Dewey Bartlett said na- box springs in a bedroom at
tional interest rates have shot 6:50 a.m Friday at the H L.
above the 5 per cent maximum Long home, 110 Third street,
allowed for financing charges
Vietnam, has been credited
with downing two MIG17 fight-
er planes in an air battle Nov.
6.
He lived in Perry several
years in his youth. His father,
the late Jake Simmonds, was
an early-day oil field worker
several years in the Perry
area. His mother now lives in
Vernon, Texas, and his wife is
an elementary school teacher
there.
Capt. Simmonds also is a
nephew of H. G. (Sonnie) Sim-
monds, formerly of Perry and
now of Vernon, Texas. Capt.
Simmonds was commander of
an American F4 phantom jet
which met two MIG challengers
during a bombing raid.
Ladies Night
dent; Patti Coffey, secretary; Program Cet Ry
and Debbie Yowell, treasurer * 1
Mrs. Ray Nissen and Mrs. Bren- Perry KO Croun
da Eaton are faculty sponsors " " P
The Perry Knights of Colum-
bus will have a ladies night
meeting to host state officials of
the order at 7:30 p.m. Tues-
day in the Catholic church base-
ment.
Plans for the meeting have
been listed by Bob O'Halloran,
program chairman for the eve-
ning. The meeting will be visit-
ed by James H. Carel, Oklaho-
ma City, state deputy of the
Knights of Columbus of Oklaho-
ma, and Albert A. Wheeler,
Oklahoma City, state member-
ship chairman.
Leo Rolling is grand knight
of the KC's here. John Streller
is in charge of general ar-
rangements for Tuesday eve-
ning’s meeting. "Papal Chal-
lenge” is a film to be shown,
O’Halloran said.
The meeting is open to all
members of the local parish
and their husbands and wives.
Charles Bickford, T¥
Actor, Dies At Age 78
HOLLYWOOD (AP) - Actor
Charles Bickford, who played
rugged he-man roles on the
stage, screen and television,
died Thursday night at 78.
One of Hollywood’s top char-
acter actors, Bickford suc-
cumbed in the University of Cal-
ifornia at Los Angeles Medical
Center.
After suffering an attack of
emphysema, he was hospital-
ized last July. The illness later
was complicated by an infec-
tion of the bloodstream and
pneumonia.
A friend said Bickford was
"still hard, strong and gruff”
until the end.
Survivors include his widow,
actress Beatrice Loring, whom
he married in 1919, and a mar-
ried son Rex, 42, and daughter,
Doris. No funeral plans have
been made.
Tlie red haired Bickford, after
more than 100 film credits, was
enjoying success in television as
the hard-fisted ranch owner on
"The Virginian." Recently actor
John McIntire—who moved into
“Wagon Train" when Ward
Bond died—filled in for Bick-
ford.
A multimillionaire, Bickford
often played a captain of indus-
try or a domineering father or
politician. He won an Academy
Award nomination for "Johnny
Belinda” but once described Os-
cars as “a little bit loathsome."
due after Jan. 1.
A general fire alarm was
allowed under Oklahoma law, sounded for the fire which filled
He expressed disappointment, the house with smoke. There
but said he has no plans to seek was some smoke damage, but
an increase in the statutory lim- | the dwelling did not catch fire,
it at present. Firemen moved the mattress
The governor also said he re- outside and had little trouble
mains committed to financing controlling the flames. Mrs
a proposed tollroad from Tulsa Long and three children were
to Interstate 35 ahead of any in the home. All escaped in-
other- including a proposed Ok-,jury......
lahoma City urban pike | Fire Chief Loyd Berger said
y P 'the fire was in a bedroom in
which two beds were located
The exact cause of the fire had
not been determined Friday.
Chief Berger noted matches
were found near the bed that
caught fire.
"Present interest rates pre-
vailing nationally are higher
than the interest rate that is
permitted by law in Oklahoma,"
Bartlett said, "so there doesn’t
appear to be any chance of fi-
nancing a turnpike this year."
Bartlett added that feasibility
studies on two alternate routes
between Tulsa and Interstate 35
—one to the Perry area and the
other to Ponca City-"were very
disappointing."
Rites Saturday Morning
For Mrs Clevenger
Graveside rites for Mrs. Mar-
tha Clevenger will be at 10
a.m. Saturday in the Douglas
cemetery, instead of at 4
p.m., as previously reported.
Burial will be under direction
of the Newton funeral home.
Mrs. Clevenger was a form-
er resident of the Douglas com-
munity. Funeral services were
in Longview Thursday.
LBJ RANCH TRAIL
WIMBERLEY, Tex. (AP) -
The President’s Ranch Trail
connecting landmarks in the life
of Lyndon B. Johnson, will be
dedicated here Friday.
FUNERAL HELD FOR
UNCLE OF PERRYANS
Services were Wednesday for
J. W. (Jelly) Wills, 58, of Ton-
kawa, uncle of John and Don
Wills, both of Perry.
Wills died suddenly Monday
morning at his home. Services
were at the McCafferty-Bolick
funeral home with burial in the
lOOF cemetery.
Wills had been a resident of
Tonkawa since 1925 and recent-
ly operated a supper club.
Survivors also include his wife,
a sister and three brothers.
11 A.M. OPENING SLATED FOR MANY
Some Businesses To
Close For Vet's Day
Saturday will be a partial
holiday for business in Perry in
observance of Veterans day.
Many businesses will not open
until 11 a.m. Saturday as
agreed by the retail committee
of the Chamber of Commerce.
A few firms have announced
they will be closed all day Sat-
urday. Both banks will be clos-
ed and the post office will offer
only box service. There will be
no regular mail deliveries.
A Veterans day program will
be presented at the band stand
in the courthouse park starting
at 10:45 a.m. The annual Vet-
erans day turkey dinner will be
served at noon at the Legion
hall for members of Ellis-Ji-
rous American Legion post and
their wives.
FAIR WEATHER SEEN
AFTER MISTY EVENING
Good fall weather with
temperatures in the 60s has
been predicted for the local
area Saturday.
Friday night’s readings are
expected to be somewhat cooler
than for Thursday night. Skies
are predicted to be clear to
partly cloudy.
A trace of precipitation was
recorded here Thursday night
The moisture came in the
form of mist and light rain
High temperature reading
Thursday was 60 degrees at 1
p.m. Overnight low recording
was 46 at 6 a.m. Friday. The
mercury stood at the 55-degree
mark at 11 a.m. Friday.
MRS. ROLLING HOME
FOLLOWING SURGERY
Mrs. Leo Rolling was to re-
turn to her home in Red Rock
Friday with her husband from
Wichita, Kan., where she has
been recuperating from surgery
at the home of her daughter.
Miss Janice Rolling.
CHICAGO BOUND — Noble county's state champion 4-H poultry judging team will go to Chicago
later this month to compete Nov. 25 in the National 4-H poultry judging contest at the national
4-H congress. Left to right, Jay Hesser, county extension director and a team coach; Bill Rickey,
county 4H club agent and a coach; Judy Kukuk, member of the Lucky Pioneer 4-H club; and Anita
Marriott, Evelyn Steichen and Weldon Schieffer, all members of the Rose Hill club.
President On
Two Day Trip
Across U.S.
FT. BENNING, Ga. (AP) -
President Johnson flew to this
sprawling "home of the infan-
try” today and told Army men
that the nation's hopes and
dreams depend on bringing uni-
ty to the Vietnam battleground
The Georgia stop was John-
son’s first in a two-day tour to
greet men of all the armed
forces both ashore and afloat,
on this Veterans Day weekend.
Johnson, speaking to Army
men and their families at Ft.
Benning's Doughboy Stadium,
emphasized the unity-in-war
theme.
Peace in Vietnam, he said,
will come more quickly when
the enemy of freedom finds no
crack in our courage—and no
split in our resolve and no en-
couragement to prolong this
war in the shortness of our pa-
tience or the sharpness of our
tongues.”
Johnson, who has been dis-
playing a new fighting stance in
an effort to confound pollsters
and won voters, was here to
watch paratrooper and ranger
'raining in Georgia, decorated
Vietnam veterans and talked to
troops and their kin.
The commander-in-c hief
Wood
Rev. McKoy
UNITED FUND CO-CHAIRMEN—Gene Wood, Perry police chief
and Rev. Clifton McKoy, pastor of the First Methodist church,
will serve as co-chairmen of the annual United Fund drive. Frank
Barry, president of UF, announced the selection Friday. The drive
will be started as soon as a budget can be worked out and divis-
ional workers selected, Barry said.
MOON LOOKS CLOSER NOW
America Cheered By
Successes In Space
CAPE KENNEDY, Fla (AP)
— America looked at a more ac-
cessible moon today with the
nation’s space prospects
mans, associate administrator
Promise
Fight On
SS Boost
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen-
ate Republicans vow a floor
fight against a proposed record
boost in Social Security benefits
they contend has a financing
feature pegged to help Demo-
crats in the 1968 elections.
The $36 billion measure to
provide 15 per cent benefit hikes
cleared the Senate Finance
Committee on a party-line, 11-6
vote Thursday. Chairman Rus-
sell B. Long, D-La . predicted
quick approval for the measure
when the Senate takes it up,
probably next week.
The bill would boost benefits
beginning next April—before
November’s presidential race—
but wouldn't increase Social Se-
curity taxes until January 1969.
That financing schedule was
called irresponsible and politi-
callv motivated by Sen. John
1 Williams of Delaware, senior
Republican on the Finance
Committee. He predicted stiff
GOP opposition aimed at re-
ducing the hike in benefits to
the 12'2 per cent level already
approved by the House.
Senate GOP Leader Everett
M Dirksen, indicating the line
Republicans will take in oppos-
ing the measure, called it a "fly
now, pay later” scheme.
Under the Senate committee
bill, the present payroll tax rate
of 4 4 per cent for employe and
| employer would be continued
through 1968 The taxable wage
base would be broadened effec-
tive next Jan 1 from $6,600 to
$3 000.
Thus a worker earning at
least $8 000 and his employer
each would pay a maximum of
$352 next year in Social Security
taxes compared with the cur-
rent $290 40 maximum.
The bill provides that begin-
ning in 1969 the tax rate would
be raised to 4.8 per cent and the
wage base would go up to $8,800,
with other increases scheduled
in future years.
In addition to the 15 per cent
hike in benefit levels the bill
would raise the minimum Social
J Security payment from $44
monthly to $70, a 59 per cent in-
| crease.
The House bill, passed in Au-
gust, would raise the minimum
monthly payment to $50. Like
the Senate bill, this legislation
of NASA, called the success would also maintain the 4.4 per
‘clear indication that our team cent payroll tax through next
strengthened and brightened by
Thursday’s triumphant proving
1,200 families of men stationed flight of the super-rocket, Sa-
in Vietnam live in the imme-turn 5
diate area. . . Running low on time, money
Johnson concluded by saying and public confidence, the space
that, your bravery will be re- agency stacked moon-flight ma-
warded and that one day Ft. chinery atop an untested rocket
Benning will celebrate the end and sent a
p ana sent IC up.
or the war. . The long shot worked like a
. iod grant that we may dream, evaporating gloom
s are in the blessed day soon,’ haunting the space program
, since three astronauts burned to
The coast-to-coast tour was death in their craft at Cape
Johnson s . first maior barn-Kennedy on Jan. 27.
Storming trip of 1967. Before President Johnson and Vice
Nightfall today, he also will President Humphrey sent con-
have greeted Vietnam combatat the prdident
1, . PrAtulations, the resident Say-
pilots in California and observed
stressed the fact that more than
operations aboard the nuclear-
powered carrier Enterprise
somewhere in the Pacific.
Coming Events
Saturday, Nov. 11 — Annual
Veterans day observance and
luncheon for Ellis-Jirous Amer-
ican Legion post members and
their wives, 12 noon, Legion
hall.
is not found wanting." vear but would provide a wago
Thursday night, the television I base of only $7,600.
ing the flight showed America
capable of sending astronauts to
the moon and bringing them
home safely.
scout Surveyor 6 dropped gently
to a spot in the middle of the
moon's visible face and began
sending the space agency snap-
shots of Sinus Medii, the cra-
tered plain which is the last of
four potential astronaut landing
sites to be checked out.
Seamans said it proved ‘'we
do have the capability in this
country to be pre-eminent not
only in space, but in all technol-
ogy"
Dr. Wernher Von Braun, who
coddled the Saturn 5 from idea
to steel in seven years of work,
said, "It was undoubtedly the
greatest moment of my life.”
His "bird,” the biggest thing
ever to fly, climbed to 117-miles
orbit with a world record satel-
Both House and Senate bills
would let Social Security retire-
ment beneficiaries earn a maxi-
mum of $1,680 annually next
year and $2,000 starting in 1969.
compared with the present
$1,500 limit.
Other provisions in the Senate
bill would reject the House-
approved freeze on the number
of recipients under the Aid to
(Continued on page 8)
Weather
Space officials hastened to lite of 140 tons. From there, an
| say the moon is several flights Apollo spacecraft went out a
away, but Dr Robert C Sea-1 (Continued on page 8)
Lineups forTonight’s Game
Perry Maroons
Woodward Boomers
Monday, Nov. 13 - Perry Player, Wt.
chapter of Northwest Oklahoma Pat Bryant, 170
Sportsman’s association, ladies Dan Dexter 165
night turkey dinner meetnig,
6:30 p.m., Perry high school
vocational agriculture building.
Tuesday, Nov. 14 — First Lester Seat, 140
Larry Taber, 165
Vince Shoop, 195
Pos. Player
LE Rick Lee
LT Bill Lewis
LG George Chase
C Alan Braly
Wt.
165
195
165
175
185
neeting of Perry Parents and
Teachers organization, 7:30
im junior high cafeteria
Tuesday, Nov. 14 — Noble
county poultry, cake and egg
show opens for three-day run at
fairgrounds; special features
include hobby show afternoon of
Nov. 16 and 4-H junior "share-
fun" talent contest at 7:30 pm.
Nov 16
Wednesday, Nov. 15 Lay-
men’s interdenominational pray-
er breakfast, 6:30 a.m., Catho-
lic church basement
Monday, Nov. 20 - Separate
meetings of Shea-Nelson chap-
ter of Disabled American Vet-
rans and covered dish din-
ner, 7 30 p m , DAV hall.
Garwin DeRoin, 195
John Dolezal, 170
Gib Dolezal, 185
Don Palmer, 150
Ross Chaffin, 150
Jack Powers, 197
RG Terry VaValley
RT Herschell Mosier 210
RE Clair Craighead 170
QB Jerry Burkett
TB Ted Luthi
124
155
WB Norman Nelson 160
FB Steve Hiltterbran 180
Coaches: Rex Edgar,
Gary Kirtley and Den-
nis Gaines.
Coaches: Bill Heaton,
Jim Schroeder,
Dean Morrison,
Alan Covait and
David Smith.
Officials: Bob Colon, referee; John Klinger,
head linesman; Richard Clarke, field judge; and
Larry Stephens, umpire.
Kickoff: 7:30 p.m., Daniels field at Perry sta-
dium.
Temperatures for the 24-hour
period ending at 1) a m Friday:
12 N 56 1 p.m. 60 2 p.m. 58
3 p.m. 58 4 p.m. 57 5 p.m. 56
6 p.m. 55 7 p.m. 54 8 p.m. 52
9 p.m. 50 10 p.m. 49 1) p.m. 49
12 M. 49 1 a.m. 49 2 a.m. 49
3 a.m. 49 4 a.m. 48 5 a.m. 48
6 a.m. 46 7 a.m.47 8 a.m. 47
9 a.m. 49 10 a.m. 52 11 a.m. 55
Forecast
Perry area — Decreasing
cloudiness and a little warmer
today. Clear to partly cloudy
and mild tonight and Saturday.
Southerly winds 10-18 miles per
hour. Highs today and Saturday
60s. Low tonight 45-50.
Oklahoma — Clear to partly
cloudy tonight and Saturday, a
little warmer east and south on
Saturday. Low tonight 37 north-
west to 50 southeast. High Sat-
urday 64-72.
Five-day forecast — For the
period Saturday through Wed-
nesday, temperatures in Okla-
homa will average one to three
degrees above normal. Normal
highs are from 56 nothwest to
66 south, normal lows 28 north-
west to 11 southeast. Little or
no precipitation west and cen-
tral, about one-fourth inch east,
occurring as rain about Satur-
day,
Temperatures for the 24-hour
period ending at 11 a.m. Friday
were: high 60, low 46. Tempera-
tures for the 24-hour period end-
ing at 11 a.m. a year ago were:
high 49, low 26. Precipitation, a
trace.
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