Pawhuska Daily Journal-Capital (Pawhuska, Okla.), Vol. 56, No. 172, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 29, 1965 Page: 1 of 8
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An Editorial
MEETING THE NEED
The bond issue to improve our municipal light plant
should have the solid backing of every citizen of Pawhus-
ka at the polls on Tuesday.
The facts have been carefully screened by the Electric
Study Committee, and their recommendations are sound.
The committee is composed of men w ho are genuinely con-
cerned about the future needs of Pawhuska. The proposal
they submitted to the City Council was not decided in one
meeting. They labored for months during long meetings
to decide what was the best solution to Pawhuska's in-
creasing power problem.
The committee considered the problem from every an-
gle. They studied the cost of buying outside power, and
they studied the purchase of a new engine to provide for
our power needs.
The decision was to add to our existing generating
equipment a new 3,000 kw dual-fuel. Turbo Super-Charged
engine that will provide the peaking power load Pawhus-
ka will need next summer, and the increasing needs for
summers to come.
In order to improve our electrical power system it was
necessary to ask the citizens of Pawhuska to approve a
$500,000 bond issue. The bonds will be retired from revenue
from the sale of electricity to the consumers.
In being realistic about Pawhuska’s power needs, the
Committee at the same time urged the City Commissioners
to increase the rates to consumers. This action has been
recommended for years by every power consultant firm
who made a detailed study of Pawhuska’s electrical stru-
cture.
Pawhuska has enjoyed one of the lowest residential pow-
er rates in Oklahoma for years. In increasing the rates
from 192c per kw to 2c per kw, we will still be in a sel-
ect "low rate” group, and very, very few cities in the state
will furnish power to consumers at that low rate.
Who will pay the increase? only those families fortu-
nate enough to have an abundance of electrical appliances
and who use over the 150 kw per month minimum. But
even these so-called "fortunate" families will experience
only a small increase in their electric bills. The families
with few electrical appliances and those with a limited
income will not experience a rate increase at all.
The Committee was being entirely fair with the citi-
zens when it asked for the increase in rates. This could
have been withheld until after the bond election, but they
put the cards on the table for everyone to see. The in-
crease in rates was needed. It has been long overdue.
$160,000 annually is distributed to departments in the
city government to render service to the citizens. These
departments extend services but have no income. These
departments are the police and fire departments, the
street and parks department and the city library. They are
a necessary part of any city government and we couldn’t
lo without them. Revenue from the municipal power plant
provides these services to you.
If Pawhuska did not have this income from the power
plant, then the city would have to depend on TAXES to
maintain these departments. Taxes such as a sewer tax.
road user tax, and untold other "excuse" taxes that would
be necessary to maintain city government. But on top of
the taxes, you would still have to pay an electric bill even
if the city didn’t own the power plant. And your bill would
possibly be even higher!
The City of Pawhuska is on solid financial footing
We can afford to improve our power plant-WE CAN’T
AT FORD NOT TO! Some older bonds will reach maturity
in the next three to five years, and then the financial pic-
ture will be even brighter. Our bonded indebtedness will
not be out of proportion to our valuation even with the
approval of the $500,000 electrical bonds. We can provide
the improvements with out an increase in ad valorem tax-
es.
We have confidence in the future of Pawhuska. We
have confidence in the citizens of Pawhuska. Our citizens
have always provided for the needs of the community. W e
lave the finest churches and hospital in northern Okla-
homa. W e have one of the finest and most modern educa-
tional plants in northern Oklahoma, and Pawhuska con-
tinues to move forward.
If we were not a progressive communitv we wouldn’t
need to improve our power plant. The need is there, and
the need is NO-W!
Let us meet the need for Pawhuska by voting YES
Tuesday, August 31!
DAILY .
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RNAL-
PIT
Published Evenings, Tut sday through Friday and Sunday Mornings at 700 Kihekah Avenue, Pawhuska, Oklahoma.
VOLUME 56 - No. 172
ROCK ET TROUBLE — Sketch locates the maneuvering rocket
system where trouble developed on the Gemini-5 space capsule.
Several of the rockets used to maneuver the capsule nose a ppar-
ently froze. Rockets used for the return to earth were not affected.
Bond vote hinges
on 'undecided'
poll reveals
The "undecided" voters will pro-
bably decide the fate of the elec-
tion Tuesday on a $500,000 elec-
trical improvement bond issue elec-
tion. an informal poll by the Jour-
nal-Capital revealed Saturday.
Many citizens endorsed the pro-
Dollar Day forecast:
Warm welcome, cool
values, hot bargains
Merchants have found that cus-
tomer buying habits are influenced
posal enthusiastically. Among them between 7 a.m. and 11 a.m. on any
were Jack C. Miller, florist, who day decreases that day’s sales by
said: "We’ve got to have it!” one per cent.
Cassie Windsor, beauty shop These are supposed to be facts
owner, plans to vote ‘‘yes” because and we don’t intend to argue with
with assets of $200 million to $1.8
billion.
Plans for this gala event, un-
doubtedly the biggest in the his-
tory of this part of the state, have
been underway for months and
Pawhuska and Osage County.
she thinks her cooler will be more facts. However, we know this much
c fficient. . every smart shopper in the Paw-
W. T. Williams, former chief huska area will be out looking for
engineer and superintendent at the bargains Wednesday regardless of ‘northeast Oklahoma, will be tak-
city water and power plant, is- the weather. ing part in the big event.
along with other communities in
sued this statement Saturday: “I The reason? It’s Dollar Day in The Pawhuska High School Hand
want the peopel to know that this Pawhuska and the experienced is scheduled to march in the parade
bond issue has my full approval, shoppers know that it doesn’t nay which is expected to be one of the
Many people have asked me about to let a little rain or snow or other largest ever put on in this part E S. ADAMS And just last Wednesday ground- have on the pilots,
itand I have only one answer for inclement weather keep you away of the country. Many Osage coun- breaking ceremonies were held for “We’re pressing on,” came the
all. It is for the good of the city from the bargains merchants set ty residents, among the Chief Paul rose from warehouse clerk to an "The Professional Building," a 5- shout from space after ground
and of all city residents and I aside for this particular day. Pitts who made Adams an honor- officer in the company by 1928. story “ultra modern prestige of- control radioed the “go.”
hope everyone votes for it. It is The temperature may be as high ary member of the Osage Tribe In 193g, at the age of 38, he was fice-parking complex building” Many New Records
one of the most important bond as the value of the items offer- with the name of "Ses-sah-moie" elected president and has pushed which Adams is building immedi- The Air Force’s Cooper and
issues they have ever voted on.” ed or it may be as low as the (Leader of Men), in 1952, will the company to a top spot among ately south of the Phillips Build- Navy Pilot Conrad will return to
Several persons expressed the prices but this monthly feature of - take part in the festivities. the nation’s independent oil com- ing. earth with:
opinion that power supply was fered by Pawhuska merchants is But friends and admirers from panics with operations on six con- 1 n . - A bie new record for space-
needed to attract industry, not one you can afford to ignore, the fields of industry, politics, edu- tinents.
A few people admitted they Read your Tuesday paper for tips cation, etc., will be coming from
would vote "yes" reluctantly.
But nearly half the qualified take advantage of the opportuni- the celebration and one
voters questioned replied
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Weather
Pawhuska Briefs
Under Adams’ leadership the
on what to buy where and then many distant points to help with company’s earnings rose from $24
of the million in 1937 to $144 million in
they ties - even if it is snowing.
Osage Lease sale
set here October 20
An oil and gas lease sale will
be held at the Osage Indian
Agency on October 20, accord-
ng to a notice from the office
>f H. T. Ferrier, chief of the
branch of minerals.
Those requesting tracts to
be offered at this sale should
make their request not later
.han September 10.
Funeral today for
Mrs. Witcraft, Sr.
Funeral services will be held at
2:30 p.m. Sunday for Mrs. C. B
Witcraft, Sr., 73, longtime resi-
dent of Fairfax who died August
27 in Seminole.
The Rev. Edward Gabbert, pas-
tor, will conduct the funeral in the
First Christian church, Fairfax.
The deceased is survived by her
husband, and by three sons, C. B.
Witcraft, Jr., Pawhuska, Bill D.
Witcraft, Ellinwood, Kan., Don K.
most distinguished will undoubt- 1964. He has guided it in a diver-
edly Le General Dwight I). Eisen- sification program and research
hower, a long-time friend of in petroleum, chemical and relat-
“Boots” Adams, ed fields.
Adams, who retired as presi- Adams owns a beautiful ranch-
dent of Phillips in 1964 but con- style home at the north edge of
tinues as chairman of the board, Bartles: ille and a "working" ranch
joined the company in 1920 when near Foraker which has adequate
the firm was three years old and facilities for students of agricul-
East German Reds Drop in Tenkiller
release Tulsa man
BERLIN (UPI — Communist
East Germany Saturday released
Witcraft. Elk City and a daughter, - breimany paturgy released
Mrs. Al Knight, Atoka ten grand- unharmed a young Tulsa, Okla.,
children and one great-grandchild, tourist and a British student who
rad been suspected of helping
level protested by
owner of resort
By United Press International
GRADUATES — Airman Second resentative of the state veterans
Class Jerry W. Johnson, son of department will be at the Pawhus
Friday night's fierce storms Mr. and Mrs. John H. Johnson of ka Legion hut at 1 pm. Tuesday,
which battered and buffeted parts Barnsdall, Okla., has been gradu- August 31st. He will be available
of Oklahoma and desposited lar- ated at Cheppard AFR Wichita for conferences with veterans,
ge amounts of rainfall moved out Falls, Tex., from the training widows of veterans and others who
of the state Saturday, and fore- course for U. S. Air Force heli-
have business with the depart-
casters said the rest of the week- copter mechanics. Airman John- ment.
Leaflets explaining
safety law changes
are available now
end would be mostly fair. son is a graduate of Barnsdall
The cold front moved into Sou- High School.
POLICE COURT — Vurnie Hill.
20, Hominy, was fined $8 and $2
on a loitering charge and Marylan
White, 18, also of Hominy, forfeit-
ed $10 bond on a loitering charge.
VETERAN AFFAIRS — A rep-
Racing car kills 4
at Missouri State
Fair on Saturday
SEDALIA, Mo. (UPI
them Arkansas and North Texas,
and blue skies returned to most
of the state. The front helped
keep Saturday temperatures down
after the 100 degree readings of
Friday and Saturday.
Lows early Saturday were up to
13 degrees cooler, with the range
from 62 at Guymon to 73 at Altus
and Hobart. Weekend highs were
predicted to be in the upper 80s
Saturday, 60s Saturday night and
in the 90s on Sunday.
Friday’s storms produced dama-
ging winds, lightning, hail and
heavy rains. Two hundred houses
were damaged at Tulsa . three of
them set on fire. Power lines were
downed: tree limbs scattered. .. , .
Two boys were injured slight- The injured, including some
ly by shattered glass ata Tul- children, were taken to a Sedalia Harrjs and various state and local safety, Mrs. Love said it is es-
sa shopping center, and a 5.100- ospital and some were reported dignitaries have been invited to sential that every driver in the
barrel crude oil tank was set afire in serious, condition. Bill ( rane of attend. county become aware of the chan-
at Cushing. Kansas City, Mos driver of the Dedication ceremonies will be ges that have been made in the
--car was among those burt. at 4 p.m., following boat races be- law and the effect they will have
LOCAL TEMPERATURES The dead were not immediately ginning at 1 p.m. Sky divers will on motorists involved in accidents.
Bi-hourly temperatures courtesy identified. , ... perform from time to time during
of City Light Plant. Fair officials said the victims the program.
FRIDAY were watching the racing time The new lake, built primarily as
Noon 96; 2 p.m. 98; 4 p.m. 84; trials from outside a chain-link a municipal water supply, already
6 p.m. 80; 8 p.m. 75; 10 p.m. 71; fence in a restricted area at the is open to fishermen, boaters and
Midnight 69. end of the track. Some had climbed water ski enthusiasts. A boat ramp,
SATURDAY upon fence. picnic tables and other recreational Dowdy’s Furniture and Appliances
2 a.m. 68; 4 a.m. 67; 6 a.m. 65; It was believed that a me- facilities are planned along several
8 a.m. 69; 10 a.m. 76; noon 82. chanical failure might have caused miles of shoreline Okemah Jay-
Cranes car to go out of control, cees have established a park L
The vehicle sped down the straight-
Okemah to dedicate
. . given to every driver when he
new lake purchases his driver’s license or
HUN SRV license plate. Persons who already
have bought their licenses can ob- . ■ ■ •
OKEMAH (I PI Okemah will tain a copy of the leaflet by stop-
A dedicate its new lake today in a ping in at the Tag Agent’s of- I
stock racing car roared out of program that will include speeches, fice
control and crashed through a boat races and sky diving. The revised Safety Responsibili- , 1100 xl 1 .
fence at theMissouri State Fair Governor Henry Bellmon and ty Law provides increased protec- TO 6 Others hurt
Saturday killing four persons and U. S. Representative Tom Steed tion against financially irrespon- 1
injuring 13 others. are scheduled to speak, and U. S. sible owners or operators of motor VINTAN - tort to
Senators Mike Monroney and Fred vehicles and promotes highway ‘ * ’ a. ( , Eleven to pass a car on the two-lane high-
persons were killed and 28 others way and met the oncoming bus.
injured late Friday night when a Blankenship pulled to the shoulder 1-35 which
truck loaded with heavy oilfield of the highway. through the center of the state, ents who are responsible for them
timbers smashed headon into a He could not get cut of the The central route would begin to see that they enroll in school
Greyhound bus. trucks path, however, and the at Keystone and terminate near and that they attend regularly
The wreckage caught fire but truck smashed headon into the Perry. The third route would be- from the beginning,
it was quickly put out, front of the bus on the right gin at Keystone or near the west- A parent who permits a child
. The heavy timbers tumbled from side. 4 ern terminous of the Skelly by- to skip school, does him a real
Service specialist the truck upon the bus’ 36 passen- Mrs. John Guy of Port Arthur, pass and terminate north of Still- harm, Terrill said,
joins Dowdy's here gers. One of the injured, bus driver Tex., who escaped with injuries, water. Neither would benefit Wash-
Jeff Blankenship of Houston, re- said her first inkling of a crash ington or Osage counties.
Rider Whitecotton has joined mained in critical condition after was a scream from the lower sec-
— 1 an operation that lasted hours, tion of the bus, the screeching of TOWN HONORS IKE
as appliance service spescialist. The wreck was so bloody it made brakes and the thud of lumber
y- Whitecotton comes to Pawhuska ambulance drivers sick .One man’s crashing through the front of the DENNISON, Tex. (UPI) —
at from Bartlesville where he was as- head was rammed through a seat, bus,
ZONE FORECASTS The vehicle sped down the straight- the lake site - sociated with an appliance firm A woman bulged from a window, Phil _ ____________,______________________^ . ...... .______..
NORTHEAST — Clear to partly away but failed to make the first The lake was completed in 1963 for the past 18 years, her head ripped open by a timber, was one of the first on the scene Wednesday to dedicate a high ploma for almost any job. Soon he
cloudy through Sunday and a lit- turn and crashed through the with funds provided by a 1500,000 The new serviceman, along with The bus bound from Houston to and helped pull the dead and in- school named in his honor, must support himself and eventual-
tie warmer. A few afternoon and fence. bond issue and a $276,000 grant his wife Stella and daughter Vir- New Orleans over U. S. Highway jured out. City officials said Eisenhower ly a family greatly handicapped,
evening thundershowers. High near An estimated 14,000 spectators from the U. S. Public Works Au- ginia will move to Pawhuska as 90, was a "scenicruiser," with seats "As soon as I got to the scene, who now lives in Gettysburg, Pa., For most students, a very little
90. sa wthe accident from the fair’s thority. By last fall, its water level soon as living accomodations can on two levels. Henry C. Gregory of I started helping pull the passen- also will visit the home in which more effort .regularly, would make
------grandstand. The time trial was a was adequate to provide a city be arranged.‘ Houston, driver of the truck, was gers out,” he said. “Because of he lived as an infant. It is now the difference between failure and
NORTHWEST — Partly cloudy preliminary to a scheduled 100 water supply, transported by a They are members of the Church killed. the wreckage, we had to kick out part of a park as a tourist at- success in school, the super in ten-
(Continued on Page TY9) mile late model stock car race. (Continued on Page Two) of God. State police said the truck tried (Continued on Page Two) traction, dent said.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 29, 1965
PRICE 7c
emini-5 due in today
BULLETIN
SPACE (ENTER.
Houston
(I PI) — The Gemini 5 astro-
nauts Saturday were ordered to
splashdown Sunday after 120
orbits - one short of their goal
because of tropical storm
“Betsy.”
beared, grimy and rather restless, miles north of there, between urday. Landing time there would
had the g-ahead Saturday to fini- Cape Kennedy and Bermuda, be about 10:30 a.m. EDT 8:30 a.m.
sh up their chmpionship eight - Everything hinged on the wea- CST.
day flight in one of two Atlantic ther. The other landing area would
splash areas Sunday. The southernmost target area be used if the flight was cut one
Project officials were to de- is the one pilots Gordon Coopar orbit short, and splashdown would
cide later Saturday whether to and Charles Pete Conrad would be about 8:55 p.m EDT.
send the prime recovery vessel shoot for should they land at the Carrier Takes Station
h. Lake Champlain to the landing end of 121 full orbits - the ori- With weather in the No 1 re-
SPACE CENTER, Houston — area near Grand Turk Island in ginal plan when they blasted out cog Me somewhat nuestion-
RPT- The Gemini 5 astronauts, the Bahamas or point about 500 of Cape Kennedy a week ago Sat- able X winds up to 23 miles hour,
three - foot waves and showers-
the veteran carrier Lake Champ-
lain made a dramatic turnabout
and headed for a point midway be-
tween the two targets.
Aboard the spacecraft, Coop-
er and Conrad were in for a busy
night stowing away the wide var-
iety of equipment in preparation
for firing of braking rockets over
Bartlesville will honor
K.S. ‘Boots’ Adams with
‘Celebration Sixty-Six’
Hawaii, the flaming re-entry in-
to the earth’s atmosphere and the
touchdown.
by the weather They maintain
that for every degree of tempera- The City of Bartlesville is pull-
ture below normal on any day in ing out all the stops Tuesday
the spring and for every degree when they observe “Celebration
above normal on any day in the Sixty-Six," the 66th birthday of
fall, retail sales will drop off ex- K. S. “Boots Adams, the man
actly one per cent. Also, every credited with guiding Phillips Pe-
one-tenth inch of rain that falls troleum Company from a company
ture and related fields to experi- The spacecraft itself was some-
ment and learn. Several import- what the worse for wear from
ant legumes have been developed the iong flight, but still in suf-
on the ranch. ficiently god shape to make it all
“Boots,” as he has been known the way. The problem of water
since picking up the nickname as building up in the electrical sy-
, a child when he was the proud stem, which plagued the pilots
owner of a pair of red-topped for days, no longer was a factor,
boots, has been active in many A fuel problem in that system
fields in addition to those involv- had threatened to force the Gem-
ing the business of the firm and ini 5 down on its very first day
is credited with being the driving in orbit.
force behind many community im- Gemini 5 entered its 11th or-
provement projects in his home bit at 4:54 p.m. EDT.
community. Project officials kept the mis-
Phillips Petroleum Company has sion going in free flight after
recently completed a new 19-story some steering rockets failed earl-
office building in the vicinity of ier this week because they want-
the old Frank Phillips Building ed to determine the effect eight
and the 12-story Adams Building, full days of weightlessness will
At the west edge of Bartles-
ville (in Osage County) is the Phil- flight endurance, giving the Uni-
lips Petroleum Company’s Re- ted States - for the first time -
search Center. This 260-acre center a substantial lead over Russia in
consists of the Chemical Lahora- man-hours in orbit.
tories, Sales-Service Laboratories, - Valuable new information for
Electro-Mechanical Laboratories, America’s Apollo project which is
Radiation Laboratories, an Auto- shooting for a manned moon
motive Laboratory and more than landing by 1969.
20 pilot plants and other experi- -For Cooper, the only man in
mental and development units. the world to make two space fli-
Adams himself says, "No one ghts, the individual championship
man builds this company,” but for time in space.
his co-workers and men who know --The American orbital altitude
what he has done give him a large record, 217.5 miles.
share of the credit for the amazing - A host of other "firsts," Gem-
expansion of Phillips Petroleum ini 5 still had problems as it
Company. Reaching the age of 66 whirled around the earth at 5
is, for most men, not a particular- miles per second. The cramped
ly important milestone hut for quarters were beginning to both-
the man who has had so much to er the astronauts a bit. But there
do in the development of “Phil- was music radioed from earth to
lips 66" it could hardly escape be- soothe them, and the spacecraft
GORE (UPD — A drop in the in^ noteworthy,
level of Lake Tenkiller of almost
refugee apo to the West I-eorerpertor Aha Cafoosa-Ponca City
The Communists said the Ame- dry, one of them complained Sat- *
rican, Benjamin Franklin White- urday.
hill III, 21, and the Briton, John George Kesselring owner of rOUle endorsed
custody because they were unaware resorts, particularly the ones on B’ville Chamber
"L n ,”-r( West Berlin" dwere the upper end of the lake, have V
ground organizations because of ceding liners becau f the re The Bartlesville Chamber of
Tag Agent Mrs. Tena Love an- their inexperience. . , C Commerce has endorsed the
ncuneed today that she has re- Whitehill and Thwaites told rent belowlevel is more than 10 "Northwest Turnpike" route from servc fuel and prevent a risky
ceived from the Oklahoma De- Western allied officials they were which beew normal power pool, Ponca City to the Port ofCatoosa. Continue........- Two,
partment of Public Safety a sup- innocent of the Communist char- 16Ofeet above sea level. A special committee has been
ply of leaflets highlighting the ges. They aid the Nad Hot Helped A high of 636.38 feet was reach-formed to assist in getting the
gang Vogel, w.......rved.....ter- -..........- . superintendent $ay$
and C. W. Hubbell.
This is in line with the Bartles- Never in history has it been so
ville Chamber's continuing efforts easy for young people to get an
to develop the north central and education, and it has never been
was not tumbling as much as it
has been for the past two days.
At 1:20 p.m. EDT in its eighth
day, Gemini5 reached the 3--mil-
lion-mile mark.
Gemini 5, we thank you.”
110th orbit at 3:18 p.m. EDT.
Although some of the steering
rockets were out, and fuel for
them a big question mark, the
astronauts Saturday carried out
some of the experiments which
were suspended earlier to con-
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pod an average of one foot per
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northeastern section of the state, so imperative as it is now that
The Catoosa - Ponca City route everyone be educated to the ex-
would serve Washington county as tent of his ability. Oren Terrill,
well as Osage county and the superintendent of schools, said Fri-
central counties of the state, day in urging that every young
Two other routes are being stud- person eligible enroll in school.
led for a turnpike from Tulsa to He not only appealed to pupils
I runs north and south but directed his attention to par-
A late start and irregular at-
tendance make it hard for the
child and the longer a young per-
son is out of school the more dif-
ficult it is for him to go back.
A school drop-out will soon find
Former President Dwight Eisen- himself in an unhappy predica-
McMahon, 17, of Vinton, bower will return to his birthplace ment of needing a high school di-
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