The Blanchard News (Blanchard, Okla.), Vol. 45, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 26, 1955 Page: 1 of 8
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MEWi
THE WEATHER
Partly cloudy tonight
& Friday with occasion-
al showers and thunder-
storms warmer Friday
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BLANCHARD (McClain County) OKLAHOMA THURSDAY MAY 26 1955
— (EIGHT PAGES) —
NUMBER 40
Innl
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Rev Thompson Is
Called By First
Baptist Church
Formerly of Durant
Trinity Church New:
Pastor Moves Here
Sunday morning members of
ie First Baptist church will have
pulpit pastor for the first time
in several months since the re-
signation of Bruce McLaughlin
Rev Richard Thompson has
ieen called to fill the church pas-
torate and he and Mrs Thompson
ind their two children arrived
his week to assume the church
:alL y 1 1 -i i i i i i
He has been pastor of the Tri-
ll ty Baptist church in Durant be-
ore coming to Blanchards
During the few months the
hurch has been without a full
ime pastor visiting ministers
tave been filling the church pul-
lit on Sundays Last Sunday night
t a business meeting of the
hurch membership Rev Thomp-
on was given the call to the lo-
al church
)isasf er Meef
Postponed
Storm Disasters
Prevent Meeting
The Red Cross Disaster Review
onference scheduled for Thurs-
ay May 26 has been postponed
ntil a later date according to
J James Red Cross Disaster
hairman for McClain Co Mrs
a die 'Stohl National Red Cross
isaster Representative who was
direct the Conference has been
tiled to aid victims of hailstorms
id floods in Jefferson County
id could not be present
However a regular quarterly
oard Meeting for Thursday ev-
'(ng at 7:30 pm at the Method
t Church in Purcell has been an-
unced by E L Dobbins Chap
Chairman L J James has
:en requested to bring the group
to date on procedure should
cClain be struck by a disaster
ny member of the Disaster Com-
ittee is invited to attend Mr
ifobins said
The Gray Ladies will serve
ke and coffee at the close of
e meeting
lotorists Watch
Wildlife Is Word
Oklahoma City Okla — Spring
d sumer months are the time of
ar when the birds and animals
the forest and prairie are mov-
about and crossing roads or
Kling nearby The state game
d fish department urges driv-
to watch more carefully and
run over animals or birds
len it can be prevented
!lonchardThis Week
EWe Saw
: Curry rushing around try-’
get telephone lines repair-
ter the wind and electrical
W C Francis a little
epy-eyed and admitting that
wind and rain kept him near
“fraid hole” Wednesday night
Duane Ward and William
rris still talking about calf
ing and bulldoggln’
klC Carl D Crowley has been
ne on a 15-day leave with his
ents Mr and Mrs Ray Crow-
He will return to Roswell
M on May 36 --
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otal precipitation for wee)
ing at 6:00 pm Wednesday
ervation time of Blanchard’l
5 Weather Bureau Station
360 Inches
otal precipitation to date this
1069 inches 1
otal precipitation Last Year
1987 lnchea
lly Temperature Foe Week
Cub Pack To Meet
Friday Night At
Methodist Church
A meeting of the Boy Scout
Cub Pack is scheduled for 7:30
Friday night at the Methodist
church according ‘to cubmaster
Robert Gilmore
Theme of the meeting this
month is “CircuS” and special acts
and booths indicating the circus
atmosphere will be in evidence at
the meeting
26 Members Of
4-H Clubs To
Allend Meeting
24th Annual Round
Up At A&M Will
Draw Many From Co
Twenty-six ’ McClain County
4-H club boys and girls will at-
tend the 34th annual 4-H Club
Round-up at A & M-May 31-
June 3
- The boys and girls chosen as
delegates to the Round-up are:
Peggy Craig Jo Ann Craig Don-
ald 'Bell Wayne Kathryn Sue
McAfee Shelia Runyan Portia
Midgett Tommy McConnell and
Billy E Thompson Byars Mary
Alice Caldwell Alma Jo Hill
Peady Mae Odoms Byron Jesse
Haygood John Roy Boettler all
of Cole Vicki Hayhurst Helen
Haynes Frances Naylor Judy
Lou Simpson Larry Humphries'
and Phillip Lindell all of Dib-
ble Edwin Lee Wynne Bob Hol-
man Newcastle Kenny Thomp-
son Donald Ledford Blanchard
Jimmie Lee Lester Washington
Luther Jeter and Earl Drury
Rosedale
The group will be accompanied
by Mrs Grace Love and Mrs
Alice Caldwell 4-H leaders and
L J James Dorothy Goodman
County Agents Other 4-H lead-
ers who have assisted during the
year preparing the 4-H delegates
for the trip include: Mrs Avis
Wimpy Mrs Annie Lee McCoy
and Mr Delbert Holman Newcas-
tle Mrs Lula Mock Mrs Winnie
Terrell Mrs Bertress Daniels and
Mrs Agnes Ensminger Blanchard
Mrs J V Adams Banner Mrs
Mrs Guy Willis Criner Mr Troy
Pinley and Mrs Margaret McCon-
nell Byars Mrs Ruth Graham
and Mrs C W Roath Dibble
Mrs Alice Morper and Mrs Ray
Jones Fairview Mrs Maude
White and Mr Homer E Kuyken-
dall Rosedale Mr James Nor-
man Mrs Mona Rose and Mr
Lee Webster Wayne Mrs Gladys
Sansbury Mrs Marie Heiskell
Mr Norman Edgmon Mr and
Mrs Clyde Ward Washington
and Mrs Grace Love Cole
The 4-H Round-up is an an-
nual series of 4-H contests and
demonstrations in which rally
winners from all counties com-
pete There are divisions for practi-
cally every phase of 4-H club
work But the program isn’t lim-
ited to just this sort of thing
(Continued on Page Eight)
APPROVAL OF BUDGET MAY SPEED
SINE DIE ADJOURNMENT IN STATE -
Sine Die adjournment of the
25th Oklahoma Legislature is like
the mechanical rabbit the faster
it is pursued the more rapidly it
moves away
' All indications now are the le-
gislature will go over into June
before winding up their work De-
spite a tremendous furry of acti-
vity by the house and senate none
of the important inescapable
tasks necessary Ip closing out the
session have been completed
There is still much work to be
done by both house and senate
One move may speed up final
adjournment apparently is in
the mill at the request of a sena-
tor and house member The pro-
posal is for the -governor to pre-
sent to the conference committee)
on general appropriations a “fan-
ned” budget all drawn up end
ready to be presented to the house
and senate Since the governor
has announced previously he has
Monday Memorial Day
Will Be Business Holiday
Monday will be a holiday here
All business houses have indicat-
ed that they would observe the
day and be closed on Monday
Food stores will be closed and
the household provider is being
advised to buy food for an extra
day to take care of their needs
until Tuesday when grocery storey
will be open again
Offices bank city offices re-
tail stores lumber yards will all
be closed Service stations drug
4 Escape Vilh
Minor Injuries
1 1 Newcastle Srs
In Cars Involved
Four persons escaped with only
minor injuries in a three car pile-
up of Newcastle highschool stu-
dents at the intersection of SH9
and 37-A' after graduation cere-
monies at Newcastle highschool
Tuesday night May 17
The accident occurred about
10:30 pm and was caused by
cars following too closely in pro-
cession Drivers of the three cars
were Jimmie McMJahan Gerry
Gomes and Doyle Richey A pick-
up driven by Alvin Staten was
also involved
Those injured were: Becky
Richey foot and leg lacerations
Gerry Gomes two front teeth
knocked out Erma Lee Bass
bruises and Robert Lee bruises
11 persons of the graduating
class were in the three cars
Wheat Allotment For
Farms With No Wheat
For Three Years
Farmers on land on which no
wheat was seeded for grain for June 1-10 will dry plean flags free
any of the years 1953 1954 and for-display os -Flag Day-
1955 may apply for a 1956 wheat j
acreage allotment according to j - V
W R Griffith Chairman of the' 1
McClain County Agricultural Sta-1
bilization and Conservation Com-
mittee To be considered for an
allotment on a farm which had'
no wheat seeded for grain for any
of those years the farmer must
apply in writing to the county
ASC committee by June 30 1955
Blank application forms are avail-
able at the county ASC office for
use in filing requests for allotments
BLANCHARD SOLDIER
RETURNS FROM LEAVE
TOKYO — Army Sergeant First
Class Bill Smith Jr whose wife '
Arleen lives at 512 N W 12th st '
Oklahoma City Okla recently!
spent a week’s leave in Tokyo
from his unit in Dorea
Sergeant Smith a member of
Headquarters in the Eighth Army
Forward entered! the Army in
1945
The 31 -year-old soldier whose
father lives) on Route 4 Blanchard
arrived overseas in February of
last year
a good chance the conference
committee could become involved
in working out a budget to the!
satisfaction of everyone and a
real “logjam” of appropriation
bills would result
Work of other conference com-
mittees on different bills began to
be returned for final action by
house and senate during the
week Many of these conference
committees were able to quickly
work out differences and thus
speed final action
One conference committee
which ha dbeen working for some!
time was faced with the task of
beginning all over again Confer-
ees on HB 505 the agriculture
code were unable to sell the con-
ference version of the code to
house members who refusd to
adopt the bill as amended by the
conference and came close to kil-
ling the bill out-right
' House objections' to the con-
ference version of the bQl Include
objections to lack of provisions In
the bill for the' control of “bind
weed” objections to the Increase
in Uitiost all fees and finally ob-
jections of Tuls county legisla-
tors to provisions of the bill
(Continued on Page Four)
stores will remain open for Mem-
orial day it was explained
At the Blanchard cemetery no
special - services have been sche-
duled but the American Legion
will decorate as usual the graves
of soldiers of all wars with flags
The cemetery association stat-
ed this week that the cemetery
was in good shape to receive the
visitors who will be here during
the annual decoration day trek
back here
Clean Flags For
Flag Day Goal
Supreme Cleaners To
Co-operate In Plan
Drycleaners of America were j here by a persistent
asked today to join in a nation- j all day began dropping sheets of
wide drive in which all Ameri- water around 10:15 The storm
can flags would be cleaned with- j moved southwest-northeast and
out charge in return for the own-! moved slowly in that direction
ers’ promise to display the colors
on Flag Day June 14th
The appeal was made jointly
by Commander Seaborn Collins of
the American Legion and the Na-
tional Institute of Drycleaning
Window posters identifying
dry cleaning stores as participat-
ing in the program have been
provided to all such establish-
ments by he Detrex Corporation
of Detroit a leading manufactur-
er of drycleaning equipment
Blanchard’s Legion Post Com-
mander M O Wilson urges ev-
eryone in Blanchard to make sure
they “show their true colors — a
bright and sparkling red white
and blue”
The Supreme Cleaners in Blan-
chard is co-operating with the
program underwritten by the na-
tional drycleaners and during
Tulsa Minister
ToGiveA&M
Baccalaureate
Services Will Be
Held Sunday At
Stillwater 8 P M
STILLWATER — Rev Hallie
G Gantz minister of the First
Christian church of Tulsa will
deliver the Oklahoma A&M col-
lege spring baccalaureate sermon
at 8 pm Sunday May 29 A&M
president Oliver S Willham has
announced
Rev Gantz’ sermon topic will
be “Gates to the Garden of
Peace”
The 45-year-old minister is a
native Oklahoman He was born
on a ranch in Roger Mills county
near Durham but his family mov-
ed to the Texas panhandle where
he graduated from Fampa high
flchool
Gantz graduated from Randolph
Junior college Cisco Tex in
1929 then attended Phillips uni-
versity Enid where he received
three degrees — a BA in 1931 MA
in 1932 and BD in 1933 He has
done graduate work at Yale Di-
vinity school from which he re-
ceived a bachelor of divinity de-
gree and he holds an honorary
doctor of divinity degree from
Texas Christian university
Mr and Mrs Bruce Swanson
and children visited relatives in
Minco Sunday
NEWCASTLE SENIORS
RETURN FROM TRIP
Sunday afternoon the senior
class 15 strong along with spon-
sors returned from their annual
trip to Lake Murray Mr and Mrs
F C Lewis class sponsors accom-
panied the class
Mr and Mrs Bryce Miller and
son Dan of Dallas Oregon spent
the week end with Mr and Mrs
Glarence Hewett Bryce is Mrs
Hewett’s nephew The Millers had
been as far east as New York
City and south to Austin Texas
They left for home by way of
Grand Junction Colorado and
Salt Lake City
Mr Miller is a mail carrier out
of Dallas and took the entire
month of May for this vacation
and sight seeing trip Stopping at
Hint Michigan where he pur-
chased a new Buick
Two Storms Pul
Residents In
Nervous Pilch
110 Inches Rain
Fall With Little
Hail In Storms
Two squall lines moved through
this section of the state Wednes-
day night and Thursday morning
causing unrest among residents
all awake in the first gusty blow-
ing rain that fell around 10:00
pm and to those “edgy” souls
that were awake or were awak-
ened by the second blow that put
in its appearance around 3 o’clock
this morning ’ i j
The first storm which approach-
ed from the southwest brought
ragged clouds that could be seen
from a constant sheet lightning
and brought slowly into range
high wind
m
diminishing within the hour
At the second interlude of
squally weather a line of storms
taking the same path as the first
moved in and took about the1 same
pattern of attack but displayed
more threatening clouds than did
the first storm Higher winds ac-
companied it and broke some tree
limbs dropped a little hail along
with 110 inches of rain
Texoma Calls
Oil Fish Derby
Tagged Fishing Is
Not Attracting Crowd
LAKE TEXOMA — The public
is sick and tired of fishing der-
bies! That’s the opinion of the Lake
Texoma Association which this
week called a halt to its $2500-
added cash fishing derby that
started April 1
“We’ve tried tagged fishing
and paying off on the biggest fish
and haven’t stirred up more than
a faint ripple of enthusiasm”
President Wick Fondren exclaim-
ed Fondren pointed to last fall’s
$10000 fishing derby which the
Lake Texoma Association spon-
sored as' a classic example of the
public’s antipathy
“We gave away boats and mot
ors every other week and climax-1 the Eighth grade graduation cere
ed our give away with a new car
and still touched only an infinite-
stimal number of anglers who
were fishing Texoma”
Fondren said this year the As-
sociation switched to tagged fish-
ing and offered cash
Fondren said the Association
announced last week plans to hold
a “fishing tagging week” and it
got absolutely no response from
the public
“It isn’t necessary to offer in-
ducements to fishermen any long-
er” Fondren said “All you need is
(Continued on Page Five)
Problems Confronting Foreign
Students Will Be Faced by OU
NORMAN — The University of
Oklahoma will launch a compre-
hensive new program in Septem-
ber to deal with all problems that
confront foreign students and to
integrate them completely into
student life at O U
From the instant he reache
the campus the foreign student
will have an American friends
The student committee set up un-
der the new program will issue)
application blanks to American
students on the campus to deter-
mine which of them are best)
suited for the roles of big brother
and big sister
In September the student com-
mittee composed of representa-
tives of the Inter-Fraternity
Council Pan-Hellenic Student
Senate and Independent Student
Association will arrange for an
orientation ' tour of the campus
for all new foreign students This
will be followed by an openhouse
sponsored by the International
Club '
Coordinator of the expanded
program will be Harold G Wren
professor of law who will ope-
rate" under 'the direction of Pre-
sident George L Cross and Dr
Paul MacMinn dean of students
Mrs Kirby Attends
Postal Clerk State
Convention At Murray
Mrs Bertha Kirby return Sun-
day from Lake Murray where she
attended the state convention of
the National Federation of Post
Office clerks which opened last
Thursday and was concluded on
the week end
At the banquet held for the
clerk’s more than 160 were in at-
tendance she reported
Filibusler Is
No Record Gains
Feed Compromise
Senator Nix -Talks
10 Hours To Halt
Passage of Bill
OKLAHOMA CITY— The first
filibuster in Oklahoma history
ended in the Senate at 2:55 am
today and succeeded in winning
a compromise on the feed and
seed bill
But the 10 hours and 23 min-
utes which Sen Kirksey Nix
spoke was a far cry from the re-
cord 28 hours and 15 minutes es-
tablished in the Texas Legisla-
ture a week ago
The veteran legislator from Mc-
Alester took the floor at 4:32 pm
Tuesday in opposition to a bill
which would1 exempt feed and
seed from the state 2 per cent)
sales tax
Nix and his supporters contend-
ed the bill would mean a loss of
some six million dollars a year in
revenue for the welfare program
from which old age assistance
payments are made
The McAlester lawmaker said
that unless an appropriate com-
promise could be reached he was
capable of beating Texas’ talking
record or at least give it a good
fay-
The stalemate ended when Nix
agreed to accept a compromisei
committee report which would in-
clude cigarettes beer billboard
All the way to Cement and Cy-
advertising and magazines in the ! ril Friday each cowboy and cow-
2 percent sales tax levy This
makes it a revenue-raising meas-
(Oniinued On Page Eight)
Awards Made At
Newcastle Eighth
Grade Graduation
Awards were made to both Se
niors and Eighth grade students at!
was awarded 1st prize in the par-
mony Monday night May 16 ade ($3500 and a beautiful tro-
Rozella Murry and Donnie phy)
Wynne received the highschool! This was only the beginning
graduates American Legion though for at Watonga Saturday
Award and Carole Harryman and j theClub again caught the judge
John Lewis received the award eye and was given 1st prize at
for Grade school students
Dollie Massie and Jimmy Mc-
Mahan received the
Balfour Award
Mrs Cora Hester left by plane
Monday for California- where she
is being interview for a teaching
job in the school system near San
Francisco
Dr Stephen Scatori professor of
modern languages wifl be an ad-
viser and' consultant to those par-
ticipating in the program
“We are aiming for the inte-
gration of all foreign students”
Wren says “By that I mean the
foreign student will not be treat-
ed as someone who is profoundly
different We are going to try to
include him in all those sphere
of student life open to American
Students”
Many foreign students Wren
points out have to cut through
mountains of red tape to enrcd at
O U Some of them have to ar-
range for housing tuition and an
income in American dollars be-
fore their oun countries will grant
them visas These obstacles are
preventing hundreds of them
from coming to America
“Just as soon as possible”
Wren says “we are going to send
complete Information on the pro-
gram ait O U to all American
cultural attaches overseas” This
kind of Information Wren be-
lieves ought to stimulate the mi-
gration of many foreign students
to the campus at Norman
George B Fraser professor of
(Continued on Page Five)
Kale Etheridge
Is Buried Here
Friday Afternoon
Pioneer Resident Of
Blanchard Dies In
Ada Hospital
Mrs Kate Etheridge 65 pio-
neer Blanchard resident was hur-
ried here last Friday afternoon
She died unexpectedly in an Ad
hospital where she was reported-
ly improving She had been ad-
mitted as a medical patient
Mrs Etheridge was bom la
Texas in 190 and prior to mov-
ing to Ada has lived in Blanchard
many years She was living with
her son Berlin in Ada
Services were held Friday af-
ternoonat 2:30 in the First Baptist
church here Rev Elzie Periman
former pasitor of the Pleasant Hill
Baptist church and now of Alex
officiated
Interment was in the Blanchard
cemetery Bearers were Leonard
Shepherd Elmo Elliott Randolph
McGrew O H Turner Floyd W
Golden and Jack Ramsey An
honorary escort from the highway
patrol accompanied the cortagd
to the cemetery
Survivors include three sons
Garland A Reno Cecil Ada and
Berlon Ada One daughter Mrs
Les Gray Guthrie and a sister
Mrs Joe Etheridge of Abilene
1 Texas
Round-Up Club
Takes All Prizes
Cement Cyril And
Watonga Is Circuit
by Norma Hal
The Blanchard Round-up Club
really experienced the spirit at
the old time cowboy Friday Sat-
urday and Sunday and also prov-
ed they had what it took to stick
it out as Davy Crockett might
have done years ago
girl was hoping that the sun
might shine! just a little so those
beautiful new uniforms would
shine in the afternoon parade
But in spite of our hopes the par-
ade began in a downpour of rain
and the sun failed to shine All
the mud rain and discomfort be-
came a minor detail though when
Club)
the Blanchard Round-up
that parade which was $2500
If you want to know how to
I Dare You” ride a bull just ask Jack Brooks:
He took 1st honors at Watonga
andi I know he could give you
some valuable tips Duane Ward
also stepped into the spotlight)
with 2nd place in the calf roping
This weekend finally came to
an end Sunday afternoon with a
2 hour trail ride at Watong
which lead the group over hills
valley and what have you Ev-
eryone had a wonderful time and
all will tell you that you really
missed something if you weren’t
along
The people who went along to
help bring home all these prize
are as follows Mr and Mrs Jim
Hatter Joe Brooks Bronell Coon-
hart Mr and Mrs Alvis Turner
Mr and Mrs William Harris Mr
and Mrs E B Gordon Norma
Hale Duane Ward Jack Brooks
Mr and Mrs Bob Wingate and
family Mr and Mrs Jack Byers
and Janett Mr and Mrs Alan
Noble and family Mr and Mrs
Dale McIntosh and Carol Frank
Nogle and Earl Haley
FHA CLUB OF
NEWCASTLE ON TRIP
Members of the Newcastle FHA
club left Tuesday for Sulphur oil
their annual outing Miss Armlnta
Gibson accompanied the 20 girl
of the club making the trip
Rev and Mrs A O White at-
tended the Oklahoma Methodist
conference in Oklahoma City
Tuesday
Gene Daniel was discharged
from a Chicks sha hospital Tues-
day fallowing an operation and
was returned to bis home wher
he 1 reported to be recovering
nicely
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