The Blanchard News (Blanchard, Okla.), Vol. 46, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 5, 1956 Page: 1 of 4
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BLANCHARD (McClain CountT) OKLAHOMA THURSDAY JANUARY 5 19S6
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NUMBER 20
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luftcil Seeking
dinance To Curb
iiise Canvassing
Door-to-Door Selling
Taking On Alarming
Proportions Here
mfronted with more and more
J'-to-door retailing over town
city council meeeting Monday
jt in regular monthly session
the city government sought
leasable Solution ) to ' slow
or at least compensate the
for this new plague of dbor-
sellers ’
tea i and coffee company is
making regular route calls
an out-of-town dairy but the
cation of an Oklahoma City
ry to enter the retail picture
I house)-to-house stops for
1 ajid-paslry has brought a
of consternation to local re-
looks as though we were
! to be taken over" was the
on--voiced by some at the
new delivery retailing
has been increasing j
yor W H DaVoult is seeking "
advise on the city’s present : 1
ance which calls for licens-'
f business The plan is to re-
that licensing 1 ordinance
make ' a : ’ more stringent
apply to those who - ac-
do not produce their com-
y locally or who are not on
ounty and city tax tolls
tr street problem is a big
said the council and added
vith big trucks now making
ounds of houses and using
Wfets for free it didn’t ap-
fair for the retail merchants
town to shoulder the bur-
f taxes for the up-keep of
ads and the transient reap
Two-Car Accident At t
Intersection- of 2nd And
Madison Monday Noon
An accident at the intersection
of Second and Madison involved
a car from Oklahoma City and
one from Texas with passengers
in both cars receiving minor in-
juries Monday noon
The two Cars hit at the inter-
section pf Second or SH 62 and
considerable damage was report-
ed to both cars
Highway Patrol troopers work-
ing the accident could not be con-
tacted for names of those involv-
ed in' the two-cars but only min-
or inuric(i were received by three
people it was reported
4
Everett Graham
Paid Tribute By
Air Force Officer
Devotion to Duty Is
Proised In Letter
From AF Colonel
' letter to S-Sgt Everett M
ham son of S M Graham rt
’’lanchard was received recent-
'n which Lt Colonel William
’ones of the USAF paid :high
triautd to Sgt Graham for his'de-
votion to duty and service to the
Air Force and his counrty
Sgt Graham attached to the
40th Bombardment Squadron re-
ceived the letter of commendation
for his service It reads:
“Your exceptionally fine record
in the 40th Bombardment Squad-
ron H and the 6th Bombard-
ment Wing H as a non-commissioned
officer and as a crew chief
has resulted in your winning sev
Businessmen's
ClubThanges
Heeling Dates
First of Month Proves
Hard For Members
To Attend Meeting
Blanchard’s Businessmen’s club
met Tuesday in the regular mon-
thly meeting of the retail group
and one of thet pieces of business
transacted by the merchant’s or-
ganization was to change the date
of meeting to the slecond Tuesday
of each month
“First Tuesday of the month is
a busy time' for most retailers
and works a hardship on them
to attend” saidl P V Baker pres:
ident of the organization ’ in ex-
plaining the change of meeting
The club voted to continue the
$30 'weekly drawings which have
been sponsored the past couple of
yrtant as a regular Saturday af
ternoon event
t The six holidays of the year for
retail stores was also given action
and the following dates will be
observed during 1956: New Years
Day Decoration Day Fourth of
July Labor Day Thanksgiving
and Christmas i
net(it of its use at no cost
I ‘r business was in the nature
a) monthly bills which were
i and approved for payment
isy Chair
r The
Red Cross Names
Fund Chairman
Mrs Love To Head
Campaign for Members
Mrs Grace E Love county su-
perintendent of schools will of-
ficiate as fund chairman for the
McClain County Red Cross an
eral awards You were selected nuai campaign for members and
on one occasion as Maintenance funds scheduled for the mcmtii of
Man of the Month and on two oc-i March according to an announce-
casions July and August 1955 ment by Jack Butler county chair
as crew chief of the month The: man of the local ‘chapter
latter selection his only been eq- was cWce
u ailed on one preVious occasion in Boapd ap
this wing’s history Your perform-j
was approved by the
ance of duty hag set a new Mgh National American Cross
in efficiency In this organization
and is an enviable mark which i We " w? will reach
will not soon be equalled' m J t ’
“The great physical handicap ' f10 leadership of Mr Love” But-
under which you worked during ler sawt
the month of August adds addl- A planning committee selected
tional credit to you as a man de-! on a county-wide basis will meet
voted to his duty and to the Urt-! at the Red Cross office on Jan 12
Ited States Air Force Even though a 7 p m to make plans for the
you had your leg in a cast up to annual drive
the knee you continued your nor-
mal duties as crew chief Since
the month of August your air-
craft has had but one abort and
this was not a condition that you
could control as the electronic
equipment malfunctioned
“I wish to take this opportunity
to ctxtend my appreciation and
the appreciation of othe 40th Bom-
E tl Franklin
Riles Held At
Dibble Sunday
Resident of This Area
More Than 35 Years
Dies After Short Illness
Funeral services were held Sun- J
day afternoon at the Free Will
Baptist church for Edward N
Franklin Rev L E Ward officiat-
ing and burial in the Dibble cem-
etery -
Pallbearers were1 Frank Free-
man Arthur Corley Clarence Free
lander Dormie Mills Hack Per-
rin and Buck Roath
Mr Franklin had been in poor
health for several years Suffer-
ing a stroke 12 days before and
never regaining consciousness H®
was born September 14 1889 in
LoganCounty Ark He had lived
in Chickasha the last five years
Before this he farmed and lived
in the Blanchard and Dibble' com-
munities for 35 years
Survivors include his wife Ber-
tha Four sons Theodore and
Christopher of Blanchard Mar-
ian of Lindsay Otis Lee of Okla-
homa City six daughters Mrs
Alvin Mills! Blanchard Mrs Joh-
nnie Batts of Concord Calif Mrs
Noel Woods of Alameda ' Calif
Mrs Bronson Hale Haywood Ca-
lif Mrs B R Akins of Fort
Worth Texas and Mrs Christine
Motes of Chickasha Three bro-
thers John Jim and Ralph of Ft
Smith Ark Four sisters Mrs
Sallle Green of Paris Ark Mrs!
Emma Johns of Maysville Ark
Mrs Fannie Merrick of Tulsa and j
Mrs Lon Carter Dibble 29 grand
children and four great grand-
children also surwie
milk trucks apple carts
1 coffee companies and bak-
making or planning home
ry and sales services a real
is facing retail merchants
fellow down here on the
I the one that is paying the
fe’s just finished paying his
-rem tax bill his personal
the stock of merchandise
s on hand for your selec-
ts just bought a Commer-
ce license tag or two and
the process of paying his bardment H to you for
tax He’s also getting h a job a duty m1 done i am
jiook out to hep mee e jjeased to have you a$ member
' 0f e B1U ' °!?' ’ rh°! of my command”
of Dimes The Red Cross! J
The Bdy Scout Drive The
out Drive The Heart Fund Dibble FFA Chapter
ad infinitum I Is In Busy Week v
iis money that makes the The Dibble FFA Chapter is
o and its your money that having it’s regular monthly meet-
im to keep his doors open ing Monday night One of the or-
ig concern from a 'neigh- ders of business is the handing
town drives up to your out of the Green Hand and Chap-
id leaves your milk bread ter Farmer pins
and such other items Now The chapter is now distrlbut-
not much for us to look mg the FFA calendars ' ’
'diich one is right and prac- December 15 the chapter at-
t the benefit of the town tended the Leadership Training
ik? school at Duncan 31 members at-
we are attempting to do tended
to help you visualize iu This week the chapter is weigh-
that is getting out of ing the stock which will be shown
I OOF TO SPONSOR BLUE
Crutch Day — Oklahoma Odd Fel-
lows Grand Master Marvin Pil-
grim Pond Creek' (right) shows 8-ycar-old
polio victim Jack Karhu
Oklahoma City one of the post-
ers the Odd Fellows will use in
their Blue Crotch' day drive 'that
started this week Odd Fellows
and Rebekahs throughout Okla-
homa wijl be selling tiny crutch
lapel ' emblems -on the streets as
their "contribution 'to the fight
against polio Money they collect
goes to the county March of Dimes
chapter in the county in which it
is raised"Blue Crutch day' is-the
kickoff event for the 1956 March
of Dimes campaign'"' !
Infant's Rifes
uesday
I d encourage the city coun-
ct and act fast in taking
I put some type of equali-
lax on the outsider so that
I help take care of the cost
I'ovemment if he wants to
here and do business out
k alongside the merchant
ln who is also asking for
1 ronage but is being levl-
the city’s operating cost
he shares business with
Isiont
in the March Fat Stock show
Those visiting through the Xmas
holidays in the home of Mr and
Dorothy Goodman
Heads Heart Drive
Third Year County
Woman Has Taken Job
’McClain county has a role to
play in the important work be-
ing done to control heart diseases
and I urge our people to take part
by assuring 'the success of the
drive here” Miss Dorothy Good-
man of Purcell staid this week in
accepting the job of county chair-
man for the February fund rais-
ing campaign of the Oklahoma
State Heart Association
With Maj Gen Hal G Mul-
drow Norman commanding gen-
eral of the 45th National Guard
as state chairman volunteers are
being organized in every county
of the state for the Heart Fund
Drive which will be held for the
sixth jear in Oklahoma
“We have a well established
functioning state heart associa-
tion v hich sponsors research
helps provide clinics and home
services disseminates informa-
tion to the professional groups and
to the general public and lt is vi-
tal that we continue to help in'
Services were held Tuesday af-
in the Matheny Funeral
ipel for 'the Infant sun- of 5fr
and Mrs Bob Harmon followed
by graveside servies at the Blan-
chard cemetery
Rev James Flippo pastor of
the Pleasant Hill Baptist church
officiated
The infant was bom December
31 and died in an Oklahoma City
hospital Jan 2
4 Hurl In Wreck
On SH 62 Wed
7-Month-Old Girl Is :
Most Seriously Hurt
A Modesto Calif evangelist
her 7-months-ald daughter and 2
other members of her family were
injured Wednesday when their
automobile plunged into an eight
foot bar ditch on US 62 seven
miles north of here
Mrs Timothy Andrew Mae
Price 46 dlriver of the car her
father Amos Williams 74 of We-
leetka and her sister Nettie Mae
Williams 36 were treated here
for facial "cuts and bruises "r
Thet child Nora Price- was ta
ken to an Oklahoma City hospital
for treatment of an injured leg
and brain concussion
Mrs Price was attempting to
paf& a truck and lost control of
her car trooper Jim Ury of the
highway patrol reported
Hunting Season 1$
Closed on Many Species
OKLAHOMA CITY — After
Jan 4 when waterfowl hunting
ends all hunting seatbns will be
closed except on fur bearers and
species not protected by a closed
season Furbearers may be trapp-
ed or hunted until January 31 and
include badger red and gray fox
mink muskrat opossum raccoon
and skunk
Species on which there is no
closed season include jackrabbit
cottontail rabbit bobcat bullfrog
coyote crow and wolf Many
sportsmen get their off-season
hunting sport by going after crows
or coyotes both of which are
plentiful in Oklahoma The cotton-
tail rabbit fun to hunt and also
to eat furnishes winter hunting
sport for both the shotgunner and
small-bore rifle shooters
odd TAYLOR WRITES
If ADDRESS
l'lvelyn Taylor dropped a
past week from Marlow
us of heT new address
Iter’s are buying a new
405 S 8th street but
vice does not extend to
addition and their new
Lddreftti is 126 W Main
Id Mrs John Hutchinson
(dm at Edmond were
1th Mends in Blanchard
Mrs Rufus Staggs were aU their ! lhe assauit against heart disease"
seven sons which haven’t been Miss Goodman said
home together in eight years on
Christmas Present were Charles
Venters and family of Oklahoma
City Clifford Venters and son
Darren of Cortez Colo Rufus
Staggs and family of Mid West
City Raymond Staggs and fam-
ily of Odessa Tex Stanley Staggs
of Oklahoma City Bobby Joe
and wife of Odessa Tex Johnnie
Staggs of Walker Air Base Ros-
well N M Mr and' Mrs Joe Hill
and daughter Alma Joe of Cole
Alfred Hill and family of Cole
Lavell HiU of Mid West City Mr
and Mrs Richard Van Sandt of
Biloxi Miss Mr Bill Hill and
family of Cole Mrs Marjory Mor-
ris and daughter of Mid West City
Mrs John Terrell and daughter
Oleta of Blanchard Mrs Kattie
Cothero and daughters of Lindsay
and Jim Terrell of BTatfchord'
Thi( is tho third year Miss
Goodman has accepted responsibi-
lity for the Heart Fund in Mc-
Clain county where $132944 was
secured last year
Stolen Cor Recovered
Here Doesn't Reveal
Owner After Report
A stolen 1056 Pontiac bearing a
Texas- tag was recovered by Ike
Whltford ' night watchman here
Sunday night and no word has
been learned by officers of the
ownef of othe car
The sedan parked with the key
in the Ignition was found on the
highway near the First Baptist
church
A report to the state highway
patrol headquarters has revealed
no report of the lost ear
Grass Fire Threatens
Entire Block Before
High Wind Wednesday
A grass fire whipped by a high
west wind threatened several hous
es for a time Wednesday shortly
after noon when a trash fire at
the home of Mr and Mrs Ogden
I Brightwell set firei to a block of
t"Jl grass on the west side of
town
A short-handed crew of fire-
men kept working back and forth
across the creek which was fenc-
ed in order to reach the flames
that prong up as high patches o’
gross continued to spread the firo
from the highway to North 3rd
street
Vaterlowl Survey
Set-up Readied
Work of Checking To
Start This Month
OKLAHOMA CITY — The an-
nual winter inventory of migra-
tory waterfowl will be taken in
Oklahoma and over the nation on
January 9-16 Aubrey Goodwin
game management agent of the
U S Fish and Wildlife Service
said Godwin who makes his head
quarters in Oklahoma City add-
ed that state game ranger as well
as employees at the U S Fish
and Wildlife Service refuges at
Tishomingo Salt Plains and Wi-
chita Mountains will make the
survey in Oklahoma One or both
of the state game and fish de-
partment airplanes will be used
and' the survey will get under way
on January 9 or as soon thereaf-
ter as weather permits
In the survey more than 2200
state and federal waterfowl spe-
cialists will make the count There
will be) 146 airplanes used in ad-
dition to vehicles employed in the
ground count Every known win-
tering area from southern Canada
10-Year Sentence
Handed To Negro
District Judge Hears
Robbery Count Wed
A conviction against Douglas
Daniels 33-yejar-old Purcell Ne-
gro was rendered in district court
before Judge Elvin Brown Wed-
nesday on a charge of first de-
gree robbery and a sentence of
10 years was given the Negro-the
sentence starting immediately with
Walter Wood deputy sheriff tak--ing
him to McAlester following
the reading of the sentence
Daniels had been charged with
talcing $185 from Mrs Minnie
Pritchett an elderly woman liv-
ing alone in Purcell on December
23 at her home His earlier plea
of Not guilty before jiMtice of
peace Louie Beck was changed to
a confession of guilt after ques-
tioning by county attorney Tom
Smith Wood and Sheriff Don
Cook
Fair Building
Work To Start Hex!
Week Says Board
Deloys Legal Details
Have Halted Start Of
New County Fair Plant
D D Chandler county com-
missioner announced today that
dirt moving work for the new
fair building site would start next
week “We have encountered sev-
eral delaying problems’ said
Chandler “but all of our legal
entablements have now been ‘
solved with the help of our county
attorney Tommy Smith and we
are ready to start construction” "
John Yoakum chairman of the
building committeel said contracts
would be ready for letting within
(he next few days “Any contrac-
tor will be welcomed to bid on-
this job” he said “We want tho
very best possible Ijob done fOT-
the amount of money we have to
spend” Yoakum continued
Jack Thornton president of the
Fair Board said he was hopeful
that most of the work on the show-
barns couldl be completed in time
for the March show “Much of our
building success will depend - on
the weather” he said Th educa-
tional and exhibit building will
not be completed until later in
the summer” said Thornton
Blanchard Auxiliary
Receives Commendation
From 5th Dist President
A letter to Mrs Myrtle Wilson
secretary of the Blanchard Auxil-
iary Unit No 261 from the fifth
district president praised the lo-
cal unit for its outstanding work
in the past year and for the con-
tinued record of reaching its mem-
bership quota each year
Mrs Helen Mitchell fifth dis-
trict president mailed the letter
of commendation to the local unit
and announced the next 5th dis-
rict convention which will be
Yale February 19
Hew Course Opens
For Gray Ladies
Training Classes To
Be Offered at Norman
Mrs John B Edwards McClain
County Gray Lady chairman an-
nounres a new training clasts for
volunteers offered by the Cen-
tral State hospital at Norman on
Jan 12 The class will meet in
the chapel building from 1am
to 4 p m -
Experts os mental health - will
present the' program which aim
to explain the psychiatric barfs
and the value of volunteer assist-
ance in the treatment of mental
patients
Attendance in this class is also
required! of volunteers expecting
to give service in the McClain
County Grady Lady Rest Home nd
Shut-In projects
Enrollment may be made with
Mrs Edwards or at the Red Crass
office in PurceJL
in
Newcastle Home Demo
Club Holds All-Day
Wednesday
The Newcastle Home Demon-
stration club met Wednesday for
an all-day meeting at the club-
house The president called the meeting
to order and each member answer -ed
the roll to “My favorite dish
for pot-luck meals”
The club served the Newcastle
Alumni banquet on Dec 31 and 6 '
club members attended the coun-
cil meeting at Purcell on Dec 13
The tesSon was “Community
Meals”
Present were: Mrs Wynn Jes-
sie Thomas Lennis Cavett Mrs
Burkett Clara Wilson Mrs Mark-
ham Mrs McNamee Janita Grif-
fith Bessie Smith Mrs Stan-
ford Martha Troxel Jolene Bond
Dorothy Dunning Erma Bryant
Minnie Talley Joan Hohlman
Dorothy Goodman and MrsStov-er
Oil and Gas Leasing Code
To Protect Wildlife
OKLAHOMA CITY — An am-
endment to the code of federal
regulations dealing with oil and
gas leases on national wildlife
refuges has betn made the state
game and fish dkepartment re-
cently learned The new regula-
tions provide that areas indispen-
sable for the protection and pre-
Mr and Mrs Don V Hester
scTvation of rare and endangered
“ and children Douglas and Debra
MniAn namnnnt innA hAaiilM ’
to Yucatnn in southern Mexico ‘ peoies remnant big-game herds A gt Christmas with their
nnl imtMNwviAAAeklA aivammiaji a 11 — 1
will be covered Godwin said
This Is the eighth “comparable
winter survey that is the eighth
such survey which can be consid-
ered as comparing with the counts
of previous years
The survey is of considerable
and irreplaceable examples
nique plants for animal ecology
— such as the-Aransas whooping 1 BlanThard
crane wintering area and Red
Rock Lakes home of tho trump-
eter swan-are not Available for
leasing at any time- under any
parents Mr and Mrs Dean Hes-
ter and Mrs C C Hopkins of
The Wither
6CW ENROLLMENT TO START
MONDAY JANARY I
CHICKASHA — First semes-
ter students at Oklahoma College
for Women will atart enrolling
Monday Jan 9 for th second
semester Samuel W Evans reg-
istrar announces
New students will enroll be-
tween January 23-31' Evans ex-
Plain Monday Jan 31 marka
th opening of th tern
value in showing the distribution conditions
Secretary of the Interior Doug-
las McKay pointed out that in
those areas where ga9 and oil
leasing will bo permitted the
wildlife values are given first
consideration In those areas pros-
pecting leasing and operating will
be done only in In th places at
the- time and under conditions
specific! by (be U S Fish and
Wildlife Service ' '
“These stringent provisions are
Mrs Gladys Venters and son designed to assure the wildlife
Michel and Dick and - Betty Van : values of each refuge maximum
Sandt visited in the hem of Mr j protection and I propone to Ke
nd Mr Rufus Stagga last Thurs- that these conditions am rigidly
tfbjr f enforced the Secretary said
T o 1 a 1 precipitation for weel
ending at 600 n m Wednesday
observation time of Blanchard’i
U S Weather Bureau Station
None
Total precipitation to date thli
year-
3080 Inches -Trial
precipiix Last Year
- - 1987 Inches
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