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The Collinsville News
NATIONAL CDITORIA
ASSOCIATIO
VOLUME 46
Published Every Thursday COLLINSVILLT OKLA. THURSDAY NOVEMBER 23 1944 OFFICIAL CITY PAPER Tulsa Countys Oldest Newspaper
NUMBER 28
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Of A Plain Country Woman
Lucile Ellingwood Morrow 9
Since Willyum left and The
Husband had to sleep over at the
sheep camp and I alone at home and
it was about time for baby lambs to
come we decided to bring the sheep
home. They had been over on the
80 since June but the grass was
about gone there and the pastures
here at home are fairly good.
The Husband rode Jerry over so
that he could look after the cattle I
drove the truck parked it partly a-
cross one road at the corner and
camera in hand stood at the other to
head the sheep toward home. As I
waited watching The Husband over
at the fold as he walked among the
sheep then after a breath-holding
moment he opened the gate just wide
enough so that he could count them
one by one as they ran to the branch
in the persimmon thicket for a drink
then drifted back to graze. As the
last one came out he got on Jerry
rounded them up and headed them
toward the gate into the lane.
We have had our first frost so
the country was brown the leaves
that still clung to trees were no long-
er brilliantly colored; a high wind
was trying to blow a hole clear thru
the sky warning of a change of
weather; the sheep coming down the
lane of brown high grass made an ex-
cellent picture that The Boy will en-
joy. We were strange shepherds as
we worked them along the road to-
ward home; I in my smock and sun-
bonnet drove ahead to stop the gaps
but even so some saw a staple out
of a fence post beside a cane field so
under they went with me jumping
-out of the car and right under after
them while The Husband had to ride
back to the gate to enter. It wasnt
but a mile but it took quick work to
get them along so they could not run
into field where cockleburs were or
let them pull chunks of their wool off
on the barked wire. They were as
glad to get home as they were to
leave here in June.
I realized as I picked cockleburs
from my stockings and saw my hand-
kerchief blowing away why men
wear overalls and boots; if I had
much of that kind of work to do I
too would wear them; at the present
rate with no help I may be nearer
than I realize; and I see too why a
Mexican sheep-herder we had at the
Lazy E Ranch carried a club that he
threw expertly at the sheep to save
him steps. I found a piece of a fence
post in a rye grass pasture where the
sheep had crawled in so I threw it at
them to head them or drive them and
being the timid creatures that they
are they all ran together. It did save
steps especially when my feet got
sick as the Mexican herder said aft-
er he was too tired from trying to
hold a big flock together on foot.
Again we are all under one roof
so to speak; of course the cattle are
not all here but one does not
have to sleep with the cattle. We
got the sheep home just in time: four
lambs came that day there are two or
three a day now and the cold fall
rains have started. It will be a big
job to care for the flock and if they
all have lambs it will be a still bigger
chore but they are one of our best
crops.
The night before we made the
change my almost-life-long friend
Hazel Burnside stayed with me; we
darned and sewed and gabbed until
two A. M. but as is true of most
slumber parties we slumbered very
little; from habit I was up at my us-
ual time and she missing me arose
tco to hear the dawn break as she
said. She too looked frequently out
of the windows My. but its dark in
the country! she said several times;
she however did not realize that if I
should write a book entitled Thru
a Window Glass it would tell most
of the glad-sad stories of our life.
For twenty-five years Ive looked
thru the west window to see the com-
ings and goings of our daily living;
In daytime I can see what is happen-
ing in the garden the truck or car
coming from the pavement or town;
at night I can most always tell our
car lights from others and have
watched for their appearance along
the road from early dusk till the late
hours of night when The Old .Trader
returned from a distant sale. By the
east window I can see only a short
way because of buildings and that
road means pastures to me but
when I feel too much bounded on the
north by the kitchen cabinet on the
south by the kitchen safe and on
the east by grease and the kitchen
stove I can always look past these
thru the west window where I stood
watching The Boy as he left the last
time and thru which I hope to see him
returning some day.
I see grandfathers and grandmoth-
ers even great-grand parents walk-
ing their little new grandbabies
about town and unless Im mistak-
en these little chips off the old
blocks are as comforting and reju-
venating to the old as to the young.
Even I who have no married child-
ren. feel that I have several grand-
children and even great-grandchildren
about over the countryside as the
little grandbabies of children I taught
re coming on.
Maybe from now there wont be any
confusion about which Thursday will
be Thanksgiving since Congress has
settled on the fourth Thursday the
only holiday fixed by Federal law.
"The first proclamation fixed the
date on the fourth or last Thursday.
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Mrs. Sam Troglin was operated on
last Tuesday. She is expected to be
returned home in a few days. She is
recovering nicely.
CARDS FINALLY CLICKED AS
THEY SHOULD HAVE DONE
The Collinsville Cardinal football
team has been going along all season
just barely being beaten by each op-
ponent to finally get going at the
right time to run up an impressive
score again an old adversary which
has always been hard for them to
beat Sperry.
The fine line plunging of Sonny
Salmon the off-tackle lugs by Red
Elmer Sheehan and the fine inter-
ference by the line and York the Col-
linsville boys started a march on the
first kickoff and with one interrup-
tion marched to scoring distance
when Sheehan southpawed to York
for a pass which was ruled interfer-
ence by Sperry when a player pulled
the bail out of Yorks arms. Red
Sheehan lugged the ball over for the
touchdown in the first quarter. Quar-
terback Bill Barrett demonstrated his
ability to drop-kick the try for goal.
The score was 7-0 for Collinsville.
The next touch-down came in the
third quarter after a softening up
process was turned on Sperry with
Salmon lugging the ball interspersed
by the other backfield men. A long
pass to Sonny Brooks lit in his big
hands but Sonny couldnt get his
feet out in front of him fast enough
to get away from a fast Sperry man.
However he carried it up close to the
goal line wrhere Salmon was rammed
through the line to score. Barrett
failed to kick goal.
After a good mixing up of plays
by Quarterback Barrett the ball ad-
vanced to about the 20 yard line
when Barrett and the whole team
pulled off as pretty a quarter-back
sneak as one would see anywhere. It
was so successful that the opponents
were tackling almost every man on
the team except the one with the ball.
After they had chased the other backs
to the left Barrett sneaked across the
line for the third touchdown of the
game for Collinsville. Barrett also
drop-kicked the point making the
score 20 to 0 in favor of the Cardi-
nals. This game gave almost every boy
on the team a chance to show his a-
bility and even though the team was
handicapped by the loss of Earl Shee-
han who has been a mainstay in the
earlier games the team worked well
at times. Although Moser didint car-
ry the ball at left end he carried a
man completely out of the play on
the first touchdown. Brooks defens-
ive work was better than usual and
dont get the idea that this team was-
nt as good as some of the others Col-
linsville has played for there was
that Lloyd boy a nephew of our local
Olin Lloyd who had speed a plenty if
he had been allowed to get loose but
the Collinsville line co-operated to
keep him hemmed in. The work was
done by the two ends mentioned be-
fore Leo Sheehan and Allen Payne at
tackles Jimmy Murphy and Charles
Lamberson at guards Pavey at cen-
ter. These boys were assisted in their
work by Alvin Just Marvin Payne
and Howard Newton who has been
out of several games on account of
a crippled knee.
Although the plays didnt count
in the scoring some real pretty man
to man blocking was shown by Robert
Wohlgemuth who was in his first
game and Bill Wright. Both these
boys took their men out in college
style to let Barrett romp for several
yards. Wright also lugged the ball
for a nice gain toward the close of
the game.
Although several good men will be
lost by graduation this year Coach
Howell Wilson feels that he has some
good boys coming up out of the 8th
grade who will give a good account
of themselves in the future.
The two wins helped the Cards up
the ladder of standing out of the cel-
lar to a sunnier football aspect.
Coach Wilson expects to begin bas-
ketball practice following the Thanks-
giving holidays.
O. E. S. HOMECOMING
BANQUET HELD FRIDAY
The annual O. E. S. Homecoming
banquet was held Friday evening at
the Commercial hotel. Due to the
supervision and untireing efforts of
the Associate Matron Mrs. D. W.
Buchanan the banquet was a huge
success.
The tables were beautifully decor-
ated in autumn colors and the atmos-
phere of the Thanksgiving holidays
prevailed throughout the room. Small
blight orange pumpkins grapes nuts
and various colored leaves were used
for the center piece. The clever place
cards were in the same colors.
The program included America
sung by the group; prayer by the
chaiplain; welcome address by the As-
sociate Matron Mrs. Ruth Buchanan;
song We are Here for fun. I
Mrs. Blanche Carroll gave the his-1
torysof the Homecoming banquet.
Following the banquet the group i
went to the Masonic hall for a social
heur of fun and merriment. Mrs.
Carroll and Mrs. Buchanan furnished 1
the games and entertainment for the
evening.
Fifty people attended the banquet.
WOOD FOR SALE Fifty trees
near city; grain hand grinder; 1 ft.
electric wiring; safety deposit box.
Gid Graham. 1
WE ARE THANKFUL TO THE
PEOPLE ENGAGED IN THE ALLIED EFFORT
Thank you for giving up that college schol-
arship to go to war . . . that good job . . . that lit-
tle business that was just getting started.
Thank you for standing watch in a freezing
gale while we draw our easy chairs closer to the
fire . . . Thank you for giving up your long cozy
Sundays at home . . . and your dog . . . and your
fishing trips in summer . . . giving them up to
crouch in a foxhole on some jungle island whose
name you never even saw in a geography book.
- Thank you for making it possible for us to
walk down Main street without fear of bombs.
Thank you for more than we can say but
most of all thank you for the hope of victory
youve brought so near.
These are our Thanksgiving Prayers and de-
sire. For the sendee people our prayer is contin-
ually for a speedy and victorious end to this time
. of war and strife. Editor
BAYOUTH WAR BOND WINDOW
HAS ATTRACTED ATTENTION
FROM FAR DISTANCES
As usual Sol Bayouth and bis cu w
at the department stole got right into
the spirit of the contest when it was
announced that prizes of War Bonds
weie to be awarded for the store hav-
ing the best window display. Sol has
prepared and decorated a window for
each Bond Drive and this campaign
will naturally be no exception to the
mle. In the past attention has been
attracted from afar. The metropoli-
tan newspapers have inserted pictures
of the same in their papeis.
The window is decorated with the
pictures of most of the service men
and women who have gone to the ser-
vice of their country. These pictures
are embellished with displays of big
little and small denominations of War
Bonds purchased by the Bayouth fam-
ily four of whom are now or expect
to be soon in foreign service.
On this occasion Bayouth has a bet- (
tor incentive to doll his windows up
as he is in competition with the big
shot window dressers of the large
metropolitan towns. However he has
been pretty well around over the
world and has a good conception of
what it takes to build a pretty and at-
tractive window.
Since the display was started hun-
dreds of people have been attracted
to this front by the display.
The window display contains the
photographs and pictures of more
two hundred of the service men and
women from this community. They
range in ranks from private to at
least a Major in rank.
The pictures represent boys and
girls in almost every country on the
globe.
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FORMER COLLINSVILLE GIRL
IN LITTLE THEATER PLAY
Mrs. W. W. Perry nee Betty Ruth
Sharp took part in a play at Inde-
pendence Kansas Tuesday night of
last week. Mrs. Perry being a mem-
ber of the Little Theater Guild was
presented with a cast in Cry Havoc.
Mrs. Perry is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. E. C. Sharp. Betty Ruth
graduated from the local high school.
She was a member of the glee clubs
the band and played piano and accor-
Jdion in addition to all of her active
school work.
Mrs. Sharp and Mrs. John Weikum
went to Independence to attend the
play. They returned home Wednes-
day morning of last week.
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ERNEST L. ROWE HAS BEEN
ADVANCED TO LIEUTENANT
FORT WORTH Texas Flight
officer Einest L. Rowe 28 son of
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde O. Rowe of Col-
linsville Okla. graduated this week
as a B-24 bomber pilot at Fort Worth
Army Air Field a unit of the AAF
Central Flying Training Command.
Flight officer Rowe received prev-
ious flight training at Chickasha Ok-
lahoma; Coffeyville Kansas; and Al-
tus Oklahoma. He was commission-
ed June 27 1944.
This weeks special class of Libera-
tor bomber pilots will either receive
assignment as flight instructors on
the giant aircraft or be sent to AAF
tactical schools for final phases of
pre-combat training.
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Mrs. Blanche Spurgin returned to
her home in Collinsville Friday night
I from Greenburgh Kansas where she
 had been visiting with her brother
Seelye.
GIRL 4 WITH PIN IN
LUNG FIGHTS DEATH
ST. LOUIS Mo. Nov. 17 Tiny
brown-haiied Darlene Bynum flown
to a St. Louis hospital Thursday of
last week from Tulsa today was
fighting against the death which
threatend to creep into her 4-year-old
body through a lung lipped by an
open safety pin she swallowed. i
Physicians this morning said an in-
fection which had developed around1
the pin lodged in her lung would pre-
vent immediate
save her life.
Dr. Frank Bradley chief of staff
at Baines and McMillan hospital said
penicillin was administered during
the night in an effort to eliminate
the infection and that Darlene was
some better this morning.
If the infection cleared he said
bronchoscopic treatment would fol-
low or an operation be performed in
an effort to close and remove the pin.
Darlene daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Wilson Bynum of Inola Okla. had
been playing with her doll the open
pin in her mouth when she either
coughed or sneezed and the pin was
drawn into her lung. She was
brought to a Tulsa hospital Tuesday
of last week.
In some way the pin ripped her
lung wall and one lobe collapsed.
Seriousness of her condition became
apparent early Thursday and physic-
ians said the only chance of saving
her life was to get her to a specialist
at St. Louis as quickly as possible.
Robert Hodder district traffic
manager for American Airlines ob-
tained permission to remove two pass-
engers on the 11:13 plane and the
blanket-wrapped child and a trained
nurse were placed aboard.
The plane reached St. Louis two
and a half hours later. Darlene was
carried off in the arms of a fellow
passenger Lieut. John Otis a Cleve-
land Ohio army doctor who was on
leave. Nurse Mearl J. DeVoss of Tulsa
accompanied the child to the hospital.
The parents unable to obtain air-
line space reached St. Louis by bus
late Thursday and rushed to the bed-
side of the child.
By coincidence the Southern Medi-
cal association is meeting in St. Louis
today and one of the new develop-
ments demonstrated before the dele-
gates was a tiny magnet attached to
a tube to remove metal objects from
the stomach.
Whether the device can be used in
the lung or whether it would be ef-
fective in Darlenes case was not in-
dicated. (Editors note) : A large picture
of the baby was shown in a Tulsa pa-
per showing the army officer doctor
carrying the girl out of the plane ac-
companied by the nurse. This little
girl is the neice of Mr. and Mrs. L.
Bynum of the Bynum grocery. The
childs father has visited Collinsville
many times. He was leader of the
famous orchestra which broadcast
over a Tulsa radio station and his
orchestra played here several timesj
for local dances and for programs
sponsored by the Bynum grocery.
At a late hour Tuesday evening of
this week the little girl is slowly im-
proving sinee a minor operation was
performed on her windpipe to aid her
breathing. No attempt had been
made to remove the pin at the above
mentioned time.
The Bynums have friends here who
are anxious to hear of the little girls
recovery without serious complica-
tions occurring.
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surgery which might
PATRIOTIC SERVICE FOR
SERVICE PEOPLE -
A fine program was given at the
Owasso high school building last Fri-
day honoring the service people from
Owasso and the local communities.
Pictures were shown of the honor-
ees on the serene accompanied by ap-
propriate music and devotional cere-
mony. A fine crowd attended the
services.
The pictures of forty or more ser-
vice people were shown on the screen.
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Patronize the advertiser!
NOTICE TO WOMEN
IN THE HOME!
If you are a woman in a home and
are not directly engaged in helping
win this war and do wish to do so
you may do this by careing for some
otherwomans child or children while
she works in a war production plant.
Besides this privilege of helping in
this great war effort you will also
be paid well for the time and cooper-
ation. If interested apply at The News of
fice for information.
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BRICK BATS
AND BOKAHS
By C. H. Wright
PROCRASTINATION
There is no other reason for the
News not being in your mail box a
day ahead of time this week except
for procrastination. It was the crews
purpose to get in the mails on Wed-
nesday morning. Everything was in
order to accomplish this thing when
we decided to go to the picture show
Tuesday evening and take a short
rest. During the night the temper-
ature went down to about freezing
so when we came to work Wednesday
morning we couldnt get enough gas
through the burners on the linotype
to operate the critter. After remov-
ing all the burners and cleaning them
thoroughly opening the regulators
open full still no metal would com
out of the machine. We actually got
one usuable line during the entire
morning. This made it necessary for
the editor to cancell his teaching of
the Owasso band at the usual morn-
ing hour. Still no lines coming out of
the machine.
Mark Hanna the Ruth Fuel gas
company field manager was called
in. He placed a pressure gauge on
the line which showed four ounces.
Previous tests have proven the mill
will grind on a two ounce pressure
so a house cleaning was in order.
However at 2:30 P. M. the slugs com-
ing out of the machine are beginning
to show a little hot and we will have
to begin to screw down on the regu-
lators again.
The reader probably says to him-
self What the heck do we care what
troubles the newspaper has? Well
that is true but we do have to make
some kind of an explanation so the
said readers will not begin wearing
the telephone out trying to find out
what has happened.
We still have hopes of getting in
the post office Wednesday afternoon.
There are two things a newspaper
cant operate without gas and elec-
tricity. o
ODD FELLOWS MET HERE
MONDAY NIGHT
The Odd Fellow degree teams from
Skiatook Owasso and Avant met
with the local Independent Order of
Odd Fellows Monday night for the
purpose of conferring the second de-
gree work.
With Ben Donahou as Noble Grand
of the local order many reinstate-
ments and new members are being
taken into the order again.
A fine lunch was served the mem-
bers and guests following the degree
work.
VISITORS IN BRILL HOME
Mrs. Leon Mickle a sister of Mrs.
H. E. Brill came for a visit with the
Brills arriving on Wednesday of last
week. The Mickle family formerly
resided in Collinsville having left
here about fifteen years ago.
The family consisted of Mr. and
Mrs. Mickle and three children:
David Bernice and Esther all of the
children attended our schools here.
Bernice graduated from the high
school.
The family now resides near Elgin
Illinois where the father son and Es-
ther are employed in an Elgin fac-
tory making material for Uncle
Sams army. Bernice is married and
lives near her parents.
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Corporal Clayton A. Flanary who
has been at home the past fifteen
days on furlough visiting with his
mother Alice Flanary Collinsville
and his sister Jessie McCreary of
near Tulsa returned to the hospital
this week.
Mrs. Elizabeth Prosser Mrs. C. D.
Holloway and Mrs. A. Nicodemus
spent Friday night here with friends.
They came to attend the O. E. S.
Homecoming banquet.
S. C. Bryant is in Texas visiting
with his sister Mrs. Dee Throne at
Eastland Texas. The writers bet is
two bucks this trip. Call your shots
friends that trip usually ends up in
the wilds of Texas with Spurgeon get-
ting his share. The war has prevent-
ed this trip lately.
The only sure way to balance a
family budget now is for the bread-
winner to work harder and longer and
make more money.