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VOLUME FORTY-THREE
COLLINSVILLE OKLAHOMA THURSDAY AUGUST 28. 1941
NUMBER 17
Of a Plain Country Woman
Lucile Ellingwood Morrow
Published Every Thursday
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Observation Posts
jTo Be Established
In Tulsa County
The agricultuial situation is sum-
med up in the July 1941 bulletin like
this: Demand: higher; prices up;
income rise; farm labor decrease;
cotton up; wheat big supply; feed
plentiful; cattle highei ; hogs high-
er; wool valuable; tiuck crops high-
er; fruits dairy fats oils eggs: in-
crease. And so except for decrease
Albert Johnson Repre-
sented Collinsville at the
County Meeting
Col. Fred Daman of Tulsa retired
army officer this week accepted the
post of air warning officer for Tulsa
county and it was announced that
in farm labor everything is up and Colhnsville will be the site of one of
the fourteen observation posts to be
established in the county.
Col. Damman was chosen at a
up.
Prices of farm products have ad-
vanced and there is already an out-
cry that food stuffs are getting too
high. That is only because for so
many years farm products have been
out of proportion with other prod-
ucts. Now that there is greater in-
dustrial activity people can buy food
the demand stiffens faim prices and
they begin to be something like
normal or in the parlance of the
AAA they leach paiity. Its
about time!
Much of this j ears farm and harv-
est work has been done by boys and
young men due to so much farm la-
bor going into organized defense and
industrial plants wheie fabulous
prices are being demanded and re-
ceived more and more. Farmers can-
not pay these prices; so they must
work it out some other way.
Germany has a solution for the
problem akin to the old feudal sys-
tem whereby the sei f belonged to the
land and could not be shifted. Ger-
many still allocates farm laborers to
the farms as the need requires. No
man can come and go at will; men be-
long to whatever job the government
assigns them to as the occasion de-
mands. Our shifting unbalanced way may
be poor management and it has come
to the place where the government
must tell us how to plant but men
are still free to seek employment
when and where they choose.
Remember what the great Harri-
man said about the public long
about 1900 when the public began
to wake up to the strangle hold the
railroads like an octopus had on bus-
iness farm products etc. in Ameri-
ca? Well the worm turned with the
coming of motor traffic and the rail-
roads practically collapsed. Now in
a pamphlet put out by the raihoads
they show graphically and appeal-
lingly almost piteously how exor-
bitant are the demands of the labor
unions made on American railroads!
The unions are asking for increases
that will cost $900000000 a year at
a time when the railroads are devot-
ing every resource to national de-
fense! Then in terms of four sold-
ier equipment defense needs cattle
hogs farmalls eggs butter cars
boots and shoes and all
commodities they show what $900-
000000 mean!
Yes its too bad! The worm
finally turned from a railroad to a
motor car and now to a laborer who
has a strangle hold on the present
Harrimans and wrong or right de-
mands some of this wo-ilds good
times opportunities and privileges.
meeting of post commanders of the
American Legion held Monday night
in the office of Sheriff A. Garland
Marrs who also is chaiiman of the
civil defense committee. Collinsville
was represented on the committee by
Albert Johnson commander of the
John Daniels legion post here and
Alvin Eskridge commander-elect.
The county-wide organization is
being formed at the request of the
war department as a defense meas-
ure and observation organizations
are being formed here at Sand
Springs Skiatook Bixby Broken Ar-
row and in Tulsa. Services of 280
volunteers will be required as part
of similar networks in each of the
other of Oklahomas 77 counties. The
statewide organization will have 1-
499 observation organizations.
Following detailed discussion by
the committee Johnson said the Col
linsville organization will be estab
lished in accordance with instructior
from Colonel Damman.
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Jean Thurman wife and two
children arrived in Collinsville the
last part of last week ahead of the
opening of school to get things lined
up for the promotion of the high
school band and instrumental music
here for the coming season.
The condition is not ideal for a
real good band due to the fact that
a great deal of the material at hand
was worn out several years ago.
Practically the same nucleus is left
in the high school this year as has
been in the band for some years and
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OFFICIAL CITY PAPER
American Exchange
Bank is Undergoing
Changes This Week
Reminders of the Bank
Robbing Days are Being
Removed from the Bank
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I BRICK BATS
AND BOKAHS
By C. II. Wright
I anan and D. A. White were appoint-
j ed as a committee to meet with the
- - j city commissioners when they meet
At the close of the Chamber of with the highway officials concern-
Commerce meeting today conversa-i ing this matter.
tion drifted to the matter being con- 0
sidered by the city commissioners
about reconditioning the Main street
The idea seems to be that the state
will aid the city to resurface the
Main street if the city will remove
the beautiful parking and the white-
way on said street. This immediate-
ly stirred up several of the members
Joy Wilson 18 year old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Wilson has been ap-
pointed to a position in the N.Y.A.
welding school at Hartford Conn.
. He will work in the sheet-metal de-
present especially Sol Bayouth who . .  . . . .
. J . ...  1 partment and later go to some other-
was very instrumental in getting the
Whiteway built in the first place.
He states that the street can be re-
surfaced for less than it cost to re-
move the Whiteway and the beau-
tiful trees between 12th and 14th
streets on Main. He and others are
er place as an instructor in welding.
Joy has been reared in. this welding
atmosphere and will make a good in-
structor. Those who remember Joy
of several years ago can see him
scooting about the streets here as a
 . .  .  small lad on a motor driven vehicle
of the opinion that if there must be a  . ..
. r . ... ... of his own construction.
A News reporter stepped into the
American Exchange Bank the first
part of this week to be pleasantly
surprised at the physical changes that
were going on inside this popular
business place.
Instead of being compelled to peer
through steel griding to see the of-
cials of the bank the customer can
talk directly to them as in good old
days before depiessions and unem-
ployment cause three bank robbers
to be pulled off on this bank by men
in their lust for gold or whateer
they found behind the counters here.
The first to greet you with his con-
genial smile is W. S. Flanagan inti-
mately known as Mike. He is be-
hind the convenient counter which
was an original fixture of the bank
but which had been replaced with a
brick and steel bullet-proof wall
crowned with a steel network to dis-
courage the tossing of gas bombs in-
to the bank. Other bullet-proof
walls have been removed making it
look like a place common in a civil-
ized countiy. These improvements
are made possible by the change in
conditions in the United States con-
cerning the lobbing of banks. This
condition has been made possible by
the efficient work of the FBI de-
partment which has practically elim-
inated this brand of amusement.
Pictures of the improvement will
be published as soon as the work is
completed.
FACULTY OF SCHOOL
AND WHERE LOCATED
speedway through the heart of the
with the proper equipment should do ( why not run it down the section
as well as any of the bands in this
part of the state
With Colinsville baildmen ( in
charge of the bands at Ramona and
Owasso also there should be some
very interesting and pleasing sessions
with these bands and their members
this year.
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BASEBALL TEAM WILL
PARTICIPATE IN TOURNEY
His friends here wish him plenty of
success in his woik.
Chickens like everybody else take
their vacation in August if not be-
fore or after. Some quit work early
shed their winter clothes and loaf
after their spurt of spiing egg pro-
ducing. They then put in their time
growing new feathers and yellow
shanks; that hen is your summer
boarder and will make a nice fat hen
for the first fall baker.
Others that have laid most all win-
ter and spring will continue to lay
then go broody until about August
then they will quit work molt com-
pletely and be ready for winter when
fall comes.
In August I decide what hens Ill
carry through the winter. The
workers will be more or less shabby
their nails worn with work their
plumage dull skin white and drained
of the yellow fat that went into egg
yolks but their eyes will be bright
and combs warm and bright red. Not
so the loafers: their clothes will be
of the best; their nails long and
smooth skin yellow but their combs
whitish and cold.
All this one can tell just by look-
ing if one cares to cull further bv
picking up each biid one can judge
by the shape and spread of the egg-
bones and breastbone how much of a
layer a hen is.
By August the pullets begin to
show red combs and ears and dis-
tending egg bones; those with long
thin faces and beaks are crow
The local baseball players have
customer kpen or8anzel recently for the pur-
pose of taking pait in the baseball
tournament billed to get into action
at Vera Sunday afternoon.
Monroe Miller manager of the
pennant winning Kiwanis softball
team believes that most of these
players can handle a baseball even
better than they do a softball some
of thon having played baseball be-
fore they did softball.
Again the Kiwanis club is backing
the team in the tournament and will
probably be present in numbers next
Sunday.
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Frank Tihen director of public
line on Broadway where there could
be plenty of room. The truck drivers
who have learned of the good road Mrs. Harry Schencks who had the
on Broadway are using it about as misfortune recently of breaking her
much as they are the paved street leg went to Tulsa last week for ex-
The traffic does not stop them from amination. Upon discovering that it
the railroad to 19th street. was really broken a cast was applied
George L. Carpenter D. W. Buch- to the injured limb.
Superintendents Anticipate
Good Year for Students
relations of the Oklahoma Breweis
association was a caller at the News
office this morning. He is pleased
with the sales conditions and opera-
tion of the local places who sell beer.
heads and will make good fall bak-
ers and roasters.
I ask ittle or nothing of chickens
in August.
1). M. KESSINGER Supt.
Collinsville School District No. 33
Owasso Consolidated School one of
biggest Consolidated Schools in
State and Nation
High and Junior High-
Dale M. Kessinger superintendent.
Gene Brown principal high school.
Woodrow Cherry Spanish and Lit-
erature. (
Vola Brooks Home Economics.
Jean Thurman Instrumental Mu-
sic and Social Science.
Marjorie Oakson Jr. High Prin-
cipal and Vocal Music.
Howard McCuistion 8th grade.
Harold S. Knapp football coach
and general science.
English and Speech and Com-
merce teachers not yet employed.
Grade School
Washington :
Edith Dotson-Freudenbuig
Alice Kisner Hudspeth
Jessye Leah Chastain
Beatrice Pattison
Mrs. Inez Mullen principal.
Central:
Landona Blevans
Bertha Mae Cyphert
Ada Sims
Jessie Whisenhunt principal.
Several citizens have said mently
to the editor of this column the
school board treated you and your
son like a cows hocks didnt they?
or words to that effect. Well it all
depends on which end of the cow
you are standing on when answeiing.
There are several things that the ed-
itor does regret namely: that after
having taken over the job of teach-
ing the band back about 1929 after
another very efficient band instruc-
tor had walked out in the middle of
the term; having kept the band go-
ing continuously since that time with
the exception of the yeais Mr. Staik
had such a fine band; having furn-
ished without chaige instruments to
children in families who could not
affoid an instrument and who had
no other vocation piovided in the
school to occupy their time; having
furnished an hour 01 moie each day
without chaige (es what a dumb
ox); having let the children wear
his libraiy out without replacement;
having had instruments overhauled
at about $40 per etc. etc. the editor
felt that the former school board
could at least have called him in to
a board meeting and told him what
was the matter instead of one of the
board members coming to the office
and demanding the keys to the band
room. The editor really felt the ef-
forts due at least a vote of thanks
from them for having taken the cuffs
and kicks that go with the job and the
lack of appreciation some parents
show teachers for efforts to straight-
en out the spoiled children sent them
from many homes.
Yes friends if a fellow is going to
be a cows hocks he should expect
that kind of treatment. However
it has been a real favor to find such
a capable man coming into the school
to take the place. He has been good
sport enough to come and get ac-
quainted with us. We enjoyed his
company and believe we can help
him by some rough spots that always
confront a new teacher. A good and
instrumental department in the school
is the only thing that we have asked
for and hoped for for we have the
schools with us forever and the
school boards come and go from time
to time.
SCHOOL WILL OPEN
HERE SEPTEMBER 2nd
Arrangements have been corn-
completed to start the regular teim
of school here September 2nd.
Enrollment for high school for the
freshmen and sophomores will be
conducted on the afternoon of Fri-
day August 29th. The juniors and
seniors will be enrolled Saturday
moining August 30th.
The seventh and eighth grades will
enroll on Fiiday morning at 9 oclock.
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Requests sent to rural newspapers
for free advertising space which are
printed with rubber stamps and poor-
ly printed memeograpgh printing
which is the rule instead of the ex-
ception is like trying to get a union
laborer to buy something without the
union label on it. First the party
seeking the free space scabs on
the printers and then has the nerve
to ask the newspapers to use it as
filler. The News has that game
beaten this way. If we need fillers
we just cut off a page or such a mat-
ter and at the same time cut down
the cost of production.
FIRST ACCIDENT
The report reaches the News of
the first accident at the new high
school football field. During the
week as work was progressing on the
grandstand one of the small boys!
is alleged to have fallen from the
structure injuring his arm severely.
COLLINSVILLES ACADEMIC AND ATHLETIC MILL WILL BEGIN GRINDING TUESDAY
Really Appreciate The News
Said It With the Cash
The News has been rather amazed
at the response to subscription no-
tices the past week and have receiv-
ed many complimentary notes and
words of praise. Here is printed one
of the fine letters received from
former Collinsville resident:
Midland Texas Aug. 20 1941.
The Collinsville News
Dear Claude:
Sorry I have neglected to remit
for my mothers subscription. This
check will take care of both my
mother and fathers papers for a year
or so. We do not want to miss a
single issue I dont see how we got
along for several years without our
Home Town paper.
And if you think we do not get
our money's worth. My father reads
it and gives it to me and I save them
all and give them to my cousin who
lives in Odessa. She was formerly
Fern Gray of Collinsville and she en-
joys it too.
See that your boys are growing up
and leaving too. . My oldest son Bil-
ly when he finished college last year
got a position with the Electro-Motive
Corp in Chicago. This week he
was called and will leave for camp
August 23th.
With best wishes to you and your
family Sincerely
Iva Noyes nee Gramling.
Rev. and Mrs. E. D. Bartlett spent
the week end in the home of his bro-
ther O. H. Baitlett and family. They
left early Monday morning for their
home at Ashville Ohio where he is
pastor of the Methodist church.