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El Reno (Okla.) Daily Tribune
Tuesday, July 20, 1954
The El Reno Daily Tribune
A Blue Ribbon Newspaper Serving a Blue Ribbon Community
Issued Dally except Saturday from 201 North Rock Island Avenue,
and entered u second-class mall matter under the act of March S, 1878.
RAY J. DYER
Editor and Publisher
DEAN WARD LEO D. WARD
Business Manager Managing Editor
HARRY SCITR ORDER
Circulation and Office Manager
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Including Sales Tax
Tuesday. July 20, 1954
He that lovelli not his brother abideth in death.—1 John 3:14. Soma
mortals are hard to love. We need not admire their faults, but we must
harbor no hatred for the worst offenders. Christ died for bad actors, for
some who hated and killed him.
Dig Those Crazy Drivers
IT’S warm, the open road is inviting, and the crazy season
for drivers is upon us again. That means it's time lor
another sounding-off on motorists’ bad—and unsafe—high-
way habits.
Some of this may strike the eye as repetitious. If it does,
we’ll have to blame it on the fact that drivers keep on doing
the same old crazy, irresponsible things when they get be-
hind the wheel.
Underlying most of these bad practices is a single basic
weakness of attitude. Too many motorists evidently regard
their car as some sort of large toy, to be flipped around on
the road with a careless finger or two on the wheel.
It ought to be clear by now to anyone who can read—
including youngsters of 15 and more—that a modern auto-
mobile in careless hands is a weapon of death. In this respect,
it is at least a match for any gun ever fired against an
American by a German or Jap in World war II, or a Com-
munist in the Korean war.
CO, we politely suggest to all drivers, and particularly the
k young ones:
Stop driving with one hand. The fellow who hurtles
along at 60 or better with a finger curled around the wheel
and his left hand holding up the car roof advertises himself
as the most ignorant driver on the highway. It is doubtful
if a vacuum cleaner would be safe in his hands.
A lot of people who refused to learn this elemental les-
son are memorialized today in the statistics of highway fa-
talities.
Don’t crawl up on the back bumper of the car ahead. A
quick stop and YOUR car, not the one in front, will be ac-
cordion-ideated. The highway is no place to play tag.
Don’t pass unless you can see far enough ahead to as-
sure your safe return to the proper driving lane. Some of our
concrete cowboys appear to think everybody else on the
road should be ready to slam on the brakes or turn off the
pavement so they can pursue their reckless ways.
nON’T turn onto a busy road in front of a fast-traveling
^ car when you can clearly see a block or more of space
behind it. This baffling maneuver seems to be a great fav-
orite with farmers.
Don’t ride the passing lane on a four-lane road unless
you’re going by another car. There are some pretty stub-
born characters abroad, who will stick firmly to the left
no matter how many five-foot-high signs they see telling
them to stay right when not passing.
Watch all roadside stopping places for vehicles, espe-
cially trucks, slipping back onto the highway. The side of
the road is as much your worry as the center. If you forget
that, you may wind up in a rear-end smash, an ail too com-
mon thing these days.
That's enough warning for one day. If a third of it could
be widely heeded, a great many more people would be alive
this fall than are likely to be.
Oh, for a pie like mother used to make before they start-
ed freezing them.
A girl sinks in the arms of love and winds up with her
arms in the sink.
Too many auto drivers seem to forget that other drivers
may be as careless as they are.
People who have tried most frequently usually are the
ones who are convinced marriage is a failure.
“Don’t spend all you make"—bank advertisement. Al-
most as bad as not making all you spend.
Down Memory Lane
July 20, 1934
MK AND Mrs. A. P. Neill and daughter. Margaret Ruth,
300 South Barker, plan to leave Saturday for a two-
weeks vacation trip to Santa Fe. N. M., and points in Colo-
rado.
Duwane McCray, Bill and Gale Slaughter left today for
Chicago, where they will spend 10 days at the Century of
Progress exposition.
Mrs. Don S. Evans, daughter, Patricia and son, Richard,
of Springfield, Mo., are visiting their parents and grandpar-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Clute, 321 West Wade.
Mrs. Ernest Hodgkinson, son, Jack, Mrs. Thomas Benson
and her niece, Miss Mildred LeMar of Dallas, Tex., left to-
day for Spavinaw lake, near Tulsa, to spend the remainder
of the week.
Mr. and Mrs. Clayton J. Wolfe, daughter, Shirley Ann,
and son, Jack, left Thursday for their home in Kansas City,
Mo., after a 10-day visit with Mrs. Wolfe’s aunt, Mrs. W.
H. Thompson and Mr. Thompson, 1209 South Macomb.
July 20, 1944
MEMBERS of the Good Will home demonstration club met
* Wednesday in the home of Mrs. N. K. Atwood for a pro-
gram on "Feeding the Sick,” it was reported today by Mrs.
J. D. Ferguson, county home demonstration agent. Mrs R.
M. Sprague was program leader. Mrs. Ralph Dobbs, Mrs. J.
C. Morgan and Mrs. A. M. Chadwick had parts on the pro-
gram.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Schweitzer and sons of Calumet
spent Wednesday in the John C. Reimers home, 117 South
Barker.
Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Mericle and children, Ella Grace, and
Charles, of Bryan, Tex., arrived today for an indefinite stay
with Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Bywater, 410 South Roberts. Mr.
and Mrs. Mericle are former El Reno residents.
mo make a long story short, for
A the next half hour Lopez treat-
ed me to about every hold there is
in the Prank Qotch wrestling: book
1 have at home, and some that
aren't In It. I stuck to the defensive,
mainly because there was nothing
else I could do.
I kept being a sucker for the
half-nelsoa-and-crotch combination
and it made me mad, until I sud-
denly realized it was because Lopez
was cross-eyed and when I protect-
ed where I thought he was looking
he was going for somewhere else.
Instead of watching his eyes,
which had fooled me, I watched
his feet, so when he went Inter what
was to be another half nelson and
crotch, with a body slam. I got in
what had been my strategy from
the beginning. I applied a forward
chancery, which after trying to put
one on Milo all those months, only
to have it slip off. worked like a
dream against those flowered ears
that wouldn't let anything past
them.
He couldn't get out and he
couldn't get to the edge of the mat.
either, as I was keeping him on his
feet and only twisting his head so
that if I kept up his spinal column
would Lave to come apart. Once
and a while you get a real good
hold that makes you feel good, if
you know what I mean, and I had
it. Figure for yourself, the only hold
I had really been able to put on in
the whole match, this was one
that I could really apply and I did.
I felt a tap on the shoulder, but
if you think I was going to let that
hold go you are more nuts than the
referee, who began trying to pry
ir e loose. I couldn't understand
what had happened, and all those
people yelling themselves hoarse
didn't help either. At first I thought
that Lopez had conceded, but when
I did leave go, he started to go
a. jund the ring, pleading with the
referee, who kept shaking his head,
and with the audience, who just
booed him. He looked so earnest I
wondered if I had done something
like putting on a strangle hold,
which is strictly not good sports-
manship, although it has been got-
ten away with on numerable oc-
casions.
* * *
A NYWAY, it came out that the
referee gave me the bout on
a foul, which I didn't want, as
that chancery was applied so it
would stay applied. Lopez didn’t
want it either, and kept appealing
to the crowd, which booed louder
than ever. He slipped under the
ropes just ahead of me, looking at
everybody as if he hated them as
much as they did him, but when
we got back to the dressing room,
he was as friendly as before. I tried
to apologize for the referee saying
he had fouled when he hadn't, but
he said, “Think nothing of it.
Benny threw the high sign when
he saw you had me.” *
"What did he do that for?"
"Buildup, kid,” he says. “Win-
ning on a foul ain't decisive, so
the fans will be arguing whether
you could really throw me or not.
Next time we wrestle, Benny is
sure of a packed house."
I explained that this was strictly
my last match.
"It will make Benny very angry,”
he said. "You should easy get a
hundred and a quarter out of him
for a return bout. He’ll feature it
as a grudge match, with me out
to tear you to pieces." \
Milo came in and bust out the
way he always did. "Lopez you, why
you no th'ow Fed right away?"
"Being a strictly club performer,
I like to give the cash customers a
show. Besides, I underestimated
your kid," Lopez said, not in a
bragging way or anything.
The fellows for the rassle royal
came in. They all seemed to know
Lopez and like him, but they called
him Frank and I realized that
Pancho was an alias.
One of them said, "I don't see
why Benny decided on molasses,"
and Milo said, “I know, is to keep
from slipping," which made the
other fellows laugh and establish
Milo as a kind of a card.
on a fall to a foul," I said sternly,
"especially as that was my last mat
engagement.”
"But you are already booked,” he
practically screamed, and I had to
explain again about my promise to
Betty Jane Blane. While I was tell-
ing him, some fellows lugged a bar-
rel through the ropes and opened
the bung. You can’t imagine how
much molasses ran out of it. All
around, people were snickering
while they thought of how n lot of
big guys would look trying to wres-
tle in it.
* * *
rpHE first guy in the ring slipped
■*- and fell, disproving what Dawn
I left to take Milo's seat by Dawn ' °'Dav had “id. and as Milo was
tagging along In the rear and saw
O'Day.
Benny Lefkoc was already In it,
but the guy next to him made his
seat suddenly empty and I realized
that mrybe there was more paper
—unpald-for seats—than I had
thought. I no more than sat down
before Benny says, "I never thought
you could do it. Pancho's flowered
ears have been inviting groan-and-
grunters for a long time. It's his
stock in trade, you might say—and
that off eye of his'n."
"I would have preferred to win
it all, I could have crawled under
my chair, the way we had deceived
him—out of well meaning, of course.
As each wrestler climbed through
the rrtpes and sloshed around, the
crowd would laugh, but when Milo
climbed through, they really split
their sides. Even the other wrestlers
couldn't help laughing as he stood
there, looking so sad. Dawn O'Day
and I were the only ones In the
whole place that weren't practically
hysterical.
(To Be Continued I
Thoughts at random:
HERE are a variety of curb-
stone sitters. Some, as at
the circus occupy seats with backs
and others Just sit on the curb.
Have often bemoaned the high
curbs as the front end of the car
grinds noisily over it in parking,
but during these terrifically hot
days v/hen one would enjoy the
cool of the early morning. I think
how much more comfortable these
sitters are than if the curbs were
a mere six inches. The Rock Is-
land group, and these are all east-
siders. sit on the curb with their
feet in the street, but the Bick-
ford contingent, the west-siders,
sit on folding chairs, back to the
street and feet on the curb. The
corner-curbers are not reading
the morning papers as are the
others but are smoking an early
morning cigarette or catching an
additional forty winks head on
arms folded across knees.
VJLfASK Pollard, custodian at the
"" Carnegie library, is a bundle
of energy and has mowed the
lawn and swept up the grass cut-
tings to be carried off. The bril-
liant green of his lawn is the
beauty spot of my early a. m.
trip. The great difference between
his lawn and mine is the great
difference between his energy and
mine. There are other green
lawns between here and there but
the timing Is not the came. I us-
ually reach the corner of Barker
and Wade just as the sun sheds
long gold rays over the Presby-
terian church. The street is still
in shadow but the library lawn Is
sparkling with diamonds and ru-
bies as the dew and the sun have
their early morning rendezvous.
There was a time when I had
the horrors at the Inability of
young A.merica to spell correctly.
Had a couple of double dyed fits
when learning the alphabet was
not required in the first grade.
Now I cm in the third set of hor-
rors at the penmanship of sixth
graders and up. Upon inquiry
have learned that penmanship is
still included in the grade school
curriculum, all evidence to the
contrary. Have arrived at con-
clusion which adds weight to my
contention that this thing called
‘homework’ is more wrong than
right and does more harm than
good.
DARENTS are not endowed with
teaching ability consequently
doubling for the teacher only adds
to the confusion in Johnnie’s
mind. The hours before and after
school should belong to the par-
ents and spent in family gather-
ings, not driving the youngsters
to get their homework before they
go to bed. With the present sys-
tem of parents doing half the
teaching their half is bound to
be what they think most Impor-
tant or do better themselves. Few
if any are going to sit by while
Johnnie practices his penmanship.
They can't write because they do
not do enough of it and adults
have the idea it is of no con-
sequence. Maybe they're right
even if they can't write.
Mr. Breger
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About Home Folks
Mrs. Verne H. Reische, 517 South
Rock Island, and her house guest,
Mrs Lewis A. Edmonson of Corpus
Christ!. Tex., attended a luncheon
Tuesday in Oklahoma City at the
home of Mrs. Roger Givens. The
luncheon was in honor of Miss Lou
Ann Fisher, Shreveport, La., bride-
elect of Lieutenant J. Gordon
Reische.
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Svanas,
Odessa, Tex., who are enroute to
Chicago, left El Reno Tuesday fol-
lowing a visit in the home of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. George A.
Svanas, 1417 South Evans, and with
his sister, Mrs. Gertrude Osborne,
and Mrs. Peter Bargehotes, 512
West Martin.
Miss Clara Lou Peters, 314 South
Evans, left Saturday morning for
a two weeks vacation with her sis-
ter, Mrs. Dorsie Huckabie at Jack-
son, Tenn.
Look and Learn;
1. Of which Canadian provinl
each of the e cities the capital f
Edmonton; <b> Victoria; (c)
nipeg; id> St. John's: ie) Hal|
if) Charlottetown; <gt Regina I
2. In what year of World w I
did the U. S. invade North Afrl
3. Which Bool: of the Bible
tains the story of Samson?
4. What are the two larges j
lets In the North American
tinent?
5. What author predicted the |
marine in 1870, many years b|
Its perfection?
ANSWERS
1. (a) Alberta; <b> British
umbia; (c) Manitoba; id)
foundland; ie) Nova Scotia;I
Prince Edward Island; <g) Saf
chewan.
2. In Novemger of 1942.
3. Bool: of Judges.
4. Hudson Bay and Gulf of
ico.
5. Jules Verne, in his book
enty Thousand Leagues Unde$
Sea."
Mrs. Eva Bain, 406 South Rock
Island, plans to leave Thursday for
Whittier, Calif., with her son-in-
law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
George D. Armond of Whittier, who
have been visiting in Oklahoma City
for the past two weeks.
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This Is Almost Unbelievable-
But It's True! It's in The
Permanent Record!
Coe Would Revive Brutal Punishment Of
The Middle Ages for Errant Children
House Bill No. 587, eo-authored by Bill Coe, provided that boys
be beaten, bound hand and fool, and put into open courtyard
iu stocks! This outrageous legislation ac-
tually was introduced in the Oklahoma
Legislature. Here is reproduced Page
No, 1558 of the House Journal:
Such devilish torture for the erring youths of Oklahoma
could be dreamed up only by a man with HATE IN HIS HEART!
Thank Cod, this cruel, inhuman legislation never became a law.
But it was introduced in the Legislature by Bill Coe—the man
who now claims to lie such a friend of the youth of our state,
when he wants to lie elected Governor.
MOTHERS, FATHERS! STOP AND THINK!
Do YOU want such a man to be Governor of Oklahoma?
Read again the legislation that he TRIED to get passed when he
was in the legislature. NO MAN WITH HATE IN HIS HEART
SHOULD EVER BE ELECTED TO OFFICE.
You have a choice. RAYMOND GARY is a clean, decent,
Christian man. He has 14 years of honorable legislative experi-
ence back of him. He ALWAYS has been the true friend of the
youth of Oklahoma. He’ll be a Governor of whom you can always
be proud. Let’s elect him!
(Pol. Adv.)
CANADIAN COUNTY GARY FOR GOVERNOR COMMITTEE '
One of the most difficult jolj
housekeeping is to keep lind
and asphalt tile floors W'axedl
gleaming. Now, thanks to Gla-,1
is no longer necessary to waxr
scrub. All you do is apply Cl
with a brush about twice a
It maintains a high lustre, noqj
coating that seals out dirt,
dries in one hour and Is water i
It’s cheaper than wax in the
run, besides saving a terrific am |
of work, plus truly a bear
floor. Glaxo li available at El
Hardware. (I
1558
House Journal, March 3rd, 1933
for reserves to carry such bonds, contracts and
certificates to maturity, prescribing additional
duties for certain • officers and employees; pro-
viding for appeal by an interested person from
a final order, and fixing penalties for violations
of any of the provisions of this Act.
HOUSE BILL NO. 587—By KIRKPAT&Itfl^TIMMONS,
BRAZELL, DOUTHAT, BENNETTICOEJOHNSON
(Osagei, PAXTON, HANKLA and EoWfu
An Act entitled “Juvenile Criminal Malicious Mis-
chief Act”; providing that any boy charged with
a misdemeanor or crime shall be brought into
the court, and upon conviction, be soundly
thrashed with not less than ten (10), nor more
than fifty (50) lashes; providing further, that
upon second offense said boy shall be put into
an open court-yard in stocks, with his hands
and feet fastened, to take for a day or so, the
scorn, jeers, and paper wads, etc., of his associ-
ates; providing that for youths of greater age the
punishment shall be a whipping on the bare back
of thirty-nine (39) lashes; and for a second of-
fense of such older youths the punishment shall
be double the number of lashes inflicted for the
first offense; fixing the penalty upon conviction
of hardened criminals, and high-powered crim-
__ inals, and declaring an emergency,_
HOUSE BILL
MONS.
NO. 588 By KIRKPATRICK and TIM-
R.*«
An Act levying an excise tax of one cent (lc) on
each and every safety razor blade sold within
the State of Oklahoma; providing for the col-
lection thereof; providing for certain exemptions,
providing that all proceeds from such tax shall
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