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The El Reno Daily Tribune
Single Copy Five Cents
(UR) MEANS UNITED PRESS
Five Schools To
Hold Exercises
For Sixth Grade
Elementary Pupils
Win Promotion To
Junior Highschool
E3 Reno’s five elementary schools
vlll hold exercises promoting their
iixth grade students to junior high-
chool next Friday.
Central school will promote its
•tuaents at 9:30 a.m. at a special
assembly in the school auditorium,
Miss Irene Marsh, principal, said.
Students Listed
J Central sixth grade students in-
tlude Sammy Howard Curtis, Jer-
7 Lee Estes, P. C. Oates, Jr„ Don-
»ld R. Ooucher, Richard Allan Jen-
sen, Ronald Clay McCracken. Ralph
A’llllam Rickner, John Mont
Schmoyer. Marvin S. Terrell, Bob-
>y Jean Winebarger, and Harry
Kenneth Dugglns.
Betty Jean Bartlett, Kaye Mari-
yn Boyles, Laura Dolores Curtis,
Judy Ann Davis, Lois Doreen Dun-
:an, Frances Leona Gaines, Shirley
Louise Hall. I^ois Joan Kincaid.
Barbara Ann Lorenzen, Florence
Ann Lucas, Jewel Deane McLain.
Jo Ann Murphy, Gloria Ann Neath-
&ry, Karen Anne Oneth, Patricia
3ue Robertson, Cllffreda Joye
Smith, Julia Ann Denn, Margaret
Elaine Coleman and Janice Louise
Reeder.
Irving Exercises
Irving school, with Miss Rosa
Pearce as principal, will hold its
sixth grade exercises at 2:30 p.m.
Friday in the school auditorum.
Students in the class are Wallace
Avans, Billy Ray Harris, Karl Keen-
er. Terry Mayrhofen, Junior Ray
Lunsford, Johnny Powell, Frank
Waller, Amos White, Lorene Big
Eagle, Kay Havward. Lee Ann Irv-
in, Charlotte Long, Marie Ramirez,
Tressie Welliver and Alice Williams.
Webster elementary school will
hold its promotion assembly at 10
ja.m., Archie Royse, principal, has
lunnounced.
Webster Students
Sixth graders to be promoted are
Jake Bloom, Phyllis Jean Boyer.
Nancy Ruth Ann Brower, Robert
Bullock. Leroy Herbert Corn, Lil-
lian Fay Cox. William Rav Cox.
Billy Ray Craig, Ernest Charles
Geoaawhite, Patricia Janette Davis,
Rose Marie Harp. Malcom Dale
Hays, Lavada Ellen Jessup. Charles
Donald Jones, Nora Lee Jones,
Leonard Keller. Donald Lee King.
Georgia Mae Lacefield. Tressie
Lavem Madison, Linda Claire Min-
ton, Stanley Dale Mulanax, Jackie
Parker, Marlon Pawpa, Clara Kath-
erine Richardson. Luella Ruth
Rickner. Carl G. Roscher. W’alder-
ine Sexton, Tommy Norton Sham,
Annetta Short. Virgil Eugene Short!
J. C. Smart, jr., James Henrv Stat-
tlemyre. Gwvn Dean Vaughn and
Helen Mae Watson.
Rose Witcher Class
Rose Witcher school exercises al-
so will be held at 10 a.m.. the prin-
cipal, Miss Glen E. McCarty, said.
Students to be promoted are Jo
Ann Alexander, Neal Baucom.
Dorothy Jean Boling, Otis Lee Roy
Bruce. Larrv En^elhart, Karen Kay
Faucon, Clay Gilbert. Bobble Jane
Hill, Ella Louise Hutchison, Joy
Agnes Kepler, Mary Jane Le Van.
Dickie Lucas, Jason B. Marauardt.
Ryan Morris, Kay Porta, Charles
Posey, Teddy Posey, Stanley Joe
Seely, Nita Gayle Stewart. Jov
Christine Sullivan, Edwin Swift and
Joyce Zucksworth.
Lincoln school’s sixth grade pro-
motion exercises will be held at
7:30 p.m. in the school auditorium,
according to an announcement by
Leslie Roblyer, principal.
Lincoln Graduates
Students to receive diplomas are
Glenda Anderson, Diane Dawson,
Jeannie Doke, Nan Flippen, Char-
lotte Fogg, Thelma Fullbrlght, San-
dra Gresham, Sandra Heitzman,
Linda Henslev, Maxine Hilburn.
Mary Ann Huntress, Doris Kelton.
Kathryn Kiker, Carolyn Marquardt.
Betty Miles. Linda Stout, Charles
Anthony, Maurice Ausley, Robert
Barnes, Leon Combs.
Norman Cooley. Ray Harry Crum,
Warren Curtis, John Dillard, Larry
Duysen, Billy Golden, Karl Gray,
Harry Harper. Joe Heaton. Jimmy,
Kubon, Joe Howard Kupka. Joe
Lewis, Bobby Meese, Johnny Mor-
ris, James Mowery, Gerald Nusz,
Phillip Palmer, Joe Alan Patrick,
Terry Petitt, Harvey Plaut, Loren
Pope, Eugene Slaughter, Jon Til-
llnghast, Bobby Tinsley. Charles
Varnell, Don Wells and Joe Wayne
Young.
El Reno, Oklahoma, Sunday, May 18, 1952
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Sirens To Herald
Industrial Meet
Session Will Begin
At 8 p. m. Monday
A campaign to arouse public in-
terest in the proposed $100,000 El
Reno Industrial foundation will be
launched at 8 p. m. Monday with a
special open meeting in the El Reno
highschool auditorium.
Warren C. DeMoss, chairman of
the chamber of commerce Industrial
foundation committee, said special
efforts have been planned to stimu-
late attendance at the meeting.
In this connection all church
bells and sirens will sound at 7:30
p. m. Monday to remind residents
that the meeting is about to begin,
and the fire department will add
to the din by sending its trucks,
sirens blaring, through city streets..
Last Minute Plans
Ray Huddart, chamber president, l
said last minute plans for the
foundation meeting will be discussed
at the regular semi-monthly meet-
ing of chamber directors at 11:30
a.m. Monday in the Oxford cafe.
Members of the Industrial foun-
dation committee will attend trie
directors' meeting.
The open meeting at the high-
school will feature talks by several
industrial authorities, including
Oscar Monrad, vice president of the
First National bank of Oklahoma;
City, and chairman of the Okla- i
homa Industrial Development coun- I
ell.
Kennedy to Talk
Donald S. Kennedy, president of|
the Oklahoma City Industrial com- j
mission, and president of the Ok-1
lahoma Gas and Electric company,
also will address the public on
importance of the foundation.
A representative of the Guthrie
foundation also is expected to ap-
pear at the meeting.
The foundation here will be or-
ganized as a profit-making corpo-
ration, primarily for the small
stockholder. The smallest pledge
for stock will be for $100.
The corporation will have Its own
board of 15 directors, and will allot
4,000 shares of stock of the par
value of $25 per share. It is sched-
uled to begin business with $25,000
stated capital, after sale of 1,000
shares of common stock.
Independent of the chamber of
commerce, the El Reno Industrial
foundation is designed to bring new
business to the city and to foster
expansion of existing industries.
An Editorial
El Reno, This Is It
By R. J. D.
|^R. AND MRS. EL RENO—What are you going to bp
doing tomorrow evening?
We can’t answer that question, of course, but we can
tell you what you should be doing.
You should be attending the public information meet-
ing of the El Reno Industrial Foundation. It is set for
8 p. m. in the El Reno highschool auditorium.
This meeting should and doubtless will lay the founda-
tion upon which the growth and prosperity of this com-
munity will be built for the next 25 to 50 years. And if
you live in or near El Reno, its future concerns you vitally.
Maybe you are a little hazy on the subject of the El
Reno Industrial Foundation. Perhaps you' have some ques-
tions you d like to ask. Well, that’s just why this meeting
has. heen called. A lot of El Reno folks are iri the same
situation, and Monday’s lorum is your chance and theirs
to get those questions answered.
WE’VE hear(1 8ome talk recently from those who seek to
draw comparisons between the Industrial Foundation,
and some of the ill-fated promotions of the past, such as
the packing plant, the pottery, perhaps a brick plant or
some early day railroads.
But here’s the big difference.
The El Reno Industrial Foundation is not being spon-
sored by some high-pressure promoter from points north,
E^Renoresidents* 11 'S t0 be organize<1 an(i operated by
It isn’t seeking contributions or donations. It is offer-
ing an investment.
Lnder its by-laws, the Foundation cannot give awav
money or other assets. Its funds can only be invested in
land or buildings for industrial use, either on a lease basis,
or to be sold to private industries on approved terms.
Its primary purpose is to attract worthy industries to
“555 themselves in El Reno by minimizing the initial
outla> of capital for plant or plant sites.
* * *
RUT here we go trying to explain the Foundation in
detail. Without knowing all your questions we can’t
hope to answer them adequately
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IFs your opportunity. Make the most of it.
Little Damage From
Washing Is Expected
Rain which began falling Friday
night and continued through Sat-
urday, was "just what we needed,”
as far as Canadian county crops
are concerned.
County Agent Riley Tarver said
that the past several days had been
phrticularly hard on wheat crops.
With hot dry winds tending’ to force
wheat and other small grains into
maturity abnormally early.
“I can say this." the county
agent remarked Saturday: "The
outlook Is brighter today than it
was yesterday.”
Hail Is Reported
Only complaint registered by
Tarver was that the rain was a
little hard at times in some places.
However, he said that washing
out of spring planted crops, on the
basis of reports he had received
early Saturday, would be confined
to occasional fields.
Washing out and covering up of
recently planted crops, he said, ap-
parently had not been on any
^Wholesale basis.
However, there were reports that
hail had damaged wheat at Wa-
tonga and Geary Friday night.
Aid to Corn Crop
The county agent said that the
rain should prove beneficial to
county corn crops, which have gen-
erally reached sufficient height to
avoid being covered.
In the case of alfalfa, the first
crop, in many instances, is already
off, and ^he rainfall "Is just right
to boost the second crop along,”
Tarver said.
Rainfall at El Reno measured .30
of an inch at 7 a. m„ at the Palmer
gauge, and an additional .37 of an
inch had fallen by 10:30 a.m. Sat-
urday.
Lions Club To Be Host
To District Leaders
Members of the El Reno Lions
club will be hosts to about 14 visi-
tors at n district 3-L cabinet meet-
ing of the organization to be held
at 6:30 p. in. Tuesday In the Ox-
ford Cafe.
Lloyd Anderson, club president,
said those expected to attend In-
clude Guy L. Stewart. Oklahoma
City, district governor: Lester E.
Johnson, cabinet secretary; four
deputy district governors and eight
zone chairmen.
Plaques Received By
School Publications
Two plaques, awarded El Reno
highschool student publications
which appear weekly in El Reno
newspapers, were received by the
school here Friday and will be pre-
sented to the student editors, prob-
ably Tuesday night.
Miss Mabel L. Jones, Journalism
instructor, said the plaques were
awarded by the Oklahoma Inter-
scholastic Press association March
29.
The two highschool news pages
were entered in Class A. and the
plaques are awarded as "recogni-
tion with highest honors” according
to the wording they bear.
OIL FIRE QUENCHED
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex.. May 17
—(U.R)—A thousand firefighters put
out with chemicals Saturday a rag-
ing, wind-driven oil fire that
threatened for 17 hours to turn the
entire Industrial section and har-
bor of Corpus Christt Into an in-
ferno. They smothered the fire with
six truckloads of foamlte, rushed
from Houston, Tex., 240 miles away.
Ike, Kefauver
High Men In
Oregon Vote
PORTLAND. Ore,, May 17—(/P)—
A crushing avalanche of presiden-
tial primary votes carried General
Dwight D .Eisenhower and Senator
Estes Kefauver to pledged delega-
tion victories in Oregon today.
The Republicans, on the strength
of returns midway in the slow
count, handed the full block of 18
GOP national convention delegates
to Elsenhower with a mighty pop-
ular vote. His total was running at
about 70 percent of the Republican
turnout for Friday’s balloting.
Kefauver, with no active opposi-
tion. came up with 74 percent of
the Democratic tally as a reward
for getting out to meet the voters
in folksy way. He also got all 12
Democratic delegates as high man
in the preferential polling. Two un-
willing candidates, Justice William
O. Douglas and Illinois Governor
Adlai Stevenson, shared what was
left of the Democratic vote.
California’s Oovernor Earl War-
ren. a friendly neighbor who cam-
paigned up and down the green-
hilled state, was the only other
Republican hopeful to make any
kind of a showing—and he was far
behind Eisenhower, senator Robe:-
A. Taft of Ohio did not enter the
primary, and drew a little write-in
support he did not seek.
Eisenhower delegates rebuffed
eight others who dodged the cuso-
mary pledge to cast their conven-
tion ballot for the popularity poll
winner. These eight supposedly were
friendly to Taft. Three said they
were.
Brinks Case
Figure Slain
WEST WARWICK, R. I., May 17
W—A prosperous night club own-
er, fingered three days ago by a
state prison inmate as one of the
principal architects of Boston's fan-
tastically successful million-plus
Brink s holdup in 1950, was blasted
to death from ambush early Sat-
urday at hts front door.
Hours after two shotgun blasts
cut down Carlton M. O'Brien, 49,
possessor of a 30-year police record,
detectives seized Julius Kenner, 55-
year-old Providence Jeweler with a
record even longer, as a material
witness.
O’Brien’s slayer held the muzzle
of a 16-gauge shotgun within a
foot of his victim’s right cheek
when he pulled the trigger, Medical
Examiner Rocco Abbate reported
after an autopsy. The first blast
drove charge and wadding Into
O’Brien’s brain and killed him in-
stantly. He was dead on the side-
walk when the slayer discharged
a second shot into his right side,
penetrating the right side to the
heart.
Kenner, taken to state police
headquarters at Lincoln tonight
after intensive questioning, has a
police record dating to 1915, whe.i
he was In his teens.
Both O'Brien and Kenner were
named this week by Alfred A. Oag-
non, a prisoner at Rhode Island
state prison, as participants In the
$1,219,000 Brink's Armored Car
company robbery In Boston ex-
actly 28 months ago.
Freedom Is
Shortlived
For Fugitive
Don Gilbert Jones is back in
the El Reno federal reformatory
today, but not before he led re-
formatory and county officers in
a painstaking hunt that lasted
most of Friday and Friday night.
He escaped from the reforma-
tory dairy Friday morning and
was arrested early Saturday 14
miles east of Kingfisher.
Credit for the fugitive’s arrest
and return to the federal bastlle
was given a Kingfisher service
station operator. A. Corbet, who
spotted the youth from a descrip-
tion given out by reformatory
officers.
Jones stopped at the station
about 2 am. and attempted to
trade Corbet a windshield visor
from the stolen car he was driv-
ing for some gasoline,
Corbet hailed a passing police
car, then the chase began. The
two Kingfisher night patrolmen.
H. E. Opdenhoff and John White,
overtook the fleeing youth about
14 miles east of Kingfisher on
SH 33.
The auto was stolen Friday
night in El Reno.
Jones, first committed to the
reformatory last March, was re-
turned Saturday to complete serv-
ing a two-year term—for car
theft.
Cub Scouts Awarded
Gold, Silver Arrows
Presentation of gold and silver
arrow points by Pack Secretary
Clem Cherry, together with singing
and skits, were features of a meet-
ing of Cub Scout pack 373 Thurs-
day night in Rose Witcher school.
TTiose receiving the arrow awards
were Bill Hall, jr.. Terry Wilson,
Phil Ivester, Lonnie Ward, Dick
Maxey, Ray Hamby, Ronnie Biel
Jerry Bass, Trent Morris, Lloyd
Miller, David Stephens, Hubert
Graham. Claude Henry Cherry,
Richard Koebrlck, Gaylord Shaw,
Roger Weidenmaler, and Jesse
Jackson.
Dens displayed tables of hand
work made by their members.
Jim Bass presided at the meet-
ing. *
WINS SCHOLARSHIP — LuAnn
Wilder, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
B. O. Wilder, 826 South Ellison and
freshman in the school of business
administration at the University of
Tulsa, has been awarded the $500
McClure scholarship for scholastic
achievement. LuAnn was salutator-
ian of the EKd class of 1951.
Sheriff Royse
Asks Re-Election
Incumbent Renews
Pledge Made in 1950
Canadian county Sheriff Tiny
Royse Saturday authorized The
Tribune to make the formal an-
nouncement of his cafididacy for
re-election, subject to the Demo-
cratic primary of July 1.
Near the completion of the term
of his first political office. Royse,
a life-long Democrat, renewed the
pledge he made county voters
before his election in 1950, "I will
try to the best of my ability to
uphold the laws as delegated to
the sheriff’s office."
He said that during the past two
years lie has kept that pledge, and
if elected to a second term he
promised to continue giving Ca-
nadian county proper law enforce-
ment, and show no favoritism to
individuals or organizations.
"Running a dairy for 20 years
before I was elected in 1950. I
admit I wns a green hand in the
procedure of conducting the office
of county sheriff, but I believe the
experience I have gained during
tile past two fears has better quali-
fied me to continue in office.
“In again asking for the support
of voters of Canadian county, I am
sincere in my belief that I have
given them the kind of law en-
forcement they demand, and I be-
lieve my record will convince the
new-comers that I have been on
the Job,” Royse said.
Sheriff and Mrs. Royse are mem-
bers of the First Baptist church.
They have two daughters, Peggy
and Patsy. Peggy will be a junior
in Oklahoma A. and M. next term,
and Patsy is a member of this
year’s graduating class at El Reno
highschool.
Girl Scout Groups
To Elect Officers
Election of. new officers for 1952-
53 will be the principal business of
a joint meeting of the El Reno
Girl Scout council and the city
Girl Scout association at 7 p. m.
Monday in the city school admin-
istration building.
Mrs. Roy S. Taylor, association
president, said time of the meeting
had been set forward to avoid con-
flict with the community-wide in-
dustrial foundation meeting to be
held at 8 p. m.
All registered adult workers have
been urged to attend the meeting,
at which discussion will take up
details of the annual day camp
to be held at Legion park, the es-
tablished camp at Lake Murray,
and plans for the South Central
area association meeting to be held
In El Reno Sunday, May 25.
Action Is Taken as Red Agents
Try To Stir Up Munsan POWs
PUSAN, Korea, Sunday, May 18—(UP)—Three thous-
and tough American paratroopers were rushed to Koje is-
land today to clamp iron-clad prison discipline on 80,000
mutinous Red war prisoners who are still defying united
nations authority.
The move was the strongest yet taken to restore order
among the prisoners who gained control of the camp after
capturing the former camp commander and exhorting humili-
ating concessions from his successor. It was ordered as UN
officers at nearby Munsan prisoner camp reported Red
agents were attempting to create disorders and riots there.
Paratroopers of the battle-hardened U. S. 187th air-
borne infantry regiment arrived at a camp already ringed
with flame-throwing tanks, trucks mounting quadruple 50
caliber machineguns and fortified pillboxes.
Despite these measures, and a warning from Brigadier
fhenntetav,LHayd? L' ®oataer> ”ew K°J'e camp commander,
that they must comply with UN orders, the defiant Com-
munists still flew Red ban-1--
ners above camp compounds
today.
United nations guards had not
yet ventured inside the barbed wire
enclosures where fanatical Com-
munists threatened death to Brig-
adier General Francis T. Dodd, the
former commander they held as
hostage for four days.
Inquiry Ordered
Concessions they won from Brig-
adier General Charles F. Colson,
Dodd’s successor to obtain Dodd's
release, have been repudiated by
UN supreme commander General
Mark W. Clark. And a full military
inquiry Into the circumstances of
Dodd’s capture and Colson’s con-
cessions, which baited a Commun-
ist propaganda trap for the UN has
beep ordered.
Boatner, himself a battle-wise
combat commander, has put the
Reds on notice that "prisoners do
not negotiate.”
He announced a “tough but fair”
policy for governing the camp.
Clark, who personally ordered the
187th airborne into the tension-
packed situation, said the Koje
Reds, “obviously acting under in-
structions from outside agents of
the international Communist power
conspiracy, have threatened mass
outbreaks which inevitably would
result in additional violence and
bloodshed.”
Warning Is Added
He promised that the UN com-
mand will continue to observe the
rules of the Geneva convention in
administering all war prison camps
under Its control.
But he added, ”1 do not propose
to countenance for one moment un-
lawful acts on the part of these
prisoners of war and civilian in-
ternees.
The paratroopers already were on
duty at Koje island when Clark an
nounced the action taken.
Clark said the paratroopers had
been requested by U. S. eighth army
commander, General James A. Van
Fleet.
Guards Are Ready
At Koje the airborne regiment
is only 15 miles across a narrow
sea channel from Munsan where
another UN prison camp is located.
Guards at that camp have noti-
fied the UN command that they
have evidence Communist agents
are plotting riots and disorders
there similar to those which rocked
the Koje camp and put the prison-
ers in control of the prison.
Colonel John Scott, of Binghamp-
ton, N. Y., who commands the Mun-
san camp, said hls guards are ready
to handle any situation that may
develop.
“We have plenty of guards and
barbed wire at this camp," he said.
Most of the Munsan Inmates are
listed as anti-Communists.
But the UN command was taking
no more chances.
The airborne regiment at Koje
will be under the overall direction
of General Boatner but it will be
available, If needed at Munsan.
Weather
State Forecast
Mostly cloudy Sunday and Sun-
day night with scattered showers
and thunderstorms. Cooler south-
east Sunday and rising tempera-
tures northwest. High Sunday 60
to 65.
$277 Damage Suit Is
Filed After Accident
A petition for $277.90 damages
has been filed In district court by
E. R. Roper against Dick Austin,
as result of a Feb. 4 accident in the
600 block on West Foreman.
Roper alleged that a pickup truck
driven by Austin hit the rear of
hls car which was parked at 608
West Foreman, shortly after mid-
night.
He asked $252.90 for repairs tc
hls automobile, and $25 for being
deprived of the use of the vehicle
for five days.
City Recreation
Plans Drawn Up
Baseball To Begin
Activities June 1
Close of the school year this
week will be the signal for opening
of El Reno’s annual summer youth
recreation program, and plana are
already well on the way to com-
pletion.
Bob Bodenhamer, coordinator for
the program this year, said the ac-
tivities will begin June I, with
Jnntor baseball gomes for boys of
8 through 14 years old, and softball
for girls In that age group.
Principal need before the base-
ball and softball games actually get
underway, however, is adult super-
vision, and Bodenhamer said he is
making efforts to bring parents into
the program as volunteer coaches
and managers for the teams.
To Form Teams
A lengthy list of youngsters de-
siring to participate in the games
already has been acquired for base-
ball and softball portions of the
recreation program.
Teams are to be formed some
time this week, and practice is
scheduled to begin next week, be-
fore opening of the junior league
season in June.
Tennis activities for city young-
sters, under direction of Virgil
Shaw, also are expected to start
within the next few weeks, although
details regarding tournaments are
still being worked out.
Swimming Planned
A Red Cross swimming program
will begin June 16 at the Legion
park for youths of 8 years old or
more.
A city restriction limiting the top
age to 14 years for the swimming
program has been removed.
The swimming program will con-
tinue for eight weeks or more, with
each student receiving two weeks
of training. The classes will be
held In the mornings five days
each week.
Jim Bass is chairman of the
recreation program committee.
State Party Group
May Be Challenged
OKLAHOMA CITY. May 17—(/P)
— Oklahoma’s 36-man national
Democratic convention delegation
may be challenged when it arrives
In Chicago this summer because
votes of district delegates have
been split into fractions.
The method by which the dele-
gation was selected April 28 was
questioned by national committee
members. They said party rules
allow dividing votes of at-large
delegates but prohibit splitting dis>
trict delegate votes.
However. State Chairman Smith
Hester, Purcell, said today he has
written authority from the nation-
al chairman’s office for the pro-
cedure. He said he expects all Ok-
lahoma delegates and alternates to
be seated.
Oklahoma has 24 votes at the
convention and has elected 38 dele-
gates. Each of 20 at-large delegate*
have one-half vote and the 18 dele-
gates elected by congressional <n«-
tricts have a seven-eighths vote
each. Oklahoma has 72 seats al
the convention.
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Dyer, Ray J. The El Reno Daily Tribune (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 61, No. 67, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 18, 1952, newspaper, May 18, 1952; El Reno, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc920219/m1/1/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Advertising%22: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.