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YEARBOOK HONORS COACH KAMM—One of the best-kept secrets of the year at El Reno
highsehool was made public today at the annual awards assembly when Coach Kenneth
Kamm learned that the new Boomer-Collegian yearbook was dedicated to him. The popular
coach gets a look at his full page picture which decorates the yearbook’s flyleaf. The high-
school annual? were due to be distributed this afternoon.
Sharp Increase
In Polio Found
Inoculated Persons
Are Holding at 77
WASHINGTON. May 19 -UV-A
sharp jump in new cases of polio
vas reported today by the U. S.
public health service. For the week
ended May 14, new eases totaled
206—up 30 percent over the pre-
vious week.
The number compares with 151
lin the second week of May last
lyear and an average of 116 for the
pst five years.
However, for the first time since
^he anti-polio vaccination program
ran into difficulty the number of
polio cases among inoculated per-
sons remained unchanged for 24
hours at 77 confirmed cases.
Contagion Suspieioned
In another development, the
health service announced that 23
cases of polio have now been re-
orted among individuals, not in-
oculated themselves, who came in
blose contact with children given
|vaccine made by Cutter laborato-
ries of California. In these in-
stances, the inoculated children
Ithemselves have not contracted the
iisease.
These reports were all in the
hands of the health service last
night when it suddenly announced
|that for several days at least there
vould be no further clearance of
anti-polio vaccine.
Take Another Look
The only explanation was a state-
lent by a public relations spokes-
lan for the health service that the
Jelay was ordered for “another
look-see at this whole very con-
fusing picture."
The Oklahoma health depart-
nent said today no polio cases
vere reported in Oklahoma for
Ihe week ending May 14.
This compares with four for the
hrevious week and five for the com-
parable week in 1954. To May 15
|his year, 22 cases have been re-
ported in Oklahoma compared with
b3 for the comparable time in 1954.
Gary Bares
Plans To Cut
School Funds
OKLAHOMA CITY, May 19-'*'—
Administration plans to reduce the
minimum program for common
schools to balance the budget were
disclosed today after failure of the
legislature conference committee
to cut the bill as asked by Gov.
Raymond Gary.
Gary said he has an amendment
ready to make it the mandatory
duty of the state finance director
reduce the minimum
any source except
program |
teachers
National Defense
Called Unprepared
WASHINGTON, May 19-UPt-The
icnate armed services committee
oday approved a report which do
dares the nation is unprepared for
in 11 bomb attack and recommends
hat the president “assume per-
ional responsibility” in developing
in adequate civil defense program.
The report was written by a civil
lefense subcommittee headed by
Senator Kefauver (Democrat-Ten-
lessec).
Weather
HE COUNTRY!
ft luxurious fln-
icrb new lighter
le NEAT LOOK.
Mostly cloudy with scattered
ihowers and thunderstorms to-
light and Friday ending in the
’anhandle Friday. Little change in
emperature, except warmer in
he Panhandle Friday. Lows to-
light from 50 to 55 in the north-
vest to the lower 60s in the south-
east.
to
in
salaries.
The committee turned down
Gary's demand for a plan which
would have dipped into surplus
funds accumulated by districts
from ad valorem taxes. The short-
age, as proposed by the commit-
tee, will be between two and three
million dollars.
A master budget balancing plan
for state appropriations will be
prepared over the weekend by leg-
islative leaders, Governor Gary
and his budget director, Bert
Logan.
The master plan will be used by
members of the legislative confer-
ence committee to reach a final
decision on appropriations to state
institutions for the next two years.
A bill making county officials
subject to removal from office for
offenses committed in a previous
term was signed into law today by
Gary.
Year of EHS Activity Leads To
Honors, Awards for Students
Some of the rewards of a year’s hard work in a wide range
of activities were reaped by El Reno highsehool students today,
when awards were issued for meritorious records in subjects
ranging from scholarship to athletics, and from citizenship to
essay writing.
Sixteen students received certificates of merit for citizen-
ship, high scholastic rating, physical fitness and service to
the school at an awards assem-
bly in the highsehool au
torium.
They are Corliss Allen, Macsene
Clark, Dixie Elenburg, Barbara
Fuller, Dolores Oneth, Ralph Enz,
Marvin Burge, Nancy Kunneman,
Hal Whipple, Harvey Plaut, Char-
lotte Fogg, Karen Oneth, Billie
Jean Cacy, Patricia Chiles, Mary
Jane LeVan and Sandra Heitzman.
Excellence Awards
Certificates of excellence went
to another group of 46 students for
citizenship, scholarship, physical
fitness and service to the school.
This group included Libby
Arnold, Martha Flippen, Donna
Gappa, Ann Kiker, Joan Kouba,
Donnie Gappa, Gary Bornemann,
Bob Slocum, Jim Bass. Gene Cook,
Phillip Retliff, John Porter, Rob-
ert Shaw, Herbert Pennington,
Judy Cavin, Jane Gadberry, Judy
Halverson, Sandra Harrison, Pat
Hoffman, Lois Von Tungeln, and
Helen Miller.
Others on the list are Inez Whit-
acre, John Shaw, William LeRoy
Barnes, Harvie Raymond, Jim
Dunn, Allen Jensen, Nan Flippen,
Clay Gilbert, Sandra Gresham,
Ruth Ann Halacka, Carolyn Mar-
quardt, Jean MeEvoy, Walderine
Sexton, Nancy Brower, Judy Davis,
Frances Gaines, Linda Hensley,
Judy Vogel, Betty Bartlett, Mar-
garet Coleman, Dolores Curtis,
Karen Huchteman, Joy Kepler,
Bobby Barnes and Veldon Kouba,
Transcribing Honors
Commercial department awards
for transcribing 80 words per min-
ute for five minutes with at
least 95 percent perfection, went
to Ann Eichor, Clara Turpin,
Martha Kisner, Macsene Clarke,
Alice Valderas, Nina Husmann,
Karen Krause, Evelyn Wilkerson.
Awards for transcribing for three
minutes went to Sue Cloud, Corliss
Allen and Pauline Blind.
Future Farmers of America
awards for outstanding work in the
organization and in representing
El Reno in district were presented
to Allen Jensen, Jimmy Jensen
and Gary Evans.
Trade and industry awards, won
during a field day, went to Bill
Tate, Chester Taylor and Jim
Everett.
Athletes Recognized
National Athletic Scholarship so-
ciety honors were given to Gilbert
Gholston, James Wynes, Bill
Adams, Charles “Chuck’’ Janssen,
Gary Bornemann, Buddy Babcock,
Jerry Welch, Rick Mathews
Charles Link, Fred Singleton, Jim
Ivester, Walter Land, John Porter,
Pat McCabe, Joe Smith, Jerry Von
Tungeln, and Don Wallace.
Ann Eichor was announced as
first place winner in the Veterans
of Foreign Wars auxiliary essay
contest on "What Civil Defense
Means To Me.” Second place was
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Rotary Club's
Meeting Is
International
DI. RENO Rotarians, proud of
*-4 their club’s world wide scope,
had some of that “international
flavor” at their regular noon
luncheon today.
The flavor was not in the food,
which was all American, but in
the program and a sizeable por-
tion of the attendance at the club
session.
Club members were hosts to a
touring group of 22 visitors rep-
resenting Chile, Equador, Boli-
via, Indonesia, Turkey and the
Philippines and heard represent-
atives of each of the nations give
brief talks telling of their work
in their home lands and their
impressions, uniformly pleasant,
of the United States.
fPHE visitors are in this country
to study land management,
soil conservation and similar
matters in order to launch simi-
lar programs in their own coun-
tries.
Their trip to El Reno was to
include an afternoon tour of the
livestock research station at Fort
Reno, conducted by Dwight
Stephens, superintendent.
The group was accompanied
here by Edd Roberts, soil con-
servationist with Oklahoma A.
and M. college, Stillwater.
Their luncheon with the Rotar-
ians today was very nearly a
“farewell” to Oklahoma, since
all of the group will leave for
other parts of the country within
the next two weeks.
It was one of the final touches
to their American stay to several
visitors, however. The Turkish
and Indonesian delegates are due
to return home at the end of this
month.
Civil Defense
Test Date Set
A civil defense alert has been
called for 2:30 p. m. next Wednes-
day, May 25, City Manager C. A.
Bentley, county civil defense head,
said today.
Notification came from Thomas
M. Brett, state civil defense direc-
tor, who said the alert will shut
down all radio and TV broadcast-
ing facilities.
Public warning will bo given in
a broadcast which will explain that
the alert is a test and applies only
to military facilities.
Bentley said the state director
had suggested that residents here
be advised of the test in advance.
Three Hurt As
Car Overturns
Three persons were treated for
apparently minor injuries at Park
View hospital and released after a
car in which they were riding
crashed into a whiteway lamp pole
in the 1100 block on Sunset drive
shortly before midnight Wednes-
day.
The injured were listed as the
driver, Melvin Lee McCormack,
21, of 313 East Watts, and two pas-
sengers, Vinita Duncan, 19. of
northeast of El Reno, and Doyle
Ray Lock, 24, of 313 East Watts.
Police traffic records said the
car, traveling east on Sunset drive,
struck a light pole on the south
side of the street, snapping it off,
and turned over on its top.
Damage to the car was estimat-
ed at about $400.
McCormack posted $20 bond in
police court on a charge of reck-
less driving.
MRS. AVANT TAYLOR
EHS Teacher
Named Among
Nation's Best
“For her significant contributions
to the improvement of national
teaching standards.”
That general commendation went1*
today to Mrs. Avant (Josephine)
Taylor, El Reno highsehool science
teacher, who was selected by Mc-
Call’s magazine as one of the na-
tion’s nine outstanding teachers for
its annual “Teacher of the Year”
honor roll.
Mrs. Taylor, a teacher in El
Reno public schools for the past
28 years, also was cited in the
June issue of McCall’s for her
ability to “stimulate interest
among her science students in the
country’s need for scientists.”
Many of her students, the maga-
zine stated, have become success-
ful chemists, doctors and research-
ers.
In selecting the teachers' honor
roll, McCall's worked in coopera-
tion with professional educators.
The nine winning teachers—and
the “Teacher of the Year,” Miss
Margaret Perry of Monmouth,
Ore.—were chosen from a field of
outstanding teachers nominated by
state departments of education, at
the invitation of Dr. Samuel M.
Brownell, U. S. commissioner of
education.
The award came today as a
complete surprise to Mrs. Taylor
and her school associates. The
magazine withheld publication of
the list until the June issue was
placed on sale.
At the same time today, Presi-
dent Eisenhower congratulated
Miss Perry for her selection as
"Teacher of the Year.”
Mrs. Taylor earned her BA de-
gree at OCW, Chickasha, and at-
tended the University of Oklahoma,
Oklahoma A. and M., and Colorado
State college while working on her
master’s degree.
Four-Mile Creek Holds Runoff
From 1.5 Inches During Night
Farmers and ranchers along the North Canadian river
were warned today that a 14 to 15-foot "wall of water"
is coming down the North Canadian river and is due to
reach the El Reno area some time tonight. No flooding is
anticipated here but livestock should be moved from ac-
cess to the stream.
Another inch and half of rainfall in El Reno Wednesday
night brought the week’s total here up to more than six inches
and filled troublesome Four-Mile creek, which runs through
the west and northwest portions of the city.
Thanks to the overnight period in which the rain fell, the
creek did not overflow to the extent that homes and other
property were damaged as in the flash flood here Nov. 19,
1953.
Supporters of a proposed Four-Mile creek flood control
project southwest of town pointed out today that more over-
flow damage would have resulted from last night’s downpour
if it had fallen in a shorter period of time.
City Manager C. A. Bentley, however, said he anticipated
no extensive flooding of the creek by “less than a four-inch
deluge in two or three hours.” He said improved drainage
through the lower reaches of the creek would carry off any
amount of rainfall short of
that figure.
Meanwhile, the state weather
bureau advised that a “14 to 15-
foot crest would reach the El Reno
area tonight on the North Cana-
dian river.”
No Overflow Expected
Frank Hromada, city water plant
superintendent, noted that flood
stage at the U. S. 81 bridge is 18
feet and that a 15-foot crest on
the North Canadian is not likely to
overflow at any point, except pos-
sibly in the Banner area east of
El Reno.
The weather bureau advisory
said the river was a few .inches
above flood stage at Woodward
this morning and lapping over into
lowlands.
Oklahoma streams were bankful
or flooding from the Kansas to the
Texas borders today as rains of up
to nine inches routed families and
stranded motorists in the south-
west and Panhandle areas threat-
ened only recently with a disas-
trous dust bowl.
Four Oklahomans narrowly es-
caped death when two cars were
swept off roads by flash floods.
Several Towns Flooded
Businesses were flooded by a
cloudburst at Frederick. One hun-
dred families were chased from
Waurika lowlands by Cow creek’s
annual rampage and the surging
waters also made some families
temporarily homeless at Duncan
and Comanche. No lives were said
to be endangered.
The highway patrol reported
roads closed over much of south-
western Oklahoma from local flash
floods and overflow from streams
unable to handle the biggest runoff
in at least a year.
The patrol said Clarence Hill,
Robert Gilliam and J. R. Shipley,
all of Duncan, were rescued from
the top of their marooned car off
state highway 7 near Lawton at
5:30 a. m.
The water already had sub-
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Flood Routs
150Waurika
Area Families
WAURIKA, May 19—itfi—Swol-
len Beaver and Cow creeks to-
day routed some 150 families
from their homes in this south-
western Oklahoma community
and a more extensive flooding
was threatened.
City Manager L. H. Stowe, a
resident here since 1903, said up-
stream rises indicated the town
of 3,000 was in for its worst
flood in history. Torrential rains
of four inches and more fell up-
stream overnight.
Floods are almost an annual
event in this flat area and no
lives were believed threatened.
Schools were closed. The Red
Cross in Oklahoma City dis-
patched 150 cots, 200 blankets
and a mobile kitchen unit to the
scene. State and federal agencies
sent boats for rescue operations.
Students Freed To
Aid in Evacuation
Continuing rain and the threat of
possible flooding in low-lying areas
of El Reno tonight resulted in some
students at Booker T. Washington
school being released from classes
today.
J. W. Smith, principal, said stu-
dents whose families live in the
threatened areas were permitted to
go home to assist their parents in
packing and preparing to evacuate
their homes.
He said the action was taken
after school officials were advised
by city police that it might be un-
safe to remain in low areas during
the night when the North Canadian
is expected to crest.
Colorado Faces
Threat of Flood
Drouth Area Covered
By ‘Too Much Rain’
The Purgatoire river today
spread over Trinidad, Colo., as
cries of “too much rain” came
from widespread drouth areas of
the southwest where dust storms
raged only a fortnight ago.
Both business and residential
sections were inundated by the
flooding river which bisects the
railroad mining center just on the
north of Raton Pass, N.M. This is
in an area from which some of
the worst dust storms of the year
have blown across the southwest.
Phone Lines Out
Rain continued after more than
30 hours at Trinidad. The river
which runs east-west through the
city flooded the mainline tracks of
the Santa Fe railroad, knocked out
phone lines and threatened water
mains on the city’s west edge.
Some 75 national guardsmen
evacuated families from the threat-
ened area. Schools were closed.
Water was two feet deep in the
railroad station. The Trinidad jun-
ior college gymnasium and a
Catholic community center were
turned into assembling areas for
the victims.
Highways were closed to the
west and south of Trinidad and
near Hoehne, a farming commun-
ity to the east.
Texas Escapes Floods
Meanwhile, flood threats around
three Texas cities subsided almost
as quickly as the sudden cloud-
bursts that caused them. Police
minimized the danger to the Texas
communities, although residents
were evacuated from low areas,
highways and railroads washed
out, and many areas flooded.
At Ballinger, Brady and East-
land, Tex., they said “it looks like
we’ve got it whipped. It looks now
as if we'U make it.” It was still
raining at Eastland where more
than 11 inches of rain fell in 12
hours.
Lightning Kills
Four Youths
KINGSVILLE, Tex., May 19-OT)
—Four junior highsehool boys were
killed by lightning here today.
The boys were David Rojas, 13;
Estanislad Barrera, 14; Israel Pra-
do, 13 and Jesus Martinez, 14.
A cloud was coming up from the
south but it was not raining at the
time the single bolt struck.
Marvin Kirkman, a teacher, was
herding the boys in from play
after he saw the cloud coming up.
The bolt hit the teacher and the
group of 42 boys about 300 yards
north of the main building.
FIRE DAMAGES CAR
Fire in the seat of a car driven
by Claude Dale, highsehool stu-
dent, caused minor damage short-
ly before 9 a. m. today in the 300
block on South Bickford, before it
was eslinguished by firemen.
PEACEFUL SCENE TO CHANGE TONIGHT—This picture
made shortly before noon today shows the North Canadian
riverbed partially covered with a shallow stream of slightly
murky water. Picture taken from the U.S. 81 bridge snows
a fisherman standing midstream (upper center). However,
the slate weather bureau warned that a 14-15 foot crest is
roaring down toward this area and will reach here
tonight.
Postal Wage
Hike Vetoed
By President
WASHINGTON, May
President Eisenhower today vetoed
pay raise legislation for 500,000
postal workers. He said its 8.6 per-
cent average rise was too big and
called on congress to pass a new
bill “fair” to postal workers but
less burdensome to taxpayers.
Senate Democratic leaders
promptly laid plans for an attempt
to override the veto next Tuesday.
It will be the first time since Eisen-
hower became president that such
a test has arisen although he has
vetoed several dozen bills. Most of
them had been of a minor nature.
Tuesday was set as the voting
time by agreement of Democratic
Leader Lyndon Johnson (Texas)
and Republican Leader Knowland
(California). The senate approved
and agreed to limit debate to three
hours.
Knowland said he believed con-
gress then would promptly enact a
7.6 percent bill, which the presi-
dent has indicated he will approve.
Senator Carlson (Kansas), ranking
Republican on the senate post-
office and civil service committee,
has such a bill ready.
The senate originally passed the
pay bill 66-11, but GOP leaders are
confident that many Republicans
who voted for the measure will not
vote to override Eisenhower's dis-
approval.
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