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El Reno Indians
Will Play Host
To Putnam City
El Reno's Indians, back from
splitting a double header with a
pair of Texas cage teams, will do
their first home court show at 8
p.m. Tuesday in Thunderbird
coliseum, hosting the Putnam City
five.
The Indians plastered the Ama-
rillo Sandies 81-54 in a Friday
night game but dropped a five
quarter battle with the Palo Duro
club Saturday night by a 62-57
count.
Hold 2-1 Record
The split in Texas gives the In-
dians a 2-1 season record for
Tuesday but the Putnam City crew
is expected to go all out to make
it two losses for the Tribe.
The Indians were picked as
“the” team in the pre-season
guess work and so will be subject
to keyed-up teams in every match.
Jenks Simmons, Tribal leader,
said the Putnam club is expected
to have a strong field for this
meeting.
McDaniel Is Back
Simmons said today that Bob
McDaniel, who missed the second
Texas game due to illness, will be
back in for the home game, but
Junior Whipple may not get into
the action. Simmons said Whipple
was out of school today, sick, but
did not know if his condition would
let him play Tuesday.
The A game will follow a 6:15
game between the El Reno Bees
and the equal club from Putnam
City, Simmons said, and the half
time feature will be a game be-
tween two of the east side grade
schools in El Reno.
Whipple May Play
Providing Whipple is back in
condition for the game he and
Jerry Tillery will play as forwards
and Tom Hamby will be the post
man. The other two squadmen will
be McDaniel and Glen Hadlock, ;
guards.
Other Indians who may see ac-
tion are Billy Craig, Billy Harris,
Jim Murphy, Jack Parker, Glen
Hill and Lanny Keller.
The Indians will see action again
Thursday when they travel to Clin-
ton, and will enter the Enid tourney
Dec. 27. The first conference game
is slated to be on the home court
with Duncan visiting Jan. 4.
Top Soviet
Officers Pay
Poland Visit
BULLETIN
WARSAW, Dee. 17—i/P)—Poland
and the Soviet Union signed a
military agreement tonight giving
Poland a say in the movements of
Soviet troops stationed within
Polish borders.
The agreement was the out-
come of last month's Polish-
Soviet talks in Moscow. It was
one of the fruits of the "October
revolution" that put Wladyslaw
Gomulka in charge of the Polish
Communist party and led the
nation to more independent
policies.
WARSAW, Dec. 17—IW—-Soviet
Foreign Minister Dmitri Shcpilov
and Defense Minister Georgi Zhu-
kov arrived here today from Mos-
cow to discuss the status of Rus-
sian troops in Poland.
They were met at the airport by
a top government delegation in-
cluding Foreign Minister Adam
Rapacki and Defense Minister
Mariun Spychalski.
Other Polish generals and sen-
ior officials of the ministry of
foreign affairs also were on hand.
The first public announcement
of their impending arrival was
from the official Soviet Tass news
agency, which announced in Mos-
cow the two Soviet leaders left
there early today.
Tass said the purpose of the
visit was to negotiate the legal
status of the Soviet troops in Po-
land, as agreed during the recent
top level talks in Moscow.
Gene Ring Given
15-Year Sentence
One man has been sentenced to
the state prison at McAlestcr and
another arraigned on a burglary
charge, district court records show
today.
Gene Ring, found guilty of first
degree rape by a district court
jury, was sentenced to 15 years by
Judge William L. Fogg, upon
recommendation of the jury.
Fred Hurd was placed under
$2,000 bond after being arraigned
for the Dec. 10, 1953 burglary of
a Yukon barber shop.
SHED IS BURNED
Firemen made one run during
the weekend, to a shed at 1001
South Shepard. The shed, owned
by R. K. Hardy, was listed as a
total loss on fire records.
UP) MEANS ASSOCIATED PRESS
El Reno, Oklahoma, Monday, December 17, 1956
IIP MEANS UNITED PRESS
Volume 65, No. 249
Accusation
Brought To End Is Rejected By U.S.
VIENNA, Dec. 17 —IIP)— Russia
said today the Hungarian revolu-
tion had ended but reports from
Budapest said Russian tanks,
troops and possibly planes were
still fighting rebel guerrillas in the
wild mountains north of the capital.
The Budapest government was ]
reported sending Hungarian strik-
ers to the coal mines today as
forced labor in an effort to avert
economic disaster, and a Budapest from paving part of vin djstrict
broadcast today said 654 went to I ____. . . . _. „ . .
number 28 was granted by District
(Judge William L. Fogg, the result
Court Rules Out
Paving Project
An injunction to prevent the city
of a suit filed by Mrs. Ona Van
Wagoner.
The injunction prohibits the city
from paving from the south line
of Arapaho street to the north line
of Caddo street on North Bickford,
section of street approved for
work in the Matra mountain mines
today.
'Mop Up' Started
Reports from Hungary said a
Soviet “mopping up” campaign
was in progress in the Beuku moun-
tains near the industrial cities of
Eger and Miskolc, scene of large-
scale clashes for the first week.
It was in this area the Commu- a section of street approved
nist government announced the paving by the city council,
first execution of a party leader Petition Overridden
this weekend. | The suit was filed by Mrs. Van
Moscow radio broadcast reports Wagoner Oct. 16, after the city
today life had returned to “nor- commissioners had over-ridden an
mal" in Hungary and reports to earlier ruling that the section had
the contrary were “slanderous been petitioned out of the district,
from beginning to end." But radio In the suit the plaintiff alleged
Budapest itself admitted Com- that the value of the property had
munist police were carrying out a ( been placed at $650 but the paving
widespread search through the
mountain area for rebels.
Situation Tense
The government appeared to
ha\e the situation under control in
Budapest itself, but the situation
there was described as tense. A
broadcast said workers still were
unable to carry out their jobs be-
cause of a coal shortage.
cost to her would amount to
$2,333.56, resulting in what the de-
fendant claimed would amount to
confiscation by taxation of the
property.
No Appeal Set
The suit arose after the council
members ruled Sept. 3 that suf-
ficient petitioners had requested
the section not be paved, but on
There were indications open war-: OcL 1 the council ruled that to
fare was raging or threatening in comply with state laws the see-
the Eger-Mikoslc area, and un- j l*on most be paved,
confirmed reports in Vienna said The law, as applied by the coun-
the Soviets were using planes to
shoot down the rebels.
NEW OFFICERS for the El Reno Chamber of Commerce were elected today, along with
the five new’ board members, recently elected, being installed. New officers in the top
photo are, seated, Morris Wright, first vice president: Wavman Humphrey, president; and
O. W. Limestall, second vice president. Standing are Asa Mayfield, treasurer, and the out-
going president, Art Harrison. The lower photo shows the five new board members, E. D.
Freeman, Robert Pease, jr., Paul Liebmann. Limestall, and Duard Barnes.
Tumbleweed
Man Snowballs
All you tumbleweed wholesalers
1 get in line.
This is the real thing! Those
Accident Damage
In Area Mounts Up
A two-car accident west of El Reno Sunday resulted in no
pesky things that have been blow personal injuries and only minor damage to the cars involved,
mg against your fences and across out caused about $500 damage to a trailer load of furniture
the field are at last in demand. being hauled by one of the cars.
An outfit in Cincinnati, Ohio is Trooper Ira Walkup investigated the accident and reported
looking for a tumbleweed whole- it occurred when the trailer and another car collided as both
saler for this area so that they were traveling east
The driver of the car was Carl Milsap, Ontario, Calif.,
Walkup said, and the driver of
City School
To Take Part
In Convention
cil stated that a continuous section
of paving must be considered one
unit and no part of it could be
petitioned out of the district.
C. A. Bentley, city manager, to-
day said as far as he knew at this
time the city would make no at-
tempt to have the ruling appealed.
Protest On
Tank Use
Is Ignored
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 _i*\_
Russia charged today the Hungar
ian revolt against communist rule
was “stimulated from the outside."
The United Statog bluntly rejected
the accusation.
Less than two hours after a So-
viet embassy official made the con-
tention, a state department spokes-
man said it is “as clear as the nose
on anybody’s face" that the up-
rising was "the action of the Hun-
garian people themselves protest-
ing the oppression they have been
under for some time."
Soviet Charge d’Affaireg Sergi
Striganov leveled the accusation
during a call at the state depart-
ment At the same time, he brush-
ed aside an American protest
against the massing of Soviet tanks
on the sidewalk in front of the
American legation in Budapest
about two weeks ago.
In rejecting the Soviet accusa-
tion that outsiders were stirring
up the Hungarian revolt, the state
department press officer, Lincoln
White, said that if Russia would
permit UN observers in Hungary
to inspect the situation "the an-
swer to who stimulated whom
would be very evident."
"It certainly would not show
stimulation from the outside,” he
added.
El Reno highschool has been se- j
lected as one of the nine delegate
schools from Oklahoma to the na-;
tional convention of student coun-
cils.
The appointment was made dur-1
ing the meeting at Lawton of the
State Federation of Oklahoma
Highschool Student Councils, Sat-
urday.
Four students from El Reno,
along with council sponsor Mrs.
G. S. Etheridge, attended the three
day state meeting.
Auto Insurance
Boost Challenged
Communists
Loot Japan's
Capitalists
TOKYO, Dec. 17—(IP-National
police authorities charged today
that Japan's Communist party is
systematically looting small capi-
talists and channeling the funds
Russell May Try
To Block Vole
OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 17—on
—John W. Russell, jr., battling for
reelection to the state senate, in-
dicated today he may apply to the
supreme court tomorrow to block
a special election aimed at pick-
ing his successor.
Russell won his second victory
in the court last week over count-
ing of more than 700 absentee
ballots when the court declared
they must be counted. Counting of
the ballots, which he carried by
S86 to 23, would give him a vic-
tory over Tom Payne, jr. Both are
Okmulgee Democrats.
Looking Up Law
"We are planning on coming in
over there," Russell said from his
home in Okmulgee. “I don’t know
when we will be there. I don’t
imagine it will be today but it
may be Tuesday.
"We re looking up the law and
brieting it. We worked yesterday
and will work some more today.”
Because the matter was tied up
in court, neither Russell's nor
Payne’s name got on the Nov. 6
general election ballot. On that
ground, Governor Gary declared
a vacancy existed and called the
special election for Dec. 22.
Ignores Filing
Payne filed but Russell ignored
it, contending this special election
is illegal and he is a holdover sena-
tor. Payne will be opposed by Glen
R. Horner, Okmulgee, the Re-
publican nominee.
Regardless of the outcome, the
question will finally have to be
settled by the senate The senate
which convenes Jan. 8, is the final
judge of its own membership.
Police officials estimated one
too can have tumbleweed “snow-
men".
Started By Picture
It all started last week when The
Tribune ran a picture of a tumble-
weed "snowman" in the yard of
the Ralph Myers, jr., family at
1517 West Shuttee.
The picture went on into the
Associated Press wire service and
wound up in a good number of
papers throughout the country.
Since then the Myers family has
received letters from California,
Michigan, Texas. Minnesota, and , urda.v,
Ohio wanting to know about these
mysterious tumbleweeds and
“where can we get some."
Firm Interested
The latest one though looks like
the right idea for some enterpris-
OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 17—Ufi
—Reasons for a 22.9 percent boost
in automobile liability insurance ... ,
were challenged today as a lcgisla- lnt0 t ,c Par,-V s coffers,
tive council committee began
studying the recent rate boost,
now scheduled to go into effect
Thursday.
The increase brought from Rep.
J. D. McCarty, Oklahoma City, a
sharp “how in Hell" can com-
j panics represented by the National
Bank Bandits
Kidnap Pair;
Get $20,000
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Dec. 17
, , ... ,, , . a —Two gunmen Invaded the
Clr‘L“",,.Lld.I0„bb.Cd.u!na" ! apartment of a young bank teller
Truckers Pay
JP Court Fines
Overloaded Texas.trucks had a
bad day at the state scales a half
miles south of Union City late Sat-
records from the peace
justice courts show today, with
five trucks resulting in $50 fines
for each of the operators.
Lonnie Hoit and Bill Gee. both
of Electra, Tex., were charged
ing person to reap the harvest from with being 1,120 pounds overweight
the tumbleweed center of the by Trooper Joe Dunn, with J. H.
world. j Craven setting their fine and $8.50
The General Display corporation court cost,
wrote to Myers that they had seen Two more, Tcxas truckcrs
I the "snowman and “thought R chargrd by Dunn and pajd ,hp
same fine and cost in Craven's
was real cute and different, and
could you please tell us the name
of a wholesaler in that area who
| could provide us with tumble-
weeds."
Easy Harvest
Plans are already being laid by
1 some to get in on the Yankee
craze for tumbleweeds, with one overweight,
man planning to rent a barn, build
j slanting fences on the south end
of the barn, leave the door on that
end open and just let the little
I travelers roll right in.
“Then,” as he explains it, “next
fall I just go out and gather up
what's in the barn and sell them
back east.”
So next time your fence is so
covered with tumbleweeds you
| can't get the gate open, don’t get
mad at what may be the greatest
discovery in
oil well.
court, Harold Leonard Owens,
Vernon, Tex., and Gee were charg-
ed with being 4,400 pounds over-
weight, while Robert Edward Bie-
ber, Dallas, Tex., and H. W. Mc-
Broom. Iowa Park, Tex., were
charged with being 4,240 pounds
Two fines were paid in the court
of W. H. Gilbert, one by Billy Joe
Hukill, Vernon, and McBroom. for
being 5.940 pounds overweight. The
second was paid, along with $10 65
in court costs, by Roy Hayden
Kays, Vernon, and McBroom, for
being 9,460 pounds overweight.
The only other fine paid was by
Delmas H. Sorenson and the Bon-
anza corporation, both of Okla-
homa City. This fine was also $50
Oklahoma since" the j wilh $8-50 in costs-
All the truckers entered a guilty
the other car was Ralph
Strong, Kansas City, Mo.
Walkup said Milsap told him he
had started to pass a car which
was following the trailer, but at
the same time this car also started
to pass. Musap said he applied his
brakes and the car skidded into
the left rear of the trailer, turn-
ing it over.
Trailer Demolished
Damage to Milsap's 1955 car
was estimated at 550 by the troop-
er, while the trailer was demolish-
ed and the furniture scattered
along the road.
Minor damage resulted from two
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Representing El Reno were John, Bureau 0f Casualty Underwriters
Shaw, council president, Judy Hal- be asging for a rate increase when
verson, secretary, and members some “major" companies are
Harvey Plaut and Charlotte Fogg, coming in voluntarily and lowering
Shaw led a discussion during the their rates.
convention and Mrs. Etheridge r l. Jewell, Austin, Tex., re-
spoke on team work among stu- presentativc of the group, replied
dents.
The national convention is sched-
uled for Roswell, N. M., in July,
Mrs. Etheridge said.
Weather
Partly cloudy, turning colder to-
night. Fair Tuesday, warmer west
portion. Ix>w tonight 20s, high
Tuesday 40s northeast to 50s else-
where. Further outlook: fair and
warmer Tuesday night, turning
cooler northwest Wednesday.
that some charges could be low-
er because the companies sell only
to “selected risk” customers, who
would have a lower loss ratio.
Representative Robert O. Cun-
ningham, Oklahoma City, also
sniped at the increase. It was
Cunningham who had asked that
the council insurance committee
study the increase.
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Tulsa Boys Quizzed
In Car Prowling
A pair of 14-year-old Tulsa boys
were picked up in Yukon late Sat-
I urday night, after they were found
prowling cars by Marshal Frank
Herman.
The boys, who later admitted
having stolen a truck and abandon-1
I ing it near Yukon, were brought
to the county jail here but were |
released to (heir fathers Sunday.1
plea to the charges.
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President, Nehru
Begin Conference
GEETTYSBURG, Pa., Dec. 17—
President Eisenhower and In-
dia's Prime Minister Nehru se-
cluded themselves in a private con-
versation minutes after arriving at
the president's farm today from
Washington.
Leaving their aides in other parts
of the big farmhouse, the two
heads of state got together in the
heated, glass-enclosed porch which
faces east overlooking the historic
Gettysburg battlefield.
"It is an entirely personal con-
versation,” White House Press Sec-
retary James C. Hagerty reported
to the 100 or so newsmen covering
the meeting.
Hagerty told newsmen he ex-
pected to have little to tell them
about the substance of the private
Eisenhower-Nehru talks. He said a
communique may be put out in
Washington Thursday.
Hereford Sale To
Be Held Tuesday
The Oklahoma Hereford Breed-
ers’ association’s quality bull sale,
postponed from a week ago, is
scheduled to begin operation early
Tuesday at Fort Reno.
The sale will attract consignors
from all over the slate who will
have about 100 quality Hereford
bulls for sale to the highest bid-
der.
Twenty-one ranchers will have
96 head of top quality stock for the
one day sale, and sponsors are
expecting a large turnout from the
other ranches in Oklahoma and
from out of stale.
nessmen throughout the country
of one billion yen ($2,778,000)
through a network of dummy com-
panies set up by the party.
They said these companies built
up debts with small manufactur-
ers, wholesalers and retailers,
shifted assets to other party-con-
trolled firms, then went into bank-
ruptcy.
The scheme was exposed by the
national police headquarters, the
Tokyo Metropolitan police and the
public safety investigation com-
mission.
The three police organizations
said the plot came to light when
the "Fiber Research Institute”
went into bankruptcy last Janu-
ary.
Authorities said the firm's presi-
dent, Shigeru Murai, and most of
the employes were members of the
Communist party.
When it went out of business,
the company had liquid assets of
1,000 yen ($2.78) and liabilities of
102,000,000 yen ($283,333).
Police investigated when it was
discovered the firm had issued 60
million yen in rubber checks. The
victims were small paper and
fiber wholesalers.
and his wife last night, held them
captive for nearly six hours, then
forced the teller to drive to the
bank and hand over the contents
of a night depository.
Estimates of the loot ranged up-
ward from $20,000.
The couple's three - year - old
daughter slept undisturbed during
the night of terror.
Brandishing three pistols, the
gunmen forced their way into the
apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Donald
E. Bishoff in nearby Hyattsvillc
about 9:30 p. m.
At 2:30 a. m. today, Bishoff was
forced to drive to the College Park
branch of the Suburban Trust com-
pany and surrender weekend de-
posits.
The bandidts fled in Bishoff's
auto after returning him to his
home and binding him back to back
with his wife. He struggled free
15 minutes later and notified police
about 3:30 a. m.
An FBI investigation was launch-
ed immediately.
Neither of the Bishoffs was harm-
ed but Mrs. Bishoff was hysterical
from the ordel and cried to police,
"It can't be true. It's like a fairy
talc."
72 Persons Are Killed As Car
Slams Into Fast Locomotive
PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. 17-MS-
An ancient passenger car slam-
med into the Southern Pacific’s
crack Golden State Limited to-
day, killing 12 persons in the car.
The Limited, traveling at 75
m. p. h., continued on its way
into Phoenix’s union station, some
three miles away, and only then
did the train crew discover the
accident.
Bits of human flesh and a car
fender were found around the
forward truck of the second half
of the diesel engine.
The mortuary attendant said
that the dead were four children
and eight adults, but the bodies
were so badly mangled that he
was unable to determine their
sex. He said he believed they
were of Spanish American or In-
dian descent.
The train crew said they felt
only a “jar” when the car hit the
train. Walter A. Vandergriff, who
was driving nearby and saw the
accident, said:
“It sounded like a hammer hit-
ting a two-by-four."
No one aboard the train was
hurt.
The accident took place at a
level crossing market by a stan-
dard wooden railroad sign. The
area is desert country except
northwest of the intersection
which is occupied by the Both-El
cemetery.
Bodies of the dead were strewn
along a 30-foot deep, 200-foot long
gulch at the base of the railroad
embankment.
One survivor, an 18 months old
girl, was found whimpering in the
bushes. She was taken to the
Maricopa county hospital, where
surgeons operated on her for a
fractured skull and a broken jaw.
Police tentatively identified
dead, presumed to be Phoenix
residents, as:
Juan Alires, sr., 59; Juan Abrrs,
jr., 21; Victor Alires, 28; Clara
Alires, 21; Sofi Alires, 28; Mike
Alires, 8 month; Steven Alires,
10; David Alires, 8; Bobby
Alires, 3; Leroy Johnson, 36, and
Johnny Massery, 36. A woman,
about 40, remained unidentified.
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