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The El Reno (Okla.) Daily Tribune
The El Reno Daily Tribune
A Bine Ribbon Newspaper Serving A Blue Ribbon Community
Issued daily except Saturday from 201 North Rock Island Avenue
and entered as second-class mail matter under the act of March 3, 1879
RAY J. DYER
Editor and Publisher
DEAN WARD LEO D. WARD
Business Manager Managing Editor
HARRY SCHROEDER
Circulation and Office Manager
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Tuesday, June 7, 1955
I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel
and Bashan.—Jer. 50:19. Israel has been absent for many centuries
but at long last they have returned. They have had many chances, and
have missed many.
White Is Black
T*HE Russians have been rewriting history for their own
benefit for so long that their constant tinkering with
events is expected. But it did occasion some surprise when
they tried to cram one of their rewritten scripts down Marshal
Tito’s throat.
On the arrival of top Soviet leaders at Belgrade, Nikita
Khrushchev, generally regarded today as the Kremlin’s No. 1
man, said that the seven-year period of bad relations between
Russia and Yugoslavia was all a horrible mistake. He blamed
the whole thing on misinformation given Moscow by the late
Lavrenti Beria, executed former Soviet secret police chief.
No more perfect example could be had of the workings
of Russian strategy. The facts of the Tito-Stalin break are
quite otherwise. The Russians well know that Tito has not
forgotten the facts. But still they are willing to offer their
transparent little rewrite, and even eat some humble pie in
public.
'Please, Sir, Can't We Just Let Him Stay Buried?'
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rpHE reason is quite evident. When Tito defied the Kremlin
A in 1948 by asserting his independence of Soviet dictation
in economic affairs, the Russians were swollen with confi-
dence borne of many successes in post-war Eastern Europe.
They menaced the Yugoslavs with everything short of
war. For a time the free world felt the Kremlin would not
even balk at war. Only the swiftest indications that the West
would not stand idly by in such a conflict may have prevented
it.
But much has happened in Europe and the world since
1948. The great central facts are the development of the
sweeping NATO defense arc, with the inclusion of a soon-to-
be-rearmed West Germany.
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by Brett Halliday
Lives
JYAVY CROCKETT has taken
” the nation by storm and the
ballad concerning his eventful
career is number one on the hit
parade. It has been necessary to
announce publicly that he did not
patch up the crack in the Liberty
Bell; that it is still there for ail
who care to look, to see.
A female North Carolinian is
also well known in song and
story. Her name was Naomi
Wise and she lived more than
100 years ago in Randolph coun-
ty. She is reputed to have been
a very beautiful orphan girl who
made her home with the Samuel
Adams family and her beauty
and loving kindness has increas-
ed with each telling of her tragic
demise.
It seems that Naomi had a
lover with whom she was wont
to rendezvous near a spring just
off the Greensboro-Asheboro
road. Gossip, then as now being
the perfect pastime, Naomi and
her lover, Johnathan Lewis fur-
nished the chin-choppers with
many an evening’s entertainment.
From which was derived the
suspicion that the two would one
day be secretly wed.
Finally one night Naomi left
her home with her bucket in her
hand to go to the spring. There
she met some man, whom suc-
ceeding generations have de-
clared to be her lover. The two
left the spring on horseback, she
riding behind him, towards Deep
river. Tales have it that they
were going to Asheboro to be
married.
IT was the formal seal on this latter event which triggered
1 the Russians into a new strategy. That explains the sudden
great haste to conclude a peace treaty with an Austria that
will be neutralized. That explains the eager Soviet talk of a
neutralized Germany.
And that explains why the Russians suddenly say they are
awfully sorry for their rude behavior toward Tito and would
like to be bosom comrades with the Marshal again.
At the least, they would like to include Yugoslavia in ak
belt of neutral states separating them from the West.
At the most, they would like to woo Tito back as a full
member of the Soviet fraternity.
The lesson in this turn of events is that when the Rus-
sians want to achieve something, they will say anything they
feel they must to help realize their purpose.
THEY never worry about consistency. They never worry
A about what they have said or done in the past. They never
worry about the transparency of their verbal frauds.
By this technique, inherent in the Soviet method of think-
ing and governing, the Russians exhibit their complete con-
tempt for the standards of integrity and decency which are
intended to guide the dealings of free men with one another.
By this approach to diplomacy, the Russians demonstrate
that thev are still outlanders in human society, and have no
wish to be regarded as anything else.
The Oregon couple who started on their honeymoon on
roller skates has a good chance of coming dow n to earth before
most brides and grooms.
Most people’s troubles are so small other people can’t see
them.
A Michigan girl, just married, had saved 300 love letters
from other boy friends. We’d suggest the open fireplace.
We can give you one certain answer to the question,
“What’s to become of the younger generation?” They’ll grow
up!
Some folks should especially like drive-in theaters, where
they can sit behind the wheel and not have to think.
Down Memory Lane
June 7, 1935
JJEW officers to serve the El Reno Elks lodge during the
coming year were installed Thursday night in ceremonies
conducted by Louis F. Pfotenhauer, Oklahoma City, president
of the Oklahoma State Elks association.
Tom Walsh of Fort Reno won first place in the stick and
ball race for polo team members when 69 University of Okla-
homa players recently put their mounts through fancy paces
on the Sooner polo field at Norman.
June 7, 1945
PILEY TARVER, Canadian county farm agent, today re-
leased information emphasizing the necessity of county
farmers registering with the Canadian County Seed Growers
association. “Farmers who anticipate an alfalfa seed crop in
1945,” he said, “should sign up with the Canadian County
Seed Growers association before June 16.”
Miss Ethel Dowell, city clerk, said today that city water
subscribers now may apply for the summer water rates at the
' water office. These rates go into effect June 15 and hold until
Sept. 15.
Miss Margaret Edsel, Canadian county home demonstra-
tion agent, said today that more than 60 gardens had been
. entered in the spring judging contest. Miss Lora Mendenhall,
-home economics teacher at Concho, will judge the gardens
The days set for judging are June 12 and 13.
Mrs. L. V. Porterfield, 515 South Evans, will leave Sunday
for Nashville, Tenn., where she will continue work on her
master’s degree at the Peabody Teachers college. Mrs Porter-
Jjeldw a teacher in the fine arts department in El Reno high-
The Rebckah lodge met Tuesday evening in the IOOF hall
with Mrs. Gladys Johnson, noble grand, presiding.
THE STORY: Lucy Hamilton,
frightened by threats, delays
telling Private Detective Mike
Shayne, that she had harbored a
fugitive in her apartment. Mike
already had forcibly ejected a
policeman who tried to force his
way in to make an illegal search.
Now Mike has learned that the
fugitive, a former friend of
Lucy's named Jack Bristow, is
wanted for murder.
* * *
VI
SHAYNK shook his head in sud-
den irritation while three deep
creases formed between his eyes.
He muttered. "I think I’d like to
hear a lot more about this Jack
Bristow.”
He looked at his watch as he
settled himself, said quietly, "I
admit you've sot me in a spot,
and that I pulled Will Gentry into
it with me when I chased the ser-
geant and his men away. If I de-
cide it will really accomplish any-
thing to tell the exact truth about
your pulling the wool over my
eyes. I’ll do so. But if an anony-
mous phone call will bring the
same results. I’ll try to keep you
out of it. And myself and Gentry,
incidentally. So don't waste time
with any explanations. Give me his
description and what you know
about him.”
Keeping her voice as flatly un-
emotional as she could, Lucy com-
plied. She heard a disbelieving
grunt from Shayne when she ex-
plained that she hadn't seen Jack
for years—and then only once
briefly in New Orleans, and had
no idea whore he might go to in
Miami. She did explain that he
claimed to have been shot by a
dead man and had come to her for
help because he knew no one else,
and knew her address from his
sister.
Shayne nooded curtly when she
finished. “I’ll go downstairs to call
that information in. Don’t go in the
bedroom. If they don’t pick him
up fast, I’ll try to lift his prints
from in there for the police to
work on.”
His set face told her nothing
when he returned, but he sat down
and took a sip of cognac and told
her matter-of-faetly, “It's pretty
bad. There's a city-wide alarm
out for him, and your description
may help. A girl,” he went on
moodily, "strangled in a rooming-
house on Eighteenth Street. A taxi
driver picked the fool up a block
from the girl, and brought him
directly to this address. He re-
membered him and how oddly he
acted, and when he heard about
the girl later over radio, he told
the police. There was nothing about
any shooting.” he added, “no gun
found on the girl nor blood
around.”
"I know there’s some mistake,
Michael. I just know he wouldn't
strangle a girl.”
Shayne shook his red head an-
grily. “It isn’t that easy, Lucy.
And now, just between the two
of us, why did you hold out on
me? 1 can maybe understand
you’re not calling a doctor after
the story he told you. But why
not me? I’d have listened to him.
If he was in trouble and inno-
cent, I might even have helped
him.”
She drew in a long breath and
lifted round, luminous eyes to
Shayne’s intent gaze. “I guess it
doesn't matter now,” she said
simply, “but he threatened to tell
Copyright 1955 by Brett Holliday.
you we were lovers if I brought
you into it.”
“What sort of heel do you take
me for? If you can’t trust me any
further than that . .
“What?” she asked faintly.
“Then it’s time you started look-
ing for another job.”
“1 will,” she agreed. “Tomor-
row morning.”
He stopped abruptly in his pac-
ing to glare at her. “Not without
giving me two weeks’ notice, you
won't. You listen to me, Lucy.”
“I’ll not listen to you,” she in
terrupted defiantly.
He hesitated a further moment,
but Lucy did not look up or reply.
He turned and jammed his hat
down on bristly red hair, stalked
out of the room.
# * *
MICHAEL SHAYNE’S car was
parked in front of Lucy's apart-
ment house, and he gunned it
around in a U-turn with wholly
unnecessary violence to head to-
ward the 18th Street address he
had been given when he made
the anonymous call to police
headquarters. He was seething in-
wardly, and his big hands griped
the wheel hard as he sent the
heavy car leaping crosstown. In-
side, he was all mixed up and in
a turmoil about his feelings toward
Lucy.
The Northwest section where the
murder had occurred was one of
the older sections of the city, one
of the better residential sections
many years previously, consisting
mostly of old two and three-story
residences which had been convert-
ed into rooming houses to meet
the servant problem and the high
cost of upkeep.
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NEA Sertice, Ine.
THE block that Shayne sought
was quiet and tree-shaded, in-
adequately lighted with street
lamps two blocks apart.
Half a dozen police cars and
an ambulance were parked at the
curb in front of a big house near
the center of the block. Little
groups of curious onlookers were
gathered on the sidewalk, and two
uniformed men were in the street
impatiently waving traffic onward.
As Shayne slid past slowly, he
noted Chief Will Gentry’s private
ear wedged between two radio
cars.
He got out and sauntered back,
wondering how best to explain
his own interest in the ease with-
out revealing the truth about
Jack Bristow. A policeman stood
at the head of the walk leading
in to the house, waving back those
morbidly curious who were intent
on getting closer, and he recogniz-
ed the readhead with a grin when
Shayne came up.
“Chief Gentry’s inside, Mr.
Shayne. You mixed up in this?”
(To Be Continued)
/ANLY the hills of Randolph
” county and the perpetrator
of the most heinous crime ever
committed in that neighborhood
know just who tied the dress of
Naomi over her head and threw
her body into Deep'river just be-
low an old mill dam.
There are those who allege a
confession was made by the lover
and from this and other bits of
information the ballads of “Little
Oma Wise” or “Poor Omie”
were composed by a now un-
known author.
The spring has come to repre-
sent Naomi Wise to the commun-
ity, the people have built a cover,
and concrete blocks have been
laid around the bubbling water.
No one drinks the water and it
is said to be hallowed ground.
Every little bit of tnaterial thing
having anything to do with the
tragedy has been saved. There is
a spot near the Naomi ford said
to be where the foot-print of the
young woman was found. There
was also an old stump on which
Naomi stood to mount the horse
behind her lover.
It is said the lovely spirit of
Naomi Wise still hovers over the
old mill dam and the place where
she was drowned.
Woeful Forecast Made
On Future Waistlines
CHICAGO, June 7 —IIP)—If you
are over 45 years old, the odds are
one to four you'll be on some kind
of diet before the year is over, the
American Dairy Association re-
ports.
The association said a survey
showed that if you’re a woman the
odds are even greater you’ll be on
a diet—15 percent of all women, as
compared with five percent of all
men. This refers to weight reduc-
tion diet, of course.
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15 Genuine
16 Devotee
17 Blow with
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18 Pertaining to
the Andes
20 Depose
22 Reigning
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24 Sorrow
28 Dishearten
33 Operatic solo
34 Unusual
35 Harvest
36 False god
37 Small islands
39 Ambassador's
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Short Stories
About Home Folks
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Snodgrass
and her mother, Mrs. George
Woods who have been located at
401 South Admire, have established
their home at 1101 South Macomb.
Betty MeGoffin of Kansas City,
Mo., is spending the summer with
her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
T. E. MeGoffin, 317 South Admire
and her father, Steve MeGoffin in
Oklahoma City.
Sherry Lynn Grimes and Davey
Grimes, daughter and son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. R. Grimes, jr., in
Maude, Seminole county, have re-
turned tto their home following a
visit with their grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. E. R. Grimes, 618 South
Hadden and Mr. and Mrs. Nye
Severns, 121 South M.
M. C. Easterling left Monday for
his home in Dearborn, Mich., after
spending several days with his
brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Waller, 215 North Hoff.
Mr. and Mrs. George Briggs, and
sons, Jimmy and Donnie, of Odes-
sa, Tex., will arrive in El Reno
Wednesday to be thte guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Barton,
2430 Towns End drive. Mr. Briggs
is the brother of Mrs. Barton.
Miss Marilyn Ellison, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Ellison,
south of El Reno, is the represent-
ative from Wesley Methodist
church to the annual assembly of
the Oklahoma conference of the
Methodist Youth Fellowship at the
Oklahoma City university in Okla-
homa City June 6-11.
Mrs. William W. Biard, 711
South Macomb, returned Monday
from a visit in the home of her
cousin, Mrs. Chauncey D. Nichols
in Oklahoma City.
Dr. and Mrs. W. P. Lawton, 400
East Wade and their son and
daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ed-
gar Lawton and son, Rusty of Van
Nuys, Calif., returned Monday aft-
ernoon from a visit with Dr. Law-
ton’s brother and sister-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. S. O. Lawton and other
relatives in Shreveport, La.
Mr. Breger
By Dave Breger
“Well, like I always say—it takes all kinds of people to
make a universe . .
★ WASHINGTON COLUMN
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
Disappointed Aides Pay
For Empty GOP Banquet Plat
ILTASHINGTON -(NEA)- Twen
” ty-fivc* bucks a plate is a stiff
price to pay for a roast beef
dinner anytime. But it's worse
when all you get for your dough
is an empty plate.
That’s what happened to a group
of workers from the White House
and Vice President Nixon’s of-
fice the other night at the GOP’s
fund-raising kickoff dinner.
It was the first big banquet being
served in the Sheraton-Park’s new
ballroom, and the head waiter had
neglected to assign waiters to the
Iwo tables occupied by the White
House and Nixon people.
When they started to protest,
President Eisenhower had begun
speaking and all they could do was
slink out to a nearby beanery. And
they could be excused for prob-
ably thinking what a fine guy Adlai
Stevenson was while munching on
their hamburgers.
| country as soon as possible
receive an award for fightinj
the Spanish-American war.
When O’Hara was 15 he ws
corporal in Teddy Roosev
Rough Riders.
REPRESENTATIVE CLARENCE
CANNON (Democrat, Missouri)
has written a constituent the
shortest letter in recent political
history. In reply to a question
from Missouri's American Legion
State Adjutant James Whitfield as
to whether he favored a proposed
bill to strengthen the reserves,
Cannon’s letter read as follows:
“Yes.”
AUSTRALIA'S John Landy may
hold the world’s record for run-
ning the mile, but two of his coun-
trymen are pretty fast on their
feet, too. They are Sir Roger
Makins, British ambassador, and
his wife.
The other day at an embassy
party the pair zoomed up the
stairs, greeted a dozen friends,
went through the receiving line,
refused the offer of drinks, flash-
ed back down the stairs, told the
first-seertary what a fabulous
time they had had, and hit the
hat-check girl on the way out be-
fore she had a chance to put Sir
Roger's topper on the shelf.
WITH THE POPPING of
champagne corks and flashing
camera bulbs appropriately simu-
lating a battlefield atmosphere at
the Cuban embassy last week, a
huge Latin-American type military
medal was hung on Army Chief of
Staff General Matthew Ridgway.
But after the fluttering cluster
of society dames had charged to
the bar to toast handsome Ridg-
way, a more prized award was
given to Representative Barratt
O’Hara (Democrat, Illinois) by
Cuban Ambassador Miguel Angel
Campa. It was a personal invita-
tion from Cuban President Fulgen-
eia Batista to be a guest in his
OVERHEARD at the Italian
bassy the other night:
“I just can’t stand that w
an’s attitude. She always kn
what she’s talking about.”
THE LADIES of the Cong
sional club are in a stew c
whether Mamie Eisenhower
send them a recipe for tl
1955 personalized cookbook.
In fact, some of the memb
are coming to a boil. For
First Lady has not yet
whether she’ll donate one of
own recipes. If she doesn’t
could mean financial disai
For the feature attraction of
book is a contribution from
wife of the president. This is
first edition to come out si
the Eisenhowers moved into
White House.
“Bess Truman gave us a re
1
and we expect Mamie will do
same," said one of the club’s
timers, “but I wish she’d hi
up. We want to get the book to
publisher as soon as possible.’
Lesson in English
WORDS OFTEN MISUSI
Avoid the oft-used express
“bride-to-be." Since the true me
ing of “bride” is a woman ne
married, or about to be marr
the expression “bride-to-be” cc
be construed as “the woman-ab*
to-be-married-to-be.”
OFTEN MISPRONOUNC1
Celibacy. Pronounce sel-i-ba-si
as in sell, both i’s as in it, a
stressed, accent first syllable.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Man
(habit, custom, conduct). Manoi
mansion).
WORD STUDY: “Use a w
three times and it is yours.”
us increase our vocabulary by it
tering one word each day. Todf
word: PUERILE; childish, as c
trasted with mature; unworthy
an adult. (Pronounce pu-er-il, u
in use i as in ill, accent f
syllable). “It was a puerile
mark.”
Problem a Day
The area of a circular r
track, 20 rods in width, is i
square rods. What is the ra(
of the inner circle in rods?
ANSWER
7Vi rods. Divide 2200 by 22/7 »
by 1/4 by 40 (twice 20); subti
40; divide by 2 by 2.
Sally’s Sallies
By Scott
“WelL the material was sd expensive I did the best I could
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