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WOMEN UNITE FOR WORLD PRAYER—Shown rehearsing for two special World Day of Prayer services to be
held Friday, reading left to right, standing, Mrs. A. Francis Porta, member of Christ Memorial Episcopal church
and secretary-treasurer of the sponsoring United Church Women; Mrs. J. W. Smith, choral director and member
of the Colored Methodist Episcopal church; Mrs. 0. R. Romine, publicity chairman and First Christian church mem-
ber; Mrs. K. Goldsby, music chairman, and member of Mount Moriah Baptist church, and seated, Mrs. Roy M. Christy,
general chairman and program director, and Mrs. Kenneth Crownover, organist, both of the First Presbyterian church.
Annexations Of
Schools Sought
Two More Petitions
Are Filed by Patrons
Patrons of two more school dis-
•ricta have filed petitions in the
fflce of the county superintendent
>f schools asking that annexation
elections be held for their districts.
The elections were asked for
Mountain View school, district 58,
vhere a group of patrons seek an-
lexation to the Reno-Darlington
school district No. 70, and for the
Pleasant Valley school district No.
JO, in which a number of patrons
lave asked that the district be
jplit, with the east half going to
Independent district No. 76 at Cabi-
net and the west part going to the
3eary Joint independent district
to.
Election Mandatory
I The Pleasant Valley district di-
/ision, if approved by voters, would
ncan that the west half of the
district would in the future be ad-
ministered in Blaine county along
vith the remainder of the Geary
district.
County Superintendent Neal
Golden said that calling of the elec-
.ions is mandatory, under state law,
>nce the petitions have been filed,
but added that no dute has been
definitely set for the election.
, Earlier Plea Filed
| Last week patrons from Meridian
pchool, district No. 35, filed a peti-
tion asking that the district be an-
nexed to the Rich Valley-Riverside
school district No. 29. Golden said
„he election will be held frony2 p.m.
f-0 6 p. m. Tuesday, March 9.
The Meridian school currently Is
closed since students attending there
,vere transferred last summer to the
13 Reno school district for the cur-
■ent school year.
Golden said, however, that the
wo latest districts to ask annexa-
on are still conducting classes. He
id that while the petitions gave
reason for the request, cause for
he action lay in declining enrol-
ents.
Nonce Won't Run; Gary, Other
Hopefuls Grab for Extra Votes
OKLAHOMA CITY, March 4-(AP)—House Speaker
James C. Nance was out of the governor's race today and
one candidate, Senator Raymond Gary, Madill, immediately
claimed Nance’s elimination will be a “big boost” for him.
Nance took himself out with an announcement in his
column in the Purcell Register which he publishes. Before
that he had been the biggest
question mark in the slowly
developing race.
Gary, first candidate to formaUy
announce as a candidate, said he
will now get increased strength from
three important groups in the state.
Claims Nance Votes
“Nance’s decision not to run is
El Reno Boy Scouts will be out ® definite boost for me,” he said,
early Saturday to collect scrap “Many newspapermen, house mem-
paper from which they hope to1 bers and school men had told me if
Boy Scouts
Paper Drive
Set Saturday
gain funds to maintain their Scout
bus.
About 40 members of troop 378,
guided by Scoutmaster Jim Barber
Nance didn’t run they would sup-
port me. This is particularly true in
the west side of the state.
’In the straw votes in that area
and his assistants, plan to begin i Nance usually led with me second.”
gathering scrap paper bundles at
8 a. m. and work as long as they
can find paper.
City residents and business firms
are asked to bundle or box all old
newspapers, books, magazines or
other paper materials and place
Gary's campaign is being con-
ducted from a temporary head-
quarters in the Huckins hotel. He
will speak at a meeting of the U. S.
Highway 70 association in Willow'
Springs, Bryan county, tonight and
in Tecumseh and Drumright to-
them near the curb where they can moiT0W-
be seen from the streets, and the
Scouts will do the rest.
Trucks for picking up the paper,
and larger vans for transferring
the scraps to the Oklahoma City
market, are being donated for the
drive.
School Board Okays
Faculty for New Year
At a meeting of the El Reno school
>oard earlier this week, all members
>f the schools' administrative and
caching staffs except two were
ipproved for new contracts.
The list included 92 teachers and
idministrators of the highschool,
unior highschool, six elementary
schools and the Booker T. Wash-
ington grade and highschool.
In other business the board of
education discussed a construction
irogram nearing completion at
B. T. W. and suggested some minor
[gchangea before the work would be
Approved.
GET SERVICE PINS
Two employes of the Ollahome
and Supply company, 101
forth Bickford, have received one-
service pins at a company an-
meeting In Tulsa. They are
Lou Moore and James Bailey.
Nelson is store mjpifer.
Warnburg Files
For Council Seat
A sixth person was in the race
for one of three seats on the El
Reno city council today as the filing
period continued for the Tuesday,
April 6, city election.
Latest to toss his hat into the
ring is Gurney Warnburg, 604
Thompson drive, a Rock Island lines
employe, who filed Wednesday eve-
ning at the election board office, 105
East Hayes.
Candidates have until 5 p. m.
Saturday to get their names on the
city election ballot.
Earlier filings were by Charles L.
Franklin, David W. White, Opie W.
Clancy, and two incumbents, Mayor
B. T. Conway and James Bass.
Mervil J. Meyer has filed for re-
election as city treasurer.
Youth Denies Theft
Of Two Tires, Wheels
Grant Potter, Jr., 18, Yukon, en-
tered a plea of innocent Wednesday
to grand larceny charges in county
court after being arrested by
Sheriff Tiny Royse in investigation
of the theft of two tires and wheels
from a vehicle In the Barrett
Chevrolet used car lot Peb. 21.
Judge Roy M. Fadbion set the
youth's bond at $1,000.
Hie preliminary Information filed
earlier Wednesday accused the
youth of taking the tires and
wheels, valued at $89.93, from the
company, owned by (R. D. Barrett
and Ted Barrett.
Five Have Announced
Five Democratic candidates al-
ready have announced for the race,
and Nance’s decision not to run
probably will speed up the decisions
of those still undecided.
The announced candidates are
Senator Raymond Gary, Madill;
William O. Coe, Oklahoma City at-
torney; John B. Ogden, Oklahoma
City attorney; R. p. Matthews,
Sapulpa publisher and former mem-
ber of the turnpike authority and
Joseph C. McCain, Lawton mayor.
Two of Nance’s neighbors, Joe
Curtis, Pauls Valley, and Hal Mul-
drow, Norman, are conducting vig-
orous drives for backing.
Nance recognized their position
along with that of two others when
he announced yesterday he was not
going to run.
Red Cells in PW
Group Is Hinted
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 4—
(A3)—Claude Batchelor says that it
is “quite possible” there is an or-
ganized group of Communists among
returned war prisoners.
The former Korean POW who
chose first to remain with the Com-
munists but later changed his mind
landed at International airport here
last night to report to Brooke army
hospital for a medical check-up
The 23-year-old Kermit, Tex.,
soldier said that Just prior to the
exchange of sick and wounded
prisoners there were a large number
of conferences called by Communist
leaders and “a lot of prisoners went
out (were repatriated) that
shouldn’t have gone” after these
meetings.
Batchelor answered with a “No”
when he was asked if he was given
names of others prisoners to contact
in this country or was told to con-
tact them with the purpose of set-
ting up Communist groups.
'Prayer Day'
Services Set
Here Friday
Tj^L RENO residents will be of-
^ fered two opportunities Friday
to Join in World Day of Prayer
services, sponsored by the United
Church Women.
First of the twin services is
slated to begin at 2 p. m. in the
Wesley Methodist church, while a
second service, for those whose
work prevents attendance at the
afternoon event, will be held at
7:30 p. m. in the Christ Memorial
Episcopal church.
Mrs. Roy Christy, general chair-
man for the observance, said that
she had made efforts to contact
churches of all Protestant de-
nominations for participation in
the two services, and that 27 El
Reno area churches will Join in
backing World Day or Prayer.
The interdenominational services
will follow weeks of preparations
and rehearsals and will be among
special events held here this week
marking the beginning of Lent.
Group Splits
NLRB Voting
WASHINGTON, March 4 — (A3)—
The house labor committee today
kept in force, by a tie vote, its
decision to strip the national labor
relations board (NLRB) of its big-
gest Job.
Chairman McConnell (Republi-
can, Pennsylvania) announced after
a closed session that a motion by
Representative Bowler (Democrat,
Illinois) to take another look at
yesterday’s 14-13 action failed by
a 14-14 vote.
The group adopted yesterday a
proposed revision of the Taft-Hart-
ley act which would turn over to
the federal courts the task of hand-
ling unfair labor practice charges.
"We are going ahead with the
writing of the amendment,” Mc-
Connell told reporters. “There will
be no more votes until the language
is drafted.”
The committee split today across
party lines.
Just before the committee meet-
ing, CIO President Walter Reuther
sent the group a telegram that the
plan to strip the NLRB of power to
handle unfair labor practice cases
“would clog our court system with
a mountain of work.”
Weaver Named
Rotary President
The El Reno Rotary club today
noon elected Joseph P. “Pat”
Weaver president of the organiza-
tion for the next year, succeeding
L. A. Garner, who took over the
posts of vice president and director.
Other new officers will be Boyd
Wilson, Jr., secretary; Malcolm Gar-
rett, treasurer, and Art Harrison,
Maurice Thompson, Charles Frank-
lin and Garner, board of directors.
Americans Still for Fair Play-
Ike's Mild Slap Toward
McCarthy Gets Praise
16 Firms Successful
As Council Decides
To Make Purchase
City councilmen Wednesday night
awarded sales to 16 firms which had
entered bids on equipment for the
new Parkview hospital, and City
Manager C. A. Bentley and City
Clerk Ethel Dowell spent most of
this morning filling out purchase
orders.
Councilmen opened bids from
more than 30 firms covering hun-
drecLs of items in 19 general gToups
at their regular meeting Monday
night, but even after the 48-hour
delay the city manager reported
that no awards had yet been made
on bids covering sewing machines,
tableware and miscellaneous kitch-
en equipment, pending further
study of offers.
Firms and bids which were ac-
cepted at the continued portion of
the regular meeting Wednesday
night were as follows;
X-Ray Machines
General Electric company of
Oklahoma City, $4,700 for X-ray
machine and $366.34 for supplies for
the X-ray machine; Merkle X-ray
company, Tulsa, for X-ray develop-
ing tank; A. P. Williams Furniture
company, Oklahoma City, $1,937.84
for lobby and conference room fur-
niture.
Bill Doyle Office Supply com-
pany, Oklahoma City, $2,509.50;
Cox and Bartlett Desk company,
Oklahoma City, $500 for a safe;
Goodner-Van Engineering company,
Tulsa, $3,540.03 for kitchen equip-
ment; Frigidaire Sales corporation,
Oklahoma City, $832.74 for four
small refrigerators.
Gordon Armstrong company,
Cleveland, Ohio. $245.20 for a baby
incubator; Huntington Laboratories,
incorporated, Huntington, Ind. $776
for soap dispensers, electric scrub-
bing machines, and vacuum cleaner.
Other Equipment
Midwest Surgical Supply com-
pany, Oklahoma City, $7,265 for 37
sets of bedroom furniture; $5,220.79
for special medical and surgical in-
struments, including 25 separate
items; $1,654 for an operating table;
$338.90 for a large portable light,
and $194.70 for sterilizers and
boilers; $2,515.49 for special hos-
pital equipment, such as waste cans,
and $2,613.39 for stainless steel op-
erating room equipment.
W. W. Virtue, incorporated,
Wichita, Kan., $513 for blankets and
$305.36 for hospital and surgical
linens; American Hospital Supply
corporation, Dallas, Tex., $717.60
for dining room furniture; $1,800
for bed tables and lamps for each
bed; Wolf Textile company, Dallas,
Tex., $1,336.71, for linens.
Business Equipment company,
Tulsa, $239.06 for an adding ma-
chine; $309.38 for two typewriters;
Commercial Equipment company,
Fort Smith, Ark., $934.84 for kitchen
and dining room equipment; $162.50
for 17 different items including
brushes, brooms and mops; Indus-
trial Equipment company, Kansas
City, Mo., $1,029.34 tor items ranging
from oxygen tanks and anes-
thetic equipment through wheel
chairs.
Heavy Snows
Moving North
By the Associated Press
A storm that buried parts of the
midwest under a heavy cover struck
parting blows at snow-plagued
Cleveland, western New York as it
moved northward Into Canada to-
day.
Five more persons perished in the
Ohio storm, bringing the storm
death toll in that state to 18 in five
days. High winds and three ad-
ditional inches of snow in Cleveland
made driving hazardous on all
northern Ohio roads. All greater
Cleveland schools were closed.
A total of 10 inches of snow fell
at Cleveland Sunday and Monday.
A fresh blast of icy air, mean-
while, moved into the midcontinent
and killing frost was reported as far
south as Atlanta, Oa.
Rain or snow was reported from
the Great Lakes to New England.
Breach in GOP Seen Unlikely
As Senator Resumes Hearings
WASHINGTON, March 4—(AP)—The White House re-
ported today President Eisenhower has received “hundreds”
of telegrams praising his call for “fair play” in congressional
investigations—a call widely accepted as a rebuke to Senator
McCarthy (Republican, Wisconsin),
James C. Hagerty, presidential press secretary, told news-
men he had no exact count but the total was “in the hun-
dreds ' and they ran 9 to 1 in prasie of the president.
McCarthy, meantime, renewed his digging into what
he calls army “coddling of Communists” with a hearing
at the capitol.
When an army doctor called as a witness, Private First
Class Marvin S. Belsky, questioned his jurisdiction, the
senator reminded him that Eisenhower had said only yes-
terday that army and government witnesses should “will-
ingly and cheerfully” give testimony so long as it did not
| endanger security.
Fort Reno Halls
Mule Program
Final Shipment Due
To Start Saturday
Fort Reno’s quartermaster re-
mount station will ship out its last
load of mules and horses Saturday
for Turkey and will prepare to
close operations as its phase of the
military aid program for Turkey
draws to an end.
Colonel Michael Zwicker, post
commander, said that while the
shipment Saturday is to be the last
one under the aid program it is
probable that the post will not
actually be closed down for some
weeks—untU the men accompany-
ing this shipment return.
The Fort Reno horse and mule
program got under way in Septem-
ber, 1951, with the first group of
animals arriving that month. Since
then animals have been shipped
regularly every 40 days.
15,000 Animals Sent
Altogether approximately 10.000
horses and about 5,000 mules have
been immunized and vaccinated at
the fort and then escorted to Tur-
key by Fort Reno personnel.
The shipment Saturday will in-
clude 766 horses and 44 mules.
Closing of the post will be almost
a mere formality due to the decline
of personnel. The post, which for-
merly had approximately 100 mili-
tary persons and 36 civilian em-
ployes, now has a military per-
sonnel of about 60 and a force of
about 15 civilians.
29 to Make Trip
Of the grouip currently stationed
at the post 27 enlisted men and
two officers will be among the
group escorting animals to Turkey
Saturday.
Commander of the detachment
leaving Saturday will be Lieutenant
Hans R. Wittenberg. Captain Frank
Hale will be veterinarian.
In a New York speech, Re-
publican National Chairman
Leonard W. Hall deprecated
talk of a breach in the GOP.
McCarthy himself, soon after he
rejected presidential criticism in a
crackling statement of his own, said
in an interview, “I have no fight
with Eisenhower at all. I hope the
issuing of statements back and
forth will drop here.”
McCarthy Snaps Back
Eisenhower, without naming Mc-
Carthy in a long statement clearly
aimed at him, spoke up yesterday
against “disregard of fair play.”
McCarthy fired back that the presi-
dent and he “apparently disagree
only on how we should handle those
who protect Communists.”
Hall, who had anticipated the
president in publicly taking issue
with McCarthy’s investigative meth-
ods, said in a speech prepared for
a New York luncheon of the Na-
tional Republican club that “we
are not a divided party.”
“Our opposition, naturally, has
made much of the party’s ‘family
differences’ during the past weeks,”
he said. “They would have you be-
lieve that we Republicans have
split irrevocably over a problem in-
volving personalities.
"In Earnest Accord”
“That’s nonsense, of course. On
many issues there are degrees of
opinion, emphasis and approach. In
a vital matter like combatting the
endless dangers of communism, both
on the home front and at the
council tables abroad, we are in
Earnest accord.”
Despite Hall’s prediction that the
Republicans are going to display
“team spirit,” there wasn’t too
much evidence of unity in party
reaction to the exchange of state-
ments yesterday by Eisenhower and
McCarthy.
The senate Republican policy
committee gave no evidence, after
a closed jneeting yesterday, of any
material progress toward agreement
on a code of ethics for conducting
hearings.
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SECURITY SIGNS—Officials of the state penitentiary, McAleiter,
are sponsoring these signs in cooperation with the state highway de-
partment. To protect motorists and to make It tougher for escapees
to make good their break, the signs are being placed on all highways
leading In and out of McAlester. (AP Photo).
Postoffice At
Banner Ordered
Closed April 1
435 Patrons Join In
Protest; Rural Route
Service Off March 15
A bulletin today from the post-
master general’s office in Washing-
ton revealed that mail service from
the Banner postoffice will be dis-
continued after March 31.
The announcement followed an
earlier order to close down a 55-
mile rural route service out of Ban-
ner on March 15.
Postmaster Fred Kouba. who
maintains the fourth-class postoffice
in his general store at Banner, re-
ported today that “the people
around Banner are pretty hot about
the closing order.” He said the of-
fice, which he has headed since
1920, serves 435 patrons.
Kouba admitted that closing of
the rural service out of
would virtually shut down business
in his office, since only eight per-
sons rent boxes there, but he de-
clared, “El Reno can’t give the
people in this area the kind of ser-
vice they deserve, and that we have
given in the past.”
Matt Out Petition
Postmaster Kouba said all 410
patrons of the Banner rural route
had signed a petition protesting
discontinuance of the service, and
had sent copies to Oklahoma con-
gressmen in Washington and to the
postmaster general.
“Well fight even harder to hold
the postoffice,” Kouba declared.
He said Banner people “are plenty
hot at El Reno” because the rural
route and postoffice have been or-
dered eliminated.
He failed to mention that a dele-
gation from the El Reno chamber
of commerce had previously joined
Banner citizens in their fight to
void the route cancellation order.
Shows Some Gain
The first order from the post-
office department directed that mail
from the Banner rural route be
transferred to El Reno routes 2 and
3 and to Yukon route 2 after
March 15.
Kouba said today the fight to re-
tain their service “is showing some
gain,” and he expressed hope that
action by the Canadian county Re-
publican committee would help
swing a new decision from the
postmaster general.
Ready foi Change
Meanwhile, Ray Dillingham, El
Reno postmaster, said that his of-
fice is prepared to start processing
ail Banner mail, beginning April 1.
He said the shift in service would
not call for addition of new per-
sonnel here, and that the change
can be made with little difficulty
and hardship to the Banner
patrons.
“We had nothing to do with the
order, but as long as it’s In effect
we will handle all mail addressed
to the Banner office with the heft
efficiency possible,” Dillingham
said.
Postmaster Kouba not only
blamed El Reno in general for can-
cellation of the rural route and
postoffice, but he singled out indi-
viduals he considered were instru-
mental in making the changes.
However, it appeared today that
feeling ran both ways in the Banner
community. The Tribune received
a letter Wednesday denouncing the
change and El Reno’s postmaster,
while today a second letter came
from the same neighborhood, ex-
pressing complete confidence in the
new setup.
Weather
State Forecast
Increasing cloudiness tonight.
Rain mixed with some sleet or snow
beginning In the southwest and
spreading north and eastward over
the state tonight and Friday. Warm-
er tonight. Lows tonight from 26 to
30 in the northeast and In the 90s
in the southwest. Highs Friday
generally in the lower 40e.
FAY $1$ VTNt
Robert Welton Stone,
Tex., charged with speeding on XJK
66, four mllos east of 8 Rone m
March 3, was fined $10 and $MI
costs in the court of J. K. On**
Justice of the peace.
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