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The El Reno Daily Tribune
(U.R) MEANS UNITED PRESS
El Reno, Oklahoma, Thursday, June 12, 1952
m MEANS ASSOCIATED PRESS
Draft Seeks 600 Sooners In
August; Difficulties Foreseen
OKLAHOMA CITY, June 12—(UP)—Oklahoma has been
asked to furnish 600 men for the draft in August, the same
as July, Colonel Clive E. Murray, state draft director, an-
nounced today.
Meanwhile, Murray said the state may have “great dif-
ficulty” meeting its June quota of 200 and July of 600, be-
cause of the farm labor problem.
“We just can’t be expected to pull men out of the wheat
harvest fields and induct them into the army," Murray said.
He added that Oklahoma
Youth Teams Tie
5-5 in Game Here
The El Reno Junior baseball team
ed 5-5 with Oklahoma City Chiefs
Up a Mid-Central state Legion league
:ame at Legion Park Wednesday.
The game, second league game for
le local team this season, was fea-
tured by the pitching of Charles
Try and Joe Smith, and the hit-
ting of Johnny Shaw.
'The team's first game was dropped
,2-6 on the diamond here to the
Itlllwater Junior Aggies, two days
Iter the El Reno players had split
doublehender with the Weather-
lord Bulldogs.
El Reno's nine will go to Weath-
erford Friday to play a doublehead-
•r there.
j Bob Bodenhamer, summer recrea-
tion program coordinator, said Earle
Garrison served as head umpire for
/he games here, while he and Lloyd
Pmith served as base umpires.
Weather
State Forecast
Generally fair this afternoon, to-
ilght and Friday except for a few
vldely scattered afternoon and eve-
fling thunderstorms in the west
portion. Little change in temper n-
;ures. Lows tonight In the
Ilghs Friday 95 to 100.
El Reno Weather
For the 24-hour period ending
B a.m. today: High 61; low, 72;
am.. 79.
70s.
probably will have to furnish
“overcalls” in September and
October to make up the def-
icit.
Murray said the August call would
take only men who have passed
their 20th birthday. The August
quota is based on a national call of
29JMM men.
Standards Lowered
Murray disclosed that lowering of
mental standards has added several
hundred men to Oklahoma's draft
ellglbles. He said that since Jan. 1
the state has been examining from
100 to 200 men per month who were
previously classified 4-F because
they flunked the mental test.
"About one-third of these are
being returned to the 1-A group,"
Murray said.
“This means,” Murray continued,
‘‘that some 4-F’s who are almost 30
years old now face induction."
Subject to Call
Under selective service rules a
man who Is deferred or classified 4-
F is subject to call later even if he
is over the draft age of 26.
Murray said that if physical
standards are lowered “a good many
more over-age men may be called."
National draft director Lewis B.
Hershey said In Washington today
that 36.1 percent of Oklahoma’s
draft-age men have been rejected
for physical, mental or moral rea-
sons the past four years.
Kansas had the lowest rejection
rate, 20.6 percent, and South Caro-
lina the highest, 63.2. The national
rejection average was 45 percent.
POLICE, OR DEMOCRATIC RALLY? — You’re wronjf. This long-eared
was tabbed with a red ticket this week as Patrolman C. R. Rackley, in the
seat, found the beast tied to a parking meter when the red flag was up. In
rumble seat is Jim Wilkinson, who happened by and just couldn’t resist getting this
made astride a burro. Maybe it’s bcuu.se Jim is a staunch Democrat. However,
denied any political implications.
IlsWon
Mill Seizure
House Group Votes
15-10 for Proposal
June 12 —(/Pi-
house committee voted today 15
10 a proposal that President
be empowered to seize and
the struck steel mills,
was the first formal vote by
group since Truman went
congress Tuesday and plead-
for this power.
senate previously had re-
Truman by voting that he
ould use anti-strike provisions of
e Tuft-Hartley law In an effon
end the strike of 650,000 CIO
eel workers.
la Amendment
The seizure question was raised
the house banking committee by
I: epresentative Bolling (Democrat,
Missouri) who proposed It as an
nendment to legislation extending;
lie economic controls law.
]Bolling's amendment was a dupii-
kte of that offered in the senate
esday by Senator Humphrey
kpemocrat, Minnesota) and rejected
that body.
♦ The senate today passed leglsla-
on extending wage, price and rent
introls through next Feb. 28. It
■eludes a provision requesting that
resident Truman use the Taft-
lartley law in the steel strike.
BUI Goes to lloiise
I The measure would continue for
*ne year—until June 30, 1953—
Pt’edit controls and the govern-
ment's broad powers to ration
turce materials to private Industry,
the present controls law expires
I'tine 30
The senate bill now goes to the
Mouse. The house banking com-
mittee already Is working on a
|<bnlrols bill of Its own.
t Triunan had asked for a two-
afcar extension of all control powers.
MUt the senate was not willing to
plo that far; many members argued
t inflationary pressures were on
he wane.
Tinker Field,
Shives Score
Softball Wins
Air Installations of Tinker
Field defeated Continental Tank
of Oklahoma City 5-3, and Shlve's
print shop defeated Mustang 12-
8 In the first two games of the El
Reno Commercial softball tourna-
ment here Wednesday night.
Air Installations In the first
game spotted the Tankers 2 runs
in the first inning, while Joe
Gorman hit a home-run for the
Tankers and Ed Hamilton homer-
ed for Air Installation.
In the second game Alex Ward-
en pitched all the way for Shlve,
while Mustang used Smith, Tiner
and Klepper. Homeruns for Shlve
were hit by Grulkey and Gholston,
while Smith hit one for Mustang.
The tourney will continue to-
night with the Yukon Millers
playing the Hinton Merchants at
7:30 p.m., and with the Tinker
Field Comptrollers and Deardorff
Oilers, who met in finals last year,
battling out on the diamond at
8:45 p.m. The Comptrollers won
last year's championship with a
score of 3-2.
The annual tournament will be
held here through June 26.
Two games are scheduled for
each night of the tournament,
with the first tilt to begin at
7:30 p.m.
Precautions For
Safer Storage
Of Wheat Listed
County Agent Warns
Farm Grain Bins
Should Be Cleaned
With Canadian county’s wheat
harvest half completed, farmers to-
day turned their attention toward
the problem of safely storing the
accumulated grain.
County agent Riley Tarver, fore-
seeing larger amounts of grain in
farm bins, advised farmers of
money-saving precautions to be
taken both before and after
grains are stored.
Stressed in his recommendations
was the need for a thorough clean-
ing of all bins to be put In service,
by use of brooms, hoes and shovels
to clean out all grain.
He urged that farmers clean be-
hind partitions, between walls, and
to remove all grains stuck In cracks
In flooring, and to check outside and
under the granery for grain that
might have sifted out of the bin.
Holes in bins should be plugged.
After the bins have been cleaned
all Inside surfaces, along with re-
movable doors, and the backs of
false walls, should be sprayed, at
least two weeks before grain is
stored.
. Kill Mice, Rats
New grain should never be added
on top of the old, nor stored near
old grnln unless, in the latter case,
the old grain has been thoroughly
fumigated.
Attention also should be given to
ridding the place of rats and mice,
and moisture content of wheat
should be checked before storage.
Moisture content of grain for farm
storage should be 12,5 percent or
less.
The county agent said wheat
should be fumigated six to eight
weeks after It Is put in storage, to
kill insects brought In from the
field, as well as those which may
have moved Into the bins. He sug-
gested August as an ideal time for
fumigation.
Make Regular Checks
During warm weather bins should
be inspected every few weeks, sift-
ing wheat near the surface to dis-
cover presence of Insects. During
cold weather bins should be check-
ed at least once a month.
Fumigation should be done as
soon as Insects are found, Tarver
said. He also urged that farmers
bait for rats and mice as soon as
droppings are noticed, without wait-
ing for large numbers to be present.
Tarver said that In using fumi-
gants farmers should work when
possible on mild still days; level the
top of grain to let the fumes sink
down uniformly; to be sure of at
least six inches of wall space be-
tween the top of the leveled grain
and the top of the bin, to prevent
fumes from “spilling over.”
Wear Gas Masks
Fumigants should be sprayed as
uniformly as possible over the sur-
face of the grain.
Farmers were cautioned to wear
a gas mask, approved by the U.S.
bureau of mines, while fumigating
a bin Inside a barn, and to avoid
spilling fumigant on shoes or
clothes.
Tarver said a bin should never
be entered after fumigant has been
applied, without an approved gas
mask, and that‘a tarp should be
spread over grain to help hold
fumes In the bln.
Tarver predicted that more
wheat will be stored in farm bins
during the latter half of the har-
vest—believed to be near a record.
Be Ready for Primary
ELECTION JULY 1
You Can’t Vote If
You’re Not Registered!
Vol. 61, No. 89
Korean Action Flares;
UN Air-Ground Force
Repels Chinese Attack
Battle Centers
At Iron Triangle;
Many Reds Dead
RALPH A. MYERS, JR.
BOBBY LEE MORRISON
County Attorney, Aide
Resign, Effective July 1
Simultaneous resignations were submitted by County
attorney Ralph A. Myers, jr„ and Assistant County Attor-
ley Bobby Lee Morrison to the board of county commission-
irs today, effective July 1.
] Under the law James V. Phelps, only candidate to file
\or the post this year, will automatically go into office to
succeed Myers.
The county attorney, in his letter of resignation, said
that now that his successor in office has been chosen “it
appears that I can do what every young lawyer wants to
do, open his own law business.”
: Declaring that he regretted taking this step, he never-
theless pointed out that “county salaries are in no way sub-
stantial enough for anyone to support himself, his wife, and
two young children.”
Myers said that “I do plan to enter into the general prac-
tice of law here in El Reno, and feel that I should begin
building up my clientele as soon as possible. My term ex-
pires within six months and
Steen Pays Fine
For Drunk Driving
Norman Spencer Steen, 32, Ama-
rillo, Tex., was fined $100 and costs
in county court Wednesday on a
charge of drunken driving, after he
had entered a plea of guilty
through his attorneys.
The charge arose from a pre-
liminary hearing in county court,
in which charges of robbery with
a dangerous weapon were dismissed
against Steen and two other per-
sons, and in which the drunk driv-
ing charge was ordered filed.
The case was in connection with
aii incident May 27 at the South-
side service station.
A charge of assault with Intent
to rob a place of business had been
filed in district court against Troy
K. Salmon, 25, of Amarillo, In con-
nection with the incident.
Steen was arrested along with
Mr. and Mrs. Salmon In conjunc-
tion with a beating and alleged
robbery of a local service station.
GROUNDWORK FOR HILLCREST SCHOOL?—Excavation for the foundations of the new Hillcrest elementary
school got underway this week in preparation for construction of three rooms which are scheduled to be completed
for the fall school term. Two more similar units are to be added during the next two years. The old frame residence
and outbuildings in the right background will be moved and grounds will be landscaped. The new school building
will be located on ground diagonally across the street from HillO-est park.
all cases of greatest impor-
tance have been disposed of.”
Morrison, Myers's predecessor as
county attorney, also announced his
plan, following a short vacation, to
open a law office here where his
father and grandfather practiced
law.
Both men expressed appreciation
of cooperation received from other
county officials and employes dur-
ing their time In office.
Expresses Appreciation
Myers said in his letter to the
commissioners that he was "deeply
indebted to you and to all the court-
house employes for the cooperation
they have given me as their county
attorney. There has been Just com-
pleted an audit of all county offices
by the state examiner and inspec-
tor’s office and every office Is In
order and in excellent shape, which
speaks well for the honesty and In-
tegrity of all those people I have
worked with these past three and
one-half years.”
He added that “even more I am
appreciative of the confidence of
the people of Canadian county,
whom I have tried to serve to the
best of my ability.”
Morrison complimented "the many
fine men and women at the court-
house whose daily efficiency en-
ables the county government to
function."
Phelps Gets Office
He said that he had enjoyed
working with the county attorney
and with the people of this county,
and remarked that “serving in the
county attorney’s office since 1947
has enabled me to meet many fine
and good citizens of Canadian
county, and I know that their coun-
ty government will continue to
function on a high level of honesty
and In Integrity as long as such
people are the citizens of this coun-
ty.”
Phelps, son of Dr. and Mrs. Mal-
com Phelps, was admitted to the
bar this spring. He will be appoint-
ed to the office by the county com-
missioners In accordance with a
state law providing that the elected
official will take office In event of
a vacancy.
No other candidate has filed for
the office on either ticket, and
Phelps will probably be sworn In the
same day Myers resignation becomes
effective.
— 4--
City Graduate To Hear
Address by President
Dorothy M. Miner. El Reno, will
be among 692 graduates of Howard
university, Washington. D. C.. who
will hear a commencement address
by President Truman at commence-
ment exercises Friday.
JAMES V. PHELPS
Foundation Gets
Acting Officers
Roberts Is Named
Temporary Head
Verne Roberts, chairman of the
chamber of commerce industrial
committee, was nnmed temporary
president of the new $100,000 El
Reno Industrial foundation Wed-
nesday at a meeting of the or-
ganization's temporary board of
directors.
Other temporary officers, named
to take care of foundation business
until a regular board of directors
can be elected, are Earle Garrison,
vice president; James Bass, sec-
retary, and E. D. Lewis, treasurer.
Roberts has been serving as
chairman of the temporary board.
At the same time the board
tentatively scheduled the first gen-
eral stockholders meeting for 8
p. m. Thursday, June 26, at a place
to be announced later.
To Elect Directors
Business of that meeting will be
election of a regular board of di-
rectors which will in turn select Its
own slate of foundation officers.
The acting treasurer today
stressed, however, that only those
stockholders who have paid the
first quarter of their stock sub-
scriptions will be entitled to vote
hi the first stockholders meeting.
Lewis said that to date the
foundation has collected $13,312.50
on the first call, and urged all In-
dividuals and firms who have not
made their first payment on their
pledges to do so as soon as possible.
Leaders Are Named
The temporary board of directors
Is composed of the incorporators of
the foundation, and includes mem-
bers of the chamber Industrial com-
mittee. together with the president
and first vice president of the
chamber.
They are Ray T. Huddart.. J. W.
Wilkinson, E. D. Freeman, M. S.
Morris, Jean L. Pazoureck, Ken-
neth Brown, Morris W. Stock, J. L.
Patman, D. M. Clawson, Warren C.
DeMoss and Stanley Younghelm.
Lewis has been authorized. In the
meantime, to have stock certificates
printed for foundation subscribers.
Current plans are to have the cer-
tificates signed, and issued after
election of the regular board of di-
rectors.
Work Progresses
On Street Lights
Another phase of Oklahoma Gas
anti Electric company’s new street
light program was completed this
week, with more lights due to be
turned on early next week.
The OG and E office announced
today that 15 new high-lntensity
street lights have been installed on
Sunset drive and will be turned on
early next week. First completion
of the new program was 14 lights
on North Choctaw which Went on
earlier this week.
The fringe lights (those outside
the business district) are 6,000 lum-
ens, ipore than two times brighter
than the old-style 1,500-lumen
lights which they replace.
In the downtown area work Is
underway to Install new 10,000-
lumen lights on Rock Island. Bick-
ford and Choctaw avenues. They
will replace the present 4.000-lumen
lights.
Wilfred Ward, of the OO and E
office, announced today the com-
pany hopes to have the downtown
lights ready for use by July 1.
Chinese Continue
Futile Attempts
To Gain Stronghold
SEOUL, Korea, June 12—
(UP)—Allied tanks struck
back today at Chinese Com-
munists who hit allied west-
ern front positions with two
unusually strong probing at-
tacks Wednesday.
The allies struck on the
flanks of the old “iron tri-
angle,” the Red buildup area
on the central front where
Chinese in nightly attacks
have been putting increasing
pressure on united nations
lines.
The triangle is formed
roughly by Pyonggang, Chor-
won and Kumhwa. Heaviest
allied assault was along its
western edge where the Reds
have been trying to regain
ground the allies won earlier
in heavier fighting.
On the eastern leg of the
triangle, another tank-infan-
try team battered its way
over two strongly dug-in
Communist outer defense
lines.
The tank-infantry teams kicked
off the attack at daylight today and
were still hammering Red positions
at nightfall.
A third armor-tipped raiding par-
ty battled Communists east of
Kumsong.
Costly To Reds
Other allied troops fought to de-
fend two hill positions commanding
excellent views of both Communist
and allied front lines. The Reds
have lost hundreds of men In at-
tempts to win them back since they
were taken by the allies on Satur-
day.
Southeast of Kumsong. allied In-
fantrymen with recollless rifles and
flame throwers almost wiped out a
Chinese platoon. The Eighth army
said "virtually all the Chinese de-
fenders were casualties.”
Fifth airforce fighter-bombers
gave the raiders powerful support
with napalm, rocket and machine
gun attacks against Red ground
troops.
Allied tanks on the western front
struck back at Chinese Communists
who hit their positions Wednesday
with two unusually strong probing
attacks.
Tanka Blast Lines
Tank gunners blasted Red lines
In the same area west of Yonchon
where two heavily reinforced Com-
munist companies attempted to ov-
errun allied outposts.
The Red attacks were thrown
back with heavy enemy losses. One
attack alone cost the Communists
123 dead In rifle, bayonet and gre-
nade fighting.
ROK Bans U.S.
Radio 'Voice'
PUSAN, Kbrea, June 12—<JP>—
The South Korean government has
banned Voice of America broad-
casts over the 10-station govern-
ment network, accusing it of “bit-
terly anti-government” and "ob-
viously insulting" remarks
The voice has Included In Its
three daily broadcasts editorial ex-
cerpts from many U. S. and other
foreign newspapers attacking Pres-
ident Syngman Rhee and scoring
recent political developments here.
The U. S. state department broad-
casting agency has been using the
South Korean government network
for two years as a courtesy and
not on a contract, said Dr. Clarence
Ryee, director of the government’s
office of public Information.
"However much we may question
the taste and Judgment of the per-
sons responsible for such broad-
casts,” Ryee told newsmen, “we do
not dispute the airing of such opin-
ions under other auspices.
“But in this case the ausplon
were the ROK (Republic of Ko-
rea) government radio itoelf—wad
to carry bitterly antt-govemaOBt
criticism, obviously Insulting.”
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