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The El Reno (Okie.) Daily Tribune
The El Reno Daily Tribune
A Blus Ribbon Newspaper Serving • Blue Ribbon Community
taued 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 JAMES M. ROGERS
Business Manager Managing Editor
HARRY SCHROEDER
Circulation and Office Manager
Friday, March 9, 195 s
Suddenly It's Spring
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Friday, March 9, 195$
Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. Matthew
4:12. That is fair enough, but who of us has the humility and kindness
to accept th.ni measurement?
Island of Stability
WHERE are few enough stable spots in the western political
-*■ picture. It is relieving, therefore, when so important a
CUvn,
y 1/
Mr. Breger
By Dave Breg f
figure as German Chancellor Adenauer rides out a shaky
period and takes a new hold on the Bonn government.
HLs grip was jarred recently when the Free Democrats
in the Ruhr province of North Rhine-Westphalia linked up
with the rival Social Democrats to unseat a provincial ministry
headed by a member of Adenauer’s Christian Democratic
party. At the national level, the Free Democrats have been
part of his government coalition of parties.
The move was meaningful because it pared Adenauer’s
upper house majority to a point below the two-thirds ma-
jority he needs to enact some features of Germany's rearma-
ment proposals. His government is committeed to rearma-
ment in support of NATO and the West.
NtA Semce, Inc
OUT in this developing dilemma, potentially one of the worst
** of many he has faced, other Free Democrats came to
Adenauer’s rescue. .Sixteen of the 53 serving as represent-
atives of the lower house (Bundestag) bolted their party and
formed a new group pledged to the chancellor.
Adenauer himself acted to strengthen his position. He
agreed to stiffen civil control over the proposed army, and
thus gained Social Democratic support for the general re-
armament law now pending.
Thereafter, confident of its passage, he threw the other
37 Free Democrats out of his ruling coalition. Evidently he
felt he could not count on their help in future tests of loyalty,
and thus had nothing to lose.
Once more. then, the old man whom Sir Winston Churchill
calls the greatest German statesman since the 19th century
Bismarck appears in firm control.
Nevertheless, it would be foolhardy to ignore the danger
of his present position. Political realignments appear to be
taking place, and some are subtracting from the solid founda-
tion of his support. More and more he is compelled to im-
- pro vise, to make concessions to his opponents, to keep on top.
WHE West obviously must do more than pray that the aging
chancellor will iive well beyond the German republic's
next general elections in 1957. Within the limits foreign
states must fix for themselves to avoid charges of interfer-
ence. we and our friends must work discreetly but forcefully
to strengthen Adenauer’s hand against his adversaries.
This means chiefly helping him to keep alive hopes for
the reunification of East and West Germany, the is&ie his
opponents seek most often to exploit against him. Beyond
the point of tedium, we must listen to Com mu hist unity pro-
posals even when we suspect they are worse than some of
their phony offerings of the past.
Adenauer is one of the real rocks of the western fortress
against communism. We cannot afford to see that rock chipped
away.
The Angry Hills
By Leon M. Uris
AN you remember the days
when housewives would say
to each other, "I had three
tramps at my back door today?”
A tramp was a fellow who would
do odd jobs for something to
eat. A hobo was a fellow who
ate without working. The hobos
once used to gather in what is
now and was then the City park
on Woodson and Williams, but
we knew it in those days as
The Jungle or the Hobo’s Re-
treat. Here they pooled their
take for the day, built a little
I fire on which they boiled a little
coffee in a tomato can, providing
they had been able to find a nice
clean can somewhere.
I wouldn’t say it had to be too
clean by our standards but there
was a slight distinction between
clean and unusable even to
i hobos.
Much yard work was done by
the tramps for a sandwich and a
cup of coffee but the hobos
wanted what everyone would
give them in a paper sack and
roused the indignation of the
housewives when a Weary Willie
would ask for coffee or potatoes
or a can of tomatoes. These
fellows were considered harm-
less and to have a philosophy
and a queer sense of honor all
their own. They just wouldn't
work. They were called Knights
of the Road.
i WHE highways today are full
i ■* of "Knights” but they aren't
\ on foot. They are driving cars
‘’Bills, bills, bills! Sometimes I wish snow or rain <
gloom of night WOULD stay these couriers from t!
swift completion of their appointed rounds ...”
★ WASHINGTON COLUMN'
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
i
Administration Urged to Wa
Freedom's Battle With Loan;
and they too have a queer phi-
' - *• «.♦ . ...
© 1955 by Leon M. Uris. Used by arrangement
with Random House, Inc. Distributed by NEA.
/kNl.Y five days ago the Kdissia
” hotel had been almost desert-
ed. Now it bulged with British
Empire troops. In the lobby a
crowd in khaki uniforms set up a
steady bass hum in the variety of
tongues of an international army.
The uniforms were of the same
drab wool hid the shoulder
patches told a'story of the gather-
ing of Aussies and Britons and
New Zealanders and Arabs and
He would have left the money delivering it for me personally in
in Greece for many more years. London?”
The idea of coming to Greece “Certainly, I'd be most happy
without Ellie repelled him. But to.”
this was April of 1941 and the The old man reached into an in-
llondgatcs had opened. In the side pocket of his smoking jacket
north, the invasion had begun. His and withdrew a small white envel-
bank and agent advised him to ope. Not much of a document,
claim the inheritance as quickly Morrison thought. Stergiou held it
as possible as the European sit- in his hand for several seconds,
uation was becoming more and then handed it to Mike. It bore a
more uncertain. London address to one Sir Thomas
“Petraki. 17” he told the cab Whitley,
driver and they whisked away “Normally,” the old man apol-
t > ,.j wouldn't asj{< there
Cyprians and Palestinians, From ......
the bar, which sUhhI to the right toward Athens. Now, nearly every °S‘«’d,
ol the lobby, there came a eon- one in Athens had a relative in 's a Rifat deal involved for my
tinuous tiukh- of glasses intermit- America and this driver was no client and with the chaos of the
Two sisters in Indiana married two brothers,
sisters-in-law, they can fuss more than ever.
Now, as
Some dentists use the word “remove" instead of “extract,’
but getting Junior to the dentist is still like pulling teelh.
tently punctuated by the clang and
sliding drawer of the cash reg-
ister.
Over in the corner by the win-
dow, -a lone civilian sat slumped
in an overstuffed chair, oblivious
<>t the hustle and bustle about him.
His (ret were propped on the win-
dow sill, his hat was shoved down
over his eyes and an unlit pipe
hung upside down from his teeth,
lie wore an expensive hut impress-
ed tweed suit which looked quite
in place, and his heavy wool tie
was loosened at the throat. He was
neither awake nor asleep—he was
a study in boredom.
Perhaps, if you moved in
erary circles or were just an avid
exception. In this particular ease da>’ • • •”
it was a brother in Cleveland. Mike grinned. “Nothing a bit off
After Morrison assured the fellow |color, by any chance’”
that he had never been to Cleve-J “Oh. writers all have sus-
land but would certainly look up!P“''0US natures. No, nothing like
the man’s brother if he ever got ‘bat but a bit out of channels, if
there, the conversation switched >'ou know what I mean. I would
to the more pressing subject of dopm a «reat favor if you took
the moment. extra precautions. The document
Everything hinged, these days. dot‘s have Kreat va,ue”
on the ability of the newly arrived Morrison slipped the envelope
British Expeditionary force to halt jn‘° his breast pocket. *T11 guard
the German advance in the north- ‘‘ with my life.”
ern provinces. Only last winter the “Please do,” Stergiou said, and
little Greek army had run the Ital- they both laughed,
tans from the country, and the cab Tassos crept into the solarium
lit- dr'Vr rcasoned ‘b**‘ if the Greeks and plugged a phone in beside his
could beat the Italians, surely the master. The attorney spoke briefly
losophy all their own. They will
start from anywhere going any-
where with a tank of gas and a
couple of bucks for food. They
are sure when that is gone they
can get help somewhere along
the road. I once asked a woman
who asked for such assistance
“How much money did you have
when you left Ohio?” and she
said, “Oh, we didn’t have much
but we wanted to get out to
Arizona and figgered we just as
well get started. We sure weren’t
gettin’ any closer settin’ there.”
Then I ask, “What made you
think you could get help along
; the way?” ”We always have,”
she replied.
And when I thought about her
age, 30, perhaps, 1 realized she
j had been brought up in an era
when folks could be bom, live,
die and be buried at the expense
; of someone else.
The number of migrants is in-
i creasing. It behooves the city
1 councils, the city commissioners,
I the various agencies in counties
and towns on 66 and 81 to make
some plan for the care of mi-
; grants. We want the tourist
, trade but we’re like the hobos
with the tomato can; we want to
distinguish between the desirable
I and the undesirable. This is a
little difficult since there are no
. screening facilities provided
along the broad highways. And
the bigger and better the high-
way the heavier and heavier the
i traffic. I do not know what El
Reno can do about the situation.
YUASH1NGTON —(NEA)—A San “You and I know there
’ Francisco manufacturer and escape from substantial f«
a Philadelphia banker — both Re- aid expenditures for many i
publicans — have joined forces to ahead,” said Zellerbach late
give the Eisenhower administra- talk to newspapermen. 1
tion a sharp jab in the tail. “What happened in Czec®
They urge the U.S. government Vakia and China and almost
to get going on a new, long-range, pened in Guatemala can h
billion-dollar-a-year, foreign cco- elsewhere.”
nomic development loan program
for Latin America, the Middle East REFERRING TO what is''
and far East. pening in India and Burma.
They want this aid to direct the out mentioning those countrie
, revolutionary forces in the under ! cifically, Zellerbach declared
I developed countries along lines “Even when we are not al
compatible with U.S. national in- enroll an underdeveloped c<
terests instead of toward interna- [ in a military alliance, it ma
tional communism. be of vital importance to u>
The two tycoons who make this loss to communism of a so-
recommendation are J. D. Zeller-1 ‘neutralist’ country could b*
bach, president of Crown Zeller- as damaging.”
bach, and Howard C. Petersen, Zellerbach and Petersen r
president of Fidelity Philadelphia mend that economic aid be j
Trust company.
its own feet, instead of subor
BOTH PUT FORWARD the pro-
posals as spokesmen of the com-
mittee for economic development.
This is a research and educational
group. It is made up of top execu-
tives from over 100 of the most
progressive big business concerns
in America. Zellerbach is new
JED national chairman. Petersen
is chairman of its sub committee
on international economic policy.
Zellerbach served as head of the
Marshall Plan mission in Italy for
three years and played a leading
role in preventing that country
from going Communist. Petersen
served as counsel and assistant
secretary of the army in World
war II.
“Since the Marshall plan,” says
Zellerbach, “our economic aid pro-
ing it to military support,
now done to make it accej
to Congress.
Zellerbach's primary pt
would be to protect America
ztiirif if an/I iin a/ . *
I question if any agency here is * j Era ms have become inhibited and
' t n»* I r iuliu'l irnn/icc mnal/nn/wl TB/.n
Some of our roads should tome in mighty handy for cock-
tail shaking in trailer homes.
Celery crunching should be a good TV sound effect for
elephants going through a jungle.
Maybe the meek will inherit the earth, but some countries
would like to see the will changed.
reader of minor novels, you would „ Uah *°uld s,op 9'*' Germans, and replaced the receiver with a
recognize him. Michael Morrison B‘"’ldcs’ thp dr,ver added for good sigh. “I am terribly sorry, Mr.
an American, was one of those n,ea-sure; Arm'nca would soon be Morrison. They are literally
“broad-and-butlcr” writers found War’ swamped at the bank. It will be
on every publisher's list. A writer * * * several hours before they will be
with a small but faithful hand of TBK cab ca,m’ *° a halt in front able to get the releases over.”
readers which grew slightly with of ,h,‘ outsized yellowstone house “1 hope nothing fouls up.”
supported to the extent of carry-
ing the load.
There was a time when they
could be sent to Red Cross but
those happy days are over.
their effectiveness weakened. Then
we had the Imagination, the lead-
ership and the wherewithal to save
Europe. Now we need the same
kind of imagination to save South-
east Asia and the Middle East.”
The life aim of all people is happiness, but many aim so
high they miss it.
You have a much better chance of delivering the goods
when you’re not under the impression you're overburdened.
Down Memory Lane
March 9, 1936
A JfifiO.OOO addition to the FI Reno federal reformatory was m‘r' *or his 4x-foot frame carried
n announced today by Congressman Jed Johnson. some 200 p ° u n d s with obvious
The superstitious among El Reno's basketball fans «*•» ea**' AI,hou,'JI h,s face n'<a'n*'d
are
howhng because the regional tournament is to'open'here"on t“h,!'“,e ^""'..SJakabt
Friday 13. ...
n*. , ... etchings of hardness and cvnici.sm
Publishers of Oklahoma newspapers included in the first . in all. Michael Morrison bore a
district of the Oklahoma Press association will meet in El remarkable
--------- ... —------------- resemblance to the
neno for a business session. Vernon T. Sanford, secretary of public's conception of a writer,
the state association, announced today. He eased his way through the
State DeMolay wrestling and basketball tournament will crowd out to ,he *'dcwalk anti
)ril
each new work. The income from at Petraki. 17. Morrison paid the ”1 assure you I’ll stay right with
his four books had been augment- dr'ver and thanked him for the it. The bank is working around the
ed by regular contributions to mag- most “'‘cresting discussion and clock. Everyone is trying to get
azincs and he had written himself cross*‘d ‘he street. his money out of Greece these
into a steady and comfortable in- The brass knocker beat a thun da>8- Gould you return at—let's
come bracket. Morrison’s rise was dpr through the ancient mansion sa>’ pight o’clock—that will give us
the typical writer's story of many °‘ Fotis Stergiou. In a moment its'a sa*e edRe ln “me.”
years of struggle for acceptance, equally ancient butler. Tassos, led “Yes. certainly."
bitter disappointments and the rest him into the home of the attorney. * * *
of the frustrations and fears that Tassos rapped softly, then ushered STERGIOU ushered Morrison
plague that supposedly charmed him into the office of Mr. Stergiou. down the long, statue-filled corri-
professiop. 1 lie old man looked up from his dor and they exchanged goodbys.
Even at the age of 35 he showed all-encompassing desk and smiled | The instant the door closed, Ster-
traees of Ins earlier athletic ca- a wrinkled smile of recognition He giou spun about and shuffled quick-
'sas a quaint old duck. A shock ol |y down the corridor and into his
gia> hair stood straight up Irom office. A stocky man, sporting a
his head, a large scarl was wrap huge walrus mustache and bunrt-
ped around his shoulders and a led in an English mackintosh, sat
pair ol square-cut glasses were1 behind Stergiou's desk,
balanced precariously on the tip “Did you give it to him?” the
of his nose. j man asked.
Aha, my American writer Stergiou paced nervously before
friend, right on time, as usual.” the desk. “Yes, I gave it to him.
he greeted Mike and waved to a Major Wilken.”
seat. “Coffee, please, Tassos." his
Short Stories
About Home Folks
Dr. and Mrs. Earnest W. Potts,
1301 South Reno, returned Wednes-
CRITICS OF THE EISENHOW-
ER administration frequently say
that lack of imagination is one of
its weaknesses.
“So far,” says Zellerbach, “we
have been operating largely on a
crisis-to-crisis basis. We have been
fighting fires instead of trying to
curity and its sources of rav
teriais.
He recommends particularl
the government loan progra
used for basic development^
harbors, railroads and *
works. Private investment
says, will follow naturally f
dividual industrial developn
Look and Learn
day evening from Kansas City, | prevent them from breaking out.
Mo., where they attended the The Eisenhower administration
alumni meeting celebrating the isn’t often talked to in this tough
10th anniversary of the Class of
1946 of the Kansas City Western
Dental college March 4-7. They
were accompanied to Tulsa by
their son, Jimmy, who visited with
his uncle Meric Potts and Mrs.
Potts during the absence of his
parents. Margaret Potts, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Merle Potts is
now a guest in the Earnest Potts
home.
1. Can you place the foil
capes—Good Hope, Horn, an*
ble?
2. What is the speed of the
in a hurricane? /
3. What is the first word is
first chapter of the Bible?
4. What famous Americai
morist is noted for his “F
in Slang"?
5. What state defeated a 1c
nation single-handed before r|
ing for admission to the l
States?
ANSWERS
1. The southern extremiti
Africa. South America, and j
da, respectively.
2. At least 75 miles an hout
3. “In.”
4. George Ade (1866-1944).
5. Texas, which had fouglo
won a war against Mexico.
- f
Miss Mary K. Ashbrook,
lashion by its own supporters. i
After making a presentation of
his case to Sen Paul Douglas’ i South Hoff, returned Thut
Economic Committee, it was sug- j evening from Stillwater wherd
gested that “Dutch Uncle” Zeller- attended the state Daughteij
' bach be invited to Washington to American Revolution confe*
put his plan over, then run it. March 6-8.
Sally's Sallies
By Sco
be held in El Reno on April 3 and 4. it was announced twdav ",0"d at ,he curb for st‘vi’ral mom high-pitched voice ordered. He dug
following a meeting of the El Reno Tebeth chapter . I f" ■ taxl; . through the stacks of papers on
March 9, 1946
QUEST conductor of the El Reno highschool hsind art the
coron?ti®n conier1 Tuesday will he Dr. I had talked of it ,„r „ w«., -......... „„ „,e ,
B°h ^“pKOYskv, conductor emeritus of the Oklahoma A. to have hern the honeymoon they Utile finger of the attorney
Major Howe-Wilken of British
Intelligence arose and walked to
the window and clasped his hands
behind him. “ Soutar and I have
been under surveillance from the
and M. college, Stillwater. The band, directed bx
ray. will present a matinee performance at 2:3? ___________ _______________
evening concert at 8 p.m. At the matinee performance Betty SUII1(I $ft,ooo. But each year some-
Merveldt, a junior student in the highschool, will be crowned lhinK ,ll'w ■«>■« to prevent their
queen of the band for the school year of 1W8-47. taking the trip.
Baker H. Melone has authorized The Tribune to announce Wh”n at ,ast ,he plans fnr ,he
his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for the office of
district judge for the district of Canadian and Oklahoma
counties subject to the action of the primary election July 2
^.u'nd4fight!nK; racing El Reno highschool
basketball team took the favored Muskogee Roughers to a
32-30 photo-finish trimming in the final battle of the Okla-
homa state basketball tournament Saturday night to capture
the state championship for the first time since 1933.
* A ?ieetinS of the El Reno ministerial alliance will be held
at 10:30 am. Tuesday at the First Christian church, it wart
The trip 1o Greece had fanned J bis desk and found the brief. As
the bitter ounbers of memory into j be opened the folder and thumbed_____
a flame. How otten had he and ‘hrough it, Mike once again found moment we landed in Greece. If
Ins wife planned the trip! They himself staring at the magnificent my guess is right, Konrad lleisler
for years. It was black pearl ring on the wrinkled | is hiding out somewhere in Athens
this minute directing their opor-
Mra. Claude Tillery and daugh-
ter .Peggy, of F'resno, Calif., ar-1
rived Thursday for a two-weeks
visit with her brother and sister-
in-law, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Benson,
217 North Williams and other rela-
tives in Oklahoma City.
Leo C, Mur- never hart Ellie s uncle, a Greek
p.m. and an j importer, had left her a legacy of
announced Saturday hv the Rev. A. C. Dubberstein. pastor o f
the trinity Lutheran church and president of the alliance. ,
trip began to take real form—then
exploded in an automobile acci-
dent in the fog on the Golden Gate
bridge. Ellie had been killed in-
stantly.
There were months of guilt, of
utter despondency, loneliness and
fear of sleep because of the night-
mares. And then the slow resur-
rection, with the help of his par-
ents and many good friends but,
mainly, through the love for his
young son and daughter.
How much longer?” Mike'ation. If he is, Mr. Stergiou, our
asked. J lives aren't worth a snuff.”
Always in a hurry, you Ameri- “Then why didn't you pass the
cans. One might get the idea you I list to your military for delivery?”
don't like our country ” ( “1 regret to inform you that the
“1 have a plane for London in j situation at headquarters is one
Mrs. Dorothy Bishop and daugh-
ter. Judy. 518 West Watts, left!
Thursday afternoon for a visit in
the home of her brother-in-law
and sister, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. ;
Hill in Moore, Cleveland county.
They plan to return Saturday.
the morning
* * *
THE old man tapped his pipe
empty in the ash tray, paused re-
flectively a moment, then spoke.
"Mr. Morrison, I wonder if I could
ask a favor of a personal nature?"
"If I can help.”
“1 have a document, one of great
importance to a client of mine.
With things so disrupted these
days I am a bit hesitant to use the
mails. I wonder if you would mind
of utter confusion. I wouldn’t wager
that the military eould get the
King of Greece out of the country.”
"Then, our American friend, Mr.
Morrison, will deliver the list lor
us. Just a precaution, mind you.
F'ortunately he is above suspicion.”
(To Bo Continued)
Problem a Day
Mrs. Kessler Dorman, 1325 South
Reno, were called to Racine, Wis.,
Thursday by tho illness of her hus-
band’a sister, Mrs. Bob Carls.
Tom and Dick built a fence for
their father, who paid them a total
of $56.25 for their work. If Tom
worked 6 2/3 days and built 25
rods of fence, and Dirk worked as
muny days as Tom built rods per
day, how should the money he di-
vided?
ANSWER
Tom $36; Dick $20.25. Divide 25
by 6 2/3; to this result add 6 2/3;
divide 6 2/3 and 15/4 each by
125/12; take 9/2S and 16/25 of
56 1/4, respectively.
o '** *“■« lo , W.iU i.|Sn tmtntd
“Sp*ak op nke a man, but don’t forggi you're (alia mouaer
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