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AT FORT BLISS—Eight Canadian county soldiers recently arrived at Fort Bliss, Tex.,
beginning their eight weeks of basic training. They are, top row, left to right, Private
Charles Hufnagel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Htifnagel, 419 South Evhns; Private Hen-
ry Joe Von Tungeln, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Von Tungeln, El Reno route 1; Private
Donald Moberly, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Moberly, Okarche. Second row, left to
right, Private Thomas Crouch, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Crouch, El Reno route 1; Pri-
vate Chester Eaton, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Eaton, Calumet. Bottom row, left to
right, Private Prentiss Boswell, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Boswell, El Reno route 1;
Private Joe T. Davison, son of Mr. and Mrs. I). D. Davison, 801 South Duane; and
Private Paul Nitzel, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Nitzel, Calumet. Upon completion of
their basic eight weeks of training, they will be eligible for advanced units.
Couple Injured
Man, Wife Taken To
El Reno Sanitarium
A Massachusetts couple was in
the El Reno sanitarium today fol-
lowing an automobile accident
shortly after 9 a, m. at the inter-
section of Sunset drive and Choc-
taw avenue.
The injured are Mrs. Verna M.
Welsh, 51. Taunton, Mass, who suf-
fered a fractured right knee, cuts
and bruises, and her husband, John
J. Welsh, 53. who suffered a frac-
tured left hand, cuts and bruises.
Police Sergeant N. E. Douglas,
who investigated the accident, said
Mrs. Welsh, driving their car east
on Sunset drive, apparently lost
control at the intersection.
Parked Car Involved
Her automobile struck a parked
car. owned by Mrs. Ruby Mowre,
612 West London, which was parked
in front of the city hall on Choctaw
avenue, continued back onto Choc-
Gaw avenue where it hit another
car. driven north on Choctaw by
Frank Hyman Bailer, 38, of Detroit,
Mich., who had stopped for a traf-
fic light, and ran into the wall of
the Turner Auto Electric company,
directly across the street from the
police sta..on.
Douglas, who with Police Chief
Lee Harvey witnessed the accident,
said Mrs. Welsh was hurled from
her car w'hen it struck the wall of
the building, next to an overhead
door.
Damage Runs High
Property damage ran high in the
case, with the Welsh car receiving
about $500 damage, and the Bailer
car receiving about $75 damage.
Damage to the parked car w'as be-
lieved slight.
Damage to the wall of the build-
ing was estimated at $30, while a
window in the adjoining Tom Avant
Motors company was clacked and
will be replaced at an estimated cost
of $175, Douglas said.
Busy Month
Lined Up For
City Schools
QTUDENTS in El Reno public
kJ schools have a busy month
ahead of them with a series of
special programs slated to close
out the current school year.
First of the major events will
be the annual junior—senior
banquet, to be held at 7 p. m.
Friday, May 14, in Etta Dale
junior highschool.
Second event on the program
for highschool seniors will be the
annual commencement service, to
be held at 8 p. m.. May 23. in the
El Reno highschool auditorium.
Senior class night will follow in
the highschool auditorium at
8 p. m. on May 25, and the high-
school commencement is to be
held at 8 p. m. on May 27.
The seniors will not be alone in
the special exercises, however.
Lincoln school students will lead
off with promotion exercises at
7:30 p. m. on May 26, and will be
followed by Central school stu-
dents who will hold their promo-
tion exercises at 10:30 a. m. on
May 27.
Junior highschool graduation
exercises will be held at 2 p.m.
on May 27.
Windup for the remainder of
the city's public schools will be
held May 28. when both Webster
school and Irving school will hold
promotion exercises at 10 a. m..
Rose Witcher school will hold
promotion exercises at 10:30 a m.,
and Booker T. Washington school
will conduct its annual commence-
ment at 8 p. m.
Suit Is Filed Over
Accident at Yukon
A petition asking $139.35 judg-
ment has been filed in district court
by Norman Frank Kroutil against
Bonnie Kathryn Campbell, in con-
nection with a two-car accident
March 30 at Yukon.
The money was asked for alleged
damage caused to Kroutil's car in
the accident.
Reformatory Has New
Education Supervisor
A new supervisor of education has
been employed at the El Reno
federal reformatory, replacing Dr.
L. R. Conrad. 1200 South Barker,
retired.
Warden W. H. Hardwick an-
nounced that William M. McGuire,
formerly of the federal institution
at Chillicothe. Mo., had taken over
the educational reins and had es-
tablished a residence at 518 South
Reno.
McGuire had seen duty at the
El Reno reformatory in 1937. He
later transferred to Englewood,
Colo., where he remained until 1944
when he went to Chillicothe.
Mr. and Mrs. McGuire have one
daughter, Karen, 11.
Hospital Fund
Drive Opened
Foundation Meets
With Special Donors
Opening phase of a Park View
Foundation. Inc., campaign to raise
a minimum of $30,000 for operation
i of El Reno's new municipal hos-
pital was officially on today fol-
j lowing a special meeting of the
foundation Tuesday night in the
highschool administration building.
i Representatives of 15 two-man
canvassing teams were issued cards
bearing names of persons to con-
tact m the "large donor" bracket
| of the drive, and were scheduled to
j begin their work today.
Advised by Manager
i The action came as Mrs. Mar-
| garet Lamb. Norman, newjy-ap-
pointed hospital manager, met with
the foundation board to explain
which items should be purchased
with the special operation funds.
City Manager C. A Bentley, who
also attended the meeting, ex-
plained why bond issue money, de-
voted exclusively to construction and
furnishing of the building, may not
be used to pay for operation.
Groups Represented
Representatives of several busi-
ness firms and a group of organi-
zations. including the Veterans of
Foreign Wars. American Legion,
Eagles lodge. Elks lodge, Knights
of Columbus. Masonic 1 o d g e,
Kiwanis club and a Rock Island
Civic organization, attended the
meeting.
Miss Mary Ashbrook, secretary of
the foundation, said two organiza-
tions. the El Reno junior chamber
of commerce and the American As-
sociation of University Women, al-
ready had turned in contributions
of $500 each and other organiza-
tions and individuals had indicated
they plan contributions.
Lon C. Booth, foundation chair-
man. said the Lions club, was not
represented at the meeting since it
already is engaged in a "Pennies
for Progress" fund campaign for
the hospital.
GETS JAIL TERM
Grant P. Potter. Yukon, accused
in a complaint by Trooper Joe C.
Dunn of driving while under the
influence of intoxicating liquor In
the 400 block on Main street in Yu-
kon May 3. entered a plea of guilty
to the charge before County Judge
Roy M. Faubion Tuesday and was
sentenced to serve 10 days in the
county jail.
McCarthy Won't
Reveal Source
Of Information
On Witness Stand,
Senator Keeps Mum
On Espionage Spys
WASHINGTON. May 5 — (VT*> —
Sen. McCarthy refused today to
tell from the witness stand where
he got a report dealing with Rus-
sian espionage in secret army ra-
dar laboratories.
McCarthy, after being sworn as
a witness for the first time in his
raging row' with army officials,
said that under no circumstances
will he reveal the sources from
which he gets information.
McCarthy said the paper he in-
troduced was supplied by an in-
formant within the army who had
complained that the army was not
taking action on repeated warnings
about alleged subversion.
Earlier, army counsel Joseph N.
Welch derided as "a perfect phony"
the letter McCarthy injected into
hearings on his row with army
officials and identified by McCar-
thy as a communication from FBI
Director J. Edgar Hoover to the
army on January 26, 1951.
"Essentially the Same”
McCarthy snapped back that the
substance was essentially the same
as warnings the FBI had sent the
army about security risks and ra-
dar secrets.
This was not disputed by the one
man in the hearing room with the
most knowledge about the matter
—Robert A. Collier, a member of
special counsel for the senate in-
vestigations subcommittee.
Collier was given the job of
checking up on the document after
McCarthy produced it late yester-
day.
The committee attorney w'ent to
the witness chair to give his re-
port. He testified he had taken the
document to Hoover and that the
FBI director had told him;
Not Copy of Note
"This letter produced yesterday
is not a carbon copy or copy of
any communication prepared or
sent by the FBI to General Bol-
ling January 26. 1951 or any other
date."
McCarthy and Roy M. Cohn, Mc-
Carthy’s counsel, had deieribed the
three-page document as a copy of
a letter from Hoover to Major
General A. R. Bolling, dated Jan-
uary 26, 1951, when Bolling was
intelligence chief for the army.
Collier testified that Hoover told
him there is in the FBI files a
15-page interdepartmental memo-
randum, written in a different
form and with no signature at all.
Called "Perfect Phony”
McCarthy put in that the docu-
ment he and Cohn sought to in-
troduce contained verbatim quotes
from the 15-page memo. He said
the document itself included the
notation that certain security in-
formation had been omitted.
Joseph N. Welch, army counsel,
moved in with obvious enthusiasm
to question Collier. It was in his
queries that he termed the McCar-
thy document a "perfect phony”
and a "carbon copy of precisely
nothing."
Secretary of the Army Stevens—
now in his 10th day as a witness—
was temporarily excused from the {
stand so that Collier could give his
report on his visit with Hoover.
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PAST BROUGHT FORWARD—Mrs. Ben T. Flynn, stand-
ing, and Mrs. Walter P. Marsh, right, were collaborators
in compiling a “This Is Your Life” album on Highschool
Principal Walter P. Marsh, which was the featured en-
tertainment Tuesday night at the annual P-TA banquet
for El Reno teachers. (Photo by Phil Enz)
Walter Marsh Finds His Past
Is No Secret at P-TA Banquet
By J. LeRoy Oxford
WALTER P. Marsh, El Reno’s popular highschool prin-
" cipal, saw his past un-reeled before him Tuesday night
in Central school where he was the central figure in a
take-off on television’s “This Is Your Life.”
The setting was the annual PTA sponsored banquet
honoring city teachers, and it was a flabbergasted high-
school principal who unexpectedly witnessed his life un-
folding continuously as “voices from the past,” represent-
ing friends and relatives, converged on El Reno from
throughout the state to
honor him.
Marsh, who was learning to
walk and make friends in the
same year that Dewey took Man-
ila Bay, had a troublesome time
fighting back some of the emo-
tions kindled by the unexpected
recollections.
Rose Witcher
Operetta Set
An operetta. "Behind Castle
Walls." will be presented by Rose
Witcher school students at 8 p. m.
Thursday in the school auditorium.
Cast members will be Sharon
Seely, Ray Hamby. Amanda Lewis.
Charles Grates, Eldon Shrum, Sue
Ferguson, Claude Cherry, Gaylord
Shaw, Beatrice Marquardt. Richard
Koebrick, Dick Maxey, Ruth LeVan,
Barbara Jensen and Jerry Bass.
The operetta will be directed by
Mrs. Jim Christensen with the as-
sistance of the schools faculty
members.
Colann}- Hound Over
On Assault Charges
Relay Cotanny charged with as-
sault with intent to kill, third and
subsequent offense, was ordered held
to answer the charge In district
court under $1,000 bond following a
preliminary hearing in the case
Tuesday before County Judge Roy
M. Faubion.
Cotanny, accused of attacking Vir-
gil A. Callaway with a knife on
April 20, earlier had entered a plea
of innocent to the charge.
In another action the court dis-
missed earlier charges of assault
with a dangerous weapon, which
had been filed against Cotanny on
April 26, since “a graver charge"
had been filed against him.
Weather
Mostly fair tonight. Partly cloudy
Thursday. Rising temperatures. Low
tonight generally In the 50s. Highs
Thursday from 75 to 85.
'In' Men Lead
In Five States
Sparkman Sweeps
I Alabama Democrats
Bv The Associated Press
Members of congress appear to
continue leading charmed political
lives at the polls this year as the
count of yesterday's primaries in
five states gave leads to all in-
cumbents seeking renomination.
A hard-fought race holding na-
tionwide attention saw Senator
John J. Sparkman i Democrat. Ala-
bama i sweep to an apparent victory
in his bid for renomination. A
primary triumph would be tanta-
mount to election in the heavily
Democratic state. And in an im-
portant Ohio contest. Representa-
tive George H Bender won the Re-
publican senate nomination.
Campaign Is Hot
The Alabama campaign featured
a charge by Sparkman's closest op-
ponent—Representative Laurie C.
Battle—that he was trying to carry
■water on both shoulders” on the
race question.
Sparkman, vice presidential can-
didate on the 1952 Democratic
national ticket, denied he ever had
varied on the issue He faced in the
four-man race one of his strongest
challenges since he entered the
senate eight years ago.
Other primaries yesterday were
in Indiana. Florida and New Mexico.
In Alabama, former Governor
James E. Folsom ran far ahead in
a seven-man competition for the
Democratic nomination for gov-
ernor.
Taft Friend Ahead
Bender, long-time Ohio political
associate of the late Senator Robert
A. Taft, goes into a November race
with Senator Thomas A. Burke for
the remaining two years of Taft's
term. Burke, a Democrat, W'as ap-
pointed to succeed Taft until the
November election.
In Florida, incomplete returns
indicated neither acting Governor
Charley E. Johns, nor State Sena-
tor LeRoy Collins could gain a clear
majority in a three-way race for
the Democratic governor nomina-
tion. Failing that, they'll go into a
primary runoff May 25.
Library Burglary
Yields Little Cash
A burglar who entered through a
north window of the Carnegie li-
brary sometime Tuesday night,
probably got little or nothing for
his trouble, police reported today.
While desk drawers had been
opened and their contents scatter-
ed. the burglar could not have
picked up more than a few pennies,
since money ordinarily is not kept
in the library, Mrs. Richard Hor-
ton. librarian, said.
The burglar apparently, had made
his plans well in advance, unlock-
ing the screen and window of the
building from the inside, sometime
earlier while the library still was
open.
rrtHE first hint that this was no
A run-of-the-mill banquet pro-
gram came when, after 160 teach-
ers and guests had relaxed, Mrs.
Mattie L. Marsh, 87-year-old
mother of the principal from Al-
tus. was wheeled to the auditorium
stage where her son had been
spotlighted in a "chair of honor.”
Before the evening was over,
four generations of the Marsh
family along with a host of friends
had paraded to the stage to honor
the genial principal.
Serving as narrator of the
Marsh life story was Mrs. Ben T.
Flynn who worked secretly and
painstakingly with Mrs. Marsh
for several weeks to make the
program possible.
She narrated from a scrapbook
especially prepared for the occas-
ion by Mrs. Miles Woods, art in-
structor at Btta Dole junior high-
school.
\ CCORDING to fumily history,
Mr. Marsh was pronounced
the "ugliest child ever" by his
Aunt Dora, but he quickly passed
through stages of "preacher days,"
a teller of "whoppers" and a dab-
bler in poetry.
The record revealed, too, that
Mr. and Mrs. Marsh, both teach-
ers in Elk City from 1922 until
1924, were known to the commun-
ity as "young blades" whose home
became sometimes confused with
the public school because of the
numerous Marsh heirs in the yard.
Thoroughly delighted at the
proceedings, despite a constant
dabbing at her eyes, was the el-
derly Mrs. Mattie Marsh who was
seated alongside the "chair of
honor."
TTEADING a list of Marsh eulo-
•wl gies w'as that of Paul R.
Taylor who told of his successful
struggle in 1935 to wrestle Marsh
from the "City of Demons" to the
south which was bidding for his
services.
The Marsh mettle was proved,
according to Mr. Taylor, when in
his second year at El Reno he led
smoke-blinded students from the
flaming third floor of the high-
school building.
Other tributes came from Bob-
by Lee Morrison, Bill Bruce.
"Jenks" Simmons, Miss Rose
Witcher and Mrs. William L. Fogg,
all of whom have served profes-
sionally with Mr. Marsh or as
students.
Other out-of-towm guests who
shared In the honoring were Mr.
and Mrs. W. W. Cunningham,
Duke: Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Steele,
Altus; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hunter,
Woodward: Mr. and Mrs. C. P.
Peden, Altus; along with most of
the immediate family.
Perhaps the tribute of the ev-
ening came when Mrs. Fogg noted
that “if a soul is the measure of
a man. then tonight Walter Marsh
is a giant, eight feet tall."
I ke Says McCarthy-Army
Fight Has Resulted In
Loss of Prestige to U. S.
WASHINGTON’, May 5 —(AP)— President Eisenhower
said today the United States has suffered a loss of interna-
tional prestige as a result of the row between Senator Mc-
Carthy and the Army.
His assertion was made at a news conference at which
Eisenhower also issued it formal statement declaring his
unqualified support for Secretary of State Dulles and for
Dulles’ efforts to form a united front against Communism
in southeast Asia.
On these two main subjects, the President told newsmen:
McCarthy-Army: He knows of nothing which would cause
him to lose confidence in Secretary of the Army Stevens
so far as administration of-
the Army department’s busi-
ness is concerned.
On that basis, Eisenhower
said emphatically, he backs
Stevens to the limit.
A reporter reminded Eisenhower
that he had expressed the hope at
his news conference last week that
the senate inquiry would be ended
quickly.
Would Get to Point
The newsman added that only
yesterday the army counsel at the
hearing objected to a Republican
proposal to cut the hearings short.
Tile president was asked, whether
in his opinion, there was any ad-
ministration conflict there and if
he still favored a quick conclusion
of the investigation.
Tile president said that in ex-
pressing the hope the hearing would
be quickly concluded he meant there
should be effective answers on the
main issues of the dispute, and
participation by the principals.
Cites Lost Prestige
Eisenhower then said he wanted
to say one more thing on the mat-
ter. and suggested he might bar
further questions on the subject.
Speaking solemnly and with great
emphasis, the president said his
only hope now is that America may
derive from the hearings advan-
tages w'hich, as he put it, may be
comparable to what we have suf-
fered in international prestige and
injury to national self respect.
Seek Collective Security
Indochina-Dulles: The president
said in his formal statement that
the United States and most of the
free nations with a direct interest
in the security of southeast Asia
are working on the problem of a
united front witli "a general sense
of urgency."
"The countries of the area." the
president said, "are now thinking
in constructive terms, which in-
clude the indispensable concept of
collective security. Progress In this
matter has been considerable and
I am convinced that further pro-
gress will be continued to be made."
Clubs Slate
Rural, City
Track Meets
Canadian county and El Reno
youngsters will get their chance
at athletic honors Thursday and
Friday, in two annual track events
at Adams park
Harvey Dozier, coordinator for
both meets, said approximately 300
entries are expected for the an-
nual rural school track meet which
will get under way about 1:30
Thursday.
A trophy is to be awarded the
school gaining the most points in
the rural school meet, spon-
sored by the El Reno junior cham-
ber of commerce, while other
awards will go to the high scoring
boy and girl in the meet.
Individual winners in the various
events are to receive ribbons.
The Kiwanis sponsored elemen-
tary school track meet, for El Reno
youngsters up to an Including the
sixth graders, will get under way
at 1 p. m. Friday, Dozier said, with
about 275 expected to enter the j
various events.
Contestants in the city school
track meet will be divided into
three weight classifications, and
awards will be made to individual
winners in the events.
BILLY JOE DAVIS
New Assistant
Coach Named
Kamm To Get Aid In
Forming Grid Team
El Reno's board of education has
selected a new assistant football
coach at El Reno highschool for the
next school term.
He is Billy Joe Davis, currently
completing his courses at Southwes-
tern State college, Weatherford,
who will come here to assist Ken-
neth Kamm. named head coach at
the highschool next year.
Kamm succeeds Bob Bodenhamer,
who has resigned to accept a coach-
ing position at Lawton.
The new assistant coach, majoring
in mathematics and science, as well
as In physical education, graduated
from highschool at Lone Wolf.
Davis is married and is a member
of the Methodist church.
In other business at their regular
monthly meeting the school board
held its annual re-organization, re-
elected all officers, including J. M.
Burge, president; Steve Lucus, vice
president, and employed officials
Including Walter Wilson, clerk, Mrs.
C. S. MucSwain, treasurer, and the
firm of Prigmore and company, Ok-
lahoma City, auditor.
Board members approved legal
claims and briefly discussed plans
for future interior repair and mod-
ernization work at Booker T. Wash-
ington school.
Open-House Set
At Concho School
Students and faculty members of
the Cheyenne-Arapaho Indian
school at Concho will play host to
the public for an open-house tour
Sunday afternoon.
Diamond Roach, principal at
Concho, said the open house will be
held from 2 p. m. to 5 p. m., with
visitors being conducted on a tour
of the dormitories, dining room,
classrooms, home economics depart-
ment. livestock buildings and other
features of the campus.
A reception will be held in the
tea room following the torn', and a
spring concert will be held in the
auditorium at 7:30 p. m. Sunday,
under direction of Kay McWethy
and Mrs. Florence Wiedey.
Rotarians Fete
'Aussie' at OCW
Miss Susan Sandral, Australian
exchange student at Oklahoma col-
lege for Women. Chickasha, met up
with members of the El Reno Rot-
ary club for the third time Tues-
day nit lit when members of the lo-
cal civic organization attended a
banquet in her honor.
Miss Sandral. of Melbourne, Aus-
tralia. ha% been attending the col-
lege for the past four years on a
scholarship established by Rotary
International, and has been a guest
of the El Reno Rotary club on two
occasions.
Eighteen Oklahoma Rotary or-
ganizations have joined in sponsor-
ing the young student, who is to
leave Chickasha at the end of the
semester to attend fotu’ conferences
in the United States before leaving
this country Sept. 14. She Is to
arrive home just before Christmas.
Those attending the banquet In-
cluded Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Garner,
Mr. and Mrs. Pat Weaver, Mr. and
Mrs. Floyd Croxton and Mr. and
Mrs. Maurice Thompson, Calumet.
Courses for Scout
Leaders To Regin
A Girl Scout leaders' training
course, once postponed, has been
rescheduled to begin Friday, May
7, in the Girl Scout hut in Legion
park.
The course, to be conducted by
Mi4s Edna Keeran, executive area
director for the Girl Scouts, will
be held from 9 a. m. to 11 a. m„
and from 2 p. m. to 4 p. m. Fri-
day, on Tuesday, May 11, and on
Friday. May 14.
Another eight-hour course Is to
be given early this fall to complete
the 16-hour training In the basic
leaders course.
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