The El Reno Daily Tribune (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 65, No. 245, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 12, 1956 Page: 1 of 6
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El Reno, Oklahoma, Wednesday, December 12, 1956
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Volume 65, No. 245
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A GOOD time was had by all
at the Appreciation banquet
for the El Reno highschool foot-
ball team and coaches in the Elks
home Tuesday evening. Food was
good, speeches were short and
entertaining, praises of the “best
football team El Reno has ever
fielded” were sung and deserved
tribute was paid to Coach Ken-
neth Kamm and his assistants,
Bill Davis and Charles Geno.
Coach Kamm responded on
behalf of his staff and team and
then introduced team members
to the more than a hundred El
Reno men who had gathered to
honor the group. A nice gesture
was added to the team introduc-
tions when fathers of members
were asked to stand when their
sons’ names were called and join
in taking a bow.
Probably the highlight of a
completely enjoyable evening
was the surprise appearance of
Walter Marsh, El Reno high-
school principal. Marsh has been
hospitalized with accident in-
juries suffered in a highway
crash the night of the El Reno-
Douglass state championship
playoff at Taft stadium. Only
a select few were in on the deal
to bring Marsh—who has Jong
been the sparkplug of the fine
school spirit which pervades
El Reno highschool—to the party.
Even Earl O’Neal, chairman of
the committee which promoted
the banquet, had been taken in
by the report being circulated
earlier in the evening that
Marsh’s doctor had refused to
permit him even to prepare a
tape-recorded speech for pre-
sentation.
Marsh’s entrance was timed to
“interrupt” a speech by Paul
R. Taylor, superintendent of
schools. His appearance drew a
warm standing ovation from the
assembled group. Squaws and
Pepetts—on hand to serve the
meal—greeted him with an out-
burst which far surpassed in
spirit and sincerity the efforts
of the best Elvis Presley fan club
in America. Then they wrapped
their arms about each other and
had a “good cry” about the
whole thing. The pep club girls
are particular favorites of the
popular principal and he like-
wise is of them. They form his
“shock troops” at pep rallies
and when the going gets rough
for the Indians at athletic con-
tests.
Marsh, under the solicitous
care of his wife and one of his
sons who accompanied him,
made a brief talk to the team and
others present. Before he had
finished there were more eyes
of others than the Squaws and
Pepetts showing signs of tears.
Yes, it was a grand evening;
one of the kind that is good for
a community and that makes
those present realize what a good
community it is which can have
such gatherings.
Incidentally—or perhaps not so
incidentally, either — substantial
gift checks were presented to
Coach Kamm and his assistants
by Chairman O'Neal as added
proof of the regard El Reno has
for them — RJD.
East German Revolt
Against Soviet Seen
Western Powers Urged
To Have Plans Readied
Eight Are Killed
In Plane Crash
BARTLESVILLE, Dec. 12 —
Eight employes of Phillips petrol-
eum company were killed today
when a company airplane spun in-
to a ranch pasture four miles south-
east of here.
The crash occurred only a few
minutes after the plane had taken | the second day of their annual
PARIS, Dec. 12—Ut)—West Germany warned the North
Atlantic council today there is grave danger of East Germany
following Hungary into rebellion against Moscow’s domina-
tion—and NATO had better decide what to do if the revolt
comes.
West German Foreign Minister Henrich von Bretano
sought the advice of the other 14 NATO partners as the for-
eign, defense and finance ministers of the alliance met for
EHS Tribe Honored
By City's Grid Fans
rFHE Elks home was crowded with close to 200 El Reno foot-
^ ball players and fans Tuesday night, with the fans paying
honor to the 1956 edition of the El Reno highschool Indians’
football team and its coaches.
District Judge William L. Fogg served as master of cere-
monies for the dinner, intro- f
Freels 1$ Taken
To Penitentiary
Quota Program Approved
In County's Farm Voting
Canadian county farmers, along with those from the rest
of the state, Tuesday approved the continuing of 75 to 90
percent parity and penalties on over-production for the 1957
peanut and cotton crops.
The ending or extending of the parity and penalty was
settled by a vote of cotton and peanut farmers Tuesday with
—- an over two-thirds majority of
Legislators To
Attend Events
during school officials
coaches to fans.
As is shown in the top photo
the speakers’ table was occupied
by the grid coaches, Fogg, Paul
Taylor, school superintendent, Sen-
ator James A. Rinehart, while not
shown in the photo were athletic
director Jenks Simmons and Repre-
sentative Jean Pazoureck.
tpHE lower photo was taken just
A as Walter Marsh, highschoel
principal, injured in an auto acci-
dent following the state finals Nov.
30, entered the hall.
Marsh has been confined to Park
View hospital since the accident,
but stepped into the appreciation
banquet for a few minutes, much
to the surprise of everyone, to say
a few words to the group.
Marsh was greeted with a stand-
ing ovation from fans and players
alike and a spontaneous yell from
the school pep clubs, whose mem-
bers served the banquet.
The banquet followed the record
setting season by the Indians as
the first club from El Reno to
gain a berth in the state A A foot-
ball finals.
New Sidewalk
Planned For
Sunset Drive
Residents on Sunset drive will get
a brand new six foot sidewalk in
front of their houses as a result
of the widening job just completed
on highway 66.
C. A. Bentley, city manager, said
the highway department had
agreed to build a six foot sidewalk
on Sunset to replace the old three
foot walks that had been on the
street.
The alternative would be a side-
walk about four feet from the curb,
Bentley said, leaving an area of
lawn between the sidewalk and
the curb.
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Canadian county's two state leg-
islators are scheduled to take part
in activities on two Oklahoma
campuses this month, the first to
be a pre-session conference on leg-
islative procedures, to be held Fri-
day, Dec. 14 at the University of
Oklahoma.
Senator James A. Rinehart will
speak at OU on the purpose of the
conference and State Representa-
tive Jean L. Pazoureck will take
part in a practice legislative ses-
sion illustrating rules of procedure.
OCW Has Program
The other event will be the annual
board meeting, Christmas dinner
and program Thursday night, Dec.
20, at Jane Brooks School for the
Deaf at Oklahoma College for
Women. The board meeting will
be at 4:30 p.m., followed by the
dinner at 6 p.m. with a program
slated for 7:30 p.m. in the college
theater. Mrs. Rinehart and Mrs.
Pazoureck also have been invited.
Featured speakers at the earlier
OU conference, in addition to Sen-
ator Rinehart and Pazoureck, will
be Governor Raymond Gary, who
will give the luncheon address and
Frank Bane, executive director of
the Council of Sta(e Governments,
Chicago, 111., who will speak on
major state legislative proposals
for 1957.
Aids New Members
The biennial conference at Nor-
man is designed as a “get-ac-
quainted” session to give new
members of both legislative houses
an opportunity to study rules of
order and other procedural m’at-
ters. The session also serves as a
review for experienced legislature
members.
Events are to be held in the Un-
ion building on the main campus,
under co-sponsorship of the uni-
versity and the state legislative
council.
the voters favoring the extend-
ing of the present programs.
Canadian county farmers voted
151 to 21 in favor of continuing the
program for cotton and the vote
was 16 to 3 in favor of the peanut
program.
Figures from the state showed a
90.8 percent margin for the cot-
ton question and a 91.9 percent
margin favoring the peanut vote.
In the four county voting loca-
tions the vote showed 54 to 9 in fa-
vor in the Calumet area; 47 to 9
in favor in the El Reno area: 23
to 1 in favor in the Yukon area;
and 27 to 3 in favor in the Wal-
nut precincts.
The only peanut vote taken was
in the Walnut communities.
Dr. Harriman Is
Kiwanis Speaker
Dr. B. Lynn Harriman, clinical
psychologist at the El Reno Fed-
eral reformatory was the guest
speaker at today's Kiwanis club
meeting, speaking on the need for
more psychologists to work in
penal institutions.
Dr. Harriman said inmates in
the prison here receive individual
and group therapy, including a
diagonosis of his past and reas-
sons for his behavior.
He said that during the time
the average inmate is in prison
an effort is made to rehabilitate
him so he can return to useful-
ness in the society.
R. A. Bruce directed the club
in the singing of Adeste Fidelia
and the Battle Hymn of the Re-
public during the meeting today,
accompanied on the piano by Ralph
Enz.
BTW Downs
Payer Club
El Reno’s Booker T. Washing-
ton cagers blasted the Faver club
from Guthrie 61-32 Tuesday night,
running the BTW’s winning string
to three impressive victories.
The Panthers jumped to a lop-
sided 23-4 first quarter lead and
still have a strong 33-14 half time
count. The outcome was never in
doubt with the Panthers’ Frank
Jenkins pumping in 26 points to
claim scoring honors for the third
time.
Harry Chapel was second for the
Panthers, and the night, with 13
points while the losers top counter
was Eugene Patton with 12.
The Panther Bees also won the
first game of the evening, but
by a narrow 25-24 score. Panther
honors in this game went to J. C.
Richey with eight, but evening
honors went to the losers’ D.
Moulder with 10.
Deputy Sheriff T. D. Hale left
today with Bob Freels, Yukon, con-
victed attempted rapist of a 12-
year-old girl last April, who is to
begin serving a 15-year prison sen-
tence at McAlester.
Freels was convicted late last
month of the rape of the girl, April
6 of this year, and was sentenced
by District Judge William L. Fogg
after the jury failed to recommend
a sentence.
Hale also is taking Henry Ring,
one of two brothers charged with
the same offense, to the state men-
tal hospital at Vinita for observa-
tion. Ring was ordered to the state
hospital for observation to deter-
mine if he is capable of present-
ing a defense.
Ring’s brother, Gene, was con-
victed of first degree rape during
the district court term in Novem
her and the jury fixed the sentence
at 15 years, however he has not
yet been transferred to the Mc-
Alester prison.
off from Bartlesville’s airport.
The dead included all the plane's
occupants — six company officials
or employes and two pilots.
Victim* Named
One of them was A. M. Rippel,
head of Phillips' natural gas de-
partment. Joe Bowers, 35, a pilot,
was the son-in-law of C. R. An-
thony, president of an Oklahoma
department store chain. The other
pilot was R. E. Ulrich.
The other victims were W. C.
Reed, a company attorney, C. W.
Binckley, George Sneed, D. F.
Mayfield and T. D. Young, all
members of the gas division.
The plane, a Lockheed Lodestar,
was used for transportation of
Phillips executives.
Goes Into Spin
H. C. Black, of nearby Nowata,
a Sinclair Pipeline company, work-
er, said he was the first person
at the wreckage after he saw the
twin-engined craft go into a spin
and crash.
He said he was driving along
U.S. highway 75 when he first no-
ticed the plane “fairly high” in the
air. He said it suddenly began los-
ing altitude and spun into a field
out of his sight behind a hill. A
big black cloud of smoke” imme-
diately arose, Black reported.
Black notified his Bartlesville of-
fice on his car’s short wave radio
and the company passed the word
session.
Von Brentano put this problem
before the allies:
Any revolt in East Germany
would generate strong pressure
among the West German public to
rush some form of aid rather than
stand by and see the lives of other
Germans snuffed out.
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s
government would resist involve-
ment for fear of inviting retaliation
from the Russian army just across
the east-west border. The Bonn re-
gime already has spread official
word to the East Germans to avoid
active resistance to the Commu-
nist regime of Premier Otto Grote-
wohl.
The West German government
obviously fears it would be unable
to restrain some West German ele-
ments from crossing the border to
aid the Germans to the east, and
this would provoke retaliations
from the Russians.
RED FARM QUOTA
VIENNA, Dec. 12 —0P>— The
Czechoslovak government has de-
cided to reduce producers prices
of such agricultural goods as
wheat, barley and leguminous
plants, Radio Prague announced to
day. The radio said the govern-
ment made the decision “because
the farmers have been making too
much money.”
$200 Damage
Reported In
City Crashes
Damages totaled $200 from the
to the sheriffs office and city fire jone accident reported in El Reno
department.
'Awful Concussion'
’There was an awful concussion
when the plane hit, and the noise
probably could have been heard a
mile,” Black said.
When he neared the plane, he
said, there was no sound or sign
of life and the plane’s cabin was
a mass of flames. He said the in-
tense heat kept him a good dis-
tance away. Pieces of metal were
scattered over a radius of 150 to
200 feet.
The crash occurred on a ranch
belonging to Dick Kane.
Stipe Wins Nix's
Seat in Senate
McALESTER, Dec. 12 —IAS— For-
mer Democratic state house mem-
ber, Gene Stipe of McAlester, won
Pittsburg county’s state senate
race yesterday.
He succeeds Kirksey Nix who re-
signed and won a judgeship in the
criminal court of appeals.
Stipe got 4,993 votes to Republi-
can Chapin Wallace's 691 and In-
dependent M. L. Misenheimer’s
110. Wallace is a McAlester real
estate man and Misenheimer pub-
lisher of the weekly Kiowa Chron-
icle.
late Tuesday, police records show-
ed today.
The intersection accident involv-
ed two cars which collided' at the
corner of Choctaw and Jenkins
street.
Heaviest damage was to a 1948
car driven by Marvin Silas Ter-
rell, jr., 806 South Rock Island,
north on Choctaw. Terrell’s car
received $125 damage to right front,
according to the estimate made by
Officer C. S. Lorenzen.
The second car received about
$75 damage to the left side, Loren-
zen said. This car was a 1950 model
driven by Curtis Clyde Yant, 217
West Jenkins.
The force of the collision caused
the Yant car to be spun around,
the report showed, but there were
no personal injuries.
Indians Slafe
Amarillo Trip
The El Reno Indian basketball
club travels 200 miles for its next
cage meeting, in a pair of double
headers against two clubs in
Amarillo, Tex.
The Tribe opened the season
with a 44-27 win over Central of
Oklahoma City Dec. 4, but has
been idle as far as opposition
since that date.
Need* Full Power
Coach Jenks Simmons has had
his charges working on patterns
and defense since that first encoun-
ter but will need full power to
face the two Texas clubs.
The Indians will clash with the
Amarillo Sandies in the coliseum
there Friday night at 9 p.m. and
will face Amarillo's Palo Duro five
at 9 p. m. Saturday night.
Paid Duro Champ
Palo Duro was the champion-
ship team from Texas last season
but Simmons said the Sandies,
from the other highschool, are
rated as being even more power-
ful than their cross-town foe this
season.
The ten-man El Reno club, along
with Simmons and Kenneth Kamm,
assistant coach for the cagers,
will leave early Friday by car for
the over 200 mile trip to the Tex-
as panhandle city.
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SERVES ON CRUISER
George L. Marshall, teleman sec-
ond class, USN, son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. R. Marshall, El Reno,
has left Norfolk, Va., aboard the
guided missile heavy cruiser, USS
Boston. The ship is to join the
Sixth fleet in the Mediterranean.
Minor Damage Is
Caused by Blaze
Only minor damage was caused
by a fire in a cook stove at the
Frank Handley home, 419 North
Donald, early today, fire records
show.
Chief Leroy Searcy said the fire
was confined to escaping gas from
one of the top burners on the
stove. The fire started after the
control knob to the burner was
broken off when the burner was
lighted.
for every member of
your family!
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for the whole year
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EL RENO
Scottish Rite Club
Officers Installed
I. W. Douglas Was installed as
president of the El Reno Scottish
Rite club at a dinner meeting
Tuesday night in the Southern
hotel, succeeding Harvey Dozier.
Other new officers are C. G.
Canon, first vice president; Ken-
neth B. Browm, second vice presi-
dent, and Fred H. Lane, secre-
tary-treasurer.
Three trustees taking office are
Earl S. Farley, Walter D. Hart
and Frank J. Land.
S. Neal Johnson, Guthrie, educa-
tional director, served as install-
ing officer.
Visitors at the meeting were
Howard Gustafson and W. H.
Wells.
Three Boys Held
At County Jail
Three boys from Benton, Ark.
are being held in county jail here
today as suspects in the burglary
of a general store in Benton.
The boys, age 14, 15, and 17,
were booked late Tuesday after
they were found in the Yukon
railroad station by Marshal Ike
Floyd of Yukon.
Highway patrol units, the sher-
iff’s office, and police officers
from Bethany were also in on the
search after the boys abandoned
their car near Lake Overholser
while being chased by Bethany
police.
The sheriff’s office said today
the boys apparently were not driv-
ing a stolen car, as was first be-
lieved, but did have a license
plate issued to another Arkansas
auto.
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ACCUSED MEN CLEARED
BUSHNELL, Fla., Dec. 12—(A>l—
Seven white men were cleared to-
day of charges of flogging Jesse
Woods, 39-year-old Negro who had
been forcibly taken from nearby
Wildwood jail.
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EL RENO DAILY
TRIBUNE
DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS!
Weather
Forecast
Mostly cloudy tonight and Thurs-
day. Colder over state tonight and
in southeast Thursday. Low tonight
15 panhandle to 30 southeast. High
Thursday 30 panhandle to 45 ex-
treme southeast. Further outlook:
partly cloudy and continued cold
Thursday night, Friday fair and
not so cold.
Calumet Cage Tearns Defeated
By Two Visiting Yukon Teams
Calumet highschool basketball
teams lost another pair of games
playing at home Tuesday night,
the girls dropping a 35 to 29 de-
cision to the lassies from Yukon,
and the eastern Canadian coun-
tians dropping the Calumet boys
41 to 35.
The Calumet girls could attribute
their loss to a lack of experience
and it was that coupled with lax-
ness in the sheer fundamentals of
basketball that cost the boys the
game.
Yukon commanded a lead in the
boys contest all the way. Calumet
could not find the basket, even on
free throws, while 22 of the Yukon
points were on charity tosses.
Weller Leeds Score
The Calumet boys tallied only
nine points from the free throw
line and missed enough from there
to have gained a victory. Time
and again they threw the ball
away or just passed it into the
hands of this opponents.
Their guarding was not up to
par, a point that could be excused
in the case of John Weller, Yukon
center, a sixfoot five-incher who
towered shoulders and heads above
the Calumeters as well as his
teammates. He hit four field goals,
all on close-in shots with would-
be guarders all over him, and six
free throws for a 14 point total to
lead scoring.
The Calumet scoring was pretty
well divided with Bobby Girard
and Darrell Crawford connecting
for eight each, Robert Reese get-
ting six, Don Kennedy five and
Fred Bushyhead four.
Lead Increased
Yukon girls jumped into a nine
to four lead at the end of the
first quarter and increased it
steadily to the final standing al-
though ever player in uniform was
used. But a classy Yukon defense
could not keep Karlene Borne-
mann from tallying 15 points to
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