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The El Reno (Okla.) Daily Tribune
Friday, July 79, 1955
The El Reno Daily Tribune
A Blue Ribbon Newspaper Benin* A Blue Ribbon Community
Issued dally except Saturday from 201 North Rock Island Avenue
and entered as second-class mall matter under the act of March 3, 1879
RAY J. DYER
Editor and Publisher
DEAN WARD LEO D. WARD
Business Manager Managing Editor
HARRY SCHROEDER
Circulation and Office Manager
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use for republlcatlon
of all the focal news printed In this newspaper, as well as all OP) newt
dispatches.
We Get a Better View of Things from This Point
■f jjv
MEMBER
OKLAHOMA PRESS
ASSOCIATION
MEMBER
SOUTHERN NEWSPAPER
PUBLISHERS ASS'N
DAILY
RATES BY
SUBSCRIPTION
BY CARRIER
One week---------
One Month------
One Year______________111.00 One Year__
MAIL IN CANADIAN AND
ADJOINING COUNTIES
t .25 Three months____________*1.75
_* 1.10 Six Months______________*3.50
_____________*6.50
Elsewhere In State-One Y'ear-----*8.50-
Including Sales Tax
-Out of State____*11.00
Friday, July 29, 1955
I and my father are one.—John 10:27. Paul found it possible to banish
self and take on the character of Christ. That is a perfect way to be
one with the father, for tho we never can know God we can know
Christ and become like him.
Old Faithful Really Spouts
T’HIS is the season when footloose America hangs its dress-
* up clothes in the back seat of the car and takes off. They’re
off for the “open road”—if they can find any left.
They want to see the sights. And there’s one to be seen
this year. It’s an economic explosion.
Nothing is as astonishing as the evidence of economic up-
surge visible on most every highway.
Everywhere there is building. There are more new busi-
nesses, cars, outboard motors, bathers, fishermen, water-skiers,
skindivers, sailboats, outdoor movies, hamburgeries, filling
stations, trucks, supermarkets, five-and-dimes, driveins, shop-
ping centers, and children crying in the back seats.
IT doesn’t take an economist with a doctor’s degree to con-1
*■ elude that this is a record year in American business.
Or that few are being left out.
Such momentum can’t be stopped quickly. The prediction
is for good business to continue through the winter season. I
This Christmas should be one for the book.
There are a few caution signs being flown for next spring. |
But the forecasters, in their most gloomy mood, see only a
leveling off, sort of a slowing down to mere rocket speed.
Vacationers, viewing the sights with sounds of hammer
blows in their ears, should be getting a good spoonful of con-
fidence medicine.
Mr. Breger
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View from Tall Ladder
/\NE of the oft-heard questions while the boys from the office
are munching their blue plate specials at lunch is: “What
ever happened to the do-it-yourself fad?”
The conversation erupts, sprinkled liberally with crumbs
of hamburger, small bits of lettuce and droplets of spaghetti
sauce.
When it subsides or is distracted by a shapely blonde in
a sun back walking by the table, there is usually general
agreement. What used to be the do-it-yourself FAD has now
become a way of life.
The average householder finds he can have more and get
it quicker if he provides the labor in home improvements.
A FEW years ago he’d get dizzy standing on the third rung
**■ of the stepladder. This summer, he and thousands of his
brethren are clinging to extension ladders painting their own
houses, trimming their trees or repairing their roofs.
A recent dispatch from Mexico reports that the natives
there can’t understand do-it-yourself. Labor is so cheap there
that it puzzles them that a house owner would take the time
to work at maintenance or improvement.
So D-l-Y clicks into its place as one of the economic facts
of life. It is no fad. It is a necessity for proud Americans who
are bathed in a sea of esthetic improvements in homes and
new ideas for easier and fuller living.
They’ll get them for their families with their own bare
hands even if it raises blisters.
Some women turn out to be better auto drivers than men,
says a judge. But not when they turn out incorrectly.
Even though travel broadens a person, it’s hard for a man
to leave his wife behind when he goes on vacation.
It’s almost always the failure who has been a grand success
at dodging work.
If you want to go through life just marking time you’d
better get a job as a train dispatcher.
Moonshine usually makes an awfully quick trip from the
buyer to the cellar.
The bathing girl of today looks a lot different than she did
a few years ago, while the men are looking just the same.
Anyway, it’s a swell time of year for the grouch. Think
of all the sweltering weather he has to kick about.
Down Memory Lane
July 29, 1935
I?L RENO and Duncan made a merry-go-round of Legion
park Wednesday, Duncan being the merriest because of a
21-18 victory over the local team.
Picture of Virginia Dove’s students participating in her
annual dance recital appears in the August issue of “The
American Dancer,” a monthly magazine.
Clinton and El Reno will participate in a dual swimming
meet at 7 p.m. Friday in the weekly program given at the
municipal swimming pool in Legion park.
In colorful regalia, the Amish baseball club of Argentina
will invade El Reno Sunday to meet the local team at 2:30
p.m. on the Legion park diamond.
July 29, 1945
CAM HULBERT, Canadian county assessor, announced today
he will file a protest against the increase in county real
estate tax valuations voted last week by the state equalization
board. Under the state board’s action, valuations on all county
real estate would be boosted 19.951 percent, almost 20 per-
cent.
W. C. Elliott arrived today from St. Louis, Mo., to join his
wife and daughter, Carolyn, who have been visiting for the
past several weeks with Mrs. Elliott’s parents, Mr and Mrs
S. H. Love, 117 North Hoff.
A group of relatives and friends met for a banket dinner
Sunday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Stroud, 1403
South Jensen, to honor their son, Private Allen Stroud, who
left today for Fort Ord, Calif., after spending a furlough here.
Although showers may fall in the panhandle tonight, the
remainder of Oklahoma will continue hot through Wednes-
day, Y\ eatherman W. E. Maughan, Oklahoma City, predicted
today, the United Press reported. 0 ^
THE STORY: Enforcement of
Wyatt Earp's “no-gun" rule in
Tombstone has resulted in the
shooting of Fred Wagner, who is
Wyatt's acting deputy. After the
shooting, Wyatt enters the Crystal
Palace Saloon and drags out the
bad boys single-handed. Included
in the bag was Wyatt's one-time
friend Johnny Ringo.
* * *
XV
FOR 48 hours he held Curly Bill
and his bunch in the Tombstone
hoosegow under a charge of carry-
ing unconcealed weapons. “For
the time being,” he’d added, in a
scum-ice way they didn’t like a
little bit. That "time being” had
to do with Ferd Wagner.
The Fargo agent hung on all
day Saturday, the second day:
then gave up and went down with
the sun that night. He did it like
the gentleman he was, too, send-
ing for Wyatt and two witnesses
and making a statement that the
shooting had been an accident and
his own fault. He had Mayor Clum
write it out and he signed it. Wyatt
holding him up so’s he could make
it.
Wyatt went back over to the jail.
He talked through the front office
and into the cell block. Curly and
a couple of others were playing
Three-toed Fete with the jail deck
and a stack of burnt matches for
money.
“Ferd just died. Curly,” Wyatt
nodded. “He said it was an ac-
cident. I'm asking the court to
call it murder.”
It hit the big outlaw hard, a
blind man could see that. “I’m
right sorry to hear Ferd’s gone,
Wyatt.” He held his head down,
along with his words. “Likely
you know I ain’t funning when
I say it.”
“I’ll tell that to his wife and
those three kids of his up to
Benson,” replied Wyatt. “Maybe
they can pay the bills and live
off the fact you’re sorry.”
Curly didn’t answer.
“I’m holding all of you,”
Wyatt told them slowly. “Judge
Cartright is sitting a circuit ses-
sion up to Benson next week. Mon-
day morning we’ll just hop the
stage and run up there for a little
batch of arraignments. Tomorrow
being Sunday, you got some time
to think about what you're going
to say to Ferd’s widow. You’ll see
her in court”.
“You can’t hold the rest of us,
legal!” Ike Clanton snarled. “You’d
best git Sid Skidmore over here
and let us talk to him,< or you're
apt to be answering some charges
your ownself!”
Wyatt knew all about Mr. Sid-
ney Skidmore. He was the lead-
ing dim light of the nest of law-
sharps hanging out their shingles
along Fourth and Toughnut
Street, around the corner from
the new courthouse.
“Mr. Skidmore’s already been
here,” he said quietly to Ike. “We
had a nice long talk about the
law. He agreed with you.”
* * *
RINGO cracked. “Wyatt, lem-
me out! I got to talk to you. I
got to tell you something.”
Wyatt let Ringo out, followed
him back into the front office.
“All right, kid, say it short.”
Ringo glanced nervously to-
ward the cellbiock, dropped his
voice to a mutter.
"Wyatt, this ain’t my mess and day stage from Benson and Tue-
you know it. I didn’t rightly have son rolled up in front of the
nothing to do with your deputy
getting hisself killed. I don’t see
you've any call to tie me into it,
at all.”
“You come out to
O. K. Stable. At 6:01 Johnny Be-
han got down out of it and
headed up Allen for the Epitaph
office, where Editor Clum’s light
ask for spe- was still burning in the front win-
dow. At 6:05, Clum was looking at
the legal paper Behan shoved
across his deck. At 6:15 p. m.,
they were in the front office of
cial treatment, boy?
"I bin an idiot. It’s the first time
I bin sober enough to hit a balloon
with a ballbat, since I hit town ,, . „. ... ... ...
So, I reckon you know it’s me talk-, 'he * remont Street ja.l w.th Wyatt
ing now, and not the whisky.
“I’m listening.”
“Wyatt, I’m sorry I turned on
you and I swear I won’t do it
again and I want that there star
you offered me the other day!”
The minutes ticked off long and
slow. He thought Wyatt never
would leave off tugging at his
mustache and staring at the floor
in that empty-eyed, far-off way of
his.
“A man fools me once," he said
slowly, “shame on him. He fools
me twice, shame on me. It’s an
old saying they got, up in the
border country, kid. You've fool-
ed me once, boy. I'm afraid the
rest of it comes out pretty simple.”
Ringo felt the bitter end that
was in it and hadn't been said.
"Where does that leave us then?”
he muttered.
Wyatt’s pale eyes held on Rin-
go", deep and still as winter-cold
water in a desert tank when the
wind has died at sundown.
“It leaves you,” he said softly,
“facing, a hanging charge as ac-
cessory to the murder of Ferd
Wagner.”
* * *
AT 6 p. m., Sunday night, the
studying the paper Behan handed
him, not hearing Editor Clum’s
unpublished remarks about the
shame and the pity.
As of tomorrow morning, Tomb-
stone had herself a new sheriff by
the name of John C. Behan.
Bright and early, Monday, Be-
han turned up at the jail with
lawyer Skidmore and a copy of
Ferd Wagner’s signed statement
j clearing Curly Bill. The Sulphur
Springs outlaws were turned
loose, stopped at the Can Can Chop
House for breakfast, and rode out
of Tombstone an hour later, un-
hurried and free as the Arizona
breeze.
(To Be Continued)
Problem a Day
Billy is 1/6 as old as his mother.
His mother’s age, when divided by
2, 3, 4, 6 or 8, leaves one remain-
ing year. When divided by 5, how-
ever, there is no remainder. How
old is Billy?
ANSWER
4 Yrs. and 2 months. Find
least common multiple of 2, 3, 4, 6
and 8: this is 24; add 1 for moth-
er’s age; divide by 6 for Billy’s
age.
Missing Words
Answer to Previous
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26 Foot lever
27 Transfer en
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29 The- ol
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By Dave Breger
Mr. Harry Volkman,
The Weatherman,
Oklahoma City. Okla.
My Dear Harry:
El Reno isn’t a naughty word.
It is a town of some 12,000 per-
sons about 30 miles west of the
heart of Oklahoma City complete
with gas, light and water,
schools, parks, churches and city
government. It is the county
seat of Canadian County and the
junction of two major national
highways, 81 and 66. We have
weather here just like every-
where else and chances are, it
being neither as hot or cold, wet
or dry as other places removes
it from the list of reportorial
values.
However, you have a terrific
number of listeners who go along
with the saying “our favorite
weather man” all of whom must
have heard you struggling with
the geographical location of Calu-
met and Okarche finally knock-
ing them off as being respective-
ly 40 or 50 miles northwest of
Oklahoma City, and in Kingfish-
er county. Calumet is 14 miles
northwest of El Reno on Highway
270 and Okarche is 12 north on
Highway 81. All of Calumet and
half of Okarche is in Canadian
county. Okarche’s main street is
on the Canadian-Kingfisher coun-
ty line but the weather is the
same in both as far as Okarche
is concerned; the rain falling on
the just and the unjust, just
alike.
We’d like it if you would take
a day off and come to see us.
The Rotary, Lions, Kiwanis or
the Jaycees would be pleased to
share their lunch with you and
if you would stay overnight we’ll
bring you a pot of coffee, a sweet
roll and the morning paper with
your early a. m. call.
We like you and we are a little
“touchous” about being ignored
by those whom we like.
Yours, truly,
Ann Garner
Hollywood
Film Shop
TJOLLYWOOD —<U>»— Robby is a
* happy, well-charged fellow
weighing 81 pounds and designed
for the year 2200 A. D.
Robby is the nickname hung on
MGM’s robot created for the stu-
dio’s “Forbidden Planet,” a Cin-
emascope whirl to another world.
He can do housework, speak, make
coffee and drive a 20th-century car.
“It’s all perfectly simple,” he
said (with a little assistance from
a present-day earthling). “It’s done
by a series of electrical resistors
with a voice modulated through
amplifiers. Even I can understand
it.”
Neon Tube Voice
Robby’s voice emerges from a
pair of blue neon tubes which flash
as each syllable is enunciated.
Prop shop technician Jack Mc-
Masters, however, understands
Robby much better than Robby
understands himself. McMasters
who helped build the robot, said
the gadget would not necessarily
resemble a human except in gen-
eral outlines.
“We used more than 1,200 feet
of wiring inside the ’body’ to oper-
ate all the moving parts,” he said.
“The ears, similar to radar anten-
nae, move and rotate. Blinkers and
lights go on and off while the sax
levers flip up and down.”
Ha* Electronic Memory
McMasters explained sax levers
are on Robby’s face and they click
away rapidly as the robot receives
orders or messages for his elec-
tronic memory. The moving parts
are activated by six electric motors
from a B-29’s gun mounts. The
“skin” is of plastic, 3/32nds of an
inch thick bonded to leather and
resembles new luggage material
The head is transparent, showing
all its inner workings of wheels,
gears and wiring.
“He was designed to be operated
by remote control for certain
scenes by electric cables hidden
wherever possible,” the technican
said. “For other scenes wc have
him working in the open — that
is, he has a lot of pre set switches
which time each movement he
makes — like the timing gadget
which lets you take your own pic-
ture. He carries his own batteries.”
Robby is kept happy as possible
McMasters said, to keep him from
getting the robot’s version of hu-
man ulcers — blown fusitis.
DRESS UP COLD CUTS
CHICAGO —(U5—For a cool sum
mer meal, serve sliced cold tongue
with pineapple preserve sauce.
Tongue now can be purchased
fully-cooked and trimmed, ready
to serve. To make the sauce, com
bine 2 teaspoons of cornstarch and
V« cup water in a saucepan. Stir
in V* cup of lemon juice, Vi tea-
spoon of cloves, and Mi cup of pine-
apple preserves. Cook and stir
over medium heat about 5 minutes
or until the mixture is clear. Cool
and serve.
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★WASHINGTON COLUMN x
By PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
U. S. Super-Highway Program
Is Due for Brighter Prospects
WASHINGTON —(NEA)— Pros-
" pects for a new “pay-as-you-
ride" highway construction pro-
gram seem to be looking up in the
house of representatives. The pro-
posal has come out of a House Pub-
lic Works subcommittee headed by
Representative George H. Fallon
(Democrat-Maryland). The idea is
to finance a 15-year, 35-billion-dol-
lar road-building program by in-
creasing federal taxes on gasoline,
diesel fuel for trucks, truck tires
and trucks.
The Fallon plan would be sub-
stituted for President Eisenhower’s
10-year, 31-billion-dollar program
financed entirely by bond issues,
as proposed by the special highway
commission under General Lucius
Clay.
The Fallon bill would also have
to be substituted for the senate-
passed bill sponsored by Senator
M. Gore (Demoerat-Tennessee).
The Gore bill provides for a 5-year,
18-billion-dollar program paid for
out of general revenues.
AS FAR AS THE EISENHOWER
administration is concerned, if it
cannot have the Clay report pro-
gram and bond issue, it would
much prefer the Fallon program of
the house to the Gore program of
the senate.
But whether the senate will be
willing to accept the house pro-
gram, involving automotive tax in-
creases, is something else again.
The way the Fallon program
shapes up now, subject to still
further revision, is like this:
Increase gasoline taxes from two
to three cents a gallon, to yield
an extra 475 million dollars a year.
Increase diesel fuel taxes from
two to six cents a gallon, to yield
an extra 44 million dollars a year.
Increase the tax on new trucks
from 8 to 10 percent, to yield an
extra 42 million dollars a year.
Increase taxes on truck tires
weighing over 90 pounds from five
to 15 cents a pound and increase
the tax on tubes for heavy truck
tires from nine to 15 cents a pound.
These two increases would yield
an extra 30 million dollars a year.
Impose a new tax of 7V4 cents a
pound on camelback for tire re-
treads. Yield, an extra 22 million
dollars a year.
THE TOTAL YIELD from these
six new taxes is estimated at over
600 million dollars the first year.
But as the number of cars and
trucks and their use increased
from year to year, it is estimated
that over the 15 years of the pro-
gram, through 1970, the total tax
increase yield would be around 12
billion dollars.
This sum, added to the 22 b
lion dollars collected from existi
federal taxes on gasoline, dies
fuel, truck tires and trucks, wot
just about make the Fallon pit
gram self-supporting.
TRUCKING INTERESTS n of
maintain that taxes on an avera
new four-axle trailer-truck,
tires and fuel plus registration fet
are $2900 the first year. Under tt
Fallon bill this sum would go
to $3500.
But these same arguments a
used by supporters of the "pay-a
you-ride” plan to justify the t
increases for new highway ccj
struetion. Heavy trucks are said
cause the most wear and tear
roads, so should pay more.
For all automotive equipment
pay for new highway constructi
is considered nothing more than
“toll” for road use, paid for on
proportionate mileage basis.
Lesson in English
WORDS OFTEN MISUSE'
“Indexes" is the English plur
while “indices” is the Latin plur
The latter form is used chiefly
mathematics and other sciences.
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCE)
calumny. Pronounce kal-um-ni,
as in at, i as in it, accent fit
syllable.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Acoi
tic; not acc.
SYNONYMS: Prematurity, pi
matureness, immaturity, untim
liness, precocity.
WORD STUDY: “Use a wo
three times and it is yours.” iJ
us increase our vocabulary 1
mastering one word each dav. 1
day’s word: FLUCTUATION:
wavering; unsteadiness. "Fluctu
tions of opinions.”
Look and Learn
1. How much did the Unit
States pay for Alaska?
2. Under what branch of the U.
Government is the Weather B
reau?
3. What cape forms the me
eastern point of the United Sti
es?
4. What is a toscophilite?
5. What name is applied to t
states in the Swiss confederacy
ANSWERS
1. $7,200,000.
2. Department of Commerce.
3. Quoddy Head, Maine.
4. A lover of archery.
5. Cantons.
Sally’s Sallies
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