The El Reno Daily Tribune (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 64, No. 145, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 18, 1955 Page: 1 of 12
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The El Reno Daily Tribune
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(U.R) MEANS UNITED PRESS
Vol. 64, No. 145
Single Copy Five Cents
(/P) MEANS ASSOCIATED PRESS
EQUIPPED FOR FOOTBALL CAMP—Jody Farris, left, and
Gilbert Gholston, both senior lettermen, received their
football practice togs early today from Coach Kenneth
Kamm, who will blow the whistle on more than 50 hopefuls
Friday (next weeki when the Indians start their 10-day
training camp at Fort Keno. Fifteen lettermen were sched-
uled to receive equipment this morning; more than 20 squad-
men received their practice togs this afternoon, and a
promising gang of sophomores will be equipped riiday
morning. (Photo by Bobby Allen) ________
Gary, Vocalists'
Audience Grows
Siren Wail To
Alert Public
In Fund Drive
miiE El Reno fire department
JL siren will sound at 7:30 p. m.
today—but it won t mean a fire
alarm this time.
Instead the drive will represent
long *campaign*^to*bring"cool^air I governor also pondered means
Park View hos- of enticing Wall street financial
Violence Again
Erupts at OG E
Muskogee Plant
MUSKOGEE, Aug. 18—OPi— New
violence erupted today at the pick-
eted Oklahoma Gas and Electric
company, Riverbanks construction
project, causing Sheriff Nevill
Kerr to appeal for help from the
highway patrol and officers of five
neighboring counties.
The sheriff's call went out after
a mass of pickets rushed and over-
turned one worker’s pickup truck
and tried to overturn another car.
The driver of the dumped ve-
hicle, Clarence Schultz, was not
injured.
Two men from a milling mass of
demonstrators at the plant were
arrested for investigation.
Neighbor Officers Called
Officers frotn Wagoner, Stigler,
Sallisaw, Eufaula and Tahlequah
| and the Tulsa unit of the highway
; patrol responded to Kerr’s appeal.
The 24-million-dollar OG and E
plant has been picketed since June
27 by the AFL boilermakers union,
which sought recognition for mem-
bers of its craft. In the beginning
approximately 150 union craftsmen
of about 360 workers on the project
were idled. Construction has con-
tinued. j,
Kerr and a state crime bureau
agent, Leonard Farris, who tour-
ed the plant area, estimated the
demonstrators numbered nearly
500.
Roadblock Set Up
Acting on a tip there might be
trouble, Kerr had asked OG and E
workers to get to their jobs an
1 hour earlier than usual When the
men began to arrive shortly after
6 a. m., they found the main road
to the plant blocked by a double
I row of cars and the road teeming
with men on foot.
Officers cleared a path along one
| side of the road to permit the j
workers to enter the plant.
Two Men in Custody
The men taken into custody were I
identified by authorities as Jeff
Johnson, Tulsa and Walter Lewis,
Yale.
The company last week announc-
ed it would not again meet with
representatives of the striking
; union.
President Don Kennedy wrote
Mayor Lyman Beard, who had ar-
ranged a fruitless Aug. 3 meeting
management and union
Red Korean Gunners
Down Airforce Plane,
Searchers Fired Upon
Father Accused j
After Accident
Traffic charges have been filed j
in county court against two per-
sons, including the father of an El I
Reno girl involved in an accident I
Monday near Calumet.
Howard Ray Laughlin, 420 South
Rock Island, was charged with
permitting an unlicensed person to
drive a car after his daughter, j
Juanita Rae, 14, had been taken to
an Oklahoma City hospital with a |
broken collar bone after the crash.
Two other girls, Charolctte Leek, 1
13, and Charlene Daughety, 13,
both of Calumet, escaped with --
scratches and bruises when the ear ^" ^^ng equ.pment is in-
overturned on a county road. | s™£, and 8in. operation, but
Five Fines Paid foundation officials have reported
In the other case, Mary Ann somcthin2 more than $800 uarys muciai i>uri.v. low the 1.904 reported
Sweeney, Union City, was charged ... • needed before they can eluded 45 Oklahoma City university responcijng 1954 week,
with reckless driving west of the ' . - led to prcsent the singers, also had more sightseeing Through Aug. 13, there were
junction of State Highway 152 and 1 \ "id in paying for scheduled in between plugs for the 9 720 cases iisted this calendar year
Z pnuinment forthcoming movie version of ’Ok- compared with 12,695 in the cor-
nu equipment. -------ilahoma!" the record - smashing | rpsponding 1954 span .For the dis-
vmeinul Thn woriou nf . • 1 1 . ..i. ____* 4
American 1-6
Shot Down Over
No-Man's-Land
MUNSAN, Korea, Aug. 18—
(IP)—The united nations com-
mand today accused “trigger
happy” Comunists of wilfully
shooting down an unarmed U.
S. airforce plane over the de-
militarized zone that separates
North and South Korea.
A second American plane,
searching for the wreckage
and possible survivors from
the downed plane, was fired
upon well inside UN territory,
presumably by “friendly”
guns.
The T-6 training plane, unarmed
and with two Americans aboard,
was knocked down Wednesday by
Communist guns near the Korean
truce lines. The fate of the Ameri-
cans, a captain and a lieutenant,
was not known.
Called "Barbarous"
U.S. Major General Harlan C.
Parks charged in a letter deliver-
ed to the Communist side of the
military armistice commission’’
that the incident represented a
“barbarous” Communist attack.
The plane was fired upon, the
UN protest said, when it inadver-
tently strayed into the demilitar-
ized zone. It never entered Com-
| munist air, the UN command said,
j The plane was subjected to “con-
to patients
pital.
The siren will mark the start
of a junior chamber of commerce
“porchlight parade” to raise the
remainder of funds needed by
the Park View foundation to pay
its share of the cost of hospital
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NEW YORK, A* UMI-Okl,. uSSST
homa’s New York show troupe, biring hall would not be met be-
headed by Governor Raymond J cause such practice was a “vio-
Gary, had two network television- lation of the national labor law.
radio shows booked here today and _ ,,,
Polio Still
On Increase
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 — W—
The public health service said to-
I houses to underwrite additional
! tollroads in his state.
The governor scheduled confer-
ences with two members of the public neaun service
1 Oklahoma turnpike authority pre- . , j 7gl new p0b0 cases were re-
parator.v to a meeting Friday with ■ 1 -----1.
the banking syndicate which is
ported to it last week.
The total represented an increase
negotiating to underwrite the re- ()f 2g ppnt over the corrected
mainder of the state’s authorized, lotal ()f j 412 cases in the week
tollroad program. ) ended Allg g jt was 6 percent be-
Gary’s official party, which in- iow 4j,e i 904 reported for the cor-
U. S. 81, near Union City, on Aug.
12.
Complaints in both cases were
filed by Trooper Joe Dunn.
Meanwhile five traffic cases ap
peared in the two El Reno justice
of the peace courts.
Carl Ezra Wingate, Moore, and
the Best Way Freight lines of Ok |
lahoma City, accused in a com
plaint by Trooper W W Young of
operating an overweight truck Aug.
12, three miles east of El Reno on
U. S. 66, were fined $75 and $10
costs by J. H. Craven, justice of
the peace.
Luke A McDermott. Cincinnati,
Ohio, accused in a complaint by
Trooper Bill Lancaster of parking
on the highway, six miles east of
Yukon on U. S. 66, Aug. 15, was
fined $5 and $10 costs by Craven.
Speeder Fined
In another case before Craven,
a charge of stopping on the high-
way, west of the junction of 152
and U. S. 81, at Union City, re-
sulted in a fine of $5 and $10 costs
for Harold Clinton Wartchow,
1 Union City. Complaint in the case
I was made by Dunn.
Calvin Harmon Burkett, Yukon
f route 1, charged with speeding on
‘ State Highway 152, about seven
1 miles west of Wheatland, was fined
$10 and $10 costs by W. H Gil-
bert, justice of the peace, follow-
ing complaint by Lancaster.
A charge of speeding on U. S.
I 66, two miles east of El Reno on
1 Aug. 5, cost Raymond Joe Miller,
I 702 South Mitchell, a fine of $10
I and $10 costs in Gilbert s court.
I Complaint was made by Trooper
I Ira Walkup.
BARNYARD BAIL
DEEP RIVER, Conn.—(W—After
putting up two cows and a bull in
lieu of $100 bail bond, farmer Har-
old T. Smith, 22, of Haddam, was
[ released on charges of speeding
l and driving without a license.
The drive will continue until
9:30 p. m. today, and residents
interested in making donations
have been urged to turn on their
porchlights as a signal for work-
ers to stop, regardless of how
large or small their contribution
might be.
Those absent from their homes,
or accidentally missed in the
drive, were asked to notify the
two Jaycce team captains, H L.
Richerson, at telephone numbers
272 or 1556, and Sam Davis,
520-W, in order that their dona-
tions may be picked up.
Teachers Seek Aid
Of Social Security
NORMAN, Aug. 18—UP—Oklaho-
ma school teachers should he un-
der federal social security, an
Oklahoma Education association
committee has recommended.
The committee, which is study-
ing retirement plans, told about
800 teachers attending a leadership
workshop at the University of Okla-
homa that the recent state teacher
retirement program is inade-
quate.”
Gov. Raymond Gary has stated
that he believes the state retire-
ment system may some day be
abandoned in favor of placing the
full burden on the social security
program.
The committee here today said
‘Teachers and other eligible em
ployes of the Oklahoma public
schools should be given the oppor-
tunity to determine through refer-
endum as provided by law whether
the benefits of federal social secur-
ity should be extended to them.”
broadway musical. The series of
public appearances will be climax-
ed Sunday when the group partici-
pates in a festival of music at Cen-
tral Park hall.
Gary and Will Rogers, jr., son
of the Oklahoma-born humorist.
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COMPETITORS—These [our eager golfers wore among the first to tee off today ta Juajjjy- tin'ui* it’ finally
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case year which starts about April
1 there were 8,657 cases, compared
with 11,142 a year ago.
In a special discussion of the
use of the Salk anti-polio vaccine. | ,hc"'facts l')cfor(, thc pubUc, and
the report said the communicable th facts add up to good reasons
01 tne UKianoma-Dorn numunst, disease center has listed 300 con- , .. .
were scheduled to visit City hall at | fjrmpd Post-vaccination cases. Of ‘ n .. .
12:30 p. m. and make Mayor Rob- thcse 158 were paralytic and 142 "After listening to all sides in
ert Wagner an honorary chief of | Ponparalytic
Indian City, U.S.A. The ceremonies, _
Wendell* Dozier, of3El Reno, and Tommy Black and Jim Corbett, both of Oklahoma City
Dugan Barnes, tournament chairman, said limit of 112 entries was reached bY and
tod1ynno!m withY Jles'fPhotoby Bobby Allen) _
Gary Endorses
Patrol Changes
OKLAHOMA CITY. Aug. 18—</P»—
Gov. Raymond Gary firmly endors-
ed his top officials in the highway
patrol today for their personnel
changes in recent weeks which
have touched off controversies.
In his weekly column for state
newspapers, the governor said he
has no intention of “second-guess-
ing” state safety commissioner
Jim Lookabaugh or his top aids in
the changes they have made.
“Personally, I was well satisfied
with explanations given by Jim
Lookabaugh, director, and his
staff,” Gary wrote. “They laid all
Engineers Map City Detours
During Widening Work on '66
The state highway department plans a Foreman road route
for a proposed detour during widening work on U. S. 66
over Sunset drive.
That information has been given City Manager C. A.
Bentley at a meeting with C. O. Brewster, division highway
engineer and three repre-
were authorized by the sponsors of / . . . .
the Indian exposition at Anadarko. yy 0Q|*|a|0|>
Rogers accompanied the govern-
or here from Hollywood after a
screening there Tuesday of the |
State Forecast
IK'aroU together „„ . network tele-, MUM and over ment of the etttte public J»rm«
DRIVER POSTS BOND
T N Johnson, 26, Odessa. Tex
accused of speeding, posted $5
bond today in city police court
the dispute, I felt it would be
serious mistake for me to inter-
vene. I would have no basis for
1 second-guessing the highway patrol
director and his chief lieutenants in
deciding where individual troopers
In- can be used to best advantage.
vision show Wednesday night.
Child Hurt In
Fall From Car
A 2Mi-year-old child was thrown
lrom a moving car east of El Reno
shortly before 4 p. m. today when
a tire fell from a passing true**
throwing the automobile out of con-
trol.
Thc youngster, Phillip Miller,
was being treated for cuts and
deep scratches while examination
continued.
He was riding in the car, a new
1955 sedan, driven by his mother,
Mrs. Paul Miller, Oklahoma City.
The west-bound truck, loaded with
auto tires, was driven by Leo Mar-
tin Hayes, Borger, Tex.
Mrs. Miller's inotiier, Mrs. Carl
Crump, also of Oklahoma City, was
in the car. Neither woman was
hurt.
The child was thrown from the
car when the car careened against
a signpost on U. S. 66 about one-
fourth mile east of the 66-81 junc-
tion south of El Reno.
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Friday. Widely scattered thunder- review board and another officer
showers extreme southeast tonight being demoted and transferred
and in the west and south central [ has demanded a hearing,
portions Friday. Little change in Gary’s column was released
temperature. Low tonight 63 north through his office. He is in New
to 73 south. High Friday in the York promoting the movie “Okla-
90s I homa,” now being released.
East Walnut
School Bell
Rings Monday
Students at East Walnut school,
in southwestern Canadian coun-
ty, will have the doubtful honor
of opening this year’s school sea-
son, so far as the county is con-
cerned, when they return to the
classroom Monday.
The school opens early because
of the cotton picking “vacation”
held for two or three weeks early
in October, when youngsters are
expected to help their families
on the farm.
Enrolment of highschool stu-
dents was conducted at the
school today and grade school
enrolment is scheduled to be held
Friday.
Thc faculty at East Walnut in-
cludes Glen E. Loafmann, super-
intendent; Miss Nona Cary, El
Reno, who conducted enrolment
today, Mrs. Vera Westfall and
Mrs. Frances Tate.
Son's Summer Earnings Won't Hike Family Tax
A ■ •• • ______«... A..IM nnnecna in
Do you have a son or daughter
working during the summer
vacation, who is likely to earn
more than $600 before school
starts again?
If so, he or she doesn’t have to
quit work before earning that
amount for you to retain your
child's exemption deduction. The
same holds true if you have a
non-student working child who
will still be under 19 by the end
of the tax year.
In either case, regardless of
how much the child earns, the
parent may claim an exemption,
providing he has furnished over
half the total cost of his child's
support for the year. This rule
also applies in the case of legally
adopted children.
There is one important thing to
keep in mind: A dependent child
is also entitled to an exemption
deduction for himself on his own
separate return. On the other
hand, if he is married, and files
a joint return with his wife, no
dependency exemption may
be claimed by the parent.
Earl R. Wiseman, district di-
rector of Internal Revenue, to-
day clarified revenue laws which
have confused many parents in
Oklahoma.
“We have reports of both par-
ents and employers telling work-
ing children they’ll have to quit
their jobs before they earn $600.
They can work right up to the
reopening of school if they want
to,” Wiseman said. “The chil-
dren, however, may have to pay
a small tax. Since many of them
are studying our own courses in
basic taxation they already know
this. By the same token, many
of them who work only short
terms of employment or for a
smaller salary will probably be
entitled to refunds during thc
next filing season."
This information should prove
helpful to three parties to sum-
mer employment, the student or
child worker, the parents, and
the employer, Wiseman said. He
warned that to gain advantage of
this rule, children over 19 must
be bona fide students at recog-
nized educational institutions, or
pursuing a full time farm train-
ing course. Any questions regard-
ing individual cases may be re-
ferred to the district office, in
Oklahoma City.
sentatives of the state highway
office.
Bentley said the engineers ex-
plained the highway department
plans to route west bound U. S. 66
traffic north on Rock Island avenue
to Foreman street and west on
Foreman, while traffic coming in
from the west will be routed over
Foreman to Choctaw avenue, and
south on Choctaw to its regular
route.
Seek Wider Strip
He said the engineers also asked otoii w
and received, assurance that they in thc actj0n.
could secure an additional 10 feet | _
of right-of-way in Adams park if
needed.
Meanwhile, Jack Burmeicr,
chamber manager, said the group
told him they hoped to begin the
widening work by next January,
but stressed that it would be at
least six weeks from now before
the project could get onto thc draw-
ing boards, since information from
surveys is just now becoming avail-
able.
Two Separate Projects
While the Sunset drive work is
part of the overall plan to improve
thc present U. S. 66 route, the
work here will not be connected
with bond issue proposals for wid-
ening the remainder of the high-
way to the west county line.
Chamber directors Wednesday
went on record as favoring a coun-
ty bond issue to secure right-of-way
for the project outside the city
limits.
crashed in Communist North Ko-
rean territory.
No Survivors Soon
No parachutes were seen to leave
the training plane before the crash.
In Tokyo, the U.S. far eastern
airforce said a C-47 transport
plane, searching for wreckage and
possible survivors "was fired upon
this morning approximately 50
miles northeast of Seoul.”
The brief Tokyo announcement
did not say who shot at the cargo
plane. But the location given is
approximately 13 miles south of
the demarcation line separating
North and South Korea, indicated
it was fired upon over UN con-
trolled territory and presumably
by “friendly” forces.
Second Plane Hit
The airforce said thc second in-
cident is being investigated.
Thc C-47 was struck by one bul-
let which punctured a wing near
the engine nacel, but it returned
safely to its base.
The UN protest said there had
been nine instances during the past
ten months of the Communists fir-
ing on unarmed aircraft and said
the “trigger happy” Red gunners
“seem to derive a fiendish delight”
Boy's Elbow Skinned
As Bicycle, Car Tangle
A five-year old bicyclist, Randcll
Mark Yohe of 521 North Evans,
suffered a skinned elbow when his
bike and a car were involved in
an accident on Foreman street,
west of the intersection with Choc-
taw avenue Wednesday afternoon.
A police traffic report showed the
car, driven by Elliott M. Robertson,
son, 44, of El Reno route 3, had
made a left turn onto Foreman,
going west, when the boy rode from
a sidewalk on the north in front
of the car.
Peron Braces
For Rioting,
Adds Recruits
BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 18—(*-A
semi-official voice of President
Juan D. Peron’s government pro-
claimed today the start of a cam-
paign for recruits and renewed
vigor in the ranks of the Peronistas
-the nation's ruling party.
As beefed-up police forces pa-
trolled the streets of the capital
in the wake of a three-day reign
of disorders, the newspaper Demo-
cracia said in a front page state-
ment the Peronista party had kept
quiet for a month because of the
“pacification” campaign which fol-
lowed the June 16 revolt.
But now, it continued, because of
rejection of the truce by Peron’s
political foes and fresh outbursts of
street fighting between police and
anti-Peron crowds, the party must
give “new tonic” to its followers.
Buenos Aires was calm this
morning under a heavy thunder-
storm. But peace seemed remote.
Justice and Interior Minister Os-
car Albrieu accused seven priests
in Buenos Aires of using the pulpit
to incite a "campaign of dis-
obedience” against Peron.
He said no action had been taken
yet against the clerics, but that
their names would be handed over
to church authorities.
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