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[outh Baseball
{agues Enter
Inal Matches
lArehery Program To
[Get Started Monday
lAfter Lengthy Delay
1 Reno's two kid baseball leagues
Ir their final week of play
■day which will decide the indi-
lal league winners and give a
|le of the teams opportunity to
a state tournament in Okla-
i City.
lading the American (8-10)
Le are the Yanks from Webster-
bg with 10 wins and 2 losses.
| Lincoln Red Sox are in second
, 6-4; the Indians from Lin-
hold a 5-4 season record,
i the Rose Witcher Comets
i lost 10 straight.
be Indians and Red Sox meet
Way afternoon on the Lincoln
bus diamond. The Red Sox play
ji at Rose Witcher on Thurs-
I then Rose Witcher goes to the
join Indians field on Friday
fnoon.
Dodgers Leading
the National (11-12) league,
Lincoln Dodgers are hitting a
let 9-0 season; the Lincoln
llnals are second with a 5-2 rec-
I Central's Rockets have won 4
I lost 5, and the Webstcr-Irving
|es have eked one win out of
starts.
Tuesday afternoon, the Lin-
I Cardinals will play at Central,
1 Webster-Irvlng's club will go
he Lincoln Dodger field. Then
Friday afternoon the Lincoln
lers will play the Cardinals and
Jster-Irving will go to Central.
Final Week of Play
npletion of those schedules
kind up official league play for
Iwo groups; however, other ac-
les still in progress under su-
asion of the junior recreation
lam will keep them occupied
1 school reopens,
pineth Kamm. coordinator of
activities this summer, re-
I Saturday that archery equip-
ordered early this summer
arrived and that he would meet
all boys and girls 8 to 14 at
I m. Monday to start archery
potions.
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HOT WEATHER OPPORTUNIST-When five-year-old Stephen Craig Cochran found
where someone had spilled a 25-pound bag of cracked ice on an El Reno sidewalk he
wasted no time in taking advantage of its soothing coolness for his bare feet, and he
managed to salvage a few sizable chunks for eating purposes. Bruce Haynes of Haynes
Photo Supply witnessed the incident in front of his store and couldn’t resist making
this candid photo. Young Stephen, who lives in Oklahoma City, said lie’s “visiting cou-
sins nere.
Kids Kept Active
Imm, Incidentally, will have
I breather in his summer work,
las consented to take on addi-
II chores of swimming instruc-
It the Red Cross swim school
Ining at the next session of
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fcessive heat during the past !
JNekt has failed to dampen en-
lasm for baseball and other I
her sports, Kamm said, and he
for considerable activity dur-
he remainder of July and most
ligust
?fce/s Blank
)obart Nine
liking out 12 and spinning his
pd no-hitter in ns many games.
• Cottev lead the Legion Rebels
the finals of the District
fcpic AAU turnament at Elk
1 Friday afternoon w ith a 10-0 |
|out of Hobart
Rebels plated 1 in the first
larlded a big 6 in the third to
Tatters. They clubbed out seven
Imixed with eight walks, with .
pig guns being Lanny Keller j
a circuit clout and Boogie
try With a leftfield line triple,
le to the tournament eight-run
I rule the game was called In
fifth frame
the 15 Hobart batters in
I short game, only three got
pall in play.
Ler’on boys were scheduled
Ingle with the Elk Cit.v-Clinton
Ter Saturday night in the finals.
Budget Gets
Official Nod
From Council
An $283,995.69 city budget for the
coming year was formally approved
by city councilmen at a special call-
ed meeting Friday night, after the
nine-man board had gone into a
thorough review of figures for ail
departments.
More than half of the proposed
budget—a total of $184.365.60—was
set aside for salaries and wages of
city employes under the proposal
which had been set up with the aid
of an auditor.
The budget approved Friday night
represented a revision of an $284,190
figure which the council had tenta-
tively approved at their regular
monthly session the first of July.
However, the budget has not yet
reached the end of its road. Follow-
ing legal publication it is scheduled
to go to the county excise board
along with a request for ad valorem
tax money.
City Manage) C A. Bentley pre-
viously had announced that the pro-
posed budget is based on the as-
sumption that the city will receive
$22,000 in ad valorem taxes, or
somewhat more than four mills.
Hornets Earn Way
To State Playoffs
The VFW Hornets shut out But-
ler. 14-0, Friday evening in the dis-
trict AAU tournament at Enid,
gaining a berth in the state play-
offs at Enid.
With their teammates playing
flawless ball behind them, the VFW
moundsmen were never in trouble
during the entire evening. Joe
Smith. Hornet pitching mainstay,
was injured in a third-inning slide
at home plate and was forced to
leave the game.
Knowland Guns For
Flexible Crop Props
WASHINGTON. July 17 -(U.R)—
Senate Republican Leader William
F. Knowland asserted Saturday the
present rigid farm price support
system may collapse under "ex-
cessive costs" unless the administra-
tion's flexible program wins bi-
partisan support.
Knowland charged in a senate
speech that opponents of the Eisen-
hower plan advocate a “very dan-
gerous" theory in appealing for
one-year extension of the rigid sup-
ports—90 percent of parity—on
basic crops.
Timing of the speech had an un-
usual aspect. Not often has Know-
land, as the majority leader, made
a major speech on an issue not
actually before the senate. The
Californian spoke after telling news-
men earlier that debate on the
senate's catch-all farm bill may be
sidetracked until the week after
next.
This prompted Senator Milton R.
Young iRepublican. North Dakota)
a farm bloc leader opposing the
administration program, to declare
there Is no excuse for not starting
farm debate Monday or Tuesday.
The senate bill, with a bare ma-
jority of eight agriculture commit-
tee members in control of its word-
ing, was sent to the floor contain-
ing a proposal for extension,
through Dec. 31, 1955, of rigid con-
trols on five crops—cotton, com,
wheat, rice and peanuts.
The administration wants a flex-
ible system, in which the secretary
of agriculture could adjust the price
supports to reflect supply and de-
mand.
City Hospital
Money Drive
Is Near Goal
Efforts to raise operating funds
for El Reno's new Park View hospi-
tal had reached a new mark this
weekend as city and hospital offi-
cials worked toward a hoped-for
opening of the institution by the
middle of next month.
Lon C. Booth, president of the
Park View foundation, which is re-
ceiving money in the fund-raising
campaign, said the fund had bank-
er $21,120.15 by Saturday, leaving
less than $10,000 to go in the drive
to reach a $30,000 goal.
The money will be needed upon
opening of the Park View hospital
to pay the salary of the manager
and other employes, and to pur-
chase both food and supplies, since
bond issue money may not be used
for any other than construction
purposes.
Booth said the money on hand
w’as boosted during the past week
by a S500 contribution turned over
to tlie foundation by the Knights
of Columbus and by several large
contributions from individuals.
Approximately $3,000 in pledges
are expected by workers in the cam-
paign, and further pledges are still
being sought as time for the open-
ing of the hospital approaches,
Booth said.
French Threaten With
Increased War Effort
If Truce Talks Collapse
Two City Students
Given Scholarships
Two El Reno highschool grad-
uates have been awarded scholar-
ships to Phillips university at Enid.
Dr. Eugene S. Briggs, university
president said they are Pat Cov-
ington, 818 West London, who has
been awarded a divisional scholar-
ship in the field of science, and
Wendell Dozier, 1504 Shuttee. who
has received a merit scholarship.
Murder Count
Filed on Pair;
Another Sought
Third Person May
Be Woman; Mates’
Stories Don’t Jibe
I rederick Thomas Skinner. 19,
still at large, was named In a
third murder charge filed in Okla-
homa City Saturday night.
OKLAHOMA CITY, July 17—(U.R)
—Two sullen bandits, wounded in a
gun battle in which a detective died,
broke silence Saturday and gave
officers their names plus contradict-
ing stories about a John—or Jane—
Doe who drove their getaway auto-
mobile.
Police charged the two men with
murder and also issued a John Doe
warrant for their* accomplice. But
the warrant may have been in the
wrong gender. One of the gunmen
said the only other member of the
gang is a woman.
Detective Bennie F. Cravatt, 41.
was fatally wounded with a shot
near the heart when he surprised
Raymond Carroll Price, 23, and
Herbie Franklin Fairiss, 20, both of
Dallas, in a grocery store at 9; 15
p. m. Friday. Price fell to the floor
as Cravatt and his partner, officer
Bill Rackley, traded shots with the
gunmen. Fairiss got away but sur-
rendered two hours later at Shaw-
nee, 43 miles away.
Woman Implicated
Price was only slightly wounded
in the leg, acting Police Crief Roy
Bergman said, but Fairiss is in
critical condition. A bullet punctur-
ed his liver and broke a rib as it
went through him.
Fairiss said he was driven away
from the grocery by a Dalles wait-
ress who accompanied him and
Price here for the holdup.
"But we don't believe that at this
point,” Bergman said “We are al-
most sure a third man was involved.
Perhaps the woman also was along,
but we only have his word for it.”
Price, a thin, wavy-haired thug
with a record of burglary and nar-
cotics arrests, denied Fairiss' story.
Mention Mate's Name
Price first tried to throw officers
off the trail by giving a phony
name. He also claimed he and
Fairiss were alone and that they
had one, two or three partners.
Officers had been sent to the gro-
cery, at Southeast 44th and Shields
boulevard here, after Assistant
Manager Amos W. Truman had
signaled to passersby that he was
being kidnaped by the bandits. The
bandits took Truman to the home
of the store's bookkeeper, Mrs. Fan-
ny Ransom, then tied up Truman
and others accosted there and re-
turned to the store with Mrs. Ran-
som. They intended to force her to
open the store safe.
The officers were waiting and the
.'•hooting followed.
Truman said a third gunman was
called "Joe" by Price and Fairiss.
Officers were looking for a stolen,
light-blue late-model Buick. Fairiss
was seen to get out of such a car
at Shawnee, presumably because he
wanted to get medical attention.
Winner of ‘Miss El Reno' Title
To Enter State Beauty Contest
El Reno girls will be offered a
chance this month for a shot at
the "Miss America” title when
tne junior chamber of commerce
sponsors a local beauty contest,
and several aspirants already
have indicated their plans to take
advantage of the offer.
The Jaycec contest for the "Miss
El Reno" title will be held at 8:30
p. m. Tuesday, July 27, at the
Legion park swimming pool when
judges will select a representative
to attend the state contest which
will be held July 30 in Oklahoma
City.
Stanley Youngheim, club presi-
dent, said entrants must be at
least 18-years old, highschool gra-
duates. and unmarried, in line
with "Miss America” contest rules.
In addition each contestant, is
to present a three-minute skit or
talk demonstrating her abilities
—whether it be in the entertain-
ment field such as singing or
Date Changed
In Red Cross
Fund Effort
Canadian county's Red Cross
chapter will hold its 1955 fund cam-
paign in November this year, in a
return to its pre-war campaign
time.
Decision to make the change back
to the older schedule was reached at
a meeting of county and city board
members and campaign workers
July 15 In the El Reno country
club, after the plan had been thor-
oughly discussed.
Principal reasons for the switch in
campaign dates included weather
conditions which usually prevail
during March, income tax collec-
tions, and the great number ot na-
tional tund drives held at that time
of the year.
It was emphasized that the change
meant no fund campaign will be
conducted by the Red Cross chapter
during March next year, since the
funds collected during November
will be usable for the fiscal year
beginning July 1, 1955 through June
30. 1956.
Stanley Youngheim, who has
agreed to ramrod the upcoming
drive, said much of the personnel
conducting the 1954 campaign will
be used in the effort since the
county chapter already "has a fine
organization built up over a long
period oi years."
$977 Judgment Asked
In District Court Suit
A petition asking a total of
*977.11, has been filed in district
court by Stanley Strother, naming
Gamer Pettigrew, both as head of
the Garner Pettigrew Trucking
company and as an individual, as
defendant.
The suit asked $622.51 allegedly
due on a check given the plaintiff
on March 12 this year, and also
asked $354.60 allegedly due for
transportation of goods, ware and
marchandise.
dancing, or in some other line
of work, since Judging will be on
the basis of both talent and beau-
ty.
Contestants were urged to make
their applications as soon as pos-
sible. since a deadline has been
set for Monday noon, July 26.
Applications may be made by
contacting Jim Heinen at the Ok-
lahoma Gas and Electric company
office on North Bickford.
Youngheim said judging will
not be the only feature of the
events July 27 at the municipal
swimming pool.
An entertainment program, in-
cluding a water ballet of local
swimmers to be directed by Miss
Marjorie Sams, also has been
scheduled for the evening.
Top winners of the local con-
test will be awarded an expense-
paid trip to the state "Miss
Oklahoma” finals in Oklahoma
City.
Search Opens
For 'Firebug'
West of City
City and county officers were
on the lookout for a possible
"firebug" Saturday after firemen
were called about 10 a. m. to ex-
tinguish four fires within a two-
mile stretch on U. S 66, west of
El Reno.
Assistant Fire Chief Don Eagle
said sheriff's officers were called
IP to investigate after the four
fires were reported burning along
a strip on the southside of the
highway between 10 and 12 miles
west of the city.
One of the blazes was in an oat
field.
“It looks like someone has been
setting fires out there deliberate-
ly," Eagle said, adding that
“we've had suspicions about it for
some time.”
The assistant fire chief re-
marked that "it's just too much
fire to be a coincidence" and de-
clared that "fawners are really
up In aims about it."
The El Reno fire department
had added its 26th call for a
grass fire Friday afternoon
when a blaze was reported at
the intersection of Jensen and
Dilie. That alarm was the 29th
for a fire this month.
Weather
i
State Forecast
Fair and continued hot. through
Sunday night; low tonight 70-75
west to upper 70s in east. High
Sunday 100-110.
RETURNS TO l!. S.
Andrew H. Ashley. Airman third
class in the U. S. airforce, son of
Mr. and Mrs Charlie Keet Ashley,
1310 Industrial boulevard, has re-
turned from a one-year tour of
duty at Thule, Greenland, and has
been assigned to the 2589th airforce
combat training center, Dobbins
airforce base. Marietta, Ga.
French Chief's
Ultimatum Is
Truce or Fight
U. S. Envoy Arrives
In Geneva To Lend
Support to Premier
GENEVA, July 17—(UP)
— French Premier Pierre
Mendes-France warned the
Communists Saturday to
make peace in Indochina
within three days or face
tlie prospect of a stepped-up
French war offensive.
The Frenchman issued his
warning in a radio broadcast
to the French people from
Geneva where high Red de-
mands for peace in Indochina
have deadlocked the nine-
nation Asian peace confer-
ence.
American Undersecretary of State
Walter Bedell Smith flew to Geneva
fr°m Washington to strengthen the
West's hand in dealing with the
Reds in a showdown.
Mendes-France ’ spoke shortly
after Red China protested that the
West may cause failure of the
peace talks by pressing its plans
for a southeast Asia security pact.
May Increase Forces
The French permier promised the
French people and the national as-
sembly that he would win an “hon-
orable" peace in Indochina by July
20 or resign. Before leaving Paris
last week he told the assembly that
if he failed to win peace by his
deadline he would ask that French
draftees be sent to Indochina to
reinforce French forces for a new
offensive.
Saturday he referred to both his
time limit and assembly speech.
"Three days is the specific time
limit which the national assembly
has fixed for our adversaries to ob-
tain a cease-fire in Indochina. In
three days, this time limit will have
expired. I shall then have to give
an account to parliament on the re-
sults of the mission entrusted to
me,” Mendes-France said.
Three Days To Act.
"But whatever this result may
bn, if today I had to give to this
conference three days, three weeks
or three months to succeed, it is
three days that I would choose, I
assure you without hesitation,” he,
said.
“If in three days, we have not
attained our goal, you already know
the great responsibilities which we
shall have to face,” he said In
reference to hts assembly speech.
"I know well that you will not ac-
cept them—and that is legitimate—
unless you understand clearly the
reasons which will have placed us
under the obligation of demanding
new sacrifices for our country," the
premier said in the broadcast.
Outlines Differences
He said there was nothing left
to examine in the peace negotia-
tions that was "obscure" or "insur-
mountable." He added it was no
longer a question of work, but of
“will."
\hey Were Locusts in Days of Pharoahs
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By L. D. Ward
LASHHOPPERS. known as
locusts in Biblical times, have
n a seasonal toll on the
d’s food supplies every since
>ry was first recorded,
ick in the days of Moses, the
t of Exodus reveals that
les of the winged herbivorous
its literally darkened the
in their wwve of destruction
|ss Egypt, and proved an an-
nemisis to farmers since
time.
pwever, like in most all
Igs, some good was found in
1 gnawing hoppers—like back
in the drouth and depression
times of the mid-30's poultry
farmers unable to purchase feed
for their flocks, rigged up "grass-
hopper harvesters" on front of
their automobiles and collected
tons of the insects for chicken
and turkey feed.
AND. it's been told that the
lowly hopper has been found
to be quite delectable In China,
where they are prepared some-
what like American popcorn—
toasted with added seasoning.
Most any farm lad will testify
and demonstrate that they make
first-class cattish bait.
But the daring hoppers have
entered new fields of conquest,
according to a recent report from
the Oklahoma game and fish de-
partment.
Grasshopper? now pose a threat
to our birdlife—their natural
enemies.
Field representatives of the de-
partment say Oklahoma's game
and songbirds are fighting a los-
ing fight. No longer can they
catch and devour the hoppers
when and where they are found,
but the pestiferous creatures are
actually moving into the bird's
domain and literally eating their
nests from under them.
Tired of Grasshoppers? Try This
If you re really interested in ridding your premises of grass-
hoppers, here's a sure-fire poison recipe whipped up by County
Agent Riley Tarver.
First, collect the following ingredients for tlie full course, or
smaller proportionate amounts: Wheat bran, 100 pounds; molasses.
2 gallons; lemons or oranges, 12 good-sized; water, about 10 gal-
lons.
And, top that off with five pounds of lead arsenic or white
arsenic.
Directions: Mix thoroughly the bran and arsenic, then add the
lemons or oranges which have been finely chopped. Onions may
be used instead of the fruit. To the mixture, add enough water
to make the concoction flaky.
Warning: This is not a recipe for coffee cake and no part of
the mixture should be fed to husbands, dogs, cats or other pesky
animals, regardless of the urge.
. . . Today's Troubles Are Plain Grasshoppers
ALLACE HUGHES, a fish
' ' and game department artist,
swears that he observed an ex-
asperated mourning dove busily
pecking swarms of grasshoppers
from her back as she attempted
to incubate her eggs.
In other sections of the state,
Wallace observed “droves" strip-
ping leaves from trees which
shaded nests of doves, orioles,
western kingbirds, and even the
state's official bird, the scissor-
tailed flycatcher.
It was noted that even the
hardy feathered friends of Okla-
homans soon would become dis-
couraged in attempting to hatch
and raise their young, exposed to
the sun's broiling rays.
Hughes said grasshoppers “are
marching on western Oklahoma"
in greater numbers than in many
years, and that total effects of
the foraging insects on bird,
animal and plant life remain to
be seen.
IIE excused the failure of
counterattack by the birds by
pointing out that (unlike the
Chinese! they nmch prefer small-
er insects in their diet.
Although they love their song-
birds and dove and quail. Ca-
nadian county farmers would ap-
preciate any cooperation in
helping cut down the growing
number of crop-eating grass-
hoppers, who have moved into the
city's shrubbery and gardens in
large numbers
They are applying toxic mix-
tures to their crops in an at-
tempt to save tender com. alfal-
fa and gardens. But when the
hoppers have got the birds on
the run, maybe it's time to resort
to more drastic measures.
•Moses called them locusts, but
they're grasshoppers today—and
they haven’t changed a bit.
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