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Showers Welcomed Showers Break
Heat Wave In
Most of State
El Reno Temperatures
Drop to 87 Today As
Clouds Hang Around
Although today’s showers didn’t last
long, they were fully appreciated—es-
pecially by the youngsters who had
been forced inside by the heat. Jeffrey
Gault, 5, was enjoying a refreshing
splash in the street, although he don-
ned his new raincoat and hat to ward
off any unexpected showers. However,
his little sister Alice, 3, was getting full
benefit of the moisture and ready for
more. Their parents are Mr. and Mrs.
Wayne Gault, 613 Thompson drive.
teferendum Set
Wheal Growers To
Decide on Quotas
lour polling places will be open
In 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. Friday,
j.' 23, in the Canadian county
■•at referendum as wheat grow-
J cast their votes for or against
keting quotas for the 1955 crop,
he referendum is to determine
•ther or not the quota program
' in effect will continue for next
rs crop.
ick Robinson, chairman of the
nty agricultural stabilization
conservation committee, said
1 four polling places will be lo-
|“d as follows:
Polls Are Listed
|armers in districts A. B G, H, I,
Cement, Darlington, Calumet,
|lev and Maple townships, will
• at Doug's Conoco station: those
and P, East and West Walnut
Inships, will vote at the East
|lnut school: wheat growers in
', K, N, and J, Rock Island,
>, El Reno. Union and Prairie
ships, will vote at the ASC
[ce at 221 South Rock Island in
leno, and those in D. E, L. and
iMathewson. Frisco. Yukon and
litang townships, will vote at
|Yukon city hall,
vo-thirds of those casting bal-
must approve quotas before
can be put into operation,
current program, which was
d on a year ago, was approved
67 percent of the voters—390,221
p7,536.
Big Vote I’rged
|obinson said every eligible wheat
wer in Canadian county has
urged to vote in the referend-
and explained that a producer
eligible to vote if lie will have
e than 15 acres of wheat on his
n for harvest in 1955. Quotas,
said, apply only to farms with
e than 15 acres of wheat,
quotas are approved there will
|narketing penalties on any "ex-
wheat "—produced outside the
fage allotment—and the full
l of price support authorized for
will be available for those who
kply with their allotments. If
It a- are not approved, there will
po quotas or marketing penalties,
price supports for those who
within their allotments will
|>0 percent of parity.
FLIES ON DECLINE
IICKASHA, July 15. —(U.fii—
^-kasha's fly population is less
in previous years, according to
dy County Sanitarian Bill
ape. The city sanitation depart-
it's fly control program was
lited with bring about the re-
ion.
Milk Drouth Dulles Hails New
Forces Light
Hike in Price
Light showers in the El Reno
area today succeeded in breaking
a prolonged and hot dry spell, but
effects ol a milk “drouth" were
being shown on retail price tabs,
effective today.
The dry spell was blamed for a
shortage in local milk supplies,
which forced retailers to add an-
other cent to the price of a quart
of milk, some four months after
having lowered prices due to an
over-supply.
Corliss Allen, local Bordens
dealer, said all brands of milk were
going up one cent per quart and
one cent per half-gallon.
Whipping and coffee cream
prices were upped one cent for a
half-pint, and "half-and-half"
cream prices are up two cents for
a half-pint. Cottage cheese prices
will remain the same.
Allen said Oklahoma City prices
had been increased earlier, but
that local outlets had staved off
the price increase until today. He
blamed dry pastures for the local
milk shortage which forced the
prices back to approximately
where they were before they were
lowered earlier this year.
Fires Scorch
Autos, Grass
Three automobile fires and two
grass fires added to the busy season
for El Reno firemen Wednesday
and today.
Latest of the alarms received was
for a grass fire shortly before noon
today at 15th street and Shuttee.
An earlier grass fire Wednesday
afternoon was extinguished at the
intersection of Mitchell and Oak.
The automobile fires began Wed-
nesday when the brakes of a car
owned by the Long Motor company
of Hydro caught fire as the car
was being towed in the 1000 block
on Sunset drive.
A shortage in wiring under the
dashboard of a car owned by Peggy
Culley, west of 0 Reno, caused
minor damage Wednesday night in
the 100 block on South Rock Is-
land avenue, while a third automo-
bile fire was reported shortly after
8 a. m. today in the 900 block on
South Rock Island, when the emer-
gency brake on a car driven by Mrs.
W. A. Toler, El Reno, began blaz-
ing.
Unity Formula
Secretary of State
Returns From Paris
WASHINGTON, July 15— UP) —
Secretary rl State Dulles returned
from Big Three talks at Paris today
saying “we have found a formula
lor constructive allied unity' which
will strengthen the anti-Communist
position in negotiations on Indo-
china peace.
Dulles flew to Paris Monday night
and held emergency consultations
with British Foreign Secretary Eden
and Fiench Premier Mendes-
France. Or.e of his decisions was
that Undersecretary of State W. B
Smith should go to the Geneva
conference to participate in the
final round of talks with the Reds
cn Indochina.
Understanding Reached
Diplomats here believe that
Dulles would not have agreed to
send Smith to Geneva to provide
high level U. S. participation in
the conference unless he had as-
surance from Mendes-France ruling
out a peace-at-any-price settlement.
In a statement upon his arrival
here, Dulles said the Paris talks
"have brought about an under-
standing concerning Indochina
much more complete than has
heretofore existed."
This he added, enabled the west-
ern ministers “to demonstrate anew
the solidarity of the western powers
in the face of Communist hos-
tility and intrigue."
Smith Leaves Friday
Dulles went immediately from the
airport to the White House to re-
port to President Eisenhower.
Undersecretary Smith will take
off for Geneva late tomorrow for
the talks.
Dulles said the formula for allied
unity was achieved without any
abandonment by the United States
of its principles. Eisenhower and
Dulles have repeatedly stated that
the United States would not sanc-
tion Red conquest of any area.
El Reno residents were en-
joying temperatures in the
80s today, following a series
of mild thundershowers
which started at about 6 a.
m. and sprinkled the area un-|
til mid-morning.
Skies remained semi-cloudy
throughout the day, preseiv-
ing the trace of moisture and
holding temperatures at least
20 degrees cooler than the av-
erage for the past several
days. High yesterday was 108.
Showers were believed heavier in
some sections, although the official
rain gauge located in the western
section of El Reno showed only .02
of an inch.
The two-week-old heat wave,
which has resulted in 16 state
deatns, was denied In most of the
state, and the forcast calls for
showers and thunderstorms in the
east and south for the next 24
hours.
Woman Is Recovering
El Reno and surrounding resi-
dents apparently were "toughing
out” the heat wave without serious
effects; however, a 23-year-old Wis-
consin woman was placed in the El
Reno sanitarium late Tuesday in
critical condition due to the heat.
Mrs. Alcide Valind of Marinette,
Wis., ran a temperature of 110 de-
grees for a short time Wednesday,
however hospital attendants an-
nounced today her temperature was
near normal and her condition was
vastly improved.
Meanwhile, the Associated Press
reported that violent storms in the
east and an expanding cool front
through the midwest had partially
cracked the season's worst national
heat wave as the death toll from
more than a week of scorching tem-
peratures read at least 121.
16 Dead in State
Sixteen deaths were reported from
the heat in Oklahoma today from
Oklahoma City, Stillwater, Tulsa,
Enid and Vinita.
They were James S. Keep, 81,
Sand Springs, who died in a Tulsa
convalescent home: Loyd Eugene
Wakefield. 70; Charley W. Peterson.
81 and Mrs. Louise Winningham.
74, all of Tulsa; I. H. Terrill, 84,
and Pollard Bradley, 87, both of
Stillwater; Mrs. Clara Belle Sexton,
70, Oklahoma City and Mrs. Geor-
gia Alice McCord, 51, Vinita; J. A.
Dodson, 79 and Mrs. Bertie Pierson,
76, both of Enid.
Doctor H. H. Donahue, state men-
tal health director said six pa-
tients at Central State hospital at
Norman had died during the last „„ . ... , , ,
four days with heat as a major fac- ' "n °f a“ ramJ? had
,h„ bw» presented by Mrs. Eugene
Fitch, county home demonstration
club agent.
In other business the group nam-
ed three iiersons, District Judge
William Fogg, W. H. Hardwick,
NEW HOSPITAL (JETS CHECKUP—State and federal officials toured El Reno’s Park
View hospital today for a final inspection before the modern new building is opened for
business some time next month. Among those on hand for a critical look at the installa-
tion were, left to right, Paul H. Fesler, hospital consultant, Oklahoma City; Ren Kline,
representing the architectural firm of Parr and Aderhold; George D. Hester, engineer
in the state health department; R. L. Jones, Dallas, U. S. public health service’engineer
and C. A. Bentley, El Reno city manager.
Farmers Still in Dark on Kind
Of Supports Quotas To Bring
WASHINGTON, July 15—(UP)—The nation’s wheat
farmers may vote next week on stiff marketing quotas and
acreage allotments for 1955 without knowing what kind of
price supports they’ll get if they approve the tough cut back
program.
The unusual situation seemed likely today after an agri-
— culture department official
said the department does not
plan to ask congress for a de-
lay in the July 23 referendum
date.
This means that when farmers
go to the polls, congress still will be
arguing over next year's price sup-
port level. The senate is due to
begin floor debate on the farm bill
just four days before the farmers
vote.
City Rotary
Club Sponsor
For 4-H Camp
Members of the El Reno Rotary
club voted at their regular noon
luncheon meeting today to sponsor
the annual Canadian county 4-H
dub summer camp to be held early
in August at Roman Nose state
park near Watonga.
The action was taken after a dis-
tor in the deaths. He pointed out
all were elderly patients and suffer-
ed from other ailments. Names of
the Central State patients were not
revealed.
State Cooled Off
Cooling showers hit Oklahoma
City and Tulsa early this morning.
At the Oklahoma City airport, the
rain was unofficially estimated at
.20 of an inch after a trace fell
during the night. Tulsa had a sprin-
kle although the mercury stood at
86 degrees.
former warden at the 0 Reno re-
formatory, and Dow Damron, cham-
ber of commerce manager, as hon-
orary members of the club.
Discussion also included a new
Present Law Expires
Even after the senate has acted,
a joint committee will have to com-
promise its bill with a house ap-
proved version which allows sup-
ports on basic crops next year to be
set from 821 i to 90 peiTent of par-
ity. The present law guaranteeing
rigid 90 percent of parity props
expires this year.
The agriculture department offi-
cial said that farmers will only
know for certain that props will be
auywhere from 75 to 90 percent of
parity. At present rates that adds
up to from $1.87 a bushell to $2.24.
If congress took no action, the
TO STUDY PROBLEMS
PAULS VALLEY, July 15.—(U.R)—
Garvin county grain producers will
discuss problems of protecting farm-
store grain at a meeting at 10 am.
July 20 In the fair building here.
Absentee Ballots
For Runoff Issued
Absentee ballots for the upcom-
ing July 27 runoff election were av-
ailable today at the county elec-
tion board’s office, 105 East Hayes.
J. L. Patman, election board
secretary, said all persons, with the
exception of those who are sick,
must get their absentee ballots in
by midnight, Saturday, July 24, if
they plan to be out of the county on
election day.
However, those persons who are
unable to come to the polls because
of illness may cast absentee ballots
even on election day, Patman said.
and projects for the coming year.
Paul Fesler, hospital consultant
Tonkawa had the highest temper- from Oklahoma City, was a visit-
ature In the state yesterday with I 'n* Rota,'ian * today's meeting,
li8 degrees. Other highs included ; ''hlle another Oklahoma City man.
Ponca City 115, Enid 114, Tulsa 112,! Jtal Barnef’’ was a &uest-
Gage 110, McAlester 109, Oklahoma
City 107, Guymon and Fort Sill 106,
and Ardmore 103.
Gage had .05 inch of rain.
Some Storm Damage
Elsewhere in the nation, the heat-
relieving storms left a multi-mil-
lion-dollar trail of wind and lightn-
ing damage across New England,
eastern New York, New Jersey,
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00“ schedule, new memberships | 1949 agricultural act allowing sup-
ports as low as 75 percent would go
into effect.
Delay Is Possible
Ship Locates
Errant Raft
SAN FRANCISCO, July 15—UP)—
Five wet and weary amateur sailors
............ ......... who had hoped to drift to Hawaii
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio and j were plucked from their founder-
southern Michigan. j ingi powerless raft 68 miles off
unrooted ! central California today,
uprooted trees, peeled off roofs,, _. . . , .
snapped power and telephone lines 1 ,,le *relKhter S. S. Metapan ra
and hlorlfpd hieha.v. dioecl at dawn all the men hai
and blocked highways.
These record high temperatures
were reported yesterday: St. Louis
112, Springfield. 111., 114; Columbia,
Mo„ 113; Springfield, Mo., 113.
The heat also touched off severe
storms in the south and west.
A heavy rainstorm with winds
up to 62 m.p.h. hit Denver.
The storm that struck Denver
and spread across Wyoming and
Colorado was welcomed. It was the
first major rain of the summer and
helped parched prairies. Generous
amounts fell along a 500-mile front
from the New Mexico-Colorado bor-
der to the Wyoming-Montana line
on the north.
Weather
State Forecast
Scattered showers and thunder-
storms in the southeast tonight.
Not quite so hot in the north to-
night and in the southeast Friday.
Lows tonight from 65 to 70 in the
northwest to 80 in the southeast,
Highs Friday from 95 to 100.
the men had
been rescued despite high seas and
strong winds.
Presumably all were in good con-
dition. Details of the rescue were
not available.
The Metapan. which located the
tiny yellow raft Lehi said it was
heading for San Francisco, about
175 miles away. It was expected to
dock late today.
Search for the fragile craft which
put out from San Francisco, last
Friday ended 8 hours and 25 minu-
tes after the coast guard answered
an urgent SOS the craft was sink-
ing.
Two New Employes
Join ONG Office Here
Two new staff members have
been appointed at the Oklahoma
Natural Gas company.
They are Mrs. Jack Rice. 738
South Miles, and Paul Bavousette
who is to move to 0 Reno with his
wife, Madeline from Oklahoma City,
Bavousette will succeed Mrs. James
E. Burge who has resigned.
The department could change its
mind and request a referandum
delay. Or congress, on Its own, could
postpone the vote on wheat this
year as it postponed the deadline
on the cotton control vote last year.
Present law requires wheat farmers
vote on a wheat quota program by
July 25.
If two-thirds of those voting fa-
vor quotas all wheat farmers will
have to abide by acreage allot-
ments on wheat and all other crops
for which allotments are set to
get the wheat price supports. Those
with more than 10 acres of land
idled by the allotment program
will have to abide by controls on
all crops they grow.
The national 1955 acreage allot-
ment has been set at the minimum
55,000,000 acres allowed by law.
about 12 percent below this year's
allotment.
Accidents Give Four
Drivers Repair Bills
Two accidents on El Reno streets
late Wednesday caused an esti-
mated $170 in property damage to
the four automobiles involved.
An accident shortly before 8 p. m.
Wednesday in the 700 block on
North Evans avenue caused an es-
timated $25 damage to a car driven
south on Evans by Albert Woodrow
Walker, of 411 West Wade, and
about $45 damage to a parked car
owned by Ester Pawnee, 711 North
Evans.
Earlier a two-car accident at the
intersection of Barker avenue and
Russell street caused about $50
damage to cars driven by Gerald
Raymond Scott, 27, of 1200 West
Walnut, and J. G. Marcum, 24. of
420 Sunset drive.
Donations To
City Hospital
Near $19,000
Donations toward operating ex-
penses of El Reno's new Park
View hospital have reached a total
of $18,975.15 in the campaign to
raise $30,000.
That figure was announced to-
day by Lon C. Booth, president
of the Park View foundation,
which has been set up to accept
contributions which will be used
to pay salaries and purchase food
and medical supplies at the insti-
tution until it becomes self-sup-
porting.
At the same time Booth dis-
closed that approximately $4,500
in additional money already has
been pledged and should be re-
ceived by the foundation in the
near future.
The foundation's announcement
was made as members scheduled
a special tour of the hospital
building tonight and planned an
informal meeting with Robert
Trimble, who assumed the position
of hospital manager early this
month.
The hospital manager, who is
interviewing prospective members
of the hospital personnel, con-
ducting an inventory of equipment
and readying rooms for occu-
pancy, today said he hopes to
have the hospital open for busi-
ness by mid-August.
Reds Release
U.S. Soldiers
After 12 Days
WAIDHAUS, Germany, July 15—
UPi—Seven American soldiers, held
in Communist Czechoslovakia since
July 4, crossed the border to free-
dom today after 12 days in capti-
vity.
Tlie seven, six enlisted men and
a captain, were turned over at this
West German-Czech border point
where Associated Press Correspond-
ent William Oatis was [reed more
than a year ago.
They were met by a detachment
from the U. S. second armored
cavalry, which is stationed along the
east-west frontier.
An army spokesman said earlier
that “after a routine interrogation,
a news conference will be held,”
probably Saturday.
U. S. army authorities said the
men appeared to be in “good con-
dition" and that they reported "the
food was good.”
No other statement was immedi-
ately available.
The seven, taken while on a holi-
day inspection of Europe's grim
frontier with communism are:
Captain Jack Davis, Raytown, Mo„
Private Richard J. Jumper, Boone-
vllle. Miss., Private Firct Class Leon-
ard D. Tennis. Alliance. Ohio., Cor-
poral John F. Glasson Oakdale,
Calif., Private Ross F. McGinnis,
Greensburg, Pa., Private First Class
George Switzer. Milburn. Neb., Pri-
vate First Class Jerry W. Griffith,
Springfield, Ohio.
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Move To Strip
Prober of His
Powers Blocked
GOD’S Policy Group
Pits Weight Against
Censure of Senator
WASHINGTON, July 15 —(Ah—
The senate Republican policy com-
mittee today threw its influence
against the move by Senator Fland-
ers (Republican-Vermonti to cen-
sure Senator McCarthy (Republi-
can-Wisconsin 1 or strip McCarthy
of committee chairmanships.
Without mentioning Flanders or
McCarthy, the policy committee an-
nounced in a statement that it had
unanimously authorized GOP Lead-
er Knowland Calif., to seek to table
any effect to discharge the senate
rules committee from consideration
of any matter relating to the or-
ganization and operation of the
senate.
Flanders has announced he will
move next Tuesday to have the
senate take away from its rules
committee a resolution he has in-
troduced which seeks to have Mc-
Carthy fired from committee chair-
manships. He said an alternative
might be a motion to censure Mc-
Carthy.
Showdown Sought
Knowland had announced yester-
day he would move to table any
such motion by Flanders.
McCarthy called a meeting of his
investigations subcommittee today
in what may be a showdown on bi-
partisan demands for a sweeping
overhaul of the staff.
McCarthy said he hoped to per-
suade his fellow investigators to
let him go ahead with his long-
promised hearings on alleged Com-
munists in refense plants.
But Senator Charles E. Potter
‘Republican-Michigani and the sub-
committee's Democrats demanded
priority action on the staff “house-
cleaning" they called for after the
army-McCarthy hearings a month
ago.
One Man Absent
Ordinarily, they could force things
their way since the Democrats—
with Potter—form a majority in the
seven-man group. But one Demo-
crat, Senator John L. McClellan
1 Arkansas), was absent today.
McClellan is allowed to vote by
proxy but the rules insist that the
proxy state the specific issue to
which it is directed. And, as a prac-
tical matter, there was no way of
telling this In advance of the meet-
ing.
Today's session was the first
formal meeting of the subcommittee
since McCarthy temporarily stepped
out as chairman last March to let
the group investigate his dispute
with the army. It also was the first
chance for action on the staff con-
troversy.
Firings Demanded
The Democrats—Senators Henry
M. Jackson (Washington), Stuart
Symington (Missouri), and McClel-
lan—have demanded the dismissal
of two investigators who were
denied security clearance by the
defense department. They also seek
to oust some staff members who
allegedly made threats to Demo-
cratic senators.
The investigators denied clear-
ance were unofficially identified as
Donald A. Surine, one of McCarthy's
top lieutenants and a former FBI
agent, and Thomas W. Lavenia,
former secret service man.
Potter, for his part, demanded
the firing of top subcommittee em-
ployes who were involved in the
army-McCarthy dispute. This al-
most certainly would Include counsel
Roy M. Cohn and possibly Francis
P. Carr, tile subcommittees staff
director.
Band Class
Due Recess
0 Reno band students will get
a two-day holiday from practice
sessions Thursday and Friday when
Band Director George Kizer at-
tends the annual clinic for band
directors at the University of Ok-
lahoma.
Kizer said he would attempt to
contact all band students person-
ally and notify them of the recess,
but that he had been unable to
reach several of his "A” band
students.
Later this month, the band di-
rector plans to attend the sixth
annual Band Conductors’ confer-
ence at the University of Michigan
in Ann Arbor.
The conference, from July 26 to.
30. will feature'lectures by some of
the nation’s leading bandsmen, in
addition to refresher courses and
pointers on various techniques of
presentation.
SOFTBALL TONIGHT
Softball tonight in Legion park
will feature the Deardorff Oilers
and the Oklahoma City Chiefs at
8 p. m. Don Cox will pitch for the
Oilers, and Alex Warden, former
Oiler, will hurl for the Chiefs.
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