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El Reno (Okla.) Daily Tribune
The El Reno Daily Tribune
A Blue Ribbon Newspaper Serving a Blue Ribbon Community
Issued dally except Saturday Irom 207 South Rock Island Avenue,
and entered as second-class mall matter under the act of March 3. 1879.
RAY J. DYER
Publisher
BUDGE HARLE DEAN WARD
Managing Editor Business Manager
HARRY SCHROFDER
Circulation and Office Manager
There Are Times When We Think Uncle Is a Little Nuts
Tuesday, February 28, 1950
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Including Sales Tax
CLn/ro
Tuesday, February 28, 1950
When we see the other side of the tapestry of eternity we will get a
true understanding of the meaning of life. Now I know in part, but 1
then I shall know according as also I have been known—1 Cor. 13:1Z. I
Sex Crimes Can Be Curbed
J^ECENT killings of small children alter criminal attack!
have so shocked the American people that increasingly
have so shocked the ____________ ,____r
strong public demands are being made for more effective
action against sex offenders. However, control of sex of-
fenses requires the best efforts not alone of law enforcement
agencies and the medical fraternity but of the public as
well. For so long as there is a tendency to draw back in
horror from the fact of shocking offenses, their perpetrators
cannot be prosecuted effectively.
Indeed, on the basis of reported sex crimes, the aggre-
■ gate in the United States has tended to increase since the
war, while most other types of crimes have been diminish-
ing. Approximately 16,000 rapes are estimated by the fed-
eral bureau of investigation to have occurred in’1948. In
large cities rape cases known to the |K>lice reached an ail-
time high last year—at a point 50 percent above prewar
levels. Moreover, reported arrests for less violent sex of-
fenses have risen nearly 160 percent since 1940. This rise
has occurred despite the belief of FBI Director Hoover and
others that much sex crime is preventable.
Medical knowledge now indicates that many habitual
sex offenders should be classed as sick persons, just as
chronic alcoholics are coming to be regarded as invalids.
Proper treatment can remove a high proportion of the physi-
cal and mental difficulties which He at the roots of sex
offenses, but such treatment is available at only a few penal
institutions, and to achieve the desired results, it often must
be continued beyond the statutory sentence. In point of
fact, certain penologists have urged wider use of the inde-
terminate sentence for sex offenders, so that they may be
held until their release is compatible with public safety.
Also, a federal sexual psychopath law to apply in all state?
is to be submitted during the next session of the congress.
But even the best laws will be only partially effective
until the public recognizes the importance of reporting all
sex offenses. Citizens who. with understandable reluctance
to expose a victim, withhold charges against a sex offender,
• are permitting him to continue his anti-social“*aCt$ Wltl
impunity. Even relatively minor offenses have been knowr
to culminate in murder when the offender became alarmec’
at his victim's struggles or was overwhelmed by his owr
guilt.
In this connection, Mr. Hoover declares that jxirents can
help to prevent sex crimes, as well as to protect their own
children, by warning boys and girls against the advances
of sex deviates. A child can be warned, without being ter-
litied, in terms of illness; ‘‘Some people are sick in a wav
that makes them want to do harmful things; we cannot
always tell who these sick people are, and so we do not
accept money, candy or other favors from strangers, and
above all we do not get into cars with them.” Parental
warnings cun be reinforced by teachers, ixilice department?
and other groups and individuals concerned with promotioi
of the public safety.
£nd of a Chapti _
By Edwin Rlltt Copyright 1950 ■ by NEA SERVICE, INC.
been all right?”
THE STORY: Alice Pine, secrc- Rick
lary to Muriel llallerk, who writes asked,
lopular stories under the name of “Perfect.”
Po Palgrave,” suspects Muriel's "No trouble?”
lusband Brent of having been cruel "None whatever.” It was point-
to Rick, his 4-yrar-old adopted son. less to mention the recent tan-
Although Alice cannot forgive him, trum. Nothing had come of tha.
she feels strangely drawn to Brent. Brent was silent so long that
she Joggled his arm. “I thought
you wanted to talk to me?”
He came back, from wherever lie
had been. "Funny about talk. You
know just what you want to say.
Brent now she felt a stab of disloyalty.
“We shouldn’t talk this way, Brent.
We—we shouldn't even be hers.”
"Shouldn't? Shouldn't?" He flung
out a hand, irritably. "Prohibition.':,
taboos, frustrations! That's all life I
is made of."
"Oh. Brent. Stop being childish. I
It's just that I—I hate to see you ]
so terribly unhappy.”
"Do you? Why?”
"Because I like you."
Alice had meant her words to
One night Muriel ms Brent take
Alice in liis arms, but Muriel does
not seem to be disturbed. Brent
leaves his Connecticut home to take
a job in Providence. One week-end
Muriel answers her literary agent's But, sometimes, you can't say it." sound casual. But a peculiar throaty
summons to New \ ork, leaving "Brent." /nice said slowly, "I've voice, her own, betrayed her.
Allee home alone and Brent turn, been here a j tlme now. And x ,T„ Be Continued,
lilt iiupviuwIkiIh It eon i u»Lb
havent been able to help It.i I --er-w.---mr-
mean, noticing that som'ething'lf. Prnklom n Hrww
wrong. I—oh, Brent, what Ls It?" j riUUItm IJ L/dy
There was a queer glow in the1
up une\jiccl<'<Uy. Uruil asks Alice
o go sailing with him. but Alice
does not believe it would look so
good. Later Alice feels irritated by
An Illinois man has been restrained from hypnotizint
his wife. Another fellow who doesn’t know when the honey-
moon is over.
An appropriate slogan for New York during the water
shortage days: If at first you don’t succeed, dry, dry again.
In an eastern college the girls take fencing lessons be-
tween the morning and afternoon classes. Their lunge hour.
No one ever cleaned up by constantly betting on the
horses, says a writer. Not by a long shot!
An easterner is suing because he found a tack in hi?
mince pie^ The food tax business irks a lot of people!
Down Memory Lane
Feb. 28, 1925
i ktudebaker car owned by Harry Snodgrass was stolen
last night from in lront of the El Reno highschool building
Harvey Harrison, El Reno student at the University of
Oklahoma, will represent this city on the varsity basketball
squad next year, unless all indications fail. Harvey is estab-
lishing an excellent record as guard on the Pi Kappa Alpha
Iraternity team, and is playing a regular “El Reno brand”
of ball.
,XT. Tomorrow will be the eighth anniversary of Rev. Holmes
Nichols as pastor of the Baptist church in this city. In
celebration of the occasion he will preach a sermon at the
Criterion theater on ‘‘The Fun of Being a Preacher.”
Feb. 28, 1940
Discussions by two eminent authorities on trends in
American hvnig highlighted the opening session this morn-
ing of the Oklahoma Council of Christian Education. The
speakers were Dr. J. Russell Throckmorton. Wichita. Kan.,
national adult education chairman for the Methodist church,
and Dr. Paul L Vogt, Washington, D. C., senior rural soci-
ologist for the department of agriculture.
A skit, “Madame Nature’s Beauty Parlor,” was pre-
sented Tuesday night at the meeting of the El Reno Busi-
ness and Professional Women’s club in observance of the
group’s 17th anniversary. Members of the cast were Mrs.
Robin L. Smith, Mrs. Garrett Miles, Miss Doris Comby
Miss Katherine Hovenden, Mrs. C. A. Fowler, Miss Lill'ia
Sisney, Miss Wilma Heer and Miss Glen Evelyn McCarty.
Chinese checkers were the diversion at the social meet-
ing of the Booster Sunday school class of the First Christian
church Tuesday evening in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lon
C. Booth, 629 South Ellison avenue. Mrs. Harvey C. Dozier
was associate hostess.
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XXII
,1/n H nothing definite to do, the
1 " afternoon dragged intermlna-
i ’ly for Alice Pine. She carried a
'oook to the terrace and lead for
.while half - heartcdly. About 5
j’clock Muriel Halleck telephoned
from New York.
"Hello, darling.” Muriel’s voice
•ame over a drift of soft music.
What do you know? I'm painting
he town a deep carmine!"
"So I can hear." Alice laughed.
“Were In a plush cocktail pal-
ace," Muriel went on. "I called to
tell you that I won't be out until
the last train. And I’ll take a taxi
home."
“You will not," Alice said firm-
ly. "Too bad If I can't meet you.
low did the day go?”
"Simply wonderfully. But Pat and
1 aren't through wrangling yet.
That’s why I'm still here."
"Well, best of luck and—oh, Mu-
riel! Brent came home."
There was a slight pause at the
other end of the wire. "Did he?
Ceep him amused, will you. Alice?
Now I’ve got to get back to the
literary wars. ’By."
Glad of even small details to oc-
cupy her, Alice looked up the arrival
ime of the last train and went to
instruct the cook. The cook wanted
to know if Mr. Halleck would be
ere for dinner, a point upon which
Alice could not enlighten her.
"Better expect him only if you
■ee him,” she said.
The cook grumbled, without
venom but from long established
habit, as cooks do.
* * *
IJRENT did not return until
T* about 9 o'clock.
"No Muriel yet?" he asked casu-
ally, as he came Into the living
room where Alice was again con-
cerned with the non-arresting book.
She Informed him of Muriel’s
telephone message. "And someone
else," she added pointedly, “might
have done some phoning."
"You mean about dinner? I guess
I should have. But I Imagined you'd
do all right without me.”
"I did." She punished him a
little. "Beautifully."
"Well,” said Brent, "I didn't do
beautifully. Spent the afternoon
wandering around and wound up
at the Tolliver diner."
"Brent, you don’t need to sound
as If I'd ruined your day.”
He looked at her speculatively.
“The day’s gone. But—would you
take a walk with me now, Alice?"
"Certainly." She got up at once.
Brent took her arm, drew her
out to the lawn. Light-squares on
the grass cast by windows fell
behind: shadows crowded to meet
them.
without any warning, Brent Hal
leek's head went down on her
shoulder. His own shoulders, that
sagged so queerly, were shaking.
"Oh God. Alice!”
I TNCERTAIN, and embarrassed,
^ Alice stood there, practically
holding him. But sympathy, for
what she didn't quite know, poured SOIve tne equatloi
over her in a warm wave. Brent1 e<)Ua s 16X p us 40
The tens' digit of a certain num-
ber is 5 larger than the units'
digit. The number is 8 times the
sum of its digits. What is it?
ANSWER
72. Let X equal the units' digit
and X plus 5 the tens' digit; then
the tens’ digit must be multiplied
by 10 for its position in the num-
ber; form equation 10X plus 50
plus X equals 8 times i2X plus 5 >;
solve the equation 11X plus 50
jyjY dear Mary Sue: Tomorrow
Is the big day when we start
the drive for funds. People are
funny. I rarely hear of any one
who doesn't admire the Red Cross
and avail himself of the service
it renders, but when it comes to
the money our campaigners must
work like Turks to get just barely
enough to go on.
For the past two years we have
failed to make our goal, and trim
our sail as we will we find our-
selves right now scraping the
bottom of the barrel. From
where I sit. It looks as if pick-
ing up $12,500 would be Just a
breeze, because I know the mul-
titude of requests which come in
every day and I do not under-
stand how the community can
fail to support (with cash) an
organization which is on duty 24
hours a day and provides the
people with everything from rec-
ipes for biscuit to whole blood
for transfusions. Surely this year
folks will not fail us.
Bill Slagle tells me If our
workers at Tinker field will just
write on the receipt that they
live in Canadian county, that
money will be sent home to apply
on our quota. And another thing
. . . most men give where they
work, but what wife doesn’t al§o
enter into the Joy of giving? A
dollar membership for every
housewife in El Reno would put
us over the hump but our block
workers are constantly met with
the statement, “My husband gives
where he works.” Do Texas cam-
paigners meet with this too?
Big gifts, little gifts, all equally
important.
Remember this verse from—
well, I’ve forgotten the name of
the poem and I only think but
am not sure that it was written
by Edmund Vance Cooke:
"It ls not the weight of jewel
or plate,
Or the fondle of silk or fur;
'Tls the spirit in which the gift
is rich.
As the gifts of the Wise Ones
were.
And we are not told whose gift
was gold,
Or whose was the gift of
myrrh."
Haven't made a speech this
year. Have laryngitis so badly
can hardly talk. I'm always a
wreck by the time we get a drive
started but manage somehow to
survive. Hope every year for a
whirlwind campaign with every-
thuig totaled up and done by the
middle of the month. The
weather is ideal, the workers en-
thusiastic. the people have money;
maybe this is it.
Fondly, your frenzied Mother.
Lesson in English
had sounded tired. Incredibly tired. |
"Brent." she said, ineffectually,
"please don't.”
She felt the shoulders beneath
her arm tighten. Brent pulled hlm-
elf together. "I’m sorry. I nearly
let myself go.”
"Maybe you should have, Brent.”
• Maybe.” Brent's eyes flickered.
He was himself again. "Maybe I
couldn't trust myself.”
He was telling her, substantially,
what for days she'd half-wanted,
and been half-afraid, to hear. But
Do£ Defeated By
Too Many Doors
CORAL OABLE3, Pa . Feb. 28—
(U.R)—Charles Ross’ dog came out a
poor second in a spat with a cat.
The dog, chasing the cat. rammed
through a back screen door and
was cut In several places. Re-
fusing to go to the sidelines, the
dog revived the pursuit and
smashed through the front door.
Ross said the dog quit and re-
tired to nurse his Injured pride.
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do
not say. “There Is an old adage
that proves this." Old is redund-
ant An adage is a saying which
has obtained credit from long use.
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED
Largess (liberal gift). Pronounce
lar-jes. a as in ah, e as In yes, ac-
cent first syllable.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Elastic-
ity; city. Curiosity; sity.
SYNONYMS: Building, house,
structure, edifice.
WORD STUDY: "Use a word
three times and it is yours.” Let.us
increase our vocabulary by mas-
tering one word each day. Today's
word; IMMANENT; indwelling;
inherent. “It was the Divine Spirit
that he felt to be Immanent in his
being."
Mr. Breger
By pave Breger
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“Herb’s Hardware Store? How soon can you deliver a
fire extinguisher in about the medium-priced range?1*
★ WASHINGTON COLUMN ★
Gas Tycoon Kerr's Proposals
Could Hike Natural Gas Price
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON—(NEA)-Richest U. S. senalor is said to be Demo-
” crat Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma. He was born in a log cabin,
rose to become his state's first native-born governor and its Democratic
national committeeman. He was a keynoter at the 1944 Democratic
National Convention in Chicago and a vice-presidential possiblty.
Senator Kerr's fortune has been rated at $10,000,000—all of it made
In the last 25 years and most of It made in the oil and gas business
of the southwest In spite of his wealth, Senator Kerr has been con-
sidered a New Dealer.
All this lends more than usual Interest to Senator Kerr’s sponsorship
of amendments to the Natural Gas Act of 1938, now before Congress.
His principal amendment would remove from rate-fixing regulation
of the Federal Power Commission aU "independent” natural gas pro-
ducers, If they sell “at arm’s length” to Interstate pipelines and dis-
tributing companies, and if they don’t sell direct to consumers.
Eighty per cent of all U. S. natural gas is now produced by companies
which would qualify as regulation-exempt "independents” under the
Kerr amendments.
Asserting that the real purpose of these amendments is to “triple
the price of natural gas in most parts of the United States, Charles
H. Rhyne, Washington representative of the National Institute of
Municipal Law Officers, estimates that if the Kerr amendments become
law. “the total increase in dollars paid by consumers will amount to
more than $200,000,000 a year on a nation-wide basis.”
Rhyne says further that, "The Kerr bill ls certain to increase the
price of natural gas by more than five cents per thousand cubic
feet (wholesale) and this increase assures Kerr of at least $50,000,000
In profits before taxes.” He bases this figure on an estimate that the
present value of the 900 billion cubic feet of natural gas reserves now
held by the Kerr-McGee Oil Producing Co., Incn of which the senator
is president, is $100,000,000.
jyjAIN arguments for passage of the Kerr amendments are that they
would clear up the law and free independent natural gas producers
from bureaucratic runtrols of the Federal Power Commission. The
situation within the FPC is a story in itself. But for the present it Is
enough to note that natural gas producers are reluctant to sell gas
from their wells because of their fear of FPC rate regulation.
In opposition to these claims, municipal officials point out that the
building of natural gas pipelines from the southwest to the mid-west,
to New York and Boston, and to California, has enabled all producers
to sell gas at prices which yield them substantial profit. Now thst
these cities are dependent on natural gas, it is claimed that the pro-
ducers want to jack up the price. And in this battle, there is nobody
to protect the consumers’ interests.
Evidence for this argument is cited In the case of Detroit. Sisice
1945, the "independent" Phillips Petroleum Co. has tripled the price
on gas it sells to the pipeline and distributing companies serving De-
troit. Proposals for proportionate rate Increases to Detroit consumers
are now before Federal Power Commission. Mr. Rhyne estimates that
if FPC can take jurisdiction over the Detroit case, price increases can
be cut down one half.
The relationship between Senator Kerr and Phillips Petroleum is not
without interest. Phillips first hired Kerr, then a lawyer and small-
time drilling contractor, to win Oklahoma City approval to drill wells
in the city limits After successfully conducting this campaign in city
elections, Kerr got contracts to drill wells for Phillips.
Kerr’s partner in Kerr-McGee Is D H. McGee, former chief geologist
for Phillips. Standard Statistics reports that in 1948 Kerr-McGee had
an interest in S2i producing oil wells and 74 gas wells.
This brlel summary of holdings indicates Senator Kerr’s personal
inletesi in ihp Natural Gas Aet amendments he Is proposing
Whole Ship Serves
Newlyweds as Home
Actress
Look and Learn
HORIZONTAL
1 Depicted
actress, —
Strickland
6 She is on the
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11 Soldiers
12 Citrus fruit
14 Nested boxes
15 Slight bow
17 Unmixed
18 Cooking
utensil
19 Before
20 Unit of
reluctance
21 Symbol for
silver
23 Whirlwind KS______
24 Bargain event 24 Chair
28 Smell 25 Weapons
29 Formerly
30 French article
31 Part of "be"
32 Silkworm
34 Former
Russian ruler
37 Chicago's
business
district
38 Father
39 Paid notice in
newspaper
40 Jump on one
foot
42 Bitter vetch
45 Greek letter
48 Bewildered
50 Constellation
51 Source of
indigo
52 Looks fixedly
54 Arched
portion of
human foot
56 Frozen rain
57 Game of pure
skill
VERTICAL
1 Italian river
2 Human beings
3 Animal park
4 Installment
paid (ab.)
5 Domestic slave
6 Was borne
7 Area measure
8 Dibble
9 Accustomed 27 Hodgepodge
10 Hideous 28 Harvest
monster 32 Note in
11 Point Guido's scale
13 Lamprey 33 Rats
16 Correlative of 35 Invoke
cither 36 Sun god
22 Obtain 40 Possesses
23 Hawaiian bird 41 Hops’ kilns
42 Direction
43 Railroad (ab.)
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ketch
46 Cravats
47 High
mountain
49 Exist
51 Peer Gynt's
mother
53 Eye (Scot.)
55 “Granite
State” (ab.)
1. What five state capitals' names
begin with the letter "A?”
2. What, language ls claimed to
have the largest vocabulary?
3. If you were receiving treat-
ment from a rhinologist, would you
be having your leg, your nose, or
your ribs treated?
4. Which day of the week is
named for a planet?
5. What is the title of the top-
ranking official In the government
of Switzerland?
ANSWERS
1. Albany. N. Y.; Annapolis, Md.:
Atlanta, Oa.; Augusta. Me.; and
Austin, Tex.
2. English.
3. Your nose.
4. Saturday, after Saturn.
5. President.
LORAIN. Ohio, Feb. 28—(U.R)—
Floyd and Christine Tollefson are
newlyweds but instead of setting
up housekeeping they have set up
shipkeeping.
The Tollefsons are caretakers
aboard the steamer Wilfred Sykes,
a new ore-hauling vessel built by
Inland Steel company at a cost of
$5,000,000. The ship is tied up at
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a dock near here pending her April
debut.
Mrs. Tollefson. 41, who married
her 42-year-old highschool sweet-
heart of more than 20 years ago,
doesn't mind her shipboard honey-
moon. "It's not bad,” she said; "It's
home.”
She Is surrounded by "acres" of
stainless steel In the galley of the -
huge vessel, but Mrs. Tollefson only
j uses a small section for cooking
! purposes.
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Michigan May Regulate
Auto Sales Financing
LANSING. Mich., Feb. 28—</P)—
Michigan legislators may attempt
to regulate auto sales financing for
the first time during the approach-
ing special session starting March
15.
Senator Harry F. Htttle has pre-
pared bills to that end. He heads
a senate committee which has been
investigating “gouging" of the car-
buying public for more than a year.
The senator charges that some
car buyers are forced to r*y ex-
orbitant Interest rates on hidden
charges. In some cases where con-
tracts were paid up in advance of
maturity, finance charges amount-
ed to as much as 1,000 per cent at
simple Interest rates, Kittle said.
In addition, he said dealer "kick-
backs" to finance companies and
Insurance firms are common.
Cor*. IVVi. Kin* Katun, S)nUitait, In,. WocUl ri*l.u i______
“With bo much credit offered, you must be operating on lend-
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