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The El Reno (Okla.) Daily Tribune
Wednesday, September 5, 1956
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The El Reno Daily Tribune
A Blue Ribbon Newspapor Serving a Blue Ribbon Community
Issued daily except Saturday from 201 North Rock Island Avenue
tnd entered as second class mail matter under the act of March 3, 1879.
RAY J. DYER
Editor and Publisher
DEAN WARD JAMES M. ROGERS
Business Manager Managing Editor
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Circulation and Office Manager
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Ship of the Desert
Own
Mr. Breger
By Dave Breger
Wednesday, September S, 1956
How many loaves have you? Mark 6:31. Whatever interpretation we
put on the feeding of the five thousand we must learn the lesson that
nothing is impossible, and giving does not impoverish. That faith has
made the Christian Democracies great and powerful.
Not Much of a Show
IN all the post-mortems over the two national conventions the
*■ complaint that keeps coming up is against dullness.
Some citizens may argue, with good point, that the con-
ventions were not equally dull.
But the difference was simply one of degree.
Harry Truman’s maneuvers, civil rights and an unexpected
photo finish in the vice presidential contest lifted the Demo-
cratic affair above the dogged routine achieved by ihe Re-
publicans.
The tedium was felt for two reasons:
1. The basic drama infused by a real struggle for the presi-
dential nomination was lacking.
2. Most politicians are inherently dull on the public plat-
form and they were operating according to form at Chicago
and San Francisco.
WHY the folk who concern themselves with covering eon-
” ventions expected miracles of excitement in 1956 is diffi-
cult to fathom
Once President Eisenhower let it be known he was run-
ning again the GOP convention had nothing to do but ratify
his action. The sole question was whether this would be done
by a huge shout or a roll call.
And since the delegates also overwhelmingly preferred
Vice President Nixon for renomination, Harold Stassen’s be-
lated effort to sidetrack him could not have injected any real
suspense into the proceedings.
On the Democratic side, after early June all signs pointed
to an early ballot nomination for Adlai Stevenson. Senator
Kefauver’s July withdrawal removed one of the key ele-
ments of possible conflict. Only Governor Harriman’s forlorn
candidacy was left.
In the face of these developments, the networks and news
agencies determined to swarm over the convention sites in
record numbers, as if they thought at least one of the parlies
might nominate Danny Kaye on the 45th ballot.
ADMITTEDLY, convention organizers confused them some
^ what by promising “streamlined” conventions with stress
on short speeches, fast pace, lots of eye-filling entertainment.
But no one should have been misled.
Ten short speeches are not necessarily better than two
long ones. A dull speaker reveals himself pretty quickly.
One might fairly say that it is virtually impossible to stream-
line a politician. Speech-making is his business, but in the
nature of things all too few of his breed are good at it. Put
him on a platform and he will not be too concerned with
whether he's outdoing “I lxjve Lucy” or not.
In a truly exciting struggle like the Eisenhower-Taft match
of 1952. the dull grinding of the speech mills seems relatively
painless. But in mild affairs like those of 1956 it all comes
mercilessly to the fore.
Basically, conventions are not entertainment and politicians
are not entertainers. Nor is television or anything else likely
to change these facts in a short space of time.
Political drama isn’t automatic. You must take it where
you find it.
It’s funny how it’s always the good things that are not good
for you when you want to reduce.
NEA Service, Inc.
rpiIIS is the anniversary of the
first meeting of the first
Continental congress. We think
we’ve got trouble but those boys
really had it. How much they
didn’t at that lime know or I
strongly suspect there would have
been those among them who
would have used the familiar
quotation, “Aye tank Aye go
home.” Twelve of the colonies
were represented in Philadelphia
that day, each colony having on-
ly one delegate, and organized
what has since become the con-
gress of the United States.
It was a small compact organ-
ization. Each of the 12 states had
one delegate to represent all the
people residing in that state
which 1 grant you weren’t num-
bered in the millions. But, many
or few, the point is the same;
this Continental congress estab-
lished for this nation a repre-
sentative form of government.
No telephones, no radios, no TV,
no wire or wireless, not any
means of rapid communication
between the constituents and
their representative. When a fel-
low went to congress in those
days the faith of the home folks
went with him and without look-
ing back over his shoulder at
the spectre of the next election
he made decisions the best he
could according to his under-
standing ;uid ability. And when
weeks later the folks at home
learned what had been done they
accepted it secure in the knowl-
edge that when all the states’ rep-
resentatives were together and
could talk things over the greal-
“He doesn’t think he learned much his very first day in
school, today, because he has to go back tomorrow ...”
Short Stories ... About Home Folks
Mr. and Mrs. O. K. Curry and Mrs. Ray Maher and Mr. and
her mother, Mrs. J. K. Rudolph, I Mrs. Tom Maher, 412 South Foster,
704 South Macomb, spent the
weekend with their son and grand-
son, James K. Curry, Mrs. Curry
and children, Bobby and Sue at
Liberal, Kan.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Hulbert of
Ventura, Calif., arrived Sunday for
a two-weeks visit with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hulbert, 220
North L.
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By MARTIN CAIDIN
Copyright 1956 by Mortin Coidin. Distributed by NEA Service.
THE STORY: An aircraft raid Two Four Green was not identifi-
warning Hash has been sent from able with anything on file,
a Ground Observer station that In the Filter Center, just four
three unidentified planes are fly- minutes after the information from
ing southward toward the city of Tim Kctcham was recorded, a sec-
Harrington. Henry Thompson, a ond aircraft flash was received.
Civil Defense executive, has gone Three, multimotor, very low, fast,
to the movies with his wife. and heading in a southeast direc-
tion. There was no doubt about the
II J “track” being made now. A ‘ raid
AT 40 seconds past 8:53 that eve- stand," resembling a miniature
ning, the local telephone operator highway crossing sign with many
in the snow covered village of Cold posts jutting from it at right an-
Creek near the Canadian border, glcs, replaced the pip on the grid
plugged ir. a Jack to lake an in-! table. Each small cardboard arm
The average life of woman has jumped, says a doctor. And,
in these traffic days, the average woman has jumped.
All some people save for a rainy day is the nerve to bor-
row an umbrella.
One of the requirements for qualifying as a visiting fire-
man at a convention is to be on of the tin hats back home.
Down Memory Lane
Sept. 5, 1936
DIOS on the construction of El Reno’s new $110,000 junior
highschool building, which is to be erected in the 600 block
on South Choctaw, will be opened at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday,
Sept. 16, Paul R. Taylor, superintendent of local schools, an-
nounced today.
Formal opening of the Canadian Mill and Elevator com-
pany’s new plant has been scheduled for Friday night and Sat-
urday of this week, it has been disclosed by Walter H. Boon,
general manager.
Young Republicans of Canadian county were organized dur-
ing a meeting here Friday night in preparation for the autumn
political campaign. William L. Funk, chairman of the county’s
Republican committee, presided.
Sept. 5, 1946
TAIORE than a quarter-section of land located south of the El
^ Reno cemetery and owned by the state school land com-
mission now is being platted into lots which later will be sold
at public auction to the highest bidders, it was announced to-
day. Bill Alexander. Canadian county surveyor, has been em-
ployed to plat the lots.
Canadian county 4-H club girls today were starting to as-
semble their exhibits at the Lincoln school auditorium for the
4-H club and Future Farmers of America fair here Saturday,
Miss Margaret Edsel, county home demonstration agent, and
H. G. Keller, secretary of the chamber of commerce, reported.
Office of the automobile tag agent at El Reno, which has
been closed mornings during August, will be open now from
9 a m. to 5 p.m. daily, it was announced today.
Three Canadian county 4-H club girls today participated in
the program at a dairy show at Enid, Miss Josephine Oakes,
assistant home demonstration agent, reported. Donna and
Clarita Seamands demonstrated the proper method of making
butter and Margie Ball spoke on “Milk in the Diet of Children.’
Plans for reorganization of the male chorus will be dis-
cussed at a meeting of the Elks lodge tonight. Dutch lunch
will be served at 6:45 p.m. and there will be a short business
meeting at 8 p.m.
coming cull.
"Operator Aircraft Flash. This
is 2731, Gold Creek exchange.”
"One moment, please.” The op-
erator deftly flipped a switch. The
call automatically passed through
to the nearest United States Air
Force Filter Center.
In the Filter Center, the Air De-
fense operator heard a buzz in her
head phones, locked a switch in
position for the new call, and spoke
into the metal plastic mike before
her lips. "Air Defense. Go ahead,
please.”
Tim Ketcham repeated once
more, "Aircraft flash." Then, slow-
ly, distinctly: "Three. Multimotor.
Low. One minute. Alpha Quebec
Two Four Green. Overhead. South-
east. Sweptwing.”
The Filter Center acted imme-
diately on the call: wheels were
already turning to digest this new
information from distant Gold
Greek. As the Air Defense operator
received the call, she fingered a
multi colored plastic object of four
sections shaped like a small arrow-
head. Standing before a large, flat
table map divided into grids, each
representing several hundred
square miles, she turned the vari-
ous sections of the arrowhead pip
to conform with the information
coming over the telephone wires.
When th(‘ identifying symbols and
colors of the marker were adjust-
ed to indicate the three multi mo-
tored aircraft had flown low over
the spotter’s tower known as Alpha
Quebec Two Four Green (one min-
ute before) heading in a southeast
direction, the pip was placed on
the grid table near the mark iden-
tifying the spotter’s post.
The operator-plotter droned,
“Check. Thank you,” and broke
the connection.
A Filter Center “teller" with
earphones clamped to his head
jotted down the data of Kotcham’s
call. An experienced Air Force
sergeant, the “teller” rang in on
a direct line to the Air Defense
Direction Center.
“This is Sergeant Mulraney. I
have an aircraft flash . . .” The
sergeant repeated the spotter’s re-
port. “Give me an action cheek
against a flight plan, please.'
* * *
IN the Air Defense Direction
Center, where dozens of men and
women were receiving reports
from a number of filter centers
and radar stations, a giant verti-
cal transparent “map," a seeming
maze of white lines, colored ar
rows and numbers, indicated the
known positions of all aircraft any-
where within its territory. Uni-
formed young men and women
stood and squatted at various lev-
els before the map, headphones to
their ears, writing in reverse the
information imparted to them, so
that the officers facing them could
read the hieroglyphics.
The report from Alpha Quebec
told a story of death on the wing.
The Air Defense Direction Cen-
ter officer in charge of this new
information suddenly disliked his
job. Multimotor aircraft (swept-
wing at that, if that spotter saw
right) do not fly on the deck at
high speed, in formation, and espe-
cially at night. Unless there’s a
good reason for it. Strategic Air
Command has no training flights
in the area. The officer leans for-
ward, barks one word into the
mike before him.
“Scramble!"
In every Air Defense Control
Center, the next highest command
echelon over the Direction Center,
there is always a very important
called the seven Sub Air Raid
Warning Centers serviced by Har-
rington, repeating the sergeant’s
warning call.
At eight minutes after nine, Col.
Alfred Buyers slammed his tele-
phone receiver down on the cradle.
Less than a minute later, after
limping hurriedly to his garage,
he was driving to the Control Cen-
ter just outside the Harrington city
limits.
At 11 minutes after nine, the
telephone in Henry J. Thompson's
home rang and rang and rang . . .
By 14 minutes past nine, the
city of Harrington had exploded
info action which was little no-
ticed by its citizens. In 43 fire-
houses, 32 engine companies and
15 hook-and ladder companies left
their coffee and card games to race
through the city streets. No fire
awaited them at the end of their
drive; instead, they raced for pre-
assigned locations outside the city,
where they—waited. These dozen
fire trucks and hundreds of men.
separated by darkness and many
miles, remained in contact with
their chief already seated at his
desk in the city's Control Center.
Amateur radio "hams” stopped
tinkering with their sets or play
Captain F. A. Brandley has re-
turned to his home in Coronado,
Calif., following a visit with his
e .t good for the greatest number »■«««. Charlie Brandley 1207
of people must he the result. It Barker and other relatives
was as simple as that and out of here-
that unfetter e cl organization
came the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, the Articles of Con-
federation and Perpetual Union
between the Stales, and the name
Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Beard of Lib-
eral, Kan., are spending a weeks
vacation with their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. T. N. Beard, 612 South
eeween me ---, — — Miles and Mrs. Lena M. Shepard,
The Un,ted Stat/* Amer "•, j 821 South Roberts. Mr. Beard and
For a group of fellows without
spent Monday in Norman.
MLs Beth Brown, 709 South Had-
den spent the Labor Day weekend
with relatives and friends at Wil-
burlon.
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Blevins, 802
South Rock Island and Mrs. Billy
Joe Stroud and daughters, Mary
Gail and Patti Sue of Oklahoma
City have returned from Vinita*
where they were guests at the re-
union of the Ray Cordray family.
Sunday evening they attended a
fish fry at the Cordray cottage on
Grand lake. Mrs. Stroud is the
daughter of Mrs. Blevins and Mr.
Cordray is her uncle.
his parents are now spending a few
days with relatives at Forrest City,
Ark.
planes, trains or wireless they
brought forth a number of de-
cisions with confirming docu-
ments which have stood the test
of time and remain the founda-
tion of the nation in spite of con-
siderable effort to relegate them
to antiquity as unsuitable for
these changing times.
And while I’m commending
these forebears of ours for their Mr. and Mrs. George MU Svanas
. have returned to their home in
perspicacity and courage, and Odessa, Tex., following a visit with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George
A. Svanas and his sister, Mrs
Mrs. H. S. Barrett and daughters,
Joyce and Beth of Tulsa, who have
been the houseguests of her mother,
Mrs. W. B. Reed and her sister,
Miss Edith Reed, 1105 East Cava-
naugh, left Monday evening for
their home.
Debbie and Bobby Marsden, chil-
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Marsden,
have returned to their home in
Oklahoma City after visiting with
their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. C. Ezell, 1228 West London.
Miss Ruth Maher of Washington,
D. C., Mrs. Ray Maher, 412 South
Roberts, Mrs. Gladnor A. Barn-
ard, 500 South Hoff and Mrs. For-
rest Nave, 511 South Rock Island
were Oklahoma City visitors Tues-
day evening.
shedding a furtive tear for the
changes in our representative
form of government which any-
one can tell isn’t what it used to
he I’d like to say that the an-
swer to all the complexities of
this mortal world isn’t “well you
know, times have changed.”
Political
Announcements
civilian on duly for an eight-hour jnj> pofcor games and raced in their
shift. To the rest of the Control cars f0|- obscure and darkened
Center personnel he may he known highway shoulders, to empty ga-
as Fred or Mr. Kenney, but on the ragcs arid diners on all the major
official table of organization he is roa(|s leading in and out of liar-
listed as the “Federal Civil De- rington. When they arrived at their
fense Administration Controller.” assigned Aid Check Points, each
It is this man's task to listen con-1 car reported by radio to the Con-
stantly to all the aircraft flashes, trol Center, and waited . . .
the flight plan checks, and always * * *
cold-air-down-your-neck orders to, CIVIL defense staff personnel
scramble jet interceptors. On this drove to various locations through-
particular November evening Fred 0„t the city. Not all of them; some.
Kenney wished he were somewhere ijfce Henry Thompson, were un-
elsc. In the last few weeks there aware of telephones at home ring-
had been an unusually heavy num- ing.
her of unidentified vapor trails in
the transpolar regions. Every new
and unrecorded aircraft sighted
put him on edge.
Hospitals moved patients from
wards and rooms into hallways
and interior rooms; ambulatory
patients helped nurses, doctors, in-
Ground radar was unable to get ternes and janitors. Police cars
a “fix” on the three reported air rolled up to highway crossings to
craft; this meant they were too set up roadblocks; giant dump
low to be picked up. When the sec trucks from the State Department
ond spotter’s flash came in Ken- of Public Works trundled up to
ney decided it was time to play crossroads leading into major high-
a combination of hard fact and ways, wheeled, and blocked the
hard hunch. roads to all traffic. Throughout the
HE leaned across his desk to city, in the Control Center and its
turn a switch which activated a alternate, at Zone Headquarters,
"hot line” squawk box system to Aid Check Points, Hospitals, Sec-
cight cities throughout the state, ondary Aid Stations, roadblocks,
These cities, of which Harrington everywhere, hundreds of men hur-
was one, were listed as “target ried to their stations,
cities." In each of the cities a buz Some violated their responsibili-
zer atop a speaker on the wall or tics, calling families with the hush
desk of a police station, fire house ed warning to “get out of town im-
or sheriff’s office coughed raucous- j mediately; there’s an alert on.’
ly when Fred Kenney turned the 1 While these people, choosing to of-
switch before him. It was exactly for the protection of the Yellow
9:06 p.m. when Kenney spoke: Alert warning to their families
“Warning Yellow. Air Defense while denying it to their neighbors,
Warning Yellow. Roll call, please." acted in selfish though understand-
The Tribune has been authorized
to announce the following candi-
dates for elective offices, subject
to the general election Nov. 6.
Democratic Ticket
For County Sheriff:
TINY ROYSE
For Commissioner, District No. 1
RAY TECH
For Commissioner, District No. 7
GEORGE E. HURST
For Commissioner, District No. 3:
W. R. "BILL" MABERRY
For Court Clerk:
DOROTHY LORENZEN
For County Treasurer:
HELEN MARCH
For Justice of Peace, Dlst. No. 1:
WILLIAM H. GILBERT
Republican Ticket
For Court Clerk:
OTTO MITCHELL
For County Sheriff:
DENNIS ADAMS
Commissioner District No. 2:
C. E. EBELING
Gertrude Osborne and daughter,
Joan, 1417 South Evans.
Mrs. W. M. Castle of Mangum
is visiting with her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin
J. Gustafson, 804 South Duane.
Among those from the Ellison
Avenue Methodist church, who at-
tended the youth revival at the
Calumet Methodist church Monday
evening were Betty Meyer and Bob
Meyer, 938 South Miles, Clarence
Golden, Jasper Golden and Jerry
Golden, 1017 West Woodson, Glenda
Stewart, 1015 South Rock Island
and Rev. and Mrs. J. E. Eeken-
berger and son, John Edward, 904
West London.
Mrs. A. C. Dubberstein, 603 East
Wade, spent the Labor day week-
end at Winfield, Kan.
Mrs. R. H. Bourne, 1043 South
Ellison and Mrs. Joseph C. Blake,
501 South Rock Island, are attend-
ing the gift show at Dallas, Tex.
The condition of Mrs. Jason A. L.
Clark, 220 North Rock Island, who
suffered a broken left hip Aug. 29
and underwent major surgery at
Park View hospital, is reported as
satisfactory. Mrs. Dorothy J. Pinos
of Tulsa, daughter of Mrs. Clark
has been called here by her moth-
er’s illness for an indefinite stay
Lesson in English
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED:
Do not say, “What was it you wish-
ed to ask me?” Since the question
has yet to be answered, say, “What
IS it you WISH to ask me?”
OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED:
Covert. Pronounce kuhv-ert, accent
on first syllable.
OFTEN MISSPELLED: Callous
(hardened; unfeeling). Callus
(hard, thickened area on the skin).
SYNONYMS: Obedient, manage-
able, tractable, docile, amenable,
submissive, teachable, yielding.
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: COUNTERACT; to frustrate
by contrary agency. “The effect of
the narcotic was counteracted by
loreed exercise.”
Problem a Day
Johnson’s average rate on a trip
is 3/2 that of Jackson’s. If Johnson
covers 270 miles in three hours less
time than Jackson, what is John-
son’s rate in miles per hour?
ANSWER
45 m.p.m. Divide 270 by 3/2;
.subtract from 270: divide by 3 for
Jackson’s rate; multiply by 3/2 for
Johnson's rate.
SLEEP LOSS
HARTFORD, Conn. —IIP)— While
Morris Shafer was asleep, a thief
entered his room and removed $800
from his trousers.
Sally's Sallies
By Scott
In each of the cities, the eve-
ning routine skidded abruptly to
a halt at those few words. The in-
dividual at tlie box activated his
message line, and in predetermin-
ed order acknowledged the Yellow
Alert.
In Harrington police headquar-
ters the duty sergeant acknowl-
edged the alert call as he yanked
a telephone receiver from its cra-
dle. The sergeant intoned, “Emer-
gency Air Road Warning Yellow.
Sequence One.
The long distance operator cheek
ed down her Sequence One list of
names and numbers. She ignored
all other calls at the moment and
able interest, their number was in-
consequential.
The city of Harrington prepared
to fight for its life.
(To Be Continued
WRONG PARTY
EAST HARTFORD, Conn. —(IPt—
Hitchhiker Herbert F. Nelson of
Suffield tossed an overripe cucum-
ber at a motorist who declined to
I give him a ride. The motorist
stopped and took Nelson to a po-
lice station. Nelson was fined $15
for throwing objects at an auto
and soliciting a ride. The driver
was off-duty policeman Larry
Clancy.
Look and Learn
1. Who was the first person to
be living at the time his likeness
appeared upon a U.S. postage
stamp?
2. What U.S. state leads all oth
ers in the consumption of beer?
3. If you were suffering from
acute coryza, what would be wrong
with you?
4. What two Protestant denomi-
nations have the largest number
of members in the U.S.?
5. What South American country
is bounded by both the Atlantic
and Pacific Oceans? •
ANSWERS
1. Charles Lindbergh.
’2. Wisconsin.
3. You would have a head cold.
4. Methodist and Baptist.
5. Columbia.
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