The Indian Journal from Eufaula, Oklahoma • Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1876 VOLUME 75. EUFAULA. McINTOSH COtTNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1951. NUMBER 3. THE LOOKOUT James Ballinger dropped by the Journal Office this week to remind us not to overlook the fact that the three top winners in the South Mcintosh county pasture improvement contest which ended in May, were veterans of World War II.

The three, Walter Hopkins, Gilbert Hill and Robert Boyd, were all trainees in the Eufaula GI agriculture classes while getting started in farming on their own, and one of them, Boyd, is a tenant farmer. A Veterans Agriculture instructor, Balhnger is quite naturally proud of the achievements of these young farmers. He also points out that, these men have one into the business during a enod of inflated prices for the tock, equipment, and everything hey have had to purchase. TJiose ho have bought farms, have ad to-take less desirable land, because the better farms were not for sale. While building up their soil, by use of fertilizers and good pasture programs, they are also raising larger families than their city neighbors.

Thus, all around, they are making a most valuable contribution to the community and posterity. Truly they are deserving the honor accorded them by the Business arid Professional Worrifen's club, State National Bank and Farmers and Merchants and recognition of the en-, tire community, for their contribution to its progress. There are two special treats on- the entertainment bill.at the Chief theatre in Eufaula next week. First is the top notch movie of last year "Born Yesterday" with academy award winner Judy Holiday. They say it is hilariously funny.

Fallowing that Bruce Cowling who was a school- by in Eufaula, will appear in an excellent starring role opposite Loretta Young in "Cause for Otho Green" was showing us a Legion Magazine for June, on the front cover of which was a port scene on one of our seaports, A sport roadster was the center of the scene, and it displayed an Oklahoma tag from Mcintosh Most of the gravel you see leaving the local freight yards is assigned to county roads. Our central commissioner, Clyde Parker, says he is spending over $300 a day on inch gravel, and that it is being placed on hills and slick bottom land in his district. You can travel over many roads in this county during a rain now that- were impassible under like conditions several ears ago. Much "work has been done in the Mellette area, also between Lenha and Fame. The road has been improved past exanna, and every section has eceived some help.

Clyde is doing a good job in a county that 's perhaps the hardest to keep oads in condition in Oklahoma, he-sandy soil washes bad, and; we haven't had the rain ately, any heavy rain takes put score of wooden bridges in the ounty. Cowling's Cafe has closed for he This regating center, may be a vic- im of the congregating. L. A. owling is a good and popular fe man, but he refused to hike he price of coffee.

and other rinks to "booth loafers." Local' ople, all his friends, would fill ooths at all hours of the day nd order nickel 5 them ordering nothing. When dinner customer came in they ad to go elsewhere. We certain- hope he reopens in the fall, in the meantime we' will aye Zella's pies, and atch our waistline dwindle. In he fall, when he reopens, it ight be necessary to post a no- jce for coffee "Topers" and soft rink addicts to take the nd leave the booths open fon money customers. ible School Picnic Be Held Friday The Vacation Bible School pic- of the First Baptist church ill be held Friday, June 8 at :30.

After the picnic the child- will be dismissed until the for the Commencement excises which begin at 8 p. m. iday, June 8. This program ill be a demonstration of the ings the children have learned made during the school. There has been an average at- dance of 148 and enrollment 176..

eeeipt Books. The Indian ournal They Make Eufaula Zeno's "Hello Neighbor" Helps Make Eufaula a Friendly Town £eno man with the Greek another Texan by birth, who moved op to the younger of. OklPhoma as a young man, scar Ms fortune. Zeno docsn Know how he happened to be tagged after the great Greek Stoic. He professes no devotion to the philosophy, and there is no Stoicism apparent in his character.

It is just a name, he is not even curious about. That "Hello Neighbor" ing of his has been familiar around Eufaula for a quarter of a century. He and whom he married Nov. 19, 1917 in Waco, to Eufaula January 1926, from Calera. For several years thereafter Stone was employed in the Farmers and Merchants Bank.

Nearly two decades ago he decided to go into business for himself, establishing an insurance agency which he still runs, sometimes with Mrs. Stone's assistance. On the wall of his insurance agency is a deer's'head with an attractive set of of Stone's favorite hunting. He frequently makes the deer season his vacation time, but he also hunts birds nearer home. Some years ago Stone was elected treasurer of the school board, as his only other political experience, served four years as a member of the city council from Ward One.

During the Cowling administration he was vice mayor, or mayor pro' tern, acting as mayor in Cowling's absence. Stone is also a member of the Lions club, which he headed as president for the club year 194950. You may have heard he is a Democrat and an honest man. To say the least, that's quite a combination. (Twenty-sixth in a series of items about the men who make Eufaula.) District Court Session Ends A district court jury Tuesday found Alfred Mitchell, county Negro, guilty of assault with a dangerous weapon, in the last of the cases on the criminal docket which had been on trial in district court here since May 28..

The jurors failed to agree on the punishment to be assessed, leaving it up to the court. Mitchell had been charged with the shotgun wounding of Henry Walker, a neighboring negro of the Pierce community, in Feb: uary, 1950. Earlier in the session Robert Lee Jarrell, also charged with assault, changed his plea of not guilty; to guilty, and was sentenced to six months in jail. District' Judge W. A.

Lackey suspended the sentence for the time of Jarrell's good behavior. Two defendants in first degree manslaughter cases were acquitted, and a third case was dismissed because of lack of prosecution evidence. Dismissed was a charge against Lee Elbert Dover, Checotah. Claud Kaler, Henryetta, and Sidney White, Hulbert, were acquitted in jury trials. All three were involved in fate! highway accidents in this rounty.

Disposition of other cases on the docket was as follows: Alonzo and Jake Layman, charged' with forgery degree, acquitted by jury. Robert Skinner, charged with grand larceny, dismissed. Curtis Fain, embezzlement, and- concealing--mortgaged- prop-- erty charges dismissed. Legus Beaver, Carroll, assault with a dangerous weapon, charges dismissed. The case of Bill Smfth, charged with assault with intent to kill and that of Jack and Eva Kelcher, charged with burning; mortgaged property, were continued.

A charge of obtaining money under false pretenses against Lewis Peters was dismissed. In the trial of Calvin Calom- ease, charged with assault with a dangerous- weapon, the jury- failed to agree on a verdict, and the case will probably be tried again at another term of court. County Attorney Kenneth W. Lackey handled the prosecution for the state in all of the trials. NARCOTICS CHARGE Charles D.

Darks, Checotah, entered a plea of not guilty here. Wednesday at his arraignment before James J. Asher, justice of the peace, on a charge of illegal possession of narcotic drugs. Darks was picked up by Fred M. Bass, sheriff, who found a hypo needle, 7 morphine tablets and a quantity of demer- al on his person.

DONALD WILSON TO ENTER OU 'AT NORMAN Donald Wilson, son of Mrs. QPECL Wilson, Eufaula, left Monday for Norman to enroll for the summer session at the University of Oklahoma. Needed Rains Fall in Area The first week of June has brought around three inches of moisture to the Eufaula-Mcln- tosh county area, ending a month long drought which was causing serious concern among farmers. First rain of any importance to fall here in four weeks, came Saturday and Sunday. Cooler temperatures also arrived with the moisture, giving relief from nearly a week of heat and thermometer readings high as .95 degrees.

While the dry mpnth of May permitted extensive hay harvesting, farmers reported the cuttings were reduced by lack of moisture during the growing season. Pastures which were being grazed by livestock, were in extremely poor condition by the end May, and in need of rain. Most corn was up to good stand, but hot winds during the last, few, days of the month of May, were causing the plants to droop, and drying the The farmers believe the rains were in time to prevent important damage to corn as well as other row and hay crops. During the past week several showers fell in the Eufaula area, continuing today (Thursday) with heavy rainfall early in the morning, and more predicted by the weather bureau throughout the area' toddy and tomqrrpw (Friday). Rains of early Thursday were bringing hail in the central part of the county between Eufaula and Checotah.

At spots hail covered the highway north of Eufaula. Northeast of toWn Edgar Grose reported heavy hail, said hail fell on his place north of "the river. Body Found By County Farmer Under Bridge The body of an elderly negro man, who had been dead for two weeks or more, was found under a bridge on Highway 266 in the Elm Grove area, Sunday. Alton Watson, a farmer in the Elm Grove community, dis- 1 covered the body as he was driving cattle the highway. County officers identified the dead man as Alvan Jewel Mc- Houston, Texas, by papers in his pockets.

Residents of the vicinity told the officers that the Negro had appeared in the area several weeks ago, and -requested'their permission for him to sleep under the bridge. Officers believe that death was from natural causes, since, they found no evidence of violence on the body. A Muskogee funeral Ijome took charge of burial. County Roads Are Improved With the additional revenue of 1 cent per gallon from gasoline tax specified for such purposes, the board of county commissioners'' has made marked progress in improving and velling many miles of Mclntbsh county roads during the past twelve months. Favorable weather of the past several weeks saw.

the work speeded up all over the county arid Clyde Parker, chairman, said that in his district alone, the recond, he had. spread $3,000 worth of gravel the past month. Parker has employed four private, truckers in addition to regular county employees, to haul the gravel. from railroad cars in Eufaula. Recently work in the second district, has been done on roads in the Stidham, Lenna, Vivian, Simpson, Texanna, Hogtown arid" Old Town" 1 sectors.

Parker estimates 30 miles have been gravelled under the stepped-up program. Similar progress is reported in the first district, where Bill Hill, Checotah, commissioner, 35 miles of county roads have been gravelled since the 1 cent gasoline money was made available, John Collins, commissioner of the third district, who recently returned to his position after several months in the army, was not around the court house this week to report on his district. The other commissioners said Collins had been busy putting roads in his district in good condition too, and, they explained, he had been spreadirig considerable creek gravel in recent weeks. Rites Thursday For Lewis Child Funeral services for Redman Lewis, two year old son of Mr. apd Mrs.

Sampson Lewis, "who died at a Tahlequah hospital Tuesday, June 5, were held Thursday' (today) at 2 o'clock at the West Eufaula Indian Church. He was born at Dustin, 29, 19.48.- Burial- was under the direction of the Kelley Funeral Home. Body of Victim Of Korean War On Way To Eufaula The body of Sergeant G. W. McNutt, son of Mrs.

Mary S. McNutt, was aboard the Lawrence Victory, which docked at San JFrancisco, Monday, His body is being brought back from Korea, to Eufaula for burial. Sgt. McNutt was the first man from Eufaula to loose his life in the Korean conflict. He was killed August 2, 1950.

A graduate of Eufaula high school, Sgt. McNutt, spent most of his time working with an oil company in South America. He spent thirty five months in the Italian campaign during world war 11. He reenlisted in the U. S.

army sixteen months before he was killed. Methodists To Retain Pastors There were no changes 1 of pastors of major churches of the Muskogee District, by the East Oklahoma Conference which closed at Ada last Sunday. The Rev. Don La Grone will continue as district superintendent for another year; the Rev. Jack Featherston was reappointed tc the Eufaula church; the Rev.

Orville Coates was reappointed to the Checotah church. But one new minister has been assigned to Mcintosh county. He is C. L. Martin, a transfer from the Arkansas conference, who will be pastor of the larger Checotah parish, serving rural Methodists of north Mcl county.

Bishop W. Angle Smith read the pastor appointments at the closing session of the annual Conference which started a week ago Wednesday. Attending the conference from Eufaula were Mrs. Linda Fowler and Ernest Cates, delegates, and Rev. and Mrs.

Featherston: This is the beginning of Featherston's third year in Eufaula. The young minister came to Eufaula after two years as pastor at Calvin and Stuart; Emmons Services Held Wednesday Funeral services for William M. Emmons, 79, who died Sun, day June 3, at his home in Eufaula following an extended illness, were held Wednesday at the Eufaula Baptist church with the Rev. J. H.

Hammer officiating. Burial was at Weturnka under the direction of the Kelley Funeral Home. Mr. Emmons, a retired farmer, was born in Arkansas May 25, 1872. He had been a resident of Mcintosh county ffer a number of years.

Survivors include his wife Mrs. Maude Emmons of the home, two sons Oscar Emmons, Arvin, California, and Bill Emmins, Lamount, California. Ten daughters Mrs. Ruth Webb, Seminole; Mrs. Lucy Newton, Lamont, California; Mrs.

Eunice Bailey, Arvin, California; Mrs. Gladys Clift, Elk City; Mrs. Alice Sailor, Richmond, California; Mrs. Mattie Thomas Boise, Idaho; Mrs. Hazel Durham, Arvin, California; Mrs.

Blanche Maresco; Hudson, New York; Ima Jean Emmons, of Louisiana; and Mrs. Julia Laxson, Oklahoma City. Bearers were; Clyde Parker, Columbus- Ray Burnell, Jack Parker, and Charlie Hooten. Rat and Insect Control Program is Planned Council Orders Control Work For Month of June A poison program for exterminating rats and control of other rodents will be held in connection with the annual spraying of the city for flies and other disease carrying insects, sometime during the month of June, the city council decided at its regular meeting held at the city hall, Monday night. F.

L. Wallis, county health officer, told the council that after making a survey of the city as, to the infestation of rats, he estimated total cost for the control of the rodents at $50. He explained to the council that the poison which was being used for extermination was harmless to pets or humans, but in case there were any ill effects, an antidote will be on hand at the city hall. Only the business district and heavily infested areas will be poisoned. A small amount will be sent with the spraying unit, and if a likely breeding place is found in the residential area it will.be poisoned.

Anyone wishing to put out this poison may obtain it at the city hall without charge, Wallis said. The cost of the spraying will be shared by the Eufaula Lions Club, Junior Chamber of Commerce and the City Dads. Ray Harris, Street and Alley Chairman, told the council that an estimated $1400. had already been spent in his department for needed supplies and parts for He explained that the machinery was badly in i need of repairs and that in the future the city' truck would either need repairing or a new one purchased. He reported that some work had been done on streets in ward two and explained plans to start work in ward three sometime this week.

Harry Parris, city attorney, presented lettei which was read by John Harkey from an Oklahoma City company that is constructing a "tourist court south of Eufaula. They asked that a three inch water main be laid three fourths mile south to the by the. city, at an estimated cost of $8,000. Mayor John Sellers asked that members of the water committee meet with the city attorney and work out a program for laying this water line and give a detailed report at the next meeting. Mayor Sellers told members of the council that in order to get more business finished" at the regular meetings, each committee should have a detailed report ready to present before the council for discussion.

He asked that all councilmen sign their own claims and have them ready to be read at the meeting. Mrs. Eloise G. Smock, city clerk gave her report for the month of May follows; dog tax, occupation tax, water rents and rentals, $1840. 22; police inspection tax, cemetery lots, 2 per cent gas tax, police fines, Making total "of.

$2660.86. Dan Carter, city treasurer, gave his report as follows: cash disbursements, balance in funds May 31, $40,534.58. Swimming Pool Opening Delayed Virgil Blair, who with his wife will manage the Eufaula municipal swimming pool this year, announced this week that opening has been postponed- for one week untl Sunday, June 17. Starting en that date the pool will be open from 1 until .5. p.

nr. on Sunday and from 3:30 until 9:30 p. m. week day during the summer. The pool will be operated by the city fire department with the Blairs as managers.

HOLY MEN Thousands of sadhus (holy men) from all cornets of the globe recently vened in Delhi for a spiritual parliament to pray for peace of the world. The gathering, KIM called the "world peace conference," was marked by disagreement, even among the holy men, on the meaning of peace and the methods for attaining it At left a Sad ha is lecturing on orthodox ideas. At right. a visiti Wjwto gtring his the modem wny to settee. ll Rites Sunday For Mrs.

L. W. Presley Services for Mrs. Oda Mae 'Presley, who died Saturday in an Oklahoma City hospital, will be held at 2 p. m.

Sunday, June 10, in Wayland Baptist church. The Rev. Dan Harris, Canadian, will officiate. Burial will be in the Evergreen cemetery here. Apparently in good health, Mrs.

Presley had gone to Oklahoma City last week to be with her daughter Mrs. Berniece White and her newborn grandson, Thurman White. She suffered a stroke about 10 p. m. Friday and died the following day.

Born in Waco Texas May 5, 1892, she was married to L. W. Presley, March 17, 1918 and the couple came to Eufaula a year later. Mis. Presley was a member of the Baptist church and Eastern Star.

In addition to her husband, principal of Booker T. Washington school, Mrs. Presley is survived by two sons, Walter Presley, Anadarko and Strickland Presley, a student at the University of California at Los Angeles; the daughter whom she was visiting when stricken, and other relatives. The son and th.ree sisters are enroute to Eufaula from California, to'attend the services. Rain Intenupts Pasture Tour Rain interrupted the first South Mcintosh county pasture tour Wednesday afternoon, sponsored by the Eufaula Business Professional Women's club, the Farmers and Merchants Bank and the State National Bank as a climax to a pasture improvement contest.

About-70 business men, women and farmers started out on the tour which led first to the farm of Robert Boyd, south of Raifbrd. Boyd, a tenant on the 170-acre farm owned by R. L. Simpson, won third place in the contest, and received, a cask award of $30, Boyd has converted about thirty acres of sub-marginal land into a permanent improved pasture planted in lespedeza, clovers and vetch. Agricultural observers Dointed out that this piece of land was about as poor as could be found in the county.

Yet by adding minerals and planting legumes, Boyd has turned it into a profitable tract. During the winter and spring it carried from ten to twelve head of hogs, six head of cattle and Boyd's work horses, and still is yielding bountiful livestock feed. From Boyd's farm the tour was slated to- go to the Walter Hopkins pasture, which was first place winner in the contest. A heavy downpour of rain caused an alteration of plans. Some of those starling on the tour headed back for Eufaula.

But most of them stopped by the Gilbert Hill dairy farm on the way back to town. Hill, second place winner' in. the contest, conducted the visitors through his modern Grade A dairy barn, and received his cash award of $40 there, while showers continued to fall outside Hill, who has 25 head of purebred Guernseys, has 46 acres of improved pasture, planted in vetch, clovers and Bermudas grass. Because of the rain, visitors were unable to see the prfte winning pasture, but they did observe, from their cars, one of Hill's, hay meadows, planted in lespedeza along the roadway leading to his place. For first.

place pasture, Hopkins received $50. W. F. Lawson fourth" A. A.

Lawson received $10 for fifth place. Judges in the contest, Enoch Jordan, FHA supervisor; R. 'B. Robertson, SCS supervisor and. Alfred Christy, county agent, especially praised the Hopkins pasture as a show place, and were disappointed that the tour was interrupted before reached.

But they were "equally proud of the progress made on all the pastures entered in the contest. Many of the farmers who are making pasture improvements started on the trip to see the progress made by their neighbors, Services Are Held Here Friday For Mrs. Ada Reynolds Services for Mrs. Ada Reynolds, 63, who died at her home here last Thursday, were held Friday at the Assembly. of God church.

The Rev. Dave Harris, pastor, officiated. Burial was in the Fishertown cemetery, under the direction of Kelley funeral home. Mrs. Reynolds is survived by her husband, Charles Reynolds; three sons, Clarence and of California; Hiram, Eufaula; one daughter, Mrs.

Jess Lynch, of Arizona; two sisters, Mrs. Celia Wadsworth and Mrs. Necia JBackbun, Henryetta; one brother, Jesse Murray, Henryetta; grand children and five great grandchildren..