The Ada Weekly News from Ada, Oklahoma • 6

Page Six THE ADA WEEKLY NEWS HSSWSS TWj jBggaMTZj YES WE HAVE A Robert Majewski of Wilmette BL looks over his 15 foot hlgh banana tree that grew in a greenhousewith a roof not quite that high When the tree began to grow out of bounds Majewski took' some panes out of the skylight and let it Just keep growing So far produced no bananas Choctaws fo Vole hi Casket Box as ield Desk Is CuttingjDown on Sick Calls to 30 21 He tried to get the top kick were gold forget sergeant uses field desk in Communists Trying to Moke It Day of Bloody Riots and Demonstrations Quailed and 1400 Ringleaders Jailed Marinq League Plans To Sell 75000 Copies or Dollar Each Distribution of $400000 In Tribal Treasury Involved That's Word on Styling Adan Vice President of State Group Structure Pleasing to View rom Outside With Attractive Interior men and 1J5 women) and births in the week GEIGER COUNTER SALES INCREASE Altus Undertaker Sergeant Scares Goldbricks Away With Baleful Eye and Casket Crate 'urnishings the un eye rom a small frame building to a larger brick structure which was almost destroyed by fire and was rebuilt to serve for what proved to be three decades to beautiful church home is the story of the irst Methodist church house of worship in Ada tuary dominated by a magnificent stained glass window at the rear of the apse is marked by the first services to be held there today The building costing more than $300000 is distinctivehn architec ture inside and out An attractive feature is the colonade walkway from the auditorium building to the educational buildnig which has been in tise for some years Eventually some other expan sion of the church facilities will likely be taken up but the new auditorium rounds out the prin cinal plant Members of the irst Methodst church invite their friends to at tend services today and particu larly to visit and inspect the new auditorium during an Open House this afternoon from 2 to 4 o'clock STILLWATER Okla Oct (JP) Oklahoma A and profes sors looked the other way today as students took a Holi Saturday celebration after the Aggies beat Texas Christian university 13 7 satisfy the student body who had requested and had been refus ed a vacation after the victory over Arkansas Sunday afternoon a delegation headed by Gale McArthur Mangum presi dent bf the student body met with faculty administrators and the holiday was agreed upon Residence halls announced breakfast at 9 a and an un usual cajm lay over the campus Monday morning as students took advantage of the long weekend A dance is scheduled for later today in either the gym dr the tennis courts OKLAHOMA CITY Oct (ZP) members of the Choc taw Chickasaw Indian confedera tion will vote soon on the distri bution of $400000 in the tribal treasury Wilkes said he and other directors of the confederation will meet here tomorrow night to discuss the election There are about 20000 Choc taws on tribal rolls but Wilkes said it known how many of these are still living President Truman has signed a bill to halt the $10000 annuity payment The rest of the money to be apportioned will come from the tribal treasury Wilkes said BILL GIVES COURTS ADDITIONAL POWERS WASHINGTON Sept (ZP) bill arming the federal courts with new powers to attack prob lems of juvenile delinquency re ceived President Truman's signa ture today The measure endorsed by the American Bar Association judi cial groups and others allows the federal court wider latitude seek causes of delinquency and attempt their cure through the examination and treatment by mental specialists of young offen ders CAMP POLK La Oct 2 (ZP) Some members of medical detachment 245th Heavy Tank Battalion get an easy feeling when their first sergeant fixes his baleful on them Somehow they forget what profession Sgt Steve Rol land followed while in civilian life ARDMORE Okla Oct (ZP) A stiff wind capsized a small fishing boat on Lake Murray yes terday and one of the Ardmore opcupants drowned iremen and volunteers drag ged the lake south of here last night for th body of Rufus Car penter 40 His companion A J' Lightsey was rescued several hours after the mishap when rescuers res ponded to his cries for help Har ry Phipps of Ardmore drag ged the 60 year old fisherman from the water as he clung weak ly to the overturned boat Winnipeg is fourth largest city Truman's Lelfer Sold lor $2500 DUSSELDOR Germany Oct 2 (ZP) West German po lice today claimed a decisive victory over Communists who attempted to turn yesterday into a bloody wave of riots and The oldest known insulated house extant stands on oa Street at Saldm Va It was in sulated with mineral wool in 1882 Women's Hair fo Be Even Shorter irst Methodists Info New Building Highway Accidents Claim ive Lives In State Weekend Uncle Sam Starts Taking Bigger Bite Out ol Paychecks be over the Dr Gintli system In quadruplex a baby is CHICAGO Oct Presi dent letter the one that raised the ire of the marinecorps netted the marine corps league $2500 yesterday And the league stands to make an aaaitionai $ouuu Because oi the letter according to George Bullen past national commander He said the league plans to print up 75000 copies of the letter and sell them for one dollar apiece The letter dubbed the marines as police with a propaganda compar able to Leathernecks raised a howl about the referen ces and the president apologized Harry rasier 52 president of raiser Associates Inc and an army private in World War I bought the letter for $2500 as a item Terms of the sale allow the marine corps lea gue to distribute copies and pro vide that no copies be distribut ed until after the Nov 7 elections The letter was sent originally to Congressman I McDonough (R Calif) he gave tne money the league Sergeant Survives 11 Days Behind Red Korean Lines NEW YORK Across the counter Geiger Counter sales are on the increase says The Radiac Co of New York All Types of people from all walks of Mfe are responsible for this new interest This situation closely parallels the extensive coverage given by the press and radio to the Atomic Energy Com book Effects of Atomic But when questioned only a small number of the purchasers admitted fear of an atomic as their mo tivating cause Most stated only a desire to do a bit of uranium prospecting on their vacation He Can't Break Out Of the Bank OKLAHOMA CITY Oct (ZP) Men you may as well face it The styles are going to get even shorter the confidential word of Thelma Wright of Oklahoma City new president of the Okla homa Hairdressers and Cosmetol ogists Associated styles will keep getting shorter and shorter until about 1952 After that who she asks After that she figures the close cropped styles will become less severe and hair will drop toward the shoulders once again The new president was named yesterday at the an nual convention here She suc ceeds red Shultz of Tulsa who becomes a member of the board of trustees The beauticians also picked Miss Joyce Shellenberger of Ma rietta to reign as Oklahoma beau ty queen during National Beauty Week which starts October 22 Other officers elected are Wil lie Cash Ada ic president Jewel) Webb Oklahoma City treasurer Susanna Brown Okla homa City financial secretary Isabel Hergert Enid sergeant at arms Harriet Bailey Bartles ville Historian Helen Alfred Ardmore state organizer and Hilma Patterson Tulsa parlia mentarian Named to the board of direc lors are Edna Johnson' Tulsa Jessie Harboard Sapulpa Louise Taylor Durant Rae Thomas Enid Joy Wilburn Norman Jane Lewellyn Muskogee and Vivian Ligon Edmond Boat Capsizes and One Is Drowned Victory Holiday or Students that words of those responsible for American policy show that they have their eyes turned toward Europa WEBB: away from gold before By GEORGE SMEDAL NEA Special Correspondent WHITEHALL (NEA) After 60 years in the same bank think Webb would have figured a way to break out At 91 however it seems he even though like to Webb figured it was time to re tire but the Stockholders of John Melby Co Bank of White hall figured otherwise they re elected him to job held since 1939 which makes him probably the oldest active bank president in the world Once before he tried to get away from gold too He left Whitehall in 1881 with a large party of gold prospectors headed for Colorado and after six years came back because gold mining affected his hearing He switched to the lumber bus iness but he kept getting busier and busier with the bank busi ness what with his gold exper ience and lumber interests been connected with the White hall bank since 1890 A rugged faced man who still has a healthy thatch of white hair Webb remembers the old west in its rugged days He re calls Dodge City Kans the night Wild Bill Hickok warned his party to camp outside the town becauseitwas payday for the cowboys Next day Webb count i ed eight men lying dead in the 1 streets WASHINGTON Oct The government is taking a deep er bite out of all paychecks from now on New federal income tax with holding rates went into effect yesterday That meana more than 25000000 American workers will find the withholding taxes taken out of their next paychecks about a fifth greater The bigger from pay checks is needed to keep taxpay ers on a pay as you go basis un der the tax boosts voted by con gress to provide money for the big defense build up NUDIST DISPUTE STIRS TROUBLE BERLIN Nudists and non nudists are waging a battle for Teufelssee the lake in West Berlin The nudists have established a sun bathing resort on the western banks of the lake in Grunewald forest It is sur rounded by a three foot fence and marked But non nudists are not more than fifty yards away across the lake and have a full view of the goings on in the nudist camp whether they like it or not Some citizens who takb their fully clad families for an en counter more scenery than they can stanch Now and then they get togeth er and angrily invide the nudist grounds Police are frequently cauea to restore oraer EACH HELPED Two or more messages can sent simultaneously same telegraph line devised the duplex 1853 and Edison the system in 1873 Every 14 seconds born in America Members of the ire Depart ment made their first call of Oc tober Monday morning A car was reported afire An automooile owned by Loyd Currier was slightly damaged when some short circuit occurred in the wiring iremen looked at the situa tion and returned to the station without squirting a drop of wat er iremen noted that a few minutes after they made the run the car sputtered by the station 4 HER HOME RENSSELAER (ZP) Miss Doris Stenger who has sjient most of her 18 years in hos pitals as a patient is going to be come a nurse Miss Stenger was burned sever ly when she was five years old Since then she has been in hos pitals much of the time and has undergone more than 40 opera tions She has entered the nurses training school at Pittsfield Mass general hospital OREIGNERS IN INDIA COUNTED NEW DELHI India (ZP) There are 45601 jaault foreigners in India not counting Common wealth citizens and diplomats ac cording to registrations under the act This is an increase of nearly 12000 over the number here in 1948 Largest group of foreigners is the 13 539 Chinese There are 4 157 Americans and 332 Russians By The Associated press Oklahoma highway accidents claimed five victims Sunday boosting the 1950 traffic death toll to 348 compared with 398 for (he same 1949 period The dead: Joe Castleman 75 Hugo Artnur James Alexander Chickasha Mary rances Alexander his wife Jerry Wayne Chappell 4 Clare more William Tons 50 Clinton Castleman died in a Hugo hos pital of injuries suffered Saturday when he stepped into the path of a truck driven by Coy Comfort 44 Hugo The Alexanders died at the scene of the mishap a mile north of Chickasha on 81 Their auto rammed a Mid Continent Trailways bus stopped at a rail road crossnig The Chappell boy was watching his father Chappell crank the family automobile on a Clare more side street The car was in gear and knocked both of them down when it started The father dragged himself from the path of the car but it passed over the chest He d(ed later in a hospital The highway patrol reported Tons walked into the patch of a car driven by Glen Allen Rayner 21 of Butler Sept 27 The acci dent was at the edge of Clinton Tons died in a hospital Sunday Scientists Start Moon Trip Plans PARIS Sept 30 (ZP) ifty scientists of eight nations met to day to start planning the first rocket trip to the moon They opened a three day con gress at the Sorbonne to organize the world's first association for travel between planets and to ex change information on space flights Valentine Cleaver president of the British Interplanetary Socie ty said may be 30 40 or even 50 years hence that man first lands on the moon but we know already that it is He said that wartime develop ment of rockets the best possible answer to the skep Similar views were expressed by leading astronauts (space sci entists) of rance western Ger many Argentina Austria Den mark Spain and Sweden IVE GENERATIONS THERE MINCO Okla Oct 2 (P) our generations of her family came yesterday to help Mrs Su san Chester Bandy celebrate her 100th birthday at her home here Among the well wishers were her two sons Streeter Chester Minoand A Chester Wau komis and her daughter Mrs A Johnson Minco Mrs Bandy was born near air Play Mo and moved to Minco in 1891 STILL PLAGUES SINGAPORE SINGAPORE (Pi Tuberculo sis still remains the chief killer of Singaporeans In a seven day period the killed 46 Pneumonia also a predomin ant cause of death claimed 27 lives followed by enteritis 23 There were 225 deaths (110 611 Sgt Rolland was an undertak er at Altus for 18 years before joining the guard There are a few reminders around too that won let the men or instance the a casket box for a his office A few days ago suspected some GI bricking by making too many sick calls He cut down the sick call list quickly after another casket crate was set up on thefront porch of the infirmary Sgt Donald Smith adminis trative assistant medical aid man admitted box works won ders" seems to scare the gold bricks he said Lieut Lawrence Calkins medical assistant for the detach ment explained a person who is goldbricking complains too heavily Sgt Rolland starts drag ging in the coffin Actually the coffin boxes WPPP I not brought to camp to scare the When the guard unit pre pared to leave Altus for camp there was a shortage of packing boxes Sgt Rolland offered to re medy the situation He brought in six and they were filled with equipment By LEON DENNEN NEA Staff Correspondent PARIS (NEA) President announcement of an early increase i the number of DWIGHT EISENHOWER: Eu favorite American general American troops in Europe has produced a new wave of optim ism in most of the countries out side the Iron Curtain The sole exception is Germ any where there still is fear that plans to defend Europe would make that country a battle ground But many West Germans will feel less exposed to invasion from the East American forces are stronger Middle of the road Europeans who had viewed nearly 200 divisions and vast fifth col umn with fatalism "now have suddenly discovered that if life is worth living it in also worth fighting for time it will be a little renchman in a bistro told me like when Hitler attacked Danzig and we were all repeating like a flock of sheep that renchmen would not die for Danzig Now we know where America stands We also know where we Even such an outstanding ex ponent of pro neutrality views as the Paris now be TAEJON Korea Oct A bearded sergeant walked out of the hills and into the land of the livingycsterday aftej 7J days behind enemy lines Sgt Ralph Kilpatrick 29 of Phoebus Va was cut off in the battle of the Kum river July 16 He had been living in a cave not far from the site of his last battle eating bean sprouts cu cumbers melons and what little rice he could scrounge His whole existence was a nightmare of dodging Red pat rols Kilpatrick said the commu nist troops knew he was around and came into the hills search ing for him Time and again he said they passed within a few feet The sergeant was in surprising ly good physical condition al though his weight had dropped from 220 to about 175 Kilpatrick disappeared from company 'of the 19th regi ment 24th division He returned from the hills to the same com pany Kilpatrick related? got around the valley to our bld positions I had a sprained ankle There were Gook soldiers all over the place My ankle gave out I was firing like hell when the lieutenant said it was the chance to get out but I make it and another kid stayed in the ditch A Gook came along and looked into my eyes I was looking at the whites of his eyesand he was looking atjnine He must" have was dead with tny eyes open Anyhow he went on saw one GI throw up his hands to surrender and a Gook with a submachine gun cut him down I figured I was going to die Kilpatrick said the other sol dier with him died of sunstroke the following day The sergeant took the carbine and trench knife and fled to the hills after dark President decision said even more than Marshall Plan aid and other Am erican measures encourage those European nations which are tnore exposed and lack the means of Particularly encouraging to West Europeans are American press reports that Gen Dwight Eisenhower might be named tc head a unified European com mand Remains the most popular American military figure in Europe One of the outstanding expo nents of rench rearmament to' efforts in this said in a private con versation with me that he was overenjoyed at the possibility Eisenhower may return to Eur ope Eisenhower is Eqropean he told me It was the general who recent ly stated: die has been cast in Asia but we are in no limited conflict ree Europe struggling for moral and economic recovery is still a tempting target for a predatory military My friend who is also an Cut standing authority on commun ism is convinced that President historic decision Will postpone Soviet armed aggression in Western Europe inthe im mediate future at least Our Plan for More Troops in Europe Sparks New West European Optimism Three SoonersOn Crashed Army 54 TOKYO Sept Three Oklahomans have been listed among the injured or missing in an army 54 transport plane crash last Tuesday off the south ern coast of Japan Lieut Bonita Ruth Bonham Oklahoma City army nurse was injured She was the quick think ing nurse who forgot her own serious injuries to help calm' the men and persuade them to gather around the life rafts Two Oklahoma men were list ed as missing They are Pvt Jo seph Sanders Stilwell and Lieut Walter Ward Ardmore Eleven were reported killed in the crash and 12 are missing ifty one persons were aboard the plane transporting troops and supplies to Seoul German Police Smash Reds' Plans Burglars Get Off With $14000 Cask WICHITA Kas Oct Burglars looted a safe at the WRL market here early today of what operators estimated was more than $14000 in cash Police said about $1000 in cash was left behind by the burglars in their haste to escape when a tear gas bomb went off as he safe was opened The loss was estimated by Russell one of the owners The store is open on Sunday and the money represented receipts for Saturday and yesterday Entrance was gained through a ventilator on the roof The dial on the safe was knocked off and tumblers on the combination were punched out It was the second safe bur glary here in the last two days Late Saturday night $900 in cash was taken from a safe at another market demonstrations Police jailed more than 1400 Red ringleaders and broke Up every attempt they made to start riots in a score of cities The day marked for bloodshed ended with nothing more serious than scattered fist fights and stone throwing About 30 police were hurt in the skirmishes Meanwhile the people of So viet encircled Berlin received as surance yesterday from President Truman of continued aid to keep the city free The message was delivered by Paul Hoffman retiring chief of the economic cooperation administra tion in a speech at the opening of the German industrial fair in Berlin Aid To Continue aid will Tru message declared we are confident of the eagerness of the German people and their re public to join the free of the world in defense of all that we cherish" Red leaders had promised to make Sunday a bloody day of to the west ern allies and the west German government they sponsor The communists had shipped in thousands of young fanatics trained in troublemaking from Soviet occupied east Germany They tried to foment riots in the streets and squares of many cities from Hamburg to Munich But they get far against 100000 wdll organized German police Police Pounce Quickly lying squads of armed police pounced on every small Red ga thering so fast that agitators even have time to distri bute their leaflets of anti western propaganda Some 900 would be rioters were tossed into jail joining 500 others who had been arrested as a pre caution on Saturday The biggest fight of the day took place in Hamburg where 16 policemen were injured fight ing 3000 stone throwing com munijfs iremen Called To Automobile Wi rx i 'i a Mc'X1 ala SKigfl MSI A Jin nh ynM Thursday October 5 1950 Cui Rafe Loans ace Probe I Hearing Starts Sdan on Low Rate Loan to Private' Business WASHINGTON Oct The cut rate loans to private business are headed for a new congressional inquiry The object is to see if interest rates should be boosted Senator ulbright (D Ark) said today a special senate bank ing subcommittee he heads will start hearings soon probably shortly after congress reconvenes Nov 27 to study the situation ulbright told a reporter he believes the Reconstruction i inance Corporation big govern ment lending agency' has mani pulated its bookkeeping to try to Justify its 4 percent interest rate for loans to private businesses Often he Baid the interest does not cover the actual coat of mak ing the loans That as ulbright sees it is the same as giving a federal sub sidy to whatever borrower hap pens to benefit He said he is not yet ready to propose a specific higher rate The law permits the RC to lend to business enterprises which can not obtain the loans from banljs and other private lenders The RC first must find how ever that the loan would serve public RC officials estimate business borrowers if they could get the loans at all from their bankers would have to pay 5 to 6 percent to the private lender )t Norman Mother Is Back Near amily Has Spent 11 Months In Iron Lung In Enid NORMAN Okla Oct A 38 year old Norman mother who Jias spent 11 months in an iron lung at St hospital in Enid was brought here yester day to be near her husband and five children The Norman American Legion post and other civic groups made the move possible They subscrib ed $1600 to buy a rocking bed respirator to help Mrs Herbert Henderson adjust tc living out side an iron lung again Mrs Henderson was stricken with polio last November 3 Nor man had no iron lung so she was taken to Enid where such fa cilities are available Every other week the father would take the children ranging in age from two to 16 years to Enid to see their mother Then the American Legion heard about the family decided it was about time Norman had some polio facilities of Jte Vernon Kuwitzky post commander said The post voted $300 to start a Bed and Iron Lung and asked other civic clubs to match it The rocking bed was paid for and delivered last week The Ki wanis club almost has reached its $1500 goal to buy the iron lung 66 State's Deadliest Road OKLAHOMA CITY Oct (A) Highway 66 again proved to be deadliest' high way road in September The highway patrol said today seven persons were killed on 66 during the month Altogether there were 38 traf fic deaths with 26 in rural areas and 12 urban Oklahoma county led with eight and Tulsa and Logan coun ties each had four Eighteen deaths came as a re sult of two car collisions while six pedestrians were killed Three persons were killed on Tulsa city streets and two on Ok lahoma citv streets BRIGHT IGHTS LURE EAGER BEAVER BUTE An eager beaver that never had it so good in the woods really had itself a time in Columbia Park for a anell The critter moved in quietly took up quarters ima small stream between the roller coaster and the merry go round and moved in hungrily on the succulent trees Ted Beach superintendent of the gardens soon noticed some thing was doing his trees a great deal of no good so he called for help from the game wardens who trabped the 45 pound animal and carted it awav from the bright lights and music TRUMAN ON CRUISE WASHINGTON Sept (ZP) President Truman boarded the yacht Williamsburg today for an Cight dav rest cruise It is his first resnite of such duration since the Korean crisis developed in late June The president and his party of While House staff members will sail in Potomac river and Chesa peake Bay Waters on a flexible schedule No landings are plan ned and the party is due back here next Saturday MICROSCOPE MEASURES NEW YORK (ZP) When will wax and water dissolve in each other? Doing research to improve floor wax product Rob i technical director of David Kennedy Inc found the answer The two will not dis solve he discovered until they into Particles about three millionths of an inch in diameter so small that an electron microscope is needed to see the emulsified particles a 'O.