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The Daily Oklahoman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • 15

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THE SUNDAY OKLAHOMAN February 16, 1969 15 Paris in 1900 To Be Relived At OU Museum Bogus Money! Ring Broken LOS ANGELES (AP) Police broke up a $1 million Randlett Class of '18 Ran to College Prexies NORMAN The novelty id nostalgia of "Paris counterfeiting ring Saturday and arrested three persons. 1900" will come alive again Sunday in the feature film presentation this month at the University of Oklahoma Stovall Museum of Science and History. The film will be shown at 2:30 and 4: 30 p.m. in the mu seum lecture hall. Monty Woolley narrates They said one, a woman, was later released.

The Secret Service said the operation was large, but added that 90 percent of. it; was in the Los Angeles area: However, some of its mon-i ey turned up in Phoenix and Kansas City, officers said. Detectives said they found bogus $10 and $20 bills still being prepared in an house they raided during the early; morning near the University -of Southern California. Many others were in bun the 81-minute documentary, directed by Nicole Vedres, which recaptures the buoyant period in Paris from the turn of the century to the beginning of World War I. Claude Dauphin sings the French songs in the movie.

Vedres used old French dles ready for passing, officers said, and altogether' newsreels, theater programs and early silent movies to depict "La Belle Epoque," they had a face value of between $750,000 and $1 million. Some of the bills were of rather poor quality, police said. its popular interests, amusements and fads, its art, thea ter, music, science and liter ature. Renoir, Rodin, Matisse, Tolstoy, Colette, Sarah Bernhardt, Monet, Buffalo Bill, Caruso and Chevalier are among the persons shown in wVord that Dr. Harvey A.

Andruss, former Oklahoman, will retire this autumn S5 preSident of Bloonisburg State College jogs pleasant memories Dr- liver s- Willham, retired of Oklahoma State University. Willham and Dr. Andruss were graduated from high school together at Randlett, Cotton County, in the class of "There were four students in that the former OSU administrator recalls. Then, jokingly: "Fiffty percent of tiie class became presidents of colleges." Three of the 1918 Randlett graduates boys. The girl, Vera Elmore, died Shortly after that in an automobile accident.

The third boy, Dr. Willham recalls, was Edison Spanizel, now a Texas farmer, v. A resident of Oklahoma since shortly Before statehood, Dr. Willham is a native of Clearwater, where he was born June 26, 1901. He moved with his parents the "Big Pasture" country in February, 1907..

Dr. Andruss, a native Texan, moved to Oklahoma. Territory with his parents in 1903. He has been president of Blooms-burg College for 30 years one of the na- longest tenures. Do the three surviving members of that Randlett High School class of 51 years ago ever see each other? regularly at school reunions," says Dr.

Willham. "We met last year at Randlett, after meeting for sever-; al years in Oklahoma City. Dr. Andruss and I have remained close friends throughout the many intervening years." Breakfast Costs Vary Brings up a casual discussion about the varying prices of food in different parts Of Oklahoma. Take hotcakes, bacon and coffee, for example.

We have noticed the prices vary from a low of 66 cents at Pawhuska to a high of $.1.39 in Tulsa. Lawton (98 cents), and Al-tus ($1.12) are in between, as are Salli-saw Ponca City (95 cents) and Woodward (85 cents). A dim view of restaurant prices on the Turner Turnpike is taken by James W. Dunn, publisher of the weekly Maysville News, who points out testily that a cup of 'black coffee to go is now 26 cents a cup. 1.

"Better carry a thermos jug or submit to highway robbery, Dunn advises. Anyone Run Restaurant 50 Years? A nationally distributed magazine featuring restaurant operations is observing anniversary by doing some stories about restaurants that have been in business for at least half a century. The Oklahoma Restaurant Association, contacted for information, comes up with word that Oklahoma City restaurateur Beverly Osborne is the only one they "know of" in the Sooner slate who even approaches the half-century mark. Osborne statred his restaurant chain 49 years ago. You been in the restaurant business longer? Get in touch.

Houchin Day in Azalea Plans Weekly Miscellany: John Houchin, president, of Phillips Petroleum will be honored at a "John Houchin Day" during the Muskogee Azalea Festival, April 12-20. He's a native of Muskogee. Rotund Bob tee Kidd, SPoteau newspaperman, says in the last two weeks he has- received two gift books, "The New Fat Boy's Book" and "How to Get Thinner Once and For All," and wonders if there's a message hidden somewhere. Sponsors of the 1969 National Sand Bass Festival at Madill are wondering if Tex-ans will take over the show again this year. Last year, Vernal Crow, Fort Worth, won the festival championship with a catch of 200 sandies in an 18-hour fishoff, and Barbara Ann Bailey, 16, Whitesboro, was crowned festival queen.

The '69 show will open and close with boat races in Little Glasses Cove east of Madill, June 15-22. Daltons Buried in Kingfisher We mentioned some time ago that Bailey Hanes, Guthrie historian and author, is seeking the burial place of Julia Johnson Dalton, widow of Emmett Dalton, last of the notorious Dalton gang. Mrs. Ben Musick, Kingfisher, informs us there is a plot in the Kingfisher Cemetery in which the Daltons, Youngers and Glue family members are buried. "The lot Is full, but the graves are not all marked," says Mrs.

Musick, who adds that Dr. L. F. Dulaney of Kingfisher is a recognized authority on the Daltons in later years. PITCHING IN to help the Victor Veloz family, which lost its homo at 945 SW 58 and possessions in a fire, were these Oklahoman and Times carriers Saturday.

Left to right are Jerry Drewery, David Stern and Jimmy Jenson, who were among 27 carriers collecting and packing items for the family. Billy Veloz, 13, oldest son of the couple, is training as a carrier of the Oklahoma Gity Times. Collection center for the family was a fire station at SW 65 and Western. (Staff Photo by Tony Wood) SQUNCH many rare shots. "Paris 1900" was voted "One of the Year's 10 Best" by the National Board of Review and took the "Prix Louis Dellue" French film critics award as the best film of the year.

YOUR TOES IN OUR GLORIOUS CARPETS, bare feet are welcome at CARPET CITY'S THREE CONVENIENT LOCATIONS: 3404 N. MAY AVENUE 2136 S. W. 59TH STREET Hillcrest Shopping Center 208 W. MAIN NORMAN With jwScs I "'nTuSccsf cam co HANCOCK FABRICS ARE GOING ALL OUT THIS WEEK TO SAVE YOU SS ON YOUR PRIN(9 WARDROBE! DC HERE EARLY' YOU CAN REALLY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THESE SAVINGS! ALSO, REMEMBER TO GET YOUR TICKET TO THE BIG "SEW IN" TO BE HELD FEB.

27th AT THE TOP OF aTHE MALL BY GEORGE! SENSATIONAL SAVINGS ALL DOOR BUSTER'S PRINTED BLOUSE SPORTSWEAR SPRING WHITES 100 COTTON NAME BRAND! PERMA-PRESS SPRING GINGHAMS 98. 50 POLYESTER 50 COTTON ELASTIC THAT'S RITE FIFTY YARDS MEASURE 'UR' OWN! REG; 1.49 45" WIDE PERMA-PRESS SPRINGTIME PRINTS "50 POLYESTER 50 COTTON 36 fe 45" STRIPES PAISLEYS DOTS MQDFPMC CLI SPOTS LENO W3 0 1 El odai a kinuri Tier PER INCH NOVELTIES PICQUE OOyD EYELASH 45" WIDE REM NTS. OF UNTD. FIBER CONT. 45" WIDE 1st QUALITY DOTTED SWISS RED WHITE BLUE PATRIOT PRINTS BONDED 54" Spring Suiting 100 WOOL WOOLENS 54" WIDE f-LIMITED SELECTION 9 1 DO POPLIN SAILCLOTHS PICQUE BROADCLOTHS 45" WIDE 100 COTTON 89 yd.

65 POLYESTER 35 COTTON ALL COLORS 100 RAYON FACE 100 ACETATE BACK -rsy-w iiLii-Kiiiu FOR. nX nniiDi imito SPRING SUITINGS PRICE BREAK! close outi solidWINDJAMMER BRAID TRIMS PRINTS DOTS SOLIDS STRIPES BUTTONS MM FAMOUS BRAND 70 RAYON 30 COTTON 100 ACETATE 49 99 70 RAYON 3nA rftTTrtM 1 90 RAYON 10 SILK 45" WIDE FINEST QUALITY SPR1NA POTIOkl Hi YD BUTTONS 54" WIDE TUSSAH DRAPERY THE BUY OF THE YEAR! BARGAIN BIN RAGS TO RICHES VALUES TO 100 JUTE DECORATOR BURLAP UPHOLSTERY UNBLEACHED DOMESTIC 100 COTTON 29 TUSSAH TWEEDS ALL COLORS ft 90 RAYON UU STRIPES SOLIDS BROCADES NOVELTIES 9 Wl YD. 00 7 ACETATE 3 SILK YD; 3" WIDE NATURAL COLOR YD NUBBIES VALUES TO $3.98 Ms. OFUNDT FIBER CONT. REMNTS.

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