The Wagoner Tribune from Wagoner, Oklahoma • 1

KJl if QRJICTORY BUT STATES vm SAVIMiS BOIDS i AMn With which is combined The Porter News wr1 i ouja Historical Society la VOLUME XXII WAGONER WAGONER COUNTY OKLAHOMA TUESDAY MAY 12 1942 NUMBER 36 the Gas Ration Card lili? N9 4626496 Opens Thursday MAKE ICTIONS ON REVERSE SIDE THIS CARD INSTRUCTIONS late emergency war Adding Machine Paper 15c a I I will fail able to (Ghroa if OrvaojiMtfoa If 4a 1 4hit organize each states so that to Wagoner Mon first candidate for to appear here in OWNERS NAME City Schools was Superintendent of Hammond with an persons not regis ONI uai will but Dick Jones Wagoner county chairman of the Navy Relief und drive this week announced the appointment of Ira Lawrence as city drive fund chairman at Okay A benefit pie supper to be held Wednesday evening May 20 in the Okay High School has already been arranged for the Navy Relief fund by Lawrence Hammermill Bond Typewriter Paper 100 sheet packages 25c and 30c or sale by Wagoner Pub lishing Co An American Red Cross benefit pie supper at the Blue Mound School last riday netted $2840 for that cause the Rev A Cameron Wagoner county drive chairman reported Miss Ruby Keddy is teacher at Blue Mound The Reverend Cameron pre sented the need of the collection as a part of' the pie supper pro gram 2 This card can be used only for gasoline delivered into the fuel tank of the vehicle described hereon or if a boat for gasoline to be used therein Ira McGee Inola and Leonard Bertram Wagoner were ac cepted this week for United States Army service at the Muskogee Re cruiting Station McGee a veteran of the first World War reenlisted for service He lives on route one out of Inola Bertram lives on route one out of Wagoner It was his first enlist ment The Wagoner County AAA Com mittee this week received a sched ule of payment rates on 1942 agri cultural conservation and parity programs These revised rates of payment for the various special crop allot ments which are applicable under the 1942 agricultural conservation program are as follows: Cotton 12 cents per pound peanuts $125 per ton wheat 99 cents per bushel and potatoes 18 cents per bushel The 1942 parity rate for wheat allotment farms is 135 cents per bushel The 1942 parity payments will be made in the southern re gion in which Oklahoma is lo cated only with respect to wheat As soon as application forms and the necessary instructions are received by the Wagoner County AAA office parity applications for payment on wheat wil Ibe executed and farmers will be contacted to sign these applications for pay ment the AAA committee an nounced STREET ADDRESS CITY OR POST OICE 3 The value of the unit may be changed from time to time on announcement by the Office of Price Administration MRS YOUNG DIES Mrs Young long time well and widely known Wagoner resi dent died at her home here shortly before 1 today Mrs Young has been in failing health for several years uneral arrangements are incomplete 4 Your local rationing board alone can make adjustments or issue a different card NYA Representative In agoner Thursday Wagoner Population Up 1500 in 2 Years Registration Shows AAA Payment Rates Released This Week red Lindsey Sends $5 Check or Storm Victims this im Hearing on the complaint filed by the Wagoner Chamber of Com merce with the Oklahoma Corpo ration Commission asking equal iization of Missouri Kansas Texas shuttle train rates from Wagoner to the Oklahoma Ordnance Works with Vinita and Muskogee rates has been set for hearing next Mon day May 18 ormal complaint charging dis crimination against Wagoner by virtue of present shuttle train fares was filed with the corpora tion commission last Tuesday in Oklahoma City The complaint signed by Phil Harris as of president charged that the rate per pas senger per mile now charged Wag oner defense workers was out of line with the per passenger per mile rate charged Muskogee and Vinita workers The complaint sets out that the $540 now charged for a book of 25 commutation tickets from Wag oner to the Oklahoma Ordnance Works reflects an average one way fare of 216 cents per person per trip It was also set out that the dis tance from the depot in Wagoner to the unloading point at the Oklahoma Ordnance Works is 192 miles making an average fare per mile per passenger rate of 112 cents It was then cited that the dis tance from the depot in Muskogee to the unloading station at the Oklahoma Ordnance Works is 346 miles and that the one way fare is 276 cents per person which produces a per mile per passenger earning of but 795 cents It was also cited that the dis tance from the depot in Vinita to the place of unloading at the Oklahoma Ordnance Works is 366 miles and that the one way fare per passenger is 276 cents which produces a per mile per passenger earning of 754 cents It was charged that the excessive charge per mile per passenger as sessed against Wagoner defense workers discriminates against Wagoner and to the prejudice of residents and citizens of the City of Wagoner The chamber of commerce asked that the corporation commission set the matter for public hearing and cause the Missouri Kansas Texas Railroad Co to appear and show cause why Wagoner should not be accorded the same services fares rates and regulations as ac corded to other cities Blue Mound Supper Nets Red Cross $28 Ira Lawrence Heads Navy Drive at Okay Coweta Bond Drive Is Handled by OCD THE ACCEPTANCE ANO USE THIS CARD CONSTl THE HOLDER WILL OBSERVE THE RULES GASOLINE RATIONING AS ISSUED BY THE STATE BODY STYLE STATE REGISTRATION McGee and Bertram Army Enlistments Counties Organized or armer War Aid Wagoner County residents troop to the polls Thursday instead of voting booths they will find and instead of easting ballots they will sign pledges to purchase war bonds with which to bombard the bel lierent axis powers This unique system of combing the county for voluntary pledges is a part of a sweeping national drive to raise Wagoner bond purchase quota for May of $16800 Plans for carrying on the pledge day campaign in Wagoner area were perfected riday night at a meeting called by Van Noy Wagoner county bond sale chair man and Jim Biggerstaff city bond sale chairman At the same time similar meet ings were being held in Porter Coweta and Okay by City Bond Sale Chairmen Dee German Luker and Ira Lawrence Campaigns in each town in Ok An increase in population of 1500 for Wagoner since the 1940 federal census was disclosed by the war ration book registration last week A total oi 4946 applications for war ration books through the Wagoner reported by Schools estimated 250 tered at that time for various causes to be registered later Of the 4946 who registered here last week 4908 were Issued war ration books 38 registrants being denied ration books because of ex cessive sugar stock on hand In all Wagoner County there were 22120 applications filed with 21888 war ration books issued 232 applicants being denied ration books because of excessive sugar stocks Of the 21888 receiving books 1585 stamps were detached by registering officials for sugar held in excess of the permitted amount Coweta listed 1777 applicants with 1730 books issued Porter re ported 1785 applicants with 1754 books issued and Okay listed 1423 applicants with 1422 books issued (Num oX ortaolMtiM) fulfill this pledge for the duration of 1 This is your gasoline ration card for the vehicle or boat described hereon This card must last at least through June 30 1942 in the rationed area This card must be presented to your dealer for cancelation of one or more units each time you purchase gasoline 56p city chairmen through their war savings committees with the county administrator appointing special to conduct the program in rural areas Each town and rural district will be divided according to precinct lines and bond shelters will be des ignated in each area for the sign ing of war bond purchase pledges on May 14 Persons who do not appear at the bond shelters on Thursday May 14 will be visited in their homes by minute men canvassers and given an opportunity to Sign the pledge This house to house campaign will start at 7 Thursday evening riday homes nation 1 Tire designed to enlist 10 percent of each income in the reg ular purchase of war bonds and stamps UNITED STATES AMERICA OICE PRICE ADMINISTRATION GASOLINE RATION CAR A Dr Bates Wagonerselves of the opportunity to week urged parents to avail them selves of the opportunity to im munize their children against diptheria typhoid and smallpox now offered by the federal and state governments Material for protection from diptheria typhoid and smallpox tyas been placed by the govern ment in the hands of local physicians and will be admin istered to applicants for only a small service charge of communicable dis eases is always Dr Bates set out becomes a mat ter of most serious consideration in war times Epidemics have often proved more terrible than was itself should exert them selves to protect their children from the extra dangers of epi demics of war times which may come when doctors are scarce for civilian Dr Bates insisted Here Pm Buying Why Sign This Ahrens Urges Men To Register Here 701 State Candidates as ilings Close Congressman Nichols Draws 5 Opponents if ST RATI ON Nl I ormer Governor William I Murray brought his campaign for I democratic nomination for United I States senator I day night the I a major office I this campaign I There were but 29 persons in the I district courtroom of the Wagoner I County Courthouse when Murray began speaking During the hour 9 and a half long speech another 15 straggled in a total of but 44 I persons I Unkempt shaggy almost blind Murray was haltingly escorted to 9 a counsel table inside the bar sec I tion He sat down laid down his cigar and said might as well I It was a rambling disconnected I speech on war treaties his reason for sitting while making an ad I dress and other scattered subjects I in the race because I know I what needs to be done in writing the treaties after this Mur I ray declared is not a man I in congress from this state nor one running who knows interna I tional law I know a lawyer in the state who knows it spent 59 years studying government 30 years studying war I shipping and related subjects I Someone has to be in the senate to point out the dangers to our I government in the treaty following II this His reason for sitting while i speaking: the parliaments in the world sit down Read your New Testament and find that Christ never made a speech stand ing 1 On war: Japanese have been ready for this war since 1890 I The greatest mass movement of troops and supplies in history was accomplished when Japan took Korea In five months they have taken more territory and prisoners than Hitler will ever take They have made him look like two I I On victory: long will it take? That depends on two things: How well we prepare and Divine Providence I have seen Divine in this war At Dun i kirk a fog came up at a time when there are no fogs to protect the British retreat The earliest winter in history stopped drive'Vn On Divine Providence: he save this republic? Maybe If we elect our ablest men to gov ernment He may not think it worth On his opponents: is a parrot Busby a chickenhawk Of the two rather have Lee Lee has too much communism in his blood There are too many com munistic heads of bureaus in On labor legislation: a man living who can write 1 a law on labor without creating slavery Slavery is defined in the fourteenth amendment as untary It is the right 1 of any man to work when he wants to and quit when he pleases He can quit 'any job in the On laws: just laws are based on God in nature Every right car ries an obligation The 10 com mandments have stood because they were based on God jn nature Each right carries an red Lindsey son of the Lindsey one time pub lisher of the Wagoner Daily Say ings this week sent the Wagoner American Red Cross Chapter a $5 check to be passed on to victims of the recent Pryor tornado Lindsey now' living in Los An geles Calif wrote that have just read of the horrible thing that happened at Pryor When a little boy I visited the orphans home there and also played base ball there Anyway it is too close to Wagoner for me to pass by without offering some i Mrs Emily Hendricks Services Here Today 1 Lumpkin Carr Unopposed for State Representative Nomina tions Summers Draws Ingle A total of 701 candidates been filed with the Oklahoma State Election Board before the 10 day filing period closed Satur day evening with the customary mix up of names in state races to confuse the voters Senator Josh Lee drew 10 op ponents for democratic nomina tion for United States senator and unless he is successful in his filed challenge of the filing of Josh Lee Vinita farmer it will be the most confusing of the major races in the democratic primary election On the republican side William Pine former United States senator from Okmulgee will be opposed by rank A Anderson Okmulgee negro and Stauf fer Oklahoma City iled for democratic nomination for governor were Robert Kerr Oklahoma City James John son Edmond Gomer Smith Okla homa City rank Douglass Oklahoma City Herbert Hodge Oklahoma City Lynch Ok lahoma City and Robert Burns Oklahoma City Republican candidates for gov ernor are Ernest Albright Ok lahoma City Dannenburg Tulsa and William Otjen Enid Congressman Jack Nichols drew five opponents for democratic re nomination in this second district with Clark Stigler unop posed for republican nomination iled against Nichols were Newal A Ellis Muskogee Miller Tahlequah Baker Wall Salliisaw Joe Berkey Dewar and James Rogers Muskogee Wagoner County Representative Lumpkin Coweta was left unopposed for democratic renom ination when filing closed with Carr Wagoner unopposed for republican nomination District Judge A Summers Wagoner drew a single opponent for democratic renomination Ingle Sallisaw filing for nom ination in opposition to Summers District Judge Brewer Muskogee was unopposed for dem ocratic renomination in the other division of this fifteenth judicial district ormer Governor Gives Ram bling TWfixiuecied Talk On Wide Range of Subjects Discrimination in Per Mile Per Passenger Rate Charged in of Complaint Mrs Betty Poe Dies Services Here Today 1 uneral services will be held this (Tuesday) afternoon at 2:30 in the Wagoner irst Christiian Church for Mrs Betty Poe 84 who died Sunday after noon Services will be conducted by the Rev McCoy pastor with burial in the Elmwood Cemetery under the direction of the Hers man uneral Home Mrs Poe is survived by two sisters Miss Margaret McDonald Wagoner and Mrs Erna Hubbard Kansas City Mo and two bro thers rank McDonald Wagoner and McDonald Kansas City Dr Bates Urges Immunization Under ree Plan a Jones State Administrator of the War Savings Staff was tackled in his office recently by Timothy Taxpayer hopping mad waving a fist full of Uncle favorite War Bonds and conducting a one man conversation here buying War Bonds and have been for some time and if the Treasury Department know about it not going to tell had other people raise that question and all the Treasury wants to know is what I plan to buy in the why you say so check the spot about buying already but going to sign up for a lot more than I have been and everybody else in Oklahoma will Exit Timothy Tax payer soothed and satisfied and continued through and Saturday until all in the county state and have been contacted nation wide program is Residents Troop to to Pledge Purchases or Bombing of Axis George A Coffey youth person nel representative of the National Youth Administration will be in Wagoner this Thursday morning i May 14 at 10 to interview youths interested in training themselves for work in the war effort Coffey will establish contact of fices in County Superintendent Ona A office in the county courthouse Healthy boys and girls between the ages of 17 and 24 years of age not regularly enrolled in schools or who have finished school are I eligible to apply Youths accepted for such war work training will be paid while taking this training Hearing Monday On Wagoner Rate On Shuttle Train OB BEfiIAR INVESTMENT IN 1 DEENSE SAVINGS BONDS Thia fa mt an Her forra The Signer will buy Defame Sariuga Bond by one of th method listed below i OBICINAI To the National Defense Ipledge that luvcas uuc num xzewaac oavwgs rsonoa aiamps eacn in I will buy these Bonds: Jq wfonth rnm poft office bank or other mlcaageaey By mail from the Treasurer of the United State) Wsihlngton Under a Pay Roll Savings Plan (or other aunHar arrangement far regakr panchadag) cSoet at my place of employmcuu Wagoner County Bond Sale Drive uneral services are to be held i this (Tuesday) afternoon at 4 I in the Wagoner irst Bap I tist Church for Mrs Emily Hen dricks who died Monday morning at her home here Services will be conducted by the Rev A Watson pastor with burial in the Hulbert Ceme tery under the direction of the Hersman uneral Home Mrs Hendricks is survived by three daughters Mrs Sarah Bess Sapulpa Mrs red Rhodes Wag oner and Mrs Pat Johnson Chou I teau and six sons James Wag oner Isaac Phillips Texas 1) Charles Crane Texas I Tulsa John Wagoner and Elisha I I Tulsa Twelve grandchildren also 1 1 survive I Typewriter paper legal and let I terhead size for sale by the Wag oner Publishing Co i The Coweta Civilian Defense headquarters has been designated by Luker city war bond sale chairman as the "bond for Coweta Handling the pledge registration will be the staff of the OCD com posed of Mrs Benson Lumpkin Mrs rank Shouse Mrs Arthur Naylor and Mrs Michael The office opened Monday for pledge registration and will remain open daily until everyone in Co weta has signed a war bond and stamp pledge card it has been an nounced After the pledge cam paign is completed the office again will be open but three days a week Coweta residents have been urged to go to the defense unit headquarters and register to save contact by workers at a later date Torni OPA Ml nu nna WAH Old and Tired Murray Brings Campaign Here With most available labor now employed at Camp Gruber there will be a heavy demand for farm labor expected as soon as the weather clears Henry Ahrens of the Wagoner ederal Employment Service office announced this week Ahrens urged all persons want ing work to immediately register with his office for call I Want Ads Two cents a word That old gag about running out of gas be a stock lahoma will conducted by the juive mucn luiiyei nuuvu is a oaiiiym ictLiuii cam which Uncle Sam will soon dole out to motorists Keeping your eye on the mileage gauge will be an absolute necessity The cards are printed in white blue and red w'hite ones have seven spaces to be punched as gas is bought blue ones 11 red 15 units Wagoner County Agent Robert Jeffrey and County Home Dem onstration Agent Ruth Dungan this week began organization of county farmers for service Instructions to county in all 48 farmers can be notified of certain war efforts upon the shortest pos sible notice have been given each state director of extension work by the secretary of agriculture Organization of the Oklahoma extension service for the work was perfected at a meeting in Tulsa last week called by State Director Ernest Scholl attended by both Dungan and Jeffrey Each county will be mapped as to communities and neighborhoods with men and women leaders known as assigned from 15 to 20 farmers in their re spective neighborhoods to be kept roll 2 for 25c Wagoner Pub Co informed of war activity demands Wagoner County had previously organized 120 leaders but addi tional leaders will be necessary under the state wide plan This will be completed and in the Washington office by July 1 In addition to the organization plan a food conservation program was outlined to agents in regard to the canning of fruits and vege tables using sugar substitutes with the latest information on drying fruits and vegetables A IECMENT TH GOVERj LNISTRI If you are already ptfft chasing Defense Bonda AtemAtieaiiT mease indicate the type oi plan when si agreement jiere LJ (KayltfDRftBMSS) 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