The Record-Democrat from Wagoner, Oklahoma • 1

Stories of HE RECORD DEMOCRAT the Street VOLUME LIII WAGONER WAGONER COUNTY OKLAHOMA THURSDAY MARCH 1 1945 In Top Place On Garand Rifle Biographical sketches of all Ok peo trucks 0 Nichols3 Sister March 3 kogee has been called in by Chief Oologah and Tenkiller erry res Smith to help develop the case will be held in Tulsa and 5 and in Little May 7 to fully ac I used to think I knew it all now I learn something every day It used to be that necking on the street was considered dis graceful nowadays it is so com mon as to attract little notice to be held early in become available in Bates Coweta Roland Boat right Wagoner Donald Evans Mazie Dewey Sampson Che Dan German of Porter was in to see me Monday He was on his way to California and from there will probably go to the Pacific After taking a look at six foot two and his grin I decided that the Japs had better look out On the last previous list were Clifford A Aldrich Doyle Ber The merchant who advertises merchandise and prices pro tects YOU against profiteering Quit growling about rationing no one in this country is going hungry A lot of people in Europe are starving and English people especially would be happy to have just half what we do I miss Mrs Brumnett around the grocery store these days I am glad to hear that she is getting well and will soon be back on the job I never saw her mad man who used to walk a mile for a Camel is now glad to walk that far for any kind I believe in asking the Lord forthings in prayer but you have to help a little yourself Some people eat too much and talk too much but that is better than being dumb Speedball Lettering Sets Wag oner Publishing Co I have heard that the appear ance of robins was a sign of spring I saw some Saturday and then it snowed The election of I Hinds as speaker of the house in the legis lature pleases a lot of Wagoner people He knows his way about and is friend Remember the birds these cold days and put out some water and feed for them Wagoner has more no account alley cats and mongrel dogs than any town I know Go to church once in awhile it won't hurt you Mrs King Huntington Ark sister of Nichols Wag oner died Monday afternoon in a ort Smith hospital following an illness of four years uneral services were held Wed nesday afternoon in Greenwood Ark engineers is splendid as applied to flood control and statement set out the engineers do not have con gressional authority to deal with soil conservation recreation irri gation reclamation marketing of electric power and many other important features of valley re source To develop these resources un Note: This story of the exploits of a Wagoner sol dier was written by Robert Vermillion United Press war correspondent and appeared in newspapers throughout the United States this week Sergeant West left Wagoner as a private first class with the Wagoner company of Oklahoma National Guards when the unit was mobilized for active service on September 25 1940 Returning veterans have re counted Sergeant exploits in Wagoner but dispatch this week was the first censor cleared account The story here of Sergeant West may be sightly in vari ance with Wagoner reports just as location of Wagoner in the Cookson Hills is a bit fan ciful but the facts are all here Andcel Promoted To Tec 5th Grade Railroad as a clerk Eufaula Okla ancy Stationery Wagoner Publishing Co Purple Heart Award Reaches Mrs Drake Mrs Roam 76 died at hoi hfimn in lAforrrvtnav Ind 'Tl mvr PXWXAIV 1X1 XJkk AC10V IliUiO inav njfrnr i Himoro h'zm a OVXV1VCO wcic 41C1U iday afternoon in the Pentecostal Holiness Church with the Rev A I Shannon conducting assist ed by the RevC Payne Burial was in Elmwood Ceme tery under the direction of the Hersman uneral Home Besides her husband Mrs Roam is survived by one stepdaughter Mrs anny Roberts Wagoner one brother Parker Pascola Mo and two graunddaughters Pallbearers were George Much more ranklin Gregg Roy Mc Cune Williams and rank i Baker all of Wagoner and re mont Nuckolls Mazie exepct your school teach er to make angels out of your kids parents should apply a lit tle first aid where it is most need ed It looks like the Russians are going to get to Berlin before we do and I hope it happens that way The Russians be Sinclair Barnsdall Stations Robbed Japs Almost Cancelled Trip Home or Pvt Warrep Williams Wagoner Sleet Snow Here Young Car Overturns En Route to Plant Modest Button Veterans Protection Against Critics Right To He Tells Reporter They Started It' River valley "The plan of the Army The Rev Paul Brown pas tor of Holy Cross Cath olic Church will appear on the program at the third quarterly meeting of Tulsa Deanery Coun Program Calls for Control Navigation and Power Wagoner Publishing Co annual benefits of $26366200 from power production flood con trol and navigation Construction of the Mannford Historical Society Historical Bldg School kids of today think up a lot of devilment but no more than they did in my time they are just a little bit more modern Who knows I may come to Your house tonight Though I friendly with You before I( wonder God if wait at Your door crying! Shedding tears I wish know You these many years Well I will have to go now Godgood by Strange since I met not afraid to die We will remove the names of all delinquent subscribers from our lists This is in keeping with conservation of paper and postal regulations Look at the label on your pa per If it reads any date prior to 3 1 45 It show that your subscription has expired Subscription rates are as fol lows: Record Democrat anywhere in Oklahoma $150 outside the state $2 The Wagoner Tribune $150 anywhere in out side the state $2 BOTH PAPERS anywhere in Oklahoma $2 outside Okla homa $3 Both papers must go to same address Mrs Edgar Drake Route 2 Wagoner this week received the Order of the Purple Heart award ed her husband Pvt Edgar Drake for wounds received in rance on December 15 Drake is now in an English hos pital and the government reports recovery as Private Drake is a son of Mrs Ona A Drake county superinten dent of schools and Its future generations may hold in honor and remembrance the men from Oklahoma who have given their lives in answer to the high call of the United States for bravery faith and courage in the present Authorization for the compila tion of data for this memorial rec ord and its publication was given by the board of directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society at its quarterly meeting held on July 27 1943 Jim Biggerstaff Wagoner edi tor of The Record Democrat is a member of the board of directors of the Oklahoma Historical So ciety and on the editorial and publication committee The biographical sketch of Pri vate Coday as its appears in the Chronicles follows: IVAN CODAY Private Army Home address: Coweta Wagoner County Clarence Coday ather Coweta Born May 30 1920 Enlisted ebruary 11 1941 Decoration: Order of the Purple Heart Served as Machine Gunner 45th Division Died December 17 1943 in Italy "Jit Rep Stigler second Ok lahoma district congressman this week declared am notin favor of any bill which will make flood control secondary if power is de sired it should be merely inci Congressman declara tion came in reply to a letter from opponents of a proposed Arkansas Valley Authority being sponsored by the recently organized Arkan sas Valley Authority Association of Oklahoma you may Congress man wrote Rankin of Mississippi has intro duced a bill in the house not only creating an Arkansas Valley Au thority but several others to be patterned along the lines of TVA I am not in favor of any bill which will make flood control secondary If power is de sired in connection with such a project it should be merely inci dental At least that is my judg ment "rom the information I can ob tain here it does not appear there is any immediate danger of any authority superseding the army engineers in flood control Meanwhile more detailed infor mation on the public hearings on Army plans for postwar development of the Ark ansas River to provide navigation full control of floods and power production May has Wagoner Hearings on May 4 Rock Ark quaint the public with the $446 WITH THE SEVENTH ARMY IN ALSACE Sgt Horace West a squirrel hunter from the hill country of Oklahoma allows it exactly right to kill a man But this grey eyed 35 year old marksman let that keep him from shooting Germans standing sitting and running one after the other since his old di vision the 45th landed in Sicily on July 10 1943 His grand told is more than 130 West is the father of two chil dren who are waiting for him to some home to Wagoner Okla He used to do a lot of hunting for squirrels and jumping jackrabbits around his birthplace in the Cook son Hills the home of another famous gunman the gangster loyd In a battalion command post in the Alsace hill country where the red clay and soft pine forests re mind him of his home country West told what like to kill 130 men He sat on a bench inside a rench farmhouse fondling his ri fle He looks older than 35 His LaBebe Andeel son of Mr and Mrs Richard Andeel Wagoner has just been promoted to Tech nician ifth Grade Lt Hugo or mato commanding officer of the Medical Detachment Ashburn General Hospital McKinney Texas announced this Week Andeel has been assigned to Ashburn for some time working In the Clinic at the hospital As I get older I find that a lot of my trouble never happened Wonder who is paying for the advertising of the proposed AVA? the icy covering although open fields remain well covered Harold Williams 55 Mission Veteran Is Home on Leave Look twice before you say to the filling station attendant man why you in the He may be wearing a little gold lapel button embossed with an American eagle That badge sig nifies he already has been in the war and is now an honorably dis charged service man Unless you are familiar with the appearance of the button there is nothing to indicate what it means No words letters or mot toes are inscribed The man who had half his shin bone removed to bolster up some missing ribs blasted out when a Japanese machine gunner scored a eye go around with his leg exposed to prove he's been in the war The little gold button barely a half inch in diameter is his only I ficrfliQ narinft nld ladies who stare pointedly and inquire: man you nhnilt fho riorkif ana fan Cawvey Dies uneral Saturday uneral services for John Cawvey 76 Wagoner who died Thursday morning in a Tulsa hos pital after a three weeks illness were held Saturday afternoon in Wagoner Services were held in the Church of Christ with the Rev Yoc ham officiatinp' Burial was in Elmwood Cemetery under the di rection of the Green uneral Home A native of Salem Ark Cawvey operated a farm near Hulbert un til 12 years ago when he moved to Wagoner Besides his wife of the home Cawvey is survived by one son John Cawvey Richmond Calif iThis sleet and snow is rough but it will hold the fruit back and I like peaches I thought snuff was a thing of past but the other day after view ing a big shipment Coats had received at his tore I decided I was wrong a 81 for flood control and ort Gibson power is es at $76560 for annual Mailing Envelopes at Wagoner Publishing Co OPA Price Panel To Meet Monday Tlie Wagoner County OPA Price Panel will meet Monday evening March 5 at 7:30 in the OPA office in Wagoner' Anyone having questions to dis cuss will be welcome to attend or a few uneasy minutes oni Private Williams who was over Ann rnfiro Unn Dirt Icnnc' QQ wx xxivuhuq a OU AJ1UJLXU1AO WR11 a UUttVy wec Jake williams would have sokrpons company of the 32nd Infan out at a very low price on hltry Division has returned for a chances of getting back to this furlough and reassignment Hel country under the rota leaves Wagoner this week after cion plan spending his furlough with his who were leaving the out 'aunt Miss Ollie Williams Route fit on rotation were lined up for'i Wagoner early chow when some Jap planes' that bombing the day came over on a dive bombing ex we were leaving Leyte was close the ranging drawling he continued umanoma doughboy related an interview at a west coast port of debarkation plastered the area thor oughly and landed one of their bombs just 25 yards from where our chow line had been the story had a happy ending none of us was Mrs Olive Hobbs Dies Wednesday Mrs Olive Hobbs 80 Wagoner died Wednesday afternoon at the home of her daughter Mrs Childres uneral arrangements are in complete but are under the di rection of the Green uneral Home vion Okmulgee Mrs Eva Wood The 23 year old bluejacket flew Tulsa Mrs Ella Love Greeley a otal of 55 combat missions and Co Mrs Mary Cowan Las Participated in the invasions of Nev and Mrs Grace Palau Mindoro and Luzon Caney Kas Eight grandchildren and six great grandchildren also survive The majority of modern poetry is inane However the poem below is one that has brought comfort to many soldiers and sailors and has been widely copied It is so good that I think you will like it Conversion (Written by Miss rances Anger mayer in Kansas City Mo June 3 1944) Look God I have never spoken to You But now I want to say do You You see God they told me You didn't exist And like a I believed all of this Last night from a shell hole I saw Your sky I figured right then they had told me a lie Had I taken time to see the things You made known they calling a spade a spade I wonder God if shake my hand I feel that You will un derstand I had to come to this hellish place Before I had the time to see Your face Well I guess there much more to say But sure glad God I met You today I guess the will soon be here But I'm not afraid since I know near The Well have to go I like You this I want You to know Look this will be a horrible Oklahoma Historical Society Chronicles Lists Pvt Ivan Coday 'oweia In New Group of Hero Naie Sketches Wagoner ighter Has 130 Notches gun reckon I killed around 120 in West said that was close fighting and I was using a Tommy He said the killing there require skill as much as it did firepower But killed 10 more in one month in Alsace West had been out of combat duty for 14 months when he was transferred to rance On the way aoouL tne rignt age tor It would be a good idea if Die familiari7ed fhpmcoltroc wifh cerned particularly with the ef the lapel insignia pictured above' i as close a spot as some we had gone through before "I was with the company com munications crews and our job was to string and keep in working order the telephone lines between company headquarters and our platoon command posts I also op erated the company radio when the regular operator was away or had been knocked out of action hated the Jap artillery most because it chewed up our telephone lines The shelling was bad enough but it was worse to have to repair the lines under fire 1 tightest spot I can remem ber was during an artillery bar rage one day when another man and I had to crawl 300 yards un der artillery and mortar fire to splice the broken lines We have enough wire to lay a new line so had to repair the one that the Jap artillery was tearing apart almost as fast as we could fix it Japs also have a trick of placing snipers to pick on com munication crews We had trou ble with some of them but not nearly as much trouble as with their artillery and Private Williams received his basic training at the infantry re placement training center at xx NUMBER 34 Stigler Puts lood Control ervoirs Markham erry and I for flood control and timated by engineers 000 with $351900 maintenance and operation This week Haner Musko gee president of the recently or ganized Arkansas Valley Authority Association of Oklahoma issued a statement pointing out that no controversy exists between the AVAA and Army engineers der regional authority similar to on development of the Arkansas the Tennessee Valley Authority is the purpose of the recently or ganized AVAA Haner asserted When you have company and they ask to have the news turned on do they immediately begin to talk gossip so that you hearBy Dive Bombing Yank Chow Line the news which are on the Verdigris River channel enlargements bank pro tection works snagging and dredging and the Blackburn1 Mannford Taft Ologah Pensa cola Merkham erry ort Gib son Webbers alls Tenkiller er ry Eutaula Short Mountain Paul Ozark and Dardanelle KaUi Dams for these reservoirs would On Tulsa Program be equipped with locks Lock sizes on the Verdigris River would be 74 feet by 600 feet and on the Ark ansas 110 feet by 600 feet The approved flood control res nrvnir at rnlno ah rm fho gris River it is set out will be cil National Council of Catholic modified ultimately to include Women to be held Thursday power generation but it is not March 8 at Tulsa planned to develop the power fea Reverend Brown will speak on Pvt Ivan Coday Coweta was the only Wagoner County hero dead of World War listed in the 1944 45 number of cotah and Roy Turnham The Chronicles of Oklahoma pub Wagoner iication of the Oklahoma Histor ical Society This is the fourth state wide list tram and Reuben Colbert all of World War II dead to appear members of the Wagoner company in the Chronicles of Oklahoma National Guards In the first last were the names when that unit was mobilized for and biographical sketches of Willis active service in September 1940 vr uencn coweta Raymond Harmon Coweta Robert Sand lahoma war dead are being assem lin Wagoner John Woodall Wag bled and published in the Chron oner and Elmer Yochum Porter icles the people of the state fhn connill lief mnra Andeel Wagoner George A Harold Lee Williams Wagoner aviation radioman second class USNR has returned from a tour of combat duty in the Pacific where he was an aircrewman of a torpedo bomber based on one of the baby carriers Attached to Composite Squad ron 20 Williams was the radioman i and tunnel gunner of a General Motors Avenger His plane fought in the Second Battle of the Philip pine Sea and inflicted substantial damage on enemv shore installs wuee ui ana live aaugnters Mrs Olive Vi Vion Okmillp Mrc vo Wnnd Driving sleet accompanied by a freak lightning and thunder dis play sheathed the Wagoner area and most of Oklahoma in ice Monday making highways and streets hazardous Jim Biggerstaff volunteer offi cial weather observer for Wago ner estimated four inches of sleet here A heavy snow began falling at 8 Tuesday morning and continued throughout the day adding a three inch covering to the icy coating Only one serious accident has been reported here resulting from road conditions A passenger car driven by Mrs letcher Young Wagoner carrying workers to the camp Roberts Calif and went Oklahoma Ordance Works over overseas with the 32nd Division His Asiatic Pacific theater rib bon bears four battle stars for the Barney Thomas Dies Suddenly in Chelsea Barney Thomas 69 well known former Wagoner resident died suddenly last Tuesday in Chelsea while at work in his drug store Thomas was a resident of Wag oner for many years coming to Oklahoma soon after the turn of thb nfintnrv AnHvn fUrt' VVXXVUX 111 V4V1U dlldild he helped to build the Wagoner waterworks system 1 Before moving to Chelsea in 1929 Thomas for eight years was employed as a druggist at the Owl Drug Store i xxviu uunuuj rsesiaes ms wile Thomas is sur sroy nair is wispy in front and his or Mrs Roam vived by a son Denton Thomas shin is burned to the color of a meuicai siuaent at tne univer naui sity of Oklahoma four sisters and I He speaks haltingly fiddles with a nephew Lawrence King El the telescopic sight on his rifle Reno who made his home with'and is embarrassed by attention Thomas for a number of years But proud of his skill with a Chelsea A graduate of Wagoner High School Williams is the son of Mr and Mrs Clarence Williams During a seven month tour of duty in the Pacific the fighter and torpedo planes of Composite 20 damaged two Jap battleships four cruisers and two destroyers Three other destroyers probably were sunk Eighteen enemy planes were shot down and eight others damaged In addition the air craft took a heavy toll of artillery emplacements anti aircraft oosi tions fuel dumps pillboxes and tures until oil and gas deoosits in the reservoir area are substantially exhausted or power generation the plan in ni Qrniih snecifies nnpratinn nf thp arnnd 111 A O1IUUI River dam at Pensacola in con nection with proposed power dams I at Markhams erry and ort Gib 'son Cost of the program tlie engi Phyllis Thomas WAVE Color Guard At Ship Launching i WAVE SK 3C Phyllis Thomas Wagoner was a member of the WAVE color guard recently as cicrnpH of fbrn vxxis xc lAXXvlllIlg vllCi nuj Maritime Commission tank met a soldier took an er Potrero at sau likin to him and told Salito Calif dke all he knew about war The Potrero Hills is the the youth was killed sixty eighth ship to be launched! West went to the foxhole where by the Marinship Corp Sausali ithe had been sitting and talk to The total time from keel lay ed to his huddles He found out ing to launching was but 61 daysJfrom fhem what direction the bul The detachment of WAVES as let had come and decided the signed to the launching ceremony German sniPer was in some trees were from San rancisco where about 300 yards away Miss Thomas is stationed Pi(hed me a spot and watched Miss Thomas is the daughter of that he said I Mr and Mrs A Thomas Wag saw something move and through oner the sights I saw a Jerry standing (behind a forked stump I killed Since then killed nine getting his biggest one day bag recently when he picked off four nazis walking along a ridge single ifile He fired just four shots I West his wife and their two children said a of family before he went off to war (asking God to take care of all the boys on the battlefields too religious to be proud of his record exactly right to kill a he told me today they started Both the Sinclair and Barnsdall filling stations in Wagoner were1 luuueu weunesaay mgni Cluet of Police Earl Rmifh ranAHc Gasoline stamps were taken at neers estimate would be offset by tne Barnsdall station Cigarets candy gum and a few pennies were taken at the Sinclair station A fingerprint expert from Mus turning near Mazie Tuesday morning Occupants of the car suffered campaign at Buna Sai only severe bruises and minor dor Aitape and Leyte and he has injuries the acciedtn also the Combat Infantryman The car which turned com Badge for exemplary conduct in pletely over in the accident was action against the enemy and a badlv damap pd unit caage lor a Cl 1I8 non seriea nf nmiM opffin i 1 at wdimmg sun weanesaayTation received bv his rpaimanfs cleared hihmv i by engineers after several protection I roe ciose oi yeai survev on the Arkansas Before it a Notice of the hearings was is vate wiUiams the Al sued last week from Washington vate WUhamsj as employed by the by the board of engineers for ri xviiiuuau VIVI ft at vers and harbors The Tulsa hearing will be con Vlic ef fect Of navigation on freight rates! and development of natural re uneral Held SundaycmirnAc I TTytHpV fap tft zxvx rxeonor" 1 I a nine foot channel would be1 11 MUAAu num on me verni reiver noren oi wagoner to the mouth of the Verdigris on the1 Arkansas Several cut offs and ca nals are provided to make this possible The project depth would be nine feet and the minimum width of channel would be 150 feet for 52 milflR VorHitrHc OKA wide on the Arkansas In addition to the cut offs and canals the plan includes 23 navi JET 1 Vr" 'M O' I Ato3UEnHi ajj JwrsaraE.