The Indian Journal from Eufaula, Oklahoma • Page 11

OKLAHOMA BRIEF NEWS-from Over the State STATE UNIVERSITY MAY ENROLL 6,500 W. B. Bizzell, president of the University of Oklahoma, has predicted an autumn enrollment of 6,500. ENID EMPLOYES GET PAY HIKE Pay increases from $5 to $35 a month were granted to nearly 20 Enid city ployes in new budget estimates completed recently. OLD DOLLY STILL GOING STRONG Old Dolly, a grade Per- cheron mare owned by Tom Metcalfe, of Eufaula, is still goin.R strong despite her age and the fact that she has foaled 12 colts, none of which has sold for IPSS than $150.

$110,000 THEATER APPROVED FOR FORT SILL Maj. Lawrence S. Woods, quartermaster at Fort Sill, says a $110,000 theater building will be erected at the fnrt with the WPA furnishing $75,000 and the War Department $35,000. OLD AGE PENSIONS TO 68 .293 Harve L. Melton, director of State pensions, announces that September checks, approximating $1,015,000, had been mailed to 68,293 beneficiaries on Oklahoma's dependent aged rolls for September.

LEAGUE ORGANIZED FOR FIVE TOWNS Organization of a Christian Endeavor League for five district towns is an- by S. M. Smith, pastor of the Okemah (Christian Church. Holdenville, Okemah, Wewoka, Seminole and Wetumka are GUTTHRIE POOR FARM ALMOST EMPTY The Logan county poor farm will have only five residents when the old age pensions are provided soon for the present nine inmates. A reduction has been made in the maintenance appropriation of the institution.

GKANUPAKLIN IS KOUR TIIVIKS IN A WEEK Mr. and Mrs. Fred Anderson, of Waukomis, became grandparents four times during the week of August 2l5t. Girls were born to their daughters, Mrs. Elmer Stuts, Mi-s.

Lloyd Powell, Mrs. Thorp; and Tf Anderson, a son, became the father of a son, all within a week. FUNDS FOR FORT SILL A $331,000 project for construction and improvement of barracks and improvement of a telephone system at Fort Sill was included in an army housing bill passed by both House and Senate in August and made ready for the Pre.sident's signature. WPA GRANT ASKED FOR SALT PLAINS Representative Phil Ferguson. Woodward, announces that Maj.

Gen. Edward M. Markham, chief of army engineers, hds advised him that he requested a works progress administration grant to start the $2,500,000 great salt plains reclamation project in Oklahoma. In addition, Markham has recommended an allotment of regular army funds. PICNIC SHELTER IS NEW BEAUTY SPOT Okmulgee lake improvement will include excellent winding roads, ments at the dam and recent completion of three structures in the park on the bank of the $1 .000,000 lake.

Efforts to preserve the natural beauty of native rocks used the picnic shelter at City Service point is making the shelter one of the finest in the State. CUSTER FARMS TO GET POWER LINES A proposed rural electrification program Custer county and northern Washita county is progressing nicely, according to S. B. Waddell, Oklahoma City engineer, who organized the plan. Waddell said 400 of the 1.000 farmers' applications for electricity that will be needed to receive favorable attention from the Rural Administration had been filed.

If the project is okayed, it will be the fifth such in Oklahoma. ANT WAR DECLARED AT GUYMON A red ant wai is on in Guymon county, with the Delphinium Flower Club making an urgent city and county-wide appeal to help exterminate the pests. 24 RENSI.ONERS OVER 100 YEARS OLD Twenty-four persons who have lived more than a century are included among the 67,788 persons on Oklahoma's old age pension rolls. The oldest on the list is Mrs. Sarah Green, Perry, who claims to be 120.

Men and women are divided equally among the two dozen centenarians. TRAPPER KEEPS WOLF FROM DOOR Residents of four counties in eastern Oklahoma now have a government trapper to keep the wolves from their doors. W. E. Richardson has been assigned by the government to trap wolves in Creek, Seminole, Okfuskee and Hughes counties.

TO MAKE LOANS TO STATE FARMERS Resettlement Administration officials have received an allotment of $300,000 to be used in making loans to farmers in the wheat section of northwestern Oklahoma, according to W. E. West, State director. ARDMORE SCOUTS GET PERMANENT CAMP Twenty-five acres of woodland adjoining a lake on the old Felix King ranch in Carter county has been donated to the Boy Scouts of the Ardmore district by Frank Trosper, wealthy Oklahoma City oil man. The plot is to be converted into a permanent camp.

NOWATA CAMP TO BE DISCONTINUED Soil Conservation officials have advised Sam Massingale, Cordell, that the Civilian Conservation Camp at Nowata will be the only Oklahoma camp discontinued in December. Massingale said he was assured none of the three camps in the Seventh Congressional district will be closed. INDIANS GET RA FUNDS Indian bureau officials announce that $1,000,000 of Resettlement funds has been allotted to the department for building homes and repairing existing of needy members of restricted Indian tribes. Most of the money spent by the bureau will be outright grants, though some will be distributed in loans to tribes. Approximately $250,000 has been designated for use in Oklahoma, most of it by the Five Civilized" Tribes with headquarters in Muskogee.

POPCORN POPS IN HEAT There may be something to that old story of the cow who froze to death in a popcorn field, thinking the popcorn was snow when it popped in the heat. H. C. Lucas, farmer near Tulsa, was surprised to Discover several ears of popcorn in his patch that had burst open as a result of the intense sun rays. FROM 24 OUNCES TO 650 I'OUNDS IN WEIGHT 24 ounces to 650 pounds is the gain in weight made by a former Chickasha resident now living in Long Beach, nfter her retirement a few years ago as a circus performer.

The woman. Jolly Lee Harvey, is the mother of three normal children, the eldest of whom is 19. Mrs. Harvey's mother was 13 years of age when she was born. Mrs.

Harvey weighed a pound and a half at birth. STATE LEADS IN PCA MEMBERSHIP Oklahoma, with more than 4,100 loans through its 14 production credit leads the Ninth Farm Credit district in farmers served with short term credit during the first months of 1937, according to a report of business from the Production Credit Corporation, by W. E. Holland, secretary of the Chickasha Production Credit Association. The 4,100 loans made in Oklahoma since January 1, 1937, total $3,050,000, the report of Secretary Holland revealed.

NO TAX ON LUNCHES School officials of Oklahoma who have been worrying about whether or not to collect a hper cent retail tax on stiJdent lunches cheered as C. C. Brbwn, State Tax Commissioner, ruled the levy did not apply to cafeterias serving only students and teachers. ARSON SQUADS TO PROBE BLAZES A Logan county arson squad, said to be the only one of its kind in the State, has been organized in Guthrie by Ed Nelson, fire chief. The group consists of six men, all holding State deputy fire marshal commissions and the origin of all fires in the county will be investigated, thus extending to rural districts the inquiry services long used in Guthrie.

HOPES BILL WILL TAKE LIFE EASY Mrs. W. H. Murray, wife of Alfalfa Rill, says she entertains vague ideas about her husband's intentions to become a candidate for Goverrlttr, but hopes that if he cioes he "won 't work too hard." Mrs. Murray, who retired to a farm in Yashua creek bottom in McCurtain county with Myrray when he left the Governor's mansion two years ago, said he had regained his health.

NO CURE THREAT DISCOUNTED Tulsa county statistics reveal that at least 60 per cent of last year's cases of infantile paralysis in Tulsa county have completely recovered without residual paralysis. A well -known midwestern orthopedist recently said that in his opinion 60 per cent of the infantile paralysis patients make complete recovery when given proper protection, rest and care including early splinting, bracing and later massage. COTTONSEED MILLS BEHIND LAST YEAR The aiftount of cottonseed handled by Oklahoma mills during the year ended July 31st, was considerably behind the amount crushed during the corresponding 19.35-1936 period. The Oklahoma mills in the 1936-1937 period received 83,728 tons of seed, crushed 84,269 tons and July 31st had on hand 514 tons, compared with the 1935-1936 totals of 192 ,293 ton.s. 193 ,481 tons and 1,055 tons, BUSINESS REPORTED BETTER IN STATE Business activities stepped up sharply in Oklahoma in July it was shown in the monthly of the Bureau of Business Research at the University of Oklahoma.

Retail gasoline consumption and debits to individual accounts showed a larger volume of trading, according to the report. It showed a rising trend in building, and agricultural conditions far better than they have been for several years, although a lack of rain was being felt. STATE TOWN FACES DISSOLUTION Persons holding $50,000 worth of Cardin, Oklahoma, municipal bonds are going to settle for 20 cents on the dollar or the town will probably dissolve its government, according to reliable reports. 1 he tax rate is $1.59 per $1,000 of and about 98 per cent of the oters have signed the petition askiiiK dissolution unless the bonds are discounted. Cardin has a population of 'iro than 2,000.

It is in extreme northeast Oklahoma. STATh; COTTON GROWERS WARNED Oklahoma cotton growers were warned by Seiiaior Elmer Thomas recently not to lose nr misplace the sale slips on their 1937 i otton already sold or to be sold in the future. Secretary of Agriculture has notified members of from Oklahoma that the sales slips will be used as evidence when benefit payments are made for the 1937 ciop next year to bring the price up tn the guaranteed 12 cents a pound. grower who does not have his sales slip or receipt will be in danger of losing the payment, which will range up to as as 3 cents a pound on the 1937 sales. The payments, under present plans, will not be made until next spring, when all farmers will have had an opportunity to sign the 1938 control program and make themselves eligible foi- the subsidy.

GAS METERS REMOVED FROM ENID SCHOOLS Making sure that every possible step has been taken in Enid to avert dich a tragedy as occurred last spring at New London, Texas, Enid school officials have announced that all gas meters had been installed outside of school buildings. IRON LUNG DONATED Mayor John Reynolds, Muskogee, announces that an "iron lung" has been purchased by J. T. Griffin, wholesale grocer of Muskogee, to be installed in the Muskogee general hospital. Griffin made the donation of the machine with the stipulation no one should ever be denied its use because of inability to pay.

It cost $2,450. FALL CLOTHING TO BE UP 20 PER CENT Buyers of fall clothing must pay 20 per cent more than they paid last year, W. A. Murphy, State Commissioner of Labor, has announced, in commenting on reported rising mercantile prices. Retail clothing prices have advanced from 18 to 20 per cent.

Murphy said. Men's work clothing is up 20 per cent, women's moderate priced clothing 20 per cent, men's dress clothing 20 2-3 per cent, women's higher priced clothing 20 per cent and children's clothing 18,5 per cent. TO REPLANT DUST BOWL GRASS Millions of acres of misused land in the "dust bowl" area of the Southwest will be seeded and sodded back to native grasses which once covered that region. Much of this restoration of grass will be on the 6,000,000 acres of abandoned or idle farm land. Of the 93,012,407 acres of land in the wind erosion area" listed by the Soil Conservation Service, 27,000,000 are or were in dry farming operations.

Only 1,500,000 acres are in irrigation projects. Six million acres of farm lands have either been idle or by its owners. About acres of the region are range or forest land. PRISON GROUP AID ASSURED STATE Assured of support from the prison industries reorganization administration in his request for Federal funds in a State prison building program. Gov.

E. W. Marland made plans to re-establish a convict farm in both Marshall and Brj-an counties. Marland asked T. B.

Lunsford, his legal counsel, to determine the status of foreclosure suits to recover 26 tracts of land on the 1.650 acres where former Gov. R. L. Williams established a convict colony in 1916, and which was abandoned as a "white elephant" in 1925, when most of the land was sold. 31 U.

S. BUILDINGS FOR OKLAHOMA Construction of a new postoffice and Federal court building at Vinita at a cost of approximately $218,000 appears virtually certain as the House appropriations committee has laid the foundation for the three-year public building program to cost $70,000,000. Although individual projects from the authorized list to be built during the three years will be selected by the interdepartmental committee of the post- office and treasury officials, the committee's action placed the Vinita project on the preferred list. The department plans to build a three-story department building with basement. A total of 3,900 square feet of floor space will be available to the postoffice and 5,377 square feet to the justice department.

At the same time the committee purchased a list of 31 other Oklahoma Federal building projects which are eligible for during the three years. These projects are Atoka, Broken Arrow, Cherokee, $75,000 Cleveland, Coalgate, Eufaula, Fairfax, Fairview, Healdton, Heavener, Madill, Marietta, Marlow, Newkirk, Nowata, Okemah, Pawnee, Perry, Picher, Pryor, Purcell, Sand Springs. Sayre, Snider, Stigler, Tonkawa, Wagoner and Yukon each $70,000. ELK DAMAGE CROPS OF STATE FARMER Rupy Vaughan, Ellis county farmer, wants the State Fish and Game Commission to do something about wild dlk which are trampling down his crops. Vaughan complained that two bull elk and two cow elk kept returning to hia field, although he peppered them with light shotgun charges.

The department said it would attempt to trap the elk. INDIAN PAINTS WESTERN SCENES Mike Martin, 43-year-old Caddo Indian of Anadarko, the most prolific Indian painter of the Southwest, portrays life of the early day west. Martin, who is known as Chief Silver Moon, finds a ready market for his pictures and is a husky Indian, without the starved appearance of an artistic genius. Most of his work if done with oil paints on black velvet. The buffalo is his favorite subject.

200 TENANTS WILL BE AIDED Oklahoma has aknost enough "select" tenant farmers to use the entire national fund of $10,000,000 authorized for the first year by the farm tenancy security act, Paul V. Marr's acting regional resettlement director, says. A "select" farmer tenant is distinguished from other tenants by his recognized initiative and cmbition to rehabilitate quickly, Marrs said. R. A.

officials estimate that only 4,000 tenant farmers in the entire country can be financed to home ownership with the first year's appropriation. VETERAN HUNTS WATCH OWNER AFTER 19 YEARS John Breeding, Oklahoma City, says he still is seeking the owner of a watch he found at Jackson Barracks, New Orleans, in May, 1918, a few days before he sailed for France for duty in the World War. Engraved on the case of the watch is: "To B. P. Shirer from his mother on his twenty-first birthday, March 4, 1914." Breeding said efforts to trace the owner through the watch's number and through other records had met with no success.

STATE PINE TREES DESTROYED BY BEETLES More than 15,000 pine trees in the Robbers Cave State Park near of them over 50 years are threatened with destruction as the result of southern pine beetle infestation. Over 1,000 have already been removed in a 600-acre area of the acre park. A similar infestation is threatened in the Beaver's Bend State Park, near Broken Bow, in McCurtain county. These are the only two links in the chain of eight State parks that are liable to suffer serious damage, as they are the only ones in the "pine belt." Officials at the regional headquarters of the National Park Service at Wilburton, which is supervising civilian construction corps development work in State parks, said the troublesome infestations are directly traceable to drouth conditions during previous years. The spread of damage, they is encouraged by the fact that timber owners in the vicinity of these two parks, are now cutting extensively and leaving slash without treatment.

MAY REMOVE BONES OF FAMOUS TRAIL-DRIVER Bones of Jesse Chisholm, who founded the famous cattle trail of that time, may be moved to Enid for memorial purposes. The Cherokee Strip Cowpuncher's Association has been working on plans to remove the famous bones from their present resting place near Grandfield and erect a monument over them at Enid. The Chisholm trail was started when Jesse Chisholm, half-breed Cherokee Indian, took a wagon train of goods from Wichita, Kansas, to Fort Cobb to trade with the Indians in 1865. He later made several other trips over the route and it became known as the Chisholm Trail. Following the Civil War army men, moving south to reestablish frontier posts wiped out by the act of secession, used the trail.

In 1867 it was converted into a cattle path and more than three million head of Texas cattle were driven over it north to the railroads in Kansas. U. S. highway 81, a transcontinental route, now follows the Chisholm Trail. STATE LAW INCLUDES NOVELTY MACHINES Jess L.

Pullen, assistant attorney general, contends a brief filed with the criminal court of appeals that the State 's 1 a against slot machines includes "novelty vending machines." The brief was filed in a test case brought by E. J. Mackay, Oklahoma City, convicted in Okfuskee county under the State 's slot machine act and fined $25. Mackay contended his machine dispensed candy and it was a matter of skill to try for one of the prizes offered. FRITZI RITZ Her Idea of Quiet By Ernie Bushmiller HOW DO---SO VOU'PE PRITZI WHO IS THE MV NIECE, 1 NOT VERV FOND OP 1 HOPE SHE'S WELL BEHAVED Tm Rfi I a PKI AH.