The McIntosh County Democrat from Checotah, Oklahoma • 1

"Eastern Oklahoma's Greatest Weekly The McIntosh Democrat CITY PAPER CHECOTAE, OKLAHOMA, THURS DAY, MARCH 25, 1948 Volume 40, Number 1 $1,000,000 IS APPROVED FOR COUNTY DAM SURVEY CONGRESS FACES TEST IN BATTLE ON CIVIL RIGHTS Bills Are Communistic Southern Opinion On Negro Issue The constitutional principle that stands for an indestructible union -of indestructible states is the foun- constitution which authorizes congress to destroy the inherent rights of states and individuals, yet the falsely-named civil rights, bill undertakes to do that very thing. This so-called civil rights program, which bears striking resemblance to communistic doctrine and method, is aimed primarily at the southern states but is in fact a threat and a menace to the reserved powers of all the people and of all the states as expressly set forth in the tenth article of the American bill of rights. Pointing out the injustice of the civil rights program, southern political leaders say that the of northern states are not held liable for murders committed by labor goons in riots which follow strikes in the industrial areas. Unless America wishes to revert to the carpet bag days of the civil war with a revived Ku Klux Klan championing the rights of the white race, these bills should be defeated. -dation of American freedom and this principle embraces the right of local, self government and individdial liberty free from undue governmental interierence.

But there is now pending in congress a program of legislation which if enacted will destroy state's rights as well 88 individual liberty and will in effect turn the federal government into a bureaucratic police state that will regulate and regiment the people from the cradle to the grave. so civil rights program is unconstitutional and beyond the power delegated by the states to the federal government, and yet this proposal is sponsored and recommended by the president of the United States, and it has the support of the leaders of the democratic party as it is now constituted. There is nothing in the federal Write your congressman and your senators today urging defeat of these un-American bills. The following editorial outlining defects of the civil rights program appeared in Thursday's Daily Oklahoman. Pending congress today is a bill to deny the constitutional right of a trial by jury to certain defendants who on conviction may be punished by a 85,000 fine and a year's imprisonment.

The bill would also deprive the convicted defendants of the right of appeal. Pending in congress is another bill which would deprive certain defendants of the right of trial in their home venue and force them to stand trial at some distant site. The bill also provides that every innocent citizen of a county shall be fined for a crime committed by as few as three men. Pending in congress is still another bill which would open the way for the creation of a national election board to direct elections in every state in the union. The pending bill does not provide for such a national board.

It merely clears the way for the possible creation of such a board in the future. Pending in congress is a bill to empower federal agents to invade any business in the country and order the head of that business to fire faithful workers of 20 and even 40 years of service and hire untried and inexperienced (negro) workers in their stead. And every one of these bills, has an excellent chance of being enacted. Every one of them has been endorsed by the two major political parties. Every one of them has been recommended by the president and it those bills can only be brought to a final roll call, every one of them will become a law.

Those bills constitute what is popalarly known as Mr. Truman's Disabled Vets Plan To Erect Cottage Roy Cox, state commander of the Disabled American Veterans, appeared before the local post Monday evening to make an inspiring talk concerning the problems of the disabled veterans. Pete Lundquist, head of the veterans Administration in Muskogee, Joe Smith, service officer and Ellis Sampson, also appeared on the program. Joe Searcy, post commander spoke on the proposed bonus bill. 'A committee of Harvey Griffin, Everett Sturgeon and Afton Mitchell was appointed to complete arrangements for securing a car to be raffled off this spring by the DAV's to raise funds to build a club house.

0 Unlicensed Autos Subject To Seizure Cars operated in McIntosh county after March 2 without license will be subject to seizure and sale tags and the penalty will be equal to the license fees due, Mrs. Jessie Mae Curry, tag agent, warned this week. Mrs. Curry has been asked to advise motorists that the law will be enforced unless vehicles are properly registered. Highway patrolmen will stop all drivers with delinquent tags.

Exams Scheduled For Postal Jobs For the first time since the war residents of Checotah have the opportunity. to apply for permanent appointment as substitute clerk and substitute carrier in their local post office, W. W. Hunter, postmaster, said. Applications must be on file prior to the close of business on April 16.

Only persons who actually reside within the delivery zone of the Checotah post office or who are bona fide patrons of this office will be permitted to apply. 0 Legion Dance Set On Thursday Night, The American Legion will entertain Thursday, April 1 with a spring dance from 9:30 until 12:30 o'clock. Music will be furnished by Leonard Howard and his orchestra of Muskogee. Attendance will be limited to members and invited guests. rights program.

There is a widespread popular de mand for the enactment of all of those laws. If they were submitted to a popular vote, every one of them would be approved by a pro nounced majority. But every one of those bills contains should be certain provisions eliminated before the bill is approved. Congress hould not attempt. to safeguard the rights of any mere minority by depriving both the majority and the minority of rights that have been considered sacred for more than 700 years.

It ought to be possible for congress to protect the citizen's right to be employed without suspending the right of trial by jury and forcing a defendant to trial hundreds of miles from, his home. And it ought to be possible to frame a law for the citizens protection from mob violence without forcing innocent citizens to pay a fine for the offense of the guilty. And just why should a faithful member of the vast majority be deprived of the job he has held for years just to provide a job for some inexperienced member of some minority. That civil rights program should be subjected to some drastic, alterations. If those bills are to become the laws of the land, they should be made fair and honest before they are enacted.

Above everything else they should be made American. Certainly they should not surrender principles of civil liberty that are Runnymede: WILDCATS START TRACK PRACTICE ON SCHOOL OVAL Sport Revived In Conference After Two Decades High school baseball together with field and track contests be staged in the NOAA this it was decided at a conference ling in Muskogee last Saturday. session was attended by Bogner Stubbs, Checotah coach. The baseball season will April 9 and close May 14. Haskell, Wagoner and Checotah will pete for honors in the southern vision.

The winner will play northern champion in a three game series for the title. The Wildcats are working daily in the track events in preparation for the conference track meet to be held at Warner at a date to be announced later. The 440 yard relay tear composed of Jack Gladden, J. W. Emerson, Robert Bittles and Richard Eddy is already running the distance in 56 seconds and expects to cut the time to 52 flat.

The 880 yard relay team comof Donald Winkle, Homer Mitchell, Raymond Gatery and Joe Maxey is expecied to mane a creditable showing. Harold Mitchell and Raymond Creeamore are practicing daily in the 490 yard dash and Junior Griffin, Homer Mitchell and Eddy are hurling the shot consistently around the 40 foot mark. An oval shaped 440 yard track has been built around the football field. Coach Stubbs announced that 8 then had been awarded letters in basketball including: Tom Miner, Ledbetter, Robert Bittle, Jack Gladden, Tom Hogan, J. W.

EmerCase Holloway, J. Roy GladGladden, Emerson and Bittle be lost to the team by gradua- Sixteen boys on the A and basketball teams will be back next seaThey are: Carl Parker, Jack Emerson, Darlie Hunter, Harold Mitchell, Emerson, Jack LedbetJohn Noble, Dean Eddy, Amos Terry, Turner Bear and Junior Dixon. Rebekahs To Again Hold Sale Of Food The members of the Rebekah lodge will hold a big Pre-Easter food sale Saturday, March 27. A supply of home baked pies, cakes and cookies, home made candy, as well as fresh country eggs and other produce will be displayed from 9 to 2:30 o'clock at the building north of the R. I.

West agency. The ladies of the lodge suggest that they handle your holiday baking needs and urge the prospective customers to place their orders in advance or call early and have the desired pastries set aside. Special requests can be made to Miss Frances Shepherd or Mrs. Addie McPherson. Homemaking Class Planning For Rally Thirty members of the Checotah Future Homemakers of America class together with their teacher, Mrs.

Edna B. Looper, will attend the state rally in Oklahoma City April 2 and 3. The organization is composed of girls enrolled in high school homemaking classes, and is the sister organization to the Future Farmers of America. They are prepared to demonstrate all-round skills in the art of home economics. Mr.

and Mrs. Hoyt King of Fort Smith, Ark. were the Week end guests of Mrs. Joe Chambers durins the week ur 8. Netherlands FORMULATE WESTERN EUROPEAN UNION Benelux mats rather to and Luxembourg) leaders and British and French diplo(Belgium, tics, culture formulate a western European union, embracing and military matters, The plans will be presented, pollwhen completed, to the British and French governments for approval The move is being made to offer a united front of against the further spread communism.

Left to right: Sir George Rendel, British ambassador to Belgium; M. Fernand Van Langehove, tive; Belgium Belgium U. N. premier Paul-Henry Spaak, and Count De Hautecloque, French ambassador to Belgium, Ellis Berry Taken Suddenly By Death Death came unexpectedly Thursday night to Ellis Berry at a Muskogee hospital following an emergency operation for galistones. A former star athlete in Checotah high school, Berry had been in the best of health until weeks ago.

Funeral services will be held the First Christian church at 3:00 o'clock Friday afternoon with Rev. Walter Browers and Reverend Bride officiating. Burial will be Greenlawn cemetery. Berry came to Checotah with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Golden Berry, when two months old. He attended grade school and high school here was an outstanding tackle on the football team in 1922-23-24. He was named a member of the allstate team in his senior year. He refused a number of offers to play collegiate football. Berry was manager of the Lalayette Grocery and Hardware at years of age and served as foreHan of McIntosh county highways for eight years under three governors.

He was later employed by Vandiver Blackwell Grocery and the Vandiver Hardware. Survivors besides his parents include: one son, Winford of Tulsa; one brother, Henry; of Tulsa; two sisiers, Lee Dixson of Checoand Mrs. Bud Paxton of Pittsburg, Kansas; one nephew, Robert Berry of Tulsa; one neice, Elizabeth Luvenia Paxton of Pittsburg, Kansas; one great-neice, Judy Kay Berry of Tulsa. Pallbearers will be: Ellis VandiShorty Wessinger, Grayson Blackwell, John Wright, W. L.

Hale, Hershal Shipman, Woodrow VandiW. W. Hunter, Louis Norwood, E. T. Carey and Bill John- -0 Waste Paper Drive To Open Saturday The Boy Scouts of Checotah will launch a city-wide paper drive Saturday and all local citizens are urged to gather their old paper and magazines for donation to the Boy Scouts.

Members of Checotah's two troops make a house to house canvas. Since the national paper shortage, higher prices are being paid for scrap paper. The Scouts will sell the paper they gather here, keeping the money for local ture. -0 Miss Dover Ready For India Jaunt Tom Treadwell to Howard Munsell, $1,000, SW SE 16 NE NW W2 NW NE W2 W2 E2 NW 21-12-18; D. E.

Little to J. Simpson, 81, SE NE NE SE 7 SW NW Lot 4 of 8-9-17; Leonard Mattingly to C. C. Casey, $2,100, Lots 5, 6, BIk 9, Simpson Addition, Eufaula; V. V.

Harris to Ed S2 NE E2 SE 6-9-13; H. N. Towry to D. E. Towry 75 ft Lot 2 Bik 50, Checotah; J.

H. Newcomer to Quincy Jacobs, 81, SW NW 4-10-15; Clarence Dover to E. D. Demmitt, 81, Lot 3 Blk 24 Hanna; Joe Bivens to W. K.

Hays, 8500, Lot 6 Blk 121, Checotah. Quit Claim Deed Gordon Saltsman to E. Turley, s1, W. Lot T. 2 of 27-9-16; S.

W. Longerier Bailey, $1,150, 60 Ft Lot 1 100 Ft Lot 10 Blk 21, Eufaula. Mortgage Union Service Set For Friday Evening The Union Easter Service sponsored by the Checotah Ministerial Alliance will begin at 7:30 o'clock Friday evening at the First Baptist church and every person in and around Checotah is invited to attend. This is the first Union Easter Service to be held in Checotah in recent years and it is the desire of every member of the Alliance that it be a great service that will be repeated year after year. The program of the service will be as follows: Invocation, Rev.

J. R. McBride; song by all; address of welcome and greeting from the host pastor, J. C. Hendrick; vocal solo by Mary Jo McCullough; scripture by Rev.

H. E. Wilburn; sermon by Rev. W. L.

Farmer; song by all; benediction by Rev. C. C. Williams. County Recordings The following instruments were recorded at the court house this week: Release Of Mortgage George Chisholm to Homer Cox W2 SW NE 3-8-13; H.

J. Claiborne to Homer Cox; Janeway-Lauhon to S. W. Longerier. Warranty Deeds w2 NE 35-10-16.

Right-01-Way Agreement Lee Pendley to 8800, small State NatT Bank, tract in 35-10-16; M. C. Horton to Phoenix Federal Savings Loan, $1,500.00, Lot 3 Blk 3 Eu(faula; J. B. Hinkle to Phoenix Federal, $1,550, Lots 10, 11, Blk 6 Moore Addition, Eufaula; C.

C. Casey to Leonard Mattingly $600 Lots 5, 6 Blk 9, Simpson Add, Eufaula; W. R. Daniels to American First Trust 85,850, Lot 1 less 65 Ft 62.5 Ft Lot 2, Less 65 Ft BIk 123, Eufaula; Maggie Pace to State National Bank, $600, N2 NW 25-10-14. Release Oil Gas Lease W.

H. Pine to Chas. T. Conley, Miss Telie Dover, Checotah evanJackson gelist, has been granted a visa and Natural day morning for Calcutta same Lot will leave at 9 o'clock next Wednes-4 Sec. aboard a Pan- Airlines of 1-11-17; plane.

$1, NW She will go to a mission in the United visiting Provence of India. She is Mrs. in Oakland, Calif, while the ting in BIG RESERVOIR IS ABANDONED; SEEK 3 LAKES Project Is Put Through By Bill Stigler And Elmer Thomas An appropriation of $1,000,000 to complete a preliminary survey for three proposed dams in McIntosh county to replace the giant Eufaula reservoir, has been approved by a sub-committee of congress, it was reported by G. L. Shepherd, resident engineer at Eufaula.

Approval for the funds was secured through the efforts of Congressman W. G. Stigler and Senator Elmer Thomas who personally ap. peared before the appropriations committee. Plans for the 163,000 acre Eufaula reservoir were dropped by army engineers after it was revealed that the cost had increased to nearly $100 millions and that the expense of moving Highway 69 and the M-K-T railroad was excessive.

The relocation alone had been figured at 825 Under the new proposal the engineers are planning separate dams on the South- CanadAn River, the North Canadian and Deep Fork combined and on Gaines Creek. If this plan is carried out the entire cost of relocation will be saved and several thousand acres of the county's finest land will remain productive and on the tax rolls. The survey will be made to determine the most feasible locations for the dams and the extent of the shoreline. It was understood that the Canadian dams would be built just west of the Katy tracks, probably in sight of the highway. The cost of all three dams will probably not exceed $65,000,000.

J. T. Carey Rites Are Held Monday Funeral services were held at the Baptist church at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon for J. T. Carey, 80 years old, who died at his home Saturday of a heart He was a former member of the board of education here and was active in church and civic activities.

He had been a resident of Checotah for 36 years. Burial: was in Greenlawn cemetery ander direction of the Powers Funeral home. Mr. Carey was an accomplished fiddler, often performing at public events in the city. Survivors besides his widow include: three sons, Etheridge Carey, Checotah, and John and Manuel Carey of Okmulgee; four daughters, Mrs.

Mae Hale, Okmulgee; Mrs. Mintie Blackwell of Checotah and Mrs. Nell Wallace and Mrs. Arthur Pineo of Okmulgee. He is also survived by 15 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Pallbearers were: Johnnie Walker, G. D. McCullough, Ellis Vandiver, Grayson Blackwell, Lloyd Wallace and Arthur Pineo. Chicken Owners Given Warning With the arrival of spring gardening time Checotahns were advised by Mayor Henry Wells this week to keep their chickens penned up. The mayor said it was a violation slof city ordinances to permits and livestock to run out.

Those not complying with the order will be prosecuted, the mayor said. 0 Baseball Players To Organize Team Emerson to Oklahoma Gas, 81, NE 9.59 acres, Lot 4-11-17; Melvin Martin to 1 16.61 acres Lot 2 Harry Sanderson to same NE 5-11-18. -0 Johnny Harrison assisted in installation at the White Shrine Muskogee, Friday, evening A meeting will be held at the Legion hall at 8 o'clock Friday night to organize an independent baseball team, it was announced by Frank Lane. Everyone interested in playing baseball is invited to attend the meeting. al..