The Indian Journal from Eufaula, Oklahoma • Page 9

THE INDIAN JOURNAL. EUFAULA, OKLAHOMA THURSDAY. SEPT. 27. 1962 Saturday State's Deadliest In Cars Following is a report on traffic fatalities in Oklahoma for August 1962, as well as for the year report is prepared by Public Information Division of the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety.

County Aug. '62 County Aug. '62 Adair Alfalfa Atoka, Bwfit Beckham Blalna Bryan Caddo Canadian Cartar Charokaa Cnoclaw Cimarron Clavaland Coal Comancha Cotton Craig CrWk Dalawaxa Da-way EI1U Garflald Garvin Grady Grant Graar Harmon HarMi fUafcall Hughas Jackson Jaffaraon Johnson Kay Kingfisher Kiowa Laitmar 12 11 11 10 16 LaFlora 2 7 Lincoln 4 14 Logan 2 2 MeClaln 6 McCurtaln 1 Mcintosh 3 Major Marshall 3 Mayas 1 8 Murray 3 Muskogee 6 Nobis 7 Nowata 3 Okfuskee 5 Oklahoma 9 46 Okmulgee 1 3 Osage 6 Ottawa 6 Pawnee 1 Payne 1 Pittsburg 6 Pontotoc 5 Pttwtmle 4 8 Pshmiha 2 R. Mills 1 Rogers 3 11 Beminole 4 Sequoyah 2 Stephens 1 4 Texas 7 Tillman 1 Tulsa 6 33 Wagoner 2 7 Washington 4 Washita 3 Woods 2 Woodward 1 1 Totals 70 443 The 70 traffic deaths which occurred during August 1962, compares with 69 deaths during August 1961. The 70 deaths were confined to 29 counties.

How they died: 34 died in two- motor vehicle colloisions, fiur died when their vehicles hit fixed objects, 12 died when they ran off the road, five died when their vehicles collided with trains, one when he struck an animal, nine were pedestrians, three when their vehicles overturned on the roadway, one was a bicycle rider and three others died in freak type mishaps. When they died: 39 died in the daytime and 31 at night. Where they died: 57 died on rural roads and 13 on urban streets. Of those on rural roads, 24 died on U. S.

righways, 18 on state highways and 12 on county roads. Of the urban deaths, Oklahoma City 4, Tulsa 2, Chelsea 2, and 1 each in Okmulgee, Shawnee, Norman, Bleckwell and Lawton. Saturday was the deadliest day of the week during August with 12 killed, Friday and Wednesday claimed 9 lives each, Tuesday 10, Thursday 10, Sunday 7, and Monday 3. The deadliest days were August 11 and 24, with 6 killed each of those days. Five died on August 7, and 31.

County-wise: Oklahoma 9, Tulsa and Creek counties 6 each. There was four deathless days during the month. A total of 81 drivers were involved in the fatal accidents during August. 66 were male and 15 were female; 72 were from Oklahoma and nine were from out of state. Haulers Safely Tesl Heqnired In 12 Stales Twelve states so far have made woodlands safer by requiring young applicants for hunting licenses to pass gun-safety courses.

The typical program costs about 50 cents per pupil, and states adopting them have been rewarded by a drop of up to 53 percent in accident rates. So write Jhan and June Robbins in October Reader's Digest report on hunting accidents, which kill 600 to 800 Americans annually and injure 3500 more. The 16-to-19 age group accounts for 46 percent of all accidents and supplies 39 percent of all victims: hence the programs in New York, California; New Jersey, Rhode Island, Montana, Massachusettes, Connecticut, S. Dakota, Minnesota, Washington, Utah and Oregon, are aimed primarily at youthful hunters. Two years ago, New York extended its program to cover all ages after scoring a 50 percent cut in accidents by training just the youngsters.

South Dakota reduced its volume of juvenile hunting accidents by 53 in just three years with the safety courses. They consist of four hour-long lessons in safe gun-handling, a session of range firing, field trip and written and physical examinations. Applicants with bad eyesight or poor coordination, the show -offs, lazy or emotionally unstable do not pass. The article, "Shot While Hunting lists some of the vital do's and don'tfe courses and concludes: "The states learned lonj ago that they couldn 'jf turn everyone loose in an automobile without driver But 38 states still turn boys and men loose with deadly weapons without a minute of instruction. It's no wonder what each fall an Indiana fanners finds it necessary to paint C-O-W on the sides of each animal in his herd of Holsteins." KEY-NOTES By DORIS HEDGES A legend of beauty and com passion, dating from the "Trail of Tears," 1838-1840, links scenic and historic spots in southern Illinois with Cherokeeland in Oklahoma.

The legend is recounted in an acticle by Suzanne Eovaldi Broderick in the July issue of the magazine, Outdoor Illinois, and is titled "Quadroon's Hollyhocks." Irvin M. Peithmann, of the education and outdoor recreation department faculty of Southern Illinois university at Carbondale, was responsible for our receiving this particular issue of Outdoor Illinois in addition to other publication dealing with Indian history and Mr. mann, I understand, is continuing study of the Cherokees which is expected to culminate in additional publications. He is apparently a regular contributor to the Illinois magazine, with illustrated features along KBcommend- ed routes for a "Weekend Auto Tour." see But back to the legend of the hollyhocks, which have bloomed each season for the past 124 years since they were planted at the historic Silkwood Inn on the old Shawneetown to St. Louis trail.

The seeds were from a strain of bright red blossoms familiar to the Great Smoky mountain region of North Carolina, carried in the apron pocket of a little slave girl who was being brought west by the Cherokees as they trod that trail of tears. Barzilla Silkwood, owner of the inn, adjacent farmland and evidently a bit of a trader and traveler, had seen Priscilla earlier on an eastern plantation where she was orphaned by the selling of her parents to other owners. The second meeting was at Willard's- Landing on the Mississippi river near Jonesboro. 111., for to the sourthern part of the state. It is related that Silkwood offered the Cherokee leaders $1,000 in gold for the girl, and it was accepted by the weary tribe which "-had been evicted from eastern homes.

But the new owner had no tolerance for slavery, so he freed Priscilla and took her to the Inn where she lived with his wife and some 15 other orphan children to whom the Silkwoods had given a home. And here in 1838, Priscilla planted her hollyhocks, almost a dwarf variety, but hardy and beautiful. Since that year they have never Trussed a season of blooming. Site of Silkwood Inn is on a country road, north of SH 14, about eleven miles west of Benton toward Du Quoin. The Inn is the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Scott McGlasson who welcome visitors and love to tell the story of Priscilla's hollyhocks which blossom during June, July and August. They also escort visitors to Priscilla's grave and point out the 40 acres Silkwood gave to her as he gave land to all of his orphans. Mrs. McGlasson is a great niece of Silkwood, who never had any children of his own.

His grave monument bears the inscription: "Be Mindful of the Poor." a In one of his tour articles, Mr. Peithmann delves into the ten thousand year old remnants of art and culture of Indian tribes long gone from the sourthern Illinois scene. Mounds and impressions in stones where dwellings once stood, rock drawings and the Indian photographic sketch of a buffalo, are provokative to Mr. Peithmann and they are to many others who like to explore the past for a better understanding of the present. Mr.

Peithmann is well known for his research work in Oklahoma, but his writings are particularly revealing to this editor for the kinship which he establishes between his state and Oklahoma. His latest book was "Broken Peace. but he has others coming; a While looking over an Oklahoma road atlas recently, in fact toying with a hypothetical tour of the state, I was intrigued by the great variety of names listed as cities and towns, all presumably having relevant origins. Other than the familiar phrases of Indian extraction, many seemingly unexplicable titles color the landscape of Oklahoma. In Bryan county south of Durant, adjoining YUBA and YARNABY and close to the Texas border you might say in the heel of the state I discoverd the classic community of Or, far to the north and west in completely different terrain, the magnificent SKEDEE, somehow risen from the depths in the area surrounding Pawnee Bill's ranch.

Equally mysterious in this vicinity is foundlhe agricultural crossroads, of CERES, continuing the series of references to Greek and Roman mythology. Something indeed to ponder the whether and whence of TROY, TYRON, VICI, OCTAVIA, (look 'em up) surrounded byjuj- realist BATTIEST, CHUM, and BOWLEGS. Chrysler for 1963 has an entirely iiew and crisp sculptured look of elegance along with new body structure, new brakes, new engine options, new economy features, new interiors and new, improved passenger roominess, safety and comlort. There is a choice of four engines ranging up to 390 horsepower. Protection against corrosion has been increased and a transmission parking sprag is introduced Shown here is the New Yorker four-door hardtop, the prestige car of the medium priced line.

The New Yorker series also has a four-door sedan, and 6- and 9 -passenger station wagons. In addition, Chrysler in 1963 will offer the popular sports car 300 series, and the Newport, full-sized economy car. A Chrysler 300J will be introduced later this fall. The Oklahoma traveler, armchair or otherwise, not only has the diversity of choice in topography and local color, but finds himself in the only state where he may travel until he finds, if SHREWDER than most, a really SLICK location. The practicing psychologist, and who isn't, undoubtedly finds in the above gibberish fraught in- indications of many things which accounts in part for the following situation the dedicated analyist may find completely un- asmuing.

Editor Bob Wright of the Montello (Wis.l Tribune read about a psychologist who suggested the key to a persons character can be found in the answers to these questions: What is your ambition? What is your hobby? What is your pet peeve? To satirize what he considered an outlandish oversimplification, Wright put the queries to a select group of imaginary American citizens. Following are 'the character clues Wright came up with: Male, age 10: Ambition be a cowboy; hobby playing cowboys and Indians; peeve doing anything I hafta. Male, age 20: Ambition to become a counselor at a girls camp; hobby girls; peeve working. Male, age 25: Ambition to have lots of children; hobby playing baseball; peeve bachelor friends. Male, age 30: Ambition to be promoted to office manager; hobby children; peeve children.

Male, age 40: Ambition a months paid vacation (alone); hobby 36 holes of golf a week; peeve references to receding hairline. Male, age 55: Ambition none listed; hobby miniature golf; peeve young people. Male, age 65: Ambition to promote increase Itt' Social Security benefits; hobby" peeve list appended. Male, age 90: Ambition to get sued for alienation of affections; hobby just sitting, peeve anything that happened in the last 20 years. Question: Is editor Wright right as he writes? This ed has never felt capable of running the world or universe, and therefore has not made any attempt to cultivate the high and mighty.

Although I have friends in all levels of society, I find most of them in the humble and lowly even mentally incompetent. But there too, I find intellectual stimulus. At our house we have had a neighbor who is in the incompetent mental category. But he is an outgoing person who loves to give presents when the season, like Christmas, arrives. For years he brought me pretty handkerchiefs.

Then one year he brought three large, soft shell pecans. These, he counselled. I should plant and soon have trees which would bear such pecans in abundance 'Twas wise advice and if I had followed it. would have trees bearing pecans by now. But lazy me, I just never got around to the planting still have the pecans, to of my own incompetency.

a Trouble continues to plague public transportation in America, now extended to commercial airlines which management said had a fabulous loss last year even with subsidies from the U.S. government. Before the aviation era hit its stride, the great railroad system that sustained heavy losses. It was substantially subsidized too. But in the 30's and 40's, service was abandoned widely or sharply curtailed, especially passenger and express schedules.

Here in the Southwest particularly, what passenger trains continue to operate, have let many of their coaches run down because of the lack of passengers. Part of the railroads' trouble was the rapidly growing automobile and trucking rate. It reached the point where almost every family owns at least one car and many have two or more. I do not know whether the government subsidizes the automotive industry in any direct way. But it has steadily increased taxes to build super highways, roads in Indian areas and country roads for milk and school bus travel, which may not be subsidy, but amounts to considerable help for tire wheeled business.

I do not know about the old stage coach days and have not heard from the ocean liner and ship situation recently, so I have no idea what their financial situation is Just hope it is good. I hate to see all these mass types of transportation which were often so pleasant, curtailing and discontinuing operation. But bus line operators too have had trouble, and main lines have asked for fare increases after many runs have been discontinued. Few cities and towns retain street cars or local bus service, and the old short run interurban lines are a thing of the past, hardly a memory in this section of the country. Some parts of the country have Design Authorities HaU Crisp Styling of Chrysler Cars for 1963 i The 1963 Chrysler with an entirely new anil crisp sculptured look of elegance is on display in dealerlsltowrooms.

Along with this fashionable new look, much more is new in the 1963 Chrysler-new body structure, new brakes, new engine options, new economy features, new interiors and passenger roominess, safety and comfort "We have been told by architects and design authorities in many fields that the 1063 Chrysler embodies the best of contemporary design and is in many ways a leader in this area," C. Briggs, Chrysler Corporation vice president and general manager of the Chrysler-Plymouth Div, said. "However, while we have made a distinctive appearance change in Chrysler we have retained the traditional big car appeal and engineering which has seen Chrysler register continuous sales gains over the past four years," Mr. Briggs said. In 1963 Chrysler maintains its policy of building only full-size cars.

Also new is a warranty for five years or 50,000 miles, whichever comes first, to cover the major power train components on all 1963 Chrysler automobiles sold in the United States and Canada. Chrysler is the first of the medium price cars to offer such extended owner protection. MODEL LINE-UP Chrysler retains its model line-up which proved so successful in 1962. The Newport, a full- sized, lower-priced car, will be offered as a 4-door sedan, 2- and 4-door hardtop, convertible coupe and 6 and 9-passenger station wagon. The 300 series, a popular entry in the growing performance sports car market, will have three body styles, 2- and 4-door hardtops and a convertible coupe.

The New Yorker, built for the motorist who wants the ultimate in medium price car luxury, will offer a 4 -door sedan, a 4 -door hardtop, and 6- and 9-passenger wagons. A Chrysler 300J will be introduced later this year. headlamps of the past three years, NEW DiTEBIOH LOOK Chrysler interiors are significantly new for 1963. There is a totally new instrument panel, new high quality, appearance-improved seat materials and designs, and roomier interiors on body models. The simplicity of the new instrument panel styling complements the graceful exterior styling, Instruments have been grouped for maximum ease of reading, by the driver.

Two new standard features are introduced on the instrument panel for 1983 trip odometer and passenger assist handle. ELEGANT EXTERIORS sharp lines impart a crisp look of tasteful richness to the 1963 Chrysler. The car has a new distinctive single roof panel for both sedans and hardtop models. Another styling feature of the Chrysler the wide C-pillars and limousine-type rear window. Each of the three Chrysler models has its own individual grille.

Horizontally arranged headlamps replace the canted MOKE SEAT SPACE Seat and door panel designs are new, and fabric colon and patterns are enhanced for 1963. The luxury of soft garnish is the feature of all door panels this year. Individually adjustable bucket seats with a fixed center section and folding arm rest are standard on 300 convertibles and two-door hardtops and on New Yorker station wagons, optional on four- door hardtops. On all two-door models in all lines, the rear seat space has increased by ZS inches due to the relocation of the seat in this body style. There is increased leg room in the front for the middle passenger due to the reduction in size of the center hump.

FOUR ENGINES OFFERED The powerplant for the Newport is the 361-cubic-inch V-S with two -barrel carburetor. The 300 has a 383 -cubic -inch V-8 with two-barrel carburetor. The New Yorker retains the 413-cubic-inch V-8 with single four -barrel carburetor. A new optional engine is being offered for the 300 sports series. It is a 413-cubic-inch -8 with a single four-barrel carburetor.

It is designed for outstanding performance plus smooth and economical operation. The new erplant provides more power at high speeds and even greater agility at low speeds. It has a high performance camshaft, spe- cial valve springs and dampers I and large dual exhausts. no public ground transportation at all which certainly works a hardship on people who live in rough country where a plane cannot land. Here's a clipping from the newspaper which presents one problem of inadequate transportation.

(Riverton is a city of around 5,000 and seat of Fremont county with some 20.000 residents.) "County clerk Jim Farthing leaves Monday on a one-week, 3,000 mile trip, and he'll never leave Fremont county. "The purpose of Farthing's excursion that will consume most of one week is to deliver ballots for the primary election August 21. Getting ballots to the outlying rural precincts is a job that has to be started over a week in advance of "Farthing will deUver some 10,000 ballots on his extended trip. He plans to hit the 39 outlying precincts this week and make delivery of ballots to the eight Riverton precincts the Monday preceding the election and catch Lander's eight precincts on election day." Presenting: the Crisp, New, Custom Look of Raise your eyes and take another long look at this beautiful '63 Chrysler. How would you describe it? America's most prominent fashion leaders, style- setters, and designers said this about the '63 Chryslers: "A stunning concept in restrained elegance!" "Has the custom, look of a town car!" "Beautiful simplicity in line and form!" Inside you'll find a style revolution in the making: gorgeous patterns; loop-pile The luxurious Chrysler New Yorker carpeting that would grace any living room; wide, comfortable deep-cushioned seats.

Again in '63 you'll find no small-size Chryslers, no jr. editions, to undercut your "big-car investment, penalize your pride or reduce your resale value. All '63 Chryslers are big, beautiful, and V-8 powered. All are pleasant price surprises, too. Take a good look at the looking '63 Chrysler then take a big, beautiful step ahead in style.

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