The Democrat-American from Sallisaw, Oklahoma • 1

Democrat-American Is read weekly by more Than 6,000 People. DEMOCRAT-AMERICAN, OFF THE RECORD By FRANK M'NAUGHTON United Press Staff Correspondent This article is published for its timely topics and does not in every instance coinside with the editorial policies of this paper. OKLAHOMA CITY, May 6-(UP)If the much rumored move to initiate a unicameral (one house) legislature amendment to the constitution materializes into action after this session, the seeds should sprout more propitiously than would normally be the case. A series of incidents have combined according to legislative self-critics, to force down the prestige of Oklahoma's house of representatives and senators to a hitherto untouched low point. Rep.

Huby Jordan, McAlester, said that the theatre pass rumpus "gave the legislature the worst black eye it has had in 30 years." Senators and house members have fought and wrangled since last Nov. 24, and most of the major bills, when adjournment is reached, will have been voted in the final three weeks of the session. They have been generous in caustic condemnation of each other in speeches upon the floor. The house chain store tax conferees charged the senate with killing the tax bill, The senate accused the house conferees. In the house, pension, school, oil and other blocs have been scuffling since the outset of the session.

Fights over the sales tax have been long and rancorous in both house and senate. Appropriations have baomed until Sen. Joe Whitaker, revenue committee chairman, estimated a $23,000,000 deficit at the end of the next biennium. 00 Legislation shoved through which brought heated battles, and infuriateed select groups of the electroate, included: 1. The $35,000.000 highway road fund not issue which the author, Sen.

Al Nichols, admitted would be defeated at the polls. 2. The fair trades bill, sought by some merchant groups, and condemned by Sen. Paul Stewart as "the most damnable piece of legislation ever brought before this legislature- A law that will raise the cost of goods 29 per cent." 3. The bill barring dentists from advertising, and providing strict regulation of dentists, which some charged Was sponsored by "a select clique of the profession." 4.

The basic sciences bill, which osteopaths and chiropractors charged was designed to run them out of the state. 5. A bill requiring abstractors to keep their own set of indices. thus according to its critics making the profession a "closed corporation." Bills introduced but not yet passed. which critics place in the some category, included a price fixing measure for barbers, pending in the house, and several measures by which the state senate would take control of the election machinery.

The house has delayed passage of these latter bills. A senate plan to hedge in the initiative and referendum with a drastic set of regulations was announced, drew a caustic blast from for. Gov. Wm. H.

Murray, and was finally abandoned in favor of a bill merely barring payment of fees for circulation of ions. Imagine what merchants, in many cases angered by the sales and fair trades bill, the chain store tax. dentists, osteopaths and chiropractors, opponents of the fair trades bill and highway issue; aspiring abstractors and initiative petition enthusiasts would do with a chance to revise the present system of the two-house legislature, if given the opportunity, and those bill were recalled to them. A western Oklahoma senator has a friend named Bob Burns. A youth whom he is grooming for a political race some years hence.

How would a name like that attract votes? Sen. J. A. Rinehart to Sen. Al Nichols-I'm going to answer your question, and don't try to bulldoze me because I'm going to answer you in my own language.

Former Gov. Murray his book, "Rights of Americans the reporter Constitution," is having a big sale in the east and on the Pacific coast. The CONTINUED ON PAGE NO. TWO The Volume 30, Number FINAL PLANS BEING MADE FOR THE RODEO Fort Smith Making Elaborate Preparations for Annual CoState Event May 30. FORT SMITH, May 6-(Special)-Final plans for staging the fourth annual Arkansas-Oklahoma rodeo in Fort Smith for four days, starting May 30, are taking shape and advance information indicates this will be the most outstanding western sports contest in this section of the southwest this year.

Homer Todd, producer, has announced that his string of cattle and horses, acquired especially for this rodeo, is the best he has had in the four years since this rodeo was inaugurated in Fort Smith. Practically all the livestock required already has been purchased, much of it coming from the South Texas country, the American home of Brahma cattle. A long list of top-hands of the rodeo i business have indicated they will be in Fort Smith for the rodeo, including several holders of national and world championships. Boys and girls will be admitted to matinee performances of the rodeo without cost if they ride their own ponies in the parades and grand entry, according to R. K.

Rodgers, general rodeo committee chairman. The young riders are required, however, to register in advance with Louis Cohen, chairman of the sub-committee in charge of boys and girls, or at the rodeo headquarters at the Chamber of Commerce building. A parade will be staged on the business streets of Fort Smith each day of the rodeo, except Sunday, the opening day. The Arkansas-Oklahoma rodeo has maintained the lowest admission price of any major rodeo in the United States, largely because it is staged as a civic promotion rather than by individuals. The large crowds that attend each performance, coupled with the fact that practically all of the advance work necessary is donated by Fort Smith people.

make this low price possible, Mr. Rodgers said. The opening performance will be staged Sunday, May 30, at Andrews Field, which is considered one of the best rodeo arenas in this southwest. A new arrangement makes it possible for many hundreds of additional seats to be added to the park. It is estimated that 8,000 persons can be comfortably seated at the arena this year and the location of the starting chutes and pens will make it possible for all activity in the arena to be in full view of every one in the stands.

MRE. JULIA MILLIE SIMMONS Mrs. Julia Millie Simmons, 78 years old, died at the nome of her daughter Wednesday night following an illness of two weeks. Mrs. Simmons died at the home of D.

M. Wright, where she had lived for several years. Mrs. Simmons was a member of the Christian church and had lived in Sequoyah county for the last 41 years. Surviving relatives are four daughters, Mrs.

Betty Wright and Mrs. M. Melton of Sallisaw: Mrs. Forest Trammell of Marble City, and Mrs. Roxy Trammell of Marion County, sas; one son Luther Hindman of Sallisaw, one half brother and one half sister, and 15 grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the cemetery with the Rev. G. W. Allen officiating, interment was in the Dwight Mission cemetery under the direction of the Moore's Funeral home. JESS V.

TOON Jess V. Toon, 72 years old, of Muldrow, Oklahoma died at the home of his son, George Toon, Wednesday morning following an illness of three weeks, Mr. Toon had lived in this county for the past 42 years. he was a member of the Pentecostal church, Surviving relatives are his widow, Mrs. Henryetta Toon, and 3 daughters, Mrs.

Virgie Smith, Mrs. Mary Whiteside, and Mrs. Melba George, all of Muidrow, six sons, Claude and Ben of Fredona. Kansas; Jim of Barnsdall, Riley, John and George, all of Muldrow. Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the cemetery with the Rev.

Bill Farmer officiating, interment was in the Maple cemetery under the direction of the Moore's Funeral home. Self -assurance is located somewhere below the Adam's apple, Oklahoma, Thursday, May THE MOTHER WATCH She never closed her eyes in sleep till we were all in bed; On party' nights till we came home she often sat and read, We little thought about it then, when we were young and gay, How much the mother worried when we children were away. We only knew she never slept when we were out at night, And that she waited just to know that we'd come home all right. Why, sometimes when we'd stayed away till one or two or three, It seemed to us that mother heard the turning of the key; For always when we stepped inside she'd call and we'd reply. But we were all too young back then to understand just why.

Until the last one had returned she always kept a light, For mother couldn't sleep until she'd kissed us all good night. She had to know that we were safe before she went to rest; She seemed to fear the world might harm the ones she loved best. And once she cried: "When you are grown to women and men, Perhaps I'll sleep the whole night through; I may be different then." And so it seemed that night and day we knew mother's careThat always when we got back home we'd find her waiting there. Then came the night that we were called to gather round her bed: "The children all are with you now," the kindly doctor said. And in her eyes there gleamed again the old-time tender light That told she had been waiting just to know we were all right.

She smiled the old familiar smile, and prayed to God to keep Us safe from harm thruout the years, and then she went to sleep. -Edgar A. Guest. CONVENTION OF SINGERS HELD AT AKINS APR. 24-25 Co.

Singing Convention Enjoys Fine Session of Two Days At Akins Last Month. 'The county Singing Convention was heid at Akins, April 25 and 25th. Both Saturday night and Sunday sessions were successful. Among the leaders were Mr. Austin A.

Arnold and his famous girls quartette, representing the Hartford Music company. Deacon Utley was at the Sunday evening session and made a very inspiring short talk on singing and singing schools. Others singers were Supt. Peck of Sallisaw; Riggs and Terrell of Muskogee, Jack Wear, Alonzo Taylor, T. Hightower, W.

R. Kelton, Richard Lane, J. Walkup, Jewel Pitman. J. P.

Taylor, Burt Compton, Junior Gillis, Jack Taylor, Jewel Davis, Mrs. Shephard, Ollie Hightower. George Littlejohn, Mrs. Larson, Amos Hawkins, Mary Florende Bibbs, and Jim Childers. There were five county quartetts and cne class represented in the conventin.

Two of the quartetts were from Sallisaw, as was the class. Other quartetts were from Central, Akins, and Belfont. The Belfont quartett is a group of Indians. MRS. HETTIE McDOLE Mrs.

Hettie McDole, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Maggie Watts at Paw Paw late Tuesday night, April 20, following an illness of thirty days. Mrs. McDole was born in Tenn. Feb.

14th, 1846, she has lived in Lavacca, Arkansas and Paw Paw. for the last 45 years. She was the first members of the Fist Methodist church in Lavacca, she was 91 years, two months and 13 days old. Surviving relatives are one daughter, two brothers, four sisters, twentythree grandchildren and thirty great grandchildren. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Lavacca, Methodist church with Rev.

Mr. Dorman officiating, interment was in the Lavacca cemetery under the direction of the Moore's Funeral home, The Only All-Home Printed Newspaptr in the County. The Official County Newspaper. 11. Sallisaw, ALBERT PETERS HEADS LOCAL SCHOOL BOARD At a meeting of the Sallisaw school Board Monday evening, Albert Peters was named chairman, with Dr.

Walton Breedlove, vice-chairman, Jack Wear was named clerk of the board. At the present time the board is comprised of the following members: Albert Peters, Dr. Walton Breedlove, Jack Wear, Charley Harraway and Cas Bruton, Former Students To Northeastern Flocking in from all parts of the state, former students of the old Male and Female seminaries will gather on the campus at Northeastern, in Tahlequah. May 7, to participate in a gala festivity day celebrating the eleventh annual home-coming. A much larger crowd is expected to attend the celebration this year, according to Professor T.

L. Ballenger, chairman of the program committee at Northeastern. Last year's crowd numbered more than one-hundred thousand people, which included about 350 graduates of the two schools. The two old schools were opened May 7, 1851, and for the past eleven years this has been one of the largest and most historical gatherings of the state. MEASURING OF FARM STARTED BY CO.

AGENTS Work Of Measuring and Map ping Farms for which Worl Sheets have been signed. Measuring and mapping of farms on which 1937 Work Sheets are filed has been started says Oran Stipe, Sequoyah county agent. A special fund was set aside from the 1936 Federal appropriation for mapping farms signed up in 1937. 'The mapping consists of an absolutely accurate measurement by the use of the plane table method of all the cultivated fields with natural boundaries. If possible blue prints will be made of each farm measured.

Farmers are not expected to assist in the measurements, but it will be necessary that some one familiar with the farm be present and point out the cultivated fields. All farmers who have not signed: Work Sheet are urged to do so as soon as possible so that their farm can be measured. The deadline for Work Sheets has been set as May 31st. There will be supervisors visit each farm sometime during the summer who will check the separate crops; therefore farmers need not worrk a- bout having -conserving crops seeded before the mapping is done. Mapping will be finished by July 1st or earlier.

This work will be done by collegetrained men, and applicants for jobs are urged to look elsewhere since there are more than twice as many applicants already as there will be jobs. It will be worth the farmer's while to sign a Work Sheet since each farmer will receive a copy of the mape of all the fields on his farm, This map will be invaluable in buying seed for various fields on the farm. The quicker a Work Sheet is filed with the Co. Agent, the earlier it will be mapped. Muldrow Boy Joins Fraternity TAHLEQUAH, May 6 -After serving out a lengthy term as understudy in the dramatics fraternity, Delta Psi Omega at Northeastern Teachers college, Ernest Garner of Muldrow.

was initiated as a member of the organization along with seven other people on April 28. During the period of his pledgeship to the national honorary organization, Garner protrayed roles in several stage productions, among them were: "Night of January Sixteenth" and "Capril Garner is also affiliated with Sigma Tau Gamma, social fraternity, and during the summer months he tours the southern states serving as crew manager for a publishing house in Nashville, Tennessee. FREE MUSICAL PROGRAM An one hour musical program will be presented at Field's Chapel Saturday night, May 8, consisting of quartets, solo and class singing. Following will be a pie supper, the proceeds to be used for singing school, now in progress under the direction of Austin Arnold, Hartford musical instructor, 6, 1937. Junior-Senior Dance To Be Held May 7th A dance will be given at the Community building in Sallisaw, Friday night, May 7th, following the JuniorSenior Banquet.

The dance will be sponsored by the Band Mothers and the funds derived from the dance will be used to pay off the indebtedness for equipment for the Sallisaw school band. Music will be furnished by Frank Robinson's Varsity Club of Tahlequah, a nine piece orchestra. This one of the more popular dance orchestras playing in eastern Oklahoma and the dance lovers of Sallisaw will enjoy an evening of dancing to their music. Dancing will begin immedately following the banquet. Tickets may be purchased from any member of the band committee or may be purchased at the door that evening.

SALLISAW JAIL. BLAZES TWICE WHILE TRIO HELD About 15 minutes Tuesday, after Chief of Police Lee Smith and Officer Hubert Campbell arrested Homer Evans, Tulsa; his wife, Mrs. Hallie Evans, Sallisaw. and S. A.

Watson, Houston, and lodged the trio in the city jail on a charge of being drunk. the city jail caught fire. Seeing the smoke coming through the windows of the jail, officers and firemen opened the door and found the beding had been set on fire. The blaze was extinguished, but a minutes later the bedding caught a second time, Campbell said the three prisoners told him they would burn the jail down. However they were still in jail tonight.

Neither of the men is known here. Campbell said they will be fingerprinted. WILL DEDICATE BUILDING The new rock school building at Roland will be dedicated Saturday evening, May 15th. when several men from the WPA office in McAlester will be present, This is one of the many school houses in the Sequoyah county that have recently been completed as a WPA project. MULDROW SUN, VIAN MOTHERS DAY PROGRAM AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Mothers Day wil be observed at the morning service this Sunday at the Presbyterian church.

A flower committee consisting of Misses Betty Foreman and Mary Janice Huggins will be at the church's entrance to pin the appropriate flower on the worshippers who come. Included in the program will be a solo, "Mother O' by Edmund Armstrong, and an anthem by choir, "Our The sermon there will be. "Noble Womanhood, the Hope of Our At the evening service at 8:00 p.m. the series on "The Foundations or Fundamentals" will be continued. This Sunday, the foundation stone.

"The Person of Christ" will be the subject. Come, see how the Christian armies of the centuries have moved back and forth across this battlefield of belief; The attendance was splendid last Sunday. Yorks To Present Program Here May 13, The York Conservatory will present Sallisaw students at the High school auditorium Thursday night, May 13, at 8:00 o'clock in a program of dances. vocal numbers, piano selections and personality songs. Several numbers will be in costume, and a part of the program will consist of numbers presented April 22 at the Joie theatre in Fort Smith.

The public is cordially invited. There will be no admission charge. The program follows: Rasbach, by Billie Maxine Romans. The Puffin, reading, by Molly Ann Yaffe and Nona Yaffe. Cotton Pickers, Martin, by Grace Marie Fears.

Marcheta, song, by Charles Williams. Baby Steps, dance, by Nona Yaffe. In a Chinese Garden, Overstreet, by Paul Tucker. Tiny Tot Taps, dance. by Eddie Lee Dawson.

China Blue Eyes, reading, by Sylvia Adams. Organ Grinder's Swing, song, by Grace Marie Fears. Rustic Chapel, Rolfe, by Billie Maxine Romans. Struttin' Her Stuff, dance. Molly Ann Yaffe.

Get Off Your High Horse, song, by Polly Ben Campbell, Contra Dance, Beethoven; Prelude in sharp Minor, Rachmaninoffff, by Anna Doris Williams. No! No! A Thousand Times song, by Nona Yaffe. Tommy Tucker Taps, dance, Jimmie Ford. You Do The Darndest Things, song, by Nora Bell Randolph, Humming Bird, Giard; Valse Brilliant, Loth, by Pauline Waikup. I Don't Want to Go to Bed So Early, song; Oh! My song, by Gertrude Helen Rowalnd.

Twinkle Toes. dance, Billie Maxine Romans. A similar program featuring Muldrow students will be given Friday night. May 14, in the Muldrow High school auditorium, Junior Senior Banquet To Be Held Fri. The Juniors and Seniors are thrilled over the big event of the year which is so near at hand, "The -Senior The banquet will be carried out in a cowboy atmosphere.

The banquet hall being surrounded by a corral fence and decorated by saddles, briddies. Indian blankets, branding irons, etc. The waiters and waitresses will be dressed in extreme cowboy fashion, wearing cowboy boots, overall pants, bright colored shirts, bandanas, and ten gallon hats. They are as follows: Carl Frix, Bernie Cheek, Bill Lovern, Gafford Sanders. Dale Wear, Lewis Heiner, Melvin Parmer, Bill Moore, Misses Jerrine Cheek, Carrie Burns, Doris Williams, Helen Walters, Helen Welch, Iris Leach.

and Shannon Wheeler. The tables will be in a shape signifying the "Flying The evening will de spent dining, dancing and a general round-up of friends. The banquet will start promptly at 7:30 and following the banquet the band mothers are sponsoring a dance which will start at 10:00. The sion for outsiders will be 40 cents per person. The public is invited.

la PRESS, Vol. 21, No. 11. MRS. FEARS IS RE-ELECTED AS PTA PRESIDENT Report Shows Much Was Accomplished By The Sallisaw PTA During Past 12 Months.

At the last meeting of the ParentTeachers Association, which was held at the High school Monday afternoon, Mrs. O. T. Fears was named as president for the coming year, with Mrs. Chesley Stevenson as vice-president; Mrs.

Leland Hines, treasurer and Mrs. Gerdie Hurd, secretary. Mrs. Fears has capably served the association as president this year, and the work done by the association under her leadership has been one of the most outstanding since the association was organized in Sallisaw. At the beginning of the school term it was voted to raise funds for new stage scerry and a new curtain, and that this be the project on which they would work.

Since then funds were raised in various ways. Following is a report of the funds raised: proceeds of the Eastern Star banquet, proceeds from sale of hamburgers at, football games, proceeds from rummage sale, profit on Avon products, proceeds from play by public speaking class, $9.50, and proceeds from hamburgers sold at basketball tournaments, $35.25, making a total of $105.60. With the help of PTA members, the Paris Display company sold advertising for the stage curtain in the amount of $650.00. This making a total of funds raised by the association this year $755.60. Of this amount $650.00 was spent for the new curtain; $75 for a set of reference books for the Liberty school, lights and wiring for the stage, and it was voted to purchase certificate awards for the outstanding pupils in the schools.

The faculty, the school children and the public, as a whole. are justly proud of the new stage curtain. Motion was made and carried that the association give Mrs. Fears a standing vote of thanks for her work. Mrs.

Fears expressed her appreciation of the splendid cooperation of the PTA members and to all those who have helped in any way, make this years work a success. Miss Irene Spriggs' room won the picture for having the most mothers present. Following the meeting, the guests were invited to the Home Economics department, where tea was served. MAY 31 SET AS DEADLINE WORK SHEETS 950 Work Sheets Have Been Signed in County So Far, According to Kauble. The state office has set May 31st a 35 the deadline for counties receiving Work Sheets, says Norman O.

Kauble, Senior Assistant in Conservation. In order to avoid wuting, Work Sheets signers are advised to come to the second floor of the Court House, Sallisaw, and sign up at their earliest possible convenience. No one will be permitted to sign up after May 31st. Up to date, nine hundred and fifty Work Sheets have been signed and six hundred more are expected before the deadline. Farm mapping which began last week should not be confused, with compliance work, Sometime before July first all farms signed up will be mapped.

but the acres of soil-conserving crops and terracing will not be checked until after the mapping is completed Farmers are not expected to help with the mapping but someone should be present to point out all the cultivated land, Anyone planning on signing a Work Sheet shouid keep in mind the following points: 1. Bring with you the legal description of all the land you own or operate; 2 All the land you own or operate must be covered by a Work Sheet; Be able to give the crop history for 1136 and thecropping plans 1 for 1937. Anyone having this information will be able to fill out a Work Sheet in a few minutes; otherwise they may have to make an extra trip to get the information. The 1928 corn crop in Oklahoma set a record. with 70 million bushels on about 3 million acres.

Study of the causes and remedies for off -flavors in milk has been carried on at the Oklahoma and M. College during the past three years..