Stilwell Democrat-Journal from Stilwell, Oklahoma • 1

Stilwell Democrat -Journal Historical Society Historical Bldg zone 5 PUBLISHED IN STRAWBERRY CAPITAL OF THE 23 1353 ADAIR COUNTY OKLAHOMA THURSDAY APRIL VOLUME 63 Master Farmer Degrees Conferred Five Boys Receive Rig!) Awards Today STILWELL the state FFA association to its members who have done outstanding work in vocational agriculture The degree is awarded to candidates only after exacting requirements are met by the young aimers Each boy must have earned or productively invested a sizeable sum of money In his farming program maintained a high for Strawberry is Announced Queen Contest Set For Saturday Afternoon Soil Stewardship Observance Is Scheduled For Week Of May 3-10 column THE DOGWOOD TRAFFIC through Stihvell was really heavy last Sunday and should be much laigcr next Sunday It's too bad these visitors can't get off on some of these by-roads and ready see the out-of-the-way beauty spots Almost everyone you talk to has a favorite short-drive trip on a country road One we recommend is through Bell and down by Oak Ridge then off the mountain until you come to Arkansas 59 Turn north through Evansville and back to Stihvell Perhaps the prettiest dogwood in several counties is the hill near Honey Hill school just east of Stilwell WZ ACCORDING TO REPORTS Bob new house now being built down in Leflore county will cost some $400000 including the gold-plated plumbing fixtures Some people really have it rough Saturday Set As Day Saturday April 25 has been set aside as for the benefit of the cancer fund drive Members of the Future Homemakers club of Stilwell high-school will conduct the operation Mrs Darrell Roberts local chairman reports a total of $26283 has been collected to date with a number of envelopes still to be turned in Paul Young 48 Dies Unexpectedly Funeral services for Paul Young were held Wednesday afternoon this week in Lincoln Arkansas Young a former resident of Lincoln moved to Stilwell about two years ago and was engaged in the painting and paper-hanging business He suffered a heart attack about 6:30 pm Sunday April 19 and died a few minutes later in his home He was a members of the First Baptist church His immediate survivors include the widow and one daughter Linda Sue of the home scholastic standing and must in general be a top-notch farmer All of the 1959 Junior Master Farmers will be guests at the fourth annual Southwestern Bell Telephone Company honor dinner Thursday night April 23 This banquet has become an annual fete for outstanding Future Farmers who receive the Junior Master Farmer degree MAY 3-10 1959 Stewardship Week board of district supervisors of the Adair county soil conservation district invite you and your congregation to participate in the observance of this period of Students Undergo Qualifying Tests Seven top-ranking Stilwell students were given the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying tests Tuesday April 21 principal Cliff Hudgins announced The three-hour test given to six seniors and one junior is a meaurc of educational development and college aptitude Emphasis is on broad intellectual skills and on an understanding and the ability to use what has been learned rather than on sheer knowledge of facts Hudgins said Results will be sent to each participating school enabling the students to compare their scores with other students across the nation Stilwell students who took the tests were: Tommy Guess Mike Horn Ronald Worley Jimmie Gass Lucky Eagle Jackie Robbins and Robbie Blackard Ross Trial Is Reset For May 11 The jury trial of Charley Ross which was to have been held the first of this week has been postponed until May 11 The postponement was caused by the illness of attorney Ross is charged in connection of the fatal clubbing of Frankie Brown District court is scheduled to start again on Monday April 27 The selection of the 1959 Strawberry Queen to reign over StilweH's Twelfth Annual Strawberry Festival will be made Saturday afternoon May 2 at the bandstand in the courthouse park The judging will take place at 2:30 pm Judges representing Muskogee and Fort Smith newspapers and a Tulsa television station will select the lucky girl The queen will receive a cash prize of $2500 from the Stilwell Kiwanis club The organization will also present a cash award of $1000 to each of her four attendants The gown will be donated by Carl Terrill of Department store hose Driver Escapes As Flood SweeQS Car Downstream Elmer Lovell who lives in the Oak Grove community had a harrowing experience Saturday evening about 8 when his car was swept from a low water bridge in the flood-swollen Ev ansville creek Lovell was crossing the creek on the bridge some two-and-a-half miles north of the Pettigrew store east of Stilwell He was almost across the stream when he felt the back end of the car begin to slip downstream The vehicle was swept off the bridge and down the stream some 200 yards before it lodged on a tree in the middle of the creek The car remained upright throughout its trip downward Lovell was unable to crawl out of a window as the down-stream door was securely fastened against the tree The current pressing against the car made opening the other door difficult He finally managed however to force the door open and climbed on top of the car After some time Gib Bigby drove by and Lovell was able to attract his attention Bigby threw the stranded man a rope and pulled him to safety Surprisingly the car seemed little the worse for the soaking On its swift journey downstream the vehicle struck a bluff and was baged-up some but outside of being muddy and water-soaked little other damage was incurred Lovell lost a shoe a coat and a pall-pecn hammer in the flood Strawberry Festival May 9 NUMBER 5 and lingerie by Stilwell Mer cantile lingerie by Family Department Store shoes by Family Shoe Store bouquet by Stilwell Flower Shop and jewelry by Jewelry Any grower who pledges three quarts of berries per acre to the stawberry festival will be eligible to enter a candidate Contestants must be between the ages of 13 and 20 years of age and unmarried All girls will be required to wear a blouse or shirt and blue jeans Entry blanks are being mailed to all area growers Additional blanks may be obtained from the following members of the queen committee: Barnes Pemberton John Hedges and Carl Terrill Cafe Smashed In Saturday Fight Four men entered pleas of not guilty to charges of disturbing the peace at an arraignment Monday afternoon in Peace Justice Howard court The four had been held in the Adair county jail since early Saturday morning in connection with a fight which occurred at Richard cafe in Watts Officers said the cafe was almost a shambles following the fight The men were Vernon English Bob Allen and Junior Leach all of Stilwell and Girdner Tulsa Adair county sheriff Swepston said the five men and some women were returning from Siloam Springs where they had attended a dance and stopped at the all-night cafe According to Swepston they told all the customers to leave because were having a punch When two couples refused to go according to the report Girdner and English flipped a coin to see who was going to eject them Allen and Leach joined the other two in the effort In the fight that ensued the juke box was broken and chairs tables and counters were smashed Swepston said the proprietor usca a in quelling the fight and that several of the men were pretty badly beaten in the fracas Leach is already awaiting trial in district court on other charges giowing out of the alleged burglary of Keith store and station west of Stilwell and served by the Horn Demonstration club whose members are Mrs James Strauss Mrs Nick Strauss Mrs Otto Meadows Mrs Irene Adair Mrs Virgil Bagby Mrs James Garrison Mrs Pershing Guess and Mrs Joe Dobbins Julius Thomas head of the Chamber of Commerce welcomed the guests to a feast fit for a king Representing other agricultural agencies were Berry Ferr guson and Hudgins ASC Jim Hargroves and students FFA Joe Ragsdale Indian Service Jack Layman and Peter Warth Soil Conservation Tom Jones representative of the Pet Milk corporation gave a brief talk on the kind of Grade A and Grade milking parlors which improve milk production and reduce labor and costs ram estival Acee Blue Eagle internationally famous Indian artist has agreed to act as master of ceremonies at the All-Indian program honoring Dr Jack Kilpatrick May 9 providing he can his Blue Eagle called Tobe O'Neal program chairman for the Twelfth Annual Strawberry festival last week and accepted the invitation to serve at the event tentative to his ability to re-set an engagement previously made With the excetion of the master of ceremony task the program is all complete Should Blue Eagle not be able to appear O'Neal will take over the job The program to be given from a specially-constructed stage to be built in front of the bandstand in the courthouse park will begin at 11 am following the colorful festival parade Program Announced Francille Carrione will lead the audience in singing the National Anthem and Rev II Crittendon pastor of the First Baptist church will give the invocation Randy Wilburn lieutenant-governor of Division XXI Texas-Oklahoma district Kiwanis International will officially crown the 1959 strawberry queen James II DeJarnatt president of the Stilwell Kiwanis club will welcome the crowd to Stilwell and the festival Guests Introduced After the introduction of special guests at 11:15 the entertainment part of the program will get underway Bobby Dirtseller Vian will give a number of Indian dances at 11:55 At 12:05 Tonette Coble Salli-saw will be presented The Bacone College Indian club with Dick West directing will present a program of songs Indian sign language demonstrations and dances at 12:15 The Cherokee Quartet will give a number of songs in their native language at 1 pm An Indian square dance company will give a program at 1:15 pm The Phantoms with Arch French vocalists will end the afternoon entertainment at 1:25 The awards of the strawberry judging will be announced at 2 pm and at 2:15 the annual strawberry auction will begin The long-looked-for free serving of strawberries and ice cream will start at 3 Banquet At 7 Two big events have been scheduled for the evening At 7 a banquet honoring Dr Jack Kilpatrick one of the nation's foremost symphonic composers will be given in the gradeschool cafetorium All residents of Stilwell and Adair county are urged to purchase tickets to the affair which will pay tribute to the former (Continued on page 8) cant sources of income: the sale of milk calves which can be vealed out and the market for the dairy cow dairies want replacements They are looking for cows of proven ability in milk he said "These dairies are willing to pay good prices for that kind of His advice was to keep individual records on each cow Weigh-a-day for a month in order to cull out from the herd the cows not paying for their board Pastures is an area where you can hear them said Dick Chiles even though the plowshares ring against the rocks the soil is deep and productive The land here properly fertilized can be made to produce pastures dairy farmers in Five members of the Stilwell FFA have been nominated to receive the coveted Junior Master Farmers degree at the annual state FFA convention April 23-24 in Stillwater The five include Carl Carlile Kenneth Doyle' Tommy Guess Michael Horn and James Parker who will be among about 320 Oklahoma FFA boys who have met the qualifications for the degree this year Gov Howard Edmondson will present the degrees during the two-day convention He will also award the trophy to the State FFA Star Farmer who is chosen as the top Junior Master Farmer of the year The Junior Master Farmer degree is the highest awarded by Farm Families Make 1959 Plans Adair county farmers who borrow from the Farmers Home Administration have completed making their farming plans for this year Many are already putting new ideas into operation which should boost their 1959 farm income Donald Davis the local county supervisor said this week Better farming practices which some FIIA borrowers will be putting into operation include testing soils and applying recommended kinds and amounts of fertilizer buying or replacing with hi-grade animals pasture improvement by planting grasses and over-seeding with legumes dairy production testing on the weigh-a-day-month program and keeping records in their farm record books During the past three months all FHA borrowers have analyzed their 1958 farm and home records These records showed what had been planned and w'hat had been accomplished On the basis of the records the families were able to determine the strong and weak points in their operations and recognize further improvements that could be made in their operations Davis said As proof that good farm planning pays off Davis points out that nearly 25 percent of the FHA borrowers in Adair county have repaid their FHA loans during 1958 and are now able to get all their necessary financing lenders from local banks or cooperative Transfer Time To Expire On FVlay 15 Parents desiring to transfer their children from one school district to another were warned this week that the time to make such transfers is about to expire County superintendent Hallford said the expiration date will be May 15 Forms for applying for transfers may be secured from Hall-ford's office in the courthouse Marilec Olives A By Gault Warth If you women had been with us on the dairy tour Thursday have seen the stuff that dreams are made of A cavalcade of cars followed County Agent John Hedges and his associate Jim Haraway on a tour arranged to demonstrate five perfect examples of different types of dairy farms in southern Adair county Among the forty-eight men who made the tour were three women Mrs A Williams Westville Mrs Warren Favor Christie and this reporter That so few represented the distaff side was unfortunate Dairy farms here are mostly family-operated In the past it has been my observation that it is a simple rule of feminine psychology which put most dairy farms on the up-grade It works as an inverse ratio: Stewardhip May 3-10 1959 has been designated by the Department of Agriculture as a special period of time for all people in the United States to review in their minds what a wonderful gift we have in land that produces food fiber and material things for everyone Many organizations throughout the country will be observing this period to encourage others to help keep our land bountiful for ourselves and all generations to come The following letter has been sent from the board of supervisors of Adair county soil conservation district to each of the ministers in Adair county inviting them to participate in this week of Soil Stewardship for 1959: Week of May 3-10 1959 has been set as National Soil Rodeo To Feature Corn Stalk Shoot A new attraction has been added to the Adair County Round-Up Annual Strawberry Festival rodeo this year it has been announced by Jim Har-away club president The show will feature for each evening of its two-night show a corn stalk shoot The contest is in keeping with the All-Indian theme being featured in the festival this year Haraway laid Anyone interested in entering the contest should see Gene Gray or Haraway The rodeo Is set for Friday and Saturday nights May 8 and 9 Band Receives Check From Sale The Stilwell highschool band uniform fund is $12010 richer as a result of the recent cake mix sale conducted by band mothers in four local stores A check for the amount has been sent to the organization by General Mills whose Betty Crocker products were featured in the two-day campaign Marvin Apple band director expressed gratitude to the women who worked in the stores during the campaign the merchants and those who bought the Altogether there were 2402 boxes sold Uien of the The more efficient the dairy the less time the wife has to spend in the barn the more recommended agriculture practices followed in the pasture the less money is taken from the house Also be astonished to learn how much more profit there is to the milk business that a man can learn once his wife put his mind to it Thus the "kind of story I wanted to get out of this tour was the kind that would rescue us from slushing through the mud with the milkpail And the kind I got I saw five different farms Each showed how efficient organization cut down on the labor involved and good management increased the profits more I believe the experts especially when I know them to be expert such as Loyd Stinnett and Dick Chiles Airs Phillips Dies In City Hospital Mrs Florence Phillips a pioneer of this area died Saturday April 18 in an Oklahoma City hospital Services were held Monday this week with burial in the Rose Hill cemetery there Mrs Phillips a member of the Methodist church was well-known in musical circles throughout the state Among her survivors is a brother Mose Waters two nephews Howard and George Waters and a niece Mrs Byrl Kelley all of Stilwell The funeral services were attended by Mose and George Wa-teis and Mrs Kelley Services Held For Mrs Pearl Richards Mrs Pearl Ricnards whose funeral sen ices were held Tuesday Arpil 21 in the Freewater church was born March 20 1893 in the state of Georgia She died Friday April 17 in the Stilwell Municipal hospital following a long illness Burial was in the Freewater cemetery under direction of the Roberts Funeral home Her survivors include: the husband Joe Richards four stepchildren Edwin Alvin and Jack Richards and Mrs Alma Shook all of Phoenix Arizona two brothers Thomas find Earl Burgess both of Stilwell and three sisters Mrs Cora Isaacs and Miss Dora Burgess -also of Stilwell and Mrs Ery Hayes of Oklahoma City Burglars Enter Parrott Home The country home of Miss Polly Parrott was broken into Wednesday night but nothing has been reported missing When Miss Parrott and her mother Mrs A Parrott returned to their home southwest of Stilwell they discovered a side window scieen had been torn loose and the glass in the window broken Two distinct sets of footprints were found by Sheriff Swepston and Deputy Gene Adair County Dairy and Pasture Tour other areas would give their eyeteeth he added of eastern Oklahoma has to be fertilized John Hedges pointed out the set-up here worked out by the ASC a farmer can lime his farm at a cost of fifty cents a ton Potash deficiency has shown up here in the last years This may be the reason that the legumes coming along as they should The answer is to get your soil Tive Farms Space forbids my writing in detail of the five farms visited Except to say that the McAnally Pettigrew Thomas Strauss and Garrison farms are a credit to the state of Oklahoma Lunch Equally to our credit was the lunch provided by the Stilwell Chamber of Commerce cooked Stinnett is the dairy specialist from the Extension Service at Oklahoma State university He has done more for state dairies and the DIIIA than anyone else in Oklahoma Chiles is a pasture specialist He travels over all the 77 Oklahoma counties an authority on pasture grasses and legumes what they had to say: Adair county can become an important adjunct to Okla dairy future Climatically it is favored It can pro duce a wide variety of grasses and legumes This abundance of good pasture forage and hay guarantees us lower feed bills Another economic factor here is that our farms are family-operated which means lower labor costs According to Stinnett the dairy cow provides three signifi.