The Pryor Jeffersonian from Pryor, Oklahoma • 9

Clinton R. Jackson Longtime Resident Of County, Buried Funeral services for Clinton Rowe Jackson, 81, who died Friday at his home northwest of Adair, were held Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the Adair Methodist church with Rev. Harley Blackford and Rev. Howard Young officiating. Interment was in the Adair cemetery under direction of the Harria funeral home.

He wag born August 30, 1879. in Illinois, and was married there to Winifred Creekmur, April 29, 1906. They moved to Chouteau in 1907, and to Pryor in 1919, where he served as county agent for the next four years. He served here as State Farm Insurance agent for approximately 25 years. They moved to Adair in 1924, where he was an active member of the First Methodist church.

Survivors are his wife, of the home; two sons, Ralph Jackson, Pryor, and Norman Jackson, Adair; three daughters, Mrs. Katharine Falls, Mrs. Eileen Clagget, Adair; Mrs. Betty Hood, Bryan, Texas; 11 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. 'Pin Money' Was New Year's Gift In Ancient Stillwater In today's world Christmas is the time for gifts, but in old England New Year's Day was a great occasion for the giving and receiving of presents.

Oklahoma State university library sources note that kings and queens received very elaborate and expensive gifts, but among ordinary people the common New Year's Day present was "pin money." This term came into use when it was the custom for men to give their wives and daughters money for ping and knick-knacks on New Year's Day. This was the only time during the year that this money was received, since pins made of wire were very expensive and seldom used. Instead, many persons used skewers made of wood. Play Presented By School Class As Yule Feature The special education class of Central grade school in Pryor presented their Christmas play "The First Christmas" Wednesday of last week at 2:30 p.m. in the music room at the school with Mrs.

Marie Haught in charge of the program, and Mrs. Dicie Pinkerton, teacher. The welcome speech was given by Wayne Lee Thompson. Diane Ward was the announcer. Henryetta Whitfield was the soloist with Diane and Johnny Ward presented a musical program on the electric cord organ and piano.

Following the program the class members returned to their home room for a party and Christmas gift exchange. Refreshments were served by Mrg. Leonard Ward, Mrs. Gabbard, Mrs. Ed Surine and Mrs.

Lee Thompson to the parents, students and teachers and special guests, Mrs. Haught and Miss Ruth Stanford. Students present were Wayne Lee Thompson, Johnny Ward, Teri Roach, Wayne Surine, Jerry Graham, Gerald Roach, Tony Gabbard, Dickie Burkhart, Dwight Blackwell. Henryetta Whitfield, Diane Ward, Dorothy Layton, Linda Pippin. Marsha Thompson and Linda Mason.

VISIT COLORADO FAMILY Dr. and Mrs. Karl Davis and son Karl, 19 North Rowe street, spent the Christmas holidays at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie E.

Jones, and daughter Kevyn Lois. Denver, Colo. Mra. Jones is the former Karlene Davis. ARKANSANS ARE GUESTS Christmas guests in the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Allen Clark, Rickey and Barbara, west of Pryor, were Mrs. Clark's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.

H. Lambert of Mullberry, Ark. THE PRYOR THE PRYOR JEFFERSONIAN JEFFERSONIAN, PRYOR, DECEMBER 29, 1960 VOLUME 54 NUMBER "Rambling With Little Jeff" BY WID GILBERT The hats the Hignway Patrolof Oklahoma are forced to wear-for some unexplained reasson--are the source of frequent laughs in this area of Soonerland. It took a traffic offender, however, to cap the climax. The offender appeared in the county attorney's office to pay a fine on a traffic charge after having been cited by a patrolman.

Said he: "This is the first time in 28 years of driving that I have ever paid a traffic fine -and I had to be picked up by a Boy Scout. Shortly after the hats appeared on the heads of Oklahoma patrolmen, some of the law enforcement offices were decorated with the picture of one of them wearing the brown sombreros. Underneath were the words- Smokey The Bear." Could be that was where the idea of the hats originated. Anyway that is the kind of hat "Smokey" wears. And there was the eldery Pryor man who cited, by a city officer on a traffic count.

Said the man: "I have been driving for 40 years and never been caught on a charge, then I was picked up by the dog-catcher." The officer who arrested the man also serves as the animal warden. Had more amusement this past week from a little mathematical formula than we have enjoyed in a long time. We got caught with the thing, so we passed it along and trapped several others. We can't put it down here exactly as it should be, but we'll present the idea. Put down the following figures in this 40 50 1,000 10 Now fold the paper from the bottom to shield all the figures except the top figure.

Then slip down the line having some one add the column audibly as you let the paper slip to the next number. Know what will happen? Well try it. We think the answer will be wrong unless we have given the whole thing away in reporting it. Times do change. We have been "covering" city council for several years.

Not too 1 many years ago members of the then city council objected to any tape recording of the proceedings of the council. They would not permit it. The present council is not so timid. Last week the council authorized the city clerk to get a price on a tape recorder for the recording of all their proceedings. Question--what if the next council objects, granting there may be some changes in the membership? Say, all you folk out there who called Coach Warren Carmichael to help him obtain a correct listing of all Pryor football coaches, deserve a tip of the hat.

We asked. at Carmichael's request, that you provide a little help. And a number of you did. Thanks a lot. Elmer Swan is a member of Pryor's City Council -and a good one from this reporter's viewpoint.

He is also an employee of the Grand River Dam Authority. At the council meeting last week Swan jokingly reprimanded his honor, John Cordell, for not attending the GRDA Christmas banquet held in the Graham Community building. "I wasn't invited," the mayor explained to Swan. We feel sure there was a slip somewhere. Anyway the mayor had a reason.

Pryor is always glad to serve as host at any GRDA function--glad indeed. Claude McCracken, retired deputy sheriff, goes to the sheriff's office each week, on a certain day, and waits for the "egg man," the same man from whom he has been buying eggs a long time. Last week Claude was the office when J. E. McCracken, his brother, former business manager of the Pryor school system, dropped into the sheriff's office for a visit.

Someone suggested Claude was waiting for the egg man. He was not at the time but this started talk about buying of eggs. Claude told about his egg It developed that both McCrackens buy eggs from the same man, 8 fact they had not previously discovered. Frank Baker, the groceryman and retiring C-C president, furnished this newspaper office force with pounds and pounds of Christmas candy. We were not surprised.

He does it just about every year, much to our pleasure and our thanks. Mr. and Mrs. Phil Ashmore, Lawton, son-in-law and daughter of the publisher of this newspaper, fly to Pryor somewhat frequently. It takes them an hour, or perhaps an hour and ten minutes, depending on the wind.

This past week they drove it a little compact. It took about six hours. Of course they had the little dog along in the car--as if that made any difference. Incidentally Mr. Ashmore is another person who visits in Pryor who thinks we need an airport.

About the airport. We have learned very vividly that industry practically demands an airport. We are told the Daisy rifle people demanded such at Rogers, although both Springdale and Fayetteville, nearby towns, had airports. Believe it or not, an airport is essential to the industrial development of Pryor. We hope the Airport board.

named by Mayor John Cordell, goes full steam ahead on obtaining one. Pryor has some strong competition for industries. We cannot neglect any progressive and forward step toward meeting this competition. Here's our good turn for the week. A boy's topcoat was left in the Graham Community building the night of December 15.

It can be obtained upon proper identification. Call the city clerk's office. This is the last week of the old year, 1960. After this issue it will be 1961. Now that we have disclosed this information, we sayHappy New Year Everybody.

$2500 Scholarship Available At OSU Stillwater An Oklahoma State university senior will be chosen to apply for one of five $2,500 graduate fellowships offered by Phi Kappa Phi, national scholastic society, for the 1961-62 school year. Winners will be announced about mid-March, said Dr. Robert C. Fite, member of the OSU chapter's executive committee. Application deadline is Feb.

15. In past years, two OSU students have won the grants. CLYDE HUNTERS ARE HOSTS Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hunter, 440 South Elliott street, have as their guests for the holiday season their son and family, Mr.

and Mrs. Jerry Hunter, Julie and Jeri Lynn, of Wakita. the story of our business is built SERVICE HARRIS Funeral Home, 101 S. Mill Street Phone VA 5-3121 SCHOOL BUS for 2,850,000 Gunn Bros. Boys Home near Hollis, stamps were donated by gathered from all over McAlester Prison Inmates Sending $203.30 Check To Hank Wyse Family (From Daily Oklahoman) McAlester Even Warden Robert R.

Raines, who takes great pride in the efficiency of his penal institution, will admit some pretty hard-headed hombres are behind the walls of Oklahoma State Penitentiary. Raines will be the first to point out, however, that very few of his "boarders" are all bad. An example of the soft side of his inmates, the warden says, is the $203.30 raised among the prisoners this past week to help 3-year-old Lennie Lou Wyse. Prisoners learned through newspapers about the open heart surgery needed by the Pryor girl and about how the Wyse family was having a hard time meeting the $3,000 needed to make the surgery possible at a hospital in Rochester, Minn. "Little Lennie Wyse needs help real bad," said editor Rex Fletcher in "The Eye Opener," monthly inmate publication.

"For at least once 0111 lives, let's do something really worthwhile and help this little girl." The news story suggested that prisoners put contributions in a box in the rotunda of the prison. Editor Fletcher spurred their efforts by asking this thoughtprovoking question: "Can you New Year's Day Is Most Widely Marked Holiday 3013 HONE STAMPS FOR SCHOOL BUS. In exchange perintendent and 34 youngsters at Westview Christmas present. The 75 books of Churches of Christ, sponsors the me, and were Mexico. The stamp-saving.

ect rted in March think of anything better you can do with your money Well, by the time the fund was taken up, it amounted to $203.30. In the warden's own words, "That is quite a feat, considering that none of these fellows has any money, and that contributions were almost necessarily limited to nickel and dime chits." Then, word got around inside the penitentiary that hitle Lennie Lou had died after undergoing the open heart surgery it was hoped would make her well. "Will the money go into some other inmate fund?" the warden was asked. "No," Raines replied, "I talked to them (inmate drive leaders) about it a while ago. they told me, 'the family is going to need the money anyhow, to pay funeral expenses and all.

Please see for us that they get Lennie Lou, who weighed only 22 pounds, had a 50-50 chance of survival. So far as the warden knows, none of the inmates has any acquaintance with the little girl or her father. OSU Promotes Personnel Chief Stillwater Samuel P. Satterfield of Stillwater has been named head of personnel processing for Oklahoma State university. His appointment was effective Dec.

1. He replaces Ross Howard of Stillwater, who was transferred to head machine accounting for the Oklahoma agricultural extension service. Satterfield has been employed in the university accounting department since June, 1949. He attended high school in Locust Grove. His wife.

Alice, is a of Skiatook. They are 1953 graduates of OSU and parents of three children. Stamps, John IL. Cannon, SuOklahoma received this $6,000 members and friends of the Oklahoma, Texas and New Chouteau Man Buried Thursday Services for Connie Livingston, 72, Chouteau, who died in a Tulsa hospital December 22, were held Thursday in the Chouteau Assembly of God church. Interment was in the Chouteau cemetery directed by the Green funeral home.

Born December 19, 1888, near Chouteau, he had been a resident of Chouteau and this county most of his life. He was a retired oil field worker. The survivors include his wife, Bessie, of the home; two daughters, Mildred Carnes, Pryor, and Mrs. Ethel Pheland, Salina; one step-son, Henry Mounce, Vivian, one brother, Bob Livingston, Anderson, one half-brother, John Bendure, Pryor, four grandchildren, and six greatgrandchildren. Yule Seals Fund Report Is Issued With 65 of the 77 Christmas Seal secretaries making initial reports of returng in the 1960 Christmas Seal Campaign, the total as of December 13 for Oklahoma is $154,704.78.

These figures, released from the office of the Oklahoma Tuberculosis association in Oklahoma City by James Delbridge, Christmas Seal Campaign director, shows that the 1960 campaign is running seven percent behind last year. In 1959 the Oklahoma final returns amounted to $269,290.57. Funds raised in the annual Christmas Seal Campaign are used for local and state program of tuberculin testing, chest X-rays, case detection, health education, rehabilitation, and research. The goal in the 1960 Christmas Seal Campaign is $300.000. Immediate contributions to your local tuberculosis association is urged.

Happy 19617 The Cordell Insurance Agency JOHN CORDELL NORA MARSH NAOMI WADE Oklahoma Needs More Roads To Survive Industrial Age Says State Engineer at Stillwater- New Year's Day apparently is the universal holiday, being celebrated more widely than any other in the different countries of the world. Oklahoma State university library sources note that in most countries the day is devoted to festivities and rejoicing. The new year does not begin on Jan. 1 in every country, but whatever the date the idea of goodwill and kindly feeling- often expressed in quaint customs always is associated with the holiday. The age of the custom of celebrating New Year's Day is not known, but three thousand years before Christ the people of BabyIonia kept a New Year festival called "Zalmuk" which lasted for 11 or 12 days.

The Romans began the year on Jan. 1, with the holiday being held sacred to the two-faced god Janus, who was supposed to look back on the old year and forward to the new one. In England the ancient heathen priests, called Druids, would scrape the mistletoe from the oaks and distribute boughs or sprays of it among the people on New Year's Day. With the advent of Christianity the festival of New Year was still kept, but by church order the day was given over to "prayer, fasting and humiliation." LET US WRAP UP YOUR INSURANCE PROBLEMS JOHN T. CORDELL All Types Insurance Real Estate We're only young but once, in truth, Once gone there's no reviving, A GIRL SHOULD HOLD ONTO HER YOUTHBUT--not while he is driving.

CORDELL INSURANCE AGENCY 8 South Mill Phone VA 5-2350-Pryor more and better highways Oklahoma will not survive the coming industrial age," stated William M. Dane, Oklahoma state highway planning engineer before the luncheon meeting of the Pryor Rotary club Friday, A native of Oklahoma, Dane said the state will either live or die without good roads and the decision to de something about the situation was up to Oklahoma citizens. The decision Dane was referring to was the reed for more money in the highway department to provide more and better roads "We do not have enough money to build a highway system which we believe you need," he Assisted by Moch: Schroder, public relations man on the state level, Dane presented an explanation on the 5-year Master Plan which is a plan for modernizing Oklahoma's road system. The plan was conceived about 11 months ago A8 a definite need for the highway department. It is a plan to guide highway development.

Uses Existing Network Developed after four or five months of work, the plan provider a basic east -west and north-south network combined with the interstate system. The plan makes maximum use of the existing network and when completed will make diagonal routes throughout the state. Turning to the accomplishments of the highway department during the last year Dane said more money has been appropriated for maintenance, a two-way radio system has been installed out the state and a 5-year plan for maintenance in the counties ha3 been set up. He said this year was the third largest year in the history of the state construction-wise. Over $47 million was spent in construction projects, he said.

Need Cost Study Looking to the future, Dane said he would like to gain the support of the legislature and the citizens of Oklahoma to set up a state highway need cost study. When completed the study would show the estimated highway needs for Oklahoma. The study would consist of an advisory group composed of city, county and state officials and an unbiased firm to supervise the operation. Among the objectives the study would accomplish are to determine the adequacy of roads, to improve existing laws and recommend revisions and an evaluation of the present highway structure, Dane said the study could be financed by matching funds with the federal government. At the present time the highway department does not have the support of the legislature, Dane declared.

This study would give the legislature the feeling they were finding the needs a of the highway department, he said, and would give us the needed legislative support. Four new Pryor Rotarians were formally welcomed into the club by Jack Butler, chairman of the Rotary Information committee. They were John Blackford, Claude Pinkerton, Bill Urice and Mutt McArtor. LUCKY NEW YEAR! Here's hoping that 1960 will see all your happy dreams come true for Patterson's Flowers 23 N. VANN PHONE VA 5-3706 RING IN THE NEW 1961.

'Co you go heartfelt wishes for a blessed and happy New Year, and our sincere thanks for past palronage.) J. W. 'Dub' BYNUM Mayes County State Representative.