County Democrat from Tecumseh, Oklahoma • 1

Elki0C emNo 1m VOLUME locry NUMBER 7 GOVERNOR'S OFFICE IT'S THE LAW Fourth District Democrats Meet Here Saturday PICTURES IN THE NEWS -4 Federal Income Tax 1040-A is Easiest Return to File Fourth District Democrats will meet here Saturday with representatives from ten counties sending delegates to the meet-in The meeting will open at 2 in the civic room of the Aldridge Hotel The present chairman Carl LaGere from Chandler is expected to keep his post without opposition Two delegations from Okfuskee County are apt to provide the credentials committee with a problem as both cannot be eligible for voting On the credentials committee are two local Democrats George Chiga of Guthrie is chairman Jimmie Allen "Buddy" Wilcoxson both of Shawnee Barbara Freed Perkins and Glen Stemmie of Sapulpa will hear the rival groups explain their position Other committees include the nominating group with Lou Allard of Drumright chairman Mrs Elaine Nelson and State Senator Oliver Walker Dale as members The resolutions committee In elude Orion Wilbanks Holden yule chairman Floyd Hubbell Stroud Mrs Mary Rodgers Konawa Mrs Lon Parks Dustin Harold Davis Roff Arrangements committee: Mrs Grace Marlow Shawnee chairman Judge Don Powers Chandler Mrs Frank Kidd Bristow Carl Portman Coalgate State Senator Hugh Sandlin of Ifoldenville will talk on future activities of the Democratic party Sandlin's speech and the business of selecting officers will occupy the convention Mrs Eva Barry of Okemah is co-chairman with LaGere and Mrs Lexie Rocket Drumright is secretary-treasurer The ten counties in the Fourth District are Coal Creek Hughes Lincoln Logan Okfuskee Payne Pont 0 t9e1 Pottawatomie and Seminole Counties mNwwwnamomm40onrominanommilmmo Harry Truman Appearing on See It Now' Channe19 "From Precinct to former President Harry Truman gives his personal reflections on his life as a public and private citizen to Edward Murrow on "See It Now" at 4 tn Sunday February 2 on Channel 9 Four days of conversation be tween Truman and Murrow covered virtually every event that was news during Truman's seven years In the White House and produced this hour-long documentary One of the chief purposes of the program is to provide posterity with a significant visual document on the American President ommmoinmemImmommmmEmomomolamon WILL PROVIDES FOR BUYING DRINKS AFTER FUNERAL EXPENSES Martinez Calif "If anything is left after funeral expenses I want you to drink it up" said the will of Eli Stewart 79 The will left Stewart's $900 estate to Mr and Mrs Moffatt Stewart 79 died New Year's Day "I don't believe in tombstones" his will said "and I don't want no $50 suit to be burled in I haven't had one in 30 years" There was no estimate of what was left if anything after the funeral expenses were paid of canine costumes in Frank black and white checked coal A Public Service Fugitive Al TbA Ok 'shoats kat Ascetic Hue Jury Service a Privilege Duty in Free Government Now that testimony has been completed as to both the plain tiff and defendant the question is what happens next At this point the defendant will usually demur to the evidence of the plaintiff and move for directed verdict In other words he will ask the court to consider all the facts which have been proved and in essence say that even though everything plaintiff has proved is true and taken to gether with all the reasonable inference therefrom still the plaintiff has not proved the case against the defendant and the case should be dismissed If the defendant is truly serious in his demur or his move for a I directed verdict the jury Is ex cused and the attorneysargue I the question of law to the court If the court feels that the plain I tiff's case entirely fails as a 1 1 matter of law he will then re 1 call the jury and instruct them to return a verdict for the defendant or he will dismiss the lease A motion for directed verdict Is similar to the demurrer which has been discussed in prior articles The whole question being whether the judge feels in his opinion he will be forced under I the law and the facts as sub mitted to decide the case for either part notwithstanding what a jury might do Assuming that the judge feels there are questions of fact which the jury must pass on the next step will be for the judge to Instruct the jury as to the law which they must apply to the facts presented to them The jury is the sole judge of what facts to believe and the judge will so instruct them He will further instruct them that they must follow the law which he has told them to apply to the facts His instructions will further carry an explanation of the legal terms involved in the lawsuit and the law applying to the specific field which the lawsuit is about and which has been raised by the evidence of the plaintiff and the defendant These instructions are very Important to the Jurors in that they must read them carefully and interpret them exactly as the judge has instructed They are in writing and may be taken to the jury room with them in order that they may read them and understand them when rendering their verdict If damages are claimed they must follow specifically the in structions of what damages are allowable and may not go over the amount of damages which the judge instructs them to be awarded The jury may not use any method of change in arriving at the verdict and if they are un able to agree after careful and deliberate consideration they must so inform the judge and if such occurs the case will be re tried at a later date to another jury If they have any specific questions they must 'ask them of the judge in the presence of the at tomeys There will be times when the judge cannot answer these questions if the questions are not proper for the jury to consider If such is the case he Will so inform them Many times juries will feel that something has been left out of one case or the other However they must pass upon the evidence before them and not what they assume the evidence would or should be had it been presented differently or had other facts been revealed at the time of the trial A juror's duty is a very im portant one in our form of gov ernment and each juror should consider ita privilege as well as a duty to serve Each decision should be made carefully and solely upon the juror's individual feeling in the case No juror should be swayed Into voting for a verdict in which he does not believe as the jury system is a guarantee of freedom and a privilege granted to few other people of 1 the world tr by RAYMOND GARY Results from recent efforts to gain closer cooperation between all groups involved in promoting highway safety are showing up in all sections of Oklahoma Edmond Police Chief C'sene Holt has started a program of reporting all traffic violations to the State Department of Public Safety All communities should follow this practice It's the only way we can learn the identity of our most dangerous drivers A person can't be considered for revocation of his driver license until we have an accurate record of his past of lenses Mayor Wayne IIolden Duncan Is working with that city's safety council in an effort to put a positive program into operation Part of the campaign is to eliminate "blind spots" at intersections There isn't a city in Oklahoma that couldn't be made much safer by starting a similar campaign Many of our busiest city intersections are cluttered with signs shrubs and other blocks to a driver's vision At Waurika Sheriff Phelps and County Attorney Largent Jr have pledged strict enforcement of traffic laws and uniform penalties to all of fenders Even minor traffic violations will hereafter result in a trip to court Some of the seemingly minor traffic infractions can result in serious accidents under the right circumstances That's why it is important to impress on drivers that it's a serious thing to break any traffic law Many other Oklahoma communities are making similar serious efforts to reduce the accident toll in their areas Those who stick with it throughout 1958 will see some heartening results There is of course no single key to solving the state and nation's traffic problems We must work diligently on a hundred different fronts at once Even then we'll be lucky to reduce the accident toll by a few percentage poin The trouble is that everyone who drives a car is a lawbreaker on the highway Some are worse lawbreakers than others but all of us are capable of producing a fatal accident Unfortunately not many of us realize how often we do things wrong when driving This may be the most serious problem we face how to convince the fellow who thinks he's a good driver that he really isn't None of us is as good a driver as he should be some just happen to be worse than others Naturally we want to find out who these worst drivers are and try to do something about them But we aren't likely to see any sharp drop in the accident toll until we make all drivers aware that each of us personally make driving mistakes just about every time we get in a car It's you and me who cause accidents not some other fellow FOUND IN DOG HOUSE Hamilton Ohio After he failed to appear in court on a reckless driving charge police found Tom Grubbs hiding in a dog house at the rear of his home PANTS FOE P0001 Designer flirt Germany outfits Doodle with and white boots Progress Problems Topic of Baptist Religious Meeting Progress and problems of rural churches will be discussed in Shawnee Thursday and Friday February 67 at Oklahoma Bap tist's third annual rural church conference Some 500 pastors and church members in country and village churches aret xpected The meeting will be in Im manuel Baptist Church Dr Gillespie Atlanta Ga director of the Home Mission board's rural church program will report on gains and ern phasize goals of the 25-year ex pansion plan which encourages more and better country and village churches More full-time pastors and programs and ore rural churches providing parsonages and enlarging church building facilities are among goals of the program which runs through 1978 "Building Adequate Church Buildings" will be the title of a talk by Dr Rowland Crowder Nashville Tenn consultant for the Baptist Sunday school board's church architecture department Dr Hobbs Oklahoma City president of the Baptist General Convention of Okla homa will discuss "World Mis the rural church's standpoint Dr Lackey BGCO execu tive secretary will bring the closing message Friday after noon February 7 Taking rural church surveys will be the subject of a talk at the opening session (Thursday Feb 6) by Rev Strahan Ponca City missions superinten dent for Kay Baptist association Rural churches are encouraged to survey their communities from the standpoint of where people live spiritual help they may need and economic status of the community in order to determine whether the area has a permanent or shifting population Dr Sam Scantlan superin tendent of the BCGO rural and city missions department which is sponsoring the meeting ex plained WISH GRANTED When An drew Smith 5 of Rochdale England asked Santa for fire engine his grandfather bought old engine from local fire department MISSILE CRITIC Lt Gen James Gavin chief of army super-weapons research and development is resigning after criticizing missiles lag and urging abolition of joint chiefs of staff HOME-MAKING QUEEN Mme Viginie Belligeon of Haute-Saone won prizes as France's bed housekeeper through written examination and practical demonstration THESPIAN PURLS Knitting between acts of Broadway play "The Rope Dancers" is actress Beverly 'Allston! 12 5-year stage veteran SPORTS QUIZ 1 What was the score of the Senior Bowl North-South game? 2 For whom does Roy Sievers play baseball? 3 How many Major League baseball teams are located in New York? 4 What golf tournament was recently held in Pebble Beach California? 5 What position did Gil McDougal play for the Yankees last season? THE ANSWERS 1 15-13 North 2 The Washington Senators 3 The Bing Crosby Golf Tourney 5 Shortstop Public Confidence Increased by Gains Over Heart Disease This is the first of a series of seven articles presented by your Heart Association to in form readers of this newspaper about the progress being made in the fight against heart disease The heart that beats inside your chest is a fist-sized four chambered pump which in course of a Biblical lifespan beats almost 3 billion times Save for a brief between-beat rest it keeps right on day after day year after year Contrary to popular belief the heart is not a "delicate" organ It is tough and amazingly dur able From standpoint of mechanical perfection no pump created by the genius of atomic age science can surpass it Equally miraculous is the circulatory network through which it pumps your 11 pints of blood at the rate of 166 gallons per hour delivering food and oxygen to the billions of cells which make up your body It is a beautifully organized refueling and waste disposal system Yet either wholly or in part it is not immune to sick ness and disaster The extent to which this is true is mirrored by some grim statistics: Disease of the heart and circulation now responsible for about 51 per cent of all deaths affect more than 10000- 000 Americans among them 500000 children of school age They constitute America's fore most health problem and the leading medical challenge of our time Until only two or three decades ago the view was widely held that "nothing can be done about heart disease" which was seen as an inevitable forerunner of quite beyond the reach of medical science In years past this same fatal istiq viewpoint prevailed regarding such "epidemic" diseases as smallpox typhoid and yellow fever diphtheria and bubonic plague As the infectious dis eases succumbed to medical science so have many other disorders of the body been remedied or cured by new advances in drug therapy and surgery Pessimism and despair are 11 now being replaced by hope and assurance that medical research1 in the not-too-distant future will provide the knowledge needed to control most diseases of the heart and circulation Brilliant victories already have been scored in the diagnosis and treatment of heart and circulatory diseases There is today a general awareness that some forms of heart disease can now be prevented a few can be cured and that almost all cases can be helped by proper treatment especially after early diagnosis As a result people now realize that no medical problem and this specifically includes the The easiest federal income tax form to use in filing your 1957 return is the simplified 1040A According to past performance one out of four taxpayers will use it again this year 2 To be eligible to use Form 1040A there are certain require ments Jess Mitchell of Internal Revenue Service Shaw nee reminds taxpayers that in order to use Form 1040A their total income must be less than $5000 This must consist entirely of wages subject to with of wages dividends and not more than $100 of such income came from a source outside that listed on the taxpayees W2 forms Mr Mitchell said that the short form makes no provision for "head of household" classill cation or for itemized deduc Hons However if you meet all the requirements and decide to use Form 1040A Uncle Sam will figure your 1957 tax and send you either a bill or a refund "If the taxpayer wishes" Mr Mitchell concluded "he may compute his own tax using 1040A and either remit balance due with the form or indicate the amount of refund he has due" Taxpayer assistance day for those having difficulties in completing their 1957 returns is every Monday 8:00 12:00 The IRS phone number for first aid is 3876 41110 WKY-TV to Show Radar Scope during Severe Weather 1 The addition of a new tech I nique In the televising of severe I weather conditions was unveiled Thursday January 23 when WKYTV trained its mobile cam i eras on a Weather Bureau radar scope at Will Rogers Field Oklahoma City As a result viewers over the state can now follow the actual movement of thunderstorm activity on their TV screens The storm detection radar installation is manned by experienced meteorological radar technicians with several years' experience in storm tracking throughout the state WKY-TV weatherman Wally Kinnan reported that the unit has an effective range of 200 miles radius of Oklahoma City enabling pinpoint location of storms before they ever enter the state Kinnan Ls familiar with the technique since he spent two years at Tinker Air Force Base in the Air Force Severe Weather Center's tornado research program working with radar storm detection The radar scope will be televised only during severe weather conditions at which time the Weather Bureau radar operator will interpret meanings of the radar blips to the heart diseases is necessarily beyond solution Furthermore public confidence Is increased because there now exists the machinery for a concerted and planned all-out assault upon the heart nationwide program of research education and community service spearheaded by the American Heart Association and its affiliates and chapters In this fight the stakes are large The right answers can mean the difference between ad versity and prosperity sickness and health life and death for many millions of Americans including generations not yeti born The door is wide open for every man woman and child to have a part in the fight against heart disease This opportunity Is opened to you through your support of the 1958 Heart Fund.