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The Ponca City News from Ponca City, Oklahoma • 11

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The Ponca City (Okla) Newt Wtdneiday June 19 1957 Page 11 McClure Brings First Wheat Mrs Duroy Named Bill Bailey Will Cf PoncaCifians Have Completed First Aid Work As He Earns College Money Mrs John Duroy of the Duroy Agency has been appointed a director of the fire policy writing workshop to be held in conjunction with the annual insurance school at the University of Oklahoma Norman in October it was announced at the June dinner meeting of the Insurance Women of Ponca City Ralph Duroy state fire marshall discussed the duties of the fire marshall's office and its connection with fires as the evening's educational program New members of the group are Joan Mann Eleanor Gammill and Open 1 PM Dotty HURRY! Ends Today A movie for all the family to enjoy! Wedncidoy Afternoon fit I- BLUE RIBBON SHETLAND mare Town Acrta Nancy Is assigned here to BUI Bailey 12-yesr-eld American Legion Home School student at Ponea City She Is being turned over to the young honor student by "Bill" Atkinson developer of Midwest City Her eolts will be raised by young Bill Bailey to finance his college education AM AtKEOFUfitSANOABffillFua CrRjJ Twenty-two Ponca Citians were presented certificate last night upon completion of the Civil Defense First Aid Class sponsored by the American Red Cross Mayor Needham was on hand to give out the awards at the meeting which was held in the recreation room of Fire Station No 1 Nina Haneti John Cower Rus-sel Rose Frank Koehler Louisa Bradley Bernard Bradley Mrs Dial Mary Alice Koehler Mrs A Juenhke Mary Francoeur Mary Amanda Fran-coeur Curran Gloria Syffe Wanda Wright Dolores Enevold-en Frances Nickols Esther Blake Adelaide Balcer Mary Stolhland Mimi Wright A Juenhke and Laverne Goetz composed the list of students who had completed the nine week course and were eligible to receive certificates Ray Madderra has instructed the class which began on March 26 and met every week for two hours The puprose of the instruction was to teach people to do the right thing at the right time in order to prevent added injury to a victim through first aid Two Bids Submitted For Local Project Two bids on the joint Municipal-Civil Aeronautics Administration airport Improvement project for the Municipal Airport were opened Monday evening during the regular weekly city commissioners' meeting The low bid on the project was submitted by Trapp Construction Company of Ponca City in the amount of $4244781 The bid was based on prevailing union wage scales George Miller city attorney said It was erroneously stated in The Kews Tuesday in the story about the city commission meeting that a bid of $4344781 was submitted on the project by Tapp Construction Company The other bid received on the project was for $4324075 submitted by the Burbank Rock Company of Ponca City George Miller city attorney a member of the city Traffic Authority was erroneously identified as Chester Armstrong For the best in Air Conditioning HOWE-FOSTER 230 Grand ROgers 2-1631 BEADY TO SWING into the wild blue yonder is Gayle Tiernan as streamlined as the jet whose cockpit she's preparing to enter Pictured is the Air Force's F-102A on display at the Oklahoma Semi-Centennial Exposition which runs through July 7 Also on display are the F-84F jet and the formidable Matador the tactical missile And when one goes inside the Frontiers of Science building there is an extensive exhibit showing the might of the Air Force and much of the modern equipment that makes it work To 0 Workshop Mrs Pat Fritz Mrs John Ramsey attended as a guest The next dinner session is scheduled for July 15 officers state More than one-half of Ontario Canada's second largest province is forest LAWN MOWERS Complete Sales and Service Residential and Commercial Sizes Call R0gr 5-5 59 1 for FREE Pick up and Delivery HASTINGS MOTORS 31 1 North First Continuous Showing fsWilsrVswwI aMsjassgi sjsu and Friday and Saturday DUNN taw' CSJOMOB oitea MO MA tfosw in uwro Mrsrs Cartoon "flight from Wrong" LATEST NEWS TONIGHT and THURSDAY IT'C "Rlirif rJlitHT" $100 A CARLOAD! i I 4 I V7 I Vw -nsfl" MfBSDl II otoiAisorr Ofoeoi WFFtf llAYC 0n showing starting at 1:15 PM IlttlX UHII Two night showings starting at 7:15 PM CjJVAWa Today and Wed Three Kay Countians At Southwestern Date WEATHERFORD There are three enrolled from Kay County in the summer session at Southwestern State College The total of 833 students at the end of the second week is the highest recorded since 1940 Enrolment in five workshops remaining of the summer schedule should raise the final registration past the BOO mark college officials believe Kay County student! are Tom Sauer school of pharmacy Newkirk Jack Tabor post-graduate Ponca City and Leo Canady undergraduate BlackwelL Citizens in the United States use between 23 and 24 pounds of soap and detergents per person each year I if I No- 12-year-old boy in Oklahoma is going to have any more fun than Bill Bailey earning money to pay for his college education Bui is a straight student and an Eagle Scout at the American Legion Home School in Ponca City Last week he was assigned one of the blue ribbon mares from the Atkinson Shetland Pony Farm by (Bill) Atkinson Midwest City developer He will keep the mare at the American Legion Home School with the understanding that he will sell her colts each year at the big annual Perry Carlile Shetland Pony Sale at Perry The registered mare he is taking to Ponca City is Town Acres Nancy The money received at the sales will be put in a trust fund for his college education "Colts out of this mare sired by our national champion Hlllswicke Oracle will net him a minimum of $1000 per year" relates Atkinson She is the mother of some of our finest really a blue ribbon mare" Gets Mare Bill Bailey received tha assign ment of the mare at a barbeque for the American Legion boys and girls at the Atkinson Pony Farm Fifty-seven children from the Ponca City school were guests of Atkinson and the Midwest City American Legion Post Mo 170 and the Post Auxiliary The boys and girls had a free Tonkawa Briefs TONKA WA Guests of Mr and Mrs Clemens are Mr and Mrs Cotey and daughter Jan Lubbock Tex and Mrs James Collyar BlackwelL Overnight guests Monday of the Merritt Witters were Mr and Mrs William A Brittain Perryton Tex Mr and Mrs Hollis McGinness and Monte Alvin Tex who have been visiting here since Sunday will leave Thursday morning for Ada where they will visit with her father enroute to Fayetteville Ark where they will visit with friends Robert Smith Actor Likes To Keep Busy NEW YORK Robert Smith is an actor who likes to work even during vacation While "Auntl Name" in which he plays a featured role takes a midsummer Broadway recess Smith is hitting the stock circuit for a top role in the musical "Damn Yankees" Have Fun 1 barbeque feed with all the trim- mlngs and spent part of the day riding Shetland ponies and looking! over the farm Alert young Bill Bailey has been attending the American Legion Home School for four years spon-1 sored by American Legion Post No 12 at Bethany Warr Acres Team Pitcher He is a pitcher for the Little League baseball team and an honor student in the ninth grade Facilities at the American Legion School will enable him to care for the mare and her colts In the finest manner adds Atkinson "This 12-year-old boys is a top student at the school and a project like this to earn his money for a college education may give him the opportunity to become one of Oklahoma's leaders for tomorrow" Atkinson concluded Earl Summers director of the Ponca City school took the 57 boys ani girls to Midwest City for the barbeque and outing and also toured the zoo and other points of interest Pick Up Downed WHEAT with a new HUME REEL Now available for IMMEDIATE DELIVERY In Any Model To Fit All Combines EDWARDS IMPLEMENT CO 319 South First ROgers 5-3104 Our Stage '1 i Thursday Night Only fUrriitff BETTE DAVIS Filv Mrs Franeea Deaa KILDARE The Kildare Co-op Elevator opened officially June 15 with the first truck load of wheat brought in by Norman McClure of north of Kaw City The wheat test was about 10 bushels to the acre Moisture content was 129 and test weight was 57 June 18 wheat was brought in by John Otto and Law rence Horinek both of this community Recent cuestj of Mrs Nina Stohl- hut were Mr and Mrs Herman Street of TuUa Lake Call! Street was manager of the Foster Lumber Co here many years ago Recent guests of the Deans were Mr and Mrs Bill Mathey and sons of Lawrence Kin and Mr and Mrs Aubrey Standish and children of Oklahoma City Mrs Mary woolsey and Mrs Aileen Albers attended a home demonstration leaden meeting in Newkirk last week Karen Dean it attending the sum mer session at Edmond She was home for several day after the spring semester dosed Noble Dean and Aubrey Standish left last week for Idaho where they have accepted positions in forestry work for the summer Wlllard Dean left Wednesday morning for Phoenix Ariz where he has again accepted a position in the Department of Bacteriology at the Public Health Center Mr and Mrs March Win Critical Acclaim NEW YORK UP-Frederie March and his wife Florence Eldridge won Broadway's final "best" poll of the season the one conducted by trade paper Variety among news paper critics The couple was cited for their performances in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" Fernando Lamas of "Happy Hunting" and Judy Hoi lidsy of "Bells Are Ringing won approval as top musical comedy performers Jason Roberts Jr and Inga wen- son were chosen as the most prom ising new players of the season Robards performs with the Marches and Miss Swenson appeared in "The First Gentleman Great White Way Has New Theatrical Rival NEW YORK (T) Th Great White Way has a new theatrical Central Park While Broadway's pavements bake in the summer sun the green sward of mid-Manhattan's "big back yard" is offering two new theatrical attractions A series or Shakespear ean dramas is to be played at the foot of a century old castle tower and a wintertime skating rink is being used for a series 'of "Theater Under the Stars" musical shows Ungrateful Mouse Bites Hand That Smote Cat MILL VALLEY Calif Susan Gaines 13 rescued a field mouse from a cat But while she was lecturing the cat the ungrateful mouse bit her finger Susan's doctor gave her a tetanus injection and said the mouse would have to be impounded two weeks at the Humane Society shelter to see whether it is rabid Susan will have to pay the mouse's board 25 cents a day Publicity Shy Bear Takes Woman's Purse GATTJNBURG Tenn VP) A publicity-shy bear charged a picture-taking Texas woman in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park and made off with her purse Mrs Westly Edwards Houston Tex understandably excited grabbed her hat threw her purse to the ground locked herself In her car and drove off without realizing she had left the purse behind The bear took the purse to the nearest picnic table where he dropped it upon learning it contained an unappetizing $120 Park officials returned it to Mrs Edwards Peanut Experiment MOSES LAKE Wash One-acre plots on selected farms in the Columbia Basin reclamation project are to be used for an experiment in peanut-growing Water is being provided to the vast project by pumping from behind Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River COMBINE PICK-UP REELS Hiwie Universal love Richardson Harrison Also Grain Lifter Guards available Order yours Now and Save! SPECIAL USED COMBINES SF 14 ft tecoftdrriened 9 AO root) re so Only SP ISO4 $2000 WILKINS Equipment Inc Mile Wesr Continental Tank Firm Hiahvart 60-77 KOgars 2-2425 International Harvester Dealar Snodgrass Rites Will Be Thursday Services for Roy A Snodgrass 1721 North Union will be held at 2 pm Thursday at Gills Funeral ChapeL He was a resident of Ponca City since 1919 He died Tuesday at the Sulphur Veterans Hospital He is survived by a brother Louis 1721 North Union Chaplain James Handley of the Salvation Army will officiate Pallbearers will be members of the local American Legion Post Burial will be at the IOOF Cemetery Officials Believe Projects Get Okay WASHINGTON UP) Oklahoma congressmen said recently reels mation bureau officials regard the appropriation for the Fort Cobb and Foss Reservoirs on the Washita River as a "full steam ahead sig nal" The budget-approved 3H million dollars recommended by the House Appropriations Committee will per mit construction of the Cobb Creek project to start after July 1 this year The Foss project can be started after January 1958 The details were released in a statement by Senators Robert Kerr and Mike Monroney Oklahoma Democrats and Rep Toby Morris (D-Okla) Personal Income Shos Jump in United States WASHINGTON WH-Average personal income in the United States- projected over a yearly rate reached a level during May of almost $2000 a year for each of the na- tion's 171 million inhabitants The Commerce Department reported recently the total adjusted annual rate for may was 340V bil lion dollars a record The department's monthly survey showed personal income on a seasonally adjusted basis jumped a billion dollars over April and 17 Vi billions over May 1956 Strike at the Source LANDER Wyo hubcap stealing gang has struck in Lander again Latest victim: The Lander police car INTRODUCE Sir YOURSELF to a pleosont sensible solution to money problems Let a loon from United Finance ond Thrift go to work for you to pay off old bills AND provide extra cash for a wonderful vacation THE MOST SAVAOi WAR OIL EARTH1! $tt! mancE nxt ITTACX' nc ma 5 DAYS Starting FRIDAY Regular Admission Open 7:15 Scroan 1:15 3nn- ik sktv Tic rMMBFBBaJaval -1 Stands You Get I Your "24" Mo Payment 31271 1600 74438 3800 146875 7500 215417 11000 Borrow $60 to $2500 For refreshingly friendly private and swift service telephone or come in today now as a motion picture! Loons Made on Just Your Own Signature UNITED FINANCE THRIFT CORP 106 South Fourth ROgers 2-2452 Three Doors Off Grand Opposite West Side of Pott Office Tomorrow Night The story of making of a Wtnr-and tha 9:15 On I j'ak See your K' 1 MISS UNIVERSE PAGEANT See these Ponca City entries: Nancy Pierce larbara Mack Ann Wnitsheaa' Vicki Lynn Howe Jay Wtingart Janice Tamekins Patsy Codings Janlnne McCreleu Shu Icy Rae Barnard Isrelatte Batt Beverly Kircnmayer Premettd by Pance City Jaycoet saanMraJ nationally by Cat Una Company and City at Long Beach Calif Winner fees re state finals In Oklahoma City Jane 21 than California two women wnoseiove made him a man! OTANHTY KHAMCn KOTASA Olivia de Havilland Robert MUchum Frank Sinatra Gbria Grahame Broderiek Crawford Charles Biekford VtltlM nf Sam Com mi Hnrl nm ttut rW MORTON THOMPSON Stove McNALLY "CITY ACROSS THE RIVER" 9U Plymouth is having a really big year and your Plymouth dealer now offers you your biggest chance to save money on a 3-years-ahead Plymouth! If you want to be years ahead with Flight-Sweep Styling if you want to be money ahead in the bargain See your Plymouth Oealer-Quicki THCYWMT AHJUlB Iy' Opan 7:30 Scroon 1:15 TONIGHT and THURSDAY "BUCIC NGHT" 3ut $100 A CARLOAD BIG DOUBLE SHOCItER! pnurnv nnnAllltir DEBBIE REYNOLDS ff BARRY FITZGERALD Joyce HOLOEH "GIRLS IN THE NIGHT".

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