The Indian Journal from Eufaula, Oklahoma • Page 1

Okla. Historical Bocl VOLUME 80. EUFAtJLA, MCINTOSH COlINtY, OKLAHOMA THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1957 NUMBER 35. THE LOOKOUT By DORIS HEDGES We never could determine for certain just how that huge Boxer dog came by the plump, freshly dressed -chicken he was eating down by food store last Friday. Butcher Scrubby Truitt said It was on the house, "we just act big hearted that way." And we can see his reasoning in wanting to stay on the good side of an animal that big.

Roy Hunter reports there's evidence the old buried treasure legend is rounds again out in the vicinity of the Chafles cemetery south of Hammett's corner. Last week on a hunting trip he came across several spots where Jresh digging had been done. One of the places had partially uncov- lered an old -castiron pot underground, which was about the nearest thing to buried treasure thus far excavated. Before he could give his telephone number for a printing order last week, John Morrison had Ito call to be sure what it was. He hardly ever calls himself, he ob- is the reason a good many of us have to think twice to remember our own phone numbers.

Eufaula was a kids town Sunday. Streets were deserted by adults on foot, as was best they were. Hundreds of youngsters, on the other hand, were having the gayest holiday of the year sliding on every slope they could find or just skidding by foot on level sidewalks. From some storage places, a few brought out sleds. SunfMay Shine After Two Weeks Absetice In Area There was a possibility resi- I dents of Mcintosh county would kee the long absent again this end, weather forecasters ih- dicated following a two weeks' period of freezing mist, rain, I snow and sleet.

Although the wet winter weather was a welcome relief for drought ridden Oklahoma cropland, it brought hazardous driving and walking conditions to streets and highways. In Eufaula Mi's. Martha Daniels recorded some precipitation on six of the seven days for total of 1 incn. Beginning last Friday, she measured as follows: Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday .33 and to- f.ay (Thursday) .26. With the inch of pretipitation the past seven days on top of 1.01 inches the preceding week, January was ending comparatively moist after an extended winter drought.

Cropland, prepared for planting was greatly efitted by the slow penetrating A good many minor mishaps were attributed to the ice last week end, but no major accidents occurred here. Thursday began mild and a slow warmup was promised this week. Coldest mark recorded the past seven days by Mrs. Daniels Vv -as .19, Jan. 26.

Dam Directors Meet In Eufaula Eufaula dam association directors ate charcoal steak of Eufau- la's Bull Pen Tuesday evening, to be pulled by motor bikes along devoted the major portion of the streets or for gliding on hills discussion to raising more under their own power. Tumbles money in 1957 than heretofore, were all oart of it. Falls on ice About twelve invited guests are nothing to children. It is near- with the directors and heard ly impossible to break their young Grumpier, Checotah presi- bones in relaxed play. Gramatically correct: Then there was the wife of an English professor who entered his office to find his secretary sitting dent cf the association, make a heated plea for more money "in order to send more delegates to St.

Louis for the Mississippi development meeting early in February, and to Washington to ap- monished the prof. "We are surprised. You are astonished." Giant sequoias, earth's largest living things, sprout from seeds so small that one ounce, in theory, could produce 6,700 trees, the National Geographic Society says. Full grown, the largest trees probably weigh 2,000 tons, the displacement of a small steamship. J.

H. Smith Dies In Checotah Monday John Richard Smith, 71, died at his home in Checotah Monday following a long illness. Smith, a retired farmer, was born April 6, 1885 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and had lived in Checotah 55 years. Funeral services were held They plan to send delegates to other dam meetings that might affect this area. They estimated I the need for 1957 at $800 to $1000.

I While other delegates will go to St. Louis, they voted definitely to send Dick Crumpler and Dean Four area engineers were Introduced, and Col. Bill Bolding, spokesman for the group, said the work at the dam was moving ahead according to schedule. He the building on the north side of the lake would be completed in a few weeks? the access road to Porum and building on the south side by December. The clearing of about 150 acres at the acutal dam site should be done by May.

Directors also adopted a resolutions to send send senators and representatives of the proposed lake area counties, letters to urge COME ON, KIDS! Bundled up In for coat and cap, Leroy Is. all set for snow fight at Philadelphia's zoo. I Cates Appointed To Election Post J. E. "Dutch" Cates, Eufaula business man, this week was advised of his appointment as secretary of the Mcintosh county election board.

Appointment of Cates to the post was made by the state ploc- tinn b'-'nrd on request, of the state Cates will succeed Martin Odom, Hitchita school superintendent, who resigned, effective today, Jan. 31. Another chanKe in board membership came with resignation of Franzil Coughran of Checotah. He was replaced by Otis Walker of that city. Jim Rowls cf Hanna is the third member of the board.

Appiaisers Open Office In Enfaula Appraisers land of the fcu- Ifaula irseejvoir area have opened offices in 4he Gordon Saltsman house on South Main in Eufaula. Work of appraising the 10,500 acres in Haskell, Mcintosh and Muskogee counties is already underway with approximately four months allowed for completion. It was announced the comract for Khe appraisals was awarded, to Parker E. Costilow and associates of Lawton, by the U. S.

Corps of engineers last week. Appraisers liad already established head- quartei's here prior to the an- liouncement. Brooken, isolated small village fn western Haskell county, will be the only entife community involved in the present contract which will lead to acquisition of reservoir area. Some 250 individual tracts of land and property are involved in the current appraisal schedule. The Costilow firm had done extensive land and property ap- praisal for the government in the of Oklahoma.

After the war Parker Costilow was chief ap- nraiser of reil property of the war assets admnistration office in Tulsa. His work covered all government installations in Oklahoma including army camps. air fields and defense plants. A large portion of land to be included in the reservoir is in Pittsburg county. This was not included in the contract to the Costilow firm according to the engineers news release of last Wednesday at 2:30 p.m.

at the Governor Raymond Garv not to First Baptist church with Alexander Best officiating. Burial was in Greeniawn cemetery near Checotah. He is survived by his wife, Ocie, of the home; oi)e daughter, Mrs. Everett Depuy, of Florida; four sistei-s, Mrs. Maude McClain, Checotah, Mrs.

Dewey Boatman, Oklahoma City, Mrs. Maggie Ford, Boynton, and Mrs. Roy Watson, Weleetka; three brothers, Lloyd, of Checotah, Tom of Detroit, Michigan and Jim of Live Oak, California, and two grandchildren. BARBERS OF COUNTY GO TO $1.00 ON HAIRCUTS Mcintosh county barbers voted to raise the price of hair cuts to $1.00 beginning February Ist, 1957. The barbers held their meeting Monday night.

All barbers were present and voted in favor of the raise. jf, BILLY ECKELCAMP UNDERGOES SURGERY Billy Eckelcamp, son of Mr. Mrs. Otto Eckelcamp, underwent major surgery last week in the McAlester general hospital, lor intestinal disorder. His condition has been serious, but Is reported improved at this time.

EUFAULANS VIEW CANS DESTRUCTION FROM AIR Eufaulans who flew over dans last Thursday and viewed the struction, from the air, wrought by the tornado early last week, were Kenneth' Stokes, Maurice Pitkins, Hugh Baker, and Joe Butenschoen. HOTIGB Will party who has Ralph Edwards Bag and Radio Plbase call 36. Indian Journal. i appoint any on the state I water study committee who was opposed to large lakes. The Saar, a 991-square-mile region between France and Germany, is one of the most densely populated parts of Europe.

Heavily industrialized, it imports about 90 per cent of its food. Lum Davis Rites Are Held Monday Services for Lum Davis, 68, who died Saturday ip Checotah, were held Monday in the Assembly of God church. The Rev. L. E.

Mooi-e nnd Rev. J. H. Hammer officiated. Burial was in the Fish- ertcwn cemetery under direction of Kelley funeral home.

a Mcintosh county farmer, is survived by five sons: Carl, Harmon, Roy and Olen of Eufaula and of Shawnee; one daughter, Mrs. Christine Wil- linni.v, Eufaula and two brothers, of Muskogee and Bob Huff if Kansas. Benrcrs were C. F. Douglas, Tom Barton, Clarence Reynolds, Deo Lee, Charles and Clvde Parker.

GoHoii Payments Made By Wednesday of this week, Mcintosh county cotton growers had received $62,831 of a $107,000 allocation under the soil bank program, Henry Waybourn, ASC office manager reported. Payments were made to 260 farmers on agreement to take a percentage of their cotton allotments out of production this year. J'armers were paid fdr 10 acres or 30 per cent of allotment, whichever was larger. Application for pa.yment under the soil bank program may be made up until March 1, but said his office expects to run out of money by Wednesday of next week. Poteau Girl Killed In Icy SH9 Mishap Miss Sue Ann- Whitaker, 20, daughter of Mrs.

Eppie Burton of Poteau, was killed early Sunday eight miles east of Eufaula on SH9 when she was struck by a truck when she leaped from her mother's stalled car. Engineer's View Of Suez Cannl Given WnshJnglon Passage throu.t^h the almost straight. 1 OO-mile-long Suez looks 'Hsy to InndUib- bers, movluR traffic along lliis watiTwa between the and Red sens j-- a diffifuH job. How diffteuU. it can was hinted by the delicate maneuvers used to free marooned between Port Said and the southern nlrancc.

the trapped faced unusual problems in turning around and avoiding obstructions caused by the late hostilities. But even in normal times, skippers turn gray. "Suez waters play tricks all their own," writes Maj. Gen. Glen E.

Edgerton in "An Engineer's View of the Suez Canal." published in the January National Geographic magazine. The retired army officer Is the only American on the Suez Canal company's In- 'ternational board of engineering advisers. Ships Seem Insane Residents To On Dyke or Beiocation Cl RTIS POLLARD MAKES DEAN'S HONOR Curtis Pollard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt Pollard of the Vivian comimunity.

was honored last week by being selected to a place on the dean's honor roll at Connors agriculture school at War- r.er.. The burning quality of the mustard plaster comes from sulphur in the mustard oil. Sue Ann, a at the University of Oklahoma, was one of five occupants of the car which dalled on an icy hill alongside c'incthor stalled vehicle Mrs. Burton had attempted to pass. As a largo semi-trailer truck approached the occupants leaped from the car fearing it would be hit.

AIL left on the left side of the car except Miss Whitaker who stepped onto the icy road on the right ill front of the oncoming vehicle. Services were held Tuesday in F'irst Baptist church at Poteau aid burial was in the McAlester In addition to her mother survivors include her maternal grand Mr Mrs. Newt Sanders of Shawnee. Mrs. Burton, director of the of public welfare in LeFlore county, is well known in Eufaula.

VIRGINIA THOMAS RESIGNS COURT HOUSE POSITION Mrs. Virginia Tliomas has re- her position as assistant county superintendent of schools. resignation is in the form of a leave of absence. Mrs. Betty Jones of Checotah, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Silva Cantwell, has accepted appointment as the assistant to county superintendent, Paul Toon. "From the standpoint of the master accustomed to straight steaming in deep water, the most unnerving thing about a Suez transit is the sudden seeming Insanity of his ship," observes the author. "The reason is the peculiar action of the water confined between narrow banks There are not only the ordinary currents built up by the ship herself. "To explain: As she moves, she pushes water away This Creoles a depression and the ship 'squats' while the waves of the displaced water hit the banks and bounce back The effects are often surprising." An unchecked swerve from the current may mean trouble.

If the is lucky, she will "smell the bottom." barely touch where the channel begins to slope upward to the bank, but she may hit the hank and stick. And delay in transits is reported as an incident. In March, 1956 when 1,397 ships went there were 114 incidents, says the general. Causes included bumping of banks, engine breakdowns, and fog. When thick fog comes down, the canal's pilot, on whoso judgment helmsmen depend, may have to check the compass to find but how the bow points.

Sometimes traffic stoppage in the narrow channel is camplete. In December, 1954, when the tanker World Peace struck the arm of a railway bridge, 150 vessels stood idle, some for 3 nays. Still Big Canal To the-author the most interesting thing about Suez "is that it is still being dug." Without constant dredging it would become a dry ditch. Waves and currents eat away banks. Among seasonal winds filling it with sand from desert are muknessa.

the awa, the cat's and the violent khamsin, "wind of 50 days." The khamsin may last only a few hours at a time, but it has been known to take paint off cars. Storms of a record week In 1911 dumped into the canal 105 million cubic feet of pile bigger than the Great Routine maintenance and improvements to keep pace with ever larger ships call for armies of laborers and engineers. In the last 80 years, the general estimates, more than a billion and a half cubic feet of sand and rock have been taken from the canal, six times the original excavation. SAFE AT LAST VH- ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge chats with 3-year-old Hungarian refugee who carries new shoes for his dad at Ft. Kilmer, N.

J. le. In County lail Larkin Howell, 18, convict who wa'- on probation, is being held in the Mcintosh county while oificers investigate his gun-wield- in.g near Fufauhi hist Saturday. Howell was picked up by local officers after ho tried to force his way into the home of -md -Mrs. Homer Hedges at ))oint of a 410 gauge shotyim.

A first attempt io Mr. and Mrs. Hedges in gun range on a i.retext of rabbit lumting. failed and Howell left tiie front door of the residence. A few minutes later, when Mrs.

Hedges tepped to the front door the convict tried to force his way into the house, lowering the gun barrel from inside the door i1 HedRes. Mrs. Hedges slammed door on the gun and Howell his footing on the ice and fled. Sheriff Clarence Douglas, aided by city police chief Homer Cowan and night officer Carl Brady, had the boy in their custody within 30 minutes and in another ten minutes had recovered the gun which had been discarded a few blocks Eiom the Hedges' home. Sheriff Douglas took three shells from the loaded gun.

Frank Miller Is Buried Near Sallisaw Frank "Sallisaw" Miller, lifelong resident of Eastern Oklahoma, died in the Oklahoma State liospilal in Talihina Monday after an extended illness. A native of Akins in Sequoyah county, Mr. had been a resident of Eufaula many years. He worked for time as head of the street department here until he became il! was 66. years old.

The residents of the- east- side of Eufaula, whose homes will be inundated by the waters of Lake Eufaula' when the dam is completed and the lake full, will be called to a mass meeting in February by Mayor Guy Swadley, that they might decide whether they want a dike to protect their properties from the lake waters, or sell their homes to the government. Apparently the affected property owners have a choice, according to the contents of a letter the mayor received from the Pate Engineering company, hired by the mayor ond council to handle the engineering part of the lake construction for Eufaula, as the Work on the lake progresses. The ihayor will possibly set a date Monday night, 4, the next regular meeting of the council. Tile meeting will possibly be Iwai the district court room, and only property owned involved will be allowed to vote. Mayor and council members will b.ludy army maps to determ- me definitely the houses and acant lots that would be left tree or covered with water.

Property owners will have ample notice of the time and place of the ma.ss meeting. The government will relocate any homes in the area. The engineers also indicated there will be sufficient money the next fiscal year to enter into negotiations for the payment of damages to Eufaula's water and sower plants. Mr. Miller is survived by his wife Mrs.

Joan Miller; four sons, Watie of California; Troy of Fred Stratton of Foyil and Frank of Eufaula; five daughters, Mrs. Ruby Mackley, and Mrs. Melba Mayes of Wichita, Mrs. Geneva McHenry, Sallisaw; Mrs. Louella Casey of Lawton and Mrs.

Lucille Renfrew of Eufaula. Services and burial were under direction of Kelley funeral home. Washington School Girl Wins Award Bettye J. Finney has been named the Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow in Eufaula. She received the highest score in a written examination on homemaking knowledge and attitudes taken by graduating girls in Washnigton high school.

Her examination paper now will be entered in competition with those of 268 other school winners to name this state's candidate for the title of All-American Homemaker of Tomorrow and will also bo considered fot the runnerup award in the state. For her achievement, she will receive an award pin. Each state winner will receive a $1 ,500 scholarship and an educational trip with her school advisor to Washington, D. colonial Williamsburg, and New York City. A $500 scholarship will be awarded the runnerup gals in each state.

TSfe school of the state winner receives a set of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Donkey Ball Game Set For Stidham -7 Mothers To Make March For Dimes ali wMto tm wont invcbl IM fmn. But an open Suez canal is essential to world shippng. Presi- Eisenhower has called the desert waterway vitel to United States to the econo- Imies of almos.t all of the countries of the world." Europe counts on Suez for oil s.upply. And American imports via the than a million metric tons in more than 11 milUon in 1955.

The mothers of Eufaula will make their house to house march Friday night, February 1, 6:30 to 8:00 p.m., for the benefit of the March of Dimes. All residents of Eufaula are urged to turn on their porch lights on this night and give what they can, regardless of how small it may be. The mothers' house to house march will be under the direction of Vi Young. Al Christy, drive chairman said "we have shifted from the defense to the attack in the fight against polio. The vaccine developed by the march of dimes Is now being given to our children, but the battle is not over.

Millions still remain to be vaccinated and there are over 70,000 polio victims still dependent on the IVTarch of Dimes for treatment and recovery. "Let's help finish the job. If the mothers can give their time, why not turn on your porch light Friday night and give what you can to the March of Dimes. Stidham chapter of the future fanmers of America are sponsors of a donkey ball game to be played next Tuesday ing, Feb. 5 at St.dham high school." The game will start at 6:30 p.m.

The starting lineup will feature such experienced players as Lonnie McPeak, Thomas Mcintosh, J. D. WilUams, Johnny Whitson, Vernon Emerson, Sandy Mcintosh and Pod Jones. Mayor Guy Swadley of Eufaula, County agent Christy and Clyde Parker of Eufaula have been invited to brace the Stidham men as they meet the F. F.

A. boys. Reuben Turner of Fame is also invited to join the Stidham players. Also on the agenda for the evenings entertainment will be basketball games featuring the grade I boys and girls of Stidham and Fame schools. Proceeds from the game will go toward financing F.F.A.

activities for the coming year, Vernon Emerson announced. Pierce and Onapa Win Tournament Pierce boys and Onapa girls won first place in the county high school basketball tournament in the finals played last Saturday night on Armory floor, Pierce boys defeated Rentiesville 51 to 45 to gain first place. Onapa girls defeated Stidham girls 50 to 37 to win the girl's trophy. Despite inclement weather all games were well attended thru the entire week of play. The tournament was sponsored by the Eufaula Wgh school.

clals were Jim Bittlej Knight and Eddy of tah and James Sanders of Eufaula. Trophies were presented to winners and runner-up teams..