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A A the 5c 10c SOCIETY OKLAHOMA CITY 5, OKI.A Help Fight TB 1955 CHRISTMAS GREETINGS 1955 Buy Christmas Seals From The Press Box Pity the Norman motorist whoin out of gas Saturday evening, ad to plead with a service staon owner to open the station and ve him some fuel, and then und that his battery had gone ad and he couldn't get the car arted anyway. The Press Box feels for him; e's a member of the Transcript ews staff. Traffic was "normal for after football game" Saturday evening, brman Police said, and they addthat no accidents of any kind id been reported. Officers agreed that things rere "a little clogged up" for while, but said the worst damge they had heard about was stuck horn. About 7:30 it sounded like sevBal horns were stuck along Main The OU student card section, pugh still a bit wobbly, showed finite improvement during the Iftime ceremonies Saturday at OU-Iowa State game.

One or two non-conformists mard the otherwise perfect spelling of "Iowa" and "Bud" in the splay, as well as in the formaIn of a gold Big Seven crown on blue background. All was forgiven, however, then the cards formed a bet lyre in salute to OU Band lay in what looked like the most omplicated of all displays. Big Red Fullback Billy Pricer the innocent cause of what is rhaps the world's biggest underitement. With 8:55 left in the third quaragainst Iowa State Saturday, licer threw a key block which ved the way for Carl Dodd to alk: up a touchdown from 14 rds out. Pricer 1 took out the last Iowa tate defender with such force the one-yard line, that the reath was knocked from the Cylone player with a "WHOOSH." Sitting in the south end zone, big Highway Patrol Trooper rned to his buddy, grinned, and lid "That helped a little, didn't A A 'It's a small world after all," ennis Leadbetter wrote his parts, Mr.

and Mrs. Oakley Leadtter. Upon arriving in San Antonio, Leadbetter was assigned last room in the only tourist burt near Lackland Air Force ase. He had to share the room lith a boy from Boston, ho by coincidence turned out to a former roommate of one of eadbetter's close friends. The mutual friend is Bill Harper, OU graduate and Fulbright holar soon to return from Rome.

will fly to Oklahoma City to ke the lead in "The Student ince" by Sigmond Romberg, heduled for Dec. 6 on a Twilight Iditorium. The boy from Boston was a ommate of Harper's while in me last year on a service mis- A A They're training children to be bd citizens in Norman's schools, the kids are learning the les- Proof? A case in point is a heme turned in by a third grade upil at Jefferson School last leek. Carrie Priscilla Tanner, 8, laughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Tanner, Rt. 3, wrote about pod citizenship in school: 'Once about three or four desks re talking together. One desk 'This pupil is a bad houseeper. She keeps me all dirty One desk said, 'This pupil ts crayola marks on One sk said, "This pupil keeps his at on me and d0000000000 They good One desk child. said, Her 'This name pupil is sette.

She is a good housekeeper. does not mark on me. She les not put her feet on me. She a good Under this, as a caption for our pictures of the desks describCarrie, like Nathanial borne, pointed the moral. She rote: 'Moral: Be a good citizen." The Band Day parade was in swing when one of the drum ajors halted his band momentar(Continued on Page Two) Today in Norman THE NORMAN as Second-Class Matter at VOLUME 67, NUMBER 105.

3 SECTIONS-34 PAGES NORMAN, IT'S BAND anyone in the downtown area Saturday morning who didn't know it was either deaf, blind, or out to lunch. More than 125 high school bands paraded, giving Norman residents a colorful and tuneful spectacle. Crowds lined the streets from the campus, where the parade started, all the way to Main Street and Porter Avenue, where tired but peppy marchers disbanded. (Transcript Photo) Anti-Peronists Split Argentine Regime Reported Tottering BUENOS AIRES, Sunday, Nov. of Provisional President Eduardo of failure early today.

A split among the men who than two months ago led to 2 ference among military leaders. President Lonardi was reported at the 1st Infantry Regiment headquarters but his status was unclear. Rear Adm. Isaac Rojas, a hero of the rebellion against the ousted President Juan D. Peron, scurried between civil and military conferences as tension increased overnight.

Lonardi May Last Some veteran political said Lonardi had a chance of surviving the crisis and warned not to count him out too early. A consultative junta was reported to have drafted an ultimatum giving Lonardi the choice of "democratizing" the government with basic changes in key positions or resigning. Lonardi was widely acclaimed in Argentina after leading rebel forces to victory over the Peron regime in the five-day conflict began last Sept. 16. Lonardi has a wide following in both civil and military life but some observers said leaders feel he has not ruled strongly enough in the wake of Peron's hard-fisted dictatorship.

Health Is Poor Also, Lonardi has been in poor health. He recently spent two days in a hospital for treatment of an undisclosed ailment. Unconfirmed reports say he has ulcers. Lonardi's second Cabinet shuffle in two days dropping attorney Eduardo Busso as minister of interior and justice-was reported to have sparked a string of resignations in the Cabinet, the Supreme Court and many lower courts Saturday. Maj.

Gen. Pedro Aramburu, the army's chief of staff, appeared as a rising figure in talks about a new government. A square-jawed career officer of 52, Aramburu (Continued on Page Two) One Zoning Plea Before Planners One zoning petition and election of officers are the only items on the agenda for the monthly meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday of the Norman Planning Commission, according to W. S.

Morgan, chairman. The zoning request is from Frank, Ryan, and asks that the property at 1132 W. Comanche St. be rezoned from R-1 (single residential) to R-3 (multiple residential). Bank Business Continues Rise Norman Still 3rd In Rate of Gain For the 10th straight month, Norman ranks third in the Kansas City Federal Reserve District in percentage of increase over 1954's check clearances.

From Jan. 1 through Oct. 31, the city's three banks had a combined total of $122,496,000 in clearances, or 21 per cent more than for the same period last vear. For October alone, the local banks cleared $13,473,000, which represented a 15 per cent increase over October of 1954. Colorado Cities Lead Grand Junction, ranked first in the district with 000, which represented a 44 per cent increase over the first 10 months of 1954.

Second place in the percentage increases went to Colorado Springs with a 24 per cent jump. The 10- month total there amounted to $783,166,000. Bartlesville holds fourth place in the district with an 18 per cent increase and a 10-month total of $2,276,566,000. Bank clearings for 1955's first 10 months in Oklahoma's two major cities, Oklahoma City and Tulsa amounted to $5,238,432,000 and 390,495,000 respectively. Oklahoma City's percentage increase amounted to 14 per cent and Tulsa's to 9 per cent.

Lawton Fails To Gain Lawton was the only city in Oklahoma which showed no increase in clearances for the first 10 months. Check clearings there amounted to only $198,507,000 through Oct. 31. Other state cities listed on the district's report were Enid with $453,753,000 and an increase of 15 per cent over the first 10 months of 1954. Guthrie with $53,270,000 and a 9 per cent increase; Muskogee, 567.000 and a 6 per cent increase; Okmulgee with $87,631,000 and a 7 per cent increase and Ponca City with $262,371,00 and a 14 per cent increase.

Heart Attack Hits Robert Sherwood NEW YORK, Nov. 12 UP Robert E. Sherwood, 59, author and playwright who won Pulitzer prizes four times, suffered a heart attack early today and was taken to New York Hospital. There was no immediate indication of whether his condition was serious. However, the hospital issued an afternoon statement saying Sherwood's condition was "satisfactory, somewhat improved over this Promised Cold Stalls Around Before Arrival appeared to be on the out the Peron dictatorship crisis and emergency By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Colder weather which has been knocking on Oklahoma's door the past week still delayed its appearance Saturday but, like the uninvited guest, was still expected to show up.

Forecasters now say there are indications the Arctic front may start drifting over the state Sunday, bringing possible sleet turning to snow Monday and Monday night. Saturday maximums ranged from 64 at Ponca City to 85 at Ardmore. By Sunday morning, following another mild night, skies are due to become cloudy as the cold snap moves in. Parking Law To Be Studied A committee to study a recent ordinance forbidding parking on the "parkings" will meet this week to formulate plans for possible revision. No definite time has been set for the meeting.

City Commissioner Paul V. Keen is chairman. Members are Dale Hawkins, Norman merchant; Albert Dodd, assistant chief of police; Earl Willard, Norman funeral director; and Mrs. L. A Poston, member of the Norman Safety Council.

An amendment to the controversial parking ordinance, which forbids parking on the area between the curb line and the property line was recommended by the City Commission in October. Action came following several complaints from Norman citizens. One Lost in Jet Mishap ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 12 (P)-Two jet planes collided in the air yesterday about 50 miles southwest of here, and three of the four airmen parachuted ly. The Air Force said the fate of the fourth was not known.

high, Ike Tests Putter, Relaxes in Sun The United Youth Fund Campaign will open here Nov. 28 and will be carried on in sections over a period of about three weeks, A. D. Black, general chairman, announced Saturday. Six, organizations will be financed with funds raised in the campaign.

They are the Boy Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, Girl Scouts, Junior Police, University YMCA and University YWCA. The organizations get only part of their funds from the Norman campaign. University students and friends of the organization throughout the state provide the major part of their funds. Leaders Meet Monday Black and John H. Patten, cochairman, will meet Monday night with a budget committee and representatives of the participating groups to consider proposed budgets for 1956 and fix the goal of the campaign.

The first phase of the campaign starting Nov. 28 will be solicitation of large gifts from business firms and professional people. Arrangements will be made at that time with business firms to handle the solicitation of gifts among their employes. General Drive Dec. 5 The general campaign among smaller firms, University, Central State Hospital and Navy personnel and others will open Dec.

5. Then will follow a residential campaign, designed to reach families not previnusly seen in the other solicitations. Housewives will not be asked to contribute if their husbands have already given at their places of business, Black said. The schedule calls for completion of the campaign by Dec. 17, a week before Christmas, Black said.

Mrs. West Dies At Home Here 1889-1955 TRANSCRIPT Norman's Newspaper for Community More Postottice at -Norman, Oklahoma Than 66 Years OKLAHOMA, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1955. AP and NEA SERVICE DAILY SUNDAY PRICE Big Red Knocks Wind Out of Cyclones 52-0 UYF Campaign Slated To Open Here Nov. 28 Mrs. Virginia Waters West, wife of S.

E. West, prominent Norman realtor, died 8:30 p.m. Saturday in her home at 515 W. Symmes St. She was 71.

Services for Mrs. West, who was born July 25, 1884, in Reform, will be held Monday. Her husband is the co-owner of West Norie Real Estate 110 S. University Blvd. The Wests were married Dec.

28. 1910, in Fulton, Mo. They moved to Tulia, the same year, and lived there until 1918. The Wests moved to Enid, and from there to Holdenville, where they lived until 1937. They moved to Norman from Holdenville and have resided here the past 18 years.

Active in religious activities, Mrs. West belonged to the First Baptist Church, and was a member of the Bible Study Group of the Sorosis Society: She also was a member of University Dames. Funeral services have been set for Monday afternoon at 3 p.m. in the First Baptist Church, the Rev. E.

F. Hallock officiating. Interment will he in the 100F cemetery under the direction of the Primrose Funeral Home. The body will lie in state at the Primrose home from Sunday at 12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m.

Monday. Survivors, in addition to West, include two sons in the Air Force, John S. West, stationed in Anchorage, Alaska, and Leland W. West, serving at Chateaurox, France; six grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Don McVey, Fulton, and a neice, Mrs.

Robert Sitton of Waverly, Iowa, Hay high, 73; Saturday at 9 By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH tumn sun. He had basked in the Long-range photographs taken Eisenhower, who checked out of 65. WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (P)- sun almost daily for the last three during the afternoon showed the a Denver hospital yesterday after President Eisenhower got in a lit- weeks or so on the eighth floor seven weeks of convalescence President with a club cocked over Regional weather forecast: Part- tle putting on a White House terrace of Fitzsimons Army Hospi- from a heart attack, plans to cloudy and slightly cooler today, green today for the first time since tal in Denver.

his right shoulder. But presiden- spend about six weeks building up coming colder tonight. High near his Sept. 24 heart attack. And he But so far as is known today tial associates said the President his strength at his farm.

made plans to open an office next was the first time he had a golf apparently was just getting the But the White House made it A week in downtown Gettysburg, club in his hands since Sept. 23, "feel" of the club--that he actu- clear that at Gettysburg the docfonday: American Red Cross near his farm. the day before his attack. He ally hit no long or middle-range tors plan to permit a steady but ard of Directors' Meeting, noon, He went out onto the green on played 27 holes in Denver that shots. gradual increase in his governckett Hotel.

the south lawn of the mansion day, Press secretary James C. Hager- mental activity. shortly after aides reported him Eisenhower was out on the White ty announced today that the Pres- Eisenhower's Gettysburg office Tonday: Great Books Discussion "feeling fine" on this first full day House green with his son, Army ident and Mrs. Eisenhower will will be on the first floor of the pup, 7:45 p.m., Library of the back at the White House. Maj.

John S. Eisenhower, who drive on Monday to their country post office, in the postmaster's st Presbyterian Church. The aides said he putted only also got in a bit of golf practice. home on the edge of Gettysburg, quarters, and he probably will a couple of times, then sat in a After trying a couple of strokes, where there will be a quiet ob- meet his first official visitors londay: Jaycees, Lockett Hotel, chair in the yard for more than the President sat and watched servance of the First Lady's 59th there Tuesday morning, an hour soaking up the warm John. birthday.

(Related News on Page Four) Long McDonald Run Highlights Scoring Parade brink less con- VISITING NOTABLES- -Among the guests present in Gov. Raymond Gary's box during the Cyclone-Big Red tilt Saturday at Owen Field were Gov. J. Caleb Boggs of Delaware ton Gary's right) and Will Rogers son of the late Oklahoma humorist. One spectator said, when Boggs was introduced, "I wonder if he's scouting for Maryland?" Winter Holds Back Sun-Bathed Fans See OU Chill lowa State By BEA BRAGG ice skates somewhere north of Owen Field estimated crowd of 45,000 to bask in the sun over the Iowa State Cyclones.

Burris had hardly drawn first blood in the fans started removing jackets and wishing their suntan lotion. was the complete refrigeration of the Cyclones by the chilling OU attack. Six hundred or more cheerleaders combined in a valiant but fruitless effort to raise a mass cheer from the crowd before the game started. While the fans failed to respond to "Yea, Red," they did let go with a cheer for the 15 rows of cheerleaders, clad in red, blue, white, gold and green, as they ran off the field hand in hand, like so many ballet dancers in a hurry, Uniforms Add Color The cheerleaders were at OU for a one-day class and lecture session with the National Cheerleaders Association's expert, L. R.

Herkimer executive secretary from Dallas. Also splashing the stadium with color were more than 8,000 uniformed high school students from over the state who made up the 128 bands taking part in OU's Band Day. Norman High School supporters in the crowd responded with a man-size yell to the announcement from the public address system that the Norman band had won second in the Band Day tournament. Saturday morning the bands marched the length of Brooks Street from the old golf course, north on Asp Avenue and east on Main Street in an all-out parade. The parade was interrupted frequently by trains at the Main Street crossing.

Traffic was thrown in complete frustration for more than two and a half hours in the business district. Bands Bathe in Praise None the worse for wear, however, band members bathed in praise when trophies were awarded. Band winners in the Class A competition were Henryetta, first; Norman, second. In Class B. Midwest City took first and Perry, second; in Class 3, it was Healdton first and Walters, second; and in class Stroud won and Fairview finished second.

Trophies, donated by the Norman Chamber of Commerce, were presented winners by of president Robert L. Bailey, A Norman girl, Jane Mead, was winner of $150 and an engraved watch presented by Mrs. L. B. Perkins, president of the OU Mother's Association.

She was named with Dale Kennedy, Chickasha, as outstanding freshmen members of (Continued on Page Two) By JERRY MAGEE It was steady as she goes for Oklahoma here Saturday as the Sooners rode out a Cyclone from Iowa State which was more like a gentle zephyr, 52-0, in cruising easily toward Miami and their Orange Bowl date with Maryland. Steady was the word for this 27th straight Big Red triumph. The Sooners counted twice in each period to treat a Band Day assemblage of some 45,000 to a relaxing afternoon in ideal Indian Summer weather. Oklahoma had to provide all the interest, and it never let the proceedings become too dull. It spaced its eight touchdowns nicely, never allowing more than 10:59 to elapse between scores.

Cyclones Try, But Iowa State scrapped of its players were ejected for becoming overly enthusiastic- but the team from the Tall Corn State was woefully overmatched. Even at full strength, the Iowans might have been in for a long afternoon at the hands of the team now even more strongly entrenched as the nation's finest. But seven members of the Cyetones' first two teams were fettered to the sidelines with injuries. Entirely New Backfield So depleted were the ISC ranks that Coach Vince Di Francesca had to start a backfield made up completely of players who had not opened a game before this season. Three of the starters were normally fourth-stringers.

But that is to take nothing away from Oklahoma. From the time Robert Burris bolted 33 yards to open the floodgates to the time Bill Sturm toed the 52nd point, the Big Red was firmly in control. Coach Bud Wilkinson swept his bench, shooing every member of the 51-man OU squad into the fray, but it didn't seem to matter who was playing. The varsity counted three times, the alternate eleven four times and the third unit once as the squad divided up the touchdowns. Dodd Gets Two Norman sophomore Carl Dodd led the onslaught, scoring twice on hikes of five and four yards and launching a 21-yard touchdown pass to end Delbert Long.

His alternate team cohort. Ciendon Thomas, got in the act with a three- punch. So did third teamer Robert Derrick on a twoyarder. But, as usual, it was Tommy McDonald who supplied the crowd pleasers. The fiery junior raced 91 yards on a punt return for the second Oklahoma score, then barrelled over from 14 yards away for touchdown No.

5. McDonald's sprint goes down as the second-longest punt return in modern OU football history. Only Darrell Royal's 95-yard romp against Kansas State in 1948 bests it. McDonald all but ran the Cy(Continued on Page Eight) Winter slipped on its Saturday, permitting an as well as an OU victory Right halfback Bob 52-0 game before football they had brought along The only ice evident Clothing Drive Set for Today A city drive for used clothing to be donated to the Norman office of the Oklahoma Department of Public Welfare will be conducted in Norman today by members of the Lions Club and the Boy Scouts. All types of clothing, especially childrens' are needed, drive chairman.

O. E. Lindquist said. Although the drive won't get under way until 2:30 p.m. today, the chairman explained, arrangements may be made to have earlier donations picked up by calling 3440.

Donors are asked to either bundle or box their donations, tag them "clothing drive" and place the donations on their front porches. Neighborhood areas will be covered by cars with Lions driving and the Scouts acting as pickups. Will Rogers Tops List of Five Named to Cowboy Hall of Fame Sat- Five of the West's most prominent men were named to the National Cowboy Hall of Fame during half-time ceremonies at the Oklahoma-Iowa State football game Saturday. Trustees of the proposed museum selected Will Rogers, President Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Russell, Jake McClure and Col. Charles Goodnight as the first members of the shrine of western lore, which will be built at Oklahoma City.

Roosevelt knew more of the West than most presidents, and was influential in sponsoring the Newlands Act in 1902, designed to set up western reclamation. He also wrote extensively of the West, his most famous work being a threevolume set called "The Winning of the West." His work with the Rough Riders, mostly western men, and his hunting expeditions did much to popularize. lands west of Mississippi. Rogers, the beloved cowboy philosopher from Claremore, toured, lectured and wrote about the West as well as popularizing it on the stage. His death in 1935, while ing in the Arctic with Wiley Post, cut off a full and colorful life in its prime.

Goodnight, born in Illinois in 1836, migrated to Texas and became a pioneer ranchman. One of the first trail-drivers, he helped blaze the cattle trails linking Kansas City, Dodge City and Fort Worth. Russell wrote several books about the West, most of them historical. His best-known work was "Trails Plowed Under," which he illustrated himself. His western art earned him an honorary degree from the Montana State Board of Education in 1925.

His hang in many famous galleries. McClure gained international fame as a rodeo cowboy from Lovington, N.M. A working ranchman, he applied real cowboy skills to his renowned rodeo performances. The site for the Cowboy Hall of Fame was dedicated Friday. Fans at the game in Owen Field were the first to hear of the selections.

Bruce Drake, announcer on the public address system, read the list shortly after the Trustees had voted..

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