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HSSICSICiL SOCIin CKLnliCKA CITT 5CKU The orman Transcript 1889-1955 Normans Community Newspaper for More Than 66 Years Build Citizenship FOR TOMORROW Give to Youth Fund lUME 67 NUMEER 117 3 25 PAGES NORMAN OKLAHOMA SUNDAY NOVEMEER 27 1955 AP and NEA SERVICE FRICE DAILY 5c SUNDAY lCc from The OU Warms Up for Bowl By Chilling 53-0 Sooners Show Confidence With Aerial Attack VANDALISM'S RESULTS Patrolman James Ward of the Norman Police Department points to the large rock that smashed the window of Goodno's Jewelry 201 Main St early Saturday The rock rests on a portable radio that was badly damaged and other loss included the theft of 13 watches and an electric razor stolen from the display Glumly surveying the damage are Lt Johnnie Henry and Goodno 1 Press Box FporUwrilers aren't always the! llous wise-cracking individuals! It film and fiction would lead 1 to believe athletic publicist Harold leith can testily to that Keith aturday wai presented with aa (graved briefcase filled with 1M pe-dollar bills and a scrapbook Jr the men he has served for 25 cars Bruce Drake public address an-(incer and former OU basket-ill coach made the presentation the press box at halftime then I the writers in three Keith which were as lusty as the Sooner cheering section waged during the Big 43-jrictory over Oklahoma said Keith I Drake had spent weeks la solic-ling the testimonials to Keith Cim his hundreds of friends roughout the country The irrapbook contained a picture of mother a picture of his ife and family and cards wish-him well for the next 25 ears it was Ironic that Drake made presentation since he too is OU staff member of long stand-nd he is leaving today to gin a four-month leave of ab-ice as coach of a basketball which will represent the Air bree in the Olympic tryouts 1 ir ir pome 35000 rooters rose to their in thundering applause Satur- aftemoon in a tribute to Bud jilkinson and his red-shirted Soon's Possessor of the long-major college winning streak le Orange Bowl-bound OU men-eould hardly make his way the dressing room through the ck of well-wishers and auto-aph seekers till the busy yet kindly ach took time out to sign the ngrams of three little tots who bbably get to be Oklahoma fcshmen until sometime around Came sidelights: Filing from farly -deserted Owen Field Satur-y one white-Stetsoned rooter Ited for a wistful look around To his companion be remarked 'here's just nothing as lonely as deserted From the pressbox and Inter-ational News Service sports wrlt-r Laymond Cramp: ff to the races This was ight minutes and 27 seconds Into lie second quarter when Jimmy larris hit Joe Mobra in the end one and sent the score to 21- Gary Talk Here Promotes Slate Vandals Rob Local Jeweler Of 13 Watches COUNTY KILL Thomas 320 Peters Ave poses proudly with the six-point 1 1 8-pound deer he shot Saturday near Slaughterville It was the first kill reported in Cleveland County this season A warrant officer at NATTC Thomas used a shotgun with a slug to bag the deer at about 8:30 am He was hunting with Sam Warren also an NATTC warrant officer (Transcript Photo) Like the Good Olf Days? Owen Early Gridders See Booming Sooners By JAMES WEEKS lt may not hive been exactly the way they used to do it in the good oF days but 53-0 trouncing of Oklahoma AIM in the 50th I 7 total of 515 yards and passing while holding Team Members Named in Drive For Youth Fund Division leaders for the United Youth Fund Campaign have chosen members of soliciting trams for advance gift campaign starting Monday Bratton chair-1 man of the advance gifts section announced Saturday Selected to help division leader John Morrison Drace John Kniseley Clark Hetherington and Harry Battenburg were: James Long Wallace Taylor Dewey Barnes James Downing Dale Hawkins McCall Wit liam Logan Robert Bailey Lester Reynolds Raymond Symcox Lynn Bullard and Fred Sin nett Monday Meeting Set McComb Gordon Drain Em mitt Hill Harold Powell George Nolan Clyde Black Bud Saunders Bert Nordstrom Robert Colonkey Ray Grove Max Dillingham Gene Foreman John Powell Sam McCall and Farmer Division leaders and solicitors will meet at the Lockett Hotel Monday at 8 am to make plana and distribute donation cards Initial Push Sought About 200 business firms and individuals will be solicited in the advance campaign Campaign leaders believe these firms and individuals will be able to give amounts ranging from $50 to 9275 thus giving the drive an initial push encouraging amaller contributors to give generously when the regular campaign begins 00 Dec 5 The 521 NO gpal for the entire campaign will be divided among six Norman organizations belonging to the United Youth Fund If the fond Is raised Boy Scouts will get 97 ON Camp Fire Girls 94290 Girl Scouts 53545 Junior Police 925N University YMCA $156250 and University YWCA $156250 Lewis To Face Senate Hearing WASHINGTON Nov 26 UR John Lewis head of the United Mine Workers union will appear before a Senate Labor subcommittee Monday at new hearings on the handling of union welfare fundi This was announced today by the subcommittee headed by Sen Douglas (D-Ill) which is resuming a two-year study of administration of the multimilliun -dollar insurance and pension funds The probe is aimed at determining whether legislation is needed to safeguard the fond for their intended beneficiaries especially since there have been a number of reported diversions to racketeers President Eisenhower has suggested that Congress study the need for curbs Lewis is chairman of the Board of Trustees of the welfare and retirement fund as well as president of the union The mine fond takes in and spends more than IN million dollars a year on health retirement and other benefits and has approximately IN million dollars in reserves Woman Lawmaker Dies McKeesport Pa Nov 26 Rep Vera Buchanan (D-Pa) 53 died today in McKeesport Hospital where she had been a patient since Aug 25 Mrs Buchanan widow of the late Democratic congressman Frank Buchanan had served in the House of Representatives sines Aug 1 195L (Last Wednesday night Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss said that this latest in a current series of Soviet tests wss largest thus far in the What experts here were trying to do was sift out the probable facts in an official announcement at Moscow and in a speech by Khrushchev a few hours earlier at Bangalore India The Soviet Foreign Ministry an nounced that the current series of weapons tests had confirmed technical calculations and said "the la- 1 test explosion ef the hydrogen bomb wae the most powerful of all game between Uie 'state rivals must have satisfied Bennie Owen and hia former Sooner players Owen Oklahoma's early -day football coach and athletic director who was recognized at a dinner Friday night by friends and former players was on hand for the rout The runaway was witnessed by the smallest home crowd of 35000 which came clad in brightly colored fall attire The Ruf Nek Pep Club took By JERRY MAGEE Dead sure Oklahoma a certain of itself as a Democrat in Dixie romped through its final football workout for the 1956 season here Saturday when it crushed Oklahoma 53-0 The Sooners open early next year meeting Maryland in the Orange Bowl on Jan 2 So confident that they flaunted the Aggies with fourth-down passes and runs with the game still scoreless the Sooners easily sailed to the 10th victory in their second straight all-victorious regular sea-soik NaUmal Title Virtually Certain In doing so they ran their consecutive win streak to 29 and virtually assured themselves of the O'Donnell Trophy emblematic of the national championship Only once before In Bud Wilkinson's nine-year coaching tenure has the Big Red finished the season as No 1 nationally That was in 1950 Those fourth-down plays looked like gambles at the time but actually Oklahoma risked little It had far toq much manpower and speed for the Cowpokes in this 50(h renewal of the intrastate rivalry First Quarter Scoreless The embattled Aggies somehow got through a weird first quarter without yielding a touchdown but then Oklahoma's superior num-en began to tell Six of the 55 players Wilkinson used scored as the Big Red piled across eight touchdowns in the final three periods AIM came with a squad on only 32 playen and just 27 of those got into it The Poke starters played virtually without relief until the Sooner iced it in the third quarter The statistics reflect the difference Oklahoma amassed the staggering running to rushing 177 passing All but 22 of A AM's net came on the ground Aggies Threaten Once The Stillwater eleven could threaten only onee( in losing its eighth game in 10 starts Its poorest season since the 1938 Aggie team wound up with a similar record Trailing 21-0 late in the second quarter the Aggies used their kme pass completion a 22-yard strike from quarterback Tom Pontius to end Cl wopy Spencer to reach the OU 13 Three ground plays moved the visitors eight yards but on fourth down tackle Calvin Wood worth wrapped up Pontius for i five-yard toss never threatened again its deepest penetration the last twe periods reached only to the OU 31 It was the fourth straight shutout for the Sooners who haven't been scored on since Kansas Stats counted in the third quarter of 7-40 loss five weeks agoi Passing on 4th Down The some 35000 who watched saw Oklahoma set a bizarre pat tern in the scoreless opening quar ter On its first series of downs it elected to pass on fourth down with a single yard to giv-and quarterback Jay O'Neal'a toss fell in complete Then with fourth-and-eight or its next series Oklahoma chooM weapons race what might bo thi force of a still bigger bomb? The A EC never is specific oi such matters in public discussions But the federal Civil Defense Ad ministration in adjusting its plan to latest developments now use1 as yardstick a bomb id 20 meg atons 20 million tons re sum ably the Civil Defense Admims 880 Governor Praises Booster Efforts Gov Raymond iary continued his personal campaign to boost Oklahoma while speaking at a luncheon on the OU campus Saturday Closing a two-day conference of the Oklahoma Industrial Council Gary praised workers who are trying to get new industry into the state blasted critics of Oklahoma's business potential and sketched plans for future attempts to strengthen the economy of the entire South IN Awards Gives Gary topped the meeting which saw more than U0 awards given to everyone who took the industrial tour this -year by explaining how the drive to get new industries in the state is but part of a concerted effort on the part of all southern governors to raise the industrial wealth of this part of the United States He explained that the first aim is to get industry to move to the South and the second aim is to find the best possible locations for new factories and business once a particular state has been selected Gary criticized a recent report that Oklahoma continues to lose population by saying tax collections this year are running approximately $7000000 more than last year He said this proved the state is growing rather than declining Greater Effort Asked Asking for increased efforts during the coming months Gary cited figures showing Oklahoma expends an amount equal to the national average in attempting to bring in new business He congratulated everyone present for their splendid efforts and said he hoped for continued good results Gary waa the recipient of special award from the Last Frontier Council of the Boy Scouts for his in Oklahoma" movement Council Schedules Executive Session An executive session of the City Commission will be held in City Hall Tuesday evening at 7:30 pm at the request of Commissioner Robert Naifoh Naifeh requested the meeting it the last public session of the Council Nov 23 When asked at that time if the matter would involve the and reputation of a grounds for an executive session under the eity code Naifeh replied in the affirmative Executive sessions are closed to the public and press alike 711 place of the Sooner card section for confusion in the stands Club members roamed the aisles tossing oranges to fans The club also crowned its queen and passed out to the Orange leaflets and decals Queen Crowned Larry Hickman crowned Muriel Green Omaha Neb queen in half- time ceremonies Miss Green was top men roUc) to" BANGALORE India Nov 26 state visit of two Further along the line of teie-pe machines and typewriters me this comment: bet Tarn bites his fingernails when he es the films of this ic ir it Some people easily for-t their occupations A ease in lint was Farmer manager office during committee meeting on -oposed capital Improvement! last ednesday Farmer happened to be feeing door through which the late fteroooa sun was shining brfl-iantly Blinded by the light asked Phil Kidd presi-lent of the First National Bank the was near the door to close After the door was closed Farm- couldn't resist saying ce soft artificial light is so much on ir it -ft Birthday celebrants today an Short Sallie Feuerborn Neil iwrman and Riley Saturday parties wen for Lar-' Henderson Sheryl Gambill illiam Vanderburg Janice black 30frs A Aynsworth Michele liiler and Mrs Leo Marquis Soviets Warn Iran on Pact Tough Note Hits Defense Alliance MOSCOW Nov 26 -The Soviet Union warned Iran today its membership in the Baghdad Pact creates a threat to Russia and it win have to answer for Foreign Minister Molotov handed Iranian Charge Ette Sami a note brusquely rejecting the Iranian contention that the pact is an instrument of peace and security Follows Press Campaign The Soviet note climaxed a bitter Soviet press campaign against the pact which links Iran with Britain Iraq Turkey and Pakistan In a mutual defense alliance along southern frontiers The prime ministers of the five nations held their initial meeting in Baghdad this week and they completed a permanent organization with headquarters in Baghdad United States observers were present- Soviet press chief Leonid Ilychev announced delivery of the note at a news conference in the Soviet Foreign Ministry He said Iran waa not living up to Us agreement with the Soviet Union A 1921 treaty between the two countries permits Russia to move troops into Iran if she feels her frontier is threatened Protested Earlier Russia first protested the Baghdad Pact in an official note Oct 12 An Iranian reply Oct 17 rejected the Soviet asertion that the pact was aggressive in intent note was a reply to the Iranian memo It said Iran's membership in the Baghdad Pact has created a situation with danger to Soviet frontiers and the Soviet government cannot be indifferent Reds Open Farm Tour NEW YORK Nov 26 ID-Five Russian farm experts arrived today en route to Iowa to study hybrid corn production methods and machinery and to buy seed and machinery for use at home Philadelphia to rside Prince Edward Island to pick up a load of potatoes grounded in snow and darkness which prevented the skipper from seeing the Cape North tight Hitting a rugged reef about 300 feet from shore the Kismet was battered and shoved to within 25 feet of the cliff by high seas and raging winds Shore rescuers kept watch throughout the night making ready to attempt a rescue by stringing life lines from the cliff and taking the men off by breeches buoy Winds gusting up to 60 miles eased off this morning and the helicopter went about its dangerous task The motor vessel Ber-charminn stood by last night and was prepared to attempt a sea rescue today when the seas calmed But the helicopter completed its missions at 9:45 am For the ship's Greek captain Ansa Maniatis 59 the loss of the Kismet was his second expedience with an angry sea His own saiL ing vessel was wrecked off tha English coast 30 years ago 327 Vandals within a stone's throw oi the Norman police station early Saturday morning threw the stone instead through a jewelry store window and escaped with 13 used watches and an electric shaver Smashed by the large rock was plate glass window of Jewelry at the corner of Main Street and Peters Avenue The thief or thieves then took the watches and razor valued at about 9300 but left behind the cord for the shaver The rock badly damaged a portable radio and another watch after smashing the north window of the store on Peters less than a block from the police station The damage was reported by an unidentified post office employe on his way to work about 6 am Police said they believed the break-in had occurred within 30 minute of the time it was reported Goodno owner of the store said the gilts was insured but that his insurance would not cover the theft of used watches Train Kills Six In Automobile MATHESON Colo Nor 26 W-A 35-year-old Colorado Springs man and five children were killed outright one-half mile east of Matbeson today when the car in which they were riding was struck by an eastbound Rock Island Rocket passenger train The state patrol identified the victims as Steve Puzick his four daughters and another child tentatively identified as a cousin The patrol listed the children as Junie Puzick 11 Marilyn Puzick 9 Suzanne Puzick 4 Cynthia Puzick 3 and Eli White 9 Investigating officers reputed that Puzick traveling south on a country road apparently failed to zee the train as both his ear and the streamliner approached a crossing The impact of the crash officers said knocked the auto 200 feet All six in the car were dead on arrival of authorities Dec 5 Date Picked For of Dinner Tickets for the annual Chamber of Commerce dinner to be held at the Lockett Hotel Dee 5 will go on sale at the of office Monday Chamber Manager Dow Damron said Saturday The date for the affair a Monday was aet by Chairman Lester Reynolds and hia committee Tickets will be 9950 per plate Reynolds said he has hopes of getting the Gypsies an Oklahoma City orchestra to play for the dinner Damron urged all of members to attend The speaker and details of the program are to be announced later Today in Norman Weather reading: Friday high 59 Friday overnight low 26 Saturday high 66 Saturday at 9 pm 48 Weather forecast: Scattered clouds today colder toward evening High near 65 ir it Monday: United Youth Fund meeting Lockett I am ir ir ir Monday Jaycecs noon Lockett 411 day Although its impact on the people of India was undiminished many political leaders insisted the "selling of Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Communist party boss Nikito Khrushchev will nut move this country out of its neutrality role Everywhere since they arrived Nov 18 Bulganin and Khrushchev have attracted huge crowds and unprecedented praise from Indian officials A half million persons greeted them here Slate governors and municipal mayors on their tour competed in praising Russia's people and gov the winner over five finalists selected from a group of 26 She was crowned in front of the Nek a 1923 red and white Modle-T Ford which was parked at mid-field Members of the pep club formed in two lines to make walk-way leading to the auto The ear will be driven to the Orange Bowl game on Jan 2 by its owner Cecil Samara He will leave Oklahoma City on Dec 19 and hopes to make the trip in six days On the hood of the auto was a bowl of oranges on a miniature gridiron The leaflets issued include a map and time schedule for the Orange Bowl Trip with a picture soo Copter Maneuvers Along Cliff To Rescue 21 From Freighter 373 ernment-taking their pattern from of the Nek and the! the reception India's Prime Min-1956 Sooner football schedule is ter Nehru himself gave the Bus- Aggie Band Performs sian visitors The 110-picce Aggie band started It is obvious that people running the halftime show with a into millions are receiving their tuals on Parade" program Clad 'first political education on Soviet in orange trousers and caps and I communism under circumstances black coats it was led onto the heavily slanted in favor of the pirated first toss on thi (Contis tied en Page Two) I Russians I (Continued on Page Seres) to run Halfback Cleadon Thomai got the needed yards and two ti para but the push died on tin Aggie 16 Quarterback Jimmy Harris play ing a week after laming a shouldei at Nebraska put the Sooners ir business moments later when hi am Red Claim of Biggest H-Test Fails To Measure Up V- CAPE NORTH Nov 26 A Canadian Navy helicopter ring perilously close to a giant ck-faced cliff maneuvered down i the deck of the wrecked Liber-n freighter Kismet II today and latched her 21 crew members to 'fety The helicopter carrying four amen at a time whisked the ien to shore after they and tiieir 848-ton ship had been pounded high winds and blinding snow nearly 30 hours The vessel ounded early Friday cn the -cky north coast of Cape Breton land in the Gulf of St Law-nee In making the rescue the heli-'Ptcr's pilot Lt Cmdr John Bee-an of Montreal was forced to his craft within feet of tha no-feut overhanging cliff and ork it skillfully down to the deck tha Kismet perched about 25 et from the jagged rock face The rescued men were taken to village of Cape St Lawrence here all were reported in good edition The freighter rn route from 1954 it blasted off a giant size shall a new test and Rep explosion unofficially reported to Van Zandt (R-Pa) a committer have produced between IS and 17 member said it "la my undrr megatons standing that we will have new Out of these developments rose atomie today the question of whether the In this new lap of the nucleai explosions carried out until now' In his Banglure speech Khrushchev said that Soviet engineer were successful the minimum of atomic energy in making the maximum explosion of million tons of TNT is used as the basis fur measuring atomic explosive force Thus one kiluton equals the forre released by the explosion of one thousand tons of TNT one mega- one ton is the equivalent of one mil- lion tons of TNT The United States exploded in 1952 in its first full-scale hydrogen test a weapon greater than one megaton And on March 1 By ELTON FAY WASHINGTON Nov 28 JI Moscow claimed today that Russia has test fired most powerful of ail explosions carried out until But unless Soviet party boss Nikita who jumped the gun on on his government's formal was wrung this Russian U-bomb explosion was 15 to 17 times smaller than one detonated by the United Stales mure than a year and a half ago US government officials were studying tonight the seemingly con- flicting comments about the force of the latest Russian test bomb 77 32 00 United States might detonate a bomb a surpassing even the puwer of its 1954 weapon in new tests next spring Preparations for new test blasts at the Marshall Islands proving ground In the Central Pacific obviously arc under way Sen Clinton Anderson (D-NM) chairman of the Joint Cungression- al Committee on Atomic Energy (ration gets its guidance from thi said last night that think lOniiaurd Page Twe).

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