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at I I I I THE DUNCAN EAGLE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1935 PROJECT FOR COMANCHE LAKE TO BE DONE THURSDAY Work Has Been Under Way for Two Years; Water Now More Than 20 Feet Deep Comanche- -The Comanche lake, orginally planned an project, will be completed Thursday. Virtually work has been completed the past two years and yesterday only one man was at work on the project. He was cutting wood. Yesterday at the lake, the water measured slightly over 20 feet deep on the round tower near the base of the dam. Footage is marked to 40 feet although it is estimated that with average rainfall there will not be that much water in it for the next three years.

Dam is Wide A slight resume of work done shows why two years, using only relief labor, were required in completing the porject. The dam and spillway alone, are 1,700 feet and across. In building the dam, approximately 6,000 square yards of rip rap were placed on a the water side of the dam which contains 40,000 cubic yards of dirt. There wasalso 600 cubic yards of ruble masonry to be compelted. The spillway, at the east side of the lake which backs up water for about a mile at present, has steel bridge across it.

On the south side of the dam are several culture ponds for breeding fish The lake has been well-stocked with fish. Total estimated cost on the OERA project was given at 020. Drainage into the lake is from 11,000 acres of land. Piping Must Be Done Intended as future water supply for Comanche, about three miles to the west of the lake, there still remains a lot of work to be done. However, a WPA project which has been approved but which has not received a fund allocation, is to care for that, Herb Gallaway, in the OERA office here said today.

About a mile and a half of pipe has been laid from the lake toward the city of Comanche. The rest is included in the WPA project. The project also calls for a lot of work around the lakeimproving the road across dam and and around the lake, landscaping and other improvements. COTTON FARMERS WILL GET MILLION FROM THEIR CROP Production of Commodity Along With Government Payments Makes up Amount. Stephens county farmers will realize approximately $1,000,000 from cotton crops this year, County Agent Nolan Young estimates in his annual report just completed An itemized estimate released by him includes the fololwing benefits to the farmers: Rental parity Cotton produced and Bankhead tag sales .300,000 Adjustment payments 25,000 Where It's From And here's where his figures come from; the report shows there are 2,900 cotton reduction contracts in the county this year.

Rental and parity payments come from that. This source is expected eo yield a revenue of $170,000 which may be added to approximately $300,000 from the sale of surplus Bankhead tax exemption certificates to bring the amount to $470,000. payments expected to amount to $25,000 is the third item and the sale of approximently. 9,500 bales of cotton make up the rest of the total. 8,000 Bales Young said estimates on production of cotton had placed it at about 8,000.

bales. Recent dry and comparitively warm days hiked the figures as farmers became able to pick and market the Of the amount ginned in the county almost 50 per-cent has come to Duncan with the remaining 50 being divided between Marlow and Comanche. Prepares Map on Prairie Dog Lands County Agent Nolan Young is preparing a may showing the location fall county land infested by prairie dogs preparatory to making a final appeal for federal relief to help eliminate the pests. Young is seeking a project for kliling the dogs. He asked that all persons who have land infested the animals provide him with a detailed description of the area covered.

SCHOOL HAS MACHINE A duplicating machine, for the use of teachers in preparing examination papers and other material, has been added to equipment at the high school. It is a higher speed machine than had been used. Miss Polly Clelland of Fort Worth, Texas, spent the weekend here visiting friends. Leasing Activity at High Pitch Throughout Southern Oklahoma By John Jameson Associated Press Staff Writer TULSA, Dec. 3-(AP)- Southern Oklahoma field developments continued to hold the interest of the oil industry during the last week with one new well on the verge of being tested and lease play at a new high pitch.

The well Prairie being No. 1 watched Stockton, was the SE SW SW of 26-6S-2W, in western Love county. The wildcat picked up a promising formation at and then was forced to shut down until the hole could be reconditioned and a core test made. The hole has passed through two other saturated sands. Carter County Active Carter county was the center of the lease play, due to the Carter Oil wildcat gusher, No.

1 Ruth Williams, SW NE SW 27-2S-3W, which is still attempting to restore circulation lost when the well bridged after blowing in in October. Another interesting test which brought a demand for leasing in the district was the Texas Company and J. Humphrey Hudson location, No. 1 Cathey, SW NE corner 6-58-1W, a location. In Carter county 62 oil and gas leases were filed during the first three days of last week.

In addition there were 31 assignments and seven royalty transfers. Kiowa Sale Holds Interest As a result of two wildcats, said to be located favorably from a geological standpoint, much interest has been exhibited in the Indian land lease sale at the Kiowa agency at Anadarko Wednesday. Thirty-nine tracts in Tillman and Cotton county will be sold. The Sunray-Peerless No. 1 Hunter, SE corner NE 9-3S-13W, was below 2,430 feet in hard lime.

Another wildcat being drilled in Cotton county is the No. 1 Maggie Weaver, center NW NE 27-4S-13W, directly 0. M. A. TO FIGHT FOR GRID CROWN To Meet St.

John's Tomorrow in Bid for National Academy Football Title Claremore, Dec. 3 (AP) The mythical national Military school football title will be at stake tomorrow on Soldiers Field when the highly touted; undefeated St. John's Academy eleven from Delafield, meets the Flying Cadets of the Oklahoma Military Academy. St Johns' leads the pack in mid-western academy football, reaching their crest when they defeated Culver Chcago. The O.

M. A. squad is rated as the strongest academy team in the southwest, and dropped only one Oklahoma junior collegiate league to the Tonkawa Mavericks. The Oklahomans are in peak condition wits plenty of power in both the starting lineup and reserves. CORRECTION CORRECTION It has been called to the attention of the Duncan Eagle that in last Friday's issue, B.

A. Patterson was referred to as Pat Patterson. We deeply regret this error. PIE SUPPER AT HARRISBURG There will be a pie supper at Harrisburg Thursday night, December 4. The proceeds will be used for a community Christmas tree.

Every one invited. PIE SUPPER AT THOMAS A box and pie supper will be held at the Thomas school Friday night, December 6th. Procceds will be used for a community Christmas tree. Collections High in Treasurer's Office In three days, more than $25,000 in taxes were taken in by County Treasurer Jim Bullard and his staff as delinquencies on taxes for 1933 and prior years again went into effect. A large portion othe money was on taxes for 1933 or prior.

Friday collections were $10,624, Saturday, $11,586, and yesterday, after the penalty was on, $3,624. CLASSES IN DAIRY FEEDING PLANNED Extension Dairyman From Stillwater Will Aid in Scientific Study for This County. Through the cooperation of John W. Boehr, extension dairyman, Stillwater, County Agent Nolan Young is arranging a series of dairy feeding classes for this county and enrollment cards are being mailed to all dairymen. Young plans to have one, twohour session a week for four weeks.

Classes will take up scientific feeding. At the close of the period, a certificate of award to those who have attended; every class. The classes will be free. Young urged farmers iwth just a few cows to attend as well as those who ETA have urged fraementtsntu opmls herds. He will announce dates and places for classes later.

MORE GROUND MAY GO TO ARMORY SITE Park Board Asks Additional Plot to West of Present Sit if Building Is Obtained. An additional plot of ground in Fuqua Park, 50 feet wide and 200! feet long, will be deeded to the state for proposed armory building in Duncan, if and when the armory is built. That was the decision of city commissioners last night following requests from the Park Board that addtiional space be granted to the west of the present site SO as to move the proposed structure farther away from the highway. The request also was made so that the building could be erected facing north rather than east. The question brought some protest, but it was decided that the resolution should be passed to show the park board the position of the commissioners.

City Manager J. B. McLendon read a letter from Adj. Gen. Charles F.

Barrett saying that he was doing everything in his power to include Duncan on the reinstated list of cities for armory projects. Barrett that he hoped to accomplish that upon WPA Administrator W. S. Key's return from Washington. ITALIANS IN NORTH FACE DIFFICULTIES IN TRANSPORTATION Little Rains Starting Soon Will Provide a Test for Trucks of Italy's Army ASMARA, Eritrea, Dec.

3-(AP) -What will happen to Italy's big army in Ethiopia when the rainy season comes and sky torrents turn roads into guagmires where men sink and flounder and die? This a queston preoccupyng foregn journalists here who have military experience. Those experts range from an English General to a French lieutenant. Some 110,000 men now are lined up on Italy's northern front. More are constantly arriving. They ae 50 miles beyond the old border.

In January comes the season of the "little rains," the unimportant one lasting until March. This should not obther them much. Officers See Roads' Doom But the real rainy season starts theend of May and lasts until September, blotting cut tre face of the earth with a sheet of water. When that evil day comes, the roads constructed SO laboriously the last few weeks to enable trucks to carry up provisions and ammunition will be wiped out. Officers make no secret of it.

"Only roads with a strong stone foundation will stand up," said engineering major. "And less than ten percent of our roads beyond the old frontier 0. that nature." Most of the rods built by thr Italian since they crossed the border follow the old caravan routes. Those trails have been widened, straightened, banked. reinforced with gravel-but in the main they are dirt roads.

Powdered Within Week Trucks in dry weather grind them into powder six inches deep inside a week Road crews constantly are at work on them. In the rainy season the caravon trails themselves were impassable even for mules and camels. The roads wil be little better. What, therefore, will happen to the big Italian army? Supplies cannot be brought up in trucks. There is not enough in the countryside to support the troops.

The trucks, even now, are having all they can do to bring up sufficient supplies, so no surplus can be laid by. Perhaps, it is suggested, the majority of the troops, after having occupied that part of Ethiopia that Italy desires, will return to Erit- THE OIL SITUATION IN A NUTSHELL GENERAL--Better undertone felt, in industry. CRUDE- Firm. FIELD-Skelly and Crosbie Fitts give two extensions to fast-growing pool. FINANCIAL--A better feeling was predominant in the oil markets Monday following a bad week.

Shipments to replace storage depleted over the week were reported good. In fact, some compaies reported the week-end better than the ing holiday. New report was received for the market through intercompany buying. A few companies are supplementing their reduced crude charges with specification material from plants which have found it difficult to dispose of their current production. Third-grade gasoline still lags at 4 5-8 cents a gallon, but refiners were hopeful the list might be restored to its former level before the middle of the month.

One of the price-making companies in the Mississippi valley reported it didn't contemplate a tankwagon cut and expressed the belief that the flurry, which had caused reduction would be short lived. urning oils were easy with little demand. Some activity was 1 being experienced in the pro cold test grades, although the higher cold tests Natural gasolines were strong with were inactive. good demand reported by manufacturers. Diamond Jim Brady Will Start Sunday At Ritz Show Here Super-salesman drinks 7,300 Ions of orange juice! That sounds like a newspaper headline, and it is, for to one man, James Buchanan Brady, supersalesman who made the gay nineties gay and who is the hero, portrayed by Edward Arnold, of Universal's colorful screenplay, 'Diamond Jim', coming Sunday to the Ritz theatre goes the credit of drinking that much juice.

Not only did he drink the juice from 1825 boxes of oranges, or about four carloads, but he also introduced the art of orange juice drinking to America, according to Edmund Grainger, producer of the picture. "Our research in the matter shows that Brady started drinking orange juice in 1896 and continued to do SO until 1916," Grainger declares. "He drank on an average of a gallon a day, to wash down his food and paid exhorbitant prices for the golden fruit. Contracts Are Aid for Peanut Raisers County peanut raisers will benefit to theextent of $2,810 from the contracted acres in the county this year and $2,300 of that amount already has been distributed to the farmers. The money is for agreeing not to Increase acetage rather than to decrease it.

One hundred and twenty-eight were signed this year. Pooled Cotton Slips Above Million Pounds Total poundage, in suplus Bankhead cotton exemption slips which have been sent to the National Pool this yeat is a little more than 1,000,000 pounds. The slips are ging in at the rate for about $2,000 worth a day. They will bring four cents a pound in the pool. A date has not been set for closing the pool but officials here expect an announcement soon.

MARRIAGE LICENSES G. P. Lynn, 21, Hobart, and Mavis Conwill, 19, Lawton. H. R.

Hodgkinson, 31, Fort Sill, and Leatrice Welch, '19, Rush Springs. Homer Camp, 36, Alma, and Winnie Mae Ark, 34, Alma. L. Lane, 61, Alma, and Della Richardson, 58, Alma. M.

T. Sims, 31, Duncan, and Mamie Sims, 30, Duncan, (Remarry) M. L. Simmons, 58, Doyle, an Claudy Phipps, 50, Sunny Grove. W.

C. Dillon, 38, Devol, and Margaret Ward, 36, Lawton. Alvin C. Marlow, and Lottie Prichetett, 18, Lindsey. Howard F.

Brown, 22, Faxton, a and Lucille Anderson, 23, Faxton "Feast" Is Planned By American Legion Sometime before Christmas the will have a "feast," probably in the Harry Dobbs American Legion post Legion hut, but arrangements have not yet been made. Post Commander Gus Harris said today he will call a meeting soon to work out details. 'I' know we're going to it, but I don't know just when," NEBRASKA WOULD LIKE BID TO SUGAR BOWL LINCOLN, Dec. 3-(AP)John K. Selleck, Unviersity of Nebraska business manager of athletics indicated tonight Nebraska probably would be receptive to a bid to play in the annual Sugar Bowl game at New Orleans, New Year's day.

Selleck said Nebrask ahas not been notified formally that it is, being considered for the game. The Cornhuskers never have played a postseason game. rule prohibits postseason Although a Big Six conference. leck said it probably would be waived if Nebraska, the conference champion, wanted to play. Coach D.

Z. Bible, athletic director, is en route to Lincoln after witnessing the Texas Christian-Southern Methodist university game at Fort Worth, Texas, and was unavailable for comment. NYA, checks for students in the local high school are expected by Supt. N. L.

George not later than Friday. Gerge sent in his order last Friday. On a previous group of requests, it took only a week after the order was filed to get the checks. Kiwanis Club Pays Call to Sikes Plant north of the Burburnett river bed production. Geologists say that the 15 dry holes drilled in this district were not on the formations.

Louisiana Gets Wildcat In other states, the opening of a new gas producing field in rank wildcat territory in Lincoln parish, north Louisiana, was an important development of the week. The wildcat, Arkansas-Louisiana Gas No. 1 Fowler, NW SW SE 10-17N-4W, was completed at a total depth of 5.303 feet and was gauged at 71,385,000 cubic feet of satuated gas with rock pressure of 2,140 pounds. The well is on a a 6,000 00 acre block. The producing formation is above the Glen Rose from which production comes in Rodessa.

Market Unchanged The market end of the industry changed little during the week. Gasoline was unchanged and some firmer but jobbers were still watching crude runs and gasoline stocks before buying. Another reduction in these would do much to firm the market. Should there be another increase this week, observers believed that jobbers would continue to hold out for lower prices. Gypsy Still Shutdown The Gypsy Oil No.

8. Garrett, an offset to the Carter No. Ruth Williams deep test in the Fox field, Carter county, was still idle. Gypsy officials said it was "shut down for orders." It was believed that the work was halted until the Carter well, which has not been brought in, is completed, before work on the expensive test is resumed. Fitts Field Extended J.

E. Crosbie, brought in an' extension to the Fitts field as the week opened. The well, No. 1-A Burris, NE SE NW 27-2-7E, a mile east of production, came in for 850 barrels through the casing in an bromide. Addie Ing Named Deputy Assessor By The appointment of Addie Ing, Duncan, as deputy county assessor to aid in preparing tax rolls and that of Roy Ward as special deputy sheriff for tax collections was approved today by county commissioners.

Coming as somewhat of a surprise, the brand mark of the "half circle was assigned to W. H. Johnson by the commissioners. It was the first brand applied for in some time. Three tracts of land were sold, the first to C.

A. Williams who took lot 1, block 10 in the Head addition of Duncan for $10, another to Alta Cunningham Wakefield who gave $66.25 for the NE SW of 19-1s-7w, and the last to M. 0. Selby who paid $66.85 for the NW NE NE of 6-2n- 7w. Routine business, including passing on claims, also was cared for.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RATES GRID TEAMS Mustangs, Tigers, Are Ranked as Equal All Unbeaten By ALAN GOULD NEW YORK, Dec. 3-(AP) With a hail to one of the most spectacular football seasons on record and a farewell to this particular source of gridiron debate, here's our roundup ranking for 1935. 1. Southern Methodist, Princeton and Minnesota. 4.

Louisiana State and Texas Christian. 6. Stanford. 7. Ohio State.

8. North Carolina. 9. California. 10.

Fordham. This covers a wide enough spread to convince the most meticulous that top-ranking football is played in every section of the country. Obviously sectional the south, including the Texas, has a edge for year when it comes to producing outstanding teams but the "top ten" includes two each from the east, the middle west and the far west. Unbeaten Teams on a Par So far as this observer is concerned, there's nothing to choose among the three unbeaten and untied teams bracketed at the head of the list, Minnesota and Princeton finished as the class of the middle west and east. Each registered convincing victories over natural rivals in their final tests, with the Tigers rolling up 64 points against Dartmouth and Yale, and the Gophers amassing 73 points at the expense of Michigan and Wisconsin.

Over a stretch of three straight years Princeton has lost only one game while Minnesota has experienced no defeats and been tier four times all in 1933. Southern Methodist, the Rose Bowl choice, undoubtedly has the year's most remarkable record. Saturday's triumph over Texas Christian not only marked the eleventh consecutive triumph for S. M. U.

but was a tribute to the team's resourcefulness under the heaviest kind of pressure. A week ago it looked as though the "Pony Express" was slowing, if not were experienced in the campaign that carried the team to Los Angeles and Arkansas. The outlook was dark indeed with Texas Christian at full strength and apparently its peak but Bobby Wilson and company needed no sympathy. Brinker Lvy returned to Hill's Business College at Oklahoma City, after a month's absence. Brinker has been recuperating from an Jation.

Members of the Kiwanis Club took a tour to the oil field establishment of Louis Sikes at the south edge Duncan today where operations of the plant were explained. No program was arranged for the meetin gand after a short luncheon period, the group went to the establishment. Sikes and A. B. Pullen showed them through the works and told members what different equipment was for and how it was used.

Pullen was a guest at the luncheon. Advisory Board to Meet With Agent County Agent Nolan Young will meet with his advisory board Friday to map out a program for the coming year. The obard is composed of leading farmers in the county. The past year's business also will be gone over by the group. English Marshall returned to his home in Chickasha today after visiting a number of days with his brother, Gaynes Marshall, who is county resettlement supervisor.

STOP LOOK LISTEN "The man with a conscience" is back in town installing Auto Glass At Lowest Prices BILL'S AUTO Body Glass 108 S. 9th St. Phone 229 Formerly with the 0. K. Glass Shop Clean Clothes Look better, last longer.

An excellent investment for economy and good appearnace. JACK CURTIS CLEANING WORKS 18 N. 8th Phone 11 ELIMINATES DANDRUFF Preachers Hair Tonic, eliminates dandruff by killing dandruff germ. It is a tonic for scalp and hair roots, stopping falling hair, preventing baldness and promoting hair growth and beauty, Restores gray hair to its original color without the use of dye. You must be satisfied or your money will be cheerful refunded $1.50 for a 16-oz bottle Ask Your Druggist BARGAINS In Used Singer Sewing Machines And MAYTAG WASHERS A.

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