The Vinita Daily Journal du lieu suivant : Vinita, Oklahoma • 1

4 irst In Advertising Reader InterestCommvnit Service WEATHER Uinifa iBaily journal 4 B2ND NO 82 BP ULL LRASKD WIRE MBLA rnATUBJEa PRICE 6 CENTS PER COPY Murder Case Goes To Jury Of GRDA Here Background or ilms: Color Movies to to Ex Vinitan To 6OBCAMPBELL more on New Position Moisture Amounts To 19 Of Inch or Entire Month man told the (IIP) and cooler wea the the west Ike Stevenson Clash On Aid type in Tom McDougal this put in the wheat acreage re appeal for nu Justice Smiles On Broken Man COMING EVENTS for Breast Can STREET SCENES of when found Hobby former and education banquet which hut will be made for 8 o'clock to A hotel room into a small the OPA of roll away bed would be just proper rollers needed of be apparently the secret to mind among some happy living in the New Guinea scout and a Southern the movie said to be of about in about Donna Lee Case 33 the accident her daughter Sherry should be com for showing on a by early in 1957 to halt leadership he had collision afternoon Local Moss said early today was discuss a new salary sched married to the former Miss Boatright Vinita They live East 33rd place Tulsa drouth program in the county be discussed be was NEW YORK Oct 2 Justice smiled compassionately today bn a broken man who tried to rob a bank with a lemon squeezer A young assistant district attor ney pleaded that charges be drop ped against Edward Monken meyer 63 who feebly tried to hold up a bank for $1000 last Aug 31 after he was fired from his job and evicted from his apartment Monkenmeyer once a prosperous attorney who had been unable to recover from the depression just a little more than his share of the prosecutor said The half starved man whose wife and children left him had just been discharged from his job as an ele of New York did not want to charges man can endure just so much and frustration in a lifetime COUNCIL IRE TONIGHT Camp ire Girls and Blue Birds will receive awards at a council fire ceremony at 7 tonight in North park trip downstairs to the gave me the equipment I bought a Tulsa news an Oklahoma City news With a couple of TOO MANY CATS ANAHEIM Calif Oct 2 John Cameron was granted a divorce Monday on testimony that he stand living in the same home with his wife and her 41 pet cats matter is of Hoss said QUARTERBACKS MEET Vinita Quarterbacks club mem bers will have the football team and coaches as their guests at a supper meeting in the Vinita Country club at 6 o'clock tonight HEADS GROUP AT John Campbell Vinita senior at the University of Oklahoma has been elected president of the Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi na tional honorary journalistic frater nity Oct 2 Council fire ceremony for Camp ire GirlX Blue Birds leaders parents North park 7 Oct 9 Vinita Knife and ork club dinner meeting Hotel Vinita 7 Oct 7 26 registration for general election in November Oct 9 Craig County arm Bu reau annual meeting courthouse annex 1 Oct 9 und raising dinner spon sored by Craig county democratic central committee Hotel Vinita 7 Oct 12 Boatright ranch purebred and registered calf sale Vinita Sales barn One Car Crash Is atal To Soldier Rainfall amounted to only 19 of an inch in the Vinita area for the entire month of September Local Observer Moss said today in his monthly weather summary Ave rage rainfall for September is 463 inches The small amount of precipi tation however was not a record for September The absolute min imum of zero moisture was record ed in September 1948 Moss re ported Most rainfall ever occurring In September was 1326 inches in 1945 Moss said the top temperature reading last month was 108 degres on Sept 16 and the minimum was 44 on Sept 8 108 reading was the third highest temperature ever recorded Daily Oklahoman and Ok City Times acted after members barred newsmen meeting for a second time October is already two days old but it seems like July as far as the weather mond Pope cussing the Reed at the on the phone wishing for a rain Jake says most women are interested in the simple things of such as men VARIED duties Mrs Calvin Gatlin as bailiff for women jurors In district court here has varied duties The other day she rounded up a minor for the women to use during reeess and Monday she was Ing around for an aspirin safely pin Tuepker To Be President Of Public Service Company Payments Listed or Wheat Plan pain It seems to us that Ed Monken meyer had just a little more than his share" Kohler snid PARTLY CLOUDY Partly cloudy tonight Wednesday Widely scattered showers tonight Low tonight 50 55 north High Wednesday 85 90 Grand lake level at 8 a 4 72997 feet for September" Moss said "and broke the record for this late in the month" The mercury went to 100 degrees or above on 10 days of the month and to 90 degrees or above on 27 days Record high temperatures for Sep tember were 109 degrees on Sept 3 and 4 1947 and 10814 degrees on Sept 2 1939 Tire lowest temperature ever re corded in September was 31 degrees on Sept 27 1942 Discussing the month's rainfall Moss said September had a moisture deficit cf 444 inches which is the fourth largest monthly deficit since the drouth began Others showing larger deficits were: June 1952 506 inches: September 1952 487 inches and June 1953 445 inches Moderate winds were noted on Sept 13 14 and 15 and a dust storm occurred Sept 5 LEGION TO MAKE PLANS Plans for remodeling the Vinita American Legion at a meeting set night in the huj HIROSHIMA MAIDENS ROM Thirteen Hiroshima Maidens the last nf 2S whn came the in May 1955 for surgical correction of atomic bomb Impairments leave Mount Sinai hospital in New York City after being discharged The first group left for Japan last June after completing treat ment The young women underwent a total of 140 separate operations by plastic surgeons rpoDAY I can report on the short A age of hotel facilities in our Ztate capital when big doings are 'going on and put in a plug for the metropolitan dallies it you want to call It a plug After all this Is National News paper week which gives one license to say something about the press But getting back to the hotel business I was supposed to have reservations at an Oklahoma City hotel while attending an Oklahoma Press association committee meet ing the last of the week But the OPA connection misfired and I arrived in the capital city I I had to start room hunting Ben Blackstock the OPA ager suggested I come up to the offices in the hotel and we would try to work something out Calls to other hotels proved fruitless One OPA publisher had landed a room for himself apd wife by taking a sample room and having" a couple of roll away beds put in it Ben had an idea had been converted conference room for flees He suggested a moved into this room fine I went along with the idea So I spent a couple of nights in these quarters which filled my needs although it exactly idea of top hotel accommodations An empty desk filing cabinet and a chair provided the furniture It was the first room I ever stayed in where I kept my shirts in a steel filing cabinet Ben said that the roll away bed would be just like sleeping out at the cabin on Grand lake where he has spent the night If right something is going to have to be done about those beds This one was higher in the mid dle than it was at the top and bot tom but where the' plug for the metropolitan press comes in and gives me an opportunity to point out one of their major contribu tions to society A quick newsstarid I needed paper and paper folds and placed under the they provided just what was to create a level bed This may or may not prove that the metropolitan press is a great leveler and provides balance But I had to admit that I could never have gotten the job done with a copy of The Journal the Nowata Star or our smaller dailies Yet a lot more newspapers are being read for the news features and advertising than are being used to level beds vator operator when he decided to rob the bank He held a lemon squeezer in his pocket indicating he had a gun and told a teller to give him the money The teller refused and Monken meyer waited patiently for the po lice to come He surrendered almost thankfully Assistant District Attorney Burt Kohler told Magistrate Thomas itzpatrick that the people of the state press MERCURY STAYS BELOW9 DEGREE MARK HERE The mercury failed to climb above the 87 degree mark in Vinita Monday Observer Low reading 57 degrees Partly cloudy ther is in prospect for tonight Wednesday's high temperature will be in the 80s Stevens was in a Monterey Mexico Mrs Oveta Culp secretary of health was speaker at the concluded the convention DONATE PEANUTS Vinita football fans had than enough peanuts to eat on their Jaunt to the Oklahoma North Carolina game in Norman last Sat urday Charles Teenor jr and Dr Wal ter Sanger former Vinitans who now live in Tulsa brought along a 50 pound sack of peanuts The peanuts were passed out to passengers on all three chartered buses Payments to Craig county farm ers who put land in the 1957 wheat acreage reserve will amount to $124 per bushel tor the normal yield for the farm or for the acres put in the reserve according to Earl Odell chairman of the county agricultural stabilization and conservation com mittee The payment will be made to the participating farmer to make up for the reduction in income resulting from the reduced acreage Odell said the county ASC com mittee will determine the normal wheat yield for the farm and for the acreage placed in the acreage re serve and payments will be based on the smaller yield The amount of payment will be figured by multi plying the bushel rate for the coun ty by tne normal yield per acre multiplying this by the number of acres serve To gave A Vinita lying club will be or ganized at a meeting set for Thurs day night according to Harold Johnson The meeting in the Beacon class room of the irst Methodist church starts at about 7:30 Johnson said all persons interest ed in forming a local flying club are invited Board Member Walk Out Of Meeting Monday Hoss Say Business 'Private VINITA OKLAHOMA TUESDAY OCTOBER 2 1956 By UNITED PRESS President Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson directly clashed today ov er federal aid to education The President again using strong er words than any he has probably employed since the 1952 campaign charged that Stevenson is apparent ly confused about education His staff said his get tough speeches Monday and Monday night at Cleveland and Lexington Ky were the Eisenhower slugged away at the democrats in a speech to more than 16000 persons in the University of Kentucky coliseum Then he got into his personal plane to return to Washington less than 36 hours after he left the capital Stevenson said today in a speech prepared for delivery in Teaneck that he believes the world's major powers are ready bomb tests there is in this direction" He again renewed his action by the United States to bring about a moratofium on tests of clear weapons SISTER DIES Mrs Alice Nidiffer 78 sister Mrs Lillie Legu of Vinita died Monday in a Miami hospital She suffered a stroke a week ago Mrs Nidiffer a member of the irst Baptist church in Miami had re sided in the airland area most of her life The Cooper uneral home Miami is in charge of arrange ments By UNITED PRESS A one car crash the same that killed 30 persons la st month was responsible for 489th traffic fatality of the year today Kreston Nettles 23 was killed Monday night when the automobile in which he was riding overturned in Comanche county The driver Ernest Jones 23 suffered minor in juries Both men were stationed in ort Sill Thomas Trotter 18 Pryor died in a Tulsa hospital today of injuries suffered in a motor scooter crash in Tulsa last Saturday Trotter was the third person killed in a motor scooter mishap last week The state death count at time last year was 410 Vinita lying Club To Be ormed Here Education Classes To Start Thursday Persons interested in enrolling adult education classes at Vinita highschool will attend an organ izational meeting at 7 Thurs day in the school building Among the courses scheduled to be offered are typing bookkeeping shorthand and education Thursday will be the last oppor tunity for enrollment ESH Entry Is Winner At Tulsa State air The grand championship ribbon was awarded to a Holstein bull ex hibited by Eastern State hospital at the Tulsa State fair Monday Other winners exhibited by East ern State hospital were: Senior yearling bull first heifer calf over four months second sen ior yearling heifer not in milk second junior get of sire four ani mals second: cow four years sec ond and dairy herd four animals third armers Ranchers Of County Meet riday A Craig countywide meeting all farmers and ranchers will held at 1 riday in the county courthouse annex Earl Odell chairman of the coun ty drouth committee said needs for the will GROUP TO CHECK ON CLOSED MEETINGS OKLAHOMA CITY Oct 2 The Grand River Dam Author ity's frequent tendency to bar news men from its meetings will studied by Sigma Delta Chi it disclosed today Ralph Sewell president of Oklahoma professional chapter of the journalistic fraternity said the matter will be referred to the state committee on freedom of information Sewell assistant managing editor of the lahoma GRDA from a in a week Monday Tuepker director of Public affairs of the Public Service co and former manager of the Vinita district will become new president of the company effective Nov 1 The announcement was made by Lane now president who will become chairman of the board a newly elected office in the company Howard Cowan former editor of the McAlester News Capital will be ap pointed director of public affairs succeeding Tuepker first job with the com pany was in 1923 in the ice depart ment as a summer worker while at tending college In January that year he became assistant auditor in the Okmulgee office and in 1929 was promoted to assistant purchas ing agent in the general office here In 1939 he joined the public af fairs department in charge of edu cation of employe service to cus tomers a 'Tuepker' was transferred 1642 to Vinita as area manager with supervision over 21 towns In 1948 he rejoined thte Tulsa central of fice as director of public affairs and was elected the next year to the board of directors Tuepker has been active in Tulsa civic affairs since his residence there He is Ardyth at 2639 Mrs Stevens Attends National HD Meeting Mrs Clyde Stevens route 4 Vi nita president of the Craig county home demonstration club council returned Saturday from San An Jonio Tex where she attended the national home demonstration coun cil meeting Sept 23 26 Oklahoma was represented by 105 delegates The convention featured reports from all state councils an address by Gov Allen Shivers of Texas in troduction of the new HD song "Ever Onward" and presentation of next program of work Numerous social affairs teas banquets and luncheons were a part of convention as were planned tours of San Antonio and other points of interest Mrs group visiting the extending of to watch at Pope's explain the operation Odell this examole: "If a wheat farmer puts 30 acres of wheat in the acreage reserve and the normal yield for the land is 15 bushels per acre the total would be 450 bushels This multiplied by $124 would gfte him a payment of $558" He said the farmer who takes part in the acreage reserve not only gets current income protection lor land he takes out of production but "he is doing his part to assure high er future prices for his crops by helping to reduce the huge supplies which new hang over the Two Escape Injury In Highway Mishap A Stone and his wife from Omaha Neb escaped injury at 5 :30 Monday when their car was forced off US 66 about five miles east of Vinita Stone who was driving his late model sedan said that an approach ing car was on the wrong traffic lane as it passed a string of vehicles had to get off the highway in order to avoid a collision" Stone said His car skidded on loose gravel and struck a concrete culvert The side of the car was badly damaged The offending driver did not stop Stone said is concerned Ray and Charles Ellis dis drouth Dr bank Jack Taylor Andy Rohmlller BEETLES RECOMMENDED WASHINGTON Oct 2 eel depressed? Discouraged? Unhappy? You might try eating roasted beetles That's peace of pygmies interior The Rev Dr Martin Gusinde professor of anthropology at Cath olic university and an expert on pygmies spilled the beans about the Jaftrpraducing beetles Monday 'kther Gusinde" jdst back from an expedition to New Guinea said the pygmies whom he visited live in a miserable environment But he said they are happy all the time anyway The 70 year old anthropologist said apparently eating the beetles that keep them that way The pygmies eat them roasted Republican Rally To Be Wednesday Cancer Society Show Scheduled Tonight Representatives of 22 or ganizations in Vinita will attend a preview of an American Cancer society movie at 7 :30 tonight in the small dining room at the Hotel Vinita The 90 minute movie is entitled Examination cer" Mrs Annabelle that plans call for shown to al! Craig county women at the Center theatre here the lat ter part of this month The moyie which is free would be shown on two mornings at the Center There will be no solicita tion of funds Mrs Southern is Craig county education committee chairman for the American Cancer society A Craig county republican rally at the courthouse annex in Vinita Is scheduled for 7:30 Wednes day At this rally republican leaders said movies will be shown with statements from President Dwight Eisenhower Vice President Nixon and cabinet members giving in dividual reports to the people Another film Peaceful Years" will also be shown Perry Butler republican nominee for congress from this district will show the films and and tv show the films and make the prin cipal talk Other republican candidates will be expected to attend and will be introduced The party leaders have issued an invitation to the public to attend the rally Butler said the meeting tn Vinita was part of a 16 county campaign that he is launching in the second district OUR PLACES Miss Rose Mary Shanahan mem ber of the Vinita 4 club placed third in the Tulsa State fair with her home improvement entry a table cloth and napkin Nearly EWS Color movies will be made Raymond Brangus cattle ranch north of Vinita as back ground for a series of 39 half hour television shows it was announced by Pope and Harry Donahue of the Donahue Studios in Hollywood Calif plan to shoot between 25 (MH) and 50000 feet of film at Clear View ranch" Donahue said exterior shots will be made here The intenors and close up shots of the actors will be made in our Hollywood Donahue said a script writer Adrian Johndoe will arrive here Thursday or riday of this week to spend about two or three weeks at ranch learn the his tory of the Brangus cattle" The Hollywood producer said the plots for the 39 TV shows will be built around the and headaches in the development of new breed of He said the actors for the shows have not been lined up ''We'll know more about ho should be cast for the roles after our writer works out his Donahue said A camera crew composed four or five men will arrive two weeks to start shooting the movies Additional footage will be shot in Ohio The TV series pleted and ready national network Donahue said Plans call for invitations to the public the making of the movies ranch Donahue returned to coast Monday after conferring with Pope He is due to be back in Vi nita next week Smile A Day Even the dark clouds have a sli ver lining for mother hasn't had to worry about the kids tracking mud into the house for some time Mayo Protests Closed Session Light Showers In September loyd Bennett Vinita garage operator told the jury that Wilder mutJi had brought his car to Ben netts garage Christmas eve Ben nett said the motor had a defective manifold exhaust gasket which caus ed carbon monoxide fumes The Vmitan said he did not have a gasket replacement and asked Wiidermuth to return the next day LeRoy Snow manager of No 2 cafe testified for the state and said Wiidermuth was stagger ing appeared to be intoxicated shortly before the crash Others appearing bn the witness stand were: Case's widow who described seven year old who said she was riding beside her father in the front seat of the car Trooper Ballard who told about the location of the vehicles after the accident Mrs mother of Wiidermuth who said her son in law was not intoxi cated and that he mad" at the cafe the morning of the collision Mrs McDougal is em ployed as a cook at No 2 Also Harry Williams A Law son jr Omer Williams and I Woods who were character witnesses for the defense Conard a mechanic who said he had once been overcome by carbon monoxide fumes but he was prevented from stating what effect the fumes would have on anyone else and Charles Gideon employed by uneral home who told about mak ing the trip to the accident scene Wheeler Mayo veteran state pub lisher walked out on a Grand River Dam authority meeting Monday in protest against a secret session Mayo took his action after board members voted 5 to 2 to bar re porters from the room "If the press is forced to leave I'm going with them" Mayo said The Sallisaw publisher has led a fight in the past to keep board members of the multi million dol lar public agency from acting in secret Ronnie Moore Vinita voted with Mayo to keep the meeting open to the public While the press was barred a state senator and a part of the GRDA staff were allowed to remain Details on the secret meeting disclosed but it was learned names of any employes were not Walter Hoss GRDA general man ager requested that reporters be barred from session Hoss told the board an executive session was needed to job classification and ule for employes don't think the general interest" Hoss said "It concerns personnel It is more or less a private Mayo protested strongly: don't need an executive session It was 60 days ago that the board ap pointed a committee to study the classification problem and report our is no need tor us to go behind locked doors" Mayo con tinued personally not going to be bound by executive sessions now or in the future when policy matters are Soviet Satellites Differ Dulles Says WASHINGTON Oct 2 (UP) Secretary of State John oster Dulles said today that Yugoslav Marshal dra matic trip to Russia shows there is a very real and serious problem between the Union and its satellites Dulles told a news conference the problem involves re lations with the satellites and also the relationship of Soviet commu nist party to satellite countries and parties The outcome of the current talks at Yalta between Tito and high Kremlin leaders will be taken into account when the Eisenhower ad ministration decides whether to continue aid to Yugoslavia Dulles said President Eisenhower will have make that decision this month More Than Dulles said he regards trip to Russia as more than a as the communists have billed it Anything as unexpected arid dra matic as Titos trip is evidence of a very real and serious problem he said It confirms the American view held for some time he said that the Soviet Union and the Soviet communist party has set in motion forces of restlessness by their down grading of Stalin Dulles Makes Charge Dulles charged today that the democratic Truman administration was responsible for bringing dictator Juan Peron to power in Argentina Dulles made the charge at his news conference in reply to demo cratic presidential candidate Adlai recent assertion that the Eisenhower administration sought to Peron before his ouster Stevenson said in Miami la last Tuesday that President Eisen brother Milton had assum ed "special if informal responsi for relations with Argen tina at the time of the alleged appeasement This charge has been previously denied by President Eisenhower and Dulles or Decision The Alfred (Red Wilmer) Wiidermuth murder trial was nearing its close today with the 12 member jury scheduled to begin deliberations at about mid afternoon County Attorney Louis Thomas in his final argument before the Jury early this afternoon demanded a life sentence for Wiidermuth who is accused of deliberately ramming his car into an approaching vehicle last Christmas Two Tulsans were kill ed In testimony this morning the de fendant testified that he out" at the wheel of his car short i ly before the crash and that he be lieved that escaping earbon mon oxide fumes caused him to black outHe said he was not intoxicated and that he had only two small drinks 'some time before the collision State Trooper Tom Ballard and Dr Donald Olson Vinita physi cian testified that they heard Wil dermuth's wife say her husband deliberately collided with the other car driven by Earl Vincent Case 30 year old Tutsan who was fatally injured Cases infant daughter also was killed Dr Olson said he was attending the other Case daughter Sherry at the hospital and overheard Mrs Wiidermuth 's statement Mrs Wii dermuth was not his patient Testimony ended at 11:10 a today when court recessed after which District Judge Robert Hert Stillwater read the instruc tions to the jury' inal arguments by the attorneys began at 1 In Monday afternoon's testimony Wiidermuth wife Pat 24 jury that she knew of only one "or dinary size mixed drink had some time before the he said he was not intoxicated and testified that his hands sud denly left the steering wheel and that he slumped forwart turned around in the seat" she said screamed" Denies Statement She denied saying at the hospital after the crash that her husband deliberately rammed his car into Case's auto She also denied that she and her husband had been quarreling Mrs Wiidermuth said she and her husband had coffee at No 2 cafe west of Vinita and that the motor of the car Was left running Upon her return to the car she de tected carbon monoxide fumes she said The collision occurred a short later Of Pope Ranch Are Planned.