The Hooker Advance from Hooker, Oklahoma • 1

I Okla. Historical Society Exc. Oklahoma Okla, THE HOOKER A ADVANCE Peers As Tho By ROD The house numbering campaign is progressing with many citizens taking interest in getting their residence numbers up. Many who didn't know the correct numbers for their homes have inquired at the city clerk's office and there has been a little confusion in learning proper numbers in some cases. However, city marshal Dudley Smith has now taken the bull by the horns and has made a skeleton map showing house numbers which will be placed in the clerk's office.

There will be a few houses located in difficult positions for numbering but these will be worked out. In the north part of the city, north of Panhandle, and in the west section, west of Jefferson the numbering will be much easier than in the original town. In these sections the general rule to follow is to use odd numbers on the right facing north and east and even numbers on the other sides. With a few exceptions, all houses will be concerned with north and south streets and therefore can be numbered odds to the right facing north. Panhandle will be the starting point in the north part of the city and the first block north will be the 100 block, second 200, third 300.

The first 50 foot lot north of Panhandle will be 101; the last lot in the first block will be 111. The first 50 foot lot in the second block will be 201, etc. Numbers on the left side of the same street would correspondingly be 102, 112, 202, etc. Main street will be the northsouth divison point in the Murphy Morris edition. For example the 50-foot lots in the first block on on Jackson north of Main would be 101-111 and 102-112 north Jackson; second block 201-211 and 202- 212 north Jackson.

South of Main numbers would be determined the same way only an address would be, for example, 206 south Jackson. Let's all give it a whirl and get. house numbers up. If you can't figure out your proper number, drop in at the city clerk's office Combines are rolling in the great Hooker wheat area. Farmers have been very anxious to get in their fields which have been thoroughly soaked by recent rains.

Several were making rounds in drier spots of their fields Monday afternoon and others started Tuesday. Harvest isn't expected to get into full swing, however, until sometime next week, observers speculate. Everyone in this area is interested in harvest. Being the main occupation it governs the whole community's livelihood When there is a good harvest everyone profits, when harvest is poor everyone feels the brunt of it. So, with the fine looking wheat here it's easy to understand the pleasant smiles on the faces of local residents.

HAIR OF THE DOG No matter how hot you feel looking at him, the long-haired dog is perfectly comfortable in summer and you'll do him no favor at all by having him clipped. So says Cosmopolitan magazine, explaining that veterinarians believe a longhaired dog's coat serves not only as defense against winter cold, but also an insulation against sum mer heat. Furthermore, an unwelcome haircut destroys the dog's natural protection agains pesky flies. la. 1221.2 CLOSE DAILY VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL AT ADAMS Vacation Bible, School at the Adams Baptist Church closed Friday night with commencement for 50 pupils.

Seventy-one were enrolled with an average daily attendance of 48. An offering of $12.95 was given to Oklahoma City to be used where most needed to support Baptist Mission. Miss Marie Conyer of Bolivar, sudent of Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, was supt. and junior leader and Karleen Horton, Amarillo, Texas, also a student at O. B.

was supt. of the intermediate department with Mr. Ray Johnston as assistant. Helping in the junior department were Mrs. Orville Stuck, Mrs.

Neal Mann and Miss Ellen Koehler. Primary supt. was Mrs. Roy Calhoon, assisted by Mrs. Herman Klassen.

Mrs. J. H. Campbell was beginners' supt. with Mrs.

Jay Dixon as assistant. Rev. Jay Dixon and Clarence Voth supervised the boys' woodwork and handcraft. Mrs. H.

C. Reuszer furnished materials and supervised the intermediate girls in making satin and net sachet bags. Other adult members of the Church worked wth the leaders in helping to make the school a success. WE PUBLISH THE OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF BOTH COUNTY AND CITY HOOKER, TEXAS COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1949 VOLUME 46 citizens OPTIMA WINS OVER LOCALS IN PITCHERS' DUEL Wheat Harvest Begins HereFull Scale Cutting Next Week Harvest began in the Hooker area Tuesday with combines entering the drier spots in the wet fields. The first load of new wheat brought to Hooker was reported by John Wright at the Johnston Grain Co.

Wednesday, morning. The wheat was cut by Irving Hill, tested 56 pounds and is making around 10 bushels, it was reported. Other farmers are anxious to begin harvest and many are being held up only by wet fields. Harvesting of the majority of the wheat will probably be started next week barring further rain. Recent rains have soaked the fields and many old lakes are filled again ruining hundreds of acres of good wheat.

However, wheat around the country looks good and should produce a good yield. Many farmers report they expect their wheat to be lighter than last year and wheat being hauled now indicates that this may be expected. Some is shriveled somewhat which will cut yields from five to ten per cent, they estimate. This situation will probably cause the yield in this area to be slightly less per acre than last year's crop. The new Neuerburg Grain.

Co. elevator is being tested and will be' ready to go the first of the week, Wm. Neuerburg announced Wednesday. He added that his elevator would be able to handle about 250,000 bushels of government storage this year provided the moisture was 13 or below. The old elevator, which was struck by lightning Sunday night, is being repaired and was used some Wednesday.

Mr. Neuerburg stated that the first load of new wheat received there belonged to Otto Huebner, cut Tuesday and hauled in Wednesday morning, testing 57 pounds. The usual flood of custom combine men hasn't appeared yet and word received here indicates that most of them are being held up in the south and eastern part of the country by floods. It is presumed, however, that they will make their appearance next week. While the wheat is ripening fast, harvest will be a little later than last year and although estimates are unreliable at this stage of the game many predict a crop this year nearly equal to last year's yield.

Prospects in the areas that have not been visited by hail are very good and farmers are looking forward to a good harvest. Most wheat of the county is well filled and standing up well so far despite weather extremities. Barring further rains and with a few days of sunshine the wheat will finish ripening and should be ready for a full swing harvest next week. Just what the box car supply will be this year is hard to predict. If all the wheat ripens at the same time storage space will again be a I problem, as it is every year.

Many farmers have stated that they expect to pile it on the ground again this year when vators and granaries are filled. NOTICE "TO ICE CUSTOMERS Ice may be purchased at the dock on Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m. George Bergen, Water Supt. DR. ROBERT LENEVE RETURNS FROM SERVICE Dr.

and Mrs. Robert Leneve arrived in Hooker Saturday for a visit with the former's mother, Mrs. Mary Leneve. Dr. Leneve has just returned from Japan where he has been stationed for nearly two years with the Army.

Mrs. Leneve met him in San Francisco, Calif. At the conclusion of their visit they will go to Detroit, where Dr. Leneve will continue his medical training. NOTICE TO CUSTOMERS You may get your McNess products during harvest at the H.

B. Herndon residence at corner of Main and Lorenz. Phone 1158. 18-2t-c Mr. and Mrs.

D. C. Hampsten and their daughter, Mrs. Clayton Nash of Canon City, Colo. will go to Oklahoma City Thursday, where Mr.

Hampsten will take a series of x-ray treatments. Big Roy Ansley and Art Churchman locked horns Sunday as Optima and Hooker battled for second place in the Panhandle League. The game was played at fever pitch all the way before nearly 1,000 fans, some of them rabid enough to qualify for residence in Brooklyn. Big Roy pitching to Red Schroeder, let his erstwhile team mates down with 5 hits, scattering them effectively. The ace southpaw from Hooker pitched a good game and a allowed only 5 hits.

The Optima batting attack was led by Doc Meier and Ted Stebbens with 2 hits each. T. Hinchey made a sensational stop of Fast's sizzling drive in the sixth. M. Stebbens robbed Couch of tremendous extra base hit in the 6th and Couch retaliated by snagging Roy Ansley's towering 400 foot.

smash to right center in the 7th. Guymon will play here next Sunday. RHE Hooker 000 000 0 5 2 Optima 000 030 10x 4 5 3 LIBERAL STOPS GUYMON The Liberal Boosters on a 19- hit batting spree at Guymon Sunday won their second league encounter over the host team 14-8. Carter, strong on the mound for Liberal, whiffed 11 of the Guymon batsmen while he and Hoeckendorf, Kiser and Criswell punched out doubles to speed up the fray. Cooper allowed Liberal 19 hits while Carter held Guymon to 8.

W. Lewis punched out the strongest hit of the game when he hit a 3-bagger in the ninth inning. LEAGUE STANDING Pan. Eastern 5 Optima 4 2 Straight 3 2 Hooker 2 2 Liberal 3 Phillips Guymon OHN 4 GUYMON HERE SUNDAY Sunday afternoon the Hooker nine will attempt to bounce back up the ladder in league standing when Guymon plays here. In other league games, Phillips will play at Liberal and Panhandle Eastern will visit Straight.

LEGION JUNIORS WIN GAME The Voiles Rockets, Hooker Legion junior baseball team, won a game at Hugoton, Kansas, Sunday in a 15-3 The Hooker juniors, sparked by Kilgore on the mound, displayed good fielding and hitting to take their second game from Hugoton. D. M. PARKER IS NEW PASTOR HERE Rev. D.

M. Parker, new pastor of the Orva Mathes Memorial Methodist church, arrived with his family last Thursday and preached his initial sermon at the local church Sunday morning. He replaces Rev. Louie Marsh, who 1S now pastor at the Creston Hills Methodist church in Oklahoma City. Rev.

Parker comes to Hooker from Oklahoma City, where he served as pastor of the Pennsylvania Avenue Methodist church. Prior to going to Oklahoma City he was pastor of the Yukon Methodist church. Rev. Parker reveived his training for the ministry at the Southwest Baptist College, Boliver, Mo. and the Southern Methodist University at Dallas, Texas.

Mrs. Parker is a graduate of the South Central College at Durant. They have six children, Mrs. J. Hearn, Weatherford, Texas, Cha Charles E.

of Henryetta, Pfc. Thomas Dale of the U.S. Marines, and Daris M. known as Wayne and Cooper of the home. LAPITOL REPORT ROY J.

TURNER Lightning Strikes Ice Plant and Elevator In Sunday Storm Lightning struck in Hooker Sunday night during the rainstorm. The city ice plant and the old Neuerberg Grain Co. elevator were struck, with wiring damage resulting at both places and a fire in the elevator. In both instances the lightning came in on the electrical wiring and burned the meters and wiring up and at the elevator the fire arched from the meter to the side of the building and burned a hole. This is being repaired and will be to the elevator fire and he new fire truck made its first real call.

The fire department was called ready to go today it is reported. The firemen complained that too many spectators were present and sadly in the way Three cars were reported around the fire hydrant needed and should the fire have gotten very serious the fire department's efficiency would have been greatly reduced. People following the fire truck have become a nuisance, firemen and city officers say, and this ordinances call for a fine for. all practice must be stopped. City following the truck and in the future this will be enforced, according to law officials.

A crew of volunteer firemen' will be announced soon and only these will be permitted with their cars at the scene of fires. All others will be handed a ticket by officers. BROTHER OF LOCAL MAN DIES TUESDAY The cards, flowers and visits while I was in the hospital and later at home were deeply appreof you ciated, and I thank you all for LIONS CLUB MINSTREL TERMED HUGE SUCCESS Local people have termed the Lions club minstrel last Thursday and Friday an overwhelming success. A full house attended each night's frolic. There were many surprised looks on the faces of members of the audience as they were ushered to their seats by colored men and mammies.

The ushers picked their victims and the crowd enjoyed a show of its own before the curtain of the main show. The show was local talent and displayed colorful costumes, superb acting and a diversified card of attractions. The customary end men drew howls of laughter with their jokes and gags straight from Harlem, and various novelty acts, tap dancing, negro spritual numbers, beauty contests and an accomplished choir kept the crowd thoroughly entertained. After intermission the colored people attended church on the stage starting from the opening song through the sermon, and ended with a negro church wedding. This event was a show of its own and sent the crowd home well pleased with the evening.

Proceeds of the show will go to the local Lions club treasury to be used for civic improvements in Hooker. CLINIC BUILDING MOVED IN TUESDAY EVENING The building for the new Blackmer-Cawley Clinic at Panhandle and Jefferson has been moved to its foundation. The building, a former army air base medical building at Liberal, Kansas, was moved here Tuesday evening. After difficulties in the soft ground, the movers got the building settled on its foundation Wednesday. The clinic building will undergo extensive construction and redecoration before occupancy.

CARD OF THANKS them. D. C. Hampsten Mr. and Mrs.

William Burdge to Oklahoma City Sunday after Mr. and Mrs. Asa Levitt, who had been visiting relatives there. Mr. and Mrs.

Levitt, whose home is in Ceres, California, have been visiting the Burdge familie: here for several weeks. REMEMBER FATHER, BUILDER OF OUR NATION'S FUTURE FATHER'S DAY JUNE 19 TODAYS CHICKEN ARE HORRORS AMERICA SWIMMING POOL WORK PROGRESSING RAPIDLY Work on the new swimming pool in the city park is progressing despite recent rains. Workmen have been hindered rains filling the excavated pool and making ground too soft for handling heavy equipment. Excavation of the pool was completed two weeks ago and the first of the week the forms were built, steel reinforcement in place and ready for concrete work. It is hoped that construction of the pool and bath house facilities will be completed early in July in order that the pool may be used this season.

Tile for the sewer connections from pool to sewer is on the grounds and it and the water pipe will be ready before the pool is completed. The construction is getting started and visible showing can probably be noted day by day from now until completion of the project. RIDING CLUB ARENA UNDER CONSTRUCTION The arena and rodeo grounds for the Hooker Riding Club is being constructed in the new city park in west Hooker with work going ahead as material is received. The arena has been laid off and the posts and fencing are being constructed. Plans have been made for early construction of the corrals and chutes back of the arena.

The riding club grounds are located in the southernmost part of the park. LOCAL RESIDENTS INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT Mr. and Mrs. John Elmore of Hooker were injured in an automobile accident five miles east of Pratt, Kansas, Saturday afternoon. Mrs.

Elmore is in the St. Francis hospital in Wichita where she is in serious condition with a broken leg, bruises and shock. Mr. Elmore was bruised about the face and body but was not hospitalized. The Elmores were meeting a Guymon welding truck and as they were passing a heavy tool box fell off the truck and the Elmore car couldn't maneuver quickly enough to avoid hitting the obstacle.

The car overturned and and was demolished. Mr. and Mrs. Elmore had started to Wichita Saturday morning taking Barbara Ann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Otis Begole, to her home and were enroute when the accident occured. Barbara Ann was shaken up but not injured. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Pliley and Velma Lea went to Wichita Sun day to be with Mrs.

Pliley's mother at the hospital. Mr. Pliley returned Tuesday and the family remained wih Mr. Elmore to care for Mrs. Elmore.

WEATHER Weather for the week as recorded by H. H. Stearman is as follows: Thursday 75 55 Friday 78 58 Saturday 84 60 Sunday 86 62 1.05 Monday 78 61 Tuesday 80 58 Wednesday 85 51 NEW ADVANCE READER Glen Briles of Dombey called at the Advance office last week and added Ben DeSpain, Depauw Ind. to the growing list of Advance readers. Mr.

DeSpain, a former Texas County teacher, taught at the Neff school in 1913 and the Appleton school in 1914 and '15. Mr. Briles, one of his former pupils, recalls that there were 96 pupils in the Appleton school his first year, 42 of whom were in the first grade. Truck operators violating our state licensing and weight limit laws are facing extremely heavy penalties. I cannot issue too strong or stern a warning to them.

Legislation adopted in the Twenty-second session establishes penalties which can aggregate thousands of dollars for single violations. For example, a truck licensed to carry 25,000 pounds, but apprehended with a load of 50,000 pounds, is subject to an additional tax and penalties aggregrating approximately $3,000. This should make it abundantly clear that the game of operating under-licensed and over-loaded trucks on Oklahoma's streets and highways is not worth the candle. The need for strict adherence to the law is urgent upon all truck operators. It is my recommendation that all operators now violating provisions of our new legislation proceed immediately and without delay to re-license their trucks in proper categories if they expect to carry heavier loads than those for which their trucks are licensed.

Legislation enacted at the last: session makes enforcement of the law mandatory upon the state tax commission, and truck operators may be very sure that the enforcement phase will be thoroughly done. Special mobile units, equipped with two-way radio and portable scales and manned by state highway patrol troopers and tax commission representatives, soon will be working roads and highways throughout the length and breadth of the state. The men in these units will be thoroughly familar with ruses adopted by truck drivers, who know that their trucks are being operated in violation of state laws. An offending truck driver, who responds to warning signals from another driver and turns down a side-road to escape detection, may find himself neatly trapped on that side-road. I would like to make it very clear that it is not the purpose of the state to use this law as a means of producing additional revenue.

The primary purpose of the law is to preserve our streets and highways by putting an end to their abuse by over-loaded vehicles. Another purpose is to end the abuse of our licensing laws. It should be remembered that truck operators who abuse these laws not only are avoiding payment of their just taxes, but also are operating in unfair competition with operators who obey the law. It is my sincere hope that no operator will subject himself to the extremely heavy penalties now attendant upon violators. The only way for a truck operator to be certain that such penalties will not be assessed against him in to act immediately to comply with the law.

The need for immediate compliance is most urgent, and those who delay in complying are taking a great financial risk. or see J. O. Tucker, 79, of Elkhart, Kansas, brother of S. T.

Tucker of this city, passed away Tuesday at the Northwest Texas hospital in Amarillo following an operation. Mr. Tucker, a native of Kentucky, came to Kansas in 1905. He engaged in farming for a number of years and when Elkhart was established moved to town and entered the merchantile business. He had retired from business and at the time of his death was police judge.

Funeral services will be held at Elkhart the last of the week with burial at Guymon. CARD OF THANKS I want to thank each you who sent cards, flowers and gifts while I was in the hospital. Your kindness was deeply appreciated. Mrs. Imogene Hill.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ewert returned last week from Wichita, where they were called to attend the funeral of Mrs. Ewert's brother's wife, Mrs. Louis W.

Bauerle. with FIVE POLIO PRECAUTIONS FOR PARENTS Warning that the 1949 polio season is "just around the corner," the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis has issued a list of precautionary measures that should be observed by those in charge of children during the epidemic danger period, which usually runs from May through October, reaching its peak during the hot mid-summer months. The five easy-to-follow health rules for children are: 1. Avoid crowds and places where close contact with other persons is likely. 2.

Avoid over-fatigue caused by too active play or exercise, or irregular hours. 3. Avoid swimming in polluted water. Use only beaches or public pools declared safe by local health. authorities.

4. Avoid sudden chilling. Remove wet shoes and clothing at once and keep extra blankets and heavier clothing handy for sudden weather changes. 5. Observe the golden rule of personal cleanliness.

Keep food tightly covered and safe from flies or other insects. Garbage should. be tightly covered and, if other dis posal facilities are lacking, should be buried or burned..