The McIntosh County Democrat du lieu suivant : Checotah, Oklahoma • 1

4 4 le Couniu Ikmocnu Volums 43 Number 4 OICIAL CITY PAPER LOCAL SCHOOLS The Brass Lends a Hand AGAINST CHANGE were IN GRID SET UP AS WAR NEARS 100 Millions on 12 Veterans' Bonus Petition Readied bases for the car of hi health department 23 to in Eufaula in con the weekly clinic ed Dei tant i Mr and Mrs Harold Slsy and children spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Ed Valentine in Decatur Ark Mr and Mrs Harold Ritchie and children of St Joseph Mo are visiting Judge and Mrs Lemley 1 armers Union Elects Officers A Mac Office Makes 3 Arrests CHECOTAH OKLAHOMA THURSDAY DECEMBER 14 1950 Soei Mr and Mrs Coleman moved into their recently pur chased home in the south section of the city Mrs Odell Klutts of Muskogee visited Miss rances Shepherd 'Monday IRST IN NEWS IRST IN ADVERTISING IRST IN READER INTEREST KERR'S OICE IN HIGH GEAR inal draft of the proposed ini tiative petition for vote on a vet erans bonus in Oklahoma was submitted in Oklahoma City Mon day to Jack Burger El Reno state commander of the Veterans of oreign Wars by District Judge Baker Melone Melone was chairman of a spe cial committee named to prepare the draft The proposal will be filed with the secretary of state in a few days The proposed constitutional amendment calls for a bonus for veterans leaving to the legisla ture the method Of financing payment It would call for maxi mum bonus of $500 for those with foreign service and for $300 maxi mum for service in the United States Barney ields was arrested by sheriff's deputies last week on charges of larceny after stealing a rifle quilt and miscellaneous items from the homeof Alfred Mitchell near Hanna 1 Pearly Saiawake of HenryettlK was jailed on a bogus check count and released after making bond The Jackson grocery at Lenna was robbed Wednesday night by thieves who broke the lock off the door About $20 in cash and a quan tity of candy were taken Sheriff Clarence Douglas ex pected to apprehend the robbers at an early date All officers of the Checotah chapter of the Oklahoma arm ers Union were re elected at the annual election held December 7 Leo Bierwirth was named on the board af directors replacing Keller Lemon Jeffries was elected leader of the Junior group Delegates were also nam ed to attend the state convention in Oklahoma City in January The group voted to raise the membership dues in the county to $5 a year and increase of $250 This will leave $275 for the lo cal to pay the salary of the sec reary treasurer or other author ized person to take charge of the insurance for the county Grade Classes Present Program Wildkittens Win ootball Trophy Wildkittens crowned official champiops of the Muskogee Gra league and were presented a beuatiful trophy Coach Russell Towry stated this week The champions of other league declined to meet the Kittens in the scheduled playoff game for the chanmion ship The trophy will be award ed locally at the assembly at 2:15 riday afternoon The Wildkittens built an en viable record this year Mr Tow ry coach modestly compared them to the champion Oklahoma University Sooners "Of said he Sooners had a lit tle tougher schedule barely win ning several of its games while the Kittens only once were press ed to win Thu Kittens did not get the notiiety the Sooners did but game for game the Kittens had the better With raley at quarter Em erson and Hill at fullback Deck ard and Bear at halgback the Kittens ran for touchdown after touchdown flashing brilliance in every game The passing combi nation raley to End Benny Os borne netted many touchdowns and extra points With Hill and Brashears alternating at center Morgan Lucas Smith and Beach at guard Kirkland Cagle and Brashears at tackle and Osborne and Wells ct ends the line was a tough one for the opposition to crack In fact in several of the games the opposing team actual ly lost more ground than it gain ed through the line Several of the team members gave promise of stardom in the days to come on the high school tegm The 1950 record of the unbeat en 'Wildkittens follows: AGED WOMAN HONORED ON NINETIETH BIRTHDAY Mrs Lucy Sidvege was honored was honored Sunday afternoon with a party at the City Cafe The occasion honored Mrs Sid 90th birthday i Those present were: Mr' and Mrs Raymond Stone and chil dren Mr and Mrs Roscoe West Mr and Mrs Ronnie Dobson and Mrs Sidvege LEADING IN CIRCULATION TWO TO ONE Your Cheapest Advertising Medium Archery Experts To Show At School The National Assemblies of Los Angeles have secured another of their unusual attractions to ap pear at Checotah High school on December 20 at 3 in the afternoon This unique program of archery demonstration is one of the sea highlights The unheralded revival of in terest in arenery makes this pro gram an important event on the calendar of thy school this year Classes To Present Recital Sunday A recital to be presented by the grade school and high school pu pils of Mrs Elva Niles will be held at 5:00 Sunday afternoon in the high school au ditorium Grade school5 pupils who wilt participate are: Carol Allton Lynn Buford Jill Blackburn Ja nie Broyles Rickey Cornstuble Kay oley Raymond ranklin Donald Heckendorn Mildred Harmon Mary Heim Joan Hens ley Gwendolyn Knight Bill Koch Annette Lynn Betty Lou Martin Caroline Sue Marlin Delores North Joan Patterson Anna Lean Ritchie Ellis Stout Patricia Sales Evelyn Wells Jimmie Wiser Judy Wiser Carol Young The junioc and senior high pu pils are: Martha McClintock Lynn Vandiver Johnny Johnson Ruth Nichols Beverly Knight Kathrine Sparks Patty Dryden Wanda Ireland "Shirley Shahan Dwight Kcaliher Betty Ann Stout Patty North Dorothy Bum ham Sharon Heckendorn Bar bara Kirby Caroline Kealiher Nancy Robertson Nancy Johnson and Sue oley Eddie Holt Joins Security Air Police Insured protection for air bases of the air force will be as sured following the graduation ef a new St Security Air Police including Pvt Eddie Holt son of Mrs Mildred Holt of Checotah Holt together with others from all parts of the country has spent the last four weeks in an inten sive course of instruction at the Tyndal air force base in Panama City la Most of the airmen came direct from indoctrination training at Lackland Air orce Base Texas Instruction in the school has included training in the use of weapons field exercises securi ty patrol and many other phases of police work that will increase protection of air against enemy raids With Health Unit Maurice Plunkett public health assistant has been assigned to McIntosh county in addition to his duties in Muskogee county according to an announcement from Dr William Coe district public health director Plunkett who is a former Che cotahan and well known through out the county has been with the public since 1946 He will be nection with each Monday ield work sched uled for the coming year will in clude a wide educational program featuring movies and lectures in schools of the county PURSING IIIS LIPS and pushing hard Air Vice Marshal ninr Rritih liafann flfficP on staff lends a hand to struggling with a jeep that has left a Korean road The Briton was on his way to visit hiscountrymen and their American comrades in the front line jf' (U Army Photograph) Proposals 1o change the state football playoff system which would put Checotah in a class A conference along with McAles ter and Henryetta drew heated protests from Checotah school of ficials this week The new scheme for" a AA division to be made up of the 16 largest schools of the state and the next 64 schools wilt make up the A division Under the new stepup the present football conference now known as the NOAA would be disbanded Superintendent red Ogle said? the new plan would ruin 'Che football schedule add that efforts are being made at this' time to rescind the new regular tioh and go back to the playoff system under which we are now operating The local schools with the as sistance of the guidance division of Oklahoma A and college is setting up a plan of guidance for the students of the high school The ninth grade students and seniors are taking a series of tests at this time provided by A and college These tests will be scored and evaluated by the college and the evaluation sent back to the school adminis tration for tiie purpose of helping the students plan their future work in high and in laater life The program is designed for the benefit of tne student and not be used for the purpose of determining grades or graduation from high schooL Parents interested in th re i tests uccyiut Lunch Workshop Held Saturday A county lunch program work shop was ld at the Longfellow dining room Saturday and a school of instruction was con ducted by trained dieticians from Poteau and Shawnee Mrs Griff Golding county field representative of the school lunch program presided at the meet ing Those attending were: Mrs Robert Haggard of Eufaula school Mrs Alma Lyles of Onapa Mrs Dovie Pendley of Hanna Mrs Dovie Smith of Mountain View Mrs Drury Williams of ame Mrs Rosalee Miller of Central High and Mesdames Ola Kirkland Joyce Browning and Sylvia Mart'n of Checotah Coach Iba Tells of Difference in Ends Of Ball Court The two ends of a basketball court are as different as night and day says Coach Hank Iba of the Oklahoma Aggies speaking of the offensive end and the defensive and of the maple lanes the offensive he tells his Aggies are a dressed up dude parading down Basketball avenue fancy and you slick and the co eds in the balcony are Waiting for you to Then the ball changes hands you fall back on the de fense off come those fancy sport coats in jumpers and jeans and digging with a shovel dude can play offense Any school ground laddie can throw that ball up Where do they separate the men from boys? They do it down in the defensive trenches Oldest Business Institution KitabllakeS la la Staa Territory ItwMnVr 14 1W WILDCATS LOSE CAGEOPENER The Checotah Wildcats lost the first jt'onferencc basketball game of the season Tuesday night by a 38 to 22 margin to the Stig ler Panthers In a contest played at the local gymnasium Checotah took an early lead but was quickly overtaken when Loudermilk star center started dropping in shots from all angles The Panthers held a slim one point lead at the half after trail ing by two points in the first period Loudermilk scored five baskets and two free throws for 12 points to lead both teams Top point getter for the locals was Junior Dixon guard with 10 points on three from the field and four from the charity line The Checotah girl team which expects to have an outstanding year easily beat Okay in the cur tain raiser Harry Chenault spent Monday in Oklahoma City' arm Committees Elected In County The Production and Marketing Administration held its annual convention to nominate and elect a county committee to carry out the program for 1951 in the court house in Eufaula Monday Committeemen elected were: Sneed chairman Claude Popejoy vice chairman and John lud member The delegates attending the convention and participating in the naming of the epunty com mittee were: Kidd Bill Jenings Brandon Lee Og Jennings GW Brandon Lee Og Dan Lesley Bogard Virgil Dover and Pickle (olfon Meeting Is Set for December ire Destroys County arm Home The farm home formerly oc cupied by Mr and Mrs Charlie Boyd a mile and a half north of Checotah on highway 69 was stroyed by fire Monday The house caught from a grass fire which swept quickly across the yard The flames fanned by a high wind engulfed land com pletely consumed thehouse in a half hour fire department was able to save thg bam and other small buildings the grass fire which" covered a quarter mile area threatening adjacent prop erties The farm home was the prop erty of and Russell Koch Egg Prices Over State Are Soaring Oklahomans paid as high" as 81 cents a dozen for eggs riday and the only market change in prospect was higher prices at least until after Christmas In Market standing feature in your Demo crat American and TIMES the price of eggs has not appeared for the past several weeks due to the uncertainty and rapid fluctua tion of the egg market An all time high of $2310 a case 77 cents a dozen was being paid for grade A white eggs on the wholesale" market at Oklahoma City The old high of 2210 72 cents a dozen was established Dec 10 1919 In Tulsa wholesale prices hit 80 cents a dozen Since eggs now selling in grocery stores are based orf lower prices a few days agothefull impact of the in crease has not been felt armers were drawing from $16 to $19 a case from Oklahoma City produce houses That fig ures at 53 to 63 cents a dozen Eggs were selling in Oklahoma City grocery stores at 59 cents for lowest grades to 81 for top quality Most frequent price range was 69 to 79 cents Tulsa retailers expected their prices to hit 85 to 90 cents a dozen this month One produce owner blamed cur rent high prices on low prices last summer increased travel calls for extra caution on part i Plunkett To Serve It everyone will taKe a little more time during the holiday rush just enough to be careful when driving on the highway or cross ing streets and in recreational and home activities everyone will be assured of a much happier Christ mas artdNfw death take your holi or anyone Dearborn urged 18 al Muskogee Cotton farmers from Sequoyah county and nine other counties throughout this area will meet at the fairgrounds in Muskogee Monday December 18 starting at 10 a to plan the 1951 state cotton crop This is the second in a series of special meetings where farmers will be told of the critical short age of cotton at the present time and the need for more cotton next year if our military and domestic needs are to be met Other counties to be represent ed in the Muskogee meeting in clude: Rogers Mayes Tulsa Wagoner Okmulgee Muskogee Haskell McIntosh and Lelore ollowing the Muskogee meet ing will be similar programs at Durant December 19 Hobart December 20 and Chickasha De cember 21 according to Shawnee Brown state extension director A meeting will be held in Still water December 15 State PMA officials cotton ginners Production Credit exten sion and other agencies are co operating in the series of educa tional meetings to let all fanners know the cotton situation and to help make their 1951 crop plans accordingly Road Progress Spent in 4 Years road building prog ress during four years ending with 1950 will closely hug an eye popping $100 million mark exclu sive of work done by state crews Highway Director Bailey says in a report directed to show ing the taxpayers what they got for their money On Dec 1 the report shows'the fast strides in road build ing summed up $94549578 for whiflt ftie fSxpayer received 5 356 miles of construction vj A $3366363 contract letting for 32644 miles has since been held District Commissioner Paul Carlile of Sallisaw says the record is the most potent hypodermic ever given transportation facili ties in Oklahoma in a like period The report is exclusive of $19 338086 construction that was'eon tracted previous to Gov Roy administration but com pleted by his 8 man commission The four year pay as you go improvements on the state system not counting the December let ting produced 3199 miles 380 new bridges and 126 reconstruct ed for $75902184 Out of this the taxpayer got 2 465 miles of high type paving built for $58692666 A run down of the report also discloses that the state system was further improved with 690 miles of gravel surface for $11 796432 arm to market projects gave rural citizens 2157 miles of road 281 new bridges and 31 recon structed for $18647393 The De cember letting contained no such projects Included in the farmer got Were 274 miles of paved roads for $3033412 and 1769 miles of grav el surfaced roads built for $11 181116 Says the report: construction has been first class permanent standards un der specifications equ al to or bet ter than the national standards established by the American As of State Highway Offi erosion control features ar included in all new construc "Oklahoma is now well ahead of the national average in all phases of the federal road pro gram and is pulling farther ahead all the "Where standards specifica tions and other conditions are similar and which therefor offer an accute means of comparison Oklahoma costs are lower than the average of those of surround ing on items where there is considerable variance in specifi cations standards and local condi tiohs does Oklahoma show a slightly higher could very easily be cause we are building better roads of this type than surrounding Committee Seeks Action Against All State Speed Traps The judiciary committee of the state legislative council has unan imously approved enactment of laws forbidding local units of government to create and enforce shakedown traps such as the notorious Dewar speed trap which operated until a short time ago according to State Senator Roy White chairman Literally hundreds of Oklaho mans and scores of out of state motorists have been caught in the Dewar trap's claws and in each case they were assessed a fine of S77a without benefit legal representation or trial Court Hause Plans A ShoRmoliday The McIntosh county court house in Eufaula will be closed from Saturday December 23 to Wednesday December 27 county officials have announced The offices will be closed on riday evening at 5:00 and will remain closed for the Christmas holidays until the fol lowing Wednesday morning at 8 i Safety Council is 0 6 suits of these tests are freetof 0 check the results as soon aS tlOy 0 are available I 1 ne lentil ana eievenm students will be given this jsaiie program during their Senoryeir Ogle said that the city sctwols would be dismissed for the Christmas holidays riday De cember 22 and will reopen Tues day January 2 Trying jo iQVfer Holliday Mishaps Americans were asked this week to celebrate the year end holidays by keeping themselves and the Christmas spirit alive this year That plea launched thejNation al Safety Cntistmas safety campaign in which 161 national organizations are coop erating The campaign is aimed at re ducing the increasing number of accidents throughout the nation Special emphasis will be placed on traffic accidents which have taken an upward swing over the nation this year although the toll in Oklahoma is down slightly Traffic deaths for the first nine months of 1950 were up 11 per cent and the council predicts that the traffic death toll for the year is certain to reach 35 000 Tais wouldbe the highest since 1941 and the only year since 1946 to show an increase Christmas New holiday season is the peak acci dent period of the year" said Ned Dearborn president of the council traffic accidents present the most acute problem Heavier travel and the festive spirit of the season always add to the normal winter hazards of bad weather slippery roads and added hours of darkness more people will be trav eling this year" he said ice men and women will be com ing home on holiday leaves and some families will be traveling to military camps to spend the holi days with those who cannot come home Court Okays (igarel Tax La If you have been smoking what you thought to be free" Mis souri cigarets then you got smoke blown in your eyes and st hole burned in your pocket Tues day when a three judge ederal court in Washington DC upheld the so called Jenkins act which congress adopted last year to help 40 states in c4trcting taxes On out of state cigaret purchases Constitutionality of the act was challenged there last April in a suit brought against US Attorney General McGrath by Consumer Mail Order association of Ameri ca of Joplin Mo and a number of association members The law requires that When cigarets are sold and shipped di rect to a smoker in another state the seller must make a monthly report to the tobacco tax admin istrator of that state The pur pose of the act is to give the lo cal authorities opportunity to de mand payment of the local tax Conoco Station Is Robbed Of $11 Torn Ritchie's Conoco service station was robbed Tuesday aft ernoon when two tourists sim ply opened the cash drawer and helped themselves lo the cur rency The take totaled only $11 since Ritchie had just cashed a number of checks for customers' The two thieves who were driving a 1935 blue Chevrolet with an Illinois tag left the sil ver and checks in the cash draw They were having a battery i charged at the filling station The attendant went outside to fix a flat leaving the strangers in side the office Ritchie did not I discover the loss until the men had been ne for sometime He Santa Claus a musical play di notified Sheriff Clarence Doug retted by Luveria Dixon and las who sent out a general alarm Yvonne Wrght will be present ed at the high school auditorium at 2:15 o'clock riday afternoon The cast includes Leon Spauld ing Barbara Jones John Jack son and Judy Towry Singers will be second and third grade pupils The dutch dolls will be: Patty Pickering Beth Young Marilyn Walker Kay Lynn Edwards De na Wells and Cheryl Biddle Dix ie dolls are Carolyn Gately Jes sie Combs nd the dow doll is Gloria Saragosa jumping jacks are Arka Paden Sharon Parker and Gay Lynn Elsy twirlers are Betty Martin Arka Paden and Gay Lyn nElsy nigger dolls are Ricky Cornrtuble Hershal Lucas Robert Eugene Harrison and Bill Koch By Robert 8 Krrr Now I pretend to be a professional music critic although as a boy I was a member of the male quartet But as a proud father who knows his own daughter can sing better than just about anybody else hey age I think I can offer some pertinent comment on the Presidential off the pen "billet upbraiding music critic Paul Hume for pan ning Washington con cert Just to make it cleir at the start how highly I regard the daughter I would like to say that in my book Margaret Truman is good singing or silent father Harry has no other child and I happen to know that Mar garet has taken the place ot both daughter and son I know just how proud the President is of a wonderful girl who indeed is a mighty fine example for Ameri can youth today I haven't personally discussed with the President his red hot reaction to the criticism but I think I have a pretty good idea of how he felt about the flippant treatment of daughter Margaret's stage appearance and musical performance In the first place nobody heed attend a concert unless he wants to In the second place if he ac cepts a ticket and access to the best seat in the house he could at least say something good or keep his mouth shut This situation reminds me of a recent experience with my daugh ter Kay another slim blonde girl who likes to sing During Thanksgiving holidays Mrs Kerr Bill' and I spent the week in Boston be near Kay who is a student at college and I attended several of her classes The one I enjoyed most was the period of her choir practice There were about 60 girls singing but it was amazing how easy it was for me to pick out the best singer in the group I thought Kay was'wonderfuL I never will forget how much I enjoyed hear ing her sing although the pro gram was put on by the whole choir I sure am glad there was some fellow sitting in a press section trying to find flaws either in her appearance or hef voice Therefore I know just how easy it was for Harj Truman to resent the critical and really un kind newspaper story about Mar singing I am of the opinion however that of from the irate father would have been a more effective treatment of the incident than what he gave it I never in all my life heard of an article which had been seen or read by so few called to the attention of so many I am persuaded that Mr Hume would have died peacefully in the same anonymity in which he lived so had he not been kicked into national promi nence by the very hu man very natural but very plain spoken correspondence with him GOOD NEIGHBORS: I am mighty happy to report that two of our good neighbors a native Oklahoman who moved to Ari zona after World War I and a son of Texas are in line for powerful positions on Capitol Hill come January Sen Ernest Mcarland of Arizona who was bom on a farm near Earlsbrfw Oklahoma and Sen Ly ndah of Terras now appeii eartw to be select ider and Assis western Senators io behind this pair able lawmakers who ilwt a a middle of the bsfWislation satisfactory to the Administration and lern Democrats Mcarland with the Administration 86 per cent of the time in this Con gress but he fakes an indepen dent attitude for states rights Mcarland officially represents Arizona but he has an Oklahoma background that makes him keen ly interested in the problems of our state It will mean a great deal to our state to have this powerful friend at the helm of the IT Senate Johnson a big genial brunet Texan who can also turn on the charm in behalf of his friendly neighbors has fought consistent: (Ceatinueit on Page I) yVWTESEP'" i Min ii i i ml? WWn 1 olr ITsl 3 'j Kittens 13 ranklin Kittens 52 Kittens 48 Longfellow Kittens 27 Whittier Kittens 19 Wetumka Kittens 26 Whittier Kittens 42 Jefferson Kittens Edison.