The Vinita Daily Journal from Vinita, Oklahoma • 1

'J VINITA OKLAHOMA SATURDAY MAY 3 1947 A EATURES UNITED PRESS SERVICE ck 547 and for 'D NQ 64 'CROSS fund Red Cross GiveL Carry On i st dr i cal Ho i ty Oklahoma City Okla irst In Advertising Circulatiott Ileadcr Community Service lltntfa Batly imtrnal Weather orecast AIR air slightly warmer Saturday PRICE 5 CENTS PER COPY Project ices armers County Land down sum getting the soil it is capable of More Ponds Needed A total of 799 ponds arc needed 1 better utilization of pasture and land as well as 2515 miles of races 1436160 feet of diversion races to divert overhead water 96 acres of drainage 411 water A total of 69400 acres of and winter cover cro I Crop residue needs to be man for erosion control on 134000 is of farm land Over 57000 acres of badly ded land needs to be re seeded re soddcd to permanent grassesontrol erosion and used for pas Proper stocking of pasture and ge land is needed on 270750 es i Save Soil I Plan Is Outlined Bv I Conservation Official I To Enrich big job lies ahead of Craig ty farmers in han? for what ucing John Schenk vice chair iof the soil conservation board upervisors said riday in com (ting that much has already accomplished recent survey by the supervis 5 board revealed that the minl requirements for the county's WO acres include: Contour cultivation to include acres which is farming on level Instead of up and iks below farm ponds 840 acres field and gully plantings limingp land on 152275 acres fcrtiliz 179275 acres of crop land 347 les of roadside evasion and gullyitrol Many thousands of acres of 'ish need to be eradicated andtrolled 'If the land is to produce maximum amount of grass oenk said conservation practices he said plant for wildlife food and cover adow strips tame pastures pver t'ded with introduced clover le jnes post lot plantings stream ik erosion control protection of y'ive legumes growing in meadowsd range land: and re seeding oflive grasses and others that go make up a coordinated soil con rvation Program Outlined i £5ince the district started opera ns about six years ago 361 farm and ranchers have been assisted planning a coordinated soil con i rvation program on 92977 acres land The 1947 plan of operations in Udes informing the people through county agent of what the dls ict is and the policies of the su Tvisors have adopted The soil conservation service tech clans will assist farmers and nchers to plan apply and main in soil conservation practices and local PMA office will schedule id make payments for soil con rvatlon practices established on te land Schenk emphasized that the dis ict is responsible only to the peo and the supervisors are their preseutatives State Towns i Sign Up or Tour 1 TULSA May 2 Reserva i ons from 40 cities have been re 1 Rjived for the Oklahoma Industrial Train tour Sam Avery chairman of te reservation committee I liid today Lr The train which will leave here I une 25 for a 16 day tour of the i orth and cast is designed to at i 'act decentralizing industry' to Ok ihoma by pointing 'out the static's idustrlal advantages i John Esau chairman of the ex 1 Ibits committee said four of the 2 exhibits are being constructed tow at the International Petroleumposition grounds Others will be lartcd this week he said our 70 foot railroad cars will louse the exhibits and seven pull Vian cars have been secured to Transport soma 240 Oklahoma busi nessmen who are expected to makelie tour I COMING EVENTS BMay Slxtli annual gridiron mnquet at Hotel Vinita 6:45 May Vinita high school Junior lenlor banquet May Soli conservation field inal Day Near cable splicing Union Control Doctor Blames Oddities Bulletins Bill Reinforced IN THE DAY'S NEWS a ONE ON DENTIST SHRINE OR N1 SAINT up Northeast Oklahoma Natura 1 Resources Survey Planned STREET SCENES his mail Uaa Leadar Jourual daaalfiada is so high that Jr president of chamber of corn to stop his gnr but want to go out the committee should be done Inaugurate the signed complaints charging Winter with attempted mur HOLLYWOOD May 2 Superior Judge Ingall Bull took the Laraine Day divorce case under advisement after conclusion of arguments today and announced he would decide next riday whether the divorce should be set aside because of collusion and fraud Sheriff Thomas returned riday afternoon from McAlester after delivering a convicted shop lifter Samuel ollin Guthrie to state penitentiary officials ollln was sentenced Wednesday by District Judge Johnson to 18 hiontlis in the state prison Ver non Glenn police chief elect ac companied Thomas geologist who has already been In Vinita will carry on the field work The new two year old Midwest Research Institute of Kansas City headed by a top flight scientist Dr Harold Vagtborg has been engaged to make a survey and scientific an alysis of the potential resources of Oklahoma as a means of develop ing this region's own natural re sources Tuepkcr said During the course of the survey field men from the institute will visit thia area and will confer with local Industrial committees Interested In the Indus trial development of Oklahoma Tills will be the first survey of Its kind in Oklahoma House ails To Muster Quorum To Vote Bill Levying Juke Box Tax SPOKANE Wash UP The first public shrine In the world to Su Mary Euphrasia fiuindir of the Slskrs of Our Lady of Cluirity of the Good Shephi will be th Seat ed here this year by the Knthu of Columbus St Mary Eupiirasia was canonized In 1940 LUSHING May 2 (UR) United Nations opened tho way tonight for Jewish represen tatives to state their side of the Palestine problem during the cur rent special session of the gen eral assembly RECRUITER HERE MONDAY A navy recruiter will be at the Vinita post office Monday the Tul sa office has announced "The scientific survey to be riaoe by Midwest Research Institute in our Tuepkcr said will be for the sole purpose of finding new uses for our mineral and anl cultural resources not yet known and thus supply dependable know ledge on which industry can cxpuiii and develop "Wc are passing up wealth in countless ways the scientists tell us by falling to study the rtore house of nature and to underst uid It We can find ways to free our vital grains of plant riXense We can find ways to make use of what we now call waste products We can find Ways to expand the use of coal Editor's Note: This is the first of a series of articles concerning final school activities at 4 raig county high schools Baccalaureate Services Set or Sunday May 11 Shoplifter Begins 18 Month Sentence Long Lines Operators Refuse Wage Increases rom $2 To 1 A Week Secretary Swamped With Queries About Rattlesnake Event Truman Endorses State Man or Job far beyond our present knowledge of their Uses Wc have in Oklahoma many of the basic raw materials needed by industry such as mangenese iron coal coke rock asphalt gypsum dolmite zinc limestone phosphate load clay shale volcanic Mh and glass sand besides the basic agri cultural products which can be pro cessed Only 38 per cent of our total annual production of our mineral raw materials ia now practised in Oklahoma according tn a report from Oklahoma A and college Apply science to the things we have and there Is no limit to the powd bllltlaa" therr thc Radioactive Cloud Hovers Over Earth EIGHT DIE IN Eight of eleven men in the Spring Hill coal mine near Terre Haute Ind were killed by an explosion as they were leaving the pit Shown here are silent relatives and friends watch ing as a body is taken from the shaft to a waitmg ambulance Woman at left believed body to be that of her husband (NEA Telephoto LOS ANGELES May 2 Dr Irving Rehman a scientist who participated in operation crossroads said today a radioactive cloud had been floating around the world since tlie Bikini atom bomb test and still was in the atmos phere although it has not been re ixirted since October Rehman of the University of Southenv California school of medi cine said the radioactive cloud al ready had made six trips around the world He said planes along a strip across tlie northern United States once had been warned to stay below 170C0 tect to avoid It NEW AD IN BEE LOUISVILLE Ky May 2 "Derby Day visitors will be able to drink their bourbon and eat it too by special arrangements of the Bourbon Beef association Association President: Charles Bottorff said Kentucky's newest beef product bourbon beef will be on the Derby Day menu at several city hotels The beef i produced from Ken tucky cattle which have been fat tened on balanced rations contain ing dried grains or sol ubles Twenty nine of tlie beeves have been slaughtered for Derby Day consumption ourteen students will graduate at Big Cabin high school this spring Dickerson superintendent said riday in announcing the calendar of events of the Anal week of school Baccaulaureate services Sunday May4 will open activities for the last week of school at Big Cabin Rev Moody A Nicholson pastor of the Pilgrim Presbyterian church Vinita will be the principal speak er The services arc planned for the Big Cabin Christian church Senior night is scheduled lor Monday May 12 at the Big Cabin auditorium and will be followed oi Tuesday bv commencement ex ercises at the auditorium Rev Harvey Scott pastor of the irst Baptist church Vinita will be the speaker Eighth grade graduation is set for Thursday May 15 at the audi torium Class valedictorian this year is Miss Doris Lee Brown and saiuta torian is Miss Bette Jo Wyatt Others who will graduate at Big Cabin this month are: Cornelia Jane Madison Erma Marie McKee Wanda Jean Walker Margaret A Trent Bob Kay Jim Haney Gary McCombs George Haney Kenneth Jennings Carl Harrison Grover Claggett and George Malinowski WASHINGTON Secretary of State tonight agreed to tions with Russia economic unification of Korea pro vided the Soviets abandon their po sition that only pro communist fac tions can participate in the Korean provisional government LOUISVILLE Ky May 2 ourteen of the best three year olds were entered today for the 73rd running of the $100000 Ken tucky derby Saturday Post time is 4:45 in CST OKEENE Interest in rat tlesnake catching George Dusbabek the Okeene junior merce may have age reiir business get a private secretary and start answering let ters i News of the annual Rattlesnake Roundup sponsored by the Okeene Jaycees reached from coast to ennst and Dusbabek is swamped with mail withnoro letters arriving daily A number of ditferent schools want InformatloM for class projects and pamphlets amateur hunters In 14 diflerent states want Dusbabek to tjll 'them how to go about catch ing snakes and many inquiries have been received concerning the medi cal properties of rattier venom Manj' offers to sen everything from bull snakes to garter snakes hwve been received but most of tlie huiters admitted they didn't have them on hand at present ed information on how and cutch them Dusbabek declares If keeps up this volume he will have to Induce Orville von Oulkcr chief rattler of the International Asso ciation of Rattlesnake Hunters to write a textbook on the subject I WASHINGTON May (UP) The drastic union control bill was made even more strict to day when the chamber in its first major test vote adopted an amend ment to prevent unions from using threats violence or false statements i their organizing qampaignsThe vote was 60 to 28 and was a clear cut victory for Chairman Robert Taft (R Ohio) of the sen ate labor committee who had been drafted by a republican democratic coalition within the committee when he first tried to write the proviso into the measure Tlie amendment specifically makes it an unfair labor practice for un ions to or coerce" em ployes their choice of a union Employers already are subject to a similar restriction The senate put its approval on the clause in tlie face of democratic warnings that each such amend ment increases the possibility of presidential veto al in mahdooahvlschc 91 year old Com anche Indian who was one of the nation's most colorful early day In dian residents Brought to ort Sill in 1870 group of other Comanches taken prisoner in Texas she had hed in the Indiahoma and Cache areas since the Indians' release there is foreign "there will be no hope until an American can mind in other countries Texas City Relief BiB Approval Seen TEXAS CITY Mayor Curtis Trahan who testifii'd before the houw appropri ations committee In Washington to day expressed tlie belief that proposed S15n0(i000 Texas City lief appropriation would house by unanimous vote" Although he said could not hi certain how congress would act fin ally on the measure Mayor Tra han said am sure eongiess is go ing to do something for Texas City said the patient In eliair just rleaning teeth eouhi this be Dr inley Garvin picked the filling In his patient's lap and said: it's the my A year ago John Jaruu' toll coal strike was playing havoc with the country Now it's the phono strike Clrll Bablfr gives on opinion Mrs Al Gomer deliv ers some newspaper copy Dickerson tho 11 rat of the coun ty's school nipcrlnlendenls to ie ixirt on graduation exercises Henn' Knight and Craig Clxxllasirr a day ahead or schedule Jakn says money in circulation Increased 13000000 in April buj lc didn't see any of 11 Hill Centralia in to renew his subscription SEVERED GABLES BLACK OUT Telephone foreman Trnsler works on cable severed near suburban Leeds dis trict outside Kansas City An axe is believed to have been used to slash the two 400 pair cables which cut off 300 490 phones in Leeds includ ing police and fire stations and a sanitarium (NEA Telephoto 1 Woolaroc Museum Re opens Sunday BARTLESVILLE May 2 TP amcd Woolaroc museum on Oil Man rank ranch 14 miles southwest of Bartlesville will be re o)x ned to the public Sunday it was announced today Tlie reopening will follow months of work on new additions to tlie museum The additions include a large lec ture hall octagon tn shape new basement space for complete air conditioning of the entire museum a bronze heroic statue of rank Phillips': pipe organ shop facili ties and office space for the mu director and staff OKLAHOMA CITT May 2 ord of Sayre has been recommended for tile post of as sistant 3 attorney general Attorney Genera! Tom Clark an nounced tn Washington Thursday that President Tniman had risked him to apixmil ird as nn assistant in the Washington office to fill a vacancy created this week when Sonnctt who prosecuted tlie John Lcwts Strike case resigned ord has been a special itMbtuil in the office He gratin Rted from the University of Oklahoma law school and served In the navy during the war Before that however he served assist ant state attorney general and ax attorney lor the unemployment compensation commission here CLEVELAND May 2 Henry A Wallace tonight rebuked critics of his recent European speaking tour with the assertion that for those who believe in world" land" and of peace" his Northeast Oklahoma will have an opportunity to have Its natural re source surveyed with a view of pro cessing the raw materials in this arett through local Industries It was announced riday by Tuepkcr area manager of the Public Service company one of the firms helping to finance the research work Residents hj the Vinita or Craig county area who feel that the re source on their farms may be un usual and offer potential develop ment are urged to contact the Pub lic Service company here it was stated Dr William Mather economic OICIAL OOD TESTER AIRIELD Ill Relatives who had great grandma Lillie Winter locked up on charges or poisoning them ate noth ing for the past six months unless she first sampled their meals They feared she might put ar senic in their food neighbors said today After she was acquitted of the alleged arsenic murder of her great grandson last October 76 ycar old Mrs Winter went to live with her family Tlie son in law Gerald Burton made her test all food prepared in the house before he would permit his wife and daugh ter to eat When Burton's wife Mary and daughter Marjorie 16 became ill after drinking milk from a bottle taken from the refrigerator Bur ton went to authorities Wednesday and Mrs dor Americans are eating to death Dr Edward said today standard of living proves he said many people are eating more and more and getting fatter and fatter And the fatter they get the shorter their hf will be he aidr Rynearson associate professor of medicine at the Mayo foundation and medical consultant at the Mayoclinic RochesterMhm said obese persons arc much more likely to develop latal ailmerfts than the skinny fellow who looks as if he had a square meal for years "Obese persons kid everyone but themselves when thej' claim they hardly eat a thing" he said is no source of fat except food no matter what' people Rynearson in Chicago to address the 28th annual meeting of the American College of Physicians said persons who overeat" expose themselves to diabetes high blood pressure heart disease kidney ail ments arthritis of the legs hips or spine gall bladder disease and varicose veins Their bodies are overworked by oversUiffing he said and the only way to cut them down to size is dieting never been a patient in the history of medicine who couldn't reduce if he had the will jiower" Rynearson added glandular treatment is worth a thing and the only known medicine for obesity caused OKLAHOMA CITY May 2 (UP) Gov Roy Turner hastily signed six revenue bills tonight clearing the way for sine die adjournment of 'the Oklahoma legislature next with one remaining The "if" arose: when the house failed to muster a quorum of 59 members for a roll call vote on sen ate amendments to the bill levying a $25 annual license fee on Juke boxes and marble boards Tlie bill passed the senate 25 to 8 after nearly two hours of debate The upper chamber amended it to raise the license fee from $20 to $25 after several senators charged the bill meant a tax reduction for music machines Present law levies a 10 per cent receipts tax but docs not include marble boards 7 The bill was rushed the enrolling and engrossing process and sped back to the house for con currence in amendments Revisions Protested The revisions brought some heat ed protests before a roll call was reached Tlie house then voted 32 to 23 to accept the changes Oppon crits immediately challenged legal ity of the vote on grounds a quor um was not present Speaker Board upheld their protest and rul ed no action had been taken on the bill Board said it would be called up for another try Monday However approval at that late date would mean death of the bill under the constitutional requirement that rev enue measures must lie on the gov ernor's desk a minimum of five days before sine die adjournment If the bill Ls to beeome law'then the legislature 'would have to post pone sine die adjournment at least until next Saturday ACTION ASKED ON REE TEXTBOOKS OKLAHOMA CITY May 2 (UP) special senate committee recom mended late today that the 21st legislature make a start toward pro viding free textbooks but floor ac tion on two bills approved by the was postponed until Monday One of the two measures provides an appropriation of $250000 for purchase of free books starting with the first grade creates an eight member state textbook committee and outlines procedure for multiple adoption of books for classroom use Nevins said the $250000 fund pro vided in one bill would purchase "only a small of the books needed but added thought something at this session to free book program Tlie other bill recommended by the special committee would require book companies to register with Jhe state suiierintendent all of their books sold in Oklahoma or any oth er state and also to list the prices charged "Tills setup "Nevins said "Is ab solutely air tight so far as any graft is NATION IN KNEE PANTS LONDON May 2 The public opinion poll obser reported today that the British public regards Americans as friendly Impulsive people who mentally are immature adoles cents key point in this picture is the conception of an American who does not grow up Tlie organization reported in its trait of an Senator Taft Wins Victory In Adoption Living Standard or Over Eating CHICAGO May 2 Thou sands of themselves Rynearson As tlie MayN2 George Marshall reopen negotia on political and CAT HAS 26 TOES PITTSIELD Mass Cl!) Her kimer cut owned by Sylvia Bos cardin has 26 five on one paw tlx on another seven on a third and eight on fourth WASHINGTON May UP) The American Telephone end Tele graph Co today made its first wajfH offer to striking telephone workers but union negotiators rejected it as inadequate ederal conciliators said tho com pany offered the striking American 1 Union of Telephone Workers the long lines workers increases rang ing from $2 to $4 per week The union demands an increase of $6 per week across the board 4 The conciliators made their stat5 ment after a seven hour conference between the management and union recessed late in the nay A night session was being held to night ederal Conciliator Peter Manno said the conciliators felt that "wma' progress had been irst Wage Offer Tlie wage offer was the first mads to the long1 lines operators by the A since the national walk out began 26 days ago Hie com pany has been holding out for ar bitration Tlie long lines union Which Is af filiated with the National edera tion of Telephone Workers origin ally demanded a $J2 a Wfek in crease but with other NTW affili ates later scaled it down to $6 and has stood adamant on that figure Manno said the A A pro pa ed offer would liaie applied to workers in 42 states He refused to say whether a gov ernment compromise proposal which had been reported the making had been or would be discussed It was reported total! for a wage iukiy of $4 to $5 a week Steel Workers Idle Other labor developments: about 14000 were idle in the second day of a strike ar three Chicago area plants of Inland Steel Co the nation's seventh largest steel producer AIRCRAT A strike against Goodyear Aircraft Corp began last night when second shift workers walked out and set up picket lines It was believed the strike might spread to all 3000 production work ers About 10000 cement plant workers from Maine to lor ida were idle in tlie second day of a strike against cement producers An embargo was clamped on rail and truck ireighl shipments into Indianapolis betausa of a strike by 1400 truck drivers In the Inland steel strike the company and the CIO United Steel workers hojied to agrre today on 1 contract to end the dispute They were agreed on a 151 cent hourly" wage increase but the strike suit ed from company demand for 1 "union responsibility" clan a pro hibiting wildcat Mrikes Complaint Is Mild Official Says LAWTON May 2 qiaims by 24 Lawton veterans that their GI homes are unhvabie have been called "conservative" by A Thompson veterans administration representative who is inspecting the homes in the Ensley Spanish village here Most of the veterans living in con crete and concrete block homes in the area have complained to the veterans administration that the houses are damp because of seep age and sweating Twenty four vet erans have made affidavit to a qominlttee of the Lawton jxxst Vet erans of oreign'' wars stating hi detail what is wrong with the struc tures Rites Held or Aged Comanche LAWTON May 2 uner services were held late yesterday the Post Oak mission for Ne Big Cabin To Graduate 14 Union Rejects Phone Company Salary Offer Governor Signs Revenue Bills WWwIO Ki wlOi Am I te jgKEp I I VI ry a ft te I 1 4 'fj I Sas.