oklahoma today spring 1972 volume 22 no. 2 - library
TRANSCRIPT
2:00 on the morning of Easter Sunday, April 2, 1972, the trumpeters will sound the Call to Worship for
48th presentation of the Wichita Mountains ter Sunrise Service. Preceding the trumpet call is a year of work by
edicated volunteers from three states. They have prepared and maintained the settings in the Holy City of the Wichitas, where the rugged terrain so remarkably resembles that of Israel, the ancient Holy Lands of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Palestine.
They have cut, sewed, mended. They have rehearsed the 73 page script of Biblical scenes to be presented during the dark hours leading to the dawn of Easter
,% .Fyqmo-g. Not alone those who appear; but the electrician$);&& who so dramatically light the huge scenes and tableaux; the speakers whose voices say the familiar, inspiring lines of scripture; the sound technicians who mix and blend the music, the instruments, the voices, of song and spoken word.
As you arrived earlier in the evening military police from nearby Fort Sill assisted you in finding a place to park your car. Lawton service club members provided you with a program. Others from the Junior League, Civil Defense, the local police, the sheriff's office, the Highway Patrol, Red Cross, and Boy Scouts, have contributed to secure your safety and enable you to attend this inspirational service.
It is all a massive effort of cooperation, of people, designed in the plan of the scriptures it portrays, a plan of selflessness in work, of looking toward the beyond, of people together searching for God.
Apr. 1 Nikolais & Okla. City Symphony (OCU) .. .Okla. CityApr. 1 Blazers vs. Omaha (hockey) . . . Okla. CityApr. 1 Oilers vs. Kansas Cit): (hockey) .. . Tulsa
Every Sat. "The Drunkard" Spotl~ght Theatre . . . Tulsa Apr. 1-2 Field Trials . . .V~nita
Apr. 1-23 "Lovers & Other Strangers" Gasl~ght Theatre . . Tulsa Apr. 2 O~lers vs. Dallas (hockey) . .. Tulsa Apr. 2 Easter Pageant . . . Lawton Apr. 2 Obedience Trtals . . . Okla. City
Apr. 2-16 Dogwood Tours . . . Poteau Apr. ?-8 Jim Shoulders Rodeo School . .. Henryetta
Apr. 3-21 Art Exhibit . . . Langston Apr. 3-21 Art Exh~bit . . . Stillwater
Apr. 4 Cameron vs. SWSC (baseball) .. . Lawton Apr. 4 "Wait Until Dark" (Cameron) . . .Lawton Apr. 5 Okla. City Symphony . . . Okla. City
Apr. 5-8 RCA Shrrne Rodeo . ..Ardmore Apr. 6 Okla. City Symphony & Ballet . . .Okla. City Apr. 6 Rod McKuen . . .Okla City Apr. 6 Band Concert (Peniel College) . . . Bethany
Apr. 6 7 .Little Dlxie Field Trials . . . Hugo Apr. 68 "Comedy of Errors" (TO.. . Tulsa
Apr. 7 Hungar~an String Quartet (OCU) . .. Okla. City Apr. 7 Moscow Ballet "Cinderella" (ORU) . . . Tulsa Apr. 7 Rod McKuen .. .Tulsa
Apr. 7 - 8 NEO Square Dance Compet~tion . . .Tulsa Apr. 7 -8 Future Homemakers of America . . . Okla. City Apr. 7-9 Rattlesnake Derby . . . MangumApr. 7-9 "Whole Darn Shoot~ng Match" Uewel Box) . . Okla. City
Apr. 7-22 "A Thurber Carnival" (Little Theatre) . . . Tulsa Apr. 8 Cameron vs. Panhandle (baseball) . . . Goodwell Apr. 8 Jazz Ensemble (ORU) . ..Tulsa Apr. 8 Parade & Music Festival . . .Pawnee
Apr. 8 - 9 AKC Field Trials . . .Okla. City Apr. 8 -9 Rattlesnake Hunt .. . Waurika Apr. 8-9 Men's Bowling Tournament . . . Tulsa
Apr. 8-29 Azalea Festival . . . MuskogeeApr. 9 Rattlesnake Hunt. . . Waynoka
Apr.9-May 7 "World of Computers" (Exhibit) . . . Okla. City Apr. 10 Junior L~vestock Show & Rodeo . . .Stigier Apr. 10 Okla. City Symphony Concert . .. Okla. City
Apr. 10-15 Sail Boat Show .. . Okla. City Apr. 1 M 0 Amer. Fed. of Arts Exhib~t . . . Ardmore
Apr. 11 Cameron vs. NWSC (baseball) . . Alva Apr. 11 Oklahoma C~ty Symphony . . . Okla. C~ty Apr. 11 Home Economics Show (Cameron) .. . Lawton Apr. 12 New York Brass (SESC) . . . Durant
Apr. 12-18 Importance of Being Earnest (SESC) . . . Durant Apr. 13--14 State Vocal MUSIC Festival , . .Stillwater Apr. 13-15 World Organizat~on of Chrna Painters . . Western Hills Apr. 13-15 Jaycees Indoor Rodeo . . .Dewey Apr. 13-16 Acs Fest~val . . . Lawton Apr. 14-15 F~gure Skat~ng Club Ice Show . .. Tulsa Apr. 14-16 Rattlesnake Roundup .. . Okeene
Apr. 15 "Mark Twain Tonight" (Peniel College) . . . Bethany Apr. 15 Arts & Crafts Festival . . . Hobart Apr. 15 MKT Centennial Celebration . . . Eufaula Apr. 15 Surrey Singers (OCU) . . . Okla. City Apr. 15 Wash~ta Valley Coon Hunt & Show. ..CarnegieApr. 15 Cameron vs. CSU (baseball) . . .Lawton Apr. 15 Tuisa Opera Ball . . . Tulsa
Apr. 15-16 Garden Tour . . . Tulsa Apr. 15-16 Progress Days Celebration ...Moore
Apr. 16 Circus . . . Alva Apr. 16 lris Show . . . Okla. City
Apr. 1 6 1 9 "M~dsummer Nights Dream" (St Gregory) . . . Shawnee Apr. 17 Circus . . . Clinton
Apr. 17-22 Sports Car Show . . .Okla. City Apr. 18 Choral Cancert (CSU) . . . Edmond Apr. 18 Cameron vs. Phillips (baseball) . . . Lawton Apr. 18 Band Concert . . . Lan ton Apr. 19 Diary of Adam & Eve (&u) .. . Tulsa Apr. 19 Old Settlers Reunion . . . Cheyenne
Apr. 19-21 FFA State Convent~on . . .Stillwater Apr. 19-23 "Philadelphia, Here I Come" (OCU) .. . Okla. City
Apr. 20 "LaBoheme" (Okla. C~ty Sym.) . . . Okla. CityApr. 2C-22 "The Tempest" (CSU) . . Edmond Apr. 2C-22 IRA Rodeo . . . Okemah Apr. 20-23 Heritage Days Celebration . . .Stillwater
Apr. 21 .Helen Carbett with Philharmonic . . . Lawton Apr. 21-22 Art Guild Show. . . Duncan Apr. 21-22 Western Heritage Awards Banquet .. . Okla. City Apr. 21-23 Antique Show . . . Tulsa Apr. 21-23 OSU vs OU (baseball) . . .Stillwater
Apr. 22 Cameron vs. SWSC (baseball) . . .Lawton Apr. 22 Chamber Singers (ORU) . . .Tulsa Apr. 22 World Champ. Cow Chip Throwing. . .Beaver Apr. 22 Founders Day Celebration .. . Lawton Apr. 22 "Three Dog Night" . . . Okla. City
Aor. 22-23 Bowling Tournament . . . Tulsa h r . 22-24 89'ersbay Celebration .. . Guthrie
$1. 23 Choir & Mens Glee Club (OSU) . . .Stillwater Aor. 24-25 Treasure Hunters Show . . .Okla. Citv '
Apr. 25 Band Concert (NESC) . . . Tahlequah Apr. 25 Band Concert (CSUI . . . Edmond Apr. 25 Womens Choir & Jazz Ensemble (OSU) . .Stillwater Apr. 25 Cameron vs. Panhandle (baseball) . . . Lawton
Apr. 25-29 'You Can't Take It With You" (OU) . .. Norman Apr.25-Mhy 21 "Norman is that you" (Gaslight) . . . Tulsa Apr. 25--May 21 "Lovers & Other Strangers" (Gaslight) ..Okla. City
Apr. 26 James Strand Perform~ng Arts . . .Ourant Apr. 2 6 A p r . 30 Arts Festival . . Okla. .Cia Apr. 2E-May 1 Okla. Travel Show . . . OWa. City
Apr. 27 Womens Choral Club (OSU) . . . Stillwater Apr. 27 Crimson Parade of Crime . .. Lawton
Apr. 27-29 "Cactus Flower" Li t t le Theatre) . . . Bartlesville Apr. 28 Art & Hobby Show . . . Okla. City
Apr. 28-29 Spring Foliage Tour . . . Heavener Apr. 29 Cameron vs. NWSC baseball) .. . Lawton Apr. 29 Country Shindi . . . Tulsa Apr. 29 Spring Sing (o!u) . . . Stillwater Apr. 29 Pilot Club Horse Show ...Broken Arrow Apr. 29 "Young, Gifted & Black" (Cameron) . . . Lawton Apr. 30 Philharmonic Youth Concert . .. Tulsa
Apr. 3 U a y 2 Arts Festival . . .SapulpaApr. 30 All Breed,Dog Show . . . Tulsa Apr. 30 "An Even~ng of Ballet" (Mun~c~pal) .. . Tulsa Apr. 30 Choir Concert . . . LangstonApr 30 l r ~ s Show . . .Okla. C' Ap; 30 Orchestra Concert (08...Okla. City
May 1-4 Music Week Concerts (Peniel College) . . Bethany May 1-21 "Norman is that you" (Gaslight) . . . Tulsa
May 1-June 16 American lndian Art (CSU) . . . Edmond May 2 Cameron vs. East Central [basebalO . . . Ada May 2 "Road to Rio" (Cameron) . . . Lawton Mav 2 Outdoor Band Concert (OSU) . . . Stillwater
May %June 3 May 11-13 Mav 11-13
- May 13 Mav 13 ~413
May 13-14 May 13--14
Mav 15 May l a 2 0 May 19-20
Mav 20 Maj 20 May 20 May 20
May 20-21 May 21
May 23-26 May 23-June 18
May 24-27 Mav 2 5 4
l a y 2 c ~ u n e 23 May 2 6 2 7 Mav 2 6 2 7 M& 2 6 2 7 May 2 6 2 8
May 27 Mav 27
May 27128 May 27-28 May 27-29 May 27-29
May 28 May 29
June 1-3 June 1-3 June 1-3 June 1-3
''A Flea in Her b r " (Little Theatre) . . . Tulsa "Waiting for Godot" (ORU) . . . Tulsa Roundup Club Rodeo . . . Jenks lndian Dance . . . PerryNational Baton Twirlinn Contest . . . Poteau Philharmonic Concert :. . Lawton Spring Flower Show . . . Tulsa Peony Show . . . Okla. City Sauare Dance Jamboree . . . Okla. Citv I& Rodeo. . . Noble Annual Rooster Day Celebration . . . Broken Arrow lndian Golf Tournament . . .Fairfax Armed Forces Day Celebration .. .Altus Armed Forces Day Celebration . . . Lawton "Operatic Excerpts" (TU) . . .Tulsa Apogon lris Show . . . Okla. CityRose Show . . . Okla. City !H Club Roundup . . . Stillwater Catch Me i f You Can" (Gaslight) . . .Okla. City
Jim Shoulders Rodeo . . .Miami Bridge Townament . . . Okla. City Inventions of Leonardo OaVinci . .. Okla. City Rodeo . . . Jenks Junior Rodeo . . . Heavener Riding & Roping Club Rodeo . . . Barnsdall Delaware Powwow. . .Copan"Pinocchio" and "Aladdin" (Childs Theatre) . . . Tulsa Bie Heart Dav Celebration .. . Barnsdall 4-%ay ~ound ip Club Rodeo . . . PryorJolly Roger Water Festival . . .Cleveland Arts & Crafts Show . . .WagonerP~oneer Days Rodeo . . . Nowata Car Racing National Championships . . . Tulsa Dune Buggy Racing . . . Waynoka"A Flea in Her Eat' (Little Theatre) . . . Tulsa IRA Rodeo . . . Blanchard Junior Rodeo . . . M l e n IRA Rodeo . . .Seminole
June 1 4 IRA Rodeo . . . Pauls Valley June 1-4 Antiaue Show .. . Tulsa June 2 - 3 ~roni ier Days . . . Marietta June 3--4 Muzzle Loaders Meet. . . Skiatook
June 4 lndian School Reunion . . .Pawnee June 8-10 Miss Okla. Pageant . . . Tulsa June &10 RCA Rodeo . . . HugoJune 8-10 Little Britches Rodeo . .. Anadarko lune 9-11 Tri-State Arts & Crafts F a r . . .M~ami June 9-11 You're a Good Man Charhe Brown Uewel Box) Okla. Gi
June 11-17 National Sand B a n Festival . . . Madill lune 13-24 "Mame" (Lyric) . . . Okla. City June 15-17 Okla. Miss Charm Pageant . . .Tulsa June 15-17 IRA Rodeo . . . Wilburton June 15-17 All Girls Rodeo . . .Duncan June 15-17 Okla. H.S. Rodeo Assn. Finals . . . Chandler June 16-17 Green Corn Festival .. .BixbyJune 1 6 1 7 Peewee Rodeo & Reunion Days . . .StiglerJune 1 6 1 8 Kiowa-Apache.Blackfoot Ceremony . . .Anadarko June 1 6 1 8 Hub City ,Inter-Tribal Pawwow . . . Clinton June 1 6 1 8 Homecoming Celebrat~on. . . Antlers June 17-18 Nat'l Rifle kn.Championship . . .Okla. CityJune 17-18 Arts & Crafts Fair . . . Bristow
June 18 Ben Johnson Memorial Roping .. . Pawhuska June 21-24 Western Week & Rodeo . ..Ourant June 21-25 Circus . . .Okla., City June 22-24 Arts & Crafts Falr . . . DeweyJune 22-24 National Highschwl Rodeo . . . Chandler June 22-25 Little Dixie Golf Twmament .. . Ourant June 22-24 Junior Rodeo .. . Cordell June 23-25 Nat'l Report Gun Show .. . Tulsa June 22-26 C~rcus. . . Tulsa
June 24 Old Settlers Day . . . Boswell June 24-25 Osage Ceremonial Dances . ..HominyJune 2 6 2 5 RCAUodeo . . . Yukon
une 2-g. 27 "Trarl of Tears" Drama . . . Tahlequah June 27 Community Poetry Program . . .Oklahoma City
June 27-July 8 ''Cayisel ' (Lyric) . ..Okla. City June 28--July 1 Tra~lr~dersRodeo . . . Atoka June 2 M u l y 1 Greer County Pioneer Reunion & Rodeo . . . MangumJune 29-July 1 Hereford Heaven Stampede & Rodeo . . . Sulphur June 2 M u l y 2 Pawnee Homecoming & Powwow . . . Pawnee
MG 2 May 2 Mav 2 ~ a i2 May 2
May 2-28 May L 6
May 4 May 4
May 4-6 May 4-6 May 4-7 May 4-7 May 4-6 May 5-6
k; s May 5-6
May 6 May 6 May 6 Mav 6 ~46 May 6 Mav 6
May 6 L 7 16-June 27
Mav 7 ~ a y7 May 7
Mav 7-28
Homemakers Show .. . SapulpaChorus & Orchestra Concert (NESC) . . . Tahlequah Tsa-la-gi Cherokee Village Open~ng . . . Tahlequah Flower & Garden Show . . . SapulpaOSU vs. Tulsa (baseball) . . . Stillwater Art Show Fair Grounds) . . . Okla. City Sweet Charity (Community Theatre). . . Lawton Band Concert (LU) . . . LangstonBand Concert (OU) . . . Norman FFA Rodeo . . .Cache TrikState Band Fest~val . . . Enid Home Show. ..Tulsa Walleye Rodeo . . . Canton Rodeo .. .Stilwell "Childs Play" (TU) . . . Tulsa OSU vs. Mlssour~ (baseball) . . .Stillwater No-Mans-Land Pioneer Days . . . Guymon Tom Mix Green Country Festival .. .DeweyConcert Band (ORU) . . .Tulsa "Journeys End" (Choctaw drama) . . .Atoka Roadrunner Marathon . . . Gage'The Land of the Dragons" (OCU) . . . Okla. CityStrawberry Festival . . . Stilwell lndian Hand Game Tournament . . .Norman Kolache Festival . . .Prarme lris Show . . . Okla. City- "Stonehenge Rev~sited" (Planetarium] . . Okla. City Band Concert (NU) . . . Okla. Citv Trail Ride & ~ o d e o .. . Watonga. All-Breed Dog Show . . . Lawton Art Show . . .Okla. City
' ~ a y 9University Singers Concert (OCU) . . . Okla. City May 9 Chouteau Observance . . . Fort Sill
F O U R O K L A H O M A T O D A Y
Ghina
Early in 1962, a group of interested china painting enthusiasts met in Oklahoma City
to form an organization so successful that it has expanded its scope from statewide to worldwide. In 1967, it became The World Organization of China Painters.
This spring's convention, held April 13-15 at Oklahoma's Western Hills Lodge, marks the Tenth Anniversary of this ambitious, talented, and still growing group which now has more than 6,000 members in 27 states and four nations. They publish a handsome magazine edited by Mrs. B. M. Salyer, Jr. They produce beautifully painted pieces like those shown here.
They make friends for Oklahoma in far places.
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II THE i OKLA AATHLETIC HALL OFFAME
' BY H U G H S C O T T
The Oklahoma Athletic Hall of
1 . Fame is still in formative stages. Its
1 initial impetus came from ~ ~ Brown, whose ranch is 0n the C h - -n between cushing and Yale, and
, the late Bud Loftus, of Yale. They found that Oklahoma was one
of the few states that did not have an Athletic Hall of Fame. "And more
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good athletes per acre, per capita come out of Oklahoma than any other state," Brown insists.
They approached the late Gomer Jones, then athletic director of the University of Oklahoma, and Henry P. Iba, athletic diredor-coach of Oklahoma State University and Olympic champions.
. "They were exuberant about it," Brown reported. By-laws and a char-ter were patterned after the 46 states already having Athletic Halb of Fame. The Oklahoma Athletic Hall of Fame is now two years old Ath- letes inducted at the 1970 banquet and ceremony included;
LEE K. ANDERSON: Coached at
and classen ~ ~ ~ i @ ,dl school, for forty year^ as e Oklahoma Secondary ties Association. Organized the Qkla-
I homa Officials &iation and was1 instrumental in organizing the GirIs' j National Basketball Rules Commit-I tee. Served on national rules writing I committees of various sports. Is a
member of the National Basketball Hall of Fame and recipient of the Oklahoma Coaches' Distinguished Service Award. Has also received awards from the Missouri Valley Con- ference>Oklahoman and Times,Okla-homa School Administrators, and Oklahoma City All-Sports Association.
GLENN M)]BBS: An oubknding athlete at Frede-
rick, he was three times All-Missouri: Valley Conference and an All-Ameri- can football player while attending Tulsa University. Played for Ran-
Architectural plans for the Oklahoma Ath- letic Hall of Fame include this projectedbuilding to be constructed a few blocks from the Jim Thorpe home and memorial in Yale. Predecessor of the Athletic Hall of Fame was the Jim Thorpe ~~~~d~ corn- mittee, formed some five years ago to honor high school athletes. This activity was begun in Yale, Oklahoma, where a small white house in which Thorpe lived with his family is being restored as a permanent memorial to Jim Thorpe.
dolph Field in the Cotton Bowl, 1944. "Rookie of the Year" in 1946 with Brooklyn in the AFL. Later starred with the Los Angeles Dons. One of the all-time greats in Canadian Pro-fessional Football. An outstanding coach at the University of Tulsa, he is also in the Helm Hall of Fame.
ALBERT A. EXENDINE: Born at Bartles-
ville, this Delaware Indian was an All-American at Carlisle in 1906-1907. As assistant to "Pop" Warner there in 1908, he helped coach the immortal Jim Thorpe. He had an undefeated year at Georgetown Univemity in 1917, and also coached at Oberlin,
SPRING 1 9 7 2 T H I R T E E N
Washington State University, Occi- University he won 655 and lost 316 play and long punt formations. Was dental College, Northeastern State through 36 seasons. He has coached the first coach to extensively use for- College (Tahlequah) and Oklahoma thirteen All-Americans. Was coach of ward passing. Owen Field at Okla- State University. He became a mem- the 1964 and 1968 Olympic basketball homa University is named for him. , ber of the National Football Hall of teams. Won two World Champion- He is in the National Football Hall Fame in 1970.
ED GALLAGHER: Played football and ran track
for Oklahoma State University. His 99-yard run against Kansas State is a school record. He coached nineteen undefeated wrestling teams in twenty- two years with an over-all record of 138-5-4. His teams won six National AAU Championships and eleven NCAA titles for O.S.U. He produced fifteen Olympic wrestlers and three world champions.
TOBY GREENE: Football player for Phillips Uni-
versity when it was in the Southwest- ern Conference. Coached at Sayre, Bartlesville, Phillips University and Oklahoma City University. Became head baseball coach at O.S.U. where he won 318 games, having a 22-0 sea- son in 1955. He was the College Coach-of-the-Year in 1960 and induct- ed into the College Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966. Toby produced 13 All-Americans and 18 All-Big-Eight players in seven seasons.
CARL HUBBELL: Pitched sixteen years for the
New York Giants. Appeared in 535 games, winning 253 and losing 154. For five successive years he won twenty or more games (1933-37) with a career high of 26 wins and 6 losses in 1936. He won the National League Most-Valuable-Player Award in 1933 and 1936, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1947.
HENRY PAYNE IBA: Coached O.C. Clas-
sen High basketball to a record of 51 wins and 5 losses. At Oklahoma State
ships, with a record in Olympic play of 18-0.
ROBERT ALBERT The first of (BOB) KURLAND: the outstand-
ing seven foot- ers. Was an All-American in 1944, 1945, and 1946. Was a member of the Collegiate Championship Team of 1945 and 1946. Played for the Phillips 66 Oilers from 1946 through 1952. Was a member of three AAU Na- tional Championship Teams, and the U.S. Olympic Teams of 1948 and 1952. Elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1961.
CLYDE LEFORCE, SR. All-State e n d i n
football and an All-State guard in basketball at Blackwell High School. Considered one of the greatest devel- opers of talent, having an over-all coaching record of 208 wins, 87 losses and 6 ties in football at Pawnee and Bristow.
JOHN LEONARD Played thir- (PEPPER) MARTIN: teen seasons
for the St. Louis Cardinals. Led the National League in stolen bases in 1933, 1934, and 1936. Was the hero of the 1931 World Series, stealing five bases and hitting .500. Known as the "Wild Horse of the Osage" he later coached and managed teams in Miami, Sacra- mento, Macon, and Tulsa.
BENNIE OWEN: As football coach a t Oklahoma
University, in the period from 1908 to 1914 he lost only one game. His rec- ord as a coach was 122-54-16. In 1910 he began the direct pass for every
of Fame.
STEVE OWENS: One of the first 1\five p l a y e r s
named to the Pro-Football Hall of Fame. Wrestled professionally under 1
the name Jack O'Brien. As head coach of football's New York Giants he won six eastern division titles and one world title. Considered the greatest of all defensive coaches.
ALLIE REYNOLDS: P1a ye d f o r Cleveland and
New York in the American League from 1943 through 1964. Pitched two no-hit games and thirty-seven shut- outs. Had seven World Series vic-tories and led the American League in strikeouts in 1943 and 1962. Was Professional Athlete of the Year in 1951, and on the American League 1 All-Star Teams of 1943, 1947, 1951, 1952, 1953, and 1954. President of I the American Association of Profea-sional Baseball Clubs.
BLOOMER SULLIVAN: Athletic director
and basketball coach at Southeastern State College, Durant, for 31 years. , Coached thirteen Oklahoma Collegiate Conference basketball championship , teams, and seven All-American bas- j ketball players. Won over 600 bas-ketball games and participated in fifteen national play-offs. Honored as National Coach-of-the-year in 1957. Inducted into the Helm Hall of Fame 1 in 1959. I
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JAMES FRANCIS World's great- I (JIM) THORPE: est athlete. Born
a t Bel lemont I (near Prague), later resided in Yale.
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This famed Sac and Fox Indian was 1 an All-American at Carlisle in 1911
and 1912. Won both the Pentathlon and Decathlon in the Olympic Games of 1912. Played pro baseball for the New York Giants. First president of
1 the Professional Football League.
PAUL ("BIG W i t h h i s POISON") WANER: brother Lloyd
("Little Poi-son") gained immortal fame with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Had a lifetime batting average of .333, and won bat- ting championships in 1927 (.380), 1934 (.362), and 1936 (.373). Led the Pirates to a National League Cham- pionship in 1927, and was the league's Most Valuable Player that year. Also played with the Brooklyn Dodgers, Boston Braves, and New York Yank-ees. Named to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962.
MOSES YELLOWHORSE: Attend-ed chi-
locco Indian School. Pitched the Arkansas Travelers to a pennant and a Dixie Series play-off in 1920. Played with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1921-22 when an arm injury cut short his career. One of the fastest throwers in baseball, and the only full-blood In- dian (Pawnee) to play in the major leagues.
PAUL YOUNG: All-State football player at Norman
High School. Played for the Green Bay Packers, was an assistant coach at O.U., and coached at Ardmore and Muskogee. His Muskogee High School teams won four state championships. During his tenure he produced more All-Americans than any high school coach in America. In 1958 eleven of his former high school playera ap-peared in past-season college bowl games. He was four times president of the Oklahoma Coaches Association.
Athletes inducted at the 1971 ban- quet and ceremony held in Tulsa include;
BOB FENIMORE: A starter for four years on
the Oklahoma A&M football team (1943 through 19461, he was All-American in 1944 and 1945. Holds 16 individual records including a season rushing mark of 1,178 yards in 1945. He was instrumental in the 17 won, 1lost record posted by A&M in 1944 and 1945.
ART GRIFFITH: Coached t h e s t a t e ' s f i r s t
wrestling team at Carnegie in 1922. During 15 years as wrestling coach at Tulsa Central never last a home dual meet. He coached eight National Championship teams at Oklahoma A&M and produced 27 individual Na- tional Champions. Art coached the 1948 Olympic wrestling team and was one of the first persons elected to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
GOMER JONES: Born February 2 6 , 1 9 1 4 , a t
Cleveland, Ohio, Gomer Jones was All-American center at Ohio State University in 1935. During his tenure at Oklahoma University (from 1947 to 1971) he was assistant athletic di-rector, line coach, head football coach and athletic director. Line coach with- out a peer, he developed 18 All- American interior linemen at O.U. Six of them were selected All-American twice.
JIM LOOKABAUGH: Head foot-ball coach
at Oklahoma A&M 1939 through 1949. Jim's record in those years was 58-41-6. He coached the only unbeaten Aggie team in history (1945) which finished 9 and 0. Included in those victories was a 33 to 13 victory over St. Mary's in the Sugar Bowl. The
team also recorded a 34 to 0 victory over TCU in the Cotton Bowl of 1941.
JIM SHOULDERS : Native of Hen- ryetta, J im
Shoulders was named World Cham- pion Cowboy more times than any other person. Jim won 16 World Championships. He was World Cham- pion Bullrider seven times, World Champion Bareback Bronc Rider four times, and All-Around Champion five times.
BERTHA The most suc- FRANK TEXGUE: cessful girls'
b a s k e t b a l l coach in the nation. She coached 43 years at Byng High School and re- tired in 1969 with her eighth State Championship. She had seven runner- up teams and made 22 state tourna- ment appearances. She compiled a record of 1,152 victories and 115 loss- es. Her teams in the 1930's recorded an unequalled 98 straight victories.
LLOYD ("LITIZE Born at Har- POISON") WANER: r a h, 0k 1 a -
homa, "Lit- tle Poison" and his brother Paul, "Big Poison," became baseball immortals while playing for the Pittsburgh Pi-rates. Lloyd played professional base-ball for 25 years, playing for San Francisco, Boston, Cincinnati, Phila- delphia, Brooklyn, and Pittsburgh. He made 223 hits his first year with Pittsburgh (a major league record), had a lifetime batting average of -316 and had 2,459 hits. He is in the Na- tional Baseball Hall of Fame.
BUD WILKINSON: Minnesota born Bud coached 17
years at Oklahoma University. His record was 139-27-4 and included Na- tional Championships in 1955 and 1956. He won 14 conference titles,
1 including 1947 through 1959 consecu- tively. His consecutive winning streak of 47 is still an unbroken record in college football. His teams produced 35 All-American players.
RANKIN WILLIAMS: Born at Bolivar,
Missouri, Rankin coached from 1922 until 1965 at Southwestern State Col- lege. He coached baseball 43 years and basketball 42 years. He won 28 Oklahoma Collegiate Conference Championships (baseball) : also eight in basketball, two in football, six in track, four in golf, four in cross-country, and two in tennis.
Athletes to be inducted into the Hall of Fame each year are selected by 850 electors from all over Okla-homa. Virtually every community in the state is represented among these electors.
The electors may nominate ath-letes to be honored, or may receive nominations from interested persons. The list of those nominated for fu- ture consideration includes;
JERRY ADAIR: Oklahoma State graduate from
Sand Springs, he was All-Big 8 in baseball in 1958. Played with the Baltimore Orioles and other major league baseball teams.
BOB BASS: Currently coach and general manager of
the Floridians, American Basketball League. A Tulsa native, coached at Cromwell High School before going to Oklaho~na Baptist University, where he compiled a 275-146 record. While coaching at O.B.U. his teams won six Collegiate Conference titles, qualified for the NAIA district play- offs 13 times and went to the na-tional tourney six times, winning the National NAIA Championship in 1966.
JOHNNY BENCH: Cincinnati's s l u g g i n g
catcher from Binger won the Most Valuable Player Award in the Na- tional League in 1970. He is the youngest player ever to earn this award.
SUZY MAXWELL Won the U. S. BERNING: Women's Open
Tournament in 1969. Only girl ever to have a golf scholarship at Oklahoma City Uni- versity. Mrs. Berning won the Wom- en's Open the year before Orville Moody won the Men's Open.
BOBBY BOYD: Defensive half-back at 0. U.,
later with the Baltimore Colts. Now on the Colts' coaching staff.
HARRY "THE Now an Okla- CAT" BREECHEEN: homa ranch-
e r , H a r r y pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals and other major league baseball teams. Was one of the top fielding pitchers in the majors.
BUD BROWNING: One of the "Boy Scats"
in 0. U. basketball. Played AAU ball with Phillips 66ers. Was All-Big-Six at 0 . U. Coached the 1948 U. S. Olympic basketball team.
BOB BRUMLEY: Major league catcher (Wash-
ington Senators) from Lawton.
TOM CATLIN: All-American cen- ter at Oklahoma
University. Played professional foot- ball with the Cleveland Browns.
EDDIE CROWDER: All-American quarterback
at 0. U. in 1952. Now head football coach and Athletic Director at the University of Colorado.
BRUCE DRAKE: All -American b a s k e t b a l l
guard at 0. U. in 1929. Assistant Coach of the 1956 U. S. Olympic team. Helms Foundation Coach-of-the-Year in 1961. Coach of the , Sooner's famed "Boy Scats," he had ) a 194-180 career coaching record at 0. u.
FLOYD GASS: As football coach and Athletic Di-
rector at O.S.U. Gass was Big-8 Coach-of-the-Year in 1970. Lettered four years in football and basketball and three years in track as a Hominy High School student. Lettered in foot- ball twice as quarterback and de-fensive back while a student at O.S.U.
ZIP GAYLES: At Langston Uni- versity 35 years,
Zip Gayles coached football from 1930 to 1957. Won seven Conference and two National Championships. His teams won 146, lost 78 and tied 18. Owner of a multitude of personal honors, coached two All-Conference choices in basketball and a National Champion. He personally gained All- American honors in football and bas-ketball.
DALE HAMILTON: Star gridder a t Central
State University, later coach, now Athletic Director. His football teams won or shared Conference crowns sev- en times in 12 years; won 75, lost 25, tied 3. As Central cage coach his first two teamswon Conference Cham- pionships and the NAIA tournament; won 69 and lost 40. He is in the NAIA Hall of Fame and was hon- ored by the Football Writers Associa-tion in 1970.
LABRON HARRIS, SR.: 0 u t -standing
amateur golfer from Stillwater. His son, Labron Harris, Jr., is now on the
pro-golfing tour.
MARCUS HAYNES: Was on the f a m o u s
Langston University team that de-feated the Harlem Globetrotters in what started out as an "exhibition" game, but turned into a full-fledged encounter. Haynes later played with the Globetrotters, now has his own touring professional team, the Har- lem Magicians.
LEON HEATH: Nicknamed "Mule Train" as a pow-
er fullback at the University of Okla- homa. Heath, the Hollis All-Ameri- can, held a long-standing record of 9.12 yards average rushing.
RALPH HIGGINS: Retired Okla- homa State
track coach; star in three sports. Mem- ber of the U.S. Track Team in the 1956 Olympics. Coach of the 1960 Olympic Track Team.
DANNY HODGE: Perry "strong man" and All-
American wrestler at 0. U. where he never lost a match. His 40-0-0 record (including 36 falls) has never been equaled. Was NCAA 177 pound champion three times; voted "Out-standing Wrestler of the Tournament'!
JACK JACOBS: Football star at 0. U., especially
remembered for his record-9 for 9 in passing for 1,000 percent-in the: 1941 Kansas game which the Sooners won 38-0.
BUD KOPER: One of O.C.U.'s all-time basketball
greats. Career average of 21 points per game; scored 50 points in one game. Led team his last two years at O.C.U. with a 22.8 and 27.1 aver- age. Played professional ball until an injury sidelined his career.
LESTER LANE: Played A. A. U. basketball after
graduating from 0 . U. Later coached the Olympic Team of Mexico. Played on the U. S. Olympic Team in Rome.
ABE LEMONS: 0.C. U.'s veteran cage coach has
produced five 20-game winners, six NCAA post-season appearances, two National Invitational Tournament bids, and three All-College Cham-pionships. In his 17th year as coach of the Chiefs. His team lead nation in scoring average over last five years.
MICKEY MANTLE: The legen-dary Mickey
lead the American League in 1955 with a batting average of .353. In 1956 he won the triple crown with 52 home runs, 132 runs driven in, and a batting average of .365. In all, he led the league in batting four years and in RBI's six times.
TOMMY McDONALD: All-Amer-ican half-
back at O.U. in 1955, Tommy went on to star with various professional clubs, including the Philadelphia Eagles.
ORVILLE MOODY: Leaped to na- tional golfing
fame in 1970 when he won the U. S. Open Tournament and the World Se-ries of Golf.
STEVE OWENS: Shattered every rushing mark in
0. U.'s record book. Gained more than 1,000 yards for the Detroit Lions this season. All-American, and one of Oklahoma's two Heisman Trophy winners.
HUB REED: An 0. C. Capitol Hill High School
All-American. At O.C.U. he set the
scoring pace three years. The 7'0 cen- ter was All-American three years. Played pro ball with Cincinnati and is now basketball coach at El Reno High School.
HENRY ROBERTS: Teammate with the im-
mortal Jim Thorpe at Carlisle. Re- nowned extra point and field goal kicker whose accurate toe scored the necessary points to beat both Texas and Harvard for Pop Warner's Car- lisle Indians.
DARRELL ROYAL: Quarterback at 0. U., gained
All-American status in 1949. Royal is now head football coach and athletic director at the University of Texas.
ARNOLD SHORT: 0. C. U.'s first all-time All-
American basketball player. Set many Chief records that still stand. Played with Phillips 66ers. Was on the AAU All-Star team five years; also made the Service All-Star Team twice while in the Army.
AL TUCKER: An O.B.U. NAIA All-American in
1966 and 1967. Most Valuable Player, NAIA tournament, both years. All-Conference and leading scorer 1965- 66-67 in Oklahoma Collegiate Con-ference.
BILLY VESSELS: O.U.'s first Heis- man Trophy win-
ner. Rated an all-time top rusher and scorer for the Big Red. All-American in 1952, and irs among the top five in O.U. record books in four cate-gories.
If you would like to suggest some- one not already nominated, send a short biography of your nominee to:
Electors Oklahoma Athletic Hall of Fame Box 246 Yale, Oklahoma 74085.
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For thousands recordmg, first white man settleh in what is now uncovered. In essence, the archaeolog- carbon and ar Oklahoma, people had been living in Ist &$ tr&wd to put back together analyses, to determine the Sooner state. These people were Iwhat he destroys, Indians, but they were not Cherokee, Choctaw, or any of the tribes who ~ e o l o g i s bfrom all kinds of played such an important rote in the dence gathered with the help of 19th century settlement of this state. specially trained people. &stead, these people were prehistorh Oklahoma: Loo%ing at the Land in Indks. That is, they lived here be- Prehistoric Times fore any written records were made of To the modern traveler, Oklahoma their existence. They midom receive is a land of contragts. In a few hours more than a few paragraphs of atten- a person can drive from the forested tion in a history book. But they were mountains of southeast Oklahoma to people who lived and died here, who the plains of the panhandle. Such a through t h e developed a variety of drive crosses several natural zones. distinct d tu fe8 and life styles' and While we may notice differences in who considered this hd,Okldom, the land and its vegetation, we sel- their home, No presentation of Okla- dom appreciate all the subtle char~ges homa's heritage can be complete with- between these natural zones. In part, out recognition of these pratonIc our inability is a result of our own people's existence and accomplish- technology. Air-conditioned cars, ments. houses with central heating and cool-
The Study of Prehktotic Man ing, and color television, make living What we now know about these in Broken Bow or Laverne much
people c o w from some thiyty-five alike. But what was Oklahoma like years of resear& in mchaeology. The when people lived close to the land, archaeologist's work is like that of a when man's technology was more ba-detective; both search for, study, and sic and oriented toward existing evaluate clues. The archaeologist is the land? concerned with gathering clues that Studiesby geologists inform us that can answer such questions as who Oklahoma's landscape has changed was here, when were they here, how Stt1e during the past 50,000 years. It did they live, where did they live, is likely that some river valleys were and what happened to them. The not as wide or deep as now. But the archaeologist f o ~ u s e ehis attention on Ouachita, Ozark, Arbuckle, and Wich- the locations, or sites, where people ita mountains, the hilly coun have lived or done wmething in the central Oklahoma, and the high past. Locations lived upon ccruld rep of western Oklahoma looked resent temporaw campsor permanent tisllly as they do now.
been different in appearance, on prehistoric mils and on plant pollen, and animal remains $hese soil6 indi scntrred in the distributed over factor behind these changes has periods of varying, or climate. ' Such climatic affected the ecological situat~ons
also affected. However, rather than changing their distributions or becorn. ing extinct as some planta and 6-w mals did, these people adjusted their *"" technologies and wa.m of life to bet-ter utilize and exploit the existing
irie ecologies. In northern hitas. Available evidence indi-
ved were descendants of the -gathering groups previously
and wood. None of the inhabi caves have been studied since the velopment of radiocarbon dati
know how old this culture is. The earliest farmers for wh
is appreciable information are
shell were used
, as was the bow and arrow.
for garden plots while hoe chipped from stone and at-to wooden handles were the
A.D. 100-500 in the Missouri Riv
moved into Oklahoma or whether t ideas on farming, pottery, and making were adapted by groups a
he Cross Timbers, and the alleys of the eastern fourth te. Factors behind these in-
ased populations could have in-the introduction of improved of corn, an increasingly ef-
climate more favorable to farming.
in the population increase and in the development of crafts and the political- religious specialization of the period.
Those people living on the plains to the west developed several similar, but locally distinct, cultures based on farming, hunting, and gathering. Ap- parently they were descendants of those first farmers in the north-central portions of the state. By A.D. 1000 these people were spreading west- ward along the major river courses. Numerous farming communities are known along the valleys of the Wash-
From a few students who enrolled in the first courses less than six years ago, the program this
year has drawn over 300 majors - nearly one out of every 10 students on the Durant campus. And they come from every corner of the globe . . .
There's many a school from one end of the country to the other where a young man or woman can learn to fly. But those with an aviation major are few. Southeastern State was the second accredited institution of higher learning in the United States to offer an aviation curriculum leading to the Bachelor of Science degree.
The booming program has grown into a staff of seven full-time teachers and 13 part-time flight instructors. Besides teaching someone how to fly an airplane, Southeastern is now of- fering a degree in Airframe and Powerplant Technology. Purpose of the A&P program is to provide actual mechanical training, along with re-lated instruction in aircraft manage- ment, rigging, and testing.
Students may specialize in General Aviation, A&P Technology, or Air-lines Flight Officer programs. Also, a two-year A&P certificate is available. All the aviation courses follow Fed- eral Aviation Administration require- ments. Fliers-to-be also get liberal ex- posure to courses expected of other Southeastern students - English,
BY TOMMY QUAlD
government, speech, physical educa- tion, physics, math through trigonome- try, psychology, electronics and de- scriptive geometry.
Southeastern's first recipient of a Bachelor of Science in Aviation, James Hanny, is now an Air Force captain stationed in Thailand, flying C-130 transports. Hanny was number two in his flight training class at Wells Air Force Base in Texas, where he was in competition with Air Force Academy graduates.
Southeastern Research Foundation, a private, non-profit corporation, has subleased the Durant airport, and the field is used almost exclusively for the flying program. On a beautiful day the sky south of Durant is filled with planes, ranging from the little two- seated trainers to twin-engine aircraft.
The airport operation provides part- time jobs for some 25 aviation stu-dents who work as receptionists, book- keepers, line personnel and mainten- ance men. Its success may result in
the development of an Airport Man-agement Curriculum. Don Carpenter, Director of Southeastern's Aviation Department, boasts Durant's ideal lo- cation for college flight training, with "300 flying days a year."
He also recognizes advantages to the college, and to Oklahoma. Only 25 of the approximately 300 aviation students are from Oklahoma. The re-mainder come from other states, and from foreign countries. Last year's outstanding aviation student, Chookiat Prathipasen, is from Bangkok, Thai- land. "These students bring new viewpoints to the campus," says Car- penter. "When they are graduated they are employed in the aviation industry worldwide. They become good-will ambassadors for Southeast- ern State and Oklahoma all over the world."
Southeastern has managed to equip much of its Aviation Department from donations, both from private in- dividuals and business concerns. The list of departmental training aids in- cludes a wind tunnel, and a simulator for instrument training. Department-
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al aircraft include Cessna 150s and 31% a Piper Comanche, an Aero Commander 560, a Lockheed Lodestar, a Beechcraft 18, a Citabria, and a de Haviland Beaver.
What do the instructors in the pro- gram think about it?
John M. Rutherford, Air Force veteran and former commercial pilot, says he's "enthusiastic." He believes aviation studenb are different, "They are always highly motivated." As for getting a job after graduation; "It's not easy. Competition in the aviation industry is stiff but our students usually hold their own."
Elmer King, another Air Force vet- eran and former commercial instruc- tor, is Diredor of Ground Operations. He comments that members of the faculty enjoy their work. Facilities and faculty at Southeastern are up- to-date. "We're all active in aviation," he says.
The nature of the aviation cur-riculum raises its cost above that of other undergraduate degrees offered at Southeastern. A Bachelor of Sci-ence in Aviation casts about $8,000 above initial tuition and mom and board, which still compares favorably with the average cost at private avia- tion schools. The cost of an A&P degree is lower - $1,600 above the initial fee.
Some students are able to take ad- vantage of the GI Bill.Scholarships and awards are available. A $300 award is given to the outstanding stu-dent in Private, Commercial, and In-strument classes. A $150 scholarship is presented to the Flight Instructor and Instrument Instructor outstand- ing student. Each academic year's overall outstanding student is awarded a Multi-Engine course or $600 toward his next flight course on campus.
Students respond with wholehearted enthusiasm. A1 Packard, a senior from Longview, Washington, thinks his money is well spent. "The program offers me several things I wouldn't be able to afford otherwise." Those "several things" include an instru-ment rating in multi-engine aircraft which costs "less than half what it would elsewhere," and a flight-engi- E neerys second officer rating on a Boe- $ ing 727, with classroom instruction c, at Durant's Eaker Field and flight o, training at the American Airlines o,
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Flight Academy in Fort Worth. A1 will have logged about 500 hours of flying time when he completes the course.
Derick Segurson, Seattle student, believes coming to Southeastern was the right decision for him. "It's one of the few accredited colleges offering aviation that does its own flying." He likes Oklahoma and is impressed with the amount of aviation industry in the state. "A small college like this pro- vides students an opportunity for per- sonal contact with faculty members."
The national aviation fraternity, Alpha Eta Rho, has 50 members on the Southeastern campus. The South- eastern chapter sponsored the Na-tional Intercollegiate Flying Associa- tion's winter meet in Durant in 1969. The three-day meet featured compe- tition among the best college pilots in the nation. Power-off and -on landings, navigation, and air drop events were included. A flying dem- onstration by Bob Hoover, one of America's foremost pilots, was fea-tured. His performance at Eaker Field included the slow roll from take-off, and eight-point hesitation roll, one-wheel landing, touchdown, pull up, slow roll and touch down again. Hoover's most spectacular maneuver was a loop from an altitude of only 50 feet.
The four-day event was concluded with banquet at Lake Texoma Lodge, keynote address by Gen. Ira Eaker, and presentation of awards to the best college flyers in the nation. Gen- eral Eaker is part of Southeastern's air heritage. He received his first col- lege degree a t Southeastern during World War I. After years of service . in the Army Air Force through the
'. 20s and 30s he became Cnmmlnder - - - S S C Aircraft
of the USAF Bomber Command in Europe during World War 11.
Alpha Eta Rho this year spon-sored a fund-raising event, flying three Cessnas to a shopping center between Sherman and Denison, Tex- ae.There fraternity members answered questions about Southeastern's Avia- tion Department for live television and radio coverage. High point of the fly-in was the fraternity-sponsored drawing for a prize of ten hours of dual instruction or a charter trip
anywhere within 500 miles of Durant. The winner, Elmer Rodgers, president of the Durant Bank and Trust, do- nated cost of the prize back to the fraternity.
This is the spirit which enables Southeastern's Aviation Department to continue purchasing sophisticated equipment for the steadily increasing number of aviation majors. These stu-dents are preparing for jobs in an in-dustry which truly has no place to go but up. E N D
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Do you understand "the farm problem?"
You will comprehend some of the implications of that cliche after reading this artice
BY OLIVER S. WCLLHAM
The expansion of this nation has paralleled the development of its farm- ing. Agriculture is directly responsible for much of the success of the nation. Over one-third of the jobs in the na- tion depend upon agriculture and agricultural products for their exist- ence.
Like a ticking clock the decades pass and each one brings changes in the production of food and fiber. Four important revolutions have taken place in the evolution of modern farming in Oklahoma.
The first revolution was the sub-
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power, which released many man hours of labor from the farm and made it available for other industries. ''
This change took place the early part ol the 20th century. Many of the primitive hand tools were still in use as Oklahoma developed itb: farming in the period 1910-1930.
The second revolution was the change from animal power to mechan- ical power, and it was accomplished largely in the period following 1910-1930. This change had a profound effect on man's social and economic life. Tractors did not use agricul-tural products as fuel. Some twenty- five million horses and mules were no longer needed on the farm. The feed they had been consuming could now be used elsewhere, but not in the six million tractors that replaced
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them. This situation created the ex- tremely vexing problem of surpluses.
The third revolution was the appli- cation of important scientific discov- eries to farming. This change gave to us the most outstanding agriculture the world has ever known. Farmers today constitute only 5.5 percent of the population of the nation, but they are producing more food and fiber than the nation can consume.
The fourth revolution is the man- agement changes that have transpired. Farm units are growing larger. Farm- ing is becoming more specialized. There are no new lands to be ex-ploited, and increased food produc-tion must come from innovations. Management, finance, and marketing are vital.
Up to 1920 the nature of farming had changed little in 100 years. Most farmers were self sufficient. Farming was a "way of life." The farm fur- nished an abundance of recreation which has not been incorporated in our urban society. It is difficult to
Less than two hundred years ago, this nation, now the earth's greatest, was only a group of colonies belonging to one of the world's leading powers of that age. These colonies were made up of a group of hardy pioneers who came in search of freedom. They recognized the God-given power of the mind and discovered that people must be able to act quickly if they are to accomplish much during their brief sojourn on this earth. The colonial leaders were well versed in the events leading up to the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215 A.D. at Runnymede, England. They were familiar with the breakthrough in human rights and individual opportunities that followed. They knew about the order that was established in religion and law, as well as in politics, literature, philosophy, and art. The government of the United States of America is an experiment to test the fundamental principles set forth in the Magna Carta seven hundred and fifty-six years ago. Examine the Bill of Rights as set forth in the Magna Carta and contrast it with the Bill of Rights incorporated in the Constitution of the United States of America. The founding fathers did magnificently in drawing up this document. This history reveals the type of foundation upon which American agriculture has been established. Briefly examine an exerpt from a letter written to Joseph Priestley in 1780 by Benjamin Franklin; "We may learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity for the sake of easy transport. Agriculture may diminish its labor and double its products; all diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured not excepting even that of old age and our lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond ante-diluvian standards. 0' that moral science were in as fair way of improvement . . . . . . ." Is there any doubt about the wisdom of the stalwart pioneers who established this great republic, This nation owes much to such men as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Alexander Hamilton, and Benjamin Franklin -to mention only a few.
. . . Oliver S. Willham
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keep from harking back to those good ' he huge sum the modem farmer must old days even though the labor was back breaking. Soil fertility in the past I,
invest in fixed costs. Prior to 1930 the farmer was able to keep about eighty
had largely been supplied by crop , cents out of each dollar of gross in- rotation. Crop yields were about the come for his profit. Today he has to same; corn, 27bushels per acre; wheat, spend eighty cents out of each dollar 14 bushels per acre; and cotton, 170 grossed for fixed expenses, most of pounds of lint per acre. which must be paid regardless of the
The results of the second, third, size of the crop harvested. I t is easily and fourth revolutions have been a understood why the modern farmer marked reduction in total man hours has great difficulty surviving a crop required in farming. This figure de- failure, because he operates on bor- creased from twenty-three billion in rowed capital. 1930 to fifteen billion in 1950 and to Cotton is being mechanized rapidly. less than seven billion in 1970. The The mechanical cotton picker has dis-output per man hour of labor dou- placed many manual laborers and put bled from 1930 to 1950 and trebled them on welfare payments. The mod- from 1950 to 1970. ern cotton farmer uses many pieces
People who grew up on Oklahoma farms in the period 1910 to 1930
of large machinery in his operations such as plows, cultivators, planters,
will be interested in what has hap- and pickers. Eight row cotton plant- pened to wheat and cotton. The aver- ers and also eight row cultivators are age yield of wheat per acre has in- common. The modem Oklahoma cot- creased from 14 bushels in 1930 to ton farmer has around forty to fifty 28 bushels per acre, without the as- thousand dollars invested in machin- sistance of hybridization, which is in ery. If the cost of seeds, fertilizers, the process of being perf& at pres- pesticides, and herbicides is added to ent. A twenty-five percent increase in the interest on the capital outlay, yield can be expected when hybrids fixed costs mount high. are in general use. Cotton lint yields Prior to 1940 corn was typically per acre have increased threefold grown in a three-year rotation of corn- since 1930 and now average 515 oats-clover without fertilizer in forty- pounds per acre. In highly special- inch rows planted ten thousand seeds ized regions the yields of lint have per acre. The yield was about 38 increased to 650-1000pounds per acre. bushels per acre. Today corn is seldom
Combine these improved yields with rotated. Leading growers typically the labor-saving machinery used in fertilize with one hundred fifty pounds producing wheat and it presents a of nitrogen per acre and plant twenty- most pleasant picture -the transition five thousand seeds per acre in twenty-from the hand sickle, to the scythe, inch rows. Weeds are controlled by reaper, binder, header, and combine. herbicides and insects by pesticides.
It has indeed been an interesting Average yields are ninety to one hun- experience to have a part in the evolu- dred bushels per acre, with some yields tion of wheat harvesting machinery rising to 150 bushels. Yields of one from the sickle to the combine. Mod- hundred fifty to three hundred bushels ern machinery is extremely expensive. per acre are reported. These fantastic To completely equip a modern wheat increases in corn yields are the results farm with machinery; tractors, plows, of hybridization, fertilization, spacing, drills, harrows, trucks and combines herbicides, and pesticides. costs about fifty to seventy-five thou- The farmer of 1910-1930has diffi-sand dollars. Add the cost of ferti- culty comprehending the vast changes lizers, pesticides, herbicides, and mar- in corn production. The limit has not keting, along with interest on capital been reached as yet. Imagine a train outlay, and the reader can understand over twenty-thousand miles long, with
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over two million box cars full of corn. Such a train would reach from New York City to San Francisco about five times. This represents the magnitude of the four and one-half billion bushel corn crop in the United States of America. It costa the mod- ern corn farmer about forty to fifty thousand dollars for machinery. Add to this the cost of fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, seed, and interest on cap- ital outlay, and it is readily under- stood why the modern corn producer cannot survive a crop failure.
Hay making has been modernized since 1930.The hay crop when ready to harvest is mowed and put in wind rows by a side delivery rake. When it is fairly dry but not crumbly, it is baled by a pick up baler, which not only ties the bales but loads them on a truck ready to transport to a place where the excess moisture is evapor-ated by mechanical means. Modern weather information has been a great boon to the hay farmer. The hay may be fed as baled hay or ground and
made into pellets. No longer does the farmer undergo the back-breaking job of storing loose hay in barn lofts. Modern equipment for hay making is expensive but requires only one-third the manpower. The hay farmer must invest fifteen to twenty thousand dol- lars in machinew.
Fruit production has shared in the agricultural revolutions. UP to 1940 most emphasis in production centered around various cultural practices; va- r i e t ~ testing, selection, and the use of herbicides and pesticidw. In ap- pies, twelve varieties have emerged and account for ninety percent of the production potential of one hundred and fifty million bushels. The im-proved pesticides, herbicides. and fer-tilizers, along with thinning the young fruit, have added greatly to yields and quality. The modern fruit grow- er does not allow his fruit to fall to the ground, but uses a tree shaker that harvests the fruit at one time. Certain sprays can be used to help the fruit mature uniformly. What applies
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to apples also applies to peaches and other fruits. The modem fruit pro- ducer is faced with investments in high-priced machinery and chemicals which increase the fixed costs as well as the interest paid on capital outlays.
The feed conversion in broilers and turkeys has increased markedly in re- cent years. In 1910-1930 farm-pro- duced broilers took sixteen weeks to attain three pounds live weight and required six to eight pounds of feed to produce one pound of broiler. In 1950 three pounds of feed was pro- ducing one pound of broiler. Today broiler producers feel that they will soon be producing a pound of broiler for each pound of feed. Turkey pro- ducers have also made great strides forward. With mechanization one per- son can feed and care for sixty thou- sand to seventy-five thousand chickens.
Other livestock have not had such fantastic reductions in feed conver-sion. Swine take three and one-half to four pounds of feed to produce one pound of live weight. Cattle take six to nine pounds of feed to produce one pound of live weight. The goal sought by feeders is the reduction in labor. This has given use to the so-called "push button operations." Today one person can care for five thousand head of cattle in a modem feed lot. Such operations vary in size from one thousand head to one hundred thou- sand head. The swine industry is developing large scale operations, but they have not made the progress to date that the cattle and broiler pro- ducers have made. Large scale feed- ing operations require much high-priced equipment. The livestock pro- ducers are proud of the continued increase in per-capita consumption of meats. Beef is about one hundred ten pounds, pork sixty-three pounds, and poultry thirty-six pounds.
The dairyman has made excellent progress in the efficient production of milk. Mechanization has enabled one worker to handle about seventy-five producing cows. The dairy breeder has long followed a testing program
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that has enabled him to make sub-
average production per individual cow
as formerly. Modern equipment for a
realizes the modern farmer must be a business man. He has to borrow large sums to invest in machinery for the production, harvesting, and processing of agricultural products. Financing is a large item in farming today. In
The modern farmer realizes his suc-
arge customers of in- spend on the average illion dollars for trac-
for machinery and illion for petroleum
for automobiles, .6 billion for fer-
In 1972 the farmers will receive
What lies ahead for the farmer in
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Midwest City High School Band Director, E. Paul Enix, this year won the "Mac" Award presented each year to the outstanding bandmasters in the nation. Paul Enix has a unique record. His bands at Midwest City have earned superior ratings every year, without exception, during the twelve years he has conducted the M.C.H.S. Band.
At the Central State University Festival the M.C.H.S. Band has won the Outstanding Concert Band Trophy ten of the twelve years it has com-peted. At the Tri-State Music Festi- val, Enid, Paul Enix' Midwest City musicians have won the Outstanding Festival Band Trophy three times, in- cluding the most recent festival, last May.
10 YEARS AGO IN OKLAHOMA TODAY
". . . the prairie schooner has been about the only item with a nautical connotation which had any connec-tion with land-locked Oklahoma," the article began, ". . . navigation of the Arkansas is still looked upon as a far-out dream . . ."
Not now. Arkansas River naviga- tion is reality, and barge tows dock and disembark at the ports of MUS- kogee and Catoosa regularly.
"Des premiers danseurs et dan-seuses, mciitres et mciitresses de bal- let, des excellentes tcoles de danse,
Bandmaster Enix has, in thirty-five years of teaching, produced outstand- ing high school organizations at Kon- awa, Pauls Valley, Ardmore, and Chickasha; and college organizations at Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts and East Central State College. He is a former member of the Tulsa Phil-harmonic, and has played profession- ally in Joplin, Pittsburg, Kansas City, and Miami. He holds a military cita- tion for service as director of the 639th Army Air Corps Band in World War 11.
Twenty-seven of his former students now are music educators in various states. Midwest City's splendid new instrumental music building has been named E. Paul Enix Hall in his honor.
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KLAHOMA
homa Today, turn to page 7, and dis- cover what that's all about.
Included are color scenics from Black Mesa, Fort, Washita, Lake Murray, Claremore, Hugo, Devil's Den, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, and Robbers' Cave.
Dr. Stan Hoig's narrative of the sa-cred Cheyenne Medicine Arrows is by far the best on that subject we've ever encountered. The Oklahoma Scrapbook section contains fine poe-try by Freda Stansberry, Clara Ross Baxter, Catherine Clark, Patricia Pa- den Hammond, and Maude Rubin. Books reviewed are The Chickasm Rancher by Neil R. Johnson, and Atlantic Crossings Before Columbus by Frederick J. Pohl.
Elizabeth Stubler's fine article on the University of Oklahoma Press closes the issue with a thought pro- voking quote from retired press di-rector Savoie Lottinville, ". . . an ag-gressive center of intellectual and lit- erary expression can as easily be cre-ated in Oklahoma as in any other re- gion of America." He has been proved right by several Oklahoma collegesand universities. You can acquire the collector's item Spring 1962 issue of Oklahoma Today by sending $1.50 to Oklahoma Today, Will Rogers Me- morial Bldg., Oklahoma City 73105.
BEAVER COUNTY HISTORICAL socmrn
Historians, like doctors, specialize. The most important of all historical specializations is grassroots history, which focuses its attention on a com-pact geographical area. It is the work of grassroots historians which pro-duces much of the material from
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which sfate hiertarieg, national hiab ries and, eventually, continental and world histories are written.
In opposite ratio to the value of the work. the pra&smtshistorian sel-dom receives recognition or credit. The latter is reskrved for the later historian who distill8 grassroots his-tory into textbooks or &torical tomes to be widely read and acclaimed. So we here set aside and acclaim
the meritoriow work of a dedicated group of Oklahomans in Beaver Coun-ty. Knowing they had an extraordi- nary story to tell, they took a Cul-tural Arts Committee suggestion to "write the history of your county."
They formed an Historical Society, incorporated it, elected Mrs.Berenice Jackson president, and were well un- derway on receiving their Charter from the Secretary of State. Home- makers Clubs in the various areas of the county set about gathering his-torical material which resulted in the publication of two thick volumes which must constitute the most corn-plete history of any single countyin Oklahoma.
Board members Otto Barby, Pauline Bond, Rheva Bridgewater, Carolyn Conner, Pauline Cross, Gladys Eagan, Josh Evans, Coral Gardner. Clarence Henricks, P 0. Hibbs, Leo& Hodges, John Little, Thelma Long, Verl Oyler, Barbara Patzkowsky, R. R. p e k e Nellie Pierce. R a l ~ h Rector. Karen Underwood; 'and - Willie k e n , Kristi Hardy, Robbi Day, Linda Gor-don, and others, invested an astound- ing total of volunteer hours and mil-traveled in producing the two historic volumes, which sell for $15 each.
Almost 7000 copies of the volumes were produced, and maat of them have been sold. Beaver County's diligent historians received t&e Oklahoma Ex-tension Council's Cultural Arts Award for their project, but the real reward for their work lies in the future use of it, which will be harvested for many years to come.
II
LONERS ON WHEELS Loners on Wheels is a nation-wide
organization formed in 1970. It is for recreation vehicle-traileraper folks left, by death or divorce, to travel alone. Started less than two years ago
itg mernblrglhip had grown from 20 to 200 by the time we heard of it, hasnowpaawd~andieweUaslite way to 1000. It may even bava p a a d that by now.
O n A p r i l 2 8 % 0 t h e y l l b ~ ~in Oklahoma at G m t Salt P l a h State Park. Thia meeting w8s organ-ized by an e n t h h t i c Oklahoman, Mrs. Martha R Q W Wof O W o m a City. Okbhoma Today hopes the Loners on Wheels wiIl enjoy Okla-homa Northwest, Alabaster Caverns, Little Sahara, Boiling Springs, the Glass Mountains, Salt Plainsmlenite crystal hunting,the abundance of bird and wildlife there, and the State Park's splendid camping area.
If you own a camping vehicle, have become a "loner" and feel out of place traveling with clubs made up of couples and families, why not drift up to Great Salt Plains Park the last weekend in April. Try out the welcome of the Loners on Wheels. If you are a single person, of any age, and think you might enjoy life on wheels, here is the best chance you're likely to have to talk with people who know and can help you decide if, and what kind of vehicle you want to buy.
LONG AGO ON SUNDAY
Sunday m s special for Pete and me in his friendly hay-sweet home, which also smelled of leather harness and dampened barnyard loam.
On Sunday I washed and curried him, a Sabbath task allowed. Then bound for church, curried, starched, how Pete and I were proud.
. . .Lloyd Stone
SHEPLER CENTER, CAMERON COLLEQE, LAWTON.
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