Concentration Of Mallards North Of Forgan Fades
A fading mallard concentration north of Forgan on the Oklahoma Kansas border is noted by Floyd Harrington of Beaver County. Earlier estimates placed 3,000,000 mallards wintering along the Cimarron River, with grain fields raided miles from the river.
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Oklahoma- Kansas
Forgan
Floyd Harrington
Beaver County
United States Biological Survey
Cimarron River
Mammoth XI Ranch
Oklahoma Panhandle
Cimarron
Harrington
Oklahoma Game Association
Byrd Named in Antarctic Venture Fortunes Debate
Washington March 4 A House subcommittee hearing on the Antarctic expedition heard Rep Johnson argue Rear Admiral Richard E Byrd could profit personally from the project He questioned advertising and radio deals and noted a dog food donation tied to 35 tons of supply costs.
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Washington
Richard E. Byrd
House
Johnson
D-Okla
Byrd
Admiral Byrd
Robert A. J. English
The
Antarectic
English
United States
Oklahoma School Land Leases Sold to Continental Oil
Oklahoma City March 4 state school land commission sold two oil and gas leases in Washita county to Continental Oil company. The S 1-2 of SE 1-4 brought 1262 dollars and the other SE 1-4 portion fetched 908 dollars.
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Oklahoma City
State School Land Commission
Washita County
Continental Oil Company
Long County Official W. H. Brumley Dies at 63
W H Brumley longtime Long County resident and former county commissioner died at his home Sunday after a stroke. Funeral services were held Monday from Criswell Funeral Home with burial at Rosedale cemetery. He is survived by his wife two sons Virgil and Jack and two brothers Ed and Able Brumley. He served two terms as county commissioner and was a longtime Homer district school board member and farmer.
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W. H. Brumley
Criswell Funeral Home
Rosedale
Brumley
Virgil
Jack Brumley
Able Brumley
Homer
Food Stamp Plan May Be Extended Nationally
Washington dispatch reports farm officials studying a national scale extension of the surplus food stamp plan for relief families. About 1,950,000 people in 53 cities would be eligible soon, with expansion planned by July 1 if Congress approves a $72 million surplus disposal request and customs receipts. A national rollout would require an annual appropriation of $350 to $400 million.
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Washington
Administration
Congress
House
Agriculture Department
Senate
Repainting Farm Machinery Pays
The winter months provide an ideal time for repainting farm machinery and tools. Three steps cover cleaning metal and wood parts, applying paint evenly, and priming holes with linseed oil. Keep surfaces dry, thin with turpentine if needed, and maintain 60 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit for best spreading.
Obituary William Henry Brumley of Ada
William Henry Brumley 63 of Ada died March 3 at 12 20 p m at home. Funeral services were held Monday at 2 30 p m from Criswell Funeral Home Chapel with Rev Milo Arbuckle officiating. Burial was in Rosedale Cemetery. He is survived by his wife two sons Virgil and Jack and two brothers Ed and Abb Brumley.
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William Henry Brumley
Ada
Criswell Funeral Home
Milo Arbuckle
Rosedale
Virgil
Jack Brumley
Abb Brumley
Talk At State Capitol Veers Already To Lineup In Governor Race For 1942
Oklahoma City March 4 Politicians already discuss the gubernatorial race two years ahead with a list of potential candidates including James E Berry Ray O Weems Mac Q Williamson Phil Ferguson John B Ogden S Key Tom nglin Sandy Singleton E W Smartt C C Childers T A Penney Lewis Morris and Robert S Kerr The list is unofficial and subject to change as campaigns begin.
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Oklahoma City
Dopsters
James E. Berry
Ray O. Weems
Mac Q. Williamson
Phil Ferguson
John B. Ogden
Ardmore
S. Key
Tom Nglin
Holdenville
Sandy Singleton
Highway Commission
E. W. Smartt
Board of Affairs
C. C. Childers
T. A. Penney
Tulsa
Lewis Morris
Oklahoma
Robert S. Kerr
Four Convicts Foiled In Wall Escape At Oklahoma Penitentiary
McALESTER March 4 Four convicts including a 1933 Memorial Day break veteran tried to scale the north wall of the Oklahoma state prison using a makeshift ladder. Guard Neal Farr halted the escape wounding Glen Roy Wright with buckshot as Sawyer Ellis and Blackmore surrendered. Ellis and Blackmore had sentences tied to armed robbery and car theft in Washington and Payne counties. Sawyer, serving life for murder in Bryan county, was later recaptured after a kidnapping incident.
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McAlester
Kansas State Penitentiary
Oklahoma State Prison
Neal Farr
Glen Roy Wright
Frank Sawyer
Judson Ellis
W. E. Blackmore
Sawyer
Bryan County
Kansas
Horace Crisp
Caddo County
Okla
Bob Goodfellow
Lois
Wright
Payne County
Ellis
Washington County
Blackmore
Welfare relief caseload drops in January
The State board of public welfare reports a two percent decrease in January from 9,169 cases and 20,249 persons to 8,989 cases and 19,268 persons on February 1. The January average payment per case was $4.58, the highest in board history, with a 69.4 percent drop since February 1, 1939.
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State Board of Public Welfare
Tom Collins
Welfare Board
Welfare board assists clients with new aid and food
Many cases have been absorbed into other relief or social security agencies as clients become eligible for different aid or their applications are accepted. Welfare board clients receive food from the federal surplus commodities corporation and direct cash grants for the unemployable.
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Welfare Board
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
Court Suit Drives State to Issue Nonpayable Warrants
The supreme court case over nonpayable warrants brought crowds to the courtroom as workers awaited pay. After the ruling, State Auditor Frank C. Carter had the withheld warrants cleared by the end of the following day.
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Statehouse
Supreme Court
Frank C. Carter
Firemen's Gadget Detects Wind For Fire Risk
ALTUS March 4 The Altus fire department now has a home made gauge to gauge wind strength and assess fire risk. Four weather vanes atop city hall feed a torsion spring operated anemometer chart. The device, built by four men from encyclopedia plans, shows wind velocity as the vanes move.
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Altus
City Hall
Durant Hatchery To Be Biggest Of All
The Durant hatchery project near Arm Strong in Bryan county will be the world’s largest fish hatchery under the Oklahoma Fish and Game Commission. WPA provides 104000 dollars of the 143896 dollar total, creating about 299 jobs over seven months with 100 on site at start.
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Oklahoma City
Work Projects Administration
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Fish and Game Commissions
Blue River
Arm Strong
Bryan County
Durant Hatchery
Ron Stephens
WPA
State Commission
Woman Injured In Car Wreck Sunday
Mrs. Eva Lantz a 63 year old Ada resident was under observation at Valley View hospital after a Sunday afternoon crash at the Fittstown Stonewall Y on highway 99. She suffered a lacerated tongue while two others Ernest Lantz and his wife received superficial injuries and were released. Police traced the wreck to a car in front driven by Allen Phillips that slowed to turn causing the Lantz vehicle to leave the road and plunge off a culvert.
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Eva Lantz
Ada
Valley View Hospital
Fittstown Stonewall “Y
Highway 99
Lantz
Ernest Lantz
Melvin Robertson
Allen Phillips
West Eighth Street
Wrangling Over Dam Spurs Big Red River Project
Durant report notes rapid progress on the Red River dam despite legal disputes with Gov. Leon Phillips. Contracts underway May 1, March 15 bid, and a large $53 million power and flood control project with 200 workers on site and 500 expected for the outlet works.
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Texas Bank
Texas
U. S. Supreme Court
Phillips
National Guardsmen
Congress
Chicago
Oklahoma Solon Claims State Treated Unfairly
Washington reports Rep. Johnson of Oklahoma charged the budget bureau and the Indian Bureau discriminate against Oklahoma Indians during hearings on the interior department appropriation bill. He noted Oklahoma housing and dormitory needs and a meager Shawnee project, while the Osages’ income averages about $300 yearly.
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Washington
House
Rep
Johnson
D-Okla
Budget Bureau
Oklahoma
Interior Department
Bureau of Indian Affairs
United States
Indian Service
Shawnee
W. Barton Greenwood
Indian Bureau
Greenwood
Small Irrigation Projects Urged To Help Great Plains
The Wheeler-Case act would fund small irrigation schemes to curb Great Plains migration and boost regional economy. Witnesses urged at a House sub-committee in Washington for at least 5 million dollars for the reclamation bureau, with 70 projects proposed blending WPA labor and FSA settlement to irrigate nearly 469 thousand acres and support 10 thousand to 15 thousand farm families.
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Washington
Great Plains
House Appropriations
Reclamation Bureau
Works Projects Administration
Farm Security Administration
Ickes
Budget Bureau
Food costs ease back toward 1934 levels
Chicago reports that war time price spikes have receded as meat and hog product prices drop, pulling family food expenses toward the postwar low seen in 1934. Market experts note abundant early war supplies and limited European demand as factors shaping the trend.
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Chicago
Europe
Konawa News Highlights Local Visits and Notices
Local social life and obituaries in Konawa Oklahoma.Visits include Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Castle and Mrs. Howell Howellsons family updates. Jack Sparks bound for U. S. Naval Training Station March 5. Fr Leo Garia dor obituary and Sacred Heart mission note. Fortnightly Bridge club at Mrs. O. L. Simes with detailed attendee list.
Much Land Going Back To States
A No Man's Land of over 100 million acres in the western Great Plains is reverting to state ownership for delinquent taxes. E R Henson said federal controls are limited and 10 states face acute problems, with six tens of millions affected in Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and Nebraska.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Great Plains
E. R. Henson
Department of Agriculture
North
South Dakota
Wyoming
Montana
Nebraska
Colorado
New Mexico
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Deep South
Louisiana
Arkansas
Henson
Long Trips in Truck Fail to Daunt 90 Year Old
Oklahoma City March 4 Mrs Anna Chesterman 90 plans a 2000 mile delivery truck journey to Danville Illinois to visit her triplet great granddaughters Roberta Rita and Robert Dickelman She has one life time accident which was in an oxcart wrecked by a runaway team While undeterred she sets out on the long trip and speaks of the adventure with quiet resolve.
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Oklahoma City
Anna Chesterman
Indians Face Poverty Among Five Tribes
Washington March 4. The bureau of Indian affairs told the House interior appropriations sub committee that most members of the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma live in poverty in poor homes and on hard to till land. It urged Congress to fund rehabilitation to enable subsistence gardens and livestock raising.
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Washington
Five Civilized Tribes of
Oklahoma
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Congress
House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee
Bureau
Five Tribes
Army observers split over war outlook in Europe
After six months of fighting, American military men largely agree the war is in a deadlock. Opinions vary on whether changes in forces will unlock it, with debates over Britain and France versus Germany and potential allies, air and sea threats, and the likelihood of a total war from the Nazis.
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Washington
Germany
Finland
Purging Reported By Carter at Oklahoma State HQ
Oklahoma City March 4 Bruce Carter Oklahoma NYA director says his purge of political enemies from state headquarters is complete with eight discharges. Remaining staff will stay if they perform well as he focuses on restoring confidence. Vacancies from ousted executives Harrison and Ross will not be filled immediately.
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Oklahoma City
Bruce Carter
Oklahoma
NYA
Carter
Charles W. Harrison
Clyde F. Ross
Harrison
Recreation Project
Ross
Vera Mae Carl
Wewoka
Houston Wright
Man Found Sane After Fire Set Fires Costing Big Loss
A 27 year old man confessed to starting blazes causing damages totaling over 150000 dollars. Dr. D W Griffin of Central State Hospital Norman declared him sane, noting dementia praecox. He admitted fires at Long Bell Lumber in 1928 and A L West Lumber in 1929 and seven railroad box cars destroyed.
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Oklahoma City
D. W. Griffin
Central State Hospital
Norman
John Eberle
Griffin
Long-Bell Lumber Company
A. L. West Lumber Company
Eberle
Darling ton game farm closes to visitors until Oct fifteenth
State Game Warden K D Turner announced the Darling ton game farm in Canadian county is closed to the public by the state game and fish commission through Oct 15 to prevent poultry disease spread. The shutdown follows the farm’s removal of 1,500 quail pairs and 500 chukar pairs from laying pens amid fears visitors could bring infections. The farm had suffered a major infection loss last year.
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State Game Farm
Oklahoma City
K. D. Turner
Darlington
Canadian County
State Game and Fish Commission
Turner
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