Boot Analysis Pays Off Big For Tennessean
Jessel Cohn bought a $65 boot in 1934 and cut it up to learn manufacturing. His Clarksville firm Acme Boot Co grew into the nation’s largest cowboy boot maker with four Tennessee plants and about 1,400 employees. Autry ordered a grand champion steer leather boot costing $3,900 with $44,375 leather value while Texas California Oklahoma and Ohio rank high in distribution. Most sales go west of the Mississippi.
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Clarksville
Tenn
Jessel Cohn
Texas
Cohn
Acme Boot Co
Marvin
Sidney
Acme
Tennessee
Ashland City
Springfield
Cookeville
Gene Autry
California
Oklahoma
Ohio
New York
Mississippi River
Assessor Schedules County Tax Listing Visits
Lester O Paden county assessor releases a listing of dates for taxpayers to list intangible, homestead, personal and real property for tax purposes. Visits cover Medicine Park Brenton Indiahoma Geronimo Faxon Chatndora Elgin Fletcher Zeilatown and the assessor's office through March 45.
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Lester O. Paden
Paden
Medicine Park
Brenton
Indiahoma
Geronimo
McKee
Faxon
Bank
Chattandora
Cache Drug
Elgin
Talla
Bureh
Fletcher
Shriver’s
Zeila Township
Latvian Lodge No. 183 Installs New Officers
Latvian Masonic Lodge No. 183 installed new officers Monday evening led by worshipful master George A Townsley. Officers include John Lee senior warden Harry Matthews junior warden How ard Troop senior deacon William Young junior deacon and others with Henry W Harvey Sr as installing officer. LeRoy Leister presented the gavel to outgoing worshipful master Mes J. Story.
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Latvian Masonic Lodge No. 183
George A Townsley
John Lee
Harry Matthews
Howard Troop
William Young
Billy J.danley
Donald Hultman
Jack Love
Tyler
the Stothard
William L. Casey
George Whitten
L. W. Williamson
Henry W. Harvey Sr
Jack H. Moorehead
Leonard Oliver
D. BR. Grimes
A. D. Sly
E. Jones
LeRoy Leister
Mes J. Story
Five Traffic Counts Filed By Crane
County Attorney Warren Crane filed five traffic complaints in Justice of Peace Woodrow Giles court. Marie Verda Seyhert, 41, Loveland, is charged with driving with an expired license seven months past due. Willard H. Mec Clure, 42, Oklahoma City, Helen Kaye Long, 19, and Woodrow Long, 40, of Cache, and John H. Marsh, 22, Fort us, face speeding at night charges.
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Warren Crane
Marie Verda Seyhert
Rt L
Fortus
Justice of Peace Woodrow
Hearing On Phone Purchases In Oklahoma
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission will hold a hearing on December 20 regarding Pioneer Telephone Cooperative’s request to buy 15 Oklahoma telephone exchanges from Western Light and Telephone Co Inc of Kansas. Involved towns include Canton Watonga Covington Thomas Hennessey Kingfisher Okarche Pond Creek and Sailing.
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Oklahoma City
The
Oklahoma Corporation _Commision
Pioneer’ Telephone Cooperative
Oklahoma
Western Light and Telephone Co, Inc
Kansas
Canton
Watonga
Covington
Thomas
Hennessey
Kingfisher
Okarche
Pond Creek
Sailing
Oklahoma City Livestock Prices and Commodity Report
Oklahoma City prices list cattle calf and hog values with changes versus prior quotes. It notes feeder and slaughter figures, wool and egg market data, and a lengthy legal notice about the Lawton Southwestern Oklahoma Industrial Development Trust. details include stock, bonds, and governance provisions.
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Oklahoma City
USDA
Subway Strike Continues With 38 Returnees Reported
The strike left 2,600 of 3,200 motormen off the job as the union and Transit Authority clash over jurisdiction. Officials expect some service to resume in three to four days with replacements from transit ranks. Violence surfaces when a pipe shard injures a passenger during a nonstriking shift.
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Joseph E. O'Grady
New York Transit
O'Grady
New York Transit Authority
Six Cameron instructors to attend Curriculum Problems conference
Six Cameron college instructors will attend the conference Curriculum Problems In State Colleges at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater on Thursday. The group includes Gordon Paine, James Taylor, Miss Van Maples, Miss Blanche Beavers, Neville Tinsley and John Harmon.
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Cameron College
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater
Gordon Paine
James Taylor
van Maples
Blanche Beavers
Neville Tinsley
John Harmon
Lawton High School Yearbook Deadline Set for 1957-58 Lore
Cory announces first copy deadline for Lawton High School’s 3957-58 Wolverine Lore yearbook. The 176 page book includes 44 pages of ads and earnings pages, edited by senior Trellus Wilson, with distribution planned for May.
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Oy Lawton High School
Wolverine
Trellus Wilson
Charge Studied In Theft Probe
County Attorney Warren Crane was studying possible charges in a theft case involving six November burglaries. Two 15 year old boys admitted breaking into four businesses and two homes, taking razors a pistol a phonograph a Masonic ring and coins. Restitution agreements were reported.
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Warren Crane
Clea Stout
George Picek
Fort Sill
Picks and Pat Cleaners
Cache Road
North Side
J. P. Cox
J. R. Ewing
Forgers Begin Prison Terms
Two men received five year sentences after guilty pleas to forgery and were transferred to the state penitentiary at McAlester. Alien Byrd 35 was accused of forging Mack Cheatham to a credit reference card for a television purchase at Southwestern Furniture on November 23. John M Shellinburg 36 of Cleburne Texas forged a $56 instrument at Towne s Men store last September blanking Jess Brown with the name Clarence F Perkins as forged signatures. Deputy Graf Ridgeway escorted them to McAlester.
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McAlester
Byrd
John M. Shellinburg
Cleburne
Tex
Mack Cheatham
Southwestern Furniture Store
Shellinburg
Towne’s
Jess Brown
Clarence F. Perkins
Graf Ridgeway
Five Municipal Court Cases Handled By Police Judge Oaks
Five municipal court complaints were disposed of today by Police Judge J Merle Oaks. Lester Tappan 22 Edmonson Tex forfeited $11 bond for driving without a license. James W Kilgore 20 1704 Oak forfeited $20 bond for reckless driving. Lenora Hutchinson 26 2124 C forfeited $20 bond for vagrancy. One person was fined $20 and another $10 for public drunkenness.
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J. Merle Oaks
Lester Tappan
Edmonson
Tex
James W. Kilgore
1704
Oak
Lenora Hutchinson
Northwest Kiwanis Club Adds Seven New Members
The Northwest Kiwanis Club welcomed seven new members at a Tuesday noon meeting themed What Kiwanis Means To Me. Howard Austin led the program with Jim Teese Vernon Klein Kermit Den aam Mile Gordon Paul Cook and John Harman also participating. Les Contway chaired the gathering and C Paul Morris was inducted with Ward McCracken as inducting officer.
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Northwest Kiwanis ‘Club
Howard Austin
Jim Teese
Vernon Klein
Kermit Denaam
Mile Gordon
Paul Cook
John Harman
Les Contway
C. Paul Morris
N. 21St
Ward McCracksen
Tomlinson Junior High Plans Friday Christmas Parties
Tomlinson junior high schedules home room Christmas parties for 2 p.m. Friday December 20. Students stay in regular classes until 2 p.m. then return to home rooms for the celebrations with each instructor arranging arrangements for their class.
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Tomlinson Junior High School
Coat dispute ends with release of local woman
Bernice Sheppard of 11 Bell Street was arrested after a dispute over a coat at an eastside nightclub. She was released from city jail today with no charges filed. The theft report was filed but details remain unclear.
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Bernice Sheppard
Bell
Wyoming
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Cory Deadline
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