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I - mI MUSICIANS LOOK TO GREENLEAF This is one for those hide-bound skeptics who still try to classify the entire Southwest as 'The Great-American Cultural Desert.' Some time back, some mighty important Americans decided the musical life of the American people was in danger. The threat: a serious nation-wide shortage of first class string musicians. They decided the solution was to have an International String Congress-to set up no mere one-day affair of speeches; but really have at it with two months of good basic training for at least fifty of the nation's most gifted young string students. And to bring in great string artists from all over the country for teachers, and to provide this teaching-festival with a really inspiring setting. w So where do you suppose they decided to hold it? In Oklahoma. Specifically, Greenleaf State Park, from June 15 through August 8 this summer. It's really a remarkable story. An Advisory Board including men like Leopold Mh Stokowski, Eugene Ormandy, Leonard Bernstein and Vladimir Golchman (now Advisor to the Tulsa Symphony). Living expenses guaranteed by the American Federation of Musicians. Instruction underwritten by Oklahoma industrialists. Lodging, boarding and recreation provided by the State of Oklahoma and the Greenleaf Lake Festival of Tulsa. And this includes some mighty nice new facilities-30 practice sheds, air conditioned rehearsal rooms, etc.-built for the event on the shores of one of the prettiest lakes in Oklahoma. Oklahomans who recognize this as a really great step in winning recognition for both the culture and the beauty of the Southwest owe thanks to many dedicated souls for this one. But chiefly to Dr. Roy Harris, celebrated American composer, Founder-Director for the Greenleaf Lake Festival; native Oklahoman.

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Yesterday your old creaky editor took his nine children along for a trek around Sooner Strip territory. Here are some high spots, starting with FXONTIER CITY. TRAIN RIDE. Longest dam ride of its kind I ever saw. Whiz past buffalo, burros, stagecoaches, cowboys, Indians, mighty nice little forest, old timey oil well and Frontier Chapel. Kids pulled pop-gun on engineer. Got two more free I rides. GHOST MINE. Real wild. All sorts of pleasant new companions like skeletons and three-foot spiders try to join the family as you reel thru pitch-black tun- nels. Kids got over their scare and tried to catch spider, but he got away. I CIMARRON RIVER BOAT RIDE. Another wild one. Even outdoes Edna PHOTO BY DICK COBB 1 Ferber for jazzing up Oklahoma's Cimar- Two Front Street unmen feel the avenging wrath of Doc Holliday's blazing .4Ss .Such violence is apt to ireak out anywhere in town. Tourists and visitors are warned that there ron river countryside. are at least two gunfights like this on the streets of Frontier City every day. INDIAN KIVA. Real Indian village I with stoic drum-beaters and dancing emma& fiedl to braves in fanw feathers. Kids wanted -to 1 ' Indian wrestle; but braves refused. Blam- ed high cast of feathers; can't muss. Travel Boom for Oklahoma TEEPEES TO TOWERS HIGH RIDE. Clear to the top of a 120-foot Behind development of the "Sooner Turnpikes through Oklahoma. arrow for a view of Frontier City that Strip" area as a major site for tourist Though the actual crossroads point lies really takes your breath away. Even kids attractions lies a big fact about the new northeast of , sparking were so awed they shut up for one whole U.S. system of Super Highways. "Sooner Strip" development, travel ex- minute. This system will literally transform perts ,foresee significent benefits for the JAILHOUSE. Turned over itemized Oklahoma into the "Crossroads of the whole state from the Super Highways. list of children's offenses, but Marshall Nation" for highway travel. It will do Oklahoma is ready, with topflight state refused to lock them up even -for pay. this by vastly strengthening the already parks and lodges dotting the entire state; They are missing a real bet here. strong north-south and east-west trans- new lakes galore; growing resort areas in Sated with thrills, we headed across continental travel pattern created by the northeastern and southern Oklahoma; the expressway to . . . Continued on page 29 cn'ss-cross of U.S. 77 and U.S. 66 and the and general growth elsewhere. - , _.. CITY U.S.A. OKLAHOMA CITY,- OKLA.

Hummel .;, and 1 Travelers Find West Still,*:. Wild At Frontier City&<:; BY DAV Catch U.S. Eye Late one night last summer a truck driver barreling along the big, modern, four-lane expressway northeast of Okla- Western Writers Ride homa City saw something that caused him to slam on his brakes and leap from In For Big Convention the cab. There on a nearby hill stood an old Hummel Holiday Village developers covered wagon, blazing away against the have let no grass grow under their feet black of night as though some Indian had since they pioneered development in the just plunked a flaming arrow through the "Sooner Strip" area three years ago. ancient canvas. Since then this unique "all women" The driver rushed up the hill and sud- corporation, spearheaded by tiny dynamo denly found himself in a town that look- Lu Hummel, has parlayed their location ed like something lifted right out of directly across from Frontier City into a "Gunsmoke" or "Maverick. Down the booming business in fine, hand-braided ancient board walk-ways he ran, shouting rugs and established their "Hummel for help. Finally a soul, clad in bona fide Maid" brand-name nation-wide. old cowboy gear, emerged. More recently they have expanded into "That wagon's burning," the driver a Village of fine shops to cater to the shouted. traveler. "Sure thing," the cowboy gnnned-and Southwest three miles along Oklahoma proceeded to explain. The flames came City's northeast expressway, construction from hidden gas pipes. The wagon was in is now underway on the National Cow- no danger. It was just a gimmick to call bov Hall of Fame. Seventeen states are attention to the town of Frontier City participating in a continuing drive to USA, Oklahoma's new million-dollar reach a goal of $5-millions to complete tourist attraction. this great national shrine. The truck driver's verbal reaction was Lured in by such attractions and the colorful, but unprintable. But his surprise silver-tongued oratory of Oklahoma To- to find such a thing had suddenly sprout- day associate editor Bill Burchardt (him- ed here has become a familiar reaction self a Western Writer), the Western for several million transcontinental travel- Writers of America recently held their ers since then; as well as for the "settlers" national convention at Frontier City. themselves. Major leaguers, minor leaguers "Y" leaguers, it's fantastic how many Oklahomans.. .

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It is safe to estimate that ninety percent of the television sets in Oklahoma were turned on the afternoon of last October 2nd, and focused on Milwaukee Stadium where the second mme of the was being- played. in the fourth inning ~YckeMantle a home . LED FOR IMPRESSIVE PERF In the top of the ninth, he hit another . At that moment I ALL-STAR GAME WHEN HE nu iH,GEHRIG,FOXX,SIMMONS it is equally safe to say that tons of air were shoved clear out of IN SUCCESSION.NICKNAM the state borders by the unison swelling of chests as Oklahomans said MEAL-TICKET. WON 233 CAME SCORING 16 STRAIGHT IN 191 to themselves, "That's our boy!" STREAK OF 461/3 SCORELESS A similar effect was produced two days later when , Hartshome rancher and Milwaukee Braves , treated the Yankees

OKLAHOMA TODAY to a shutout, and Milwaukee won 4 to 0. It looks like Gomez became Hubbell's sixth victim. we'd be used to it by now. ?'hen there are the Waners, Paul and Lloyd. "Big But every baseball season continues to be a time of Poison", and "Little Poison", whose deadly batting ac- unusual rejoicing in this panhandled state, and World curacy was the terror of . In four- Series time produces almost the equivalent of a series of teen years with the , successive state holidays. It is a startling fact that this struck out only 158 times in 7,219 trips to the plate. state has sent one hundred and four baseball players up Look at these batting averages: 1928-.336, 1929-.359, to the Major Leagues. 1930A.362, 1931-.318! Who can concentrate on routine business details Paul Waner was the National League's Most Valu- when one of the home town bovs is starring in the World able Player in 1927. He batted .380 that year. He hit .379 Series? For instance, just to the current crop of his second year in the big leagues. In '27, he drove in 131 standout Sooner big leaguers, there was . runs, and hit 17 triples to lead the league for the second The "Super Chief" tied the all-time record with successive year. Paul Waner is in the National Baseball seven World Series wins. He pitched for the All-Star Hall of Fame. teams of '43, '47, '49, '51, '52, and '53. In '51, he was So is Carl Hubbell. Two Oklahoma farm boys who Pro-Athlete of the Year and won the Hickok Award. In grew up playing high school ball in Harrah and Meeker, '52, he was Player of the Year and won the New York just sixteen miles apart, and both wound up in the Base- Sports Writers' Award. He won the Baseball ball Hall of Fame-a situation which cannot be duplicated Award in '48, '50, '51, and '52. In '51, he pitched two anywhere in the United States. no-hit games for the first time in the history of the That brings us to the somewhat more complicated , and has pitched a total of 37 shutouts! case of Dizzy and Paul Dean. Paul was born in Poteau. Or back up a little farther to Johnny "Pepper" Mar- Dizzy was bbrn in Holdenville, on Jan. 16, and in Lucas, tin who literally won the 1931 World Series single-handed. Arkansas, on Aug. 22, 1911. He has listed his full name Driving in 5 runs, scoring 5 himself, 12 hits for a total of as both Jay Hanna Dean, and Jerome Herman Dean. 19 bases, and a batting average of .500, which is still the Dizzy says, "I'm mixed up myself. I swear I thought record high batting average for an individual in a seven I was born in Holdenville on Jan. 16. But, do you know, game Series. According to the baseball writers of the time, my dad stood up in 's office and said it was "an obscure David who galloped unawed and roughshod Lucas, Arkansas, on Aug. 22. Can you imagine that? I over the mighty Goliath that was the Philadelphia Ath- tdd him if anyone ought to know it was me. I was thc letics' baseball machine", Pepper Martin is universallv one borned, for Pete's sake!" recognized as one of the greatest players the game ever As to the name mix-up, it turns out Dizzy was brn produced. Jay Hanna but decided to take the name Jerome Herman Or how about "King" Carl Hubbell, the screwball when a boyhood chum of that name died. It is indicative pitcher from Meeker who once made the New York of Diz' big-heartedness that he did it to help ease thc Giants invincible. Carl Hubbell won 253 games for the grief of the dead boy's father. Giants and was a more than twenty game winner for five It also turns out that Diz was born in Lucas, Arkan- consecutive seasons. The "Meal Ticket" as the writers sas, but grew up in Springer, Oklahoma, not far from called him, is the pitcher who accomplished the incredible Holdenville. And if he did get mixed up on places and feat of striking out Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmy Foxx, dates, he certainly never got mixed up on a pitcher's A1 Simmons, and Joe Cronin in order, in the 1934 All- mound. Diz' dad relates that his boys learned to throw Star game. Bill Dickey got a single after that, then Lefty Continued on page 27

Bo Belcher's Baseball Camp at Chandler, which is attracting attention throughout the nation, will hold three, 3-week ses- sions this summer, with enrolees from all over the country. Bully McClean, San Francisco Giant veteran scout, calls the camp! 'The finest baseball set-up I ever saw. Bo has a file full of letters of praise from school administrators and parents as well as men. Top instructors are here to teach the techniques of throwing, hitting, and playing of every position. Bo's aim is to give the best of instruction to baseball interested boys, and to develop sports- manship right along with playing skill.

OKLAHOMA TODAY SEVEN It was hell in the hills when UNION forces tried to I cope with the CONFEDERACY'S 1 1 RED FOX , dodern Oklahomans are in- containing supplies for Union forces at Fort Gibson. ,lined to look surprised and The resulting conflict was listed as THE FIRST even skeptical when told that BATTLE OF BIG CABIN. It took place on the banks %era1 battles of the Civil War of Cabin Creek between Vinita and Langley. The Con- w- took place on Oklahoma soil. federates attacked viciously and the fight raged for two days but they were beaten off and the wagon train with its I ' 'Why, rney say with an "oh, pshaw" attitude, "Oklahoma wasn't even a state then." Which is true. escort of Yankee troops managed to make its way to Fort But the battles did take place in what is now Okla- Gibson, fighting a rear guard action as it crawled painfully homa and some of them were little lulus, probably as through the hills. bloody and as deadly, man for man, as any battles of the After their defeat Watie's men drew back into the war. woods, regrouped, counted their losses and prepared to No battle names appear on the Oklahoma record to try again. compare in magnitude or historical importance with such The next chance came on July 17. Reinforcements blood-baths as' Gettysburg, Shiloh, Antietam, Chicka- for the Confederates came up in large numbers from maugua or Sherman's march to the sea and the pageantry Arkansas and Texas. Major General James G. Blunt, com- of waving flags, rolling drums and shrilling bugles was mander of Union troops at Fort Gibson, received scouting missing. There were no famous war correspondents cover- reports that a massed, all-out attack would be made on ing the Indian Temtory theatre of operations. But scores Fort Gibson and he moved quickly to nip it in the bud of deadly little battles were fought up and down the by going out to meet the Confederates before they had eastern quarter of the state and the men who fought them sufficient time to get set. In all Blunt had at his disposal and left their bodies on the field of battle were just as some 3,500 men, including a small battery of artillery. dead as those who fell in the large engagements farther Confederate troops under General George H. Coop East. Men in Blue and Gray died by the thousands in er, with Stand Watie second in command, numbered the eastern theatres of the war where the heavy concentra- about 6,000 and they had no artillery: tions of population and armies took place, but they died Blunt was a stubborn and vigorous officer and he was by the hundreds up and down the Oklahoma-Arkansas thoroughly fed up with Stand Watie's constant harrassing border. And, considering the sparse population and small- of his territory. He was determined to put an end to it. er numbers of men involved, the results of the Oklahoma He also realized that Fort Gibson was the key to the fights showed higher casualty percentages. entire area and if it fell into Confederate hands it would For four bloody years the friendly green Ozarks in not only be a crippling blow to the Union but would the Cherokee country, the rugged Cookson Hills, the San also probably cost him his command. So he hastily pre- Bois and the pine-clad Kiamichi Mountains of South- pared for action and marched from the Fort to meet the eastern Oklahoma was a land of terror, of pillagingand enemy as far from it as possible. killing, of night raids and house burnings. Up and down, On July 17, 1863, just two weeks after Gettysburg, back and forth rode and marched the wamors of the THE BATTLE OF HONEY CREEK, the most impor- Union and the Confederacy. And when it was all done the tant Civil War battle in Indian Temtory, took place. hills and valleys were scarred and ravaged and most of the The two armies met on the banks of Elk Creek, at Indian residents were hungry and homeless and many of the village of Honey Springs, near which the Confederates them penniless. had their warehouses and supply stations, about 12 miles Much of the war was fought on a guerrilla besis . . . Southeast of Muskogee. of quick hit-and-run raids involving only a few dozen or, Fighting started early in the morning and lasted at most, a few hundred men, some in uniform, some not. through much of the day. Each force fought fiercely and Stand Watie's Cherokee Mounted Rifles figured in with every weapon at its disposal. But the Confederates the greater portion of these affairs. What Mosby did as were outclassed in equipment and weapons, and by the the Confederate raider in Virginia Stand Watie did with end of the day were forced to retreat, leaving over two equal thoroughness in Oklahoma. While Mosby was hundred dead and numbers of wounded behind. There known as the "Gray Ghost" of the South it would be were almost no prisoners taken by either side. equally fitting to call Watie the "Red Fox" of the West. Elk Creek today is a clear, blue stream that flows b Watie was threequarters Cherokee, the only Indian to peacefully along a rocky channel but on July 17, 1863, its win a general's stars in either army. waters were red with the blood of the men who struggled On July 1 and 2 of 1863, the very same days on along its banks. which the first two days of the history-making Battle of When the rattle of musketry, the boom of artillery, Gettysburg was taking place a thousand miles to the East the rebel yell and the Cherokee and Creek war cries died a force of 1500 Confederates under Stand Watie, then a away that day in July Blunt's forces went back to Fort Colonel in the Confederate army, engaged a force of Gibson and the Confederates retreated, limping down the Union troops of considerably smaller number and at- Texas Road fifty miles to Perryville, about 12 miles South tempted to capture a supply train of some 200 wagons of the present city of McAlester. Continued on page 31

OKLAHOMA TODAY PAM Ik TNI IASTlJiV HALF Take the advice of a man who's been there often-there are a lot of surprises in store for . . .

BY R. G. MILLER : , "Smoking Room" columnist, Doily Oklahomon Eastern Oklahoma! Ah wonderland! by nature with bass, brownies, goggleeyes and other game Books, booklets and brochures by the dozen have fish. been written and speeches and lectures by the hundred In April, the mountain region, from Broken Bow on have been delivered about the natural beauty, the moun- the south to Wyandotte on the north, is alive with flower- tains and hills, the rivers and lakes, the forests, the ing beauty. Dogwood, redbud, flowering peach, locust, history, the good neighborliness, the mineral deposits and haw, and other trees and bushes give forth an extrava- the industrial opportunities in Eastern Oklahoma-but ganza of colorful beauty. And in the autumn these same the half has not been told. mountains present a pageant of rainbow color. This story in Oklahoma Today may do little more The Eastern Oklahoma mountain country is well- than fill in some gaps and emphasize the whole. Perhaps covered with forests of scenic and commercial value. Lots it will stir the interest of countless thousands of Oklahoma of people will be surprised to learn that Oklahoma has residents, and numerous visitors, to set aside two or three abouf six million acres of merchantable timberlands and days or a week or more to go motoring to see some of more than 200 sawmills, including two of the largest the most magnificent scenery in the land and to visit such mills in the USA. Sixteen million fence posts are some of the sites where rich, meaningful history of the produced and marketed from this area each year; also southwest was made. Continlled on page 32 So pack up, load up and let's get going. Where to start? It doesn't matter. Eastern Oklahoma presents a new pageant of grandeur with each- passing mile in any direc- tion from any takeoff point. The mountains in eastern Oklahoma do not reach WlOHTFALL AT THE CROSSROADS as high into the sky as the Rocky mountains, but they Used to be a title like the above would evoke a picture compare well when it comes to scenic beauty. Rich moun- tain in southern LeFlore county is the highest with elevation at one point of 2,950 feet. It is followed by Sugarloaf, also in LeFlore, with 2,650 feet. Then come the Winding Stair and the Kiamichi, in much the same area, with elevation close to 2,500 feet. There are in- numerable mountains in that section of the state which are 1,200 to 1,800 feet up. These include the San Bois peaks and ridges which are as shapely and scenic as any of them. At the foothills of these mountains there are clear- water streams which offer hundreds of ideal campout and picnicking spots. These creeks come tumbling down from the hillsides with gusto, and they are all stocked

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PART Ik TIE EASTERN HALF The fresh new land that was Oklahoma comes to life again through the sketchbook of

BALDWIN MOLLHAUSEN- In our Sprrng Iswe, we presented the terratn of western Oklahoma as seen and sketched by ort~stouthor BoMwln Mollhouren, when he crossed Ok!ahoma wlth the Pac~fic Rollrod Survey tn 1853. h thts trwe we sent Mollhausens sketches of the lndtan people he met In eostsrn ~kchhwna.In dlrect contrast to the commonly accepted stereotype, he found them cultured, educated, prosperous, and wccesdul ~nbusiness We inv~teyw to read his comments about them In the short excerpts included here For Mallhouren's complete Oklahoma lournab, see The Chrontcles of Oklahoma, or the book l~stedbelow from a PATHFINDER IN THE SOUTHWEST by Cront Foremon, Unw. of Okla Pren

MOUNTAIN AND LAKE Quoting R. G. Miller, "Oklahoma is blessed with scenic highways. SH 51 from Wagoner east through Tahlequah to Stilwell is one of the most scenic. U.S. 59 from Miami south past Jay to Sallisaw and on past Heavener is pretty. SH 20 from Claremore past Pryor to the Grand Lake region is a beauty. U.S. 70 from Atoka east to Antlers is a dandy, and the same road from Broken Bow east to Arkansas is lined with attractiveness. U.S. 271 from a point near Wister south- west through Talihina and Clayton to Antlers is a good one any day. And U.S. 270 from just east of McAlester through Wilburton, Wister, and Heavener to the Arkansas tine has been a favorite for years. All of these highways ate fully paved." This view of Lake Elmer Thomas was made from the highway ascending Mt. Scott in the WICHITA MOUNTAIN WILDLIFE REFUGE.

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SAILBOAT The slap of canvas in a spanking breeze, and waves lapping the gunwhale with the rudder hard over. Confirmed sailboaters will tell you there's no sport to compare! No racketty motor noise - no exhaust fumes - only a cool lake breeze, and a quiet world apart. ON LAKE HEFNER.

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PICNIC What is Oklahoma? Ask most folks who treasure the best in a state and they'll say, "People. Really wonderful people. So nice and friendly."Perhaps one reason for the friendliness of Oklahomans is that they just have plenty of places, close at hand, to get away from the pressures of everyday life and relax. Lakes, streams, ponds, woods, small canyons, parks . . . The family picnic, of course, has been one of the great traditional American "soul-restorers." And so to picnics everywhere, we dedicate this Oklahoma summer scene: just people enjoying being people, near Turner's Falls in southern Oklahoma.

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NIGHT HARVEST "Man's work is from sun to sun," e disbrtzed in the very says the old proverb-but not when the wheat is ripe and ready for the harvest. Labor 'round the clock is commonplace then, for a sudden summer storm can destroy own in moments all the fruitful and leir px~eedin$s,while his large familj 2~"pick abundant yield that has taken p a living abut the months to mature. Last year's roman is following h bumper crop produced almost 116 million bushels of wheat from 4% million acres planted, bringing an income of $202,020,000 to Oklahoma.

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TENKlllER DIVERS What is-this New Oklahoma? Nowhere does it reveal itself with more dramatic power than in North- eastern Oklahoma's lake country. Imagine a land of wooded hills, small farms, and small towns sort of at a loss as to where the future was headed. Then imagine that a magician waved his wand and lo and behold, three mighty lakes . appeared. Thousands of boats popped onto the water. The shores sprouted resorts, lodges, cabins. Millions of people began to pour in from all over the country. And the small towns came to life and started growing, growing, growing. -.I And sports like Scuba diving - hard to picture in the Old Okla- homa - took hold like mad. This is no fairy tale. It is merely the story of what has happened in just two decades, following the development of Grand, Fort Gibson and Tenkiller lakes. The divers in' this picture are Lucien Criner, Jr., *! of Okmulgee, and William Billlig, 1 a Henryetta jeweler. A former Navy 1 salvage diver, Criner helped cleat Nagasaki harbor after that city was I flattened by the atom bomb, and helped salvage the Normandie in 1 New York harbor. Following World War II he came to Oklahoma. 1 He's now pretty generally credited with being the man who started Scuba diving on the way to its present popularity as an Oklahoma water sport.

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N16HT SKYLINE "Spend tonight in exciting, glam- orous Oklahoma City," say the signboards on the highways leading into town. This view of the Capital city's colorful skyline makes the prospect indeed tempting. A multitude of cafes and restaurants sewing menus of delectable food, theatres showing a variety of the latest attractions (or you can pick an evening when the Mummers 4 or Miracle Theatre have a play on the boards), symphony, concert and celebrity series, nite spots fea- turing dance bands playing the rhythms you like, an evening in Oklahoma City can provide enter- tainment for you and that girl you married, or the whole family.

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TECH CO.~U,I, ~~CI.I i Autoll~obileWorkers' plan for supplementary unemploy- ment benefits. If that sort of language is puzzling, don't be alarmed. It sinl131y nieans that the world is undergoing growing pains in what nlay be the no st benevolent revolution in the litstory of technolop. Great industrial changes have forced occupational adjustnlents in the past. During the period following \Yorlcl War I, industrial mechanization upset millions of workers' dinner pails all over the country. That genera- tion of Anlericans ate many a dry crust of bread while lcarning to operate machines to do 1111ich of the work that was forlnerly done by hancl. ihc current industrial transition is different. Man- opcratecl machines are now becoining- obsolete. The modern plant uses machines to operate other machines, clcctronicallv controllecl by push-button specialists and technicians. Prcsent day technology demands skills of a higher level than the current average of today's "skilled labor." Oklaholna State Tech produces skills of that liighcr lcvcl. l'hc rolc played hi this school in lifting its students to 11igher econon~iclevels is unique. Better paying jobs wait for thein even before they graduate. And graduating stuclcnts usually llavc their choice of several jobs that arc opcn and wvaiting. I\ I\ conficlcntial surve!. of l'ech graduates shows begin- ~iingwagcs of well over $500 per month. In the self- an~loycclgroup, rcports show earnings as high as $1200 1xr nlonth. 'l'lle linlit of success is ciltirely up to thc i~~cli\.iclual'sahilit!. ancl ambition. Charlcs E. Wilson becamc president of General hlotors with a vocational school education. Henry Ford proved the valuc of technical training in developing hi:< carlj- automol~iles.Ile insisted on technical training for l~isdepartment heads as his company grew. Chrysler Corporation received a contract to producc tlic Redstone ancl Jupiter missile systems last year whilc IJctroit was in thc throes of recession unemplo!rment. Thc contract lneant 4,000 new jobs, but the unemployed auto workers could not fill these jobs. All these new jobs had to bc manned by specialists. Chrysler was compelled to hire 25% engineers, 40% technicians, and most of thc rest were skilled workmen trained for more con~plicated work than had ever been done on an auto assembly linc. Such examples are becoming common. On the farnl, ill the oilfield. in ir~clustry,and in science, the technician is to our economy what bedrock is to the foundation of tllc Empire State Builcling. Shakespeare says, "Experience is a jewel . . . for. it is oftcn purcl~aseclat an infinite rate." Practical exl~erienceis what 0.S.Tech abounds in, of course. Rut theor); and related subjects are not by- passed in the process of producing specialists. For instance, six hours of study per day for Electronic and Electrical Maintenance involves: two hours basic

WENTY-SIX OKLAHOMA TODAY ph Continued from page 7 Gy killiAg squirrels with rocks. They were equally accurate with either hand, but usually threw left-handed so they wouldn't tear the squirrel up too much. Paul is one of that immortal list who has pitched a no-hit game-Sept. 21, 1934, against Brooklyn. Diz pitch- ed the first game of that header, horsing around a good deal and winning easily 13 to 0. When the after- noon was over, Diz said, "Shucks, Paul, if I'da knowed you wuz gonna pitch a no-hitter, I'da throwed one my- self." He likely could have, for before the game he had wandered into the Brooklyn clubhouse and told the astonished Dodgers exactly how he intended to pitch to each of them. Diz and Paul won two games apiece in the 1934 World Series against Detroit, making the total of Thousands of Tech grads have upgraded their earning four games it took to win the Series. Dizzy won 102 power by switching jobs, after specialist training at Tech geared to future needs. Typical are Raymond V. Adorns games in four successive seasons for the St. Louis Cardi- (I), Tulsa; and Billy G..Marcum (r), Valliant. Both are nals' amazing Gas House Gang-something which no one employed by the Carter Oil Geophysical Depart,ment. has equaled since. Do you begin to see why it's hard to do business in electrical and electronics theory; two hours related sub- Oklahoma on a World Series afternoon? If you find it jects-calculus, principals of pdar; two hours shop work. hard to believe that Oklahoma has sent 104 players up A long walk through the endless corridors connect- to the Major Leagues, thelist, compiled from the Official ing the ninety-four buildings on the campus is a reward- Encyclopedia of Baseball, is on page 29. ing experience. The ever changing aroma drifting out of Roy Deal, Oklahoma's walking encyclopedia of base- the many doorways is as informative as the signs on the ball, says that he believes that on a per-capita population classroom doors. basis, Oklahoma has contributed more players to Major The pleasant smell of fresh sawdust indicates cabinet League ball than any other state in the nati0.n. We do and furniture making inside the door to the left. The too, and until somebody proves us wrong we'll stand on indescribable odor of new leatlier assures you that huge that claim. strips of fine leather are being cut, stamped, cawed, and Why? Allie Reynolds was recently discussing this vely sewn into beautiful handbags, saddles, or shoes and boots matter with Ted McGrew, who has for forty-five years inside the door to the right. And that's the way it is for been one of baseball's top scouts, for the Giants, the three miles of oakfloored thoroughfare. Dodgers, and others. McGrew comments that not only Corridors permit wheelchairs to travel with ease and has this state produced a lot of ball players, but they are comfort to any building on the campus. This facility alone always among the best competitors in the game. has transformed the lives of hundreds of physically handi- Climate can partly explain the large numbers and capped students. their skill. Warm temperatures and sunny days give us a Sixteen months of continuous training gives 0.S.Tech long baseball season. The game can be played for several students what they need. A thorough training for the months longer than in colder climes. But how do you jobs they most desire. No frills. No lost time or motion. explain the competitive spirit? Just 1200 to 1500 young men and wonlen studying a Many of these boys sprung from pioneer stock, who specialized vocation. They come from all states, from took land on the last American frontier in the great open- foreign countries. Their minds are made up before they ing runs. All of them learned from birth that success, in come to Okmulgee, and they get what they came for. anything, comes from a grimly determined spirit and Their philosophy is in full accord with Thomas long, long hours of hard work. Fuller's famous advice, "He that sips of many arts, drinks Many of Oklahoma's Major Leaguers are Indians. of none." A little more than fifty years ago, their fathers and grand- Oklahoma is indeed fortunate to have this unique fathers lived in a natural environment where athletic skill school. It is the most complete of its kind in the country. coordinated with vigdant quick wit meant life or death. A school that trains young men and women to work These native outdoorsmen, in hunt and combat, develop successfully with men of experience. And finally, a school ed athletic skills to incredible perfection. where emphasis is placed on the basic techniques and Consider the unparalleled exploits of Sac and Fox skills which apply to the needs of this new atomic and Jim Thorpe. Excelling in every sport he attempted, electronic world of specialists. Continued on next page

OKLAHOMA TODAY TWENTY-SEVEN (left) Pepper Martin beats out a hot infield single against Philadelphia, and (right) Allie Reynolds hlirls the final pitch in his second 1951 no-hit game. The -' Ted Williams is at the plate.

phbaa Continued from pmeding page is apt to wonder if every boy in town plays baseball. ?'horpemachieved a lifetime batting average of 320, and With 15 to 18 boys per team, and two dads to played six years for John McGraw's N. Y. Giants, from them, each team is carefully graded to match boys of equal 1913. King Gustav of Sweden once told Thorpe, "Sir, ability. Rules state that no boy may play more than 75 you are the greatest athlete in the world." per cent of the time, so every boy will get a chance to play. What are Oklahoma's chances of continued success The dads raise money to equip the team through pie in Major League ball? A look at this season's rosters, in suppers, carnivals, and donations (often digging deep in addition to Mantle and Spahn, turns up such names as their own pockets), lay out and grade the diamond, build , , Cal McLish, Von and Lindy the backstop, and coach the boys. There is nothing in it McDaniel, , Jerry Walker, . for them except a lot of hard work, a chance to be with The Tulsa Oilers, AA club in the St. Louis farm their boys, have a common interest with them and watch system, is looking for a big year, which will include 36 boys grow into men. Which is pretty satisfying all around. games with teams in Mexico, in the new Pan-American Oklahoma City's "Y baseball program has been Association, in addition to their schedule. written up in Life magazine. It is a pioneer, the first of Future Cardinal talent is seasoning here. its type in the nation, and has become a prototype. Gib The kid baseball program in Oklahoma is another Favor, "Y" executive who so successfully heads up the indication of things to come. The YMCA program, which program, receives inquiries about it daily, from cities starts baseball in the "pee-wee" bracket at age 8, moves everywhere. a youngster progressively through the "midget", "prep", Many an Oklahoma baseball star puts his shoulder and "minor" brackets, with state play-offs sponsored by to the wheel of youngster baseball after he retires from the Roy Deal inspired OK Kids organization. There is Major League play. The "Super Chief" Allie Reynolds, American Legion ball for boys under 18. The American has been "Y Baseball Commissioner sin& 1943. Dale Amateur Baseball Congress is organized for teams in the Mitchell, whose batting average with the Cleveland In- . Babe Ruth League (ages 13-1 5), the Connie Mack Divis- dians was a s.ensationa1 .565 against Allie Reynolds, is also ion (ages 16-18), and the Major Division (age 19 and on the "YCommission and helps with the coaching. older). In fact, every ex-Major Leaguer pitches in on the The objective of the tremendous YMCA program is "Y" Spring Clinics, freely teaching the youngsters every- not to develop professional ball players, but to obtain the thing they know. There is a lot of baseball savy in widest possible participation. In Oklahoma City alone, Oklahoma. With all the hubbub of state-wide baseball 9,007 boys played on 509 teams last year, playing a total activity summer after summer, it appears that the rosters of nearly 5,000 games before more than a million specta- of Major League clubs are apt to be listing Oklahomans tors. A stranger passing through on any summer afternoon for quite awhile.

TWENTY-EIGHT OKLAHOMA TODAY 1 OKLAHOMANS IN THE MAJORS AMERICAN LEAGUE 1959 continued fmm page 4 HUMMEL HOLIDAY VILLAGE. This place is really loaded with pure-out, quaint, old-timey charm. And because it .- ---- is like going into somebody's house, is ~~r&_--_--___ICn~ikv~ Wey Mmt!d Cannam I---wnr Yolk Varh4 really god for quieting down the kids if I. W. Porter, S'hnneeWatWm Smtm they have any manners at all. NATIONAL LEAGUE 1959 Attin Dark. Cmanche- wm mlm smdt rn .. ciramb Reds HUMMEL RUG STORE. Gracious Don brnster, Okllhn. CIIY --.-.& Wb Wn Lp, hrn slam ladies braiding luscious rugs. SURREY HOUSE. Damdest collec- tions you ever saw of old-timey china, glass, iron-work and handicraft from all over the world. Kids went for old-time guns, swords, candy store, and nine wrig- gling rubber monkeys. I went for . . . PATIO. A real, restful oasis, surround- ed by nice shops of all kinds. After refuel- ing at the handy "pop" shop. regrouped safari and headed southwest along ex- pressway to . . . HILLSIDE SITE FOR NATIONAL COWBOY HALL OF FAME. Ground cut up with construction getting under- way, but still a real thrill to stand here late in the day and imagine yourself one of the last of the cowboys, astride his trusty steed against the sunset. Dream punctured by nine small voices howling "Where are the cowboys?" "Bless your dear, tender little souls, they will be here next year," I explained; and so led them, howling, home.

MAMMOTH CO~&U~ha. p(e 5 creation of Oklahoma's famed Cimarron river; and--to cap the bright accumula- tion of all sorts of whizzing, whirling amusement park type attractions that fill the sou* end of the park-two of the most unusual rides in the country. One, billed as a Teepees to Towers High Ride, carries thrill-seekers by cable- 1 car to the top of a gleaming 120-foot i arrow. The other is a huge, 45-footdiame- ' ter Flying Saucer designed to waft over 40 people "to the moon." The surprise generated by all this sort ' of thing today seems, however, to pale somewhat beside the one big surprise of the town's "early days"-the fact that it ever got going at all. Two years ago Frontier City was just an idea in the mind of Jimmy Burge, director of the Semi-centennial Exposi-

Again Stand Watie, a Brigadier General now, led the COII+~III~~fmm page 9 Confederates and this time they won. Perryville at that time was an important town in the This scuffle, like the first one, was over a well-loaded area and had been,a principal depot for the Butterfield Union supply train of some 295 wagons full of supplies stage line. It was the county seat of old Tobucksy County and provisions desperately wanted by Watie's thread-bare of the Choctaw Nation. The Confederates had one of legions of the hills. their key supply stations here and they were among Watie now had some cannon, captured from the friends, so they licked their wounds and took a rest. more prosperous and better equipped Yanks, and he used Meanwhile Texas reinforcements under Brig. General them to good effect, splintering many of the wagons and William Steele arrived and General Cooper breathed sending their escorting troops diving into the trees for easier. If the Yanks came after him again he'd be better safety. prepared this time. The rebels took what supplies they wanted, about And come after him they did. General Blunt, stub- 130 of the wagons, several thousand uniforms and 3,000 bornly pursuing his policy of taking the fight to the tons of hay for their horses, and burned the rest. Included rebels, came pounding down the Texas Road again in in the loot was a generous amount of whiskey intended early August and surrounded the town, which, in addition for the Union officers at Fort Gibson. to the rebel troops, contained a civilian population in- Watie's men promptly appropriated it and did what cluding several women and children. thirsty soldiers usually do with free whiskey. They drank The resrllting engagement is officially listed as THE it . all they could hold. Watie, fearing his men would BATTLE OF PERRYVILLE. The stubborn General . . become too drunk for action, ordered what was left of Blunt won again. the whiskey poured into the creek. After hours of fighting and the loss of several men killed the Confederates realized the futility of resistance The raids, the burnings and the isolated killings and General Cooper ordered his men to evacuate the went on until the end of the war, and even much longer, town, but first he had his men dump salt into all the but the big fights were wer and the bloody but unbowed wells. Southerners were eventually forced to yield. Union troops moved in and took possession. Orders Stand Watie was the last of the Confederate generals were issued for all remaining civilians to leave, then the to surrender. The quiet little man, who looked more like torch was put to every building in the little town. All a harmless Indian farmer than a soldier and a general, that night the flames of Perryville's death agony were finally disbanded his men and went home to his farm in visible for miles. And when morning broke the.next day the hills. Perryville was no more . . . and has never been again. A few scattered markers, half-buried in the weeds The vicious "little fights", the raids and the pillaging on little traveled side rpads now mark the spots where up and down the border continued through 1863, '64 and these bitter struggles took place . . . four battles and well into '65 and only one other engagement of sufficient scores of skirmishes and engagements. For full details size to be dignified by the name of "tattle" took place on these encounters see The Oftichl Records of The and that was a night affair starting at two o'clock on the Union and Confederate Atmia, imp& of 1880. Actual , morning of Sept. 19, 1864. reports of the officers serving as field commanders are It was called THE SECOND BATT'LE OF BIG included. You'll have to aeard t.dozens of fat, CABIN and occurred on the same genexal location as the closely printed volumes, but trbe lull fads are there if first one a year before. you want them.

THE BATTLE OF HONEY SPRINGS: on encounter between Stand Watie's Cherokee Mounted R~fles and General Blunt's Union troops from Fort Gibson. Fought two weeks after the Battle of Gettys- burg, on Elk Creek some twelve miles southeast of Muskogee.

OKLAHOMA TODAY THIRTY-ONE Rich Mountain Sugarlwf Winding Stair Mountains Kiamichi Mountains San Bois peaks Dogwood trails Oachita Nat'l Forest Lake Murray Lodge 8 Park Tenkiller State Park Western Hills Lodge Sequoyah State Park Osage Hills State Park Robbers Cave State Park Lake Texoma Lodge & Park Beavers Bend State Park Wister State Park Turner Falls Devils Den Mountain Fork River Illinois River Glover River Little River Blackfork River Grand River Spring River Cowskin River Blue River Pennington Creek Osage Hills Flint Hills Potato Hills Pontatoc Hills Rock City Grand Lake Fort Gibson 8 Nat'l Cemetery Oldest church Biggest cypress Philbrook Art Center Gilcreose Institute Woolaroc Creek museum Cherokee museum Choctaw museum Seminole museum

All of these playgrounds are visibly alive with IF Contil~uedfrom pge 10 scenery, hills to climb, flowers to enjoy. Their lodge many carloads of crossties, power poles and pulpwood. rooms, cottages and group camps are in such demand each Four charcoal plants are now helping to meet the national season that it is well to nail down reservations many demand of backyard cook-out enthusiasts. In December weeks in advance. All of the rooms and suites in the some of the world's prettiest hollv berries come from lodges and most of the cottages in the parks are air- the southeastern comer. conditioned, playgrounds are clean and inviting, the boat- The principal vacation lodges and state parks, where ing is fine, so is the skiing, also horseback riding-and the millions of people play and relax every year, are well lodge restaurants serve as fine food as can be found any- known, but they should be included in this round-up. where. Camping areas are maintained in all state parks. Lake Murray lodge and park are just south of Ardmore. Probably the most scenic river is the Mountain Fork Tenkiller park is south of Tahlequah and north of Vian. in McCurtain county, with the Illinois in Cherokee Western Hills lodge is in Sequoyah state park between county a close second. Many sportsmen nominate the Tahlequah and Wagoner. Osage Hills park is just off Glover and parts of the Little river as No. 1 for scenic U.S. 60 east of Pawhuska. Robbers Cave state park is value with high rock walls and bluffs all along. The just north of Wilburton. Lake Texoma lodge and park Blackfork in LeFlore county is a beauty. So is the Grand are between Durant and Madill. Beavers Bend park is river in places. And the Baron Fork. The Spring river in near Broken Bow. Wister park is just south of the town Ottawa county and the Cowskin in Delaware are beauti- of Wister. At the east-west dividing line you find Turner ful. The Blue and Pennington in Johnston county would Falls park south of Davis, Platt national park at Sulphur, take some prizes in a beauty contest. and Devil's Den near Tishomingo. Skipping around the eastern half of the state let's

THIRTY-TWO OKLAHOMA TODAY pick out a few spots that sightseers should not miss. Four The 1~ srarlons xn Oklahoma, which were on the of them are the Osage hills in Osage county, the Flint Butterfield transcontinental mail route beginning in 1858, hills in Delaware and Adair counties, the Potato hills in are properly marked from Fort Smith southeast through Pushmataha county and the Pontotoc hills in Johnston Wilburton to Atoka and on to the Red river. and Pontotoc counties. In the last three of these chains Sequoyah's hut, in which he finished working out of hills you can pick up basketfulls of pretty rocks for the famous Cherokee alphabet, is a few miles northeast your home collection. And if you are intdgued by big of Sallisaw. rocks be sure to visit Rock City a few miles west of Clay- One of the very first white-settlements in Oklahoma ton and the McKinley rocks on top of Kiamichi mduntain was Ferdinandina, occupied by 300 French people from near Clayton. Some of these rocks are as big as a four- 1740 to 1755. It was near Chilocco. story hotel. So Oklahoma has about everything-history, scenery, As you go hither and yon in the eastern and south- pretty rivers and lakes, wonderful mountains, good roads, eastern counties you will be impressed by the number etc., and the horizon is brightening every year. of boats on the lakes. Lake Texoma has more than 8,000 Industries are coming fast to the eastern half of the registered boats and as many as 2,000 of them may be seen state-auto tires, salt works, steel mills, cotton mills, on the water at one time. Grand lake has nearly as many garment factories, lumber mills, peanut, vegetable and boats. Tenkiller and Murray lakes have hundreds of boats. fruit processing plants and so on. And skiiers? You see them every day cutting their didoes And the people are so neighborly that if a stranger in professional and amateurish ways. begins standing against a phone pole in any community Hundreds of fishermen will be observed on the larger someone will tap him on the shoulder and ask if he can lakes and in the streams in the mountain sections. It is be of some service. claimed that more game fish are caught in two of the state's largest lakes than are caught in all of Colorado's lakes and-streams combined. That's only a claim. While gallivanting around Eastern Oklahoma it is well to have some of the historic points in mind. At a place called Nanih Wayah, first capitol of the Choctaws in the 1830's, near the present Tuskahoma, the first con- stitutional law was written for Oklahoma. Parts of that law are embodied in the present constitution. Note three of the important Civil war battlefields: near Oktaha, near Ketchum and near Yale. Also the old Confederate ceme- tery near Atoka. And don't miss old Fort Gibson and the national cemetery just east. At the moment considerable study is made into some runestones discovered just east of Heavener. Characters chiseled into these stones indicate they were put there as far back as the year 800. The spiritual. "Swing Low Sweet Chariot," was in- spired, words and music, by two Negro slavos at the site National Honors For Edna Donley of old Spencer academy, north of Sawyer. Boggy Depot National Teacher of the Year is Miss Edna in Atoka county was the site of many historical confer- Donley, of Alva. The honors showered on her in- ences. The state's first church service was conducted under cluded a twenty minute interview with President trees at Pecan Point in the southern part of hlccurtain Eisenhower during which he sought her views on county in 1818, and the oldest church building in the state American education. McCall's magazine published is near Millerton, established in 1832. The oldest standing an article about her. She appeared on Dave Garro- house in the state is known as the Chief's house and is way's TV show TODAY, on NBC Monitor, on the near Swink in eastern Choctaw county, built in 1834. Gaylen Drake Show in New York, the Patti Gavin The biggest tree in the state is a cypress at Eagle- Show in Washington, and Don McNeil's Breakfast town; it is 120 feet tall and is 43 feet around at its base. Club in Chicago. She was treated to five musical There are historical and art museums at many places. shows on Broadway, was hosted at the United Na- They include the Philbrook and Gilcrease museums in tions by Pauline Fredericks (president of the United Tulsa; Woolaroc near Bartlesville; the Creek museum in Nations Press), lectured at New York University, Okmulgee; the Cherokee museum in Tahlequah; the and held a national press conference in Washington, Osage museum in Pawhuska; the Choctaw museums in D. C. When she returned to Oklahoma she was Tuskahoma's council house and in Durant, and the Semi- made a Colonel on Governor Edmondson's staff, nole museum in Wewoka. Continued on next page

OKLAHOMA TODAY THIRTY-THREE What makes a classic? We think you'll find the akwer on this adjoining page. It is not a humorous piece, as readers of this "The Best of . . ." series have grown accustomed to. To be quite frd about it, we have been unable to read it ourselva without the team that flow like wine. We believe it to be one of the most moving expression, ever penned out of the dilemma confronting mad parents in today's world of so many demands on every precioua minuh of time. How to be a really good parent-and d the wme time, goad provider. We have iven it a s ial page by itself to thot it can, by those tau%ed to hez * ri anew, be cut out and frd. Two pc~gerfor "The Bat of Walter Harrison" n obo* lib trvim to wss off a ~idure&card of Mount Vmviw for t& thing. ' As Mclnoging Editor of (ha Daily Olrlohanon from 1916 to 1945; publisher of his own weekly North Star dnce 1952; author of numerous bodu which are now collector's item two-term councilman from ward one; and three-time candi- date for Oklahoma City Mayor, Harriwn has carved out for himself a unique ploce in the histary d his city and his rtot.. Brilliant, completely independent and den brutally fa* right, his personality and razor-like reporting ha won him the rare reputation of being a "controversial character." But all agree on one thing. When dealing with the aqerage human side of life, over the years Walter Harriwn has expressed some of the simple experiences common to us all with rare tenderness, beauty, clarity and wit. He reprinted this piece we have titled "A Father to His Son" in his North Star "This is the Skipper" column in November, 1955. Here is* the way *the column opened: "Bob Dwyer, making convmation as we sat next door at a civic luncheon, said he had found something in his dad's wallet that would interest me. In the personal effects which he had carried for yeon was o yellowed strip of newspaper, captioned: "The Tiny Timer." 'This is as good today as it was 25 years ago," Bob said, 'I wish you would *print it so a new generation of fathers may get what my dad apparently got out of itl' So here it is"

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SCRAPBOOK Contimed *~O,IIpage 32 Oklahoma minister and his family. Territorial days in the Chickasaw nation are the setting. Pastor June 36 Bob Crosby Memorial Rodeo Chelsea Reaves (the Saint) and his family (the Seven Sin- June 44 Rainbow Girls Convention ...... McAlester June 44 Oklahoma Forest Festival Broken Bow ners) are real folks, and you'll feel that they are June 44 Annual Historical Society Tour ...... Oklahoma City personal friends after reading Mrs. Hall's book. lune 57 Lions State Convention Lawton .--- June 6 Pageant-"Story of Ruth" ..... Lawton June 7-9 Disabled American Veterans Convention ...... Ardmore National Champion June 13-16 Veterinary Medical Association ..Western Hills Lodge June 1519 Civil Defense School .... Stillwater Mardonna Sue Richey, 9-year-old, third grader June 1920 Osage County Cattlemen's Convention Pawhuska at Washingtoil School in Alva, is a national champ. June 21 Regional Boat Races - Wewoka June 21 Ben Johnson Memorial Steer Roping ...... Pawhuska Her safety poster, shown here, won 1st in the pri- June 22-25 Western Writers of America mary division in the Oklahoma Motor Club sponsor- Nat'l Convention Frontier City June 2527 RCA Rodeo ...... _-. ... Yukon ed state contest, and was judged Grand Prize winner June 28 Horse Cavalcade (Adams Park) ...... El Reno in the state, even winning over the posters entered June National Boat Races - ...... Wewoka lune Founders Day .. Dewey by high school students. In the national contest, June Osage lndian Tribal Dances - Held according sponsored by the American Automobile Association to the time of the moon. Date not set until about 6 weeks before the event ...... Pawhuska and judged at Washington, D. C., 16,000 posters July 2.4 RCA Rodeo ...... -...... Lenapah were entered from 1,885 schools. But even this stiff July 2-4 lndian Dances, east of Miami at Devil's Promenade Miami competion could not keep Mardonna from winning July 24 Horse Racing ...... _. Woodward again-1st prize in the nation. Her poster will be July 2-4 Roundup Club Rodeo ...... Tahlequah July 2-5 Roundup Club Rodeo ...... Fairfax reproduced and used in the safety campaign in July 3-5 Boom Day Golf Tournament .. ...Seminole schools throughout the United States next autumn. July 4 4th of July Celebration ...... Waynoka July 4 4th of Jully Celebration ...... Sulphur July 4 4th of July Celebration ...... Cherokee July 4 American Legion Celebration Salina July 4 July 4 July 4 July 4 July 68 RCA Rodeo ...... Hinton July 7-11 RCA Rodeo ...... Claremore Julv 911 RCA Rodeo ...... Mangum July 912 World's Largest Free lndian Powwow and Homecoming ...Pawnee July 10 Greer County Pioneer's Reunion ...Mangum July 11 Pageant, "The Story of Abraham" .. Lawton July 12-14 Rural Letter Carriers State Convention, Lake Texoma July 13 Community Fish Fry ...... Davenport July 13-15 Junior 4-H Club Camp ...... El Reno --- July 14-17 RCA Rodeo & Okla. Queen Contest ...... Chickasha July 1518 Rodeo-Roundup Club ...... Pryor Our Contributors July 2022 Senior 4-H Club Camp ...... -El Reno 3rd Week Oklahoma Quarter Horse Racing Meet ..... Pawhuska Our special thanks to Roy Deal, Allie Reynolds, July 24-26 International Roundup Cavalcade ...... Pawhuska Lloyd Waner, for their generous help in preparation July 24 Zinnia Flower Show ...... Woodward July 26 Horse Cavalcade (Adams ParW ...... El Reno of our baseball article, and to Dorothy Williams, Ok- July 30- lahoma Historical Society, for her help in gathering Aug. 1 Roundup Club Rode uncan 31st thru together the Mollhausen material in our last two Aug. 2 Colored Rodeo ...... Drumright issues. Her patience and kinduess have been far Not Set Annual Powwow (3 days) Okmulgee Aug. 58 Jaycee's Annual Rodeo Broken Bow above and beyond the call of duty. Aug. 6 Rangers Club Rodeo . . -.Lawton *** Aug. 6-8 Indian Powwow ...... Shawnee Aug. 1012 Annual Green Corn Feast of the Seneca - Henry Carlton Jones is an Oklahoma City ad- Cayuga Indians--SE of Miami on the vertising man and author of many stories and articles in leading magazines including: The Saturday Even- Aug. 13-15 Sequoyah County Rodeo ...... Sallisaw ing Post, Readers7Digest, American Mercury, Toron- Aug. 1516 Sports Car Road Races ...... -.-.Oklahoma City Aug. 17-22 American Indian Exposition ...... Anadarko to Star Weekly, Boys Life, Progressive Farmer, Aug. 2022 22nd Annual Rodeo _ ..Freedm Printer's Ink, and Sales Management. Aug. 20.22 Rodeo ...... Madill *** Aug. 24-28 Sooner State Dairy Show Enid Aug. 26 Old Settlers and Cowhands Reunion and Marcel Lefebvre has published many articles in Homecoming . Vinita Aug. 2629 RCA Annual Will Rogers Parade and trade journals, the Sunday Oklahoman Magazine and Memorial Rodeo Vinita other newspapers. He was born in Belgium, recently Aug. 27-29 RCA Elk's Rodeo ...Woodward retired from the Pittsburg Plate Glass Co., in Henry- Aug. 30 Horse Cavalcade El Reno etta, and is now Director of Civil Defense for Ok- Sept.2 RCA Annual Rodeo Elk City Not Set Oil Industry Appreciation Day _ Healdlton mulgee County. 3rd W'kend Cimarron Rodeo (3 days) Waynoka

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