Under the direction of Bandmaster David Hunt, the Henryetta High School Band has won several awards and executed some major accomplishments during this school year.

The band started with a third place finish at the Konawa Band Day competition and then a second place at the Oklahoma Tournament of Bands in Ada.

Both of these contests are among the most prestigious of the private contests among bands. The Konawa contest dates back almost 30 years.

The band, still competing in ‘3A,' placed second in the Eufaula Band Day contest with the auxiliary corp winning the Outstanding Auxiliary Award. The auxiliary corp is generally referred to as the color guard. Brandi Thompson brought home the Outstanding Solist Award for her skillful performance at the Eufaula contest.

After these preliminary contests, the band went to the regional contest which is a state sponsored event and made a Superior rating at the Oklahoma Secondary Schools Activities Association Contest. The Superior rating is as high as a band can rate.

The Henryetta Color Guard received the following ratings in solo and ensemble contest at Regional: Full ensemble – superior rating; Trio (Mollie Morris, Amanda Culver and Debra Lambert) – Superior rating; Solo – Mollie Morris – Superior rating; Duet (Emily Machetta, and Rita Watson) – Excellent rating and Solo – Debra Lambert – Excellent rating.

The Knight Brigade will be representing Henryetta on Saturday, Oct. 25th at the Oklahoma BandMasters Association Championship Contest at Union Tuttle Stadium in Tulsa.

50 YEARS AGO – 1972

ACCENT ON FUN, GOOD TIMES, THIS OCTOBER

WEEKEND

Something is happening every minute from 9 a.m. Friday to midnight Saturday in downtown Henryetta plus added attractions in other parts of town and a big show Sunday afternoon.

That’s the exciting story tonight on the eve of the First Annual HenryEsta as hundreds of local volunteers “put it all together.” The event jumped off to an early start this afternoon with the flower show judging at Main and Trudgeon streets and will take on an air of festivity beginning at 9 a.m. tomorrow.

But, officially, the big show will open at 10 a.m. when Mayor W.R. Stubbs stands on Main Street and reads a proclamation telling everybody the shindig is on! Smiling with pride in the background will be two Henryetta women primarily responsible for seeing that the event reached this stage.

They are Mrs. Owen Taylor, official chairman of HenryEsta and Mrs. D. W. Dunaway, chairman of the parents sponsoring group, the Henryetta Arts and Humanities Council.

All area schools are out this weekend to help boost the thousands expected to swarm to the downtown area tomorrow and Saturday. Main Street will be roped off with no traffic on the principal downtown blocks but traffic on the principal downtown blocks will flow through on all north and south streets, City Manager Chester Simon announced.

In the downtown area, nearly a hundred outstanding artists will have thousands of their works on display on specially built racks. In case of rain, they’ll be moved inside.

Besides the visual show, there’s four groups of strolling troubadors, two locations in downtown have been marked for almost continuous shows.

Two big highlights will come Saturday: The “splash on” modernistic painting contest pitting a politician against an Olympic Gold Medal winner and a world famous rodeo cowboy.

The trio, respectively, are Congressman Ed Edmondson, Wrestler Wayne Wells and Henryetta’s own Jim Shoulders. After they paint, in special costumes designed for them, the paintings will be auctioned off on the spot.

In addition to the sight and sound shows all day Friday and Saturday, another sense taste is in for a treat with nearly a dozen Henryetta organizations having special booths open all over downtown. All kinds of delicacies are on the food menus for the big weekend.

Adding to the festivities are special shopping bargains offered by Henryetta merchants. All the activity is not confined to downtown.

For instance, moon rocks brought back by our astronauts, will be on display in a special “Coal rocks to Moon rocks” display at the National Guard armory exhibit that portrays Henryetta History, prepared by KHEN’s Mike Stephens.

Also at the armory will be the Made in Henryetta industrial show, featuring the fabulous PPG Industries exhibit shipped here from Pittsburgh’s Magic Triangle display. The flower show is also at the armory.

At the airport, Saturday there’ll be fly in breakfast, rides for everybody at two cents a pound and a special sky diving exhibition and antique aircraft exhibition.

At Webster school there’ll be melodramas Friday afternoon, Saturday afternoon and Saturday night with a lot of laughs.

At Cameron Field Friday night there’ll be a Henryetta football game. At the Holiday Inn Friday there’ll be a Green Country luncheon and meeting of the 22-county organization Friday afternoon.

Meanwhile back downtown, other exciting things planned include an Indian arts and crafts exhibit at 6th and Main; a rare coin collection at 6th and Main; An Oklahoma Tourism exhibit in the 400 block of West Main and a prize winning press photography exhibit in the 800 block of West Main.

There’ll be square dancing on Main Street Friday afternoon and night; a box supper in the 100F hall a half block off Main Friday night and a young people’s fellowship at the Baptist church on Trudgeon after the football game, featuring Tulsa University Football Coach Hoot Gibson.

And don’t forget the capsule burying ceremony at 4 p.m. Saturday afternoon. Whew! Whatta weekend!

WINNING DEWAR IN

HOMECOMING TILT

Sue Norman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Norman, will be crowned Dewar football queen tonight at 7 p.m., before the Dragons take on Bethany at 8 p.m.

Football King is Tony Tiger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Tiger. Senior attendant, Trix Gooden, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bennie Gooden. Her escort will be Billy Busse, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Self.

Lou Ann McIntosh, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe McIntosh, will be escorted by John Durbin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Durbin.

Sophomore attendant Donna Melton is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Lee Melton. She will be escorted by Ronald Payne, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Liggins.

Rita Wade, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Loman Wade, will be escorted by Phillip Carter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Carter.

75 YEARS AGO – 1947

CITY GETS NEW ARMY

RECRUITER

Henryetta today had a second recruiting Officer, Sgt. Wesley E. Davis who has joined T Sgt. S. B. Morris in the local army and air force recruiting sub-station at city hall.

Sergeant Davis reported for duty here today and will remain indefinitely. He was formerly at the Oklahoma City station.

A former Okmulgee policeman, he is married and his wife makes her home in that town. Sergeant Davis served in the 10th air force during the war, in China, India and the Pacific.

He holds three air medals, two distinguished flying crosses and four battle stars on his Asiatic theater ribbon.

100 YEARS AGO – 1922

STRUCK BY CAR AGED

MAN LIES SEVERELY HURT

Rev. J.R. Casson was seriously injured at noon yesterday when an automobile struck him.

He was crossing the street at the corner of Main and Sixth. Wes Unsell was driving a Dodge touring car, and was approaching the crossing. A lady was crossing ahead of Casson, and Unsell swerved out to miss her.

He also had slowed down. Casson started to walk across in front of the car, and this seems to be just what Unsell expected him to do. But Casson must have thought he could not make it, and dodged back.

This brought him to where the car struck him. He was knocked down. A lady in the car with Unsell screamed, and fainted. Special Officer John Plaster was near, and witnessed the entire affair. He at once took hold, and he and Unsell placed the injured man in the car and took him to the Henryetta hospital where he was given emergency treatment and an x-ray photo made of the injured leg.

This disclosed the fact that a diagonal break had occurred between the knee and hip. A scalp wound on the back of the head was ugly-looking, but proved to be superficial.

The man was reported to be resting last night, and his recovery will be merely a matter of time, barring complications not now expected.

Many friends hurried to the hospital as soon as it was known that he was hurt.

He has lived here for several years, and while he served many congregations as a minister during his younger years, he has been engaged in manual labor here, attending to the janitor work for the First National bank as well as a church or two. He has a daughter, employed in the post office here, and she is at his side where she is soothing and encouraging him all she can.

Mr. Casson is a very popular man here, and is held in the very highest esteem by many of our best people, who are as much concerned over his welfare as if he were the governor of the state.

The first stories of the accident were wild. It is fortunate that Officer John Plaster was present to know what did occur. He and Unsell went before Mayor Hawes and later to see Deputy County Attorney Williams where a full statement was made. Mr. Unsell was held blameless, and the affair was just an accident.

IS IT MURDER? TRAGIC DEATH OF OKMULGEE

MAN

A horrible death story comes from Okmulgee when a man was hurtled through a window on the sixth story in the Petroleum building at 9:00 o’clock Saturday morning. The man was found to be dead, and there was a bullet hole through his head.

The victim was James H. Williams, superintendent of the Pollyanna Oil Company of Okmulgee. He was a married man, and lived at the Beaucaire apartment house.

It seems difficult to learn the facts concerning the tragedy. One theory was suicide, but that does not look at all plausible. He might have shot himself, but could he then have thrown himself through the window?

Murder was indicated, but the officers had not, up to last evening, been able to formulate any coherent account of the crime. The man had not been feeling well, it was said, but appearances indicated murder, rather than suicide.

Examination of his office, the room from which the body came, disclosed evidences of a struggle. The place was in great disorder, and it was plain that an exciting scene had been enacted there.

The elevator attendant remembered that he had answered a call from that floor at a very early hour Saturday morning, and had brought a woman down from there.

Whether she had any connection with the crime could not be stated, nor was her identity made known. The same elevator man remembered Williams going down and up during the early hours of the morning.

The body was either naked or clothed only in night apparel. Thus the reporters and officers were facing a mystery during the day. The body was prepared for shipment to Chanute, Kansas, from where Williams came. He was a ten thousand dollar a year oil man, a capable engineer, and trusted executive of the company employing him. Further light may be thrown on the matter later, but the above was all that could be learned at a late hour yesterday afternoon.

WESTERN THRILLER

Here’s a swiftly-moving melodrama, crammed full of excitement, hazardous situations, Indians, cowboys, outlaws, bad men and good, bad and good women – but there’s no crime-inducing stuff, none of that material to which the censors and reformers so strongly object. “White Eagle” is clean and energetic.

“White Eagle” is frankly and proudly a western adventure serial. Other types of serials have come, paused for a moment and gone, but the western adventure serials will last forever.

Ruth Roland gave splendid examples of these in “Hands Up!” “The Tiger’s Trail” and “Ruth of the Rockies.” “White Eagle” excels them all. – Yale Sunday.