Henryetta recently was one of 21 cities in the state to be designated an “Oklahoma Certified City.” Eight of the cities were certified for the first time. The remaining 13, including Henryetta, were recertified.

The Oklahoma Certified Cities Program, which is administered by the department and economic growth by focusing on individual community selfimprovement.

Two teams of out of state economic and community development specialists, one from Arkansas and one from Mississippi, judged communities seeking certification last month. Communities were judged in the areas of human resources, economic development, community services, community facilities and government organization.

Lieutenant Governor Mary Fallon will recognize the cities during a celebration tour of December.

LIBRARY BOOK SALE

Readers in Henryetta will have a special opportunity on Nov. 14 and 15. The Henryetta Public Library will be having an indoor book sale on those dates inside the library.

The friends of the library conduct outside sales at special times during the year. The proceeds from these sales are used to benefit the community programs carried out by the library.

Book prices are as low as five cents per book so readers can stock up on winter reading material. The sale will be conducted during regular library business hours.

50 YEARS AGO – 1972

DEWAR STUDENT ONE OF TOP 10 IN STATE

A Dewar high school junior has been chosen one of 10 finalists in the 1973 US Senate Youth Program, according to Leslie Fisher, Superintendent of the Oklahoma State Department of Education.

Billy Joe Busse and nine other Oklahoma high school students met at the State Capitol Monday for personal interviews with judges. Busse is editor and photographer on the Dewar high school annual staff.

He plays middle linebacker and left guard on the football team and is a member of the National Honor Society. He was named to the Superintendent’s Honor Roll last semester. Busse, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Self, is a member of the first Baptist Church of Dewar.

He plans to be a medical doctor and study at either the University of Oklahoma or the Air Force Academy. Two students from each state and the District of Columbia will visit Washington D.C. Feb. 3-10 for a week’s internship of the federal government and, in particular, the United States Senate, according to Fisher.

AUCTION RETURNS

In addition to some of the finest country and western picking and singing talent, the Leon McAuliffe show here Tuesday night will have two added features.

Mrs. D. W. Dunaway, chairman of the Henryetta Arts and Humanities Council, said today that the paintings done by Rep. Ed Edmondson, Jim Shoulders and Wayne Wells at HenryEsta will be auctioned off by Gene Donathan to the highest bidder during the show.

And, continuing election reports will be announced at intervals during the program. Tickets are still available for the performance, according to Ticket Chairman Mrs. Kirk Woodliff. She said tickets can be bought in advance at the two Henryetta banks, the three drug stores and the public library. In Okmulgee, tickets are being sold at MacGregor’s.

Tickets, priced at two dollars for adults and one dollar for children, will also be available at the door Tuesday night. Starting off the program will be the McAuliffe theme song “Cimarron Roll On.” Other numbers in the first half of the program will be: “Steel Guitar Rag,” “T-U-L-S-A Straight Ahead,” “When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again,” “Yakkety Axe” (featuring Autry Rutledge), “Cozy Inn,” “On the Rebound,” “I Can’t Stop Loving You,” “Under the Double Eagle,” “The Three Bears,” “Only You,” “Ragg Mopp” and “Orange Blossom Special.”

During the second half of the show these numbers are slated: “Pan Handle Rag,” “Take Me Back to Tulsa,” “Faded Love,” “Little Girl Go Ask Your Mama,” “Medley of Breakdowns,” “San Antonio Mood;” a medley of vocals by Leon including “There’s That Smile Again,” “Along the Navajo Trail,” Chattanooga Shoeshine Boy,” “Steel Guitar Chimes” and “Woodnhopper’s Ball.”

75 YEARS AGO – 1947

CITY COUNCIL MEETING

WAS HELD LAST NIGHT

There was a meeting of the city council last night, the body having adjourned from last Monday night, the time of the regular meeting, on account of the legal holiday. Only a brief session was held last night. The reports of the police judge, the city clerk and city treasurer were presented and on motion accepted and approved.

All claims and accounts properly OK’d were allowed and warrants ordered drawn of the proper funds for the payment of the same.

The meeting was adjourned to next Monday evening at which time a number of important matters are to come before the council. Among these will be the discussion of a building ordinance which has been prepared by City Attorney Hummer, and which will come up for passage. The council will discuss a new contract with the electric company. The Munger sewer and water line will also receive attention and there are many more matters of importance to come up at the meeting.

BOND ELECTION TODAY GETS BUT LIGHT VOTE

An election is in progress in all the wards of the city and the Henryetta school district today. In the city proper, a bond issue of $230,000 for public improvements is being voted on and in the school district one of $50,000 for school purposes.

The very inclement weather prevailing all day is no doubt accountable for the light vote being polled. About the same number voting on the city bonds had voted on the school bonds, this indicating that the people in the outlying sections had not been coming to the voting places by reason of rain and bad roads.

If there was any opposition to the issue of the bonds, whether those of the city or the school district, it did not make itself apparent to a visitor at any of the voting places.

Between 12 o’clock noon and 1 o’clock p.m., there had been votes cast as follows: First ward 16; second ward, 31; third ward 35; fourth ward 31.

It is expected that this vote will be very materially increased by evening and taking into consideration the fact that perhaps not more than one-fourth of all the voters of the city are qualified to vote on a bond issue, under the laws of the state, by night there will no doubt be a very fair expression of the people of the city directly interested in these bond issues.

100 YEARS AGO – 1922

STANDING ON THE CONSTITUTION

The fields political and religious creed, published in Sundays World, must inevitably have on the campaign the same effect as a shower on a dust-laden atmosphere and enable the voters to perceive with certainty precisely what the issues are and where their true underset lies.

Fields is orthodox, both in respect to his religious convictions and his political views. He stands squarely on the constitution, for a government “which is the union of all the people constitutional, orderly and just and for the Bill of Rights which are American citizens richest legacy.” That’s sound republicanism and sound Americanism.

What other position can a patriot citizen assume? Who wants more than this or has any right to demand more? Who will be content with less? What public official can execute honestly his oath of office along any other line?

Thus we come back to a consideration of the vital issues of the campaign, the necessities of the people in respect of the next administration, the fitness of the candidates to meet those necessities and the trustworthiness of the two political parties.

Let Fields be compared to Walton pitilessly, their past record scanned carefully, their present reputation and their attitude towards the people and their problems. Then let there be a careful analysis of the two political organizations. One, the party offering Walton, has been in control of the state government ever since its creation. If it urges that our state government is not perfect, that there are some things yet to be done, some evils to be cured, let answer be made to question, why has it not accomplished these things in the years it has been in control, why has it permitted these evils to exist?

If the existing state of the public service is not satisfactory, if evils have grown up, if assets of the state, the common inheritance of the whole citizenship, has been sequestered by a special few, favorites of the ruling political house; if there exists corruption and extravagance and a secrecy which baffles, or has baffled, every hitherto effort to ascertain the truth then let the people turn to the opposition party for its relief.

That is the only natural, sensible, constitutional thing to do. If your son or daughter grows constantly worse under the ministration of one physician, the medicine he prescribes increases the malady rather than improves the condition of the patient, what do you do?

You change physicians, of course. Or if you do not do that you do speedily consult an undertaker. If your lawyer involves you in constantly increasing difficulties, you have a right to believe him either incompetent or crooked, or both and you employ different council.

So that in this campaign the simple, easily understood issue is whether or not the administration of the state government by the Democratic Party has been satisfactory. If the Government as it has been conducted is satisfactory, if the state of the public service is at present acceptable, it would be utter foolishness for the voters to make a change. The Democratic Party and its candidate should again be entrusted with the conduct of the public business. For both have pointed with pride to the record made, praised the present state administration and pledged themselves to carry on in identical manner.

Only if the existing state of the public business is unsatisfactory and if the record made by democracy is considered bad, have the voters any reason for voting against the Democratic Party and its ticket. But if they are dissatisfied, common sense orders that they change doctors completely and not be content with another garbled prescription from the hands of the same old quack.

PUBLIC WILL BE

PROTECTED IN OKMULGEE

Violations of the traffic laws have become such a menace in Okmulgee that the whole people have been crying out for relief and with the result that the police have awakened and are going to make a clean-up, in fact and about 100 persons were arrested there last night. Not only speeders, but the many persons running cars at night without lights are being rounded up. An additional motor cop was put on duty the day before yesterday and the first night he ran in six law violators. Last night it was a regular slaughter. The Okmulgee Times tells of it this morning, as follows: Nearly 100 drivers with no tail lights on their cars were arrested last night and 37 of them put up $2 bonds until they could get the lights fixed. Tonight there’ll be no refund, Chief Dick Farr said.

The net last night brought to the station such men as R. E. Jenness, commissioner of internal revenue, C. W. Mantooth, Dan Keanan, and C. C. Daniels. The law is no respecter of persons.

And all those arrests were made by Traffic Officers Law head and Williams, on motorcycles which had no tail lights; the police patrol made a dozen runs, without a tail light; the police scout car had no tail light; none of the city cars have tail lights.

That was a sore spot with motorists last night, but Chief Farr said that it wouldn’t be so tonight. He gave orders that every automobile in the possession of the city be equipped with two good head lights and a tail light before it appears again on the street at night.

Two of the huge street busses were brought to the jail last night and all taxi drivers were warned to obtain lights. Many who were told to report to the station repaired their lights there, and saved putting up the money.

But last night, after all the rush was over and the automobile drivers had gone away, Sergeant Bruce Rawlings had $34 in automobile money. The automobiles came to the police station last night like moths drawn to a candle. Curious at the large crowd which had collected, people out for a drive passed the station and were stopped with a warning to obtain lights at once. The accessory station across the street had only a limited supply of bulbs of the right variety and had to send for extra supplies after it had first put a tail light on the delivery car.

EDITOR'S NOTES

The bombing of homes is one of the most horrible things reported as a part of the railroad strike. When men get so low down and depraved that they will murder helpless people, they should find no mercy in this country. A labor dispute is one thing, but wanting murder is quite another. The leaving of helpless passengers in the desert is another evidence of total depravity.

The deliberate wrecking of a passenger train by pulling the spikes from the rails is another manifestation of brutality. This last caused the death of two laboring men only, but was evidently intended to kill members of the public. As it was, it killed comrades of the perpetrators.

All these things prove that we have an element in our population that is bloodthirsty as a savage. Not only are they bloodthirsty, but they evidently want to kill people who have not in any dispute that led to a strike. The only explanation for such conduct is that the reds hope to create a sort of terrorism a German frightfulness that will compel the innocent public to sue for peace on any terms merely in order to escape destruction. The public will react in-favorably on the contrary, the reaction will be the opposite.

We do not believe the government should operate either the railroads or the mines, save as a last resort. And then only for such time as might be necessary to protect the public from being ground between the two millstones of employer and employee. Our country is a representative republic and not a soviet. We shall submit to no domination from either organized capital or organized labor. The government is the government of all the people, and not especially for any group of people. If the owners of the railroads cannot run their trains, then let the government act as a receiver and run those trains, but only until they can be handed back to their owners. In other words, we do not want to see the railroads hand the government a lemon in the way of watered stock.