PAGE FOUR THE PERKINS JOURNAL MAY
JOURNAL
Publ|.hed every Thursday ir the
PERKINS PUBLISHING COMP,%NY
133 S. Main Street
Perkins, Okla. 74059
I.uis G. O'tIaver Chairman of the Board
Harland B. tvelts Co-Publisher and Editor
Imiel D. Draper Jr. Co-Publisher and Editor
Noel M. Corset Production Advisor
22-2 - ----ld'Y-!)isney Society Editor and Office Mr.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
$3.00 a year in Payne, Lincoln and Log.an Cour,ties
$4.{t0 a year if sent out of the above mentioned counties
Second Class postage paid at PerMns, Oklahoma, 74059
Tom Berry CAPI
says
The state Department is sure
raising .a lot of 'RUKUS' over
getting the Reds out of the rest:
of the world. I don't kamw why
they think they can ever do this
when they haven't even been-
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24. Tam-
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notices
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flax
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fruit
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bolt
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plant
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chance 1, Falsify
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brown 3. F_dge
9. Fil'lirl 4. Poem
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12. Non-paying 6. Lidded
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a cheese 8, Destroying
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measures 17
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I was talking to an old boy
who said he is still worryhag
about paying his taxes. He said
that he had made inquiry about
living conditions in the j:iit be-
cause he is afraid he mt have
to spend some tkme flere. I tel4
him I knew some folks who had
not paid their taxes right on the
dead line and they were still
around, "Why." he said, "I know
4o
½
that; I'm not worried about this
year's taxes, I am worried about
those old back taxes."
I was talMng to a supposedly
brilliant lady and she said day
dreaming is one of the finest
recreations a person can have.
She also said you can travel,
meet new people and that way
gain confidence in new exper-
iences by imagining yourself in
different roles. Now, she may be
right; but my advice is, if you
are going to day dream, don't
get out in public to do it. The
cops might pick you upand
charge you with highway gaw-
kery and attempt to mope.
I learned a little trick over in
Ripley. When somebody comes
to call put your hat on when
you answer the door. If you
want him to stay tell him you
are just coming in. If you don't
want him to stay tell him you
are just leaving. This is sure-
fire unless you are bald-headed
and wear your hat in the house
all the time anyway.
Yours.
Tom Berry
Jllletlllltionl expressed hereunder ire those of the writer and not netesM
Ihll nwspaper or the Qkhlhoml Pte:$ Association,
By Ben Biackstock
The legislature is making
geeat effort to get its work done
so it can adjourn next week. It
is girded to stay in session for
an expected Saturday adjourn-
ment, May 13.
Work on appropriation bills is
all but completed. A strike by
school teachers, which would
have lengthened the session, did
not materialize. Pressure from
higher education, which could
have lengthened the senion,
came only in the form of a
peaceful march on the capitol
by students asking greater ap-
propriations.
• The threatened strike by pub-
lie school teachers won't come
of. " TIm Oklahoma Education
Association has dissension with-'
in its own ranks. It wants the,
lqgilature to declare a $5,000
minimum annual wage for
teachers throughout the state.
But Okiahoma City, Tulsa and
Ponca City teachers already ore.
paid more than that, so those big
blocs of teachers didn't warm to
the proposed "strike." Making it
harder to dismiss a teacher and
making millage levies perman-
ent were OEA legislative goals
Which failed this session.
, A greater effort will be made
to define increased benefits for
teachers this summer, and early
next fall. Education leaders hope
that through such demonstra-
tions as a one-week school re-
cess next fall, the public will
become concerned. Public sup-
port will be sought to force the
legislature to increase salaries
and for Gay. Dewey Bartlett
to agree to raises.
Some obsecvers thdught C,6/.
Bartlett would stop talking about
his "no new taxes" election
pledge. Maybe the public would
accept that he fulfilled that
promise by staving off a tax in-
crease his first legislative ses-
sion. But last week, he told uni-
versity sludent demonstrators
that he was still committed to a
no new tax program.
It sounds good to pledge "no
new taxes", but the cry is shal-
low unless it is accompanied by
aggressive leadership to plug
tax loopholes and a strict en-
forcement of collections. Neith-
er this administration nor the
Belhnon one has moved notice-
ably in this direction. A govern-
or cannot stop the rise in prices
for labor and materials any more
than he can command the sun to
stand still.
A tax increase of some major
proportion will have to come if
the services of all areas of state
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Letters to the Editor...
30
did all they could for the better-
ment of the town, the people
just didn't stand by them. I
sometimes think that they voted
no in spite or selfishness; which
I hope I am also wrong.
The new town council are
good men. as some of them I
have known since they were
babies. One of these men I have
had business dealings with and
found him to be fair and honest
attcl a good business man. I hope
the people will stand by them in
what ever decisions they make
as I believe whatever they do
will be for the betterment of the
town.
I am looking f,wazd, an¢
weekend when v;*,gh.
paper to seeing the headlines
that Perkins is now a city...Tt)¢n
and only then will I know that
Perkins will not be a suburb of
some other city and that there
will always be a PERKINS.
What more could I say.
Sincerely,
Roy Spillers
tGerman surrenderwere sitaed at Reims, Ma-J (t I qa
Lon&m suffered fls:'o--Omhn bomber raid of the war,
;with destruction of the House of Conlmons, Chamber and other
, famous buildings, May 10, 1941.
, Christopher Columbus bean his last
IW(,Hd, M__ay _.1.!, !_502._ - , ............. voyage .... to the New
Dear Sir:
I wrote a letter to the Perkins
Journal in March stating that
the people of Perkins were
either dumb or didn't care, when
they voted against Perkins be-
coming a city. Sometimes aper-
son does things on the spur of
the moment without thinking
that other people have a right
to their beliefs as well as I do.
Just because they see things dif-
ferently doesn't nmke them
dumb or ignorant. Each person
has a right to his own opinion.
I am man enough o stand up
for what I think is right and also
man enough to admit when I
am wrong. Please accept my
apology.
om HISTORYT SCRAPBOOK
U DATEs AND,,, EVENTS, FROM YESTERYEARS)
t-, .Napoleon died, May 5, 1821. Halle Sclassie, Emperor of
)Ethopia, returned to/he throne, May 5. 1941.
The Gernmn dirigible Hiudenburg was destroyed by fire
while landing at Lanelmrst, N. J.. May 6, 1937. "
I The Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk by a German sub-
tmarine, May 7, 1915.
Ma y 8, 1,945 wt.VE'4' .,.h:fdl-y in Europe.
Ethopia was annexed by Italy, May 9. 1936. Terms of lhq.) i ;d[af:lbidtes
and diffei'ent cities, but I believe
the people in and around Per-
kins are the finest people I have
ever known. I have dear friends
there and I did not have any
intention of hurling anyone.
I believe Mr. Wood and the
council are good men and they
government are to
the same level.
to soften his tax
will be Gay.
decision in the
This legislature
some sort of
meaure, but it
is divided on whether
appoint judges and
do away with
courts. It could
to eliminate the
but it is divided on
do away with
inal Appeals.
The Senate's
to the buying of
creases from the
lion Commission. is.
go past the
session. It is a big
ing many
panics. The
affect political
didates. Since all
tion commissioners
crats, the future
Democratic party
will be affected..
The committee
ahead in its
letting the
calling the
themselves. It
mess under the
mittee includes
integrity that the
trust, that no
will be done
• Secretary
showed wisdom
that the Judicial
was valid. He
able pressure to
enough
Sapreme Court
pected appeals to
Titan it will be
ernor to call a
If the
it could beat
form petition to
In which case,
backers could be
position of
feat the le
order to give the
clear-cut decision.
Elastic sentencing-
found guilty of
law expected to co
closing days of thiS
der the provisions
juries could no
sentences, exce
ally. The bill
a jury returns a
the judge shall fig
term. It may not
one-third of the
which is established
15 years, whichever
The Senate
indeterminate
provision that a
son had to serve
sentence to be
role. Without that
an inmate will be
parole anytime
ment.
Those nuisance
phone salesmen
when ttB 555
went to the
week for signature.
far enough, but it
that when
stranger trying to
thing, he has to
he is and who he
Bait questions and
veys are
Under the
The legalized
been put in deep
session, In the face
ened veto by
was held for
year
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