July 16,1971

Slants

Dewitt Merrell buying a soft drink at the boys’ baseball play-off game…and then losing it…Billie Austin and Barbara Kahn planning a trip to Tulsa…Tommy Tipton being thrilled with his new trophy…Charlene Brown has pictures taken at the class of 1951 reunion picnic last month…They will be at her home at 410 North Jefferson for the next month for all interested persons to see…Mrs. John Abernathy of Djarkarta, Indonesia, daughter-in-law of Gladys Abernathy of Seminole, sending in a package of Betty Crocker coupons to be used toward purchase of a kidney machine for the area…

The nation’s labor problems mushroomed today when United Transportation Union members walked off their jobs with the Southern and Union Pacific railroads.

Oklahoma’s watermelon crop will be smaller this year than last because of the drought. State and federal crop observers estimated the 1971 harvest at 4,065 tons, compared with 4,375 tons from equal acreage in 1970.

On this date—July 16—45 years ago the city of Seminole was a small, unknown village. That is to say that it was unknown until late in the afternoon of July 16, 1926, because on that night, news spread like fire through the oil country that a gusher well had been hit one mile west of Seminole.

Oklahomans were warned today to stay out of areas heavily infested by mosquitoes and to use repellents when the insects are present, in order to avoid a sleeping sickness virus.

Another high mark in Seminole temperature was registered Thursday with a reading of 105 degrees— the official air temperature for the day, the National Weather Service’s local station reported. The high mark came sometime after 3 p.m. when the reading was 104 degrees. At noon today it was 88 degrees after a low of 74 Thursday night.