April 2, 1935

Charges of committing four armed robberies in the past week were filed today in Justice Cal Bingham;s court, against three former convicts and charges of harboring criminals are to be filed against three Seminole County residents. Cleanup of the gang was announced after a raid on a tourist camp six miles south of Seminole in which Police Chief Jake Sims, Officer Chris Whitson and Constable Elmer Standoff arrested two of the men and the three Seminole men accused of harboring them. The men are charged with hijacking a bread truck driver and have been linked with several other crimes in this section.

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Miss Pauline Root presented a group of her piano pupils in the regular monthly afternoon musicale. Solos were played by Wynema Chesser, Ola Mae Chesser, Twila Mae Pritchard, Donald Barefoot, Barbara June Morgan, Ruth Bunch, and Mary Ellen Pyle.

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A delightful evening was spent in the home of Dr. and Mrs. Claude Chambers where a reprise dinner party was given in honor of Mrs. Maude Spurr celebrating her birth anniversary. Assisting the Chambers were Mr. and Mrs. Straus Baker, Mr. and Mrs. James T. Jackson and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Whitbeck.

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Leo “Happy” Nichols today was selected chairman of the Federal Housing Administration in Seminole and General Manager of the office to be opened here within the next few days. Nichols was appointed this morning by a committee and it was announced that the federal housing program of making money available for new construction and repair work would be put into effect within a week.

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The name of Frank Crider former Sooner football great and present coach at Seminole High School, was prominently mentioned at Norman today as coach of freshman football at the University of Oklahoma next year under Capt. Lawrence (Biff) Jones.