Looking Backward - 26 Aug 1971 - Grady County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Sandi Carter SandKatC@aol.com ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. ======================================================================== (No paper mentioned) Possibly The Chickasha Star 26 August 1971 LOOKING BACKWARD 10 Years Ago Two crashed within a 48 hour period claimed six lives, raising the Grady County death toll for that year to 21 . . . Burglary investigations had been keeping Sheriff Emmett Watson and his deputies busy . . . There were no reported new oil locations or completions in Grady County during that week . . . Chickasha’s youngest mayor, Jess Larson, was scheduled to return to town as featured speaker at the annual Grady County Pioneer Club picnic held on Labor Day . . . The report of rabies in the county, which had been brought to light by a local veterinarian, had led to an emergency being declared in the area and to the launching of an extensive vaccination and extermination program . . . Sam Williams, partner in the Allen and Williams law firm, was elected president of the Grady County Bar Association that week . . . Dr. Colman P. Mitchell, one of Chickasha’s pioneer and best known doctors, died in Grady Memorial Hospital that week . . . Earl Morris, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Morris of Ninnekah, was one of 16 Future Farmers of America from Oklahoma who was recommended to receive the organization’s highest degree, that of American Farmer . . . Superintendent Al Underwood announced that the Ninnekah school would open the 1961-62 term on Aug. 25 . . . Mr. and Mrs. Deon Duke of Ninnekah were honored that week with a wedding shower held in the Methodist Church . . . In a traditional double-ring ceremony on Saturday night of that week, Miss Patsy Irene Sevier became the bride of Donald Ray Brown . . . The Tuttle school personnel and the PTA were hosts at a “come and go housewarming” Friday night of that week honoring Mr. and Mrs. Flake Todd and children. Todd was superintendent of the Tuttle schools, and Mrs. Todd was a faculty member . . . A group from the Alex Methodist Church were visitors at the Epworth Methodist Church in Chickasha for one night of their Youth Week services. 20 Years Ago Merl Lindsay, the famous band leader who was thrown from a horse at the rodeo on the opening night, said he was suffering considerable pain and would take x-rays Thursday of that week. He feared he had a spine injury . . . Harry McDowell of Buffalo, Okla., was named new city manager that week. He was to take over on September 1st . . . The Dave Hill mansion west of Chickasha sold that week. W. L. Gann of Ninnekah bought the house and 42 acres from J. A. McKelvey for about $16,000. The Dave Hill home was built nearly 50 years previously and was the talk of Indian Territory at that time. It contained 20 rooms, and a feature of the house was the big dance hall on the third floor. Dave used to call his own square dances there. Dave, who was a rough and ready cowman, is said to have taken his blanket and saddle and gone to sleep in the barn the first night the Hill family moved into the house. Dave said it was too stuffy . . . Spurge Morrison got the jackpot on his fishing trip to the gulf the previous week. He caught a 15 pound kingfish, beating Percy Hutson’s catch by a pound. Frank Stauffer wasn’t in the running. They only caught a few red snappers . . . Miss Maude Dews and her sister, Miss Dana Dews of 1128 Chickasha Avenue, left early in that week for a short vacation to Red River, N. M. . . . Dr. and Mrs. A. J. Roberts were back home after a trip to Kansas where they attended a reunion of the Roberts family. Their daughter, Mrs. Kelly Chism and children of Wichita Falls, accompanied them to Kansas . . . An event of interest that week was the wedding of Miss Mary Virginia Tulloss of 2023 South 15th to Travis S. Moody, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Moody of Temple . . . Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Tucker of Chickasha and Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Carr, Jr. of Alex, attended the annual American Indian Exposition in Anadarko on Tuesday night of this week. 30 Years Ago R. M. Lucan, manager of the Chickasha Cotton Oil Mill announced that week that his company had received another car of boll weevil poison. That was the fourth car of poison that his company had distributed to the farmers of southwest Oklahoma . . . Gene Fowler of Fowler’s Grocery had put in a grocery store in Eloy, Arizona. Eloy was a town of 400 people fifteen miles from Casa Grande . . . Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Barton and two boys were spending a two week vacation down on the gulf, fishing and sight seeing . . . Anadarko bade welcome to the representatives of some 50 Indian tribes and numerous spectators from several states on Wednesday of that week as the annual Anadarko Indian Exposition got under way. The Indians rode and whooped amid floats depicting frontier days interspersed with a number of bands from state cities . . . Holy Name Catholic Church was the scene of one of the most impressive marriage ceremonies of the year on Wednesday morning of that week. Marriage vows were exchanged by two of Grady County’s popular young folk. Miss Frances Novtny, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Novotny of Pocasset, became the bride of Funston P. Flanagan of the Southwestern Light and Power Company . . . The Rev. Glenn Green, former pastor of the Church of Christ was in town on Tuesday of that week visiting friends. He was accompanied by his daughter, Mollie Sue. They were on their way to Missouri . . . Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Mullican and family were spending a few days vacation at Sulphur, Okla . . . Chickasha was featured Tuesday evening of that week in Girls’ State in Norman when a group from here put on the entertainment for the evening. Roy Cochran and Virgil Moore took the group to Norman . . . Mrs. C. V. Leonard and Mrs. Frank Gerdes went to Tulsa that week to confer with Miss Celia Bady of Nowata, president of the Oklahoma Federation of Business and Professional Women in regard to the state convention of the organization which was to be held in Chickasha the next April. Submitted by Sandi Carter