Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 208, Decatur, Adams County, 3 September 1953 — Page 11

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Kansas Town Marks Its Oil Anniversary Oil Show To Mark Successful Gamble RUSSELLj, Kan., j t'P £-A successful oil gamble that transformed central and western Kansas from, an area of sometimes marg--i u ■ don’t Jake a chance take! PLENAMINS Smith Drug Co.

MERCHANDISE AUCTION DECATUR SALE BARN Friday Evening, Sept. 4, 7:30 P.M. \ 1 ' J Warehouse Clearance. $25,000.00 New Merchandise. Including: PoWer portable saws; electrical drill; hardware; tools; jacket Serb; ojien end wrench sets; household equipment; paiht;“toasters; electric and steam irphs; codkwarej dinette |sbts; electrical appliances; mixers!; dishes; . ? portable sewing machines; luggage; electric heaters; furniture setjs; gardening tools; hose; lawn mowers; clock radios; - fishing equipment; watches; jewelry; and many other items. TERMS-.-.Sr. I , 1 -i- ’ * Hail of Distributors, Inc., Owners - . , : j. PUBLIC AUCTION As we liaue boiight a rhouse, trailer, we the undersigned will sell thle following at public auction, located la mile east of Monroe, Ind., -on State Road 124, on P' i Friday Evening, September 4,1953 I I ' 6:30 P.M. HOUSEHOLD GOOdS; — bottle, gas range, like n6w; kitchen cabinet; Coronado, oil heatfiig stove with fan, like new; Round Royal Oak heating! stove; i two kitchen chairs; six leather bottom straight back chairs; gate-leg table; 3-piece living room suite; occasional chair; stand; 9' x 13' wood bed with springs .and mattress; another wood bed with goQd coil springs; dresser; chest of drawers; writing desk; baby held with springs and mattress; Air-Way electric upright sweeper; tajlblb lapAi wall lamps; Emerson portable radio. 1948. M. L. Model James ' - , motor bike, just been overhauled, spare patts for sjsme; power fawn mower; GARDEN TRACTOR, with equipment; grapple hay jjforks; double harpoon hay fork; other articles not mentioned. t ■ J J- I ... . J, 4- ■- -.vy ■■ Barbara &R« Li Crownover -— Owners. Clerk—Julia Ann Suman i Auctioneers—Suman Bros. ! Sept. 2, 3

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inal agricultural production into one with) a multi-million dollar industrial economy will be commemorated at the Russell Oil Show Sept. 10-12. The show, “Three Decades of Derricks,” is Kansas’ single oil exposition of the year. The wildcat well for the mammoth producing area was brought in Thanksgiving day, 1923. It was 150,miles from the nearest oil production. i • ■ The Carrie Oswald No. 1, near Fairport, northwest of Russell, is still producing —a 30-year-well and going strong. . \ 1 Farmers Grew Wealthy A plaque will be dedicated at the well. Discovery of oil in 'Russell cbun-

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ty. electrified the mid-contineni area three decades ago. Withjn a few days, this area skras swarming with oilmen seeking land leases. Farmers who had been faced with mortgages they could not pay suddenly found themkelyes , able to buy luxuries they had never dreamed of owning. The “bjatfk gold” under their sand became, by far, best crop. Highlights of the show will include the largest parade ever iff this city of 7,00(1, a free barbecue stag for 5,000 oilmen, nightly entertainment by top national talent, oil field displays worth millions of dollars and dedication of the pibneer irell plaque. ’ ': “Lucky Seven” Top government and oil industry men will be here. Kansas* GOv. Edward F. Arn U. S. Sens/ Andrew- F. Schoeppel and Frank, iCdrlson will be among them. The success story of the Carrie Oswald No. 1 is also the stpry of seven men who achieved fame as well as fortune in plunging the well into the dusty prairie. , ■ Dubbed the “Lucky Seven” were C. W. Shaffer and J. E. Missimer, Russell bankers; A. E., Seeley,' rancher and oil Operator; Charles E. Hall, real estate man; J. H. and Frlank Liggett, Kansas ranchers and oil operators, and, the Stearns and Streeter Oil Co., of Wichita. All the individuals except Shaf-’ fer and Missimer are dead. The two men will be honored at the exposition. Hwou have something to sell or robins for rent, try a Democrat W>nt Add. It brings results.

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Double Play ; [ T R U M B Conn. (UPI — Thomas Cascone of Harjford charged that Nicholas Arifellji of LaWrenqe, Mata., had passed |him ' on the right side while driving on the Merritt ?&kway. Arifella was \ fined sls. (Atscone also was fjned 1 sls when the jid'ge ruled that he i I ■ ’ . • ' I, 1 .

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SYNOPSIS Packrat Purdy’s arrest had opened up once more the case of the Phahtoin Bandit and sent Cole Manning galloping into the Bootjack country, i He hoped now to bring to justice*! the hold-up- robber of a valuable Wells Fargo cargo, who had eluded his Illustrious father. »he late Sheriff Flint Manning, years before. But on reaching his destination Cole learns from tough Mack Torgln and his killer companion Gal. that sly old Purdy had .fled the jail and aided by a girl an a her wagon, was at large now, a bounty on his head. j * CHAPTER SEVEN | TORGIN closed the door And found his way back to the pallor. He let himself down into fjthe rocker again and waited. ■ Gal was taking his own sweet time coming. A funny one, (hat Gal. Sometimes, like now, Torgln got the feeling that having Mm around Was like having a catamount by the tail. He’d been a lean and hungry one. Gal, that first night he’d come to the ranch, a porcupine prison haircut shewing, and he’d made no bones about being busted out of Deer lodge. He’d looked like he'd ridden ;the rods and slept in the haystacks, but he’d been good and brassy.fOr all that. “Friend of mine in stony. Iqncsome hailed from hereabouts/’jGal had said. “He told me Mack Torgin wouldn’t be fiissy about he hired. You’ll get a good thirty-a-month’s worth out of me. £t’ll take my rem pay in being coveted up for a while.”. That was tow their acquaintance had starred, Torgin remembered. Now he heard the front dbor creak to Gal’s coming; and Gal entered, soft-stepping. { a t j Torgin motioned with his hand. “Lay a fire and touch a matetf to it \ “I’m warm enough,” Gal raid and took a high stand near the fireplace. “What’s on your chest?” Torgin frowned and was of a mind to repeat his order, but hc . didn’t. Instead he said, ‘Tve bsen sizing up the situation. Paclefrat Purdy’s the answer to everything, but - Purdy's gone skallyhootthg. Still, Laura can’t keep hin\ hid forever. All we’ve got to do is lay low until a second chance shades up. If I get Purdy in this ho&e, TH get the answer I want. He knows who stopped that styecoach, and m bet Laura’s guessed too. That’s why qhe helped IQm get out of the poky today.” ? Gal’s face was lost In shadow, but his voice came dear and adft "We could go looking up north tomorrow.” \ Torgin shook Ms head. “Too much country. I’ve got a better notion. I’ll take a couple of the tooy sad & into Ma&r&a toF r ' v '• : I

failed to yield the left lane despite Continud horn blowing by Arifella. The Berries i , TEMPLE, Mich., UP — Thomas Crawford picked 150 qhafts of huckleberries this year. Crawford is 90 years old. 1 .'J ■ • ■

morrow. l’d«4ike a talk with Doc Brownlee. Maybe I’ve got enough aces in my fist to run a bluff on him. And maybe Laura will show back there. If she’s going to keep Purdy hid, she’ll want more to eat than cottontails. One way or the other, I may pick up something in Mannington.” Gal nodded and was remote and thoughtful man, carried far from this room by his own dark brooding. “Mannington!” he said, an edge to his voice. “They had to: name a whole town after him.” “Who?” Torgin asked absently. “Manning.” Torgin came up out of the chair fast. “Gal, that’s it!” he ejaculated. I “That’s what?” \ ’H \ I “Manning! Flint Manning. Tve placed that stranger! He’s old Flint’s kid. Sure he is! Same face —same build—same voice. And he’s just about the right age novi. No wonder I was fooled. I was trying to place him for himself when all the time I was half remembering Flint.” Gal asked tonelessly, “Are you sure ? Real sure ?’’ “Os course. When you mentioned the town, it came to me just like that.” Gal seemed to grow, ,to become a high and terrible shape, there by the fireplace. He said in a rising voice, “And I had him in front of my gun, but you had to be standing in the way! You blundering fool! I had my chance and took your word that it wasn’t the time or place. And now he’s got away!" Now Gal was heading hard for the door. In a matter of minutes hoofbeats pounded in the yard, and Torgin had then a brief glimpse of Gal bent low over a saddlehorn and'heading for the trail that climbed out of the canyon. Two things made Mannington different from other false-fronted log and frame towns of the mountain cattle country. One was the statue of Flint Manning that anchored the end of the main street And stood forever against the backdrop of the Mils walling this south end of Bootjack basin; the other was the brick charity hospital of Dr. Luke Brownlee, an institution whose fame had spread the width of Montana these |aat twenty years. But Cole Manning, wrapped in somber thoughts as he rode in at mid-afternoon, passed the monument to a man dead and the monument to a man living without giving either a great deal of attention. t He had awakened with la f t Mght's stfil brassy

Major Television Shows Returning . Free Tickets Are Again Big Problem NEW York, UP —The major television! shows are beginning to return td tpe gir in increasing numbers -after the summer layoffs and with them comes the free ticket problem. < 1" 1 ■ ' i i> The networks are old hands at this by now, having gone through the , same thing when all thb big radib shows were “live” and were performed before audiences. However, the problem is no easier for all that experience—the requests always outrun thb number of seats. ' i - 'il A lot of people from out of town are always surprised when they descend on New York with the expectation of picking up two or more tickets for their favorite TV programs. The trouble is that these —especially the big variety shows, the giveaway and o|her audience participation' program — are also the favorites of a few million others, many of whom live right in the New York airea. So. for many programs, it is impossible to pick up tickets on the spur of the moment. In some cases persons have had ticket requests in for weeks „or months before they have been able to see a The networks maintain departments to handle ticket requests, so it is always advisable to write in well ahead of any trip to New York and placp your order. » Os course, <. in some cases it Is possible to get tickets in advance on your home grounds through dealers in products that sponsor various shows.' The, sponsors actually get the bulk of tickets, not the networks. A

in ms mouth, ana ne’a tumea north again in spite of himself and spent a few hours scouting the vicinity where last he’d seen the girl. This empty searching had made his day no brighter, and now he looked with jaundiced eye upon the tpwn that bore his name. His first concern was to seek out Sheriff f Burke Griffin. The jail building, Which also housed the sheriff’s office, was far along the street, near th£ outskirts. The structure was niade of weathered logs and had a sagging porch before it, and on this porch sat the fattest mAn had eVer seen. I! g I He filled) a chfdr, that one. He was wedged down into it, and Manning got tfip impression* that if the fellow jumped pp suddenly, the chair would con|e with him. He ha\i a round apple-cheeked face and looked) as though he should be. behind the of a mercantile. He held a feaper fan in one pudgy hand, and with this he idly Kept ; the flies awf y. He gave Manning a friendly grin and started to lift his free hand in greeting bti| let it drop as though the effort v|as too great. “Howdy,” he said in $ lazy voice. Manning leaned forward, folding v his arms ftpon the saddlehorn. “Sheriff ar«md?” “I’m Gri|an.” The fat ma> sighed. "F> rg o V to pin on my badge this? morning. The missus will likely &tch it when she comes to tell me pipper’s ready." Faint irritation tpuohed Manning as he raid, “Do you think you could makj it inside where we could do some talking T” “I could try,” Griffin said affably and got himself out of the chair with a mighty grunt. He waddled , into the building; and Manning got down, wrapped the reins around a hitch rail and followed him. The office was narrow and dusty and held a deak that looked as if it had been knocked together from sluicebox lumber, > chair or two, and a dented FraiflcHn stove. Time-yel-lowed, fly-sfTcked reward dodgers, a frayed multitude of them, overlapped each other on the walls. Memories again rose and smote Manning, for he’d known this office WclL Many times his father had led him here and perched him on tMs desk. ■ , ' -JX i> ■ Griffin ’At once dropped into An- I other chair, a counterpart nr the one on the porch. He sighed. “Now What’s your particular trouble?'’ •Tm Cole Manning, sheriff. I came to see Packrat Purdy. But it seems he’s already pried the lid off this calaboose.” ■k fTe Be CoaNaaadjl ■

New Comedy Series Ray Mi Hand heads up a new called “Meet Mr. McNutJß,” starting on both CBSTV amr radio Sept. 17, and will be available each Thursday evening thereafter. He will play an absent-minded professor in a college for women. Joan Crawford, who has been in the top glamour ranks for almost 25 years through afl the Ho£ lywood changes, will bow in on the “Revlon Mirror Theater*’ program sept. 19 over CBS-TV. This will be her first TV work and is unddubtedly a testing measure that may result in more work in this medium. If you have something to sell or rooms, for rent, try a Democrat Want Add. It brings results.

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