Alumni Elects Maj . Cox As PrexyTwice a graduate of the Arts & Science School

of the University, '216a, and '24ma, Maj . WilliamV . Cox has been doubly loyal to the Universityand the Alumni Association down through theyears .A helping hand in more ways than one, Bill

was elected to the board of directors of the AlumniAssociation for a three year term in 1944, servedas vice-president in 1945-46 under George D .Hann, '36m .ed, and was unanimously electedpresident at the annual meeting last June .

On acceptingthe responsibil-ity as president,Major Cox said :"I've always

taken my Armytraining serious-ly . I have to, it'smy bread andbutter. And likeall good Armyincn, I'm goingto pass the buckclown the line to.% on members ofthe board andthe Alumni yourepresent . I be-lieve we are go-ing to have one

of the finest years in the history of the association .but you're going to have to do the work . I'm goingto do the presiding ."

MAJOR WILLIAM V . COX

But despite such a modest declaration, Billstepped right up to the wheel, took a good firmhold and has been solid in the saddle ever since .Riding the Sooner Range with "hired-hand" TedBeaird, he predicts that the Alumni Associationand the University are headed for their greatestperiod of growth .Not always a Major, William Verdiman Cox

was born "just plain Bill" at Pond Creek, Okla-homa, October 7, 1899 . Periodic seiges in the"little red school-house," enlivened by sensationalparticipation in football, baseball, debating andoratory, brought him to graduation from CarmenHigh school in 1917 .

Although a year of helping his Uncle Sam returnsome unruly Huns to their own back yard delayedhis formal education just a little, Bill Cox strodeacross the platform and received his Bachelor ofArts Degree from the University of OklahomaArts & Science School in 1921 . He was back in1924 to pick up a master's degree in the samefield.

While at the University; although he main-tained an enviable scholastic record, he also foundtime for a few extra-curricular activities, such as :three letters in basketball, four letters in baseball(captain one year), membership in Sigmu Nu,Mystic Keyes, ROTC, Jazz Hounds, and in twohonorary organizations the names of which hehas long since forgotten.

After receiving his first degree, he served asprincipal and coach at Helena in 1921-22, and atCarmen in 1922-23 . Returning to O . U . to com-plete his master's degree in 1923-24, he roundedout the football staff as freshman coach . The fol-lowing year he became head coach and instructorat Henryetta.

In 1926, Major Cox began his successful careerwith military schools as director of athletics andinstructor at the Wentworth Military Academy,Lexington, Missouri . He stayed there until 1936,when he accepted a similar position at the MissouriMilitary Academy in Mexico, Missouri .

In 1940, he established the Ponca MilitaryAcademy, for boys from the first grade throughjunior high school, in Ponca City, Oklahoma . Theacademy's educational aim, as outlined by MajorCox, who is commandant and superintendent, isto prepare boys for successful work in colleges,universities, technical schools and governmentacademies, or for immediate entrance into thebusiness world .

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Correspondence . . .

Hume Suggests Jubilee ClubDear Ted :

Last October when I saw you something wasstarted and developed for Jack Harts, '95, and ithas occurred to me that a Sooner Jubilee club sug-gested for O . U . would be a novelty, and whenI was at Oklahoma City last weekend, I saw HarryFord for the first time in 17 years. He is at 3108N . Shartel with a daughter Bettye who has aphone, and it might be that Keith would like tocontact him .Our 1896 football team kept the continuity up

since the first year, and played Norman High twiceand beat both times, so was first all victoriousteam in annals of school . I played quarter andcalled signals through sixty minutes, and decidedthat 125 pounds was too light, and quit then . Inpicture of that team, which I gave when the AxStadium drive was on, I appear as timekeeper,and Roberts as umpire, and my brother Ray wascaptain . The glee club was first to spring thepresent yell on school, and you can get this in1916 Sooner or from Mrs . Grace King Maguire .

Sincerely Yours,C . Ross Hume, 1900ma

Barbara Christian 'Flies Higher'Dear Sir :On August 1st I assumed the new duties of

chief stewardess for American Airlines at Dallas,Texas, and I thought perhaps I would take thisopportunity to let you know that anytime any ofour O . U . friends are in that vicinity, I wouldbe most pleased to have them look me up . Wehave had many young- ladies from O. U. join ourstewardess group, and it has always been a pleas-ure to work with them . I am hoping that in thisnew capacity, I shall be able to help many moreSooners find their silver wings and flying careers,for I steadfastly remain a staunch O. U . booster.Thank you also for the fine work you continue

to do on the Sooner Magazine . I always look for-ward to its arrival in the mail, and my copy af-fords me some wonderful moments of reminiscing.

Sincerely,Barbara Ann Christian, '43baChief StewardessAmerican Airlines SystemLove Field, Dallas, Texas

Mugg Weds Former Iowa StaterDear Sooners :

It seems my address and APO's have a terribletime in catching up with me, however I am veryglad to get the notice even if it is a bill . At presentI am a member of the 313th Medical Battalion,88th "Blue Devil" Infantry Division still a Com-bat Unit and on operational role overlooking theMorgan Line .

There are to my knowledge three Sooners herein the 88th . Lt. Jim Armstrong, '43, with the752nd Tk Bn ., Lt . Bob Alexander, '44, with the788 Ord . and myself . Perhaps some boys are inthe F .A . but I haven't met them, if so .

If there are any Gamma Phi Betas present, I ammarrying one from Iowa State . Mary Jane Drake,'44 Iowa State-majored in home economics andis a member of "Club 88" American Red Crosshere . We are both returning to U . S . soon so for-ward the Sooner to my home address, Higgins,Texas .

Note : the 88th activated at Camp Gruber,Oklahoma in 1942 and has fought all through theItalian Campaign .

Mother will forward check for Sooner as Idon't believe you can use LIRE .

Sincerely,James K . Mugg, '43pharm .313 Med . Bn . 88th Inf. Div .APO 88, c/o Postmaster,New York, N. Y .

Sooners Hold Reunion in ViennaDear Mr . Beaird :Thanks for the last note sent this way . You

asked if there were any questions, to which I canonly reply that I'll be asking them in person whenI come to Norman sometime soon . The demobiliza-tion of officers on length of service will finally setme free before long.

All loyal Sooners finally managed to get to-gether for a bit of a bull session a couple of daysago in Vienna . . . to name peoples there, whichwas held in Dick Ellinghausen's apartment, wehave Gus Kiriopolis (whose brother, Louis, isalso in the area), Bob Cole, Joe Andrews, and"Push" Nelson, all of the '42 and '43 classes . Abigger event had been planned for Berchtesgadensometime ago, but due to lack of publicity, thelittle deal had to be replaced by the smaller affairin Vienna. We all had the rousing time to be ex-pected, though, so no one was disappointed .

Cordially,Guss Babb, '43

EDITOR'S NOTE : Babb retrmned to the Statesrecently, was discharged from the Army as a lieu-tenant and is now attending the University as asenior majoring in Business Administration . He isalso serving as an announcer on station IVNAD .

Harris Meets Pals in YokosukaDear Mr. Beaird :

I am sorry I never dropped up to your office tomeet you after your return to the University . Na-turally, my father had mentioned you to me numer-ous times . I often intended to drop by your of-fice but because of studies and romance, the laterprobably being the strongest reason, I never gotaround to it.

I just received the ballot for the Executive Boardand am enclosing it with this letter .You asked for any news items . As for myself,

I just finished six months of minesweeping in theChina Sea and Japanese waters . I returned to theStates this month, and ran into quite a few O . U ."grads" at various places in the Pacific and inJapan . In fact we almost had a large reunion inYokosuka, Japan . Merle Dinkins, Keith Fowler,Gene Pruett, Homer Sparkman and I had a coupleof enjoyable afternoons in the officers' club there .I also saw Earl Stone and Jack Birchum in Saseho,Japan . They made a mail trip run from Okinawaand anchored about 200 yards from my ship .

I am in San Francisco now and I have met in-numerable O . U. "grads" that are in the Navy andpass through here .

I've been getting my "Sooners" and they havecertainly been appreciated. They are often receiveda number of months late but the news of all myfriends from O . U. is always interesting to readand appreciated very much .

Cordially yours,Grady D . Harris, Jr ., '456a

G. H . Nunn Begins Ph .D . ThesisDear Ted :

Being among the discharged, I was at homewhen the enclosed card arrived . For the record,I'll furnish the essential data myself .As a matter of fact, I've been home since Easter

day, having arrived but five days earlier from thePhilippines, where I had spent the past ten months .Actually, terminal leave was up May 29, giving me44 and a half months service .The last job I held in the Army was as director

of training in the G-3 section of headquarters,Base X, in Manila. At the time I left there was aproject underway for the assembling of O. U .Alumni, but it had as yet produced little fruit.As for the immediate future, on August fifth Istart teaching elementary government classes inthe second session of the summer term at Wash-ington Square College, New York University . Inthe fall I plan to start in again on the thesis formy Ph.D . at NYU, a project which was somewhatinterrupted about four years ago .

Since I've been home it has been enjoyable read-ing old and new copies of the Sooner, a pleasureI look forward to for the future .

Sincerely,Grady H . (Harry) Nunn,'41ma

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Medical School, Notes

Many of the clinical and preclinical staff of theMedical School are attending the meetings of theAmerican Medical Association in San Francisco .Several of the staff are participating in the scien-tific program .

Drs . Ben Nicholson, Robert H . Bayley and How-ard C . Hopps presented papers at the annual meet-ing of the Moton Clinical Society in Tulsa, Okla-homa.Dr. Robert H . Bayley, professor of medicine,

recently presented papers on rheumatic heartdisease and the treatment of empyema with peni-cillin, at a combined meeting of County MedicalSocieties of the Northeastern section of Oklahoma.The meeting was held at the Oklahoma State Hos-pital at Vinita, Oklahoma.Dr . Reynold Patzer, assistant professor of sur-

gery, has been granted funds by the OklahomaDivision of the National Cancer Society for anexperimental study on the treatment of cancer.

Miss Lilah Heck recently attended the 45thmeeting of the Medical Library Association whichwas held at the Yale Medical School, New Haven,Connecticut. Enroute she visited numerous medi-cal libraries including the Osler and McGill atMontreal, Boston and Harvard Medical Libraries,the Library of the New York Academy of Medi-cine and the Army Medical Library in Washing-ton, D . C .

During the next month every physician in theState of Oklahoma and all graduates of the Schoolof Medicine residing in other states, will receivea letter pertaining to life membership in the Schoolof Medicine of the University of Oklahoma AlumniAssociation . It is particularly important to raise,in the near future, $25,000 in order to begin thecampaign for funds required to construct theAlumni Research Institute.Alumni of the School of Medicine who visited

the school during the past month include : Dr . AlexBarrio, Class of '44, who has just been releasedfrom active duty with the U . S . Navy . Dr. Barri owas enroute to the University of Minnesota for asecond year of internship in obstetrics and gynecol-ogy ; Captain Hal Arthur Burnett (Army), Classof '43, who recently returned from Germany andis awaiting reassignment ; Major Paul MartinDarden (Army), Class of '42 .Dr . Ivan A . Maguire, Class of '39, released

from the Army last October and is now in prac-tice (psychiatry) in Detroit, Michigan ; Lt. ColonelCannon A . Owen, Class of '34 ; Lt. James RileyWinterringer (Navy) Class of '45, who is re-turning to the U . S . Naval Hospital at Bainbridge,Maryland, to finish his internship.

Former graduates of the School of Medicinewho have recently been given appointments asresidents in the University Hospitals are : Dr .James Charles Amspacher (Class May '43) Ortho-pedics ; Dr. Hubert M. Anderson ((Class '42) plas-tic surgery ; Dr . Herman R . Bender (Class '41)radiology ; Dr. Clarence B . Dawson (Class Dec .'43) urology ; Dr. Achilles C . Lisle, Jr. (Class May'43) neurosurgery ; Dr . Wilmer E . Parrish (Classof '43) pediatrics, and Dr. Millington O . Young(Class of '44) pathology .Dr . H . A . Shoemaker, Assistant Dean, Dr. A .A . Hellbaum, professor of pharmacology, and Dr .John F. Hackler, professor of preventive medicineand public health were among the 69 doctors fromOklahoma who attended the annual meeting of theAmerican Medical Association in San Francisco,California, July 1st to 5th, 1946 .Dr . Paul O . Shackelford, '44med, has recentlybeen released from the armed forces and is practic-ing internal medicine with the Tulsa Clinic,Tulsa, Oklahoma .Dr . Zola K . Cooper has been appointed assis-tant professor of histology and embryology . Dr .Cooper comes from St. Louis, Missouri, where shewas assistant pathologist at the Barnard Free Skinand Cancer Hospital and instructor in pathologyat Washington University School of Medicine.

SEPTEMBER, 1946

THE DRUG MILLBy DR . RALPH BIENFANG

This is just a stab in the dark, but if even onething comes of it, it will be entirely worth while .As some of you perhaps know, the Drug Miller isengaged at the moment in an endeavor which heand the American Institute of the History ofPharmacy hope will lead to a published "Historyof Military Pharmacy in the United States ." Inthis connection a Museum of Military Pharmacyhas been established at the University of Oklaho-ma School of Pharmacy at Norman (do you haveanything to send?) and articles have been writtenand songs have been composed . One of these, the"U . S . Army Pharmacy Corps Song," carries onthe back :

"Hennel Stevens, H . N . Rittenhouse, VictorZoeller, Henry Johnson, Robert T. Creamer,George Wright, William M . Giles, George T .Beall, A . F . Cherbonnier, and F. O'Donoghue,all qualified pharmacists, were commissionedduring the Civil War by the Union Army, asMedical Storekeepers . Each was required togive a bond in the amount of $40,000 ."These men, then, were the pharmacy officers

of the Union Army . Does any reader have anyinformation on any of them? If so, would hewrite the Drug Miller a letter?The Confederacy of course also employed phar-

rnacists in the armed forces . Whether or not anyof these had commissioned status is a little hardto say, for there seems to be a dearth of informa-tion available. Pharmaceutical problems in theSouth, though, it would appear were even morepressing than they were in the North . Anyoneknowing about Confederate Army and Navy phar-macists, commissioned or not (hospital stewards),is requested to write in to the Drug Miller, careof this magazine .

PHARMACY MINISTERSSEPTEMBER SALLIES-Been saving this one

for about a year . The Drug Miller was in his hometown library doing some researching. Noticed thatthe librarian was a woman who had been a yearahead of him in high school . After a bit she cameover to where the Drug Miller was working andsaid, "Aren't you the Bienfang boy?" "Yes" saidI, "Aren't you the Neis girl?" Make somethingout of it if you can . . . With a beautiful greenand brown on buff announcement, Bauman &Clarkson Drug Co ., prescription pharmacists haverecently opened their doors at 3001 Main Street,Ocean Park, California . Lead and closing sentencesin this announcement are outstanding. "You willbe interested in knowing that we have opened anup-to-date pharmacy which we hope to make areal asset to the community . . . We shall esteemgreatly the privilege of serving your needs as theyarise and we hope to make of you and your familypermanent patrons ." The many friends of hand-some Phm . H . T. Clarkson wish him well in thisnew pharmacy .

Medics Plan $3 Million DriveHoping to raise a $3 million endowment for a

research unit from physicians and laymen, theOklahoma Medical Research Foundation togetherwith 25 physicians and laymen, met recently atthe Skirvin Hotel to incorporate a permanentboard and begin the campaign .Dr . John H . Lamb, '32med, acting temporary

chairman of the group, said the foundation hopedto begin the drive early this fall .The Foundation, sponsored by the University

Medical Alumni, plans to build a research centerin conjunction with the University Hospital inOklahoma City so that state doctors can conductresearch on the illnesses of this region . One floor_would be devoted to cancer .

Speakers at the meeting were Dr . HowardHopps, professor of pathology, on "The Value ofResearch," and Dr. George Hazel, Oklahoma Cityphysician, on "The Purpose of the Foundation ."

Runkle Buys Advertising FirmOklahoma's newest advertising agency is really

not new at all, but is an old established organiza-tion dressed out in the name of an O. U . graduatewho helped to build it.

For with his purchase of the Ray K. Glenn,Advertising agency in Okla-homa City last month,Lowe Runkle, '306a, be-came the owner and presi-tlent of one of the mostsuccessful advertising agen-cies in the Southwest . Withthe change in ownershipthere also came a change inname, and the firm is nowoperating as the LoweRunkle Company, with of-fices in the First NationalBuilding, Oklahoma City .An eight year stretch

with the Glenn agency, aseverything from copyboy to account executive, tookhim into 1940 and a position as vice-president andmanager of the firm's Oklahoma City office. Earlyin 1944 Uncle Sam crooked a finger in his direc-tion and there followed an 18-month tour in khakiwhich saw Lowe doing public relations workfor the Army Air Forces .

Lover: RUNKIA.

Back into civilian clothes again late last fall,Runkle immediately took over his old job andstarted making up for lost time . In July this year,he sold out his interests in the Glenn agency'soffices in Fort Worth, Dallas and Los Angeles,and purchased the Oklahoma City business out-right.

During his four years at O. U ., Runkle was amember of the ATO fraternity, Ruf-Neks, andCheckmate. He is married, and has two sonswhom he hopes will someday help him expandthe firm name into "Runkle, Runkle & Runkle ."

Curtis Gets AppointmentDear Ted :

I left Pauls Valley with my family on May 16th,and after a very pleasant vacation in Californiareturned home about midnight last night .

In going through my correspondence this morn-ing I found your letters of June 3rd, and June 4thadvising me of my election as a new member ofthe Executive Board, and of the meeting whichwas held on Monday, June 17th . I am very muchdisappointed that I did not arrive home in time toattend this meeting . I am also disappointed thatyou were not advised of my inability to attend .However, my office had been expecting me homefor the past week, and I feel that they thought Iwould be home in time to attend this meeting .

I am sure that your meeting was held as sched-uled, and that all members with the exception ofmyself have been duly installed .

Please advise me the date of the next meeting sothat I can make plans in advance to attend . I amvery happy over my election and will do my verybest to render some degree of service to the schoolwhich has done so much for me .

It may be of interest to you to learn that onour trip we visited the campuses of the followingUniversities :

Scripps College for Women, at Claremont, Cali-fornia, where my daughter, Jo June, has been afreshman the past winter . Needless to say she is nowplanning on enrolling for her sophomore year atthe University of Oklahoma .

Mills College for women, at Oakland, Califor-nia ; Leland Stanford, at Palo Alto, California ;Pomono College, at Pomona, California ; Universityof California, at Berkley, California ; University ofSouthern California, at Los Angeles, California ;University of Colorado, at Boulder, Colorado .The very first time I go to Oklahoma City I

plan on dropping in at your office in Norman .Sincerely yours,Joe W . Curtis, '221aw .

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VACATION NOTESEnjoy your vacation this year in the great Westand Southwest. You can go "SANTA FE ALLTHE WAY" in comfort and relaxation .

Here area few "Vacation Notes" on the colorfulplaces you can visit on your Santa Fe trip .

There's GRAND CANYON in northern Arizona-217 miles of fantastic rock sculptures . This isa sight to see . . . . . and see again .

There's CARLSBAD CAVERNS -"the under--ground Ground Canyon" in southeastern NewMexico, with its miles of subterranean fantasy .

COLORADO offers cool comfort in its moun-tains and parks, or for a dude ranch vacation .NEW MEXICO and ARIZONA are also idealfor dude ranch vacations, or you can enjoy theprehistoric cliff dwellings and customs of thisunusual Indian country.

And CALIFORNIA offers practically everythingyou want in a vacation-from swimming in theblue Pacific to skiing in the snowy Sierras; frommodern city glamour to historic Spanish mis-sions .

You can travel to or from all of these places onswift, modern Santa Fe trains . There's serviceto suit your vacation schedule . For information,stop in at any Santa Fe ticket office or travelbureau .

SANTA FE SYSTEM LINES

SERVING THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST

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Aviation Future-Continued from page I

knowledge of flight, a broad program of facultyflight training or flight experience should be in-stituted as preparation for the University's newresponsibilities in the Air Age .The University also should explore the use of

the airplane in extending its services to the state .The use of air travel could almost double theamount of service that University personnel couldrender to the state . By air, most communities arefrom ten to twenty percent closer in distances, andonly half as far away in terms of time. Experiencein commercially rented planes shows that the sav-ing in time more than offsets the added cost offlying .Under present plans, the University will con-

tract with flight operators for flight instruction,airplane rentals, charter services, aircraft and en-gine repairs, and airplane sales . Flight instructionwill be offered to former service men and womenunder the provisions of Public Law 246, as wellas to non-service students . The University also ex-pects to co-operate with federal and state agenciesin programs of aviation research .Of course, the University will have many new

problems in the successful carrying out of such abroad program of aviation as outlined above.The proper maintenance of an airport is ex-

pensive. State funds probably will not be avail-able for airport operations . Thus, all flight opera-tions must be financed by earnings of the fieldand flight facilities and through the sale of gaso-line, oil and other supplies .

Here, again, however, the University has anexcellent opportunity to make a valuable contribu-tion to successful airport management . The econ-omics of flight and flight operations is a new fieldand much remains to be learned . The University,with its personnel and research facilities, is thelogical agent for the studying and solving of suchproblems.

In other words, in solving its own financial,operational and maintenance problems, the Uni-versity should be able to make an important con-tribution to the knowledge and practice of air-port-operation .The University earnestly solicits the interest,

support and counsel of its alumni in this new ven-ture . We invite you to fly to Norman to visit ourcampus, to attend various University activities fora day of recreation . You, then, will have an op-portunity to observe first hand the aviation futureof the University of Oklahoma .

14 Sooners Are Rhodes ScholarsThe University ranks among the 25 highest con-

tributors of students for Rhodes scholarship awardsin the United States . With a total of 14 Rhodesscholars, O . U . is in the same group with the Uni-versities of Minnesota, Missouri, Utah, and Wyom-ing.The highest contributors are Princeton, Harvard

and Yale, with a total of 61, 46 and 43 scholars,respectively.

Since its inception in 1904, until wartime sus-pension in 1939, Rhodes Scholarships to OxfordUnversity, England, have been given to 1,127 stu-dents in 211 colleges of the Unitel States . Grantingof Rhodes Scholarships will be resumed this fall .

In his new book, "The American Rhodes Schol-ar-A Review of the First Forty Years," Dr . Fr.ankAydelotte describes the founding of the grantsunder the will of Cecil Rhodes, the South Africanempire builder, the history of their administrationin this country and the records of American hold-ers at Oxford and in later life .

Early Start AdvisedHigh school radio programs would provide ex-

perience for home station talent and provide theschools with better public relations, a panel of radioexperts agreed at the recent University of Okla-homa radio institute and colloquium . The studentswould have a chance to gain radio experience, andthe stations would have a "live" program .

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An Oklahoman-(Continued from page 5)

household with a complete grace and ease be-speaking long experience .The Owen apartment in Washington remains a

center of activity revolving around two ideas dearto the Senator's heart. One is adoption of a globalalphabet invented by the Senator, through whichEnglish may be effectively promoted as an inter-national language . As President of the WorldLanguage Foundation, Senator Owen writes manyletters, makes speeches, and testifies often in sup-port of this idea . It has received endorsement fromsome of the nation's outstanding philologists, andis at present undergoing classroom tests in severalWashington schools .

Another Owen project is congressional legisla-tion in final settlement of Cherokee Indian landclaims, on which the Senator maintains millionsof dollars are still owed by the federal government.It seems a safe bet that the man who fathered theFederal Reserve Bank system will see this measurethrough, despite his ninety years.

Early Oklahoma is definitely one of SenatorOwen's favorite subjects . Having come to theSooner state in 1879, and having served as one ofthe first presidents of the old Indian InternationalFair at Muskogee, he is an authority with fewpeers . His word picture of the "sea of teepees"which once surrounded the old Indian fair is amemorable one .Former Senator Gore is another early settler,

having moved to Lawton from Texas in July of1901, shortly after his marriage . The Gore lawoffice in Lawton soon became a political center,and after organization for statehood the 37-year-oldattorney was a primary winner and the choiceof the legislature along with Robert Owen, togo to the senate .

In the nation's highest legislative body in 1907,Tom Gore of Oklahoma was the youngest senatorpresent . He was soon involved in a short-livedfilibuster which helped establish the Gore reputa-tion as one of the senate's leading orators .Two major pieces of legislation stand todays as

evidence of Gore service. Soil conservation was ameasur for which he fought long and hard, asone of Oklahoma's greatest needs . As an oilstate, Oklahoma benefited by his depletion allow-ances provision written into income tax law, underwhich tax deductions in the millions have beenallowed on oil production income.

Today, Senator Gore continues to report to hisWash* ~gton law office daily, driving to and fromhis apartment with Mrs . Gore . Both, however,have been ill recently, and are now, in the Senator'swords, "taking it easy." This did not preclude hisptesenece in the senate, where as a former mem-ber he enjoys floor privileges, throughout the recentSouthern filibuster on the Fair Employment Prac-

Commission . The Gore record for attendanceduring this debate was as good as that of anyfiber of the senate .`:_` Senator Gore is emphatic in support of the right

, 111ibuster, although he will admit it is a rightMimes abused .e"t'here should be at least one place in the

" he declares, "where a man can speak foras he feels it necessary in support of an

"We ManufactureCleanliness"

Wet Wash-Rough DryFlat Finish

NORMANAM LAUNDRY

1946

idea. The United States Senate is the only remain-ing place where that can be done ."Around the town : Law student Bill Leach, of

Bristow, and wife Edith Leach, '44ba, of Duncanspend most of their evenings with books ; Bill com-bines a full-time job as Congressman Lyle Boren'ssecretary with studies at George Washington Uni-versity. . . . Add to that list of former Oklahomanewspapermen Don Robinson of Oklahoma City,now on the Washington DAILY NEWS, and Her-man Schaden of the Muskogee DAILY PHOENIX,now a Washington STAR re-write man . . . . Also,Charles Alldredge, son of Interstate- CommerceCommissioner J . Haden Alldredge, now writingpublicity for Interior department, and MalvinaStephenson, '36ma, once of the DAILY OKLA-HOMAN, whose features are distributed by NorthAmerican Newspaper Alliance. . . One of thecapital's most traveled officers is Colonel CharlesMason of Nowata, formerly .on the Oklahoma Su-preme Court, whose Air Force duties have takenhim to China, Japan, Germany, and many other

- theaters ; Colonel and Mrs . Mason are enjoying hiscurrent Washington tour of duty together . .Vinita's Major General Wm . P . T . Hill, '326a, isone of Uncle Sam's biggest buyers ; as Quartermas-ter for the U . S . Marines he buys supplies andmaterial in tremendous quantities . . . A crowdestimated at 135,000 swarmed over Tidal Basinfor the first day's blooming of Washington's famedcherry blossom. . . . At least three former Oklahomanewspapermen were aboard the USS Appalachianas observers when the fime came to sail forBikini and the Pacific atom bomb test ; in additionto Jim Lucas of Scripps-Howard, Paul Lee cov-ered the story for Associated Press and Bob Butch-er, '24, was sending copy to Shreveport andHot Springs papers. . . . Okmulgee's Betty Smith,popular vice president of the Oklahoma State So-ciety, has recovered after a serious illness . . . . Salli-saw's Howard Bonham holds down an importantjob at national headquarters of the American RedCross; as assistant director he has charge of pub-licity and information .Hugh P . "Red" Crowe, '35ma, former German

instructor at Northeastern State Teachers Collegein Tahlequah, is now with the Civil Service Com-mission . . . . One congressman's office which isopen on weekends is that of Victor Wickershamof the seventh district, who has been burning mid-night oil mounting a counter-attack against formerRepresentative Jim McClintic ; Mr . Wickersham isjust as worried over the candidacy of MansurStewart of Mangum, third man in the race, whowas for six years secretary to the late CongressmanSam Massingale. . . . Reports from the seventh saythat Mr. Stewart, a veteran school man who en-listed as a GI in World War II and is aggressivelyliberal, is conducting a grassroots campaign andrates as better than a dark horse bet .The nation's capital lifted its hat during the

past week to a demonstration of western justicewhich featured in stellar roles two Oklahomans :

LINDSAY DRUG STOREJames S. Downing - The DruggistWhitman's and Pangburn's Candies

PRESCRIPTIONS OUR SPECIALTY116 E. Main

. ..Norman. . .

Phone 362

Federal Judge Bower Broaddus of Muskogee andAssistant Attorney General Holmes Baldridge,'256a, of Oklahoma City .

Recognition came in the wake of the anti-trusttrial just concluded before judge Broaddus, inwhich fines totalling more than 60 thousand dol-lars were assessed against 71 artificial limbs manu-facturers found guilty of conspiracy to controlprices on their products .Only two days were required for taking testi-

mony in the trial, and overall time for the pro-ceedings was approximately five days. Mr . Bald-ridge, in general charge of antitrust litigation forthe Department of Justice, could recall only oneantitrust trial of shorter duration .More than half of the fines assessed were sus-

pended for a year under terms of the sentences im-posed by judge Broaddus, who directed the de-fendants to cease practices charged in the indict-ment and to comply with fair trade practice rulescompiled in April by the Federal Trade Commis-sion .

Expeditious disposition of the artificial limbs caseadded luster to judicial prestige acquired by judgeBroaddus in earlier antitrust actions involving mo-tion picture distributors, and led to predictions theOklahoma jurist's legal star will continue to rise.Mr. Baldridge made his national reputation as

general counsel for FCC during the telephone ratehearings which began in 1935, and has directedantitrust litigation for justice Department since1938 . Next target for his hard-hitting attorneyswill be International Nickel and its American affili-ates, named by the government in a suit filed inNew York last week .

University Press Prints BiographyA. J. Hanna's biography of Napoleon's nephew,

the Prince of Naples, has been scheduled for fallpublication by the University Press . Entitled "APrince In Their Midst," it is the story of AchilleMurat who became an American citizen and wasa romantic figure on the American frontier.

Dr. Oliver E . Benson, University governmentprotessor, was a Naval Japanese interpreter andmilitary government officer at Truk and the Cen-tral Caroline islands during the war .

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(Editor's Note-A condensed reprint follows of astory that appeared in the February issue of theParadise of the Pacific magazine which is pub-lished monthly in Honolulu, Hawaii . It was writ-ten by one O.U . graduate about an interestingproject of another .)Back in 1918, in a Latin class of a Massachusetts

high school the students were discussing calendarchanges by the Roman Caesars . When one of thepupils asked his teacher if she didn't thing theirresults were confusing, she replied, "Do you thinkyou can make a better one?" He did .The former school boy is Willard E . Edwards,

'29eng, now a resident of Honolulu and a lieu-tenant commander in the U . S . Naval Reserve .Interest in his practical, perpetual equal-quartercalendar has been growing over the years and isnow before the .Congress of the United States as aconcurrent resolution and may be considered foradoption by the United Nations . . . .

Lt. Comdr . Edwards at one time was a pilot forthe Hawaiian Airlines, and it was while in Ha-waii that he explained his calendar to Joseph R.Farrington, the Territory of Hawaii's delegate toCongress . It was Delegate Farrington who intro-duced the idea in Washington as House Concur-rent Resolution 39 requesting the president to urge .at the peace conference the international adoptionof the Edwards Perpetual Calendar . A previousHawaiian resolution and the calendar were alsoprinted in the Congressional Record for Septem-ber 17, 1943 .The proposed method eliminates the difficulties

of the present calendar and offers many new ad-vantages . By setting the first day of the year as aday apart from any week or month, it permits divi-sion of the remaining 364 days into exactly 52weeks . The result is that the half-years becomeequal, the quarters become equal, and the monthsfall into regular rhythmical pattern of 30, 30, 31days. This allows the 91st day of each quarter to beused by all accountants and merchandisers as anextra day in which to catch up on their quarterlybookkeeping and stocktaking."New Year's Day," celebrated as a day apart, is a

holiday not associated with any week-day or monthdate . It may be abbreviated as N.Y.D . and is adefinite day all by itself, such as "New Year's Day,1945 ." The following becomes "Monday, January1, 1945," the second day of the new year and thefirst working day.The final effect of this and other changes are

even more far-reaching . The first month of eachquarter begins on Monday, the second month onWednesday and the third month on Friday withexact regularity through all future time. One hasonly to remember "30, 30, 31-Monday, Wednes-day, Friday" to be able to compute all future dateswithout a printed calendar .New Year's Day (a day apart from any week

or month) is the first day of each year, a holiday,followed by the 364-day fixed calendar shownabove .

Leap-Year Day (a second day apart) is observedduring leap years between June 31 and July 1 as thefirst day of the second half-year, a holiday .The two Year-Days are definitely named and

have a definite purpose . When considered apartfrom any week, they allow the calendar to becomefixed and perpetual .Some of the other advantages of the Edwards

Perpetual Calendar include the fact that Mondayis the first day of the week. This agrees with com-mon business practice and with our psychologicalconception of the "weekend" on the calendar aswell as in fact, and the seventh day thus becomesthe day of rest and worship in keeping with theBiblical Sabbath .

All anniversaries will fall on the same week-dayeach year. There is much sentimental value attachedto such an arrangement. It would work like this.Persons born on Saturday, February 11, wouldalways celebrate their birthday on Saturday, Feb-ruary 11 . This date would never fall on Friday orSunday or on any other day of the week .

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Washington was, actually born on Febiuary 11, butchanged his birthday celebration to the 22nd whena calendar change of 11 days was put into effectduring his lifetime . Under the Perpetual Calendar,Washington's birthday will always fall on Saturday,February 11, and Lincoln's on Sunday, February12, and Lieutenant Commander Edwards has madean original suggestion that Monday February 13,be celebrated as "President's Day," a nation-widelegal holiday in memory of all past presidents .

Those whose anniversaries fall in 30-day monthswill not be affected . Of the seven months whichnow have 31 days, March and December will re-main the same. The other five months will beshortened by one day, but Lieutenant CommanderEdwards has figured that approximately only 1 .37percent of the present population would have tocelebrate their birthday anniversaries one day later,as do those now who were born on February 29.in leap years, and of course, even this minor differ-ence would eventually vanish.

Easter may become a fixed date and possiblyanother three-day holiday period, as regular asChristmas, since Lieutenant Commander Edwardshas suggested that Monday, April 15, be celebratedas Easter Day, a universal legal holiday, followingEaster Sunday on April 14 . This latter date agreeswith a recommendation of the British Parliament,made in 1928, and with the original historic dateof the Easter period.

There is no so-called "unlucky" Friday-the-13thin the entire year in contrast to other proposedcalendars .

There are always 26 working-days in each monthand 65 school days in each quarter, excepting holi-days and vacations, and 91 days in any three-monthperiod. Production schedules would thus be mucheasier to plan and carry out, and accounting com-parisons and tax returns would be far more easilyfigured . . . . .

Lt. Comdr . Edwards does not expect to winunanimous approval overnight-any more thandid the idea of day-light saving or standard timezones . He says much of the difficulty in pushing his

calendar is not opposition but just natural humanindifference toward any change." He has studied this subject for many years, be-ginning in 1918 while still in high school whenthe proposed calendar was first devised, entirelyindependently, and in its present form . Whilefinancing college years, from the age of 16 byworking on shipboard as a radio operator, oppor-tunity was provided to study the calendars of otherlands . Interest continued throughout the years asan undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, at the University of Oklahoma andduring 15 years of professional engineering in theradio, communication and aviation industries.

After devising his calendar, he started trying toarouse interest in it. . . . Lt. Comdr . Edwards canpull endorsements from his brief-case all day long.He has clippings and letters from everywhere . Heeven has the blessing of some calendar printingfirms who say the Edwards Perpetual Calendarwould not hurt their business in the slightest asnewly-printed calendars are always desirable eachyear .

Major C. W. Giffin Gets DegreeMaj . Charles W . Giffin, '46journ, Oklahoma

City, was awarded his degree on July 30, after leav-ing the University in 1941 with nearly all hisacademic requirements completed at that time .After entering the Army in March, 1942, MajorGiffin was commissioned and assigned to the AirForces Technical Training Films Production de-partment at Lowry Field, Denver, Colorado .

Last March Major Giffin flew to Bikini wherehe was assigned to a photographic unit for theatomic bomb tests .

While at the University he served as editor ofthe Covered Wagon and as campus photographer .Major Giffin has also worked as a reporter for theLawton Morning Press and the Daily Oklahoman,as staff writer for the WKY news bureau in Okla-homa City and as photographer for the St . John'sCamps, Delafield, Wisconsin, and Securities Ex-change Commission, Washington, D. C .

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