OKLAHOMA PLANNING AND RESOURCES BOARD OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA

Anniversary Heralds Fifth Year for B. F. Goodrich Co. The B. F. Goodrich company's mammoth tire manufacturing plant in Miami, Oklahoma, celebrated it's fifth anniversary on February 25. Its outstanding production record since operations started on February 25, 1945, ranks the Tri-State plant as one of the leading industries in the nation. Walter E. Head , plant manager, has disclosed that more than 10.nally equipped to produce 4,500 700,000 tires and a corresponding tires and a similar number of tubes number of tubes were produced daily. That capacity was reached during the five-year period, with in January, 1946. An 8.500-unit the employees doing the work daily capacity was reached by Ocdrawing in excess of $14,250,000 tober, 1946, and 11.000 units by in salaries and wages. September, 1947 . The manager said that wages It is estimated that 1950 proand salaries for the 1.135 employ- duction will appr52..xiITI ~te 3..1 0_85,-ees' "will e£ceed$4,-0-OU-;UOO this 000 tire units. year, a considerable gain over the An expansion in January. this 1949 figure. year, represented 14,000 square The plant schedule at this time feet of floor space to relieve concalls for the production of passen- gested conditions in the manufacger automobile, truck and bus, turing area in addition to some farm tractors and farm implement 200.000 square feet of warehouse tires. finished products. Head pointed 0 u t t hat more than 95 per cent of all tractor tires made by the B. F. Goodrich company are produced in the Miami July 4th Boat Races plant, as well as a large part of the Are Set For Texoma farm . service front tires. The Oklahoma Boat Racing asThree of the more popular sizes of tubeless tires, a new develop- sociation has pledged its full supment in the rubber industry and port to the July 4 water races at Catfish Bay. Ralph Beckham. comnot yet available to more than 35 per cent of the public, also are be- modore of the Texoma Boat Racing association, has announced. ing manufactured at the plant. This huge industry has made Sanctioning was given at the Miami of world-wide importance. annual meet of the state organizaTires and tubes manufactured in tion in Oklahoma City. Miami are shipped to every state in "I thing we can expect at least the union and to almost every civ50 drivers from this state and an ilized country in the world. equal number from Texas, which Head said requirements of the sanctioned' our race at a' meeting company are in many ways larger last month," Beckham said. than those demanded to operate a The lid has been lifted from a city. Today, more than 2,930." souped up" motors for the fifth 000 kilowatt hours of electricity, 37.100,000 cubic feet of gas and annual race, a move to entice some 23,000,000 gallons of water each of the fastest entries in any boat race in the Southwest this coming month. season . The Miami plant's five-year proThe local show will be jointly duction r e cor d represents more than 800 million pounds of mate- sponsored by the Texoma Boat rial. Every pound of 200.000 racing aSSOciation and the Ameritons of products shipped from the can Legion of Durant. Miami unit had to be received in In 1948 there were approxisome form of raw material. Consequently. each pound of finished mately 11,000 forest and range goods produced represents two or fires in Oklahoma. more pounds to the transportation industry. Oklahoma has 10.345.000 Head said the plan twas origi- acres of forests.

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New Sallisaw Glass Plant In Operation The Sallisaw Glass Plant began producing in March, when the furnaces were fired up for the first time and workers began turning out experimental articles, according to Guy E. Etoy. secretary-manager of the Sallisaw chamber of commerce. William F. Wagner and W. F. Brown. operators. are employing ten persons at the present time and immediate expansion is planned. Among the first glass products produced were small novelty lamp chimneys. They are blown into a mold by Wagner two at a time, placed in the nealing tank for tempering and are cut, ground and sand- blasted after cooling. Two furnaces are available, one for clear glass and one for opal glass.

Park Superintendent Appointed For Osage Bryce B. Wilde has been named new superintendent of Osage Hills State Park, replacing Hugh Haugherty, according to R . E. (Dick) Chiles. director of the division of state parks in the Planning and Resources board at the state capitol. Wilde was born in Okmulgee and schooled in Oklahoma, and served as a chief petty officer in the navy during the war. specializing in deep sea diving and rescue operations. He has taken an active interest in 4-H work and Boy Scout activities. Mrs. Wilde will assist her husband in his park duties. There are saw m ills in Oklahoma that are equipped to cut over 80.000 board feet of lumber a day.

This beautiful scenic picture was found by Ray Jacoby. Oklahoma City commercial photographer. after he reached the top of Mount Scott, near Lawton, in Comanche county . . The mountain offers a splendid vantage point for sightseers. and the country for miles around can be seen.

Gala Dedicat:ion Set: For May 2 Dedication of Lake Murray's magnificent new resort lodge and cabin area built at a cost of $850,000 - will be held May 2. The preten tious improvement program within Lake Murray State Park, just south of Ardmore, has hurled the area into the position of being the southwest's most inviting vacationland. Both the city of Ardmore and the Oklahoma Planning and Resources Board are planning a colorful program for the official dedication . Thousands of visitors are expected to attend. Governor Turner and his party will be there , as well as other high state officials and civic leaders from Ardmore. The event will rate national radio publicity the day before the dedication when the couple to be married on May I on the ABC radio feature "Bride and Groom," will be assigned to the luxurious new lodge for a week's honeymoon.

WALL OF GLASS - Patrons of the luxurious Lake Murray resort lodge will have an excellent vantage point of the beautiful lake from either the inside or the outside of the structure. The above picture shows the glassed-in east side of the structure and the outside terrace.

The dedicatory ceremonies will begin at 2 p .m. and a round of activity will continue and be climaxed with a floor s how and and dance that night. The new lodge and cabins were unofficially opened to the public on March 1. Since that time facilities there have been swamped by thousands of persons. The large lodge dining room overlooking the lake already has established itself as a drawing attraction. The crowds t hat h a v e made early visits to the park are encouraging to members of the state planning board who sponsored the project as a self-liquidating bond issue, the first of its kind ever issued in Oklahoma. Clarence Burch, board chairman, said success of the Lake Murray project will be a determining factor in considering similar improvements in other state-controlled parks.

CABIN INTERIOR - The 44 new cabins nestled around the lodge ore of the latest modernistic design. The living rooms and bedrooms are made for comfort and the striking furnishings promote relaxotion. Above is an interior picture of a cabin bedroom.

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Device To Cut Timber Profitable To Youth Budget balancers in charge of the nation's finances might well take a page from the record book of 18-year-old Jerry Hope, Barnsdall. Faced with the probkm of clearing black jack timber from 225 acres of farm land to improve the pastures, Jerry was convinced he could beat the $IO-an-acrefigure that was quoted for the job. With some scrap metal picked up around Barnsdall oil field, a 3 -horsepower gasoline motor given him by a neighbor and a few other parts, Jerry built a power saw that zips through the small but dense growth of timber at the Tate of 2 acres a day in the heaviest areas. The entire outfit cost less than $45. Jerry is outstanding in Osage county 4-H work and takes most of the responsibility for the family farm. He applies the newest improvements, and in the last four years has chalked up a profit of $8,676.

Construction Work On Museum Begun Construction work has begun on the No Man's Land Historical Museum, located on the Panhandle A. ~ M. College campus at Goodwell. It is scheduled to be completed within five months. The museum will contain display rooms for biology, art, anthropology, geology and pioneer history of the area. It will contain a library for historical documents and newspapers of the region, an office, an assembly. room, workshop and a storage room. Construction of the building climaxes a concerted effort to obtain housing for the museum's displays. The plans began more than five years ago under sponsorship of the No Man's Land Historical Society. It was made possible through donations from residents of the panhandle and adjacent regions and by a legislative appropriation of $30,000 to the Oklahoma Planning and Resources board. Construction contract was a warded to the Baker Construction Co. of Guymon.

KRAFT'S NEW WAREHOUSE-The above picture shows the new $187,000 distribution warehouse constructed by Kraft Foods Company just north of the capitol building in Oklahoma City. The new facility contains 20,000 squore feet of floor space.

Kraft Foods Company Completes Warehouse Kraft Foods Company has announced completion of its new distribution warehouse in Oklahoma City, just north of the Capitol building on Lincoln boulevard. The building is constructed in the Santa Fe industrial district and is the fifth industrial type building to be erected in this 190 -acre business tract. The plant contains 20,000 square feet of floor space which is devoted to office facilities, dry

storage and refrigerated storage facilities, truck loading docks and railroad car docks. The building is capable of handling all of Kraft Foods products which are distributed from this point to practically all parts of Oklahoma. The building cost approximately $187,000. It is anticipated that the 20,000 square foot unit will be expanded as need justifies until the maximum square footage of 50,000 square feet is reached.

Fire Prevention Clubs Help 'In Forest Area Fire chiefs and asSistant fire chiefs were elected for nineteen new forest fire prevention clubs organized since the first of the year in Pittsburg and Hughes counties near Calvin, Stuart and Arpaler, making a total of forty-five clubs operating in the area. A series of meetings was held

to stimulate and maintain interest and the chiefs made a concerted drive for new members since each volunteer group must have at least ten members in order to receive tools and boxes. There are twenty-one new clubs in Cherokee, Sequoyah and Adair counties. These groups are doing a very good job of preventing and suppressing fires within the community in which they are located.

NEW TEXOMA RESORT AVAILABLE TO PUBLIC

SEAMPRUFE PAYROLL AT HALF-MILLION MARK

Another resort to take care of Lake Texoma visi tors has been provided with the opening of J. D. ( Jeff) Haley's new Lakeside Ca bins, due south of Lebanon. Nine ca bins are already constructed and others are underway. Each is a complete unit to accommodate four persons. Cooking facilities are provided in each cabin and new , modernistic furniture is featured. A completely equipped playground for children is available .

Stepped up production at the McAlester plant of Seamprufe, Inc., during the last two months of 1949 meant turning out women's slips at an average clip of one every four seconds-a rate which has resulted in a half-million dollar annual pa yroll. This information was revealed in December by Don Miller, plant manager. The actual payroll total for the year exceeded by $100,000 the figure anticipated earlier, Miller said .

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Forestry Director Asks Civilian Help In Fire Prevention

PLASTIC FIBERGLASS IS NEW ADDITION TO TULSA

Don Stauffer, director of the division of forestry of the state planning board, today urged everyone to do his part in preventing fires in the fields, pastures and timberlands of Oklahoma.

Tulsa gained a new $500,000 industry recently when a new plastic fiberglass pipe manufacturing plant made its headquarters there. Decision to establish the plant

He pointed out that when fields are burned, the material necessary to make humus is destroyed, the fields crust over quicker, will not absorb as much water, and erosions will be more severe. He said that land properly cared for and not burned is capable of producing more per acre, thereby increasing production. Experiments have shown, he added, that unburned pastures will produce more feed and will carry more stock for a longer period than will burned pastures of similar size. Fire destroys the better grasses and weeds and the poorer grasses take their place, he added . Stauffer s tat edt hat fire kills young trees, thus preventing the starting of future crops. He said that fire also kills trees not ready for harvesting or otherwise damages them so that they will produce poorer quality products and bring lower prices to the grower. The woodlands, he add ed, must be cared for so they will be able to suppl y future needs.

Bulldozers Wor king On Private Co.'s Dam Bulldozers are at work moving the dirt from the construction of the dam for a private lake for Allied Materials corporation in Stroud. The dam for the new lake will be 150 feet long and 50 feet high, impounding the drainage waters from more than 200 acres. When filled, the lake will be approxirna tel y 40 feet in depth and a quarter of a mile in length. Walton Moore, superintendent of the Allied plant in Stroud says that the lake is being built to solve the future water requirements of the plant.

in Tulsa was announced by H. D. Boggs, Omaha, Neb., inventor of the pipe ; Perrault Brothers of Tulsa, pipe line equipment manufacturers which will produce and distribute the product on an exclusive basis, and Harold Wright, manager of the Tulsa chamber of commerce's industrial division, who assisted in the negotiations. Ainslie and Lew i s Perrault, prominent Tulsans, comprise the Perrault firm, with main offices located on north Boston avenue. Search for a site for the new enterprise is now being made. The new plant is expected to be 111 opera-

tion within the next six to eight months. Boggs has a number of patents on the new type of pipe. He will receive a royalty on all plastic pipe produced and sold by the Perraults. It is expected that 1,500,000 feet of pipe will be turned out annually. Initial production will be approximately 5,000 feet daily. Boggs contends the plastic pipe is practically as strong as its steel counterpart. It is lighter, however, and not subject to corrosion. Principal use will be for petroleum and industrial needs. · It will be made in 20-foot lengths in both 3.4 and 10-inch sizes. Trade name of the pipe will be Lami-Rock pipe. It has fittings and threads similar to iron and steel products, and it will be competitive in price with the steel product.

WESTERN COWBOY DUDS PROVE TO BE PROFITABLE Elaine Bougio, five yea r old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Bougio, Tulsa, is the fanciest cowgirl in these hyar parts, pardner, and all because her parents took up painting western clothes to while away the long winter evenings. The youngster's parents have earned the reputation of producing Tulsa's most colorful cowboy clothes. They have turned their ability to hand-paint ties and shirts and other articles of apparel into a part-time business that has square dancers and other fancy western dressers in a dither. Chief feature of the fad is that folks who buy the hand-painted clothes can choose their own deco rations.

Matching outfits for husband and wife as well as portraits of buyer's favorite "gal" are turned out by the Bougios in their home studio. "Of course, we like to do gag pictures for square dancers best," Bougio explained, "because they are more fun. But the regular western steer or cowboy on his pony are fun, too." The couple divides work so orders are quickly filled. Mrs. Bougios does portraits and flowers, while her husband leans toward the western scenes and Indians. They began painting only three years ago and decided to try to sell some of it after they won 11 ribbons in the last Tulsa state fair .

Tonkawa Is New Site For Co-Op Elevator

ture, reaching 150 feet, with 14 storage tanks , each towering 120 feet, and a head house which will be located at the north end of the building.

Construction is underway at Tonkawa on a new 350,000 bushel grain storage elevator, designed to relieve pressure on the three existing elevators in rhat area. It will be a steel-concrete struc-

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The new elevator belongs to the local Farmer's Cooperative and is being constructed at an estimated cost of $130,000 .

GETTING THE JOB DONE With each issue of RESOURCEFUL OKLAHOMA we will present In this space a map, chart, table or other data which we believe will help you zn your work.

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COMPACT GROUP M~ETS TO PUSH DEV~LOPMENT The first steD toward formation of an interstate compact for the purpose of presenting a balanced program of soil. water and resource development in Oklahoma and adjacent states was accomplished in March in Oklahoma City. A ttending were: D. D. Terry and Paul M . Zander. Little Rock, been approved and everybody is Arkansas : H. B. Myers, Baton satisfied . A process of treating rivers one Rouge, Louisiana: E. V. Spence , Austin, Texas: Col. F. J . Wilson, at a time was emphasized by Ardmore , and Clarence Burch, Ira Myers. He said it would be simpC. Husky and Eugene E. Zeller. ler to do it that way , and that Oklahoma City. federal agencies are best qualified In a letter calling the meeting to design and construct projects Governor Turner said: "I am conthat would solve Louisiana's probvinced that the conservation and lems. He added, however, that proper development of our soil and state representatives, by virtue of water resources is one of the most their m 0 r e intimate knowledge, important subjects that my state come closer to the people and know has on its agenda . Word of what better what the state's problems is being done in the neighboring are. He felt that under compacts states is proof that the thinking of there would be more representation all of us follows the same pattern. in determining what plan should I have been greatly disturbed by be developed and adopted. the campaign to create an authority Terry of Arkansas pointed out in our river basins. that people are beginning to realize "From my own experience, I that the g rea t consumption of know of the successful operation of water is becoming a tremendous the Interstate Oil Compact Com- problem over the nation and is mission, and have, therefore , the more and more creating a primary utmost confidence in the compact problem of conservation in the method as a most useful tool in states. settling interstate matters." While no definite decision was Further discussion of the proreached, a majority of the repreposed compact system will be held sentatives indicated that a properly at another meeting of the group conceived compact could be bene- April 9, in Shreveport. ficial and would return control of resource development to the states, Home Industry Pays without interfering with congressional groups or federal agencies Woman Big Dividends engaged in carrying out respective There are many instances where programs. large industries grew from a meaColonel Wilson declared that in the solution of our own soil and ger start in a basement or back water problems we are constantly porch of a home. confronted with the need for some overall power that will direct the energies of the several states in order to arrive at a mutual decision and at the same time protect our resources for future generations. He stressed the need for a compact that is broad in scope since it is bound to end up as a trading proposition, with every ~tate having to make some concessIOns. Colonel Spence stated that Texas has an 80 million dollar project for improvement on the South Canadian, but that no money is to be appropriated until a compact has

Household industries are being found all 0 v e r Oklahoma, and many of them are paying dividends. One of the newest in the state is that of Mrs. Lillian Neill. Chickasha, whose pottery exhibit at the 1949 state fair drew recognifon. Mrs. Neill's interests are diversified. After attending a pottery school 22 months ago in Los Angeles, she is now turning out bowls and plates of terra cotta clay, wall vases, plates, glasses and specialties of ceramic white clay, hand painted china dishes and copper etchings.

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NEW ORGANIZATION TO MANUFACTURE MANY TYPE BOXES Assembly line production of paper boxes of every shape, size and description will soon be in operation in Tulsa at a new manufacturing plant now under construction. Carl R. Korff, organizer of the new company, announced the new plant, to be known as the Tu-Ok Paper Box Manufacturing Co ., will specialize in the production of gift boxes, rigid boxes, fibre boxes, folding boxes and corrugated cartons. He said the plant and machinery will represent an investment of approximately $99,000. About 50 employees will be on the payroll when the plant is in full production. Decision to organize the new company was made when Korff discovered there was a good market in the area for making boxes outside the corrugated field. Korff formerly was in the box manufacturing business b e for e moving to Tulsa. Besides Korff, who is president of the com pan y, other officers are: Howard W. Allred, vice-president: B I a n c h e 0 t t, secretary - treasurer. and C. R. Nixon, Tulsa attorney, member of the board.

Frigidaire Opens Shop To Service Muskogee One of Muskogee's newest business concerns is the Frigidaire Sales and Service, according to Paul A. Bruner. secretary-manager of the Muskogee Chamber of Commerce. The firm was opened in a building formerly occupied by a radio shop, with John C. Ball. branch manager of the Refrigeration Sales and Engineering Company, Inc., of Oklahoma City, in charge. Service will be provided for the five counties of Muskogee, Adair. Cherokee, Haskell and McIntosh. Lumbering and wood processing ranks sixth among Oklahoma industries other than general agriculture. PREVENT FIRESKEEP OKLAHOMA GREEN

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EARLY CRITICISM FAILS TO HALT REDA SUCCESS Some experts in the field of aerodynamics contend that a bumblebee can't fly. Aero-dynamically, they say, he's built wrong. With his big body and small wing spread, it's impossible for him to take off. But the bumble-bee doesn't know about aero-dynamics. So, he flies. Experts in the field of engineering a long time ago told Armais Arutunoff of Bartlesville that his Reda pump wouldn't work. It just wasn't possible, they said, because it wasn't built right from an engineering standpoint. Finally, after man y years of worrying with the experts and others. some people in Bartlesville

believed the p u m p would work and so they put in with the Russian-born inventor to manufacture the Reda pump for the oil industry. Today, notwithstanding early reverses, Reda pumps are all over the world, wherever oil is found. They work ... perfectly. March saw the celebration of twenty years in the pump business for Arutunoff, and it is still reported to be the only submersible centrifugal electrical oil well pump. The company, a sprawling industrial enterprise covering eight an one-half acres of ground, with 115,000 feet of working floor space, started March 18, 1930 in a 50 by 125 foot building located on the present site .

Tulsa Is Selected By Heating System Firm

GRDA To Plan National Campaign For Industry

The Holland Furance Company of Holland, Michigan, world's largest installer of home heating systems, has established a factory branch in Tulsa with M. S. Dayton, for many years associated with the organization, as branch manager. Established 50 years ago, the Holland company is one of the oldest organizations of its kind in the country with an established national reputation for installing and servicing its equipment. So sensitive is the company to maintaining its established reputation for satisfied furnace service that its president writes a personal letter to each customer once a year to make sure he is satisfied in every detail with furnace performance. Dayton says the Tulsa Holland headquarters is a direct factory

A $12,000 national advertising campaign for 1950 to promote location of industrial plants in northeastern Oklahoma has been authorized by the Grand River Dam Authority. Francis Paris, G R D A general manager, said approximately $8, 000 would go for advertising in trade and business publications and the remainder for brochures pointing out favorable industrial factors in that section. He said the material will stress desirability 0 flo cat i n g n ear GRDA's Choteau plant, from which low-cost power, water, process steam and other services are available. branch, which means that the purchaser of a Holland furnace deals directl y with the factory.

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The redbud (cercis canadensis) is a small tree which occurs naturally under taller trees, on the borders of fields, on hillsides or in valleys throughout Oklahoma as_ far west as Woodward county. The leaves are heart-shaped and have a smooth edge . They are 3 -5 inches long and have wide glossy leaves in summer and are bright yellow in the fall.

The very showy, bright purplish-red flowers are pea-shaped and 0 c cur in clusters along the twigs. The flowers appear in early spring before the leaves. The fruit is an oblong, flattehed '-*"';"~ pod containing several seeds. . ':::r- . The wood is of no commercial value but the tree is highly prized as an ornament.

Shawnee Chosen As Site For Davis Broom Plant Shawnee will soon be the new home of the Price Broom factory . Paris Price, manager of the plant, said he is moving to Shawnee from Davis because "the opportunities are larger there." The broom plant has been operated in Davis since 1919 when it was established by C. L. Price t1 Sons. Albert Leach, Holdenville, became a partner last November.