1st Snow Fall In San Juan Mtns

Yahoo! Fantasy Football addicts brought out other antics besides football this weekend. Sadie was a victim of one of those antics... Notice green toy turtle perched on Sadie's head in the photo on the right.

As a cold front comes down into the San Juan Mountains, November 4, 2008, at around 11 p.m. we found the first snow fall for the San Juan mountains. AND... ever since Wednesday we have been seeing lots of deer and bucks coming down and grazing on the plumps of green grass in our front and back yards. As seen in the photo on the left. You can view the deer & bucks grazing in our front and backyard over at OkieLegacy-YouTube

We hear in one of the local Northwest Oklahoma newspapers that, “The Oklahoman is discontinuing home delivery and single copy sales in the Alva area, and all of northwest Oklahoma as of December 1st.”

AND... one of our readers reports: "Also, the Perry Daily Journal is one of four Oklahoma newspapers to be featured on-line FREE temporarily. The other three are The Daily Oklahoman, The Tulsa World, and the Weatherford paper.

You might also notice that the "Mailbag" section has been renamed "Okie Memories."

We are still including your mail and memories in our "OkieLegacy Ezine." We just renamed it "Okie Memories." We would love for you to keep sending us your Okie memories to include in the OkieLegacy. AND... It doesn't have to be about Oklahoma memories. It can be about your genealogy and your history of your heritage, whatever State your ancestors came from.
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1948 - Snow Storm - NW Oklahoma

The Oklahoman, dated Feb. 12, 1948, page 21, had the following headlines: "High Drifts Trap Motorists in Panhandle, Ice Glazes Southwest."- Sub-headlines read: "Many Northwest Roads Closed."

About two weeks (actually, 13 days) before this NW Okie's birth, a howling blizzard was piling snow and closing roads in northwest Oklahoma. Gene and Vada Paris McGill and the two oldest daughters were living on their Farm/Ranch, 10 miles North of Waynoka, Oklahoma, on SH 14 when their 3rd daughter and younger sister, Linda Kay, was born February 25, 1948.

Feb. 12, 1948 -- The entire state shivered on that date in mid-February 1948. The weatherman forecasted that the mercury would reach lows of low 20 to 15 degrees in the southeast.

At 4 p.m. Wednesday, drifting snow was accumulating in the vicinity of Boise City. All routes were closed. Schools were closed with the temperature reporting to be one degree above zero.

Ed O'Dell, division engineer at Buffalo, reported 10 cars, with occupants on the highways in the Panhandle.

Snow plows cleared the roads and helped stranded motorists get started again or helped them find shelter in nearby farm houses.

Many of those trapped, included 10 children, who were suffering from exposure to the extreme cold, even though they had stayed in their cars.

Snow in the Oklahoma Panhandle, was blown by high winds, filled ditches level with the roads, spilled over the top of snow fences, and piled drifts in places more than four feet deep from Gate in the east part of Beaver county to the New Mexico border.

One Car Almost Covered... O'Dell reported that one of the cars trapped by the blinding snow was almost completed covered by drifts when it was found by the road crews.

Three cars were found between Hardesty and Guymon on SH 3. There were 10 people in the cars, four of them children, all suffering from the cold.

Seven cars were located between Gate and Forgan, containing 14 people, six of them children. O'Dell reported the crews had no difficulty in getting them started again or finding shelter for them.

State highway No. 3 had become closed. Others reported closed by 3 p.m. included SH 15 in Ellis county, and US 60 from Arnett to the Texas line.

US 66 Is Dangerous... All roads west of El Reno and south of Clinton were reported in bad shape." -- The Oklahoman, dated Feb. 12, 1948, page 21
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1945 - Nazis Flee Alva POW Camp

Three Nazis Flee at Alva -- "Escape of three German prisoners of war Thursday from the Alva internment camp, where a German soldier was shot and killed while attempting escape Thursday, was announced Friday by Kenneth Logan, special agent in charge of the Oklahoma City FBI office.

Logan said the prisoners escaped some time between 10;30 and 11 p.m. Thursday and were not known to be armed.

Col. Murray Gibbons, commander of the Alva prisoner of war camp, said the prisoner, Emil Minotti, was shot and killed there Thursday night. Sporadic machine gun fire was heard in the city of Alva Thursday night from the direction of the compound as well as the sound of alarm sirens, but the camp commander refused to comment on reports of a major disturbance among camp prisoners.

The FBI report said the escaped German war prisoners are Karl Heinz Zigann 22, five feet 11 inches, 188 pounds, brown eyes, dark blond hair, ruddy complexion; Max Wolff, 21, five feet seven inches, 162 pounds, blue eyes, blond hair, light complexion, with a bullet wound in his left leg, and Everhard Wilms, 27, five feet 10 inches, 160 pounds, blue eyes, dark brown hair, dark complexion.

Logan said since one of the group escaped in April and was apprehended in Kansas, it is believed the man may be headed in the same direction.

The Germans are assumed to be dressed in prisoner of war clothing, blue denim, Logan said. Wolff and Wilms are known to speak some English.

The escape and shooting Thursday came less than two days after two young German officers had been caught attempting to escape at Alva." -- The Oklahoman, dated July 8, 1944, page 5
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2009 Waynoka Collectors Calendar

"Waynoka 2009 Collectors Calendar For Sale -- The Waynoka Historical Society has been publishing calendars since about 1989, missing only one or two years, and the Society has once again gone to its collection of photographs for a variety of subjects for the 2009 calendar.

The cover features a 1910 color postcard of the Santa Fe Reading Room that was built near Broadway Crossing for a home-away-from-home for the many train crews that worked into Waynoka every day. The two-story building was surrounded by trees, vines, hedges, and flowers. The photos for each month include the State Championship Basketball Team in 1959, coached by Tom Treece, construction of the turntable at the Santa Fe Roundhouse in 1908, a circa 1920 photo of a rock cairn in Cheyenne Valley, Dr. E.P. Clapper and the hospital which bore his name, the senior class of 1918 on a hay ride, a group at the mouth of a bat cave southwest of the Cimarron River, the Waynoka Ice Cream Factory, a visitor from Canada at the TAT Airport northeast of Waynoka in 1929-30, mining for diamonds in 1908 in the rail yard area, Charles H. Hink and his horse-drawn dray making a delivery in downtown Waynoka in 1912, a large downtown rally on Missouri Street in 1912, and a 1902 Congregational Church women's sextet accompanied on the piano by the church's first minister.

Cost of a calendar is $7.95 plus $.71 tax. For mail orders, add $1.50. Add $.50 for each additional calendar mailed to a single address. Send orders to Museum Gift Store, PO Box 193, Waynoka OK 73860. They can also be purchased at the Gift Shop at the Harvey House or the Woods County Enterprise." -- Sandie Olson - Email: sandie.olson@gmail.com
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Will Rogers In Waynoka, Oct. 30, 1929

"CAPTION: Will Rogers (1879-1935) penned a newspaper column that is a timely topic for today. He is shown standing next to a tri-motor airplane.

Dateline: October 30, 1929, Waynoka Okla. Will Rogers and the Wall Street Collapse -- Will Rogers, who was one of America's best loved and most widely read newspaper columnists, was in Waynoka on October 30, 1929. He was traveling coast to coast on the Transcontinental Air Transport air-rail service, and landed at the TAT Airport northeast of Waynoka. In his newspaper column that day, he reflected on the collapse of Wall Street.

"What does the sensational collapse of Wall Street mean? Nothing. Why, if the cows of this country failed to come up and get milked one night it would be more of a panic than if Morgan and Lamont had never held a meeting. Why, an old sow and a litter of pigs make more people a living than all the steel and Geneal Motors stock combined. Why, the whole 120,000,000 of us are more dependent on the cackling of a hen than if the Stock Exchange was turned into a night club.

"And New Yorkers call them rubes." - from the Autobiography of Will Rogers. Rogers may have been inspired by the farms that he passed in the Rose Valley community on his way to dinner at the Harvey House before an overnight train ride to Clovis, New Mexico.

Incidently, Will Rogers was born in the Cherokee Nation on election day, November 4, 1879." -- Sandie
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NWOSU: Horses & Cattle Picture

"Linda, We must have been standing near to each other on Sat. Your picture of the NWOSU Rodeo Club horses and cattle looks like it was taken on the north side of the square across from the theater. That is where I was standing. Anyway, did you see that the "clump" of horses were herding rodeo calves? Glad you got back home okay and had no bad weather enroute. Note the horns just behind the horses in front. I didn't see them at the time but my wife pointed them out to me after the parade. I cropped my larger photo." -- Jim Bradley
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NWOSU: Mounted Cadre

"The mounted cadre traditionally rides at the end of the parade because some marching bands, whose members are required to look straight ahead, wear white shoes." -- Al
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Florence (Louthan) Paris Deceased

"Linda, I don't know if you knew that my mom went to heaven on Oct 14, 2008. She was in the Bass Hospital at Enid. I will miss her greatly as I called her nearly every day. I thought you would like to know." -- Cousin Janice (Paris) Fulbright

Florence (Louthan) Paris Obituary:
Florence T. (Louthan) Paris was born Dec. 2, 1915, near Chester, Okla. She died Oct. 14, 2008, at Integris Bass Baptist Health Center in Enid at the age of 92 years. Florence T. Louthan married Leslie Martin Paris (born Dec. 2, 1910, died July 13, 1982) 24 Dec. 1935, Chester,Major Co., OK. Florence & Leslie Paris had three children: Janice, Margaret and Jimmy.

Florence T. (Louthan) Paris was a resident of Chester, OK for most of her life, except for a brief time when she lived at Eudora and Haviland, Kansas. Florence was a cook. This Obit info appeared in The Pratt Tribune; Publication Date: 17 Oct 2008; Publication Place: Pratt , KS , US. More details of Florence & Leslie Paris can be found at Paris Genealogy and search for "Leslie Martin Paris."
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Oklahoma Gas Prices

Nov. 4, 2008 -- The most expensive regular gasoline in Perry today (Sinclair again) was at $2.00.9 while the other stations (probably all of them) was just a penny cheaper at $1.99.9!

Nov. 8, 2008 -- Yesterday (Friday, Nov. 7) Conoco (and probably most others) dropped the prices again. Now the price of a gallon of regular is at $1.93.9 (and it may even be less tomorrow)! Also, the Perry Daily Journal is one of four Oklahoma newspapers to be featured on-line FREE temporarily. The other three are The Daily Oklahoman (from OKCity), The Tulsa World, and the Weatherford paper (I don't recall its name).

This way, folks can see our paper world-wide (just like yours). I think it will be free for about a month, and they'll also announce what the subscription price will be to continue after this 'trial' period." -- Roy K.
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WWII Heroes & Movie Stars

I believe that this list missed a couple (perhaps more) but the one British actor who I remember (I think he was killed while flying for the R.A.F., perhaps in a "Spitfire") was the number two male lead in "Gone With The Wind", Leslie Howard. And then there was Oklahoma's own Dale Robertson who was 'discovered' by a Hollywood agent who saw his photo (in uniform) on display in a California photography shop.

I knew this because his brothers-in-law and the rest of his in-laws were my next-door neighbors and I sat with them in the Ritz Theatre in Britton to see his very first performance (as "Billy The Kid") in a Randolph Scott western. Later, Dale bought one of "Lassies" pups (after it had appeared in a "Lassie" movie) and gave it to the boys, where they raised it on the family farm (just west of Lake Hefner) where they later moved when their dad retired as 'line chief' from South-Western Bell.

This page lists but a few, but from this group of only 18 men came over 70 medals in honor of their valor, spanning from Bronze Stars, Silver Stars, Distinguish Service Cross', Purple Hearts and one Congressional Medal of Honor.

Real Hollywood Heroes: Most of these brave men have since passed on.
Alec Guinness (Star Wars) operated a British Royal Navy landing craft on D-Day.

James Doohan ("Scotty" on Star Trek) landed in Normandy with the U. S. Army on D-Day.

Donald Pleasance (The Great Escape) really was an R. A. F. Pilot who was shot down, held prisoner and tortured by the Germans.

David Niven was a Sandhurst graduate and Lt. Colonel of the British Commandos in Normandy.

James Stewart Entered the Army Air Force as a private and worked his way to the rank of Colonel. During World War II, Stewart served as a bomber pilot, his service record crediting him with leading more than 20 missions over Germany, and taking part in hundreds of air strikes during his tour of duty. Stewart earned the Air Medal, the Distinguished Flying Cross, France's Croix de Guerre, and 7 Battle Stars during World War II. In peace time, Stewart continued to be an active member of the Air Force as a reservist, reaching the rank of Brigadier General before retiring in the late 1950s.

Clark Gable (Mega-Movie Star when war broke out) Although he was beyond the draft age at the time the U.S. Entered WW II, Clark Gable enlisted as a private in the AAF on Aug. 12, 1942 at Los Angeles. He attended the Officers' Candidate School at Miami Beach , Fla. And graduated as a second lieutenant on Oct. 28, 1942. He then attended aerial gunnery school and in Feb. 1943 he was assigned to the 351st Bomb Group at Polebrook where flew operational missions over Europe in B-17s. Capt. Gable returned to the U.S. In Oct. 1943 and was relieved from active duty as a major on Jun. 12, 1944 at his own request, since he was over-age for combat.

Charlton Heston was an Army Air Corps Sergeant in Kodiak.

Ernest Borgnine was a U. S. Navy Gunners Mate 1935-1945.

Charles Durning was a U. S. Army Ranger at Normandy earning a Silver Star and awarded the Purple Heart.

Charles Bronson was a tail gunner in the Army Air Corps, more specifically on B-29's in the 20th Air Force out of Guam, Tinian, and Saipan.

George C. Scott was a decorated U. S. Marine.

Eddie Albert (Green Acres TV) was awarded a Bronze Star for his heroic action as a U. S. Naval officer aiding Marines at the horrific battle on the island of Tarawa in the Pacific Nov. 1943.

Brian Keith served as a U.S. Marine rear gunner in several actions against the Japanese on Rabal in the Pacific.

Lee Marvin was a U.S. Marine on Saipan during the Marianas campaign when he was wounded earning the Purple Heart.

John Russell: I n 1942, he enlisted in the Marine Corps where he received a battlefield commission and was wounded and highly decorated for valor at Guadalcanal.

Robert Ryan was a U. S. Marine who served with the O. S. S. in Yugoslavia.

Tyrone Power (an established movie star when Pearl Harbor was bombed) joined the US . Marines, was a pilot flying supplies into, and wounded Marines out of, Iwo Jima and Okinawa .

Audie Murphy, little 5'5" tall 110 pound guy from Texas who played cowboy parts: Most Decorated serviceman of WWII and earned: Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, 2 Silver Star Medals, Legion of Merit, 2 Bronze Star Medals with "V", 2 Purple Hearts, U.S. Army Outstanding Civilian Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal, 2 Distinguished Unit Emblems, American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with One Silver Star, Four Bronze Service Stars (representing nine campaigns) and one Bronze Arrowhead (representing assault landing at Sicily and Southern France) World War II Victory Medal Army of Occupation Medal with Germany Clasp, Armed Forces Reserve Medal, Combat Infantry Badge, Marksman Badge with Rifle Bar, Expert Badge with Bayonet Bar, French Fourragere in Colors of the Croix de Guerre, French Legion of Honor, Grade of Chevalier, French Croix de Guerre With Silver Star, French Croix de Guerre with Palm, Medal of Liberated France, Belgian Croix de Guerre 1940 Palm.
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Charles MAGILL of Greene Co., TN

MAGILL: Charles and Elizabeth Lester --"I have finally figured out who my great-grandfather Charles Newton Magill's father is. Charles, father is William Magill, the first child of Charles Magill and Elizabeth Lester of Turman, Sullivan, Indiana. Charles, father William born 1797 is the brother of Joseph Lester Magill.

William Magill, married "unknown", and had three children, Margaret, Charles, and Samuel. William, again married Margaret Walker, April 08, 1856 in Clark County, Illinois. It appears that William and his family moved to Clark County, Illinois with Joseph Lester Magill and his family.

My Charles Newton Magill, was ajudged insane and sent to Mt. Pleasant, in Iowa, June 28, 1878. In his medical record he had a brother and paternal aunt that were also adjudged insane. His brother Samuel spent over 6 years in the "Indiana State Insane Asylum". I am waiting on some records on Samuel to come from the Indiana State Archives, should have them in a couple of weeks. I am then going to see if I can get his records from the asylum.

Charles father William and his three children Margaret, Charles and Samuel are in the 1850, Darwin, Clark, Illinois census. In 1860 they are living in York, Clark, Illinois but Charles is living in Decatur county, Iowa at that time. By 1870 Charles and his new wife Margaret are living in Turman, Sullivan, Indiana. William's son Samuel in 1870 is living in Cass, Sullivan, Indiana in the "Poor House", he is 43.

The big issue on my great-grandfather, besides who his parents were, was how old he was. All census and hospital records had him being born about 1831, but in the 1900, Atwood, Rawlins, Kansas census he was born Nov. 1815 of course he was going by the name of Peter McGill at that time. His death records had his birth 1817.

Charles Newton Magill, died at the age of 83, and was living with his daughter and her family in Pottawattamie, County, Iowa when he died.

Charles, escaped from Mt. Pleasant on April 2, 1884 and wasn't heard from again until 1903, 19 years later. He must have had a very sad life. Charles died May 31, 1914." -- Donna - Genealogy Message Board - Rootsweb.com
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1944 - Oklahoma Heroes

Oklahoma Heroes - Ammunition Passed Despite Heavy Fire -- "It was a bit of daring ammunition passing that brought to T. Sgt. Daniel L. Worley of Ardmore, the award of a Bronze Star.

the place was the Anzio beachhead. The time was middle March. And Worley was with the 45th division when he passed the ammunition that not only brought him the medal, but in the words of the citation, "enabled the company to maintain its defensive positions and prevented a serious breakthrough by the enemy."

The citation, with usual dignity tells how the 22 year old sergeant "during sustained Germ attacks" led a group of men across 600 yards of open ground under heavy enemy tank and small arms fire to deliver critically needed ammunition to a beleaguered infantry company.

Worley, himself, tells it too, in a letter scribbled late one April night:"Guess you read the news of some of the trouble we had on the 'Ides of March.' Boy, that was a crackerjack. I saw Jerry tanks lined up 30 in a row. The artillery really had a field day. There were dead Jerries all over the place.

"They threw in elements of four divisions during the attack, but only succeeded in gaining about 1,000 yards, which we have already taken back." -- The Oklahoman, dated Oct. 1, 1944, page 55
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1944 - MORE Oklahoma Heroes

The Oklahoman, dated Oct. 1, 1944, page 55, headlines read: "Oklahoma Heroes" -- "Editor's Note -- Much has been said about the men who go to war, how they feel, their emotions in battle, their heroism. But what of the wives who stay home, whose children will know their fathers only as a picture of a man in khaki? Here is a different war story, told in the simple words of a widow who has only a few hours of happiness to remember. Sorrow, yes - but no regrets.

by Laura Bess Hall -- "Frank took my arm, and we walked across the street from the Northwestern State Teachers' college at Alva to a favorite student jam center. We got a hamburger. We turned on the radio and danced, then sat in a booth and sipped a coke. We talked. Not much; we did not need to. I am not at all sure we knew it, but although we had just met for the first time at a crosswalk on the campus, we were already in love. We had little need of conversation. I did get his name, however, and he mine. We made a date for that evening. he went on to his class and I to mine.

It was not long until we were the center of campus gossip, all good natured and packed with fun. Almost daily we would run onto our names linked together on a tree, or interlocked hearts on a lawn set with our initials written in. For class mischief our friends constructed rhymes about us, some of them grotesquely illustrated. They started a scrap book with these rhyming turnouts. it was marked "For Your children's Children." One chapel morning they tied a red ribbon around one chair and marked it, "Reserved for Frank and Laura Bess."

Of course we had long decided we were going to get married. How we could wait until we were through college we could not see.

One sunday it was boys' night in our dormitory. We were crowded in the living rooms. Pianos, violins, stringed and wind instruments, radios. Some of it was music. All of it together could be called only noise. Some groups were singing, some dancing, some couples were here and there out of the glare of ceiling lights. Then over the radio came the announcement of Pearl Harbor.

Frank turned a quick ear like he could not believe what he was hearing. He ran tot he middle of the room and frantically waved his arms for quiet.

"Listen fellas!" he shouted. "We're being bombed! The Japs are bombing us. That means just one thing. We are in."

Next morning the president called a special chapel to go over the matter with the students and to urge the boys to stay in college until they were called. "I know every man's head of you is willing to go. Uncle Sam knows it too, and he will call you when he's ready for you." he said.

Some of our boys left at once. Daily, there were new vacant seats in all our classes. At last commencement was on.

In less than an hour after the last commencement program Frank was on his way to the induction center at Oklahoma City.

We had decided several weeks before he started that we would not be married until the war was over. Every day we would re-establish ourselves in exchange of promises that this was right and we would stay with it.

I stood in a high wind holding on a perky hat that Frank liked and watched him until the bus on which he left rounded the corner. Several others of our student boys were with him and their girl friends were with me.

Suddenly I broke from them and ran back tot he campus, and tomy room piled with packing clutter for going home. I flung myself at my desk chair, grabbed paper and pen, and began furiously, joyously, to write. To Frank of course. And only one thing was I to tell..... We must get married. I knew we had decided wrong. I would hurry home and be ready ust as soon as he could get a day off to come for me. At the postoffice, I opened my letter and added a postscript. "If you cannot come for me. I will come to camp to you."

I had to tell the wonderful news half a dozen times on my way back to the dormitory. To the postman, a professor or two, and every student I met. "Frank and I are going to get married right away," I gushed.

When I got back to my room my phone was ringing. Long distance. It was Frank. The bus was at Cherokee, 18 miles away. He was letting on that he had left his billfold and asked the driver to hold the bus until he could phone back about it. So he called me. "I'm just calling to tell you we are getting married. I'm coming for you the first day I can get off, and if I can't, you are coming to me. Get it?" he said.

He was placed in the air corps and sent to Sheppard field. Three weeks later I went to him. He met me. For him to have changed as much as he had in three weks was unbelievable. My handsome well-dressed college fiance looked like a cross between a wild boar and a hyena. All along his ears and around the edges of his hair were stubbed-up skin patches that had baked and were still peeling. His hair stood straight ffrom his scalp and was stiff and burned until it looked like it might break like sticks. But the smile that cracked over his hardened cheeks from his prched lips was the same, and the love tenderness deep in his eyes was what I had always known. He laughed aloud when my face registered shock. I laughed back as I threw my arms over his shoulders. He lifted me and swung me around in his embrace.

"Tell me quick, Frank," I said, "when are we getting married. Right now?" he thrust me from him at arms length, holding me by the shoulders.

"You?" he said, "My old college friend; chasing soldiers?"

Several buddies, including a married couple, Beth and Ken, had come with him.

We had planned a military wedding in one of the camp chapels but decided there was too much delay. We all piled in a taxi, went to a minister's home, and had it done in short order."

To make a long story short.... Frank & Laura Bess Hall had a son Richard Frank.
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1944 - Enid man leads Mule Across Nazi Minefield

According to The Oklahoman, dated Oct. 1, 1944, page 55, headlines read: "Enid man leads mule Across Nazi Minefield."

Getting a radio to the forward observation post was important, as the Fifth army pushed forward in Sicily. However, to make the advance, an enemy mine field had to be crossed, and already one soldier had been killed when he stepped on a deadly charge of explosive.

Cpl. Carey E. Jones, then wearing only one stripe, volunteered for the job. Leading a pack mule, with the radio lashed to its back, he successfully negotiated the dangerous terrain and enabled artillery fire to be directed against a pocket of German resistance.

Jones, whose father lives at Enid, has been awarded the Bronze Star for his bravery.
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