Spring of 1945

This week takes us back to 1947 with a short stop (or memory jog) in the Spring of 1945. We hope you remembered your "Mother" this weekend with something special for Sunday, May 8th, Mother's Day. AND... while you are remembering your mothers, let us not forget the 60th Anniversary of VE-Day - the Allied Victory in Europe, May 8, 1945.

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60 Years Ago - May, 1945...

With the talk of the 60th Anniversary of VE Day - May 8, 1945, it sent us back through View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Alva Golf & Country Club...

"I have fond childhood memories of the Alva Municipal Golf Course on Flynn Street. I was born in a house across the street from it. The golf course figured in a ten second of Andy Warhol fame moment for me. In 1998 I entered the Favorite Poem Contest sponsored by Robert Pinsky the Poet Laureate of the United States. He asked for folks to write about their favorite poem and if selected, read it on audiotape for inclusion in the archives of the Library of Congress.

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VE Day - May 8, 1945...

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1947 - Smoking Method Developed for Administering Penicillin...

Back in May, 1947 by way of Rochester, NY (UP) and The Alva Review-Courier, dated 21 May 1947, A NEW revolutionary and more pleasant method of administering penicillin by "smoking" rather than injection, had been perfected by two University of Rochester medical school faculty members [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

1947 - Oil Companies Step Up Daily Production...

Does this sound familar! In The Alva Review-Courier, dated 21 May 1947, New York, May (UP) -- "Oil companies of the nation have stepped up their overall daily production of crude petroleum to a record high or more than 5,000,000 barrels in a heroic effort to avert a threatened shortage of gasoline this summer and of fuel oil next winter [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

MORE McGILL Relatives...

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May Day at Wolf Creek Pass...

Last Sunday we took a drive up towards Wolf Creek Pass, Colorado to see the snow in the mountains [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

History of Mother's Day...

Did you ever wonder "WHY" we celebrate "Mother's Day?" One school of thought claims this day emerged from a custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship - which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus - was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor. They insist that this custom spread around the world from there.

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WARRICK/WARWICK Researcher...

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Businesses In Alva, Okla. - May, 1947...

Some of you out there might remember some memories of some of these businesses that could be found in the Alva (Oklahoma) area, around May 1947:

Rialto Cafe Tony's Cafe Babcock's Cafe Coffman's Cafe Wright's Cafe Shorty's Cafe The National Farm Loan Ass'n of Alva Schaefer-Doolin Mortgage Co [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe 1947 - Debt Reduction Due... Also in that same Alva Review-Courier, dated 21 May 1947, by way of Washington, (UP) -- "The Treasury announced today it will reduce the public debt another $1,000,000,000 (B) on June 1 by retiring that amount of maturing securities with cash [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe MOM - Job Description... POSITION: Mother, Mom, Mama, Mommy, Ma JOB DESCRIPTION: Long term, team players needed, for challenging permanent work in an, often chaotic environment [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe 1947 - Civil Service Needs Inspector Jobs Filled... Back to the era of May, 1947, the U. S. Civil Service commission announced that Meat inspector, livestock inspector, and virus-serum inspector were needed. That is what the small article in The Alva Review-Courier, newspaper, dated 21 May 1947 stated: [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe I wondered if there was a Maurice D [more]...  ~Sherry McNeil Swires regarding Okie's story from Vol. 9 Iss. 13 titled UNTITLED

www.flickr.com username:    password: Search this site   Site search engine hosted by FreeFind 1937-38 Kemper Military Photos... We recently found, scanned some of our Uncle Bob's (McGill) Old Kemper Military School Pics that were among Uncle Bob's treasure chest AND... Kemper military days in Booneville, Missouri back in the years 1936 thru 1938. This picture shown here is one of Bob's buddies, Willie Gibbens, that played in a "swing band" aboard the ship "Europa" during the "Summer of '38." [more]... View/Write Comments (count 3)   |   Receive updates (2 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe Williams, Mowdy, Denton & LeFlore County, OK... "I have been roaming the 'net' and found some information on the WILLIAMS and MOWDY families from Leflore Co., Oklahoma, in and around Smithville, Ludlow, and Octavia. [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe Kentucky Derby History... "The Kentucky Derby is a stakes race for three-year-old thoroughbred horses, staged yearly in Louisville, Kentucky on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The race currently covers one and one-quarter miles (2.012 km) at Churchill Downs; colts and geldings carry 126 pounds (57 kg), fillies 121. The race, known as The Fastest Two Minutes in Sports for its approximate time length, is the first leg of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in the United States ..... [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe 1947 - Wrecks Kill Two Collegians... Taken from The Alva Review-Courier, dated 21 May 1947 - Oklahoma City, May (UP) -- "Two college students returning home for the weekend were killed in automobile accidents last night and early today to raise Oklahoma's May traffic total above the month's record last year [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe 1947 - New Food 'Ice Age' Believed on Way.... From The Alva Review-Courier, dated 21 May 1947 and Chicago, (UP) -- "The Frozen Foods Association of Chicago predicts a new ice age when the future housewife can serve venison, whale meat and enchilladas as easily as bread butter and coffee [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe 1947 - New Streamliner Starts Schedule Here June 8... One of the headlines in The Alva Reveiw-Courier dated 21 May 1947 was, New Streamliner Starts Schedule Here June 8 - Beginning June 8 (1947), a new diesel-powered streamliner "Grand Canyon" will replace the present train now making the run through Alva from Chicago, ILL., to Los Angeles, Calif., it was announced today. [more]... View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe