60 years ago, July 4, 1960
Road Paving Project Near Tonkawa Gets State Okay
An approval for $80,000 in road building in Kay county, including 2.5 miles of bituminous paving south of Tonkawa, has been given by the state according to Lee B. Washbourne, director.
County commissioners are literally swamping the state Highway Commission and the Federal Bureau of Public Roads for approval of road and bridge building projects financed with federal and county funds.
For the third time within the past three months, projects are hitting high points, according to George L. Johnston, state Farm-to-Market road engineer.
He reports the May, June and July proposals the state has sent to the bureau for approval, reveals an estimated cost of $1,695,200. The list calls for more than 80 miles of all weather paving roads. Latest applications passed with state approval to the bureau,
Latest applications passed with state approval to the bureau, disclose countless contemplate for estimated expenditures of $808,200 for 46 miles of construction compared to $314,800 filed in May and $512,200 filed in June.
Tonkawa Students Go to OU School For Cheerleaders
Approximately one-third of the more than one-thousand “pepraising” teenagers will be arriving on the north campus of the university of Oklahoma Monday for the first of three sessions of Cheerleaders short courses for high school students, July 4-8.
Pre-registrations include: two Tonkawa Junior high students – Ann Scott, 405 W. Grand and Jan Piper, 200 N. Jenkins. The school, instructed by L. R. Herkimer, Dallas, executive sec
The school, instructed by L. R. Herkimer, Dallas, executive secretary, National Cheerleaders Association, is returning to the OU campus for the 13th consecutive summer. He, with the aid of topnotch cheerleaders from OU and colleges over the United States, conduct as many as 35 such schools over the nation each summer.
Enrollment in the OU schools has increased each year with classes getting larger and larger. This year a third session had to be formed in order to take care of the requests for enrollment. Many late registrations have had to be returned.
For the first session, 321 students from Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, New Mexico and Texas, have enrolled.
Enrollments for the other two sessions, July 10-15 and July 17-22 have been closed since the middle of June with 354 registered for each. These totals do not include Herkimer and his staff of 10 assistants.
Mrs. A. D. Buck Is Guest At State Legion Meetings
Mrs. A. D. Buck, department resident of the ...
