60 years ago, April 4, 1960
Local Girl Wins State Essay Prize
Winners in Tonkawa’s American Legion auxiliary sponsored Americanism Essay contest have placed high in state competition according to Mrs. I. A. Robinson, local Americanism chairman.
Mary Lynne Norris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Norris, south of Tonkawa, has been named first place winner to Oklahoma in the senior high division of the contest, and Law Easterling, son of Dr. and Mrs. V. R. Easterling, received second place in the state in the junior high division.
One Council Race Will Be Decided In Ballot
City voters Tuesday will cast ballots for city councilmen when the regular election is held.
Polls will open at 7 a.m. and will close at 7 p.m. according to Earl Williams, county election board chairman.
Only one contest appears on the ballot, that in Ward 1 where Gene Salisbury and Olin Walcher have filed for the post. Unopposed are James Icenogle, Ward 2, Ivan Foster, Ward 4, and F. B. Olson, councilman-at-large.
All three are incumbents in the offices. No one filed for the office from Ward 3 where Edward “Bud” Scott is incumbent.
31 THS Students Attend Symposium
Thirty-one Tonkawa high school science students and their instructor, Mrs. Erma Ailshie, were in Oklahoma City Friday to attend the annual symposlum held in Municipal auditorium was “The Origins of Life.”
Featured on the program were seven of the nation’s top scientists.
Attending from THS were Kenneth Cathey, John Baum, Jim Legg, Woodie Berry, John Knight, Gary Prelesnick, Mike Williams, Frank Cunningham, Gary Clark, Tommy Sipe, Paul Dickerson, Jim Pickard, John Strome, Jim Dunn, Steve Maassen, Jill Harris, Mary Lou Mills, Marilyn Heady, Janet Gearheard, Patricia Cochran, Mary Williams, Vickie Lucas, Mary Caughlin, Sharon Hubbell, Wayne Solomon, Wayne Pedigo, Bill Burr, Robert Campbell, Jim Swafford, Carol Veith, and Philip Williams. Accompanying the group were Marshall Cathey, Mrs. Jack Williams, Mrs. Dean Sipe, Mrs. Lewis Dunn, Mrs. Russell Harris and Mrs. John Williams.
Mrs. A. Coyle Is Named Fashion Contest Winner
Mrs. Aden Coyle Friday was named first place winner, and Mrs. Richard McKenzie place second, in the district Fashion-Sewing contest held at Enid in conjunction with the spring workshop of the second district, Oklahoma Federation of Women’s clubs, conducted by Mrs. J. C. Pond, Medford, district president.
The annual sewing contest is sponsored jointly by the Vogue Pattern Service and the General Federation of Women’s clubs. Mrs. Coyle, the district winner is a member of the Delphi Study club here,
