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TEN ARE ACCEPTED FOR WAAC SERVICE Enid 1943
WOODWARD, March 8, (Special) Applications of ten Woodward county women have been accepted for service with the WAAC, according to announcement by Mrs. Lillian Hobbs, county chairman. They are Mary Margaret Frost, Delores Alley, Winnie Mae Davis, Aoudie Marie Ford, Mary Dardner, Verna Mertis Titus, Mary Lanham, Jane Elizabeth Gould, Mrs. Ethel Burnett and Mrs. Era C. Gray.
Applications of 15 other county women were not accepted because of non-corrective eyes, major operations, bad hearts, under-weight and minor ailments. Eleven under-age applicants, 18-20 years old, are now working with Western Union War Training school. Applications of 13 other women are pending. The Woodward county quota is 25.
WOODWARD ENSIGN IN SPECIAL COURSE Enid 1943
WOODWARD, June 12, (Special) Ensign Nathat H. Patterson of this city and a 1943 graduate of the Annapolis naval academy, has been sent with half of his class of 750 men to Jacksonville, Florida, for a ten-week indoctrination course at the naval air station there prior to reporting for duty at sea, according to information reaching his mother. He will study air navigation, operation of aircraft motors, tactical problems and flying technique, and will fly in mock combat operations with pilots. After two years at sa he will be eligible for regular flight training.
ATTEND CODY RITES Enid 1942
WOODWARD, Aug. 31, (Special) Pioneers of the Oklahoma dn Texas panhandle counties have returned from attending the funeral in Dalhart of a Buffalo Bill kinswoman, Mrs. Rose Cody, 76 years of age. She was the widow of a cousin of the famous frontiersman. The funeral services were held in the Nazarene church at Dalhart.
Mooreland Teacher Accepted by WAVES OK 1943
WOODWARD, June 24, (Special) Miss Clarice Carpenter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clive Carpenter of Selamn, has taken her physical examination as a WAVE inductee and has gone to New York city where she will take initial training at Hunter's college. Miss Carpenter, a graduate of Northwestern college, taught in the Mooreland highschool last year. Her brother, Duante Carpenter, recently joing the marines and is stationed at San Diego
TURKEY INJURES WOMAN CRITICALLY - Enid 1943
Woodward, April 20 (Special) Mrs. Della A. Holiday, 65-year-old boarding house keeper here, is in a very critical condition as the result of being the loser in an attempt to kill a turkey by chopping off its head. The bird, refusing strenuously to accept death, made on last desperate effort, knocked Mrs. Holiday over and got away. Her condition, following several consultations by physicians and x-ray, remains critical and it is necessary to keep her under anesthetics. Her spine is injured and bones broken.
Note: Mrs. Holiday recovered, lived another 23 years, and died in Mar 1966.
INDIANS ENLIST TO AID LABOR SHORTAGE
WOODWARD, Oct. 16 (Special)To help solve thei labor problem, both on farms and on defense project construction, more Indians are being enlisted than ever before and in the northwestern area of the state that means Cheyennes and Arapahoes particularly
Indians are being used in the harvesting of broomcornand other field crops and a number have been taken in Altus and other points to work on army projects. The scarcity of workmen is causing contractors to look into every possibility of employment.
BURNS ARE FATAL FOR WOODWARD WOMAN - Enid 1943
WOODWARD, MARCH 19-(Special)-Funeral services were held here today for Mrs. Pearl Lucas Yeager, wife of A. E. Yeager, residing four miles southof this city. Her death followed sever burns accidentally received while at work in her home. Mrs. Yeager was 69 years of age, born at Mt. Pulaski, Ill., in 1874. The Yeagers homesteaded the farm on which they have since lived, in 1907. She is survived by here husband; two sisters, Miss Mildred Lucas of Woodward and Mrs. W. H. Heskett of Oxford, Kans.; and four brothers, Harry of Siloam Springs, Ark., and John, George and James, all of this city.
LAVERNE RESIDENT IS JAP PRISONER
WOODWARD, June 24--(Special)-Ammett Hensley, a resident of Laverne for three years before enlisting in the army in 1941, is a prisoner of the Japs, according to announcement by the war department.
Evidently he was taken prisoner somewhere in the Philippines. A card from him in Hawaaii was received in November 1941 and later a cablegram from the Philippines, with no information later.
72 SEA SCOUTS IN SERVICE
WOODWARD, June 24--(Special)-With the departure of First Mate jack Pounds and Second Mate John Moynihan, jr., of the Sea Scout ship "Chadwick" of this city, that organization now has seventy-two members and former members in the armed forces of the Unite States. Both are 18-year-olds. The local Sea Scouts now have eight more members on service call. Prior to their leaving here for military duty, Moniham and pounds were honored by the Sea Scouts with forma dress ceremonies.
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