The floats, the formals, the oohs and ahs from the crowd will mark the tradition-bound homecoming activities in both Henryetta and Okmulgee tonight.

Jenna Van Meter has been picked queen at Henryetta, and her escort will be Jimmy Vassaur. Okmulgee has co-queens Vicki LeBlanc and Sandy Ornelas.

Kickoff at the game between Henryetta’s Fighting Hens and the Cushing Tigers is at 8 p.m. with the coronation at halftime. Okmulgee’s coronation will be at 7:30 p.m. the conference game between the No. 6 Bulldogs and the McAlester Buffalos to follow.

Ann Washington and Margaret Ann Allensworth are honorary senior attendants and Tanya Cady is senior attendant at the Henryetta activities. Junior attendant is Sherry Cook and sophomore attendant is Vicki Smith. Okmulgee queen attendants are Mary Ann Joslin, Detra Sims, Beverly Marchant and Janet Cazanave.

Morris and Beggs high schools also have homecoming activities scheduled for tonight. The No. 4 ranked Beggs Demons host Warner at 7:30 p.m. Queen Candidates are senior Janet Henson, junior Gwen Ross and sophomore Darlene Walker. The Morris Eagles will entertain the Allen Mustangs. The queen will be picked from three nominees Sandy Grimmet, senior; Karen Carr, junior and Penny Cantwell, sophomore.

With the signing of a resolution, the Henryetta Municipal Authority has finally cleared the last hurdle for the city to receive the $1,250,000 raised by the sale of bonds for the capital improvements plan.

Vice Mayor Red Cady signed the resolution Thursday reads in part: “Approving the execution of supplement by and between the city of Henryetta and the trustees of the Henryetta Municipal Authority pertaining to the water and sewer system and approving the form of a supplement to bond indenture to secure the authority $1,250,000 water and sewer gross revenue bonds, series 1972.”

City Manager Chester Simons said the money should be ready for deposit in the two local banks in 30 to 60 days. Simons said municipal engineers Poe and Associates will have the final specification on the water improvements at the next city council meeting Tuesday night.

Henryetta voters overwhelmingly approved sale of the bonds for the capital improvements plan last February.

An application with the Economic Development Authority and another with Ozarks Regional Commission were approved last summer. Construction on the new water facilities is expected to begin as soon as the specifications are approved and the contract has been bid upon and let.

Henryetta also has several other applications with federal agencies as a part of the capital improvements plan. An application is on file with the Legacy of Parks agency for a municipal pool and park facilities.

Henryetta has applied to the Environmental Protection Agency for federal funds to help finance a sewer project.

Other planned civic improvements are a new municipal building and civic center, urban renewal and public housing projects.

The Dewar Chapter of Young Homemakers of Oklahoma won the third place trophy for their float entered in the Eastern Oklahoma Labor Day Parade.

The Float Committee originated the theme for the float and planned the construction and decoration. The theme they selected was “We Furnish our Homes with Love.” Members of the float committee were Mrs. Ronald Lee, Mrs. Tommy Hughes, Mrs. Terry Mordecai, Mrs. Jerry Taber, and Mrs. David Pippin.

The float was constructed by placing a napkin in each hole of one-inch chicken wire. 13,320 napkins were used in the float. The green colors used are YHO state colors.

Riding on the float were the Dewar chapter president, Mrs. Ray Cloud, her son Mike and Daughter Pamela, Lisa Ritter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Butch Ritter, and Terry Ray Mordecai Jr. son of Mr. and Mrs. Terry Mordecai.

Mrs. Cloud expressed gratitude to merchants of Henryetta who helped members, and to the members’ husbands, grandmothers, great grandmothers, sisters and aunts for babysitting with members’ children while the float was being constructed. She especially thanked Ronald Lee for loaning the group his truck, building the framework for the float, and letting members work on the float in his garage.

YHO members who worked on the float were: Mmes. Ronald Lee, Terry Mordecai, Tommy Hughes, Jerry Taber, Ray Cloud, David Files, James Smith, Duane Davidson, Bobby Fry, Fred Rader, Charles Higgins, Don Stepp, Larry Rogers, Ronald Field, Earnest Dodge, and adviser Mrs. Lyman Cady.

75 YEARS AGO - 1947

Special among the first Okmulgee county army wives who will join their soldier husbands in Germany is Mrs. Evelyn Voss, 27 who expects to leave New York November 1 to meet her husband S-Sgt. Vernon Voss in Frankfurt, Germany.

Mrs. Voss applied at the court clerk’s office here late Thursday. Sergeant Voss is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Voss, Okmulgee.

Announcement is made of the marriage of Miss Jane Stirskert, daughter of Mrs. Ann Stirskert, Burvrus, Ohio, to M/Sgt. Frank Summers, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Summers, former Henryettans, now of Bakersfield, Calif.

Robert Helston, pastor, read the double ring ceremony before a white trellis covered with greenery. Two large bouquets of white gladioli and stock were in the foreground.

Before and during the ceremony, traditional wedding music was played.

The bride wore a white satin dress fashioned with a sweetheart neckline, long pointed sleeves and fishtail hustle. Her only jewelry was a three strand pearl necklace which was a gift of the bridegroom.

Her veil was fingertip length and was edged deeply with lace. It was secured to a high tiara of seed pearls. The bride carried a bouquet of white carnations centered by a white orchid.

Matron of honor was Mrs. Marvin Garlinger, sister of Sergeant Summers.

She wore a gown of pink chiffon and carried a bouquet of blue daisies and pink carnations. Jane Summers, another sister of the groom, was bridesmaid. She wore blue silk net and carried Pink Delight roses.

The bride’s mother was dressed in blue and white, and Mrs. B. F. Summers wore a black and white ensemble with white accessories. Marvin Garlinger served his brother-in-law as best man and M/Sgt. Gerald Moore was usher.

The bridal couple left for their wedding trip immediately after reception in the church reception hall. For going away, the bride wore a twopiece suit of salmon pink and a corsage of white carnations.

Mr. and Mrs. Summers are now at home at Apartment 605, Columbia Park, Pittsburg, Calif. After leaving Henryetta, Sergeant Summers graduated from high school in 1941 at Buhl, Idaho, and attended Bakersfield Junior College.

Before entering the army he was employed by the Santa Fe Railroad in Bakersfield.

Sergeant Summers is a nephew of Willard Carter and Mrs. Foley Smith, both of whom live west of Henryetta, and Mrs. Ada Hudson, 405 West Division.

100 YEARS AGO – 1922

The new business buildings on Trudgeon near the Frisco passenger station are now up to the second story. This enterprise is by Buchanan and Simmons, and there will be a seventy-five feet front on Trudgeon. It will add materially to the business district.

Carl J. O’Hornett is having plans made for a two story building at the corner of Main and Sixth, and this building will be a hundred and forty feet on Sixth, with sixty facing Main.

As nearly as we can gather, this building will be very much what the Elks building is in dimensions. Like the Elks building it will face east and two buildings will occupy the entire block between Main and Broadway.

Other and less pretentious buildings are getting attention, but these are important business units. Charles Blaine is having the front remodeled at the Crescent Drug store, and this work is nearly completed. It will add much to the good appearance of this popular drug store.

Herman Bell and Joe Ward, of Okmulgee, are charged with murder in an information filed today by County Attorney James Hepburn as a result of the collision of two automobiles near Bald Hill late Monday which caused the death of Odell Bradshaw, two years old, serious injury of Mrs. Bradshaw and minor injuries to four other persons.

Bell, it is alleged, was the driver of one of the cars, which he and Ward occupied, were intoxicated at the time of the accident and the police claim they found a bottle of whiskey in the wrecked car which he and Ward occupied. Mrs. Bradshaw mother of the dead infant is in a critical condition in the Okmulgee hospital suffering from a fractured skull and other injuries sustained in the collision.

A two year old baby is dead, one woman is said to be dying, and two other women and an 18-yearold boy are seriously injured as a result of an automobile driver’s negligence and speed madness, which sent his heavy car crashing into a Ford touring car on a country road northeast of here today afternoon.

The dead baby is Odell Bradshaw, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Bradshaw. On other beds in the city hospital are Mrs. E. Bradshaw, who is not expected to live through the night, and Mrs. S. M. Beckham, whose injuries are known to be very serious. Juanita Gray, daughter of Mrs. Gray, is also injured and in the hospital.

Herman Bell, driver of the car, which crashed into the Ford is being held in the city jail and according to police, charges of manslaughter will be preferred against him today.

Joe Ward, who was driving with Bell, is badly cut about the face and hands, but his injuries are not considered serious. He has not been placed under arrest and officers said that he would not be until a further investigation of the affair has been made.

Bradshaw, driving the Ford had just left the main road leading from Haskell to Okmulgee, and was straightening up a driveway toward his home, carrying the others who were injured in his car.

The heavier car, coming from the east at a speed of 50 miles an hour, according to eye witnesses, suddenly swerved from its course in the middle of the road just as soon as the Ford had cleared the bridge at the side of the road, 50 feet from the bridge.

The touring car, driven by Bell, suddenly swerved from the road, ploughed through a ditch alongside and struck the Ford head-on. The impact threw both cars nearly 50 feet. When passing motorists rushed to give aid, the two cars were found welded firmly together.

The injured women’s husbands are all employees of the Texas Company at their Bald Hill gasoline plant.

As the news spread to the farmers and pipeline workers employed in that vicinity, there were angry mutterings and a message was sent to Okmulgee asking that police be sent to the scene. In the meantime, Bell and Ward were picked up in a passing automobile and driven toward the city.

They were intercepted by police Capt. Sweeney and Bell was taken to the police station and locked up. Residents of Bald Hill section said last night that if the men had remained on the scene, summary action would have been taken, the whole countryside apparently having been aroused.

Police said that both Ward and Bell had been drinking and a bottle partially filled with corn whisky was found in their automobile.