Floyd Lochner Still Running ;On Turkey Farm, Not Cinders

(This story by Ray Parr, '32ba, Daily Oklahomanfeature writer, was written before many of FloydLochner's turkeys felt the Thanksgiving axe. It'sstill a good yarn about one of O.U .'s all-time greatathletes .)Some 2,800 turkeys on the Floyd Lochner farm

12 miles south of Norman will tell you confidentlythere really wasn't any need for Floyd to put upthat six-foot fence. There isn't a bird on the placewhich can outrun him.

Floyd, '37ed, you may remember, was one ofthe finest cross-country runners in the United Statesas he galloped for the University of Oklahoma trackteam about 10 years ago.In addition to winning the Big Six Conference

two-mile championship three years, he won theSugar Bowl invitation meet two years and the na-tional AAU 3,000-meter steeple chase in 1937 .He also raced throughout the east for a year

after his graduation and made a tour of Japan as

Alumni in The Newsa member of a United States track team .A turkey just doesn't have a chance against a

guy like that .The slight, blond runner is only three pounds

over his best running weight and still can rambleover the countryside when the occasion arises .

As a matter of fact, 2,800 turkeys can keep afellow rambling about full time and that earlytrack training comes in right handy.Lochner got started in the turkey business only

two years ago when he- came out of the Navywhere he had served three years and eight months .

Before entering service he had worked for aNorman sporting goods store and with the state-wide recreational project of the WPA.

While in the Navy, he decided, however, to goback on the farm . Born and reared on a farm nearAgra, 14 miles north of Chandler, he was nostranger to the rural life. He chose turkeys .

For three years, he studied the business, readingeverything he could get on the subject and talk-ing to every turkey man he could find . He figuredhe was ready when lie said goodby to the Navy in

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FLOYD LOGHNLR, '371,D .From Track Treks to Turkey Troubles .

April, 1945 .He went into business on 20 acres just off U. S.

77 south of Norman . He bought 1,000 eggs at 30cents each, set 500 of them and got 70 turkeys .

"I sure found thyself not getting rich fast," herecalls .He had a little better luck with his next egg

order and finally managed to raise and sell 1,200turkeys .He began to save his own eggs for hatching and

this year set 4,500, getting 2,800 turkeys .He hopes to gross more than $20,000 as the birds

will average about $8 each . However, he figureshis total cost per bird will be about $6.50, leavinga profit of $1 .50 each .

His feed bill for oats, corn and prepared mashmay run $14,000 this year, he said . He expects tosell about one-third of the birds retail at the farmand will sell the rest wholesale. He already hassold 200 birds for gifts .

Lochner does all the work on the farm, exceptfor the cleaning of the turkeys . He expects to hireabout five farm boys to lend him a hand on thischore.He likes to sell the birds dressed at retail prices .

He hopes eventually to retail 3,000 birds annuallyat a profit of $2 a bird .He is installing a deep freeze unit and will keep

20 frozen birds on hand . He also is planning facil-ities for the sale of smoked turkeys .

Lochner was married in 1939 to Vernice White'38bus, of Norman . They have two youngsters, aboy and a girl .

"It wasn't exactly what I expected when I gotmarried," Mrs. Lochner said . "But I'm crazy aboutturkeys."

Cotton's Homecoming ApplaudedBy Com .F .v HIGDON

lum nalism Junior from Waiters

Homecoming for Larry Cotton, '33, was a suc-cessful oneAn enthusiastic audience greeted him with rous-

ing applause during his appearance on the secondCelebrity Series program in Holmberg Hall Novem-ber 25 .

Although Mr . Cotton's tenor voice is definitelynot of operatic proportions, it was clear and melo-dious and filled the large auditorium . His enuncia-tion was particularly good-so much better thansome of our better known singers on the concertstage.He opened the program with a group of three

songs="Adelaide," by Beethoven; "Bois Epias,"by Lully, and "It naio Tesoro," by Mozart . Theseshowed his excellent enunciation in German,French and Italian .

Probably the best received number in the sec-ond part of the program was "Miranda," by Hage-man. It was a lively number well done, with Mr .Cotton's high tones extremely clear .The last group of songs contained folk songs

and the well-known Negro spiritual, "Were YouThere?" This group ended with a very clever ditty ."The Deaf Old Woman."

Altogether Mr . Cotton was called back ontothe stage for eight encores during the performance .He sang numbers which were familiar to the au-dience, such as "Begin the Beguine, . . . . .I'he Whip-penpoof Song," and "I'll Take You Home Again,Kathleen ."

Finally, with the applause still echoing through-out the auditorium, Mr . Cotton said that he didn'twant to keep the audience too long and sang afamiliar O.U . song, ."The Good Night Song" ofthe Delta Upsilon fraternity .

Alice Wightman, who accompanied Mr . Cotton,gave an outstanding performance at the piano.She had wonderful technique which added muchto the songs which Mr . Cotton sang .

Vern Sanford Takes New JobVernon T. Sanford, '326s, resigned as secretary-

manager of the Oklahoma Press Association re-cently to become the first fulltime manager of theTexas Press Association . The resignation was effec-tive December 1 .He has been associated with the Oklahoma or-

ganization since August 1, 1934 . "His work hasassisted materially in making this the outstandingpress association in the country," O. H. Lacher-meyer, president of the association, said .

Sanford's responsibility in his new job will beto develop a business organization of Texas news-papers similar to the O.P .A . A fund of $35,000has been furnished by Texas publishers to launchthe new program, with headquarters at Dallas .A native Oklahoman, he has done newspaper

work for the Chickasha Daily Express, NormanTranscript, Anadarko Daily News and the Cleve-land County News . Before joining the O.P.A ., hewas manager of the Nebraska Press Association .Sanford is a former president of the Oklahoma

City Advertising club, the Oklahoma City chapterof the Southwestern Association of Industrial Edi-tors and the Newspaper Association Managers . Fortwo years he was the chairman of National News-paper Week committee.

Studying at Oxford Is FunFor Rhodes Scholar Hinshaw

Besides being able to learn a lot, studying atOxford is fun and stimulating, writes Dr . J. Ray-mond Hinshaw, '446a, '46med, Rhodes scholarfrom O.U.

Since arriving at Southhampton on October R,Dr. Hinshaw, whose home is in Norman, relatesthat each week brings new interests and additionalwork .

"Several former Rhodes scholars and a num-ber of English students were on hand to accom-pany the scholars to the various colleges when wearrived."

Dr . Hinshaw describes his quarters in RhodesHouse in Oxford as "a large sitting room and asmaller bedroom on the first floor." When he askedan Englishman why he was assigned such a largeroom, he received the surprising reply, "Sir, )ouare a doctor ."Long discussions with other scholars over nu-

merous cups of coffee or tea takes a goodly partof the day of a Rhodes student . "We are free tocome and go as we like during laboratory hours,"

Dr . Hinshaw writes . "Each day we have a roundof 'teas,' 'coffees,' etc., and together with the meet-ings of the various organizations-the Bryce Club,the American Association Union, and several oth-ers-besides taking in plays, operas, athletics, andstudying, we manage to keep busy ."Dr. Hinshaw doesn't plan to let his Christmas

vacation interfere with his work . He already hasmade plans to visit laboratories, hospitals, librariesand universities in Stockholm, Copenhagen andthe Netherlands during his time off.Being a student at Oxford has made it possible

for Dr . Hinshaw to meet and hear internationallyprominent men in political and academic fields .From London Lord Halifax and Harold Laskivisited Oxford this fall for lectures, and from YaleUniversity the former Rhodes scholar and nowprofessor of physiology, Dr. John Fulton, came tospeak to the students.One of the visitors at Rhodes House was Gen-

eral George Marshall who came for tea. "Fromthe set of his jaw, Russia might well guess that hemeans business," Dr. Hinshaw commented. "Heis pleasant and kindly, but you can see the Roose-veltian-Churchill brand of fight in him, too."

Finding it impossible so far to develop a likefor soy sausages, the former O. U. honor studentsays that nevertheless the food at his College issaid to be the best on the campus .

"It takes food parcels from six to eight weeksto arrive from the States, and the packages areterribly battered . Tinned food containers are oftenbent and twisted, and occasionally opened . A giftof a small package of tea, a little box of cubesugar or a bar of soap is especially appreciated bythe people here ."In his letter, the young medic praised the re-

sourcefulness of the English people, "who do somuch with so little ."

"Milk and butter are very scarce ; meat is morescarce, and oranges are twenty cents each whenavailable. Crisco tastes good on hot toast whenyou can get the hot toast and crisco."Admittedly expecting to find the English aloof

and austere when he left the U. S. the doctorwas pleasantly surprised by their courtesy andkindness .

"There is a pride, a griui determination andconfidence which you feel in the air everywhere .The English boys are especially friendly and domany things to make us feel comfortable and athome ."

James D. Fellers, '36law, right, poses rvith Harold F, . Stassen, former governor of Minnesota, at theloth annual meeting of the Junior Bar Conference held recently in Cleveland, Ohio . Fellers is nationalcbairrnau of the organization,

Dtc. J . M. AsHroN, '33ptt .n .Goes to Washington .

Ashton to Work on U . S. BudgetDr. J. M. Ashton, '29ma, '33ph.d ., research di-rector of the Oklahoma Chamber of Commercefor 15 years, has been called to Washington to helpconduct research for the house appropriations com-

mittee on President Truman's budget, it has beenannounced .

Dr . Ashton, a trained engineer, holds a bachelorof law degree from New York University, has beena superintendent of schools in Oklahoma and holdsboth master's and doctor's degrees from the Uni-versity of Oklahoma .During the past 15 years, his work has been

primarily in research and studies on the cost oflocal and state government. His Functional Cost ofGovernment in Oklahoma and Red Books havebeen adopted as models for research by businessorganizations in other states .Some time ago, the National Association of StateChambers was asked to nominate at least 20 out-standing research then to work under the direc-tion of Robert E. Lee, director of fact finding forthe committee.Dr . Ashton's name was submitted, and lie wasselected upon the basis of work clone in this state .He has left for Washington, and his assignmentis expected to last well thrb,ugh January.

Lawyers Respond to Feller'sGavel, Hear Harold StassenJames D. Fellers, '361aw, Oklahoma City, na-tional chairman of the Juior Bar Conference, prc-sided over the 74th ann

nual meeting of the con-ference recently in Cleveland, Ohio . The meetingwas held in connection with the annual meeting ofthe American Bar Association .

One of the highlights of the convention programwas the address of Harold E. Stassen, former gov-ernor of Minnesota and a former state chairmanof the junior Bar Conference in that state . Stassen'sspeech on "Vetoes or Peace" was broadcast from ajoint luncheon meeting on September 23 sponsoredby the junior Bar Conference and the section oninternational and comparative law of the AmericanBar Association .Stassen told the overflow crowd that the firstobjective of the United Nations Assembly shouldbe to prevent war between the United States andRussia if there is to be any advance toward worldpeace and progress .In Cleveland Mr . Fellers was elected by the gen-eral assembly of the American Bar Association asa delegate to the house of delegates of the Associa-tion for a three-year term . It was also at that meet-ing that his appointment to the special commit-tee on participation by lawyers as citizens in publicaffairs was announced.

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Prominent Oklahomans AttendMedical Foundation Dedication

Impressive ceremonies marked the dedication ofthe site for the Oklahoma Medical Research Foun-dation building in Oklahoma City recently.A deed to the tract of land, which is located ad-

jacent to the State Medical School, was presentedJ . G. Puterbaugh, the foundation's new presidentfrom McAlester, by W. Russell Bergman, chair-man of the state board of affairs.

Governor Roy J . Turner led the list of distin-guished state men who spoke at the dedication .Others included : Dr . Paul Champlin, Enid, repre-senting the Oklahoma Medical Association ; Dr .Fred C. Seids, Perry, of the Oklahoma State DentalAssociation ; Connie Masterson, Oklahoma City,for the Oklahoma Pharmaceutical Association ; O.H. Lachenmeyer, Cushing, of the Oklahoma PressAssociation, and W. Lee Woodward, Alva, repre-senting the lay public .Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, war-time director

of the Manhattan project which developed theatomic bomb, was the principal speaker at thedinner which followed the dedication .

Five Oklahoma organizations are planning toraise a total of at least $1,595,4990 to aid in theconstruction of the foundation building . The Okla-homa Pharmaceutical Association has opened astate-wide campaign to raise $300,000, and theState Nurses' Association recently voted to raise$50,000. The Variety Club of Oklahoma haspledged $600,000 toward erection of the building,while pledges of Oklahoma doctors of medicinehave reached a total of $390,490 . Oklahoma den-tists expect to add $255,000 to the amount .

Besides Puterbaugh, the officers for the comingyear elected at a meeting of the foundation's boardof directors included : Ralph Talbot, Tulsa, vice-president ; Dr. John Lamb, '28ba, '32bs, '32med,Oklahoma City, secretary; Fred L. Dunn, Tulsa,treasurer ; Ancel Earp, Oklahoma City, executivecommittee chairman, and Hugh Payne, OklahomaCity, general manager.New members of the executive committee are C.

J . Masterson, '28pharm, '30bs; Roy Lytle; Stanley

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Draper ; W. T. Payne; Dr. W. F. Keller, '28ba,'296s; Henry Griffing, '28ba, '301aw ; Dr . Francis J .Reichmann; Frank Buck ; Frank Sewell ; CharlesFollonsbee and Harry Frantz, '17. .

Dr. Tidwell Reaches GoalDr. Robert A. Tidwell, '35bs, '37med, one of

three founders of the Children's Heart Clinic atthe Children's Orthopedic Hospital in Seattle, re-cently reached a much sought after goal in surgicalaccomplishments . Three delicate, difficult "blue-baby" operations, the first such operations in Seattle,were performed in the clinic started by Dr. Tidwelland his two companions, Dr . Dean K. Crystal andDr . George D. Capaccio .The operation, which takes 3r/ to 5 hours, does

not cure the condition of lack of sufficient oxygenin the blood, but simply tries to improve it byrouting more blood to the lungs so that the oxygencontent is raised to 65 or 70 percent . The averageperson's blood has an oxygen content of 90 to 95percent, while that of a blue baby's blood is 35 to40 percent.The three doctors diagnosed and studied the

case of 8-year-old Raymond Schneider for twoyears before performing the delicate operation onhim-their first such patient, on October 10 . Dr .Crystal, who performed the operation on Raymondand two other tiny patients, observed the techniqueof the operation at Johns Hopkins and later per-formed numerous operations on dogs with theco-operation of the University of Washington Medi-cal School .

While Dr. Crystal was perfecting his operatingtechnique, Dr . Tidwell, along with Dr . Capaccio,was improving his technique of diagnosis .

With the perfection of these operations, about75 per cent of "blue babies," whose normal lifespan would be 13 years, can be helped . Also, theclinic is now able to care for all types of children'sheart diseases .

Children from throughout the state of Washing-ton may now receive treatment that before couldbe obtained only in Eastern medical centers . Af-flicted children are being treated without regardfor the ability of their parents to pay.

A trust fund has been set up in a Seattle bankto handle public donations. Such donations willhelp to expand the facilities and research of theclinic. The ultimate objective is to raise enoughmoney in the next few years to build a wing inthe new Children's Orthopedic Hospital when itis built which would be dedicated entirely to chil-dren with heart disease .

Dr. Moseley Given Service AwardDr . John O. Moseley, '16ma, president of the

University of Nevada and a former member of theclassical languages faculty at the University ofOklahoma, received the annual award of the Na-tional Interfraternity Conference for "distinguishedservice to youth through the American collegefraternity ."Dr. Moseley was honored at a luncheon after

the conference opened its 39th annual session inNew York . Delegates from 59 national collegefraternities attended .The educator was an associate professor of Latin

for 17 years and also a tennis coach at the Uni-versity until 1935, when he became president ofCentral State College, Edmond . He later went tothe University of Tennessee as dean of students,before going to Nevada in 1944 .A former national president of Sigma Alpha

Epsilon, Dr . Moseley has been active in fraternitywork for many years.

Dick Dale Has Close CallRichard H. Dale, '47journ, NEA-Acme News

photographer who recently joined the Paris bu-reau, recently escaped serious injury in a riotousclash between police and communists .

In a cable to his parents at Oklahoma City, Mr .Dale said that he was not hurt, although earlierpress dispatches had quoted him as stating that hehad been beaten by police. Several American news-men were injured in the fighting, which beganwhen 33,000 communists tried to break up ananti-Russian meeting.

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Hoberecht Comes Home!"I have returned."Uttered not by General MacArthur, but by the

next best-known American in Japan, this phraseis applicable to Ernie Hoberecht, '41journ, authorof a Japanese best seller, Tokyo Romance.

Ernie, a colorful United Press correspondent inJapan who is back in the states for a three monthsvacation, blew into Norman one day around themiddle of November to shake hands with a fewold friends and to make a speech on the campus .

Sponsored by his fraternity, Sigma Delta Chi,professional journalistic fraternity, Ernie spoke on"Conditions in Japan" before an audience of pro-fessors and students in the Business Administra-tion Auditorium .Ernie is happy in Japan. lie likes the Japanese

people. With such huge sales of Tokyo Romanceand four follow-ups, Tokyo Diary, Shears of Des-tiny, 50 Famous Americans, and Democratic Eti-quette, he is a millionaire-all in Japanese yen.This wealth can not be taken out of Japan. So it'sa good thing he likes Japan, because he has plentyof incentive to keep him there.When Ernie was a hot-shot reporter on the

Oklahoma Daily back in pre-war days, not evenhe visioned his jet-propelled future. His presentposition stemmed frorn a job as war correspondentin the Pacific during the war.He wrote Tokyo Romance in between chasing

down stories in American-occupied Japan for theUnited Press. The book, a story of a young warcorrespondent who falls in love with pictures of aJapanese pin-up girl which he finds on PacificIslands and later meets her in Japan, caught-onamong the Japanese immediately after it rolled offthe press. In the Japanese language it sold over300,000 copies . In the English language editionit was criticized by Americans as being unoriginal .After a critic called Tokyo Romance "probably theworst novel of modern time," Ernie hotly dis-agreed, adding, "I've written worse myself ."The name Tokyo Romance appeals so much to

Ernie that he is exploiting it to the very end. Hewrote a song which he describes as "an Americanblues song in Japanese," and named it after thebook title . Then followed a classical gem, "thefirst classical love song in Japanese history thatrhymes," which he also called Tokyo Romance.Now a movie is being made in Tokyo of the book,and naturally it is being called Tokyo Romance.

New Newspaper Trends DiscussedBy Editor Gilstrap in Article

Shorter sentences and simplified style were fa-vored by managing editors at the recent seminarat Columbia University . Max K. Gilstrap, '37journ,assistant to the managing editor of the ChristianScience Monitor, described the American Press In-stitute discussions in an article published recently .

Tabloids are becoming more popular, the editorsagreed . Make-up improvements are being carriedout everywhere, with use of more pictures, italics,indentations and shorter headlines .

Leading comic strips are read by 80 percent ofadults, public opinion survey experts told the edi-tors, with single panels even more popular thancomics . A one-column head has as much readerattention as a banner, which is too long to bescanned easily, and more readers turn to the leftthan the right side of the page, the survey menreported .Home decorating is the most popular feature

among women, with fashions, food and beautyfollowing in that order. Babies are far behind ininterest.

Educators, financial experts and natural scien-tists all said that newspapers were overlookingopportunities in not giving more coverage to theirrespective fields .The 27 editors, including Carl K. Stuart, man-

aging editor of the Daily Oklahoman, visited theU. N. headquarters at Lake Success, the New YorkTimes, NBC, and the Ncw York Herald Tribune,

IVhen Ernie Hoberecht, 'fljourn, visited his alma mater recently, he and his former creative writingteachers, IV . S. Campbell (left) and Foster Harris (right), got together to look over Hoberecht's book,

Tokyo Runtance, which hits caused a sensation it) Japan.

Yates Opens Oil FirmWichita, Kansas

Dear Ted :Only about three months ago you received my

change-of-address notice when I was transferredby The Standard Oil Company (Ohio) from theirCleveland office to Oklahoma City . Then about amonth ago you received another notice to changemy address from Oklahoma City to 406 KFHBuilding, Wichita. Since this last change of ad-dress was made on a post office form only, I willenlarge on it a little and give you a news itein-particularly for the class of '34.On November 1, P. T. Amstutz, Jr ., who was

head of the reservoir engineering section, and 1,who headed the valuation engineering section ofThe Standard Oil Company, resigned and startedour own firm (Amstutz and Yates Inc.) with of-fices in Wichita. Our articles of incorporation al-low us to enter any phase of the oil business, butour primary objective is to offer petroleum engi-neering services on a consulting basis, specializingin the analysis of reservoir problems and reserveestimates and valuations of oil and gas properties .Although our headquarters are in Wichita, we donot intend to limit our activities to the state ofKansas .

Incidentally, right next to us in 407 KPH Build-ing is another O. U. graduate in petroleum engi-neering, a member of the class of 39 . He is P. C.Musgrove, president of the Musgrove PetroleumCompany, an up-and-coming young oil firm op-erating primarily in Kansas . Prior to forming hisown company about six months ago, Mr . Musgrovewas district production superintendent in Kansasfor Sohio Petroleum Company.

Recently I was in Bradford, Pennsylvania, andvisited with Lee Minter, '33eng. He is sales man-ager for the Zippo Lighter Company, which islocated there. He has acquired a family consistingof a young lady, five, and a year-old son.

This is about all the alumni news I can think ofat the moment . However, there are many O. U.graduates in Kansas, and in Wichita in particular .Perhaps I can furnish ) ,oil additional news items ata later date .

Sincerely yours, G. L. Yates, '34eng, '35ms.

Updegraff Speaks for Red CrossPaul Updcgraff, '301aw, Norman attorney, was

principal speaker at the annual open meeting onNovember 18, of the Oklahoma County Red CrossChapter. Speaking in the Oklahoma City YMCAAuditorium, Updcgraff, first Oklahoma man to siton the national Red Cross Board of Governors,confined his remarks to the organization of the na-tional board under the new charter .He said the charter, granted by Congress last

May, was the first Red Cross charter revision in20 years. It is the third since the organization wasoriginally chartered in 1905 . He pointed out thatthe new charter is designed to allocate more con-trol to local chapters . A 50-member board of gov-ernors is provided for, of which 30 are elected bythe chapters, 8 appointed by the President of theUnited States, and 12 selected by the 38 providedfor.

At the meeting 4 the Oklahoina Count% Chap-icr, fmir new" hoard mcinbers were c1ccted . Thevwere Mrs. Akin Jackson, Mrs. Dal Hogan Jr ., andMrs. Clarence S. Paine, all for three-year terms.Mrs. Neal O'Sullivan was elected to fill the un-cxpired term of Mrs. Warren S. Miller .

Re-elected to the board were ten others . Theyare F. Wiley Ball, Neal Barrett, Dr. Ward L.Shaffer, C. M. Greenman, '366us, Dr. Bert F.Keltz� Dr. D. H. O'Donoghue, Judge Edgar S.Vaught, '346a, '361aw, Dr . H. B. Bruner, Gran-ville Tomerlin, '381aw, and Lee B. Thompson,'25ba, '271aw .

IIiGrr R. O. T. C. FNrsOLLsir. N rFtvollment in the R. O. T. C. at the University

with 1,747 students is the second highest in the4th Army territory, Army headquarters at FortSam Houston has announced. Texas A. & M. Col-lege leads with 2,668 enrolled . Number of studentsin the area, which includes Oklahoma, Texas,Louisiana, New Mexico and Arkansas, has in-creased 62 percent over last year .

The Oklahoma musical program is one of thefew in the nation to conduct research on folk music.

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