Volume 17 , Issue 2

NW Okie's Journey

We have been in Northwest Houston, Texas (near the Vintage area and Tomball Parkway) for almost a week ... visiting friends and my cancer sister. It was cloudy, chilly and rain the first half of the week, but by Friday the sunshine began to peek through the clouds with a warming trend this weekend. Ain't the sunshine, mid-60 temperatures grand!

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Walking With Sadie

Woof! Woof! This is the Lady Sadie Pug all the way from SW Colorado where we received over a foot of snow last weekend. NW Okie missed it though, 'cause she was somewhere between Oklahoma and Texas. But the sunshine has come out since. This Lady Pug is energized by the snow. Woof! Woof!

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One Hundred Years Ago (01/13/1915, Wednesday)

One hundred years ago, 13 January 1915, Wednesday, The Evening Star, Washington D.C. front page headlines were reporting: "D. C. Prohibition Hangs In Balance." Opponents hoped to make parliamentary obstruction in Senate effective. Senator Sheppard prepared to offer his amendment and claimed majority of senate.

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1915, Loveless Marriages Are Decried by Taft

A hundred years, 17 January 1915,Sunday, The Morning Star, out of Washington, D.C., had this front page headline story "Loveless Marriages Are Decried By Taft." Former President Taft lauds practical training to make women independent.

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World War II POW Camp Stories

Alva's German Prisoner of War "POW" Camp, Alva, Oklahoma, Woods County, June, 1942 - November, 1945, "Hitler's Hard-Core Troops Held in Alva."

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World War II 1942-1945 & POW Camps

Prisoner of War Camps in Oklahoma dot Oklahoma in WWII. In November 15, 1987 Article in the Daily Oklahoman It shows a map of Oklahoma with the location of some POW and Interment Camp Headquarters dotted across the state of Oklahoma during World War II.

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WWII (1942-1945) POW Camps In Oklahoma

POW Camps in Oklahoma -- The Battle of Alva at the prisoner of War Camps in Alva, Woods, Oklahoma was reported in The Daily Oklahoma, 22 January 1945, with this letter To Editor as it tells of "Battle of Alva."

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WWII (1942-1945) POW Camps of Camp Trinidad, Colorado

This article is from The Durango Herald, Sunday, August 10, 2003, page 5A, written by Mike Garrett, concerning The Pueblo Chieftain. This Colorado POW camp was once a behive of activity during WWII.

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German POW Murals In Oklahoma

A Waynoka couple find murals behind walls according to a story that ran in The Sunday Oklahoman, July 4, 1982, and written by Carolyn B Leonard, Waynoka Couple Find Murals Behind Walls."

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Basic Facilities of POW Camps

This is a photo and layout of the Alva POW Camp. The upper part was the prisoner's compounds (non-commissioned officers & enlisted men on the left side; German Officers on the right side). Main Street (or Washington Ave.) separating the two compounds and 3rd street running east and west and on the north side of the prisoner's compounds.

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