Volume 9 , Issue 39

5/9/1958 - Waynoka, Woods County & Little Sahara Sheiks Saddle Club

With the mention of Waynoka's camels last week, we did some online research at The Oklahoman archives and found several articles in The Oklahoman. This article dated 5/9/1958, page 48, there was this article concerning Waynoka, Woods County Little Sahara Sheiks Saddle Club, Turbaned & Ready for 2,000 Visitors. Here's the rest of that story below:

Alva, May 8, 1958 -- "The camels are watered, the bazaars are stocked, the sheiks of the Waynoka Saddle club are turbaned, and Woods county is ready for 2,000 visitors this weekend.

They will come to Alva from the Oklahoma City grade schools, with their sponsors, aboard the Santa Fe's Crack El Capitan train, and be taken by bus on a sightseeing tour of the county's natural and imported wonders. Both days the train will leave Oklahoma city at 6 a.m. and arrive back there at 11:20 p.m.

These festive days represent the climax of elaborate preparations that have been made for months by a county chamber of commerce and allied clubs and institutions in the county towns, to make Woods county a tourist attraction and recreation center.

Tours will follow the pattern of a recent "dry run," when school children here were taken to see the sights of their own county.

That day, it was nip and tuck which was the most exciting attraction, the "Little Sahara" and camels, or the chuck wagon feed at Freedom, or the Alabaster caverns, or the visit to Chimney Rock, where they met with a surprise that is planned for the crowds this weekend, too. A hot meal at the Percefull Fieldhouse of Northwestern State college will precede the homeward departure of this weekend's guests.

The chamber of commerce is in hopes that shoes will not be lost at the "Oasis pasture," where Nellie and Suzy hold forth, as they were on the trial run, 15 paris of them.

The camels are a community purchase, with gifts that have rum from a dollar to $150. The Commercial bank of Waynoka put up the purchase money and banker Lester Washburn is being mentioned as their godfather.

Besides the school pupils, there are chamber of commerce managers expected from Tulsa, Anadarko, Oklahoma City, Clinton and Fairview, as well as R. G. Miller, "Smoking Room" columnist of the Oklahoma City Times."
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