Volume 6 , Issue 20

Okie's NW Corner

Was it dejavu with what seemed like a scene from the "Wizard of Oz" -- or was it the "Real" thing that hit the small, rural communities of Southern Kansas a few nights ago when dozens of tornadoes were spawn across Harper County, Kansas? The aftermath scenes of the Attica, Kansas farm house/barn being lifted up into the tornadic winds made the television news channels and brought to mind the scenes of -- Dorothy, Toto, in the Wizard of Oz.

Just a few days earlier, before the high winds were passed through NW Oklahoma adding fuel to the tornadoes being spawned in Southern Kansas, Duchess and this NW Okie writer were taking care of business in the urban central part of the state just like other sidewalk suitcase farmers. We have noticed, though, that the wheat is beginning it's golden change in color. It will not be long now until harvest time and combines start rolling into our state.

We have been taking another journey through the 1956 newspaper archives at the Oklahoma Historical Society -- searching for the 1956 March Issues of the Alva Review Courier (ARC). We found the July thru December '56 archives of the ARC, BUT... nothing for January thru June of 1956. We did find some news articles from the 1956 Freedom Call - March 8, March 15, March 22, March 29. What we were mainly searching for was anything to do with the mention of the '56 Avard Unsolved Mystery.

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