Volume 16 , Issue 33

NW Okie's Journey

A day late and . . . here it is Tuesday afternoon. I think I am enjoying being outdoors in this beautiful Autumn season, watching the Aspen turn the SW Colorado Rockies to their golden hue, and my daily walks along the Vallecito River and campground trails.

Anyway, Sadie got me locked down today to do some research on 1960's politics in Oklahoma and "Little Dixie" history in the Southeast corner of Oklahoma.

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Walking With Sadie

Sunday though Monday brought more cool, cloudy rain to our neck of the woods (or forest) in these here mountains of Southwest Colorado.

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100 Years Ago, 30 September 1914

One hundred years ago, Wednesday, 30 September 1914, The Times Dispatch, out of Richmond, Virginia was reporting on their front pages these following headlines: German Right Reported Broken, With Allied Army In Hot Pursuit; Von Kluck said to be in flight with his troops. Invaders were surrounded in Somme department, and Peronne recaptured. The war office at London permits publication neither affirming nor denying. British and Japanese take position commanding Germans' main line of defense.

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1962 Oklahoma Democrat Political Photo

[1962 photograph of Democrats posing in campaign photo in Oklahoma: Gene McGill, Carl Albert and W.P. Bill Atkinson.] - This last week I received from a daughter of an old friend of my folks (Gene & Vada McGill), an old 1960's (perhaps 1962) political photo showing my Dad (Gene McGill, on left), with Carl Albert (center) and W. P. "Bill" Atkinson, on right.

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1960s Politics In Oklahoma

Remember the 1959 "prairie fire" and "Big Red E" campaigns of J. Howard Edmondson, who was inaugurated in January 1959? Edmondson won the general election by the largest majority ever given a governor in the state of Oklahoma. He was also the state's youngest governor in history, at age of 33 years.

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1920, Republicans of Little Dixie

8 September 1920, The Morning Tulsa Daily World, page 4, reported on a vote of the League Nation supporters and Democratic and Republican candidates for and against it. Democratic voters were encouraged to vote for the League of Nations, while the Republicans were encouraging their voters to vote against the League of Nations.

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August 1896, Dawes Commission

According to The Daily Ardmoreite, out of Ardmore, Indian Territory, dated 7 August 1896, Friday evening, one of the front page headlines read: Dawes Commission. It was reported as progressing steadily and General Armstrong expressed hopes for a successful outcome.

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