Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town of Woodward (pop. 8,000) in the heart of northwest Oklahoma's wheat country is a quiet kind of place, typical of farming regions where elbowroom, sunshine and plenty of fresh air are as free as the wind in the fields. There, last week, Robert Smith, 12, and his brother David, 10, got home from Sunday school at the United Brethren Church, ate their lunch and set out together for the movies. On the way, Robert broke into a local surplus supply store, stole four .22-cal. pistols...
...doctor should quit thinking of himself as a saint, admit frankly that he has to be a businessman. "Patients resent having fees tied to how much their leg or their life means to them, and regard this as biological blackmail." ¶The G.P. is getting a raw deal, complained Oklahoma's Dr. Malcom E. Phelps in his presidential address to the American Academy of General Practice in Dallas. Members agreed, passed a resolution denouncing the system whereby they are frozen out of many hospitals by boards under specialists' control and are denied the right to do routine surgery...
Peptic ulcer victims, who have long been condemned by most physicians to insipid Sippy diets,* should throw away their lists of forbidden foods, feel free to eat fried fish and potatoes topped with catchup, if that happens to be what they like. So said the University of Oklahoma's Dr. Stewart G. Wolf last week. Main thing, he told the American Academy of General Practice, is not to restrict what the ulcer patient eats but to do something positive about how often he eats-and that should be every two or three hours, counting the inevitable glass of milk...
...world-and especially the U.S. -is in the midst of one of history's great oil gluts. The U.S. is swimming in oil, with excess stocks of 781 million bbl.-65 million more than last year. Oil production in Texas and Oklahoma has been chopped back drastically; Venezuela, which sends 20% of its crude production to the U.S., has been forced to reduce production even more. Canadian oil sales are in bad shape, and refinery runs of Alberta crude, which comprises 90% of Canada's oil, are at a new low of 271,958 bbl. daily. Only...
...half-interest in a 15,000-acre, $175 million potash deposit in New Mexico. The other half-interest belongs to Kerr-McGee Oil Industries and Phillips Petroleum Co. Oklahoma Democrat Robert Kerr, chairman of Kerr-McGee, is among the staunchest N.F.U.sliners in the U.S. Senate...