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...Tulsa, last week, the National Skeet Shooting Association held its fourth annual championship tournament. As usual, the headliners were not much older than the sport itself. Of the seven amateur champions determined during the week, only one was over 21. Youngest was Augusta's 12-year-old Clayton P. ("Red") Boardman Jr., freckles champion of Georgia, who. hobbling around on crutches (because of a foot infection that hospitalized him for six months), broke 95 out of 100 targets to retain the sub-junior title he won last year...
Sirs: I wish to thank you for the excellently written account of my soaring flight from Wichita Falls, Tex. to Tulsa, Okla., setting a new American distance record [TIME, May 2]. I am bound, however, to point out one error...
...International Petroleum Exposition in Tulsa, Okla., Franks Manufacturing Corp. put on display a new, aluminum-colored, portable rotary drilling rig which can be mounted on an automobile trailer. It attracted little attention. Just to have something to do, attendants started up the rig and began to drill. At 540 feet they struck oil. In some confusion they capped the hole. Tulsa County, which holds mineral rights underneath the exposition, indicated that it would be willing to receive offers...
...Named not for Cartoonist Walt but for Tulsa's Congressman Wesley Ernest Disney...
...came first results. Tall, tan Lewin Barringer wedged himself into the small cockpit of the German-built, Du Pont-owned sailplane Minimoa, was towed into the sky by an airplane at Wichita Falls, Tex., cut loose at 10:45 a. m. Six hours later he landed at Spartan Airport, Tulsa, Okla. Over Oklahoma City he had soared 7,500 feet into the air, 1,267 feet higher than the U. S. altitude record set by his friend Dick du Pont in 1934. He had covered 210 miles, 52 better than the U. S. distance record, also Du Pont...