Holdenville actor reflects on lifetime of success
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Holdenville actor reflects on lifetime of success
Holdenville TRIBUNE www.holdenvilletribune.com VOLUME 12, NUMBER 24 HUGHES COUNTY, OKLAHOMA 1 SECTION 50¢ WEDNESDAY, June 13, 2012 Holdenville actor reflects on lifetime of success Clu Gulager shares fond memories of Ronald Reagan, John Wayne and Betty Davis By HERMAN BROWN Special to the TRIBUNE One of the most productive film and television actors in America was born in Holdenville, Oklahoma on Friday, Nov. 16, 1928. On that date, William Martin Gulager came kicking and screaming into the world. John Gulager nicknamed his baby boy Clu because of the noisy clu-clu birds living outside their home. Clu’s birth in Holdenville came six months after another famous native son, oil and natural gas tycoon T. Boone Pickens. Both moved away from Holdenville before enjoying amazing success in their respective careers. As for Clu, he has more questions than answers about his connection to Holdenville. He knows he was born there, but doesn’t really know why? Even so, he has always taken pride in being born in the small town in Southeastern Oklahoma. “I tell everyone I was born in Holdenville because that’s what’s on my birth certificate, by golly” he said. “I’m proud of being born in Holdenville.” The actor attempted to solve the mystery. He and his wife (Miriam Byrd-Nethery) drove to Holdenville to search for records linking him to his birthplace. They visited the hospital but didn’t find any answers. For Clu, the Holdenville mystery continues today. Even so, he has always proudly listed Holdenville on his resume. The actor spent his early years in Muskogee and on an uncle’s farm near Tahlequah. “We’re Indians,” he says proudly. “We came from the South when we were replaced (removed). We came (before the Trail of Tears). I guess my family saw the writing on the wall.” Clu’s father was a judge in Muskogee. However, his early years included military service during World War I. John Gulager was stationed in New York City when George M. Cohen recruited him to be in a show ‘Goodbye Sam” to honor the troops in the war. Gulager’s performance attracted the attention of the Keith Orpheum circuit, the biggest vaudeville circuit in the world. “He traveled around and per- found chances to perform in the Chicago area each time he returned there to treatment or review of his consumption. “He also did a radio show in Tulsa on KTUL and all kinds of Tahlequah and provided him with an interesting opportunity. “Hey, what are you doing?” Clu asked his cousin. “He said he was going to join the Marines. I said ‘wait a min- CLU GULAGER IS SHOWN WITH MRS. OKLAHOMA, OUR OWN MEARL CLIFT. This picture was taken in 1962 - 50 years ago at the 10th annual Okmulgee Pow Wow Celebration. Mearl had just been selected as Mrs. Oklahoma. formed in cities and towns … and probably pastures, too,” Clu said of his father. “But he contracted consumption – tuberculosis – and he had to go to the hospital in Heinz, Illinois, where they specialized in consumption. He could not pursue the career in show business that Keith Orpheum offered him.” The elder Gulager returned to Oklahoma and became a lawyer and ended up as a judge in Muskogee. However, he still things,” Clu said. “In one sense, while not being what we call a professional, he was a professional. He put on shows, told jokes and everything.” Clu went to school in Muskogee and graduated high school there. “I graduated from Muskogee Central by the hair of my chinny, chin, chin,” he said. “I think they just put me through because I was such an idiot!” While still in school, Clu got his first taste of acting. He remembers having a role in a third grade play. “I played the Mouse King in the Nutcracker,” he said. In the 7th grade, he won the major role of Puck. According to the material, Puck is also known as Robin Goodfellow. Puck is Oberon’s jester, a mischievous fairy who delights in playing pranks on mortals. “Apparently a teacher was interested in that and rounded up some students to play the parts,” he said. As a 10th grader, Clu adapted Julius Caesar to a 15-minute show for the radio in Muskogee. “God knows how that came about,” he said. A year later, Clu won over the crowd with his bumbling efforts during a school play. “It was a comedy and everyone laughed at me not being able to put up an ironing board,” he recalls. Following high school, Clu had decisions to make about his MANY OF OUR READERS HAVE SEEN MOVIES THAT future. As it turned out, a cousin CLU GULAGER STARRED IN. came over from the farm near ute, I’ll go with you!’” The 17-year-old Clu went to Oklahoma City and joined the military. He was a solo french horn player in the Marines’ band. He also proved to be a gifted athlete. “I won the singles and double tennis championship at Camp Pendleton (California),” he said. “I also played basketball for Camp Pendleton and we played around at various services. Plus, I was in charge of athletic equipment somewhat at Camp Pendleton.” While most of his time in the Marines was smooth sailing, he did manage to upset his commanders once. “I was disturbed, as many young people are, about the garb that was required of Marines when they went on liberty (free time in civilian areas). So I wrote an article to the Marine Corps newspaper and it didn’t sit well with the Marines. They put me on KP (kitchen police) for one week.” Clu said it was during his stint in the Marines that the idea of acting as a profession first struck him. “I was jogging on the back roads of Camp Pendleton and suddenly I had an epiphany. I thought to myself, ‘hey, I want to act.’ Now, I had no idea of what acting was and I didn’t even know how to spell it. But I went to Hollywood on weekends and studied with a shoe salesman. I must have gotten his name out of a telephone directory.” The shoe salesman wondered if Clu was married. When he learned that the would-be actor was single, he offered a prediction. “Well, when you get married, things will open up in acting for you,” he said. “That’s the only thing I remember and I didn’t have any idea what it meant.” Clu served 19 months in the Marines before being granted an Honorable Discharge. It was after World War II and the Marines were attempting to downsize. They accomplished that goal by offering early releases to Clu and thousands of others. The Holdenville native then drifted back to Oklahoma. He enrolled in classes at Northeastern College (now NSU). That’s when the acting option came around for him. “There was a man there, S. Walker James, who taught drama. He said ‘Clu, you seem to have a smidgeon of talent, so I am going to suggest that you go to Baylor University where Paul Baker teaches.’ He sent me to Baylor at Waco, Texas, where there was a really advanced program in theater. While I was there, we did an original play by Eugene McKinney, who taught at the school. It was called ‘A Different Drummer.’ Mr. Baker had been the head of the Second World War European Department of Entertainment. All the actors and, dancers and singers had come through his office so Continued on Page 3 CLU GULAGER TODAY PAGE 2—HOLDENVILLE TRIBUNE—JUNE 13, 2012 One of the great blessings in life is a Vidalia onion. Lewis Grizzard writes that when he is confronted by atheists, he simply makes the point that if there wasn’t a God and He didn’t love us, there wouldn’t be such a thing as the beloved Vidalia onion. Think about it: Vidalia onions, which are sweet and mild, grow only in a small part of southeast Georgia. Some have tried to duplicate the Vidalia in other parts of the country, but to no avail. God, I am convinced, was traveling through what was to become southeast Georgia during the six days of Creation and said, “Let there be a sweet, mild onion, and let it grown here and here only.” It was just another of the many blessings God gave us, such as spring, cool breezes, the beach, and frequent-flyer points. I must admit, however, that I have had a problem with Vidalia onions over the years. I usually buy them in great quantities. I am afraid if I don’t, the Arabs will get control of Vidalias and send the price up so far I cant buy them anymore. My problem is that I can’t eat my onions fast enough, and some of my supply turns funny colors and begins to smell. Because I absolutely abhor throwing out spoiled Vidalia onions, I set about to find a way to keep them fresh for long periods of time. Finally, I have the answer. Friends invited me to dinner recently, and delicious baked Vidalia onions were served During the meal I asked, “Do you have a problem keeping your Vidalias fresh?” “Of course not,” the husband answered. “I’ve got fifty pounds of them stored right now. I’ll be eating Vidalia onions all winter. The best way to keep Vidalias,” he went on, “is to put them in panty hose.” “Panty hose?” “Yes,” the wife explained. “You take a pair of panty hose and cut of the top part. “Then you put an onion all the way to the place where your foot goes. Then you tie a knot just above that onion and put in another on top of it. When the panty hose are full of onions, you hang them up somewhere and they stay absolutely fresh. “What you are doing is keeping the onions form touching one another, which is one reason they go bad if you leave them stored in, say, a sack.” “I hope you don’t mind if I tell the rest of the nation about this,” I said to my friends. “Fine, but I don’t believe you should mention us by name,” said the husband while his wife was not in the room. “It could be a little embarrassing if you wrote that my wife could get fifty pounds of Vidalia onions in a pair of her panty hose.” I put my hand on what was left of my baked Vidalia and swore I would be discreet. —CC— Daydreaming . . . is it just another memory from the “good old days?” Danny Heitman is hoping for a comeback in daydreaming and writes . . . “As another summer arrives at our doorstep, I’ve been thinking of what my 11-year-old son told me not long ago on a long drive back from a weekend of camping. “If it’s OK with you,” Will said from the back seat, “I’m just going to sit here and daydream for a while.” I was heartened that Will had decided to claim a few moments for mental wandering after two days devoted to the outdoor regimens of his Boy Scout troop. But as I gazed through the rearview at the woods receding from view, I had to wonder if Will’s plans would produce the desired result. Daydreaming, after all, is something that tends to defy planning. The best daydreams just happen, serendipitously, as we’re doing something else—the brain slipping its leash for a random walk away from work, or class, or the Sunday sermon gone on too long. But my son’s sense of daydreaming as a pastime requiring a certain amount of room in the day—a slow half-hour or so when thoughts can float like balloons into the waiting sky—seemed a wise recognition of the freedom needed to let a mind go. Summer, in our ideal vision of the season, seems a natural incubator for daydreaming, as office schedules slacken, and beach vacations beckon, and the close of school liberates children from campus. But in squaring off his daydreaming time the way that a grownup might pencil in an appointment with the dentist or CPA, Will reminded me of the degree to which kids these days tend to think in schedules, even in summer. Summer camps nudge America’s children from one enrichment activity to another, and little-league sports perpetually point their little eyes toward the urgency of a ball in play. Do youngsters have any real chance for daydreaming during the vacation months—or in any other time of the year? A daydream is a stolen pleasure—a moment or two pleasantly robbed from some more obviously useful task as the brain leaps a fence, goes adventuring and, with any luck, returns to active duty before anyone knows it’s been AWOL. But as texts and tweets and ringing cell phones keep a constant claim on attention, such mental escapes can seem all but impossible for youngsters and grown-ups alike. If an awareness-raising campaign for daydreaming seems in order, then there’s no better role model for the cause than the title character of James Thurber’s 1939 short story, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.” A genius at mental digression, the unassuming Mitty evades the tedium of errands with his wife by casting himself as the star of several fantasies, alternately trying on the roles of rakish military commander, ingenious surgeon, crafty murder suspect, and tragic hero facing the firing squad. Thurber’s story took on a life of its own, proving wildly popular among careworn Americans fighting World War II. Readers seemed to know that even in the midst of a global conflict—or perhaps because of it—a little mental doodling like Mitty’s could do them a lot of good. But Thurber was amused, some years after his free-associating hero first appeared in print, to discover that a British medical journal had coined the term “Walter Mitty syndrome” to describe “pathological daydreaming.” Maybe it was inevitable that Mitty would be appropriated to equate daydreaming with illness. Today, as concern about attention deficit disorder informs the popular culture, a practiced daydreamer might find himself classified not as an artist of improvisation, but a case to be cured. Long before Walter Mitty’s wife tried in vain to return him permanently to reality, the world had its daydreamers—and diligent guardians bent on reforming them. When asked how he happened to create his famous daydreamer, Thurber suggested that he didn’t so much invent Mitty as simply extend a lengthy tradition. “There were Walter Mittys, under other names, in the writings of dozens of men ahead of my time, including Shakespeare,” he told a reader. So maybe, given its genius for subversion, daydreaming might survive—and even thrive—in a summer that’s probably going to be much busier than it needs to be. —CC— Quote of the Week: There isn’t much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it. —CC— I thought of my mother when I recently read the following . . . Greg Spitzer writes that at the podiatrist’s office, his mother listed all her ailments. “I have a lot of health issues,” she told him. “Chrohn’s disease, thyroid problems, high cholesterol – that’s just the tip of the iceberg. But I have one saving grace: I don’t drink.” The doctor nodded understandingly: “You should.” no more. • 50 Different Mattresses • All Sizes • All Prices • We Deliver 123 E. Main • Ada, OK • (580) 436-8265 HOLDENVILLE TRIBUNE—JUNE 13, 2012—PAGE 3 Clu Gulager H Snyder H Continued on Page 5 for Hughes County Sheriff A third generation Holdenville resident, Vietnam Era Veteran, retired from Tinker Air Force base and an Associates Degree in Corrections from Oklahoma City Community College, Kenny Snyder has the knowledge and leadership skills to tackle the tough issues of crime, theft and drugs in Hughes county. Kenny promises to: • Create a Dependable Sheriff’s Office • Respond to ALL Calls in a Timely Manner • Make a Stronger Patrolling Force H Strong Leader H Dependable H Honest VOTE FOR SNYDER! Paid for by Snyder for Hughes County Sheriff Campaign, 315 S. Burgess, Holdenville, OK 74848 Service Tuesday For Peggy Kincaid WE UNDERSTAND COMMITMENT. Funeral service scheduled for Tuesday, June 19th, at 11:00 am in the Hudson Phillips Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow at Holdenville Cemetery. The family request in lieu of flowers donations be made to American Heart Association or the Holdenville Education Foundation, PO Box 641, Holdenville, OK 74848. D Continued from Front Page he had met almost all of them. So he called some friends of his who had the No. 1 show at that time called ‘Omnibus television.’ They were invited to come down to Waco to see the play. “They saw it and liked it,” he recalls. The performance led to an offer for Gulager and his wife to move to New York City to perform a version of the play for the television show. “We did a 43-minute adaptation of ‘A Different Drummer’ for the No. 1 show in America,” he recalls. “I was horrible. I didn’t know film acting. I just didn’t understand it at that moment. The director said ‘Clu, you are wonderful, but could you take it down a bit and make it conversational.’” Clu agreed to the direction, but had other ideas. “I said ‘OK,’ but I knew he was dead wrong,” he said. “I knew everything. And so I was horrible on the show. My wife was a singer … one of the great singers in America …a great voice. She was in the Music department and was wonderful on the show.” After the major break in New York, Clu had a decision to make on his career. He and his wife decided to pack their bags and head west. “But, after the show, we went back down to Baylor. A lot of the critics on that 43-minute adaptation said these two people are fine and should have their own TV series. But I had promised my folks I’d finish my education so I went back to Baylor.” Clu’s next move would be to Europe. A British acting school director saw the Holdenville native in Waco and invited him to come to London. “You are very gifted and I am going to arrange a scholarship for you go to the Old Vic training school in London,” he was told. “I got on a boat and started over there. On the boat ride over, apparently (Prime Minister Winston) Churchhill cancelled the Fine Arts Council’s support for first-year students. When I arrived at the school, they told me that.” Clu knew only that he would not being going to the school. That’s about all he knew for sure. He spent the next five days in London before making his next move. He left London and went to France. “I went over to Paris to a one-man show by a painter who had been a guest artist at Baylor University. I was sitting in the corner waiting on him. When he came in, he said ‘Clu, Clu … what are you doing here?’ So I told him my sad story.” The painter offered to take his American friend to Jean-Louis Barrault a French actor, director and mime artist. “Who?” asked Clu. He later realized that Barrault was “probably the most famous actor on the continent. “He had a big, beautiful theater in a great big park. He let me study there. What I did was I kind of observed him directing, acting and working with people. I came and went free. It was an opportunity. I couldn’t speak French, so I studied French. I studied with a man who I’d heard about DeCroux . He was kind of the formentor of the modern Mime. He and his son taught modern mime on the other side of town, in the slums. He was a mad man but a great artist who taught me and wanted me to be in his troupe. When I told him I was really an actor and that set him off! I said I had to go back to America to try to act. I found out that he and Barrault were roommates for three and one-years when they were young artists. All they did was study movement in its pure form.” Barrault then stunned DeCroux by telling him he was going to have to leave him because he was an actor and that is what he was going to try to do. It was a bitter split. Years later, Gulager repeated almost the exact same message when announcing he would leave to become an actor. Clu returned to Baylor University for a while. He and his wife were performing Hamlet at the university theater. Burgess Merridith was holding down the role of Hamlet in the production. Gulager played Osric. Famous actor and director Charles Laughton was invited by Baker to come to Baylor and put the finishing touches on Hamlet. Clu had designed his own costume for his role. When he came out on the stage, he wore heavy padding to make it look like he had a large rear end and a large belly. He also carried a large yellow rose. “I was playing a sort of a foppish sort of a guy,” the actor said. “Ivan told me later that Laughton stood up and wondered ‘is he imitating me?’ He didn’t like my costume! I went away from how it was written, like many actors will do, to play against it. He changed me back to slender … but let me keep the rose. And I got to keep some of my character.” During the same time, the married couple would drive to Dallas to work at the Margo Jones Theater. “They had written a play and we starred in it,” he said. Clu said he ended up using his studies in Paris to get into the theater. He and his wife then moved on to New York to work in live television. However, the actor’s busy career in New York began to slow down as lots of TV shows departed The Big Apple for Los Angeles. “They had a migration to the sound stages of Hollywood and to the sunshine which shines almost every day,” he said. “That saved them a lot of money. So the industry picked up lock, stock and barrel and went to Hollywood.” Clu was not thrilled with the move West. “I didn’t want to go,” he said. “I loved my life. I had been working in live television, and when you are working you are kind of happy.” Ironically, it was a call from his wife that changed everything. She had taken their baby son, John, to visit family members in Arkansas and Oklahoma. From there, she called to suggest a major change in their life. “I’m not coming back,” she told him. “We MUST go to Hollywood. There’s no (acting) work in New York. We’ll starve to death living a good life.” The actor reluctantly left New York to return to Oklahoma. He put off the move to Hollywood while taking real jobs while living in Muskogee. 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Survivors include his children Valerie Williams and husband Dan of Cushman, Arkansas, Marvin Ballard of Holdenville, Edward Ballard and wife Karen of Wewoka, Allen Ballard and wife Patricia of Caddo, Stacey Caskey and husband Leon of Purcell, and Tracey Dee Smith and husband Gary of Moore; 16 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; one great-great grandson; and a host of other nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives. Graveside services were held 2:00 PM on Tuesday, June 12th, at the Holdenville Cemetery with Rev. Larry Chesser officiating. Services were under the direction of Hudson-Phillips Funeral Home in Holdenville. Service Held For Karen Sue (Osborn) Huff Karen Sue (Osborn) Huff was born on May 8, 1944 in Wetumka, Oklahoma to Uyless and Gladys Osborn. She passed from this life on Thursday, June 7, 2012 at Holdenville General Hospital at the age of 68. Sue was raised in the Wetumka area and graduated from Moss High School in 1963. Sue married Charles Huff on June 18, 1964. They had two sons, Steve and Rusty Huff. Sue was well known around Holdenville having worked at First United Bank for 32 years. She retired in 2009. Sue was a long time member of East Main Church of Christ. Sue was preceded in death by her father on June 15, 1997. Survivors include her mother, Gladys Os- born of Wetumka; sons, Steve Huff and wife Desiree of Wichita, Kansas, and Russell Huff and wife Kerry of Goddard, Kansas; grandchildren Kayleigh, Heather, Rachel, Ethan, Laura and Garrett; brother, Ronald Osborn and wife Phyllis of Holdenville; and many other relatives and friends. Funeral service was held at 10:00 AM on Monday, June 11th, at the East Main Church of Christ in Holdenville, Oklahoma; Alan Eck officiated. Pallbearers were Travis Huff, Steve Huff, Ethan Huff, John Osborn, Jeff Osborn, Paul Huff, and Ronny Lee Osborn. Interment followed at Wetumka Cemetery, Wetumka, Oklahoma. Services were under the direction of Hudson-Phillips Funeral Home, Holdenville, Oklahoma. 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They became friends at Studio 1 on a show called ‘John Wesley Harden.’ In a live scene on the show, Clu comes in the door behind Boone standing at a bar. The Holdenville actor pulls a gun and attempts to shoot the other actor. However, the gun did not work planned. It was what actors call a prop problem. “It just went ‘click,’ “he said. “This is live television so you cannot just stop and say ‘let’s retake this.’ He saw in the mirror what happened. So he turned around and I went like that again (shooting motion) and he took it and went down and died. So we were friends.” Later, Boone moved out to Los Angeles to work on acting roles there. “He had done well in Hollywood,” Clu recalls. “I called him from Muskogee and told him I was coming out there. He told me to come by and he’d see what we could do. So I went by his show ‘Have Gun Will Travel.’ It was the No. 1 show and he put me in his show for the next week, the starring role without any audition or anything. So I went to MCA and I went to Monique James, head of West Coast television. I told her I was here (in Hollywood).” The agent’s reaction caught him off-guard. “Where have you been?” she asked. “We all wondered where you went in New York.” Clu had no idea his Hollywood welcome would be so swift. “So, evidently, I’d made an impression in New York,” he said. “But actors never know when they do that. We don’t know anything. We are just on that stage doing our silly stuff.” The agent told him MCA wanted to sign him as their client. As surprised as he was, she was even more shocked when he told her about already landing a starring role the following week on the top-ranked TV show. “I told her I had this job with Dick Boone and she about fainted!” The agent also quickly scheduled for Gulager to appear in the Playhouse 90. The role was noticed by Lew Wasserman, the head of Universal and Review. “He saw it and signed me as the first contract player for the Universal stock company at the time.” Clu was later cast in Universal Studios’ 1964 movie ‘The Killers.’ He and Lee Marvin played professional killers. They shared the screen with Angie Dickinson and future President Ronald Reagan. In the film, Reagan plays his only role as a villain. It was also his final film before entering politics. “That SOB shot me and killed me,” Clu said of Reagan. “But I had met Mr. Reagan several times before. His wife (Nancy Davis Reagan) had played with me on my first series ‘The Tall Man.’ I played Billy the Kid. He played opposite of me several times. And she was a very gifted actress and did very well on my show, as opposed to her Warner Brothers movies. She was really natural and easy going and really a good actress, Nancy was.” Clu recalls Ronald Reagan was always very nice during visits to the set. He would come there during Nancy’s appearances in ‘The Tall Man’ series. One funny Ronald Reagan story stands out for Clu. “They had given me a great big horse – 16 hands high. Before that, I had the (same) horse that Randolf Scott had used in most of his movies, but the horse got so old he died! They switched and gave me another horse than looked like it, but it was high … really tall. They even called him High.” Once, Clu was attempting to put his boot in the stirrups and quickly mount the horse for a scene. However, the 5-11 actor failed in several attempts. The horse was just too tall to make it an easy mount. “Finally, I just fell down on my back and was showing off,” he said. “Mr. Reagan said to me ‘Clu, Clu … I used to do this, you know. I was a cowboy. Here’s what I did: I had the camera to shoot me as I started to get on my pony. Then they said ‘cut!’ Then I got on the horse… and I was on the horse and they said ‘action’ and I was already on the horse. So that’s the way I did it. That’s what I’m suggesting to you to do the same thing.” The actor added that “he was a very kind man and he was just trying to help. He was very giving. What you saw, you got. He was just that. He had great charisma.” Clu worked with some other fine actors in the Oscar-winning movie, ‘The Last Picture Show’ in 1971. He plays ‘Abilene,’ a guy who has ‘relations’ with Cybil Shepherd on a pool table. The scene was very uncomfortable to watch for director Peter Bogdanovich, who fell in love with Shepherd during filming. In fact, Bogdanovich wanted to do more that direct Shepherd in the movie. “He wanted to play my role,” Clu said. “But casting director Ross Brown talked to Peter and said ‘I think you have enough to do directing and writing and all this stuff. I think you should just let someone else do it.’” Bogdanovich wondered who HOLDENVILLE TRIBUNE—JUNE 13, 2012—PAGE 5 Corn Silk C R E AT I O N S Highway 1 •Allen • Next door to Dave’s Diner Specials Candles • Jewelry • Handmade items • Lye Soap • Art • Crafts • New & Used Books Paperback books......6 for $1 Harlequin Romance novels...........75¢ Come in and look around! Open: Thursday • Friday • Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Town & Country Auto Inc. www.tocoinc.com • 405-257-6275 • Wewoka, OK 1 mile East of Hwy 56 on Hwy 270 in Wewoka Large Selection Many Makes and Models Available Buy Here - Pay Here Bank Financing - WAC We’re Always Here for You - 23 Years - Lip Lick’n Good our church y r e t a c s u Let ! rge parties la d n a s g outin Monday - Thursday 11-8 • Friday - Saturday 11-9 Closed on Sunday 129 N. Milt Phillips, Seminole, OK 405-382-5700 Continued on Page 6 DOWN MEMORY LANE—3RD GRADE CLASS — PARK VIEW SCHOOL — 1940’s—(first row) Montra Morgan, Martha Morgan, Patty Jo Eaton, Mary Catherine McCoin, B.J. Fields, Amak Taylor, Curtis Cole, Gracie Bilyue and ?. (second row) Miss Wilbanks, Teacher, ?, Catherine Carnes, Mary Balch, Nathan McGee, Virginia Rogers, Mary Austin and Margaret Owens. (third row) Patty Gille, ?, Ruthie ?, Jo Fuller Doyle, Jessie Womack, ?, Lamona Holman and ?. (fourth row) Anna Mae Owens, Freddie Cook, Jimmy Roberts, Johnny McRay, Bert Brown, ? , ?. PAGE 6—HOLDENVILLE TRIBUNE—JUNE 13, 2012 Holdenville actor reflects on lifetime of success Continued from Page 5 the casting director had in mind for the role. That’s when Brown suggested Gulager would be a great choice to play Abilene. “Clu Gulager looks the part and he’s a good actor,” Brown said. “So why don’t we get him in here and let you meet him.” Once the director met Clu, he agreed the Holdenville native should be cast as Abilene. “But I think Peter was always upset that I was playing opposite the woman he loved,” Clu said. As for the movie, it is considered one of the best films of all time. However, Clu had a far different opinion at first. “When I read the script, I realized it was total trash,” he said. “It was full of trailer trash stuff. But I took it anyway because, you know, actors work. I did it and it turned out to be a classic! I look at it now and say ‘boy, that’s a good film.’” Closer to home, Clu would have the chance to work on a movie in the Tulsa area. However, he was in a self-imposed acting retirement and didn’t want to work in the made-for-TV movie ‘Ambush at Waco: In the Line of Duty.’It was a film about cult leader David Koresh during the deadly standoff at Waco. The casting director wanted Clu to work on the movie - but he did not want to do it. He figured the easy way to turn down the role was to hit them in the budget. “I ask for too much money,” he said, thinking they would turn him down. However, that’s not what happened. “But they paid me the money so I had to do it!” Clu was cast as the McLennan County sheriff. According to the cast list, his wife, Miriam ByrdNethery, appears as Harriet in the movie. Their daughter-inlaw, Diane Ayala Goldner, also has a minor role in the movie. Scenes were shot in Mounds and also in Beggs. The actor then returned to Hollywood, but went back into retirement. However, he would take a role here and there - often at the request of a friend. His son, John, also drags him back in front of a camera every once in a while. Clu does not brag on his work. In fact, he downplays most of his roles. However, he expresses some pride in one of his more recent performances. “I made a short at the end of my acting career called Vic with Sage Stallone,” the actor said. “I like what Sage did with it. That’s the one that came out a little bit. I like the way he wrote my role about an old actor having trouble. I kind of identified with that. I think that was the one. That’s the one role I really liked.” Looking back, he is proud to have shared scenes with some of the biggest names in movies. “I worked with a lot of what I call big stars,” he said. “I worked with John Wayne and Betty Davis and really all the big ones.” John Wayne was one of his favorites. He recalls a story about Duke. “His boys were good boys … really good-hearted children and two stars’ children who turned out really well. They were going to produce a couple of movies, and to do that you generally have to have some stars. So they said ‘Pop, can you help us out and star in these two little films?’ So he said ‘boys, I’m dying!’ They said ‘yes, we know that, but could you star in these two little films?’ Of course he did … and in one of them I played the villain.” Clu recalls how John Wayne would always play chess between his scenes. “He’d play several yards off camera while they were setting up the lights and placing the microphones and things like that. I saw one day when they finished with the lights and the AD (assistant director) started walking toward Mr. Wayne to get him (for the scene). But Mr. Wayne was by that time half-way to the camera. He just knew instinctively knew when they were ready to film. You didn’t have to call him. He was there, at arm’s length by the camera ready to go every shot. He was, I guess, the most professional actor I ever worked with. And as far as acting, don’t ever let anyone tell you Wayne was not a real actor. He was one of the great actors for film. He could do things in front of a camera that nobody else could. And I worshiped actors and he was one of the best. That’s my take on him.” Another of the all-time greats was Betty Davis. Even late in her life and career, she still gave everything she had to her roles – and did her best to help others around her do great work. “Betty Davis was so old that she couldn’t walk,” he recalls. “But she was out on a 125-degree tarmac in Dallas, Texas. I’d replaced an actor in Ron Howard’s first film and I was called down there. And she had done her close-up the day before on the tarmac. And she was out there (the next day). I said ‘Mrs. Davis, you don’t have to be out here. They are doing my closeup. You can go over there in the shade.’ But she said ‘Listen, I know who you are and you’re really good and I would never ever treat you that way. As long as you are out here doing your close-up, I’ll be out here offcamera in this sun reading you lines. I would never, ever, disrespect you in that way!” Her incredible professionalism stunned and delighted Clu. “I just about melted right there,” he said. Another favorite of Clu was Alice Ghostley, who grew up in Arkansas, but graduated from Henryetta High School. He also recalls working with her in the 1999 movie ‘Palmer’s Pick-up.’ Clu’s wife was also from Arkansas. Her family knew Ghostley’s family. “Alice’s father worked with my wife’s father on the railroad. They worked on a thing called the Doodlebug railroad down there. My father-in-law was a freight train conductor and they both worked together.” It has been 55 years since Clu appeared on television. Over the years, he has worked in countless TV and movies projects. His latest appearance in a movie comes this weekend in Piranha 3DD. The film is directed by Clu’s son, John Gulager. It stars Danielle Panabaker and Matt Bush. David Hasselhoff and Gary Busey also have roles in the film. Gulager notes his role is not a big one. “One thing I can say about my role in the movie is ‘don’t blink.’ It’s not the biggest role I ever got. I don’t act anyone, but when John makes a picture he wants me in it for nostalgic reasons I guess. I told him I don’t act anymore. But he said ‘you are in it!’ … so I said ‘OK.’ I do whatever he tells me.” Gulager can’t discuss specifically what happens in his scene in Piranha 3DD. But he’s able to say that he shares it with another well-known Okie actor, Gary Busey. “He (Busey) came down to the set and we reminisced about things,” he said. “Gary is a great actor. As for me, I don’t consider myself an actor anymore, I just go to movies and eat.” Gulager was asked if he has advice for someone who wants to make acting a career. “May God have mercy on your soul,” he said, laughing. Clu Gulager Movie & TV acting roles (from Internet Movie Data Base listings) 2012 Piranha 3DD 2010 Nico Vega’s ‘Gravity’ (short) 2009 Feast III: The Happy Finish (video) 2008 Feast II: Sloppy Seconds (video) 2008 Thus to Tyrants (short) 2006 Vic (short) - Vic Reeves 2005 Feast 1999 Palmer’s Pick Up 1999 Gunfighter 1996 Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (TV series) – Last Dance (1996) … Art McKendrick 1995 Walker, Texas Ranger (TV series) – Final Justice (1995) … Duke Jamison 1995 Beavis and Butt-Head (TV series) – What’s the Deal? (1995) … Anderson’s War Buddy (uncredited) 1995 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (TV series) – Gunfighters (1995) … Deputy Clay Hardin 1994 Puppet Master 5: The Final Chapter (video) 1993 Ambush in Waco: In the Line of Duty (TV movie) 1993 Killing Device 1992 Eddie Presley 1991 My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys 1990 The Willies 1990 Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective (video) 1988 I’m Gonna Git You Sucka 1988 Uninvited (video) 1988 MacGyver (TV series) – Thin Ice (1988) … Walt Kirby 1988 Tapeheads 1988 Teen Vamp 1987 The Hidden 1985-1987 Murder, She Wrote (TV series) – Old Habits Die Hard (1987) … Ray Carter – Dead Heat (1985) … Mike Gann – Funeral at Fifty-Mile (1985) … Carl Mestin 1987 Summer Heat 1987 The Offspring 1986 Simon & Simon (TV series) – The Rookie (1986) … Nathan Sloan 1986 Hunter’s Blood 1986 North and South, Book II (TV mini-series) Gen. Philip Henry Sheridan – Episode #1.6 (1986) … Gen. Philip Henry Sheridan – Episode #1.5 (1986) … Gen. Philip Henry Sheridan – Episode #1.4 (1986) … Gen. Philip Henry Sheridan – Episode #1.3 (1986) … Gen. Philip Henry Sheridan – Episode #1.2 (1986) … Gen. Philip Henry Sheridan 1982-1986 The Fall Guy (TV series) Col. Halston / Marv Jackson / Osborne – The Last Chance Platoon (1986) … Col. Halston – Trauma (1983) … Osborne – Hell on Wheels (1982) … Marv Jackson 1986 Magnum, P.I. (TV series) – Way of the Stalking Horse (1986) … Theo Wolf 1986 Airwolf (TV series) – Day of Jeopardy (1986) … Cullen Dixon 1985 Riptide (TV series) – Requiem for Icarus (1985) … Doug Skinner 1985 Bridge Across Time (TV movie) 1985 A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge 1985 Lies 1985 The Return of the Living Dead 1985 Prime Risk 1985 Into the Night 1985 Knight Rider (TV series) – Buy Out (1985) … Eugene Hanson 1985 Street Hawk (TV series) – Fire on the Wing (1985) … Will Gassner 1985 Space (TV mini-series) 1984 The Initiation 1984 I Do Mind Dying (short) 1984 Cover Up (TV series) – Sudden Exposure (1984) … Bo Watson 1984 Chattanooga Choo Choo 1984 The Yellow Rose (TV series) – Villa’s Gold (1984) … Charlie Reno 1984 Masquerade (TV series) – Oil (1984) 1984 The Master (TV series) – Max (1984) … Mr. Christensen 1983 Automan (TV series) – The Great Pretender (1983) … Rudolph Brock 1983 This Is the Life (TV series) – The Champion (1983) … Coach Williams 1983 Cutter to Houston (TV series) – It Ain’t Braggin’ If You Done It (1983) … Coach Chug Phillips 1983 Living Proof: The Hank Williams, Jr. Story (TV movie) 1982 CHiPs (TV series) – The Game of War (1982) … Stoler 1982 Quincy M.E. (TV series) – For Love of Joshua (1982) … Larry Krushevitz 1981 Falcon Crest (TV series) – Unaired Pilot … Chase Gioberti 1980 Skyward (TV movie) 1980 Touched by Love 1980 Kenny Rogers as The Gambler (TV movie) 1979 A Force of One 1979 Lawman Without a Gun (TV movie) 1979 The MacKenzies of Paradise Cove (TV series) – The Agony of Victory, the Joy of Defeat (1979) … Cuda Weber – A Debt in the Family (1979) … Cuda Weber – The Little People (1979) … Cuda Weber – Crate Expectations (1979) … Cuda Weber 1979 Willa (TV movie) 1978 A Question of Love (TV movie) 1978 Stickin’ Together (TV movie) 1978 Ski Lift to Death (TV movie) 1978 King (TV mini-series) – Episode #1.3 (1978) … William Sullivan – Episode #1.2 (1978) … William Sullivan – Episode #1.1 (1978) … William Sullivan 1978 Black Beauty (TV miniseries) 1977 The Oregon Trail (TV series) – The Army Deserter (1977) … Harris 1977 Westside Medical (TV series) – Pressure Cook (1977) … Jim MacAllister 1977 Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging (TV movie) 1977 The Other Side of Midnight 1977 Dog and Cat (TV series) – Dead Skunk (1977) 1976 Once an Eagle (TV miniseries) 1976 Most Wanted (TV series) – The Two Dollar Kidnappers (1976) … Shelby 1972-1976 Hawaii Five-O (TV series) – Assault on the Palace (1976) … Arthur Lambert – Fools Die Twice (1972) … Jack Gulley 1976 The Killer Who Wouldn’t Die (TV movie) 1976 Good Heavens (TV series) – Good Neighbor Maxine (1976) … Jim Pearson 1973-1976 Barnaby Jones (TV series) – The Eyes of Terror (1976) … Sheriff Mack Hollister – Trial Run for Death (1973) … Mark Landy 1976 Ellery Queen (TV series) – The Adventure of the Judas Tree (1976) … Father Terrence Devlin/Captain Thomas G. Horton 1976 Phyllis (TV series) – Crazy Mama (1976) – Phyllis in Love (1976) … Rex 1974-1975 Police Story (TV series) – The Empty Weapon (1975) … Officer Williams – Country Boy (1974) … Tim Keegan 1975 Three for the Road (TV series) – The Cave (1975) 1975 Medical Story (TV series) – An Air Full of Death (1975) … Dr. Harry Carlisle 1975 Kate McShane (TV series) – Terror on Sycamore Street (1975) 1975 The Streets of San Francisco (TV series) – Poisoned Snow (1975) … Inspector George Turner 1971-1975 Cannon (TV series) – Vengeance (1975) … Jonathan Quill – Child of Fear (1972) … Burdick – Country Blues (1971) … B.J. Long 1975 Khan! (TV series) 1975 McCloud (TV series) – Lady on the Run (1975) … Johnny Monahan 1975 The Drought 1974 The ABC Afternoon Playbreak (TV series) – Heart in Hiding (1974) … Ford 1974 Get Christie Love! (TV series) – Highway to Murder (1974) 1974 Gangsterfilmen 1974 Hit Lady (TV movie) 1974 Houston, We’ve Got a Problem (TV movie) 1974 Shaft (TV series) – The Murder Machine (1974) … Quayle 1974 Smile Jenny, You’re Dead (TV movie) 1974 Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law (TV series) – The Attacker (1974) … Georgie 1974 McQ 1973 The New Perry Mason (TV series) – The Case of the Jailed Justice (1973) … Tom Heater 1968-1973 Ironside (TV series) – Murder by One (1973) … Frank Clinton – Poole’s Paradise (1969) … D.W. Donnelly – Price Tag: Death (1968) … Jack Brody 1973 Insight (TV series) – The Resurrection of Joe Hammond (1973) 1973 Wide World Mystery (TV series) – Chant of Silence (1973) 1973 Call to Danger (TV movie) 1973 Kung Fu (TV series) – Blood Brother (1973) … Sheriff Rutledge 1973 Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color (TV series) – The Mystery of Dracula’s Castle: Part 2 (1973) … Keith Raynor – The Mystery of Dracula’s Castle: Part 1 (1973) … Keith Raynor 1973 Mystery in Dracula’s Castle (TV movie) 1973 Mannix (TV series) – The Man Who Wasn’t There (1973) … Lyle Foster 1972 Molly and Lawless John 1972 The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (TV series) – End Theme (1972) … Dan Corwin – A Threatened Species (1972) … Matt Smith 1972 Mod Squad (TV series) – Another Final Game (1972) … Dustin Ellis 1972 Bonanza (TV series) – Stallion (1972) … Billy Brenner 1972 Footsteps (TV movie) 1972 Medical Center (TV series) – The Choice (1972) … Jack 1972 The Glass House (TV Continued on Page 9 HOLDENVILLE TRIBUNE—JUNE 13, 2012—PAGE 7 The Year Was 1942 SUGAR RATION RULES CHEERFULLY ACCEPTED BY HUGHES COUNTYANS It was a “mighty democratic” line that formed to the county War Price and Rationing board counter Saturday morning—97 women receiving sugar allotments for canning purposes. Prominent matrons, Negro homemakers, wealth, pennysaving, and a varied list of in-betweens, stood in the line—truly representative of the American Determination to “do anything to win this war.” “Our people have been cooperative without a single exception,” said Wade F. George, secretary of the rationing board. “They don’t mind standing in line, there is no complaining and we have had many of them say they’d give up every grain of sugar if it took it to win the war.” In addition to the number receiving the allotments here each of the sub-agents over the county has been kept busy issuing the canning sugar applications, George said. Up to Friday the county had had 6,958 pounds issued with 629 applications approved. The No. 3 stamp expires Sunday night at midnight, the No. 4 then becoming effective until June 27. Retail grocers have 10 days to turn their No. 3’s to wholesalers for credit. NOSIN’ AROUND Virginia Lee Cox getting state publicity as head of a corps of pretty OU coeds on duty to recruit men actors for roles in a forthcoming Shakespearean play at the university . . . Bud Holmes being mistaken for Brother Jimmie . . . Mrs. Oscar Knight receiving an interesting letter . . . City Boy Scouts braving the rain for the sake of camping out . . . Mr. and Mrs. Clem Pollock relaying an exciting message . . . “Uncle Jim” Lane declaring himself a bit behind with the pursuit of his Spanish study . . . Ralph Tallman keeping his fingers crossed in the matters of windstorms blowing down light poles or wire . . . Mrs. Millie Aultman glad to be home again . . . young David George in a big hurry . . . Bid Davis getting set for the big ones to bite . . . Mrs. Charles Hamilton entertaining a young guest . . . Johnnie Waggoner personally supervising . . . J.R. Witty discussing the bumper dewberry crop. CITY POST TO JOIN IN COLLECTION OF PHONOGRAPH RECORDS Local American Legion members, at a post meeting Monday night, voted to cooperate with the national Legion organization in a drive to collect 37,500,000 old phonograph records for this nation’s men in military service. Each Legionnaire throughout the nation has been requested to turn in at least 25 old records before July 20th. Old, broken records are usable, since they will be made into new ones. Nationally famous musicians will contribute their services for the new recordings. During the business session last night, state and national membership awards were presented to members qualifying for these. Presentations were made by the Rev. John A. Callan, post chaplain. Those qualifying for the state awards, a small silver star for cap ornament, were Rivers M. Coffman, who, until he recently resigned to enlist in the Marine Corps, served as post commander this year, Adjutant Reedy Booker, Ashley Thetford, Herb Lindsey and Bill Tucker. Coffman, Booker, Thetford and Tucker received the national commander’s award, a bronze pin. In the absence of Coffman, the two Legion awards and a Marine Corps pin were presented to his young son, Billy. Mrs. Coffman was present at the ceremony. At the suggestion of Frank Thomas, Legionnaires extended a vote of thanks to Tom R. Phillips, publisher of the Daily News, for his editorial on Flag Day, which appeared in last Sunday’s edition of the News. WITH HUGHES COUNTY BOYS IN THE MILITARY SERVICE After coming through an eye operation, he passed his examinations with flying colors and Aviation Cadet Claud White now is stationed at Kelly Field, Texas, he has informed his mother, Mrs. Beulah White. Cadet White was in the post hospital at Randolph Field, Texas for 12 days convalescing from the operation. He has been in service almost three years, having gone into the 45th division when the national guard was called to active duty. CPL. CHARLES D. VOLLERS, “Sonny” to his school day friends here, found the King’s English very strange when he hit London and also English money—but he’s getting it all straightened out now. Cpl. Vollers’ first letter to his mother, Mrs. Kathryn Vollers of Yellville, AR, came recently and she brought it along when she came here for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Stamper. It included greetings to friends here, “tell them all hello.” The British people are “very nice,” Cpl. Vollers wrote and he is –and always has been—highly enthusiastic about the army. He finished high school here with the HHS class of 1940 and as soon as July of that year brought his 18th birthday around, he enlisted. He had lettered three years in football and two years in wrestling. He was trained at Fort Bliss and Fort Sam Houston, where he applied for overseas duty and was finally accepted. It is not remarkable that he likes the army, Mrs. Vollers says, since he was ‘born into it.’ He was born at the Presidio, San Francisco, where his father, Capt. Charles D. Vollers, was then stationed. The senior Vollers saw service in the World War. AERIAL GROUND WORK COURSE ADDED TO HHS CURRICULUM Even the most prophetic of those pioneers who founded our public school system would no doubt get quite a jolt out of a new teacher’s outline received today for use in the fall term at Holdenville high school. It is for a course in ground work, to prepare students for basic flight training. About 25—both boys and girls, either juniors or seniors—enrolled in it at the close of the last term, Supt-Elect J.W. Bell said. Dr. Lloyd B. Drake, science instructor, will have charge of the classes. Instruction will be given in civil aeronautical regulations, aero dynamics and meteorology. 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Partners were Glenda Smith and Naomi Tomlinson; Sharon Dilday and Sue Wood; Jean Phillips and Joyce Yates; Geraldine Ingram and Janice Eller; Lynn Marquis and Reba Lovelace; Margaret Newman and Naomi Tomlinson. Playing 3-handed moon and winning were Margaret, Lynn and Geraldine. Lynn shot the moon twice and won both times! Yea !! Playing straight dominoes were Glenda, Sue and Sharon with Sue being the winner of that game. Sue and Sharon won 5 games. Geraldine and Janice won 3 games. Reba and Lynn won 2 games. Jean and Joyce won 2 games. It seems that Jean shot the moon and made it! Yea, Jean! She hasn’t lost her touch and Joyce shot the moon for the very 1st time and Continued from Page 7 motors; “Flying From Here to There,” navigation; “Aircraft Communications,” “Your Future may be Aviation,” the vocational aspects of such training, and “Living in An Air Age,” its social significance. “We are not by any means planning to turn out finished aviators—merely to acquaint our students with the background of aviation and prepare them for actual flight training if they wish to go further,” Mr. Bell Said. made it! Yea, Joyce! We’re proud of you! Naomi and Margaret won 1 game. Naomi and Glenda won 1 game. Glenda shot the moon and went down! I guess we know who is bring refreshments next week!! We did get our exercise tonight going from table to table, depending on whether you were winning or losing! A big thank you to Naomi for the packages of peanutbutter crackers. They were a life saver for us. Come and join us next week. You will have a good time, I promise! See ya then! HOLDENVILLE TRIBUNE—JUNE 13, 2012—PAGE 9 Scott McCormack Cell 580-310-4389 West of Ada on Hwy 3W • (580)436-5033 Thank You for your patronage & support! Stockers & Feeder • Pairs, Cows & Bulls Wednesdays starting at 9:00 a.m. Average Report for 6/6/2012 Total Head: 1100 #1 Steers 287-297 .............................$215-$223 310-345 .............................$193-$215 355-389 ......................................$194 407-422 .............................$175-$183 455-460 .............................$177-$186 573..............................................$160 604-640 .............................$160-$161 #1 Heifers 270-298 .................................... $194-$212 396......................................................$171 436-445 ..............................................$164 454-496 .................................... $160-$165 501-541 .................................... $157-$163 554.................................................$158.50 564......................................................$155 603-610 ...................................... $148-152 661-686 .................................... $135-$140 797......................................................$130 1942 Old News Lowest Prices of the Year Clu Gulager Continued from Page 6 movie) 1971 Company of Killers (TV movie) 1971 The F.B.I. (TV series) – The Mastermind: Part 2 (1971) – The Mastermind: Part 1 (1971) 1971 The Last Picture Show 1971 The Psychiatrist (TV series) – Par for the Course (1971) 1969-1970 The Name of the Game (TV series) – Why I Blew Up Dakota (1970) … Daokta – The Perfect Image (1969) … Bill Danziger – Swingers Only (1969) … Steve Heywood 1970 San Francisco International Airport (TV series) – The High Cost of Nightmares (1970) … Bob Hatten – Emergency Alert (1970) … Bob Hatten – San Francisco International (1970) … Bob Hatten 1969 The Survivors (TV series) 1969 Winning 1963-1968 The Virginian (TV series) Emmett Ryker 1967 Sullivan’s Empire (TV movie) 1966 And Now Miguel 1964 The Killers 1959-1964 Wagon Train (TV series) – The Ben Engel Story (1964) … Harry Diel – The Sam Spicer Story (1963) … Sam Spicer – The Clarence Mullins Story (1963) … Clarence Mullins – The Stagecoach Story (1959) … Caleb Jamison – The Andrew Hale Story (1959) … Elliott Garrison 1964 Dr. Kildare (TV series) – Tyger, Tyger: Part 2 (1964) … Norman Gaye – Tyger, Tyger: Part 1 (1964) … Dr. Norman Gaye 1964 Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV series) – The Deep End (1964) … Dan Walsh 1962 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV series) – Final Vow (1962) … Jimmy K. Bresson 1960-1962 The Tall Man (TV series) Billy the Kid 1961 The Defenders (TV series) – Death Across the Counter (1961) … Tom Clinton 1961 Whispering Smith (TV series) – The Devil’s Share (1961) … Jeff Whalen 1959-1960 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV series) Rod Collins / Sailor – Pen Pal (1960) … Rod Collins – Appointment at Eleven (1959) … Sailor 1959-1960 The Deputy (TV series) – Trail of Darkness (1960) … Sanford – Shadow of the Noose (1959) … The Drifter 1960 The Rebel (TV series) – Paint a House with Scarlet (1960) … Virgil Taber 1960 The Lineup (TV series) – Seven Sinners (1960) … Fleming 1959 Riverboat (TV series) – Jessie Quinn (1959) … Beau Chandler 1959 Five Fingers (TV series) – The Temple of the Swinging Doll (1959) … Larry Dane 1959 The Untouchables (TV series) – Vincent ‘Mad Dog’ Coll (1959) … Vincent ‘Mad Dog’ Coll 1959 Law of the Plainsman (TV series) – The Hostiles (1959) … Truck Garnett 1959 Laramie (TV series) – Fugitive Road (1959) … Private Gil Brady 1959 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (TV series) – The Day the Town Stood Up (1959) … Young Vix 1959 Have Gun - Will Travel (TV series) – Return of Roy Carter (1959) … Roy Carter 1959 The Lawless Years (TV series) – The Immigrant (1959) … Tommy Pavlock 1959 Wanted: Dead or Alive (TV series) – Crossroads (1959) … Joe Collins aka Jody Bannister 1959 Playhouse 90 (TV series) – The Day Before Atlanta (1959) … Zach – The Ding-A-Ling Girl (1959) 1959 Black Saddle (TV series) – Client: Meade (1959) … Andy Meade 1957 The Alcoa Hour (TV series) – 15 October 1864 (1957) … James Wesley 1957 West Point (TV series) – The Harder Right (1957) 1957 Studio One in Hollywood (TV series) – Walk Down the Hill (1957) … Lloyd Carpenter 1956 Goodyear Playhouse (TV series) – Stardust II (1956) … Terrible 1956 The United States Steel Hour (TV series) – Bang the Drum Slowly (1956) … Coker HD TV Clearance! 1500 Hoppe Blvd • Southridge Shopping Center • Ada, Oklahoma PAGE 10—HOLDENVILLE TRIBUNE—JUNE 13, 2012 from Dayna’s Desk Great Plains Kubota “Ride With The Brand” 1212 N. Broadway • ADA 580•332-2333 www.greatplainskubota.com A friend of mine, Randal Johnson, from Shawnee shared the following with me. It was so good I wanted you to read it, too. MY DAD’S BETTER Three boys were debating whose father was best. The first started the debate by claiming his father knew the mayor. He was soon topped by the second boy who said, “Thats’s nothing. My dad knows the governor.” The stakes were getting pretty high, and the eavesdropping father wondered what his young son would say about him. The little boy shot back, “So what! My dad knows God!” Could your son say that? May our children always be able to say, “My dad knows God!” I am so thankful that I have a father (Charles W. Leewright) who knows God. He has always set the example for his children and has taught us how to love and serve the Lord. I thank the Lord every day for my father and pray God’s blessings YOUR LIFE, simplified Whispering Meadows AFFORDABLE SENIOR HOUSING Features and Amenities: Two-bedroom units 1 Car garage Full kitchen consisting of range, microwave oven, refrigerator, garbage disposal, & dishwasher. Ceiling Fans Full size washer and dryer Energy Star appliances Lawn Maintenance Monthly Rent $385.00-$430.00 Depending on income & unit availability Water, Sewer & Trash Included FIRST MONTH’S RENT FREE! For information please call: EXCEL DEVELOPMENT GROUP (800) 378-9366 www.exceldg.com INDIAN ROAD & TAMARA LN., WEWOKA, OK. on him this Father’s Day. I love you, Dad! —DD— I had an email from a Mr. Paul Baker from Rathdrum, Idaho, who was inquiring about an accident that happened back in 1937. He wanted me to share this with our readers to see if anyone could give him more information. Hi. My name is Paul E. Baker. My father, Stewart W. Baker, who died in 1976 had kept an extensive newspaper item about an auto accident many years ago when he was a kid in Wewoka, Oklahoma. The newspaper is dated ‘November 15, 1937’ and the article is about five young kids, some from Wewoka, and Holdenville. He either knew some of those kids (He too, went to Wewoka High School) and I’m sure the article meant something to him. How would I go about finding more information concerning this? The youths who were killed were, “Richard “Dick” Woods, Glenn Shepard, Armistice Cox, Vera Wood, a student at Holdenville business college, and Beatrice Hawthorne, a teacher at Bryant.” If you can give me any information which I could use concerning this story; relatives still living there, etc., I would sure appreciate it. Thank you very much Paul E. Baker 2215 W. Hwy 53 Rathdrum, Idaho 83858 (208) 755-4887 paulsasylum@copper.net —DD— I’ve also heard from several of our subscribers the past couple of weeks and wanted to share their notes with you. Dear Bill and Dayna, Many thanks for the reminder on my Tribune. We really do enjoy it and look forward to it every week. Enjoy all the good news and pictures. Also the obits. Sorry to hear of Tommy McCoin’s passing. Also of Maxine (Wood) Martin’s passing. Tommy was one of our neighborhood friends, and at one time Maxine was my brother (Tony Wood’s) sister-in-law. He was married to her sister Edith (Jolene) Woods. Several weeks ago you ran an article on the old Wise Grocery. My dad, Walter Wood, traded with them when I was small. When we went in there Mrs. Wise called me her little chick-a-dee. I was about 4 at that time. I will close for n ow. Keep up the good work. May God Bless You. Love always Shirley (Wood) James P.S. Sometimes John (my husband) reads the paper before I do, even though he was from Midwest City. Ha! Ha! Bye for Now —0— Hi Dayna: My check is enclosed for another year of the Tribune. Enjoy this newspaper so much; such a pleasure to read about hometown people with such loving and generous attitudes toward one another. I do hope Beth continues to improve. So sorry to read about her fall. I think of her often and hope all is going well. Please give her my best wishes. Kindest Regards, Juanita Carlton Wingo Note: Thank you, Juanita. My mother is doing better and should be in rehab as of Thursday of this week. She is taking a few steps now and her pain is much better. We sure appreciate all the thoughts and prayers that have been offered up on her behalf. —0— Thanks, Dayna & Bill, I’m still enjoying your paper! Hope you’re well. Love, Aunt Patsy (Leewright) Davis —0— Thanks for the reminder. Hope all is well with your families. Have a great summer! Carolyn Peters —0— Bill and Dayna, From reading the paper, it seems as if all is right with you and your family. All six of us Frenches are doing well – we’re busy and keeping out of trouble! Here is my check for another year of fun reading. Thanks for the reminder. Love and lollipops, June French Holloway —0— Thanks for the reminder. I look forward to the paper each week. And, the speech by Mr. Huser was super – also enjoy Mr. Graham’s writings. But, I missed Dayna’s news! Hope to make the reunion God Bless Ginny Cecil —DD— June Gann stopped by the office Friday. She has been having some health problems and the doctor gave her a patch to wear and she had a bad reaction to it. She said it made her feel like she was having a stroke. She was still not feeling up to par. She said she and Dale celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary on May 23 and Dale was telling everyone it was their 95th. I’m not sure if he is dyslexic or feels like he’s been married forever! Makes me wonder how June feels! (just kidding, Dale!) —DD— Bill’s uncle, Elbert Langdon, celebrated his 97th birthday Sunday. He is an amazing gentleman. Elbert is still very active and seldom misses Sunday school and church. Bill was telling me this weekend about when “Pete” Sweten died at an early age. He owned a local jewelry shop. The Swetens and Bill’s family both lived in the apartments at 209 N. Oak. Their son Larry and Bill were close friends from grade school on. Pete had a heart attack one night and passed away. His wife Juanita did not know what she was going to do. She called Elbert who had helped them some part-time to tell him what had happened. Within two days, Elbert had quit his regular job and went to work for her full time so she would not have to close the store. Elbert has helped so many folks over the years. —DD— Our friend Sandy Moss was by the office Monday. She told us that her son Brandon (HHS ’90) is with a group that is doing mission work in Haiti this week. Keep them in your prayers. Those that do mission work have a special place in our hearts. —DD— Nancy Inman was by the office Tuesday. I did not know until then that she had retired in December. I know that she and husband Jim will have many things they want to do. We don’t see them often, but always enjoy visiting with them. —DD— Gary LaValley was by the office Monday. He had been to the funeral of Sue Huff. She will be greatly missed. Sue was kind to everyone and really enjoyed her retirement. Gary and Sue have both attended the East Main Church of Christ for many years and were long time friends. —DD— Our good friends and neighbors, Sam and Willa Mae McClure celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary this past weekend with a celebration held at the First Baptist Church in Calvin. Unfortunately, we were out of town and were unable to attend, but we wanted to congratulate them and wish them many more happy years together. —DD—