Disney

Disney,*Okla., a string of shacks and saloons thrown up on the site of PWA's $20,000,000 Grand River Dam, last week held its first mayoralty election. Candidates were a sad-eyed grocer named Mrs. Vera Silar, who stood for law & order, and a buxom ex-cowgirl named Billy Baker, who stood for fun & frolic. Idea was to give each boss woman 30 days to try out her ideas, then incorporate under whichever regime Disney liked best. When Disney's Commercial Club tried to limit the ballot to property owners, dam hands rebelled, gave Cowgirl Baker first whack at the job, 603 votes to 201. Chirped she: "We'll make this the best town by a damsite." Before the 30-day Baker whoopee regime got seriously under way, however, the conservative element in Disney, composed of Grocer Silar's best customers, resorted to an already constituted authority to gain what it had lost in the field. Chief of Police Hale Dunn marched out to a tree, tacked up a warning sign: I AM THE LAW IN DISNEY. NO WOMAN CAN RUN THIS TOWN BY A DAMSITE WHILE I AM IN THE SADDLE.

* Named not for Cartoonist Walt but for Tulsa's Congressman Wesley Ernest Disney.

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