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I THE TULSA TRlBU:"E. TULSA. OKLAHOMA
BE IT EVER SO HUMBlE-$in<:e there', not enough land left for agricultural pur.
poscs, ':'8 name of the Tuha County Fl5rm hIlS been changed to Tulsa County Home.
But the.,-e', still plenty of space for landscllping. <lind luis.. ', 911rdcn dubs have e.ccept.
ed the job as a proiect. County Commissioner lynl1 Beo!lrd discuues the finer points
of coler and plant combinations with Mrs. Charles W. Mcintosh. chairman of fhs com·
mittee on garden therapy.
Gar'dclI Clubs Making It B1clld With Park ,
There's LaFortune I'ark. lor
Instance. a 2GO-:lcre tracl of formtr
f"rm land which oilman J.
A. LaFortune Is devdoplog Into
a fnbulous public pla}'gtcuad at
a cost of about a half-million
dolla....
"Th~re are certaIn people who
just can't {luaury for ordinary
Iypes of welfare lind public assislanet',"
he explained. "And
yel Illany of Ihem are "ery old,
And some are belpless,"
The County Home takes care of
cases which aren't eligible for
stalc or federal welfare.
Right now. the County Home
has 53 inmales--:!S in "a.mbula·
tory dormitories and able to wal
To the south, is a ro.acre area,
also adjacent to the park. sokl by
the county to the Tulsa school
system in 1959 for Ml.ooo as site
for a future high school.
And one mile to the south is
Saint Francis Hospital, a 3tJO.bed
t8 million institution, being con·
structed by the W, K. Warren
Fou.,dation. The foundation paid
~,OOO for 160 acres of the county
tract.
The goal of the county institu.
tion hasn't chanbed, And it still
fills a need in Tulsa County,
Shaw said,
The main (""esl) el'tranel'.
1I'hlch o\'erlooked II l'i~ta 01
ba",~. corrills, shl'd~ Milt (;0.'"
mllchlnery, now Ironts on Ihe
neatly barbcred Htll greeD of
the golf course,
streets.
"The entrance to the farm,
now from 51St street on the north,
"'ill be dosed. and we'll swing a
bill loop drh'f! around the main
building from Hudson avenue,"
Beard said.
''The entrance now will be from
the ust 11tat's part of Tulsa
Garden Club's landscaping plan."
Whate\'er Beard .00 SUoi. Roscoe
Shaw might accomplish in the
future. a lot of changes already
have been made.
The home's Iil'estock population
once ran as high as 260 head of
beef lind milk cattle and 300
chicken5-not to mention work
animals and 75 or 80 hogs.
Kow, there are one mule and
four or five guinea hens.
"We use the mule to plow a
small garden," Shaw Did. "But
in the past ",'e raised a good portion
of our own food."
Tbere was a time when the
farm covered 480 rural acres,
Shaw n<:alled. Now, the County
Home is confined to 30 acres..
"We dcdded ngllinst II. No...,
1\'l\h help of the clubs, ""e'll
County Home Is Primping
TI,e County Farm-once an agri.! mQh Ihe buildIngs nn asset I WI~at ,has h~ppened. to. all ,this I
cultural enterprise of considerable 10 the park," l;)nd. 1he eVidence IS In sight
. from the front yard.
sIze-has bccom~ Ihe Tulsa Coun- As a part of this-and olher-ty
Home. And like a lot of rural plans, Beard's crewmen were
Tulsa County, irs \lrbaniz~, bUlly this week opening Hudson
Gone are the. days of worry a\'cnue betwl!el\ 51st and 61st
about drouth. ram. heal. crop r0tation
and milk production. The
home'S biggest pro,iect right now
's landscaping and beautification.
Co u n I y Commissioner Lynn
ani explained Tulsa Garden
Oubs have tackled the job of
landscaping the home's grounds
to blend in with adjaC'ellt LaFor·
lune Park.
•Landscaping plans ha\'e been
drawn by Ancel Hull.
"After the counly dedicated
county fann land to park pur·
poses." he said, "we discussed
whether the buildings should be
hedged oU so they .....ouldn·t de·
tract from beauty of the park.
