Show couple spends fortune providing wading pools neosho Neos lio mo blo in 20 towns of kansas missouri and oklahoma the youngsters are beginning to visit the wading pools to get relief from the summer heat and mr air and mrs frank 11 reed sit on the porch of their bungalow here and smile as they think of the tun fun the children tire are having lor for in these 20 towns ore wading pools which the heeds have built as one of the ways of spending the money which came to them from oil wells which have been developed on apparently worthless land which reed picked up nah while ile a struggling lawyer in the seminole istian di district of oklahoma watching the children play in a san francisco gutter one hot day reed heed got the idea of building wading ing p pools 0 he built two in tulsa okla then one in neosho where he be later came to live and then others throughout this section in towns where the authorities agreed to put up dressing rooms if he would build the pools until now SO 30 of these pools re in use and others are planned for the coming summer whenever a pool Is opened it Is dedicated by all the children who want to attend and the ceremonies consist of eating all the ice cream cones that the youngsters can hold while th the reeds needs pay the bill its a line fine way to enjoy oil wells the reeds agree |