‘Incomplete’ Atlas Has Official Fuming
North Dakota, South Dakota and Oklahoma were left out of Rand McNally’s newly published world atlas, and Oklahoma Gov. Henry Bellmon is not the least amused.
Bellmon’s spokesman, Sam Armstrong, issued a memo the governor planned to send to Rand McNally from “3.3 million citizens of the great state of Oklahoma.”
“We are mystified,” Bellmon says in the memo. “Did you intend an insult or are you trying to say that Oklahoma is so well-known that travelers need no map to get here? The latter seems more likely.
“We do not need your incomplete atlas,” Bellmon said. “You won’t get our business.”
Rand McNally officials said the three states were omitted from the new atlas’ regional maps and photographs because of space limitations.
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