Cemetery Spat Aired In Guthrie By Ellie Sutter Staff Writer GUTHRIE One Guthrie resident pleaded with the council Tuesday night to give the people some guidelines so they will know what is acceptable behavior at the city cemetery. Historian Fred Olds said he hopes to end a squabble started when some residents complained that Becky Luker, owner of the Stone Lion Bed and Breakfast Inn, was taking her guests to the cemetery to the grave of outlaw Elmer McCurdy as a part of her murder mystery weekends. "We want Guthrie to be a great little city. Let's not spoil it with something stupid. People all over the country will sit back and laugh at us," said Olds, who conducts cemetery tours. Tuesday night, the city council chambers and the hall outside were jammed with spectators, as the council met to introduce ordinances limiting activities in the city's cemetery. Council members did not comment on the proposal. A trio of ordinances would prohibit acts not associated with internment and business other than burial activies. Tours would be allowed provided they are registered with the cemetery caretaker or sextant. A public hearing on the ordinances is scheduled July 2. Spectators at Tuesday's council meeting strained to hear the latest round of tales in what has come to be known locally as the Bed and Breakast Wars. Olds told the council he has conducted tours of the historic cemetery and was instrumental in getting McCurdy buried there. His tours have included visitors and historians from Europe and Japan. Jane Thomas, who also is an historian and runs a rival bed and breakfast, the Harrison House, disagreed. "There is no history at the cemetery," Thomas said. The headstones on the grave of McCurdy and his nearest neighbor, outlaw Bill Doolin, are new and are of "no historical sig- See SPAT, Page 2