The McIntosh County Democrat from Checotah, Oklahoma • Page 1

som nm IVOIHOISIH oos IVOIHOISIH viiotira) OFFICIAL CITY PAPER 74426 CHECOTAH, OKLAHOMA, TIIt'HSDA'i 13. 1971 Volume 64, Number 1 Slated In City -A I An I economic survey which may provide a stepping stone to uture growth and i ndiistr ia 1 i ta- tion at Checotah was started in Mcintosh Count) Monday by a mobile team of the Oklahoma State nip by men'. Service. The survey, which will be directed by Raymond Mclot, 5 monlhs for completion of the field work. The office will be located in fit) llallatC hecotah, and county residents are invited to visit for all available assistance.

The purixjse of this survey is to assist Mcintosh county inde- veloping economic plans to improve the area's economy. I p- on completion of the survey, a complete economic base report will be prepared and presented to community leaders tor their use in formulating and implementing economic development plans. This report will include a comprehensive and detailed account of thc.area's hnma.i resources, including the number of people available for work and the types of skills that they possess. The report also will contain other resources which the count)- would have to offer an industry including plant sites, availability of utilities, financing, and various comm. lity facilities which will play a pari in industrial development.

The mobile team will assist unemployed persons in.finding jobs while in the county. They also will determine Lenxy Lan Rites Held.In Colorado p. CVLane, 37, who was killed November 2 when hiiscar crashed down a mountain embankment in Colorado was buried in Fort Logan National Cemetery. Services were held at the Bear Mountain Church of Christ. l.ane was born in Checotah February 4, 1934.

He was an asphalt subcontractor for 11 persons In Mcintosh County who wish to take vocational training. The coisisting of six persons, will ring doorbells in an attempt to contact all people in the county who might be available for industrial employment the opportunity arise. Mi. Melol advises that he will be available for talks to civic clubs and othcrorganiz.ilions in explaining the process of the manpower survey. interviewees who will work out of the Checotah office at the City hall include B.C.

Doty, Vela I'helps, George Riho, George Dn? an, Charlie My rick and lutrlan I'onlious. Raymond Manager of the survey will charge of) the local office. years before turning to the ministry. He was a ministerial student at the time of hisdeath. He served in the I.

S. Army Medical Corps during 1936-58. He married the former Lois E. Largant of the Onapa area. Survivors besides his wife, include one daughter, Brenda, of the home; his parents Mr.

and Mrs. Ralph of Checotah. Wildcats Win Over Haskell In Final Tilt Wallace Warrior scored four to lead Checotah to a triumph over Haskell Friday night. Warrior had runs of four, 4j and 12 yards for scores, and he caught a 70- yard bomb from quarterback Derrick to get the Checotah express rolling. Defensive Gary Fun burg blocked twoITifskell punts, and ran the second one in for a 20-yard touchdown.

Mitch Carey and Fred 'Parman accounted for Checotah's PAT's. Carey's" passes from Jr. Haskell''took an S-0 lead early in the first quarter when quarterback Rick Ferguson ran OS-yards. Mike Blair added the two point conversion. Checotah then put 22 points on the scoreboard, all in the first quarter, to go ahead 10 stay, Haskell pulled to within a touchdown in the third quarter, but Warrior scored twice in the fourth to insure the Wildcat victory.

This was the final game for the following seniors: Gary Funburg, Mail Vandiver, Milch Carey, Kenneth Warrior, Robert Vinson, Gerald Kelley, and Wayne Roberts. These seniors were linesmen for this year's Wildcats. This season was the best for the ildcats in several years, finishing with an even record. Statistics Checotah Haskell First downs. 5 .13 Yards rushing.

21)2 223 Passes complcted3 of 10 6 of 26 Yards passing. 108 88 Pass interceptions. 1 1 Punts. 4 for 38.6 for 25 yds. Fumbles lost 2 1 4 for 20.3 for 15 vds.

A. 1). Gregory Services Set The Annual Thanksgiving Service for Checotah will be held next Wednesday evening, at the Assembly of God Church at 401 North Broadway starting at 7:30 P.M. Ml the people of Checotah are invited to attend this community service. Rev.

A. O. of the Inked MeihodistChurch, will deliver the Thanksgiving Message. Prior to moving to Checotah Hev. Gregory was administrator of the Methodist Golden Age Home in Enid.

He has been an ordained member of the Oklahoma Convention of the Methodist Church for 28 years. Hev. and Mrs.Gregory- have four children, three sons and one daughter; all married. Invocation will be by host pastor, Rev. J.

R. Moreland. Special music will be presented by the Assembly of God Church and theFirstBaptistChurch. Scripture will be read by Rev. Furman A.

McCage, pastor of Freewill Baptist Church. Benediction will be by Rev. Wayne Brown, Alliance President and pastor of First Baptist Church. Cattlemen Set Meet At Hanna The wages of sin are not affected by the President's freeze and the profits of virtue are beyond government control. It's a real friend who likes you in spite of all he knows about you.

Big Parade ScheduledDeceml The annual Checotah Christmas Parade will be held this year on Saturday, December 4, 1971, beginningat 10:00 A.M. The parade is sponsored by Checotah Area Chamber of Commerce. The business district has been completely redecorated this year in preparation for the opening of the Christmas Season. City employes were busy this week installing new lighting decorations purchased jointly by the city and the chamber of commerce. Rands from Eufaula and Stigler have been invited to participate in the big Christmas parade here.

Floats representing civic clubs, churches and local sororities are expected to add color to the Christmas promotion. Leo Smith has volunteered to put in his appearance as Santa Claus and is expected to ride on the city's fire truck. In addition to the appearance of Santa Claus and the dispensing of candy, there will be a free movie matinee at the Gentry Theatre donated by Dick Crumpler, local businessman. The parade will be staged under direction of PeteOsborn, president of the chamber of commerce. Mel Hays will direct ceedings.

The regular meeting of the County Cattlemen's Association will be held Monday, at 7:30 p.m. next Monday at the Hanna High School. The program will be on winter feeding requirements and what the information on a feed tag can tell you. W.W. Sparks president the association, urges all members and all other beef producers to attend the meeting.

Beverage Control Enforcer Is Dead Malcolm Story, 55, of Eufaula died Tuesday morning in his home after an apparent heart attack. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Eufaula First Baptist Church with Rev. Larry Adams, officiating, Burial was in Greenwood Cemetery under the direction of Kelly Funeral Home. Honorary pallbearers were members of the Alcohol Beverage Control Board.

Born December 29, 1915, in Fame, Story was a 32nd degree mason and a member'of the Eufaula First Baptist Church. Officials Study School Elections Two elections officials from Mcintosh Countv attended a statewide workshop jn Oklahoma City Friday on the conduct of school elections. Attending were JohnE. Cates, Secretary and Pat Layman, Member, of the Mcintosh County Election Boar 1 Under the new school code passed by the 1971 Legislature, responsibility for all school elections was placed in the hands of the County Election Boards'for the first time. The workshop was designed to familiarize local officials with the procedures for conducting school elections, "Lee Slater, Secretary of the State Election Board said.

"As closely as possible, school elections will be patterned after elections. LotiSharpeGets Place In O.U.'s Hall Of Fame Louis K. Sharpe, Checotah, has been named to be included in the Hull of fame for his untiring work in buiiding the O.C. Alumni Association, both its alumni activities and its fund raising programs. "There should be an appropriate way of showing our appreciation to our graduates and framer students who have evlended leadership, loyalty and outstanding participation in the various alumni and Alumni Development Fund activities," said Ronald T.

McDaniel, executive rector of the sociation. "The Alumni Hall of Fame is the answer. Sharpe is president of a cern which operates 17depart- mcnt stores in Oklahoma and Kansas. The 49-year-old alumnus received a degree in bus studei at OU president of his? social fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and played end on the varsity Sooner football team, lettering three years. In 1966 he became Ihe 62nd president of the OL Alumni Association, and is currently i member of the board of directors of both the Association and the AlumniDcvelopmcntBpard.

He is a Life Member of the Association, the OU Dads' Association" and the Alumni Development Board. He is a Life Member of the Association, Association and the Varsity He has been active in state and local efforts of the Association. His interest has bee hi most beneficial to the university, all alumni activities and the Association has more than 75,000 living graduates and former students it strives to reach and interest in alumni programs. The ADF and the Association now operate as one program, headed By McDaniel.WilliamC. Hammond is the- executive secretary of the ADF, and chairman of this year's is Dr.

George L. Cross, president emeritusof OU, In its 23-year history, the ADF has recognized outstanding Ol. students, faculty members and programs by providing scholarships, grants and equipment throughout the University. These allocations have totaled more than $542,000 since 1959. Sharpe was honored during halftime activities at the Oklahoma Kansas game at Norman last Saturday.

City To Oppose Re-District Split Army Private First lass Ted H. Burdelt, 23, son of Mr. a-iri Mrs. William 11. Burden, 3ilii recently completed with honors an electronics specialist course at the army signal school, Ft, Monmouth, N.

J. During the course the student was trained to operate and maintain various kinds of army electronic equipment. Mr. Burdett ranked No. 1 in his training class.

TigerMountainRest Area Seeks City Water A plan to furnish the Tiger mtain Rest area'on Inter- J.W. Vinson Has 94th Birthday J. W. Vinson, pioneer resident of the Checotah area, celebrated his 94th birthday October 29. Mr.

Vinson moved to Checotah December 27, 1894, and has lived on his farm southwest of the city since December 13, 1910. Guests of the Vinson family honoring Mr. Vinson's birthday were Mr. and Mrs. Ripley Cook of Ommrighl Mr.

and Mrs. Neal Harper of Wichita Falls, Texas, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Vinson, and Dean Vinson. Sunday dinner guests were Mr.and Mrs.

R. L. Vinson and family. Women Offered Clinical Advice Kepresoiiu'wes from the family planning clinic at Tahlequah will visit the Indian field office in Eufaula every third Wednesday, it was ann-inced this Birth control information will be given at the clinics at the present time. Services will be offered to all women of childbearing age.

Uta Hageu plays grandma HOLLYWOOD (HIM) lla ilagrn will star in the film adaptation of Tom Tryon's best-selling novel, "The Other," playing the grandmother. state 41) with Checotah water service through the Pierce Water District, was approved by the city council Monday night. The council reserved the rik'ht to discontinue service if i water supply proves inadequate ing summer months. Mr. Lathrop, dump ground attendant, was relieved of his duty by the city council after he is said to have "talked outof to Donald' Lynch and Donnie Browning, city council members.

Billy O'Laughlin was immediately hired by the council as dump grounds operator. O'Laughlin will be on duty 5days a week. 4-H Chib Queen Contest Slated Saturday Night Mcintosh County 4-H members and leaders will hold their annual 4-H Queen's Pie Supper Saturday at 7:30 p.m., in the Eufaula Community Building. Candidatesfor the Junior 4-H queen are: Becky Burdine, Stidham 4-H, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

John Burdine; Annette Southern, Midway 4-H, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Southern; Kendra Shepherd, Eufaula 5th, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Shepherd; and W'yona Chronister, Checotah 7th, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Albert Chronister. Amy Park, Checotah High, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harole Park; Sandy Goule, Eufaula High, granddaughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Arthur Smith; andRowena Greenlee, Midway High, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Greenlee. Also running for queen were: Sharon Babb, Eufaula 7th and 8th; Julie Collie Eufaula 6th; and Vicki Kindred, Checotah 8th.

Money raised from the sale of pies will be used for county 4-H activities and events. Everyone is invited to attend the County 4-H Queen 's Pie Supper, Saturday night. Gospel of John translated into Gypsy HELSINKI (UP1) Four thousand of the 6,000 gypsies living in Finland are able to speak the old gypsy language and for them the Finnish Bible Society is publishing the Gospel of John in that dialect. The translation is the work of Viljo Koivisto, a gypsy" evangelist and editor of a magazine tor the nomadic people. Negro colleges VII (la.

(I I'l) 1'ultln' Negro colleges arc receiving increased financial and professional support from private and public sources, according! to the annual report ol the Office For Advancement of Public Negro Colleges (OAPNC). The report also shows that alumni and faculty support to member institutions has increased with the establishment ol foundations and development offices on their campuses. Walter-Madewell, longtime employee of the city street and water department quit his job after it was brought to the attention of the mayor and council that Madewell had campaigned against the $90,000.00 waterworks and sewer extension bond issue, which was approved by a majority of about 5 to 1 two weeks ago. Madewell failed to show up for work after the election. A county reapportionment plan which would place the of Checotah in two commissioners districts was cOndemmcd in a resolution passed by the council.

Mayor Floyd Beaird stated that he had been advised by Lee Stidham, local banker, that two banks in Oklahoma City were interested in buying the $90,000.00 water and sewer bonds at an interest rate of to 4 percent. Several members of the council who attended the Better Ro ids and Streets banquet, in Oklahoma City were each reimbursed $11.00 expense money upon recommendation by the mayor. Mrs. Pies S. McCoy Service Tuesday funeral services were held at 2 p.m.

Tuesday inFirstBap- tist Church for Mrs. Pies S. McCoy, 79, who died Saturday in a Muskogee hospital after a long illness. Rev. Wayne Brown officiated.

Burial was in Greenlawn Cemetery under direction of Smith Funeral Home. Mrs. McCoy was born October 3, 1892, in'Chattanooga, Tennessee, and had lived in Checotah for 64years. She was a member of Flm Grove Baptist Church. Surviving are her husband, of the home; five sons, Shindy McCoy of Checotah, John Wright of Lindsey, Elmer Lee McCoy of Long Beach, Leonard McCoy of Owasso, Bill McCoy of i Stockton, Calif, three daughters I Mrs.

Mildred Newton of Lamotit, Mrs. Ardell I Waldroop of Henryetta, Mrs Margaret Otterstrom of El I Cerrito, three brothers, Joe Howard and Wally Howard, both of Bakersfield, and Bun Howard of Colton, i 24 grandchildren and 23 great grandchildren. A County redistriding plan, advocated by Franzel Coughran and Elsba Dnbson, which would split the City of Checotah into a part of two commissioners districts, was condom by the mayor and city Council, ina resolution passed at a regular meeting of the governing board lost Thursday night. Members of the council stated in the resolution that the citizens of this city would prefer in one district. resolution was drawn up by Rocky Boydston, city attorney.

The resolution follows: Whereas, the Board of County Commissioners of Mcintosh County, in a case styled Franzel Coughran vs The Board of County Commissioners ofMc- Intosh County. Nc. C-71-92, are in the process of ing the said County Commissioner Districts; and, Whereas, the Court has indicated that the present districting is out of balance and does not conform with the "One vote, one man, and, Whereas, ithas been brought to the attention of the City Coun cil of the City of Checotah, that one possible solution to the redistricting problem is to split the City of two different districts; and, Whereas, this is of vital concern to the City of Checotah and the City Council of Checotah, the following resolution has been unanimously passed and approved by the said Council of the City of Checotah; Be it remembered that by unanimous vote, the City Council of the City of Checotah vigorously opposes any plan to be considered, proposed or adopted by the said Board of County Commissioners and the District Court of Mcintosh County which would divide the City of Checotah proper Into more than one County Commissioners District. Done this 4th day of November, 1971, in regular session of the City Council of the City of Checotah. School Officials To Attend Meet Several Mcintosh County school superintendents and principals are expected to attend the Okmulgee County Schoolmasters Club Thursday night at a meeting in Morris.

Guest speaker at the meeting will be Robert S. (Bob) Gee, Oklahoma State Senate Administrator. School officials from Okfuskee and Okmulgee Counties also will attend the meeting. Gee will report on the revisions in the Oklahoma school codes passed by the State Legislature in its 1971 session. As Senate Administrator, Gee supervises the expenditure of more than $1,000,000 in Senate operating funds yearly.

Also he serves as liaison between the Oklahoma State Senate and the Oklahoma Congressional Delegation, other federal agencies and the Council of State Governments in Washington, D. C. Court House Report Contract Let On Interstate Paving Work Construction of 5,074 miles of asphaltic concrete paving; on a bituminous base on Interstate 40 East of Checotah is scheduled to start Monday. Contract for laying the pavement went to H. D.

Youngman Construction Company of Baxter Springs, Kansas. Youngman, who maintains an office in Checotah, was recently awarded a second contract on 1-40, calling for construction of 6 miles of 4-Iane concrete paving; at a cost in excess of $1,250,000.00. It is estimated that both contracts will be completed by December The work will be under the supervision of Division Engineer J. G. Freeman of Mus- dogee with J.

D. Wingo, the resident engineer assigned to the project. Youngman has maintained a rock crusher south of Checotah for the past lOyeirs from which he has obtained crushed rock and aggregate used in rip-rapping work through the Eufaula lake area and in the construction of both concrete and bituminous paved roads. Rachel Parks, 101, Oldest Resident, Taken By Death Band Parents Club Plans Bake Sale ine checotan High School Band Parents Club will hold a bake sale Saturday, November 20, at the Corner of Futrell Harrison Building. The sale will start at 9:00 a.m.

and end at 12:00 noon. Proceeds will help finance annual band banquet, according to Cecil Agnew, band director. In parlance of the drug culture, sedatives are called gooi- balls, sleepers and downers. These include prescription pills: sleeping pills and some of the minor tranquilizers sueh as Mil- town. MISDEMEANOR Jerry R.

Sandsted, public drunk, $10.00 fine and costs; Dennis N. Woodard. drivers license, fine and costs; Ray Jennings, public drunk, $10.00 fine and costs; Dennis M. W'oodard, driving while intoxicated fine and costs and 10 days in jail; Jay drunk, fine and costs', Nyhl Spears, disturbing peace, $10.00 fine and costs; Mike Frances, public drunk, $10.00 fine and costs; Johnn: D. Timo- thv, public drunk, $10.00 fine costs, Ralph Brown, disturbing peace $250.00 bond also driving without a valid drivers license bond and driving while intoxicated $500.00 bond; Joan Smith, public drunk, forfeits cash bond; Clecus Hale, driving while intoxicated, released.

DISTRICT CIVIL Dobbs Construction Co. Vs Lorenc Crow, judgment and foreclosure of lien, K. W. Lackey and J. L.

Hays, attorneys; Tull Overhead Door Co. Vs G. K. Cook Van B. Tucker, dba, Tucker Metal Bldg.

Co. K. W. l.ack-y, attorney; J. D.

Whorton Vs Claudette C. HarjoJ money damages, Lyle Burris attorney DISTRICT CRIMINAL State Vs Garland and Ray Corley, assault with dangerous weapon, J. D. Boydston, attorney for defendant Rachel Parks, 101, head of six-generation family, whose pictures appeared in the Democrat two years ago, died at the Odd Fellows Home in Checotah Tuesday. Mrs.

Parks was born in Texas April 9, 1870. Her body will be in state at the Smith Funeral Home Wednesday and Thursday. Funeral services will be held in Anadarko at Friday. Survivors include: one daughter, Laura Hendrix of Checotah; one son, Lawrence Scott of Camp Verde, 15 grandchildren, several great and great-great-grandchildren and two grandchildren. Library Sponsors City Folk Festival An American Folk Festival will be held at The Jim Lucas Library on Friday, November 26 at 10:00 a.m.

Tall tales and folk heroes, a sing along and riddles will be features of this lively program for fourth, fifth, and sixth grade boys and girls. Dusty Martin will accompany the singing with his guitar and Janice Gulllory will assist. newest theater gimmick is clothed actors performing on a bare stage and not vice- versa. The development of explosives for blasting and the use of steam to drive pumps mark the beginning of modern mining..