The McIntosh County Democrat from Checotah, Oklahoma • Page 1

OKLAHOMA HISTORIC At- SOCIETY" TX OFFICIAL, CITY PAPER Checotah Takes Two 1 OverByngj Checotah High School basketball teams swept a double header from the championship Byng Cage teams in games at the local gymnasium Saturday night. Booker Palmer and Rick La- Cour grabbed scoring honors for the Wildcats team who fell for the first time Friday night, when Eufaula recorded a decision in the game at Eufaula. Palmer tallied 14 points and LaCour 12 for the 8-1 chargers who were ranked No. 1 in Class A during the pre- Christmas court travel. Roger Seymour led Byng with 17 and Tim Scroggins had 10.

The Checotah girls stayed unbeaten with a 36-35 thriller over the Byng lassies in the opener, won in the final 40 seconds on a pair of clutch rebound buckets by Reserve ForwardLillianDer- rick. Checotah, ahead once by eight points, trailed by three going into the final minute when the Checotah defense came up with several fine plays to set the stage for the comeback triumph that kept the Wildkittens perfect for nine starts. Ringleader of the defensive side of the team was Patsy Lawhorn who three times stole Byng passes and got Checotah on the attack. Sally Beaver set the scoring tempo for Checotah with 19 points. Jan Collier ahd 19 for Byng.

Miss Derrick had only two baskets but both were payoff two-pointers for Coach Truman Dixon and the girls. The Wildcats held a comfortable 20-point edge through most of the contest with reserves playing the final 5 minutes of the game. Byng boys had defeated Checotah in the finals of the state tournament at Oklahoma City last year after the local team blew a lead in the fourth quarter. Checotah plays the Eufaula boys and girls teams in a return engagement at the local gym next Tuesday night. Joe Love, 62, ritalist, Dies ZIP 74426 CHKXOTAH, OKLAHOMA.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 9. 1069 Volume 61, Number 6 Town Topics BY RUBYE BUFORD Capi Joe L. Love, 62, of Oklahoma City, a native of Checotah, died Saturday after suffering an apparent heart attack in his home. He was a real estate developer and investor. He was born in Checotah and moved to Oklahoma City last year from Dallas.

He was a mem ber of Lake wood United Methodist Church in Dallas and a 1933 graduate of University of Oklahoma. He was past president of the Snyder; Texas, Rotary Club and Seminole Lions Club, and was a member of Quail Creek Country Club and Lakewood Country Club in Dallas. He and a son, Joe R. Love, were co-owners of Joe Love Enterprises, which has extensive theater and apartment holdings in Texas and Oklahoma. The firm owns more than 700 apartment units including Plymouth House and Ambassador House in Oklahoma City, Four Seasons in Norman and Four Winks in Edmond and Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge Restaurant in Norman.

His first investments were in theaters 33 years ago in Seminole and later in Dallas. Survivors include his wife, Robbie, of the home; two sons, Joe Norman, and Jerry 4300 Barnes; a brother, Forest Singapore, and two sisters, Mrs. Doretha Cole, Palm Beach, and Mrs. Helen Owen, 408 W. Blue Ridge, Midwest City.

Services were held at 2 p.in. Monday in Hahn-Cook, Steet Draper Funeral Home with burial in Rose Hill Cemetery. The name giraffe comes from the Arab word zarafa, meaning both a "creature of grace" and who walks swiftly." We meant to enliven this column with much comment on all the Christmas lighting but you know how it is with all those best-laid plans Anyhow we didn't get to complete our tour due to the 24 hour virus. We really didn't have that' much time to devote to it and tried to crowd it into 8 hours but it just didn't work out that way. That set us up for the flu bug which figured prominently in all holiday activity.

The flu just doesnt seem to be abating judging by the crowded offices of our physicians, who are just about working double shifts these days to take care of all the ill. The basketball gamesSaturday night which saw both boys and girls defeat state champs, Byng, were so exciting. The last seconds of the girl's game were almost unbelievable. Esther Jackson made a magnificent leaping interception just in the nick of time, and that play alone was worth the price of admission. One of the several hundred Byng fans who had made the 200 mile round trip to support their team, told us they would go a lot further than that to see their team play.

He said they had a regular exchange with Van Buren, Arkansas, a game always well attended by Byng rooters. He also allowed that this was the first time Byng had dropped a doubleheader that he could ever remember. Flo Smith makes some Lebanese pickles that are undes- cribably delicious. Made from an old family recipe, using a special Lebanese cucumber that Flo plants annually in her garden (carefully saving the seeds each year), they are very crisp, spicey, garlicy, and tangy. They taste different and look different too.

A Lebanese cucumber is small with a smaller, very uniform center and are a paler green. If you ever have a change green. If you ever have a chance to get any, latch on to them at once, cause they are great. The Koch Gin has ginned more than 750 bales of cotton thisyear, which added to more than the Koch brothers had expected due to the crop failure here. However cotton growers from all over Oklahoma have' been truck ing in cotton to take advantage of the Koch Gin's marvelous facilities, and mis has helped Checotah's economy along the line.

Assessor's Itinerary Is Started Fountainhead Lodge Bridge Work Progressing mmmm The city council meeting was called off due to lack of a quorum Monday night Mayor Floyd Beaird told the council members present, Mitchell, Sharpe, Browning and Waller, "Come back next time'and bring a councilman with The Legion Hall is getting a beautiful new front on the building downstairs, making for a bright shiny new appearance. Lisa Cunningham is going to have a dream trip coming up this spring. She and others in the O.U, Choir have been invited to sing in a music-fest in. Vienna, Austria, and of course while in Europe will tour other points of interest If you have not renewed your subscription in the last couple of months, then you are most likely overdue right this minute. We are running a bit late on reminding you of this, but we will be changing over to the new list, so please get down here right away and renew.

We want to keep you as a reader. SingersTo Convene In City Saturday The Mcintosh County quarterly singing convention will be held in the Freewill Baptist Church in Checotah, Saturday night accord ing to Ernest Terry, president The public is invited to attend. Claude Jennings, Mcintosh County assessor and deputies began the annual assessment of property at his office Jan. 2. A county-wide assessment trip to all sections of the county will begin Feb.

3. The itinerary is as follows: Eufaula, January 2 Thru March 15; Stidham, Monday, February 3rd, 8 a.m. to 12 a.m.; Ryal, Monday, February 3rd, 8 a.m. to 12 a.m.; Vernon, Tuesday, February 4th, 8 a.m. to 12 a.m.; Hanna, Tuesday, February 4th, 1 p.m.

to 4 p.m.; Hitchita, Wednesday, February 5th, 9 a.m. to Wednesday, February 5th, I p.m. to 4 p.m.; Rentiesville, Thursday, February 6th, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Checotah, February 10 Through February 28. Owners of real estate, furnishings, appliances, boats, livestock, dogs, jewelry and othei valuables are required by law tc go to the office of the county assessor and list them for ad valorem taxes.

Homeowners must make application person by March 15 in order to obtain homestead exemption in 1969. Also, the law requiring property to be inspected and appraised by the assessor or his deputies during the next two years, will not change the requirement of owners to declare and list their belongings in the meantime. This must be done the first three months of the year. Persons failing to list their property by April 1 will be subject to a penalty. In order to receive homestead exemption, new home owners must have recorded their deeds in the county clerk's office by Dec.

31, 1968. Application must be made in 1969 jfor homestead exemption, even if such application was made this year. All boats must be assessed by March 15. If not assessed by ow ner a valuation penalty will be added to the assessment. All improvements added to property should be assessed by owner.

If not, it is the duty of the county assessor to add them to the tax rolls. To claim fuel exemption permit, each tractor must be assessed as personal property. You are also asked to bring your last year's assessment sheet to the assessor's office when filing your assessment. If you have purchased a new tractor in 1968, you are asked to please bring your bill of sale. Gun Shots Fatal To City Woman Edmondson Asks Cut In Individual Taxes The above picture shows the new bridge to Fountairthead Lodge which is scheduled to be completed by June.

The new route will cut the distance from Checotah to the lodge by six miles. Students Take Connors Honors Three Checotah students are among the 14 members of the president's honor roll for the fall semester at Connors State College. Appearing on the top academic list from Checotah are Shelbie hart, Rebecca Hightower and Linda Longcrier. Requirements for the president's roll are enrollment in 15 or more semester hours and no grade below "A' Eleven Mcintosh County students were named to the dean's honor' list. Requirements for the dean's roll are enrollment in 15 or more semester hours, no grade lower than and a average.

Members of the dean's list from Mcintosh County are: Checotah: Nancy July, Karen Lemley, Kenneth Phillips, Betty Todd and Vicki Townsend. Council Hill: Norma Ezell and Karen Haggard. Hitchita: Essie Archer. Stidham: Linda Acord, James Pittman and John Star key. Congressman Ed Edmondson introduced 34 pieces of proposed legislation at the opening of the 91st Congress.

Most of the bills are similar or identical to legislation Edmondson sponsored in the 90th Congress on which Congressional action was not completed. In the 90th Congress, Edmondson sponsored 67 pieces of legislation. Of these, 22 were passed and are now a part of the law. Edmondson introduced two new bills relating to individual income tax on the opening day of the 91st Congress. One of them would increase the personal exemption for taxpayers and their dependents from $600 each to $1,000 each.

The other would give the tax benefit of "head of household" status to widows or widowers, legally separated individuals 35 years old or older, or single people 35 years old or older. Edmondson introduced a number of bills of direct interest to the people of Oklahoma's Sec-' ond District, which he represents. 1 Two bills would increase credit opportunities available to Indian tribes and individuals. One of them greatly increases the of the Indian revolving loan fund. The other provides for a federal guarantee of loans made to Indians by private lending institutions.

Edmondson also re-introduced a resolution to assure the continued operation of Indian hospitals until Indian infant mortality and tuberculosis rates are comparable to non-Indian rates. Edmondson continued his efforts to establish a Great White Fleet by re-introducing his resolution to make available surplus U.S. Navy hospital ships and other vessels designed and equipped to render prompt emergency aid and assistance to people of other nations upon the occurrence ofcsfamine, epidemic disease, earthquake, flood, hurricane, other natural disaster, ahd for the purpose of combating hunger or disease of a persistent nature." He introduced other resolutions calling for Constitutional amendments to lower the voting age to eighteen, and to per- Torrid Toll BOSTON take 33 lives and destroy 1,527 homes in the United States every day, says the National Fire Protection Association, They also destroy dally 20 schools, 9 churches, 130 stores, 123 industrial plants, and 12 hospi tala and nursing homes. mit prayer on a voluntary basis in public schools and educational institutions. Edmondson also introduced legislation to: Provide for federal reimbursement for state- constructed free or toll roads on the Interstate system; Extend the restricted status of land held by Indians of Oklahoma; Provide for tax incentives for firms which establish new or expanded job- producing industries in rural areas; Provide for a systematic reduction of the national debt (a bill Edmondson has sponsored for a number of years); Name Lock and Dam No.

17 on the Verdigris River "Chouteau Lock and after the pioneer Oklahoma, family; Exclude for tax purposes certain gross income gain realized when land is condemned by the United States or a state; Initiate a study of the need for increased public works' spending in smaller urban areas as a means of reversing the trend of people to move to large metropolitan areas. Ethel Morgan Rites At Pierce Funeral services for Mrs. Ethel Morgan, 68, of Checotah were held at the Methodist Church at Pierce last Tuesday. With Reverend Walter Collins of Musko gee officiating. Burial was in Pierce Cemetery under direction of Leschers Funeral home.

Pallbearers included grandsons, Billy Morgan, BennieMor gan, Will Orning Morgan, Rickey Morgan, Harvey Morgan and Michael Normon. Mrs. Morgan was born April 1, 1900 at Brush Hill. She died Sunday at Muskogee General Hos pital after a short illness. She was a member of the Methodist Church.

Survivors include: Four sons, A.B. of Tulsa, Homer of Muskogee, Johnnie of Gering, Nebraska, Roger W. of Midwest City; Five daughters, Myra Lee Norman and Lena Dixon of Checotah, Winona Tripp of Canton, Ohio, Doris Dodd of Choctaw and Bobbie Sue Salesbee of Eufaula. MISS THOMAS AWARD WINNER The Checotah High School has recently been notified that Carolyn Sue Thomas, a senior, is one of 12 seniors in Oklahoma who has been recognized by the National Council of Teachers of English for her outstanding work in the field of English. All 12 are recommended for college scholarships.

This year over were nominated for the NCTE Achievement Awards, each state's winners being limited according to population. There were 872 winners, nationally. As basis for decision, judges received from each candidate a nomination blank giving biographical data, three compositions, an autobiographical sketch, an impromptu theme and a prepared New Warner Bank Receives Approval Final approval of a bank for the town of Warner came from the Federal Depositors Insurance Corporation in Washington, D.C. last week. The bank, which will offer full banking services with the exception of a trust department, will be located in a new building at the'intersection of U.S.

64 and State Highway Two, where temporary offices are now located. Blair Is Awarded Collegiate Honors Randall Blair, grandson of Mr. and Mi'B. Leo Bierwirth, who formerly made his home in Checotah, has been named to "Whose Who in American Colleges" at East Central, Ada. Blair, who is the stepson of R.B.

Griffith is majoring in drama. He has won an award the past two years for the best technician in the designing of stage settings. sample of his best uiiung, results of standardized tests in composition and of literary awareness, and supporting statements from a teacher of English and a school administrator in each state. Teams of judges considered these materials and voted on the best candidates. The award winners were distributed as follows: four from the Tulsa schools, four from the Oklahoma City schools, two from Norman, one from Ponca City, and one from Checotah.

Mrs. Garland E. Etheridge, who has been Carolyn's English teacher for the past two years, recommended the nomination. High School Band To Offer Program The Checotah High School Concert band will present a musical program at 7:00 P.M., Thursday, January 16, at the School Auditorium. Advance tickets will be sold by members of the high school band at a discourit price of 75 Cents for adults and 40 cents for students.

The band will play a variety of numbers including: Trumpets, Olel; Amparito Roca; Velvet Trombones, which will feature the trombone section; an Age of Kings; Folk Song Suite; A Walking Tune; Trumpet Nocturne, featuring Mitch Myers on trumpet; and'also some'lively marches: King Cotton and Bravura. A 69-year-old Kansas City, woman, visiting a brother in Henryetta, was fatally! shot Wednesday night at a party at a local residence. Mrs. Laura Conley, the former Laura Wood of Checotah, was pronounced dead on arrival at Henryetta Hospital of gunshot wounds. Two Henryettans, a man and a woman, were jailed in connection with the incident.

Lloyd Williams, 46, of Henryetta, and Lois Jenkins, 52, were being held Thursday in Henryetta City Jail pending possible filing of state manslaughter charges last Thursday afternoon. Williams served as a Henryetta policeman for "seven or eight months" in the early 19R0's, he told investigators. He was believed to have been relieved from his job, city officials said. autopsy performed on Mrs. Conley Thursday morning in Tulsa Hospital indicated the woman was wounded three times in the upper hip.

Two .22 caliber bullets were found to have penetrated the hip area, and a third was discovered to have taken an upward path from the hip into the lower abdomen. The third bullet apparently caused Mrs. Conley's death, authorities said. Henryetta police, assisted by State Crime Bureau agents, were continuing the investigation Thursday. An officer said Mrs.

Conley, was parrying at the Jenkins residence when the! shooting was believed to have occurred after Mrs. Conley beat up Mrs. Jenkings in a fight. All the persons at the party Carbon Monoxide Blamed In Death Of Checotah Man The death of 75-year old Wade Brown of Checotah was caused by carbon monoxide it was ruled Thursday by Dr. Carol Eweing of McAlester of the state pathologist's staff.

Marshall Warren, assistant district attorney at Eufaula, said there was no apparent foul play involved. Brown was found by his landlady, Mrs. Arthur Palmer, about 10 a.m. Thursday in his apartment where he lived alone. Gas escaping from a broken gas line apparently caused his death.

A small gas heater was overturned. The body had lain in the room for nearly a week before it was discovered by Mrs. Palmer. The death was investigated by SherifT Clarence Duuglas and members of his deputy force. Foul play was at first feared due to bruises on Mr.

Brown's body. Cash Available To Creek Indians The Indian Claims Commission has announced it is ready to begin receiving claims from individual Creek who are able to prove lineage by producing a list of tribal rolls and other acceptable proofs by the end of 1969. Exact information on the proof, can be obtained from the Indian Affairs Office in Muskogee. One award, amounting to $3.9 million, less fees and expenses, represents payment for 8.9 mil lion acres of land in southern Alabama and Georgia ceded to the federal government under a treaty in 1814. The second award, $1 million, is additional payment for 2 mil lion acres of land in east central Oklahoma ceded under a of 1856.

Descendants of Creeks who were removed from the land are eligible to share the awards. "The leading money-winning 16-year-old of 1067 was Reman Spy who earned IM.QOO, had been drinking, police said. Police said the shooting apparently Occurred much earlier in the evening than the time police Were called 9:50 p.m. She is said to have bled to death from the gun shot wounds. An officer explained that Mrs.

Conley's "body was cold' when investigators arrived at the scene. Funeral services for Mrs. Conley were held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in Smith Funeral Chapel with Reverend J.W. Jennings officiating.

She was born January 6, 1901, in Sequoyah County. She was a member of the Checotah United Methodist Church. Burial was in Greenlawn Cemetery. Pallbearers were Boyd Spears, Ernest Spears, Max King, Jeff Frederick, Elmer Dickerson and Bill Coleman. Survivors include Okley Beford and Ruby Howell, both of Porterville, Alice Wise of Fort Worth, Texas, and Francis Fairchild of Tulsa; four brothers, N.

Frank Tinney Henryetta, CM. Tinney of Borger, Texas, and Allen Tinney and Leonard Tinney, both of Checotah and a half-brother, PuggieBenge of Muldrow. Pvt. Rufiis Liles Completes Basic Army Private Rufus J. Liles, 24, son of Mrs.

Alma L. Liles, 310 W. Chenault, Checotah completed the basic field artillery' (cannoneer) course Dec.il. The eight-week course, given at the U.S. Army Training Center, is the last phase of instruction a soldier receives before being assigned as a crewman in a field artillery unit Training includes the use and care of artillery weapons from heavy machine guns to howitzers as well as ammunition handling and communications.

His wife.Janie, lives on Route 2, Sallisaw, Oklahoma. He received his BJS. Degree in 1966 from Northeastern State College, Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Holiday On ke Starts January 20 It covers the globe, all six continents, North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. That's Holiday on Ice, largest producer of skating revues in the world, in fact, the producer of more live entertainment than any other creator.

Holiday on Ice is seen in 69 countries and 281 cities. Holder of record attendances in arena after arena, Holiday is witnessed by millions each year from Tokyo in the" East, to San-Diego in the West. From Helsinki.Fin- land to Melbourne, Australia; behind and in front of the Iron Curtain. The company coming to Muskogee January 17 through January 20 will appear in the new Civic Assembly Center for six performances. The Friday premiere is at 8:00 P.M.

Saturday will two shows, a matinee at 2:30 P.M. with the evening performance set for 8:30 P.M. Sunday, January 19th, will also feature a matinee at 1:30 P.M. and a 5:30 P.M. early evening show.

The Monday, January 20 finale will start at 8:00 P.M. Tickets -are now on side at the Civic Assembly Center at $4.00, $3.50, and $3.00. Juniors under 16 will be admitted half- price for the Saturday 2:30 P. M. and Sunday 1 :30 RM.

shows. Katy Industries Loss A net loss of $1 ,835,000 for the nine-month period endedSent. 30, 1068, was reported Fridfy KATY Industries, which 97 per cent of common souri-Kansas-Texas IWJlratd (Jo..