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The~ Weather :::
If it gets any cooler
We're gonna fool'er-~
Gonna turn. the thermometer
Upper-sider downer
And start all over again.
Okay, so we're not a poet. But
Oklahoma isn't Alaska either, and
will someone please tell the wea-
therman ?
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As we drove to work Wednes-
day morning (before sunup, bel-
ieve it or not), we thought "It
couldn't possibly get any colder
than this."
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Then we went into the Journal
office, and, sure enougl~, it was
colder.
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Some folks over in Tulsa are
organizing a water skiing club,
They held their first outing Is:;;
weekend at Snug Ilarbor, donning
rubberized suits and taking to the
water as though it were the mid-
dle of August. We mention this
just to get your mind off the cold
weather.
--AIM--
Perkins Lions club members
were discussing plans to hold a
Ladies' night last Monday, when
one of the members protested, say-
ing, "I thought we went to Lions
club meetings to get away from
the women." No, we will NOT
identify the gentleman.
Inflation h~n~ c~inple~ely out'
dated the lowly nickel, according
to Mrs Cecil Henry. There are a
few items which you can still buy
for five cents, such as shoe strings
(some sizes), small rubber balls,
and chewing gum. The Perkins
Journal just costs a nickel, too.
Post Office
Shows Increase
The Perkins Post Office record-
ed an 8.84 percent increase in
gross postal receipts during 1961
over the 1960 totals, Postmaster
B.A. Fiolle has announced.
Fiolle said, "We at the post~
office appreciate very much theI
corporation given us in mailingI
Christmas packages early this [
year. We didn't have to use extraI
help, and we were able to give
better service to everyone."
Kindergarten
Finishes Semester
The Perkins Community Kin-
dergarten is now completing its
first semester of sessions which
have been held in the Methodist
Educational building. Ten children
have been enrolled. Mrs Barbara
Purvis has been the teacher in
charge. Parents of the children re-
port great satisfaction with the
work which have been done with
their children.
" Since Mrs Purvis will be leaving
Stillwate~ with her husband at
the end of the first semester, it
hes been necessary to hire a new
teacher to take charge for the
2nd semester. Mrs Lenora Heatll
of Coyle will fill this vacancy. Mrs
Heath has been trained in the
field of family relations and child
development, and has an element-
ary teaching certificate.
Anyone interested lm*,~enrolling
:.:nd u; teaching tilat is done be-
fore making a decision. The school
is in session between 9:00 andI
11:30 a.m. Enrollment may be]
done at any time for any periodl
of time. The fee is $12.00 per cal-
endar month per ehltd. The new [
e~mester will start on Jan. 115 and
last unto May is. I
Perkins, Payne County, Oklahoma
THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1962
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Fires brought tragedy to two
Perkins rural homes during the
past week, burning one house to
the ground and causing near-total
destruction to another.
Perkins and Stillwater fire
trucks were called to fight a fire
at the home of Burl Poling, of
northwest of Perkins, Wednesday
morning, in near-zero weather,
Firemen were able to save a
small portion of the house, althou-
gh the entire reef burned. Cause
of the fire was bla:ned o,~ a ht:~
water heater.. Some living room
furniture was saved, but only a
table and et~airs were saved from
the kileticn. The Pohng.~; had mov-
ed into the remodeled house only
a year ago.
A house belonging to Ed Jack-
son of Perkins, also located north-
west of town, burned to the gro-
und Friday evening. The John
Burch family, tenants in the hou-
se, apparently escaped without in-
jury. Nothing in the two-story
frame building was saved. Cause
of the fire was unknown, although
it was reportedthat the blaze
started upstairs.
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A foundation and rubble were all that remaihed kins, Saturday following the Friday night fire.
of a tw~story house owned by Ed JaoklOn, Per. (Journz/ p{toto)
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Ladies Night Feb. 1 shot SCheduled
,ro -For Rev. Trent
Perkins Lions club members
will hold a Valentine-theme Lad-
ies night Feb. 12 in the Lions den.
Roy Crabs is chairman of the com-
mittee.
The members voted to hold the
event Monday night.
B.A. Fiolle, chairman of the
Christmas decorations committee,
announced that the Perkins town
council had agreed to pay half o~
the expense of the decorations
with the club paying the other
half.
The members held an informal
discussion concerning the availi-
bility of building locations in Per-
kins, and their desirability as
building locations.
Temperature Goes
D-
O-
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Here
The mercury dropped to (brrr!)
four degrees at 4 a.m. Wednesday
morning in Perkins. according to
Cecil Gray, weather observer.
Road conditions were fairly
good Wednesday, following snow
which fell Monday, Monday night
and Tuesday morning.
Weekly Drawing
Ethel Frame, Rose Jarvis, Flor-
,.--o-, 7~,~-. .~Iary Nelson and
James H. Clark were the one dol-
lar winners at the Perkins Mer-
chants drawing held weekly on
Saturday. Other names called
were Josephine Roubideaux, Du-
ane Collins and Sharon Blekell.
Earl LustEa- wu the five dollar
winner and Ttlly Bateson's name
nty Health Center will be at the
Perkins grade school Jan. 18 to
administer shots and tests to sch-
ool and pre-school children for
various diseases.
The courtty department urges
parents of pro-school children to
bring them to begin shot series or
boosters.
Children may receive typhoid
and polio shots separately; whoo~
ing cough, tetanus and diphtheria
as a combination; tetanus and
diphtheria as a combination; and
smallpox immunization.
Supt. Ross Duckett said that the,
school will send letters to parents
of all school children concernlng
the program. Permission must be
granted by the parents before
shots can be administered.
Services Are Held
Funeral services were held at
Wanette, Okla., Wednesday, for
Earl Harmon who died of a heart
attack at his home at Ardmore on
December 31, 1961. Services were
under the direction of Bettie's
funeral home of Ardmore with
Rev. Jere Mitchell. pastor of the
First Baptist church, conducting
the services.
He was born July 2, 1909 at
Tribby and had worked for the
Santa Fe Railroad for thirty-two
years. He is survived by his wife
and five children, including Eu-
gene of Buffalo, and Leonard of
Oklahoma City; his mother, Mrs
Emma Harmon of Perkins; two
sister, Mrs Vern Wells and Mrs
Joe Russell of Perkins; and one
Services for Rev. Roy Emerson
Trent, 69, of 1304 S. Husband pas-
tor of the Eden Chapel and Lost
Creek Evangelical United Breth-
ren churches for the past eight
years, were Saturday, at the Still-
water Evangelical United Breth-
ren church. Trent died Thursday
in Oklahoma City.
Services also were held Satur-
day, at the Attica. Kan. Evan~cV-
eal church with Strode Funeral
home in charge. Rev. Roderick E.
Gray of Oklahoma City and Rev.
Paul Caskey of Stillwater present-
ed the services.
Trent was born at Redfield,
Iowa, to Mr and Mrs Alfred Trent.
He married Avis Fotrow at A,'~ea
Kan. in Jan. 1914. After she died
tn 1934, he married D~llv K,m-
drick at Enid on July 20, 1935.
Trent went to Kansas with his
parents, received his certificate
and was ordained at the annual
conference at Woodward. He
preached for 37 years at churches
at Olive Chapel, northwest of En.
id, Thomas, Alva, Hayward and
built a new church at Big Cabin.
He also served as State Youth
Director of the Evangelical church
for many years.
Survivores besides the wife. in-
clude four sons: Warren. of At-
tica, Kan.; Paul, of Pratt, Ir~an.;
Lee, of Paris, Ark.; and Tom o~
Tulsa, and four daughters: Mrs
Ruth Combs of Montelair, Calif.;
Mrs Sybil Webb of Alva; Mrs
Mary Pane Littell of Iowa, Kan.;
and Mrs Margaret MeKisick of
Tulsa.
adult boolcs checked out during
December for a total of 330 books,
according to Mrs ArvU Neal, lib-
Also one sister, Mrs Dale Baker
at Newberg, Ore., and two broth-
ers, Dan Trent of Salem, Ore.;
and Rev. Ray Trent of Enid.
There were 12 LTandr~Lldren a~
gran4e dren.
The fire was far out of control
before Perkins firemen arrived,
and there was little the local unit
could do but protect outbuildings
at the scene.
has collected beddings, towels, and
other household items for the
family, which i~ reported to be
temporarily living in Cushing.
Perkins firemen were called
twice to , the house of Grover
Westfall, southea~ of Perkins,
Jan. 3 to protect the two-stor~
home. Flames from a fire set t~
burn off the lawn were blamed tw,
the cause of the fire. The blaze
caught at the foundation, and
burned up between interior and
exterior walls on the south end
of the house. Firemen stopped the
blaze and apparently put it out
the first trip, with little dama~,,
to the house. A spark remaine-;,
however, and flames in the wall~
reached the second floor b,.Ko '
they were stopped on the second
trip. Damage to the home w,~s
light.
Kent Sentenced
To Prison Term
Nathanial Ned Kent. 41, of Per.
kins was sentenced to two and
one-half years in the state peril.
tentiary in District Court on a
charge of attempted robbery, :n
Stiltwater Friday.
Kent was charged in connection
with an August, 1961 incident i~
which a Perkins couple, Mr a,,d
Mrs C,A. Harrison, were alleged'ly
terrorized by the Perkins Indian
man.
The Harrison couple told au.
thorities that Kent had stopped
their car on a rural road. taken
their money, and forced them to
kneel in the roadway, eating dirt.
Everett E. Berry, court appoint-
ed attorney for the defendant said
this was the first time Kent had
been in serious trouble, and ask-
ed that he receive the minimum
sentence.
County Attorney Richard J,
Stead recommended also that the
accused be sentenced fo the rn~o
mum amount of prison time. The
m mum under the e mrg
wouM have been 10 year
