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........................... .... ........ .................... IPerkins Town-wide
Class 3A State Runners-Up lgarage sale day
Saturday, April 12
[City survey results
Perkins-Tryon Lady Demons! [to be presented
-more on page 9
J Certified Cities is preparing
]to present the Survey results
Ion Thursday, March 27 at 5:30
|p.m. in the Cimarron [ rails
Club House. Your presence is
I I • •/|| ............... ~ U ]requested so we can get on
n ~" m [with a plan of action that c,,w
"1 : : ::i!~::i~:: .... ¢ lers the needs of Perkins eiti-
..... : Izens.
in our i07th year of servln
Payne Count's Oldest Newspaper
basketball team
history of Perkins-
has any ath-
gone to the final
for a state
)...until Saturday,
1997.
chapters of his-
over the week-
Lady
team won the
the state tourna-
'sday against top
then knocked off
on Friday in
game, and were
3A Runners-up af-
Ly at
in: the Fairgrounds
Lady Demons
farther than the
De-
the first game.in
or girls, football,
, or baseball varsity
it to play for
trophy in
Jerry Burnett, As-
Hill. and the
¢ tournament un-
til the last game Saturday at the
vT S ~
"Big nou, e ip the 52-34 loss to
Bethel.
The Lady Demons bad never
been picked higher than tenth
all season long by the two major
Oklahoma daily newspapers.
But, tbe proof of being one of the
two best t(,ams in the state, is
the Silver Basketball Troph~
now sitting in the trophy case.
Burnett told the Perkins Lions
Club members Monday night at
Lions Club, "Our fans have al-
ways been with us all the way
and we appreciate it very much."
The Lady Demons and the
coaches were special guests at
r ' • 1
the local orgamzat]on s meeting
"We've been talking about win-
ning state since last August,"
Burnett said. "Our Motto has
been 'Believe? Believe in who you
are and what you are and you
will believe in yourself and what
you can do."
The Perkins-Tryon fans have
been cheering the group since
the beginning of the year, but
with tournament ti~ver and the
eventual runners-up trophy, the
'We Believe' heat has been on."
fans lined Main
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chapter in school's history book
State Class 3A runners.up, The Perkins-Tryon Lady Demons proudly hold up their silver
trophy in the championship game held Saturday at the Fairgrounds Arena.
Gary Minshail
[ Please call 547-2000 to con-
firm your attendance. The
"Perkins Package"--a round of
golf at Cimarron Trails, a
night's stay at Accordion
House Bed and Breakfast, and
dinner at Prairie's Edge--will
be awarded at this event.
Candy for PIE
Darlene West, a member of
the Partners In Educath)n
group, announced that
Perkins Elementary students
are contacting local residents
about purchasing candy bars
for fundraising activities.
The money goes directly to-
ward the non-profit group that
helps the school with pur-
chases unrelated to the school
budget, she said. They pur-
chase such items as play-
ground equipment and extra-
curricular items. For more in-
formation you can contact
Darlene West at 918/374-2600.
New bandroom
Open House
The newly expanded t'~wki ns-
Tryon band room witl be on
display for everyone to cmntz
and see Thursday, March 20
from 6:30-8:00 p.m..
Park/Rec signups
Everyone interested in the
Perkins Park and Rec program
for baseball,T-Ball, and Coach
Pitch are reminded that
Thursday and Friday, March
20-21, from 6-7:30 p.m. at the
Perkins Elementary gym are
signup nights.
Park and Rec Director Rick
Lomenick said that the pro-
gram is still needing coaches
and umpires.
You're front page news to us!
Your subscription is impor-
tant to us. Thanks go to the lift-
lowing who renewed or
started a subscription to The
Perkins Journal:
Dale R. Anderson, Perkins °
Kenneth & Linda Edmondson,
Stillwater * Mr. & Mrs.
Raymond O. Kinzie, Perkins °
Nancy & Lodeen Davenport,
Wellston ° Willie Nelson,
Perkins • Evelyn Westfall,
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Knapp, Perkins °
Perkins Weather Review
.(compiled by Rick Matheson,
superintendent, Perkins
Agronomy Station)
oMON., March 10 - High: 72;
Low:. 32; Rainfall: 0.00.
• TUES., March 11 - High: 82;
Low: 35; Rainfall: 0.00.
• WED., March 12 - High: 74;
Low: 49; Rainfall: 0.00.
• THURS., March 13 - ttigh:
61~ Low: 53; Rainfall: 0.00.
• FRI., March 14 - High: 43;
Low: 26; Rainfall: 0.00.
• SAT., March 15 - tllgh: 48;
Low: 23; Rainfall: 0.00
,SUN., March 16 - High: 52;
Low: 28; Rainfhll: 0.00.
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daughter of Frank "Pistol Pete" Eaton, poses
afternoon at her Perkins home with a beautiful
representing a director's award in Eaton's name
Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage
City.
attended the National Cowboy Hall of Fame Western
,uet Saturday night and was presented the
'-writer Michael Martin Murphy. She was
James Halligan and was given
°~ation by the large crowd of movie stars, dignitaries,
two other universities that have adopted
as their mascot-New Mexico State and Wyoming.
who was instrumental in getting Eaton recognized
Cowboy Hall of Fame, said that a video about
at the dinner and the Michael Martin Murphy
with Eaton as he had his autobiography as
~en kissed Liz's hand when while presenting the
my hand since," Mrs. Wise, in her usual wit
Tuesday morning.
By Margaret Coate
I love reading poems, espe-
cially those written by someone
I know. I've typed poetry, writ-
ten by several local poets, to be
published in The Perkins Jour-
nal-including the late Ralph
Gray who was a real estate man
here in Perkins. Later, when he
wanted to put his collection of
poems in booktbrm for his son,
Jody, he had me type eacch poem
to be put between plastic pages
of a photo album. Another poet
gone now, Richard Grimm, not
only wrote poems, he spoke in
rhymn.
As I read and typed those po-
ems, I couldn't help but wonder
how the brain of a poet differs
from those who can not make
words rhyme. 1 wondered if the
poet thinks in rhyme or does it
just happen sometimes. And so
I asked another local poet who
explained how the words he
rhymes get into poetry form.
Gary Minshall, a long-time
IYyon resident, learned he was
a poet a few short years ago,
when h, started thinking in
wm'd that rhyme and began
writing down those words in the
fi)rm of poetry . Not only does
Minshall think poetry and write
poetry, he is not bashthl about
saying his poetry. Editor Rick
Clark and I were fortunate to
have him recite a poem for us
recently.
Raised in Tryon, Gary is the
son of Belinda Minshall Pearson
and the late Kenneth Minshall.
He and his sister, DeAnn Piter,
were born on the farm home-
steaded by their great grandfa-
ther M.F. Minshall in 1891. The
farm purchased by their father,
located one mile north and two
miles west of Tryon, was home-
steaded by the father of the late
Guy McClain, former Perkins
postmaster. His mother still
calls that property home. Gary
graduated from Tryon High
School in 1964.
Minshall is a "farrier" by trade.
For those who don't know what
that is, a "farrier" is a person
who puts shoes made of iron on
horses' hooves. Here, in a round-
about way, is how he came to be
a horse-shoe-er and a little in-
fornmtion about that occupation.
This is also a story about the life
he &as spent with his wife,
Sandra, and their children.
After graduating from Tryon
High School, Gary married his
high school sweetheart, Sandra
Green (she was a student at Car-
ney High School, though) right
ai~l~er high school--33 years ago.
(Minshall claims to "not be much
of a romancer" but he not only
writes special poems for his wife,
he says sweet things about their
life together--such as "The only
they did, Gary reports. "We left
home with $50 in our pockets
and got back with $1007" Thev
both worked and saved their
money but they came back home
sooner than they had phumed
because Sandrx's mother be-
came ill so she flew back to be
with her, Gary drove back in the
Chevy with all their worldly pos-
sessions loaded into it--with the
ironing board on top of everw
thing.
Even though they hadn't
thing I would have done differ- planned to come home so soon,
ent," he says, "would be to have both were happy to get back to
married her sooner.") Sandra,
the daughter of Ben and Betty
Green, has been secretary at
Tryon Elementary for 13 years.
Her husband also says, "If I
could change anything in my life,
I wouldn't change anything. I'm
glad I married the woman I'm
married to and I am glad to be a
horseshoer and having fun writ-
ing poems. Life is just pure fun!"
Following their marriage,
Gary and Sandra left for Califor-
nia , where Sandra had once
lived, in his 1956 black Chevy to
make their fi)rtune. And that.
Oklahoma. "It was just breaking
daylight when I crossed the
stateline," the tired traveler
said, "and I thought the green
grass and red hills were the pret-
tiest country I'd ever seen! We
were so glad to get back home
and we've never been sorry we
did," he commented.
Gary thinks back now to when
he was a kid--he didn't like liv-
ing in this area very much--
that's the reason he and Sandra
went West. "But when we were
gon% I realized that is where t
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