GRANDMOTHER LEARNS
TO FLY
COLI,INSVILLE - Lily Ford. a
71 year old retired farmer. Kas been
taking flying lessons and soloed
after 30 hours flying time recently.
She brought her grandson Robert
Lee Ford. a college ROTC student.
to fly with her. David Lamb of
Skiatook is her instructor. She
praises Lamb for his patience and
says he never yells.
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OUCH! VANDALS TEAR
UP NEW GOLF COURSE
PAWNEE - This community has
a new grass green golf course that
local gblfers psid highly and work-
ed hard for, but vandals recently
drove a stolen county pickup truck
across four of the new greens.
Someone also stole a golf cart from
the course. Golfers are upset.
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JOURNAL PRESSMAN
RECEIVE8 AWARD
PAWHUSKA - Ellis Owens,
press foreman for the Pawhuska
Daily Journal Ca 'tal has receiv.
ed his 10 year pin from the Donrey
Media through Journal Capital
General Manager Tom Quinn.
Owens was also cited for perform-
• ink well at his job by all the
employees of the J-C. Thepressman
has been printing the Perkin~
Journal on his four-unit rotary
press every Wednesday morning
for the past nine years.
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SAC AND FOX ARE
COLLECTING OIL TAX
STROUD - The Sac and Fox
tribe is using a taxation prc
gram that brings in an eight
percent tax on oil and gas pro
duction on tribal land. An
estimated 150 interested in oil
and gas and other mineral tax-
ation by Indian tribes, attend-
ed a conference on Mineral Tax-
ation to see how it is done. It is
estimated the tribe has col-
lected about $300,000 in taxes
on their production.
Eggs lose more quality in
one day stored at room
temperature than they
would in one week in a re-
frigerator.
Donn Dodd, publisher of the
Claremore Progress, became
president of the Oklahoma
Press Association July I.
Dodd was elected last Feb-
ruary during the annual OPA
Mid-Winter Convention. He
succeeds Don Ferrell, publisher
of the Chandler Lincoln County
News.
Founded in 1906, the Okla-
homa Press Association repre
sents 236 daily and weekly
newspapers in Oklahoma. It is
one of the oldest trade associa-
tions in the state. OPA has its
headquarters at 3601 N. Lincoln
in Oklahoma City.
Dodd has served off the OPA
Board of Directors for seven
years, elected July 1, 1978.
Before being elected to the
Board, Dodd served a dozen
more years as a member of 12
of 14 OPA committees.
Dodd b :ame minority part-
ner with Ed l,ivermore Sr.,
majority partner, in the owner-
ship of the Claremore Progress
and the Catoosa Times-Herald
in 1975. Since, they have be-
come partners in the Will Ro-
gers Country News and three
cable television systems.
He earned a Bachelor's from
the Oklahoma State University
School of Journalism in 1953.
After receiving his degree, he
worked as a reporter for the
Bartlesville Examiner-Enter-
prise (1953-55).
He was a reporter for the
Miami News-Record (1955-56),
and news editor at the Okmul-
gee Tin s (1956-59).
Dodd joined the Sapulpa
Herald as managing editor in
1959, and in 1965 joined the
Claremore Progress as editor
and general manager.
Ih. s,,rw,d on the ('lnr,.wu,ro
lhmlth Center Ihmrd of I)irvc-
tors for thr,~; years, and was
chairman of the board in 19~1.
lie is past president of the
Claremore Chamber of Com-
merce, the Claremore Indus-
trial Authority and theClare-
more Retail Merchants Asso-
ciation.
Dodd and his wife, the for-
mer Maxine Paris of Fairview,
live in Claremore.
Maxine is bookkeeper at the
Progress.
The Dodds have two daugh-
ters, Susan, 29, who lives with
her husband in Arizona, and
Karen, ]9, w, ho attends dental
assisting school at Rose State
College.
Also elected to serve on the
Board for a three-year term was
John D. Montgomery, Tisho-
mingo Johnston County Capi-
tal-Democrat.
+
l)onn l)odd
Re-elected for a
term as treasurer
Reid, Weatherford
elected to the
three-year term was
lips, Seminole
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