THE PERKIN
NAL-THU
22, 1996
The PERKINS JOURNAL
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By Jim Campbell, OPA Capitol News Bureau
Costly end for early release program
The tab for ending Oklahoma's early release program to relieve
prison crowding could be $16 million, just for starters, and the
Senate's appropriations chairman sees no end to accelerating costs.
"I think corrections always will be an urgent need," says Sen. Kelly
Haney, D-Seminole. "I don't know when we'll see any downturn in
that area."
Corrections Director Larry Fields, whose department is under in-
vestigation following a triple-slaying by an inmate on early release,
agreed the program should end. But he said projections show that
$16 million more will be required by June 30 to provide 2,267 beds.
The Legislature gave corrections $247 million to operate through
the fiscal year, an increase of about $45 million.
"The Legislature has been pretty generous, over and above what
the governor requested," Haney said. "I hope there's an end to it. I
just can't seem to find the right answer."
In the long run, education, identification of factors predicting crimi-
nal behavior and early intervention may prevent crime less expen-
sively than after-the-fact lockup, he said.
But at the moment, "we have to be particularly sensitive" to the
days and used to assess the leadership and
and his staff.
Fields called the investigation "totally
Keating's call for truth-in-sentencin
"there areno simple, cheap or eas3
HHH
The corrections department image
problems at two institutions within hours
meeting.
At the Walters work center, which houses
them got into a fight when there was only
manager on duty, corrections spokesman
Bob Ricks, Keating's safety and
guards were not there. He also q
ons, alcoholic beverages, pornography and
inmates preparing for transfer into the
"It doesn't seem to me that we are prepa -ng t
in society," he said.
At Lexington, a secretary was charged with
juana into the institution.
HHH
The Legislature could have more money for
enue collections continue at the pace set
cal year. General Revenue Fund receipts
ceipts by 9.5 percent and the estimate by
State Finance reports.
"It's too early to say, but it appears to be
optimistic," says Senate Appropriations
it shows the continued strength of the
Income, sales, gross production and motor
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problem of violent criminals.
The Oklahoma City killings, he said, are significant enough to war-
rant investigation into management of the early release program
ordered Aug. 13 by the Corrections Board.
Keating called for Field's removal or resignation but Mike Roark of
Owasso, his appointee to the corrections board and its chairman,
said the inquiry has no predetermined outcome.
The board, he said, "will collectively, as well as individually, resist
efforts to politicize or in any way allow this review to be anything
but fair and candid."
Roark estimated the inquiry could be wrapped up in seven to 10
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I "...OF DAYS PAST"
I by Mahlon EHckson
.. ,. J ,Two new Oklahoma publications are now available:
McClain County OK Marriages 1863-1895 published by the
McClain County Historical Society. This book contains more than
1,000 names extracted from newspapers and other sources abut
residents of former Ponotoc County, Indian Territory, which includes
present day McClain, northern Garvin and parts of Ponotoc and
Grady Counties. The volume is softbound and available for $40 plus
$4.20 shipping and handling from the MCHS, 203 Washington
Street, Purcell OK 73080.
Norman IOOF Cemetery published by the Cleveland County Ge-
nealogical Society is an inventory of the cemetert with entries ar-
ranged in alphabetical order. Information included the section, lot
and grave number, the date of birth and death and other informs-
are sti!lin.business, you have survived what I call "the :hump. .: : tion found on tombstones. This volume is the latest in an expected
The hump is that period between Memorial
Day L K) ::Lbaio:J series, of 50 books, one on each cemetery in Cleveland County..:Tl b
book m 218 pages and includes about 14,000 names and 27 cem
when this changes as far as customers go. It s that period . . -
etery maps To obtain a copy, send $34 25 to CGS, P. O Box 6176,
when school s out, people are gone on vacation, there are fewer ac- " • • •
tivities in town, and people's buying habits change....everybody's Norman OK 73070.
• An exciting new product has appeared in the genealogical mar-
gone, broke, or both.
If you don't believe that the school has an economic impact on this
community, then you must be in the Twilight Zone living with Rod
Serling.
Welcome back students, teachers and staff. We all about starved
to death while you were gone.
RC
It's election time. Tuesday, August 27 is the primary, and local vot-
ers will have plenty to chose from especially in the race for the
State Senate office held by retiring Bernice Shedrick. State Repre-
sentative Dale Wells from Cushing drew no opponent. Nobody could
beat him and they know it for only one reason: He's doing a good
job.
The politicians are out everywhere claiming they aren't politicians.
Listening to them tell us about our woes is sometimes amusing. I
didn't know we had so many complicated problems that they can
fix by following their simple advice...."just vote for me."
Politicians are the only people that I know of who can make a
mole hill out of a mountain.
ket! This lates innovation has census transferred onto CD-ROM.
The advantage of the census on CD-ROM is that you can view a
page of the census, megnify the image, scroll up and down, left or
right, or use one of the multiple zoom features.
This new product is called Census View. The program loads and
runs from the CD with a single mouse click. There is no installa-
tion required. Images are printable one page at a time. There are
four different print options that will print to any Windows compat-
ible printer.
These censuses on CD are actual census pages, not transcribed
text!! Like microfilm, some are better than others. With CD, though,
the census has been enhanced. So with the zoom and scrolling fea-
tures, you can more easily decipher those hard to read names and
dates (letters and numbers).
System requirements to run Census View are Window 3.1 or later
and a CD-ROM drive. Most CD's contain one county for one census
year. Oklahoma counties currently available are Payne, Pawnee
and Roger Mills (1910) and Roger (1920). Tennessee counties avail-
able are Jackson (1850) and Jefferson (1850); for Indiana: Orange
(1850) and Ohio (1850).
the prior year and the estimate. The biggest l
or 9.3 percent in the income tax, while
million, or 38 percent.
HHH
Primaries will abound Aug. 27 for
house of the legislature only in 1921. Nearly
lican candidates than Demc
GOP to talk of a 15-member gain which could !
101-member House. But Democratic leaders
citing a continuing edge in registration
governor's vetoes.
Oklahoma Newspaper
on cataloging with new
With a new grant of $150,000, the
will focus on the gigantic task
cal Society's inventory of newspapers
project director Mary Huffman.
"It is anticipated that newspapers in 64
ties will be cataloged in the national Online
ter database by April 20," said Huffman.
minimum of 2,173 titles to be entered."
The Perkins Journal is presently
Thomas-Wilhite Memorial Library in town.
as 1893.
While the proj
to the Historical Society collection from
since 1992, the collection pie also has grown.
"The number of estimated Okl
- from,3,29S to 4 O00.sinee.we started the,
'ecdtiqd Direct0 Bob BIackburn of the
means an estimated 1,827 titles (the
4,000) must be cataloged during a
Project operations were started on
homa Historical Society received a
RC
We are cranking up for another Old Settlers Day (whoops, sorry)-
Harvest Fest that will be held October 12. We picked the theme as
a "Hometown Homecoming" because its got a friendly ring to it and
the football homecoming gameis Friday, October 11.
Some of you Old Settlers may remember Johnny Rusco, a 1953
graduate of Perkins High School, who used to strut down Main
Street as the drum major. John has agreed to be our parade mar-
shal for this year.
As a six-year old I can remember trying to figure out how he could
kick his feet that high with the high feathered hat on his head, a
whistle in his mouth, and the big baton in his right hand without
falling on his backside.
I asked him if he would do the same kick for this year's parade as
he used to when Perkins hosted a band festival with a mainstreet
parade back in the 50s. He said something about just riding in a
convertible.
RC
Speaking of Old Settlers, how many of you, like me, have had to
dial the party you wanted to reach twice? Once with just the 7- and
then four digits that didn't work, and the second time with 547-
and then the remaining four numbers that did work.
The instant connection has got me confused more than the dial-
ing. I'm used to waiting for the "clickety clickety", the ugly dial
tone, and then maybe a ring that sounded mor .l ike a foghorn. You
could usually carry on a conversation with the wife, light a ciga-
rette, smoke a cigarette, extinguish a cigarette, and carry out the
trash before you got a connection.
With this new digital switch you can't even get your Zippo out of
your britches before there's someone on the other end answering
that actually sounds like a real person.'
"Hello," they answer in a crystal clear voice.
"Phhl V I respond with a surprised spitting out of the cigarette.
"I beg your pardon," she says.
I don't know What phhhft!" sounds like on the other end, but it's
got to sound a little weird.
"Sorry, maam,'I've got the wrong number," is all I could sheep-
ishly say, and then proceeded to hang up hoping that she didn't
recognize my voice.
I just hope that lady doesn't have CallerJD.
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tional Endowment for the Humanities. The
U. S. Newspaper Project to locate, microfilm
pers all over the country.
"one purpose of the Oklahoma
tory and catalog every newspaper held in
positories," said Huffman. rhe project
ously unavailable newspapers that were
records on the Online
To accomplish all this, Huffman's
*Inventory the newspaper collection in the
Society Archives and catalog it on
The Historical Society had more than 85
newspapers on microfilm at the time,
the collection and place all microfilm in
"In the process," said Huffman, "we
listed previously on the boxes. This turned
of the collection. As a result, 88.8 percent
film collection are now identified."
• Visit 32 counties, with previousl3
another 20 years of papers, which the
microfilmed previously."
Microfilmed were more than 348,000
1995 on 371 reels. Newspapers were
of microfilming during the first six monthS
pected to be completed by April 30, 1997,
In addition to completing the inventory
in the rest of the counties, several other
funding, Huffman said. These will include
microfilming.
"We have five other
be inventoried and cataloged,"
titles in the University of
brary, School of Journalism, and
been completed, but there are more
These include the Oklahoma State
titles, the University of Central Oklahoma
titles, the Northeastern Oklahoma State
Tatdequah with 156 titles and the
braries with 136 titles.
For more information,
Most Arkansas counties from the 1850 census are available as are in each county.
several from the 1860, 1870, 1880 and 1900 enumerations. Other attics, basements, morgues, old trunks and
states for which CD's have been produced so far are Georgia and "A prime example was the
Kentucky. ...... "We retrieved 31 years of daily
For more information, contact Census View, P. O. Box 39, Ripley lieved already had been microfilmed. In
OK 74062; or direct questions via email to CENSUSVU@aol.com.
Each CD costs $29. Oklahoma residents must add 5% sales tax.
There is a $3 shipping and handling fee. And they do accept Visa as
well as checks or money orders.
There are other companies that sell census books for single coun-
ties for a single year. Those books are photocopies of census pages
for the coun ty and they are fairly expensive ($50 to $150 or more).
The Census View CD's should be much more economical, especially
since one can magnify the images/zoom in on certain areas, etc.
•CALENDAR
Aug. 23-24 - Cleveland County Genealogical Society's l Oth Annual
Seminar, featuring Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck speaking on research
files in Texas, Ohio and Marylarid. Contact CCGS, P. O. Box 6176,
Norman OK 73070.
Oct. 19 - All day workshop by Dorothy Tincup Mauldin, in Cush-
ing, sponsored by the Cushing Genealogical Society.
Oct. 20-21 - Mid-Atlantic Connections presented by Dr. George
Schweitzer at the 15th Fall Conference sponsored by the Ozarks
Genealogical Society, P. O. Box 3494, Springfield MO 65808.
Queries and items of interest should be sent to Mahlon G. Erickson
at P. O. Box 1565, Stillwater OK 74076.
Burr-By Sam White, Perkins, OK
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