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2 - The Journal. Thursday, Septemoer 13, 1973
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" Published every Thursday by the Perkins Publishing Com-
pany, 133 S, Maln - Post Office Box L. Perkins, Oklahoma,
74059, Telephone 377-8599 or 547-2411,
Harland Wells, Editor and Publisher
Rick Clark, Managing Editor
Glenda WllJon, Typist
Sue Dodrill, Business Manager
Jane Flint, Advertising
Ruth Brown, Circulation Manager
Subscription Rate: $5.15 in Payne, Lincoln and Noble Coun-
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ifled ads today - 547-2411 or 377-3599.
MEMBER
All I know is wbof I read in the popers---V~ll RoQers
By Rick Clark
DEMONS DEFEAT HENNESSEY . . . play OILTON this
Friday at 8 p.m. on home ground... DAVID COOK employed
by town as relief policeman . • • JOURNAL slates football
contest . .. BILL MCDANIELs HARLAND WELLS, DEWAYNE
MOSER, Dec COYLE, and RICK CLARK are our sports page
FEARLESS FORCASTERS for the u pf~oming season. We will
be keeping tabs on their right and wrong percentages'...
SANDY EDMONDSON. DINAH WISE. DARLETTA HUFFMAN.
BARBARA DEAN, REBECCA BOSTAIN and SANDINA KINSEY
are the new football cheerleaders at the Perklns-Tryon high
school . .. FORREST ROBINETTE appointed to the PT school
board replacing the resigned FRANK BREEDEN .........
BILL McDANIEL finally got what was coming to him. An
official PT coache's sweatshlrt with PERKINS-TRYON COACH
printed on it . . . Town Board met in adjourned meeting...
School Board met last week also ....................
Some people have their bad days, but for the people in the
weekly newspaper business, Wednesday, or press day, is always
"one of those days".
For example: Everything that you should have done in
preparation for this week, should have been done last week,
but wasn't because you were trying to catch up to three weeks
before, which you didn't have time to do because you were
wondering what the hell you were doing for the next wee~s
p~per. Now, I am sure this last sentence dldn*t make a whole
lot of sense, which is probably why we are behind now.
Another example would be conversations overheard
around this kooky place on Wednesdays such as:
Jane: '*Rick, ha~ze'I got this ad in the right place~"
Rick: "What ad-what place?"
Jane: "Delmars on page 8."
Rick: "I don't know, ask Sue.'"
Sue: "I don't know, ask ttarland."
Harland: "I don't know, ask Ruth."
Ruth: "I don't know, ask Glenda."
Glenda: "I don't know, ask Rick."
Rick: "I don't care, just wherever you think.*'
Washington
By Senator Dewey Bartlett
During the Congressional summer recess, I traveled to
twenty-five counties in Oklahoma where I visited with hundreds
of Oklahomans. Oklahomans definitely have the economy on their
minds.
Price freezes, price ceilings, Phase IV, Federal spending,
supply and demand, inflation, and balance of payments deficits
were always topics of discussion.
Oklahoma farmers are pleased that they are finally get-
ting a more realistic price for their products. With the unpre-
cedented world demand for food, farmers realize their products
afford the best opportunity America has for foreign exports.
• These exports are definitely needed to help offset the drain on
the American dollar due to energy imports.
We cannot achieve a sound economy with controls on nat-
TRUSTEES, from page i
to the town.
"h should be noted that these
contracts are in accordance
with State Statutes," Commis-
sioner Walt Martin stated.
Martin said that he has been
in contact with the Perkins
Cemetery Association and the
Knipe family and said that they
are in agreement with the con-
tracts and that they would sign
them.
The Board stated that when
the contracts are signed and re-
turned then an election will be
called on the matter of the two
cemeterys. That election should
be in the next "month or so."
In other business the Board
tabled a request by Rick Clark,
managing editor of The Journal,
to change the meeting nights of
the Town Board of Trustees.
The matter was tabled to study
the legal technicalities and to
check the state statutes. The
request was made so that Clark
might attend both the School
Board meetings as well as the
town meeting for reporting for
the Journal. The request will
be brought up again at the next
meeting.
The Board also instructed the
Fire Department to make a sur-
vey of the town alleys to be sure
they are clear of hazards and
obstructions.
R was also noted by the Board
that all empty lots must be mow-
ed immediately i~ they are tall of
high grass and weeds. The
Board added that If the lots are
not mowed then the town will
have them mowed at the cost of
the land owner.
DAVID COOK, has been hir-
ed as the new relief policeman
for the tow~ of Perkins. Cook
will work only When needed by
ural gas, crude oil, ag~;~.culture products and fertilizers. The Perkins Chief of Police Ken
ceilings prevent farmer~ from buying adequate quantities of Listerman. He ispresentlyem-
fertilizer, without which farmers are unable to maximize food ployed with the Carrier Ditch-
production. Further, the ceilings prevent ranchers from maxi-
mizing beef production, while the oil industry is likewise pre-
vented from producing much-needed crude to reduce the expand-
" Ing balance of payments deficit.
Another worry Oklahomans expressed is the trend toward
foreign investment in American business and industry. The
countries of Iran and Japan, with plenty of American dollars,
recently invested in an American oil company and various Amer-
ican business enterprises, resPectively.
We need to improve our economic conditions so that we
and other countries can engage in balanced trade of products--
not unilateral purchasing of domestic companies.
The free marketplace is--through millions of free trans-
actions--the best answdr to this natlon*s economic problems. I
know Oldahomans are aware of the dangers of continued econom-
ic controls because many expressed their concern to me fre-"
quently during my visits throughout Oklahoma In August,
Ing Company of Stillwater.
SCHOOL, from page 2
ly before the basketball sea-
son," ACuff said.
The Board gave approval for
the purchase of five new sewing
machines for the Home Ec-
onomics Department and the
new school bus ordered last
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Spring was delivered and will
be used on the Tryon route.
Acuff said that the district
operates nine routes and has a
spare bus at each SChool site.
By Senator Henry Bellmen
Government, by Its very nature, is confusing
grown even more so in recent y~,ars as new
been enacted. As government has become larger, it
more complex, and it is no wonder that the average
quently doesn't know which way to turn for
sistance.
Under our federal system, government is
pared to a neatly-tiered three-layer cake,
al, state and local levels. Actually, as University
Professor Morton Grodzins pointed out in a report
ago, today's government is more like a marble
unexpected whorls and inseparable blendlngs."
This kind of mixture is best illustrated by tl~
ferent kinds of local governmental units that
within each state. Frequently they have similar
and overlapping jurisdictions.
A recent Bureau of the Census report
there were 78,268 governmental units in the
that's one federal government, 50 state
78,218 local governments. The latter figure has
91,186 in 1962 and 81,248 in 1967, largely
tinulng sharp reduction in the number of
Among the states, the number of local
ranged from 50 in Hawaii to 6,386 in Illinois.
The Census showed that Oklahoma ranked 17tll
ber of local governments with 1,683 as of
figure includes 77 counties, 547 municipalities, 65
ricts and 402 "special districts''. It is in these
ricts" that distinctions are sometimes difficult to
For example, there are 56 conservancy
servalion districts, 184 rural water, sewer
management districts, 2 sewer improvement
water distribution districts. All of these have
with land and water use.
Oklahoma had 80 housing autoritles, 1 port
fire protection district at the time the cesus
These units of local government are toolJ
serve the people--but they require participation
order to make them work.
MESA, ARIZ., TRIBUNE: "'See where a bit of
developing in the matter of gn-julce for chariots,
nation. RSd be a goodideato start thinking in terms
whenever possible. Combine shopping trips;
next door to a grocery; keep your car tuned up
gas mileage possible, estahlish gas-saving
avoiding jackrabbit
on arterial streets where signals are
try a bike sometimes."
QUAKERTOWN, PA'.$ FREE PRESS: "A
tic has come before our eyes from the state
seems Michigan lowered the age limits for drinking
the increase In 'young adult'
99 percent. We... should learn from the
gan. In our opinion 18 through 20-year-olds
accept the responsibility of handling alcohol."
O
Ir Vnvid HaU
You know you probably shouldn't start to
of the year or another but fall in Oklahoma
It's county fair time everywhere, football
State and there's that good feeling you get
Out over eastern Oklahoma the other
afternoon some of the trees were showing
just the slightest inclination toward chang-
ing. You could see a little gold and deep
red smeared against the rolling green hills.
We'll be spending a lot of time at fairs
the next couple of weeks and we'll look
fo'rward to meeting you. I particularly like
to see the annual displays by our young
4H'ers. Their animals and handicrafts are
always so well turned out for the fair.
Now I must apologize in advance for
not doing justice this year to such things
as the Governor's c ookie jar, the pies, cakes
and cookies. Most of you know about my
diet and Mrs. Hall is keeping me on a
tight lead at the fairs this season. I'll be
able to look but not touch!
If someone asked you what is the most
powerful resource we pos.% ss in America
today, what would you say? Many would
say soil, minerals, water, forests, petroleum
and the like. I believe the most precious
resource of intelligent minds and trained
young. 4H members and their leaders arc
assets. They renew my faith and hope each
them at fair time ....
A quick "thank-you" to the folks at
Henryetta for the grand receptions they've
past week during visits to their areas ....
Also, let me assure you I'm very much
hard on . . . the problem created by
of LP gas in Oklahoma this winter.
me grave concern. We'll keep you posted.
