STATE
SENATE
Shedrick
Senate
Committee's
on educa-
this past
:the purpose of
ad-
costs in
be an area
After view-
figures
it became
!:administrative
Our schools,
nical
institutions
have
Ly in
the last three
that signifi-
of state
Could not be
ap-
for such
to infer•a-
to the sub-
committee by the
Senate's fiscal staff and
the State Regents, the
cost of administering all
phases of education in
our state has actually
dropped during the last
three years. Higher
education spent 4.9 per-
cent of its total expen-
ditures on administra-
tion in 1981 and 1982. In
1983, that portion was
only 4.8 percent. Com-
mon schools expended
4.4 percent of its total
spending an administra-
tion in 1981, 4.33 percent
in 1982 and 4.34 percent
in 1983. Vocational-
technical schools spent
5.7 percent, 5.4 percent
and 5.6 percent on ad-
ministrative costs in
each of those years,
respectively.
However, since com-
mon school administra-
tive costs as expressed in
a district-by-district
report vary from a low of
0.45 percent of total
spending, to a high of
19.72 percent, our dub-
committee felt further
scrutiny of such spen-
ding was warranted.
Some initial options
discussed by the group
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-redu('timl of the
numher .f :-;,'hool
districts in (~klahoma;
-estal)li~hn.,nt ot an
administrative cost fac-
tor in the school funding
formula: and
-establishment, of ex-
panded Regional Educa-
tion Service Centers.
Expanding on the
theme of the last pro-
posal, our subcommittee
also discussed the
est,d)lishm.n/of regional
servi('t" centers to take
over variety of services,
some of which would be
aimed at cost savings.
Others would be intend-
ed to improve program
quality and extend ser-
vices without increases
in present costs.
This proposal would in-
clude regionalizaOon of
transportation services
in our state. A proposal
was extended that would
potentially save the state
some $800,000 next
fiscal year in the pur-
chase of school buses, if
a regional or statewide
program for such pur-
chase were to be ex-
tablished. The proposal
took into account the
total number of buses in
service at the present
time, the projected
number of replacements
that will be needed and
the potential savings in
price discounts if school
districts negotiated
together rather than in-
dividually. Similar
studies were brought
forth in both vocational-
technical and higher
education, also.
By exploring every
possible part of every
division of our educa-
tional system, we may be
able to effect real savings
of taxpayers' dollars
without sacrificing quali-
ty. That is our goal.
I am always available
to anyone who might
have a question of com-
ment regarding any
issues we may handle at
the State Capitol. My ad-
dress is: Senator Bernice
Shedrick, Room 426,
State Capitol, Oklahoma
City, OK 73105, or P.O.
Box 843, Stillwater, OK
74076. My telephone
number in Oklahoma-
City is {405)525-0126,
Extension 572; in
Stillwater, {405)743-4800.
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NEW RESIDENTS
The only person filing
LETTER TO THE
EDITOR
Dear Sir:
I just finished reading
Thursday's {9-6-84}
NewsPress and I find it
hard to believe what I
just read. I finally found
the public records on the
last page, and when I
saw the number of cases
{39}. Another thing that
really makes me sick is
the fact that of those 39
cases 28 were for "driv-
ing under the influence".
Several even had more
than one count against
them. I also noticed that
several had had their
licenses previously
suspended for some
reason and were driving
anyway. We have a super
police force in our fine
communities, but they
will even admit that they
can't catch all of the
liquor forces tell us that
nothing will change and
there won't be anymore
problems with a passage
of this question. We're
supposed to be an educa-
ted society, I pray that
we'll act like it and not
allow passage of some-
thing that will benefit on-
ly those whose bank ac-
counts will be fattened.
-s-Linda Else•
LETTER TO THE
EDITOR:
NATURETHEGREAT
TEACHER:
By Bud Engl d
Recently our fifteen
year old grandson Eric
and I took a grandson-
granddad vacation, just
the two of us. Walking on
a nature trail at the fossil
beds near Florisant Col-
drunken drivers on our orado we witnessed a
streets. The thought that rarely seen drama poin-
our state is contemplat- tins to the innocence of
ing a liquor by the drink violence under nature's
question is frightening "survival of the fittest"
beyond degree. A yes law.
vote on S.Q. 563 will on- As we neared some big
ly increase the number of pines the shadow of a
drunk drivers on the large bird slid across in
roads and the space need- front of us. Instinctively
done no wrong. She had
been raised under the
forever past law of the
survival of the fittest and
in getting food for her
own young she was mere-
ly following the ir-
revocable and irresistible
law to insure the
regeneration of her own
kind. And here was the,
real shocker to the whole
incident. How many
other birds of smaller
and less defensive
posture had perished in
the talons of that same
mother hawk to get her
own brood almost to
soaring size.
Right there is a good
place to stop this report
but for one, I must carry
the implications of the
lesson deeper into the
realism of contemplation.
For instance; why does
the survival of so many
species automatically de
pend upon the pain, sor-
row and death of more
helpless creatures?
That's as far as I will
carry that subject for it
would take a large book
to treat such a subject
with full justice. Suffice
it to invite all those who
With advance ticket
sales running ahead of
last year, the oncoming
1984 Payne-Pawnee
Ducks Unlimited fund-
raiser banquet seems
destined to break
another record or two.
An increase in atten-
dance and a hoped for in-
crease to $12,000 gross
intake is the goal.
According to chapter
president A.J. Ketch,-
"We are hoping for a
good increase over last
year and we believe it is
possible. The recent
"Green Wing" day spon-
sored by the local DU
chapter exceeded our ex-
pectations. So, we have
reason to believe area in-
terest in migratory
waterfowl is at an all-
time high."
The banquet is
scheduled for Thursday,
Oct. 4, at the Payne
County Fairgrounds. The
building opens at 6 p.m.
with
within the continental
United States. Canada
has been the traditional
locale for DU devdol
ment in the past.
It is believed these
areas within the United
States can be made
highly productive (or
waterfowl. DU will work
with the United Sta e
Department of the In-
terior to develop th.es
new areas.
Droughts in Cana jm'
provinces almost annual-.
ly in recent years have
cut deeply into war,dew!
reproduction and pop, a:
tiorL DU must commence
a program of tapping
underground water
tables and pumping the
water onto the flatlands
and pot holes where"
ducks raise.
ed in our newspaper, we looked up but the bird believe that GOd, (who with dinner at 7 p.m.Ducks live on water
More space will be need- was just then passing the saw all that He had made Once again, Red's Dell and the absence of it is,
ed to report the number line of the bright sun. We and behold it was very will serve the meal. Red devastating to the duc. :
of additional arrests, assumed it was aturkey good}, literally made the does a great job and population. Mallard
more space will be need- vulture {buzzard}, so I earth and all things through the years he has population suffer.ed
ed to put the pictures of quipped, "that stupid therein and ordered the really been good and another 16 percent drop
these wrecks and much thing doasn t know we're animate kingdom to live generous to the local DU this year placing this no:.,"
untol amounts. DO they
really care that the pro-
duct they peddle
destroys lives, homes,
state services {which af-
fect all of us) and the
very fiber of our great na-
tion? The answer is a
simple no--greed is
always the same. You
more space will be need- not dead yet" as we
ed for pictures and write started on down the trail.
ups of the funerals of the Then the shadow
people that will be killed swooped in front of us
in these wrecks, again. We could tell it
The "yes" side of S.Q. was lower than before.
563 is stating "let's be When we looked up this
honest"--well I wish time we saw the enor-
they would be honest, mous bird fold his wings
The liquor industry and dive into thetopofa
desperately wants the tall pine. When he did, a
question to pass as they shrill and defiant scream
will benefit greatly. The of a hawk broke the calm,
extra bucks they can see as two fledgling hawks
in their bank accounts came tumblingdown and
have caused them to lodged on lower pine
spend a fortune to get boughs. In no more than
the question passed. If two seconds the big bird
they are willing to spend {which we knew now was
that kind of money now, no buzzard) propelled
they must know that if itself out into the open
this passes theyll make air and pumped its
mighty wings for the get-
away. It had a young
hawk in its talons. Now
I could indentify the in-
truder as a golden eagle
with possibly a five foot
wingspread.
As the eagle fled, the
mother redtail hawk was
right on her tail like a
a deposit for water ser- care about your own in- submarine shadowing an
vice with the City ofterests and howthosein- aircraft carrier. And the
Perkins this past week terests affect others is size comparison was rela-
was: Debbie Cunn- totally unimportant to vent too. Now the two
ingham, 104 B W. you!I We all know that a contesting mothers were
Chantry. greedy person is never out of sight behind the
-o- satisfied with one thing forest. Eric and I stood
when he can have several there aghast that all this
and it seems the more he had taken place within
has the more he wants, fifty feet of us. Now I will
One area in this ques- make a self-iv.criminating
tion that I can speak confession.
with authority is in the While all this once in a
""" area of homelife. I can lifetime, c!oseup incident
, speak as one who lived in was in progress I stood
the home of an alcoholic there with a good camera
.... father. I know how booze at the ready but hanging
kills. It not only kills on around my neck and
the streets and high- down to my belt buckle.
ways, but it also causes Now that all was quiet
death to those in the again I remembered the
home. It kills the respect camera and what it was
you have for your that Mr. Eastman
by the law of the fittest.
To think further on this
subject. I long ago con-
eluded that God, the one
the Bible decJares to be
"Love", is not the author
of the harshness and
cruelty we see in nature
nor the grosser elements
in humanity's approved
practices.
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EXPENSIVE FIRE
PERRY -- A $100,000
"pole cat" truck was
destroyed by fire. A city
utility department truck
loss was estimated to
cost at least $100,000
and will requ e sev al
months to order a nbw
one, even though it was
covered by insurance.
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chapter.
There has been no in-
crease in the fare: $15
total includes a year's
membership in Ducks
Unlimited and $5 for the
meal. A person can some
for the meal at $5 should
he desire.
The auction of the
donated merchandise will
commence shortly after
7. It will include some ex-
pensive items donated by
area merchants which in-
cludes shotguns and
rifles, plus a host of other
sporting goods items.
Ducks Unlimited an-
nounced earlier this year
a plan to lease acreage in
the Dakotas, Montana,
northern Nebraska for
habitat development for
migratory waterfowl.
This is a historic break-
through for DU- acreage
ble bird on the border
of "crisis population,:5:5
million. There should be*
no Mallards taken I0r
three to five years. .
Tickets to the 1984.
banquet are on sale at
Chuck's Paint at Main,
and McElroy in.
Stillwater and at Coast'
to Coast Hardware;.
Highway 33 East, in ,
Cushing. '. ,
The annual Cimmarron
Valley Fox and Wolf
Association Hunt is
scheduled Oct. 10-13, at
Merrick, according. $o.
Jack Gearhart of
Perkins. There will be a',
bench show and field
trials. We shall have,
more on this event later.
A LOCAL HORSE. Kid Rocket. owned by Garvin Cru . shown ou tlndeft.:
won the llth race on the first day of pari-mutuel racing at Salllsaw. Kid
has won 4 straight races. 3 in Kansas. and at SMlisaw. :, •
Member F.D.I.C. alcoholic parent as you struggled so long and ::
see how he sits each hard to make it capable ....
weekend with his two of doing. Belatedly I got . . . . . . . ""
cases of I eer and as he a picture of the onei" :C L*2: :: * " * " * * * i
OFFER gets drunker and young hawk, slightly in. z
drunker you know what jured, lodged on a lower * * mAsss ruga AT LZC OCTX • *
is coming. He goes from branch. *o~l.m~=. School Land lesses will b* o~fe~ It coon gmhlle I~d- *
• ding as follovst -- -- -- .
being relaxed, to tipsy, to The mother hawk had * .
being a loving "good given up the chase and * * ,"
el, boy' to the final returnad to her nest. Call-
stage; the monster you ing consolingly to her * am. lO,OO amss as.z os ax m smoo mm *
don't recognize and fear. maining brood she seem- ; 1, 19s*
It kills the love in you as ed to be saying, as * m,. 1.0ore Pa Z aumcos sms stooD.- * ;' ' '
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you listen to the pro- countless other mothers ,'='
raises you know he won t out there in nature have * ums, x0,o0 non (lO,00) sxu zms szc mmoo *
: oct 984 x rtn,o0) mmn'onzm :
even remember in the to do, "Life must go on.
rim Security Checks morning and your securi. Let's make the best of * TUsS. 1.00re mu ta a(Is00) storms am• sCsoo *
." oct Is84 onmmu. :
vfl Service Checks ty is killed when you it.' ...... "'
• liED, 10 t00AHJU.FALI'A (~SSOI[ES *
watch him humiliate you The eagle must have * oct 19s, commmus- **
eral Salary Checks in front of your friends been very desperate to
-liraW Duty Pay Checks on purpose. You are kill- get food for her own * ,oore mJo ( ,oo) ogzmz *
.. OCT 3,, 1984 B[JkZSS(2|30) 8¢S0OL CJkraTBI~A *
A. Pension Checks ed inside again and again young to make such a • sort rots IT. **
as you watch him beatdaring raid so near : ums, o,oo c vs a(to,00) Gg aO azmmazc •
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ttar & Railroad Retirement Checks your brothers and humans. They are prone • oct 4, lSS4
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soczlrty
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mother and the fear is on- to keep lots of distance loo cin xn ,SZvd. *
Pplemental Security Income Checks ly intensified as you from mankind under nor-* .
ach r's Retirement Checks spend nights out in the mal circumstances. :_Laas.; viii be awarded to bidder ~o hlds higmt manual r*nt.l *
pasture or in the barn so When we saw the tot tin ~riod of January 1, 19SS to ~m~r $1, 19S?t with tl~ *
S.U Payroll Checks becan't find. you. These mother hawk make such *c tmato rs t,s,t t rlOht to or ,xt. id,. *
things cause the.kind of a noble attempt to save To obtain infocm tion and • Do•pier, list of 1erases to be
4r "k @r scars thatdon'theal, or her youngandheardher . *vrlt.: or ¢m11, * . - ,
ifthey do it takes years anguishedcry, ourhearts * co•missioners ot tim Land OZti~ * ~ ' :'
and lots of help. I amwent out in sympathy to * Ji= or-v* sulzdin • .
• . Okl•homa City, 01t 7920S *
%rot in and arrange now for your direct deposit, almost 40 years old and her. Then as all too * (4os) sal-ats8 or (4os) s2l- ts *
I've dealt with theseseldom * ' *
Safe, fast and convenient, scars all of my life.harsh but realistic lesson tmnoun~.mnts ,t ttm oe mat. my suers*de ~mr ~tnt~ .~tic..
That is why I get sick lodged in my perception. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
to my stomach when the The mother ea le had . ' '
