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"PAYNE COUNTY'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER"
Wednesday-Thursday Edition October 3r4, 2001 Volume 112 No. 2
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Wriwr
Commission
concerning a
situation
meeting Monday
1.
in question is in
of W. Chantry.
involved trash
property encroach-
conditions,
and inappropriate
of the par-
home on this
hbors have been
the situation since
sought help
city to correct this
the city had been
the renters to get
the problems
and have had some
The renters have
out and left the
this property
The property owner
about the condi-
r rental property and
continuing to work
solve this situation.
was also con-
from the po-
concerning re-
of Stillwater
completed recruit
San Diego, CA/ to
LUnited States Marine.
as
US Marine
during the three
has been in the
which is
of Perkins
he is now
for specialized
an Anti-Tank
will be conducted
moval of a stored/junk car on her may contact the car owners pri-
property. She had five days to vately if he chooses to do so.
have the car removed or he de- Chief Burns said there would
clared incompliant. She said she be certified letters issued in the
took action to do that, butfelther next few weeks to property
car was not a junk car situation, owners living south of Knipe
Eddie Whitehead took issue Street and east of US 177 con-
concerning the car removal cerning removal and compli-
policy and felt it should be the ance of junk/stored cars.
same for everyone and further In other action, the commis-
stated he would be willing to sion authorized upto $6,000 to
drive his wrecker home every modify a fire truck, a 1986
night and remove the aban- Chevy 4-wheel drive diesel, re-
doned/junk cars for free. White- ceived from the Forestry De-
head made additional comments partment. It will be modified
derogatory to the police depart- to a rural brush truck with skid/
merit, platform on the back, new paint,
Chief Burns commented that, and lights and siren added.
at the request and direction ofthe David Helton, with 15 years
commission, he has been issuing service at Empire City near
three to five certified letters ev- Duncan, was appointed to the
cry two to three weeks to prop- Perkins Volunteer Fire Depart-
erty owners to have "junk" cars ment. His expertise is wel-
removed from their particular come.
property. The commission accepted the
He said the department uses resignation of Wes Beane from
the same criteria for every in- the Perkins Planning Commis-
stance and this has been an on- sion and will issue a letter of
going procedure for more than a thanks for his service and help
year and has been handled ap- with this endeavor. Harland
propriately. Wells was approved to com-
Commissioner Jim Stoecker plete Beane's unexpired term.
had also requested the same let- A recommended variance of
ter be sent concerning a similar 62 feet or less width for carports
situation. The police department only presented,by the planning
Tommy Hilley
Hilley named semifinalist in
Merit Scholarship competition
Tommy Hilley, a senior at Program whentheywerejuniors
Perkins-Tryon High School, has by taking the 20(X) Preliminary
been notified that he has been SAT/National Merit Scholarship
chosen as a semifinalist in the Qualifying Test (PSAT/
National Merit ScholarshipPro- NMSQT), which served as an
gram. initial screen of program en-
The names of approximately trants. Semifinalists are the
16,000 semifinalists in the 47'h highest scoring entrants in each
annual National Merit Scholar- state and represent less than one
ship Program have been an- percent of the state's seniors.
nounced by officials of National About 90 percent, or approxi-
Merit Scholarship Corporation. mately 15, 000, of the semifi-
(NMSC). These academically nalists are expected to advance
talented high school seniors now to the finalist level of the corn-
have an opportunity to continue petition, and some 8,000 of the
is only allowed to ,use anap- .... commission was, approvexL
proved wrecker in • city commission also ac-
tions, but Whitehead was told he
grad
at Camp Pendleton, CA, he will
return in six weeks and will drill
as a Marine Reservist in Broken
Arrow while attending
Oklahoma State University.
Toves has
a 1 s o
mentioned
trying out for
their football
team. The sky
is the limit for
this young
Marine.
Toves was
enlisted by
SSgt Alan M.
Epps Jr. from
Recruiting
Substation
Stillwater
located at
I 134B Hall of
Jon Toves Fame in
Stillwater.
"I am very
proud to have been his
representative to the Marine
Corps," Epps .said. "I am also
very proud of all the hard work
he put forth in recruit training to
accomplish what he did."
For information on what it
takes to become a U.S. Marine,
call 1-800-858-8762 ext 1841.
cepted the goals and objectives
of the comprehensive plan for
the City of Perkins. The plan is
a vision statement and more and
this acceptance serves as a ref-
erence point for the direction of
See Cars - page 5B
in the competition for some finalists will become Merit
,000Merit~l~ip~, Scholarship ~vinners.
worth more than $32 million, NMSC will release the names
that will be offered next spring, of the Merit Scholarship win-
Hilley, who scored well on the ners of 2002 to news media nag
PSATtest taken while he was a tionwide in four announce-
junior, will take the SAT test this merits, beginning in April and
school year as part of the selec- concluding in Jaly. These schol-
tion process, arship winners will join more
Hilley is the son ofRobert and than 202,000 other distin-
Nancy Hilley of Perkins. guished young people who have
More than l ,2 million students been named Merit Scholar
in more than 20,000 U.S. high awardees since completion of
schools entered the 2002 Merit the first competition in 1956.
causes
by Cindy Sheets
Journal Publisher
An Ada man was taken to the
hospital following an accident
on the Cimarron River bridge
just south of Perkins Tuesday.
The accident occurred when
a large pine tree rolled off a
flatbed trailer which was being
towed by Gerald Johnson of
Perkins.
Johnson was heading south-
bound on US 177 when the tree
came loose from its tether and
bounced into the northbound
lane, striking a Ford Ranger
driven by Louis Dunlap of Ada.
According to Dunlap's wife,
Nancy, her husband slammed
on the brakes when the tree
struck the pickup. The tree then
flew over the pickup into the
path of a Pontiac LeMans
driven by Ricky Gottfried of
Tryon.
Gottfried said he ran over the
Louis Dunlap of Ada, Oklahoma is attended by emergency
personnel following an accident on the Cimarron River bridge
.south of Perkins.
large tree's trunk then struck the No one in the GottfrieM ve-
rear of the pickup, hicle was injured.
"It all just happened so fast, Louis Dunlap's head struck
there was nothing else we could the rear window of the pickup
do," said Gottfried's wife during the collision. He was
Laurie, who was a passenger in transported by ambulance to
the vehicle along with two small
children who were in her care. See Tree - page
S treetscape plan to include'
Iowa Trail"
Street hosted a must be prepared.
Thursday, Steve Willingham Perkins
The Main Street, was thrilled that 25
a Public Hearingpeople had attended and said,
local citi- "We are off to a good start."
Perkins Streetscape Representatives from COEDD,
ive Oklahoma Department of Trans-
oflocalbusi- portation, and Stillwater's
Chamber, Lions
The
year ago
with ODOT per-
members of other
Lpply for
Grant. The pre-
has been done
plan
Audubon Society were also
present,
The meeting was called to or-
der by Willingham who intro-
duced landscape architect, Mat-
thew Kirkwood. The
Streetscape Initiative involves
beautification of the north and
south entrances to Perkins as
well as creating walking/biking
trails to connect these two. help us with grants through her Street, Harland Wells, said he
Kirkwood's job is to meet with husband Wes' Washington of- had received verbal permission
Perkins residents and business rice. The Iowa Tribe will apply from property owners north and
owners to determine the ele- for grants in order to create what south of town to use 15feet for
ments to be included in the fin- we hope to call "The Iowa Trail" easement. "['his in turn could be
ished product. He will then south of Perkins. used for walking space and in-
compile the ideas and come up Grants for trails and parks can tennittent benches.
with an original Streetscape be applied for through Therearealotofthingstocon_
idea which is unique to Perkins. Oklahoma's Tourism and Rec- sider when taking on a project
Representing the Stiilwater reation. COEDD representa- of this sizeand nature. Thelni-
Audubon Society, Coetta tive, Joe Dunn, said he would tiative team would welcome
Lampe said that her organiza- help with those applications, anyone who is interested in
tion was interested in helping Dave Cline works at the Depart- working on this long-term
then added that OSU's Zoology ment of Transportation office in project. Please call the Main
Department is interested in as- Stillwater and he said Federal Street office, David Holbrook,
sessing the bird population of money can be spent anywhere 547-1107, if you would like to
the wetlands north of town. State money cannot, be a part.
Lou Watkins volunteered to President of Perkins Main
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Community
Calendar
• Oct. 4, noon- Perkins
Chamber of Commerce
meeting at Lions Den.
• Oct. 4, 7 p.m. -
Taylorsville Gospel Opry
at Taylorsville.
• Oct 4, 7 p.m. - Perkins-
Tryon Ag Booster meet-
ing at Evans Ag Farm.
• Oct. 5 -- Picture retakes
at Perkins-Tryon Schools.
• Oct. 5 - Perkins-Tryon
Schools early dismissal
day: elementary- 1 p.m.;
middle and high school -
1:15 p.m.
• Oct. 6, 9 a.m.-lp.m.-
P.O.S.S.E. Smoked meats
sale at Market Maze.
• Oct. 9, 7:30 p.m. - VFW
Post #7322 and Ladies
Auxiliary meeting.
• Oct. 14, 2:30 p.m. -
P.O.S.S.E. meeting, in the
elementary cafeteria.
• Oct. 18, noon - Perkins
Chamber of Commerce meet-
ing at Lions Den.
• Oct. 18 & 19 - Perkins-
Tryon Schools Fall Break.
• Oct. 25, 6:30 p.m. - Genera-
tion GAP meeting at First
Baptist Church.
• Oct. 26 - No school;
Perkins-Tryon Schools Par-
ent/Teacher conferences.
• Oct. 28 - Daylight Savings
Time ends.
• Oct. 31 - Halloween
• Oct. 31, 6-8 p.m. - Monster
Mash at Perkins-Tryon El-
ementary School gym.
Iowa Tribe of
Oklahoma
supports Hope
Bear project
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Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma and
Channel 9 News and the Daily
Oklahoman delivered the sec-
ond shipment of teddy bears
from Oklahoma City to New
York City on Sept. 20. The teddy
bears were delivered to children
in pediatric hospitals. '
The Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma
like many others across the
country felt a need to assist with
the volunteer efforts of the ter-
rorist attack Sept. 11, Inspired
by a tribal member, the tribe
contacted Channel 9 News to
donate a truck and trailer and
volunteered two drivers to trans-
port the teddy bears. !
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BKJ Trucking Company is
one of the four divisions of BKJ
Solutions which is owned and
operated by the Iowa Tribe of
Oklahoma. It is the only tribally-
owned trucking company in the
United States. Recently, BKJ
Solutions received the recogni-
tion as Tribal Business of the
Year by the Oklahoma Native
American Business Develop-
ment Center.
"I wondered if there was a
way that the tribe could help so
I asked our tribal leadership if
our trucking company could
haul the teddy bears," said
Renee Prince, tribal member.
"l'm so excited that we could do
something to show our sup-
port!"
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