News and Views of the Cimarron Valley
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"Procrastination is the art
of keeping up with
yesterday." Don Marquis
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Perkins, Payne County. Oklahoma - USPS 428040
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1984
nativity scene just south of the city hall is a community contribution
Perkins Chamber of Commerce. The professionally done statues were
at a cost of over $600, and more figurines will be added next year.
nice crowd enjoys
unity Christmas Party
crowd was on nativity scene, and greet
for Santa Claus who arrived
Annual Com- with treats for all the
Christmas Pro- children.
at the City The annual event is a
joint effort of the various
were numerous . civic and fraternal
and parents on organizations, churches,
sing Christmas and the school and city.
hear the Bible ac- The event is coordinated
of the first by the Chamber of
read, see the Commerce.
Christmas tree The Chamber of Com-
view a live merce has set up a life
I
sin County basis similar to that re-
Joe L. quired for homestead ex-
is miffed atemption. Also Dawson is
Senator Bill asking relief concerning
who is represen-Salt Water Disposal Well
Oklahoma In- equipment that must be
Petroleum reported by operators
Cumber- and is taxable property;
~)perating Com- and that equipment used
to the at an oil or gas well head
Supreme Court a is only entitled to the in
by District Judge lieu of gross production
's recent rul- exemption if it produces
ad valor- product during January
of oil and of the tax year and that
in Lincoln the time to claim sucl. ex-
emption does not extend
• to the entire taxable
year,
Judge Craig's Youngker states that
that requires the three above rulings
to armual- are not only his inter-
all oil and gas pretation, but the Dis-
and equip- trict Attorney's inter-
with the County pretation, and the At-
between Janu- torney General's inter-
March 15, at pretation, and District
they may re- Court's interpretation,
from yet Senator Dawson and
T the OIPA continue to
size nativity scene on the
lot just south of the city
hall, near the large com-
munity Christmas tree.
The Chamber of Com-
merce expended $629 on
the starter set of the
nativity scene which will
be available each year as
a permanent display. The
life size figurines are
made of plastic and will
have a long life span.
They replace an old card-
board set that had been
in use for many years,
and which were not three
dimensional like the new
set.
The next Christmas
event will be the Lions
club Santa event on
Saturday, December 22.
when Santa arrives on
the fire truck to pass out
a big bag of candy to all
the area kiddies. The
Lions have been sponsor-
ing the annual event the
Saturday before Christ-
mas for over 30 years.
fight the problem, and
cost Lincoln County time
and money.
Youngker says that
the interpretations are
the same and used for all
other property owners in
the county and state.
Failure of the court to
uphold the ruling would
be a blow to all property
owners, Youngker said.
Other property owners
would have to pick up an
additional ad valorem
tax load that the oil com-
panies should be paying
on their property.
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',K #24 TAKES TOP
AT SCOUT-A-RAMA --
event was held Dec. 8 at
¢ Fairgrounds. Cub
Bob Blair with the help of
and Larry Remnei were in
of the booth for Pack #24.,
was "Communlcation--
in the Past, Footsteps to the
Scouts made all of the booth
on communications starting with
the caveman, on to the Indian sign
language, morse code done on a
telegraph machine then to the
telephone and typewriter and last
computers. Their booth was judged
the best. A special thanks to all of
the parents and cub scouts who
helped set up the booth on Friday
night. Congratulations, Pack 24.
CHAMBER MAKES
OVER $100
The Perkins Chamber
of Commerce has netted
over $100 from the chili
supper they sponsored
Thursday evening before
the Community Christ-
mas Program.
A hundred people
bought tickets for the
chili supper, and approx-
imate|y $125 was netted
after all bills were paid.
The Chamber of Com-
merce had decided some
time ago to make pro.
ceeds from the chili sup-
per available to the Mid-
dle School Media Center
Project.
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The Perkins Chamber
of Commerce and Cimar-
ron Medical Association
heard Carl Eason, Finan-
cial Officer of the
Cushing Regional Hos-
pital, discuss the
possibility of several
Cushing physicians
establishing a medical
clinic in Perkins.
SHERIFF SPEAKS
TO LIONS According to Eason,
Payne County Sheriff two medical doctors and
Carl Hiner was guest an osteopath have shown
an interest in manning a
speaker at the Monday
Lions club meeting. He clinic in Perkins, pro-
viding services each day,
told of the various pro- with one of the doctors
blems and progress of
the sheriff's office, and being present a half day
five days a week. The
answered numerous clinic would also be staff-
questions about law en-
ed by a nurse and ad-
forcement and law viola-
tion in Payne County. ministrative help.
Exact operation of the
In other business, the
Lions made preparations clinic was left open, with
for the annual Santa visit several options discuss-
which they sponsor the ed, such as thecommuni-
Saturday before Christ- ty owning the clinic, or
mas each year. It will be assisting the doctors to
establish it and equip it.
held at the bank corner Two recent health
at 10 a.m. on Saturday, fairs, according to Eason,
December 22.
Lions cooks served provided sufficientques-
pork chops, potatoes and tionaires to indicate that
gravy, beans, tossed there is a sufficient
salad, homemade rolls, number of Perkins area
residents without a pre-
and German chocolate
sent doctor preference to
cake. make a clinic here feasi-
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A school bus and a car ing left of center on the
collided on the curve on curve when it met the
the hill at Vinco, school bus. The accident
Wednesday morning, occurred at 9 a.m. None
December 4. of the students on the
Annette M. Payne was school bus were injured.
admitted to Stillwater A Stillwater ambulance
Medical Center when a transported Miss Payne
car she was driving and to the hospital for treat-
a Perkins-Tryon bus ment. She sufferedlacer-
driven by Joe Hooser col- ations, a broken left leg,
lided on the curve near and an injured right
Vinco. knee, according to
The vehicles collided reports received at The
nearly head on when, ac- Journal office.
cording to the investi- The weather was wet
gating trooper, the and snowy when the ac-
Payne vehicle was travel- cident occurred.
of 14 is
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ble. One of Perkins'
physicians has recently
retired, and another
longtime physician, Dr.
Freed, died a few months
ago.
Chamber members
pointed out that they are
interested in such a plan,
but they are involved at
the present time with
negotiations with the
Physician Manpower
Training Commission to
obtain a $9,000 refund on
nearly $16,000 they ad-
vanced to train a medical
student. It is thought the
refund will be forthcom-
ing in January, and at
that time they will
discuss the clinic possi-
bilities further.
The physicians who
have expressed an in-
terest in sharing time i,i
the Perkins Clinic were
Dr. Emil B. Mile. M.D.,
Dr. David Reinicke,
M.D., and Dr. Dennis R.
Coventon, l).O. They
are three of fourteen
practicing physicians in
the Cushing Regional
Hospital.
Filing period for can-
didates for Perkins-
Tryon school board post
5 is underway and closes
at 5 p.m. today,
(Thursday).
A protest or with-
drawal can be completed
up to 5 p.m. Friday. The
election will be Tuesday,
January 22.
Monday, Greg Pierce,
• associated with the State
Department of Voca-
tional and Technical
Education, and a rural
Perkins resident, filed for
the position that has
been held by Forrest
Robinett.
Tuesday evening
before press time a check
with the election board
indicated that Jack Sher-
man Bowyer, 216 E.
Hert, a Perkins attorney,
has filed for P-T School
Board post.
Pierce. 36, lives on
Route 3, Box 980,
Perkins. He and his wife.
Freda have three
children, Brian, 15;
Bradley, 11 and Karl, 10.
He is coordinator for the
program evaluation and
testing at the State Vo
Tech Department in
Stillwater.
Greg Pierce
He attended elemen-
tary school in Edmond,
graduated from Veima-
Alma Higb School and
Oklahoma State Univer-
sity. He is an ttonorary
State Farmer of FFA.
author of many voca-
tional and technical
training publications,
and a board member of
the American Associa-
tion for Vocational and
Instructional materials.
He is also a member of
the Oklahoma Council of
local Administrators,
and has been a Voca-
tional Agriculture In-
structor at Tishomingo,
Oklahoma, and Assis-
tant Coordinator of Cur-
riculum and Instruc-
tional Materials Center:
tie is a member of the
First Baptist Church.
Hunting and fishing are
his hobbies.
Filing for the Indian
Meridian Vo-Tech board,
a seat now held by
Charles Ball of Guthrie
area, is also open .at this
time. Only those resi-
dents of the C, uthrie area
are eligible to file for the
seat, because candidates
must reside in the area of
the District 2, which in-
cludes Guthrie.
The regular Perkins-
Tryon millage levies will
be on the January 22
ballot, which include the
10 mill local support
levy: the 5 mill emergen-
cy levy and the 5 mill
building fund levy, The
Vo-Tech school will place
a 2 mill building fund
levy on the ballot, as
they do each year. The
only building bond the
v~-tech has ever had was
the original election to
build the school. Since
then the 2 mill building
levy millage has been suf-
ficient to maintain the
maintenance and gTowth
of the physical property
of the school.
1 resident is entering
professional boxing circles
CUSHING-- At least confirmed rabies. 14 per-
14 adults and childrensons were known to have
living east of Perkins are been exposed to the dog
undergoing a series ofor its puppies. Other
rabies shots after they animals were destroyed.
came in contact with aThe owner of the dog and
pet dog that had arun in his wife and three
with a rabid skunk. Coor- children, ages 16, 14 and
dinating the situation12, have received the
was Dr. Gary Detrich, shots, as well as a 11 year
Cushing veterinarian, old neighbor, as well as
The incident happened others. A Stillwater child
on a farm three and a half is also taking the shots.
miles west of Cushing The veterinarian warned
when a dog tangled with that rabies is a virus, and
a skunk over a month knows no season. Regu-
ago, and became ill onlar vaccination of pets is
November 21 and was a necessity for protec-
taken to the veterinarian tion.
on December 3. A test
OIL THEFT Vernon corner east of
STOPPED Carney. Two suspects
DAVENPORT _ were taken to the county
Alert law officers were jail in Chandler.
able to foil an alleged oil -o-
field theft in northwest NEW
Lincoln County. Deputy
Larry Johnson and RESIDENTS
Carney policeman Robert Those making deposit
Butler. The officers learn- at the City Hall for water
ed that a truck, owned by service the past week
Cushing residents, stuck were: Margie Linch, 204
near the Mount Vernon NW 3rd; Russell West,
schoolhouse, contained a 402 East Street, Apt. A;
Fairbanks Morse 208 Ty Engel, 403Vffi N.E.
engine that had alleged- 3rd; Dawn Bradley, 403
ly been stolen from an oil East St., Apt. A; Mike
field lease being produc- Smith, 215 E. Heft; and
ed by A. T. Brixey about Horace Nickelson, 415
two and a half miles SE4th, Apt. 29.
southwest of the Mount -o-
A former Perkins-Tryon
high school student,
Michael Pals, told The
Journal this past week
that he has been ac-
cepted by Pat O'Grady,
noted Oklahoma boxing
trainer, and will par-
ticipate.in his first pro-
• fessional boxing bout on
February 4, in Oklahoma
City.
Pals, who has changed
his name under counsel
of his trainers to Mike
O'Leary, began boxing
on St. Patrick's day in
1984. and has been
coached by Brian Kelley
of Cushing and Agra, an
ex-professional, who now
teaches school at Agra.
O'Leary has had five
amateur fights, with a 4
win and 1 loss record. Of
these, he administered 1
TKO, and received 3
judges decisions, and fell
to one TKO. His fights
were in Shamrock,
Drumright. Agra and
Oklahoma City.
O'Leary said that Scan
O'Grady first noticed his
performances and follow-
ed his progress closely,
and recommended to his
trainer-father Pat
O'Grady, that the
Perkins boxer would be
material for professional
ranking.
His first professional
fight will be on February
4. at Oklahoma City. in
Mike O'Leary is determined to go far in profes-
sional boxing under the management of Pat O'Grady
of Seen O'Grady boxing fame.
the Holiday Inn on 1-40 Pat O'Grady has an
and Meridian. He will Oklahoma City gym, and
fight in the Welterweight manages several profes-
class, sional boxers.
Pals, who now attends O'Leary. whose mother
Del City High School, is Mrs. I,avern Hall of
said he is in intensive Perkins, and whose
training at this time, and father is Anthony J,meph
jogs 2 to 4 miles a day, Pals, IV, of Texas, told
and participated in gym 7"be .bmrnal, "l will try
workouts and lifts me best to put Perkins
weights, and Agra on the mdp."
