"News and of The Cimarron Valley"
Vol. 76 No• 3
PERKINS JOURNAL
Perkins, Payne County, Oklahoma 7O59 December 21, 195
usT A I,,NE
looks fresh.
auto parts and
supply store oper
by Ken Smith and
Lawrence, is a
addition to Perk-
mainstreet. There
be lots of traf
in and out of there
and farm-
get equipment up in
re this winter.
put up a big
sign there Tuesday
parts men are still
getting all the
!is put away.
and Ralph Grimm
busy as bees up at ,
t S Cafe the past .;
days. The inside i ...... &%
the establishment
Perkins Police Chief Ray Harral
lends the Perkins Journal staff
a hand in the wee hours Wednpsday
morning. Harral is using a pair
of scissors in the new offset
method being tried at thv Journal
for the first time this week. In
the background is the od Lino-
type machine, not even fired up
this week. Your Journal was put
together with a pot of plue and a
pair of scissors.
Lost Your
Gun?
il Redus has pro-
!ly got the only in-
t-red gas heater in, Perkins Police Chief
We asked hi,Ray Harral and Under
that was one of hisSheriff Ray Sherman re
• He said ported the discovery
Wished it was be- iSunday of two pellet
rather than work uns in the water be-
on Sadler's trac- ow the bridge at the
,he,d be sitting imarron River south
and counting his )f Perkins.
Harral said that a
'lot of businesses
findin use for
infra-red as heat
|. Some supermark-
and large stores
them at entrances
/
then take the door
and the heaters
out the cold.
out five of the
|lest people in Perk
right now are the
working at the
office. There is
abundance of mail
Ing in and out each
during the Christ-
rush, but it has
handled real nice-
the local PO
CarsCollide
Here Sunday
A @ollision at the in
,outh, Cecil Sharp, di
:overed a gun, and Win to close a laceration
[red Evans, who lives Mrs. Curtis received
Learby, discovered the
ether gun when he was
totified of thr first
ne being found.
The law officers were'
rying to connect the
discarded guns with a
)urglary or robbery,
.ut have been unable
,o do so, acoording
:o Harral. The dis-
:overy was made Sun-
ay, and the officers
:hought perhaps some
ead would be avail-
ble Monday morning
then area merchants
ppened up for busin-
ess and found eviden-
=e of a breakln. But
tuesday, there was no
report of a theft of
:wo pellet guns.
tersection of Stumbo
and Main street Sunday
nDon, resulted in a
trip to Stillwater hos
pital for treatment of
lacerations for Mrs.
Sam Curtis. i
According to Chief of
Police Ray Harral, 12 I
stitches were required ii[
when her car collided
with one driven by
Ronald Ray Burton, of
Perkins.
Harral said hat Mrs.
Curtis was travelin
$150,000
Election
Carries 1' icely
Perkins school district The bonds, when sold,
voters gave a resound- will raise the school
ing approval Monday to 'distric millage for
a $150,000 building buildings to 19 mills,
bond to construct new and provide funds for
classroom6 for Perkins seven new classrooms.
school. Supt. Harry Cavet£ said
The vote was 178 for that after a 60 day
the proposal and 86 a- waiting period bonds
gainst, or a 67 percen can be sold, then cn-
approval. The elec-
tion had to carry by
60 percent.
Ralph Dickey
Succumbs
Ralph Dickey, a long
time Perkins barber,
was founddead in his
bed Wednesday morning
tracts let for the
work. He thought it
,would probably be into
the next school year
before, the building
would be ready for the
students.
Architects are prepar
ing plans for a build-
ong to include four
classrooms, a kinder-
garten room, science
room, and library
at the hon4e of his dau room. There will also
ghter at Cushing. be two additional rest
It was reported in rooms. It is thought
Perkins Wednesday that the new building will
Ralph's daughter went be attached to the ele
to work at II p.m. mentary btlding either
Tuesday night, and re- on the north end or on
turned home Wednesday
morning at 7 a. m. to
find her father dead.
Funeral arrangements
are pending.
the east side. If on
the east, it will be
attached to the present
highschool and gym
building with a cover-
ed ramp
west on Stumbo, and
Burton was travelinp
south on Main when the
vehicles collided. The
Burton car struck the
right side of the Dolbort Butler, PayneCounty Bank president,
Curtis vehicle. (riFht) looks on as two new employes me about
Mrs. urton was apas "their work at the bank. The employee standlno
senger n her husbands with Delbert is Dick Roers, who went to work
car# . Mrs. Curtis was at the •Bank this week• He lives west of Prk°
by herself, ins and has been attending colleFe at Wilbur-
Doctor Ewing admlnist- ton. The other employe is the one on the
' ered first aid at the table, the new Recordak machine, which takes
scene, and then Mrs. pictures of checks, deposit slips, ldper
Curtis was taken to sheets and what have you at 800 Items per min
Stillwater by Boat- ute.
'rlght ambulance.
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