Just a
Line More
By Bob Evans
If you haven't done your
shopping, you
be thinking about it,
Christmas is almost
here.
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We would like to advise
VOL. 88 NO. 12
News and Views of the Cimarron Valley
PERKINS JOURNAL
PERKINS, PAYNE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA 74059
20 cents
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1977
correspondents, ad-
and those who
ht have news for the next
issues of The Journal,
post office and many
be closed the
after Christmas and
Monday after New
It will be necessary to
bail copy early those weeks,
some advertising calls
will be made early. Many
items, especially those mail-
ed Monday on the routes,
ould not arrive in time for
Honday's deadline.
Thanks in advance for your
this matter.
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Perkins farmers are man-
the picket lines at
City stockyards.
m that Palmer
shift. He
complaining at Lions
that he picketed all day
and his friends didn't
he even got out of bed
10 or 11 in the morning.
a cause one
in often brings
new habits.
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A lot of the farm strike
is coming from
and that is good.
I've always liked
Perkins--right or
you can practice what
believe and folks will
it, and still be
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There are a lot of beautiful
decorations about
If you haven't yet, get
some evening and drive
streets and you'll be
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Last week in this column
discussed the metric
stating our person. I
Frankly, we didn't
just exactly how the
was fairing over the
States, until we ran
this editorial in an
daily news-
The Christian Science
The editorial re-
President Carter's
of 17 members
i the U.S. Metric Board
by Congress in
signals the start of the
effort to convince
join most of the
world in relying on
measurements. The
which has no enforce-
is charged with
and coordinating a
public conversion
!the metric system. But if
developments are a
what's to come, the
Board obviously still
a big selling job on its
editorial continues:
most big U.S.
that do business
already have made
switch...Americans are
little enthusi-
Much of the opposition
simply resistance to
conversion in the
and business com-
tuities no doubt will
tinue to occur quietly.
when it comes to football
Ids or convincing house-
res to buy hamburger by
!kilogram and motorists to
of gasoline in liters
toad of gallons--these are
everyday changes that
truly tax the Metric
's powers of persua-
a. Progress in this area
Y be difficult to measure
g any scale."
o, there you have what is
idered to be aa accurate
Farmer Strike office
I ere is providing
state with leadership
A local group of the
American Agriculture Move-
ment has established a Strike
office in Perkins.
The office is located in the
Harland Wells building just
south of The Journal office.
The office has been desig-
nated as headquarters for
coordinating the strike
efforts in the Perkins and
Payne County area.
Local farmers and ranch-
ers have been spending shift
time in Oklahoma City
manning the picket line at
the Oklahoma City Stock
Yards. Several have also
become involved in the state
and regional leadership of
the strike effort and have
been utilizing their time
around the state and in
neighboring states discus-
sing the issues with interest-
ed farming groups. Ken
Close, local farmer, has been
instrumental in attending
organizational meetings in
Oklahoma and nearby states,
as has Jerry Sadler. Sadler
and Close flew to Denver last
week to attend a strategy and
support meeting.
Most Perkins area mer-
chants have permitted signs
supporting the strike to be :
i
placed on their store fronts.
Four major agricultural
related businesses are spon-
soring a page ad in this
week's Journal to attract
attention to the plight the
American economy may be
in if prices farmers receive
for their products are not
adjusted upward.
According to Wayne Allen
who is helping with the strike
headquarters, a local
speaker supplied information
for some 22 meetings that
were held in Texas Monday.
Tuesday night local farm
leaders went to Billings
where they met with United
States Senator Henry Bell-
men at his home there.
Arrangements are being
made for them to meet with
Governor Boron.
A.D. Mercer came by The Journal office to show the
editor his new leg that is two weeks old. Even though
he is still using one cane slightly, he is learning fast and
has even arranged a foot race with local constable Lee
Crawford for the 4th of July. (Crawford also sports a
mechanical leg.) A.D. wrote a little poem about his new
leg--' 'As you're walking down the road of life/It's just
"another piece of cake/All you need is one God-given
leg/And another one that is fakel" Mercer lost his leg
recently after he scalded it in an industrial accident.
Free movie, drawing,
mystery shopper on tap
The Chamber of Cam-"
merce Christmas Sbopp!ng will be free popcorn for all
movie goers. The Chamber
Program will finish up
Thursday evening (tonight) of Commerce would suggest
with mystery shoppers, a that parents bring their
free movie and popcorn and children to the movie while
a drawing for three $10 gift they do their Christmas
certificates. shopping in Perkins stores
Downtown shoppers that will be open that
Thursday evening should be evening. The show should
.alert to identify the "Mys- start at 7 p.m. and will be
tery Shoppers" that have over at 8:lS p.m.
been appointed by the A drawing for three $10
Chamber of Commerce. gift certificates will be held
Each of the m)stery shop- at 8 p.m. on Perkins Main
Street. Tickets that have
pers will have at least one
been given through the past
league'l;a'seball eam. id ................. .....
The Chamber of Corn-
three weeks by participating
merchants are still eligible
for the gift certificate
drawing.
The winners of Thursday
and Saturday drawings were:
Thursday--Charlene Con-
ner and Chris Johnson.
Saturday--Kathy Motts,
Roxie Kent, Richard Grimm
and Rosalee Stafford.
Several hundred kiddies
turned out for the appear-
ance of Santa Saturday
morning on Perkins Main
Street. The annual visit is
sponsored by the Lions Club.
Santa had sacks of candy for
all the children.
merce voted at their Monday
morning meeting not to meet
for two weeks, the Monday
following Christmas and
New Years. A letter will be
sent members before the
January 9 meeting.
Larry Navarrette reported
at Monday's meeting that
the town faces a problem
with inadequate water sup-
ply and distribution for fire
fighting services. A report
will be given to the city next
month. The fire department
Public offices will
close Monday
The bank, post office, city
offices and Courthouse, as
well as some business
establishments will be closed
o, Monday, December 26,
and Monday, January 2, in
observgnee of Christmas on
Sunday, December 25, and
New Years on Sunday,
January 1. Chamber of
Commerce and Lions Club
meetings ordinarily held on
Monday, will also be
recessed on those two days.
The city council meeting
ordinarily scheduled for the
first Monday of the month,
will be held on Tuesday,
January 3 at 7:30 p.m. at the
city hall.
The school board meeting
$10 gift certificate they will
give to the first person that
asks if they are the mystery
shopper. Several different
ones have agreed to serve as
a mystery shopper and will
be in Perkins stores begin-
ning at 7 p.m. Thursday
evening (tonight).
Also at 7 p.m. at the Lions
Den will be a free movie and
popcorn for the children (and
the adults, too if they have
their shopping all done). The
feature picture will be a 70
minute film entitled, "Roe-
gins Bump", a story about a
young lad who has miracu-
lous baseball abilities that is
signed up to play on a big
ordinarily scheduled for the
ran tests on city fire hydrants first Monday of the month,
and found them grossly
inadequate, some of the fire
hydrants not even register-
ing on the pressure gauges.
Some fire hydrants did not
function, and others leaked
so badly they will freeze up
when it gets cold this winter.
Those present for Mon-
day's meeting include J. D.
and Evelyn Anderson, Larry
and Carol Navarrette, Louis
Shulte, John Bowyer, Rich-
ard Murray, Bob Evans,
Alvin Olson, Ruby Disney
and Mattie Lee Thompson.
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will be held on Wednesday,
January. 4, at 7:30 p.m.
Perkins stolen
checks are costly
The Perkins Police Depart-
ment and Payne County
Sheriff's office are working
on a check cashing spree that
has cost six Stillwater stores
$180 each.
According to information
received at The Journal
office, blank checks from a
Perkins service station were
stolen sometime in the past
and six of them have been
cashed at Stillwater grocery
stores. Each of the checks
was for $180, and the signer
used a forged signature.
The checks started show-
ing up at the Perkins bank on
the service station account
Friday.
Officials say that the store
cashing the check will suffer
the loss.
School election
is nearing
Filing period for the
Perkins-Tryon school district
election will open January 9
at 8 a.m. and close at 5 p.m.
on January llth.
The board position up for
Onal view of the change- election this year is Seat 3,
'' held by Dale Jarvis.
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eone at Thursday willThebeSChoolheld ondistriCtjanuaryelecti°n24,
St s treasure hunt on with poling places at Perkins
ltins Main Street was not and at Tryon.
thing their tickets close- Also included on the ballot
We gave Charlie Ander- will be the usual 5 mill
L a strip of tickets and the
emergency fund levy, the ten
,number was just one less mill Local Support Levy, and
It he number posted on ddr.et n an dall. The reaction of Perkins' younger the five mill Building Fund
Journal window that generation was a mixture of awe and levy that are needed each
|d have meant a free n tonaan respect for the old, bearded gentleman, year to operate and maintain
The Journal camera catches a few facial the local schools for a full
ntinued on Page 8) " expressions, year of school,
Perkins to stay put?
White withdraws redistricting
proposal; Task may be
completed today {Thursday}
By Bob Evans
Jounlal Editor
A special county re-
districting meeting was set
up for this morning (Thurs-
day) when Monday's meet-
ing became bogged down
after District Attorney Char-
les Headrick advised the
commissioners any vote that
day would be illegal.
Commissioners were ap-
parently prepared to vote on
a plan after hearing over an
hour of testimony from nine
countians, when Commis-
sioner White pointed out an
apparent typographical error
when redistricting was un-
dertaken three years ago.
Headrick verified this. Al-
though the date of the
resolution three years ago
was dated December 16, the
official meeting was on
December 20. It was decided
to call a special meeting for
Thursday (today) to discuss
and vote on the redistricting.
The earliest date was
Thursday to meet the Open
Meetings Law that requires
48 hours notice of a special
meeting.
Perkins residents present
at the hearing were concern-
ed about a proposal by
Commissioner White (Dis-
trict 3) to place the Perkins
precinct in Crnzan's District
1. They testified, through
attorney Winfrey Houston,
representing the town of
Perkins, and Jack Vassar,
representing a group of
business people, that tradi-
tionally Perkins' interests
are with the Stillwater area
where many of the residents
work. Houston also pointed
out that Stillwater and
Perkins are the two fastest
growing towns in the county
and have several common
problems, including the new
Kaw ware project, and a
common trade territory. He
said the town council at
Perkins went on record at a
special meeting Wednesday
evening as opposing any
plan to include them with
District I.
Commissioner White said
his reason for proposing a
redistricting plan that would
throw Perkins into District 1
was that he felt it best that
all three county commission-
ers not draw their votes from
Stillwater. The only way he
could see to equalize the
district population was to
assign the Perkins precinct
to District 1. However, he
stated that it was the wishes
of the other two commission-
ers that each district would
include Stillwater city pre-
cincts. He therefore had
withdrawn his proposal, and
spent his time discussing
and studying proposals
presented by Cruzan and
Mayfield that include a
division of Stillwater in each
Commissioner's district.
Kenneth Nelson, a resi-
dent of the Clayton Township
north of Perkins which has
traditionally been in District
3, protested any plan that
would place that precinct in
District 1. He presented a
plan that he had drawn that
would district the county
much like it was 12 years
ago with an equal division of
Stillwater among the three
districts. Commissioner
Mayfield contended that the
Nelson plan did not go far
enough to clarify what
Stillwater precincts would he
in each district, and it would
be difficult to come up with
such a formula.
Several suggested that the"
Commissioners could leave
the districting as it is at the
present time since there was
apparently no concern from
the rest of the areas of the
county.
Jack Vassar said he
personally favored the Nel-
son plan, as did Ray
Henderson. Others speaking
were Wilfred Overholt who
recommended leaving the
districting as it is, Harland
Wells, who also chastised
Commissioner White for
neglecting the Perkins area,
and Larry Navarrette, a
Perkins resident sitting in on
the discussion.
Commissioner Mayfield
said the present districting
was not of his making and
was established by the
courts. He said he did not
mind having a road district.
Commissioner White ask-
ed that the public record
show that the three commis-
sioners asked for a public
hearing on re-districting. He
said it is not often this way in
other counties, and the
public is often unaware of
re-districting plans until
after it is completed.
At this point, Commis-
sioner Cruzan began to
introduce a second plan that
he had "given considerable
thought to over the week-
end". This plan would have
put Perkins and Clayton
Precincts in Mayfield's Dis-
trict I. Commissioner May-
field protested Cruzan enter-
ing an alternate plan at a
public hearing and suggest-
ed that it bedone at a regular
meeting of the Commis-
sioners. Cruzan contended
that he had a right to speak
as an interested person at
the public hearing and
continued to discuss his plan
until it was moved to call a
special meeting for Thurs-
day, and no action was taken
on his alternate plan.
At one point it was
suggested by county survey-
or Darrel Mecklenburg that
it was not clear whether the
meeting was being conduct-
ed as a public hearing or an
official meeting of the
Commissioners. If it was a
meeting of the Commission-
ers, the public present
should not be allowed to quiz
and interrogate the commis-
sioners and officials present.
Chairman Cruzan said that
he was trying to be fair and if
there were any questions to
he asked by the public
present he thought they
should be asked.
The re-districting hearing
was finalized at approxi-
mately 11:30 when it was
voted to call a special
meeting for Thursday.
In other business, a
Revenue Sharing hearing
was held with numerous
requests for funds heard
either by letter or by
representatives appearing in
person.
Those requesting funds
included the District Court
who would like to have a new
IBM typewriter costing $750:
Sheriff Frank Phillips
requested $8000 for addition-
al radio requipmcnt:
The Election Board office
requested two secretary desk
chairs and labor for con-
structing shelving:
Ran Hill of the Civil
Defense organization re-
quested $7000 for insulation
to complete the warehouse at
the fairgrounds, and $2250
for a radio system that would
be compatible with the state
Civil Defense Network.
Representatives of Still-
water, Ripley. Glencoe,
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