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Twisters leave mark on county families Mourners fill auditorium for Miranda
Just follow the horse trailers. They’ll take you to the Northwest District 4-H Horse Show, set to begin at 8 a.m. Saturday at the Alfalfa County Fairgrounds Arena in Cherokee. Participants must have filled out a horse certification form by April 15 to compete. Qualifiers at the district show will compete at the State 4-H Horse Show June 16 to 18 in Shawnee. Seventy-nine horses owned by 55 contestants have been entered in the event and representatives from the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry say recent cases of Equine Herpesvirus that have occurred in several states will not affect shows in Oklahoma. The outbreaks occurred following the recent National Cutting Horse Association’s Western Nationals in Ogden, Utah. “Horse owners should be cognizant of the situation but also be aware of the facts regarding the virus,” ODAFF officials said. “The EHV outbreak has only affected horses attending two events...” The two events were the NCHA Western National Championship in Utah and the Kern County Cutting Horse Event in California. Affected and exposed horses... are under state quarantine or movement restrictions.”
Damage assessment... CHANNON GREENWOOD and his son, Christian (above), survey tornado damage in Piedmont from atop what used to be their home. Greenwood’s home in Piedmont (left) was almost brand new before the May 24 tornado. Greenwood built the home three years ago and has been making improvements ever since. Photos provided
By KORINA DOVE Messenger & Republican Staff Alfalfa County was lucky to escape any physical damage from tornadoes that tore through Oklahoma, Missouri and other surrounding states. But the effects of storms from Oklahoma City to Joplin, Mo. struck close to home and left an emotional scar. At least three local families felt the impact of twisters that swept through miles of landscape. One family lost a child. Children of two other county residents lost their homes located in Piedmont, Okla. and Joplin, Mo. Sixteen-year-old Miranda Bishard of Helena was buried at 2 p.m. Saturday following a funeral service held in a packed Timberlake High School Auditorium. “It was overflowing,” said Bishard’s great aunt, who asked that her name not be published. “There were people standing along the halls and clear into the hallway and some couldn’t even get into the school. It was a very big attendance.” Those who knew the Timberlake junior will remember her as a cheerleader, athlete, rodeo fanatic and “country girl to the heart,” according to Bishard’s cousin, Makayla Redding of Helena. Her pink cowboy boots “Her trademark was her See TWISTERS Page 3
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City sells 8 acres to SandRidge to locate bunk houses
In remembrance of our heroes... PRESENTING THE VETERAN’S WREATH at Monday’s Memorial Day service at Cherokee Municipal Cemetery is Oklahoma Army National Guardsman Brian Mitchell of Cherokee. Helping Mitchell are his sons, Evan and Alex.
Inside today... Wheat Price.............................. 3 Opinions................................... 4 Lifestyles.................................. 5 Funerals............................... 6, 7 Public Records........................ 8 Legals................................... 8, 9 Classifieds............................... 9
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19th Annual Fishing Derby opens at 8 a.m. Saturday at Bonham Pond.
By STEVE BOOHER Messenger & Republican Staff There's a new landlord in town and the City of Cherokee can take $28,395 to the bank. Following a short, 19-minute executive session at the Thursday, May 26, Cherokee City Commission meeting, Commissioners Jack Custer, Diana Williamson, Donna Irvin, Rachel Hager and Mayor Karen Hawkins put their stamp of approval on the sale of a little over eight acres of city property to SandRidge Energy. SandRidge will use Lots 4, 5 and 6 in the Cherokee Industrial Park to locate as many as 14 bunk houses for their employees working in the area. The property is located just west of the former Pendpac building located on South Ohio. In reality, SandRidge already has eight of the housing units on the property and has been paying the city $500 per month for each. The city improved the property several months ago – paying for the installation of water, sewer and electricity to the site. Cherokee City Manager Don Bowman said SandRidge agreed to reimburse Cherokee the expense of developing the property – $25,260 – making the total cost to the energy company $53,655. "I attempted to negotiate a deal to assure that the property was returned to the city when
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SandRidge left," Bowman told commissioners, "but they told me they didn't intend to leave." Although short in length, the meeting – as has been the case for several months now – was dominated with business pertaining to the ever-increasing presence of energy companies in Cherokee, along with the firms that service their needs. Commissioners voted to table a proposal to rent city property to SandRidge to locate two mobile homes along the former railroad right-of-way in the 400 block of East 2nd Street. Each of the two units would house two SandRidge supervisors. Bowman was asked to obtain cost estimates for providing water, sewer and electrical service to the site and bring it back for consideration. Commissioners also accepted a bid of $6,625 by Ewbank Inc. of Fairview to prepare well No. 6 for the sale of water to the general public, including oil and gas service firms. Located near the water tower on the north side of town, the well was used for bulk sales in the past, but has been out of commission. Ewbank will remove the existing pump, make sure the water extracted from the well has not been treated and is not connected to current treated water lines. A 15 horsepower submersible See BUNK Page 3
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Joan Green gets a sendoff after 13 years in Court Clerk’s office.
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TWISTERS Continued from Page 1 pink cowboy boots,” Redding said. “She didn’t care what anybody thought. She wore those pink cowboy boots wherever she went.” Bishard was traveling May 24 on Route 66 near El Reno with her boyfriend, Austin Hall, 22, of Enid, and friend Stephanie Jones, 16, of Helena. “They were out checking horses. They were going to let horses go (to escape the storm) for his aunt,” Redding said. Hall was from El Reno but had recently moved to Enid. “They were driving Austin’s truck,” Redding said. “The truck was swept away by the tornado. It was picked up by the winds.” Bishard died after being thrown from the vehicle. Hall died later at the hospital. His funeral was Tuesday in El Reno. “Stephanie is doing very well,” Redding said. “She had no internal injuries, just bumps and bruises and cuts from being thrown out.” Benefit dinner noon Sunday A benefit dinner is planned for the Bishard and Jones families. Donations will be taken at the door beginning at noon Sunday in the Timberlake High School Cafeteria. Those unable to attend the dinner but wanting to make a donation can mail checks to Farmers Exchange Bank of Helena, P.O. Box 257, Helena OK 73741. Checks should be made to Helena Lions Club, with a memo specifying the BishardJones Benefit. Family and friends say they will remember Bishard and Hall as a couple who loved each other. “He was the love of her life,” Redding said. “They had been dating for quite some time. They had planned to get married after she graduated high school.” Redding described Hall as a man who never met a stranger, always had a smile on his face and always was willing to help out wherever he was needed. “Austin made Miranda be a better person,” Redding said. “They were great together.” The Kildow Family Channon Greenwood spent the last three years building his family’s new Piedmont home, only to have it demolished in a matter of seconds. “I was just almost to the point where I could sit on my porch and relax,” said Greenwood, who is the son of Judith Kildow of Cherokee. “I did a bunch of the work. My wife did tons of work. I did all the sidewalks and all the painting.” He also finished stucco, built a fence and spent countless hours perfecting the landscaping. “It was just the most stressful thing... up until now,” he said. The morning of May 24, Greenwood and his wife, Ashley, went to Enid to pick up their two children, Christian, 10, and Phoenix, 9, who had been spending a few days with Kildow and her husband, Roger, in Cherokee. The Greenwoods made it safely back to the Oklahoma City area, not even considering the possibility of bad weather. “The sun was shining,” Greenwood said. “It was kind of
cloudy, but it wasn’t raining on us.” After running a few errands and finalizing plans for a vacation to South Padre Island, they headed back to the house. “Then Roger called and said, ‘Hey, there’s a big tornado out there west of El Reno and they say it might be headed your way,’” Greenwood said. Greenwood took tornado warning seriously A member of the Oklahoma City Fire Department, Greenwood took the warning seriously. He told the kids to grab some snacks and head to the storm shelter, which he had cleaned out just the week before. “I told the kids, pack a trash bag full of clothes,” he said. “Phoenix put a couple of her toys and her dolls in it.” The kids joined the Guinea pig and pet turtle downstairs, while their dad kept an eye on the weather forecast. “When I started watching it, it was going through Yukon,” Greenwood said. “It really wasn’t doing much, but the TV said it was a great big tornado.” As he and Ashley joined the kids in the shelter, Ashley’s dad called and said a tornado had gone down Northwest Expressway and past the county line. “So then I knew it had gone past us,” Greenwood said, but it had not. “I was looking west and there the tornado was. It was probably about a mile or mile and a half away.” He went back down in the storm shelter with his family. “About 30 seconds later, our ears started popping and you could tell it was over us,” Greenwood said. “It was just real loud. It was just a real loud, loud noise. It sounded like bricks and rocks. “It was gone so quick” “It was gone so quick. It was just there and gone. I really thought, ‘Well, maybe my fence just got blown down.’” He opened the door of the shelter to discover he was wrong. “I saw the side of Christian’s room and it was gone,” Greenwood said. “The kids asked if the house was still there and I said, ‘No, it’s gone.’” A vehicle was gone, too. “The car stayed in the garage, but moved up onto the house,” Greenwood said. “The wind was circling around my house and it was going in a counterclockwise direction. My truck (a Suburban) went behind my house... or it got picked up and went over my house... but it was in the pond.
“I actually hooked it up to a tractor yesterday (Sunday) and pulled it out.” Greenwood’s niece, Cortney Harmon – a Cherokee native – and her 10-month-old son, Gryffin, also lost everything. They had been staying in the upstairs portion of Greenwood’s home, but were not home when the tornado hit. “She had it so nice and so neat up there for her and Gryffin,” Greenwood said. “There wasn’t a thing out of place. There’s nothing to be found of that second floor.” Greenwoods luckier than others Still, with nothing left, he and his family were luckier than others. As news of the Piedmont tornado spread across the state and nation, so did news of a missing 3-year-old boy named Ryan Hamil. The Hamils were Greenwood’s neighbors. Greenwood climbed safely out of his storm shelter into a neighborhood he did not recognize. Although shocked and devastated, he was mindful enough to know others needed help. He found his elderly neighbor, Betty, alive and safe in her storm shelter. He told her to stay put until emergency crews arrived. “And all that was left of her house was her fireplace,” Greenwood said. Greenwood began looking for others. “When I was running down I heard someone say there’s a kid in the grass,” he said. That’s when he spotted 5-year-old Kathleen Hamil in a yard. “I thought it was a little boy because her hair was all matted and dirt was in the eyes,” Greenwood said. “She had some bad cuts that I could see, but I couldn’t tell if anything was broken or anything. She was just laying out there by herself in the rain.” Greenwood told her to hang on while he found something to cover her up. “I ran back up to the house, and I looked and looked,” he said. “I just couldn’t find anything.” He finally found a garment bag big enough to cover her and ran back to her location. “When I moved her over she started crying, so I realized she was feeling pain, and that was a good deal,” he said. “I really thought she was really, really critical. I really didn’t think she was going to make it. She would kind of open her eyes a little bit, but I really didn’t know.” A man came along and helped
Greeenwood carry Kathleen to emergency workers, who had just started arriving on scene. (Kathleen was admitted to the hospital in critical condition. Her condition was upgraded to stable on Sunday.) “I walked back down, and that’s when I got the 15-monthold,” Greenwood said.
He saw Cole Hamil in a pile of rubble. “The baby was breathing, but not very well,” Greenwood said. Intubation was not possible, and Cole died later that day. Greenwood then found Cole and Kathleen’s mother, Catherine, who was pregnant and had a broken arm.
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“I held her head... walked her all the way down to the ambulance then,” Greenwood said. “After we got her up there, I helped put a C-collar (cervical collar) on her.” Greenwood spent the next hour looking for 3-year-old Ryan Hamil, who was found dead by See TWISTERS Page 3
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19th Annual TWISTERS Fish Derby on Saturday NESCATUNGA – Bonham Pond is stocked and ready for the 19th Annual Fishing Derby, set to begin at 8 a.m. Saturday at the Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge headquarters. Children ages 9 and under will kick off the derby first thing in the morning. Children age 10 and older will take over when the younger group finishes. “Probably about 10 or 10:30 a.m. is when the older kids will fish,” said Park Ranger Debbie Pike. Prizes will be awarded for first, second and third places in several categories. “They are great prizes,” Pike said. Participants are encouraged to bring their own fishing gear, but some extras will be provided. “We will provide the bait for the fishing, but we would like them to bring their own fishing poles,” Pike said. “But if they don’t have their own poles, we have a few to lend out.” Pike is adding a new twist to this year’s derby in celebration of National Trails Day. “We’re also going to be doing animal Olympics on the Eagle Roost Trail,” she said. Kids can trek through the nature trail to find signs that specify fun activities. “They’ll crawl through a pipe like a gopher tortoise, or they’re going to flap their wings like a bird,” Pike said. For each activity completed, participants will earn a sticker. “If they bring back a complete card with all the stickers, then they’ll get a prize,” Pike said. Both the derby and trail activity are free and open to the public. Anyone needing more information can contact Pike at (580) 6266794.
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Continued from Page 1 pump will be installed to provide the capacity to pump 300 gallons of water per minute. Once installed, the city will charge consumers a penny per gallon for the untreated water. Finally, Bowman informed commissioners that a new RV park at the corner of Main and Ohio is ready for use by oil and gas firms wanting to locate more bunk houses in Cherokee. Bowman said Keen Energy has spoken for five of the 10 available lots and will pay the city $1,000 per month for each of the locations. "This will open up five spots in the RV Park (on North Grand)," Bowman said. "AEC has gone out of their way to get the park operational. I really appreciate their help."
Continued from Page 2 rescue workers the next day. Training didn’t prepare him Even with years of emergency training under his belt, Greenwood’s voice cracked as he spoke about the experience from the fire station where he works. He went back to work Monday, but as the day wore on, he wished he would have given himself some more time. “I thought I could do it, but I don’t think I’m ready for this,” he said. Greenwood and his family have been staying in a hotel and with friends. “We’ve just been staying here and there,” he said. The vacation plans they were finalizing the day of the tornado remained the same. They left for South Padre Island Tuesday. “We need it,” Greenwood said. “I’ve been waking up at 5 a.m. just thinking about everything I need to be doing.” When they return, they will rent an apartment and start again. “We’re going to rebuild out there,” Greenwood said. Harmon has been staying with friends near Guthrie, according to her grandmother, Judith Kildow. She and Roger traveled to Piedmont the morning after the tornado. “I was glad we were there because Cortney really had a hard time,” Judith said. “Cortney said, ‘It doesn’t really hit you until you go out and see it.’” She was right. “Until you see it in person, you don’t realize,” Kildow said. “It’s unreal.” Help was not far away Luckily, help was not far away. Red Cross crews quickly set up stations and local churches took in donations for victims who lost their belongings. On a table at the church, Kildow found a familiar sight and a glimmer of hope. “I went over there and was just looking, and there was Roger and Cort and I’s picture,” Kildow said. “I bet we were in that Baptist church for two hours.” Donors provided diapers, food and clothing for Harmon and Gryffin. “We got him a few little toys because all his toys were upstairs,” Kildow said. “Our car was literally full of stuff, and they told us to come back.” The generosity didn’t stop there. Strangers opened their home to Harmon and her son. They stayed there four days while the generous couple was on vacation. A few days after the storm, Kildow received a package in the mail at her home in Chero-
kee. Although it had no return address, the postmark was from Illinois. “Everything in it was for Gryffin – pants, shirts, toys,” Kildow said. “It had the receipt in there. They spent 90-some dollars on those clothes. There was no letter or anything. I have no idea who it came from.” More help has been set up locally through ACB Bank in Cherokee. Checks can be mailed to 323 S. Grand, Cherokee OK 73728 and should be made out to Pioneer Spirit Foundation, Harmon/Greenwood Fund. The Bouziden Family Sunday, May 22, was a day Valerie and Denny Wescoat won’t forget. Valerie is the daughter of Connie Bouziden of Cherokee and the late Deboy Bouziden. Denny graduated from Cherokee High School and is the son of Linda Starks. The Wescoats lived in Joplin up until last week when a tornado threw a tree on top of their house. Now Valerie and her daughters will spend the summer in Cherokee. “We’re here in Cherokee,” Valerie said Monday. “We’re going to be here a little while.” The Wescoats were home last week with their girls, Ashley, 16, and Alyssa, 13, when the storm sirens blew. “Me and the girls were watching a movie,” Valerie said. “We weren’t even paying attention to the weather.” As soon as the movie was over, however, television reports indicated hail and bad weather were moving into Joplin. The time was about 5 p.m. Denny, who works at night, was sleeping. Valerie said she hated to wake him, but decided that might be best when she heard the sirens. About the time she got him awake, she looked out the window to see dark sky and heavy winds. “We heard this big old boom” “Me and the girls were headed to the bathroom because that’s the only place to go in our house,” Valerie said. “We heard this big old boom. I assume that was the big old tree landing on our house.” It was. “(Denny) walked out and
said, ‘There is a tree in our kitchen,’” Valerie said. “He’s always been a jokester, so I didn’t believe him.” She believed it when she saw it with her own eyes, however. The large tree virtually leveled the kitchen, laundry room and dining room, which now are filled with water and mold. “A lot of our bedroom stuff was ruined,” Valerie said. “It just kept raining and raining and raining.” Valerie still considers her family lucky. “We were very, very lucky,” she said. “We were on the edge of it. If it wasn’t for the tree, I think we would have been fine.” Just across the street from their house, Valerie said, “Everything was gone. It looked like a war zone.” Both the girls’ schools were destroyed as well. “My work (place) was completely demolished, so I don’t have a job anymore,” Valerie said. She worked at Education Connection, a store that sold home-schooling supplies. Children attending vacation Bible school last week at the First Baptist Church in Cherokee took up a collection to send to the Wescoats, who have been amazed at the outpouring of
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help by friends and neighbors. They also are amazed with Mother Nature. “There’s a bird’s nest by our back door. It had four little baby birds in it and they’re still there,” Valerie said. “That is just amazing how (a tornado) just picks where it’s going to go. But we’re alive and that’s all that counts.” AEC volunteers lend a hand Five linemen from Alfalfa Electric Cooperative left their families last week to lend a hand to tornado victims. “They’re working north of El Reno,” said Manager of Operations Ron Shafer.
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Send Letters to the Editor to... Cherokee Publishing Co. • P.O. Box 245 • Cherokee, OK 73728 E-mail: chermessenger@att.net "If by a 'liberal' they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people – their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties – someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a 'liberal,' then I’m proud to say I’m a “liberal.” – President John F. Kennedy
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Careful not to turn this solution into a problem
‘Flip It to Fix It’ a fair solution – From the Oklahoma Policy Institute A new study has found that inverting state tax structures – whereby the highest income earners would be taxed at the current percentage of income for the lowest income earners, and vice versa – would raise more than $4 billion in new revenue for Oklahoma (a 35 percent increase), immediately eliminating state budget shortfalls and avoiding the serious consequences of budget cuts. The report, titled “Flip It to Fix It: An Immediate, Fair Solution to State Budget Shortfalls,” was released by Boston-based United for a Fair Economy and 13 state organizations around the country. “Flip It to Fix It” attributes a large part of states’ current deficits to the regressive tax structures that the report shows are designed to fail. “Trying to raise adequate revenue through a regressive tax structure – where a greater percent of income is demanded of the poor than the welloff – is like trying to squeeze water from a stone,” said Karen Kraut, coordinator of state tax policy at United for a Fair Economy and co-author of the report. “The inadequacy of regressive tax structures puts everything we value at risk: the wellbeing of families, the future competitiveness of the American workforce, and the nation’s ability to rebound from the recession and prosper." In 2007, the poorest 20 percent of Oklahoma households paid 9.9 percent of their income in sales, property and income taxes, which is more than twice as much as the 4.8 percent of income paid by the wealthiest 1 percent (according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy report, "Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States"). The cut to the top income tax rate set to go into effect next year will worsen the disparity, as the wealthiest 20 percent of Oklahomans will take home nearly three-fourths of the tax cut while the bottom 60 percent of Oklahomans together receive only 9 percent of the benefit. “By taking so much revenue away with this tax cut and giving the benefits to a relatively small group, the state will be shifting a larger proportion of the cost of providing services onto lower- and middle-income Oklahomans,” said David Blatt, director of the Oklahoma Policy Institute. “If we instead enacted a more progressive tax structure, we could restore badly needed funding to our schools and other state services while reducing or keeping taxes the same for the bottom 60 percent of Oklahomans.” The report contends that inverting the current tax structure not only solves budget crises, but increases equity and best spurs steady and strong economic activity. It calls on states to adopt progressive tax reforms, many of which are immediately achievable and will help solve state deficits. (Editor’s Note: The Oklahoman is labeling “Flip It to Fix It” as class warfare. That conveniently ignores the argument that the Oklahoma Legislature has balanced the state’s budget on the backs of the middle class and the poor. As for the contention that our state’s wealthy would simply move to income tax-free Texas to escape “Flip It to Fix It,” that doesn’t hold water considering the Lone Star state has much higher property tax rates. No, it’s The Oklahoman conducting class warfare in this case.)
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Mary knows best... or at least what the NRA expects of her – From the Tulsa World Gov. Mary Fallin ignored the pleas of those who know the most about maintaining safe and secure schools – superintendents – and signed into law a bill that will let concealed-carry permit holders keep guns locked in their cars on CareerTech campuses. While House Bill 1652 was in the Legislature it was opposed by the likes of Tulsa Technology Center Superintendent Kara Gae Neal, state Career and Technology Education Director Phil Berkenbile and state Sen. Jim Halligan, R-Stillwater, former president of Oklahoma State University, among others. Neal and others urged the governor to veto the bill. Opponents of the measure pointed out that CareerTech campuses differ from other schools because they enroll a mix of teenag-
ers and adults. Oklahoma law, at least for the time being, limits concealed-carry permits to adults. That means adults on CareerTech campuses will have easy access to their weapons while younger students won't. CareerTech leaders also believed that decisions on matters that affected school security should be made at the local level. Normally, local control is an issue that resounds with Republicans, but in this case local control was trumped by the GOP's fealty to the National Rifle Association, which reportedly pushed hard for HB 1652. The result is that Oklahoma's CareerTech professionals are stuck with a needless law that really doesn't benefit anybody except the scorekeepers at the NRA and that carries at least a slight risk of trouble down the road.
Barresi has total control; let’s hope students are now the focus – From the Muskogee Phoenix The state Board of Education voted recently to transfer its power to prepare the budget for Oklahoma’s public schools and perform other duties to state Superintendent Janet Barresi, more than three months before a new law was set to put those changes into effect. Gov. Mary Fallin already had signed into law in April a bill that shifts power from the seven-member board to Barresi, a Republican who took office in January. This was a wise move by the board. Barresi ought to be the one to prepare the budget, so she can be the one held accountable. It should make the transition easier. And it didn’t take Barresi long to shake things up. Following last week’s board meeting, Barresi said she would immediately authorize the employment of two of the hires the board had previously rejected. Also, Jack Herron, who had been the agency's assistant state superintendent for financial services, was dismissed that day.
Herron later said he thinks a contentious state Board of Education meeting in January was “staged.” During that meeting, state board members refused to approve the hiring of three of Barresi's executive staff members and one board member called Barresi “a dictator.” Herron says Barresi knew the board would reject the proposed hirings, which would give her political cover to seek more control over the state Department of Education. As we’ve stated before, giving power to one person is not the wise course of action. There has to be checks and balances. All along, this has appeared to be nothing more than a power struggle. And that’s sad. What’s even sadder is the important people in this fight – the students – appear to be an afterthought. It’s time to move forward from this mess. Here’s hoping the students are the focus now that Barresi has total control.
Tell your elected lawmakers what you think Congressman Frank Lucas – 2342 Rayburn HOB, Washington, D.C. 20515. Phone: 202225-5565. District Phone: 405-624-6407. E-mail: http://www.house.gov/lucas/ Web: www.house. gov/lucas/ State Sen. David Myers – 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd. Rm. 414, Oklahoma City, OK 73105. Phone: 405-521-5628. District: 580-765-4057. E-mail: mott@oksenate.gov State Rep. Jeff Hickman – 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd. Rm. 440, Oklahoma City, OK 73105. Phone: 405-557-7339. E-mail: jwhickman@okhouse.gov
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Civic pride is wonderful and I don’t think you can have too much of it, unless it’s horribly misguided. Case in point? The Alabama town mayor who is fiercely fighting to keep FEMA trailers out of his community after they were offered to help shelter the homeless following devastating tornadoes in that state. I’ve covered municipal governments in at least a half a dozen cities and towns in Oklahoma and Kansas and it’s true – most would just as soon mobile homes, trailers... whatever you want to call them, didn’t show up within their city limits. Yes, they can become an eyesore over time and affect property values. After all, many folks who call them home are living in them because they can’t afford anything else and therefore can’t afford to keep them in tiptop shape. We’re not talking about the ultra-modern double-wides or the so-called pre-fab homes that rival most middle class neighborhoods these days. No, these are the smaller, shiny aluminum-looking trailers on wheels that were used to help solve the housing problem in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. That Alabama mayor has obviously placed his community’s aesthetics above the welfare of its citizens and should reconsider. He can worry about how to deal with the impact on his town’s “beauty” after he’s taken care of his constituency’s physical needs. Ironically, Cherokee has thrown open its doors to mobile homes and has even considered the purchase of some of those FEMA trailers to offset the housing shortage created by the oil and gas boom. That’s not a terribly creative way to solve the problem, but it’s much faster than waiting on the construction of homes or apartments by the private sector – which would be the ideal solution. That said, Cherokee’s elected leaders need to be cautious in deciding where they’ll place the trailers. Allowing them to be hauled in and scattered across every vacant city lot may solve an immediate need, but create a serious long-term problem. I think placing the huge “bunk house” trailers in the city’s RV Park not only provided an immediate living quarters for more than a hundred oil field workers, it provided the city with a new source of revenue. But when all is said and done, the RV Park is going to need some tender, loving care to restore it to its previous beauty. It would be wise for the city commission to put aside a portion of their new-found revenue to help pay for that eventuality. It’s a fine line between necessity and a community’s aesthetics. The Alabama mayor is afraid to cross it. Cherokee has crossed it, but now needs to figure out a way to keep it from turning into a problem rather than a solution.
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Carmen Harvest Worship begins Sunday By MARGARET GOSS Carmen Correspondent CARMEN – Everyone is welcome to attend the Carmen Community Harvest Worship Services. They will begin at 8 a.m. Sunday, June 5 at the Carmen Baptist Church. June 12 services will be held at the Christian Church, and June 19 at the Methodist Church. Harvest time is a busy time of year and this community worship time is set so we can workshop God, then go to work in the harvest. All are welcome and work clothes are expected. For more information contact Kendall Poland at the Coop Elevator. HERBST ON NATIONAL GOLF TEAM Congratulations to Logan Herbst who was on the team which won the NAIA National Championship. Herbst tied for 13th place at the national contest. He is the son of former resi-
dents Stacy Young Sheik and Rick Herbst. SYMPATHY TO FRECH FAMILY Condolences to the family of Euvaughana Frech. She passed away May 25 in Vici. Services were held Sunday at the Christian Church. SUMMER READING PROGRAM The Carmen Library Summer Reading Program, "One World--Many Stories" will begin June 6 from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. according to librarian Loreta Green. Youth up to 6th grade are encouraged to participate. Special activities and programs have been planned. SWIMMING LESSONS Pool manager Lisa Jones has announced Swimming Lessons will be held July 18 through 22. Contact Lisa at the city pool for more information. BABY CONGRATULATIONS Mark and Robbie Morrison of Enid have announced the birth of a daughter, Tara Elisabeth,
who was born Friday, May 27 in Enid. She weighed 8 pounds. She has a big sister, Breonna. Grandparents are Randy and Bobbie Parker, Donna Morrison and Mark Morrison. CARMEN REUNION The Carmen and CarmenDacoma school reunion was a big success. Over 100 former students attended. President Janis Scott Wooten was re-elected to serve as President next year. Nancy Oldham will serve as secretary and Rennie Ward Jones will serve as treasurer. There was a meal and decorations. Carmen City Park The Carmen City Park and the cemetery looked especially nice for the Memorial holiday. Thanks to all those who made everything look so nice! Birthdays & Anniversaries Happy birthday to Mark Stallings, Larry Koehn, and happy anniversary to Gary and Debbie Stoner.
Students attending the field trip were Joslyn Clem, Kacie Eshleman, Bridget Wilhite, Macy Goodwin, Ben Oister, Lake Lyon, Kael Tucker, Jason Roach, Kade Chace, Gabe Wyatt, and Kayla Highfill.
Few of the 250 Carmen area residents who Cherokee Accelerated Readers program served in WWII are left in the community By MARGARET GOSS
Carmen Correspondent CARMEN – Memorial Day is a time to honor those who have served our country. Our Veteran's Memorial in the Carmen park lists about 250 men and women from the Carmen area who served during World War II. Few of our veterans are left in the community. Clifford Morrison joined the Army Air Corps in 1943. He knew he would be drafted, so he volunteered and was able to choose his career field as a radio mechanic. He was first processed at Fort Sill near Lawton. He was stationed in 12 locations where
he received training. He was on the train in Las Vegas and was ready to go overseas when the war ended. If men had over 21 months of service, they were taken off the train and sent state-side. Morrison described his service career as "fairly uneventful". After the war, he attended Northwestern Oklahoma College at Alva where he and his wife, Abbie, lived in the prisoner-of-war barracks known as "College Camp." After graduation, he became a science teacher. He retired from teaching in California and they moved home to Carmen. He and Abbie
Flower show and cookouts planned at Manor for June Cherokee Manor is planning a flower show and hot dog cookout June 11. The cookout will start at 12 p.m. and the flower show will follow at 1:30 p.m. During the week before Father’s Day the Manor will hold a Men’s Leg Contest in which you match the leg with the resident. There will be a Father’s Day hamburger cookout at noon June 18. Following the cookout there will be a wet Tshirt contest outside on the front patio. All families and friends are invited to join the fun. Everything is provided. June is dairy month and milk product treats will be provided to residents all month long. The Sonshiners will not perform during June due to
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harvest. The Bowmans will not be performing through the summer as they visit family during this time. If anyone would like to come share music, share a Bible study or provide any other entertainment for the residents, please call Marva at 596-2141 to schedule.
County Democrat Women to meet Alfalfa County Democrat Women will meet at 6 p.m. Monday, June 6 at the Civic Room of the Alfalfa County Courthouse in Cherokee.
recently celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary. They have four children. Clifford's brother, Gerald Morrison, served in the Naval Reserves. He was later transferred to the Marines where he served as a pharmacy tech. He was injured while on Guadalcanal Island. He was taken to an Australian hospital then treated in California. He was later medically discharged. A recent TV news report indicated that about 1000 WW II vets are lost each day. These brave men and women gave so much for our freedom. We thank them and their families for the sacrifices made for our country!
Wheatheart Nutrition Lists Menu Menu is subject to change due to availability of foods. Monday, June 6 - Pork cutlet with gravy, blackeyed peas, brussel sprouts, oatmeal roll, cinnamon applesauce. Tuesday, June 7 - Hamburger, potato salad, cookie. Wednesday, June 8 - Super baked potato with ham and cheese, vegetable blend, brownie. Thursday, June 9 - Fish crispies, cheese stick, pineapple slaw, harvard beets, hush puppies, pudding. Friday, June 10 - Closed. For reservation, call 580596-2792 Cherokee, or 580852-3248 Helena, by noon the day before.
visits Science museum of Oklahoma Students from Cherokee Elementary School, in grades first through fourth, who earned at least 100 points in the Accelerated Reader program spent a day at the Science Museum of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City. The students were awed by the planetarium show where they learned about the stars and constellations. The remainder of their time was spent enjoying the interactive science exhibits. Students attending the special field trip were Joslyn Clem, Kacie Eshleman, Bridget Wil-
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Carl McKee TALALA – Carl was born Nov. 9, 1919. He was born in his parent’s home in the small town of Waldron, Kan. He was the oldest child of Richard (Dick) Samuel and Lula Fairchild McKee. He had two brothers, Donald (Bud) and Steve. He grew up in Waldron and attended Waldron grade school until the 8th grade. He married Florence Cullop McKee June 24, 1940, in Alva, Okla. To this union was born one son, Rex Wayne McKee. After his birth they moved to a farm east of Manchester, Okla., for about a year before moving to Waldron. In 1944, during WW II, Carl went to Salina, Kan., where he worked on an air base. In 1948 they moved to their home and farm on the “hill”, two miles south of Waldron. They started a Grade A dairy. They averaged milking 48 cows, beginning milking by hand and later by automatic milking equipment. They also raised beef cattle. In the 1970’s they sold the dairy, but Carl continued raising beef cattle until 2005. In 1986 he received the Conservation Farming Award from the Oklahoma Bankers Association, in recognition of his
CHEROKEE CHURCHES First United Methodist Pastors: Paul Calkin Jeni Markham Clewell Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship: 10:45 a.m. CHUMYouth Classes: 6:30 p.m. Wed. Evening Choir Chime:6:30 Choir Practice: 7:30 p.m. New Life Assembly of God Interim Pastor: Robert Stewart Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. Sunday Worship: 11 a.m. Sunday Evening Bible Study & Prayer: 6:30 p.m. Wed. Prayer & Bible Study: 7p.m. Prayer line: (580) 596-2155 Bethel Baptist Church Pastor: Rev. Ed Jones Sunday School: 10 a.m. Morning Worship: 11 a.m. Wednesday Youth: 7 p.m. Adult Bible Study, Wed.: 7 p.m. First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Pastor: Dr. Ron Hansen Youth Minister: Barbara James Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Sunday Worship: 10:50 a.m. Youth Meet: 5:30 p.m. KREJ Radio Wed: 8:20, 12:55, 5:25 First Baptist Church Pastor: Tom Cooksey Assoc. Pastor: Brandon Holloway Morning Worship: 9:30 a.m. Sunday School: 10:30 a.m. Discipleship Training: 6 p.m. Evening Worship: 7 p.m. Wednesday Prayer: 7 p.m. St. Cornelius Catholic Church Pastor: Father Lawrence Mass Every Sunday: 11:15 a.m. Friends Church Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship: 10:45 a.m. Living Vine Community Church Pastors: Matthew & Tamara Yoder Sun.Worship: 10 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.
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stewardship of the land by using conservation practices in his farming which both protect the land and increase productivity. In 2010, he and Florence moved to Talala, Okla. On May 28, 2011, he passed peacefully in his home there. He is survived by his wife, Florence; his son Rex and daughter-in-law, Sharon Bennett McKee, of Talala; a granddaughter, Stacey McKee Goodwin and grandson-in-law Joseph Goodwin of Oklahoma City; a grandson, Jason Wayne McKee of Talala; and four great-grandchildren, Matthew Goodwin, Quinton McKee, Olivia McKee, and Grant McKee. In addition, the work of Rex and Sharon as hosts of foreign exchange students have resulted in numerous “grandchildren” around the globe, including Kate Holland, originally of Ukraine and currently of Norman, Okla. and her sons Nathan and Eric. Services will be conducted by Prairie Rose Funeral Home, Anthony, Kan. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to Hope Hospice, 8291 N Owasso Expy, Owasso, Oklahoma 74055 or Manchester Christian Church of Manchester, Okla. (paid) Carolyn Ruth Sander ENID — Graveside service for Carolyn Ruth Street Sander, 65, was at 10 a.m. Thursday, May 26, 2011, in Waukomis Cemetery. Rev. Dewey Street officiated. Arrangements were under the direction of LadusauEvans Funeral Home. Carolyn was born Jan. 9, 1946, in Oklahoma to Leroy and Ruth Street and died Tuesday, May 24, 2011, in Enid. She attended school in Cherokee and Waukomis. On Oct. 7, 1962, she married Lynn Semrad in Waukomis. To this marriage were born two children, Cynthia and Chris. She later married Thomas Sander in Palestine, Texas, on Dec. 24, 1982.
Bible Study: 7 p.m. Men’s: 2nd & 4th Mon., Women’s: 2nd & 4th Wed. BURLINGTON CHURCHES Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Pastor: Dr. Richard Duckworth Church School: 10 a.m. Worship: 11 a.m. Church of Christ Riverside Preacher: Jeffrey Keele Sunday School: 10 a.m. Morning Worship: 10:50 a.m. Evening Worship: 5:30 p.m. Wednesday Service: 7:00 p.m.
She was the owner of World Discount Travel. She worked as a travel agent for many years in Oklahoma City. Survivors include her husband, Thomas Sander; daughter, Cynthia Eckholm; son, Chris Semrad; father, Leroy Street; sister, Cheryl Street; four grandchildren; and one great-grandson. She was preceded in death by her mother, Ruth Street, and husband, Lynn Semrad. Memorials may be made to Hennessey Senior Citizen Center. Condolences may be sent to www.ladusauevans.com. Euvaughna Matha Frech WOODWARD — Euvaughna Matha (McConnell) Frech, 93, Woodward and former Carmen resident, died Wednesday, May 25, 2011, at Vici Nursing Home. Funeral service was at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 29, 2011, at First Christian Church of Carmen. Rev. Kirk Board officiated. Interment was in Carmen City Cemetery. Arrangements were under the direction of the Billings Funeral Home, Woodward. Euvaughna was born Feb. 4, 1918, in Cherokee to Lewis Prescott and Florence Isadora (Daily) McConnell. She was reared in Carmen and attended school and graduated from Carmen High School in 1936. She attended Enid Beauty College and Alva Vo-Tech. She married Charles George Frech March 28, 1937, in Carmen. They made their home on a farm east of Carmen. She is survived by her sons, Duane Frech of Woodward and Jerry Frech of Woodward; and six grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Alzheimer’s research, Carmen Fire Department or Carmen United Methodist Church Building Fund with the funeral home accepting the memorials. Remembrances may be
shared online at www.billingsfuneralhomewoodward.com. Temple Tucker ENID – Funeral service for Temple Tucker, 94, was at 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at Lanman Chapel in Cherokee. Dr. Ron Hansen officiated. Burial followed at Cherokee Municipal Cemetery with arrangements by Lanman Funeral Home, Inc. of Cherokee. Temple was born Feb. 27, 1917 on the family farm west of Lambert to Robert Fredrick and Elsie Estella Root White and died Thursday, May 26, 2011 at the United Methodist Home in Enid. She graduated from Lambert High School in 1935 and attended Northwestern College. January 5, 1937, she married Garold Franklin Tucker. They lived in Cherokee, Alva and Oklahoma City before moving southwest of Jet, where they lived and farmed until 1976 when they moved to Cherokee. She was involved in helping Garold with the farm and raising their two children. Her husband passed away in 1977. She was a member of the United Methodist Church, Jet. After moving to the Cherokee community she became a member of the First Christian Church. In 1997 she moved to Enid. Survivors include one son, Terry Tucker of Colorado Springs, Colo.; one daughter, Peggy Bain of Enid; one sister, Twyla Provost of Cherokee; six grandchildren; and nine greatgrandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; four brothers; one sister; and one great-granddaughter. Memorials may be made to the Glaucoma Research Foundation through the funeral home. Condolences may be shared with the family at www.lanmanmemorials.com. Continued on Page 7
AMORITA CHURCHES Amorita Community Pastor: Guy Phillip Harris Morning Worship: 10 a.m. Sunday School: 11 a.m.
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CARMEN CHURCHES Carmen Christian Church Pastor: Kirk Board Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. Worship Service: 10:30 a.m. Carmen United Methodist Pastor: John Bizzell Sunday School: 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m. Assembly of God Pastor: Rev. Mike Wiles Morning Worship 11 a.m. Sunday School: 10 a.m. Carmen Baptist Church Pastor: Jerry Stafford Morning Worship: 9:30 a.m. ALINE CHURCHES Methodist Church Pastor: Scott Heusel Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship: 10:45 a.m. Bible Study: 5:00 p.m. Pleasant Plain Church of the Brethren Pastor: Elsie Koehn Sunday School: 10 a.m. Morning Worship: 11 a.m. Sunday Eve Service: 7:30 p.m. 3rd Sunday Fellowship following Church Service First Christian Church Pastor: Polly Young Sunday School: 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m. Youth Group: 4 p.m. CYF: 5 p.m. Wildwood Chapel River RoadNon-Denominational Sunday: 830 p.m.
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CELEBRATING JOAN GREEN’S retirement Friday after 13 years with the Alfalfa County Court Clerk’s Office are (from left) Assistant District Attorney Westline Ritter, Carla Kildow, Lyndee Nickel, Green, Tammi Miller and Court Clerk Lori Irwin.
Jantzen, Lancaster capture piano awards Cherokee piano students Jacey Jantzen, sixth grade, and Bethany Lancaster, fifth grade, received superior-plus ratings recently at the Seiling Music Festival. The girls also received superior-plus ratings recently at the Festival of Pianists in Alva. The rating at the competition allowed them to compete in the second round, where they were selected as one of the top five in their age group to perform in the Honors Recital. Jantzen received first place, and Lancaster received second place. Jantzen also attended the Tri-State Music Festival, where she received a superior rating. Connor McGee of Cherokee received an excellent rating. All three are students of Nita Cox of Cherokee.
BETHANY Lancaster (left) and Jacey Jantzen pose with trophies won at the Seiling Music Festival.
Bicycle safety courses set for June 20 Upcoming bicycle safety courses will cover rules of the road, hand signals and proper helmet fit just in time for summer. The classes take place June 20 in the Exhibit Building at the Alfalfa County Fairgrounds. Cost is $5. Preregistration by June 13 is required. The classes are divided by age groups. Children 6 to 8 years old will meet from 1 to 2 p.m.; students 9 to 12 years old will meet from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; students 13 and 14 will meet from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.; students 15 to 19 will meet from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Anyone wanting to preregister can call Marcy Wichert or Tommy Puffinbarger at the Alfalfa County Cooperative Extension Service at (580) 5963131.
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Helen Elizabeth Hollon-Arnall COLLINSVILLE - Helen Elizabeth Hollon-Arnall was born Dec. 14, 1919, in Cherokee, Okla. to James Robert and Nell (Delano) Reneau. She passed away Saturday, May 28, 2011. Helen was preceded in death by a son, Daniel William Hollon; two brothers, Frank Reneau and James Robert II “Jimmy” Reneau. She is survived by her husband, Lloyd Arnall, of Tulsa; one daughter, Linda Riddle, of Tonkawa, Okla.; two sons, Walter Lentz, of Duncan, Okla. and Paul Hollon, of Claremore, Okla.; a sister, Jane Goss, of Cherokee, Okla.; eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Helen loved her children immensely and always treasured the time she had with them. She was a fine athlete as a young woman and enjoyed playing the piano until very late in life. She always had a unique playful sense of humor and it will live on with her children and many of her grandchildren. Helen stayed active and enjoyed dancing even into her later years. She had been a member of the Methodist Church and a member of Eastern Star for many years. She was the wife of the late W.J. Hollon, Santa Fe Railroad
agent in Collinsville. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 1, 2011, at Meadowcreek United Methodist Church in Collinsville, Okla. under the direction of Ninde Funeral Home 918-742-5556. www.ninde.com. (paid) Sandra Kay Sparks ENID — Funeral service for Sandra Kay Sparks, 70, was at 2 p.m. Thursday, May 26, 2011, at Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Don Tines officiated. Burial was in Memorial Park Cemetery. Arrangements were under the direction of Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home. Sandra was born April 2, 1941, in Cherokee to Ralph and Irene Kraft Kisling and died Monday, May 23, 2011, at her home. She was a graduate of Nash High School and attended two years at NWOSU. She married John Sparks Sept. 18, 1993, in Enid. She worked in the finance department at Speedstar and Failing. She worked at Phillips Drug as a pharmacy tech until it closed, then she worked at Pharmcare OK of Enid until health forced her retirement. Survivors include her husband, John; children, Roger Hayes of Oklahoma City and Larry Hayes of Krum, Texas; mother, Irene Kisling; sister, Linda Shaw; and two grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her father. Memorials may be made to Hospice Circle of Love. Condo-
lences may be sent to www.ladusauevans.com. Miranda Nycole Bishard HELENA – Funeral service for Miranda Nycole Bishard, 16, of Helena, was at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 28, 2011, at Timberlake High School Auditorium, Helena. Pastor Jay Drawbridge officiated. Burial followed in Good Hope Cemetery, Helena, under the direction of Lanman Funeral Home Inc. Miranda was born Aug. 26, 1994, in Enid to Doug and Traci Bishard and died Tuesday, May 24, 2011, in the El Reno tornado. She attended Timberlake School in Helena, where she grew up. She was a cheerleader, was in the FCCLA, participated in softball, rodeos, singing and dancing. She is survived by her parents, Doug and Traci Bishard of Helena; her sissy, Raven; her brother, Utah; grandparents, Larry and Shirley Bergdall of Enid and Connie and Fritz Schroeder of Cleo Springs; and great-grandma, Viva Bowers of Helena. She was preceded in death by her grandparents, William J. Bowers of Waynoka and Warren and Gladys Stricker, Harold Bergdall and Mildred Brunken, all of Meno. Memorials may be given to the Miranda Bishard Family memorial fund through the funeral home. Memories may be shared with the family at www. lanmanmemorials.com.
CHS alum retires from teaching MOBILE, Ala. – C. Jane Roberts retired from the Mobile County Public Schools in Mobile, Ala., on March 31 after 36 years in the field of education. She graduated from Cherokee High School in 1967 and Northwestern Oklahoma State University in 1974. Roberts received her master’s degree in 1981 from Emporia (Kan.) State University. While in Mobile she attended the University of South Ala-
bama and earned certifications in school psychometry and educational leadership and administration. In 2005 she was named Alabama’s School Psychologist of the Year. Roberts resides in Mobile with her husband, Ron, three children and two grandchildren. She is the daughter of the late Vergil and Pauline Harper, formerly of Cherokee.
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Cherokee Police Log Sheriff Department Log May 24 8:20 a.m. – Horses out by fairgrounds. 8:56 a.m. – Window broken out of car in alley between Grand and Oklahoma. 10:41 a.m. – Children riding in the street at 5th and Kansas. 6:10 p.m. – Someone across the street yelling “Call the cops.” 6:36 p.m. – Gas drive-off at Jiffy Trip. Blue Chevy truck with white sticker in middle of back window. Person came back and paid. 8:36 p.m. – Cattle getting ready to go into road by old gas station north of town. 9 p.m. – Someone drove by
with gun pointed out window. Drove by again. Stopped vehicle downtown. 9:15 p.m. – White truck driving recklessly around 2nd and Pennsylvania. Onlookers said truck hit red car, glass on road. No vehicles present. Three callers reported same truck. Purple Geo Tracker followed truck to park by pool. 11:05 p.m. – Smokey haze and smell of sulphur near Pennsylvania and 5th Street. Nothing found. May 25 5:40 p.m. – Seven-year-old boy missing since 11:30 a.m. 1:12 p.m. – German shorthair found on Pennsylvania.
District Court Docket Marriage License Landon Chris Olson and Keedrian Marie Bellmon, both of Cherokee, have filed for a marriage license. Traffic Charged with failure to wear seat belt, $20: William Artur Herring Jr., Enid; Amanda Jean Waterhouse, Cherokee; Matthew Scott Wright, Cherokee. Charged with speeding 1-10 mph over speed limit, $188.50: Chandini Sharma, Tulsa; Daniel Wayne Smith, Woodward; Charles William Delay, Turpin; Dakota Shane Murch, Oklahoma City. Charged with speeding 16-20 mph over speed limit, $241.50:
Taylor Christian Harris, Chickasha. Charged with speeding 26-30 mph over speed limit, $341.50: Terry Lynn Tunnell, Enid. Charged with speeding 41 mph or more over speed limit, $411. 50: Dusty Eli Mackey, El Reno. Charged with failure to carry insurance verification, $211.50: Terry Lynn Tunnell, Enid. Charged with transporting open container, $316: William Artur Herring Jr., Enid. Charged with operating a motor vehicle without a valid driver’s license, $256.50: Amanda Jean Waterhouse, Cherokee.
legal notice Published in the Cherokee Messenger & est due $1,132.71. Republican Thursday, May 12, Thursday, 2. Lots 1-3, Block 151, Carmen May 19, Thursday, May 26, and ThursOriginal, Baer, Richard Etux. Sold to day, June 2, 2011. 4t County October 1, 2008. Ad valorem notice of resale of real 2007-2010. Total all taxes, costs and estate for taxes, alfalfa interest due $983.14. county, state of Oklahoma 3. S1/2 Lot 3 & N1/2 Lot 4, Block Notice is hereby given that, under 3, Cherokee-Gilmore, Bolster, Bruce. authority and mandatory requirement of Sold to County October 1, 2008. Ad va68 O.S. 2001, Sections 3125-3126 and lorem 2007-2010. Total all taxes, costs 68 O.S. 2001, Section 3127, each of the and interest due $1,987.74. hereinafter described lots, tracts, and 4. 2A in SE of SE 22-26-9, Buller, parcels of real estate all situated in Alfalfa Kelvin Etux. Sold to County October County, State of Oklahoma, will be sold at 1, 2008. Ad valorem 2007-2010. Topublic auction to the highest competitive tal all taxes, costs and interest due bidder for cash, provided that for each $4,312.98. parcel or tract, the bidder offers a sum 5. Lot 6, Block 49, Aline Original, equal to or greater than two-thirds of the Cooper, G.B. Sold to County October assessed valuation of such real estate as 1, 2008. Ad valorem 2007-2010. Total all fixed for the current fiscal year 2009-10 taxes, costs and interest due $218.44. or the total amount of taxes, ad valorem 6. Lots 21-22, Block 38, Cherokee and special, interest and costs legally due Original, Dunn, Charlott V. Sold to on such property computed to and as of County October 1, 2008. Ad valorem June 13, 2011, whichever is the lesser; 2007-2010. Total all taxes, costs and said sale to be held at the Office of the interest due $381.04. County Treasurer in the Courthouse at 7. Lots 4-6, Block 21, Jet Original, the County Seat of Alfalfa County, State Dunn, Charlott V. Sold to County Ocof Oklahoma, beginning on the second tober 1, 2008. Ad valorem 2007-2010. Monday of June 2011, between the hours Total all taxes, costs and interest due of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. and continu$597.10. ing from day to day thereafter between 8. S1/2 Lot 21, Block 46, Cherokeethe same hours until said sale has been East Side, Lustig, Olivia. Sold to Councompleted according to law. ty October 1, 2008. Ad valorem 2007It is hereby stated that each of said 2010. Total all taxes, costs and interest lots, tracts, and parcels of real estate due $284.38. hereinafter listed was sold to the county 9. W 100’ of E 250’ of S/2 of Cherat delinquent tax sale in the absence of okee-Azbill, Siler, Steve K. Etux. Sold bidders therefor, has remained unreto County October 1, 2008. Ad valorem deemed for a period of more than two 2007-2010. Total all taxes, costs and years from the date of sale, and no perinterest due $655.67. son has offered to purchase the same for 10. Lots 1-3, Block 33, Cherokee the taxes, interest and costs due thereon; Original, West, Marilynn Etal. Sold to that in the schedule below appears under County October 1, 2008. Ad valorem caption indicating Lands (Section, Town2007-2010. Total all taxes, costs and ship and Range), City or Town, or subdiinterest due $428.71. vision thereof, in which located, following 11. All of Block 7, Cherokee Induseach described lot, tract, and parcel of trial Park, Wilson MFG, Inc (Lou Meyer). real estate, in the order herein set out, the Sold to County October 1, 2008. Ad vaname of the owner as shown by the last lorem 2007-2010 $31,486.49. Personal tax roll (2010) in the Office of the County 2007-2010 $63,236.38. Total all taxes, Treasurer, the date on which said real escosts and interest due $94,722.87. tate was sold to the county for delinquent 12. W 50’ of E 90’ of Lots 13-18, taxes, the year or years for which taxes Block 22, Cherokee Original, Wilson have been assessed but remain unpaid, MFG, Inc. Sold to County October 1, the total amount of all delinquent ad va2008. Ad valorem 2007-2010. Total all lorem taxes, costs and interest that have taxes, costs and interest due $316.04. accrued thereon and remain legally due 13. Lots 22-13 & S 72’ 1” of Lot 24, and unpaid as of the date of first publicaBlock 22, Cherokee Original, Wilson tion of notice of resale, the total amount of MFG, Inc. Sold to County October 1, all delinquent special assessments, costs 2007. Ad valorem 2006-2010. Total all and interest that were made the basis of taxes, costs and interest due $478.17. or were included in the original sale and 14. E 40’ of Lots 13-18, Block 22, that since accrued thereon and remain Cherokee Original, Wilson MFG, Inc. due and unpaid as of said first publication Sold to County October 1, 2008. Ad vain May, the date of said resale, and the lorem 2007-2010. Total all taxes, costs total due. and interest due $1,434.03. The above notice applies to the followWitness my hand this 10th day of May, ing lots, tracts, and parcels, to-wit: 2011. 1. Lots 1-2, Block 40, Carmen Origis/Carolyn Stands nal, Arnold, Daniel J. Sold to County Carolyn Stands October 1, 2008. Ad valorem 2007-2010 County Treasurer $345.74. Special Assessment 2007 Alfalfa County, Oklahoma $1168.56. Total taxes, costs and inter-
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May 23 3:10 p.m. – Fire east of Burlington. Controlled burn. 10:59 p.m. – Fish fin broke off in boy’s chest. Family taking him to hospital. May 24 8:07 a.m. – Horses out west of Cherokee. Owner advised. 12:25 p.m. – Someone shooting BB gun in Jet. Boy said he was shooting at birds not neighbor’s house. 2:40 p.m. – House fire east of Goltry in Garfield County. Sent page to Garfield County. 3:33 p.m. – Electric pole fell on camper at Canton Lake, and man cannot get out. Notified Major County. 8:44 p.m. – Man fell in Nescatunga. Paged Nescatunga Fire and Rescue. May 25 3:57 a.m. – Medical call in Nescatunga. High blood pressure. Cherokee Ambulance
notified. 8:51 a.m. – Two vehicles parked in barn east of Cherokee. Owners of vehicles notified. 10:30 a.m. – Vandalism throughout Jet area. Someone is driving through properties and got stuck southwest of Jet. 10:03 p.m. – Man having trouble breathing in Jet. Jet First Responders notified. May 26 2:30 p.m. – Speeding bullhauler northbound from Carmen. Spoke with driver. All OK. 2:58 p.m. – 16 head of cattle out north of Amorita. 5:07 p.m. – Man having heart attack north of Jet. Nescatunga Rescue and Cherokee Ambulance responded. 5:51 p.m. – Grass fire eight miles north of Jet on SH 38.
Legal notice Published in the Cherokee Messenger & point on or along such horizontal portion or Republican Thursday, June 2, 2011. 1t lateral and from any point on or along such BEFORE THE CORPORATION completion interval and to be completed COMMISSION OF THE STATE in and to produce hydrocarbons from the OF OKLAHOMA above-named common source of supply, APPLICANT: SANDRIDGE with such authorization and permission EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION, running in favor of Applicant or some LLC other party recommended by Applicant; RELIEF SOUGHT: LOCATION and (ii) establishing a proper allowable EXCEPTION for the proposed well involved herein as LEGAL DESCRIPTION: Section to the common source of supply covered 5, Township 28 North, Range 9 hereby, which allowable Applicant requests West of the IM, Alfalfa County, be established as a full allowable with no Oklahoma downward adjustment made thereto. Cause CD No. 201102660 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the NOTICE OF HEARING application in this cause requests that the STATE OF OKLAHOMA TO: All perorder to be entered in this matter be made sons, owners, producers, operators, effective as of the date of the execution purchasers and takers of oil and gas, and thereof or as of a date prior thereto and all other interested persons, particularly in that the authorization and permission Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, including the folrequested herein run in favor of Applicant lowing: Atchley Resources, Inc.; B. F. Mcor some other party recommended by Cray, Jr.; Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C.; Applicant. Chesapeake Operating, Inc.; Larchmont NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that Resources, L.L.C.; Larry Joe McCray a/k/a the “land sections adjacent to the area L.J. McCray; if any of the above-named within the location exception” requested individuals be deceased, then the unknown herein in said Section 5 in regard to the heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, subsurface location tolerance areas detrustees and assigns, both immediate and scribed above are Sections 32 and 33, remote, of such deceased individual; and Township 29 North, Range 9 West of the if any of the above-named parties is a disIM, and Sections 4, 8 and 9, Township solved partnership, corporation or other 28 North, Range 9 West of the IM, all in association, then the unknown successors, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. The other “land trustees and assigns, both immediate and sections” surrounding said Section 5 are remote, of such dissolved entity. Section 31, Township 29 North, Range NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that 9 West of the IM, and Sections 6 and 7, Applicant, SandRidge Exploration and Township 28 North, Range 9 West of the Production, LLC, has filed an application IM, all in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. in this cause requesting the Corporation NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this Commission of Oklahoma to enter an cause is set before an administrative law judge order, to be effective as of the date of the for hearing, taking of evidence and reporting to execution thereof or as of a date prior the Corporation Commission of Oklahoma. thereto, as follows: (i) authorizing and NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this permitting an exception to the permitted cause is set for hearing before an adminwell location tolerances in the 640-acre istrative law judge on the Conservation drilling and spacing unit formed in Section Docket at the Western Regional Service 5, Township 28 North, Range 9 West of Office of the Corporation Commission, Jim the IM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, for the Thorpe Building, 2101 North Lincoln BouMississippian common source of supply, levard, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at 8:30 so as to allow a well to be drilled from a A.M. on the 21st day of June, 2011, and surface location being not closer than 200 that this notice be published as required by feet from the north line and not closer than law and the rules of the Commission. 660 feet from the east line of said Section 5 NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that to a subsurface location of such well’s entry Applicant and interested parties may presinto the Mississippian common source of ent testimony by telephone. The cost of supply being as follows: not closer than telephonic communication shall be paid by 200 feet from the north line and 660 feet the person or persons requesting its use. from the east line of said Section 5, with Interested parties who wish to participate the first perforation in the horizontal portion by telephone shall contact Applicant or or lateral of the borehole of such well in the Applicant’s attorney, prior to the hearing Mississippian common source of supply date, and provide their names and telebeing as follows: not closer than 330 feet phone numbers. from the north line and 660 feet from the NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that all east line of said Section 5, and with the interested persons may appear and be last perforation in the horizontal portion or heard. For information concerning this aclateral of the borehole of such well in the tion, contact John R. Reeves, Attorney, OBA Mississippian common source of supply #7479, Fourteenth Floor, Two Leadership being as follows: not closer than 330 feet Square, 211 North Robinson, Oklahoma from the south line and 660 feet from the City, Oklahoma 73102, Telephone: (405) east line of said Section 5, and with the 235-1110; or Kevin Manning, SandRidge terminus or end point of the horizontal Exploration and Production, LLC, 123 Robportion or lateral of the borehole of such ert S. Kerr Ave., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, well in the Mississippian common source 73102-6406, Telephone: (405) 429-5788. of supply being as follows: not closer than CORPORATION COMMISSION 200 feet from the south line and 660 feet OF OKLAHOMA from the east line of said Section 5, and DANA L. MURPHY, Chair with a “tolerance distance” for the aboveJEFF CLOUD, Vice Chairman described subsurface locations, horizontal BOB ANTHONY, Commissioner portion or lateral and completion interval DONE AND PERFORMED this 26th day of such well being as follows: a distance of May, 2011. of not more than 100 feet in an easterly BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION: direction and in a westerly direction from PEGGY MITCHELL, any such subsurface location, from any Commission Secretary
LEGAL NOTICES Legal notice Published in the Cherokee Messenger & supply, with such authorization and permisRepublican Thursday, June 2, 2011. 1t sion running in favor of Applicant or some BEFORE THE CORPORATION other party recommended by Applicant, COMMISSION OF THE STATE and to establish proper allowables for such OF OKLAHOMA well and such unit. APPLICANT: SANDRIDGE NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION, the application in this cause requests LLC that the order to be entered in this matter RELIEF SOUGHT: INCREASED (amending the applicable orders of the DENSITy Commission, including Order No. 578141) LEGAL DESCRIPTION: Section be made effective as of the date of the ex5, Township 28 North, Range 9 ecution thereof or as of a date prior thereto West of the IM, Alfalfa County, and that the authorization and permission Oklahoma requested herein run in favor of Applicant Cause CD No. 201102659 or some other party recommended by NOTICE OF HEARING Applicant. STATE OF OKLAHOMA TO: All perNOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this sons, owners, producers, operators, cause is set before an administrative law purchasers and takers of oil and gas, and judge for hearing, taking of evidence and all other interested persons, particularly reporting to the Commission. in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, including the NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this following: B. F. McCray, Jr.; Chesapeake cause will be heard before an administraExploration, L.L.C.; Chesapeake Operat- tive law judge on the Conservation Docket ing, Inc.; Larchmont Resources, L.L.C.; at the Western Regional Service Office of Larry Joe McCray a/k/a L.J. McCray; the Corporation Commission, Jim Thorpe LCK L.L.C., a New Mexico Limited Li- Building, 2101 North Lincoln Boulevard, ability Company; Los Quatros, L.L.C., a Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at 8:30 A.M. on partnership; Tucker Family Trust dated the 21st day of June, 2011, and that this 10/30/2009, and Charles R. Tucker and notice be published as required by law and Jane A. Tucker as Co-Trustees of such the rules of the Commission. trust; Atchley Resources, Inc.; Eagle NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that Energy Production, L.L.C.; Sixty Nine Oil Applicant and interested parties may pres& Gas, L.P.; Stockbridge Consulting, Inc.; ent testimony by telephone. The cost of if any of the above-named individuals be telephonic communication shall be paid by deceased, then the unknown heirs, ex- the person or persons requesting its use. ecutors, administrators, devisees, trustees Interested parties who wish to participate and assigns, both immediate and remote, by telephone shall contact Applicant or of such deceased individual; if any of the Applicant’s attorney, prior to the hearing above-named parties is a dissolved part- date, and provide their names and telenership, corporation or other association, phone numbers. then the unknown successors, trustees NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that all and assigns, both immediate and remote, interested persons may appear and be of such dissolved entity; and if any of heard. For information concerning this the above-named parties designated as action, contact John R. Reeves, Attora trustee is not presently acting in such ney, OBA #7479, Fourteenth Floor, Two capacity as trustee, then the unknown sucLeadership Square, 211 North Robinson, cessor or successors to such trustee. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102, TeleNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that phone: (405) 235-1110; or Kevin Manning, Applicant, SandRidge Exploration and SandRidge Exploration and Production, Production, LLC, has filed an application LLC, 123 Robert S. Kerr Ave., Oklahoma in this cause requesting the Corporation City, Oklahoma 73102-6406, Telephone: Commission of Oklahoma to enter an (405) 429-5788. order, to be effective as of the date of the CORPORATION COMMISSION execution thereof or as of a date prior OF OKLAHOMA thereto, amending the applicable orders DANA L. MURPHY, Chair of the Commission, including Order No. JEFF CLOUD, Vice Chairman 578141, to authorize and permit another BOB ANTHONY, Commissioner well in the 640-acre drilling and spacing DONE AND PERFORMED this 26th day unit formed for the Mississippian common of May, 2011. source of supply in Section 5, Township BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION: 28 North, Range 9 West of the IM, Alfalfa PEGGY MITCHELL, County, Oklahoma, so as to produce hy- Commission Secretary drocarbons from such common source of
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Legal notice Published in the Cherokee Messenger & Republican Thursday, May 26, and Thursday, June 2, 2011. 2t NOTICE OF FILING APPLICATION Application No. 1107090151 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: That SandRidge Exploration and Production, LLC, 123 Robert S. Kerr Ave., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102, is requesting that the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, pursuant to OAC Rules 165:10-5-5 , 165:10-5-6 and 165: 5-7-27, administratively authorize the approval of disposal of saltwater and associated deleterious substances into a Commercial disposal well as follows: WELL NAME AND LOCATION: Claude SWD 1-13, SE4, SE4, SE4, SE4, Sec. 13-T29N-R11W, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma DISPOSAL ZONE AND DEPTH: Arbuckle, TOP – 5657’ , BOTTOM – 6857’ DISPOSAL RATE AND PRESSURE: 60,000 BPD, 2000 PSI Objections may be filed with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission within thirty (30) days after publication of this notice. Objections, if any, should be mailed to Oil and Gas Conservation Division, Pollution Abatement Dept., Jim Thorpe Bldg., P.O. Box 52000, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73152-2000 May 26, 2011
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Legal notice Published in the Cherokee Messenger & Republican Thursday, May 26, and Thursday, June 2, 2011. 2t BEFORE THE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF OKLAHOMA IN THE MATTER OF APPLICATION OF OKLAHOMA GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY FOR AN ORDER OF THE COMMISSION APPROVING A SPECIAL CONTRACT BETWEEN OKLAHOMA GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY AND TINKER AIR FORCE BASE CAUSE NO. PUD 201000194 NOTICE OF HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Applicant in this Cause is seeking an Order from the Commission (i) approving the Special Contract and related charges; (ii) finding such Contract and related charges to be prudent; and (iii) approving the continued use of OG&E’s standard rates and charges applicable to Tinker Air Force Base. No negative impact to customer charges is expected from approval of this Application. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this cause shall be set for hearing before the Administrative Law Judge on the 28th day of July, 2011, at 9:30 a.m., in Courtroom B, Jim Thorpe Building, 2101 North Lincoln Boulevard, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73105. NOTICE IS FUTHER GIVEN that all interested persons may appear and be heard. For more information concerning this matter, contact Patrick D. Shore, or William J. Bullard, OG&E, P.O. Box 321, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73101, (405) 553-3658. CORPORATION COMMISSION OF OKLAHOMA DANA L. MURPHY, Chair JEFF CLOUD, Vice-Chairman BOB ANTHONY, Commissioner DONE AND PERFORMED THIS 11th DAY OF APRIL, 2011. BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION: PEGGY MITCHELL, Commission Secretary CLXCL LPXLP
Legal notice Published in the Cherokee Messenger & Republican Thursday, May 26, and Thursday, June 2, 2011. 2t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALFALFA COUNTY STATE OF OKLAHOMA PB-11-8 1 col, In12p the Matter of the Estate of Marvin L. Richter, Deceased. notice to creditors to present claim All creditors having claims against MARVIN L. RICHTER, a/k/a MARVIN RICHTER, a/k/a MARVIN LEE RICHTER, deceased, are required to present the same, with a description of all security interests or collateral (if any) held by each creditor with respect to such claim, to KIEDRIAN FENNELL, Personal Representative, c/o Sam L. Stein, Law Office of Sam L. Stein, P.L.L.C., 305 South Grand, P.O. Box 223, Cherokee, OK 73728, attorney for the undersigned Personal Representative on or before the following presentment date: July 26, 2011, or the same will be forever barred. /s/Kiedrian Fennell Kiedrian Fennell, Personal Rep. Sam L. Stein, Esq., OBA# 12498 Law Office of Sam L. Stein, P.L.L.C. 305 South Grand P.O. Box 223 Cherokee, OK 73728 Tel. (580) 596-3000 Fax (580) 596-3004 Attorney for Personal Representative Legal notice Published in the Cherokee Messenger & Republican Thursday, May 26, and Thursday, June 2, 2011. 2t IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ALFALFA COUNTY STATE OF OKLAHOMA PB-11-15 In the Matter of the Estate of Dennis L. Walker, Deceased. NOTICE TO CREDITORS TO PRESENT CLAIM All creditors having claims against DENNIS L. Walker, a/k/a DENNIS WALKER, deceased, are required to present the same, with a description of all security interests and other collateral (if any) held by each creditor with respect to such claim, to LOIS WALKER and DEANNA S. WHEELER, Co-Personal Representatives, c/o Sam L. Stein, Law Office of Sam L. Stein, P.L.L.C., 305 South Grand, P.O. Box 223, Cherokee, OK 73728, attorney for the undersigned Personal Representative on or before the following presentment date: July 26, 2011, or the same will be forever barred. /s/Lois Walker Lois Walker, Co-Personal Representative /s/Deanna S. Wheeler, Co-Personal Rep. Sam L. Stein, Esq., OBA# 12498 Law Office of Sam L. Stein, P.L.L.C. 305 South Grand P.O. Box 223 Cherokee, OK 73728 Tel. (580) 596-3000 Fax (580) 596-3004 Attorney for Personal Representatives
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Legal notice Published in the Cherokee Messenger & appointed as the time and place for hearRepublican Thursday, June 2, 2011. 1t ing of said Petition for Probate of Will, In the district court Appointment of Personal Representative, Of Alfalfa County Issuance of Temporary Letters of Special State of OKlahoma Administration, Issuance of Letters TesPB-11-17 tamentary, and Determination of Heirs, In the Matter of the Estate of Geneva Devisees and Legatees, when and where Feely, Deceased. any person interested in said estate may Notice AND ORDER FOR HEARING appear and make objection to any of the PETITION FOR PROBATE OF WILL, above matters, and that notice of said APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL hearing shall be and is given by publication REPRESENTATIVE, ISSUANCE and to the heirs, devisees, and legatees by OF LETTERS TESTAMENTARY, mailing a copy of this Notice and Order with AND FOR DETERMINATION postage prepaid to each of said persons at OF HEIRS, DEVISEES AND LEGATEES their place of residence. MARJORIE VAN SICKLE, Petitioner, Dated this 24th day of May, 2011. having filed in this Court her Petition for /s/Loren E. Angle Probate of Will, Appointment of Personal Judge of the District Court Representative, Issuance of Temporary Approved By: Letters of Special Administration, Issuance /s/Sam L. Stein of Letters Testamentary, and Determina- Sam L. Stein, OBA# 012498 tion of Heirs, Devisees and Legatees; Law Office of Sam L. Stein, P.L.L.C. IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the 305 South Grand hearing of the same be held on the 13th P.O. Box 223 day of June, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock a.m., Cherokee, OK 73728 before this Court in the Alfalfa County Tel. (580) 596-3000 Courthouse at Cherokee, Alfalfa County, Fax (580) 596-3004 Oklahoma, and that the same is hereby Attorney for the Petitioner Legal notice Published in the Cherokee Messenger & described real property, to-wit: Republican Thursday, May 19, Thursday, North Half of the Southwest Quarter of May 26, and Thursday, June 2, 2011. 3t Section 8, Township 25 North, Range 12, IN THE DISTRICT COURT W.I.M., Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. OF ALFALFA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA And you, said defendants, are further CV-2011-8 notified unless you answer said Petition of Calvin Leeper, Linda Leist, Lee W. the plaintiffs’ filed herein against you on or Leeper, and Jay M. Leeper, Plaintiffs, before the 30th day of June, 2011, (41 days VS The unknown heirs, assigns, and from date of 1st publication) the allegations executors of Ida R. Hagans, deceased, of said Petition will be taken as true, and Defendant(s). judgment determining the heirs of Ida R. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION Hagans, Deceased, will be entered, and a STATE IF OKLAHOMA: TO THE HEIRS, Decree quieting plaintiffs’ title to the above EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, DEVIdescribed property will be entered agaisnt SEES, TRUSTEES AND ASSIGNS OF each of you, the said defendants. IDA R. HAGANS, DECEASED, AND THE WITNESS my hand this 10th day of UNKNOWN SUCCESSORS OF IDA R. May, 2011. HAGANS, DECEASED, GREETINGS: /s/Lori Irwin You and each of you are hereby notiCourt Clerk fied that you have been sued in the District Alfalfa County, Oklahoma Court of Alfalfa County, State of Oklahoma, By: /s/Joan Green in Cause No. CV-2011-8, wherein Calvin SEAL Deputy Leeper, Linda Leist, Lee W. Leeper and Kyle B. Hadwiger, OBA#11329 Jay M. Leeper are plaintiffs, and The Heirs, Marcus Jungman, OBA#19138 Executors, Administrators, Devisees, Hadwiger & Jungman, P.L.L.C. Trustees and Assigns of Ida R. Hagans, P.O. Box 306, 120 S. Grand Deceased, et al., are defendants, and the Cherokee, OK 73728 plaintiffs alleging that they are the own(580) 596-3591 ers of and in possession of the following hjlaw@hjoklaw.com Legal notice Published in the Cherokee Messenger & You and each of you are hereby notiRepublican Thursday, May 19, Thursday, fied that you have been sued in the District May 26, and Thursday, June 2, 2011. 3t Court of Alfalfa County, State of Oklahoma, IN THE DISTRICT COURT in Cause No. CV-2011-7, wherein Calvin OF ALFALFA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA Leeper and Jacqueline Leeper are plainCV-2011-7 tiffs, and The Heirs, Executors, AdminisCalvin Leeper and Jacqueline Leeper, trators, Devisees, Trustees and Assigns Plaintiffs, vs. The unknown heirs, succesof Vera Cullison, f/k/a Vera Leeper, a/k/a sors, or assigns of Vera Culison, f/k/a Vera Vera Cullison Leeper McCrary, Deceased, Leeper, a/k/a Vera Cullison Leeper Mcet al., are the defendants, and the plaintiffs Crary; The State of Oklahoma, ex rel The alleging that they are the owners of and Oklahoma Tax Commission; The Board of in possession of the following described County Commissioners of Alfalfa County, property, to-wit: Oklahoma; Carolyn Stands, Treasurer of South Half of the Southwest Quarter Alfalfa County, Oklahoma; And the un(S/2 SW/4) of Section Eight (8), Township known successors of any person who mat Twenty-five (25N), Range Twelve (12), be deceased and the unknown succesW.I.M., Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. sors of any trust, association, partnership And you, the said defendants, are furor corporation which may be dissolved; ther notified unless you answer said PetiDefendants. tion of the plaintiffs filed herein against you NOTICE BY PUBLICATION on or before the 30th day of June, 2011, STATE OF OKLAHOMA: TO THE (41 days from date of 1st publication) the HEIRS, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRAallegations of said Petition will be taken TORS, DEVISEES, TRUSTEES AND ASas true, and judgment determining the SIGNS OF VERA CULLISON, F/K/A VERA heirs of Vera Cullison, Deceased, will be LEEPER, A/K/A VERA CULLISON LEEPentered, and a Decree quieting plaintiffs’ ER MCCRARY, DECEASED, AND THE title to the above described property will UNKNOWN SUCCESSORS OF VERA be entered against each of you, the said CULLISON, F/K/A VERA LEEPER,A/K/A defendants. 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Legal notice OKLAHOMA PRESS ASSOCIATION Legal notice Published in 1-888-815-2672 the Cherokee (toll-free Messenger Published in the Cherokee & • (405) 3601 N. Lincoln Blvd., OklahomaMessenger City, OK 73105 499-0020, in OK)&• www.OkPress.com Republican Thursday, June 2, 2011. 1t Republican Thursday, June 2, 2011. 1t in the district court in the district court in and for alfalfa county in and for alfalfa county state of oklahoma state of oklahoma pb-2010-27 pb-2010-30 In the Matter of the Estate of Harold R. In the Matter of the Estate of Paul G. Fox, Deceased. Murrow, Deceased. notice of hearing final notice of hearing final account, and petition account, and petition for order allowing final for order allowing final account, determination account, determination of heirs, devisees and legatees of heirs, devisees and legatees and for final decree and for final decree of distribution of distribution Notice is hereby given, that Richard G. Notice is hereby given, that Charles Fox, Personal Representative of the estate F. Murrow, Personal Representative of of Harold R. Fox, deceased, has filed in the the estate of Paul G. Murrow, deceased, above Court and cause, his Final Account has filed in the above Court and cause, and Petition for Order Allowing Final Actheir Final Account and Petition for Order count, Determination of Heirs, Devisees Allowing Final Account, Determination of and Legatees and for Final Decree of Heirs, Devisees and Legatees and for Final Distribution, and that Friday, the 17th day Decree of Distribution, and that Friday, the of June, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock a.m., in the 17th day of June, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock District Court Room, City of Cherokee, a.m., in the District Court Room, City of Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, has been fixed Cherokee, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, has as the time and place for hearing thereof, been fixed as the time and place for hearwhen any person interested in said estate ing thereof, when any person interested may appear and contest the same as in said estate may appear and contest the provided by law. same as provided by law. Dated this 25th day of May, 2011. Dated this 25th day of May, 2011. s/Loren E. Angle s/Loren E. Angle Judge of the District Court Judge of the District Court Dal L. Houston, OBA #17065 Dal L. Houston, OBA #17065 BENSON & HOUSTON, P.L.L.C. BENSON & HOUSTON, P.L.L.C. Attorney for Estate Attorney for Estate P. O. Box 488 P. O. Box 488 Alva, Oklahoma 73717 Alva, Oklahoma 73717 (580) 327-1197 (580) 327-1197 Legal notice Published in the Cherokee Messenger & proper allowable with no downward adjustRepublican Thursday, June 2, 2011. 1t ment made thereto. BEFORE THE CORPORATION NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the COMMISSION application in this cause requests that the OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA order to be entered in this matter be made APPLICANTS: CHESAPEAKE effective as of the date of the execution OPERATING, INC. AND CHESAPEAKE thereof or as of a date prior thereto and EXPLORATION, L.L.C. that the authorization and permission reRELIEF SOUGHT: WELL LOCATION quested herein run in favor of one or both EXCEPTION of the Applicants, including Chesapeake LEGAL DESCRIPTION: SW/4 SECTION Exploration, L.L.C. acting by and through 21 TOWNSHIP 26 NORTH RANGE 11 its agent Chesapeake Operating, Inc., WEST OF THE IM ALFALFA COUNTY, or some other party recommended by OKLAHOMA Applicants. Cause CD No. 201102654 NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that NOTICE OF HEARING the legal descriptions for the land secSTATE OF OKLAHOMA TO: All persons, tions adjacent to said SW/4 of Section 21 owners, producers, operators, purchasers are Sections 20, 28, 29, the N/2 and the and takers of oil and gas, and all other interSE/4 of Section 21, Township 26 North, ested persons, particularly in Alfalfa County, Range 11 West of the IM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, more particularly the parties set Oklahoma. out on the Exhibit “A” attached to the apNOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that plication on file in this cause, and, if any of this cause will be referred to an Adminthe named individuals be deceased, then istrative Law Judge for hearing, taking of the unknown heirs, executors, administraevidence and reporting to the Corporation tors, devisees, trustees and assigns, both Commission. immediate and remote, of such deceased NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that this individual; if any of the named entities is a cause will be heard before an Administradissolved partnership, corporation or other tive Law Judge on the Merits Docket at association, then the unknown successors, the Corporation Commission, First Floor, trustees and assigns, both immediate and Jim Thorpe Building, Oklahoma City, remote, of such dissolved entity; if any of Oklahoma, at 8:30 a.m., on the 27th day the named parties designated as a trustee of June 2011, and that this notice will be is not presently acting in such capacity as published as required by law and the rules trustee, then the unknown successor or sucof the Commission. cessors to such trustee; if any of the named NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that parties designated as an attorney-in-fact the Applicants and interested parties may is not presently acting in such capacity as present testimony by telephone. The cost attorney-in-fact, then the unknown succesof telephonic communication shall be paid sor or successors to such attorney-in-fact; by the person or persons requesting its and if any of the named entities are corpouse. An interested party who wishes to rations which do not continue to have legal participate by telephone shall contact the existence, the unknown trustees or assigns Applicants or Applicants’ attorney, prior to of such parties. the hearing date, and provide his or her NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Apname and phone number. plicants, Chesapeake Operating, Inc. and NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that all Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C., have filed interested persons may appear and be an application in this cause requesting the heard. For information concerning this acCorporation Commission to enter an order, tion contact Nathan Cook, landman, (405) as follows: (i) authorizing and permitting 935-8257, or Freda L. Williams, attorney, an exception to the permitted well location OBA No. 16338, (405) 935-9485, Chesatolerances in the 160-acre drilling and peake Operating, Inc., P.O. Box 18496, spacing comprised of the SW/4 of Section Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73154-0496. 21, Township 26 North, Range 11 West Please refer to Cause CD Number. of the IM, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, for CORPORATION COMMISSION the Mississippi Chat and Mississippi Lime OF OKLAHOMA separate common sources of supply, so DANA L. MURPHY, Chair as to allow a well to be drilled at a location JEFF CLOUD, Vice Chairman being 330 feet from the north line and 330 BOB ANTHONY, Commissioner feet from the east line of the unit comprised DONE AND PERFORMED THIS 26th day of said SW/4 of Section 21 and to be of May 2011. completed in and produce hydrocarbons BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSION from the above-named separate common PEGGY MITCHELL, sources of supply; and (ii) establishing a Commission Secretary
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County is approved for emergency grazing of CRP Dwight Richmond of the Alfalfa County Farm Service Agency has announced that the county has been authorized for producers to utilize emergency grazing of CRP acres during the nesting period due to extreme drought conditions in Northwest Oklahoma. Richmond listed five stipulations which must be met before the grazing can begin: (1) identify the acreage to be grazed on an aerial photocopy and indicate their intentions by signing a request; (2) sign the "Terms and Conditions for Emergency Grazing on the CRP Acreage;" (3) obtain a modified conservation plan; (4) be assessed a payment re-
Fallin names Laverne man to state post OKLAHOMA CITY – Governor Mary Fallin has announced the appointment of Karl Jett as Area 1 commissioner of the Oklahoma Conservation Commission. Karl Jett has operated KC Farms in Laverne since 1972. He currently serves as the district chairman of the Beaver County Conservation District and on the board of directors at First Security Bank in Beaver. Area 1 is composed of the following conservation districts: Alfalfa County; Beaver County; Blaine County; Central North Canadian River; Cimarron County; Cimarron Valley; Dewey County; East Canadian County; East Woods County; Ellis County; Garfield County; Grant County; Harper County; Kingfisher County; Major County; Texas County; Woods County; and Woodward County. Jett graduated from Oklahoma State University with a degree in agriculture economics. He replaces Matt Gard of Fairview. The appointment requires Senate confirmation.
County okays payroll, road crossings By KORINA DOVE Messenger & Republican Staff Alfalfa County commissioners Doug Murrow, Chad Roach and Toby Walker approved payroll and several road crossing permits Tuesday in a regular meeting that took just 20 minutes. Commissioners approved seven road crossing permits, one for Triad Energy in District 1, four for SandRidge Energy in District 1 and District 3, one for Atlas Pipeline in District 1 and one for Alfalfa Electric Cooperative in District 1. Also approved was a private property access easement in District 3 and an oil and gas lease with Eagle Energy in District 1.
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duction based on the number of acres actually grazed times the CRP annual rental rate payment times 25 percent; and (5) not begin the emergency grazing until written notification of approval is received from the COC concerning the written approval. Approval of emergency grazing overrides previous years of managed haying and grazing. It also resets the clock for the 3 year waiting period under managed haying and grazing. The CRP grazing period ends the earlier of when the minimum residual height limit is reached, 10 days after notifica-
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reduction. In all cases of rent/lease of grazing the CRP participants must initiate the necessary paperwork with FSA for emergency grazing. A signed statement from the renter/lessor stating they will not sublease is required by the COF and the renter/lessor may not begin grazing until informed by FSA. In these cases approval notification will go to both the participant and renter/lessor. For more information on the conservation reserve program, visit your local County FSA office or visit online at www.fsa. usda.gov/crp.
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