NHills to build training tower

By Mike W. Ray Staff Writer

The Nichols Hills Fire Department received permission from the City Council to seek bids for construction of a firefighter training tower.

Fire Chief Kevin Boydston said they envision a modular, customized, four-story structure that could be easily modified for multiple training sessions, such as rappelling or cutting holes in a roof to gain access to a building ablaze.

No fires would be lit in the tower, but the facility would have a smoke generator and forcible entry doors, for simulated search and rescue drills when visibility is obscured. The tower also would have movable walls that could be reconfigured for different scenarios.

The tower would be used for training Nichols Hills firefighters alongside those from The Village and Oklahoma City,

Boydston said. In addition, “We want to host classes for training other departments, as well, to enable them to acquire hands-on experience in fighting structure fires.” and N. Classen Boulevard, approximately 400 feet south of Wilshire Boulevard, at the Nichols Hills Public Works yard. interested in said estate may appear and contest the same.

The training tower would be constructed between N. Ollie Ave.

Dated this 5 day of June, 2023.

THOMAS C. RIESEN Judge of the District Court Rick Warren Court Clerk Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

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(Published in OKC Friday, Friday, June 23, 2023; Friday, June 30, 2023)

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The Trial of the Century

By Gregg Jarrett and Don Yaeger

A collaboration between Gregg Jarrett and Don Yaeger has produced this legal thriller that will be read on several levels, each of which will receive high marks for interest, research, magnetism and an historical accounting of questions of freedom of speech and civil liberties. Far from being a rote reporting this book knits the past with our divided present in standing up for freedom of ideas, science and religion through a trial held in Tennessee in 1925.

Jarrett is a legal and political analyst, author and attorney who has stepped into national news through his work at NBC, ABC, Court TV, MSNBC and FOX News. He has also published two books, Witch Hunt and The Russia Hoax that have been well known while on the New York Times Best Seller list.

Don Yeager is a longtime author and associate editor at Sports Illustrated as well as a successful public speaker and host of the Corporate Competitor Podcast

The crux of the 1925 legal case in this book has been known for years as “The Scopes Monkey Trial” held in Dayton, Tennessee where John Scopes, a young substitute teacher in the high school was arrested for teaching the science of evolution which had actually been approved by the proper state authorities. This caught the eye of the ACLU who quickly agreed to join the fray. The cast of characters included John along with two gifted attorneys, Clarence Darrow, defense and William Jennings Bryan, an anti-evolution activist and threetime presidential candidate, prosecution.

Newspaper reporters, scientists and bigots galore came to Dayton in the hot summer to record what happened. As one would guess, the fundamentalists were in the majority and there is a sense of a circus atmosphere that swirled throughout the trial. The young teacher was fighting for the proposition that no one should be considered guilty who was using state approved books for texts. The Creationists were eloquent with their talks of the Bible and their faith. They were helped along by trial Judge John Raulston, who allowed the daily court sessions to be opened with long, Christian prayer.

Judge Raulston allowed many offenses to witness rights and the local daily gallery was highly supportive of the GUILTY plea and yet Clarence Darrow, outstanding attorney from Chicago considered to be the most brilliant lawyer in America, presented so many enlightened courtroom moves that as the trial moved along, the outcome is not predictable. The quotes are reported accurately, and the responses to them bounce all over town, America was at this time a very divided country, very similar to today. The Biblical and the scientific supporters were strong and were expert. However, the national experts in science were not allowed to give their testimonies by order of the Judge. Obviously, the tension grew with every court session.

What makes this book more than just a retelling of the trial is that it is such a fitting description of local traditional beliefs and attitudes. This was actually a test to the enlightened people who were open to new acceptances of rights and liberties of citizens in the changing world. Rather than be a spoiler of what happens on the last day of the trial and in the coming world as a result, I refer you to the amazing final chapters of the book which so define them.

An example of the continuing undercurrent of the debate is seen with just a quick look at the recent years in Oklahoma when the Critical Race Theory became fodder for just such a fight. In our time, however, the division was based on race and gender, eight racial concepts to be exact. Teachers were led to negate instruction and remove books. A hundred years after the Scopes Monkey Trial, the fight is still to be decided in the courts that may possibly reach the U.S. Supreme Court for an important test of the First Amendment rights for academic freedom.

To quote Jarrett as he closes out this profound book, “In its day the Scopes Monkey Trial was widely regarded as the Trial of the Century. It remains so not for the obsessive worldwide attention it garnered but because it advanced the indispensable proposition that no one should be told how to think.” This is a very important book for all ages and stages of life.

Thanks to Full Circle Bookstore for sharing these books with FRIDAY readers.

Red, White and Tuna opens June 29 at Jewel Box Theatre

The third installment of the outrageous characters from the Lone Star State’s “Third-Smallest Town” is in rehearsals and opens Thursday, June 29, at the Jewel Box Theatre, 321 NW 36th St. in Oklahoma City.

Red, White and Tuna follows many of the same residents from Greater Tuna and A Tuna Christmas, and adds new characters as the town prepares for a High School Reunion during Independence Day celebrations.

The cast includes J. Christine Lanning as Star Birdfeather/Petey Fisk, Katie Kimberling as Amber Windchime/Didi Snavely, Ross Riley as Arles Struvie/Helen Bedd, Christine Scanlon as Thurston Wheelis/ Inita Goodwin, Taylor Reich as Bertha Bumiller/Leonard

Childers, Cam Taylor as Charlene and Stanley Bumiller/Reverend Spikes, Christine Harris as Vera Carp, Caprice Sorg as Aunt Pearl Burras, Taylor Lowell as JoeBob Lipsey/Elmer Watkins and Brian Wall as R.R. Snavely/Garlette.

The comedy is directed by Deborah Franklin, co-managing director of the Jewel Box Theatre. John C. Arnold is Assistant director and Michelle Hall is Stage manager.

Performances are Thursday-Saturday evenings at 8 pm and Sunday afternoons at 2:30 pm from June 29July 16. Online tickets may be purchased at JewelBoxOKC.com, by contacting JBT.BoxOffice@gmail.com or by calling 405-521-1786. Jewel Box Theatre is a community outreach of Disciples First Christian Church.