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CAUTION URGED ON LAW PLANS An Oklahoma conservative watchdog group said lawmakers should refrain from plans to write legislation responding to last week’s acquittal of Casey Anthony in her daughter’s death.
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A weak tropical system brought slight relief Tuesday to some of the state, carrying a little rain and snapping a streak of tripledigit heat for areas including Oklahoma City, but that break is expected to be short-lived. The moisture from the Gulf Coast kept Oklahoma City’s official high temperature to 98 degrees, breaking a string of 13 days over 100 degrees. Those broiling hot conditions are expected to return Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, with predicted highs of 100, 104 and 106, respectively.
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‘Hand in hand’ The ongoing drought throughout the Southern Plains is contributing to the heat wave, said Gary McManus, of the Oklahoma Climatological Survey. “Extreme heat and drought go hand in hand, as Oklahoma has seen in its past,” he said. “The extreme droughts of the 1930s and 1950s produced many of Oklahoma’s heat records.” And it’s true that even some summers in the last 15 years, such as 1996, 2000 or 2006, have produced a few really hot days. But this heat wave is different, and McManus talked Tuesday about the factors having contributed to a summer in which the Oklahoma Mesonet weather network has had a station reach at least 100 degrees 54 days so far this year. The first 100-degree day was recorded April 3 at the Altus, Mangum, Hollis, Retrop and Butler Mesonet sites. With the drought SEE HEAT, PAGE 4A
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IN BRIEF GOP OFFERS NEW POWERS Two pedestrians try to take shelter from the rain Tuesday as they run across the intersection of Main and Broadway in downtown Oklahoma City. PHOTO BY JOHN CLANTON, THE OKLAHOMAN
MORE COVERAGE I RODEO HEATS UP: Contestants at the International Finals Youth Rodeo did whatever was necessary to keep their animals and themselves cool Tuesday. I WATER LINE WOES: Workers in southwest Oklahoma City repaired a water line that broke Tuesday, sending water gushing 50 feet into the air. NEWS, 4A
I RATIONING: Hot weather calls for water conservation, Carrie Coppernoll writes. NEWS, 5A
Contestant Shiane Lockard, of Tecumseh, takes a drink of water Tuesday during the International Finals Youth Rodeo in Shawnee. PHOTO BY PAUL HELLSTERN, THE OKLAHOMAN
I UTILITIES: High temperatures are causing an increase in electricity usage and rise in monthly bills.
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WASHINGTON — Having to buy a squiggly fluorescent light bulb is an affront to personal freedom, some lawmakers are saying as the House decides whether to overturn a law setting new energy-efficiency
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EL RENO — The El Reno Police Department is continuing to investigate the May 19 death of Sooner linebacker Austin Box in an attempt to determine the source of the prescrip-
tion drugs he consumed, Police Chief Ken Brown confirmed Tuesday. However, identifying a source may be difficult unless someone steps forward, Brown said. “Unfortunately, this day and time, prescription
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Farewell to Betty Ford From top left, former first lady Nancy Reagan (partially obscured), former President George W. Bush, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, first lady Michelle Obama and former first lady Rosalynn Carter watch Tuesday as the coffin of former first lady Betty Ford was brought into a church in Palm Desert, Calif. At lower left is former first lady of California, Maria Shriver. NATION, 2A AP PHOTO
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On the heels of the release of her critically acclaimed new album “Better Day,” Country Music Hall of Famer Dolly Parton has announced a second leg of U.S. tour dates in October, including a Saturday, Oct. 8, show at Tulsa’s BOK Center. Tickets for Parton’s Tulsa show will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, July 22. Tickets are priced at $35, $59.50 and $69.50. They will be available online at www.bokcenter.com, Arby’s box office, all Tickets. com outlets, or by calling (866) 726-5287. “Better Day” is the country legend’s album of all-new studio material, featuring 12 original compositions. She released “Better Day” on June 28 on Dolly Records, distributed through Warner Music Nashville. It is her fourth release on her independent label. Parton’s world tour in support of the album commences Sunday in her home state with a show in Knoxville, Tenn. The first leg of U.S. dates includes two nights — July 22 and July 23 — at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, marking her firstever concerts at the historic venue. BRANDY MCDONNELL, BLOG.NEWSOK.COM/BAMSBLOG
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Results for the question: Do you agree with Oklahoma City’s decision to implement mandatory water rationing? Yes: 65 percent No: 35 percent Members of the Ford family, including son Jack, second from right, arrive Tuesday behind the hearse for the funeral of former first lady Betty Ford at St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church in Palm Desert, Calif. AP PHOTO
Bipartisan memorial honors former first lady Betty Ford BY JEFF WILSON AND JOHN ROGERS Associated Press
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First ladies, past and present, and others who called the White House home remembered Betty Ford on Tuesday, not just for her decades-long work against substance abuse but for contributing to a political era when friendship among lawmakers helped them govern. The casket containing the former first lady’s body arrived in the late morning at the Southern California desert church where she and the nation’s 38th president, her late husband, President Gerald R. Ford, worshipped. It was followed into the church a short time later by mourners who arrived by the busload at this desert resort town. Reporters and other onlookers were kept across a
also attend Tuesday’s service and convey condolences on behalf of his wife, Laura, who couldn’t be there. Former President Bill Clinton had to cancel plans to attend when the plane he was to arrive on had mechanical problems. Others who planned to attend included President Richard Nixon’s daughters, Tricia Nixon-Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower; President Lyndon Johnson’s daughters, Lucie Baines Johnson and Lynda Bird Johnson Robb; and Robb’s husband, former U.S. Sen. Charles Robb. Following the funeral, members of the public were invited to file past the casket and sign a guest book until midnight. A second funeral will be held Thursday in Grand Rapids, Mich., where Gerald Ford is buried at his presidential museum. Former first lady Barbara Bush is expected to attend.
large road from the church and were unable to make out those arriving. But first lady Michelle Obama and former first ladies Rosalynn Carter, Nancy Reagan and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton were expected. Ford, who died at age 93 on Friday, had mapped out plans for the ceremony at St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, including who would deliver her eulogies.
Planned own funeral She chose Carter and journalist Cokie Roberts, as well as Geoffrey Mason, a former director of the Betty Ford Center for substance abuse and alcohol treatment. The center, whose creation was inspired by Ford’s own battles with drugs and alcohol, has helped thousands and will live as her legacy. A spokesman for former President George W. Bush said the president would
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California Highway Patrol motorcycles and squad cars escorted Ford’s hearse and her family members to Tuesday’s service in four black sedans and six SUVS. The hearse pulled up to the church’s side entrance at 11:20 a.m. and the casket was carried inside, followed by about two dozen mourners, including family members.
Family fellowship “They are reading emails and telling stories, enjoying each other’s fellowship,” Ford family spokeswoman Barbara Lewandrowski said. A program prepared for the service featured a picture of Ford, the Emily Dickinson poem, “If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking,” and the words, “The family thanks you for your support,” followed by the signatures Mike, Jack, Steve and Susan, Ford’s four children.
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invented by Thomas Edison in 1879. Republicans say the new standards, signed into law by President George W. Bush, are a symbol of an overreaching federal government and people should have the right to buy the traditional, cheap and reliable incandescent bulbs. The Obama administration and environmentalists say new bulbs on the market will save American households billions of dollars in energy costs. The legislation, promoted by Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, is being considered under a procedure requiring a two-thirds majority to pass. With Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee urging their colleagues to oppose it, that won’t be easy to achieve, and the bill faces dim prospects in the Democratic-controlled Senate. A House vote was possible Tuesday.
A matter of personal freedom? For some Republicans, the new standards are a glaring example of big brother government. The legislation, Barton said, “is about more than just energy consumption. It is about personal freedom.” The light bulb became an issue after the Republican takeover of the House, when Barton was vying with Rep. Fred Upton, RMich., for the energy panel chairmanship. Upton, who worked with Democrats in crafting the light bulb provisions in the 2007 energy act, eventually got the job, but Barton got his bill on the legislative calendar. Upton now supports Barton. “The public response on this issue is a clear signal that markets, not governments, should be driving technological advancements,” he said. Conservative talk-show hosts also have jumped on the issue. “Let there be incandescent light and freedom — that’s the American way,” Rush Limbaugh said. Republican presidential contender Rep. Michele Bachmann, of Minnesota, in her freelance response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address earlier this year, said that under Obama “we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy.” Supporters of the Barton bill also speak of the higher up-front costs of the energy-efficient bulbs and a health risk from mercury in compact fluorescent lamps, or CFLs. Barton said consumers should have the option of paying 30 or 40 cents for an old-fashioned incandescent bulb rather than $6 for a CFL or more for an LED (light-emitting diode). “If you are Al Gore and want to spend $10 for a light bulb, more power to you,” he said. But “let people make their own choices.” Democrats waved new energy-efficient incandescent bulbs made in the United States and costing in the $1.50 range. “Yes, this costs a few dimes more. But let me tell you, you start saving dimes the moment you screw these into the socket,” said Rep.
Rush Holt, D-N.J. Those backing the new standards say the mercury risk is negligible and say new incandescent and LED bulbs contain no mercury. The Obama administration, in a statement released Monday, said it opposes the bill because it would repeal standards that are driving U.S. innovation, creating new manufacturing jobs and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. A White House offi-
cial said the bulbs will save American households nearly $6 billion in 2015 alone. The Energy Department pointed out that energysaving improvements in refrigerators carried out since the 1970s now save Americans $20 billion a year, or $150 a family. “Now is not the time to roll back commonsense standards, achieved with bipartisan support, that will save families $6 billion
in energy costs,” department spokesman Damien LaVera said. The National Resources Defense Council said that, when the law is fully implemented in 2020, energy costs would be reduced by 7 percent or about $85 a household every year. It said the more efficient bulbs would eliminate the need for 33 large power plants. Supporters stress that the new rules do not ban incandescent or any spe-
cific bulb types, and that stores already offer a choice of energy-saving incandescents, LEDs and the curly CFLs that some find aesthetically displeasing. Instead, new bulbs will have to be 25 to 30 percent more efficient than current incandescent models, which convert only 10 percent of the energy consumed to electricity and give off the rest as heat. As of Jan. 1, 2012, inefficient 100-watt bulbs will
no longer be available at most stores. That will apply to 75-watt bulbs in 2013 and traditional 40- and 60-watt bulbs in 2014. USA Today and Gallup in February and found that 61 percent judged the law to be good, and 31 percent bad. More than seven in 10 said they’ve switched to more energy-efficient light bulbs, and 84 percent said they were satisfied with their non-incandescent light bulbs.
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Effects of drought seen close-up by rodeo folk BY BRYAN PAINTER Staff Writer bpainter@opubco.com
A storm moves through the Oklahoma City metro area Tuesday. PHOTO BY PAUL B. SOUTHERLAND, THE OKLAHOMAN
Lynne Shell uses a shopping bag Tuesday to shield her hair from the rain as she leaves a grocery store in Norman. PHOTO BY STEVE SISNEY, THE OKLAHOMAN
Cars drive over wet pavement Tuesday on Britton Road near N Bryant in Oklahoma City after a storm moved through. PHOTO BY PAUL HELLSTERN, THE OKLAHOMAN
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comes a lack of green vegetation and soil moisture. That leads to a majority of the sun’s energy going toward heating the earth’s surface instead of evaporating soil moisture or being absorbed by plants. During the summer, the sun’s intensity is at its greatest and there is plenty of energy to be used for that heating. The heat then depletes more soil moisture and withers more plants, so the heat and drought then begin to feed off each other in that destructive feedback loop.
Hot temperatures in July The following is a look at the record high temperatures, normal high temperatures and the high temperatures for July 1 to Tuesday for Oklahoma City's official weather site at Will Rogers World Airport. 110º
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The drought began last fall. Since Oct. 1, 2010, the statewide average rainfall total is more than 12 inches below normal, the seconddriest such period on record dating to 1921. For the western half of the state, it has been the driest on record. A strong La Nina formed last summer, cooling equatorial Pacific waters and helping push the jet stream to the north through the spring, giving the drought a six-month head start. The La Nina has since faded, but it occurred just in time for the beginning of the normal summer heat and dryness. The heat began in earnest during June when a ridge of
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high pressure camped over the Southern Plains. June ended as the second-warmest across the state since 1895. That was behind only 1953, and the heat has continued unabated since then. High temperatures at Oklahoma City reached at least 90 degrees every day during June for the first time in history and hit triple digits 22 times from June 14 to Monday at Will Rogers World Airport. The heat has been especially fierce in the southwestern part of the state, where the Altus Mesonet site has reached at least 100 degrees 46 times this year through Tuesday.
“Thanks to the drought, we continue to face a summer on steroids with the hottest part of the summer a couple of weeks away,” McManus said. “We have a significant head start of many of our more famous heat records, such as the 50 days of 100-degree temperatures in Oklahoma City in 1980.” In comparison, Oklahoma City had reached 100 degrees only 14 times by July 11of 1980, compared to this year’s 22. “The extreme heat will continue unabated until significant rains occur or fall arrives, whichever comes first,” he said.
Workers repair water line break A water line break in south Oklahoma City early Tuesday sent water gushing 50-feet into the air for more than three hours. Crews were able to shut off the water at Salt Grass Steakhouse, 1445 SW 74, on the north side of Interstate 240 east of S Pennsylvania Avenue, about 7 a.m. Workers had trouble locating the valve to shut off the water after the mainline break was reported to the city about 3:45 a.m. The gusher was only 10 yards away from a storm water drainage canal and did not flood the restaurant. Repairs to the broken line were completed by 9:30 a.m., city spokeswoman Debbie Ragan said. Water line breaks continue to be a problem across the city because of the extreme heat and heavy water usage, Ragan said. ROBERT MEDLEY, PHOTO BY ROBERT MEDLEY, THE OKLAHOMAN
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SHAWNEE — Sitting horseback, contestants of the International Finals Youth Rodeo downed bottles of water. They lifted their straw cowboy hats and, wearing long sleeves, stuck an elbow in and cleaned the sweat out. They did whatever was necessary to keep their animals and themselves cool Tuesday morning. Yet for many parents and contestants, it’s just a continuation of what they are seeing back home — extreme heat and drought. Cody Custer — who was watching his son Aaron Custer compete in the calf roping — lives near Elk City. He said while they have only a few cattle, many of his friends have more. The drought has led some to reduce the number of cattle they have. “A lot of those guys who have spent years of building up their herds are having to sell everything off,” he said. “That sale barn out there at Elk City, the last few weeks they’ve had to have the police there to control traffic, there’s been so many people.” Many of his friends say these are the worst conditions they’ve seen and that it will take a couple of years to recover, even if it starts raining now. Cody Custer, 45, a former Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association World Champion bull rider and an Arizona native, made a living from rodeo and specifically bull riding. He hasn’t been involved in agriculture in his life, but appreciates those who farm and ranch. “Now that I live out here around it, it’s not some-
Charley Newton, who helps with the livestock at the International Finals Youth Rodeo, tries to cool off Tuesday in Shawnee. PHOTO BY PAUL HELLSTERN, THE OKLAHOMAN
thing that’s distant to me,’’ he said. “It’s close because I’ve got a lot of friends who raise cattle or farm. It’s pretty tough on them right now, and it’s important to all of us.” Brock Finley, 18, is a saddle bronc rider, and his family has cattle near Elgin. “We’re way behind on rain and we hardly have any grass left,” he said. Their 15 ponds should be about 12 feet deep each, he said, but each is only 3 feet deep or lower. He’s seen it this dry once before in his life, and that was during a winter. They are now taking water from a natural spring, putting it in a tank in the back of a truck and hauling it to livestock. The family has been on that land for about 100 years. His father, David Finley, tells him while it’s bad now, he thinks “it’s going to get real bad.”
ALSO ... WOMAN HURT DURING RODEO A rodeo contestant was severely injured when she fell from her horse Monday in a practice ring in Shawnee. Kelly Blanton, 18, of Taylorsville, N.C., didn’t have any feeling from the neck down after she fell, said Mike Jackson, coordinator for this week’s International Finals Youth Rodeo. She was taken by helicopter to an Oklahoma City hospital where she was in critical condition Tuesday evening. A donation box is at the rodeo to help with expenses. ANN KELLEY, STAFF WRITER
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Oklahoma City’s mandatory watering rationing rules apply to all communities that buy some or all of their water from the city. The rationing applies only to watering lawns with irrigations systems and sprinklers. The rules do not apply to those who use well water. Residents and businesses with even-numbered addresses can water their grass on even-numbered days, and odd-numbered addresses on odd-numbered days.
AREAS AFFECTED In addition to Oklahoma City, communities affected are: I Mustang I Blanchard I Norman I Canadian County District 3 I Piedmont I Deer Creek Water District I The Village I Edmond I Warr Acres I El Reno I Yukon I Lake Aluma I Moore
Hot weather calls for conservation of water in OKC When I look at my crispy, yellow lawn, I am reminded of what a great neighbor I am. I started voluntarily rationing water in anticipation of this drought when I moved into my house six years ago. So, all my neighbors might have nice yards, but mine is really a dedication to selfless restraint. Or poor gardening. Whatever. You’re welcome, Oklahoma City. Mandatory water rationing started Monday for the city and 13 other metro-area communities because of the horrible heat. Residents are asked to cut lawn watering. Locations with evennumbered addresses can water only on even-numbered days. Odd-numbered locations can water on odd-numbered days. Or, if you’re me, you don’t water pretty much ever because, if you do, the weeds win. Though it rained Tuesday, I say we residents need to implement our own water rationing, mostly because rationing lawn watering doesn’t involve me in any way. There are plenty of ways we can conserve this natural resource during the heat wave. For example, only run your washing machine and dishwasher when they’re completely full.
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Or stop washing things altogether. Sweep your driveway and sidewalk instead of using a hose. Or just wait for the Oklahoma wind to blow debris into your neighbor’s yard. When you rinse off fruits and vegetables, use the runoff to water your plants. Wash your car on the lawn so your grass can absorb the runoff. This is especially handy if you already park it there. By the same token, wash your pets in the yard. But not yourself. If your children ask why their goldfish can only have an inch of water, explain that we’re in a recession, a heat wave and a recession heat wave. Times are tough and/or hot. Then tell them they can only play in the sprinkler if it’s an even-numbered day; otherwise, they might be arrested.
drugs are easily attainable,” the police chief said. Box’s parents Monday released a one-page informational copy of a state medical examiner’s report that indicated their son had five painkillers and the anti-anxiety drug alprazolam in his system when he died. The toxic combination of the drugs likely precipitated his death, the report said. The painkillers were identified as oxymorphone, morphine, hydrocodone, hydromorphone and oxycodone. Craig and Gail Box, of Enid, said their son experienced some discomfort from back injuries, but they were not aware of Austin, 22, having any prescription for the drugs. They said they thought Austin would have told them if he had a prescription or that they would have learned about it through the family’s insurance plan paperwork. Austin died after spending the night in El Reno at the home of a friend, J.T. Cobble, who called 911 in the morning after finding his friend unconscious and not breathing. “He takes pain pills,” Cobble told the 911 dispatcher. Brown said police officers found one pill in the home that had the appearance of a prescription drug, but said his department has not determined the type of drug through chemical analysis. “No pill bottle was found,” he said. Brown said there was also no indication of partying the night before. Austin apparently spent a quiet evening playing video games with a friend, the police chief said. There is a prescription database in Oklahoma, and Brown said his department is working with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control to determine whether Austin had legitimate prescriptions for any of the drugs detected in his body after his death. If no matches are found, it will be difficult to determine where Austin got the
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drugs unless someone comes forward with information, Brown said. “We’ve never closed the investigation,” he said.
Other agencies Brown said if Austin did consume illicit drugs, there is no indication at this point that he obtained them in El Reno, so there is a good chance the department will be forwarding whatever information it obtains to other agencies. The police chief confirmed that investigators examined the call history on Austin’s cellphone, but said they found nothing obvious that would point them toward a drug transaction. “As I recall, there wasn’t anything odd about the phone numbers, text messages or anything like that,” he said. “Nothing odd stuck out to us — no known numbers of concern that I’m aware of and definitely no text messages that would indicate either by code or direct talk that they were setting up a time to pick up pills or drop off pills or
anything like that. Craig Box said he also reviewed his son’s cellphone logs and found mostly numbers of friends and family members. He said there was one number he had suspicions about that he would like to see checked out.
Athletic injuries Meanwhile, Austin’s death has raised questions about how university athletic departments help athletes deal with painful injuries. Kenny Mossman, spokesman for OU athletics, said the university has great confidence in certain physicians and will refer athletes to those doctors when athletes are injured. It’s up to the athletes to decide whether to go to those physicians or doctors of their own choosing, he said. “Most will accept a referral,” he said. “At that point, the doctor and the athlete establish what would be a fairly normal patient-doctor relationship. If there is a prescription medicine required,
the physician writes that and deals directly with the individual as they would any other patient.” Mossman said doctors use their discretion in advising patients how much pain they should endure while continuing to play. “I know ours historically have been very cautious on that front, and you rely, of course, on the athlete, as well, to give you a good idea of what they are experiencing,” he said. Because of doctorpatient confidentiality, it is up to the athlete to decide how much information about medications or other treatment to disclose to OU personnel, he said. OU and most athletic programs have drug testing programs, Mossman said. All OU athletes are randomly tested during their competitive seasons, and at least 20 percent are tested during the off season as well, he said. They are given a maximum of 24 hours notice of drug tests and sometimes much less — such as being pulled out of practice for testing. The NCAA and Big 12 Conference also do random drug checks on athletes at championship events, he said. Counseling is offered to any athlete when a need is detected, he said. “What occurred with Austin is a rare circumstance,” Mossman said.
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Give Obama debt limit power, GOP leader says BY DAVID ESPO Associated Press
WASHINGTON — With compromise talks at a standstill, Senate Republicans unexpectedly offered Tuesday to hand President Barack Obama new powers to avert a first-ever government default threatened for Aug. 2. Under a proposal outlined by Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Obama could request increases of up to $2.5 trillion in the government’s borrowing authority in three separate installments over the next year, as long as he proposed spending cuts of
greater size. The debt limit increases would take effect unless blocked by Congress under special rules that would require speedy action — and even then Obama could exercise his authority to veto such legislation. Significantly, the president’s spending cuts would be debated under normal procedures, with no guarantee they ever come to a final vote. In essence, McConnell’s proposal would greatly enhance Obama’s authority to avoid a default, while also virtually absolving Republicans of responsibility
if one occurred. At the same time, it would allow Republican lawmakers to avoid having to support an increase in the debt limit, something many of them find odious. “Republicans will choose a path that actually reflects the will of the people, which is to do the responsible thing and ensure the government doesn’t default on its obligations,” McConnell said in a speech on the Senate floor. He also criticized the administration for seeking tax increases along with spending cuts as part of an agreement to raise the debt limit.
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President Barack Obama awards U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Leroy Arthur Petry the Medal of Honor during a ceremony Tuesday in the East Room of the White House in Washington. AP PHOTO
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama awarded the nation’s highest military honor Tuesday to Sgt. 1st Class Leroy Arthur Petry after describing how the soldier took enemy fire in Afghanistan but still grabbed a live grenade to save his comrades. “This is the stuff of which heroes are made,” the president declared. It was just the second time that a living, activeduty service member from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has received a Medal of Honor. Petry, who lost his hand in the incident and wears a prosthesis, looked on from a stage in the East Room with his wife and children in the audience as the president described his heroics that day.
It unfolded on May 26, 2008, in Afghanistan, as Petry and other Rangers choppered toward an insurgent compound, the president said. As soon as they landed they came under automatic weapon fire, and Petry was hit in his legs. He fell, but as grenades came flying toward him and his comrades he picked one up and tried to hurl it back before it exploded. Petry’s right hand was blown off, but two of his fellow soldiers were saved. And still Petry kept going, issuing orders to help his unit fight and win. It was “something extraordinary,” Obama said. Even after the incident in Afghanistan, Petry didn’t seek to leave the Army, instead staying enlisted and returning to Afghanistan for an eighth
deployment last year, the president said, before placing the Medal of Honor around Petry’s neck. Petry, a Santa Fe, N.M., native who now serves with the 75th Ranger Regiment at Fort Benning, Ga., spoke to reporters outside the White House after the ceremony. “To be singled out is very humbling. I consider every one of our men and women in uniform serving here, abroad, to be our heroes,” Petry said. “They sacrifice every day and deserve your continued support and recognition.” The first living, activeduty service member who fought in Iraq or Afghanistan to receive the Medal of Honor was Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta, who received the honor in November.
Shuttle era’s final spacewalk ends NASA | CREW RETRIEVES PUMP, INSTALLS ROBOT FOR REFUELING BY MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts making the last spacewalk of NASA’s space shuttle era on Tuesday retrieved a broken pump from the International Space Station and installed a fill-er-up experiment for a robot. The space station’s twoarmed robot, Dextre, won’t tackle the $22.6 million playset until long after Atlantis departs and the shuttle program ends. But perhaps more than anything else on this final journey by a shuttle, the robotic demo illustrates the possibilities ahead for NASA: satellite-refueling stations in space run by robots. In a departure from pre-
vious shuttle visits, the spacewalking job fell to space station astronauts Michael Fossum and Ronald Garan Jr., who teamed up for three spacewalks in 2008. The four-person Atlantis crew is the smallest in decades, and so the lone spacewalk of the mission was handed over to the full-time residents.
The ammonia coolant pump stopped working last July and, for more than two weeks, left the space station with only half its cooling capability. NASA wants the pump brought back to Earth so engineers can figure out why it failed to help them keep the onboard station pumps running.
His plan drew criticism from GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich, who quickly tweeted it was “an irresponsible surrender to big government, big deficits and continued overspending.” There was no immediate response to the GOP proposal from the White House, where Obama hosted his third meeting in as many days with congressional leaders struggling to avert a financial crisis.
motorcycle gang have been charged in a federal indictment unsealed in St. Louis on Tuesday. The Wheels of Soul motorcycle club orchestrated violence and mayhem that included at least three murders, the indictment states. The indictment accuses 18 men in seven states of racketeering, with some of the men also accused of crimes that include murder, attempted murder, robbery and kidnapping. POLITICS
PAUL TO FOCUS ON CAMPAIGN AUSTIN, Texas — U.S. Rep. Ron Paul said Tuesday he will concentrate on running for president and will not seek re-election to Congress. The 75-yearold Republican said he will serve out his term through December 2012.
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Lake National Park spent about six hours rescuing a 27-year-old New York man who slid 300 feet into the remains of a volcano that forms the nation’s deepest and clearest lake. Authorities said his injuries were serious. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Men are more likely to die from cancer STUDY | RESEARCHERS SAY FINDINGS ARE NOT SURPRISING BY ROBERTO DAZA The Seattle Times
SEATTLE — Men are at
higher risk than women of developing cancer within their lifetime, and a study released Tuesday shows they are also more likely to die from it. The analysis, published in the journal Cancer, Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, examined 36 types of cancer by gender, using almost 30 years of data, from 1977 and 2006. It found that for the vast majority of cancers, men have higher mortality rates than women, with the highest disparities for conditions such as lip, throat and the rare hypopharyngeal cancer. Men were found to be about five times more likely to die from these diseases. Rachel Ceballos, a public health researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, said researchers had suspected these disparities for some time, but until now lacked any hard data to
About 1.6 million Americans will be diagnosed with cancer this year, and close to 600,000 people — more than 1,500 a day — will die of it. support those theories. Only five cancers — including breast, thyroid and gall bladder cancer — had a higher mortality rate for women than men. Cancers with the highest mortality rates — such as leukemia and lung, colon and pancreatic cancer — were also found to pose a greater risk of death for men. Men were found to be almost twice as likely to die from leukemia. “We noted a consistent difference between genders,” said Michael Cook, lead investigator for the study and researcher at the National Institutes of Health. Cancer accounts for nearly 1of every 4 deaths in the United States, exceeded only by heart disease, according to statistics
from the American Cancer Society. Determining the root cause is difficult, but influencing factors may include cancer screening among people without symptoms, the presence of other illnesses and a person’s inclination to seek medical help. The study only suggests that because men are at a higher risk for cancer, this increases their odds of dying from it. Researchers attribute general health disparities and rates of cancer diagnosis to a number of factors, including a simple one: Women rate their health worse than men. As a result, they see medical professionals more often. DISTRIBUTED BY MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE INFORMATION SERVICES
Paolo Beldran eats a healthy choice meal Tuesday at a south Miami Burger King. At least 19 large restaurant chains — including Burger King, Chili’s, IHOP and Friendly’s — plan to announce Wednesday that they will add healthier options to their children’s menus. AP PHOTO
Large chain restaurants will make kids’ menus healthier BY MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Parents seeking healthier restaurant meals for their kids can start to look beyond the chicken nuggets and macaroni-and-cheese. At least 19 large restaurant chains — including Burger King, Chili’s, IHOP and Friendly’s — plan to announce Wednesday that they will include healthier options on their children’s menus. At least 15,000 restaurant locations will focus on increasing servings of fruits and vegetables, lean proteins, whole grains and low-fat dairy. The items will have less fats, sugars and sodium.
Less healthy foods like burgers and fries will still be on the menu, but the restaurants say they will do more to promote healthier options. Chili’s, for example, will highlight a chicken sandwich with a side of pineapple or mandarin oranges on their kids’ menu. Burger King has recently reformulated children’s chicken nuggets so they include less sodium, and employees taking orders will ask if customers want healthier apple fries instead of the standard “fries with that?” The effort is part of a new National Restaurant Association initiative to give kids more healthy options at restaurants and to
make it easier for parents to find those options. To be part of the program, restaurants must include at least one kids’ menu item that is 600 calories or less and meets other nutritional requirements. A side dish worth less than 200 calories must also be included. The companies signing up for the initiative are Au Bon Pain, Bonefish Grill, Burger King, Burgerville, Carrabba’s Italian Grill, Chevys, Chili’s, Corner Bakery Cafe, Cracker Barrel, Denny’s, El Pollo Loco, Friendly’s, IHOP, Joe’s Crab Shack, Outback Steakhouse, Silver Diner, Sizzler, T-Bones Great American Eatery and zpizza.
Child death numbers challenged BY DAVID CRARY AP National Writer
NEW YORK — America uses flawed methods to tally and analyze the deaths of children who have been maltreated, and the latest annual estimate of 1,770 such fatalities is likely too low, the Government Accountability Office says in a new report. Better data, says the GAO, would aid in developing strategies that could save many children’s lives. The GAO report, the subject of a House Human Resources subcommittee hearing Tuesday, says state agencies and the Department of Health and Human Services should broaden the scope of data collection, improve coordination, and seek uniform
definitions of abuse and maltreatment. “We need to do a much better job working together at the local, state and national level,” said Theresa Covington, director of the National Center for the Review and Prevention of Child Deaths, in testimony prepared for the hearing. In his opening remarks, the chairman of the House
subcommittee, Rep. Geoff Davis, R-Ky., said, “Sometimes the death of a child from maltreatment does not make headlines at all, possibly because it is not recorded as a death from maltreatment. “It is hard to know which child deaths are more tragic — those we know about, or those we do not,” he added.
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BAGHDAD — At once blunt and bubbly, poised but prone to gaffes, Leon Panetta showed on his first overseas trip as Pentagon chief that he has framed his agenda but not yet mastered the art of expressing it publicly. In a talk to troops in Afghanistan, he said he was the CIA director (his previous job). The next day he invoked the language of George W. Bush in saying the U.S. is at war in Iraq because al-Qaida attacked on 9/11 — a message counter to views of his boss, President Barack Obama. Panetta, 73, told reporters at the outset of his fiveday journey that his main aim was to personally thank U.S. troops for their work and sacrifices over a decade of war. He is following in the footsteps of a
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popular defense secretary, Robert Gates, for whom troop welfare was a signature issue. Aside from his 16 years in Congress, from 1977 to 1993, Panetta’s long government career has been in behind-the-scenes roles, including White House budget chief and later chief of staff to President Bill Clinton. As defense secretary, though, Panetta now faces a level of public scrutiny — of everything
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The powerful half brother of President Hamid Karzai was gunned down in his home Tuesday, setting off a power struggle in southern Afghanistan. The assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai leaves the president without an influential ally to handle the tricky job of balancing the interests of the region’s tribal and political leaders, drug runners, insurgents and militias. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, but officials immediately cast doubt that they were involved. If they were, it could undercut the president’s own effort to talk peace with insurgents as foreign forces begin their exit. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
from his policy priorities to his every public utterance — that far exceeds anything he encountered in those earlier jobs. Panetta was flying home Tuesday from the Kurdish capital of Irbil in northern Iraq. He began his trip in
Afghanistan, where he met with U.S. commanders and Afghan government leaders in Kabul, then ventured to the country’s southern desert to see U.S. troops. In Baghdad on Monday he met Iraq officials and U.S. troops.
WikiLeaks founder gets support Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange protest Tuesday outside the High Court in London where he was fighting extradition to Sweden. Assange is accused of rape and molestation. Assange, along with former Oklahoman Bradley Manning, is also accused of leaking classified documents on the Internet. AP PHOTO
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THREE CHARGED IN DEADLY CRASH SAO PAULO — The federal prosecutor’s office said
Tuesday it has charged three people in connection with a plane crash that killed 199 people. TAM Flight 3054, an Airbus A320, landed in driving rain at Sao Paulo’s Congonhas airport on July 17, 2007, sped down the runway and crashed into a gas station and air cargo building at 110 mph. All 187 people aboard and 12 people on the ground died. A statement on the website of the prosecutor’s office said that charges have been filed against Denise Abreu, former director of Brazil’s National Civil Aviation Agency, Alberto Fajerman, TAM’s former vice president of operations and Marco Aurelio dos Santos de Miranda e Castro, the airline’s former safety director. ASIA
WAREHOUSE FIRE PROVES DEADLY BEIJING — Chinese state media say at least 12 people have died in a warehouse fire in central China. The official Xinhua News Agency says eight others were rescued and taken to a hospital following Tuesday’s fire. Their conditions are not known. Xinhua says the fire trapped people on the second floor of the warehouse. The cause of the fire wasn’t immediately known.
TODDLER AWAKENS FROM COMA BEIJING — A Chinese toddler who fell 10 stories
and survived after being caught by a passer-by woke up from a 10-day coma and called out to her parents, state media reported Tuesday. The 2year-old girl was left unattended and fell from her family’s apartment window in eastern Zhejiang province on July 2. Xinhua News Agency said she opened her eyes Tuesday after having been unconscious since the fall.
TWO AMERICANS ARE ABDUCTED Officers prepare to fire baton rounds Tuesday to disperse Catholic youths in Ardoyne, in north Belfast, after cordoning off the area to allow through a Protestant parade. Tens of thousands of members of the loyal orders of Orangemen walk the streets to commemorate the 1690 Battle of the Boyne. AP PHOTO
Belfast police, Catholics clash on day of Protestant marches BY SHAWN POGATCHNIK Associated Press
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— Police firing plastic bullets and powerful water cannons forced Catholic militants away from a key Belfast road Tuesday as Northern Ireland’s annual day of Protestant marches reached a tense climax. Catholic youths lashed out at police both before and after the marches by the Orange Order, a Protestant brotherhood whose yearly July 12 demonstrations celebrate 17thcentury military triumphs over Catholics.
Hundreds of mostly teenage Catholics, who covered their faces with masks and hoods, waged running street battles with heavily girded police on the streets of Ardoyne, a hard-line Irish nationalist enclave in north Belfast. The Ardoyne rioters, cheered by much larger crowds of Catholic spectators, tried to force their way on to the major local road in protest at a peaceful Protestant parade that police had just permitted to pass under strict conditions — including a requirement that the Protestants march to the beat
of a lone snare drum. Police, determined to prevent direct ProtestantCatholic street fighting, held their ground backed by three massive mobile water cannons that doused street fighters, journalists and spectators alike. As darkness fell, the rioters reinforced their salvos of firecrackers, rocks, bricks and bottles with gasoline-filled Molotov cocktails. Some rioters shouted “Burn! Burn!” as officers frantically batted out the flames. Officers responded with dozens of single, targeted shots from plastic-bullet
Gadhafi ready to go, envoys say BY ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press
PARIS — France’s foreign minister said Tuesday that Paris has had contact with emissaries from Moammar Gadhafi who say the embattled Libyan strongman is “prepared to leave” power. It was not immediately clear whether such an offer is credible or amounts to a potential breakthrough in the Libyan crisis. But Gadhafi has refused to leave or give up power. Alain Juppe said that while the contacts do not constitute proper negotiations, “everyone (involved in Libya’s civil war) has contacts with everyone else. “We receive emissaries who are saying, ‘Gadhafi is prepared to leave. Let’s
discuss it,’ ” Juppe said, without identifying envoys. The U.S. State Department said Washington, too, is getting visitors. “We have a lot of folks claiming to be representatives of Gadhafi one way or the other reaching out to lots of other folks in the West,” said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland. “But the messages are contradicto-
ry, and we remain to (hear) a clear-cut message — more importantly, the TNC (Transitional National Council representing the rebels) remains to have a clear-cut message — that Gadhafi is prepared to understand that it’s time for him to go,” she said. French officials and allies have insisted Gadhafi’s giving up power is key to ending the hostilities, which began mid-March.
guns designed to knock down individual rioters without seriously wounding them. It appeared certain that the casualty list would surge from Tuesday’s earlier total of 24 police officers and an unknown number of rioters. Typically, rioters injured in Belfast avoid hospitals because they face arrest. “The Twelfth” officially commemorates the July 12, 1690, triumph of Protestant King William of Orange over his Catholic rival for the English throne, James II, at the Battle of the Boyne south of Belfast.
MANILA, Philippines — More than a dozen armed men abducted a naturalized American, her teenage son and Filipino nephew before dawn Tuesday from a southern Philippine island near a stronghold of al-Qaida-linked militants, officials said. Suspicion fell on the notorious Abu Sayyaf, which has been blamed for ransom kidnappings, beheadings and bombings in the last two decades, or a Muslim rebel commander whose group has been linked to previous abductions.
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VESSEL’S SINKING IS INVESTIGATED KAZAN, Russia — A criminal negligence investiga-
tion was opened on Tuesday into the sinking of a cruise vessel on the Volga River that killed scores of people, and two ships that allegedly sailed past the tragedy without bothering to help. The confirmed death toll from Sunday’s sinking of the cruise vessel on the Volga River stood at 88, but more than 41 people remained missing and hopes for finding any alive were fading.
LEG TRANSPLANT IS COMPLETED VALENCIA, Spain — A Spanish medical team has
carried out the world’s first double leg transplant, hospital sources said in the eastern city of Valencia. The young patient could not use prostheses, making a transplant the only alternative to him spending his life in a wheelchair, hospital officials said. FROM WIRE SERVICES
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HE Page 1 photo in Tuesday’s Oklaand the Boxes are sure that’s the case. Gail Box homan provided a graphic illustration said her son surely knew he was taking painof the pain felt when parents lose a killers, but “did not know the extent of what he child, and of the toll prescription drugs can was taking.” Said Craig Box: “It’s terrifying, it’s take, and are taking, on Oklahoma families. maddening. It’s sad and you can’t do anything In the photo, Gail and Craig Box are clearabout it.” ly wracked with grief as they talk about the Prescription drugs are a serious problem in death of their son, Austin, a University of our state. The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics Oklahoma football player. Austin Box, who and Dangerous Drugs Control estimates there had overcome several injuries during his are 100,000 prescription drug addicts in Oklahigh school and college careers and would homa. There were 356 drug overdose deaths in have been a fifth-year senior this fall, died Austin Box 2009, the last year for which data is available May 19 at age 22. An informational toxicolfrom the state medical examiner. ogy report released by his parents showed he had five Craig Box said he hopes police in El Reno, where his painkillers in his system, and the combination of those son died, will look into the source of the drugs that likely led to his death. killed Austin. A state database to monitor prescriptions His parents told The Oklahoman they don’t believe has stopped many who try illegally to get access to these Austin at the time of his death was taking any painkill- legal drugs — but there are still plenty of those drugs ers prescribed to him by a doctor. Craig Box and his son around. had spent four days together just before his death, and Box and his wife said they believe they would have during that time, Craig said, he never saw Austin take recognized if Austin had an addiction problem. Gail Box anything other than Advil. described her son as a “pleaser” who may have been Gail Box said that in her job as a high school guidance reluctant to tell them if there was a problem. If he had counselor, she encounters students who have problems said something, she said, she and her husband would with drugs. She saw no such signs from her son. “I have have provided help. wracked my brain,” she said. “Did I ignore signs? I don’t Her hope is that other “silent sufferers” will indeed know, but I do know that Austin was a silent sufferer.” ask for help. To be sure, no parent should be left to feel The autopsy report listed the death as an accident, as the Boxes do today.
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Business as usual won’t work in public-sector cuts This editorial appeared Sunday in the Chicago Tribune: The private sector learned the hard way over the past 30 years that ignoring economic downturns only makes things worse. To control the damage, companies need to act fast. When the latest recession hit, corporate leaders swiftly imposed job cuts and shed operations they deemed less essential. Cut timely, cut smart. It was wrenching and painful for individuals and the nation, but it positioned companies better to come out of the recession and start hiring again. The public sector did nothing of the sort, and as Friday’s dismal U.S. unemployment report makes obvious, the nation now faces the consequences. Private employers added 57,000 jobs in June, but most of those gains were offset by the loss of 39,000 public-sector jobs. The net gain: a hugely disappointing 18,000 jobs. Local governments alone cut 18,000 jobs, and almost half a million since their employment peaked in September 2008. State and federal payrolls also have started to shrink in earnest. Keep in mind that since March 2010, when privatesector employment rose for the first time in two years, U.S. companies have added about 2 million workers to their payrolls. The public sector, much of it in deep debt, will continue to drag down the recovery. Just as America couldn’t sustain its real estate bubble, it can’t sustain its huge expansion in public employment, salaries and benefits. That should have been obvious long ago, but government at all levels fought
the facts. From Capitol Hill to the smallest municipalities, precious few governments scaled down in a timely manner. As a result, government has fewer resources at its disposal to cushion the impact of pending layoffs and retirements. The stimulus aid from Washington has been spent. State capitals, city councils and school boards across the country have no choice but to make cuts they should have made when they first saw a dip in revenues. Austerity hurts, but it will hurt all the more because the years in denial have left such a huge burden of public indebtedness. Corporate leaders know that downsizing done badly can destroy their organizations. During the punishing layoffs of the early 1980s, U.S. manufacturing lost not just jobs, but also know-how and the capacity to stage a comeback when opportunities knocked once again. Political favoritism and rigid work rules have made the public workplace inefficient and inflexible. Seniority protection is a good example. Such rules can cost government some of its motivated and aggressive workers. America should not have to endure a business-asusual approach to public-sector downsizing that risks compounding the pain. As budgets contract, political leaders need the flexibility to impose smart cuts and efficiencies that preserve their ability to deliver core public services with the smaller payrolls economic necessity demands. It’s too late to get ahead on this. It’s not too late to be smart about it. MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE INFORMATION SERVICES
faces much lonelier task JUBA, South Sudan — Following the hot, happy chaos of its flag-raising ceremony and the departure of 70 planes’ worth of VIPs from its capital, a newly independent South Sudan now faces a lonelier task. It must construct a nation out of flawed materials — a weak economy, a strong military and fractious tribes. The difficulties were illustrated to me at dinner with a prominent political figure from the ruling party, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM). He had been a fighter in the bush for more than 15 years, with several gunshot scars to prove it. His bravery is unquestioned. Yet his military achieveMichael ments lead him to Gerson be openly dismissive of anyone — politicians, intellectuals or exiles — who lacks a war record. COMMENTARY This is a difficulty in most post-revolutionary countries. Can a guerrilla army transform itself into an effective governing class? Will the warriors welcome or resent nonmilitary talent and technical expertise? Western development experts often talk vaguely of corruption, as though it always means the filling of Swiss bank accounts. Doubtlessly there is some of that in South Sudan. But those carrying the shrapnel of the civil war are also practicing a kind of patronage. They have binding ties to their family and tribe. So they put large numbers on the payroll. It is not a recipe for economic growth or political pluralism. But it does have a useful side effect: keeping people with guns — and just about everyone in South Sudan has guns — employed and relatively happy. The fact that South Sudan is a major oil producer only lubricates the patronage machine. As in many other places, resource wealth has the effect of strengthening elites, who have more benefits to distribute. But the system has a major flaw. There is a direct relationship between corrupt patronage and instability. If government positions are a major source of spoils, those excluded are tempted to take positions by force. Two South Sudanese generals are currently in armed rebellion against the government. There are no ideological issues at stake. These military leaders feel cut out of the power arrangement. Killing becomes a form of negotiation — an attempt to gain attention and a rightful share. This is particularly dangerous in a society with a whirl of centrifugal forces — the existence of 150 tribes, a long history of SPLM infighting, and a tendency for North Sudan to fund and encourage internal conflict within the South. In a new and fragile state, a great deal depends on the governing style of its first leader. Either a Mandela or a Mugabe may emerge, which places South Sudan in a unique position. The founder of the independence movement, John Garang, died in a plane crash in 2005. Garang was a charismatic, educated, Marxist-turned-Christian, rebel leader — a man who viewed tribalism as historical dead wood and wanted to lead southern Sudan into the modern world. South Sudan’s first president, Salva Kiir, provides a vivid contrast in leadership. Kiir models himself on the chiefs of his tribe, the Dinka. It is an aristocratic, gentlemanly tradition, in which power is exercised through layers of leadership. While Garang could be abrasive, Kiir is more oriented toward consensus.
Approach has worked well Other tribes within South Sudan sometimes resent the aristocratic airs of the Dinka. But so far, Kiir’s approach has served him well. After Garang’s death, the SPLM broadly accepted the legitimacy of Kiir’s succession. He has successfully reintegrated many powerful adversaries from the time of the war back into the party. But Kiir has a challenge. Large-scale corruption has its own internal logic. It will not, however, result in development. And while Kiir himself is not seen as corrupt, he is broadly criticized for tolerating corruption around him. The independence of South Sudan is a large, unlikely achievement. But now it faces among the hardest of historical tasks: The liberators of a nation must become the founders of a nation. WASHINGTON POST WRITERS GROUP
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Overhyped defense cuts military buildup, when we faced a hosPoliticians often rail against governtile nuclear superpower in the form of ment spending, except when it goes to the Soviet Union. the military. Conservatives believe there It might make sense to provide such is no such thing as too much defense gargantuan sums if we were merely tryspending, and liberals don’t argue, for fear of being labeled appeasers. So when ing to keep up with our enemies. In reality, the United States devotes more there is talk of the two parties agreeing money to defense than the next 17 counto cut the Pentagon budget, it sounds tries combined. We spend six times as like a monumental change. much as the Chinese, who come in secBut probably not. It’s a good thing that defense, which accounts for roughly ond overall. It would be misleading to say we a fifth of all federal outlays, is no longer greatly outspend our rivals. When it considered immune to the need for frucomes to military outlays and capability, gality. But supporters and opponents we have no rivals. have a stake in portraying any trims as If spending is the solution, the probfar more significant than they really are. lem has been solved many times over. If, The Obama administration reportedly on the other hand, we are has decided to boost its still dangerously vulplanned defense cuts from nerable to our enemies, $400 billion over the next Steve more dollars are not likely 12 years to as much as $700 Chapman to make us safe. billion. That sounds like a But we keep chasing the lot — considering that the dream of absolute securiearlier, smaller figure had ty, which requires an unsparked furious objections. ending succession of wars Some Republicans in COMMENTARY in faraway countries that Congress may be prepared pose little or no danger to to subject defense spendus. That’s what justifies the immense ing to the sort of scrutiny applied elsemilitary budget, an indulgence disguised where. But if you think the tea party as a necessity. favorites will demand serious fiscal disWhat neither party is willing to concipline, you are in for a disappointment. sider is downsizing our global obligaHouse Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s heralded budget plan would, tions and ambitions. Nor is either party ready to reassess our presence in Europe, according to Cato Institute analyst South Korea and Japan — which have Christopher Preble, leave the Pentagon ample resources to provide for their own “essentially unscathed.” Rep. Michele defense. If our leaders want to preserve Bachmann wrote recently, “Blaming our the option of intervening anywhere on budgetary woes on the military is reckearth, any time something happens that less and misinformed.” She doesn’t seem to have noticed that we don’t like — and most of them do — they have to maintain a military estabwhile discretionary domestic outlays lishment that dwarfs all others. have been flat in inflation-adjusted So don’t expect the Pentagon to beterms over the past decade, military come noticeably smaller just because expenditures have not. The discretionwe’re being buried in debt. An aide to ary defense budget, after accounting for House Armed Services Committee inflation, is 80 percent bigger this year Chairman Buck McKeon, R-Calif., told than it was in 2001 — and 33 percent Politico, “The chairman is deeply conbigger than it was just five years ago. Assuming the president and Congress cerned about any defense cuts made during wartime.” agree to the cuts being discussed — no There lie the crucial facts about the sure thing — it would still be larger in defense budget: 1) Washington politi2016 than it was for most of George W. cians resist cutting in wartime; and 2) Bush’s presidency. It would also be it’s always wartime. more, in real terms, than it was at the CREATORS.COM height of President Ronald Reagan’s
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Wrong focus Regarding “Lawmaker to file ‘Caylee’s Law’ bill” (news story, July 7) and “2nd lawmaker plans to file ‘Caylee’s Law’” (news story, July 8): How many bills referred to as “Caylee’s Law” will be introduced before the next Oklahoma legislative session starts? Has a lack of reporting of missing persons been a real problem here? Probably not. Our real problems include underfunded pensions, prisons, teacher and child worker salaries, along with crumbling bridges. Wouldn’t it be nice if politicians focused their energy on what we really need? Too many of our current laws are a result of knee-jerk reactions and pandering to voters rather than proactive solutions and planning that benefit all of us. Pat Lowry, Oklahoma City
NEEDED AND DESERVED Honesty, work ethic and talent are what the people deserve and need from our elected officials. Take a long look at those we’ve elected and see if you can find more than a handful who obviously are working hard to serve us. The president appears to spend too much time entertaining, traveling, speaking and telling everyone else what they should be doing. He should roll up his sleeves and get to work! We deserve that. Congress should do the same. Stop telling us what the “other side” hasn’t done and do something yourselves! We’re facing what is most likely the worst crisis in 60 years and our elected officials are more concerned with getting re-elected than with protecting our future as a nation. For the sake of my children and my grandchildren, forget about yourselves and get to work or your gravy train will derail. Jim Kettler, Edmond
PAY IT BACK In “Find a way to reward state’s best teachers” (Point of View, July 6), Robyn Hilger noted that the state Department of Education is ending its financial support for teachers to pursue National
Board Certification because of financial constraints. I wasn’t aware my tax dollars were being spent on scholarships to send state employees to training that, upon completion, would entitle them to a $5,000 annual bonus. I don’t begrudge teachers trying to better themselves, but since the reward was a higher salary, that in itself should have been incentive enough for taking the training without being paid to do so. This program sounds like another stimulus program funded by the taxpayers. Hilger said she’s looking for ideas to assist teachers who can’t afford to take the course. The scholarship program should cease. Teachers who want $2,500 to attend the course should be required to repay taxpayers $500 per year until the debt is paid. Donald D. Meyer, Oklahoma City The state’s bonus pay program for board-certified teachers is currently not in effect due to budget constraints.
THE PRIMARY REASON Regarding “Shelter offers halfprice adoption” (news story, July 8): The number of pets coming into the Oklahoma City Animal Shelter during one month (3,000) presents a challenge to a facility that’s trying to become a “no kill” shelter. I encourage anyone who may want to adopt a dog or cat to visit the shelter at 2811 SE 29, which is 1.5 miles east of Interstate 35. If you want a particular breed and don’t think there’s a possibility of finding what you want at a public shelter, think again. With 800 pets on the premises, you will find a pet that you want to take home. If you don’t want a new pet at this time, you can also help by having your pet spayed or neutered. The lack of spaying and neutering is the primary reason the shelter has such a large number of animals. Gayl Leicher, Oklahoma City Leicher has volunteered at the shelter since 1998.
Protesters seeking to blame state Superintendent Janet Barresi for school budget shortfalls are not just misguided; they’re simply wrong. Oklahoma’s school budget woes are neither new nor the result of too little spending. Rather, they are a direct result of an antiquated school structure and a decades-long failure to set sensible priorities. The Oklahoma Indicators Report for 2010 showed total public school spending of $5.47 billion. The state’s contribution to that total was $2.55 billion, with $1.98 billion coming from local property taxes and $954 million from federal funds. Go back a little more than a decade, to 1999. Total school spending in Oklahoma was $3.31 billion, with $1.9 billion from state sources, $1.1 billion from local taxes and $310 million from Washington. That’s a hefty increase, especially when you consider total school enrollment increased only slightly in those 11 Mike Brake years, from 623,799 to 646,704. So where did all the extra money go? Part went into higher teacher salaries. The average teacher wage rose substantially between 1999 and 2010, from $30,851 to $43,998. But a generous portion of all those extra dollars funded a steady and worrisome increase in topheavy administration. The number of school districts in Oklahoma declined slightly between 1999 and 2010, from 547 to 532. One would think that would result in fewer administrators. Not true. Total school administrative positions actually rose in those years, from 2,998 to 3,549. Worst of all, the percentage of school dollars dedicated to instruction — the core mission of education — has been steadily trending downward, from 57.1 percent in 1999 to 56.1 percent in 2010. These trends are largely the result of our 1930s school model, which scatters available school dollars among hundreds of tiny districts, each with a layer of administration. In many cases, more than $1,000 per student goes to pay a single superintendent, and in some districts, superintendents earning more than
State Superintendent Janet Barresi delivers her first State of Education address last week. AP PHOTO
$100,000 oversee student populations that would barely fill a single classroom. Oklahoma’s 532 districts compare poorly with other states. Kansas has 308 districts. Colorado has 181. New Mexico does fine with 89, and massive Texas, with 25 million residents, has only 1,241 school districts, just over twice Oklahoma’s total. Consolidation is clearly not the answer. Local schools provide a core identity to small towns, and students don’t need long bus rides. But there are other ways to trim administrative overhead, such as gathering small districts into administrative cooperatives. Sadly, the same vocal protesters who try to blame Barresi for budget shortfalls have stubbornly opposed any form of administrative reform. Their only answer is “more dollars!” for a tottering, outmoded system. As for priorities, one example will suffice. From 2006 to 2008, Jenks Public Schools allocated $27.5 million for athletic facilities, including a palatial $10 million aquatic center. Those dollars alone would fund all of the recently curtailed merit pay for every eligible teacher in Oklahoma for almost two years. Janet Barresi’s first priority is learning. She deserves support for that effort, not blind opposition. Brake, public information officer for Oklahoma County Commissioner Brian Maughan, formerly worked in the offices of Gov. Frank Keating and then-U.S. Rep. Mary Fallin.
U.S. ECONOMY SPUTTERING BADLY
Misery Index rides again Remember the Misery Index? It tends to reappear whenever the economy exThis economy is hibits a couple of unwelcome trends in unusual tandem: not just a high unemsputtering like an engine ployment rate but more inflation, too. without enough fuel to Talk about a double whammy. operate at its most Add those two figures together and efficient. And like a you get the Misery Index. So if you combine the current 9.2 unemployment rate gasoline engine, the with the 3.6 inflation rate, the rate of American economy can’t misery in the American economy is 12.8. be expected to run The country hasn’t seen that kind of smoothly on just hot air. number in almost 30 years. The president indelibly associated with the Misery Index is Jimmy Carter, There’s also a faint hope that the Rewho made a talking point of it in the publicans might actually get some real long-ago presidential election of 1976. He said the index was too darned high — cuts in federal spending in exchange for raising the debt limit. Then again, they it stood at a painful 13.6 percent back could just settle for cosmetic savings, then. But by the time Mr. Carter ran for aka smoke-and-mirrors. Suspicion re-election as president in 1980, he had managed to raise it to almost 22 percent. grows that those serious negotiations in Washington over cutting the budget And he would lose the White House to aren’t really serious. Ronald Reagan. If Barack Obama were The Misery Index serious about creating jobs, stayed under double digits Paul he wouldn’t still be blockfrom the early 1990s until Greenberg ing the free trade agreethe Great Recession struck ments that his predecessor in 2008. Now it’s moved successfully negotiated into Jimmy Carter territowith South Korea, Panama ry, and that’s not good and Colombia, and so innews for Barack Obama. COMMENTARY crease both our export Or the country. trade and theirs. For comTo make bad news merce is not a zero-sum game but can worse, the International Monetary Fund benefit all, especially the American says the American economy isn’t going worker. to grow as fast as the IMF had once If Barack Obama were serious about predicted. Not that its previous idea of reducing unemployment, he’d call off “fast” was exactly record-breaking. It his hounds at the National Labor Relawas more, well … slow. tions Board and get them to stop blockA couple of months ago, the IMF ing that new Boeing plant in South Carpredicted that this country’s gross doolina. But his appointees to that board mestic product would grow by 2.8 perseem determined to do a favor for the cent this year and 2.9 percent next. president’s union friends and loyal supThat’s not 5 percent growth, but after a painful recession, some of us would take porters up in Seattle, who are hellbent on taking revenge for Boeing’s daring to it happily. Now the IMF says to look for invest in a right-to-work state like South growth more like 2.5 percent this year Carolina. and 2.7 next. If Barack Obama were serious about But even that slow growth rate could encouraging American business to invest get slower if the United States and Euin this country instead of overseas, he’d ropean nations don’t start getting our/ make the Bush tax cuts permanent so their debt under control. industry would know it could count on a There is some good news: Americans, including some of our leading politicians tax code that didn’t change with a president’s every political whim or maneuver. and pressure groups, are starting to talk This economy is sputtering like an about the dangers of government spendengine without enough fuel to operate at ing, deficits and debt. Even the AARP is now open to trimming Social Security — its most efficient. And like a gasoline engine, the American economy can’t be if only down the road and by taking expected to run smoothly on just hot air. long-overdue steps, like raising the reNot even the presidential brand. tirement age. It’s always a good thing TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES when the AARP notices reality, finally.
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A body was found in a northwest Oklahoma City apartment by firefighters on a smoke investigation call.
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‘Caylee’s Law’ proposals prompt call for diligence BY MICHAEL MCNUTT Capitol Bureau mmcnutt@opubco.com
Lawmakers should refrain from plans to write legislation responding to last week’s acquittal of a Florida mother charged with murdering her 2year-old daughter, the
head of an Oklahoma conservative watchdog group said Tuesday. “I expect more from our legislators than to just jump on the bandwagon,” said David Tackett, founder of Oklahomans for Liberty. “We need to think things through and make sure
what this law would really do. Thank goodness, our legislative session doesn’t happen for another six months. I hope by then cooler heads will prevail.” Two state legislators already have announced plans to file a bill that would make it a felony for adults not to report a child
who is missing or dead. Casey Anthony was sentenced last week to four years in prison for lying to investigators about the disappearance of her daughter, Caylee, who was missing for 31 days in 2008 before her grandmother notified police. Anthony was acquitted of murder
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Slain boy’s brother suspected in death
MEDIATION EVENT SET A workshop for divorced parents will be from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday. The Mediation Institute is holding the workshop to help parents and professionals reduce the trauma on children involved in divorces. The workshop will be at 13308 N MacArthur Blvd., and costs $20. Space is limited and preregistration is required. For more information, call Jim Stovall at 607-8914.
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SAPULPA — The teenage brother of an 11-year-old boy who died of a gunshot wound to the head Friday is a suspect in the case, a sheriff’s deputy said Tuesday. Quinlan Chase Cochran was pronounced dead at his home at 15336 W 101, five miles west of Sapulpa. Cherokee Ballard, spokeswoman for the state medical examiner’s office, said he suffered a shotgun wound to the head. Creek County sheriff deputies responded about 2:45 p.m. to a 911 call from the boys’ grandfather, who said the younger boy had committed suicide. Sheriff’s Lt. Charles Redfern said the 13-yearold brother, whose name has not been released, is a suspect in the shooting. The older boy told his grandparents Quinlan shot himself, and investigators determined he was present when the shooting occurred, Redfern said. The boys were living with their grandparents, he said. Deputies recovered the firearm at the scene, along with other items they would not disclose. Redfern said the 13year-old boy and the grandparents were served with juvenile court appearance documents Friday evening. He said the teen wasn’t arrested. At juvenile court it will
The Oklahoma City Council is beginning to study what to do with paramedic services in the city when a window of opportunity to opt out of the Emergency Medical Services Authority Trust opens.
Kung fu instructor Joel Ledlow works with students Tuesday during kung fu camp at Lighthouse Sports, Fitness and Health in Oklahoma City. PHOTO BY PAUL B. SOUTHERLAND, THE OKLAHOMAN
SUMMER CAMPERS GET A KICK OUT OF KUNG FU EXPERIENCE BY CARRIE COPPERNOLL Staff Writer ccoppernoll@opubco.com
Joel Ledlow told his students to let loose: “Really beat me up this time!” A parade of children let their feet fly at their instructor, aiming for a punching bag in front of his stomach. Practicing punches, kicks and rolls is part choreography, part selfdefense. Ledlow’s kung fu summer camp is in constant motion. “It’s a very positive physical, mental and spiritual environment,” Ledlow said. Ledlow grew up in Geary but moved to the West Coast to attend the University of California at Los
Angeles. He earned his theater degree, met his wife and developed his martial arts skills. He taught kung fu and worked security at some of L.A.’s hottest restaurants and bars. The Ledlows decided to return to Oklahoma City to raise a family about a year ago. Ledlow started his company, Evolution Martial Arts, and started offering the kung fu summer camp to give students a taste of martial arts.
Fun and focus Though students are learning focus, coordination and self-defense, there’s plenty of summer camp nonsense, such as concern about whether a
television cable outlet might actually be a crazed robot. Ledlow pretended to burst through a door in a home invasion, and his students countered his attack with kicks and punches. “Can we pretend we’re the doors?” one little boy asked. “Yeah,” Ledlow said kindly, “or we could pretend we’re kung fu warriors.” The boy agreed that being a kung fu warrior was cooler than being the door. Daniel Klvac, 7, of Edmond, is one of Ledlow’s students during the school year. He brought along his sister, Kaitlyn, 10, to the summer camp. Daniel said
the camp was just as fun as his regular classes. But martial arts are new for Kaitlyn. She’s a swimmer, and punching and shouting aren’t part of the normal repertoire. “It’s fun and tiring,” she said. “It’s more tiring than the sports that I do.” Kellie Fischer, 11, of Edmond, said she thinks it will also help her with her flexibility and swimming. “It’s a lot of fun,” she said. “You learn a lot.” Summer Steele, 8, of Oklahoma City, takes gymnastics classes, and kung fu is new for her, too. Her grandpa, Larry Steele, said he wanted her to stay active during the summer. “It gives her another avenue to make friends,” Steele said.
Norman school board approves demolition of building
A music festival next month will mark the reunion of a band that brought national attention to Stillwater’s Red Dirt scene. The Great Divide will reunite for a show Friday, Aug. 26, at the College Days Festival. The festival will be held Aug. 25-27 at the Tumbleweed Amphitheater in Stillwater. The band is credited with bringing Stillwater’s Red Dirt sound to a national audience. Mike McClure, the band’s frontman, said he is excited to bring the band back to Stillwater. McClure said Tumbleweed management originally approached him about reuniting the band for the festival. MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
POWER RATES TO INCREASE Stillwater Utilities Authority trustees approved rate increases for electric, water and wastewater utilities at its meeting Monday. The first increase was to the electric rates that customers will see in the bills they receive in August. Director Dan Blankenship said the city will see a $1.15 million increase in the bill it pays for wholesale electricity. He says the increase in customers’ rates is only to cover that cost. MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
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members have approved the demolition of the agricultural science building at Norman High School, the first step in getting a new and improved one built, Norman School District spokeswoman Shelly Hickman said. The cost of demolishing
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the building will be $19,275. A new agricultural science building planned for the same site will serve Norman and Norman
North high schools. School board members approved a contract for the work with Edmond-based Total Demolition Services
in a special meeting last week. The new building, a $1.9 million project approved by voters in a 2009 bond election, should be completed in time for the 2012-13 school year, Hickman said. The new building will have classroom space, a shop area and a greenhouse. In other business, the board approved $42,700 in emergency roof repairs at Longfellow Middle School.
The roof was damaged in a June 28 windstorm. The school’s deductible is $10,000, and insurance will take care of the remainder, Hickman said. The board members also approved a $5.8 million contract for classroom additions at Cleveland, Jackson and Wilson elementary schools. Funding for the additions was part of the 2009 bond election.
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IT services unification under way CAPITOL | TECHNOLOGY SERVICES MUST BE TRANSFERRED BY EARLY NEXT YEAR BY MICHAEL MCNUTT Capitol Bureau mmcnutt@opubco.com
Steady progress is being made in transferring the information technology services of most state agencies to a central office, the official overseeing the procedure said Tuesday. The state finance office’s information services division early next year is to begin taking over the data and employees involved in most agencies’ information technology services. Several agencies already have stepped forward to begin the process, said Alex Pettit, the state’s chief information officer. The state finance office earlier this month took over the Education Department’s information technology services, said Pettit, who was hired last year as the state’s first chief information officer. The treasurer’s office is to have its information technology services transferred Aug. 1, he said; the Office of Personnel Management is targeted for Sept. 1, and the Tourism and Recreation Department is set for Oct. 1. Each consolidation of information technology services of an agency results in reducing the state’s 76 financial systems and 129 email and smartphone services, he said.
Reporting costs tricky Pettit is to report his progress in consolidating services and how much money has been saved by Monday, July 1, 2012, the start of the 2013 fiscal year. “We obviously can’t get it all done by then,” he said. His division, like most state agencies, had its budget cut this fiscal year, and the monetary constraints make it difficult for it to consolidate more than one good-sized agency a month, Pettit said.
His division is working to implement changes that would generate the most savings; some changes will require additional funding, he said. “Some things don’t have a return on investment in 12 months,” Pettit said. “Some things are longer than that. That’s part of our problem.” Consolidating mainframe operations will cost about $2.5 million but is estimated to save about $4.1 million a year, he said. “The problem is coming up with the $2.5 million upfront,” Pettit said. But because the rate of return is about nine months, it’s possible his division could pursue that operation this fiscal year because it can recapture the investment before the end of the fiscal year, he said. Discussions are under way to look into pursuing that option.
Email could save $1M Consolidating eligible email systems is expected to save the state about $1 million a year, but estimates still are being sought on how much it would cost upfront to do it, he said. Several agencies are exempt from the law. They include investigatory and health agencies that deal with sensitive personal information, Pettit said. “We can get more bandwidth for less money if we’re all on the same network than if we’re on 32 different networks,” he said. “Other systems ... are specific to the agency’s mission and vision and delivery and they don’t have anything to do with what anybody else does,” he said. “So there are some systems in the Department of Public Safety that have only things to do with the Department of Public Safety, and there’s no advantage to the state of rolling that together with other systems.”
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IN BRIEF FALLIN NAMES DISTRICT JUDGE Oklahoma County Special Judge Roger Stuart was named Tuesday by Gov. Mary Fallin to be the county’s newest district judge. Stuart, 59, of Edmond, will succeed Noma Gurich, who resigned after being named a justice on the state Supreme Court in January by former Gov. Brad Henry in the last days of his term. Stuart will serve out the remainder of Gurich’s term, which ends in January 2015. Most recently, Stuart has served as a special judge in the juvenile division while working as an adjunct professor at Oklahoma City University’s law school. Stuart has been named an “Oklahoma Judge of the Year” by the State Court Appointed Special Advocate Board and has received the Champion of Children Award from the State Foster Care Association. He is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and OU’s law school.
STATE PARKS UNDER REVIEW Rep. James Lockhart, who fought unsuccessfully this year against the closing of seven state parks, said Tuesday he is disappointed an interim legislative study will look at privatizing state parks. Lockhart, D-Heavener, sought to have a legislative study look at the economic and social effects of closing seven state parks next month will have on surrounding cities and counties, but it was not among the 80 approved last week by House Speaker Kris Steele, R-Shawnee. Lockhart said he is disheartened to see Steele approved the study requested by Rep. Leslie Osborn, R-Tuttle. MICHAEL MCNUTT, CAPITOL BUREAU
The Oklahoma City Council is studying what to do with paramedic services when a window of opportunity to opt out of the Emergency Medical Services Authority Trust opens. PHOTO BY PAUL B. SOUTHERLAND, THE OKLAHOMAN ARCHIVES
OKC considers future of paramedic services BY MICHAEL KIMBALL Staff Writer mkimball@opubco.com
The Oklahoma City Council on Tuesday began to study the future of the city’s paramedic services, and its eventual decision could affect residents of cities throughout the metro and in the Tulsa area. Paramedic services in Oklahoma City and Tulsa are currently handled by the Emergency Medical Services Authority in a trust involving EMSA and both city governments. A window of opportunity for the three entities to opt out of the trust opens in October. But it’s not just EMSA, Tulsa and Oklahoma City who will be affected by decisions made in October. Several suburbs of Tulsa and Oklahoma City also use EMSA ambulances and paramedics, and a dissolution of the trust could leave them scrambling for a new way to treat their residents and take them to hospitals in emergency situations. Edmond, Yukon, Mustang, Bethany, The Village, Nichols Hills, Warr Acres, Piedmont, Arcadia, Lake Aluma and Valley Brook also use EMSA in the Oklahoma City area, along with the Tulsa suburbs of Bixby, Jenks and Sand Springs.
Dissolution could be complicated The cities of Tulsa and Oklahoma City, EMSA trustees and the governor have to agree unanimously for the EMSA Trust to be dissolved, Oklahoma City Municipal Counselor Kenneth Jordan said. If Oklahoma City or Tulsa chooses to opt out of the trust without the unanimous consent of the others, they can only remove their funding from the trust, which would survive. That could open the door to litigation, Jordan said. But the involved parties could work to cooperate to allow one city to walk away without resulting in a chaotic legal mess. Problems could arise for the other cities
even if the trust is not dissolved. For example, if Oklahoma City, the largest EMSA user, were to opt out, costs could increase for other cities using the service because of the reduced economy of scale. And if the trust is dissolved altogether, the smaller suburbs without a guaranteed voice in the decision would be left with no ambulance or paramedic service. The cities would still have time to find an alternative. Oklahoma City, Tulsa and EMSA have an Oct. 31 deadline to opt out of the trust, and EMSA would still continue to serve all involved cities until Nov. 1, 2013.
Fire department could step in The presentation Tuesday to the Oklahoma City Council centered on a proposal to have the fire department step in for EMSA if the trust is dissolved or the city opts out. Fire Chief Keith Bryant told the council using an expansion of the fire department to include a medical services division could save the city more than $1 million per year by fiscal year 2015 as compared to the current system. The city estimates most of the savings would come from eliminating having both firefighters and EMSA paramedics responding to medical emergencies in the city, which is the current structure in most cases. But the city’s figures have not yet been verified by a third party, a move requested Tuesday by Ward 8 Councilman Pat Ryan. The council has also not yet heard a presentation from EMSA on how the organization would plan to operate under a five-year contract it would receive if the city chooses to continue using the trust. Council members, fire and EMSA officials and City Manager Jim Couch agreed Tuesday to discuss the issues further at upcoming council meetings over the next three months. Couch is also likely to meet with officials from other cities that will be affected by the decision to get their input.
Law: Critic worries statute YOUTHS HAVE A BALL would be unconstitutional AT EDMOND TOURNEY FROM PAGE 13A
ONLINE “We’ve got to be very careful before we start messing with laws that can simply trample our civil liberties,” said Tackett, who describes himself as a constitutional conservative. “I’m worried about the people that didn’t do anything wrong, but then I’ve got an overreaching government saying, ‘Your child’s missing, how come you didn’t report that?’ ”
About the planned bills Sen. Greg Treat, R-Oklahoma City, said his legislation would require parents or guardians to quickly notify authorities of a child’s death or disappearance. Treat said he is looking at state statutes and conducting research to determine an appropriate time limit for notifying authorities. Rep. Paul Wesselhoft, R-Moore, said he is considering similar legislation. No Oklahoma statutes address the issue, Wesselhoft said. Tackett said such a law could violate the U.S. Constitution’s 5th Amendment, which prohibits a person from selfincrimination during a trial. “How can you be charged for a crime in
BY TRICIA PEMBERTON
Continuing coverage Read more news from the state Capitol on NewsOK’s politics page. NEWSOK.COM/POLITICS
which the only way to follow ‘Caylee’s Law’ would be to incriminate yourself?” he asked. “It’s no different than making a law that says it’s a crime to fail to report to the police that you have killed someone.” Anthony, who has served nearly three years in prison, is due to be released Sunday. Her sentence was adjusted for time served and for good behavior. Tackett said people may be upset about the outcome of the Anthony case, “but the Constitution is not about vengeance — the Constitution is about justice.” Freshman Rep. Josh Cockroft wrote Sunday on his Facebook account that he had received more than 200 emails from constituents about filing “Caylee’s Law” legislation.
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be determined if the boy will be charged as an adult with manslaughter in district court, Redfern said. Creek County District Attorney Max Cook said
“no final decision has been made on filing (charges), and based on the ages involved, it is unlikely that this will be anything other than a juvenile matter.” Family members reached by phone Tuesday
declined to comment. Heather Bailey, 38, a friend, said the family is devastated over Quinlan’s death. “He was a sweet little boy. He will be missed,” Bailey said.
Staff Writer tpemberton@opubco.com
EDMOND — For Jackson “The Hammer” Hill, life may not get much better than this moment. The 8-year-old third baseman already is living his dream. “This is really cool because we get to play in the World Series,” Jackson said Tuesday morning at Edmond’s Hafer Park. “I just really want to win this. It’s a dream come true. I get to play with all my teammates.” Jackson’s dad, Jamison Hill, said his son put in hours of practice and played about 70 games this year leading up to Tuesday’s playoff game against the Little Rock, Ark., Prospects. The teams were competing in the United States Specialty Sports Association’s World Series for 6-, 7- and 8year-olds. The event was hosted by Edmond All Sports. Opening ceremonies were Friday night. Play started Saturday, and championship games were completed Tuesday. The only Oklahoma winner was the Twids Ruckus team from Edmond in the Boys 7-andUnder Machine Pitch AAA division. Terri Westerman, director of Edmond All Sports, said 29 teams from Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Kansas made the trek to play in the World Series. This is Edmond’s eighth time to be awarded the tournament. “This is the top tournament for this age group,” Westerman said. “It’s important to the players and their parents.” Westerman said the series is maybe even a little too important to some parents. She said some parents’ temperatures have risen along with the Oklahoma heat as play progressed to the championship games. Coaches also were intense. “You can’t do that buddy,” yelled one
Zachary Linden warms up Tuesday during the United States Specialty Sports Association’s World Series youth baseball tournament in Edmond. PHOTO BY ASHLEY WEST, THE OKLAHOMAN
coach to a 6-year-old outfielder. “You have to catch the ball today. Be ready. Back up.” There even were some tears by various players as they were thrown out or their pop flies were caught. Jamison Hill and his son, Jackson, were intent on winning Tuesday, but they seemed to be having a lot of fun as well. The father would intermittently cheer for his son and his teammates and then get them jazzed up with bursts of music. The boys also cheered and danced and hung on the dugout fence as moms wrapped cooling neckties on them or handed out water bottles. One lady rang a cowbell each time her team scored or made a good play. Other parents called out encouragement and advice. Jackson said he has been playing baseball since he was 3 years old and loves the game. His dad said his nickname came after his mother wrote “Jack Hammer” on his bat one year. Now, the nickname means something else. “I got 16 home runs this year,” he said. He said he would love to play baseball in the big leagues for the Texas Rangers.
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Law to expand state’s Medicaid numbers BY SONYA COLBERG Staff Writer scolberg@opubco.com
Oklahoma will face more challenges than any other state when more residents become eligible for Medicaid under the new health care law, a recent study shows. A shortage of primary care doctors is one big reason for the state’s anticipated difficulty in handling the surge in new patients, according to The New England Journal of Medicine. Oklahoma is one of eight states — with Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Nevada,
North Carolina and Kentucky — that face the greatest challenges that begin in 2014, the study says. “In the absence of additional efforts, the demand for care by newly insured patients could outstrip the supply of primary care providers in these states,” it says. The study was handed out at the state Health Board meeting Tuesday. “In addition to raising taxes, reducing choice and increasing the size of government, the federal health care law shifts costs and Medicaid responsibilities to the states. That’s just one of the many reasons the governor is
doing everything she can to fight this dangerous and unaffordable law,” said Alex Weintz, spokesman for Gov. Mary Fallin. About 250,000 Oklahomans will receive health care coverage when new Medicaid eligibility requirements launch in 2014, according to an analysis for the Oklahoma Health Care Authority. Oklahoma has reached about 40 percent of its provider capacity. Nearly 729,000 state residents eligible for Medicaid currently see more than 6,700 primary care providers, though more than 2,000 of those are out-of-state doctors under contract, Health Care Authority sta-
Extradition is set for man charged in parents’ death BY SHEILA STOGSDILL State Correspondent
POTEAU — The son of a
Le Flore County couple who were gunned down at their home over the Independence Day holiday was charged Tuesday with their deaths. Kevin Paul Statham, 50, of Muldrow, is charged in Le Flore County District Court with two counts of first-degree murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. He was arrested July 7 in Lakota, N.D., and is waiting extradition to Oklahoma. A warrant was issued for his arrests in connection with the deaths of his parents, Paul Statham, 70, and Helen Statham, 69, court records show. The younger Statham and his parents had been estranged for the past few years due to problems, including the theft of their pickup, according to an arrest affidavit. Kevin Statham denied to Oklahoma and North Dakota agents that he shot his
parents, the affidavit states. He told agents he took a bus to Fort Smith, Ark., and around 7 p.m. on July 4 he went into his parents’ house while they were sleeping and stole a shotgun, cameras, video cameras, a pair of coveralls and other items. Investigators said a 1993 Chevrolet pickup, Paul Statham’s wallet, Helen Statham’s purse and a Mossberg 12-gauge shotgun were all missing from the home, the affidavit states. The son told agents he “felt like he was owed the items” and the truck “because he had worked hard on the farm for his mom and dad,” the affidavit states. Helen Statham’s body was found in the backyard and Paul Statham’s body was found in the entryway of the house. A .30-06 caliber shell casing was found lying on the ground near the carport area and backyard, the affidavit states. The medical examiner ruled the couple died of gunshot wounds and the
tistics show. “Even though our capacity is sufficient now, it is absolutely going to be an issue when we get to 2014,” said Nico Gomez, the authority’s deputy chief executive. Almost 1 million Oklahomans will be on Medicaid at that time, essentially reaching capacity. That’s expected to cost Oklahoma an average of $63 million a year from 2012 through 2020. Where will that money come from? “We don’t know,” Gomez said. A joint legislative committee will begin analyzing this summer just how the new federal health
care law affects Oklahoma. The journal study says one reason Oklahoma has so few primary care physicians may be that high rates of uninsured residents and poverty make it harder to attract and retain doctors. Health authority spokesman Carter Kimble said the effects of the influx may not be so severe. Figures show the bulk of the new people eligible for Medicaid are predicted to come from Oklahoma City, Tulsa and Lawton, where the patient to provider ratio is 40 to 170 to one; rather than the rural, less populated areas of the state, where the ratio is from 571 to 1,190 to one.
Norman woman, 95, named as driver who died in lake Kevin Paul Statham
deaths were homicides. Kevin Statham was arrested driving his parents’ pickup. When North Dakota law enforcement agents search the truck they found Helen Statham’s purse, an M1903 Rock Island Arsenal .3006 caliber rifle, which still contained a spent casing inside its chamber and a Mossberg 12-gauge shotgun. Authorities also seized a box of Federal .3006 caliber ammunition that was in a pair of coveralls. The 20-round box contained 18 rounds, the affidavit states. Kevin Statham said he didn’t know how the .3006 shells got into the pocket of the coveralls and that he had purchased the rifle from a private party. At the time of Statham’s arrest, Sheriff Bruce Curnutt said the man had a criminal history going back 30 years. Most of his arrests and convictions involved larceny, assault and battery, and prescription drug abuse, he said.
Oklahoma Highway Patrol divers and troopers and an Oklahoma Lake Patrol officer search Monday for a car that drove into Lake Thunderbird east of Norman. Alice Spann, 95, died in the accident. AP PHOTO FROM STAFF REPORTS
NORMAN — A motorist who drove her a car into Lake Thunderbird has been identified as a 95year-old Norman woman. Alice Spann was driving east on Alameda Street at a high rate of speed when she hit a pipe gate at Indian Point Road and continued
east into the lake, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported. Two witnesses dove into the water but could not get her out of the car. The witnesses said she appeared in a daze and did not respond as they beat on the windows, trooper Betsy Randolph said. Spann’s body and the
car were recovered from the water about 8 p.m. Monday. She was wearing her seat belt, the patrol reported. The cause of the accident appears to be medical-related, the patrol reported. However, her condition at the time of the crash remains under investigation.
Mother of killed girl sentenced in other case Stigler man is arrested in shootings of parents BY ANN KELLEY
Staff Writer akelley@opubco.com
CHANDLER — The moth-
er of a child who was beaten to death has been sentenced in a separate case to 15 years in prison for molesting a 10-year-old boy. The Chandler woman, Samantha Deal, 21, is the mother of Serenity Anne Deal, 5, who died June 4, a month after child welfare workers recommended she live with her father. Deal was sentenced July 5 in Lincoln County District Court. She pleaded no contest to felony forcible sodomy in connection with the May 28, 2009,
sexual assault of a child. A judge decided her sentence after efforts to reach a plea bargain with prosecutors failed. Deal’s arrest in 2009 set off an investigation by the state Department of Human Services to determine whether she could care for her two children. The children were living with their maternal grandparents, Chuck and Annette Deal, of Chandler, but later were taken from them when child welfare workers alleged the couple allowed Samantha Deal to visit her children without supervision. The grandparents have denied any wrongdoing.
Annette Deal said despite her daughter’s problems, she was a good mother and a hard worker.
Serenity’s death Authorities allege Serenity was beaten to death by her father, Sean Devon Brooks, 32, of Oklahoma City. Brooks is jailed on a first-degree murder charge in connection with the child’s death. Child welfare workers advocated for Serenity to live with Brooks, even though Serenity returned from two visits with him with black eyes and bruises, according to an Oklahoma Commission on
Children and Youth report. Four child welfare workers involved in her case have been placed on administrative leave with pay pending an internal investigation by DHS officials. Chuck and Annette Deal have been given temporary guardianship of Samantha Deal’s third child, a girl born on July 1. Samantha Deal’s other child is in state custody. Samantha Deal is required to serve 85 percent of her prison sentence, according to court records. Arrangements were made to transport her July 6 to Mabel Bassett Correctional Center, near McLoud.
Facebook leads Ada police to killing suspect BY ANN KELLEY Staff Writer akelley@opubco.com
ADA — A woman’s bragging on Facebook about her brother killing a man in a bar fight helped lead police to an arrest, authorities said. The information helped police arrest Jeremiah Ray Pool, 31, of Ada. Pool was charged last week in Pontotoc County District Court with firstdegree manslaughter in
connection with the death of Gary Fox, 38, of Ada. Pool was in county jail Tuesday. His bail was set at $250,000. Fox died after being struck in the face June 19 while on the dance floor at Outlaws Bar, between Ada and Allen. Investigators said Pool left the bar after delivering a fatal blow. They tracked him Thursday to his sister’s apartment. His sister, Alisha Wells,
of Ada, posted several messages on the social networking site referring to the fight at the bar. “Alisha appears to be proud and bragging about what happened to Gary Fox,” Deputy Kevin Wood stated in an affidavit. Wood stated they were able to track Pool’s whereabouts by following Wells’ Facebook page. Witnesses at the bar told authorities Fox had questioned Pool about the death of Fox’s nephew, Jef-
frey Walls, 28, of Roff. Walls died May 7. Fox’s son told investigators his father thought Pool was with Walls when he died of an apparent drug overdose and was asking Pool what type of drugs Walls had taken, court records state. Pontotoc County Sheriff John Christian said Pool claimed he hit Fox in selfdefense. If convicted, Pool could be sentenced to up to four years in prison.
Water board approves loans for Harrah, Nicoma Park FROM STAFF REPORTS
The Oklahoma Water Resources Board approved two low-interest loans totaling $1 million on Tuesday to improve water service in Harrah and Nicoma Park. The board authorized a
$650,000 loan to the Harrah Public Works Authority for construction of nearly 1.3 miles of 12-inchdiameter water mains between two rural residential areas, blueprints indicate. The board endorsed a $351,000 loan to the Nicoma Park Development Au-
thority, to finance construction of about 2,000 linear feet of 8-inchdiameter sewer main to serve the area along NE 23 Street west of Westminster Road, blueprints indicate. Joe Freeman, chief of the Water Board’s Financial Assistance Division,
said the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund loan to Harrah will be retired over a maximum 30-year period. The Clean Water State Revolving Fund loan to Nicoma Park will be retired over a period of up to 30 years, Freeman said.
BY SHEILA STOGSDILL State Correspondent
STIGLER — An 18-yearold Haskell County man is in custody on a murder complaint in connection with the death of his stepfather and the shooting of his mother, Sheriff Brian Hale said Tuesday. Josua Alan Bowen is accused of fatally shooting Herbert Wayne Moore, 72, and of wounding Vickie Lynn Moore, 53, both of Stigler. Hale declined to say what type of weapon was used and how many shots were fired. Bowen is being held in lieu of bail and is in an isolation cell at the Haskell County jail, Hale said. “He is somewhat remorseful and he has cried some,” he said.
Hale said he had no knowledge of a family dispute and Bowen has a clean record. Stigler police were called to the Moore home about 6:45 p.m. Monday by Josua Bowen, who reported he had found his mother and stepfather shot, said Jessica Brown, spokeswoman for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. Herbert Moore was dead at the scene, Brown said. His wife was taken to St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, where she talked to authorities about the shooting. Based upon that information, deputies took Bowen into custody. A hospital spokeswoman Tuesday said she had no information about the woman.
DHS checked abuse claims before Glenpool girl died BY GINNIE GRAHAM Tulsa World ginnie.graham@tulsaworld.com
TULSA — The Oklahoma Department of Human Services had two previous investigations of allegations of abuse involving a Glenpool man and his girlfriend who were charged in the death of a 21-monthold girl, records show. David Eugene Bridgeman, 28, is charged in Tulsa District Court with one count of child-abuse murder and child neglect in the May 4 death of his niece, Adriana Hernandez. Paula Christine Najar, 21, is charged with child neglect and permitting child abuse.
Adriana suffered brain trauma, a lacerated bowel and multiple bruises to her face and head, according to the charges. According to a report released Tuesday by the Commission on Children and Youth, DHS first investigated the couple in July 2009. A DHS worker found roaches in the home during an initial visit, but later visits found the house to be clean. A second referral in May 2010 alleged that a child in the home “exhibited aggressive and sexually inappropriate behaviors” and “verbalized homicidal and suicidal ideations,” the report states.
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Deaths ADA Fuller, Dolores Lucille, 69, retired tax preparer, died Sunday. Services 10 a.m. Thursday (Criswell, Ada).
ALLEN Cross, Bart Joe, 41, construction worker, died Sunday. Graveside services 10 a.m. Thursday, Resthaven Memorial Park (Resthaven, Shawnee).
ALTUS Bulriss, Mary, 74, died Monday. Services 10 a.m. Wednesday (Lowell-Tims, Altus).
ALVA Jackman, Barbera Jene, 51, pharmaceutical technician, died July 5. Services 10 a.m. Thursday (Marshall, Alva). Keele, Mattie Babe, 73, died Sunday. Services 2 p.m. Thursday, Assembly of God (Marshall, Alva).
ARDMORE Knight, Leslie Eugene, 40, laborer, died Friday. Graveside services 10 a.m. Thursday, Jehovah Cemetery, Milo (Grant & Owens, Ardmore).
ATOKA Carter, John C., 59, oil-field worker, died Friday. Services were Tuesday (Brown’s, Atoka). Hall, Joyce Wynell, 79, homemaker, died Monday. Services 10 a.m. Wednesday (Brown’s, Atoka). Harris, Charles Robert “Chuck,” 82, longshoreman, died Monday. Services 11 a.m. Thursday (Atoka, Atoka).
BARNSDALL Dunaway, Louise, 76, died Tuesday. Services pending (Stumpff, Barnsdall).
BARTLESVILLE Dodd, Charles Jr. “Charlie,” 82, car wash attendant, died Monday. Services pending (Walker-Brown, Bartlesville).
BLANCHARD Scroggins, Joyce Elaine, 70, homemaker, died Tuesday. Services 1 p.m. Thursday (Eisenhour, Blanchard).
BOLEY Summers, Datrick T., 32, died July 9. Services 11 a.m. Saturday, St. John’s Baptist Church (Hyde Park Mortuary, Boley).
BOYNTON Lawler, Wayne Edward “Weezie,” 20, laborer, died Monday. Services pending (Keith D. Biglow, Muskogee).
BUFFALO McEachern, Tommy Mack, 67, retired oil-field worker, died Sunday. Services 10 a.m. Wednesday, First Baptist Church (Myatt-Buffalo, Buffalo).
CHEYENNE Barber, Erma Jean, 79, Red Cross manager, died June 3. Services 2 p.m. Saturday, Cheyenne First Baptist Church (Whinery-Savage, Elk City).
CHICKASHA Nightingale, Florence Ruth, 91, homemaker, died Sunday. Services 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Plainview Mennonite Church (Sevier’s Chickasha, Chickasha).
COMANCHE Reynolds, Bertha “Brownie,” 88, retired nurse, died Monday. Services 10 a.m. Wednesday (Comanche, Comanche).
CUSHING Fair, Evelyn, 78, died Tuesday. Services pending (Palmer & Marler, Cushing). Miller, Harold Leon, 68, retired from Air Force, died Monday. Services pending (Palmer & Marler, Cushing).
DAVIS Ensminger, Mary Lou, 79, retired accountant, died Tuesday. Services 10 a.m. Thursday, United Methodist Church (Hale’s, Davis). Lee, Arlin Augusta “Tuffy,” 79, retired dairy farmer, died Monday. Services 10 a.m. Friday, Midway Hill Baptist Church (Hale’s Krien, Sulphur).
DEL CITY Turner, Derry, 55, died Tuesday. Services pending (Ford, Midwest City).
DURANT Shepard, Sarah Thelma, 93, died Sunday. Services 10 a.m. Wednesday, Roberta Baptist Church (Holmes-Coffey-Murray, Durant).
DUSTIN King, Jack S., 96, mail carrier, died Sunday. Services 10 a.m. Wednesday, First Baptist Church (Williamson-Spradlin, Wetumka).
EDMOND Blackburn, Daniel S. II “Dan,” 84, retired salesman, died Sunday. Graveside services 10 a.m. Thursday, Memorial Park Cemetery (Our Lady of Guadalupe Jones, Oklahoma City). Clark, Elba Lee, 87, Tinker Air Force Base supplies manager, died Monday. Services 2 p.m. Friday, Lone Star Baptist Church, Oklahoma City (Matthews, Edmond). Doan, David George, 61, died Sunday. Services pending (Crawford, Edmond).
EL RENO Huber, David Thomas, 48, auto mechanic, died Sunday. Services 10:30 a.m. Friday, Wesley United Methodist Church (Wilson, El Reno).
Records Editor’s note: The Oklahoman will publish free birth and adoption announcements as space permits. Include full names of parents, sex of child, and hospital or county of adoption. You can mail the information to The Oklahoman, P.O. Box 25125, Oklahoma City, OK 73125. The Oklahoman has discontinued publishing birth announcements from hospitals that do not provide full names of parents.
MARRIAGE LICENSES Isidro Fraire Ochoa, 34, and Maria Cristina Aguilar Esparza, 34. Nathan Alan Staats, 21, and Hannah Rose Herman, 21. Leocadio Jorgeonio De Leon Mendez, 44, and Aura Miriam De Leon De Leon, 36. Abraham Aguilar Montejano, 21, and Cindy Zamora, 18. Dustin William Wade, 27, and Marie Charito Ann Hodges, 19. Dustin Dale Allen, 19, and Stacee
ELK CITY McCalip, Robbie Lee, 58, carpenter, died Saturday. Services 11 a.m. Friday (Whinery-Savage, Elk City).
ENID Toews, Ronald, 66, photographer, died Sunday. Services 10 a.m. Thursday, Emmanuel Baptist Church (Ladusau-Evans, Enid).
GUYMON Weeks, Douglas Allen, 33, journalist, died Monday. Services 11 a.m. Friday, Victory Memorial United Methodist Church (Bunch-Roberts, Guymon).
HARRAH Neal, John L., 71, minister of music, died Tuesday. Services 10 a.m. Friday, First Baptist Church Choctaw (Barnes Friederich, Midwest City).
HEADRICK Cline, Johnnie, 52, died Sunday. Services 2 p.m. Thursday (LowellTims, Altus).
HEAVENER Colbert, Wanda A., 62, licensed practical nurse, died Monday. Graveside services 2 p.m. Thursday, Howe Cemetery (Evans & Miller, Poteau).
HENRYETTA Vail, Jerry, 70, retired Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper, died Monday. Services 1 p.m. Saturday (Integrity, Henryetta).
IDABEL Whitaker, Bobby C., 57, died Sunday. Services 11 a.m. Saturday, Olive Branch Baptist Church (Rogan’s, Hugo).
LAWTON Arnold, Billy Allen, 69, retired business owner, died Sunday. Services 11 a.m. Saturday (Lawton Ritter Gray, Lawton). Enfinger, Jimmy, 36, Army staff sergeant, died Monday. Services pending (Lawton Ritter Gray, Lawton).
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METRO | STATE Services pending (Heritage, Oklahoma City). Hannaford, Jimmy Lee, 50, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers surveyor, died July 2. Services pending (Affordable Cremation, Oklahoma). Hines, Clarence D. Sr., 62, died July 4. Private services 10:30 a.m. Friday (Pollard, Oklahoma City). Jay, James R., 72, chemist, died Monday. Services 10 a.m. Thursday, Quail Springs Baptist Church (Mercer-Adams, Bethany). Johnson, Bessie Juanita, 89, died Monday. Services pending (Heritage, Oklahoma City). Lawson, Connie Jo, 54, died Saturday. Services 11 a.m. Friday, Central Baptist Church (Pollard, Oklahoma City). Martinez-Rodriguez, Martin, 44, auto mechanic, died Monday. Rosary 7 p.m. Wednesday. Mass 10 a.m. Thursday, Sacred Heart Catholic Church (Advantage, Oklahoma City). McCullough, Iona May, 84, homemaker, died July 9. Services 11 a.m. Saturday, Kingdom Hall — Jehovah’s Witness (Affordable Cremation, Oklahoma). Sanders, Tressie Lee, 97, school patrol officer, died Sunday. Services 9 a.m. Friday (Bill Eisenhour, Del City). Sweet, Andy Jr., 79, died April 21. Services 11 a.m. Thursday, Loving St. James Baptist Church, Spencer (Pollard, Oklahoma City). Thomas, Troy, 68, died July 7. Services 10 a.m. Thursday, Peoples Church (Temple and Sons, Oklahoma City). Veasy, John Jr., 30, died July 6. Services 4 p.m. Wednesday (Heritage, Oklahoma City). Ware, James K., 29, died Saturday. Services 1 p.m. Wednesday (Temple and Sons, Oklahoma City). Williams, De Ontre Lamar, 23, died Monday. Services pending (Temple and Sons, Oklahoma City).
PRAGUE Pfeiff, Wayne Allen, 61, farmer, died Monday. Services 10 a.m. Friday (Parks Brothers, Prague).
Willard, John Wesley, 88, died Monday. Services 10 a.m. Thursday, Summerfield Baptist Church (Talihina, Talihina).
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Schoonover, James Randall “Schoonie,” 60, retired mechanic, died Monday. Services 10 a.m. Wednesday, Calvary Christian Fellowship (Harvey-Douglas, Ardmore).
Reed, Opal Iris, 89, homemaker, died Monday. Services 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Sayre Church of Christ (Rose Chapel, Sayre).
LUTHER Randall, Bob, 68, died Monday. Graveside service 4 p.m. Friday, Kingfisher Cemetery, Kingfisher. Prayer service 2 p.m. Friday (Baggerley, Edmond).
MARIETTA McGehee, Enid Shellenberger, 93, florist and restaurant owner, died Sunday. Services 10 a.m. Thursday, Church of Christ (Flanagan-Watts, Marietta).
MCALESTER Durant, Patricia E., 65, died Monday. Services 2 p.m. Friday (Bishop, McAlester). Giddings, Lawson Chester III, 32, died Friday. Services 11 a.m. Saturday, Life Church (Chaney-Harkins, McAlester). Jackson, Elwood Kenneth Jr. “Woody,” 51, real estate agent, died Sunday. Private services (OK Cremation, Oklahoma City).
MIDWEST CITY Allyn, Eugene H. Sr., 89, retired OG&E relay foreman, died Sunday. Services 11 a.m. Friday, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church (Ford, Midwest City). Childress, Verdeen, 85, waitress, died Monday. Services 10 a.m. Friday, Wickline United Methodist Church (Barnes Friederich, Midwest City). Flies, Frances Marie, 91, Hormel Foods meat wrapper, died Saturday. Services 10 a.m. Thursday, St. Paul Catholic Church (Bill Eisenhour, Del City). Potts, Thomas S., 82, computer systems analyst, died Tuesday. Services 10 a.m. Saturday (Advantage, Midwest City).
NORMAN Stroud, Jerry, 78, died July 7. Services 2 p.m. Thursday, Calvary Chapel (Havenbrook, Norman). Whitaker, Joel Philip, 77, computer systems analyst, died Monday. No services (Primrose, Norman).
OKAY Lawley, Glenn Doyle, 75, garage door installer, died Friday. Services 10 a.m. Thursday, Church of Christ (Lescher-Millsap, Fort Gibson).
OKLAHOMA CITY Binkley, George M., 91, mechanical engineer, died Monday. Services 2 p.m. Friday, Northwest Baptist Church (Mercer-Adams, Bethany). Carter, Jimmie L., 82, died Tuesday. Services pending (Rolfe, Oklahoma City). Clark, Barbara Jean, 74, died Sunday. Services 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Arlington Cemetery Mausoleum, Midwest City (Caskets Inc & Johnson, Del City). Dodson, Bobbie Lena Mae, 81, homemaker, died July 9. Services 10 a.m. Saturday (Sunny Lane, Del City). Gafford, Marjory J., 86, florist, died Monday. Services 10 a.m. Wednesday, St. Paul’s Cathedral (Smith and Kernke 23rd Street, Oklahoma City). Green, Jackie, 50, died Monday.
Erin Louise Hogan, 17. Robert Dale Croft, 27, and Stephanie Leigh Holloway, 31. Tyler Garrett Cofer, 25, and Lindsey Grace Williams, 23. Luis Angel Ruiz Sanchez, 22, and Elizabeth Sanchez Valverde, 19. Douglas Lee Beckham, 47, and Rebecca Lee Taylor, 29. Kyle DuWayne Wilson, 29, and Sarah Jean Hayes, 27. Jason Robert Apple, 36, and Amanda Katherine Bigger, 33. John Derek Osteen, 32, and Anna Marie Rudd, 30. Roy Earl Altstatt, 51, and Shawnda Michelle Parker, 37. Kenneth Jacob Coleman, 23, and Michelle Lynn Stuart, 23. James Christopher Paxson, 28, and Kristin Acacia Ring, 31. Chad Michael Condrey, 37, and Angela Michelle Kelly, 36. Alfonso Juarez Sifuentes, 20, and Jhessica A Perez Castro, 20. Shawn Richard Donovan, 40, and Erin R. West, 34. Brandon Kyle Miller, 28, and Erica Nichole Kemper, 21. Matthew D. Chan, 27, and Ngoc Bich Thi Dinh, 26.
Cooper, Bret, 52, died Saturday. Services 6 p.m. Thursday (Ray and Martha’s, Hobart).
SEMINOLE Addington, Edith, 80, nurse, died Monday. Graveside services 10 a.m. Thursday, Cummings Cemetery, Maud (Swearingen, Seminole).
STERLING Bragg, James H., 76, died Sunday. Services 2 p.m. Thursday, Sterling School Auditorium (Becker, Lawton).
Man shot in OKC dies of injuries
Diontrae Lamar Williams BY TIFFANY GIBSON Staff Writer tgibson@opubco.com
Oklahoma City police said a man who was found Sunday night with a gunshot wound at an apartment complex died Monday from his injuries. Police Master Sgt. Gary Knight said officers responded shortly after midnight to the Sooner Haven apartment complex in the 3600 block of N Lottie Avenue in regard to a shooting. When officers arrived, they found Diontrae Lamar Williams, 23, lying on the ground in the southwest corner of the complex with a gunshot wound, Knight said. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was listed in critical condition. Investigators said he died Monday. It is the 33rd homicide of 2011. Anyone with information about the shooting can call 297-1200.
STILLWATER Hock, Katherine Marie “Kathy,” 86, retired secretary, died Monday. Graveside services 2:30 p.m. Friday, Sunset Memorial Garden (Poteet, Pawnee). Shank, Shirley, 67, retired sales clerk, died Thursday. Services 11 a.m. Friday (Palmer & Marler, Stillwater).
TECUMSEH Moore, Bobby J., 73, died Monday. Services 10 a.m. Thursday (Cooper, Tecumseh).
TONKAWA Calkins, Leora E., 93, secretary, died Monday. No services (Tonkawa, Tonkawa).
TUSHKA Luck, Lila, 80, certified nursing assistant, died Sunday. Services were Tuesday (Brown’s, Atoka).
VICI Chesmore, Carl D., 85, school custodian, died Monday. Graveside services 11 a.m. Thursday, Flynn Cemetery, Cushing (Shaw, Vici).
WALTERS King, Wayne S., 66, insurance agent, died Sunday. Services 10 a.m. Thursday, First United Methodist Church (Hart-Wyatt, Walters).
WEATHERFORD Moore, Harold I., 91, tax and bookkeeping businessman, died Wednesday. Graveside services 10 a.m. Friday, Greenwood Cemetery (Kiesau Lee, Clinton).
WYNNEWOOD Dixon, Margaret Thurston, 77, homemaker, died Monday. Services 10 a.m. Thursday, First Baptist Church (DeArman, Wynnewood). Yeager, Robert E., 79, civil service employee, died Monday. Services 10 a.m. Thursday (Resthaven, Oklahoma City).
YALE Minney, Janice, 62, died Sunday. Services pending (Palmer & Marler, Cushing).
YUKON Buser, Alice Faye (McCannon), 76, homemaker, died Sunday. Graveside services 11 a.m. Thursday, Hinton Cemetery (Turner, Hinton). Halford, Doloris Earlene, 78, homemaker, died Monday. Services 10 a.m. Thursday, First United Methodist Church (Yanda and Son, Yukon). Rice, Nettie Esther, 99, schoolteacher, died Friday. Services 2 p.m. Saturday (Mercer-Adams, Bethany). Rohn, Buster Ben Jr., 62, school bus driver, died July 1. Services 10 a.m. Saturday (Yanda and Son, Yukon).
Carlos Matias, 22, and Kimberly Ann Walton, 24. Matthew Ryan Ivester, 24, and Lori Kay Phillips, 23. Sidney Duane Goldsmith, 29, and Brandi Danielle Fowler, 32.
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Dural "Gene" Nichols July 13, 1941 - July 8, 2011
OKLAHOMA CITY Dural “Gene” Nichols, 69, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Amarillo, Texas, was born July 13, 1941 in San Angelo, Texas, to Etholene Fern Harper and Doyle Richard Nichols. Gene is preceded in death by his parents and stepfather, Walter L Brown of Amarillo, Texas. Gene went peacefully to be with our Lord after a yearlong battle with lung cancer on July 8, 2011, surrounded by his closest family members. After serving in the US Army, he spent the last 25 years with Quality pets of Oklahoma City. Gene was an avid photographer and enjoyed golfing and fishing with his buddies in his leisure time. Gene is survived by his daughter and son-in-law, Gina and Michael Thibodeaux; grandchildren, Taylor and Kyle Thibodeaux; sister, Nancy Malone, with whom he shared a home for the last 15 years; brother, Rob Brown; and sister, Toni Wolfe - both of Amarillo; and mother of his daughter, Wanda Ticer and family of Houston, Texas. He will be greatly missed by his Uncle and Aunts as well as many nieces, nephews and extended family in Amarillo. He will also be missed by a host of co-workers and friends. A special Thank You to Vanita, Linda, Michael and Michelle of Compassionate Care Hospice for their loving care in his home. A celebration of Gene’s life will be held on Saturday, July 16, 2011, 11am, at Westmoore Community Church (WCC), 12609 S. Western, OKC. Any remembrances can be made to American Cancer Society @ www.cancer.org . To send any condolences or to view the video tribute, go to corbettfuneral.com . You will forever live in our hearts, Gina and Nancy.
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Ann Lee Norvell Tullius
Clara Maude Brittain Anderberg
March 1, 1917 - July 8, 2011
September 16, 1919 - July 10, 2011
OKLAHOMA CITY Ann was born in El Reno, OK and was a graduate of El Reno High School in 1935. She received her diploma in Nursing from St. Anthony Hospital in 1938. Ann married Philip G. Tullius on June 10, 1942; they were married for 56 years until his death in 1998. Ann is survived by her 6 children: Patricia Kraker, Michael, Dan, Kelly, Ann Osborne and Mark. She had 14 grandchildren and 4 greatgrandchildren. Ann and Phil enjoyed traveling to Europe, Hawaii, and Hong Kong; they made lifelong friends wherever they went. Ann was known for entertaining, and her home was always a gathering place for her family and the 39th Street Crown Heights gang. Big Ann's grandchildren have fond memories of her dinners of corn beef and cabbage, roast beef and gravy and her enjoying a rum and coke by the pool. The family wishes to thank the nurses and staff of Bellevue Nursing Center and Mercy Hospice for their kindness and exceptional care. A funeral Mass will be held at 10am, Monday, July 18, 2011, at Resurrection Memorial Cemetery, 7500 W. Britton Rd.
OKLAHOMA CITY Clara Anderberg left this world on Sunday, the Lord's day, to be with Him and all her loved ones that have gone before, including her husband, Tom; her son, Chris; and her grandson, Tim; a day she said she had looked forward to since she was 7 years old, when she accepted Jesus Christ as her Savior. She was born to Charlie & Mahala Brittain, in Center, TX, 7th of 10 children. Married to Thomas Axel Anderberg, 3-23-43. This union brought forth 4 children, Thomas Jr., Roger Brian, Charles Christian, and Jennifer Claire; 15 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Mom will be most remembered for her devotion to her family and love of children. Always the servant, she was Nursery Director at every church her family attended, and taught Pre-Schoolers for more than 20 years. She was a member of Putnam City Baptist Church and the Fidelis Ladies Sunday School Class. Matt 19:14, "Let the little children come unto Me, and do not hinder them, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as these." Services are at 2pm, Wednesday, at MercerAdams Funeral Home, 3925 Asbury, Bethany, OK. Viewing will be there from 2-4pm on Tuesday. Interment will be in Oaklawn Cemetery, Center, TX. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to her late grandson Tim's free medical mission clinic: HopeClinic.org/TimsClinic
Daniel Stevens Blackburn II January 29, 1927 - July 10, 2011
OKLAHOMA CITY Daniel Stevens Blackburn II (Dan) entered his eternal home on July 10, 2011 following a brief illness with Cancer. He was born January 29, 1927 to W.H. and Ethel Blackburn in Wilson, Oklahoma. As a child and first grandchild, he was called “Danny Boy” because of the song by that name. Later it was shortened to Dan. As a child, his family lived in just about about every main town in southern Oklahoma following the construction business founded by his grandfather, Dan S. Blackburn I. Dan had a happy childhood. In 1939 the family moved to Oklahoma City where Dan began the 7th grade at Taft Junior High. He later attended Classen High School, class of 1945. From there, he enlisted in the Navy at 17 years of age. He was stationed all over the South Pacific, most of the time abroad the USS Rall (Destroyer Escort) in World War II. After the war, he returned to Central High School Veterans program to finish and get his diploma, then on to Oklahoma City University. On June 11, 1949, he married Shirley June Fletcher. They were happily married for over 35 years until she passed away November 9, 1984. November 1985 he married Ida Lorene Riley and enjoyed life including traveling for many years until her death in 2000. Dan retired from R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in 1983. He was a manager representative for 33 years until he retired as a military manager with the company. Dan was retired for a number of years. As a longtime Baptist, he enjoyed the outdoors - hunting, fishing; traveling; volunteering at Bone & Joint Hospital and playing competitive pool at the Edmond Senior Center. Dan was preceded in death by his parents; an unborn son; wife, Shirley Blackburn; and brother, J.W. (Jack) Blackburn. He is survived by 2 daughters, Karen Petree and husband Michael; Sharon K. Blackburn; “3rd daughter,” Katrinka M. Greear; granddaughter, Shelley Stranathan Nguyen and husband Addis; and Carolyn Shafer, good friend and longtime companion whom he loved very much. He will be buried by his Shirley. Graveside services will be conducted by Jones Family Funeral Home on Thursday, July 14, 2011, at 10:00 A.M., at Memorial Park Cemetery, 13313 N. Kelly Ave. In lieu of flowers, family requests donations be made at the Edmond Senior Center at Mitch Park, 2733 Marilyn Williams Drive, Edmond, Oklahoma 73003. Services are under the direction of: Our Lady of Guadalupe Jones Family Funeral home 1804 Linwood Blvd. Oklahoma City, OK 73106 (405) 605-3036
Jim Robin Eddy June 29, 1952 - July 9, 2011
MOORE Jim Robin Eddy was born June 29, 1952 in Gallup, New Mexico, to J.R. and Florence Marie Fauver Eddy, who preceded him in death. Jim died on July 9, 2011 in Muskogee, OK. His grandparents were Morris E. and Florence Fauver of Dayton, Ohio, and A.M. “Bose” and Margaret Eddy of Davis, Oklahoma. After graduation from the University of Oklahoma, Jim taught high school for three years and worked as an editor for the Economy Company of Oklahoma City. In June, 1984, Jim helped found BBE Associates, Ltd., of Oklahoma City. Jim is survived by 2 sisters and a brother, an uncle, numerous nieces and nephews their families, & numerous friends. Memorial services will be held 10:30 AM, Friday, July 15, 2011, at First Friends Church, 320 SE 62nd, Oklahoma City, OK. In lieu of flowers family asks that donations be made to the First Friends Church, Habitat for Humanity, or the Jesus House in Oklahoma City.
Robert Patten Horton January 21, 1924 - July 11, 2011
OKLAHOMA CITY Robert Patten Horton passed away on July 11, 2011. A native of Harrah, OK, Robert was the son of the late James and Grace Horton. Robert was born January 21, 1924, and graduated from Harrah High School and Oklahoma State University, where he graduated with honors. He served as a Pharmacist Mate aboard the USS Haven during WWII. He had a lifelong career as a certified public accountant and real estate broker in Oklahoma City, OK. Robert was preceded in death by his parents, brother and two sisters. He is survived by his loving wife of 62 years, Dorothy; his son, Dewayne, wife Karen, and grandson Matthew of OKC; and daughter, Debbie, of Dallas. Robert was a devoted husband and father that loved spending time with his family. He was a member of Crestwood Baptist Church for over 60 years. Donations may be made to the American Lung Assoc. The family will greet guests from 6-8pm, Wed., July 13, at Mercer-Adams. Funeral Services will be held at 10:00am, Thursday, July 14, at Mercer-Adams Chapel with interment following in Dale Cemetery. To share a memory or condolence, visit www.mercer-adams.com
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H.P. "Pete" Harman, Jr. Aug. 3, 1927 - July 9, 2011
James R. Jay September 19, 1938 - July 11, 2011
OKLAHOMA CITY James R. Jay, age 72, went home to be with his Heavenly Father and Savior Jesus Christ on July 11, 2011. All who knew James would describe him as a loving, generous, devoted, and exceedingly selfless man of God. He was a servant to all those who encountered him. He particularly devoted his love, time, and talents to his families, friends, and church homes. James was born in Elk City, OK and raised in Merritt, OK. He attended Sayre Jr. College and went on to receive his Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry from Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford, OK. He was an Analytical Chemist for Kerr-McGee Corporation for 33 years. He was an active member at St. John’s United Methodist Church, St Mark’s United Methodist Church, and most recently Quail Springs Baptist Church. He had a particular love for gardening and landscaping. Each summer, he provided everyone he knew with his famous tomatoes. He took pride in his own lawn, landscaping, and roses and cared for others’ lawns as his own while running his own landscaping business. James had an incredible work ethic and others were recipients of his kind heart and deeds. James married Louise on August 20, 1960 in Elk City, OK. Married for 36 years, James and Louise were blessed with two daughters, Paula and Jennifer. James devoted his life to his children. He was an active father, playing and coaching basketball and softball and a great role model for selfless devotion. James and Louise made their home in Bethany, OK, but had a sincere love for Elk City, OK where both their parents resided. Louise lost a courageous battle with cancer in early 1997. On September 22, 1998, James and Gwen Sheid were married. Both being widowed, finding one another was a blessing to each of them. They enjoyed their grandchildren, friends, traveling, and OU sports. Married for 12 years, James couldn’t have anticipated that, in Gwen, he found an undying care-giver prior to and during his very difficult days with Alzheimer’s. Gwen’s family embraced him as a father and pa-pa. James will be best remembered, simply, as the kindest man anyone could ever meet. His actions and deeds spoke louder than, but were supported by, his words and amazing heart of gold. James was preceded in death by his first wife Louise Jay; parents Clyde and Edith Jay; nephew Randy Logan; brotherin-law Lewis Ray Lowrance; and niece Lou Ann Webb. James is survived by his grateful family: daughter Paula Chavez (Dan) and their children Connor, Carly, and Coleman; daughter Jennifer Jay; sister Delvenia Lowrance; brother and sister-in-law Bill and Valeria Jay; wife Gwen of the home and her daughters Sue Lyn (Trey) and their children Tyler, Justin, and Treyce; JoAnn (Paul) and their children William and Sydney; Charla (Allen) and their children Grace, Elise, Charleigh, and Alex; many nieces, nephews, and dear friends. Special thanks to Autumn Bridge Hospice and Bellevue Nursing Center for their consistent love and care. Services will be Thursday, July 14, 10:00am, at Quail Springs Baptist Church with interment in Bethany Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations to: The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation/Alzheimer’s, 825 N.E. 13th St., OKC, OK 73104 are accepted. To share a memory or condolence, visit: www.mercer-adams.com
Michael C. Mixon
Betty Evelyn Walter November 23, 1919 - July 10, 2011
July 16, 1959 - uly 11, 2011
ARDMORE Michael C. Mixon, Ardmore, OK, age 52, was born on July 16, 1959, in Oklahoma City, OK. He was the son of Loyd M. & Lois "Gerry" (Ladd) Mixon. He left this life on Monday, July 11, 2011, in Ardmore, OK. Mike grew up in Harrah and graduated from Harrah High School, and graduated from Central State University in Edmond with a degree in business and political science. Mike had a love for cars, he and his dad owned M&M Auto Sales in Harrah. He also had a love for politics both local and national. He later moved to Ardmore where he worked for Magabar Oil Company and also worked for Lois Ragland, owner of a furniture store and interior design. Mike worked for 20 years for a Ford, Lincoln and Mercury Dealership in Ardmore. Mike was a good hearted person who would help anyone that needed help. He leaves behind best friend Paul Mitchell, and friends Cara, Pam, Floy, Patty and a longtime friend Dan Benton. Mike was preceded in death by his father. He is survived by his daughter & son-in-law, Randi Woodruff & Juan of Ardmore, OK; motherm Lois "Gerry" Mixon, of Harrah, OK; 2 brothers & sisters-in-law, Gary Mixon of Midwest City, OK, Ron Mixon & Kristen of Harrah, OK, Barbara Mixon of Harrah, OK; 2 grandchildren, Britney & Kendra of Ardmore, OK; and many other relatives and friends. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Saturday, July 16, 2011 at Harrah First Baptist Church in Harrah, OK, with Rev. Gary Eubanks officiating. Interment will follow at Memory Lane Cemetery in Harrah, OK. Services are under the direction of Smith~Parks Funeral Service in Harrah, OK. A guest book is available to share your memories on line. Please visit: www.smithparks.com
NORMAN Betty Evelyn Walter, 91, passed away on Sunday, July 10, 2011 at home in Norman, OK after a short illness. She was born in Independence, MO, November 23, 1919 to Chester M. & Gertrude A. Ingraham, grew up in Oklahoma City and studied at Kansas City Art Institute where she met and married Howard Ernest Walter March 24, 1940. She became Head Designer for Hallmark Greeting Card Company and was a wartime Draftsman for the Defense Plant in Kansas City, KS. They became residents of OKC in August of 1944, where they raised their family. She was active in Girl Scouts, PTA, church, garden and contest clubs and was a member of Chapel Hill Methodist Church in OKC. She shared her love of painting, photography, sewing, needlework, quilting, traveling and playing the slots of Thunderbird Casino with her family and friends. Betty was preceded in death by her husband, Howard, sister, Elaine Laepple of Guthrie, OK and sisters-in-law, Billie Ingraham of Denton, TX and Marilyn Ingraham of Norman, OK. She is survived by her three children, Mary Elaine McGlew of Sarasota, FL, Howard L. (& Betsy) Walter of Tonawonda, NY and Patricia A. (& Jim) Denison of Norman, OK, 11 grandchildren and 28 great-grandchildren and siblings, Chester & Kenneth Ingraham and Jeanne Miller, all of whom she loved and cherished. Services will be 2:00 pm Saturday, July 16, 2011, at Harmony Christian Church, 7100 S. Choctaw Rd., Choctaw, OK with Rev. Brian Sturtz officiating. Interment in Rose Hill Burial Park, OKC. Services under the director of Primrose Funeral Service. www.primrosefu neralservice.com
OKLAHOMA CITY Horatio Peter (H.P. or Pete) Harman Jr., passed away July 9, 2011. He attended Capitol Hill High School and completed his formal education in Southern California with an A.A. in Business from Skadron College. He served in the U.S. Army immediately subsequent to World War II. He worked as a machinist for General Dynamics in Pomona, California, and retired after working as an instructor at Skadron College in San Bernardino, California. Pete is survived by a brother, a son, a daughter, eight grandchildren, and five great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife, Lois Allen Harman and his great granddaughter, Grace Debbie Shedd. He blessed his family with a gentle sense of humor and his love of dogs. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM on Thursday, July 14, 2011, at Resthaven Funeral Home Chapel with interment following in Resthaven Memory Gardens. To share condolences, please visit www. ResthavenOKC.com
Doloris "Earlene" Halford October 4, 1932 - July 11, 2011
YUKON Doloris "Earlene" Halford joined her Lord and Savior on July 11, 2011. She was born October 4, 1932 in the Berlin community west of Elk City, OK. Her parents were Earl Edison and Willie Mae "Saxton" Fannon. Earlene met L.L. Halford at Berlin, OK. They married in June, 1948. They celebrated 59 years of marriage. Earlene is survived by her three daughters, Rita Briscoe, husband Doug of Piedmont, OK, Darla Cook, husband Randy of Elk City, OK, Brenda Reffner, husband Vince of Yukon, OK, one brother, Doyle Fannon, wife Connie, two sisters, Joyce Nelson and Karen Kay Woods, seven grandchildren, Julie Sparks of Yukon, OK, John Sparks, wife Liz of Memphis, TN, Dusty Oldenburg, husband Jeff of Mulhall, OK, J.W. Briscoe of Hinton, OK, David Reffner of Yukon, OK, Sarah Cain, husband John of Yukon, OK & Hannah Reffner of Yukon, OK, seven great grandchildren, Colton, Will, & Anna Briscoe and JaLeigh, Callen & Lincoln Oldenburg and most recently a special joy to her, Baby "Jack" Cain, Life-time friends, Billie Taliferro of Clovis, NM and Johnnie Womack of Elk City, OK, many nieces and nephews, last, but not least, her, faithful companions, JoJo and Tinkerbelle. Earlene was preceded in death by her dearly loved husband, L.L. Halford, parents, Earl Edison Fannon and Willie Mae Fannon, one brother, Robert Fannon and one infant granddaughter, Janice Lee Cook. Earlene loved her family & worked diligently to take care of her family. This family has been immensely blessed to have had this mother and faithful follower of Jesus Christ in their lives. She was an amazing cook & all who knew her felt the love in the meals she prepared. She cooked as a profession & for family & friends. Earlene was dedicated to her church & family. She was an active member of the First United Methodist Church of Yukon, OK. She enjoyed the fellowship of her Christian family & was faithful in her work making a countless number of kolaches, cinnamon rolls & meals to support her beliefs. She loved her husband & her children with all her heart & they loved her back. She loved flowers, gardens, traveling & adored her grandchildren. She had a way of making everyone in her life feel special & we will all miss her every day. In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be made to The First United Methodist Church of Yukon, Apportionments @ 4th and Elm, Yukon, OK. Services will be 10:00am, Thursday July 14, 2011 at the First United Methodist Church of Yukon with interment following at the Yukon Cemetery. Online condolences may be signed at www.yandaandsonfuner alhome.com. Arrangements are under the direction of Yanda and Son Funeral Home in Yukon, Oklahoma.
Frances Lee Hire
Deborah Lynn Howard
July 19, 1924 - July 10, 2011
November 23, 1957 - July 9, 2011
YUKON Frances Lee Hire, 86, passed away July 10, 2011. She was born July 19, 1924 in Ft. Worth, Texas to Matthew and Ola Smith. Frances attended college at Texas Christian University, and on January 15, 1946 she was married to Donald M. Hire. To this marriage was born three children; Don Jr., Priscilla and David. Frances was involved in many groups throughout her life including Eastern Star, Lady Kiwanis and Pilot Club. Over the years she was a member of several churches, Emmanuel United Methodist Church in Memphis, TN, Chapel Hill United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City, and until her passing, Mustang United Methodist Church. Frances devoted her life to serving her Lord. No matter what the need she was the first to volunteer. She was preceded in death by her parents and husband. Surviving Frances are her three children and their spouses; David M. Hire, Jr. and wife Marsha, Priscilla Cevallos and husband Franco, and David Hire and wife Patricia. Also surviving her are 7 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren. The family would like to give a special thanks to her caregiver Sharon Brown and her doctor Lorraine Wilson, MD. Funeral Services for Frances will be held 10:00 a.m., Thursday, July 14, 2011, at Chapel Hill Funeral Home. A visitation will be held Wednesday from 8a-8p at Chapel Hill.
DEL CITY Deborah Lynn (Pearce) Howard went to Heaven on July 9, 2011. She was born to Robert and Carlene (Burke) Pearce on November 23, 1957. Debbie graduated from Del City High School in 1976 and Oklahoma State University in 1980. She married David Howard on May 24, 1980, and they had three daughters. Debbie is survived by her daughters, Leslie Daggs (Chance) of Midwest City, OK, Kate Schwartz (Jeremy) of Huber Heights, OH, Erin Truitt (Chris) of Tulsa, OK; grandson, Connor Schwartz; step-son, Brian Howard of Oklahoma City, OK; mother, Carlene Pearce of Del City, OK; and sistersm Roberta Zink of Amarillo, TX, and Sherry Hartline of Eufaula, OK. She was preceded in death by her father, Robert and husband, David. She was a sweet and wise woman with a kind heart. She loved to travel and take care of her family. Graveside services will be held at 11:00 am on July 14, 2011 at Rosedale Cemetery in Ada, OK followed by a Memorial Service at 2:00 pm at Ford Funeral Home, 305 S. Sooner Rd., Midwest City, OK.
Patrick Reed Hines May 21, 1959 - July 10, 2011
EDMOND Patrick Reed Hines was born to Shirley Ann Reed Hines and William Doss, Jr. in Hobbs, New Mexico on May 21, 1959. He passed away on July 10, 2011, at his mother’s home in Edmond, where he lived the last eight days of his life upon discharge from the hospital. Patrick was reared in Salem, Illinois, among his large extended and loving family and upon graduation from high school, he joined the U.S. Naval Service, where he received training in Nuclear power. He served 6 years on the USS South Carolina cruiser, where he received several medals, ribbons and commendations. In 1982, upon being honorably discharged from the Navy, he moved to Oklahoma City, where his mother and sister were residing. For the last few years, Patrick lived at his home in Crescent, OK, and worked for nearly 2 decades at Hefner Water Plant as a Chief Plant Operator. Patrick was preceded in death by his beloved grandfather, Henry Taft Reed, and grandmother, Tiny Marine Reed, his paternal grandparents, William Doss Hines and Mary Hines, 3 uncles, Bob, Bill and Henry (Junior) Reed and nephew, Teddy Pennypacker, Jr. Pat loved to read, as well as play golf, fish, build model airplanes, play cards and visit with family and friends. He was very witty and delighted us all the days of his life. He was very generous, helping those in need and also was the first to bring the children in the family bicycles, remote trucks and electronic equipment. He was always there for his family and friends and will be forever missed by all who knew him, but especially by his mother and sisters and his dear friend, Lynn Howard Vickman, of Crescent. He is survived by his mother and father, Shirley Hines, Edmond and William Doss Hines, Jr. Salem, Illinois, sisters, Cynthia Ann Hines and husband Paul Murphy, Falmouth, MA, Deborah Lynn Pennypacker and husband Ted, Kingston, OK, aunts, Kathy Sproull and husband Dick of Plano, Texas, Donna Patton and husband Keith, Pontiac, Il and Mona Reed, Casper, Wy., and Uncle, John Hines, Rochester, NY. Formal Visitation will be held on 7-14-2011 from 5-7 p.m. at Matthews Funeral Home, 601 S. Kelly, Edmond, OK and the funeral services will be conducted by Dr. Adrian Cole at New Covenant United Methodist Church on Friday 7-15-2011 at 10:00 a.m. with interment at Gracelawn Cemetery.
Albert Francis LaMonte March 21, 1920 - July 9, 2011
OKLAHOMA CITY Albert Francis LaMonte, passed away on July 9, 2011 at the age of 91 years. Born in Oklahoma City on March 21, 1920, he was the son of Jonathan Uhl LaMonte (aka Glenn Uhl Carter) and Katherine E. Tracy LaMonte. A World War II Veteran, of the US Army Air Force, he enlisted at Will Rogers Field. He was stationed in England with the 8th Air Force and in Italy and North Africa where he was assigned to the 50th Air Service Squadron, 92nd Bomber Group. Sgt. LaMonte’s mechanical ability afforded him the opportunity to work on the B-17’s and twin engine bombers. Being in charge of the Battery Shop, he was responsible for ensuring the planes were equipped with fully charged batteries. He was also in charge of the water distillery, which afforded him the opportunity to provide distilled refreshments to anyone in his command. Albert worked for the Knolls Atomic Power Lab in Upstate New York before moving to Prosser, Washington, where he worked for the Hanford Atomic Energy Plant nearby. This was all to support his love of farming and raising sheep. Albert moved his family back to Oklahoma City in 1969 and has remained here since. He was the owner and operator of the Circle Saw Shop in Edmond, OK until he retired. While on leave from the military, he met his first wife Charlotte Frey, whom he married on November 10, 1945. To this union were born three children. Margaret Gagliardi residing in Macon, NC, Ann Snyder & husband Don residing in Benton City, WA, and Tim LaMonte & wife Vietta residing in Los Alamos, NM. After Charlotte’s death in 1970, he married Marie Felton on 23 Sept. 1971 and they enjoyed 18 years together, before Marie’s death in 1989. Albert then married Maxine Fisher on 24 Aug. 1991 with whom they shared 11 years of marriage, until she passed away in 2002. On April 24, 2004 he married Sidney Love. In addition to his widow and children, he is survived by stepchildren, Steve Felton & wife Edy, and Betty Fisher of Oklahoma City, Mary Ann Welker of Tulsa, Catherine McCarty and Cecily Stockwell and sisters-in-law Esther Hall & Laura Hutchins & husband Dennis all of Oklahoma City; grandchildren, Vince Valerio & wife Beverly of Chesterfield, VA, Paul Snyder & Cathy of Quincy, WA, Dawn Snyder of Benton City, WA, Tonya LaMonte and Tim LaMonte Jr. & wife Diana of Los Alamos, NM, Beth, Richard, Virginia, Brad, Jason & Derrick Felton & wife Carla all of Oklahoma City, and Mark Welker of Tulsa. He is also survived by 10 great grandchildren and 1 great great grandson. The Funeral Mass will be held at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, on Thursday, July 14, at 10:00 a.m., with burial in Resurrection Cemetery.
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Mary Vaughan Gallagher June 21, 1914 - July 8, 2011
EDMOND Mary Vaughan Gallagher, 97, of Edmond, OK, went to be with our Lord and Savior on Friday, July 8, 2011. Mary was born in Keytesville, MO to Roy Warrington Cropper and Elizabeth Samuelson Vaughan (Cropper) on June 21, 1914. She leaves precious memories with daughter, Mary Mainus and her husband Danny. A memorial service to celebrate her life will be held at Bradford Village Chapel 10:00 A.M. Saturday July 16, 2011 (906 N. Boulevard St., Edmond, OK 73034). The inurnment will be at Memorial Park Cemetery OKC, OK. Absolute Economical Funeral Home, LLC (405) 787-9300.
Marjory Gafford January 11, 1925 - July 11, 2011
OKLAHOMA CITY Marjory Gafford went to be with God on July 11, 2011 surrounded by her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Born Marjory Jean Cress on January 11, 1925 in Perry, Oklahoma, she was the daughter of P.W. Cress, an early day Oklahoma attorney opening a law office in Perry shortly after the running of the Cherokee Strip, and Della Cress, a pioneer woman and great lady. Marjory was preceded in death by P.W., Della, and her brothers General Erle Cress and Paul W. Cress, former Oklahoma Federal US Attorney. Marjory is survived by her two sons, William Paul Parker and his wife Susie of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Stephen Edward Parker of Mobile, Alabama, her five grandchildren, William Paul Parker II and his wife Stephanie of Morgan Hill, California, Brian Edward Parker and his wife Kristi of Birmingham, Alabama, Brooke Parker O'Dell and her husband Paul of Mobile, Alabama, Hillary Parker Jenney and her husband Tim of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Whitney Parker Schones and her husband Bryan of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and 13 great grandchildren. A part of what we now so often call 'the greatest generation' Marjory's life embodied and lived out the character traits and accomplishments of that generation; she loved her boys, her family and her country with that single minded passion and devotion which enabled her generation to accomplish great things. A devoted mother to her two sons, she was also active in civic, charitable and social activities in Perry and an active member of the First Methodist Church of Perry. After her sons left Perry, Marjory moved to Oklahoma City and married Mont Gafford where Marjory and Mont became devoted grandparents, Episcopalians and friends of Bill W. Mont preceded Marjory in death and while her failing health during the last several years reduced her ability to participate in social and civic activities she stayed active in the lives of her beloved family. Throughout her long and accomplished life, Marjory never lost an innocent, childlike love and fascination for the beautiful, the whimsical and the magical and if the real world isn't as fraught with magic and make believe as she continued to perceive and believe it to be, it should be; those of us who knew and loved her are better for her showing us those things. We love her much and will miss her and all those things that made her special. Funeral Services will be held today, Wednesday, July 13, 10 a.m. at St. Paul's Cathedral. Graveside Services will follow at Grace Hill Cemetery, Perry, Oklahoma. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in her memory at: The Central Oklahoma Humane Society, 9300 N. May Avenue, Suite 400-281, Oklahoma City, OK 73120.
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Del City voters approve bond issues ELECTIONS | POLLS ALSO WERE OPEN IN HYDRO, BILLINGS BY PAUL MONIES Database Editor pmonies@opubco.com
DEL CITY — Voters over-
whelmingly approved two bond proposals Tuesday that will upgrade vehicles for the fire department and fix flood-control problems in some areas of Del City. The bonds, each for $3 million, will not increase property taxes because
they will replace a bond issue approved in 1992. With all 11 precincts reporting, Proposition 1 passed by a vote of 812-187, according to unofficial results. Money from the bond will replace aging vehicles for the fire department and make improvements to the city’s early warning system for tornadoes and other emergencies.
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Del City’s fire department has 14 vehicles. The city plans to buy five new vehicles for an estimated $2.7 million. The remaining money would go toward a new outdoor warning system. Proposition 2, which will go toward fixing drainage problems in several areas, passed by a vote of 805-204, according to unofficial results.
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Among the areas that will be improved are Judy Drive, Howard Drive and Leslie Drive.
Lariet Lane from SE 29 to Del Road also would be fixed, officials said.
Other elections In other special elections Tuesday, voters in Hydro approved a new 1-cent sales tax that will partially pay for a $3 million wastewater treatment plant. Other funds will come from rate increases on customers. The sales tax was approved with 91 percent of the vote. Unofficial results
had the vote at 73-7. In the town of Billings in Noble County, Tori Reaves and Garry Ray Canaday II won election to two-year terms on the Board of Trustees. In unofficial results, Tori Reaves received 43 votes; Canaday received 38 votes. The top two candidates won election to two at-large positions. Not making the cut were Kurtis Stoll, 37 votes, and Richard W. Reaves Jr., with 27 votes.
CHEROKEE COURT REQUIRES HAND RECOUNT IN CHIEF RACE
An official investigates Tuesday at Raindance apartments, 2201 NW 122. PHOTO BY JOHN CLANTON, THE OKLAHOMAN Chad Smith talks with reporters Tuesday after the announcement of a recount at the Cherokee Nation Council Room in Tahlequah. BY JARREL WADE AND LENZY KREHBIEL-BURTON Tulsa World
TAHLEQUAH — The Cherokee Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a hand count of all ballots from the tribe’s June 25 election to determine who won the disputed chief’s race. Attorneys for both candidates are treating the court-ordered action as an official recount, but Cherokee Nation Attorney General Diane Hammons said she believes the results of the count will only be relevant to the court for the purposes of deciding an appeal by incumbent Chief Chad Smith. “There are still issues remaining to be solved,” she said, referring to challenged votes and allegations of ineligible voters. According to Cherokee constitutional law, the recount remains valid until the Supreme Court issues a ruling on the appeal. Initial unofficial results showed challenger Bill John Baker ahead of Smith by 11 votes. Official results announced by the Cherokee Election Commission on June 27 had Smith ahead by seven votes. A recount requested by Baker reversed the results again, making him chief-elect by 266 votes. Smith’s appeal requests either a machine recount of votes or a new election. The Supreme Court justices could
Bill John Baker uses the phone after learning of a ballot recount at the Cherokee Nation Council Room in Tahlequah. PHOTOS BY MATT BARNARD, THE TULSA WORLD
not be reached for comment. The recount is to begin at 8:30 a.m. Saturday and will continue until all ballots are counted. Both candidates were satisfied with Tuesday’s order. “We’re elated,” said Baker. “I paid $4,500 for a full recount. If they didn’t count them all, then I didn’t get what I paid for. This way I’m getting my money’s worth. “I feel confident we’ll be victorious.” Despite not receiving the machine-conducted recount requested in his appeal, Smith was also satisfied with the order. “We got the relief we wanted. All the premises we believed in are true,” he said. “We’re happy that this validates the issue of the 251 missing votes.”
Candidates are pleased The order was filed shortly after 2 p.m. Tuesday and says all legal parties, candidates, election commissioners and Supreme Court justices will be present for the recount. The order states the court “cannot confirm the accuracy of the results of the 2011 General Election to a mathematical certainty.” It also states that the count will use substantially the same procedures previously used to determine the number of absentee ballots. Both sides have until noon Friday to submit in writing any issues they
had with Sunday’s ballot count by the Supreme Court justices. The news of the court order came during a break between meetings of the tribal council, of which Baker is a member. The council unanimously passed a resolution asking the tribal Election Commission to seek out well-known organizations that can provide further oversight to the July 23 runoff elections. Among the organizations specifically suggested were the Carter Center, the Center for Democracy and the National Democratic Watch. The Carter Center, based in Atlanta, was brought in to oversee the tribe’s 1999 election. As part of the resolution, the council specifically requested that the Election Commission exclude the Bureau of Indian Affairs from consideration. The council rejected a similar effort to exclude Automated Election Services and company president Terry Rainey from being considered. Rainey and Automated Election Services oversaw the June 25 election. “This directive could be viewed as interfering,” said council attorney Todd Hembree. Tribal law specifically bars the tribal council from interfering with the Election Commission. None of the election commissioners, their attorney nor Rainey were present at the tribal council meeting.
Firefighters find body in burned apartment BY MATT DINGER Staff Writer mdinger@opubco.com
A body was found in a northwest Oklahoma City apartment by firefighters on a smoke investigation call Tuesday afternoon. The person’s identity was not released Tuesday. About 4:15 p.m., a resident reported smoke coming from an apartment on the second floor of a building at the Raindance apartments, 2201 NW 122,
Oklahoma City police Capt. Lisa Camacho said. Firefighters extinguished the blaze and found the body inside, she said. Investigators from the police and fire departments were on the scene. Until the cause and manner of death can be determined, police are investigating the death as a homicide, Camacho said. The cause of the fire had not been determined as of Tuesday evening, she said.
Oklahoman dies in crash BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WILLISTON, N.D. — A fiery collision involving a semitrailer and a tanker truck in northwestern North Dakota’s Williams County killed the driver of the truck. The North Dakota State Highway Patrol says Paul Frost, 53, of Wagoner, OK, died in the crash about 1
p.m. Monday at the intersection of a county road and U.S. Highway 2. Authorities say Frost failed to yield. Both vehicles went into the ditch and caught fire. The driver of the semi, Jon Chadwick, 44, of Rigby, Idaho, was taken to a Williston hospital with unspecified injuries.
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Choctaw Defense — one of the manufacturing businesses owned and operated by the Choctaw Nation — has manufactured missile components, trailers, heaters and military equipment for more than 20 years.
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INCREASED ENERGY USAGE TO COMBAT SUMMER HEAT RESULTS IN HIGHER MONTHLY COSTS TO KEEP COOL
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High temps cause high bills BY M.A. SMITH AND JAY F. MARKS Business Writers
Oklahoma has been beset with record heat this summer, but electricity usage has not reached the same plateau yet, according to officials with the state’s two largest utility
companies. Still, this summer’s triple-digit temperatures already caused an increase of electricity usage since May, a significant increase in the monthly bills of some customers, minor power “blinks” in homes and an occasional outage, Oklahoma Gas and Elec-
tric Co. spokeswoman Kathleen O’Shea said Electricity demand from OG&E customers peaked July 6 at 6,456 megawatts. That is 170 megawatts less than the company record set Aug. 4 last year, O’Shea said. Sunday, the last day OG&E has usage numbers for, customers used 6,316
megawatts. Public Service Co. of Oklahoma experienced record demand as well, but spokesman Stan Whiteford said the Tulsa-based company has not seen demand reach that level this summer. “The unofficial numbers I’ve seen so far this
summer show that we’ve been peaking at around 4,000 megawatts pretty consistently over the past few weeks, and even over 4,100 megawatts a few times,” he said. “But again, so far we’ve stayed below the all-time record peak of
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Gas effort slowdown frustrates Chesapeake
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MARKETS Coverage, 5B [ DOW JONES 58.88, 12,446.88 [ NASDAQ 20.71, 2,781.91 X OIL $2.28, $97.43 X NATURAL GAS $0.045, $4.333 X CATTLE $0.27, $114.30 X WHEAT $0.211⁄2, $7.593⁄4
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WASHINGTON — Chesapeake Energy Corp. Chief Executive Aubrey McClendon said Tuesday he was frustrated political leaders haven’t sold the American public on the virtues of natural gas as a transportation fuel and that the company decided to push ahead with investments to stimulate demand. A day after announcing a $1 billion venture capital plan to reduce dependence on gasoline and diesel, McClendon expressed optimism that Congress would eventually pass legislation to encourage the purchase of natural gas vehicles. In the meantime, he said, the company will invest in building a “natural gas highway system” of refueling stations, and in green gasoline made from natural gas and waste plant material. The company also plans to expand production of unconventional oil and natural gas liquids. In an interview here, McClendon said U.S. political leaders could have gone to the public with a proposal to use domestic natural gas to “break the stranglehold” imported oil has had on the U.S. economy and foreign policy. He said, leaders could have promoted natural gas as a cleaner and cheaper transportation fuel. “Am I frustrated that something that’s that simple, that homegrown and doesn’t require a massive government stimulus program — that people haven’t figured it out? “It’s a little disappointing, a little surprising.” McClendon said, “To me, it’s no surprise that you have a weak economy, a 9.2 percent unemployment rate, when you are shipping money out of this country at the rate of a SEE GAS, BACK PAGE
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Wagons, go! A chuckwagon and other historic ranching equipment will be offered at auction Saturday in Davis by Vic Garrett, who needs to raise money to work through financial problems stemming from the failure of First National Bank in Davis. PHOTOS PROVIDED BY ARBUCKLE WILDERNESS
ARBUCKLE WILDERNESS PARK TO AUCTION WESTERN CACHE BY RICHARD MIZE Real Estate Editor richardmize@opubco.com
DAVIS — Vic Garrett is surrounded by trouble, but he’s not circling the wagons, he’s selling them — and his guns, holsters, spurs, saddles and boots and livestock-working equipment. It’s not the average farm or ranch auction. It’s Arbuckle Wilderness, the exotic animal theme park. Owner Garrett is putting excess ranch equipment, some land and lodgings and most of a lifetime collection of Western memorabilia and historical artifacts on the auction block Friday and Saturday. Garrett hopes the proceeds will provide a lifeline for the park, which is among a slew of businesses in a bind since First National Bank of Davis failed in March after 116 years in business. Pauls Valley National Bank acquired most of the Davis bank’s assets. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. took the loans, though, to sell to investors, and after years of dealing with a friendly lender in Davis, Garrett said he’s found himself on the phone with rank strangers in New York. “When the loan was called due, we had no choice but to sell,” Garrett said. “We have an annual sale, but this one’s cutting really deep. What’s that saying? We’re not broke, but we’re badly bent. It’s amazing. When a small-town bank goes down, it devastates a community like this.” Randall Hill Auctions, of Atascosa, Texas, will start to straighten out Garrett’s affairs by selling equipment
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday that it will send letters to about 100,000 tax return preparers who prepared returns this year but failed to follow new requirements. How many of those preparers were in Oklahoma was not available. All paid tax return preparers must obtain a Preparer Tax Identification Number and, when required to do so, sign their names and include those numbers on the returns and refund claims they prepare for compensation.
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A saddle is among several artifacts and collectibles from the 101 Ranch and its Wild West Show to be auctioned Saturday.
Antonio Esqivel’s ornate sombrero, worn in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show and the 101 Ranch Wild West Show, will be auctioned.
Wild West Show performer Antonio Esquivel’s Colt Lightning holster and “Mexican Colt” singleaction revolver are shown..
Auction items will include numerous spurs from the historic Y O Ranch in Texas and other ranches.
and real estate on Friday and mostly Western collectibles on Saturday at 1101 E Main St. in Davis, just east of Interstate 35 about 100 miles south of Oklahoma City. The auction site is a pasture north of State Highway 7, a mile east of U.S. 77. The auctions, also online, start at 10 a.m. both days. For a list of auction items, go to www.1bid2.com. Garrett said he is not closing Arbuckle Wilderness and that he still
plans the grand opening of the Old West town he’s been building this fall. It just will be without the saddle from the 101 Ranch near Ponca City, the spurs from the Y O Ranch near Kerrville, Texas, and many other historic pieces. There’s no telling where some of Garrett’s collection could wind up, auctioneer Randy Hill said. SEE ARBUCKLE, BACK PAGE
BancFirst Corp. has completed its previously announced acquisition of FBC Financial Corp. and its subsidiary bank, 1st Bank Oklahoma with locations in Claremore, Verdigris, Tulsa and Inola. 1st Bank Oklahoma has about $256 million in total assets, $117 million in loans, $187 million in deposits, and $24 million in equity capital. BancFirst said it expects to pay a $1.5 million premium above the equity capital of FBC Financial Corp. The bank will operate under its present name until 2012. FROM WIRE REPORTS
GAS PRICES AAA’s average for regular unleaded: Nation $3.636 Week ago $3.562 Month ago $3.714 Year ago $2.708 Record $4.114 (set) 7-17-08 Tuesday
State $3.554 $3.424 $3.579 $2.618 $3.955 7-16-08
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TOMORROW IN BUSINESS RETAIL Josh Apple tightens nuts on one of the wheels of this trailer being assembled at Choctaw Defense, a growing company owned by the Choctaw Nation that has lucrative contracts with the Department of Defense. The company manufactures shipping containers, trailers and other heavy equipment used by the military. Their plant is in the Choctaw Business Park on the south side of McAlester. PHOTOS BY JIM BECKEL, THE OKLAHOMAN
Choctaw manufacturer shows duty to military BY M.A. SMITH Business Writer msmith@opubco.com
MCALESTER – Located at the far end of McAlester with no signs or logos identifying its occupants sits an ordinary looking industrial factory and office complex. Many would never suspect this is home to a company that builds bomb components and other military equipment. Choctaw Defense — one of the manufacturing businesses owned and operated by the Choctaw Nation — has manufactured missile components, trailers, heaters and other military equipment for over 20 years. Founded in 1988 as Choctaw Manufacturing and Development Corporation (CMDC), in Hugo with only 60 employees, CEO Stephen Benefield said Choctaw Defense started by building laser guided bomb components for Texas Instruments. After completing contracts for the missiles, the Choctaw Nation decided there was a future in defense contracts and formed Choctaw Defense. The tribe moved to McAlester facilities in 2001. Originally designed to produce multipurpose trailers for the Marine MTVR vehicle, the facility now manufactures portable heating, lighting and electricity units for the armed forces. In addition, the company produces the Battle Damage Assessment Repair Kit. The kit allows troops to make minor repairs to service vehicles long enough to get them safely back to base, Benefield said. Choctaw Defense also recently received a $20 million dollar contract to build the CAMEL II for the Army. The CAMEL is a self-contained water tank that provides fresh water for troops, he said. “The CAMEL is designed to provide temperature controlled water no matter what environment the soldier is in,” Benefield said. During a tour of the 80,000-square-foot production facility, one would expect to see the oil and dirt typically found in most production facilities. Not at Choctaw Defense, instead, the workers are provided with a pristine work area, free from clutter. Moreover, the workers
Stephen Benefield is the managing officer at Choctaw Defense, a growing company owned by the Choctaw Nation. PHOTO BY JIM BECKEL, THE OKLAHOMAN
are constantly reminded of the importance of their work by the giant American flags hanging in every building. The flags are a symbol of the company’s commitment to patriotism, Benefield said. “There are men and women fighting every day,” he said. “We’ll go above and beyond to support the soldiers.” Colby Robinson, email and marketing director for the McAlester Chamber of Commerce, said he agrees. “They have shown a strong commitment, not only to the troops, but to the entire community,” Robinson said. “They have participated in and manned many events in the city. Last year they participated in the Armed Forces Parade.” Robinson said Choctaw Defense has had a positive impact on McAlester’s economy. “They have employed a lot of people in the city,” he said. Benefield said Choctaw Defense currently employees over 200 people. “One of our goals is to expand industry in southeast Oklahoma,” he said. “We offer jobs, good paying jobs to people during a time when it is most needed.” Benefield said the recession has not affected workforce or production. In fact, he said, the company has doubled its labor force. “All of all business is defense related. With budget crunches of the past, we were concerned we would start feeling the pain. But we have done nothing but prosper,” Benefield said.
Jeremy Nave welds corners of a T-62 shipping container in a production area at Choctaw Defense.
Pens and glue for a penny! Folders and paper for a quarter! Yes, it’s back to school time, and there are deals to be had. Find out more tomorrow in Business.
She Aspires program aims to lead teen girls FROM STAFF REPORTS
Oklahoma City-based EWF International peer advisory group for women business owners and executives plans to begin offering in-depth leadership lessons to junior and senior girls of Oklahoma City’s private schools. Applications for the She Aspires program, which will include community service and opportunities to shadow EWF members, are due by Sept. 9. The monthly lessons will be shared on Sunday afternoons at Lakeside Women’s Hospital, with the first meeting Oct. 2. Slovakia native and EWF associate Viviana Burgess will facilitate the teen training, as well as new international forums in Oklahoma City and Norman. The forums will meet for half a day once a month, and members will participate in a three-day annual retreat. Burgess received a tennis scholarship to the University of Oklahoma, where she earned a degree in communications with a minor in business. After competing professionally and teaching tennis including to children at The Greens Country Club, she joined what is now JP Mor-
INFORMATION For more information about She Aspires or the forums, call 205-1124 or visit www.ewf international.com.
gan Chase. She most recently worked as an associate vice president of business banking with Coppermark Bank. “Viviana relates amazingly well to people of all age groups, which makes her perfect to lead the She Aspires program, and to facilitate forums, our signature service,” said Darcie Harris, EWF founder and CEO. “We are so excited to get to work and help these girls live up to their full potential,” Harris said. Next year, she said, EWF plans to extend the training to public schools.
Former hedge fund manager pleads guilty FROM STAFF REPORTS
Stephen Benefield, right, managing officer at Choctaw Defense visits workers in the company’s machine shop. He watches John Adams, left, and Fred Barnett lift a large section of sheet metal onto a machine that makes precise cuts.
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A former Edmond resident pleaded guilty Tuesday to money laundering as part of an investment scheme. Mark S. Trimble, a former hedge fund manager, already is serving a 10-year prison sentence on similar charges. He could be ordered to serve another 10 when he is sentenced on the new charge in a few months. Trimble, 45, was sentenced to prison in December after admitting to diverting investor funds from Phidippides Capital Management LLC into his own account.
He had been barred from commodities trading in March 2009 as a result of that case, but federal prosecutors in Oklahoma City accused him of defrauding his cycling coach by offering to make trades on the other man’s behalf and keeping the money for himself. Trimble obtained $111,000 from the coach, who suffered losses of $40,000, according to an indictment returned in April. Trimble, who already has been ordered to pay more than $9 million in restitution to former clients, agreed to reimburse the coach for his losses, according to prosecutors.
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Inhofe says nominee could harm economy BY CHRIS CASTEEL Washington Bureau ccasteel@opubco.com
WASHINGTON — Sen. Jim Inhofe announced Tuesday that he would block confirmation of President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Commerce Department because of concerns about his work as an environmentalist. Inhofe, R-Tulsa, said he would place a hold on John Bryson’s nomination to be secretary of commerce when that nomination clears a Senate committee. Bryson co-founded the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group, and served as the head of Edison International, a California-based utility company. He is currently chairman of a solar technology company. Inhofe said, “You don’t
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hear President Obama speak about global warming lately. He understands that his green agenda is not popular, but his choice of John Bryson to head the Department of Commerce clearly indicates that he has not given up trying to implement it.” Inhofe said Bryson’s appointment could hinder economic growth in Oklahoma, which is driven by the development of traditional energy resources.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, DWest Virginia, who leads the committee that must clear Bryson’s nomination, has praised him as “an excellent choice.” “His impressive resume shows he is an experienced hand who understands what drives our economy,’’ Rockefeller said in May. “My hope is that his background will serve as a solid foundation to champion American manufacturing.”
Netflix rates for streaming, DVD rise up to 60 percent BY MICHAEL LIEDTKE Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Netflix
is raising its prices by as much as 60 percent for millions of subscribers who want to rent DVDs by mail and watch video on the Internet. The company is separating the two options so subscribers who want both will have to buy separate plans costing at least $16 per month. Netflix Inc. had been bundling both options in a single package, available for as low as $10 per month. New subscribers will have to pay the new prices immediately. The changes take effect Sept. 1 for current customers. Netflix isn’t changing the $8 monthly price for an Internet streaming-only option, which it began offering late last year. But instead of charging $2 more for a plan that also offers one DVD at a time by mail, the company will charge $8 for a comparable DVD-only plan. That brings the total to $16. Those who want to rent up to two DVDs at a time with streaming will pay $20 per month, or 33 percent more. Those wanting three DVDs at a time with streaming will pay $24 per month, or 20 percent more. When Netflix unveiled the streaming-only option, it also raised the rates for its most popular DVD
million into the library last year. Jessie Becker, Netflix’s vice president of marketing, wrote Tuesday on Netflix’s blog that charging just $2 more for a bundled plan “neither makes great financial sense nor satisfies people who just want DVDs.” On the flip side, Netflix customers who haven’t embraced Internet streaming will be getting a price break. They can now subscribe to a DVD-only plan for just $8 per month for one DVD at a time, a 20 percent reduction from the current package that included streaming. Netflix, which is based in Los Gatos, has never said how many subscribers get the streamingonly options, but most households prefer getting both because each has its advantages.
Settlements, lower trade volume hurt larger banks in 2nd quarter BY PALLAVI GOGOI Associated Press
NEW YORK — The largest U.S. banks — from JPMorgan Chase to Bank of America — have been busy settling lawsuits with investors in the second quarter, casting a pall over their upcoming financial results. Banks start reporting earnings on Thursday, with the healthiest of the large banks, JP Morgan Chase & Co. Most Wall Street analysts fear that second quarter earnings will be hurt by settlements with investors over poor-quality mortgage and municipal bonds. There’s also been a slowdown in trading of stocks, bonds and other securities, which has led several banks to cut jobs. Investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has already informed the New York Department of Labor that it plans to eliminate 230 jobs beginning in September. Keith Horowitz, a Citi-
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. trade deficit surged in May to the highest level in more than two and a half years, driven upward by a big increase in oil imports. The Commerce Department said Tuesday that the deficit increased 15.1 percent to $50.2 billion in May. Exports declined 0.5 percent to $174.9 billion. Imports rose 2.6 percent to $225.1 billion. Oil prices have fallen since May, so the effect of higher prices should ease some in the coming months.
NEW YORK — If the last few days have seemed tumultuous for markets, just watch as Aug. 2 approaches. Financial markets have largely ignored the debt limit talks in the U.S. so far. They’re reacting instead to concerns about debt in Europe and dismal employment numbers. But that’s bound to change as the U.S. gets closer to maxing out its self-imposed borrowing limit of $14.3 trillion. Analysts and investors expect Congressional Republicans and President Barack Obama will agree to raise the country’s borrowing limit and cut spending before the deadline. Many of those same people also believe the haggling will go to the last minute. “If they take it to the brink, it’ll be a dangerous game of chicken,” said Tony Crescenzi, a market strategist at bond-fund giant Pimco. Many investors are preparing for a potential default before time runs out. Then there’s the matter of what happens after a deal is reached.
FED WARY OF JOB LEVELS WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve offi-
cials at their last meeting expressed concerns that the weakening job market might hold back the recovery. But members were divided over whether the Fed should consider taking additional steps to help the economy. The Fed agreed at the June meeting to end on schedule its program to boost the economy through the purchase of $600 billion in Treasury bonds. Some members said the Fed should be open to new stimulus measures if growth failed to pick up enough to “meaningfully” reduce the unemployment rate, according to minutes of the Fed’s June 21-22 meeting released Tuesday. Others expressed concerns about inflation and said the central bank would need to take steps to begin removing its low-interest rate policies “sooner than currently anticipated.” The minutes highlighted a division at the Fed between officials who are worried that the economy is growing too slowly and some regional bank presidents who are concerned that the Fed’s policies could spark high inflation.
LOS ANGELES — A federal judge has
rental plans by $1 to $3 per month. Those plans included unlimited online streaming, too, as had been the case since Netflix began sending video over high-speed Internet connections in 2007. That means longtime subscribers who want both entertainment options will get their second price increase in eight months. Netflix’s willingness to risk alienating subscribers signals that it needs to bring in more money to cover its rising costs. The company’s earnings would likely be squeezed if it continued to cover the overhead for buying and shipping the discs while also spending heavily to license more video for its streaming library. In the first three months of this year, Netflix spent $192 million on streaming rights after pouring $406
group analyst, warned that fixed income revenue at the country’s largest banks likely dropped 30 percent compared with the first quarter. He estimates equities trading declined 15 percent. Many investors have cut back on trading because of the uncertainty surrounding the European debt crisis. The results will also offer a snapshot of how consumers and businesses have fared as the economic recovery began to slow in May. They’ll show whether people and companies are paying their bills on time, taking out more loans or making more purchases with credit cards. Few analysts believe general bank lending has recovered. As evidence, FBR Capital Markets analyst Paul Miller points to the massive settlements banks agreed to in an effort to clear up problems leftover from questionable deals. Among them: I On June 29, Bank of
America Corp. announced the largest bank settlement on record. It agreed to pay $8.5 billion to a group of investors for writing poor-quality mortgage bonds that were packaged and then sold as securities. I On July 6, Wells Fargo & Co. agreed to pay $125 million to a group of pension funds and other investors to settle allegations the bank failed to warn them of the risks of poorly-written mortgagebacked securities. I On July 7, JPMorgan Chase & Co. agreed to pay $211 million to government regulators and the Justice Department after admitting one of its divisions rigged dozens of bids to win business from state and local governments. That came after a $154 million settlement in June with the Securities & Exchange Commission over allegations the bank had misled buyers of complex mortgage investments.
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rejected most claims made in a shareholder lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corp. that accused the Japanese automaker of knowing about and hiding purported acceleration problems in some of its vehicles. U.S. District Judge Dale Fisher said in her July 7 ruling that Japanese law takes precedence, especially since many of those who sued Toyota bought company stock on foreign exchanges. “This respect for foreign law would be completely subverted if foreign claims were allowed to be piggybacked into virtually every American securities fraud case,” Fisher wrote.
CORN CROP EASES CONCERNS ST. LOUIS — A larger corn crop is easing concerns of a grain shortage and could slow food inflation later this year. The U.S. Agriculture Department estimated Tuesday that 880 million bushels of corn will be left over when the harvest begins in the fall. Corn prices rose about 9 cents to $6.42 a bushel in morning trading because the projected supply increase wasn’t quite as big as analysts had forecast.
HIRING REMAINS SLOW WASHINGTON — It’s shaping up to be a long, tough summer for jobseekers: The number of job postings didn’t increase in May, the latest sign that hiring is unlikely to pick up anytime soon. Employers advertised nearly 3 million job openings, the Labor Department said Tuesday. That is the same amount as in April and down from 3.1 million in March. May’s figure is higher than the 2.1 million job openings posted in July 2009. In May, nearly 14 million people were out of work. So, roughly 4.7 people competed for each available job. In a healthy economy, the ratio is about 2-to-1.
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IRELAND’S RATING IS ‘JUNK’ BRUSSELS — Moody’s Investors Service
on Tuesday downgraded Ireland’s government bond ratings to junk, saying it cut Ireland’s rating by one notch to Ba1 from Baa3 because it sees a growing risk the debt-ridden country will need a second bailout once its current rescue package expires at the end of 2013. The outlook for Ireland remains “negative,” Moody’s added.
4 AIDS DRUGS GO GENERIC LONDON — Gilead Sciences Inc., one of the world’s biggest producers of AIDS drugs, has agreed to allow four of its AIDS drugs to be made by generic drug companies at a cheaper cost in return for a small proportion of royalties, United Nations health officials said. The deal was negotiated by the Medicines Patent Pool, part of a U.N.led partnership that raises money for AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria by things like taxing airplane tickets. Only Chile, France, Korea, Mali and Niger are actually implementing the airline tax. FROM WIRE REPORTS
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Online masses will pick Google Plus’ social rank It’s too soon to know if Google Plus, the online giant’s latest social media effort, will be the “next big thing,” although much of the online hyperbole already is seeking to render a verdict. I’ve been on Google Plus less than a week, and I find it handy and well-designed, like most Google tools. Keep in mind that previous Google social media efforts — Buzz and Wave — deserved the derision that rained down upon them. Mere hours after I invited my 20-something nephew to Google Plus, he declared himself unimpressed. I also doubt that my mother, already comfortable on Facebook, is seeking a new social media outlet.
Don Mecoy dmecoy@ opubco.com
TRADE TALK Nevertheless, Google Plus has its good points. Instead of Facebook “friending,” you select people to put in predetermined “circles.” That allows you click to see what your work colleagues are posting, click again to see family posts, or simply see the posts of all of those you follow at once. It’s a nice feature for those overwhelmed by the flood of posts on Facebook, which offers a similar lists feature that few
appear to use. For some, the chance to reset their circle of friends could be a drawing card for Google Plus. I also like the “sparks” feature that allows one to save and follow keywords at a click, much like hashtag searches on Twitter. One of my colleagues suggested that Google Plus, through its video chat “hangout,” could become an online collaboration site for much of our newsroom, which already uses Google Documents and Google Calendar extensively. With an estimated 10 million people already on board (versus hundreds of millions on Facebook), the final determination of Google Plus’ place in the Internet pantheon re-
Q&A WITH LISA G. NOON REALTORS SERVE IMPORTANT ROLE IN STATE’S ECONOMY, COMMUNITIES Q: You spent 17 years working with Realtors in Virginia. Can you compare and contrast the housing markets in Virginia and Oklahoma? A: There are some similarities between the two states, including the relative stability of the housing markets in each area and lower unemployment numbers. The economies of both states are Lisa G. Noon diverse, which has allowed CEO of the more of our homes to retain Oklahoma their value despite declining Association of market conditions. The foreRealtors closure numbers for both states are also low; RealtyTrac’s first-quarter numbers showed Oklahoma to be No. 32 and Virginia No. 26 in the list of states with foreclosure filings. Oklahomans are fortunate to have access to very affordable housing, and our hope is that more of them will take advantage of today’s low mortgage rates and plentiful supply to either buy that first home or move up.
mains unsettled. Meanwhile, Google invitations are becoming a bit easier to obtain as the company ramps up the site. As more join, the masses will determine if Google Plus becomes a must-follow social media. It’s not like I need another social media platform to downgrade my productivity, so at some point I suspect I won’t be active on Google Plus without scaling back my activities on Facebook or Twitter. Meanwhile, keep in mind that the free service ultimately is designed to deliver your eyeballs to advertisers. As one online sage noted: “If you’re not paying for something, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.”
Q: As vice president of member outreach for the Virginia Association of Realtors, what did you do, and how do you think that prepared you to be CEO of the Oklahoma Association of Realtors? A: After 17 years, I’d worked in just about every function of the association, and that time gave me the skills and experience to lead another state Realtor association. But it’s not just work experience that defines an association executive, it’s also the ability to work effectively with volunteer leaders, other related housing officials, my counterparts from other associations and the staff from our national association. Serving on three housingrelated boards, mostly dealing with affordable and accessible housing issues, was also helpful in broadening my exposure to the industry. My time in this profession has only deepened my understanding of the extreme value that Realtors bring to our communities and the pivotal role that housing plays in our economic stability.
AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL WORK STILL TENSE AFTER 75 YEARS BY JENNIFER PALMER Business Writer jpalmer@opubco.com
I’ve always considered myself excellent at multitasking, but after just minutes as an air traffic controller, with incoming and outbound aircraft quickly stacking up around me, their pilots seemingly speaking in foreign tongues, I was ready to crack. Tuesday, I was given a taste of being a student at the Federal Aviation Administration’s Academy in Oklahoma City. Media representatives were invited as part of the observance of the 75th anniversary of air traffic control (although the FAA itself didn’t begin until 1958). I’m happy to report no airplanes crashed under my watch. I was paired with instructor Todd Poole, who patiently walked me through each maneuver. We started in the tabletop classroom, which has what looks like a train table you’d find in a little boy’s room, only it’s painted with runways and has model airplanes on top. Headset on, I stood in the control tower and repeated the commands Poole told me. “Cessna 23-5 heavy papa whiskey — huh?” I hadn’t been through the three-week basics class already like most students, so I stumbled on the awkward lingo. From there, we moved on to the tower simulation system, which provided the most realistic training of the day. I was somewhat surprised to learn that, despite technological advances, air traffic controllers still use flight strips (slips of paper denoting details about the aircraft) and keep notes with a pencil. Then they manually pass them to the
Q: Name something new you have in the works for the Oklahoma Association of Realtors. A: I have a real passion for working with Realtors because their role is truly to support and be active in our communities through advancing the American dream of homeownership. Most people don’t know that Realtors all subscribe to a stringent code of ethics and that one of the basic goals of our association is to preserve and protect private property rights. They work hard for their clients and customers, and our job as their association is to support what they do through education, information and most importantly, by representing their interests and the interests of homeowners at the Legislature. Realtors help to bring quality of life to Oklahoma, and that’s a particular focus this year: to bring recognition to those Realtors who are active in their communities. We’re also working on a new website for our members, using new technology to expand our professional development opportunities, and looking at more ways we can serve our 24 local Realtor associations around the state.
Instructor Todd Poole and The Oklahoman’s Jennifer Palmer practice on a tower simulation system at the FAA Academy in Oklahoma City. The media were invited for the 75th anniversary of air traffic control. PHOTO BY DAVID MCDANIEL, THE OKLAHOMAN
next controller. The instructors explained that electronic flight strips are in the works, but they just haven’t been as successful as these old-fashioned ones. As the computer increased the intensity of the flight program, the flight strips began stacking up and I could feel the pressure. I couldn’t imagine having actual people in those planes and the responsibility that comes along with that. I asked Poole if students ever get overwhelmed and quit. He said yes, but not as often as you’d think. He sees incredible transformations over the four to five months students spend at the academy. “Really, it’s amazing,” Poole said. Students have to be younger than 30 and their prior experience can be as a controller for the military, through a college training program or none at all.
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HISTORY OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL Federal air traffic control began on July 6, 1936, with the creation of the Bureau of Air Commerce. At the time, there were 15 workers operating in three control centers, one each in Newark, N.J., Chicago and Cleveland. Today, there are hundreds of control towers and more than 15,000 air traffic controllers, who handle an average of 50,000 flights each day. In the 1950s, controllers began using radar to separate aircraft. Now, the FAA is transforming its system by switching from ground-based radar to satellite-based navigation. Called NextGen, the nationwide ground infrastructure for the initiative is expected to be completed by 2013 and fully operational by 2020.
CASH WHEAT 22 to 29 cents higher. 6.64-7.03 Alva . . . . . . . . . 6.93 Banner. . . . . . . 7.03 Buffalo. . . . . . . 6.93 Cherokee . . . . 6.95 Clinton . . . . . . . 6.89 Davis . . . . . . . . 6.64 El Dorado . . . . 6.93 El Reno . . . . . . 7.03 Frederick. . . . . 6.73 Geary . . . . . . . . 7.03 Hobart . . . . . . . 6.88 Hooker. . . . . . . 6.90 Keyes . . . . . . . . 6.73 Lawton . . . . . . 6.68 Manchester . . . . 6.93 Medford . . . . . 6.97 Miami. . . . . . . . N/A Okarche . . . . . 7.03 Okeene . . . . . . 7.03 Perry . . . . . . . . 7.02 Ponca City . . . . 7.02 Shattuck. . . . . 6.90 Stillwater . . . . 7.02 Temple . . . . . . 6.68 Watonga . . . . 7.03 Weatherford . . . 6.93 Gulf. . . . . . . . . . . . 7.63 FEED GRAINS MILO Alva . . . . . . . 10.08 Buffalo. . . . . 10.08 Hooker. . . . . 10.96 Keyes . . . . . . 10.60 Manchester10.52 Medford . . . .10.41 Miami. . . . . . . .N/A Ponca City . . 10.60 Shattuck. . . 10.69 Weatherford . .10.41 Gulf. . . . .12.45 1/2
To see a video about FAA air traffic control center, go to NewsOK.com and search “FAA.”
U.S. for between one and three years. Once certified, they typically can make a starting salary of $50,000-plus and have the potential to earn more than $100,000 a year. “It’s a prestigious career with a lot of demand.”
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Jul 11 707.75 713.50 667 697 Sep 11 664 669.75 623.75 664 Dec 11 654 661 612.25 658 Mar 12 666.75 673.50 625.75 670.75 Est. sales 632,844 Mon’s. sales 199,220 Mon’s open int 1,180,996 up 273.00
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OATS (CBOT) 5,000 bu minimum- cents per bushel Jul 11 351.50 355.75 351.50 Sep 11 354.75 356.50 342.75 Dec 11 360.75 364.25 351 Mar 12 372 373.50 370 Est. sales 1,154 Mon’s. sales 360 Mon’s open int 12,308 up 64.00
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COMPLETION Beaver: Unit Petroleum Co.; Courtney Trust No. 1H Well; S1⁄2 SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 (SL) of 35-02N-23E; 140 barrels oil per day, 147,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 11,193. Unit Petroleum Co.; Underwood No. 1H Well; SW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 (SL) of 28-02N-23E; 96 barrels oil per day, 45,000 cu-ft gas per day TD 10,935. Caddo: GLB Exploration Inc.; Leon No. 1 Well; NW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 NE1⁄4 of 34-05N-11W; 672,000 cu-ft gas per day, 24 barrels oil per day; TD 4,354. Canadian: Devon Energy Production Co. LP; Dilbeck No. 1-20H Well; SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 (SL) of 20-14N-08W; 1,647,000 cu-ft gas per day, 20 barrels oil per day; TD 15,482. Creek: Xanadu Exploration Co.; Wind Child No. 1-28 Well; SW1⁄4 NE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 of 28-15N-07E; Dry TD 2,850. Love: RDT Properties Inc.; BSDSU Mead No. 2-8 Well; SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 of 08-06S-01W;
28 barrels oil per day; TD 8,340. RDT Properties Inc.; HDSU Sullivan No. 4-6 Well; NW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 NE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 of 06-06S-01W; 100 barrels oil per day; TD 7,728. Roger Mills: Laredo Petroleum Inc.; Little Bluff No. 2H 9 Well; SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 (SL) of 09-14N-26W; 8,674,000 cu-ft gas per day, 196.9 barrels oil per day; TD 16,829.
ating Inc.; Avriett 23-16-24 No. 1H Well; S1⁄2 S1⁄2 SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 (SL) of 23-16N-24W; TD 13,000. Stephens: Chesapeake Operating Inc.; Booker No. 2-17 Well; NW1⁄4 NE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 (BHL) of 17-02N-07W; TD 18,500. Woods: Okland Oil Co.; Bush No. 4-3 Well; NW1⁄4 NE1⁄4 NW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 of 03-28N-17W; TD 5,700. SOURCE: OIL-LAW RECORDS CORP.
INTENT TO DRILL Alfalfa: SandRidge Exploration & Production LLC; Folk No. 2-28H Well; SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 (SL) of 28-29N-09W; TD 10,203. Triad Energy Inc.; Mark W No. 2-5 Well; C NE1⁄4 NW1⁄4 of 05-28N-10W; TD 5,600. Carter: Burton Paul LLC; Pierce C No. 5-22 Well; SE1⁄4 NW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 NE1⁄4 of 22-02S-02W; TD 1,500. Burton Paul LLC; Pierce C No. 6-22 Well; NE1⁄4 NW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 NE1⁄4 of 22-02S-02W; TD 1,500. Burton Paul LLC; Pierce C No. 7-22 Well; SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 NW1⁄4 NE1⁄4 of 22-02S-02W; TD 1,500. Kay: GT & L Operating LLC; Cales No. 1-22 Well; C NW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 NE1⁄4 of 20-27N-04E; TD 4,700. Latimer: BP America Production Co.; Dunagan A Unit No. 1 Well; S1⁄2 S1⁄2 N1⁄2 SE1⁄4 of 13-05N-17E; TD 8,534. Pawnee: RDT Properties Inc.; Alderson No. 10 Well; SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 of 17-21N-08E; TD 2,600. Roger Mills: Chesapeake Oper-
LIVESTOCK Tuesday’s livestock report from the Oklahoma City Stockyards. Receipts: 13,582 Medium and Large No. 1: (weighted average): Steers: Calves: 274 lbs. $178.17; 359 lbs. $166.60; 427 lbs. $161.37; 483 lbs. $151.18; 524 lbs. $150.09; 574 lbs. $147.78; 630 lbs. $142.97; 663 lbs. $135.38; 714 lbs. $130.62; Yearlings: 633 lbs. $144.80; 678 lbs. $144.95; 726 lbs. $143.25; 770 lbs. $141.67; 827 lbs. $138.17; 877 lbs. $135.26; 921 lbs. $127.48; 994 lbs. $123.47. Medium and Large No. 1: (weighted average): Heifers: Calves: 253 lbs. $154.50; 325 lbs. $148.37; 381 lbs. $138.24; 418 lbs. $138.51; 464 lbs. $142.23; 523 lbs. $137.03; 572 lbs. $137.65; Yearlings: 613 lbs. $137.61; 677 lbs. $135.92; 724 lbs. $130.59; 770 lbs. $128.74; 809 lbs. $124.45; 871 lbs. $119.53; 932 lbs. $108.00; 982 lbs. $113.65.
COTTON Grade 41, Leaf 4, Staple 34 cotton in southwestern OK 114.00 cents per pound, FOB rail car or truck. KANSAS CITY GRAIN Wheat, No.2 Hard, bu...........$6.57-$7.27 1/2 Corn, No. 2 yellow........ $6.53 3/4-$7.09 3/4 Milo............................................................$9.89-$12.30 Soybeans, No. 1....................$13.19 1/4-$13.66
Jul 11 349.30 349.30 342.40 Aug 11 349.50 353.10 343.80 Sep 11 350.30 354.40 344.90 Oct 11 351.90 355.30 345.80 Est. sales 99,106 Mon’s. sales 54,647 Mon’s open int 179,241 off 3723.00
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Jul 11 56.36 56.36 55.96 Aug 11 56.33 56.55 55.73 Sep 11 56.53 56.73 55.97 Oct 11 56.85 56.95 56.22 Est. sales 124,583 Mon’s. sales 62,281 Mon’s open int 283,498 off 2173.00
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HOGS Receipts: 125. Compared to Monday: Barrows and Gilts: Steady. U.S. Nos. 1-3 220-270 lbs. $60. Sows: Steady. U.S. Nos. 1-3 300-500 lbs. $44-$48. U.S. Nos. 1-3 500-700 lbs. $50-$52. Boars: 200-250 lbs. $20; over 250 lbs., $10.
Jul 11 1364 1367 1342 1366.50 Aug 11 1350.25 1364 1334.25 1355.50 Sep 11 1350 1362.50 1332.50 1355 Nov 11 1359 1366 1334.25 1358.25 Est. sales 303,062 Mon’s. sales 113,464 Mon’s open int 518,976 up 3353.00
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WINTER WHEAT (KCBT) 5,000 bu minimum- cents per bushel Jul 11 695 715.50 695 Sep 11 712 737.25 708 Dec 11 736.25 763 736.25 Mar 12 774 776.25 773 Mon’s. sales 18,578 Mon’s open int 165,367 up 246.00
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SOYBEAN OIL (CBOT) 60,000 lbs- cents per lb
OIL AND GAS PRICES Oklahoma crude oil prices as of 5 p.m. Tuesday: Oklahoma Sweet: Sunoco Inc. — $94. Oklahoma Sour: Sunoco Inc. — $82. Oklahoma oil and gas drilling activity posted June 17:
CORN $ 6.14-$ 6.81 per bushel.
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Brian Harmelink, air traffic division manager for the academy, said there is a pool of 3,000 to 5,000 applicants waiting to get into the program. After graduating from Oklahoma City, they train inside airports across the
SOYBEANS Alva . . . . . . . .12.81 Buffalo. . . . . .12.81 Hooker. . . . . 12.86 Medford . . . 12.86 Miami. . . . . . . .N/A Ponca City . . 12.86 Shattuck. . . .12.61 Stillwater . . .12.91 Gulf. . . . . . . . .14.41
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Aug 11 114.50 115.05 113.95 Oct 11 120.42 120.92 119.90 Dec 11 124.85 124.90 124.30 Feb 12 126.20 126.20 125.60 Est. sales 28,045 Mon’s. sales 79,765 Mon’s open int 325,047 off 254.00
FEEDER CATTLE (CME) 50,000 lbs.- cents per lb. Aug 11 142.65 142.70 141.92 Sep 11 143.00 143.00 142.55 Oct 11 143.70 143.87 143.45 Nov 11 143.50 144.30 143.37 Est. sales 1,771 Mon’s. sales 9,548 Mon’s open int 41,296 off 188.00
HOGS-Lean (CME) 40,000 lbs.- cents per lb. Jul 11 95.75 95.90 95.10 Aug 11 97.85 99.45 97.60 Oct 11 92.07 93.15 91.40 Dec 11 89.37 90.20 88.50 Est. sales 19,697 Mon’s. sales 83,919 Mon’s open int 242,355 up 6499.00
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customers were turning away. Campbell also said it will add more expensive soups to its product line. The company forecast that fiscal 2012 earnings will fall between 4 percent and 6 percent because of the costs from the changes. But it also said its fiscal 2011 earnings will be up 1 percent. Campbell previously said 2011 earnings would fall between 1 percent and 3 percent.
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Tuesday’s close: $34.59
$32.66
Price-earnings ratio (Based on past 12 months’ results): 14 AP
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Total returns through July 11
37.59
Dividend: $1.16
*annualized
Div. Yield: 3.4%
SOURCES: Morningstar; FactSet
More worries about Europe’s debt problems consider more economic stimulus. The Dow Jones knocked stocks down Tuesday. Moody’s downindustrial average fell 58.88, or 0.5 percent, to graded Ireland’s bond rating to junk status, and in- 12,446.88. The S&P 500 fell 5.85, or 0.4 percent, vestors are also worried about Italy. That overto 1,313.64. The Nasdaq fell 20.71, or 0.7 percent, shadowed hopes that the Federal Reserve might to 2,781.91. Alcoa AA Wolverine World Wide WWW ReneSola SOL Close: $15.71 -0.20 or -1.3% The aluminum producer’s quarterly profit grew thanks to higher sales and prices, but costs for raw materials are rising. $18
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News Corp.
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Close: $15.35 -0.13 or -0.8% The media company raised its stock buyback program to $5 billion after the hit to its shares amid a deepening-phone hacking scandal. $20
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LIGHT SWEET CRUDE (NYMX) 1,000 bbl.- dollars per bbl. Aug 11 96.78 97.43 Sep 11 97.22 97.85
+2.28 +2.23
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NATURAL GAS (NYMX) 10,000 mm btu’s, $ per mm btu Aug 11 4.328 4.333 Sep 11 4.307 4.312
+.045 +.035
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GOLD (COMX) 100 troy oz.- dollars per troy oz. Jul 11 1548.20 1561.90 +13.10 Aug 11 1563.40 1562.30 +13.10 Est. sales 195,258 Mon’s. sales 164,206 Mon’s open int 512,027 up 5743.00
CBOT SILVER 5000 oz. (CBOT) 5000 troy oz- dollars per troy oz Jul 11 36.113 36.113 +.298 Aug 11 36.082 36.082 +.263 Est. sales 240 Mon’s. sales 125 Mon’s open int 1,188 off 22.00
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Campbell Soup changes its recipe
CAMPBELL SOUP (CPB)
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Sometimes you have to add some salt to make a recipe better. That’s one of the steps Campbell Soup is taking to get more consumers interested in its products. The food company told financial analysts Tuesday it will spend more money to improve its products in 2012. It plans to bring back some soups that have higher levels of sodium. By cutting salt, it was cutting taste and
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The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.90 percent Tuesday. Yields affect rates on consumer loans like mortgages.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will give his semiannual economic report to the House Financial Services Committee. It’s the first of a two-day appearance on Capitol Hill. The Fed lowered its forecast for economic growth last month because of high unemployment and the depressed housing market. It now predicts growth between 2.7 percent and 2.9 percent this year, down from its April estimate of between 3.1 percent and 3.3 percent.
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BUSINESS
WEATHER
ACROSS THE U.S.
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Seattle 66/54
Billings 90/63
Minneapolis 79/58
New York 87/66
Detroit 78/59
Mostly sunny
An upper-level ridge will continue to build over the area, bringing hot weather and plenty of sunshine. Winds: S 10-20 mph.
Woodward
Enid
100/72
101/74
Guymon
Altus
98/70
102/75 103/74
Okla. City
Lawton
Sunshine, 96
Sunshine, 95 Sunshine, 98
Tulsa
100/76
Windy, 93
6 p.m. today
McAlester
100/74
Miami 91/78
Ardmore
Showers
Some sun, 97
Sunshine, 95 Sunshine, 97
-10s -0s
Some sun, 98
Some sun, 72 P/sunny, 76
Sunshine, 75
Some sun, 75
Some sun, 77 Sunshine, 77
Sunshine, 76 Forecasts and graphics provided by Accu Weather.com ©2011
Sunshine, 74 Some sun, 73
Sunshine, 75
What’s ahead for Oklahoma City Thursday 104/76
Friday 103/76
Saturday 106/76
Sunday 103/76
Winds: S 8-16 mph
Winds: S 10-20 mph
Winds: SSE 8-16 mph
Winds: SSE 7-14 mph
Regional forecast
Major lake levels
For the record
Arkansas: Some sun, hot and humid today with a thunderstorm; variable cloudiness in the north. Humid tonight with a thunderstorm. Texas: Plenty of sunshine today. A thunderstorm in spots during the afternoon in the southeast and along the Coastal Bend; hot elsewhere. New Mexico: Some sun today; a thunderstorm in the afternoon; however, dry in central areas. Kansas: Sunny to partly cloudy and hot today. A thunderstorm in parts of the area, but dry in the west and south; clouds and sun in the northeast. Missouri: Clouds and sun today with a thunderstorm; humid. Very warm. A shower or thunderstorm tonight. A shower or thunderstorm around tomorrow. Colorado: Partly sunny today; an afternoon thunderstorm; however, dry in the west and east.
As of 7 a.m. yesterday Lake Normal Altus 1,559.0 Arbuckle 872.0 Arcadia 1,006.0 Brok. Bow 599.5 Canton 1,615.4 Copan 710.0 Eufaula 585.0 Ft. Cobb 1,342.0 Ft. Gibson 554.0 Ft. Supply 2,004.0 Foss 1,642.0 Grand 745.0 Hudson 619.0 Hulah 733.0 Kaw 1,009.1 Kerr 460.0 Keystone 723.0 Oologah 638.0 Salt Plains 1,125.0 Skiatook 714.0 Tenkiller 632.0 Texoma 615.0 Thunderbird 1,039.0 Webb. Falls 490.0 Wister 478.0
Yesterday in Oklahoma City:
Yesterday’s pollen Very High High Moderate Low Very Low Absent Absent Absent Trees Weeds Grasses Mold Mold and pollen counts courtesy of the Oklahoma Allergy & Asthma Clinic.
Current 1,536 869.25 1,005 600.23 1,610 710.13 584.36 1,340 552.30 2,003 1,638 744.00 620.21 733.18 1,011 459.76 720.87 637.96 1,124 706.69 632.06 618.34 1,036 489.57 478.30
Monday 103/76
Tuesday 103/76
Winds: SE 8-16 mph
Yesterday in the state:
H L Prc. 99 75 .43 Midnight 86 Enid 1 a.m. 85 Gage 98 74 .00 2 a.m. 83 Guymon 100 71 .00 3 a.m. 83 Hobart 102 74 .00 4 a.m. 80 McAlester 102 72 .00 5 a.m. 78 Ponca City 103 83 Trace 6 a.m. 76 105 75 .01 7 a.m. 76 Tulsa 8 a.m. 82 Chickasha 101 74 .11 103 76 .00 9 a.m. 87 Durant El Reno 100 69 .08 10 a.m. 91 11 a.m. 94 Guthrie 101 80 .00 Noon 96 Idabel 101 73 .00 1 p.m. 97 Miami 102 77 .00 2 p.m. 84 Norman 98 76 .26 3 p.m. 75 OKC 98 72 2.91 4 p.m. 75 5 p.m. 82 Shawnee 100 77 .25 Stillwater 100 78 .25 6 p.m. 81 7 p.m. 84 Woodward 97 75 .00 One year ago in Oklahoma City: 87/73 Normal high/low in Oklahoma City: 93/71 Record high/low: 107 in 2001/56 in 1953 National extremes yesterday: Fort Smith, AR, 108; Boca Reservoir, CA, 31
Winds: SSE 6-12 mph
Yesterday in the world: H Amsterdam 75 Baghdad 117 Calgary 69 Dublin 64 Frankfurt 88 Geneva 85 Hong Kong 88 Kabul 101 London 67 Madrid 91 Manila 88 Mexico City 78 Montreal 84 Moscow 86 New Delhi 96 Paris 78 Rio 76 Riyadh 117 Rome 94 Stockholm 72 Sydney 66 Tokyo 91 Toronto 90 Vancouver 69
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Heat: Ceiling fan aids cost cutting FROM PAGE 1B
4,200 megawatts.” O’Shea said it is only natural for demand to rise along with the mercury, although there are some remedies for the balmy weather that can help save money and keep cool. “People can do some things to help reduce their energy cost, but when it’s 108 degrees out people are going to crank the air conditioner,” she said.
Ideas for lowering costs O’Shea suggests turning up the thermostat a couple of degrees. “Every degree increases energy output by 3 to 4 percent,” she said. “By turning the thermostat up to 76 degrees or higher would reduce costs.” O’Shea said customers also should close their curtains and shades on the sunniest side of the house. That helps to keep the sun out and cool air in. Customers also may want to consider another alternative rather than running their air conditioner constantly. “Ceiling fans are a great way to keep air moving in the house,” O’Shea said. “And, they use the same amount of energy as a light bulb.” She also suggests changing the time of day spent cooking, running the dish washer and washing and drying clothes. “Doing these chores at night or in the morning will reduce the amount of heat in the house and keep it a little cooler,” she said.
Outages and power blinks The heat has played a part in disrupting services for OG&E customers, O’Shea said. “When the temperatures go up outside, it can affect the lines and cables,” she said. “But, it only takes about three hours at the most to repair. Sometimes underground cables take longer, but more often than not we can reroute services.” O’Shea also said a variety of things could cause blinks or surges in houses. But, heat could be the culprit here, too.
Jan. 1 - This date in 2011 ......................... 16.58 Normal Jan. 1 - This date ........................ 20.14 Oklahoma City annual precip. is ....... 35.85
ALSO ... REDUCING YOUR BILL Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. offers programs that help lower monthly costs. I Average monthly billing allows customers to level out the costs by spreading it out over the year. This plan allows the bill to remain about the same from month to month, and instead of paying a much higher bill during peak months, those costs are spread out and included into future bills, said OG&E spokeswoman Kathleen O’Shea. I Another program is guaranteed monthly billing, which allows customers to pay the same price for electricity every month. Customers can enroll in the program online at www.oge .com or by calling (800) 272-9741. Public Service Co. of Oklahoma offers similar programs. PSO customers can enroll at psoklahoma.com. M.A. SMITH AND JAY F. MARKS, BUSINESS WRITERS
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Today H L Sky 90 68 T-storm 95 69 Sunny 66 57 PtCldy 98 78 T-storm 88 67 PtCldy 90 63 Sunny 100 78 T-storm 74 63 T-storm 87 59 PtCldy 85 64 PtCldy 93 78 Sunny 76 58 PtCldy 97 77 T-storm 88 61 PtCldy 84 59 T-storm 76 61 PtCldy 76 59 PtCldy 86 59 T-storm 86 60 PtCldy 104 80 Sunny 88 62 T-storm 78 65 T-storm 78 59 PtCldy 74 53 PtCldy 93 73 PtCldy 70 51 Cloudy 86 57 T-storm 86 55 Cloudy 88 75 PtCldy 97 77 T-storm 84 62 PtCldy 100 74 T-storm 94 75 T-storm 87 76 T-storm 97 80 Sunny 98 76 T-storm 75 63 PtCldy 92 70 PtCldy 98 79 T-storm 91 78 T-storm 73 59 Sunny 79 58 PtCldy 96 77 T-storm 98 74 T-storm 96 78 T-storm 87 66 PtCldy 82 72 T-storm 90 66 PtCldy 102 83 Sunny 79 58 PtCldy 80 57 PtCldy 70 56 Shwrs 86 63 PtCldy 96 75 T-storm 84 56 Sunny 90 71 T-storm 89 62 Sunny 98 77 Sunny 70 65 PtCldy 64 54 Shwrs 73 48 Sunny 66 54 Shwrs 100 77 T-storm 73 68 T-storm 76 51 T-storm 91 79 T-storm 98 75 T-storm 94 69 PtCldy 98 75 T-storm
Tomorrow H L Sky 92 70 PtCldy 100 70 Sunny 68 55 Shwrs 93 76 T-storm 81 66 Sunny 91 61 Sunny 99 75 T-storm 85 68 T-storm 83 58 PtCldy 84 63 Sunny 93 78 Sunny 80 61 Sunny 94 76 T-storm 91 63 PtCldy 89 58 Sunny 78 64 PtCldy 80 63 Sunny 92 60 Sunny 86 65 PtCldy 103 80 PtCldy 94 63 Sunny 83 73 T-storm 80 62 PtCldy 66 53 T-storm 96 79 PtCldy 64 50 Shwrs 85 59 Sunny 85 55 PtCldy 88 75 PtCldy 96 77 PtCldy 85 65 PtCldy 96 75 T-storm 93 75 T-storm 90 76 T-storm 95 81 Sunny 97 75 T-storm 73 61 PtCldy 93 70 PtCldy 97 77 T-storm 92 79 PtCldy 75 62 PtCldy 79 67 T-storm 95 76 T-storm 95 75 T-storm 93 79 T-storm 83 67 Sunny 89 75 T-storm 84 66 Sunny 102 80 Sunny 82 60 Sunny 81 55 Sunny 74 57 Shwrs 82 61 Sunny 88 70 PtCldy 79 58 PtCldy 89 73 T-storm 89 62 Sunny 97 77 PtCldy 69 65 PtCldy 64 55 Shwrs 76 51 PtCldy 70 55 Shwrs 99 77 T-storm 87 73 T-storm 74 52 T-storm 91 78 T-storm 98 76 PtCldy 87 68 Sunny 104 75 PtCldy
Arbuckle: Western auction includes ranch collectibles FROM PAGE 1B
“There’s lots of collectors on the East Coast for Texas and Oklahoma stuff,” he said. “The cowboy (collectibles) are extremely popular on the East Coast.” Among the artifacts is an official copy of President James K. Polk’s report on the state of the Union delivered to “the two houses of Congress” Dec. 2, 1845. Annexation of Texas and diplomacy “between the U.S. and British Govts over Oregon” dominate the message, then delivered in writing, not in person. The United States and Great Britain divided the “Oregon Country” in 1846, which set Oregon, Washington, Idaho and parts of Wyoming and Montana on their way to statehood. “It’s as rare as anything you’ve ever heard of,” said Tom Burks, former curator of the Texas Ranger Museum in Waco, who has been helping Garrett get ready for the auctions. Saturday’s auction will have several items related to the famed 101Ranch: the costume and gear of Antonio (Joe) Esquivel, a charro — Mexican cowboy — who rode for the ranch and its
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Wild West show. Esquivel was an occasional star of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, which the 101 Ranch acquired in 1916. Items include his leather trunk, ornate sombrero, embroidered pants, a pair of high-topped black boots and his ornate revolver with gold-plated hammer and trigger, ivory grip and backstrap engraved with “Antonio Esquivel.” Esquivel isn’t a wellknown 101Ranch name like Will Rogers and Tom Mix, who were connected to the 101 Ranch Wild West Show through the budding motion picture industry in the 1920s. But selling his gear could still help Garrett and Arbuckle Wilderness out with their problems. Any of the auction items could fetch a hefty price, said Joe Glaser, secretarytreasurer of the 101 Ranch
Oldtimers Association, which owns the last remnant of the ranch and a museum in Ponca City. A pair of pistols the ranch show gave to Roy Rogers, engraved with his name, brought $100,000 not long ago, Glaser said, and a panoramic photo of the ranch popped up in El Paso, Texas, awhile back and fetched $32,000. But then, one 101 Ranch postcard sold for $770 on eBay, while a similar one didn’t attract the minimum bid of $50, he said. “It’s something that you can’t foretell. There’s been so much of that stuff sold. Some sells at reasonable prices. Some of it sells so high you can’t believe somebody would pay so much for it,” he said. That last bunch is especially welcome in Davis Friday and Saturday, to hear Garrett tell it.
Gas: Chesapeake plans to invest in U.S. infrastructure FROM PAGE 1B
million dollars a minute to import oil. “And so I think you have to stop this hollowing out of the wealth of America. I think you have to stop taxing Americans at $4 a gallon basically to pay for this fuel that we can provide ourselves at half the cost.” McClendon testified before a U.S. House committee three years ago for a bill
that would provide tax credits for using natural gas as a fuel for vehicles, purchasing natural gas vehicles and installing natural gas refueling stations. That bill has stalled in Congress for years and now faces stronger headwinds than ever because of the focus on saving money and eliminating tax breaks. Energy investor T. Boone Pickens has been aggressively pushing the bill,
which is sponsored this year by Reps. John Sullivan, RTulsa and Dan Boren, DMuskogee. The bill has more than 180 co-sponsors, but has not moved through committees. “We think it should break loose and we think it will become law,” McClendon said Tuesday. McClendon met Tuesday with Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Tulsa, who is not a supporter of the tax breaks.
“The case for natural gas is so strong that they don’t need government subsidies,” Inhofe said Tuesday. Inhofe said he has been working to clear government red tape for natural gas vehicles, and he praised McClendon for investing private-sector money in the effort to get more on the road. Pickens has argued that refueling stations would follow naturally when
more natural gas vehicles were on the road, at least in part because of the proposed tax breaks. But Chesapeake isn’t waiting for the bill to pass. It is investing $150 million in a company founded by Pickens — Clean Energy Fuels Corp. — to build refueling pumps across the country for trucks running on liquefied natural gas. McClendon said the company surveyed the sit-
uation and realized the company couldn’t build trucks that run on natural gas or force Congress to approve the tax incentives. “But what we could do is take some of our capital and put it to work building an infrastructure that I think lays the foundation for what we call the natural gas highway system,” McClendon said. “With that in place, everything else will follow it.”
ALL-STAR GAME
NBA
NL takes early lead
Rockets to hire Sampson as assistant
Milwaukee’s Prince Fielder hit a three-run homer giving the NL a 4-1 lead against the AL through six innings. Go to NewsOK.com for game results
More than two months after Kelvin Sampson interviewed for the Rockets head coaching job, he ended up on the Rockets’ bench, anyway. PAGE 4C
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Impact goes beyond the Final Fours Mike Baldwin
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Walt Anderson officiated the most recent Super Bowl. AP PHOTO
Big 12 football officials are in good hands THE OFFICIALS | PRIDE, PREPARATION IMPRESSIVE
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COMMENTARY
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ANSAS CITY, Mo. — Walt Anderson likes replay review. You’d think instant replay would be the enemy of a football official. Who among us likes to be overruled? Who likes to be told we’re wrong? Who likes technology to usurp our authority? But Anderson, who as the referee in the most recent Super Bowl and the Big 12’s coordinator of officials is the highest-statured zebra in football today, embraces replay. For the best of reasons. He likes to get things right. “I love instant replay,” Anderson said. “I think, in all honesty, it has helped us avoid interjecting officials into the game.” Anderson’s theory: replay keeps officials out of Monday (or Sunday) morning headlines. Fixes catastrophic missed calls. “Our role is to officiate the game,” Anderson said. “It’s not to be part of the game.” It’s easy to bash the refs. Easy to rail against a pass interference call or an excessive-celebration flag. Easy to demand the head of Jack Sisco or Gordon Riese or Ed Hochuli after a bobbling of gridiron justice. But spend a day at the Big 12 officiating clinic, as I did last weekend, and you realize that officials are
Craig Brown was Lon Kruger’s first recruit at Florida. From Steelton, Pa., a Harrisburg suburb, Brown grew up nearly 1,000 miles from Gainesville. When he arrived on campus, Brown discovered football was the only sport Gator fans really cared about. But the basketball program’s obstacles were much deeper than apathy. There were still aftershocks from the Norm Sloan era. Probation hampered the rebuilding process. The campus was also in mourning over a series of murders in the summer of 1990.
Florida coach Lon Kruger cuts a piece of the net after his Gators defeated Boston College in the NCAA East Regional finals on March 27, 1994. AP PHOTO
“I didn’t know what to expect but I didn’t expect all that was going on,” Brown said. “That first year you kind of had your head down. But coach Kruger al-
The Oklahoman is providing an in-depth look at Lon Kruger, hired in April as OU’s men’s basketball coach. The seven-part series will include his playing days at Kansas State and coaching stops at Kansas State, Florida, Illinois, UNLV and the Atlanta Hawks. The series ends with former teammates, players, coaches and broadcasters predicting how Kruger will fare at OU. Monday — Playing days Tuesday — Kansas State I Wednesday — Florida Thursday — Illinois Friday — Atlanta Hawks Saturday — UNLV Sunday — Oklahoma
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Speed thrills
The watch list for the Lombardi Award, given to the nation’s top college football lineman or linebacker, was released on Tuesday, and several state players made the list. From Oklahoma, linemen Stephen Good and Ben Habern were on the list, along with linebacker Travis Lewis. Lineman Levy Adcock and linebacker Shaun Lewis were Oklahoma State’s representatives on the list. Former Auburn defensive lineman Nick Fairley won the award last season.
INSIDE OU FOOTBALL
Austin Box’s death has raised questions about how university athletic departments help athletes deal with painful injuries. PAGE 1A
WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
U.S. READY FOR SEMIFINALS After beating rival Brazil, the U.S. women are one game away from reaching their first World Cup final since 1999 — the last time they won soccer’s biggest prize — and the only thing on their minds now is beating France. PAGE 5C
Putnam City running back Casey Curtis comes in at No. 12 in our Super 30 list. PHOTO BY CHRIS LANDSBERGER, THE OKLAHOMAN
NO. 12 | PUTNAM CITY RUNNING BACK CASEY CURTIS HAS SPEED TO SPARE
Scott Wright Casey Curtis played receiver as a sophomore, but burst onto the scene after shifting to running back last season. He finished with 1,659 yards and 21 touchdowns.
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HIGH SCHOOLS
Berry Tramel spent last Saturday having free reign at the Big 12 officiating clinic in Kansas City, Mo. His three-part series of columns began Tuesday: Tuesday: The excessive celebration penalty undergoes another transformation. Wednesday: The pride and preparation of officials for doing their craft is impressive. Thursday: What you might not know about the penalties you see called in your favorite sport.
LOMBARDI WATCH LIST
POLICE SEEK SOURCE OF BOX DRUGS
SEE KRUGER, PAGE 3C
SEE TRAMEL, PAGE 4C
Hanging with the Zebras
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
College scouts know Casey Curtis is fast. Really fast But Curtis knows that really doesn’t matter. Running a 4.32-second 40yard dash — which the Putnam City running back did at a Rivals.com combine in May — brings recruiting attention, but performance brings scholarship offers. “It all depends on how I play in the game,” said Curtis, No. 12 on The Oklahoman’s Super 30 list of the top recruits in the state. Curtis played slot receiver for the Pirates as a sophomore, but burst onto the scene after shifting to running back last season. He finished with 1,659 yards and 21 touchdowns on 207 carries, an average of 8.0 yards per attempt. “Right after his sophomore
PHOTO BY STEVE SISNEY, THE OKLAHOMAN ARCHIVE
year, at the Yukon team camp, we started working him some at tailback,” Putnam City head coach John Wofford said. “He just went off at that camp. Nobody could touch him, and we realized, we’ve got something special on our hands.” With a new quarterback and several new offensive linemen around him, the usually quiet Curtis knows he needs to be
more vocal on the field this fall. “I need to be a better leader on the field. Not just be there, be a leader and help my team,” he said. “Getting to the playoffs is a huge goal for us this year. We’ve been trying to get there the last two years and fell short. So we’re hoping to go this year.” Vocal leadership isn’t a natural SEE CURTIS, PAGE 2C
U.S. goalie Hope Solo practices in preparation for Wednesday’s semifinal match. AP PHOTO
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MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL 8 p.m.
AAA All-Star Game
MLBN (Cox 264)
GOLF 3.a.m. (Th.)
British Open
ESPN (Cox 29)
WOMEN’S SOCCER 10:30 a.m. 1:15 p.m.
IFYR RESULTS
Monday’s P.M. Results Barrel Racing 1. Kynder Starr, Catoosa 16.634 2. Maddie Lang, Harper, Texas 16.682 3. Ashtin Nicole Geiger, Williston, Fl. 16.746 Also 5. McKenna Kring Wagner, Broken Arrow 16.774 9. Shelby Cox, Wyandotte 16.880 12. Tyrney Steinhoff, Vinita 16.913 Pole Bending 1. Skylar Ragan, Pattonville, Texas, 20.171 2. Loni Lester, Gonzales, Texas, 20.349 3. Darby Shope, Longville, La., 20.472 Breakaway Roping 1. Sarah Walker, Keenesburg, Co., 2.2 T2. Alexis Allen, Alva, 2.3 T2. Allison Danley, Graham, Texas, 2.3 Also T5. Ceri McCaffery, Wayne, 2.6 T8. Kory Ann McCuiston, Geronimo, 2.8 Goat Tying 1. Kelsey Graf, Vernon, Texas, 7.6
7 p.m.
Manchester Unitedvs. New England
ESPN2 (Cox 28)
WNBA Noon
Phoenix at Minnesota
NBATV (Cox 256)
ESPY AWARDS 8 p.m.
ESPY’S Awards
ESPN (Cox 29)
BICYCLING 7 a.m.
Tour de France
VS (Cox 251)
RATINGS WATCH TNT’s coverage of NASCAR’s Quaker State 400 on Saturday night at Kentucky Speedway topped the week with a local 4.3 rating. Sports events July 5-11 I 1. Quaker State 400, NASCAR Sprint Cup, Saturday, TNT, 4.3. I 2. John Deere Classic fourth round, PGA Tour, Sunday, KWTV-9, 3.1. I 3. Home Run Derby, MLB, Monday, ESPN, 2.4. I 4. John Deere Classic third round, PGA Tour, Saturday, 1.9. I 5. Feed the Children 400, NASCAR Nationwide, Friday, ESPN, 1.7.
IFYR continues in Shawnee Logan Hunter of Woodward flies off the side of his bull during Tuesday morning’s go-round at the 19th annual International Finals Youth Rodeo at the Heart of Oklahoma Exposition Center in Shawnee. PHOTO BY JIM BECKEL, THE OKLAHOMAN 2. Randi Simpson, Las Cruces, N.M., 8.1 3. Jacoby Hotsenpiller, Louisberg, Kansas, 8.4 Also T8. Kasey Campbell, Haworth, 8.8 10. Jacie Hudspeth, Aston, 8.9 Calf Roping 1. Tylo Kirkpatrick, Crosbyton, Texas, 9.7 2. Bryce Barney, Carthage, Texas, 9.7 T3. Tanner Headstream, Stephenville, Texas, 9.9 T3. Landyn Duncan, Foster, 9.9 Steer Wrestling 1. Troy Lee Keaton, Sealy, Texas, 3.8 2. Jarrett New, Wimberley, Texas, 4.4 3. Tanner Stec, Bassett, NE, 4/9 Also T5. Dillon Brewer, McAlester, 5.2 T12. Levi Rudd, Chelsea, 5.6 Saddle Bronc 1. Tyler Baeza, Beaver Dam, AZ, 81.0 2. Cody Hamm, Minneapolis, MN, 76.0 3. Dylan Henson, Bloofield, N.M., 69.5 Also 6. Cody Goertzen, Tuttle, 63.0 10. Nicholas Shenold, Glencoe, 54.0 Bareback Bronc 1. Blaine Kaufman, Pretty Prairie, Kansas, 75.0 T2. Jake Choate, Dayton, Texas, 73.0 T2. Mark Justin Kreder, Collinsville, 73.0 Also T4. Ty Pellam, Asher, 70.5 T9. Stetson Cravens, Eufaula, 64.0 Bull Riding 1. Cody Johnson, Stephenville, Texas, 82.5 2. Casey Lane Farrington, Collbran, CO, 81.0 3. Justin Garrett Sibley, Perryville, AR, 79.5 Also 8. Colter White, Tyrone, 68.0 14. Cody Rodeo Tyler, Perry, 61.5 Team Roping T1. Tate Kirchenslager, Yuma, CO.-Jake Smith, Broken Arrow, 5.5 T1. Quinton Parchman-Cumberland City, TNLane Mitchell, Bolivar, TN, 5.5 3. Brit Ellerman, Ft. Lupton, CO-Marcus Ban-
Curtis: RB has speed to spare FROM PAGE 1C
role for Curtis, but he has accepted it well. “He is a quiet kid, but he has really taken on that leadership role,” Wofford said. “We’ve stressed that to him, ‘This is your team this year, and it’s your time to step up and be a leader.’” At 5-foot-8 and 185 pounds, Curtis knows his size is a key element in his recruiting, and he’s hoping to add some muscle before September arrives. Still, despite his stature, Curtis’ strength is one of his more underrated features. “People see his size and overlook how strong he is,” Wofford said. “He’s one of our best lifters. He’s a very physical runner. You can watch him on film breaking tackles, dropping his head and going through people.” But ultimately, it’s his blazing quickness that makes Curtis stand out. There aren’t many players in the state who can keep up with him in the open
ESPN (Cox 29) ESPN (Cox 29)
MEN’S SOCCER
Shawnee Youth Rodeo Tuesday’s A.M. Results Barrel Racing 1. Shay Spitz, Lamar, Co. 16.466 2. J’Nae Mullen, Maysville 16.568 3. Kynder Starr, Catoosa, 16.634 Also 6. Kyra Stierwalt, Leedey 16.707 9. McKenna Kring Wagner, Broken Arrow 16.774 12. Sara Atwood, Choctaw 16.813 Pole Bending 1. Skyler Ragan, Pattonville, Texas 20.171 2. Loni Lester, Gonzales, Texas 20.349 3. Samantha Corzine, Center, Co. 20.395 Breakaway Roping 1. Sarah Walker, Kennesburg, Co. 2.2 T2. Alexis Allen, Alva 2.3 T2. Allison Danley, Graham, Texas 2.3 Also T7. Ceri McCaffery, Wayne 2.6 T10. Kory Ann McCuiston, Geronimo 2.8 T14. Hollee Koester, Wellston 3.0 Goat Tying 1. Kelsey Graf, Vernon, Texas 7.6 2. Shania Johnston, Red Owl, SD. 7.7 3. Randi Simpson, Las Cruces, NM 8.1 Also T4. Keeley Jo Weger, Mead 8.2 Calf Roping 1. Legend Mills, Quitman, AR. 9.0 2. Aaron Custer, Elk City 9.2 3. Robby Hollis, Sealy, Texas 9.4 Also T6. Landyn Duncan, Foster 9.9 8. Dillon Brewer, McAlester 10 Steer Wrestling 1. Troy Lee Keaton, Sealy, Texas 3.8 2. Jarrett New, Wimberley, Texas 4.4 3. John Lee Poplarville, MS. 4.7 Also T7. Dillon Brewer, McAlester 5.2 T14. Levi Rudd, Chelsea 5.6 Saddle Bronc 1. Tyler Baeza, Beaver Dam, AZ. 81 2. Cody Hamm, Minneapolis, MN. 76 3. Landon Cappel, Reeves, LA. 73 Also 9. Cody Goertzen, Tuttle 63 13. Nicholas Shenold, Glencoe 54 Bareback Bronc 1. Blaine Kaufman, Pretty Prairie, KS. 75 T2. Jake Choate, Dayton, Texas 73 T2. Mark Justin Kreder, Collinsville 73 Also T4. Ty Pellam, Asher 70.5 T10. Stetson Cravens, Eufaula, 64 Bull Riding 1. Cody Johnson, Stephenville, Texas 82.5 2. Casey Lane Farrington, Collbran, Co. 81 3. Justin Garrett Sibley, Perryville, AR. 79.5 Also 13. Colter White, Tyrone 68 Team Roping T1. Matt Silva, Tularosa, NM and Levi Silva, Tularosa, NM, 5.5 T1. Tate Kirchenslager, Yuma Co. and Jake Smith, Broken Bow 5.5 T1. quinton Parchman, Cumberland City, TN. And Lane Mitchell, Boliver, TN. 5.5 Also 6. Dylan Gordon, Comanche and Gage Williams, Foster 5.8 T7. Dillon Luman, Pittsburg and Tanner Ward, Wister 6.2 T14. Aaron Custer, Elk City and Jake Harris, Canyon, Texas 7.4
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ister, Brighton, CO, 5.6 Also 4. Dillon Luman, Pittsburg-Tanner Ward, Wister, 6.2 T9. Aaron Custer, Elk City-Jake Harrish, Canyon, Texas, 7.4 T13. Nick Thompson, Stillwater and Chase Johnson, Snyder, Texas 7.6
Monday’s A.M. Results Barrel Racing 1. Kynder Starr, Catoosa 16.634 2. Maddie Lang, Harper, Texas 16.682 3. Ashtin Nicole Geiger, Williston, Fl. 16.746 Also 5. McKenna Kring Wagner, Broken Arrow 16.774 7. Shelby Cox, Wyandotte 16.880 10. Tyrney Steinhoff, Vinita 16.913 Pole Bending 1. Loni Lester, Gonzales, Texas 20.349 2. Darby Shope, Longville, LA. 20.472 3. Heather Hassler, Madisonville, Texas 20.525 Also 14. Ceri McCaffery, Wayne 21.208 15. Cheyenne McGuire, Webbers Falls 21.264 Breakaway Roping 1. Sarah Walker, Keenesburg, Co. 2.2 2. Alexis Allen, Alva 2.3 3. Deven Riggins, Weatherford, Texas 2.5 Also T4. Ceri McCaffery, Wayne 2.6 11. Kayla Parks, Sallisaw 3.4 T12. Jolyn Easterwood, Fort Supply 3.5 Goat Tying 1. Kelsey Graf, Vernon, Texas 7.6 2. Jacoby Hotsenpiller, Lousiburg, KS. 8.4 3. Courtney Singleton, Pueblo, CO. 8.5 Also T6. Kasey Campbell, Haworth, 8.8 8. Jacie Hudspeth, Aston 8.9 T15. J’Nae Mullen, Maysville 9.8 Calf Roping 1. Tylo Kirkpatrick, Crosbyton, Texas 9.7
2. Tanner Headstream, Stephenville, Texas 9.9 3. Garrett King, Bentonville, AR. 10.1 Also 12. Bryson Dean, Sechrist, Apache 11 Steer Wrestling 1. Troy Lee Keaton, Sealy, Texas 3.8 2. Jarrett New, Wimberley, Texas 4.4 3. Trey Moore, Anniston, AL. 5.1 Also T8. Levi Rudd, Chelsea 5.6 13. Hunter Washburn, Shawnee 6.2 Saddle Bronc 1. Dylan Henson, Bloomfield, NM 69.5 2. Brack Littlepage, Mineral Wells, Texas 64.5 3. Garrett Smith, Rexburg, ID. 62 Also 6. Nicholas Shenold, Glencoe 52 Bareback Bronc 1. Blaine Kaufman, Pretty Praire, KS. 75 2. Jake Choate, Dayton, Texas 73 T3. Ty Pellam, Asher 70.5 T8. Stetson Cravens, Eufaula 64 Bull Riding 1. Casey Lane Farrington, Collbran, CO. 81 2. Justin Garrett Sibley, Perryville, AR. 79.5 3. Sterling Furr, Boerne, Texas 72.5 Also 6. Colter White, Tyrone 68 Team Roping 1. Tate Kirchenslager, Yuma, Co. and Jake Smith, Broken Bow 5.5 2. Brit Ellerman, Fort Lupton, Co. and Marcus Banister, Brighton, Co. 5.6 3. Clark Adcock, Smithville, TN. And Stetson Powers, Decaturville, TN. 6.4 Also T6. Nick Thompson, Stillwater and Chase Johnson, Snyder, Texas 7.6 11. Tyler Branstetter, Chelsea and Kelton McMillen, Kim, Co. 8.6
THE OKLAHOMAN’S SUPER 30 NO. 12: CASEY CURTIS I School: Putnam City I Height: 5-8 I Weight: 185 I Position: Running back I Offers: None yet, but Oklahoma State, Missouri, Kansas State, Arizona and Ohio are among the programs showing serious interest.
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Putnam City running back Casey Curtis is receiving interest from several Division I programs, including Oklahoma State. PHOTO BY NATE BILLINGS, THE OKLAHOMAN
field. “His speed is great, and his lateral speed is off the charts,” Wofford said. “He goes from zero to 60 real, real quick. “There’s a difference between being fast and being quick. He’s one of those rare kids who has both.”
A defensive back that shows highlight films still mean a lot in today’s recruiting battles. Came from out of nowhere to blow up in the spring and has committed to Tulsa. Find out who is No. 11 in Thursday’s Oklahoman. Super 30 I 12. Casey Curtis, RB, Putnam City I 13. Kevin Peterson, DB, Wagoner I 14. Andrew Long, RB, Southmoore I 15. Victor Williams, DB, Muskogee I 16. Sheldon Wilson, RB, Anadarko I 17. Daniel Burton, OL, Putnam City North I 18. Conner Sherwood, LB, Cascia Hall I 19. Zac Veatch, TE, Broken Arrow I 20. Ronnie Davis, DB, Midwest City I 21. Kason Key, QB, Owasso I 22. Adrian McDonald, ATH, Lawton Eisenhower I 23. Cole Swayze, QB, Purcell I 24. Corben Jones, QB, Yukon I 25. Markus Wakefield, DL, Heritage Hall I 26. Darrack Harger, QB, Sand Springs I 27. Keon Hatcher, WR, Owasso I 28. Brandon Taylor, QB, Mustang I 29. Marc Robinson, LB, Millwood I 30. George Kittle, WR, Norman I Note: Missed a Super 30 story? Catch everything from photos to videos to stories on all the Super 30 players at NewsOK.com/Varsity.
Pitcher Dylan Bundy of Owasso was honored along with Georgia soccer player Morgan Brian as the national prep athletes of the year Tuesday in Los Angeles. Bundy, who was selected fourth overall by Baltimore in June’s major league draft, became the first baseball player to win the award in nine years. Bundy went 11-0 with a 0.20 ERA and 158 strikeouts in 71 innings for Owasso High. Edmond track athlete Gunnar Nixon was also up for the award, which is sponsored by Gatorade.
BLACKMON TO BE ON SPORTS SCIENCE As the college football season draws closer, Oklahoma State, and specifically star wide receiver Justin Blackmon, continue to gain national attention. This time the Cowboys junior wideout will be taping a segment for ESPN Sport Science. He is traveling to Los Angeles today and will be taping tomorrow morning. Gavin Lang, OSU football sports information director, said he was not notified when it would air, but was told the segment would be most like the one former Florida cornerback and current Cleveland Brown Joe Haden taped.
‘The Franchise’ best of network’s alternative programming The networks often break out alternative programming the night after the All-Star Game because there are no baseball telecasts to compete against. I The debut of Showtime’s “The Franchise: A Season With the San Francisco Giants” at 9 p.m. is the best of the lot, taking fans behind the scenes of one of the quirkiest teams in baseball, from spring training to an eventual World Series championship. The docu-series from MLB Productions looks at the personal and professional lives of several players including Brian Wilson, Tim Lincecum, Pablo Sandoval and Buster Posey. Manager Bruce Bochy and general manager Brian Sabean provide insight. Wilson, the Giants’ ace closer known for his beard, discusses how he uses the media to build his persona as a flake. I HBO also debuts a methodical 90-minute baseball documentary, “The Curious Case of Curt Flood,” at 8 p.m. A seven-time Gold Glove-winning center fielder in his career from 1956-71, Flood’s biggest impact was in the courtroom. He was the first major league player to challenge baseball’s reserve clause, opening up the sport to free agency. However, the case took a major toll on his life. An alcoholic, he fell into debt, left the country and lost contact with his children. He died of throat cancer at age 59. “Every player in every team sport owes a debt of gratitude to Curt Flood,” HBO Sports President Ross Greenburg said. “His battle to win free agency and have the right to choose where to work is an inspiring story.” I Seth Meyers of “Saturday Night Live” hosts ESPN’s glitzy ESPY award show for the second year in a row from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. Adrian Peterson and Blake Griffin, who is nominated for Breakthrough Athlete, are among the athletes scheduled to attend the 19th annual celebration of the best moments in sports. OSU cornerback Brodrick Brown is a finalist for Play of the Year for his amazing diving play in the Bedlam football game. Brown leapt out of bounds and tipped a Landry Jones pass to Shaun Lewis for an interception.
SHORT TAKES I “Friday Night Lights,” one of the best sports series of all-time, wraps up its five-year run on NBC at 7 p.m. Friday. The good news for “FNL” fans is ESPN Classic is rerunning the episodes, beginning with a Season 1 marathon on Thursday and Friday. Beginning Thursday, July 21, ESPN Classic will begin airing each season in sequential order with episodes at 8 and 9 p.m. Kyle Chandler stars as the head coach of a Dillon, Texas, football team, and Connie Britton plays his wife. Season 5 included a recruiting visit to mythical Oklahoma Tech by star quarterback Vince Howard (Michael B. Jordan). I Wednesday night, Fox Sports Oklahoma will have a marathon of the “Boys in the Hall” series that offers personal glimpses of Hall of Fame players. The schedule includes Duke Snider, 6:30 p.m.; Bob Feller, 7 p.m.; Frank Robinson, 7:30 p.m.; Buck O’Neil, 8 p.m.; Warren Spahn, 8:30 p.m.; Harmon Killebrew, 9 p.m.; Robin Roberts, 9:30 p.m. BY MEL BRACHT
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Northwestern Oklahoma State’s bid to join NCAA Division II is on hold for at least one year. The NAIA university in Alva learned Tuesday the NCAA has denied its application to begin the candidacy process to become a Division II member. Northwestern had hoped to start that process with the 2011-12 school year. NWOSU President Janet Cunningham said the school will reapply at the next available opportunity..
New University of Oklahoma head wrestling coach Mark Cody has announced his coaching staff. Cody has retained assistant coach Michael Lightner and added former Sooner wrestler Jared Frayer and Oklahoma State assistant Tyrone Lewis to the staff. Frayer, a two-time All-American at OU, was the 2002 NCAA runner-up at 149 pounds. He had been an assistant wrestling coach at the University of Wisconsin the past two seasons. Lewis, a native of El Reno, has been an assistant coach at OSU the past three seasons. He wrestled at OSU from 201-2004 where he won two Big 12 titles and was the NCAA runner-up in 2004. Lewis is joining the squad as a volunteer assistant. He previously worked with Cody on the OSU staff when both were assistant coaches in Stillwater. Lightner is a native of Marlow and four-time All-American for the Sooners. He won the national title in 2001. He was an assistant coach the past two seasons under Jack Spates, who retired as OU’s head wrestling coach after last season. “Michael Lightner was a guy who the guys on the team mentioned to me right when I took the job,” said Cody, who was the head coach at American University in Washington, D.C., before accepting the OU position.
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OSU FAN APPRECIATION DAY SET FOR AUGUST 6 Oklahoma State will hold its annual fan appreciation day on August 6th inside Gallagher-Iba Arena. Doors open at 1:30 p.m. and all coaches and players will be available for a two-hour autograph session starting at 2. The team will be split into four zones throughout the arena, giving fans the ability to get one item signed. No photographs with the coaches or athletes will be allowed. Parking is available in the Boone Pickens Stadium lots and will be free. The soccer team will also be available at the event.
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’93-94 Gators bonded in Australia BY MIKE BALDWIN Staff Writer mbaldwin@opubco.com
Team chemistry is a trademark for Lon Kruger teams. Giving him a head start produced the most memorable season of his distinguished career. Months before Florida made an unexpected run to the 1994 Final Four, the Gators played summer exhibition games for two weeks in Australia. “That’s when it all started,” said Craig Brown, a senior guard on the ’94 team. “We really rolled into preseason with some momentum.” Coming off a 16-12 season that ended with a first-round NIT loss, national analysts didn’t forecast big things for the Gators. Bolstered by momentum gained during the summer, Florida started the season 14-2. The Gators finally cracked the national polls in late January. They tied for the SEC East regularseason title and finished as
Lon Kruger to the Florida Gators to the 1994 Final Four. AP PHOTO
the runner-up in the SEC Tournament. “We didn’t have any superstars or McDonald’s All-Americans,” Brown said. “We were just a bunch of guys committed
to playing tough, hard defense. We believed in the coaching staff. After we got back (from Australia), we knew we had a chance to have a special season.” Orlando Magic media
relations director Joel Glass was the basketball sports information director when Kruger was at Florida. “(Kruger) creates a family atmosphere where everyone truly cares about one another on and off the court,” Glass said. “His teams always have great chemistry. They don’t care necessarily how many points they score. They care about winning. ... That year it started during the trip to Australia.” Bill Koss, who has been involved in Florida basketball for nearly 40 years, helped write a book on the history of the program. When Kruger told him on the Australia trip he really liked the makeup of the team, Koss took it seriously. “I learned if Lon tells you something, you can take it to the bank,” Koss said. “He knows what he’s talking about. Craig Brown and Andrew DeClercq were really the glue to that team. You could tell on that trip that team was already starting to bond.”
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ways told us things would get better.” Kruger’s first Florida team finished 11-17. The next two teams went to the NIT. The fourth season — a Final Four season — was magical. “Lon brought incredible credibility to a school where football has always dominated,” said Bill Koss, who has been involved with Florida basketball for more than 40 years. “There’s no question it’s a football school. It always will be. But Lon was the first to really connect people with basketball.” Koss played at Florida and was a radio and television analyst for decades. To fully appreciate the 1994 Final Four season, Koss said outsiders must be educated on the program’s first 75 years, which he helped chronicle in a book: “Pond Birds, the history of Florida basketball.” “Pond birds” is a term football coach Steve Spurrier used to describe tall, lanky basketball players. The Gators never played in the NCAA Tournament until 1987. Sloan took the
Gators to their only three NCAA Tournament appearances at the time in the late 1980s. Sloan compiled 235 wins during two different stints at Florida, but he also put the program in a deep hole. An NCAA investigation placed the basketball program on two years probation for extra benefits, recruiting, transportation and unethical violations. Don DeVoe spent four years trying to revive the program but failed, compiling a 53-64 record. “When coach Kruger arrived the program was in disarray,” said Jeff Guin, a student manager at Florida who later joined Kruger’s Illinois staff. “It wasn’t just wins and losses. It was NCAA issues. Few people came to games. No one really cared.” Koss said that’s where Kruger’s impact went beyond the Final Four season. Kruger was involved in the community. He spoke to students. He embraced Gator nation’s love for football. “More than any coach I’ve ever been around Lon makes everyone feel part of the program,” Koss said. “He made Florida basket-
ball fun.” As attendance improved, Kruger spent the next four years molding unheralded recruits and producing a team in 199394 that would set a thenschool record of 29 wins. Brown was a starting guard on that team and said players were prepared for every possible situation. “Coach Kruger was always designing plays, coming up with new wrinkles to give us an advantage,” Brown said. “He was always tweaking things. He’d come up with unique things during a game and had the ability to communicate that with his players. “But it’s also was the way he treats people. That’s why we had such great chemistry. He was a door-is-always-open coach right from the start. He stressed doing things the right way. He wasn’t a yeller. He wouldn’t belittle you. But he got his point across.” Brown learned that lesson when he tried to dribble between his legs, the ball caroming off his leg out of bounds. “He stopped practice
and said, ‘Keep it basic. That’s not what we do,’ ” Brown said. “I got the message. He rewarded guys who did things the right way. And he wasn’t just about today. He was about making a difference after we were done playing.” Only two of Kruger’s six Florida teams played in the NCAA Tournament, but he still owns the second best winning percentage in school history behind Billy Donovan. Kruger’s impact at Florida is overshadowed by Donovan’s success the past 15 years. Donovan has won 360 games, made 11 NCAA Tournament appearances and won back-to-back national championships along with three Final Four trips. But if it wasn’t for Kruger, who knows where Florida basketball would be today? “(Rick) Pitino told Billy, ‘Absolutely do not take that job. It’s a football school,’ ” Koss said. “Billy has told me several times he would not have taken the job if Lon hadn’t accomplished what he accomplished.”
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There’s trouble brewing in the Pac-12 BY JON WILNER San Jose Mercury News
The inaugural Pac-12 football season could end up making the wrong kind of headlines. We already know that USC, a favorite in the South Division, will be home for the holidays because of NCAA sanctions. Now Oregon, a frontrunner in the North along with Stanford, is sliding toward the NCAA doghouse because of its relationship with a Houstonbased man who might be a scout ... or a booster ... or a street agent. However he is ultimately defined by the NCAA, Will Lyles is a problem for Oregon and, by extension, the Pac-12. Lyles first made headlines in March, when Yahoo! reported that he received $25,000 from Oregon for scouting services — well above the standard fee — and the NCAA launched an inquiry into his relationship with the school. Three months later, in response to a public records request, Oregon released information pertaining to Lyles and his company, Complete Scouting Services. Included was a document titled “2011 National Package.” One problem: The report didn’t include any prospects from the class of
Oregon coach Chip Kelly is under fire for his school’s relationship with Will Lyles. AP PHOTO
2011. That raised an immediate and unsettling question: If not for information about 2011 recruits, what did Oregon pay for? The NCAA permits schools to pay football scouting services for information on prospects, and Lyles told Yahoo! that he had business relationships with two other schools: One is Louisiana State; the other is Cal, which, he said, paid his company $5,000 for information on players in Texas. (Cal athletic director Sandy Barbour and football coach Jeff Tedford were on vacation and unavailable for comment, school spokesman Herb Benenson said. Benenson also said, to his knowledge, the NCAA has not inquired about Cal’s relationship with Lyles.)
The trouble comes when schools pay for more than information, and July 1, in a Yahoo! report, Lyles accused Oregon of doing just that. He said Oregon paid for “my access and influence with recruits” — in particular, with Lache Seastrunk, a coveted tailback from Temple, Texas. Seastrunk signed with Oregon and is on the Ducks’ current roster, the No. 2 tailback to Heisman Trophy candidate LaMichael James. Lyles also said Oregon coach Chip Kelly personally approved the $25,000 check in early 2010, but it wasn’t until 11months later — just before the Yahoo! story broke — that Kelly asked for scouting documents to justify the payment. Oregon officials won’t
comment on the specifics of the case but have said since March that they believe they abided by the rules. The final word rests with the NCAA, which must determine whether Lyles acted as an impartial scout or as an Oregon booster. He told Yahoo! that Oregon never made a direct request (or payment) for him to steer recruits to Eugene. The other issue involves Kelly. We don’t know what he told NCAA investigators. But if he was not forthcoming, the consequences could be severe. Lyles and Oregon are both treading in a gray area: The NCAA rule book is just beginning to catch up to 21st century issues such as paid scouts who may, in fact, serve as boosters or street agents. The Ducks could escape with the equivalent of a slap on the wrist — with Kelly’s job safe and no offfield issues blocking their pursuit of the national championship. (Oregon, like Stanford, will be a top-10 team when the preseason polls are released next month.) But there is also a chance that Kelly will lose his job and the program will suffer scholarship reductions and a bowl ban — just like USC. McClatchy-Tribune News Service
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Leach tells his side of firing Former Texas Tech football coach Mike Leach on Tuesday offered up fresh details on what he says was happening behind the scenes around the time he was fired. In excerpts from his book, “Swing Your Sword,” Leach said emails “suggest” there was never a university investigation into allegations he mistreated a player, Adam James, with a concussion but rather “an effort to sell me down the river.” He also claims a public relations firm, Spaeth Communications, was used by the university to “smear” Leach’s name. Former Texas Tech coach “They knew the facts Mike Leach has written a weren’t on their side so they used Spaeth to spread new book, called ‘Swing Your Sword,’ that offers misinformation and try to details on his firing. turn public opinion,” an AP PHOTO excerpt says. The university fired Leach in December 2009 amid claims that he mistreated James, son of Craig James, an ESPN analyst. Leach has long denied that, and said he believes an $800,000 bonus he was due was the reason he was fired.
CIVIL SUIT FILED BY EX-PENN STATE RB THROWN OUT A federal judge has dismissed former Penn State running back Austin Scott’s civil lawsuit against the university, police and a female acquaintance over a rape charge against him that was later dropped. No evidence supported Scott’s accusation that the woman, the school, police and prosecutors conspired against him, U.S. District Judge William Caldwell in Harrisburg, Pa., said in Monday’s ruling. Caldwell ruled there was probable cause to arrest Scott in October 2007. Prosecutors withdrew the charges in 2008, and Scott filed the civil suit the following year.
WVU LINEBACKER FREE ON BOND West Virginia University linebacker Branko Busick is free on $25,000 bond after being charged with an armed robbery at a Morgantown, W.Va., apartment building. Morgantown police say the 20-year-old Steubenville, Ohio, native was arrested Monday evening. He was arraigned Tuesday before Monongalia County Magistrate Hershel Mullins in a videoconference with the North Central Regional Jail. His preliminary hearing is set for Aug. 1 before Magistrate Jim Nabors. Police say a man reported that he was struck repeatedly with a gun after he told his assailant he had no money.
BYU’S MENDENHALL HAS NEW DEAL BYU football coach Bronco Mendenhall has received a three-year contract extension, keeping him with the Cougars through 2013. Mendenhall said at BYU’s media day that he got his new contract after last season ended. FROM WIRE REPORTS
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EA releases latest college football game BY TARIQ LEE Staff Writer tlee@opubco.com
On Tuesday, EA Sports released its “NCAA Football 12” video game and gave fans and players something to hold them over until the season kicks off in September. The game’s release date has grown into one of the most anticipated days of the summer, with midnight releases across the country. Then, college players get to see how EA rated them this season. “Boy it’s like Christmas eve when this game come
out. On my way to the store,” OU wide receiver Kenny Stills tweeted. GameStop on West Memorial Road in Oklahoma City was one of several stores that had midnight releases in the city. Chad Edwards of Edmond bought his game around 12:20 a.m. at the Memorial and Penn GameStop and said there were five people in line. “A college football fanatic will like the game over last year’s,” Edwards said. “$60 is a bit much for a game, but I will admit I was one that was up at midnight to get the game
and still made it to work today. This series usually helps me pass the time until the season starts.” Here’s what the players are saying: Stills, who is in summer school, also tweeted this, “Class out early time for this NCAA ! Yuh no sleep.” OU RB Brennan Clay tweeted, “I got dreads? Wowww …” Texas DB Quandre Diggs tweeted, “Can’t wait to go pick up NCAA 2012 tonight!” OSU WR Tracy Moore tweeted to Justin Blackmon, “@justblack81 did u get that done before you flew out? Me and Adrian
bought NCAA and im WEAK! Lol.” Nebraska CB Alfonzo Dennard tweeted “On my way to Walmart to get that real deal,” a little after 11 p.m. as he was headed to a midnight release. Oakland Raiders safety and former Texas Longhorn Michael Huff tweeted, “Gettin my football fix on this NCAA 12 and they did my TX db’s wrong.” Denver Broncos QB and former Florida Gator Tim Tebow tweeted, “Just got NCAA FB 12 thanks to @EASPORTS! Congrats to fellow Heisman Trophy winner @Mark_Ingram22 for making the cover.”
There wasn’t much question as to who the best player on NCAA Football ’12 would be, as Andrew Luck is the Heisman front-runner going into the season. Quarterbacks are the two highest rated players in the game, but top-rated players come from all over the place. Receivers and linebackers are represented the most with three each in the top 10. OU had Travis Lewis and Ryan Broyles ranked in the top 10, while OSU had the highest rated player in the state with Justin Blackmon at 97. I Note: Terrelle Pryor is rated 96 on the game, but since he left Ohio State, he wasn’t including in the rankings, Russell Wilson is still on North Carolina State’s roster after he transferred to Wisconsin.
TOP 10 RATED PLAYERS I QB Andrew Luck, Sr., Stanford, 99 I QB Kellen Moore, Sr., Boise State, 98 I RB LaMichael James, Jr., Oregon, 97 I WR Justin Blackmon, Jr., Oklahoma State, 97 I MLB Luke Kuechly, Jr., Boston College, 97 I WR Ryan Broyles, Sr., Oklahoma, 96 I ROLB Travis Lewis, Sr, Oklahoma, 96 I WR Alshon Jeffery, Jr., South Carolina, 96 I MLB Dont’a Hightower, Jr., Alabama, 96 I RB Trent Richardson, Jr., Alabama, 95
OU RATINGS I Offense: A+ I Defense: A I Overall: A+, Balanced offensive set with pistol, shotgun, singleback OU will most likely have the most powerful offense on the game, boasting six
players over 90. OU’s offensive line looks to be strong on “NCAA ’12,” with three players ranked 90 or above. Left tackle Donald Stephenson is the highest at 94. The defensive line could be a force as well, with Frank Alexander at 91 and Jamarkus McFarland at 90.. Top 10 Sooners I WR Ryan Broyles, Sr., 96 I ROLB Travis Lewis, Sr., 96 I QB Landry Jones, Jr., 94 I LT Donald Stephenson, Sr., 94 I WR Kenny Stills, So., 93 I RE Frank Alexander, Sr., 91 I RG Tyler Evans, Jr., 91 I DT Jamarkus McFarland, Jr., 90 I C Ben Habern, Jr., 90 I CB Demontre Hurst, Jr., 90
OSU RATINGS Offense: A, Defense: B, Overall: A-, Air Raid offensive set features lots of shotgun and 4-5 wide re-
ceiver formations The Cowboys have the highest rated wide receiver and quarterback combo with Brandon Weeden and Justin Blackmon at 94 and 97, respectively. Weeden should light opposing defenses up with a center and a tackle at 90 and a guard at 89. The backup quarterback, Clint Chelf, is rated at 88. Brodrick Brown is the highest rated player on the defense at 90. Top 10 Cowboys I WR Justin Blackmon, Jr., 97 I QB Brandon Weeden, Sr., 94 I C Grant Garner, Sr., 90 I LT Nick Martinez, Sr., 90 I CB Brodrick Brown, Jr., 90 I P Quinn Sharp, Jr., 89 I LG Jonathan Rush, Sr., 89 I QB Clint Chelf, So., 88 I FS Johnny Thomas, Sr., 88 I WR Josh Cooper, Sr., 87 BY TARIQ LEE
Rockets to hire Sampson as lead assistant NBA | FORMER SOONER COACH HAD INTERVIEWED FOR HOUSTON HEAD COACHING JOB BY JONATHAN FEIGEN Houston Chronicle
HOUSTON — Rockets coach Kevin McHale filled out much of his coaching staff on Tuesday, reaching agreement in principle with Bucks assistant coach Kelvin Sampson to be lead assistant and with J.B. Bickerstaff to join Chris Finch as assistant coaches, a person with knowledge of the decision said on Tuesday. Sampson, the former Oklahoma and Indiana coach who was one of the first coaches interviewed for the Rockets’ head coaching position, was expected to be a considered for the head coaching job with the Pistons and Bucks. Sampson declined to comment on the decision
Kelvin Sampson Former OU coach to join Rockets’ staff
or his interest in the assistant coaching position on Tuesday, but he did say he learned a great deal about the Rockets’ organization in his 14-hour interview for the head coaching position, comparing it to taking the ACT and SAT back-to-back. “When you go through something like that, you learn a lot about the organization and about yourself too,” Sampson said. “It was good. It was an inter-
esting process. Those guys have a very good idea what they’re looking for. A huge part of being head coach in NBA is being prepared. Part of the process is preparation.” Bickerstaff’s father Bernie has been a head coach of four NBA teams and is on the staff with the Trail Blazers. The Timberwolves have asked for permission to interview Bernie Bickerstaff for their head coaching position, prompting speculation that J.B. Bickerstaff could be groomed to succeed his father. Instead, J.B. Bickerstaff agreed to leave Minnesota shortly before the Timberwolves officially fired head coach Kurt Rambis as was long expected. Bickerstaff was an assistant under his father for
three seasons with Charlotte before becoming assistant coach/director of player development the past four seasons with the Timberwolves. The Rockets had previously promoted Finch, the coach of their NBA Development League team, to the coaching staff. Director of player development Brett Gunning will return from last season’s staff. The Rockets could add another player development coach later in the summer, but that has not been determined. Former Rockets assistant coach Elston Turner is expected to take a position with the Suns on Wednesday.
declined comment, saying the team doesn’t discuss personnel matters. Jordan bought the money-losing team last year after being a part-owner for four years. Since last summer, Jordan has signed off on a number of moves that reduced player payroll while gaining future draft picks and salary-cap space. The NBA has locked out its players since July 1 after failing to reach a labor deal with the players union.
the NBA and FIBA, bring young players together for on-court instruction and life-skills seminars. The campers won’t get any coaching from active players, who are prevented from taking part in league activities during the lockout. Commissioner David Stern said during the finals the league’s community outreach initiatives would continue without them, relying on retired players. Former Kings center Vlade Divac from Serbia, who was instrumental in the creation of the Basketball without Borders program, will return for the camp in Slovenia. Dominique Wilkins and Allan Houston will help run the camp in Brazil, site of the first Americas camp in 2004. NBA Global Ambassador Dikembe Mutombo will lead the camp as it returns to Johannesburg for the eighth time. There have been 27 Basketball without Borders camps in 14 countries since its inception. Seventeen campers have gone on to be drafted into the NBA.
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T-Wolves fire Kurt Rambis The Minnesota Timberwolves have fired coach Kurt Rambis after two seasons on the job. Timberwolves president of basketball operations David Kahn announced the decision Tuesday. Kahn says it was a difficult decision to make, but the right one for the franchise. Rambis was 32-132 in Minnesota, including an NBA-worst 17-65 last season. The firing ends a drawn out process that started at the end of the season in April with Kahn saying he would take his time to make a decision. Three months later, Kahn finally made the move. Rambis has two years left on the contract he signed in 2009.
NOAH TO PLAY FOR TEAM FRANCE A person familiar with Joakim Noah’s decision says the Chicago Bulls center plans to play for the French national team in the
Last season, “NCAA Football 11” had an online dynasty that allowed users to play in a league with friends and create their own stories after each game. EA Sports took it up a notch, as you can now create your own conferences. If you want to create a Pac-16 and see how it would play out, or move Nebraska and Colorado back to the Big 12, you can do so in this edition. You can also rename the divisions to whatever you like and change the teams that a bowl accepts. If you want to remove the Pac-12’s Rose Bowl bid, you have the ability to make that happen. EA also added a feature where you create a coach, offensive coordinator or defensive coordinator, and move him through the ranks of the coaching world.
ROAD TO GLORY GOES EVEN DEEPER In previous years. the Road to Glory feature gave gamers four playoff games, then you were offered a scholarship. Now you can play up to 12 games in a high school season. Your player can also play on both sides of the ball. Also, when you reach your college campus, you will have to fight to keep your starting position after you move from backup to No. 1 on the depth chart. If you’re the starter and have a couple bad practices, you can be demoted.
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European Championships in Lithuania. The person spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss Noah’s plans. Noah was limited by a thumb injury last season, averaging 11.7 points and 10.4 rebounds in 48 games while helping the Bulls to a league-best 62 wins. They came up short in the Eastern Conference finals, losing to the Miami Heat. France begins play in the European Championships against Latvia on Aug. 31.
BOBCATS BEGIN LAYING OFF WORKERS The Charlotte Bobcats’ radio announcer is one of several people to lose their jobs in cost cuts for owner Michael Jordan’s team amid the NBA lockout. Play-by-play man Scott Lauer was let go this week. The team’s director of corporate communications, the manager of community relations and at least four others have been laid off in the past week. A Bobcats spokesman
INTERNATIONAL CAMPS TO GO ON WITHOUT PLAYERS The NBA is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Basketball without Borders program, the first that won’t involve active players because of the lockout. Camps will be held in Slovenia, Johannesburg, South Africa, and Rio de Janeiro. The Slovenian camp will be the first held in one of the former Yugoslav republics, where the 50 campers who attended the inaugural camp in 2001 came from. The camps, organized by
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Last year, ESPN programmers told The Oklahoman that it was a possibility that the “Sooner Schooner” would be added to NCAA Football 12. They followed through on that statement, and when OU enters the field, the Ruf-Nex and “Sooner Schooner” lead them. The commentators also announce that the OU vs. OSU game is a part of the Bedlam series that has been played since 1904. The crowds have also been changed, so if you’re in front of 30,000 fans it’s going to sound like that. But if you’re playing at Boone Pickens Stadium, the crowd will roar like they do in Stillwater on Saturdays.
NEW COLLISION SYSTEM Tackles will not begin until the defender makes contact with the runner. You can also dive at a ball carrier if he isn’t close enough for you to wrap someone up. Catching is more sophisticated as well, with a new set of dive catches being added to the game so the wideouts can get to a ball that is out of their reach. The zone coverage has also changed, with defenders now covering their zone based off the receiver’s movements instead of just standing in their zone as receivers run past them. If your game was based off hitting running backs and receivers in the flat in previous editions, you will have to change that this year. BY TARIQ LEE
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committed to getting things right. That’s not just a mantra. Not just a slogan. Their actions prove it. Anderson blew his whistle at 8 a.m. Saturday, and the KCI Airport Hilton’s ballroom grew quiet. Time to get serious. Big 12 football officials do not take their craft lightly. As intricate as coaches get with their players in terms of footwork and technique and split-second decisionmaking, instructors do the same with their officials. Where exactly to stand on the goal line when a play comes your way? When should a line judge stick on the line of scrimmage and when should he float back with a retreating quarterback? When does an umpire have responsibility for an interior line play and when does he not? All questions asked and answered and discussed, with the same attention to detail that a coach would require of his quarterback. They attend multiple clinics in the offseason and volunteer to call practices and scrimmages in the spring and August. Then they report to their game location the night before and have intensive meetings and film studies leading up to kickoff. Firefighters and dentists and school administrators by day, college football officials become keepers of the game. A sport that easily could descend into anarchy instead retains a sense of order, thanks to the men in striped shirts and the men who oversee them. I’ve always had a problem with the accountability of officials. And still do, to some degree. If a 19-year-old quarterback can stand there and tell the world why he threw the ball to the other team, I don’t know why a 49year-old referee can’t stand there and explain why a chop block suddenly gets called for the
first time, in the 58th minute of a ballgame. But Anderson has most definitely improved the transparency of Big 12 officiating. He’s invited the media to his clinic. He’s made himself readily available for inquiries, from both media and coaches. He comes clean on a variety of issues. Like this. The new trend calling for officials to come down hard on hits to the head? “We tell coaches, we’re going to make some mistakes on this, but that’s OK,” Anderson said. “Yeah, we’re going to break some eggs. But we want those kinds of hits out of the game.” Coaches might not like it, but they can’t really argue that they haven’t been warned. You’ve got to admire Anderson’s forthrightness. And it’s not like the officials go out and make calls willy-nilly. They are heavily scrutinized by their evaluators. Down to this. Call a major foul, like holding, and the official is required to report why he called it. I sat in on a head linesman/line judge meeting. Byron Boston, an NFL line judge on Anderson’s crew and the Southland’s supervisor of officials, reported that Big 12, Mountain West and Southland line judges and head linesmen erred 313 times last season. Sounds like a lot. Either an incorrect call or missed a penalty that should have been called. But that averaged out between one and two a game. Per man, that’s less than one missed call per game. Out of what, 180, 200 plays a game? Truth is, Big 12 officiating is really good and getting better. I can’t speak for any other league, but the Big 12 crews are solid. And in good hands. Berry Tramel: Berry can be reached at (405) 760-8080 or at btramel@opubco.com. He can be heard Monday through Friday from 4:40-5:20 p.m. on The Sports Animal radio network, including AM-640 and FM-98.1. You can also view his personality page at newsok.com/berrytramel.
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NEW YORK — Think back four months to that disappointing day in March when the NFL lockout began. The general opinion was the owners and players would reach a new labor agreement long before training camps opened. They had plenty of time and about 9 billion reasons to get it done. Well, some training camps open at the end of next week, and the two sides have not yet gotten it done. Yes, they are closer than ever, with several key issues — particularly how to split more than $9 billion in revenues — just about settled. But there is serious doubt that a disruption to the preseason can be avoided. While the regular season still appears safe, the situation isn’t as simple as shaking hands and going back to business as usual, even assuming owners and players patched everything up when face-to-face talks resume Wednesday — an unlikely scenario. Yet without a collective bargaining agreement in place soon, many teams will need to delay training camp. The New York Giants and Jets and Baltimore Ravens already have canceled out-of-town camps and will do all their preseason work at their home facilities, at a significant cost to the communities where they normally would have gone.
Former Titans center and NFL Players Association President Kevin Mowae enters a Manhattan law office on Friday. AP PHOTO
The Pro Football Hall of Fame inductions will go on as scheduled on Aug. 6. But the game the following day between the St. Louis Rams and Chicago Bears is in jeopardy, which certainly would put a damper on the festivities. And with owners and players haggling over the rookie wage scale, guidelines for free agency and how benefits for retired players will be funded, the next few days are critical. Should the differences remain strong and prevent a timely deal, the first full weekend of preseason games could be canceled — at a cost upward of $60
million. Even when an agreement is reached, it needs to be ratified by players and owners, a potentially time-consuming process. There are a few court cases that must be resolved, including the antitrust lawsuit brought against the league by Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Drew Brees and seven other players. Those plaintiffs were updated by the NFLPA on a conference call Tuesday. There’s even a chance the players could still pursue a lockout injunction for rookies and free agents after an appeals court
ruled last week that the work stoppage could continue. It might seem odd that the two sides are so close on sharing revenues, the most contentious issue back in March, yet are being held up by other topics. But the owners have been seeking more right-offirst-refusal tags for unrestricted free agents, and they want a rookie salary system to extend about halfway into the first round of the draft. They also seek longer rookie contracts for first-rounders. The players are adamant about getting back to free agency rules similar to 2009, when a four-year veteran whose contract expired was unrestricted. That changed to six years in 2010 because there was no salary cap. Extensive talks last week produced little progress on either issue. While attorneys for both sides spent the last two days clarifying language for a potential CBA, the owners and players will be discussing those same subjects again Wednesday. Those negotiations do not include the mediator, U.S. Magistrate Judge Arthur Boylan, who is on vacation this week. Boylan has ordered both sides to a meeting in Minneapolis next Tuesday, and the owners have a special meeting set for July 21 in Atlanta, where they could vote to ratify a new deal if one is reached.
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Greipel wins 10th stage of Tour German sprinter Andre Greipel has won Tuesday’s 10th stage of the Tour de France, beating Mark Cavendish by a wheel’s length in a dash to the line. France’s Thomas Voeckler keeps the yellow jersey after nestling safely in the main pack for most of the 98-mile route from Aurillac to Carmaux. Wednesday’s 11th stage is another flat route for sprinters before riders reach the grueling climbs of the Pyrenees.
WOODS GETS BIO TREATMENT IN COMIC BOOK Golfer Tiger Woods is the latest celebrity and athlete to get his own unauthorized biography in a comic book. Publisher Bluewater Productions Inc. said Tuesday that it will release its one-shot issue “Fame: Tiger Woods” on Wednesday in book stores, comic book shops and online, as it expands its already burgeoning line of biography comics that have profiled people from politics to music to film. Those profiled so far have included first lady Michelle Obama, singer Lady Gaga, Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Written by C.W. Cooke and illustrated by Marcelo Salaza, the 32-page issue is part of the Vancouver, Wash.based company’s look at celebrity culture and how those in it rise from obscurity to notoriety and deal with life in the
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Irvin tells magazine brother was gay Hall of Fame receiver Michael Irvin says his womanizing may have stemmed from seeing an older brother whom he idolized dressed as a woman and learning the brother was gay. In the latest issue of Out magazine, Irvin said he was 12 when he discovered his older brother Vaughn’s secret life. He said his father told him: “Yes, that’s your brother. And you love your brother.” The former Dallas Cowboys star now appears on the NFL Network and on his own radio show in Miami. He has supported same-sex marriage on his radio show and has said he’s waiting for an active player in the NFL, MLB, NBA or NHL to declare publicly that he is gay. “Until we do that, we’re going to be stuck in the Dark Ages about a lot of things,” Irvin told the magazine. “When a guy steps up and says, ‘This is who I am,’ I guarantee you I’ll give him 100 percent support.” Irvin said carrying the burden of Vaughn’s secret gives him a hint of how tough it must be for a homosexual athlete to hide his orientation in a locker room. “If I’m not gay and I am afraid to mention it, I can only imagine what an athlete must be going through if he is gay,” Irvin said. “I would like to see players come forward and be happy with who they are. Hopefully, as we move forward, we’ll get to a place where there’s no way it’s even considered; it just is what it is and everybody can do what they do. That’s the ultimate goal.” Irvin said he believes the fast life he’s led was to accentuate his heterosexuality. He said he wanted everyone in the locker room to see him have the most women and the nicest car “so that everybody says, ‘Michael’s the man.’” Irvin said Vaughn’s cross-dressing was never discussed among the family, which included 17 children. Throughout his career, he said, he feared that Vaughn’s sexual orientation would become publicized and shame the family. It wasn’t disclosed until the Out article. Irvin said he remained close to his brother, a bank manager, until his death in 2006. He was 49 when he died of stomach cancer.
BRITT PLEADS NOT GUILTY Tennessee Titans receiver Kenny Britt has pleaded not guilty to three disorderly person charges stemming from a June arrest in New Jersey. Hoboken police had suspected Britt was carrying a marijuana cigar. Britt entered his plea Tuesday in Hoboken Municipal Court. He declined comment. A judge set a Sept. 20 trial date. The former Rutgers star has had a series of recent legal difficulties. Britt pleaded guilty last month to violations related to a speeding arrest in his hometown of Bayonne. He surrendered June 29 to Tennessee authorities on warrants alleging he provided inaccurate information on driver’s license applications. A man filed a civil lawsuit against Britt on June 27 seeking damages from a Nashville bar fight.
FORMER EAGLE GOLDSTON DIES public eye. “Tiger Woods is, in most respects, the most famous golfer of all time. He may have had some recent troubles, but his life is one filled with very interesting tidbits,” said Jason Schultz, Bluewater’s executive vice president. Woods, 35, was the former world No. 1, but recently tumbled to No. 17, his lowest spot in 14 years.
SIX-YEAR-OLD ILLINOIS GIRL SINKS HOLE IN ONE A 6-year-old golfer sank a hole in one on a course in central Illinois and calmly walked back to her cart. Why such a quiet reaction? Reagan Kennedy’s father had told the Bloomington girl not to make a lot of noise on the course. But 13-year-old Cheyenne Broquard says she told her younger sister that a hole in one was the one time a golfer could be excused for making a little noise. The (Bloomington) Pantagraph reports that Kennedy made the 85-yard shot on the third hole at The Links at Ireland Grove last week. Mother Erin Kennedy says her husband starting to put a golf club in Reagan’s hands when she was only 2. Reagan Kennedy says she’s now working toward her ultimate golf goal — beating her father.
Ralph Goldston, one of the first African-Americans to play for the Philadelphia Eagles, has died. He was 82. Goldston played in 27 games for the Eagles between 1952-55. The team said he died on Saturday in Columbus, Ohio. Goldston was a running back and defensive back. He played 10 seasons in the Canadian Football League after playing for the Eagles, and helped the Hamilton Tiger Cats win the Grey Cup in 1957 and 1963. He is survived by his wife, Sarah, one son, Ralph Jr., three daughters, Ursula, Beverly and Monique, and five grandchildren.
KING ENTERING SUPPLEMENTAL DRAFT Former Georgia tailback Caleb King says he is entering the NFL’s supplemental draft. King, who would have been a senior, was declared academically ineligible for the 2011 season on Friday. He finished spring drills as Georgia’s starter. King said Tuesday in a statement released by Georgia he is looking forward to the opportunity to continue his career in the NFL. King rushed for 430 yards with two touchdowns on 80 carries in 2010. He started in 10 of his 29 games at Georgia and rushed for 1,271 yards. He set a career high with 166 yards rushing against Georgia Tech in 2009.
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What tired legs? US ready for semifinal vs France BY NANCY ARMOUR AP National Writer
MOENCHENGLADBACH, Germany — The Americans
feel just fine, thank you, not tired a bit. The high they were on after that epic Brazil game? That’s so yesterday. The U.S. women are one game away from reaching their first World Cup final since 1999 — the last time they won soccer’s biggest prize — and the only thing on their minds now is beating France. “Losing is not an option,” Abby Wambach said Tuesday. “We want to win this thing, and France is standing in our way right now.” The Americans are the top-ranked team in the world and defending Olympic gold medalists, yet they were almost afterthoughts when the tournament began two weeks ago. Two-time defending champion Germany was considered the heavy favorite, sure to get a boost playing on home soil. Then there was Brazil, runnerup at the last three major tournaments and led by Marta, FIFA’s player of the year five years running. And the U.S.? They had to win a playoff with Italy just to get here, and they’d
The United States’ Alex Morgan stretches Tuesday during training for her team’s Wednesday game against France. AP PHOTO
been uncharacteristically inconsistent with three losses in a five-month span. But the Germans are now spectators, stunned by Japan in the quarterfinals. Brazil is gone, too, losing to the Americans in a penalty shootout in one of the most exciting games ever at the World Cup, men’s or women’s. And
the U.S.? They’re still playing, and they go into Wednesday night’s semifinal with more than a touch of swagger. The biggest uncertainty for the Americans isn’t their fitness, it’s their backline. Rachel Buehler has started all but one game the last two years, and her bruising style of defense — she isn’t called
the “Buehldozer” for nothing — has been vital. But she’s suspended for the semifinal after getting a red card for taking down Marta in the box in the 65th minute Sunday. While U.S. coach Pia Sundhage wouldn’t say who will play in Buehler’s place, Becky Sauerbrunn was working with the starters Tuesday.
“I’ve been fortunate enough to play with her (with the WPS’ magicJack) so we’re very connected that way,” said Christie Rampone, the U.S. captain and its other central defender. “Becky and I feel confident together. We’ll watch some film on France today, see what little tactics they have, what little tendencies they have with their forwards, communicate with each other and we’ll be fine.” They will have to be because, much like Brazil, France has creativity and flair. Playmaker Louisa Necib, she of the silken touch and deft passes, has been likened to Zinedine Zidane, the highest compliment a French player can get. Her control of the midfield is masterful, the driving force behind France’s quick, fluid offense. Les Bleues often appear seamless — no surprise considering 10 of the 21 players are teammates at Olympique Lyonnais, which won this year’s women’s Champions League final. “For us, it’s very important to be patient,” Sundhage said. “We need to pick up the rhythm and dictate the tempo, and we need the midfield to get
more involved. I don’t want to make it a stretch game. Or make it a (physical) fight.” But France has struggled against bigger, more physical teams in the past, and they don’t come much stronger than the Americans. “It’s true we’ve had one additional day” of rest, French coach Bruno Bini said. “I think it’s quite fair because the American team is in better shape.” While the Americans have their quickest turnaround of the tournament, getting just two days rest between games, France hasn’t played since Saturday. But Les Bleues had an emotional doozy, too, beating England 4-3 on penalties after scoring in the 88th minute to tie it 1-1. “It’s very easy after a victory to be in shape again, especially when you’ve already seen yourself packing to go home,” Bini said. “After that, it is very easy to get highly motivated for this match.” Unlike the Americans, who have reached the semifinals at each of the six World Cups, this is the first trip for Les Bleues. And they have never beaten the Americans, going 0-11-1 in their previous meetings.
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Rory McIlroy smiles during a news conference on Tuesday in preparation for the British Open at Royal St George’s golf course in Sandwich, England. AP PHOTO
McIlroy is the star of this British Open BY DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer
SANDWICH, England — Rory McIlroy slipped into his seat without great fanfare Tuesday, his presence detected by a sudden burst of camera shutters when the photographers realized the star of this British Open had arrived. It was his first time at a news conference since that Sunday evening at Congressional, and it all looked familiar except that the 22-year-old from Northern Ireland no longer had the shiny U.S. Open trophy at his side. In its place were expectations of many more majors to follow, perhaps starting with this one. With a record-setting performance in the major billed as golf’s toughest test, McIlroy has emerged as the favorite to join an elite group of players to capture the U.S. Open and British Open in the same year. McIlroy knew it was quite an achievement, setting scoring records at the U.S. Open and winning by eight shots. Only in the three weeks he has spent at home has the magnitude started to sink in. “I didn’t realize how much of a fuss it would create or how much of a buzz,” he said. “It’s been nice. I thought it was great for me to win the U.S. Open, win my first major. The support that I’ve had from people back home, from everyone all over the world.” It was impossible to miss on Tuesday. It almost felt as though Tiger Woods were at the Open, still on top of his game. There were more media in the room waiting for McIlroy than those who actually listened to Luke Donald, who is No. 1 in the world and coming off a four-shot win in the Scottish Open. They stood
against every wall in the room and were three-deep at the doorway. This is the new world of McIlroy. And he says he’s ready for it. “This is what I’ve always wanted to do,” McIlroy said. “I’ve always wanted to be a successful golfer and be one of the best players in the world and to win major championships. If I have to put up with a few things along the way, then I’m fine with that.” McIlroy hasn’t played since he won the U.S. Open, taking time off to catch his breath, go to Wimbledon and a heavyweight fight in Germany, then getting back to work on his game. It won’t be the same test this week. Royal St. George’s is not quite as vicious as it was in 2003 when Ben Curtis was the only player to break par, even though the wind was not up to its typical strength that year. McIlroy did most of his preparation on the links course last week, so he missed the big blow Tuesday that showed just how tough this can be. On the par-3 11th hole, which measures 243 yards, Dustin Johnson knew deep down it would take a driver to reach the green into such a wind, but pride wouldn’t let him. He crushed a 3-wood and still came up short of the green. Phil Mickelson hit driver, then looked back at Johnson and Rickie Fowler and said, “I don’t know why you guys laid up.” Donald couldn’t reach the fairway on the 564yard seventh hole, a carry of only about 225 yards. On another hole, he hit 7-iron from 119 yards because he didn’t want the ball to get up in the air. The U.S. Open was soft this year because of rain. The British Open is firm, and bouncy as ever at Royal St. George’s. “Today it really tested
everything,” Donald said. “I still think the guy that can scrap it around and make pars from off the green, hole some long putts and kind of keep the momentum going, especially when it’s very tough like it was today, then that’s the key to playing well.” McIlroy did everything right at Congressional, which is why so much is expected of him. He still believes, like so many other athletes, that the public’s expectations are not as great as his own. Still, this is a different week, and a very difference major. “I don’t think I’ll be able to play that sort of golf every week I tee it up — I hope I do, but I can’t see it,” he said. “Yeah, expectations are going to be high. I have high expectations myself. I want to go out there and try and win a lot of golf tournaments and win majors and become the best player in the world. All I need to do is focus on my game, and if I can do that, I know my good golf is good enough to win plenty more tournaments.” But there is something special about this kid. It’s not only his simple, fundamentally sound swing, but the way he draws people to him because he looks like he’s having so much fun. Even as his celebrity grows, McIlroy appears to stay grounded. In his final preparation for the British Open, he went to Royal County Down at twilight, carried his own bag and played nine holes with his father tagging along. McIlroy became the youngest major champion since Woods won his first major at Augusta National in 1997 when he was 21. The last four major champions are all in their 20s, the first time that has happened in more than a century.
TIANJIN, China — Kevin Durant isn’t ruling out playing basketball abroad next season if the NBA lockout isn’t resolved. The Oklahoma City Thunder forward said Tuesday during a promotional tour in China that he thinks more players will follow Deron Williams’ example and play overseas if the NBA season is disrupted. Williams has said he will play for Besiktas in Turkey if the lockout remains. “We’ll see, I would like to try something new,” Durant said. “But of course, my first option is playing in the NBA. So now I want to see how this lockout goes.” He said he’s still hopeful that a new collective bargaining agreement will be reached. “If not, I will make a decision on where I am going to play basketball,” said Durant, who added he’s in no hurry to make a decision. “I am going to take it slow, everybody’s going to wait to see how this plays out. D-Will, you know, he made his decision quick and I am sure you are going to see a lot of guys kind of follow his footsteps. So, he’s very brave to be the first guy to do it.” He added it is “tough” to see Yao Ming retire, and the 7-foot-6 Houston Rockets center deserves to be in the basketball Hall of Fame.
On Tuesday, Kevin Durant attended Nankai High School for a basketball skills clinic in Tianjin, China. PHOTOS COURTESY KEVINDURANT35.COM
Durant said it has been an honor to face Yao, who is expected to announce July 20 that he’s retiring from the NBA after nine seasons because of leg and foot injuries. The 30-yearold Yao has missed 250 regular-season games over the past six seasons. “Tough, man, tough to see a great player and a great competitor like Yao Ming leave the game after being injured a few years,” Durant said. “As a player, you come into the league, the first thing somebody asks you is what you want to do when you get here, and a lot of players say, ‘I want to dunk over Yao Ming.’ So you can tell how much impact he has in the game. “He comes in, he works every day and you can tell that he’s never in trouble and he sets such a good example for the players com-
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Durant has some some fun during a skills clinic in Tianjin, China.
BRITISH OPEN TEE TIMES At Sandwich, England Royal St. George’s 7,211 yards; Par: 70 (a-amateur) Thursday-Friday First hole-10th hole 12:30 a.m.-5:31 a.m. — Jerry Kelly, United States; Nathan Green, Australia; Danny Willett, England. 12:41 a.m.-5:42 a.m. — Thongchai Jaidee, Thailand; Mark Calcavecchia, United States; Graeme Storm, England. 12:52 a.m.-5:53 a.m. — Gregory Havret, France; Charley Hoffman, United States; Markus Brier, Austria. 1:03 a.m.-6:04 a.m. — Todd Hamilton, United States; Simon Khan, England; Prayad Marksaeng, Thailand. 1:14 a.m.-6:15 a.m. — Rhys Davies, Wales; Fredrik Jacobson, Sweden; Mark O’Meara, United States. 1:25 a.m.-6:26 a.m. — Vijay Singh, Fiji; Simon Dyson, England; Gary Woodland, United States. 1:36 a.m.-6:37 a.m. — K.T. Kim, South Korea; Ryan Moore, United States; Alvaro Quiros, Spain. 1:47 a.m.-6:48 a.m. — Bo Van Pelt, United States; K.J. Choi, South Korea; Martin Laird, Scotland. 1:58 a.m.-6:59 a.m. — Stephen Gallacher, Scotland; Bill Haas, United States; Hiroyuki Fujita, Japan. 2:09 a.m.-7:10 a.m. — Geoff Ogilvy, Australia; a-Peter Uihlein, United States; Miguel Angel Jimenez, Spain. 2:20 a.m.-7:21 a.m. — Francesco Molinari, Italy; Tetsuji Hiratsuka, Japan; Stewart Cink, United States. 2:31 a.m.-7:32 a.m. — Nick Watney, United States; Matteo Manassero, Italy; Angel Cabrera, Argentina. 2:42 a.m.-7:43 a.m. — Yuta Ikeda, Japan; Ian Poulter, England; Dustin Johnson, United States. 2:58 a.m.-7:59 a.m. — Ben Curtis, United States; Paul Casey, England; Aaron Baddeley, Australia. 3:09 a.m.-8:10 a.m. — Ernie Els, South Africa; Rory McIlroy, Northern Ireland; Rickie Fowler, United States. 3:20 a.m.-8:21 a.m. — Luke Donald, England; Ryo Ishikawa, Japan; Sergio Garcia, Spain. 3:31 a.m.-8:32 a.m. — Retief Goosen, South Africa; Hunter Mahan, United States; Anders Hansen, Denmark.
3:42 a.m.-8:43 a.m. — Brian Davis, England; Camilo Villegas, Colombia; David Duval, United States. 3:53 a.m.-8:54 a.m. — John Daly, United States; Ross Fisher, England; Peter Hanson, Sweden. 4:04 a.m.-9:05 a.m. — Gregory Bourdy, France; Jason Duffner, United States; a-Craig Hinton, England. 4:15 a.m.-9:16 a.m. — Alexander Noren, Sweden; Paul Lawrie, Scotland; Kevin Na, United States. 4:26 a.m.-9:27 a.m. — Sean O’Hair, United States; Seung-Yul Noh, South Korea; Thorbjorn Olesen, Denmark. 4:37 a.m.-9:38 a.m. — Simon Edwards, Wales; Bob Estes, United States; Richard McEvoy, England. 4:48 a.m.-9:49 a.m. — Francis McGuirk, England; Matthew Millar, Australia; Kevin Streelman, United States. 4:59 a.m.-10 a.m. — Mark Laskey, Wales; Thomas Shadbolt, England; Rick Kulacz, Australia. 5:10 a.m.-10:11 a.m. — Simon Lilly, England; Chris Tidland, United States; Neil Schietekat, South Africa. 5:31 a.m.-12:30 a.m. — Peter Whiteford, Scotland; Spencer Levin, United States; Thomas Aiken, South Africa. 5:42 a.m.-12:41 a.m. — Prom Meesawat, Thailand; Martin Maritz, South Africa; Harrison Frazar, United States. 5:53 a.m.-12:52 a.m. — Chad Campbell, United States; Kenneth Ferrie, England; Scott Jamieson, Scotland. 6:04 a.m.-1:03 a.m. — Raphael Jacquelin, France; Mark Wilson, United States; Kyle Stanley, United States. 6:15 a.m.-1:14 a.m. — Steve Marino, United States; Richard Green, Australia; Pablo Larrazabal, Spain. 6:26 a.m.-1:25 a.m. — Rory Sabbatini, South Africa; Sandy Lyle, Scotland; Anthony Kim, United States. 6:37 a.m.-1:36 a.m. — Edoardo Molinari, Italy; Charles Howell III, United States; Joost Luiten, Netherlands. 6:48 a.m.-1:47 a.m. — Brandt Snedeker, United States; a-Lucas Bjerregaard, Denmark; Trevor Immelman, South Africa. 6:59 a.m.-1:58 a.m. — Darren Clarke, Northern Ireland; Jonathan Byrd, United States; Y.E. Yang, South Korea.
7:10 a.m.-2:09 a.m. — Lucas Glover, United States; Hiroo Kawai, Japan; Robert Karlsson, Sweden. 7:21 a.m.-2:20 a.m. — a-Bryden Macpherson, Australia; Matt Kuchar, United States; Padraig Harrington, Ireland. 7:32 a.m.-2:31 a.m. — Zach Johnson, United States; Adam Scott, Australia; Justin Rose, England. 7:43 a.m.-2:42 a.m. — Graeme McDowell, Northern Ireland; Jason Day, Australia; Bubba Watson, United States. 7:59 a.m.-2:58 a.m. — Jim Furyk, United States; Bernhard Langer, Germany; Tadahiro Takayama, Japan. 8:10 a.m.-3:09 a.m. — Lee Westwood, England; Steve Stricker, United States; Charl Schwartzel, South Africa. 8:21 a.m.-3:20 a.m. — Louis Oosthuizen, South Africa; Martin Kaymer, Germany; Phil Mickelson, United States. 8:32 a.m.-3:31 a.m. — Henrik Stenson, Sweden; a-Tom Lewis, England; Tom Watson, United States. 8:43 a.m.-3:42 a.m. — Robert Allenby, Australia; Davis Love III, United States; Fredrik Andersson Hed, Sweden. 8:54 a.m.-3:53 a.m. — Nicolas Colsaerts, Belgium; J.B. Holmes, United States; S.M. Bae, South Korea. 9:05 a.m.-4:04 a.m. — Webb Simpson, United States; Robert Rock, England; Alejandro Canizares, Spain. 9:16 a.m.-4:15 a.m. — Kurt Barnes, Australia; Justin Leonard, United States; Jeff Overton, United States. 9:27 a.m.-4:26 a.m. — Lee Corfield, England; Ben Crane, United States; Floris De Vries, Netherlands. 9:38 a.m.-4:37 a.m. — Ryan Palmer, United States; Tom Lehman, United States; Adam Wootton, England. 9:49 a.m.-4:48 a.m. — Jung-Gon Hwang, South Korea; Gary Boyd, England, Robert Garrigus, United States. 10 a.m.-4:59 a.m. — George Coetzee, South Africa; Andy Smith, England; Brad Kennedy, Australia. 10:11 a.m.-5:10 a.m. — Jason Knutzon, United States; Andrew Johnston, England; Chih-Bing Lam, Singapore.
ing into the league.” Asked if he thought Yao should have a place in the basketball Hall of Fame, Durant said the Chinese player deserves the honor. “It was exciting to watch such a tall guy but that can shoot the basketball and put so much pressure on your defense by playing down low, and also his defense, too,” Durant said. “He does so much for the game, and he does deserve to be in the Hall of Fame. He’s so dominant in the game, and he changed the game by him just running up and down the floor.” Yao boosted the popularity of the basketball league in China and throughout Asia, spiking merchandise sales and TV ratings for games after the Rockets made him the top overall pick in the 2002 draft.
Kevin Durant fans sport OKC jerseys on Tuesday in Tianjin, China.
The Oklahoma City Thunder is offering a limited number of half-season ticket packages to the general public for the 201112 season. “In response to the significant demand for Thunder tickets, we are pleased to introduce our half-season ticket packages for next season. This is another great opportunity to secure tickets in advance and build a relationship with the Thunder organization,” said Brian Byrnes, senior vice president of sales and marketing. Limited seats in the lower level and Love’s Loud City are available in two 21-game, half-season package options. Halfseason package holders also will receive the flexibility of an online account manager function that allows them to forward tickets to other parties. Fans can call (405) 208HOOP to discuss seating locations and payment options.
Kevin Durant greets fans as he walks the streets in Tianjin, China, on Tuesday.
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BASKETBALL
WNBA Standings Western Conference W
Minnesota................................ San Antonio ............................. Phoenix .................................... Seattle ..................................... Los Angeles ............................. Tulsa ........................................
L
Pct GB
7 3 7 3 8 4 6 4 4 6 1 11
.700 — .700 — .667 — .600 1 .400 3 .083 7
Eastern Conference W
L
Pct GB
Indiana ....................................... 9 Connecticut................................ 6 New York ................................... 7 Chicago ...................................... 6 Atlanta....................................... 3 Washington ............................... 2 Tuesday’s Games Washington at Seattle Los Angeles at San Antonio Wednesday’s Games Atlanta at New York, 12 p.m. Tulsa at Chicago, 11:30 p.m. Phoenix at Minnesota, noon Connecticut at Indiana, noon Monday’s Results No games scheduled
3 4 5 7 8 8
.750 — .600 2 .583 2 .462 31⁄2 .273 51⁄2 .200 6
BASEBALL
MLB Standings American League West Division W
L
Pct GB Home Away
Texas ................ Los Angeles...... Seattle ............. Oakland ............
51 41 .554 — 50 42 .543 1 43 48 .473 71⁄2 39 53 .424 12 Central Division
31-18 26-22 23-22 23-21
Detroit............ Cleveland........ Chicago........... Minnesota ...... Kansas City ....
49 43 .533 — 1 47 42 .528 ⁄2 44 48 .478 5 41 48 .461 61⁄2 37 54 .407 111⁄2 East Division
27-19 27-18 21-25 20-19 24-27
W
Boston .............. New York .......... Tampa Bay........ Toronto ............. Baltimore .........
L
Pct
20-23 24-20 20-26 16-32
GB Home Away
22-24 20-24 23-23 21-29 13-27
W
L
Pct GB Home Away
55 53 49 45 36
35 35 41 47 52
.611 — 28-17 27-18 .602 1 30-19 23-16 .544 6 21-21 28-20 .489 11 19-22 26-25 .409 18 22-22 14-30
National League West Division W
San Francisco ... Arizona............. Colorado ........... Los Angeles...... San Diego .........
L
Pct GB Home Away
52 40 .565 — 49 43 .533 3 43 48 .473 81⁄2 41 51 .446 11 40 52 .435 12 Central Division W
Milwaukee........ St. Louis ........... Pittsburgh ........ Cincinnati ......... Chicago ............. Houston............
L
28-16 23-19 22-22 23-27 19-27
Pct GB Home Away
49 43 .533 — 49 43 .533 — 47 43 .522 1 45 47 .489 4 37 55 .402 12 30 62 .326 19 East Division
33-14 25-21 23-22 23-21 20-26 14-33
57 34 .626 — 54 38 .587 31⁄2 46 45 .505 11 46 46 .500 111⁄2 43 48 .473 14 Tuesday’s Game All-Star Game at Phoenix Wednesday’s Games No games scheduled
34-15 28-18 19-22 28-18 22-28
W
L
24-24 26-24 21-26 18-24 21-25
Pct
16-29 24-22 24-21 22-26 17-29 16-29
GB Home Away
Philadelphia ... Atlanta ........... New York........ Washington.... Florida ............
23-19 26-20 27-23 18-28 21-20
PCL Standings American Conference North Division
W
L Pct. GB
Omaha (Royals) ...................... 50 Memphis (Cardinals) .............. 48 Nashville (Brewers) ................ 41 Iowa (Cubs) ............................. 41 South Division
41 42 49 50
W
Round Rock (Rangers) .......... Albuquerque (Dodgers) ........ New Orleans (Marlins) ......... Oklahoma City (Astros).......
52 47 44 39
.549 — .533 11⁄2 .456 81⁄2 .451 9
L Pct.
38 43 47 52
GB
.578 — .522 5 .484 81⁄2 .429 131⁄2
Pacific Conference North Division
W
L Pct.
Reno (Diamondbacks)........... 53 Tacoma (Mariners)................ 44 Colorado Springs (Rockies)... 41 Salt Lake (Angels) ................ 39 South Division
36 47 49 52
Sacramento (Athletics) ........ Las Vegas (Blue Jays)........... Tucson (Padres) .................... Fresno (Giants) .....................
36 44 45 52
W
54 46 45 39
GB
.596 — .484 10 .456 121⁄2 .429 15
L Pct.
GB
.600 — .511 8 .500 9 1 .429 15 ⁄2
Monday’s Games No games scheduled Tuesday’s Games No games scheduled Wednesday’s Games No games scheduled
Texas League Scores and Schedule Tuesday’s Games San Antonio 8, Tulsa 4 Corpus Christi 7, Northwest Arkansas 3 Midland at Springfield Frisco at Arkansas Wednesday’s Games No games scheduled Thursday’s Games Corpus Christi at Frisco, 7 p.m. San Antonio at Midland, 7 p.m. Springfield at Northwest Arkansas, 7 p.m. Arkansas at Tulsa, 7:05 p.m. Monday’s Results Corpus Christi 5, Northwest Arkansas 2 San Antonio 3, Tulsa 1 Springfield 4, Midland 3 Frisco 4, Arkansas 3
GOLF
Money Leaders
189 — Baylee Price, Broken Arrow - 93-96; Kaylee Neff, Yukon, Okla. - 94-95 193 — Morgan Brown, Henryetta - 96-97 194 — Shannen Stewart, Broken Arrow 95-99 198 — Anna Kroll, Tulsa - 102-96 199 — Ariel Wixson, Tulsa - 100-99; Julia Dierker, Tulsa - 98-101 205 — Liz Bollinger, Owasso - 104-101 208 — Jenna Lane, Lawton - 108-100 209 — Kenzie Wilson, Jenks - 107-102 215 — Savannah Martin, Duncan - 108-107 218 — Emi Bias, Skiatook - 106-112 227 — Regan McQuaid, Tulsa - 132-95 228 — Whitney Fillmore, Tulsa - 117-111 234 — Terran Johnson, Tulsa - 114-120 248 — Addison Losornio, Claremore - 126-122 261 — Amanda Mills, Owasso - 134-127 Girls 12-13 167 — Taylor Dobson, Broken Arrow - 83-84 172 — Kaitlin Milligan, Norman - 85-87 173 — Trudy Allen, Broken Arrow - 88-85 178 — Taylor Boylan, Tulsa - 95-83 181 — Sydney Youngblood, Durant - 94-87 191 — Samantha Dennison, Stillwater, Okla. - 100-91 209 — Baylee Brewer, Broken Arrow 109-100 213 — Katie Kirkhart, Muskogee - 106-107 218 — Catherine English, Oklahoma City 112-106 239 — Sydney Johnson, Tulsa - 126-113 Girls 11 & Under 82 — Yujeong Son, Norman - 44-38 95 — Madison Smith, Norman - 49-46 104 — Cecilia McHugh, Broken Arrow - 54-50 109 — Faith Stewart, Oklahoma City - 56-53 112 — Faith Belmear, Owasso - 64-48 114 — Gracie Hair, Broken Arrow - 59-55 134 — Natalie Gough, Bixby - 72-62 138 — Alyssa Wilson, Yukon - 73-65 144 — Chloe Watkins, Stillwater - 80-64 150 — Rhyan Finley, Bethany - 78-72 163 — Lindsey Ball - 82-81
Amateur 2011 State Championship At Broken Arrow Meadowbrook CC Round of 64 Stephen Carney, Tulsa, Okla. (1) def. Brodie Hinkle, Tulsa, Okla. (64), 5 and 4 Jordan Perceful, Muskogee, Okla. (33) def. Jordan Miller, Bartlesville, Okla. (32), 3 and 2 Nick Heinen, Edmond, Okla. (16) def. Nick Sidorakis, Tulsa, Okla. (49), 21 holes Cole Wiederkehr, Norman, Okla. (48) def. Travis Arnold, Edmond, Oklahoma (17), 1 up Tate Williamson, Tulsa, Okla. (57) def. Alexander Hall, Edmond, Okla. (8), 19 holes Todd Brown, Ada, Okla. (25) def. Chris Karlovich, Broken Arrow, Okla. (40), 3 and 2 Bryan Boaz, Tulsa, Okla. (9) def. Taylor Williams, Chickasha, Okla. (56), 2 up Preston Wilkins, Tulsa, Okla. (24) def. Brandon Nicholson, Edmond , Okla. (41), 6 and 5 Cameron Meyers, Edmond, Okla. (4) def. Jackson Stuteville, Durant, Okla. (61), 6 and 4 Clint Burley, Stillwater, Oklahoma (29) def. Steve Hughes, Bartlesville, Okla. (36), 21 holes Justin Jang, Norman, Okla. (13) def. Brady Richardson, Tulsa, Okla. (52), 4 and 3 Dillon Rust, Edmond, Okla. (20) def. Taylor Artman, Norman, Okla. (45), 2 and 1 Drew Dorsey, Edmond, Okla. (5) def. John Cassidy, Tulsa, Okla. (60), 4 and 3 Michael Hughett, Owasso, Okla. (37) def. Colton Staggs, Tulsa, Okla. (28), 3 and 2 Daniel Funk, Tulsa, Okla. (12) def. Max Mcgreevy, Edmond, Okla. (53), 1 up Tanner Owens, Fort Gibson, Okla. (44) def. Jeff Coffman, Oklahoma City, Okla. (21), 4 and 3 Jackson Ogle, Edmond, Okla. (63) def. Trevor Stafford, Edmond, Okla. (2), 3 and 2 Hayden Wood, Edmond , Okla. (34) def. Thomas Johnson, Norman, Okla. (31), 3 and 2 Terence Begnel, Tulsa, Okla. (15) def. Austin Bowman, Pryor, Okla. (50), 1 up Levi Molini, Owasso, Okla. (18) def. Ben Harris, Jenks, Okla. (47), 1 up Zach Tucker, Oklahoma City, Okla. (7) def. Kyle Jones, Broken Arrow, Okla. (58), 5 and 4 Nick Lees, Tulsa, Okla. (26) def. Shawn Kitchen, Broken Arrow, Okla. (39), 4 and 2 Brent Taylor, Bartlesville, Okla. (10) def. Garrett Moore, Broken Arrow, Okla. (55), 2 and 1 Jack Kasting, Jenks, Okla. (23) def. Max Showalter, Oklahoma City, Okla. (42), 5 and 3 Andre Tourinho, Tulsa, Okla. (3) def. Michael Hampton, Edmond, Okla. (62), 2 and 1 Jacob Bartel, Sallisaw, Oklahoma (35) def. Zachary Oliver, Checotah, Okla. (30), 4 and 2 Kyle Hudelson, Edmond, Okla. (51) def. Heath Myers, Kingfisher, Okla. (14), 1 up Taylor Moore, Edmond, Oklahoma (46) def. Brian McGreevy, Edmond, Oklahoma (19), 22 holes Brandon Wong, Bartlesville, Okla. (6) def. Cole Matthews, Edmond, 42 (59), 19 holes Travis Keeley, Norman, Okla. (27) def. Zach Enzbrenner, Owasso, Okla. (38), 3 and 2 Blake Gibson, Yukon, Okla. (54) def. Brad Kropp, Edmond, Okla. (11), 1 up Casey Fernandez, Mcalester , Oklahoma (22) def. Nick Bulla, Tulsa, Okla. (43), 5 and 4 Round of 32 Stephen Carney, Tulsa, Okla. (1) def. Jordan Perceful, Muskogee, Okla. (33), 4 and 3 Cole Wiederkehr, Norman, Okla. (48) def. Nick Heinen, Edmond, Okla. (16), 2 and 1 Tate Williamson, Tulsa, Okla. (57) def. Todd Brown, Ada, Okla. (25), 3 and 1 Bryan Boaz, Tulsa, Okla. (9) def. Preston Wilkins, Tulsa, Okla. (24), 4 and 3 Cameron Meyers, Edmond, Okla. (4) def. Clint Burley, Stillwater, Oklahoma (29), 4 and 3 Justin Jang, Norman, Okla. (13) def. Dillon Rust, Edmond, Okla. (20), 2 and 1 Michael Hughett, Owasso, Okla. (37) def. Drew Dorsey, Edmond, Okla. (5), 19 holes Daniel Funk, Tulsa, Okla. (12) def. Tanner Owens, Fort Gibson, Okla. (44), 2 and 1 Hayden Wood, Edmond , Okla. (34) def. Jackson Ogle, Edmond, Okla. (63), 1 up Levi Molini, Owasso, Okla. (18) def. Terence Begnel, Tulsa, Okla. (15), 2 and 1 Nick Lees, Tulsa, Okla. (26) def. Zach Tucker, Oklahoma City, Okla. (7), 4 and 3 Jack Kasting, Jenks, Okla. (23) def. Brent Taylor, Bartlesville, Okla. (10), 2 and 1 Jacob Bartel, Sallisaw, Oklahoma (35) def. Andre Tourinho, Tulsa, Okla. (3), 2 and 1 Taylor Moore, Edmond, Oklahoma (46) def. Kyle Hudelson, Edmond, Okla. (51), 7 and 6 Travis Keeley, Norman, Okla. (27) def. Brandon Wong, Bartlesville, Okla. (6), 24 holes Casey Fernandez, Mcalester , Oklahoma (22) def. Blake Gibson, Yukon, Okla. (54), 4 and 3
AUTO RACING
Nationwide Through June 26
Rank Name 1. Mathew Goggin........................ 2. Erik Compton ........................... 3. Kyle Thompson ........................ 4. Troy Kelly ................................. 5. Steve Wheatcroft .................... 6. Ted Potter, Jr............................ 7. Daniel Chopra........................... 8. Garth Mulroy............................ 9. Will Wilcox............................... 10. Brenden Pappas ..................... 11. Scott Brown ........................... 12. Brett Wetterich ..................... 13. Ryan Armour.......................... 14. Bubba Dickerson .................... 15. Darron Stiles.......................... 16. Martin Flores ........................ 17. Richard H. Lee ........................ 18. Matt Every ............................. 19. Danny Lee............................... 20. Matt Davidson ....................... 21. Luke List................................. 22. Roberto Castro....................... 23. Rob Oppenheim...................... 24. J.J. Killeen.............................. 25. Jon Mills................................. 26. Tommy Biershenk .................. 27. Russell Knox .......................... 28. Andrew Buckle ....................... 29. Cliff Kresge ............................ 30. Alistair Presnell ..................... 31. Matt Hendrix.......................... 32. Sunghoon Kang ...................... 33. Charles Warren ...................... 34. Gary Christian ........................ 35. Aaron Watkins ....................... 36. Won Joon Lee......................... 37. Greg Owen ............................. 38. Mark Anderson ...................... 39. Josh Geary ............................. 40. James Nitties......................... 41. Marco Dawson ....................... 42. Travis Hampshire................... 43. Miguel Angel Carball ............. 44. Nicholas Thompson ............... 45. John Kimbell .......................... 46. Brad Elder .............................. 47. Elliot Gealy............................. 48. Rich Barcelo ........................... 49. Jeff Gove ................................ 50. Scott Sterling ........................
Trn 9 9 10 7 10 6 8 7 5 7 11 6 11 9 10 11 11 6 5 10 11 11 11 11 8 11 8 11 10 10 5 1 6 9 11 11 10 10 11 8 8 11 11 11 10 8 9 11 8 10
Money $303,898 $215,709 $214,568 $187,549 $148,515 $129,980 $126,289 $123,065 $116,820 $116,578 $112,125 $111,997 $109,065 $102,131 $101,529 $100,237 $94,672 $91,392 $84,336 $84,261 $81,091 $80,678 $80,000 $75,581 $75,093 $73,004 $70,947 $69,068 $66,223 $65,530 $65,483 $64,800 $59,350 $57,906 $55,969 $55,914 $50,103 $49,228 $46,193 $45,787 $44,869 $44,182 $44,174 $43,267 $42,805 $42,438 $41,151 $41,123 $41,122 $40,247
Tuesday’s Results Juniors State Championship At Oaks CC Girls 16-17 147 — Megan Blonien, Altus, Okla. - 74-73 148 — Charter Lawson, Mustang - 73-75 160 — Amanda Johnson, Duncan - 80-80; McCandren Lewis, Guthrie, Okla. - 82-78 163 — Katie Lee Wilson, Owasso - 82-81 164 — June Tigert, Yukon, Okla. - 84-80 165 — Ashton Gores, Ardmore, Okla. - 85-80; Catrina Pearson, Muskogee - 78-87 168 — Kailey Campbell, Checotah - 86-82 173 — Katie Vaughn, Oklahoma City - 88-85 176 — Zana Crowson, Comanche - 89-87 177 — Gabrielle Shelton, Stillwater - 86-91 181 — Kayla Schroeder, Bristow - 95-86 182 — Grace Castillo, Norman - 90-92 183 — Kai Jones, Tulsa - 95-88 184 — Jordyn Altenburg, Edmond - 92-92 188 — Karissa Thomas, Oklahoma City 96-92 191 — Darby Morgan, Weatherford - 97-94 194 — Jerrica Gregston, Duncan - 96-98 198 — Haleigh Cox, Muskogee - 100-98 200 — Kiersten Prater, Ada - 103-97 204 — Madi Garcia - 100-104 212 — Davrey Carter, Comanche - 101-111 Girls 14-15 152 — Alexis Sadeghy, Edmond - 78-74 156 — Emma Allen, Broken Arrow - 78-78 161 — Marla Souvannasing, Tulsa - 84-77 164 — Lexi Armon, Owasso - 81-83 165 — Madison Luitwieler, Edmond - 87-78
Sprint Cup Leaders Through July 9 Points 1, Kyle Busch, 624. 2, Carl Edwards, 620. 3, Kevin Harvick, 614. 4, Kurt Busch, 606. 5, Jimmie Johnson, 605. 6, Matt Kenseth, 602. 7, Jeff Gordon, 553. 8, Dale Earnhardt Jr., 548. 9, Ryan Newman, 538. 10, Denny Hamlin, 529. 11, Tony Stewart, 527. 12, Clint Bowyer, 514. 13, Juan Pablo Montoya, 497. 14, Greg Biffle, 496. 15, David Ragan, 494. 16, Paul Menard, 486. 17, Kasey Kahne, 484. 18, A J Allmendinger, 483. 19, Mark Martin, 477. 20, Joey Logano, 469. Money 1, Carl Edwards, $5,302,126. 2, Kyle Busch, $3,536,676. 3, Kevin Harvick, $3,427,596. 4, Kurt Busch, $3,419,576. 5, Matt Kenseth, $3,411,461. 6, Jimmie Johnson, $3,277,386. 7, Clint Bowyer, $3,098,782. 8, Jeff Gordon, $3,013,961. 9, Denny Hamlin, $2,971,293. 10, Tony Stewart, $2,874,457. 11, Juan Pablo Montoya, $2,812,907. 12, Ryan Newman, $2,757,323. 13, Bobby Labonte, $2,549,508. 14, Jamie McMurray, $2,530,065. 15, A J Allmendinger, $2,527,316. 16, Regan Smith, $2,495,998. 17, Marcos Ambrose, $2,495,076. 18, David Ragan, $2,485,013. 19, Brad Keselowski, $2,469,408. 20, David Reutimann, $2,398,332.
SOCCER
2011 Women’s World Cup Quarterfinals Saturday’s Games At Leverkusen, Germany England 1, France 1 (France wins 4-3 on penalty kicks) At Wolfsburg, Germany Japan 1, Germany 0, OT Sunday’s Games At Augsburg, Germany Sweden 3, Australia 1 At Dresden, Germany United States 2, Brazil 2 (US wins 5-3 on penalty kicks)
Semifinals Wednesday’s Games At Moenchengladbach, Germany France vs. United States, 11 a.m. At Frankfurt Japan vs. Sweden, 1:45 p.m.
CYCLING
Tuesday’s Results Tour de France At Carmaux, France 10th Stage A 98.2-mile hilly ride from Aurillac to Carmaux with two Category 3 climbs 1. Andre Greipel, Germany, Omega PharmaLotto, 3 hours, 31 minutes, 21 seconds. 2. Mark Cavendish, Britain, HTC-Highroad, same time. 3. Jose Joaquin Rojas, Spain, Movistar, same time. 4. Thor Hushovd, Norway, Garmin-Cervelo, same time. 5. Romain Feillu, France, Vacansoleil-DCM, same time. 6. Daniel Oss, Italy, Liquigas-Cannondale, same time. 7. Sebastien Hinault, France, AG2R La Mondiale, same time. 8. Borut Bozic, Slovenia, Vacansoleil-DCM, same time. 9. Geraint Thomas, Britain, Sky Procycling, same time. 10. Samuel Dumoulin, France, Cofidis, same time. 11. William Bonnet, France, Francaise des
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 2011
SPORTS/SCOREBOARD Jeux, same time. 12. Tomas Vaitkus, Lithuania, Astana, same time. 13. Grega Bole, Slovenia, Lampre-ISD, same time. 14. Philippe Gilbert, Belgium, Omega Pharma-Lotto, same time. 15. Edvald Boasson Hagen, Norway, Sky Procycling, same time. 16. Danilo Hondo, Germany, Lampre-ISD, same time. 17. Gianni Meersman, Belgium, Francaise des Jeux, same time. 18. Alan Perez, Spain, Euskaltel-Euskadi, same time. 19. Nicolas Roche, Ireland, AG2R La Mondiale, same time. 20. Kevin De Weert, Belgium, Quick Step, same time. Also 24. Cadel Evans, Australia, BMC, same time. 25. Jakob Fuglsang, Denmark, Leopard-Trek, same time. 31. Alberto Contador, Spain, Saxo Bank Sungard, same time. 34. Tony Martin, Germany, HTC-Highroad, same time. 35. Frank Schleck, Luxembourg, Leopard-Trek, same time. 36. Thomas Voeckler, France, Europcar, same time. 38. Andy Schleck, Luxembourg, Leopard-Trek, same time. 39. Tom Danielson, United States, GarminCervelo, same time. 42. Luis Leon Sanchez, Spain, Rabobank, same time. 43. George Hincapie, United States, BMC, same time. 45. Christian Vande Velde, United States, Garmin-Cervelo, same time. 49. Peter Velits, Slovakia, HTC-Highroad, same time. 62. Andreas Kloeden, Germany, RadioShack, same time. 70. Levi Leipheimer, United States, RadioShack, same time. 78. Tejay Van Garderen, United States, HTC-Highroad, same time. 91. Brent Bookwalter, United States, BMC, 5 minutes, 33 seconds behind 137. Tyler Farrar, United States, GarminCervelo, 5:59. 152. Danny Pate, United States, HTCHighroad, same time.
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OGA Amateur field down to 16 The field at the Oklahoma Golf Association Amateur Championships was cut from 64 to 16 players on Tuesday at Meadowbrook Country Club in Broken Arrow. Among those advancing to the third round were Cole Wiederkehr of Norman, Cameron Meyers of Edmond, Justin Jang of Norman, Hayden Wood of Edmond and Taylor Moore of Edmond. Stephen Carney, a senior University of Tulsa golfer, is the defending champion of the event. On Tuesday, he defeated former Union High School golfer Brodie Hinkle 5 and 4 and Jordan Perceful of Muskogee 4 and 3 to advance to the third round of match play. Match Play resumes Wednesday with the first pair teeing off at 8 a.m.
Overall Standings (After 10 stages) 1. Thomas Voeckler, France, Europcar, 42 hours, 6 minutes, 32 seconds. 2. Luis Leon Sanchez, Spain, Rabobank, 1 minute, 49 seconds behind. 3. Cadel Evans, Australia, BMC, 2:26. 4. Frank Schleck, Luxembourg, Leopard-Trek, 2:29. 5. Andy Schleck, Luxembourg, Leopard-Trek, 2:37. 6. Tony Martin, Germany, HTC-Highroad, 2:38. 7. Peter Velits, Slovakia, HTC-Highroad, same time. 8. Andreas Kloeden, Germany, RadioShack, 2:43. 9. Philippe Gilbert, Belgium, Omega Pharma-Lotto, 2:55. 10. Jakob Fuglsang, Denmark, Leopard-Trek, 3:08. 11. Ivan Basso, Italy, Liquigas-Cannondale, 3:36. 12. Damiano Cunego, Italy, Lampre-ISD, 3:37. 13. Nicolas Roche, Ireland, AG2R La Mondiale, 3:45. 14. Kevin De Weert, Belgium, Quick Step, 3:47. 15. Robert Gesink, Netherlands, Rabobank, 4:01. 16. Alberto Contador, Spain, Saxo Bank Sungard, 4:07. 17. Tom Danielson, United States, GarminCervelo, 4:22. 18. Rein Taaramae, Estonia, Cofidis, 4:52. 19. Christian Vande Velde, United States, Garmin-Cervelo, 4:53. 20. Samuel Sanchez, Spain, EuskaltelEuskadi, 5:01. Also 36. Levi Leipheimer, United States, RadioShack, 7:16. 48. George Hincapie, United States, BMC, 14:53. 50. Tejay Van Garderen, United States, HTC-Highroad, 15:16. 130. Brent Bookwalter, United States, BMC, 53:50. 139. Tyler Farrar, United States, GarminCervelo, 1:01:32. 157. Danny Pate, United States, HTCHighroad, 1:02:07.
BLONIEN WINS JUNIOR GIRLS CHAMPIONSHIP Altus’ Megan Blonien parred the 18th hole at Oaks Country Club in Tulsa to defeat Mustang’s Charter Lawson and win the Women’s Oklahoma Golf Association Junior Girls’ Championship “It was kind of a relief because it came down to the wire on the last hole,” Blonien said. “I made a few mistakes coming in on last three or four holes, but I fought it and I got through.” Blonien, who finished at a combined 1-over 147 after the two-day tournament,
Mustang’s Charter Lawson was the runner-up at the WOGA Girls Junior Championship. PHOTO BY MIKE SIMONS, TULSA WORLD
completed the first nine holes at 3-under 34. But she slipped on the back nine with three bogeys, allowing Lawson to close the gap. Still, like most at the event, Lawson did not know where she stood as the pair hit the final tee. There were no scoreboards lining the fairways and no online updates. “I thought she had me,” Lawson said. “I didn’t think we were that close the whole time. I had no idea.” Lawson, a Mustang High School senior, said she
TRANSACTIONS Tuesday’s Deals BASEBALL American League TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Traded OF Juan Rivera to the L.A. Dodgers for a player to be named or cash considerations. American Association FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS — Released C Phil Britton. ST. PAUL SAINTS — Signed RHP Kris Edwards. Traded INF Phil Cuadrado to Brockton (Can-Am) to complete an earlier trade. WICHITA WINGNUTS — Traded OF Ryan Patterson to Fort Worth for RHP Derek Blacksher. WINNIPEG GOLDEYES — Signed RHP Aaron Cook. Can-Am League WORCESTER TORNADOES — Released RHP Sean Keeler. Brockton Rox signed RHP Steve Richard. BASKETBALL NBA MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES — Fired coach Kurt Rambis. FOOTBALL CFL EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Released DB LaDarius Key. WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed P Mike Renaud to a contract extension. United Football League OMAHA NIGHTHAWKS — Signed QB Eric Crouch. HOCKEY NHL ANAHEIM DUCKS — Agreed to terms with G Jeff Deslauriers on a two-year contract. CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Extended the contract of vice president/assistant to the president Al MacIsaac through the 2013-14 season. EDMONTON OILERS — Traded C Andrew Cogliano to Anaheim for a 2013 second-round draft pick. FLORIDA PANTHERS — Agreed to terms with D Tyson Strachan on a one-year contract. MINNESOTA WILD — Named Kirk Olson strength and conditioning coach. NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Named Eric Boguniecki assistant coach of Bridgeport (AHL). PHOENIX COYOTES — Named John Anderson assistant coach and signed him to a multiyear contract. TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Re-signed C Mike Zigomanis to a one-year contract. AHL AHL — Named Joe Banach and Kristen Krasinskas marketing services coordinators. ECHL GWINNETT GLADIATORS — Agreed to terms with D Paul Flache. READING ROYALS — Agreed to terms with F Olivier Labelle. SOCCER MLS SEATTLE SOUNDERS — Removed F O’Brian White from the DL. VANCOUVER WHITECAPS — Signed F Mustapha Jarju. COLLEGE NORTHEAST CONFERENCE — Named Erik Kaminski director of new media and communications. BUFFALO — Named Jessica Bogia women’s assistant basketball coach. DELAWARE — Named Henry Baker cornerbacks coach adn Brian Brown graduate assistant defensive coach. EAST CAROLINA — Named Emmanuel McDaniel assistant strength and conditioning coach. FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON — Named Jamie Church assistant director of communications. GEORGETOWN — Named Matt Kerwick men’s associate head lacrosse coach. MOUNT ST. VINCENT — Named Jay Butler director of athletics and recreation. N.C. STATE — Named Todd DeSorbo associate head swimming and diving coach. PRESBYTERIAN — Named Kama Tucker softball coach. PRINCETON — Named Michael Podgajny men’s assistant blacrosse coach. QUEENS (N.C.) — Named Jon MacColl men’s and women’s assistant swimming coach. SOUTH CAROLINA — Announced the resignation of assistant track and field coach Lawrence Johnson.
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A peek at Clemens’ defense strategy BY JIM BAUMBACH AND TOM BRUNE Newsday
Stages-Winners July 9 — Stage 8: Aigurande—Super-Besse Sancy, medium mountain, 189 (117.4) (Rui Alberto Costa, Portugal;Hushovd) July 10 — Stage 9: Issoire—Saint-Flour, medium mountain, 208 (129.2) (Luis Leon Sanchez, Spain;Thomas Voeckler, France) July 11 — Rest day in Le Lioran Cantal. July 12 — Stage 10: Aurillac—Carmaux, flat, 158 (98.2) (Andre Greipel, Germany; Voeckler) July 13 — Stage 11: Blaye-les-Mines— Lavaur, flat, 167.5 (104.1) July 14 — Stage 12: Cugnaux—Luz-Ardiden, high mountain, 211 (131.1) July 15 — Stage 13: Pau—Lourdes, high mountain, 152.5 (94.8) July 16 — Stage 14: Saint-Gaudens—Plateau de Beille, high mountain, 168.5 (104.7) July 17 — Stage 15: Limoux—Montpellier, flat, 192.5 (119.6) July 18 — Rest day in the Drome region. July 19 — Stage 16: Saint-Paul-TroisChateaux—Gap, medium mountain, 162.5 (101) July 20 — Stage 17: Gap—Pinerolo, Italy, high mountain, 179 (111.2) July 21 — Stage 18: Pinerolo—Galibier Serre-Chevalier, high mountain, 200.5 (124.6) July 22 — Stage 19: Modane Valfrejus—Alped’Huez, high mountain, 109.5 (68.0) July 23 — Stage 20: Grenoble, individual time trial, 42.5 (26.4) July 24 — Stage 21: Creteil—Paris ChampsElysees, flat, 95 (59) Total — 3,430 (2,131.2)
actually prefers not knowing the other players’ scores. It keeps the pressure off and keeps her focused on what she calls the real competitor — the course. “I try not to know, when you know everything you press and when you press, you hit bad shots,” Lawson said. “It’s pretty bumming to lose, but it’s me and the course, not me and the other players.”
WASHINGTON — Attorneys for Roger Clemens said Tuesday they’ll challenge whether Congress had authority to hold a hearing on steroids that led to federal charges of perjury and lying against the former major league right-hander. In a preview of the first line of defense on the eve of Wednesday’s opening statements, Clemens’ lawyer Michael Attanasio said the Feb. 13, 2008, House hearing on the conflicting stories of Clemens and his former trainer Brian McNamee wasn’t legitimate because it wasn’t about existing or potential legislation. “A credibility contest between Mr. McNamee and Mr. Clemens about private transactions, even if they are controlled substance transactions allegedly, unrelated to the legislation, is not the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry,” Attanasio said. U.S. Attorney Daniel Butler replied that the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which held the hearing, “has very broad jurisdiction as its title suggests.
Roger Clemens finishes signing an autograph as he leaves federal court on Tuesday. AP PHOTO
It’s not just a matter of legislation.” U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton made no ruling but said he was leaning toward the government’s view of congressional power. Attanasio raised the issue as his defense team and prosecutors sifted through and chose a jury of 10 women and two men, and argued over instructions to jurors for the highprofile trial. The former pitching ace is charged with perjury, making false statements and obstructing Congress for lying repeatedly as he denied using steroids and
human growth hormone at that 2008 House hearing. Prosecutors and the defense on Wednesday will outline their cases. The defense tipped its strategy in a filing in which it cited a Supreme Court case that said a hearing needs a legislative purpose. But that case was about a man subpoenaed for questions he didn’t want to answer. Clemens voluntarily appeared and answered questions. Attanasio revealed the prosecutors’ first two witnesses will be former House Parliamentarian Charles Johnson and Phil Barnett, the committee’s chief counsel during the hearing. And he poked fun at the time Congress spent probing whether Clemens went to a barbecue at ballplayer Jose Canseco’s Florida home in 1998, at which they allegedly talked about steroids. “Apparently we’re going to have a mini trial on whether Mr. Clemens was swimming on July 11, 1998,” Attanasio said. “But it’s not material to the due and proper exercise of Congress and it’s not material to this court’s inquiry about obstruction of justice.” McClatchy-Tribune News Service
AROUND THE MAJORS
Jury seated for Clemens trial A jury of 10 women and two men will decide whether ex-baseball star Roger Clemens lied to Congress when he said he never used performance-enhancing drugs. The jurors who took their seats Tuesday include a woman whose cousin, former outfielder Al Bumbry, was a coach for the Boston Red Sox when Clemens played for the team. Another woman on the jury said she believes Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick was “done wrong” in his criminal conviction in connection with dogfighting. Four other people were seated as alternate jurors in case any of the 12 can’t serve. Prosecutors and Clemens’ defense team removed 20 people from the pool of 36 jurors, offering no public explanation for their decisions. The jury took shape after four days of questioning by U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton and lawyers for both sides. Opening arguments are scheduled for Wednesday.
JAYS DEAL RIVERA TO DODGERS The Toronto Blue Jays traded outfielder Juan Rivera to the Los Angeles Dodgers in exchange for a player to be named or cash considerations.
The 33-year-old appeared in 70 games for the Blue Jays this season, batting .243 with six home runs and 27 RBIs before being designated for assignment on July 3, the same day Travis Snider was recalled from Triple-A Las Vegas. Rivera was acquired by Toronto on Jan. 21 along with catcher Mike Napoli from the Los Angeles Angels in exchange for outfielder Vernon Wells.
TALLET BATTLING KIDNEY DISEASE Cardinals left-hander Brian Tallet, who played at Putnam City West, had a CT scan taken on his rib cage, which revealed cysts clinging to Tallet’s kidneys. Tallet told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch he was diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease, or PKD, and that has interrupted his rehab from a strained a rib cage muscle that put him on the disabled list. “It’s something that I had no idea that I had,” Tallet told the Post-Dispatch. “Some cases are worse than others. Right now, my case is that all of my levels are normal and everything is fine with them, but I’ve got cysts in the kidneys. Now, it’s just a matter of maintaining the levels that I’m at by drinking more water and not taking anti-inflammatory (medicine).” Tallet will spend the All-Star break resting and won’t throw. He’ll be re-evaluated after the break. FROM WIRE REPORTS
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Starlin Castro of the Cubs is tagged out at home plate by Alex Avila of the Tigers during Tuesday night’s All-Star Game, which was not finished in time for this edition. AP PHOTO
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Teams reviewing stadium safety Major league teams are reviewing stadium safety following the death of a fan at a Texas Rangers game last week, while still encouraging players to toss balls into the stands. Shannon Stone, a 39year-old attending a Rangers game in Texas last week with his 6-year-old son, fell over a railing while trying to catch a ball flipped to the stands by Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton. “It was horrible accident. It’s heartbreaking. It really is — it’s almost beyond comprehension to believe something like that could happen,” baseball Commissioner Bud Selig said before Tuesday’s All-Star game during a question-andanswer session with the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Each team determines its own ballpark safety features based on local laws. “I think everybody is reviewing parts of their ballparks where something like this could happen. Maybe there’s some things that they can or can’t do. So I guess is what I would say to you is common sense should always take over in these situations. And so to say here today, ‘No we shouldn’t do this,’ or ‘No, we shouldn’t do that,’ no, I wouldn’t say that. Absolutely not.” Selig addressed several other issues on Tuesday: I Selig said that he was not interested in radical realignment that would eliminate divisions or make major alterations to the
Commissioner Bud Selig said that he was not interested in radical realignment for baseball. AP PHOTO
leagues, but it was possible one team could move from the NL to the AL to leave each league with 15 teams. Because the 2012 draft schedule already has been completed, that likely could not occur before 2013 at the earliest. The downside would be that interleague games — which drew 18.3 percent more fans than other games — would have to be spread throughout the regular season. I The players’ association is in favor of shifting an NL team to the AL. FoxSportsArizona.com reported that the Diamondbacks have been told they will not be moving, leaving the Houston Astros as the most plausible candidate to shift to the AL West, where they would expand their rivalry with the Texas Rangers. I Selig said he had found more support than he had expected for a one-game playoff between wild-card teams if the playoffs ex-
pand from eight to 10 clubs in 2012. I He all but confirmed the 2013 All-Star game will be played at the Mets’ Citi Field. Minnesota’s Target Field is the leading candidate for 2014, and the Marlins hope to host in 2015 at their ballpark that opens next year. I Selig said the proposed $680 million sale of the Astros from Drayton McLane to Jim Crane was on track for approval. He also thinks the Mets’ financial situation will be stabilized once the Wilpon family completes a deal for a $200 million infusion from David Einhorn, who once lived next to Selig in Milwaukee. I Selig also repeated his desire to reach an agreement with the players’ association on an international draft and a slotting system for draft picks. I Selig said there had been no news from his committee, appointed in March 2009, to study the Oakland Athletics’ quest for a new ballpark. Selig is worried about the Tampa Bay Rays, whose home attendance is averaging 19,115 — ahead of only the Marlins — despite a 49-41 record. “You have to be concerned,” Selig said. “You want to put a competitive club on the field, there’s got to be revenue to support it.” I He said more video review of umpires’ decisions is likely. Currently, only home-run calls are subject to replay, but traps and fair-foul calls for non-home runs could be added. FROM WIRE REPORTS
Boston’s Beckett scratched Boston Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett was scratched from the All-Star Game Tuesday night after feeling soreness in his left knee while warming up in the bullpen. “I could have pitched. I’m just not comfortable going out there and getting hurt in an All-Star Game and costing myself starts in the second half,” Beckett said. “I think that’s how everybody should be. This game does mean a lot with home-field advantage and everything but at the same time there are some things that are ahead that are a little more important.” The right-hander was scheduled to follow starter Jered Weaver in the second inning, but was pulled before going in to pitch. He was replaced by Yankees right-hander David Robertson.
TROY’S HERE Colorado’s Troy Tulowitzki would seem to be a good candidate to join the long list of those sitting out the All-Star Game. The shortstop missed four games last week with a strained quadriceps before returning on Saturday. Even though he played in the two games before the break, he could have begged off to let his leg rest. “Yeah, I thought about it,” he said before Tuesday’s game. “If I wasn’t healthy enough, you don’t want to come here hurt and further injure yourself for your team. It means a lot to be
David Robertson of the Yankees applauds a catch by Jose Bautista of the Blue Jays during the All-Star Game on Tuesday night. AP PHOTO here. The fans obviously love this game. We love playing it. There’s not a better place to be right now.” He was making the first All-Start of his career.
Star prices have fluctuated depending on the market in recent years, running from $75-$285 in San Francisco in 2007, to $170-$725 at New York’s Yankee Stadium the following year to $100$360 at St. Louis in 2009.
NO HOT TICKET Possibly because the heat caused some fans not to travel to Arizona, there was less demand for tickets this year. Just six hours before first pitch, resale tickets were available for as low as $74, according to fansnap.com, and there were 1,000 tickets for less than $140. The list price set by Major League Baseball ranged from $90-$350, down from $150-$360 when the Angels hosted last year. All-
HOMER HAPPY The Home Run Derby on Monday night drew 6,686,000 viewers on ESPN, according to fast national ratings, up 4 percent from last year’s 6,418,000. The 4.7 rating increased 2 percent from last year’s 4.6. It drew a 10.3 rating in Boston, a 9.3 in Milwaukee, a 6.3 in Phoenix and a 6.1 in New York. FROM WIRE REPORTS
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MOORE — Moore Public Library, 225 S Howard, is hosting a free workshop from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Wednesday in its conference room. The workshop is titled “Get to Know Your Customer: Using Market Research to Grow Your Business.” The Oklahoma City Women’s Business Center of Rural Enterprises of Oklahoma will present the event. For more information, call 573-1670. For more events, go to wimgo.com.
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NEW TRICKS THAT’S WHAT THE FOLKS BEHIND BIG TRUCK TACOS ARE UP TO AT THEIR NEW FAST-CASUAL CONCEPT Big Truck Tacos has gone to the dogs — and that’s a good thing. Mutts Amazing Hot Dogs, 1400 NW 23, is the answer to the question partners Kathryn Mathis, Cally Johnson and Chris Lower have been asked most in the short time it took their gourmet taco stand to become a master of the universe: When are you going to open another Big Truck Tacos? Lower told me sometime ago the group would definitely expand, but it Dave might not necessarily be a Cathey taco concept. dcathey@ “We were very leery opubco.com about opening another Big Truck,” Lower said. “We were concerned what FOOD DUDE makes Big Truck special couldn’t be replicated by DINING simply opening another store.” What’s special about Mutts Amazing Big Truck can’t be defined, but the expansion, Hot Dogs retail store and more than I Where: 1400 NW 18,000 Facebook friends 23. are evidence that special I When: 10:30 a.m. it is. to 10 p.m. Monday While at the National through Saturday. Restaurant Association’s I Online: food show in Chicago last www.mutts-hotyear, the Big Truck trio dogs.com. traipsed to the iconic hot doggery, Hot Doug’s, VIDEO known far and wide for its I Watch video from gourmet interpretations the Food Dude’s visit of Chicago’s favorite to Mutts Amazing street food. Lower said Hot Dogs online: they were just going for WWW.NEWSOK.COM lunch, but at that point, they were in hot pursuit of a new concept to tackle. “Not long after we sat down and started eating, we looked at each other and said, ‘We could do this,’ ” Lower said. “It really fit in with what we wanted to do, which is
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The Oklahoma Restaurant Association’s annual Odyssey de Culinaire begins Thursday, Aug. 4, in Oklahoma City at Will Rogers Theatre. Tulsa chefs Tony Perez, Tuck Curren, Sam Bracken, Doug Atkinson and Jakub Hartlieb will prepare a six-course meal served with specially paired wines. On Thursday, Aug. 11, Oklahoma City chefs David Henry, Ryan Parrott, Christine Dowd, Mark Vannasdall, Cally Johnson and Kathryn Mathis will prepare a similar meal in Tulsa at the Doubletree Hotel. A wine reception at 6 p.m. will be followed by dinner at 7. Tickets are $125 per event or $200 for both evenings. For tickets, go to www. okrestaurants.com or call Chandy Stout at (800) 375-8181.
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The Fuhgeddaboutit Dawg includes Italian sausage, provolone cheese, onion, peppers, mushrooms and marinara sauce. French fries cooked in duck fat are sprinkled with grated parmesan and parsley.
Pitmaster Russ Garrett, the Smokin’ Okie, and chef Mark Ridener will join Food Dude Dave Cathey at American Propane, 7401 Broadway Extension, for championship barbecue with a gourmet twist from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, July 21. Learn to make competitionquality barbecue and become the talk of the block. For reservations, call 843-6868.
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FOOD AMERICANS CONTINUE TO TUNE IN TO AUTHENTIC ITALIAN FOOD BY MICHELE KAYAL The Associated Press
If you’re lucky, you’ve never known a world without olive oil or a time when Parmesan cheese only came in green cans. But there was such a world. Once stigmatized as the cuisine of “garlic eaters,” Italian food and its ingredients were almost impossible to find in America 40 years ago. “Certain foods were so associated with lower class people that it was a way of keeping those people and their food in their place,” says John Mariani, author of “How Italian Food Conquered the World.” But as increased travel and waves of new immigrants coaxed Americans to be more adventurous, Italian food found its way onto American tables — and into their hearts. During the 1960s and 1970s, retailers began marketing “healthy” Italian ingredients, such as olive oil. And during the 1980s, big-name chefs such as Wolfgang Puck adapted and enhanced foods such as pizza, giving them culinary credibility and pushing them into the mainstream. Today, dozens of oils, vinegars and other essentials vie for shelf space in supermarkets, and everything from pizza to pasta proliferates are on mainstream menus from Denny’s to the Cheesecake Factory. “Italian food appeals to such a broad spectrum,” says Jonathan Waxman of the New York restaurant Barbuto. “It appeals to kids, snobby people, rustic diners. It appeals to big groups, or an elegant dinner. It goes the full gamut.” Like other chefs who came up in the 1980s, Waxman made his name applying his classical French training to American ingredients. But he never forgot the “old school” Italian dishes he knew as a child in San Francisco, the cioppino and veal scaloppini. At Barbuto, and in his new book “Italian, My Way,” Waxman adapts the simplicity, seasonality and most of all, the spontaneity of Italian dishes to American sensibilities. Overripe tomatoes are studded with garlic and roasted for a simple sauce, and fresh asparagus is shaved and dressed with lemon and hazelnuts. The next frontier, say Waxman and Mariani, is to have Americans distinguish between the foods of Italy’s different regions. “The most important thing about Italy is that it’s not one cuisine, and now we’re discovering all the different regions,” Waxman says. “It’s like America. It’s the difference between what you get in Maine versus Louisiana.” Already, Mariani says, restaurants are beginning to open in places like New York and San Francisco and even Boulder, Colo., that specialize in the cuisines of Rome or Venice or places that few people have heard of, such as Friuli, in the country’s northeastern corner. Like Puck and food activist Alice Waters before them, they are educating as well as feeding. Many Americans already love Italy’s quintessential regional dish: pasta. “There’s something about this long, squiggly, chewy comfort food that we all love,” says Domenica Marchetti, whose new book “The Glorious Pasta of Italy” offers recipes
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BENEFITS Chef Jonathan Waxman, of the New York restaurant Barbuto, says freshly cooked crab is essential for Angel Hair Pasta With Crabmeat, Jalapeno and Mint. AP PHOTO
from Rome to Abruzzo to Sicily. “Wherever you go in Italy, the pasta is an expression of that place and the local ingredients.” In the northern region of EmiliaRomagna, for instance, Marchetti says you’ll find lots of freshly made egg noodles, lasagna and tortellini. In Apulia and Calabria, on the Adriatic Sea, you’ll get heartier pastas of buckwheat and whole grains. Up north, a Bolognese will have lots of ground meat, but almost no tomato. But in Abruzzo, you’ll find a silky sauce bursting with tomatoes that were merely flavored by meat. Just like Americans’ appreciation of Italian food in general, the country’s love of pasta has also become more adventurous, delving into dishes such as pumpkin ravioli and squid-ink pasta. But while Marchetti and others applaud the development, the simple, comforting food of Italy will always be with us. “There’s also something to be said for a nice dish of spaghetti and meatballs,” she says.
ANGEL HAIR PASTA WITH CRABMEAT, JALAPENO AND MINT Jonathan Waxman says freshly cooked crab is essential for this recipe. Avoid anything marked “previously frozen.”
Start to finish: 20 minutes. Servings: 4 ½ pound cooked crabmeat, cleaned and picked through 1 jalapeno pepper, stemmed, seeded and minced 1 clove garlic, minced 12 fresh mint leaves, torn 6 tablespoons (¾ stick) unsalted butter, cut into small pieces 1 pound angel hair pasta Juice of 1 lemon Salt, to taste In a large bowl, combine crabmeat, jalapeno, garlic, mint and butter. Set aside. Bring a large saucepan of salted water to a boil. Cook pasta according to package directions, about 3 minutes. When the pasta is al dente (still slightly firm at center), do not strain. Use tongs or a slotted spoon to scoop out pasta and add it to crab mixture. Toss, then add lemon juice. Season with salt. Nutrition information per serving: 629 calories, 177 calories from fat (28 percent of total calories); 20 g fat (11 g saturated, 1 g trans fats); 86 mg cholesterol; 83 g carbohydrates; 26 g protein; 2 g fiber; 293 mg sodium. Source: Jonathan Waxman’s “Italian, My Way” (Simon & Schuster, 2011).
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SWAP SHOP people who helped us. And so many were folks we didn’t even know. You hear some of this on television, but as a recipient you can’t imagine how humbled you are. Sometimes, all we hear about is kids in trouble or about the meanness in our world, but God still has His people. This was one of His greatest examples. God is so good! Karon Klopfenstein DEAR MELBA: Marilyn asked for the County Line’s potato salad recipe. This recipe was featured in Southern Living Magazine sometime ago. Geneva Murray, of Edmond, asked for the local County Line’s cole-
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slaw, but I haven’t been able to find it. There is a barbecue chain in Texas called the County Line. They have some of the best food, particularly their potato salad. I found this recipe and had to share. I used to only make mustard potato salad, but this recipe has caused me to change my ways. Enjoy!
POTATO SALAD 5½ pounds Idaho potatoes ¾ pound, about 2 medium, yellow onions, chopped ¾ pound, about 6 ribs celery, chopped 16 ounces dill pickle relish 1½ ounces sour cream 12 ounces mayonnaise 2 tablespoons coarse black pepper 1 teaspoon garlic salt 1 teaspoon celery salt 1 tablespoon salt, to taste Boil potatoes in salted water until tender. Cool, peel and cube.
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ROCOCO WILL HOST FUNDRAISER FOR PIEDMONT FIREFIGHTERS Rococo Restaurant and Fine Wines will host a fundraiser for the Piedmont Fire Department at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Rococo Northpark, 12252 N May Ave., with a complimentary happy hour buffet. After a raffle and auction, which will include some single firemen up for auction, 10 percent of sales from dinner service will be donated to the fire department, which is recovering from devastating tornadoes last spring.
AFTER-HOURS EVENT PLANNED The Art & Science Behind the Cocktail will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, July 28, at City Arts Center, 3000 General Pershing Blvd. The event will explore the entertaining and educational side of cocktail creation beginning with an interactive presentation from Canadian Mist Chief Entertaining Officer Tim Laird and spirits scientist Steve Hughes. After the presentation, attendees can apply what they learned with hands-on demos. Admission is $20 and is open to ages 21 or older. All proceeds benefit City Arts Center.
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Family finds comfort in helping hands DEAR MELBA: Please help me say a big thanks to so many people who helped my family when our home in Piedmont was destroyed in the recent tornado. There were three young men and a young lady who contacted us and said they were from Burns Flat and asked if they could help us salvage part of our belongings. It was so hot, and they worked so hard. When they started to leave, they apologized because they had to go. I offered them money. Their response was, “Oh no! We have something to give you.” One of the young men pulled a roll of money and a gift card out of his pocket. He said, “Our kids had Bible school this week. They wanted to help you.” I couldn’t do anything but hug them and cry. They were truly God’s angels sent to comfort and help. They did both. It still makes me weep. There were many other
THURSDAY I Chef Knife Skills — Reina Mohan, Francis Tuttle, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., $29. SATURDAY I Heart Healthy Catfish — Jermiah Duddleston, Gourmet Grille, Northwest Expressway, 1 to 1:45, free. I Stuffed Pork Loin with Summer Salad — Jeff Regas, Gourmet Grille, N Pennsylvania, 1 to 1:45, free. I Pasta Salad with Garbanzo Beans — Rick Bourgeois, Gourmet Grille, Midwest City, 1 to 1:45, free. I The Italian Pantry — Carolyn Pendley, Francis Tuttle, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., $39. MONDAY I Smokin Okie’s BBQ 101 — Russ Garrett, Francis Tuttle, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., $39. TUESDAY I Sushi Making — Michiko Dowling, Francis Tuttle, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., $29. SATURDAY, JULY 23 I Smoked Cheddar and Chicken Enchiladas — Jermiah Duddleston, Gourmet Grille, Northwest Expressway, 1 to 1:45, free. I Gorgonzola Steak Chef — Jeff Regas, Gourmet Grille, N Pennsylvania, 1 to 1:45, free. I Spicy Pork Tofu — Rick Bourgeois, Gourmet Grille, Midwest City, 1 to 1:45, free. MONDAY, JULY 25 I Quinoa — Carolyn Pendley, Francis Tuttle, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., $29. I Smokin Okie’s BBQ Brisket 101 — Russ Garrett, Francis Tuttle, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., $39. TUESDAY, JULY 26 I Cornell-Health Bread — Peter Schaffer, Francis Tuttle, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., $29.
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In large mixing bowl, blend together onions, celery, relish, sour cream, mayonnaise, pepper, garlic salt, celery salt and salt. Add cubes of potato and mix gently. Cover and place in refrigerator until ready to serve. For garnish: Dust with paprika and garnish with a sprig of parsley. Recipe can be halved, if desired. Reba Corley, Marietta, Ga.
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TEQUILA DINNER OFFERED Chicas Mexican Cafe, 6482 Avondale Drive, is hosting a tequila dinner, sponsored by Semental Tequila, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Wednesday. The three-course dinner costs $25 and features a tequila cocktail with each course. For reservations, call 607-8193.
MARTINIS, MASSAGES AND FONDUE The Melting Pot, 4 E Sheridan Ave. in Bricktown, is offering a Ladies’ Night Out full of martinis, massages and more beginning at 4 p.m. Monday. For $37 a person, excluding tax and gratuity, guests receive the chef’s choice of cheese fondue, salad, a petite entree and chocolate fondue while being pampered with hand and mini-back massages provided by local massage therapists. Representatives from Rodan & Fields Dermatologists, the creators of Proactiv, will introduce their new AMP MD product, a shot-free alternative to Botox. Specialty martinis available for $10 each include the Acai Cosmo, the Apple Martini and the “Ooh La La,” made with Stoli Orange vodka, orange juice and a splash of triple sec. Reservations are recommended but not required. Call 235-1000.
STORE FEATURES LOCAL PICKLE KIT Both Gourmet Gallery stores will feature pickles and pickled vegetables, using Victory Garden Pickle Kit from Pepper Creek Farms in Lawton. A tasting will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at both locations, 2820 NW 122 in Oklahoma City and 1532 S Boulevard in Edmond. For more information, call 715-3663 or go to www.thegourmetgallery.com.
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DEAR MELBA: I’m looking for a simple recipe for cucumbers and onions in vinegar. The one our moms and grandmothers used to make. I don’t know amounts, but surely someone will recognize it and share. These are not pickles, just refrigerated. Billie Duncan, Oklahoma City If you have a problem other readers might help solve or an idea you’d like to share, write to Melba’s Swap Shop, P.O. Box 25125, Oklahoma City, OK 73125. Please include your name and address.
Rococo Restaurant owner/chef Bruce Rinehart has hired longtime caterer Sam Fitch as director of catering. With locations at 2824 N Pennsylvania Ave. and 12252 N May Ave., Rinehart saw the need to expand the catering operation. “We’ve recognized that even with our second location still quite new, the demand for Rococo’s food, service and experience would still not be met until we brought in someone like Sam,” Rinehart said. “With Sam’s decades of experience in the catering business, we are able to bring Rococo out of the kitchen and directly to your event.” Fitch comes to Rococo after many years with Deep Fork Restaurant Group. FROM STAFF REPORTS
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The management team at Mutts Amazing Hot Dogs, from left, Amie Gehlert, Kathryn Mathis, Cally Johnson, Dusty Mickelson and Chris Lower, pose for a photo at the eatery. PHOTO BY NATE BILLINGS, THE OKLAHOMAN
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to celebrate great American street food,” Johnson said. Johnson and Mathis celebrate street food by applying their considerable chef skills and vast imaginations to create new interpretations without losing the integrity of the original. Some call it artsy-fartsy tacos and hot dogs; I call it inspired and delicious. And the lines tend to indicate I’m in the majority, at least on this one. So the chefs adoringly known as the Taco Twins don’t feel they have to add Wiener Witches, Frank Fillies or Coney Queens to their aliases; they’ve hired Rachel Wojciak as general manager and sous chef Amie Gehlert to run their new dog show. Gehlert, who is a native of Ponca City, migrated north like so many young chefs, last working in Minneapolis. “I’m having a great time with it,” Gehlert said. “It’s good to be home and great to be involved in something this exciting.” The menu consists of more than 25 hot dog varieties, plus a buildyour-own option. “Right now, we’re not doing substitutions on our specialty dogs, because there’s not a lot of carryover of ingredients from dog to dog,” Johnson said. “And we don’t start cooking the dog until it’s ordered, so if we ask the kitchen to start making a lot changes it’s going to really slow things down. If people want to make a lot of changes, we point them toward the buildyour-own option.” Of the nearly 30 varieties, I’ve eaten or at least sampled 19 and haven’t found one I wouldn’t order again. In conceiving the menu, Johnson and Mathis did a beautiful job of not only creating a dog for every flavor profile but also paying homage to a wide variety of cultures. “We look at this as our opportunity to affect local culture,” Johnson said. Not only aesthetically
Fried Pickles at Mutts Amazing Hot Dogs. PHOTO BY NATE BILLINGS, THE OKLAHOMAN
but socially. Mathis explained communal tables at Big Truck weren’t put in out of necessity rather than design, but the result was one of many shards of serendipity reflecting the story of their success. “We had these poles in the middle of the dining room, so Chris had the idea of putting communal tables around them,” she said. “What happened was people had to start talking to each other. Pretty soon, the people who came here a lot started helping out the new people and making friends.” So, the team decided to include two even larger communal tables at Mutts. At those tables and in the booths and smaller tables that surround them, you’ll usually find a lot of customers. And in front of them, you’ll find franks made of Kobe beef, rabbit, duck, lamb, bison, wild boar and even falafel. Some are wrapped in bacon, and toppings include potato salad, fried okra, french fries, curried cabbage and apple, pepperoni, wasabi mayo, smoked Gouda, tzatziki and feta, truffle aioli, crawfish, walnut-arugula pesto, avocados, pinto beans, chili, practically every imaginable pepper and fried or scrambled eggs. Dog prices start at $3 and range up to $9. The plan is to add some home-cranked sausages in the future. Corn dogs come in large or mini pups, and the fried bologna sandwich, called a Fried Frisbee, is definitely worth a whirl. The fries, which are
sized to share, can be fried in duck fat and drizzled in truffle oil if you please. If deep-fried sides don’t appeal to you, Mutts offers deviled eggs, red-skinned potato salad, baked beans, coleslaw and chili bowls that come in meated and unmeated. The fried pickles are whole spears battered in corn meal and served with a pink sauce you’ll be dipping your thumb in after the pickles disappear. Will Mutts Amazing Hot Dogs stop you from returning to your favorite hot dog stand, whether it be Iggy’s in Edmond, Coney Island or Coit’s? No. But it will make you ponder what other sacred cows, or pigs, might need a makeover from the Taco Twins or some other ambitious and creative chef. You might even feel compelled to talk about your developing culinary postmodernist philosophy with a stranger across the table, which could lead to a new friendship — or even a partnership that results in a gourmet doughnut trailer. Wouldn’t that be amazing?
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TV drama fights online bullying
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Emily Osment recently spent two months in a constant state of depression, sequestering herself from her friends and family and suffering the exhaustion that comes with feeling the world was out to get her. And she loved every minute of it. It was all part of her commitment to “Cyberbully,” a hard-hitting drama airing on ABC Family Sunday. Osment plays Taylor Hillridge, an easygoing high schooler who is thrilled when her mom gives her a laptop for her birthday. Her joy soon turns to tragedy, however, after Taylor painfully discovers the pitfalls of living online. A page she sets up on a social media website soon becomes host to vicious rumors and comments about her, driving Taylor to the point where she doesn’t know who her real friends are. The role offered the 18-yearold Osment the chance to show a different side to her talents, which largely have been Emily Osment featured in light comedies such as “Hannah Montana” and the “Spy Kids” films. “I’ve wanted to do a dramatic role for a long time,” says Osment. “I saw that this was a really good opportunity to show what I’ve got. I really liked that this is a character that truly takes a journey. She’s in a family where the father has left, she doesn’t have a great relationship with her mother, a pretty normal relationship with her brother but she’s OK. She takes this amazing journey ... to the lowest of lows that anyone can be. ... I’m so glad I did this. It taught me so much about what I’m capable of.” Beyond the professional fulfillment it brought her, Osment also was proud to be part of a project that addressed a tough issue. “Cyberbully” is the centerpiece of the “Delete Digital Drama” campaign by ABC Family and Seventeen magazine. In addition to the film, ABC Family is producing several public service announcements, while Seventeen magazine is dedicating much of its August issue to stories about cyberbullying. One might wonder how a star such as Osment, who boasts successful careers in acting and music — as well as more than 1 million Twitter followers — could convincingly portray an unpopular, terrorized teen. Well, the flip side to celebrity life is being able to go online any time of the day and read all sorts of nasty, often patently ridiculous comments about yourself posted by complete strangers. “There’s one guy who’s made like seven accounts, and he just is demoralizing to me,” she says. “I find it funny, because that’s how I deal with that kind of thing. ... Everyone really has their way of getting through it. (But) you can’t tell someone who’s being bullied, ‘Get some thick skin.’ You can’t give them self-esteem. You can’t give them the energy to go to school every day when they’re being bullied. That’s something they have to learn and something they have to fight through.” Osment says that after investing so much in the project, she has found a new cause that will stay with her.
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GETTING STARTED There are many strategies to solving Sudoku. One way to begin is to examine each 3x3 grid and figure out which numbers are missing. Then, based on the other numbers in the row and column of each blank cell, find which of the missing numbers will work. Eliminating numbers will eventually lead you to the answer.
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WEDNESDAY’S TOP TV PICKS I “The Curious Case of Curt Flood,” 8 p.m., HBO. In 1969, when the St. Louis Cardinals announced Flood’s trade to Philadelphia, he challenged baseball’s reserve clause. I “Primetime Nightline: Beyond Belief,” 9 p.m., KOCO-5. “Battle With the Devil” profiles an accused killer who used the “demon defense,” a woman who let cameras record her exorcism and visits priests receiving exorcism training in Rome.
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A.N. Other said, “My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that’s what she said.” It’s lucky he stayed anonymous; otherwise, she would have surely become his ex-wife. But as I have been stressing this week, to find the best opening lead, you must listen to the bidding. Look at the West hand. What would you lead against four spades? Your first thought might have been the club jack. But analyze the auction for a few moments. North responded in diamonds and South raised the suit. Together, they have eight or nine diamonds. So, your partner has at most one diamond. And you have two fast entries: the heart ace and spade ace. Lead the diamond eight, hoping partner can ruff immediately; but at the worst, he will have a singleton, you will take the first trump trick, and he will ruff the second diamond. Why do you select the eight? Whenever you hope you are giving partner a ruff, your card sends a suitpreference signal, telling partner which of the other two side suits to return. Here, because you have the higher-ranking heart ace, you lead your highest diamond. As you can see, everything works perfectly. East ruffs, puts you in with a heart, and gets a second ruff. Later, the spade ace results in down one. Did you think that you should have doubled four spades? That is all right if they sit for it, but if an opponent runs to five diamonds, you will regret it because that contract is unbeatable. Don’t double the only contract you can defeat -- unless it is seven no-trump!
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SHORT TAKES TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS I Actor Patrick Stewart, 71. I Actor Robert Forster (“Banyon”), 70. I Singer-guitarist Roger McGuinn (The Byrds), 69. I Actor Harrison Ford, 69. I Actor-comedian Patrick Stewart Cheech Marin, 65. I Actress Didi Conn, 60. I Country singer Louise Mandrell, 57. I Actor-director Cameron Crowe, 54. I Comedian Tom Kenny, 49. I Country singerHarrison Ford songwriter Victoria Shaw, 49. I Actor Michael Jace (“The Shield”), 46. I Country singer Neil Thrasher (Thrasher Shriver), 46. I Singer Deborah Cox, 38. I Drummer Will Champion (Coldplay), 33. I Actor Steven R. McQueen (“The Vampire Diaries”), 23.
TV BRIEF ‘JERSEY SHORE’ STAR GETS PRETRIAL INTERVENTION TOMS RIVER, N.J. — “Jersey Shore” cast member Ronnie Ortiz-Magro has been admitted into a pretrial intervention program that will allow him to avoid a criminal record for an assault that was shown on the first season of the MTV reality series. The 25-year-old New York City resident appeared Monday in New Jersey Superior Court in Toms River. Judge Stephanie Wauters told Ortiz-Magro that he’d be in the program for 18 months and asked if he’d be willing to do community service during that time. The Asbury Park Press reports that he said he would, though the judge did not specify what or how much. Ortiz-Magro was charged after a September 2009 fight outside a Seaside Heights nightclub. He and other cast members recently returned to Seaside Heights to film the show’s fifth season. FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
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Church flock losing faith in its shepherd DEAR ABBY: We have a problem — our uncomfortable, so he will buy a businesspastor. He uses the pulpit to criticize, put class ticket for himself and a coach ticket people down and offers no compassion. A for me. person can only take so much. While I’m grateful Claude is paying for The problem is, if you say anything to my ticket, I feel that since we’re a couple, him, you can bet the next we should travel together. I sermon will be about what don’t want to be upgraded you discussed. How can I to business class necessartalk to him without making ily, but I’d like him to sit in Jeanne coach with me. When I him angry? Phillips brought this up, he refused All Fire and Brimstone DEAR A.F. AND B.: Your and is now calling me “unpastor’s behavior gives new grateful.” meaning to the term “bully DEAR ABBY My feelings are hurt, pulpit.” Rather than apand Claude can’t underproach him yourself, you stand why I am upset. My and others who feel as you do should take friends and family think he is acting rude your complaint to the governing board of and selfish. I can’t help but agree. Do I your church. And if that doesn’t fix the have a right to be upset? I am so uncomproblem, you should seriously consider fortable with this arrangement that I’m finding another “flock” to join because it considering not even going. appears your shepherd has lost his way. Not Ungrateful in San Diego DEAR ABBY: I have been dating DEAR NOT UNGRATEFUL: San Diego “Claude” for eight months. We are plan- to France is a long flight. It’s a long time to ning a trip in the fall to visit his family’s expect a tall person to fold up like a praychateau in France. Claude has long legs ing mantis just so you won’t be sitting and refuses to travel in coach because it’s alone in a coach seat on your way to an
all-expense-paid vacation. Claude has good reason for wanting to sit in business class. So be a sport and offer to pay for an upgrade to business class and sit with him. I agree that you shouldn’t be seated “10 paces behind him,” and this way you would both be comfortable. DEAR ABBY: When my husband, “Ken,” proposed three years ago, he had a steady job with an income twice as high as mine. He was laid off before our wedding, but we went ahead with the marriage. After our wedding, Ken was unemployed for another year before finally finding a minimum-wage job. After one year at that job, he was fired. He has since found another minimum-wage position. I am a young teacher. We live in an expensive part of the country. We struggle every day to pay for groceries, gas and other essentials. I wasn’t raised to expect many frills in life, and I am frugal, but there are certain things I always assumed I would have — a house of my own, children, a savings account. If I stay with Ken, I don’t believe these things will ever be within my reach.
In all other ways, Ken is a wonderful man, and I love him with all my heart. But is there ever a time when love isn’t all you need? Second Thoughts, Asheville, N.C. DEAR SECOND THOUGHTS: You and Ken have hit a rough patch early in your marriage, but millions of Americans are even worse off — out of work and have given up trying to find any. When you married Ken you promised each other “for richer or poorer.” This recession won’t last forever and, in the meantime, you have a wonderful man you love with all your heart. Whether that’s enough or not, only you can answer. But if you trade in this model, there are no 100percent guarantees that the next one will be able to give you all you need, either. You may find that in order to get all you need, you’ll have to do it on your own. Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. To order “How to Write Letters for All Occasions,” send a business-size, self-addressed envelope plus check or money order for $6 to Dear Abby — Letter Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. (Postage is included in the price.) UNIVERSAL UCLICK
Divorcing spouse unsure how gifts should be handled DEAR MISS MANNERS: My husband of 26 years left one year ago, and we are in the process of getting a divorce. We have two children still of minor age. The children live with me now but may see him any time his slightly erratic schedule permits. It so happened that this year my birthday fell on his only day to see the children that week, so I allowed him to have them for several hours. Although he wished me a happy birthday, he did not take the children to buy me a small gift or even
a card, or direct them to make one (as he had for Mother’s Day). They all basically ignored my birthday, except for verbal best wishes. When it was his birthday, I made sure the kids had something for him. Am I overdoing it, or is he underdoing it? His 50th is coming up, and I am probably going to have them get him something, but I want to address my own expectations. GENTLE READER: You have, perhaps, heard of the futility of attempting to
Judith Martin MISS MANNERS reform a spouse, even an affectionate one who is in residence. Attempting to reform a spouse who left home is, Miss Manners assures you, a waste of time. Time, however, is on your side. If this keeps happening, one of the
BILLY GRAHAM DEAR DR. GRAHAM: I’ve given my life to Jesus, but I’m still filled with doubts and wonder if He’s really forgiven me. A strong faith seems to come easily to some people, but I’m afraid I’m not one of them. Am I always going to be this way? Mrs. N.G. DEAR MRS. N.G.: No, there’s no reason for you to be like this — not if you have sincerely committed your life into Christ’s hands. God has promised to forgive us if we put our faith and trust in Christ — and (as I’ve often pointed out) God cannot lie. Think of it this way. Suppose you’d committed a crime, had been caught and were now in court before the judge. He listened carefully to the evidence; he also listened to your confession (because you knew you were guilty and deserved to be punished). Then he pronounced the sentence: You were guilty, and he decreed that you must either pay a fine or go to jail. But you couldn’t pay the fine; you didn’t
have enough money. Your only choice was to go to jail. But then suppose the judge stepped down from his bench, reached in his pocket — and paid the fine for you! Then you’d be free! There wouldn’t be any reason for you to worry about going to jail because the penalty had been paid. And this is what Jesus Christ did for you. We deserve God’s judgment for our sins — but Jesus Christ paid the penalty for us, by dying on the cross. The Bible says, “Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!” (Romans 5:9). Don’t doubt any longer what Christ did for you, but thank Him that you now belong to Him — forever. Send questions to “My Answer,” c/o Billy Graham, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, 1 Billy Graham Parkway, Charlotte, NC 28201, call (877) 247-2426 or go online to www.billygraham.org. TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES
HOROSCOPE I ARIES (March 21-April 19): You are so creative now because you are not afraid to look foolish. You will experiment and investigate. You will go where most adults wouldn’t think to go. I TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You are complex. Simplistic black-andwhite notions don’t apply to you and could actually cause psychological pain. So make an effort to see all the shades of gray. I GEMINI (May 21-June 21): Your list of abilities is quite long, and it’s about to get even longer. Effortless learning is your specialty right now. You’re a sponge, picking up new skills by simply being near the people who possess them. I CANCER (June 22-July 22): You’re headed toward sudden and acute disillusionment. But this is actually quite positive, as it will bring you to what’s real and make you more powerful than ever. I LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your discretion will be needed, and it won’t be entirely clear how much you should say. Telling the truth is never the wrong thing to do. But you won’t be a liar if you decide to keep your mouth shut. I VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You always have a choice about how curious to be, and you usually choose to be absolutely fascinated. You recognize boredom as a state of mind that cannot be imposed on you by anything outside of yourself.
I LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): Instead of dreaming impossible dreams, you focus on real life. You imagine what you can do to make the best of your time today, and you fully engage in life. I SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): You will consider making a big change. Think it over for a long while. And you don’t have to tell anyone what you’re thinking, either. You are entitled to your thought processes and are not obligated to share them. I SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): People look out for their own needs. You’ll try to understand the wants and needs of those around you so that you may anticipate what is likely to happen next. I CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Having to be absolutely right all the time is a punishing imposition. It only leads to feeling like you are usually wrong. That’s why you refuse to worry about it. You know what you know, and you do your best with that. I AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You want to move a mountain, and you will. It will happen little by little. Commit to one simple action. Other changes will happen naturally as the world adjusts to accommodate your action. I PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You will be drawn to esoteric pursuits, the likes of which could be considered “frivolous nonsense” by some standards. You know better. Your “frivolous nonsense” will be life enhancing in some practical way. CREATORS SYNDICATE
children will eventually ask, “Why don’t we get a birthday present for Mom — she always has us get one for you.” Paradoxically, this will make an impression if it comes from a child, whereas any complaints from you would seem childish. DEAR MISS MANNERS: My friends and acquaintances often make comments to me regarding books, movies or television shows. They might say, “I heard
you went to see that new romantic comedy last week — didn’t you just love it?” Or “I saw you checking out the novel by Author X at the library. Don’t you think it’s the best thing she has ever written?” Perhaps “That new television drama is so boring, I can’t imagine why anyone would want to watch it. Don’t you agree?” I often disagree with their opinions, and the assumption that everyone would like the same things
strikes me as peculiar. What could I say to let them know I do not share their opinion but not offend them? GENTLE READER: Unless your friends produced these works, or their cousins, aunts or children did, you should be able to assume that they are merely making conversation. A dissenting opinion might be of genuine interest. Visit Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com, where you can send her your questions. UNIVERSAL UCLICK
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ENTERTAINMENT JIMMY LAFAVE ON ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE TO WOODYFEST BY BRANDY MCDONNELL
Strong ties to state Although he was born in Wills Point, Texas, and has made his home in Austin, Texas, for 25 years, LaFave, 56, has strong ties to Oklahoma and its red dirt music. When he was a teenager, his family moved to Stillwater, where he finished high school and began to dig his musical roots. His mother traded a drawer full of green stamps for his first guitar, and LaFave found inspiration from J.J.
‘An Evening With David Crosby & Graham Nash’ I What: David Crosby and Graham Nash will play a special show benefiting the Woody Guthrie Coalition at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N Main in Tulsa. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. General admission tickets are $41. For tickets, go to www.cains ballroom.com or www.protix online.com. Jimmy LaFave will headline Saturday at the 14th Annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in Okemah.
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Cale, Chet Baker and, of course, Woody Guthrie. “He’s kind of the touchstone for all songwriters. He was one of the first really singer-songwriters. Back in his day, there weren’t many people that actually wrote that were singersongwriters ... but people like the Woody Guthrie and Jimmie Rodgers started writing their own tunes back in that era. And Woody was able to become an iconic songwriter, especially (considering) the most iconic songwriter America’s ever produced is Bob Dylan ... whose best tunes totally came from Woody,” LaFave said. LaFave played Stillwater clubs, cut his first independent records and toured the Southwest with the initial incarnation of his band Night Tribe. He became one of the regulars at The Farm, the homestead that became the birthplace of red dirt music. LaFave actually took the late Bob Childers to The Farm for the first time; Childers, known as “the godfather of red dirt music,” eventually became its main musical tenant. Along with playing their own sets at WoodyFest, LaFave and the Red Dirt Rangers will perform at the event’s yearly tribute to Childers Saturday night.
Looking back, ahead Although LaFave moved to Austin in 1986, he didn’t sever his Oklahoma music roots. In between touring in support of his own successful albums, he also spearheaded for 10 years the long-running “Ribbon of Highway, Endless Skyway” Guthrie
I When: Thursday-Sunday. I Where: Various venues in Okemah. I What: Musical performances, children’s activities, open mike, poetry reading, guitar workshop and fundraisers for the state chapter of the Huntington’s Disease Society of America. I Admission: Free. I Parking: Free for daytime events; $15 per car evenings at the Pastures of Plenty Stage and includes a festival program.. I Information: www.woody guthrie.com.
tribute tour. In 2008, the accompanying album became the first release on Music Road Records, the indie label LaFave co-founded. He recently retired the “Ribbon of Highway” and is working on a new tribute tour for 2012, when the centennial of Guthrie’s birth will be celebrated. In addition, he plans to release next year a tribute album of about 20 previously unrecorded Guthrie songs. LaFave will release in fall his first album of original material since his 2007 “Cimarron Manifesto,” which spent several weeks atop the Americana music chart. “It’s not about the money, it’s not about the amenities, it’s just about being with this tribe of like-minded people that you’ve finally found, they’re people you’ve been looking for your whole life. And out of that comes a lot of great music,” LaFave said.
Stoney LaRue plays for heart, soul The music will be good for his soul and the causes close to his heart when Stoney LaRue plays a trio of home-state shows this week. On Thursday, the Oklahoma singer-songwriter will play a solo acoustic set — or at least he’ll start out that way — at the 14th Annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in Guthrie’s hometown of Okemah. A mainstay of the red dirt music scene, LaRue and his band The Arsenal will play at a “Concert for American Heroes” Saturday at the Tumbleweed Dance Hall in Stillwater. And he will headline “Twister Relief — A Benefit Concert Featuring Stoney LaRue & Friends” Sunday in Kingfisher. The Woody Guthrie Folk Festival starts Wednesday with the special benefit concert “An Evening With David Crosby & Graham Nash.” WoodyFest then moves to Guthrie’s birthplace of Okemah, where it will feature live music and other activities Thursday through Sunday. “It’s one of those festivals for me that just kind of helps me get through the next year,” LaRue said during a phone interview. Thursday’s headliner set will mark his third straight year to play WoodyFest. The first year he performed there, he expected to do just the usual acoustic solo set, but before he knew it, he had the Red Dirt Rangers, Tom Skinner, David Amram and Jimmy LaFave
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For the 14th consecutive year, Jimmy LaFave is making his annual pilgrimage to Okemah, birthplace of “one of the greatest American geniuses ever born.” On Saturday night, the singersongwriter will headline the 14th Annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, and while he has become a respected songsmith in his own right, LaFave is proud to be known as “one of the Woody guys.” “He’s one of our native sons. He’s arguably the most famous Oklahoma musician in the world,” LaFave said during a recent phone interview. “He’s really more famous than Will Rogers the world over. ... In Europe, everybody knows who Woody Guthrie is.” Since 1998, the nonprofit Woody Guthrie Coalition has organized the festival every year during the week of the musician’s July 14 birthday. Guthrie, who died of Huntington’s disease in 1967, would have been 99 this year. WoodyFest 2011is set for Thursday through Sunday at various venues around Guthrie’s hometown of Okemah. It will include nearly 60 performances, a children’s festival, an open mike and special events such as a poetry reading, guitar workshop and a hootenanny benefiting the Oklahoma chapter of the Huntington’s Disease Society of America. The festival will kick off at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday with “An Evening With David Crosby & Graham Nash,” a special benefit show at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa. With the exception of Wednesday’s concert, the festival is a free event. “It’s always a great time. Everybody does it for free, and people get to come for free,” LaFave said. “Every year, I stumble across something at WoodyFest ... and I learn something new about Woody.”
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‘Concert for American Heroes’ I When: 7 p.m. Saturday. I Where: Tumbleweed Dance Hall, Lakeview and Country Club roads. I Benefiting: National Wild Turkey Federation’s Wheelin’ Stoney LaRue Sportmen program. I Information: www.calffry.com.
‘Twister Relief - A Benefit Concert Featuring Stoney LaRue & Friends’ I With: Stoney LaRue, The Washita River Boys, City Moon, Buffalo Steamboat. I When: 7 p.m. Sunday. Gates at 6 p.m. I Where: Homier Field at Kingfisher Park, 400 S Park, Kingfisher. I Information: www.ticketstorm.com.
on stage with him. “It was pretty awesome. How do you explain that other than it’s so laid back and so comfortable and so about the music and being around friends and the joy of celebrating not only Woody Guthrie but also Bob Childers,” he said, referring to the late singersongwriter known as “the godfather of red dirt music.” “It’s just good for my soul.” His Saturday show at the Tumbleweed will benefit injured servicemen and women. All proceeds from the concert will go to the National Wild Turkey Federation’s Wheelin’ Sportmen program, which provides opportunities for wounded warriors and other Americans with disabilities to enjoy the outdoors.
Before he became a fulltime musician, LaRue served as a combat engineer in the Army from 1997-98, receiving a medical discharge. He frequently plays military benefit concerts, and he opened for Merle Haggard and Miranda Lambert over July 4 weekend at Fort Sill. “I think that a lot of those kids don’t know what they’re signing up for whenever they sign that piece of paper. You know, they’re thinking maybe ‘I get to learn a job’ or ‘I’ll get money for college’ or whatever. They don’t think that they might have their life taken or their buddy’s or have to take a life. And I think after that, that’s one of those things that can and done change your soul,” he said. “With our music being some of their outlets, a lot
of times we have that connection I think on a deeper level. ... Being a traveler, being out of the road all the time, being away from my family, we carry a likemindedness.” The Edmond resident also feels a close connection to Oklahomans who lost their homes in the May 24 twisters. Although the storms came close, his house was unscathed. He is eager to help those who weren’t so fortunate. “Whenever those tornadoes were rolling through, I had eight kids, four dogs and two women in the cellar, and me and another dude, we kind of stood outside the cellar waiting to see it,” he said. “Can you imagine having your home kind of yanked away from you and then not being able to go back to it? It’s gotta be hard. If there’s a way that they can use my name to get people out and raise money ... why wouldn’t I do it?” Along with favorites such as “Oklahoma Breakdown,” “Feet Don’t Touch the Ground” and “One Chord Song,” LaRue will play songs from his anticipated album “Velvet,” his first studio collection of new material in six years. The ardent title track and lead single was released last week; the album is due out Aug. 30. He worked with producer Frank Liddell (Lambert, Lee Ann Womack, Jack Ingram) and co-wrote several tracks with fellow songwriter Mando Saenz. “It’s very different. It’s grown-up,” he said. “But when you hear it, it sounds really familiar.”
LONDON — Longtime New Romantic band Duran Duran has called off its summer tour because frontman Simon Le Bon is recovering from voice problems. The European tour had been due to start in Dublin next week and continue through mid-September. Le Bon said Tuesday he had damaged muscles controlling his vocal cords, leaving him unable to hit top notes, and had been advised to undergo physical therapy. He said it was unclear how long he would take to recover. He added, “I am doing everything I can to work through this and get back on track as soon as possible.” Duran Duran became superstars in the 1980s with hits including “Wild Boys” and “Rio.” The band’s latest album is the Mark Ronsonproduced “All You Need is Now.”
DWIGHT YOAKAM BACK AT WARNER LOS ANGELES — It’s fairly common for a major label recording artist to switch to an indie label as time goes by and their impact on the charts waxes and wanes, which is just what happened to country singer-songwriter Dwight Yoakam in the ’90s, after his seven-year streak of Top 10 country singles slowed. That makes it all the more unusual to get news that Yoakam, pictured, has not only returned from indie land, where he’s been living musically in recent years, to a major label, but to the same parent company, Warner Music Group, he left a decade ago. The 54-year-old Kentucky musician-turned-actor is slated to release a new album for Warner Bros. Nashville early next year, the company has announced. It will be produced by Yoakam and Joe Chiccarelli, who has worked with such alt-rock acts as My Morning Jacket, the Shins and the Strokes. Yoakam also has been recording some tracks with Beck. “When I heard his current music, I was blown away,” Warner Music Nashville’s President and Chief Executive John Esposito said in a statement. “I think that it is some of the best music he has ever done.”
PEOPLE FILMMAKER MEETS MAYOR OF ROME ROME — It’s not Woody Allen’s beloved Manhattan skyline, but the American filmmaker was treated to a beautiful view of Rome’s ancient ruins during a meeting with the city’s mayor. Allen, pictured, is in Rome to shoot his next movie, “The Bop Decameron.” The comedy will feature Roberto Benigni, Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page, Penelope Cruz and Judy Davis, among others. Allen met with Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno on July 6. At one point, Allen looked out from a balcony of the mayor’s office atop the Capitoline Hill, which has a breathtaking view of the city’s ancient Roman Forum. The mayor presented Allen with a small statue of the she-wolf, a symbol of Rome. The movie began production July 4 in Rome.
LADY ANTEBELLUM SINGER ENGAGED NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Lady Antebellum’s Hillary Scott, pictured, is engaged. The 25-year-old singer’s boyfriend, Chris Tyrell, 24, popped the question over the Fourth of July weekend at a family getaway in east Tennessee. Scott and Tyrell, a drummer, met while touring with Tim McGraw in early 2010. People first reported the engagement Tuesday. Scott is the second member of Lady Antebellum to end her single ways. Charles Kelley is married, leaving Dave Haywood as the lone available member of the Grammy-winning trio. Lady Antebellum turned in the top-selling country album of 2010 with “Need You Now” and is preparing to release its follow-up, “Own The Night,” due out Sept. 13.
REGIS PHILBIN’S HOME UP FOR SALE GREENWICH, Conn. — Television host Regis Philbin, pictured, and his wife are trying to sell one of the two homes they own in Greenwich. The house on Meeting House Road has nearly 6,000 square feet of space, including four bedrooms and eight bathrooms. It sits on 6 acres near Mianus River State Park and also includes a pool, a tennis court and a gazebo. It is listed for $3.8 million with Sotheby’s International Realty, after being listed for $5.9 million back in 2008. Broker Michele Klossom tells the Greenwich Time that it didn’t sell the last time around because of the downturn in the housing market and perhaps the condition of other houses on the road. The Philbins own another home less than 2 miles away, and an apartment in Manhattan. FROM WIRE SERVICES
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'07 Chev Impala LT, leather, auto, $13,988. 405-294-4179 co. '07 Aveo LT, auto, sunroof, super mpgs, $8987. 294-4115 co. 2006 Chevy HHR 40k miles loaded $12,880 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292 2006 Chevy Monte Carlo leather sunroof all options $11,900 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292 '06 CHEV CORVETTE COUPE, lthr, loaded, $31,988. 405-294-4117 co. '06 Chev Cobalt Sdn auto cold AC $7983 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com '05 Chevy Corvette auto Z06 wheels loaded $22,988 405-294-4117 co. '01 MONTE CARLO LS auto leather alloys cold sporty for less garaged $4,450. BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600 2001 Chevy Camaro Hard to Find Only 50K Miles $8,880 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292 '97 Camaro RS, white, chrome whls, $3488. 405-294-4179 co. 1994 CORVETTE great condition black on black, $8500, 602-0671, 685-3303 1972 Chevy Chevelle ''SS 454'' totally restored Call 4 details BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292 1969 CHEVELLE SS with 520CI Big Block, very fast and very loud! $20,990. Heitz Chev...866-365-1354
2004 CADILLAC CTS with only 39k miles! Heitz Chev...866-365-1354
HAIL SALE '10 Chrys 300 Touring lthr loaded $17,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com
'00 INTEGRA ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444
'98 Eldorado, Grandpa's car, nicest in town, loaded leather $4,950. 816-4151 co
1991 Legend LS, green, 4dr, 6 cd, 240k miles, 1 owner, $1,750. 388-6483
'97 Deville Creme Puff, V8, Michelin tires 80K mi Pearl. $4650 » 735-3088
'00 DeVille lthr all opts 49K act mi $7981 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com
'72 VW SUPER BEETLE Runs & looks great, sumatra green. 25 MPG. $2500. 405-884-2806
2011 Chevy Corvette, fire engine red, auto, like new, 5K miles, $41,992. P6464 888-457-5765 www.fowlerhonda.com
'63 Chevy II SS Convertible 6 cyl, 2 spd, Pwrglide, a/c unit, New brakes & tires. Runs great. Needs restoration. Must Sell. $2000 obo 281-910-0272, Duncan
'11 CHEV CAMARO SS, special edition, red, loaded, 6K miles, $36,988. 405-294-4117 co.
1927 T Bucket, metal body, 350/350 posi track rear end, disc brake, $6,000. 405-262-5140
2011 CHEVROLET HHRGM Certified-low milesjust arrived. 748-7700 bobhowardchevy.com
2008 Audi Q7, 1 owner, new tires, clean, $36,250. 830-9054
'10 CHEV CAMARO 2SS, Bumble yellow-black stripes, 10K miles, $33,963. 748-7700 bobhowardchevy.com HAIL SALE '10 Chev Malibu LT loaded low mi $15,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com '10 Chev Cobalt LT Sedan auto alloys more 3 to choose $13,988 Just In! 405-294-4179 co.
'03 300M, one owner, leather, loaded, garaged, only 70K miles, luxury for less, $7950. BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600 '02 PT CRUISER LTD leather sunroof alloy wheels runs and drives great $3950 BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600 2002 Chrysler PT Cruiser Limited lthr sunroof $7,980 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292
HAIL SALE '10 Sebring Ltd lthr loaded low mi $14,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com 2008 Chrysler P T Cruiser loaded, leather, sunroof $10,900 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292 '08 CHRYSLER SEBRING CONVERTIBLE, all the toys, $11,463. 748-7700 bobhowardchevy.com
'98 MUSTANG COUPE auto ice cold air alloys spoiler runs and drives great $3,950 BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600
2010 HONDA CIVIC, automatic with warranty, $16,994 P6426 888-457-5765 www.fowlerhonda.com '10 Honda Accored $22,988 294-4115 co. '10 Civic EX Cpe auto snrf fac warr $18,174 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com
2001 PT Cruiser Limited, leather, sunroof, low miles, $4,800, 830-8024.
2010 Dodge Avenger R/T lthr loaded $16,980 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292 HAIL SALE '10 Charger SXT auto 3.5L loaded $15,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com HAIL SALE '10 Avenger SXT loaded low mi $13,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com '10 DODGE CHALLENGER, 6 spd, lthr, navi, loaded, $35,988. 405-294-4117 co. HAIL SALE '10 Charger R/T nav lthr 9K mi $25,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com '10 Avenger R/T lthr loaded $15,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com 2009 Dodge Avenger 4Dr, Sedan, 4WD, automatic, Red ext, Black int, cloth, excellent cond, 15,500 mi, A/C, drv air bag, pass air bag, side air bag, AM/FM stereo, ABS, bucket seats, CD, childproof locks, cruise, fog lights, fold down rear seat, heated seats, keyless entry, PL, pwr mirrors, pwr seats, PS, PW, rear defrost, rear spoiler, satellite radio, alarm, tilt, trip odometer, Also has heated/cooling cup holders as well as the capability of installing a DVD player. $16,000, kerri.smith@yahoo.com '09 Charger SXT loaded lo mi $14,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com '08 Charger R/T lthr 20K loaded $22,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com '08 Journey SXT, super clean, all power, $19,987. 294-4115 co. '07 CHARGER 3.5L, very nice car, garaged, deep tint, OU red/gray, runs perfect, $12,950. BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600 '07 Dodge Nitro SLT lthr rf nav $14,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com '07 Caliber R/T AWD lthr 20K mi $13,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com '07 Dodge Caliber R/T lo mi loaded $12,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com '07 Caliber SXT pw pl AT $6988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com 2006 Dodge Stratus SXT V-6 Auto PW PL only 42k miles $8,980 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292 2005 Dodge Magnum V6 auto pw pl 50k miles $12,980 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292 '04 NEON SXT loaded, all the xtras nice, cold air. CD $3950 863-6399
HAIL SALE '10 Sebring Touring auto air CD $13,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com
'02 Cad DeVille leather all opts $5781 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com
2003 Audi A4 Leather Alloys All Power $10,488 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292
'10 Chev Cobalt LT alloys lo mi $12,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com
2005 DEVILLE, loaded, $7969. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444
'02 ACURA RSX Type S, leather, roof, perfect condition, great mpg, low mileage, $9950. BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600
'08 Audi A4 mn lthr 49K at ac $18,994 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com
'10 CAMARO SS, 6 speed, black, black stud, $30,988. 405-294-4117 co.
'08 Chev Cobalt, auto, nice, $10,988. 405-294-4179 co.
Goodyear Wranglers Four P265/70R17 $90, 405-720-0986
2009 ACURA TSX, leather, sunroof, $21,900 ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444
HAIL SALE '10 Chev Impala LT lo mi loaded $14,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com
2001 Stratus, 4cyl aut gas saver cd, nice. air cond, $3650 863-6399
2009 HONDA CIVIC SEDAN, auto, great on gas, 1 owner, $16,495, P6449. 888-457-5765 www.fowlerhonda.com '09 ELEMENT EX, AWD, auto, super clean, $20,987. 294-4115 co. '09 Civic LX Cpe auto pwr blk beauty$16354753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com '09 Element SC alloys lo mi nice $21,999 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com '09 Honda CRV LX 21,536 miles. $19,990. Call 580-492-5338 2008 ACCORD EXL, sunroof, navigation, low miles, $18,727, over 15 Accords to choose from. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444 2008 HONDA ACCORD LXP, $14,921. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444 2008 HONDA CIVIC SI Hard to Find Must See this One Only $15,995. Heitz Chev...866-365-1354 2008 CIVIC EXL 4 door, leather, nice, $17,921. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444 '08 Accord EXL V6 Cpe auto lthr $20,464 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com '08 HONDA CIVIC 2 door EX, auto, $15,988. 405-294-4117 co. '08 Civic LX Sdn auto pwr hates gas $14544 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com '08 Accord EXL Sdn auto lthr snrf $21,374 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com
2007 Honda Accord EX, 4dr All power, moonroof, $11,900 405-837-8034 2007 CIVIC EX, sunroof, $13,969. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444 '07 MUSTANG DELUX CONV, auto, summer fun, $18,987. 294-4115 co. '07 Civic EX rf 2dr lo mi loaded $12,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com '07 Accord EXL Cpe auto lthr snrf $15,981 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com '07 Civic EX at ac pw pl moon $15,994 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com '07 Accord EXL V6 Sdn auto lthr $17,864 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com '03 Civic EX Sedan AT AC pw pl $8994 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com 2002 ACCORD SE, auto, $6777. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444 '02 Civic EX Sdn auto snrf hates gas $4991 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com '97 Civic HX Cpe auto cold air $3981 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com
'08 HUMMER H2, LUX, Loaded 23k mi. 405-294-4179 co.
2010 FORD FOCUS SE, priced to sell at $14,996, P6441. 888-457-5765 www.fowlerhonda.com
'08 HUMMER H-2, luxury pkg, loaded, 4x4, $41,988 405-294-4117 co.
'09 Ford Mustang auto lo mi loadd$16488 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com
'07 HUMMER H3, white, tan leather, roof, chrome pkg, only $24,988. (888) 694-8385 bobmooreinfiniti.com
'08 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Conv, $36,988. 405-294-4179 co.
'06 HUMMER H2, bad boy, Nitto tires, alloys, come and get it, $26,988. (888) 694-8385 bobmooreinfiniti.com
'08 Sebring Conv Ltd lo mi loadd$17988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com
Bargain on '07 Expedition Ext Length, #64H $15,550 '04 Expedition Eddie Bauer #11H $10,580. Both are extra nice & ready for vacation. Diffee Ford Lincoln I-40 West exit 125 262-4546 800-491-4401
'08 PT Cruiser loaded lo mi $10,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com
'07 Mustang GT low miles pristine $19,983 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com
'06 Hummer H3 Lux, only 42K mi! $18,988. 405-294-4179 co.
'08 Sebring Touring Conv. $13,999 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com
'07 Mustang GT AC Lthr PW PL $18,994 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com
2007 300 Touring alloys lthr 40K $15,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com
2006 Ford Mustang Convertible Auto Fun in the Sun! $14,880 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292
'05 H2 black/black leather roof navigation dual rear headrest dvd excellent and much more $20,950 BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600
'07 Chrysler 300 loaded lo mi $13,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com 2006 Chrysler 300 76000 mi, Silver 6.1L Hemi (SRT) fully loaded $20,995. 405-923-0064 '06 Touring 300 all opts low mi $14,981 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com 2005 PT CRUISER, only 49,000 miles, auto, nice, $6700, choose from 5 in stock. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444
2006 Ford Mustang GT Leather 5 Speed Loaded $18,988 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292 '06 FORD MUSTANG GT, Black-automatic-35K miles $18,463. 748-7700 bobhowardchevy.com 2006 FORD MUSTANG GT, black beauty, $18,988, 11487B. 888-457-5765 www.fowlerhonda.com
'06 H2 HUMMER, 3 tvs, loaded w/everything, low miles, hurry! ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444
'04 H2, Lux, tons of chrome, roof, $17,987. 294-4115 co.
HAIL SALE '11 Sonata 4dr loaded lo mi $17,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com '09 Hyundai Santa Fe Limited, nav, loaded $24,988 405-294-4179 co. '09 Santa Fe Ltd all opts fac warr $24,982 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com
'99 LEXUS ES300 SEDAN, local trade, only 54,000 miles, only $10,988. (888) 694-8385 bobmooreinfiniti.com
'09 Sonata auto power gas saver $14,981 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com '08 Sonata GLS auto pwr gas saver$11,981 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com '07 Santa Fe lth moon ac pw pl $15,991 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com
2011 Lincoln MKS Tech Package, the latest in Lincoln Luxury $31,977 REYNOLDS LINC-MERC 1-800-864-5268
'01 TIBURON TURBO, leather, roof, spoiler, stix shift, runs and drives great, $4950. BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600 2001 ELANTRA GLS AUTO, 4 DOOR $2850 ¡¡¡ 946-4371
'08 INFINITI G37S COUPE, alloys, nav, roof, only 19,000 miles, $32,988. (888) 694-8385 bobmooreinfiniti.com
2008 Lincoln MKZ htd & cooled seating one owner trade save @ $19,988 REYNOLDS LINC-MERC 1-800-864-5268 2007 Lincoln MKZ Black Leather Loaded $17,988 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292
'08 Altima Cpe 31K mi at ac pw pl$18,994478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com
2004 Lincoln Town Car Peat ext, Bieg int, excellent cond, 60000 mi, Loaded! $10500, kilroy_777@hotmail. com 580-928-3451 or 729-2214 '99 LINCOLN TOWN CAR, only 47K miles, $8826. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444
1994 Town Car, runs good, high miles, good mpg, $1800, 255-0977.
'10 Mazda 5 Pwr WL alloy 5dr $15,994 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com 2008 Mazda 3 5dr GT lthr htd sts auto climate Bose & mnrf $18,987 REYNOLDS LINC-MERC MAZDA 1-800-864-5268
'07 G35 Sdn auto lthr sunroof $21,981 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com
'06 Q56, leather, roof, TVs, super clean, $20,987 294-4115 co. '06 QX56 white w/tan lthr nav$24,994 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com '04 Q56 4WD lthr snrf DVD nav $16,961 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com
1998 JAGUAR XK8 beautiful one owner very well kept with ony 57k miles $13,993 Heitz Chev...866-365-1354
'10 Jeep Compass loaded lo mi $16,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com '10 G. Cherokee Laredo lo mi $18,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com '10 G-Cherokee 4x4 lo mi loaded $19,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com '09 WRANGLER SAHARA, hard top, low miles, $24,777 OBO. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444 2008 JEEP WRANGLER SAHARA UNLIMITED, black, auto, hard top, $22,993, P6458. 888-457-5765 www.fowlerhonda.com '08 JEEP COMMANDER, alloys, nice and clean, only $16,988. (888) 694-8385 bobmooreinfiniti.com HAIL SALE '08 Liberty Spt 4x4 roof low mi $15,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com 2008 JEEP WRANGLER UNLIMITED X 4WD, PW, PL, only $18,999. Heitz Chev...866-365-1354 '08 Sahara 4WD 30K Hrd Top $19,994 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com '08 Liberty Limited 43K pw pl $18,994 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com '08 Wrangler 4dr hd top alloys $17,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com '08 Commander Sport auto pwr $15,961 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com '08 Gr. Cherokee 4x4 Ltd V8 nav $20,962 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com '08 Grand Cherokee loaded w/opts $17,981 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com '08 Liberty Ltd 4x4 lthr rf nav $20,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com '08 Liberty 4x4 auto 3.7L blk bty $16,861 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com '07 Wrangler Unltd auto hard top $17,984 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com '07 Grand Cherokee SRT8, lo miles, just in. 294-4115 co. '07 Jeep Liberty auto 4x4 $12,988 405-294-4179 co. '05 Liberty Ltd lthr moon AT ac $12,994 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com '05 Jeep Liberty auto 4x4 $11,988 405-294-4179 co.
'07 ALTIMA SE 3.5, loaded, $13,926. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444 '07 350Z AT AC 30K PW PL $19,994 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com '07 Altima 3.5SL lthr loaded $15,982 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com '06 Sentra Spec Edtn AT AC pw pl $8994 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com '04 Maxima XL , sun roof, leather, NAV, 140k, $6,450. 209-5297 co.
2001 Intrigue 4 door runs drives great, tagged, AC $2500 obo . 881-2421 '99 Intrigue GL 3.8L 137K mi. loaded cold AC CD X-Nice! $2750 201-3831
'07 INFINITI G35 SEDAN, affordable luxury, only $24,788. (888) 694-8385 bobmooreinfiniti.com
'06 INFINITI FX35, great mpg for SUV, roof, sporty at $19,988. (888) 694-8385 bobmooreinfiniti.com
'10 Altima S AT PW PL lo mi $14,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com
2008 NISSAN MAXIMA, the ultimate in performance and luxury, loaded, $19,995 110797A 888-457-5765 www.fowlerhonda.com
'08 INFINITI G35X AWD, alloys, roof, pearl white, only $26,988. (888) 694-8385 bobmooreinfiniti.com
'07 INFINITI FX35, leather, roof, priced under book at $23,988. (888) 694-8385 bobmooreinfiniti.com
'10 Altima Coupe alloys loaded $18,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com
HAIL SALE '09 Nissan 370Z loaded low mi $27,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com
2006 Lincoln LS All Options Hurry! $14,988 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292
'07 INFINITI G35 SEDAN, leather, roof, priced to sell at $23,988. (888) 694-8385 bobmooreinfiniti.com
'10 Nissan Cube AT pw pl lo mi $15,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com
2008 Lincoln MKZ Sync htd & cooled seats, fact chromes lo mi $20,978 REYNOLDS LINC-MERC 1-800-864-5268
'08 INFINITI G37S COUPE, nav, roof, alloys, super sharp at only $26,490. (888) 694-8385 bobmooreinfiniti.com
'08 FX35 lthr mn AT ac pw pl $23,999 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com
'10 Altima Hybrid 32K Mi 1.99 WAC 7yr 100k warr $22,994 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com
'07 KIA Sorento Black 4x4 $12,988 294-4115 co.
2008 RX-8 SPORTY, $16,929. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444
'06 KIA SPORTAGE $8,988 405-294-4179 co.
'08 Mazda 3 4cyl 5spd AC 50K 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com
2005 KIA SORENTO LX, nice, $8988. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444
'10 LR4, V8, 7 Pass, 22K miles, $44,987. 294-4115 co. '08 Range Rover Sport HSE Lux 39K miles super clean $36,987. 294-4115 co. '08 Range Rover Sport HSE Lux, 36K miles $39,987 294-4115 co. '07 RANGE ROVER SPORT, 22's, TV, super clean, $39,987. 294-4115 co. '07 Range Rover Sport HSE $32,987. 294-4115 co. '07 Range Rover Sport HSE $29,987. 294-4115 co. '06 Range Rover supercharged all records $29,987. 294-4115 co.
'05 RX8 47K mi auto AC pw pl $12,994 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com
2007 Pontiac Grand Prix V6 pw pl loaded $10,988 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292
'05 Land Rover LR3 7 pass SE, 60K miles, $24,987 294-4115 co.
'07 MERCEDES GL450 SUV, alloys, roof, nav, Wow! Only $34,988. (888) 694-8385 bobmooreinfiniti.com
'05 Range Rover HSE, grey, nice, $25,988. 405-294-4179 co.
'07 Mercedes R35 lthr snrf lo mi $24,983 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com
2003 LAND ROVER FREELANDER, $5988. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444
'04 ES330 one owner low miles looks and drives like new luxury for less $14,850. BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600
'08 LEXUS RX400H HYBRID AWD, $34,964. 748-7700 bobhowardchevy.com 2007 LEXUS GX470, loaded, 57K miles, great vehicle $32,963. 748-7700 bobhowardchevy.com '06 GS 300 Fully Loaded Navi Heated Sts New Tires Runs and Drives Perfect Unbelievable Price $22,950. BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600 2006 Lexus SC 4S black fully loaded low miles $28,988 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292 '06 LEXUS GX470 SUV, leather, roof, drives like new, only $32,988. (888) 694-8385 bobmooreinfiniti.com '04 GX470, silver/gray leather, 3rd row seating, fully loaded, garaged, Eskridge Lexus, comfort ride equipped, must see, $18,950. BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600 '04 Lexus RX330 lthr snrf XX clean $17,981 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com 2002 LEXUS ES300, only 58K miles, hard loaded! $11,950. Heitz Chev...866-365-1354 '00 ES300 like new lady drives low mileages garaged deep tint luxury for less $7,950 BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600
'04 MERCEDES ML500, luxury at a great price $11,988. (888) 694-8385 bobmooreinfiniti.com
2007 Pontiac Grand Prix V6 pw pl loaded $10,988 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292
2004 Pontiac AM Ram Air V6 $7,980 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292 '02 Grand Prix GTP lthr sunroof $5762 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com 1999 Pontiac Firebird V6 Loaded $6,988 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292
'08 SATURN AURA SEDAN, great commuter or kids car at $10,988. (888) 694-8385 bobmooreinfiniti.com '06 Vue V6 auto snrf 56K act mi $12,782 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com
'08 Scion TC auto sunroof hates gas $8981 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com 2005 xB, auto, 88K, DVD player, silver, exc cond, $6700 obo, 405-255-4013
'08 Sable Premier lthr all opts $15,984 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com
'07 Corvette Convertible 1 owner, Z51 performance pkg, premium red metallic, blk int, chrome whls, 48k mi, prestine cond, $33,000. 209-5975
2011 Mitsubishi Lancer ES auto only 9k miles save @ $17,988 REYNOLDS LINC-MERC MAZDA 1-800-864-5268
'10 Toyota Camry SE auto $17,988 2 to choose JUST IN405-294-4179 co. 2009 TOYOTA CAMRY CE, low miles, 1 owner, $16,992. 888-457-5765 www.fowlerhonda.com 2009 Toyota Camry Auto PW PL CD $15,988 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292 2009 Toyota Camry Auto PW PL CD $15,988 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292 '08 PRIUS, one owner, smart key, garaged, extra nice, newly arrived, great mpg, $20,950. BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600 2008 Toyota Corolla Auto AC $11,988 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292 2008 TOYOTA PRIUS fresh trade and will not last at $18,988 Heitz Chev...866-365-1354
'08 Toyota Prius Hybrid, $12,988 405-294-4179 co.
'06 Camry LE auto sunroof low mi $11,982 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com 2004 Toyota Corolla FWD, automatic, 101400 mi, $6800, Jim 580-541-9848 '03 MATRIX XR, auto, alloys, only 58K miles, spoiler, one owner, great mpg, $9950. BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600 '98 Corolla, 5speed, 4 door, good condition, $1,495. 640-7209 1977 Toyota Celica GT good cond, new tm chain $1,550 405-969-6006
'07 Pontiac Solstice Black GXP $16,988 294-4115 co.
2003 Mercedes CLK Convertible 45kmi $19,900 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292
2004 MERCURY GRAND MARQUIS LS w/ Leather Price Reduced to $6900 Heitz Chev...866-365-1354
'10 Corolla LE, auto, 5K miles $17,987. 294-4115 co.
2006 TOYOTA SOLARA4cyl.-SE-great carxclean $12,963. 748-7700 bobhowardchevy.com
'08 G6 V6 Cpe auto pwr XX clean $13,961 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com
'08 CLK Conv 25K mi nav loaded $36,999 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com
HAIL SALE '10 Toy. Camry LE loaded lo mi $14,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com
'01 Neon Highline auto cold air $3981 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com
2006 MAZDA 3, leather, sunroof, alloys, $10,488. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444
1999 Mazda Miata HardTop Conv 49k $7,874 www.knippelmier.com Knippelmier Chevy 1-888-780-5972
2010 TOYOTA COROLLA 4dr LE, 17K miles, $15,929. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444
'08 Avalon Ltd lthr all opts $21,981 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com
’07 CX7 Sport auto pwr 36K mi $16,981 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com
'01 Mazda Tribute V6 auto cold air $6981 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com
'10 TOYOTA CAMRY, pwr windows, locks, cruise, only $19,988. (888) 694-8385 bobmooreinfiniti.com
Clean '85 Cutlass Brgm 95K mi, all pwr, woodgrain, new paint tint & top! needs some mech. work $1500obo 672-4603
2008 Pontiac G6 Auto V6 PW PL Alloys Only $13,988 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292
'02 MIATA MX-5 CONVERTIBLE, low miles, loaded, $9777. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444
'10 VENZA Only 7K Miles 1 Owner Certified 2.9 Financing for 60 7yrs/100K Warr $26,950. BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600
'10 Touareg VR6, leather, AWD, $32,987. 294-4115 co. 2009 VW Beetle leather loaded 36k miles Call Today BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292 2006 JETTA, low miles, $12,900. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444 '06 PASSAT, leather, roof, auto, 2.0T, $14,987. 294-4115 co. '04 VW Jetta auto power XX clean $7981 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com '02 VW Bug Convertible Yellow $11,988 294-4115 co. 1993 Volkswagen Passat 66,000 mi, $4500, 405-537-5100
'09 VOLVO C70, hard top convertible, just in time for Summer, $29,988. (888) 694-8385 bobmooreinfiniti.com '07 Volvo XC90 AWD 3rd row snrf $13,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com
1991 Chevrolet Corvette 2Dr Hatchback, 2WD, 8 cylinder, automatic, RED ext, Gray int, leather, good cond, 107K mi, pwr seats, $5950. 405-9211360 p.bauer@cox.net
2010 IMPREZA OUTBACK, 12K miles, $17,969. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444
'04 Volvo S40 lthr loaded cold air $7981 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com 1998 Volvo S90, not running, $750 obo. 473-1742
We Pay Top $$$ New or Old Running or Not 317-0941 co $ WE PAY TOP DOLLAR $ I Buy Cars, Trucks, Vans, SUVS Running or Not. No title, No problem 512-7278
2007 Eclipse Spyder GT Conv. Red Very good cond. only 26K mi Lots of opts $16,945 » 918-906-4518
'08 Tribeca 7 pass, Limited , TV, $24,878. 294-4115 co.
'06 Eclipse GT lthr snrf 42K mi $13,982 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com
'07 Tribeca AWD lthr all opts $17,981 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com
'99 ALTIMA $2525. 99 Buick Century $1525. 973-7882
2011 Suzuki SX4 Sport Pkg alloys fact nav 1k miles like new $14998 REYNOLDS LINC-MERC MAZDA 1-800-864-5268
'99 T2000 KW N14 Cummins, 13 spd; '98 Transcraft flatbed 102 - 48, air ride $14,000/both. 405-613-9646
’06 Grand Vitara 4x4 auto all opts $10,851 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com
1981 Chev 1 ton Wrecker, $2500, good shape 885-2572, 924-1430
2010 Nissan Altima 2.5S pwr st one owner local trade yours for $17,987 REYNOLDS LINC-MERC MAZDA 1-800-864-5268
AAA cash for your car, trk, cycle. Run/not-free tow. We come to you 850-9696
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THE OKLAHOMAN '06 F150 4dr, one owner, only 20K miles, garaged, deep tint, priced to move, $13,950. BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600 2011 CHEVY COLORADO, V8, loaded, only 600 miles, $22,991, 120022A. 888-457-5765 www.fowlerhonda.com '10 Silverado 2500 Crew 4x4 $36,317 #P29761A www.knippelmier.com Knippelmier Chevy 1-888-780-5972 '09 SILVERADO 2500 LTZ 4x4 diesel, nav, Allison, auto, GM cert, has it all, $43,964. 748-7700 bobhowardchevy.com 2009 AVALANCHE LTZ 25K miles-white loaded. $36,840. 748-7700 bobhowardchevy.com 2008 CHEVY SILVERADO EXT CAB, PW, PL and much more, only $14,994. Heitz Chev...866-365-1354 '08 CHEVY CREW CAB LS, pwr group, 5.3 V8, only $18,988. (888) 694-8385 bobmooreinfiniti.com
'04 FORD SUPER CREW, alloys, Lariat, 5.4L V8, only $11,988. (888) 694-8385 bobmooreinfiniti.com 2004 Ford F350 Utility Bed, Hard to find, $10,980 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292
'08 CHEVROLET EQUINOX LT, loaded, nice car, $15,988. 405-294-4117 co.
'99 EXPEDITION 4x4, lthr, $4496. 748-7700 bobhowardchevy.com
'08 Chev Suburban, blk/blk, $21,988. 405-294-4179 co.
'10 Terrain nav moon dvd at ac lth$30,994478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com
2003 Ford F-150 Low Miles Alloys HURRY $7,980 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292
'08 CHEVY SUBURBAN BLACK $21,988 405-294-4179 co.
'09 GMC Acadia SLT dvd snrf $28,981 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com
'08 Chevy Tahoe Hybrid Lthr loaded Navi $29,988 405-294-4117 co.
'08 GMC ACADIA $19,988
03 Ford F150 quad cab, shrt. bed, loaded, pwr locks $5650 863-6399
'08 Equinox LTZ lthr mn AT ac $21,999 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com
'96 Ford Ranger XLT, 5 speed, air, short bed, 4 cyl, $2,295. 640-7209
2007 EQUINOX LT2 leather-roof-53K miles xtra clean $15,963. 748-7700 bobhowardchevy.com
'94 Ford F250, ext cab, 5.8L, 4 wheel drive, fully loaded, very dependable $2,850. 405-641-0841 92 Ford F150 Ext Cab 2 tone, nice truck 302 auto AC $1400 or best ofr. 964-4286 or 301-6185 1991 Ford ext cab, v8, new tires, $2100, 8852572, 924-1430 '73 FORD F-250. Apprx 90K w/ '69 Merc Marauder High performance eng/ trans. Approx 36k mi. $2500obo. 405-672-0701
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2007 Chevy Trailblazer $11,988 #P28119A www.knippelmier.com Knippelmier Chevy 1-888-780-5972 '07 TAHOE LT, extra clean, $20,964. 748-7700 bobhowardchevy.com '07 Suburban LT lthr pwr all $27,991 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com '07 Tahoe LT 7 pass, 5.3, 20's, $19,987. 294-4115 co.
2008 SILVERADO CREW CAB 4WD Z71 LT, New Body Style! Not a Misprint!! $14,994 Heitz Chev...866-365-1354
'10 GMC Terrain lthr loaded SLT 2 Stud $29,988 405-294-4117 co.
'07 Tahoe Z71, leather, $26,987. 294-4115 co.
'08 Chev Silverado , Regency Package,15k mi $17,988 294-4115 co.
2009 GMC Canyon Crew Cab $16,971 #P29557A www.knippelmier.com Knippelmier Chevy 1-888-780-5972
'06 EQUINOX, black/black, 4WD, great condition, runs and drives great, $7950. BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600
'08 Chev Silverado Ext Cab LTZ, 26K mi! $23,988 405-294-4179 co. '07 CHEV AVALANCHE LTZ 4x4, lthr, loaded, $26,988. 405-294-4117 co. '07 Chev Avalanche LT 4x4 lthr DVD $19,984 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com '06 CHEV 1500 CREW CAB-20'' whls-xtra cleansuper nice $13,994. 748-7700 bobhowardchevy.com 2006 Chevy Reg Cab Sport hard to find auto $12,880 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292 2006 Chevy 3/4 ton Reg Cab $14,679 #N29231 www.knippelmier.com Knippelmier Chevy 1-888-780-5972 '06 Chev Silverado LS Crew Cab, $12,988. 405-294-4179 co. '06 Chevy, 34k Stepside, $9,800 692-8855 326-8855 2005 CHEVROLET PICKUP C-150 LS Extended Cab, this is a 1 owner, $9992. 888-457-5765 www.fowlerhonda.com 2005 Chevy Silverado 1500 Crew Cab 4x4 54K Mi Call for Price! BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292 '05 Chev Colorado X-Cab 50K loadd$10,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com '05 Avalanche 4x4 loaded lo mi $17,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com 2003 Chevy S-10 Extream Hard to Find! $10,880 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292
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'08 Sierra 2500 Crew dsl loaded $15,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com 2007 GMC Sierra Crew Cab V8 Auto PW PL $17,988 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292 2007 GMC Crew 4X4 $15,795 #N30167 www.knippelmier.com Knippelmier Chevy 1-888-780-5972 2007 GMC Crew Cab $17234 #H29241A www.knippelmier.com Knippelmier Chevy 1-888-780-5972 2001 GMC Reg Cab 4x4 V8 $9,800 #P30336 www.knippelmier.com Knippelmier Chevy 1-888-780-5972 1989 GMC 3/4T LB, ext cab, v8, auto, $1700, 885-2572, 924-1430 2007 RIDGELINE RTL, leather, low miles, $20,988. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444 '06 Honda Ridgeline RTL AWD lthr $14981 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com '08 Frontier SE C-Cab at ac pw/l $18,994 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com 2007 NISSAN TITAN CREW CAB SE, 37K miles, white, $18,963. 748-7700 bobhowardchevy.com '06 Titan Crew Cab SE 24K mi $18,994 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com '04 FRONTIER KING CAB, cold air, power pack, unbelievable mpg, local owner, $8950. BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600
HAIL SALE '08 Acadia SLT AWD rf nav dvd $21,988936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com 2008 GMC ACADIA SLT, $21,999.. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444 '08 GMC YUKON XL SLT Buckets $32,988 405-294-4179 co. '08 GMC Acadia SLE, $19,988 405-294-4179 co. 2007 GMC YUKON SLT. Short one-all the business-46K miles. 748-7700 bobhowardchevy.com '07 GMC Yukon Denali XL, White Diamond, Buckets, 25k miles 405-294-4179 co. '07 GMC Yukon SLE, black, $24,988. 405-294-4179 co. '07 GMC Yukon XL $22,988 405-294-4179 co.
'06 Chev TrailBlazer LT roof lthr $8988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com
'05 DENALI XL, one owner, rear DVD, 4WD, very spacious, low mileage, tons of fun, $13,950. BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600
'05 TAHOE, low mileage, white/tan, well maintained, garaged, cold air, vacation ready, $12,950. BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600
2011 PILOT 4x4 EXL, $30,969. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444
2005 CHEV EQUINOX LTD AWD-75K milesvery nice. $12,961.. 748-7700 bobhowardchevy.com '03 TRAILBLAZER LT EXT, newly arrived, 3rd row seating, well maintained, garaged, vacation ready! $7950. BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600 '02 AVALANCHE 4x4, lthr, loaded, $7946. 748-7700 bobhowardchevy.com '02 Trailblazer LT 4WD 4dr at ac $6988 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com
2009 HONDA CRV EX, sunroof, low low miles, $20,921. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444 '09 HONDA PILOT EXL TOURING with rear ent, nav, 4WD, only $29,988. (888) 694-8385 bobmooreinfiniti.com 2009 PILOT EX, loaded, $23,787. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444 '09 Pilot EXL lth snrf 100K warr $27,983 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com
'2001 Chevy S10 Blazer 2dr Sport, 2wd, CD ice cold air $3450 863-6399
'08 PILOT EXL, navi, AWD, leather, loaded, garaged, one owner, hard to find, $23,950. BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600
2008 CHRYSLER PACIFICA, Only 75K miles, $9999. Heitz Chev...866-365-1354
HAIL SALE '08 Honda CRV LX loaded low mi $16,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com
'04 CHRYSLER PACIFICA, lthr, loaded, 1 owner, $8946. 748-7700 bobhowardchevy.com
'08 CRV EXL 4x4 auto snrf lo lo mi $22,984 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com
'04 Dodge Durango Ltd 4x4 loaded. 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com 2001 Dodge Durango V8, Auto, PW, PL $5,480 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292
'08 CRV EXL, navi, leather, 23K miles, $23,987 294-4115 co. 2007 PILOT EXL, DVD, leather, third seat, $12,888. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444
1997 Dodge Van, short, like new in/out, $4500, trade 885-2472/924-1430
2007 HONDA CRV, 2WD, 1 owner, nice, $14,988, 110807A. 888-457-5765 www.fowlerhonda.com
'02 Chev Avalanche Z71, 125K, runs & drives like new XX NICE $9,950. 209-5297co
2003 NISSAN FRONTIER KING CAB XE, auto,low miles, $9993, 110475EE. 888-457-5765 www.fowlerhonda.com
2009 FORD EDGE SEL fwd price reduced to $19,991 Heitz Chev...866-365-1354
2007 ELEMENT SC, $15,777. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444
1997 Chev v8, auto, xcab 4wd, flat steel bd, $2700 885-2572, 924-1430
'07 Tundra Crew Cab SR5 V8 auto $17,984 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com
2008 FORD EDGE-white, tan leather, 63k miles, very nice. $19,963. 748-7700 bobhowardchevy.com
'05 Honda CRV EX AWD auto snrf $11,991 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com
HAIL SALE '10 Ram 1500 Crew SLT loaded $20,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com
2006 Toyota Tundra Double Cab All Options $18,988 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292
2008 Dodge Ram 1500 4x4 23K Miles $18,980 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292 2008 Dodge Ram Reg Cab SWB V-6 auto 39k miles Call for Price BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292 HAIL SALE '08 Dodge Ram 1500 Quad SLT 20s $18,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com
'05 TACOMA PRERUNNER DOUBLE CAB, V6, one owner, chrome wheels, runs perfect, $16,950. BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600 2005 Toyota Tundra SR5, stepside, low mi, 1 owner, $15K, 405-850-1607 '05 Tacoma Crew liner pw pl $14,994 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com
2008 EXPEDITION LIMITED, chromes, nice, $25,921. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444 '08 Expedition Limited, TV, navi, $23,987. 294-4115 co. '07 Ford Freestyle Ltd lthr fam fun $14,981 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com '06 ESCAPE XLT 4WD locally owned great on insurance for first time driver $8,950. BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600
'08 Dodge Ram 1500 lo mi fac warr $11,981 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com
'06 Expedition Ltd all opts 77K act $18,981 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com
'08 Dodge Ram 1500 Quad 40K loadd$15,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com
2005 FORD EXPLORER4door-4WD-very nice. $6963. 748-7700 bobhowardchevy.com
HAIL SALE '07 Ram 1500 Reg4x4 lo mi loaded $16,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com
2003 Ford Expedition XLT low miles loaded $13,980 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292
2004 Dodge Ram 1500 SLT PW PL Tilt Cruise $11,988 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292
2002 Ford Explorer, auto, air, lots of extras, must sell. $3695. 640-7209
2004 Dodge Ram Quad Cab Hemi SLT 20's $11,980 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292 2001 Dodge Ram 1500 4WD, automatic, White ext, $4300. OBO, Roy 405-694-8991 2010 F-250 SUPER DUTY CREW CAB 4x4, lthr, 15K mi, $38,964. 748-7700 bobhowardchevy.com 2010 Ford F-150 XLT Lariat Super Crew, Leather, Loaded, Nav., Warr., Very Nice $29,995 Shawnee, 405-275-0877 2008 Ford Ranger Reg Cab Low Low Miles Loaded $11,488 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292 2008 Ford F-250 Crew Cab Super Duty Lariat Fx4 lthr diesel $25,988 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292 '08 F150 Lariat 4x4, navi, roof, loaded, $23,987. 294-4115 co. '07 F-150 SUPER CREW FX2, 33K mi, loaded, $21,964. 748-7700 bobhowardchevy.com
'04 CRV EX 4WD alloyssunroof newly arrived garaged just serviced must see $10,950 BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600 '09 BUICK ENCLAVE CXL, AWD, leather, roof, rear ent, alloys, nice!!! Only $32,988. (888) 694-8385 bobmooreinfiniti.com '08 BUICK ENCLAVE, luxury SUV, roof, only $26,988. (888) 694-8385 bobmooreinfiniti.com 2010 ESCALADE ESV loaded 1-owner save thousands over new Heitz Chev...866-365-1354
'06 Ford F250, 5.4L, 42k mi, reg cab, white, 2whl dr $13,900obo. 405-779-0909
2010 ESCALADE EXT White Diamond and loaded! Call Now! Heitz Chev...866-365-1354
2005 Ford F-150 SuperCrew XLT V8 auto sunroof 53k call for price BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292
2007 ESCALADE EXT loaded white diamond with chrome 20s only $28,998 Heitz Chev...866-365-1354
2005 EXPLORER SPORT TRAC, leather, tonneau cover, $7966. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444
'05 Cad Escalade lthr roof nav plat $16,900 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com
2005 Ford F350 King Ranch 4x4 Diesel $19,980 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292
2003 Cadillac Escalade EXT Blk Leather Loaded $16,988 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292 2011 TAHOE LT, lthr, 4x4, GM cert, $39,964. 748-7700 bobhowardchevy.com
2004 Ford 350 Crew Cab, diesel, 2 WD, 78k miles, very clean strong, exc tires, $15,500. For info call days 580-774-7650, evenings 405-663-2003
2010 CHEVY EQUINOX LT 4cyl fwd save thousands over new on this certified pre-owned Chevy! Heitz Chev...866-365-1354
2004 FORD F-250 Super Duty Crew Cab XLT, nice truck, a must see, $9988, P6461A. 888-457-5765 www.fowlerhonda.com
'10 Equinox LT AWD Pwl at ac $23,994 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com
2004 Ford F-250 Crew Cab XLT Powerstroke 4x4 Diesel Clean $17,988 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292 2004 Ford F150 XLT Super Crew, 4x4, Low Miles $17,480 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292
'10 Chev Equinox LT lo mi loadd$19988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com 2008 Chevy Trailblazer 4x4 LT All Options $17,488 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292 2008 TRAILBLAZER SS, loaded, AWD, black on blk, only $22,992. Heitz Chev...866-365-1354
2004 PILOT EXL, DVD, $9969. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444 '04 Honda CRV EX AWD snrf $10,984 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com '03 Honda CRV auto pwr cold air $8981 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com '11 Kia Sorentos, 6 to choose from, $19,988. 405-294-4179 co. 2010 Lincoln MKT Eco Boost Twin Turbo every luxury SAVE BIG $37,898 REYNOLDS LINC-MERC 1-800-864-5268 2010 Lincoln MKX Nav Pwr Roof 20' whls Elite Pkg only 24k mi $32,987 REYNOLDS LINC-MERC 1-800-864-5268 '05 Lincoln Navagator 1 ownr, loaded, gd cond. $13,000 obo 918-740-0407 '04 Linc Aviator lthr all opts $11,981 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com 2008 Mazda CX-9 GT dual DVD's local one owner trade $24,978 REYNOLDS LINC-MERC MAZDA 1-800-864-5268
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Handicap Van '10 Rogue S AT loaded lo mi $18,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com 2009 NISSAN MURANO S, Save at the Pump with this Super Clean V6 $20,992 Heitz Chev...866-365-1354 '09 NISSAN MURANO LE AWD, loaded, 1 owner, 39k miles,$29,963. 748-7700 bobhowardchevy.com '09 Nissan Rogue S AWD lo mi $14,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com '09 Murano SL FWD lthr at ac $19,994 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com
1998 Dodge, 10" lowered floor, power ramp, power door, kneeling system, EZ lock, driver & passenger seats removable, 1 owner, garage kept, 32K miles, front & rear air, $11,000, 580-465-6463. '00 SIENNA, newly arrived, cold air, ready for adventures, runs and drives great, $4950. BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600 '05 TOWN & COUNTRY, one owner, 4 captain chairs, vacation ready, garaged, $5950. BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600
'08 Pathfinder SE 2WD mn lthr $18,999 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com 2005 Nissan Armada Bk Leather S/R Loaded $18,988 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292 '04 Murano SL lthr sunroof lo mi $11,981 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com '03 NISSAN MURANO AWD SL, very nice, all the stuff, $9893. 748-7700 bobhowardchevy.com '10 TOYOTA RAV4 LIMITED, leather, only 12,000 miles, only $28,988. (888) 694-8385 bobmooreinfiniti.com 2008 TOYOTA 4RUNNER SR5, V6, very nice SR5! $21,992. Heitz Chev...866-365-1354 '08 TOYOTA RAV4 4WD, auto, loaded, $20,964. 748-7700 bobhowardchevy.com '08 Toyota FJ Cruiser, leather, only 25K miles! $24,988 405-294-4179 co. '07 RAV4 I get excellent on mpg, I'm in great shape with a nice set of shoes come and take me for a spin $13,950. BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600 '07 RAV4 auto power don't delay $14,981 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com '07 Toyota 4Runner SR5, $15,988 405-294-4179 co. 2006 TOYOTA 4RUNNER SR5, nice truck, $16,995, 110659B. 888-457-5765 www.fowlerhonda.com '05 Highlander lthr at ac pw pl $14,999 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com '05 Toy 4Runner SR5 50K loaded $16,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com '04 HIGHLANDER LTD leather roof 3rd row seating suv that rides like a car $12,950 BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600 04 Toyota Sequoia 4WD, 117K mi, $12,500. 471-2440 2002 TOYOTA SEQUOIA, loaded, $9969. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444 '02 Sequoia lthr V8 at ac pw pl $12,994 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com
'96 Windstar GL 3.8L 110K cold AC/rear. Xnice loaded $1950 201-3831
2008 ODYSSEY EXL, leather, loaded with options, $20,877. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444 '08 Odyssey EXL DVD fac nav snrf $24,984 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com 2007 ODYSSEY EXL, leather, $15,900. ESKRIDGE HONDA 631-4444 '02 Odyssey EXL cold air family fun $6981 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com '07 Quest SE, 7 pass, leather, TVs, roofs, pwr doors, $18,987. 294-4115 co. '07 Quest SL lthr 32K mi at ac $18,988 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com
» Handicap Lift » '2000 Chevy Raised Roof TV/DVD, Only 84K, Full remote w/tie downs, Like New $13,900 » 590-3000
2002 Nissan Quest $14,970 #P30338 www.knippelmier.com Knippelmier Chevy 1-888-780-5972
2009 Chevy Uplander 50K Miles LS $12,988 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292
'09 Sienna LE all pwr rear air $21,981 753-8792 BobHowardHonda.com
1999 Chevy Express Van HighTop Rear Ent. Lthr Loaded $6,988 BRYAN'S Car Corner III 732-9292
'01 SIENNA XLE, only 90K miles, excellent condition in/out, unbelievable mpg, $7950. BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600
HAIL SALE '10 Chrys T&C sto-n-go low mi $16,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com
'01 Sienna LE Van AT AC pw pl $5996 478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com
206 Local Driver Needed Class A. Home Daily. Good benefits. 405-237-1300
FC BKKPR $35-42K 3+yrs FC Bkkpg. Assoc degree Acctg/Bkkpg/Bus Admin. Excel, QuickBooks, Creative Solutions Acctg. MAS 90 exp a+. Good w/ write up wrk, cash & accrual Acctg, payroll, multi-co exp.
INVENTORY CLERK/ RECEPTIONIST Mobile Mini, Inc. Computer skills, A/P, Some outside work req. $12hr. Fax resume to 405-814-1306.
•Majority S/East Freight Lanes •Home most weekends •Health, Dental, Vision Available •Average Miles 2,500 + •$1,500 Sign on Bonus Class A CDL 2 years verifiable Call Dancor Transit@ 866-677-4333 M-F 8 to 5 www.dancortransit.com
Immediate Opening Veterinary Receptionist Town and Country Animal Hospital in Choctaw now hiring. Experienced veterinary receptionst needed. Experience with Avimark software program required. Insurance and IRA available. Starting $ 9.00 per/hr. Pick up an application @ front desk, 2400 Victoria Dr. in Choctaw or fax resume to 769-1077
Tanker Driver owner operator truck hauling fuel, refined oil, dedicated crude oil, and misc. products. 6 days on and 2 days off. min 23 yrs, class A with Hazmat and tanker endorsements, 2 yrs exp, or driving school and 18 mon exp. $40k-$50k yr hrly training pay & 2wks vac after 1st yr Bob 405.401.8753
Pinnergy, Ltd.
'08 Chry T&C Tour quads lthr dvd$19,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com CDL A. 1 yr exp. out & back. Dedicated runs. Home weekly. Immediate openings, new equip. Team & Single available Call 405-237-1300 CDL Class A, D/T, End. piggy back & deliver 50¢ /loaded mi, Manual labor involved. Must be willing to work. Pat, 386-5493
COOKS Experienced hiring at Perry's Restaurant. Apply in person 7432 S. May Ave.
10 G-Caravan SXT quads all pwr $17,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com
Sodexo at Oklahoma City University Is now hiring Experienced Positions: •Dishwasher •Grill Cook Other positions available: •Baker •Breakfast Cook •Cashiers •Culinary Supervisors •Prep Cook •Servers •Vegan Cook •Part Time Catering Servers
'10 Grand Caravan SE 14K fac warr $17,984 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com '08 G-Caravan SXT lthr rf nav dvd $16,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com '08 Gr Caravan SE at pwl 3rd row $15,991478-5380 bobhowardnissan.com '08 Caravan SXT lthr rf nav dvd 30K $19,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com '06 GRAND CARAVAN SXT, alloys bucket seats, low miles, runs and drives great, $6950. BOB HOWARD TOYOTA 936-8600 '01 Dodge Gr Caravan Ext all pwr $5882 753-8793 BobHowardHonda.com '96 RAM CRUISER VAN, auto, $3964. 748-7700 bobhowardchevy.com '07 ECONOLINE E150 CARGO, xtra clean, $13,964. 748-7700 bobhowardchevy.com '03 Ford E150 Reg Conv R/ac $10,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com
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ADMIN ASSIST. For construction project manager. Professional individual with strong time management, attendance & computer skills. M-F 8-5. Resume to: tyler@wynnconstruction.com
Answer Service Operator Edmond. Must type 45 wpm. Shift: Sun Mon OFF. Tue, Wed, Thr. 4pm-12am, Fri 4pm-11pm; Sat 8am-4pm $12 per hour ¡ 285-4316
Apply in person at OCU - Tom & Brenda McDaniel University Center - Cafeteria 2501 N Blackwelder 208-5119, M-Th, 9-11 Buffalo Wild Wings Now Hiring Experienced Managers Email resume to: bwwjosh@yahoo.com
AMERICAN CLEANERS Hiring FT Customer Service Reps. Starting pay $8.75 per hour. Apply at 15300 N. Western Ave.
Instrument Person part time needed for land survey co. in Edmond. Exper. preferred. Call 405-278-7839 Now Accepting New Donors Earn up to $150 this week while saving lives Talecris Plasma Resources 7103 S Western Avenue Oklahoma City 405-634-0220
Shuttle Drivers Drive 30 passenger buses at OU Med Cntr. CDL required. $12.50 per hr 711 S.L. Young, Ste 704, OKC 73104. (405)271-7032
'10 Chry T&C quads R/ac lo mi $17,988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com
HAIL SALE '10 Grand Caravan SXT lo mi loaded $17988 936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com
Performs tasks of caulking, attic & wall insulation, carpentry, windows, doors, etc. HS grad or Vo-Tech. 2 yrs carpentry exp, valid OK driver lic. Start $15.00 hr w/fringe benf. Apply at or send resume to Community Action Agency, 319 SW 25th, OKC 73109 NLT Jul 22nd. Fax 232-9074 EOE.
Regional Drivers Needed
Transcriptionist Position Taped Dictation 60 wpm. MS Office & MS Word proficient. Detail oriented & able to work under pressure. Fax resume to 405-702-4313.
'06 Chrysler Town & Country, 82K mi, Nice, Kept in garage $7200 691-5927
Home Weatherization Crewman
OTR CDL Drivers wanted for pneumatic trucks. Minimum 2 years experience. Owner Operators welcome. 580310-1007 ext 14 or 19.
E-mail resume to: Sherri.stinsonsmith@ Peoplesourceok.com
HAIL SALE '07 Chrys Town & Country Tour quads $8988936-8857 BobHowardDodge.com
Class A CDL Drivers – EagleOne Job Fair EagleOne is hosting a job fair on July 13th-14th, 8am-6pm at the EagleOne office at 10220 West Reno, Suite 203 Oklahoma City, OK 73127 We are currently hiring on-demand Class A CDL drivers with 2+ years exp. (off-road/oil/gas experience a plus!). We offer health, dental, and vision insurance, pd vacation, pd time off, and much more! Come by our job fair July 13th-14th to learn more! For more info., contact us at 479-242-2532.
Class A CDL Drivers
$15/hr / local delivery Must have endorsements. South Office 5350 S. Western #418 Phone: 609-2888 Fax: 609-1401
Class A CDL Oilfield Winch Truck and OTR Drivers. Pole Truck and Bed Tandem Operators. Experienced. $250 per mo safety/performance bonus. Clean MVR and Experience with Flat or Step Deck. Call 405-478-1105.
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Class A CDL regional drivers needed. Home weekly, New Equipment, Good Benefits. Call 405-237-1300
DRIVER Regional & OTR. We are growing and need CDL-A Drivers and O/O w/15mos exp. Great hometime, Health benefits, Matching 401k, 2011 Freightliner and International tractors and a starting pay up to $.38 cpm for company drivers and $.92 cpm for O/O make this one of the best trucking jobs in the country! 877.826.4605 drivefortango.com Drivers
CLASS A CDL DRIVERS NEEDED $40,000 $50,000 Year Benefits Package Available Flatbed Work / Training Available Home Daily Requirements: 1 Yr Tractor Trailer Exp/ past 5 yrs 23 + years of age Contact: 972-522-2225 or Fax 972-522-1771 gosteen@cardlog.com www.cardlog.com
is seeking experienced Vacuum Truck Drivers, Heavy Equipment Haulers, and a Mechanic for their Weatherford, Oklahoma location. Individuals must have a valid Class A CDL with tanker endorsements and at least (2) year of driving experience. Prior saltwater and heavy equipment hauling experience preferred. *Must have a clean driving record *Must be able to pass a drug screen Compensation package to include: *Highly competitive pay *Sign on Bonus *Healthcare insurance *401K *Paid vacation Positions need to be filled ASAP so if you are interested please submit an application at www.pinnergy.com or call 580-774-2016 for immediate consideration. Pinnergy will be holding a job fair Tuesday July 19 at its Weatherford office located at 1300 Lera Lane Weatherford 73096.
2nd Shift Production Supervisor Clements Foods Company, a leader in food manufacturing, has an immediate opening for a 2nd shift Production Supervisor. Applicants must have at least 5 years experience in Meat, Dairy, or Food manufacturing with proven experience managing production workers and lines to meet production goals. An understanding of food safety programs such as SQF, GMP's, and HACCP would also be required.Clements Foods offers a competitive benefits package including health insurance, profit sharing, and vacation.Please come in and apply between the hours of 9:am to 4:00pm OR send your resumes to: Clements Foods Co. 6601 N. Harvey Pl. Oklahoma City, OK 73116 OR FAX RESUMES: 405-843-6894 EOE M/F/V/D
»»»»»»» Child Care New Horizons Child Development seeking School Age Teachers Full time. Experience preferred. Apply at 7901 NW 85th Terr, 621-9070. School Age Teachers, 2 Year Old Teacher, CDL Driver Full time. Experience preferred. Apply at 14300 N Western, 748-4424. EOE.
»»»»»»» CHILD CARE WORKER EDMOND POSITIONS AVAILABLE. Experience required. Dependable only apply. 330-3077 for application.
Nichols Hills Cleaners has the following positions open for quality & customer service minded individuals: •Customer Service working with our customers & their clothing. •Sewing and Tailoring We are open 7AM-7PM M-F & 8-5 Saturday. Benefits include health & dental insurance, paid vacations & holidays. Starting pay is $10/hr with more for extensive prior experience. Subject to drug screen. Apply at 2837 W. Wilshire at May Ave. No Phone Calls Please. 28 DRIVER OPENINGS! Men & Women needed. No exp. necessary. Earn $100 Daily. It's easy! Apply: Summer Song-1137 Exchange Ave, OKC.(1 Block South of Reno & Western)1-888-608-1783 Sears Carpet & Air Duct Cleaning Techs needed with a leader in the industry. Will train. Lic. req'd. Call 949-2025
In addition to meeting the donation criteria. You must provide a valid photo I.D., proof of your current address and your Social Security or immigration card to donate. Onsite Job Fair Thursday July 14, 9am – 1pm, for Warehouse Workers at the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission 416 B Hudiburg Circle, OKC. 73108. Job shift: 9PM till finish, Work days: 6 days a week (to include weekends). Must meet our hiring eligibility requirements including background investigation & drug screen. Apply online at: www.lmsintellibound.com/ careers.aspx or call 888-306-8042. LMS is a Drug-Free Workplace. EOE, M/F/D/V ROOFERS - Red River Roofing seeking exp'd Repair Foreman & Apprentice. Must have clean driving record. Top pay & benefits. Apply at 746 Enterprise Dr, Edmond. 330-0025 SERVICE DRIVER-CCSI a portable restroom co. now taking apps. Clean DMV, drug test req. IRA & Hlth Ins avail. Apply 2232 NE 4th Teacher/Bus Driver (Extra pay for driving) 405-942-1250 Debbie
Immediate Openings Oklahoma City, OK Branch Our Oklahoma City branch is actively seeking qualified individuals for the following positions: Warehouse Delivery* Warehouse Associate Education & Experience Requirements: •High school diploma or a GED •2 years of warehouse experience •21 years old to drive MRC vehicles* •Requires safe and clean driving record*
EQUIPMENT HAULER FT driver for RGN & flatbed trlrs. MUST have class A CDL, med card, & verifiable references, live in Okc vicinity. Benefits Avg pay $1000 / week 642-4504
Fence Builders Must be experienced. Please apply in person at 4836 NW 10th St. No phone calls please.
Interested candidates should submit resume to: Terry.Duncan@mrcpvf.com with OKC Warehouse in the subject or fax to 866-890-1808 or in person at: 9327 W. Reno Oklahoma City, OK 73127
Above Ground Pool Builder Established company seeking above ground swimming pool contractors. Must have own vehicle, equipment, tools, employees, insurance, etc. We schedule the jobs. Several years of experience in building pools is necessary. Paid per completed job. 405-808-2232
HOFFMAN TRANSPORTATION Needs 1 yr flatbed experience Class A CDL Drivers. Call Jan 224-1333 or 1-800-458-7420
FLORAL DESIGNER Full time. Experience helpful but not required. CALL 943-9166.
Employment is contingent on a negative drug screen & successful background check & MVR. EOE
Ground Laborers needed, full time, $7.25/hr. Must pass OSBI. Mid-Del Area. Call 737-6997, 476-0181 7:30am-3:00pm.
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Maintenance Technician needed for multi-property apt complex. Must be able to go on call. Apply at Pickwick Place Apts 2759 W. I-240 Service Rd
NEW 32 x 80 MUST GO! Factory cost. Full tape & texture, Upgrade Appliances, JUST BEAUTIFUL www.THCOK.com 405-324-8000
MAINTENANCE/ GROUNDSKEEPER Apply in person Fairfax Apartments 7801 NE 10th, MWC
Huge 28x70, 2 living areas. Stainless steel applicances. New carpet, lots of upgrades, $499mo. wac 405-577-2884 Abandoned D/W set up on 5 acres. Brick foundation, driveway, ready to move in. Free phone application 405-631-7600
Banquet Manager Temporary staffing Co. has immed opening for a banquet manager with minimum of 2 yrs exp as a banquet captain at major hotel properties. Must be able to select, train & assign temp banquet servers to a variety of customers. Good salary, bonus & health insurance. Send resume to jan.lopez@ woodsstaffing.com
WHY RENT? Own 3bd for $325mo wac. Fireplace, well insulated, vinyl sided, shingle roof. 405-787-5004
Housekeeping Manager Temporary staffing company has immediate opening for an experienced housekeeping manager to manage our temporary housekeeping division. Must be able to interview applicants & interface with executive housekeepers. Good salary, bonus & health insurance. Send resume to jan.lopez@woods staffing.com Oklahoma City Marriott is hiring for the following: • Chief Engineer • Housekeepers • Front Desk Associates • F&B Positions Apply at the Front Desk. 3233 NW Expressway No Phone Calls Please
3/2 Bath Repo set up in quiet park. Ready to move in Free phone app 631-7600 Mobiles ok, wooded acreage pond, water and septic, owner finance 634-4812
Technical & Trades
Dental Experienced Business Office. Must be able to multi task. Fax resume to 632-7717 or mail or hand deliver to 8283 S Walker Ave, Okc, 73139. Exper. Dental Assistant Wanted for positive, energetic, patient centered Edmond practice. Call 341-8804 , Fax 341-4967 Home Health Aide Certified for fast growing home health agency in Norman. Experience is required call 360-6060 or email to rikennedy10@yahoo.com
Medical Asst.
Large practice seeks scanning clerk to process and scan medical records in an electronic scanning system. Requires Six months clerical or medical records experience with knowledge of principles of confidentiality. Must be detail oriented with strong computer skills & ability to work in a fast paced environment. Candidates please email resumes to psadeghi@ortho-ok.com RELIEF PHARMACIST needed approximately 30 hours per week. Must call ahead of time for appointment 681-6631
Rent to Own: Nice 2&3bd MWC $350&up 390-9777
Licensed Counselor Seeking full-time Counselor for Outpatient Substance Abuse Agency. Must have minimum of Master's Degree and be licensed or currently receiving supervision for LADC. Starting salary negotiable, excellent benefits. Send resumes to: Attn: Joe, 1301 SE 59th Street, OKC, OK 73129 or fax 405-6728371 or email jotseph@juno.com.
Small non-profit seeking an energetic, outgoing, flexible, multi-tasker for reception and administrative position. Applicant must possess strong comm. skills and strong computer skills, esp. in website maintenance. Exp in event planning a plus. Degree preferred. Send resume to office@jfedokc.org or fax resume to 848.3180. Hilldale Public Schools will be accepting applications for (1)Head Soccer Coach (teaching field open). Please send resume, letter of interest, references, copy of teaching certification and transcripts to: Attn: D. B. Merrill, Hilldale Public Schools, 500 East Smith Ferry Road, Muskogee, Oklahoma 74403, or email to learning@hilldale.k12.ok.us On line applications at http://www.hilldale. k12.ok.us/District/ employment.htm Hilldale Schools is an EOE
JoS. A. Bank seeking a Retail Store Manager, Assistant Manager, Keyholder, and Sales Associates for our store in Oklahoma City. Visit to www.josbank.jobs apply online. EOE Now Hiring: Del City Location Store Manager Retail Mgmt. Exp. Required. Bonus Program, Insurance, Direct Deposit, Employee Discount. Closed Sundays. Send Resume to: Newton Wall Co. P.O. Box 1247 Shawnee, OK 74802 On the Web: wallsbargaincenter.com
Retail Wireless Consultant U.S. Cellular is currently hiring retail wireless consultants in your area. Call today to begin your application. 1-800-899-4473 media code: 348
Example Working Hours: 11:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. (and later occasionally) Qualified candidates may apply online by accessing our website at www.opubco.com
AeroCare Home Medical Equipment Experienced Sales Representative needed for fast growing national respiratory home care company. Medical sales experience and relationships a plus. Competitive salary and bonuses with excellent benefits package. Email resume to regional manager, jrlangley@aerocareusa.com or to opportunities@ aerocareusa.com Highline Automotive Salesperson Needed. Looking for an experience salesperson for growing Import Highline Franchise. Must have proven track record of sales and high customer satisfaction. Contact Brian Flippo 405-749-8000 or email resume to bflippo@bobmoore.com
Hiring Immediately
An Equal Opportunity Employer COUNTER HELP Part time afternoons. Image Cleaners. 6308 E. Reno, MWC, 733-4393. Self Storage Assistant for weekends, occasional weekday. Retirees welcome Apply at 3015_I-35 Service Rd. 799-1717 eoe
Assistant Manager/ Leasing For large NW apartment complex. Apply in person at Willow Walk Apartments, 3808 N Ann Arbor, 405-789-2692. FC BKKPR $35-42K 3+yrs FC Bkkpg. Assoc degree Acctg/Bkkpg/Bus Admin. Excel, QuickBooks, Creative Solutions Acctg. MAS 90 exp a+. Good w/ write up wrk, cash & accrual Acctg, payroll, multi-co exp. E-mail resume to: Sherri.stinsonsmith@ Peoplesourceok.com Maintenance Tech For large NW apartment complex. Apply in person at Willow Walk Apartments, 3808 N Ann Arbor, 405-789-2692.
USED CAR MANAGER for leading Nissan Dealer. Prior experience required. Top pay & Benefits. Call for Confidential appt. Fenton Nissan East Rob Dickerson 405-600-7900
$ FREE RENT 1ST MO $ 2BR $350+, 3BR $450+, MWC NO PETS 427-0627
Furnished/Unfurnished Bills Paid » Wkly/Monthly Wes Chase Apts, Elk Horn Apts, Hillcrest 370-1077
1.5-5ac w/3bd mobile home Lease Purchase 990-8674
MAYFAIR Great location! 1/2 bd W/D hdwd flr quiet secure ngbrhood ¡947-5665
Rent to Own: Nice 2&3bd MWC $350&up 390-9777
No App Fee w/Appr Appl poolside 2bd, NW 19th & MacArthur 943-0907 •ABC• Affordable, Bug free, Clean » 787-7212»
SALES CONSULTANTS You will enjoy a career of New & Used Car Sales with a professional company 59 years strong and 6 locations. (Experience preferred but not necessary). We offer a great compensation & benefit package. We promote within for dynamic personal growth. Contact Larry Green, Larry Harris or Tom Peters
REYNOLDS FORD NW Expressway & Rockwell 405-728-2411 EOE
Route Driver/ Sales Person Growing safety shoe co. has immediate opening for Route Salesperson. Experience helpful but not required. Must have good communication skills and be a self starter. Up to $40K first year + benefits. Apply at GellCo, 1200 S. Agnew, OKC 73108. ROUTE SALES OPENING Route salesperson wanted for OKC area. Position starts as part time, but potentially grows to full time. Excellent people skills & professional demeanor required. Email resume and pro references to: contactus@autofrost.net SPORTS MARKETING firm needs to fill immediate entry level openings in Sales. Email resume to kratos@careersdept.com Call Liz@405-418-0862
Assistant Electrical Controls Designer/ Drafter Position For industrial machinery controls. Must be motivated, willing to learn and be able to think outside the box. Required experience: motor controls, VFD's, ability to create/read electrical wiring schematics, compueter literate. Minimum: 2 years electrical service, maintenance, trouble shooting of industrial machinery. Preferred experience: 2-D AutoCAD drafting, PLC, HMI, electrical design and/or panel layout/building. Email resume to mbrown@reelomatic.com
REAL ESTATE AUCTION Purcell, OK, Thursday, July 21, 2011, 10am Home on 5 acres +/3 Beds, 2 Baths 24x36 Morton Barn w/ (2) 12x12 Stalls Cement Floor w/drain, Dog Pens Totally Fenced For Info www.tillmansauction. com 405-542-7030 TILLMAN aUCTION
ESTATE AUCTION: 10am, Sat 7/16. 928 SW 45th, OKC. Nice Brick Home, 1500+ SF. Viewing 1-3 Sun, 7/10. JB Robison 918 256 5524 JBRauctions.com
Auto Body Technician. FT with Experience. Apply in person Mon-Fri. John Pucketts Auto, 600 S. Broadway, Edmond
800 N. Meridian 1bd All bills paid 946-9506 $350mo 1bd 1ba very clean stove/fridge 405-818-4089
MF 492 2006 orchard model. 85 HP MFWD. 1825 hours. New front tires and parts. Clean, ready to work. $17200 478-2539 waltercp@icnet.net
$99 SPECIAL Lg 1bdr, stove, refrig., clean, walk to shops. $335 mo. 632-9849
Now Hiring ‚ 203-0596 FIRESTONE CABLE/CAT5 INSTALLER Experienced Installers needed for IPTV and standard Broadband Cable routes. Positions are located in west central and north west Oklahoma. Will need Truck and Tools. Training available for the right candidate. Please call Jim @ 405-274-4069.
Cement Mason Finishers wanted. Excellent wages & benefits. Call 405-919-6981 CNC MACHINIST Immediate opening. Apply in person at KAT Machine, Inc, 9721 NW 4th St, OKC, 73127, or email Jeff.thompson@ coxinet.net NO PHONE CALLS Designer/Draftsman AutoCAD required construction experience a plus. Great Benefits. Email resume to hrapply@pmcokc.com Diesel Fleet Mechanic also Gas Mechanic needed. Must have tools. CDL a plus. Good benefits. 405-947-1742 Diesel Mechanic Class 8 diesel mechanic needed. Busy company seeks experienced mechanic for all types of diesel trucks and heavy equipment both shop and field work. Great pay for the right highly motivated individual. Call Bill at 405-568-2070 DRYWALL HANGERS & METAL STUD FRAMERS Now hiring for new 52 story tower downtown. Must have tools & commercial experience. $13-$17 *** APPLY IN PERSON TO: 1 N. Hudson, Suite #550 Downtown Oklahoma City 214-869-6834
ELECTRICIANS Journeyman Electricians with Oklahoma license needed immediately for a job in Oklahoma. Per diem available for those that qualify. Excellent pay, overtime and benefits. EOE Contact Courtney @ 225-677-3306 or email clockwood@ excelusa.com or bragan@excelusa.com. ELECTRICIANS State test prep course. Begins July 20th. Will hire. Contact Judge Porter. 1-888-293-2842 www.portertestprep.com Flooring Contractors Carpet, Vinyl, Laminate, Wood, Ceramic, Tile. Must pass background chk. 236-3811/414-3738
FUEL TRUCK DRIVER Must have HAZMAT Endorsement & Class A CDL license & 2 years experience hauling fuel Clean MVR, Excellent benefit package. Drug Free Company is employee owned! Apply in person only Silver Star Construction 2401 South Broadway Moore. EOE
I BUY & SELL HOUSES 27 YRS EXP 650-7667 HOMESOFOKCINC.COM Licensed HVAC Journeyman and Apprentice Installers We offer Medical, Dental and Vision and have a 401K program. $500 sign on Bonus available. Contact Doug Blaylock at 405-200-3836 or email a resume to apply@resservices.com Airtron Heating and Air Conditioning
Hydraulic hay spike, self contained, attaches to goose neck hitch, $700 405-641-0841
8081 S.Shields,1-2bd dup, Bills Pd. Pets OK, Wkly/Mnthly rates,dep.632-4467
1952 Farmall Cub. Restored $1400 260-6243
Houses for rent
3917 SE 12th 2bd $475 Section 8 only FLESHMANS INC 235-5473 or 314-3551
Metal Building Erectors & Helpers with Experience. Call 405-204-6560 Pest Control Tech Experience required in pest & termite control. Must pass background check & have good MVR. Salary + commissiom + benefits. 359-9690. PLUMBERS $40 - $60K. Full benefits. 40+ hours. Roto-Rooter. 3120 S Ann Arbor Ave. jobs@rotorooterok.com
$99 Move In Special 1 & 2bds, carports, coin lndry $345-445 470-3535
1 & 2 BEDROOMS, QUIET! Covered Parking Great Schools! 732-1122
1N to 10A, E. of OKC, pay out dn. before 1st pmt. starts, many are M/H ready over 400 choices, lg trees, some with ponds, TERMS Milburn o/a 275-1695 paulmilburnacreages.com OWNER FINANCING 1-28 Acres Many Locations Call for maps 405-273-5777 www.property4sale.com
$98 1st Month Near OU Med Ctr Nice! 788-4716 Momentum Prop Mgmt
TOTALLY FURNISHED AND UNFURNISHED ALL BILLS PAID Rates starting at $800.00 month. First month FREE. Citadel Suites, 5113 N. Brookline 405-942-0016 www.citadel suites.com Including are the following:
Payout dn pmt before 1st pmt starts. Your opportunity to own land, 40 areas, E, NE, SE of OKC 1N A. Milburn o/a 275-1695 terms Call for Maps! See why we sell more acreages than anyone in Okla. E of OKC. o/a 275-1695 2K A or more $16,950 $450dn $155mo Tuttle area 18mi SW of OKC. Larger parcels available 745-5889
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Appointment setters M-Thur 8:30a-5p, Fri- 8:30-3p $10-12hr + commissions $500 newbie setting bonus 866-652-7760 ext-4020
Daryl's Appliance: W&D $75 &up, limited supply! 5yr warr. Refr/Stoves $125 &up , 1yr warr 405-632-8954
Colorful black couch coffee table end tables $150 silver barbeque grill with side burner $75. MWC 517-8694
W/D $65up sets $150 up fridge 125up stove 100up 3436 SW 29th 549-7004 Washer & Dryer, Extra Large Cap., Exc Cond. $225 »»» 248-4070
2, 3 & 4 bed $475-895 www.longburk.com Longburk RE 732-7474
3bd 2ba 2car f/p $1200 Accurate Prop 732-3939
4bd 2ba doublewide 5acre $1050 (WAC - No Horses) Home&RanchRlty 794-7777
Exceptional, quiet 3bd brick $985 T&J Mgmt 420-1966 Beautiful 3bd brick home cov'd deck$1085 420-1966
Tire Technicians Needed 50 hours per week. Benefits. Must have valid drivers license. Apply in person, Swanson Tire Co, 1000 N Hudson, 235-8305.
Experienced Journeyman wanted immediately. Must pass drug & backgr check. Must have own hand tools. For more info call 405-433-2358
6 piece Lane Sectional, incl 2 recliners & 1 matching rocker recliner w/massage, 3 table lamps, $800. 324-6676
BlowoutSale!All app xtra clean 1yr wnty 732-8503 stevensappliances.com Washer, Dryer, Freezer $100 ea; Frig $150; Can Del; 820-8727 or 216-8318
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All Utilities Cable High speed internet Telephone Fully Equipped Kitchen Linens Free Laundry Business Center 2 Pools Free Movie Rental Breakfast Mon.-Fri. Social Hour Free Gym Passes
$200 off 1 & 2 BEDROOMS Furnished & Unfurnished NEWLY REMODELED GATED COMMUNITY
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Luxury 3/2.5/2 duplex $865 TJ Mgmt 420-1966
GROCERY STORE APPLMeat dsply box 10ft $75, dairy case 12ft $40, frzn fd case 18ft $70 (both open face), veg case 10ft $25. 405-785-2606
Bach Student Horn Trumpet with case. $299, 405-265-0023
3 Buildings Full - Good Used Office Furniture. 510 W. Reno 236-3166
All Sports & Concerts
Maytag front load Washer & gas Dryer $300 obo; Nice king size mattress set $250 obo; 2-drawer file cab $25 ¡¡ 737-9069 Couch set, queen & twin bedroom set, bunk bed, dining set, king mattress & box springs, $150$350, 405-397-1801. Elegant large wood carved bedroom, good condition. Cal king bed, dresser, chest and tv armoire. $2500. 225-6322. QUEEN PILLOWTOP MATTRESS, still in plastic, unused. Must sell! $175 405-620-1913
405-295-2222 www.totallytickets.com 2 tickets ea. for Ragtime, July 19 & Chorus Line, Aug 2. Both in seats 107 & 108, row H, center. Includes free parking & donor reception. $245 805-720-7556, Joe Purdy
5x8 Trailer with tilt ramp $600; Hospital Bed $150 Call 794-8328 18' car hauler, steel floor brakes, new tires, dovetail $2150 405-834-9094 5x8 ut $775•12'x77 $860 16'ut $1300•18'car h$1895 J&J Trailers 405-682-2205 2 wheel trailer 5'10''long by 4'6'' wide, reg axle, $275 cash. 354-2660 2 Lawn Trailers, fully equipped, $650-$850 or best offer 405-752-7930 5x8, 2 wheel trailer Excellent condition $350. 405-778-9229 5x8, 5x10, 6x12, w/gates; like new 16 foot tandem; $650-$950 cash; 670-1850 Car Hauler 18ft. dove-tail, ec $1400. 405-203-8727
Drexel cherry wood din rm table, 2 leaves, 6 chrs, lrg lighted 2pc hutch $2500 759-2627 Double reclining sofa, 1 year old, exc cond, light brown, $100, 514-8403. Overstuffed beige living room club chair $30 obo. 405-350-1573
GOBER CONSTRUCTION Post Framed Buildings: 30x40x10, (2) 12x8 overhead (1) entry door, and concrete $12,500. Call . 405-650-2556 • Laminate Flooring 2100 sq ft, 25 year warr, 95¢/sq ft • Prefinished oak, Hardwood, 2400 sq ft. 30 year warranty $2/sq ft. • 405-632-0499
Mattress Sale $50-$250 » 919-5005
WE BUY FURNITURE 942-5865 No Appliances
•Solid Brazilian Cherry• • Hardwood Flooring • (2600sf) Beautiful, never used $2.50/sf 632-0499
4 Kittens, 12 weeks, blk/wht, yel/wht, Free to Good Homes, 769-8344 Multi Family Sale Thursday & Friday 8805 S. Hillcrest Dr. Household Misc.
N. Highland 3/4Bd, 1K Ba, fncd, $0 dep. $600-$700, Sec. 8, 1-800-529-0307 code 37
20 acres, D/C Schools OKC city limits, platted, all city utilities. 388-6490
HVAC Service Techs/Installers
FREE DELIVERY OKC! Washer $125 Dryer $125 Refrigerators $150 Warranty & Free Del. Call 405-210-2230.
Beautiful duplex in Quail Creek 3bd 2ba 2car 2100sf atrium, $1075 255-4300
SERVICE ADVISOR Experience preferred. Top pay. Contact Robert Fenton Nissan East 226-5276 EOE
Working Superintendents/ Carpenters Wanted For national commercial retail tenant finish work. Must have tools and transportation. Work requires travel. Call 1-800-237-1694 or email resume to: beth@llretail.com
Black Ornamental Fence 4’x92’’ panels, $81.00/panel; 2540 SW 29th, 634-6411.
2/1/1, $500 month, $125 off 1st month rent, ch&a, 831-0207.
Mechanically minded, mature person, appliance repair bkgd, repair highend home appliances. 100 NE 24th St.
DirecTV Hiring Techs $450 bonus if experienced Must have clean background, driving record, own truck/tools Up to $1500 weekly 405-521-0050
Will Train If you are looking for more than just a job, don't miss this opportunity to join a championship team. We are a stable,fast growing Cable TV installation company willing to develop your skills to become one of the best. Call Mon-Fri 8am-4pm Insured truck/Van reqd. Benefits Available 1-888-551-7208
Furnished/Unfurnished Bills Paid » Wkly/Monthly Wes Chase Apts, Elk Horn Apts, Hillcrest 370-1077
1315 NW 2nd St, 3 bed, $400 month, $150 deposit, others, 639-0556.
MAINT MECHANIC needed in process plant. Exp in refrig, boiler, elect A++. Apply @ 1702 N Sooner Rd., OKC, OK. No phone calls.
Auto lift for low ceiling 48'' rise 110V, portable. 6000lb $2200 210-7122
» Local & Nationwide» FENCE SALE 6 ft Chain Link $59.95 Wood Fence $25.95 ACME FENCE OKC 232-6361 800-894-5006
SW 77 Terr & Douglas 2bd 2.5ba, $650+dep 631-1115
Brick 3bd 2ba, landscaped, 1600sf, fenced, storage, sunroom $1075 255-4300
Maintenance Tech Must have experience with Apartment maintenance plumbing, dry wall painting, HVAC, etc. Baptist Village of OKC 9700 Mashburn Blvd. 721-2466 ext. 2133
CANADIAN VALLEY TECHNOLOGY CENTER – CHICKASHA CAMPUS is accepting applications for Maintenance Tech – HVAC 3 yrs exp., OK Journeyman Mechanical License For complete job description & application go to www.cvtech.edu\jobs or contact: Tammy Casady (405) 222-7523 Email: tcasady@cvtech.edu
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3bd, 2ba, 2car, ch&a, fp 1800sf, new tile, carpet & paint. 9208 Aaron Dr. $1200 +$800d 745-5711, 833-3540
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MECHANIC For construction equipment. Must have some knowledge in hydraulics and 12 volt electrical. Must have own tools, drivers license and pass pre-employment drug test. Please apply at Bishop Paving Company, 927 SW 6th St., OKC, 405-232-5531.
JD 750J 6900 hrs, cabin air, 6-way blade, EXC $87,500. 405-406-0076
$295 Furnished Efficiency 2820 S Robinson 232-1549
4916 N Cromwell, 3 bd, 1K ba, 2 car, ch&a, fncd back yard, all appls, $800 mo, 714-412-9008 or 405-463-0554.
needed at Quail Springs Auto. Call 216-3737
2 Generators, 1 electric start 220v & 110v, $600 ea. 885-2572, 924-1430
JD 2355 60 HP, 1700 hrs w/8ft mower, EXC COND $13,500. 405-406-0076
$99 Move In Special!!! Lg 1 and 2 Bdr, $345 to $420 mo. 632-9849
404 NW 82 3bd Sec 8 $550 221 NW 91 3bd Sec 8 $600 8220 Robinson 3bd sec8$650 2715 Park Place 3bd $550 FLESHMANS INC 235-5473 or 314-3551
LICENSED SHEETMETAL JOURNEYMAN To work in Norman area. MUST HAVE CURRENT OK MECHANICAL LICENSE. Experience with HVAC sheetmetal duct fabrication and installation. Call Debbie Morris @ 479-452-5723 for appointment.
HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR for a commercial paving company. Must have knowledge of finish grading, excavating and any other aspect of dirt work. Must have drivers license and pass pre-employment drug test. Apply at Bishop Paving Company, 927 SW 6th St., OKC, 405-232-5531
Sign on Bonus. Excellent pay & benefits. Call today for a confidential interview. Drug free environ 436-9902
Don't Sell Until You Get Our Investors Offer. Fast Close. DLemons&Assoc850-3880
Port-A-Cool evaporative coolers, $500-$3000, Immediate Delivery, Steve Harris, 405-818-7860.
Priefert Ranch Equipmentcattle panels•working chutes•sweeps•round pens horse stocks•stalls•feeders Pioneer Equip. 745-3036
Furnished/Unfurnished Bills Paid » Wkly/Monthly Wes Chase Apts, Elk Horn Apts, Hillcrest 370-1077
1 mi E of Tinker, 3/1/2 ch&a, util rm, $525+$300 dep, No pets. 732-4351
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Port-A-Cool evaporative coolers, $500-$3000, Immediate Delivery, Steve Harris, 405-818-7860.
Edmond 341-7829
$149 1st Month 2beds/gated/carports Pristine! 416-5257 Momentum Prop Mgmt
Owner carry with down Nice homes and fixers James 417-2176 I BUY HOUSES Any condition. No cost to U 495-5100
Farmer owned diesel tractors, exc cond, new paint, serviced & ready to go. Call for details/picture. International 1486, 145hp, cab w/heat & air, duals & weights, $15,500; JD 3020, 70hp, $7500; JD 820, 38hp, $6500; »» 405-247-2168 »»
800-256-1638
Updated 2bd 1ba ch/a $600 Accurate 732-3939
Auto Mechanic Needed. Top pay, Health Ins., IRA, Paid Time off, Etc. Express Credit Auto 3042 NW 39th St. OKC Send resume to: JSimmons@ Expresscreditauto.com Or Call (405)-470-8206
CAT D6RXW Series II Dozer, CAB/air, yr 2005 PS Tilts, 7000 hrs, 80% u/c. very clean. $120,000 obo. 979-567-3425
2008 NH T1520 4wd, 35hp tractor, w/loader, 5ft rotary cutter, and 5 ft box scraper, 337 hrs, exc condition Central New Holland OKC 495-6151
4900 S. Walker Large 1, 2 & 3 Bd Apts, Start at $420 + dep + elect, Sec 8 OK. 631-1115
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CIRCULATION/ TRANSPORTATION NIGHT SHIFT TRUCK DRIVER The Oklahoman has an immediate opening for a Part-Time Night Shift Truck Driver to deliver bundles of newspapers to our distribution centers and other locations in the metro area. You will be responsible for loading and unloading the truck. Must be able to lift 25 lbs. + every shift. Must have Class B CDL license, without automatic transmission restrictions and an excellent driving record.
Abandoned 3 bed, 2 bath, nice schools, easy access to OKC. Call 634-4812
4 Bed, 2 Bath, already set up take over payments. 634-4812
Needed for Front & Back Office of busy internal medical practice. Fax resumes 635-1013
Medical Records Scanning Clerk
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Over 100 Repos on Land or 0 down w/your Land! WAC 866-764-3200,405-631-3200
Staff Associate Police Officer for the City of Owasso Must be 21-45yoa with min. of 60 college credit hrs. Excellent benefits. Deadline for app: Aug 5. For more information or to apply online, go to www.cityofowasso.com
Introducing THE ANGELIC APTS First Month $189 1,2,3 Bed 455-8150
2008 2 Bed $17,500 del/set Used 16x80 $18,999 del/set www.midstatehousing.com 405.527.5669
DIRECTOR OF HOTEL OPERATIONS for new hotel opening at Firelake Grand Casino Qualifications: 1.) Direct daily operations of hotel 2.) Create budgets and monitor costs 3.) Achieve highest level of customer service 4.) Oversee hiring and training of new employees All qualified candidates can apply at www.firelakejobs.com
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Shell Gas Station selling 2 gasoline dispensors $2,700 Exc Cond 405-312-4642
3-wheel mobility scooter $400; Electric wheelchair $300; Lift scooter/ wheelchair inside vehicle $275 » 488-7017 »
Rest equip-100s -chairs, tables, refrig, grills, fryers, hoods. 417-5310.
PRIDE LIFT CHAIR new, brown vinyl $800. 842-5092
KITTENS, 2 BLACK F, 11wks, litter trained. FREE ’’ 503-5794 Mixed breed kittens, 10 weeks old, $5 each. Mustang 405-376-2613 or 641-2799 PERSIANS, CFA MALE 14 weeks old ’ $150. ’ 405-471-4908 ’ Ragdoll Kittens Adorable 8 weeks $200.00-$100.00 405-924-8588 Siamese, apple head, 7 weeks, seal point beauties, $75 each, 601-7895.
2 yr old handicap chair, never used, $650. Call 405-634-3440 talk to Pete. RENT TO OWN $500 down $498+mo includes lot rent 3br/2ba mobile home No security/cleaning dep Seller financing Start building equity In your Dreamhome Call 405-672-2684 2 & 3 bed $450-650 www.longburk.com Longburk RE 732-7474
Panasonic LX3 digital camera, external view finder, 3 batteries, exc cond, $295, 788-0007.
Motorized Wheelchair, Excellent Condition, navy blue $1500 ¡¡ 206-0120 Electric scooter/wheel chair, used 2 weeks, half price, $1900, 295-2321. JET 2 Power Chair in exc cond. Needs new battery $2000. 794-2072
Highest CASH paid for old coin collections silver dollars & gold 620-7375
SIBERIAN KITTENS HYPO ALLERGENIC 12wks old. TICA REG. 2f 2m $750ea 405-368-8951 3 LH-Red tby. 10wks hzl eyes. Shots & wormed. Committed owners only $200 each. 405-732-0556
3 bed, 2 full baths, Quiet area. ¡¡ 944 E. Hill Sec 8 OK. Call 524-4102 4bd 1.7ba 2car $950 Accurate Prop 732-3939 3bd 1.7ba 2car $700 Accurate Prop 732-3939 2bd 1ba 1car $500 Accurate Prop 732-3939
3624 S Woodward 2bd $400 2324 SW 31st 2bd $400 FLESHMANS INC 235-5473 or 314-3551 2bed 1bath ch/a $550 Accurate Prop 732-3939
RENT TO OWN $500 down $498+mo includes lot rent 3br/2ba mobile home No security/cleaning dep Seller financing Start building equity In your Dreamhome Call 405-672-2684
Akai Flat Screen TV 27'' exc cond $275, RCA True Flat Tube TV 37'' never used $175, 19'' portable TV w/VHS $30, all obo. 405-350-1573 iPod Touch 4th Generation 8GB New Never Opened w Acc Kit $190 405-886-4263
Estate Sale 39 Stoneridge Dr. Ponca City, OK July 15 & 16, 2011 Fri: 4pm - 6pm Sat: 9am - 2:30pm Lg Doll Collection•Doll Furniture•Doll Beds •Skookum Dolls•Wicker Buggies•2 Featherweights 221•Beautiful Furniture•Old Cast Iron Banks. Call or Text Teresa 580-401-0077 See List-Photo’s-Map www.1stClassEstate Sales.com
USED AC CONDENSERS 3TON, 3.5TON & 4 TON $300-$400 789-9929
HARD TIMES LOW PRICES John Deers : GT275, 260, LX277, 425. 38''-72'' cuts 4 OTHERS » $650-$2800 » 641-9932» 8 Lawn mowers $50-$85, Riding mower $600. 405-619-9730 19.5 HP Ariens riding mower, 42'' cut like new cond. $750 410-9252
40 head 4-6yr old black & bwf cow/calf pairs $1350 ea. 18head young blk & bwf fall calving cows $1025 ea. 2 Angus bulls $1400ea. 580-729-6849 580-393-1388 (10) Farm raised pairs 3-5 yrs old $1500/pr 405-664-4482
AMERICAN BULLDOG Pups Johnson Bloodline 2M, 2F $400-$600 or trade. 580-484-2899 Arctic Timber Wolf Pups, Born May 12, $200-$300. Make very good pets, parents on site, health check if needed. Call 405-352-5325 or 405-613-4578 or 405-245-4183 or email for pics at: rcasteel86@att.net tuffy73059@sbcglobal.net
2 Power Washers $500 each, used for tree service, lots of tools for going out of business sale come by & look, $10-$100 885-2572, 924-1430
» AUSSIE's » All Colors, Mini & Toy's $100-$400 405-650-4671
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WHY RENT WHEN YOU CAN OWN! $500 down $498 + mo includes lot rent 3br/2ba mobile home No security/ cleaning dep Seller financing Start building equity in your Dreamhome Call 405-672-2684
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$100 lot rent for 6 months! Move Your Mobile Home FREE! 9 Communities in NW, SW, SE (Moore), MWC, Choctaw Plus Offer Expires 7-31 Call for details 405.326.5728 $5000 Towards Your New Home! You Pick the Home, You Pick the Lot! 9 MH Communities in SW/NW/SE (Moore) MWC/Choctaw. Call for Details 405.326.5728 Special Disaster Programs Zero Down! Own Land/ Family Land Zero down. Instant rebates/furniture allowance up to $8000. Free phone application WAC 405-631-7600
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Commercial RE Business Property For Rent ATTENTION!!! FENWICK PLAZA NW 164 & Pennsylvania Retail Lease Spaces As Low As $995/mo 2 Months Free Rent Gretchen M-F 787-7242 www.leasespaceokc.com MUSTANG CREEK PLAZA Retail Space For Lease 2125sf-837 S Mustang Rd 1125sf-845 S Mustang Rd 2125sf-805 S Mustang Rd Call Gretchen M-F/9-5 787-7242 LeasespaceOKC.com Great Commercial Location for Rent Building on 5 acres Off the McLoud Exit $1500.00 per month Woodlake Properties 405-273-5777
Business Property For Rent OLD WORLD PLAZA New Retail/Office Space ONLY 6 UNITS LEFT! BARGAIN RATES-$795 for 1018 sqft, 501 S. Mustang Rd. Call Gretchen M-F/9-5 787-7242 MORGAN CREEK PLAZA 1721 S. Morgan-$695/mo 1725 S. Morgan-$695/mo 1827 S. Morgan-$750/mo Ask About Our Specials! Call Gretchen 787-7242 www.leasespaceokc.com NORTHRIDGE SC Retail Space for Lease 9111NCouncilRd1000sf$750 Laura M-F 9-5 789-0988
BRAND NEW WAREHOUSE/OFFICE 9632 NW 6th - 12,000 sf 9640 NW 6th - 6,000 sf 9700 NW 6th - 6,000 sf 9708 NW 6th - 12,000 sf Call Gretchen M-F 9-5 787-4615 www.leasespaceokc.com WAREHOUSE/OFFICE 8312 W Reno 2500sf $750 328 S Eagle 2000sf $695 8305 SW 3 2000sf $650 4085 NW 3 2000sf $650 4071 NW 3 3000sf $795 4069 NW 3 3000sf $795 Laura M-F 9-5 789-0988
GREAT Space OFFICE Various NW locations MOVE IN SPECIALS 300-6000sf 946-2516
Remodeled single furnished offices $175mo 50th & N Santa Fe area 235-8080
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Aussie Pups, AKC, champ ped, blue merles, red tris, s/w/dc, $100$300. 979-204-1262 OKC
BOXER/PIT BULL MIX 7mo, M, shots up to date neutered $50. 405-812-0772
Aussies Mini www.okieaussie.com $400-$650 405-613-4826
Boxer AKC Puppies 6 weeks 3f 2m AKC Boxer Puppies $350-$450 (405)401-4431
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Boxer AKC Puppies $800 Male/$700 Female Lee - 405-830-6540
12wks & 6wks 2 Blk Tri M 1 Red Tri M 1 Blk Tri F $150. NO PAPERS! Guthrie 405-562-0392
Boxer fawn with white, 3 Male, 1 Female, DOB 6/19, $200, 326-6151
Australian Shepherd 2m, 5f, shots/wormed, registered, merles and tris, $400-500. 405-433-2081 Australian Shepherd minis, 2M, 4F, all colors, 9 weeks old, $400-$500, 405-850-0264. Australian Shepherds Reg 2m 3f $300-$500. Solid pedigree » 405-525-6861 Basenjis AKC Adults & 2 pups, 7 months old. $150 ea. jdnees@att.net or call 405-779-5596
BOXER HUSKY MIX PUPPIES. BLUE EYES. $125. 405-816-9795
Boxer Puppies, AKC $175 ea 405-566-9732 BOXER Puppies, 8 weeks old, 3 white $350ea, 1 fawn $250 405-921-2009 Boxer Puppies 2 Female, 1 Male, s/t/dc, $150, 405-320-8733
BEAGLE PUPPIES, AKC 6 wks, 2M 2F S/W POP. Sire DNA tested, tri, lemon/wht $200 & $250 740-0048 »» 275 6610
Beagles Reg. Beagle Puppies Classic tri-colors, some are the minis. Package deals available. $25.00 580-524-1696 or email circle3@ptsi.net
Bernese Mountain Dog 3 M, 1F AKC, shots/ wormed & dc. POP. Ready on Aug. 1st. Gorgeous pups Reserve now $1000. 405-637-9904
BERNESE MOUNTAIN DOG Pups, 7 weeks old, AKC reg. 918-747-6877 Bichon Frise, loveable pups, 12 weeks, s/w, 2F $275, 4M $250, 214-7857 Bichon Frise, small breeder sellout, M&F, $150 obo, 214-7857. Bloodhounds 4 reg. bloodhounds comes with dog houses $400. each 580-425-1079 Blue Heeler Pups, short & stout, must see $150. Aussie Pups ASCA reg. 2 M, 13 weeks, $150, 819-2922, 436-8565 Blue Heelers, born May 19th, dc/td/w, $150 each, 405-830-6582 405-830-6578, Norman. Blue Heelers - 6wks, ranch raised, shots, wormed, claws, tails removed, $150. 405-284-6426 Blue Heeler Puppies, 6wks, working parents 5M, 2F, t/dc, 1st shots, 580-861-2200 Blue Heeler, 6 mo F Pup, AKC parents, farm raised $75 ¡ 405-258-8884 Blue Heeler & Red Heeler Pups, 6wks, working parents $100 Cash 224-6903 Border Collie Pups ABCA red/wht, 6WKS $125 »» 454-6410
BOSTON TERRIER AKC BLUE 5 female Bostons Vet checked S/W dews removed first shots. 3 Blues, 1 Champagne & 1 Black 2 wks old. Deposit will hold till 6 wks. $350$750 call 918-377-2642 or 405-240-7462 BOSTON TERRIER PUPPIES 6 wk old Boston Terrier pups (bull dog like) will be 20-30lbs.1 blk/wht M, 1blk/wht F & 3 rare red/ wht F; price includes s/ w/AKC reg papers. 350450 Call @ (405)474-7830
Dachshund Mini AKC Adults, Male & Female, long hair & shorthair, $125 ea. jdnees@att.net or call 405-779-5596
Dachshund Mini, AKC, 5 Males, 6 wks, $150 735-1368, 604-7538
Dalmatian AKC, Ch. bldlns, 8 wks, micro chipped, hearing tested. (baer) shots/wormed, $450-$550. 918-839-9753 Doberman, AKC, 8 wks, S/W/T/DC, white with blue eyes, 2M, 3F ¡ $600 ¡‘ 580-504-9580 ‘¡ Doberman Pinscher puppies, AKC, s/w/t/dc, males & females, ready now, $400, 918-962-2514 or 479-651-5079.
Doberman Quality black and rust female,12 wks. AKC reg. Ch. ped. ears cropped. $900. 580-678-7356
Bull Terrier Puppies AKC born 4/27/11, M & F all colors, s/w, $650 ea. 580-471-1217 or 580-563-9135, www. outbackennels.com Bull Terrier puppies, 2M, McKinsey & Chico bloodlines, AKC reg, s/w, $1500, contact Romeo, 405-410-9672. Chihahuas CKC 9 wks s/w/dc. 2M adorable, full of joy! $100 cash Wetumka 817-692-9652 Chihuahua, 7 wks MICRO TEENY TINY $1500 Cash ¡ 519-8584 Chihuahua-Min Pin Puppies, 3, Free to good home. 405-889-0861. Chihuahua AKC Pup M Lh Choc Rdy 7/8 s/w sm 5-7lbs $350. 580-319-8827 CHIHUAHUA ADORABLE TEENY- TINY! $250 Visa/MC 405-826-4557 CHIHUAHUA ACA Reg. Long hair Male, 1.25 lbs, $200 733-4077, 733-1471 Chihuahua Pups ACA 8wk, 1st shots 5/M & 1/F long & short haired cuties. $200-300. 405-550-8870 Chihuahua Pups: 2F, 8 weeks, $300 each; 1M, 3 months, $250; 222-0662. Chihuahuas, ACA Ms & Fs $200-$400 ¡‘¡ 627-0419 diamondlkennel.com ok#17
English Bulldog Puppies, AKC, 3F/2M, 7 weeks. Puppy wellness papers from vet. Deposits ok $1500 (918)407-5220/407-5221 stubbornbullies.com English Bulldog AKC Puppies 8 week old males. Current Shots and Microchip. Champion Bloodlines. $1400 herefordhill@hughes.net 405-612-5677 English Bulldog 1 M, 7 months, Playful & loving, UTD on S/W, Housebroken, CrateTrained, Wonderful family pet, to approved home ONLY! $700. 918-208-7138 English Bulldog/ Pit Bull Terrier/ Aussie Shep Mix. 6wks. Wormed, vet ckd Adorable & very smart (LOOK LIKE ENGLISH BULLDOG PUPS! $25ea cash only » 549-3417 English Bulldog Puppies AKC,vet che'd healthy!, CH lines, $800-$1200 www.burtonbullies.com, 918-696-0726 * English Bulldogs * * French Bulldog Pups * * $500 & up. Go online * * parkerbulldogs.com * * 580-471-3714 * English Bulldog, AKC, 6 yr female, red & white, $300, 918-655-7353, stocktonbulldogs.com
CHIHUAHUA TOY/RAT TERRIER MIX PUPPIES3 F, B&W, parents on prem., adorable, 7wks. $125 cash, 405-869-0093
English Bulldog Pups AKC, vet checked, 6wks s/w 3m 2f $1200 for info & pics call 405-520-2701
Chihuahua TEACUPS ITTY BITTY, TEENY TINY $250 Cash ¡ 519-8584
English Bulldog AKC, 3M, $1400 ea, 285-2825, englishbulldogsjarvis.com
Cocker Puppies, ACA, 9 weeks, buff with white, s/w vet checked, POP, $175 cash, 405-373-2438.
English Mastiff Puppies AKC, 8 Weeks old, Brindle and fawn. POP, Vet checked. Good guardians and great with children and other animals. $400 male, $300 females Jennifer at (405) 200-5882
Cocker Pups buffs and blondes, ACA, $150. 580-488-3817 Cocker Spaniel AKC adorable small born 6-411, ready to come with you, 3 M, 3 F, tri color, $250 obo. 405-585-3190 CORGIES AKC MALES 9wk old »» both colors. $400ea » 580-564-5802 Dachshund, Mini, ACA, 12wks, dbl dapple, s/w $125-$150 405-585-3545 Dachshund/Yorkie, male, 6 weeks old, $75, 204-0551.
German Shepherd AKC puppies, 8wks, 3F, black/tan, POP, $275. 245-3669.
Dachshund Mini 4 male, 1 female, 3 months, double dapple. $100$125, 405-527-9192
DOBERMAN PINSCHER PUPPIES, Reg., Warlock bldlns, s/w/t/dc, POP, $350 obo ’ 405-664-0645. BULL TERRIER ’ AKC Male champion sired Nocturnal lines. Baer Tested, shots, ready July 16 $1200 ’ 405-245-2337
Healthy 10 week old kittens, need good home, $25 each, Lakeview Pet Hospital, 405-514-4988.
Dachshund Mini AKC M/F, Vet Chkd, Home Raised, Hlth Gurant. $150 & Up jenkinscuddly puppies.com
Boxer Puppies, AKC registered, 3 girls, 1 boy, 12 weeks old, s/w, $300, 405-603-7629
BOXER Pups, 10 weeks, 2M, fawn, S/W/T/DC, $150 ea, 405-401-7691
Basset Hound Puppies, UKC, 5F/2M, POP, Will be 5wks & ready for new homes July 21th $300-M, $400-F 580-656-0867
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Free to a loving adult home, 9mo M German Shep./Pit mix, all shots neutered, Very affectionate & loving »» 799-1934 French Bulldog AKC Male, 4 1/2 months, all shots $1200 303-4328215/glsm95@yahoo. com. Newalla French Bulldog, black M, 8 months, no papers, good with kids and other dogs, $600 obo, 408-7555
Italian Greyhound, 8 AKC Pups, Beauties! shots, $250, 392-3467/408-8724 Jack Russells Jack Russell Pups 8wks S/T/DC/W $150. Dustin 779-4452 Jack Russell Pups reg JRTC 7wks vaccinated & wormed $150. 405-520-1491
German Shepherd AKC Pups & Adults, Champion Heidelberg's $850. 918-261-4729
German Shepherd, AKC, 9 wks, 2 F, blk/red, 1 F, blk/tan, S/W, POP, hlth guar $350 405-760-7731
German Shepherd Pups AKC, Straight Topline $800 ¡ 282-4456
German Shepherd AKC Pups. 5 males, 2 females. Black and tan. Loving and playful pups with first shots. POP. Must see! $250 405-702-3109 German Shepherd AKC Pups Beautiful pups, various colors of sable and standard; 2M, 6F, 7wks on 7/ 8. Parents are great family dogs/yard guards. $250. 405 514-2110 German Sheperd Pup AKC Registered Male onlyl, Have shots and health check, Stillwater. Ready to take home $250.405-377-2976 German Shepherd pups 6wks AKC mother import father 1st shots blk/tan drk sab $250. 496-6506 German Shep Pups, AKC, 2M, white, all shots, POP, $400, 405-740-7804 or 405-324-5246. German Shepherd Pups, AKC Reg., 4 Females, $250 each. Call 408-2427 German Shepherd Pups AKC, POP, s/w, 4M, 5F, $250ea. 405-392-2607 GERMAN SHEPHERD AKC 4 males, 8 weeks old, $350. 405-631-4037 German Shepherd pups AKC Registered 7wks $350ea. 918-430-4032 German Shepherd, AKC, Snow White, Lg. country dogs, $300, 940-641-0365 Golden Retriever Pups "Grein Goldens" on facebook $350. 405-878-8821 Golden Retriever M & F FREE. may sep. $25 rehoming fee 354-4387
Great Dane puppies, AKC 14 weeks, DOB 4/8/11, s/w/dc, 3M, 1 brindle & 2 fawn, $400, 659-6948. Great Dane Puppies 3 m mantles/2 f harlequins pure bread. $350. 818-4215 Great Pyrenees Mixed Puppies 3F, 2M $20 405-834-9310 Greyhound puppies 13 wks, Current on shots, 3 f and 1m. Come from hunting background $100. Call 580-748-0713 Havanese, AKC, M All colors. Very small. s/w, $200. 324-1201 Havanese Puppies 9 wks old. Registered. First shots and vet check complete. Loveable, adorable and great companions! $500. Call 405-249-4918
Lab, AKC Reg. Pups, 1M 2F, black, Born 5/11/11, Vet ckd, dew claws removed, S/W, POP, Exc Pedigree. $150each 405-397-4566 Lab AKC Field Bred Pups Finest litter in OK. Sire #2 Lab in State. Field Champions for six generations, Health guar. POP, 5 black females $500 405-317-6360 Arcadiaretrievers.com
Lab AKC Puppies 1m black, 2f black, Blocky Head, Double Coated, Kellygreen Blood Line,Hunting Blood Line, Vet Chd/Shots, Family Raised $200-$250. 405-334-3007 Lab Puppies AKC AKC Lab Puppies 3M, 1F. Parents on premises $150 (580)622-2288 or (580)618-0137 LAB PUPPIES, AKC, 3 M, 1 F, s/w, yellow Will meet. ¡ $200 ¡¡¡ 918-387-4216 ¡¡¡ LAB PUPPIES, AKC, choc, fox red, yellow, & black, $200-$400, 405-640-1153, McLoud Lab Pups Yellow AKC Big Playful Block Head 10 wks 4M 2F s/w/d Hunting/Retrieving parents on sight can email pics $150 405-831-0070 evenings 405-831-8570 or 405-344-6828 Labradoodle Pups Registered, Vet Checked, 2yr Hlth Guar, Very Healthy, Cream, Latte, White & Parti Now Taking Deposits Check out happygoluckyok.com or call 405-659-9053 LABRADOODLES & GOLDENDOODLES rubyrunkennel.com $500 & UP S/W/DC VET CK rubyrunkennel yahoo.com 405 320-1198 Labs, AKC, 8 wks, white, blocky, parents OFA'd, champ ped., S/W, POP, socialized $375, 818-4182 Labs AKC 3m 3f reg pups. Hand raised and played with. Parents on site big heads otter tails $200 405 627 7338
Poodle AKC standard 2 yr old chocolate female. Housebroken. Moving must sale. $500 Ada 580-399-5480 POODLES, 8 weeks old, 2 Female, S/W $350 ¡ 405-535-3360 Poodles AKC 5 months old m , 5 puppies s/w 580-4021020 for pictures- grim. linda497@gmail.com must sell $150. Linda POODLE SPITZ MIX 8 weeks 2 off white males and 1 br/bl male $125 obo. 605-0528 Poodle Standard AKC Ch Bldline, Hlth Grntee Sell $300 w/out papers/ $6-900 with $300-900 Missi 620-988-2737
Maltese/Toy Rat Terrier, will be tiny tri color, long hair, 2F, $100, 990-5050. MALTESE Free to good home 1 male. Call for information. 405-691-8748 Maltese Puppy, Fullblood 6 weeks ’ $250 ’ 672-5411, OKC area. Malti/Poo, Males 7 wks, champaign/crm, $150, 405-761-8423, carmen1234@aol.com Mastiff, AKC, 1 female, 8wks, apricot, $450. 580-371-8019 MASTIFF PUPPIES 1/2 English, 1/2 Bullmastiff puppies. 7 weeks old. Have first shots. POP $500-600 Beth 405-589-6927 Miniature Pincher Pups First shots, tails, dewclaws already done. Full AKC Registration. Ready NOW! 5 BLK/TN F available. $500 785-320-1215 Miniature Pinscher pups Black/Tan, 7 wks, tails docked, 1st shots, wormed $150. 405-213-3000. Lv msg. MORKIES www.puffypups.com $300. 580-467-1876 PAPILLON AKC 1F, 1M, all colors, dep holds rdy 7/18. $295-$395. 514-9122 Pekingese Puppies, AKC 1m 1f S/W, POP, $300 ea. 580-816-0314 Pit Bull, pure bred, Colby ch. bldlns, brindle, white POP $200¡580-237-1961
Adorable baby Bunnies & breeding stock, various breeds $20-$30. 823-7848
'08 HD FLHX Big Bose Kit Exhaust $17,800 OKC Thundercycles.com 1-866-628-5065 Silky Terriers, 2M, $150 ea, 11 weeks, Reg, S/W 405-379-3553
'07 Softtail Custom FXSTC 11,126 mi blue/blk $13,495 OKC Thundercycles.com 1-866-628-5065
St. Bernard Puppies Males & Females, S/W $200. (580)334-4531
2007 Yamaha VStar 650 classic, fully loaded, $3950, 405-255-0977.
Westies, Reg. 9 wks old, shots & wormed $300 ’’ 405-742-7386 ’’
'06 Harley Heritage Softail Stage 1, 11K mi, $10,200, 405-570-6767
Pug Puppies Adorable, 7 week old pug puppies! 2 M and 2 F. $350. 405-509-3800 PUGS 2m 1f 7wks old black. 1 blk M 1yr old $100ea. » 405-820-9281 PUGS 3 female 8 weeks old $150each. 405-387-3147 Rat Terriers, 8wks $50ea 1 Pom F, 12 wks $100 s/w Cash 405-306-7083 RED HEELER Pups, 12 wks, M. out of working stock $100 580-656-2431 Rotts, German, AKC, 3 Female, 1 Male $500 ¡¡ 405-512-9418 ¡¡ Rottweilers, German, AKC, 6 wks, $600-$700 ask for Terry, 619-0643 Schnauzer, Mini, AKC, Pups & Adults $200-$400 www.pups4us.com (580)759-3478/272-3106 Schnauzer, F, 7 yrs, spayed, free to good home, no children. Wetumka 817-692-9652 Schnauzer, Mini, AKC, s/w/ears/tails, great pets $225-$325, 405-503-2272 Schnauzer, Mini purebred 7wks, blk M. S&P M $150ea. 405-258-6333 Schnauzer Mini 18 wk old, b, m, Mini Schnauzer all shots, needs new home, comes w/ crate, food, and toys. $250. (405) 487-6200 SCHNAUZER MINI AKC born 5-15-11, 3 M, $225, 3 F $275, s/w by vet 387-9882 or 761-4243
YORKIE, Female. ACA 10wks s/w . Parents 5lbs. $275 405-221-1578
SHIH-POMs, 8 week old males, hand raised, 2 pup shots, dewormed, Potty Patch trained, $250, 405-285-8666. SHIH-POO ADORABLE ITTY BITTY! $295 Visa/MC 405-826-4557
Yorkie Puppies 8 wks old 1 male, 2 female. no papers, Mom & Dad. weigh less than 5 lbs $250--300. 405 996 6353--405 623 1423 YORKIE PUPPIES, reg, M & F, $400-$750. t-tinyyorkieranch.com 580-819-2541 Yorkies, 2M, very cute, 1 small, s/w, guaranteed $125-$200. 405-380-8469
1986 18 foot Ranger Bassmaster Classic, 150 hp Johnson, loaded, $4900, 405-255-5441. 12' Sea Eagle boat 375 Foldcat retail $1600 won in drawing sell $1000. 405 222 4205
Yorkies, AKC, 3 males, ready to go, 1st shots, $400, 580-467-8760. YORKIES, AKC, 2 cute 4 words! 2M, 12 weeks, $325 cash, Must see! 631-5395, 532-1631. Yorkies AKC 2 M Quality Teddy Bears sml Hlth Guar. Puppy Kit $350 » 226-2098 YorkiPoo, CKC, 2F 3M $175 2M CKC Mini Poodles $175 Cash Only ¡ 405-912-5979
Sundowner Kennels for sale: Reg. dogs- Shelties, Poms, Std. Yorkies, Shih Tzu $6500 ea OBO 405-663-4047 Browns Loveable Pets Different Toy Breeds Call for Info $200-$600ea » 250-8269 ’’’’’’’’’’’’’’ YORKIE PUPPY Toy size MALE $200 8weeks old » 795-0456
Registered Albino BABY RACOONS. Last litter of the year. $400, 405-496-8299.
Shih Tzu, 8 weeks, 3 F, Very Fluffy & Small, $200 732-2081/887-8284 MWC
TINY BABY POT BELLY PIGS $100 EACH » 823-7848 »
Shih Tzu, ACA, 2M 4F, tri color $400-$450 627-0419 diamondlkennel.com OK# 17
Shih Tzu AKC Puppies 8wks, Males $200, Females $250 CASH 405-663-4047 Shih Tzu Puppies, AKC, S/W, Great Pets! $225-$325, 405-503-2272 Shih Tzu Puppies, ACA, 3 F, S/W ¡ $225 each (405)395-8820/433-2292
2 beautiful mares 6yr old Arabian $600. 4yr old Appaloosa $200 Must see to appreciate them!!. Also horse trailer $500 964-4286 or 301 6185 4-Horse Hot Walker 6 speed, forward & reverse, factory made, $2250, 405-397-7915.
97 SeaDoo SPX 2 seater garage kept. w/trailer $2500 405-514-5464
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120 GAL AQUARIUM ON Wood stand, gravel & decor. $600 659-6614 will return message. 3 HAND FED SEVERE (MINI) MACAW babies $395ea cash 580-320-3802
2001 Harley Davidson FXSTD 2642 Miles $11,495 OKC Thundercycles.com 1-866-628-5065 '01 Harley Davidson Duce $9,944 OKC Thundercycles.com 1-866-628-5065 1999 black Kawasaki model Vulcan 800, 23K miles, excellent condition, $2000, 405-2826190 or 405-630-0221. '08 HD FITR 11178 Miles $17,495 OKC Thundercycles.com 1-866-628-5065
'05 YAMAHA 660 RAPTOR $2200 or best offer 229-9691
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OK’s largest sel. of used Golf cars 800-276-0571
OKC Thundercycles.com 1-866-628-5065 '09 HD FIHX 25553 Miles $25,995 OKC Thundercycles.com 1-866-628-5065 2011 150cc scooter w/normal feet, 1 year warranty, $1200 obo, »»» 672-3900 »»» 2010 HD St Glide 5339 Miles Red Very Clean Like New! OKC Thundercycles.com 1-866-628-5065 2010 Harley Davidson Super Glide Custom 2090 Miles $13,495 OKC Thundercycles.com 1-866-628-5065 2009 HARLEY DAVIDSON CROSSBONES, custom paint, 3K miles, $16,995. 888-457-5765 www.fowlerhonda.com
2006 14' Extreme Travel Trailer Light weight excellent condition, only been used twice. Bath/Shower, cook top, microwave. $5500 OBO Call Robyn @ 405-412-8980 28' TRAIL LITE 5th whl, needs little work, $4500 or might trade for step van, school bus, pop-up trailer? 405-206-3636 06 GULMAKE 32' TT, master BR + bunkbeds, reg sz fridge, tub, slps 6 $8500 obo 405-485-4294 2004 Expedition 38N diesel, 3 slides, 35k mi, exc cond, $64,000. 405277-3291 / 405-850-8297 We buy clean late model trailers & RVs. 405-936-9300 Ask for Steve Privratsky. Lee's RV Superstore 99 Apache 5th wheel trailer w/attchmnts, extra nice, $6000. 680-9881
2009 Harley Davidson Dyno Super Glide 3474 mi Black $11,695 OKC Thundercycles.com 1-866-628-5065 '09 HD SuperGlide Custom only 5500mi garage kept. lots extras & upgrades!! $13,500 » 580-221-0729 2009 Wells Cargo Trailer Model MC1015SE, $4800, 405-420-2449
2008 HD FIHTCY 9416 Miles $19,495 OKC Thundercycles.com 1-866-628-5065 2008 HD Dyno Low Ride 9672 Miles Orange & Blk $11,895 OKC Thundercycles.com 1-866-628-5065
Guinea's, Bantams & laying hens, $3.00 $20.00 405-549-0654
2008 HD Dyna Low Ride 9672 Orange & Black $11,895 OKC Thundercycles.com 1-866-628-5065
All types, comm'l & res, best quality/price, 314-5344 www.marcreteok.com
Garage Doors & Openers Sales & Service 794-1718
Blue Heeler found near SW 36th & May. Call to id. 405-737-2694 Fml Tortishell Cat at Memorial Rd btwn Rockwell & McArthur 401-7600 Male Orange Tabby, found north of Edmond 640-7868 or 640-7268 Mid-lrg sz dog, SW 59th St & Hwy 92, Mustang. Identify, 405-249-4730. Peacock E. Wilshire & Bryant area. Call 4782265 to ID & Claim. Large, white DOG, found on 7/5, 150th/N. Western area 405-760-0785 Husky female, white and cream, near NW 50th & Meridian, 802-3188.
Young, red, male dog found in Del City. Call Marian 602-705-7123. 2 M dogs, appx 1 & 7 yrs on 7/4 Memorial & Western, 405-204-9007 Dog: small Fml mostly blk w/wht shrthair. 63rd /Portland to ID call 641-3429 Boxer mix?, young female, near I-35 & Waterloo, call to ID, 408-5899.
All Divorces $99 Other services 474-2375
REWARD 11yr old Jack Russell w/small hernia on tummy, Needs meds Newcastle area 405-213-2744 Jack Russell Terrier, F, wht, S of 240, W of I-35, REWARD. 405-626-0678
'96 Lance 10ft Camper, Exc Cond, elec jacks, shower $9000 ¡¡¡ 405-771-4371 '84 GMC Elk MH 24', 54k v8, gen. new tires $3,500 885-2572, 924-1430 '86 Chevy Honey 20' MH, rf air, good shape, $2500, 885-2572, 924-1430
'09 Heritage Softtail 5901 miles blue-silver $17,295 OKC Thundercycles.com 1-866-628-5065 '09 Softtail Custom FXSTC 5,136 miles cobalt/silver $15,495 OKC Thundercycles.com 1-866-628-5065
The Oklahoman runs free found ads as a community service. » Call 475-3000 » before 2 p.m. Monday through Friday to advertise the item you've found in the next day's edition and online on NewsOK.com .
Miniature Schnauzer, male, on Santa Fe Ave. Call to id 405-790-0145.
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'08 Heritage black 6667 miles $16,995 OKC Thundercycles.com 1-866-628-5065
Shih Tzu Puppies Tri Color, 7 Wks, 2F, 1M $125. 405-820-5089 Shih Tzu Puppies, 3F, 1M 9 wks, shots, dewclaws, $200ea., 405-664-3155
1980 Glastron 26ft, cabin cruiser, $15,000 Call for information. 863-2870
'06 Blk 8600 Miles Honda VTX 1800 $8,495
Baby Racoons 2F/1M, Baby Skunk 1F $200-$400 ¡¡ 405-226-5444 ¡¡ ¡¡ 405-627-5739 ¡¡
SHIH TZU 2 Females $225, 2 Males $175. 9wks Reg. s/w. 405-379-3553
1999 80X16 Summerset Twin Merc. 5.0, 90hrs 3b 2ba 2 showers, fully furn Stern thruster, like new 1 owner. $179,000 817-268-5489 817-307-1109 '86 Fish & Ski boat, new foot control Minkota Trolling motor, 70HP Evinrude motor, 17'. gd cond $2300 329-6118
Shih Tzu, 1M, beautiful little puppy, s/w, reg. $120. 405-380-5859
ShihTzu/Maltese born 5/15. very cute/adorable $200ea. 330-6930
'05 Suzuki C 90 Boulevard Windshield Bags $6,195.00 OKC Thundercycles.com 1-866-628-5065
Yorkie AKC, F, $500, small M $300-$400, 1st s/w, 399-9245, 659-5108
350 ADORABLE PETS AT FREE TO LIVE NEAR EDMOND. ALL DOGS & CATS Shts & neut $60. 282-8617 www.freetoliveok.org
Sheltie, AKC, 2M, 8 wks, sable/white, s/w/dc, hlth guar, small, top quality, $350-$400, 405-663-2421.
2005 HD Electra Glide Classic, 36,129 miles, black, lots of extras, $11,900. 405-514-7204
Yorkie-poos male yorkie-poos 6 weeks old with first set of shots and de-wormer $300. Call James at 405-269-6779
Schnauzer Mini AKC, E/T/DC/S&W, 1 S&P Fml $250 » 405-612-8998
SCHNAUZER PUPPIES ’’’’’’’’’’’’’’ ADORABLE MINIS S/W 1yr hlth grtd $275 Will Meet If Requested. pedestalpuppies.com ’ 580-220-5866 ’
Colt Officers 45, Series 80, polished stainless, $1300, 818-5584
2008 XL1200c 3500 miles silver $7,795 OKC Thundercycles.com 1-866-628-5065
POODLES TOYS AKC 4 male all colors! 12wks, $250-$400cash 833-0713
Schnauzers Mini AKC www.countrypups.com 2 male $200. 580-467-5742
Maltese, AKC, 9 wks, 1M, very playful, cute as a button, $250, 580-4211884 or 580-399-5255.
Lop ears, Lionheads & New Zealand White $15 »»» 348-7590 »»»
'08 FXDB St. Bob, pewter denim, lots of extras, 4553 miles $11,488. OKC Thundercycles.com 1-866-628-5065
2006 Harley Davidson Road King blue Silver Nice Clean $11,995 OKC Thundercycles.com 1-866-628-5065
Mal-Shih-ADORABLE! ITTY BITTY! $295 Visa/MC 405-826-4557
Maltese, AKC, 2 Female $350, 2 Male $275 9 wks, S/W ¡ 405-379-3553
Siberian Huskies » fullbld born May 22. Blk & Wht blue eyes $250 202-5387
Dutch & Lionheads ’’’ $20-$30 ’’’ 405-255-8152
POODLE Standard F spayed, 2yrs old. house dog $200 405-549-4397
Lhasa Apso/Shih Tzu, pups, 1M, 2F, tiny, 8 wks $175 each, 250-8266.
Maltese, ACA, 2M 3F $500-$800 ¡‘¡ 627-0419 diamondlkennel.com ok#17
Sib. Husky pups Born 6/1, male and female, many colors. $250 Robbie @ 405-370-0165
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WE NEED YOUR HELP! Seeking info from anyone who worked at Crowl Machine Oklahoma City, OK In the 1950s & 60s Please call toll free at: 877-857-2914 DuBose Law Firm, PLLC 5646 Milton Street, Suite 321 Dallas, TX 75206 Attorney Ben DuBose is responsible for this advertisement and is licensed in these states: TX, OK, PA
Toyota tundra and S&W, '01 Ext -Cab 4wd, v-8, camper, camo runs good Mod. 629 44mag ss 6in exc. cond $3000. 405-740-6104 Colt officer's ACP $600; Ruger MK III target, stainless, with scope, $500; Rossi older model .357, wood grips, $300; Marlin goose gun, 12 ga, $150; 405-808-2347. AMMO 700 rds of .50 cal Desert Eagle, 1000 rds of .223 Wolf, misc .50 call & 9mm mags, misc .45 ammo, $900, 590-2202. WE BUY GUNS Mustang Pawn & Gun Over 1,000 New/Used Guns Tue-Sat 9-6 376-GUNS S&W SS model 60, .357 mag revolver, 2K inch magna ported barrel, like new, $550, 405-634-6730. 6 Reg. GSH Pups, Dixieland Rusty bloodline $350 each Call Allan, 405-760-8748
JAN-PRO, the #1 fastest growing franchise in the world for 3yrs in a row, per Entrepreneur Magazine. Start your own business as low as $950dn 606-3300 COFFEEROUTE-MUSTSELL 27 Accounts, PT, EARNS $100K+. Call 866-287-0281
Pit Bull, white, deaf, but not a hindrance, friendly, non aggressive, 2 years, neutered, $25, 722-9384. Pit Bull Puppies Blue 8 weeks 1M/3F S/ W Pictures available $200-250 405-350-6410 Pit Bulls ADBA blue, 4M, 4F, 6 weeks old, POP, $1000 ea, 405-209-7943. Pointer mix 4 yrs, spayed F, shots, housebroken, perfect pet $25 722-9384 Pom AKC Puppys 3 females 2males in guthrie p.o.p. $350. 405-990-0157 POM PUPS ACA, 8wks. 2Fml s/w adorable & fluffy! $275 761-9460 Poodle, standard size puppy, black, 11 week old female, $350 firm, 202-6268. Poodle -Miniature Pups Excellent disposition and health. Cream and white, veterinary raised. Spayed, vaccinated and ready for a forever home! $750. 580-591-3145
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AIRE-MEN 1st lb freon free $59 SC¡A+ BBB accredited Co. #76029 Call 203-9713
Driveways, patios, steps, licen. bonded 424-5105 Marvin's all kinds concrete Free est, 885-4059, 605-0180
M&R Masonery Small Jobs, Large Jobs & Repairs, 405-819-7066
Cabinet Making Custom Cabinets, ref's, 38 years, 405-610-1988.
Rose Electric LLC Service Calls #087915 405-703-4556
SHARPE'S ELECTRIC & Heat & Air OKC 341-8488
Poodle-Toy 1 F toy poodle solid black $250. Robyn 887-1709 Poodle AKC, T-cup, Tiny Toy, Toy & Mini, vet ck'd, $200-$900 Lic.#1 275 -6527 POODLE AKC 1 white M $100. Chihuahua AKC M $100 405-756-3613
Carpet Clean $12rm Repr Stretch Install 882-4592
DIRT & GRIME? Don't Have The Time?Call A Fresh Start 326-4332
Lawn Service, Large/Small Andrew, 405-816-9207 Brshhog, boxblade, roto, $39/hr, 3hr min 227-3517
BUDDY'S PLUMBING, INC. Remodels; sewer water and gas lines; free estimates; Ok Lic #3887; 405-528-7733.
All Areas Lawn & Tractor Mow: big/small 348-4469 HOME IMPROVE. REPAIRS. REMODEL. ROOFING. FREE ESTIMATES. 410-2495 ¡ ANY PROJECT ¡ FREE EST. & WARR. INSURED OK EXPERTS ¡ 254-3000 Mr. Fixit Handyman Service. We do it all for less. Free est. Bond. Ins. Visa/MC 603-6104
Lawn Sprinklers
D&D TILE Honest, Reliable 28 years exp. 971-4492
BDO Services, LLC, lawn sprinkler systems, install or repair, 823-8105.
Leaky Showers, tubs, & Tile floors 33yrs 728-0545
BILLS PAINTING & HOME REPAIRS Free Estimates 759-2127
All Professional Tree Service. All Major Credit Cards Accepted. BIG Sr. Disc. 50 mile radiusProf'l Arborist 924-1430
JAMES'S PAINTING 30 Years Exp • Free Est 606-5135 or 737-4302
PRESTIGE FENCE CO. New & Repairs. Free Quotes. Senior & Military Discounts. 317-0474/821-5586.
RESIDNTIAL HAULING & CLEANING, 630-5484.
D&G FENCE - all types. Repair spclst. Guar lowest pr. Free est. 808-0523
BIG or Small, We Haul & Clean it All! ¡¡ 409-3681
Popcorn Ceiling Removal Texture and Painting (405) 833-6493
Painting¡Roofing Free Est. ¡¡ 812-1608 ¡¡
» GENE’S TREE SERVICE» Insured-Free Est. 682-2100. Prof Tree K off Sr's-free stump removal 314-1313 L & R Tree Serv, Low Prices, Insured, Free Est, 946-3369.
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