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COVERING OKLAHOMA SINCE 1907

More than 40% of state falls within worst drought ranking BY BRYAN PAINTER Staff Writer bpainter@opubco.com

The latest U.S. Drought Monitor report shows more than 40 percent of Oklahoma, including the entire western third of the

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state, is now considered to be in an exceptional drought — the worst category. Exceptional-to-extreme drought now covers 58 percent of the state, according to the report,

OTHER DEVELOPMENTS Water rationing Oklahoma City dropped mandatory water rationing Thursday but asked residents to continue to ration water voluntarily.

Burn ban Gov. Mary Fallin expanded the burn ban to cover 45 counties on Thursday. Several counties have enacted their own burn bans.

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COUPLE DIED ON DAY THEY WERE TO MOVE BY TIFFANY GIBSON Staff Writer tgibson@opubco.com

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Boyd Haynes and his wife, Doris Haynes, were spending one last night in the Oklahoma City home they had shared for 45 years when it was firebombed Wednesday morning, their son said. “They were inseparable,” the son, Terry Haynes, said. “It has to have been 40 years since they have not spent a night together.” Both died of smoke inhalation, the state medical examiner’s office reported Thursday. He was 87 and she was 86. Their son said his parents were scheduled to move into the Meadow Lake Retirement Center, an assisted living facility, at 10 a.m. Wednesday. They were asleep in their home at 7608 S Miller Blvd. at the time of the fire.

IN BRIEF DEBT TALKS CONTINUE Fragile signs emerged Thursday of a possible compromise to raise the nation’s debt limit — and avert a potentially catastrophic default. NATION, 6A

MALL OPENING APPROACHES Take a peek at the Outlet Shoppes, the new mall set to open in Oklahoma City on Aug. 5. It will have more than 80 stores and all the space has been leased.

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Terry Haynes holds a photo of his parents, Doris and Boyd Haynes, as he sits in one of the chairs his father made, at his home in Oklahoma City. Cherokee Ballard, spokeswoman for the Oklahoma medical examiner, said the Haynes’ deaths have been ruled homicides. The couple were found dead after their house was firebombed.

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[ PAGE 1B ] Oil giant ConocoPhillips said Thursday it will split into two companies: one that produces oil and another that refines it into gasoline and other fuels. Houston-based Co-

nocoPhillips employs about 3,000 people at its global support offices in Bartlesville. The company also has 750 workers at its Ponca City refinery. ROD WALTON, TULSA WORLD

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[ PAGE 11A ] Many local libraries are adding or expanding electronic media services that allow library cardholders to download electronic or audiobooks to their iPhones, iPads and many e-reader

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Shelter’s options for some dogs to expand The Central Oklahoma Humane Society and Oklahoma City’s Animal Welfare Division are partnering to build a quarantine facility that will help adoptable dogs stay healthy so they can be shipped out to states with shortages. STATE, 11A

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Michael Mccullough and his friends wait in line for the “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” premiere at Quail Springs Mall in Oklahoma City on Wednesday. PHOTO BY GARETT FISBECK, THE OKLAHOMAN

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Jenny Anick waits at Quail Springs Mall in Oklahoma City on Wednesday, dressed as a house elf for the premiere of the final Harry Potter film.

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“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2” debuted at the stroke of midnight, but Potter fans were lined up hours before. Kyle Hood and Michael Mead, 20-year-old students at Oklahoma Christian University, arrived at the AMC Theatre at Quail Springs Mall before anyone else. “We were here at 9 p.m. last night, but they kicked us out at 1 a.m., but we just hung out outside until 8 when the mall opened,” Hood said. “We think it’ll be worth it.” The film franchise that’s based off the books by JK Rowling has grossed more than $6 billion worldwide since the release of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” in 2001. “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” starring Danielle Radcliffe as Harry Potter, Emma Watson as Hermione Granger and Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley, is the eighth and final installment in the series. But Thursday night, Andy Vowell, 19, is Harry Potter, complete with his trademark round spectacles and lighting bolt scar. “It’s bittersweet, but I’m

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It’s bittersweet but I’m happy I got to dress up and come and watch this. I’m definitely sad it’s gonna be all over.” ANDY VOWELL 19-YEAR-OLD ‘HARRY POTTER’ FAN

happy I got to dress up and come and watch this,” Vowell said. “I’m definitely sad it’s gonna be all over.” “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” grossed $125 million on its opening weekend and grossed almost $300 million. Part 2 already has tallied a record of more than

$32 million in pre-sales and is expected to make more than $145 million in its opening weekend. Theaters around Oklahoma City have been providing fans with the chance to catch up on all the Potter movies this week, with several marathons showing every mo-

vie leading up to premiere of Part 2 at 12:01 a.m. The AMC Theatre at Quail Springs sold out all 24 theaters for the 12:01 a.m. showing and had to open up a 3:15 a.m. showing to accommodate the demand. Gina King, 28, dressed up as the Hogwarts Castle from the books and painted her face silver to match. King said she can’t believe this is the final installment of her favorite book and movie series. “We know the movie will be incredible, but I’m probably gonna cry the whole time, and silver will probably run down my face,” King said. “I just don’t want Harry Potter to ever end.”

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Teen tells police he didn’t set deadly fire BY NOLAN CLAY Staff Writer nclay@opubco.com

Above: This photo shows Boyd Haynes and Doris Haynes on their 50th wedding anniversary in 1993. PHOTO PROVIDED BY THE HAYNES FAMILY

Left: Terry Haynes pauses as he talks about his parents, Doris Haynes and Boyd Haynes, at his home in Oklahoma City. PHOTO BY NATE BILLINGS, THE OKLAHOMAN

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A neighbor, Tristan Ryan Owen, 15, was arrested Wednesday on complaints of murder and arson. He denied starting the fire but admitted to playing with firebombs in the area, police said. A man who identified himself as Owen’s grandfather, but declined to give his name, said the boy lives with him and his wife. Police have identified the grandfather as Bob Owen. “We love our grandson. We hope this turns out to be a mistake for him,” he said. “We’re real sorry about the tragedy that happened to the two elderly people.” Spokeswoman Cherokee Ballard said the medical examiner ruled their deaths homicides on Thursday.

Pair married in 1943 Terry Haynes said his parents met at a track meet in Oklahoma and were married in March 1943. Boyd Haynes, a World War II Army veteran, worked as a salesman for many years before he found a job with B&B Hearing Aid Services in Oklahoma City, Terry Haynes said. Soon after, Doris Haynes joined him at the company. Eventually, the couple bought the business. Terry Haynes said some of his most fond memories of his parents include family golf tournaments. He said the winners would receive a trophy with their names on it and get to keep it until the next tournament. He said he would usually team up with his mother to compete against his father and older brother, Danny, 62, who died four years ago of cancer. “My mother and I won seven times. My father and brother won six times, (and) we tied one year,” he said. “We absolutely had a ball.” Terry Haynes said he lived nearby his parents and received a telephone call from a neighbor Wednesday morning before rushing to the house.

There’s not a way in the world either of them could have gotten out of that house.” TERRY HAYNES

“We got in the car and got there,” he said. “Smoke was billowing out of the north side of the house and garage.” His parents were pronounced dead at the scene. Doris Haynes suffered from spinal stenosis and was using a walker. Even then it was difficult for her to leave the house, Terry Haynes said. He said his father was mobile until recently when he came down with severe bursitis of the knee, causing him also to use a walker. “There’s not a way in the world either of them could have gotten out of that house,” he said. Before the fire, Doris Haynes’ health continued to give her problems. Terry Haynes said he tried to talk to his mother about an assisted living facility, but she refused to leave his father. “My mother was one of the most kind, gentlest person that God ever put on earth,” he said. “My father was a true patriarch of the family. If anybody in the family or a friend needed moral or financial support, he was there.” Services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the First Southern Baptist Church. They are survived by six grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren.

A suspect in a deadly Oklahoma City fire denied starting it but admitted to making firebombs out of whiskey bottles, police reported. Tristan Ryan Owen, 15, also admitted to setting his pajamas and a plastic trash container on fire outside his house, a police detective wrote in a court affidavit. Owen was arrested Wednesday morning. He is suspected in the smoke inhalation deaths of an elderly couple whose house was intentionally set on fire. The couple lived at 7608 S Miller Blvd., records show. Police reported finding two busted glass bottles used to make firebombs. One was in the street and one was in front of the driveway of the boy’s home. Owen was questioned

Tristan Owen 15-year-old was arrested on murder and arson complaints Wednesday.

by police Wednesday because neighbors reported seeking him outside his home at the time of the fire. He lives with a grandfather nearby. “During the interview, Tristan admitted to taking two whiskey bottles from a friend’s home earlier in the evening and, upon arriving … home, taking paper

towels from inside of his house and making Molotov cocktails out of the whiskey bottles,” police detective Ryan Porter wrote in a court affidavit. “Tristan admitted to lighting and throwing the Molotov cocktails into the street but advised they did not ignite. Tristan advised he also set a pair of his pajamas on fire on the west side of his house and admitted to burning the trash cans located in the same area,” the detective wrote. “Tristan denied setting the fire at 7608 S Miller but had no explanation as to how the fire occurred.” The victims were found inside a bedroom, according to the affidavit. The fire that engulfed their home started outside along the overhead garage door near several wooden chairs located in the driveway next to trash cans.

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Fallin expands ban on outdoor burning BY MICHAEL MCNUTT Capitol Bureau mmcnutt@opubco.com

Outdoor burning is banned in most of the state under an executive order issued Thursday by Gov. Mary Fallin. The burn ban covers 45 counties in western and south central Oklahoma, including Oklahoma County, as drought conditions continue to worsen across the state. Burn bans issued by county commissioners remain in effect in counties not covered by the gover-

nor’s proclamation. Unlawful activities under the ban include campfires; bonfires; setting fire to any forest, grass, woods, wild lands or marshes; igniting fireworks; and burning trash or other materials outdoors. Exemptions include welding and road construction activities. Violators can face a $1,000 fine, up to a year in jail, or both.

Fire conditions worsen “The number of wildfires we have had over the last few months is ex-

tremely tough on our state firefighters,” Fallin said. “It’s a drain on their resources as well as a physical drain. Anything that can be done to minimize fires will help to keep both our firefighters and the public safe. I’m asking all Oklahomans to be vigilant and to do their part in preventing fires.” Counties in the governor’s burn ban are: Alfalfa, Beaver, Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cimarron, Cleveland, Coal, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield, Garvin, Grady,

Grant, Greer, Harmon, Harper, Hughes, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnston, Kingfisher, Kiowa, Logan, Love, Major, Marshall, McClain, Murray, Oklahoma, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Roger Mills, Seminole, Stephens, Texas, Tillman, Washita, Woods and Woodward. Extreme fire conditions are increasing as dry, hot conditions continue in the state, according to the governor’s press office. With no significant rainfall predicted, more counties may be added to the burn ban.

Burn ban Governor’s burn ban County burn bans SOURCE: OKLAHOMA FORESTRY SERVICES

Oklahoma Forestry Services, a division of the state Agriculture, Food and Forestry Department, recommended the ban,

partially based on an analysis of fire activity and predictions that the drought in most of the state will continue.

PRAYERS FOR RAIN SOUGHT

Kyler Kreder, 11, from Bartlesville cools Bull Truck the horse down with cold water on Thursday at the International Finals Youth Rodeo in Shawnee. PHOTO BY ZACH GRAY, THE OKLAHOMAN

Drought: City record for triple-digit days is 50 FROM PAGE 1A

AT A GLANCE

U.S. DROUGHT MONITOR

Below are the drought severity classifications and the possible impacts of each, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor: Abnormally dry I Going into drought: Short-term dryness slows planting, growth of crops or pastures. I Coming out of drought: Some lingering water deficits; pastures or crops not fully recovered. Moderate drought I Some damage to crops, pastures. I Streams, reservoirs or wells low, some water shortages developing or imminent. I Voluntary water-use restrictions requested. Severe drought I Crop or pasture losses likely. I Water shortages common. I Water restrictions imposed. Extreme drought I Major crop/pasture losses. I Widespread water shortages or restrictions. Exceptional drought I Exceptional and widespread crop/pasture losses I Shortages of water in reservoirs, streams and wells, creating water emergencies.

which was released Thursday. That’s up 14 percent from the previous week. Plus, extreme and severe drought will continue an eastward march as the heat withers vegetation and dissipates the remaining soil moisture, said Gary McManus of the Oklahoma Climatological Survey. A wandering tropical system has given some areas of Oklahoma a brief interlude from the dry weather over the past couple of days. The U.S. Drought Monitor is based on conditions as of the Tuesday before the report is released. In looking at the exceptional drought area, only four stations in the Oklahoma Mesonet weather network have received even a half-inch of rain in the past three days: Kenton with 1.71 inches, Camargo with 0.84 inches, Alva with 0.79 inches and Hinton with 0.66 inches. Will Rogers World Airport received 2.91 inches of rain in a downburst Tuesday that limited the high temperature at 98 degrees in Oklahoma City that day. “The trouble with the rains, however, is that the hefty amounts were very localized,” McManus said. “That is customary for summer storms that are

City suspends mandatory rationing but asks people to conserve water FROM STAFF REPORTS

Oklahoma City officials have suspended the mandatory water rationing program that required city water customers to alternate days they water their lawns. The severe drought in the area prompted officials to restrict water use Monday, but they suspended the program Thursday. Residents and businesses with even-numbered addresses were required to water only on even-

numbered calendar days, with the same applying to odd-numbered addresses and days. Residents at the edges of Oklahoma City’s water system were experiencing low water pressure during peak demand hours,

prompting the rationing mandate. Recent rain allowed officials to rescind the order. City officials encourage utility customers to continue to honor the system voluntarily as the drought wears on.

The trouble with the rains, however, is that the hefty amounts were very localized. That is customary for summer storms that are working with little upper-air support.” GARY MCMANUS OKLAHOMA CLIMATALOGICAL SOCIETY

With no forecast of rain in sight, Gov. Mary Fallin suggests Oklahomans seek help from a higher power. The governor on Thursday asked Oklahomans to set aside time Sunday to pray for rain. Dry conditions have contributed to more than 140 wildfires this year, resulting in the loss of dozens of homes, according to the governor’s office. “I encourage Oklahomans of all faiths to join me this Sunday in offering their prayers for rain,” Fallin said. “For the safety of our firefighters and our communities and the well-being of our crops and livestock, this state needs the current drought to come to an end. The power of prayer is a wonderful thing, and I would ask every Oklahoman to look to a greater power this weekend and ask for rain.” State Agriculture Secretary Jim Reese said he appreciated the governor’s call for prayer. “Farmers across the state are really suffering under these conditions,” he said. “I’m glad the governor is issuing this call to prayer, and I hope it helps deliver the rain we need soon.” MICHAEL MCNUTT, CAPITOL BUREAU

working with little upperair support. They form and sit still for the most part, dumping their rain in a hurry before dissipating. With luck, more storms form along the outflow boundaries that result, which is what we saw on Tuesday and Wednesday.” The temperature at the airport returned to triple digits Wednesday and Thursday. High temperatures at or above 100 degrees are in the forecast for Oklahoma City through at least next Wednesday. Oklahoma City has reached triple-digit temperatures 24 times in 2011.

The record for 100-degree temperatures in Oklahoma City is 50 days, set in 1980. Going into Friday, the Oklahoma Mesonet has had a station reach at least 100 degrees on 57 days this year.

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Minnesota shutdown may be nearing end BY MARTIGA LOHN AND CHRIS WILLIAMS Associated Press

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton and top Republicans struck a deal Thursday to end a budget impasse that prompted state government to shut down, with the Democratic governor giving up on raising taxes. The agreement came after a three-hour negotiating session that followed Dayton’s announcement of his offer earlier in the day. If details are worked out and approved by state legislators, it would end the shutdown over how to resolve a $5 billion deficit that has lasted two weeks. Dayton said the government would be back in business “very soon,” but didn’t say exactly when.

The two sides agreed on a proposal that would raise $1.4 billion in new revenue, half by delaying state aid checks to school districts and the other half by selling tobacco payment bonds. It was a big sacrifice by Dayton, who had made new income taxes a central plank in his campaign last year and the centerpiece of his budget. Republicans said they agreed to drop a list of policy changes and a plan to cut the state workforce by 15 percent.

Difficult bargaining “It was about making sure that we get a deal that we can all be disappointed in, but a deal that is done, a budget that was balanced, a state that was back to work,” said Republican House Speaker Kurt Zell-

State Republican has plans to seek Boren’s position BY CHRIS CASTEEL Washington Bureau ccasteel@opubco.com

WASHINGTON — Oklahoma state Rep. George Faught, a Muskogee Republican, announced Thursday he would run for the congressional seat being vacated by Rep. Dan Boren. Faught is the second Republican to jump into the race. Markwayne Mullin, also of Muskogee, has established a campaign committee. Former state lawmaker Wayne Pettigrew, a Republican of Edmond, has said he is considering the race, though he doesn’t live in the district, which includes 26 counties in eastern Oklahoma. On the Democratic side, former state Sen. Kenneth Corn, of Poteau, is considering the race. Boren, of Muskogee, is the only Democrat in the state congressional delegation; he announced last month that he would not

George Faught, candidate for the 2nd District.

run for re-election next year. Voter registration in the 2nd District is overwhelmingly Democrat. Faught, 49, who owns a carpet cleaning business with his wife, is serving his third term in the Oklahoma House. “I have always enjoyed strong bipartisan support,” Faught said. “Regardless of party affiliation, Oklahomans are conservative and deserve conservative representation. They want God-honoring, antiabortion, pro-gun, Constitution-supporting elected officials.”

Giuliani won’t reject running for president BY STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press

HAMPTON, N.H. — Rudy Giuliani isn’t convinced that any of the declared Republican presidential contenders can defeat President Barack Obama. Until he is, Giuliani says he won’t rule out a run of his own. “These are a lot of qualified people,” the former New York City mayor told The Associated Press on the eve of his fourth visit to New Hampshire this year. “Do they have a good chance of winning? I don’t know the answer to that.” Giuliani, who acknowledges that his failed 2008 campaign was deeply flawed, had five public appearances scheduled during a two-day visit starting Thursday to the first-inthe-nation primary state. The stops included a luncheon with the Seacoast Federation of Republican Women in Portsmouth, a more intimate gathering at a private New Castle home with law enforcement officials and a gun-rights discussion at Manchester Harley Davidson. It may sound like a candidate’s schedule, but Giuliani backed away from an aide’s recent comment that he would decide “very soon” whether to join the presidential field. He ruled out any decision before the end of July and said his timeline is late August or early September. He said he still has the drive to extend his political career. “I have a tremendous

fire for more public service,” Giuliani, 67, said. Still, he doesn’t sound eager to be considered even a potential candidate. “I certainly haven’t decided to get in. I don’t think I would even describe myself as testing the waters. I’d say that I keep it open as a possibility,” he said, adding he was going to New Hampshire at the invitation of local Republicans. “And it will give me a chance to gather more information and get a better feeling for it.” He told reporters Thursday that it’s not too late to join the race. He predicted that two or three more candidates probably will enter.

ers, who appeared with Dayton and Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch after the private meeting. The glum looks on their faces testified to a hard bargain. “Nobody is going to be happy with this, which is the essence of real compromise,” Dayton said. The date of a special legislative session to pass a budget and end the shutdown has not been set. Some terms of the deal still need to be filled in. The shutdown has idled 22,000 state employees, closed state parks and rest stops and cut off funding to many social services. It has cost the state millions in the cost of preparing for the shutdown and in lost revenue since then. The interruption has also prevented entrepreneurs and professionals

from getting state licenses. The latest licensing snag threatens to stop the sale of Miller, Coors and other popular beers in the state within days. Payments by the state to schools and local governments have continued. A court has taken some pressure off by restarting the flow of cash to programs ranging from child care assistance to home meal services for the elderly.

Exhausted governor The governor sounded weary earlier Thursday when he announced he would embrace the GOP proposal, which was offered on the eve of the shutdown. The deal is contingent on approval by the Legislature, no easy task after an election in which a more

Gov. Mark Dayton gets down on a knee Thursday to talk to Mark Siegel, a state employee and blogger, after Dayton appeared at the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey School and said he would seek a budget deal with GOP leaders. A deal to end the shutdown was reached Thursday night. AP PHOTO

conservative Republican caucus took power. Koch and Zellers said they believed rank-and-file legislators would approve it.

Republicans hold narrow margins in both chambers, and Democratic minority leaders weren’t in on the deal-making.

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Compromise considered in debt limit stalemate BY DAVID ESPO AND ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press

WASHINGTON — With time growing short and warnings more dire, the first, fragile signs emerged Thursday of a possible compromise to raise the nation’s debt limit and avert a potentially catastrophic default on Aug. 2. Under a plan discussed by the Senate’s top two leaders, President Barack Obama would receive enhanced authority to raise the debt limit at the same time procedures are set in motion that could lead to federal spending cuts. Word that Majority Leader Harry Reid, DNev., and Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky were at work on the fallback plan came as Obama and congressional leaders met for a fifth straight day in debt-crisis talks at the White House. McConnell called the session a good one: “We’re going to continue to discuss a way forward over the next couple of days and see what happens.”

A White House official said congressional leaders would consult with rankand-file members on spending cuts and tax increases proposed by one side or the other, and negotiators would probably meet during the weekend. The day’s events were shadowed by warnings from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and JPMorgan Chase CEO Jaime Dimon. Speaking separately, the two men admonished lawmakers that a default could have a devastating effect on the U.S. economy. It was unclear when McConnell and Reid might unveil their legislation, or whether they would first present their ideas to Obama and others involved in the daily meetings. McConnell said the plans had not been discussed at Thursday’s White House session. One option discussed by the Senate leaders is creation of a group of lawmakers who could recommend spending cuts, possibly including changes in

National 9/11 flag to get repairs House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., touches the 9/11 flag Thursday during a stitching ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington. Congressional leaders, 9/11 families, military veterans, first responders, 9/11 community leaders and national service leaders will join to stitch the National 9/11 Flag, a damaged 30by-20-foot American flag recovered from Ground Zero. AP PHOTO

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CONTROVERSIAL CLASS NOW LAW President Barack Obama sits with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia. AP PHOTO

benefit programs, for a guaranteed yes-or-no vote in Congress. Another would be to couple any presidential request for a debt increase with spending cuts. The seriousness of the situation was underscored throughout the day. Testifying before a Senate panel, Bernanke said a default would deal a “selfinflicted wound” to the economy, driving up interest rates and slowing re-

covery from the recession. Dimon, speaking to reporters in New York, said default could prove catastrophic. “Why take that chance? I wouldn’t take that chance,” he said. Whatever choice is made, time is running out. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner met privately with Senate Democrats, emerging to say: “We have no way to give Congress more time to solve this problem.”

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Jerry Brown signed a

bill Thursday making California the first state in the nation to add lessons about gays and lesbians to social studies classes in public schools. Brown, a Democrat, signed the landmark bill requiring public schools to include the contributions of people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender in social studies curriculum. CRIME

ANTIQUITIES DEALERS CHARGED NEW YORK — Federal authorities have charged a group of antiquities dealers and collectors in connection with what they said was an organized criminal ring smuggling artifacts including ancient coins and a sarcophagus into the country. An indictment unsealed Thursday in federal court in Brooklyn alleged the men smuggled articles into the country from October 2008 through November 2009.

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Ford mourned in homecoming At a time when “a lethal silence enveloped the subject of breast cancer like a London fog,” Ford spoke openly of her own mastectomy and became a face of recovery, not disease, Smith said. After leaving the White House, she did the same with drug and alcohol addiction.

BY KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN AND TIM MARTIN Associated Press

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — With a military honor guard carrying her casket, Betty Ford returned Thursday to the church where she and her husband, the late President Gerald R. Ford, married more than 60 years ago, a wedding that launched the unassuming Michigan couple on an unexpected path to the White House. The former first lady’s children were joined for the final memorial service by prominent political figures and hundreds of mourners from the Fords’ hometown of Grand Rapids. Outside Grace Episcopal Church, mourners stood in hushed silence as nine pallbearers removed her casket from a hearse while softly counting out military cadence. Inside, at the podium, son Steven Ford described the family’s bond, referring to them as a naval fleet. “Dad was the aircraft carrier. I know that,” he said. “If Mom was in our fleet, which she was, she was the hospital ship. She was the one there with the love and the comfort.” “She just knew how to love,” he added. “We felt

Rejoins her ‘boyfriend’

Jack Ford, front left, with his wife Julianne, and Michael Ford, with his wife Gayle, right, leave Thursday at the end of the funeral for former first lady Betty Ford at Grace Episcopal Church in Grand Rapids, Mich. AP PHOTO

her love long before her spotlight came … And then the world got to see her love.” Historian Richard Norton Smith praised Ford’s uncommon candor about breast cancer and substance abuse and her outspoken support for women’s rights. “More than a liberated woman, Betty Ford was a

great liberator” he said. She “liberated us all from the crippling limits of labels.” Ford, he added, “was the feminist next door — a free spirit with a dress code.” “Millions who never met her felt they knew Betty Ford,” Smith said. “They identified with her struggles.”

Atlantis’ crew deals with glitch BY MARCIA DUNN Associated Press

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The shuttle astronauts have dealt with another computer problem aboard Atlantis. After the astronauts went to bed Thursday afternoon, Mission Control woke them up because of a computer failure in one of the shuttle’s five main computers. The crew switched to a backup computer in less than an hour. Another computer had gone offline on Sunday and was back working by Monday. NASA says the astronauts will troubleshoot the latest computer problem on Friday. Earlier, the astronauts got some time off to savor their historic experience. “This is one of the first

days we’ve been able to take a deep breath and appreciate what we’re doing up here,” said space shuttle Atlantis’ commander, Christopher Ferguson. Until Thursday, the workload in orbit was so intense that the four astronauts had only fleeting moments of realizing “wow, this is really it,” astronaut Rex Walheim said in a series of interviews. “But boy, it’s going to hit when we land and wheels stop,” he added. Mission Control allotted plenty of time Thursday for the 10 astronauts aboard the linked Atlantis and International Space Station to linger over the “all-American meal” of grilled chicken and barbecued beef brisket that was packed for them, complete with baked beans and Hostess apple pie.

Atlantis first rocketed into orbit in 1985. This is its 33rd flight and the 135th shuttle mission overall. Atlantis will join Discovery and Endeavour in retirement, following its landing next week. The space shuttle delivered nearly 5 tons of food, clothes and other household goods in a giant canister to the space station — an entire year’s worth of supplies. NASA wants the orbiting lab well stocked in case private companies fall behind in their effort to take over shuttle supply runs. Three of the space station crew, meanwhile, marked their 100th day in space Thursday: Garan and Russians Andrey Borisenko and Alexander Samokutyaev. They will remain on board until September.

In recent years, as Ford became more ill, she asked her children, “When are you going to let me go and be with my boyfriend?” Smith said. She got her wish July 8 when she died at 93. A short time after Thursday’s service, she was buried next to her husband at his presidential museum, on what would have been his 98th birthday. “Our sorrow is exceeded by our joy, for we know that the story of Elizabeth Bloomer Ford does not end in a Grand Rapids hillside,” Smith said. “Betty Ford is where she wants to be — reunited with the love of her life and radiant in the glory of her ultimate homecoming.” Also in attendance were former first lady Barbara Bush, former President Bill Clinton and Dick Cheney, who was President Ford’s chief of staff, and Cheney’s wife, Lynne.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Supporters from as far away as

Canada have sent money to Casey Anthony’s jailhouse commissary account since she was acquitted of killing her 2-year-old daughter. Records released Thursday show Anthony’s account has gone from around $264 just before the jury verdict last week to more than $470. Casey was convicted last week on four counts of lying to authorities in connection with the disappearance of her daughter. She is to be released from custody on Sunday.

EXPLOSIVES BRING SOLDIER’S ARREST YUMA, Ariz. — Authorities say a U.S. Army private is in custody after trying to bring a small amount of explosives on board a United Airlines flight from Arizona to Los Angeles. U.S. Attorney’s spokesman Robbie Sherwood says 19-year-old Pfc. Christopher Eric Wey was detained Wednesday after Transportation Security Administration screeners at the airport in Yuma found about a quarter-ounce of military explosives in his bags.

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SIX CHURCHES TO BE SHUTTERED BOSTON — The head of the Archdiocese of Boston has paved the way to sell six churches, including three where parishioners have been holding protest vigils since their parishes were closed in 2004. The decision by Cardinal Sean O’Malley, announced Thursday after several weeks of “consultation, reflection and prayer,” means the churches are no longer holy places, but secular buildings. FROM WIRE SERVICES

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Terror likely to continue, officials in India caution BY NIRMALA GEORGE Associated Press

MUMBAI, India — The triple bombing that killed 17 in the heart of India’s financial capital sparked anger Thursday over the government’s inability to prevent terror strikes despite overhauling security forces after the 2008 Mumbai siege. Indian officials say they have made extraordinary security reforms since 10 Pakistani terrorists rampaged across the city nearly three years ago, but following Wednesday’s attack they warned they may never be able to guarantee a terror-free nation in a region plagued by extremism. “We live in the most troubled neighborhood in the world,” said Indian Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram, pointing to nearby Pakistan and Afghanistan. “Every part of India is vulnerable.” No terror group claimed responsibility — and investigators had no immediate suspects — in the

bombings that shook three separate neighborhoods within minutes during Wednesday’s evening rush. Chidambaram said the government had no intelligence warning. “Whoever has perpetrated this attack has worked in a very, very clandestine manner,” he said. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was expected to visit Mumbai later Thursday. “Why is Mumbai being attacked again?” said a frustrated Uttam Jain, who works in a gold shop in the Jhaveri Bazaar jewelry market that was hit by one of the blasts. Jain said he was “disgusted with politicians who promise security, but do nothing after the media cameras are gone.” The bombings marked the worst terror attack in India since the 2008 siege, which killed 166 people over three days. After that attack, the government expanded police recruiting and training, bought high-tech

A protester, wearing a mask in the likeness of Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera, points an umbrella at the camera Thursday during a protest by students in Santiago, Chile. High school and university students have been protesting for days to press for demands including free public transit passes and better quality education. AP PHOTO

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U.S. AIR STRIKE TARGETS MILITANTS SANAA, Yemen — A U.S. air strike on a Yemeni po-

lice station overrun by Islamic militants killed at least six fighters Thursday, a Yemeni security official said. A five-month-old popular uprising has led to a security breakdown throughout Yemen. AMERICAS

EX-MILITARY OFFICIALS CONVICTED Vipin Soni mourns during the cremation of his brother Pankaj Soni, a victim of a bomb blast Thursday in Mumbai, India. No terror group has claimed responsibility for the triple bombings that killed 17 people in India’s financial capital. AP PHOTO

equipment and updated its ancient police arsenal. It established a National Investigation Agency to probe terror attacks and

Libyan leader threatens to blow up capital city Associated Press

TRIPOLI, Libya — Libya on Thursday barred Italy, one of the country’s largest investors, from its oil sector because of Rome’s role in the NATO air strikes on the country, a move that raised serious questions about investments by Italian oil giant ENI SpA in the OPEC member state. In Moscow, meanwhile, a Russian newspaper quoted the Kremlin’s special envoy to Libya as saying Moammar Gadhafi has threatened to blow up Tripoli if the Libyan capital falls into rebel hands. Mikhail Margelov told Izvestia newspaper that Libyan

Prime Minister AlBaghdadi al-Mahmoudi recently told him, “If the rebels seize the city, we will deluge it with missiles and blow it up.” “I presume that the Gadhafi regime has a suicidal plan of this kind,” Margelov told Izvestia. The Canadian general commanding NATO’s mission in Libya said Gadhafi is telling his forces to destroy facilities — including fuel refineries — as they retreat.

Troops disobedient? The troops are not necessarily carrying out the order, Lt. Gen. Charles Bouchard said Thursday. “Let’s be clear, just be-

cause Gadhafi has given a direction, it does not mean that direction is being undertaken by his own troops,” he told reporters in a conference call from Naples, Italy. The civil war in Libya appears to have hit a stalemate, despite a protracted NATO bombing campaign against Gadhafi-loyal forces under a U.N. mandate on protecting civilians. Wednesday, NATO reported carrying out 50 strikes, including raids against missile launchers near Tripoli. Rebels control eastern Libya and pockets in the west, while Gadhafi is holding on to Tripoli and large stretches in the west.

Mubarak denies responsibility for nearly 900 protester deaths BY HAMZA HENDAWI Associated Press

CAIRO — Ousted President Hosni Mubarak has denied any responsibility for his security forces killing nearly 900 protesters during Egypt’s uprising, according to a transcript of his interrogation published Thursday. Asked to explain the killings, Mubarak dismissed the lethal crackdown by saying: “Our people and our security are like that.” Mubarak, 83, is in custody in an Egyptian hospital. He faces charges of ordering the use of deadly force against demonstrators during the 18-day re-

volt that swept him from power in February. He has rarely been heard from since, and the transcript offers the public his most extensive comments yet about the final days of his three-decade rule. Judicial officials confirmed to The Associated Press that the transcript is authentic. They spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject. Mubarak’s chief defense lawyer, Farid el-Deeb, told the AP that part of what was published had been fabricated but declined to elaborate. The transcript was leaked amid a new wave of

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — An Argentine court has convicted two former military officers of murder, kidnapping and torture at one of the most notorious prisons run by the country’s former dictatorship. The court has sentenced the two to life in prison.

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set up commando bases across the country so rapid reaction forces could swiftly arrive at the scene of an attack. In this photo taken on a government-organized tour, women rest Thursday during a rally in the town of Ajaylat, roughly 50 miles west of Tripoli, Libya. In Moscow, the Russian newspaper Izvestia quoted the Kremlin’s special envoy to Libya, Mikhail Margelov, as saying Moammar Gadhafi has threatened to blow up Tripoli if the Libyan capital falls into rebel hands. AP PHOTO

BY PAUL SCHEMM

Chilean students seek change

protests across the country, one of them a weekold sit-in in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, where protesters camped night and day for almost the entire uprising. Justice for the uprising’s victims is among the hottest issues in Egypt’s bumpy transition to democracy. And the protesters camping out in Tahrir are demanding that those behind the killings be swiftly tried. They accuse the military generals who took over from Mubarak of stalling on the prosecutions. Mubarak comes across in the transcript as aloof and totally out of touch with the fury his regime created.

AUSTEN NOVEL SELLS FOR $1.6M LONDON — The earliest surviving manuscript for a novel by English writer Jane Austen (1775-1817) was sold for $1.6 million at auction in London Thursday, auction house Sotheby’s said. The heavily corrected manuscript of “The Watsons,” probably dating to 1804, had been estimated to fetch a maximum of $485,000. FROM WIRE SERVICES

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OPINION OUR VIEWS | CROSSTOWN EXPRESSWAY COULD BE AFFECTED

Cuts to highway funding would cost state dearly T has certainly outlived its useful and bridge building and repair plan, Rilife.” dley told his commissioners this week. Gary Ridley, head of the OklaHe added: “When you talk about those homa Department of Transportation, said kind of numbers, everything is at risk.” that about the elevated portion of InterThat includes the Crosstown Exstate 40 that crosses through Oklahoma pressway. The longer it takes to comCity. The remark came six years ago, after plete that badly needed new stretch of rumblings in Washington, D.C., threathighway, the longer motorists will have ened to affect funding of the new I-40 Construction on new to endure the current, and often danCrosstown Expressway Crosstown Expressway. gerous, I-40 Crosstown, which carries There have been other potential roadblocks to com- nearly 50,000 more vehicles per day than it was depletion of the new Crosstown Expressway, which offi- signed to handle. A delay in completion of the new cials once hoped would be finished by 2010 and now has Crosstown Expressway would mean a delay in building a target date of next year. One such hiccup occurred in the downtown boulevard, and perhaps push back the 2008, when a shortage of Federal Highway Trust Funds downtown park and the new convention center. resulted in a delay in bidding out a contract for some of Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., who heads the Senate’s the Crosstown’s grading and surfacing work. “Grim Environment and Public Works Committee, has pronews. It’s not good,” Ridley said then. posed a two-year plan that would keep spending levels And now there is more such news, in the form of a static. But Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Tulsa, a committee memproposal in Washington to significantly reduce highway ber who has played an important role in transportation spending. The chairman of the U.S. House Transporta- funding issues through the years, has said he is pessition and Infrastructure Committee wants to spend mistic the Senate will be able to produce a plan that about 20 percent less on the next six-year authorization avoids cuts. bill than was spent in the 2005 bill. Inhofe has asked Ridley to speak before the commitWhen federal stimulus money is removed from the tee next week about how important federal highway equation, the proposed bill would reduce federal trans- dollars are to the states. Ridley is no stranger to conportation spending by about one-third. For Oklahoma gressional committees; he’s passionate about his work, that would mean a cut of about $200 million per year in and no doubt will give lawmakers plenty to think about. federal funds. But given the push to cut federal spending, exacerbated That, in turn, would make it nearly impossible for the by the nation’s debt crisis, it may be wishful thinking to state to stay on track with its current eight-year road believe this threat will be averted.

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Gas pump: Capital fund created to boost fuel’s role

Cashing in: Subsidy program deserves the blame

Aubrey McClendon is putting his money where his mantra is, staking $1 billion to increase the share of natural gas in the vehicle fuels market, as well as fostering other alternative energy ideas. McClendon, CEO of Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corp., wants to use the money for a venture capital fund to help move the U.S. in a direction McClendon has supported for years. Chesapeake will put up at least 1 percent of its exploration capital expenditures budget for projects involving compressed natural gas and other products. First target of Chesapeake NG Ventures Corp. is a $300 million investment in two “green energy” ventures, including a T. Boone Pickens initiative to build liquefied natural gas fueling stations for big trucks. If Pickens is the circuit-riding evangelist for alternative energy, particularly natural gas, McClendon is the campus pastor. His long insistence on shifting more power generation from coal to gas is motivated by Chesapeake’s self-styled description as “America’s Champion of Natural Gas.” Pickens and McClendon have been championing gas as a cleaner (and more American) vehicle fuel than gasoline and diesel. The effort will focus on more than natural gas, though: Chesapeake NG Ventures Corp. plans an immediate investment in a company involved with biofuels production. McClendon joins other luminaries using the tools of capitalism to boost alternative energy and technology. This is an exciting development that could benefit not only Chesapeake, which is taking all the risk, but the city and state in which it’s based.

News that Oklahoma legislators, including some who have criticized government spending, have benefited nicely from Uncle Sam’s farm subsidy program came as no great surprise. For one thing, who wouldn’t take such handouts if they were available? And as the Tulsa World reported, the U.S. Department of Agriculture subsidies are given every year to about 85,000 Oklahoma farmers and businesses. So the chances are good that at least a few of those Oklahomans might be public officials. The real problem, as we have said many times on this page through the years, is the subsidy program itself. The “Freedom to Farm” legislation of 1996 sought to phase out the subsidies, but that never happened. As a result, millions in taxpayer money continues to go each year to many who don’t need the help. The World noted that Gov. Mary Fallin’s husband, Wade Christensen, has received nearly $2 million in subsidies since 1995. Christensen is a lawyer by trade and has done quite well. His family has farmed wheat in western Oklahoma for years. At least Christensen has farming ties. Many of the subsidies distributed across the country each year go to folks who wouldn’t know a combine from a brush hog. There have been efforts through the years to cap subsidy payments based on income, but they have generally fallen on deaf ears in Congress. The House Republican budget passed in April would dramatically scale back farm subsidies, and President Barack Obama is proposing cuts too. We’ll see.

Michele Bachmann says she wants to end things that are ‘vulgar and a detriment to society.’ She’s talking about me, right?” DAVID LETTERMAN “LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN”

Republicans should call Obama’s bluff WASHINGTON — President Obama is demanding a big long-term budget deal. He won’t sign anything less, he warns, asking, “If not now, when?” How about last December, when he ignored his own debt commission’s recommendations? How about February, when he presented a budget that increases debt by $10 trillion over the next decade? How about April, when he sought a debt-ceiling increase with zero debt reduction attached? All of a sudden he’s a born-again budget balancer prepared to bravely take on his own party by making deep cuts in entitlements. Really? Name one. Say it, Mr. President. Give us one single structural change in entitlements. In public. As part of the pose as the forward-looking grown-up rising above all the others who play politics, Obama insists upon a longterm deal. And what Charles is Obama’s definition Krauthammer of long-term? Surprise: an agreement that gets him past Nov. 6, 2012. Nothing could be COMMENTARY more political. Yet the Olympian above-the-fray no-politicshere pose is succeeding. A pliant press swallows the White House story line: the great compromiser (“clearly exasperated,” sympathized a Washington Post news story) being stymied by Republican “intransigence” (the noun actually used in another front-page Post news story to describe the Republican position on taxes). The meme having been established, Republicans have been neatly set up to take the fall if a deal is not reached by Aug. 2. Obama is already waving the red flag, warning ominously that Social Security, disabled veterans’ benefits, “critical” medical research, food inspection — without which agriculture shuts down — are in jeopardy. The Republicans are being totally outmaneuvered. The House speaker appears disoriented. It’s time to act. Time to call Obama’s bluff. A long-term deal or nothing? The Republican House should immediately pass a short-term debt-ceiling hike of $500 billion containing $500 billion in budget cuts. That would give us about five months to work on something larger. The fat-cat tax breaks (those corporate jets) that Obama’s talking points endlessly recycle? Republicans should call for urgent negotiations on tax reform along the lines of Simpson-Bowles that, in one option, strips out annually $1.1 trillion of deductions, credits and loopholes while lowering tax rates across the board to a top rate of 23 percent. Will the Democratic Senate or the Democratic president refuse this offer and allow the country to default — with all the cataclysmic consequences that the Democrats have been warning about for months — because Obama insists on a deal that is 10 months and seven days longer? That’s indefensible and transparently self-serving. Dare the president to make that case. Dare him to veto — or the Democratic Senate to block — a short-term debt-limit increase. This is certainly better than the McConnell plan, which would simply throw debt reduction back to the president. But if the House cannot do Plan A, McConnell is the fallback Plan B.

Ask the voters After all, by what crazy calculation should Republicans allow themselves to be blamed for a debt crisis that could destabilize the economy and even precipitate a double-dip recession? Right now, Obama owns the economy and its 9.2 percent unemployment, 1.9 percent GDP growth and exploding debt about which he’s done nothing. Why bail him out by sharing ownership? You cannot govern this country from one house. Republicans should have learned that from the 1995-96 Gingrich-Clinton fight when the GOP controlled both houses and still lost. If conservatives really want to get the nation’s spending under control, the only way is to win the presidency. Put the question to the country and let the people decide. To seriously jeopardize the election now in pursuit of a long-term smallgovernment Ryan-like reform that is inherently unreachable without control of the White House may be good for the soul. But it could very well wreck the cause. WASHINGTON POST WRITERS GROUP

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POINT OF VIEW | PROBLEM, SOLUTION ARE CLEAR

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Balanced budget amendment needed BY REP. JAMES LANKFORD

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No matter where I go, the primary issue people discuss with me is our national debt. Honestly, I cannot blame them. When I arrived in Congress six months ago, I was concerned about our national debt. Now it has become my obsession. Our total debt has surpassed our gross domestic product. To pay off our debt in one year would require every American to give every dollar earned to the government over the entire year. It clearly shows Washington doesn’t have a tax problem; it has a spending problem. The problem and the solution are obvious. Spending cuts can be raised or ignored. Spending caps can be “uncapped” by a future Congress. The long-term solution for our national fiscal crisis lies in the document that started our republic, the Constitution. It has been the legislative parent that has kept the congressional child in check for more than 200 years. It is time to finally pass a balanced budget amendment to the Rep. James Constitution. Lankford The Constitution is not a Democrat or Republican document; it is an American document. This time of divided government is the perfect opportunity for both parties to compose the language of the amendment and then set the fiscal fence around every future Congress. In the 1980s, a balanced budget amendment passed the Senate but failed in the House. In 1996, it passed the House but failed in the Senate by one vote. If that amendment would have passed in 1996, I believe we would not be dealing with our national debt crisis today. We cannot repeat the mistakes of the past. A balanced budget amendment should include:

As the House votes next week on a balanced budget amendment, this is our opportunity to seize the moment, set a path to pay off our debt, and create a brighter future for our children and grandchildren. First, a delayed start. It should not go into effect for at least five years after ratification in order to give Congress time to prepare. Balancing the budget in one year would mean deep and immediate cuts that would be difficult for most Americans to tolerate. Second, we must achieve a balanced budget by taking away Congress’ favorite pastime: spending other people’s money. I believe the option to raise taxes should have a higher standard that forces Congress to respect taxpayer dollars first. Every tax hike should require a supermajority of Congress. Finally, we need an exemption during times of war or national emergency. It is vital that our military has the proper funding to protect our nation and our government has the resources it needs to take care of our citizens during a catastrophe. However, the standard for declaring an emergency cannot be so low that Congress declares an “emergency du jour” every year and runs up new deficit spending. While we face the issue of raising the debt ceiling once again, we must remember the real problem — our debt. This Congress was elected to provide solutions. As the House votes next week on a balanced budget amendment, this is our opportunity to seize the moment, set a path to pay off our debt, and create a brighter future for our children and grandchildren. Lankford, R-Oklahoma City, represents Oklahoma District 5 in the U.S. House.

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‘DREAM TEAM’

If Congress passes the Gun Show Background Check Act of 2011, it will become more difficult for illegal transactions to take place at gun shows. The bill increases penalties for record-keeping violations and for violations of criminal background check requirements. Getting a weapon at a gun show is pretty easy compared with buying one at a gun store. The loose requirements have made these events attractive for criminals to find the types and amounts of guns they want. However, with the background-check bill in place, accountability would have to increase because the federal government would be given the power to show up unannounced and inspect inventory and procedures. An element of surprise would keep everyone involved in organizing the gun shows and selling the merchandise honest, which in turn would help keep some of the illegal weapons out of the hands of criminals. I’m not anti-gun. I own several. However, I am against making anything easy for criminals. This bill would play a part in being proactive in preventing crimes. Dwight Johnson, Midwest City

I want to commend Gov. Mary Fallin for her skillful leadership of our state and particularly for her support of transportation. I see firsthand the pivotal role transportation plays in the economic health of Oklahoma. Our citizens are well-served by Fallin, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe and U.S. Rep. James Lankford, who understand what the investment in transportation means to improved public safety and good-paying jobs for Oklahoma workers. Add to the mix U.S. Rep. Tom Cole on the House Appropriations Committee and the support of the citizens of Oklahoma and we have a “Dream Team.” Like the five magical players who took the U.S. to basketball excellence in 1992, we’re ready to continue our progress as a state leading the way in transportation. The Oklahoma Department of Transportation is celebrating its centennial: from gravel roads in 1911 to leading the way in planning and executing a long-ranging eight-year construction work plan, we’re well-served by our leaders who understand that keeping transportation strong keeps Oklahoma strong — and on the move. Bobby Stem, Oklahoma City

THE LIBERAL MANTRA

Democrats are complaining about the $13,260 for security on Gov. Mary Fallin’s trip to Ireland trip. Several years ago, I recall reading that the Oklahoma Highway Patrol drove Democratic Gov. Brad Henry’s children to school in Shawnee and back to Oklahoma City five days a week, nine months a year. I called Henry’s office to verify this. I don’t know how many years this went on, but it can be easily estimated that vehicle and manpower expenses probably exceeded $13,260. Then there were the Henrys’ numerous vacations that were even more costly. Of course this happens with Democrats and Republicans. Joe Ralls, Moore

Neill Chaffin (Your Views, July 10) repeated the liberal mantra of “It’s Bush’s fault” that we’ve been hearing for years. Liberals never let the facts get in the way of worshipping their “messiah.” While it’s true that President George W. Bush was a big-spending, big-government Republican, there was economic growth and low unemployment during his two terms. Two years of unchecked liberal socialism has failed. In 2010, voters took action to stop the reckless spending and government growth. It remains to be seen if Republicans have the spine to do their job. I challenge Chaffin to name one area of American life that’s improved under President Barack Obama — not counting the record numbers of food stamp recipients and people who are forced to rely on the federal government to support their families. When does Obama become accountable? 2012? 2014? Or will it be “Bush’s fault” for eternity? Is a debt of $1.6 trillion fiscally responsible? Why not let unneeded public employees buy products and pay taxes in private-sector jobs instead of forcing taxpayers to provide funding for things the government was never intended to do? Stephen Butler, Oklahoma City

Stem is executive director of the Oklahoma Association of General Contractors.

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FREE THE INNOCENT I believe Casey Anthony is guilty of killing her daughter. I believe she will suffer plenty outside of prison. However, my heart goes out to the people who are in prison serving time for something they did not do. Oklahoma has had several people who have served over 20 percent of their lives in prison before being exonerated of their crimes. Serving time for something you didn’t do is worse than setting someone free for something they did do. Lynn Snow, Ada

Food for thought on immigration SAN DIEGO — When I was in college, my roommate from New York City — aware that I had grown up in the farmlands of central California — asked me a simple question: “What time of year do workers pick the raisins?” After I stopped laughing, I had to explain to the city slicker that you don’t actually pick raisins. You pick grapes, and then lay them out in the sun to make raisins. The story reminds me just how far Americans have gotten away from the farm and anything connected to it. Summer means harvest for many crops, and so it’s a good time to visit with someone whose job it is to promote farming — and, in the public debate, prevent the spread of fertilizer. Eric Larson is executive director of the Benjamin Reynosa of Orange Cove, San Diego County Farm Bureau. I asked Calif., picks grapes in this photo from him how most Americans became so September 2010. AP PHOTO disconnected from the realities of life on illegal immigrants. the farm. “I don’t care how high unemployment “We’re a victim of our own success,” gets,” Larson said. “People do not show Larson said. “We go to the store and up at the farms. They just will not do it. there’s always food there. So we take it … We’ve got massive unemployment. for granted that someone grew it so we We have a shortage of farm workers can buy it. And as time goes on, we right now, and the gap is think less and less about not being filled.” the person who grew it.” Larson is convinced Even in a nation that got Ruben many farms will shut its start as an agrarian Navarrette down if Rep. Lamar Smith, society, and where the R-Texas, and other GOP agricultural industry genhard-liners require all erates more than $280 employers to use the fedbillion a year in trade and eral E-Verify system, economic activity, someCOMMENTARY which works better in thing happens when peotheory than in practice. It ple move off the farm and informs employers if a Social Security into the city: We forget how tough and number belongs to someone out there; it specialized farm work really is, and we just doesn’t tell them if it belongs to the begin to believe that anyone can do it. Not true. Getting fruits and vegetables person who presented it. “The farm community has no probout of the fields and into our kitchens lem with E-Verify,” Larson said. “We takes a lot of care, effort and skill. And would welcome it but only after we have for the industry, it takes a reliance on what many in agribusiness now candidly a program that gives us access to guest workers or workers on a pathway to admit is the labor of illegal immigrants. permanent residency or citizenship.” “We’re quite certain that more than In response to lobbying from agricul50 percent of our workers are using ture, Smith has softened his hard line forged or illegally procured documents,” and amended his legislation to give the Larson said. industry three years to screen all new Many farmers used to be in denial hires to make sure they can work legally about this fact. Some still are. in the United States. But when the three Larson is not shy about expressing years are up, agribusiness will be back in support for comprehensive immigration the same spot it is now — hungry for a reform, his frustration with Americans comprehensive solution to the immigrawho think farms could survive without illegal immigrants, or anger at politicians tion problem. Without one, Larson warned, there who squeeze farmers for campaign conwill be trouble ahead. tributions then refuse to address their “If we don’t like being dependent on labor needs. foreign oil,” he said, “just wait until One of his pet peeves is when people we’re dependent on foreign food.” who don’t know the first thing about Not an appetizing thought. farming claim that Americans would WASHINGTON POST WRITERS GROUP gladly do the farm work now done by

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Clinics treating soldiers on front line BY KRISTIN M. HALL Associated Press

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — The traumatic

brain injury that Army Staff Sgt. Isidoro Castillo suffered when a suicide bomber attacked his unit in Afghanistan could have meant the end of his deployment. Instead, Castillo’s doctors handled his injury without sending him back to the United States, part of a military effort to better treat and track brain injuries that have become a signature affliction of the war. Castillo, originally from Fayetteville, N.C., described the bombing days later while he was recovering in a new specialized housing unit for soldiers being treated for brain injuries. “He was in my peripheral vision. I heard a pop and I hit the ground and the explosion went off,” Castillo said. Five soldiers from his 18-member mentoring team were killed in April at an outpost in the eastern province of Nangarhar. The Army has had to rethink the way it deals with traumatic brain injury in Afghanistan and Iraq because U.S. soldiers often are targeted by roadside or suicide bombs. Not treating the sometimes hardto-spot injury can lead to

IN BRIEF INCREASE SEEN IN FATALITIES KABUL, Afghanistan —

The number of Afghan civilians killed in war-related violence rose 15 percent in the first half of this year, according to a U.N. report released Thursday that offered grim statistics about the human toll of increased fighting. Violence has been on the rise as the Taliban and other insurgents try to regain territory lost in the fall and winter to the U.S.-led coalition in southern Afghanistan. In a midyear report, the U.N. said 1,462 Afghan civilians lost their lives in the crossfire of the battle between Taliban insurgents and Afghan, U.S. and NATO forces. During the first half of last year, 1,271 civilians were killed.

SERVICE HIT BY BOMBER KABUL, Afghanistan —

A suicide bomber struck a Kandahar mosque where a memorial service was being held Thursday for the assassinated halfbrother of President Hamid Karzai. The attack killed at least four people and could mark the start of a violent power struggle in the wake of Ahmed Wali Karzai’s death. The dead included a prominent cleric and a child, and 15 other people were injured.

INQUIRY IS SET FOR IRAQ WAR LONDON — A former British intelligence official said the country’s spy agency cut corners while collecting evidence to back the government’s case for the war in Iraq. The ex-spy said his agency, MI6, validated intelligence that was later withdrawn after sources were deemed unreliable. He said MI6 was “probably too eager to please” the government and was guilty of “flying a bit too close to the sun.” FROM WIRE SERVICES

physical and emotional problems that linger long after the soldier returns home.

A growing concern Medical evacuations from combat zones for traumatic brain injury have been growing, from 194 in 2008 to 303 in 2010, according to statistics provided to The Associated Press from the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center. Last year, the military implemented a strict policy on treating and tracking soldiers with concussions. Medical officers in Afghanistan say the new approach, which required opening seven new rehabilitation centers called Level II clinics throughout Afghanistan, is allowing more soldiers to go back to their units rather than be evacuated for treatment. Soldiers who are sent home for treatment generally don’t come back. Castillo was treated under the new guidelines. After diagnosis in the field, he was sent to the rehabilitation clinic the 101st Airborne Division set up at Bagram Air Field for about a week before returning to his unit. On the hot and dusty military base, Castillo had his own room in a cool, quiet housing unit near the hospital, where he could watch movies on a flat-

screen TV, play video games or toss a volleyball around on the sandy court outside. Medical crews use leisure activities combined with military fitness tests, such as running with body armor or maneuvering around obstacles, to determine whether the soldier is fit to return to duty. Castillo and other soldier patients meet daily with doctors and have dedicated occupational therapists who monitor symptoms like concentration, balance, headaches and dizziness. The care they are receiving in Afghanistan is similar to programs at military hospitals in the U.S. “It makes you feel like the stress is gone,” Castillo said. “You have nothing to think about but how am I going to get better, what’s my next appointment. They just let you breathe.”

Returning to duty Clinics that opened last year in eastern Afghanistan returned about 1,000 soldiers to their units, said Maj. Kevin Ridderhoff, the pharmacist for the 101st Airborne Division who oversaw the program during the division’s deployment. Ridderhoff said about 97 percent of soldiers who were referred to a Level II clinic were returned to duty after an average three-day stay. “A big thing is eight hours of uninterrupted

Pfc. Kyle Kinmartin, Staff Sgt. Isidoro Castillo and Spc. Matthew Wright, from left, talk about their injuries while recovering at a traumatic brain injury center at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. AP PHOTO

rest. Sleep is the goal,” Ridderhoff said. “With concussion, most of these guys get better. That’s a good thing.” One of the final assessments is a military performance test. The soldiers don their body armor, go on a road march or a run, maneuver around obstacles, jump in and out of vehicles — all normal activities for active duty. If a soldier is able to complete them without problems, the occupational therapist can recommend a return to their unit. The 101st Airborne Divi-

sion has been at the forefront of the new care regimen for concussion. It trained all unit medics on symptoms and brought

the occupational therapists to Fort Campbell, Ky., for additional training before opening the Afghanistan clinics.

Folk festival begins Gerry Mochan and his wife, Margaret, shop Thursday at The Brick Street Cafe in Okemah during the first full day of the Woody Guthrie Festival. The couple traveled from Ireland to attend the 14th annual festival. PHOTO BY ADAM KEMP, THE OKLAHOMAN

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Two teens shot in burglary BY BRYAN DEAN AND ROBERT MEDLEY Staff Writers

Two teenagers arrested on burglary complaints were unarmed when they were shot by a homeowner, police said Thursday. Michael Orlando Gulley, 54, said he was inside a home in the 200 block of NW 87 that had been

burglarized earlier Wednesday night when two teenagers tried to break into the home, and he opened fire. The boys were hit and they, along with a third teen who stayed outside, ran away, police said. One of the teens, identified by police as Kristen Franklin, 15, collapsed in the 200 block of NW 85. The other wounded boy, Anthony

Ricks, who turns 17 on Friday, ran to a house a block away, where he was arrested by police, Master Sgt. Gary Knight said. Olajuwon Hopgood, 16, who was not injured, also was arrested at the house where Ricks was found. Knight said police suspect Hopgood was with Ricks and Franklin when they tried to break into the house. All three teens

were arrested on multiple burglary complaints. Another boy who investigators think participated in the first burglary is wanted by police, Knight said. “We know who he is; we just don’t have him in custody,” Knight said. SEE SHOT, PAGE 12A

E-book QUARANTINE BUILDING TO HELP service PUPS FIND HOMES ELSEWHERE has no late fees BY DARLA SLIPKE Staff Writer dslipke@opubco.com

It didn’t matter that the library was closed Sunday night when Lanie James wanted to borrow her next book. James, dressed in her pajamas, downloaded several electronic books to her iPad using an application called the OverDrive Media Console. Many local libraries, including the 17 libraries that make up the Metropolitan Library System, are adding and expanding electronic book services. Those services essentially create a virtual library, which allows users to access books on the go, any time of day. “It’s wonderfully convenient,” said James, 35, of Oklahoma City.

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CHECKPOINT IS PLANNED The Cleveland County sheriff’s office will conduct a sobriety checkpoint Saturday and Sunday. Between 25 and 30 deputies will be assigned to look for and arrest anyone driving under the influence. When stopped, motorists should have their driver’s license and insurance verification ready to show the deputy. The checkpoint program is funded by a grant from the Oklahoma Highway Safety Office. The grant pays for manpower and the purchase of equipment. FROM STAFF REPORTS

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Phone downloads Electronic media services are among the library system’s fastest-growing services, said library spokeswoman Kim Terry. Every day, new users join. Every month, the library system adds new books, including many popular titles. About seven months ago, the library system added a service that allows library card holders to download books to their iPhone, iPad or Android phone. Last month, the library system had nearly 23,000 audio and electronic book checkouts, which is higher than the total monthly circulation for some libraries within the system. Total systemwide circulation for June, including electronic media checkouts, was about 638,000. The library system has more than 10,000 electronic books and more than 9,000 Windows Media Audio or MP3 downloadable audio books. Electronic books from the library are not downloadable to Kindle devices, but they will be by the end of the year, Terry said. Guests of the Metropolitan Library System can choose to borrow electronic books for seven or 14 days, Terry said. At the end of the lending period, the book disappears from their device and goes back into

The deadline to register to vote in Aug. 9 special elections is Friday. To be eligible, a voter must be a U.S. citizen, a resident of Oklahoma and be at least 18. Applications received after Friday will still be processed, but voters will not receive their voter identification cards before the special election, officials said. A GOP primary for a special election for Senate District 43 in Oklahoma and Cleveland counties is among the elections Aug. 9. Voters in Piedmont and Midwest City also will go to the polls. For more information, contact your county election board. A list of offices is online at www. ok.gov/elections, or call the state election board at 5212391.

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A puppy awaits adoption Thursday at the Oklahoma City animal shelter. A new program could help more puppies and dogs find homes in other states, because Oklahoma City has too many. PHOTOS BY JIM BECKEL, THE OKLAHOMAN

ADOPTION | PARTNERSHIP HOPES TO SUPPLY AREAS WHERE PETS ARE IN SHORT SUPPLY BY MICHAEL KIMBALL Staff Writer mkimball@opubco.com

Oklahoma City has too many dogs and puppies, but a public-private partnership is working to find them homes in cities with too few. The city’s Animal Welfare Division and the Central Oklahoma Humane Society have a plan to save some of the more than 14,000 dogs and puppies surrendered by their local owners each year. They hope to find homes in other states for 1,800 of them with the help of a new quarantine building under construction at the city’s animal shelter.

— Missouri doctors and hospitals will face new restrictions and penalties for performing late-term abortions after Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat, announced Thursday that he would let legislation backed by anti-abortion groups take effect without his signature. The law is part of a trend among states to limit abortions past the point when a fetus may be able to live outside the womb. The proposal leaves it to doctors to determine viability on a case-by-case basis, unlike laws in several other states that bar most abortions after 20 weeks. The new law is effective Aug. 28. ASSOCIATED PRESS

Assuring health

A visitor looks over dogs Thursday at the Oklahoma City animal welfare center, SE 29 and Bryant.

The city animal shelter takes in far too many of the dogs and puppies to be adopted by local residents, Animal Welfare Division Manager Catherine English said. Keeping some adoptable animals in the quarantine facility for two weeks will give them a clean bill of health, a key first step in programs that truck the dogs to faraway states where people are on waiting lists for shelter pups.

Christy Counts, director of the local humane society, credits mature antioverpopulation programs and local rules for keeping the pet population under control in other areas. Until that happens in Oklahoma City, officials want to save pets’ lives by sending them to available homes no matter where. SEE ADOPTION, PAGE 12A

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Autopsy shows heart stab killed girl BY SHEILA STOGSDILL State Correspondent

WATONGA — A Watonga girl whose body was found in a field suffered a fatal stab wound to the heart, according to an autopsy report released Thursday. The report from the state medical examiner’s office shows that Rosalin Renee Reynolds, 8, had eight stab wounds, including the fatal 4-inch wound that went through her heart and also punctured her liver.

Rosalin was found dead March 23 by her father, Ralph Reynolds, behind an apartment complex where the family lived. The autopsy report calls the death a homicide. Rosalin’s parents, Reynolds and Erma Daukei, said shortly after the slaying that they believed their daughter had been sexually assaulted. The child was found with her blood-soaked blue nightgown pulled up and bloodstained panties on her upper right leg, the

Rosalin Reynolds

report states. Daukei said she received the autopsy report on Thursday and briefly

looked at the 17-page document, but the facts were too much for her to take in. “It’s pretty bad,” she said. Reynolds did not return telephone calls Thursday. The report states Rosalin suffered stab wounds to the neck and shoulder area, on her left forearm and both hands. The wounds on her hands were consistent with a victim in a defensive position, the report shows. James “Icey” Daukei Jr., 21, is charged with first-

degree murder in connection with the death. James Daukei is Erma Daukei’s cousin. He had spent the previous night at the family’s apartment and ran from the scene after Rosalin’s body was found about 5 a.m. The body was found near a shallow grave police said James Daukei dug. Police arrested him later that morning. Erma Daukei said earlier that she returned to the apartment about 4 a.m. that day to find a 10-inch kitchen knife covered in

blood in the bathroom sink. Josh Lee, Daukei’s attorney, did not return telephone calls Thursday. District Attorney Mike Fields did not return telephone calls, but earlier said he hadn’t made a decision on whether he would seek the death penalty against James Daukei. James Daukei is being held in jail without bail and is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Aug. 15 at Blaine County District Court.

Olajuwon Hopgood Arrested in burglary.

Shot: Police arrest 3 suspects FROM PAGE 11A

Ricks and Franklin were taken to a hospital to be treated for their wounds, which were not expected to be life-threatening, police said. Gulley, who was not arrested, told police he and his girlfriend were returning to the home about 8:20 p.m. Wednesday when they saw several teenagers running away and could hear the home’s burglar alarm going off. He reported two televisions and some shoes were missing. Gulley’s girlfriend later left, and Gulley told police he was alone in the house about 10:30 p.m. when teenagers removed burglar bars and kicked in the door. That’s when he opened fire, Knight said. Knight said police don’t know whether the boys were inside or outside the house when they were shot. Oklahoma’s “Stand Your Ground” law allows a homeowner or guest to use deadly force to protect himself or prevent “the commission of a forcible felony.” It will be left to the district attorney to decide whether the shooting was justified, Knight said.

Dirt work is visible in the background where Oklahoma City is building a new quarantine facility on the grounds of the animal welfare center near SE 29 and Bryant. PHOTOS BY JIM BECKEL, THE OKLAHOMAN

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“There are a lot of people in other parts of the country who want to adopt pets, and they can’t get enough puppies and dogs in their doors (at adoption facilities),” Counts said. Adoptable, healthy dogs and puppies will go immediately into quarantine without mingling with the population at the shelter and risk being exposed to infections and disease.

Minimizing risk Animals that aren’t adopted in two weeks will be confirmed to be in good health before being trucked to other communities.

Humane society workers will staff the quarantine facility with little crossover with the city’s animal shelter staff.

More information Visit www.okhumane.org for information on the program. For resources on pets, visit our “know it: Pets” page online at knowit.NewsOK.com/pets.

“That should minimize disease transmission and keep things organized and calm,” English said. The plan is to find partner organizations in other states when the building is complete and send truckloads of healthy pets to faraway homes twice a month. Private donors and local charitable foundations have funded

construction of the building, which will be operated by the Central Oklahoma Humane Society on land at the shelter it leases from the city. Only a few of the most experienced and trained volunteers will be needed at the facility, so the best way to help is to donate to the humane society, Counts said.

E-books: Virtual library offers over 10,000 book titles FROM PAGE 11A

the online circulation, so there are no late fees. Many popular books have a waiting list because libraries have rights to a limited number of electronic copies, Terry said. James said the service has saved her time and money. She would have to spend $8 to $15 to buy many of the electronic books she has been able to download for free from the library. So far, every book she has wanted to check out from the library has been available in an electronic format, James said.

Consortium formed Many other local libraries are teaming up to start or expand electronic media offerings. Eleven libraries in the state have formed a consortium called the Oklahoma Virtual Library. They share more than 1,600 electronic book titles. A $100,000 grant from the state Libraries Department will allow the libraries to more than triple their number of ebooks during the next couple months, said Scott Freeman, adult services li-

brarian at the Stillwater Public Library. Electronic books have allowed libraries to offer around-the-clock services, Freeman said. “It’s a great supplement to what we offer on the shelves,” he said. Seven additional libraries plan to join the consortium this summer, including the Mabel C. Fry Public Library in Yukon. The service will greatly expand the resources available to guests, said Librarian Sara Schieman. It will also save library staff time they would otherwise spend processing and cataloging the materials, Schieman said. “Our patrons are overjoyed,” she said. “A lot of people want to buy the reader, but don’t want to buy the books.”

Recent restriction A recent restriction made by one popular publishing company could change some libraries’ ability to offer certain ebooks. Libraries that purchase e-books typically are allowed to lend the book an unlimited number of times like they do for hard copies

Lanie James reads an electronic book on her iPad on Thursday in Oklahoma City.

of books. Beginning in March, however, HarperCollins Publishers created a new regulation that restricts libraries’ lending abilities. E-books that libraries purchased from Harper-

Collins after the new limit took effect can be loaned just 26 times before the book license expires. Libraries must then purchase a new license if they want to continue lending the book.

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More than 69,000 people, including Freeman, have signed a petition asking HarperCollins to revise its policy. The Stillwater library has decided not to order any new HarperCollins e-books because the

cost of buying multiple licenses is too high, Freeman said. He estimated the library would easily meet the 26loan limit for many popular books within six months.

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Inmate visited Parker, witness says BY TIM TALLEY The Associated Press

MANGUM — A convicted killer walked into the home of a prison’s deputy warden without knocking just weeks before the warden’s wife allegedly helped the inmate escape, a former Oklahoma prison counselor testified Thursday at the woman’s trial. Retired counselor Kathy Kardokus said she was at the home of Bobbi Parker when inmate Randolph Dial entered and got ice. “I didn’t think he should

be coming in the house, at least without knocking,” Kardokus said. She said she asked Parker if Dial did that often, and Parker said yes. Prosecutors say Parker, 49, fell in love with Dial and helped him escape the Oklahoma State Reformatory on Aug. 30, 1994. Parker’s husband, Randy Parker, was deputy warden of the prison in Granite at the time. Kardokus also testified that she saw Bobbi Parker and Dial sitting together on the porch of the Parker

home inside the prison grounds. “They were sitting on the porch swing talking; I couldn’t hear what they were saying,” she said. Bobbi Parker has said she was kidnapped and held hostage by Dial for more than a decade until they were found living at a chicken ranch in Campti, Texas, in April 2005. She has pleaded not guilty to the felony charge and faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted. Parker’s defense attorney, Garvin Isaacs, later

questioned Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation agent Robert Williams for the second consecutive day. He asked Williams if Dial’s mental health was considered during the investigation of the case. Williams testified that he knew nothing about Dial’s mental health background, other than a report he received from the FBI. Isaacs showed him a 1979 report by Dr. Edward Norfleet that described Dial as “an extremely so-

ciopathic fellow.” Isaacs showed Williams another report from 1991 by a psychologist’s assistant at the Dick Conner Correctional Institute, where Dial was incarcerated at the time. The report by Kevin Smith said Dial had “an anti-social personality” and “an extreme talent for manipulation.” Smith’s report said Dial would seek out women, and “once he feels he has their trust, he begins to scheme.” Dial was serving a life

Moore physician assistant accused of sexual misconduct

sentence for first-degree murder in the 1981 slaying of a karate instructor in Tulsa County. He managed to obtain minimumsecurity status at the prison and authorities say he befriended Parker while she ran a prison pottery program. Dial pleaded guilty to escaping from prison and maintained until his death in 2007 at the age 62 that he kidnapped the warden’s wife at knifepoint, forced her to drive him from the prison and held her hostage.

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STATE MEDICAL BOARD | MAN ACCUSED OF KISSING PATIENT SURRENDERS LICENSE TO AVOID HEARING BY RANDY ELLIS Staff Writer rellis@opubco.com

A 69-year-old Moore physician assistant accused of kissing a 22-yearold patient on the lips and offering to give her a “full body oil massage” voluntarily surrendered his medical license Thursday rather than face a state medical board disciplinary hearing. The alleged Feb. 5 actions of physician assistant William Davis Joachim prompted the woman to run out of the office in hysterics, members of the Oklahoma State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision were told. The woman was one of Joachim’s patients but on that particular day had come to his office so her children could get immunizations, the complaint said. Joachim also made a sexually explicit comment to the woman and asked her if he could pay her to “do something sexual” to him — an offer the woman refused, the complaint said. When investigators questioned Joachim, he told them he hugged the patient and their lips “might have brushed” in

the process, the complaint said. He later admitted he had given her a quick kiss on the lips and claimed it was like “kissing his mother,” the complaint said, adding that Joachim claimed he had asked the woman if she had someone who could give her a hot oil massage.

Assault case The board also heard several other cases Thursday. In the most dramatic moment of the day, Holdenville emergency room director Thomas Randall Todd may have hurt his chance for board leniency when he got into a loud argument with his attorney in the hallway after board members voted to continue until September the completion of a disciplinary hearing where one of the issues was the doctor’s ability to control his anger. Todd appeared before the board after being jailed for three months on a sixmonth sentence for domestic assault and battery in the presence of a minor child in Tulsa County. The complaint stemmed from a January 2008 incident with Todd’s ex-girlfriend and their daughter. According to the complaint, when the ex-girl-

friend came to his house to pick up their daughter, the daughter tried to leave, but Todd “knocked his daughter to the ground twice before she was able to escape.” Todd also “punched his ex-girlfriend in the face with his fist, and when she tried to get away, he knocked her head into the car door,” the complaint said. Todd admitted he previously had failed to report to the licensing board that he had been arrested and pleaded guilty to operating a boat while intoxicated. Todd told the board he had undergone counseling and anger management training and now has joint custody of his daughter, although he and his exgirlfriend don’t speak to each other. Todd said he would be willing to participate in a program established for drug and alcohol addicts even though there had been no determination that he was an addict. Assistant Attorney General Elizabeth Scott attempted to get permission for a representative of a physician treatment program to speak about the case, but Todd’s attorney successfully argued that shouldn’t be allowed because her client hadn’t re-

Transportation funding bill receives another challenge BY MICHAEL MCNUTT Capitol Bureau mmcnutt@opubco.com

The Oklahoma Supreme Court is being asked — for the second time in a month — to decide whether a bill dealing with state highway and bridge money is constitutional. A legal challenge was filed Thursday with the high court contesting a bill that deals with future appropriations to the state Transportation Department as well as transferring $101.7 million to be spent on other purposes this fiscal year. Jerry Fent, an Oklahoma City attorney, said in his lawsuit that the measure violates the state constitution’s “one subject matter” rule. He said the issues should have been handled in separate bills. Fent is asking for the court to act quickly because the legislation, Senate Bill 976, takes effect in late August. A hearing before a high court referee is scheduled for Aug. 17.

Future increases The measure increases the amount of money that automatically is placed into a Transportation Department fund from $30 million to $35.7 million a year, effective July 1, 2012. That amount would increase to $41.7 million, effective July 1, 2013.

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The measure also increased the cap from $400 million to $435 million that can be spent on the agency on top of its $200 million base. The state Transportation Department is set to receive about $450 million in state funds this fiscal year, a spokeswoman said.

$101.7M transfer The bill also authorizes the transfer of $101.7 million in state fuel tax revenue from the Transportation Department to the state treasurer’s office so it can be spent elsewhere, on agencies not involved in road and bridge construction and maintenance this fiscal year. “We have two constitutional violations in one bill that has two subject matters,” Fent said. “A fundamental constitutional law is being violated, and it should be corrected.” The $101.7 million is the same money Fent questioned whether legislators legally could divert for other purposes, according to a lawsuit he filed last month with the high court — the lawsuit that the

court later declined for consideration.

Shuffling finances Before adjourning in May, legislators approved diverting $101.7 million from the Transportation Fund to help deal with a $500 million budget hole and balance the state’s $6.5 billion budget for this fiscal year. Lawmakers also approved a $70 million transportation bond issue to help make up the loss of funds so that the agency would be able to maintain its eight-year road and bridge construction and maintenance plan. Terri Angier, a Transportation Department spokeswoman, said the agency had no comment on the lawsuit.

Not a surprise Angier said the Transportation Department was kept aware of the changes that the Legislature was making to its budget because of the revenue shortfall, as well as efforts to make up for lost funds over the years to ensure projects in its long-range plans would not be placed in jeopardy. “We plan to continue to work with the eight-year plan,” she said. “I don’t know what the outcome of this will be and, frankly, it’s a court case that has to get argued before all the things are vetted.”

ceived adequate notice. Board members then voted to continue the hearing until September so they could hear more complete testimony. The loud argument in the hallway between Todd and his attorney followed.

In other action On Thursday the board also: I Handed Midwest City Dr. Karis Bernhardt Steele a three-month license suspension and placed her on five years probation after she admitted to abusing crack cocaine and OxyContin and suffering relapses after entering drug rehabilitation programs. Steele told board members she has been off drugs since Dec. 18 and believes she is now on the right path to recovery. Steele will be required to undergo random drug tests and participate in a physician’s recovery program. I Accepted the voluntary surrender of the license of physician assistant Suzanne Self, who was arrested in February 2009 for conspiracy to obtain methamphetamine after the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control intercepted a call between her and a known drug dealer and

followed up with an investigation. Self is serving three years probation under a September 2010 deferred prosecution agreement. The medical board had previously placed Self on probation for two years beginning in 2007 for writing numerous prescriptions for controlled dangerous substances to friends without having examined the patients or documented the prescriptions. Self had been employed by the Choctaw Nation Health Clinic in Hugo. I Fined Lawton physician assistant Sallee Fern LaFave $2,500 for writing prescriptions to herself for the controlled drugs alprazolam and zolpidem using pre-signed prescriptions left at the office by her supervising physician. She told a board investigator the supervising doctor had agreed to continue refilling prescriptions a previous supervisor had given her, and she wrongfully assumed that she could use pre-signed prescriptions the new supervisor had left around for staff. LaFave also admitted she had written prescriptions for a friend for the controlled substance phentermine without recording the transaction.

IN BRIEF COURT TO CONSIDER REMOVING JUDGE An elected judge accused of keeping pornographic movies on his state computer is facing removal from the bench. Harper County Associate District Judge G. Wayne Olmstead, 63, faces an ouster trial in September before the Court on the Judiciary. The judge was indicted by a state grand jury in May. He was charged in the indictment with 19 felony counts of downloading obscene materials. The criminal case is pending. On Monday, in a separate legal action, the Oklahoma Supreme Court’s chief justice asked the Court on the Judiciary to remove him from office. A total of 57 pornographic movies were found to have been stored on Olmstead’s state-issued computer after the misconduct was discovered in March, Chief Justice Steven Taylor wrote. Olmstead admitted he had probably deleted several other downloaded videos before his computer was removed, the chief justice wrote. NOLAN CLAY, STAFF WRITER

ALSO ... MAN ARRESTED IN JAIL THEFT MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. — A man who was jailed in Baxter County is back in a cell after he was allegedly caught on camera stealing property from another inmate. Sheriff John Montgomery says 27-year-old Matthew E. Tillery, of Cotter, Ark., was jailed in May on charges of nonpayment of fines and failure to appear in court. During his May 21 release, Montgomery says Tillery reached into another inmate’s property box and took a wallet, cellphone and checkbook. On Tuesday, deputies got a warrant for Tillery’s arrest and picked him up without incident. Tillery is being held on $5,000 bond on felony and misdemeanor theft counts.

MOSQUITOES BUG LEAVENWORTH LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — After coping with floodwaters from the swollen Missouri River, people in Leavenworth are now dealing with hordes of mosquitoes. Bob Patzwald, of the city’s public works department, said the receding river has left behind thousands of stagnant pools of water where mosquitoes can breed. The northeast Kansas city is treating backwaters with larvicide and spraying neighborhoods with anti-mosquito chemicals. FROM WIRE SERVICES

Curtis Edward McCarty

Court declares case was too late BY ROBERT BOCZKIEWICZ Special Correspondent

DENVER — An appeals court ruled Thursday that a lawsuit filed against Oklahoma City officials by a man who was on death row 19 years because of misconduct by a police chemist was filed five months too late. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision means Curtis Edward McCarty’s lawsuit against fired Oklahoma City police chemist Joyce Gilchrist, former chief William Citty and the city is dead. McCarty was released from prison in 2007 after 19 years when Oklahoma County District Judge Twyla Mason Gray concluded Gilchrist had intentionally destroyed evidence potentially favorable to him. McCarty had been sentenced to death for the 1982 murder of Pamela Willis, 18. His lawsuit alleged Gilchrist falsely testified and withheld evidence, violating McCarty’s constitutional right against malicious prosecution. McCarty alleged that Citty and the city were liable for failing to properly train and supervise her. McCarty had sought unspecified monetary damages. Thursday’s 3-0 decision by the Denver-based court stated McCarty’s 2007 lawsuit was not filed within a two-year statute of limitations after the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals overturned his conviction. That court cited serious misconduct by Gilchrist for its decision. Despite the 10th Circuit judges’ ruling, they concluded there was probable cause at the time of McCarty’s trial to prosecute him because several pieces of evidence sufficiently pointed the finger at him. Prosecutors maintained there was enough evidence to convict McCarty, but opted not to appeal Gray’s decision to dismiss the charge.

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TRAFFIC TWO DIE IN ACCIDENTS ON OKLAHOMA HIGHWAYS Two people are dead after wrecks on state roads. I Darlene Johnston, 69, Woodward Johnston died Thursday when the car she was riding in on U.S. 270 in Blaine County left the road for unknown reasons and struck a cantilever. Johnston died at the scene from injuries suffered in the crash.

I Jack Edmond Blagg, 33, of Fort Smith, Ark. Blagg died Wednesday in a crash in eastern Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported. He was dead at the scene of a crash about 9:20 p.m. Wednesday on State Highway 9, about 3 miles east of Stigler in Haskell County, the patrol reported. Blagg was driving east at an unsafe speed when the sport utility vehicle he was driving overturned. He was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected. The SUV landed on him. FROM STAFF REPORTS

Records Krishna Guthrie performs at the Brick Street Cafe in Okemah as part of the 16th annual Woody Guthrie Festival. Guthrie is the great grandson of Woody Guthrie. To watch a video from the festival, go online to NewsOK.com and search for “Woody Guthrie.” PHOTOS BY ADAM KEMP, THE OKLAHOMAN

Fellowship, music mark WoodyFest BY BRANDY MCDONNELL AND ADAM KEMP Staff Writers

OKEMAH — A still-vivid memory of meeting Woody Guthrie keeps David Amram coming back every summer to the small Okfuskee County town where the father of American folk music was born. “I remember he had on cowboy boots, which in 1956, I’d never seen anybody wearing cowboy boots in New York City. And he sounded just like he does on those wonderful recordings now. With that beautiful Okemah way of speaking, he spent the whole afternoon talking about literature and being out at sea and politics and music and ballet and dance,” Amram said Thursday, the first full day of the 14th Annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. “He talked about when he was a kid hearing ballet music and opera music at home, along with reading books. He was like a really brilliant, smart, wonderful guy,” added the New Yorkbased songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist. “I felt I was just so lucky for that chance meeting.” More than four decades after the legendary “Dust Bowl Troubadour” died of Huntington’s disease, Guthrie’s spirit lives on every July in his hometown. Since 1998, the nonprofit Woody Guthrie Coalition has organized its free folk festival during the week of the musician’s July 14 birthday. Guthrie would have been 99 this year. Featuring more than 50 performances, a children’s festival, an open mike and more, WoodyFest 2011 continues through Sunday at various venues around Okemah. The event brings together musicians and music lovers from around the state, country and even the world.

Annual pilgrimage At this point, people treat Gerry Mochan like an old friend. The Irishman is attending his 10th WoodyFest this year, and said he is so familiar with Okemah that he is virtually part of the event. “I’m not a stranger,” Mochan said Thursday afternoon while lunching at the Brick Street Cafe, one of the festival’s key venues. “It’s been the good people of Okemah that have made it great every year, and there is no other festival better than WoodyFest. This is the epicenter of folk music.” A native of Scotland, Mochan said the temperature is the only adjustment he has to make when he comes to Oklahoma. Northern Ireland, where he now makes his home, is cold, wet and damp, a far cry from the 105-degree weather in Okemah. This year, Mochan brought his wife Margaret along for WoodyFest,

Jess Klein performs at the Brick Street Cafe as part of the 14th annual Woody Guthrie Festival in Okemah.

IF YOU GO WOODY GUTHRIE FOLK FESTIVAL When: Through Sunday Where: Various venues in Okemah 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 Admission: Free Parking: Free for daytime events; $15 per car evenings at the Pastures of Plenty Stage. Cost includes a festival program Information: www.woodyguthrie.com

which she said she enjoys even if folk music isn’t her typical style. “The people are so friendly, and Gerry had told me so much about it and he said the people are what make it and they really are,” she said. “The music is still good even though it’s not my same bop.”

Family legacy In the Basement at Brick Street Cafe, the festival’s camaraderie was apparent minutes into the first set, as Austin-based troubadour Jess Klein invited Oklahoma City singersongwriter K.C. Clifford and Okemah native John Fullbright to croon along with her. Performers, townsfolk and visitors mingled around the stage. The second musician on the lineup had a familiar last name. Krishna Guthrie has performed at his greatgrandfather’s festival since he was 10 or 12 years old, but Thursday marked his first time to play solo. “I got really, really nervous just because it was my first show away from home by myself,” said Krishna, the grandson of Arlo Guthrie and son of Abe Guthrie, who are folk musicians, too. “It wasn’t too hard of a transition.”

He said he discovers something new every time he attends WoodyFest. “Every time I come here it’s like a history lesson,” Krishna Guthrie said.

Model event Amram, 80, who will be inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame this fall, likened his treks to Okemah to visiting celebrated beat poet Jack Kerouac’s house in Orlando, Fla., or Spillville, Iowa, where composer Antonin Dvorak wrote his “New World Symphony.” “I just love the whole festival so much,” Amram said. “It’s four days of great music, great people, great fellowship, no sleep and an unforgettable time.” Amram’s experiences in Okemah, where he is making his eighth WoodyFest appearance, informed his 2007 composition “Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie.” “This can serve as a role model for every community in the country to honor people of distinction. Not just musicians, anybody of distinction, for what they contributed. That makes every person who lives in that community feel better about themselves ... and that we all have something to contribute,” he said.

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BIRTHS DEACONESS William Elix and Angel Ballamy, a girl. Nick and Petra Whisenhunt, a boy. LAKESIDE Dustin and Erica Pelfery, a boy.

MARRIAGE LICENSES John Bradley Robertson, 54, and Jaye Lynn Hall, 51. Gustavo Villa Marquez, 19, and Diana Macias, 18. Luis Javier Canales Quiroz, 24, and Ariana Rosalia Aguilar Morales, 24. Adam Lee Smith, 26, and Brandi Michel Eddings, 26. Tyler Don Nottnagel, 23, and Erica Renee Bunyar, 23. David Earl Ramsey, 71, and Danita Elaine Foster, 51. Jason Lee Weingartner, 32, and Ashley Elizabeth Collins, 26. Timothy Emery Kirby, 29, and Crystal Lynn Bennett, 24. Michael James Kimball, 27, and Susanne Sophia Temple, 27. Joshua John Shackelford, 26, and Kayla Renee Burleson, 21. Obed Granados, 19, and Elizabet Espino, 20.

Christopher D. Rawson, 52, and Rachel Gaylene Boone, 42. Jacob Allen Jones, 31, and Courtney Ann Cuzalina, 28. Colin O’Brien Caird, 27, and Natalie Mae Brinkley, 28. Orlando Ricardo Gonzalez Rodriguez, 23, and Laura Zulema Diaz, 21.

DIVORCES ASKED Couch, Ashley v. Doyle, Joshua Crane, Andy J. v. Melody S. Dadwal, Amie v. Mukesh Davis, Timothy B. v. Gloria B. Doan, Phuoc V. v. Truong, Nguyen H. Fossem, Derick v. Ambe, Gladys Mathews, Mark v. Jennifer Milton, Alisa Lynn v. Tyron Eugene Scott, Otis Jr. v. Lasheria Shinn, Alisha G. v. Graves, Andre Smith, Denise Lynne v. Darrel Wade Wedge, Robbi Lynn v. Chad Eric Yun, Joy Lyn v. Son II

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Traffanstedt, Shauna Grace, 31, homemaker, died Sunday. Graveside services 2 p.m. Friday, Moore Cemetery (McNeil’s, Mustang).

Hester, Susan Gail, 62, psychometrist, died Sunday. No services (John M. Ireland, Moore). Moore, Mary Kathleen “Kathy,” 62, died Tuesday. Services 2 p.m. Monday (Smith-Phillips, Ada).

ALINE Ward, Clarence L. “Pete,” 93, carpenter, died Sunday. Services were Thursday (Lanman, Helena).

ATOKA Reese, Weston Lee, 24, mechanic and auto body worker, died Wednesday. Services 2 p.m. Friday, Stringtown First Baptist Church (Atoka, Atoka).

BARNSDALL Dunaway, Louise Motley, 76, died Tuesday. Services 11 a.m. Friday, First Free Will Baptist Church (Stumpff, Barnsdall).

BARTLESVILLE Crihfield, Robert Sr. “Bob,” 75, insurance agent, died Wednesday. Services pending (Walker Brown, Bartlesville).

BLACKWELL True, Wanda June, 76, homemaker, died Tuesday. Services 2 p.m. Saturday (Roberts and Son, Blackwell).

BLAIR Jones, R. D. “Casey,” 82, truck driver, died Tuesday. Services 10 a.m. Friday, First Baptist Church (Kincannon, Altus).

BOYNTON Lawler, Wayne Edward “Weezie,” 20, laborer, died Monday. Services 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Timothy Baptist Church (Keith D. Biglow, Muskogee).

CHICKASHA Brown, Jimmy Lee Sr., 68, retired from Army, died Wednesday. Services 2 p.m. Monday (McRay, Chickasha).

COALGATE Cravens, Mary Lou (Ward), 79, died Tuesday. Services 2 p.m. Monday, First Baptist Church (Brown’s, Coalgate). Wood, Terry Del, 52, died Monday. Services were Thursday (Brown’s, Coalgate).

COMANCHE Hagan, Carla Mae, 46, died Wednesday. Services 2 p.m. Saturday, Comanche First Baptist Church. Graveside services 11 a.m. July 18, Hanna Cemetery, Hanna (Comanche, Comanche).

CUSHING Fair, Evelyn M., 78, homemaker, died Tuesday. Services 1 p.m. Saturday, Mount Olive Baptist Church (Palmer & Marler, Cushing).

DUNCAN Blewett, Mary Elizabeth, 89, retired cook, died Wednesday. Graveside services 10 a.m. Monday, Resthaven Memorial Gardens (Don Grantham, Duncan). Jones, Doris Lee, 89, homemaker, died Saturday. Graveside services 9:30 a.m. Monday, Duncan Cemetery (Don Grantham, Duncan).

EDMOND Delman, Ernest Francis, 85, pilot, died Thursday. Services pending (Mercer-Adams, Bethany). Gallagher, Mary Vaughan, 97, elementary schoolteacher, died July 8. Services 10 a.m. Saturday, Bradford Village Nursing Home Chapel (Absolute Economical, Oklahoma City).

EL RENO Lovelace, Daurice, 83, secretary, died Monday. Services 11 a.m. Saturday (Kiesau Lee, Clinton).

ELMORE CITY Patterson, Vada, 94, died Wednesday. Services 10 a.m. Monday, First Baptist Church (Wooster, Elmore City).

ENID Tucker, Matthew D., 31, died Wednesday. Services pending (Brown-Cummings, Enid).

FAIRFAX Hunt, John Wesley, 89, truck driver, died Tuesday. Services 2 p.m. Friday, Fairfax Cemetery Pavilion (Hunsaker-Wooten, Fairfax).

GOTEBO Arganbright, Oran, 76, died Wednesday. Services 10 a.m. Saturday, Sharon Missionary Baptist Church (Ray and Martha’s, Mountain View).

GRAINOLA Kelly, Mildred E., 78, died Wednesday. Services Friday in Cedar Vale, Kan. (Hunsaker-Wooten, Fairfax).

HUGO Eddington, Joyce Ann, 54, died Sunday. Services 11 a.m. Friday, South Central District Building (Rogan’s, Hugo).

JAY Graham, Jenora Mae, 77, retired licensed practical nurse, died Wednesday. Memorial service 11 a.m. Tuesday (Grand Lake, Jay).

LAWTON Crook, Raymond, 83, television repair service owner, died Wednesday. Services pending (Becker, Lawton).

LINDSAY Womack, Daniel Roy, 59, electrician, died Tuesday. Graveside services 11 a.m. Friday, Purdy Cemetery (B.G. Boydston, Lindsay).

MAYSVILLE Howard, Samuel Ralph, 62, died Wednesday. Services pending (B.G. Boydston, Lindsay).

MCALESTER Moore, Betty Lou, 78, teacher, died Thursday. Graveside services 10 a.m. Saturday, Oak Hill Cemetery (Bishop, McAlester).

MIDWEST CITY Anno, Clarence, 83, plant manager, died Thursday. Services 10 a.m. Monday (Bill Eisenhour NE, Oklahoma City). Potts, Thomas S., 92, computer analysis worker, died Monday. Services 10 a.m. Saturday (Advantage, Midwest City). Robertson, Eva J., 85, died Wednesday. Graveside services 11 a.m. Saturday, Elmwood Cemetery, Choctaw (Barnes Friederich,

Mason, Charlotte H., 80, died Wednesday. Services 10 a.m. Monday, Mustang United Methodist Church (McNeil’s, Mustang).

NOBLE Blackwell, George C., 81, warehouse supervisor, died Wednesday. Services 11 a.m. Saturday, Skyridge Free Will Baptist Church (McMahans, Noble).

NORMAN Summers, Jennifer Lynn, 27, died Wednesday. Services pending (Havenbrook, Norman).

NOWATA Rollins, Joe N., 75, building contractor, died Wednesday. Services pending (Walker Brown, Bartlesville).

OKLAHOMA CITY Drechsler, Esther Yvonne, 77, died Wednesday. Services 10 a.m. Friday, Putnam City Baptist Church (Mercer-Adams, Bethany). Ford, Bettyann E., 76, bookkeeper, died Monday. Graveside services 11 a.m. Friday, Resthaven Memory Gardens (Guardian, Oklahoma City). Fritz, Rose Alma, 88, pharmaceuticals buyer, died July 5. Private services (OK Cremation, Oklahoma City). Godwin, Florence Ella, 85, nurse’s aide, died Wednesday. Services 10 a.m. Saturday, John M. Ireland Funeral Home and Chapel (John M. Ireland, Moore). Green, Jackie, 50, died Monday. Services 11 a.m. Saturday, Emmanuel Baptist Church (Heritage, Oklahoma City). Jacobs, Beverly Ann, 62, customer service representative, died Wednesday. Services 1 p.m. Saturday (Crawford, Edmond). King, Melissa Sue, 44, died Sunday. Services 1 p.m. Friday, Living Waters Lighthouse (Caskets Inc. & Johnson, Del City). Kinney, Ernest, 76, retired truck driver, died Tuesday. Services Saturday in Liberal, Kan. (Brenneman, Liberal, Kan.). Motley, Howard Weldon Jr., 63, OG&E vice president, died Wednesday. Wake 4 p.m. Sunday. Mass 2 p.m. Monday, Our Lady’s Cathedral of Perpetual Help (Smith & Kernke N May, Oklahoma City). Summers, Raymond Leslie Jr., 56, died Wednesday. Services 10 a.m. Saturday (Chapel Hill, Oklahoma City). Vickers, Jerrold Wade, 76, died Tuesday. Services 1 p.m. Monday, Wilmont Place Baptist Church (Wilson Little, Purcell). Yarholar, Clarence Douglas Jr. “Doug,” 83, U.S. Postal Service, died Wednesday. Services 10:30 a.m. Monday (Mercer-Adams, Bethany).

OKMULGEE Pigeon, John Jr., 63, roofer, died Thursday. Services pending (Shurden Jackson, Henryetta).

PAWHUSKA Carpenter, Debra Gaye, 54, homemaker, died Wednesday. Services 10 a.m. Saturday, Pawhuska Tribal Village (Hunsaker-Wooten, Fairfax).

POTEAU Carrillo, Lori Diane, 49, collections clerk, died Tuesday. Services 10 a.m. Monday (Evans & Miller, Poteau).

SAYRE Easter, Dee Arlin, 66, auto body repairman, died Wednesday. Services 10 a.m. Saturday, Trinity Fellowship (Rose Chapel, Sayre).

SHAWNEE Cloud, Leo Allen, 58, metal fabricator, died Wednesday. Wake was Thursday. Services 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Sand Creek Eufaula Baptist Church (Stout-Phillips, Wewoka). Johnson, Billy R., 73, general contractor, died Tuesday. Services 1 p.m. Monday, Downtown Pentecostal Holiness Church (Affordable Cremation, Oklahoma). Vian, Teresa Lynn, 43, homemaker, died Tuesday. Services pending (OK Cremation, Oklahoma City). Watkins, James, 53, draftsman, died Tuesday. Services pending (Affordable Cremation, Oklahoma).

STIGLER Bailes, Tom Jr., 87, died Thursday. Services 2 p.m. Saturday, Main Street Baptist Church (MalloryMartin, Stigler).

TAHLEQUAH Richmond, Elbert W., 84, pool construction worker, died Thursday. Services pending (Green Country, Tahlequah).

TONKAWA McGaha, Garnett L., 93, died Thursday. Services pending (Tonkawa, Tonkawa).

TULSA Cleghorn, Thomas Wayne, 63, jewelry bead worker, died Wednesday. Graveside services 11 a.m. Saturday, Cleghorn Cemetery, Red Rock (Mark Griffith Memorial, Tulsa). Vantine, David Wayne, 40, died Sunday. Memorial service 11 a.m. Saturday, Elgin First Baptist Church (Becker, Fletcher).

TUTTLE Rice, Ronald K., 74, retired railway police inspector, died Thursday. No services (Affordable Cremation, Oklahoma).

WARNER Hales, Ina Ophelia, 88, died Wednesday. Graveside services 10 a.m. Saturday, Warner Memorial Cemetery (Lescher-Millsap, Muskogee).

WOODWARD Steinley, Bob Lee, 79, hoist operator, died Wednesday. Graveside services 2 p.m. Saturday, Gate Cemetery, Gate (Billings, Woodward). Organ donor

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Brown, Bobbie Shane, 57, educator, died July 9. Services 10 a.m. Saturday, Divine Love Fellowship (Keith D. Biglow, Muskogee). Thompson, Doris Ida, 77, registered nurse, died July 7. Services 10 a.m. Saturday (Ragsdale, Muskogee).

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Thomas S. Potts November 29, 1918 - July 11, 2011

MIDWEST CITY Thomas S. Potts, age 92, passed away on July 11, 2011. He was born in Litchfield, Illinois, on November 29, 1918, to Marie Capitola Jordan Potts and John R. (“Jack”) Potts. He is survived by his beloved wife of 66 years, Betty Potts; sons, Thomas G. Potts and wife Karen of Tulsa, Robert W. Potts and wife Marcy of Chandler; grandchildren, Kari Potts Dawson and husband Dr. William Dawson of Charlotte, NC, David Potts and wife Jenn of Tulsa, Laura Potts Warde and husband Chris Warde of Stillwater, and Petty Officer 2nd Class Robert Potts and wife Lin of Pensacola, FL; and greatgrandchildren, Hank Soule of Charlotte, NC, and Megan Harrison of Tulsa. Tom was a career Air Force officer, and his Air Force service record is a source of pride to his family. He entered the US Army in the summer of 1941 in the infantry and later as an aviation cadet. His leadership ability was quickly recognized, and he was commissioned as a Second Lieutentant. During World War II, Tom flew 33 aerial missions in a B-24 Liberator Bomber in the Rome Arno, Southern France, Rhineland, Air Combat Balkans, and North Apennines Campaigns. His duty stations included Italy, Japan, Hawaii, and numerous USAF bases within the continental United States. Tom’s fine military record and dedication to the mission of the Army Air Force and, subsequently, the Air Force was recognized with the following decorations and awards: Silver Star, Air Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart, Good Conduct Medal, American Defense Campaign Medal, American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, National Defense Service Medal, and Air Force Longevity Service Award Ribbon with 4 Oak Leaf Clusters. After Tom’s retirement from the Air Force, he worked as a civilian employee for the Air Force in various jobs for the next twenty-two years at Tinker AFB. Tom was known for his outgoing personality, engaging smile and hearty laugh. He was an active member of the Tinker AFB Chapel for fifty years, the Order of Daedalians, and Kiwanis International. Tom and Betty enjoyed the frequent reunions of his 464th Bomb Group and his own aircrew until he was “the last man standing.” Tom was an avid golfer, tennis player and reader. He loved reading to his sons when they were little with himself in the middle and one boy on each side. His greatest joy was his grandchildren with whom he continued his tradition of reading aloud with one grandchild on each side and himself in the middle. Tom could “figure out” how to repair almost anything around the house or in his workshop where he and son Bob tinkered with many cars. The favorite by far was the vintage white Cadillac with red interior and a “Boomer Sooner” horn. Tom enjoyed driving this crowd-pleasing car in numerous local parades. The entire family treasures our memories of all Tom’s wonderful stories, his love for and wonderful marriage with Betty, and all the values he taught and instilled in us. His wonderful smile, sense of humor, and laughter will always echo in our hearts. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the American Cancer Society. Funeral service will be Saturday, July 16, at 10:00 am, at Advantage Funeral Home, Mid-Del Chapel, 415 North Air Depot Blvd., Midwest City, Oklahoma, followed by committal at Arlington Memory Gardens.

Bobbi Lena Mae Dodson

Gwen Dean Goodman Marsh

May 8, 1930 - July 9, 2011

Aug. 1, 1948 - July 11, 2011

OKLAHOMA CITY Bobbi Lena Mae Dodson, passed away July 9, 2011 in OKC. She was born May 8, 1930 to the late David F. & Ruby Mae (Woodward) Cochran in Marlow, OK. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Howard in 1989 and her brother, Fred Tyree. Lena is survived by her son, Charles Dodson, son & daughter-in-law, James Dodson & wife Vicky, daughter, Betty Joe Guidry, all of OKC; 1 brother, David of MO; 9 grandchildren and numerous great grandchildren & other loving relatives and friends. Funeral Services will be 10 am Saturday, July 16, 2011, Sunny Lane Dignity Memorial Chapel, followed by burial at Pleasant Valley Cemetery, Wheatland, OK.

YUKON A wonderful wife, mother, mema, sister, aunt and friend who left us way too soon. She was a caring, loving and beautiful woman inside and out. She will be greatly missed by all of those who knew and loved her. Preceded in death by her parents, Curtis Goodman and Vernell Garrison. She leaves behind her husband, T.R. Marsh, son, Eric Marsh, daughters, Tina Duree and Teresa & Richard Shuffield, grandchildren, Brittany & Zach Duree, Marsha & Ryan Shuffield and siblings, Donnie & Karen Goodman, Lonnie & Jerry Goodman, William & Nancy Goodman, Thresea & Jay Snow, Harold & Linda Goodman, Eugina & Mike Sworski, and James & Jean Goodman, many nieces and nephews who loved her dearly. Memorial service 11:00 a.m., Saturday, July 16, at Binger Baptist Church.

Derry Ray Turner

Joe Frank Angel

October 31, 1955 - July 12, 2011

June 22, 1946 - July 13, 2011

DEL CITY Derry Ray Turner, 55 of Del City, Oklahoma was called home to be with his Heavenly Father July 12, 2011. Derry was born to Gene and Carolyn Turner on October 31, 1955 in Chickasha, OK. After serving in the US Marine Corps he had a lifelong career as a building engineer. Derry touched the life of everyone he met. His laughter and smile were contagious. He will truly be missed by everyone who knew him. He was preceded in death by his son Dustin Turner, sister Pamela Gregory, and niece Sarah Gregory. He is survived in life by his loving wife of 28 years Sheri Turner, daughter Kim Turpen, grandchildren Bailey and Brycen Turpen, parents Gene and Carolyn Turner, brothers Gary Turner and family, Roger Turner and family, and Gene Gregory and family, along with a host of extended family and lifelong friends. Funeral services for Derry will be conducted by Ford Funeral Service and will be held at Sunny Lane Family Church on Saturday, July 16, 2011, at 10 am.

OKLAHOMA CITY Joe Frank Angel, age 65, passed away 7-13-11. Some of his many talents were music, art, flower arrangement, and event planning. He was preceded in death by his parents Frank and Erin Angel. He is survived by his son, Brandon Angel, his sister, Pattye Anderson, and sister & brother-in-law, Gene' and Leonard Latta, and extended family and friends. He will be greatly missed by all those who loved him. A "Celebration of his Life" will be held at 1617 Oriole Dr., Norman, OK 73071, from 2:00-4:00 P.M., on Sunday, July 17, 2011.

SHAWNEE Services Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 10:30 a.m., St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 301 N. Beard St., Shawnee, OK 74801 under direction of Walker Funeral Service, Shawnee, OK. He was born August 18, 1932. Attended College of Veterinary Medicine at Oklahoma State University in 1960. Started his career at Shawnee Animal Hospital 1960-1976 and later became self-employed in Dairy Herd Management. Survived by spouse, Jean Miller; siblings, Maurice Miller, Ada Ruth Haymaker; children, Robert Miller, Donna Pongratz and husband Jerry, Sara Miller, Janet Hall and husband Matt; eight granddaughters. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made payable to the OSU Foundation, please note in the memo of your check For The Harold V. Miller Fund #28-90500. Send to: OSU Foundation, PO Box 1749, Stillwater, OK 74076. This fund was established by Harold and Jean for scholarships for veterinary medicine students with emphasis on food animal medicine.

Esther Yvonne Drechsler December 11, 1933 - July 13, 2011

OKLAHOMA CITY Esther Yvonne Drechsler, 77 years old, resident of Oklahoma City, passed away on July 13, 2011. Born December 11, 1933, she was the daughter of Crystal and N.O. Nichols. Esther lived in Enid, OK until 1960 when she moved to Oklahoma City. She was a loving mother, grandmother, and greatgrandmother. Preceding her in death was her husband, Ray Eugene Drechsler. Survivors include two children, Debby Drechsler Garcia and Dalyn Drechsler Bell; four grandchildren, Jana Rumbaugh Boone, Mark Rumbaugh, Brian Holz and Blake Holz; as well as one greatgrandson, Nolan Boone. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m., Friday, July 15, 2011, at Putnam City Baptist Church, 11401 North Rockwell Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK 73162, with Larry Adams, Pastor of Senior Adults, officiating. Interment will be in Resurrection Cemetery. To share a memory or condolence, visit: www.mercer-adams.com

Bernard Wayne Woods, Sr. December 12, 1943 - July 13, 2011

BETHANY Bernard (Bernie) Wayne Woods, Sr., of Bethany, Oklahoma, joined his family already in Heaven on Wednesday, July 13, 2011, at home surrounded by family after a strong, courageous fight against prostate cancer. Born in Dodge City, Kansas, December 12, 1943, to Kenneth and Arvilla Woods, Bernard was a student at Bethany Nazarene College. He was an avid sports fan and coach. He lived on the edge of his seat for every University of Oklahoma play, no matter what the sport. He loved coaching young people. Bernard spent 24 years teaching, coaching and mentoring his sons. He loved sharing his daughter’s talent and pageant competitions. He was a loving husband and father that would sacrifice anything for his family. Bernard served in the United States Army as a supply clerk. He was selected as the outstanding trainee of his training cycle. He worked 33 years for Fred Jones Manufacturing as a lead man. Bernard is survived by his wife of 48 years, Yulanda; his sons, Bernie and his wife Kelly, Chad and his wife Heather; his daughter, Lometa and her husband Ryan; his brother, Ray; as well as his beloved dogs, Boomer, Fluffy Love and numerous grand dogs. The funeral service will be held at 10:00AM Saturday, July 16, 2011, at MercerAdams Chapel, 3925 N. Asbury, Bethany, OK with interment in Bethany Cemetery. To share a memory or condolence, visit: www.mercer-adams.com

Mitchell B. Easley Jan. 29, 1924 - July 12, 2011

OKLAHOMA CITY Mitchell B. Easley, Sr. left this world Tuesday, July 12, 2011 to be with our Lord. Mitch was born January 29, 1924 at McAlester, Oklahoma. He was a child of the Great Depression and served as a P-51 Mustang fighter pilot in WW II. Mitch was stationed with the 15th Army Air Force along Italy's Adriatic Sea Coast near Termoli. During the war he flew 46 combat missions over enemy territory shooting down four German fighters and was awarded the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters. For heroic action on an extremely dangerous strafing mission near Wels, Austria on February 7, 1945 Mitch was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, one of our nation's highest military awards. Prior to shipping overseas Mitch married Iva Jean Ellis of Wilburton, Oklahoma. After the war Mitch and Jean settled in a house in NW Oklahoma City and raised two sons. Mitch worked thirty years in the builder's hardware industry and Jean worked for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company for thirty years. After retirement Mitch and Jean traveled around the United States and took loving care of their home and many pets. Mitch is survived by his wife Jean of 67 years, two sons, Mitchell B. Easley, Jr. of Plano, Texas and Stephen W. Easley of Columbia, South Carolina, 4 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren. Mitch was a proud Oklahoman and patriot. He loved his country and all it stood for. We will always carry the memory of the sacrifices he made for our country and for all of us so we could enjoy the privileges we now have. The family asks that donations in lieu of flowers be given to the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The family will greet visitors at Smith & Kernke Funeral Home Friday afternoon July 15, 2011 from 1 to 5 p.m. Services will be at 10 AM Saturday July 16, 2011 at Smith & Kernke. Interment will be 12:30 p.m. Monday July 18, 2011 at the Dallas, Texas National Cemetery.

Ruby Hile Chapman Feb. 21, 1915 - July 13, 2011

OKLAHOMA CITY Truly one of a kind! Ruby was born in Indianola, OK, one of eleven children, to May Oma and C.E. Rice. She outlived all of them and finally gave up this life for a better one in Heaven. Ruby married Clarence Hile Nov. 15, 1931 and they were happily married until his death in 1985. She then married Marvin Chapman, who passed away in 2003. Ruby is survived by her two daughters, Pat Kelso and Barbara Moslander. She has numerous grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren. Ruby was one of the “Rosie the Riveters” during the war. She obtained her cosmetology degree in 1936 and was active in the hair business for many years. She became an instructor for the cosmetology departments of Central High School and Southeast High School. She will be missed by all, but will now join her family members that went ahead. Viewing will be Friday from 4-8 PM at Vondel Smith South. Graveside services are 2:00 PM Saturday at Sunny Lane Cemetery in Del City, OK. Friends may leave condolences at www.vondel smithmortuary.com

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“Independence Day,” a silver halide print on metallic paper by Oklahoma City photographer M.J. Alexander, is featured in “24 Works on Paper.” PHOTO PROVIDED

2-D exhibit features Oklahoma artists BY BRANDY MCDONNELL Entertainment Writer bmcdonnell@opubco.com

Oklahoma artists explore the potential of paper in the new exhibition “24 Works on Paper.” Featuring prints, drawings, paintings, photographs, mixed-media collages and other two-dimensional works, the exhibit opens to the public with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday at Individual Artists of Oklahoma Gallery, 706 W Sheridan Ave. “It is always exciting to see the works selected for ‘24 Works on Paper.’ The juror has a difficult task of selecting a cohesive body of work that reflects the highquality artwork being produced in Oklahoma. This year, with artists submitting nearly 200 works, the juror had a very difficult task. Louise Siddons composed a show that reflects the diverse media Oklahoma artists are using,” IAO Executive Director Clint Stone said in an email.

Greater exposure The exhibit, which began in 1985, is organized by IAO and the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition. Siddons, an assistant professor of American, modern and contemporary art at Oklahoma State University, selected one piece each from 24 artists from eight Oklahoma cities. “It gives a snapshot of how Oklahoma artists are working today, including a variety of media, techniques, subject matter and style,” coalition Associate Director Kelsey Karper said in an email. “24 Works on Paper”

ON EXHIBIT “24 WORKS ON PAPER” I Opening reception: 6 to 9 p.m. Friday at Individual Artists of Oklahoma Gallery, 706 W Sheridan. I Information: www.24works.org or 879-2400.

TOURING SCHEDULE I Friday-Aug. 5: IAO Gallery, Oklahoma City. I September: Northern Oklahoma College, Eleanor Hays Art Gallery, Tonkawa. I October-November: Rose State College, Midwest City. I January: East Central University, Shirley Pogue Art Gallery, Ada. I April: Tulsa Artists’ Coalition, Tulsa. I May-June: Leslie Powell Foundation and Gallery, Lawton. I July-August 2012: Oklahoma State University, Gardiner Art Gallery, Stillwater. I August-September 2012: Redlands Community College, El Reno.

will remain on view at IAO through Aug. 5 and then begin a more than yearlong tour of the state. “IAO is always happy to host the exhibition before its tour across the state. It’s great to see the work on the gallery walls and know that these works will be seen by many visitors in other cities and towns across the state who may have never entered the IAO Gallery before,” Stone said.

Viewing and learning As the exhibit travels across the state, teachers are invited to incorporate “24 Works on Paper” into their classrooms. Free curriculum guides are available by request through the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition. “I want to emphasize the breadth of outstanding work being created across the state. ... The work in

this show reflects a more general trend in the arts toward eclecticism,” Siddons said in her curator’s statement. Oklahoma City photographer M.J. Alexander explores issues of identity and creates a quirky family portrait with “Independence Day,” which is included in “24 Works on Paper” as well as in her recent book “Portrait of a Generation — The Children of Oklahoma: Sons and Daughters of the Red Earth.” Alexander, participating in the exhibit for her second time, said her photo of four Bethany children holding patriotic balloons in front of their faces “may be viewed as a post-9/11 mashup of the realms evoked by Norman Rockwell’s World War II-era ‘Four Freedoms’ and by Rene Magritte’s surrealist ‘The Son of Man.’ ”

FIREHOUSE ART CENTER EXHIBIT HAS VARIETY OF STYLES

Show spotlights skills of faculty members NORMAN — A nice variety of styles, media and materials, from abstract to realistic, from funky functional ceramics to streamlined modern wood sculpture, is found in the Faculty Show at Firehouse Art Center. Rich texture combines with abstract yet organic looking, spiral-based surface designs, in two large, untitled, salt-fired stoneware platters by Dan Harris. Bill Boettcher suggests organic forms beautifully, without becoming literal, in an untitled, yellow marble sculpture on a wood base and in a pink-hued alabaster sculpture called “Interstitial.” Streamlined layers of laminated wood make us think of a comma or teardrop displayed on its side in a birch sculpture from Firehouse Executive Director Douglas Shaw Elder’s Totemic Series, called “Phidias.” Rainbow acrylic colors outline a cloudlike arrangement of tiny wood-

ART REVIEW FIREHOUSE ART CENTER’S FACULTY SHOW I When: 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays through Monday, Aug. 1 I Where: Firehouse Art Center, 444 S Flood, Norman. I Information: 3294523 or www. normanfire house.com.

burned marks on birch in “Rich Trove,” a small, delightfully offbeat wall panel by Ruth Ann Borum. Iridescent, triangular blades and well-crafted handles give visual impact to two titanium and paduk herb knives by George Wilson, while Elyse Bogart uses silver and other metals to create striking floral pins.

Jane Larson supplies a charmingly whimsical, aqua-hued acrylic painting of a “Ewe and a Henry Moore (sculpture),” and Jessica Joy indulges in a flight of pure fantasy in a cut paper collage intaglio print. Carol Armstrong contributes a masterful, realistic oil of a colorfully clad cowboy on horseback “Climbing” a steep grade, and Pamela M. Bradford provides a deft drawing of a “Woman in Thought.” Craig Swan shows us that “Even Sparrows Wage War” in a painted wire sculpture, and Emily Smart gives a nearly cubistic edge to a photo of a skyscraper under construction, called “I Dreamt I Was an Architect.” Small, but memorable is Jenna Bryan’s pen-and-ink drawing of “Mushrooms.” The exhibit is recommended viewing during its run through Monday, August 1, with a reception planned from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday. — John Brandenburg

NEW YORK — The Gothic novel “Rebecca” that became a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock is coming to Broadway as a musical. Producers said Tuesday that the new show will have an original book and lyrics by Michael Kunze as well as music by Sylvester Levay. It will be co-directed by Michael Blakemore and Francesca Zambello. Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, the story is about a wealthy Englishman, his new wife and a manipulative housekeeper — all haunted by the hero’s dead first wife, Rebecca. Though no cast members were announced, Sierra Boggess, currently starring in “Master Class,” is in negotiations to play the second wife. Gracelia Daniele is in talks to do the choreography. Previews will begin March 27, 2012.

Actress Sierra Boggess is in negotiations for a role in the upcoming musical “Rebecca.” AP PHOTO

Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, the story is about a wealthy Englishman, his new wife and a manipulative housekeeper — all haunted by the hero’s dead first wife, Rebecca.

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Stars imagine lives without ‘Potter’ films BY DAVID GERMAIN AP Movie Writer

LOS ANGELES — In some fantasy world, Daniel Radcliffe might be a low-level gofer on movie sets. Emma Watson might be a nobody auditioning for stage plays. Tom Felton might be noodling around as a musician. And Rupert Grint might be selling ice cream on the street. With the finale “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” arriving this week, the young stars of one of Hollywood’s biggest film franchises pondered what they might be doing if the acting thing hadn’t worked out.

Radcliffe An 11-year-old when picked for the title role of the “Harry Potter” franchise, Radcliffe figures that since his parents worked in the arts — his mother as a casting director, his father as a literary agent — he would have ended up in show business. But not as an actor; probably as an assistant director. “What probably would have happened, when I got to about 17, 18, and it became apparent, as it would have done, to my parents that I wasn’t going to be going to university, I’m sure they probably would have tried to get me, like, an internship on a film as a runner. And then I’d just try to work my way up the A.D. ladder from there,” said Radcliffe, whose pre“Harry Potter” acting work included the title role in a British television production of “David Copperfield.” “To this day, I still fancy myself as a bit of an A.D. Anyone who works with me will tell you if they give me a radio, I constantly kind of try to run messages between people, that I always like to know exactly what’s going on around the

set. So if somebody’s saying, ‘Where’s so and so? We need them now,’ I can go, ‘They’re there. That person’s coming back. They’ve just gone to the toilet.’ I really like to know exactly what’s going on at all times on set, because I like to feel that’s another way in which I can make myself useful.”

Watson Just 10 when she was cast as bookish Hermione Granger, Watson had no previous professional acting experience. Yet she’s convinced that no matter how she would have gone on to make a living, acting would have been part of her life. “I would have found some way to end up acting, performing. I mean, obviously, not on this scale, but I would have been doing it, I’m sure,” Watson said. “I would have been doing plays. I’m almost a hundred percent sure I would be doing plays, I would be acting. I mean, that would be a sideline thing for me. I would be focusing toward some kind of career that I’m not really sure of now, but I definitely would have been performing, some way or another.”

Grint Also a screen newcomer when chosen at 11 to play jittery but stalwart sidekick Ron Weasley, Grint finds it daunting to imagine a life in which he never landed among the “Harry Potter” clan. “I don’t know. It’s quite a scary thought. I saw recently, they put on one of the DVDs, footage from our screen tests when we were first kind of auditioning. In one of them, there was a test with Emma and Dan with a different Ron, another kid who was auditioning at the same time. That was very weird to see that, because he was good.

I probably would have picked him. “It was weird to think what I’d be doing now. … I’d have probably gone down the art route. I wanted to design hats for a while when I was really young. And being an ice cream man was another dream, but I’ve kind of let go of that now. I bought an ice cream van and brought it up, actually, on the last day and served ice cream to the crew. I don’t really drive it too much now, because you get people queuing up on the street.”

Felton Like Radcliffe and Watson, the guy who costarred as bullying Draco Malfoy expects he would have wound up doing some sort of creative work. Also like Radcliffe, Felton had previous acting experience before “Harry Potter,” appearing in the fantasy film “The Borrowers” and Jodie Foster’s “Anna and the King.” “My brother and I often talk about it. Where would I be and what would I be doing? I like to think something creative. I’ve always been fairly minded that way, certainly with music and fooling around as a kid with a video camera,” said Felton, who was 12 when cast in “Harry Potter.” “I’d like to think it would be something in that realm. “It certainly was not going to be sitting behind an office. If I did, I wouldn’t be happy doing it. So I’ve been very lucky that I’ve been able to follow a passion of mine from a very young age. A lot of people aren’t so fortunate. A lot of friends now are working jobs they can’t stand just so they can get enough money to go traveling or to start their own business or to do whatever they want. I’ve just been blessed to start in the industry that I want to continue with.”

Band member departs Gloriana BY CAITLIN R. KING Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The members of Gloriana found out like the rest of us that band mate Cheyenne Kimball was leaving the group: on Twitter. Singer Tom Gossin told The Associated Press that Kimball took off after their July 8 show without a word and didn’t respond to their emails. The next time they heard from her was a post on the group’s Twitter page last Saturday, saying she was leaving the band. The tweet has since been deleted. “A band is a lot like a relationship,” Gossin said. “Throughout the whole four years of this band,

Cheyenne Kimball

there’s always ups and downs. It wasn’t particularly a down moment or anything like that. So, yeah, it was a big surprise.” Gloriana, formed in 2008, also includes Gossin’s brother, Mike, and Rachel Reinert. They’ve been on tour this summer and are preparing to re-

lease their second studio album this fall. Gloriana won the Academy of Country Music’s top new vocal group award last year. Their hits include “Wild at Heart” and “How Far Do You Wanna Go.” Gossin said there were no signs from Kimball before her departure, which makes it confusing for the rest of the band. But ultimately, the band is determined to press on with their tour and new album. “We’re sad,” he said. “It’s definitely kind of shaken things up, for sure. It’s kind of a weird time for this to happen. The main feeling now is actually positive. We’re going to move forward and start a new chapter.”

Cast members, from left, Tom Felton, Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint are shown at the July 11 premiere of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” at Avery Fisher Hall in New York. AP PHOTO

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At 81, Plummer still relishes actor’s life BY JAKE COYLE AP Entertainment Writer

NEW YORK — Ewan McGregor was having a hard time keeping up with Christopher Plummer. At the suggestion of director Mike Mills, McGregor had brought his 81year-old co-star to Barney’s in Los Angeles to pick up a scarf for Plummer’s elderly gay character in their film “Beginners.” But Plummer had other designs. “Christopher only wanted to get skinny black jeans,” McGregor recalls. “That was his main goal in life. When we got there, he asked where the jeans department was, and off he went to find skinny jeans.” That one of the finest living interpreters of Shakespeare and one of the few remaining greats of classical acting was hellbent on procuring a hipster staple might seem odd. But then again, Plummer has seldom acceded to the stereotypes of old age. “I’m glad (my ambition) is still there,” Plummer said in a recent interview. “If it faded, what’s there to live for? It makes you appreciate other things if you keep working at your job and you love your job. Too many people in the world are unhappy with their lot. And then they retire and they become vegetables. I think retirement in any profession is death, so I’m determined to keep crackin’.” Plummer’s remarkable late period began with his acclaimed performance as

Mike Wallace in Michael Mann’s 1999 film “The Insider,” continued in films such as 2009’s “The Last Station” (his performance as a fiery yet deteriorating Tolstoy was nominated for an Oscar) and arguably culminated with his staggering “King Lear” at Lincoln Center in 2004.

New role In “Beginners,” which opens Friday in Oklahoma City, Plummer gives yet another career-capping performance. He plays Hal, a 75-year-old who comes out of the closet after his longtime wife dies, and shortly before terminal cancer sets in. McGregor stars as his son in a film largely based on Mills’ own family. The role suits Plummer particularly well because Hal, like Plummer, is randy, funny and undimmed. “The wonderful thing about Hal is that he has such a ball at the end of his life,” Plummer says. “It was a charming script, I thought, and so lacking in sentimentality and selfpity. There was none of that nonsense. Usually, when scripts like that come along, you have to work so hard to play against them because they’re just so saccharine. And the writers and producers will tell you that’s what the public wants. Blow it out your bum!” Plummer long chaffed at less dynamic roles, none more than his most famous part: Capt. Von Trapp in “The Sound of Music.” In his rollicking 2008 memoir, “In Spite of

Academy Award nominee Christopher Plummer stars in writer/director Mike Mills’ “Beginners.” FOCUS FEATURES PHOTO

Myself,” he surveys a life begun amid Montreal privilege, carried through boozy ’50s New York and swinging ’60s London, and ultimately spent in reverence of, as he says, “the Thee-ah-tah.” He also refers to “The Sound of Music” as “S&M” and laments the “humorless and one-dimensional” Von Trapp. “We tried so hard to put humor into it,” he says now. “It was almost impossible. It was just agony to try to make that guy not a cardboard figure.” The role catapulted Plummer to stardom, but he never took to leadingmen parts. “I hated playing them,” he says. “They were so innocuously and badly written and cardboard figures, most of them. In my 40s, I began to suddenly enjoy making movies because the character parts are so much more interesting. I started having a ball and

working with much better directors — John Huston, for example, and Anatole Litvak from the old school. After Michael Mann’s ‘The Insider,’ then the scripts improved. I was upgraded! Since then, they’ve been first-class scripts. Not all successful, but worth doing.”

Loves stage roles All the while, though, Plummer would “go back for my medicine” on the stage. The Canadian-born actor has performed most all of the major Shakespeare roles (among them Hamlet, Macbeth, Henry V and Iago), often at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada. Plummer, who lives with his wife of 41 years, Elaine Taylor, in Weston, Conn., last year played Prospero in “The Tempest” at Stratford. “I’ve become simpler and simpler with playing Shakespeare,” he says.

“I’m not as extravagant as I used to be. I don’t listen to my voice so much anymore. All the pitfalls of playing the classics — you can fall in love with yourself.” “I’m determined to finish playing all the great parts,” Plummer says. “I think I have, actually.” Actors who have recently worked with Plummer speak of his unceasing joy in his work and his commitment to still growing as an actor. “That was the surprising thing about Christopher, just how contemporary he is as an actor, how modern it feels when you’re working with him,” McGregor says. “Acting was very different, and it’s evolved. But what’s very clear is that so has Christopher’s acting. He gives an amazing performance in this film, but it never, ever felt like he was when we were acting it. We were never aware of his per-

formance. It just felt like I was in a scene with my dad.” Mills, whose only previous feature was 2005’s “Thumbsucker,” calls Plummer “a bit of a rascal, in the best sense of the word.” “It’s really contagious being around a 79-yearold man (during filming two years ago) that loves what he’s doing and isn’t taking it for granted,” Mills says. “There’s something really magical and special about that. Ewan and I both talked about that a lot, like, W ` ow, I want to be like that.’”

Keeping up pace Plummer has been working at a pace of about three films and a play every year. He co-stars in the highly anticipated “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” due out later this year, and is currently prepping roles in two films and one play (though he declines to name them). Plummer says he relishes finding “new ways of simplifying things,” and is enjoying acting more than ever. “It’s cliche, but you know that you have to,” he says. “You appreciate life much more because there’s so little of it left. I must say there’s a sort of panic, too, that takes over when you hit 80. Am I going to be able to do all the things that I want to do, starting now? Rather like Hal, in that respect, that he starts his life when it’s too late. But never too late because even five minutes is glorious.”

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Creating a stir

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Of course, politicians on both the right and left have often been subject to hateful speech and worse: President Barack Obama has been the target of racist language and threats from various quarters, and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., was the victim of actual violence in Arizona. But Bannon said he believes Palin has been a singular target of hatemongers. The filmmaker said his alternative version would be released to television via on-demand platforms and a deal with DirecTV. Bannon said he aimed to make a movie that didn’t wade into ideological questions. He said he wanted a film that shows how a woman worked her way to the top of the political heap, but one that also subverts assumptions about her politics. “In the popular imagination, Gov. Palin is a lightweight who’s an ideologue, and the reality is so different,” Bannon said. “This is a woman who’s the kind of political leader we need today because she builds a coalition,” Bannon said, citing, among other things, her support of energy legislation in Alaska that angered large oil companies. Palin created a stir at the recent premiere in Iowa when she said in an interview that Hollywood is “full of hate.” Although Bannon said Hollywood was a secondary focus of his film, he believes that when it comes to Palin, the entertainment business ignores performers who cross the line of civility.

LOS ANGELES — “The Undefeated,” Stephen Bannon’s documentary about the emergence of Sarah Palin on the national political scene, aims to show what the filmmaker calls a “pop-culture beatdown” of the former Alaska governor. Although the film has been tagged with only a PG-13 rating for “brief strong language” by the Motion Picture Association of America, Bannon said he has created an explicit cut of the film that demonstrates that beat-down in more graphic terms. “I took out all sorts of violence and masked the vulgarity for the theatrical release because I wanted families to be able to see the film,” Bannon said in a recent interview. In the cut that will be shown starting Friday in AMC movie theaters, including Oklahoma City’s Quail Springs Mall 24, Madonna, Louis C.K. and Pamela Anderson are among those shown in public appearances to be using epithets about the former vice presidential candidate. Bannon said the new cut would feature things including “crucifixions, lynching and suicides,” but declined to say who was behind these comments or where they appeared, saying only vaguely that they came from “Facebook and Twitter.” “People think Tina Fey is the worst of what’s out there, and they have no idea,” he said, referring to the actress’ impersonations of Palin on “Saturday Night Live.”

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‘Pooh’ craves sweet spot between old and new BY DERRIK J. LANG AP Entertainment Writer

LOS ANGELES — When the filmmakers of “Winnie the Pooh” were tasked by the Walt Disney Co. with creating a new story about the honey-loving bear two years ago, they had no interest in computer-generating Pooh and his friends. They also wanted no part in projecting Pooh’s latest Hundred Acre Wood adventure in three dimensions or upgrading his classic bound storybook to a tablet computer. Instead, directors Stephen Anderson and Don Hall sought to faithfully return Pooh to his handdrawn origins for a feature film reminiscent of the 1960s’ Pooh shorts, while also appealing to kids who’ve grown up with the action of “Toy Story” and “Cars.” “After we watched the first ‘Pooh’ films, we felt strongly those characters would still be funny,” said Hall. “The pacing was our challenge. We knew the pacing in those old films would not work, but we couldn’t crank it up to the level of today’s films because it would break ‘Winnie the Pooh.’ We had to find a line and walk it. That took the most work.” “Winnie the Pooh,” debuting in the U.S. on Friday, will be the first time the Hundred Acre Wood residents of A.A. Milne’s beloved books have marched into theaters since 2005’s “Pooh’s Heffalump Movie.” In recent

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years, Pooh and pals have strayed away from their storybook roots, appearing in direct-to-DVD movies and as puppets and computer-generated characters in Disney Channel series. “When a character has been around for as many incarnations as Pooh, you sometimes don’t realize when you drift away from the source material that made it resonate in the first place,” said voice actor Tom Kenny, who plays control freak Rabbit. “In the same way that I think

it’s smart to reboot 007 or Batman, that’s basically what they did with Pooh.” Jim Cummings, who has portrayed Pooh for more than 25 years in films, TV shows and video games, returns as the voice of Pooh and Tigger, as does Travis Oates as Piglet. New actors take on the other roles, including talk show host Craig Ferguson as know-it-all Owl and Pixar and Sesame Street animator Bud Luckey as lovably dismal donkey Eeyore. John Cleese narrates.

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Musical is parody of ‘Silence of the Lambs’ BY MARK KENNEDY AP Drama Writer

NEW YORK — What kind of deranged people watch “The Silence of the Lambs” and think: That would make a killer musical? These people: Jon and Al Kaplan, brothers from New York with a droll sense of humor who work perfectly together, like fava beans and a nice Chianti. They’ve helped turn one of the creepiest serial killer movies ever made into a 90-minute unauthorized off-Broadway musical, complete with a chorus of dancing lambs running across the stage. “It all comes from a place of respect,” says Al Kaplan, 32, in the seats of Theatre 80, the space on St. Marks Place where their show is playing.

Attracting attention Having won a cult following since some of the songs debuted online nine

years ago, “Silence! The Musical” has been expanded into a live stage show with a book by Hunter Bell (who did the same with “title of show”). It made its debut at the 2005 Fringe Festival in New York and last year was staged in London. The show, which follows the movie quite faithfully, stars Brent Barrett as Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist-turned-serial-killer who matches wits with Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee played by Jenn Harris. Leaving obscure clues, Lecter helps Starling search for “Buffalo Bill” — an unknown serial killer who we learn likes to starve his victims so he can harvest their skin and sew it into clothing. “The general story is the same. We push elements that are there further,” says Jon Kaplan, 35. Adds his brother: “It’s all about exaggerating certain things — like accents and lisps.”

duet between Lecter and the police that culminates in a classic — and deeply gross — film moment. “This cop is already dead/ You’ll see/ I’m wearing his face on my head/ It’s me.”

‘Silence’ fanatics

Brent Barrett portrays Hannibal Lecter and Jenn Harris portrays Clarice Starling in a scene from “Silence! The Musical.” AP PHOTO

Some of their more than a dozen songs include “Are You About a Size 14?,” sung by Buffalo Bill, which includes the lyrics: “I’ve got

her in my sights/ She’s appropriately fat/ I’ll wait for her to notice me/ I hope she fed her cat.” There’s also “It’s Me,” a

The Kaplans, raised on Staten Island but who moved to Los Angeles in 1996 to study concert composition at the University of Southern California, loved the original film, based on the bestselling book by Thomas Harris, and committed many of the lines to memory. They were especially taken by the character of Buffalo Bill, who in his strange voice orders his victims to rub lotion on their skin. “Years and years later we would randomly be saying Buffalo Bill lines for no reason,” Al Kaplan says. The brothers, who split lyric and song writing duties, began work on the

“Silence” project in 2002 when they created nine songs and put them online as a joke. The audio tracks soon went viral — hard to do in the days before YouTube and Facebook. Movie producers eventually approached and suggested they turn their songs into a movie, which the Kaplans thought was a lousy idea. They wrote a screenplay anyway, and when theater producers came knocking, they had a rough story waiting.

Wider boundaries Over the years, the brothers came very close to having their show make its off-Broadway debut, but squeamish producers dragged their heels. This year, which marks the 20th anniversary of “The Silence of the Lambs,” they’ve had better luck, in part they think because shows such as “The Book of Mormon” have pushed the envelope of what a musical can discuss.

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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, shown right, warned U.S. lawmakers Thursday that they would deliver a “self-inflicted” wound to the nation’s economy by holding up efforts to raise the government’s borrowing limit. PAGE 3B

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ConocoPhillips set to divide in two BY ROD WALTON

A sign at a ConocoPhillips station has the skyline in Oklahoma City as a background. Houston-based ConocoPhillips said Thursday it plans to split into two companies, one that produces oil and another that refines it into gasoline and other fuels. AP PHOTO

Tulsa World Rod.walton@tulsaworld.com

TULSA — ConocoPhillips, one of the nation’s largest integrated oil and gas companies and a major

Oklahoma employer, plans to split off its refiningmarketing business and its exploration-production side into two stand-alone companies. CEO Jim Mulva, in an

email to employees late Wednesday, indicated the split would affect jobs and workplace locations. “There will be some SEE DIVIDE, BACK PAGE

Rental inquiry brings arrests

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CHARITY GRANTS Saxum, an Oklahoma City-based public relations and marketing firm, has selected two Oklahoma nonprofits to receive $50,000 pro-bono service grants for 2011-2012 as part of the firm’s Step Up program.

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Lying to get or keep federal help paying the rent landed people in jail and could get them state or federal prison time after a crackdown on fraud in a housing voucher program. Authorities named six people Thursday who have been charged with federal felonies and 16 charged with state felonies after a sweep of arrests culminated a 16-month investigation. Four facing state charges, having not posted bail, remained in the Oklahoma County jail. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Inspector General and the Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency, which administers the program, led the inquiry. Investigators compared renters’ income, assets, criminal history and household situations with claims they had made on applications and annual updates submitted to the state agency. In the Housing Choice Voucher Program, people with low income choose privately owned rental housing and pay as much rent as they say they can and federal funds pay the rest directly to their landlords. In Oklahoma, 10,211 households participate in the program — 5,322 in single-family houses, 4,698 in apartments and 191 in mobile homes — and 53 percent include elderly or disabled people, the state agency said. U.S. Attorney Sanford C. Coats, at a news conference announcing the crackdown, pointed out that another 12,080 families are on a waiting list to receive the assistance. He said the sweep was meant “to get out the word” that renters in the program who aren’t on the up-and-up are being found out — and to encourage people who suspect fraud to report it. Authorities also are seeking restitution with civil cases. Some landlords also are under investigation, Coats said. Some $750,000 in tax money is alleged to have been misspent in the cases reported Thursday, Coats said. But it isn’t just tax money that is at stake, said

A federal judge has dismissed three of the four claims in a lawsuit filed against Express Employment Professionals CEO Bob Funk by the co-owner of the Oklahoma Citybased firm.

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Gina Slechta, vice president of marketing for Horizon Group Properties, leads a "hard hat tour" of The Outlet Shoppes at Oklahoma City on Thursday. The mall opens to the public Aug. 5. PHOTOS BY DAVID MCDANIEL, THE OKLAHOMAN

BRIGHT COLORS, TENT DESIGN MAKE NEW MALL STAND OUT BY JENNIFER PALMER Business Writer jpalmer@opubco.com

Inside the food court area of The Outlet Shoppes at Oklahoma City, workers install lighting during a sneak peek on Thursday.

THE OUTLET SHOPPES AT OKLAHOMA CITY I Located at Interstate 40 and Council Road. I Opens Friday, Aug. 5. I Stores include Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5th, Nike, Brooks Brothers, Guess, Coach, Chico’s, Banana Republic, J. Crew, Cole Haan, Under Armour, Levi’s and Carter’s.

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Construction crews work to complete a waterfall in the courtyard of The Outlet Shoppes at Oklahoma City.

To see a video about the outlet mall, go to NewsOK.com and search “The Outlet Shoppes at Oklahoma City.”

Oklahoma City’s new outlet mall is pretty much impossible to miss. With its bright color scheme, large footprint and white circus tent-like peaks, the Outlet Shoppes at Oklahoma City is about to become a landmark. Not only is the center highly visible and meant to draw people from Interstate 40, but it’s been an attractive project to retailers and is opening 100 percent leased with more than 80 stores, said Gina Slechta, a spokeswoman for Horizon Group Properties, which owns the center. Slechta on Thursday took The Oklahoman on a tour of the nearly-complete mall, which opens Aug. 5. Workers were busy installing lighting, landscaping and adding other finishing touches; exterior store signs were up but the stores were empty, with the exception of a few that had shelves or mannequins. Shoppers first will notice the bright exterior paint and those large, white tensile structures, which shade and cool the open-air walkways. There is also a large fireplace and water fountain being constructed in the center of the mall. “Our architects really believed in making the SEE MALL, BACK PAGE

MORTGAGE RATES SLIDE WASHINGTON —

Fixed mortgage rates fell this week, and the rate on the 15-year loan dropped to its lowest point of the year. The average rate on the 30year loan decreased to 4.51 percent from 4.60 percent a week ago, Freddie Mac said Thursday. It reached its yearly low a month ago, at 4.49 percent. The average rate on the 15-year fixed mortgage fell to 3.65 percent from 3.75 percent. Its previous low this year was 3.67 percent, reached three weeks ago. Low mortgage rates and depressed home values have done little to revive the struggling housing market. Many people can’t take advantage of the low rates because of tighter lending standards and higher downpayment requirements. Lenders are cautious because the weak economy make it more likely borrowers will default. FROM WIRE REPORTS

GAS PRICES AAA’s average for regular unleaded: Nation $3.655 Week ago $3.583 Month ago $3.696 Year ago $2.713 Record $4.114 (set) 7-17-08 Thursday

State $3.566 $3.545 $3.569 $2.625 $3.955 7-16-08

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PLUGGING IN

ENERGY

SERTCO TO EXPAND OKEMAH SITE OKEMAH — Sertco Industries Inc. is working with

COMPANY PLANS TO MOVE ALL OPERATIONS OUT OF ENID NEXT SUMMER

Continental Resources sets up shop downtown BY JAY F. MARKS

GULFPORT ENERGY TO OFFER STOCK

Business Writer jmarks@opubco.com

Gulfport Energy Corp. hopes to raise more than $80 million in an underwritten public offering of stock. The company is offering 3 million shares at $28.75 each. Underwriters will be able to purchase up to 450,000 additional shares. Gulfport intends to use proceeds to pay debt and fund acquisitions and its 2011 drilling plan.

Continental Resources isn’t leaving its Enid home until next summer, but the growing oil producer already is establishing a presence in downtown Oklahoma City. Thirty-five Continental employees moved into temporary offices on the 29th floor of Oklahoma Tower this week, a precursor to the company’s pending move to Oklahoma City. President Jeff Hume said the move is necessary if Continental is to accomplish its goal of tripling in size by 2014. Continental already has added 92 employees this year, with openings for at least 50 more. Hume said about half of those jobs are in Continental’s corporate offices, so the number of people in Oklahoma City could grow to 100 employees by the end of the year. “It’s really growing fast down there (Oklahoma City),” he said Thursday in a telephone interview from his office in Enid. Continental’s continued growth means it is continually adding employees. “They’ve been bringing anywhere from three to six people in every Monday,” Hume said. He said there is room for up to 80 employees at Continental’s leased offices in downtown Oklahoma City, but some additional people could work out of some space at Wiley Post Airport. The company recently bought a hangar there. “We’re trying to be creative,” Hume said. “Everybody knows it’s temporary.”

Room to grow Continental officials announced plans to move to Oklahoma City in March to accommodate the company’s growth. Continental has outgrown its longtime home, spreading employees among three different downtown Enid buildings. “We’re busting at the seams up here,” Hume said. Continental will move into the downtown office building currently occupied by Devon Energy Corp., once Devon completes the 50-story tower currently being built one block west at Sheridan and

AVALON WELL TO RESUME WORK Avalon Oil and Gas Inc. is ready to resume operations on a Lincoln County well that was shut in last summer, the Minnesota-based company said Wednesday. “We expect to begin a workover on the Grace 5A in the next few days,” CEO Kent Rodriguez said. “The well was shut-in for several months, recently was put back into production and needs an acid treatment to clean up the wellbore to restore production levels.” Officials hope the well will produce at least five barrels of oil and 200,000 cubic feet of natural gas per day.

IMPERIAL RESOURCES TO BUY LAND Austin-based Imperial Resources Inc. intends to continue amassing acreage in Oklahoma after an independent review confirmed the company’s evaluation of its holdings. Imperial Resources has acquired about 1,000 acres in the state, but company officials hope to push its holdings to 5,000 acres. “It makes sense for the company to acquire as much acreage as we can,” CEO Rob Durbin said. “The acquisition of these assets should help give some substantive mass to our shareholders’ investment. We believe the value of this acreage is only going to go up in value for the foreseeable future.”

KANSAS APPROVES ITC PROJECT ITC Great Plains has received site approval from Kansas regulators for a power line project that will connect to a planned line in Oklahoma. ITC expects to begin construction on the 122-mile high-voltage line in spring 2013. The company will begin negotiations with landowners to purchase right-of-way easements soon. The V-shaped power line will link up with a planned Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. project in Woods County.

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ALSO ... ENID STAFF GETS INCENTIVE TO MOVE Continental Resources Inc. has about 250 employees in Enid. All of them were offered jobs with the company in Oklahoma City. President Jeff Hume said 80 percent or more have accepted compensation packages to move with the company to Oklahoma City. “We’ve got a great group of employees,” he said. “That is our strength.”

Robinson avenues. Hume said there is still no concrete date for the move, but it will likely be done by next summer. In the meantime, he said, Devon has been helpful as Continental begins shifting its operations to

Oklahoma City. Devon’s information technology group has worked with counterparts at Continental to help the newcomers understand the “ins and outs of operating in downtown Oklahoma City,” Hume said.

He said such cooperation is common in the industry. “All of the players in the oil and gas industry really work together on efficiencies and making things work. That’s what makes us successful,” Hume said. “That’s what’s going to make Oklahoma City the energy center. I just truly believe that. “You have the most powerful resource-play companies in the U.S. officed there now.” Continental joins Devon and SandRidge Energy Inc. downtown, and Chesapeake Energy Corp. to the north near NW 63 and Western Avenue.

OG&E executive Motley, 63, dies FROM STAFF REPORTS

An Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. executive with more than 30 years of experience in public utility regulation has died. Howard W. Motley Jr., the company’s vice president of regulatory affairs, died Wednesday. The 63year-old had been recovering from heart surgery. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Howard’s family,” OG&E CEO Pete Delaney said. “The OGE

Energy Corp. family has lost a beloved friend and valued leader. Motley joined OG&E in 2001 after 17 years with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission and 11years as a utility regulatory consultant. He was promoted to vice president in 2006. Tulsa attorney Tom Schroedter, executive director of the Oklahoma Industrial Energy Consumers, said he and his partners worked closely with Motley over the past 15

years. “We ... always had great respect and admiration for him and for the work he did,” Schroedter said. OG&E officials said Motley’s collaborative style and concern for customers contributed to a string of successful regulatory outcomes that enabled the company to become a leader in wind power, demand-management and efficiency, electric infrastructure security, smart grid deployment,

EL RENO — Canadian Valley Technology Center on Thursday hosted elected officials and area residents for the official kickoff of Oklahoma’s newest wind farm project. Canadian Hills Wind Farm will be operated by

Virginia-based APEX Energy Inc., with a planned capacity of 300 megawatts of electricity. The electricity supplied by the new wind farm would power about 120,000 average Oklahoma households. The initial phase is expected to be 150 megawatts, with turbines that

generate about two megawatts each. Wind towers will be built along a ridge just north of Canadian Valley’s El Reno campus, about 25 miles northwest of Oklahoma City. The wind farm is expected to be operational by the fourth quarter of 2012.

New Mexico-based Brinx Resources is planning to drill a development well near a highly successful well in southern Oklahoma, the company announced this week. The offset well is expected to be drilled in the next couple of weeks. The original Brinx well, which began production in May 2009, produced more than 150,000 barrels of oil and 16.5 million cubic feet of natural gas, as of June 1. Company engineers estimate the development well could recover an additional 180,000 barrels of oil.

DOXA ENERGY JOINS PROJECT Doxa Energy has acquired an interest in an existing project in Oklahoma’s emerging Mississippian oil play, the Canadian company announced July 8. Doxa expects to amass 3,600 net acres from Fort Worth-based Dynamic Production Inc. for about $2.2 million. “The Mississippian oil play is an emerging horizontal play that has the potential to become one of the most profitable domestic onshore oil plays today, and as such has the potential of providing significant growth for Doxa as well as exceptional value for our shareholders,” CEO John D. Harvison said. Dynamic Production is managing the project, with plans to acquire about 18,000 acres in Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant and Kay counties.

EXPRESS ENERGY TO EXPAND Houston’s Express Energy Services is expanding its drill-site preparation business to Elk City, the company announced Thursday. The company began as a single-location offshore rental support business, but has grown into a diversified service company with more than 30 locations. FROM STAFF REPORTS

IN STOCK CAVU ENERGY MAJORS RESOURCES CLOSING Howard W. Motley Jr.

expansion of generation and transmission capacity, and improved reliability of the power distribution system — all while keeping OG&E’s customer rates well below the national and regional averages.

APEX Energy plans wind farm in Oklahoma FROM STAFF REPORTS

the city of Okemah on a $2.25 million expansion project to accommodate demand for its wellhead gas compression equipment, the company announced Thursday. Funding for the project comes from the Oklahoma Department of Commerce. Economic Development Administration and Oklahoma Department of Transportation funding will be used for road extensions and overlays. Sertco is investing about $800,000 for new equipment and machinery. The project will add more than 12,000 square feet of assembly and 3,600 square feet of office space, with a 2,000-square-foot paint booth to be added later this year. Construction on road improvements will begin in this fall. Sertco has 45 full-time workers and plans to hire at least 15 more this year.

Canadian Valley will provide APEX with meeting space before, during and after construction. The school could potentially supply wind technicians as well. The school has offered entry-level wind technician training since January 2010.

CAVU Resources Inc. has grossed about $3.1 million so far in 2011, the company said. “With the Envirotek Fuel Systems sale, the two-year drilling program and our recent acquisitions, we expect to have the best year since the company was founded,” President William Robinson said. CAVU is focusing on projects that bring value, revenues and new opportunities.

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BERNANKE HAS NO PLAN TO LAUNCH ANOTHER ROUND OF BOND PURCHASES

Fed chief says debt default would put economy at risk BY MARTIN CRUTSINGER

ALSO ...

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Federal

Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned U.S. lawmakers Thursday that they would deliver a “selfinflicted” wound to the nation’s economy by holding up efforts to raise the government’s borrowing limit. The Fed chief also said the central bank had no immediate plans to introduce new stimulus measures, elaborating on remarks he made a day earlier that the Fed stood ready to take additional steps to boost the economy if conditions worsened. His comments ended an early-morning rally on Wall Street. Traders had interpreted Wednesday’s comments to mean the Fed was about to embark on another round of bond purchases, analysts said. The government hit its $14.3 trillion borrowing limit in May. Republicans have held up increasing the limit because of concerns that excessive government spending has widened the federal deficits. The Treasury Department said it will default on its debt if the limit is not raised by Aug. 2. Bernanke told a Senate panel that a default on the debt would lead to even greater federal deficits. Interest rates would rise, and the government would be forced to pay higher rates on its debt. At the same time, higher rates would slow the economy and an already-weak job market. That would curtail tax revenue. “I think it would be a calamitous outcome, create a

GAS COSTS, FEW JOBS STALL GROWTH

Ben Bernanke Federal Reserve Chairman

very severe financial shock,” Bernanke told the Senate Banking Committee during his second appearance before Congress this week. “Treasury securities are critical to the entire financial system … A default on those securities would throw the financial system … potentially into chaos.” Bernanke was on Capitol Hill to deliver his semiannual economic report. On Wednesday, he told a House panel that the Fed would consider various options for boosting the economy if growth does not rebound. Stocks rose immediately after he made those comments. But Thursday, he made clear the Fed had no immediate plans to launch another round of bond purchases. He said the economy is more complex now than a year ago, when the Fed decided to institute a $600 billion program of buying Treasury bonds to lower long-term interest rates. Last summer, the Fed was concerned about a prolonged period of falling prices, or deflation, Bernanke said. This year, inflation is higher.

WASHINGTON — A mixed slate of reports Thursday showed the economy is being held back by high gas prices and sluggish hiring. Economists are forecasting a pickup in growth in the second half of the year. But the latest data revealed only faint signs of a turnaround. The Commerce Department said retail sales ticked up only 0.1 percent last month, after declining the previous month. Consumers spent more on cars and in big chain stores in June but less on furniture and appliances. The number of people who applied for unemployment benefits dropped last week by 22,000 to a seasonally adjusted 405,000, the lowest level in three months. Still, applications have been above 400,000 for 14 straight weeks, reflecting the weak job market. U.S. companies paid less for raw materials and factory goods in June, a separate report showed. The decline in wholesale prices was driven by the steepest fall in energy prices in nearly two years. Gas prices dropped by the most since last May, the Labor Department said. Still, businesses and motorists are paying nearly a dollar more per gallon than they were a year ago. That has forced many consumers to forgo discretionary purchases.

AUG. 2 DEBT LIMIT DEADLINE IS FIRM WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says he’s looked at all the options, and there’s “no way to give Congress more time” to solve the debt limit problem. Lawmakers face a Tuesday, Aug. 2, deadline to enact legislation to allow the government to continue to borrow to meet obligations like Social Security checks and payments to holdTimothy ers of U.S. Treasuries. Geithner Geithner has employed several accounting moves to allow U.S. Treasury the government to avoid a secretary first-ever default. He warns that a default would rock the credit and stock markets and would force up the interest the government has to pay on its bonds. Top lawmakers returned to the White House Thursday amid dwindling hopes for a bipartisan deal to slash the deficit and combine it with a debt limit increase. FROM WIRE REPORTS

BUSINESS BRIEFS NATION

TSA CONSIDERS CHANGES WASHINGTON — The Transportation Security Administration said Thursday it will test a program to prescreen a small group of select air travelers who volunteer more personal information about themselves so they can get faster screening at airport checkpoints. The new program represents the Obama administration’s first attempt at a more risk-based, intelligence-driven passenger screening program. The test program was expected to begin sometime this fall. The TSA said it anticipates that between 5,000 and 8,000 travelers will participate.

CO2 PROJECT ON HOLD COLUMBUS, Ohio — American Electric Power Co. said Thursday it was putting a hold on its plans for a commercial-scale carbon dioxide capture and storage project in West Virginia because of uncertainty surrounding U.S. climate policy and what the company described as a weak economy. Michael G. Morris, AEP’s chairman and chief executive said continuing to build the system at the utility’s coal-fired Mountaineer power plant in New Haven, W.Va., no longer makes economic sense. Electricity demand is sluggish for AEP and other utilities across the country. AEP is the parent company of Tulsa-based PSO Oklahoma.

BORDERS AUCTION OK’D NEW YORK — Borders Group, the na-

tion’s second largest bookstore chain that once operated over 1,000 stores, appears headed for liquidation after a judge on Thursday approved its motion to auction itself off with a team of liquidators as its opening bid. Borders said it will accept bids until 5 p.m. Sunday and give notice by Monday if no other bidder emerges. Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Borders Group Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection in February.

YUM BRACES FOR DECLINE LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Fast-food restaurant

operator Yum Brands Inc. said Thursday that its domestic business remains in the doldrums as Taco Bell, its most profitable brand in the U.S., struggles to recover from publicity surrounding a dropped lawsuit over the beef content of its taco filling. One day after the owner of Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell reported a 10 percent rise in second-quarter profit, mainly driven by surging business in China, the company said it’s bracing for an-

other round of operating profit declines in the U.S. Louisville, Ky.,-based Yum generates nearly three-fourths of its operating profit from China and other foreign countries.

FISH REPORT POSITIVE PORTLAND, Maine — Federal officials say 40 stocks of fish populations are subject to overfishing in U.S. waters but say progress is being made to rebuild them. An annual report on U.S. fisheries from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the number of overfished populations at the end of 2010 was up by two from 2009. But officials said Thursday that the country is “turning a corner” in rebuilding fish populations. NOAA fisheries chief Eric Schwab says 21 stocks of commercial fish populations have been rebuilt since 2000.

POST SPINOFF PLANNED PORTLAND, Ore. — Ralcorp Holdings Inc.

said Thursday that it plans to spin off cereal maker Post Foods to focus on building its generic foods business. Ralcorp, which makes food service products and foods for grocers and other retailers. It expects to complete the tax-free split in four to six months. Post Foods is the third-largest U.S. maker of name-brand cereals. Ralcorp, based in St. Louis, acquired Post Foods in 2007 from Kraft Foods Inc. for roughly $1.7 billion.

VIDEO GAME SALES SAG NEW YORK — U.S. retail sales of video game hardware, software and accessories dropped 10 percent in June to $995 million compared with the same month a year ago. The industry’s second-straight month of sales decline was due largely to a lackluster slate of new game releases, market researcher NPD Group said.

WORLD

DEUTSCHE BOERSE OKS DEAL FRANKFURT, Germany — German stock

exchange operator Deutsche Boerse AG said Thursday that enough of its shareholders have tendered their stock for its merger with NYSE Euronext to go through. Deutsche Boerse said that over 80 percent of shares were handed in by the midnight deadline Wednesday. It needed 75 percent. Shareholders in NYSE Euronext, operator of the New York Stock Exchange, approved the deal last week. FROM WIRE REPORTS

A trader works on the floor Monday at the New York Stock Exchange in New York. AP PHOTO

Default doesn’t seem to worry Wall Street BY BERNARD CONDON AND MATTHEW CRAFT Associated Press

NEW YORK — The CEO of a big bank says a U.S. default could be catastrophic. The head of the Federal Reserve warns of chaos. And a credit rating agency threatens to take away the country’s triple-A status. The response on Wall Street: So what? In Washington, the fight over the federal debt limit has grown uglier by the day. The White House says the limit must be raised by Aug. 2 or the government can’t pay its bills. But as the deadline nears, stocks and bonds have barely flinched. The Dow Jones industrial average fell just 54 points Thursday and stands about where it did at the start of the month. The yield on the 10-year Treasury bond, which usually rises when seen as a riskier bet, is lower than it was earlier this year.

Risk versus liquidity In theory, investors in U.S. Treasury bonds should demand higher interest payments when there’s a greater risk they won’t get their money back — in this case, in the event of a default. Instead, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose

IMPASSE MAY HURT CREDIT Credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s is warning that there is a 50 percent chance it will downgrade the U.S. government’s credit rating within three months because of the congressional impasse over approving an increase in the debt ceiling. In a statement, the rating agency said it is placing the United States on a credit watch.

only slightly Thursday, to 2.95 percent. In February, it was 3.74 percent. In this market, size wins. The U.S. has $14 trillion in outstanding Treasury bonds. U.S. debt is held more widely and traded more often than any other government’s IOU. That matters because pensions, private investment funds and central banks the world over want to know that they can buy and sell these holdings fast — what investors call liquidity. During the credit crisis of 2008, investors bought U.S. Treasurys because they were perceived as not only safe but liquid.

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CITY BUSINESSMAN ALLEGES CORPORATE FUNDS WERE USED IMPROPERLY

Q&A WITH TANYA BRYANT

3 of 4 claims dismissed in business partner’s lawsuit FROM STAFF REPORTS

A federal judge has dismissed three of the four claims in a lawsuit filed against Express Employment Professionals CEO Bob Funk by the co-owner of the Oklahoma Citybased firm. Bill Stoller claimed in the suit that corporate funds were used impro-

perly for Funk’s personal benefit. An earlier, similar lawsuit Stoller filed was dismissed. The one claim the judge did not dismiss this week related to a 2006 agreement between Funk and Stoller. “If plaintiff is able to prove that Funk failed to honor this agreement, he would be entitled to recov-

er on a breach of contract claim,” U.S. District Judge Robin Cauthron wrote. Funk’s attorney, Kent W. Gardner, said he was pleased with the judge’s decision. “As we have said before, the law has been on our side in this matter from the beginning, and today’s decision by the judge bears that out once

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION OKS COMPANY’S USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA Q: Tell me about the recent determination by the Federal Trade Commission regarding businesses’ use of social media, such as Facebook, in pre-employment background checks. A: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigated Social Intelligence Corp., a company that provides online pre-employment Tanya Bryant employee background Associate in checks, to determine Crowe & Dunwhether the company was levy’s Labor and in compliance with the Fair Employment Credit Reporting Act. In Department conducting these online pre-employment background checks for employers, Social Intelligence Corp. generates reports by gathering and assembling public information on applicants from social networking sites. The FTC determined the company was in compliance and halted its investigation.

again,” Gardner said in a statement. “We hope the latest setback in Bill’s case will in some way discourage further legal activities and provide an opportunity to eliminate this unnecessary distraction and allow us to focus our full attention on the business, which continues to experience record performance.”

Bar S worker dies after falling into machine BY M.A. SMITH Business Writer msmith@opubco.com

LAWTON — Investigations continued into the death of a local Bar S Foods employee who died Wednesday after a workrelated accident, local authorities said. Shortly before midnight Tuesday at the Bar S Foods manufacturing plant, 26year-old Michael Raper, of Duncan, was cleaning a piece of equipment employing an auger when he fell into the machinery, said Lawton Fire Department Lt. Steve Thornton. After emergency workers arrived, Thornton said they found Raper trapped in the machine from the waist down. It took first

responders an hour and 45 minutes to free him. “His legs were caught in an auger,” Thornton said. “They used a forklift to stabilize the auger while cutting it in two (pieces), lifted up the auger and pulled him from the machinery. “It was basically disentanglement because the gentleman was trapped,” he said. An Air Evac helicopter was requested. However, Raper was able to be taken by ambulance to Comanche County Memorial Hospital where he died Wednesday from severe injuries, the company said in a news release. “The entire Bar S Foods family is mourning the loss of our friend and co-work-

er,” Chief Executive Officer and Chairman Tim Day said in a statement released from the company’s headquarters in Phoenix. “We extend our deepest condolences to the employee’s family, and we are committed to helping them and employees get through this difficult period.” During a vigil held in Duncan Wednesday night, family and friends paid tribute to his memory, faith and commitment. “Mikey had a very caring heart and would do anything for you if you needed it done,” said Raper’s cousin, Austin Wren. “He was a very hard worker,” said Raper’s uncle, Charles Wren. “He loved to play jokes on people. He was just a good guy

Q: What are the implications of this action on employers? A: When employers conduct their own Internet searches on applicants, they risk uncovering information about the applicant’s protected status, such as race, religion, disability, age or medical history. Discovering this information leaves the employer vulnerable to claims of discrimination in the event the applicant is not hired. Social Intelligence Corp. claims to minimize the risk to employers by conducting background checks based on pre-defined criteria, such as illegal activity, racist remarks and explicit photos and videos and filtering out information reflecting an applicant’s protected status. Although at first blush, this approach may seem to have some protections for employers, that remains to be seen because, to date, no lawsuits have been found that are based on an employer’s rejection of an applicant due to objectionable information found on social media sites during a pre-employment screening. This is likely because this is a relatively new phenomenon.

and that’s all I could say, is that he was just a good guy and he would do anything for you.” Danny Dupree, vice president for operations at the Lawton plant, said the company is conducting its own investigation and is working with all government agencies to determine the cause of the accident. Juan J. Rodriguez, a spokesman for the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, confirmed an investigation was being conducted into the accident. The company reports that it has a positive record of safety practices.

Q: What does this mean for potential job applicants? A: Anything an applicant posts publicly on a social media website is subject to review by a potential employer. Persons should be mindful of what they are posting, as well as what their friends are posting about them. If viewed as offensive to a potential employer, the applicant may be losing out on job opportunities. However, applicants can still challenge the legitimacy of the information and may potentially bring lawsuits against prospective employers challenging hiring decisions.

CONTRIBUTING: THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION

2 state nonprofits to receive free PR services FROM STAFF REPORTS

Saxum, an Oklahoma City-based public relations and marketing firm, has selected two Oklahoma nonprofits to receive $50,000 pro-bono service grants for 20112012 as part of the firm’s Step Up program. The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City and Community Action Project of Tulsa will work with Saxum team members to increase awareness of the nonprofits and their missions

within their communities. Saxum CEO Renzi Stone said the company decided to award two grants for the first time this year, the Step Up program’s third year. “We look forward to helping each organization advance its cause and increase community support through a strategic combination of public relations, marketing, creative and social media efforts,” Stone said. The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma acts as a link through which the food

industry and community may donate food and other goods. The products are distributed to more than 750 charitable feeding programs and elementary schools in 53 central and western Oklahoma counties. Since its inception in 1980, the food bank has distributed 404 million pounds of food to feed Oklahoma’s hungry. The vision of Community Action Project is to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty by improving the prospects of

long-term economic success for very young, lowincome children, their families and the communities in which they live. The organization combines early childhood education with innovative family financial and health services and targeted community improvement efforts. The project serves more than 1,900 of Tulsa’s lowincome children in 16 early childhood centers across the county. In 2010, the project reached 23,000 low-income families of Tulsa County.

DON MECOY, BUSINESS WRITER

IN BRIEF DISASTER CLAIMS DUE THURSDAY The deadline for Caddo County residents to file for disaster unemployment assistance is Thursday. Workers in the county who lost work or earnings because of severe storms, tornadoes, straight-line winds and flooding between May 22 and May 25 may be eligible. Claims made after Thursday will be denied unless the individual has good cause for filing late. To apply, call the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission at (800) 555-1554.

WILLIAMS MAY WIN PIPELINE BUYOUT TULSA — Williams’ latest buyout offer may have

Fraud: Waiting list for help is closed FROM PAGE 1B

Dennis Shockley, executive director of the Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency. That waiting list is closed, with a wait of two years, he said. “Real people really need this help,” Shockley said. The urgent need for legitimate use of the voucher funds, he said, prompted the crackdown. “We’ve had a full-time fraud investigator for nine years now,” Shockley said. “We’re always turning cases over to the U.S. attorney — on a regular basis. ... We thought we’d batch a bunch of these and go out (with arrest warrants) at the same time to send the message.” HUD’s aim is to prevent fraud as well as catch it, said Phyllis Grissom Robinson, special agent in charge of OIL AND GAS PRICES Oklahoma crude oil prices as of 5 p.m. Thursday: Oklahoma Sweet: Sunoco Inc. — $92. Oklahoma Sour: Sunoco Inc. — $80. Oklahoma oil and gas drilling activity posted June 21: COMPLETION Alfalfa: SandRidge Exploration & Production LLC; Rex No. 1-12H Well; N1⁄2 N1⁄2 NE1⁄4 NE1⁄4 (SL) of 12-28N-09W; 218.2 barrels oil per day, 568,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 9,570. SandRidge Exploration & Production LLC; Tanner Trust No. 1-23H Well; NE1⁄4 NW1⁄4 NE1⁄4 NE1⁄4 (SL) of 23-29N-11W; 1,511,000 cu-ft gas per day, 71.5 barrels oil per day; TD 9,505. Beaver: Cabot Oil & Gas Corp.; State of Oklahoma No. 1-36H Well; C SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 (SL) of 36-02N-22E; 197 barrels oil per day, 7,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 10,884. Blaine: Devon Energy Production Co. LP; Wills No. 1-17H Well; SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 (SL) of 17-14N-11W; 3,048,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 17,726. Devon Energy Production Co. LP; Wright No. 1-13H Well; SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 (SL) of 13-13N-11W; 3,842,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 18,247. Canadian: Devon Energy Production Co. LP; Miller No. 1-11H Well; NW1⁄4 NW1⁄4 NW1⁄4 NE1⁄4

HUD’s Office of InspecI Nkechi Carolina, 32, tor General. Not that the Oklahoma City, three program is fraught with counts. corruption. I Sonya M. Thomas, “The vast majority of 45, Oklahoma City, two participants ... do not counts. commit fraud,” said DebI Bridgette M. Fletchorah Jenkins, director of er, 43, Oklahoma City. rental programs for the I Rachel K. Owens, 35, state housing finance Oklahoma City. agency. I Vivian L. Shelton, 50, Coats presented federLawton. Phyllis Grissom al indictments unsealed One federal case was Robinson by the U.S. District Court filed in the U.S. District for the Western District Court for the Eastern of Oklahoma against five people ac- District of Oklahoma: cused of making false claims about I Monica Lynn Sevenstar, 34, their income and employment in or- Muldrow, is accused of falsely claimder to receive the housing assistance. ing she had not been arrested, Each could get five years in federal charged or convicted of manufacturprison and a $250,000 fine for each ing methamphetamines in the past count: 10 years.

(BHL) of 11-12N-09W; 1,893,000 cu-ft gas per day, 118 barrels oil per day; TD 17,390. Devon Energy Production Co. LP; Wedman No. 1-29H Well; SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 (SL) of 29-14N-08W; 1,069,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 15,553. Carter: Ardmore Production & Exploration Co.; SEOCU No. 7-1 Well; NE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 of 27-03S-02W; 96 barrels oil per day; TD 5,208. Creek: Dexxon, Inc.; Conley No. 4 Well; S1⁄2 SE1⁄4 NW1⁄4 NW1⁄4 of 09-16N-11E; 3 barrels oil per day; TD 2,483. Custer: Apache Corp.; McRee No. 1-32H Well; S1⁄2 S1⁄2 SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 (SL) of 32-12N-20W; 729 barrels oil per day, 1,547,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 15,089. Logan: Kirkpatrick Oil Co. Inc.; Smith No. 1-6H Well; S1⁄2 S1⁄2 S1⁄2 SW1⁄4 (SL) of 06-19N-03W; 687,000 cu-ft gas per day, 143 barrels oil per day; TD 9,150. McClain: Charter Oak Production Co. LLC; Cheyenne No. 1-18R Well; C SE1⁄4 NE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 of 18-06N-02W; TD 9,008. Charter Oak Production Co. LLC; Henson Haven No. 1-6 Well; NE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 of 06-06N-02W; 80 barrels oil per day, 77,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 8,915. Charter Oak Production Co. LLC; Kay Barry No. 1-12 Well; N1⁄2 SW1⁄4 NW1⁄4 NW1⁄4 of 12-06N-03W; 83 barrels oil per day, 87,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 9,235. EnergyQuest II LLC; Masterson

B No. 1 Well; W1⁄2 E1⁄2 SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 of 28-06N-03W; 10 barrels oil per day, 5,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 9,890. Pawnee: Midwest Minerals & Energy Inc.; Cooper D No. 1 Well; N1⁄2 NW1⁄4 NW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 of 33-21N-05E; TD 4,242. Midwest Minerals & Energy Inc.; Quinton LJ No. 1 Well; C NW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 of 33-21N-05E; Dry TD 3,069. Midwest Minerals & Energy Inc.; Quinton LS No. 1 Well; N1⁄2 NW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 of 33-21N-05E; 5 barrels oil per day, 20,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 3,548. Seminole: Boone Operating Inc.; Chaser No. 46X-6 Well; NW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 NE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 of 06-07N-06E; 15 barrels oil per day; TD 4,946. O & G Well Service LLC; Cameron No. 2 2 Well; NW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 NW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 of 02-08N-06E; 8 barrels oil per day; TD 4,633. Washita: Apache Corp.; Shelton No. 3-8H Well; SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 (SL) of 08-11N-20W; 1698 barrels oil per day, 2191,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 15,404. Chesapeake Operating Inc.; Rainbolt No. 1-9H Well; NE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 (SL) of 09-11N-17W; 5,977,000 cu-ft gas per day, 393 barrels oil per day; TD 17,230. INTENT TO DRILL Beaver: Unit Petroleum Co.; Hoover No. 1 SWD Well; SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 NW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 of 05-01N-20E; TD 7,500.

Beckham: Samson Resources Co.; Richardson No. 1-33H Well; 1 N ⁄2 N1⁄2 NW1⁄4 NW1⁄4 (SL) of 33-11N-22W; TD 17,500. Blaine: Continental Resources Inc.; Evick No. 1-22H Well; SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 (SL) of 22-15N-11W; TD 16,892. Devon Energy Production Co. LP; Pierce No. 1-12H Well; SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 (SL) of 12-15N-12W; TD 16,397. Marathon Oil Co.; Roser No. 1-3H Well; SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 (SL) of 03-16N-11W; TD 15,600. Coal: Jones Energy Ltd.; Lemons No. 2H-28 Well; SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 (SL) of 21-01N-10E; TD 12,777. Jones Energy Ltd.; Lemons No. 3H-28 Well; SE1⁄4 SW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 (SL) of 21-01N-10E; TD 12,762. Garvin: Cimarex Energy Co.; Mary Beth No. 1-6 Well; SE1⁄4 NE1⁄4 NW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 (SL) of 06-01N-02W; TD 11,500. Grady: Chesapeake Operating Inc.; Josephine No. 3-25 Well; SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 NW1⁄4 NE1⁄4 (SL) of 25-05N-05W; TD 12,980. Pittsburg: PetroQuest Energy LLC; Lindsi No. 1-22H Well; SE1⁄4 NW1⁄4 SE1⁄4 SE1⁄4 (SL) of 15-07N-17E; TD 15,396. Roger Mills: Chesapeake Operating Inc.; Washita River USA 15-15-26 No. 1H Well; S1⁄2 S1⁄2 SW1⁄4 SW1⁄4 (SL) of 15-15N-26W; TD 13,500. SOURCE: OIL-LAW RECORDS CORP.

trumped Energy Transfer Equity LP again in the high-stakes pursuit for the Southern Union Co. pipeline assets, but the Tulsa-based bidder plans to follow its rival’s time frame. A second all-cash counter-offer by Williams Cos. Inc. would pay Southern Union shareholders $44 per share and bring a total of $9.4 billion in enterprise value into the company fold, according to an announcement Thursday. Energy Transfer Equity LP had offered $40 per share, or $5.1 billion in cash and stock, nine days previously. If successful, Williams’ acquisition could be completed by the first quarter 2012, Williams CEO Alan Armstrong said Thursday. FROM OKLAHOMAN AND TULSA WORLD REPORTS

State Grains

CASH WHEAT 3 to 4 cents higher. 7.00-7.35 Alva . . . . . . . . . 7.25 Banner. . . . . . . 7.35 Buffalo. . . . . . . 7.25 Cherokee . . . . 7.27 Clinton . . . . . . . .7.21 Davis . . . . . . . . 7.01 El Dorado . . . . 7.25 El Reno . . . . . . 7.35 Frederick. . . . . 7.05 Geary . . . . . . . . 7.35 Hobart . . . . . . . 7.20 Hooker. . . . . . . 7.20 Keyes . . . . . . . . 7.05 Lawton . . . . . .7.00 Manchester . . . . 7.25 Medford . . . . . 7.29 Miami. . . . . . . . .7.21 Okarche . . . . . 7.35 Okeene . . . . . . 7.35 Perry . . . . . . . . 7.34 Ponca City . . . . 7.34 Shattuck. . . . . 7.22 Stillwater . . . . 7.34 Temple . . . . . .7.00 Watonga . . . . 7.35 Weatherford . . . 7.25 Gulf. . . . . . . . . . . . 7.95 FEED GRAINS MILO Alva . . . . . . . 10.57 Buffalo. . . . . 10.57 Hooker. . . . . .11.48 Keyes . . . . . . . 11.14 Manchester 11.04 Medford . . . . 11.14 Miami. . . . . . .11.44 Ponca City . . 11.08 Shattuck. . . . 11.14 Weatherford . . 11.14 Gulf. . . . . . . . 12.90

SOYBEANS Alva . . . . . . . 13.07 Buffalo. . . . . 13.07 Hooker. . . . . .13.14 Medford . . . .13.12 Miami. . . . . . . .N/A Ponca City . . .13.12 Shattuck. . . 13.02 Stillwater . . .13.19 Gulf. . . . . . 14.66{ CORN $6.43-$7.23 per bushel. COTTON Grade 41, Leaf 4, Staple 34 cotton in southwestern OK 113.75 cents per pound, FOB rail car or truck. KANSAS CITY GRAIN Wheat, No.2 Hard, bu...............$7.01-$7.53{ Corn, No. 2 yellow....................... $7.03}-$7.32 Milo.........................................................$10.78-$12.70 Soybeans, No. 1.............................$13.59-$13.93

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Jul 11 724 742 711.50 Sep 11 690.75 695 673.75 Dec 11 675 684.50 665 Mar 12 685.50 696 676.75 Est. sales 464,831 Wed’s. sales 326,340 Wed’s open int 1,185,912 off 2277.00

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Jul 11 360 360 359 Sep 11 359.75 366 355 Dec 11 368.75 374.50 363.75 Mar 12 377.50 383.50 377.50 Est. sales 1,074 Wed’s. sales 731 Wed’s open int 12,323 off 53.00

359 360 368.50 378.50

Jul 11 352.80 356.00 352.30 Aug 11 356.50 357.40 353.10 Sep 11 358.20 359.10 354.60 Oct 11 359.10 360.00 355.80 Est. sales 92,044 Wed’s. sales 60,546 Wed’s open int 170,901 off 3233.00

355.50 357.00 358.50 359.60

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Jul 11 1390.25 1396.75 1390.25 1390.50 Aug 11 1383 1387.25 1374 1382 Sep 11 1385 1385 1373.25 1379.75 Nov 11 1384 1389.50 1378 1384 Est. sales 277,248 Wed’s. sales 174,188 Wed’s open int 521,852 up 7595.00

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WINTER WHEAT (KCBT) 5,000 bu minimum- cents per bushel Sep 11 762 768 752 Dec 11 790 791 779 Mar 12 804.25 807 804 Jul 12 812 817.75 811 Wed’s. sales 39,205 Wed’s open int 167,665 up 377.00

691.25 707

Aug 11 111.35 113.47 110.50 Oct 11 117.65 119.85 116.90 Dec 11 121.40 124.07 121.20 Feb 12 125.55 125.55 123.30 Est. sales 30,997 Wed’s. sales 84,587 Wed’s open int 327,377 off 267.00

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SOYBEANS (CBOT) 5,000 bu minimum- cents per bushel

701 720.50

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CATTLE (CME) 40,000 lbs.- cents per lb.

SOYBEAN MEAL (CBOT) 100 tons- dollars per ton

700 703.50

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Dec 11 733.75 749 720 Mar 12 760.50 772.50 746.75 Est. sales 172,373 Wed’s. sales 165,023 Wed’s open int 434,947 up 839.00

Aug 11 139.30 139.30 136.90 Sep 11 139.25 139.30 137.85 Oct 11 140.20 140.20 138.70 Nov 11 140.10 140.10 138.85 Est. sales 8,733 Wed’s. sales 9,609 Wed’s open int 42,003 up 436.00

HOGS-Lean (CME) 40,000 lbs.- cents per lb. Jul 11 95.17 95.60 95.05 Aug 11 98.22 99.67 97.40 Oct 11 91.45 93.52 90.65 Dec 11 88.00 90.12 87.25 Est. sales 11,812 Wed’s. sales 74,586 Wed’s open int 247,620 up 2935.00

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Div. Yield: 3.5%

SOURCES: Morningstar; FactSet

Stocks fell Thursday after Federal Reserve Chairny before Congress. The Dow Jones industrial avman Ben Bernanke said that more stimulus for the erage fell 54.49, or 0.4 percent, to close at economy isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t imminent. The Fed will buy more 12,437.12. The S&P 500 fell 8.85, or 0.7 percent, Treasury bonds only if the economy gets even to 1,308.87. The Nasdaq fell 34.25, or 1.2 percent, weaker, Bernanke said in a second day of testimo- to 2,762.67. ConocoPhilips COP JPMorgan Chase JPM Marriott International MAR Close: $75.61 1.21 or 1.6% The energy company, the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s third-largest, will separate into two publicly traded entities. Its CEO will retire after the split. $85

Close: $40.35 0.73 or 1.8% The bankâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second-quarter profit rose 13 percent as it cut losses in its credit card portfolio and collected higher investment-banking fees. $50

Close: $34.69 -2.45 or -6.6% The hotel operatorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second-quarter profit grew thanks to higher room rates and new properties. But it cut full-year guidance. $38

M J 52-week range

$50.80

J $81.80

M J 52-week range

$35.55

J $48.36

M J 52-week range

$30.05

$42.78

Vol.: 65.2m (2.1x avg.) PE: 9.0 Mkt. Cap: $160.34 b Yield: 2.5%

Vol.: 20.3m (4.7x avg.) PE: 28.0 Mkt. Cap: $12.47 b Yield: 1.2%

Consol Energy

Southern Union

SUG

Medicis Pharmaceutical MRX

Close: $43.42 1.82 or 4.4% Williams Cos. increased its offer for the pipeline company, topping a competing bid from Energy Transfer Equity. $50

Close: $38.56 -1.49 or -3.7% Police found a dead woman, reportedly the girlfriend of the CEO of the dermatology drug developer, at the CEOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s California mansion. $45

Close: $50.89 2.16 or 4.4% The energy company lifted its coal production forecast for the year after strong production in its mines during the second quarter. $55 50 A

M J 52-week range

$31.08 Vol.: 6.7m (2.2x avg.) Mkt. Cap: $11.53 b SOURCE: Sungard

J $56.32

PE: 26.4 Yield: 0.8%

$22.02

M J 52-week range

J $43.60

Vol.: 15.7m (5.1x avg.) PE: 22.7 Mkt. Cap: $5.41 b Yield: 1.4%

$23.37

M J 52-week range

J $40.51

Vol.: 9.9m (9.0x avg.) PE: 21.9 Mkt. Cap: $2.38 b Yield: 0.8% AP

NET CHG

PVS

Industrial production Month-over-month change

1YR AGO

EXP.

3-month T-bill 6-month T-bill 1-year T-note 2-year T-note 5-year T-note

.01 .04 .17 .35 1.48

... .05 .17 .34 1.44

+0.01 -0.01 ... +0.01 +0.04

.14 .18 .30 .59 1.81

10-year T-note 30-year T-bond

2.94 4.24

2.88 4.18

+0.06 +0.06

3.04 4.03

YEST

PVS

NET CHG

Barclays LongT-BdIdx 3.89 Bond Buyer Muni Idx 5.18 Barclays USAggregate 2.68 PRIME FED Barclays US High Yield 7.25 RATE FUNDS Moodys AAA Corp Idx 4.86 .13 YEST 3.25 Barclays US Corp 3.60 .13 6 MO AGO 3.25 KBW Bank 46.42 .13 1 YR AGO 3.25

3.84 5.19 2.70 7.30 4.87 3.62 47.00

+0.05 -0.01 -0.02 -0.05 -0.01 -0.02 -0.58

BONDS

1YR AGO 3.75 5.13 2.88 8.76 4.86 4.24 50.15

PVS

.6201 .9604 6.4612

.6207 .9588 6.4691

CLOSE Euro Japanese yen Mexican peso

.7075 79.11 11.7373

OPEN

CH.

LIGHT SWEET CRUDE (NYMX) 1,000 bbl.- dollars per bbl. Aug 11 95.25 95.69 Sep 11 95.69 96.11

-2.36 -2.38

Est. sales 787,994 Wedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. sales 718,474 Wedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open int 1,552,946 up 14690.00

NATURAL GAS (NYMX) 10,000 mm btuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, $ per mm btu Aug 11 4.383 4.378 Sep 11 4.362 4.358

-.025 -.029

Est. sales 330,942 Wedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. sales 283,446 Wedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open int 983,172 off 5058.00

GOLD (COMX) 100 troy oz.- dollars per troy oz. Jul 11 1586.30 1589.00 +3.80 Aug 11 1589.10 1589.30 +3.80 Est. sales 230,807 Wedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. sales 243,722 Wedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open int 531,753 up 11551.00

CBOT SILVER 5000 oz. (CBOT) 5000 troy oz- dollars per troy oz Jul 11 38.345 38.345 +.178 Aug 11 38.317 38.317 +.164 Est. sales 102 Wedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. sales 254 Wedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open int 1,206 up 19.00

ForeignExchange

NY HARBOR GAS BLEND (NYMX) 42,000 gallons- dollars per gallon Aug 11 3.1051 3.1248 -.0268 Sep 11 3.0434 3.0617 -.0255

PVS .7067 78.99 11.6819

Est. sales 92,671 Wedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. sales 121,719 Wedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open int 239,324 up 3152.00

Oklahoma Inc. Stocks 52-WEEK HI LO

NAME

LAST

23.79 3.90 58.00 84.10 93.29 56.58 44.67 35.95 73.48 93.56 84.27 7.00 7.24 6.40 38.09 70.47 49.21 63.10 14.60

AAON s ADDvntgT AlliHold AllnceRes ApcoO&Gs BOK BncFstOK ChesEng ContlRes DevonE DollarTh EducDev h GMX Rs GrayMH rs GulfportE HelmPayne LSB Inds MagelMPtr MatrixSv

23.46 -.25 2.53 -.04 49.16 -.28 75.96 -.23 87.19 -2.67 54.28 -.94 38.73 -.97 30.21 +.27 65.57 -.98 77.88 -.42 73.12 -.45 5.56 +.06 4.85 -.16 1.27 -.00 30.49 +1.40 66.98 -1.31 43.50 -.22 59.40 -.23 13.60 -.55

13.39 2.34 34.15 46.60 21.80 42.56 34.87 19.68 38.23 59.07 45.00 4.18 3.98 1.17 10.37 35.56 12.86 46.65 8.25

CH.

YTD %CH. DIV

YLD

+24.7 -19.4 +2.1 +15.5 +51.6 +1.6 -6.0 +16.6 +11.4 -0.8 +54.7 -18.8 -12.1 -56.5 +40.6 +38.2 +79.3 +5.1 +11.7

1.0 ... 4.5 4.7 .1 2.0 2.6 1.2 ... .9 ... 8.6 ... ... ... .4 ... 5.2 ...

0.24 ... 2.22 3.56 0.08 1.10 1.00 0.35 ... 0.68 ... 0.48 ... ... ... 0.28 ... 3.08 ...

52-WEEK HI LO

TKR VXX TZA FAS FZB FCV FOC FKL FMV EWJ SLV EEM EFA IWM QQQ SDS SPY XLE XLF XLI VWO

LAST 23.38 34.73 23.68 30.15 30.59 31.04 29.90 30.69 10.58 37.41 46.37 57.98 82.26 57.09 20.87 130.93 74.85 14.88 36.51 47.46

CH. +.81 +1.60 -.55 ... -.15 ... ... ... -.10 +.18 -.50 -.51 -1.33 -.67 +.26 -.91 -.50 -.11 -.40 -.43

MutualFundCategories YTD

Conservative Allocation (CA) Moderate Allocation (MA) Health (SH) Natural Resources (SN) Real Estate (SR) Technology (ST)

3.87 3.79 15.10 1.33 10.43 2.06

11.91 15.57 29.51 30.72 26.90 22.91

5.64 4.88 8.79 -3.02 7.51 9.64

4.54 4.19 7.28 6.42 1.84 8.56

5YR

3.66 3.90 3.92

12.87 14.99 15.54

4.66 4.00 4.26

4.40 4.13 3.95

-1.70 2.82 2.60 1.72 2.17 2.32 1.95 3.26 2.99

18.91 20.13 24.88 18.32 20.58 26.38 16.80 16.49 20.20

3.13 -1.78 3.84 -0.93 0.86 3.94 -1.44 3.78 2.69

9.91 2.24 4.42 1.96 3.84 4.85 1.17 5.35 3.61

BALANCED

INTERNATIONAL Divers. Emerging Mkt. (EM) Europe Stock (ES) Foreign Small/Mid Val (FA) Foreign Large Blend (FB) Foreign Large Growth (FG) Foreign Small/Mid Gr. (FR) Foreign Large Value (FV) World Allocation (IH) World Stock (WS)

CH.

YTD %CH. DIV

YLD

18.34 NGL EPt n

19.70

+.39

-6.1

...

53.50

37.65 OGE Engy

49.88

-.31

+9.5 1.50

3.0 2.8

76.11

42.53 ONEOK

73.64

-.14

+32.8 2.08

43.95

33.20 Oneok Pt s

43.06

-.06

+8.3 2.30

5.3

15.91

8.53

OrchidsPP

12.92

+.21

+5.6 0.40

3.1

35.41

21.00 PanhO&G

34.18

-.40

+24.7 0.28

8.45

2.75

5.80

...

+54.3

...

PostRockE

...

2.58

1.10

RAM Engy

1.16

-.01

-37.0

...

13.34

3.87

SandRdge

10.37

+.09

+41.7

...

11.86

7.30

SonicCorp

10.87

+.12

+7.4

...

15.61

8.91

SwstBc

9.82

-.26

-20.8

...

2.45

1.29

Syntroleum

1.37

-.05

-25.9

...

63.81

33.36 Unit

58.10

-1.78

+25.0

...

33.47

17.72 WmsCos

29.10

+.31

+17.7 0.50

1.7

56.61

41.32 WmsPtrs

55.12

-.01

+18.2 2.87

5.2

52-WEEK HIGH LOW 31.00 14.91 8.98 5.15 31.94 24.50 31.30 16.00 6.63 2.46 29.82 23.00 38.99 33.47 3.75 2.65 85.50 44.44 134.13 82.38 15.72 10.15 80.65 59.48 12.48 7.43 117.95 62.88 68.89 51.92 81.80 50.80 17.22 11.34 55.50 44.75 25.37 12.62 88.23 57.60 38.22 23.67 18.83 9.10 44.98 23.10 54.55 27.31 39.38 26.62 21.20 15.11 48.36 35.55 68.05 56.86 100.94 71.58 82.43 67.68 27.45 19.35 48.72 35.38 46.72 29.03 98.99 63.80 66.52 45.65 117.89 72.13 7.45 3.58 27.45 14.32 65.96 57.80 8.45 2.75 33.10 27.70 21.60 13.36 18.35 9.84 94.79 60.12 14.32 10.68 6.45 3.70 41.11 22.50 38.50 17.22 27.16 18.00 98.19 78.40 45.81 31.77 77.00 59.23 38.95 26.41 57.90 49.09 12.08 8.08

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SPECIALTY FUNDS

Target-Date 2000-2010 (TA) Target-Date 2011-2015 (TD) Target-Date 2016-2020 (TE)

LAST

Stocks of Local Interest %YTD -37.8 -25.8 -15.0 +5.8 +3.4 +5.3 +5.1 +3.7 -3.0 +24.0 -2.7 -0.4 +5.1 +4.8 -12.2 +4.1 +9.7 -6.7 +4.7 -1.4

PERCENT RETURN FUND NAV CH. 4WK. 12MO. 3YR. 5YR. American Funds BalA m 18.60 -.09 +1.3 +17.3 +6.0 +4.8 CapIncBuA m 51.00 -.22 -0.8 +14.7 +2.1 +4.1 CpWldGrIA m 36.03 -.26 -1.5 +16.1 +1.3 +4.5 EurPacGrA m 42.17 -.27 -1.2 +16.7 +2.2 +5.4 FnInvA m 38.04 -.31 +0.5 +20.9 +2.2 +4.1 GrthAmA m 31.45 -.26 +1.6 +18.8 +2.1 +3.2 IncAmerA m 17.09 -.07 +0.2 +17.2 +5.7 +4.2 InvCoAmA m 28.57 -.19 +0.8 +16.3 +3.4 +2.2 NewPerspA m 29.38 -.25 +0.1 +19.0 +4.0 +6.0 WAMutInvA m 28.92 -.14 +2.0 +23.3 +4.7 +2.9 Dodge & Cox IntlStk 35.58 -.26 -1.7 +17.2 +2.0 +3.5 Stock 110.71 -1.15 -0.1 +19.2 +3.4 +0.2 Fidelity Contra 70.69 -.57 +3.1 +22.1 +3.6 +5.7 GrowCo 91.53 -1.00 +4.1 +32.5 +6.4 +8.9 LowPriStk d 41.56 -.32 +2.2 +28.1 +10.2 +6.8 Magellan 72.23 -.61 +1.2 +17.7 -0.9 +1.3 FrankTemp-Franklin Income A m 2.22 ... +0.5 +15.5 +7.0 +5.7 Harbor IntlInstl d 62.61 -.48 -1.2 +21.4 +1.5 +6.6 PIMCO TotRetAdm b 11.04 -.01 +0.4 +6.0 +9.2 +8.6 TotRetIs 11.04 -.01 +0.4 +6.2 +9.4 +8.9 Vanguard 500Adml 120.65 -.81 +1.8 +21.9 +4.5 +3.3 500Inv 120.64 -.82 +1.8 +21.7 +4.4 +3.2 InstIdxI 119.83 -.81 +1.8 +21.9 +4.5 +3.3 InstPlus 119.84 -.81 +1.8 +21.9 +4.5 +3.4 TotBdAdml 10.77 -.03 +0.7 +4.6 +6.5 +6.6 TotIntl d 15.98 -.10 -0.8 +18.6 +0.4 +3.7 TotStIAdm 33.03 -.27 +2.0 +23.9 +5.5 +4.1 TotStIIns 33.03 -.27 +2.0 +23.8 +5.5 +4.2 TotStIdx 33.02 -.27 +2.0 +23.7 +5.4 +4.0 WelltnAdm 55.38 -.24 +0.9 +15.0 +6.2 +6.1

PERCENT RETURN 1YR 3YR

NAME

22.00

ExchangeTradedFunds NAME Barc iPath Vix ST Direxion SCapBear 3x Direxion FinBull 3x FaithSh Baptist Val FaithSh Catholic Val FaithSh ChristianVal FaithSh Lutheran Val FaithSh MethodistVal iShare Japan iShares Silver Trust iShs Emerg Mkts iShares EAFE iShares Rus 2000 PowerShs QQQ Trust ProSh UltraSht S&P SPDR S&P500 ETF Tr SPDR Energy SPDR Financial SPDR Industrial Vanguard Emg Mkts

Vol.: 61.9m (6.7x avg.) PE: 9.1 Mkt. Cap: $106.88 b Yield: 3.5% CNX

YEST

The Oklahomanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Top 30 Mutual Funds

Taking a cue from Marathon? ConocoPhillips watched competitor Marathon Oil split into two, and apparently liked what it saw. So the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s third-largest oil company says it will divide into two companies, one that explores for oil, and another that refines it. Investors liked the news. They sent Conocoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stock up nearly 2 per-

The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 2.94 percent Wednesday. Yields affect rates on consumer loans like mortgages.

British pound Canadian dollar Chinese yuan

+3.80

FuturesTrading

Interestrates

2,880

1,260

Source: The Commerce Department

Nasdaq composite

2,720

10 DAYS

GOLD $1,589.00

-.0016

A slowdown in manufacturerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 0.8 output the past few months has been troubling for investors. est. Factories were one of the big0.3 gest drivers of the economic recovery. The Institute for 0.1 0.1 Supply Management has -0.4 already reported that manufacturing activity picked up in June. -0.1% Investors want to see if todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s report on industrial production J F M A M J from the Federal Reserve confirms that assessment. Source: The Institute for Supply Management

est. 0.2

0.2

EURO 1.4135

-.03

A look at the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s factories

$0.90

GASOLINE $3.12

The governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Consumer Price Index will show how much the rising cost of food and gas is affecting prices for everything else. Many economists focus on a version of the CPI that excludes energy and food. But energy costs have an impact on all goods and services. So economists will be looking for evidence that higher gas prices have driven up prices throughout the economy.

$43.00

1,350

+.06

Inflation watch

$39.02

1,380

1,230

30-YR T-BONDS 4.24%

SMALL-CAP MID-CAP LARGE-CAP

DOW 12,437.12

FRIDAY, JULY 15, 2011

BUSINESS

LAST 30.24 5.09 30.58 26.19 5.08 26.19 37.57 3.15 76.70 119.90 10.07 71.19 8.23 83.54 67.67 75.61 16.69 47.99 18.81 82.24 30.33 17.50 42.60 51.83 35.96 16.80 40.35 67.66 95.19 79.20 23.11 41.79 36.09 89.85 63.69 103.36 6.55 23.49 63.92 5.80 29.67 20.63 16.68 74.14 10.75 5.29 39.13 26.39 21.93 94.98 43.00 73.36 36.88 53.63 10.07 BLEND

CH. -.05 -.10 -.24 ... -.18 +.06 -.40 ... -.06 -1.42 -.13 -.98 -.23 -1.91 -.39 +1.21 +.16 -.05 -.38 -.24 -1.05 +.18 -1.08 -.79 -.17 -.31 +.73 +.03 +.19 -.47 -.17 -.05 -.33 -.52 -.65 +.39 -.20 -.44 -.12 ... -.42 -.32 -.15 -1.12 -.13 -.12 -.45 -.26 -.57 -1.21 -1.36 -.06 -.06 -.39 -.15

YTD %Ch. +10.1 -34.7 +4.1 +7.7 +71.6 -8.7 +4.4 +11.7 +0.7 +0.6 -24.5 +9.1 -15.2 -5.6 +2.9 +11.0 +23.2 -7.4 -6.0 +12.5 -15.6 +47.7 +2.0 +26.9 +2.6 -16.1 -4.9 +9.4 +8.3 +13.3 -7.9 -6.0 +0.9 +4.4 +5.4 +5.4 +43.3 +28.7 +1.8 +54.3 -0.6 +4.5 +11.0 +0.5 -17.2 +25.1 +21.8 -15.0 -12.5 +10.1 +3.8 +1.1 +3.1 -0.6 -12.6

GROWTH

YTD 1YR 3YR 5YR

5.9 22.9 3.4 0.0

4.5 18.3 4.0 4.6

4.6 23.9 3.7 4.8

YTD 1YR 3YR 5YR

4.5 21.2 10.2 3.5

7.5 31.0 8.7 6.5

10.6 35.8 6.3 7.7

YTD 1YR 3YR 5YR

4.0 24.5 15.5 6.2

7.4 31.4 10.7 6.1

8.7 37.6 9.9 7.6

BOND FUNDS Interm-Term Bond (CI) Interm. Government (GI) High Yield Muni (HM) High Yield Bond (HY) Muni National Interm (MI) Muni National Long (ML) Muni Short (MS)

1SVI 1YXYEP *YRHW PMWXIH EX 2I[W3/ GSQ

3.62 3.12 5.11 4.83 4.17 5.08 2.04

5.89 3.58 3.28 13.72 3.15 2.84 1.91

6.96 5.78 2.61 9.88 4.50 4.01 2.87

6.06 5.83 1.48 7.10 4.19 3.50 3.17

FRIDAY, JULY 15, 2011

THE OKLAHOMAN | NEWSOK.COM

BUSINESS

WEATHER

ACROSS THE U.S.

Up-to-date video, forecasts, maps, radar and warnings, go to NewsOK.com

Seattle 70/55

Billings 88/60

Minneapolis 87/76

Detroit 84/65

New York 83/68

Chicago 83/65

Very hot

Enid

102/71

102/76 104/76

Guymon

Altus

102/71

104/76 104/74

Okla. City

Lawton

Windy, 97

6 p.m. today

San Francisco 63/54

Another extended stretch of very hot weather will continue through the weekend, lasting through much of next week. Winds: SE 7-14 mph.

Woodward

Sunshine, 98

Sunshine, 96

Sunshine, 100

Tulsa

99/75

McAlester

102/77

100/76

Houston 97/77

Ardmore

Showers

Sunshine, 97

Sunshine, 98 Sunshine, 99

-10s -0s

Some sun, 97

Sunshine, 71 Very humid, 76

Sunshine, 77

Some sun, 77

Sunshine, 78 Some sun, 77

Some sun, 76 Some sun, 75

Some sun, 77

What’s ahead for Oklahoma City Saturday 104/76

Sunday 103/76

Monday 103/76

Tuesday 100/76

Winds: SSE 7-14 mph

Winds: SE 7-14 mph

Winds: SE 8-16 mph

Winds: SSE 8-16 mph

Regional forecast

Major lake levels

For the record

Arkansas: Some sun, hot and humid today with a thunderstorm, but dry in the west. A shower or thunderstorm around tonight. Texas: Partly sunny today. Hot; a thunderstorm in parts of the area in the southeast during the afternoon. Mainly clear tonight. New Mexico: Partly sunny today. A stray afternoon thunderstorm in the north and central areas; very warm in the south. Kansas: Partly sunny and hot today; humid in the east. A strong thunderstorm in the northwest tonight. Missouri: Partly sunny and humid today. A shower or thunderstorm around in the south during the afternoon; hot in the west and north. Colorado: A thunderstorm in spots this afternoon; bright sunshine 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 Trees Weeds Grasses Mold Mold and pollen counts courtesy of the Oklahoma Allergy & Asthma Clinic.

Current 1,535 869.16 1,005 599.55 1,610 710.24 584.23 1,340 551.90 2,003 1,638 744.09 620.23 733.20 1,012 459.70 720.38 637.96 1,124 706.65 631.88 619.04 1,036 489.69 478.19

Wednesday 100/76

Thursday 97/73

Winds: S 10-20 mph

Yesterday in the state:

H L Prc. 103 76 .05 Midnight 82 Enid 1 a.m. 80 Gage 105 72 .00 2 a.m. 81 Guymon 101 75 .00 3 a.m. 82 Hobart 106 74 .00 4 a.m. 79 McAlester 103 75 .00 5 a.m. 77 Ponca City 100 77 .00 6 a.m. 77 103 76 .00 7 a.m. 77 Tulsa 8 a.m. 79 Chickasha 106 78 .00 Durant 106 77 .00 9 a.m. 81 105 76 .00 10 a.m. 84 El Reno 11 a.m. 87 Guthrie 103 76 .00 Noon 88 Idabel 98 74 .00 1 p.m. 91 Miami 98 73 .00 2 p.m. 96 Norman 103 74 .00 3 p.m. 95 OKC 102 76 .01 4 p.m. 98 5 p.m. 100 Shawnee 103 76 .00 6 p.m. 101 Stillwater 105 76 .00 7 p.m. 100 Woodward 105 73 Trace One year ago in Oklahoma City: 93/76 Normal high/low in Oklahoma City: 93/71 Record high/low: 107 in 1954/57 in 1950 National extremes yesterday: Duncan, OK, 109; Tuolumne Meadows, CA, 30

Winds: S 10-20 mph

Yesterday in the world: H Amsterdam 63 Baghdad 121 Calgary 73 Dublin 71 Frankfurt 69 Geneva 72 Hong Kong 88 Kabul 100 London 75 Madrid 84 Manila 90 Mexico City 69 Montreal 79 Moscow 81 New Delhi 94 Paris 73 Rio 80 Riyadh 114 Rome 83 Stockholm 70 Sydney 58 Tokyo 90 Toronto 81 Vancouver 68

L 55 82 52 47 55 54 81 61 53 55 76 55 55 57 81 47 64 85 72 45 40 76 61 57

Sky Rain Sun PtCl PtCl Shwr PtCl Tstrm Sun Sun Sun PtCl Tstrm PtCl PtCl PtCl Shwr Sun Sun PtCl Sun Sun PtCl PtCl Shwr

Sun, moon: Sunrise today: 6:26 a.m. Sunset today: 8:46 p.m. Moonset 6:50 a.m. Moonrise 9:02 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow: 6:27 a.m. Sunset tomorrow: 8:45 p.m.

Full

Last

New

First

Jul 15

Jul 23

Jul 30

Aug 6

Total Precipitation

Jan. 1 - This date in 2008 ...................... 22.40 Jan. 1 - This date in 2009 ....................... 15.08 Jan. 1 - This date in 2010 ........................ 26.39

Jan. 1 - This date in 2011 ......................... 16.59 Normal Jan. 1 - This date ....................... 20.34 Oklahoma City annual precip. is ....... 35.85

Sunshine, 97

Sunshine, 101

Sunshine, 73

Atlanta 86/70 El Paso 96/80

Idabel

100/77

Washington 85/67

Kansas City 96/76

Los Angeles 74/63

Ada

103/77

Sunshine, 100

6 a.m. tomorrow

Denver 90/63

Albuquerque Amarillo Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic City Billings Birmingham Bismarck Boise Boston Brownsville Buffalo Charleston, SC Charleston, WV Cheyenne Chicago Cleveland Colo. Springs Columbus, OH Dal-Ft. Worth Denver Des Moines Detroit Duluth El Paso Fairbanks Hartford Helena Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jackson, MS Jacksonville Kansas City Las Vegas Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Memphis Miami Beach Milwaukee Mnpls-St. Paul Mobile Nashville New Orleans New York City Omaha Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland, ME Portland, OR Providence Raleigh Reno St. Louis Salt Lake City San Antonio San Diego San Francisco Sault Ste. Marie Seattle Shreveport Sioux Falls Spokane Tampa-St. Pete Tulsa Washington, DC Wichita

T-storms

Miami 91/80

Rain

Flurries

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Divide: ‘Pure play’ entities to be largest of their kind FROM PAGE 1B

Gina Slechta, vice president of marketing for Horizon Group Properties, talks to people about The Outlet Shoppes at Oklahoma City during the "hard hat tour" on Thursday. PHOTOS BY DAVID MCDANIEL, THE OKLAHOMAN

Mall: Outlet malls showing popularity with shoppers FROM PAGE 1B

shopping center feel like you’re at home, like you want to spend a lot of time here,” Slechta said. The outlet mall’s food court, which is located inside one of the mall buildings, will feature local restaurants such as City Bites, Orange Leaf and Primo’s d’Italia.

Retailers added Three retailers recently were added to the tenant list: Cole Haan, J. Crew Factory and Perfumania. The largest tenant is Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5th, which is 27,000 square feet. Slechta credited Oklahoma City’s economy and the hard work of city staff and chamber officials in being able to open the mall fully leased. “Oklahoma City didn’t realize there was a recession going on,” she said. There are fewer than 200 outlet centers in the

More than 80 retailers, including OshKosh B’Gosh, seen here, will open at The Outlet Shoppes at Oklahoma City.

U.S. and The Outlet Shoppes at Oklahoma City will be the largest (at 340,000 square feet) to open this year, said Linda Humphers, editor-in-chief of Value Retail News and International Outlet Journal, publications by the International Council of Shop-

ping Centers. Outlets have gained popularity with shoppers, especially throughout the recession, she said. “They (consumers) like their brands but would like a more cost-effective way to buy what they like,” she said.

employees who will be impacted, including role and location, and those details will be determined over the next several months,” Mulva wrote. Houston-based ConocoPhillips employs about 3,000 people at its global support offices in Bartlesville. The company also has 750 workers at its Ponca City refinery. “Under the planned separation, most of our employees worldwide will continue to do the same jobs in the same location as of today,” Mulva wrote, particularly internationally and in the U.S. field and plant operations. “The expectation is that both companies will have shared services organizations in Bartlesville, providing costeffective services to the businesses they support today.” ConocoPhillips has been the nation’s third-largest integrated oil and gas company, combining vast businesses in the upstream, midstream and downstream segments. The two new companies will be the largest “pure play” entities focused on specific segments. “The spinoff company will be the largest refiner and will eclipse Valero,” said Jake Dollarhide, CEO of Longbow Asset Management Co. in Tulsa. “That shows you how big ConocoPhillips is: They can split in two and still be the largest in their respective segments.” The two companies will have separate corporate staffs. Mulva, whose CEO tenure dates to Bartlesville-based Phillips Petroleum Co. before its 2002 merger with Conoco Inc. and move to Houston, will retire after the separation is completed sometime in the first half of 2012, the company announced. ConocoPhillips will retain the exploration and production side. The new refining and marketing company also will be publicly traded. “We have concluded that two independent companies focused on their respective industries will be better positioned to pursue their individually focused business strategies,” Mulva said. “Both companies will continue to benefit from the size and scale of their significant high-quality asset bases and free cash-flow generation.” The split does not require a shareholder vote, the company reported in its filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. ConocoPhillips overall has 29,000 employees and holds about $160 billion in assets and $226 billion of annualized reve-

A ConocoPhillips station is shown in Oklahoma City. AP PHOTO

COMPANY SPLIT UNLIKELY TO AFFECT STATE’S ROLE ConocoPhillips employs about 4,000 people in Oklahoma, with service operations in Bartlesville, a refinery in Ponca City and government affairs staff in Oklahoma City. Company officials do not expect plans to split ConocoPhillips into two separate entities — one for its refining and marketing business and another for its exploration and production operations — to affect its operations in the state, spokesman John Roper said Thursday.

nue as of March 31. Concerns over a relatively high debtto-capital ratio caused ConocoPhillips to begin an asset sell-off of about $10 billion several years ago. The nonrefinery Ponca City operations were phased out as a part of that downsizing.

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Tom Lewis rode a late birdie binge to a 5-under-par 65 that lifted him alongside Denmark’s Thomas Bjorn in a tie for the lead at Royal St. George’s. Lewis’ score matched the low round for an amateur at a major. Former OSU golfer Alexander Noren was the top Oklahoman in the field after the first round.

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Atlanta Hawks general manager Pete Babcock’s first choice in 2000 was longtime Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo.

When Izzo turned down the job, Babcock almost immediately turned to Lon Kruger. Babcock’s rationale was Kruger, who had revived men’s basketball programs at Kansas State, Florida and Illinois, could do the same in the NBA. Babcock believed Kruger was a good fit for a team that featured eight players between ages 20 and 26. Hired in April as Okla-

homa basketball coach, Kruger said his inability to turn around the Hawks a decade ago is the biggest disappointment of his 28year career. “We were hired to come in and change that culture, and we didn’t get that done,” Kruger said. “It was disappointing we didn’t do what we set out to do. It was humbling as far as not getting it done and seeing (basketball) from a different perspective.” Gar Heard, who played

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LON KRUGER SERIES 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 Wednesday — Florida Thursday — Illinois I Friday — Atlanta Hawks Saturday — UNLV Sunday — Oklahoma

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Keith Evans was happy with an autograph from Bob Stoops last year, but the new policy to sign for kids only has drawn some criticism from fans.

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NORMAN — Meet the Sooners Day will undergo three major changes. The University of Oklahoma’s annual event this year will be scheduled on a Saturday (Aug. 6) instead of a weekday. The autograph session will be held on the football practice fields near Gaylord Family — Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. In recent years it’s been held on the rugby fields. The most significant change is only children ages 14 and younger will be allowed to get autographs. Each child can be accompanied by one adult with one item to be autographed. “We’ve discussed this event at length and examined it from every angle,” said Kenny Mossman, OU director of communications. “The bottom line is our fan support is so great, we realistically cannot accommodate everyone when this event is held on a Saturday.” Meet the Sooners Day is scheduled on a Saturday for two reasons: I Due to a rare calendar quirk, several players will still be in summer classes. If it were held on a weekday, some players would be unable to attend. SEE OU, PAGE 3C

JIM THORPE | 58 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH, DEBATE OVER WHERE HIS BODY BELONGS LIVES ON

orn 123 years ago, rocketed to fame 99 years ago, died btramel@ opubco.com 58 years ago. But Jim Thorpe’s story still resonates. Debate COMMENTARY still rages. No rest in peace for AmerThorpe biogica’s rapher Kate greatBuford spoke est Thursday at aththe Jim Thorpe lete. Association Quarterly Leadership Luncheon. Her book, “Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe,” has drawn rave reviews. Ironic that I heard Buford speak on the very day I had decided to write about Thorpe. Last month, in a span of 20 hours, I heard independently from two Oklahoma historians I hold in high esteem, both talking about Jim Thorpe, Pa.

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Jim Thorpe was born in Oklahoma but made his early mark as an athlete at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pa. His body, as well as statues of him for football and track, are in Jim Thorpe, Pa. AP ARCHIVE PHOTOS

Oakland pitcher Brett Anderson, who is from Stillwater, will miss the rest of the season after having reconstructive surgery on his elbow. PAGE 5C

CLEMENS’ TRIAL ENDS ABRUPTLY Almost as soon as it began, former pitcher Roger Clemens’ perjury trial ended Thursday — in a mistrial the judge blamed on prosecutors. PAGE 6C

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GRANDMA WATCHING GIBSON As a two-way starter and team leader at Tulsa East Central, much is expected of Damian Gibson, from teammates, coaches and himself. But perhaps no one expects more out of Gibson than his grandmother. PAGE 6C

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NT’s studio show — the best in the NBA — has become even more dominant with the addition of former AllStar center Shaquille O’Neal, who joined the network Thursday after signing a multiyear contract. But can O’Neal coexist with resident loudmouth analyst Charles Barkley? Will he fare better than the eight years he shared the limelight with Kobe Bryant as standouts on the Los Angeles Lakers? O’Neal, 39, a 15-time NBA All-Star, doesn’t think it will be a problem. “Charles is a funny guy who says what’s on his mind,” O’Neal said in a conference call. “I’m honored to sit next to him and Kenny (Smith) and Ernie (Johnson). We’re going to make it very fun.” TNT Sports president David Levy said Barkley had lobbied to add O’Neal, and in a statement, Barkley said he

Shaquille O’Neal chose TNT over ABC/ESPN because he thought TNT had more fun with its show. AP PHOTO

couldn’t wait to work with him. “The addition of ‘The Big Analytical’ will be terrific,” Smith said in a statement. “I can’t wait to make verbal passes to the most dominant center of our time.” O’Neal, who said he someday hopes to run for sheriff in Miami, said he picked TNT over an ABC/ ESPN offer because he thought TNT had more fun with its show. He also has an entertainment and animation deal with the network. Levy called O’Neal one of the most “dominant,

popular and charismatic players in the NBA.” A member for four NBA championship teams, he averaged 23.7 points, 10.9 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 2.3 assists in 19 NBA seasons. In a 30-minute conference call, O’Neal showed he will be adept in his new analyst role as he fielded questions with short, authoritative answers. I On the lack of good centers: “The beasts are now gone. The goliaths are now gone. That leaves Dwight Howard out there by himself. If he doesn’t

get two or three championships, I will be very disappointed because he has no competition out there. None. Zero.” I On his broadcast style: “I’m going to try to be charismatic, funny and very professional. My favorite analyst guy is Bryant Gumbel. I love him. He’s so smooth, and he’s intelligent. Hopefully, I can get to that level one day.” I On criticizing players: “I have the ability and the backing to give fair criticism. The only time I have trouble with people giving criticism is when they haven’t walked that walk. I’ve walked many walks in my 19-year career, so I think any criticism that I give should be fair.” I On the NBA lockout: “The only people that is suffering in the lockout situation really is the fans. The fans don’t really understand billionaires versus millionaires. Hopefully, the intelligent people that are having the business conversations can sit down, converse and construct a new agreement. We don’t want what happened in baseball. It actually took baseball five or six years to come back to full force.”

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Tramel: Debate over Thorpe lives on FROM PAGE 1C

You know the story. After the Oklahoma legislature canceled a bill that would have designated $100,000 for a Thorpe memorial, Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk, Pa., merged in 1953 to form Jim Thorpe. The towns signed a contract with Thorpe’s widow, his third wife, to rename the town, bury Thorpe’s body there and build a memorial that would attract tourists. Now Thorpe’s family, primarily his two remaining sons, William and Bill, have filed suit to return the body to Oklahoma. Here in Oklahoma, it’s commonly accepted that Thorpe’s heritage was wronged, that his body belongs back in the Yale/ Prague/Shawnee area, where Thorpe was born and raised until he went off to Haskell Indian School at age 10. But now we have some Oklahoma dissent. Ray Soldan, who for 45 years wrote sports for The Oklahoman and now is a member of the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame, is a world traveler. Been to almost 100 nations. Goes all over. In April, Soldan visited Jim Thorpe, Pa., and came back convinced that Thorpe’s body should remain where it is. The next day, I heard from Ed Frost, an OU graduate from Hobart who spent many years as a Russian literature professor at the University of Alabama and now has retired to Norman. Frost also is fascinated by Thorpe (and other aspects of Oklahoma history) and mentioned that he went through Jim Thorpe, Pa., a few years ago. And Frost most definitely would like to see the body moved. So here is the case each makes, followed by Kate Buford’s thoughts on the subject.

Ray Soldan “I was very impressed with the town itself. They used Thorpe to revive it. It’s a lovely little picturesque town. “At one time, 19 of the 26 millionaires in the United States had a resi-

dence in Mauch Chunk. It’s a better draw than Prague, Oklahoma. “They have five weekend festivals a year. The Jim Thorpe Festival is the third week of May. Fifteen years ago, they rededicated themselves. Founded a Jim Thorpe commission. In ’06, they put up an eight-foot bronze monument of Thorpe in football, on a tall pedestal. A month ago, they put up a matching one for track. They’re planning another as a baseball player. “I talked to William Thorpe. He said, ‘Well, he wanted to be buried in Oklahoma.’ I don’t think Jim Thorpe cared one way or another. He probably didn’t spend 20 years total in Oklahoma. He had that home in Yale about 3½ years. After he quit playing professional football, he went to California and spent most of the rest of his life. “By naming the town Jim Thorpe, Pa., that created a new dawning about Thorpe. It was a great honor. “I don’t see any purpose in him returning to Oklahoma. His birthplace sits a mile and a half outside Prague. Maybe they would put up a little tombstone. Nobody would go there to visit it. “When Jim died, he had joined the Catholic Church. He had a funeral in the Catholic Church in Shawnee. Some tribal people gave him an Indian ceremony. He did have a Sac and Fox sendoff. “The burial site (in Pennsylvania) is very nice now. It’s in a residential area, all by itself. Nothing else is buried there. There are billboards showing his life at Carlisle (Indian school), Stockholm (1912 Olympics) and pro football. “It is the resort town of the Pocono foothills. I’m sure Jim Thorpe would rather have taken his bow and arrow and gone hunting there than in Prague, Oklahoma. “If they bring him back, why not bury him at the Indian Cultural Center (in Oklahoma City)? But if you just bring him back and put him outside Prague, that’s not OK with me.”

Ed Frost “Lena (Frost’s wife) and I drove to New England a couple of years ago. On the way, Lena figured out that without too much of a detour we could go through both Jim Thorpe and Carlisle, since I have always been so fascinated with Thorpe. “Carlisle was enchanting to me, touring the grounds and buildings where Thorpe lived. No football field, but the gym where he played basketball, and even the Revolutionary War guardhouse where he was incarcerated for some misdeed in his student days. “It is a beautiful place with lots of big trees and the little cemetery for Indian students who died there. Each gravestone has the name of the student and the name of the student’s tribe. “For me, Carlisle was much more enjoyable than Jim Thorpe. The town is very touristy and hard to find parking in if you’re from out of town. “People honked at us because we were unsure of where we were going, and we had trouble under the circumstances finding the Thorpe mausoleum, but we persevered and did. I got out in the rain at the site and tried to see it all and read everything. “Personally, I would think Carlisle would be a much more appropriate place for Jim’s burial than where he is now, and I can’t help wondering what he himself would have wanted. He loved Carlisle, and he loved Oklahoma. It is thought he most likely never visited Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk. “Jim was shy and introverted, didn’t like hoopla. Those who oppose moving his remains to Oklahoma sometimes say he would just be a forgotten Indian in a small, out-of-the-way cemetery here. I visited the museum in Prague, where they have some of his things, and though I didn’t have time to go see the place of his birth and the place where Jack (his late son) wanted him buried, I sort of wonder whether it wouldn’t be

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more fitting, since Jim loved out of the way places. He loved hunting and fishing and being outdoors with his dogs, hunting all night or day. “So far, the whole affair has been about money, and it still is, since that’s why Jim Thorpe, Pa., got him in the first place and why they want to keep him. It’s an investment, but I don’t think it’s how it should be. “I am aware the reason he wasn’t buried in Oklahoma to start with was that his third wife shopped around for a town that would make a big deal of him, and I realize that his family members were split on the matter. I just wish we could ask Jim what he would think about it.” “Really difficult question. In my opinion, I would hope there’s a compromise. A win-win the two parties could agree upon. “I agree, the town of Jim Thorpe has done a really superb job of doing what they said they would do. They have been very diligent in honoring Jim Thorpe. “I have gotten very close with the family, the sons in particular. I can see their side, too. They want to see him buried near his father, Garden Grove Cemetery. Not another memorial. That’s my understanding. “The bottom line for me, it’s like two different value systems that are clashing. You have a legal contract signed in 1953, which was a long time ago. And you have the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, which was designed to address the change in consciousness about what should be done with Indian remains and artifacts. It’s a fascinating test case. It’s very complicated. “Personally I would hope it could be resolved. I may be naive.”

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McKee headed to ESPNU Chad McKee has left Griffin Communications, where he was a sportscaster with KWTV-9 and Tulsa’s KOTV-6, to become the new host of ESPNU’s “Big 12 This Week” weekly show. McKee, 39, a 1994 Oklahoma State University graduate, worked four years for the Griffin stations, including most of the past year with KOTV-6. He previously served as a radio sports director in Enid. McKee will continue to serve as regular play-byplay announcer on OSU basketball telecasts. He also has called Oral Roberts University home basketball games and games for the Big 12 Network. “Big 12 This Week” is produced by Winnercomm in Tulsa and airs Wednesday afternoons on ESPNU. Its season debut is Aug. 24. McKee said he also may have an opportunity to host hunting and fishing shows for the Outdoor Channel.

SHORT TAKES I Fox’s All-Star Game ratings were down 8 percent from last year with a 6.9 rating. The game bombed on KOKH-25 with a 4.2. I The Golf Channel’s highly acclaimed show, “Feherty,” 8 p.m. Tuesday, includes an interview with NBC golf analyst Johnny Miller. Future guests include U.S. Open Champion Rory McIlroy (July 26) and Ian Poulter (Aug. 2). I The city of Dallas had a big night on ESPN’s ESPY Awards Show Wednesday night. The Mavericks were honored as best team, coach Rick Carlisle as best coach and star Dirk Nowitzki as best NBA player and best male athlete. BY MEL BRACHT

SETTING IT STRAIGHT The number of verbal commitments for OU was incorrect in Thursday’s editions. OU has 11 commitments for the Class of 2012.

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The University of Oklahoma football team picked up a commitment from a top Texas high school quarterback on Wednesday. San Antonio (Reagan High School) star Trevor Knight, a 6-foot-2-inch dual threat-style quarterback, made his commitment known via Facebook after switching from Texas A&M. Knight made his commitment known on the same day his grandfather passed away. Knight’s Facebook post read, “On one of the toughest days of my life with the passing of my grandpa, the light shines through in honor of him and I have committed to play football For the Uni-

versity of Oklahoma! BOOMER SOONER!” David Wetzel, Knight’s coach at Reagan, said the Sooners couldn’t be getting a better kid. “He’s got a great family, a great head on his shoulders, extremely intelligent,” Reagan head coach David Wetzel said. “He’s a great young man, that’s probably the most important thing if anybody doesn’t know him. Character is probably his number one trait. He’s an extremely hard worker, but he’s very blessed with really outstanding ability, physically.” Knight had previously committed to Texas A&M but after a weekend trip to Oklahoma to meet with the Sooner coaching staff, he has decided to switch to OU.

Knight’s twin brother, Connor, will likely also attend OU. Connor Knight is a receiver/tight end/deep snapper that will join the Sooners as a walk-on. Trevor Knight’s change of heart likely rules out the nation’s top-rated quarterback, Gunner Kiel, from joining the Sooners. Kiel was expected to make a commitment in June, but decided he needed more time. Kiel’s most likely destinations are believed to be Alabama or Indiana. Knight has been starting for Reagan since his sophomore season when he led his team to an 8-3 record and a district championship as he gained 2,000 yards of total offense. Injuries to teammates on both sides of the ball derailed Reagan’s season last year as the Rattler’s fin-

ished 5-5. Knight, though, passed for 1,629 yards with 11 touchdowns and rushed for 1,050 more with 12 touchdowns last season. Knight had offers and interest from Baylor, Clemson, LSU, TCU, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. Wetzel said Knight’s style shouldn’t be a concern for OU fans. Even though he’s not a prototypical pro-style quarterback like OU typically uses, Wetzel said Knight can adjust. “Coach Heupel and Coach Stoops have both been here and they’ve been evaluating him for quite some time,” Wetzel said. “I feel quite sure they’ve had some of those conversations.”

OU: Event will be Saturday, Aug. 6 FROM PAGE 1C

I Aug. 6 best fits the coaches’ two-a-day practice schedule. An estimated 8,500 fans attended last year on a Friday. The previous year, an estimated 14,000 attended on a weekday. OU officials estimate an additional 2,500 to 5,000 fans would attend on a Saturday. “If we allowed everyone, a lot of fans would still be disappointed because of the length of the lines,” Mossman said. “Certainly, we would like to include fans not in that age bracket, but this event is aimed at children.” Most emails and comments on NewsOK.com agree with the decision to restrict it to kids. “After witnessing the carnage of kids getting run over to get (Sam) Bradford’s autograph two years ago, I completely agree

with the new policy,” said Mark Doescher. “However, maybe they could have a Season Ticket Holder Meet Day to pacify those who have attended for years and have no children.” Kevin Daniel of Maumelle, Ark., is disappointed. Daniel would like to see the annual autograph session extended to three hours. Daniel suggests the first hour could be dedicated to kids, the final two hours to adults. “They pay the money, support the (teams) and generally do all they can for OU, but they don’t even get the chance to get an autograph?” Daniel said. “I understand some try to profit/monopolize on the athlete. But for me, I don’t sell them. I keep the footballs, jerseys, hats, mini helmets, magazines and so on. It’s my only addiction. There are some of us that do it for its purity.”

Ann said in an email that if forced to choose, limiting the annual event to children is the best option. But Ann would like to see it moved indoors to avoid the heat. “The kid idea is OK, but they aren’t the ones buying the very expensive tickets,” Ann said. “But if you limit it to the donors, that would be a nightmare. It’s just gotten too big ... Maybe they could use some type of lottery system where everyone had an equal chance.” A chaotic scene ensued two years ago, the year after Bradford won the Heisman Trophy. Attendance decreased last year to ease some concerns. OU officials thought moving the event to a Saturday and restricting it to kids was the best option. “We knew we’d have to make some modifications,” Mossman said. “We still expect a large turnout,

but it should be more manageable.” Two lines will begin forming at 7 a.m. at Gate 7, one line for Sooners Kids Clubs members, the other for general patrons. At 9:45 a.m. Kids Club members will proceed to the football practice fields adjacent to the Switzer Center. The Kids Club session will begin at 10 a.m. General patrons will be admitted at 10:30. The session will conclude at noon. Free parking will be available in campus lots, including the Asp Parking Facility west of the stadium. Concessions and restrooms will be available. Kids Club memberships are available until July 29 on SoonerSports.com or by calling the OU marketing office at (405) 3256353.

NFL LOCKOUT

Big progress made Thursday BY HOWARD FENDRICH AP Pro Football Writer

NEW YORK — Making significant progress on one of the major sticking points in NFL labor talks, owners and players neared agreement Thursday on how to rein in the soaring salaries of high first-round draft picks, people familiar with the negotiations said. Another person with knowledge of the discussions told The Associated Press that Thursday’s 12hour-plus meeting at a Manhattan law firm was producing results but that other key issues remained to be resolved, such as what free agency will look like moving forward and new offseason workout rules. The people spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because the talks aimed at ending the NFL’s fourmonth-long lockout are supposed to be confidential. With time running short to keep the preseason intact, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, NFL Players Association head DeMaurice Smith, eight owners and about a halfdozen current or former players were in their second consecutive day of lengthy negotiations. They were expected to meet again Friday as they attempt to resolve the impasse that created the sport’s first work stoppage since 1987. On rookie salaries, four people familiar with the talks said first-round draft picks will sign four-year

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, left, and Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt arrives at a Manhattan law firm for meetings on Thursday. Sources say owners and players neared agreement on how to rein in the high salaries of high first-round draft picks. AP PHOTO

contracts with a club option for a fifth year. That represents a compromise; owners were hoping for five-year contracts, while players wanted highly drafted rookies to be under a team’s control for only four years. NFL owners have long sought to restrict the huge bonuses and salaries paid to unproven rookies, particularly those selected at the top of the draft. Quarterback Sam Bradford, taken No. 1 overall in 2010 by the St. Louis Rams, signed a six-year, $78 million contract that included a record $50 million in guaranteed money. Under the system discussed Thursday, people told the AP, clubs will have an option for a fifth year on a rookie’s contract for a predetermined amount based on the player’s performance during the pre-

vious years of the deal. The NFL locked out players in March, after negotiations broke down and the old collective bargaining agreement expired, and now the preseason is fast approaching. The need to arrive at a deal becomes greater with each passing day. The Hall of Fame game that opens the exhibition season is scheduled for Aug. 7 between the Rams and the Chicago Bears, who hope to be able to start training camp at the end of next week. Yet camps will not open without a new CBA in place. Talks gained steam in May, overseen by a courtappointed mediator, U.S. Magistrate Judge Arthur Boylan, who is on vacation this week. Boylan ordered both sides to meet with him in Minneapolis early next week, and the owners

have a special meeting set for next Thursday in Atlanta, where they potentially could ratify a new deal — if one is reached by then. Even once an agreement in principle on the core economic issues is drawn up, there will be more work to be done. That’s because there are certain issues that won’t be addressed in full until after the NFLPA re-establishes itself as a union — a process that might take a couple of days — and can then serve once again as a collective bargaining unit for the players. Items that could fall under that umbrella include the league’s drug-testing program, health insurance, retired players’ pensions and other benefits, none of which is likely to be resolved completely while the union is still dissolved. There’s also a chance the players could pursue a lockout injunction for rookies and free agents after an appeals court ruled last week that the work stoppage could continue. Disruptions to the planned preseason schedule would decrease the overall revenue pie — by tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, depending on how many games are canceled. The parameters for how to divide the more than $9 billion in annual league revenues have been sketched out, but remaining hurdles include the owners’ desire to have more right-of-first-refusal tags for unrestricted free agents.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK

Ga Tech fined $100K, ACC title game victory tossed The NCAA put Georgia Tech on four years of probation, fined the school $100,000 and stripped its ACC title game victory from the 2009 football season on Thursday for violations that also included problems in the men’s basketball program. Georgia Tech did not lose scholarships and was not ruled ineligible for postseason games in either sport, but the basketball team had the number of recruiting days and official visits reduced for the next two seasons. The NCAA vacated the final three games of the football team’s 2009 season — a loss to rival Georgia, the Atlantic Coast Conference championship win over Clemson and the Orange Bowl loss to Iowa — for using an ineligible player. It was the Yellow Jackets’ first season under coach Paul Johnson. The NCAA said Georgia Tech should have declared receiver Demaryius Thomas ineligible after he accepted $312 worth of clothing in ‘09 from former Yellow Jackets quarterback Calvin Booker, who was working for a sports agent at the time. But the investigation took a harder turn against the school when athletic director Dan Radakovich broke NCAA rules by alerting Johnson that Thomas and safety Morgan Burnett would soon be interviewed. It seemed obvious to the NCAA that Thomas and Burnett were told to prepare answers to questions they would be asked during the interviews. In its 26-page report, the NCAA wrote that it decided not to make a finding of its interview with Burnett after he “consistently denied” accepting free clothing. The NCAA committee on infractions wrote, however, that a violation occurred in regard to Thomas. “The staff members provided, before the NCAA could conduct their interview, information about what would be discussed in the interview,” NCAA committee on infractions chairman Dennis Thomas said. “These actions impeded the enforcement staff investigations and hindered the committee in getting to the truth in this case. Otherwise, this case, as it pertains to the football program, would have been limited to impermissible benefits and preferential treatment violations.” Radakovich defended his decision to tell Johnson that Demaryius Thomas and Burnett would be interviewed, and added that he didn’t agree with the findings. “I think that’s where they feel (the investigation) started,” Radakovich said. “I’ve been working with coaches for 25 years, and I think it’s important that you have a relationship with coaches. And while in this particular circumstance I should’ve picked up the telephone and made a call — and I probably could’ve convinced the (NCAA) individual that this was important for me to do. I’ve worked with other investigators who wouldn’t have had a problem with that, so I think that’s part of the other growth and understanding process you go through when you have these issues at hand.” The basketball violations involved a youth basketball tournament held on campus in 2009 and again in 2010. A graduate coaching assistant helped administer both tournaments, violating NCAA prohibitions on scouting, and in 2010 an academic adviser for the team “evaluated prospects and reported his observations” to the coaching staff. The NCAA said the violations were considered major.

LSU: NCAA HAS SCOUTING MATERIALS IT GOT FROM LYLES LSU has given the NCAA copies of material it received from recruiting service owner Willie Lyles and his Complete Scouting Services. The school said in a news release Thursday that it paid $6,000 in December for printed information and DVDs of game footage and highlights of 32 California and Kansas junior college prospects eligible to sign national letters of intent in February. LSU also got footage of two players it hadn’t asked about, one from 2008, and 91 pages of largely outdated roster-type material from junior colleges in California and Kansas. LSU is cooperating with the NCAA investigation, and several football coaches met with an NCAA official on campus last week. The NCAA is looking into Oregon’s $25,000 payment to Lyles’ firm and his involvement in the recruitment of running back Lache Seastrunk of Temple, Texas. The probe is focused on what exactly Oregon obtained from Lyles. In recent interviews, Lyles has said that he and the Ducks both knew he was selling access and influence with highly recruited players. In March, ESPN.com quoted former Texas A&M cornerbacks coach Van Malone as saying Lyles told him the school would have to “beat” an $80,000 payment offered by other schools to get former LSU star cornerback Patrick Peterson to play for the Aggies.

SAMUEL RETURNS TO TAILBACK FOR GEORGIA Georgia linebacker Richard Samuel will return to tailback this season. Coach Mark Richt made the announcement Thursday. The Bulldogs lost their top two rushers from 2009 when Washaun Ealey transferred and Caleb King was ruled academically ineligible. Incoming freshman Isaiah Crowell, a high-profile signee, is listed on the depth chart at tailback along with Carlton Thomas, Samuel and two others players. Samuel played tailback as a freshman and sophomore, but moved to linebacker last year.

RUTGERS’ LEGRAND RECOVERING Rutgers football player Eric LeGrand has made another development in his recovery from paralysis. According to ESPN.com, LeGrand tweeted two photos Wednesday afternoon, showing him standing upright in therapy with his mother. LeGrand’s first tweet read: “Standing up little by little in therapy.” His second tweet read: “Standing tall, we can’t fall. Standing upright again.” FROM WIRE REPORTS

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Good idea had a bad ending BY MIKE BALDWIN Staff Writer mbaldwin@opubco.com

Lon Kruger went to Atlanta Hawks management before the 2002-03 NBA season with a radical proposal. Kruger’s idea was to build a marketing plan around the Hawks making the playoffs. If the Hawks reached postseason, all season ticket holders would be given free firstround tickets. “Crowd interest was very low,” Kruger said. “The enthusiasm for the Hawks was low. We were just trying to do something to pique interest.” The final marketing plan was different from the plan

pitched by Kruger. Team officials decided it wasn’t sexy enough. Before that season, team officials did make a guarantee, though. If the Hawks didn’t make the playoffs, every season ticket holder would be refunded $125. “The team thought it would play better, read better, if they did it the other way, which I was fine with,” Kruger said. “We just wanted to create a little interest.” Kruger said he believed making the playoffs that season was a realistic goal. After missing the playoffs three consecutive years, including two seasons under Kruger, the Hawks acquired veteran

Glenn Robinson from Milwaukee. Robinson would complement veterans Shareef Abdur-Rahim and Theo Ratliff. Atlanta also had a talented second-year guard, Jason Terry, who would eventually become the league’s Sixth Man of the Year with the Dallas Mavericks. The organization built its entire advertising campaign around Kruger’s plan. When someone called the Hawks’ offices, they received this response: “Thank you for calling the playoff-bound Atlanta Hawks.” Kruger felt the campaign might unify players. “It would let them know we expect to do this,”

Kruger said. “Let’s act like we’re going to get there.” Former Oklahoma star Gar Heard was an assistant on Kruger’s staff. “He was trying to motivate the guys, but in the NBA that doesn’t work,” Heard said. “In the NBA, their motivation is playing time.” Kruger was fired Dec. 26 after the Hawks started the season with an 11-16 record. Terry Stotts, another former OU star, was named interim coach. The Hawks finished that season 35-47. And by failing to deliver on the promise of making the playoffs, the Hawks lost approximately $500,000.

Kruger: Disappointed in NBA stint FROM PAGE 1C

at Oklahoma and was an NBA assistant coach for 18 years, was on Kruger’s staff in Atlanta. “The roster wasn’t very good, and it was hard to get everyone on the same page,” Heard said. “We had a lot of young kids. But we also had some veterans who had been on different teams. They didn’t mesh well together. “And he really didn’t have the control he needed to turn it around the way he wanted. He didn’t get the draft picks he wanted. I don’t know how much management was behind him.” Kruger discovered one major difference between coaching in college and the NBA: He didn’t have the final say on personnel. “It’s different, there’s no question about that,” Kruger said. “I was a little naive going into that situation. It was very much a learning experience, a very good experience other than the losing. The losing got old.” Similar to John Calipari, Rick Pitino, Jerry Tarka-

nian, Mike Montgomery and Tim Floyd, other college coaches who failed to duplicate their college success, Kruger compiled a losing record while in the NBA. The Hawks lost 122 games during Kruger’s 2½ seasons. In contrast, he had lost only 174 games in 14 seasons at Kansas State, Illinois and Florida. “I’m sure it was weighing on him, but he never really showed it,” Heard said. “He was always upbeat. He always came to practices and games with a positive attitude. He’s always been that way.” Jason Terry, who played a key role in the Dallas Mavericks winning the 2011 NBA title, was a secondyear guard with the Hawks when Kruger was hired. “Coach is great,” Terry was quoted during Kruger’s first training camp 11 years ago. “He works you hard. He helps you learn. His practices are so organized that we get the most out of them. He challenges us. That’s very good for young players.” College coaches can address problem areas in

practice. In the NBA, once the season starts most adjustments are made watching film. “You play 82 games in roughly 165 days,” Kruger said. “You play every other day on the average. You factor in travel, and you don’t practice as much in terms of quality practices. “And, obviously, the other major difference is you’re coaching people at different stages of their life. In college, all the guys are aspiring to get to the NBA or play after college. In the NBA, guys have agents. Some players have families. Without question, that’s a major difference.” Kruger was fired by the Hawks the day after Christmas during his third season. The Hawks finished 2557 and 33-49 in Kruger’s first two seasons. Babcock made a change when the Hawks started with an 1116 record. “You’re disappointed, but that was healthy, too,” Kruger said. “Anytime you play almost 90 games a year you learn things.” Following a trading

deadline deal during the 2000-01 season, current Thunder forward Nazr Mohammed played for the Hawks all three seasons Kruger was in Atlanta. “He’s a good coach. He’s an intense coach. He asks a lot from his players,” Mohammed said. “It was a collection of guys (that) hadn’t meshed together. That can be tough on a coach. “Both sides have to take some of the blame. But it was more on us the players. If we win games, he doesn’t get let go.” Now retired, Heard works with youth in Atlanta. He’s stayed in contact with Kruger. They play golf together at least once a year. “That team had some young guys, but it also had some veterans,” Heard said. “It’s hard to change some veterans’ ideas, to get them to buy into your program with a college coach coming in. “Lon is the type of guy who always makes adjustments. Given time in Atlanta, he probably could have turned things around.”

OGA STATE AMATEUR

OCU’s Meyers holds on for title BY KYLE FREDRICKSON Tulsa World

TULSA — Cameron Meyers was shaking on Thursday, and it was not because of the weather. After seven rounds of golf in four days in 100degree heat at MeadowBrook Country Club, he captured the 2011 Oklahoma Golf Association Amateur Championship. His excitement continued to pour over minutes after he sank a birdie putt on No. 18 to beat Nick Lees 2-up for the title. “It feels awesome, I’m kind of at a loss for words right now,” Meyers said. “It’s just so exciting, I’m still shaking.” Meyers, a senior golfer at Oklahoma City University who played at Edmond North High, sailed through the first five rounds of match play, never falling more than 1down. But on Thursday, Lees pushed him further. On No. 10, Lees, a sophomore golfer at Maryville University in St. Louis, sank a birdie putt to go 2up. “I didn’t really get worried about it,” Meyers said. “I knew I needed to make birdies.” But it wasn’t a birdie that changed momentum – it was an eagle. With Lees 1-up, Meyers hit a 330-yard drive on No. 15, a 507-yard par-5. Meyers’ second shot landed on the green, around 25 feet from the pin. He said there was a 2 foot left-to-right break with an up-and-down slope. A hard fist pump confirmed he made the right read when the ball dropped in the hole. “I kind of knew it was in

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OU BASKETBALL

Sooners release their nonconference slate FROM STAFF REPORTS

The University of Oklahoma men’s basketball team announced the nonconference portion of its schedule Thursday. The schedule is highlighted by matchups with Arkansas and Cincinnati. The Sooners’ nonconference schedule features nine home dates (two of them exhibitions), three games Thanksgiving week at the 76 Classic in Anaheim, Calif., visits from Arkansas and Oral Roberts, an All-College Classic matchup against Houston and a game at Cincinnati. “It’s a good schedule from the standpoint that it will really help prepare us for Big 12 play,” said firstyear OU coach Lon Kruger. “We’ve got some tough games on the road with the 76 Classic in Anaheim — a very good field there — and Cincinnati. The home schedule is highlighted by the game against Arkansas. That’s a team that will come here and play extremely hard and well under Coach (Mike) Anderson.” Besides OU, the 76 Classic Field includes Boston College, New Mexico, Saint Louis, Santa Clara, UC Riverside, Villanova

and Washington State. Start times will be announced at a later date. For ticket information, contact the OU Athletics Ticket Office by phone at (800) 456-4668 or by email at outickets@ou.edu.

2011 OU MEN’S BASKETBALL NON-CONFERENCE SCHEDULE I Tuesday, Nov. 1: Northeastern State (Okla.) (Exhibition) I Sunday, Nov. 6: Washburn (Exhibition) I Friday, Nov. 11: Idaho State I Friday, Nov. 18: Coppin State I Thursday, Nov. 24: 76 Classic (Anaheim, Calif.) I Friday, Nov. 25: 76 Classic (Anaheim, Calif.) I Sunday, Nov. 27: 76 Classic (Anaheim, Calif.) I Friday, Dec. 2: Sacramento State I Thursday, Dec. 8: Oral Roberts I Saturday, Dec. 10: Arkansas I Saturday, Dec. 17: vs. Houston (All-College Classic; Oklahoma City) I Wednesday, Dec. 21: South Carolina State I Thursday, Dec. 29: at Cincinnati (at U.S. Bank Arena) I Saturday, Dec. 31: Northwestern State (La.)

NBA NOTEBOOK

NBA lays off about 114 league employees The NBA laid off about 114 people over the last two days, planned cost-cutting moves that a league spokesman said Thursday are “not a direct result of the lockout.” The laid off employees represent about 11 percent of the league office workforce in New York, New Jersey and internationally. Spokesman Mike Bass told The Associated Press the layoffs are “not a direct result of the lockout but rather a response to the same underlying issue; that is, the league’s expenses far outpace our revenues.” “The roughly 11 percent reduction in head count from the league office is part of larger cost-cutting measures to reduce our costs by $50 million across all areas of our business,” Bass said. The league said it lost $300 million this season after losing hundreds of millions in each previous year of the collective bargaining agreement that expired at the end of the day June 30. Owners locked out the players after the sides remained far apart in their final proposals. Commissioner David Stern said at the time it was too early to think about how it could affect staff, but acknowledged that the league would “have to go back and look at everything now with our operations.” But the reductions had already begun. The NBA and teams had trimmed staff by about 275 since October 2008, either through layoffs or by leaving positions vacant when employees departed. The league has also cut administrative costs, travel and new technology. It consolidated offices in Europe and Asia, closing offices in Paris and Tokyo, and is shutting down the studio in Secaucus, N.J., where it annually holds the draft lottery. The NBA Store on 5th Ave. in New York has been closed, though the league has said it will reopen in another location. Already at least two teams, Detroit and Charlotte, have cut staff since the work stoppage was announced two weeks ago.

CURRY AND WRIGHT CONSIDERING PLAYING ABROAD Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry and forward Dorell Wright said they are considering playing overseas if the NBA lockout extends into the season. Neither has a deal in place or a destination set in stone, but they could end up in the same location. “China is looking promising,” Curry said via text message. “There’s no deal yet on the table, but my agent is going to entertain offers and see what happens. If it works, I’ll go.” Wright said China would be his first choice. He has an endorsement deal with Peak, a Chinese basketball shoe company. “I would definitely like to play in China,” Wright said via text. “But I’m open to other options. I’m going to China for a week (in August), so I’ll definitely see how it is.” Curry’s agent, Lance Young, cautions that such options aren’t close to fruition. The lockout would have to extend into October before playing overseas becomes an option. Even then, several caveats would need to be negotiated— such as opt-out clauses in case the NBA commences while a player is playing overseas. But Curry and Wright expressed eagerness for continued development. Curry, 23, has two NBA seasons under his belt and is the Warriors’ point guard of the future. Wright, 25, just finished his seventh season, but it was his first as a major player on a team. He set career-highs in games (82), minutes per game (38.4) and scoring average (16.4). A year off might be counterproductive for both.

Cameron Meyers won the Oklahoma Golf Association Amateur Championship on Thursday in Tulsa. PHOTO BY MATT BARNARD, TULSA WORLD

halfway to the hole to be honest,” Meyers said. After Meyers birdied No. 17 to go 1-up, he had to stay even on the final hole to win. With both players on the green in two strokes on the final par-4, Lees left his birdie putt short — Meyers didn’t. Meyers has yet to win a tournament at OCU and said his best victory before

Thursday was the state junior championship in 2004. “This is the biggest win of my career, definitely,” Meyers said. “I’ve always wanted to win this tournament … it just feels great to be a state amateur champion.” Meyers said the heat was brutal, but he is used to Oklahoma summers.

“I’m not tired, I could probably go play another 18 right now,” Meyers said. “But mentally, it’s been very tiring.” Meyers’ victory also ended a streak he was glad to be rid of. “Every year I had won a tournament since I was 12 years old, but I’m on twoyear drought … until today,” Meyers said.

BRIEFLY The Phoenix Suns have hired Elston Turner as a defensive specialist on coach Alvin Gentry’s staff. The 52-yearold Turner has spent the past six seasons as lead assistant to coach Rick Adelman, the last four years in Houston and two in Sacramento. ... The agent for Bobcats rookie Bismack Biyombo insists the seventh pick in the draft will play for Charlotte next season despite a buyout dispute with his Spanish team. “At the time the lockout is over and the season starts, the player will be playing with the Bobcats,” Igor Crespo told The Associated Press in a phone interview. “Everything else is not relevant.” ... ESPN.com reported that Minnesota is targeting Don Nelson as a possible replacement for fired coach Kurt Rambis. FROM WIRE REPORTS

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SPORTS

Surgery sidelines A’s Anderson

Bautista twists ankle, is day to day Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista is listed as day to day with a twisted right ankle after injuring himself on an awkward slide. Bautista hurt himself Thursday night in Toronto’s game against the New York Yankees. He limped off after the play in the fourth inning. Bautista leads the majors with 31 home runs. He led the big leagues last year with 54 homers.

ORTIZ, GREGG SUSPENDED, FINED Red Sox slugger David Ortiz and Baltimore pitcher Kevin Gregg each were suspended four games and fined for their parts in a July 8 bench-clearing brawl. Orioles pitcher Mike Gonzalez was suspended three games, and manager Buck Showalter was suspended one game as part of the punishment handed out by Major League Baseball. Gregg and Gonzalez have decided to appeal, delaying the punishment; Ortiz was not immediately available for comment. Showalter, who does not have the option of an appeal, sat out Thursday night’s game against the Cleveland Indians.

YANKEES PUT A-ROD ON DL The New York Yankees put third baseman Alex Rodriguez on the 15-day disabled list while he recovers from surgery on his right knee. The Yankees promoted outfielder Greg Golson from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Rodriguez had surgery Monday to repair a tear in his knee and is expected to miss four to six weeks. He is hitting .295 with 13 home runs and 52 RBIs. Also, the Yankees signed left-handed reliever J.C. Romero to a minor league contract and assigned him to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Romero began the season with Philadelphia. He had a 3.86 ERA in 24 games for the Phillies before getting released.

BRIEFLY The San Francisco Giants are talking to former Washington Nationals manager Jim Riggleman about a scouting job. ... Arizona manager Kirk Gibson said the team will call up first baseman Brandon Allen from Triple-A Reno and activate Geoff Blum from the disabled list before Friday’s game against the Dodgers. They will replace Juan Miranda and Wily Mo Pena on the roster.

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AMERICAN LEAGUE Friday’s Games

Chicago White Sox (Floyd 6-9) at Detroit (Verlander 12-4), 6:05 p.m. Cleveland (Tomlin 10-4) at Baltimore (Arrieta 9-6), 6:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (F.Garcia 7-6) at Toronto (Morrow 5-4), 6:07 p.m. Boston (A.Miller 3-0) at Tampa Bay (Price 8-7), 6:10 p.m. Kansas City (Hochevar 5-8) at Minnesota (Blackburn 7-6), 7:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (Haren 10-5) at Oakland (McCarthy 1-5), 9:05 p.m. Texas (C.Lewis 8-7) at Seattle (Fister 3-10), 9:10 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE

Thursday’s Games INDIANS 8, ORIOLES 4

I Asdrubal Cabrera and Carlos Santana homered, and Justin Masterson struck out eight in six innings. CLEVELAND

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Saturday’s Games

Florida at Chicago Cubs, 12:05 p.m. Philadelphia at N.Y. Mets, 3:10 p.m. Pittsburgh at Houston, 6:05 p.m. St. Louis at Cincinnati, 6:10 p.m. Washington at Atlanta, 6:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 7:10 p.m. Milwaukee at Colorado, 7:10 p.m. San Francisco at San Diego, 7:35 p.m.

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BLUE JAYS 16, YANKEES 7

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Robinson Cancel will likely tell his grandchildren about it — albeit during a lighthearted moment. On Thursday night, the veteran ballplayer probably was not too amused his individual performance during the Oklahoma City RedHawks’ 8-4 rout of the Iowa Cubs before 7,165 fans in Des Moines. Cancel, usually a catcher, tied a Pacific Coast League record with four errors while playing first base. Three miscues were called “fielding errors” by the official scorer. Another was when Cancel failed to catch the ball. The last time a first baseman in the PCL committed four errors in one game was June 17, 1951, by Joe Howell of the thenminor league San Diego Padres. All told, the RedHawks finished with six errors Thursday in their first game after the Triple-A All-Star break. Shortstop Tommy Manzella was charged with an error, and Koby Clemens, who started the game at third base, was tagged with an error for a bad throw. Oklahoma City manager Tony DeFrancesco eventually moved Clemens to first base, where he usually plays. The RedHawks countered the fielding disaster with ample offense. Anderson Hernandez was 3 for 3, scored twice and walked once. He homered and added a double. J.R. Towles added two hits and his first RBI since being sent to Oklahoma City by the Houston Astros. Manzella had a two-run single.

TWINS 8, ROYALS 4

CHACIN RELEASED

I Trevor Plouffe hit a big two-run homer and Delmon Young had three hits in his return to the lineup. KANSAS CITY

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E—Jeter (5), Martin (7), E.Nunez (11). DP—New York 2, Toronto 1. LOB—New York 7, Toronto 6. 2B—Gardner (13), E.Thames 2 (8), Lind (9), Snider (11), Arencibia (10). 3B— Granderson (8). HR—An.Jones 2 (6). SB— Snider (6).

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Yankees manager Joe Girardi watches Thursday night’s game in Toronto. AP PHOTO

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N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 12:07 p.m. Boston at Tampa Bay, 3:10 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Detroit, 3:10 p.m. L.A. Angels at Oakland, 3:10 p.m., 1st game Cleveland at Baltimore, 6:05 p.m. Kansas City at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m. L.A. Angels at Oakland, 6:35 p.m., 2nd game

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Thursday’s Games

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Florida at Chicago Cubs Milwaukee at Colorado San Francisco at San Diego

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Florida (Nolasco 6-5) at Chicago Cubs (Dempster 6-6), 1:20 p.m. Philadelphia (Worley 4-1) at N.Y. Mets (Dickey 4-7), 6:10 p.m. St. Louis (Westbrook 7-4) at Cincinnati (Cueto 5-3), 6:10 p.m. Washington (L.Hernandez 5-8) at Atlanta (T.Hudson 8-6), 6:35 p.m. Pittsburgh (Karstens 7-4) at Houston (Myers 3-9), 7:05 p.m. Milwaukee (Narveson 6-5) at Colorado (Nicasio 3-2), 7:40 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 9-4) at Arizona (J.Saunders 6-7), 8:40 p.m. San Francisco (Lincecum 7-7) at San Diego (Moseley 2-8), 9:05 p.m.

Cleveland 8, Baltimore 4 Toronto 16, N.Y. Yankees 7 Minnesota 8, Kansas City 4 Texas at Seattle

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Thursday’s Games

5 0 1 0 3 0 1 2 4 0 0 0

DP—Baltimore 1. LOB—Cleveland 7, Baltimore 6. 2B—Brantley (15), C.Santana (16), Hardy (14), Wieters (16), D.Lee (12), Pie (5). HR—A.Cabrera (15), C.Santana (14). SB— O.Cabrera (6). SF—T.Buck.

4 1 1 0 5 1 2 2

Texas at Seattle, 9:10 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

NATIONAL LEAGUE San Francisco ...... Arizona ................ Colorado .............. Los Angeles......... San Diego ............

FROM WIRE REPORTS

Oakland pitcher Brett Anderson, who is from Stillwater, had surgery to rebuild the ulnar collateral ligament in his left elbow. AP PHOTO

MLB SCOREBOARD

Texas ................... Los Angeles......... Seattle................. Oakland ...............

Minnesota

Liriano W,6-7 Mijares Dumatrait

Teaford pitched to 1 batter in the 7th. HBP—by Bl.Wood (A.Casilla). WP—Liriano. Umpires—Home, Joe West;First, Sam Holbrook;Second, Angel Campos;Third, John Tumpane. T—3:08. A—39,584 (39,500).

The RedHawks’ revolving door continued to spin Thursday. Veteran pitcher Gustavo Chacin was released by the Houston Astros, who then signed pitcher Lucas Harrell and assigned him to Oklahoma City. Harrell, who was recently placed on waivers by the Chicago White Sox, will replace Chacin on the RedHawks roster. The Astros cut a struggling Chacin, who was 3-6 with a 5.13 earned-run average for Oklahoma City. The 30-year-old lefty showed promise early in his career, winning 13 games and striking out 121 for Toronto in 2005. Chacin won nine games for the Jays in 2006. He has since hopped from the Washington, Philadelphia and Houston organizations. Harrell had been with the White Sox organization since 2004. The right-hander was 7-3 with a 3.27 ERA as a starter this season for Charlotte of the International League. He pitched five innings through three games in relief for Chicago this season. ... Pitcher Jeff Fulchino was activated from the RedHawks disabled list and threw a scoreless inning Thursday night. ... Houston reassigned pitcher Danny Meszaros from the RedHawks to Double-A Corpus Christi.

UP NEXT The four-game series continues at 7:05 p.m. Friday. Righthander Brad Hennessey (0-1, 4.66 ERA) is the scheduled starter for the RedHawks. Righty Jay Jackson (4-8, 6.28) is the starter for Iowa. FROM STAFF REPORTS

PCL Standings American Conference North Division

Cardinals are getting healthy for second half BY DERRICK GOOLD St. Louis Post-Dispatch

ST. LOUIS — After his

team finished the first half with a flourish and a firstplace tie atop the National League Central, St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa took a deep breath and sighed. “Whew,” he said. “It was just survival.” He was talking about the heat. He could have also been describing the division. The competitive and compelling (but not commanding) NL Central began the second half of the

AROUND THE MAJORS

FROM WIRE REPORTS

OAKLAND, Calif. — The Oakland Athletics said left-handed pitcher Brett Anderson will miss the rest of the season after having reconstructive surgery on his elbow. The A’s said Anderson, who is from Stillwater, had surgery Thursday. Dr. James Andrews performed the operation to rebuild the ulnar collateral ligament. Anderson was 3-6 with a 4.00 ERA in 13 starts this season. He went on the 15day disabled list on June 7 because of elbow soreness. The 23-year-old pitcher originally had a platelet rich plasma injection in his elbow and was going to see whether rehabilitation could help him. After an evaluation period, it was decided that Anderson needed surgery. According to the San Jose Mercury News, Anderson was with the A’s for their series with Texas before the All-Star break and gave no indication of surgery. “I just want to be healthy and have consistent stuff,” he told the newspaper. “It’s tough going out there not knowing if you’re going to throw 94 (mph) or 88.” Anderson was 7-6 with a 2.80 ERA in 19 starts last year.

season Thursday with four teams within four games of the lead. Milwaukee and the Cardinals were tied at 49-43, the surprising Pittsburgh Pirates were a game back at 47-43, and defending champ Cincinnati was submerged below .500 at 45-47. Each contender has stumbled or struggled at least once already this season but because of the gravitational pull of parity no team has been able to pull away. Throughout the division, injuries have plagued clubs, dooming the Cubs with 14 uses of the disabled list and more 350 games

lost to ailments. The Cardinals have used the DL 15 times, and the Pirates had 10 players on the DL at the break, including four of their eight opening day position players. Partially because of the absences, the first half was defined by what teams couldn’t do. The Cardinals couldn’t get healthy. The Brewers couldn’t win on the road. The Reds couldn’t get consistent pitching. And the Pirates, for awhile, couldn’t be believed. The second half will be decided by what teams could be. Here’s a look at the Cardinals’ situation:

I Record: 49-43 (tied for first) I Outlook: The Cardinals return from the AllStar break eager to finally see the lineup they planned to start the season with. Only five times in the first half did the Cardinals start the eight position players they identified as everyday starters coming out of spring training. Despite playing more than 35 games without Stillwater’s Matt Holliday or Albert Pujols (or both), the Cardinals ranked second in the NL in runs scored (433) and first in slugging (.418) and OPS (.759).

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Thursday’s Game REDHAWKS 8 CUBS 4 Oklahoma City

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FRIDAY, JULY 15, 2011

THE OKLAHOMAN | NEWSOK.COM

SPORTS

Grandma watching Gibson SUPER 30 | TULSA EAST CENTRAL STANDOUT HAS TO IMPRESS HIS BIGGEST FAN, CRITIC BY ANTHONY SLATER

SUPER 30: NO. 10 DAMIAN GIBSON

Staff Writer aslater@opubco.com

TULSA — As a two-way starter and team leader at Tulsa East Central, much is expected of Damian Gibson. Teammates expect the big tight end to open holes for the running game, while also doubling as a legitimate pass-catching threat. Coaches expect the 6foot-4, 225-pound defensive end to anchor the defense and consistently put pressure on the quarterback. Gibson himself expects a dominant senior season to back up last year’s breakout performance, which brought interest from colleges nationwide. But, perhaps no one expects more out of Gibson than his grandmother, Netta Rogers. Rogers is his biggest fan, never missing one of her grandson’s games. But, she is also his biggest critic. “I know she is really paying attention to the game,” Gibson said. “Because I’ll come home after a good game and she will ask, ‘Why didn’t you make that one tackle?’ or, ‘Why

Tulsa East Central’s Damian Gibson opens holes on the line and is a pass-catching threat at tight end. PHOTO BY CORY YOUNG, TULSA WORLD

did you take that play off?’” But Gibson doesn’t take the criticism negatively. He loves it. “She makes sure I’m always focused and knowing I could always have done better,” Gibson said. “She is making sure I push myself to get better.” And that extra motivation has helped transform Gibson into a dominant force that comes in at No. 10 on this year’s Super 30 list. He broke onto the scene toward the tail end of 2010, stringing together some big performances in the Class 5A postseason and finishing with 109 tackles. His versatility has inter-

Who’s next? Proof once again that it doesn’t matter where the talent is, it will be found. This quarterback picked up steam heading into his junior year and has never let up since. Find out who is No. 9 in Saturday’s Oklahoman. Super 30 I 10. Damian Gibson, TE, Tulsa East Central I 11. Michael Thomas, DB, Lawton MacArthur I 12. Casey Curtis, RB, Putnam City I 13. Kevin Peterson, DB,

Damian Gibson Wagoner I 14. Andrew Long, RB, Southmoore I 15. Victor Williams, DB,

ested an assortment of colleges, including Miami (Fla.) and Oklahoma. Not only does Gibson excel in football, but he is a key member of the Cardinals basketball team. “I’ve seen plenty of 6foot-4, 200-plus pounders,” East Central coach Travis Hill said. “But they aren’t as fast and physically gifted as this kid.” Gibson’s exact position in college is still up in the air. He can move around and provide a physical presence on offense, but that is not where his heart is. He said catching a pass can be fun, but he fell in love with defense the first time he broke through the

I School: Tulsa East Central I Position: Tight end/Defensive end I Height: 6-foot-3 I Weight: 220 pounds I Offers: Utah State and Tulsa. Arkansas, OU and Miami, among others, showing interest.

line and slammed a quarterback. “There is something about that physicality,” Gibson said. “It’s heard to explain, but it just gets you going. If I get that first sack, I get hungrier and need more.” That natural tenacity is something Hill has experienced in practices for three years. And that is what has him believing Gibson’s eventual college position will be defensive end. “He has the skills to be a tight end,” Hill said. “But he wreaks havoc on the defensive side of the ball. It is hard for a line to contain him.”

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 Missed a Super 30 story? Catch everything from photos to videos to stories on all the Super 30 players at NewsOK.com/Varsity.

for Shawneil to show a lot of guys at Division I schools that they missed out on a complete player,” Crooked Oak coach Johnny Williams said. “It’s a great opportunity to get on the floor and show his talent. “I always preach to our players that no matter what hand you’re dealt, do your best and good things will happen if you’re doing the right things. I’m so proud of this young man.”

championship in the spring. Nixon won four individual gold medals at the 6A state meet and set a national high school record for points in the decathlon. He’ll attend Arkansas in the fall Bundy was the fourth overall selection by Baltimore in the Major League Baseball draft last month after leading Owasso to the 6A state championship game. He also signed with Texas.

OKLAHOMANS WIN NATIONAL AWARDS

THOMPSON SIGNS WITH FMU

Putnam City North tennis player Chris Haworth, Edmond Santa Fe track athlete Gunnar Nixon and Owasso baseball player Dylan Bundy were all named national players of the year by the National High School Coaches Association, giving Oklahoma more individual winners than any other state. Five other states had two athletes on the list of 20 awards. Haworth, who has signed with Oklahoma State, won his third consecutive Class 6A No. 1 singles state

Putnam City product Carmella Thompson has signed with the Francis Marion University women’s basketball team after completing a successful twoyear stint at Northern Oklahoma Junior College of Tonkawa. The 5-foot-8 guard will be a junior at Francis Marion, an NCAA Division II program in Florence, S.C. Thompson averaged 6.9 points, 6.0 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 2.2 steals per game as a sophomore at NOC.

HIGH SCHOOL NOTEBOOK

John Marshall coach headed to Tulsa Washington After coaching John Marshall to back-to-back state championships in boys track, Marvin Dantzler has resigned to take a coaching position at Tulsa Washington. Dantzler will be an assistant coach on Darrell Hall’s football staff, as well as the head boys track coach. “I’m really looking forward to the opportunity,” Dantzler said. “I’m gonna miss John Marshall. I really built a good relationship with the community, so it was hard to leave.”

OFFICIALS HEADED TO HALL Four longtime officials will be inducted into the Oklahoma Officials Association Hall of Fame later this month. Guy Hays and Worry Hays of Enid, each of whom spent 50 years officiating high school sports in all seasons throughout the state, are at the head of the

Marvin Dantzler class. The other inductees are Bob Roberts of Cushing and Wayne Singleton of Hartshorne. The induction is scheduled at 9:30 a.m. July 30 at the Oklahoma Officials Association Summer Conference at Westmoore High School.

CROOKED OAK’S SKANES SIGNS Crooked Oak’s Shawneil Skanes finally found a college home. Skanes, a 5-foot-11 guard who averaged 37.0 points per game as a senior, signed Wednesday with Central Baptist College, an NAIA program in Conway, Ark. “It’s a great opportunity

BY SCOTT WRIGHT

Chris Haworth of Putnam City North, left, and Gunnar Nixon of Edmond Santa Fe, right, were named national players of the year by the National High School Coaches Association. PHOTOS BY NATE BILLINGS, THE OKLAHOMAN, AND AP

BARONS

AHL announces Barons’ opponents The Oklahoma City Barons will play every team in the American Hockey League’s Western Conference, the team announced Thursday. The Barons will not play an Eastern Conference team this season. Their schedule, which will be released next month, will feature 10 games against Texas and eight each against Abbotsford. Charlotte, Grand Rapids, Houston and San Antonio.

Each series will be evenly split between home and road. Charlotte was recently moved from the Eastern Conference with St. John’s joining the league following its relocation from Winnipeg. The Barons will play the Rochester Americans, the only Western Conference team they didn’t play last season, four times. They’ll also play Lake Erie, Milwaukee, Peoria and Rockford four times each. Oklahoma City will play Chicago, Hamilton and Toronto twice each. BY RYAN ABER

Clemens case over as judge declares mistrial BY NEDRA PICKLER AND JESSE J. HOLLAND Associated Press

WASHINGTON — One minute Roger Clemens was on trial for his freedom. Then, on just the second day of testimony, it was suddenly all over and the former baseball star was outside signing autographs for fans. Almost as soon as it began, Clemens’ perjury trial ended Thursday — in a mistrial the judge blamed on prosecutors and said a “first-year law student” would have known to avoid. U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton left the question of a new trial up in the air. But he called a halt to the trial under way after prosecutors showed jurors evidence that he had ruled out — videotaped revelations that teammate Andy Pettitte had said he’d told his wife Clemens confessed to using a drug. Walton scolded prosecutors and said he couldn’t let the former All-Star pitcher face prison if convicted on such “extremely prejudicial” evidence. “Mr. Clemens has to get a fair trial,” Walton said. “In my view, he can’t get it now.” Defense attorney Rusty Hardin, who had asked for the mistrial declaration, patted an unsmiling Clemens on the back as the judge announced his decision. As he left the courthouse, Clemens did not comment but accepted hugs from a couple of court workers, shook hands with the security guards and autographed baseballs for fans waiting outside. The quick end on only the second day of testimony was the second mistrial involving a former star player accused in baseball’s steroids scandal. Home run king Barry Bonds was convicted three months ago of obstruction of justice, but a mistrial was called on three more serious false-statements charges after jurors couldn’t agree on a verdict. Walton said he would hold a hearing Sept. 2 to decide whether Clemens should face another trial. Hardin told reporters, “I wouldn’t even hazard a guess” about what Walton will decide. Walton could end the prosecution by declaring that a new trial would run afoul of double jeopardy — the right not to be brought to trial twice on the same charges for the same offense. But experts said it was unlikely that he would go that far, especially since the trial was just under way. “Generally speaking, mistrial does not bar a trial of the defendant when the defendant requested the mistrial,” said Harry Sandick, a former prosecutor who now defends whitecollar cases. He said a judge may make an exception for misconduct on the part of prosecutors, but this appears to have been a simple yet devastating mistake. “How could the government not have reviewed each piece of evidence after the court’s pretrial rulings?” he said. “This is

Roger Clemens

crucially important, and prosecutors have to do this all the time.” The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, which tried the case, said it would have no comment because of Walton’s gag order. Clemens also stayed mum. “I’m not going to say anything,” Clemens said as he left the courthouse. He and his legal team ducked into a nearby restaurant to escape the media horde following him. The unraveling of the case began as prosecutors were showing jurors a video of Clemens’ 2008 testimony before Congress. He is accused of lying under oath during that testimony when he said he never used performance-enhancing drugs during his 24-season career. Clemens’ former teammate and close friend, Pettitte, had told committee investigators that Clemens confessed in 1999 or 2000 that he used human growth hormone. Clemens has said Pettitte “misremembers” or “misheard” their conversation. Prosecutors had wanted to call Laura Pettitte as a witness to back up her husband’s account because she says her husband told her about the conversation the day it happened. But Walton had said Laura Pettitte’s statement wasn’t admissible since it didn’t involve direct knowledge of what Clemens said. In the video prosecutors showed the jury, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., referred to Pettitte’s conversation with his wife during the questioning of Clemens. Walton quickly cut off the tape and called attorneys to the bench for a private conversation for several minutes. The video remained frozen on the screen in front of jurors with a transcript of what was being said on the bottom. Cummings had been quoting from Laura Pettitte’s affidavit to the committee. “I, Laura Pettitte, do depose and state, in 1999 or 2000, Andy told me he had a conversation with Roger Clemens in which Roger admitted to him using human growth hormones,” the text on the screen read. The judge eventually told the jurors to leave while he discussed the issue with attorneys in open court. Hardin asked for a mistrial, while prosecutors suggested the problem could be fixed with an instruction to the jury to disregard the evidence. Walton responded that they could never know what impact the evidence would have during the jury’s deliberations. “I don’t see how I unring the bell,” he said. “Government counsel should have been more cautious,” Walton said.

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BASKETBALL

WNBA Standings Western Conference W

Phoenix .................................... Minnesota................................ San Antonio ............................. Seattle ..................................... Los Angeles ............................. Tulsa ........................................

Pct GB

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.692 — .636 1 .636 1 .636 1 .455 3 .077 8

Eastern Conference W

Pct GB

Indiana....................................... 10 New York ................................... 8 Connecticut ............................... 6 Chicago ...................................... 7 Atlanta ...................................... 3 Washington ............................... 2 Thursday’s Game Seattle at San Antonio Friday’s Games Minnesota at Indiana, 6 p.m. Connecticut at New York, 6 p.m. Los Angeles at Tulsa, 7 p.m. Washington at Phoenix, 9 p.m. Wednesday’s Results New York 91, Atlanta 69 Chicago 72, Tulsa 54 Phoenix 112, Minnesota 105 Indiana 90, Connecticut 78

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.769 — .615 2 .545 3 .500 31⁄2 .250 61⁄2 .182 7

BASEBALL

Texas League Scores and Schedule Thursday’s Games Frisco 2, Corpus Christi 1 Midland 10, San Antonio 1 Northwest Arkansas 7, Springfield 6 Arkansas 5, Tulsa 1 Friday’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.

GOLF

Thursday’s Results PGA Viking Classic At Madison, Miss. Annandale Golf Club 7,199 yards; Par 72 First Round a-denotes amateur Tim Petrovic................................... 32-33 John Mallinger ............................... 34-31 Brendon de Jonge .......................... 32-33 Peter Lonard .................................. 33-32 Sunghoon Kang.............................. 31-34 Bobby Gates................................... 32-33 Michael Connell ............................. 32-34 Hunter Haas .................................. 33-33 Chez Reavie.................................... 33-33 Tom Pernice, Jr. ............................. 34-32 Troy Matteson ............................... 34-32 Kenny Perry ................................... 32-34 Bill Lunde ....................................... 33-33 Fabian Gomez ................................ 32-34 Bio Kim........................................... 34-32 Tag Ridings .................................... 33-34 Kirk Triplett ................................... 34-33 Tom Byrum..................................... 33-34 Stephen Ames ............................... 34-33 Tommy Gainey ............................... 35-32 Rod Pampling................................. 33-34 Billy Mayfair .................................. 35-32 Lee Janzen ..................................... 31-36 Richard S. Johnson ........................ 35-32 Josh Teater .................................... 35-32 Chris Kirk ....................................... 34-33 Frank Lickliter II............................. 33-34 George McNeill .............................. 32-35 Scott Piercy.................................... 36-31 Matt Weibring ............................... 32-35 Woody Austin ................................ 35-33 Joe Durant ..................................... 33-35 Rich Beem ...................................... 34-34 Shane Bertsch................................ 34-34 John Morse .................................... 34-34 Cameron Beckman ......................... 32-36 D.J. Trahan ..................................... 35-33 Scott Gutschewski ........................ 33-35 Bud Cauley ..................................... 34-34 D.J. Brigman .................................. 35-33 Guy Boros....................................... 33-35 Chris Riley...................................... 35-33 J.P. Hayes....................................... 34-34 Chris DiMarco ................................ 36-32 Michael Thompson ........................ 34-34 William McGirt .............................. 35-33 Kevin Kisner................................... 33-35 Brett Quigley ................................. 35-34 Will MacKenzie.............................. 35-34 Parker McLachlin ........................... 33-36 Omar Uresti ................................... 32-37 Kris Blanks..................................... 37-32 John Senden .................................. 34-35 Skip Kendall ................................... 35-34 Nate Smith .................................... 34-35 Jim Renner..................................... 34-35 Daniel Summerhays ...................... 33-36 a-Jonathan Randolph..................... 35-34 Chris Couch .................................... 35-34 J.L. Lewis ....................................... 34-35 Joe Ogilvie ..................................... 33-36 Ben Martin..................................... 36-33 Jarrod Lyle ..................................... 34-35 James Driscoll ............................... 33-37 Craig Barlow .................................. 34-36 Steve Elkington ............................. 34-36 Grant Waite................................... 33-37 Mark Brooks................................... 36-34 Derek Lamely ................................. 34-36 Joseph Bramlett ............................ 35-35 Will Strickler.................................. 36-34 Jerod Turner................................... 36-34 Andres Gonzales............................ 36-34 Robert Damron .............................. 35-35 Mark Hensby.................................. 36-34 Heath Slocum ................................ 37-33 Andre Stolz .................................... 34-36 Alex Prugh ..................................... 34-36 Steven Bowditch ........................... 33-37 Stuart Deane ................................. 34-36 Scott Gordon.................................. 35-35 Jim Herman ................................... 35-35 Ryuji Imada .................................... 41-30 Robin Freeman .............................. 35-36 Brian Bateman............................... 38-33 Marc Turnesa ................................. 36-35 Alexandre Rocha............................ 33-38 Aron Price ...................................... 37-34 Billy Horschel................................. 36-35 Jeff Quinney .................................. 37-34 Michael Clark II .............................. 36-35 Johnson Wagner ............................ 35-36 Briny Baird ..................................... 34-38 Michael Letzig ............................... 36-36 Bob Burns ...................................... 36-36 Dan Forsman.................................. 36-36 Scott McCarron.............................. 37-35 Blake Adams .................................. 37-35 Dicky Pride ..................................... 36-36 Chris Stroud ................................... 36-36 Zack Miller ..................................... 36-36 Matt McQuillan.............................. 36-36 Ted Tryba........................................ 34-38 David Hearn ................................... 34-38 Martin Piller................................... 36-36 Matt Fast ....................................... 35-37 Mark Carnevale.............................. 38-35 Glen Day ........................................ 36-37 Greg Huxman ................................. 37-36 Jay Williamson .............................. 35-38 Jason Bohn .................................... 36-37 Justin Hicks ................................... 38-35 Willie Wood................................... 38-36 Len Mattiace.................................. 38-36 Ted Purdy ....................................... 37-37 Carlos Franco ................................. 35-39 Colt Knost ...................................... 37-37 Paul Stankowski ............................ 36-38 Dave Rummells.............................. 38-36 Chris Baryla ................................... 39-35 Matthew Swan .............................. 35-39 Dick Mast ....................................... 36-38 Nolan Henke................................... 36-38 Fulton Allem .................................. 37-38 Phil Schmitt ................................... 35-40 Phil Tataurangi............................... 39-37 Chris Smith .................................... 37-39 Shaun Micheel ............................... 35-41 Notah Begay III.............................. 37-40 Robert Gamez ................................ 39-39 Eric Axley ....................................... 43-41

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Nationwide Chiquita Classic At Maineville, Ohio TPC River’s Bend 7,180 yards; Par 72 (36-36) First Round Andrew Buckle............................... 31-32 Wes Homan ................................... 30-34 Steve Dartnall................................ 32-33 B.J. Staten ..................................... 31-34 Ryan Armour.................................. 32-33 Josh Broadaway............................. 32-33 Matthew Giles ............................... 32-34 Kyle Reifers ................................... 32-34 Steve Wheatcroft .......................... 33-33 Camilo Benedetti ........................... 35-31 Aaron Goldberg.............................. 32-34 Bradley Iles .................................... 33-34 Brenden Pappas ............................. 33-34 Casey Wittenberg ......................... 33-34 Scott Dunlap .................................. 34-33 Matt Every ..................................... 36-31 Trevor Murphy ............................... 35-32 Billy Hurley III................................ 34-33 Jason Kokrak.................................. 32-35 Matt Hendrix ................................. 33-34 Jonas Blixt ..................................... 34-33 Garth Mulroy.................................. 33-34 Josh Geary ..................................... 31-36 Tim Wilkinson................................ 34-33 David Lingmerth ............................ 33-34 Greg Owen ..................................... 31-36 Andy Bare ...................................... 34-33 Dustin Garza .................................. 33-35 Ron Whittaker ............................... 36-32 Troy Kelly ....................................... 33-35 Jeff Gove........................................ 31-37 Brian Stuard................................... 34-34 Matthew Richardson ..................... 34-34 Russell Knox .................................. 33-35 Philip Pettitt, Jr. ............................ 34-34 Paul Claxton................................... 33-35

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FRIDAY, JULY 15, 2011

SPORTS/SCOREBOARD

Richard T. Lee ................................ J.J. Killeen...................................... Ted Potter, Jr. ................................ Roberto Castro............................... Corey Nagy..................................... Nick Flanagan ................................ Tommy Biershenk .......................... Alistair Presnell............................. Chris Nallen ................................... Steve LeBrun ................................. Jeff Brehaut................................... Kyle Thompson .............................. Marco Dawson ............................... Danny Wax..................................... David Branshaw............................. Travis Hampshire........................... James Nitties ................................ Andrew Svoboda............................ Will Dodson ................................... Bubba Dickerson ............................ Brent Delahoussaye ...................... Gary Christian................................ Facundo Gutierrez.......................... John Riegger .................................. James Hahn ................................... Mark Anderson .............................. Luke Hickmott ............................... Jason Schultz................................. Danny Lee ...................................... Chris Baker..................................... John Kimbell .................................. Brett Waldman .............................. Scott Gardiner ............................... Mathias Gronberg.......................... Rob Oppenheim ............................. Richard H. Lee................................ Ken Duke........................................ Rahil Gangjee................................. Brett Wetterich ............................. Cliff Kresge .................................... Justin Peters ................................. Michael Sims ................................. Ben Fox .......................................... Charles Warren .............................. Geoffrey Sisk ................................. Todd Fischer................................... Nicholas Thompson ....................... Bob Heintz ..................................... Justin Bolli..................................... Gavin Coles .................................... Matt Davidson ............................... Ryan Hietala .................................. David Lutterus ............................... Patrick Sheehan............................. Mathew Goggin ............................. Grant Leaver .................................. Tyrone Van Aswegen ..................... Darron Stiles.................................. Todd Bailey..................................... Jake Younan-Wise ......................... Jimmy Brandt ................................ Dawie van der Walt ....................... Bob Sowards .................................. Travis Bertoni ................................ Ewan Porter ................................... Roger Tambellini............................ Scott Sterling ................................ Elliot Gealy..................................... Will Claxton ................................... Clayton Rask .................................. Drew Weaver ................................. Estanislao Guerrero....................... Octavio Gonzalez ........................... Joel Edwards.................................. Brian Smock................................... Brendon Todd ................................. Ty Tryon ......................................... Brock Mackenzie............................ David Vanegas ............................... Oscar Fraustro ............................... Stefan Wiedergruen ...................... Will Wilcox..................................... Aaron Watkins............................... Adam Meyer .................................. Jason Enloe.................................... Brent Long ..................................... Mike Lavery ................................... Won Joon Lee ................................ Craig Bowden................................. Martin Flores ................................ Brad Elder ...................................... Edward Loar ..................................

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Amateur 2011 State Championship At Broken Arrow Meadowbrook CC Semifinals Cameron Meyers, Edmond, Okla. (4) def. Bryan Boaz, Tulsa, Okla. (9), 4 and 2 Nick Lees, Tulsa, Okla. (26) def. Casey Fernandez, Mcalester , Oklahoma (22), 1 up Final Cameron Meyers, Edmond, Okla. (4) def. Nick Lees, Tulsa, Okla. (26), 2 up

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 United States 3, France 1 At Frankfurt Japan 3, Sweden 1

Third Place Saturday, July 16 At Sinsheim, Germany France vs. Sweden, 10:30 a.m.

Championship Sunday, July 17 At Frankfurt United States vs. Japan, 1:45 p.m.

RODEO

IFYR Shawnee Youth Rodeo Thursday’s P.M. Results Barrel Racing 1. Kristi Steffees, Vale, S.D. 16.458 2. Shay Spitz, Lamar, Colo. 16.525 3. Kyra Stierwalt, Leedey 16.545 Also 5. Ceri McCaffrey, Wayne 16.633 6. Kasidy Rasberry, Skiatook 16.646 9. Sara Atwood, Choctaw 16.724 10. J’Nae Mullen, Maysville 16.759 12. Jessica Gibson, Kingfisher 16.792 14. Maddie McGowan, McAlester 16.804 Pole Bending 1. Ashleigh Baugh, Monticello, Ark. 20.011 2. Samantha Corzine, Center, Colo. 20.062 3. Hannah Beamer, Pinetown, N.C. 20.292 Also 10. Dani Stepp, Calera 20.622 Breakaway Roping 1. Whitney Thurmond, Cedar Creek, Texas 2.2 2. (tie) Angela Bartley, Emporia, Kan. and Zoey Sharp, Stilwell, Kan. 2.4 Also 4. (tie) Kasey Campbell, Haworth and Keely Jo Weger, Mead 2.6 6. Monica McClung, May 2.7 Goat Tying 1. Saige Miller, Pleasant Hill, Mo. 7.4 2. (tie) Rylee Elmore, Springer and Baili Collins Leedey 7.7 Also T9. Ceri McCaffrey, Wayne 8.6 Calf Roping 1. Will Howell, Stillwater 8.5 2. Marty Yates, Stephenville, Texas 8.9 3. (tie) Clay Brewer, Rutherford, Tenn. and Paul Melvin, Paradise, Texas 9.0 Also 5. Quinton Inman, Ketchum 9.5 T6. Logan Rudd, Chelsea 9.6 T9. William Whayne, Tulsa 9.9 Steer Wrestling 1. Michael Zachary Hyatt, Stockton, Ala. 4.0 2. Dillon Brewer, McAlester 4.1 3. EJ Bechtold, Booker, Texas 4.6 Also T10. Shade Etbauer, Goodwell 5.6 T15. Mason Carter, Checotah 6.0 Saddle Bronc 1. Cody Goertzen, Tuttle 75.5 2. Ty Houston Kirkland, Lufkin, Texas 74.5 3. Tyler Baeza, Beaver Dam, Ariz. 73.0 Bareback Bronc 1. Trey Moore, Anniston, Ala. 72.0 2. Dustin Jackson, Mabank, Texas 71.5 3. Tanner Girty, Porum 71.0 Bull Riding 1. Sage Kimzey, Cheyenne 81.0 2. Newt Brasfield, Lane 80.0 3. Cody Johnson, Stephenville, Texas 79.0 Also 6. Logan Hunter, Woodward 73.0 Team Roping 1. Hunter Chet Munsell, Woodward and Dustin Searcy, Mooreland 4.7 2. Ryan Tripp, Waddell, Ariz. and Austin Tomaski, Ariz. 4.9 3. Luke Madsen, Marshalltown, Iowa and Peyton Holliday, Lincoln, Neb. 5.7 Also 9. Dylan Gordon, Comanche and Gage Williams, Foster 6.3

Wednesday’s P.M. Results Barrel Racing 1. Shay Spitz, Lamar, Colo. 16.525 2. Kyra Stierwalt, Leedey, 16.545 3. Ceri McCaffrey, Wayne 16.633 Also 4. Kasidy Rasberry, Skiatook 16.646 7. J’Nae Mullen, Maysville 16.759 9. Maddie McGowan, McAlester 16.804 11. Dani Stepp, Calera 16.851 Pole Bending 1. Samantha Corzine, Center, Colo. 20.062 2. Hannah Beamer, Pinetown, N.C. 20.292 3. Maddie Lang, Harper, Texas 20.570 Also 5. Dani Stepp, Calera 20.622 Breakaway Roping 1. Whitney Thurmond, Cedar Creek, Texas 2.2 2. Zoey Sharp, Stilwell, Kan. 2.4 3. Monica McClung, May 2.7

Goat Tying 1. Rylee Elmore, Springer 7.7 2. Deven Riggins, Weatherford, Texas 8.0 3. Skye Valdez, Estancia, N.M. 8.1 Also 11. Keely Jo Weger, Mead 9.3 Calf Roping 1. Marty Yates, Stephenville, Texas 8.9 2. Paul Melvin, Paradise, Texas 9.0 3. Quinton Inman, Ketchum 9.5 Also T5. William Whayne, Tulsa 9.9 Steer Wrestling 1. Michael Zachary Hyatt, Stockton, Ala. 4.0 2. EJ Bechtold, Booker, Texas 4.6 3. Wyatt Owens, Pike Road, Ala. 4.7 Also 12. Daxton Grunewald, Woodward 6.1 Saddle Bronc 1. Landon Cappel, Reeves, La. 72.0 2. Magin Montoya, Roy, N.M. 67.0 3. Tyke Kipp, Lordsburg, N.M. 63.5 Bareback Bronc 1. Trey Moore, Anniston, Ala. 72.0 2. Dustin Jackson, Mabank, Texas 71.5 3. Tanner Girty, Porum, 71.0 Bull Riding 1. Sage Kimzey, Cheyenne 81.0 2. Newt Brasfield, Lane 80.0 3. Tanner Bothwell, Rapid City, S.D. 76.0 Also 4. Logan Hunter, Woodward 73.0 Team Roping 1. Hunter Chet Munsell, Woodward and Dustin Searcy, Mooreland 4.7 2. Ryan Tripp, Waddell, Ariz. and Austin Tomaski, Tucson, Ariz. 4.9 3. Luke Madsen, Marshalltown, Iowa and Peyton Holliday, Lincoln, Neb. 5.7 Also 7. Dylan Gordon, Comanche and Gage Williams, Foster 6.3 9. Ty Casper, Balko and Wyatt Casper, Balko 7.4

CYCLING

Thursday’s Results Tour de France At Luz-Ardiden, France 12th Stage 131.1 miles to the Pyrenees from Cugnaux, with a Category 1 climb up Hourquette d’Ancizan and Hors Categorie climbs to the Col du Tourmalet and the finish at LuzArdiden 1. Samuel Sanchez, Spain, EuskaltelEuskadi, 6 hours, 1 minute, 15 seconds. 2. Jelle Vanendert, Belgium, Omega Pharma-Lotto, 7 seconds behind. 3. Frank Schleck, Luxembourg, Leopard-Trek, :10. 4. Ivan Basso, Italy, Liquigas-Cannondale, :30. 5. Cadel Evans, Australia, BMC, same time. 6. Andy Schleck, Luxembourg, Leopard-Trek, same time. 7. Damiano Cunego, Italy, Lampre-ISD, same time. 8. Alberto Contador, Spain, Saxo Bank Sungard, :43. 9. Thomas Voeckler, France, Europcar, :50. 10. Pierre Rolland, France, Europcar, same time. 11. Tom Danielson, United States, GarminCervelo, 1:03. 12. Arnold Jeannesson, France, Francaise des Jeux, 1:19. 13. Rigoberto Uran, Colombia, Sky Procycling, 1:25. 14. Levi Leipheimer, United States, RadioShack, same time. 15. Hubert Dupont, France, AG2R La Mondiale, 1:56. 16. Yury Trofimov, Russia, Katusha, same time. 17. Nicolas Roche, Ireland, AG2R La Mondiale, 2:02. 18. Laurens ten Dam, Netherlands, Rabobank, 2:10. 19. Kevin De Weert, Belgium, Quick Step, same time. 20. Haimar Zubeldia, Spain, RadioShack, 2:53.

Overall Standings (After 12 stages) 1. Thomas Voeckler, France, Europcar, 51 hours, 54 minutes, 44 seconds. 2. Frank Schleck, Luxembourg, Leopard-Trek, 1:49. 3. Cadel Evans, Australia, BMC, 2:06. 4. Andy Schleck, Luxembourg, Leopard-Trek, 2:17. 5. Ivan Basso, Italy, Liquigas-Cannondale, 3:16. 6. Damiano Cunego, Italy, Lampre-ISD, 3:22. 7. Alberto Contador, Spain, Saxo Bank Sungard, 4:00. 8. Samuel Sanchez, Spain, EuskaltelEuskadi, 4:11. 9. Tom Danielson, United States, GarminCervelo, 4:35. 10. Nicolas Roche, Ireland, AG2R La Mondiale, 4:57. 11. Kevin De Weert, Belgium, Quick Step, 5:07. 12. Philippe Gilbert, Belgium, Omega Pharma-Lotto, 5:24. 13. Arnold Jeannesson, France, Francaise des Jeux, 5:50. 14. Peter Velits, Slovakia, HTC-Highroad, 6:03. 15. Haimar Zubeldia, Spain, RadioShack, 7:17. 16. Rein Taaramae, Estonia, Cofidis, 7:27. 17. Levi Leipheimer, United States, RadioShack, 7:51. 18. Rigoberto Uran, Colombia, Sky Procycling, 7:55. 19. Jean-Christophe Peraud, France, AG2R La Mondiale, 8:20. 20. Sandy Casar, France, Francaise des Jeux, 8:47.

Stages-Winners 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) (Cavendish; Voeckler) July 14 — Stage 12: Cugnaux—Luz-Ardiden, high mountain, 211 (131.1) (Samuel Sanchez, Spain;Voeckler) 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)

TRANSACTIONS Thursday’s Deals BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB—Suspended Boston DH David Ortiz and Baltimore RHP Kevin Gregg of the Baltimore Orioles four games apiece and fined them an undisclosed amount for their actions in a July 8 game. Suspended Baltimore LHP Mike Gonzalez three games and fined him an undisclosed fine for intentionally throwing at Ortiz during and July 10 game. Suspended Baltimore manager Buck Showalter one game and fined him an undisclosed amount for the intentional actions of Gonzalez. Fined Baltimore RHP Jim Johnson and Boston C Jarrod Saltalamacchia undisclosed amounts for their aggressive actions the July 8 game. Fined Boston RHP John Lackey an undisclosed amount for intentionally throwing at Baltimore’s Derrek Lee during a July 9 game. Suspended Toronto minor league RHP Aderly De La Cruz and LHP Luillyn Guillen (Dominican Summer League) each for 50 games after testing positive for banned metabolites. American League BOSTON RED SOX—Signed OF Williams Jerez and assigned him the Gulf Coast League. CLEVELAND INDIANS—Promoted Bob DiBiasio to senior vice president of public affairs and Curtis Danburg to senior director of communications. DETROIT TIGERS—Reinstated LHP Brad Thomas from the 15-day DL and sent him outright Toledo (IL). MINNESOTA TWINS—Recalled INF Trevor Plouffe from Rochester (IL). NEW YORK YANKEES—Placed 3B Alex Rodriguez on the 15-day DL. Recalled OF Greg Golson from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). TAMPA BAY RAYS—Placed C John Jaso on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 10. National League NEW YORK METS—Recalled RHP Ryota Igarashi from Buffalo (IL). WASHINGTON NATIONALS—Announced LHP J.C. Romero was granted his unconditional release. Signed RHP Taylor Hill, RHP Greg Holt, RHP Dixon Anderson and LHP Nicholas Lee. Promoted RHP Brad Peacock from Harrisburg (EL) to Syracuse (IL). HOCKEY NHL CALGARY FLAMES—Acquired F Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond from New Jersey for a 2012 fifth-round draft pick. NEW YORK ISLANDERS—Agreed to terms with C Jeremy Colliton on a one-year contract. OTTAWA SENATORS—Re-signed F Bobby Butler to a two-year contract. TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS—Re-signed F Darryl Boyce to a one year contract. WASHINGTON CAPITALS—Signed F Jacob Micflikier to a one-year contract. Renewed their affiliation agreement with South (ECHL) for the 2011-12 season. WINNIPEG JETS—Named Named Keith McCambridge coach of St. John’s (AHL). COLLEGE NCAA—Placed Georgia Tech on four years of probation and fined the school $100,000 for violations in the football and men’s basketball programs. IOWA—Announced junior basketball G Anthony Hubbard left the program.

Fish kill on Red River is a mystery BY ED GODFREY Outdoors Editor egodfrey@opubco.com

State wildlife officials are still trying to determine what killed thousands of fish in the Red River. The fish kill was first reported last week, but fish were still dying in the river as of Tuesday, although the rate of deaths has slowed, said Gene Gilliland, assistant chief of fisheries for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. The fish kill has oc-

curred primarily along a 70-mile stretch of the river that borders Love County. State wildlife officials first suspected the cause was depleted oxygen levels in the water, something that is not unusual late in the Oklahoma summer when there is excessive heat and no rain. However, the fish kill on the Red River continued to progress downstream leading state wildlife officials to believe something else might be to blame. “This one on the Red is puzzling,” Gilliland said. “It wasn’t acting like a

normal oxygen depletion. This thing is moving.” Water samples and fish tissue samples have been sent to various agencies in Oklahoma and Texas for testing. Gilliland said he hasn’t seen anything like this before. “It’s still such an unknown,” he said. “We are trying to figure out what is going on and if there is anything we can do.” Most of the fish that have been lost are rough fish like buffalo, but channel and blue catfish also have died.

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Begay says Woods planning to play charity event Tiger Woods is apparently planning to play some golf before the end of summer. Fellow golfer Notah Begay III scooped Woods himself Thursday by announcing his former Stanford teammate would be playing Aug. 31 in a mixedteam charity event, the Notah Begay III Foundation Challenge. Woods, who this week is missing his second straight major championship, the British Open, while he recovers from an injured leg, has not confirmed his participation. The event was originally scheduled for July 5 but postponed to allow Woods more time to recover. Begay said others playing in the event at Turning Stone Resort near Verona, N.Y., include former Oklahoma State golfers Rickie Fowler and Hunter Mahan. They will play with LPGA golfers Cristie Kerr, Suzann Pettersen, Natalie Gulbis and Annika Sorenstam.

VIKING CLASSIC LEADER BOARD JAMMED At Madison, Miss., Tim Petrovic shot a 7-under 65 in the first round of the Viking Classic, joining John Mallinger, Brendon de Jonge, Peter Lonard, Sunghoon Kang and Bobby Gates in a six-way tie atop the leader board. Frequent thunderstorms over the past several days left Annandale Country Club’s Bermuda grass soft. The PGA allowed players to lift, clean and place balls in the fairway, which helped keep scores low. With the vast majority of the world’s best players competing thousands of miles away at the British Open, the Viking Classic leader board was loaded

Tiger Woods will be playing the Notah Begay III Foundation Challenge on August 31. Woods is currently recovering from an injured leg. AP PHOTO with names rarely seen so high at a PGA event. Gates, Mallinger, de Jonge and Kang have never won on tour. Nine players, including 50-year-old Kenny Perry, were one stroke back at 6 under.

TEXAS-ARLINGTON JOINS WAC Texas-Arlington is the newest member of the Western Athletic Conference. The University of Texas system’s board of regents voted to accept an invitation during a meeting in Austin. UTA will leave the Southland Conference for the WAC starting in 2012-13. It becomes the league’s 10th school — and its third that doesn’t play football. The Mavericks compete in 14 sports, including basketball and baseball. The school is building a $78 million oncampus arena for its basketball and volleyball programs, scheduled to be completed in December.

SANCHEZ WINS 12TH TOUR STAGE Spanish climbing specialist Samuel Sanchez won the 12th stage of the Tour de France, and Thomas Voeckler retained the overall lead as the race entered the high mountains for the

first time. After a string of setbacks earlier in the race, defending champion Alberto Contador struggled up the main climb and lost crucial seconds to other prerace favorites for overall victory. The 131.1-mile run from Cugnaux to the Luz-Ardiden ski station featured three tough climbs in the Pyrenees — including two that are among the hardest in pro cycling.

WNBA NAMES ALL-STAR STARTERS Phoenix’s Diana Taurasi, Seattle’s Sue Bird and Indiana’s Tamika Catchings have been voted as starters for the WNBA All-Star Game again. Minnesota rookie Maya Moore, the Storm’s Swin Cash and injured Los Angeles center Candace Parker joined Taurasi and Bird as starters for the Western Conference announced Thursday night. Moore becomes the first rookie voted to start since Bird and Catchings in 2002. Catchings was joined by Fever teammate Katie Douglas, Atlanta’s Angel McCoughtry, Connecticut’s Tina Charles and New York’s Cappie Pondexter as East starters. All-Star reserves will be announced on Tuesday. FROM WIRE REPORTS

FISHING REPORT CENTRAL Arcadia: Elevation 3/4 ft. below normal, water 90 and semi-clear. Catfish fair to good on worms just off bottom along north central banks at night. Hefner: Elevation below normal, water 84-95 and clear. Largemouth bass fair on crankbaits and spinnerbaits at 6-20 ft. in the weeds and rocks early. Smallmouth bass slow on jigs and deep diving crankbaits at 6-20 ft. along rocky banks. White bass good on grubs and spinnerbaits at 412 ft. along windy banks. Striped bass hybrids slow trolling deep running crankbaits at 15-25 ft. Channel catfish fair on cut bait and prepared baits at 10-20 ft. along rocky shorelines. Blue catfish fair on cut bait, punchbait and worms at 1030 ft. at the dam. Flathead catfish slow on live bait at 10-20 ft. at the dam. Crappie slow on minnows and jigs at 15-30 ft. along the dam. Walleye fair trolling and drifting night crawlers and deep diving crankbaits at 8-20 ft. along the southeast and east sides of the lake. Sunfish and bluegill fair on worms and small jigs all around the lake. Overholser: Elevation 6-7 ft. below normal, water murky. White bass slow on minnows and ghost minnows. Channel and blue catfish good on cut shad, doughbait and minnows at the gar hole, points and the west side dock. Thunderbird: Elevation 2 1/2 ft. below normal, water clear. Crappie fair on minnows and small jigs at 6-10 ft. around structure. Channel catfish fair to good on stinkbait at 6-10 ft.

NORTHEAST Bell Cow: Elevation below normal, water 86 and murky. Channel catfish good on worms at night. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs off the docks at night. Chandler: Elevation below normal, water 87 and murky. Channel catfish good on worms, chicken liver and doughbait at night. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs at fishing docks. Copan: Elevation below normal, water clearing. Channel, blue and flathead catfish good on limblines, juglines and trotlines baited with cut shad and sunfish; check often because of high temperatures. Eucha: Elevation 1 1/3 ft. below normal, water 86 and dingy. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs at 10-12 ft. around brush and structure. Largemouth bass fair on buzz baits around grass beds early morning and on plastic baits at night. Bluegill fair on crickets and worms around grass beds. Ft. Gibson: Elevation 2 ft. below normal, water stained. Fishermen need to remain aware of low water conditions and underwater obstructions. Local media has reported that the Taylor’s Ferry swim beach is closed due to blue green algae. Catfish excellent on juglines baited with whole shad and sunfish; it’s a good idea to keep check on your lines more often because of fish dying quickly due to water temps and oxygen levels. Largemouth bass excellent on crankbaits, buzz baits and spinnerbaits. White bass good trolling white spinnerbaits and small crankbaits on windy points. Grand: All fishing slow due to algae problems. For further information contact Grand River Dam Authority out of Langley, OK for any update on water conditions. Greenleaf: Elevation normal, water clear. Largemouth bass fair on spinnerbaits, crankbaits and pumpkin colored tube worms. Catfish good on fresh cut bait on bottom. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs around brush structure.

Hudson: Largemouth bass good on plastic baits and spinnerbaits early and late. White bass good on small lures and spinnerbaits early and late. Channel and blue catfish good on juglines and trotlines baited with cut bait. Hulah: Elevation below normal, water stained. Channel and blue catfish good on juglines and limblines baited with cut shad and sunfish. Channel catfish fair on worms below the dam. Kaw: Catfish fair on juglines baited with fresh shad and fair on sunfish and fresh shad from the bank after dark. White bass and striped bass hybrids fair on spinnerbaits and rattletraps off of windy points and riprap in the morning and evenings. Lower Illinois: Elevation below normal, water 49 and muddy. Largemouth bass fair on topwater lures all along the river. White bass fair on spinnerbaits at 1-2 ft. all along the river. Striped bass fair on live shad at 1-3 ft. at Gore Landing and below. Channel catfish good on cut bait on bottom all along the river. Crappie fair on spinnerbaits at 1-2 ft. all along the river. Trout good flyfishing the surface, on rooster tails at 1-2 ft. and on Power Bait on bottom at the dam and Watts. Spavinaw: Elevation slightly below normal, water 85 and dingy. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs around the dam area. Largemouth bass fair on spinnerbaits. Tenkiller: Elevation normal and steady, water 80-82 and clear. Largemouth bass slow on soft plastic baits early and late. Catfish good on stinkbait in the mouth of coves and on juglines and flip-flops baited with cut baits in open water. Sunfish good on night crawlers in and around docks. Webbers Falls: Elevation normal, water murky. Largemouth bass fair on spinnerbaits, crankbaits and pumpkin colored tube worms along the riprap, creek channels and brush structure. Channel catfish good on fresh cut bait on bottom drifting the mudflats. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs around bridges and brush structure.

NORTHWEST Canton: Elevation 4 ft. below normal, water clear. White bass and striped bass hybrids excellent on slabs and crankbaits near drop-offs. Walleye good drifting night crawlers and slabs. Channel catfish good on stinkbait and minnows along the dam. Ft. Supply: Elevation 2 ft. below normal, water clear. Channel catfish good on juglines and rod and reel baited with stinkbait and cut shad all over the lake and the riprap near the dam.

SOUTHEAST Arbuckle: Elevation 3 ft. below normal, water 84, algae bloom present on surface. Bass slow on chug bugs early and on Carolina-rigged creature baits. White bass being caught on roadrunner type lures or chrome lures near dam late afternoon. Crappie being caught at 25 ft. on marked brush piles. Bluegill and sunfish very good on earthworms or fly rod bugs in shaded areas. Channel catfish being caught on baited holes up Guy Sandy arm. . Broken Bow: Water clear. Largemouth, smallmouth and spotted bass good on Slug-Go lures and topwater baits early and late. Catfish good on juglines and trotlines baited with cut bait. Crappie good on minnows and jigs. Crappie good on minnows and jigs at 18-20 ft. along humps and structure. Eufaula: Elevation 1/2 ft. below normal, water

clear. Largemouth bass fair on plastic baits Carolina-rigged around points. White bass fair on minnows under bridges at night. Blue catfish fair on fresh shad along shallow flats. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs under bridges and standing timber. Hugo: Elevation normal, water 86. Catfish fair on trotlines baited with sunfish and cut bait. Blue catfish good on cut bait below the dam. Crappie fair on minnows around the river channel and deep holes. Konawa: Elevation normal, water 93 and clear. Largemouth bass fair on topwater lures and crankbaits at 5-10 ft. on schooling bass in the mouths of coves early and late. Channel catfish good on shad at 10-12 ft. in the south cove. McGee Creek: Elevation normal, water 86 and clear. Largemouth bass fair to good on spinnerbaits and swim baits at 2-6 ft. and on topwater lures early and late along the shorelines. Crappie fair at 8-20 ft. around cedar brush just off of main creek channels. Catfish fair on live bait at 8-20 ft. Murray: Elevation below normal, water 82 and clear. Largemouth and smallmouth bass good on soft plastic jerk baits, worms and lizards early and late. Channel catfish fair on juglines baited with chicken liver, worms, shad and shrimp. Pine Creek: Elevation below normal, water clear. Bass fair to good on topwater baits in the morning. Crappie good on minnows in deep water. Catfish good on chicken liver or night crawlers on pole and line and trotlines. Robert S. Kerr: Elevation normal, water 86 and murky. Catfish fair on juglines and trotlines baited with shad and sunfish. Sardis: Elevation 1 1/2 ft. below normal, water 89 and murky. White bass good on jigs and topwater lures early and late. Catfish good on juglines, trotlines and tight lining with cut bait and dead minnows. Crappie fair to good at 14-16 ft. Texoma: Elevation 4 3/4 ft. below normal, water 83 and clear. Largemouth and smallmouth bass good on surface lures, crankbaits and plastic combination baits at 5-15 ft. around riprap and in the creek channels. Striped and white bass good on live bait, sassy shad and slabs at 10-20 ft. from Platter Flats to the intake and west to Caney Creek. Channel and blue catfish good on worms, live bait and cut bait at 10-20 ft. from Alberta Creek to the south and west. Crappie fair to good on power bait, jigs and minnows at 5-20 ft. around underwater brush and the fish attractors. Sunfish good on worms, shrimp, and small tube jigs at 5-10 ft. around the fish attractors, fishing docks and riprap. Paddlefish fair below the dam while generating. Wister: Elevation normal, water murky. Largemouth bass fair on crankbaits, spinnerbaits and topwater lures early and late. Catfish fair to good on juglines baited with cut shad and liver.

SOUTHWEST Altus-Lugert: Elevation 22 2/3 ft. below normal and dropping. Catfish good. Crappie fair to good on minnows in deeper water. White bass fair to good even from the beach. Walleye fair to good on minnows. Tom Steed: Elevation 4 ft. below normal, water 80 and murky. Catfish fair on juglines. White bass fair on minnows and trolling with deep diving baits. Waurika: Elevation 2 1/4 ft. below normal, water 86 and murky. Channel catfish slow on minnows and cut shad. Blue catfish slow on juglines baited with cut shad.

FRIDAY, JULY 15, 2011

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BRITISH OPEN Amateur fires first-round 65

OKLAHOMANS AT THE BRITISH OPEN ALEXANDER NOREN I School: OSU I Thursday: The native of Stockholm, Sweden, shot a 1-under 69. Had a rough front nine, with bogeys on Nos. 3, 4 and 9. But he rallied with birdies at 10, the par-3 16th and 18. I Friday’s tee time: 9:16 a.m. I Playing with: Paul Lawrie, Kevin Na

RICKIE FOWLER SHARE OF THE LEAD | TOM LEWIS PLAYS WITH THE MAN HE’S NAMED FOR, TOM WATSON BY JEFF SHAIN The Orlando Sentinel

SANDWICH, England — Tom Lewis gets his name from Tom Watson, who was his father’s golf hero. Dad, by the way, spent his formative years as a club rival of a young up-andcomer named Nick Faldo. Watson and Faldo have nine British Open titles between them, so Lewis is well-steeped in the lore of golf’s oldest major. But not even those Hall of Famers can claim the distinction Lewis attained Thursday. The lowest round by an amateur at a major championship. And a share of the Open lead. “I think I was in the zone. I didn’t really know what I was doing,” said Lewis, whose late four-birdie binge propelled him to a 5under-par 65 that lifted him alongside Denmark’s Thomas Bjorn by day’s end at Royal St. George’s. “I was just thrilled to be here, but to shoot 65 in the first round was something I wouldn’t have thought. I was just happy to get the drive off the tee on the first (hole), and that was all that mattered.” The only other amateurs to shoot 65 in a major did it at the U.S. Open: James McHale (1947), Jim Simons (1971) and Nick Taylor (2009). Lewis became the first amateur to lead a major since Mike Reid at the

I School: OSU I Thursday: Tied for 36th at even-par 70, five shots back of the leaders. Had an up-and-down day with three birdies and three bogeys. On playing with Rory McIlroy, Fowler told the British Open’s website, “Rory and I always enjoy playing together. The fans were great over here. Obviously, they are cheering on Rory. It has a feeling like he’s a hero over he now but the atmosphere was great.” I Friday’s tee time: 8:10 a.m. I Playing with: Ernie Els, Rory McIlroy

PETER UIHLEIN I School: OSU I Thursday: Shot a 1-over 71 and is tied for 51st. Had a rough front nine with three bogeys, but bounced back to birdie Nos. 10, 14 and 18. I Friday’s tee time: 7:10 a.m. I Playing with: Geoff Ogilvy, Miguel Angel Jimenez

CHARLES HOWELL III I School: OSU I Thursday: Shot a 1-over 71. Bogeyed Nos. 8 and 11, but finished strong with a birdie on 18. I Friday’s tee time: 1:36 a.m. I Playing with: Edoardo Molinari, Joost Luiten.

Tom Lewis, left, and Tom Watson are playing together for the first two rounds of the British Open in Sandwich, England. AP PHOTO

1976 U.S. Open. Lewis’ late-day exploits stole the spotlight from Bjorn’s own remarkable storyline. Back at the venue where he squandered a three-shot lead with four holes left in 2003, the 40year-old Dane kept his focus as he carded his best Open round. “I’ve always promised myself I’ll keep going and keep going,” said Bjorn, who didn’t get into the field until Vijay Singh’s withdrawal on Monday. “I always look ahead. I’m 40 years old, and there might just be a little bit more in me.”

The unlikely duo stayed a step ahead of Spain’s Miguel Angel Jimenez and Americans Lucas Glover and Webb Simpson, who carded 66s. PGA Championship titleholder Martin Kaymer and former U.S. Open champ Graeme McDowell were among a dozen golfers that stood another two strokes back. Freshly minted U.S. Open champion Rory McIlroy, making his first start since that recordsmashing romp at Congressional, bogeyed two of his first three holes before battling back to a 1-over 71. Lewis, who captured the

British Boys’ Championship two years ago at Royal St. George’s, earned his Open place two weeks ago by winning at one of four Local Final Qualifying sites. The reward: A tee time with his namesake. “He’s quite a refined player at age 20. We certainly have a new young breed out here, don’t we?” said Watson, 61, a six-time Open winner who only two years ago lost a playoff to Stewart Cink. “I just had to smile inside to watch him play.” McClatchy-Tribune News Service

ANTHONY KIM I School: OU I Thursday: Shot a 2-over 72. Carded a double-bogey 6 on No. 4. Birdied the par-3 6th and the par-5 7th holes, followed by a bogey on No. 8. I Friday’s tee time: 1:25 a.m. I Playing with: Rory Sabbatini, Sandy Lyle

BO VAN PELT I School: OSU I Thursday: Shot a 3-over 73, tied for 91st. Had backto-back birdies on Nos. 14 and 15 to get to 1-over, but fell back with bogeys on 16 and 18. I Friday’s tee time: 6:48 a.m. I Playing with: K.J. Choi, Martin Laird

HUNTER MAHAN I School: OSU I Thursday: Shot a 5-over 75 and is tied for 126th. Carded a double-bogey 6 on No. 8. Bright spot was a birdie on No. 18. I Friday’s tee time: 8:32 a.m. I Playing with: Retief Goosen, Anders Hansen

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Bjorn returns to Sandwich, shares early lead BY BILL DWYRE Los Angeles Times

SANDWICH, England — A

compelling story blew in with the wind off the English Channel on Thursday. Eight hours later, another one surfaced in the suddenly warm and calm overcast that hovered over the normally windy golfing torture chamber known as Royal St. George’s. The early tale of the day came from a most unexpected place. Half the field hadn’t even teed it up in the first round of the British Open, and there was Thomas Bjorn, the emoBritish Open Scores At Sandwich, England Royal St. George’s Golf Club 7,211 yards; Par 70 (35-35) (a-amateur) First Round Thomas Bjorn................................. 33-32 a-Tom Lewis................................... 32-33 Miguel Angel Jimenez ................... 33-33 Lucas Glover................................... 35-31 Webb Simpson............................... 35-31 Simon Dyson.................................. 34-34 Kyle Stanley................................... 35-33 Pablo Larrazabal ............................ 35-33 Darren Clarke ................................. 35-33 Graeme McDowell.......................... 37-31 Martin Kaymer............................... 35-33 Fredrik Andersson Hed .................. 32-36 Ricky Barnes .................................. 33-35 Kurt Barnes.................................... 35-33 Jeff Overton................................... 35-33 Ryan Palmer................................... 34-34 Jung-Gon Hwang ........................... 34-34 Danny Wilett ................................. 35-34 Mark Calcavecchia ......................... 33-36 Ryan Moore.................................... 34-35 Yuta Ikeda ...................................... 35-34 Ian Poulter ..................................... 35-34 Alexander Noren ........................... 37-32 Anders Hansen .............................. 36-33 Seung-Yul Noh ............................... 36-33 Richard McEvoy ............................. 36-33 Chad Campbell ............................... 34-35 Edoardo Molinari ........................... 35-34 Adam Scott .................................... 33-36 Bubba Watson ............................... 34-35 Steve Stricker ................................ 36-33 Robert Allenby............................... 36-33 J.B. Holmes .................................... 34-35 Robert Rock ................................... 35-34 George Coetzee.............................. 35-34 Graeme Storm ............................... 35-35 Fredrik Jacobson............................ 35-35 Stephen Gallacher ......................... 38-32 Stewart Cink .................................. 34-36 Dustin Johnson.............................. 37-33 Rickie Fowler ................................. 33-37 Sergio Garcia.................................. 35-35 Peter Whiteford............................. 34-36 Richard Green ................................ 35-35 Trevor Immelman .......................... 38-32 Tadahiro Takayama........................ 36-34 Phil Mickelson................................ 35-35 Davis Love III ................................. 36-34 Justin Leonard ............................... 33-37 Floris De Vries ............................... 36-34 Simon Khan.................................... 35-36 K.J. Choi ......................................... 35-36 a-Peter Uihlein............................... 38-33 Rory McIlroy................................... 36-35 Luke Donald ................................... 34-37 Camilo Villegas .............................. 37-34 Ross Fisher .................................... 36-35 Matthew Millar.............................. 36-35 Kenneth Ferrie ............................... 37-34 Rory Sabbatini ............................... 37-34 Charles Howell III ......................... 36-35 Y.E. Yang ........................................ 37-34 a-Bryden Macpherson.................... 35-36 Jason Day....................................... 37-34 Lee Westwood ............................... 38-33 Charl Schwartzel ........................... 36-35 Ben Crane....................................... 36-35 Tom Lehman .................................. 38-33 Adam Wootton .............................. 34-37 Gary Boyd....................................... 35-36 Gregory Havret .............................. 36-36 Charley Hoffman............................ 36-36 Martin Laird ................................... 35-37 Bill Haas......................................... 38-34 Angel Cabrera ................................ 37-35

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tional Dane, walking off the 18th green around noon with a 5-under-par 65 and the lead. It was one that looked as if it would hold up. It did, but not alone. Bjorn was probably well into his dinner when 20year-old British amateur Tom Lewis putted out on No. 18 for a lead-tying 65. The last time an amateur led a round of the British Open was 1968. More intriguing, this amateur was named after longtime British Open star Tom Watson, played in the same threesome Thursday with Watson and shot seven shots better than the legend himself. Ernie Els ......................................... John Daly ....................................... Spencer Levin................................. Prom Meesawat............................. Harrison Frazar .............................. Anthony Kim ................................. Robert Karlsson ............................. Zach Johnson ................................. Justin Rose .................................... Jim Furyk ....................................... Louis Oosthuizen ........................... Henrik Stenson .............................. Tom Watson................................... S.M. Bae......................................... Lee Corfield.................................... Bo Van Pelt.................................... Francesco Molinari......................... Matteo Manassero ........................ Peter Hanson ................................. Gregory Bourdy.............................. Paul Lawrie .................................... Sean O’Hair.................................... Thorbjorn Olesen ........................... Mark Laskey................................... Neil Schietekat .............................. Martin Maritz ................................ Sandy Lyle...................................... Joost Luiten ................................... a-Lucas Bjerregaard....................... Padraig Harrington ........................ Alejandro Canizares....................... Jason Duffner ................................ Jerry Kelly ...................................... Nathan Green................................. Geoff Ogilvy................................... Nick Watney .................................. Paul Casey...................................... Ryo Ishikawa.................................. Brian Davis..................................... Kevin Na......................................... Bob Estes ....................................... Thomas Shadbolt........................... Rick Kulacz..................................... Simon Lilly ..................................... Thomas Aiken ................................ Steve Marino ................................. Raphael Jacquelin.......................... Mark Wilson .................................. Matt Kuchar................................... Robert Garrigus ............................. Andrew Johnston .......................... Thongchai Jaidee ........................... Rhys Davies ................................... Gary Woodland .............................. K.T. Kim .......................................... Alvaro Quiros ................................. Hiroyuki Fujita ............................... Tetsuji Hiratsuka ........................... Hunter Mahan ............................... Scott Jamieson.............................. Brandt Snedeker ............................ Jonathan Byrd................................ Hiroo Kawai ................................... Bernhard Langer ............................ Jason Knutzon ............................... Prayad Marksaeng ......................... Mark O’Meara ................................ Retief Goosen ................................ Kevin Streelman ............................ Chih-Bing Lam ............................... Markus Brier .................................. Todd Hamilton............................... Ben Curtis ...................................... Aaron Baddeley.............................. Francis McGuirk ............................. Chris Tidland ................................. Brad Kennedy................................. David Duval.................................... Andy Smith .................................... a-Craig Hinton................................ Simon Edwards..............................

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The 40-year-old Bjorn hit his shots at the pins all day, through the usual bluster of Royal St. George’s. When he met the press, the room was electric with emotion, mostly from the tears of joy of the media. It was eight years ago, the last time the British Open was here, that Bjorn had his signature moment. Leading by three strokes on the final Sunday, he left his tee shot in a greenside bunker on the par-3 16th. He struggled to get out, and ended up losing the lead and the tournament to Ben Curtis. Thursday’s Bjorn story was so much better be-

cause, in his first competitive look at the hole in eight years, he stared it down. The 16th is 163 yards. Bjorn said he was between “a little eight-iron and a big nine” and when he hit his “big nine,” the wind caught it and held it over one of the greenside bunkers — not the same one of 2003 lore. But the ball cleared, took several nice bounces and ended up 8 feet away. He made the birdie putt, his third in a row, and the ghost of No. 16 had been exorcised. McClatchy-Tribune News Service

Friday’s Tee Times British Open At Sandwich, England Royal St. George’s 7,211 yards; Par 70 (a-amateur) Friday 12:30 a.m. — Peter Whiteford, Scotland; Spencer Levin, United States; Thomas Aiken, South Africa. 12:41 a.m. — Prom Meesawat, Thailand; Martin Maritz, South Africa; Harrison Frazar, United States. 12:52 a.m. — Chad Campbell, United States; Kenneth Ferrie, England; Scott Jamieson, Scotland. 1:03 a.m. — Raphael Jacquelin, France; Mark Wilson, United States; Kyle Stanley, United States. 1:14 a.m. — Steve Marino, United States; Richard Green, Australia; Pablo Larrazabal, Spain. 1:25 a.m. — Rory Sabbatini, South Africa; Sandy Lyle, Scotland; Anthony Kim, United States. 1:36 a.m. — Edoardo Molinari, Italy; Charles Howell III, United States; Joost Luiten, Netherlands. 1:47 a.m. — Brandt Snedeker, United States; a-Lucas Bjerregaard, Denmark; Trevor Immelman, South Africa. 1:58 a.m. — Darren Clarke, Northern Ireland; Jonathan Byrd, United States; Y.E. Yang, South Korea. 2:09 a.m. — Lucas Glover, United States; Hiroo Kawai, Japan; Robert Karlsson, Sweden. 2:20 a.m. — a-Bryden Macpherson, Australia; Matt Kuchar, United States; Padraig Harrington, Ireland. 2:31 a.m. — Zach Johnson, United States; Adam Scott, Australia; Justin Rose, England. 2:42 a.m. — Graeme McDowell, Northern Ireland; Jason Day, Australia; Bubba Watson, United States. 2:58 a.m. — Jim Furyk, United States; Bernhard Langer, Germany; Tadahiro Takayama, Japan. 3:09 a.m. — Lee Westwood, England; Steve Stricker, United States; Charl Schwartzel, South Africa. 3:20 a.m. — Louis Oosthuizen, South Africa; Martin Kaymer, Germany; Phil Mickelson, United States. 3:31 a.m. — Henrik Stenson, Sweden; a-Tom Lewis, England; Tom Watson, United States. 3:42 a.m. — Robert Allenby, Australia; Davis Love III, United States; Fredrik Andersson Hed, Sweden. 3:53 a.m. — Ricky Barnes, United States; J.B. Holmes, United States; S.M. Bae, South Korea. 4:04 a.m. — Webb Simpson, United States; Robert Rock, England; Alejandro Canizares, Spain. 4:15 a.m. — Kurt Barnes, Australia; Justin Leonard, United States; Jeff Overton, United States. 4:26 a.m. — Lee Corfield, England; Ben Crane, United States; Floris De Vries, Netherlands. 4:37 a.m. — Ryan Palmer, United States; Tom Lehman, United States; Adam Wootton, England. 4:48 a.m. — Jung-Gon Hwang, South Korea; Gary Boyd, England, Robert Garrigus, United States. 4:59 a.m. — George Coetzee, South Africa; Andy Smith, England; Brad Kennedy, Australia. 5:10 a.m. — Jason Knutzon, United States; Andrew Johnston, England; Chih-Bing Lam, Singapore. 5:31 a.m. — Jerry Kelly, United States; Nathan Green, Australia; Danny Willett, England. 5:42 a.m. — Thongchai Jaidee, Thailand; Mark

I School: OU I Thursday: Shot a 7-over 77. Double-bogeyed the par-5 7th hole. Had three bogeys on the back nine. I Friday’s tee time: 6:04 a.m. I Playing with: Simon Khan, Prayad Marksaeng

CHRIS TIDLAND I School: OSU I Thursday: Shot a 7-over 77. Had back-to-back birdies on the 11th and 12th holes, then bogeyed five of the last six holes. I Friday’s tee time: 10:11 a.m. I Playing with: Simon Lilly, Neil Schietekat FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS

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McIlroy stays patient For the first time since last year’s PGA Championship, Rory McIlroy never touched the lead at some point of a major-championship round. Two bogeys in his first three British Open holes quickly sealed that fate for the 22-year-old pro, leaving him in no position to catch up with leaders Thomas Bjorn and Tom Lewis at Royal St. George’s. Even so, playing the remaining 15 holes in 1-under was satisfying enough. He finished at 1-over 71. “I was patient,” said McIlroy, playing his first competitive round since waltzing to the U.S. Open title 3 1/2 weeks ago. “I missed a few fairways, and from there you can’t really give yourself many chances for birdies.”

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Former OSU golfer Rickie Fowler shot even par on Thursday. AP PHOTO Calcavecchia, United States; Graeme Storm, England. 5:53 a.m. — Gregory Havret, France; Charley Hoffman, United States; Markus Brier, Austria. 6:04 a.m. — Todd Hamilton, United States; Simon Khan, England; Prayad Marksaeng, Thailand. 6:15 a.m. — Rhys Davies, Wales; Fredrik Jacobson, Sweden; Mark O’Meara, United States. 6:26 a.m. — Thomas Bjorn, Denmark; Simon Dyson, England; Gary Woodland, United States. 6:37 a.m. — K.T. Kim, South Korea; Ryan Moore, United States; Alvaro Quiros, Spain. 6:48 a.m. — Bo Van Pelt, United States; K.J. Choi, South Korea; Martin Laird, Scotland. 6:59 a.m. — Stephen Gallacher, Scotland; Bill Haas, United States; Hiroyuki Fujita, Japan. 7:10 a.m. — Geoff Ogilvy, Australia; a-Peter Uihlein, United States; Miguel Angel Jimenez, Spain. 7:21 a.m. — Francesco Molinari, Italy; Tetsuji Hiratsuka, Japan; Stewart Cink, United States. 7:32 a.m. — Nick Watney, United States; Matteo Manassero, Italy; Angel Cabrera, Argentina. 7:43 a.m. — Yuta Ikeda, Japan; Ian Poulter, England; Dustin Johnson, United States. 7:59 a.m. — Ben Curtis, United States; Paul Casey, England; Aaron Baddeley, Australia. 8:10 a.m. — Ernie Els, South Africa; Rory McIlroy, Northern Ireland; Rickie Fowler, United States. 8:21 a.m. — Luke Donald, England; Ryo Ishikawa, Japan; Sergio Garcia, Spain. 8:32 a.m. — Retief Goosen, South Africa; Hunter Mahan, United States; Anders Hansen, Denmark. 8:43 a.m. — Brian Davis, England; Camilo Villegas, Colombia; David Duval, United States. 8:54 a.m. — John Daly, United States; Ross Fisher, England; Peter Hanson, Sweden. 9:05 a.m. — Gregory Bourdy, France; Jason Duffner, United States; a-Craig Hinton, England. 9:16 a.m. — Alexander Noren, Sweden; Paul Lawrie, Scotland; Kevin Na, United States. 9:27 a.m. — Sean O’Hair, United States; Seung-Yul Noh, South Korea; Thorbjorn Olesen, Denmark. 9:38 a.m. — Simon Edwards, Wales; Bob Estes, United States; Richard McEvoy, England. 9:49 a.m. — Francis McGuirk, England; Matthew Millar, Australia; Kevin Streelman, United States. 10 a.m. — Mark Laskey, Wales; Thomas Shadbolt, England; Rick Kulacz, Australia. 10:11 a.m. — Simon Lilly, England; Chris Tidland, United States; Neil Schietekat, South Africa.

Luke Donald and Lee Westwood, the top two players in the world, each shot 71 on different sides of the draw. Donald wasted a strong start in the tough morning weather, while Westwood had to birdie two of his last five holes in the afternoon. Donald said his putting, not the pressure of playing before a home English crowd as the world No. 1, was to blame. “I felt like I played a pretty solid round other than some missed opportunities on the greens,” Donald said. “I had three or four lip-outs and a few other opportunities that went amiss. It really could have been a very good round. A 71 is still solid, but it certainly could have been a little bit better if I’d have had the putter going.” Westwood made three straight bogeys early in his round and made the turn in 38. He was helped by birdies on the 14th and 15th, and not dropping any more shots coming in. “It could have been a lot worse — 3 over through five holes is a poor start, and you don’t want to be chasing in major championships,” he said. “My game was pretty good today. I hit a lot of good shots. Like I say, on the greens I didn’t capitalize on it.”

AN ACE OF A RECOVERY Dustin Johnson felt his British Open chances slipping away, mostly because he couldn’t make a putt. He got right back in the game with a shot that didn’t require a putt. Coming off back-to-back birdies, Johnson hit a wedge from 161 yards that bounced hard toward the cup and vanished into the 16th hole for an ace, the third of his professional career. He added another birdie on the 17th, then watched a par putt catch the lip on the 18th for an unlikely 70. “Standing on 14, I wanted to make a few birdies and give myself a chance to get back in this thing,” Johnson said. “If you would have bet me money that I would be 1-under par standing on the 18th tee, I wouldn’t have taken it.” FROM WIRE REPORTS

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wizards we’ve watched grow up on screen over eight Harry Potter movies mark the end of their 12-year journey with the release of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” one was conspicuous by his absence in the franchise’s final U.S. publicity push. As Warner Bros. orchestrated a jam-packed premiere weekend at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, complete with red-carpet hoopla and news conferences for assembled national media, Daniel Radcliffe was busy across town singing and dancing his way through a matinee performance of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” his second tour on the Broadway stage after a well-received role in “Equus” in 2007. But with Harry Potter himself unable to meet the press, his costars Emma “Hermione Granger” Watson and Rupert “Ron Weasley” Grint soldiered on like the two musketeers, patiently fielding end-

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less questions about how it feels to see the series of magical movies drawn from J.K. Rowling’s bestselling novels come to an end. Both seemed subdued and wryly philosophical about this milestone in their careers and lives as they walked into a hotel ballroom packed with reporters. Watson, looking very chic with her hair cropped close, and wearing a fluffy, black and white Givenchy outfit, exuded the poised confidence of the articulate, Ivy League student she is (she’s studying at Brown University). “This film was obviously incredibly challenging for me,” she said. “It really pushed me as an actress,

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Get “Cat Scratch Fever” when Ted Nugent plays at 7 p.m. Friday at FireLake Grand Casino, 777 Grand Casino Blvd. Information: 9647263 or www. firelakegrand.com. Catch the Tahlequahbased Turnpike Troubadours at 8 p.m. Saturday at Wormy Dog Saloon, 311 E Sheridan. Information: 6016276 or www. wormydog.com. Watch Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park’s production of Anton Chekhov’s tragicomedy “The Seagull” at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Myriad Gardens Water Stage, Reno and Robinson. Information: 2353700 or www. oklahoma shakespeare.com. Hear the Texas country of Bleu Edmondson and Whiskey Myers at 6 p.m. Saturday at Frontier City, 11501 N Interstate 35 Service Road. Information: www.frontiercity. com. TULSA — Take a nostalgia trip with New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys at 7:15 p.m. Sunday at the BOK Center, 200 S Denver. The show also will feature “Glee” star Matthew Morrison. Information: (866) 726-5287 or www.bokcenter.com.

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Blake Shelton is living the sweet life these days, and he is letting the bliss flavor his music. For instance, the Oklahoma country crooner released his eighth studio album, “Red River Blue,” on Tuesday, but the delicious leadoff track, “Honey Bee,” already has become his first platinum single. The sweet ballad zipped to No. 1 on the

country charts in just 10 weeks and has held strong and steady in the top spot for the past four weeks. “ ‘Honey Bee’ is by far my fastest-climbing and biggest-selling single that I’ve ever had,” Shelton said in a recent phone interview from Nashville, Tenn. “I think people’ll, when they get the album — hopefully, if they get the album — I think they’ll hear a lot of music that goes along with that theme of ‘Honey Bee.’ I mean, I’m a happy guy right now, just got

married, and I’m enjoying life, and there’s a lot of that type of music on the record.” His new, full-length album may be titled “Red River Blue,” but life sounds downright rosy for Shelton, who in the past year has buzzed into country music’s superstar ranks. In 2010, the Tishomingo resident and Warner Bros. took a chance on a new release strategy, eschewing a traditional 10- to 12-track album in favor of two six-track SEE BLAKE:, PAGE 3D

TUESDAY RELEASES I They Might Be Giants, “Join Us.” I 3 Doors Down, “Time of My Life.” I 311, “Universal Pulse.” I Cold, “Superfiction.” I DJ Khaled, “We the Best Forever.” I Burlap to Cashmere, “Burlap to Cashmere.” I REO Speedwagon, “Hi Infidelity: 30th Anniversary Edition.”

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Friday Woody Guthrie Folk Festival with Jimmy LaFave performing, downtown, (918) 6232440 or www.woodyguthrie. com. (Okemah) Jacks Mannequin, Steel Train, Lady Danville and River Jam, 7 p.m., Diamond Ballroom, 8001 S Eastern, 677-9169. Ellis Paul, 8 p.m., The Blue Door, 2805 N McKinley, 524-0738. Excision, Heady, Grex & Dispozal and the Phoenix Brothers, 8 p.m., Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N Main, (866) 977-6849. (Tulsa) Los Lobos and Los Lonely Boys, 9 p.m., WinStar World Casino Hotel, Exit 1, Interstate 35, (580) 276-3100. (Thackerville) Johnny Cooper, 8 p.m., Wormy Dog Saloon, 311 E Sheridan, 601-6276. Richard Marx, 8 p.m., Choctaw Casino, U.S. 271, (580) 3268397. (Grant) Maylene and The Sons of Disaster, Pay at the Pump, Save the Last and Alice Awaits, 7 p.m., The Conservatory, 8911 N Western, 8799778. Ted Nugent, 7 p.m., Firelake Grand Casino, 777 Grand Casino Blvd., 964-7263. (Shawnee) Manford Milligan, 9 p.m., VZD’s Restaurant & Club, 4200 N Western, 524-4203. Rick O’Toole CD release party, 10 p.m., The Squander Bar, 40501 Benson Park, 8784607. (Tecumseh)

LIVE MUSIC Sonder Music, Dance & Art, 225 E Gray, Third Friday Celtic Night, 6:30 p.m., 474-9734. (Norman) The Biting Sow, 1 E California, Doc Blues Revue Band, 9 p.m., 232-2639. Waterford Marriott, 6300 Waterford Blvd., Burton Band, 9 p.m., 848-4782. Sliders, 2616 S Interstate 35 Service Road, Pointblank, 9 p.m., 672-6306. Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill, 310 Johnny Bench Drive, Morris McCann, 8 p.m., 2310254. Nonna’s Euro-American Ristorante and Bar, 1 Mickey Mantle Drive, Charles Scott Duo, 8 p.m., 235-4410. Oklahoma City Limits, 4801 S Eastern, Tyler Lee and Scattered Blue, 9 p.m., 619-3939. Hilltop Hideaway, 1105 N Main, The Smokin Roscoes, 9 p.m., 872-2337. (Noble) Choctaw Casino Pocola, 3400 Choctaw, He Wears Black, 9 p.m., (918) 436-7761. (Arkoma) Toothies Bar & Grill, 6970 N Waterloo, Dead City Outlaws, 7 p.m., 359-1234. (Edmond) The Point After Club, 6800 S Interstate 35 Service Road, Red Dirt Crossing, 9 p.m., 7788166. Russell’s at Marriott Hotel, 3233 Northwest Expressway, Stat Band, 9 p.m., 842-6633. Big Dick’s Roadhouse Bar & Grill, 501 N Mustang, Street Kings, 9 p.m., 577-8270. (Yukon) Choctaw Casino, 1425 SE Washington, Dale Watson, 8 p.m., (800) 634-2582. (Idabel) Osage Million Dollar Elm Casino, 222 Allen, Retrorockerz, 9 p.m., (918) 335-7500. (Bartlesville) Osage Million Dollar Elm Casino, 301Blackjack Drive, Barrelhouse Revelers, 8 p.m., (918) 699-7777. (Sand Springs) Baker Street Pub & Grill, 2701 W Memorial, Big Daddy, 9 p.m., 751-1547. Wild Rush Stage at Remington Park Racing and Casino, 1 Remington Place, The Mack Band, 9 p.m., 424-1000. Stumbleys Bar, 116 S Main, Dom McClenny Band, 9 p.m., (405) 564-5785. (Stillwater) Libby’s Cafe, 111 N Main, Bailey Hale, 8 p.m., 288-2418. (Goldsby) Red Piano Lounge, 1 Park Ave., Kip Curtis, 5 p.m., The Gary Johnson Duo, 10 p.m., 7028555. Bora Bora, 2415 N Walker, F.B.A.M. Foam Party with Yung O, Jook Mode, L. Eazy and Tori Nichols, 9 p.m., 5571105. Downstream Casino, 69300 E Nee, Trash Angels, 8 p.m., (918) 919-6000. (Quapaw) UCO Jazz Lab, 100 E 5, Matt Stansberry, 8 p.m., 359-7989. (Edmond) JJ’s Alley, 212 E Sheridan, Rogers and Weilburg, 6:30 p.m., Kristy Kruger, 10 p.m., 6054543. Royal Bavaria Brewery & Restaurant, 3401 S Sooner, The Roof Top Dogs, 8 p.m., 7997666. Mickey Mantle’s Steakhouse, 7 S Mickey Mantle, Erick Taylor Trio, 7 p.m., 272-0777. Rhinestone Cowboy, 900 SE 59, Uncalled Four, 9 p.m., 6160288. Junior’s, 2601 Northwest Expressway, Anita White Trio, 8:30 p.m., 848-5597. Cherokee Casino, 1621 W Ruth, Silent Thunder, 9 p.m., (800) 256-2338. (Sallisaw) Cherokee Casino, Interstate 40 and U.S. 64, Bannister Brothers, 9 p.m., (918) 427-7491. (Roland) Cherokee Casino, 20900 S 4200 Road, Dusty Hundley, 9 p.m., (918) 283-8800. (Claremore) Belle Isle Restaurant & Brew-

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DANCE Oklahoma City Swing Dance Club, 4361 NW 50, The Country Gentlemen, 2 p.m., 9431950.

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THEATER Lyric Theater presents “Ragtime,” 7:30 p.m., Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N Walker, 2972584. “Oklahoma!” 6 p.m., Discovery Land, 19501 W 41 S, (918) 2456552. (Sand Springs)

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Jack’s Mannequin, featuring vocalist/keyboardist Andrew McMahon, pictured, will perform Friday at the Diamond Ballroom, 8001 S Eastern, with guests Steel Train, Lady Danville and River Jam. Doors open at 7 p.m. For more information, call 6779169. PHOTO PROVIDED ery, 1900 Northwest Expressway, Tweezer, 9 p.m., 840-1911.

DANCE American Legion Post 13, 239 SE 57, Kitty Houston and the Houston Band, 8 p.m., 6312027. American Legion Post 12, 6101 NW 50, Double Deuce Band, 8 p.m., 787-6010. Ain’t Misbehavin’ Christian Country Dance, 7 p.m., Christian Country Dance Center, 351 N Air Depot, Suite GG, 455-7169. (Midwest City)

THEATER Carpenter Square Theatre presents “Five Women Wearing The Same Dress,” 8 p.m., Bricktown Central Plaza Hotel & Convention Center, 2001 E Reno, 235-1647. UCO’s Summerstock presents “Annie Get Your Gun,” 8 p.m., University of Central Oklahoma, 100 N University Drive, 974-2000. (Edmond) Poteet Theatre presents “Carousel,” 8 p.m., St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, 222 NW 15, 609-1023. “Oklahoma!” 6 p.m., Discovery Land, 19501 W 41 S, (918) 2456552. (Sand Springs) “The Wizard Of Oz,” 8 p.m., Mitch Park, 1501 W Covell. (Edmond) The Yellow Rose Dinner Theatre presents “The Arizona Kid,” 6:30 p.m., Yellow Rose Dinner Theatre, 1005 SW 4, 793-7779. (Moore) Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park presents “The Seagull,” 8 p.m., Myriad Gardens Water Stage, 1 Myriad Gardens, 2353700.

Saturday CONCERTS Rich O’Toole, 9 p.m., Arbuckle Ballroom, 12201 State Highway 7 W, (580) 369-3870. (Davis) Ted Nugent, 8 p.m., Buffalo Run Casino, 1350 N U.S. 69, (918) 542-7140. (Miami) Richard Marx, 7 p.m., Choctaw Casino, 4418 U.S. 69/75, (800) 788-2464. (Durant) Randy Rogers Band, 8 p.m., Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N Main, (918) 584-2306. (Tulsa) Turnpike Troubadors, 8 p.m., Wormy Dog Saloon, 311E Sheridan, 601-6276. Brother Bear, 9 p.m., Opolis, 113 N Crawford (Norman) Dr. Pants, 9 p.m., VZD’s Restaurant & Club, 4200 N Western, 524-4203. Bleu Edmondson and Whiskey Myers, 7 p.m., Frontier City Theme Park, 11501 N Interstate 35 Service Road, 4782412. Traindodge EP Release Show with Simple Lines and Two Snakes, 8 p.m., The Conservatory, 8911 N Western, 8799778. Hope for the Dying and Under Tribulation, 6:30 p.m., The Enerje Event Center, 9341N 129 E Ave., (918) 274-0057. (Owasso)

LIVE MUSIC Centennial Rodeo Opry, 2221 Exchange Ave., Rodeo Opry, 7:30 p.m., 297-9773. The Biting Sow, 1 E California, Doc Blues Revue Band, 9 p.m., 232-2639. Waterford Marriott, 6300 Waterford Blvd., Burton Band, 9 p.m., 848-4782. Sliders, 2616 S Interstate 35 Service Road, Pointblank, 9 p.m., 672-6306. Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill, 310 Johnny Bench Drive, Rick Jawnsun, 8 p.m., 2310254. The Squander Bar, 40501 Benson Park, Trailer Choir, 9 p.m., 878-4607. (Tecumseh) Nonna’s Euro-American Ristorante and Bar, 1 Mickey Mantle Drive, Stephen Speaks, 8 p.m., 235-4410. Oklahoma City Limits, 4801 S Eastern, Mikayla Lee and Stout, 9 p.m., 619-3939. Choctaw Casino, 1425 SE Washington, He Wears Black, 9 p.m., (800) 634-2582. (Idabel) Toothies Bar & Grill, 6970 N Waterloo, Dead City Outlaws, 7 p.m., 359-1234. (Edmond) The Point After Club, 6800 S Interstate 35 Service Road, Sunset and the Jazzy Men, 9 p.m., 778-8166. Russell’s at Marriott Hotel,

3233 Northwest Expressway, Squad Live, 9 p.m., 842-6633. Big Dick’s Roadhouse Bar & Grill, 501 N Mustang, Street Kings, 9 p.m., 577-8270. (Yukon) Osage Million Dollar Elm Casino, 222 Allen, Muskogee’s Wild Card Band, 9 p.m., (918) 335-7500. (Bartlesville) Osage Million Dollar Elm Casino, 301Blackjack Drive, Barrelhouse Revelers, 8 p.m., (918) 699-7777. (Sand Springs) Baker Street Pub & Grill, 2701 W Memorial, Warren Peace, 9 p.m., 751-1547. Wild Rush Stage at Remington Park Racing and Casino, 1 Remington Place, The Mack Band, 9 p.m., 424-1000. Stumbleys Bar, 116 S Main, Burning Tide, Orion Falls and Simpleton, 9 p.m., (405) 5645785. (Stillwater) Libby’s Cafe, 111 N Main, Logan McCaskill, 8 p.m., 288-2418. (Goldsby) Red Piano Lounge, 1 Park Ave., Grant Stevens, 10 p.m., 7028555. Downstream Casino, 69300 E Nee, Levee Town, 5 p.m., The Bryant Band, 9:30 p.m., (918) 919-6000. (Quapaw) UCO Jazz Lab, 100 E 5, Shadowman Blues Project, 8 p.m., 359-7989. (Edmond) JJ’s Alley, 212 E Sheridan, Eric Moore, 6:30 p.m., JD Thompson, 10 p.m., 605-4543. Royal Bavaria Brewery & Restaurant, 3401 S Sooner, Billee Jean, 8 p.m., 799-7666. Mickey Mantle’s Steakhouse, 7 S Mickey Mantle, Drive, the Band, 7 p.m., 272-0777. Rhinestone Cowboy, 900 SE 59, Uncalled Four, 9 p.m., 6160288. Junior’s, 2601 Northwest Expressway, Anita White Trio, 8:30 p.m., 848-5597. Cherokee Casino, 1621 W Ruth, Sarah Hughes, 9 p.m., (800) 256-2338. (Sallisaw) Cherokee Casino, Interstate 40 and U.S. 64, Buddy Cantrell, 9 p.m., (918) 427-7491. (Roland) Cherokee Casino, 20900 S 4200 Road, Shawna Russell, 9 p.m., (918) 283-8800. (Claremore) Belle Isle Restaurant & Brewery, 1900 Northwest Expressway, The Louisiana Street Band, 9 p.m., 840-1911.

DANCE Midwest City Senior Center, 8215 E Reno, Midwest City Senior Citizen Dance, 7 p.m., 3702852. (Midwest City) Forty and Eight, 3100 SW 119, Dancing Lessons and dancing to the Stardust Cowboys Band, 7 p.m., 691-4267. Ain’t Misbehavin’ Christian Country Dance, 7 p.m., Christian Country Dance Center, 351 N Air Depot, Suite GG, 455-7169. (Midwest City)

EVENTS Fort Reno Ghost Tour, 7:30 p.m., Fort Reno, 7107 W Cheyenne, 262-3987. (El Reno) Captain America Weekend celebrating the Friday, July 22, opening of the latest Marvel film release, “Captain America,” with movie giveaways and a scavenger hunt, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., The Toy & Action Figure Museum, 111 S Chickasaw, (405) 238-6300. (Pauls Valley)

THEATER Carpenter Square Theatre presents “Five Women Wearing The Same Dress,” 8 p.m., Bricktown Central Plaza Hotel & Convention Center, 2001 E Reno, 235-1647. UCO’s Summerstock presents “Annie Get Your Gun,” 2 and 8 p.m., University of Central Oklahoma, 100 N University Drive, 974-2000. (Edmond) OKC Improv 2011 Summer Run, 8 and 10 p.m., Ghostlight Theatre Club, 3110 N Walker, 343-1570. Poteet Theatre presents “Carousel,” 8 p.m., St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, 222 NW 15, 609-1023. “Oklahoma!” 6 p.m., Discovery Land, 19501 W 41 S, (918) 2456552. (Sand Springs) “The Wizard Of Oz,” 8 p.m., Mitch Park, 1501 W Covell. (Edmond) The Yellow Rose Dinner Theatre presents “The Arizona Kid,” 6:30 p.m., Yellow Rose Dinner Theatre, 1005 SW 4, 793-7779. (Moore)

Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park presents “The Seagull,” 8 p.m., Myriad Gardens Water Stage, 1 Myriad Gardens, 2353700.

Alien Ant Farm, 7 p.m., Bricktown Live, 103 Flaming Lips Alley, 236-4143. Scooter Brown, 8 p.m., Wormy Dog Saloon, 311 E Sheridan, 601-6276. Jonathan Tyler and The Northern Lights, 8 p.m., The Conservatory, 8911 N Western, 8799778. Christophe, 9 p.m., The Hidden Castle, 1309 24th Ave. SW, 701-0870. (Norman)

Woody Guthrie Folk Festival with David Amram performing, downtown Okemah, (918) 623-2440 or www.woody guthrie.com. (Okemah) Hot as Hell Festival with Rob Zombie and Sevendust, noon, Brady Village, 100 W Cameron, (918) 582-7239. (Tulsa) Devon Energy Sunday Twilight Concert Series with Kerry Wayne and Brother Summit, 7 p.m., Myriad Botanical Gardens, 100 Myriad Gardens, 270-4848. Phantom Glue, 8 p.m., The Conservatory, 8911 N Western, 879-9778.

LIVE MUSIC

THEATER

The Deli, 309 White, Mike Hosty Solo, 9 p.m., 329-3534. (Norman) Blues Saloon, 2525 NW 10, The Blues Saloon Revue Jam, 9 p.m., 601-1165. The Point After Club, 6800 S Interstate 35 Service Road, Teddy Jack and the Alley Cats — Open Blues Jam, 8 p.m., 778-8166. UCO Jazz Lab, 100 E 5, Kyle Dillingham and Horseshoe Road, 7 p.m., 359-7989. (Edmond) The Mantel Wine Bar & Bistro At Bricktown, 201 E Sheridan, Ashley Windham, 7 p.m., 2368040. Sallie Ford and The Sound Outside and Jolie Holland, 8 p.m., Opolis, 113 N Crawford. (Norman)

Lyric Theatre presents “Ragtime, 7:30 p.m., Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N Walker, 2972584. “Oklahoma!” 6 p.m., Discovery Land, 19501 W 41 S, (918) 2456552. (Sand Springs)

CONCERTS

DANCE American Legion Post 12, 6101 NW 50, Leen 2+1, 8 p.m., 7876010.

EVENTS Captain America Weekend celebrating the Friday, July 22, opening of the latest Marvel film, “Captain America,” with movie giveaways and a scavenger hunt, 1to 5 p.m., The Toy & Action Figure Museum, 111 S Chickasaw, (405) 238-6300. (Pauls Valley)

THEATER UCO’s Summerstock presents “Annie Get Your Gun,” 2 p.m., University of Central Oklahoma, 100 N University Drive, 974-2000. (Edmond) Poteet Theatre presents “Carousel,” 3 p.m., St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, 222 NW 15, 609-1023.

Monday CONCERTS Jolie Holland, Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside, 8 p.m., Opolis, 113 N Crawford (Norman) Jabee, Saturday Sirens, Josh Sally, Denver Duncan, Skating Polly and hostess Lauren Zuniga, 8 p.m., The Conservatory, 8911 N Western, 8799778.

LIVE MUSIC Bora Bora, 2415 N Walker, No Tide, 8 p.m., 557-1105. JJ’s Alley, 212 E Sheridan, Jason Shuck, 9:30 p.m., 605-4543. Junior’s, 2601 Northwest Expressway, Greg Kennedy, 8:30 p.m., 848-5597.

Thursday CONCERTS Summer Concert in the Park, 7 p.m., E.C. Hafer Park, 1034 S Bryant, 427-6551. (Edmond) Midwest Twilight Concert Series, 7 p.m., Joe B. Barnes Regional Park, 8700 E Reno, 7391293. (Midwest City) Josh Ritter and the Royal City Band, 8 p.m., Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N Main, (918) 584-2306. (Tulsa) Jake Moffett Band, 8 p.m., Wormy Dog Saloon, 311E Sheridan, 601-6276. Lower Bricktown Live Concert Series, 7:30 p.m., Bricktown Chevy Stage, south of the intersection of Reno Avenue and Mickey Mantle Drive., 6187038. Concerts in the Park, 7 p.m., Chisholm Trail Park, 500 W Vandament, 350-8937. (Yukon) Leo Rondeau Band, 8 p.m., The Blue Door, 2805 N McKinley, 524-0738.

LIVE MUSIC Grand House China Bistro, 2701 N Classen, Jamie Bramble, 6 p.m., 524-7333. The Point After Club, 6800 S Interstate 35 Service Road, Rick Toops Open Blues Jam, 8:30 p.m., 778-8166. Baker Street Pub & Grill, 2701 W Memorial, Replay, 9 p.m., 751-1547. Wild Rush Stage at Remington Park Racing and Casino, 1 Remington Place, MPRV, 7 p.m., 424-1000. Red Piano Lounge, 1 Park Ave., Aaron Kellert, 5 p.m., 7028555. JJ’s Alley, 212 E Sheridan, Brett Smith and Mike Halley, 6:30 p.m., Amanda Cunningham, 9:30 p.m., 605-4543. Royal Bavaria Brewery & Restaurant, 3401 S Sooner, Billee Jean, 8 p.m., 799-7666. Junior’s, 2601 Northwest Expressway, Anita White Trio, 8:30 p.m., 848-5597. Cherokee Casino, 20900 S 4200 Road, HiFidelics, 9 p.m., (918) 283-8800. (Claremore)

DANCE

Tuesday

Midwest City Senior Center, 8215 E Reno, Oklahoma State Fiddlers Band Dance, 7 p.m., 733-8688. (Midwest City)

CONCERTS

THEATER

Def Leppard and Heart, 7:30 p.m., BOK Center, 200 S Denver, (918) 894-4200. (Tulsa) American Idol Live! Tour 2011, 7 p.m., Cox Convention Center, 1 Myriad Gardens, 602-8500.

Lyric Theatre presents “Ragtime,” 7:30 p.m., Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N Walker, 2972584. Poteet Theatre presents “Carousel,” 8 p.m., St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, 222 NW 15, 609-1023. “Oklahoma!” 6 p.m., Discovery Land, 19501 W 41 S, (918) 2456552. (Sand Springs) “The Wizard Of Oz,” 8 p.m., Mitch Park, 1501 W Covell, 2167646. (Edmond) Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park presents “The Seagull,” 8 p.m., Myriad Gardens Water Stage, 1 Myriad Gardens, 2353700.

LIVE MUSIC O Asian Fusion Patio, 105 12th Ave. SE, Dave Fasgold, 7 p.m., 701-8899. (Norman) Red Piano Lounge, 1 Park Ave., Earl Day and Pat Brown McLeod, 5 p.m., 702-8555. JJ’s Alley, 212 E Sheridan, Andy Adams, 6:30 p.m., Mike Hosty, 9:30 p.m., 605-4543. Junior’s, 2601 Northwest Expressway, Greg Kennedy, 8:30

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Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. (Okemah) Jack’s Mannequin, Diamond Ballroom. Ted Nugent, FireLake Grand Casino. (Shawnee)

Los Lobos & Los Lonely Boys, WinStar World Casino. (Thackerville) Richard Marx, Choctaw Casino. (Durant) Randy Rogers Band, Cain’s Ballroom. (Tulsa) Bleu Edmondson, Frontier City.

Turnpike Troubadours, Wormy Dog Saloon.

LIVE MUSIC Blue Note, 2408 N Robinson, Empires, 8 p.m., 600-1166. The Point After Club, 6800 S Interstate 35 Service Road, Ambiance Open Jam, 7 p.m., 778-8166. Baker Street Pub & Grill, 2701 W Memorial, The Weathermen, 9 p.m., 751-1547. Wild Rush Stage at Remington Park Racing and Casino, 1 Remington Place, Jeff Mims, 7 p.m., 424-1000. Firelake Grand Casino, 777 Grand Casino Blvd., Dylan, 7 p.m., 964-7263. (Shawnee) O Asian Fusion Patio, 105 12th Ave. SE, Juanita “The Duchess” Ellington, 7 p.m., 7018899. (Norman) Red Piano Lounge, 1 Park Ave., Carl V. Moore, 6 p.m., 7028555. JJ’s Alley, 212 E Sheridan, Ronnie Deane and Ben Phillips, 6:30 p.m., Jack Rowdy, 9:30 p.m., 605-4543.

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Rob Zombie, Hot As Hell Music Festival, Brady Village. (Tulsa) New Kids on the Block, Backstreet Boys, BOK Center. (Tulsa) Def Leppard and Heart, BOK Center. (Tulsa) American Idol LIVE!, Cox Convention Center.

Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights, The Conservatory. Smokey Robinson, Lucky Star Casino. (Clinton) Styx, Yes, WinStar World Casino. (Thackerville) Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights, Cain’s Ballroom. (Tulsa) Cody Canada and The Departed, Wormy Dog

Saloon.

Styx, Yes, Zoo Amphitheatre.

Bob Dylan, WinStar World Casino. (Thackerville) Smokey Robinson, First Council Casino. (Newkirk) Ke$ha, Brady Theater. (Tulsa)

Kyle Dillingham & Horseshoe Road, UCO Jazz Lab. (Edmond) Billy Currington, WinStar World Casino. (Thackerville) JaneDear Girls, Diamond Ballroom.

Keith Sweat, WinStar World Casino. (Thackerville) Roy Clark, Rose State Performing Arts Theatre. (Midwest City)

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Tim McGraw, Luke Bryan, Zoo Amphitheatre. Whitesnake, First Council Casino. (Newkirk)

Wayne Newton, WinStar World Casino. (Thackerville)

CORRECTION THURSDAY An incorrect time was listed for a film being shown as part of French Cinema Week at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch, on page 5D of Thursday’s Mood section. “L’Amour Fou” will be shown at 5:30 p.m. Friday.

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MOVIES | COVER STORY

Film counts down to darkly comic apocalypse Not everyone left to make their way in an apocalypse will have the necessary skills to survive, and as Edgar Wright proved with “Shaun of the Dead,” some of the last remaining humans might be complete dopes. With “Phase 7,” director Nicolas Goldbart introduces the world to Shaun’s inept Argentine cousin. Much like “Shaun,” “Phase 7” (currently in midnight showings at AMC Quail Springs Mall) is a darkly comic trip down a familiar horror road: Survivors attempt to hold on after a deadly virus brings society to a standstill. At first, Coco (Daniel Hendler) and his pregnant wife, Pipi (Jazmin Stuart), seem completely oblivious to what is happening around them, shopping and bickering at a Buenos Aires supermarket as frenzied fellow shoppers fill their carts in anticipation of the gathering storm. Even after the World Health Organization and Argentina’s authorities enforce a quarantine, Coco and Pipi just

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“PHASE 7” R 1:36 3 stars Starring: Daniel Hendler, Jazmín Stuart, Yayo Guridi, Federico Luppi. (Strong bloody violence, and language)

Daniel Hendler stars in “Phase 7."

treat it like an annoyance. Coco seems more annoyed at the lack of Internet than he does at the possibility that he could die. With their new apartment building shut down by the local authorities, Coco and Pipi get to know their neighbors a little too

well. Guglierini and Lange (Carlos Bermejo and Abian Vainstein) are the first of the group to turn on their fellow tenants, attempting to kill the elderly Zanutto (Federico Luppi) to take his food and medicine. Coco winds up on friendly terms with Horacio

(Yayo Guridi), a survivalist who was paranoid long before suspicion was needed, and the two mismatched knuckleheads soon become a united front, much to Pipi’s irritation. While it is rarely as funny as “Shaun,” “Phase 7” is cut from the same cloth in one key respect: It illustrates how some people are not natural heroes no matter how the pressures of a catastrophe might hit them. When the world is running down, Coco amuses himself by sculpting his shaggy beard into a

Blake: Music, marriage, TV show intersect FROM PAGE 1D

“Six Paks” dropped a few months apart. The risk paid off: The EPs spun off three smashes between them with the party anthems “Hillbilly Bone” and “It’s All About Tonight” and the sensitive love song “Who Are You When I’m Not Looking.” The Ada native also was named the Country Music Association’s male vocalist of the year, invited to join the Grand Ole Opry and released his first greatest hits album last fall.

Shared stardom Of course, Shelton isn’t the only Tishomingo star who has been on the rise: With his country sweetheart Miranda Lambert also ascending to new career heights, they were already crowned country music’s new power couple by the time they wed May 14 in her native Texas. “(It’s) not much different, to be honest with you,” Shelton said laughingly about married life. “It’s just official now is the only difference.” But the nuptials generated still more buzz, with photos of the couple in their wedding finery — Lambert wore her mother’s wedding dress, while Shelton donned a gray suit jacket and vest with

jeans — appearing on the covers of Us Weekly and Country Weekly magazines. But they didn’t take much time for a honeymoon; instead Shelton took another gamble. He joined pop belter Christina Aguilera, Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine and hip-hop standout Cee Lo Green as celebrity coaches on the freshman NBC reality show “The Voice.” The series premiered April 26 and was an instant hit, attracting viewers with its blind audition concept, in which the coaches had to evaluate singers without getting to see the competitors. “I bet you next year they’ll make more of that, because to me that was my favorite part,” said Shelton, who will return for the show’s second season, along with the other coaches.

Beyond fun While he initially signed on to “The Voice” for the fun of it, Shelton, 35, said mentoring the aspiring singers on his team quickly made it more than just a TV series. As the competition progressed, his fatherly side showed as he worked with his contenders, particularly shy teen Xenia and quiet but creative finalist Dia Frampton. As he doled out thoughtful advice, ornery humor and free guitars, Shelton be-

came, as The New York Times dubbed him, “the breakout star of the show.” On “The Voice,” he premiered his playful “Honey Bee” video, performed with his team members and with his current tour mate Brad Paisley and invited his new bride to duet with Frampton on the season finale. With the surprise success of “The Voice,” Shelton and producer Scott Hendricks worked quickly to finish and release new LP “Red River Blue,” with much of the inspiration flowing from his relationship with his wife. He was stirred to cut the second single, a cover of contemporary Christian singer Dave Barnes’ “God Gave Me You,” after an argument that could have ended their romance. And Lambert sings along on the title track, about an Oklahoma man and his Texas woman divided by more than the Red River. For all the album’s balladry, Shelton gets into his familiar party vibe with a few tracks, including the clever “Get Some,” co-written by Zac Maloy, former frontman of Oklahoma City band The Nixons. “Of course, there’s some stuff that you’d expect from me, about drinking and passing out,” Shelton said. “I mean, I’m always gonna be that guy, that’ll always be part of my personality. But I think it’s a happier album than I’ve ever done before.”

grotesque sideburn-handlebar mustache combo. If it weren’t for Horacio, who is obsessed with the notion that the pandemic is “Phase 7” of a plan to shape a “new world order,” Coco and Pipi might just argue themselves to death instead of defending themselves and planning for some kind of postapocalyptic future. Clearly working from a minimal budget, Goldbart restricts most of the action to the apartment complex as the tenants’ worst impulses come to the fore. As order breaks down, the body count climbs in the building thanks to an unexpected aggressor’s uncommon shotgun skills, and Goldbart spares nothing when it comes to gore and carnage. “Phase 7” does not redefine its genre, but it provides a goofy counterpoint to Stephen King’s “The Stand,” showing that the slack and incompetent could inherit the Earth. — George Lang

ALSO

Vote for Blake Oklahoma country music star Blake Shelton and his hit reality TV show “The Voice” are nominated for prizes from two fan-voted awards shows. I For the Teen Choice Awards, Shelton is nominated for Choice Music: Male Country Artist and Choice Music: Country Single for “Honey Bee.” “The Voice” is nominated for Choice TV: Reality Competition Show. The Teen Choice Awards will air live at 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 7, on Fox. Fans can vote at http://teenchoice awards.com. I Shelton and fellow state country star Reba McEntire have received a Do Something Award nomination in the concert category for their May 25-26 Durant benefit shows that raised $500,000 for tornado relief efforts in the southeast Oklahoma town of Tushka. “The Voice” is nominated for the Do Something Reality TV Show award. The Do Something Awards, which are devoted to boosting volunteerism among young people, will be hosted by “Glee” star Jane Lynch at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. They will be taped Sunday, Aug. 14. The awards show will air at 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 18, on VH1. Fans can vote at www.DoSomething. VH1.com.

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MOVIES

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NOW SHOWING: METRO MOVIES Ratings are by Gene Triplett, George Lang, Brandy McDonnell, Matthew Price and Dennis King. Ratings are based on a four-star system: 1 star (poor), 2 stars (fair), 3 stars (should see), 4 stars (must see).

“Larry Crowne”

New releases

PG-13 1:39 1½ stars Tom Hanks directed and stars in this comedy-drama about a middle-aged man forced to reinvent himself after being laid off at a retail store and finds romance with his career counselor (Julia Roberts) (Brief strong language and some sexual content)

“Beginners”

“Midnight in Paris”