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Unused property up for bid • Former OETA site on North Sheridan Road is the first up for sale under a new state program.

BY RANDY KREHBIEL World Staff Writer

A former pizza parlor on North Sheridan Road is scheduled to become the first state property sold under a highly touted program

championed by Speaker of the House T.W. Shannon.

The 6,500-square-foot building at 811 N. Sheridan Road was acquired by the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority in 1984 and converted to a studio and of-

fices. It is now vacant.

“This property is a good example of underutilized state property,” said John Estus with the state Office of Management and Enterprise Services. “It’s a depressed property and needs some work.”

OMES, in fact, tried to sell the building earlier this year but could not get a bid. The minimum bid has been lowered from $165,000 to

$99,000, with a new bidding period scheduled to close on June 28.

Estus said the plan is for about a half-dozen other properties to go up for sale in the next three to nine months.

“We’re not looking at putting dozens of properties on the market in a fire sale,” he said.

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Many back one election for streets, capital plans

BY ZACK STOYCOFF World Staff Writer

Tulsans generally favor voting on a proposed $818 million capital improvements package in a single election this November rather than in separate elections for roadwork and other capital projects, according to an Oklahoma Poll conducted this month.

But a small sampling of poll respondents indicates that the format of the proposal isn’t so important as long as voters can elect to continue fixing Tulsa’s streets.

“I’d say the streets are just overwhelming everything,” said Dale Hartz, who prefers a single election but said he would gladly vote in SEE STREETS A4

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Magenia Parish, who is 16, pregnant and homeless, walks to look for drinking water. Photos by MIKE SIMONS/Tulsa World

Officials estimate 1,500 teenagers are homeless on Tulsa streets.

Magenia Parish is one of them.

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SECOND IN A TWO-DAY SERIES | BY GINNIE GRAHAM | WORLD STAFF WRITER

he pregnant, homeless 16-year-old sat in the dark on a curb in a north Tulsa park with a phone in hand and a choice to make. ♦ She could call 911 for her early contractions, emergency mental health workers for her suicidal thoughts or a dating service to prostitute herself for a room. ♦ It’s not the first time Magenia Parish has faced that decision.

At 21 weeks into her pregnancy, Parish has called for an ambulance and visited an emergency room at least 20 times.

“I’m more suicidal right now than in pain,” she sobs to her 30-year-old fiancé.

“Watch it,” he says. “Please don’t say you’re suicidal. Not in front of me.”

Moments earlier Parish was having a breakdown.

She has no shelter, no money, no bus pass, only Pringles and canned chili to eat and a delicate pregnancy.

“I can’t say my life’s worth living right now,” she said. “I’m throwing up my hands.

Nobody knows I’m a kid until I tell them.

I believe in God and pray and ask for help, but he doesn’t seem to listen.”

Parish has been on the Tulsa streets for

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She is one of more than about 1,500 homeless teens in the city, according to Youth Services Executive Director Jim Walker.

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MOURNED Spc. Robert Allan Pierce: The 20-year-old from Panama, Okla., is remembered as a family man with a big personality.

Soldier killed in Afghanistan is laid to rest

BY JERRY WOFFORD World Staff Writer

FORT SMITH, Ark. — Spc. Robert Allan Pierce liked to fix things.

His brother, Kyle Dart, recalled going into the garage one day to see Pierce’s motorcycle in pieces, scattered across the floor.

“I just wanted to put it back together,” Dart recalled Pierce saying.

“Want me to do yours?”

Hundreds of people gathered in Fort Smith, Ark., on Saturday to remember Pierce as their hero, the family man with a big personality.

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For car enthusiasts, all roads have led to Tulsa for the past several days.

The 39th annual MidAmerica Ford and Team Shelby Nationals has brought visitors from 35 states and four other countries to the city for an event that concludes Sunday with an “All Ford Super Show,” during which cars will be on display on the grounds of the Tulsa Marriott Southern Hills, 1902 E. 71st St. On Saturday at Tulsa Raceway Park, at 3101 N. Garnett Road, about 250 vehicles were involved in a series of drag races that brought people together for a day of competition and noisy fun.

Sean Hale, 24, was racing a 1967 Mustang that belongs to his grandfather, Butch Hale, a 73-year-old Owasso resident who has been a fixture on the local racing scene since the 1960s.

“It’s always been a family deal for us,” said Butch Hale, who added that four generations of his family would be either participating or watching Saturday’s drag racing.

They weren’t the only family doing some racing on Saturday. Jason Doepel, 32, and his wife, Jamie Doepel, 30, were competing in separate events.

“I married into a racing family,” Jamie Doepel said shortly before racing away in a 2002 Mustang GT. “It was either get involved or get left behind.”

Jim Wicks, one of the event’s directors, said the Mid-America Ford and Shelby Nationals is all about “Fords, family and fun.”

He said somewhere between 1,100 and 1,200 vehicles have played some part in this year’s festivities, which began Wednesday and included a cruise through the Brady Arts District, a banquet and more driving events at Hallett Motor Racing Circuit in Pawnee County.

On Saturday, John Brown of Oklahoma City was at Tulsa Raceway Park polishing up a 1966 Mustang Shelby GT 350 that he spent two years building into a show car.

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Sunday: Tulsa Shock The Tulsa Shock plays its second of four straight home games against Phoenix at 3:30 p.m. at the BOK Center.

The game marks the first appearance in town of former Baylor star and No. 1 draft pick Brittney Griner. Club tickets, which include a post-game meet and greet with Griner, are $100. Regular ticket prices range from $8 to $113 and are available by calling 918-949-9700 or at tulsaworld.

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Campaigning hiatus Tulsa’s two remaining mayoral candidates plan to take a break — and give voters one as well — before gearing up for November. A17

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SPORTS Klein on prospects Competitor Sean Hale of Owasso burns his Mustang’s tires during the Mid-America Ford and Team Shelby Nationals at the Tulsa Raceway Park on Saturday. JAMES GIBBARD/Tulsa World

Brown, 52, said Shelbys have always been admired and respected by muscle-car enthusiasts.

Racers who drove other types of cars knew that “when a Shelby showed up, you were in trouble,” he said.

But one didn’t have to drive a Shelby to participate during Saturday’s races, which recognized winners in 11 classifications.

“We don’t care if you race your Ford pickup,” said Randy Roberts, another event director.

He estimated that 80 percent of the vehicles on the

new drivers calmed down so they could cope with the “pure adrenaline” that takes over during a race.

Steve Ling, performance car marketing manager for Ford Motor Co., said this event is one of the best of its type in the nation.

Roberts said plans are already underway to make next year’s version even bigger to coincide with its 40th anniversary and the 50th anniversary of the Ford Mustang.

track Saturday were street legal.

Roberts said about 20 of Saturday’s racers were firsttimers who received a brief tutorial before being let loose on the track.

“A lot of people have never even done a burn-out,” Roberts said of the first-timers.

A lot of the instruction given to the beginning drivers was about understanding what the lights by the side of the track signify in a sport in which hundredths of a second make a huge difference, he said. Roberts said it was equally important to get the

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Hoover on ‘63 champs Tulsa’s 1963 Babe Ruth League World Series team gathered Friday, and John E. Hoover was there. B1

EDITORIAL No big surprise The legislative assault on women’s health continued in the past session. G1

SCENE Swons’ song Muskogee’s Zach and Colton Swon prepare for Monday night’s showdown on “The Voice.” D1

Monday: Pinto World Championship

Tuesday: Starlight concerts

Wednesday: ‘The Lion King’

The Pinto World Championship will be at Expo Square through Saturday.

Horses will be competing in various classes throughout the show, and numerous special events are scheduled.

Admission is free.

For more, including a full schedule of events, visit tulsaworld.com/pinto.

Grab a lawn chair or a blanket and head to the River Parks Amphitheater on Tuesday.

The Starlight Band will hold weekly concerts at 8 p.m. Tuesdays through the summer.

Up this week is the concert band, playing a show titled “A Little Night Music.”

“The Lion King” is at the Tulsa PAC’s Chapman Music Hall, 101 E. Third St., for a five-week run. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday-Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, and 1 and 6:30 p.m. Sunday.

For a chance to win a fourticket package to the July 2 show, visit tulsaworld.com/lionkingtickets.

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John Klein takes a look at how the Rockies determine where to place prospects like Jonathan Gray. B1

Domino effect Photographer John Clanton chronicles domino players at a local senior center. D2

BUSINESS Real estate revival Tulsa’s home sales market is moving upward after dark days following the 2008 recession. E1

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PARADE Family man The Pinto World Championship will be at Expo Square through Saturday.

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WAY BACK WHEN: TODAY IN HISTORY

WILL ROGERS SAYS

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West Virginia is what you might call the truthful end of the Virginias. Two feuds was about as far as a West Virginian can ever trace any of his ancestors.”

— May 25, 1930

1934 — WWI duns ignored

with Bush that resulted in an agreement for the two countries to slash their arsenals of long-range nuclear weapons by 2003. The two presidents also announced that a joint commission would comb through Communist Party and KGB archives seeking information about possible U.S. prisoners from the Vietnam war who might still be alive in Russia.

The United States had dunned 13 nations for payments of their World War I debts but only Finland responded with money. Eleven countries sent notes without money and Yugoslavia didn’t even reply. The duns went to the 13 nations in an attempt to collect semi-annual principal and interest payments of $477.8 million.

1993 — Postal beat goes on

1955 — Argentina revolt fails Navy rebels bombed and strafed Buenos Aires and inflicted heavy casualties in an uprising in Argentina that started after Pope Pius XII excommunicated Argentine President Juan Peron and other government officials. The excommunications were in retaliation of the expulsion of two high-ranking Roman Catholic church leaders in Argentina. The revolt was crushed by Peron’s forces and many of the rebels took refuge in Uruguay where they said bad weather that prevented a marine amphibious assault and lack of support caused their defeat.

President George H.W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin applaud during an arrival ceremony for the Russian president at the White House. AP file

1992 — Bush, Yeltsin confer President George H.W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin traded pledges of friendship as Yeltsin arrived in Washington for a summit talk

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CORRECTIONS, CLARIFICATIONS • A Saturday Tulsa World Business story about an explosion at a natural gas liquids plant in Louisiana inaccurately quoted Williams President and CEO Alan Armstrong.

The correct quote is: “A lot of us in this industry have spent much of our careers working to make it safe to operate. And so when something happens like this, it really, honestly, feels like a big failure.”

• A Saturday Tulsa World story incorrectly spelled the name of the minister of University United Methodist Church. The minister is the Rev. Nathan Mattox.

From jazz to rock ‘n’ roll, the beat went on at Tulsa post offices as clerks and carriers celebrated the release of a Legends of Rock & Roll/Rhythm & Blues stamp series. The stamps featured such legends as Buddy Holly, Clyde McPhatter, Otis Redding and Ritchie Valens. Workers in local post offices wore 1950s garb and a tape of ’50s hits was played in lobbies. “The artists honored on these stamps caught the imagination of people throughout the world and influenced other musicians for several generations,” Tulsa Postmaster Philip M. Owen said.

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Sgt. 1st Class Benton Hawkins (right) whispers to Christian Pierce, the pregnant widow of fallen Oklahoma soldier Spc. Robert Allan Pierce, as Robert Pierce’s mother, Lonnetta Cooper (center), father Randy Pierce (white shirt) and stepmother Zandra Pierce (left) leave a funeral service on Saturday in Fort Smith, Ark. Photos by MATT BARNARD/Tulsa World

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vice detonated, killing him and 2nd Lt. Justin L. Sisson, 23, of Phoenix.

Pierce was laid to rest at Roselawn Cemetery in Fort Smith.

He had joined the Army in 2011 and was assigned TULSAWORLD.COM to the 1st BatHeroes of talion, 506th Infantry Regiment, Oklahoma 4th Brigade A memorial to the Combat Team, Oklahomans who 101st Airborne have died in the Division (Air wars in Iraq and Assault).

The Afghanistan. unit deployed tulsaworld.com/ to Afghanistan heroes to support Operation Enduring Freedom in early May. Earlier this year, he married Christian Pierce of Huntington, Ark., who is expecting their first child.

Dart said his brother always thought he had problems meeting girls and maintaining a relationship.

That changed with Christian.

“That boy, he never loved anybody as much as he loved you,” Dart told her during the service. “The minute he met you, he fell so hard.”

When Dart got the call that his brother had been killed, he said he expected his anger to take over.

Christian Pierce (right) is escorted from her husband’s grave by Sgt. 1st Class Benton Hawkins on Saturday in Fort Smith, Ark.

But “I can’t be angry,” he said. “The sadness overwhelms my anger.”

Brig. Gen. Duke DeLuca, who spoke at the service on behalf of the Army, said he knows this is a difficult time for Pierce’s family and friends but that he wants the family to know that their sacrifice won’t be forgotten.

DeLuca presented the family with medals Pierce received for his time in Afghanistan, including the Bronze Star and Purple Heart.

“They are meant to be physical representations of that thing you

cannot see — their service,” he said.

After the funeral, a long line of vehicles stretched across Fort Smith to the grave site, with hundreds of people standing along the road and waving flags.

On a green hill in a cemetery surrounded by tall trees, soldiers in their dress blue uniforms fired a 21gun salute and played taps on the bugle. Other soldiers neatly folded the American flag that had draped Pierce’s coffin and presented it to his widow.

The Rev. Phillip Pevehouse, who officiated at the service, said it’s important for those who knew Pierce to know he’s waiting on them.

“Don’t weep because you don’t know where he is,” Pevehouse said.

“We weep today because we miss him. We weep today because we’re separated from him.”

Dart, speaking to his brother, said his son will be well taken care of when he is born.

“I’m going to be the best uncle,” he said. “I can’t wait to hug him and tell him stories of his dad.”

When his own children grow up, Dart said, they will know their uncle for the sacrifices he made.

“They’re not going to worship Superman or Spider-Man,” Dart said.

“They’ll worship my brother. He’s a real hero.”

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separate elections. “They just need to get with it — probably a billiondollar bond issue or whatever is needed.”

Officials have proposed renewing the city’s third-penny sales tax and issuing general obligation bonds for roadwork and other capital needs, such as public safety equipment and repairs to city facilities, over at least five years.

Mayor Dewey Bartlett has said that the proposal would be split into separate ballot propositions — possibly including an all-streets proposition — if city councilors vote to send a package to November’s ballot.

An alternate proposal from the City Council would have voters consider an all-streets bond package in November and a sales tax renewal by April for the other capital projects, which would give officials more time to choose nonstreet projects and convince voters that the city has urgent needs beyond roadwork.

The Oklahoma Poll of 400 likely Tulsa voters, conducted June 1-5 by SoonerPoll.com, showed 49 percent in favor of voting on streets and other capital projects as separate propositions on November’s ballot and 38 percent in favor of separate elections.

Twelve percent were either undecided or refused to answer.

Respondents contacted by the Tulsa World on Friday said they would be fine with either format, regardless of their answer in the survey, and admitted that they were no more than vaguely familiar with the proposals.

With few exceptions, they said they mainly just want their streets fixed.

“I don’t care how many elections there are,” said Judy Osten, who chose the single election format in the poll.

Kevin Bender said he leans toward having separate elections because he wants “every dollar to be essentially earmarked to indicate where that money is going,” but stressed that the amount of funding for streets is his most pressing concern because “I’m a consumer of the streets.”

Russell Crosby said he wants separate elections so he can be sure what projects are getting his vote. He added that he would only vote in favor of the proposal in either format if he knows whether streets in his neighborhood would

The poll of 400 likely voters was conducted June 1-5 by SoonerPoll.com, using a random digitdialing technique that included cellphone and landline telephone numbers. Results were weighted by gender, age and party. The poll was sponsored by the Tulsa World. The margin of error is plus or minus 4.9 percentage points. This poll conforms to the Standards of Disclosure of the National Council on Public Polls.

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The Oklahoma Poll found a correlation between respondents’ support for mayoral candidates and their responses to the capital improvements package question.

Most people who said they support Bartlett and former Mayor Kathy Taylor favored a single election — 57 percent of Bartlett supporters and 54 percent of Taylor supporters — while only 30 percent of former candidate Bill Christiansen’s supporters favored the single election.

Although not addressed in the poll, respondents who were contacted by the World said they support a related proposal by Bartlett to divert $60 million from the package by permanently extending the city’s share of the 0.167-cent 4 to Fix the County sales tax for police and fire manpower increases and additional street maintenance crews.

Respondents also told the World that they would favor allowing the third-penny sales tax to continue collecting money until it funds all of the projects in the package, as Councilor David Patrick has recently suggested.

The other option would be to set a five-year expiration date.

Officials have been debating projects for the package and discussing format options. They expect to seek public input at town hall meetings this summer.

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••Senators•facing•• re-election•in•• GOP-leaning•states• not•backing•down.

BY BILL BARROW Associated Press

ATLANTA• —• Far• from• reversing•course,•Senate•Democrats• who• backed• President• Barack• Obama’s• health-care• law• and• now• face• re-election• in• GOP-leaning• states• are• firming• up• their• support• for• the•overhaul•even•as•Republican•criticism•intensifies.

Mark• Begich• of• Alaska,• Mark•Pryor•of•Arkansas,•Mary• Landrieu• of• Louisiana• and• Kay•Hagan•of•North•Carolina• will•face•voters•in•2014•for•the• first•time•since•voting•for•the• Affordable• Care• Act• —• also• known• as• “Obamacare”• —• three• years• ago.• They• aren’t• apologizing•for•their•vote,•and• several• are• pursuing• an• aggressive•strategy:•Embrace•the• law,•help•voters•use•it•and•fix• what•doesn’t•work.

“I•don’t•run•from•my•votes,”• Begich• told• The• Associated• Press.• “Politicians• who• sit• around• and• say,• ‘That’s• controversial•so•I•better•run•from• it’•just•ask• for•trouble.•Voters• may• not• always• agree• with• you,• but• they• respect• people• who• think• about• these• issues• and•talk•about•them.”

That• means,• Begich• said,• reminding• voters• that• as• a• candidate• in• 2008• he• called• for• prohibiting• insurers• from• denying• coverage• based• on• existing•health•problems,•ending• lifetime• coverage• limits• and•making•it•easier•for•workers•to•leave•a•job•and•still•have• insurance,• an• option• they’ll• have• under• new• exchanges• that•consumers•can•begin•using• to• buy• individual• policies• this•fall.

“There’s• a• lot• of• good• that• people• will• realize• as• this• all• comes• online,”• the• first-term• senator•said.

Republicans• argue• just• the• opposite•—•that•there’s•a•lot•of• bad•in•the•sweeping•law.•More• than• a• year• before• the• elections,•they•use•the•law•to•pummel•the•four•Democrats,•three• of•them•from•the•conservative• South•and•all•from•states•that• Republican•Mitt•Romney•carried•last•fall.

Begich• highlighted• that• Senate•Democrats•have•voted• to•repeal•parts•of•the•law:•paperwork• for• businesses• and• a• tax• on• medical• equipment.• And• he• promised• aggressive• outreach• to• help• constituents• use• the• exchanges• and• other• consumer•benefits.

Landrieu• has• gone• on• the• offensive,• too,• criticizing• Louisiana• Gov.• Bobby• Jindal• and• her• state’s• Legislature• for•refusing•federal•money•to• broaden• Medicaid• insurance• for• more• low-income• Americans.•Along•with•the•exchanges,• the• optional• Medicaid• expansion• anchors• the• law’s• insurance•coverage•extension.

With• those• contentious• parts•slated•to•begin•next•year,• Obama’s• signature• legislative• achievement•is•all•but•certain• to•be•central•in•the•2014•midterm• campaign• as• Republicans•look•to•hang•onto•power• in•the•House•and•gain•the•six• seats•they•need•to•win•control• of•the•Senate•for•the•final•two• years•of•the•Democratic•president’s•second•term.

A• Republican-aligned• outside• group• already• has• aired• a•TV•ad•in•Arkansas•deriding• Pryor•as•“the•deciding•vote•for• Obamacare”•—•a•label•Republicans•can•apply•to•any•Democrat•since•the•bill•passed•with• the• exact• number• of• votes• necessary•to•avoid•a•GOP•filibuster.•Louisiana•Republicans• recently•tried•to•link•Landrieu• to• comments• from• the• state• Democratic• Party• chairwoman,•who•suggested•that•opposition• to• Obama’s• law• stems• from•the•fact•the•president•is• black.

Initially,•the•law’s•2010•passage• roused• tea• party• activists,• who• propelled• Republicans•to•a•House•majority•and• Senate• gains• that• fall.• The• lagging• economy• and• anger• over• bank• rescues,• stimulus• spending• and• budget• deficits• also• played• a• role.• Reprising• the• health-care• critique• as• part•of•their•2012•strategy,•Republicans• couldn’t• replicate• their•success:•Obama•defeated• Romney•decisively,•and•every• Senate• Democrat• who• voted• for• the• health-care• law• won• re-election.

Public• support• for• the• law• as• a• whole• has• never• consistently• reached• a• majority,• according• to• most• polls;• opposition• in• Romney-won• states• exceeds•50•percent.•Yet•many•

individual• provisions• already• in• effect,• like• those• Begich• mentioned,• have• more• support•in•polls.

The• GOP• bets• that• voters’• displeasure• will• intensify• in• 2014• as• more• provisions• take• hold.• Besides• exchanges• and• Medicaid• enlargement,• businesses• with• at• least• 50• fulltime• employees• will• have• to• provide• insurance• coverage• and•state•insurance•regulators• will• enforce• coverage• mini-

mums.• Many• market• analysts• predict•premium•increases•for• individual•policies.

“It’s• not• accidental• that• President• Obama• scheduled• the• most• popular• provisions• to•be•in•effect•for•his•election• year,”•argued•Brad•Dayspring,• a• spokesman• for• the• national• GOP’s• Senate• campaign• arm.• “He’s•left•a•lot•of•2014•Democrats•hanging•out•to•dry•with• the•unpopular•provisions.”

Democrats•say•Republicans•

need• Obama’s• health-care• overhaul• only• to• rally• their• core•supporters,•who•are•particularly• important• in• midterm• elections• in• which• the• electorate• typically• is• older,• whiter•and•more•conservative.

John• Anzalone,• a• Democratic• campaign• consultant• and• pollster,• retorted:• “What• happens• when• the• boogeyman• that’s• promised• never• comes?”

Anzalone,• who• counts•

Hagan• among• his• politician• clients,• said• the• best• counter• for•vulnerable•Democratic•incumbents•is•to•use•their•office• actively• to• help• constituents• take•advantage•of•the•law.• The• law,• Begich• notes,• established• long-term• coverage• plans• for• Native• Americans.• “That’s• important• to• Alaska”• and• lingered• in• Congress• for• two• decades• before• finding• a• place•in•the•act,•he•said.

Arkansas• Republican• strat-

egist• Alice• Stewart• acknowledged• that• her• party• has• had• only• mixed• success• using• health•care•as•a•national•issue,• but• she• said• Pryor’s• eventual• GOP• opponent• can• make• it• resonate.

“It’s•not•just•a•generic•criticism•of•Obamacare,”•she•said.• “This•is•part•of•explaining•that• Mark•Pryor•goes•to•Washington•and•doesn’t•represent•the• values• of• this• conservative• state.”•

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Attacks in Pakistan’s southwest kill 22 Pakistani forces stormed a hospital that had been taken over by gunmen Saturday in a restive southwestern province, freeing hostages and ending a five-hour standoff that capped a series of attacks that killed 22 people.

The violence emphasized the challenges that new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will have in bringing calm to Baluchistan, a region beset by a separatist movement, Taliban militants and violent sectarian groups.

Police said six attackers were also killed in the fighting.

The Baluch have long been alienated by what they see as exploitation by the central government of the oil, natural gas and valuable minerals in the extremely poor and underdeveloped province. The area has also been plagued by horrific attacks by Islamic militants on minority Shiite Muslims, and Afghan Taliban fighters use the territory’s empty, arid landscape as a refuge.

The deadliest attack Saturday took place in the provincial capital of Quetta and appeared to target minority Shiites. A blast ripped through a bus carrying female university students, killing at least 14 people, said the head of police operations, Fayaz Sumbal.

4 Rome

Italy OKs measures aimed at boosting economy The Italian government has adopted a series of measures aimed at boosting the economy, including the release of $4 billion for infrastructure projects projected to create 30,000 new jobs.

Premier Enrico Letta said the measures, based on recommendations from the European Union commission, would help Italians contribute to restarting the moribund economy.

Ministers deliberated for more than six hours on the package Saturday.

The varied package of measures include relaxing procedures for collecting tax debt from crisis-stricken citizens, allowing universities to hire more researchers and reducing taxes on boats and yachts to help relieve an industry hit by earlier austerity-driven measures.

5 Tripoli, Libya

Six Libyan soldiers killed in Benghazi attacks Rooftop snipers and knifewielding assailants killed six soldiers in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi early Saturday, officials said, in the largest attack on the country’s new security forces to date.

The brazen overnight as-

sault by hundreds of plainclothed gunmen on security installations forced soldiers to withdraw from some of their bases. In one case, soldiers fled out the back door of the First Infantry Brigade’s headquarters in Benghazi as assailants stormed the main gate, torching the building and two military vehicles.

Security officials say 11 people were wounded. The figure includes assailants as well.

It was the second deadly incident to strike the city this week. Thirty-one people, mostly civilians, were killed days earlier at an anti-militia protest.

6 London

Threatening note found; NY-bound plane diverted A plane from Cairo bound for New York was diverted by fighter jets to an emergency landing in the U.K. after a passenger discovered a letter threatening the aircraft, officials said Saturday.

Police said late Saturday there had been no arrests, and that authorities are working to ascertain who wrote the note in a lavatory that forced Flight 985 — carrying around 300 passengers en route to John F. Kennedy Airport — to make an emergency landing at Glasgow’s Prestwick Airport.

The BBC said one of its producers, Nada Tawfik, had discovered the note, written in pencil on a napkin, with the words “I’ll set this plane on fire” and what appeared to be a seat number written on it. She said that after discovering the note by the lavatory sink, she alerted crew, who then locked the toilet.

7 Jamison City, Pa.

Bear with head stuck in jar for 11-plus days rescued Four central Pennsylvania residents said they used only a rope and a flashlight during a wild chase to rescue a young bear whose head had been stuck in a plastic jar for at least 11 days.

The frightened but powerful bruin fell into a swimming pool at least twice during the ordeal, according to a report Saturday in the Press Enterprise of Bloomsburg. But the group eventually yanked off the jar and set the animal free.

“I thought, ‘No one is going to believe us,’” said Morgan Laskowski, 22, the bartender at the Jamison City Hotel and a member of the impromptu bear-wrangling team.

Area residents first spotted the 100-pound bruin with its head in a red jar on June 3, but it eluded game wardens. The animal was attracted to the container because it appeared to have once contained cooking oil.

—FROM WIRE REPORTS

DAILY U.S. CASUALTIES Afghanistan: As of Saturday, at least 2,100 members of the U.S. military had died as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, according

to an Associated Press count.

No new deaths were deaths reported by the military.

— FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS and www.defense.gov

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Moderate wins Iran election ••Rowhani’s•jubilant• supporters•dance•in• streets•for•the•new• Iranian•president.

BY ALI AKBAR DAREINI AND BRIAN MURPHY Associated Press

Wild•celebrations•broke•out• on• Tehran• streets• that• were• battle1 Tehran, Iran fields• four• years• ago• as• reformist-backed• Hasan• Rowhani• capped• a• stunning• surge• to• claim• Iran’s• presidency• on• Saturday,• throwing• open• the• political• order• after• relentless• crackdowns• by• hard-liners• to• consolidate• and• safeguard• their• grip• on• power.

“Long• live• Rowhani,”• tens• of•thousands•of•jubilant•supporters• chanted• as• security• officials• made• no• attempt• to• rein• in• crowds• —• joyous• and•even•a•bit•bewildered•by• the• scope• of• his• victory• with• more• than• three• times• the• votes•of•his•nearest•rival.

In• his• first• statement• after• the• results• were• ann o u n c e d ,• R o w h a n i• said• that• “a• new• opp o r t u n i t y• has• been• created• ...• for• those• who• truly• Rowhani respect• dem o c r a c y,• interaction• and• free• dialogue.”

But•in•Iran,•even•landslides• at•the•ballot•box•do•not•equate• to•policymaking•influence.

All•key•decisions•—•including• nuclear• efforts,• defense• and• foreign• affairs• —• remain• solidly•in•the•hands•of•the•ruling•clerics•and•their•powerful• protectors,•the•Revolutionary• Guard.• What• Rowhani’s• victory•does•is•reopen•space•for• moderate• and• liberal• voices• that• have• been• largely• muzzled• in• reprisal• for• massive• protests• and• clashes• in• 2009• over• claims• the• vote• was• rigged•to•deny•reformists•the•

A female supporter of Iranian presidential candidate Hasan Rowhani flashes a victory sign during a celebration in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday. VAHID SALEMI/Associated Press

presidency.

Rowhani’s• supporters• also• viewed• the• election• as• a• rebuke• of• uncompromising• policies•that•have•left•the•Islamic• Republic• increasingly• isolated• and• under• biting• sanctions•from•the•West•over• Tehran’s• nuclear• program.• The• 64-year-old• Rowhani• is• hardly• a• radical• —• having• served• in• governments• and• in• the• highly• sensitive• role• of• nuclear• negotiator• —• but• he• has• taken• a• strong• stance• against• the• combative• international• policies• of• outgoing• President• Mahmoud• Ahmadinejad•and•others.

“I’ve• never• been• an• extremist,”• Rowhani• said• on• state•TV•shortly•after•the•official• results• were• announced.• “I•support•moderation.”

“I• thank• God• that• once• again•rationality•and•moderation• has• shined• on• Iran,”• he• continued.• “This• is• the• victory• of• wisdom,• a• victory• of•

moderation• and• a• victory• of• commitment• over• extremism.”

His• emphasis• on• outreach• could• sharply• lower• the• political• temperature• between• Iran• and• the• West• —• including• Israel• —• and• perhaps• nudge• the• ruling• establishment• toward• more• flexible• approaches• in• possible• renewed•nuclear•talks•with•the• U.S.•and•world•powers.•Rowhani• also• has• added• leverage• with• his• political• godfather• and• ally,• former• President• Akbar• Hashemi• Rafsanjani,• who• was• blocked• from• the• ballot•but•now•can•exert•significant• influence• from• the• wings.

Alireza•Nader,•a•senior•policy•analyst•at•the•Rand•Corp.• who• follows• Iranian• affairs,• described• Rowhani• as• a• de• facto•hero•for•reformists•who• couldn’t• support• any• of• the• other• five• candidates• on• the• ballot.

Turkish police clear protest park ••Riot•police•used• tear•gas•and•water• cannons•to•end•the• 18-day•occupation.

ASSOCIATED PRESS Turkish• riot• police• firing• tear• gas• and• water• cannons• took• less• than• half• an• hour• on• Saturday• to• bring• to• an• end• an• 182 Istanbul day• occupation• of• an• Istanbul• park• at• the• center• of• the• strongest• challenge• to• Prime• Minister•Recep•Tayyip•Erdogan’s•10-year•rule.

The• sweep• by• white-helmeted•riot•police•emptied•the• Gezi•Park•of•protesters,•leaving•a•series•of•colorful,•abandoned• tents• behind.• Bulldozers• moved• in• afterward,• scooping• up• debris• as• crews• of•workmen•in•hard•hats•and• fluorescent• yellow• vests• tore• down• the• tents.• Protesters• put• up• little• physical• resistance,• even• as• plain-clothes• police• shoved• many• of• them• to•drive•them•from•the•park.

White•smoke•billowed•skyward•as•a•phalanx•of•riot•police• marched• inside• the• park• on•Saturday.•They•tore•down• protesters’• banners,• toppled• a• communal• food• stall• and• sprayed• tear• gas• over• the• tents,• urging• those• inside• to•

Protesters try to resist the advance of riot police in Gezi Park in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday. VADIM GHIRDA/Associated Press

get•out.

For• over• two• weeks,• protesters•had•defied•Prime•Minister• Recep• Tayyip• Erdogan’s• warnings•to•vacate•the•area.

Tayfun• Kahraman,• a• member• of• Taksim• Solidarity,• an• umbrella• group• of• protest• movements,• said• an• untold• number•of•people•in•the•park• had•been•injured•—•some•from• rubber•bullets.

“Let•them•keep•the•park,•we• don’t• care• anymore.• Let• it• all• be•theirs.•This•crackdown•has• to• stop.• The• people• are• in• a• terrible•state,”•he•told•The•Associated•Press•by•phone.

A• brutal• police• intervention• on• May• 31• against• those•

protesting• plans• to• redevelop• the• square• and• the• park• had• sparked• the• biggest• anti-government•protests•in•Turkey•in• decades•and•dented•Erdogan’s• international•reputation.

The• protests,• which• at• one• point• spread• to• dozens• of• Turkish• cities• and• towns,• turned• into• a• much• broader• expression• of• discontent• about• Erdogan’s• government,• and• what• many• say• is• his• increasingly•authoritarian•decision-making.

Erdogan,• who• was• elected• with•50•percent•of•the•vote•for• his• third• term• in• 2011,• vehemently•rejects•the•accusations• by•protesters•and•points•to•his•

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“It•remains•to•be•seen•how• much• room• will• be• given• to• Rowhani•by•Supreme•Leader• Ayatollah• Ali• Khamenei• and• the•Revolutionary•Guard,”•he• cautioned.

But• clearly• for• Iran’s• leadership,• the• resounding• strength•of•Rowhani’s•victory• underscores• the• resilience• and• reach• of• the• opposition• that• coalesced• four• years• ago•around•the•now-crushed• Green•Movement.

In• the• divided• country,• it• also•may•provide•a•bit•of•buffer.• The• outcome• could• ease• some• of• the• opposition• anger•and•be•used•by•the•ruling• clerics• to• try• to• bolster• their• image•and•legitimacy.

On•social•media,•many•supported•quickly•posted•images• mixing•the•Green•Movement• colors•with•the•signature•purple• of• Rowhani’s• campaign• with•the•boast:•“We•won!”

Some•cried:•“Ahmadinejad,• bye•bye.”

strong•support•base.

As•they•entered•the•park•on• Saturday•police•shouted•to•the• protesters:• “This• is• an• illegal• act,•this•is•our•last•warning•to• you•—•Evacuate.”

Shortly• before• the• police• launched• their• operation,• Erdogan•had•threatened•protesters• in• a• boisterous• speech• in• Sincan,•a•suburb•of•the•capital• Ankara,•that•is•a•stronghold•of• his• Justice• and• Development• Party.

“I• say• this• very• clearly:• either•Taksim•Square•is•cleared,• or• if• it• isn’t• cleared• then• the• security•forces•of•this•country• will•know•how•to•clear•it,”•Erdogan•said.

A• second• pro-government• rally•is•planned•for•Sunday•in• Istanbul,•though•Erdogan•has• previously• said• that• the• rallies• were• not• designed• as• “an• alternative”•to•the•demonstrations•at•Gezi•Park,•but•part•of• early• campaigning• for• local• elections•next•March.

On• Saturday,• Erdogan• lashed• out• at• what• he• called• the• “plot”• behind• the• biggest• street• protests• in• his• 10-year• tenure.

“You•are•here,•and•you•are• spoiling•the•treacherous•plot,• the• treacherous• attack!”• he• said,• insisting• unspecified• groups• both• inside• and• outside•Turkey•had•conspired•to• mount• the• protests• centered• on•Istanbul•—•and•that•he•had• the•documents•to•prove•it.

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State delegation members blast Obama on Syria ••Four•members• of•Congress•spoke• to•the•Oklahoma• Press•Association• Saturday.

BY BARBARA HOBEROCK World Capitol Bureau

MIDWEST• CITY• —• Some• members• of• the• Oklahoma• congressional•delegation•criticized•President•Barack•Obama• on• Saturday,• saying• he• lacked• leadership•in•the•Syrian•crisis.

The• Obama• administration• announced• that• it• would• step• up•aid•to•the•Syrian•rebels•after• determining• that• Syrian• government• forces• had• used• chemical• weapons• on• the• opposition.

“We• have• passed• the• point• of•making•a•difference•in•Syria,”•Sen.•Tom•Coburn,•R-Okla.,•

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Sen. Tom Coburn: “We have passed the point of making a difference in Syria.”

Rep. Tom Cole: “I am very skeptical about this latest step.”

Rep. Frank Lucas: He took the opportunity to promote his farm bill.

Rep. James Lankford: “We are the lone superpower. But we’d better go in with a strategy ... .”

said•Saturday.•“We•are•past•the• point.• The• window• is• closed.• Leading•from•behind•does•not• work.•And•we•should•have•had• a• vigorous• debate• early• on• in• the•Syrian•crisis.”

He• criticized• the• president• for•failing•to•have•a•plan.

Coburn,• U.S.• Reps.• Frank• Lucas•of•the•3rd•District,•Tom• Cole• of• the• 4th• District• and• James• Lankford• of• the• 5th• District• spoke• to• editors,• reporters•and•publishers•attending•the•Oklahoma•Press•Association•convention•in•Midwest•

AGAINST HEZBOLLAH Mohammed Morsi: The Islamist president of Egypt announced he was ending diplomatic relations with Syria and closing Damascus’ embassy in Cairo. “Hezbollah must leave Syria. … There is no business or place for Hezbollah in Syria,” he said.

City•on•Saturday.

Sen.• Jim• Inhofe• and• Reps.• Jim•Bridenstine•of•the•1st•District• and• Markwayne• Mullin• of•the•2nd•District•did•not•attend.

Topics• ranged• from• provisions• in• a• House• farm• bill• to• federal• assistance• following• the•recent•tornadoes•to•immigration•reform.

Lankford• said• Congress• needs•to•hear•from•Obama•regarding•his•plans•in•Syria.

“Are• there• American• responsibilities• around• the•

world• to• lead?”• asked• Lankford.•“Absolutely•there•are.•We• are• the• lone• superpower.• But• we•better•go•in•with•a•strategy• if• we• are• going• to• engage• in• any•location•in•any•place.”

Cole• said• he• is• extremely• worried•about•the•issue.•There• is• general• agreement• that• Assad•should•leave•power,•but• the• real• question• is• who• will• replace•him,•Cole•said.

“Everyone• hates• what• is• happening• there,”• Cole• said.• “It• doesn’t• mean• we• are• in• a• position• to• stop• it.• And• I• am•

very•skeptical•about•this•latest• step.”

Lucas• used• the• event• to• lobby•for•his•farm•bill,•which• would• require• those• seeking• food•stamps•to•show•that•they• are• eligible• rather• than• receive•eligibility•based•on•their• ability•to•qualify•for•other•programs.

“You• will• have• to• demonstrate• your• income• and• your• assets,• and• if• you• qualify• we• will•help•you,•but•no•more•automatic• food• stamps,”• Lucas• said.

Coburn• said• any• immigration• bill• that• does• not• significantly•tighten•border•security• will•not•pass•the•Senate.

He•said•only•as•much•as•60• percent• of• the• border• is• controlled,• despite• the• administration’s• assertion• that• it• is• closer• to• 85• percent,• Coburn• said.

“I• can• tell• you• that• is• absolutely•untrue,”•Coburn•said.

The• U.S.• Department• of• Homeland• Security• is• the• second-least• effective• federal• agency,•behind•Social•Security,• Coburn•said.

Coburn• used• the• event• to• praise• Moore• Mayor• Glenn• Lewis• and• Oklahoma• Emergency• Management• Director• Albert•Ashwood•for•establishing•a•local•plan•for•tornado•debris•removal.

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Regime takes Damascus suburb

••Prospects•for•a• peace•conference• fading.

BY BASSEM MROUE

Egypt cutting off relations with Syria

BY HAMZA HENDAWI Associated Press

CAIRO•—•Egypt’s•Islamist• president• announced• Saturday• that• he• was• cutting• off• diplomatic• relations• with• Syria•and•closing•Damascus’• embassy• in• Cairo,• decisions• made• amid• growing• calls• from• hard-line• Sunni• clerics• in• Egypt• and• elsewhere• to• launch• a• “holy• war”• against• Syria’s•embattled•regime.

Mohammed• Morsi• told• thousands• of• supporters• at• a• rally• in• Cairo• that• his• government• was• also• withdrawing•the•Egyptian•charge• d’affaires• from• Damascus.• He•called•on•Lebanon’s•Hezbollah• to• leave• Syria,• where• the• Iranian-backed• Shiite• militant• group• has• been• fighting• alongside• troops• loyal• to• embattled• President• Bashar• Assad• against• the• mostly•Sunni•rebels.

“Hezbollah•must•leave•Syria.•This•is•serious•talk:•There• is•no•business•or•place•for•Hezbollah• in• Syria,”• said• Morsi,• Egypt’s• first• freely• elected• president.•Assad’s•regime,•he• said,•will•have•no•place•in•the• future•of•Syria•after•committing• what• Morsi• called• “horrors”•against•its•people.

Morsi’s• address,• particularly• his• call• on• Hezbollah• to• leave• Syria,• and• the• fiery• rhetoric•used•by•well-known• Muslim•clerics•this•weekend• point• to• the• increasing• perception•of•the•Syrian•conflict• as• sectarian.• At• least• 93,000• people•have•been•killed•since• turmoil• there• began• more• than•two•years•ago.

The• rally• that• Morsi• addressed• on• Saturday• was• called• for• by• hardline• Islamists•loyal•to•the•Egyptian• president• to• show• solidarity• with• the• people• of• Syria.• Morsi•addressed•the•rally•after• several• hardline• Islamist• clerics• spoke,• all• of• whom• called• on• him• to• do• everything• he• could• to• help• the• Syrian• rebels.• Those• attending• the• rally,• about• 20,000,• chanted• for• solidarity• with• the•Syrians,•but•occasionally• deviated• to• shout• slogans• in• support•of•Morsi.

The• Egyptian• president•

picked• up• a• flag• of• the• Syrian• revolution• and• another• of•Egypt•and•waved•them•to• the• crowd• as• he• entered• the• indoor• stadium• in• a• Cairo• suburb.

Morsi• also• used• the• occasion• to• warn• his• opponents• at• home• against• the• use• of• violence• in• mass• protests• planned•for•June•30,•the•anniversary• of• his• assumption• to• power.• Before• he• spoke,• one•hardline•cleric,•Mohammed•Abdel-Maqsoud,•recited• an• often• repeated• Muslim• prayer•against•the•“enemies”• of•God•and•Islam•but•used•it• to• refer• to• the• June• 30• protesters.

The• climate• in• the• Cairo• indoor• stadium• where• the• rally• was• held• appeared• to• further•entrench•the•division• of•Egypt•into•two•camps:•one• led• by• Morsi,• his• Muslim• Brotherhood• and• other• Islamist•groups,•and•the•other• grouping•the•secular•and•liberal•opposition•together•with• moderate•Muslims,•minority• Christians• and• a• large• percentage•of•women.

In• his• address,• Morsi• repeated• the• allegation• that• Egyptians• loyal• to• the• nowousted• regime• of• autocrat• Hosni•Mubarak•were•behind• the•planned•protests•and•that• they• were• working• against• the• January• 2011• uprising• that• toppled• Mubarak.• As• customary• since• taking• office,•he•spoke•of•himself•as•a• guardian•and•protector•of•the• revolution,•an•assertion•hotly• disputed•by•his•critics.

Morsi’s• government• is• widely•thought•to•have•failed• to•tackle•any•of•the•seemingly• endless• problems• facing• the•country,•from•power•cuts• and• surging• crime• to• unemployment,• steep• price• rises• and•fuel•shortages.• Morsi’s• allies• say• the• protests•have•no•legal•basis•and• amount•to•a•coup•against•his• legitimate• rule.• They• have• been• calling• on• opposition• leaders• to• enter• a• national• political• dialogue• to• resolve• the• crisis,• but• the• opposition• has• turned• down• the• offer,• claiming• that• previous• rounds• of• dialogue• did• not• yield•results.

Associated Press

BEIRUT• —• Syrian• troops• pushed•forward•with•their•offensive• against• rebels• Saturday,• capturing• a• suburb• near• the• Damascus• international• airport• as• the• U.S.• warned• that•the•alleged•use•of•chemical• weapons• by• President• Bashar•Assad’s•forces•and•the• involvement• of• the• Iranianbacked• militant• group• Hezbollah•in•the•civil•war•threaten•to•put•a•proposed•political• settlement•out•of•reach.

The• U.S.• and• Russia• have• been• pressing• for• a• peace• conference•to•end•Syria’s•civil• war•in•Geneva,•but•prospects• for•that•have•been•dampened• after•a•series•of•regime•battlefield• victories• and• hardened• positions•by•both•sides•as•the• death•toll•from•the•more•than• 2-year-old•conflict•has•surged• to•nearly•93,000.

President• Barack• Obama’s• decision•last•week•to•send•lethal• aid• to• Syrian• rebels• and• the• deepening• involvement• of•trained•Shiite•fighters•from• Lebanon’s• Hezbollah• group• also• has• raised• the• stakes,• setting• up• a• proxy• fight• between•Iran•and•the•West•that• threatens• to• engulf• more• of• the•Middle•East.

The• U.S.• reversal• after• months• of• saying• it• would• not• intervene• in• the• conflict• militarily• came• after• Washington• said• it• had• conclusive• evidence• the• Syrian• regime• had• used• chemical• weapons,• something• Obama• had• said• would•be•a•“red•line.”

Syria• has• denied• the• accusations,• saying• Obama• was• lying• about• the• evidence• to• justify• his• decision• to• arm• the• rebels.• Syria’s• ally• Russia• also• suggested• Saturday• that•the•evidence•put•forth•by• the• United• States• of• the• use• of• chemical• weapons• doesn’t• meet•stringent•criteria•for•reliability.

U.S.•Secretary•of•State•John• Kerry• was• quoted• in• a• statement• as• saying• the• United•

Protesters demonstrate against western intervention in Syria, outside the U.S. embassy in central London, on Saturday. LEFTERIS PITARAKIS/Associated Press

States• continues• to• work• aggressively•for•a•political•solution•with•the•goal•of•a•second• Geneva•meeting.•But•“the•use• of•chemical•weapons•and•increasing• involvement• of• Hezbollah•demonstrates• the•regime’s•lack•of•commitment•to• negotiations•and•threatens•to• put•a•political•settlement•out• of• reach,”• he• said• in• a• telephone• conversation• Friday• with• Iraqi• Foreign• Minister• Hoshyar•Zebari.

Russia’s• Foreign• Minister• Sergey• Lavrov• said• the• U.S.• evidence• does• not• include• guarantees• that• it• meets• the• requirements• of• the• Organization• for• the• Prohibition• of• Chemical• Weapons.• He• said• the• organization• specifies• that• samples• taken• from• blood,•urine•and•clothing•can• be• considered• reliable• evidence• only• if• supervised• by• organization• experts• from• the•time•they•are•taken•up•to• delivery•to•a•laboratory.

The• OPCW• is• the• autonomous•body•for•implementing• the• international• Chemical• Weapons• Convention• that• went• into• effect• in• 1997.• Its• website• says• Syria• is• one• of• six• countries• that• have• not• signed•or•acceded•to•the•convention.

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Northern• Ireland.• The• U.S.,• Britain• and• France• also• will• urge•Putin•to•drop•his•political• and• military• support• for• Assad,• still• in• power• after• more•than•two•years•of•fighting.

In•fighting•Saturday,•Syrian• government• forces• captured• the• rebel-held•suburb• of• Ahmadiyeh• near• the• Damascus• international• airport• two• days• after• a• mortar• round• landed•near•the•airport’s•runway• and• briefly• disrupted• flights,•according•to•the•state• news•agency.•SANA•said•government•forces•killed•several• rebels• and• destroyed• their• hideouts•in•the•area.

Ahmadiyeh• is• part• of• a• region•known•as•Eastern•Ghouta,• where• government• forces• have•been•on•the•offensive•for• weeks•in•a•move•aiming•to•secure•Assad’s•seat•of•power•in• the•capital.

A• local• rebel• commander• who• identified• himself• only• by•his•nickname,•Abu•Hareth,• for•fear•of•government•reprisals,• said• rebels• have• been• firing• mortar• shells• at• the• airport•from•Ahmadiyeh•area• and•came•under•attack•by•the• regime• late• Friday.• He• said• two• rebel• fighters• have• been• killed.

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Lavrov,• after• meeting• with• his•Italian•counterpart•Emma• Bonino,• scoffed• at• suggestions• that• Assad’s• regime• would•use•chemical•weapons• in•light•of•its•apparent•growing• advantage• against• the• rebels.

“The• regime• doesn’t• have• its• back• to• the• wall.• What• would•be•the•sense•of•the•regime• using• chemical• weapons,•moreover•at•such•a•small• quantity?”•he•said.

Syria’s• conflict• started• with• largely• peaceful• protests• against• Assad’s• regime• in•March•2011•but•eventually• turned•into•a•civil•war.

Russia• has• blocked• proposed• U.N.• sanctions• against• Assad’s• regime• and• acknowledged• last• month• that• it• has• contracted•to•supply•advanced• S-300• air-defense• missiles• to• Syria.• But• President• Vladimir• Putin• and• other• officials• say• the• policies• do• not• constitute• overt•support•for•Assad.

The•statements•by•Moscow• and• Washington• came• days• before•a•summit•in•Northern• Ireland• among• the• Group• of• Eight• leading• industrial• powers.• Obama• is• expected• to• push• Britain• and• France• to• take• similar• action• to• arm• the•rebels•when•talks•open•in•

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Walker said this population is so invisible that most Tulsa residents have a hard time believing it’s a serious issue.

Of the homeless youths, about 30 percent have aged out of foster care, another 30 percent have been kicked out of their homes because of their sexual orientation and the rest are homeless due to a combination of factors that include mental health issues and poverty, Walker said.

In Tulsa, the number of homeless youths grew during the recession by up to 20 percent, he said.

“In my day, as teenagers we were still considered kids,” Walker said.

“Today, they are almost thought of as dangerous adults. Most people believe they need to protect themselves from them rather than seeing them as kids who need protecting.”

Mosquitoes, poison ivy The meltdown started when a man Parish met through the “dating service” dropped the couple off in the woods near Yale Avenue and Pine Street with a $31 tent, a machete, three bottles of water and some snacks.

Hacking through the brush, they found a space to camp but weren’t sure how to put up the tent.

Mosquitoes were biting, a deafening train rolled nearby and the heat was making Parish sick.

She missed the free meals at the shelter and had eaten only chips and drunk only water. She had her antidepressants but had lost her prenatal vitamins.

Getting frustrated by the tent and finding themselves surrounded by poison ivy, Parish wanted to leave.

They ended up walking about a mile to a convenience store for water, where a woman let them have a cup for free.

Trekking back in the middle of Pine Street, Parish decided she couldn’t go any farther.

“I’m hurting,” she said. “I shouldn’t be hurting like this. I feel like everything is cramping up.”

Parish waited in a park while her fiancé went to retrieve items from the camp.

That’s when she hit her wall.

“We’re both fighting to survive,” she said while crying. “I want this to end. But (her fiancé) is the only one telling me I’m pretty, telling me I’m smart, telling me it is going to be OK. My hope is we can get through it. I’m going to just keep going.”

Parish decided to call EMSA, hoping for an overnight stay at a hospital.

At 21 weeks into her pregnancy, it is at least the 20th time she has called for an ambulance and visited an emergency room.

Sometimes she gets her wish and gets to stay in the hospital overnight.

This time, she was released to the streets at 4 a.m.

Two days later, she was back at the emergency room with contractions and expressions of suicidal and homicidal thoughts, leading to a two-night stay under a psychiatric watch.

Medicaid covers the costs.

Raped at 13 Parish spent her childhood in Missouri not knowing her father.

She was drinking alcohol young and was raped at age 13 while intoxicated. It is one of four rapes in her life, she says.

That’s when she began cutting herself, had seizures and was put on a suicide watch in a mental health clinic.

That year, her mother drove her

Sixteen-year-old Magenia Parish, homeless and pregnant, starts to feel pains as she sits in a park and contemplates calling 911. Photos by MIKE SIMONS/Tulsa World

BY THE NUMBERS: Tulsa Youth Homeless

1,500

Number of homeless youths living on Tulsa’s streets, as estimated by Youth Services of Tulsa Number of homeless 18to 24-year-olds counted by the U.S. Housing and Urban Development on Jan. 30 Number of homeless 13- to 17-year-olds counted on Jan. 30 Number of 13- to 17-yearolds in transitional living, according to HUD Number of 13- to 17-year-olds in emergency shelters, according to HUD

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Magenia Parish feels the hair of her friend Laura Brown while waiting for a bus at the Denver Avenue bus station downtown.

from Kansas City and dropped her off in Tulsa with her father, who is occasionally homeless, living in camps or cheap motels.

Parish was never enrolled in Tulsa schools and ran away almost immediately.

On the streets, she has done methamphetamine and smoked marijuana.

She said the Oklahoma Department of Human Services has made at least three contacts with her father on child-neglect complaints.

“My dad puts me down and doesn’t care how I feel,” she said.

“He tends to disrespect my fiancé, and that upsets me.”

Her mother remarried, has three other children and lives with her grandparents in Missouri.

Parish said her mother knows about her homelessness but not the prostitution.

‘A way to live’ Parish carries two notebooks.

One is a journal, filled with curlycue handwriting of her thoughts and dreams with hearts around the names of her fiancé and her unborn baby.

It has poems and a letter to the baby, stating repeatedly, “You are loved.”

The other has appointments, addresses and the first names and numbers of the men who have called her dating service.

Parish’s dating service message details her body and ends with “call if you want to play.”

When she returns a call, it’s a negotiation, so the men know it’s more than a date.

Her growing pregnant belly doesn’t stop the men, and none knows her real age.

“Prostitution is always the last resort,” she said. “It gets frustrating to have to do it, and I get depressed.

But we see it as a way to live right now.”

Most of the time, sex is in exchange for a motel room.

“I never ask them to pay money, but we get a room and he leaves afterward. Then we have a room for the night,” she said.

“Some guys get paranoid about getting a room, so they’ll take me to their house and pay me.”

The rate is between $60 and $75, and she gets about 20 calls a month.

This didn’t happen overnight.

One day a 45-year-old truck driver offered to take Parish with him to Texas in exchange for sex.

She didn’t think of it as prostitution, and he didn’t know she was barely 15.

Youth Services drop-in center Located across from the Youth Services of Tulsa headquarters at 311 S. Madison Ave. Open noon to 5 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesday and Fridays Serves youths ages 16 to 24.

Offers basic services such as access to laundry, online access, clothes closet, lockers, showers and a hot meal.

For fiscal year 2012 329: Youths served 43: Percent female 57: Percent male 64: Percent white 24: Percent black 6: Percent American Indian 5: Percent Hispanic 20: Average age 272: Youths served to date for fiscal year 2013

“He was respectful of me, and I wanted the adventure,” she said.

“He bought me clothes and food and brought me back to Oklahoma.”

When she returned, her dates evolved into prostitution.

DHS may take baby The baby is her source of hope right now.

She said the father is her fiancé,

whom she met through Facebook, and she was pregnant after two months of dating.

Her fiancé, who asked not to be named, was deemed incapacitated/ disabled by a Missouri court in 2007. He receives a monthly Supplemental Security Income allowance from Social Security through a state-appointed guardian and has been diagnosed with the mental capacity of a 16-year-old.

“That upsets me because he’s not like that,” Parish said. “He is the only adult who gives a s--- about me.”

This is his second child.

He has given her a simple silver band as an engagement ring. He wants to contest the Missouri court order on his disability to retain control of his finances to support Parish and the baby.

Social workers have warned her of the possibility that DHS may be called when she gives birth.

Parish said she has made every prenatal appointment and stopped taking drugs or drinking alcohol after finding out she was pregnant.

Dangerous streets She and her fiancé spend a lot of time walking.

They spend time near the 31st Street and Memorial Drive intersection, taking the bus downtown for food and medical services. While Parish does laundry at the Youth Services drop-in center, her fiancé might be at the downtown library or adult shelter. He sells his plasma for money.

The couple say shelters won’t take them because of their age difference, with her fiancé being too old for the youth shelter and Parish being too young for adult shelters.

But social workers say they have been offered shelter but haven’t accepted it.

Parish said life on Tulsa’s streets is “extremely dangerous.”

“It’s more dangerous for younger people, who tend to be taken advantage of,” she said. “A lot of youngsters like myself need help, a place to stay.

We put up with a lot of abuse for a place to stay.”

Ginnie Graham 918-581-8376 ginnie.graham@tulsaworld.com

Nonprofit gives kids a safe place, acceptance

BY GINNIE GRAHAM World Staff Writer

The Youth Services of Tulsa drop-in center — The Station — catches some of the hardest to reach homeless youth.

It’s the only program with no formal intake process and no requirements for participation.

The purpose is simply to build trust by offering a safe place to do laundry, eat a hot meal, get clothes, go online or just hang out.

Once a week, a doctor from the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa School of Community Medicine provides health screenings and some treatments.

Many homeless youths reject available housing because they distrust authority, don’t want to adhere to rules or have highly chaotic lives.

“The turning point has more to do with having a sense of stability, whether that’s with a person they trust or in mental health,” Youth Services Executive Director Jim Walker said.

“On the street, their day is about

where to get food or shelter that night. They don’t have time to think about getting employment training or school. All that has to wait. We’re doing a good job at least introducing them to stability and establishing a relationship when they come to us.

“But, at some point, they have to come to programs on their own.”

With some youths, even the most innocuous suggestions can end badly.

The nonprofit agency estimates that 1,000 to 1,500 youths are living on Tulsa’s streets, based on its street outreach programs.

The Station hosted 329 individuals last year, serving nearly 4,000 meals.

Interventions can be an uphill climb.

The youths are still developing emotionally and socially but are expected to act like adults.

With few exceptions, the teens have a tragic background of being neglected or battered by people who should have protected them.

“The big connection is that these were children who were abused

or neglected at some point in their lives, and there’s been a lack of support,” street outreach coordinator DeJon Knapp said.

Building trust Most of them are street kids, either couch-hopping or finding a place to sleep by other means.

Sometimes, they crash on park benches or under bridges.

“We take kids where they are and see what they need now,” Knapp said. “We work on building their trust.”

She doesn’t preach morality or use hip lingo. There are no lectures and no judgment.

Trust-building means being available, being a listener and being open-minded.

Even if that means knowing the youths are using drugs, exchanging sex for favors, avoiding school or jobs, or panhandling.

If a youth is in danger, however, staff members will contact authorities.

Mostly, staff serve as sounding

boards and help connect them with necessities or services they need.

“You can’t blame these kids for what has happened to them,” she said. “They were raised in environments where this is normal. They don’t know any other way.”

While their lives may be tumultuous on the streets, The Station seems to have a calming vibe.

Anyone between the ages of 16 and 24 is welcome at the center, but most range between 18 and 22.

They can’t be high or intoxicated. They can’t fight.

“We tell them it’s not a right to be here, it’s a privilege,” Knapp said.

The nonprofit started its street outreach by having staff members drive around in an old van offering services.

Eventually, Youth Services started a drop-in center near Fourth Street and Madison Avenue with a handful of kids stopping by to get out of the weather, have a snack and socialize.

Word spread that staff wouldn’t hassle them about case management if they walked in, so it grew.

Last year, The Station opened across the street from Youth Services headquarters, 311 S. Madison Ave., as the centerpiece of the expansion.

It serves more than 100 youths a month and averages about 35 a day on the three days a week it’s open.

Some success The Station’s efforts are starting to show some success.

In the past year, more than a dozen of the youths visiting the center have found jobs and stable shelter.

Some have moved into the nonprofit’s transitional living program, and those numbers are increasing.

“It’s an issue of them feeling stable enough to allow us to help them through the systems to get the resources they need to live,” Walker said.

“It’s about letting them know we believe they can get control of their lives.”

Ginnie Graham 918-581-8376 Ginnie.graham@tulsaworld.com

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Magenia Parish, a homeless and pregnant 16-year-old, collapses in her tent last month after preparing a campsite near Pine Street and Yale Avenue. MIKE SIMONS/Tulsa World

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HIS IS not acceptable.”

That was a mantra from Tulsa World photographer Mike Simons after spending time with a homeless and pregnant teenager who occasionally prostitutes herself for shelter and cash.

Simons and I are Oklahoma natives with more than 20 years of experience each in newspaper journalism.

We’ve seen a lot of things, from the worst to the best in our community.

Magenia Parish often left us speechless.

After conversations with our editors, we chose to use her name because it’s the reality of Tulsa.

She consented to every interview and photo, many of which were in front of other adults.

Our role is to chronicle her story, however upsetting it may be to the public.

Also, we felt more needed to be added about our interactions with her.

They do what they must: While we were on assignment to learn about the city’s homeless teenagers, Parish entered the Youth Services of Tulsa drop-in center with two garbage bags of laundry, clothes spilling out of the top.

Her short, spiky pink hair blended in with the crowd, although she seemed more tired than the others.

After Parish went into the clothes closet, a person told us she was 16 — the youngest person using the shelter — and has been homeless for three years.

It’s naturally intriguing to ask how a 13-year-old ends up on Tulsa’s streets.

Parish comes off tough by her lack of a smile.

But she uses manners, with “thank you” and “please,” and shows kindness in small ways.

She immediately opened up about her background and current situation.

When asked where she sleeps, she said it changes from night to night, and that she didn’t have a place lined up for that evening.

“I have to prostitute sometimes,” she said in a normal conversational tone.

As if that were a natural thing.

That’s what is so unacceptable.

This is not Los Angeles, New York, Detroit or any number of large metropolitan cities with documentaries highlighting skid rows.

This is Tulsa.

And we have pregnant, homeless 16-year-olds prostituting themselves for $40 motel rooms.

Finding joy in the simple things: After our initial meeting, Parish agreed to let us tag

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along to get a sense of her daily life.

It is chaotic and full of drama.

But unintentionally so.

That is the nature of homelessness.

The only time she smiles is when talking about her baby or her 30-year-old fiancé, who was deemed incompetent by a Missouri court years ago.

He is protective of Parish and worries that the age difference will land him in jail.

The couple have an us-against-them mentality about their relationship.

He calls her “dear,” and the two have teenage-like conversations, teasing and playing “slug bug” when seeing a Volkswagen Beetle.

Parish is smart, with a healthy vocabulary and an understanding of public institutions like courts and hospitals.

She writes her thoughts and poems in a journal daily.

“It helps me,” she said.

Looking the other way: One evening while following them to a campsite, I fell down a hill of rocks near some railroad track.

Parish helped me up. She then extended her hand to me over holes in the ground or rough brush piles.

She told the men to make sure of my safety.

These are not the actions of a hardened street kid.

They show compassion, caring and even nurturing attributes.

As we followed the couple, we tried to hang back out of sight to see the reactions of others.

Almost always, no one paid attention.

Even as Parish sat crying in a park over her contractions and devolving mental health, no one stopped to help.

It was only when people saw a photographer and reporter that they looked her way.

Often, it was to tell us to stop taking photos or to leave.

We are the safety net: Tulsa police say they have seen an increase in the past two years of young girls getting involved in prostitution, some willingly.

As a community, we have woven some social nets into our schools, welfare systems and nonprofit organizations.

The biggest and most significant net is us — neigh-

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Magenia Parish, 16, pauses while looking for clothes at the Youth Services drop-in center. MIKE SIMONS/Tulsa World TULSAWORLD.COM

Read more from our series on homeless teenagers in Tulsa • Watch a video of Magenia Parish, as she talks about the problems of being homeless and pregnant.

• See a slideshow of images of Magenia Parish, as she copes with the daily struggle of living without a safe place to stay.

• Read an expanded version of today’s story about Magenia Parish.

• Tulsa police say few teenagers are arrested for prostitution.

• Kirk Kyle, 20, aged out of foster care and doesn’t have a permanent home.

• New programs are helping foster kids find a better future.

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bors, family, friends and even helpful strangers.

Yet so many people don’t speak up, don’t want to be involved or cause trouble, and don’t want to give kids a second chance.

That attitude failed Parish.

Prevention should have happened years ago, before her mother dropped her off with an occasionally homeless father.

We’re surely failing others, too.

Tulsa’s traditional interventions and preventions need to be bolstered, updated and emphasized.

Old before her time: In my last contact with Parish, she was residing with a woman she is calling her baby’s “godmother.” They met years ago while Parish lived in a motel with her father.

Parish said this arrangement may last until she delivers her baby.

She is in her last trimester, having a girl and naming her Renesmee, after a character in the “Twilight” youth vampire book series.

I have to remind myself occasionally that she is 16.

It’s easy to think she’s older. She looks older.

Her weariness and cynicism can be interpreted as acting older.

She’s 16.

She’s a pregnant, homeless, teenage prostitute living on Tulsa’s streets.

This is unacceptable.

Shannon’s initiative to identify and dispose of what is being termed underutilized property began several years ago, before he became speaker. Initially it was billed as a way to pay for repairs to the Capitol and other state buildings, but the project has proved more complicated than that. Most of what’s available for sale, while sometimes interesting, isn’t necessarily prime real estate.

In fact, the Legislature had to put up $30 million this year just to begin getting property in good enough shape to sell.

Some of the buildings haven’t been occupied in years or even decades. Most have had little or no maintenance.

Much of the property initially identified as underutilized is on college campuses or prison grounds. This includes 13 parcels associated with the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and the water plant at the Oklahoma State Prison in Granite.

Also on the first list were the former student union at Eastern State College, portions of the former state mental hospitals at Fort Supply, Norman and Vinita, and 24 buildings and hangars that were part of the old ClintonSherman Air Force Base near Burns Flat.

“There’s no other property owner quite like us,” said Estus. “We do everything.”

So, from the initial 135 underutilized properties submitted by state agencies, OMES has winnowed the list of the most promising for quick sale to less than a dozen.

These include the State Capitol Publishing Museum in Guthrie; the Haskell Building in downtown Muskogee; a town lot in Buffalo; 5.58 undeveloped acres in Marietta; 14.61 undeveloped acres south of Lincoln Park in northeast Oklahoma City; nine acres on the Fort Reno reserve; an old Poteau nursing home used for offices and a clinic; and the former children’s hospital on the grounds of the Veterans’ Center at Talihina.

The former Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation regional laboratory in northeast Oklahoma City is also listed, but as “under survey for other state use.”

This short list could be challenging for even the best real estate agent.

While quaint, the State Capitol Publishing Museum is a cavernous 37,500 square feet, built in 1902, that has been closed because of bad plumbing and broken heating. The Haskell Building is, likewise, a historic and muchbeloved structure but with serious mechanical and operational problems. Once a federal courthouse, it was most recently used for classrooms

by Connors State College.

Estus said the program has become less about selling property and more about management.

Legislation this year finalized creation of a new Long Range Planning Commission charged with overseeing the rehabilitation and disposition of underutilized property. The $30 million allocated for that purpose, Estus said, is “seed-

The Haskell Building at 2nd and Court in downtown Muskogee is currently owned by Connors State College. JOHN CLANTON/Tulsa World

The Laura Dester Center at 649 S. Quincy Ave. is another vacant building owned by the state. MIKE SIMONS/Tulsa World

A sign at the old OETA studio on North Sheridan Road shows the state property will be auctioned. MIKE SIMONS/Tulsa World

State property facts State-owned buildings: 7,900 Square footage of state-owned buildings: 76.1 million State-owned land: 1.2 million acres Square feet of state office space leased from private owners: 6.6

million

Top 5 agencies with most owned or leased property 1. Oklahoma State University-Stillwater 2. University of Oklahoma 3. Department of Corrections 4. University Hospitals 5. Human Services

Predominant use of state buildings

1. Colleges and universities: 59% 2. State offices: 16% 3. Correctional facilities: 9% 4. Storage and warehouse: 2% 5. All other: 14%

Predominant use of state facilities in Tulsa County 1. Colleges and Universities: 71% 2. Offices: 25% 3. Correctional facilities 1%

money” for what is intended to be a self-sustaining system.

“Those are going to be some tricky decisions,” Estus said when asked how the $30 million will be spent. “We don’t want to turn them into the Taj Mahal. We want to make them marketable.”

Longer term, the commission is likely to be dealing with obsolete buildings and properties such as the centers for the developmentally disabled at Enid and Pauls Valley and the former Griffin Memorial Hospital in Norman, which might be more

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CAPITOL REPORT

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SUNDAY MORNING QUARTERBACK HOW KEY LEADERS FARED AT THE CAPITOL LAST WEEK Sen. Tom Coburn

Gov. Mary Fallin

Justice Sonia Sotomayor

The Oklahoma Republican makes the creative suggestion that his fellow U.S. senators can afford to pay full price for their haircuts. The Senate Hair Care salon costs taxpayers $400,000 a year and has lost at least $300,000 a year.

Heads to Paris to promote the Oklahoma aerospace industry at the annual air show.

Business pals foot the bill.

The newest member of the Supreme Court writes the 9-0 decision that says Tarrant County, Texas, can’t take Oklahoma’s water or make us sell it to them.

Ooo-la-la!

I don’t need a full budget cut, Sam. Just a trim.

Fort Worth, you’re all wet.

Recent legislation could fall victim to logrolling S

ome of the signature tor would have picked and the same time because most accomplishments of chosen from the offered of the members didn’t want the 2013 Oklahoma provisions. to buy either.

Legislature — workers But they were offered as an A few weeks ago, the high compensation reform, the all-or-nothing proposition. court used the single-topic state personal income tax cut Strictly applied, one rule to throw out the 2009 and a plan to repair the state leading legislator said the tort-reform law, to the great Capitol — could be in danger logrolling rule would limit consternation of the chambecause of the Oklahoma the Legislature to simple, bers of commerce and the Supreme Court’s vigilance in single-section offerings. medical association. rooting out logrolling.

The Legislature produced A logrolling challenge to Logrolling is the agethe measure that would fund 431 new laws last year. It’s old legislative practice of hard to imagine it increasstate Capitol repairs and combining reduce the state’s top income ing its productivity by nearly different 50 percent just to deal with tax rate has already been ideas — filed. (Single topic? The Leg- workers compensation. none of In a strict single-topic islature says yes, the apporWayne which world, lawmakers wouldn’t tionment of state revenue.)

Greene might have the time much less the A challenge to this year’s have political will to take on the workers compensation law World Senior Writer enough big issues. could be brewing. support No widgets for the water The measure has some 200 The Oklahoma Supreme Court is trying to root out logrolling. The Oklahoman file to pass on works. sections, including regulatheir own No grommets for the getion of soft tissue injuries “(T)he issue is not how law, but whether it appears choice.”

— into a ologists. and the creation of a new The Legislature can buy Which may be exactly administrative system for Wayne single bill similar or ‘related’ any two that either the proposal is in a proposed misleading or provisions in those green grommets. Alter- resolving claims. Is workers as the state constitution Greene that can provisions law are, or whether one can the proposal are so unrelated natively or in addition, it can compensation reform one pass. intended.

World Senior Writer articulate some rational that many of those voting on buy the controversial white The thing or 200? the law would be faced with widgets. But it can’t buy Accumula- connection between the Offered a la carte, there’s Wayne Greene 918-581-8308 wayne.greene@tulsaworld.com an unpalatable all-or-nothing grommets and widgets all at no doubt any given legislative Prop- provisions of a proposed erty of Politics: If 40 percent of the Legislature wants to buy white widgets for the water resources board and 30 percent of the Legislature want green grommets for the geological survey, you can get a 70 percent margin for mulDIV: 7 ticolored machine parts.

Combine efforts and lots of DATE: 6-16-1 people can get happy. Don’t?

Everyone ends up sad. It’s an all-or-nothing situation.

It’s a system that works, except for one thing: The Oklahoma Constitution.

Here’s the key language from Article 5, Section 56 of the state constitution: “Every act of the Legislature shall embrace but one subject, MKTS: which shall be clearly exAM BTE BV pressed in its title....”

There are a handful of exceptions, but for the most part, the constitution is explicit: one subject per law.

The extent that the Legislature ignored the singlesubject rule in the past was laughable.

In 1991, the Legislature passed a bill that allocated space inside the state Capitol and authorized the sale of water from Sardis Reservoir in Pushmataha County.

That same year, lawmakers passed a bill that dealt with state employee benefits, Born Cabot, Born Lionel, Born Ace, Sperry Top-Sider Cozumel, coal-fired electric generating $99.99. $79.99. $79.99. $49.99. plants, the indigent defense system, state travel reimbursement and officer verification of traffic citations.

In court, the Legislature argued that those efforts were indeed about a single subject — state government.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court disagreed and nixed both statutes.

But the Legislature didn’t learn its lesson.

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CONTENT CHECKED The Legislature argued

BY DESIGNER that the bill dealt with only one topic, water.

DESIGN APPROVED The Supreme Court’s answer: Go fish.

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Nazi unit leader lives quietly in Minnesota

••The•Associated• Press•learned•that• Michael•Karkoc• commanded•a•Nazi• SS-led•military•unit.

BY DAVID RISING, RANDY HERSCHAFT, MONIKA SCISLOWSKA AND PATRICK CONDON Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS• —• The• revelation•that•a•former•commander•of•a•Nazi•SS-led•military• unit• has• lived• quietly• in• Minneapolis• for• the• past• six• decades• came• as• a• shock• to• those• who• know• 94-yearold• Michael• Karkoc.• World• War• II• survivors• in• both• the• U.S.•and•Europe•harshly•condemned• the• news• and• prosecutors• in• Poland• have• said• they’ll•investigate.

An•Associated•Press•investigation• found• that• Karkoc• served•as•a•top•commander•in• the• Ukrainian• Self-Defense• Legion•during•World•War•II.• The• unit• is• accused• of• wartime•atrocities,•including•the• burning•of•villages•filled•with• women•and•children.

“I• know• him• personally.• We•talk,•laugh.•He•takes•care• of•his•yard•and•walks•with•his• wife,”•his•next-door•neighbor,• Gordon•Gnasdoskey,•said•Friday.

“For•me,•this•is•a•shock.•To• come•to•this•country•and•take• advantage• of• its• freedoms• all• of• these• years,• it• blows• my• mind,”• said• Gnasdoskey,• the• grandson• of• a• Ukrainian• immigrant•himself.

Karkoc• told• American• authorities• in• 1949• that• he• had• performed• no• military• service• during• World• War• II,• concealing•his•work•as•an•officer• and• founding• member• of• the• legion• and• later• as• an• officer•in•the•SS•Galician•Division,• according• to• records• obtained•by•the•AP•through•a• Freedom• of• Information• Act• request.

Though• records• do• not• show•that•Karkoc•had•a•direct• hand• in• war• crimes,• statements• from• men• in• his• unit• and• other• documentation• confirm• the• Ukrainian• company• he• commanded• massacred• civilians,• and• suggest• that•Karkoc•was•at•the•scene• of•these•atrocities•as•the•company•leader.•Nazi•SS•files•say• he•and•his•unit•were•also•involved• in• the• 1944• Warsaw• Uprising,• in• which• the• Nazis• brutally• suppressed• a• Polish• rebellion•against•German•occupation.

No• one•answered•the•door• Friday• morning• at• Karkoc’s• house• on• a• residential• street• in• northeast• Minneapolis.• Karkoc• had• earlier• declined• to• comment• on• his• wartime• service• when• approached• by• the• AP,• and• repeated• efforts•to•arrange•an•interview• through• his• son• were• unsuccessful.

Late• Friday,• Karkoc’s• son,• Andriy• Karkos,• read• a• statement• accusing• AP• of• defaming•his•father.•Karkoc•became• a• naturalized• U.S.• citizen• in• 1959.

“My• father• was• never• a• Nazi,”•said•Karkos,•who•uses• a•different•spelling•for•his•last• name.•He•also•said•the•family• wouldn’t• comment• further• until• it• has• obtained• its• own• documents• and• reviewed• witnesses•and•sources.

Family•attorney•Philip•Villaume• said• Saturday• that• the• family•may•comment•further• within•a•few•days.•“Their•intention• is• to• investigate• the•

In this picture taken in May, a monument honors civilians who were burned alive during WWII in Pidhaitsi, close to Ukraine’s western city of Lutsk. The monument reads: “To our parents, wives, children, who were murdered by the German occupants on December 3, 1943 in Pidhaitsi. ...” Evidence uncovered by AP indicates that Ukrainian Self Defense Legion commander Michael Karkoc’s unit was in the area at the time of the massacre. EFREM LUKATSKY/Associated Press

This June 3, 1944, photo provided by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum shows Heinrich Himmler (center), head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, as he reviews troops of the Galician SS-Volunteer Infantry Division, of which Michael Karkoc was a top commander. The unit is blamed for burning villages filled with women and children. Courtesy/Holocaust Memorial Museum/Atlantic Foto Verlag Berlin

matter• and• research• it,• and• then• they’ll• make• a• further• public•statement,”•he•said.

Polish• prosecutors• announced• Friday• they• will• investigate•Karkoc•and•provide• “every•possible•assistance”•to• the• U.S.• Department• of• Justice,• which• has• used• lies• in• immigration•papers•to•deport• dozens•of•suspected•Nazi•war• criminals.

The• AP• evidence• of• Karkoc’s• wartime• activities• has• also• prompted• German• authorities• to• express• interest• in• exploring• whether• there• is• enough• to• prosecute.• In• Germany,• Nazis• with• “command• responsibility”• can• be• charged• with• war• crimes• even• if• their• direct• involvement• in• atrocities• cannot• be• proven.

Efraim• Zuroff,• the• lead• Nazi• hunter• at• the• Simon• Wiesenthal• Center• in• Jerusalem,•said•that•based•on•his• decades• of• experience• pursuing• Nazi• war• criminals,• he• expects• that• the• evidence• of• Karkoc’s• lies• as• well• as• the• unit’s• role• in• atrocities• is• strong• enough• for• deportation•and•war•crimes•prosecution•in•Germany•or•Poland.

Former• German• army• officer• Josef• Scheungraber• —•a•lieutenant•like•Karkoc•—• was• convicted• in• Germany• in• 2009• on• charges• of• murder• based• on• circumstantial• evidence• that• put• him• at• the• scene•of•a•Nazi•wartime•massacre• in• Italy• as• the• ranking• officer.

Members• of• Karkoc’s• unit• and•other•witnesses•have•told• stories•of•brutal•attacks•on•civilians.

One•of•Karkoc’s•men,•Vasyl• Malazhenski,• told• Soviet• investigators• that• in• 1944• the• unit•was•directed•to•“liquidate• all• the• residents”• of• the• village•of•Chlaniow•in•a•reprisal• attack•for•the•killing•of•a•German•SS•officer,•though•he•did• not•say•who•gave•the•order.

“It• was• all• like• a• trance:• setting• the• fires,• the• shooting,• the• destroying,”• Malazhenski• recalled,• according• to• the• 1967• statement• found• by• the• AP• in• the• archives• of• Warsaw’s• state-run• Institute• of• National• Remembrance,• which• investigates• and• prosecutes• German• and• Soviet• crimes• on• Poles• during• and• after•World•War•II. In• a• background• check• by•

Search begins for Griffin ship ••Divers•looking•at• Lake•Michigan•site• for•sunken•vessel.

ON• LAKE• MICHIGAN• NEAR• POVERTY• ISLAND,• Mich.• (AP)• —• Divers• began• opening• an• underwater• pit• Saturday• at• a• remote• site• in• northern•Lake•Michigan•that• they•say•could•be•the•resting• place• of• the• Griffin,• a• ship• commanded•by•the•17th•century•French•explorer•La•Salle.

U.S.•and•French•archaeologists• examined• sediment• removed• from• a• hole• dug• near• a•timber•slab•that•expedition• leader• Steve• Libert• discovered• wedged• in• the• lakebed• in• 2001.• Project• manager• Ken•Vrana•said•afterward•the• team•found•a•man-made•“cultural•artifact”•in•the•opening,• but•he•declined•to•describe•it• until• technicians• could• analyze•it.

Libert,•who•has•spent•about• three• decades• searching• for•

IN CHARGE aboard•the•Proud•Maid,•a•45foot• commercial• fishing• boat• Steve that• ferried• journalists• and• Libert: crew• members• to• the• search• Expedition area• near• Poverty• Island• in• leader disMichigan• waters• north• of• covered the the• entrance• to• Green• Bay.• site in Lake “We’ve• got• to• get• those• test• Michigan in pits• dug• and• hit• (the)• struc2001. ture,•because•anything•else•is• pure•speculation.”

Although• Libert• and• his• the•Griffin•(also•known•by•its• French• equivalent• Le• Grif- associates• have• dived• at• the• fon),• said• he• hoped• that• by• site• numerous• times• and• Sunday,•the•excavation•would• conducted• several• surveys• reach• what• sonar• readings• with• remote• sensing• equipindicate• is• a• distinct• shape• ment,• they• hadn’t• conducted• beneath• several• feet• of• sedi- archaeological• excavations• ment.• The• object• is• over• 40• until•receiving•a•permit•from• feet• long• and• about• 18• feet• the• Michigan• Department• of• wide•—•dimensions•similar•to• Natural•Resources•this•month• those• the• Griffin• is• believed• after•years•of•legal•squabbles.• The•agency•claims•ownership• to•have•had,•Vrana•said.

But•he•said•it•was•too•early• over• all• Great• Lakes• shipto• declare• the• site• a• ship- wrecks• in• the• state’s• waters,• wreck,•let•alone•the•object•of• although• it• acknowledges• their•quest.

France• would• have• rights• “Soon• we• will• find• out• to• the• Griffin• because• it• was• whether• our• assumption• is• sailing•under•the•authority•of• correct• or• not,”• Vrana• said• King•Louis•XIV.

U.S.•officials•on•April•14,•1949,• Karkoc• said• he• had• never• performed• any• military• service,•telling•investigators•that• he• “worked• for• father• until• 1944.• Worked• in• labor• camp• from•1944•until•1945.”

However,• in• a• Ukrainianlanguage• memoir• published• in•1995,•Karkoc•states•that•he• helped• found• the• Ukrainian• Self•Defense•Legion•in•1943•in• collaboration•with•the•Nazis’• feared•SS•intelligence•agency,• the•SD,•to•fight•on•the•side•of• Germany• —• and• served• as• a• company• commander• in• the• unit,• which• received• orders• directly•from•the•SS,•through• the•end•of•the•war.

It• was• not• clear• why• Karkoc• felt• safe• publishing• his• memoir,•which•is•available•at• the• U.S.• Library• of• Congress• and• the• British• Library• and• which• the• AP• located• online• in•an•electronic•Ukrainian•library.

Karkoc• currently• lives• in• a•modest•house•in•an•area•of• Minneapolis• that• has• a• significant• Ukrainian• population.•He•recently•came•to•the• door• without• help• of• a• cane• or• a• walker.• He• would• not• comment•on•his•wartime•ser-

In this May 1990 photo, Michael Karkoc is seen in Lauderdale, Minn., prior to a visit to Minnesota by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in June 1990.

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vice:• “I• don’t• think• I• can• explain,”•he•said.

Karkoc• and• his• family• are• longtime• members• of• the• St.• Michael’s• and• St.• George’s• Ukrainian•Orthodox•Church.

“All• the• time• I• am• here,• I• know• him• as• a• good• man,• a• good• citizen,”• said• the• Rev.• Evhen• Kumka,• the• church’s• pastor.• “He’s• well• known• in• the•congregation.”

Kumka• moved• from• Ukraine•to•Minnesota•19•years• ago• to• lead• the• congregation,• and• said• Karkoc• was• already• active• in• the• church.• Kumka• wouldn’t• say• whether• he’d• spoken• to• Karkoc• about• his• past,•but•said•he•was•skeptical.

“I• don’t• think• everything• is• correct,”• Kumka• said.• “As• I•know•him,•he•is•a•good•example•for•many•people.”

Karkoc• worked• as• a• carpenter• in• Minneapolis,• and• appeared• in• a• 1980• issue• of• Carpenter•magazine•among•a• group•celebrating•25•years•of• union• membership.• He• was• a• member• and• a• secretary• in• the•local•branch•of•the•Ukrainian• National• Association,• a• fraternal• organization,• and• voting• records• obtained• by• the•AP•show•he•regularly•voted• in• city,• state• and• general• elections.

Karkoc’s• name• surfaced• when• a• retired• clinical• pharmacologist• who• researched• Nazi• war• crimes• in• his• free• time• came• across• it• while• looking• into• members• of• the• SS• Galician• Division• who• immigrated• to• Britain.• He• tipped• off• the• AP• when• an• Internet• search• showed• an• address• for• Karkoc• in• Minnesota.

The• AP• located• Karkoc’s• U.S.• Army• intelligence• file,• which•was•declassified•by•the• National• Archives• in• Maryland•through•a•FOIA•request.• The• Army• was• responsible• for• processing• visa• applications•after•the•war•under•the• Displaced•Persons•Act. The• intelligence• file• said• standard• background• checks• found•no•red•flags•that•would• disqualify• Karkoc• from• entering• the• United• States.• But• it•also•noted•that•it•lacked•key• information• from• the• Soviet• side• regarding• the• verification•of•his•identity.

Wartime• documents• lo-

cated•by•the•AP•also•confirm• Karkoc’s• membership• in• the• Self• Defense• Legion.• They• include• a• Nazi• payroll• sheet• found• in• Polish• archives,• signed•by•an•SS•officer•on•Jan.• 8,• 1945• —• only• four• months• before• the• war’s• end• —• confirming•that•Karkoc•was•present•in•Krakow,•Poland,•to•collect•his•salary•as•a•member•of• the•Self•Defense•Legion.

He•joined•the•regular•German• army• after• the• Nazi• invasion•of•the•Soviet•Union•in• 1941• and• fought• on• the• Eastern•Front•in•Ukraine•and•Russia,•according•to•his•memoirs,• which•say•he•was•awarded•an• Iron•Cross•for•bravery.

He• was• also• a• member• of• the• Ukrainian• nationalist• organization• OUN;• in• 1943,• he• helped•negotiate•with•the•Nazis• to• have• men• drawn• from• its•membership•form•the•Self• Defense•Legion,•according•to• his• account.• In• 1945,• the• legion•was•dissolved•and•folded• into•the•SS•Galician•Division.

Policy• at• the• time• of• Karkoc’s•immigration•application• —• according• to• a• declassified• secret• U.S.• government• document•obtained•by•the•AP•from• the• National• Archives• —• was• to•deny•a•visa•to•anyone•who• had• served• in• either• the• SS• Galician•Division•or•the•OUN. Justice• Department• spokesman• Michael• Passman• in• Washington• said• the• agency• was• aware• of• the• AP• story• and• could• not• confirm• or•deny•an•investigation.

News• of• Karkoc’s• past• prompted• anger• from• World• War•II•survivors•in•countries• where• the• Ukrainian• SelfDefense• Legion• was• active.• In• Poland,• Honorata• Banach• told• the• AP• she• wants• Karkoc•to•apologize.•She•was•20• when• she• fled• the• Polish• village• of• Chlaniow• before• it• was• burned• down• by• the• legion.

“There• was• so• much• suffering,• so• many• orphans,• so• much•pain,”•Banach•said.•She• and•her•mother•returned•the• day•after•the•attack,•she•said,• to• see• that• “everything• was• burned•down,•even•the•fences,•the•trees.•I•could•not•even• find•my•house.”

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Sunday, June 16, 2013

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BY TARGETED NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON — Here is how Oklahoma’s members of the House of Representatives and Senate voted on key bills and amendments last week. A “Y” means the member voted for the measure; an “N” means the member voted against the measure; a “?” means the member did not vote.

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Vote 1. ICBM missiles: The House has passed an amendment sponsored by Rep. Cynthia M. Lummis, R-Wyo., to the National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 1960). The amendment would require the Defense Department to maintain intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) silos on warm status, enabling the military to keep the ICBMs fully functional. The vote, on June 13, was 235 yeas to 189 nays.

Vote 2. Military maintenance and technology funding: The

House has rejected an amendment sponsored by Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo., to the National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 1960). The amendment would have cut $250 million of funding for the Defense Rapid Innovation Program (DRIP) and instead used the $250 million to increase funding for the military’s operations and maintenance programs. The vote, on June 13, was 206 yeas to 220 nays.

Vote 3. Military operations in Afghanistan: The House has passed

an amendment sponsored by Rep. James P. McGovern, DMass., to the National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 1960).

The amendment would require the accelerated transition of combat operations in Afghanistan from the U.S. military to the Afghanistan government by the end of 2013, the redeployment of U.S. soldiers out of Afghanistan by the end of 2014, and negotiations to address the security of Afghanistan and surrounding countries following the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the country. The vote, on June 13, was 305 yeas to 121 nays.

Vote 4. Rights of suspected enemy combatants: The House has

passed an amendment sponsored by Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., to the National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 1960).

The amendment would require the government to prove that U.S. citizens apprehended within the U.S. as suspected terrorists are enemy combatants and therefore could be indefinitely detained by the military. The vote, on June 13, was 214 yeas to 211 nays.

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has rejected an amendment sponsored by Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., to the National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 1960). The amendment would have barred the indefinite military detention in the U.S. of suspected enemy combatants, and require the suspects to be tried by either a state court or by a federal court established under Article III of the Constitution. The vote, on June 13, was 200 yeas to 226 nays.

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Savings from a proposed change in the calculation of Social Security cost-of-living adjustments should be spent on defense, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe said last week.

The Obama administration and others have advocated using what is called a chained consumer price index to figure the adjustments for Social Security and military retirement benefits.

They say the change would save $339.8 billion over 10 years.

Most discussions involving chained CPI have envisioned it as a way to stabilize Social Security, but Inhofe said he supports using the money to offset the cost of sequestration.

Farm bill: The House farm bill is expected to get to the floor this week with the support of Speaker John Boehner.

Crafted by the Agriculture Committee chaired by 3rd District Congressman Frank Lucas, the bill cuts $20 billion from food stamps and other nutri-

tion programs — which actually make up the bulk of farm bill spending — and $18 billion from production-related programs.

The bill is similar to one Boehner kept from a floor vote last year, largely because of his opposition to its dairy provisions and conservative opposition.

Now Boehner says he’ll support the bill despite his reservations.

National monuments: Inhofe and several other Republican senators, mostly from western states, said environmental groups have been urging Obama to declare new national monuments to keep out energy exploration, and they warned the president not to follow through on that recommendation.

“The president’s war against fossil fuels is taking many forms, and I am confident he will use all of the powers available to him to shut down oil and gas development,” Inhofe said.

“I will maintain my aggressive opposition to every step

President Obama takes in his effort to prevent our achievement of domestic energy independence.”

On June 1, The Hill reported that the Sierra Club is leading a campaign called “Our Wild America” to bring more land under federal protection.

Of particular interest is the 22,000-acre Browns Canyon area along the Arkansas River in central Colorado.

Dots and Dashes: Sen. Tom Coburn said the Justice Department spent $58.7 million on conferences last year, including $500,000 to send 30 people to Indonesia and $200,000 to send four people to Senegal. ... Coburn joined a bipartisan group of senators introducing the PRIME Act, which provides stiffer penalties for Medicaid and Medicare fraud and authorizes more prevention and oversight of those programs. ... The House passed three highly techni-

cal bills related to commodity trading and backed by Lucas. ...

Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, indicated interest in an oversight hearing on the Williams Cos.’ Louisiana chemical plant explosion. ...

The Center for Public Integrity reported that a Del City storm shelter manufacturer, OZ Safe Rooms, hired the high-powered lobbying firm McDermott, Will and Emory days after this spring’s central Oklahoma tornadoes. The center says the company hired McDermott to seek tax incentives for storm shelter installation. ... In case you missed “SportsCenter,” the Democrats defeated the Republicans 22-0 in the annual congressional baseball game.

Rep. Cedric Richmond, a former college player, pitched the shutout and had four hits.

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Vote 1. Gigabit Internet in rural areas: The Senate has passed an

amendment sponsored by Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., to the Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act (S. 954). The amendment would establish an Agriculture Department pilot program for establishing ultra-high-speed Internet service in rural areas.

The vote, on June 10, was 48 yeas to 38 nays.

Vote 2. Farm bill: The Senate has passed the Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act (S. 954), sponsored by Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich. The bill would fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and agriculture programs over the next five years while cutting spending on the programs by $24 billion. The vote, on June 10, was 66 yeas to 27 nays.

Vote 3. Immigration and border security: The Senate has tabled

an amendment sponsored by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, to the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act (S. 744). The amendment would have barred the government from granting illegal immigrants provisional legal status until the Homeland Security Department has effectively prevented illegal immigration across the U.S. border for six months. The vote to table the amendment, on June 13, was 57 yeas to 43 nays.

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Thursday at the Bristow Golf and Country Club, 1 Country Club Rd., Bristow. For more

information, call Stan Johnson at 918-227-1586 or Yvetta Wells at 918-352-4548.

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Operation Migration ran into trouble with the FAA because it pays salaries to pilots. FAA regulations say sport planes — a category that sometimes includes aircraft of exotic design — can only be flown for personal use.

In addition to buying three new $20,000 aircraft with support from donors, pilots were required to obtain private pilot licenses, co-founder and pilot Joe Duff said.

The FAA allowed Operation Migration an exemption from the ultralight rules until April 30, 2014. The Canada-

based conservation nonprofit hopes to have its new planes

by January or February.

“It was definitely a stressful time for us,” Duff said. “We’re fortunate that the FAA wants to work with us and wants us to continue what we were doing. There was just no space for us in the rules.”

Duff said to successfully guide the whooping cranes, Operation Migration’s aircraft must have small 50-horsepower engines and travel 30 to 50 mph so the birds can keep up.

The new fleet also must have bird-friendly propeller guards.

Operation Migration pilots have successfully taught new generations of Wisconsin-raised whooping cranes to migrate south. After being nearly wiped out in the 1940s, there are now 600 of the birds nationwide.

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WASHINGTON — Top U.S. intelligence officials said Saturday that information gleaned from two controversial data-collection programs run by the National Security Agency thwarted potential terrorist plots in the U.S. and more than 20 other countries — and that gathered data is destroyed every five years.

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thorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Under the program, the records, showing things like time and length of call, can only be examined for suspected connections to terrorism, they said.

The officials offered more detail on how the phone records program helped the NSA stop a 2009 al-Qaida plot to blow up New York City subways. They say the program helped them track a co-conspirator of al-Qaida operative Najibullah Zazi — though it’s not clear why the FBI needed the NSA to investigate Zazi’s phone records because the FBI would have had the authority to gather records of Zazi’s phone calls after identifying him as a suspect, rather than relying on the sweeping collection program.

Crews make gains against wildfire

• The blaze near Colorado Springs is now 55 percent contained.

BY P. SOLOMON BANDA Associated Press

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Crews gained the upper hand on the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history Saturday and had more than half the blaze contained as officials prepared to lift mandatory evacuation orders for hundreds of residents.

Incident commander Rich Harvey said at an evening news conference that containment of the Black Forest Fire was at 55 percent, up from 45 percent earlier Saturday.

El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa said some residents along the north and west fronts of the initial evacuation zone were being allowed to return to their neighborhoods at 8 p.m. after authorities downgraded evacuation orders from mandatory to pre-evacuation status in specific areas.

While most mandatory evacuation orders had been lifted, as the fire zone remained at about 25 square miles, hundreds remained displaced after the fire destroyed nearly 500 homes and killed two people. The victims’ bodies were found inside their garage Thursday, their car doors open as though they had been about to flee.

The announcement that crews had made significant advances on the blaze and taken control of it came the same day authorities were able to gain a clearer picture of the grim landscape it left behind after exploding Tuesday outside Colorado Springs. It’s unclear what caused the fire, which

Todd Keenan (left) and his mother, Jean Keenan, raise their hands along with others who lost their homes during a community meeting regarding the Black Forest fire on Saturday near Colorado Springs, Colo. The fire that exploded Tuesday outside of Colorado Springs has destroyed hundreds of homes and killed two people. MICHAEL CIAGLO/The Colorado Springs Gazette/AP

sparked amid record-high temperatures and tinder-dry conditions, but officials believed it was human-caused.

No additional homes were destroyed as fire crews expanded containment lines, Maketa said. Also, there were no new reports of injury or death, he said.

Earlier Saturday, worried residents waited for permission to return to their neighborhoods to see whether their homes were still standing.

Maketa cited deputies in saying that some areas in the fire’s path had been described as looking “like a nuclear bomb went off,” making it difficult to assess the damage before Saturday.

“That is the level of incineration and destruction that took place in some areas,” he said.

So far, it’s cost more than $3.5 million to fight.

Some residents had already gotten to see the damage for themselves.

Jack and Judy Roe were able to tour their neighbor-

hood Friday and saw to their relief that their house had been spared. Several other homes on their block, however, where destroyed.

“Our hearts were breaking for our neighbors,” Judy Roe said.

Describing the scene, she said she saw charred piles of what remained of homes, with bricks the only distinguishable feature.

“But other than that, everything is black. The ground, everything is just black,” she said.

Some residents were forced to evacuate so quickly they didn’t have time to pack an extra change of clothes.

“This is my wardrobe,” said Bob Metzger, signaling to his jeans and polo shirt.

Metzger and his wife, Barbara, were among those who lost their house.

The site of the wildfire is a few miles away from the state’s second-most destructive wildfire, the Waldo Canyon Fire, which burned last summer.

The lessons from that fire

spurred a quicker response, officials said. When the latest wildfire began in Black Forest, a thickly wooded rural region north of Colorado Springs, authorities swiftly evacuated tens of thousands of people from an area larger than the Denver metropolitan area.

White House officials said Saturday that President Barack Obama called Gov. John Hickenlooper on Friday to get an update on conditions and reinforce his commitment to help. The president also expressed his concern for the devastation and gave his condolences to families who have lost relatives.

Elsewhere in Colorado, fire crews worked to contain other smaller wildfires. In Canon City, 50 miles southwest of Black Forest, the Royal Gorge Fire burned 5 square miles and was 65 percent contained. A lightning-sparked fire in Rocky Mountain National Park had burned nearly 500 acres and was 30 percent contained.

SKYWATCH

BY CHRIS PAGAN Sunday: The first quarter moon

occurs at 12:25 p.m. The bright moon makes the double star Albireo, about 25 degrees above the eastern horizon, more easily seen.

Cygnus appears to fly through the sky with the body parallel to the eastern horizon with two stars marking its outstretched wings. The brightest star in the constellation is Deneb, at the swan’s tail. The second-brightest star is Albireo, at the swan’s beak.

Though it is possible to split this double star with binoculars, a telescope will provide a much higher success rate. Viewed with either, the brighter star appears golden to orange and the other star appears blue.

Monday: Venus and Mercury are visible in the west-northwest tonight. At 9:30 p.m., the planets are about 8 degrees above the horizon. Venus will be easy to locate as it is the second-brightest object in the sky at this hour. Mercury is a bit more of a challenge. Look 2½ degrees to the upper left of Venus for Mercury. Over the next few days this gap will shrink and Venus will rise higher in the sky than Mercury.

Tuesday: Tonight, the moon is near the bright star Spica in the constellation Virgo. At 10 p.m., the gibbous moon lies 4 degrees to the east of Spica. Saturn is also nearby, 8½ degrees to the upper left of the moon. As the night progresses the moon will

move away from Spica and toward Saturn.

Wednesday: Jupiter is in conjunction with the sun today, meaning the planet is not visible. Almost the entire time the sun is visible today, Jupiter will be behind it. This planet will again be visible again by midJuly, when the giant planet can be seen low in the morning sky.

Thursday: The International Space Station makes a low pass through the northeast section of the sky tonight. The space station begins its journey in the

north-northwest at 9:59 p.m., 10 degrees above the horizon.

Two and half minutes later, the ISS stands 24 degrees above the north-northeast horizon.

By 10 p.m., the spacecraft slips into Earth’s shadow, 14 degrees above the eastern horizon.

Friday: Today is the first day of summer. The summer solstice occurs this morning just after midnight at 12:04 a.m. On the summer solstice, the sun is at its extreme northern latitude, shining directly overhead at the Tropic of Cancer. Today there

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The spacecraft reaches its maximum height of 64 degrees above the northeast horizon at 10. As on Thursday, the space station slides into Earth’s shadow less than two minutes later, 25 degrees above the east-southeast horizon.

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testified on Capitol Hill, defending programs that were unknown to the public — and some lawmakers — until they were revealed by a series of media stories in The Guardian and The Washington Post newspapers, leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who remains in hiding in Hong Kong.

The disclosures have sparked debate and legal action against the Obama administration by privacy activists who say the data collection goes far beyond what was intended when expanded counterterrorism measures were authorized by Congress after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

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No other new details about the plots or the countries involved were part of the newly declassified information released to Congress on Saturday and made public by the Senate Intelligence Committee. Intelligence officials said they are working to declassify the dozens of plots NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander said were disrupted, to show Americans the value of the programs, but that they want to make sure they don’t inadvertently reveal parts of the U.S. counterterrorism playbook in the process.

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Week in Review

SMG agreement: The Tulsa Public Facilities Authority unanimously approved a new five-year contract with SMG on Thursday to continue management of the BOK Center and the Tulsa Convention Center.

SMG has managed both venues since 2006, including the preopening and grand opening of the BOK Center.

Council action

City budget: City councilors approved the largest budget in Tulsa’s history Thursday, with major revisions from the mayor’s proposal so the number of new police positions can be nearly tripled over his plan and at least one-time salary stipends for nonsworn city employees can be funded.

The council’s $3.4 million amendment to Mayor Dewey Bartlett’s $711 million spending plan for fiscal year 2014 increases the number of new police positions from 22 to 61, allocates funding for 1 percent raises or stipends for nonsworn employees, and green-lights several councilors’ pet projects, including eventual repairs for two north Tulsa recreation centers.

It was the most extensive revision to a mayor’s budget proposal in memory, councilors said.

The bulk of the amendment — $1.9 million for the police staffing increases — comes from a proposal by Councilors G.T. Bynum and Karen Gilbert to add a second police academy in the coming fiscal year and hire 16 civilians to move officers from desk work to the field.

Another $500,000 is drawn from a proposal by Councilor Phil Lakin to fund an across-theboard 1 percent salary boost for the city’s roughly 1,600 nonsworn employees, whose last raises came in early 2012.

Although councilors indicated that they would prefer that the money be used for raises, Bartlett said he likely will use it for one-time stipends. By City

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Charter, the mayor has control over employee pay decisions.

Council salaries: City councilors voted to place on the Nov. 12 ballot a charter amendment that would increase councilors’ annual salaries from $18,000 to $24,000 and eliminate their ability to set council salaries.

If approved by voters, the salary increase would take effect Dec. 1, 2014.

Thursday’s vote was not an endorsement by councilors of the proposed pay increase but simply put the proposed charter amendment on the ballot.

Under the existing City Charter, councilors can vote to increase their pay, but the increase cannot take effect until the next City Council term begins.

The last time councilors received a pay increase was in 2002, when salaries went from $12,000 to $18,000.

Moratorium appeal: Councilors upheld an appeal by a local businessman of the city’s surface parking lot moratorium.

The Tulsa Metropolitan Area Planning Commission recommended last month that the appeal by Compression Solutions be approved.

The company filed the appeal in order to demolish a onestory industrial building at 313.

S. Kenosha Ave. The lot would provide 64 parking spaces for an adjacent building owned by the company at 312 S. Lansing Ave. Plans for the project call for lighting, perimeter screening, trees and sidewalks along Fourth Street and Kenosha Avenue.

The City Council had banned demolishing downtown buildings for surface parking lots until the city can consider ordinance changes to that effect.

— KEVIN CANFIELD and ZACK STOYCOFF, World Staff Writers

The Tulsa City Council has banned demolishing downtown buildings for surface parking lots pending a possible ordinance change. CORY YOUNG/Tulsa World file

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BY MICHAEL McNUTT The Oklahoman

OKLAHOMA• CITY• —• Oklahoma’s• positive• image• of• having• a• strong• economy• and• being• a• good• state• for• businesses• to• locate• and• people•to•live•won’t•be•darkened• despite• two• horrific• tornadoes• that• struck• the• state• days• apart,• Gov.• Mary• Fallin•said.

Gripping• scenes• were• on• television,• the• Internet• and• in• newspapers• for• days• after•deadly•tornadoes•ripped• through•the•state•last•month.

“Even• though• we• went• through• a• terrible• time• and• had•a•really•unfortunate•set• of• circumstances• happen• in• our•state,•the•strength•of•our• state• showed• through• very• well,”•Fallin•said.

How• state• and• local• officials•and•residents•responded• to• those• tornadoes• became•the•main•—•and•lasting• —•story,•the•governor•said.

“We• had• all• hands• on• deck,”• Fallin• said.• “When• you•have•that•much•national• and• international• media• in• our• state,• you• worry• about• what•is•the•image•your•state• is•going•to•have.

“We’re• going• to• have•

an• image• of• —• like• I• think• we• earned• and• we• accomplished• —• that• we’re• a• strong• people.• We’re• resilient.•We’re•compassionate.”

Fallin•gave•about•40•interviews• with• reporters• from• across• the• country.• Her• message:•EF5•tornadoes•are• rare,•but•Oklahoma’s•economy•is•strong.

“We’re• becoming• a• standard-bearer• for• economic• growth• with• solid• revenue• collections• and• an• enviable• unemployment•rate,•now•4.9• percent,• compared• to• a• national•jobless•rate•of•7.6•percent,”• she• said.• “Oklahoma• is•very•much•open•for•business,•and•business•is•good.”

Fallin• said• she• has• received• letters• from• people• around• the• world• saying• they• were• impressed• with• how• Oklahomans• responded•to•the•storms.

She• said• Commerce• Secretary• Dave• Lopez• told• her• his•staff•had•been•contacted• by• about• 100• national• business•site•locators•to•express• their• sympathy• but• also• to• let•the•state•know•that•Oklahoma•has•not•been•taken•off• any• business• prospect’s• list,• despite•the•tornadoes.

She• said• those• who• con-

tacted• the• Commerce• Department•said•they•admired• how• the• state’s• people• responded,• saying• that’s• the• type•of•employees•that•companies• would• like• to• have• working•for•them.

“From•a•business-recruiting• prospect• and• economic• standpoint,• there• may• be• some• people• that• may• be• concerned• about• Oklahoma,• but• …• our• tremendous• response• in• taking• care• of• our•people•earned•our•state• a• great• deal• of• respect• and• gratitude• for• how• hard• our• people•worked•to•help•each• other,”•Fallin•said.

Fallin• was• looking• at• the• damage• from• the• May• 19• tornadoes• the• next• day• in• the• Shawnee• area• and• Carney•when•she•and•the•Emergency•Management•Department• director• rushed• back• to• the• Capitol• because• a• strong• tornado• system• was• developing•in•the•Oklahoma• City•area.

She• went• out• to• Moore• hours• after• the• tornado• struck• May• 20,• and• went• back• several• times• in• the• next• week,• talking• with• survivors•and•first•responders•and•going•on•tours•with• Oklahoma’s• congressional•

delegation,• U.S.• Homeland• Security• Secretary• Janet• Napolitano• and• President• Barack•Obama.

“I• appreciated• the• fact• that• he• would• take• time• to• come• to• Oklahoma,”• Fallin•said.•“It’s•the•right•thing• to• do• for• him,• and• it• would• not• have• looked• right• if• he• hadn’t•come•to•Oklahoma.

“And• certainly• it’s• my• job• as• governor• during• a• time• of•tragedy•to•be•here•and•to• show• him• the• needs• of• our• state• and• what• we• need• as• far• as• federal• response• for• Oklahoma.

“We• disagree• on• a• lot• of• policy• issues,• but• we• both• understand•we•have•a•job•to• do.”

After• the• May• 31• tornado• struck•the•El•Reno•area,•Fallin•went•June•2•to•look•at•the• damage• there,• as• well• as• to• talk•with•survivors•and•public•safety•officials.

“It• was• surreal• that• we• could• experience• a• second• major• round• of• storms• so• close•to•the•Moore•tornado,”• she• said.• “But• once• again,• During a tour of tornado-damaged areas in Moore on Wednesday, we•just•picked•right•back•up• and• did• what• we• needed• to• Gov. Mary Fallin prays with volunteers Dimitri Tsampis (left) and Josh Mihut (right), of the Chesterton, Ind., Road to Life Church, at the medo.” morial to the seven students who died at the Plaza Towers Elementary School. SUE OGROCKI/Associated Press

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Confederates to be honored ••A•monument• recognizes•190• veterans•buried•in• Ardmore•cemetery.

aligned•with•the•Confederacy• —• the• Chickasaw,• Choctaw,• Cherokee,• Creek• and• Seminole• nations• —• will• be• honored.

“We’re• going• to• talk• about• one• person• from• each• tribe• that•was•a•major•contributor• to• the• Confederate• actions• here• in• Indian• Territory,”• he• said.

Logan•said•a•portion•of•the• monument•reads,•“Dedicated• to• the• veterans• of• the• war• for• Southern• independence,• those•interred•here•and•those• resting• in• the• countless• and• forgotten• corners• of• Oklahoma.”

BY SARAH HUSSAIN The Oklahoman

ARDMORE•—•The•Sons•of• Confederate• Veterans• Oklahoma• Division• will• dedicate• a• monument• at• noon• Saturday• to• the• 190• Confederate• veterans• buried• at• Rose• Hill• Cemetery.

Larry•Logan,•Oklahoma•Division• commander,• thinks• it• is•the•largest•concentration•of• Confederate•graves•that•does• not•have•a•monument.

“We• lost• the• war,• but• we• didn’t•lose•who•our•ancestors• were,”• Logan• said.• “They’re• still• our• ancestors• and• our• family,• and• although• my• ancestors•are•not•buried•in•that• cemetery,• it’s• like• I’m• recognizing•(them),•as•well.”

Logan’s• great-grandfather,• Pvt.• Robert• Donald• Logan,• fought•for•the•Confederacy•in• the•Civil•War.•At•the•battle•of• Gettysburg,• Pa.,• he• was• shot• in• his• left• hand,• causing• him• to•lose•a•thumb.

He• died• 19• years• before• Larry• Logan• was• born,• but• the• great-grandson• strives• to• keep•his•legacy•alive.

Larry• Logan• gathered• information• about• his• veteran• ancestors• from• ancestry.com• and•the•Oklahoma•Historical•

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Larry Logan is commander of the Oklahoma Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. His great-grandfather fought in the Civil War. JIM BECKEL/The Oklahoman

more• cemetery.• After• four• years•of•fundraising,•they•exceeded•their•goal•of•$20,000.

One• way• the• group• raised• money• was• by• selling• to• descendants• bricks• on• which• Confederate• veterans’• names• are•inscribed.•The•bricks•will• surround•the•monument.

The• keynote• speaker• for• the• dedication• is• Bob• Blackburn,• executive• director• of• the• Oklahoma• Historical• Society.• People• are• encouraged• to•bring•their•own•chairs.

Five• of• the• Oklahoma• Native• American• tribes• that•

Society.• Robert• Logan’s• brothers,• Sgt.• William• Henry• Logan• and•Pvt.•James•M.•Logan,•also• fought•for•the•Confederacy.

Larry• Logan,• who• is• retired,• said• his• hobby• and• passion• is• the• Sons• of• Confederate• Veterans.• Members• honor• their• ancestors• and• show• how• proud• they• are• to• be• descendants• of• Confederate•soldiers,•he•said.

In• the• fall• of• 2008,• members• asked• the• cemetery• board• for• approval• to• build• the• monument• in• the• Ard-

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Workers in the city living easy out of town

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ERE’S SOMETHING WORTH noting.

I know a number of people who live in Skiatook. The draw is the lake, the fish, the boating, the outdoorsy life that is still near the companies with the jobs and the stores with the stuff.

I also know a family that lives among the Amish, just this side of Inola. They are New Yorkers drawn here by the available spaces. They built a spread, which is an acreage with a barn, a pond and a Waltonstyle home. The barn was actually raised in a scene right out of “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” — on the count of three, everybody lifted up a wall. The woman is a physician’s assistant at a Tulsa hospital.

She hasn’t missed a day of work in close to ever.

I know lots of people living in Broken Arrow. Sand Springs is thinking about becoming the new Jenks. Who isn’t thinking about moving to Jenks?

At work, and out and around and about, it appears that I know more people living out of town than in town.

Less crime: There’s less crime out there in Tranquility Acres and Peaceful Mew; that’s a chief drawing card for families with children.

Anything out of the ordinary is more obvious in family settings.

Somebody double-dribbles a thousand-dollar check, somebody working for the city has a beer too many and gets a ride home from a cop — it’s actually news out there.

City crime often involves blood.

Schools in communities surrounding the city have 85 kids out for fifth-grade football. Some innercity schools have so few out for football that if one more guy gets his bell rung, the student manager will have to go in and play center.

Scents and dollars: Bedroom communities have that new-construction aroma to them: new wood, new dirt, new outdoor grill cooking up a storm.

A prominent city odor is one of construction, of dust flying around the removal of 75-year-old, undersized sewer pipes and saggy gas lines.

Here’s the point. I live in this city. That’s my parking meter, not somebody’s from out there in Happy Hollow.

That’s my favorite restaurant table, not somebody’s from Moonbeam Meadows.

That’s my aisle seat at the concert downtown.

That’s not my speed trap. But that is my favorite slot machine.

Well, not really. But it’s one of my neighbor’s favorite slots.

Those using the best of my city but avoiding the worst should be subject to an Easy Living tax, or a slight toll at entrances to the freeways and interstates leading here.

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Tulsa Police say trust restored TULSAWORLD.COM • Two years after a corruption scandal, new policies are in place to avoid a repeat. Get the background

BY JARREL WADE

World Staff Writer

Two years after a federal police corruption probe put Tulsa police officers in court, officials say they’ve worked to restore public trust and prove that the problems were isolated to “a few bad apples.”

“It was not a systemic issue that addressed our policies, that addressed our

training, that addressed our supervision,” Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan said. “It was a few bad apples, if you will, that were misbehaving and committing criminal acts.”

Since the trials, one Tulsa police officer has been fired under the “you lie, you die” policy that resulted from the scandal, department records show.

But public trust in Tulsa’s

Read past stories and view documents related to the law enforcement corruption case.

tulsaworld.com/grandjury judicial system took a hit from which it’s still recovering as prosecutors, judges and police investigations continue to endure additional scrutiny.

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Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan speaks recently on the police corruption scandal. MIKE SIMONS/Tulsa World

GATHERING PLACE FOR TULSA: WORLD-CLASS PARK

Architect Michael Van Valkenburgh is seen in his Brooklyn, N.Y., office. Van Valkenburgh and his associates are designing the Gathering Place for Tulsa. CRAIG RUTTLE/For the Tulsa World

Architect ready to share vision

architects are about to transform the face of Tulsa with a world-class park along Riverside Drive. ichael Van Valkenburgh is comIt’s called the Gathering Place for Tuling to town. sa, and Tuesday the public is invited to If the name doesn’t ring a attend the unveiling of the final plan for bell, it will soon. Van Valkenburgh, presi- the 55-acre park.

An architectural rendering shows an area to be known as Swing Hill in the Gathering Place, looking north todent of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Inc., and his team of landscape SEE PARK A20 ward downtown Tulsa. Courtesy

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Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates projects • Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York • Teardrop Park, New York • Hudson River Parks, New York • George W. Bush Presidential Center, Dallas

Public meeting

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Campaigns to slow down, prepare for November

BY ZACK STOYCOFF World Staff Writer

Tulsa’s two remaining mayoral candidates are crafting their pitches to the roaming supporters of their ousted opponent as they prepare for a fiveMAYORAL CANDIDATES month marathon to November’s general election.

Dewey Bartlett (left) and Kathy Mayor Dewey Bartlett, who won Taylor: The two have five months to convince the ones who didn’t vote for only 34 percent of Tuesday’s nonpartisan primary vote, will focus on apeither of them the first time to vote pealing to the 23 percent of voters who for them in November.

chose fellow Republican Bill Christiansen, saying he’s confident that Republicans will join him in a united front to tip the scale against Democrat opponent Kathy Taylor.

Taylor, who captured 42 percent of the vote — 8 percentage points shy of winning the race outright — says Bartlett’s second-place finish indicates that Tulsans simply want a new mayor.

Her campaign hopes to convince voters that she has leadership qualities that rise above partisan politics.

But first, both candidates will take a break.

After several months of highoctane campaigning, they say they are as fatigued as voters. Political appearances, campaign advertisements, mailers — all will slow down, if not stop completely, for the next couple of months, the campaigns said.

“We talk about wanting a break, and I know voters want a break, too,”

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Wilbin Eddings “Bill” Beard passed away June 13, 2013. He now rejoices with his Lord and Savior along with reuniting with many friends and love ones. He was born December 4, 1918, in Hominy, OK to parents, Earl Lincoln Beard, Sr. and Mary Ellen Wilbin Beard. He is one of five children, one brother and three sisters. Bill graduated from Tulsa Central High School, Class of 1937.

He began his college career at the University of Tulsa which was interrupted by the Korean War. He served in the Navy as an Ensign and was a World War II Veteran.

After the war he returned to the University of Tulsa to earn his degree in accounting.

He was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. He began and ended his 52 year banking career as a Senior Vice President with First National of Tulsa. It was there he met his wife, Kathleen Fassino, at a dance held by the bank. They were married 69 wonderful years and continued dancing throughout their lives. They also loved playing bridge with friends and were lifelong supporters of University of Tulsa Football and Basketball teams. Bill was a member of First Presbyterian Church where he served in various leadership capacities. He was a lifelong member of the Kiwanis. He also served as Board President for both Southwood Country Club and Philcrest Hills Tennis Club.

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They had two children, Mike and Margaret. They lived their lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where they raised their children. Bill was a passionate, competitive tennis player. He shared his love of the game with Kathleen, Mike and Margaret which was passed on the grandchildren. Bill and Kathleen’s greatest joy was their 6 grandchildren who grew up in Tulsa. They spent many hours and vacation trips watching their grandchildren in all kinds of events including tennis, soccer, basketball, football, gymnastics and school activities. Bill is survived by: his wife, Kathleen; son, Mike Beard and wife, Susie; daughter, Margaret Beard Martinson and husband, Bill; grandchildren, Chris Beard and wife, Lindsay, Dusty Beard and wife, Julie, Lindsey Martinson Boesch and husband, Josh, Heidi Martinson, Jeff Martinson and wife, Roxanne and Andra Beard Nelson and her husband, Roy; 8 great-grandchildren, 7 boys and 1 girl. Service will be held Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at First Presbyterian Church, 709 S Boston Ave., Tulsa, OK at 11:00am. In lieu of flowers the family requests that donations be made to Grace Hospice Tulsa, OK or First Presbyterian Church of Tulsa. Moore Southlawn 918-663-2233. Share memories at www.moorefuneral.com.

Robert "Bob" Chronic

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Robert “Bob” Chronic, 86, Cleveland, Oklahoma, passed from this life Friday, June 14, 2013. Bob was born in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, on July 22, 1926, to Herman Chronic and Lena (Beasley) Chronic. On December 13, 1944, Bob entered into the United States Marine Corp. He proudly served his country during World War II. Happily finding the love of his life, Bob married Zona Smith on July 22, 1960. Together they enjoyed almost 53 years marriage. For over 49 years Bob was employed with Veale Brothers as a concrete block salesman. During his spare time he enjoyed pheasant hunting, fishing, planting and raising a yearly garden, cutting and baling his own hay, and just tinkering around. Bob was a 32nd degree Mason. He was also of the First Christian Faith. Having a great love for his family, Bob enjoyed the time spent with them, especially the grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

The family and friends of Bob will miss him greatly. Preceding Bob in death were his parents, Herman and Lena Chronic and his 9121867 0616 Whittle0616.jpg Paul Thomas Funeral Home

brotherm Corky Chronic. Bob is survived by: his wife, Zona of the home; daughters, Stacey Grier and husband, Shannan of Cleveland, Oklahoma, and Cindy Brown and husband, Terry of Bristow, Oklahoma; grandchildren, Pat Brown and wife, Melissa, Matt Brown and wife, Magen, and Nathan Allembaugh and fiancée, Lexi; great-grandchildren, Amy Brown, Warren Brown, Payton Brown, and Caylea Brown; many other relatives and a host of friends. Funeral service for Bob will be Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at 2:00pm in the Mobley-Dodson Funeral Service Chapel. Interment will follow in the Woodland Memorial Park, Sand Springs, Oklahoma. Visitation for Bob was Saturday, June 15, 2013, from 12 noon until 8:00pm, Sunday, June 16, 2013, from 1:00pm until 6:00pm, and Monday, June 17, 2013, from 8:00am until 8:00pm. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.mobley-dodsonfuneralservice.com. Arrangements have been entrusted to the care of Mobley-Dodson Funeral Service of Sand Springs, Oklahoma.

Therl James Whittle |

Therl James Whittle, 81, of Fairland, Oklahoma passed away Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at Integris Baptist Regional Medical Center in Miami, Oklahoma.

Therl was born January 26, 1932 to Alva F. and Elsie E. (Pickett) Whittle in Sapulpa, Oklahoma.

He retired from the Tulsa Police Department in 1974 and moved to Grand Lake area. He graduated from Central High School Class of 1950. He married Karol Huffman on January 26, 1978 in Tulsa County.

Mr. Whittle was a member of the Fraternal Order of Police, Oklahoma Sheriff’s and Peace Officers Association, Oklahoma Private Investigators Association, First Baptist Church of Miami, Oklahoma and enjoyed working with his son on the NASCAR Fire & Rescue team at Ft. Worth Motor Speed Way. After moving to the Grand Lake area Therl worked as head of security at Shangri-La Resort, he served as Sheriff 9119521 0616 none none

of Ottawa County from 1987 to 1992, and owned and operated Whittle Investigations in Miami, Oklahoma. He was preceded in death by his wife and parents.

Survivors include two sons, Stephen and wife, Loretta of Tulsa, OK, and Randall and wife, Erin, also of Tulsa; six grandchildren; and 5 great-grandchildren. Graveside service will be held 2:00 p.m., Monday, June 17, 2013 at the Floral Haven Cemetery in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma with Chaplain Danny Lynchard officiating. Honors will be given to Mr. Whittle by the Tulsa Police Department Honor Guard. Interment will follow under the direction of the Paul Thomas Funeral Home of Miami, Oklahoma. The family will receive friends and relatives Sunday, June 16, 2013 from 3-5 at the Paul Thomas Funeral Home in Miami, Oklahoma. Online Condolences may be made at http://www.paulthomasfuneralhomes.com

Elva Charlotte Blood

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Elva Charlotte Blood, 99, wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother passed away on June 7, 2013. She was born on December 13, 1913 in Fayetteville, AR to Anton and Nellie Bollenbacher. Elva was the wife of the late Robert H. Blood.

After attending the University of Arkansas Business School she worked for the U.S. Treasury Department in Washington, D.C. prior to marrying Robert 1937. They moved to Tulsa and joined the First Christian Church where she taught Sunday School for several years. They remained active members throughout their lives. Later, once her children were grown and her husband was retired, she worked for the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce helping with conventions, etc. and enjoyed meeting people and helping visitors learn more about Tulsa.

She was unselfishly devoted to her husband of 64 years, three children grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She always took great pride in her family and was very supportive of each of them. She

made a point to stay active, both mentally and physically well into her later years, which contributed to her long life.

Elva is survived by her children: son, Steve and wife, Melissa and daughters, Jeanne Hays and husband, Harvey, Alice Bradley and husband, Michael; 8 grandchildren, Allen, Kimberly, and Cameron Blood, Dan, Ted, and John Hays, Andrew and Seth Bradley; 4 great-granddaughters, Kayleigh, Rachel, Jennifer, and Holly Hays; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, sisters, Katherina Bollenbacher and Georgia Douglas.

She was a loving, giving Christian who will bedearlymissedbyallwhoknewandlovedher.

A private memorial service will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, gifts may be made to the First Christian Church, 913 S. Boulder, Tulsa, OK or the Katherina Bollenbacher Scholarship Fund, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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George Roulston Krietmeyer |

George Roulston Krietmeyer was born October 1, 1922 in St. Louis, MO. He died on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 in Tulsa, OK. He attended and graduated school in St. Louis where he was sports editor of the school paper and lettered in soccer. In 1943 he was called into service in the army and received basic training as a medic.

On completing the training he was sent to Fitzsimmons General Hospital in Denver, CO for training in the hospital laboratory school.

From there he was sent to Kansas State University in Manhattan, KS in the Army Specialized Training Program taking an engineering course along with army training.

In Manhattan, KS at the First Presbyterian Church he met the girl of his dreams and it was love at first sight. He immediately changed her name from Virginia to Ginny and the nickname remained. After four months they were engaged. Virginia Slothower and George Krietmeyer were married on November 5, 1944 and had a three day honeymoon in romantic Topeka, KS. Their love was to continue for 67.5 years until her death.

He transferred from place to place as the war was ending and was discharged from the military in 1946. They returned to St. Louis where be enrolled at Washington University under the GI bill. He then was admitted to Washington School of Medicine and graduated from Medical School in 1951. He took his post graduate work at 3 St. Louis hospitals. In July, 1954 they moved to Tulsa and he worked with another pediatrician before going solo and eventually joining Glass Nelson Clinic.

They joined the First Presbyterian Church in 1955 and he became active in various services as Christian Service Board, Elder and Trustee. They were also members of the Mariners Sunday School Class. Through 9123117 0616 Stancavage0616.jpg Ninde Funeral Home

the church he spent 6 weeks in a mission hospital at Miraj, India, where a number of new techniques were introduced to the staff. Because of this India trip, touring became an important part of their lives with their 2 children, Ginna and Gordon and they saw many of the major sights of the world.

Here in Tulsa, he was on the staff of 3 major hospitals and served a year as Chief of Pediatrics at both St. John and St. Francis. He was also Chief at Children’s Medical Center. He loved the children be served. Two staff physicians are named honorary members of staff and he received this honor 5 years before retiring.

He appreciated Western Art and became a collector of such. He joined the volunteer Gillies at Gilcrease Museum serving there some 20 years in the conservation department, giving tours and being a greeter at the main desk. When the Aquarium opened, he volunteered there usually at the shark tank which he enjoyed. He was also an active member of the Antique Automobile Club of America and the Studebaker Drivers Club as he owned a 1953 Studebaker purchased new and which won many trophies.

He was preceded in death by: parents; sister, Jean Boyd and his loving wife, Virginia. He is survived by: daughter, Ginna and husband, Pat Teschke; son, Gordon and wife, Jeri; and 2 grandchildren, Jeremy and Joshua Jewell. A number of nieces and nephews also survive. He will be greatly missed by family and friends.

Burial was in Memorial Park Cemetery, Tulsa and service of the Resurrection is to be held at First Presbyterian Church, 7th and Boston at 1:00 on Thursday, June 20, 2013.

Please visit George’s online obituary and leave a message for the family at StanleysFuneralHome.com Stanleys 918-743-6271

Helen Marie Stancavage

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Helen Marie Stancavage was born Helen Marie Chrobak on March 21, 1921, in Avoca, Pennsylvania, to Joseph and Victoria (Ziembrowski) Chrobak.

Helen passed away on Monday, June 10, 2013 at the age of 92. Earlier in her life, Helen graduated from Avoca High School. She had a career working for the federal government for several years, during which time she lived in New York City and Washington. Later, she worked for Dean Phipps in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

She was married for 50 years to Joseph Frank Stancavage, an American Airlines retiree who passed away in 2003. Helen is survived by: her son, John Stancavage and daughter-in-law, Kerry Malone Stancavage, of Tulsa; her sister, Ann Marie Price and brother-in-law, Roy Price, of West Seneca, New York; and her niece, Linda Price, of North Kingstown, Rhode Island. Helen enjoyed being a part of the family with the extended Charles and Pat Malone family of Tulsa.

Helen lived as a resident of Tulsa for nearly 60 years. She enjoyed the last 12 years in an

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assisted-living apartment at Oklahoma Methodist Manor, where she was quite active, traveled with family, enjoyed the friendship of fellow residents and staff, exercised daily and described most days as like a vacation. During her years at OMM, she also enjoyed the friendship and ministry of Sister Marie Pierre Fleming of The Church of the Madalene.

Helen previously was a long-time parishoner at St. Piux X. Helen had a well-earned reputation as a sweetheart, among those who knew her for many years or those she knew for only a few days.

She was a bright, happy light with a strong work ethic and a willingness to help others.

Family and friends remembered Helen in a memorial service Friday, June 14, 2013 at Oklahoma Methodist Manor.

Those who would like to honor Helen’s lifetime may direct donations to Oklahoma Methodist Manor or The Church of the Madalene, both of Tulsa.

Ninde Brookside Chapel 918-742-5556. www.ninde.com

David Paul Coman

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David Paul Coman passed away at his home in Tulsa on June 14, 2013. He was born on March 28, 1930, to Paul and Sylvia (Urich) Coman. He leaves behind a host of friends and family. He was preceded in death by: his parents; his oldest son, Jim Coman and granddaughter, Christine Coman; his sisters, Elizabeth Causey and JoElla Britton; his brotherin-law, William Causey, Jr. and his nephew, William Causey III. He is survived by: his wife, Lois Ann (Hoagland) Coman; his sons, John Coman, Carl Coman, Doug Coman, Clyde Coman and daughters, Cindy Coman and Karen Slankard (all of Tulsa) . He also leaves behind son-in-law, Jon Slankard; daughtersin-law, Mary Kevin Coman, Susan Coman, Mary Coman, Judy Coman and Sheila Coman. In addition David is survived by 20 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren .

David was raised in Tulsa and graduated from Marquette High School in 1947. After high school, he served in the Korean War as a forward observer in the U.S. Marine Corps where he was awarded a Purple Heart.

David had a long career in the foundry and pattern business and served as president of Big Four Foundries Corp. and Coman Pattern Works for more than 50 years. He employed hundreds of people over the years in those businesses as well as several smaller companies.

David’s racing career started with drag racing on 15th Street when he was only 15.

He began racing again in more legal settings

beginning with stock cars at the Tulsa Fairgrounds Raceway. He later joined the Sports Car Club of America – first racing an Austin Healy Sprite and later an Alfa Romeo Spider. He continued his car enthusiasm after retiring from racing with a wide-collection of automobiles that included models of nearly every car he ever owned.

David and Lois Ann shared a deep gratitude for Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon and the effect that the programs have had in their lives.

Decades ago David Coman had the poem, Man in the Glass, prominently displayed in his office. The poem is about facing the mirror and reflecting on life. It very much depicts how David tried to live his own life.

Whether it was in dealing with employees, customers, friends or family – honesty, fairness, and his treatment of people were always at the forefront of his thoughts.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Saint Catherine Building Fund, 4532 S. 25th W. Ave., Tulsa, OK 74107 or Alzheimers Association Oklahoma, 2448 E. 81st St., Ste 3000, Tulsa, OK 74137.

The family would like to thank Saint Francis Hospice for their loving and supportive care. Friends will be received on Monday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. at Southwood Colonial Chapel. Funeral service 2 p.m., Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at Southwood Colonial Chapel, 3612 E. 91st St. So. with interment at Calvary Cemetery. Fitzgerald Southwood Colonial Chapel, 918.291.3500.

Sunday, June 16, 2013

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BY TIM STANLEY

World Staff Writer

BROKEN• ARROW• —• The• West• Texas• sky• was• so• big• and• grand,• Lafayette• Boone• couldn’t•help•but•stare•at•it.• It• was• a• habit• that• started• as• a• boy,• and• for• the• rest• of• his•life,•he•kept•an•eye•on•the• heavens,•following•the•newspaper’s• stargazer• column• religiously• and• reporting• the• weather•on•his•ham•radio.

But• for• Boone,• there• were• sights• on• the• Texas• plains• that•were•even•grander.

Namely,•Patsy•Fortenberry.

Lafayette• met• Patsy• at• church.•They•went•out•a•couple• of• times• for• a• Coke,• and• letters• would• go• back• and• forth• while• Lafayette• was• in• the•military.• It• didn’t• take• them• long• to• know•that•what•they•had•was• meant•to•last,•and•they•made• n

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Sixty• years• later,• it• still• seemed• like• yesterday• to• them.

Marvin• Lafayette• Boone,• 84,• died• Tuesday.• His• wife,• Patsy•Delores•Boone,•79,•died• Wednesday.

A• service• for• both• will• be• held•at•11•a.m.•Monday•at•The• Assembly• at• Broken• Arrow• under• the• direction• of• Hayhurst•Funeral•Home.

Lafayette• Boone• had• congestive• heart• failure• and• had• been•in•hospice•care,•but•Patsy• Boone’s• death• was• completely• unexpected,• family• members•said.

Although• she• had• been• in• good• health,• she• became• ill• within• minutes• of• her• husband’s• death.• Doctors• say• it• was•an•aneurysm.

Just• over• 24• hours• later,• Patsy•Boone•was•gone,•too.

The•Boones,•who•moved•to• Broken•Arrow•about•20•years• ago,• were• both• West• Texas• natives.• He• was• from• Dimmitt,•she•from•Lockney.

Senior• class• president• at• Turkey• (Texas)• High• School,•

OBITUARIES

Patsy and Lafayette Boone of Broken Arrow, who were married for 60 years, died within hours of each other last week. A service for both is set for Monday. Courtesy

where• he• graduated• in• 1947,• Lafayette• Boone• had• worked• for• the• Burlington• Northern• Railroad• after• school,• learning•to•operate•a•telegraph.

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Gordon’s free time was spent living as he advised others to live, without regret and filling his time with what made him happy. Riding around on his Harley, spending time with friends and listening to live music were his passions.

He is survived by family members, Kathlene Ladd, Elizabeth Massey, Amy Berry and Robert Gregory Greer, as well as his grandchildren, Abigayle and Greycie Brooks. He was preceded by his parents, Bob and Barbara Jean Greer and his nephew, Dustin Greer.

A celebration of the legacy of Gordon Greer’s life will be hosted on June 30, 2013, his 52nd birthday. The event will be held at Cimarron Bar, 2619 South Memorial Tulsa, OK 74129, at 4pm. If you are one of the many that Gordon “had a little faith in” please join us in celebration remembering him like one of his favorite songs represents so well. “When the road gets dark and you can no longer see, just let my love throw a spark an’ have a little faith in me”

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Constance “Connie” Kipf Turner, age 59 of Tulsa, OK was welcomed home to Heaven on June 13, 2013 after a courageous battle with cancer. She was born May 23, 1954 to Jan and Rich Kipf in Sioux City, IA. She held degrees in Sociology, Psychology and Theology. Growing up, Connie lived in Sioux City and Des Moines, IA and New Orleans, LA, but spent more than 40 years in Oklahoma including Oklahoma City, Edmond, Yukon, El Reno and Tulsa. Connie worked tirelessly for DHS in Oklahoma City for nearly 30 years before retiring. She married the love of her life, Earl Turner, in 1991, still of Tulsa, OK. She is also survived by: her parents, Jan and Rich Kipf; sons, Robert Kipf and James Truby; brothers, 9123129 0616 none Moore's Eastlawn

Bill, Doug and Pat Kipf; sister, Linda Madarang; granddaughters, Jessica and Amanda; great-grandson, Nicholas; and numerous nieces and nephews. Funeral service will be held at Epiphany of the Lord Catholic Church in Oklahoma City on Monday, June 17 at 2:00pm. Burial at Resurrection Cemetery. Viewing will be Sunday, 11am-9pm, with family present from 6-8pm at Mercer Adams. Remembrance service in Tulsa pending at a later date. Donations may be made to Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Tulsa, OK. To share a memory or condolence, visit www.mercer-adams.com. “I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.” Psalm 4:8

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Phyllis Watson was born September 5, 1933 in Ponca City, OK to George and Mildred Hawkins and passed from this life on Saturday, June 15, 2013. She had worked as a reservation agent at Avis Car Rental and was the previous owner of Laketime General Store in Zena, OK. Phyllis enjoyed sewing and knitting and made teddy bears for the police and the hospitals to provide to children through the Retired Seniors Volunteer Program. She was preceded in death by: her husband, Earl Watson; brother, Richard Hawkins and 3 grandchildren, Marty, Shawn and April. Phyllis is survived by: her daughter, Debra Watson of Winfield, IA; daughter, Judith Watson 9115421 0616 Gibble0616.jpg none

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No• one• imagined• then• what• was• in• store• just• a• few• months•later.

Hayhurst• remembers• how• just• minutes• after• her• dad• died• she• realized• with• shock• that•she•was•losing•her•mother,•too.

“Mom• started• to• have• a• headache.• She• sat• down• on• the•bed•and•said,•‘Jesus,•help• me.•I•can’t•do•this.•I•can’t•do• this.’•And•those•were•her•last• words.”

Patsy• Boone• lingered• for• hours• but• never• regained• consciousness.

“She•was•a•dedicated•Christian,•read•her•Bible•every•day• and• had• no• fear• of• death,”• Hayhurst• said.• “I• think• she• had• been• dreading• being• by• herself,• and• her• prayer• was• answered.”

The• Boones’• survivors• include• three• daughters,• Paula• Turn,• Pam• Hayhurst• and• Danita• Clark;• eight• grandchildren;• five• great-grandchildren;• and• his• sister,• Eldora•Workman.

Tim Stanley 918-581-8385 tim.stanley@tulsaworld.com

DEATH NOTICES

TULSA

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Gordon Greer, a lifelong Tulsa resident, was a crusader who devoted his life to helping those struggling with substance abuse. He forged a path for those who sought his assistance, guidance and love. Gordon’s time as a leader in this journey ended on June 9, 2013 at age 51.

He passed away in his lake home in Strang, Oklahoma, a place he cherished. Every possible weekend was spent fishing at the lake with his sidekick, DeeOGee, his beloved dog. This is a place that was filled with memories of family and friends.

The ride of his life is as diverse as those who called Gordon “friend”. Graduating from East Central in 1978 and continuing his education by obtaining his Bachelor degree from Langley University and a Master’s degree in Human Relations from the University of Oklahoma led to the co-founding of Accurate ADSAC Services Inc. with Kathlene Ladd. He became a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor through the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.

After• his• discharge,• he• returned• to• Burlington• Northern.

Patsy• graduated• from• Lockney•High•School•in•1951,• and• the• couple• married• the• next• year,• on• Oct.• 3,• 1952,• at• the•Assembly•of•God•in•Lockney.

Patsy• Boone• was• a• homemaker•for•a•number•of•years,• raising•their•three•daughters,• and• then• she• became• a• licensed• vocational• nurse• and• worked• at• Methodist• Hospital•in•Lubbock,•Texas,•where• the•family•lived.

Lafayette• Boone• retired• in• 1991•after•46•years•with•Burlington•Northern.

One• of• the• secrets• to• the• Boones’• successful• marriage,• family•members•say,•was•that• their• lives• revolved• around• church.• They• were• devout• members•and•very•involved.

“And• Mom• was• a• saint,”• said•their•daughter•Pam•Hayhurst•of•Broken•Arrow,•with•a• laugh.•She•added•that•her•father•knew•a•good•thing•when• he•found•one.

On•Oct.•3•last•year,•the•family• gathered• at• Polo• Grill• in• Tulsa• to• celebrate• the• couple’s• 60th• wedding• anniversary.

It• was• an• enjoyable• time.• They• could• never• know,• at• their• stage• of• life• and• with• Lafayette•Boone’s•heart•problems,• how• many• more• they• would•have.

Ayres, Terry Michael, 58, machinist, died Thursday. Private family services. Schaudt’s, Glenpool.

Bane, Mark Wesley, 44, qualitycontrol worker, died Thursday.

Memorial service 2 p.m.

Wednesday, Smith Funeral Home Chapel, Sapulpa.

Bedingfield, Glen Raymond, 88, former night club owner, died Friday in Chandler. Memorial service 2 p.m. Tuesday, ButlerStumpff Funeral Home Chapel.

Cremation Society.

Blood, Elva Charlotte, 99, homemaker, died June 7. Private family services. Moore’s Southlawn.

Cady, Rodney Eugene “Gene,” 59, Carmar Freezer Plant and Dana Corp. worker, died June 9. Memorial service 11 a.m.

Saturday, Fellowship Anchor of Hope Church, Keokuk, Iowa.

Mark Griffith-Westwood.

Crews, Ronald Joe, 78, horse trainer, died June 9. Memorial service 7 p.m. Monday, God’s Shining Light Church. Serenity.

Crow, Charles “Curtis,” 55, former Capp’s Truck and Van Rental employee, died Tuesday. Service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Exciting Southeast Baptist Church, Pryor. Locust Grove Funeral Home, Locust Grove.

Ernstsen, Randy Lee, 53, healthcare territory manager, died Thursday. Service 10 a.m.

Wednesday, Floral Haven Funeral Home Chapel, Broken Arrow.

Girouard, George, 92, retired petroleum engineer and wine grape breeder, formerly of Tulsa, died Friday in Oklahoma City. Funeral Mass 2 p.m. Friday, Christ the King Catholic Church. Fitzgerald Ivy. Gonzales, Atanacio T., 66, died Saturday. Service noon Monday, B’Nai Emunah Synagogue, and graveside service 3 p.m.

Monday, Emanuel Hebrew Cemetery, Oklahoma City.

Fitzgerald Ivy. Gowen, Virginia, 78, Lifetouch Pictures sorter, died Monday. Memorial service 2 p.m.

Wednesday, New Beginnings Baptist Church, Bixby. AdamsCrest Cremation.

Greer, Gordon Ray, 51, Accurate Alcohol Drug Substance Abuse Course Services cofounder and licensed alcohol and drug counselor, died June 9 in Strang. Celebration of life 4 p.m. June 30, Cimarron Bar. Gumm, Jewel Russell, 79, leather worker, died June 5.

Visitation noon-7 p.m. Monday, Serenity Funeral Home,

and service 2 p.m. Tuesday, First United Methodist Church, Hobart.

Hasler, Becky, 57, retired from Southwestern Bell Telephone, died Saturday. Services pending. Mark Griffith-Westwood.

Hereden, Glen C., 80, aeronautical supervisor, died Wednesday. Service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Floral Haven Funeral Home Chapel, Broken Arrow.

Hopkins, Dorothy Fern (Orer), 85, homemaker, died Saturday.

Services pending. Cremation Society.

Leonard, Elizabeth A., 63, homemaker, died Saturday.

Services pending. Johnson, Sperry.

Otto, Kenneth F., 73, computer analyst, died Saturday. Private family services. Cremation Society.

Page, Chrystine, 95, retired accountant, died Friday.

Graveside service 11 a.m. Tuesday, Rose Hill Memorial Park.

Ninde Brookside.

Shirk, Mary Lu, 96, homemaker, died Thursday. Service 10 a.m.

Monday, Memorial Park Cemetery Chapel. Ninde Brookside.

Slaughter, Randolph M., 97, diesel mechanic, died Friday.

Visitation 6-8 p.m. Monday and service 12:30 p.m.

Tuesday, both at Floral Haven Funeral Home, Broken Arrow.

Spencer, Betty R., 83, retired secretary, died Friday in Dewey. Service 11 a.m. Tuesday, Stumpff Funeral Home Chapel, Barnsdall. Moore’s Eastlawn.

Suits, Donald W., 64, librarian, died Tuesday. Private family services. Mark Griffith-Westwood.

Walker, Helen Willie Mae, 82, homemaker, died Friday. Visitation noon-8 p.m. Tuesday and service 10 a.m. Wednesday, both at Schaudt’s Funeral Home, Glenpool.

Watson, Phyllis, 79, former Laketime General Store owner, died Saturday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Monday and service 10 a.m. Tuesday, both at Moore’s Eastlawn Funeral Home.

Williams, Gerry, 87, homemaker, died Friday. Service 3 p.m.

Monday, Floral Haven Funeral Home Chapel, Broken Arrow.

STATE/AREA Funeral home, church and cemetery locations are in the city under which the death notice is listed unless otherwise noted.

Afton — Robert “Red” Klein, 74, welder, died Monday.

Graveside service 11 a.m. June 23, Woodland Cemetery, Iowa

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Blackwell — Mary (Lorg) Day, 61, hairstylist, died Friday in Oklahoma City. Memorial service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Anderson Funeral Home Chapel, Tonkawa.

Checotah — Bobby Lane, 84, retired from Muskogee Iron Works, died Thursday. Service 10:30 a.m. Monday, Lindsey Chapel Baptist Church, Eufaula. Garrett.

Claremore — Leonard Virgil Burns, 69, retired Postal Service letter carrier, died Saturday in Tulsa. Private family services. Musgrove-MerriottSmith.

— Dale F. Bruer, 80 retired from Rockwell, died Thursday.

Visitation noon-5 p.m. Sunday, Rice Funeral Home, and service 10 a.m. Monday, First Baptist Church.

— Barbara (Allen) Pollard, 85, retired teacher, died Thursday.

Visitation 6-8 p.m. Monday, Paul Thomas Funeral Home, Miami, Okla., and service 11 a.m. Tuesday, First Free Will Baptist Church, Miami.

Cleveland — Robert “Bob” Chronic, 86, retired Veale Brothers salesman, died Friday in Tulsa. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, Mobley-Dodson Funeral Home Chapel, Sand Springs.

Coffeyville, Kan. — Charles Eugene “Gene” Manley, 85, retired Manley Transfer Co. owner, died Saturday. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Monday, Barnes Funeral Home, and funeral Mass 10 a.m. Tuesday, Holy Name Catholic Church.

Collinsville — Kenneth Hale Tedder, 70, lawn-care worker, died Monday. Private family services. Mark Griffith-Westwood, Tulsa.

Coweta — Mary E. Knupp, 82, retired teacher, died Friday.

Visitation 6-8 p.m. Monday, Wright-Brown Funeral Home, and service 2 p.m. Tuesday, First Christian Church.

Depew — Alfred Robert Gamauf, 76, mechanical engineer, died Wednesday. Memorial service 10:30 a.m. Saturday, First Baptist Church. Cremation Society, Tulsa.

Dewey — L.G. Beard, 93, retired Central States Printing bindery foreman, died Friday. Services pending. Stumpff, Bartlesville.

Fort Gibson — Jess Clyde Wilson Jr., 44, construction worker, died June 9 in Fayetteville, Ark. Memorial service 4 p.m. Wednesday, Clifford D. Garrett Family Funeral Home Chapel.

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Accident kills 2 Tahlequah teens Two Tahlequah teenagers died early Saturday when they were thrown out of the bed of a pickup about 6 miles south of Tahlequah, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported.

Paul Blevins Jr., 19, and Michael Rogers, 14, were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, which happened at Indian Road and Pettit Bay Road in Cherokee County about 3:46 a.m., the OHP reported.

Six others were in the pickup, and five of them were taken to hospitals.

Troopers said a pickup driven by Ryan Molina, 22, of Tahlequah was westbound on Pettit Bay Road when it failed to stop at a stop sign, slid, struck a tree and ejected Blevins and Rogers; Michael Holcomb, 18; Christian Hooper, 22; Casey Kelly, 15; and Haley

Seal, 16, all from Tahlequah.

Blevins, Rogers, Kelly and Seal were riding in the bed of the pickup, according to the OHP report.

Molina, who was wearing a seat belt, had head and trunk injuries and was taken to Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa, where he was to be treated and released, the report states.

Troopers said Holcomb was taken to St. John Medical Center in Tulsa in critical condition; Hooper was treated at W.W. Hastings Hospital in Tahlequah and released; Kelly was treated at Tahlequah City Hospital and released; and Seal was taken to Saint Francis Hospital with leg injuries.

Another passenger, Toland Bitsilly, 23, of Newcomb, N.M., reportedly was not injured.

— DYLAN GOFORTH, World Staff Writer

Man guilty of sexual abuse faces life terms During that span, one girl ranged in age from 6 to 9 and the other ranged from 5 to 8, records show.

In the counts on which he was found guilty, Vann was accused of touching the girls’ private body parts, court records indicate.

Vann denied the allegations. He was found not guilty of two other sexual abuse counts, in which he was accused of showing the girls adult pornography.

Vann, who is listed with a Muskogee address on jail and court records, has been in the Tulsa Jail since December 2011.

— BILL BRAUN, World Staff Writer

Area of proposed Gathering Place for Tulsa

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Van Valkenburgh will be there to share his vision.

“I think the park is remarkably diverse and the kind of place it is hard to imagine people won’t come back to,” Van Valkenburgh said. “I think the design is incredibly successful in connecting the Blair (Mansion) site to the Arkansas River.”

The project is being funded by the George Kaiser Family Foundation at an estimated cost of $100 million to $150 million.

Jeff Stava, who is overseeing the park project for the foundation, said Van Valkenburgh’s team has addressed every design challenge thrown at it.

“The result is the creation of a new, dynamic public space capturing not only the city’s physical beauty but civic spirit as well — a place all Tulsans will enjoy,” Stava said.

Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates was selected to design the park in July 2011, but it was months earlier, on a snowy February day, that Van Valkenburgh and his team first laid eyes on the park property.

“Our breath was taken away with the generosity and the feeling of the Blair site and the challenge of how the rest of the site — which is this wonderful river’s edge — could somehow feel connected,” Van Valkenburgh said, “because, if you go there now, they feel really separate.”

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plan, which incorporates input gathered from five public meetings, call for ponds, playgrounds and land bridges connecting the Blair property to the River Parks trails.

The designers knew “that if we could figure out a way to tie that all together, we would have something much more powerful than what you have on the site today,” Van Valkenburgh said.

Although the final design won’t be made public until

People use a walkway in Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York on Thursday. The Brooklyn Bridge is at center left.

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Taylor spokeswoman Anna America said. “They want some time where they don’t have to spend the entire time thinking about a mayor’s race.”

All three candidates competed directly Tuesday under the city’s new voterapproved nonpartisan election system, and Bartlett and Taylor will appear on ballots Nov. 12 without party affiliations attached to their name.

But Bartlett’s campaign hopes party affiliations are as significant in November as they have ever been.

Campaign Manager Dan Patten said his staff has been meeting with Christiansen voters and will plan a strategy to convince them in coming months that they should support Bartlett as the race’s only remaining political conservative.

A recent Oklahoma Poll conducted by SoonerPoll. com indicates that Bartlett might have an easier time swaying them than Taylor, as

almost half of the 81 Christiansen supporters who took the poll named the mayor as their second choice, compared to 16 percent for Taylor.

Twenty-eight percent said they were undecided.

“We’re really focusing on rallying the Republican base behind us,” Patten said.

“We’re the Republican candidate. Tulsa runs best when it’s run by a conservative leader, and we’ll keep that going.”

He said he’s confident that Christiansen’s supporters will identify far better with Bartlett’s fiscally conservative management style than the “deficit spending” of

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Tuesday, the 61-year-old native of upstate New York let it be known that the original design differs somewhat from the final design.

“I think that what we hadn’t stressed at all in the early versions of the design was how much Tulsa is into eating outside — sort of the outdoor eating culture of the city,” Van Valkenburgh said. “People were like, ‘Oh, it would be great to go there and have places to get a beer,

barbecue, stuff like that.’ So that definitely changed the elements we included.”

Van Valkenburgh may be best known for his design of Brooklyn Bridge Park in Brooklyn, N.Y., with its magnificent views of New York Harbor and the Manhattan skyline.

He lives just blocks from the park and never stays away long.

“It is just magnetic to go and to be around that many people having a good time — just having fun, kicking back,” he said.

Van Valkenburgh expects the Gathering Place for Tulsa to have the same appeal — not simply because of its amenities, which will be numerous and varied, but because of its borrowed landscape.

“What a gift this site is — the site is incredible already,” he said. “That is what reminds me of Brooklyn Bridge Park.

“In Tulsa, the context is different, but it is very powerful — just a great place for somebody to ask you to design a park because it is already so good.”

The park, Van Valkenburgh believes, says a lot about the city.

“It is remarkably ambitious,” he said. “This level of care and regard for the quality of life in the city is reflected by the magnitude of the project.

“In its own way, it is sort of like Tulsa trying to make its own version of New York’s Central Park or San Francisco’s Crissy Field.”

Kevin Canfield 918-581-8313 Kevin.canfield@tulsaworld.com

A playground area near Pier 5 is seen in New York on Thursday in Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Taylor’s 2006-09 mayoral administration.

America said voters care more about a mayor’s stance on local issues such as trash collection and street repairs than party affiliations. That is why they approved a nonpartisan system in the first place, she said.

“It absolutely isn’t about and shouldn’t be about that, and I think it’s a disservice to Tulsans if a campaign tries to make this about partisanship,” America said.

She said Taylor will focus on the issues in the coming months by emphasizing her “stark differences” with Bartlett, not by “driving a wedge” with partisan poli-

tics.

Christiansen supporters, as well as voters who did not participate in the primary, will identify with Taylor’s strong leadership style and commitment to involving Tulsans in important decisions, America said.

She said those voters share Taylor’s view that Bartlett has been “tone-deaf ” to residents, particularly on issues such as trash.

“Two-thirds of Tulsans voted for a new mayor (on Tuesday), and we aim to make their wish come true,” she said.

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A man faces three life prison sentences upon being convicted Friday of sexually abusing two girls in Tulsa.

A Tulsa County jury found Joe Henry Vann Jr., 37, guilty of three counts of child sexual abuse and imposed a life term on each of those counts.

Assistant District Attorney Amanda Self said she is glad the trial resulted in “justice for those little girls.”

The counts allege that the girls, who are sisters, were abused during a three-year period that ended in July 2011.

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Glenpool — Gertrud Marie Kasper, 84, homemaker, died Thursday in Tulsa. Memorial service 10 a.m. Wednesday, Rose Hill Funeral Home Chapel, Tulsa.

Grove — John Adams, 77, died Saturday. Services pending.

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— Cecil Bryant Youngblood, 60, pipeline worker, died Friday.

Visitation 6-8 p.m. Monday, Grand Lake Funeral Home. No services planned.

— Rickey Earl Zube II, 49, Pride Plating Co. employee, died Thursday in Welch. Services pending. Worley-Luginbuel.

Haskell — Francis Rollins, 70, homemaker, died Thursday.

Service 3 p.m. Monday, First Assembly of God. Leonard & Marker, Bixby.

Jay — William T. “Terry” Meier, 57, laborer, died Saturday in Grove. Services pending.

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Kiefer — Ira E. Rongey, 84, oil and gas producer, died Friday in Tulsa. Services pending. Green Hill, Sapulpa.

Mannford — Richard Allen Casto, 67, retired from the Navy and heavy-equipment operator, died Saturday in Muskogee.

Services pending. Cremation Society, Tulsa.

— Kenneth McMenamy, 56, retired, died Saturday. Services pending. Moore’s Southlawn, Tulsa.

Muskogee — Etta Mae Coleman, 66, former L.E. Rader Center house supervisor, died Wednesday. Service 11 a.m.

Thursday, First Baptist Church, Taft. Kennedy-Kennard, Broken Arrow.

— Ray Jan Cook, 79, geophysicist, formerly of Muskogee, died May 29 in Houston. Memorial service 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, First Presbyterian Church, Fort Gibson. Millsap, Fort Gibson.

— Marion F. Graves, 84, minister, died Friday. Service 2 p.m.

Tuesday, First Baptist Church.

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— W.T. Lewis Jr., 59, cab driver, died Thursday in Tulsa. Graveside service 11 a.m. Monday,

Fort Gibson National Cemetery, Fort Gibson. LescherMillsap.

Ochelata — Johnny E. Gardner Sr., 87, retired from Cities Service, died Friday in Dewey.

Visitation 6-8 p.m. Monday and service 10 a.m. Tuesday, both at Davis Funeral Home, Dewey.

Okmulgee — Minnie A. Williams, 90, died Wednesday.

Service 10 a.m. Monday, Jackson Funeral Home Chapel.

Owasso — Ronald L. “Ron” DeBlanc, 36, chemist, died Thursday. Visitation 2-6 p.m.

Sunday, Mowery Funeral Home, and service 2 p.m.

Monday, First United Methodist Church.

— Wiley R. Morton, 77, welder, died Thursday. Visitation 2-4 p.m. Sunday and service 2 p.m. Monday, both at Mowery Funeral Home.

Salina — Sam Matlock, 84, sheet metal worker, died Friday in Tulsa. Services pending.

Stephens, Pryor.

— Virdie Loretta Monk, 79, retired nurse’s aide, died Friday in Tulsa. Visitation 6-8 p.m. Monday, Key Funeral Home, Pryor, and service 10 a.m. Tuesday, Church of God Holiness.

Sand Springs — Frankie Burnell, 89, church pianist, died Friday in Sherman, Texas. Service 2 p.m. Tuesday, First Baptist Church, Yale. Dillon & Smith.

Sapulpa — Victoria Naifeh, 93, homemaker, died Thursday.

Service 11 a.m. Tuesday, Good Shepherd Episcopal Church.

Smith.

Sperry — Betty J. Hughes, 76, homemaker, died Saturday.

Services pending. Mark Griffith-Westwood, Tulsa.

Tahlequah — Paul Blevins Jr., 19, student, died Saturday. Services pending. Green Country.

— Mary Ann (Schubert) Coombes, 83, homemaker, died Friday. Visitation 1-8 p.m.

Sunday and service 11 a.m.

Monday, both at Hart Funeral Home.

Vinita — Darrell Mahan, 74, died Saturday. Services pending. Mark Griffith-Westwood, Tulsa.

Wagoner — Donna R. Elbon, 64, clerical worker, died Wednesday. Service 2 p.m.

Monday, Shipman Funeral Home Chapel.

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John K. Gray, retired Tulsa Police officer

cannot trust the officer or the judge can’t trust the attorney or whatever; the system fails to do its job,” Tulsa County First Assistant District Attorney Doug Drummond said.

“To me the lesson learned … is that if the integrity of the whole system is questioned by the public, then we all suffer.”

The scandal involving corruption within the Tulsa Police Department culminated two years ago, when the first of two federal trials against five officers took place.

Three officers were tried from May 31 to June 10, 2011.

Two others faced trial from Aug. 1 to Aug. 24, 2011.

The federal investigation resulted in charges against six former Tulsa police officers and a former federal agent, as well as additional accusations of criminal behavior against five unindicted officers.

Three officers and an agent for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives went to prison. Three officers were fired, and one retired.

Gray

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•• Hired•in•2002,•resigned•in• September•2009 •• Cooperated•with•prosecutors •• After•pleading•guilty•to•drug• conspiracy,•sentenced•to•21• months•in•prison McFadden •• Being•held•at•a•halfway• house•under•the•supervision•of• the•Bureau•of•Prisons’•Dallas•region.•Scheduled• for•release•July•20.•

Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan’s image is reflected as he speaks during an interview. MIKE•SIMONS/Tulsa•World

trust is key to the judicial system.

“There’s no way our office can oversee or micromanage every officer on the street, just like the judge can’t micromanage every attorney in my office,” Drummond said.

Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett said the period since the trials has been a time of rehabilitation resulting in much better policing of Tulsa.

“We’ve cleaned up the problems,” Bartlett said. “We’ve quite aggressively supported the investigation and the judicial proceedings.”

Bartlett said the public’s trust “was obviously put in jeopardy by a few people that were not playing by the rules.”

He credited Jordan and his staff with implementing changes in policy that have been well received.

Jordan said the policy changes — including a “you lie, you die” policy, meaning any officer who is found to have lied about a case will be fired, and stricter regulations on confidential informants — have helped officers do their jobs.

Following the police corruption trials, only one officer, Officer Sandy Bayles, was terminated or otherwise punished under the “duty to be truthful” policy.

According to Bayles’ personnel order, she entered false information on a Tulsa Police Citizen Crime Report and a petition for a protective order in 2011. Bayles also gave “untruthful statements” during an Internal Affairs interview, the order states.

Another major policy change regarded use and documentation of confidential informants. The issue was a linchpin in the trials, which included testimony that officers falsified informants and used others to deal drugs.

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the arm and then found Sanders’ body in woods near the 1000 block of North Terrace Place — less than a mile from where he had been reported missing.

The remains were identified in October through a dental comparison.

The report states that no evidence of acute injury was found on Sanders’ body, although because of the incomplete remains and heavy degree of decomposition, pre-death injuries could be “obscured.”

Sanders’ left arm and the majority of his right foot were missing, the report states.

Much of the skin on the body was either mummified or missing, leaving many exposed bones. The report notes carnivore damage to many portions of the body.

Court records show that Sanders was wanted in Muskogee County in a 2009 case on charges of first-degree burglary and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

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ators who have never faced charges.

“I think reading that cops had been arrested emboldened some people thinking that we may be very careful and back off because we didn’t want any publicity,” Jordan said.

“I think you will find that the vast majority (of criminals) found that that was not true, and they were still arrested for their crimes. And we’re going to keep on doing business as usual — putting bad guys in jail.”

Kevin Adams, a Tulsa lawyer who has helped five wrongfully convicted people gain release, has been involved in at least one lawsuit against the city. Adams said he doesn’t think much has changed with the department.

“All you hear is, ‘Bad guy, bad guy, bad guy,’ ” Adams said. “I think they just have the wrong mentality. … You can’t call someone else bad without calling yourself good. And if they are bad and you’re good, then you can justify in your mind whatever it requires in order to catch the guy.”

Adams said the change he has seen since the corruption cases has been from judges who are more skeptical when he is defending clients.

Drummond said he thinks the Tulsa Police Department has improved greatly and that new policies sparked by the corruption trials have strengthened cases prosecuted by the Tulsa County District Attorney’s Office.

Judges more skeptical “When they are using informants, we are more in the The World attempted to loop,” Drummond said. “We contact several officers who know a lot more of what’s gowere involved in the trials ing on over there.” directly or through their former attorneys. None could be ‘You lie, you die’ reached for comment.

With prosecutors filing The grand jury probe and court records named three 5,000 to 6,000 cases a year Tulsa police officers as un- based on law enforcement inindicted alleged co-conspir- vestigations, Drummond said

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Jeff Henderson, former Tulsa Police officer

‘Wrongly accused’

The manner and cause of death of a man whose body was found decomposed in Muskogee in September could not be determined, according to a Medical Examiner’s Office report.

Ronald Ernesto Sanders, 46, was reported missing in August after he traveled to Muskogee from his home in Florida. His remains were located Sept. 28 after residents reported seeing a dog running down the street with a human arm in its mouth.

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Jordan said the city’s handling of lawsuits that followed the corruption scandal and judicial rulings in those cases show that the problem was isolated.

The officers and divisions that bore some collateral blame or were “falsely accused” have been recovering, as well, Jordan said.

“Internally, we’ve come together very well,” he said. “I think the biggest emotions to overcome were people that were wrongly accused. That’s always hard if you’re an honest cop and someone accuses you of being corrupt.”

At least 16 lawsuits have been filed in state and federal court as a result of the corruption, claiming that the city and various officials bear responsibility for the actions of corrupt police officers that resulted in wrongful arrests and imprisonment. The city has been dismissed from seven cases but is still a defendant in nine cases — all in federal court.

On June 4, a U.S. district judge ruled that one of the suits could go to jury trial, the first such ruling in the wake of the corruption trials. Bobby Wayne Haley, 58, filed his lawsuit in Tulsa federal court in June 2010 after being released from prison, where he had served four years of a 22-year sentence in a federal cocaine case.

The June 4 ruling in his case could set a precedent for other civil cases pending against the city to also go to trial.

At least 48 people have been freed from prison or had their cases modified because of civil rights violations or problems with their cases stemming from the police corruption.

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tial informants are now reviewed on a regular basis to establish that they are viable.

“Informants are affirmed and reaffirmed,” he said.

“Part of the problem is we (thought we) were such an honest police department, so no one was looking for it.”

The Police Department is also running financial background checks on potential new hires — in addition to standard criminal background checks — to try to identify any money problems candidates may have had, Jordan said.

Since 2008, complaints sent to Internal Affairs have dropped steadily — from 215 total complaints in 2008 to

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105 last year, according to TPD records.

The year-to-date comparison of this year to 2012 also shows a drop — from 58 to 39.

The World requested all disciplinary records of officers and TPD employees since the first trial.

Tulsa police released 22 personnel orders related to disciplinary action that resulted in loss of pay, suspension or demotion.

Of the 22 actions, there were six terminations, including three related to the corruption trials. One termination involved an employee who was not an officer.

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ployee had received suspensions without pay for a total time of 348 hours.

The highest penalty was a 120-hour suspension for an assault, and the lowest was one day — eight hours — for conduct unbecoming an officer, the records indicate.

Jordan said the legacy of the corruption scandal in the Tulsa Police Department will be as a learning experience.

Drummond agreed, saying improvements can continue to strengthen the system.

“We’ll just take it one day at a time,” he said.

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Sports

B1 Sunday | June 16, 2013 | tulsaworld.com

Volleyball: Matt Anderson and Team USA defeats France in 5 sets Saturday. B2

Mickelson keeps Open lead U.S. Open

BY DOUG FERGUSON

At Merion Golf Club, Ardmore, Pa.

Associted Press

11 a.m. Sunday

ARDMORE, Pa. — Phil Mickelson began his week with a flight back-and-forth across the country.

Even longer might be the 18 holes that now stand between him and that U.S. Open title he has been chasing his entire career.

And he has never had a better opportunity than this one.

Despite a bogey on the final hole of a taxing Saturday afternoon, Mickelson was the sole survivor to par at Merion with an even-par 70 that gave him a one-shot lead over

TV: KJRH-9/2

Leaderboard Phil Mickelson Hunter Mahan Charl Schwartzel Steve Stricker Justin Rose Luke Donald Billy Horschel Jason Day Rickie Fowler a-Michael Kim

209 210 210 210 211 211 211 212 213 214

-1 Even Even Even +1 +1 +1 +2 +3 +4

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T Phil Mickelson celebrates after making a birdie putt on the 17th hole Saturday during the third round of the U.S. Open in Ardmore, Pa. JULIO CORTEZ/AP

Griner, Delle Donne, Shock’s Diggins have delivered so far

BY MIKE BROWN

M World Sports Writer

AY 27, MEMORIAL Day, was a red-letter day for the WNBA. A nationally televised battle of the league’s top 2013 draft picks delivered 455,000 viewers — most for a WNBA game on ESPN2 in nine years.

Fans saw two historic dunks by No. 1 draft pick Brittney Griner of the Phoenix Mercury, and 22 points by No. 2 selection Elena Delle Donne as the Chicago Sky defeated the Mercury, 102-80.

Earlier in the same day, another 314,000 viewers watched the WashUp next ington Mystics’ Vs. Phoenix overtime win over 3:30 p.m. Sunday the Tulsa Shock and No. 3 draft pick Radio: Skylar Diggins.

Chrome fm93.5 The combined viewership represented a 60 percent For more jump over last year’s Probable startopening TV doubleers for Sunday’s header. game. B3 Griner, Delle Donne and Diggins brought new awareness to women’s college basketball.

WNBA officials are hopeful the talented trio will now do the same thing at the next level.

In March, ESPN announced a six-year extension of its partnership with the WNBA, through 2022. The league’s April player draft was televised in prime time for the first time.

“The league and ESPN have committed a lot of resources to promoting

Skylar Diggins Tulsa Shock, 5-9 guard Gms. Pts. 7 9.1

Reb. 2.4

FG% .270

FT% .808

Ast. 4.1

Stl. 1.1

TOs 3.9

Blk. 0.3

Note: Had a season-low two points in Friday’s loss to Minnesota. Dished 11 assists in her second pro start.

Averages 33.2 minutes per game, 10th in the league.

THREE TO S E E Brittney Griner

Elena Delle Donne

Phoenix Mercury, 6-8 center FG% FT% .595 .667

Chicago Sky, 6-5 forward Ast. 1.0

Stl. 0.8

TOs Blk. 2.3 2.8

Gms. Pts. 5 19.4

Note: Tied for league lead in blocked shots. Scored season-low 10 points in Friday’s win over L.A. Sparks after sitting previous game with left knee sprain.

Reb. .4.8

FG% .458

FT% .920

Ast. 2.2

Stl. 0.2

TOs 1.6

Blk. 2.6

Note: Fourth in the league in scoring. Had 22 points and eight rebounds in pro debut vs. Phoenix and has scored 20 or more three times.

Skylar Diggins photo by GARETT FISBECK/Tulsa World; photo illustration by GREG STARK/Tulsa World

Checknology

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IME LONG AGO stole their youth, but it never dimmed their enthusiasm.

Not even 50 years could do that.

Members of Tulsa’s 1963 Babe Ruth League World Series champion gathered for their 50th reunion Friday at a midtown restaurant. Good food and great memories and tall tales of short pitchers filled up the night.

They were adolescent boys when manager Charles “Bud” Barkley first gathered together his all-star squad of 14- and 15-year-olds.

John E. Now they’re grandlawyers, Hoover fathers, coaches, plumbers, dentists, some reSports Columnist john.hoover tired, some not. @tulsaworld.com “A lot of us are 918-581-8384 still here,” said Twitter: Don Jernigan, the @JohnEHoover reunion’s chief organizer and an outfielder on that amazing team. “We’re close. We just stayed together and played well together. That’s what made us so good as a team.”

In all, seven of the 14 players showed up Friday. One, Bob Daily, died in 1970, the day he graduated from the University of Arkansas. Nobody could find another. The five others simply couldn’t make it this time.

SEE HOOVER B5

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Gms. Pts. Reb. 4 15.0 6.5

Ballplayers reunite to celebrate 50 years

YOUR CHECKING

Rockies have Gray in place he needs to be

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VERY PLAYER IS different and all of the variables in the future career of Oklahoma star Jonathan Gray were considered before the Colorado Rockies sent their No. 1 pick to Grand Junction, Colo., in the rookie level Pioneer League.

“We spend a lot of time and energy in trying to make sure we place our draft picks in the right spot,” said Marcus Gustafson, Rockies senior director of scouting operations. “It isn’t just about the talent level or maturity.

There are a lot of factors.

“One of the things we always look at is workload. These days, a lot of these players play yearround. They get a lot of innings in a year. So, No. 1 on our list for our draft picks is to protect their workload and health.”

John Gray is not coming to Tulsa this summer, Klein or at least that is the Senior Sports plan. He needs some Columnist work and the Rockies john.klein are in no hurry. @tulsaworld.com “To be honest, 918-581-8368 we don’t put much Twitter: @JohnKleinTW emphasis on where our players start in the minors,” Gustafson said. “We’re far more concerned about where they end up. We want them eventually to be in Denver.

“We wanted to place him where his workload would be appropriate.”

Reportedly, the Rockies have never sent a highly-drafted player directly to Double-A baseball or above.

Now, Gray and many of his fellow rookies — the Rockies drafted 21 players rated in Baseball America’s top 500 prospects — are settling into their first professional seasons. Colorado understands that is a huge transition.

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Looking Ahead Drillers Shock Vs. Phoenix: 3:30 p.m.

••Lotman•comes•off•the• bench•to•help•lead•the• Americans,•who•improve• to•3-1•in•Pool•A.

At Springfield: 7:09 p.m.

At Springfield: 7:09 p.m.

At Springfield: 6:09 p.m.

USA trips France to take series

TUE 6-18

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SUN 6-16

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Radio: KTBZ am1430 Tickets: 918-744-5901 Web: tulsaworld.com/drillers

Tickets: 918-949-9700 Web: tulsaworld.com/shock

SAT 6-22

THU 6-20

Vs. Seattle: 7 p.m.

Vs. Chicago: 11:30 a.m.

BY KELLY HINES

World Sports Writer

Television/Radio TV

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2 p.m........... North Carolina State vs. North Carolina........ESPN2-26 7 p.m........... UCLA vs. LSU .........................................................ESPN2-26 MLB

Noon ........... Chicago Cubs at N.Y. Mets.................................WGN-2 Noon ........... St. Louis at Miami.................................................Cox-3, FSP-68 ...... KITO-96.1 12:30 p.m... L.A. Dodgers at Pittsburgh................................TBS-47 2 p.m........... Toronto at Texas ...................................................FSOK-27 ................ KYAL-97.1 7:05 p.m. ... Texas League: Tulsa at Springfield ................................................... KTBZ-1430 7 p.m........... San Francisco at Atlanta ....................................ESPN-25 NBA FINALS

7 p.m........... Miami at San Antonio .........................................KTUL-8................... KAKC-1300 WNBA

3:30 p.m. ... Tulsa vs. Phoenix .................................................................................... Chrome-93.5 GOLF

11 a.m. ......... U.S. Open ................................................................KJRH-9/2 MOTOR RACING

Noon ........... NASCAR Sprint Cup Quicken Loans 400 .....TNT-29................... KTBZ-1430 SOCCER

4:45 p.m. ... Confederations Cup: Spain vs. Uruguay .......ESPN-25

SPORTS: FYI Hockey

Ovechkin wins Hart Trophy as MVP: Alex Ovechkin capped his great season with the NHL’s biggest award.

The Washington Capitals right wing won his third Hart Trophy, given to the league’s MVP, on Saturday night, beating out Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby and John Tavares of the New York Islanders. Ovechkin led the NHL with 32 goals during the regular season, the first time he’s led the league in scoring since 2009, when he won his second straight Hart Trophy.

Ovechkin is the eighth player to win three or more Harts, joining Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Bobby Clarke, Bobby Orr, Gordie Howe, Eddie Shore and Howie Morenz.

The vote was expected to be close after Ovechkin and Crosby tied for fourth in the NHL with 56 points, despite the Penguins center missing 12 games with a broken jaw. And it was, with Ovechkin edging Crosby by just 32 points (1,090-1,058) in voting by members of the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association.

Crosby did, however, win the Ted Lindsay Award from his fellow NHL Players’ Association members as the league’s best player.

In other awards announced before Game 2 of the Stanley Cup finals, Montreal’s P.K. Subban won his first Norris Trophy, given to the NHL’s top defenseman. Subban topped the league’s defensemen with 11 goals and 27 assists, and was largely responsible for Montreal’s resurgence.

Sergei Bobrovsky of the Columbus Blue Jackets won the Vezina Trophy, given to the NHL’s top goaltender.

Motor sports

Ryan Hunter-Reay wins at Milwaukee again: Ryan Hunter-Reay continued Andretti Autosport’s domination at the Milwaukee Mile, winning the IndyCar event Saturday for the second year in a row.

Hunter-Reay became the first driver to win backto-back races at the Mile since Tony Kanaan in 2006 and 2007 when he was driving for — you guessed it, Andretti.

Andretti drivers have won five of the last nine races at the mile oval and nearly had a perfect day Saturday in a race that is promoted by Michael Andretti’s marketing company. Hunter-Reay got the win, E.J. Viso finished fourth and James Hinchcliffe was fifth.

IndyCar Series points leader Helio Castroneves was second and followed by Penske Racing teammate Will Power as Chevrolet swept the podium. It was the first podium finish this season for Power, who hasn’t won a race since Brazil last year.

NHRA Pro Stock leader Mike Edwards tops qualifying:

Pro Stock points leader Mike Edwards topped qualifying Saturday in his bid for a fifth consecutive NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals victory.

Edwards took the top spot at Bristol Dragway with his Friday run of 6.632 seconds at a track-record 208.23 mph. The Chevy Camaro driver will face JR Carr in the first round Sunday.

Spencer Massey led the Top Fuel lineup and Del Worsham topped the Funny Car order.

Football

After tryout, Jets sign TE Winslow to 1-year deal: Kellen Winslow Jr. turned a three-day tryout into another chance at reviving his NFL career.

The former Pro Bowl tight end was signed to a oneyear deal by the New York Jets on Friday after a solid performance during the team’s minicamp this week.

Winslow was brought in on a tryout basis and impressed coach Rex Ryan, who wouldn’t comment Thursday as to whether a signing was imminent but seemed to indicate he was pleased with what he saw.

Winslow received a call from the Jets last Saturday, flew to the New York area Monday and was practicing the next day. He was active during the minicamp practices, making several catches on throws from both Mark Sanchez and Geno Smith. He was also used redzone drills, in particular, with a few of his receptions coming in those situations.

Winslow, who turns 30 next month but said his sometimes troublesome knees were healthy, adds depth to a position thin on experience after New York allowed Dustin Keller to leave as a free agent.

Soccer

Protesters rally before Confederations Cup opener:

About 1,000 protesters complaining about the high cost of staging the World Cup demonstrated in front of the National Stadium in Brasilia just hours before Brazil played Japan in the opening match of the Confederations Cup on Saturday.

Riot and mounted police were called up to keep demonstrators from getting too close to the stadium as thousands of fans arrived for the inaugural match in the nation’s capital. The protesters started chanting and marching about a mile away from the venue.

Tear gas bombs were thrown by the police and pepper spray was used to try to control the protesters as they moved near the venue. Local media said police later shot rubber bullets to disperse the crowd and at least two people were injured, including a 16-year-old student. Authorities said 15 people were arrested.

The match was not disrupted by the protest and Brazil won 3-0 in front of a crowd of 67,423 people.

— FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS

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Paul• Lotman’s• serve• bounced• off• the•top•of•the•net,•and•he•leaned•forward•as•if•to•will•it•over.

The• ball• seemed• to• hang• in• the• air• before• dropping• untouched• on• France’s• side• of• the• court,• giving• Lotman• a• third• straight• point• and• second• consecutive• ace• during• a• momentum-changing•comeback.

“I•wasn’t•going•for•aces,”•Lotman• said•Saturday•night.•“I•was•just•trying• to• hit• a• good• serve• and• give• us• a•chance•to•score•some•points.•I•got• lucky•on•one•of•them.”

With• Lotman’s• late-set• heroics,• Team• USA• forced• a• decisive• fifth• set,• which• the• fifth-ranked• Americans• again• won• to• pick• up• the• 3-2• match• victory• (22-25,• 25-22,• 2426,•30-28,•15-9)•in•the•FIVB•World• League• tournament• at• the• Tulsa• Convention•Center.

Lotman•was•selected•match•MVP• after• coming• off• the• bench• to• pace• the•U.S.•with•21•points,•including•18• kills•and•two•aces.

“That’s• the• second• time• we’ve• brought•him•off•the•bench•and•he’s• performed• very• well• for• us,”• U.S.• coach•John•Speraw•said.•“I•think•he• is• more• experienced• than• some• of• the• other• guys• we’ve• played• there.• He•comes•in•and•gives•us•that•experience•and•that•confidence.”

After• handing• No.• 15• France• an• embarrassing• 3-0• defeat• Friday• night,•the•Americans•knew•it•would• be•a•tall•task•to•repeat.

“Certainly,•the•French•team•I•saw• tonight• is• far• better• than• the• score• indicated• last• night,”• Speraw• said.• “Tonight•they•dug•a•lot•of•balls•and• really• got• themselves• out• of• some• difficult•situations.”

The•French•came•out•strong•and•

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jumped• to• an• 18-12• advantage• before•taking•the•first•set•25-22.•In•the• second,•the•U.S.•took•its•first•lead•on• a•Lotman•kill•at•8-7•and•eked•out•a• 25-22•win.

The•third•and•fourth•sets•provided•high•drama•for•the•home•crowd,• with•neither•team•leading•by•more• than• three• points.• Behind• a• big• night•from•Earvin•Ngapeth,•who•accounted• for• 23• points,• France• held• on•to•claim•the•third•set•26-24.

In• the• fourth,• the• Americans• trailed• by• three• before• Lotman’s• one-man• rally.• The• U.S.• twice• benefited•from•out-of-bound•serves•en• route•to•a•30-28•win.

By• the• time• the• fifth• set• arrived,• the• French• appeared• to• have• run• out• of• gas.• USA• captain• Matt• Anderson• torched• them• for• four• kills,• including•the•15-9•winner.

Anderson,• the• MVP• on• Friday• night,• finished• with• 18• kills• and• three• blocks.• David• Smith• had• 14• kills,•three•blocks•and•an•ace.• The• Americans• leave• Tulsa• with• the• 2-0• series• win• and• move• to• 3-1• in•World•League•Pool•A.•They•next• face•Bulgaria•in•Reno,•Nev.,•on•June• 28-29.

“I• couldn’t• be• prouder• of• our• team,”• Lotman• said.• “This• was• a• great•test•for•us•and•we•learned•a•lot• about• ourselves,• and• we’ve• grown• from•this.”

Miss. St. edges Oregon St.

••The•Bulldogs•rally• in•the•eighth,•will• face•Indiana•next.

BY ERIC OLSON

Associated Press

OMAHA,•Neb.•—•Mississippi• State’s• Wes• Rea• went• to• bat• in• the• eighth• inning• expecting• to• see• a• changeup,• and• Oregon• State• pitcher• Matt• Boyd• didn’t• disappoint•him.

Rea•drove•the•ball•into•rightcenter• for• a• two-run• double• that•gave•the•Bulldogs•the•lead,• and• closer• Jonathan• Holder• worked• out• of• trouble• twice• to• secure•a•5-4•victory•Saturday•in• the•opening•game•of•the•College• World•Series.

“I’m• fortunate• enough• I’ve• been• up• at• the• plate• in• these• situations• and• have• been• able• to• get• it• done,”• Rea• said.• “It’s• something• I• take• a• lot• of• pride• in• when• there• are• runners• in• scoring•position.”

The• Bulldogs• (49-18)• advanced• to• a• Monday• game• against• Indiana,• a• 2-0• winner• over• Louisville.• The• Beavers• (50-12),•the•No.•3•national•seed,• are•one•loss•from•elimination.

There• still• were• some• anxious• moments• for• the• Bulldogs• after•Rea’s•big•hit.

Oregon• State• had• two• runners• on• base• with• one• out• in• the•eighth,•but•Holder•got•a•flyout•and•struck•out•pinch-hitter• Joey•Jansen.

The•Beavers•had•two•runners• on• base• with• one• out• again• in• the• ninth• after• Holder• pitched• carefully• to• Michael• Conforto• and• walked• him.• It• wasn’t• bad• strategy.• Conforto• had• reached• base•four•times.

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x-ifȕnecessary SATURDAY Gameȕ1: Mississippi State 5, Oregon State 4 Gameȕ2: Indiana 2, Louisville 0 SUNDAY Gameȕ 3: North Carolina (57-10) vs. N.C. State (49-14), 2 p.m., ESPN2 Gameȕ 4: UCLA (44-17) vs. LSU (57-9), 7 p.m., ESPN2 MONDAY Gameȕ5: Oregon State (50-12) vs. Louisville (51-13), 2 p.m., ESPN2 Gameȕ6: Mississippi State (49-18) vs. Indiana (49-18), 7 p.m., ESPN2 TUESDAY Gameȕ 7: Game 3 loser vs. Game 4 loser, 2 p.m., ESPN

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“I•definitely•didn’t•want•Conforto• to• beat• me,”• Holder• said.• “He•had•been•pretty•hot•early•in• the•game•so•I•was•kind•of•taking• a• pattern-two• kind• of• mentality•to•him.•I•wasn’t•going•to•let• him•really•get•off•a•good•swing• and• hurt• us,• so• I• was• all• right• with• the• walk• and• try• to• get• a• groundball•with•the•next•guy.”

Holder• actually• struck• out• the•next•batter,•Dylan•Davis,•before• Danny• Hayes• drove• a• ball• to• right• that• Hunter• Renfroe• caught•on•the•warning•track•to• end•the•game.•Hayes•threw•his• helmet•to•the•ground•as•Renfroe• gloved• the• ball,• and• the• Bulldogs• came• pouring• out• of• the• dugout•in•celebration.

“Yeah,• I• think• everybody• might•have•had•a•shaky•feeling• there,”•said•Holder,•who•earned• his•19th•save.

Renfroe’s• hard• comebacker• off• the• leg• of• Boyd• (10-4)• put• runners• on• first• and• second• in• the• eighth• for• the• Bulldogs.• Rea• then• drove• Boyd’s• firstpitch• changeup• into• the• rightcenter• gap.• Andy• Detz• scored•

easily•and•Renfroe•beat•second• baseman• Andy• Peterson’s• relay• throw•home.

“The• swing• Wes• makes• is• symbolic•of•what•he’s•been•doing• the• last• three• weeks,”• Bulldogs• coach• John• Cohen• said.• “He’s• been• crunching• the• ball• and•he’s•getting•big,•big•hits•for• us.”

Ross• Mitchell• (13-0)• pitched• 2 ⅔• shutout• innings• before• turning•the•game•over•to•Holder.

Indiana 2, Louisville 0:• Junior• Joey• DeNato• tossed• a• four-hit• shutout,• striking• out• eight• and• walking• three,• as• the• Hoosiers• (49-18)• advanced• to• play• Mississippi•State•on•Monday.

DeNato• was• treated• to• a• 1-0• lead• before• taking• the• mound.• Scott• Donley• singled• in• Kyle• Schwarber•with•two•outs•in•the• top•of•the•first•inning•for•the•goahead•run.

The• Hoosiers• added• an• insurance• run• two• innings• later.• Michael• Basil’s• one-out,• bases-loaded• single• scored• Will• Nolden,• who• had• opened• the• frame•by•drawing•a•walk.

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ȕȕ Doubleȕelimination

Bruins win in OT, tie series

BY ANDREW SELIGMAN Associated Press

CHICAGO• —• Daniel• Paille• scored•in•overtime•and•the•Boston•Bruins•defeated•the•Chicago• Blackhawks• 2-1• Saturday• to• tie• the• Stanley• Cup• finals• at• one• game•apiece.

The• Blackhawks• failed• to• clear•the•puck•along•the•boards.• Tyler•Seguin•picked•it•up•and•delivered•a•cross-ice•pass•to•Paille,• who•beat•Corey•Crawford•on•his• glove•side•for•the•winner•at•13:48• of•the•extra•period.

Game•3•is•Monday•at•Boston.

It’s• the• second• consecutive• year•that•the•first•two•games•of• the•finals•have•gone•to•overtime,• this•one•coming•after•the•Blackhawks• won• a• triple-OT• thriller• 4-3•in•Game•1.

Crawford• and• Boston’s• Tuukka• Rask• were• outstanding• in• goal• again• after• coming• up• big•

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in•the•opener,•turning•away•shot• after•shot•in•the•extra•period•until•Paille•scored.

Jaromir•Jagr•just•missed•scoring• the• game-winner• in• the• opening•minutes•of•OT•when•his• shot•from•the•right•circle•hit•the• right•post,•his•second•near•miss• in• as• many• games.• Chris• Kelly,• who•scored•in•the•second•period• for•Boston,•had•a•shot•from•the• slot•stopped•by•Crawford•at•5:39• of•overtime.

Rask• also• stood• his• ground• down•the•stretch,•just•as•he•did•

in• the• opening• period,• when• Chicago•fired•away•at•him.

The•Blackhawks•swarmed•the• Bruins•in•the•early•going,•taking• the• lead• in• the• first• on• Patrick• Sharp’s• ninth• goal• of• the• postseason.

They•continued•to•dictate•the• tempo• until• Kelly• tied• it• with• just• over• five• minutes• remaining• in• the• second.• Paille• skated• out•from•behind•the•net,•beating• Nick•Leddy•with•a•neat•move•for• a• wraparound• shot.• Crawford• made•the•save,•but•Kelly•crashed• the• net• and• knocked• in• the• rebound•to•tie•it•at•1-all.

The•Bruins•nearly•grabbed•the• lead•with•just•over•a•minute•remaining,• after• Paille• picked• off• Duncan•Keith’s•pass•and•flipped• the• puck• to• a• breaking• Brad• Marchand.• He• got• pulled• down• by•Brent•Seabrook•as•his•shot•hit• the•inside•of•the•right•post,•preserving•the•tie.

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DRILLERS

ON THE ROAD

Travs topple Drillers, 1-0 Summary: Arkansas’ Randal Grichuk led off the bottom of the eighth inning with a home run off Tulsa relief pitcher Juan Gonzalez to give the host Travelers a 1-0 victory over the Drillers on Saturday at Dickey-Stephens Park in North Little Rock, Ark. Notable: Four Arkansas pitchers limited the Drillers to four hits in the shutout. … The Drillers hold a half-game lead over Springfield and Arkansas in the Texas League North Division with two games left in the season’s first half.

Up next: At Springfield, 6:09 p.m. Sunday.

Probable starters: Tulsa — Christian Bergman (3-5, 3.10 ERA); Springfield — TBD. Next home game: 7:05 p.m.

Thursday vs. Northwest Arkansas.

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San Antonio at Corpus Christi, 6:05 p.m.

Tulsa at Springfield, 6:09 p.m.

Northwest Arkansas at Arkansas, 6:10 p.m.

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BY HANK KURZ JR. Associated Press

Miami’s Dwyane Wade dunks for two of his 32 points against San Antonio during Thursday’s Game 4 in San Antonio. ERIC GAY/Associated Press

Spurs look to shift momentum ••San•Antonio•players• say•Game•5•is•a•mustwin•against•the•Heat.

BY BRIAN MAHONEY Associated Press

SAN• ANTONIO• —• Tony• Parker’s• hamstring,•not•Dwyane•Wade’s•knee,• is•the•current•chief•injury•concern.

Manu•Ginobili,•not•Chris•Bosh,•is• mired•in•the•slump•of•the•moment.

Things• change• quickly• at• the• NBA• Finals,• and• with• everything• suddenly• seeming• right• with• the• Miami•Heat,•it’s•up•to•the•San•Antonio• Spurs• to• change• them• back• Sunday•night•in•Game•5.

“It•is•a•must-win.•We•don’t•want• to•go•back•down•there•down•a•game• with•two•games•remaining•at•their• house,”•Spurs•star•Tim•Duncan•said• Saturday.

“Obviously,• we• lose• this• game,• we’re• not• giving• up• or• anything,• but• we• want• to• go• back• up• with• a• chance• to• finish• there.• Huge• pressure•if•we•have•to•go•back•there•and• try•to•win•two.”

The•Heat•evened•the•series•with•a• 109-93•victory•Thursday•night,•setting•up•what’s•often•the•pivotal•moment• of• the• finals.• Of• the• 27• times• the•series•was•tied•at•2-2,•the•Game• 5•winner•went•on•to•win•20•of•them.

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these three athletes, and with good reason,” Shock president Steve Swetoha said. “This is the next generation of stars.”

Tulsa fans will get their first in-person look at the other members of the socalled “3 to see” when the Mercury and Sky visit the BOK Center this week.

Phoenix (2-3) arrives for a 3:30 p.m. Sunday game and Chicago visits at 11:30 a.m.

Thursday, the first of two weekday Shock home games catering to area youth participating in various basketball camps.

Tulsa hopes to repeat last year’s Father’s Day success over the Mercury. The 87-75 holiday victory was the Shock’s first of 2012. But Phoenix, favored for the league title in a preseason poll of WNBA executives, has blown out its past two foes after opening 0-3.

Diana Taurasi had 34 points, seven assists and six rebounds in Friday’s 97-81 victory over the L.A. Sparks.

In her 10th WNBA season, Taurasi is sixth in the league in career scoring with 5,644 points.

Tulsa (1-6) likely will play again without 6-foot-8 Liz Cambage, who has missed four games since spraining her ankle in an overtime loss at New York two weeks ago.

Despite giving great effort, the Shock lost Friday to the two-time Western Conference champion Minnesota Lynx and is winless in its

NBA FINALS SERIES TIED 2-2

Spurs vs. Heat

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Spurs 92, Heat 88 Parker leads Spurs in opener.

Heat 103, Spurs 84 33-5 run propels Heat to win.

Spurs 113, Heat 77 Spurs sink 16 3-pointers in rout.

Heat 109, Spurs 93 James, Wade too much for Spurs.

7 p.m. Sunday at San Antonio TV: KTUL-8 8 p.m. Tuesday at Miami TV: KTUL-8 *8 p.m. Thursday at Miami TV: KTUL-8

*if necessary

“I• think• that’s• what• everyone• would• like,• 2-2• in• the• finals• for• Game• 5,”• LeBron• James• said.• “We• are• excited• about• the• opportunity.• We• have• another• opportunity• to• win•on•someone•else’s•floor.”

It’s• the• same• situation• Miami• was• in• two• years• ago,• losing• Game•

5• in• Dallas.• But• the• Heat• also• had• dropped• the• previous• game,• and• James• was• struggling• through• a• poor•series•by•his•standards.

Everything• looks• good• for• the• Heat• as• they• arrive• at• this• stage• now.•James•was•dominant•in•Game• 4• with• 33• points• and• 11• rebounds,• and•Wade•scored•32•points,•not•appearing• to• be• bothered• at• all• by• a• painful•right•knee•that•had•limited• his•effectiveness•in•the•postseason.

With• Bosh• breaking• out• with• 20• points•and•13•rebounds,•everything• that• was• a• problem• for• the• Heat• a• few•days•ago•no•longer•looks•to•be• the•case.•Instead,•the•obstacles•look• to•be•piling•up•for•the•Spurs.

“It’s•a•part•of•the•playoffs,”•Wade• said.• “There’s• always• high• moments.• There’s• always• low• moments.•There’s•moments•when•you• have•guys•who•are•in•a•slump,•et•cetera.•Guys•who•come•out•of•it.•Great• story•lines.•It’s•all•of•it.”

The• teams• returned• to• practice• Saturday•after•taking•a•day•off,•and• though• Parker• said• his• strained• right• hamstring• was• feeling• better• and•he•hoped•to•be•close•to•100•percent•by•the•game,•he•later•made•that• sound•impossible.

“My•hamstring•can•tear•any•time• now,”•he•said.•“So•if•it•was•the•regular•season,•I•would•be•resting•like•10• days.•But•now•it’s•the•NBA•Finals.•If•

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inexperienced team, learn the intricacies of the pro game and adjust to quicker, 3:30 p.m. Sunday stronger opponents at the BOK Center same time.

Radio: Chrome fm93.5 “Nobody comes into this league and takes over the first year. It’s not gonna hapPhoenix (2-3) pen,” Kloppenburg said.

Ht. Pt. Rb. By contrast, Delle Donne F Bonner 6-4 17.8 8.4 appears to have settled in F Houston 6-0 6.8 2.6 nicely. Hitting 53.3 percent C Griner 6-8 15.0 6.5 from 3-point range, she’s G Gilbreath 6-0 5.0 2.2* fourth in the league in scorG Taurasi 6-0 21.8 3.8* ing (19.2) and the Sky (4-1) seems a good bet to make the Tulsa (1-6) Ht. Pt. Rb. playoffs for the first time in F Johnson 6-3 16.9 10.1 its eight-year history.

But Delle Donne joined a F Pedersen 6-4 4.7 4.6 G Diggins 5-9 9.1 4.1* team with established players at center (Sylvia Fowles), G Hodges 5-11 7.9 2.1 G Wiggins 5-11 8.8 2.7* forward (Swin Cash) and point guard (Courtney *assists per game Vandersloot). Her transition likely has been smoother Notes: Diana Taurasi of Phoebecause she hasn’t had to be nix took over the WNBA scoring lead with 34 points in Friday’s 97the focal point of the Sky’s 81 win over LA Sparks while Minattack. nesota’s Maya Moore was scor“Skylar has more on her ing 10 against the Shock. … Tulsa’s plate,” Swetoha said. “I think Riquna Williams scored 16 in Friday’s loss and is averaging 13.3 off she has the most difficult position to learn, coming in the bench. … Phoenix reserve Lyas a point guard.” netta Kizer, a 2012 third-round Promotionally, the talpick by the Shock, is averaging 4 ented trio has been a success. points and 3 rebounds in her second WNBA season.

Several teams are bundling — MIKE BROWN, World Sports Writer games involving the `3 to see’ in special packages. Diggins has done meet-and-greet sessions with fans following first two home games.

Diggins totaled two points two road games. With more than 400,000 Twitter followand one assist against the Lynx, both lows in her rookie ers, the former Notre Dame standout is the league’s most season after playing two of visible figure. her best games last weekend when the Shock won at Seattle and lost in overtime at Los Angeles.

It’s all part of an up-andTherapeutic Massage down maturation process, 1 hour massage only $30.00 Shock head coach Gary Saturday $25 w/coupon (exp. 6-30-13) Kloppenburg said. Diggins Call for appointment•(918)280-8666 is having to quarterback an 3151 S 129th E. Ave. • Tulsa

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it•gets•a•tear,•it’s•life.”

Ginobili•is•averaging•7.5•points•on• 34.5•percent•shooting•in•the•series,• making•only•three•of•his•16•3-point• attempts.•Parker•said•he’s•still•confident• in• his• longtime• teammate,• and• coach• Gregg• Popovich• said• he• wasn’t• worried• about• either• player• —• about• all• he• did• say• on• a• day• when• he• was• a• man• of• even• fewer• words•than•usual.

During• his• brief• responses• to• eight• questions,• he• added• that• he• wasn’t•surprised•by•the•Heat’s•lineup•change•in•Game•4,•but•wouldn’t• say• whether• the• Spurs• would• do• anything•different•Sunday.

“I’d•hate•to•be•trite•and•say•anything•is•possible.•Your•question•demands•my•triteness,”•he•answered.

The•last•three•games•have•all•been• blowouts,• a• somewhat• surprising• result• that• wasn’t• so• surprising• to• James.• When• their• Big• Three• all• play• like• they• Thursday,• the• Heat• can•make•even•a•good•team•like•the• Spurs•look•pretty•bad.

“If•we•play•our•game,•if•we•force• turnovers,•we•rebound,•execute•offensively• and• don’t• turn• the• ball• over,•we•can•win•against•anybody,”• James• said.• “We’re• a• confident• bunch.• But• we’re• going• against• a• great•team•that’s•going•to•make•adjustments• as• well.• And• that’s• why• it’s•a•2-2•series•right•now.”

“I think it’s part of (being a professional),” she said.

“It’s good to meet the fans.

You’d be surprised how many Notre Dame fans come out.

Seeing them after the game means a lot to me. Seeing fans who are excited about meeting you, that’s the best feeling in the world.”

CHARLOTTESVILLE,• Va.• —• Former• teammates,• players• and• a• former• NBA• assistant• coach• think• the• credibility• a• Hall• of• Fame•career•brings•—•and•familiarity•with•today’s•players•—•will• help• Jason• Kidd• successfully• transition•into•coaching.

Kidd• was• named• the• head• coach• of• the• Brooklyn• Nets• on• Thursday,• less• than• two• weeks• after• he• ended• a• 19-year• career• as• a• point• guard• that• included• an• NBA• championship• and• two• tours• as• a• leader• on• the• U.S.• Olympic•team.•He’s•also•No.•2•in• career• assists• and• steals• in• NBA• history.

“He’s• going• to• have• incredible• credibility• with• his• players,• which• is• huge,”• said• Brendan• Suhr,• a• longtime• NBA• assistant• coach• under• Chuck• Daly,• Hubie• Brown• and• Lenny• Wilkens.

Even• the• Kidd accountability• as• the• man• in• charge• won’t• be• a• problem,• said• Suhr,• who• is• attending• the• National• Basketball• Players• Association’s• Top• 100• camp• at• the• University•of•Virginia•and•teaching•players•how•to•start•coaching• careers.

“He’ll•be•fine.•He’s•handled•accountability• before,”• Suhr• said,• adding• that• one• of• Kidd’s• main• priorities• needs• to• be• hiring• experienced•assistants•to•“fill•in•the• gaps•that•you•don’t•have.”

Denver• point• guard• Andre• Miller• said• he• was• initially• surprised• when• he• heard• Kidd• was• in•the•running•for•the•Nets’•job•so• soon•after•announcing•his•retirement,• but• the• more• he• thought• about,•the•more•sense•it•seemed• to•make.

“When• I• first• heard• that• they• were• considering• it,• I• was• like,• ‘Wow,•that’s•respect,’”•Miller•said• at•the•camp.•“He’s•a•hall•of•famer• in•everybody’s•mind•and•he’s•accomplished• everything• that• you• can•accomplish•as•a•point•guard,• as•a•person,•in•life•and•as•a•teammate.• When• you• have• that• type• of• respect• of• your• peers,• and• of• management,•coaches,•you•know• the•sky’s•the•limit.

“You•know•that•he•knows•how• to• play• basketball• and• he• knows• what• it• takes,• so• it• surprised• me• at•first,•but•what•better•player•to• make•that•transition•right•away•to• show,•‘I•can•do•this’•by•the•things• that• he’s• done• in• his• career.’• It’s• good•for•the•guys•in•that•situation• and•learn•from•a•guy•like•that.”

The 6-foot-8 Griner is scheduled for a similar fan session Sunday. The Shock is packaging Griner’s appearance with a lower-level ticket for $100.

“We’ve sold a lot of tickets to people who want to see (Griner) play,” Swetoha said.

“I think it’s good for the

league. Some of these people might be coming to a Shock game for the first time. If they have a great experience when they’re here, we might be able to get them to come again.”

Mike Brown 918-581-8390 mike.brown@tulsaworld.com

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BASEBALL

MLB STANDINGS

Nationals 7, Indians 6

AMERICAN LEAGUE L

Pct

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W

Boston Baltimore New York Tampa Bay Toronto

42 28 39 30 37 31 36 32 31 36

.600 — .565 2½ .544 4 .529 5 .463 9½

CENTRAL

W

L

Pct

Detroit Cleveland Kansas City Minnesota Chicago

37 33 32 30 28

29 34 34 35 37

.561 — .493 4½ .485 5 .462 6½ .431 8½

WEST

W

L

Pct

Oakland 41 29 Texas 38 30 Seattle 31 38 Los Angeles 30 38 Houston 25 44

GB WCGB L10 — — 1 2 6½

Str Home Away

6-4 6-4 4-6 4-6 7-3

W-1 L-1 L-5 W-1 W-4

GB WCGB L10 — 4½ 5 6½ 8½ — — 7½ 8 13½

21-14 20-15 18-18 15-17 15-19

Str Home Away

6-4 3-7 8-2 4-6 4-6

L-1 22-10 15-19 L-1 19-13 14-21 L-1 17-16 15-18 W-1 16-16 14-19 L-3 16-14 12-23

GB WCGB L10

.586 — .559 2 .449 9½ .441 10 .362 15½

21-14 19-15 19-13 21-15 16-17

Str Home Away

6-4 2-8 5-5 5-5 4-6

L-2 21-12 L-5 19-13 W-2 18-17 W-3 17-18 W-3 12-23

20-17 19-17 13-21 13-20 13-21

NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST

W

Atlanta Washington Philadelphia New York Miami

40 28 34 33 33 36 24 39 20 47

L

CENTRAL

W

St. Louis Cincinnati Pittsburgh Chicago

44 24 41 28 40 28 28 38

L

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Str Home Away

.588 .507 .478 .381 .299

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W-1 22-8 18-20 W-1 18-13 16-20 L-1 16-15 17-21 L-3 13-23 11-16 L-1 12-23 8-24

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4-6 6-4 4-6 2-8 4-6

Str Home Away

.647 — .594 3½ .588 4 .424 15

— — — 11

6-4 5-5 5-5 5-5

W-1 19-12 25-12 L-1 23-12 18-16 L-1 24-13 16-15 W-3 15-21 13-17

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Milwaukee

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WEST

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Arizona San Francisco Colorado San Diego Los Angeles

37 30 35 32 36 33 33 34 29 38

.552 .522 .522 .493 .433

GB WCGB L10 — 2 2 4 8

— 4½ 4½ 6½ 10½

Str Home Away

5-5 5-5 5-5 7-3 4-6

L-1 17-14 20-16 L-1 21-11 14-21 W-1 22-17 14-16 W-4 20-14 13-20 W-1 19-20 10-18

Key: WCGB: Wild card games back

Saturday AMERICAN LEAGUE

INTERLEAGUE

Boston 5, Baltimore 4 Toronto 6, Texas 1 Tampa Bay 5, Kansas City 3 Houston 4, Chicago White Sox 3 Minnesota 6, Detroit 3 L.A. Angels 6, N.Y. Yankees 2 Seattle 4, Oakland 0

Washington 7, Cleveland 6

Sunday

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Chicago Cubs 5, N.Y. Mets 2 L.A. Dodgers 5, Pittsburgh 3 (11) Atlanta 6, San Francisco 5 Milwaukee 6, Cincinnati 0 Colorado 10, Philadelphia 5 St. Louis 13, Miami 7 Arizona at San Diego

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Boston (Lester 6-3) at Baltimore (Mig.Gonzalez 4-2), 12:35 p.m.

Kansas City (W.Davis 3-5) at Tampa Bay (Ro.Hernandez 4-6), 12:40 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (H.Santiago 2-4) at Houston (Keuchel 3-3), 1:10 p.m.

Detroit (Fister 5-4) at Minnesota (Walters 2-1), 1:10 p.m.

Toronto (Wang 0-0) at Texas (D.Holland 5-3), 2:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 6-5) at L.A. Angels (Weaver 1-2), 2:35 p.m.

Seattle (Iwakuma 7-1) at Oakland (Colon 8-2), 3:05 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Chicago Cubs (Garza 1-1) at N.Y. Mets (Hefner 1-6), 12:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (W.Peralta 4-7) at Cincinnati (Cueto 3-0), 12:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Lyons 2-2) at Miami (Nolasco 3-7), 12:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 3-1) at Pittsburgh (Cole 1-0), 12:35 p.m.

Arizona (Kennedy 3-4) at San Diego (Richard 1-5), 3:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Hamels 2-9) at Colorado (Chacin 4-3), 3:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Lincecum 4-6) at Atlanta (Teheran 4-3), 7:05 p.m.

TOP 10 ȕ AMERICAN LEAGUE R

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R

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MiCabra Det 66 260 54 92 .354

YMolina StL 64 244 29 86 .352

JhPeralta Det 61 234 31 78 .333

Scutaro SF

HKendrick LAA 68 259 28 87 .336

68 247 47 82 .332

61 245 38 80 .327

Machado Bal 69 299 44 97 .324

Pedroia Bos 70 273 46 87 .319 SPerez KC

Washington Cleveland

53 198 22 63 .318

Longoria TB 68 266 46 82 .308

Beltre Tex 66 264 38 81 .307 Home runs: CDavis, Baltimore, 22; MiCabrera, Detroit, 18; ADunn, Chicago, 18; Encarnacion, Toronto, 18; Cano, New York, 16; NCruz, Texas, 16; Bautista, Toronto, 15; Trumbo, Los Angeles, 15.

Runs Batted In: MiCabrera, Detroit, 69; CDavis, Baltimore, 57; Encarnacion, Toronto, 55; Fielder, Detroit, 54; Napoli, Boston, 49; DOrtiz, Boston, 49; AJones, Baltimore, 47.

Tulowitzki Col 61 222 41 77 .347 Segura Mil

58 232 33 77 .332 66 266 40 88 .331

MCrpentr StL 64 256 52 83 .324 GParra Ari

66 265 43 85 .321

CGomez Mil 65 248 42 79 .319 Craig StL

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65 259 37 82 .317

69 257 52 81 .315

Posey SF 63 227 29 71 .313 Home runs: DBrown, Philadelphia, 19; CGonzalez, Colorado, 19; Beltran, St. Louis, 16; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 16; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 15; JUpton, Atlanta, 15; PAlvarez, Pittsburgh, 14; Gattis, Atlanta, 14.

Runs Batted In: Goldschmidt, Arizona, 59; Phillips, Cincinnati, 55; CGonzalez, Colorado, 54; Craig, St. Louis, 51; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 51; DBrown, Philadelphia, 48.

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E: Swisher (5), Aviles 2 (4). DP: Wash 1, Clev 2. LOB: Wash 5, Clev 4.

2B: Rendon (6), Brantley (9), Aviles 2 (8). HR: Rendon (1), Zimmerman (8), Werth (6), Desmond (9), Tracy (2), C.Santana (9), Reynolds (14).

SB: Desmond (7). CS: Kipnis (5).

Washington IP H R ER BB SO Zimmermann.......................5 8 6 6 1 6 Stammen................................1 0 0 0 2 0 Krol .......................................12⁄3 0 0 0 0 3 Storen W,1-1 ......................... 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 R.Soriano S,18 .......................1 1 0 0 0 2 Cleveland Kazmir ................................22⁄3 4 5 5 4 2 Albers ..................................12⁄3 1 0 0 1 2 Shaw ....................................12⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 Allen .........................................1 1 0 0 0 1 J.Smith BS,2-3 .......................1 1 1 1 0 0 Pestano L,1-2 .........................1 1 1 0 0 1 WP: Kazmir, Albers.

T: 3:11. A: 33,307 (42,241).

Cardinals 13, Marlins 7

B.J. Upton, CF, Braves: Went 2-for-4, inclduing 2 homers, 3 RBIs and 3 runs scored.

Mariners 4, Athletics 0

Summary: Henry Blanco hit a sixth-inning grand slam in his Seattle debut to break a scoreless tie and Felix Hernandez pitched seven strong innings to win his third straight decision.

Notable: Michael Morse had two doubles among his three hits, including one in the sixth before Blanco’s drive stayed just inside the left-field foul pole.

Seattle

ab EnChvz rf 5 Frnkln 2b 5 Seager 3b 3 KMorls dh 4 Ibanez lf 4 Morse 1b 4 MSndrs cf 3 HBlanc c 4 Ryan ss 4

r h bi 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 3 0 1 1 0 1 1 4 0 0 0

Oakland

ab r h bi Crisp cf 4 0 2 0 Jaso c 2 0 0 0 DNorrs ph 0 0 0 0 Cespds dh 4 0 1 0 Moss 1b-lf 4 0 2 0 Dnldsn 3b 4 0 0 0 Lowrie ss 3 0 1 0 S.Smith lf 2 0 0 0 Freimn ph 1 0 0 0 CYoung rf 3 0 0 0 Sogard 2b 3 0 0 0 Totals 36 4 9 4 Totals 30 0 6 0 Seattle 000 004 000 — 4 Oakland 000 000 000 — 0 DP: Seattle 3. LOB: Seattle 7, Oakland 5. 2B: Franklin (6), Morse 2 (9), Lowrie (19). HR: H.Blanco (1).

Seattle IP H R ER BB SO F.Hernandez W,8-4 ...........7 5 0 0 1 8 Furbush ...................................1 1 0 0 0 1 Medina ....................................1 0 0 0 1 1 Oakland Griffin L,5-6 ..........................6 8 4 4 2 3 Blevins .....................................1 0 0 0 0 0 Otero........................................1 1 0 0 0 0 Neshek ....................................1 0 0 0 0 0 WP: Medina.

T: 2:47. A: 24,378 (35,067).

Rockies 10, Phillies 5

Angels 6, Yankees 2

Summary: Erick Aybar homered and drove in two runs, and Albert Pujols added two more RBIs in the victory over the Yankees delivering New York their fifth straight defeat.

Notable: Tommy Hanson had a season-high eight strikeouts.

New York Los Angeles

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LOB: New York 4, Los Angeles 10.

2B: I.Suzuki (6), Hamilton (13). 3B: Gardner (5). HR: Aybar (2). SB: J.Nix (10), I.Suzuki 2 (8), C.Stewart (3), Trout (15), Bourjos (2). CS: I.Suzuki (3).

New York IP H R ER BB SO D.Phelps L,4-4.....................6 9 4 4 2 2 Kelley .......................................1 1 1 1 3 0 Chamberlain..........................1 2 1 1 1 2 Los Angeles Hanson W,4-2 .................61⁄3 5 2 2 1 8 S.Downs................................ 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 Kohn ....................................... 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 Jepsen......................................1 0 0 0 0 1 Frieri .........................................1 0 0 0 0 3 D.Phelps pitched to 1 batter in the 7th.

T: 3:10. A: 40,486 (45,483).

Brewers 6, Reds 0

Summary: Juan Francisco drove in three with a homer and sacrifice fly, and Yovani Gallardo pitched six innings tp lead Milwaukee past Cincinnati.

Notable: Three relievers completed a seven-hitter for Milwaukee’s first shutout.

DP: St. Louis 1, Miami 2. LOB: St. Louis 8, Miami 8. 2B: Descalso 2 (12), Lucas (2), Dobbs (7), Brantly (8). 3B: Beltran (1), Pierre (2). HR: Beltran 2 (16), Freese (4), Stanton (5). S: Lynn. SF: Brantly.

St. Louis IP H R ER BB SO Lynn W,9-1.............................5 9 7 7 3 6 Maness....................................1 1 0 0 0 0 Choate .....................................1 0 0 0 0 2 Rosenthal ...............................1 1 0 0 0 0 K.Butler ...................................1 0 0 0 0 2 Miami Koehler L,0-5 ...................42⁄3 8 9 9 2 3 Webb ..................................... 1⁄3 2 0 0 0 0 A.Ramos ................................2 5 3 3 1 2 Da.Jennings ...........................1 1 0 0 1 0 Olmos ......................................1 1 1 1 0 2 A.Ramos pitched to 3 batters in the 8th.

HBP: by Lynn (Dobbs), by Rosenthal (Polanco), by Koehler (Craig).

WP: Da.Jennings.

T: 3:17. A: 16,098 (37,442).

Braves 6, Giants 5

Dodgers 5, Pirates 3

Red Sox 5, Orioles 4

Miami

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San Francisco Atlanta

r h bi 1 2 0 2 2 1 1 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Totals 36 7 11 7

511 020 031 — 13 420 010 000 — 7

r h bi 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 2 0 3 2 3 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6 11 6

003 020 000 — 5 010 102 002 — 6

One out when winning run scored.

E: Arias (2), Simmons 2 (6). DP: San Francisco 1. LOB: San Francisco 8, Atlanta 9. 2B: An.Torres (12), Abreu 2 (4), Posey (20), McCann (2). HR: B.Upton 2 (8). SB: B.Upton (5). CS: G.Blanco (3). S: Gaudin. SF: Pence.

San Francisco IP H R ER BB SO Gaudin ....................................5 8 4 4 1 0 Machi...................................12⁄3 1 0 0 1 1 J.Lopez.................................. 2⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 Affeldt................................... 2⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Romo L,3-3 BS,3-19 .......... 1⁄3 2 2 1 2 1 Atlanta Minor ......................................6 7 5 4 1 7 Varvaro....................................1 1 0 0 0 0 Avilan .......................................1 1 0 0 0 2 Kimbrel W,2-1........................1 2 0 0 1 1 Gaudin pitched to 2 batters in the 6th.

WP: Gaudin 2, Minor.

T: 3:10. A: 47,178 (49,586).

Los Angeles

ab r h bi Schmkr lf 6 0 1 1 Puig rf 5 0 1 0 AdGnzl 1b 5 1 1 0 HRmrz ss 5 1 1 0 Ethier cf 5 1 3 1 M.Ellis 2b 3 0 0 1 Uribe 3b 4 1 1 1 A.Ellis c 5 1 1 0 Kershw p 0 0 0 0 Withrw p 0 0 0 0 PRdrgz p 0 0 0 0 HrstnJr ph 1 0 0 0 Jansen p 0 0 0 0 Moylan p 0 0 0 0 Punto ph 1 0 1 1 League p 0 0 0 0

ittsburgh P

ab r h bi Presley lf 6 1 1 0 Mercer ss 4 1 2 0 McCtch cf 4 0 1 0 GSnchz 1b 4 0 1 0 RMartn c 4 0 0 1 Walker 2b 5 0 2 1 PAlvrz 3b 4 0 0 0 Inge rf 3 0 0 0 JuWlsn p 0 0 0 0 Watson p 0 0 0 0 GJones ph 1 0 0 0 Melncn p 0 0 0 0 McKnr ph 1 0 0 0 Mazzar p 0 0 0 0 Cumptn p 2 0 0 0 Morris p 0 0 0 0 Snider ph-rf3 1 2 1 Totals 40 5 10 5 Totals 41 3 9 3 Los Angeles 000 012 000 02 — 5 Pittsburgh 100 000 011 00 — 3 E: A.Ellis (2), Presley (1). LOB: Los Angeles 8, Pittsburgh 13. 2B: Ad.Gonzalez (13), Ethier (11), Punto (7), Presley (1), Walker (7). HR: Snider (3). SB: R.Martin (3). S: M.Ellis, Kershaw, Mercer. SF: M.Ellis.

Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO Kershaw.................................7 3 1 1 3 8 Withrow .............................. 2⁄3 1 1 1 1 2 P.Rodriguez.......................... 1⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 Jansen BS,2-5........................1 1 1 1 0 1 Moylan W,1-0 .......................1 1 0 0 2 1 League S,14 ............................1 2 0 0 0 0 Pittsburgh Cumpton................................5 7 3 3 1 5 Morris .....................................2 0 0 0 2 1 Ju.Wilson ................................1 0 0 0 0 1 Watson....................................1 0 0 0 0 0 Melancon ...............................1 0 0 0 0 0 Mazzaro L,3-1........................1 3 2 2 0 2 Cumpton pitched to 3 batters in the 6th.

WP: Withrow, League, Mazzaro.

T: 3:45. A: 36,941 (38,362).

MLB NOTEBOOK Rays pitcher Cobb struck in head:

Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Alex Cobb was taken off the field on a stretcher after he was hit on the right ear by a liner off the bat of Kansas City’s Eric Hosmer in the fifth inning of Saturday’s game at St. Petersburg, Fla. Cobb put a hand on his head after being struck. Trainers from both teams and other medical staff immediately ran onto the field.

Cobb could be seen kicking his legs while being examined on the mound. The Rays announced that Cobb remained conscious the whole time and was taken to Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg for further examination.

Rays spokesman Rick Vaughn said all tests were normal and that Cobb suffered a mild concussion.

Players on both teams had hands on their heads as a stunned silence overtook Tropicana Field after the crowd gasped when Cobb was struck.

It came a month after Blue Jays starter J.A. Happ was also struck by a liner against the Rays and suffered a skull fracture.

Happ was discharged from an area hospital the following day.

Felix Hernandez, SP, Mariners: Scattered 5 hits over 7 shutout innings. He struck out 8 batters.

Philadelphia Colorado

ab r h bi ab r h bi Revere cf 5 1 3 1 Rutledg ss 6 0 0 0 Diekmn p 0 0 0 0 Pachec 1b 5 1 1 0 MYong 3b 5 0 2 1 CGnzlz lf 4 1 2 1 Rollins ss 3 0 0 0 Cuddyr rf 4 2 2 1 Savery p 0 0 0 0 WRosr c 4 3 3 2 DeFrts p 0 0 0 0 Colvin cf 5 2 2 2 L.Nix ph-rf 1 1 1 0 Arenad 3b 5 0 3 2 DYong ph 1 0 0 0 LeMahi 2b 4 1 2 0 Howard 1b 4 1 2 1 Chatwd p 2 0 2 1 DBrwn lf 3 0 0 0 Ottavin p 1 0 0 0 Mayrry rf 3 1 1 2 Volstad p 0 0 0 0 Galvis 2b 3 0 0 0 Torreal ph 1 0 1 0 Quinter c 4 1 2 0 Outmn p 0 0 0 0 Pettion p 1 0 0 0 Mrtnz ph 1 0 0 0 Horst p 0 0 0 0 Frndsn 2b 0 0 0 0 Totals 34 5 11 5 Totals 41 10 18 9 Philadelphia 110 000 030 — 5 Colorado 601 300 00X — 10 E: Quintero (3), Savery (1), W.Rosario (5). DP: Philadelphia 1, Colorado 3. LOB: Philadelphia 8, Colorado 12. 2B: L.Nix (3), Howard 2 (18), C.Gonzalez 2 (16), W.Rosario 2 (8). 3B: W.Rosario (1). HR: Mayberry (5), Colvin (3). SB: Revere (16), D.Brown (8), LeMahieu (8). S: Chatwood.

Philadelphia IP H R ER BB SO Pettibone L,3-3....................3 10 7 6 1 1 Horst ........................................1 4 3 3 2 2 Savery.....................................2 1 0 0 1 1 De Fratus ................................1 1 0 0 0 0 Diekman .................................1 2 0 0 0 1 Colorado Chatwood W,4-1 .................5 7 2 2 3 1 Ottavino.................................2 0 0 0 2 2 Volstad ....................................1 4 3 3 0 0 Outman...................................1 0 0 0 0 1 HBP: by Volstad (Frandsen). WP: Chatwood.

T: 3:08. A: 35,516 (50,398).

St. Louis

ab r h bi Jay cf 5 1 1 0 Beltran rf 6 3 3 2 SRonsn rf 0 0 0 0 Hollidy lf 5 2 2 0 KButlr p 0 0 0 0 Craig 1b 4 2 1 1 YMolin c 5 1 2 3 Freese 3b 4 3 3 2 Descals 2b 4 1 3 1 Kozma ss 5 0 1 1 Lynn p 2 0 1 2 Maness p 0 0 0 0 MAdms ph 1 0 0 0 Choate p 0 0 0 0 Rosnthl p 0 0 0 0 Wggntn ph 1 0 0 0 Totals 42 13 17 12

Atlanta

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Washington (Strasburg 3-5) at Cleveland (Kluber 4-4), 12:05 p.m.

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Washington

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San Francisco

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INTERLEAGUE

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Summary: Anthony Rendon hit his first major league home run following Nick Swisher’s ninth-inning error in the win.

St. Louis Miami

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AROUND THE MAJORS

Tampa Bay Rays starting pitcher Alex Cobb is taken off the field by medical personnel after being hit by a line drive off the bat of the Kansas City Royals’ Eric Hosmer in the fifth inning Saturday in St. Petersburg, Fla. He sustained a mild concussion. BRIAN BLANCO/Associated Press The sound of the ball striking Cobb — which sounded like a bat hitting a ball — could be heard in the press box.

Rays players, manager Joe Maddon and pitching coach Jim Hickey gathered at the mound during the 11-minute delay. Shortstop Yunel Escobar was in squatting position looking down at the ground, while

Hickey appeared at time at be nervously pacing near the mound.

Indians’ Perez focusing on returning to field: Indians closer Chris

Perez wants to focus on returning from his injured right shoulder and not his recent legal issues.

Perez, speaking to reporters for the first time since being charged with misdemeanor drug posses-

Milwaukee Cincinnati

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Milwaukee IP H R ER BB SO Gallardo W,6-6....................6 3 0 0 2 5 Gorzelanny ............................1 3 0 0 0 2 D.Hand.....................................1 0 0 0 0 0 Henderson .............................1 1 0 0 0 0 Cincinnati H.Bailey L,4-5 ......................7 8 6 6 1 4 Hoover.....................................1 0 0 0 0 1 M.Parra....................................1 0 0 0 2 0 WP: H.Bailey 2.

T: 2:48. A: 37,519 (42,319).

Summary: Mike Carp and Jonny Gomes homered to back an effective pitching performance by John Lackey, and the Boston Red Sox snapped a fivegame losing streak in Baltimore.

Notable: Lackey (4-5) gave up two runs, seven hits and a walk in seven innings to improve to 12-4 against the Orioles.

Boston

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r h bi 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0

Baltimore

ab r h bi McLoth lf 4 1 1 0 Machd 3b 4 1 2 1 Markks rf 4 0 1 0 A.Jones cf 4 1 2 1 C.Davis 1b 4 0 0 0 Wieters dh 4 1 1 2 Hardy ss 3 0 2 0 ACasill pr 0 0 0 0 Flahrty 2b 4 0 0 0 Tegrdn c 3 0 1 0 Totals 33 5 9 5 Totals 34 4 10 4 Boston 000 311 000 — 5 Baltimore 200 000 002 — 4 E: Pedroia (1). DP: Boston 2, Baltimore 1. LOB: Boston 4, Baltimore 4.

2B: Drew (10), Machado (31). 3B: D.Ortiz (2). HR: Carp (8), J.Gomes (4), Wieters (9). SB: Ellsbury (31), Victorino (6), Pedroia (10). CS: Iglesias (1), McLouth (3), Machado (3).

S: Victorino.

Boston IP H R ER BB SO Lackey W,4-5 .......................7 7 2 2 1 4 Uehara .....................................1 0 0 0 0 3 A.Bailey S,8 ...........................1 3 2 2 0 1 Baltimore F.Garcia L,3-4 ....................51⁄3 8 5 5 1 3 McFarland .........................32⁄3 1 0 0 1 5 WP: Lackey.

T: 2:48. A: 42,422 (45,971).

sion after marijuana was mailed to his home earlier this month, took no questions about the incident prior to Saturday’s game.

Perez and his wife, Melaine, pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The two-time All-Star is on the DL with tendinitis in his right shoulder. He will begin a rehab assignment Sunday and could rejoin the Indians next week.

Asked about his frame of mind, Perez said, “I want to get back to the team. I want to do my job well.

I don’t want to come back from the rehab and not to come back just to come back. I want to come back and be able to be me and help our team accomplish our goals.”

Indians manager Terry Francona is supporting Perez.

“I’ve talked to him at length and am very comfortable he’ll be just fine and he’s in a good place,” Francona said.

Perez, who hasn’t appeared in a game since blowing a save against Boston on May 26, has thrown two bullpen sessions and is scheduled to pitch one inning for Class A Lake County on Sunday.

Perez is 2-1 with six saves and a 4.32 ERA in 17 appearances.

— ASSOCIATED PRESS

Carlos Beltran, LF, Cardinals: Went 3-for-6, including 2 homers, 2 RBIs and 3 runs scored.

Twins 6, Tigers 3

Astros 4, White Sox 3

Detroit Minnesota

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Detroit IP H R ER BB SO Ani.Sanchez......................32⁄3 5 2 2 4 3 D.Downs L,0-2 .................21⁄3 5 3 3 0 4 E.Reed .....................................1 3 1 1 0 0 Putkonen ................................1 1 0 0 0 1 Minnesota Deduno W,3-1 ......................7 7 2 2 1 2 Burton......................................1 1 1 0 1 0 Perkins S,16 ............................1 0 0 0 0 1 HBP: by Deduno (Mi.Cabrera).

WP: Deduno.

T: 2:42. A: 35,071 (39,021).

Chicago Houston

ab r h bi ab r h bi De Aza cf 4 0 0 0 BBarns cf 4 0 1 1 AlRmrz ss 4 1 2 0 Altuve 2b 4 0 0 0 Rios rf 3 0 0 0 JCastro c 4 1 1 1 A.Dunn 1b 4 1 1 1 JMrtnz lf 3 0 0 0 Konerk dh 3 0 1 1 Carter dh 3 1 1 1 Gillaspi 3b 3 1 1 0 C.Pena 1b 1 1 0 0 Kppngr ph 1 0 0 0 RCeden ss 3 0 1 1 Viciedo lf 3 0 0 0 Dmngz 3b 3 1 2 0 JrDnks pr 0 0 0 0 Crowe rf 3 0 0 0 Bckhm 2b 4 0 2 1 Flowrs c 4 0 1 0 Totals 33 3 8 3 Totals 28 4 6 4 Chicago 100 000 200 — 3 Houston 010 210 00X — 4 E: Crowe (3). DP: Chicago 1, Houston 1. LOB: Chicago 6, Houston 2.

2B: Al.Ramirez (13), Beckham (3), B.Barnes (9), R.Cedeno (6), Dominguez (11). HR: A.Dunn (18), J.Castro (9), Carter (14). SB: Al.Ramirez (14), Jor.Danks (1). CS: B.Barnes (5).

Chicago IP H R ER BB SO Joh.Danks L,1-3 ....................6 5 4 4 1 5 Lindstrom ...............................1 1 0 0 0 1 N.Jones....................................1 0 0 0 0 1 Houston Harrell W,5-7 ....................62⁄3 7 3 3 1 7 Clemens............................... 2⁄3 1 0 0 0 2 W.Wright .............................. 1⁄3 0 0 0 1 0 Ambriz................................... 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Veras S,13 ................................1 0 0 0 1 2 Joh.Danks pitched to 1 batter in the 7th.

HBP: by Joh.Danks (C.Pena).

T: 2:39. A: 21,549 (42,060).

Rays 5, Royals 3

Blue Jays 6, Rangers 1

Summary: Trevor Plouffe had three hits in his return to the Minnesota lineup, and Sam Deduno held Detroit in check over seven innings.

Notable: Plouffe drove in three in support of Deduno, who has allowed only five earned runs in his last five starts.

Summary: Luke Scott, Matt Joyce and Evan Longoria each homered for the Tampa Bay Rays, who had lost five of six.

Notable: Tampa Bay righthander Alex Cobb was taken off the field on a stretcher after being struck by a liner off the bat of Kansas City’s Eric Hosmer.

Kansas City

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ampa Bay T

ab r h bi Joyce rf 3 1 1 1 Zobrist 2b 4 2 2 0 Scott lf 3 1 2 2 Fuld lf 0 0 0 0 Longori dh 3 1 1 2 Loney 1b 4 0 0 0 DJnngs cf 4 0 1 0 KJhnsn 3b 3 0 0 0 Loaton c 3 0 1 0 YEscor ss 3 0 0 0 Totals 34 3 8 3 Totals 30 5 8 5 Kansas City 020 000 010 — 3 Tampa Bay 102 011 00X — 5 E: Hosmer (5). LOB: Kansas City 9, Tampa Bay 6. 3B: A.Escobar (2).

HR: S.Perez (3), Joyce (14), Scott (4), Longoria (14). SF: Hosmer, Longoria.

Kansas City IP H R ER BB SO Guthrie L,7-4 ........................7 8 5 4 3 0 Hochevar ................................1 0 0 0 1 0 Tampa Bay Cobb....................................41⁄3 4 2 2 3 3 Al.Torres W,2-0.................12⁄3 0 0 0 0 4 McGee.....................................1 1 0 0 0 1 Jo.Peralta ................................1 2 1 1 0 2 Rodney S,14 ...........................1 1 0 0 1 1 WP: Guthrie, Cobb, Rodney.

T: 2:52 (Rain delay: 0:10). A: 18,593 (34,078).

Cubs 5, Mets 2

Summary: Starlin Castro hit a two-run double in the Cubs’ three-run eighth and Kevin Gregg got the last three outs for his ninth straight save to help lead Chicago over New York.

Chicago

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New York

ab r h bi Vldspn 2b 4 0 1 1 DnMrp 1b 4 1 1 0 DWrght 3b 3 0 1 1 Byrd rf 4 0 1 0 Duda lf 4 0 0 0 JuTrnr ss 4 0 0 0 Recker c 3 0 0 0 Buck ph 1 0 0 0 Lagars cf 4 1 1 0 Niese p 2 0 0 0 Hwkns p 0 0 0 0 Rice p 0 0 0 0 Lyon p 0 0 0 0 Niwnhs ph 1 0 1 0 Burke p 0 0 0 0 Totals 38 5 11 5 Totals 34 2 6 2 Chicago 000 200 030 — 5 New York 000 100 010 — 2 E: Ransom (7), Hawkins (1), Valdespin (2). LOB: Chicago 16, New York 6. 2B: S.Castro (16), Sweeney 2 (6), Dan.Murphy (20), D.Wright (10). SB: S.Castro (6), Dan.Murphy (3). S: Sweeney.

Chicago IP H R ER BB SO Feldman W,6-5....................7 2 1 1 1 6 Villanueva ..............................1 3 1 1 0 2 Gregg S,9................................1 1 0 0 0 0 New York Niese L,3-6........................52⁄3 6 2 2 4 5 Hawkins .............................. 11⁄3 0 0 0 1 0 Rice ......................................... 1⁄3 1 2 2 1 0 Lyon ....................................... 2⁄3 2 1 1 2 0 Burke........................................1 2 0 0 1 1 T: 3:32. A: 27,004 (41,922).

LATE FRIDAY

Summary: Jason Castro and Chris Carter homered in the fourth to give Houston the lead and the Astros held on for a win.

Notable: Adam Dunn hit his 18th homer to start the seventh.

Summary: Adam Lind and Colby Rasmus each hit two-run homers and the Toronto Blue Jays have now won four straight.

Notable: The Rangers’ season-long losing streak reached five games. All of those losses are at home, and they’ve dropped 10-of-14 overall to fall out of first place in the AL West.

Toronto Texas

ab r h bi ab r h bi MeCarr lf 4 0 0 0 Kinsler 2b 4 0 0 0 DeRosa 3b 1 0 0 0 Andrus ss 5 0 0 0 Bautist rf 4 1 2 0 Brkmn dh 4 0 0 0 RDavis pr 0 0 0 0 Beltre 3b 4 0 2 0 Encrnc dh 4 0 0 0 Przyns c 4 0 1 0 Lind 1b 4 2 2 2 N.Cruz rf 4 1 1 0 ClRsms cf 3 2 1 2 DvMrp lf 3 0 1 0 MIzturs 3b 4 1 1 0 McGns 1b 4 0 1 0 Thole c 4 0 1 1 LMartn cf 4 0 3 1 Bonifac 2b 4 0 0 0 Kawsk ss 3 0 1 0 Totals 35 6 8 5 Totals 36 1 9 1 Toronto 200 200 002 — 6 Texas 000 001 000 — 1 E: Beltre (6). DP: Texas 1. LOB: Toronto 4, Texas 11. 2B: L.Martin (4).

HR: Lind (7), Col.Rasmus (12). SB: L.Martin (9).

Toronto IP H R ER BB SO Dickey W,6-8 ...................52⁄3 7 1 1 3 3 Wagner ...................................1 1 0 0 0 1 Cecil...................................... 11⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 McGowan ..............................1 1 0 0 0 0 Texas Lindblom L,0-2 ...................6 5 4 4 0 2 R.Ross..................................12⁄3 0 0 0 1 1 Frasor .................................... 2⁄3 3 2 1 1 1 Wolf....................................... 2⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 T: 2:55. A: 33,121 (48,114).

LATE FRIDAY

Angels 5, Yankees 2

Summary: C.J. Wilson outdid Andy Pettitte, Albert Pujols and Mark Trumbo each had three hits and Chris Iannetta singled home the go-ahead run, leading the Los Angeles Angels to a victory over the New York Yankees.

Notable: Wilson (5-5) allowed two runs and five hits, struck out four and walked three while winning for only the second time in his last eight starts.

New York Los Angeles

ab r h bi ab r h bi Gardnr cf 4 0 1 0 Trout lf 5 0 2 1 J.Nix 3b 4 0 1 0 Hamltn rf 4 1 0 0 Teixeir 1b 2 0 0 0 Pujols dh 5 0 3 0 Cano dh 4 1 1 0 Trumo 1b 4 2 3 1 V.Wells lf 4 1 1 0 HKndrc 2b 3 0 2 1 Neal rf 2 0 1 0 Callasp 3b 2 0 0 0 ISuzuki ph-rf1 0 0 0 Iannett c 3 1 2 2 DAdms 2b 4 0 1 2 Aybar ss 4 0 0 0 Brignc ss 3 0 0 0 Bourjos cf 4 1 1 0 AuRmn c 3 0 0 0 Hafner ph 1 0 0 0 Totals 32 2 6 2 Totals 34 5 13 5 New York 000 200 000 — 2 Los Angeles 100 101 11X — 5 E: C.Wilson (1). DP: Los Angeles 2.

LOB: New York 7, Los Angeles 10. 2B: Pujols (15), H.Kendrick (11). S: Callaspo. SF: Iannetta.

New York IP H R ER BB SO Pettitte L,5-4........................7 11 4 4 1 4 Bootcheck ..............................1 2 1 1 2 1 Los Angeles C.Wilson W,5-5 ...................7 5 2 2 3 4 Jepsen......................................1 1 0 0 1 0 Frieri S,15 .................................1 0 0 0 0 2 T: 2:53. A: 40,621 (45,483).

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Padres 2, Diamondbacks 1

Mariners 3, Athletics 2

Arizona San Diego

ab r h bi ab r h bi GParra rf 4 1 1 0 EvCarr ss 4 0 1 0 Blmqst 2b 4 0 1 0 Amarst cf 3 1 1 0 Gldsch 1b 3 0 0 0 Headly 3b 3 1 0 0 C.Ross lf 3 0 0 1 Quentin lf 3 0 1 0 MMntr c 3 0 0 0 Denorfi lf 0 0 0 0 Prado 3b 3 0 0 0 Blanks 1b 4 0 0 0 Pollock cf 3 0 0 0 Venale rf 4 0 1 0 Gregrs ss 3 0 0 0 Forsyth 2b 3 0 1 2 Cahill p 2 0 0 0 Grandl c 2 0 0 0 WHarrs p 0 0 0 0 Stults p 3 0 0 0 Nieves ph 1 0 0 0 Ziegler p 0 0 0 0 Totals 29 1 2 1 Totals 29 2 5 2 Arizona 100 000 000 — 1 San Diego 000 002 00X — 2 E: Pollock (1), Blanks (2). LOB: Arizona 3, San Diego 7. 2B: G.Parra (22). SF: C.Ross.

Arizona IP H R ER BB SO Cahill L,3-8........................52⁄3 5 2 2 3 10 W.Harris .............................. 11⁄3 0 0 0 0 2 Ziegler .....................................1 0 0 0 0 0 San Diego Stults W,6-5 .........................9 2 1 1 1 3 HBP: by Cahill (Headley).

T: 2:17. A: 23,364 (42,524).

Seattle Oakland

ab r h bi ab r h bi Bay rf-lf 5 0 1 0 CYoung cf 3 1 3 1 Frnkln 2b 5 1 2 0 S.Smith lf 4 0 0 0 Seager 3b 4 0 1 0 Lowrie ss 4 0 0 0 KMorls dh 4 0 0 0 Cespds dh 4 0 0 0 Morse 1b 3 1 1 0 Freimn 1b 4 0 1 0 Ibanez lf 4 0 2 1 DNorrs c 3 0 1 0 EnChvz rf 0 0 0 0 Reddck rf 3 0 1 0 Zunino c 3 1 1 1 Rosales 3b 4 1 0 0 MSndrs cf 4 0 1 0 Sogard 2b 3 0 1 1 Ryan ss 4 0 1 0 Totals 36 3 10 2 Totals 32 2 7 2 Seattle 010 000 110 — 3 Oakland 000 010 010 — 2 E: Ryan (9), Lowrie (9). DP: Seattle 1, Oakland 2. LOB: Seattle 9, Oakland 6. 2B: Morse (7), Ryan (6), C.Young (9), Freiman (5), Sogard (8). HR: Zunino (1), C.Young (6). S: Reddick.

Seattle IP H R ER BB SO J.Saunders W,5-6 ...............7 5 1 1 2 4 Farquhar..................................1 1 1 1 0 1 O.Perez S,1 ..............................1 1 0 0 0 1 Oakland Milone L,6-6 ....................62⁄3 5 2 2 3 4 Otero.................................... 11⁄3 3 1 1 0 2 Doolittle ..................................1 2 0 0 0 1 T: 2:55. A: 31,448 (35,067).

Summary: Eric Stults threw a career-best two-hitter and Logan Forsythe hit a bases-loaded, two-run single in the sixth to give San Diego a victory against NL West-leading Arizona.

Notable: Gerardo Parra doubled opening the game and scored on Cody Ross’ sacrifice fly. Stults didn’t give up another hit until Willie Bloomquist singled with one out in the ninth.

Summary: Mike Zunino hit his first career homer on a tiebreaking shot in the seventh and the Seattle Mariners held on for the win over Oakland.

Notable: Zunino connected on a 1-1 pitch off starter Tommy Milone and hit a shot to center field to help snap Oakland’s 11game home winning streak.

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OSU grabs commitment 1963 BABE RUTH LEAGUE WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS from punter from Texas Booker T. Washington defensive end Jordan Brailford verbally committed to Oklahoma State on Saturday, giving the Cowboys their third in-state pledge for the Class of 2014.

A Rivals.com three-star prospect and the No. 8 recruit in the state, Brailford also has offers from Baylor, Kansas State, Tulsa, Texas Tech and Washington State.

Last season, Brailford (6foot-3, 225 pounds) recorded 98 tackles and 11 sacks and was an honorable mention All-State selection. He also plays tight end for the Hornets.

Both of the Cowboys’ other in-state commitments are from the Tulsa area: Broken Arrow running back Devon Thomas and linebacker Gyasi Akem.

Earlier Saturday, OSU received a commitment from punter Zach Sinor of Medina Valley High School in Castroville, Texas. He told GoPokes. com he was offered a scholarship at OSU’s recent camp and decided to jump on it.

Although unrated by Rivals or Scout, Sinor is rated a five-star punter by kicking guru Nick Gatto. Last season, Sinor averaged 44.5 yards per punt and was named All-State for Class 4A. The Cowboys have 11 verbal commitments, which are non-binding. Recruits may sign letters of intent beginning in February.

— FROM STAFF REPORTS

OU starts to look for a winning fit

BY ERIC BAILEY

World Sports Writer

Oklahoma hasn’t been in the business of searching for baseball coaches often.

The program has had only two head coaches in the past 22 years — Larry Cochell (1991-2005) and Sunny Golloway (2005-2013).

OU athletic director Joe Castiglione announced late Friday night — two hours after Auburn introduced Golloway as its new coach — that the Sooners’ hunt for a successor had already started.

How important is this hire for Oklahoma? Extremely, Baseball America’s Aaron Fitt said Saturday night.

“Sunny Golloway has elevated this program over the last half-decade, and the Sooners need to keep that momentum going,” said Fitt, who is covering the College World Series in Omaha, Neb. The incoming coach will inherit a program that has advanced to the NCAA Tournament in eight of the past nine seasons. Included in that run was three Super Regional appearances in the last four years and a visit to the CWS in 2010.

One candidate has gained early steam.

Dan Heefner just completed his sixth season as Dallas Baptist’s head coach. The Patriots advanced to three NCAA Tournaments — including a 2011 Super Regional — under Heefner, who interviewed at Wichita State last week.

OU has lost five consecutive games to Dallas Baptist, including a 2-0 setback on

April 30.

Heefner was on Fitt’s list of possible candidates “Oklahoma will probably go after an established head coach, and there are some very good ones who would surely be intrigued by this job — notably, Ray Birmingham of New Mexico, David Pierce of Sam Houston State, Todd Whitting of Houston, Dan Heefner of DBU and Randy Mazey of West Virginia,” Fitt said. “Any one of those guys would be a great hire, in my opinion — I hold all of them in very high esteem.”

The next coach will inherit a roster that includes three players — outfielder Craig Aiken, pitcher Jacob Evans and catcher Anthony Hermelyn) — who earned Freshman AllAmerica status in 2013.

Oklahoma also had a solid recruiting class, punctuated by the late signing of Austin O’Brien, the Gatorade Oklahoma Baseball Player of the Year.

The foundation appears to be set for the right coach.

“Oklahoma has a national reputation as a very good program,” Fitt said. “The Sooners have gone toe-to-toe with SEC and ACC powers repeatedly in recent years, and they have certainly held their own.

“I wouldn’t call it an elite program until it makes Omaha trips regularly, rather than occasionally, but Oklahoma is clearly one of the best programs in the Big 12, and it should continue to be an NCAA Tournament team on an annual basis.”

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Beltran, Lynn spark Cardinals in slugfest

BY STEVEN WINE Associated Press

MIAMI — Carlos Beltran homering from each side of the plate Saturday was hardly a shocker, since he had done it 10 times before. But Lance Lynn’s two-run single? That was unprecedented.

Both contributed offensively as the St. Louis Cardinals survived a slugfest against the lowest-scoring team in the major leagues and beat the Miami Marlins 13-7. Beltran homered twice and tripled, and Lynn (9-1) notched the victory despite allowing a career-high seven

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runs in five innings.

The Cardinals scored five runs in the first, then found themselves at 6-all in the second before pulling away.

Even for the hitters, the game was no fun, Beltran said.

“I felt like I was out there playing defense for four hours,” he said. “It’s one of those days where you have to grind and try to find a way to stay in the game.”

It’s the fifth time the Cardinals have scored at least nine runs when Lynn has started, and this time he contributed himself, delivering a two-out single off Ryan Webb to make the score 9-6.

major college players to players from overseas.

“You have all types of FROM B1 different skill levels and maturity, so you try to put By the time many reach those players in the best posTulsa, at the Double-A level, sible spot for them to have there is a huge change in per- success,” Gustafson said. ception. Players who reach “Much of our sport is about Double-A have the attention confidence, so we want our of the front office in Denver. players to have success at “Once a player jumps from whatever level.

A ball to Double-A in Tulsa, “In a best-case scenario, they are definitely on the ra- these players will stay in dar with the big league club,” these assignments for a full Gustafson said. “Double-A season. It gives players a baseball is where it changes. chance to settle in with host We’re now discussing those families, new coaches, new players in the offices in teammates, a new environDenver.” ment in professional baseHowever, throughout ball. We don’t want them a farm system, you have worrying about all of the everything from recent high other things like getting an school graduates to four-year apartment, doing all of the

Members of the 1963 Babe Ruth League World Series champion baseball team reunite, including (clockwise from front left) Eli Gourd, Gary Marrs, Bob Banfield, Mike Barkley, Jerry Hill, Dr. Rick Amilian and Don Jernigan, for a group photo during a 50-year anniversary reunion at Ti Amo restaurant on Friday. JAMES GIBBARD/Tulsa World

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“We’re here tonight. Close then, close now,” said Mike Barkley, the manager’s son and a middle infielder.

“We didn’t have dissension. There were no egos. No one was better than another, and no one was less than another. We really had a strong team.”

Since their first reunion 25 years ago at Bud Barkley’s home — a total surprise, and he “bawled like a baby,” said infielder Jerry Hill — they’ve gotten the gang back together every few years.

But Friday was “a special deal,” said catcher Rick Amilian. “I haven’t seen a lot of these guys in 15-20 years.”

Close call In Farmington, N.M., where the Babe Ruth League World Series was staged, Babe Ruth’s widow herself attended the annual pre-tournament banquet, and Yankees star Lefty Gomez was the guest of honor. Pepper Martin and Bob Feller also attended.

Tulsa, comprised mostly of sophomores from Central and Rogers, became the first Babe Ruth team to go 14-0 in the state tournament (played in Tulsa), the regional tournament (in El Paso, Texas) and the World Series.

Two major elements led to their success.

In the World Series opener against the local Farmington club, pitcher Jim Mastin only allowed a leadoff home run, then pitched a shutout the rest of the way. Farmington’s pitcher, meanwhile, was cruising with a nohitter going into the seventh until he mishandled a leadoff grounder up the middle by Bob Banfield. Jernigan then broke up the no-hitter with a single to right. Farmington retired the next two Tulsa hitters, but Amilian lofted a fly ball to right field that was dropped.

Both baserunners scored and Tulsa, the home team, prevailed 2-1.

“I think the kid probably lost it in the lights,” Banfield said.

Said Amilian, “That was probably the first time in my entire life, from sixth grade on up, that I ever hit a ball to right field.”

THE TEAM Richard Allred Rick Amilian Bob Banfield Mike Barkley Ron Burden Bob Daily Eli Gourd Jerry Hill Don Jernigan Gary Marrs James Mastin Bob McHugh Gary Ratliff Alan Schiff Manager: Charles “Bud” Barkley Coaches: Troy Money, Richard Burden Director: Benton Fields Batboy: Mike McHugh

showdown against mighty Puerto Rico. Although having lost earlier in the tournament and coming through the losers bracket, Puerto Rico was a physically imposing favorite over the Tulsans.

“They all had beards,” Mike Barkley cracked. “They were probably driving cars to the stadium. But we took ’em out.”

Said Amilian, “I turn around and this little kid goes, ‘Come on, Daddy!’

I’m going, ‘Daddy?’ I mean, these guys were big.”

Before a crowd of 8,350, Gourd held Puerto Rico to six hits in a 9-0 championship performance.

“I had a great coach,” Gourd said.

“Mike’s dad taught me the curveball, the dropball that I threw. He was just a wonderful man.

“The things that he taught me were real simple. He taught me muscle memory. Once you practice it enough, it’s there. There were little techniques that Bud taught me that, when I wasn’t doing so well, I would just think about those things.”

Gourd made the final out, flipping a ground ball to Banfield at first base, but there was no dog pile.

“We kind of went crazy,” said center fielder Gary Marrs, who got things rolling with a third-inning home run.

“But the other team didn’t come out to shake hands. They had started getting real aggressive and stuff when they got behind — matter of fact, I hate to say this, but they came out of the dugout with bats after the game. They were wanting to put a whipping on somebody.”

now coaches girls basketball at Mannford). Hill was a two-time state champion wrestler and played baseball at OU. Marrs played baseball at NEO and Northeastern State. Jernigan and others played at NEO. Gourd said he had offers from Oral Roberts and Tulsa, but declined college baseball, figuring now he probably became burned out.

“We take a bus ride home 18 hours, get home the next morning, and Gary Marrs and I had to go at 6 a.m. to report for football practice,” Barkley said. “So we never had a chance to ever really enjoy this.”

Just four years after the 1959 Tulsa Babe Ruth team, led by future major leaguer Rich Calmus, won the World Series, the ’63 Tulsa club was made up mostly of players off Bud Barkley’s Northside Civitans team. He handpicked the rest from teams sponsored

by First National Bank, Murphy Safety Switch and the VFW. Troy Money is the team’s the last living coach but, at 85, players say he’s recently become ill and was unable to attend the reunion. Hill, who homered in the semifinals, said Money was a big contributor to the postseason run.

“He was my coach all year long with First National Bank,” Hill said.

“He was really a stern coach and very excitable.”

Championship mettle

Not far from where Tulsa’s Babe Ruth Leaguers used to play at old Virgin Street Field — lovingly handmanicured by groundskeeper Frank “Red” Anderson, now obliterated under a highway overpass — Jernigan’s billboard company recently erected a display north of downtown, depicting a black-and-white photograph of a bunch of 15-year-olds holding up a giant “World Champions” pennant.

The actual anniversary is Aug. 24 — right in the middle of the Tulsa Drillers’ final homestand of the summer, it turns out. How cool would it be to gather up the team one more time, just two miles from where they began making history as teenagers, and let them throw out a ceremonial first pitch at ONEOK Field?

“I never did think we had that great a team, but everybody was just Steady Eddie,” Hill said. “We only made two Crafty left-hander errors all through the state tournament, the regional tournament and the The other key was pitcher Eli World Series.”

Gourd.

The talent was there, no question.

Tulsa crushed Klamath Falls, Ore., But long after athletic ability has in the semifinals, as the left-handed shriveled in the dungeons of time, Gourd — at 14 the youngest player on character remains. On this team, that’s Future stars the team, and at about 5-foot-4, the as plain in 2013 as it was in 1963. shortest player on the team — took “Everybody in this group would give One reason that Tulsa team was so over. Gourd gave up only four hits in a you the shirt off their back,” Gourd good: All 14 players either eventually 9-2 victory. said. “Except for Barkley. Mike would played college sports or had scholar“Very crafty,” Amilian said. “They probably just buy you a new shirt.” used to call him Sly Eli. He had a curve ship offers.

Said Marrs, “We were all blue-collar Amilian was a linebacker at Oklaand slider that just seemed like major kids that didn’t have much, but we homa State and roomed with Jon Kolb. were scrappy. And good athletes.” league. He threw with pretty good velocity, too, but he threw a lot of junk, Barkley played football at Kansas Read John E. Hoover’s blog at State. Banfield played basketball for and he could control it.” tulsaworld.com/johnehoover Eddie Sutton at Southern Idaho (and That victory set up a championship things it takes to live. We want to make it as easy as we can for them in this adjustment so that they can flourish on the baseball field.”

It is a pretty big step up from rookie league to the Texas League in Tulsa. However, you never know.

Still, the Rockies have been pretty consistent in not rushing players through the minors to the majors.

The Rangers, the former affiliate of the Drillers, had a history of jetting a few players up to Arlington in a speedy fashion. The Rockies, since they moved into Tulsa, have been cautious.

Everything doesn’t go according to some secret schedule. Players move up and down in the minor

leagues at widely-varying timetables. Some go up quickly. Some go up slowly.

The goal is the same.

“We are looking for major leaguers,” Gustafson said.

“There is no timetable. We’re looking for players at the major-league level.

“The reality is not everyone is going to make it. But a lot of them will someday put on a Rockies uniform. That’s the ultimate goal we have for all of these players.”

Gray was the No. 3 overall pick of the recent Major League Baseball draft. He played at Chandler High School and Eastern Oklahoma State College before landing at OU. The Sooners were not shy about using Gray this season

and that may have been a factor on where Gray landed in the Rockies farm system.

He pitched 126 1/3 innings for the Sooners, going 10-3 with a 1.64 ERA. “He had a pretty heavy workload this spring,” Gustafson said. “Certainly that was something we looked at.

“Jonathan threw quite a bit, so we wanted to make sure to send him to a team where the roster and schedule pressure wouldn’t be quite as much as it would at a higher level.”

The Rockies have seven minor league teams, five considered Single-A or rookie level.

“I don’t know that there is really that much difference between the level of those

teams,” Gustafson said. “I know there is a lot of talk about high-A level or low-A level and much of that has to do with the age of the players. You would like to put your younger players, like kids coming right out of high school, at the low-A level, and the older kids at the high-A level.

“However, if you look at Asheville (low-A) and Modesto (high-A), you probably wouldn’t find much difference in the average age of the players on those teams. For us, it is about finding a spot where kids can have success because we just think having that success is so important to their confidence.”

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ȕ 209 (1-under)

Phil Mickelson .........................67-72-70

ȕ 210 (par)

Hunter Mahan ................... 72-69-69 Charl Schwartzel ................... 70-71-69 Steve Stricker ......................... 71-69-70

ȕ 211 (1-over)

Justin Rose ............................... 71-69-71 Luke Donald .............................68-72-71 Billy Horschel ..........................72-67-72

ȕ 212 (2-over)

Jason Day ................................70-74-68

ȕ 213 (3-over)

Rickie Fowler ......................70-76-67

ȕ 214 (4-over)

a-Michael Kim.........................73-70-71

ȕ 215 (5-over)

Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano... 71-72-72 Henrik Stenson ......................74-68-73 Ian Poulter ................................. 71-71-73 Nicolas Colsaerts .................. 69-72-74 John Senden ............................70-71-74

ȕ 216 (6-over)

David Lingmerth ...................... 74-71-71 Paul Casey ................................ 73-72-71 Paul Lawrie ...............................76-71-69 Lee Westwood .......................70-77-69 Charley Hoffman .................... 71-73-72 Bo Van Pelt ..........................73-71-72 Ernie Els..................................... 71-72-73

ȕ 217 (7-over)

Bubba Watson ........................71-76-70 Edward Loar.........................73-71-73

ȕ 218 (8-over)

Jason Dufner ........................... 74-71-73 Jerry Kelly ................................ 70-73-75 Rory McIlroy ........................... 73-70-75 Morten Orum Madsen ........ 74-74-70 Mathew Goggin ..................... 68-74-76 Brandt Snedeker .................... 74-74-70

ȕ 219 (9-over)

Jamie Donaldson....................73-73-73 a-Cheng-Tsung Pan................72-72-75 John Huh................................... 71-73-75 Matt Kuchar ............................74-73-72 John Parry................................. 76-71-72 Padraig Harrington ................ 73-71-75 Matt Bettencourt ................... 72-71-76 Tiger Woods ........................... 73-70-76

ȕ 220 (10-over)

Hideki Matsuyama .................71-75-74 Scott Langley .......................... 75-70-75 Adam Scott ..............................72-75-73 Bio Kim ......................................72-75-73 David Hearn............................78-69-73

ȕ 221 (11-over)

K.J. Choi ................................... 70-76-75 Webb Simpson ....................... 71-75-75 Sergio Garcia ...........................73-73-75 Carl Pettersson .......................72-75-74 Marcel Siem............................. 73-71-77 George Coetzee ...................... 71-73-77 Russell Knox ........................... 69-75-77 Geoff Ogilvy............................ 74-70-77

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Fowler in hunt after firing 67

• The former OSU star is 3 over, four strokes off the lead.

BY MIKE STILL

The Philadelphia Inquirer

ARDMORE, Pa. — Rickie Fowler is no stranger to Merion, having gone undefeated and leading the United States team to victory on the famed Main Line course in the 2009 Walker Cup. That experience, Fowler said, paid dividends for him during his 3-under par 67 Saturday in the third round at the U.S. Open.

“It helps a lot, just knowing that I’ve played well here before,” the former Oklahoma State star said, a day after shooting a 76 in Round 2. “I’ve made putts here. I’ve made good swings here and the biggest thing this week has just been staying patient, sitting back and letting things happen. Finally I was able to do that today.”

Fowler’s 67 tied for the low round of the tournament, along with Phil Mickelson (Round 1) and Billy Horschel (Round 2).

Fowler started on No. 11 Saturday, and shot 3 under on the back nine. He’s 3 over and trails leader Phil Mickelson by four strokes, a much better position to be in than where he was Saturday morning.

Stricker seeks to close deal at Open

BY JOSEPH WHITE Associated Press

Robert Karlsson .....................74-72-86

ARDMORE, Pa. — Now Steve Stricker has to close the deal. A good supply of frozen yogurt might help get it done.

Running out of time to win a major, the 46-year-old’s steady game — and familyfirst schedule — has him in the frame of mind to finally clear that hurdle. He’s only one stroke off the lead after shooting an even-par 70 Saturday in the third round of the U.S. Open at Merion Golf Club.

“It would be unbelievable, but I’m out (there) not trying to think about that yet,” Stricker said. “I’m just trying to execute the shots that I know how to do and take one shot at a time and go from there.”

After Stricker-like consistent rounds of 1 over, 1 under and even par, he trails only Phil Mickelson. It’s not an unfamiliar position: Stricker has been in the serious mix five times on Sunday in majors, but he’s usually faltered

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OPEN

ȕ 222 (12-over)

Kevin Chappell ........................72-76-74 Josh Teater ...............................74-74-74 Nicholas Thompson ..............72-76-74

ȕ 223 (13-over)

Martin Laird .............................74-73-76 Scott Stallings.......................... 71-76-76 Steven Alker.............................73-75-75 Dustin Johnson ........................71-77-75 Mike Weir.................................72-76-75

ȕ 224 (14-over)

Alistair Presnell.......................73-75-76 Jim Herman .............................76-72-76 Matt Weibring ........................75-73-76

ȕ 225 (15-over)

David Howell ............................77-71-77 Martin Kaymer........................76-72-77

ȕ 226 (16-over)

a-Michael Weaver .................74-74-78 John Peterson ..........................73-75-78 a-Kevin Phelan ........................ 71-77-78

ȕ 227 (17-over)

Peter Hedblom .......................70-78-79

ȕ 230 (20-over)

Shawn Stefani......................... 72-73-85 Kyle Stanley .............................71-74-85 Simon Khan............................. 74-74-82

ȕ 231 (21-over)

Kevin Sutherland ...................73-74-84

ȕ 232 (22-over)

At Merion Golf Club, East Course Ardmore, Pa.; a-amateur Yardage: 6,996; Par: 70 7:44 a.m.: Robert Karlsson 7:55 a.m.: Kevin Sutherland, Simon Khan 8:06 a.m.: Kyle Stanley, Shawn Stefani 8:17 a.m.: Peter Hedblom, a-Kevin Phelan 8:28 a.m.: John Peterson, a-Michael Weaver 8:39 a.m.: Martin Kaymer, David Howell 8:50 a.m.: Matt Weibring, Jim Herman 9:01 a.m.: Alistair Presnell, Mike Weir 9:12 a.m.: Dustin Johnson, Steven Alker 9:23 a.m.: Scott Stallings, Martin Laird 9:34 a.m.: Nicholas Thompson, Josh Teater 9:45 a.m.: Kevin Chappell, Geoff Ogilvy 9:56 a.m.: Russell Knox, George Coetzee 10:07 a.m.: Marcel Siem, Carl Pettersson 10:18 a.m.: Sergio Garcia, Webb Simpson 10:29 a.m.: K.J. Choi, David Hearn 10:40 a.m.: Bio Kim, Adam Scott 10:51 a.m.: Scott Langley, Hideki Matsuyama 11:02 a.m.: Tiger Woods, Matt Bettencourt 11:13 a.m.: Padraig Harrington, John Parry 11:24 a.m.: Matt Kuchar, John Huh 11:35 a.m.: a-Cheng-Tsung Pan, Jamie Donaldson 11:46 a.m.: Brandt Snedeker, Mathew Goggin 11:57 a.m.: Morten Orum Madsen, Rory McIlroy 12:08 p.m.: Jerry Kelly, Jason Dufner 12:19 p.m.: Edward Loar, Bubba Watson 12:30 p.m.: Ernie Els, Bo Van Pelt 12:41 p.m.: Charley Hoffman, Lee Westwood 12:52 p.m.: Paul Lawrie, Paul Casey 1:03 p.m.: David Lingmerth, John Senden 1:14 p.m.: Nicolas Colsaerts, Ian Poulter 1:25 p.m.: Henrik Stenson, G. Fernandez-Castano 1:36 p.m.: a-Michael Kim, Rickie Fowler 1:47 p.m.: Jason Day, Billy Horschel 1:58 p.m.: Luke Donald, Justin Rose 2:09 p.m.: Steve Stricker, Charl Schwartzel 2:20 p.m.: Hunter Mahan, Phil Mickelson

previous two rounds. Fowler hit 11 of 14 fairways in the third round and just 7 of 14 in Round 2. That poor driving in the second round contributed to six bogeys.

Fowler bogeyed the par4 No. 5 hole Saturday, but that was his last bogey of the round.

“Finally just kind of pieced everything together,” he said.

“I played well the first day of scoring. I had a few holes get away from me. (In Round 2) I just had a bad stretch and (Saturday) I just made a few putts to keep the round going.”

The key for Fowler on Sunday will be maintaining low scores on holes Nos. 3-6, which he called Merion’s toughest stretch. Fowler has either bogeyed or doubled each of those holes, except No. 4, this week.

Fowler’s best finish in four previous starts at the U.S. Open was 41st last season.

Barring a major meltdown on Sunday, the 24-year-old is set to improve upon that.

“I obviously know I’m swinging the club well right now. I’ve been hitting my lines and hitting a lot of solid golf Rickie Fowler shot a 3-under 67 in Saturday’s third round of the U.S. Open in Ardmore, Pa. shots,” Fowler said. “I feel like JULIO CORTEZ/Associated Press if I can get off to a good start (Sunday), get through the first “I swung it well, drove it When asked how Merion the biggest differences. six holes, just stay patient, a little better and stayed out compares to when he played it He was indeed far better in stay within myself and get off of the rough as much as pos- in 2009, Fowler alluded to this avoiding the tall grass off the to a good start, I can play well sible,” he said. year’s devilish rough as one of tee on Saturday than in his from there on in.”

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former Oklahoma State standout Hunter Mahan, Charl Schwartzel and Steve Stricker going into the final round.

It’s the first time Mickelson has held the outright lead through 54 holes in the U.S. Open, and the timing could be right.

Mickelson celebrates his 43rd birthday Sunday — on Father’s Day, no less. He left Merion on Monday and didn’t return until three hours before his tee time on Thursday so he could attend the eighthgrade graduation of his oldest daughter.

“It’s got the makings to be something special,” Mickelson said. “But I still have to go out and perform, and play some of my best golf.”

Mickelson, who already has a record five silver medals for being runner-up at this demanding major, was at 1-under 209.

And the fun is just getting started.

“It’s a hard challenge, but it’s a lot of fun,” Mickelson said. “Every shot requires such great focus because a penalty can bite you quickly.

I can’t wait to get back and playing. I feel good ball-striking, I feel good on the greens.

I think it’s going to take an under-par round tomorrow.”

Saturday was more about weeding out the pretenders for this U.S. Open — and one of them turned out to be Tiger Woods. He started out just four shots out of the lead,

Steve Stricker is one shot off the lead after Saturday’s third round of the U.S. Open in Ardmore, Pa. CHARLIE RIEDEL/AP

over those final 18 holes. His best U.S. Open finish is a solo fifth place at Pinehurst in 1999.

Stricker thinks it might be different this time. He said his play this week has justified his decision to cut back on his PGA Tour schedule to spend more time with family, as well as more time practicing for the bigger events.

“I just figured that I’m in a good place mentally,” he said.

KEY HOLE: NO. 18 ARDMORE, Pa. (AP) — A glance at the key hole Saturday at the U.S. Open.

HOLE: No. 18 YARDAGE: 521 PAR: 4 STROKE AVERAGE: 4.7 RANK: 2nd KEY FACT: No player made birdie at the hole and seven of the top 10 names on the board, including leader Phil Mickelson, made bogey there.

and made a bending, 12-foot birdie putt on the opening hole. It never got any better for the world’s No. 1 player.

He made seven bogeys the rest of the way and didn’t add another birdie, matching his worst U.S. Open score as a pro with a 6-over 76.

Woods was 10 shots behind.

“It certainly is frustrating,” said Woods, who has been stuck on 14 majors since winning the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines. “I’m playing well enough to do it, and unfortunately just haven’t gotten it done.”

The final hour might have been a sneak preview for Sunday. At one point, there were five players under par, and suddenly there was only Mickelson.

Luke Donald had the outright lead until two bad swings on the last two holes — a 2-iron into the bunker on No. 17 that led to bogey, and another 2-iron into ankledeep rough well right of the 18th green that led to a dou-

“I feel like I’m doing the right thing by not playing. I’m enjoying my time at home, so it all makes sense in my mind and I guess that’s the most important thing. And I’m happy the way I’m striking it.

Couple loose shots today that I’m not so happy with, but overall it just justifies what I’m doing — and especially when I play well.”

The family is with him at Merion, and what a Father’s

Day it would be if he won.

His wife, Nicki, used to be his caddie, and daughter Bobbi Maria has brought along a friend. It helps ease the tension of a championship atmosphere.

“Believe me, they’re loving every minute of it,” Stricker said. “The girls are all up until 11:30, it seems like, every night. No curfew here.

And frozen yogurt at night.

They’re loving life.”

As for the Merion course, Stricker downplays any natural advantage his game might give him. He’s known for his good driver, solid wedge game and his putter, but even a complete all-around game would find its match in the high grass and hard-to-read greens.

Stricker’s double bogey at No. 9 was the only blemish on his card Saturday. He finished by making a tricky putt for par at No. 18, a hole so daunting that no one made birdie on it in the third round.

“That was a big putt,” he said. “Keeps my momentum going for tomorrow.”

HOW LOCALS FARED Hunter Mahan (OSU): Despite bogeying the final two holes of the third round, shot his second consecutive 1-under-par 69 to stand at even-par 210 for the tournament. Will be in Sunday’s final pairing with leader Phil Mickelson.

Rickie Fowler (OSU): After finishing the second round Saturday morning with a 76, turned in the low score of the third round with a 3-under 67. At 3-over 213, he is in ninth place, just four shots off Mickelson’s lead.

Bo Van Pelt (OSU, Tulsa-area resident): Made birdies on the

final two holes to finish with a third-round 72. Is tied for 16th place at 6-over 216.

Edward Loar (OSU): After making an eagle at No. 2 and birdie at No. 5, his round fell apart on the back nine, where he played the last seven holes at 6 over to finish with a 73. Is tied for 23rd place at 7-over 217.

Brandt Jobe (born in OKC): Finished his second round Saturday morning with an 80 and missed the cut.

Morgan Hoffmann (OSU):

Missed the cut.

Casey Wittenberg (OSU):

Missed the cut.

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ble bogey. Just like that, one of the best rounds of the day turned into a 71, and he was two shots behind.

“I should have done better,” Donald said. “It was disappointing, but I’ll take the positives out of today — a really solid 16 holes of golf, and I’m only two back.”

Mahan let his spectacular back nine filled with four birdies go to waste with a bogey-bogey finish for a 69. He will be in the final group for the first time in a major with Mickelson, whom he considers a close friend.

Former Masters champion Schwartzel also went bogeybogey at the end of his round for a 69. Stricker made a 10foot par putt on the 18th hole to complete a 70 and perhaps the steadiest round of the day.

His only mistake in a round that lasted 5½ hours under sunshine was a tee shot into the water on the par-3 ninth for a double bogey.

At 46, Stricker can become the oldest U.S. Open champion.

“I’ve got to play smart golf ... not make any mistakes,” he said. “I think that’s the biggest thing. And it’s a course where it’s tough to come back.”

Billy Horschel, tied with Mickelson at the start of the third round, kept his emotions in check and shot 72. He was two shots behind, along with Donald and Justin Rose, who also had a bogey-bogey finish.

The third round featured so much movement, and so many wild swings, that sevHunter Mahan celebrates after making a putt on the 13th hole en players had a share of the Saturday at the U.S. Open at Ardmore, Pa. CHARLIE RIEDEL/AP lead at some point.

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Man recalls 1950 Open as caddie

••A•Claremore•man• learned•about•golf• in•assisting•a•former• U.S.•Open•winner.

BY KELLY HINES

World Sports Writer

CLAREMORE• —• Charles• Butler• remembers• even• the• smallest• details• of• the• 1950• U.S.•Open.

His•caddie•number:•56.•His• uniform:•a•white•Merion•Golf• Club•T-shirt•and•a•green•cap.• His•assigned•pro:•Johnny•Farrell,•winner•of•the•1928•Open.

While• watching• this• year’s• U.S.• Open,• which• concludes• Sunday,• Butler• has• had• more• flashbacks• of• his• caddying• days•six•decades•ago•at• the• legendary• course• in•Ardmore,• Pa. As• the• tournament• was• approaching,• the• Butler 84-year-old• Claremore• resident•sketched•from•memory•most•of•the•course•layout,• to• the• astonishment• of• his• daughter•and•grandson.

“I•was•trying•to•picture•the• course,”• Butler• said.• “I• could• remember• a• lot• of• the• holes,• but•some•of•them•escaped•my• mind.”

Butler• moved• to• Oklahoma• for•work•in•1977,•but•while•in• high•school•he•lived•two•miles• from•Merion.•He•had•a•friend• who• caddied• there,• so• Butler• showed•up•and•was•put•on•the• caddie•list.

“I•didn’t•know•much•about• golf,”• he• said.• “The• only• reason• I• went• over• there• was• so• I• could• have• some• spending• money.”

With• a• $2.25• flat• rate• per• bag• plus• tips,• Butler• earned• about•$10•a•day•–•“pretty•good• money•for•a•high•school•kid,”• he•said.

Butler•was•21•when•the•U.S.• Open• came• to• town,• and• he• still• didn’t• know• much• about•

the• game.• Back• then,• pros• didn’t•have•their•own•caddies,• so• Merion• caddie• master• Joe• Markey•assigned•his•best•guys• to•the•best•players.

Admittedly,• Butler• was• not• one•of•the•best•caddies.•After• waiting• in• the• dark,• musty• caddie•shack•with•the•others,• he• heard• his• number• called• and•raced•up•the•stairs.

While•carrying•Farrell’s•bag• for• two• rounds,• Butler’s• lack• of•golf•expertise•was•exposed.

“We• got• to• this• one• hole,• and•he•said,•‘What•should•I•hit• here?’ ”• Butler• said.• “I• really• didn’t• know.• I• said,• ‘Maybe• a• 4-iron•or•a•4-wood?’

“He•looked•at•me•like•I•had• two•heads.•He•said,•‘You•don’t• know• the• difference• between• a•4-wood•and•a•4-iron?’ ” Farrell• didn’t• make• the• cut• —• probably• not• his• caddie’s• fault• —• but• Butler• still• pocketed•$40.•He•stuck•around•for• the•rest•of•the•tournament•and• saw• Ben• Hogan’s• “Miracle• at• Merion”•victory•in•an•18-hole• playoff.

Butler• didn’t• appreciate• what• he• witnessed• “as• much• as•if•I•had•been•a•real•avid•golfer,”• Butler• said.• “I• just• went• out•of•curiosity.•I•enjoyed•it.”

Years• later,• Butler• took• up• golf•and•twice•hit•a•hole•in•one.• Though• retired• from• playing,• he• shares• a• love• of• the• sport• with• his• teenage• grandsons,• who•grew•up•hitting•balls•with• plastic• clubs• in• the• backyard• with•their•grandfather.

After• a• Father’s• Day• lunch• with•his•family•Sunday,•Butler• will• intently• watch• the• final• round• of• the• Open• and• root• for• his• favorite• players• —• Tiger•Woods,•Rickie•Fowler•and• Phil•Mickelson.

And• inevitably,• Butler• will• remember•more•of•his•time•at• Merion.

“Every•time•we•turn•around,• he•has•another•memory,”•said• Butler’s• daughter,• Audrey• Webber.• “It’s• surreal.• My• son• this• morning• was• watching• on• TV• and• said,• ‘Just• think,• Grandpop• was• there!• Isn’t• that•cool?’ ” Kelly Hines 918-581-8452 kelly.hines@tulsaworld.com

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Century-old feat saluted ••Ouimet’s•victory•• in•1913•U.S.•Open•• reaches•a•milestone.

BY JIMMY GOLEN Associated Press

BROOKLINE,• Mass.• —• At• the• entrance• to• the• Putterham• Meadows• golf• course• stands• a• statue• of• 1913• U.S.• Open•champion•Francis•Ouimet.•Also•in•bronze,•dwarfed• by• the• bag• he• carries,• is• the• 10-year-old• caddie• who• walked• all• 90• holes• by• his• side.

It•is•fitting•that•the•two•are• together,•for•Ouimet’s•loyalty• to•Eddie•Lowery•is•as•much•a• part•of•his•legend•as•the•playoff• victory• over• British• stars• Harry• Vardon• and• Ted• Ray.• And• it’s• fitting• that• the• statue• is• at• the• municipal• track• rather• than• The• Country• Club,• where• the• Open• took• place•100•years•ago,•because• the•victory•by•the•blue-collar• American• is• credited• for• a• golfing•boom•that•spread•the• sport• beyond• its• cloistered• realm• of• gentlemen• and• foreigners.

“Mr.• Ouimet• changed• the• game.• He• showed• people• of• the•world•that•golf•is•a•sport• that•is•driven•by•values,”•Jack• Nicklaus•said•in•a•video•that• was• played• at• the• 100th• anniversary•gala•for•the•Francis• Ouimet•Scholarship•Fund.

“The• game• in• America• would•not•be•what•it•is•today• without• Francis• Ouimet’s• influence,”• said• Nicklaus,• who•first•met•the•1913•Open• champion• when• the• tournament•returned•to•The•Country•Club•on•the•50th•anniversary•of•his•win.•“I•knew•then• that• I• was• meeting• a• true• American•hero.”

As• the• world’s• top• golfers• tee•off•at•this•year’s•U.S.•Open• at• Merion• in• Ardmore,• Pa.,• The•Country•Club•is•gearing• up• for• the• end-of-summer• U.S.• Amateur• and• the• 100th• anniversary• of• Ouimet’s• landmark• victory.• In• 1913,• with•Lowery•on•his•bag,•Ouimet• crossed• the• street• from• the• house• in• which• he• lived• with• his• parents• to• beat• the• barnstorming•British•pros•at•

Francis D. Ouimet (center) shakes hands with Harry Vardon (left) and Ted Ray at the 1913 U.S. Open golf championship at The Country Club in Brookline, Mass. Ouimet’s U.S. Open victory at The Country Club 100 years ago helped turn him and caddie Eddie Lowery into household names and boosted the sports popularity in the United States. Associated Press file

the•course•where•he•used•to• caddie.

Taking•advantage•of•a•lastminute• invitation,• Ouimet• took•time•off•from•his•job•at• a•sporting•goods•store•to•play• in•the•Open,•which•had•been• delayed• until• September• to• accommodate• Vardon• and• Ray.•(Vardon•was•then•a•fivetime•British•Open•champion• —•he•would•win•another•the• following• year• —• and• Ray• had•won•in•1912.)

The• 20-year-old• American• was• 17th• after• the• first• round• and• eighth• after• 36• holes•before•shooting•74,•the• best•score•of•the•third•round,• to• enter• the• final• round• tied• for•the•lead•with•Vardon•and• Ray.• The• two• British• pros• teed• off• early,• and• Ouimet• needed• to• play• the• final• six• holes•at•2•under•to•make•the• playoff.•(Walter•Hagen,•then• an• unknown,• missed• the• playoff•by•one•stroke.)

Ouimet• made• his• final• birdie•on•No.•17•—•across•the• street• from• his• house• —• and•

managed• a• par• on• the• final• hole•of•regulation•to•force•an• 18-hole•playoff•the•next•day.

With• what• was• said• to• be• an• unprecedented• crowd• of• 10,000•fans•out•to•watch•one• of• their• own,• Ouimet• took• the•lead•when•the•pros•each• three-putted• the• par-3• 10th• hole.•Still•trailing•by•a•stroke• at• No.• 17,• Vardon• gambled• and•landed•in•a•bunker•when• he• tried• to• cut• the• corner,• making• bogey• while• Ouimet• birdied•to•pull•away.

The•unheralded•American• beat• Vardon• by• five• strokes• and• Ray• by• six• to• become• the• first• amateur• to• win• the• U.S.•Open,•a•victory•that•laid• waste•to•the•notion•that•golf• was•a•game•for•gentlemen•—• and•foreign•ones,•at•that.

The• sport’s• popularity• grew• quickly• following• the• Open:• Gene• Sarazen• reportedly• heard• the• news• while• caddying• with• Ed• Sullivan• and• said,• “A• caddie• won!• Maybe• I• could• be• like• him!”• Ouimet• himself• was• a• men-

tor• to• Sarazen• and• Bobby• Jones,• and• he• gave• credibility• to• the• PGA• of• America• when• he• attended• its• first• meeting•in•1916.

Only•about•350,000•Americans•played•the•sport•at•the• time,• and• more• than• 2• million• picked• it• up• over• the• next• decade,• according• to• figures• supplied• by• the• Ouimet• Fund.• The• number• of• golf• courses• grew• from• 700• to• 5,600• by• 1929,• with• many• of•the•new•ones•municipally• owned• and• open• to• a• new• range•of•player.

“It• really• gave• American• golf•its•first•shot•in•the•arm,”• said• Ben• Crenshaw,• who• captained•the•U.S.•Ryder•Cup• team•at•The•Country•Club•in• 1999,• when• Justin• Leonard• sank•the•45-foot•putt•on•the• 17th• hole• that• turned• the• tournament• in• the• Americans’•favor.

In• the• tumultuous• postputt• celebration,• Crenshaw• found•Leonard:•“I•just•looked• at•him•and•said,•‘Francis.’ ”

Earnhardt has good history at MIS Smith beats rain,

BY NOAH TRISTER Associated Press

BROOKLYN, Mich. — A year ago, Dale Earnhardt Jr. finally snapped his long losing streak. He left Michigan International Speedway with hopes of more victories to come — maybe even a Sprint Cup championship.

He hasn’t won since.

“We want to win more races. We want to win numerous races and multiple races in a season,” Earnhardt said. “We want that to be the norm. We want that to be what is expected. When we first started working together we were trying to figure out how to get a 15th-place combination into the top 10 and we were happy when we did.

“Now when we run in the top 10 it’s just another weekend — and what do we have to do to win?”

Whenever NASCAR’s top series comes to Michigan, Earnhardt is at the center of attention. He won at MIS last June after 143 races without a victory. His most recent win before that was also at Michigan in 2008, so the Sprint Cup’s twice-yearly visits to the Irish Hills always seem to present an opportunity for Earnhardt and his No. 88 Chevrolet.

Earnhardt’s victory last year wasn’t a shock. He’d been running well for a while, working his way back among NASCAR’s elite drivers, so after a convincing performance at MIS, stock-car racing’s most popular driver could credibly eye a run at a series championship.

But concussion problems derailed his chances in the

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NASCAR SPRINT CUP Quicken Loans 400

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BY NOAH TRISTER Associated Press

NASCAR NATIONWIDE

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BROOKLYN, Mich. — The rain drops splashed on the pavement at Michigan International Speedway about an hour after Regan Smith’s victory Saturday.

Too late to interrupt the race — and that was fine with Smith and crew chief Greg Ives.

“I’ve had a lot of different situations over the years, of weather and how it plays into it,” Ives said. “I had the radar on my screen, and I saw it breaking up. None of my strategy really came off the weather — whether or not the rain was going to come. ... If it would have came and rained us out, it happens, but I wasn’t going to guarantee myself anything on the rain.”

Smith won the Nationwide Series race, holding off Kyle Larson in the final 10 laps and more than doubling his lead in the points standings. He took the lead with 13 laps remaining when Parker Kligerman had to pit. The race was run under threatening

weather conditions, but all 125 laps and 250 miles were completed with no delays.

Kligerman led for 13 laps toward the end, but the rain that might have helped him didn’t arrive in time.

“We played it perfectly for that situation,” Kligerman said. “There was debris everywhere the last 20 laps. Of course, no one threw a caution, so we ran out of fuel and finished wherever we finished.”

Kligerman finished 25th.

Sam Hornish Jr., who is second in the standings, fell from 23 points behind Smith to 58 points back. He finished 32nd — his day ended early because of an oil pump problem.

Although Larson closed the gap a bit toward the end, he wasn’t able to overtake Smith’s No. 7 ChevroletPaul Menard finished third Saturday, followed by Kyle Busch and Trevor Bayne. Pole winner Austin Dillon wound up 20th.

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29. (27) J. Nemechek, T, 119, 15, $18,450.

30. (38) J. Carlos Blum, C, 119, 14, $18,700.

31. (18) J. Earnhardt, F, 85, 13, $18,350.

32. (13) S. Hornish Jr., F, engine, 81, 12, $18,305.

33. (9) B. Vickers, T, 80, 11, $18,260.

34. (35) K. Butler, T, ignition, 21, 10, $18,230.

35. (39) C. Long, F, alternator, 16, 9, $12,196.

36. (26) J. Green, T, vibration, 14, 8, $11,375.

37. (30) J. Wise, C, electrical, 10, 7, $11,355.

38. (32) J. Yeley, C, handling, 8, 0, $11,316.

39. (33) D. Stacey, F, accident, 6, 5, $17,190.

RaceȕStatistics Averageȕ Speedȕ ofȕ Raceȕ Winner: 137.825 mph.

Timeȕ ofȕ Race: 1 hour, 48 minutes, 50 seconds.

MarginȕofȕVictory: 0.330 seconds.

CautionȕFlags: 5 for 23 laps.

LeadȕChanges: 5 among 5 drivers.

Lapȕ Leaders: A.Dillon 1-41; A.Bowman 42-48; A.Dillon 49-68; J.Logano 69-98; P.Kligerman 99-111; R.Smith 112-125.

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Topȕ 10ȕ inȕ Points: 1. R.Smith, 495; 2.

S.Hornish Jr., 437; 3. J.Allgaier, 436; 4.

A.Dillon, 428; 5. E.Sadler, 424; 6. B.Scott, 415; 7. T.Bayne, 407; 8. P.Kligerman, 405; 9. K.Larson, 403; 10. B.Vickers, 395.

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LapȕLength:ȕ2ȕmiles (Carȕnumberȕinȕparentheses) Carȕmakerȕabbreviations:ȕC=Chevrolet,ȕ D=Dodge,ȕF=Ford,ȕT=Toyota 1. (99) C. Edwards, F, 202.452 mph.

2. (78) Ku. Busch, C, 201.879.

3. (5) K. Kahne, C, 201.213.

4. (27) P. Menard, C, 200.803.

5. (43) A. Almirola, F, 200.764.

6. (22) J. Logano, F, 200.725.

7. (33) A. Dillon, C, 200.63.

8. (20) M. Kenseth, T, 200.568.

9. (18) Ky. Busch, T, 200.457.

10. (42) J. Pablo Montoya, C, 200.445.

11. (11) D. Hamlin, T, 200.406.

12. (88) D. Earnhardt Jr., C, 200.1.

13. (56) M. Truex Jr., T, 200.05.

14. (14) T. Stewart, C, 199.789.

15. (17) R. Stenhouse Jr., F, 199.761.

16. (2) Bra. Keselowski, F, 199.75.

17. (48) J. Johnson, C, 199.689.

18. (31) J. Burton, C, 199.656.

19. (16) G. Biffle, F, 199.38.

20. (51) B. Labonte, C, 199.358.

21. (29) K. Harvick, C, 199.231.

22. (55) M. Martin, T, 199.214.

23. (9) M. Ambrose, F, 198.692.

24. (13) C. Mears, F, 198.593.

25. (21) T. Bayne, F, 198.429.

26. (38) D. Gilliland, F, 198.364.

27. (15) C. Bowyer, T, 198.292.

28. (1) J. McMurray, C, 198.08.

29. (24) J. Gordon, C, 197.922.

30. (98) M. McDowell, F, 197.217.

31. (34) D. Ragan, F, 196.813.

32. (47) A.J. Allmendinger, T, 196.791.

33. (83) D. Reutimann, T, 196.276.

34. (30) D. Stremme, T, 196.266.

35. (39) R. Newman, C, 195.737.

36. (7) D. Blaney, C, 195.514.

37. (10) D. Patrick, C, owner points.

38. (35) J. Wise, F, owner points.

39. (32) K. Schrader, F, owner points.

40. (36) J. Yeley, C, owner points.

41. (93) T. Kvapil, T, owner points.

42. (87) J. Nemechek, T, owner points.

43. (19) M. Bliss, T, owner points.

Failedȕtoȕqualify 44. (44) S. Riggs, F, 184.393.

DaleȕEarnhardtȕJr.ȕbrokeȕaȕlongȕwinlessȕstreakȕatȕlastȕJune’sȕ NASCARȕSprintȕCupȕraceȕatȕMichigan. BOB BRODBECK/Associated Press

and briefly led the points standings, he’s slipped to fourth since then.

Earnhardt took a step in the right direction with a third-place showing at Pocono last weekend, but the pressure is mounting for him to take advantage of a return to Michigan.

“It’s just a simple race track that has not got a lot of challenges. It’s very easily laid out and understandable for a driver. It really comes down to just getting your car to work,” said Earnhardt, 38.

“There are no bumps or bad transitions, there is nothing really that you are out there fighting or worried about or dreading. It’s just a simple race track and very wide.”

Jimmie Johnson has never won a Cup race at MIS, but he enters Sunday’s 400-mile race leading the standings by 51 points. Johnson has three victories already this year, Chase for the Sprint Cup, and and another spot in the Chase although he began 2013 with looks like a formality. five straight top-10 finishes “A lot can still go wrong if

you hit a stretch of bad races.

I feel like our wins will lock us in the Chase, but my mind is still on running well and getting ready for the Chase,” Johnson said. “I really am shocked that I’m so far out ahead of everybody.”

Carl Edwards won the pole for Sunday’s race. Earnhardt qualified 12th, and defending Cup champion Brad Keselowski was 16th, one spot ahead of Johnson.

These two weeks — Pocono followed by Michigan — worked out well for Earnhardt last year, and he’d love a repeat.

“I think there are certain teams that are capable of getting behind or being off and climbing their way back up,” said Jeff Gordon, who is 11th in the standings and could use a victory himself. “I thought Junior had a very impressive run last week. He was very competitive and it was great timing for them because this is a track that I know he likes and does well at.”

Penske calls poaching comments ‘misinformation’ WEST ALLIS, Wis. (AP) — Roger Penske refuted Brad Keselowski’s claim that some of their employees were poached by other NASCAR teams.

“I think Brad had some misinformation,” Penske said Saturday when the defending Sprint Cup champion accused Hendrick Motorsports and Joe Gibbs Racing of luring away Penske

employees in an effort to steal information.

Keselowski’s comments led to a stern rebuke from Rick Hendrick and Joe Gibbs, as both team owners blasted the driver for spreading false information.

“We didn’t lose any employees who were under contract or who weren’t free to go elsewhere as part of our engine reorgani-

zation,” Penske said before the IndyCar race at the Milwaukee Mile.

Keselowski was at Ford headquarters in Dearborn, Mich., on Thursday, when he said his Penske Racing team has been reluctant to share information with Roush Fenway Racing on their Ford cars.

“What keeps it from going too

far is the fact Hendrick and (Joe Gibbs Racing) have this nasty little habit of going to our teams and outbidding different people and taking those employees and stealing our information,” Keselowski said, according to ESPN.com.

Keselowski didn’t elaborate when asked about his comments Friday.

Saturday Brooklyn,ȕMich.

LapȕLength:ȕ2ȕmiles (Startȕpositionȕinȕparentheses) Carȕmakerȕabbreviations:ȕC=Chevrolet,ȕ D=Dodge,ȕF=Ford,ȕT=Toyota 1. (20) R. Smith, C, 125 laps, 47 points, $45,440.

2. (11) K. Larson, C, 125, 42, $38,200.

3. (2) P. Menard, C, 125, 0, $24,750.

4. (14) Ky. Busch, T, 125, 0, $17,800.

5. (4) T. Bayne, F, 125, 39, $23,375.

6. (6) B. Sweet, C, 125, 38, $21,050.

7. (8) C. Buescher, F, 125, 37, $14,810.

8. (19) E. Sadler, T, 125, 36, $21,645.

9. (21) N. Piquet Jr., C, 125, 35, $20,425.

10. (3) B. Scott, C, 125, 34, $21,875.

11. (10) J. Logano, F, 125, 0, $13,975.

12. (7) J. Allgaier, C, 125, 32, $19,800.

13. (22) J. Clements, C, 124, 31, $19,550.

14. (5) A. Bowman, T, 124, 31, $19,675.

15. (23) C. Whitt, T, 124, 29, $20,275.

16. (31) M. Wallace, C, 124, 28, $19,375.

17. (12) T. Pastrana, F, 124, 27, $19,125.

18. (15) J. Long, C, 124, 26, $19,075.

19. (17) M. Annett, F, 123, 25, $19,025.

20. (1) A. Dillon, C, 123, 26, $28,550.

21. (28) M. Bliss, T, 123, 23, $18,900.

22. (25) B. Koch, T, 123, 22, $18,850.

23. (34) S. Riggs, F, 123, 0, $18,800.

24. (24) R. Sorenson, C, 123, 20, $18,750.

25. (16) P. Kligerman, T, 123, 20, $19,175.

26. (29) L. Cassill, C, 122, 18, $18,625.

27. (36) J. Gase, T, 122, 17, $12,575.

28. (37) E. McClure, T, 120, 16, $18,500.

B8

Sunday, June 16, 2013

FOR THE RECORD n

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BASKETBALL ȕ WNBA

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlanta........................5. 1. .833. — Chicago...................... 4. 1. .800. ½ Washington...............3. 1. .750.

1 New.York................... 4. 2. .667.

1 Connecticut...............2. 4. .333.

3 Indiana........................ 1. 4. .200. 3½ WESTERN CONFERENCE Minnesota................. 4. 1. .800. — Los.Angeles................2. 2. .500. 1½ Phoenix.......................2. 3. .400.

2 San.Antonio...............2. 3. .400.

2 Seattle......................... 1. 3. .250. 2½ Tulsa........................ 1 6 .143 4 Late Friday Phoenix.97,.Los.Angeles.81 Saturday San.Antonio.at.Los.Angeles Sunday Indiana.at.Washington,.1.p.m.

Chicago.at.Atlanta,.2.p.m.

Phoenix at Tulsa, 3:30 p.m.

Seattle.at.Connecticut,.4.p.m.

Summary

LATE FRIDAY

MERCURY 97, SPARKS 81 Los Angeles 27 23 14 17 — 81 Phoenix 25 23 26 23 — 97 Los Angeles:.Coleman.4-10.2-4.11,.

Ogwumike.3-9.7-9.13,.Parker.5-11.5-6.

15,. Toliver. 7-17. 3-4. 18,. Harding. 6-13.

0-0.12,.Hoffman.1-4.0-0.2,.Lavender.

3-7.1-2.7,.Abdi.0-1.0-2.0,.Mathies.1-1.

1-2.3..Totals.30-73.19-29.81.

Phoenix:.Houston.6-12.1-1.15,.Bonner. 8-18. 6-6. 23,. Griner. 5-5. 0-0. 10,.

Gilbreath.3-8.0-0.7,.Taurasi.11-19.7-8.

34,.Thomas.1-5.2-4.4,.Kizer.2-4.0-0.

4,. Prahalis. 0-1. 0-0. 0.. Totals. 36-72.

16-19.97.

3-point goals:. Los. Angeles. 2-11.

(Coleman. 1-2,. Toliver. 1-3,. Harding.

0-1,. Ogwumike. 0-1,. Hoffman. 0-2,.

Parker. 0-2),. Phoenix. 9-25. (Taurasi.

5-9,.Houston.2-4,.Gilbreath.1-3,.Bonner. 1-8,. Prahalis. 0-1).. Fouled out: None.. Rebounds: Los. Angeles. 47.

(Ogwumike.10),.Phoenix.45.(Bonner.

12).. Assists: Los. Angeles. 11. (Parker.

3),. Phoenix. 18. (Taurasi. 7).. Total fouls: Los. Angeles. 20,. Phoenix. 22..

Technicals: Toliver,. Taurasi,. Phoenix. defensive. three. second. 3.. Flagrant. Fouls—Ogwumike.. A: 13,065.

(9,510).

BASEBALL ȕ Pacific Coast League

American North Division Memphis................. 35. 34. .507. — Iowa..........................30. 36. .455. 3½ Omaha.....................29. 35. .453. 3½ Nashville.................. 23. 43. .348. 10½ American South Division Round.Rock.............38. 31. .551. — Oklahoma City .... 35 30 .538 1 Albuquerque...........36. 32. .529. 1½ New.Orleans...........34. 35. .493. 4 Pacific North Division Tacoma....................42. 27. .609. — Colorado.Springs... 37. 29. .561. 3½ Salt.Lake................... 35. 34. .507.

7 Reno.......................... 25. 44. .362. 17 Pacific South Division Sacramento.............38. 30. .559. — Tucson......................36. 32. .529.

2 Las.Vegas.................34. 32. .515.

3 Fresno....................... 33. 36. .478. 5½ Late Friday Iowa.5,.Omaha.5,.tie,.(6).susp.,.rain Albuquerque.7,.Memphis.2 Colorado.Springs.6,.Las.Vegas.2 Salt.Lake.7,.Fresno.5 Tucson.6,.Reno.5 Tacoma.6,.Sacramento.4 Saturday Iowa.9,.Omaha.5 New.Orleans.6,.Nashville.3 Round Rock at Okla. City Memphis.at.Albuquerque Reno.at.Tucson Colo..Springs.at.Las.Vegas Salt.Lake.at.Fresno Tacoma.at.Sacramento Sunday Omaha.at.Iowa,.1:05.p.m.

Colo..Springs.at.Las.Vegas,.2:05.p.m.

New.Orleans.at.Nashville,.2:05.p.m.

Tacoma.at.Sacramento,.3:05.p.m.

Salt.Lake.at.Fresno,.4:05.p.m.

Round Rock at Okla. City, 6:05 p.m.

Memphis.at.Albuquerque,.7:05.p.m.

Reno.at.Tucson,.9:05.p.m.

GOLF ȕ Web.com: Air Capital Classic

At Wichita, Kan. Purse: $650,000 Yardage: 6,959 Par: 71 (35-36) Scott.Parel....................69-66-67—202 Steve.Wheatcroft.......67-68-68—203 Paul.Claxton................. 70-71-63—204 Chris.Thompson.........69-71-64—204 Franklin.Corpening.....71-68-65—204 Alex.Aragon.................72-67-65—204 Camilo.Benedetti........ 71-66-67—204 Bhavik.Patel................ 68-67-69—204 Alex.Prugh.....................63-71-70—204 Aron.Price....................74-67-64—205 Dustin.Garza............... 66-71-68—205 Peter.Malnati...............68-67-70—205 Kevin Tway ..............70-65-70—205 Wes.Short,.Jr.................72-67-67—206 Kyle.Reifers..................67-69-70—206 Jace.Long.......................71-63-72—206 Nathan.Tyler................ 67-65-74—206 Nathan.Green..............68-73-66—207 Matt.Hill.........................68-72-67—207 Troy.Merritt................ 70-69-68—207 Bronson.La’Cassie......68-70-69—207 Gavin.Coles................. 69-69-69—207 Aaron.Goldberg.......... 67-70-70—207

J.J..Killeen.................... 70-70-68—208 Andrew.Loupe.............73-67-68—208 Woody.Austin............ 74-66-68—208 Billy.Hurley.III.............70-69-69—208 Michael.Letzig............ 73-66-69—208 Brad Elder ................. 71-66-71—208 Sung.Kang....................68-68-72—208 Danny.Lee....................69-66-73—208 Scott.Pinckney............ 72-69-68—209 Reid.Edstrom.............. 72-69-68—209 Alexandre.Rocha........68-73-68—209 Vince.Covello.............. 70-71-68—209 Rob.Oppenheim..........71-69-69—209 Kevin.Kisner................ 70-69-70—209 Richard.S..Johnson......68-71-70—209 Si.Woo.Kim...................71-66-72—209 Ashley.Hall.................... 71-70-69—210 Paul.Stankowski........... 70-71-69—210 Aaron.Watkins............. 71-69-70—210 Tom.Hoge....................... 71-68-71—210 Ariel.Canete...................69-70-71—210 Kent.Jones...................... 72-67-71—210 Alex.Cejka.......................67-71-72—210 Adam.Crawford.............67-71-72—210 Will.Wilcox...................69-68-73—210 Michael.D..Smith...........71-70-70—211 Wes.Roach..................... 68-73-70—211 Clodomiro.Carranza.....71-70-70—211 Kelly.Kraft....................... 68-73-70—211 Jeff.Klauk........................73-68-70—211 Nick.Flanagan................73-68-70—211 Skip.Kendall....................74-66-71—211 Scott.Sterling..................70-70-71—211 Andrew.D..Putnam........71-69-71—211 Andy.Pope...................... 70-67-74—211 Eric.Axley........................ 66-70-75—211 Byron.Smith....................67-74-71—212 Roland.Thatcher...........73-67-72—212 Mike.Lavery...................65-74-73—212 Martin.Piller....................71-70-72—213 Daniel.Chopra............... 71-69-73—213 Rafael.Echenique.......... 70-71-73—214

ȕ Najeti Hotels et Golfs Open

At Saint-Omer, France Purse: $663,200 Yardage: 6,835 Par: 71 Simon.Thornton..........74-70-65—209 Baptiste.Chapellan.... 72-68-69—209 Tjaart.Van.der.Walt..... 67-71-71—209 Seve.Benson..................75-65-70—210 Max.Glauert..................77-65-69—211 Chris.Lloyd.....................73-68-70—211 Victor.Riu......................... 68-71-72—211 Jamie.Elson...................75-69-68—212 Pelle.Edberg..................74-69-69—212 Robert.Dinwiddie........ 72-66-74—212 Agustin.Domingo......... 74-71-68—213 Brooks.Koepka.............75-70-68—213 Jeppe.Huldahl...............73-67-73—213 Daniel.Im....................... 73-72-69—214 Andrea.Pavan............... 74-70-70—214 Michael.Jonzon............ 74-70-70—214

ȕ Locals

BROKEN ARROW MGA 4 person shamble A Flight:. 1.. Mark. Kauffman,. Mike.

Parham,.Forrest.Fischer,.Joe.Tedesco,.

187;. 2.. Jim. Barnes,. Allen. Anderson,.

Steve. Ketring,. Ken. Hill,. 193;. 3.. Wes. Goss,. Paul. Chissoe,. Tommy. Burton,. Gary. McCarther,. 194;. 4.. Eddie.

McGoveran,. Mick. Stanley,. Michael.

Moore,.Jerry.McAulay,.196.

B Flight:. 1.. Joe. Chavez,. Dick. Antle,.

Norm. Compton,. Gil. Fletcher,. 208;. 2..

Odell.Roland,.Tony.Guthrie,.Mack.Stanley,.Jay.Castleman,.208;.3..Bob.Alfred,.

David.Cole,.John.Ballard,.Eric.Pratchard,.

208;. 4.. Dick. Rogers,. Morton. Tanner,.

Jerry.Goss,.Tommy.Tucker,.209.

GOLF CLUB OF OKLAHOMA Saturday Classic 1..George.Collier;.2..Russ.Weidner;.

3..Rod.Davis.

Ladies Scissortail Fiesta on the Fairway Overall Champion:. Polly. Curtis,.

Marcia.Thrutchley,.123.

Tijuana Flight:. 1.. Karen. Weidner,.

Leigh.Ann.Fore,.125;.2..Rebecca.Davis,.Teresa.Delarzelere,.125;.3..Sarah.

Edge,.Jill.Johnson,.125.

Juarez Flight:.1..Carol.Aggers,.Shirley. Chesbro,. 127;. 2.. Diane. Seabolt,.

Lynne.Luebke.128,.3..Linda.Cohlmia,.

Teresa.Uth,.128.

Ixtapa Flight:. 1.. Perry. Moreau,.

Marcia. Thrutchley,. 128;. 2.. Martha.

Jennings,. Ronnie. Warren,. 129;. 3..

Helga.Miller,.Nancy.Hammons,.129.

Boat Shot:. Sherri. Goodall,. Sherri.

Buster,.Julie.Yeabower.

Horse Races Tijuana:. Win;. Tammy. Fairchild,.

Rose.Cassidy..Place;.Jann.Fouke,.Kathy.

West..Show;.Sarah.Edge,.Jill.Johnson.

Juarez:. Win;. Diane. Seabolt,. Lynne.

Luebke..Place;.Ben.Jarmon,.Judy.Stephens..Show;.Linda.Laster,.Linda.Cacy.

Ixtapa:. Win;. Sheri. Curry,. Lonnie.

Snyder..Place;.Martha.Jennings..Show;.

Polly.Curtis,.Marcia.Thrutchley.

LAFORTUNE PARK Christ United Methodist Church Fore The Master Golf Tournament A Flight:. 1.. Pat. Remmert,. Darryll.

Davis,.Ron.Herwig,.Bruce.Blake,.60;.

2.. Jim. Curtis,. Ralph. Bruton,. Richard.

Bridwell,.Jack.Sellers,.63.

B Flight:. 1.. Mark. Polson,. Lynn.

Moore,.Marvin.Lee,.Mick.Suess,.68;.

2..Paul.Harrison,.Jim.Boyd,.Jim.Boyd.

Jr.,.Fred.Davis,.68.

Two Day Low Net Tournament 1.. Linda. Bryant,. 132;. 2.. Jeanne.

McElroy,. 138;. 3.. Vickie. Renne,. 139;.

4..Rita.Anderson,.142;.5..Leatice.Philliopo,.143.

OAKS CC 2013 Classic Results Purple Flight 1.. Brandon. Guptill,. Brad. Nelligan,. +11;.2..Kreg.Callery,.Jim.Chaney,.+7;.

3..John.Sappington,.Bob.Strohmeyer,. +5;.4..Ed.Raschen,.Andy.Johnson,.+5;.

5..Tony.Isler,.Greg.Wood,.+1;.6..Zach.

Malchi,.Tony.Cristelli,.+1.

Orange Flight 1.. Bo. Davis,. Brad. Flanders,. +22;.

2.. Steve. Nussbaum,. Jim. Branz,. +19;.

3.. Richard. Martinez,. Rick. Saborido,. +6;. 4.. Grant. Malchi,. Kyle. Sage,. +4;.

HORSE RACING Fair Meadows ȕ Morning Line

Sunday’s Post:.4.p.m.

Race 1

$6,000,.2.yo,.mxd.mdn,.330.Yards . 1. Showemtome.(Bennett)................... .1A.Flying.T.Cherokee.(Carnero)........... . 2. She.Is.Royalty.(Rodriguez)............... . 3. George.Ned.(Muntz)......................... .4. Robbin.Da.Hood.(Salazar)................ . 5. Awesome.Contender.(Romero)...... .6. Ivory.Chicklet.(Guymon).................. . 7. Just.Splashin.(Silva)........................... .8. Royal.Kitty.Chew.Chew.(Ernst)....... .9. Sullys.Gold.(Nieto).............................

5-2 5-2 15-1 5-1 7-2 20-1 9-2 10-1 8-1 12-1

Race 2

$5,000,.3.yo&up,.clm,.1.Mile . 1. Captain.Ricochet.(Worst)................ .1A.My.Lion.Ways.(Landeros)................ . 2. Sir.Pony.Bologna.(Kimes)................. . 3. Malabar’s.Act.(Rodriguez)............... .4. Brown’s.Tavern.(Medina)................. . 5. Indy.Brass.(Romero)..........................

9-5 9-5 6-1 5-1 2-1 4-1

$7,500,.3.yo&up,.mdn.clm,.4.Furlongs . 1. Runnin.for.Gold.(Rodriguez)............ . 2. Runnin.Riley.Ryan.(Wilson)............. . 3. Big.Red.Surprise.(McNeil)................ .4. Dan.Can.(Romero)............................. . 5. Templier.(Medina)............................. .6. Crafty.Lionel.(Kimes).........................

Race 4

Wambach scores 156th, U.S. beats South Korea

2-1 5-1 3-1 6-1 4-1 8-1

5..Floyd.Morris,.Steve.Morris,.+4;.6..

Ron.Hoffman,.Norm.Fisher,.+2.

Green Flight 1..Tom.Cilio,.Curt.Cilio.,.+10;.2..Bobby. Miller,. Justin. Hoose,. +9;. 3.. Ron. Murray,. Bill. Hopf. ,. +9;. 4.. Matt. Jay,.

Ian. Lang. ,. +7;. 5.. Lamar. Miller,. Greg.

Burns,. +6;. 6.. Sam. Younger,. Steve.

Moeller,.+5.

Blue Flight 1.. Howard. Kelsey,. Gary. Kuenning,. +10;.2..Jack.Judd,.Todd.Fidler,.+8;.3..

Derek. Reiners,. Andy. Brown,. +5;. 4..

Paul.Ameen,.Howard.Seay,.+4;.5..Bob. Sullivan,.Randy.Haddock,.+1;.6..Steve.

Curtis,.Chris.Curtis.-1.

Red Flight 1..Dave.Rademeyer,.Rick.Rademeyer,.+17;.2..David.James,.Jeff.Hunt,.+13;.

3..David.Jackson,.Mike.Bellinger,.+9;.

4.. Fred. Berckefeldt,. Shawn. Thomas,. +8;.5..Bill.Cutsinger,.John.Gero,.+7;.6..

Jerry.Clark,.John.Medley,.+6.

Horse Race 1..Dave.Miley,.Jack.Carney;.2..Dave.

Johnson,. Frank. Genzer;. 3.. Dell. Frazier,.Sanford.Roberds.

SOUTH LAKES Men’s SLAM Event Most Points 18 Holes:.Jason.Gulley.

Front Nine Points:.1..Dale.Cooper;.

2..Don.Bradford;.3..Kyle.Dyer.

Back Nine Points:. 1.. Sonny. Davis;.

2..Don.Wheeler;.3..Terry.Tarwater.

Total 18 Hole Points:.1..Steve.Wardlow;.2..Charlier.Rambo;.3..Ryan.Dunn.

Hole-in-one

EMERALD FALLS:. Kailey. Collier,.

No..2,.135.yards,.gap.wedge.

Shoots age or better

LAFORTUNE PARK:. Larry. Johnson,.71,.shot.70.

Late Friday MOHAWK:.Jerry.Tinsley,.75,.shot.74.

Late Thursday MOHAWK:.Fred.Koonts,.73,.shot.72.

NASCAR ȕ Milwaukee IndyFest

At West Allis, Wis. Lap Length: 1 miles (Starting position in parentheses) 1.. (4). R.. Hunter-Reay,. DallaraChevrolet,.250,.Running.

2.. (17). H.. Castroneves,. DallaraChevrolet,.250,.Running.

3..(3).W..Power,.Dallara-Chevrolet,.

250,.Running.

4.. (5). E.. Viso,. Dallara-Chevrolet,.

250,.Running.

5..(2).J..Hinchcliffe,.Dallara-Chevrolet,.250,.Running.

6.. (11). S.. Dixon,. Dallara-Honda,.

250,.Running.

7..(15).T..Sato,.Dallara-Honda,.250,.

Running.

8..(23).D..Franchitti,.Dallara-Honda,.250,.Running.

9.. (13). J.. Wilson,. Dallara-Honda,.

249,.Running.

10..(7).T..Kanaan,.Dallara-Chevrolet,.249,.Running.

11..(8).J..Newgarden,.Dallara-Honda,.249,.Running.

12.. (9). S.. Pagenaud,. Dallara-Honda,.249,.Running.

13.. (6). S.. Saavedra,. Dallara-Chevrolet,.248,.Running.

14.. (20). E.. Carpenter,. DallaraChevrolet,.248,.Running.

15..(18).R..Briscoe,.Dallara-Chevrolet,.248,.Running.

16.. (24). G.. Rahal,. Dallara-Honda,.

247,.Running.

17..(21).C..Kimball,.Dallara-Honda,.

246,.Running.

18.. (12). J.. Jakes,. Dallara-Honda,.

245,.Running.

19..(19).A..Beatriz,.Dallara-Honda,.

242,.Running.

20..(1).M..Andretti,.Dallara-Chevrolet,.176,.Mechanical.

21..(10).T..Vautier,.Dallara-Honda,.

173,.Mechanical.

22..(14).S..Bourdais,.Dallara-Chevrolet,.152,.Mechanical.

23..(16).A..Tagliani,.Dallara-Honda,.

146,.Mechanical.

24.. (22). S.. de. Silvestro,. DallaraChevrolet,.69,.Contact.

ȕ NHRA Nationals Pairings

At Bristol, Tenn.

After. Saturday. qualifying;. final. eliminations.Sunday

$12,000,.3.yo&up,.mdn,.300.Yards . 1. Tempestinateapot.(Guymon).......... 7-2 . 2. Jodie.Perry.(Samaniego)................... 15-1 . 3. Mr.Perry.Rose.(Carnero)................... 10-1

TOP FUEL 1,. Spencer. Massey,. 3.775. seconds,.

326.79. mph. vs.. 16,. Doug. Herbert,.

5.145,.289.57;.2,.Steve.Torrence,.3.779,.

324.51.vs..15,.Leah.Pruett,.4.744,.161.48;.

3,. Clay. Millican,. 3.787,. 326.48. vs.. 14,.

Chris. Karamesines,. 4.033,. 293.54;.

4,. David. Grubnic,. 3.792,. 321.12. vs.. 13,.

Morgan. Lucas,. 3.864,. 317.57;. 5,. Tony.

Schumacher,.3.795,.325.77.vs..12,.Antron. Brown,. 3.838,. 317.05;. 6,. Khalid. alBalooshi,. 3.824,. 324.20. vs.. 11,. Doug.

Kalitta,.3.837,.317.72;.7,.Shawn.Langdon,.

3.826,. 303.71. vs.. 10,. Bob. Vandergriff,.

3.836,.321.04;.8,.Brittany.Force,.3.828,.

319.98. vs.. 9,. J.R.. Todd,. 3.835,. 318.47..

Did. Not. Qualify:. 17,. Terry. McMillen,.

5.794,. 307.16;. 18,. Troy. Buff,. 6.800,.

300.60;.19,.Pat.Dakin,.6.993,.302.21.

FUNNY CAR 1,. Del. Worsham,. Toyota. Camry,.

4.008,. 314.83. vs.. 16,. Robert. Hight,.

Ford.Mustang,.6.849,.294.37;.2,.Jack.

Beckman,. Dodge. Charger,. 4.012,.

317.05.vs..15,.Blake.Alexander,.Charger,.

6.150,.288.09;.3,.Matt.Hagan,.Charger,.

4.049,. 317.05. vs.. 14,. Tony. Pedregon,.

Camry,. 4.414,. 293.79;. 4,. Tim. Wilkerson,. Mustang,. 4.061,. 315.56. vs.. 13,.

Cruz.Pedregon,.Camry,.4.177,.295.40;.

5,.Ron.Capps,.Charger,.4.066,.310.84. vs.. 12,. Chad. Head,. Camry,. 4.136,.

301.54;.6,.John.Force,.Mustang,.4.071,.

307.93. vs.. 11,. Courtney. Force,. Mustang,. 4.129,. 309.56;. 7,. Bob. Tasca. III,.

Mustang,.4.082,.310.70.vs..10,.Johnny.

Gray,.Charger,.4.127,.298.73;.8,.Alexis.

DeJoria,. Camry,. 4.096,. 312.42. vs.. 9,.

Jeff.Arend,.Charger,.4.109,.302.69.

PRO STOCK 1,. Mike. Edwards,. Chevy. Camaro,.

6.632,. 208.23. vs.. 16,. JR. Carr,. Ford.

Mustang,.6.798,.205.16;.2,.Allen.Johnson,.Dodge.Avenger,.6.645,.207.85.vs..

15,. Lewis. Worden,. Mustang,. 6.754,.

204.32;. 3,. Erica. Enders-Stevens,.

Camaro,. 6.651,. 207.43. vs.. 14,. Larry.

Morgan,. Mustang,. 6.739,. 204.79;. 4,.

Shane. Gray,. Camaro,. 6.654,. 207.62. vs.. 13,. Steve. Kent,. Camaro,. 6.736,.

205.76;.5,.Jason.Line,.Camaro,.6.661,.

206.95.vs..12,.Vincent.Nobile,.Avenger,. 6.700,. 206.48;. 6,. Jeg. Coughlin,.

Avenger,. 6.661,. 206.92. vs.. 11,. Rickie.

Jones,.Camaro,.6.691,.206.99;.7,.Greg.

Anderson,. Camaro,. 6.671,. 206.57. vs..

10,. Greg. Stanfield,. Camaro,. 6.689,.

205.91;. 8,. Rodger. Brogdon,. Camaro,.

6.680,.207.05.vs..9,.V..Gaines,.Avenger,.6.686,.206.51..Did.Not.Qualify:.17,.

John. Gaydosh. Jr,. 6.978,. 198.23;. 18,.

Kurt.Johnson,.7.359,.200.77;.19,.Warren.Johnson,.10.531,.201.31.

SOCCER ȕ MLS

EASTERN CONFERENCE W

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$7,500,.3.yo&up,.clm,.350.Yards . 1. My.Blue.Regard.(Bennett)................ . 2. Dont.Chain.Me.Up.(Wilson)........... . 3. Dale.and.Ann.(Nieto)........................ .4. Naked.Spur.(Carnero)....................... . 5. Perry.Got.Cash.(Guymon)................ .6. Ivory.Shaw.(Muntz)........................... . 7. Ld.Vixen.(Romero).............................. .8. Falco.Crest.(Samaniego)................... .9. Divine.Patriot.(Salazar)..................... .10. Bigtime.Bentley.(Silva)......................

9-2 10-1 12-1 7-2 15-1 5-1 25-1 5-2 20-1 8-1

$6,000,.3.yo&up,.clm,.6.½.Furlongs . 1. Twica.(Worst)...................................... . 2. Lumpy’s.Ace.(Kimes)......................... . 3. Indy.Trucker.(Cunningham)............. .4. Quick.Appeal.(Medina).................... . 5. Mooning.You.(McNeil)..................... .6. Lost.Gulch.(Landeros).......................

6-1 2-1 5-1 4-1 3-1 8-1

$12,000,.2.yo,.mdn,.330.Yards . 1. Ima.Ivory.(Muntz).............................. 25-1 . 2. Gentry.Deans.Boy.(Brinlee)............. 9-2 . 3. Togies.Wagon.(Carnero).................. 5-1

T Pts GF GA

W

L

17 19 9 24 14 13 16 19 20 26

T Pts GF GA

FC.Dallas.........8. 3. 4. 28. 23. 18 Real.Salt.Lake.8. 5. 3. 27. 24. 16 Portland...........6. 1. 8. 26. 25. 16 Seattle..............6. 4. 3. 21. 19. 15 Los.Angeles.....6. 6. 2. 20. 22. 18 Colorado..........5. 5. 5. 20. 15. 14 San.Jose...........4. 6. 6. 18. 15. 23 Vancouver.......4. 6. 4. 16. 18. 21 Chivas.USA.....3. 8. 2. 11. 13. 26 NOTE: Three. points. for. victory,. one.point.for.tie.

Saturday Portland.1,.FC.Dallas.0 Toronto.FC.2,.D.C..United.1 Columbus.2,.Montreal.0 San.Jose.at.Colorado New.England.at.Vancouver Wednesday Houston.at.Montreal,.7.p.m.

Colorado.at.Chicago,.7:30.p.m.

Chivas.USA.at.Vancouver,.9.p.m.

Portland.at.Los.Angeles,.9:30.p.m.

Saturday, June 22 San.Jose.at.D.C..United,.6.p.m.

Chicago.at.Columbus,.7.p.m.

Kansas.City.at.FC.Dallas,.7:30.p.m.

Toronto.FC.at.Houston,.8.p.m.

Seattle.FC.at.Real.Salt.Lake,.8:30.p.m.

.4. Shake.Your.Wagon.(Frederick)....... . 5. Copper.Oaks.(Bennett)..................... .6. Paint.Your.Lips.Red.(Salazar)........... . 7. James.Is.a.Dancer.(Wilson)............. .8. Shot.Em.Up.(Silva).............................. .9. Southern.Susie.(Schmidt)................. .10. Alexanderia.McKenna.(Nieto)........

$7,100,.OKB,.3.yo&up,.mdn.clm,.330.Yards . 1. Okie.Mud.Bug.(Martinez)................ 5-1 . 2. Pals.View.(Wilson)............................. 7-2 . 3. Lets.Go.Pedro.(Nieto)........................ 9-2 .4. Zero.to.Zoom.(Salazar)..................... 2-1 . 5. Wind.It.Up.Mr.Perry.(Silva)............. 8-1 .6. Rf.Corona.Dash.(Ernst)..................... 10-1 . 7. Ej.Arbeka.Star.(Chavez).................... 12-1

L

Montreal..........8. 3. 2. 26. 22.

New.York.........7. 5. 4. 25. 23.

New.England..6. 4. 5. 23. 16.

Philadelphia....6. 5. 4. 22. 22.

Houston...........6. 4. 4. 22. 19.

Kansas.City.....6. 5. 4. 22. 18.

Columbus........5. 5. 5. 20. 18.

Chicago............3. 7. 3. 12. 11.

Toronto.FC.......2. 7. 5. 11. 14.

D.C......................1. 11. 3. 6. 7.

WESTERN CONFERENCE

.4. Coronas.Bouquet.(Romero)............. 20-1 . 5. Expect.the.Usual.(Silva).................... 8-1 .6. Eyes.for.the.Girls.(Frederick)........... 25-1 . 7. Glitteratti.(Nieto)................................ 5-2 .8. Juniperscountrychick.(Wilson)....... 9-2 .9. A.Little.Bit.Ticked.(Ernst)................. 12-1 .10. Fire.With.Class.(Muntz)................... 5-1

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seventh minute. Cho Shoyun scored for South Korea in the 26th, and Carli Lloyd made it 3-1 with a 30-yard blast in the 57th minute.

The United States is unbeaten since March 2012, going 29-0-4, and is 8-0-2 on the year. South Korea is 3-4-1 this year.

The teams will meet again Thursday night at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, N.J. On the opening goal, Sydney Leroux raced toward the near post and fired a quick shot that goalkeeper Kim Jungmi got a piece of. But the rebound squirted to Mewis, who fired it into an open net.

“It was just amazing to be able to play in front of my family and friends,” Mewis said. “Sydney made a great run down the end line and did all the work and I just kind of tapped it in.”

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Abby Wambach scored her 156th career international goal to move within two of Mia Hamm’s U.S. women’s record in the Americans’ 4-1 victory over South Korea on Saturday night at Gillette Stadium.

Wambach scored on a penalty kick in stoppage time after Alex Morgan was fouled inside the area.

“It’s not easy to score in international soccer, no matter who you’re playing,” Wambach said. “It’s a pretty special night and I’m one more (goal) closer to getting (the record). ... I’m glad to have gotten the penalty kick. I think I deserved one earlier, but that’s the way it goes.”

Kristie Mewis opened the scoring in the third minute with her first international, and Lauren Cheney scored in the

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$7,000,.f&m,.3.yo&up,.clm,.6.Furlongs . 1. Evansville.Girl.(Medina)................... . 2. Speedy.Judy.(Kimes)......................... . 3. Is.That.So.(Cunningham).................. .4. Cherokee.Storm.(Landeros)............ . 5. Lil.Red.Lode.(Muntz)......................... .6. Castlesmadeofsand.(Keever).......... . 7. Proud.Mandy.(McNeil)..................... .8. Wanda.Okie.(Romero)...................... .9. Deputy.Lenda.Kay.(Worst)..............

15-1 8-1 7-2 20-1 5-2 10-1 12-1

15-1 5-1 10-1 5-2 20-1 8-1 12-1 9-2 7-2

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$7,500,.3.yo&up,.clm,.350.Yards . 1. Bringmebigtimecash.(Martinez).... . 2. Mokara.(Carnero)............................... . 3. Miss.Gold.Creek.(Bennett).............. .4. Baby.Dolls.Precious.(Salazar)......... . 5. Perks.Prime.Oak.Tree.(Sitsler)........ .6. Optimystique.(Muntz)...................... . 7. One.Perry.(Guymon)......................... .8. Sugar.Quick.Dash.(Nieto)................ .9. Timber.Streaker.(Romero)............... .10. Painted.Memorie.(Silva)...................

15-1 7-2 25-1 12-1 5-1 10-1 9-2 5-2 8-1 20-1

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Golden Driller Stakes $15,000,.3.yo&up,.stks,.350.Yards . 1. Bv.Mr.Tellercartel.(Silva).................. . 2. Hero.Man.(Romero)........................... . 3. Wild.N.Wicked.Jd.(Salazar)............. .4. I.See.Candy.Paint.(Bennett)............. . 5. Pure.D.Spit.(Carnero)........................ .6. Blazen.Getaway.(Frederick)............. . 7. Big.Visions.(Samaniego)................... .8. Jess.Call.Me.Valiant.(Wilson)......... .9. Jess.a.Runner.(Muntz)......................

8-1 15-1 25-1 5-2 10-1 20-1 7-2 9-2 12-1

Sunday, June 23 New.York.at.Philadelphia,.4.p.m.

Colorado.at.Portland,.6.p.m.

Los.Angeles.at.Chivas.USA,.10.p.m.

Summaries RAPIDS 2, EARTHQUAKES 1 San Jose 1 1— 2 Colorado 0 1— 1 Goals:.1,.San.Jose,.Lenhart.1.(Gordon,. Morrow),. 11th. minute;. 2,. San. Jose,.Cronin.2.(Baca),.52nd..3,.Colorado,.Sturgis.3.(Mullan),.67th.

Goalies:.San.Jose,.Jon.Busch;.Colorado,.Clint.Irwin.

Yellow Cards:. Thomas,. Colorado,.

49th;. Wondolowski,. San. Jose,. 49th;.

Gordon,.San.Jose,.68th;.Ballouchy,.San. Jose,.71st;.Hernandez,.San.Jose,.87th.

Red Cards:.Harris,.Colorado,.18th.

A:.15,017.(17,424

TIMBERS 1, FC DALLAS 0 FC Dallas 0 0 — 0 Portland 0 1 — 1 Goals:.1,.Portland,.Nagbe.5.(Alhassan),.52nd.minute.

Goalies:. FC. Dallas,. Raul. Fernandez;.Portland,.Donovan.Ricketts.

Yellow Cards:. Chara,. Portland,.

66th.

A:.20,674.(20,000) Lineups:.FC.Dallas:.Raul.Fernandez,.

George. John,. Jair. Benitez,. Michel,.

Zach Loyd,. Matt. Hedges,. Jackson,.

David.Ferreira,.Andrew.Jacobson,.Fabian. Castillo,. Eric. Hassli. (Je-Vaughn.

Watson,. 8th).. Portland—Donovan.

Ricketts,.Pa-Modou.Kah,.Michael.Harrington,. Mamadou. Danso. (Andrew.

Jean-Baptiste,. 51st),. Kalif. Alhassan.

(Ben. Zemanski,. 84th),. Diego. Chara,.

Darlington.Nagbe,.Will.Johnson,.Jack.

Jewsbury,.Diego.Valeri,.Frederic.Piquionne.(Ryan.Johnson,.72nd).

kovic.6-3,.6-3.

Doubles: Championship Raluca.Olaru.and.Valeria.Solovyeva. def.. Anna-Lena. Groenefeld. and.

Kveta.Peschke.(1),.2-6,.7-6.(3),.11-9.

ȕ WTA: AEGON Classic

At Birmingham, England Singles: Quarterfinals Alison.Riske.def..Sabine.Lisicki.(5),.

7-6.(2),.2-6,.6-4.

Semifinals Donna. Vekic. def.. Magdalena. Rybarikova.(16),.7-6.(5),.1-6,.6-3.

Daniela. Hantuchova. def.. Alison.

Riske,.5-7,.6-1,.6-4.

Doubles: Semifinals Ashleigh. Barty. and. Casey. Dellacqua.(3).def..Mona.Barthel.and.Kristina.Mladenovic,.6-3,.6-2.

RUNNING ȕ Beat the Heat

5k at Salina MALE Overall:. 1.. Seth. Whittington,. Kansas,.18:00;.2..Todahyah.Fish,.Moodys,.

19:14;.3..Caleb.Turnbow,.Coweta,.19:19.

Age group winners:. 1-8,. Brody.

Young,. Tahlequah,. 26:22;. 9-12,. Jeremiah. Chuculate,. Stilwell,. 23:26;. 1315,.Bailey.Allen,.Jay,.22:48;.16-19,.Seth.

Whittington,. Kansas,. 18:00;. 20-24,.

Kevin. Lindsey,. Porum,. 24:36;. 25-29,.

Chris.Carrigan,.Salina,.20:40;.30-34,.

James.Webster,.Westville,.22:14;.3539,.Jerry.Douglas,.Pryor,.21:51;.40-44,.

Felipe. Zamarron,. Tahlequah,. 23:02;.

45-49,. Robert. Perkins,. Muskogee,.

20:53;.50-54,.Jim.Guyot,.Broken.Arrow,.23:07;.55-59,.Tom.Linihan,.Adair,.

21:29;. 60-64,. Russell. Guilfoyle,. Claremore,. 25:08;. 65-69,. Gordon. Wallace,. Muskogee,. 28:27;. 70-74,. Andy.

Hogan,.Claremore,.25:34;.75-98,.Billy.

Woodruff,.Tulsa,.28:43.

FEMALE Overall:. 1.. Jamie. Cousatte,. Pryor,.

20:09;. 2.. Tammy. West,. Tahlequah,.

21:17;.3..Pauline.Marks,.Wagoner,.22:30.

Age group winners:. 1-8,. Madison.

Douglas,. Pryor,. 38:17;. 9-12,. Zaley.

Bennett,.Oologah,.27:42;.13-15,.Grace.

Young,. Tahlequah,. 26:40;. 16-19,. Suriyah. Fish,. Moodys,. 22:51;. 20-24,.

Ezriyah. Fish,. Moodys,. 23:08;. 25-29,.

Lana. Garcia,. Tahlequah,. 23:28;. 3034,. Amanda. Douglas,. Pryor,. 22:50;.

35-39,. Tammy. West,. Tahlequah,.

21:17;. 40-44,. Jamie. Cousatte,. Pryor,.

20:09;. 45-49,. Pauline. Marks,. Wagoner,. 22:30;. 50-54,. Wanda. Ince,.

Pryor,. 27:01;. 55-59,. Kim. Webber,.

Owasso,.31:31;.60-64,.Marcella.Morton,.Westville,.29:50;.65-69,.Earlene.

Best,.Claremore,.41:08;.70-74,.Doris.

Blackfox,.Kansas,.30:37;.75-98,.Anne.

Roberson,.Chelsea,.47:20.

ȕ Chimi’s Diablo Dash

Montreal 0 0 — 0 Columbus 2 0 — 2 Goals:. 1,. Columbus,. Sanchez. 1.

(Oduro),. 6th. minute.. 2,. Columbus,.

Oduro.7,.22nd.

Goalies:. Montreal,. Troy. Perkins;.

Columbus,.Andy.Gruenebaum.

Yellow Cards:. Martins,. Montreal,.9th;.Sanchez,.Columbus,.56th;.

O’Rourke,. Columbus,. 82nd;. George,.

Columbus,.90th.

A:.18,320.(22,555)

5k at Tulsa; Tulsans unless noted MALE Overall:.1..Cody.Jones,.17:07;.2..Jacob.Janzen,.17:47;.3..Seth.Block,.17:50.

Age group winners:. 1-8,. Peyton.

Faulconer,. Claremore,. 31:20;. 9-12,.

Skylar.Turner,.Cleveland,.23:19;.13-15,.

Cody.Jones,.Tulsa,.17:07;.16-19,.Jacob.

Janzen,. 17:47;. 20-24,. Jacob. Briggs,.

Bartlesville,.19:33;.25-29,.Jason.Pugh,.

20:28;.30-34,.Seth.Block,.17:50;.3539,. Fred. Hemminger,. New. York. Ny. 23:29;. 40-44,. Andy. Krider,. Broken.

Arrow,.25:32;.45-49,.Eric.Janzen,.Tulsa,.23:33;.50-54,.Carl.Ross,.Catoosa,.

27:38;. 55-59,. John. Maness,. 20:57;.

60-64,. Rich. Chillingsworth,. 22:41;.

65-69,.Mike.Beda,.23:01;.75-98,.Bob. Pannel,.40:19.

FEMALE Overall:. 1.. Haley. Geissler,. Collinsville,.21:27;.2..Gail.Laur,.25:20;.3..

Edana.Brook,.27:10.

Age group winners:. 1-8,. Erica.

Toering,. Broken. Arrow,. 43:02;. 9-12,.

Avery.Slick,.Jenks,.37:56;.13-15,.Haley.

Geissler,. Collinsville,. 21:27;. 20-24,.

Courtney. Chambers,. 28:32;. 25-29,.

Leanne. Robison,. 30:30;. 30-34,. Gail.

Laur,.25:20;.35-39,.Julie.Lipe,.Broken.

Arrow,. 27:45;. 40-44,. Edana. Brook,.

27:10;. 45-49,. Amber. Munoz,. 28:16;.

50-54,. Julie. Rowland,. 32:05;. 55-59,.

Lisa. Penton,. 45:42;. 60-64,. Vikki.

Vessels,.Broken.Arrow,.52:26;.65-69,.

Grace.McCoy,.32:13.

TENNIS

TRANSACTIONS

ȕ ATP: Aegon Championships

BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES:. Optioned.

LHP. Tsuyoshi. Wada. to. Norfolk. (IL)..

Agreed.to.terms.with.RHPs.Caleb.Kellogg,.Nick.Cunningham.and.Jimmy.Yacabonis;.LHPs.Eric.Green.and.Stephen.

Brault,. SSs. Jared. Breen. and. Jeffrey.

Kemp;.C.Alex.Murphy;.and.OF.Connor.

Bierfeldt.on.minor.league.contracts.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX:.Agreed.to. terms. with. RHPs. Tyler. Danish.. Andrew. Mitchell,. Jon. Bengard,. James.

Dykstra,. Bradley. Goldberg,. Alex.

Powers,. Matt. Abramson,. Thaddius.

Lowry,.Devin.Moore,.Tyler.Barnette,.

Matt.Ball.and.Nick.Blount;.OFs.Jacob.

May,. Sam. Macias,. Andre. Wheeler,.

Michael. Carballo,. Nolan. Earley. and.

Jacob. Morris;. LHPs. Chris. Freudenberg. and. Sean. Hagan;. Cs. Dillon.

Haupt. and. Trey. Wimmer;. 1Bs. Cody.

Yount. and. Nick. Parent;. 3B. Trey. Michalczewski;.and.SS.Toby.Thomas.on. minor.league.contracts.

CLEVELAND INDIANS:.Agreed.to. terms.with.OF.Clint.Frazier.on.a.minor.league.contract.

HOUSTON ASTROS:. Agreed. to. terms.with.OFs.Ronnie.Mitchell,.Jon. Kemmer. and. Conrad. Gregor. and. C. Jacob. Nottingham. on. minor. league. contracts.

UNITED 3, TORONTO FC 2 Toronto FC 2 0 — 2 D.C. United 1 0 — 1 Goals:.1,.D.C..United,.De.Rosario.2. (penalty.kick),.19th.minute..2,.Toronto.

FC,. Earnshaw. 6. (Caldwell),. 30th.. 3,.

Toronto.FC,.Woolard.(own.goal),.41st.

Goalies:. Toronto. FC,. Joe. Bendik;.

D.C..United,.Bill.Hamid.

Yellow Cards:. Caldwell,. Toronto.

FC,. 32nd;. Woolard,. D.C.. United,.

45th;.Russell,.Toronto.FC,.88th.

A:.13,846.(45,596)

CREW 2, IMPACT 0

At London Singles: Semifinals Marin.Cilic.(5).def..Lleyton.Hewitt.

6-4,.4-6,.6-2.

Andy. Murray. (1). def.. Jo-Wilfried.

Tsonga.(4).4-6,.6-3,.6-2.

Doubles: Semifinals Alexander.Peya.and.Bruno.Soares.

(4).def..Julien.Benneteau.and.Nenad.

Zimonjic.(6),.7-5,.6-2.

Bob. and. Mike. Bryan. (1). def.. Mahesh. Bhupathi. and. Rohan. Bopanna.

(3),.6-4,.6-2.

ȕ ATP: Gerry Weber Open

At Halle, Germany Singles: Semifinals Roger.Federer.(1).def..Tommy.Haas.

(3),.3-6,.6-3,.6-4.

Mikhail.Youzhny.def..Richard.Gasquet.(2),.6-3,.6-2.

Doubles: Semifinals Daniele. Bracciali. and. Jonathan.

Erlich.def..Philipp.Kohlschreiber.and.

Mikhail.Youzhny,.4-6,.6-1,.10-4.

ȕ WTA: Nuernberger

At Nuremberg, Germany Singles: Championship Simona.Halep.(7).def..Andrea.Pet-

.10. Just.Wave.(Nieto)...............................

5-1

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$12,000,.2.yo,.mdn,.330.Yards . 1. Cf.Secret.Intentions.(Nieto)............. . 2. Our.Sassy.Hero.(Romero)................ . 3. Romancing.Special.(Carnero).......... .4. This.Okeys.No.Bully.(Muntz).......... . 5. Bp.Shes.All.Corona.(Silva)................ .6. Chasinthebigstorm.(Martinez)....... . 7. Hez.an.Okie.(Wilson)........................ .8. Some.Special.Lady.(Frederick)........ .9. Parasail.(Bennett)............................... .10. Leapin.Lizard.(Salazar)......................

(9-6-1-8).3128.50

Race 4 5-2 10-1 8-1 7-2 12-1 15-1 20-1 25-1 5-1 9-2

ȕ Win, Place, Show

Saturday’s Track:.Fast

Race 1

$4,000,.250.Yards,.T:.13.26

5 T H San Man (Muntz) ......10.60 5.40 3.20 10 Bv Love Without End (Silva) ........ 4.20 4.00 6 Opheucus (Carnero)...................................... 3.00

Ex:.(5-10).27.80,.Tri: (5-10-6).36.90, Spr:.

(5-10-6-9).650.20

Race 2

$4,500,.6.Furlongs,.T:.1:13.0

6 Donny’s Drmon (Cunningham) ....................10.40 3.20 2.10 3 Vestal (Worst) ...................................2.20 2.10 1 Wayne’s a Blue (McNeil) ...............................2.10

Ex:.(6-3).12.70,.Tri:.(6-3-1).48.90,.Spr: (63-1-4).426.60, DD:.(5-6).194.60

Race 3

$6,500,.6.Furlongs,.T:.1:14.80

9 Wild Valley Dancer (McNeil) ............................... 6.40 4.40 3.60 6 Spinning Slew (Muntz) ................. 11.00 8.00 1 Theluck of Mylife (Keever) ....................... 10.60

Ex:.(9-6).61.70,.Tri:.(9-6-1).482.80,.Spr:.

$5,000,.330.Yards,.T:.16.95

4 Black Magic Dash (Nieto) ..................................15.00 7.40 5.20 6 Overdosed (Silva) ............................ 9.80 5.60 7 Ww Blair (Wilson) ......................................... 5.00

Ex:.(4-6).76.90,.Tri: (4-6-7).747.80,.Spr: (4-6-7-2).1302.30

KANSAS CITY ROYALS:. Agreed. to.terms.with.LHP.Kyle.Bartsch,.LHP. Christian. Fletcha,. C. Xavier. Fernandez.and.OF.Alex.Newman.on.minor. league.contracts.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS:. Agreed. to.terms.with.LHP.Dustin.Richardson. on.a.minor.league.contract.

TEXAS RANGERS:. Optioned. INF. Leury. Garcia. to. Round. Rock. (PCL)..

Reinstated. 2B. Ian. Kinsler. from. the.

15-day.DL. National League CHICAGO CUBS:.Placed.OF.David.

DeJesus.on.the.15-day.DL..Reinstated.RHP.Shawn.Camp.from.the.15-day.

DL..Assigned.RHP.Eduardo.Sanchez. outright.to.Iowa.(PCL).

CINCINNATI REDS:. Placed. RHP. Jonathan. Broxton. on. the. 15-day. DL,. retroactive. to. Friday.. Recalled. RHP. Pedro.Villarreal.from.Louisville.(IL).

COLORADO ROCKIES:. Agreed. to. terms. with. RHPs. Daniel. Palo,.

Dylan.Stamey,.Alex.Balog.and.Blake.

Shouse;. LHPs. Sam. Moll. and. William. Waltrip;. OF. Cole. Norton;. and.

3B.Ryan.McMahon.on.minor.league. contracts.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS:. Sent.

LHP.Chris.Capuano.to.Albuquerque.

(PCL).for.a.rehab.assignment.

MIAMI MARLINS:. Placed. C. Miguel. Olivo. on. the. restricted. list..

Recalled.OF.Jordan.Brown.from.New. Orleans.(PCL).

MILWAUKEE BREWERS:. Placed.

OF. Ryan. Braun. on. the. 15-day. DL,. retroactive. to. Monday.. Recalled. OF. Caleb.Gindl.from.Nashville.(PCL).

NEW YORK METS:.Optioned.RHP. Greg. Burke. to. Las. Vegas. (PCL).. Selected. the. contract. of. RHP. Carlos.

Torres. from. Las. Vegas.. Designated.

RHP.Collin.McHugh.for.assignment.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES:.Sent.C. Carlos.Ruiz.to.Lehigh.Valley.(IL).for. a.rehab.assignment..Agreed.to.terms. with. SS. Trey. Williams. and. C. Jake.

Sweaney.on.minor.league.contracts.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES:. Designated.LHP.Mike.Zagurski.for.assignment..

Selected.the.contract.of.RHP.Brandon.

Cumpton.from.Indianapolis.(IL).

American Association FARGO-MOORHEAD REDHAWKS:.Signed.RHP.Brian.Ernst.

GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS:.

Released. INF. Ryan. Miller.. Signed.

RHP.Billy.Spottiswood.

KANSAS CITY T-BONES:. Signed.

C.Stephen.Yoo..Released.C.Norberto.

Susini.

WICHITA WINGNUTS:. Signed.

RHP. Joshua. Stone,. C. Scott. Dalrymple.and.OF.Mike.Mobbs.

WINNIPEG GOLDEYES:. Signed.

LHP.Gabe.Aguilar.

Can-Am League ROCKLAND BOULDERS:. Signed.

INF.Robert.Kelly.

TROIS-RIVIERES AIGLES:. . Released.C.Charlie.Neil.

Frontier League FLORENCE FREEDOM:. Signed.

OF.Gary.Owens..Released.RHP.Jose.

Velazquez.

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS MINERS:.

Signed. RHPs. Jon. Mark. Abbey. and.

Ronald. Uviedo.. Released. OF. Ryan.

Curl.and.RHP.Hayden.Simpson.

WINDY CITY THUNDERBOLTS:.

Released.OF.Blake.Helm.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association ATLANTA HAWKS:. Named.

Darvin.Ham.assistant.coach.

FOOTBALL Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS:. Released.DB.Jonathan.Hefney.

AP SPORTLIGHT ȕ June 16

1951:.Ben.Hogan.captures.the.U.S..

Open. for. the. second. straight. year. with.a.two-stroke.comeback.victory. over.Clayton.Heafner.

1993:. Michael. Jordan. scores. 55. points. to. lead. the. Chicago. Bulls. to. a.111-105.victory.and.a.3-1.lead.over. the.Phoenix.Suns.in.the.NBA.Finals..

Jordan.is.the.fifth.player.to.score.50. in.the.finals.and.the.first.since.Jerry.

West.in.1969.

2008:.Tiger.Woods.wins.the.U.S..

Open.in.a.19-hole.playoff.over.Rocco.

Mediate,.his.14th.career.major..One. shot. behind. after. a. collapse. no. one. saw.coming,.Woods.birdies.the.18th. hole.to.force.sudden.death.at.Torrey.

Pines..Mediate.misses.a.par.putt.and.

Woods.only.needed.a.two-putt.par.to. win.the.U.S..Open.for.the.third.time.

TODAY’S LINE ȕ Baseball

NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis ................... 6½-7½ ......................MIAMI CINCINNATI ............ 8½-9½...............Milwaukee NY METS ................. Even-6 ..........Chicago Cubs ATLANTA ................. 6½-7½ ..........San Francisco PITTSBURGH.......... Even-6 ............. LA Dodgers Arizona .................... 5½-6½ ..............SAN DIEGO COLORADO ............. Even-6 ............ Philadelphia AMERICAN LEAGUE BALTIMORE ............ Even-6 ......................Boston TAMPA BAY ............ 6½-7½ ............. Kansas City Detroit .........................7-8 ...............MINNESOTA Chi White Sox ............6-7 .................. HOUSTON TEXAS ..........................8-9 ........................Toronto OAKLAND................ 5½-6½ ......................Seattle LA ANGELS .................6-7 ................ NY Yankees INTERLEAGUE Washington ............ Even-6 ............ CLEVELAND

ȕ Basketball

NBA Playoffs Miami ........................1 (188) ........SAN ANTONIO Home team in CAPS

2 Lincoln County (Medina)...............11.80 4.80 8 Shawzinator (McNeil) ...................................2.40

Ex:. (7-2). 43.10,. Tri:. (7-2-8). 93.50,. Spr: (7-2-8-6).2771.40

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$16,200,.OKB,.4.Furlongs,.T:.46.20

3 Justa Valentine (Landeros) .3.40 2.40 2.20 1 A Kiss for Mady (Wilson) .............. 3.80 2.80 5 Wee Prospect (Keever) .................................2.60

Race 5

Ex:.(3-1).4.30,.Tri:.(3-1-5).13.40, Spr:.(31-5-4).74.10

9 Cole E Man (Carnero) ......27.20 14.00 7.60 10 Mighty Shiney Corona (Frederick)..........................................4.40 4.60 8 Young Wild Reckless (Nieto) ..................... 4.20

Race 10

$5,500,.300.Yards,.T:.15.93

Ex:.(9-10).45.60,.Tri:.(9-10-8).131.50,.Spr: (9-10-8-4).586.60

Race 6

$16,200,.OKB,.4.Furlongs,.T:.46.20

9 Flying Hope (Worst) .........6.00 4.20 3.80 8 Master Deal (Nieto) ........................ 9.80 4.60 5 Honorbo (Muntz)........................................... 6.40

$7,800, OKB,.350.Yards,.T:.17.67

7 Wave by Corona (Salazar) ....7.00 3.60 2.60 8 Easy Blazen Alibi (Romero) ..........8.00 4.00 4 Skyemacfly (Muntz).......................................3.40

Ex:. (7-8). 23.10,. Tri: (7-8-4). 128.10,. Spr:.

(7-8-4-2).300.40

Race 11

$8,000,.300.Yards,.T:.15.49

4 Neshoba (Muntz) ............49.60 18.80 10.20 2 Sm Chicksastreakin (Carnero)......4.80 4.80 Ex:.(9-8).35.00,.Tri:.(9-8-5).305.00, Spr:. 7 True Action (Romero) ....................................3.80

(9-8-5-4).823.70

Race 7

$7,000,.350.Yards..T:.18.51

3 Dream Indeed (Frederick)...........................14.20 4.40 4.80 7 Big Daddy Tom (Carnero) ..............6.00 5.00 10 Ncc Firefly (Romero)......................................3.60

Ex:.(3-7).55.20,.Tri:.(3-7-10).170.10,.Spr:.

(3-7-10-5).1216.00

Race 8

$7,500,.4.Furlongs,.T:.45.40

7 Dry (Kimes) ........................ 15.20 8.40 3.20

Ex:. (4-2). 92.10,. Tri:. (4-2-7). 535.00,. Spr:.

(4-2-7-5).3007.80

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Race 12

LATE FRIDAY

$6,500,.350.Yards,.T:.17.89

5 I B a Teller Cartel (Frederick)..........................22.00 7.80 2.20 4 Lucky Nemo (Samaniego) ............. 5.40 2.6.0 8 Zoomin for Time (Bennett) .........................2.20

Ex:.(5-4).71.60,.Tri:.(5-4-8).613.70, Spr:.

(5-4-8-6).2215.60

OUTDOORS CALENDAR Today Thunder on Wolf Creek: 1-5 p.m. National Boat Racing Association Short Course Nationals, hydroplane boat races continue. Wolf Creek Park in Grove.

Red Bud Valley Nature Center: 1:30-3 p.m.

“Geology Walk at RBV” Ages: 8 to adult. Free.

Registration required. Join naturalists for a walk at Redbud Valley and learn about the geology of the area. Not stroller or wheelchair accessible. Contact: 918-669-6644, oxley@ cityoftulsa.org or see tulsaworld.com/oxley.

Tuesday Oklahoma Striped Bass Association: 7 p.m. Zebco building off Sheridan and Archer. “OSBA Boat Show” club members bring their boats to show new members and guests how their boats are rigged fishing.

Friday Oxley Nature Center: 7-8:30 p.m. Register

in advance. $2. Engage your senses as you explore the trails in the evening. Will strawberries be found? Contact: (918) 669-6644, oxley@cityoftulsa.org or see tulsaworld.com/ oxley.

Send calendar listings and announcements to kelly.bostian@tulsaworld.com, fax 918-581-8352 and follow up by phone at 918-581-8357. Be sure to include time and address or directions to your event and phone number and email contact information.

THIS WEEK’S BEST TIMES Solunar tables from U.S. Naval Observatory. Shows best times for fishing and/or hunting.

Those with an asterisk are the best days.

SUN* MON TUES WED THU FRI SAT SUN

Major 7:15 P.M. 8:05 P.M. 8:55 P.M. 9:50 P.M. 10:50 P.M. 11:50 P.M. ———— 12:55 A.M.

Minor 7:40 A.M. 8:30 A.M. 9:20 A.M. 10:20 A.M. 11:20 A.M. ———— 12:20 P.M. 1:25 P.M.

— BY McCLATCHY-TRIBUNE SERVICES

OUTDOOR TIPS

with Jack Morris If you’re supplementing protein food sources for your deer with food plots — or you are someone thinking about setting up a food plot for your fall deer hunt — now is the time to jump in and get ahead of the curve.

The biggest frustration I hear from people is when they just waited too late to get with it.

Get out now and set your plot and flag it and get the weed killer down now to defoliate the area, get your soil samples taken, buy or order your seeds and fertilizer and be ready.

A food plot doesn’t have to be a big area. A honey hole back in the timber or even a lane can be turned into a food plot that might be productive come archery or muzzleloader season.

Whether the food plot is a tenth of an acre or more, between now and July 1, this is the time to get out there and get with it.

A first step is collecting soil samples and delivering them to your local Cooperative Extension Service office to find out what fertilizer and what seed mix will work best for you.

Then, especially if you are using hand tools or smaller farming implements or rented or borrowed equipment, prepare the area by clearing obstacles and putting down a weed killer (like Roundup) to start that defoliation.

When the ground is prepared well it takes less time, and less toll, on your equipment.

Check now on the seeds you want to plant as well. With some poor harvests because of drought last year, some suppliers may have limited quantities of rape, mustard seed and some clovers. Wheat and rye shouldn’t be a problem.

Whatever and wherever you plant, now is the time to start getting the land prepared and get yourself set with the seed and fertilizer to have on-hand come August. Then when you see those August rains in the forecast you’ll be ready to plant, cover it up and wait for Mother Nature to make magic.

Jack Morris is a professional guide and host of Outdoor Trails on KTBZ am1430. Contact him at 918-691-3840, jackswildlife@cox.net or see tulsaworld.com/jackmorris.

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Tools of trade

Christie discusses what he used to win FLW Tour event

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HE ONLY INDICATION angler Jason Christie was in the area was the pod of 14 spectator boats watching the FLW Tour on Grand Lake last Sunday. Sure enough, Christie’s boat was well hidden within the flooded willows on the Elk River as he slowly picked his way through what was by then a well-known location to most watching the four-day bass tournament.

The island, which looked more like a peninsula during recent low-water years, is about three-quarters of a mile long and in places a couple of football fields wide. It was covered with water 2 to 3 feet deep. Christie said it was the place where he felt most confident he would find big bass seeking refuge in the “wooly” cover away from the Elk’s muddy main channel.

Other anglers in the tournament may have hooked more bass per day with crankbaits, spinnerbaits and chatterbaits — some guessed they had 40 or 50 — but Christie still averaged 20 bass Kelly day and no Bostian aother angler matched the Outdoors size prokelly.bostian duced by the @tulsaworld.com 918-581-8357 champ on the way to winning his third major in three months.

Water levels remain high in several area lakes so anglers could take a lesson or two from the techniques Christie used on Grand Lake. The techniques work just about any time of the year, for that matter. “Pretty much any time the water gets up the fish will go with the water,” Christie said.

Flipping a creature bait into heavy cover produced most of his biggest fish. A few were caught on a frog. Mostly, his tournament win was a matter of classic Oklahoma shallow water flippin’ with stiff rods, strong line and fast reels.

Here are some tips and details on the main baits he used:

A Yum Wooly Bug in greenpumpkin purple color as used by Park Hill angler Jason Christie to win at the FLW Tour on Grand Lake. LAWRENCE TAYLOR/Courtesy

A Booyah Poppin Pad Crasher dart frog as used by Park Hill angler Jason Christie to win at the FLW Tour on Grand Lake.

LAWRENCE TAYLOR/Courtesy

thickest stuff,” he said.

The island had a soft muddy bottom so Christie knew the bass would relate to the structures rather than down on the bottom. “Hopefully I’d drop it right in their face and they’d eat it,” he said.

This was close-contact fishing. The majority of the structure he flipped a lure into was 15 feet or so away and half Jason Christie pulls a bass from flooded willows along the Elk River the fish that hit, hit the lure during the Walmart FLW Tour on Grand Lake last Sunday. It was his as soon as it dropped into the second “keeper” bass on the day he went on to win the tournament water. With a strong rod and and $125,000 top prize. KELLY BOSTIAN/Tulsa World fast reel, Christie didn’t mess around with a strike.

“I made maybe 20, 30 casts a The Bait: Yum Wooly Bug “You want to drive that hook day with it,” he said. “I think I through the jaw and not only only caught a couple on it that (used first two days then switched do you want to hit it hard but I kept the first couple days, but to creature bait) you want to keep them coming, The Model: Green Pumpkin they were good ones.” get that nose up,” he said. “You Purple Flake (sunny condiWorking the heavy brush, can’t let them pull you down Christie would pick up the frog tions) Black Blue Shadow into the brush.” when he spotted a casting lane. (cloudy conditions) At least two fish Christie Rigged: Texas rigged with “There’d be a little alleyway hooked Sunday morning were back up in there and there’d be ½-ounce tungsten weight up and into the boat in just a (pinned with bobber stop), and second or two with one hard a bush or a tree or something 6-aught Trokar Flippin Hook way back in there where you pull and retrieve by Christie.

The Rod: 7-foot 3-inch Falcon About half the fish he caught really couldn’t flip, but I could Cara heavy action skip that frog way back in smacked the lure right away, The Reel: 7:1 Lew’s BB1 with there and get to it,” he said. “A he said. The rest took it after 25-pound fluorocarbon line lot of places you just couldn’t he gave it a couple twitches or The Wooly Bug was his go-to get to because there was so bumped it up against cover. much stuff on the outside edge, lure, though he switched to a Except for times when wind but every so often there would leggier creature bait Sunday. and bait positioning pull fish to The Bait: The Booyah Pad Morgan was fishing the same be an alley.” the edges of cover, Christie adstretch with a beaver-tail style He walked the frog up to the vised that most average anglers Crasher Frog bait, similar to the Wooly Bug, so make the mistake of staying on cover, a basic retrieve. “Just The Model: 4 ¼-inch black Christie thought it best to give walk it, kinda like you would the edges too much. “Don’t be frog with black and yellow tails a spook,” he said. “You walk the fish a slightly different look. afraid to flip that thing way up The Rod: Falcon Jason Chris“The best way to describe it in there, that’s where they’re it up to the base of the tree tie Series Frog Rod is there are a lot of targets and going to be at,” he said. and they’d just get it,” he said.

The Reel: Lew’s Superduty 7:1 “Whenever you got close to you go to the thickest part of Read Kelly Bostian’s blog at with 50-pound-test braid (no that target, shoot for that every the target they’d get it.” tulsaworld.com/kellybostian leader) time, right in the center of the

BIRD WATCH What to look for this time of year Named after golden-robed Catholic church officials called protonotarii, the brilliantly yellow-orange prothonotary warbler inhabits woodlands near water.

It is Oklahoma’s only cavity nesting warbler, and besides traditional locations such as old with woodpecker holes and natural Dan Reinking tree cavities, it sometimes uses nest boxes or unusual makeshift cavities such as coffee cans or milk cartons near homes or outbuildings.

After raising one or two broods of young, its fall migration will gradually take it back to Central or

NOTEBOOK Bostian honored: The Tulsa World’s Kelly Bostian has been named the state’s top outdoors writer for the fourth consecutive year. Bostian received the Joseph H. Edwards Outdoor Writer of the Year award at the Oklahoma Press Association’s convention Friday in Midwest City.

The award is named for the late publisher of the Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, an outdoors enthusiast and lifelong newspaperman. It honors “a writer whose published work exemplifies and captures Edwards’ passion for the outdoors — from its majestic scenery to its abundant and varied wildlife and virtually all sports afield.”

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Steve Meyer, 59, of Woodward holds the Kaw Lake record hybrid striped bass he caught June 2 at the Kaw Lake One Stop.

The fish weighed 11 pounds, was 28 inches long and had a 21-inch girth. KAW LAKE ONE STOP/Courtesy has been set at Kaw Lake for hybrid striped bass.

On June 2 in the Sarge Creek

area, angler Steve Meyer of Woodward hooked an 11-pound hybrid on a hand-made jig.

South America for Oklahoma’s winter season before it returns in April.

Eastern Oklahoma June 9-23 ARRIVALS

Upland Sandpiper

DEPARTURES

Mottled Duck, Pectoral Sandpiper Dan Reinking is a senior biologist at the Sutton Avian Research Center in Bartlesville. Contact him at dreinking@ou.edu or see tulsaworld.com/suttoncenter.

The Bird Watch list is excerpted from the Date Guide to the Occurrences of Birds in Oklahoma, which lists normal dates of occurrences for bird species by seven geographic regions of the state. It is a publication of the Oklahoma Bird Records Committee of the Oklahoma Ornithological Society. For full information about the guide and how to report unusual bird sightings at unusual times of year go to tulsaworld.com/okbirds.

The record tops the 10.4-pound record set in 2012

by Cliff Waddell of Kingston.

Meyer’s fish was 28 inches long with a 21-inch girth.

Cleanup day: The Feathered Friends National Wild Turkey Federation Chapter of Moore is hosting a cleanup day to assist victims of tornado devastation Saturday.

Volunteers are asked to meet at 200 South Howard St. in Moore at 7:30 a.m. The cleanup effort runs 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Workers should wear jeans, boots, gloves, hats and bring sunscreen. They also are asked to bring trash bags, brush cutters, rakes, shovels and nail bars. Lunch and cold drinks will be provided.

The first 60 volunteers to arrive will be given a special

The brilliant yellow-orange prothonotary warbler likes woodlands near water.

STEVE METZ/Courtesy

NWTF T-shirt to be worn during the work effort.

To register contact Kara Jo Lorenz at kara.lorenz@cox.net.

Catch-photograph-release: The OKC Kaya Fishing Tournament Trail hit Siezmore Landing on Tenkiller Lake June 2 with a catchphotograph-release tournament.

All anglers left with prizes, including a GoPro Hero 3 and Stohlquist lifejacket. First place of $500 went to Michael Snodgrass with three fish totaling 44.75 inches, the second-place $300 went to Jeff Hillhouse with 44 inches, and third, $150, went to Brent Wilson with 41.25 inches.

For information on future events call 405-235-2925.

Lake Country tournaments: Lake Country Anglers held adult and youth events June 8-9 on Ten-

killer Lake after the event was relocated from Afton Landing.

Saturday’s adult field had Earl Clinton and Eric Sawney in first place with 17.91 pounds, James Clowers and Josh Haggard second with 17.17, and Ty Fountain and Wyatt Camp with 15.47 pounds.

Stan Day and Chris Hall won big bass with a 5.1-pound bass.

Sunday’s Rising Stars were Cade and Chad Speaks in first with 9.6 pounds, Hayden and Jimmy Keeter in second with 8.3 pounds, and Jacob and Dough Scheihing in third with 7.87 pounds. Tyler Bury won big bass with 3.64 pounds. Alex Knight won Big Bubba with a 4.18-pound fish.

For more information go to tulsaworld.com/lakecountryanglers.

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84° • 69°

86° • 66°

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89° • 76°

Mostly cloudy with thunderstorms Winds: Var. 5-10 mph Chance of precip: 60%

Partly to mostly sunny Winds: N 5-10 mph Chance of precip: 10%

Slight chance of thunderstorms Winds: ESE 5-10 mph Chance of precip: 20%

Slight chance of thunderstorms Winds: SSE 5-15 mph Chance of precip: 20%

NATIONAL CITIES

Area map temperatures shown are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today

Liberal 94/64

Forecasts, graphs and data provided by Weather Central, LP, Madison, WI., © 2013

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Canyon 93/67

LATER INFO: Call 918-669-7521

Check an updated 5-day forecast any time at tulsaworld.com

Altus 99/74

Childress 99/71

Plainview 92/68

July 8

Statistics as of 7 a.m. Yesterday Measures above unless denoted by minus.

Beaver 4.94 Keystone 3.30 Broken Bow 3.90 McGee 4.98 Bull Shoals 9.22 Oologah 7.60 Copan 2.10 Pine Creek 7.44 Eucha 0.06 Salt Plains -0.10 Eufaula 4.60 Sardis 0.48 Fort Gibson 7.80 Skiatook -6.70 Grand -0.84 Spavinaw 0.23 Heyburn -0.16 Table Rock -0.05 Hudson 1.60 Tenkiller 3.60 Hulah 5.10 Texoma -1.88 Kaw 1.90 Wister 13.97

Sayre 93/71

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New

LAKE LEVELS

Pampa 93/66

Vernon 100/75

Lubbock 95/71

57 Low

Moderate Unhealthy for some Unhealthy 50 100 150 200 Pollutant particulate matter

POLLEN

Enid 90/70

26 53 9955

Miami 90/68 MO.

TODAY’S FORECAST: Showers and thunderstorms will be possible along a frontal boundary from the Northeast into the Ohio and mid-Mississippi Valleys. Thunderstorms will also be possible over the northern and southern Plains, as well as across central and southern parts of the Rockies. Mainly dry conditions are expected over the western Great Lakes and along much of the West Coast.

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Low: Only severe allergy patients might have symptoms.

Medium: Most allergy patients might have symptoms.

High: Even slightly allergic patients might have symptoms.

Source: Allergy Clinic of Tulsa

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Bartlesville 88/70

Ponca City 87/68

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Claremore Tulsa Stillwater 89/71 Sand 89/71 88/69 Seiling Broken Springs Guthrie 90/70 Arrow Springdale 89/71 88/70 90/71 86/66 Sapulpa Edmond Clinton ARK. 91/70 90/72 94/69 Muskogee Oklahoma 88/71 Okmulgee City 89/71 90/71 Shawnee Fort Smith Hobart 91/73 Norman 90/72 95/71 McAlester Chickasha 90/72 90/72 92/71 Ada Duncan Lawton 90/73 O K L A H O M A 91/72 94/72 Durant Ardmore 92/73 90/73 Idabel 92/73 Paris Wichita Falls Gainesville Sherman 93/72 98/74 95/73 95/73

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Arkansas City 90/69

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Tulsa through 4 p.m. yesterday Temperatures High Low Yesterday 89° 75° Year ago 87° 66° Normals 88° 68° Record high: 102° (1924) Record low: 52° (1933) High for the year 97° (June 14) Low for the year 15° (Jan. 16) Precipitation (in inches) Yesterday (as of 4 p.m.) trace Month to date 0.96” Normal month to date 2.61” Total year to date 14.84” Normal year to date 19.07”

Amarillo 93/67

TUESDAY

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Hottest: 106˚, Needles, Calif.

Coolest: 21˚, Stanley, Idaho

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David W. Harris, M.D. | adult endocrinology Warren clinic

Diabetes runs in the family of Dr. David Harris.

After seeing its damaging effects, he dedicated his life to stopping it in the community.

How important is lifestyle in managing diabetes?

I can’t overemphasize the importance of diet and exercise. They are as effective as medication in delaying the onset of—or even preventing— the disease.

Diabetes is a life-changing diagnosis.

How do you prepare patients for living with the disease?

Hearing the words, “You have diabetes,” can be overwhelming. It is very important that patients make the necessary adjustments quickly. Warren Clinic has a special education program designed specifically to help patients understand the disease and how to live with it.

This comprehensive program is certified by the American Diabetes Association and addresses treatment, diet, exercise, monitoring blood

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When did you make fighting diabetes your primary focus?

Some members of my family have suffered from diabetes, so I was very aware of the disease growing up. When I had the opportunity to choose endocrinology as my emphasis in medical school, I didn’t hesitate. This terrible disease is a growing problem. I want to do all I can to combat it.

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glucose levels and new techniques in disease management. Classes are taught by certified diabetes educators and are held each weekday.

There were 4,532 visits last year alone.

What makes Warren Clinic unique?

There is a mission that permeates the entire Saint Francis Health System—to serve our patients through the healing ministry of Christ.

This guides us in everything we do, from being sensitive to the needs of our patients to collaborating with colleagues. We have an especially dedicated group of medical professionals at Warren Clinic.

What gives you the most pride as a physician?

Knowing that you are providing a vital service to the community is a great feeling. The most important thing that people have is their health. Being entrusted to take care of it is very rewarding and humbling. Of course, seeing patients benefit from treatment is also very gratifying.

Dr. Harris stresses the importance of patient education as an integral part of the successful treatment of diabetes.

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TULSANS BOND OVER DOMINOES.

GILCREASE PRESENTS THOMAS MORAN.

TATE AWARDS RECOGNIZES OKLAHOMAN.

NOAH WYLE TALKS ABOUT HIS TV SERIES ON TNT.

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Kay Ragsdale is surrounded by the 15 different instruments she plays as a member of the orchestra that tours with “The Lion King.” Courtesy

‘Lion King’ flautist signals each character

BY JAMES D. WATTS JR. World Scene Writer

Getting through airport security can sometimes be a little trying for Kay Ragsdale.

That’s because, when she travels as part of the orchestra for the touring production of “The Lion King,” Ragsdale reverses the old gangster-movie cliche of carrying a machine gun in a violin case. She transports some of the 15 different flutes she has to play in the course of the show in gun cases.

“That’s about the only thing that fits some of these instruments,” Ragsdale said. That’s especially true of the large, South American pan pipes she plays that are about as long as a rifle.

Others are more compact, from the conventional Western metal flutes (“Those are used primarily for the Elton John songs,” she said) to instruments from China, India and Ireland.

“Each flute is for a specific character in the story,” Ragsdale said.

“For example, I use a small wooden flute from China called a dizi for the young Nala and a much larger model when the adult Nala appears.”

The show’s main character, Simba,

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‘THE LION KING’ When: Through July 7. Performances

at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 8 p.m.

Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, 1 and 6:30 p.m. Sunday. No performances July 4. No evening performance July 7.

Where: Chapman Music Hall, Tulsa PAC, 101 E. Third St. Tickets: $30-$135. 918-596-7111, tulsaworld.com/mytix.

Krystal Keith, daughter of Toby Keith, is a musician in her own right. SHOCKINC/Courtesy

Krystal Keith is growing into her own

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BY JENNIFER CHANCELLOR rystal Keith grew up like “every other kid,” she said.

“We went to school and played sports, just like everyone else,” the daughter of Oklahoma music icon Toby Keith said during a recent telephone interview.

But there were also those times that define the life of a country star’s daughter: sitting on Merle Haggard’s desk as he and her father — and Willie Nelson — wrote music together.

Of hearing stories about her idols Hank Williams and Patsy Cline. Of being in the studio, watching her father write and record the hit “Beer for My Horses.”

At age 27, Krystal Keith is

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Toby Keith and his daughter, Krystal, perform “Mockingbird” at the Country Music Association Awards show in 2004.

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So she changed that.

“But he didn’t cry” when he heard it on the dance floor at her wedding reception, she said, then she laughed.

“He asked how I pulled off the surprise without him knowing that I did it,” she said.

She had recruited the help of one of his own band members to write and record it.

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still, and will always be, her daddy’s baby girl. A musician in her own right, she recently released her first collection of studio recordings, a four-song EP with the hit “Daddy Dance With Me.” She co-wrote the song for her wedding, recorded it without him knowing, and surprised

him with it during their first dance at her wedding back in 2010.

“I was getting married, and I wanted a song that was daughter-to-father and couldn’t find one. Most deal with the bride’s life, or the love of her husband, or the father’s view of his daughter.”

‘Baby girl for life’

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Muskogee’s Swon Brothers ready for ‘Voice’ showdown

BY JENNIFER CHANCELLOR The Swon Brothers, Zach (left) and Colton, congratulate Team Blake colleague Danielle Bradbery as she learns she also made the final three of “The Voice” on Tuesday.

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Zach and Colton Swon took five minutes from their skyrocketing schedule after their win last week on NBC’s “The Voice” to chat about where they’re going — and where they’ve been.

They’re “ready” for Monday’s showdown, said Zach Swon, 28.

“Honestly, we’re working musicians and this is what we’ve wanted to do our whole lives,” he said. “No, we never imagined we’d make it so far so quickly, but this is nothing but a blessing.”

Coach Blake Shelton has the Swon Brothers and Danielle Bradbery on his side. Michelle Chamuel

‘THE VOICE’ FINALS When: 7-9 p.m.

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They each will perform Monday,

Monday, 8-10 p.m. Tuesday (live results) Where: NBC, channel 2, cable 9 Finalists: Team Blake’s the Swon Brothers and Danielle Bradbery; Michelle Chamuel of Team Usher.

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Editor’s note: Seen is a weekly feature showcasing the work of a Tulsa World photojournalist.

“This one feels right.” It’s not Margaret Owens’ turn yet, but she holds a domino in the palm of her hand, hovering above the table, waiting for the chance to smack it down on the table.

There’s a lot of talk around the CLANTON tables at Carver Senior Center, 1208 E. Pine St., when the dominoes are spilled across the table.

“What are you gonna do this time?”

“You gonna play, or are you still counting your dominoes?”

“Grandma was slow, but she was old … what’s your excuse?”

That’s the fun of it, Owens says. She plays three days a week and tries to pair up with teammate Florida Culton. They’ve been playing together for about nine years.

There’s style, of course. Slapping the dominoes on the table or, like Owens, spinning them across the table, but the constant talking and gamesmanship is what really makes the game fun.

“If you can’t talk about your game,” Culton says, “there’s no need to sit down at one of these tables.”

Rogers Cheatham looks at the dominoes in his hand as a game starts at Carver Senior Center in north Tulsa. The games go to 200 and partners change occasionally, but the best part, the players agree, is the camaraderie and joking between players.

Photos by JOHN CLANTON/Tulsa World

Margaret Owens holds a domino over the table, hoping she’ll get to play it when her turn comes.

Margaret plays three days a week and likes to partner with Florida Culton. They’ve played against the guys at the senior center for about nine years.

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At left, Ralph Jackson laughs and talks with players during a dominoes session at Carver Senior Center. At right, a group of seniors gather to play dominoes. The games happen daily at the center, with players arriving after breakfast.

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and find their fate on Tuesday’s live televised results show. The winners will be declared “The Voice” and will win a recording contract.

Zach said of fellow Team Blake member 16-year-old Danielle Bradbery, who also made it into the top three: “We always knew she was going to make it. She’s awesome. She’s dominated this thing the whole time.”

On this year’s finale, Oklahoma native Shelton not only has two of the three contestants, but also he has the youngest contestant and the only duo to make it this far. At one point last week, both of the Swon Brothers’ singles from the finals — and both of Bradbery’s — filled the top four spots on the iTunes country download

Blake Shelton (right) is congratulated by fellow coach Usher during “The Voice” semifinals Tuesday.

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charts. Both were in the top 10 iTunes overall downloads heading into the final showdown, too.

Colton, 24, said he wanted to make something clear, regardless of whether they “take it all” on Tuesday: “I just want to say thank you to everyone who helped us get to this point. ... For the prayers, the votes, the support, the downloads — it has absolutely changed the lives of two ‘average Joes’ by letting them live their dreams.”

From performing their own tunes in bar gigs to a roster of covers on this season’s “The Voice,” the brothers say they’ve always been “team players.”

Their appeal crosses all boundaries, as evidenced by their iTunes sales and continued success on the show.

The semifinals even had the pair leading a version of Poison’s hair-ballad “Every Rose Has its Thorn” — and don-

ning sexy cut-out bodysuits during a “confession” reel during the show.

Zach and Colton laughed.

At both. No, they never imagined they’d do either. Ever.

“Hey, the body suit worked for Shakira. Why wouldn’t it work for us?” Zach said, then laughed again. He was the one in the blonde wig, if you didn’t notice.

During the show’s season, the brothers have performed hits often considered “offlimits” by many musicians, including hits from George Jones, The Eagles, Merle Haggard, Bob Seger and Tom Petty.

Before the Swon Brothers were announced as finalists, Colton gave thanks to Shelton, saying, “You could line up every star from past to present and couldn’t get a better coach than Blake.”

The Swon Brothers already have a long history of live performances across the

Sooner State, and their first live Nashville show happened when they were ages 9 and 11. Their friends and family “can’t be any more supportive,” Zach said.

“I don’t think I’ve heard my mom cry so much her entire life,” Zach said of the last few weeks, then laughed.

That’s a good thing.

Jennifer Chancellor 918-581-8346

‘The Voice’ finale watch party set at The Joint Tulsa’s NBC affiliate KJRH and Hard Rock Hotel & Casino have invite fans to come to the Joint concert venue Tuesday to watch the live two-hour season finale of “The Voice” featuring a final performance

by Muskogee’s Swon Brothers. The venue includes concert seating with three

jumbo screens and full concert surround sound. There is no admission fee but fans must be 21 or older to attend.

“The Voice” Finale Watch Party kicks off at 7 p.m. Tuesday with the finals airing 8 to 10 p.m. at 777 West Cherokee Street, Catoosa, OK (800) 760-6700.

jennifer.chancellor@tulsaworld.com

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“Tower Falls and Sulphur Mountain,” circa 1875, is one of 15 chromolithograph prints Thomas Moran created for an 1876 publication. These rarely seen examples of early color printing are the centerpiece of an exhibit now on display at Gilcrease Museum. Courtesy photos

COLOR ROCKS

Moran works use stones to create vibrant color prints exhibit ‘YELLOWSTONE AND THE WEST: THE CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS OF THOMAS MORAN’ When: Through Sept. 8 Where: Gilcrease Museum,

1400 N. Gilcrease Museum Road Admission: $8. 918-5962700, tulsaworld.com/ gilcrease.

BY JAMES D. WATTS JR. World Scene Writer

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he images by Thomas Moran now on display at the Gilcrease Museum were considered scandalous when they first appeared in 1876.

Not for their subject matter — the area now known as Yellowstone National Park and other locations in the American West — but for the way they were created.

“There was a lot of criticism at the time for these being ‘mechanically produced,’ and ‘dehumanized,’ ” said Carole Klein, associate curator of art at Gilcrease. “It’s ironic in a way because the amount of effort it took to create SEE MORAN D7

“Hot Springs of Gardiner’s River, Yellowstone,” circa 1875

Noah Wyle talks ‘Falling Skies’ Former ‘E.R.’ star takes lead in the sci-fi series

BY RITA SHERROW World Scene Writer

“Producing and starring in a TV series is a bit like giving birth,” said Noah Wyle, who takes the lead in the sci-fi series “Falling Skies” airing at 9 p.m. Sundays on TNT. “I’m told there’s an analogy to childbirth to be made where this kind of nice amnesia settles in after the pain and what you have to show for it makes it all seem worth it,” Wyle said in a recent teleconference. He was talking about spending up to 13 hours on set and then going home to call the writers and talk about upcoming scripts.

“You kind of forget about how miserable it was until you try it again.”

Wyle, much beloved as the young intern-turned-doctor on NBC’s 1994 to 2009 series “E.R.,” stars as Tom Mason, a college professor who becomes an unlikely resistance leader battling aliens known as skitters who have invaded Earth in the series that recently launched its third season on TNT, cable 29.

The humans have organized themselves into a ragtag army, trying to fend off the aliens and survive as a race. But they are outnumbered and facing problems within their own ranks.

As the last season ended, two of Mason’s sons were coming under the influence of the aliens, the youngest son was growing up too fast, and Mason and girlfriend Anne (Moon Bloodgood) found out they were expecting a baby.

And Mason has developed a sort of alliance with Cochise, the leader of a new alien race, Wyle said. And although it may sound

The war against an occupying alien force will enter a volatile new phase when “Falling Skies” returns for its third season at 9 p.m. Sundays on TNT, cable 29. Noah Wyle (right) stars. JAMES DITTIGER/TNT

tv ‘FALLING SKIES’ When: 9 p.m. Sundays Where: TNT, cable 29 like it doesn’t fit the theme of humans-versus-aliens, Wyle said there are a couple of reasons for the decision.

“The first is that on a gut level, he just sort of trusts this character. There’s something about him and the rapport they have developed over the last seven months despite all signs of trepidation.

The second — and really more compelling argument — is that it’s working, and you really can’t argue with the results.

“These guys show up,” he continued. “They have a technology that’s far superior to anything that we have. And, through this alliance, our group has not only been able to defend its borders

but expand them. And — for the first time since the invasion began — we’re winning, and it’s pretty heavy stuff.”

In Sunday’s episode, Charleston has become president of what is apparently left of the United States, the second anniversary of the alien invasion is approaching, and an unlikely gunman unleashes a sniper attack that fosters doubts within the new government.

The pending birth of a child in the hostile environment is a shift that wasn’t exactly planned, Wyle said.

Bloodgood was available for only two weeks of the season’s production. She gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Pepper, in December.

“This one was a tricky one to negotiate this year because Moon Bloodgood showed up pretty pregnant in real life, which meant that we only had her for a couple of episodes before she had to fly back to California and have her baby,” Wyle said.

In addition to shooting scenes of her for episodes that hadn’t been written yet, it also changed character development.

“It also meant that she wasn’t going to be able to be an action hero in the way that we had sort of hoped to develop her character at the end of last season when she was running around with a blowtorch frying crawlies and looking very much a badass. So, creatively, we had to make some adjustment, but I think it worked out very well because the notion of bringing a child into the world, while it seems inherently cruel, is a biological necessity if these people are going to continue.”

There is also the introduction of horses, the French, Mason’s election as president and the return of the eye worm — this time effecting Mason’s son Hal. Last season, through Mason, the eye worm was able to keep the alien Red Eye and the rebel faction of the Skitters in proximity to his Second Massachusetts regiment.

This time, the worm creates a schizophrenic personality in Hal, and he is no longer conscious of some of his actions.

“And that’s a really sort of terrifying aspect to have in essence a mole within our ranks,” Wyle said.

Former “E.R.” co-star Gloria Reuben has joined the cast as Marina this season.

“She’s an interesting character because, at first blush, she just sort of seemed like Tom’s Gal Friday who’s going to assist him in his learning curve accepting the responsibilities of being president. But then we come to realize that she’s fairly ambitious in her own right and she’s got an agenda of her own and doesn’t necessarily agree with Tom’s decisionmaking.

“It’s a significant part of the season.”

Rita Sherrow 918-581-8360 rita.sherrow@tulsaworld.com

427 S. Boston Ave. 918-949-4498 Food: •••• Atmosphere: •••• Service: •••• (on a scale of 0 to 4 stars) 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday-Friday, 4-10 p.m. Saturday; accepts all major credit cards.

For our entrees we settled on sea scallops ($24) and sweet corn and basil ravioli ($17) with a side of pancetta Brussels sprouts ($7).

My plate had four plump scallops, perfectly cooked, and served with four thick slices of carrots, pancetta (Italian bacon), parsley salad with lemon vinaigrette and a few, small polenta-dusted sweetbreads. The fried little morsels of sweetbreads were the tastiest part of the dish, other than the scallops.

The highlight of the raviolis was the generous portion of flavorful crab meat.

The dish also included roasted corn, goat cheese, citrus-lobster brodo, pine nuts and warm grape tomatoes that seemed to explode when bitten into.

BROOKSIDE BY DAY 3313 S. Peoria Ave. 918-745-9989 Food: ••• Atmosphere: ••• Service: ••• (on a scale of 0 to 4 stars) Breakfast-lunch 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Monday-Saturday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday; dinner 5:30-9 p.m. Tuesday-Friday; accepts all major credit cards.

Brookside by Day, or BBD as most folks know it, has long been a Brookside favorite for breakfast and lunch. (Owner Kyle) Phillips is hoping that dinner, served Tuesday through Friday, eventually will enjoy the same popularity.

Having worked our way through much of the regular menu over the years, we chose a couple of the specials, steak and shrimp ($15.95) and fried chicken ($10.95).

The thin, 8-ounce rib-eye steak was tender and cooked a perfect mediumrare, but a (sprinkling of) seasoned salt took away from the flavor. The four shrimp were nice-sized and lightly breaded.

The fried chicken — breast, thigh, leg and wing — also was lightly breaded, crispy, tender and tasty, a bargain when matched with two sides.

The Oinker Salad is served at Porky’s Kitchen. MATT BARNARD/Tulsa World

PORKY’S KITCHEN 4666 S. Mingo Road 918-622-7127 Food: ••• Atmosphere: •• Service: order at counter (on a scale of 0 to 4 stars) 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday; accepts Visa, MasterCard, Discover.

When we visited, my wife considered the half-pound burger but decided on the daintier quarter-pounder ($3.50) with lettuce and tomato. I went for one of the signature dishes, Porky’s sandwich ($6.25), and we added sides of crinkle-cut fries and tater tots ($2 each).

The soft hamburger bun had been lightly toasted on the flat-top grill, and the burger delivered good, old-fashioned flavor.

Porky’s sandwich was an open-faced affair with toasted hoagie rolls topped with 4 ounces of shredded pork loin, 2 ounces of sausage, bell peppers, thinsliced tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, Swiss cheese and “porkiaki” sauce. I’m not sure what the porkiaki sauce was, but the flavor combinations in this sandwich were impressive.

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Joseph Rivers (left) on piano, Francine Ringold, John Everitt and Ivy Dempsey rehearse for the upcoming Nimrod book launch and staged reading performance at the Lorton Performance Center in Tulsa.

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Nimrod’s spring issue Published at the University of Tulsa, Nimrod International Journal will celebrate its longevity and spring/ summer issue, “Lasting Matters: Writers 57 and Over.” The new issue will feature poems and stories from new and established writers — from across the country and the globe, such as former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser and Pulitzer Prize-winner Stephen Dunn. Among those performing selections from “Lasting Matters” will be Adrian Alexander, David Cook, Maureen Hawley, Deborah Hunter,

Ivy Dempsey, Fran Ringold, Cynthia Gustavson and Helen Beth O’Neal.

Original music by Joseph Rivers will accompany the readings. A reception will follow the event, with copies of “Lasting Matters” available for sale and signing by authors.

Event details: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 27, Lorton Performance Center’s Meinig Recital Hall at TU, 550 S. Gary Ave. Tickets: free For more: 918-631-3080, tulsaworld. com/nimrod, email nimrod@utulsa.edu

Nichole Bostian Trantham (left) holding Nigel, Michael Turner holding Ginger and Terry Walker holding Smitty gear up for Paws & Pictures, the Tulsa SPCA 100th Anniversary Drive-In Movie Night. The event will be held June 20. MIKE SIMONS/Tulsa World

Steven Gary II is a past recipient of a Simon Estes Educational Foundation scholarship, which he used to major in engineering at the University of Tulsa. He’s shown with equipment he helps design at his job with Baker Hughes in Claremore.

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Brighter future ahead Foundation helps students afford to go to college

BY JASON ASHLEY WRIGHT World Scene Writer

30th anniversary kick-off

Steven Gary II was “always tearing things up” at home — taking things apart, putting them back together.

A football player and stellar student, who loved math and excelled in drafting class, Steven had his sights set on mechanical engineering by the time he was a senior at Booker T. Washington High School.

College was an absolute, and getting there wasn’t much of an issue for Gary, who was independent and never wanted to impose a financial burden on his parents — hence his stellar scholastic career.

“I want to be able to take care of my college education,” he said.

Still, how his family would afford it weighed a little on the mind of his mother, Deborah, who wondered how they were going to make everything happen.

So when a certain letter came from the Simon Estes Educational Foundation (SEEF) in 2002, that

The Simon Estes Educational Foundation will co-present Friday Night Fireworks at ONEOK Field to kick off its 30th anniversary.

Event details: 6-10 p.m. Friday, June 21, ONEOK Field, 201 N. Elgin Ave. Tickets (for game): $5-$15 (tulsaworld.com/drillers) For more: tulsaworld.com/seef

weight lifted.

“I think I was more excited than he was,” she said.

Gary is one of hundreds of local high school students who have been helped by SEEF during its 30 years — an anniversary milestone that will be celebrated with fireworks Friday night during a Tulsa Drillers game at ONEOK Field.

That kickoff celebration preludes a benefit concert in November featuring world-renowned operatic soprano Deborah Voigt.

SEEF is a multiracial nonprofit

committed to promoting higher educational opportunities in any discipline for graduating high school seniors, primarily in the Tulsa area, by providing scholarships made possible by charitable contributions.

Gary went on to major in engineering at the University of Tulsa and graduated in 2006.

So far, 334 students have been given scholarships through the foundation, said Dwight Eskew, SEEF’s executive director.

“I was in shock,” recalled Deborah, who was going through some medical issues at the time her son applied for the scholarship. “I was just so proud … so proud of him for accomplishing all that he has.

“If I had the strength to run a couple laps, I would have.”

Among the scholarship requirements is having a GPA of at least 3.5 on a 4.0 scale.

For more about SEEF and its scholarships, visit tulsaworld.com/seef.

Jason Ashley Wright 918-581-8483 jason.wright@tulsaworld.com

Paws & Pictures As part of its 100th year celebration, the Tulsa Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) will host this event to which you and your pets are invited to watch movies at the iconic Admiral Twin Drive-in. Bring your lawn chairs and expect games, music and cuddly photo opportunities galore prior to the showing — “Monsters University” (9:15 p.m.) and “Now You See Me” (11:15 p.m.) on the west

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Proceeds from ticket and concession sales benefit Tulsa SPCA’s operations.

Event details: Thursday, June 20 — 7 p.m. gates open, about 9 p.m. shows begin — Admiral Twin, 7355 E. Easton St. Tickets: $10 adults, $5 kids For more: tulsaworld.com/tulsaspca

Howard and Billie Barnett (left) joined Eric Gibson and Erika and Aaron Massey recently for LOOK Musical Theatre’s annual STARS Party at Southern Hills Country Club.

Chef Aid This is your opportunity to wine and dine with Tulsa’s finest chefs — the masterminds behind delectable dishes at more than 30 local restaurants. Here’s a taste of those participating: Sarah Leavell of Canebrake, Candace Conley of The Girl Can Cook and Eric Reynolds from Smoke. Other highlights of the event include complimentary wine and beer, live music, and a silent auction.

Proceeds benefit children affected

by the Oklahoma tornados.

Event details: 6:30-10:30 p.m. Saturday, June 22, Tulsa Convention Center, 100 Civic Center Sponsors: BOK Center, Tulsa Convention Center, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Salt Food Group, Staples, SMG Tickets: $75 (tulsaworld.com/chefaidregister) For more: tulsaworld.com/chefaid

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Rhapsody.

Proceeds benefit Tulsa Camerata’s upcoming 2013-14 season.

Event details: 3 p.m. Sunday, June 23, Patti Johnson Wilson Hall, Philbrook, 2727 S. Rockford Road Sponsors: Dr. Christopher and Gina Covington, Terry Steele and Steven Thompson, Dr. Kate White and Michael Manning, Wanda P. Vint Tickets: $35 For more: 918-406-5440; email Jesus Villareal, jesus@tulsacamerata.org

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is represented by several sets of inline pan pipes, again with the instruments increasing in size and range as the character grows. The show’s villain, Scar, is usually announced by Ragsdale playing low notes on those large pipes that she has to transport in rifle cases.

“We’re part of the foreshadowing,” Ragsdale said. “You can almost tell what will happen in the story by picking out the sounds of the different flutes.”

Ragsdale has been with “The Lion King” tour since it began in 2002. She has worked in the

bachelor’s degree from Indiana University and a master’s from Northwestern University.

“But after a while,” Ragsdale said, “I asked myself if all I wanted to do was play etudes.

So I decided to teach myself the evolution of the flute and started collecting examples from all over the world.”

Kay Ragsdale While the score of “The Lion on her role as flautist for “The Lion King” King” calls for 15 different flutes, Broadway pits for “The Phantom Ragsdale’s seat in the orchestra pit is surrounded by more than of the Opera” and “Sunset Bouthe required number of instrulevard,” and was part of the first ments. That’s because the spacnational tour for “Miss Saigon.”

Originally, Ragsdale wanted to ing of the holes on the flute is such that it is difficult for her to play the clarinet, but her school finger them properly. music instructor handed her a So a few flutes have clear tape flute instead. She would earn a

‘We’re part of the foreshadowing. You can almost tell what will happen in the story by picking out the sounds of the different flutes.’

over one of the holes, so it can be used for a certain musical phrase.

“Throughout the show I’m juggling instruments, octaves, keys,” Ragsdale said. “I have to be so focused that I don’t realize the passing of time. And because of the way the flute is played, and the role it plays in the show, it’s as if I’m holding the breath of the characters in my hand.

“That’s why I still love this job after a decade or so,” she said.

“It’s a way of giving an extra voice to the people on stage. I can’t think of anything that could be better than that.”

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Helen Elizabeth Furr joyously celebrated her 100th birthday on Sunday with family and friends. Helen was born on June 11, 1913 in Okmulgee, Okla.

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Howard D. McCloud and Vera Lisle McCloud of Tulsa celebrated their 65th Wedding Anniversary June 15, 2013. All of their children were in Tulsa to help celebrate the occasion.

The couple met at The University of Tulsa. They were married at Wheeling Avenue Christian Church by Dr. Charles Kerr. They have one daughter, Cathleen Early and husband Richard of Asheville, NC and three sons, Marcus McCloud and wife Cindy of Littleton, CO, William (Bill) McCloud and wife Georgetta of Upland, CA, and Thomas (Tom) McCloud and wife Raye Lynn of Tulsa. Also they are proud of their eight grandchildren: Sara White, Ethan Early, Amanda Dunn, Madeline McCloud, Lauren Feist, Victoria McCloud, T.J. McCloud and Madeline McCloud and five great-grandchildren: Kendra Junker, Chance White, Cooper White and twins, Ian and Isla McCloud.

Howard McCloud retired from Explorer Pipeline Company in 1989 where he served as Vice President and General Counsel after 36 years of credited service. During World War II he served as a Staff Sergeant in the Air Force.

Vera McCloud worked in the Accounting Dept at Brown Dunkin Dept Store until her marriage to Howard. They are now living at Oklahoma Methodist Manor in Tulsa.

Dan and Mary Bisett of Tulsa celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary June 15, 2013.

They received a nuptial blessing at Holy Family Cathedral and were honored with a reception at Arts & Humanities Hardesty Arts Center in Tulsa, hosted by their children.

The couple married June 15, 1963, at Holy Family Cathedral in Tulsa. They have three children: Andrea Colpitts and husband Greg, Dan Bisett and wife Celia and Deirdre Dinelli and husband Dave. They have seven grandchildren: Lauren, Tommy, Marybeth and Lindsey Colpitts, Daniel and Elizabeth Bisett, and Evan Dinelli, all of Tulsa.

Dan retired in 2002 after 35 years as a Human Resource executive and Mary retired in 2001 from J. Gifford, Inc.

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Jim Collins and Judy Collins of Tulsa celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary June 15, 2013.

The couple married June 15, 1963, in Palos Heights, Ill.

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Roland and Janell Kriley of Skiatook celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary on June 10, 2013.

McBroom Denton Boyd (Squirt) Denton and Sandy Denton of Mounds celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary June 15, 2013.

They were honored with a reception at Meadowbrook Country Club. The event was hosted by their children and grandchildren.

The couple married June 15, 1963. They have two children: Stacey Crystal and husband Craig of Mounds and Jackie Whitworth and husband John of Bixby. They have 4 grandchildren: Josh and Jake Crystal of Mounds and Emily and Alex Whitworth of Bixby.

Robert H. (Bob) and Opal (Cargill) McBroom, longtime Mannford residents, will celebrate 60 years of marriage on June 21, 2013.

The couple was married at the Silver City Baptist Church, Silver City, Okla. on June 21, 1953.

Mr. McBroom is a retired contractor and Mrs. McBroom is retired from Tulsa County Social Services.

They have four children, Matthew, Mark (Sheila), Tim (Jamie) McBroom and Lourie (John) Hunter, 10 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

They will be honored with a reception hosted by their children on Saturday, June 22.

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Murray Patterson and Avis Patterson of Tulsa celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary June 15, 2013. They were honored with a reception June 14, 2013, at the City View Lounge at Montereau in Tulsa.

The event was hosted by their family.

The couple married June 15, 1948, in Lost Nation, Iowa.

They have three children: Stephanie Meier of Davenport, Iowa, Mark Patterson and wife Mary of Fayetteville, Ark. and Kent Patterson and wife Mary of Tulsa. They have seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Murray Patterson retired June 30, 1990 after 42 years as a financial analyst. Avis Patterson is a homemaker and professional shopper.

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Paul and Barbara Fergeson recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with family and friends. They were married on June 12, 1963 in the Blue Room at the First Baptist Church in Tulsa.

They met at Edison High School when they were both 17.

Their first date was in October, 1959. They enjoyed a meal of Mandarin Duck at the Ricsha on Brookside.

Paul graduated from the University of Tulsa with a Masters degree and is an alum of Sigma Chi Fraternity. He went on to become a therapist, diagnostician and advocate at the Rader Center until his retirement in 1999. Barbara retired in 2000 after working in real estate sales and property management for 30 years.

The couple moved to OKC in 2002 to be near family and friends. They were blessed with two wonderful sons, Brent and Mark, and spend a great deal of time with their grandchildren.

Barbara volunteers at OU Children's Medical Center. Paul reads, spends time on the computer and takes online courses on subjects he finds interesting. The couple enjoys motorcycling and has traveled the region on a variety of motorcycles.

After retirement, the couple traveled extensively, especially to New England and California.

The Fergeson's are already planning their next trip in the fall.

They both say the secret to their 50 years together is persistence and determination, combined with a sincere love for each other that helped them survive the difficult times.

The Tulsa World’s Scene section and Celebrity Attractions are teaming up to give away four special prize packages to see “The Lion King” at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center.

Each package includes four tickets to the July 2 show, plus a gift bag of “Lion King” merchandise valued at $100. We will give away one pack every Friday until June 28.

To enter, go to tulsaworld.com/sceneFB, hit the “Like” button, and leave a comment about your favorite “Lion King” character.

You can also enter by following us on Twitter at twitter.com/TWscene and retweeting any contest tweet.

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Native Oklahoman Evelyn Standlee Youngblood celebrated her 100th birthday with 5 generations of family and close friends. Originally from Pryor, she resides in Tulsa.

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Jessica Lindsey Hayes to Brian Paul Lundy. The bride-elect is the daughter of Lisa M. Hoffman and Kent R. Hayes, both of Broken Arrow. The prospective bridegroom is the son of Paula A. Lundy of Tulsa and Roscoe E. Lundy of Owasso.

The wedding is planned for September 21, 2013, at the Tulsa Historical Society.

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Chelsea Kate Preaus and Shane Eugene Bloedorn were married May 18, 2013, at Christian Chapel in Tulsa.

Parents are Paula and Ken Preaus of Tulsa; and Renny and Dan Bailey of Coweta.

The couple will reside in Springfield, Mo.

expected late this year.

A video for the song quickly racked up more than 1 million views.

In it, she sings, “Today I became his wife, but I’ll be your baby girl for life.”

People’s reaction to her solo debut single came as a surprise.

“I knew we wanted to release it in time for Father’s Day and the wedding season, but the reaction has been completely unbelievable,” she said. “We expected it to resonate with brides, yes, but it reached out of that box and to every father and every daughter in big, big ways that we didn’t anticipate.

“As a songwriter, there is no greater compliment to have people connect with a piece of your music. Young brides, 60-year-old men, bawling. I mean, wow,” she said.

Songwriting isn’t anything new to Krystal Keith.

It’s sort of “unavoidable,” she said.

She’s written hundreds of songs, filling thousands of pages and even “singing snippets into my phone while I’m at the mall,” she said. “My phone is full of that stuff.”

Ideas, melodies, lyrics, they all rush out of her in ways that are “completely natural.”

Songwriter finds her voice

Her first song came at age 9. The competitions started at age 13.

Her favorite song, she says, is the national anthem — a song she’s sung at Sooner games, at Thunder games and NASCAR events.

It’s a difficult song to sing, she said, “but it’s a song that taught me how to sing. I love performing it.”

She’s also performed it at her father’s chain of restaurants, Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill, and with him on tour.

She recorded a hit duet with her father in 2004 — “Mockingbird” — but the earliest song she remembers singing with him is Jewel’s 1995 hit, “You Were Meant for Me.”

events TOBY KEITH’S TWISTER RELIEF CONCERT With Toby Keith, Garth Brooks, Ronnie Dunn, Trisha Yearwood, Willie Nelson and more.

When: 3 p.m. July 6 Where: University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord Family Stadium, 180 W. Brooks St., Norman Tickets: On sale 10 a.m. Friday June 21 at tulsaworld.com/tixmaster or by phone at 800-7453000. All seats are $25, with an eight-ticket limit. Venue capacity is about 80,000.

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“It was my favorite song.

No matter where I was in the house, if he heard me singing it, he’d find me and sing the chorus. That’s really my earliest and favorite memory of us singing together,” she said.

The chorus is: “Dreams last so long / even after you’re gone / I know you love me / And soon you will see / You were meant for me / And I was meant for you.”

Heading into Father’s Day, there is no happier memory she could share, she said.

Both of them being musicians, they’re often on the road touring and often in different parts of the country when the holiday arrives, she said. The song still rings true.

“I honestly don’t know what we’ll be doing yet on Father’s Day,” she said.

“Maybe a barbecue.

“I’m sure he’ll catch at least one round of golf,” she added.

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‘Hardcore country girl’ helping with cleanup Krystal Keith grew up in Moore and Norman, and said she’s spent a lot of time in recent weeks helping friends and family dig out from the chaos of May’s record-breaking storms.

Even as a born-and-bred Sooner, she’s had a lot of difficulty moving past what she’s seen.

“My husband and I still have dreams about it almost every night,” she said. “If he doesn’t, I do. … Once you see that turmoil, even after you see it, you just can’t grasp the amount of damage.

“The smell — the smell,” she said. “The smell of wood and insulation — it’s a very distinct smell. You can’t even move past it. My aunt, her house was hit. My cousin, her house was hit. Numerous friends.”

The nightmares haven’t

stopped her — or father Toby — from going into the community to help recovery efforts, she said.

“I was in Nashville when it happened. I just got sick.

We came home. Within 30 minutes of getting here, we changed clothes and went out and started helping.”

Her father has been by her side for a lot of it, she said.

He’s still working on details of a megawatt concert July 6 with pals Garth Brooks, Ronnie Dunn, Willie Nelson, Trisha Yearwood and others in Norman, she said.

The self-described “hardcore country girl” also inherited her drive to help others from her daddy, she said.

She also thanks a life in Oklahoma for that, too.

“It feels good to do good.”

— JENNIFER CHANCELLOR, World Scene Writer

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An audience watches a summer orchestra and dance concert at Interlochen Center for the Arts near Traverse City, Mich. This year’s star performances includes ZZ Top, Josh Groban and Harry Connick Jr. Interlochen Center for the Arts/Associated Press

views — orchards, vineyards, sparkling waters. You can stop at a winery for a tastTRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — ing on your way to Haserot Residents of this picturesque Beach, which has a children’s play area and boat launch.

Lake Michigan community are known to quip, “The view Or head to Lighthouse Park near the tip of the peninsula, of the bay is half your pay.” where there’s a mile-long It’s a sardonic commentary (1.6-kilometer) stretch of sand on the local wage scale, but that never feels crowded. also a tribute to the stunNearby villages within a ning scenery and small-town quality of life that have lured half-hour’s drive— Acme, Suttons Bay, Elk Rapids many a newcomer from the big city — and make the area among them — also have bayfront parks with beaches. one of the Midwest’s top tourist draws.

Perched at the southern Or hit the trail end of Grand Traverse Bay Urban pathways and some 250 miles (400 kilomecountryside trails of varying ters) northwest of Detroit, lengths await the hiker and Traverse City is prized for biker. The TART (Traverse its trails, beaches, cherry Area Recreational Trail) and orchards, a burgeoning arts the connected Leelanau Trail scene and nearby Sleeping offer a 26-mile (42-kilometer) Bear Dunes National Lakejourney from Acme Township shore. In recent years, the east of Traverse City north to area has developed a nationSuttons Bay. This is a paved, wide reputation as a foodie converted railroad corridor haven for farm-to-table restaurants featuring local fruits, and the terrain is mostly flat, making it easy going for all veggies, cheeses and wines. ages and skill levels.

You’ll need money for all The landscape ranges those meals and a comfy room from swampland to historic in a hotel or B&B, of course.

But there are plenty of ways to downtown neighborhoods to woods and fields. Inhave fun without dropping a town sections can be busy dime. Here are a few: as joggers and bikers weave around people walking dogs Hit the beach ... and pushing strollers. If it’s The Grand Traverse region speed you crave, bide your has more than 180 miles (290 time until the Leelanau porkilometers) of shoreline, tion of the trail, where the much of which is privately crowds thin. owned, but there are many For a cross-country experipublic parks with wide, ence, try the Vasa Pathway. sandy beaches. In the heart Winding through the Pere of downtown is Clinch Park Marquette State Forest, it — a nice family spot, with includes loop trails ranging restrooms, picnic tables and from one to 16 miles (three to lifeguards on duty from mid- 25 kilometers). It doubles as June through August. Nearby a ski trail in winter and offers is West End Beach, with a some challenging climbs. volleyball court. They’re divided by the municipal Face the music marina and a large bayfront Free musical shows, poetry greenway where folks toss readings and painting disFrisbees, fly kites and strum plays abound in northwestguitars. ern Michigan. The crown For something more isojewel is Interlochen Center lated, drive up Old Mission for the Arts, a year-round Peninsula, which divides the academy and summer camp. east and west arms of Grand You must buy tickets to atTraverse Bay. This narrow, tend star performances; this rolling spit of land some 20 miles (32 kilometers) long of- year’s lineup includes ZZ fers some of the region’s best Top, Josh Groban and Harry

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The Traverse City Film Festival, co-founded by filmmaker and Michigan native Michael Moore, runs from July 30 to Aug. 4. It features foreign, independent and documentary movies, with tickets for most showings costing $10. But it also has free attractions, including nightly classics shown on a giant inflatable screen by the waterfront and panel discussions with guest directors and producers. Associated Press file

on a giant inflatable screen by the waterfront and panel discussions with directors and producers.

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For bargain-basement enjoyment, nothing beats strolling downtown on a sunny day. Begin on Front Street, the main drag a two-minute walk from the bayfront. In addition to souvenir and Tshirt shops and more upscale boutiques, you can explore art galleries, browse in bookstores, tour the historic City Opera House and try free samples of cherry jam and other local treats at Cherry In this undated photo released by Traverse City Convention & Visitors Bureau, bicyclists cruise Republic, American Spoon along the Leelanau Trail near Traverse City, Mich., a converted railroad corridor that winds past open and other shops. fields, cherry orchards and woodlands. Traverse City Convention & Visitors Bureau/Associated Press A number of downtown parks have picnic tables, Connick Jr. But most of the Michigan is the nation’s top and spread a blanket. You merry-go-rounds, benches roughly 400 concerts cost won’t see what’s happening, producer of tart cherries — and shade trees. Nearby nothing. the ones used for pie filling. but you’ll hear it. “We don’t historical neighborhoods Don’t be fooled by that; chase anyone away,” Interlo- If your budget’s tight, forgo have well-kept homes and many of these recitals feature chen spokesman Steve Hoff- the midway and evening rock gardens, many dating back extraordinarily gifted young man said. concerts. Instead, take in the more than a century. people and visiting faculty air and fireworks shows, enOvershadowed by Grand Festivals from leading music schools. ter your kids in the turtle race Traverse Bay, but beautiful Hardly a summer week You can spend a delight(live turtles are provided), nonetheless, is the Boardgoes by without a festival ful couple of hours on the watch a parade or test your man River, which meanders Interlochen campus about 15 somewhere in the area. skills in — what else? — the through town before flowing Many charge admission to miles (24 kilometers) south cherry pit-spitting contest. into the lake. Boardwalks at least some events, but of Traverse City wandering The Traverse City Film and parks adjoin sections freebies aren’t hard to find. the pine-studded grounds Festival, co-founded by film- of the river, where you can The Suttons Bay Arts Festival maker and Michigan native and listening to impromptu watch anglers land brook and Elk Rapids’ Harbor Days Michael Moore, runs July student performances. trout or ducks peck for food in late July and early August 30-Aug. 4. It features foreign, in the shallows. A few blocks If your heart is set on a are two among many. big name and tickets are independent and documensouth of downtown, the The National Cherry Festoo pricey, don’t despair. tary movies, with $10 tickets river widens into Boardman tival in Traverse City, June Those shows are held in an for most showings. But it also Lake, with a two-mile-long 29-July 6, pays homage to open-sided amphitheater, has free attractions, includ(3.2-kilometer) paved and the region’s signature fruit. so find a grassy spot outside ing nightly classics shown dirt trail.

Hobbits and elves draw tourists to New Zealand WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Hobbits, elves and dragons appear to be luring tourists to New Zealand as fans await their first glimpse of the second movie in “The Hobbit” trilogy.

Figures released this month by government agency Tourism New Zealand show that international vacations to the South Pacific nation rose 10 percent from January through April when compared to the same period last year. The agency said a survey indicated that 8.5 percent of visitors cited “The Hobbit” as one reason for coming and that 13 percent took part in some kind of hobbit-themed tourism like visiting a film set.

“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” will premiere Dec. 13 in Los Angeles.

The trilogy is directed by New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson and shot in his home country. The opener “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” was released December 2012. It received mixed reviews but proved extraordinarily popular with audiences, earning a little more than $1 billion at the box office.

In an email, Jackson’s spokesman Matt Dravitzki said fans can expect “a surprise or two” in this week’s trailer, “but I can’t say any-

thing more than that!”

A little more than 500,000 tourists visited New Zealand for vacations in the first four months of the year. About the same number again visited for other reasons, such as for work or to visit

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Tourism New Zealand has been running a “100% Middle-earth” marketing campaign that seeks leverage from the movies.

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these images is incredible.”

The images in question are a series of chromolithographs — full-colored prints created through the process of using ink on specially prepared stones — that Moran was commissioned to create for a special portfolio that was to commemorate the nation’s centennial.

“Most lithographs are monochrome — the image is drawn on the stone, the ink is applied, and the print made,” Klein said.

“When you begin adding color, then each shade of color needs to be applied to its own individual stone.

And some of these images required as many as 50 stones to create the final print.”

And a few of the images on display in “Yellowstone and the West: The Chromolithographs of Thomas Moran” bear traces of Moran’s handwritten notes about the quality of the color or the intensity of the values.

“Yellowstone and the West: The Chromolithographs of Thomas Moran” is organized by Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Neb., and the Denver Art Museum.

Gilcrease is the first venue to exhibit the show, which it has augmented with prints and paintings from its own collection of works by Thomas Moran.

The chromolithographs were commissioned by a Boston printer, Louis Prang. Moran created 24 watercolor paintings — using his own sketches, as well as photographs of his colleague William Henry Jackson as inspiration — of places within the Yellowstone region, as well as the Great Salt Lake in Utah, Colorado’s Mountain of the Holy Cross and others.

Prang selected 15 images to be transformed into color prints. They were to be bound into a large portfolio with an essay Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, leader of the 1871 U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Territories of which Moran and Jackson were a part.

Prang created 1,000 copies of the portfolio but sold only 100. A fire later destroyed all but 50 of the remaining copies.

The Gilcrease exhibit includes the 15 chromolithographs — some of which are on loan for the exhibit from the museum’s collection — along with supporting images and photographs, such as William Henry Jackson photograph next to the painting it inspired.

In addition, Gilcrease has filled the other two rooms in the gallery with other paintings by Moran during his extensive travels through the United States and beyond.

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Wes Studi, whose career has included memorable performances in the films “Last of the Mohicans,” “Avatar” and “Germonino,” will be the 2013 recipient of the Distinguished Artist Award at the fifth annual Tulsa Awards for Theatre Excellence.

Studi will be honored during the awards ceremony, to be held June 23 at the Cascia Hall PAC, 2525 S. Yorktown Ave. The evening will begin with a reception at 6 p.m., followed by a question-and-answer session with Studi. The awards presentation will follow.

The Tulsa Awards for Theatre Excellence (TATE) were created and are funded by the George Kaiser Family Foundation to recognize and reward Tulsa’s nonprofit, non-Equity theatre companies, and to help foster broad-based, community recognition for the city’s local theater scene.

Eligible companies can submit up to two separate productions for consideration for the awards, which total $20,000 in cash.

The Outstanding Production winner receives a $10,000 cash prize, with First Runner-up winning $5,000 and Second Runner-up getting $2,500.

Outstanding Youth Production, recognizing plays performed by student actors, wins a $2,500 cash prize.

Previous winners of the Distinguished Artist Award are Kristin Chenoweth, Mary Kay Place, Joe Sears and Tim Blake Nelson.

Studi’s career as an actor began in Tulsa, when he was cast as part of the American Indian Theatre Company’s 1984 production of “Black Elk Speaks.”

This adaptation of John Neihardt’s book starred David Carradine and Will Sampson, and was presented in the Tulsa PAC’s Chapman Music Hall.

In a 1999 interview with the Tulsa World, Studi recalled, “I had really just started getting into acting then, and I saw this as a great opportunity. The really amazing thing was that we were getting paid. But it really whetted my appetite to do more of this great thing we call acting.”

Studi would go on to work in films, ranging from acclaimed independent productions such as “Powwow Highway” to Academy Award-winning films such as “Dances With Wolves,” and on television, portraying everyone from Apache warrior Geronimo to fellow Oklahoman Tony Hillerman’s detective Joe Leaphorn in a series of mysteries for the PBS “Mystery!” series.

He has also returned to Tulsa to perform on stage, taking the title role in the 1999 staging of “Black Elk Speaks” by the Oklahoma Indian Theater and Dance Company, and appearing in the Thunder Road Theatre production of “Buffalo Gallery,” which was one of the shows considered for the 2010 TATE awards.

Actor Wes Studi will receive the Distinguished Artist Award at the fifth annual Tulsa Awards for Theatre Excellence.

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The 2013 Tulsa Awards for Theatre Excellence

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Fourteen plays — from classic tragedy to door-slamming farce, original epics to intimate dramas — performed by eight Tulsa theater companies are being considered for this year’s TATE awards.

Four companies — Theatre Tulsa, Heller Theatre, American Theatre Company and the Midwestern Theater Troupe — each submitted two productions for consideration.

This year’s entries for Outstanding Production are: “Warm Delicious Play” by Midwestern Theater Troupe “Be a Good Little Widow” by Heller Theatre “Any Day Now” by American Theatre Company “Hamlet” by Odeum Theatre Company “November” by Theatre Pops “Tuesdays with Morrie” by Theatre Tulsa “Time Stands Still” by Heller Theatre “Radio Golf” by Theatre North

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“Of Mice and Men” by American Theatre Company “Boeing Boeing” by Theatre Tulsa “Clean” by Midwestern Theater Troupe The entries for Outstanding Youth Production are: “The Skin of Our Teeth” by Clark Theatre “Hamlet” by Odeum Theatre Company “Love’s Labour’s Lost” by Clark Theatre

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Grilling tricks for tender, tasty beef

BY W. WAYT GIBBS

You don’t have to go to a high-end steakhouse to get flavorful, tender beef for your next barbecue.

Just keep three crucial factors in mind: the grade, the grain and the aging.

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You don’t have to go to some high-end steakhouse or shell out $200 a pound for ultramarbled Wagyu beef from Japan to get flavorful, tender beef for your next barbecue. Just keep three crucial factors in mind: the grade, the grain and the aging. A well-informed purchase and a couple of easy prep steps can make the difference between a so-so steak and one that sends your eyeballs skyward.

Step No. 1 — buy the best meat that fits your budget. To do that, you need to know a bit about how beef is graded in the U.S. The system is based mostly on the age of the animal and the amount of marbling in the meat.

“USDA prime” is the highest grade. Only about 3 percent of cattle meet the criteria, so most prime-grade meat is snatched up by fancy restaurants and specialty butchers before it makes it to supermarkets. Below that is “choice,” followed by “select.” Anything below these is best avoided for steaks, ribs and roasts. In Canada, the equivalent grades are called “Canada prime,” AAA, and AA. Though the visible fat content of red meat is easy to measure, researchers have found that it accounts for only about 5 percent of the variation in meat tenderness.

The Australian government uses a much more reliable grading system that takes into account other important factors, including what the animal ate, how it was treated, and the pH of its muscles, which reflects how humanely it was slaughtered.

If cattle are exhausted, shivering,

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injured or highly stressed at the time they are killed, their muscles deplete their natural fuel store of glycogen, and the pH of the meat is abnormal as a result. Beef that is unusually dark, firm and dry often is a product of poor slaughterhouse practices.

A grade stamped on the package is one useful piece of information about the quality of the meat, but it isn’t the end of the story. Some of the best beef is not graded at all; it is sold by small producers who can’t afford to pay the high costs of having a USDA grader on site. In other cases, official-sounding labels — such as Certified Angus Beef — are not grades, but rather brand names used by loose associations of ranchers to make their meat appear distinctive.

Whether you spring for a prime tenderloin or a select flat-iron steak, you can get the most tenderness out of the cut if you pay attention to the grain. Just like wood, meat is a collection of long, skinny fibers. If you cut the meat along the fibers, it’s like sawing boards out of a tree trunk: the resulting pieces are strong and hard to chew.

Instead, slice across the fibers; the

tougher the cut, the thinner the slices should be. Each bite will then fall apart more easily and release more of its juices and flavor.

For a real steakhouse experience, try aging your meat before you cook it. The best steakhouses use special humidity-controlled rooms to dry-age beef for a month or more. The drying process concentrates sugars, protein fragments, and other flavorful molecules to yield unparalleled taste. But because the steaks shrink as they dry and much of the exterior has to be trimmed off before cooking, this is typically an expensive step.

Here’s a shortcut: brush Asian fish sauce onto the steak (use about 3 grams of sauce for every 100 grams of meat). Put the coated steak in a zip-closure bag, then remove the air by submerging the bag in water while holding the open end just above the surface (the water forces the air out of the bag).

Seal the bag, then lift it out of the water. Refrigerate the sealed meat for three days before you cook it.

You may be surprised by how much tenderer the steak becomes and by the depth of its meaty, umami flavor.

Buy the best meat that fits your budget. CHRISTOPHER SMITH/Tulsa World file

Failed relationship is hard to get over

BY AMY DICKINSON Dear Amy: Last winter, a girl and I were working our way toward an intimate relationship when she broke it off, badly. She was the first girl that I ever got that close to; it hurt a lot.

I got depressed. In a futile effort to try to win her back, I agreed to remain friends with her. Any time we hang out, however, I’d either give her the cold shoulder or try to get closure as to why she ended things between us. I was texting her often, sometimes angrily, sometimes lightheartedly, in an effort to feel ... loved, I suppose.

Now we aren’t friends but are at least friendly to each other. I’m attempting to get back into the group of friends that she and I share, even though I know I’ll see her from time to time. The problem is, being in a small city, everybody knows everybody else through some aspect, and so I’m always running into someone who knows her or knows someone she dated, and it gets hard sometimes.

I’ve come a long way, but I still have a lot of work to do. She’s always on my mind, taking up a lot of thought. I don’t want this. I’ve been trying to get over her by making new friends, attempting to hang out with them as often as possible, and also by trying to get a new girl in my life. Every girl I get interested in ends up being unavailable in some aspect, and it’s getting tiring and frustrating.

Should I focus more on trying to make friends and just enlarging my social circle, or should I try to find a relationship? I feel the relationship will do the best job of taking my mind off of her because then I’d have someone else to focus on. — 22 and Confused Dear Confused: The worst reason to engage in a new relationship is to get over another failed relationship.

The reason your attempts to have relationships with other women are failing is because you are not ready. Other people can sense your insecurity and anxiety.

Finding another person to obsess over will not fix what ails you. You need to work on yourself, boost your confidence and realize deep down that you have something real to offer to the right person.

You should work on your

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friendships, especially the primary friendship in your life, which is the one you have with yourself. If you continue to ruminate about this failed relationship and find you cannot shake off your depressed feelings, you should pursue professional counseling.

Dear Amy: I am a 17-yearold high school student, and I recently broke my hand during a school baseball game. I was in obvious pain and had to go to the emergency room.

It has been a week since I broke my hand and had surgery, and not once has anyone from my school or coach called or emailed me to see how I am doing!

I recently went to my team’s seniors night game, and the coach asked me to keep the stats for him.

Even though I was in a cast and a sling, he didn’t even acknowledge me by name or ask how I was feeling.

Should I call my coach and ask why he hasn’t contacted me or should I just let it go? What do you think I should do? — Injured Dear Injured: I can completely understand why this is upsetting to you.

It is the height of insensitivity for this coach to disregard your well-being in this way.

I don’t recommend that you call him, but you could send him an email. You say, “Now that the season is over, I want to thank you for coaching us this year. I’m sorry my broken hand prevented me from finishing the season, and I’m disappointed that you didn’t acknowledge it after it happened.”

Dear Amy: One more note of support for your smack down on “AG,” the selfish father who complained that his teenagers were receiving checks for only $25 for their birthdays. I was stunned at his letter and very happy you took him to task! — Fan Dear Fan: Hundreds of readers have responded similarly. Thank you all.

Send questions via email to Amy Dickinson at askamy@tribune. com or by mail to Ask Amy, Chicago Tribune, TT500, 435 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60611.

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aybe I’m trying to wage war against the laws of economic gravity, but this longtime energy writer is tired of oil and gas companies that started here ending up somewhere else.

Houston has been the biggest body-snatcher in the oil and gas sector, but others also have benefited from the success of Tulsa’s and northeast Oklahoma’s startup spirit. Citgo, Parker Drilling and older names such as Reading & Bates have pulled up their Green Country roots or sold out and moved corporate to the Gulf Coast. Arena Resources more recently was bought and absorbed

by SandRidge Energy of Oklahoma City.

I’m not blaming those cities because I know we’d do the same. So, Tulsa, let’s do exactly that.

The time is ripe, it seems, for Rod Tulsa’s place as a Walton crown jewel in the Mid-Continent oil World and Editor gas revival.

Business Already outside rod.walton @tulsaworld.com companies such as Mid-States Rod 918-581-8457 Apache Walton Petroleum, Corp., QEP Resources and PetroWorld Business Editor Quest have upped their Tulsa presrod.walton @tulsaworld.com ence due to stakes 918-581-8457 in Oklahoma plays such as the Mississippi Lime, Granite Wash and the Cana-Woodford Shale.

All of those job announcements are wonderful news, and we’re glad to have them. But wouldn’t it be grand if Tulsa managed to entice some company, somewhere, to pull up its own stake and base itself in the former oil capital of the world?

I hate to even use that phrase anymore; it includes some truth but doesn’t tell the whole story.

The city has touted its “new kind of energy,” so how about a new title: I like “Crown Jewel of the Mid-Continent,” but mainly because I thought of it.

Another dream is seeing a currently thriving startup get bigger and become a major player from here. We already have that with infrastructure firms like ONEOK and Williams, but I’m excited about the possibilities of WPX Energy, Laredo Petroleum Holdings and Mid-Con Energy Partners, among others.

Sometimes a Tulsa startup is bought with talk of keeping operations strong here only to get sold and shut down. I’m thinking of the saga of Beta Oil and Gas, started by Eagle Energy founder Steve Antry a decade ago.

Antry sold Beta to Floyd Wilson, who renamed it Petrohawk and kept some offices here. BHP Billiton eventually bought Petrohawk with promises of maintaining the Tulsa presence, only to move out last year.

Wilson, incidentally, now owns control of Halcon Resources Corp., formerly Tulsa-based RAM Energy Resources Inc. Hopefully Halcon will maintain what it has here, which Wilson has indicated he wants to do.

Tulsa has endured its share of relocation heartbreak. I don’t wish that on anybody, but stealing a company from Houston wouldn’t do them too much harm and would do us a world of good.

Maybe the time is right for picking someone else’s fruit.

A real estate agency’s sign advertises a midtown Tulsa home for sale June 5. The last several years have been tough on the real estate industry, but home sales have gone up each of the last two years. MATT BARNARD/Tulsa World

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sk several Tulsa real estate professionals how business was a few years ago, and you’ll get similar answers.

“I’ve been in the business 53 years, and I’ve never been through tougher years for the economy or home selling than I had in the last six years,” said Shel Detrick of Prudential Detrick Realty.

Soon after the freefall started in 2008, building companies folded, real estate agents found different careers and buyers learned they could make offers as low as they wanted. Builders, agents, buyers and sellers scrambled to alter their strategies and business plans to find success or keep businesses open.

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Starting in 2012, things started to change.

Properties began changing hands more frequently, and builders started putting up new homes. It was the start of the recovery many had prayed for.

As of April, the year-to-date home sales stand at 3,847, which is 10.2 percent ahead of last year’s pace and the best since 2008, according to the Greater Tulsa Association of Realtors.

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month total is 993, which is 30 percent ahead of 2012, according to New Orders Weekly.

Yet these improvements are sparking a new round of changes in the industry, said Max Heckenkemper of Keller Williams Realty.

“We had a business coach come and tell us he was starting to see markets such as Dallas and Atlanta pick up and that the changes were coming to Tulsa,” Heckenkemper said.

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FOR THE RECORD Commercial building permits (Listed by owner, tenant or building name. This weekly update lists new commercial construction, expansions and enlargements of more than $50,000. Information is from initial applications and is subject to change. Dollar amount is valuation declared by owner.)

Leisure Village, 2218 S. 85th East Ave., new construction/ new parking lot and trail, $80,000.

Hyde Park At Tulsa Hills, 8450 S. Phoenix Place, new construction/pool. $70,000.

Blue Dome Market, 114 S. Detroit Ave., interior alteration/ divide building in three seperate lease spaces, $520,000.

Nestle Tollhouse Cafe, 7021 S. Memorial Drive, Suite K107, interior alteration/kiosk, $50,000.

Sutherland Global Services, 4500 S. 129th East Ave, interior alteration/office, $50,000.

Meals On Wheels, 12620 E. 31st St., interior alteration/office space, $100,000.

Church on the Move, 1003 N. 129th East Ave., interior alteration/classroom and restroom, $75,000.

Certificates of partnership (From filings in the Tulsa County Clerk’s office.)

Filed June 4 13-054530 — Ernest

Morgan, Philthy Fif, 4969 N. Trenton Ave., clothing.

Filed June 5 13-054909 — Stephen West,

WestKnits, 3710 E. 39th St., knitting design business.

13-055047 — Robert Rogers, Lawn Matrix LLC, 2223 S. Owasso Ave., lawn service.

13-055067 — Doan Darren Trieu Nguyen, Castle Nails, 2913 W. Norman St., Broken Arrow, nails salon.

13-055083 — Raul Gonzalez, Mr. Fix Remodeling, 1412 E. Reno St., Broken Arrow, remodeling.

13-055307 — Seni Boyd, Life & Health Financial Concepts, 13037 E. 77th Court North, Owasso, life and health insurance.

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According to a terrific new book by two gurus in the field of male/female relationships, Barbara Annis and John Gray, there are eight gender “blind spots” between men and women in business. “Work With Me” addresses the issues that create tension between the sexes at work.

Annis and Gray interviewed more than 100,000 male and female executives at more than 60 Fortune 500

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companies.

In a nutshell, these are the eight blind spots they have identified: Do women want men to change?

“The traditional business model we work in today ... is based on a male model of work and a male code of behavior,” the authors say. “We have to stop fixing women to act like men and then blaming men for acting like

WEEK IN REVIEW » A LOOK BACK AT THE WEEK’S TOP STORIES US Airways’ leaders get most top spots in merger Future CEO Doug Parker has tapped most of his senior leadership from US Airways to come with him and lead the new American Airlines Group Inc. when the merger between the two carriers closes later this year.

The companies announced the news Monday, with nine members of the senior management team coming from the much smaller US Airways and three coming from American Airlines.

Among those are Scott Kirby, president at US Airways, who will assume the same title at the new company, along with Chief Operating Officer Robert Isom.

American Airlines CEO Tom Horton will move to the position of board chairman for one year and then give that position to Parker.

— KYLE ARNOLD, World Staff Writer

Dollar Thrifty begins reducing Tulsa workforce Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group began laying off employees at its Tulsa headquarters last week as the company

prepares to move operations to Florida with its parent company Hertz.

The company did not disclose how many employees would be released or move as part of the cutbacks at the corporate headquarters for Dollar Thrifty.

Previous reports cited as many as 120 fewer jobs at the Tulsa facility, though Anna Bootenhoff, a spokeswoman for Dollar Thrifty, said the company has not indicated publicly future staffing levels for Tulsa opera-

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BRIAN MILLER/President Brian Miller has been promoted to the position of President at Midwest Precision, Inc. Brian was Vice President of Sales and Operations and has been with the company for more than 20 years.

Midwest Precision is a manufacturing company that supports the energy and transportation industries.

Dylan McCants/VP Chase has promoted Dylan McCants to vice president in its Commercial Banking division. Born and raised in Tulsa, McCants has more than 11 years of experience in banking, including Private Banking and smallbusiness banking. He is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and serves the community as Treasurer at The Center for Individuals with Physical Challenges.

Filed June 5 13-11359-R — Sal Sidhivi-

nayak, Inc, dba Legacy Inn & Suites, debtor, 2830 E. 36th St., Joplin, Mo., assets & liabilities not filed, attorney: Thomas Creekmore, chapter 11.

Harvey Mackay is the author of the New York Times best-seller “Swim With the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive.” To send him a question or comment, go to tulsaworld.com/ mackayfeedback.

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Megawatts of wind energy resources that AEPPSO is seeking as a contract with a wind farm near Lawton nears expiration. The utility’s wind power mix is at about 15 percent of its overall generating capacity.

N u m b e r of jobs in ONEOK’s natural gas marketing division that will be either moved or eliminated. The Tulsabased company will discontinue the energy services segment by April 1, 2014.

Percent of Tulsaarea employers surveyed who said they plan to hire more workers between July and September, according to Manpower Employment Outlook Survey.

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“It really does seem there is a pickiness. Some people with degrees think they deserve $50,000 a year right away.”

— Cory Minter, president of Trinity Employment Specialists, which oversaw a job fair where several banking institutions were looking for workers.

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INSURANCE COMMERCIAL INSURANCE BROKERS, LLC Commercial Insurance Brokers, LlC., a major Property and Casualty Insurance Brokerage, headquartered in Tulsa, is pleased to announce Nick C. Sadorakis and Jeff A. Langley as Property & Casualty Brokers. Barry W. Wilson, LUTCF manager of the agency benefits department.

Barry is currently President of Oklahoma Association of Health Underwriters.

Keep track of the latest LOCAL business news at tulsaworld.com/business

EMPLOYMENT CATALYST BENEFITS GROUP, LLC tions, effective renewal process management and compliance procedures.

Nails, 10213 E. 111th Place, Bixby, nail salon.

13-056872 — Vidal Pacacios.

La Torta Chilanga, 11501 N. Garnett Road, Owasso, Mexican sandwich and fresh fruit.

(Weekly update includes filings classified as “business” in the numerical list of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District, in Tulsa, and which also list “business” as nature of debt on bankruptcy document.)

ONEOK Inc. announced Monday it will discontinue its energy services segment by April 1, 2014.

The Tulsa-based natural gas distributor will eliminate those tions. Dollar Thrifty Automotive operations via an accelerated Group now has 600 employees wind-down process, releasing at the corporate headquarters in nonaffiliated, third-party natural Tulsa, down from 780 in Decem- gas transportation and storage ber when the two companies contracts to interested parties. began the integration process.

ONEOK expects to record a — KYLE ARNOLD, World Staff Writer noncash write down of about $75 million in the second quarTulsa banks participate in ter, due to the release of those job fair to find local talent contracts.

The company also expects The banking industry’s curpre-tax operating losses of $55 rent talent drain may prove that million in 2013 and $15 million good employees don’t always go in 2014. where the money is.

— ROD WALTON, World Business Editor

concern,” they write.

Are women too emotional?

Generally, the authors say, men are just as emotional as women but tend to conceal their feelings except to the people closest to them.

Are men insensitive? “Many men today make an effort to be more actively conscious of the people and events around them,” they say.

Mackay’s Moral: The battle of the sexes should have winners on both sides.

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In fact, several local institutions participated in a job fair Thursday at the Hyatt Place Tulsa near 71st Street and Yale Avenue. They were looking for everyone from prospective tellers, loan processors and all the way up to higher level managers.

“There are a number of positions on there where if someone came in with a great attitude and great appearance, the bank could start them in a field that could be a great career,” said Cory Minter, president of Trinity Employment Specialists, which oversaw the job fair. “In all we are looking to fill 37 positions.”

— ROD WALTON, World Business Editor

Jim Underhill, COO of MRC Global Inc., speaks during an open house ceremony at the company’s new facility on Thursday. The facility will house more than $20 million in inventory and 80 employees. CORY YOUNG/Tulsa World

Filed June 7 13-056196 — Raymond

Turner, Tulsa Leak Detection, 9318 S. Lakewood Ave., plumbing.

13-056277 — Robert Rogers, Lawn Matrix, 2223 S. Owasso Ave., lawn company.

13-056278 — Raekeisha Watkins, Miss Keisha’s Playhouse, 1439 N. Olympia Ave., daycare home.

13-056323 — William Knight, WLK Advisors, 1560 Swan Drive, no description listed.

13-056369 — Brandi Stone, Baby Joy Midwifery Care, 6926 S. 77th East Ave., midwifery practice.

13-056372 — Gloria Aary, Mama Loves Peanut Brittle, 303 W. 39th St., Sand Springs, candy company.

often feel they can’t express their ideas or be their natural, casual selves without the fear of inadvertently saying or doing something that may upset a woman.”

Do women ask too many questions? Women generally ask more questions than men, according to the authors, but those questions are intended to stimulate an exchange of ideas, discover what’s important and arrive at a best possible outcome.

Do men listen? “One of the leading ways men sabotage their success in working with women is by not taking the time to show that they are listening and, in the process, demonstrate their care and

ONEOK to discontinue its energy services segment

Filed June 6 13-055677 — Stephen

Nicholls, SGN Design, 14002 E. 88th St. North, Owasso, construction design.

13-055765 — Brandon Smith, The Transporter, 1200 N. Willow Road, Sand Springs, transport service.

13-055853 — Daniel Wooton, A Few Doors Down, 12317 S. Cedar Ave., Jenks, theater company.

13-056091 — Tom McKenna, SDG Construction, 12302 S. 14th St., Jenks, home construction business.

themselves.”

Do men appreciate women?

“While men thrive on recognition for their results, women feel most appreciated and validated when they’re acknowledged for the challenges they faced in attaining those results,” they write.

Are women being excluded?

The authors conclude that “inclusion is not generally a top-of-mind issue for men.

As a result, a woman may misread a man’s behavior in team meetings as being aloof and indifferent, which tends to amplify a woman’s feeling of exclusion.”

Do men have to walk on eggshells with women? Annis and Gray write: “Men say they

The latest news on aerospace, energy, manufacturing, real estate, retail, agriculture, consumer affairs and technology.

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Alicia Tiefenthaler Alicia Tiefenthaler joined Catalyst Benefits Group in 2012 after a ten year stent working in Business Development for a multihospital Health System. She additionally has eight years previous experience working in insurance sales for Allstate Insurance Co and holds a Masters Degree in Human Resources from the University of Oklahoma. Alicia’s role with Catalyst Benefits Group is Producer and Client Service Manager.

She manages the mid to large group segment of business and provides creative benefit solu-

Alicia has recently created a new line of business with Catalyst Benefit Group, “Catalyst HR”, which provides select Human Resource functions to their existing clients.

Alicia is committed to managing and developing this new line of business, particularly for our smaller group clientele, to ensure that our clients have effective HR processes, policies, and practices in place to keep them compliant in this complex and constantly changing business environment.

Alicia remains actively involved in several professional associations including the Tulsa Metro Chamber of Commerce, Tulsa Association of Health Underwriters, and the Tulsa Area Human Resource Association. Alicia’s time is additionally spent raising her three children with her husband Andy and volunteering with student ministries at her church.

HEALTH MORTON COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CENTER Force for the American Health Information Management Association. The task force was assigned the responsibility of identifying what a new college graduate needs to know today as well as looking five years in the future of health information management.

The task force reviewed and made adjustments to the core competencies for the National Registration Examination.

Jeri Potter Jeri Potter, director of health information management at Morton Comprehensive Health Services, recently served as a member of the Job Analysis Task

Potter is scheduled to be a presenter at the Health Information Management Educational Summit sponsored by HealthPort in July. Her topic will be “Clinic Revenue Cycle of Action.”

MEDICAL CAPES Rachel Ottley, OTR/L recently joined the staff of CAPES Clinic, LLC. An Occupational Therapist with 19 years of experience, Ottley specializes in sensory and regulation issues, working with infants to teenagers, treating children with sensory processing disorders, severe behavioral challenges, Autism Spectrum Disorders and developmental challenges.

A graduate of the University of Sydney, Australia, Ottley is trained/certified in DIR/FLoortime and Integrated Listening Systems (ILs) and has taught nationwide on Sensory Processing and Behavioral challenges, as well as Sensory Considerations for treatment of Equimus Gait (Toe Walking).

Natale Brankle recently joined the staff of CAPES Clinic, LLC as CAPES Program Facilitator.

Brankle will manage information and care programs for clients and their families, monitor data and communicate with families to assist with follow-up of recommendations.

CAPES is a team of experts across disciplines and institutions working collaboratively to assist

children/adolescents and their families by providing coordinated, innovative, comprehensive and compassionate mental healthy, physical and education care-recommendations to parents for children/adolescents who present with moderate to severe problems in two or more areas relating to their development.

CAPES, a 501(c)3 is committed to treating all patients with dignity, respect and compassion regardless of their personal or economic circumstances. CAPESinc.org CAPES Clinic provides psychological therapy, assessments, occupational therapy, education and psychological testing, and medication consultation and management to children/ adolescents who present with moderate to server problems in two or more areas relating to their development. Additionally, CAPES Clinic provides Social Skills Groups to help children/adolescents become more confident in social situations, form positive relationships with their peers, and be prepared to navigate difficult social situations as they arise.

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••But•they’re•being• cautious•about• taking•on•expense• of•new•workers.

NEW• YORK• (AP)• —• Nina• Vaca•is•interviewing•job•applicants•at•her•staffing•company• again• after• putting• hiring• on• hold•at•the•end•of•last•year.

Vaca• expects• to• hire• more• than• 50• people• for• her• firm,• Pinnacle•Technical•Resources,• by• the• end• of• 2013.• Demand• is• soaring• for• the• high-tech• temporary• workers• it• places• at•large•corporations.•The•reason• for• her• caution:• Months• of• uncertainty• about• federal• taxes•and•budget•cuts•has•disappeared.

“It’s•a•great•time•to•double• down.• People• are• looking• for• information• technology•• talent,”• says• Vaca,• whose• 160-employee• company• is• based•in•Dallas.

Vaca’s• story• will• sound• familiar•to•small•business•owners• across•the•country.•They•want• to• add• staffers,• and• many• are• hiring,•but•they’re•taking•their• time• before• they• commit• to• a• new•employee.•Many•are•waiting•for•signals•that•revenue•will• remain•strong.•They•want•to•be• sure•they•can•afford•the•added• expense•of•new•workers.

Their• caution• helps• to• explain• the• slow• but• steady• growth• in• jobs• nationwide.• Companies• of• all• sizes• have• added• an• average• of• 163,000• jobs•a•month•since•March,•according•to•the•Labor•Department.

Surveys• released• last• week• by• payroll• provider• ADP• and• software•maker•Intuit•showed• that• small• business• hiring• is• picking• up• some• modest• momentum.•The•ADP•survey,•for• example,• showed• that• small• businesses• added• 58,000• jobs• in• May,• up• from• 42,000• in•

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April.• But• that’s• well• below• the• average• of• 129,000• at• the• start•of•2006,•when•the•economy•was•booming.

Vaca•held•off•expanding•her• staff• while• she• waited• to• see• what• impact• federal• budget• cuts• would• have• on• companies.•But•by•the•end•of•the•first• quarter,• she• could• see• that• companies•needed•temporary• high-tech• workers• and• that• her• business• would• be• strong• enough• to• pay• for• her• own• hires.•She•expects•her•revenue• to•rise•12•percent•to•15•percent• this•year.

“We• were• cautious• in• our• hiring,• and• then• literally,• (business)•exploded,”•she•says.

Some•owners•are•waiting•to• hire• because• they• need• to• be• sure•they•can•pay•salaries•and• still•meet•their•other•expenses• —•staffing•is•a•flexible•expense,• but• expenditures• like• rent,• taxes•and•utilities•are•not.

executive•who•will•work•with• clients•on•their•publicity.

“Now• that• I• see• what• the• costs• associated• with• the• office•are•going•to•be,•I•can•have• a•better•comfort•level•to•bring• someone•in,”•Shelby•says.

Startup• companies• that• have•little•or•no•revenue•can’t• make• many• hires• unless• they• get•money•from•investors.

Surveys•show•that•the•slow• pace• of• hiring• at• many• small• businesses• is• likely• to• continue.• A• survey• taken• by• The• Hartford• financial• services• company• during• April• and• May•found•that•37•percent•of• small• businesses• plan• to• hire• in• the• next• year.• A• more• optimistic• reading• came• from• research• by• Pepperdine• University• and• Dun• &• Bradstreet• Credibility• Corp.• They• found• that•58•percent•of•small•businesses•said•they•plan•to•hire•in• the•same•period.

Susan• Shelby• didn’t• fill• an• open• position• in• her• Bostonbased• public• relations• firm• for•three•months•because•she• wanted• to• be• sure• she• could• afford•a•new•employee.

A• part-time• staffer• quit• in• February,• and• Shelby• wanted• to•replace•her.•But•Shelby•was• planning• to• move• her• company,• Rhino• Public• Relations,• into•an•office•for•the•first•time• after•having•operated•with•everyone• working• out• of• their• homes.•The•move•was•set•for• early• April,• and• she• didn’t• want•to•make•a•new•hire•until• she• knew• what• her• expenses• and•revenue•were•likely•to•be.

“Every• single• decision• has• to• be• weighed• against,• where• is• this• money• going• to• come• from?”• says• Shelby,• who• has• three•full-time•and•three•parttime•staffers.

She’s•now•in•the•process•of• making•that•hire•—•an•account•

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» NEWS, TRENDS + EVENTS IN TULSA BUSINESS Hillcrest, Life Flight launch obstetrics air transport The Peggy V. Helmerich Women’s Health Center at Hillcrest Medical Center, in partnership with Tulsa Life Flight, has launched Oklahoma’s only dedicated high-risk obstetrics air transport service.

As of June 3, the Hillcrest Healthy Beginnings Transport Team started picking up expectant mothers who are nearing labor and need advanced medical care for either themselves or their baby.

The team will transport women from eastern Oklahoma and across the region — including southern Kansas, western Arkansas and western Missouri — to the Helmerich center.

The Tulsa Gauge Construction contracts awarded TULSA MSA, IN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS

TRAVEL 3597LMTHD:•($350)•This• is•an•excellent,•high-end• device•with•a•5-inch•highresolution•display•housed• in•a•sturdy•aluminum• frame.•Plus,•the•nuvi• offers•the•same•pinchand-zoom•feature•as•your• smartphone•—•handy•for• zeroing•in•on•specific• streets•or•neighborhoods.• A•magnetic•backing•makes• it•easy•to•snap•in•and•out.• The•turn-by-turn•directions•and•real-time•traffic• updates•are•accurate,•and• we•liked•the•voice-activated•navigation.

TomTom VIA 1605 TM:• ($230)•For•tighter•budgets,•this•is•a•good•choice.• Its•crisp,•6-inch•screen•is• easy•to•read•even•in•bright• sunlight,•and•its•on-screen• buttons•and•menus•are• large•and•well•spaced.•So• what’s•missing?•The•Via• doesn’t•include•TomTom’s• HD•Traffic•service,•which• provides•updates•every• two•minutes,•and•there’s• no•voice-command•option.

The Magellan SmartGPS:• ($250)•This•is•an•innovative•hybrid•that•includes• a•free•app•for•iPhone•and• Android.•The•unit•stays• in•your•vehicle,•providing•driving•directions•and• traffic•alerts.•When•you• leave•the•car,•the•app’s• Pedestrian•Mode•guides• you•to•your•destination.• Alternatively,•you•can•use• the•app•to•get•driving•directions•and•send•them•to• the•SmartGPS•unit•in•your• car.•Caveats:•A•cluttered• home•screen•and•no•voice• command.

Jeff Bertolucci is a freelance contributor to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine. To send a question or comment, go to tulsaworld.com/ kiplingerfeedback.

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AcrobatAnt receives award for credit union spot Tulsa-based AcrobatAnt recently was named a Silver winner in the 34th annual Telly Awards for its television spot for Oklahoma Central Credit Union titled “Better Things To Do.” The competition had nearly 11,000 entries from all 50 states and numerous countries.

AcrobatAnt is a full-service branding agency that serves nearly 100 local, regional and national clients in the financial, health care, restaurant and industrial sectors. The business employs 35 people.

The Telly Awards, founded in 1979, honors outstanding local, regional and cable TV commercials and programs, the finest video and film productions and online commercials, video and films.

oad•trip•coming•up?• Pack•the•GPS. You•can•start• by•test-driving•a•free• phone•application,•such• as•Google•Maps,•Scout•or• Waze.•Each•is•easy•to•use• and•delivers•free•updates,• voice-guided•navigation• and•traffic•conditions.• The•downsides?•Even• “large,”•4-inch•smartphone• screens•look•awfully•small• when•you’re•trying•to•read• a•map•at•70•mph.•And• some•smartphone•speakers•are•less•than•ideal•for• vocal•directions.•If•you•go• the•app•route,•be•sure•to• invest•in•a•car•mount•($10• to•$30)•and•a•car•charger• ($5•to•$30).

Google•Maps,•which• comes•preinstalled•on• Android•phones,•has•an• offline•maps•feature•that• is•handy•for•travel•in•areas• with•poor•reception.•Scout• by•Telenav•accepts•voice• commands•and•shows• nearby•points•of•interest.

Waze•takes•a•“crowd• sourcing”•approach:•In• addition•to•delivering•spoken•turn-by-turn•directions,•it•collects•information•from•fellow•Waze• users•to•report•on•realtime•traffic•conditions.

If•you•don’t•have•a• smartphone,•a•dedicated• GPS•device•($100•to•$400)• is•a•better•alternative•than• an•auto•manufacturer’s• pricey•in-dash•system.• Dedicated•GPS•devices• generally•have•larger• displays•than•phones,• making•their•maps•easier• to•read.•And•some•units• accept•voice•commands,• providing•easier•and•safer• navigation•than•touch• controls.•Map•and•traffic• updates•are•typically•free• as•long•as•you•own•the• unit;•update•schedules• vary•by•manufacturer.

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Dollar General opens new location in Sapulpa

Dollar General on Saturday celebrated the opening of its new location at 13012 State Highway 75A in Sapulpa.

Dollar General stores offer national name brands and private Former McElroy employee receives lifetime award brands of food, housewares, seasonal items, cleaning supplies, Plastics Pipe Institute Inc. recently presented its Honorary basic apparel and health-beauty products.

Lifetime Achievement Award to Jim Craig in recognition of his 40 Traditional Dollar General stores employ approximately six to years of outstanding professional service and performance to the 10 people. plastic pipe industry.

The award was presented during PPI’s annual membership OK Ethics Tulsa Chapter meeting set for June 27 meeting in St. Pete Beach, Fla. At the next Tulsa Chapter of Oklahoma Business Ethics ConCraig, who retired from Tulsa-based McElroy Manufacturing sortium (OK Ethics) luncheon, Rob Benson, lead consultant at Inc. earlier this year, was honored for his involvement with the Learning Unlimited Corp., will discuss the business value of trust sales, training and design of fusion equipment and in the develand the impact of low trust on employees’ ability to ethically opment of procedures and standards for polyethylene pipe and fulfill their responsibilities. pipe systems.

The luncheon will be held June 27 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at PPI is the major trade association representing all segments of the DoubleTree by Hilton Tulsa Downtown, 616 W. Seventh St. the plastic pipe industry and dedicated to promoting plastics as Benson will facilitate an interactive trust-building exercise and the material of choice for pipe applications. outline practical steps for leaders to develop more trusting — and trustworthy — organizations.

PennWell CEO honored by Austrian officials Benson has more than 15 years of experience as a facilitaRobert Biolchini, president and CEO of PennWell Corp., was tor, trainer and coach, delivering customized interventions to a recently honored for his contribution to the power industry by diverse clientele. He is an International Association of Facilitators the Austrian Ministry for Economy at a dinner held in Vienna, Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF), a designation achieved Austria, sponsored by GE and Austrian energy group OMV. after rigorous examination and held by less than 500 facilitators The award was presented to Biolchini by worldwide.

Christian Schoenbauer, director general of The Cost is $25 for OK Ethics members and $35 for nonmembers.

Austrian Ministry of Economy and His Excellen- Register online at tulsaworld.com/okethics by June 24. Contact cy William Eacho, U.S. ambassador to Austria, Kevin Kennemer at 888-797-9992 or kevin@thepeoplegroup. on the eve of POWER-GEN Europe, PennWell’s com for more information. flagship European power conference and exhibition, which was held in Vienna for the first time Auto dealership makes donation to Folds of Honor in the event’s 21-year history.

Tulsa-based Jim Glover Chevrolet recently partnered with the Biolchini has been president and CEO of Biolchini Folds of Honor Foundation to help provide educational support PennWell Corp., a diversified global media and for military families. information company, since April 1, 2000. He In May, the dealership donated $70,000 to the foundation. also is the founding partner of the Tulsa-based law firm Stuart, The money was raised by setting aside a portion from the sale of Biolchini & Turner, which also serves as general counsel for Peneach vehicle sold in May. nWell.

Since its inception in 2007, Owasso-based Folds of Honor has Biolchini is chairman of Valley National Bank and Ameritrust awarded more than 3,800 immediate and future-use educational in Oklahoma and chairman of the board of the Bank of Jackson Hole in Wyoming. He is a member of Lloyds of London, the direc- scholarships.

— COMPILED BY LAURIE WINSLOW, World Staff Writer tor of Old Faithful Underwriting Limited and a director of AmeriThe Tulsa World welcomes briefs about new businesses, relocations and workshops. Briefs about awards are welcome, but they cannot be awards given within the company or from a business affiliate. Submit briefs to: Business FYI Sunday, Tulsa World, P.O. Box 1770, Tulsa, Okla. 74102, or by e-mail to business@tulsaworld.com. Photographs will be considered, and should be identified on the back; e-mailed photos should be in the JPEG format, and also should be identified. Photos cannot be returned.

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ven•if•you•haven’t• tossed•a•Frisbee• in•years,•you•may• qualify•for•scholarships• and•financial•aid,•including•federal•student•loans.

You•can•also•take•advantage•of•federal•tax•breaks•to• help•with•college•expenses.• Most•aid•programs•have• no•age•restrictions•and•are• open•to•full-•and•part-time• students.•Federal•Pell• grants,•for•example,•are• available•on•a•prorated•basis•to•part-time•students.

To•determine•your•eligibility,•fill•out•a•Free•Application•for•Federal•Student• Aid•(tulsaworld.com/fafsa).• Most•college•scholarships• aren’t•age-limited,•either,• and•some•are•specifically• targeted•at•nontraditional• students,•says•Mark• Kantrowitz,•publisher•of• Edvisors•Network.•Fastweb’s•database•(tulsaworld. com/fastweb)•includes•more• than•50•scholarships•for• students•age•30•and•older.

Federal•Stafford•loans•are• open•to•college•students•of• all•ages,•usually•at•more•favorable•terms•than•private• loans.•You•can•borrow•up•to• $20,500•this•year•if•you’re•

FINANCE a•graduate•or•professional• student•and•up•to•$12,500•if• you’re•an•undergrad.

Unlike•a•21-year-old,• though,•you•won’t•have• decades•to•repay•the•loans,• so•don’t•borrow•more• than•you•can•pay•off•in•10• years•or•before•you•retire,• Kantrowitz•says.•Adults• can•take•advantage•of•529• college-savings•plans•for• themselves.•Contributions•aren’t•deductible• from•your•federal•taxes,• but•two-thirds•of•states• offer•state•tax•deductions.• Earnings•on•your•savings• are•tax-free•as•long•as•the• money•is•used•for•qualified•college•expenses.

You•can•also•take•advantage•of•the•Lifetime•Learning•credit,•which•offsets•up• to•20•percent•of•your•tuition• and•fees,•for•a•maximum•of• $2,000,•and•may•be•used• for•graduate•school.

Sandra Block is a senior associate editor at Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine. To send her a question or comment, go to tulsaworld.com/ kiplingerfeedback.

BUSINESS CALENDAR Thursday Green Country Marketing Association will hold its annual mem-

bership meeting 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at Three Forks Harbor River Center, 5201 Three Forks Road, in Fort Gibson. The meeting will include the election of new officers and board members and highlight accomplishments of the past year.

The event, which is open to the public, also will feature a

tour of Muskogee following the luncheon. Cost is $30. For more information, call 918-744-0588 or email jstewart@greencountryok.com.

Information for this listing should be submitted to: Business Calendar, Tulsa World, P.O. Box 1770, Tulsa, OK, 74102, or fax 918-581-8353, or email business@tulsaworld.com.

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he hottest computer on the market isn’t a $1,000 decked-out gaming machine. It’s actually a bare bones circuit board the size of a credit card. And it costs just $25.

Meet the Raspberry Pi. What’s it good for?

For starters, you hook the Pi to an HDTV or digital monitor using HDMI. It can display high-definition videos, browse the Internet, play games or work on spreadsheets.

Sounds great, but is it for you? That depends.

First, let’s look at a bit of history.

The low-cost Raspberry KimPi is the brainchild of Eben Upton. In Komando 2006, he was teaching computer science at the University of Cambridge. He found that Kim computers were too Komando expensive and too hard for ordinary users to program.

So he set out to make a low-cost programming computer. His charitable foundation is working to get Raspberry Pis to kids all over the world. He hopes this will create a new generation of programmers.

Upton expected to sell 10,000 units, tops. So far, it has sold more than a million units and counting. It isn’t just schools who want it. Computer programmers and hobbyists around the world are going crazy for it.

How can it improve your life?

At a basic level, you can use a Raspberry Pi as a media computer. It’s also a capable second PC or a computer for kids. It runs the Linux operating system, which is free and secure.

There are two models. The Model A ($25) has 256MB of RAM and one USB port. Model B ($35) has 512MB of RAM and adds a second USB connection and an Ethernet port.

Both models have an HDMI connection, an audio jack and an RCA video jack. You can add a USB hub to connect a keyboard, mouse and USB Wi-Fi. The Pi is powered by a 32-bit 700 MHz ARM processor that’s roughly equivalent to the performance of a Pentium 2 chip. Upton says the multimedia performance is between a Playstation 2 and Playstation 3. That’s enough for most basic computer uses.

To make the Pi operational, you need to supply a 5 volt micro USB power supply. An Android smartphone charger should do the trick. Just be sure to read the label. It needs to provide 700mA or better at 5V. Otherwise, the Pi will behave erratically (or won’t work at all).

The Pi has no internal storage; it boots from a standard SD card. You can buy a card pre-loaded with a compatible operating system. Or make one yourself by downloading a compatible operating system from the Raspberry Pi website.

Cases, power supplies and other accessories are available from a variety of third-party vendors. The two official U.S. Raspberry Pi sellers — Allied Electronics and Newark — also sell accessories and bundles.

Python is the programming language of the Raspberry Pi. It’s easy to learn but powerful. You’ll be coding in no time.

If you’re considering buying, definitely check out the Raspberry Pi website for more information. Read through the instructions and see if it’s something you can handle. Be sure to check out the forums for great ideas on how to use it.

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EAR MICROSOFT: IT’S the customers, stupid.

Part of becoming a successful business is developing products that people want to buy. People want to enjoy the things they own. A robot that does nothing but periodically punch you in the kidneys wouldn’t sell.

Yet your recent products resemble that kidney-punching robot more than something a real person would want to buy.

I am a longtime Microsoft user.

I’m still happy with my home computer loaded with Windows 7. I think Windows Phone is attractive and useful. The Xbox 360 is robust and elegant.

I can’t say the same about your recent developments. It’s like you design them to please yourself, rather than your customers.

Take Windows 8. I can understand the basic philosophy behind it — the tablet experience is here to stay, and PCs need to become easier to use and more fun to keep up. I don’t blame you for that.

What I do blame you for is the bizarre split-personality for the system. Why do I have to keep switching back and forth between the tiles and the desktop screen to do everything?

Why did you try to have the mouse movements imitate touchscreen swipes? Why do your tablets have to mess with tiny, impossible-to-touch windows?

You’ve apparently listened to the cries and brought back the

I’ve seen a few sports companion apps. PGA Tour Caddie has a killer feature — 500,000 holes based on GPS info from more than 40,000 golf courses around the world.

That includes every course in the Tulsa area from Southern Hills Country Club to Lit’l Links Golf Club.

The app lets you record your shots, customize your club selection and store your information so you can compare your handicap with friends. An in-app upgrade also gives you access to real-world golf tips and drills videos so you can sharpen your game.

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Start button in the preview of the update. But it doesn’t do anything except switch you back and forth between the tiles and desktop.

Do you realize that when people were demanding the Start button, they were also demanding shortcuts in the Start menu?

And then there’s the Xbox One. It requires an Internet connection, used games can only be traded at specific dealers, games can be given to friends only once, some games can’t be traded at all, no renting, and so on. Plus a start price of $499.

Can you think of anyone outside the Microsoft organization that this would appeal to? Especially considering that Sony’s PlayStation 4 doesn’t have any of

these random restrictions, and it’s cheaper.

I know you want to hit all the demographics and make as much money as possible. There’s nothing wrong with that.

But you can’t lose track of normal human behavior. People aren’t demographics. They want to use an intelligently designed system. You might lose some money if you can’t get a cut of used-game sales, but isn’t that preferable to alienating millions into not buying your console at all?

Come on, Microsoft. You’re better than this. It’s long past time to remind people why you became such a giant in the tech world.

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Google’s $1 billion for Waze is good buy After a few days of speculation, Google made it official and spent $1 billion for Waze. Google promised it’ll keep it independent.

Don’t feel bad if you haven’t heard of Waze: It is an up-and-comer. It’s a

navigation app that stands out from the crowd by crowdsourcing up-tothe-minute traffic information. If there’s a bad accident, a grass fire or just someone with a blown-out tire on a tight curve, users can report it and

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Waze isn’t perfect. I’d like for it to start including the names of businesses and major landmarks. Yet it’s plenty useful, and I don’t think the asking price was too much.

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Executives lament ‘TV Everywhere’ mistakes WASHINGTON (AP) — TV was supposed to be everywhere by now — watchable anytime, anywhere, on your smartphone or tablet. But four years into the industry’s effort, network executives readily admit: TV isn’t everywhere.

The promise of “TV Everywhere” has been a key strategy in the cable and satellite TV industry’s fight to retain customers in the face of challenges from online video providers such as Netflix.

With TV Everywhere, customers who pay for packages with hundreds of television channels are supposed to be able to watch them on mobile devices and computers as well for no extra charge.

That perk is meant to make pay TV packages seem more worthwhile and keep customers from defecting.

Yet many rights deals still haven’t been worked out. More important, audience measurement firms have been slow to

Comcast Corp.

CEO Brian Roberts gestures as he speaks during The Cable Show 2013 convention in Washington on Tuesday.

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count viewing on mobile devices, so advertisers have been reluctant to pay as much for commercials on phones and tablets compared with television sets.

“We either don’t get any credit at all, or if we do get credit it’s at a fraction of what we would have gotten if they first watched it live on the TV,” Ron Lamprecht, NBCUniversal’s executive vice

president for digital distribution, said during a panel at The Cable Show, an industry conference this week.

This gap in ad revenue has created a kind of chicken-and-egg scenario. Networks and pay TV providers aren’t able to offer as many shows online because they don’t want to spend too much for rights without knowing they can

make their money back. So, viewers can’t reliably find their favorite shows online and don’t use the services much.

That also makes TV Everywhere seem inferior to online video services such as Netflix, which has a smaller range of fresh content but makes those shows available on multiple devices, whether inside the home or not.

It’s a perplexing situation for networks, much less consumers.

“Explain to a consumer why they can get TNT in the home and they can watch a basketball game but they can’t get it out of the home,” said Jeremy Legg, vice president of Time Warner Inc.’s Turner Broadcasting. “We need to satisfy that.”

Marcien Jenckes, general manager for Comcast Corp.’s cable TV services, said that all pay TV providers big and small have to increase their mobile offerings for customers to really notice. “Ubiquity is important,” he said.

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sell, we needed to double it.”

With the exception of homebuyers, who have lost much of their ability to name their price thanks to the boosted competition, everyone involved in residential real estate said they’re glad to make adjustments to their business to take advantage of the recovery.

Paul Wheeler of Accent Realtors said that after a long and slow recovery, his business is up 50 percent over last year.

“It’s such a blessing to be in this market now compared to the last six years,” he said.

Yet it’s not a matter of sitting back and letting the business roll in.

Wheeler said his associates are having to hustle to keep up.

“It’s harder to keep up with all the leads,” he said. “Where before, it was a lot harder to find leads.”

Real estate agent Kara Folkins (right) talks with potential homebuyers Lisa Lawrence (left) and Jeff Lawrence outside a midtown Tulsa home. Though buyers are in a much stronger position in the Tulsa community, local professionals don’t believe the area has entered a seller’s market yet. MATT BARNARD/Tulsa World

Optimistic sales volume Though buyers are in a much stronger position, local professionals don’t believe the area has entered a seller’s market yet.

GTAR President Susan Beach has said that a six- to seven-month supply of home listings indicates a balanced market. In April, there were 7.3 months of inventory, compared to more than 10 months last year.

Wheeler said sellers, who formerly had to struggle to get an offer, are getting multiple ones. But he doesn’t believe things are getting too tight for buyers.

“There’s still lots to choose from,” he said. “We’re not in a low-inventory situation yet.”

While Heckenkemper believes the market is currently stable, he has concerns the inventory may continue to shrink.

“If that continues and we aren’t

able to replenish our listings to satisfy the buyers who are ready to buy, we might get into a bad situation where it takes six or seven offers for one to be chosen,” he said.

All three professionals share an optimism that sales volume will continue to rise.

“A big national crisis could mess it up, but I don’t see any economic hiccups on the horizon,” Detrick said.

“The next five years might go down as the best five years we’ve ever had.”

Building adjustments Homebuilders are also feeling more optimistic after a rough patch.

Al Jenkins of Celebrity Homes said the downturn caused many building companies to fold.

“Nationally, there were thousands of builders that went under, and locally we lost some good builders who had been doing it for a long time and the

economy just caught them,” he said.

Though everyone was hit by lessened demand, the biggest cause of pain were homes that had been built speculatively in hopes of finding a buyer later, Jenkins said. When the buyers suddenly fled in 2008, these homes either had to be sold for much less than expected or repossessed by the lenders.

“I’ve never seen a downturn as bad as this in 23 years,” he said. “We were not prepared for it at all.”

Jenkins said he was able to ride out the downturn by concentrating on finding buyers before construction, though his volume decreased by as much as 50 percent.

Steve Wright of Castlerock Builders said he was still able to find people who wanted him to build custom homes valued at $350,000 and up, though his volume also fell from 10 to 12 homes a year to six to eight, he said.

Castlerock also made adjustments

to survive.

“I got aggressive on my building fee to keep my margins up,” he said.

That’s no longer the case, as Castlerock and Celebrity have more homes underway during the traditionally busy spring season than in previous years. The year-to-date total in April of 993 homes built in the Tulsa area is approximately 30 percent above the same time in 2012, according to figures from New Orders Weekly.

Now the problem is finding the workforce needed to build them, Jenkins said.

“We lost a lot of good workers during the recession, and a lot of them got into different careers,” he said.

“They haven’t come back yet.”

Nearly every type of subcontractor, including concrete workers, framers, construction plumbers and electricians, has fewer workers on hand, Jenkins said.

The work shortage hasn’t affected the number of homes Jenkins is building, but the homes are taking longer to finish, and employees are working longer hours.

Rising material costs An additional wrinkle Wright is experiencing is the cost of materials. Though homes are now selling for approximately 10 percent more than the previous year, according to GTAR data, the cost of materials is also going up after years of staying relatively flat.

“The companies that provide the materials struggled during the downturn, and now they’re capitalizing on the boom,” Wright said.

Sheetrock has increased 7 percent in price over the last year, and lumber has increased 20 percent, he said.

Yet Wright suspects prices will level off soon.

Robert Evatt 918-581-8447 robert.evatt@tulsaworld.com

Lending offices not seeing effects of pickup

BY ROBERT EVATT World Staff Writer

Now that more homes are selling, the natural assumption would be that lending offices have become busier.

But that’s not necessarily the case, said Steve Admire of Advantage One Mortgage.

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models hired to hype products and attract attendees to exhibitors’ displays on the show floor.

The presence of scantily clad women hawking games and gizmos seemed in particular contrast to a report released last week by the Entertainment Software Association, which organizes the gaming industry’s annual trade show. It found that 45 percent of the entire gaming population is now women, and women make up 46 percent of the most frequent game buyers.

“The line to the bathroom is pretty short compared to the men’s bathroom, which is great for us as product demonstrators here,” said Jess Sylvia of Nyko. “However, I think the thing is E3 is not a consumer event. It’s a trade event, and as much as women love to game and are buying 45 percent of the market, the industry is still men, primarily.”

There were noticeably fewer “booth babes” roaming E3 last week than in previous years, though exhibitors such as Snail Games, Hyperkin and Atlus still featured women with plunging necklines or body-hugging clothes at their booths.

Yet Michael Gallagher, president of the ESA, believes E3 does respect and embrace women, noting there’s even

“Volume today isn’t as strong as it was last year,” he said. “Purchases are up 10 percent, though refinancing is down 30 percent.”

Admire said the overall decline in volume is due to the recent increase in interest rates. Though the national average rate for a 30-year loan dropped to a low of 3.31, it’s rebounded to near-

a dress code forbidding too much skin.

“Each exhibitor makes a decision whether they choose to use models or not,” he said.

“The choice to do that is then regulated by standards that we use. ... Those standards have not interfered with the enjoyment of E3 by men and women alike during the time that I’ve been here.”

While the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas similarly features provocative models, the gamer-centric Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle and Boston has outlawed “booth babes.” Meanwhile, some of this year’s E3 exhibitors, such as SemiFormal Studios and 100% Indie, bucked conventions with “booth bros” — male models in shirtless ensembles or skintight superhero garb.

There were a few other examples of female power at E3, too. Princess Peach, once merely the most kidnapped woman in the Mushroom Kingdom, served as a playable character in Nintendo’s “Super Mario 3D World.”

And EA announced it was

ly 4 percent. That’s made refinancing existing loans less attractive.

Lending requirements from the various financial institutions also haven’t budged much and still require significantly higher credit scores than in the days of much more permissive lending during the housing boom, Admire said.

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tulsaworld.com/E3blog working on a sequel to “Mirror’s Edge,” which focuses on a free-running female lead character named Faith.

“I really enjoy writing for women,” said David Cage, creator of the PlayStation 3 game “Beyond: Two Souls,” which features actress Ellen Page as the heroine. “I like female characters because they

“The pickup in activity hasn’t changed the supertight lending standards,” Admire said.

He said the improving economy will likely continue to drive interest rates up.

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can be very strong and very tough, but they can cry and be very sensitive. They have a palette of emotions that’s much wider than with male characters.”

Yet the issue remains a sensitive one, as evidenced by reaction to some trash-talking between two male and female Microsoft employees duking it out in the fighting game “Killer Instinct” on stage during the company’s E3 presentation on Monday.

Many interpreted a comment John Robertson (right) tries out the Cinemizer OLED, multimemade by the male producer as a joke about rape. Microsoft dia video glasses from Carl Zeiss, during the Electronic Entertainlater apologized and called it ment Expo in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

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When times were bad in the real estate industry, it became harder to find licensed real estate professionals.

This, Shel Detrick of Prudential Detrick Realty said, came even after agencies lowered their overhead.

“When the economy was horrible, we had very few people interested in getting a real estate license,” he said.

But the agents are coming back — gradually.

Getting a license in Oklahoma means taking a five- to six-week class or finishing an online course, which can be completed as fast as a person is able.

Detrick said it’s taking time for people to reconsider real estate as a career, and he doesn’t plan on growing the size of his agency yet. In the meantime, existing agents have become busier.

Max Heckenkemper with Keller Williams Realty said his office’s agent roster has grown by 13.5 percent in the past year.

“The people who are interested in becoming agents are a much higher caliber than we’ve seen in quite a long time,” he said.

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BUSINESS AS USUAL Women’s health care still a target and effective means of preventing that unintended pregnancy? Or that they might be unable to obtain it because of the restrictions that have kept it locked behind the pharmacy counter?”

Obviously, our legislators prefer the latter scenario, with all its negative, costly and inhumane consequences.

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here were so many legislative outrages last session — horse slaughter, worrisome tax cuts, the health-insurance debacle spring to mind — a few might have escaped the public’s notice.

Not that any public uproar would have stopped these runaway trains, given the Legislature’s disregard for the public will in recent years.

For those who might have wondered if the legislative assault on women’s health had continued in the past session: Take a wild guess.

Of course it did, and as usual, some of the misogynistic measures that flew through the Legislature last session likely will again spawn lawsuits. Business as usual, in other words.

Among the measures passed quietly in the final days of the session was House Bill 2226, which would require that the so-called “morning-after” emergency contraceptive be available to women under the age of 17 only by prescription. This contraceptive, known as Plan B One-Step, would be available to women 17 years old and older without a prescription only if dispensed to them by a pharmacist, under the new law’s provisions.

The measure was signed by Gov. Mary Fallin on May 29.

Among other problems with this legislation, it flies in the face of recent national developments allowing EC to be made available to females of all ages without a prescription. A federal judge ruled in April that the emergency contraceptive should be made available over the counter without a prescription without any pointof-sale or age restrictions.

The judge in the case called any restrictions on sales of Plan B ‘‘po-

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litically motivated (and) scientifically unjustified.”

One wonders what a judge might say about Oklahoma’s new law restricting availability of EC to girls under the age of 17, and even to females over age 17 by requiring that it be dispensed by a pharmacist. We’re liable to find out.

There was opposition voiced to the Oklahoma measure, but as usual, it fell on deaf ears. The

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e Oklahomans like to think of ourselves as people of conviction: moral, religious, political, personal.

Check the box where applicable.

We’re also a people with another set of convictions. At least one out of 12 Oklahoma adults has a felony record. Oklahoma’s former offenders are not alone — 65 million Americans have a conviction (or arrest) in their backgrounds.

Most employment forms contain a box asking applicants if they’ve ever been convicted (and sometimes if they’ve ever been arrested). Check that box yes and HR departments get heartburn.

Nearly nothing torpedoes a job application quicker than a criminal record.

Felons who’ve served their sentences and stayed out of trouble often find the term “paid one’s debt to society” hollow. Saddled with too much past and not enough future, some end up back in prison; others settle for deadend jobs because that’s all they can get.

Meanwhile, employers say: “Why take a chance when we’ve got 10 people without a record applying for the same job?”

It’s a fair question. Or is it?

Nine states don’t think so. In the past few years, a movement known as “Ban the Box” has swept from Washington state to Washington, D.C.

Ban the box On June 6, Maryland became the latest state to remove questions about criminal history from state job applications and postpone such questions until later in the hiring process. Kansas City recently became the 50th city or county to ban the box from municipal government job applications. Similar bills appear headed for passage in six other states. Even with a high number of felons and a high rate of unemployment among that group, Oklahoma policy-makers aren’t agitating for a change. Ban the

Oklahoma Coalition for Reproductive Justice, noting that more than 40 scientific studies had found the drug safe and effective and that reputable medical societies and public-health groups supported over-the-counter access, wondered in its press release: “In the event that our kids do find themselves at risk of unintended pregnancy, which is more troubling: that (teens) could go into any drug store and purchase a safe

Another measure passed last session was Senate Bill 900, which ostensibly sets out to prioritize how funding for family planning and counseling services is to be doled out. There is no mention in the law, signed by Fallin on May 29, of any specific agency, but there is no doubt that the aim of the measure was to strip funding from Planned Parenthood clinics in Oklahoma.

Planned Parenthood has been a GOP target for years now, largely because some of its clinics provide abortions (though none in Oklahoma do). Legislation in Oklahoma had not been successful until passage of SB 900 this session.

Through actions of the state Health Department, Tulsa-area Planned Parenthood clinics last year were kicked out of the federal Women, Infants and Children nutrition program, a decision which left thousands of women scrambling to find other WIC sources.

The agency had participated in WIC for 18 years, but health department officials suddenly last year began finding problems with the agency’s performance. The agency’s lawsuit seeking to remain in the WIC program was not successful.

SB 900 states that “any expenditures or grants of public funds for family planning or counseling services by the state of Oklahoma ... shall be made” in a certain order, with public entities first in line, followed by nonpublic hospitals, federally qualified health centers, rural health clinics, and nonpublic health providers “that have as their primary purpose the provision of primary health care services” as spelled out in federal

law.

What’s especially disturbing about this legislation is that lawmakers hurried it through just days after the May 20 tornado devastation with no notice of their plans, leading advocates to suspect they were attempting to sneak through passage.

Planned Parenthood of the Heartland Chief Operating Officer Penny Dickey said in a statement after passage: “In the wake of one of the most devastating tragedies our state has ever witnessed, the Oklahoma Legislature is using the last few days of session squabbling over what health care entity is a ‘priority.’ Instead, lawmakers should be focused on what they can do to help our families, not restricting access to needed health care. ... This bill does nothing to improve the health of Oklahomans. The goal of the bill is to defund Planned Parenthood by shifting money away from specialists in reproductive health care to other agencies that don’t have the capacity or expertise.”

But Planned Parenthood provides much more than just reproductive health care, including primary, prenatal and pediatric care and screenings for many conditions. Loss of funding to these clinics will mean loss of access to basic care for many needy Oklahomans, who may have no other resource for obtaining such care.

The agency isn’t sure at this point exactly what funds would be affected by the measure. “We believe it would affect state dollars, but we’re unclear at this point how this bill would impact federal funds that pass through the state,” said a spokeswoman.

It’s not at all surprising our GOP-dominated Legislature aggressively continues pursuing legislation touted as pro-family and pro-life which turns out to be just the opposite. If they really cared about women and families, they’d take steps to improve access to care and to prevent unwanted pregnancies. If they really cared.

Janet Pearson 918-581-8328 janet.pearson@tulsaworld.com

Felony records can be job deal-breaker

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box? That would require thinking outside the box.

Forward thinking and criminal justice issues seldom mix here. Yet it’s been shown often and unequivocally that former offenders who find gainful employment are much more likely to make their own way, support their families and stay out of prison.

Do’s and don’ts In understanding Ban the Box laws it’s important to know what they do NOT do: — Apply to jobs where background checks are mandated and directly related to the job, such as public safety positions and jobs dealing with vulnerable populations such as children and the elderly.

— Obligate employers to hire people with criminal records.

What they do is give applicants a chance to be evaluated based on their qualifications instead of being screened out before they ever even receive an interview.

— Prevent employers from hiring the candidate they think best for job.

In the past 20 years, the number of major employers screening for criminal records has jumped from 20 percent to more than 90 percent. People of color are disproportionately convicted and suffer more discrimination after finishing their sentences. African-American offenders are four times less likely to get initial job interviews than their Caucasian counterparts.

Employers — public and private — have legitimate concerns such as workplace safety and protection of property and whether some-

SOURCE: National Employment Law Project

one with a violent felony should be hired. Banks obviously don’t want embezzlers handling money.

Schools and day-cares would be derelict if they hired child molesters. Pharmacies would be take a risk hiring people with drug convictions.

At what point, forgiveness?

But is it fair to exclude an applicant from being hired to work, say, the airline ticket counter, because of a conviction for shoplifting at 18? At what point should felons, for certain offenses, be forgiven their past mistakes if they’ve fulfilled their sentence?

In 2012, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reaffirmed its position that it is illegal to screen out employees unless the crime was directly related to the job. EEOC said that employers must

consider the nature of the job, the gravity of the offense (whether it is violent or nonviolent) and how long ago the conviction occurred.

Recently, the EEOC sued Dollar General and BMW for indirectly discriminating against AfricanAmericans by using criminal background checks to screen out potential employees or employees on staff.

EEOC claims BMW effectively fired 70 black employees with criminal records from a facility in South Carolina, even though many had worked there for years. One 14-year employee was let go after a misdemeanor conviction surfaced that was 20 years old and carried a $137 fine.

EEOC also claims that Dollar General revoked job offers to two black women after conducting criminal background checks. In one

case, records were inaccurate but the company still would not reconsider the woman’s application, the EEOC suit claims.

Under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, job discrimination is prohibited on the basis of color, race, religion, gender and national origin.

But it does not ban discrimination based on character. Policies which encourage employers to hire people who made a mistake in the past but have since cleaned up their act give former offenders a chance. Which is better: A felon having a shot at, say, a $25,000 a year job and paying his own way, or the taxpayer paying that same amount for a cell if the offender returns to prison?

It’s time to think outside the box.

Julie DelCour, 918-581-8379 julie.delcour@tulsaworld.com

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PEOPLES VOICE

Clergy who speak out on issues involving homosexuality have a responsibility to be informed, whether we agree or not. — The Rev. Todd Freeman, Tulsa Disingenuous or ignorant?

The complex issues involved with human sexuality, particularly homosexuality, are among the most important social, psychological and theological debates of our era.

In this debate, there is no room for misinformation, especially by fellow clergy, whether it be intentional or out of ignorance. I was disheartened, therefore, to read Catholic Bishop Edward J. Slattery’s quote in the June 4 article, “Area churches debate BSA decision on gay Scouts.”

While I can certainly understand differences of opinions on the ruling to allow homosexual boys to participate in Boy Scouts, I cannot let Slattery’s statement go without comment. He is quoted as saying, “What do they mean by openly gay?

I assume that means they are sexually active.” Don’t forget that we are talking about boys as young as 11 years old.

This statement is either disingenuous or ignorant. Either way it is misinformed and deserves clarification if not an apology. Being “openly gay” deals with one’s comfort in sharing one’s sexual orientation, not a direct reflection as to whether someone is sexually active or not.

Clergy who speak out on issues involving homosexuality have a responsibility to be informed, whether we agree or not. Since the words clergy speak in public still matter (to most), we must be both careful and accountable for the words that come out our mouths, for they do have consequences. “I don’t know” is a phrase that perhaps should be used more often. For we all know what happens when we assume.

The Rev. Todd Freeman, Tulsa Editor’s note: Freeman is pastor of College Hill Presbyterian Church in Tulsa.

Secretary of War (now Secretary of Defense) under George Washington.

A little more research would, I’m sure, illuminate many more contributions the Scottish and their descendants have made to our nation. A little research on any heritage that makes up this nation would do the same.

The bottom line: This nation is made up of peoples and their descendants from all over the globe who have contributed to any greatness we should humbly portend.

So let the bagpipes blow in any venue, even NASCAR. There is nothing wrong with having a proud heritage if you know what it is.

Edward Davidson, Tulsa

Hit the button

A statue of a Boy Scout stands in front of the National Scouting Museum in Irving, Texas. The Boy Scouts of America changed its policy of excluding gays as youth members. LM OTERO/Associated Press file

ing gays into their noble organization. Any Boy Scout troops that find themselves without a sponsoring church are invited to contact us, and you will be welcomed with open arms.

As the United Church of Christ proclaims, “Jesus didn’t reject people, and neither do we.”

The Rev. Bob Lawrence and The Rev. Paul Ashby, Tulsa Editor’s note: Lawrence is pastor of OpenTable UCC in Owasso, and Ashby is senior pastor at Fellowship Congregational Church in Tulsa.

Update from Asbury

In a June 4 Tulsa World article, I indicated our congregation would undertake a study about the recent As the pastors of the two Tulsachanges made by the Boy Scouts of area United Church of Christ America before determining if we congregations, we would like to would re-charter on Jan. 1, 2014. I respond to the June 4 article, “Area felt we needed more information churches debate BSA decision on regarding the matter. The BSA gay scouts.” leadership provided us with helpful In 1972, the United Church of information regarding this matter.

Christ became the first mainline After looking at their talking points, Protestant denomination to ordain we’ve told BSA we will renew our an openly gay man to Christian charter in 2014. ministry, and our denomination has Some who read the original welcomed openly GLBT persons article erroneously concluded into ordained ministry ever since. that we specifically exclude those As part of that proud heritage, with same-sex attraction from both of our churches, Fellowship participating in our ministries.

Congregational Church in Tulsa This is completely unfounded. and OpenTable UCC in Owasso, Undoubtedly, we’ve had young are officially “Open and Affirming” men with same-sex attraction, but congregations, welcoming GLBT we’ve never targeted or removed persons into full participation in any young man for this in our long our congregations. relationship with BSA. As pastors and as former Scouts, This has never been an iswe wish to make it known that we sue with us, nor do we want it to applaud the decision of the BSA to become one now. While the United begin the process of fully welcomMethodist Church has continually

Gay scouts welcomed

affirmed since 1972 that the practice of homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching, it also affirms that we will be in ministry with all persons. Asbury supports both aspects of this belief.

We believe that the BSA is one of the finest organizations for developing young men of integrity. We are proud to continue our partnership with our trustworthy Troop 10 leaders and families.

The Rev. Tom Harrison, Tulsa Editor’s note: Harrison is Senior Pastor Asbury United Methodist

Reconsider I read with trepidation the June 4 article, which stated Asbury United Methodist Church was “leaning toward” dropping its support for BSA. As an Eagle Scout, a current assistant packmaster in my son’s Cub Scout Pack, and a fellow United Methodist minister in Tulsa, I hope it reconsiders, especially in light of our shared church’s resolutions on the matter. (See 2012 United Methodist Book of Resolutions, “Church to Be in Ministry to People of all Sexual Orientations,” and “Opposition to Homophobia and Heterosexism.”)

At our most recent General Conference, which Asbury Senior Pastor Rev. Tom Harrison and Rev. Guy Ames, who oversees the Scouting program at Asbury, attended as Oklahoma delegates to help 1,000 others from around the world revise our Church Discipline, the body said, (and I believe this quite pertinent to the issue at hand), “We implore families and churches not to reject or condemn lesbian

and gay members and friends. We commit ourselves to be in ministry for and with all persons.” (Book of Discipline of the UMC, 2012, 111.)

Gay young men aren’t defined by their sexuality any more than straight young men. They have hopes and dreams, confusion and hard lessons learned, taste in music, movies, athletic pursuits, faith commitments, and a whole myriad of other things that define them. Their attraction to another male doesn’t override their commitment to trustworthiness, loyalty, helpfulness, friendliness, courtesy, kindness, obedience, cheerfulness, thrift, bravery, cleanliness and reverence. That’s why the BSA finally made the right decision. I pray that Asbury does the same.

The Rev. Nathan Mattox, Tulsa

Let bagpipes blow Nineteen of the 56 delegates who signed the Declaration of Independence came from Scotland or Ulster or, like Scottish-tutored Thomas Jefferson, had ancestors there.

Another Scot who made major contributions to the Revolutionary War was Commodore John Paul Jones. Jones is the Scot who, when taunted to surrender to the British war ship, HMS Serapis, replied, “I have not yet begun to fight.” Jones is sometimes referred to as the “Father of the American Navy.”

Henry Knox was a Scot. While born in America, he was British at birth but American after the Revolutionary War. He served as a military officer in the Continental Army and the U.S. Army after the Revolution. He was also the first

Tulsan John Fenrich (“Can the pipers,” June 3) seems to have forgotten what the pre-race was about. It was a tribute to the troops who have fallen in battle and other fallen heroes. The playing of “Amazing Grace” on the bagpipes is a long-held tradition.

If he wishes to complain about “outside-the-box” flair, I suggest he complain about those “great” singers who the race track and NASCAR get to sing the “Star Spangled Banner.” I think out of the last 100 singers who have sung the song probably only two have sung it as written and not like some song from “American Idol.” Then he can do what I do when they start to mess up the opening: He can hit the mute button on the remote.

Steve Bromley, Glenpool

Apology owed First District Rep. Jim Bridenstine, on the House floor, called President Barack Obama “a petty, bumbling liar.” He further said that our president was dishonest, incompetent and his lack of a moral compass made him unfit to lead.

Bridenstine is a disgrace to the people of Oklahoma. He has disrespected the office of the president and he is not fit to lead. Obama was elected by a majority to lead the country not once, but twice.

If Bridenstine has a problem with Obama being his president, he ought to resign.

President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were in office on 9/11 when more than 3,000 were killed by terrorists.

Those two lied for years about weapons of mass destruction and led us into two unnecessary and costly wars. What does Bridenstine call them?

He ought to apologize to the people of Oklahoma and to President Obama for his outrageous comments. Obama is president of the United States until 2016. Get over it.

Mary Bailey, Tulsa

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America’s ‘tinkering’ spirit: Alive and well us the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, and the odometer, WESTPORT, Conn. — John Len- as well perhaps his most influential non once wrote that “Life is what project, the U.S. Postal Service. But happens to you while you’re busy George Washington also tinkered making other plans,” and the same as a cutting-edge farmer and thing could be said about tinkering amateur engineer throughout his in America. Long thought of as an life. The first president’s passion activity for old crackpots squirproject was the Potomac Canal, a reling around in their basements, vision of improved trade he had as tinkering can be aimless, peripha young man and pursued through eral, failure-ridden and chaotic. But his last days. The canal wasn’t that’s a good thing. completed until after his death, Contrary to popular opinion, and then had to be redone (as the most great American innovations Chesapeake and Ohio Canal) using have been happy accidents made entirely different technologies. by serial dilettantes and dreamers, Washington’s tinkering did not not trained engineers or profesbreed success, at least in his lifesionals. And the big ideas that have time. Fortunately, he had other acchanged our society often emerge complishments to hang his hat on. while we are concentrating our ef- But we often forget that successful forts elsewhere. tinkering is accompanied by failure.

Tinkering is the unheralded seLots of failure. cret weapon that the United States Thomas Edison, the Wizard of has traditionally used to fight off Menlo Park, knew this better than competition, a creative wild card most. Edison did not “invent” the enabled by our pioneering origins light bulb, but rather labored with and democratic principles. In the a team of assistants over a period of era of global competition, it’s worth months, night and day, to find the remembering that it’s not only our just right combination of materials solid corporate infrastructure that to create one that burned bright for helped make us a capitalist supera sustained period. power. It’s also our willingness to Ring, ring give great thinkers the leeway and headspace to pursue their most And when Edison set his mind to outlandish ideas, unencumbered by improving the technology behind clearly defined expectations.

Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone Ben, the tinkerer in 1877, he instead created a device he believed to be the world’s first Many of us think of Benjamin office dictation machine. He strugFranklin as our nation’s first great gled for years to create a market tinkerer, and certainly Franklin for his invention, only to be beaten was a seemingly inexhaustible again by his nemesis Graham Bell, generator of innovations, giving who became partner in a company

BY ALEC FOEGE

that saw a different potential for Edison’s invention, now known as the phonograph.

In the post-World War II period, the United States strained to systematize tinkering, looking for ways to transform innovation from an art to a science.

The results were decidedly mixed. The RAND Corp., established during the Cold War to engineer a forward-looking national defense strategy through game theory and other team-tinkering exercises, learned the limitations of “organized” innovation when it failed to predict the outcomes of the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion and the protracted In the late 1960s, Xerox raised the bar for corporate America by founding the Palo Alto Research Center, a West Coast research and development facility staffed by brilliant doctorates with no clear mission except to create something new.

All about Jobs But when Xerox PARC came up with the Alto, one of the world’s first computers developed for individual use, the suits back in Stamford, Conn., didn’t see the point. Luckily, a young entrepreneur named Steve Jobs wheedled himself into PARC’s labs to see the Alto for himself.

Without Jobs’ determination to install the Alto’s best attributes —a computer mouse and a multi-windowed interface — into early Apple computers, the fruits of the PARC team would have gone unheralded.

revolution emerged. I look to the growing popularity of the Maker Faires, carnival-like celebrations of new ideas and innovations, spanning science, technology, and the arts, that are setting up tents all across the country and drawing record crowds.

I also notice the rising success of the newest crop of innovation incubators, everything from the Internet-enabled crowd-funding of Kickstarter.com to the entrepreneurial support provided by seed accelerators such as Y Combinator The big question and Tech All-Stars, which offer funding and mentorship for tinkerThe remaining question is, “Is ers in search of a plan. the American tinkering spirit still The Internet itself has had an alive?” extraordinary impact on tinkering, With the emergence of China, by being an invaluable resource India and Russia as powerful global for information and a way to share economic forces, it’s a question that discoveries and find supportive gets asked more and more. communities, two keys to meaningMany experts point to our higher ful innovation. education system, complaining So yes, the American tinkering that it doesn’t produce enough spirit is alive and is better than graduates with engineering degrees well. It’s thriving. or some other marketable skill.

The U.S. remains uniquely suited But based on American history, I for sparking great innovations, both would argue that we don’t produce economically and in temperament. enough well-rounded generalists, But let’s not forget how we got learned young people who would where we are: with a lot of experido well in a variety of industries. mentation, failure, and focusing on After all, technology moves so what we thought was important. quickly that there’s no guarantee Tinkering, for better or worse, that today’s specialized degree is what happens when you’re busy will be relevant four years from making other plans. now. Better to learn a little about Alec Foege, a financial research professional everything and a lot about how the world works — this is what we used based in Connecticut, is the author of “The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, DIYers, and Invento call a liberal arts education. tors Who Make America Great.” He wrote But a funny thing happened this for The Free Lance-Star in Frederickswhile the U.S. was focused on other burg, Va. things. Green shoots of a tinkering

But who could have planned for something like that?

There’s a reason that most truly innovative ideas continue to emerge from startups rather than major corporations. Shareholders of public companies are focused on quarterly earnings and growth — many tinkering projects are just that until something catches on.

The serial failures that accompany all great tinkering are oftentimes simply too much for disciplined big businesses to bear.

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Kathleen Parker Washington Post Writers Group

The new F-word: Father W

ASHINGTON — News that women increasingly are the leading or sole breadwinner in the American family has resurrected the perennial question: Why do we need men?

Maureen Dowd attempted to answer this question with her 2005 book, “Are Men Necessary?” I responded three years later with “Save the Males.”

With each generation, the question becomes more declarative and querulous.

Recent demographic shifts show women gaining supremacy across a spectrum of quantitative measures, including education and employment. Women outnumber men in college and in most graduate fields.

Increasingly, owing in part to the recession and job loss in historically male-dominated fields, they are surpassing men as wageearners, though women still lag behind at the highest income and executive levels.

My argument that men should be saved is that, despite certain imperfections, men are fundamentally good and are sort of pleasant to have around. Most women still like to fall in love with them; all children want a father no matter how often we try to persuade ourselves otherwise. If we continue to impose low expectations and negative messaging on men and boys, future women won’t have much to choose from.

We are nearly there.

The Pew Research Center recently found that four in 10 American households with children under age 18 include a mother who is either the primary breadwinner or the sole earner (quadruple the share in 1960).

The latter category is largely owing to the surge in single-mother households.

This reflects “evolving family dynamics,” according to The New York Times, which sounds rather nice — evolution being a good thing and all. But what it really represents is a continuing erosion of the traditional family and, consequently, what is best for children and, therefore, future society.

Before you reach for the inhaler, permit me to introduce a few disclaimers. First, I’m all for women achieving all they can.

Obviously, I’m on that treadmill myself. I’ve raised three children while working (mostly self-employed and briefly as a single mom).

There is no moisture behind my ears.

Second, women have joined the workforce in greater numbers because they’ve had to, not merely to hear themselves roar, as the Helen Reddy song once described women’s nascent self-realization. Children are expensive and one income seldom suffices. Thanks to the recession, many Americans count themselves lucky if even one member of the household has a job.

And a single mother clearly has no other choice, though it is increasingly the case that women choose to be single parents as the biological clock runs down.

Nevertheless, trends that diminish the importance of fathers from the family unit cannot — or should not — be celebrated.

Contrary to the Hollywood version of single motherhood, a trend that began with Murphy Brown more than 20 years ago, single mothers are more likely to be younger, black or Hispanic, and less educated, according to Pew, and they have a median family income of $23,000. In those families where married women earn more than their husbands, the woman is more often white, older and college educated and the median household income is $80,000.

In discussions of Pew’s findings, conversations the past few days have veered toward practical questions of men’s value.

During a recent segment on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” guests — all women except Joe Scarborough, who looked sheepish and mostly kept his own counsel — visited the familiar question: Why do women even need men?

The ladies worked earnestly to find positive roles for their hirsute colleagues, noting that men can be useful in family planning, child care sharing, working as part of a team. Although a man’s presence was implicit in the hypothetical household, I waited futilely for emphasis to shift to the importance of fathers to their children’s well-being. Father, it seems, has become the new F-bomb. Oh, we’ll say “F#$&” in a 30rock second, but “father”? The term, along with the concept, seems to have receded from popular usage, displaced by the vernacular of drive-by impregnators, the inane “baby daddy.”

Women, indeed, may not need men, though they seem to want them — at least until the estrogen ebbs. Women have become more self-sufficient (a good thing) and, given that they still do the lion’s share of housework and child rearing, why, really, should they invite a man to the clutter?

Because, simply, children need a father.

That not all get a good one is no argument against what is true and irrevocable and everlasting. Deep in the marrow of every human child burbles a question far more profound than those currently occupying coffee klatches: Who is my daddy?

And sadly these days, where is he?

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available than they would have been earlier in their lives.

As we celebrate Father’s Day, here There is a flip side to this availare my observations on being an ability angle. If you’re going to be older dad, 10 years into parenting there for your kids, you need to keep twins: pressing yourself to keep up with For starters, there is a freak of na- them, including physically. ture aspect to saying you’re a dad of There are moments where parents elementary school kids when you’re of all ages would just as soon not on the verge of turning 60, which get up and play chase, shoot baskets I am, having just entered the last up and down a court or referee a year of my sixth decade. You draw fight. But when you’re approaching funny looks and come across bizarre 60, hip aches, shoulder pains and demographic realities. My favorite slower strides make chase, full-court private laugh of the last 10 years was basketball and refereeing harder to figuring out that I was older than the endure. grandmother of one of the kids on The brotherhood our YMCA campout.

But given the choice of being an Still, how wonderful to be bikolder dad or not one at all, I will ing behind your son on the way to gladly take being Dad. No matter your age, watching your children as school early in the morning, even they enter the world and go through though it’s been 50 years since you did that yourself. And how marveltheir stages of growth is a remarkous to race your daughter in the able experience.

Being dad at this age is also easier, swimming pool and see her delight as she pulls up her goggles and realfor me at least. That sounds odd izes she has beaten the old man. given the demographic real estate As I hinted, there is a brotherhood between my children and me, as of older dads. We bond together at Time’s Jeffrey Kluger recently deevents, share jokes and possess a scribed the age gap that older dads sense of detachment from the pack. experience.

One member of this fraternity told But the responsibility competes far less with my career than it would me recently that he spends a lot have in my 20s or 30s. I am way more more time watching his young chilinclined to shut off work and turn on dren rather than intervening with them, which he evidently did with fatherhood than I would have been his older children. if I had been worrying about what I But there’s a dark side in being needed to do to get ahead. a father later in life. My greatest Other older fathers I’ve spoken anxiety, one bordering on obsession, with say the same. They are more

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is the fear of leaving my children behind.

My family, fortunately, has genes that suggest endurance. My dad is 90. My mother is 85. One of my grandmothers made it to 95. And the family cemetery is dotted with the tombstones of long-living ancestors.

But the math is unbendable. The odds are against me seeing my son and daughter for the second half of their lives, assuming they live at least three score and 10. If I don’t get hit by that bus, or come down with an unforeseen disease, I have a decent chance of seeing them reach (normal) marrying age and settling down. But who knows how far beyond that?

I try to placate that anxiety by burrowing down into the sovereignty of God, the idea that He ultimately is in charge. And I try to embrace the knowledge that they are His children, too.

Yet those thoughts don’t always comfort me. My eyes still well up with those pesky tears, just as they did when my wife and I found out we were going to be parents.

But what can you do, other than deal with what’s in front of you?

In fact, living in the moment is the greatest lesson I’ve learned. You only have time to deal with today, not 10 years down the road. That’s the comforting, exhausting truth about parenting — at any age.

William McKenzie is an editorial columnist for The Dallas Morning News.

Honoring the ‘courage’ of fatherhood

BY DERRICK MORGAN

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he smallest and most fundamental form of government is the family and it is falling apart. Americans across the political spectrum are beginning to recognize it.

President Obama, in this year’s State of the Union address, said he wanted to work to “strengthen families by removing the financial deterrents to marriage for low-income couples, and doing more to encourage fatherhood — because what makes you a man isn’t the ability to conceive a child; it’s having the courage to raise one.”

He is exactly right.

Obama’s own marriage, of course, provides a shining example of a strong family. But he comes from a broken family himself, and knows what it is to have an absent father.

Until recent human history, the vast majority of children lived with their fathers. Today, according to the Family Research Council’s Marriage and Religion Research Institute, less than half of 17-year-olds have always lived with their intact biological family.

Shockingly, that figure is only 17 percent for African-Americans, compared to 1941 when it was 90 percent. For the vast majority of those not living in intact families, their biological father is gone.

As Robert Rector of The Heritage Foundation has shown, the best antipoverty program is marriage: When a child’s father is married to his mother, the probability of the child’s living in poverty drops by 82 percent.

Absent fathers don’t just harm their

children economically. A father’s influence on children is documented and widely accepted. Adolescents without dads in their lives tend to exhibit more anti-social behavior. To be blunt, they get into trouble. Social science indicates that fathers play a different and complementary role to mothers in raising children, particularly sons.

A story told by James Dobson in the book “Bringing Up Boys” vividly illustrates the real consequences of fatherless homes. He describes an outreach ministry that visited a prison to help inmates easily send cards to their mothers on Mother’s Day. The event was a spectacular success, with long lines of enthusiastic inmates, Dobson writes.

So the ministry decided to do a similar event for Father’s Day. But when the day came, not a single inmate sought help to send his father a card.

This chilling anecdote reflects what we know from social science and Census Bureau statistics. Fatherless homes are far more likely to be the starting place for those who end up in the criminal justice system.

All of this is not to blame single mothers, many of whom are doing the best they can under difficult circumstances.

They would be the first to say how tough it is to go it alone.

Again, the president life story is an example of escape from the disadvantages of broken families. It is especially important for civil society groups, congregations and extended families to do their best to support single parents.

Mentoring from older men can be a great encouragement to young men whose fathers aren’t around.

Instead of relying on backup plans, though, we’d all be better off with more fathers and intact families. Those of us who are fathers must realize we are the first line of defense and, along with our wives, the most important people in the lives of our children.

If American culture doesn’t honor the role of fathers, young people won’t understand the importance of young men growing up in responsibility — and young women won’t understand what to look for in a mate. Rather than honoring fatherhood, though, too often our society minimizes the importance of fathers in the home. So much so that a live-in dad is seen, at best, as optional.

Over time, what President Obama calls the courage of fatherhood could inspire generations of young men to make family a central part of their goals, hopes and dreams.

Even as TV and other aspects of pop culture belittle or ignore the importance of fathers, though, America’s parents, educators and other cultural leaders should explain why dads are so invaluable.

In a pamphlet called “Fathers, Sons & Reading,” writer Jim Trelease cites a study showing that boys whose fathers read to them scored significantly higher in reading. Trelease writes poignantly about how boys imitate their fathers.

This and similar material is needed in every corner of society. And not only so men may understand their crucial role, but so we may break the cycle of broken homes and poverty.

Derrick Morgan is vice president for domestic and economic policy at The Heritage Foundation.

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Rowing for gold

1936 U.S. regatta team prevailed over hardships, odds

BY JERRY HARKAVY Associated Press

FLOWERS BY MRS. DEHAVEN

By John Brooks Walton

New Walton book pays homage to DeHaven’s

BY JAMES D. WATTS JR. World Scene Writer

It’s hard to imagine now, but the area around 49th Street and Harvard Avenue — now encased in lane upon lane of concrete highway and byway — was once the garden spot of Tulsa’s high society.

It was here in the early years of the 20th century that Josephine DeHaven purchased what she called the “Smilin’ Thru Farm,” where she would grow, then gather, the flowers she would sell at the florist shop that continues to bear her name.

Since 1932, Mrs. DeHaven’s Flowers has been located at the corner of 15th Street and Boston Avenue, and the shop continues to supply unusual and unique floral decorations for Tulsa’s elite.

Tulsa architect and author John Brooks Walton, best known for a series of books on Tulsa historic homes, has produced a photographfilled tome about the history of Mrs. DeHaven’s Flowers.

Walton will be at Mrs. DeHaven’s Flowers, 106 E. 15th St., to sign copies of the book from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday.

Walton will also hold book signings beginning Walton at 6:30 p.m. June 27 at the Tulsa Historical Society, 2445 S. Peoria Ave., and from 1 to 3 p.m. June 29 at Steve’s Sundry, Books and Magazines, 2612 S. Harvard Ave. The book grew out of Walton’s previous book, which focused on Tulsa in the 1920s.

Walton approached Gwenn Bailey Whisenhunt, a long-time employee of the shop, about a particular photograph he needed. The shop has a large archive of photographs, many of which appear in the new book.

The book includes brief portraits of Mrs. DeHaven and those who followed her in running the business, such as Trula Austin, Jerry Parkhurst and current owners Bruce and Amy Adkins. But the bulk of it is given over to photographic spreads of parties, weddings, holiday displays and other social events decorated by Mrs. DeHaven’s Flowers.

James D. Watts Jr. 918-581-8478 james.watts@tulsaworld.com

Before March Madness and the Super Bowl ever existed, the big-time sports that mattered to most Americans included boxing, horse racing and, yes, collegiate rowing.

Tens of thousands of spectators would line the Hudson River at Poughkeepsie, N.Y., for the national championships, which drew coverage that matched the Kentucky Derby, the Rose Bowl or the World Series.

The greatest eight-oar crew may well have been the scrappy underdogs from the University of Washington who won the 1936 championship and went on to take the gold medal in the 1936 Olympics in a thrilling competition in Adolph Hitler’s Berlin.

Daniel James Brown’s account of how blue-collar oarsmen with roots in lumber mills, dairy farms, shipyards and mining camps prevailed over teams from elite Eastern colleges and went on to the Olympics is set against the grim realities of the Great Depression and the rise of Nazi Germany. This riveting and inspiring saga evokes that of Seabiscuit, another upstart that came out of the West.

The central figure in the book is Joe Rantz, who endured a Dickensian childhood before being abandoned by his impoverished family and left to fend for himself. Rowing provided an antidote to life’s hardships and imbued Rantz with a sense of purpose and the opportunity for a college education.

“The brutal afternoon workouts left him exhausted and sore but feeling cleansed, as if someone had scrubbed out his soul with a wire brush,” wrote

‘THE BOYS IN THE BOAT: NINE AMERICANS AND THEIR EPIC QUEST FOR GOLD AT THE 1936 BERLIN OLYMPICS’

By Daniel James Brown Viking, $28.95

the toughest of all sports, one that tests the limits of human endurance. His fast-paced book skillfully lays out the mechanics of rowing, the secrets of boat design and the blend of power, stamina, will and intellect required to produce a champion.

Above all is the need for teamwork, the ability of the crew to work in unison and achieve that degree of perfection known as A torch bearer uses the Olympic flame from the Olympic Stadium in Berlin to light a fire as the Olympic flag is raised on the Gruenau regatta “swing,” where everyone on the boat is in sync. course during the 1936 Summer Olympic Games. Associated Press file Readers need neither backBrown, who met and interOlympic gold, a feat that archri- ground nor interest in competiviewed Rantz as he was dying val University of California had tive rowing to be captivated by of heart disease at the home of accomplished twice. There is this remarkable and beautifully his daughter, a neighbor of the also the team’s mentor, British- crafted history. Written with author. born George Yeoman Pocock, the drama of a compelling novOther characters who come the renowned designer of racel, it’s a quintessentially Amerito life in the book include Al ing shells who offers valuable can story that burnishes the Ulbrickson, the Huskies coach lessons about rowing and life to esteem in which we embrace whose quiet demeanor didn’t Rantz and other team members. what has come to be known as mask his determination to win Brown identifies crew as the Greatest Generation.

Connors gets defensive in memoir climbed the rungs to the No. 1 ranking (where he remained for a record five years), mother and The St. Louis area has proson spoke 10 times a day, but duced several world-class tenGloria wasn’t a tyrant. nis players, including WimbleThat was Jimmy’s role. don champions Arthur Ashe Anyone who remembers the and the doubles team of Ken white-collar world of tennis Flach and Robert Seguso. But before Connors came along the player who scrawled the knows that he was a workhorse name St. Louis on the map was of a different color. In the ’70s, tennis’ original bad boy, Jimmy tennis was evolving from an Connors. amateur pastime to a big-time Actually, his place on the map business that fought football was on the wrong side of the and boxing for the regular-guy river. As Connors recounts in audience, and Connors was the his new memoir, “The Outsidsport’s ill-mannered mascot. On er,” he was born in 1952 in East the court, the lefty popularized St. Louis, where his grandfathe two-fisted backhand, the ther, John Connors, had been metal racket and the temperathe mayor and his father, Jim mental outburst. Off the court, ‘THE OUTSIDER’ Connors Sr., was in charge of the nightclub-and-casino collecting tolls on the Veterans By Jimmy Connors denizen made headlines by Bridge. dating the best female player in Harper, $28.99 Some juicy stories about his the world (Chris Evert), a Miss grandfather, father and brother wood before settling with Jim World (Marjorie Wallace) and John associating with criminals Sr. in East St. Louis (and later a Playboy Playmate of the Year get brief mentions, but Jimmy Belleville). But she lived her (Patti McGuire). devotes a lot more ink to two tennis dream through her son McGuire, with whom Conwomen in his life: his tennisJimmy. nors has two children and playing grandmother, Bertha Among the many things that is still married despite his Thompson, and her equally Jimmy shrugs off in this plainadmitted infidelities, is treated sporty daughter, Gloria Thomp- spoken book is the notion that respectfully in the book. But son Connors. Gloria had been he was a mama’s boy. True, Glo- Connors’ former fiancee Evert a touring tennis player and ria was his coach and business is not so lucky. Without concoached celebrities in Hollymanager, and even after Jimmy sulting her, Connors has chosen

BY JOE WILLIAMS

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Delivery vans are being loaded with floral arrangements in front of Mrs. DeHaven’s Flowers in an undated photo. Courtesy

Gooden comes clean in ‘Doc’

ANSWERS

BY JEFF PEARLMAN

Crossword

When it comes to the medium that is the sports autobiography, our nation offers a long and storied history of nonsense.

With rare exception, the process goes thusly: Step 1: Athlete signs contract to “write” an autobiography.

Step 2: Athlete is paired with an actual writer, who agrees to take, oh, 10 percent of the payout.

Step 3: Athlete allows writer two or three hourlong sit-down interviews. They are recorded, then transcribed, then cobbled into a functional narrative.

Step 4: Book — filled with glorious stories of this game and that pitch and those touchdowns — is released. Athlete makes a handful of contractually obligated appearances, poses for some pictures, lands three minutes on some mindless morning television show.

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Step 5: Life goes on.

The latest addition to the genre is “Doc,” the memoir former New York Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden has “written” with Newsday’s Ellis Henican.

And it’s (gasp!) outstanding.

Let this be said again: Against all precedent, “Doc” is outstanding; a brutally honest, oft-painful retelling of the life of a onetime pitching phenom whose existence has been largely ruined by nearly three decades of on-again, off-again drug and alcohol abuse.

If you’re a baseball fan looking for warm stories about the Mets’ improbable 1986 World Series championship, this isn’t your book. Gooden covers requisite on-field turf (the 1985 Cy Young trophy, the Fall Classic, the no-hitter, etc.), but with the enthusiasm of a Danny Heep atbat. It’s as if, after years of one lie after another after another, Gooden saw “Doc” as an opportunity to stop holding back

and hiding behind excuses. In short, he seems to view this as therapy.

Hence, “Doc” is neither a fun nor breezy read. It does not paint Gooden in an especially positive light, and with each snort of cocaine the reader finds himself screaming, “What the hell is wrong with you?”

Gooden admits to having been an awful husband and an even worse father. By the time one is five chapters deep, Gooden isn’t the four-time All-Star who won 194 career games. No, he’s the screw-up who refuses to get his life in order. You want things to work out for Gooden, but you also learn that here is a man unwilling to help himself.

The most painful segment in “Doc” comes in a chapter titled “Party Time,” during which Gooden is introduced to cocaine a month before spring training 1986. He finds himself inside a room with two halfnaked women and a line of the

to reveal in this book that she terminated a pregnancy while they were the darlings of the tennis world.

Connors also devotes a chapter to the cocaine habit of his late friend Vitas Gerulaitis and accuses opponents such as the great Guillermo Vilas and Ivan Lendl of cheating the paying customers with inferior play.

Connors is not nearly so critical of his own behavior, which entailed bullying other players, the chair umpires and even the fans who funded the lifestyle about which he is not insightful.

Compared to the smart memoirs by Connors’ younger alter-ego, John McEnroe, and successor, Andre Agassi, “The Outsider” is a disappointment.

We get blow-by-blow accounts of epic matches, but we never get inside Connors’ cranium.

But that’s not surprising because he made a fortune as a defensive counter-puncher.

If tennis fans want sustained and graceful flow, they can hope for an autobiography

by Bjorn Borg, the baselining Swedish rival who retired at age 26 and hasn’t found it necessary to defend himself since.

‘DOC: A MEMOIR’

By Dwight Gooden & Ellis Henican New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27

drug. Writes Gooden: “Pretty soon, the three of us were all doing vodka shots, as I joined them on the bed. Then the coke SEE DOC G5

Since I was one of his medical school professors, I’ve been very proud to watch my surgeon burgeon.

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Book ahead Everything is a differentiation of itself; what has a front has a back, what has a back has a front and the bigger the front, the bigger the back. This certainly holds true in “Their Own Anam Cara: A Journey of Destiny,” the first in a trilogy from Laura Veazey.

Sir Ailin Drummond and Sarah “Angel” Evangeline Hale, a descendant of Boadecia, Queen of the Iceni in the 1600s in Scotland and Ireland, are caught up in the turbulence of the times. They’re faced with pirates, druids, clan battles, the whisky trade and magical creatures.

Veazey will sign copies of the book from 1-3 p.m. Saturday at Steve’s Sundry, Books & Magazines, 2612 S. Harvard Ave. The author of “The Secret Life of Bees” has a new novel, her first since 2005.

Viking announced that Sue Monk Kidd’s “The Invention of Wings” is scheduled for release Jan. 7. Kidd’s novel will follow the parallel lives of urban slave Hetty “Handful” Grimke and the girl for whom she serves as a handmaid, Sarah Grimke, a real-life historical figure who grew up to become a feminist and abolitionist.

The novel is set in Charleston, S.C., in the 19th century.

It begins when Sarah is 11 and Hetty, an invented character, is 10.

Ringo Starr is turning an old Beatles favorite into a children’s book.

The drummer has a deal with Simon & Schuster’s Children Books for “Octopus’ Garden,” based on one of the few songs the drummer wrote and sang while with the Beatles.

The book will come out in Britain this fall and in the U.S. in early 2014. The book will be illustrated by Ben Cort, whose credits include “Aliens Love Underpants.”

Starr, who turns 73 next month, wrote the song in 1968.

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‘Bad Monkey’ gives laughter a good name

BY OLINE H. COGDILL Sun Sentinel

Carl Hiaasen’s comic thrillers come with a guarantee – broad humor that capitalizes on people’s absurd behavior and Florida’s quirkiness, mixed with social commentary that might rival Jonathan Swift and a deep concern for the environment, all wrapped in a solid plot.

Through the years, Hiaasen has honed his skills into a tight package that allows for spontaneous bursts of laughing out loud while being swept into an entertaining story. Hiaasen delivers all that and more in “Bad Monkey,” his 13th comic crime fiction.

No matter how over the top Hiassen’s storytelling scales, he grounds it in reality, the Florida type of reality where scams and schemes

‘BAD MONKEY’

By Carl Hiaasen Knopf, $26.95

co-exist on every corner.

Former Miami cop and soon to be former Monroe County sheriff’s deputy

Andrew Yancy hasn’t won many friends with his law enforcement colleagues. He lost his Miami job because his attempts to turn in a crooked cop who ran a Crime Stoppers scheme backfired.

And in Key West, he’s forced on “roach patrol” – or, as it is more politely described, restaurant inspector. That’s because it doesn’t look good when a deputy assaults his girlfriend’s husband with a vacuum cleaner.

But Andrew is a good cop, and he can’t turn off those instincts when he thinks there’s something very fishy about a man’s arm that turns up on the end of a tourist’s fishing line. The arm, which seems to have been part of a shark’s lunch, belongs to Nick Stripling, an entrepreneur in his 40s who made a fortune selling electric scooters to senior citizens.

And the man’s wife (or is it his widow?) just doesn’t ring true to Andrew.

Although Andrew’s job is making him physically ill, seeing what goes on in Key West kitchens, he’s also energized by his investigation into the arm, and what happened to the rest of the man. If he solves the crime, if there is a crime, maybe he will get his job back. With the help of a lovely Miami medical examiner, Andrew follows a trail that takes him from the Keys to the Bahamas.

“Bad Monkey” is the closest Hiaasen comes to a police procedural, but, true to form, it also is a look at the ludicrous ways of Florida, such as the true bait-and-switch in which a dead sailfish is surreptitiously placed on a tourist’s line. Andrew delights in sending obnoxious people to filthy restaurants

and he has a running battle on how to sabotage the sale of the mega-mansion next door that has spoiled his view of the sunsets and keeps the little Key Deer away. He finds that a bit of well-placed road kill does wonders; so does a bunch of junk made to look like Santeria.

And there is indeed a bad monkey in “Bad Monkey.”

A nasty, vile little creature named Driggs who loves to fling his waste and may have had a role in one of Johnny Depp’s “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies. Driggs has nothing in common with the lovable lab in Hiaasen’s “Sick Puppy,” but the monkey manages to have his moment in the spotlight.

The laughs come easy in “Bad Monkey,” as does the social commentary and the affectionate look at Florida’s eccentricities.

DOC

‘Conspiracy of Faith’ is chilling Nordic thriller

came back out. They certainly seemed to be having fun with it. When they asked me again, I was in. ... I dragged my finger along the credit card, picking up some coke dust, then put it on my tongue. My face got numb. It felt weird but also good.”

From this moment on, Gooden is less a baseball player, more a junkie. Whenever faced with a choice between sport or family and cocaine, he picks cocaine.

“Where did all that money go?” he asks. “I guess I know the answer to that. I sniffed a lot up my nose.”

Odds are, “Doc” doesn’t sell especially well. Gooden, now 48 and off drugs for two years, hasn’t thrown a major-league pitch in 13 seasons, and his endless cycle of troubles makes him more Lindsay Lohan than Meryl Streep. And yet, one gets the feeling this isn’t about reaching a best-seller list.

BY JEFF AYERS

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Dwight Gooden pitches during the 1986 All-Star Game at the Astrodome in Houston. Associated Press file

A message in a bottle propels Detective Carl Morck and his team from Department Q, a special branch of the Copenhagen Police Department that examines cold-case crimes, into a bizarre case in Jussi AdlerOlsen’s latest page-turning psychological thriller, “A Conspiracy of Faith.”

The bottle has been sitting on a shelf for years, and the message inside has withered due to exposure to sunlight.

What can be deciphered is the first word: Help. The rest is nothing but random letters. Can Morck and his team figure out who wrote the letter and, if it’s not a hoax, whether the author is still alive?

By Jussi Adler-Olsen Dutton, $26.95

Adler-Olsen also tells the story of a housewife named Mia. Her husband works in a job that keeps him away from home for long stretches of time. She begins to question what he’s doing when he’s gone.

The heroes and villains of “A Conspiracy of Faith” are compelling, and it’s impossible to put down the book even though, at times, it’s difficult to read because of the sheer terror of the scene the author is describing.

This is the third book in a series that includes “The Keeper of Lost Causes” and “The Absent One,” but newcomers won’t feel lost.

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Sunday, June 16, 2013

OPINION

Change The Cheerios ad and our problem with race

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hat do Cheerios and George Wallace have in

common?

Not much. This, however, being the 50th anniversary of then-Gov. George Wallace standing in a doorway at the University of Alabama attempting to deny African-American students admission, the two (Cheerios and Wallace) are linked.

A few weeks ago a Cheerios advertisement hit TV and caused an uproar.

For most of us, it seemed to be an innocent and rather cute ad. A little girl (obviously mixed race) is talking to her mom (who is white) and is told that Cheerios are good for the heart. The little girl disappears and the next shot is of her dad (who is black) lying on the couch with Cheerios all over his chest. I thought it was a good commercial.

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look it up. It’s worth the effort. And it was a fitting tribute to Ruby Bridges and all those who challenged the inequity of segregation in our schools from Little Rock to Boston.

George Wallace’s stand in the door was only one of many significant events of 1963. On June 11 President John F. Kennedy had called for a civil rights bill. On June 12 Medger Evers was assassinated in Mississippi.

Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech on Aug. 28. On Sept.

15, “Dynamite Bob” Chambliss bombed the 16th Street Venom Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., killing four young When the ad hit Youtube African-American girls. the reaction was quick James Meredith was admitand venomous. It became ted to the University of so bad that Youtube took Mississippi that year. Sam down the comments. Who Cooke wrote and recorded would have thought that the his hit song “A Change Is suggestion of a mixed-race Gonna Come” after he and couple would cause such a his band were turned away reaction in 2013? from a Louisiana motel. Of When I saw the ad, course, the year drew to an frankly, the mixed-race end with the Nov. 22 assascouple angle didn’t cause sination of JFK. me any concern. In fact, if I The Emancipation Procdid think anything about it I lamation, which went into don’t recall. I do remember effect in January of 1863, thinking that the little girl 150 years ago during the was awfully cute.

Civil War, officially ended There are, sadly, far too slavery. This week, Amerimany of our neighbors who cans will again, on June 19, remain stuck in 1963. celebrate Juneteenth. It is Wallace’s 1963 inauguthe oldest celebration of the ral address included the end of slavery. It took until infamous line: “In the name June of 1865 for the news of of the greatest people that the end of slavery to reach have ever trod this earth, Texas, where Juneteenth I draw the line in the dust originated. and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say Far to go segregation now, segregaAs far as we have come, tion tomorrow, segregation there remains so far to go. forever.”

On June 11, 1963, he tried After the turmoil of the 1960s, many Americans, to block the admission of including me, believed that two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, to within our lifetimes racism could be, if not ended, at the University of Alabama least marginalized. I was by standing stubbornly naive enough to believe that in the doorway until he skin color would not matter was confronted by federal by the turn of the century. I marshals, Deputy Attorney believe that those who long General Nicholas Katzenbach and the Alabama Army for the days of segregation are few. And I also know National Guard.

Resistance to integration that the generations following mine are much more of public schools was not exclusive to Alabama, or the tolerant. So hope remains.

From the bombings and South for that matter. But killings half a century ago the South was where most of the violence was concen- and of George Wallace standing in a university trated. doorway, we come to an ‘The Problem ... ‘ innocent advertisement of a mixed-race girl that In 1960, 6-year-old Ruby prompts the hate-speech of Bridges was the first black the ’60s. child to attend a white Parodies of the ad have elementary school in New made their way to the Orleans. She, too, had to be Internet. My favorite is a escorted by federal marphoto of the little girl with shals and endured more the caption: “With all the abuse than any child problems we have, you’re should. Her ordeal was upset because my parents commemorated in the com- don’t match?!” pelling 1964 painting “The And Sam Cooke’s words Problem We All Live With” still resonate: “It’s been

by Norman Rockwell. It a long time coming, but I depicts a young black girl know a change is gonna in a white dress, carrying come.” her schoolbooks with an If, indeed, Cheerios can escort of four marshals. help heal a heart, I know On the wall behind her some people who could use are the remnants of tossed a big bowl. tomatoes and scrawled racial epithets. If you have Mike Jones, 918-581-8332 mike.jones@tulsaworld.com never seen this painting,

On June 11, 1963, Gov. George Wallace blocked the entrance to the University of Alabama as he tried to turn back two black students attempting to enroll in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Associated Press file

Work is secret to good health

BY PETER ORSZAG Teddy Roosevelt once said “the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

Recent research suggests he may have been more right than he knew: Life’s “best prize” might actually extend life itself.

Our common perception is that retirement is a time when we can relax and take better care of ourselves after stressful careers. But what if work itself is beneficial to our health, as several recent studies suggest?

One of them, by Jennifer Montez of Harvard University and Anna Zajacova of the University of Wyoming, examined why the gap in life expectancy between highly educated and less-educated Americans has been growing so rapidly. (I have explored this topic in several previous columns, and have also agreed to be co-chairman of a National Academy of Sciences panel that will delve into it in more detail.)

Examining the growing educational gradient in life expectancy from 1997 to 2006, Montez and Zajacova focused on white women ages 45 to 84. In addition to differential trends in smoking by education, they

concluded that among these women “employment was, in and of itself, an important contributor.” The life expectancy of less-educated women was being shortened by their lower employment rates compared with those of highly educated women.

The researchers tried to test whether the problem was that less-educated people had worse health, and therefore couldn’t work.

But they found that “the contribution of employment to diverging mortality across education levels is at least partly due to the health benefits derived from employment.”

Researchers at the Institute of Economic Affairs in the U.K. have also recently identified “negative and substantial effects on health from retirement.” Their study found retirement to be associated with a significant increase in clinical depression and a decline in self-assessed health, and that these effects grew larger as the number of years people spent in retirement increased.

Similarly, a study published in 2008 by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that full retirement increased difficulties with mobility and daily activities by 5 percent to 16

percent and, by reducing physical exertion and social interactions, also harmed mental health.

The broader literature on the question of whether retirement harms health has been more mixed. The big question is whether the observed physical deterioration after retirement occurs because it is underlying poor health that leads people to end their working life. Some studies that try to control for this reverse causality, such as a 2007 paper by John Bound of the University of Michigan and Timothy Waidmann of the Urban Institute, find that retirement doesn’t harm health — and may actually improve it. Another study, by Esteban Calvo of the Universidad Diego Portales in Chile, Natalia Sarkisian of Boston College and Christopher Tamborini of the Social Security Administration, finds harm from early retirement but no benefit from delaying retirement beyond the traditional age.

My own reading of all of these studies is that there is at least strongly suggestive evidence that not working, in and of itself, can be harmful to your health. And this raises the question of what it means for the puzzling finding that overall life expec-

tancy appears to rise, not fall, during recessions.

Now I’m only speculating, but the answer could lie in the fact that, even during a recession, most people still work. Because a larger-thanusual minority don’t, pollution is reduced, traffic fatalities decline and the quality of staffing at nursing homes improves — and these changes boost the health of the people who are still working. It’s terrible to say, but the research seems to suggest that being out of work yourself may hurt your health — but having other people out of work may help it.

Which brings us back to Mr. Roosevelt. Most of us seem to think that we would be in better health if we won the lottery and spent our days on the beach, rather than struggling with sometimes stressful jobs.

Yet the next time you think your job is killing you, just remember that the evidence, if anything, suggests the opposite. Your job may be saving your life.

Peter Orszag is vice chairman of corporate and investment banking and chairman of the financial strategy and solutions group at Citigroup Inc. and a former director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Obama administration.

States are moving in opposite directions session that recently ended resulted in a tax hike on top earners, to be used for Conservative Republicans in our early-childhood education and state nation’s capital have managed to acuniversities. Minnesota also legalized complish something they only dreamed same-sex marriage and expanded the of when tea partiers streamed into power of trade unions to organize.

Congress at the start of 2011. They’ve On the other hand, Kansas is about basically shut down Congress. Their to shift taxes away from the wealthy refusal to compromise is working just and onto the middle class and poor by as they hoped: No jobs agenda. No bud- reducing the state’s income tax and get. No grand bargain on the deficit. No substituting a higher sales tax. And background checks on guns. Nothing on North Carolina millionaires are on the climate change. No tax reform. No hike verge of saving at least $12,500 a year in the minimum wage. Nothing so far from a pending income-tax cut even as on immigration reform. sales taxes are raised on services that It’s as if an entire branch of the lower-income residents depend on. federal government — the branch that’s Gay marriages are now recognized in supposed to deal directly with the na12 states and the District of Columbia. tion’s problems, not just execute the Colorado and Washington state permit law or interpret the law but make the the sale of marijuana. California is exlaw — has gone out of business, leavpanding a pilot program to allow nurse ing behind only a so-called “sequester” practitioners to perform abortions. that’s cutting deeper and deeper into Guns are harder to buy in New York education, infrastructure, programs for and Connecticut. the nation’s poor, and national defense.

But other states are heading in the The window of opportunity for opposite direction. They’re enacting the president to get anything done is laws restricting access to abortions closing rapidly. Even in less partisan so tightly as to arguably violate the times, new initiatives rarely occur after Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. the first year of a second term, when Wade. In Alabama, the mandated waita president inexorably slides toward ing period for an abortion is longer than lame-duck status. it is for buying a gun. Meanwhile, some states are expanding Medicaid under Less gridlock the Affordable Care Act while others are refusing to.

But the nation’s work doesn’t stop The states are even diverging on even if Washington does. By default, immigration, filling the void left by more and more of it is shifting to the Washington’s inaction. If you’re an states, which are far less gridlocked undocumented young person, you’re than Washington. Last November’s eligible for in-state tuition at public elections resulted in one-party control universities in 14 states. But you might of both the legislatures and governor’s want to avoid even driving through offices in all but 13 states — the most Arizona, where state police are allowed single-party dominance in decades. to investigate the immigration status of This means many blue states are anyone they suspect is here illegally. moving further left, while red states Clear divide are heading rightward. It’s as if we’re seceding from each other without going Federalism is as old as the Republic, through all the trouble of a civil war. but not since the real Civil War have we Minnesota’s Democratic-FarmerLabor Party, for example, now controls witnessed such a clear divide between the states on such central issues. both legislative chambers and the Some might say this is a good thing. It governor’s office for the first time in more than two decades. The legislative allows more of us to live under govern-

BY ROBERT B. REICH

ments and laws we approve of. And it encourages experimentation: Better to learn that a policy doesn’t work at the state level than after it’s harmed the entire nation. As the jurist Louis Brandeis said, our states are laboratories of democracy.

But the trend raises three troubling issues.

First, it leads to a race to the bottom.

Over time, middle-class citizens of states with more generous safety nets and higher taxes on the wealthy can become disproportionately burdened as the wealthy move out and the poor move in, forcing such states to reverse course. If the idea of “one nation” means anything, it stands for us widely sharing the burdens and responsibilities of citizenship.

Second, it doesn’t take account of spillovers. Semi-automatic pistols purchased without background checks in one state can easily find their way to another state where gun purchases are restricted. By the same token, a young person who receives an excellent public education courtesy of the citizens of one state is likely to move to another state where job opportunities are better. We are interdependent. No single state can easily contain or limit the benefits or problems it creates for other states.

Finally, it can reduce the power of minorities. For more than a century, “states rights” has been a euphemism for the efforts of some whites to repress or deny the votes of black Americans.

Now that minorities are gaining substantial political strength nationally, devolution of government to the states could play into the hands of modernday white supremacists.

A great nation requires a great, or at least functional, national government.

The tea partiers and other governmenthaters who have caused Washington to all but close because they refuse to compromise are threatening all that we aspire to be together.

Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley.