Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 99, No. 239, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 24, 2014 Page: 1 of 18
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OKLAHOMA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
800 NAZIH ZUHDI DR
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 73105-7917
August 24, 2014
Vol. 99/ No. 238
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Celebrations
Happy Birthday
Micah Choquette
Don Moss, 75 yrs
Cynthia McFall
David Wadley
Carolyn Warren
Alex Green
Gov. Mike Huckabee, 59
Happy Anniversary
F. David and Sue Beach
Daily Scripture
And they were all amazed, so
that they questioned among
themselves, saying, “What is
this? A new teaching with
authority! He commands even
the unclean spirits, and they
obey him.”
Mark 1:27
Did You Know?
Just 46 States
Technically America has just 46
states as the remaining four;
Kentucky, Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania and Virginia are all
commonwealths and proud of it.
Each of the four commonwealths
joined the Union early on with the
foursome among the first 15 states
attempting to form a more perfect
union. The four commonwealths
are among the first 15 states to join
the Union. A commonwealth has
no legal meaning, merely empha-
sizes a “government based on the
common consent of the people”
Tomorrow’s
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Daily Herald
Theatre stages council presentation
CHRIS HICKS PHOTO
SAPULPA COMMUNITY THEATRE’S PRESIDENT Debbie Pope gave
a presentation updating the council members to the state of the theatre
both financially and literally. She gives list of planned and needed ren-
ovations to the aging building.
BY CHRIS HICKS
STAFF WRITER
This week Sapulpa's City Council was given a presentation from the new
president of the Sapulpa Community Theatre (SCT) and the body approved
multiple mayoral appointees for numerous commutes.
"Thank you for your support with our save the theatre' campaign. We want
to get back to working with and for the community.” said President of the SCT
Debbie Pope. Pope was an original board member at the founding of the the-
ater troupe a quarter century ago.
She continued on with her presentation featuring an optimistic report on the
current status and needs of the theatre for the future.
Pope told councilors they had raised two-thirds of their funds goal. She also
added that they had received a grant from the Bartlett Foundation for some
much needed repairs to the historic building.
“The old girl (building) is getting along in the years and it is starting to
show." said Pope.
Their are several proposed building projects and options the board is look-
ing at to help bring the theatre back to its “former glory.”
Councilman Alan Jones had two requests for the board.
The first request was that the council stay updated on what plays and events
are coming up plus show dates.
The board was presented the new season of SCT brochures to help mem-
bers keep track of the live upcoming events.
The second request made was that the council be updated on the financials
as well. Perhaps like the Sapulpa Golf Course that sends in a monthly finan-
cial report, the theatre could send in updates about the on going struggles a
community theatre goes through to continue to provide entertainment for live
audiences and opportunies for actors to utilize their craft.
Pope told councilors that could be done easily enough.
“I want people, when they think of Route 66, to say ‘hey I wonder what is
going on at the Sapulpa Community Theatre," she added.
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Kiefer ?m REAP and Diesel
BY JOHN BROCK
ASSISTANT EDITOR
A foursome of Kiefer Public
Works Authority members Steve
Hurry. Kim Godwin, Steve Capehart
and Mayor Wes Ashford held a regu-
lar meeting session this week.
PWA members reviewing consent
agenda items balked at a repair bill
due for $3,000 for fixes on the town’s
diesel back hoe.
Board members questioned the
town’s maintenance head Fred Fuss
who explained that water had infil-
trated the diesel fuel tank and during
operation the water had made contact
with the fuel injectors and ruined
them.
Additionally rather than the town
trailering the machine to the mechan-
ic. the mechanic travelled to Kiefer.
Diesel powered engines normally
have sophisticated water separation
systems (filters) to prevent any water
from ever reaching the delicate injec-
tor tips.
Board members resigned them-
selves to paying the big diesel
mechanics bill as the town backhoe is
a heavily utilized very needed piece
of equipment.
Members did not take any action
or approval on the annual budget
audit that was to be presented by
Ralph Osborn.
“He called us before the meeting
and said the audit is not complete. We
should table it.” Kiefer Town
Administrator Rita Stover advised.
The town approved a two year
contract renewal with natural gas
supplier Clearwater. The old contract
expired in July.
"We will be paying .70 cents more
per decatherm than we were two
years ago. We lock in fixed pricing
for 70 percent of our average month-
ly usage,” Vice Mayor Hurry stated
JOHN BROCK PHOTO
KIEFER FIRE CHIEF Chad Blankenship on left introduced town lead-
ers to a new hire at the volunteer fire department. Justin Speers is 22
years old and works for county road District No. 1.
Members voted 4-0 to approve the
contract. Kiefer will pay $4.75 per
decatherm, with that price locked in
for the seventy percent of average
(monthly) usage. The remaining 30
percent of natural gas will cost the
town the going market rate to pur-
chase for its municipal customers.
Members discussed briefly the
advantages of ‘locking in' low cost
gas guarantees.
Much of the meeting was devoted
solely to matters pertaining to the
work (and paperwork) to upgrade the
town’s sewer lagoon treatment of dis-
charge effluent that goes into
Childers Creek.
Kiefer has in recent years been in
continual violation of the state’s
Department of Environmental
Quality standards in regards to the
quality of water downstream from the
treated water inlet into the creek.
The lead contractor installing the
0SBI to
investigate
jail death
BY JOHN BROCK
ASSISTANT EDITOR
The Oklahoma State Bureau of
Investigation has agreed this week
to investigate the deaths of two in-
custody inmates in the state, one at
the Creek County Justice Center
and the other at the Oklahoma
County Jail.
Ransom
Andrew
Moss. 53,
of Bristow
was found
dead inside
the Creek
County
Justice
Center
Sunday
morning
August 17,
first discov-
ered by fel-
low inmates.
Asphyxiation is suspected as
the initial cause of death.
The OSBI probe was initiated
by a request from the Creek
County Sheriff’s Office.
According to OSBI Public
Information Officer Jessica
Brown, foul play is not suspected,
still the state medical examiner
will perform an autopsy to better
determine the nature of the death
the exact cause and manner
Moss is the third inmate death
this year at the CCJC.
Moss was booked into the jail
June II, on a warrant for two
counts of sexual battery, accused
of intentionally touching, mauling
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