Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 82, No. 78, Ed. 1 Friday, December 13, 1996 Page: 1 of 22
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INSIDE:
A food ministry at a
Sapulpa church is
helping more than
25 families a week
to make ends meet.
I SPORTS:
I Sapulpa's Kyle Baker
!| has high hopes for his
|| senior season on the
; | Chieftain basketball
1 team, which plays at
i | Ponca City tonight.
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Sapulpa Daily
SUNDAY $1 - DAILY 50$
Friday, December 13, 1996
MOSTLY SUNNY.
High in the lower
60s. East wind 5 to
10 mph. Tonight:
Mostly clear. Low in
the upper 30s.
Saturday: Mostly sunny. High in the
upper 50s.
OKLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
S100 N LINCOLN BLVD
OKLA CITY OK 73105
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Friday
days until
Christmas
OPERATION
SANTA
You can help make Christmas
brighter for Sapulpa youngsters in
disadvantaged families by donating
a gift by taking it to the Salvation
Army office at 603 S. Park or by
calling 224-4415 to have the gift
picked up.
SH14
My name is Terrance. I am 0 6-
year-old boy who wants gloves and
a cap, a basketball, an X-man fig-
ure and a walkman.
ITS YOUR DAT!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TODAY
to Marc Bennett, 17; John
Lewman; Sara Mauch; Rosalie
ROSsell; Less Gregg; and
Jasper Ford.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SATUR-
DAYS Ruth Shimp.
HAPPY BELATED BIRTH-
DAY to Mike Bradley and Kim
Hardy.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY to
Shelly and Shane Harwood, 5
years, and Allen and Leanna
Haynes, 18 years.
Ityou want to wish someone a
happy birthday or anniversary,
call 224-5185 by 9 a.m.
Incidentally
Taking Note
Mounds parade
| Residents here will roll out the
red carpet for Santa Claus Satur-
day when their annual Christmas
parade kicks off.
The parade begins at 10 a.m.
irtidpants should line up by 9.
Judging for best float will be at
The parade will proceed west
i the school, turn south on
nercial Avenue and disperse
I of downtown. More than 30
ipants are expected to turn
The public is invited.
income disparity
& EDMOND (AP) — The gap in
income between residents
urban and rural areas of the
keeps widening.
Gerald A. Docksen, regents
and extension economist
Oklahoma State University, said
found the income disparity dis-
g. The study was present-
Wednesday to the Oklahoma
Council.
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Index
Church.......
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Comics......
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Dear Abby.....
• ... 8
Classifieds ....
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Lifestyles.....
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Obituaries.....
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Sports.......
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TV Listings.....
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Today in History.
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Vol. 82 - No. 78 - 10 Pages - © Copyright 1996 A Park Newspaper - Member of Associated Press Sapulpa, Okla. 74066-224-5185
SHS Big Blue
headed south
By GREG LOWER
Herald Staff Writer
For Sapulpa, a trip to a major New
Year’s bowl parade has almost
become routine.
The Chieftains Marching Band
makes its third trip to the Fiesta Bowl
Parade this year. Director Dean Coale
said the band is in good standing on
fund-raising efforts to send 265 band
members to the parade in Phoenix,
Arizona.
Students arc selling tickets to a
benefit concert Dec. 19. A concert at
SpiritBank earlier this year raised
$7,000, and an Elks chili supper
raised $5,000.
Band members need to raise $500
per student, but Coale said many start-
ed years ago. He said he plans to take
a band trip every three years, and the
musicians earn a percentage of their
trip in the off-years.
“Many of them had a substantial
amount of money to their credit
before this year even started,” Coalc
said.
For various reasons, about 10 band
members will be unable to attend. The
fundraising efforts go to a plan that
will include meals as well as lodging.
Coale said students will not receive
funds for souvenirs or purchases, but
will be able to make the trip without
taking spending money.
This is the third trip to the Fiesta
Bowl for Sapulpa, which went in 1990
and 1993. The band will compete in
Class B, for schools below 1,800
enrollment.
“We've won our division both
times we’ve gone in the past,” Coalc
said. He said the last time the band
went, Sapulpa was one of the smallest
schools in the parade but had one of
the largest bands.
Competition includes both parade
and field marching, but Coale said
they will participate only in the parade
competition.
With Sapulpa’s past wins, the band
has almost a standing invitation to the
parade, but Coale said it is not practi-
cal to go every year.
“This is the trip I like,” Coale said.
Of the New Year’s parades, he said
this one has the best chance of good
weather. He also likes the way it is
organized and the Phoenix hospitality
is top-notch.
When it leaves, the band will go
west in a modern wagon train. Seven
charter buses will take on 265 band
members and 50 chaperons to leave
See ■ BAND, Page 2
Herald Photo by BOB SHERRILL
RETURN TRIP-The Sapulpa High School march- Dean Coale took the band to the parade in 1990
ing band will leave at 6 p.m. Dec. 27 for its third trip and 1993, winning its division each time. A benefit
to the Fiesta Bowl Parade in Phoenix Ariz this year, concert is set Dec. 19 to raise funds for the trip.
MENDING FENCES
Kiefer police boundary
between the fence rows
By BOB SHERRILL
Herald Staff Writer
A Herald inquiry this week indi-
cates that more than $3,000 in cita-
tions have been written by Kiefer
police the past six months along a
seven-mile stretch of road that may be
outside the town’s limits.
The Herald with help from Kiefer
City Clerk Linda Surmount and Chief
of Police James Poulin examined cita-
tions issued on West 171st Street,
South 33rd West Avenue and West
141st Street.
Kiefer police and the town council
have been assuming the roads were in
the town limits because of statements
by an INCOG employee, Surmount
and Poulin said.
[INCOG is the acronym for Indian
Nation Council of Governments, an
association of area governments).
Surmount said Thursday the police
department had stopped patrolling the
roads in question until a ruling on
jurisdiction can be obtained.
Two town council members also
have said they all want to know if the
roads arc in their town limits or not.
At the core of the problem is where
a 67-foot wide strip of land called “the
Kiefer fence line” lies along West
171st from Hwy. 75A cast to the South
33rd West Avenue intersection. Then
north on 33rd West Avenue to West
141st. Street.
The fence line continues west on
141st Street to where it reaches a dead
end at South 49th West Avenue.
Dale Block was an INCOG advisor
for the town of Kiefer until last July.
Thursday, Block said he told coun-
cil members the true perimeter of the
fence line had been set by using the
legal descriptions of section lines and
not roads.
“I told the council and others the
67-foot wide strip was as much in the
town limits as the middle of town,”
Block said.
“But I also told them to be careful
because no one knew whether the sec-
tion line ran down the middle of the
road without a survey,” he said.
“And I warned them to be careful
about treatment of the fence line until
they knew where the section line
boundaries were," Block said.
He said as far as he knew there is
no one in Kiefer or anywhere right
now who can say if all or any part of
the roads in question arc in the strip
annexed by the town.
Surmount said that Block told
police and others to "work along the
roads until some one complains.”
However, Block said that he had
never made that statement to anyone.
Earlier, Poulin had interpreted the
boundary of the fence lines to he
down the center lines of the roadways.
He said that his police officers
were working only half of the roads in
question.
But, there were tickets found in the
Herald inquiry this week which indi-
cate police had stopped traffic in both
directions during the past six months.
Block said the point to remember is
that most of the roads were built basi-
cally along a line of least resistance.
And even though a road may
appear to be straight, a drift in direc-
tion of only a foot could quickly pro-
duce an significant error in less than a
mile.
“The only way the town can deter-
mine the exact position of its fence
See ■ KIEFER. Page 10
Kiefer officials,
residents respond
By the Herald Staff
Kiefer Chief of Police James
Poulin said this week the Oklahoma
Highway Patrol left his department
on the hook for unlawfully patrolling
; Hwy. 75A north of Kiefer.
Poulin said he logged the call
with a Lt. Gross of the OHP, (first
name unknown) on Oct. 23, and had
• written that Gross approved his
department working Hwy. 75A from
the city limit sign to West 141st
; Street.
“Now that our patrols have
caused trouble, the OHP says they
never made such a commitment,"
Poulin said. “It’s our fault for not
getting it in writing, 1 guess.”
Poulin was among several Kiefer
residents and council members who
responded to articles they believe
critical of the Kiefer Police Depart-
ment earlier this week.
The most outspoken comments
came from B.J. Pope, who said the
Herald and reporter Bob Sherrill
were guilty of “sensational journal-
ism."
Pope also said he saw no problem
with Kiefer police working outside
their jurisdiction.
“In fact, the closer to Sapulpa we
can catch these people the better off
Kiefer is," Pope said. "Then they
won’t be endangering the town.”
He said the Herald has done the
town a great disservice with its arti-
cles, and that the newspaper had
caused Poulin and his department to
stop traffic patrols.
“I have been on too many tragic j
accidents to not want to get these ,
people off the road," he said.
Pope was referring to Michael
Tibbetts who had his charges
dropped by the Creek County district
attorney’s office earlier this week.
Pope is the director of the Creek
County Civil Emergency Manage-
ment Department and a retired
Sapulpa firefighter.
Kiefer council members Ron
Grimes and Susan Barnes both said
they approve of what Poulin has
accomplished with the department
since becoming chief in November
1995.
Grimes said Poulin and his men
had worked hard to keep the town
safe.
“There arc going to be some w ho
arc going to complain when they get
a ticket," he said.
Barnes said she thought the chief
had done a good job.
“If we have done something
wrong then we need to make
amends," she said. “I can t support
See ■ RESPONSE, Page 10
Big Christmas parade
Saturday in Kellyville
AT THE FAIR BOARD MEETING
Livestock show rules
debated by members
By LORRIE J. QUINNELLY
Herald Staff Writer
KELLYVILLE - Residents here
will pull out all the stops - and the
flags, patriotism and tinsel, too - Sat-
urday when they host an All-Ameri-
can Christmas parade.
Parade participants will line up at
10:30 a.m. at the high school football
field. The parade will begin at 11.
Roger TUttle, co-chairperson for
this year’s event, said the Christmas
parade has become a holiday tradition
people of Kellyville anticipate with
other seasonal events.
“This is the 14th Snnual parade,”
he said. "It was started by the Kel-
lyville Jaycees. The Jaycees are
defunct now, but four or five of us
keep it going because we hate to see
the parade die.”
Theme for the parade, Tuttle said,
is “An All-American Christmas” in
honor of election year. Grand mar-
shals for the parade will be retiring
Kellyville school teachers Tom and
Phyllis Holcomb.
“We thought we would honor the
Holcombs for the r years in the
school,” Tuttle said. “It fits with the
theme.”
Children who attend the parade
receive balloons, said co-chairperson
Terrie Conley.
“We walk down the streets and
hand every child a balloon," she said.
"American National Bank has been
very good to help with that and pay
for all the balloons.”
The parade will begin from the
high school football field parking lot
and follow a circular route, southward
on Maple Street, turn on Buffalo and
proceed to Main Street, turn north on
Allen Street and return to the football
field parking lot.
More than 30 entries are slated for
the parade, including Star Video,
OG&E, Creative Touch, First Baptist
Church in Kellyville and the youth
group from New Life Fellowship,
Kellyville police and fire departments,
the Kellyville High School Band and
a memorial replica of the battleship
U.S.S. Arizona sponsored by a Pearl
Harbor survivors group. Santa Claus
also is scheduled to make an appear-
ance._
See ■ KELLYVILLE Page 2
Clinton cabinet
announcements
expected today
WASHINGTON (AP) — As
President Clinton winnowed his
vacancy list, Democratic activist
Bill Daley of Chicago emerged as
the likely choice for commerce sec-
retary and Rep. Bill Richardson the
probable pick for U N. ambassador.
Attorney General Janet Reno’s fate
also hung in the balance.
Administration officials, speak-
ing on condition of anonymity, said
the decisions could be announced at
an afternoon news conference today.
Clinton, who left Reno’s status
up in the air for weeks, met for 30
minutes Thursday night with his
independent-minded attorney gener-
al, only reporting to aides that it was
“a wonderful meeting ”
Going into the one-on-one ses-
sion, senior advisers said Clinton
summoned Reno to ask her to stay
— and she was expected to accept.
■ If Daley replaces Mickey Kan-
tor at Commerce, Federal Highway
Administrator Rodney Slater would
be the strong front-runner for trans-
portation secretary, replacing Fed-
erico Pena. Slater worked for Clin-
Bv Mary Hall
Herald Staff Writer
Livestock show rules were again
the main topic of discussion at the reg-
ular monthly meeting of the Creek
County Fairboard, held Thursday
night at the Fairgrounds.
The hoard members, along with
several area vo-ag and FFA instruc-
tors. debated the 1997 show rules per-
taining to swine and the manner in
which the animals arc entered.
Many of the questions put to the
board centered around the need for
pre-entering the swine and requiring
the pseudo-rabies test verification.
“The whole issue here, and reason
we made some of the rule changes we
did, is to verify ownership,” said fair-
board member Dewey Enlow.
“Ali we want is for the teachers or
representatives to be able to validate
ownership of the swine to the student.
“Last year there were rumblings of
kids buying and bringing in animals
just to win. But now with the pseudo-
rabies test, ear tags and pre-entering
requirements, somewhere there is
going to be proof of ownership and
that is all we are after," Enlow said.
“We arc trying to keep everybody
on the line,” said B.T. Herman a board
representative from Bristow, “but if
there are some honest mistakes with
tagging or something along the line, I
think the kids should still get to show
their animals. The point of all this is to
keep people on the up and up, not
exclude competitors.”
Board members agreed that owner-
ship papers and pre-entry forms had
never been checked in the past and
may not this year either.
One board member said in past
years several students had been
allowed to switch entry classes due to
hardship, and wondered if it would be
allowed this year.
Board member Russell Moody,
representing Sapulpa, suggested that
the board send out letters notifying all
FFA and ag teachers that swine ear tag
numbers must be listed on the 1997
pre-entry forms.
See ■ FAIRBOARD, Page 2
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