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gapatpa (Okie.) Herald. Sunday. March 3. 1 MS-PAGE THREK-A
Shawnee janitor, stray dog become friends
SHAWNEE, OUa. (AP) - Car*, truck* and dkMls
whiz put, fatting off and on thru separata highway*
which connect at the bu*y artery.
A rad pickup truck puUs onto the ihouktar of the road,
■topping just short of the congested intersection.
Claud Ham hu arrived to feed Ns dog.
For the put three years, Ham, a Shawnee resident,
has made the stop to feed a dog he calb Lonesome
George. Ham hu never patted the bird dog's dark head;
they’ve never taken an evening walk together. But
without fail, Ham hu provided and George hu ac-
cepted.
Modern times and mutual respect have forced the pair
into a relationship not common among the centuries-old
relationships between man and dog.
For the first year, Ham uw Lonesome George fre-
quently along the highway, while on his way to and from
work as a maintenance man at a Shawnee fast-food
restaurant.
“I uw him off and on for about a year, then started
feeding him about three years ago,” said Ham, a quiet
man with a warm smile. "One day I got a good look at
him. He was just bones
"I miss a few days now and then, but not very many,”
he uid.
dog food in the truck for days when pickings are slim at
Ham confesses to having been caught rammagingin
the dumpster at work for George's favorite food, but
uid his co-workers are sympathetic to the cause. Ham
HKtv pride in his work and hu won several inspection
awards for neatneu and cleanliness at work.
Lonesome George will eat regular dog food, anything
but the generic brand.
"I told him. ‘Sometimes you’ve got to do like 1 do; you
got tout hamburger, not steak,’” Ham said.
"I guess 1 Just feel sorry for him,” Ham laid. I have a
lot of respect for him that he’s been able to survive all
these yurs without any help from anybody "
What trust George hu in Ham wu earned. At first,
when Ham came to put out the food. Lonesome George
didn’t always show, though the food diuppured
’The traffic doesn’t seem to bother him, but people
do *' Ham said
Recently. Ham has gotten within 15 feet of George
when setting out the food. Always, George waits until
Ham gets in his pickup, starts it and pulls away at least 5
feet before he approaches to eat.
Ham uid he believes George can now recognize his
pickup.
"I tested him once" by stopping at a different place.
"The minute I took off, he ran over there where my
pickup had beun.”
In n»ny ways, for many reasons, Ham indentifies
with Lonesome George. He knows loneliness, hard luck
and what it's like to work at survival.
Ham was bom during an Oklahoma summer, 1921 at
Checotah. When Ham was 9, hi* father died, leaving his
mother with six children. Ham and a twin sister were
sent to the Whittaker State Orphans Home in Pryor,
where he uid he attended school for the first tune.
After leaving the orphanage, Ham worked at a dairy
farm, receiving $15 a month, room and board. He later
worked in the CCC camps, created during the Depres-
sion by President Roosevelt. Just before World War II,
he was mowing lawns in Seminole for 25 cents an hour.
• In 1941, Ham enlisted in the Navy, primarily to secure
a job, he said. A youthful gunner’s mate, second class,
Ham survived the fateful day when Japanese planes
bombed Pearl Harbor.
Memories of the aftermath of Pearl Harbor live with
Ham.
•We had to go back over there and dig those sa ilors out
of that oily water.”
Leaving the Navy in November 1946 with an honorable
discharge. Ham went to work for Shell Oil Co. in Califor-
nia. In 1971, he had a triple bypass heart operation. In
1973 he retired after 20 years with Shell and he moved to
Shawnee in 1975.
Ham sits in a yellow-backed booth at work. He lights
another cigarette and draws a deep breath.
A dark-haired woman with deep, snapping blue eyes
site down beside him.
“He’s raised lots of strays,” says Georgia, Ham’s wife
of 40 years.
After Ham’s twin sister died, the couple took her 4-
year-old son to rear. They also reared four hater
children.
The couple has shared a lot. Georgia says They have
many memories.
“But, he won't share George with me." she says.
"I would like to get him anesthetized hr shois," Ham
says, “but if he gets too friendly with me, he might get
too friendly with the wrong kind of person later on I
don’t trust anybody else "
FTC: optometrists
avoid competition
Nancy Reagan visits Tulsa next week
WASHINGTON <AP> - The
Federal Trade Commission says the
Oklahoma Optometric Association's
rules restricting advertising and use
of branch offices inhibit competition
and raise prices to consumers.
The commission accused the
association of anticompetitive con
duct in a civil complaint, announced
Friday, which now must come
before an administrative law judge
for a hearing.
The FTC voted 4-1 to issue the
complaint with Commissioner Terry
Calvani dissenting.
The trade commission charged
that the optometric group
unreasonably restrained competi-
tion by suspending from member-
ship optometrists who affiliate with
franchises and by declaring them
engaged in unethical behavior.
Dr. J. LeKoy Oxford, executive
director of the Oklahoma associa
tion, said Friday that the group s
membership included optometrists
who operate franchises. "We have
never dismissed anybody for par-
Oklahoma briefs
ticipating in a franchise," Oxford
said.
He said the association had
negotiated with the FTC on a
number of points. "On virtually all,
we have agreed to relinquish... Ox-
ford said. He Mid the group could
not back down on the stance on fran-
chises, where an optometrist has his
office in a building and a shop with
visual aides is located in the other
half of the building.
“We think this violates the cor
porate practice rules of Oklahoma,'
Oxford said.
"Our problem is we consider the
FTC mandate as pre-empting stole
law," Oxf ord said.
In addition, the commission said,
the group restricted competition by
prohibiting members from practic-
ing close to retail stores, operating
separate or branch offices, offering
specific guarantees such as refunds
or making any representation that
carries "the slightest intimation
that they could possess qualities
superior to others.
WASHINGTON (AP) - First
Lady Nancy Reagan will visit Tulsa
next week, it was announced Friday
The White House said the first
lady will tour the Tulsa County
Juvenile Court detention center on
March 12 and discuss drug and
alcohol abuse with residents of the
center.
After spending the night with her
mother in Phoenix, Anz., Mrs.
Reagan will fly to Los Angeles. On
March 14 in Los Angeles, she will
receive the USO Distinguished
American Award at a dinner at
which entertainer Bob Hope will ap-
pear.
Exciting
Things
*
New phenomenon
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Vic-
tims of polio may face a new
medical phenomenon, according to
the man who developed the oral
polio vaccine.
Dr. Albert B. Sabin said during a
lecture Friday at the University of
Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
that post-polio syndrome "is not just
in people's minds." Post-polio syn-
drome, with symptoms including in-
creased fatigue, weakness in
muscles and joints, and severe pain,
is occuring in both the elderly and
those in their 30s and 40s who were
polio victims, Sabin said.
In recent months, thousands of
Americans who contracted polio in
the 1940s and 1950s have complained
of a recurrence of polio symptoms
years after recovering from the
disease.
Sabin attributed the condition to
premature aging of nerve cells
damaged by earlier polio infection
or an immune response triggered by
influenza, viruses or bacteria.
(lap law OK
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The
state’s prison cap law, used to
release certain inmates when the
prison population reaches 95 percent
of capacity, does not violate the
Oklahoma Constitution, according to
Attorney General Mike Turpen and
Neal Leader, an assistant.
The opinion said a 1984 act permit-
ting emergency release of inmates
60 days prior to the expiration of
their sentence was legal. The law
provides that the release shall occur
under an emergency declaration by
the governor when prison population
reaches 95 percent of capacity.
Kep. Bill Graves, K-Oklahoma Ci-
ty, requested the opinion.
Kates lower
OKLAHOMA CITY <AP) -
Panhandle gas customers of
Southern Union Gas Co. can look for
ward to lower rates.
An order signed Friday by the Cor-
poration Commission requires the
company to slash its rates retroac-
tive to Feb. 1.
Howard Motley, director of the
commission's public utilities divi-
sion, said February gas bills mailed
this week to the more than 5,uuu
Panhandle customers should reflect
the rate reduction.
The cuts will average about 8.8
percent for residential customers
and 33 to 34 percent for farmers who
consume large amounts of gas,
usually just a few months a year, to
irrigate their crops.
DEAR PATIENTS,
I am at home recuperating
and have no intentions of
retiring.
Thank You All,
For your concern, cards, food,
prayers & help during my
absence. Thank you also for
your patience with my staff
and please continue to call
upon them and they will see
that you are cared for, we do
have doctors on duty and on
call day or night.
Offfic* Phon« 224-3081, Horn* 224-2316
Sincerely
Louis A. Martin
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Lake, Charles S. Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 71, No. 145, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 3, 1985, newspaper, March 3, 1985; Sapulpa, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1500121/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.