Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 89, No. 263, Ed. 2 Monday, December 25, 1978 Page: 3 of 32
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In his 19 years at the Brown,
Clytus has guided thousands of visi-
tors, from President Eisenhower to
Wyoming cowboys, into the hotel s
City treasurer Mike Johnson has
pushed for Improved accounting
that would give elected officials an
overview of city finances since he
took office nearly two years ago.
But changing Edmond's account-
ing systems is a major, costly un-
wood-paneled interior, smiling and
trying to make each feel welcome.
"They re all VIPs to me," he said.
"It's a little thing maybe, but I'll get
the name off the bag and I might
take the gentleman into the resatu-
rant and say, 'This is Mr. Jones.'
"He may know how I got his name,
A Midwest City restaurant mana-
ger said he received "quite a tew"
orders for whole turkeys, dressing
and gravy as well as pies and other
pastries.
He said a large part of the holiday
eating done In his place Is by orga-
nized groups such as civic clubs,
church groups, senior citizens and
private parties.
Another unusual thing, he said, is
that family and group eating in his
place as well as the takeout order
business occurs about uniformly
throughout the year. Holiday peri-
ods do not seem to increase this
type of business, he said.
An Edmond restaurant owner
said he has a large surge in business
the day and evening before major
holidays, especially Thanksgiving,
Christmas and New Year's eve
Some of the business is for orders
Clytus — in the brief expanse of
time it takes to let a hotel guest out
of a vehicle, usher them through the
heavy glass doors and to the front
desk — has struck up friendships
that have lasted more than a dec-
ade.
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The authority operates electrici-
ty, water and‘sewer services.
A new accounting system that
would conform to those principles
— standards set by the accounting
profession — is a subject of some
controversy at City Hall.
hamburger pizza, carrot sticks, lime
jello, chocolate chip cookies and
milk.
Another group of school lunch
gourmets — Julie Lubbers, Monte
Turpentine, Bart Bull and Suzanne
Southard — said their classmates
sent compliments to the menu plan-
ners the day their lunch was served.
They had hot dogs, green beans,
fruit cocktail, chocolate cake and
milk, "and no one brought their
lunches from home that day," said
Monte.
Mrs. Parker said the students'
menus were completed in November
and they are being served school-
wide. It will be about February be-
fore all 10 menus are worked into
the lunch schedule, she said.
The food service director said this
is the second year fourth graders
have planned menus, and she hopes
to keep the fires burning under the
project. "I'm all for it because if you
teach kids to eat right at this age,
then they won't have so many health
problems later on in life."
The lesson isn't lost on pupils like
Becky Burnham. While explaining
to a visiting nutritional novice re-
cently what it takes to plan a good
lunch, she abruptly ended the inter-
view to join classmates in the cafe-
teria line, saying, "All this talk
about food — I'm starving. I’m
going to lunch.”
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The council asked consultants to
modify the original Phase 2 study
and answer four questions: initial
cost of an airport, annual mainte-
nance cost, long-range benefits to
the community and revenues.
Scope of Phase 2 must be ap-
proved by FAA which will fund the
study after formal approval of air-
space at the site selected by the
council, consultants said.
Airspace approval normally takes
30 days, said Dr. David Lankford,
chief of planning and environmental
impact for FAA.
Lankford pointed out that the air-
space conflict with Tinker Air Force
Base at an alternate site in far east
Edmond is shown to be less serious
in the site evaluation prepared by
consultants.
City Manager Bill Dashner asked
if the city could ask for airspace at
both sites in one application to save
time should the Deer Creek site be
denied.
Bolinger said it would “water
down" the city’s application by rec-
ognizing there are problems at the
Deer Creek site.
"A fellow who works with me says, ‘«
'Curtis, I know some days you have
problems. How can you smile and
act the same all the time?' I think
It's a gift from God that I'm made
that way." he Mid.
that the financial burden would be
too great,” he Mid.
It couldn't be done in a year, cer-
tainly not by him alone, but poMibly
over five years if the City Council
provices the funding. Pierce said.
The change would require addi-
tional manpower, outside consult-
ants to appraise the value of physi-
cal assets, and new computer pro-
grams, he said.
City Manager Bill Dashner said
bond investors and an increasingly
distrustful public may eventually be
backed by legislation in their de-
mand for accounting systems that
give a better understanding of how
municipalities spend their money.
New federal energy legislation
may lead to pressure on state legis-
latures to require municipal utili-
ties to show that they're not over-
charging customers, he explained.
But he's not planning on asking
the City Council for funds to revamp
city accounting because of the great
cost involved, Dashner Mid.
Edmond has a good bond rating, A
plus, up from two years ago, due to
good fiscal management, he Mid.
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By Dennis King
DEER CREEK — One might ex-
pect a group of fourth graders plan-
ning their own school lunch menus,
would opt for such repast as potato
chips and a side order of cupcakes,
washed down with soda pop.
But when fourth graders at Deer
Creek Elementary School were giv-
en the task of planning lunches,
they dished up menus with healthy
Mmples from the four basic food
groups.
The diminutive dieticians, pupils
of Heleh Thomas and Dorothy Wool-
bright, planned their lunch courses
as part of a nutrition unit they were
studying. Students were divided into
10 four-member groups, and each
group dreamed up a full lunch menu
for one day.
“They were real conscientious
about trying to plan good meals,"
Mid Anna Mae Parker, school food
service director, who guided the pu-
pils in their dietary decisions. Mrs.
Parker talked with the two classes
beforehand about the importance of
a balanced diet and the need to in-
clude items from the four basic food
groups in their meals.
"I told them nourishment is
important, because a hungry child
can’t learn like a well-fed child,"
she Mid.
Also, she pointed out, the students
had to stay within the guidelines of
groups coming to the restaurant, he
Mid.
The manager of a southside Okla-
homa City cafeteria, which is open
on all holidays except Christmas,
Mid he is experiencing an increas-
ing amount of takeout service. But
he Mid this type service is up.for
Thanksgiving and down tor Christ-
mas.
He Mid he would rather have fam-
ilies and groups come to the cafete-
ria where they can be served food
fresh off the stove.
"Food isn't quite as good when it
must be reheated at home," he Mid.
Nearly ail of their takeout orders
are for turkeys, dressing, gravy and
cranberry Muce, he Mid, with the
Christmas trade being only about a
third as large as that at Thanksgiv-
ing. The cafeteria sent out about 50
Christmas pies.
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Restaurants provide traditional meals, trimmings
truck and other physical assets to
determine true value, he said.
The city also doesn't know for
sure how much of its utility reve-
nues are generated by any one ser-
vice.
During the fiscal year ended June
30, 1978, public works generated
$1.2 million for city operations, but
he can only guess at what portion of
those revenues came from electrici-
ty distribution, the most profitable
utility, Pierce said.
If Edmond were to adopt a more
business-like accounting system, re-
cords would reflect cost of provid-
ing electricity, water and sewer ser-
vices, and revenue or loss from
each, he said.
This knowledge is important (or
long-range financial planning, he
added.
Pierce said the city is in a good
position to start changing its book-
keeping.
"We re not extremely large where
the steps would be so tremendous
that it would be difficult to get the
necesMry information, or so small
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the government-approved Type A
lunch, which, is stewed up from two
ounces of protein, three-quarters
cup fruit or vegetable, bread, on pat
of butter and one-half pint of milk.
“Really, the kids' menus consisted
of things they usually have
anyway," Mrs. Parker Mid. "But it
was important to them that they
had a part in planning them."
Favorite foods among fourth
graders, she Mid, seem to be tacos
and fried chicken. But there is also
a healthy appetite for hamburgers,
hot dogs and pizza. Ice cream,
oranges and chocolate milk scored
high among the pupil's culinary con-
coctions.
One group — LiM Kirby, Jill Col-
lins, LiM Maravich and Becky Burn-
ham — Mid they settled on their
menu by the democratic process.
"We all made suggestions, then we
voted on them," LiM Maravich Mid.
And sometimes the decisions were
hard-boiled, they allowed.
’ “Like we decided we couldn't have
chocolate milk, chocolate chip cook-
ies and chocolate ice cream on the
same menu,” Lisa Kirby said.
"That's too much chocolate."
Learning about nutrition stirred
up some heart-burning realities for
LiM Kirby: “I found out the things I
hate the moat are what I need the
most — like vegetables."
So the girls finally decided on
for airport
The City Council has asked con-
sultants to file an application to the
Federal Aviation Administration to
reserve airspace at the Deer Creek
site selected for a municipal airport
despite potential conflict with air-
space of Wiley Poet and Will Rogers
airports.
A study of cost and financing of
an airport, second phase of the
masterplan after site selection, can-
not be completed before the April 3
election when an airport question
may be on the ballot, consultants
told the council at a special meeting
last week.
Phase 2 normally takes six
months, Mid consultant Bob Ber-
nard.
dertaking that can't be done until
the City Council makes it a priority
and provides the funding, says city
accountant Scott Pierce.
"It's difficult to convince people
that an accounting system is more
important than, say, $75,000 in
street improvements," he said.
More than accurate information
for council and taxpayers is at
stake, Pierce Mid.
The city's ability to sell bonds to
finance growth will increasingly de-
pend on good accounting that shows
financial status to bond investors,
he Mid.
City accounting and bond rating
are tied together, Scott explained.
As money gets scarce, Edmond com-
petes with other cities for bond
money. Taxpayers in cities with
high bond rating pay lower interest
rates.
Edmond, like most Oklahoma cit-
ies. operates on a cash-flow basis.
Purchase of a city truck, for
example, is recorded as an expense
when paid. The city does not know
the rate of depreciation of that
I but it makes him feel more relaxed
and at home," Clytus Mid.
Tall and slim, Clytus wears a gold
trimmed uniform, removing his hat
only to tip it at female guests.
Tips are not that good, he Mid,
but the variety of people are the
gratuities he derives from his
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selves at a restaurant over the
weekend.
The manager of a northside Okla-
homa City cafeteria Mid the num-
ber oT families eating out for the
holidays has grown tremendously
during the past few years.
He Mid it is sometimes less ex-
pensive and eliminates all those
hours in the home kitchen for the
difficult cooking. He Mid a family of
four can usually eat well for $12 in a
cafeteria and this means a lot dur-
. ing a dollar crunch.
He Mid he has fixed a number of
whole turkeys with all the trimm-
ings for families to take home. And
one of the biggest users of the ser-
vice are single women with children
who simply do not have time at
home to fix a big meal.
Pies and cakes are another big
source of takeout orders, he Mid. As
manyMs 15 to 25 orders'a night are
prepared for pickup around the holi-
days.
Thanksgiving is a bigger holiday
for his business, he Mid, since they
are open that day. He estimated
only about one percent of the city
area restaurants and cafeterias
would be open today, virtually all of
them at hotels and motels.
Not all eating places have experi-
enced holiday booms, however.
Another northside Oklahoma City
cafeteria manager Mid all their
weekend business is heavy with
families eating out or taking home
food. But it is his feeling there is not
as much of that now as there was
two or three years ago.
“We do not offer cooked whole tur-
keys any more,he Mid, because it
became so difficult to Mtisfy the
customers. But he Mid his place
does fill takeout orders for dressing,
giblet gravy, slaw and deMert
Kerns.
By Perry White
While some families are sitting
back enjoying the after effects of a
big Christmas dinner and praising
the hours put in by the tired cook,
other families are patting them-
selves on the back for letting the lo-
cal restaurant do most of the work.
Most area restaurants and cafete-
rias report they are experiencing an
increasing number of families who
either go out to eat for the holidays,
or order the main dishes and des-
serts to take home with them.
A problem specifically with the
Christmas holiday is the fact virtu-
ally the only restaurants open are
at motels and hotels. Eating places
there must take care of travelers
who have no place else to go.
* But a lot of families have enjoyed
baked turkeys and most of the
trimmings which were picked up
4>ead of time, or who treated them-
Mid they are experiencing more
families eating out, but more order-
ing takeout service, too. Most of the
takeout orders are for turkeys or
roasts.
Another Norman restaurant re-
ported not much difference between
regular trade and holiday trade.
The manager Mid the weather
seems to affect his business more
than the holidays.
A northside Oklahoma City cafe-
teria manager said he does not offer
cooked turkeys because he feels the
average housewife is getting more
competent in doing this kind of
cooking at home. ,
But he did My he had many tak-
eout orders for dreMing, pies and
other desserts.
The supervisor of another north-
side cafeteria Mid they have more
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Trees recycled
There's nothing like the joy of a real Christmas tree with its pine
scent filling the house, Its natural shape lending special beauty to
the ornaments.
But, when it comes time to dismantle that natural beauty, It's a
whole other thing.
Wrestling it out of the stand and through the door, then cleaning
up the pine needles are all bad enough. Next, the problem to both
tree and man is the final resting place of the Yule beauty, usually at
curbside waiting to be picked up on the next garbage service day.
But, there is an alternative which sends the tree back to nature,
from whence it came!
Neil Garrison, naturalist at Oklahoma City's Martin Park Nature
Center, has announced that the park will accept discarded Christ-
mas trees from now until mid-January.
“We teed them into a chipping machine and use the ground-up
trees to cover our paths through the park," Garrison explained.
“And, we also use some of the bushier ones to provide brush cover
through the winter for some of the smaller animals. So we can use as
many as people want to bring us.”
Garrison said people should just drop their trees off at the pqrk's
main gate, 5000 W Memorial Road, which is just west of the new
Mercy Health Canter.
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Deer Creek fourth grader Beeky Bamham figure* a balanced lunch tastes better when yea plan It yourself.
Fourth graders plan menus
Doorman at Denver hotel feels job
they don't seem to understand. It's
hard to teach them." he said from
his post outside the brownstone
hotel.
DENVER (UPI) — In the modern
era of motels and fast service, door-
man Curtis Clytus is a relic. But at
the* venerable Brown Palace Hotel,
he is a beloved antique of the by-
gone time of courtesy and service.
"But I notice antiques are coming
back. It's an art giving service, a
loot art. The younger generation,
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Bookkeeping system a controversial top
By Slgrid Abbott
Edmond isn't keeping books ac-
cording to generally accepted ac-
counting principles, say independ-
ent accountants who completed the
audit of the city's Public Works
Authority.
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valuable antique
duties. He Mid the impossible-to-
please customers make him appre-.
date the kind ones.
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