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A press conference was held
Wednesday At the Best
Western Inn to announce the
construction of Chickasha
By RICK LOMENICK
Express Managing Editor
A five-month undercover in-
vestigation ended today when 11
of 23 defendents were nabbed in
multiple arrests by officers from
the Chickasha Police Depart-
ment and Grady County Sheriff's
Department at locations in and
around the city for various
drug-related charges.
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
administration issued four new
volumes of budget documents,
today, outlining the nuts and
bolts of President Reagan's fis-
cal 1988 budget proposal — the
first $1 trillion presidential
spending plan in history.
The hundreds of pages of facts
and figures are intended to flesh
out Reagan's formal budget
message, released Jan. 5.
Both sets of books describe the
president’s $1.02 trillion pro
posal, which includes an in-
crease in defense spending of 3
percent, plus adjustments for in-
flation. He would meet the bal
anced budget law’s deficit target
of $108 billion through program
cuts, sales of government assets
and new fees for people who use
government land.
Congess began hearings three
weeks ago on the budget plan,
amid suggestions by some law-
makers that the government
might ease the economic trauma
of budget reduction by relaxing
the mandatory deficitcutting
CMS Class To Sponsor Dance
The Chickasha Middle School Gifted Talented class will sponsor
a dance at the Teen Center from 7:30-11 p.m Saturday.
A live band entitled “Disturbing the Peace”, made up of recent
CHS graduates, will be debuting.
All area youth are invited.
tana, Chickasha; Carolyn and
Kendall Lowery, both of Norge;
Gregory C. “Pokey” Madison of
Chickasha; William A (Bill)
Smith of 1617 South 13th, Chick
asha; Bill Miller of 104 Gate
wood, Chickasha; Carl Watson
of Chickasha; Freda Sanders of
Chickasha; Fred Basham of
Ninnekah; and Ken Ridgeway of
2301 Southwest 38th, Oklahoma
City.
Those not arrested but with
outstanding warrants on them
include Cynthia Russell of 121
Southeast 41st, Oklahoma City;
and Johnny Ridgeway of 1404
South 10th, Chickasha. Hicks en-
courages anyone knowing the
wereabouts of these people to
call Crime Stoppers.
“It was, in our opinion, a text
book operation,” Hicks said, “in
which we set up a ‘sting’ front
operated out of a duplex in which
the individuals would come to
morning went very smooth. It
couldn’t have gone any better, no
way.”
It was not immediately known
how much drugs were taken dur-
ing the arrests. However, at one
of the arrest locations, several
items of drug paraphenalia were
seized by Chickasha Police offi-
cers after a consent to search
form was signed by the de-
fendant
Both law enforcement officials
felt like the conviction rate for
the defendents w ill be very high
with the evidence they will have
to present.
The arraignments for all the
defendents was held this after
noon before Judge Karen Ivy.
Tonight, the Chickasha town
meeting of the Chemical People
will be held at the Chickasha
High School Cafeteria beginning
shortly before 7 o’clock. Both
Hicks and Taylor encourages
everyone to attend the meeting
which will be centered around
the PBS broadcast of “Gener-
ation at Risk.” Also, many other
Grady County communities will
be holding town meetings.
pared to Ralph E. Lamberson
with 130 and Evan Whitaker, 21
votes, respectively.
The emergency levy at Friend
school was approved 85-19, the
building fund levy passed 82-22
and the local support levy passed
by a 58-vote margin, 82-24.
In the Friend school board
election Dwight Brandon de-
feated Frank Ludwell, 71-38.
The Middleburg School dis-
trict passed all three levies by
45-3 votes. There was no school
board election held.
Minco voters passed the
emergency levy 80-17, the build-
ing fund levy 79-17 and the local
support levy 81 15.
At Ninnekah, all three levies
were passed, however the mar
gin of victory was closer. The
emergency levy passed 144 83,
building fund was approved by a
142-83 count and the local support
passed 138-87.
In the school board election,
Don Whitner defeated Jeanette
Warden, 133 98
At Pioneer, the emergency
levy was approved 102-20, build
ing fund, 97-25 and local support
was passed easily, 95-25.
In the Office No. 2 school board
election Janet Sue Bingham de
feated James Horton, 98 20, and
Donald F. Haslom notched 74
votes compared to James
Blalock's 12 and Eddie Cox’ 35
votes.
The three levies passed over-
the duplex and deliver the drugs,
deliver the stolen property to the
location, at which time out
undercover officers would make
payments for the drugs or prop
erty.”
Hicks went on to say all the
transactions were videotaped by
other officers behind a glass pic-
ture frame. Plus, the room wh-
ere the sales were made was
wired for sound
“We feel that it should go along
way and slow the drug traffic in
the Chickasha area,” Hicks
stressed. “We also feel that it has
provided us with an awful lot of
intelligence information to
which we’ll be able to make use
of in continued investigations.”
Both Hicks and Grady County
Sheriff Ron Taylor feel that the
whole operation went smooth.
No problems were reported from
any of the arrests that began at
around 6:30.
“I was very pleased,” Hicks
said. “I think the success of it
can be attributed to the cooper-
ative effort between the agencies
that were involved.”
“The whole thing went real
smooth from beginning to end,”
Staff answering this number will
contact local staff for followup
on any reports of abuse or ne-
glect.
Court Related and Community
Services staff maybe reached by
contacting the Grady County
Sheriff’s office for dispatch to a
local worker, in emergency situ-
ations.
In order to make this adjust-
ment with the least amount of
inconvenience to citizens who
need DHS services, it was de-
cided that all offices should be
closed at the same tim?. Grady
County DHS offices will be open
as usual on Monday beginning at
9a.m.
Further information is avail-
able by calling the Grady County
DHS office at 224 2733
whelmingly at Rush Springs,
with the emergency levy passing
by a 285-88 margin, the building
fund levy winning approval by a
278-93 count and the local support
levy passing 275-93.
In the school board election,
Johnny A. Morrow captured 177
votes, compared to Jerry D.
Stewart’s 110 and Jeff McGuire’s
105.
At Tuttle, the emergency levy
passed 228-54, the building fund
won approval by a 224 57 margin
and the local support levy won
handily, 226-55.
Gloria Funderburgh won the
Tuttle school board election,
180 109.
Verden voters passed the
emergency levy 157-79. the build
ing fund 156-79 and the local sup
port levy 145 89.
In the school board election,
Elmer Von Tungeln defeated
Gary Lee Butler, 191-55.
In the three mill local support
levy for the Caddo Kiowa Vo-
Tech, the issue was approved by
a 171 69
Drug Arrests Collar Several Defendents
said Taylor. “Our arrests this
* Offices of the Oklahoma De-
b partment of Human Services
44. (DHS) in Grady County will be
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DRUG PARAPHANALIA was found at the home of Gregory C. “Pokey” Madison, 611 South Second, this
morning when he was arrested by Chickasha Police officers as part of the multiple drug raids made in
and around Chickasha. Eleven defendents were arrested.
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District Weather
The district weather forecast calls for mostly cloudy tonight
with a 20 percent chance of thundershowers with lows in the upper
30s. Thursday will have decreasing cloudiness and windy with a
high in the mid 50s Today 's 12 noon temperature: 54.
Democrats To Meet Monday
The Democratic Party of Oklahoma once again begins the pro
cess of selecting leaders for precinct, county, district and state
goverance positions. The first step in the procedures is the election
of precinct officers.
All registered Democrats are encouraged to attend. All pre-
cincts are expected to meet on the USAO campus in Room 206 of
Austin Hall. The meeting will be held at 7:30 p. m. Monday.
Interested Democrats who have questions about the meeting
should call Beth Reigh, Grady County Democratic Party Chair, at
224 9049
County GOP Meeting Slated
The county convention for all registered Republicans will meet
from 11 a m to 2 p.m. Saturday in the Chickasha Bank and Trust
Civic Room.
The agenda will include the election of officers, and preparation
for the Republican State Convention coming up in February
All registered Republicans are invited to attend.
We Saw
Casey Crutchfield, winning the Pine Wood Derby...Kristin
Haney, celebrating her seventh birthday...Debbie Anthony, being
surprised on her 25th birthday...Gary Don Nicholas, talking about
some rural fire department projects...Bernice Steelman, waiting
on a customer.. Bill Richey. stopping by the Daily Express.
Bertha Hightower, in a telephone conversation. .Jean Cham-
berlain, busy at work...Curtis Brooks, in a telephone con-
versation ...Dean Murphy, delivering some news. Ernie Philpott,
running an errand at the Daily Express. Keith Springstead. doing
some shopping Tuesday night.
By MICHAEL DUFFY
Express Staff Reporter
Three mill levies were ap-
proved by voters of all 13 schools
where elections were held Tues-
day in Grady County, according
to election baord secretary Row-
ena Denney.
Five-mill emergency, 10-mill
local support and a five-mill
building fund levies were the
issues approved by voters. Some
school board elections were also
decided.
“Voter turnout was generally
lighter than normal, but the
passage of the elections are a
necessity to operate the
schools,” said Denney.
Grady County School Super
intendent Kenneth Glazier ex-
pressed satisfaction with the
election results.
“Approval of the levy elections
are very important from the
standpoint that if they (levies)
do not pass there would be a red-
uction in the school budget. We
also would not receive 100 per-
cent of state aid needed for the
schools to operate,” Glazier
said.
In the event the levies failed, it
would be necessary to call a spe-
cial election to seek passage of
the mill issues, according to
Denney.
“We (Grady County) have
never had to call a special elec-
tion here, but it has happened in
other portions of Oklahoma,”
goals.
Reagan rejected those rec-
ommendations in his State of the
Union message Tuesday night,
saying, “I think the American
people are tired of hearing the
some old excuses.
"Together, we made a comm-
itment to balance the budget,”
he told the joint session of Con-
gress. “Now, let's keep it.”
Rudolph Penner, director of
the Congressional Budget Office,
repeated the suggestion of a re-
laxed deficit reduction time-
table earlier Tuesday in
testimony before the House
Budget Committee.
Penner's office has estimated
the White House proposal will
fall short of the $108 billion goal,
probably pushing the deficit no
lower than between $135 billion
and $140 billion.
The CBO's calculations indi-
cate $61 billion in program cuts
and new revenues will be needed
to shrink the fiscal 1988 deficit to
the $108 billion required by law.
But Penner warned that if nearly
“Money was provided for us to
begin an undercover inves-
tigation of drugs, burglaries, and
stolen property operations
within the Grady County and
Chickasha area approximately
five months ago,” said Chick-
asha Police Chief Robert Hicks.
“As a result of our investigation,
we have made cases on 23 de
fendents. Most of the defendents
have multiple charges. ”
The money used was provided
by the Grady County District At-
torney’s office.
All of the charges from today's
arrests were drug-related said
Hicks. Those included un-
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she said.
Below, are the results of Tues-
day’s elections, broken down
school-by-school:
In Chickasha, the emergency
levy passed 245-20, the building
fund levy was approved by a
245-23 vote and the local support
met voter approval by a 243-26
margin.
Dr. E.L. Blevins was the only
candidate to file for the school
board, and, because he is the in-
cumbent, an election wasn’t re-
quired, according to Denney.
The Canadian Valley Vo-Tech
three-mill building fund levy
passed by a 1,101 -373 count.
At Amber Pocasset, the
emergency levy passed 104-29,
the building fund was approved
113-23, and the 10-mill local sup
port levy also passed easily,
113-23.
James Daniel defeated Randy
Jensen by a 85-54 count in the
Amber-Pocasset school board
election.
At Bradley, the emergency
and local support levies passed
unanimously, 26-0, while the
building fund levy was approved
by a 25-1 vote.
At Bridgecreek, the emerg-
ency levy was approved 175-119,
the building fund levy was sup
ported 182-112 and local support
levy won 171 123.
Roger Peery captured the
Bridgecreek school board elec-
tion, garnering 141 votes, com-
all the reductions take the form
of sharp cuts in existing pro-
grams, the result could be a
shock to the economy.
Under Reagan, the deficit has
ballooned to a record $220 billion
— more than all the deficits
together from Presidents
Washington to Carter. In his
speech Tuesday night, Reagan
called the deficit "outrageous”
and blamed the problem on
heavy spending by “big
government.”
He said his spending proposal
is designed to “defend America
and maintain our momentum to
make up for neglect (of the mili-
tary) in the last decade ”
“I ask you to vote out a defense
and foreign affairs budget that
says yes to protecting our coun
try,” Reagan said.
Calling the budget process “a
sorry spectacle,” Reagan asked
Congress to approve his record
spending plan and then overhaul
the process with a balanced-
budget amendment to the Con-
stitution.
200,000-square foot shopping
center already under con-
struction.
Alex Baker, Senior Vice
President of the shooping
center division of Aronov
Realty Co., said the new
center will be located on Pon-
derosa Road at Country Club
Road, and will feature Wal-
Mart, Bealls, J.C. Penny and
26 additional shops and stores, ’
offering a wide variety of
goods and services.
“Chickasha Square will
definitely be a retail center
for a large trade area,” said
Baker.
The new shopping center
will help alleviate the necess-
ity of Chickasha residents
making a 35-to-45-mile trek to
Oklahoma City to pursue des-
irable stores, the realty com
pany executive noted.
Chickasha Square will be
the latest addition to a list of
more than 60 shopping centers
that Aronov owns and man-
ages in the southern United
States.
Anyone interested in leas-
ing information for Chickasha
Square is encouraged to con-
tact Woody Trotman, director
of leasing for the center.
Address inquiries to Aronov
Realty Co., P.O. Box 235000,
Montgomery, Alabama,
36123-5000, or call (205)
277-1000.
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ranging from PCP, morphine,
methamphetamines, and phen-
cyclidine. Several were unlawful
delivery of marijuana. Hicks
said cocaine had also been pur
chased by the undercover offi-
cers.
Arrested during this
morning's raids were James An-
cel Frenzen of Chickasha; Starla
Walters (Harris) of 3003 Mon-
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closed on Friday, it was an-
nounced this week by Phylis
Steelman, Grady County Admin-
istrator.
“Friday, we will be closed as
part of the budget reductions
made necessary by decreasing
revenues, it has been deter-
mined that most DHS employees
will be required to take one fur
lough day without pay each
month,” Steelman said.
The main DHS office is Grady
County and Court Related and
Community Service, 217 North
Third; Vocational Re
habilitation Services, Davis
Hall, USAO; and Child Support
Enforcement Unit, 106 South
Second.
Child Welfare, Adult Pro-
tective Services and Court Re
lated and Community Services
are required to have staff on call
24 hours a day seven days a
week. In case of emergency in-
volving Child Welfare or Adult
Protection Services, call toll free
1-800-522-3511 to report abuse/
neglect of children or elderly.