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Liberty Blasts Pollution
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Child Care Career Course
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Chickasha subscribers who miss
service may get their Express by
calling the Circulation Department,
224-2600, between 5:00 and
When management practices
fail to control insect problems,
gardners can resort to chemical
control by the application of
pesticides. Chemical control
recommendations and pest con-
trol fact sheets can be obtained
at the Grady County Extension
Office.
Tilling or spading your garden
this spring can help reduce in-
sect problems as well as pre
paring a seedbed, says Al
Sutherland, Tri-County Horti-
cultural Agent.
Working the soil helps expose
cutworms, grubs, wireworms
and other soil inhabiting insects.
Tillage disturbs and exposes
these pests to predators and win
ter tempertures. By turning the
soil again in the spring, you will
agitate some of the insect pests
that may have survived through
winter.
A weed free garden also will
aid in reducing pest problems. So
will composting or burning old
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Orientation to Child Care Ca
reers, a course developed by
Child Care Careers, Inc., is
scheduled to be held March 7, 9,
14, and 16, from 7:00 until 9:30
p.m. at Canadian Valley Area
Vo Tech.
Sessions included in the class
will include the importance of
child care work responsibilities
and relationships, child care
standards, guidance, health and
safety, child abuse and neglect,
nutrition, special needs children,
and child care organizations.
Child Care Careers, Inc., is a
non profit group that provides
training materials for care-
givers of young children. Train-
ees will receive certificates of
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High School Presents Musical
Feb. 16 and 17, the Chickasha High School Music Department
will present the broadway musical “Li’l Abner” at the Junior High
School Auditorium. The public is invited to attend. Tickets are
available at the door. The original cast from 1979 are invited to
attend as guests of the Chickasha High School Music Department.
Regular school passes will be honored. Also featured will be the
Chickasha High School Band.
Chickasha Daily Express
invites
Percilla Lamar
To the Southland Twin,
Washita Twin
or Chief Drive-In
to see
Any Feature Now Showing
Thin coupon good for two tickets.
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Nature Club Meets Thursday
The Grady County Nature Club will take a trip to Alaska via
video at 7 p.m. Thursday in Rm. 312 of Austin Hall at USAO. Mr
and Mrs. Deraid Swineford will present Wild Solitude and Loon
Country By Canoe The public is invited.
We Saw
Bill Bitsche, running an errand.. Eddie Binyon, waiting.. Frank
Grossnicklaus, working. Eleanor Edmondson, in a telephone
conversation. Bill Hodges, picking up a photograph . Kyle Reed,
winning big at a pinewood derby.
Hayes Thompson, giving a tour to a possible tenant. Marva
Pinkston, talking jat the weather...Charley Norris, in a con-
versation...Pat Theinas, doing chores . Bill Murray, with a
friendly wave.. Peggy Sites, stopping by the Daily Express.
District Weather
Tonight, rain ending followed by decreasing clouds late High in
the low to mid 50s. Wind becoming northwest 10 to 20 mph Rain
chance decreasing to less than 20 percent. Tonight, partly cloudy.
Low around 30. North wind 10 to 15 mph. Tuesday, partly cloudy
High around 50. North to northeast wind 10 to 15 mph.
Serving as a page in the Oklahoma Senate last week was Andrea
Martin of Ninnekah, pictured above with sponsor Sen. Ray Giles.
Page service provides valuable experience about state government
in general and the Senate in particular. Pages come in contact with
just about every aspect of state government during the four days
they spend at the capital.
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crop residue where insects
overwinter. Cutworm and stalk
borer damage to your garden
also can be minimized by keep
ing the borders weedfree
through the season. Another
management practice that will
combat pest problems is crop
rotation.
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day, or 8:00 a.m. to 9:30
Sunday.
By ANNIMSE
MOSCOW (AP) —Toxic mate
rials saturate a lake near one
Siberian city to such an extent
that stray dogs are regularly
tossed into the water to disin
tegrate.
A chemical plant on the Volga
River is so hazardous that em-
ployees routinely take medical
retirement at the age of 45.
The rate of sickness from
natural gas poisoning was so
high in one village that the entire
town was moved away from a
gas processing plant.
Those environmental horror
stories are just three of the items
that appeared Friday in Soviet
newspapers, an indication not
only of the sorry state of the en
vironment but the new aggres-
siveness the media has acquired
for environmental reporting.
Such reporting is now sane
tioned under the regime of
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev
as good citizenship rather than
anti Soviet treachery.
In the Siberian city of Ke
merovo, stray dogs that are not
sent to research laboratories or
converted into fur boots and hats
are simply tossed into a lake
filled with toxic phenols from a
local chemical plant, the news
paper Komsomolskaya Pravda
reported.
Cited
TULSA (AP) — Special pros-
ecutor Lawrence Walsh says the
media could serve as the most
significant forum for public
scrutiny if his case against
former White House aide Oliver
North in the Iran Contra affair is
unsuccessful.
"There are two ways of en-
forcing the law," Walsh told a
group of Oklahoma broadcasters
here. “One is the old way of pros
ecution, which is long. ex-
pensive, cumbersome and
sometimes has unforeseeable
results.
“And the other way is by ex-
posure and education, and that is
what your profession does so
well.”
Walsh, an Oklahoma City law-
yer, was in Tulsa for an awards
‘Miracle” Finds
"After several days, no trace
is left,” the newspaper said. It
was not clear if the paper was
referring to live or dead dogs be
ing tossed into the river.
Pravda reported that the
Volga River city of Chapaevsk is
known locally as "the city of
young pensioners” because the.
chemical factory there retires so
many people when they reach 45
to 50 years of age.
The newspaper Socialist In-
dustry reported that Moscow’s
air contains double the allowable
amount of hydrocarbons, and
that ceilings on nitrogen oxide
and carbon monoxide are ex-
ceeded by 30 percent.
It said city water contains five
to 20 times the permitted amount
of fertilizers and other toxic
chemicals.
The paper said Moscow
already has moved 174 factories
outside the city limits in hopes of
reducing its pollution problem.
Authorities had hoped to move
446 factories outside the city by
1990, but it now appears that goal
will not be reached until the year
2000, the newspaper said.
The entire village of Mu-
zhichya Pavlovka has been
moved away from a local gas
processing plant after 76 people
suffered natural gas poisoning in
January, the newspaper Ne-
delya reported
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DENVER (AP) — A man who
grew up thinking that his mother
had died in a farmhouse fire was
reunited with her after learning
that she had spent 64 years in a
sanitorium.
"This has been unexplainable
joy,” Paul Daniluk said. “God
has perm itted me to know and be
able to express my love to my
mother.”
Daniluk, 68, of Denver, was 4 in
1925 when he and his father sur
vived the fire in upstate New
York. He grew up thinking his
mother, Agnes, died in the blaze,
but she had actually been diag-
nosed with a form of
schizophrenia and put in a
county sanitorium.
She apparently suffered se-
vere trauma during the fire, and
her husband was ashamed to
admit her condition or where
abouts to others, according to the
family.
Anton Daniluk remarried in
1948 and he and his second wife
died in 1976. Three of Anton Dan
iluk’s grandchildren live in
Oklahoma.
"When he was dying, my sister
spent time with him, and he
would say something about
Agnes and the fire. She couldn’t
tell exactly what he was saying,
but now she knows,” said Rich
ard Daniluk, Paul’s son.
Daniluk mentioned to his
daughter, Tanya, his memories
of the fire and his mother. In one
scene, he was sitting with his
father on a bench in a red-brick
building with white wood trim
and shiny floors while in the
background, a woman swept the
floor.
"Dad said the building re-
minded him of a hospital or insti
tution," Tanya recalled in a
story in Thursday’s Denver
Post.
So, trying to track down details
on her grandmother, she began
calling New York hospitals,
starting with Albany. She asked
the information operator if she
knew of a hospital in a red brick
building with white trim.
The operator gave her the
number of Binghamton Psy-
chiatric Center. They called
three days after Christmas.
“My brother and I were talk
ing, and I asked him, ‘What if
she’s still alive?”’ she said. “He
said that was impossible, be-
cause she would have had to
have been more than 100. Well,
he was close. We (dialed) the
number and asked if they had a
patient named Agnes Daniluk.
And the receptionist said, Just a
minute, I’ll ring that floor.
They reached a supervisor and
explained who they were and
who they were looking for.
“We all broke out in tears,”
Tanya said. “God just led us to
her.”
recognition for participation At-
tendance may fulfill staff train-
ing requirements for day care
licensing.
The course will be co-
sponsored by the Department of
Human Services and Canadian
Valley Vo-Tech. Jean LeMonier,
daycare licensor for Grady
County will be the trainer. There
is no charge for the class.
Anyone inteested in working
with young children is en-
couraged to attend this four day
course. Registration can be
completed by contacting Can-
adian Valley Vo Tech at 224 7220
or (OKC) 381 4314 or by calling
Jean LeMonier, (405 ) 321 1434 in
Norman.
Mrs. Daniluk, it seems, had
been led to believe her son had
died in the fire. Hospital officials
warned the family not to expect
too much from the woman, now
95,
She had become violent during
her hospitalization and in 1955
was given a prefrontal lobotomy,
an operation used at the time for
certain treatments. But after a
recent visit they were left with no
doubts.
“When she was happy, she’d
clap her hands to the tune of a
polka. There’s no doubt she
knows," Tanya said.
"She may not know we’re her
grandchildren, but she knows
it’s family,” Richard said.
Agnes, a ward of the state
since 1925, is too fragile to be
moved to Denver and will re-
main at the hospital, the family
said.
“She is well taken care of,”
Richard said. "The people there
are really her family. They care
for her as if she were their own. ’ ’
"It’s a miracle in a way,” said
Tom Daniluk, 33, of Edmond,
Okla. “It’s completely cap-
tivated my whole life for the last
month,” he told the Edmond
(Okla.) Evening Sun.
"It’s kind of brought in a whole
new aspect to our thoughts and
beliefs about heritage.
"It really kind of gives you a
feeling inside that ... you came
from somewhere or something,
not just what we commonly refer
to as the boat people. Because,
that’s what it all boils down to:
we re all just boat people. ”
Tom Daniluk and Phillip Dan-
iluk live in Edmond and Mike
Daniluk lives in Yukon.
Tom, his brother Joe, joined
their father on his first visit with
Mrs. Daniluk. All the family
went on the second visit. Aside
from Joe and Tom, Tanya, Phil-
lip, Pete, Rick and Mike went
with their father. Tanya, Pete,
Joe and Rick live in Denver
“When I first touched Agnes,
all those thoughts of my other
grandmother just kind of went
through me like a waterfall,”
Tom Daniluk said.
“In two seconds, I could feel 30
years of love pass right through
me. You just can’t explain it.”
Cholesterol is a killer that
can’t be seen or felt, making 25%
of the US population unaware
that they currently have danger-
ously high blood cholesterol
levels.
The National Institutes of
Health recommends that every
one over 20 know their
cholesterol level. On Thursday,
Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy, 720
S 4th, will conduct a cholesterol
screening from 10 a.m. 6 p m.
Qualified professionals will do
a quick fingerprick procedure
and the blood is analyzed with
results in just minutes.
Screening cost is $3.
Cholesterol is one of the direct
causes of coronary disease— our
nation’s No. 1 killer—accounting
for more deaths annually than
all cancers combined.
For more information on
cholesterol,call 1 800 325 1397
ceremony hosted by the
Kyle Dahlem, president of the Oklahoma Association of Broad
Oklahoma Education Association, casters, who honored him as
will visit the University of Science Oklahoman of the Year. He re
and Arts of Oklahoma Feb. 16 to turned to Washington on Sunday,
address the university’s chapter of During the ceremony, Walsh
the Student National Education As- praised the media for its cover-
sociation. Dahlem will discuss edu- age of the Iran-Contra affair and
cation issues in Oklahoma with the the events leading up to the
SNE A members.                   North trial But he said the irony
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Dahlem assumed presidency of evident in the administration’s
the OEA in July of 986 and is request to forbid use of certain
currently serving her second two- classified documents by North in
year term. She was elected by a vote his defense
of the 47,000-member OEA.          “The commitment to a public
In 1984, Dahlem was elected for trial leads to the sometimes very
a two year term as the vice-president difficult choices of whether cer-
of the OEA in 1984. During that tain information can be used at
term she also served as chair of the trial or whether certain charges
OEA Legislative Committee and must bedropped," he said.
Convention Planning Committee. Walsh refused to comment
b                specifically on the status of the
An Association activist for sev- North trial, instead explaining
oral years, she has served as presi- during his address the complex
dent of the Major County OEA, as a legal procedures being used by
member of the OEA Board of theiJusticeDepartment
Directors representing Zone 9, as a I would rather not comment
member of rhe Convention Com.   onthis particular case while it “
mit.ee and as a member of .be Ok- hefore the Supreme Court."
ahom:a r .Political Action things 1 feei very uneasy about
Committee Council,                 discussing at this stage” in the
Dahlem taught for 17 years be- case.
fore being elected to full time posi- Walsh said he believes the trial
lions in OEA leadership. Most re- should continue without further
cently, she taught high school En- limitations placedon use of T
glish in Sieling.                        dismissal of some or aln charges
a school librarian.                      against North if he is not allowed
Dahlem is a graduate of Kansas to use the information to defend
State University of Pittsburg and himself.
holds a master’s degree from North- "It s important to see if we can
western Oklahoma State University, apply the law 1° all people, all
levels of government, and to all
Dahlem will speak at 11 a.m. activities, whether they are open
Thursday, Feb. 16, in the Am- or secret; and at the same time,
phithcatcr on USAO’s campus, preserve our obligation for a
public trial,” Walsh said.
Tilling, Spading Good
For Preparing Seedbed
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) —
Workers at a shelter for the
homeless say a mental hospital’s
decision to no longer refer
patients to homeless shelters is a
“good first step" toward hand
ling the mentally ill more re
sponsibly.
Central State Griffin
Memorial Hospital in Norman
adopted a policy against re-
leasing patients treated for men
tal illness to missions or shelters
Thursday, a week after the Jesus
House shelter announced it
would not accept mentally ill
patients from the hospital.
Jesus House workers had said
that they were not equipped or
staffed to handle mentally ill
patients, who they feared could
pose a danger to other shelter
residents.
Shelter workers said the de
cision not to accept mentally ill
patients released from Centra)
State was a move designed to
force the hospitals to take re
sponsibility for them
“I think it’s real good,” Sister
Ruth Wynne of the Jesus House
said of the new policy. “That’s a
good first step. "
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