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Monday, May 1, 2000
Chickasha, Oklahoma
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WINNING
NEWSPAPER
Two perished on a boat that cap-
sized and claimed most people
James Kirk talking about
his 13th birthday; Austin
Ferguson stopping by the
Express-Star, Cody Harris
looking for something;
Jacob Pike talking it up;
Charlene Doucet taking in
some softball; and Cindy
Hall making a change.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Okla-
homa health care providers are lining up
to endorse House Speaker Loyd Benson's
plan to beef up the health care coverage of
some of Oklahoma's neediest citizens.
But many lawmakers are taking a cau-
tious approach. With just four weeks
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Healthcare initiative will fit into the
state's total budget picture.
“We have to be cautious about this."
said Sen. Keith Leftwich, D-Oklahoma
Express-Star photo by Jenese Epporson
District 2 County Commissioner Doug Prince, County Treasurer Sandra Johnson and County Clerk
Sharon Shoemake toss candy to parade goers Saturday. Several county officials rode in a truck
bedecked with signs during the Founders Day Parade.
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Express-Star photo by Jenese Epporson
The Chickasha Main Street Program honored Curtis and Gwen Brooks (center) as Mr. and Mrs. Chick-
asha during Founders Day activities on Saturday, April 29. Jason Jamagin presented Gwen with a jew-
elry box from Jay’s Jewelry engraved with “Mrs. Chickasha 2000" and Curtis with a belt buckle from
Hick's engraved with “Mr. Chickasha 2000." They also received a bouquet from Kendall’s Flowers. Ato
pictured is Chickasha Vice Mayor Margaret Davis, who read the Founder's Day proclamation.
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City Court clerk,
records clerk move
The City of Chickasha announced recently that the records
clerk and the court clerk have been moved to the second floor of
old city hall at 101 N. Sixth. The City recently approved renova-
tion of the first floor and the offices were moved to accommodate
the renovation.
Payment of tickets and scheduling of court will be through
Court Clerk Rory Hodges located in the office of the chief of
police. The records clerk is now in the Detective Division. Both
are on the second floor.
The Patrol Division has moved to the basement of the number
two fire station at 16th and Country Club.
A tentative date for completion of the renovation is the first of
October.
Anyone physically unable to negotiate the stairs to the second
floor is asked to phone the court or records clerk with an approx-
imate time of arrival. In those circumstances, the individual need-
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victim stated that she was dming east on Choclaw Ave when a red sz ml 5”
vehicle tried to run her off the road. The victim reported she stopped —
in the 500 block of Choctaw in attempt to ask what the problem was. Express-Star photo by Jenese Epporsan
When she got out of her car, the victim reported that a known female A variety of vehicles appeared in the Founders Day Parade. Other participants included gunfighera,
began to fight her. A man then walked up and hit her in the head with martial arts students, horseback riders and puppies.
a bottle.
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Cancer Support
GRPChiasna Cancer
Support Group meets
Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. in
Classroom 2 at Grady
Memorial Hospital.
This group is open to all
cancer patients and their
families. For more infor-
mation contact Maggie
Griffith at 222-2551.
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Chumndashers
to meet May 1
The Washita Valley
Chumdashers Quilt Guild
night group will meet on
Monday, May 1 at 7 p.m. at
Church. The day group
will meet on Thursday,
May 4, at 9:30 a.m. at
Parkview Christian
Church.
Members and guests
will be making items to sell
at the guild’s booth at the
Grady County Fair later in
the year. Those interested
in quilting, or wanting to
learn more about it, are
urged to attend.
All interested persons
are encouraged to attend
Deborah Buckner at 222-
1680 or Shirley Bums at
224-7270 for more infom-
ration on either meeting.
Financial assistance
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The Hulme Scholarship
Fund may assist students
with accounting tuition if:
you are a Grady County
high school graduate, now
a college student majoring
in accounting, you are
enrolled in accounting
courses above the begin-
ning level, you attend
Cameron University, East
Central University, Okla-
homa State University,
Southwestern Oklahoma
State University, Universi-
ty of Central Oklahoma, or
University of Oklahoma.
For more information
write: Hulme Scholarship
Fund, Box 692, Chickasha,
OK 73023.
Monday night, a chance
of showers and thunder-
storms, except showers and
thunderstorms likely central
and west. Lows from the
lower 40s in the Panhandle
to lower 60s southeast.
Tuesday, mostly cloudy
with a chance of showers
and thunderstorms. Highs in
the lower 60s to upper 70s.
Tuesday night, partly
cloudy with a chance of
showers and thunder-
storms. Lows in the 50s,
except mid- to upper 40s in
the Panhandle.
Entire contents copyright
1999, The Express-Star, P.O.
Drawer E, Chickasha, OK,
73023. Vol. 110-No. 7.
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Weather service
predicts flooding
near Chickasha
| The National Weather Service has issued a river flood warning for
I the Washita River at Chickasha. The flood stage is 19 feet. The latest
| stage was estimated at 6.7 feet at 7 p.m. Sunday, April 30.
| The river is forecast to crest near 23 feet at about 1 p.m. Tuesday,
I May 2.
S When the Washita River reaches 23 feet near Chickasha, suburban
roads east of Chickasha may be under shallow water. Also, the coun-
ty road west of the Chickasha airport will probably be blocked by
high water.
Flooding of crop and pasture lands will occur in Grady County
from upstream of Chickasha to near Tabler and points downstream.
Overflow depths on agricultural fields will vary, ranging up to six
feet.
People in flood-prone areas should act now to evacuate and move
to higher ground. Do not enter already flooded areas or attempt to
cross roadways covered by high water. Further information is avail-
able through NOAA weather radio or local media sources.
Speaker Benson’s state-wide health care plan praised
-----------TIM TALLEY----------- Healthcare initiative will fit into the attract millions of dollars in new federal Oklahoma Network of Community
Associated Press Writer state's total budget picture. Medicaid funds for such health care needs Options and Resources, which provides
" as emergency room, maternity, dental and services to Oklahomans with develop-
__________ i developmental disability services. mental disabilities.
City. Leftwich analogized the budgeting The plan would use $37 million in "I think the speaker needs to be
process to putting together a jigsaw puz- tobacco money that the state received in applauded for any type of program to
zle with several pieces missing. April to help raise a total of about $259 improve health care in Oklahoma," said
"I think this is part of a bigger budget million for health care. Dr. Jay A. Gregory, president of the state
picture,” he said. The plan has been endorsed by the Board of Health.
remaining in the 2000 legislative session, Benson, D-Frederick, has proposed Oklahoma State Medical Association, “Any help that health care providers
they want to know more about how Ben- investing a portion of the state’s share of which has 5,100 physician members, the can get from the Legislature in improving
son's multimillion dollar Oklahoma 2001 the nationwide tobacco settlement to Oklahoma Hospital Association and the Sm Health, page 2
The victim reportedly drove to her mother and father's home
where Chickasha EMS treated her. She was advised to get stitches
for a gash in her head and was taken to an Oklahoma City hospital
by a private vehicle.
See Chickasha, page 2
Oklahomans remember
fall of Saigon 25 years later
(AP) - Tuyen Nguyen was 14 on board. Nguyen survived, but
when he watched American heli- he and other family members
copters fly off into the evening would spend time in prison,
sky over Saigon 25 years ago. His father, Tu Nguyen, a
The Americans didn't return, member of the South Vietnamese
giving way to North Vietnamese army, was incarcerated in a com-
tanks that rolled into the city and munist re-education camp,
began communist rule on April Nguyen fled successfully in
30, 1975. 1983. His father, who also lives
Nguyen, now an Enid resi- in Enid, finally escaped 10 years
dent, doesn't like to recall the ago when he swam the Mekong
anniversary of South Vietnam’s River to Thailand.
surrender. “My mother was the only one
“We want to forget this," he who flew out freely," Nguyen
said. said.
In the years following the fall Ron Kirkwood was only in
of Saigon, four of Nguyen’s Vietnam for a few weeks and fig-
brothers and sisters would die ures he was exposed to Agent
trying to escape the communists. Orange for less than an hour.
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