The Chickasha Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Vol. 83, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 21, 1985 Page: 1 of 20
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VOLUME 83 NUMBER 39
TWENTY PAGES TWO SECTIONS
CHICKASHA, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1985
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by Marshall Settle
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our presence.
Verden Boy Hurt From Kick
Allen Wilson
(STAR Photo by David Settle)
hours.
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Sports
Section I pg. 8
Butch and Ben McCain
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INSIDE TEIS
WEEK-$ S TAD
Chamber Sponsors ‘Leader Day’
For High School Student Council
ADvisor
Blotter
Calendar
Section II pg. 1
Section I pg. 7
Look for the Sports Col-
umns! Al Eshbach Writes
about OU <8 Mick Cornett
Gives His Views of the
Cowboys
School
Activities
Section ii pg. i
tonight's board action. The
members of NACT would like
to thank Ray Craig, our super-
intendent, and the board. I
would also like to thank the
NACT members who worked
hard to make this settlement
possible.”
The Board room was pack-
l
Countless little deaf chil-
dren from all over the United
States and now one from
Kenya, South Africa would
have not had their “chance” in
life had it not been for Jane
Brooks School for the Deaf in
Chickasha, Oklahoma. Jane
Brooks has graduated
teachers, accountants, artists,
authors, bankers, business
people, homemakers, parents,
a doctor, a world famous stunt
woman, etc.
Jane Brooks School does
not teach sign language...in-
stead they use the oral
approach. The children are
taught to imitate the teacher
in April if the skull does not
mend adequately.
Many people began praying
for Allen’s recovery.
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30 byte capacity. Also the new
system's capacity could be
No insurance was available.
A fund has thus been estab-
lished at Parkview Christian
Church, 2828 South Ninth in
Chickasha. Contributions are
welcome by mail or in person.
Checks should reflect “for
Allen Wilson".
For more information, call
Mrs. James Johnson at 224-
7293.
attention the night lights of
Woodward. By radio he con-
tacts Gage Flight service—
(there are still some “huma-
Government Leaders for a
Day, a first time program
sponsored by the Chickasha
Chamber of Commerce for the
high school student council,
placed council members with
different community leaders
to spark interest in positions
of leadership in Chickasha.
Students were hosted last
Thursday by city officials, the
president’s office at the Uni-
versity of Science and Arts of
Oklahoma, the city police and
ambulance departments,
Canadian Valley Vo-Tech and
school district in an effort to
give a valuable experience to
future possible leaders.
using vibration, visual, and
listening approaches. Some of
the students have a very tiny
bit of hearing but most are
profoundly deaf.
Over 50 years ago, Margaret
Brooks founded the school
due to her own daughter being
totally deaf. It was the first
school to teach speaking and
reading lips west of the Missis-
sippi.
Jane Brooks School opened
its doors for the first time in a
little yellow school house lo-
cated in Purcell, Oklahoma on
June 1, 1929.
In the fifties, Jane Brooks
School moved to the OCW
The land will still be zoned
1-2 instead of switching to C-3.
The council passed a resolu-
tion stating it is against the
Jan. 1, '86 five percent in-
crease that Multimedia Cab-
levision, Inc. is to impose on
the basic monthly charge.
Under the Cable Com-
cess” on Thursday, Nov. 21,
from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the
Chamber Board Room, 221
Chickasha Avenue.
The seminar is designed for
HI Neighbor Section I pg. 1
Legals Section I pg. 10,11
Section II pg. 7
Obituaries Section II pg. 5
Society Pg. Section I pg. 5
Allen Wilson, four-year old
son of Dwayne and Cindy Wil-
son, Verden, received a kick in
the back of the head from a
horse on Oct. 16.
Following the accident,
Allen was taken to Grady
Memorial Hospital from
where he was flown to Okla-
homa City to have surgery.
On Oct. 18, Allen awakened
from the two-day coma and
appeared to be acting like
himself, said C. Wilson.
Allen will be observed for
months and may need a plate
Section II pg.2
Church Pg. Section II pg. 5
Focus Section II pg. 1
doubled with approximately
$20,000 expended.
The council approved the
dedication of right-of-way to
the city in the planned de-
velopment area immediately
south of the turnpike and east
of highway 81. It also
approved the appropriate
street standard construction
within the right-of-way.
The council also approved
to pay for 16-inch ductal pipe
(approximately $78,000) with
the laying and plans and specs
of the bore to be provided and
Students spent the morning
with their hosts then had a
luncheon at St. Luke's Epis-
copal Church where achieve-
ment certificates were pre-
sented to each student by
Bruce Storms, mayor, before
City Gets Computer System For Future
The city’s total computer
bid went to CPS Business
munications Policy Act of '84.
this increse can come for the
first two years of a franchise.
The first came in '85.
The resolution came after
Bruce Storms, mayor, told the
Cablevision representative
the service was not adequate
in terms of public relations or
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Neighbor!
Agree On Salary
For Schedule
The Ninnekah Association
of Classroom Teachers and
The Ninnekah Board of
Education reached agreement
Thursday night on a salary
schedule for the 85/86 school
year. The Board in a special
meeting, unanimously rati-
fied the schedule. The NACT
had previously ratified the
schedule.
The action of the Board fol-
.owed a presentation of the
proposed by NACT President,
Merlinda Tate, and averted a
pending imposse.
campus and Chickasha.
The sixties brought a move
from Jane Brooks to the for-
mer St. Joseph’s Academy in
Chickasha.
And in the seventies they
built their own new dorm.
There are an average of 5
students per teacher. Stu-
dents are taken as early as 18
months old. They are gradu-
ated from Jane Brooks at the
end of Junior High and are
able to enter their own home
town High School literally a
part of the Hearing World!
During their years at Jane
Brooks they are main-
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the 1 p.m. council meeting.
Lloyd Rinderer, city mana-
ger, presented introductory
program in the morning to the
students ranging from fresh-
men to senior classes.
Mike Dressier, Southwest-
ern Bell representative, had
the lunch provided by Bell for
the students, and Sherry Jen-
sen, Jill King and Dana Pogue
had planned the day after one
and a half years of work and
coordination.
ed with teachers and patrons THE SIGN SAYS IT ALL!...The Chicks play at home this Fri-
who sat in the school foyer day, help support them as they continue their effort for a state
during an executive session championship,
which lasted almost two
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We spot his flashing strobes
and set up our approach to
land behind him to the south
on runway 17.
The courtesy-car, which
David phoned ahead for be-
fore we left Chickasha, is sit-
ting as promised, under the
lights in the parking lot, we all
climb into the vehicle for the
■ fifteen minute drive to the sta-
dium. Five minutes before
kickoff David, with camera in
hand, heads for the sidelines,
but it is cold and the warm en-
closed quarters of the press-
box seem more appealing to
me.
In just slightly more than
two hours the “Chick's” have
convinced the “Bombers” (by
a score of 21-7) that they
should advance to the next
stage of the state playoffs and
take on Miami, in Memorial
Stadium action on Friday,
Nov. 22, in Chickasha.
Back at the airport we use a
can of windshield deicer and a
handful of paper towels to re-
move the heavy coat of frost
from the wings of the Aztec.
Frost on the airfoil of an air-
plane wing has been known to
adversely affect it’s flight
characteristics.
Soon we are crusing at 7,500
feet on course toward Chick-
asha and the Loran-C flight
computer tells us we are
trueing out at 245 miles per
hour. The strong tail-wind
stays with us and the flight
home is a short one.
Students also attended the
regular monthly meeting of
the city council to understand
how the local city government
works, said Bob Crowell,
chamber president.
Experience is good but
usually the benefits come af-
ter the fact, said Crowell. This
experience will hopefully
help learning before the fact.
managers, supervisors and
employers. It helps to identify
problems associated with lack
of employee motivation and
offers many ideas on how to
solve them.
“Chickasha traffic.....Aztec
38060 back-taxing runway 17
for takeoff on 35”.
Glancing at the clock on the
panel, just prior to applying
power to the 500 horses in the
twin Lycombing IO-540's, we
make a mental note of the
time, it is exactly 8:30 p.m.,
and we know that in one and a
half hours the most important
football game of the year for
the Chickasha Fightin’ Chicks
will get underway in Wood-
ward, Oklahoma, and we plan
to be there for the kickoff.
On board, sitting in the right
seat and serving as co-pilot is
son, David. Passengers
aboard include his wife, Anita
along with Kevin and La
Deane Howell sitting com-
fortably in the middle and
rear seats.
Climbing out at 1,500 feet
per minute we turn slightly to
the left to a heading of 310 de-
grees, and soon reach our
crusing altitude of 4,500 feet.
Out the left window we can
see the thin sliver of the new
moon, not yet in it’s first quar-
ter, sitting low in the western
sky, while overhead a “mil-
lion” stars seem to welcome
Systems, Inc. voted by the
Chickasha City Council,
Wichita Falls, Texas, at its reg-
ular monthly meeting last
Thursday.
The existing Burroughs
hardware system was traded
in on new hardware and soft-
ware totalling $139,283. The
trade-in was worth $10,500
making the total expended
$128,783.
Lloyd Rinderer, city mana-
ger, said the new system has a
425 megabyte capacity as
opposed to the old that had a
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ter)—for the barometric press- Council To Conduct Motivation Seminar
ure reading (for a correct alti- The Business Council of the
meter setting) and surface Chickasha Chamber of Com-
winds in the area. merce will be conducting a
A call on the unicorn fre- seminar entitled “Employee
quency brings a response Motivation-The Key to suc.
from a Mooney on down wind.
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McCain Brothers Host Jane Brooks Jubilee
" paid for by Parker and Brewer in servicing breaks in the
Teachers, Board KXoS* “The counci accepted
$20,000) will be paid for by the $18,198 from the Optimist
city. Club for Elliott Field which
Also a 10-inch PVC pipe will be utilized in constructing
(approximately $32,000) will lighting for the field from
bepaidforby the council with MUSCO, Inc., who was the
the developer absorbing the low bidder of $39,198.
Jensen said Youth
Citizenship Award applica-
tions will be available in
January.
cost of laying the pipe. Other bidders included
These offsite improvements Smith Electric who bid the
are for a shopping center com- construction also with metal
plex to be begun in December. (Continued on Page 2)
.A few minutes past seven
Vclock David calls to my
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Settle, Marshall. The Chickasha Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Vol. 83, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 21, 1985, newspaper, November 21, 1985; Chickasha, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1899232/m1/1/: accessed May 9, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.