The Chickasha Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Vol. 90, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 12, 1991 Page: 1 of 20
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into an agreement with the Ninnekah
trustees last summer so that the town
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EDC officials make a whirlwind trip
last week, touring Los Angeles-based ,
aircraft industries.
Officials included Chickasha Mayor
Charles Ferguson, City Manager Larry
Shelton and EDC Secretary Jim Mason. |
City Manager Larry Shelton said he
is hopeful that some of the firms will
set up industries in southwest Okla-
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The system will be funded by a
A nominal montniy fee as part of the
residential and commercial telephone
this month.
Mock emergency calls, which be-
gan earlier this week, will be made
from specific locations in the city to
test the system.
Sterling said the system should be
expanded to include the town of
Ninnekah in about six to 12 months.
The Chickasha City Council entered
bills.
Funds over the past year have been
set aside to purchase the equipment
as part of the agreement between the
council and SWBT.
Ninnekah Mayor Bob Perry said he
I appreciated the cooperation between
| the council and Ninnekah trustees.
" Under the new system, a computer
terminal will be set up in each of the
two Ninnekah police cruisers to re-
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but no structures.
He said the two highway offices will
improve the efficiency of the North-
ern Commission Dist. He added that
the Pocasset office will serve the
highway needs of the north Chicka-
sha area.
The Northern Commission Dist
includes the rural roads north of Chicka-
sha and a portion of the city of Chicka-
sha, north of Michigan avenue. That
area used to be in the Central Com-
mission Dist. before redistricting was
approved last October.
Gangs Seminar
Set Monday
The Great Planes Hospital will
sponsor a gang seminar at 7 p.m. on
Monday at the local Canadian Valley
Area Vo-Tech Center Helan Ward
Center.
Chickasha Police Chief Dany Ster-
ling said experts on gangs will guest.
It is free and open to the public, he
added.
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posed location.
Carl Soloman, an OCC environ-
mental specialist who admitted that
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Sunday on the freeway
and traffic was bumper
to bumper,” he said.
“We couldn't see the
mountains from the
valley because of the
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The board of county commission- LISA PIERCE, Chickasha police dept. dispatcher, tests the new E-911 system
ers, acting on the recommendation of being installed in the city hall by Southwestern Bell Co. It will go into service
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thatthecontractual negotiations will perensinenrrepoinethattheincrease
The city has been without a contract rate should will the city an estimated
since last July. The Fort Cobb board $48,000 during the current fiscal year,
raised the wholesale water rate from Under the city charter, residential
9to 12centsper 1,000 gallons of water. water rates cannot be raised without a
Shelton said that represents a 33 vote of the people.
remain open. ___________
The property at Tuttle is 1.5 miles cabinets), $11,580, and unit price (dirt
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owned by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gar- d’y
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onersawincaPsnutue.Htddgaha S“Meshasterrnstructionalsoissued $22,500, $5.20: G.W.HastingsCon-
the department office at Pocasset will bids on alternate #1 (tile), $27,640, structionceo
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With micraphone in hand she stood
and greeted the audience.
“Do I need to use this mike?” she
asked.
Then in answer to her own question
she set it aside and began to speak
from her place at the head table.
She didn’t need the mike!
In a strong, clear and steady voice
she captured the attention of all her
former students, some had graduated
from highschool back in the 1920’s.
It was Dora Barney, now living with
a daughter and son-in-law in Duncan,
OK.
She was one of my grade school _
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when classes first through highschool Am _ _ A__I ■ m A lg m ■ gm pau ■ •
wxumnlanarormerstdenisortne (5005 Un-Line JanUary 1
school held their annual reunion re- "
cently in Anadarko. The early 1950 s Th, new Enhanced 911 system, provide immediate information on the ingfrom.
marked the last senior classes to gradu- which will into service next Janu- address an emergency call is coming For the first time, the system also
ate from the school. . ary, is being tested this week at the from. Under the system, police dis- will allow people to make emergency
I only attended the school a couple ci hai. patchers will get accurate information calls from telephone booths, showing
ofyearsbeforemovingonwestto Oney According to Chickasha Police Chief on a computer terminal screen show- their locations.
andR Cobb. Mrs. Barney, atage 95, Steriing, the new system will ing the street address the call is com- Sterling said the new system willgo
still looked the same as I remembered 7 6 on line on Jan. 1, following testing
her almost half a century ago.
One of Chickasha’s more promi-
nent manufacturers of horse trailers,
Mike Jackson, was in attendance at
the Saturday night meeting with his
wife June (Rogers) Jackson who is a
graduate of the school. Mike is a FL
Cobb graduate.
He overheard me ask Doyle Small-
wood about his twin brother. Dale,
and where they each were living. Mike
answered the question he said, “They
both live in Moore, and you know they
on.o ‘tight’ they live on the same
property th a share-the-cost picket fence
Wiley them.
_____ ’92 show will be under the
giPince of fellow classmate Jim
Refers as president and assisted by a
long time friend Don Edwards as VP.
On my calendar I’ve marked the
Saturday following Thanksgiving and
plan to be there again.
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The proposed site for pits to store officials said during a public meeting The original proposal called for the agricultural use. up tochange the location of the pro- testedtheoriginalproposaibecaunei
oildrimingriuidhas been moved out with the Oklahoma Corporation Com- pits to be located in the town of Nin- William Paiker Briggett Inc. law- posed pit sites. would havelocatedcheritoniane
ofthe Ninnekah town limits, Briggett mission (OCC). nekah city limits in an area zoned for yer, said the public meeting was set Ninnekah Trustees said they pro- tsnpii Sfcsutrd-one which prohib-
They said Bill Hare, Briggett Inc.,
president, had to re-file Ms applica-
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Monday approved the lease agreement
between the County and the Commer-
12 Firms Submit Bids
dept, will rent the offices for $600 per
month during the current fiscal year. ____ m m m mm
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expandingitsfaciitentgotastate. McMaster’sConstruction Co. which work at West school). S10. $32,000,$22,000, 6. ,29999 hmndstries included Teledyne,
ederspidranttoperunimit-hand. issuedabaseproposalof $1,346,900, Other bidders, base proposals, al- Gaig Armstong s- 91,4197 Computer Science Corp., Rockwell
capped pogam or children three years was the apparent low bidder for the ternate l, alternate 2, and unit price, 89858hdr, Inc., $1,505,000. Interhational, McDonald Douglas,
andvounger. It is called the Oklahoma proposed Chickasha School District were. gn 8000 s10 Joe D Hail Loral Corp., Hughes Aircraft, and
Soonersariprogram." classroom.building project Willowbrsok, Dgselorment: 526-3300,028,000),323,400,512; LittonIndustries.alloftheLos Ange-
In other business. Commission Twelve firms submitted bid propos- 21,392,00,28,, . .5 ” & Sh rt Ine $1 398 8sO, les area.
Chairman Troy Streber of Tuttle als to school officials to construct 25 Pope Construction,, ,98, sarbu 8350 $6- RJP Enterprises’, He said several firms are thinking
announced that the county commis- classrooms at four campuses in the $27,080, $27,300, $7.50, Jan L _ 5 1 334 3703919 640- 54575, about expanding and several others
struction, $1,575,500, 830,000, * » > ’ •- ’ ’ ’ are considering moving completely out
$22,500,$5.20;G.W.HastingsCon- andFkc-Pinion.,,, 930,000, Los Angeles area,
struction, $1,575,500, $30,000, $19,000,711.80. He said McDonald-Douglas Corp.
and alternate #2 (classroom wall $22,500,, $5.20. RicharCa vin, projecoard * to cost and several other firms have strong
..... Wicker Construcuon, $1,534,000, ±e project is estimated to cost b 4 ----------------
5 STSS wssfogmaseshai S^e^RockweH officials are of Chickasha. (PHOTO By Fran sewe)
Grand.Lincolnandwestkementar considering the state for a new plant
STheproposedclassrooms willreplace He addedthat Hughes Aircrafoalgady
the outdated portable classrooms, hasaplantemploymg30or40people
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[ am will have fire protection systems. help Chickasha to so
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ie 33 9000 eluding the EDC, were trying to en-
TTreprajecl is being funded byaSl.9- tice thoseffirms to expand in south-
million general obligation bond issue, western Oklahoma.
AA-ii 1ast Anril Shelton said some of those firms want
PEaoIn said he hoped that construe- to get out of congested Los Angeles
tion.winl begin during January after 4 was 4 p.m. on Sunday on the
^UnTr^e proposal, the general freeway .and traffic was bumper.t
entet.r will have 270 davs to bumper, hesaid. Wecouldnotsee
complete conttruction. It is hoped that the mountains from the valley because
iheproiecewisbessnishedibrore the otumingi Sue of water, Shel-
stcavnsadthe27-dayconsuction ton said he hopes that the watercor-
schedule is based on “reasonable tract with the Fort Cobb Water Dist
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SANTA checks with Kim and Heather Cave during thezannual Kiwanis ect proposed contract to fePFSR Cobb
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