The Chickasha Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Vol. 96, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, June 13, 1997 Page: 2 of 8
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p.m. Wednesday, June 11, 1997, in
Rose Hill Cemetery with Esten
Leonard officiating.
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ature tall are some other varieties.
Dwarf and intermediate iris bloom
earlier than the tall bearded in the
spring and there are some iris called
rebloomers that bloom in the fall af-
ter blooming in the spring. All of
these different varieties make the
blooming season last longer and
that is good news for Iris Rovers.
All rhizomes will be offered at rea-
sonable prices.
Members of the society will be on
hand to help buyers make the best
selections and to answer questions
about the growing and cultivating
of iris.
Marie Sheffield
Funeral for Marie Sheffield, 79,
Chickasha, is pending with Fer-
guson Funeral Home.
She was born September 9, 1917.
She died Thursday, June 12, 1997,
in Chickasha.
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Funeral for Bertie Mae Wood, 84.
Oklahoma City, former Chickasha
resident, was held at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, June 11, 1997, in the
Chapel of Sevier Funeral Home.
Rev. Ron Caudill, pastor of Calvary
Baptist Church, officiated.
Organist was Mila Bennett. Solo-
ist was Craig Stuke.
Pallbearers were Jess Markum,
Gene Sampson, Lawrence Graham,
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USAO Regents meeting Tuesday. It was Harris's last meeting as
board meets to
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non-certified teachers in ISS," "We don't know where our
Smith said. He added that it's only fence(line) is located there," said
been used at the junior high school David Perryman. "I don't have an
so far and non-certified staff are objection to granting an easement,"
about one-third the cost of certified he said. But added that he wanted
temporary appropriations to the The board discussed personnel
general fund, building fund and matters in executive session then
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volving the carrying of shields or recommended a design of the 13
banners marked with the emblem alternating stripes in red and white
of a people or a government. with an azure field in the upper
'The evolution of the American comer bearing the red cross of St.
Flag marks the progression of the George and the white cross of St.
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components and includes 15 copies
of the test. The price to lease the
battery is increasing to $112.
GED graduation will be at 7 p.m.
June 16 in the Helen Ward Seminar
Center at the Canadian Valley Vo-
Tech. Mayor Harld Jackson will be
the commencement speaker and a
reception hosted by Altrusa Club
will follow the ceremony.
The board also approved
Superintendent Merrill Smith's
proposal to request deregulation of
the teacher certification
requirements for in-school
suspension classes.
percent on academic support. The three one-year leases to be renewed
remaining 6 percent will be split automatically subject to a 90-day Chickasha will be the new
among research, public service, notice of termination by the chairman, Loretta Jackson of
scholarship and data processing. university. Chickasha will be vice chairman
USAO's budget was Regents elected officers for the and Chesley Herndon of Oklahoma
electronically transmitted to the next year. W.R. Moon of City will be secretary.
• Iris Society Holds Sale
•Taz Saturday In Chickasha
‘Southwest Oklahoma Iris Society two-tones, ruffles, and horns. Now
EAs uppg will sponsor a Rhizome Sale at the is the time to purchase and plant for
Fae0 WalMart store in Chickasha on Sat- next spring's beautiful blooms,
uue” - urday, June 14. The sale will begin The sale will include many varie-
aenK N at 10 a.m. The sale will be located ties, each named and registered
S—cida---m.T outside the store on the parking lot. with The American Iris Society.
Eiadsadi The sale will be under the leader- Besides the tall bearded iris, which
"MA ship of Robert Medina, president of makes up the greater part of the
approved the
in the open
exact information before
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child nutritionfund until the excise voted and
USAO's total budget for 1997-98 Oklahoma State Regents for
is $7,460,279 which includes a Higher Education office in
$509,254 increase in state funds. Oklahoma City.
Sixty-seven percent of USAO's In other business, Regents
budget comes from state funds and approved the lease of the USAO
23 percent comes from student farm to Dr. James Freed. In May
tuition and fees, the remaining 10 the Regents voted to award the
percent comes from gifts and lease contract through competitive
grants and money from the sealed bids. Although five bid
reserves. packets were picked up at the
USAO will spend 49 percent of university. Freed was the only
the $7.4 million on instruction, 15 bidder.
percent on campus maintenance. Freed bid $17 per acre, the same
14 percent on institutional support, price he's leased the farm at for the
9 percent on student services and 7 past five years. The contract is for
Orpha Mae Smith
Funeral for Orpha Mae Smith, 61,
former Chickasha resident, was
held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, June
10, 1997, in Plainview Mennonite
Church. Rev. Lurald Koehn, Rev.
Glen Nightingale, and Rev. Chester
Koehn officiated.
Music was provided by the
Plainview Mennonite Church
Choir.
Pallbearers were Gerald Smith,
Stan Smith, Kevin Nightingale, Ar-
den Nightingale, Brent Koehn,
Mike Smith.
Interment was in Plainview Men-
nonite Cemetery under the direction
of Sevier Funeral Home.
Chickasha supplied most of this
history, with additions from "The
World Almanac," Mary Bailey's
American History classes at
Chickasha Junior High School
from 1952 to 1954, and other
sources. The author takes full
responsibility for his own
additions, speculations and
commentary, and any inadvertant
errors in the text of the article.)
exclusive ensign. This twin cross them.
flag with 13 stripes was, however. He first wrote it out on an
the first American Hag to receive a envelope. The next day at Indian
salute of honor. This was a salute Queen Inn, Baltimore, Md., he
of 11 guns from the Fort of Orange . ..
in the Dutch West Indies. sopied it and gave it to his brother-
Literature has vivid descriptions in-law, J.H. Nicholson. Nicholson
of Betsy Ross at work sewing gold suggested the tune "Anacreon in
stars in the azure field, and cutting Heaven" and had it printed on
out and sewing together the red and broadsides, of which two still sur-
dragon-slayer" is a figure of myth white stripes. vived when "The World Almanac
in 1620, until 1775, the Hag of and legend in England, through St. it is believed that in May or June of 1994" went to press.
England, called "the Union Jack," George is now regarded by many of 1776, a committee consisting of The Elks history of the flag traces
was the flag of all English settlers as being as fictitious as the dragon; George Washington, Robert Morris a connection between the flag and
in North America. It also was and St. Andrew is the patron saint and George Ross commissioned the the B.P.O.E. (Benevolent and Pro-
adopted by some native tribes after of Scotland. Scotch and Scotch- Philadelphia Quaker woman to tective Order Of Elks). Miss Mar-
swearing loyalty to England. It is a Irish-Americans played a major make a flag from a rough design garet Young, who cut the stars for
matter of historic record, for ex- role in the founding of our country, they left her, and she suggested this particular banner, later became
ample, that the old Chickasaw Na- For example, Scotch-American that the stars should have five the mother of Henry Sanderson, the
tion, previously loyal to France, John Paul Jones, senior lieutenant points, not six. Grand Exalted Ruler of the Order
swore loyalty to England long be- of the flag ship "Alfred," hoisted •-----------------------------------
fore the American Revolution, and the dual-cross flag to the masthead The Colonists and the
did not abandon this allegiance un- on December 3, 1775. The name Chickasaws both flew the "Union
der the pressure of the American "Alfred" for the flag ship, like the Jack" of England
Revolution. Through our history, dual crosses on the flag, shows that -I----------,-:--------- -------r-------------
members of native tribes have the citizen-soldiers still retained Regardless of who fashioned the blue field should carry one star for
fought bravely under the Confed- some feelings for their English design into fabric, the starry banner each of the 20 states in the union,
erate and the Union banners, and, heritage. Alfred the Great, justly- Was first flown at Fort Stanwix, with a new star to be added for
serving under the Stars and Stripes, designated unifier and liberator of called Fort Schuyler at the time, every state admitted afterward,
subsequently have been among the Anglo-Saxon England, threw off near the city of Rome, N.Y., on Nearly a century passed then; and
most highly-decorated United the yoke of Norse invaders after August 3, 1777. The flag was un- during that 94-year passage to
States soldiers, in all the wars the initial defeat, suffering many years der fire three days later at the battle 1912, 28 more stars were added to
country has fought. in exile. According to tradition he of Oriskany, a British and Indian the 20 existing so that the pattern
The first American banner of the worked at humble jobs, including a attack ’ on August 6- of "48 stars, 48, states" held until
colonial era, adopted in 1775, was stint as a kitchen servant. Alfred . .ohn Paul Jones again figures July 4,1959. For one year, with the
the Pine Hag carried by all Ameri- united all the diverse minor king- into the story of . the American admission of Alaska, there were 49
can colonial vessels. This was the doms of England into one, and Flag. 1116 first official salute to the stars on our flag. Then, on July 4,
banner carried by the continental dealt benevolently with the Norse Stars and Stripes was given on 1960, a new star was added as
forces of Bunker Hill. The Snake after defeating them He brought February 14 1778, by France, on Hawaii became part of the United
Hag, bearing the message, "Don't lasting peace between Anglo- the French coast, when the States. This flag of 50 stars was the
Tread On Me," was used by the Saxon and Norse estate holders by Ranger under Jones’ command flag that was flown during the Vi-
southern colonies from 1776 to arranging their estates in a was saluted by the French fleet. etnam War and has been flown in
1777. In the latter year, the Stars checkerboard pattern making them This flag, was made by the young the United States ever since,
and Stripes, the permanent Ameri- neighbors. women of Portsmouth, New Hamp- We are "One nation, one flag,"
can emblem, was conceived. On Perhaps the namers of the shire, from stripes of their best col- but the flag has changed as the
June 4, 1777, the Congress de- "Alfred" saw a parallelin the union . and the•. white nation hass changed._____
dared That the Hag of the United of the colonies, and their concerted wedding gown of a recent bride. (Bob Martin and B.P.O.E. in
States be thirteen stripes of alter- effort to overthrow the yoke of It is saidthat this same -Ranger's ---------
nating red and white; and that the England Flag was flown by Jones' ship, the meusqumm
union be thirteen stars, white on a At any rate, one month later this Homme R ichard." when it
blue field, representing a new con- dual-cross "Grand Union Has " fought the British ship "Serapis" by
stellation." also called "The Continental Cl- maonlig hton the high seas. But
_. . . ors" was raised Over the L0"1..0. with the admission of Vermont and
This was the culmination of al- f aisedv erthheadguar. Kentucky to the Union in 1795, the
most two years work, but, contrary Ers.lt.G eneral " ashi 8 ton at era of the 13-star flag ended,
to general belief, this design was cambridge.Mass. The future A banner with 15 stars and 15
not the first version of the red and iF thernosOur Country" raised it stripes Was cried into the War of
white striped flag to be flown over In.omplimentt the United 1812. Seeing it flying over Fort
the colonies. In the latter part of colonies, as he wrote. But this flag McHenry on September 14, 1814,
1775, the Continental Congress had was never carried in the field by Francis Scott Key wrote the words
appointed a committee to consider the Continental land forces and to "The Star Spangled Runner"
the question of a single flag for the Was used by the Navy only as its later to become our National An-
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prinipar’nt SSSS
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Gayleen Langthorn
Staff Writer
Regents at the University of
Science and Arts of Oklahoma
approved salary increases for
faculty and staff when they met
Tuesday afternoon at the
University.
Increases for faculty and staff
members varied, but averaged 4 to
5 percent overall and were a
combination of performance-based
and across the board.
"We used supervisor's
recommendations within a range,"
said Mike Coponiti, director of the
business office.
Regents voted a 6 percent or
$6,600 increase for President Roy
Troutt, bringing his base salary to
$116,600.
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