The Mannford Eagle (Mannford, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 9, 1986 Page: 2 of 14
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Editorials
The Mannford Eagle, Thursday, January 9, 1986
Assessors Have Begun Tour
School Election Registration
Deadline Is Jan. 17
assessed and applications taken
Editor.
JENNINGS-Jennings City for homestead exemption by both
Hall-Jan. 23.
Scovil...
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Construction update
On New Gymnasium
sheets and catalogs.
rural mailmen, which, because
smile.
CORRECTION
Clip Out and Mail to:
The Mannford Eagle
P.O. Drawer 430
During the noon hour Saturday
(12:57 p.m.) January 4, firemen
were called to the 48-51 junction
where trash burning on the
"But they wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and
not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." Isaiah 40:31.
OTHER ACTIVITIES not
related to his job include serv-
ing as an elder at the Lakeview
Christian Church and he was
Gary McBride. Earl Jones, Norm
Swezey, Ronald Harness. Randy
Sloan, Bob Chailer and Bob
Black.
"If someone wants water
wholesale, we will have it at a
fair price," he added.
At a district water meeting
held in the Terlton school
cafeteria before Christmas,
members voted unanimously
to finance a 810 per month sur-
charge on their water bills if
financing could not be obtained
through regular channels to
pay for drilling the new wells
and laying the line. At the end
of seven months, the members
in the district were to start get-
ting repaid with interest for
Center-Jan.
Feb. 3.
Personal
Sports Editor...........................
Outdoor Editor.......................
Advertising Representative.
Bookkeeper..............................
Official Nomination Blank
I nominate____________________________
for the Seventh Annual Bill Phelps Citizen
of the Year Award because____________
The story run last week in the Mannford Eagle con-
cerning a fire last year in the Ron Costillo home was at-
tributed to faulty wiring and should have been attributed
to a faulty curling iron.
........Margaret Edgar
..............Norma Roes
............Lisa Mancuso
................Jay Cranke
................Elaine Ford
.............Janet Meyer
.Claudette Bradfield
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS AND ALANON
Alcoholics Anomymous and Al-Anon will meet at the
Mannford Community Center at 7 p.m. Wednesday and
at 8 p.m. Sunday for those wanting and needing help with
alcoholic problems.
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ENROLL NOW
Central Vo-Tech winter adult classes will be starting in
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full time adult computer training, electronics, farm business
management and computer business course program. Call
and talk with our adult counselor, Phyllis Smith at Central
Vo-Tech 918-352-2551, extension 51. (School will be closed
during the holidays and re-open Monday, January 6, 1986.)
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Or drop by our office 1 block west of traffic light
next to the In-N-Out Food Store
(Deadline For Nomination - January 15, 1986)
Fires...
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property will be
"The Mannford Eagle" is published weekly, every Thursday.
812.50 per year by The Mannford Eagle; Incorporated. P. O.
Drawer 430, Mannford, Oklahoma 74044. Second Class
Postage paid at Mannford, Oklahoma. POSTMASTER: Send
address change to The Mannford Eagle, P. O. Drawer 430,
Mannford, Oklahoma 74044.
OWNED AND PUBLISHED BY THE MANNFORD
EAGLE, INCORPORATED: Mary Heller, President; Calvin
Russell. Vice President; Steve Heller, Secretary-Treasurer.
An independent newspaper, home-owned and operated.
Dedicated and actively working toward the progress and news
coverage of Mannford and the Lake Keystone area.
property of Marlene McCrackin
had ignited grass. Approxi-
mately five acres were burned
before volunteers brought the
blaze under control.
Answering the call were
firemen Butch Adkins, Gary
McBride, Earl Jones and Randy
Sloan.
postmaster when he entered oil
field work where he remained
for 10 years.
Scovil recalls that in addition
to having a traffic mishap his
first day on the job, he began
the job without much
preliminary training. He was
working at his oilfield job one
day and at the post office the
next. But he has enjoyed his
work.
Before the lake went in dur-
ing the early ’60’s, his route
wasn't as long and he also car-
ried the Keystone rural mail.
He could complete both routes
early in the day and have the
rest of the day off for such
activities as hunting ar-
rowheads and spearpoints, one
of his favorite hobbies. Now,
despite the fact that his route
has been divided twice, he ■till
has little time for that sort of
thing.
Office Department (now Postal mailboxes. One year, the mail
Service) blindly. His grand- boxes were filled with stinging
mother, the late Ada Thomp- scorpions. It was a wet year
son, had served as Mannford's and they crawled into the
postmaster for many years, boxes trying to find a dry
She was succeeded by the late place."
Lester Rhoades. She was still __
When Christmas and New
Year's come, can the tax
assessor be far behind?
A resounding No! Beginning
Monday, January 6, the Pawnee
County tax assessor, Violet
Alley, and the Richard L. (Dick)
White, Creek County assessor,
began their annual tour of
communities in Pawnee and
Creek Counties to make 1986
assessments of real and personal
property.
Property owners can meet the
assessors and their deputies at
CREEK COUNTY
OLIVE-BipUisi. Church-
Jan. 13.
MANNFORDTown Hall-Jan.
14-15-16-17.
OLLTON-Chy Hall-Jan. 24-27.
DRUMR/GHT-Community
28-29-30-31 and
BY LINDA HALLORAN
Daco Contruction is moving
right along on the erection of the
new Mannford High School
Gymnasium. Construction began
November 1st and with the
exception of a few rainy days
steady progress has been made.
This is going to be a facility all of
the Mannford Community can be
truly proud of.
With a completion date of
July 7, 1986, the building is on
schedule with approximately
40% of the rough plumbing
complete, 75% of the concrete
work done, 10% of the electric
in, and 20% of the masonry work
complete. The gymnasium is
located northwest of the present
high school gymnasium and will
be accommodated with existing
parking.
The $1.3 million, 2-level
facility will contain 18,000 square
feet of space upon completion.
There will be full locker room,
showers and rest room facilities
for both boys and girls located on
Central Vo-Tech Schoo! has another class starting January
13th in the demand field of security/criminal justice. This is a
66 hour, intensive eleven day program, designed to provide
adults with new skills for immediate employment. Over
90-percent of the first class obtained employment within one
week after completion of training. You are eligible to be
trained free of charge if you meet requirements for the
Dislocated Worker Program, or for J.T.P.A. Call Chris
Payne, after the holidays, at 224-9300 on Monday,
Wednesday, or Friday, or at 352-2551 on Tuesday or
Thursday for more information. (School will be closed during
the holidays and re-open Monday, January 6, 1986.)
Terlton Kiwanis
Terlton Valley Kiwanis Club
met Monday, January 6. at the
Terlton School cafeteria for its
weekly meeting. A spaghetti
supper was featured.
Sixteen members plus six
guests from the Jenks Kiwanis
Club attended. Guest Joe Cole,
a Terlton resident, is making a
bid for a position on the
Cleveland District School
Board. He is a wrestling coach
in Cleveland.
Mannford school district
as well as all other school
districts in Creek County
will hold an election
Tuesday, January 28.
A 2-man race for Office
No. 1 in the Mannford
district has developed
between incumbent Monte
Troxell and Dr. Leslie G.
Zalewski of Mannford.
District voters also will
decide annual millage
levies, which include the
10-mi" local support, the
5-mill emergency and the
5-wrili building fund.
A reminder was sent out
this week by Willene
Wright, Creek County
Election Board secretary,
that registration books,
presently open, will close
January 17 for all of Creek
County and will not open
again until Saturday, Feb. 1
or Monday, Feb. 3,
whichever is applicable.
After the 30 cent per 1,000
gallon payment for raw water,
the district then will pay for
cost of chlorination, line and
meter maintenance and office
upkeep, which includes all
paper work. The board of direc-
tors of the district serves
without charge.
Cleveland was seeking 82.57
per thousand gallons from the
district for water rights.
Application is being made to
the Oklahoma Water
Resources Board for a grant,
which is available to small
communicites, based on a point
system.
found a variety of unexpected
although a lot of people things in the mail boxes, some
wouldn t think so, but it is of them seeking shelter from
steady,' he laughed. the elements or protection
from enemies.
SCOVIL DIDN'T enter the "I’ve found dead possums,
employment of the US Post snakes and tarantulas in the
description of real property.
The Pawnee County assessor’s
be solved when the post office recently re-elected president of office is closed this week while
moves into its new building the Keystone Crossroads Mrs. Alley and her deputies are
now under construction to the Historical Society. On tour. Regular hours of 8 to 5
northwest in the Shopping As rural mail carrier Scovil except for the lunch hour will be
Center. provides his own pickup. In the resumed next week.
earlier years he says he could
Scovil expected to complete drive a vehicle for almost three Property owners have a March
the sorting and stacking opera- years but with today’s vehicles 15 deadline for assessment,
tion on or before 11 a.m., after and the additional stops, he Those who fail to make
which he would start for the must purchase new trucks assessment by March 15 face a
Salt Creek Addition, deliver every two years in order to penalty of 10 percent of the total
there, come back through insure adequate transportation assessment. Those who fail to
town, catch the roads on the — a prerequisite of his job. have property assessed by April
north side out towards SH 48, In the earlier years of his 15 face a 20-percent penalty,
go north on SH 48, then retrace career as a rural mail carrier, he
and go west to where the old sometimes had requests from Property owners living on their
Miller ranch started, then come his patrons to bring them own property with a deed dated
back to Varnell’s store and go groceries or other small articles prior to January 1 of this year
south three miles, retrace a half from town. His arrival often have until February 1 to file a
mile north on SH 48 and then highlighted the day for some of homestead exemption applica-
return to the post office. the elderly awaiting word from tion.
loved ones.
DOES HE pick up much Scovil has noted many
outgoing mail along his route? changes and much progress in
“The first of the month I the rural area surrounding AaFAp
usually pick up from a peck to Mannford since the lake was VVdLlaum
community support and coopera-
tion and a great deal of proper
organization to make improve-
ments such as this develop.
Congratulations, Mannford!
, “During the first of the of their slick finish, cause the
the first level, and a weight month, it’s terrible," he neatly stacked mail to become
room, a 40 x 40 wrestling room agreed. "In addition to unstacked and thus slow down
with a wrestling floor, a everything else, there's usually its delivery.
basketball court with 6 back- a boxholder (free advertise- "I used to put a single tie
stops, four being retractable and ment addressed ‘boxholder’ or around the bundle and it would
a soreboardI located at each end ‘postal patron) for every box. ” stay put. Now I have to strap it
of the gym. The second floor will Another busy time is around both ways,” he explained.
also have a full concession Christmas, when, in addition to Another change is in the
facility located centrally for easy catalogs and directories, he number of "strangers" he
access, a men s and women’s usually delivers between 40 to serves.
public restroom and observa- 50 packages per day. “I used to know everybody
tional bleachers Provisionshave Before becoming the rural on my route but now, they
been included in present mail carrier, succeeding Tom- move out here and both hus-
contruction for future improve- my Crane, Scovil worked in the band and wife work. I seldom
ments oil fields as a tool dresser. see them to get to know them.
Being equipped with a facility "The pay was good but I However, they usually know
such as this will enable our could see the oil fields around who I am and when they see
community to compete for and here going down. If a guy need- me, tell me I am their mail
produce a great deal more of ed a well drilled, we went out to carrier”
successful and profitable events. work, if not, we stayed home. I
The Mannford youth work and hadn’t been married very long BEING A RURAL carrier
strive to do their utmost with the and I wanted steady work, also has its hazards. He has
guidance and encouragement of This is surprisingly hard work.
their coach’s. It takes money,
any of the places listed or make BASIN-Lake Country Estates-
rendition by mail or in person at Jan. 27.
assessors. Both Mrs. Alley and
White request that property
owners bring with them a copy of
last year’s assessment or deeds
in order to get an accurate
the court houses in the county in
which property is located.
PAWNEE COUNTY
Schedule for Assessor Violet
Alley for communities in this
portion of Pawnee County
includes:
WESTPORT-Fire Station-Jan.
13-14.
TERLTON- Terlton Store-Jan.
21.
district needed only an addi- the surcharge money, which in
tional 50 gallons per minute to effect was to be a loan.
meet the district needs of 1% "With the new wells, our
million gallons per month. The water cost for the district will
two new wells' output means drop from between
that the district will have 110 885,000-8100,000 per month to
gallons per minute (158,400 816,000 maximum," revealed
gallons per month) above its Johnson. "We will be paying
needs and can therefore sell 30 cents per thousand gallons
water or offer an inducement to for water out of the ground to
an industry needing water to Doug Bowers. The agreement
locate there. is similar to one with Hickson
"We’d be glad to turn that who owned the land and water
meter around and offer rights on the previous wells.
Cleveland the same deal the Bowers is offered the same
town was giving us if they need terms and same payment. We
water,” said Johnson with a will be paying for the water.
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PMannford EAGLE
half a bushel of return mail, put in.
Yeo, I still cany stamups," Weive had tremendous
Scovil said. growth,” he affirms.
His busiest days of the And as far as mail delivery
month are the first five, when difference are concerned,
government and other checks among the big changes are the
are in the mail and advertisers proliferation of magazines and
are sending out more sales similar material - the bane of
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Edgar, Margaret; Rose, Norma & Mancuso, Lisa. The Mannford Eagle (Mannford, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 9, 1986, newspaper, January 9, 1986; Mannford, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1949089/m1/2/?q=Homecoming+queen+1966+North+Texas+State+University: accessed June 11, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Keystone Crossroads Historical Society.