The Wynnewood Gazette (Wynnewood, Okla.), Vol. 78, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 21, 1978 Page: 1 of 24
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Director Sharon Wilson urges
parents to enjoy some seasonal
Since that day in May, a Christmas season does not
go by that I don't wonder about the shepherds and the
Wise Men that came to Bethlehem to visit the babe
being tenderly held.
But very few of us stop to realize that even the
strongest, mightiest men of history once had to be held
and cuddled. It is difficult to imagine our great heroes
as nursing babies, unknown to the world, weak and
totally dependant upon a parent's care.
Kelly Garrett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glendol Garrett, and
Jennifer Dizon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Dixon.
Keeping a watchful eye on the proceedings is Sara Stephens,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Stephens.
Napoleon, Washington. Lincoln, Marie Antoinette,
Churchill. Kennedy, along with all of the world's great
persons of history, were once tiny bundles of flesh, frail
and in need of constant care. The strongest once could
not walk. The most brilliant of the intellectual minds
were at one time illiterate and blinded by the newness
of the world around them. All of the world's great
people lay helpless in a loving parent's arms.
At Christmas time, we remember the baby Mary held
in that hay filled stable. Like the other babies his
tenderness required the shelter, love and support of his
parents’ embrace. I am sure Mary and Joseph were
very pleased when the rich, symbolized by the Wise
Men, and the poor, symbolized by the shepherds, came
to the manger in Bethlehem.
I realize that what has been said about the baby
Jesus is true of all God's gifts: they need to be held.
They cannot be left hanging in a world without
assurance, security, and support. The same is also true
for the great abstractions of life, such as beauty. love,
truth and goodness; these abstractions must be held by
something strong and solid. For example. try to think of
the word '’beauty" for two minutes without attaching it
to any beautiful object. This is impossible. When we
think of the word "beauty" we begin to associate it
with a starlit night, a sandy beach, a bouquet of flowers
Saturday, December 16 Sav-
ages Gymnastics Club traveled
to Shawnee for a three-way
meet with the Shawnee Whirl-
A-Gigs and the Sherman, Tex-
as club.
Kim Mallow, Cheryl Jack-
son and Shelly Russell narrow-
ly missed the state qualifying
mark by 30.0 by turning in
strong performances. It was
the first time out for Beth Rice
who started each event very
well for the Wynnewood team.
Her solid routines and eager
attitude really helped the other
squad members.
The clubs nezt home meet is
January 27 vs. Shawnee and
Durant. Enrollment for the 79
Savage classes closes Thurs-
day.
said this week that he had
been having trouble reaching
Santa by phone because of
Santa’s busy schedule this
time of year.
Wolf said Santa would meet
"SANTA, HERE’S A PIECE OF CANDY,” says Jennifer
Camp, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Camp, as these four
lovely ladies talked to Santa this week and told him of things
to watch out for around their home when he comes down the
chimney on Christmas Eve. Sitting in Santa's lap on the left is
TO COACH FAITH 7 GAME
Willis Mackey of Lindsay, former coach and administrator at
Wynnewood High School, will be one of the coaches for the
Faith 7 basketball game to be played in June of nezt year.
Tommy Holt of Maysville will be one of the assistants
helping Bill Perry of Hugo, who is the coaching coordinator for
the South squad. in the 1979 All-State Football game.
Larry Hays is finding out it’s
profitable to shop in Wynne-
wood.
Larry won his second $25.00
PHONE NUMBER CHANGED
For those getting a busy signal or no answer, the First
National Bank has had to change their telephone number. The
old number was 665-4308 but is now 665-2031.
F.C.A TO GO CHRISTMAS CAROLING
F.C.A. will go Christmas Caroling, and deliver fruit to the
nursing center, December 20.
They will also deliver a basket of food to some needy family.
F.C.A. (Fellowship of Christian Athletes) members are
discussing going to an O.U. basketball game in the future.
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Tammy Hughes and Leigh-
Ann Evans, state qualifiers
from December 2, are being
encouraged to eztend their
tricks and consequently show-
ed a slight drop in total score.
Amy Garrett and Cindy
Baker, the remaining two Sav-
age competitors continue to
show a steady rise in their
scores.
SCOUT LEADER TRAINING HELD
On the evening of December 14. 1978 the first in a series of
Scout leader training sessions were held at the VFW building in
Wynnewood. The purpose of this training is to teach Scout
leaders how to better present the Scout program to the boys in
their troops. Covered in this first session were the aims and
purposes of the Boy Scouts of America, characteristics of 11-12-
13-year-old boys, a brief history of the Scouting movement, and
planning a troop meetihg.
Those attending were Carl Ayers of Davis, Wally Johnson of
Maysville, John Baird of Wynnewood, F.W. (Bill) LaBarge,
J.T. Freeman, and John Mann of Stratford, Rick and Jan
Cross, D.P. (Doc) Hayhurst, and John David Hope of Pauls
Valley, and instructors Bob Christian and Fred Foz of Elmore
City.
The second session of the Scout leader training will be held
January 11. 1979 at the VFW building in Wynnewood. The
session will start at 7 p.m. and cover The Patrol Method and
Developing Boy Leaders.
ENROLLMENT BEGINS FOR ADULT CLASSES
Enrollment for evening part-time adult classes at Mid
America Area Vo-Tech School is now underway. The winter
semester begins the week of January 29, 1979.
For an application and complete schedule of courses write
Mid America Area Vo-Tech School, Box H, Wayne, Ok. 73095
or phone 405-449-3391.
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tenderness and love. Before we can catch our words we
find ourselves asking the parent, "Do you mind if I hold
the baby?”
I remember that long awaited day in May of 1970
when our first son, Austin, was born. When that
eventful day came 1 calmly took Frances to the hospital
determined that I would not be like the nervous
stereotype of the expectant father. It was an all day
wait, and I succeeded in being the reasoning, well
programmed person that I can be at times. The doctor
came out of the delivery room and told me everything
was fine and that my wife would be coming to the
recovery room any moment and that I could see her
then. I thanked her and returned to the waiting room to
wait for my wife's return. In a few moments, I saw her
being wheeled into the recovery room and as I made my
way to the room a nurse came out of the nursery with a
small bundle. She came up to me and asked me if I
would like to hold my son. At that moment my dampers
of cool reasoning were lifted. I took my son in my arms
and held him close and it was one of the most
memorable moments of my life. In my arms was my son
lying in a manger—Jesus. I wonder if one of the
shepherds mustered up enough courage to ask Mary,
"May I hold the baby?" Or if one of the Wise Men put
away his stately protocol long enough to ask Mary if he
could hold the baby for a minute. Or did gentle Mary,
herself, turn to her visitors and ask. "Would you like to
hold the baby?"
Whether the shepherd or Wise Man made the
request or Mary made the offer or whether the question
never went any further than an unspoken desire, this is
the question that comes to us all at Christmas—"Do
you want to hold the baby?" And we are very likely to
answer in pleasure and surprise. "May I?”
Let's face it. Babies need holding. There are cases
where infants have become sick even unto death
because they have not been held or touched for any
length of time or with any great consistency. It has
always been so. Babies have needed to be held. They
derive their feelings of security and a sense of worth
from being wanted and loved. These feelings of being
loved come from the warmth, closeness and support of
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NUMBER ONE! Kevin Boyd tells everyone that the Fox
Foxes are number one in the state of Oklahoma in Class B
football. Fox defeated Konawa 20-14 on the last play of the
game, a 34 yard scoring pass from Vincent Hall to Lorenzo
Breath with time expiring Photo by Kenneth Wood.
A hard hitting, never know
what's going to happen next,
football game between Fox
and Konawa, kept 5,000 en-
thusiastic football fans on the
edge of their seats Friday
night in Wynnewood.
Fox came out the victors
20-14 at the end but both
teams proved themselves
champions in their own right.
Fox scored a touchdown, after
the buzzer had sounded, on a
THE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS EXPRESSED IN WORSHIP, AT THE CHURCH OF YOUR CHOICE
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an emergency be declared and
Section 5 of Ordinance 267 be
passed and adopted, all pre-
sent voted aye.
Ordinance 269 in regard to
sewer users, defining classes,
establishing use charges for
each class, prohibiting certain
discharges and regulating dis-
charges and infiltration allow-
ances was read and on a
unanimous vote was approved.
In the meeting of the Wyn-
newood City Utilities Author-
ity, several interested citizens
appeared to question the pre-
8 along that lifts our dampers and we begin to sing the
8 kind, sweet songs (symbolically of course) that we hard-
ffi ly even knew were a part of us. For many, a baby is the
§ catalyst that begins to set us in motion. There are those
8 of us who pride ourselves in being cold and rational
when it comes to our emotions. Almost a Mr. Spock of
& Star Trek fame who shows no emotion at all, only good,
§ sound reasoning. Then we see a baby or hear one cry or
•p: laugh and we are surprised at our own feelings of
who was created through the mystery of life and I was
filled with surprise, fear, fascination and joy.
By Reverend Stan Warfield
One of God's greatest gifts to us is that rare moment
when we are set free from our foolishness and sinful
inhibitions that stifle God's grace within us, so that for
a moment we are kind, tender, generous, thoughtful
and concerned as God intended us to be. I think pianos
can serve as a parable of these sometimes brief
moments. As many of you know, pianos have “soft”
and "loud" pedals to regulate that amount of sound
that comes from the piano. However, the “loud” pedal
does not turn up the volumn of the piano like the
volumn knob on your T.V. Instead, the "loud” pedal
lifts the dampers on the strings so the strings can
vibrate freely thus giving off a loud uninhibited sound.
There are those of us who seldom have our dampers
lifted so our strings can vibrate freely. Therefore, our
spirits seldom sing as they were meant to sing. Then
every once in a while someone or something comes
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Yes, Santa will make a stop was bringing plenty of goodies
in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, af- to pan oat to Wynnewood
ter all. kiddies who would meet him in
Howard Wolf, city fire chief, front of the Chamber of Com-
WYNNEWOOD, OKLAHOMA USPS 693860 VOLUME 78 Number 41 Thursday, December 21, 1978 15 cents per copy
Baker Funeral Home for the ambulance service, to the
s Quarterback Club for their hospitality tent for various
$ officials, to the Wynnewood Police Department, Garvin •
8 County Police Auxiliary, and the Oklahoma Highway
Patrol for the security provided, to the FFA boosters
will also sing solos, as will
Brenda Smith, also a senior. In
addition, Brenda will perform
a satire on the "Twelve Days
of Christmas,” accompanied
by the fifth graders.
The junior high chorus will
then present a play, “The
sent demand meter charge
being levied by the city.
The chair recognized the
following: Hoyle Sharber. su-
perintendent of schools; Frank
Ryan, business man; and Tom
Horton, treasurer of the First
Baptist Church. The matter of
demand charges was discuss-
ed pro and con by all present.
After the discussion, a motion
was made that the demand
meter customers rate will be
three dollars per KW for
actual demand read each
month, until a two month
study could be made and
brought before the board to
report and act. All councilmen
voted aye.
the Wynnewood Fire Truck certificate at the drawing held
outside of town and be trans- Saturday. December 16. Larry
ported here between 2 and had previously won in the
2:30 p.m. on Saturday, De- December 9 drawings.
cember 23. Wolf said Santa See SANTA Page 2A
request to consolidate his of- both offices could be perform-
fice of city treasurer, and the ed by one office.
office of city clerk into one On a motion by Green,
office, turned his resignation seconded by Rennie, that the
in to Wynnewood city council- resignation be accepted, seven
men. He tendered his resigna- councilmen voted yes. Coun-
tion contingent upon passing cilman Ruggles was absent.
an ordinance combining the Ordinance 267, in regard to
two offices, consolidating the offices was
McAlister verbally request- introduced and read to the
At the City Council meeting ed the council to combine the council. All voted for passage.
Monday night City Treasurer two offices several months ago On a motion by Rennie.
Roy McAlister, in the form of a because he felt the duties of seconded by Coy Johnson, that
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Wynnewood High School's
chorus and junior high chorus
will present a "Combined
Christmas Choral encert,"
Friday, December 22 at 7:30
p.m. in the high school audi-
torium.
A candlelight processional
will open the concert. Then the
high school chorus will sing
favorite sacred selections as
well as such pop numbers as
"Winter Wonderland" and
"Silver Bells.”
Two duets follow the chorus:
Floyd Dixon and Darryl Rose
will combine their voices in "I
Wonder as I wander,” and
seniors Lisa Little and Vickie
Rowland will harmonize to "O
Holy Night.” Lisa and Vickie
Littlest Angel,” featuring a
trumpet fanfare. Following the .....
play, the chorus will accom- 8 Dear Editor:
pany Kathy Campbell, Jaime 3 1 would like to take this means to express our
Hankins, and Byron Rose on N appreciation to the community for helping us host the
"Gesu Bambino,” 9 State Class B football finals on Friday evening. An
Concluding the concert, a 3 undertaking of this magnitude would not have been
fifth grade trio will sing the ® possible without the help of so many people.
“Chipmunk Song.” Chorus 3 A special thanks goes to the Wynnewood Fire
Department for their efforts in parking the cars so
efficiently, to the Wynnewood Gazette for hosting and
music and support their chor- 3 nravidino rfreshmente for the nawe medi• * *-
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35 yard pass from quarterback
Vincent Hall to Lorenzo Breath
to cap the victory.
The two teams had played
on even terms throughout the
game with both pulling razzle-
dazzle tricks out of the hat to
keep drives going.
Both schools are to be
complimented for not only
their outstanding football ath-
letes but their many faithful
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individuals that served as announcers, scorekeepers,
ticket sellers, etc.
Jim Stark, high school principal, did an excellent job
in organizing all phases of the activity. He, his staff and
other school employees are to be complimented for
their efforts.
I think it speaks well of our schools and our
community when we are asked to host this kind of
event.
Again. I would like to say "thanks” to all who
contributed to the success of the evenings events.
Sincerely,
Hoyle Sharber
Supenntendent
Wynnewood Public Schools
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