Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 64, No. 46, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 23, 1986 Page: 1 of 24
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Livestock show
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Military demands
Marcos step down
great deal of controversy," Cotner
explained. He noted that primarily
ByJOELOBFLL
Managing Editor
Mark Staggs, James Lambert, Scott McCombs and Cain Jackson unload sections of the
show ring for the 42nd annual Jackson County Junior Livestock Show. The show will begin
Friday at the fairgrounds. (Staff photo)
damages and provide a means for
the winner in the lawsuit to recover
the costs of litigation.
"Needless to say, this has drawn a
business community.
According to Winn, the average
Pause to pray
Dear Lord, if I do only one
thing today to change the lives of
those around me, help me, that it
might spread you word among
them, and that I might show so-
meone how good a God you are.
Amen.
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Down they go
Falling prices on the crude oil market have begun to
show up in southwest Oklahoma at the gasoline
pumps. Prices fell an average of 13 cents per gallon
last week. (Staff photo)
Local lawmakers
J.R. Church will speak on “The
Coming Currency Crisis" at 7 p.m.
Friday at the City Auditorium. Free
tickets are available at the Altus Bi-
ble and Book Store, 107 S. Main.
Around town_____
Happy birthday wishes to
MIKE BENNETT and FLORA MAE
BAZE...
Weather_________
Altus vicinity - Today: Sunny
and warmer with the high in the
lower 60s. Light southwest wind.
Monday through Wednesday:
Clear to partly cloudy and mild.
Lows in the 20s and 30s with highs
in the 60s.
Weather readings: High Friday
44. Low Saturday morning 29.
Noon Saturday 55.
cow us anymore. Enough is enough. / )
Your time is up."
In Washington, the State Depart-
ment refused comment on the situa-
tion, and some members of Congress
urged Reagan to offer Marcos politi-
cal asylum in the United States.
The Roman Catholic archbishop of
Manila, Cardinal Jaime Sin, called
on the Filipino people to back Enrile
and Ramos.
“I am in deep concern about the
situation of Minister Enrile and
General Ramos," Sin said. “I am ■
calling our people to support our two
good friends."
By midnight Saturday, eight hours
after the mutiny began, thousands of
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Blair First Assembly of God
Church will hold a revival from
Sunday through Wednesday. Rev.
Kevin Alaniz, pastor, will be the
evangelist. Services will be at 11
a.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday, and 7:30
p.m. Monday through Wednes-
day.
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Southwest Oklahoma Com-
munity Action Group, Inc., Board
of Directors will meet at 6 p.m.
Feb. 27 at the Lincoln Center. 900
S. Carver Road. Committees will
meet at 6 p.m., and the rest of the
meeting will convene at 7 p.m. An
agency bus will leave the Hollis
Community Center at 5:15 p.m.,
and Gould at 5:30, Mangum
American Legion at 5:15 and
Granite also at 5:15.
Sunday, February 23, 1986
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McEntire to perform
Reba McEntire, Country Music and $12.50. They are available at Cir-
Association's Female Vocalist of the cle A Western Wear, Elk City;
Year for two years running, is com- Gayer’s Western Wear. Weather-
ing to Granite. ford; True Value Hardware,
McEntire's performance will be at Granite; Banger’s House of Carpets,
8 p.m., April 5 at the Granite High Hobart; Adkerson’s Jewelry,
School gymnasium with the Boy Mangum; Model T, Altus; Searcy's
Scouts and the Little League Rexall, Hollis; and First State Bank,
organization as sponsors. Willow.
Pake McEntire, brother of the McEntire is a strong country per-
show’s headliner, will also be former with a string of hit records,
featured. He records with RCA. Her shows have reportedly been sold
Tickets are now being sold at $10 out all over the country.
Livestock show action group chair- Stocker superintendents are Jim Bob
man is Dennis Vernon. The general Henry, Olustee, and Gerald Neeley,
superintendent of the show is Larry Eldorado. Assistants will be Mike
McLaughlin, assisted by Glenn McAskill and David Howard, Nava-
witners and Keith McCombs. jo, David Bush, Olustee, Ricky
Othere show officials include Jim Cargal, Blair and Brad Moreau,
Holder, beef superintendent, Kevin Cole and Tommy Abernathy,
assisted by Roy Garrison, Don Earl all of Altus.
Abernathy, John Horschler and Saturday will see the judging of
Ricky Cargal, all of Altus; Bud stocker pens at 8 a.m. Judging of ewe
Leverett, Duke, swine superinten- and wether lambs will be at 9 a.m.,
dent, assisted by Bob Tucker, Elmer, followed by judging of gilts and bar-
and Russell Coffey, Carl Carpenter rows at 12:30 p.m.
and Steve Suttle, all of Altus. the fair board election
Also, Mark Nichols, Altus, sheep wiLhejd’
superintendent, assisted by Phillip ' .
Muller, Martha, Buddy Dehtan, Sunday school is scheduled for 10
Eldorado, Sid Farquhar, Altus, and am. Sunday, March 2 with he judg-
Buddy Thompson, Eldorado; show mg of heifers and steers at 1 p.m.
arena superintendents, Bob Pruitt The livestock judging contest will
and Bruce Farquhar, both of Altus. begin at 8:30 a.m., Monday, March 3,
The livestock contest will be judg- followed by the barbecue supper for
ed by Derrill Killian of Western premium bidders and exhibitors who
Oklahoma State College. He will be make the premium auction. Bill Sim-
assisted by members of the WOSC co is the barbecue committee chair-
Aggie Club. man. The three-day event will con-
County FFA and 4-H members wiU elude with a premium auction at
begin bringing their animals to the P*. Monday.
fairgrounds at 8 a.m., Friday, with A clean-up of the fairgrounds
weigh-in of barrows, lambs and be at 3:30 p.m., March 4.
steers from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1 All activities at the livestock show
to 4 p.m Don McCombs is in charge are open to the public.
Workman’s compensation, due to pressure from the Oklahoma
reorganization of state government Trial Lawyers’ Association, the bill
and limits on liability settlements was "seriously amended” as it pass-
were among the issues discussed by ed the House Judiciary Committee
State Sen. Wayne Winn, last week.
D-Weatherford, and State Rep. The liability limitation measure
Howard Cotner, D-Altus, last week. has the support of many professional
Cotner told a breakfast gathering organizations who claim that the ris-
of local business, civic and govern- ing cost of liability insurance may
mental leaders that he had received force them out of business The
a letter from approximately 40 pro- Oklahoma Press Association and the
fessional groups calling for legisla- medical community are among the
tion limiting punitive and non- chief backers of the limitation pro-
economic damages in liability posal.
lawsuits. On the opposite side are many of
“They endorsed the concept that the state’s attorneys who blame in-
we have gone wild in this litigious surance companies for the increased
society," Cotner said. rates.
Cotner is co-author of House Bill On the issue of workers' compensa-
1892 which seeks to limit punitive tion premiums, Winn said that recent
damage awards to $250,000, at- increases paid by employers make
torney’s fees to 50 percent of actual things more difficult on the state's
MANILA, Philippines (UPI) - chief," said Enrile, who called on
The Philippine defense minister and "all decent elements in the Cabinet
the deputy armed forces chief, back- to wake up and support this move-
ed by hundreds of soldiers. seized ment."
control of the nation’s military head- Enrile said Marcos should resign
quarters Saturday and demanded "while there's still time.”
President Ferdinand Marcos resign Marcos went on national television
because his Feb. 7 election victory and insisted his government was in
was fraudulent. “complete control." He called on
Defense Minister Juan Ponce Ramos and Enrile to surrender to
Enrile and Lt. Gen. Fidel Ramos, the avert bloodshed, saying they could
military vice chief of staff, denied be “easily wiped out with simple ar-
they were staging a coup but said tillery and tank fire."
they no longer recognize the Marcos The president called the revolt
government and demanded the "the height of treason and
20-year ruler step down because of rebellion.”
widespread cheating in the election Enrile told a reporter, "If they are
against Corazon Aquino. going to hit us, this country will ex-
“I cannot in good conscience plode into a bloody confrontation. I
recognize Marcos as commander-in- hope he (Marcos) realizes he cannot
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Great Plains Stampede Rodeo
committee will meet at 7 p.m.
Monday at the First National Bank.
It will be a general meeting and
anyone may attend.
New Prepared Childbirth class
will begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the
Altus Medical and Surgical Clinic.
For information, call Linda Dean,
477-2759 or Jan Johnson,
482 9407.
February computer classes at
the Altus Public Library will be
taught Monday, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.;
Tuesday, 6 to 8 p.m.; Wednesday,
3:30 to 5:30 p.m. The classes are
free and are required in order to
have access to the library’s Apple
He microcomputers. To reserve a
space in one of the classes, call or
come by the library.
A satellite teleconference
outlining the latest provisions of
the Conservation Reserve Pro-
gram will be aired from Oklahoma
State University from 7 to 9 p.m.
Monday. Any satellite dish can
receive the conference, which will
be carried on Westar 4, Channel
19. Persons without access to a
receiving dish can view the pro-
gram on the Jackson County OSU
Extension Center’s equipment at
the fairgrounds.
The American Red Cross will
sponsor a CPR class March 4 and 7
from 6 to 10 p.m. The class will be
open to anyone needing CPR cer-
tification. Cost will be $5 to cover
books and materials. For informa-
tion, call the Red Cross office at
482-5303.
American Red Cross will
sponsor a multimedia first aid
class March 1 from 8 a.m. to 5
p.m., at the Granite First Assembly
of God Church. The class will be
open to the public. Cost will be
$12 to cover books and materials.
To enroll, call the Red Cross office
at 482 5303.
Defense contracts provide an im- e e e ■ ■
portant market opportunity to ex- A mEIIIAc c I
(See‘Seminar back page) dCLVILICS SldlCU
mmmaummaeuwgm The 42nd annual Altus Chamber of of the weigh-in.
(ommerce-sponsored Jarkson (‘oun- P‘al ticipant 1: if,- I he :
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(See ‘Marcos back page)
Contracting
seminar
rescheduled
Dr. W.C. Burris, president,
Western Oklahoma State College and
Herschal Crow, president, Altus
Chamber of Commerce announced
that the “Defense Contracting Pro-
cedures Seminar" canceled on Feb.
11, due to the inclement weather has
been rescheduled for March 13.
Anyone who preregistered for the
Feb. 11 date will automatically be
enrolled for the March 13 seminar.
However, the sponsors still en-
courage additional participants to
register for the workshop.
The workshop is co-sponsored by
Western Oklahoma State College,
Service Corps of Retired Executives
(SCORE! and the Altus Chamber of
Commerce in cooperation with small
business and contractor relations
specialists, David W. Barghols,
Tinker Air Force Base; Janice L.
Baughn, Fort Sill; and Paul F. Col-
lins, Altus AFB. This team of
specialists will serve as instructors
for the seminar, and Katie Jones,
president, Red Wing Products, Inc.
located in Kellyville, will be the lun-
cheon speaker.
The one day seminar will be held
on the Western Oklahoma State Col-
lege campus. Registration will start
at 8 a.m. and the seminar will con-
clude at 5 p.m. The registration fee is
$15.
For more information or a
registration form, contact Dr. Jim
Fritze, office of continuing educa-
tion, Western Oklahoma State Col-
lege. 2801 N. Main, Altus, OK 73521 or
phone (405 ) 477-2000.
The seminar will deal with two
aspects of Department of Defense
purchasing. One deals with “Central
Purchasing" and "Subcontracting”
opportunities for local manufac-
turers. The other deals with "Base
Purchasing,” or contracts for retail
goods and services purchased for the
day-to-day operation of Altus AFB
and Fort Sill.
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