The Altus Times-Democrat (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 43, No. 227, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 28, 1969 Page: 2 of 22
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Of the 1970 United Fund, $600 Research Foundation makes
will be apportioned to the mental grants to research projects
Every four weeks
Every twelve weeks
$4.80
$9.00
$15.00
$9.60
$13.00
$18.00
$1.80
$5.40
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the
sixth in a series of 11 articles
explaining the functions of the
agencies supported by the
Jackson County United Fund.)
reduce fear and prejudice and
enlist public participation in
combating the disease.
lice cars and a window was
broken in another vehicle.
B”s
side of the home.
I appreciate what they’ve
done,” Stewart said. I don’t want
the people to think we’re
paupers but this is a nice gesture
and it will help me do things I
hadn’t planned to do otherwise.”
The two new rooms, to be built
by shop students at the high
school under the supervision of
ALTUS PLAZA SHOPPING CENTER
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The contest was the first in 10
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Roy Cheatham, were treated for
facial brasions and lacerations.
The injured man, identified as
James Patton, 20, was shot in
the lower abdomen by officer
Gullet. Patton’s condition was
listed as serious.
Witnesses said a young girl
was causing a disturbance in the
SPACE CALLED AID
ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) - The
United States can have space
and butter both, says Dr. Wem-
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“I think you’ll have more but-
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Von Baun, director of the Mar-
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Huntsville, Ala., said Thursday
in a news conference.
Ha explained that advanced
technology gained from space
shots aids the economy and pro-
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — street and when the officers
Two Oklahoma City police offi- tried to remove her they were
cers were injured Friday night attacked by several members of
when they were attacked while a group estimated at about 25.
trying to arrest a teen-aged girl The incident occurred near
in northeast Oklahoma City. Douglas High School where a
One man was shot during the football game was in progress.
To serve the mentally ill and to prevention, treatment and
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same next year.
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School Rebuilds, Looks To Future
BY DON GOFORTH However, today that dream— school is in no immediate danger The new school is of teacher-pupil ratio than you’ll
Managing Editor and the school—is very much of being consolidated with Altus. prefabricated metal con- find in most places,” he said.
The forms are still around the alive. School patrons, with the Sanders says with all things struction, 208 feet long by 56 feet “Our teachers are well qualified
recently poured concrete steps help of $80,000 in insurance and a considered, Southside is well wide. It can be disassembled in and we will have some of the
and tracks of red mud are in the $150,000 bond issue, have above the minimum 24 foot sections and moved in- finest equipment available.”
hallway while the playground removed the crumpled stones requirements. The legislature tact. It has 14 classrooms (two The superintendent indicated
bears marks of the turmoil of and charred embers and in their has set a minimum of 55 high more than in the old building) a that the school is offering 29 high
recent construction but this is place have constructed a facility school students. Sanders points cafeteria, office and library school credits this semester with
the new home for 160 Jackson every bit the match (some feel out that although Southside has space. enough hold-overs (subjects
County students. superior) of the former, only 51 in high school the law In addition the school has four offered on alternate semesters)
Scarcely seven months ago It hasn’t been easy and it isn’t also allows one student credit for classrooms that were untouched to provide more than 38 credits,
residents of southern Jackson complete, reports Robert each 10 square miles in the by the fire. These are being used An outline of subjects offered
County gathered around the Sanders, superintendent. “We district providing the total ex- for science, home economics, indicates a heavy concentration
smoldering embers of what had still don’t have desks for the high ceeds 110 square miles. District vocational agriculture and shop of science and math. These
been Southside School. The school students, our lockers are 212 has 125 square miles thus mechanics. courses will include algebra I
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For 'House Raising’
Things looked busier last week Tate of the Geo. C. Wright
at the Tom Stewart residence, Lumber Co., will be made into a
715 E. “A” St. He had just been living, dining and kitchen area,
denied a housing code variance The present structure will serve
to build onto his three-room as bedrooms and study for the
home. family of five.
Yet he was smiling and city Stewart, a student at Altus
officials were smiling, too. Junior College, told of plans to
. , erect a partition in one bedroom
As he outlined plans for thus allowing him a place to
moving the scrap lumber, study without disturbing the
leveling the area just east of his family.
home he voiced his appreciation Stewart was to have the
to the city and the board of property leveled and prepared
adjustments for helping him the carpenters in about
clear the way for a project that another week.
he has fought for all summer. stewart’s disagreement with
Although the board of the city’s housing code started in
adjustments had declined to July and gained state-wide
allow Stewart to build nearer the attention when hearings were
alley, it did arrange volunteer conducted by the Board of
help to construct it on the other Adjustments.
building burned to the ground on not in. Neither are storage creating it with 11 more students A new gymnasium of similar and II; plane and solid geometry
the night of Feb. 25, 1969, cabinets, filing cabinets and or 62 total. metal construction is going up and trigonometry and in
Lying in the embers that day library shelving but we are “Here is my promise,” San- just north of the main facility science—biology, zoology,
were the hopes of many for having school.” ders said. “If the little schools under separate roof. It is ex- botany; and physics.
keeping their school. The Sanders, talking unlike a man stay, we have built something of pected to be finished by Sanders also pointed out that
legislature was talking then whose school is failing to meet a permanent nature but we have basketball season. six courses in business are being
about consolidation and it ap- the minimum attendance made the provision in case they The 150 students are taught by offered this year. Others include
peared this would be the final requirements, is planning for don’t, the building can be used 15 teachers, Sanders said with four history courses, a full slate
blow. Southside School was to the future. He admits he is somewhere else with a the average class being 12 to 15 of English and a year of speech,
become just a memory. cautious but maintains the minimum of expense." students. “This is a better four units of home economics
and vocational agriculture and
Mental Health Unit Helps Fight Illness course in art is also taught.
_______________ _ . .. ■ • In summation Sanders said, “I
cooperation with the state and More than 20 million Association for Mental Health can’t see that our students are
national associations, has a Americans are suffering from initiates and directs social ac- deprived in any way. We stick to
continuing program of public some form of mental illness, tion and legislative programs to the fundamentals so that when
information to help increase the Jackson County alone has 39 develop adequate treatment, they get to college they will be
understanding of mental illness, patients in Oklahoma’s four out-patient clinics, after-care able to make it."
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By SAN DRA DEFORD
Society Editor
A story about a pet crow may
not be as exciting to some as the
story about the “Born Free”
lionesses but this is Altus, Okla,
not Africa.
You can bet that a crow can
get into just as much trouble as a
lion cub and “Sam” the mascot
of the Charles Blonien family
has turned out to be quite
mischievious.
Mike and Gregg Blonien, Altus
High School students, are really
Sam’s favorites and he doesn’t
pay much attention to the five
other Blonien children,
especially the girls.
Gregg Blonien and his friend,
Skip Wright, brought home four
baby crows from the Wright
farm about four months ago.
Gregg has been interested in
birds for sometime as three
years ago he started with two
pigeons and has raised as many
as 70 pigeons.
“We have taken several of my
pigeons outside of town and they
all have returned home. My
father took about 20 north near
Michigan, but none have
returned,” said Gregg.
The family nursed the four
crows from an eye-dropper but
only two lived. For sometime
Sam or Samatha, they don’t
know which, traveled with the
other crow until one day he
returned home without his
friend.
The crow has been allowed to
remain free, along with the
pigeons to which he has a dislike,
and travels in the neighborhood
of Blonien home, 1006 E.
Broadway.
A real performer, he does
matinees at a nearby service
station where he picks cigarettes
from the pocket of the attendant
for the customers.
Since the children are in
school, he quite frequently visits
a drive-in nearby to get the
attention of customers there and
is not afraid to peek in a window
to get your attention.
Sam knows that in the mor-
nings he can fly across the street
to the home of W.W. Watson
where he has breakfast.
“Sam really loves to ride on
the motorcycles with us and will
ride until the wind gets the best
of him”, Gregg and Mike said.
One day Sam flew above Mike
when he went to Gibson’s on his
concerned with causes,
bike and waited until Mike was play with them as he would the
finished at the store and older boys and the two girls
returned home with him. would constantly be heckled by
Shiny objects and clothes on Sam pecking and pulling their
the clothesline are Sam’s biggest hair.
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mental hospitals. It is costing service for adults and special As if to drive home his point,
Jackson County taxpayers services for emotionally Sanders said "We hold school
The Jackson County
Association of Mental Health, in
Every twenty-four weeks $10.80
Every fifty-two weeks $23.40
BY MAIL
Jackson and adjoining counties
“He took the keys to the bike rest of the family, Sam
one day and flew up on a especially likes cheese and best
telephone pole. It took a while of all “sweets”.
for us to find the keys. The family doesn’t think the
“When mother hangs the crow will leave their home, but
clothes on the line, Sam con- are afraid someone will either
tinually drags them in the dirt," take him since he is so friendly
Gregg explained. or else he will get careless in the
Mrs. Blonien said that since streets since he hasn’t much fear
the children were in school, Sam of cars. He always returns home
has become more friendly when school is dismissed.
towards her and now will land on Sam will probably stay around
her shoulders. However, the two this winter since he is an
daughters have been the “out Oklahoma crow and has life
group” with Sam. He would not pretty easy with the Bloniens.
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Hale, James H. & Goforth, Don. The Altus Times-Democrat (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 43, No. 227, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 28, 1969, newspaper, September 28, 1969; Altus, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2120080/m1/2/: accessed July 15, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.