The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 113, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, July 20, 2012 Page: 2 of 12
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I RIDAY JU LY 20,2012
2 • Altus Times
Serving I Families for Generations
Funeral Services from $2,912.00
www. Lowell Lims.com
482.1212
RED RIVER CALENDAR
Police: 12 dead
Southside Baptist VBS starts Sunday
in Colorado
Bobbi Greene at (580) 301-rounding areas to join them
“Like little explosions going on and shortly after that we heard
“A gas mask, rifle, handgun (and at least one additional
nug
wing 'I the hospital For
mon information, call 482
64 , or 482-7420
DAV Altus Chapter 33
and DAV 1 nit 33 Auxiliary
v have their meeting ■ in
esday July 24 at 6 30 pm
he Towers Apartments
leeting room For more info
se contact Virgil Wil
iams Cor nander I ,
1692
of the Day of the Cowboy. In
partnership with The Red
River Valley Museum in Ver
non. Texas, the day-long event
will begin it the Museum of
the Western Prairie, continue
in to Doan’s ( rowsing on the
Red River and end at the Red
River V alley Museum III Ver
nor This debration is ire
nd everyone is invited
The Altus Public I i-
brary provides v minute
storytime for preschoolers
every Wednesday morning
from 10.30 a.m. to 11 am
Children 3 to 5 years are well
come For ■ ore information
call 4 289
Blair Park Swing the
July fundraiser for the Blair
City Park will be held Sat
urday July 28 The event
will include a Softball Tour
nament TradeShow with
Booths, Food, and Fun for all
ages I Sign up for Adult
Co-ed Softball Team $250
team includes shirt" e-mail
blairparkswing Dyaboo.com
I all I 1-693 for a Trade
show booth starting at $50
ontact Brandi at 679-4587
r e-mail blairparkswing •
yahor on i ampsites an
dls available
Christian Motorcyclists
Association meets every
first Thursday of the month
at Fred’s on N Main in Altus
al ' pin Riders of all types
of bikes welcome and even 11
you don’t have a motorcy i>
you’re still welcome Mon
info at cmawot yahon.com
The 34th Great Plains
Stampede Rodeo is gallop
ing back t Altus on Aug 23
.’I and 2 Vendors are wel
me during the three-day
event There an- plenty of
vendor spac es available and
in assigned on a first-come
first serve basis Spaces
be rented for one or two
days, ir lor the entire event
at a discounted rate The
( PSR in Altus is always wel
attended by the community,
including many from Altus
Air Force Bay Cal C text
Learn English Today
Aprende ingles ahora Frex
Classes a lases gratis Book
er Learning Center located
at 40 West Elm Classes are
Monday through Thursday
(Lunes Jueves) from 8 15
am to 11:15 a.m.
the Pans premier with wo rken pul .• g down the red carpet
display at a theaterthe famed Char ps-Elyxees Avenue
President Barack Oba . e wis sa FOR • the “hor
gpy Birthaa
Lynnel
> We Love You... *(
From Your Family ,
nfic and tragic shooting,” pledging that his administration was
“committed to bringing whoever was respot ible to justice, ef
suring the safety of nr people ' . • thou who have
bixin w winded ■
Kincannon Funeral Home and
Cremation Service
Altus • 482 1800 • Eldorado
www kincannonfuneralhome com
The Jackson ( Bounty Me
morial Hospital Diabetes
Support Group will meet il
day in the JCMH
Education ( enter This class
fret anyone interested
he topic of discussion will
How to Have a Successful
actor’s Office Visit by Ha
Rinkenbaugh Registered
Dietitian Call 1 29 for
mi ire informal ion
From Other Fit
om $2,00
owell
lims
The next ‘That Altus
Band’ wash fund raiser
■ eld * Satun July
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at
W Igreens B. parents stu-
ents, new and irment, are
ncouragedu •■ and bring
Southside Bap-
tist Church, 1 • Asa Lee
s ready 1. take T from the
Worship Rally Hangair and
airplane (built by member
nneth Slpatrick gracing
stage for Vacation Bible
school. Enrollment will be
S day July 22, 6 p.m., fol-
weiby Monday through Fn
travel each night fnx
10 to 9 p.m., for all children
ges 4 years old through the
grade Amazing Won
ers Aviation wil counter
. wesome power with
. stories games, music
t the Matterhorn, rafts at
The Great Barrier Reef, recre
atior al the Grand Canyon,
snacks at the Paricutin
Volcane Friday night will be
Family night
homa Quilt Guild meets
on the first Thursday of
each month at Grace I nited
Methodist Church Fellow
ship Hall south end of build
ing on South Park Lane at
111 am potluck luncheon
at noon, and business meet
ing at 1 p.m followed by
the monthly program On
the third Thursday of each
month is a quilt workday %
bring a pn sect and join in
For more information, call
480-0650
A medical and travel ex- people screaming he told the station Hayden said at first be
pense fund is set up at the thought it wAs part of a louder movie next door But then he
First State Bank in Altus for saw “people hunched over leaving theater
Officers later found the gunman near a ( ar behind the theater
The movie opened across the world Friday with midnight
. The Altus Mangum showings in the L S Tlx loot ■ pted fhv ials to cancel
Cancer Support Group
The Red River Toast- meets at 6 p.m the 2nd and
masters Where Leaders 4th Tuesday of each month
Are Made welcot es all in in the education department
Jas kson I ounty and sur at 11 Mil located in the east
Altus Orieinal Group aLnatam abancame
of Alcoholics Anonymous IITGAlAT SITTOT
(315 N Crain) meets nightly eIBUOUE VUGS
at 8 pan . Suray 1030a S
and 6.30 p.m. Thursday
(Women’s Meeting): No AURORA, Col. (Al \ gas mask ban
noon meetings until further into a crowded Denver in ’■ . ight premier
notice. Contact #480-0417 of the Batman movie on Friday, hurled a gas canister and the
opened fir killing 12 people and injuring at least 50 others in
Alcoholics Anonymous one of the deadliest mass shootings in ns ent I S history
Friendship Group of Altus When the gas began to spread some moviegoers thought It
meets every Monday and was a stunt that was part of the "The Dark Knight Rises one
Thursday at 8 p.m hr more of the most highly anticipated films of the summer Then they
information, call 6492927 or saw a silhouette of a person in the smoke near the sheen, first
47 10616 pointing a gun at the crowd and shooting
e “There were bullet (casings ) just falling M, my head They
Community Center, were burning my forehead Jennifer Seeger said adding that
400 block of Filloon Read, is the gunman, dressed like a SWAT team member, fired steadily
tLeVing a dance eery Thury :
. a CICEX Wiwil fW MOWN to ns
(Lry at / pm af the east u u
entrance of the building Every kew xconds 11 was just Boon boon boom W
There will be a pot luck mead aid Hewouk ndonad and shoot nd ATyD who would try to
every first Thursday of each leave would just 8*1 killed
month Entertainment will The suspect was taken into 1 d nd identified try levin
be provided by the Cimarron law enforcement officials as 24 year id James Holmes The of
Band hr more information, fictals spoke on condition >1 anonymity *• ■ sCuss an ongoing
call Johnny Newton or Edd investigation
i iren at 580-246-3274 Authorities did not rek w xotiv I be FBI said there was
no indic ati <n that the shooting tied: ny tern nd groups
The Pinochle Club is Victims an being treated ' he i . expos re apparently
looking for Pinochle Players related to canisters thrown by the g nman Sox - if those in
People who want to learn are jured are children, including a 3-month-old infant who was shot
welcome They can teach Aurora polio spokesman Frank Fania m AB s "Good
you to play and have fun hr Morning America" said I ■ 1 t know vet 1 ill the injuries
on information, call Pat were gunshot wounds He si some Pt have been caused
S hnur at 47 7-3956 by other things sis h as shrapnel
1658 for more information for fun and improvement
and or to secure your space Toastmasters International
a nor profit educ rational or
It was the worst mass shooting in Colorado since the Colum
English Village Manor ga ation teaches public The Cancer Centers bine High School mass n April 20,1999. Students Er
has ollected mexcipes from P king and leadership of Southwest Oklahoma Harris, 18 and Dylan Kkh • opened fire il the school it
employees and residents ► through • worldwide ri the Jackson County Me the Denver suburt of Littleton bout 15 miles west of Aurora
and compiled them into a 'ta ri of meeti .• loca morial Hospital campus is killing 12 classmates and teacher and wounding 26 others be
A regular scheduled cookbook The books can be tions The rganizatior has recruiting volunteer drivers fore killing themselves
meeting of the Board of purchased at the facility Call more than 10,500 dubs and for the 12-passenger van that Friday s attack began shortly after midnight at the multiplex
Directors of Southwestern 477-1133 for cost or more in-are in 90 countries. For more will provide transportation theater at a mall in Aurora, the state’s third-larest city
Youth Services Inc. will in formation ir format or visit www toast for cancer patients Volunteer The him has several scenes of public Lytx i a hallmark
eld Monday July 21 al 12 masters on or line or on drivers must have a current of superhero movies In one sene the main villain Bank leads
rot The I meeting will be Altus Ballroom Dane- 1a. * * k it all Paula Weeks driver s liore The volunteer an attack on the st ack exc hr ge and in another leads , shoot
ed II • € onferenc e room ers meet . to 9 p m. ex 1 at 804480-2882 Welcome application can be pidird up ing and bombing rampage or . ked football stadium
■ ' it administrative ithices Monday it the east end 'I Guest Meetings are held K the cancer center M 1200 , , . „ , n. , . o T. A KoiA iALun 1
. , It WAs r N OfD AT InEM )
I SWYS N Hudson u the Altus Community Center Tuesdays from 5.30 to 6.30 Fas Bnedway for mformu.1 1.
ten - person on Falcon Road New couples p.m at SWT 711 W Tama tin call the Cancer ( enters meted by ( hristopber Noh ■ stian Rusk - Eit
1 , , , . , maL Theses ha darker tone thumn prous Rima nar
- invited to attend are welcome to come for i rack Rod Hi Ailus of SoutE OGo a 11.
evening of ballroom danc 480-4400 or Bonnie McAskill nations It is the follow up to Tx Dark Knight whxh won
Altus Chapter 33 & Unit ing For those who want it Information about 5 Cri- at Jackson County Memorial Heath Leder a posthumous Osar for his waning portrayal d
33 will have their meeting instruction is available ui sis we all face: Health t be Hospital at 379-5771 The DORET
' Tuesday July 24 at 6 30 waltz, foxtrot, swing, rumba sity Finan ial Stress Aging The gunman released a Ors that smelled like PAPPE spray
I wers Apart ha cha cha, tango salsa Population is offered Tues SW Oklahoma Action froma green anisterwith itae -• it Siner snd
ents meeting room. For samba and quickstep. For days at 6 30 p.m at SWTC, RSVP Program is asking for "I thought it was showmanship. I didn’t think it was real
mon inf Neax ontact Vir more information, call 580- 11 W Tamarack Road The deactivated cell phones, com- she said
. Williams ( ommander at I 1822 or 580-726-5160. meet ngs, sponsored by Wis plete with battenes and char Seeger said she was in the sccot / tho four ler from
471-1692 dom Copious Covenant are gers, for their Cell-phones-for- the gunman, when he pointed a gun at her fact At first "I was
The Altus Meal Site is free and open to the public seniors program. Phones may just a deer in headlights. I didn’t know what to do,” she said
The Western Trail His- needing volunteers to help For more ink all 580-480- be dropped off at the Altus Then she ducked to the ground as the . .....shot people
torical Society is hosting deliver meals to those who 2882 a 80-482 2883 RSVP office located on the seated behind her
Breakfast on the Prairie" at are homebound. Meals are first floor of the Towers at 101 She said she began crawling toward an exit when she saw
the Museum I the Western delivered Monday thru hn The Altus area TOPS E Commerce or the Mangum a girl about 14 years old ly ing % less r the tairs - She saw
Prairie x Saturday July 28 day Any time you can give is Take < HI P xunds Sensibly I RSVP office located at 215 a man with a bullet wound in his box k and tried to check his
from 8:3 i intil 10:30 appreciated If you would like gn up ( hapter =6 o meets North t Mlahoma in Mangum pulse but -| had to go lw is going t get shot
ests will enjoy munch to volunteer call the Altus it $O p.m. every Thursday . Then the mean began firing start g with shot toward the
ng on the modern-day equrv Meal Site at *X482 12% al Highland Heights 1 nited Mission on Wheels will ceiling
dents x s sink ugh biscuits The Altus Meal Site is a Meth list C hun h, 1911 N schedule a bake sale Saturday, ' witss Sho L 0 .d., se cwaixun trsuu d on
and salt pork w ashed down part of Southwest Oklahoma Main For more information June 23 at Wal Mart to raise . ' o . CAT
.the ground bringoutside the theterbeust had this hor
■x II .1n let IS they i ommunity Action Group visit www tops org or con funds for fans for the elderly u id
a. ■ Mark & 8 ! 42 Donations .4 fans, summer mbke kook in her E - Wi made eye contact and I could tell
ignettes describing break The Operation CARE a MaryWayne it 80)482 cothing for infants, children, she was not 111 neht. Roedler said
t as it was served by the Food Pantry offers free food2036. youth and adults is also appre Plice, ambulances and emeneeney crows swarmed on the
owboys and pioneers Xi the to qualified applicants every ciated. Non-perishable food scene after frantic calls $ artei ' •« . the 11 swite hboard
; prairie This pn gran is the third Sat urday . f the month Altus H.C I.W. Group of items are also > needed to help 1 officials said Officer ame runn . eli 1g people t.
first stop 1 1 modern-day 10:30 Devotion and food Alanon meets Tuesdays at 6 feed the hungry hr informa- leave the theater Salina kordan told the I kenver Post She said
trail drive experienced from pantry open 11 to 12 noon p.m. and Saturdays at 10a.m tion or special donations call some police were carrying and dragging bodies
the comfort of your air-condi at 315 N ( rain Edna at 580649-8620. Hayden Miller told KUSA IV that he heard several shots
A Domestic Violence ed-
ucational outreach group
is now available thru ugh
AC Ml House For more in Terry Southhall who is get-
formation, call Brenda at ting a double bypass and ________________ _. ______
At MI Hous at 482 3800 Aortic valve replacement to weapon (were) found inside Aurora police Chief Dan Oates
be performed on March 21 said, adding that there was no evident e it any . ther attac kers
National Alliance on in Lawton All donations are The suspect spoke of “possible explosives in his residence We
Mental Uiness (NAMI) greatly appreciated. are dealing with that p xential threat "Oates said
Connection Recovery Sup- . n o— Au A large truck lettered ‘bomb squad" arrived near an Ann ra
55 pm uin" Mom? A site RRT dhecdmr apartment Cmphs WHET IR IIAY i Moo - Ainc inee.
Taliaferro Mental Health munity and items are placed about four miles from the theater Dozense ‘ police squad cars
Center. 215 W Commerce as space allow vans and other vehidkes were already at the scene along with
black-cad officers carrying automatic weapons
Police evacuated residents of the building t bates did not say
whether any explosives had been found He said police also
checked for explosives in the parking lot and at the C entury 16
theater and secured those areas
At least 24 people were being treated at Denver area hospi
take
“Warner Bros and the filmmakers are deeply saddened to
leant about this shocking incident We extend our sincere
sympathies to the families and loved ones of the victims at this
tragic time," the studio said.
The youngest victim reported was a 6-year-old being treated
at Children’s Hospital Colorado, where a total of six victims
were taken. Their condition wasn’t known Two people in cniti-
cal condition were rushed to nearby Swedish Medical C enter, a
spokeswoman said.
tioned vehicle in debration The Southwest Okla-
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