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OPINION• 5
Breaking news at
Issue 317. Volume 116
Miss Altus Outstanding Teen Pageant Week proclaimed
AN APPEAL TO HE
See HOMEFRONT |
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Eradicating Oklahoma's feral hogs
By Hannah Nemecek
hannah.nemecek@okfb. org
Look at
those Little
Darlings
LOCAL 10
Can feral hogs be eradicated in
Oklahoma? Josh Gaskamp, a wild- 4
Aviator pro
hired at
Western
SCHOOL* 6
Good
in a bad
Operation Homefront South-
ern Plains will hold a Back-to-
School Brigade on Wednesday,
August 5, 2015 at Altus Air
1 Force Base. Free backpacks and
school supplies will be distrib-
INDEX
Obituaries. 2
Birthdays: 3
Weather: 3
Sports. 4
Opinion: 5
Pioneer News: 6
Comics: 7
Puzzles: 8
Television: 8
Classifieds: 9
Local/State: 10
Operation Homefront will distribute
back packs and school supplies
for military children in the Altus,
Oklahoma area.
groups, nationally, 93 percent
of total donations to Operation
Homefront go directly to pro-
grams that provide support to
military families.
Amanda Saltiel, Program
Coordinator, Operation
Homefront Southern Plains,
was very excited to visit the
AAFB Freedom Community
Pump prices
falling across
stale, nation
By Chuck Mai
AAA Oklahoma
Oklahoma’s average price for regular gasoline
today is $2.57, according to AAA Oklahoma, eight
cents below the 2015 high of $2.65 reached six
days ago.
“Refinery issues have been resolved in the
Midwest," said Chuck Mai, spokesman for AAA
Oklahoma. “In fact, production is reported to have
reached a 2015 high, bringing more finished prod-
uct onto the market. This is a trend that is likely
to continue and when combined with already solid
supplies of gas and oil, will work to push pump
prices lower."
The national average price for regular gas has
dropped for 13 days in a row, the longest consecu-
tive decline since January. Today’s national aver-
age price is $2.70 per gallon, a nickel less than one
week ago and eight cents less than one month ago.
Most motorists nationwide are paying the lowest
July prices since 2009 and are saving an average of
82 cents per gallon compared to a year ago.
H techniques effective, we need to
I eliminate 70 percent of the iden-
1 tifiable population on an annual
I basis."
■ Controlling such a large por-
■ tion of the population is not easy.
■ Gaskamp said it would take 100
■ percent collaboration between all
■ landowners to successfully control
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2016 Miss Altus Outstanding Teen Pageant will be held this Saturday, Aug. 1 beginning at 8 p.m. at the City Auditorium. Tickets are available from any contestant or can be purchased at the City Auditorium
between 6 and 8 p.m. through Thursday evening. Advance tickets are $10 and tickets purchased at the door will be $15.
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Operation Homefront returns
Military families to receive school supplies
By Tinita Tennant • FARRS me
Submitted the hogs.
Southeastern Oklahoma rancher Clay “It realty takes cooperation or
Stewart examines destruction from feral associations of landowners work-
hogs in his field. In one night, a single feral ing together to put a dent in these
hog can cause up to $1,000 in damage hog populations," Gaskamp said.
“If one landowner is doing lots of
control and other landowners are
uted to local military children.
Ntgyof the Altus area. Registration
25
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more than 2,500 volunteers
Homefront
HHHHHH families since its inception in
Tinita Tennant photos |Altus Times 2002. Recognized for supe-
Amanda Saltiel. Program Coordinator, Operation rior performance by leading
Homefront Southern Plains Field Office independent charity watchdog
life and range consultant for the
Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation,
is working to find out.
Feral hogs cause an estimated
$800 million to $1.5 billion in agri-
cultural and environmental dam-
age in the United States each year,
Gaskamp said.
With numbers estimated
between 617,000 and 1.4 million, Complete eradication is the pri-
Oklahoma is ranked in the top four mary goal, but Gaskamp said it is
states with the highest population unrealistic with Oklahoma’s out-of- doing nothing in the same area,
of feral hogs. The invasive species control population, you’re likely to see ingress of those
is found in all 77 Oklahoma coun- “Control is all we can do," he See HOGS 14
ties. said. “In order to call our control
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