Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 99, No. 215, Ed. 1 Friday, November 20, 1998 Page: 1 of 18
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Winter to be guest conductor for Handel’s ‘Messiah
Please see "MESSIAH, page 2
Trucker set on
fire by robber
Trinity
Holiness
Amarillo Globe News. He
was
Please see *TRUCKER. page 2
00 employee's arm bitten off in attack
ALTS TIMES photo by Tina Fowble
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New York bound
Please see "ZOO ATTACK, page 2
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Vol. 99, No. 215
Altus, Oklahoma — Home of Jessie Zepeda
www.altustimes.com
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Wife of officer takes
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Classifieds
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Dear Abby...
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Church is holding their an-
nual Thanksgiving bake
sale Orders will be taken
through Monday. To order,
call 563-9238 or 563-2319.
Saturday
mostly sunny
and warmer,
high in the
upper 60s...
’Queen of
Household
Hints'
visits Altus
Heloise makes a
point at the Women
Helping Women
program at the city
auditorium Thurs-
day evening. The
syndicated colum-
nist appeared cour-
tesy of sponsors
American Heart As-
socation, Jackson
County Memorial
Hospital and Invest-
ment Centers of
America
00,
OK
Al it s I INES pholo by
Tina Fowble
Blair Senior Citizens
Adult dance will be held
each Tuesday from 7 until
10 p.m. at the old Savage
Hardware building. There
will also be a covered dish
dinner.
The next meeting of the
Korean War Veterans As-
sociation is set for 1 p m.
Saturday at the 45th In-
fantry Division Museum.
2145 NE 36th Street in Ok-
lahoma City. For more infor-
mation, call 405-632-7351
or 580-255-0028.
Betty Jo Wirth debuts
new album...
Thank you for erasing
our mistakes and allowing
us to begin again, again
and again.
Sosa tops McGwire for
M National League MVP
I "People gel hit, that’s just the
nature of the beast. ll cte had
people I'd hurl, catching up an
animal you might eCI a foot
stepped on or something. "
—Sieve Wylie,
Oklahoma City Zoo director
Thanks to the financial support of many local business
and individuals, Jennifer Kornmeyer, left, and Crystal
McDowell, officers of Altus High School's dance team,
leave Saturday to prepare for their appearance in Ma-
cy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with Universal Dance
Association's elite All-Star Team. Named to the nation-
al squad this past summer, the dancers will perform in
the nationally televised parade on Thanksgiving morn-
ing.
The Altus AFB Officers
Wives' Club is sponsoring
a charity auction at 7:30
p.m Saturday at the Offi-
cer's Club. Viewing and op-
tional buffet begins at 6
p.m Proceeds will benefit
the scholarship and welfare
fund of the OWC.
. Maury Povich moves
ahead with his daytime
I talk show...
Leisure ....4B
covered in flames from head
Io foot."
Boliver said he chased the
victim down and extinguished
I he flames with his jacket.
"I kept screaming. Fall!
Fall! and he wouldn't go
£ ***** ta a stegan nw
said her arm was detached about the mid-bi-
cep level. She also had facial injuries and a
punctured lung.
"They have the arm with them." Poston
said. He said he could only assume they would
try to reattach it.
The woman's name wasn't released pending
notification of relatives.
The Malaysian tapir named Melody was in
an area behind the zoo display area with her 2
month-old baby. Zoo officials aren’t certain
Happy birthday wishes
to DARRELL ABER-
NETHY, LOU EMMA MAY-
BERRY, JESSIE ZEPEDA
and MELBA COMBS
Happy anniversary wishes
to DOUG and LEEANN
LANFORD...
- He said the tapir
dragged the keeper into
the enc losure and began mauling her.
A groundsworker had stopped by the enclo-
sure to talk to the keeper and find out what
kind of vegetation the animal needed to browse
on. The groundsworker ran for help and a
group,of employees managed to drag the keep-
er from the enclosure.
A tapir is about the size of a donkey and is
piglike in appearance. It is related to the horse
and rhinoceros. Tapirs browse on twigs and
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)
— An Oklahoma City Zoo
employee was in critical
condition today after a
tapir pulled her into a
cage, bit off her arm and
mauled her.
Allen Poston, hospital
spokesman, said the
woman was in surgery. He
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Dr. Jerry Winter
Jackson County
Memorial Hospice will of-
fer free blood pressure and
blood sugar screening from
10 a m until noon Monday
at the Frederick Senior Citi-
zens Center.
night when he saw the victim
on fire.
"When I walked out the
door. I heard somebody
yelling, so I looked over there,
and he came out from be-
tween two trucks just a
blazin’." Boliver told the
AMARILLO, Texas (AP) —
Police were seart hing for a
robber who set a trucker on
lire to get the keys to his rig.
But some outraged truck-
ers say they hope to find the
suspect before police do.
The 33-year-old victim.
Matthew Christopher Cum
mings of Aurora, Colo., was in
serious condition Friday at
the burn unit of University
Medical Center in Lubbock
with second- and third-degree
burns on half his body.
Ronald Boliver said he was
leaving the Pilot Truck Stop
on Interstate 40 Thursday
line Symphony Orchestra.
During his tenure at the col-
lege in Iowa his ensembles
traveled extensively through
out the United Slates and cul-
minated their travels as the
featured entertainment en-
semble on a cruise of the
Caribbean with Princess
Cruise Lines. Following his
years of teaching in Iowa, Dr.
Winter moved to Brevard
County, Fla. where he served
as dean of the divisions of lib-
eral arts/humanities and
math/science/technology at
Brevard Community College.
Ultimately he moved to
why the tapir attacked
the keeper, who was
feeding the animal
about 8:35 a.m. before
the zoo opened.
As I understand it,
she opened the door to
push the food in and
the female grabbed her
arm.” said Steve Wylie,
zoo executive director.
By JAY HUGHES
Associated Press Writer
2TY Ok 28105
Tonight: Becoming
clear with widespread frost
developing A light freeze
also possible. Low in the
lower 30s. Light and vari-
able wind.
Saturday: Mostly sunny
and warmer. High in the up-
per 60s. West wind 10 to 15
mph.
Saturday night: Mostly
clear. Low in the lower 40s.
High Thursday: 58
Overnight low: 37
■ 18th annual performance performance of the Brahm’s
1 U Requiem" in Carnegie Hall
I 1 ,and during June of 1998 the
takes stage Sunday at WOSC Chamber Singers completed a
1 four -country, seven-city Eu
The 18th annual perfor- Singers have performed with ropean tour of Austria, Italy,
mance of the Christmas por- the Casper Symphony Or- Switzerland and Germany
lion of G.F. Handel’s "Messi chestra, the Powder River where he received outstand
ah is set for this Sunday at Symphony from Gillette, and ing reviews.
Western Oklahoma State Col as a part of the festival chorus Winter began his career in
ede: in the annual Teton Music music by teaching music to
The performance will take Festival in Jackson, students in grades 7 - 12 in a
place at 3 p.m. in the Her- Wyoming. In 1994 the Cham- small town in northern Iowa,
schal H. Crow Fine Arts Cen- ber Singers, under Dr. Win- Subsequently he took a posi-
I erAuditorium at Western, ter's direction, appeared as tion at Muscatine Community
Dr. Jerry Winter has been one of three featured ensem- College in Muscatine, Iowa as
serving as conductor of the bles at the Classical Music director of choral activities.
Gillette Chamber Singers Festival in Eisenstadt, Aus- chairman of the department
since the spring of 1992. Dur- tria. In the summer ol 1996 of humanities and line arts
ing that time the Chamber the ensemble was part of a and conductor of the Musca-
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