Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 104, No. 54, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 19, 2002 Page: 3 of 44
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THE NATION TODAY
FRIDAY’S ALMANAC
LOCAL FORECAST
OKLAHOMA TODAY
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Hastings holds grand opening
Carter schools face
State’s inmate population on the rise
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Alicia Adcock is
three-years-old
today. Parents are
Margaret and Jesse
Adcock, Holcomb,
Kansas.
Grandparents are
Doris Miller,
Headrick and the
late Carroll Miller;
Fern Adcock, Elk
City; J.C. Adcock,
Gainsville, Texas.
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Ally Dawn Angelly
turned one-year-old
May 18. Parents are
Melvin and
Stephanie Angelly,
Altus. Grandparents
are Don and Brenda
McCombs, Warren;
Linda Kay Angelly,
Blair; Melvin and
Kathy Angelly, Lone
Wolf. She is the
great granddaugh-
ter of Leveta Knox,
Headrick.
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Customers at Hastings can now enjoy coffee and other bever-
ages at the Hardback Cafe coffee counter.
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needs to get through the
fiscal year that ends June
30, officials said.
The Oklahoma Board of
Corrections met Eriday at
the Central Oklahoma
Correctional Facility in
High pressure to our north will bring partly cloudy skies to High temperature
the area today Expect a high in the middle 70s. Tonight, Low temperature
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the 60s to the 70s Tonight, skies will remain partly cloudy St Louis
as high pressure remains in control. Temperatures will be Washington, D.C
in the 40s to the 60s. -----*
McLOUD, Okla. (AP) -
The Department of
Corrections is still $13.9
million short of what it
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Gary Strickland
Extension Educator
decision of closing next week
CARTER, Okla. (AP) — n't receive any more cuts our buses breaks down?" Four students received
Carter school officials before June 30. Since Davis asked, "We have to diplomas.
decide Monday whether to then we've received three fix it, right? Those bond My sisters graduated
close the district’s additional cuts." issues failed both times, here," said junior Kelli
schools. If the district stays open That tells me the majority Wood, "and our moms
Falling enrollment in and runs out of money of this community doesn’t have graduated here. We
the 59-student district before the end of the want a school.” want to graduate here,
south of Elk City has cut school year, the state Davis said he hasn’t too.”
state funding. Carter got would tax residents in the given the board a recom- The last day of school is
$124,000 in state aid this district to cover the mendation about closing Wednesday,
year, but will lose almost schools’ operation costs, or staying open. However, "I’ll go down with the
10 percent of that next District voters recently he turned in his resigna- ship, said teacher Debbie
year. rejected bond proposi- tion letter this week and Kilhoffer. "I’ll be here if
"Frankly, 1 think the tions that would have will take another job in they decide to have school
cuts will be more along maintained buildings and Topeka, Kan. next year. The teachers
the line of 16 percent," vehicles. Both of Carter's The board's looming here are willing to do extra
said Superintendent school buses are 10 years decision added poignancy to keep the school open,
Robert Davis. "I don't old and have been driven to graduation ceremonies even if that means buying
trust the state. They told more than 100.000 miles. Friday for what could be our own paper."
us in February we would- "What do we do if one of Carter's last senior class.
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Remodeling of the Altus
Hastings Book, Music and Video,
which began April 8, has been
completed. A grand opening cele-
bration was held Saturday.
The store has been expanded by
3,000 feet, a state of the art kiosk
machine has been added which
will benefit customers that would
like to locate items that are in
stock, the Hardback Cafe lias
been added, their magazine selec-
tion has been expanded, and they
have added more t-shirts, DVDS
and video games.
Their grand opening cere-
monies will continue for the next 2
weeks with half price rentals
Monday through Thursday.
A Harry Potter party is set for
May 27.
The new Hardback Cafe cotfee
counter includes a seating area
and features full espresso,
gourmet coffee, tea, frozen drinks
and pizza for those book browsers
who are in no hurry at all.
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Warm From Low Pressure High Pressure
Wheat Crop 2002
Update
Trying to estimate what
a wheat crop will or will
not potentially do for the
year is somewhat like try-
ing to predict the market
outcome for that crop.
You can have all the para- it can recover a lot of lost
meters estimated and in time in terms of develop-
line and it still does some- ment. I still estimate that
thing unexpected. This the tiller crop is lighter
year’s wheat crop has cer this year than desired but
tainly faired better to pre- grajn development on
sent than what any of us main stem heads and
expected at mid-March remaining tiller heads in
(with the exception of connection with the
those acres that were on- weather is the key for this
track through the year, year's crop
about 30-35% of the
counties acres). Timely Cotton Crop 2002
rains and warm, not hot, For the past 1.5 to 2
temperatures have placed weeks the planters have
the wheat crop in a fairly been rolling in terms of
good position up to about cotton planting.
1.5 weeks ago. The past producers are trying to
week and a half has seen take advantage of mois-
some drying down that is ture that is present to get
stressing late maturing this year’s crop underway,
wheat and could poten- When driving along it is
tially lighten grain easy to see small green
weights, however, a rain rows of cotton that have
at this point would still emerged and started the
help a lot of the wheat vegetative growth cycle,
that has not reached painfall, low early season
physiological maturity, insect numbers (thrips
Early maturing wheat and fleahoppers) will
varieties, such as Jagger allow this crop to get off to
and Custer, have either a good start. Of course it
reached physiological would also be good if early
maturity or are close to season hail and wind
reaching it and will proba storms could be avoided
bly finish grain fill with as much as possible. As
normal or close to normal can ^ seen there is a lot
test weights. Yield poten- to contend with when
tials in most fields that planting a crop but a large
have been left for harvest percentage of this years
are better than expected irrigated and dryland cot-
but still reflect the results ton crop is underway. If
of the winters dry spell, the weather remains
in many cases a field agreeable (that includes
looks good but upon doing some needed rainfall) the
actual head counts for next 2 to 3 weeks will see
yield estimates the num- the majority of the coun-
bers are coming back ty’s cotton acres planted,
lower than would be
desired. On the other
hand, some fields are pre-
senting numbers far bet-
ter than expected. So, it
still seems like somewhat
of a grab bag in terms of
estimates and harvest will
be the only factor that
finally settles what has
really happened to this
year's wheat crop in terms
of the dry winter. I’ve
stated this in previous
articles, '’The wheat plant
is an amazing plant", and
when conditions are right
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STATE FORECAST
McLoud. lem is that the state's
Corrections officials prison population contin-
remain optimistic the ues to grow.
Legislature will provide Oklahoma's minimum
the money to make it and medium security pris-
through the year. ons are 99 percent full.
Legislative leaders said according to Patty Davis,
in the remaining days of chief of the department's
the 2002 session, they will inmate classification and
focus on supplemental programs division,
funding for the Oklahoma "We are basically out of
Health Care Authority and room," Davis said,
corrections. The inmate count grew
Officials said they are by 186 in April and is at a
running out of ways to cut higher level than it was a
costs. year ago, department
“Even if we furloughed records show. The prison
every employee in the population is 22,814.
Department of The state has 200 pri-
Corrections for 20 days, vate prison beds available,
we still could not make up a number that could drop
the deficit," board mem- quickly if current incar-
ber Beverly Young said. ceration rates continue.
Compounding the prob-
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