Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 102, No. 137, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 9, 2001 Page: 2 of 26
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Melba Dysart, 88, Tip- nis Johnson of Dallas, Bill
Wilburton, died Wednes- nephews.
Shop AItus!
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Group accuses state ot
discriminating against mentally ill
The Jackson County Assessors
Office will be closed next week. Em
ployees will attend the 57th annual Ad
Valorem Education Conference held at
Tulsa.
sons, David Johnston and
wife, Anita of Achille, Den-
Altus
92
Jackson County Memorial Hospital
Home Care/Hospice will provide a
health screening (blood pressure
and blood sugar at the Seg Hove Se-
nior Citizens Center from 9 a.m. until
11 a.m. Friday.
The Original Senior Citizens
Dance will be held tonight from 7:30
p.m. to 10:30 p.m. at the Altus Com-
munity Center.
Be a Girl Scout! Register at your
school Aug. 10 or call Kathy Armstrong
at 482-9345 or Ann Campbell at 477-
4508.
The AAARA ham radio club will
meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at the South-
west Technology Center on Tamarack
Road.
Altus Lions Club will conduct a
business meeting at noon Thursday at
the Friendship Inn.
Tulsa
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He was preceded in
death by his parents, two
brothers, daughter, son,
granddaughter and moth-
er-in-law.
Sunrise
6:54 a.m.
Sunset
8:30 p.m
Nightly 9:45
City
Atlanta
Boston
Chicago
Dallas-Fort Worth
Denver
Los Angeles
Miami
New Orleans
New York City
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Washington, D.C
Weather (wu s aunry • partly co
Ends 5
Soon:
Julie Andrews
Nightly 7:00 & 9:30
Increasing clouds from north to south will occur statewide
tonight with a chance of precipitation Low temperatures
will be in the 60s and 70s Partly to mostly cloudy skies will
prevail Friday with scattered thunderstorms throughout the
state Highs will be in the 80s and 90s
Nightly 7:15
Sat. & Sun. Mat. 2:15
Julia Roberts
Nightly 7:30 8 9:20
This mop ton high tomperwure
type of predptsion expected and
locator of fowd systems a noon
Check out our website at www.oktheaters.com
(580) 482-0330 • 3917 N. MAIN • ALTUS
Learn life saving skills such as
CPR, aid to chocking victims, how to
respond to an emergeny and rescue
breathing. Classes are set for Aug. 14
at the Altus Community Center from 2
p.m. to 4 p.m. at no charge. This is not
a certification class. Pre-registration is
required. Free child care on site avail-
able during class. For more informa-
tion. call Anne Thompson at 482-
5303.
. . Come in and
Money? See Us
SUNBELT CREDIT
LANET OF THE APES (PG13)) PRINCESS DIARIES (G)
Mark Wahlberg
1 EXAS
LOTTERY
Altus Middle School PTO will con-
duct a school supply sale. It will be
during sixth grade enrollment Friday
from 9 a.m. until noon. and Monday
during seventh grade enrollment from
9 a.m. until noon.
Everybody talks about Oklahoma
weather.
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”condors LENNOX
812 S. Main, Altus • 477-0779---—
courtesy photo
Braxton Laine Rice is
one-year-old today.
Parents are Billy and
Michelle Rice, Altus.
Grandparents are
Lacy and Marilyn
Cartrette, Altus;
Gene and Marilyn
Rice, Altus; Donna
Cartrette, Altus.
Mandatory Instructor Upgrade
For All Red Cross Instructors will be
Saturday. For more information, call
482-5303.
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Juneial Tome
482-1800
‘On Jamily Faring
Jov Now
Jamily"
ton, died Thursday at the
Grace Living Center in Al-
tus. Funeral services are
pending with Trout Funer-
al Home in Ponca City. Lo-
cal arrangements were
handled by Kincannon Fu-
neral Home.
Southwest Community Action
Meals on Wheels Program is in need
of volunteers to deliver the noon meal
to shut-ins in the Altus area. For more
information call 482-1290.
ERICAS SWEETHEART (PG13)) (RUSH HOUR 2 (PG13)
Jackie Chan
Nightly 7:00 & 9:30
Sat. & Sun. 2:00 & 4:30 e
Saturday
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78 67 sh
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89 78 t
91 77 sh
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86 73 t
Johnson
Harold D. Johnson,
day in Wilburton at the age
of 63. Services will be at 10
a.m. Friday at the Jones-
Harkins Funeral home in
Wilburton with the Rev.
Udell Wolf and Dr. Bill
Mitchell officiating. Burial
will be at the Memorial
Gardens Cemetery in
Wilburton.
He was born Sept. 18,
1935 to James and Lora
OUR COFFEE IS FRESHLY GROUND
FOR EACH COFFEE BASED DRINK
OPEN MONDAY THRU SATURDAY 8:30 A.M.-6:00P.M.
LOCATED IN THE CROWN JEWELRY BLDG., 219 N. MAIN, ALTUS
482-7189
Johnson and wife, Heidi of
Lompoe, Calif.; brothers,
Wayne Johnson and wife,
Betty of Van Buren, Mo.,
Kenneth Johnson of Hills-
boro, Mo., Otto Johnson
and wife, Aliene of
Brownsville, Ky.; daugh-
ter-in-law, Diane Johnson
Dubois; 19 grandchildren;
five great-grandchildren
and many nieces and
No ticket correctly
matched all six numbers
drawn Wednesday night for
the twice-weekly Lotto
Texas game, state lottery
officials said.
The ticket was worth an
estimated $9 million.
The numbers drawn
Wednesday night from a
field of 54 were:
2-32-33-40-45-52
The winning Pick 3 num-
bers drawn Wednesday by
the Texas Lottery, in order:
0-8-3
A chance of showers and thunderstorms will occur this High temperature
evening under partly cloudy skies Low temperatures will be 1 0 Temperature
in the lower 70s Scattered precipitation will continue Friday LOW 1 PT
Highs will be in the lower 90s. Precipitation
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Lst Qtr New 1st Qtr Full
8/12 8/18 8/25 9/2
Friday
Hi Lo Wx
83 71 t
93 75 sh
75 66 sh
100 78 s
75 50 cl
75 62 pc
90 79 sh
90 75 pc
88 76 sh
94 78 sh
81 75 t
94 79 sh
Sat. & Sun. 2:00 4 4:30 WAN
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Nightly 7:15 & 9:45
Sat. & Sun. Mat 2:15 84:45
Nightly 7:00 & 9:30
Sat. & Sun. 2:00 4.4:30 —
RASSIC PARK 3 (PG13)
Nightly 7:15 2 9:45
Sat. & Sun. Mat. 2:15 & 4:45
TULSA. Okla. (AP) — A The Legislature man- from state-run mental in- Johnson in Portageville,
Tulsa advocacy group dated the release of non- stitutions, Taddiken said. Mo. He was a member of
wants federal intervention criminal mental patients The judges found it a the United States Marines
for mentally ill patients it at Eastern State into area violation of the Americans Corp and was a Korean
alleges were dumped on community-based ser- with Disabilities Act to re- War veteran. He was a
communities incapable of vices. The move took less lease mentally ill patients member of the Order of the
serving them. than two years to com- or those with mental dis- Eastern Star, Chapters
The Tulsa Alliance for plete. abilities into a community 104 of Wilburton and 105
the Mentally III accuses "The downsizing of setting with inadequate of Red Oak. He was also a
the Oklahoma Depart- Western State Hospital services. member of the Wilburton S
ment of Mental Health of took five years and was The complaint will be Masonic Lodge number
discriminating against considered a success by reviewed by the Office of 141. He was current Wor-
such patients in a com- the state," said associa- Civil Rights and could end thy Patron of the Red oak
plaint filed with the U.S. tion member John Tad- up in court. Taddiken Order of Eastern Star and
Department of Health and diken. "What has hap- said. past Worthy Patron to the
Human Services Office for pened in the Eastern The alliance also al- Wilburton Chapter of the
Civil Rights. State case amounts to a leges that the ongoing Eastern Star.
The alliance wants ser- dumping action." transition of indigent pa- He is survived y 1S
vices at Eastern State Agency officials de- tients from Parkside Hos- wife, Gilda 9 € Rome
Hospital in Vinita extend- clined to comment on the pital to other Tulsa Coun- daug
ed. It believes the state re- complaint on advice from ty service providers re- and us aner pons
leased mentally ill pa- legal counsel. sulted from poor planning Dean of Duke,
tients into communities The filing is-based on a by state officials. Lehann Reader and hus-
that had insufficient Supreme Court ruling on band. Robert of Wilburton:
means to serve them. the release of patients
Guymon
85
Infectious wheat disease causes
losses 100 times great than last year
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) picked up the fungus while Sancho Dickinson,
— Farmers will get up to cutting wheat in four plant industry and con-
$4.5 million this year in Texas counties. sumer services director for
compensation for an infec- The increase in federal the state Agriculture De-
tious wheat disease that compensation this year is partment, said scientists
has destroyed crops, the due to increased infection recently found disease-
U.S. Department of Agri- in Texas, Pickhardt said. causing spores outside
culture said. Last year, just 1 percent karnal bunt-regulated
Karnal bunt has at- of the wheat checked in in- counties in north Texas,
tacked wheat crops so fected areas tested positive The incident posed
hard this year that federal for karnal bunt. This year, enough of a threat that
compensation likely will be 29 percent of wheat tested seed from entire states
100 times what is was last had the disease, Pickhardt should be tested. Dickin-
year, USDA spokeswoman said. son said.
Hallie Pickhardt said. More regulated fields, Kansas recently took
Compensation last year to- which have a history of similar action, but quaran- -
taled less than $50,000. harboring the fungus, tined wheat seed from the
But the disease has not have been identified, she 48 continental states,
infected Oklahoma or said. Untested wheat can- Farmers and elevators
Kansas, which would have not be exported from regu- will receive anywhere from
meant millions of addition- lated fields. 60 cents to $1.80 per
al taxpayer dollars to com- The fungal disease is bushel for infected wheat,
pensate infected farms for harmless to humans but depending on the wheat’s
years to come. causes a fishy taste and origin.
Some Oklahoma farm- odor in flour, which ruins
ers said earlier this sum- the wheat’s export value,
mer they were not given Eighty countries ban pur-
enough warning that the chases of wheat that isn’t
disease could be spreading certified as free of karnal
from combines that had bunt.
2 ALTUS TIMES, Thursday, Aug. 9,2001
The Altus Kiwanis Club will meet
The Last day of registration for at noon Friday at the Western Okla-
participation in the Altus Soccer homa State College Student center. Ki
Club will be from noon until 4 p.m. wanian of the Day will be T.L. Gram-
Aug. 18 at the Wal-Mart Supercenter. ling. Danny George, executive director
Soccer is for boys and girls from age of the Oklahoma Municipal League will
four (must turn four by March 31, present a program on current and
2001) to 14 (must turn 14 after July pending legislation affect Altus an
31. 2001). Applicants must age verifi- other municipalities.
cation at time of registration. Those . , . .
who would like to coach or referee at Learn life saving skills such as
the registration time or call B.J. Weid- CPR, aid to chocking victims, how to
ner at 477-0248. respond to an emergeny and rescue
breathing. Classes are set for Aug. 14
Olustee School enrollment will be at the Altus Community Center from 2
Aug. 1 5. All students should enroll any p.m. to 4 p.m. at no charge. This is no
time between 8 a.m. and noon. Classes a certification class. Pre-registration is
will begin Aug. 16. For more informa- required. Free child care on site avail-
tion call 648-2243. Students interest- able during class. For more informa-
ed in proficiency based testing can reg- tion. call Anne Thompson at 482-
ister may register Aug. 15 from 8 a.m. 5303.
until noon in the high school auditor-
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