The Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 81, No. 159, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 6, 1974 Page: 1 of 10
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81st Year—No. 159 Tuesday, August 6.1974
Perry, Oklahoma
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ENGLISH TO BE
HERE WEDNESDAY
Glenn English, Cordell, sixth
district Democratic candidate
for Congress, will be in Perry
Wednesday
He will visit the downtown
area, giving people an oppor-
tunity to meet him and learn
what his plans are if elected.
BEARERS LISTED FOR
WAKEMAN SERVICES
Casket bearers have been
listed for services for Jacob
Ross (Jake) Wakeman, 91, a
resident of Green Valley Con-
valescent center, who died Sat-
urday at the center.
Funeral will be at 10 a.m.
Wednesday at Parker chapel.
Rev W T. Dunn, pastor of
Calvary Baptist church, will of-
ficiate. Burial will be at Grace
Hill cemetery.
Bearers will be Glenwood
Groom, Pete Edmondson, John
Beasley, Bob Gay, Emil Wag-
ner and Theo Hughes.
Wakeman is survived by one
brother, S 0. Wakeman, Perry ,
one nephew, Clyde Wakeman,
Perry; two nieces, Mrs. Everett
Frueh and Mrs. H. G. Thomp-
son, both of Perry; and several
nieces and nephews of other
areas
WORTH ROBERTS
ENTERS HOSPITAL
Worth Roberts, 633 Jackson
street, retired Perry street
commissioner, was admitted
Monday at St. Mary’s hospital
at Enid
Roberts has been scheduled
for surgery Wednesday morn-
ing. He is a patient in room 411.
EL RENO COUPLE
PARENTS OF SON
Mr and Mrs. James Hues, El
Reno, are parents of a son.
weighing seven pounds, eleven
ounces. He was born at 7:32
a.m. Saturday at Deaconess
hospital, Oklahoma City. The
child has been named Justin
James.
Paternal grandparents are
Mr and Mrs. James Hues,
Sayre, and maternal grandpar-
ents are Mr and Mrs. Robert
Lesh, route three, Perry.
BRADSHAWS MOVING
TO GRAND JUNCTION
Marvin Bradshaw, 1206 West
Rainbow drive, has accepted a
position with Air Steel Corpora-
tion, Grand Junction, Colo.,
effective Aug. 19.
Bradshaw was a city fireman
for about three years and most
recently worked at Charles Ma-
chine Works as a welder He
will serve as purchasing agent
for the Colorado firm.
Bradshaw, his wife Marilyn
and daughters Dana, 11, and
Christie, 6, will leave for Grand
Junction Saturday
LIONS CLUB WILL
HAVE BUSINESS MEET
Perry Lions club members
will have a business meeting
during their luncheon Thursday
noon at the Catholic hall.
The club will hear a report on
Monday’s board of directors
meeting and will make some
definite plans. John Nida.
(continued on pg. 10)
Coming Events
Tuesday, Aug. 6 — Public
auction of city property, located
at 521 Holly street, 5:30 p.m.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Camp,
owners.
Tuesday, Aug. 6—Monthly
meeting of board of directors of
Cherokee Strip historical socie-
ty, 6:30 p.m., at Cherokee Strip
museum.
Thursday, Aug. 8—Noble
county Democrat Women’s club
covered dish dinner meeting,
for both men and women, 7
p.m., women’s building at fair-
grounds.
Monday, Aug. 12 — 150 acres
Noble county grassland at
public auction, located 8 miles
south on highway 86, 2 east and
* north of Perry, 6 p.m. Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Ketch, owners.
ON SOUTH FIFTEENTH STREET, street
department employes Monday launched their
blacktop resurfacing program that probably
will run to early October. The view here is the
blacktop oiler truck on the left of the roadway
and spreading rock chips on a newly oiled
section is the chipper truck. The men, left to
right, Frank Mitchell, who operates the oiler;
Doug Hodge, who operates a roller to make a
smooth surface on the rock; Bud Perkins
foreman of the crew who also operates the
oiler; inside the oil truck is Chauncey Garrett
and operating the chip truck is Paul Ewy.
(Staff photo.)
CLASSWORK HOURS SET
School Board Increases
Price Of Student Lunches
Perry board of education
members Monday night in-
creased lunchroom meal prices
and set hours for classwork to
begin and end daily for the new
term in a meeting at the high
school.
As for lunchroom prices
at the elementary school,
the charge will be 40 cents
per meal when paid a week
at a time compared with 35
cents the past term. Indi-
vidual meals for students
Early Fall, Winter Events
Planned By C-C Directors
Perry Chamber of Commerce
directors planned some early
fall and early winter events in
their monthly meeting Tuesday
at the chamber conference
room.
Serving coffee and doughnuts
Governor Asks Aid
For Drought-Stricken
OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI)-
Federal assistance for 35
western drought-stricken coun-
ties in western and southern Ok-
lahoma was requested Monday
by GOV. David Hall
Hall said if rain did not come
soon, all 77 counties in the
state would be included in his
request for a declaration of
disaster area status.
Such a declaration would per-
mit farmers and ranchers to
qualify for low-interest feder-
al loans “for almost anything
that farmers and ranchers
need,’’ Ed Hardy, Hall’s news
aide, said.
He said farming and ranch-
ing were the state’s largest
business and they have been
"hard hit" by the lack of rain.
“They’ve been wiped out by
this drought," Hardy said.
He said Hall planned to
amend the request to the sec-
retary of agriculture to include
all 77 counties if a report on
crop conditions in about 10 days
will be 45 cents compared
with 40 cents the past
term. Meals at the grade
school cafeteria will go to
50 cents for adults com-
pared with 45 cents in the
past. Reduced price meals
will continue at 10 cents for
those qualifying under
federal aid programs that
also supply free meals to
several students.
At the junior high cafeteria,
meals paid for by the week will
to teachers at one session of
their annual workshop, Aug. 23
and Aug. 26 was given the
board’s okay.
John Divine, manager,
reported receipts now total
$3,511.50 in the annual fund
"shows what they think it will
show."
Hardy said "significant rain-
fall" within the next 10 days
would save the crops in
the state’s other 42 counties. He
added that climatological data
does not indicate such rainfall
will occur any time soon.
Allows Federal Loans
A disaster declaration, he
said, would permit farmers and
ranchers to qualify for low in-
terest, federal loans “for al-
most anything that farmers
and ranchers need."
Hardy said the problems for
Oklahoma’s farmers and ranch-
ers began with late freezes this
spring “which caused extensive
crop damage, fruit production
was all but totally destroyed
and our wheat farmers lost mil-
lions of bushels at harvest
time due to the late freezing
weather, short rainfall and hot
dry winds during April."
"If all that wasn’t enough, we
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be 45 cents each rather than 40
cents as in the past. Meals
bought on an individual basis
will be 50 cents compared with
45 cents the past term and adult
meals also go up a nickel from
45 cents each to a half dollar.
Also, reduced price meals will
continue at a dime when the
student qualifies under federal
aid programs. Free meals sup-
ported by federal programs also
are served at the junior high
cafeteria.
drive to support the Chero-
kee Strip celebration and
other special events in the
holiday season. All work-
ers with prospect cards or
money have been asked to
report as soon as possible.
The annual past presidents
meeting was set for 4 p.m. Aug.
22 at the C-C conference room.
The past leaders will nominate
candidates for board posts up
for election later this year.
Chamber members also will
have an opportunity to make
additional nominations from the
floor in a membership luncheon
at noon Sept. 10 at the ‘89er
Restaurant
Posts up for election this year
now are held by Ernest Gra-
ham. Dr. A. M. Brown, Ed
Feken, Dr Starling Miller and
L. A. Seeliger. Ballots will be
mailed to chamber members
Sept. 16 and must be returned
by Sept. 26 for counting
Dec. 7 was set as date for the
annual pet parade for kiddies in
Perry. Arrangements also were
completed for visits here Dec.
14 and Dec. 21 by Santa Claus.
Divine was authorized to buy
a new air-conditioner for
approximately $450 for the C-C
office space.
The meeting was attended by
board members, Dr. A. M.
Brown, L. A. Seeliger, Wayne
Casteel and Steve Parker, and
Divine. Board members absent
include Milo W. Wats •., Ernest
Graham, Dr. Starling Miller,
Ed Feken and Bart Brorsen.
The board fixed starting
hours for the day, lunch hours
and dismissal times daily for
the elementary, junior high and
senior high schools. Students of
the junior high and the senior
high will have a six period class
day
Morning kindergarten
students will have classes
from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Boys and girls enrolled in
kindergarten in the after-
noon will be in class from
12:30 p.m. until 3 p.m.
Boys and girls of grades one
through three will begin their
school day at 8:25 a.m., have
lunch from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30
p.m. and be back in class until 3
p.m. Students of grades four
through six will start the day at
8:25a.m., have lunch from 11:20
a.m. until noon and will be
dismissed at 3 p.m. for the day.
The starting hour will be 8 :30
a.m. for junior high school boys
and girls. They will have lunch
from 11 25 a.m. to 12:05 p.m.
and will be dismissed at 3:05
p.m. Senior high school students
also will begin the day at 8:30
a.m. Their lunch hour will be
from 11:35 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
and they will be dismissed at
3:05 p.m.
In other business, the board
accepted resignation with re-
gret of Mrs. Terri Willson, a
second grade teacher, who has
accepted employment in the
Tulsa school system. Hired to
succeed her was Mrs. John
(Frances) Blickenstaff. Her
husband is employed at the
Charles Machine Works. They
reside at 13 Park drive. Mrs.
Blickenstaff did her practice
teaching here the past term
while a student at Oklahoma
State university.
Frank J. Ranallo also was
hired as the new junior high
school mathematics instructor.
The subject was taught the past
term by Joe Smith, who has
resigned. Ranallo’s wife and
two children will move here in
the near future.
His hometown is Hartshorn
and he is a graduate of Central
State university. Ranallo taught
the past term at McAlester
middle school
Non-certified employes,
such as bus drivers, lunch-
room workers, custodians
and school secretaries,
[continued on pg. 10]
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Ac-
knowledging his impeachment
by the House is a "foregone
conclusion,” President Nixon
has admitted he withheld from
Congress damaging information
relating to the Watergate cover-
up
The disclosure stunned his
strongest defenders in the
House and brought new calls
for his resignation.
Of the 10 stalwart Republi-
cans who had voted against
impeachment consistently in
the House Judiciary Commit-
tee, five said they had changed
their minds.
Nixon Monday released tran-
scripts of his June 23, 1972,
conversations, showing that he
discussed with his top aides the
political implications of using
the CIA to blunt an FBI
investigation of the Watergate
break-in
Admitting mistakes in the
Sumner To
Open School
August 23
Opening and enrollment date
for the 1974-75 Sumner public
school term will be Aug. 23.
Teachers will be on duty at
the school starting Aug. 20
School will start at 9 a.m. and
close at 4 p.m. each day. Buses
will run at the same times as
last term Sumner will have the
free lunch program again this
year for those who qualify.
Improvements at the school
include refinished floors in the
third-fourth grade and fifth-
sixth grade rooms, and in the
gym and new paint in the bath-
rooms, kitchen, halls, auditor-
ium and classrooms.
Mrs. Hattie Lucille Vocque
will join the faculty at Sumner
this year She is a 1970 graduate
of Oklahoma State university
and has taught the past three
years at Agra She will teach
third and fourth grade at Sum-
ner
Returning teachers are Mrs.
Shelbie Rogers, who will teach
seventh and eighth grades and
music; Mrs Cleda Spaeth, who
will teach fifth and sixth grades
and psonsor 4-H; Mrs. Cheryl
Kerr, who will teach first and
second grades; and Michael
Kerr, principal, who will teach
physical education, grades
one-four, athletics, grades five-
eight, and seventh and eighth
grade math.
Mr. and Mrs. John Bristol will
serve as school custodians, and
Mrs. Audra Hansen will be
cook. Bus drivers will be Mrs.
Charlotte Rupp. Perry, Ervin
Lampe, Morrison, and Henry
Rieman, Perry
Those who serve on Sumner
school board are H. B. Garvie,
president; Robert J Vitek,
clerk; and Tom Houska,
member
AMBULANCE, BIG USER ELECTRICITY RATES HIKED
Mrs. Kelsey Named
Perry's City Clerk
The city council Monday night
appointed Mrs. R K. (S. Mar-
garet) Kelsey the new city
clerk, authorized increases in
ambulance service rates and
increased big user electricity
rates in a meeting at City Hall.
Also, Mayor Bill Sheets
adjourned the meeting un-
til 7 p.m. next Monday for
a public hearing at City
Hall regarding plans under
consideration to rebuild
Perry’s sewage disposal
and line gathering system.
The proposal may lead later
to calling of a $500,000 bond
issue that would be supple-
mented with $1,250,000 federal
aid funds.
Mrs. Kelsey, who served
as clerk in the meeting
Monday night, is a veteran
city employe. She has
served as a billing clerk,
deputy city clerk and now
has been named city clerk.
Her appointment was rec-
ommended by Mayor
Sheets and the appoint-
ment was confirmed unan-
imously by the council.
She succeeds Mrs. Alma
Edgar, who retired as of Aug. 1.
Mrs Kelsey’s appointment is
for the unexpired term for
which Mrs. Edgar was elected.
The term expires next spring.
Mayor Sheets also recom-
mended Mrs. Lilly May Stev-
MINDS CHANGING RAPIDLY
President Stuns His
Strongest Defenders
handling of Watergate, Nixon
nevertheless said: "I am firmly
convinced that the record, in its
entirety, does not justify the
extreme step of impeachment
and removal of a president
“I trust that as the constitu-
tional process goes forward,
this perspective will prevail."
The President made his
disclosure after a week of
listening to tapes and soul-
searching with family and
senior aides. It was a major
gamble for survival in office.
He confessed he withheld
from both the House Judiciary
Committee and his own lawyers
the fact that last May he had
reviewed tapes of his conversa-
tions, which occurred six days
after the break-in, and found
them to be "at variance" with
his public statements.
"This was a serious act of
omission for which I take full
responsibility and which I
deeply regret," Nixon said.
In a public statement May 22,
1973, Nixon said he had told his
aides he was concerned the
FBI’s Watergate investigation
might uncover “covert CIA
operations totally unrelated to
Watergate" and ordered coordi-
nation between the FBI and
CIA to prevent this.
But the President said
Monday that the June 23, 1972,
tapes he was releasing “clearly
show" that "I also discussed
the political aspects of the
situation, and that I was aware
of the advantages this course of
action would have with respect
to limiting possible public
exposure of involvement by
persons connected with the re-
(continued on pg. 10)
Political
Candidates
DEMOCRAT
For State Senator
JOHN L. DAHL
DON DAVIDSON
For Co. (Commissioner, Dist. 1
CARLW. PITTMAN
For Co. Commissioner, Dist. 2
RAY T. WAKEN
For Co. Commissioner, Dist. 3
EARL SHRYOCK
HAROLD F. KUKUK
CLYDE WAKEMAN
For State Rep. Dist 35
DON JOHNSON
For Co. Treasurer
MARY POWERS
For Sheriff
STEVE H. BUNCH
DWAY'NE FLOWERS
For State Rep. Dist. 31
JERRY D. GOOLSBY
REPUBLICAN
For Co. Commissioner, Dist. 1
W. A. I DIBI KAY
For Co. Commissioner, Dist. 2
CLIFFORD A. ZUMWALT
For Co. Treasurer
RALPH H. HANNAH
ens, now an office clerk at City
Hall, for appointment as the
deputy city clerk. The council
confirmed the appointment
without opposition In other
action, the council named Mrs.
Kelsey clerk of the municipal
Mrs. Kelsey
court and Mrs. Stevens deputy
clerk of the municipal court.
Mrs. Edgar had been court
clerk and Mrs. Kelsey had been
deputy court clerk.
The meeting was attended by
all the council members. Bill
Simon, David Bazzell, Lavern
Lenaburg, Jim McFarland,
David Kukuk, Jerry Cronin, Leo
Hasenfratz and Jack Dorl.
Councilman Cronin,
chairman of the fire de-
partment and ambulance
committee, submitted
some recommendations
for ambulance fee in-
creases that were adopted.
The council amended the on-
ginal 1967 ambulance service
ordinance to include the new
rates that become effective
after approval and legal publi-
cation this week of the ordi-
nance.
In the past, the charge for
ambulance service has been $20
on a local non-emergency call
and $25 for an emergency call.
The new charge will be $30 on a
local run emergency or non-
emergency. When the ambu-
lance moves outside the city,
the charge will be SI per mile
one way compared with 50 cents
a mile one way in the past
There has been a charge of $10
per hour when an ambulance
has been required to wiat at a
hospital for unloading or for a
possible transfer by ambulance
of the patient to another hospi-
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Weather
Temperatures for the 24-hour
period ending at 11 a.m.
Tuesday.
12 N. 86 1 p.m. 86 2 p.m. 88
3 p.m. 88 4 p.in. 84 5 p.m. 85
6 p.m. 84 7 p.m. 83 8 p.m. 82
9 p.m. 80 10 p.m. 78 11 p.m. 76
12 M. 75 1 a.m. 74 2 a.m. 71
3 a.m. 68 4 a.m. 68 5 a.m. 6 7
6 a.m. 67 7 a.m. 65 8 a.m. 66
9 a.m. 67 10 a.m. 72 11 a.m. 74
Forecast
Local— Variable cloudiness
and warm with chance of
showers or thunderstorms
through Wednesday. Highs
today and Wednesday mid to
upper 80s. Lows tonight mid 60s.
State—V ariable cloudiness
with scattered showers or thun-
derstorms today and central
and east tonight. Showers
ending east and decreasing
cloudiness west Wednesday.
Warm. Highs today and Wed-
nesday mostly 80s. Lows tonight
00s.
Extended weather outlook,
Thursday through Saturday
Fair to partly cloudy and warm.
Lows mid 60s. Highs lower 90s.
Temperatures for the 24-hour
period ending at 11 a.m. Tues-
day were: high 88 low 65. Tem-
peratures for the 24-hour period
ending at 11 a.m. a year ago:
high 93 low 71. Precipitation. .08
of an inch.
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Watson, Milo W. The Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 81, No. 159, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 6, 1974, newspaper, August 6, 1974; Perry, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2251036/m1/1/: accessed May 31, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.