The Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 82, No. 202, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 25, 1975 Page: 1 of 12
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OKLAHOMA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
OKLAHOMA CITY 5, OK. 73105
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The Perry Daily
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82nd Year—No. 202
Thursday, Sept 25, 1975
(UPI) Means United Press International
Perry, Oklahoma
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Paul Pritchett
VETERAN OFFICER RETIRES
20-Year Career
Ends For Pritchett
With something good to say about the younger generation,
Paul George Pritchett, 63. Thursday afternoon and evening was
working his last police department shift ending a law enforce-
merit career that has lasted 20 years and seven months
"I can get riled if people tell me how bad the younger
generation is,” said Pritchett Known as "Uncle Paul," to
many of the town’s young people, Pritchett said he feels the
younger generation here is no worse than any other young-
er generation and in many ways is better behaved Being
more mobile with automobiles makes the present younger
crowd more noticable to a greater number of people, he
said
Pritchett is the second man ever to retire from the Perry
police force with a record of more than 20 years service The
first to do this was the late Oscar Dozier, who served on the force
in the 1930s and 1940s
Hired as a policeman to work under Police Chief C 0.
(Pete i DeVilbiss, Pritchett began police work March 1,1955 A
1932 graduate of Mulhall high school, he attended one semester
in the school of agriculture at Oklahoma A &M. college, now
OSU. "I quit college because I ran out of money in the depres-
sion,” he said.
He worked part time for Safeway stores and for a short
time managed a Perry Safeway store when it was located
on the west side of the square in the building that now
houses Bill Chenoweth's Trading Post.
He moved to Perry in 1936 and on June 1, 1937, was married
to Lila Marie Loula Mr and Mrs. Pritchett now have an antique
business, operate Noble county farm land and have rental
property
He worked nearly three years in oil fields before going into
farming. He rented a half section of land in the late 1930s and
this family farming operation at one time embraced 3,000 acres
of ground, either owned or leased When World war II came,
Pritchett abandoned much of the farming operation because of
problems of getting labor and machinery
Before joining the police department, he worked with
Wilson Clark as assistant manager at the Oklahoma Tire &
Supply store
"I still have plenty to keep me busy without working
for the police department," he said. Mr and Mrs. Pritchett
plan to continue to make their home in Perry. "We have
our antiques, cattle, farm and rental property," he said.
“They have practically turned the criminal loose," said
Pritchett about some of the criminal law court rulings of recent
years
“When I started on the force, it was all police work
enforcing the law," he recalled. "Because there are so many
more automobiles now, checking traffic takes up much of our
time,” said Pritchett
“The laws have changed so much, it is hard to make an
arrest stick now. The days of circumstantial evidence are gone
— your information and clues in a case must come from a
certified source," he explained.
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Believed Heart Attack Victim
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EMERGENCY ARISES
AT FIRE STATION
Fire department captain
Walter Wilson found Wednes-
day evening an emergency can
arise, even at the fire station.
Billy Branum, about 10, who
listed his address as 512 Elm
street, came to the fire station
at 6:35 p.m and displayed a
hand that had been cut and
skinned in a bicycle accident
Capt Wilson administered first
aid and sent the boy on his way
felling much better than when
he came
MRS. LUTTRELL TO
HOSPITAL WEDNESDAY
Mrs E E Luttrell, 824 Elm
street, was admitted to Perry
Memorial hospital at 3:45 pm
Wednesday for treatment of
illness
She was taken from her home
by fire department ambulance
Also Wednesday afternoon,
an ambulance brought Miss
Jessie Nordyke to Memorial
hospital from the Fairchild
Center at Billings for treatment
of illness. She was to be
dismissed Thursday
EUGENE SKALENDAS
PARENTS OF DAUGHTER
A daughter, weighing 8
pounds, 11 ounces, was born at 8
pm Sept. 21 to Mr and Mrs
Eugene Skalenda, Hutchinson,
Kan., at a Hutchinson hospital
The child was named Stacey
Michele.
Paternal grandparents are
Mr and Mrs Edd Skalenda. 811
Thirteenth street, and maternal
grandparents are Mr and Mrs
Wayne Burns, Tulsa.
ANOTHER TRY TO
ORGANIZE COURSE
Another meeting has been
scheduled for those who may be
interested enrolling in a general
education development course
The meeting will be at 7 p.m.
Tuesday in room 207 of Perry
high school, according to
Wendell Logan, high school
counselor. Last Tuesday’s
meeting failed to draw the 12
person minimum set for the
course
[ continued on pg 12)
Funeral Set
Friday For
E. B. Baker
Funeral has been set for 2
p.m Friday for Edward B.
Baker, 54, route one. Perry, who
died at 12:21 a.m. Thursday at
Perry Memorial hospital where
he had been a parent since June
30
Rev. Tom Kirby will officiate
at services at Parker Funeral
chapel Burial will be at Grace
Hill cemetery
Baker was born Nov 28, 1920,
at Watonga He was married
Nov. 28. 1941, at St. Louis, Mo.,
to the former Virginia Anna
Voss. The couple moved to
Perry in. 1957. Baker was an
assistant superintendent with
W C McBride, Inc He was a
member of the Perry airport
board, was a licensed pilot and
was a member of the Civil Air
Patrol A World War II veteran,
he served five and one-half
years in the U.S. Navy as an
airplane mechanic. He was a
member of the Methodist
As for the young people, Pritchett said, "I want to
thank all the kids for the respect they have shown me. Most
of them will not work against me or try to hurt me."
Pritchett told about how at times over the years young
people have talked to him about personal problems they would
not discuss with their parents.
"This always made me more willing to help," he said.
George Aigner Found
Near
laming Truck
STANDING AMONG 1,000 BOOKS for sale are later this year. This 20‘by 36‘ 10” area in the
the new Carnegie librarian, Miss Lois basement is one of the few sections of the
McGrew, left, and Mrs. John Schmidt, present building that has not undergone major
librarian who will move to Texas in 10 days, remodeling since the library was built in 1909
The scene here shows the view in the area of ( Staff photo.)
the library basement that will be remodeled
-------------------OLDER VOLUMES CLEARED OUT
Court Asked 1 AAA D AOI n
To Head 1,000 Books On Sale At
Off Chaos' Dav cans I :
OKLAHOMA CITY (UPD) - | e ITV Carnegie Library
Attorneys asked the State 1 W) salvo CL
Supreme Court Wednesday to “ !
head off chaos and rule
immediately on constitutional-
ity of a new law that gives the
wife all of a couple’s property
in a divorce case
’Until the honorable Supreme
Court issues such a ruling,"
they said, chaotic conditions
will prevail in the trial courts,
leaving the disposition and
division of property of litigants
in divorce cases in a state of
uncertainty." The new law was
enacted by the 1975 Legislature
one day before adjournment
and takes effect Oct. 1.
District Judge Elvin Brown of
Norman declared the law
unconstitutional Tuesday follow-
ing a pre-trial hearing in a case
in which Johnita Sue Caywood
is suing Robert Monroe Cay-
wood for divorce
Attorneys for the husband
said the new act is dis-
criminatory.
Mrs. Caywood’s attorney,
Robert Flagler of Norman,
contended this is not so and
that Mrs. Caywood should
receive all the property as
stated in the bill
"All members of these two
classes are treated equally by
this legislative provision,” Fla-
gler said. "All divorced hus-
bands’ rights are identical and
all divorced wives’ rights are
identical."
The husband is represented
by two legislator-attorneys,
Sen. Lee Cate, D-Norman, and
Rep. Ken Nance, D-Oklahoma
City.
Cate and Nance contend the
bill is unconstitutional on
grounds the wording in the title
conflicts with that in the bill
and language in the act is
One thousand books, priced from a dime to
50 cents each, are on sale in the basement of
the Perry Carnegie public library.
The librarians have arranged the books
mostly in the basement area that soon will be
remodeled and in the area that approaches
the Heritage room. The volumes on sale date
from the early 1900s to the 1960s.
The books have been taken from
shelves to make room for other volumes.
Those on sale either are duplicates of
good «current books or are those declared
surplus.
Library staff members in the coming weeks
will be promoting the sale of the books at the
city-owned house of knowledge to clear them
from the basement area where they now are
on display.
The books must be moved out of their
present location so a major remodeling job
can proceed to convert the east basement
main room into a children's library.
A registration desk will be located
near the entrance so the desk attendant
will be able to view the stairway from
the main floor and the area near the
Heritage room.
The ceiling in the room will be lowered from
10 to eight feet. Wood paneling will be put on
walls and new fluorescent lighting installed
Carpeting will be installed on the floor of
the room that is 20 feet by 36 feet 10 inches.
Book shelving will be installed in four rows
in the south third of the room Wall shelves
will be put up along the east and north walls
A few tables and chairs will be stationed in
the central area to make the children’s
library complete.
The city council will open sealed bids for the
improvement work Oct. 20 Some new
electrical wiring will be installed in the
library with the same job The city has
allocated $5,000 revenue sharing money and
the library has another $5,000 from a gift to
finance the project.
The body of George Aigner,
73, Noble county farmer of route
2. Perry, was found shortly
before 9 a m Thursday lying
beside his flaming pickup truck
a half mile west of his home
along a county road at a point
three miles south of Perry on
state highway 86 and a half east.
Funeral will be at 10 a.m
Saturday at the Parker chapel
with Rev. M. R. Work, pastor of
the First Christian church,
officiating. Burial will be in
Grace Hill cemetery
Officers said first exam-
ination indicated Aigner
may have been stricken by
a heart attack. He had a
history of a heart ailment
The Perry rural fire truck
made a run to the scene at 9
a.m. Fire Chief Bill Hodge said
the fire apparently started from
fuel leaking following an ac-
cident
An accident investigation
report filed by Trooper Don
Hanley, stationed in Perry with
the highway patrol, said Aigner
had been driving west on the
county road in a 1968 pickup
truck.
The truck, traveling at
low speed, traveled to the
south side of the roadway
and nosed off the embank-
ment at the approach to a
county road bridge There
was little damage to the
truck from the accident,
but the truck was a near
total loss from fire. Aigner
had fallen partially out of
the truck.
The flames that consumed the
truck also burned Aigner's
body.
Aigner was born June 2, 1902,
in Perry He was married July
5, 1930. in Perry to Verna
Springer, who survives Aigner
had worked both as a farmer
and carpenter He was a
member of the Catholic church.
Survivors other than his wife
of the home include two daugh-
ters, Mrs Harry (Joan) Schuze,
Oklahoma City, and Mrs Louis
i Verna) Skouby, southeast of
Perry; two brothers, John.
Perry, and Isador, Aurora, III.;
four grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.
No Paper?
PHS GRADUATE RETURNS TO PERRY
Charles Wise Plans To
Buy Wolleson Car Agency
Coming Events
Thursday, Sept. 25 — City
property at public auction, 12
Elm street, 5 30 p.m Carl
Sweger, owner
Friday, Sept. 26 - Friendly
Community Fellowship, or-
ganizational session, 11 a.m.,
Methodist youth building
"When I help some boy or girl, I feel pride because I know they church.
are the future of the city of Perry,” was another comment about Survivors in addition to his
the young people wife of the home address.
"If I have an enemy, I don't know it," he remarked, include a daughter, Mrs. Allen conflicting and discriminatory Friday . Sept. 26 - City prop-
Pritchett said he wanted to thank all the city department Pel ery: a sister, “The statue has drawn a erty at public auction, 1305 Sixth
heads, "I have enjoyed them”ausnan clearly invidious and arbitrary street, 5:30 p.m Mr and Mrs
The nature of people is not as violent as it once was, he Dewarei a Cromer. James K distinction between the par- Ralph Wallingford, owners
recalled Pritchett said during the earlier years of his career, it Baker, Oklahoma City; two ties," they said "To say that
was a regular thing for a person being placed under arrest to granddaughters and his the wife should, as a matter of
want to fight. "Sometimes you'd have to fight a man 15 minutes parents. Mr. and Mrs Britton absolute right, receive all the
before you could get to jail,” he said. Baker, Skiatook
He pointed out that working conditions are much better Memorial contributions may
now than they once were. The police department had one
car when he started work and the radio equipment used
then was good only for short distance transmission.
In summing up his career, Pritchett said, "I’ve seen a lot of
tragedies and a lot of good things."
property is discriminatory "
Mrs Caywood’s attorney con
be made to the Oklahoma tended the title was not
Medical Research Foundation defective, that it followed the
cancer fund. Parker Funeral constitutional requirement of
home will serve as custodian of ,
contributions [continued on pg 12]
Monday. Sept. 29 - Cherokee
Strip Arts Company, regular
meeting, 7:30 p.m., Trudy’s
Hodgepodge, 307 Seventh street
Tuesday, Sept. 30 — Open
house. Noble County Associa-
tion For Retarded Citizens, 2-4
p.m., opportunity center, 411
Sixth street.
Charles Wise, formerly of Perry, has started work at Budd
Wolleson Buick-Pontiac Agency and plans to complete ar-
rangements to buy the business by Nov. 1. He said formalities
dealing with the General Motors franchise remain to be
completed.
Wise has been parts manager for Don Martin
Chevrolet-Cadillac agency in Chickasha for the past 10
years Martin is also a former Perryan, having been
affiliated with A. B. Gilliland in the Perry Chevrolet
agency several years ago.
Wise said he will work with Budd Wolleson during October
and will arrange for a name change and his own grand opening
later
Wise is the son of Mr and Mrs Lee Wise, 2 Wilshire He
moved here with his family in 1950 and graduated from Perry
high school in 1958
He attended Central State university and later was
employ ed by Safeway He and Miss Sharon Clark were married
in 1959 She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Clark, 723
Ninth street.
They are parents of two children. Gayla, 15, and Scott
13. They are members of the Christian church and Wise
serves as a deacon at the Chickasha Christian church.
The Wise family will move to Perry as soon as living
accommodations can be arranged
[continued on pg. 12]
If you missed your pa-
per, please call your car-
rier If you cannot contact
him or her. Phone 336-
5302 between 6 p.m. and
6:30 p.m. On Saturdays
call between 3 and 3:30
p.m. No calls after 6:30
p.m weekdays; 3:30 p.m.
Saturdays.
EX V
, weatherd
Temperatures for the 24-hour
period ending at 11 a.m. Thurs-
day.
12 N. 51 1 p.m 61 2 p.m. 64
3 p.m. 64 4 p.m. 65 5 p.m. 66
6 p.m. 64 7 p.m. 61 8 p.m. 58
9 p.m. 54 10 p.m. 52 11 p.m. 50
12 M. 48 1 a.m 46 2 a.m. 4k
3 a.m. 48 4 a.m 46 5 a.m. 43
6 a.m. 44 7 a.m. 43 8 a.m. 44
9 a.m. * If a.m. 55 11 a.m. 63
Forecast
Clear and cool tonight. Clear
and a little warmer Friday. Low
tonight upper 40s. High Friday
lower 70s. Wind northerly 5 to 10
mph becoming light and
variable tonight.
Weather outlook, Saturday
through Monday: Fair to partly
cloudy and mild. Highs lower
80s. Lows lower 50s.
Temperatures for the 24-hour
period ending at 11 a.m Thurs-
day were High 66, low 43 Tern
peratures for the 24-hour period
ending at 11 a.m. a year ago:
High 74, low 51.
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