Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 87, No. 97, Ed. 1 Monday, May 26, 1980 Page: 1 of 8
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Monday, May 26, 1980
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We pay a special tribute honoring the many men
and women in the Armed Forces. They have given
of themselves, and some their very lives, so that
we might live in peace. They will be remembered.
BILL WOULD REQUIRE STATEWIDE PROGRAM
Special Classes For 9,000
Gifted, Talented Children
By KAY McCARTHY Legislature to build the pro- of non-certified teachers, such
OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) - gram into next year’s budget as lawyers or musicians, to
Ten years ago, the Legislature and allow school districts to teach gifted and talented
authorized state funds to be find funds for the new classes, children.
used to educate 25 gifted and "I bave mixed emotions. The Education Department
talented students in Oklahoma Here is a program that needs will provide procedures for
public schools. to be accomplished in Ok- screening children, analyzing
That first step was followed lahoma ... but inflation is their needs and prescribing
by annual hikes in funding until eating them (the school dis- their programs,
an estimated 5,500 gifted and tricts) alive,” Howell said. Gifted and talented children
talented students were in the However, he said, school are defined as those who
special classes in the past districts managed to handle the demonstrate "potential abilities
school year. federal government $ mandate or high performance capabili-
A class can be established on handicapped children a few ty” and need education beyond
only if the local school district years ago. that provided by regular school
wants one, can meet the state’s He said the school districts programs.
requirements and can match a were “screaming- when the Capability areas will include
state grant of $6,500. federal government required but not be limited by intellectu-
Now a bill before the public education for the hand- al ability, creative thinking
Legislature would require icapped. ability, leadership ability,
classes for gifted and talented "They said, we can’t afford visual and performing arts
children in public schools it.’ But it worked and we got ability and specific ability
statewide, the problems solved and we’re aptitude the bill says.
The bill — with House meeting the needs of the
Speaker Dan Draper as chief handicapped in Oklahoma," he
House co-author — flew through said. Guthrie
the House with no dissenting "House Bill 1816 (the gifted “stale U
votes last week. It went to the and talented children bill)
Senate, and if it passes, will go would be a challenge. I really Man Dies
to Gov. George Nigh. feel we can meet that IVICARE Co
The bill requires local school challenge. It ought to be done
districts to come up with and it can be done,” Howell LA4 © Dim
matching funds for state said. A THE GE
grants. The state Department of
It is estimated the cost to the Education estimates there are Louis Edward Hood Jr., 28,
state will go from $910,000 9,000 gifted and talented chil- Guthrie, died of massive head
currently to $1.5 million to $2 dren - or “G & T” as they are and other injuries shortly after
million known — in Oklahoma’s public 5:30 a.m. Sunday after being
Senate author Jim Howell, D- schools, struck by a hit-and-run vehicle
Midwest City, says he expects It is estimated 19,000 to 32,000 on 1-35 highway nearly 17 miles
arguments over the bill’s cost gifted and talented students are north of Perry, 5% miles east
since school districts are in Oklahoma, but the majority and a short distance south of
fighting inflation, are in private schools. Billings.
“The only pretty thing about "In so many areas people Arrangements for services
the bill is that it will not go into whose children are motivated for Hood were pending at the
effect for another year,” he and talented have gone ut and Smith F uneral home at Guthrie,
said This would allow the started private schools,” Rep. Local arrangements were
said. would ai ow Cleta Deatherage, D-Norman, a handled by the Parker Funeral
House co-author, said. home of Perry.
Camino Events “That’s going to be the end of Investigation of the accident
Come DYCA the public school system,” she and the death continued Mon-
Friday, May 30 - Friendly said, day by the highway patrol and
Community Fellowship, 11 She said she did not see the Noble county sheriff s officers.
a.m.-3 p.m., Methodist youth cost of the new legislation as An accident investigation re-
building. Sack lunch at noon, too high, port filed by Gene Johnson
coffee and tea furnished. “Per- "We are already serving a highway patrolman stationed at
taming to Bird” program under number of those children so Blackwell, showed Hood had
direction of Mrs Earl Dawkins, what we need to do is broaden been visiting at Tonkawa. He
Public invited, it.” said Ms. Deatherage, vice apparently started home to
Tuesday, June 3 — Free blood chairman of the House Appro- Guthrie on foot to hitch hike and
pressure clinic, 9-11:30 a.m., priations and Budget Commit- walk, the patrol investigation
Friday senior citizens center, tee. report said.
Green Valley Nursing center The bill requires the state The accident occurred in the
employes in charge. Department of Education to south bound lane, apparently
Saturday, June 7 — 240 acres provide in-service training for the one nearest the west should-
Noble County farmland at pub- teachers, administrators, col- er or at the edge of the shoulder
lic auction, 10 miles east of lege personnel, parents and near the west edge of the travel
Perry on US64, 10 a.m. Heirs of interested lay persons. portion of the highway.
Henry J. Rupp, owners. The bill also allows the hiring (continued on pg. 8)
TWO TRACTS SELL AT
AUCTION SATURDAY
A 15-acre tract located eight
miles east of Perry sold at
public auction for $31,000 Satur-
day. Buyer was Kenneth A1-
strom of Morrison. Seller was
the Raymond Gilley estate.
An 80-acre tract located 15
miles southeast of Pawnee sold
at auction Saturday for $30,000.
Seller was Mrs. Harold Zemp.
Buyer was Jim Dilley of Yale.
The sales were arranged by
Casteel-Luster Real Estate &
Auction company.
TWIRLERS TO ENROLL
TUESDAY MORNING
Students 3 years and older
will enroll from 9 to 9:30 a m.
Tuesday at the drive circle on
the south side of the high school
building for a baton twirling
clinic Tuesday through Friday.
The training is sponsored by
the high school band twirlers.
Enrollment fee is $10. Daily
classes will be from 9:30 a.m. to
10:30 a.m. There will be an
awards ceremony at 10:30 a.m.
Friday to recognize students
with the best routine, best strut-
ting, most improved and for
congeniality. Those enrolled
will train and compete by age
groups.
TWO MORE WELLS
STAKED IN COUNTY
The No. 2 Tate and the No. 2
Rice, both in Noble county, have
been staked for testing.
The No. 2 Tate, located at C
SW NE 29-20n-2w, in the Lucien
field, was staked for 4,930 feet
or the Skinner. Exxon is in
charge of testing operations.
St. Joe Petroleum staked the
No. 2 Rice, NW NW NE 19-21n-
Iw, in the Perry district, for
5,200 feet or the Wilcox.
BURGLARY ATTEMPT
OCCURRED SATURDAY
An apparent daylight burg-
lary attempt was reported at
the Bob Henry home, 1002 Cedar
street, Saturday.
A police investigation report
said the incident occurred
sometime between 10 a.m. and
6:30 p.m. A pry bar or screw
driver had been used to pry up a
window, but the house appar-
ently was not entered.
FUNERAL HELD FOR
MRS. CHARLES KERR
Funeral was held May 13 at
Largo, Fla., for Mrs. Charles R.
(Marcia) Kerr, formerly of
Perry, who died May 9 following
(continued on pg. 8)
Our Area
Service People
JON E. LEDIN ENDS
BASIC TRAINING
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SINGER PATTI PAGE, whose recordings have sold more than 60 million copies, had her
footprints, handprints and signature immortalized in cement for the Stars Hall of Fame in
Orlando, Fla. Assisting her during the "star-print" ceremony are Keystone Kop Fred Kramer
and Charlie Chaplin character Paul Lewis. The Academy of Country Music also recently gave her
the "Pioneer Award" for her contributions to country music during her career Miss Page is a
sister of Dan Fowler, 1004 Hillside, and has visited in Perry several times.
Some Schedules DrawnFor
Summer Of Supervised Play
Schedules have been drawn
for annual free summer super-
vised play events for boys and
girls to begin in early June,
John Coker, superintendent of
schools, announced.
Coker said all arrangements
for financing the programs
have not been completed, but
expressed confidence the mat-
ter can be worked out. The past
two years, the supervised play
programs have been enhanced
by $2,000 contributions by an
anonymous donor Last year,
the city of Perry allowed the
schools $1,000 credit on utilities
and the schools operated the
program.
The first schedules have been
drawn for swimming. Other
activities may be added later.
Band instruction will be sched-
uled in August for boys and girls
with Bill Rotter and Mrs Sandy
Hentges in charge.
Boys will register at Perry
municipal swimming pool in
Lions West park from 10a.m. to
noon June 2. Girls will register
at the pool from 10 a.m. to noon
June 3. To further help with the
play program, the city of Perry
allows free use of the swimming
accidently broke a wrist recen-
tly and may not be able to serve.
Boys will begin swim training
at the pool on June 4 and will
swim Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays through the sum-
mer. Girls will swim Tuesdays
and Thursdays.
Beginning June 4 and through
the summer, beginner boys will
swim from 10 to 11 a.m. and
those with swim experience will
be in the pool from 11 a m. to
noon. Girls will begin swim-
ming June 5. Their schedule will
be beginner girls from 10 to 11
a.m. and experienced swim-
mers in the pool from 11 a m. to
noon.
The schedule calls for the
swim play program sc hedules
to run through July 25.
RETIRING
NEW YORK (UPI) - Irv
Kintisch assistant track and
field coach at Manhattan
College, is retiring at the close
of the current season.
etratd
Lenh
Mrs. Charles R. Ledin, 4 Cam- pool for youngsters enrolled in
den Way, Perry, Okla., recently supervised play. Participants
completed basic training at must enroll to be eligible to take
Fort Jackson, S.C. part, Coker said.
During the training, students Ray Nissen again will be
received instruction in drill and coordinator of the program and
ceremonies, weapons, map instructor. Wendell Logan and
reading, tactics, military cour- Glen Elliott also will be swim
tesy, military justice, first aid, instructors. All three are city
and Army history and tradi- school teachers. In addition, a
tions. woman will be named as an
Ledin received a bachelor’s instructor for swimming. Plans
degree in 1979 from Bethany had called for Mrs. Cloy Ann
college, Lindsborg, Kan. Fent to be an instructor, but she
MICHAEL S. DEXTER. Perry, an electrical maintenance
student who graduated from Oklahoma State Tech, Okmulgee,
looks at a certificate naming him to the registrar’s honor roll,
Students compiling between a 3.0 and 3 49 grade point average
on a 4.0 scale in all subjects throughout their program of study
are named to the list. Dexter was pre— d the certific ale
during an honors and awards assembly He is he son of Mrs
Helen Dexter, route 2, Perry.
Hurt In
Tractor
Accident
Fred Madden, 77, southwest
of Perry, was serioiusly injured
at approximately 1 p.m. Sunday
when run over by a wheel of a
medium size old model farm
tractor on his farm approxi-
mately two miles south of the
5-mile "Y" on highway US77.
The accident occurred on the
farm approximately a half mile
southwest of the Madden home
He was brought to Perry Me-
morial hospital by fire depart-
ment ambulance and a short
time later transferred to Still-
water Medical center.
It was believed the large left
rear wheel of the tractor passed
over Madden’s body. Among his
injuries were a possible broken
right ankle, broken left arm,
broken right collar bone, broken
ribs, head cuts and bruises and
possibly other injuries. Madden
did not lose consciousness after
the accident.
Reports said a pickup truck
became stuck in the mud on the
farm and Madden had intended
to use the tractor to pull the
pickup truck free. With Madden
were his young grandsons
One of the boys, about 11
years old, started the tractor
moving while not attached to
the pickup truck. The tractor
moved forward slowly, but the
boy apparently did not know
how to stop the tractor.
Madden ran to catch the
vehicle so he could stop it.
However, he apparently
stumbled or was knocked down
by the bractor in front of the
large wheel on the left rear.
Ambulance attendants said
the soft ground probably helped
to serve as a cushion and pre
vent the accident from being
worse than it was
REMOVE CARTILAGE
WORCESTER, Mass (UPI)
- Doctors at the University of
Massachusetts Medical Center
have removed a piece of torn
cartilage from the right shoul-
der of Red Sox’ outfielder Tom
Poquette, disabled since spring
training with the injury.
Red Sox team physician Dr.
Arthur Pappas performed the
operation Thursday. Poquette’s
shoulder will be immobilized
for three to four weeks before
The can resume exercises,
Pappas said.
WEATHER
Temperatures for the 24-hour
period ending at 11 a.m. Mon-
day.
12 N. 90 1 p.m. 93 2 p.m. 96
3 p.m. 97 4 p.m. 94 5 p.m. 96
6 p.m. 94 7 p.m. 92 8 p.m. 88
9 p.m. 84 10 p.m. 80 11 p.m. 78
12 M. 78 1 a.m. 76 2 a.m. 75
3 a.m. 74 4 a.m. 73 5 a.m. 72
6 a.m 71 7 a.m. 70 8 a.m. 75
9 a.m 76 10 a.m. 78 11 a.m. 85
Forecast
Partly cloudy and warm with
a slight chance of mainly after-
noon and nighttime showers and
thunderstorms today through
Tuesday. Winds southerly 5 to
15 mph through Tuesday. Highs
today and Tuesday lower 90s.
Low tonight lower 70s. Probab-
ility of rain 20 percent each
today, tonight and Tuesday.
Temperatures for the 24-hour
period ending at 11 a.m. Mon-
day were: High 97, low 70. Tem-
peratures for the 24-hour period
ending at 11 a.m. a vear ago;
High 72. low 46
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