The Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 88, No. 218, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 17, 1981 Page: 1 of 8
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OKLAHOMA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
OKLAHOMA CITY 5, OK. 73105
A View of the Front of the Cherokee Strip Motel When Remodeling Is Completed
‘If You Would Avoid Criticism, Say Nothing, Do Nothing and Be Nothing’
The Perry
Daily Journal
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88th Year — No. 218 Saturday, Oct. 17, 1981 Perry, Oklahoma 15 Cents
Oklahomans Paid
Over $3 Billion In
Cherokee Strip Begins
Restaurant Remodeling
1980 Utility Bills
Preliminary work has started on a major overhaul of the
kitchen and other areas of the Cherokee Strip Restaurant, Carl
B. Hamm, president of the motel corporation said Saturday.
The kitchen area will be expanded and a great deal of
kitchen equipment added to streamline preparation and serving
of food.
"The motel has been in operation 20 years and the business
at the restaurant has continued to grow, making it necessary to
modernize the work flow and provide equipment needed to care
for our customers,” Hamm said.
A part of the renovation will include expanding the kitchen
area to the south, eliminating an entranceway at the southeast
corner of the present dining area and providing a mansard roof
effect on the south and west sides of the restaurant and motel.
Contract for the project is held by SDC Construction
Company, Inc., of Stillwater. Work is expected to require about
four months, a part of which time food service may be shut down
at the restaurant.
Hamm said total cost of the expansion, refurbishing and
addition of kitchen equipment will be about $225,000. John Swift
is manager of the restaurant.
The Cherokee Strip Motel was opened in November, 1961
with 30 units, one unit of which was designated as manager’s
quarters. Since then an additional unit has been devoted to a
suite for the manager and a third was integrated into the
restaurant kitchen area.
In 1963 an 11-unit addition was built; 12 units were
constructed in 1967 ; another 12 rooms were added in 1974 and 12
rooms were completed in early 1979.
The motel corporation was originally organized with 20 local
stockholders. This number has changed through the years by
death and sale of stock. The number has been as little as 14 and
now stands at 20.
In addition to Hamm as president, other officers are Ed
Malzahn, vice president; Mrs. Jim Holt, secretary; Milo
Watson, treasurer, and Olin Randall, Dr. A. M. Brown and Dr.
Charles E. Martin, directors.
DANCE LESSONS
SCHEDULED TUESDAY
The Cowtown Twirlers square
dance club will sponsor a ses-
sion of square dance lessons be-
ginning at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at
the Covington gymnasium.
This session will be the last
free lesson for this session. Suc-
ceeding lessons will be given at
a minimal fee per couple.
COWTOWN TWIRLERS
JAMBOREE OCT. 23
The Cowtown Twirlers jam-
boree will be held at 8 p.m. Fri-
day, Oct. 23, at the Covington
gymnasium.
The jamboree dance is one
where members of area clubs
visit. All interested persons
have been invited.
PTL Plans
Fun Night
Tuesday
The annual Fun Night event
sponsored by the Parent Teach-
er League of Christ Lutheran
school will be held from 6-8:30
p.m. Tuesday at the school
auditorium.
The event is open to all inter-
ested persons, according to Sid
Wilhelm, general chairman.
Chairmen of various commit-
tees for the event include Mrs.
Elaine Hook, Mr. and Mrs.
Eddie Feken, Mr. and Mrs.
Lynn Turney, Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Boeckman, Bob Ewy,
James Gottschalk, Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Simon, Mr. and Mrs.
Randall Hughey, Mr. and Mrs.
Bob Justus.
Mr. and Mrs. John Luthye,
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Karcher,
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Maine,
Mr. and Mrs. Loren Karcher,
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Buffington,
Mrs. Rena Hise, Mr. and Mrs.
David Clark, Mr. and Mrs.
Dwaine Dillard, Mr. and Mrs.
Gene Crane, Dr. and Mrs.
Bryan Chrz, Mr. and Mrs. Gary
Wilson. Other parents of CLS
students and the teachers at
CLS will assist with the event.
Mrs. Marge Martin will have
charge of a book fair to benefit
the school library. A variety of
books will be on display and
may be ordered at the book fair.
Units one and two of the
Christ Lutheran Women’s Mis-
sionary League will have booths
at the Fun Night to benefit their
organization.
Available at the school kitch-
en will be chili, hot dogs, chili
dogs, chips, Nachos, frito pie
and dessert pies. Coffee, tea and
soft drinks also will be offered.
Those attending have been in-
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Area Football
Perry..........19
Alva...........7
Billings.......22
Braman.......18
Cov-Doug... • 52
Wakita.......44
Morrison.....25
Moore Chr....l2
CAMPAIGN COLLECTIONS $17,000 SO FAR
Judy Avery’s Team
First In C-C Drive
A team captained by Mrs.
Dennis (Judy) Avery, Noble
county assessor, placed first
among 15 teams that partici-
pated in the contest associated
with the annual general mem-
bership drive of the Perry
Chamber of Commerce.
The main push for the mem-
ber campaign closed at 5 p.m.
Friday. This is a repeat for Mrs.
Avery. She captained the cham-
pionship team a year ago. She
and her workers collected $972.-
50 in the contest and accumulat-
ed 1,215 points. Members of her
first place team are Pat Kukuk,
Billie Berry, Bill Urban, Treva
Loveless and Darlene Meyer.
The overall membership
drive included the 15 captains
and 100 volunteer workers. To-
tals for the contest and general
drive were announced Saturday
by Gene Wood, manager of the
chamber.
Workers in both the advance
campaign and the general drive
still have many prospect cards
that have not been reported.
Wood said wet weather prevent-
ed many workers from proceed-
ing on schedule this week.
A total of $7,497.50 was col-
lected by the 15 teams in selling
memberships in the general
campaign that opened Wednes-
day. The teams accumulated a
total of 9,345 points. Mrs. Avery
and her first place team mem-
bers each will receive a $10
certificate good toward the pur-
chase of a ham or turkey at the
grocery store of their choice.
The chamber advance and
general drives have netted ap-
proximately $17,000 so far.
The following chart shows
team captains, amount receiv-
ed in cash and pledges and
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number of points earned by
each team, in that order:
Judy Avery $ 972.50
Clarice Tyler 840.00
JoAnn Miller 717.50
Leroy Rolling 752.50
Bob Stringer 585.00
Norman Boone 680.00
Bernard Heppler 580.00
1,215
1,112%
885
875
830
797%2
685
Dennis Howard
Jack Dolezal
Marilyn Coker
Ethel Coe
Loyd Brown
Bob Edgar
Diana Hays
Chas. VanTine
430.00
370.00
405.00
300.00
290.00
320.00
125.00
130.00
575
500
495
375
350
350
150
150
Totals $7,497.50 9,345
Sunday at Perry's Churches
Assembly of God church — Morning worship, 10:50 a.m.
Calvary Baptist church — Morning worship, 10:45 a.m.
First Baptist church — Morning worship, 10:45 a.m.
Grace Baptist church — Morning worship, 10:45 a.m.
First Christian church — Morning worship, 10:30 a.m. Sermon, ‘The
Prophet’s Lament."
First United Methodist church — Morning worship, 10:50 a.m. Sermon,
‘Raising Your Standard of Living.’’
First Presbyterian church — Morning worship, 10:30 a.m. Sermon,
"Praying for a Miracle."
Church of the Nazarene — Morning worship, 10:45 a.m.
Pentecostal Church of God — Morning worship, 11 a.m.
St. Mark’s Episcopal church — Morning worship, 10 a.m.
St. Rose of Lima Catholic church — Masses, 6:30 p.m. Saturday, and 10
a.m. Sunday.
Christ Lutheran church — Morning worship, 9 a.m. Sermon, ‘Ye Also
Shall Bear Witness."
Zion Lutheran church — Morning worship, 10 a.m. Sermon, "Couriers of
God’s Special Message.”
Church of Christ — Morning worship, 10 a.m.
HOMEMAKERS PLAN
FOR FOUR MEETINGS
Four Noble county homemak-
ers groups have made plans to
meet during the coming week.
Mrs. John Palovik will be
hostess for the Monday meeting
of Ladies of 76 group. Mrs. C. E.
Snyder will lead the lesson.
Mrs. Pearl Shepherd will be
hostess and lesson leader for the
Monday meeting of Sumner
homemakers.
Town and Country group will
meet Tuesday. Mrs. Hershel
Tipps will be hostess and lesson
leader.
Black Bear group also will
meet Tuesday. Mrs. L. E.
Stephens will be hostess. Lesson
leader will be Mrs. Will Art
Voss.
MRS. RYAN MOVED
BY CITY AMBULANCE
Mrs. Anna Ryan, 906 Twelfth
street, was transferred Friday
to Stillwater Medical Center by
Perry fire department am-
bulance.
She was moved from her
home during the noon hour to
Stillwater for treatment of ill-
ness.
COUNTY COUNCIL
MEETING WEDNESDAY
The Noble county fall home-
makers council meeting is
scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Wed-
nesday at the women’s fair
building.
Detailed arrangements for
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By HARRY CULVER
OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) -
“That will be $4,000 please.
Thank you, here’s your
change.”
Can you imagine a $4,000
utility bill? That day has
arrived if you apply the per
capita costs of Oklahoma’s
annual utility bill to a family of
four.
A study of Corporation
Commission records shows Ok-
lahomans paid more than $3
billion in 1980 for gas,
electricity and telephones. It
includes bills for commercial
and industrial as well as
residential users. Divide the
total bill by Oklahoma’s 3
million population, and it
averages $1,000 per person in
direct and indirect costs.
The total is more than six
times as much as Oklahomans
paid in personal state income
taxes last year, eight times as
much as the state sales tax. It
is more than 10 times the
amount spent in state and
federal funds for highways.
It is nearly 50 percent more
than total state tax collections.
On the basis of original cost,
it’s enough money to build
more than 100 Turner Turn-
pikes between Oklahoma City
and Tulsa.
Utility bills are getting so
high, some participants in-
volved in rate hearings con-
tend, that utilities are pricing
themselves out of the market.
"We are already seeing
that,” says Howard Motley,
commission director of utilities.
“That is part of the reason
utilities are coming back more
often with rate requests,
because people are cutting
down on consumption.
“I think we are going back to
the days when people leave
windows open and run their
fans more.”
Motley adds, however, that
trimming energy costs are not
that simple in winter. And
while insulation and storm
windows help, those least able
to pay high utility bills are
often unable to afford insula-
tion.
One witness, economist
Amory B. Lovins, told the
commission during its hearing
on Public Service Co.’s $139
million rate increase last week,
that utilities in self-interest
should loan customers money
for storm windows, insulation
to encourage conservation and
avoid custly additions in
generating plants.
"Higher rates will cause less
consumption and less revenue,”
he said.
The $3 billion total represent-
ed utility operating revenues
only of major companies in 1980
and did not include more than a
third of a billion dollars in
additional rate increases grant-
ed or requested since then.
It does not include, for
example, the $65 million in
interim rate increases granted
PSO since last December, nor
the additional $74 million the
Tulsa-based utility is asking. It
also does not include the $58.6
million increase granted South-
western Bell Telephone Co., nor
the 78.3 million granted Ok-
lahoma Gas & Electric Co., nor
the additional $49 million
recommended for OG&E, nor
the $32 million sought by
Oklahoma Natural Gas.
In fact, new increases plus
boosts in the cost of natrual gas
and coal may soon hike the
annual bill to $4 billion.
Motley said cost of fuel is the
greatest single factor causing
rates to go up.
"Fuel costs represents 60
percent of OG&E’s bills,” he
said. “For gas companies, it’s
more. For ONG, it amounts to
82 percent.”
Another reason for rising bills
can be seen in the commis-
sion’s concession to to utility
claims they are entitled to
higher earnings. PSO witnesses
told the commission their
stockholders should receive an
18 percent return.
In a recent order approved
by Commission Chairman
Hamp Baker and Norma
Eagleton, PSO was awarded
rates to provide a 15 percent
return. Commissioner Bill
Dawson, who is leaving the
commission late this year —
some say from frustration —
contended 13.5 percent was
adequate.
Utilities in each state are
telling regulatory bodies they
should receive a higher return
because others are.
Motley said nuclear power
and coal offer cheaper fuel
sources but such plants are
much more expensive to build,
meaning the utility must be
granted rate boosts to pay for
its investment.
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Absentee Vote
Law Changes
October 19th
Beginning Oct. 19 Oklahoma
voters will be able to vote by
absentee ballot in all elections
conducted by a county election
board, according to Dorothy
Fox, secretary of the Noble
county election board.
Previously, voters have been
able to vote by absentee ballot
only in elections for state and
county officers and in elections
conducted in a small number of
chartered cities whose charters
allowed for absentee voting.
Absentee voting was not allow-
ed in city, school or special
county elections.
Effective Oct. 19, voters will
be able to vote by absentee
ballot in all these elections.
However, there may be a small
number of chartered cities
whose charters specifically pro-
hibit absentee voting; absentee
ballots will continue to be
denied to these voters.
Mrs. Fox said voters who
would be interested in using
absentee ballots in elections
held after Oct. 19 should apply
as early as possible. For in-
formation about voting by ab-
sentee ballot, voters should
contact the election board of the
county where they live.
Current Oklahoma law pro-
vides that persons who are
absent from the county wherein
they are registered to vote on
the day of the election, persons
who are incapacitated and
thereby unable to vote in per-
son, persons who live more than
10 miles from the location of the
polling place for their precinct,
persons confined to nursing
homes and convalescent hospit-
als, and persons who are in the
military, the spouse or depend-
ent of a member of the mili-
taryor a citizen of the United
States residing outside the ter-
ritorial limits of the United
States may vote by absentee
ballot.
These must state the circum-
stance surrounding their re-
quest for absentee ballots when
they make their request to the
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S2Weather
Art Show To Open Wednesday
In celebration of Art Appre-
ciation Month and to observe
the first anniversary of her
business, That’s My Gallery at
807 Eleventh street, Mrs. Nancy
Stirman has made plans to pre-
sent an art show.
The art show will begin Wed-
nesday, Oct. 21, and continue
through Saturday, Oct. 24. Art
will be on display from 10 a.m.-6
p.m. Wednesday through Fri-
day. An artists’ reception has
been planned from 10 a.m.-4
p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24. The
public has been invited to attend
both the show and the reception.
Featured artist for the show
will be Nancy Louvier, Broken
Arrow, who is well-known for
subjects portrayed in her etch-
ings and serigraphs. Works of
Bill Bauer, Barbara Lange and
Nancy Stirman, all of Perry,
Harlan Klein, Blackwell, and
Gene V. Dougherty, Tonkawa,
also will be shown.
Nancy Louvier is a graduate
of the University of Tulsa with a
bachelor of fine arts degree
majoring in sculpture. During
her 11 years as a professional
artist, she has pursued private
study in printmaking and paint-
ing. She has sold her work in
galleries and at shows across
the United States, including the
Plaza in Kansas City, Coconut
Grove in Miami, Gold Coast in
Chicago, Oklahoma Arts Festi-
val at Oklahoma City, the
Southwest Invitational at Albu-
querque, and the Ann Arbor
Street Fair in Michigan.
She is represented in the
permanent collection of the
Five Civilized Tribes museum
in Muskogee and the City of
Shreveport. Her etchings fea-
ture the techniques of aquatint,
embossing and etched line with-
in the same plate. Her drawings
and etchings are done with
realism and an emphasis on
design and competition.
Bill Bauer’s unique wood-
carvings were viewed by many
local residents during the Stage-
coach Community theatre pro-
duction of “Paint Your Wagon”
at the high school auditorium
and more recently at the Noble
county free fair. His authentic
gun carvings have been shown
in Arkansas galleries and at
shows in Tennessee.
Barbara Lange, a former in-
structor in the art department
at Oklahoma State university,
will display pottery at the art
show. She has been in charge of
programs presented for the
Cherokee Strip Arts company in
Perry. Creative designs are
used by Mrs. Lange in her work.
Nancy Stirman will present
watercolors at the art show. She
is a member of the board of
directors of the Cherokee Strip
Arts company and the Okla-
homa Art Gallery association.
This is the first formal art show
presented by That’s My Gal-
lery.
Mrs. Stirman said she is
interested in promoting Okla-
homa artists and giving Okla-
homans an opportunity to learn
and appreciate the fine arts.
Harlan Klein will show repli-
cans of old-style trunks created
from wood obtained from the
ruins of old barns. The trunks
are made in several sizes.
Special orders for his work will
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Nancy Louvier
Temperatures for the 24-hour
period ending at 11 a.m. Satur-
day.
12 N. 59 1 p.m. 70 2 p.m. 69
3 p.m. 68 4 p.m. 68 5 p.m. 67
6 p.m. 67 7 p.m. 66 8 p.m. 65
9 p.m. 64 10 p.m. 65 11 p.m. 65
12 M. 66 1 a.m. 66 2 a.m. 66
3 a.m. 66 4 a.m. 66 5 a.m. 66
6 a.m. 66 7 a.m. 66 8 a.m. 66
9 a.m. 67 10 a.m. 71 11 a.m. 74
Forecast
Mostly cloudy and warm with
scattered showers and thunder-
storms, a few locally severe
today. Decreasing cloudiness
and cooler with thunderstorms
ending early tonight. Clear to
partly cloudy and mild Sunday.
South to southwesterly winds 10
to 20 mph today shifting to north
westerly late today. Northerly
winds 10 to 20 mph tonight and
Sunday. High this afternoon
near 80. Low tonight upper 40s.
High Sunday low 70s. Probabil-
ity of precipitation is 60 percent
today and 20 percent early
tonight.
Temperatures for the 24-hour
period ending at 11 a.m. Satur-
day were: High 74, low 59. Tem-
peratures for the 24-hour period
ending at 11 a.m. a year ago:
High 65, low 44.
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