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‘If You Would Avoid Criticism, Say Nothing, Do Nothing and Be Nothing'
COOPERATION
MAKES
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PROJECTS A
SUCCESS
The Perry Daily Journal 9
• (USPS 4 28 280) •
90th Year — No. 10
Friday, Feb. 18, 1983
(UPI) Means United Press International
Perry, Oklahoma
Your Home Newspaper
20 cents
Streets
On Square
Cleaned
Crews from the city street
department and fire depart-
ment teamed up Thursday night
to do some extra cleaning work
around the Perry square.
The idea of the operation as to
pickup large chunks of dirt that
have fallen from cars and
trucks and to flush away much
of the sand and silt that followed
the melting snow earlier this
month.
"We didn’t get them (the
streets) as clean as we would
like, but we did get much of the
dirt," said Charlie Nida, city
street commissioner.
A crew of six men from the
street department and six more
from the fire department work-
ed in the downtown area from
11:30 p.m. Thursday until about
4 a.m. Friday.
Firemen used two rural fire
trucks to pump water to flush
away dirt and sand. Street
department men used the street
sweeper and trucks along with
shovels in some cases to break
loose packed earth on pave-
ment.
Men serving in the work chore
from the fire department were
David Hatfield, Joe Murray,
David Henry, Emory Mosely,
Bill Case and David Brandon.
Street department men working
on the project were Charlie
Nida, Daniel (Cotton) Turner,
Lloyd Keith, Floyd Keith, Char-
lie Potter and Tom Collins.
HOSPITAL
NOTES
(Perry Memorial visiting hours,
19 p.m.)
Perry Memorial
Jason Cunningham and Amy
Cunningham, brother and sister
of Tonkawa, admitted Friday
for surgery.
Mrs. Susan Heppler, 321
Cedar street, admitted Thurs-
day for medical treatment.
Lisa Hise, 916 Holly street,
admitted Thursday for surgery.
Mrs. Kathryn M. Foster, 708
Ivanhoe street, dismissed Fri-
day.
Mrs. Bessie Tearney, 1321
Cedar street, dismissed Thurs-
day.
Enid St. Mary's
A daughter, weighing 9
pounds, 15 ounces, was born to
Mr. and Mrs. Brad Loesch,
Covington.
PADRES ANNOUNCED
SAN DIEGO (UPI) - The
San Diego Padres Tuesday
announced they have reached
agreement on a new contract
with third baseman Luis
Salazar. Terms of the contract
were not disclosed.
Salazar came to San Diego in
a trade with the Pittsburgh
Pirates in August of 1980.
Coming Events
Friday, Feb. 18 - Come-and-
go open house "thank-you"
reception honoring Bob and Eva
Henry, 7-9 p.m., Perry Golf and
Country club clubhouse.
Saturday, Feb. 19 — Cherokee
lodge No. 123, regular meeting,
7 p.m., New Prospect Baptist
church.
Tuesday, Feb. 22 — Pack six
Cub Scouts annual Blue and
Gold banquet, 7 p.m., Catholic
parish hall.
Tuesday, Feb. 22 — Noble
County Republican Women, an-
nual planning session, 10 a.m.,
Cherokee Strip Restaurant.
Thursday, Feb. 24 — Noble
County Democrat Women, reg-
ular dinner meeting, 6:30 p.m.,
Ellis-Jirous American Legion
hall.
Friday, Feb. 25 — Friendly
Community Fellowship, regular
meeting, 10:40 a.m.-3 p.m.,
Methodist youth building. Sack
lunch at noon — public invited.
Tuesday, March 1 — Quarter-
ly luncheon meeting of Perry
Chamber of Commerce, 12
noon. Cherokee Strip Restaur-
ant.
Thursday, March 17 — An-
nual dinner meeting of Chero-
kee Strip Historical society, 7
p.m., Cherokee Strip Restaur-
ant.
By GLENN BLACKMON
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPI)
- A federal judge advised
Missouri farmer Wayne Cryts
to bring his financial records to
court if he is to avoid having to
pay a $287,000 judgment for
contempt of court.
Cryts, who took 31,000 bushels
of soybeans in a raid on a
bankrupt grain elevator two
years ago, returned to court
Thursday to defend himself on
civil contempt charges levied
against him by a federal
bankruptcy judge.
Cryts was jailed for 34 days
last summer for refusing to
cooperate with federal Bank-
ruptcy Judge Charles Baker,
and U.S. District Judge G.
Thomas Eisele Thursday ad-
vised Cryts his attitude during
the hearing would be "impor-
tant" to its outcome.
Eisele is hearing the case
because he vacated Baker's
contempt order. Eisele said
Baker had exceeded his powers
but also said he would consider
reinstating the $287,000 judg-
ment Baker levied.
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GETTING INTO ACTION FRIDAY afternoon at the regional
wrestling tournament at Clinton is this Perry Maroon team
coached by Fred Waltermore. The tournament continues
through Saturday. Front row, left to right, Kenneth Frank, 136
pounds: Lawrence Vester, 130; Ryan Finley, 123; Delbert Swan,
115; Mike Dale, 108; and Bruce Avants, 101 Standing, J. B. Wal-
termire. 141; Tony Cook, 148; Eddie Johnson, 157; Kevin
McPherson, 168; Richard Agee, 178: Corky Vick, 190; and Mark
Baetz, heavyweight.
Billings FFA Plans
Week Of Activities
The Billings chapter of Fu-
ture Farmers of America will
be active in observance of
national FFA week, Feb. 20-26,
according to Chris Hurst, Bil-
lings FFA chapter reporter.
George Washington’s birth-
day is considered part of FFA
week and the first President is
considered patron saint of FFA.
Tickets On Sale For
Benefit Cage Game
Tickets are available at several places in the city for
the "game of the year" featuring members of the
Perry schools faculty playing the Harlem Entertainers
in basketball, March 15 at 7:30 p.m. at John Divine
hall.
The Harlem Entertainers put on a show somewhat
like the Harlem Globetrotters. Jerry Hill, Perry high
school football coach heading up arrangements, said
proceeds will be used to buy equipment for use at the
new athletic tract at the stadium.
Tickets are $3 each for adults and $2 for students.
Purchases may be made at the Exchange Bank &
Trust Co., First National Bank & Trust Co., Foster
Corner Drug, Sport Shak and at the high school and
junior high.
Coach Hill said complete roster of the faculty team
has not been put together. He said some women
volunteers from the faculty are being sought to serve
as cheerleaders and for possible nurse duty. A doctor
may be requested to be on hand in case some faculty
player "runs out of steam," Coach Hill said.
Judge Orders Cryts
To Produce Records
"I want you to discuss with
your attorney providing an
accounting of the money" from
the sale of the stolen beans,"
Eisele told Cryts as the farmer
concluded three hours of
testimony.
Cryts' attorney said they
would have his accountant at
the hearing when it continues
today.
During the first day of a
contempt hearing Thursday,
Eisele accepted Cryts' refusal
to answer questions about who
helped him raid the elevator
two years ago and who sold the
beans for him. It was a similar
refusal last summer that
prompted Baker to jail Cryts.
While Cryts was on the stand
he acknowledged he received
more than $10 a bushel for the
soybeans he took from the
elevator when the market price
for those beans was closer to $6
a bushel.
Cryts, 36, of Puxico, Mo., also
said he knew when he took the
beans that he faced civil and
criminal charges for his actons.
[continued on pg. 12]
Organized in 1928, FFA pro-
motes leadership, cooperation,
and citizenship among high
school students of vocational
agriculture.
Members of the Billings FFA
chapter will attend churches of
their choice Sunday to launch
the week of activities. On Mon-
day, FFA members will wear
official organization dress to
school and freshman class
greenhand FFA members will
distribute "I Promote FFA"
buttons to students, faculty
members and business people.
A coloring contest is planned
Tuesday for boys and girls of
kindergarten through the fifth
grade in three divisions. Cash
prizes will be awarded winners.
FFA members will drive trac-
tors to school Tuesday.
Wednesday from 9 to 11 a.m.,
the FFA chapter will operate a
petting farm at the community
building so children can see and
pet small animals. Also, there
will be slide film presentations
for grade school and junior high
students.
Thursday FFA will sponsor a
poster contest for students of
grades six through eight with
cash prizes to be awarded and
will host a cook-out for high
school students and members of
the Billings school faculty at the
vocational agriculture building.
Next Friday, Feb. 25, will
mark the opening of the Billings
community livestock show to
run through Feb. 28.
Study Club
Fashion Show
Is March 21
"Spring Garden of Fashion"
is the theme for the 1983 Perry
Study club style show planned
for 8 p.m. Monday, March 21, at
the Catholic parish hall.
Ticket sales will be limited to
250. The event will include a
dessert buffet and door prizes.
General co-chairmen are Vir-
ginia Gengler and Sharon wise.
In charge of publicity and
tickets will be Laura Kemnitz,
chairman, and Doris Bridal and
Lavonne Niles; programs, Jua-
nita Bolay, chairman, and Lu-
anna Albright, Lois Edmundson
and Joan Endicott; script, Gina
Golay, chairman, and Earline
Cockrum, Betty Ripley, Linda
Dreyer, and Marilee Macias.
Decorations, Gemma Austin,
chairman; and Jean Emde,
Juana Hall, Delsie Seat, Sherry
Theobald, Twyla Zorba and
Karen Wilcox; food, Dor '
Powers, chairman, and asso-
ciate members; and backstage
coordinators, Doris Bridal and
Anne Raupe.
ROD HOPKINS HURT
IN STATION MISHAP
Rod Hopkins, southwest of
Perry, was injured, apparently
not seriously, in an accident at
*pproximately 10 a.m. Friday
at EJ’s Texaco Service station
at Sooners Corner.
The mishap occurred when a
truck tire was being aired up.
Hopkins, a visitor who was
standing near the airing oper-
ation, was struck in the chest as
a rim popped off from pressure.
A fire department ambulance
made a run to the scene, but
Hopkins did not seek medical
assistance.
JIM LITTLES ARE
PARENTS OF DAUGHTER
Chaplain and Mrs. Jim Little,
Lawton, formerly of Perry, are
parents of a daughter, weighing
7 pounds, 13 ounces, born at 8:30
a.m. Thursday at the Lawton
hospital.
The infant has been named
Lindsey Ann. The Littles also
are parents of another daugh-
ter, Jennifer, 6; and a son,
Jimmy, 4. Mrs. Little is the
former Sandy Musick of Perry.
Little is a former pastor of Zion
Lutheran church, east of Perry,
and now serves at Ft. Sill.
Maternal grandmother is
Mrs. Leona Musick, 1921 North
Sixth street. Mr. and Mrs. Emil
Beier Sr., route three. Perry,
are maternal great-grandpar-
ents.
MT. OLIVE AME SETS
SUNDAY SERVICE
Members of Mt. Olive, AME
church, 520 Grove street, will
have a Founders Day service at
3 30 p.m. Sunday at the church.
Rev. E. Haynes, pastor of the
C onners Chapel AME church at
Ponca City, will be guest speak-
er. Singing at the service will be
the 24 memer Conners chapel
choir.
The public is invited. Nancy
R. Newton is pastor of the city
< hurch.
JOE MURRAY ATTENDS
UNDERWATER CLASSES
Perry fire department lieu-
tenant, Joe Murray, is attend-
ing a self-contained underwater
breathing apparatus school at
the Edmond YMCA.
He is in class Monday eve-
nings and has seven more
weeks to go. Those successfully
completing training are certi-
fied as divers. Lt. Mike Hayes,
also a member of the Perry fire
department, previously has
completed this type training
and is a certified diver
FOLTZ TO INSTRUCT
IN HUNTER SAFETY
Delbert Foltz, Noble county
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Three State Schools
Get Critical Review
Bv HARRY CULVER
OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI)
A sharply critical review of
Oklahoma’s three state schools
for the retarded is being viewed
as a positive means for
improvement, an aide to
Welfare Director Henry Bellm-
on says.
The report, by Thomas F.
Sullivan, vice president of the
Biomanagement Corporation of
Watertown, Massachusetts,
recommended an overhaul of
treatment methods and an
eventual reduction of patients
at the three schools located in
Enid, Pauls Valley and Sand
Springs.
The report said the three
schools are in danger of losing
federal funds for failure to
comply with certain standards
and listed five critical problem
areas:
One — Excessive use of
medication, such as tranquilizer
drugs.
Two - Need for deinstitu
tionalization, that is community
treatment rather than in
institutions.
Three Better staff training.
Four - Legal authority for
the state to provide institutional
care for mentally retarded
students 18 and older
Five Service needs of the
retarded placed in nursing
homes.
Sam Armstrong, an aide to
Welfare Director Henry Bell-
mon, said the agency welcomes
the information.
"We feel," the Bellmon aide
said, "that the report although
critical is also positive. While
department officials are still
reviewing the document, it
appears there are several
things that may need im-
plementation as soon as possi-
ble. Senator Bellmon has
instructed his staffers involved
in this area to consider making
any alterations available."
Armstrong noted that the
study had been requested by
former Welfare Director Lloyd
Rader, who retired Dec. 31
after 31 years in the position.
"So it makes it kind of an
internal audit of our agency,"
Armstrong continued. "For this
reason we are pleased with its
content."
"So it is not just a case of
someone else looking at us and
saying we are bad," Armstrong
continued. "We wanted our-
selves looked at."
Armstrong noted that while
the report was generally
critical that it "has high praise
for the staff workers at the
institution."
Other key findings and
recommendations in the report:
Staffing: All three institu-
WHIC H ONE TO CHOOSE is on the mind of J. B Waltermire, left, Perry high school senior as he
confers with Dr. Mac McCrory, retired Air Force Captain, who does Air Force Liason work
Waltermire has passed testing and been accepted for admittance at both the U.S. Air Force
academy and the U.S. Naval academy The son of Mr and Mrs Fred Waltermire, southwest of
Perry, Waltermire has not made up his mind which one of the academies he wants to attend
(Staff photo.)
tions are understaffed, both as
to professional and other help.
Active treatment plans
suffer because of staff short-
ages and inexperience.
A high percentage of
residents at all three schools
have been placed on tranquiliz-
er and anti-convulsant drugs.
Samples showed 70 percent
were on such drugs at Enid and
Hissom and 50 percent at Pauls
Valley Large numbers were
found to be receiving anti-
convuslant drugs when their
records indicated they had been
seizure-free for periods of six
months to seven years.
"It appeared that in the
absence of adequate resources
to implement active treatment
plans and confronted with the
need to minimize disruptive
behavior from residents, these
schools have substituted medi-
cation for the purpose of
controlling resident behavior
for program activities which
would develop resident skills."
Medical staffs are dedicat-
ed but large numbers of
physicians consist of foreign-
born and foreign-trained doc-
tors who are limited to practice
within the institutions and who
are likely to have communica-
tion problems.
"Medical records did not
follow present day problem-
oriented style. The medical
charts revealed significant
clinical omissions in initial and
subsequent histories and physi-
cals."
. The state office must take
the lead in development of
standardized policies and proce-
dures for the provisions of
services to the retarded "
New admissions and
readmissions should be limited.
Community alternatives should
be developed for care.
Recent studies have shown
the cost of a community-based
care system is lower than with
institutions.
Staff members at Ok-
lahoma Children’s Memorial
Hospital should assume a
leadership role in medical
programs at the three retarded
schools.
The three retarded schools
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Weekdays 6 to 6:30
Saturday 3 to 3:30
Government
Offices, Banks
Close Monday
Both Perry banks and gov-
ernment agency offices will
close Monday in observance of
the birthday of George Wash-
ington.
The birthday actually is Tues-
day, Feb. 22, but will be ob-
served on Monday following two
days off Saturday and Sunday
Retail businesses and private
offices will operate Monday.
The post office will be closed
Monday. There will be no
window service at the post
office and no regular mail
deliveries after Saturday until
Tuesday.
Also closing Monday will be
offices in the Noble county
courthouse, state and federal
offices. City Hall will be open
for business Monday
CUBS PURCHASED
CHICAGO (UPI) - The
Chicago Cubs Tuesday pur-
chased the contract of right-
handed pitcher Sandy Wihtol,
27, from the Cleveland Indians.
Wihtol was put on the Cubs’
40-man roster, bringing the club
up to 39 players.
EWeather
Temperatures for the 24-hour
period ending at 11 a.m. Friday.
12 N. 54 1 p.m. 54 2 p.m. 56
3 p.m. 59 4 p.m. 58 5 p.m. 58
6 p.m. 57 7 p.m. 54 8 p.m. 52
9 p.m. 49 10 p.m. 46 11 p.m. 45
12 M. 44 1 a.m. 45 2 a.m. 45
3 a.m. 45 4 a.m. 43 5 a.m. 41
6 a.m. 37 7 a.m. 37 8 a.m. 37
9 a.m. 38 10 a.m. 48 11 a.m. 59
Forecast
Decreasing cloudiness be-
coming mostly fair this after-
noon with a high in the upper
60s. Light southerly winds.
Partly cloudy and mild tonight
with a low in the mid 40s. South-
erly winds 5 to 15 mph. Partly
cloudy Saturday with a 20
percent chance of showers.
High in the low to mid 70s.
The extended forecast calls
for clearing and cooler Sunday,
then mostly fair and mild
Mondayand Tuesday. Highs
should be mainly in the 50s, with
lows from the mid 20s in the
Panhandle to the upper 30s in
the southeast.
Temperatures for the 24-hour
period ending at 11 a.m. Friday
were: High 59, low 41. Temper-
atures for the 24-hour period
ending at 11 a.m. a year ago:
High 61, low 30.
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Watson, Milo W. The Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 90, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, February 18, 1983, newspaper, February 18, 1983; Perry, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2253680/m1/1/?q=War+of+the+Rebellion.: accessed July 6, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.