The Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 90, No. 301, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 28, 1984 Page: 1 of 10
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OKLAHOMA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
OKLAHOMA CITY 5, OK. 73105
Space Station
To Maintain
US Leadership
Kristye Garrett
Queen
Ryan Finley
Escort
Jacqueline Lange
Attendant
Kevin McPherson
Escort
Sharlotte Forest
Attendant
Lawrence Vester
Escort
Kristye Garrett Coronation Tuesday
Kristye Garrett, a junior, will be crowned Perry high school
wrestling queen for 1984-85 in a ceremony beginning at 7 p.m.
Tuesday at John Divine hall.
The ceremony will be between junior varsity high school and
the Perry Maroon wrestling matches. The Perry mat squads will
host Sand Springs. The JV wrestling will begin at approximately
6:30 p.m.
The queen has been ill at home the past week because of
chickenpox. She is improving and hopes to be able to participate
in the ceremonies. Miss Garrett is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Gene Briegge, 122 Skyline, and Mr and Mrs. Ken Garrett, Still-
water. She will be crowned by the wrestling team captain, Ryan
Finley, a senior, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Finley, 1112 Elm street.
The ceremony will include two attendants and two escorts
One of the attendants is Jacqueline Lang, senior, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. James Lange, route 3, Stillwater. The other will be
Sharlotte Forest, a junior, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl For-
est, 206 Birch street.
An escort will be Kevin McPherson, senior, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Carl McPherson, 407 Ivanhoe street, the other will be
Lawrence Vester, senior, son of Mr and Mrs. Lawrence Vester,
335 Ivanhoe street.
Over the Rainbow,” is the theme song for the coronation.
With a PHS band ensemble providing music. Serving as pages will
be Kerrye Garrett, daughter of Mr and Mrs Gene Briegge and
Mr. and Mrs. Ken Garrett, and Deena Briegge, daughter of Mr
and Mrs. Gene Briegge and Mrs. Bird Stodola.
w Program attendants will be Stacy Cook, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Cotton Cook, and Kim Forest, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Carl
F Forest. Gift bearer will be Stephenie Randall, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Steve Randall, and crown bearer will be Erik Edgar
son of Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Edgar.
Also taking part in the ceremony will be the past year’s queen
Francie Byers, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Pete Byers.
,f You Would Avoid Criticism, Say Nothing, Do Nothing and Be Nothing'
The Perry Daily Journal
_ • (USPS 4 28 280) • +.
90th Year — No. 301
Saturday, Jan. 28, 1984 (UPI) Means United Press International
Your Home Newspaper
20 cents
Activities Are
Planned Ahead
For Camp Fire
Upcoming events were dis-
cussed Thursday evening at a
meeting of the Perry Camp Fire
Leaders Association at the Camp
Fire office.
Among topics of discussion
briefly
stated...
perry
LILA BAY HONORED
AT BIRTHDAY EVENT
were a mother-daughter fun
bingo event; National Camp Fire ____________
Week, the father-daughter ban- sistant at Perry Nursing home,
quet, a bicycle rodeo, and an was guest of honor Thursday at
Oklahoma City Zoo day. a surprise birthday party held at
The mother-daughter bingo the home.
event will be held from 6:30-8:30 Decorated birthday cake, cof-
p.m. Monday, Feb. 6, at the fee and tea were served to resi-
Charles Machine Works audi- dents, employes and guests. Mrs.
torium. Refreshments will be Bay received three floral bou-
served and each youth present quets as gifts from the employes,
will receive a prize. Those need- ___
Lila Bay, administrative as-
ing further information may
telephone Virginia Slaton,
336-96674, or Diana Noteware,
336-5458. Jerry Hill will be a featured
The annual recognition of Na- speaker for the region two foot-
tional Camp Fire Week will be ball coaches clinic Saturday,
March 11-17. The Bubble Gum Feb. II, at Cushing.
Bluebirds and the 0 Ki Zu Ad- He will present a discussion
venture group will plant redbud about “The Perry Football Pro-
trees in locations to be gram" and its successes the past
announced, two years.
The annual father-daughter
banquet will be held in March.
Time, date and location has not
yet been decided. Each group
will provide some entertainment
for the event that will have a
Western Round-Up theme. All
decorations and entertainment
will center on the theme.
Deadline will be March 1 for
reporting the number of persons
planning to attend and the type
of entertainment for each group.
Reports should be made to the
Camp Fire office. Those with
questions concerning the ban-
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COACH HILL TO
SPEAK IN CVSHING
Perry Maroon football coach
MARRIAGE PERMIT
ISSUED ONE COUPLE
One marriage license was
issued the past week in the office
of Mrs. Vicky Maine, court clerk.
The permit went to Steven
Wayne Hubbard and Christenia
Raye Pool, both of Billings.
LISTENING TO A SKILLED CRAFTSMAN play one of the violins
he has built are employes at Cooper Motor Co., where Bob Cox
Glencoe, stopped for a friendly visit this week. Cox makes his own’
violins, which are of excellent quality, and enjoys playing them
for pleasure of himself, his family and friends. Left to right Ron
Hamann, Sam C. Brown, Robert (Bob) Cox, playing a tune on his
violin, and Tracy J. Brown. (Staff photo.)
Coming Events
Tuesday, Feb. 7 — Free blood
pressure clinic, 9-11 a.m., Perry
Senior Citizens center.
LIBRARY OFFERS
FEDERAL TAX FORMS
Perry Carnegie Library has
received complete sets of repro-
ducible Federal Income Tax
forms from the Internal Revenue
Service.
The forms may be duplicated
on the copying machine at the
library at a cost of 15 cents per
copy.
Also, tax publications, 15, 17,
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Violin Craftsman Shows
SUNDAY
church services...
Lighthouse Christian center — Morning worship, 10:15 a.m.
First United Methodist church — Morning worship, 10:50 a.m Sermon, “Waiting
in the Dark - Alone - Part II."
First Presbyterian church — Morning worship, 10:30 a.m. A member of the Gi-
deons will be speaker
Church at the Nazarene — Morning worship, 10:10 a.m. Sermon, “Just for God."
Abundant Life Fellowship Pentecostal Church of God — Morning worship, 11
a.m.
St. Mark's Episcopal church — Morning worship, 11 a.m.
St. Rose of Lima Catholic church — Masses, 5:30 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.
Sunday
Christ Lutheran church — Morning worship, 8 30 a.m.
Zion Lutheran church — Morning worship, 9 a.m.
CLerch of Christ — Morning worship, 10 a.m.
Assembly of God church — Morning worship, 10:50 a.m.
Calvary Baptist church — Morning worship, 10:50 a.m.
First Baptist church — Morning worship, 10:45 a.m. Rev Bobby Lee, former
pastor, will be guest speaker
Grace Baptist church — Morning worship, 10:45 a.m.
First Christian church — Morning worship, 10:15 a.m Sermon, “Love and
Hate"
Product To Perry Friends
Robert Cox, who lives has no trouble sounding out cor- Some Stradivarius violins are
southeast of Morrison or two rect notes of almost any tune worth a half million dollars. He
miles north and two and a half The violin he brought with him buys strings and bows usedin the
Cilencoes sarong the was accented with mother of violins. Cox has lived near Glen-
few precision craftsmen still pearl and has a pearl cross, and coe since 1951. He served with the
making violins.. outlined with special inlaid 96th division in World War II with
The instruments are of excel- markings. Inside the violin are a medical unit in the Pacific area
lent quality and finish andleach inscribed R. Cox and the date the of operations. He served in the
has special designs crafted into violin was made. He completed Phillippine Islands and in the
wood, the instrument he brought to battle for Okinawa
I never could play good Perry a year ago. Cox said it takes him 120 to 125
enough for a concert, but I like He started making violins back hours to make a violin and the
to play for my own enjoyment in the 1940s and stopped building use of about $150 worth of
and that of a few friends, said them after World War II. He materials.
Cox, who is a retired carpenter didn’t make any violins for 28 Cox has made a violin for each
living on a farm. , . years as he searched for the of his three daughters. The mas-
The back, sides and neck are plans and specifications believ- terpieces of workmanship have
made of curly maple wood and ed to have been used in the been given to Mrs. Dave (Mar-
the top is of silver spruce all manufacture of Stradivarius garet) Henderson, Glencoe; Mrs.
specially imported from violins. He did locate specifica- Bob (Debbie) Brown, Stillwater;
Germany.... . tions and resumed making and Mrs. Jesse (Diane) James,
Cox was in Perry this week violins in the middle 1970s. In all, Glencoe, Cox has sold violins to
with one of his violins and played Cox has made 25 to 30. people as far away as California,
for his friends employed at the Like automobile dealers, he Texas and Colorado He plans to
Cooper Motor Co. The entire has a book showing the "book make a few more during his
work force stopped for a time to price" of their products, but his lifetime.
talk with Cox and listen to him book shows prices at which In addition, Cox makes his own
play. # don’t know a note of hand made violins are valued tools to craft the violins just the
music, said Cox, who plays by His violins in the book are listed way he wants them
ear and always has. He plays the at a value of $3,000. However, he
violin in sharp clear tones and sells his products for $750 to $800
By AL ROSSITER JR. more easily
wAUPl Science Editor"The only reason to put "^
WASHINGTON (UPI) - De- into space is that some people
spite steady advances in the at NASA believe it’s easier to
Soviet space station program, sell the program to the public if
the head of the U.S. space they’ve got a Buck Rogers out
agency says the space base there flying around the stars ”
President Reagan wants to Eshleman said.
build will keep Americans a "Because of the enormous
decade ahead of the Russians, cost of putting men up there
’Our technology is better that’s all we’ll get for the
than theirs,” James Beggs said money. If we could use
Thursday. robotics, that same money
Die Soviet Union now has the could be used to develop the
seventh in a series of two-man technology that would allow us
Salyut space stat'ons in orbit to really begin exploring the
with a new crew expected to be universe,” he said
launched soon. Beggs said the Eshleman’s views are shared
Soviets have announced they by pioneer space scientist
are working toward establish- James Van AUen discoverer of
ing a 10-to 20-man station by the Van Allen Radiation Belt
the second half of this decade. "The conduct of work done
But he said Russia still has by manned spacecraft is
not yet operated a reusable enormously inefficient,” the
transport like NASA’s space University of Iowa astronomer
shuttle to ferry men and said. “Using automated space-
supplies to a space station, craft we could do a great deal
"They've announced as well more in planetary exploration
that they intend to do that, and a better job.”
We’ll see how soon they come
on line with that. We know that *
takes a lot of work and a lot of Assessor In
effort. 1 -
"I feel that once we get our Lucien I uesday
very highly automated system
up, which contains lots of new The annual Noble county com-
technology, that we will be far munity tax assessment tour will
ahead of them,” Beggs said come to an end Tuesday
Some top scientsts, however, Mrs. Kathy Lewis, county as-
questioned the need — and the sessor, will visit Lucien to meet
cost — for a manned space with owners of property in the
station, town of Lucien and in the town-
Dr. Von R. Eshleman, head ships of Oakdale and Warren
of the Stanford University Valley. She will headquarter
Center for Radar Astronomy, at C&M Gas and Service in
said NASA chose a manned Lucien.
station primarily because it
could be "sold" to the people
REACT To End
With Meeting
Monday Night
Noble County REACT will end
its service to the local communi-
ty following the final meeting of
the organization set for 7 p.m.
Monday at the Perry police
station.
Current and former members
of the REACT team have been
asked to attend to help determine
final disposition of equipment
owned by the organization.
The local REACT team was or-
ganized in January, 1977 to pro-
vide round the clock' monitoring
of citizens band radio channel
nine to provide emergency com-
munications for stranded motor-
ists and others needing
assistance.
Membership has dwindled
from a high on 48 members to
this year's low of 13. Four
members have been active in the
organization the entire seven
years.
Those who have been unable to
meet with the assessor on the
community tour this month
should report their property for
tax assessment on or before
March 15 at the assessor's office
on the second floor of the
courthouse.
gaWeafher
Hospital Notes
Perry Memorial
Dismissed Friday: Lois Shaf-
fer, 223 Ash street, and Mrs.
David Griffin and infant
daughter, Sage Nichole, 725
Delaware street.
A son, weighing 7 pounds. 9
ounces, was born at 8:38 p m.
Friday to Mr. and Mrs. Randy
Treiner. 1016 Hillside. The infant
has been named Benjamin Carl.
Enid Memorial
Annie Roberts, Covington,
admitted.
Temperatures for the 24-hour
period ending at 11 a.m. Sat-
urday.
12 N. 32 1 p.m. 33 2 p.m. 36
3 p.m. 40 4 p.m. 43 5 p.m. 40
6 p.m. 37 7 p.m. 34 8 p.m. 32
9 p.m. 30 10 p.m. 30 11 p.m. 32
12 M. 32 1 a.m. 32 2 a.m. 32
3 a.m. 32 4 a.m. 33 5 a.m. 32
6 a.m. 31 7 a.m. 32 8 a.m. 32
9 a.m. 34 10 a.m. 30 11 a.m. 38
Forecast
Today partly cloudy and
warmer with a high near M
Southwest winds 5 to 15 mph
becoming northwesterly during
the afternoon. Tonight fair and
cold with a low in the upper 20s.
Sunday fair and warmer with a
high in the mid 60s.
The extended forecast for
Oklahoma calls for clear to part-
ly cloudy Monday through Wed-
nesday with cooler temperatures
Monday and a warming trend
Tuesday and Wednesday. Highs
are to be in the 40s and low 50s
Monday and warm to the upper
50s and low 60s by Wednesday.
Lows Monday and Tuesday
should be mainly in the 20s and
Wednesday’s lows are to be in
the lower and middle 30s.
Temperatures for the 24-hour
period ending at 11 a.m. Satur-
day were: high 43 low 31. Tem-
peratures for the 24-hour period
ending at 11 a.m. a year ago:
high 40 low 26.
Two Added To Health Staff
She rry Classen, Perry, and
Jeff Bush, Stillwater, are recent
employes of the Noble County
Health Department.
Mrs. Classen is the public
health nurse at the facility and
Mrs Classen
Bush
Bush is environmental specialist.
Mrs. Classen succeeds Pat
Boyer, who was transferred to
Cushing, and Bush succeeds
Jody Henneke, who was transfer-
red to Enid.
Mrs. Classen, a registered
nurse, her husband, Mark, and
their son, Joshua, one and one-
half years old, moved to Perry in
late September. Classen is assis-
tant manager of the Farmers
Cooperative Exchange in Perry.
Originally from Newton, Kan.,
the Classens moved to Perry
from Missouri. Mrs. Classen is a
graduate of the University of
Arkansas at Fayetteville. Her
duties at the local health depart-
ment facility will include work-
ing with the WIC (Women, In-
fants and Children) program,
giving immunizations and work
with home health care, family
service nurse visitation, the
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