The Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 117, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 27, 1996 Page: 1 of 10
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“If You Would Avoid Criticism, Say Nothing, Do Nothing and Be Nothing"
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By FRED G. BEERS 103rd Year — No. 117
As Mayor Hollingsworth pointed out the other day, Okla- "__
homa towns and cities already have plenty of problems to deal
with because of unfunded state mandates and inadequate rev- -----
enues. They don't need little unexpected emergencies as Still- 03-9=9-=== 5
water is now experiencing.
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Our friends over there in the Payne county capital began
noticing an unpleasant taste in their drinking water this
week after a mechanical failure occurred in their processing
plant. The ozone disinfector, which I understand is used pri-
marily to neutralize the flavor and aroma of their water,
went totally kablooey and the expected result was something
not too pleasant. Now patience is being asked of customers
while a fix is awaited. A new part has to be manufactured, and
it will be an estimated four weeks before the replacement ar-
rives.
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It's easy for us to sympathize with our neighbors over there.
Folks hereabouts are used to the distinctive flavor which de-
velops in our local system almost every summer. They say the
lake bed out at Lake Perry "turns over" when the surface is
heated by the sun's rays, and this has some disturbing effect
on the algae. The net result is some rather smelly water spout-
ing from home spigots. We have almost become accustomed
to it by now. Wonder if we have an ozone disinfector?
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Web worms are showing up now in pecan trees and oth-
er varieties around Perry and in the rural areas. They need to
be stopped early or they will destroy many decorative and
valuable specimens in this area. Your nurseryman can rec-
ommend a spray or other course of action. Best remedy I’ve
heard is to cut out the infected branches and burn them. If the
worms are not destroyed, they will move on to other areas.
Speaking of trees, motorists who travel along 1-35 a few
miles south of Perry have been noticing a foliage phenome-
non of sorts lately. A few weeks ago locust trees lining the
highways, mostly on the west side, turned from their normal
dark green hue to a most unusual, but beautiful, golden color.
They looked very much like rain trees, not common old lo-
custs. Then the color began fading and now the leaves are
all a brownish, dead color. Other trees in the vicinity appear
to be unaffected.
THE CITY OF MORRISON purchased equipment for the new Noble County sheriffs
department car assigned to Raymond Henry, undersheriff. This included the two-way ra-
dio, sirens, lights, console, antennas and insignias, worth more than $1,000. All four of the
new sheriff department cars were purchased by Sheriff Jerry Cook with monies saved over
the past six years through sheriffs fees accumulated from serving papers, etc., saving
Noble countyans many tax dollars. Henry, left, receives a check from Rick McSwain, a
member of the Morrison town board of trustees. Not pictured are Bob Ringwald, mayor,
and John Chatburn, also a town board member. Henry's car is used throughout the coun-
ty, not just in the Morrison area, thus the donation benefits all countyans. Henry will be
honored at an appreciation event at Morrison beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday. (Staff photo.)
Morrison Prepares
Several opinions have been ventured as to the cause, with OT INCyI I IOI IC TICATY
our current drought the most obvious possibility, though not • •
all trees are going through the metamorphosis. The most log- A . . _■ 1 . A. I ■ -
ical explanation I’ve heard is that an aerial crop duster’s sprayTAFOAIATIO T416AT
drifted onto the tree limbs and transformed them. The hope is TE W/IC CIVE I 1 ulg-l 1 *
that only this year’s foliage is suffering and the trees will branch ■■ S
out fully once again next spring Morrison community will be alive with ac- Auto Repair and Perry Wrecker Service. has
„ .tivity Saturday evening for Raymond Henry donated a new set of tires. The winner will be
Pump prices for gasoline in Perry service stations are on Appreciation Night. able to choose between a new set of car tires
the decline this week, just before the Fourth of July holiday. A feed will be served from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. or pickup truck tires, Bamcksaid.
Best I ve seen is $1.09 per gallon for regular unleaded, down at the new fire station building. Open house Barrick explained earlier Henry always has
about a nickel. No telling where the trend will head next. is planned at the fire station building. A dance been available to give a helping hand to Mor-
. is set10 begin around 8:30 P m Saturday at rison communitv. In event there is a prob-
6 The other day a news report stated that a long-distance ca- the community building. This event will run lem at a home or business, Henry has re -
biehad been cut north of Guthrie, affecting service in sever- until midnight sponded immediately to do what he could to
al cities in this area. As usual, the story blamed a machine for Raymond Henry is a Morrison resident now assist, Barrick said.
the problem. Butletsremember that the machine doesn’t serving as Noble county undersheriff. He is This appreciation night is not a promotion
operate itself. Whatever cut the cable wasn the machine’s retired from service as an Oklahoma highway of a small group. A large number of people of
fault, any more than misspelled words in this column are the patrolman. He was stationed at Morrison sev- the community will help out Saturday evening
fault of my computer. I m the perpetrator, not the machine. I eral years before his retirement, carrying out many chores.
operate the keyboard and control what goes into it. A machine Proceeds from the activities Saturday will Tickets are available for $5 each for the meal
operator, not the machine, is at fault when a cable is cut. go to a fund to help Henrywith some large and S5 for the dance. Also there are $2 tick-
—fgb medical bills incurred over the past months ets for a drawing for a S200 Wal-Mart shop-
for treatment of illness. Henry now is back at ping certificate.
n work serving the sheriff’s department. InPerry, tickets may be purchased at The
OuITY111UI d I b Dan Barrick, who has been handling many Perry Daily Journal, Powers Abstract, at the
• of the details for the appreciation night, said office of the county clerk or at the sheriffs of-
F . a new door prize feature has been added. As fice. Nearly all businesses in Morrison have
KCluriila Home a door prize, Loyd Hughes, operator of Perry tickets for sale.
Sheriff Jerry Cook and Jail- jail before being identified by
er Marsha Moritz were to re- the FBI as a suspect in the
Bombing Victims Ordered
From Denver Courtroom
By SANDY SHORE ershad been making on their warrants that Nichols was not
Associated Press Writer farm. Langenburg in turn told a flight risk.
DENVER (AP) — De- police, who had been inves- Tigar’s questions were part
fense attorneys are chal- tigating the brothers since of a broader attempt tocon-
lenging warrants issued to 1994. vince Matsch that federal
gather crucial evidence in the Bombing investigators agents mishandled key parts
Oklahoma City bombing quickly arranged an interview of the investigation,
case, say i ng authorities with Langenburg at 9 a.m. on McVeigh’s attorneys argued
botched the process and vio- April 21,1995. Terry Nichols that evidence taken from their
lated their clients’ rights. turned himself in to police client’s clothing should be
In the first day of a three- in Herington, Kan., that af- suppressed because it was im-
day evidence suppression ternoon. Less than two hours properly transferred from the
hearing Wednesday, the at- later, the first arrest warrant Noble County sheriff in Per-
torneys grilled a dozen wit- was issued for McVeigh. ry, Okla , to the FBI without
nesses, from FBI agents to Leeds said FBI agents told a warrant
federal prosecutors, about Michigan police, “This was Authorities say FBI tests
how they issued arrest, mate- the best information we’ve re- found traces of explosives on
rial witness and search war- ceived so far, and we’re go- the clothing
ran ts nam i ng Ti mot hy ing to run with it.” Noble County Sheriff Jer-
McVeigh and Terry Nichols. Leeds said the FBI set up ry Cook testified that the
“We have challenged the a perimeter around James transfer of the defendants’
veracity of the affidavits,” Nichols’ farm around noon personal possessions without
said Nichols’ attorney, on Apnl 21 involving 100 to a warrant was standard pro-
Michael Tigar. 200 agents so they could cedure
Tigar elaborated further to- stand watch until a search Matsch said he will not rule
day, noting that government warrant could be obtained, on the issues until the hear-
witnesses testified they or- James Nichols spent five ings conclude
dered a material witness war- weeks in custody before ex-
rant for Nichols shredded plosives charges were
when they learned it con- dropped. He says he and his School Board
tained a mistake. brother had nothing to do,
"We know the warrant went with the Oklahoma City 10 Close Out
out on a fax, but noother bombing. Fiscal Year
copies exist. I don’t know Tigar on Wednesday also 00
what happened,” he said, challenged the warrant used The Perry board of educa-
Tigar refused to say whether to arrest Nichols as a materi- tion has a meeting set for
he thought federal agents al- al witness on April 21,1995. noon Friday at the reading
tered documents in the case, Nichols was not charged in lounge at the high school,
saying, “I’m not going to the bombing until May 10, Much of the business of the
characterize what people did.” 1995. meeting will be to complete
Prosecutors maintain the FBI Agent Henry Gibbons some details to close out the
warrants were issued and ex- testified a second warrant had current fiscal year that ends
ecuted legally. to be issued after the firstone June 30. A new fiscal year
Today Tigar planned to call mistakenly identified Nichols will begin Monday, July 1.
up to 30 additional witness- as a principal in the case. Also, there will be a few
es. Tigar said this morning he Gibbons and Assistant U.S. matters regarding person-
expects the hearing to con- Attorney Arlene Joplin both nel. All positions for the next
tinue into next week. said little time elapsed be- term are not yet filled. There
McVeigh and Nichols face tween the issuance of the two may be a few recommenda-
federal murder and conspira- warrants. tions from Superintendent
cy charges in the April 19, Tigar maintained Nichols Larry Fry regarding person-
1995, bombing of the Al- was wrongly detained on a nel matters.
fred P. Murrah Federal Build- false assumption he was a The next regular meeting of
ing in Oklahoma City. The flight risk and that federal the board will be at 7 p.m.
explosion killed 168 people agents might have learned Monday, July 8. at the high
and injured more than 500 in the interim between the school reading lounge,
others.
In a related development Can 1
Wednesday, U.S. District WOVinatO Lions
Judge Richard Matsch ruled _ S
potential witnesses — who
could include hundredsof I 1 VVIDIC LION
Memider viccpuna not amend ., Members of the Covington Lions club are gearing up for
anv of the hearings or a trial the annual Independence Day celebration that will begin at
turn home Thursday from Oklahoma City federal build-
Denver where they offered ing bombing April 19,1995.
testimony Wednesday in one McVeigh was arrested north
of the information hearings of Perry after the bombing on
for the Timothy McVeigh April 19,1995, but was not
trial in federal court, identified as a bombing sus-
Debbie Thompson, sheriffs pect until a couple of days af-
office deputy and dispatcher, ter the crime.
was held over at Denver for
another day to give testimo-
ny on Thursday.
These three county officials
were on duty when McVeigh
was being held in the county
Weather
Temperatures for the
24-hour period ending at 11
a.m. Thursday.
Jim Edgar,
Roadrunners
To Perform
T 12 M. 83 1 a.m. 82 2 a.m. 81
Local musicians Jim Edgar 3 a.m. 80 4 a.m. 80 S a.m. 80
12 N. 92 1p.m. 94 2 p.m. 96
3 p.m. 97 4 p.m. 96 5 p.m. 92
6 p.m.93 7p.m.96 8 p.m. 89
9 p.m. 84 10 p.m. 84 11 p.m. 84
____________X ruhnXeedthe 26 5 p.m. on Thursday, July 4, in the Covington city park,
bricnl- 7 State Rural Banks To victims and relatives who ar The event will include a barbecue meal, a free water-
mated... , State Rural Danks 10 tended Wednesdayshesns y ne lad nokedsausage barbecued
i Voice Loan Concerns ing arenaproceeaingsor beef, potato salad, baked beans and tea or water available at
I be permitted to testify during a cost of S3 for adults and $2 for children under 12. A carry-
I A field heanng by the U.S. for the Oklahoma Republi- the penalty phase of the trial out service will be available for an additional 25 cents per
I House Banking Committee can. if the defendants are convict- plate. Proceeds from the meal will be used to help retire the
‘ will center on the plight of Meanwhile, the weekly ed Several lined up outside debt on the park pavilion.
rural Oklahoma banks and “drought update” released the federal courthouse todayhe Lions club will operate a fireworks stand at the
AMBULANCES BUSY agriculture producers crippled Wednesday by the Oklahoma saying they had decided their Area Youth Center beginning July 2. Proceeds trom this ven -
ON WEDNESDAY h by debt and drought. Water Resources Board said presence in the courtroom turewill be used or the purchase of watermelons and fire-
iFire departmentLambu- Ramifications of the rainfall across the state was was more important thantherr works for the public display.
Lncasdaxed busy Wedines drought will dominate the an average 9.43 inches below testimony.
Mothe Buchanan VAL agenda July 6 at the Elk normal since Oct. 1. The Jannie Coverdale, who lost
land Drive was transferred City High School Auditori- deficit has grown slightly her two grandsons in the
from Perry Memorial hospi- umf dare week UP bombing, said today she de-
tal after 528 pm Wednesday U.S. Reps. Frank Lucas of 0cided to continue attending
to St Franci-nosoital it Tul Oklahoma and Jim Leach ofLack of crop means lack the proceedings because she
P ‘ ‘ Iowa are scheduled to attend; of income, said Tim Barnes, fears someone is try ing to
Jennie 1 304 Fir state and federal banking reg- executive vice president of keep victims out of the court-
avenue eight ROp Fir ulators will testify. First State Bank in Boise City. room. She said she did not
nue as move CA “Considering the drought It’s a pretty serious situation, know who the individual was.
m wasnospna and a and the depressed cattle prices I here comes a point in time "I don’t feel we should have
P eday 00 n m and hearing from his produc- where you can no longer fi- had to make that choice," she
wnerenal n ers out there, he (Lucas) felt nance a farmer or rancher be- said.
Medical center - people in the banking indus- cause he has too much debt. Matsch’s ruling followed a
Loretta Willis after 1:30 try needed to be heard ...on request by prosecutors that an
whatthedrought’sdoingto Snotty Rain exceptionbemadeinthe
farmers and ranchers around PPVE nail I bombing case to the federal
rule barring witnesses from
court proceedings. Prosecu-
tors maintained the victims’
presence in court during the
guilt-or-innocence phase of
rain fell in Perry at approxi- the trial would not affect their
mately 5 p.m. Wednesday. testimony during the penalty
A trace of precipitation fell phase.
in the downtown area at the The defense team also said
location of the rain gauge at Wednesday it had learned
the fire station, how the FBI was able to
There were spots of rain in move in on Terry Nichols’
Perry and there were spots of family the day after the
all dry weather. A small cloud bombing, even before
perry |
and The Roadrunners will be 6a.m.79 7a.m. 80 8a.m. 82
among performers at an all- 9 a.m. 85 10a.m. 90 11 a.m.93
day southern Califomia-style Forecast ..............„ antes *
beachparty set for 10:30a.m. Today, partly cloudy, p.m. Wednesday was trans- what the drought’s doing to Spotty Rain
until 11 p.m. Wednesday, July Thirty percent chance of ferred from Perry Memorial farmers and ranchers around r •
3, at White Water Bay in Ok- thunderstorms. Highs in the to Green Valley Nursi ng the High Plains, said Randy Showers | n
lahoma City. . iower 90s. Southeast wind home Swanson, press secretary
The localswill perform 50s 10to20mph and gusty. To- -----Local Area
and 60s classics throughout night, a 20 percent chance DANCE SET -----------------------„ u
the late afternoon. Headliners of rain. Low in the mid-70s. AT ELKS LODGE Hospital Notes For the second day in a row,
for the beach party will be Jan Temperatures for the The Desperados will pro- _
and Dean and The Bel Air 24-hour period ending at 11 vide music for a dance that Perry Memorial
Bandits. The musical event a.m. Thursday were: High has been set for. 8 p.m. to mid- Charles Roberts, 809 Grove
will conclude with a patriot- 97, |ow 79. Temperatures night Saturday at the Perry street, dismissed Wednesday,
icfireworks salute. . for the 24-hour period end- Elks lodge. Stillwater Medical Center
More information about the jng at 11 a.m. a year ago: Admission will be $5 per Stephanie Looper and in-
beachparty can be obtained HiRh 96, low 66. Precipita- person. The dance is open10 fant son, Perry, dismissed,
by calling (405) 478-2414. tion: Trace. the public, according to Mar-
vin Hasenfratz, exalted ruler.
Daily Bible Thought
Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleet-
ing; but a woman (or man) who fears the Lord
is to be praised. Proverbs 31:30. Thought:
Ask God for the beauty of Christian char-
acter that will help you show Jesus to others.
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garden produce this summer
can obtain a free test for their
pressure cooker gauge at the
OSU extension office.
Tests are free of charge at
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in the late afternoon dumped Nichols turned himself in to
heavy rain along Fir avenue police: his brother's ex-wife
from near the McDonald's had become a government in-
Restaurant east to Fifteenth formant.
street. Defense investigator
Perry received .34 of an Roland Leeds, hired to check
inch of rain after 5 p.m. on FBI reports on the bombing,
Tuesday. Spotty showers said James Nichols’ son
Wednesday afternoon failed Chase had told his mother,
to bring much cooler temper- Kelli Langenburg, about the
atures. explosives the Nichols broth-
FOUR FANS HAVE BEEN donated by Perry Branch.
Boatman's-Bank IV for those without air-conditioning. The
program was started by Wanda Wallace in 1991 through the
Assembly of God church where she serves as benevo-
lence director. The program then branched out to the Perry
Ministerial Alliance and Operation Blessing. "This takes
care of our immediate needs," said Mrs. Wallace, nght. Those
wanting to donate funds for fans may do so through their lo-
cal bank, or by contacting Mrs. Wallace or Operation Bless-
ing. Fans may also be given by contacting Mrs. Wallace.
These fans are being presented by Kim Payne, newly named
branch manager of the bank in Perry. (Staff photo.)
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