Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 103, No. 207, Ed. 1 Friday, October 11, 1996 Page: 1 of 10
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Stillwater Man In County Jail
Following Incident At Stadium
A Stillwater man identified At least three girls, 12 and er officers began arriving. The
as Steven Douglas Harwood, 13 of Perry, complained they suspect quickly was whisked
26, was jailed Thursday night had been bothered by a man. off to jail.
following an incident involv- As Mack approached the man. .
ing minor girls at Perry stadi- and the girls, the man fled on Davidson said Officer Lay-
urn. foot with Mack and a cou- ton, 30, in an attempt to catch
At one point, the man fled pie of fathers in hot pursuit, Up with the running man,
from officers on foot. In an at- Mack caught up with a man backed the 1993 Ford police
tempt to head off the running who was jailed on complaint car into another vehicle. Rear
suspect, Officer Wes Layton of public intoxication and sex- of the police vehicle collided
had a property accident with ual battery of a minor. "We're with the front of a parked, un-
his city police patrol car. glad Officer Mack caught the occupied 1988 Dodge pick-
Several officers sped to the suspect before the fathers up. The Dodge belongs to
scene in the stadium after did,” said Assistant Chief Tim Tom Ruth, 1001 Wakefield.
Bruce Mack, a part-time re- Davidson. His car had about $50 dam-
serve officer, called for help In the chase, the suspect had age. Damage estimate for the
on the radio. run and jumped a fence. Oth- police car was $400.
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Associated Press Perry, Oklahoma 35 Cents
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Governor Keating Defends
Travel For Mixed Purposes
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) the fund-raisers on trips to “The candidates all know
Gov. Frank Keating says meetings of his cabinet and that’s going to happen ”
there is no legal requirement speeches to civic clubs and Mahoney said.
for his office to reimburse the chambers of commerce in all Mahoney said a list of the
state for travel expenses in- parts of the state, he said. mixed trips will be released
curred during trips that com- “It’s very difficult to say Friday
bined politics and state busi- how many minutes did you Keating said his primary
ness. spend in any given day or af- motive for making the trips
Past practice, truthfully, temnoon or evening tor a can- generally was to present an
has normally been no reim- didate,’ Keating said. "It gets economic development
bursement,” Keating said almost to the point of... how speech.
Thursday. “Most governors many angels can you count
I never sought reimbursement on the h?ad of a pin." ,
because by law transportation He said trips taken exclu- student Hurt
is to be provided for the gov- sively for political purposes ■ AAAMM
ernor and security at all were reimbursed by the can- AcClent
times.” didates. “If it’s not, it’s not,” Noor SahoAl
Keating has participated in he said. ncar oenool
more than 70 fund-raisers for “This is not an expensive Sarah Wornom, 13, re-
Republican candidates for the proposition. It’s about $175 ceived apparent minor in-
Legislature this year during an hour to operate that air- juries at 7:38 a.m. Friday in a
what the governor called plane, and that's rather inex- car-pedestrian accident at
- “mixed trips,” pensive," he said. “It’s not re- Ninth and Elm streets.
“Those trips that are mixed ally the cost; it’s an issue of Miss Wornom was moved
trips — trips that include doing the right thing.” to Perry Memorial hospital by
things other than simply pol- Keating communications fire department ambulance,
itics are paid for by the director Dan Mahoney said She was examined and treat-
state,” he said. only four or five of the gov- ed and dismissed. She re-
The total cost to taxpayers emor’s trips were "purely po- turned to her mid high class-
for those trips was not known litical," and reimbursement es at school.
Thursday. will be sought from those An accident investigation
Keating has piggybacked candidates after the election, report filed by Officer Rich-
ard Barker said Scott Sebas-
n gA ■ tian, 16, 1010 Cedar street,
Monday A Partial was driving east at low speed
• on Elm in a 1990 Geo Prizm.
UIAHAAs , F M _Miss Wornom, daughter of
lOHudy rOr oome John and Beverly Wornom
e route 2, Perry, had started
Columbus Day will be observed as a partial holiday in Per- north from the south side of
ry. the street walking in the cross
The post office will shut down window service and there walk. She was bumped and
will be no deliveries. knocked down by the auto-
Closing down also will be the First Bank & Trust Co., Ex- mobile as her mother looked
change Bank & Trust Co. and Boatmen's National Bank of on. Mrs. Wornom had just let
Oklahoma. The courthouse also will shut down operations her daughter out of the car be-
Monday. fore reporting to her teaching
The date is not on the city of Perry holiday calendar, job at the elementary school.
City Hall will be open Monday for regular business as will be The accident report indi-
the city-owned Carnegie library. cated Sebastian apparently
did not see the girl because of
A MALE CHORUS COMPOSED primarily of 100 employees of Klockner-Humboldt-Deutz AG. a diesel engine manufacturing company in Cologne
Germany, presented a concert Tuesday in the Perry high school auditorium for employees of the Charles Machine Works Inc a major user oHhe
German factory's output Most of the choral group are factory workers, 50% still employed, and 50% retired. The chorusorcmed n gga/the
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following the Tuesday evening s performance. Chorus members range in age from 29 to 79 years, one of which was a founder and member of the
chorus for 50 years. (Todd Hallock photo.)" was a sounder and member of the
briefly
stated...
perry |
DAV REP TO BE
IN PERRY TUESDAY
A representative of the Ok-
lahoma department of veter-
ans affairs will be in Perry
next week to assist local peo-
ple with questions regarding
veterans benefits.
Persons may visit with the
representative between 2 and
3 p.m. Tuesday at the D AV
hall, 612 Flynn street.
PAWNEE BOY
IS INJURED
Jack Sanders, 14, Pawnee,
was injured Thursday eve-
ning during a junior high
school football game at
Daniels field.
He received neck injuries,
but apparently was not seri-
ously hurt. A fire department
ambulance moved him from
Daniels field to Perry Memor-
ial hospital.
other traffic in the area.
TIP-IN CLUB
SEEKS A SOFA
The Perry Tip-In club is
seeking donation of a used
sofa for the high school boys
locker room.
Anyone with a donation
or question should call the
Tip-In club president, Susan
Waren, 336-2027, or Ann
Two District Officials .
n ■• P Oct. 31 Date
Address Lions Club Set For Next
Perry Lions club members Alexander. Court Hearing
were addressed by their dis- Attending the meeting with P
trict governor and vice gov- Neel was his official district Pre-preliminary hearing has Hight, 336-5258.
ernor in a luncheon meeting governor's visit to the Perrv been set for Oct. 31 in No- -------
Thursday at the Catholic hall. club. He urged local Lions to ble county district court for 3-BEDROOM HOUSE
Speakers were Perry Neel, get involved in organization Michael Gene Decker, Cov- SELLS FOR $8,200
Bethany, district governor, work and urged more mem- ington, charged with drug Athree-bedroom house lo-
and Charlie Barton, Okla- bership work. He also report- laws violations, cated at 704 Seventh street
homa City, vice governor, ed on club activities around He was arrested early this sold for $8,200 at public auc-
Program was arranged by Jon the state, week by city police. Officers tion Monday evening.
Shala Devlin and Brian confiscated money and sub- Starling Miller Real Estate
Doughty were Student Lions stances suspected of being and Auction was in charge of
attending Thursday. Doughty drugs, the sale. Seller was Helena
gave the report on school ac- At his court appearance Mildfelt and buyers were
tivities. Thursday, bond was contin- Rocky and Mary Hunt.
Temperatures for the Sharon Worrell and Anna uedat $50,000. Decker has
24-hour period ending at 11 Schieffer, both of Perry, were leased from tad been re-
a.m. Friday, guests. J. D. Koch was secret leased tromjail.
greeter for the day.
Presiding Thursday was Local Home
Jim Glenn, first vice president
of Lions. Jim Thompson led Burglarized In
group singing and Bernice
Schieffer played piano. Rev. payuent nours
Jim Murray gave the invoca- A daylight house burglary city fire truck. Kindergarten
10n' was reported Thursday to po- and children of the first three
lice. grades at Perry elementary
The home of Shelly Davis, were given fire truck rides
1710Twelfth street, was bur- earlier in the week,
glarized between 7:22 a.m.
and 8 a.m. Thursday. Assis-
tant Chief of Police Tim
Davidson said there was no
sign of forced entry.
Found missing so far are
two rings listed as being of
considerable value.
A PLAQUE, DEPICTING the Cherokee Strip land run of 1893, was presented by Ed Malzahn. left, president and
chief executive officer of ( harles Machine Works, to Johannes Schifigen, vice president of Human Resources of the Klock-
ner-Humboldt-Deutz, AG of Cologne, Germany. The presentation, to commemorate the group's visit to Perry, was made
during a concert composed of employees and retirees of the company which builds economical diesel and gas engines, uti-
lized by CMW. Immediately to the right of Malzahn is Werner Schmitz, president of the Atlanta, GA, Duetz office. Mary
Malzahn is standing beside Schiffgen. Malzahn said in Perry's first census following the land run, 212 of the 3,300
counted were German born citizens, resulting in 1,200 in the first generation, giving Perry a German heritage, and a
close tie to those appearing in the chorus. Related photoon page 7. (Todd Hallock photo.)
German Singing Ambassadors
Visit The Ditch Witch Factory
Weather
12 N. 61 1 p.m.63 2 p.m. 66
3 p.m. 66 4p.in.70 5p.m. 67
6 p.m. 68 7p.m.64 8p.m. 57
9 p.m. 54 10 p.m. 54 11 p.m. 53
12 M. 51 1 a.m.50 2 a.m. 49
3a.m.48 4a.in.47 5a.m. 47
6 a.m.48 7a.m.49 8 a.m. 50
9a.m. 55 10a.m. 60 11 a.m. 64
Forecast
Today and Saturday,
mostly clear with highs in
the 70s to lower 80s and
lows mainly in the 50s.
Temperatures for the
24-hour period ending at 11
a.m. Friday were: High 68,
low 47. Temperatures for
the 24-hour period ending
at 11 a.m. a year ago: High
92, low 64.
Say
Something
Good
About
Perry
Today!
Representatives of two major manufacturing companies
came face to face Tuesday in Perry. The Charles Machine
Works Inc. (CMW), manufacturer of Ditch Witch products,
hosted 95 guests from the Deutz Corporation located in
Cologne, Germany.
The all-male Klockner-Humboldt-Deutz AG Chorus
(KHD) members were very excited to travel to the United
States and express their gratitude for the long-term business
relationship shared by the two companies. Approximately half
the Deutz singers are employed as factory workers, clerical
staff, or managers. The remainder are Deutz retirees.
Upon arrival at the Ditch Witch factory, guests were
welcomed by company president and CEO, Ed Malzahn. A
tour of the facilities allowed guests to see the manufacturing
process of Ditch Witch products. Several models including
3500, 3610,4500, 5110, 7610, and PP50 were powered by
Duetz engines F3L1011, F4L1011E, F3L912H0, F4L1011.
An evening concert at the local high school auditorium
was under the direction of Oswald Gilles who has wielded the
baton with sensitivity and precision for 47 years. He is one of
today’s most renowned conductors of choral music.
The KHD Choir, founded in 1946, initially included eight
members, but quickly grew into a solid male choir of over 100
active members. One choir member has sung with the group
for 50 years.
Oklahoma, performed in German, brought the audience
to its feet while they enthusiastically clapped their hands. Oth-
er songs from Russia, Croatia, Germany and Spain were also
part of the program.
A framed photo capturing the beginning of The Cherokee
Strip Land Run, the largest and most dramatic in history, was
presented to the choir. European settlers played a major role
in the development of the city of Perry, as well as many oth-
er land run cities. The first federal census after the run, taken
in 1900, recorded that 212 German-born men and women built
homes and businesses in Perry. More than 1,264 citizens were
Genuine feelings of comradeship between Deutz and Ditch
Witch representatives were apparent throughout the evening.
Prior to arriving in Perry, the group visited Canada and
Wisconsin. Before returning to their homeland they are sched-
uled to visit North Carolina, Washington D.C., and Atlanta
(the North America-based Deutz facility).
Bragging On
Your Own
Today's Prayer
Stir up Your power, O Lord, and come. For You
have made Yourself known to us in Your Son, Jesus
Christ, the Savior of the world. Grant to us that in His
birth as a human child, we will be set free from the
slavery of our sin; for You live and reign with the Fa-
ther and the Holy Spirit, now and forever. Amen.
/Cespitnl
Notes
Perry Memorial
Cecil Milliron, Smith
Manor, dismissed Thursday.
Stillwater Medical Center
Michelle Hatfield and son,
Perry, dismissed.
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FIREMEN AT
CLS FRIDAY
Perry firemen Friday were
at Christ Lutheran school area
to close out Fire Prevention
Week activities.
Children of the CL kinder-
garten were given rides on a
Political
Column
County Commissioner first-generation Americans of German heritage.
__District 2 A newly-arrived German-born pioneer, Carl Frederick
DEMOCRAT Malzahn. Ed Malzahn’s grandlather, established a blacksmith
shop in Perry in 1902. From that modest beginning evolved
The Charles Machine Works, Inc., manufacturer of the in-
REPUBLICAN ternally-marketed line of Ditch Witch underground construc-
TOM DAVIS tion equipment.
County Clerk After the performance the choir was treated to a barbeque
--5E.22----dinner at the Ditch Witch Training center. The exhibit hall was
----DEMOCRAT-----decorated western style with saddles, hay bales, branding irons,
RONITA COLDIRON cowboy hats and boots, lanterns, barbed ward, ropes and spurs.
REPUBLICAN Jim Edgar's country and western band played while authen-
RAY tic cowboys, the Casteel gang, displayed their lasso throwing
------------------------techniques and cracked their bull whips.
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