Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 107, No. 70, Ed. 1 Friday, April 7, 2000 Page: 7 of 10
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Friday, April 7, 2000
NEWS
Perry Daily Journal, Page 7
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TOXFORDEM
CLEANERS
E— L L A - 1 A AL % — Rell
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Don’t Mix
OXFORD CLEANERS, located at 302 Sixth Street, is now open in Perry. Pictured from left are employees:
Gale Thoman, driver, and Haley Lumbers and Misty Karcher, counter clerks. (Staff photo.)
Oxford Cleaners opens in Perry
Oxford Cleaners of Enid is
announcing the opening of a new
location in Perry at 302 Sixth
Street.
Oxford is owned and operated
by Pierce and Janet Jones of Enid.
Established in 1923, the Oxford
name has long stood for fine
cleaning services. The company
OklahomaToday
Fight between
parents leads to
stadium shooting.
ment. then transported to a hospital
in Paris, Texas, where she was list-
ed in good condition.
Keating signs
currently holds (Oxford and Oxford
North in Enid, and Oxford 11 in
Stillwater and maintains over 10
drop sites throughout North
Central Oklahoma.
Many clients may know that
Oxford has been providing the
laundry service for The Cleaners
for many years.
All other serv ices will now be
done by Oxford as well Available
services include dry cleaning
and laundering of garment', as
well as care of quilts, comforters,
drapes, and certain other special-
ized items.
In addition, w edding gow ns may
be pressed and made wedding
ready" or cleaned and preserved
after the event
An alteration department of three
experienced seamstresses allows
for everything from light mending
to resizing, zipper replacements.
Boat Safe and Sober_____
Exposure to sun, wind, noise, vibration and motion while boating can increase
the effects of alcohol on your balance, vision and coordination, making you
more likely to be seriously injured or killed in a boat accident. Don't risk your
life and the lives of others. Remember — It’s a different world on the water
Don'l drink and boat.
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it’s a
DIFFERENT WORLD on the
WATER O
B DAT SA TE A N D SO BER
Agriculture
Markets
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The state Department
of Agriculture reported the following closing
prices Thursday:
Wheat (bu): Steady to 2 cents lower, 2.10-2.31.
Temple 2.10; Hobart 2 11. Clinton 2 13 Buffalo.
Weatherford 2.14; Shattuck 2.15; Alva 2.16; Fred
erick, Keyes, Lawton 2 18. Eldorado 2.19; Ban
ner. El Reno, Geary, Kingfisher, Manchester,
Okeene, Watonga, Yukon 2 20 Medford 2.21;
Davis 2.27; Ponca City 2.29; Afton, Miami, Perry,
Stillwater 2.31: Gulf 2.85.
Milo (cwt) Steady to 20 cents lower, 2.86 to
3 30 Medford 2.86; Manchester 2.88; Kingfisher
2.89; Shattuck 2.93, Keyes 2.94; Buffalo 2.97; Pon-
co City 3.05; Alva 3 07; Weatherford 3 10
Alton, Miami 3.30; Gulf 4.1 8.
Soybeans (bu): 10 to 12 cents lower, 4.35 to
4.76. Kingfisher 4.35; Weatherford 4.41; Shattuck
4.56; Keyes 4.57; Buffalo 4.61; Medford 4.62; Afton,
Miami 4 64; Ponca City 4.65; Stillwater 4 68. Alva
4.76; Gulf 5.40 1/2.
US No. 2 yellow com 1 98 to 2.20 Weather
ford 1.98; Keyes 1.99; Buffalo 2 10: Alton, Miami
2 20 Gulf 2.40 3 4
Grade 41 leaf 4 staple 34 cotton In south-
western Oklahoma averaged 51 1/4 cents per
pound
Alfalfa hay $85-$100; Grass hay $60-$70.
Eggs A large 77 cents; A medium 60 cents A
small 41 cents
To be nobody but yourself-in a
world which is doing its best,
night and day to make you every-
body else-means to fight the
hardest battle which any human
being can fight and never stop
fighting.
—E. E. Cummings
Shady
Lady
New Hours:
police say
HUGO, Okla. (AP) —The stadi- bombing checkoff,
um stands were jammed with ele- race riot bills
mentary children and their parents for 1 CT 1 * *
an annual field day when a woman OKLAHOMA C ITY (AP) 1
suddenly drew a gun and fired, po- Frank Keating has signed a bill that
lice sav ‘ - will permit Oklahomans to donate a
The shooting just before noon portion of their state tax returns to the
Thursday in this far southeastern Ok- Oklahoma C ity National Memorial, and hemming
lahoma town left one woman wound- The measure was one of 20 bills Charge accounts are available for
cd. Bur incredibly. Chief Layton Cox Keating signed Thursday including customers interestedin paying
said, no children were hurt, a measure that recreates the 1921 Tul- monthly.
The wounded woman was just feet sa Race Riot CommissionPierce, Janet, and the staff of
away from about 25 second-graders, Keating signed House Bill 185 8 by Oxford Cleaners hav € said they are
he said. Rep. Susan Winchester, R-Chickasha, looking forw ard to serv i ng the
Police arrested Sonya Bostic, 33, during a brief ceremony where he said people of Perry
and were questioning Ruthie Pearl, the measure will help raise revenue For more information, and
35, with whom officials said she had for the memorial being built at the site questions call 580-3 36-4282, or
a long-running dispute, of the Oklahoma City bombing, in Enid at 1-800-562-1959.
Cox said an argument broke out be- The memorial is scheduled to for-
tween the women's two teen-age mally open on April 19, the fifth an-
daughters in the stands filled with 500 niversary of the bombing.
elementary students participating in The bill permits taxpayers to donate
the annual track meet. The mothers $2, $5 or any amount they desire in
got involved in the dispute. memory of the 168 people killed in
That ’s w hen one of the women pro- the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah
duceda small-caliber gun, he said. Federal Building.
Virginia Biggers, 33, was attempt-
ing to flee w hen she was struck once
in the buttock. She was taken to
(Choctaw Memorial I Hospital for treat-
4. Its time to start thinking
% about gardening.
$ Stop by & let us fill your
X garden needs.
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4113 Fir Ave • 580-370-1529
9:00 5:00 Tues Sat
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ination.
—Emerson
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Brown, Gloria. Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 107, No. 70, Ed. 1 Friday, April 7, 2000, newspaper, April 7, 2000; Perry, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2258900/m1/7/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.