The Osage Journal-News (Pawhuska, Okla.), Vol. 63, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, April 27, 1973 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME 63 - No. 17
Osage, Creek counties
reject INCOG role
in manpower program
Osage and Creek counties declined Tuesday
to accept Indian Nations Council of Govern-
ment (INCOG) as the operating vehicle for
the revenue sharing changes in the various
man power programs. The changes coming
under revenue sharing are scheduled to be
made in 1974. The changes will place man-
power projects, such as the NYC (National
Youth Corps) now administered by the Osage
Tribal Council; various trade programs such
as the welding classes here and others, under
an area overseership
At a meeting last week it was proposed by
Mayor Robert LaFortune of Tulsa to place
this administrative oversheership with IN-
COG. a planning agency The move would, in
effect, place INCOG in an operational
capacity, the first move from planning to
operations by the area agency.
Our Own Business
At last week's meeting Pawhuskan L.B
May, Osage district 1 county commissioner,
said he felt that Osage countians “wanted no
part" in such administration and would
prefer that the county “take care of its own"
Winners
Two Pawhuska high school auto mechanics students were named the top winners in the
written examination in the 1973 Plymouth Trouble Shooting Contest at Oklahoma City this
week Dwane A Renfrow, 17, (left) and Bill G Kendrick, 18, third from left, are shown with the
trophy for scoring the highest score on the written exam for the eastern division of Oklahoma.
Pawhuska Auto Mechanics teacher Anton Sapeth Jr., (second from left) is the PHS instructor
Dr. Francis Tuttle state director of vocational education presented the trophy. Forty.six 2-
man teams competed in the contest. The contest is sponsored each year by Plymouth dealers
to honor outstanding auto mechanics students.
McSpadden due
here on Friday
Congressman Clem McSpadden will be in
Pawhuska at the Duncan Hotel Gold Room
Friday from 2 to 3:30 p.m. to meet with
friends and with anyone wishing to talk with
the congressman.
Members of the Democratic Womens
Association will help host the reception and
an informal coffee clash during McSpadden’s
visit.
Friday’s visit will be McSpadden’s second
visit to the district since his election.
Prior to coming to Pawhuska McSpadden
will attend a noon luncheon at the Hominy
Hotel. The noon luncheon and the coffee and
reception at the Duncan here are open to
anyone who may wish to attend.
Two dry wells
only completions
reported in Osage
Two dry holes were the only completions
listed in the Agency's report of operations in
the Osage Mineral Reservation for the week
ending April 20. Three wells were reported
plugged and two new locations were staked.
The completions were No. 1, NW 26-25-3,
near the East Big Bend pool, by Tomlinson Oil
Company, dry at 2,690 feet; and No. 2A, NE
29-25-3, near the Big Bend pool, by Carol
Render, dry at 2,839 feet.
New locations were: No. 4, NW 30-23-8,
Gilliland pool, by Nadel and Gussman, and
No. 1, SW 8-25-9, Atlantic pool, by Thomas F.
Wheatley.
Wells plugged were: No. 17, NW 23-21-10,
East Madelene pool, oil, by Zephyr Cor-
poration; and two water input wells by
Phillips Petroleum Company in the Burbank
Pool described as No. W8, NE 5-26-6, and No.
W1, SW 29-27-6.
The
OJOURNAL-NEWS
business. The protest was voiced, also, by the
Osage Tribal Council at a meeting Tuesday
morning here prior to the meeting in Tulsa.
Chief Sylvester Tinker and Assistant
Chief Ed Red Eagle attended the Tuesday
Tulsa meeting along with NYC Director
Max McKenzie, Fred Jordan and Oscar
Brush, the other two Osage county
commissioners, a Tulsa commissioner.
Deb Smith of Creek county, a com
missioner, and the group from Tulsa
called to discuss the project.
May stressed again the fact that Osage
county was reluctant to accept INCOG. The
group then voted to turn the administration of
the program to a “private corporation".
Osage county reserved the right to withdraw
from the entire regional operation in the
future
At stake, according to McKenzie, is about
$290,000 in wages and funds for the area now
severed locally. The total area ‘Package"
amounts to $2.3 million It will include not
only the NYC program but other manpower
solin
Wynona students
win Bicentennial
state recognition
Four Wynona High school students have
been made honorary members of the
Bicentennial Commission of Oklahoma The
students submitted design ideas in the
statewide contest to design the 1973 Bicen-
tennial Medallion The medallion went on sale
in the state last week.
Honored with the honorary memberships in
the commission were:
Mike Kastning, a senior, the son of Mr and
Mrs. Mike Henry Kastning; Dixie Howell,
daughter of Mr and Mrs. Kenneth Howell;
Tim Stiles, a sophomore, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jim Long and freshman Ted Rogers, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Rogers.
The announcement of the honorary
membership was made by the Bicentennial
Commission last week.
Prayer breakfasts
start here Tuesday
An inter-denominational prayer breakfast
will be held at the Manhattan cafe Tuesday
morning from 7 to8. According to Rev. David
Brane of the First Methodist Church.
A brief informal service of scripture,
special requests, and prayer will be shared by
those attending the breakfast. In making the
announcement Rev. Brane said, “This prayer
breakfast is not sponsored by the churches,
Ministerial Alliance or organizations but it is
the feeling of several of the ministers of
Pawuska that a prayer breakfast for laymen
and ministers alike should be started."
It is hoped that the prayer breakfast will
continue to meet each week on Tuesday’s at 7
a.m. Everyone is welcome to attend these
prayer breakfasts and participate in the
fellowship and devotion, Brane said
Friday, April 27, 1973
training and employment programs presently
administered by local schools, such as the
welding classes for under-employed and
unemployed persons in this area
8- Year Old Program
McKenzie said the programs (the NYC is
now eight years old) began in 1967 as a
cooperative area program under the Man-
power planning system. McKenzie was a
member of that original 8-man board In 1970
and 1971 the concept changed again and the
state was divided into three major districts,
Tulsa (which includes Osage county by
designation as part of the Tulsa Metropolitan
Area); Oklahoma City; and the third district
will include all the remainder of the state in 11
non-metropolitan districts
The county is considering, as May said at
the Tuesday meeting “going with the state,
through the governor's office" rather than
being absorbed in the Tulsa area. "We want
to retain control of our own business As an
individual county as part of a rural oriented
district we feel this might be the way to do it."
The group voted Tuesday afternoon to
decline the operation of the manpower
projects from INCOG and to transfer it to a
"private corporation” which will be set up to
operate it in the 3-county district. The Tulsa
Mayor would head this proposed cor-
poration Under the INCOG-included proposal
the programs would filter through an ad-
visory board, the Manpower Area Planning
Council (MAPC) formerly the CAMPS,
through the SMSA (Standard Metropolitan
Stastical Area) The series of boards and
agencies would comprise on one board, 41
members, on through the 26 member INCOG
board plus one and possibly two other boards
May said "there is just not enough
representation for us, and we won’t have
control of our own business.”
McKenzie, member of the original 8
man board and now NYC head here and
the newly elected mayor of Hominy, said
he could envision "when someone in
Osage county wanted to interview for a
lob, he would have to drive to Tulsa and
meet with one of these groups. He needs a
job, probably won't have a car, and how
in the heck can they, in Tulsa, have any
concept of our needs or of the individual's
needs’"
The move Tuesday has seemingly removed
INCOG from the operational aspect of the
program. However, the authority still rests
with Tulsa and with the Tulsa mayor’s office,
concerning the programs, even under the
proposal given approval Tuesday.
“We want to retain our freedom to with-
draw from the Tulsa group at any time,” May
said. The group agreed.
Tulsa Cash Bonus
It was pointed out that Tulsa would receive
a 15 per cent “bonus" of revenue sharing-
manpower funds if the three county concept
can be retained, that is Tulsa, Osage and
Creek counties operating as a separate group.
The bonus was one of the incentives voiced by
the Tulsa city group as one of the reasons for
pushing for the INCOG or the private set-up
approved Tuesday.
The basic concern was for the Tribal
Council NYC program May stressed. “The
tribe has done a wonderful job with the
program and its administration. We will put it
up against any project in the nation We don’t
want it tampered with." Tinker and Red
Eagle agreed with May’s evaluation
New county DA
assistant named
District Attorney Bill Hall announced he
had secured a new full-time assistant for the
Pawhuka office in Harvey Payne, a graduate
of Shidler High School, Oklahoma State
University and the University of Tulsa Law
School.
The Paynes are members of the Methodist
Church and is a member of he U.S. Army
Reserve. In college Payne made the Dean’s
honor roll, was an honors student and a
member of Xi Mu Pre-Law fraternity, Iota Nu
Sigma Insurance fraternity, Beta Gamma
Sigma Honors fraternity and won two Mid-
Continent scholarships as well as the Out-
standing Senior Award
In Law School Payne was again on the
Dean’s honor roll and a member of the Phi
Alpha Delta Law fraternity and won the
American Jurisprudence Award. His legal
experience includes legal intern for Dale J.
Briggs, a Tulsa attorney; legal intern for
Lester Henderson, city attorney for Sapulpa;
and prosecuting in municipal court
Tom Drummond will continue as part time
assistant to the district attorney and will be
practicing law from his home Kelly Dee
Young is also assistant to the district attorney
in Osage County.
S 5.00 P er Year
Cancer Crusade
returns up here
First reports on the Cancer Crusade are
running a little higher than last year. Mrs.
JB Smith, Chairman, said today.
Mrs. Cora Kinder, Lynn Addition Chair-
man, was the first to complete her area and
turned in $96.61. Mrs Alberta Bibbens,
Chairman south of Sth street, and her
workers, reported donations of $39 00
Residential and business solicitations will be
completed this coming week
“We are very grateful for the support of the
Cancer Society program by our citizens,"
Mrs. Smith said, “and we will continue to
work to conquer this dread disease ” “In
addition to a donation for education and
research, please learn to seven warning
signals of cancer, and have a regular physical
checkup Over 1,500,00 have been cured of
cancer, but we can save one-third more lives
today, if cancer is found early enough and
given the proper treatment”, the chairman
concluded
The seven warning signals of cancer that
require the prompt attention of a physician
are:
Change in bowel or bladder habits
A sore that does not heal
Unusual bleeding or discharge
Thickening or lump in breast or elsewhere
Indigestion or difficulty in swalling
Obvious change in wart or mole
Nagging cough or hoarseness
Services set Thursday
for Mrs. Joe Freeman
Funeral services are scheduled Thursday,
April 26 at 2 p.m., in the Johnson Chapel for
Mrs Joe (Mayme) Freeman, southwest of
the city, who died Monday following an ex-
tended illness
She was a member of the First United
Methodist Church, W.S.C.S., Pythian Sisters
and the Rebecca Lodge.
Survivors include the husband, Joe, of the
home; a daughter, Mrs. H.E. iMary)
Stephenson of Pawhuska; a son Wm. Gerald
Freeman of Phoenix; seven grandchildren
and two great grandchildren.
Burial will be in the Pawhuska city
cemetery.
Moncravie services
conducted Monday
Funeral services were conducted Monday
at 10 a.m. in the Immaculate Conception
Catholic Church for Alexander Moncravie
who died Friday following a brief illness.
Father Daniel Keohane, officiated
Casketbearers were Sylvester Tinker, Alva
Carter, Jack Willis, Bruce Hendricks and
James Ware.
Burial was in the Riverview Cemetery,
Arkansas City, Kans., under the direction of
Johnson Funeral Home.
Artist at work
Pawhuska’s first stone building, the former blacksmith's house on West Main, no new
to “posing” for artists, was the subject of another artist Monday. Mrs. Chrles (Suzanne)
Atkinson, Bartlesville, used her car trunk for an easel and worked on herraintingatinsillie
enteredin anarea artshow in Bartlesville May 5 and 6. Entries in fic sergbliril
art center buildng in Johnstone Park is for artists from areas of Kansas, Arkansesen ON
Missouri and wells as Northeastern Oklahoma, close April 29th. (J-C Photo).
Convention
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Hominy men
held here in
$3,000 theft
Two Hominy men were arrested Monday
night at Hominy by Osage Deputy Marvin
Clark and Hominy Chief of Police John
Aubrey Robinson in connection with the
Sunday night burglary of the Outdoor
Products, Inc. plant just north of Hominy
The two men, Ronnie Lemmons, 19 id
Charles Adams, 19, were to be arraigned re
today. Clark said Adams would be char d
with burglary second degree while Lemn
would be charged with burglary sec d
degree after a former conviction and
carrying firearms after a former conviction
It was also revealed that two motion- to
revoke suspended sentences had been filed
against Lemmons.
Clark said 12TrolMaster motors were taken
along with two shotguns and some tools. The
motors are valued at $239 each The shotguns
and some of the tools were recovered but the
motors have not been located Total value of
the stolen goods would probably be over
$3,000
Codding submits state
ag. board res ignation
Charles Codding of Foraker, Wednesday
resigned as a member of the Oklahoma Board
of Agriculture Codding submitted his
resignation to Governor David Halt in
Oklahoma City.
Codding, who was appointed to the board by
former Governor Dewey Bartlett, was the
longest in-service member of the board at the
time of his resignation. No successor has been
named to Codding’s post on the board
Pauhuska post office
/dan postal week’
Officer-in-Charge of the Pawhuska Post
Office Leonard Oyler announced plans today
for “Postal Week” to be celebrated here April
29 through May 5. On April 30, the Pawhuska N
Post Office will highlight this observance with
activities that dramatize the important roles
performed by Postal People as they move the
mails.
As part of the observance, the Pawhuska
post office will join with the nations 31,000
other post offices in issuing 10 special stamps a,
honoring postal employes
Mrs. Orpha Zerbe
dies; rites Sunday
Funeral services for Mrs. Orpha May
Zerbe, 76, Wynona, who died Thursday in a
Hominy nursing home, will be held at 2 p.m
Monday in the Christian Church of Wynona
Born April 9, 1897 in Washington County,
Indian Territory, Mrs Zerbe was married in
West Plains, Mo., on October 15, 1932 to
Maime Zerbe and they moved to the Naval
Reserve area west of Hominy where Mr
Zerbe worked in the oil fields
Survivors include a son Phillip Zerbe of
Greentown, Ohio; two daughters, Mrs
Wanda Hurd of Addison, Mich., and Mrs Ruth
Aleen Keith of Tulsa; one brother, Walter
Lucas of Long Beach, Calif, three sisters,
Mary Dempsy, Gertrude Howell and Nettie
Lucas, all of Long Beach, Calif. and eight
grandchildren
Burial will be in the Hominy Cemetery with
the Powell Funeral Home of Hominy in
charge of arrangments.
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