The Osage Journal-News (Pawhuska, Okla.), Vol. 66, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, January 10, 1975 Page: 1 of 6
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Dyco oil, gas reserves
in county purchased
(UPI) Kewanee Oil Co. an-
nounced Wednesday that along
with the Flynn Energy Corp, of
Tulsa it had purchased Osage
County oil and gas reserves
from the Dyco Petroleum Corp.,
a Minnesota corporation
headquarters in Tulsa.
The purchase was made for
an undisclosed amount of cash,
a Kewanee spokesman at Bryn
Mawr, Pa , said.
Don M. Lynn, president of
Flynn Energy said the
agreement was effective Dec. 6
and involves proven producing
gas reserves plus undeveloped
gas reserves from 18 wells.
The reserves are subject to a
one-sixth royalty payment to
the Osage Indian Nation.
Kewanee has half interest in
Jordan is
new county
com m is s ion
chairman
The Osage County Board of
County Commissioners elected
its officers and conducted its
first business meeting Monday
after taking the oath of office at
a swearing-in ceremony at 9
a.m.
Fred Jordan, commissioner
district 2, was elected chairman
by the 3-man commission L B
May District 1 commissioner,
was elected vice-chairman.
John Grigg, newly elected
commissioner of district 3, suc-
ceeds Oscar Brush and is the
third member of the commis-
sion
The first order of business
was to approve nine holidays for
county employes They are
New Years, Washington’s
Birthday, Memorial Day, In-
dependence Day, Labor Day,
Columbus Day, Veterans Day,
Thanksgiving (2 days) and
Christmas (2 days).
Second on the agenda was
naming the successful bidder on
a leasee for the Osage Downs
race track and facilities.
County officers arrest
Prue burglary suspects
Three officers of the Osage County Sheriff's office arrested
three burglary suspects in the Whispering Hills area of Prue
during the early morning hours today One of the suspects
was a juvenile, the other two were 16-year-olds from Berryhill.
The officers, Bill Williams, Boyd Peters and Jerry Burger,
responded to a call of a neighbor who did not think things ap-
peared to be in order, at 12:30a m today.
The suspects were apprehended and a recovery of articles was
made Arraignments in the Osage County courts were
scheduled for 11 a m this morning.
Above normal rainfall
recorded here in Dec.;
1974 total up 17 inches
Rainfall for Pawhuska, according to Henry Villasenor,
national weather observor here, in December was in December
was 1.49 inches above normal for the month The year’s total
was 17.20 inches of rainfall in December. The normal is 1.38
inches, Villasenor said
Olin Kliewer, who takes the rainfall measurement at the OSU
lab south of the city, said he recorded 3.48 inches in the south
part of the city for December, almost a half an inch more than in
the central part of Pawhuska
The rain fell on December 6 (.68 hundredths of an inch in the
city and 95 hundredths south of town), December 11 (In city-1.07
inches and south of town - 1.26 inches) and December 31, New
Year's Eve - .87 inches measured in both sections of Pawhuska.
Total rainfall for 1974 according to Villasenor's records was
5184 inches The normal is 34.64 inches, making the rain
received 17.20 inches over the norm.
Only January, June and July of 1974 were below normal,
Villasenor said.
1974 topped last year's total of 49 62 inches but fell short of a
wet 1961 when 53.61 inches was recorded.
Thursday's snowstorm (January 2) in the form of rain, sleet
and snow measured 61 inches with approximately two or three
inches on the ground
The city light plant reported three inches of snow on the
ground Thursday.
the purchase while Flynn has
another 25 percent with the
remainder under option to
Revco Petroleum Corp. of
Tulsa If Revco doesn’t exer-
cise its option, Flynn will
purchase that interest.
Flynn Energy along with its
petroleum industry partners
has been active in Osage County
and is currently completing a
24-well drilling project on 11,500
acres of Osage County gas
tracts. The firm has interests in
oil and gas properties in 10 other
states
Sharp drop
in drilling
plans noted
The first week of oil activities
in Osage County was a sharp
contrast to the last week in 1974
Forty-three well locations were
filed the week ending December
27, 1974. Only seven locations
were filed for the week ending
January 3rd, according to the
operations report at the Osage
Indian Agency.
One completion, a dry hole on
NE 27-25-11 by Exiot Oil Co.,
was reported, resulting in no
potential production for the
week
Locations were staked by
Charles Macdonald (Avant
pool),No 2BNE 23-23-11; Nadel
and Gussman (Unnamed) No.
1A SE 33-26-6; Nadel and
Gussman (Tidal Osage) on No.
10 NE 22-24-8; Golden Oil Co.
(Unnamed) No. 1-B SE 32-25-8,
Revco Petroleum Corp,
i Flesher, E) No 7 SE 5-22-10;
Mid-Center Oil Co. (Flat Rock)
No. 2A SW 20-20-12 and Thermo-
Dyne, Inc. (Unnamed) No. 4 SE
7-25-8.
Two dry wells were plugged
One well by John H. Booth on
NW 4-24-9 and one by Revco
Petroleum Corp. on SE 8-24-11.
Timmy gets
more funds
Contributions to the Timmy
Johnson Fund, made at the
National Bank of Commerce
recently, have included
Mr and Mrs Charles Ehler of
Ralston, $10; The Free Will
Baptist Church of Barnsdall,
the Youth Group, contributed
$10.33 to the fund.
The church group, who had no
letter of explanation, ap-
parently took up a collection for
the youngster. The check was
signed by Bobby Colb and The
Reverend Mr Metcalf
The contributions brought the
total to the fund to $2,036.24 for
the youngster who is suffering
from what doctors call an in-
curable physical ailment The
fund to assist the youngster and
his family was established by
the J-C. The family faces over
$11,000 in medical and hospital
bills piled up over the past year
Fairfax
lawman
resigns
FAIRFAX (UPI) - Patrol-
man Ron Holderness resigned
from the Fairfax police depart-
ment Monday night when the
city council was confronted by
some 30 citizens alleging the
officer was involved in inci-
dents of police brutality.
Holderness’s resignation was
announced by Mayor Jack
Poplin folowing an executive
session held to hear the
complaints The complainants
alleged Holderness, who joined
the force in June, had
"needlessly pulled his gun" on
a group of youngesters, another
time on an ambulance driver
and once had allegedly beaten
a youngster
Police get
narcotics
test kit
The Pawhuska police
department received a new
narcotic field testing kit
Wednesday purchased for
$46 35 Police Chief Leon Shaw
demonstrated use of plastic,
disposable kits (seen below)
that will allow officers to make
on the spot, 60-second iden-
tificaton checks, on any of the
known drugs in this area.
Shaw said the kit would
eliminate guesswork in
determining if a subject is in
possession or consuming drugs
The proof of the test will give
“reasonable cause" to file
charges.
Shaw predicted it will be a
great asset to the department in
drug-related matters
Volume 66 No. 2
OURNAL-NEWS
Friday, January 10, 1975
$6 00 Per Year
McGuire resigns city
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The resignation of Joe S.
McGuire, city councilman for
161 years was accepted by the
Pawhuska city council Monday
night and Joe B. Allen was
appointed new city councilman.
McGuire was councilman for
Ward 1. The status of coun-
Joe S. McGuire
... .resigns Ward I city post.
Joe B. Allen
...named council member-at.
large
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: Osage lease
sale Jan. 15
The Osage Oil and Gas
Lease Sale No. 182 is
scheduled Wednesday
January 15th at 10 a.m. at
the Osage Agency-
auditorium here. The :
offering will consists of 66
oil leases. 39 gas leases, :
and 44 oil and gas com- :
bination leases which were -
nominated by interested :
parties, according to David
Baldwin,
superintendent
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cilman. Gene Sell, was also
changed.
A letter of resignation dated
December 19, 1974 was read at
the regular city council meeting
from McGuire. The letter read
in part "My health has
depreciated to the point I cannot
do justice to the city, to my own
private business and to my
family....I submit my
resignation...! have enjoyed my
16% years on the Pawhuska city
council.”
The council expressed
commendation to McGuire for
his long tenure of service to the
community and his dedication
to his responsibility McGuire
had received a gavel earlier in
1974 marking his term as Mayor
of the city.
After the resignation was
accepted, leaving a vacancy in
Ward 1, Gene Sell announced
his resignation as member-at-
large. In a matter-of-procedure
atmosphere Mayor Gerald
Corley then appointed Sell to the
Ward 1 post, filling McGuire's
vacated seat.
Joe B Allen, present at the
meeting, was appointed council
member-at-large
After
Allen accepted, Corley ad-
ministered the oath of office to
Sell as Ward 1 Commissioner
and to Allen as commissioner
member-at-large. Allen was
also named council chaplain, a
position formerly held by
McGuire.
UR resolution
Bob Wilson, city attorney
read a resolution he had been
instructed by the council to
prepare on the Pawhuska
Urban Renewal Authonty. The
resolution outlined the present
Urban Renewal Authority as an
advisory agency to administer
the Community Development
Act program and to assist and
advise the city in all community
development proposals as the
city desires “What it amounts
to Wilson said, “is the Urban
Renewal Authority will do
whatever the city wants done".
The federal funds will come to
the city and the city will ad-
minister the monies
The motion to pass the
resolution was made by
Councilman Dorsey McCartney
and seconded by Gene Sell It
passed unanimously.
Wilson emphasized the
deadline for application of the
CDA funds was April 15. He
said INCOG could hold the
application for as long as 45
days and recommended a
March 1 date as a deadline to
complete it.
The attorney advised that a
joint meeting be conducted of
the city council and the UR
board to discuss methods to
develop a meaningful com-
munity development program
for Pawhuska
Citizens participation is to be
the main thrust of the ap-
plication Several ways to
motivate citizens' interest in the
decision-making process was
discussed
Wilson said Pawhuska
citizens are needed to help
decide the "select areas” where
we want to work, what projects
we want to work on, and set
priorities. He emphasized the
time element again and that the
process should get underway
immediately. A joint meeting is
to be scheduled by Jan 20th of
the two boards upon instruction
of Mayor Corley A citizens
group is expected to be ap-
pointed as early as the next
council meeting Jan 20th
A good cross section of the
community. ...economic-
business-social should be
considered After a citizens
plan is gathered, it will be
presented for discussion and
setting of priorities at a public
hearing The council and UR
will be in a transition period
from now until June when the
Urban Renewal federal
program expires W J Donnell,
city hospital board chairman,
presented a resolution and
contract concerning the
hospital s expansion program
Both were referred to the city
attorney for redrafting and
presentation at the next council
meeting
The resolution was one
required by Hill-Burton who is
to provide $120,000 of the
PHS journalism instructor
to teach at press meeting
A Pawhuska High School instructor has accepted an invitation
to teach at the Southern Interscholastic Press Association
Convention in Columbia, S.C in April
Don Donaldson, PHS journalism instructor, will teach two
sessions at the convention April 10-13.
Albert Scroggins, Dean of the University of South Carolina,
and President of SIPA ask Donaldson last week to instruct the
conference Donaldson will teach two sessions on newswriting
and caption writing during the three day convention
The SIPA is a national high school press association and in-
cludes 13 southern states as members
Pawhuska is one of the smallest schools in the association, but
placed within the top five newsmagazines rated by SIPA last
year Donaldson recently taught a session on newsmagazine
newsmagazine format at the Oklahoma Interscholastic Press
Association in Norman.
Texas The main items sought were diamonds and
guns. The market for guns was good in Texas,
Slinkard said the men related
Included in the arrests over the 3-county area
Tuesday night was one man one man aid to be the
go-between the thieves and the “fence” in Min-
nesota, an escaped inmate from the mental hospital
at Vinita and a number of others
The ring was broken, Slinkard said, when an
informant in the area “blew the whistle” on the
operation.
Threats against the ex-con-burglars included
threats of "feeding the fish" in the Keystone Dam
area creeks and rivers
Also, former convicts, who were on parole, said
their employers were told of their past records and
it was made so "hot" for the ex-cons that they had to
resort to stealing again in order to live on the
“outside."
Included in performing the series of arrests and
raids where the stolen goods was recovered in-
cluded. in addition to Slinkard were
Pawnee county district attorney Charley Arney;
Pawnee sheriff Dean Taylor and deputies Dean
Hunter and Sonny Nichols; OHP troopers Dick
Grimes and Don Fewnell and Tom Hamilton, and
Oklahoma State Crime Bureau officers Vernon
Glenn and Larry Bowles as well as a Tulsa police
department detective and an assistant district
attorney from Creek County
$340,000 expansion project.
Donnell confirmed that the
federal Hill-Burton money had
been frozen for 45 days but he
was reasonably assured when
the time lapses, funds will be
available.”
The council approved a
motion made by McCartney
that $220,000 in bonds
(approved by voters to be
sold to provide the
remainder of the expansion
funds) not be sold until the
city is assured that the
Hudgins, Thompson and Ball
Associates the original ar-
chitect of the hospital be con-
tracted as the architect for the
expansion project He said the
board was pleased that HBT’s
fees was quoted at 6 percent of
the construction cost ($180,000)
or an amount of $16,800 Don-
nell said the board had
budgeted $25,000 for legal,
architect and related fees and
HTB’s quotation would ‘ac-
tually be a near $5,000 savings ’"
The matter was tabled until
the city attorney read and
redrafted the contract and
resolution
Salary hikes
Raises for city employes and
a new bi-weekly pay period
were discussed and are in the
process of ben . formulated,
according to City Manager
Morgan Hays The city em-
ployes are presently paid semi-
monthly, Hays said he an-
ticipated that the raises would
be retroactive to January 1,
1975
He said all the details should
be ready for approval by the
next council meeting
The new pay period is
necessary because of new
government regulations Hays
Co. raids uncover ‘thousands
burglary ring may be broken
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City officers in training
City police officers Ed Zahn and Randy Rogers are completing
a 2-day advance narcotics school in Claremore today. The two
officers will receive 20 hours training credit for the course The
sessions include all areas of investigation involving dangerous
substances....drug abuse
It's a girl
City’s New Year’s
baby arrives Sat.
Missy Marie, the 6-pound 8% ounce daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
C. F Glendenning, 121 Wells Street, is Pawhuska's New Year's
baby Born at 2:16 p.m. Saturday, January 4, in the Pawhuska
General Hospital, she is 21 inches long.
Missy's proud grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Jess Couteau of
Bowring, the maternal grandparents, and Mrs Grace Gourd of
Pawhuska, the paternal grandmother
The arrest of a Pawnee county community's
night watchman and his wife may result in the
recovery of “thousands and thousands” of dollars in
burglary losses, according to Osage, Creek Pawnee
and Tulsa officials today.
The arrest of yet an undetermined number of
individuals in a 5-pronged raid by Osage, Creek,
Pawnee and Tulsa county officers, along with
district attorney representatives from Osage and
Creek counties and OHP troopers in the area,
resulted in the recovery of untotaled thousands of
dollars of stolen goods, according to J. D. Slinkard.
Osage county district attorney's office investigator
who worked with the other officers in the series of
raids.
Jailed in Pawhuska and to be charged today in
Pawnee county was a lake area community
watchman and his wife. The couple along with
another man, described as an ex-convict from
Minnesota, were jailed here Tuesday night and
were to be transported to Pawnee county today for
the formal filing of charges
Slinkard said that the investigation into a
burglary ring that may have operated for as much
as five or six years, in believed to have been solved
by the 5-pronged raid Tuesday night in the three
counties.
"There are thousands and thousands of dollars in
stolen goods, guns, color TV sets, diamonds, and
what have you,, from the three raids in Creek
county and two in Pawnee counties on homes of
suspects in the burglary ring," Slinkard said
Slinkard said a large amount of stolen goods was
found in the home of the watchman The
Osage investigator said that a long and involved
story of alleged use of former convicts under
threats, is unwinding in the investigation. Former
convicts and men on parole were allegedly "con-
ned” into burglary duty. Homeowners would call
the wachtman officer's to report they would be out
of town.
The suspect then allegedly, Slinkard said, would
use his "ring" of proven thieves to do the work The
stolen property was delivered to the trailer home
trailer
Slinkard said the trailer home had a number of
special hidden built-in compartments to house
items
The officer allegedly would time the burglaries at
the homes when he was on duty and would “stand
watch" while the thieves did their work. He would
then later "investigate" the thefts himself Later
the stolen items would be delivered to the home and
the "split" made if items were reported stolen by
the owners and did not turn up at the split" the
suspect then would "shake down” the thieves for
what he felt was being "held out” on him. The items
allegedly were “fenced" or resold in Minnesota and
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