Pawhuska Daily Journal-Capital (Pawhuska, Okla.), Vol. 65, No. 246, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 12, 1974 Page: 1 of 8
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OU vs. Rose Bowl winner
Drummond proposes 'big game
MRS. MASSENBAUH
OKLA. HISTORICAL SOC.
OKLAHOMA CITY 5, OKLA. 73105
Wynona man charged
Cecil Drummond, Pawhuska attorney, has proposed
what he defines the dream game of the century", a
battle between the University of Oklahoma Sooners
and the winner of the Rose Bowl Game New Year's
Day.
A game played with OU against Ohio State
University or University of Southern California would
net charities in Oklahoma more than a million dollars,
according to Drummond
He said he would post $100,000 if the winner of the
Rose Bowl game would meet the University of
Oklahoma in Norman on Saturday, January 11.
Drummond said he would "give every cent after
expenses to the United Funds in Oklahoma" if the Rose
Bowl winner accepted his offer to play the OU Sooners.
Drummond said he has sent Ohio State and U.S.C. his
offer He says he is serious and can envision, with
television rights, etc. that the event could net over a $1
million, or more, for a worthwhile cause
He said he got the idea from a legislator at a political
convention recently. A game set up in one of the
northern states and it was very successful. But it was
nothing like this game would be, he said
"This would be the dream game of the century
Asked why he had chosen the winner of the Rose
Bowl rather than the Orange Bowl, which features
Alabama, ranked number one by the UPI Board of
Coaches poll, and Notre Dame, Drummond Said “I
just figured the teams playing in the Rose Bowl are a
lot better teams than the ones playing in the Orange
Bowl.”
Drummond said he had not taken the idea up of-
ficially with the Sooners, but “I figure OU will be
willing to help out the charities in Oklahoma."
He also has not talked to the Big Eight Conference or
the NCAA, which have OU on probation keeping them
from a post-season bowl game this season, nor the Big
10 or Pacific Eight conferences "We’ll cross that
bridge when we get to it," Drummond said. “I figure
to just take it one step at a time."
A Wynona man has been charged on three
counts in connection with a shooting incident in a
Wynona home Tuesday night The shooting
resulted in the injury and hospitalization of the
man’s 23-yr.-old daughter, according to Osage
County, Marvin Clark, investigating officer
Bunny" Collins
in his late 40‘s, was
arraigned in district court this morning here on
charges of shooting with intent to kill Separate
i harges of feloniously pointing a deadly weapon
and assault and battery were also filed
Clark said. Sandy Collins, the man’s daughter,
was shot in the face just above the mouth
sometime between 7-8 pm with a 22 caliber
weapon at the Collins home four miles southwest
of Wynona Tuesday.
Collins, his wife, and another daughter, Billie
21, were at the home at the time of the shooting
in his hand "in a fit of anger." Clark said Collins
apparently "struck his wife with the pistol,”
approached his daughter, Billie, threatening to
shoot her and sticking the pistol in her face."
(lark said the family members involved, the
wife and two daughters, have signed complaints
to each of the three charges Both daughters
lived at the home
Sandy Collins was taken to the Hominy city
hospital with a gunshot wound, then transferred
to Tulsa She remains hospitalized in the Tulsa
hospital today in satisfactory condition. Clark
said
Mrs. Collins told Deputy Clark that her
husband had walked into their home with a pistol
Collins’ bond was set at $5,000 for shooting with
intent to kill, $2,000 for feloniously pointing a
dangerous weapon and $500 for assault and
battery The court entered a plea of not guilty
for Collins and set the preliminary hearing for
9 30 a m December 31. The first charge of
shooting is a felony The other charges are
misdemeanors
First families
adopted here
D
LYJOURNAL- CAPITAL
Published Evenings, Tuesday through Friday and Sunday Mornings
The first families on Pawhuska’s needy family list have been
adopted Operation Helping Hand headquarters at the chamber
office reported adoption of five families by area residents Two
more families in need have also been reported to Operation
Helping Hand, a joint venture conducted annually by the
Journal-Capital and the chamber of commerce The five
adoptions today leave 34 families remaining on the needy family
list
Volume 65 No. 246
Thursday, December 12, 1974
Daily 10° per copy. Sunday 20* per copy.
Jr High Students
The Pawhuska Jr High School students have voted to collect
and deliver enough food and gift items for two families. They
have picked Families No. 1 and 6. School instructor, Jeanette
Clemmons, is heading the effort within the Jr High, a school
spokesman said today, and all students are bringing what they
can to share with the families in need
Family No 2, a 93 yr old widow with a blind son has been
adopted by an anonymous donor
The 4-square CB Club has selected family No. 7, a young
mother with two small children
F amily No. 15, a disabled elderly couple with limited income,
one is blind, has been adopted by an anonymous donor.
Add to list
The two families added to the list today are both women who
live alone No. 38 is a widow in her 60s who lives alone with very
little income No 39 is a 33 yr. old woman who suffered a fall
recently and an injury that makes her unable to work.
F amilies listed in Operation Helping Hand, and not previously
listed in the J-C, include
FAMILY NO 26 - An elderly bachelor living alone.
F AMILY NO 27 - An older couple with two teenage sons, ages
15 and 16
FAMILY NO 2B - A 70-year-old man living alone
FAMILY NO. 29 - A 71-year-old woman living alone
Christmas concert
set at PHS Fri.
Pawhuska High School Band Director, Duncan Coons, will
direct the annual Christmas concert by the junior and senior
high school bands at 8 40 a m Friday in the Pawhuska high
school auditorium It will be the first time the two bands have
been combined in a Christmas contert, Coons said
The high school band will present "Thanks Be To Thee,"
"Home for Church," "Christmas Suite," "Freedom City
March" and Christmas Song," made popular by Mel Torme.
The junior high band’s medley will include "Cut Time Strut
March," "Joy to the World," “Solid Soul" and "Santa Claus Is
Coming to Town”
The public is cordially invited to come and spend about 50
minutes with the students and faculty enjoying the Christmas
music.
Car 'shot'
Armed soldier
jailed after area
scuffle with OHP
County officers
honor 3 members
The Osage county officers
Association, at a meeting at the
John Zink clubhouse near
Skiatook Wednesday night,
honored three charter members
Lifetime
w Harold Clark (left)
vice president elect of the
county officers Association
presents a lifetime
membership plaque to
former commissioner Ira
Mullins. At right is Sheriff
George Wayman, president
of the group and toast
master at Wednesday
night’s meeting (JC
Photo).
and elected officers for 1975
Re-elected president of the
county association was George
Wayman, Osage county sheriff
Harold Clark, county assessor
was re-elected vice-president
and Helen Johnson Christenson
was re-elected secretary of the
group
Wayman, who presided over a
steak-fry as cook, was toast-
master for the program that
followed the dinner
Presented plaques as
honorary life-time members of
the association were Oscar
Brush, county commissioner,
who will retire in January
Brush, who has served the
county for nearly 50 years in
various capacities including
road superintendent and county
commissioner, did not seek re-
election to the county com-
mission last November.
Brush s last meeting with the
county officers association as
an active member was Tuesday
night He was presented a
plaque as a charter member
and lifetime member of the
association.
Also honored, but unable to be
present at the dinner, was
retiring Osage County
Treasurer Francis Mitchell
Mrs. Mitchell did not seek re-
election Her plaque was ac-
cepted in her behalf by her
successor, Mrs Nezzie Horn
Also presented a plaque was
former county commissioner
Ira Mullins who was succeeded
on the board two years ago by
Fred Jordan, present county
commissioner for the third
district
Pawhuska's growth
to affect ’phone
rate here in Jan.
Telephone growth in
Pawhuska will bring an ad-
justment in local rates here
effective January 7, 1975, ac-
cording to Jerry Warrior,
manager for Southwestern
Bell
“Pawhuska has grown to
more than 4,000 telephones,
which puts the city in another
rate grouping." Warrior said.
“Telephone rates in Oklahoma
are set according to the
number of telephone in the
exchange This is in ac-
cordance with the recognized
plan for establishing equitable
telphone rates which is followed
generally throughout the
country," Warrior said.
“Telephonerates are adjusted
upward as cities grow into new
SHOPPING DAYS
TO CHRISTMAS
rate groups, and downward in
the event that the number of
telephones drops to the next
lower level.”
Warrior said the number of
telephones in Pawhuska has
increased by about IWO since the
last basic rate adjustment in
1963.
The increase will amount to 30
cents a month for one-party city
residence telphones and 20
cents a month for rural four-
party residence telephones
There will be a 60-cent monthly
increase in city one-party
business telephones and a10-cent
increase in monthly rates for a
rural four-party business
phone.
There will be no change in the
rates for extension telephones.
"Telephone service is worth
much more in Pawhuska now
than when present rates were
established," Warrior said.
“You can talk to many more
people without using Long
Distance.
“We are proud of our con-
tribution to Osage County,"
Warrior said. "Our local taxes
in Osage County last year
amounted to more than $100,000.
"In the past three years, we
have spent $125,000 to expand
and improvetelephoneservice in
the Pawhuska exchange "
A soldier home on leave from Germany was jailed
and charged on two counts in connection with a one-car
accident and a scuffle with an Oklahoma Highway
Patrol trooper Tuesday night.
Taken into custody is Jack David Burgess, 26, of
Prue, according to OHP trooper Ron Davis
The man was disarmed, Davis said, of a high-
powered rifle in a dramatic scuffle with OHP trooper
Tom Hamilton The scuffle occured three miles from
where Burgess had abandoned a car he had damaged
in an accident, according to Davis.
The trooper said he was summoned to cover the one-
car accident involving the Burgess car about 8:30 p.m.
Tuesday Burgess' wife, Diane, arrived at the accident
scene and told Trooper Davis her husband was armed
with a high powered rifle he “got from a friend’s
house" after a family confrontation.
Burgess in the meantime had abandoned the car in a
field 77 feet from the roadway and was walking down
the road
Davis said he radioed OHP trooper Hamilton and a
Pawnee trooper riding with him. Rondell Fewell, for
assistance.
Hamilton and Fewell spotted Burgess from a
discription given by his wife as he walked down the
Prue road As the OHP car drew along side Burgess,
Hamilton, jolted out of the OHP car and bodily flung
himself at the armed man "before he ( Burgess) had
time to turn around" The officer and Burgess fell into
some tall grass in a nearby ditch as the scuffle ensued,
Davis said for a few seconds, Fewell, who had stopped
the OHP car and ran to assist, didn’t know "who was
where", Then trooper Hamilton appeared out of the
grass with Burgess on one arm and the rifle in his
other
The two troopers turned Burgess over to Davis and
finished investigating the accident The soldier was
taken to the Osage County jail and charged with
driving while intoxicated and possession of a weapon
while intoxicated
Davis said Burgess' accident occured when he failed
to negotiate a curve a few miles from his home. He
said the car went out of control and traveled 105 feet
out of control and went another 110 feet off the roadway
through a fence, a rocky ditch and a grove of trees
before coming to a halt in a field
Davis said the front of the car was damaged from a
gun shot. He said Burgess had apparently stepped
away from the car after the accident and fired at the
car hitting the front fender and bursting part of the
engine including the car carburetor. With the car
lights still burning, Burgess walked away from the car
and started down the road with the rifle in his hand,
Davis said
Special guests at the dinner
included, in addition to the
county officers who were
members of the association,
were members of the John Zink
staff at the ranch-community
center
Retirement
President elect of the Osage
county officers association.
Sherriff George Wayman (left)
presented a life membership
plaque to retiring Osage County
Commissioner Oscar Brush
Wednesday night Brush retires
in January as county com
missioner The presentation
was made at a meeting-election
of the group at the John Zink
clubhouse where Wayman
served as cook for a dinner (J
C Photo)
PAMPAPR
PAR
:
Osage county officers met at the John Zink ranch clubhouse Wednesday tor a dinner
meeting and election Shown at the meeting are (left to right) Fred Jordan, county com
missioner; Hazel Shoemake, county clerk, w Harold Clark, assessor, Bob Lowry, sur.
veyor; Nezzie Horn, county treasurer, Helen Christenson, court clerk, L. B May county
commissioner, Oscar Brush, county commissioner and George Wayman, county sheriff
Not shown was T E Allen county superintent, and John Grigg, commissioner elect who
will succeed Brush in January. (J C Photo).
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