Pawhuska Daily Journal-Capital (Pawhuska, Okla.), Vol. 74, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 3, 1983 Page: 1 of 6
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Pawhuska
Daily Journal-Capital
POLICE DEPT.
FIRE DEPT
AMF HANCE
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Pawhuska, Osage County, Oklahoma
Thursday, February 3, 1985 Vol. 74 No. 24
Sunday 25‘ Daily 20‘
Storm eases, cold
VS
ICE ART - Jack Frost sometimes treats us to a little art created
by snow or ice to break the monotony of winter's bleak grayness.
Here a Medusa-like bush is iced-over by drops of water falling
from the roof of a building in the alley between Main Street and
Sixth behind the TG&Y. (Photo by Lori Grof).
Science Fair, open house set
The first Indian Camp Elementary
School Science Fair and open house
showing of the new five-classroom ad-
dition will be held Saturday.
The Science Fair features four
divisions. Projects will be displayed
from 10am to2p.m. in the gymnasium.
The biological sciences will have 21
entries; physical sciences 11 entries;
engineering eight entries; and earth and
space sciences, 15 entries.
Sisson services Friday
Services will be held Friday at 10:30
a.m. at Hominy Christian Church for
Braden Ray Sisson, 18 months old. He
died Wednesday in a Tulsa Hospital.
Burial will be in Powell Cemetery
under direction of Powell Funeral Home.
He is survived by his parents, Mike and
Lisa Sisson, and a brother, Michael
David.
He is also survived by paternal
grandmother Joyce Sisson of Hominy;
maternal grandmother Lola Moseley of
Bernice; maternal grandfather Glen
Rogers of Terlton; paternal great-
grandparents Oscar and Louise Baker of
Hominy; paternal great-grandmother
Opal Sisson of Ponca City, and maternal
great-grandfather Andrew Newton of
Manteca, Calif.
He was born Aug. 3,1981 in Tulsa.
Awards will be given to first, second,
and third-place winners of each division,
and an award will be given to the single
best project.
A panel of four judges from Phillips
Petroleum will judge the 55 sixth
graders’ projects.
"Many of the students from this
Science Fair will enter the Bartlesville
District Science Fair sponsored by
Phillips on Feb. 26,” said science teacher
Jill Henrie.
The five new classrooms will be shown
in the open house Saturday from 10 a.m.
to noon.
Briefs
Ruth Hull’s services Friday
Services will be held Friday at 2 p.m.
at Hominy Baptist Church for Ruth Hull,
61, of Hominy, who died Tuesday at
Clinton. Burial will be in Powell
Cemetery under direction of Powell
Funeral Home.
Survivors include her husband, Em-
mett; two daughters, Ada Yarbrough of
Putnam, Okla, and Mary Ellen Vox of
Aurora, Colo; four grandchildren and
two great-grandchildren.
She is also survived by four sisters:
Edity Chembers and Stella Mae West,
both of Dallas; Pat Grayson of Irving,
Texas, and Frances Owen of Sapulpa.
She was born May 21, 1921, in Jenks.
The couple lived in Texas for most of the
past 40 years, moving to Hominy a year
ago.
Osage lease sale planned Feb. 16
Lease Sale No. 209 will be held in the
Osage Agency Auditorium Feb. 16 at 10
a.m.
Leases to be offered to the highest bidder
include:
Ten 160-acre gas tracts; twelve 160-
acre oil tracts; and 101 oil and gas tracts
composed of 98, 160-acre tracts, two 10-
acre tracts and one 80-acre tract. The 101
oil and gas tracts total 15,780 acres.
There is no limitation to the number of
acres any lessee may acquire.
Prospective bidders may at any time
inspect the records concerning logs and
production of wells in the immediate
vicinity of lands advertised at the
Minerals Branch of the Osage Agency
and should inspect the properties before
date of sale
SERMON SET-Rev. Lee Morris will
deliver his “sermon of candidacy"
Sunday at 11 a.m. at First
Presbyterian. After the service, a
congregational meeting will be held
and dinner will be served. All friends
of the church are invited
DRIVER'S TESTS-The driver’s license
examiner will be at the Pawhuska Tag
Agency the second and fourth Wed-
nesday of the month, from 9 a.m. to 4
p.m beginning Feb. 9.
Today’s quote:
I don't want to make kids more like
grown-ups. I want to make grown-ups
more like kids. -Woody Guthrie
Temperatures
Bi-hourly temperatures courtesy of
City Light Plant.
Wednesday: Noon27; 2p.m. 27,4p.m.
29; 6p.m. 29; 8p.m.27; 10p.m. 24.
Thursday: Midnight 24; 2 a.m. 23; 4
a.m 21; 6 a.m. 19; 8 a.m. 19; 10 a.m. 22.
By The Associated Press
The winter storm that was called the
worst in a quarter-century in the
Panhandle and flooded some parts of
southeastern Oklahoma was expected to
abate today.
Scores of accidents were blamed on the
weather and two of them were fatal.
A 76-year-old man was killed when a
road grader rolled over on him in Buffalo
when the machine's operator was about
to climb down to help a stranded
motorist. The Oklahoma Highway patrol
identified the victim as Clarence E. Stith
of Buffalo.
The grader rolled on the snowpacked
road at 3:20 p.m. when the driver, Jack
McLaughlin, was dismounting, the patrol
said.
Annette L. Dyches, 22, of Chouteau,
died Wednesday morning a half mile
north of her hometown when her car slid
on ice, crossed the center line of U.S. 69
in Mayes County and collided with a
truck, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol
reported.
Many roads once closed by solid ice
sheets had only slick spots on them by
Wednesday night, the patrol said.
Many Oklahomans were still digging
out of drifts up to 9 feet high while the
National Weather Service said it would
not be as cold today as earlier this week.
But the Highway Patrol in Beaver
County reported all roads were still
closed Wednesday night, while U.S. 287
was open in Cimarron County and U.S. 54
was open in Texas County.
Three other northeastern counties
hard hit by the heavy snows. Harper,
Ellis and Woodward, reported all roads
open late Wednesday
In northeastern Oklahoma, the patrols
said the Will Rogers Turnpike from
Tulsa to Joplin, Mo. was still slick on the
inside lanes and bridges were reported
to be slick and hazardous.
The storm brought 35 mph winds to
Oklahoma’s western Plains and left 4
inches of rain in the east.
Floodwaters were receding Wed-
nesday from the Blue River and Clear
Boggy Creek in southeastern Oklahoma,
as well as Bird Creek near Sperry, north
of Tulsa. Deputies said no damage was
reported, and the minor flooding was
limited to farmlands.
At 4 a.m. today, clear skies prevailed
statewide Temperatures remained quite
cold with reading of 11 degrees at
Guymon to 29 degrees both at Altus and
Tinker Air Force Base.
The Oklahoma forecast called for
mostly fair skies and slightly warmer
temperatures.
It will 4 partly cloudy and very cold
with a chinc of light snow in the
Panhandle tonight.
It will be cloudy and cold with snow
spread; ig over the state Friday.
Highs today will range from the mid-
30s to low 40s
Lows tonight wiJ b. mostly in the
teens
Highs Friday wil range from the
upper 20s in the Panhand e to mid-30s in
the east.
State’s employees
may lose benefits
Fehr named
cage queen
Katie Fehr, a PHS senior, has been
selected to reign as queen during
basketball homecoming at half-time in
the varsity boys' game against Grove
here Friday
The queen's escort is Clint Culver, and
Kissing Captain is B.J. Smith.
Senior attendant is Suzanne Stuart,
who will be escorted by Lesley Potter.
lisa Burd has been selected as junior
attendant, to be escorted by Kevin Runte
Glen Jech will escort sophomore at-
tendant Summer Cass.
Freshman attendant Dixie Horn will be
escorted by Thad Dilbeck.
Angela Potter, the daughter of Mer-
mon and Anna Potter, has been chosen as
flower girl.
Whit Culver, the son of Missy and Ben
Culver, will be crown bearer.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - House
Appropriations Chairman Cleta
Deatherage today unveiled a reform plan
she said would save the state at least
$56.5 million by changing sick leave and
other policies affecting state workers.
“These measures are not only
designed to solve some of the serious
funding problems facing state agencies,
they are also intended to restructure the
state employee benefit package to bring
them in line with the private labor
market,” said Mrs. Deatherage, D-
Norman.
She called for adoption of a uniform
reduction-in-force program in the event
the state financial picture worsens,
although adding she did not think
widespread layoffs will be necessary.
Her proposals to save money included
discontinuance of payment of employee
insurance and use of paid sick leave
during the six-month probationary
period. She said that could save more
than $4 million.
The major savings over the next year
or two, she said, would be accomplished
by changing sick leave and annual leave
policies.
She proposed reducing paid sick leave
days from the current 15 days per year to
5 days, cutting vacation time from 15
days per year to 10 days per year for one
year of service up to 10 years, then ad-
ding one day for each additional year up
to 20 days.
The vacation limits would apply to
employees hired after July 1. Ms
Deatherage also proposed disallowing
accumulation of unused annual leave
after Dec 31. 1984
While limiting the number of sick days
without a doctor's certificate to five
days, she proposed increasing the
current accumulation of sick leave from
the 45 days to 120 days.
Ms. Deatherage said the state is
"totally unprepared” to handle a
reduction in force, if% should become
necessary.
She said hasty layoffs could produce
■ legal costs resulting from court actions
by employees" that would be greater
that savings from layoffs.
She called on the Department of
Personnel Management and all state
agencies to adopt reduction-in-force
plans for unclassified and classified
employees.
Concho Indian School to close
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The In-
terior Department plans to close the
Concho Indian School to improve the
education of students attending it.
Secretary James Watt has told Senators
Speaking to the Senate Energy and
Natural Resources Committee, Watt said
Wednesday, "I don't really believe in
government schools. I believe in public
schools."
Watt said the elementary boarding
school should be closed "so we can im-
prove Indian educational opportunities"
for the 137 students there.
"ESTA AQUI!" Eric Spencer of the Pawhuska High School
band says "It’s here" to Marion Campbell of the Kiwanis Club.
Campbell wanted to see just where the band was going to spend
the $225 the club was about to donate to help finance a trip to
Mexico City. The journey is planned for April 28 May 3. "One of
the purposes of the club is to help the community," Campbell
said. "We felt the band's trip was a worthy cause." (Photo by
Lori Grof.)
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