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VoL 87, No. 55
Pawhuska, Oklahoma 74056
Wednesday, July 9,1997
Area law enforcement officers stand in front of a deserted motel in Hominy following the discovery
of a murdered teenage Hominy girl. (Photo courtesy of the Hominy News-Progress)
Are Goodwin and Hays
murders connected?
New basketball coach
quits; another hired by BOE
By Lori Grof since the fall of 1994. curb work on the school track
J-C Reporter "He built a good program out with Belco, a gravel pit com-
A new girls' basketball coach there," Woodyard said. pany west of town, for
hired June 26 has already re- The "Journal-Capital" will $111,774.45;
signed, Pawhuska schools Su- have a photo and story on the - contract with Edwin Fair
perintendent Nancy Woodyard new coach when he comes to Community Mental Health
advised board members at the Pawhuska and after he has met Center, Inc., of Ponca City, to
regular July 1 meeting, with parents here. provide a counselor/therapist
The new basketball coach, Another coach has resigned for Pawhuska schools for the
Paul Haxton of Ripley, Okla., from the school system here 1997-98 school year;
resigned shortly after coming to who has been with Pawhuska - to employ Marilyn Dorsey as
Pawhuska and meeting with for the past seven years. Pete secondary business/computer
parents, a source said. Haxton's Hiseley has been the head teacher for the 1997-98 school
wife, who would have been boys’ basketball coach for the year;
employed as a home economics past seven years. His wife - to employ Chris Tanner as
teacher, was also scratched Paula, who taught special edu- secondary teacher/alternative
from the list of potential em- cation at the elementary school school teacher for the 1997-98
ployees with the system for the here, also resigned. The Hise- school year;
upcoming year. leys have moved to another - students activities report;
Woodyard said there had town, where coach Hiseley - treasurers’ report:
been three candidates inter- will be coaching for a bigger - appropriations, claims and
viewed June 26, and another school. encumbrances.
candidate who met the qualifi- In other news, the school Board members also approved
cations has been hired: Dale board approved the following all items on the consent agenda;
Bledsoe of Balko, Okla, has items on the agenda: 1 Approved Nancy Wood-
been teaching girls' basketball . A bid for asphalt base and (See Basketball coach, Page 2)
By Lori Grof
J-C Reporter
Although investigators have
said they have "no idea"
whether the murders of two
area girls are connected, there
is no ruling out the chilling sim-
ilarities.
Two young, white, attractive
females are each last seen
alone, late at night; there are
posters placed around
Pawhuska when the girls are
missing; several days later
their decomposed bodies are
found.
In the most recent case, Amy
Lee Schlock (Hays), 16, a
beautiful young girl with
blonde hair and green eyes, was
last seen walking down She
She road in Hominy around 1
a.m. on June 17.
July 2 at 1 p.m. an Osage
County Sheriff's deputy and a
Hominy policeman investi-
gated a bad odor coming from an
abandoned motel in Hominy.
When a decomposed body was
found the Oklahoma State Bu-
reau of Investigation was
called in. The next evening the
medical examiner in Tulsa, us-
ing dental records, identified was reported missing after A (Visla MY O cto r+ o
the body as that of Hays. She shed been left alone late at ACCOSS OKIdI lollid olCI Lo
had been strangled to death. night with a pickup truck in
OSBI investigator Dennis the downtown area; she was . , 1 | |
Franchini told The Journal last seen alive on Sept 22, 1996, AIIA 1 in nortnoncrorn ( KIAhoA
Capital Monday the body had the same weekend of the Bikers AuO. | III I IOI U lodotol 1 1 CNOl TCI « I
been so badly decomposed there meet in Pawhuska. Sept. 29 w
was no way to tell if the girl Goodwin’s body was discovered Nearly 42,000 persons who re- tern which uses an electron!- be mailed.
had been raped. He added he badly decomposed in Bird ceive public assistance or food cally-coded debit card to re- Access Oklahoma will have
had been informed of the Creek, just south of the water stamps from the Oklahoma place public assistance checks long-term advantages for the
Goodwin case but at this point plant, by a fisherman. Department of Human Services and food stamps in the Tempo- Oklahoma tax payer and the
had "no idea" whether the two SERVICES HELD will begin receiving benefits rary Assistance for Needy Fam- clients receiving benefits, John-
cases were connected. Amy Lee Schlock Hays was through an electronic debit card ilies and Food Stamp programs, son said. Oklahoma will save
Hominy Police Chief Richard born Dec. 2, 1980 in August 1, according to a state Lockheed Martin issued let- on the administrative cost of
Barker said the missing per- Bartlesville. She was raised official. ters to all current cash assis- postage, mailing materials and
son’s report on Hays had been and educated in the Hominy DHS Spokesperson George tance and food stamp recipients the multiple handling of paper
filed with his department by area and attended the Fairfax Earl Johnson, Jr. said, "We are in Craig, Creek, Delaware, checksand food stamps.
the Department of Human Ser- Alternative School. She loved working with our contract ven- Mayes, Nowata, Osage, Ot- "We are hopeful Access Ok-
vices DHS declined to discuss sports and played basketball. dor, Lockheed Martin, IMS, to tawa, Rogers, Tulsa and Wash- lahoma will reduce welfare
the matter with "The Journal- Amy was found dead July 2 in case the transition to Access ington counties in early June fraud and food stamp traffick-
Capital" and had not provided Hominy. She is survived by her Oklahoma Clients eligible to telling them when and there ing," Johnson said, "because
a photo to be used in the paper parents, Leo and Cynthia receive benefits should make they needed to go to get their with the new debit card sys-
as of Monday. Hays, her brother, Norman Lee every effort to get their cards new debit cards and Access Ok- tem, there are no public assis-
Chicf Barker also said the Parks, her sisters, Laura Nicole at the appointed places if they lahoma training in July. Recip- tance benefit checks or food
investigation was a combined Drummond and Crystal Dawn wish to receive benefits in a ients MUST have the Access stamps to be lost or stolen."
effort of the sheriff’s depart- Holes, and a host of other timely manner next month." Oklahoma debit cards to re-
ment the police department relatives and friends. Those in Osage County who ceive August benefits. All re- Access Oklahoma is sched-
and the OSBI Graveside services were held receive benefits through the ceipts must attend one of these uled to be online statewide by
Barker said there were no sus- Saturday, July 5 at 2 p.m. at the DHS Office in Pawhuska must sessions as the cards will NOT January 1,1998.
pects in the case, although A. J. Powell Cemetery in attend one of the six-day ses- Camm iecinnarc
"quite a bit of people have been Hominy with Hominy Police sions to be held at the National W/OI I II I Hootl TCE • WI%
talked to" about the matter. Chief, the Rev. Richard Guard Armory, 823 E. 8th
Joannie Goodwin of Pawhuska Barker, officiating. Services Street, between July 21 and 25 pIFitiAn AFGA ramc
--------------------were under the direction of and July 28. | IC IuToI I PI 09I qillo
Powell Funeral Home in Access Oklahoma is the
Hominy. state’s new benefit issuance sys- County commissioners ap- leigh; Barnsdall Site Agree-
m proved agreements for nutrition ment; Cedar Ridge Site Agree-
programs in Osage County dur- ment; Skiatook Site Agreement;
Grant provides new
lighting at museum
The Pawhuska Community
Foundation provided a grant to
the Osage County Historical
Museum. Purpose of the grant
was to provide new lighting to
the interior of the museum. The
request came from Betty Smith,
museum director.
The PCF was formed in 1992 as
a public charity to benefit the
community. The foundation
provides a means for charitable
giving for individual wanting
to provide for community im-
provement. The PCF is also
ing a special meeting Wednes- Hominy Transportation Agree-
day- , . ... ment; and Orkin Pest Control
Programs approved included: Service for Nutrition Sites.
Wynona homebound meal de-
livery from Hominy Nutrition Commissioners also approved
Site/Josephine Elrod; Barns- utility permits as well as a
a and donations to dall Nutrition Center Meal De- lease renewal purchase agree-
seeking grant Interpretive Cen- livery from Cedar Ridge/Bill ment and a tool lease agreement
prove Visitor Information Brown; Nutrition Outreach with James Clark and Larry
Center As our endowment funds Transportation/Hubert Plum- Dooley (District 3).
grow from contributions we will
be able to consider additional
grants to other non-profit orga- Parker wins
nizations in Pawhuska. ‘9
The foundation now has a clown awards
$60,000 endowment, provided Newell Barker of Pawhuska
for operations. Staff and board the best clown in certain cate-
. i cones in national conventions.
members are all volunteers. SAt Columbia, Mo, during the
107th Supreme Council Session
GLI of Grottoes of North America at
Skull identified, m an a national meeting, Barker won
7 first place as character clown
arrested from Pawnee ceived most outstanding clown
unit (mechanical) award also.
A skull found on Salt Creek, Stoneman. Smith was booked Barker said clowns competed
south of Fairfax has been iden- into the Pawnee County jail on from all over the U.S.
tified as Fred Earl Stoneman. the charge of murder. Also, Barker attended the
On July 2 Osage County Sher- Stoneman was a resident of 125th Imperial Shrine Session
iffs investigator Lt. Ty Koch Stoneman was a resident of in St. Louis, Mo., an annual con-
turned Mark Smith, 46, over to % vention, in which clowns num-
Pawnee County authorities for Investigators on the case in- bering around 12,000 came from
the murder of Stoneman. Smith eluded Chief Deputy Wes Pen- all over the U.S. and Canada,
lead Pawnee County authori- land, of the Osage County Sh- Barker won first place for
ties and Lt. Koch to a rural lo- eriffs Department and Osage "character clow; and won sec-
Pawhuska kids enjoy diving into the water at the city swimming cation in Pawnee County where County district attorney inves- ond with another clown in the
pool on the hot days of summer. (Photo by Lori Grof). he had hidden the remains of tigator Boyd Peters. 2-4 man skit competition.
Newell Barker
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Gann, Sherry. Pawhuska Journal-Capital (Pawhuska, Okla.), Vol. 87, No. 55, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 9, 1997, newspaper, July 9, 1997; Pawhuska, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2288179/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.