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Volume 113 No. 12 75 Cents Thursday June 23, 2011P.O. Box 278 •105 W. Main Street • Boise City, Oklahoma 73933-0278 • Cimarron CountyPhone 580-544-2222 • Fax 580-544-3281 • e-mail bcnews@ptsi.net

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BOISE CITY WEATHER Hi Lo rn

Tue. June 14 87 61Wed. June 15 94 57Thurs. June 16 102 56Fri. June 17 92 60Sat. June 18 94 60Sun. June 19 99 55Mon. June 20 75 59MARKETSWheat $7.48Milo $6.92Corn $6.27 (spot prices subject to change)

THIS DAY IN HISTORYJUNE 23

THIS DAY INMUSIC

CIMARRON COUNTYJAIL BLOTTER

BORN ON JUNE 23

SOMETHING TO THINKABOUT

1894 Alfred Kinsey ento-m o l o g i s t / s e x o l o g i s t(Kinsey Report)1894 Duke of Windsor[King Edward VIII of En-gland] (briefly in 1936)1927 Bob Fosse ChicagoIll, choreographer/director(Cabaret, Damn Yankees)1929 June Carter CashMaces Spring Va, countrysinger (Johnny Cash Show)1940 Wilma Rudolph US,100m/200m sprinter(Olympic-gold-1960)1946 Ted ShackelfordOkla. City, Okla, actor(Dallas, Knots Landing)

1683 William Penn signsfriendship treaty withLenni Lenape indians inPennsylvania; only treaty“not sworn to, nor broken”1810 John Jacob Astor or-ganizes Pacific Fur Co(Astoria, Oregon)1860 Congress establishesthe Government PrintingOffice1860 US Secret Servicecreated1865 At Fort Towson, GenStand Watie surrenders lastsizeable army1868 Christopher LathamSholes patents “Type-writer”1951 Most expensive UShailstorm ($1.5M cropdamage & $14M property-Kansas)1954 122ø F (50ø C),Overton, Nevada (staterecord)1972 Pres Nixon signs actbarring sex discriminationin college sports

1963, Kyu Sakamotostarted a three week run atNo.1 on the US singleschart with ‘Sukiyaki’, thefirst-ever Japanese song todo so. It made No.6 on theUK chart in 1963 and wasalso a No.10 UK single forKenny Ball in the sameyear.

6-15Grant Dobson-violation of aprotective order, booked inand out.Jo Coulson- Failure to re-strain a dangerous dog,booked in and out.

6-17Ruston Horton- Servingtime, eight days.

A dog will look up on you;a cat will look down on you;however, a pig will see youeye to eye and know it hasfound an equal. - Sir Win-ston Churchill

Loud blowout...This Boise City volunteer fire fighter cools off a semi-truck tire at Love’s on Tuesday night, Wednesday morn-ing June 14-15. The truck pulled into the truck stop andup to a diesel fuel bay with its trailer brakes overheated.The heat caused expansion and the tire nearest the hotbrakes exploded. The explosion was loud enough to beheard and awaken individuals all over Boise City. Per-sonnel at Love’s upon hearing the explosion, cut fuel toall the fuel bays. Some drivers at the truck stop usedavailable water to cool the site until the fire departmentresponded.

Austin, Texas band to perform at CHC...Lonesome Heroes to Perform at the Cimarron HeritageCenter. An Austin, Texas group, Lonesome Heroes, willperform Sunday, June 26, at 4 p.m. in the Cimarron Heri-tage Center. Admission will be a suggested $10 donationor help with fuel expenses. The group was founded in2005 by Rich Russell and Landry McMeans. They werepart of a 2008 Bank of America commercial during theOlympic Games. The studio and touring band can con-sist of Russell and McMeans along with Jeff Johnstone,Jim DeGregorio, Bill Doughty, Chris Clonts, ChuckFleming, Sarah Stollak, and Kullen Fuchs. Depending onthe size of the venue, the group may be a three or fivepiece band. Their first album will be released today, andthey have 150 plus shows on their Highway 287 Tourfrom Port Aurthur, Texas to Glacier National Park, Mon-tana, and the 1,791 mile length of the Federal Highwayfor which the tour is named. Among those who have in-fluenced the rock, folk and country group are: JohnnyCash, Bob Dylan, Graham Parsons, Hank Williams, Okla-homa City’s The Flaming Lips, Kris Kristofferson, WoodyGuthrie and Emmy Lou Harris.

COUNTY-WIDEBURN BAN

Outdoor campfires or bon-fires are prohibited; LPGand natural gas grills andcharcoal-fired cooking out-side in a grilling receptacleare permitted provided thatthe activity is conductedover a non-flammable sur-face and at least five feetfrom flammable vegeta-tion. This ban also bans theuse or discharge of fire-works or other explosives. This ban cannot be overrid-den or changed by any in-dividual.

Burn Ban isimportant,no exceptions

Plainview Voterschoose to annexto Boise City andKeyes SchoolDistrictsBy C.F. David

According to the poll tally inthe recent Plainview Schoolelection, the Plainview voters at41-3 made the decision to an-nex to the Boise City and KeyesDistricts. This is for tax purposesonly.

The parents of any child inthe Plainview School District willor has received an open enroll-ment form. They may chooseto send their children to Keyes,Boise City, or Texhoma and ac-cording to a Plainview spokes-person, at least two students willtransfer to the Stratford, Texasschool district this fall.

Members of Southern GreatPlains Property Rights Coalition(SGPPRC) are holding an infor-mational meeting June 23 at 6:00PM at the High Plains Technol-ogy Center in Woodward, OK.Attorneys Bob Gum and TerryStowers will make presenta-tions about property and mineralrights and compensation issuesthat are involved with high volt-age transmission lines. Bothattorneys have been involvedwith the first leg of OG&E’stransmission lines that began in2008. That line began nearPiedmont, OK and ended upnear Sharon, OK. 73 parcelsof property from that line werecondemned and many of thosecases are still pending in thecourt system. Gum and Stowersalso represented SGPPRC be-fore the Oklahoma CorporationCommission and opposed CleanLine of Houston’s request to begranted utility status in Okla-homa. Clean Line is an out-of-state transmission company. Adecision in that case has not yetbeen handed down. Gum andStowers will answer questionsafter their presentations regard-ing damages, compensation,eminent domain law, condem-nation proceedings, and

Area landowners organizeinformational meeting ontransmission lines

SGPPRC’s Revised Joint Stipu-lation Agreement and PrivateRights Settlement Agreementwith Clean Line.

OG&E sent letters out toproperty owners this spring whomay have transmission lines builton their land. Three new linesare planned to run from the newsubstation south of Woodward:one line will go south of Hammon,OK and then on to Tuco, TX;one will run to the Kansas stateline and then to a substation nearMedicine Lodge, KS; one willbe built to the Beaver/Texascounty border and then to theHitchland substation south ofGuymon, OK. SGPPRC hopesto inform effected landownersso that everyone involved withthese new lines are treated fairly,equitably and receive just com-pensation for the taking of theirproperty. SGPPRC ‘s missionstatement emphasizes that theysupport wind energy and eachlandowner’s right to make theirown decisions regarding theirproperty.

SGPPRC Board of Directorsare Gary Stocking, Chuck Smith,Candyce Kline, Sue Selman,Margaret Benbrook, Jim Ruble,Jeff Klick, Jerry Nine, ArnoldSmith and Tyler Woolfolk.

Army Pvt. David A. Spell hasgraduated from the InfantrymanOne Station Unit Training at FortBenning, Columbus, Ga. Thetraining consists of Basic Infan-try Training and Advanced In-dividual Training.

During the nine weeks ofbasic combat training, the sol-dier received training in drill andceremonies, weapons employ-ment, map reading, tactics, mili-tary courtesy, military justice,physical fitness, first aid skills,and Army history, core valuesand traditions. Additional train-ing included development ofbasic combat skills and battle-field operations and tactics, andexperienced use of variousweapons and weapons de-

KEYES SOLDIER COMPLETES TRAININGfenses available to the infantrycrewman.

The Advanced IndividualTraining course is designed totrain infantry soldiers to performreconnaissance operations; em-ploy, fire and recover anti-per-sonnel and anti-tank mines; lo-cate and neutralize land minesand operate target and sightequipment; operate and maintaincommunications equipment andradio networks; construct fieldfiring aids for infantry weapons;and perform infantry combatexercises and dismounted battledrills, which includes survivalprocedures in a nuclear, biologi-cal or chemical contaminatedarea.

Spell is the son of Ann Spellof Adams St., Keyes, Okla.

Cancer survivors, caregivers,team members and others willwalk throughout the night in thebattle against the disease dur-ing the 16th annual AmericanCancer Society Relay For Lifeof Texas County and are arearesidents are invited to join theeffort.

The Texas County ActivityCenter in Guymon is the newlocation for the Relay to be held7 p.m. Friday, July 22 to 7 a.m.Saturday, July 23.

Relay For Life is a family-oriented team event where par-ticipants of all ages walk or joglaps relay-style and take part infun activities at team sites andthroughout the building. Themefor this year’s event is “Disneyon Relay” and teams are takingfamiliar Disney characters andmovies and turning them intocancer-fighting mascots.

Teams are made up of stu-dents, co-workers, club mem-bers, family and friends, all dedi-cated to ending the threat of can-cer. Team members haveearned and collected donationsto the Society prior to the eventand continue their fund-raisingthroughout the night of the Re-lay.

The Relay For Life of TexasCounty begins at 7 p.m. withregistration and entertainmentwith the opening ceremony setfor 8 p.m. Highlights include thesurvivor Celebrate Ceremony at8:30 p.m. and the luminaria Re-member Ceremony at 10 p.m.Games, contests, music, activi-ties and team events will con-tinue through the night until 5a.m. when the Fight Back Cer-emony takes center stage fol-lowed at 5:30 a.m. by a publicbreakfast. At 7 a.m., the clos-ing ceremony will honor topfund-raisers and announce finaldoor prize winners.

“The American Cancer So-ciety Relay For Life of TexasCounty offers an opportunity forsurvivors, current cancer pa-tients, friends, family, anyonereally, to come together in thefight against cancer,” Jana Har-ris, event chair, said. “This is theplace to come to learn moreabout fighting cancer, to donate

to the cause, to celebrate liveafter cancer and to rememberthose lives stolen by cancer. Wemust fight together to defeatcancer.”

She added, “Everyone hasbeen affected by cancer in someway and everyone is invited tojoin in the fight by coming out tothe Relay. We will laugh together,we will cry together and togetherwe will overcome cancer.”

All funds raised at Relay ForLife go to the American CancerSociety to support local servicesand resources for cancer patientsand their families including Reachto Recovery and LookGood...Feel Better providedhere by local volunteers. Fundsalso support critical cancer re-search to find new treatmentsfor every cancer and commu-nity education programs andmaterials designed to teachpeople how to reduce their riskof developing cancer.

The Relay For Life of TexasCounty goal for 2011 is $75,000and organizers are hoping to in-volve 100 cancer survivors and300 caregivers so everyone’shelp is needed to raise the fundsand spread awareness to endcancer’s threat.

To learn more about the localRelay event, persons may con-t a c tJana_Harris@seaboardfoods.comor 580-461-5174.

To discover more about can-cer treatment, support and ser-vices, patients or their caregiversmay call 1-800-227-2345 or visitcancer.org anytime day or night.

The American Cancer Soci-ety combines an unyielding pas-sion with nearly a century ofexperience to save lives and endsuffering from cancer.

Volunteers help the Societysave lives by telling people howto stay well by preventing can-cer or detecting it early; helpingpeople get well by being therefor them during and after a can-cer diagnosis; by finding curesthrough investment in ground-breaking discoveries; and byfighting back by convincing law-makers to pass laws to defeatcancer and by rallying commu-nities worldwide to join the fight.

CANCER RELAY COMING UPNEXT MONTH

(Oklahoma City) FormerOklahoma Governor BradHenry has accepted a positionon the Memorial Institute for thePrevention of Terrorism’s(MIPT) Board of Directors.

MIPT is a U.S. Departmentof Homeland Security trainingpartner serving the nation’s

800,000 uniformed officers andlaw enforcement leadership.Our mission is to enhance thepublic safety through training,professional development andeducation.

Currently, Henry is a found-ing member of Henry-AdamsCompanies, LLC and serves as

counsel with the law firm ofLester, Loving & Davies, P.C.

Henry served asOklahoma’s governor for twoconsecutive terms, from 2003 –2011. Prior to being elected togovernor, he served 10 years inthe Oklahoma State Senate,chairing the Senate JudiciaryCommittee and serving as vice-chair of the Senate EconomicDevelopment Committee.

In 2010, Henry was ap-pointed by President BarackObama to the six-memberCouncil of Governors. Thecouncil, created by ExecutiveOrder of President George W.Bush, works closely with theSecretary of Defense, the Sec-retary of Homeland Security,and other defense and nationaladvisors to exchange views, in-formation and advice on mattersof mutual interest pertaining tothe National Guard, homelanddefense, and synchronizationand integration of State and Fed-eral military activities.

“We are extremely fortunateto have the Governor join ourboard. His unquestionable integ-rity, intelligence and vast knowl-edge and experience in publiclife will be an invaluable assetto MIPT,” said David Cid,MIPT executive director. “Itwas, in fact, the Governor’s be-lief in our mission and supportthat was vital in our difficult yearof transition and that led to oursuccess. The MIPT is makingour cities more resilient by im-proving policing, and this workis clearly a part of GovernorHenry’s legacy.”

More information aboutMIPT’s programs can befound at www.mipt.org.

Former Oklahoma Governor BradHenry Joins MIPT Board of Directors

TRUCK OVERTURNS ATINTERSECTION

A tractor-trailer truck over-turned Saturday evening at theintersection of Highways 56 and287, just east of Boise City.There were no injuries. TheOHP released no further details.

ATTENTION!!THIS SATURDAY, JUNE25, THERE WILL BE ABIRTHDAY BASH AT

THE SENIOR CENTERFROM 6 TO 8 P.M.

THE REASON FOR THEEVENT? NORMA

LEACH WILL BE 6?

Academe, n.: An ancient school where mo-rality and philosophy were taught.Academy, n.: A modern school where foot-ball is taught. - Ambrose Bierce