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June 13, 2012 Alva Review-Courier/Newsgram


Community Calendar

By Marione MartinAn Alva man died in a collision 8.5

miles west of Alva early Monday. The wreck occurred about 5:10 a.m. on US Highway 64.

A 2008 Peterbuilt semi driven by James E. West, 58, of Durant, was travel-ing westbound when an eastbound 1993 Ford Ranger pickup driven by Jason R. McKnight, 37, of Alva, crossed the cen-ter line for an unknown reason, striking the semi in the other lane. McKnight was

Alva man dies in collision Monday

Wednesday9 a.m. The Woods County Senior

Citizens Center, 625 Barnes, Alva, is open for games and other activities. Exercise is scheduled each day at 11 a.m. Transportation provided upon request.

Noon Alva Kiwanis Club meets at Champs Restaurant.

2-5 p.m. The Cherokee Strip Museum in Alva is open every day except Monday. For information or arranged tours, call 580-327-2030.

7 p.m. Alva Moose Lodge men’s meeting is held every Wednesday.

Thursday9 a.m. The Woods County Senior


Noon Alva Rotary Club meets at Champs Restaurant.


5:30 p.m. Alva Weight Watchers meet at College Hill Church of Christ.

8 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous will meet at 1027 8th (Wesley House) in Alva every Monday and Thursday.

Friday9 a.m. The Woods County Senior



pinned in the vehicle for an undetermined amount of time. He was pronounced dead at the scene and transported to Marshall Funeral Home in Alva.

Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Kenneth Jordan of the Alfalfa County detachment investigated the accident. He was assisted by Troopers Hartley, Cha-loupek, Marion and Fike as well as the Alva Fire Department, Woods County Sheriff’s Office, Oklahoma Department of Transportation and Alva EMS.

A 2008 Peterbuilt semi driven by James E. West, 58, of Durant, was traveling westbound when an eastbound 1993 Ford Ranger pickup driven by Jason R. McKnight, 37, of Alva, crossed the center line for an unknown reason, striking the semi in the other lane.


By Yvonne MillerIt was a full agenda for the South

Barber USD 255 Board of Education at their June meeting Monday night.

Board President Kent Swartz pre-sided over the meeting with members: Deborah Helfrich, Bob Schrock, Dana Roark, Janet Robison and Michael An-derson. Jeff Black was absent. Superin-tendent Brad Morris and board secretary Julie Johnson also sat at the board table.

The board accepted the resignation of longtime social studies teacher and head football coach James Johnston. He accepted a position at Lyons, Kan., where he’ll teach and coach 11-man football.

Calculating Student GPAsRetiring Jr./Sr. High Principal Fred

Gillig attended the meeting to discuss review of how high school student grade point averages (GPA’s) are fig-ured. He said that many school’s student electronic transcripts show GPA’s calcu-lated from only semester grades .

Yet, South Barber includes quarterly (each nine weeks period) grades when figuring a student’s overall GPA. To put students on an even playing field with students from other schools, Gillig rec-ommended the board approve using only semester grades to figure GPAs to put on a students’ transcript.

Quarterly grades will be used as a tiebreaker if needed to determine class valedictorian or salutatorian.

Board approved Gillig’s recommen-dation so only semester grades will be

used to figure student GPAs for all exist-ing and upcoming high school students.

Drug Policy Ready for Attorney Review

PK-6 Principal Marcia Cantrell and Site Council members worked for months compiling a District Drug Test-ing Policy. Board members reviewed and discussed the proposed policy.

Swartz shared an article about McPherson’s High School random drug policy that is similar to the one South Barber considers. Board members com-pared the two policies.

South Barber’s drug testing policy will include all extra-curricular events, not only sports. Board discussed where the testing will happen, cost and many more aspects.

Robison said, “I’m still riding the fence on it.” She voiced concern that kids will figure out how to beat it.

Swartz said, “One side of me says not to try and fix a problem at (a stu-dent’s) home, but this may be that kid’s only chance.”

“I think it’s worth a try to address the problem,” Helfrich said. “I’d rather be proactive than reactive.”

Roark said, “I agree.” Robison thanked the site council

group for their work on the project.Superintendent Morris said he wants

some public input before the board ap-proves a policy. Swartz said the next step is to have a lawyer review the docu-ment before the public views or board makes a decision.

Increased School Breakfast and Lunch Prices

Morris said the district needs to in-crease school lunch and breakfast prices by 10 cents each. Board approved the increase. New prices are:

PK-6 Grade – Breakfast, $1.50; Lunch, $2.20

7-12 Grade – Breakfast, $1.75; Lunch, $2.50

Adults – Breakfast, $2.90; Lunch, $3.40Same Mascot and Colors for Middle

and High School?At last month’s board meeting during

the site council report, Cantrell said at site council the topic of football helmets spurred discussion of the two different school mascots and colors: the Middle School Tornadoes in blue and gold; and the High School Chieftains in black and gold. Elementary students are the “Little Chiefs.”

The topic appeared on the agenda Monday night.

It was pointed out that the middle school students are now housed at the building with high school students. The sign in front says “Home of the Chief-tains.”

Robison reminded that when consol-idation happened in 1973 with Hardtner, the decision was made to retain Hardt-ner’s Tornado mascot and colors of blue and gold.

“That decision was out of respect and honor of Hardtner,” Robison said. “I see no reason to change it.”

The original helmet discussion re-garded size – that some middle school players needed a high school size helmet sometimes and it’s inconvenient since they are different colors.

Discussion continued that if the mas-cot and color change was made, new middle school athletic uniforms, etc., would need to be purchased.

Board agreed to have Morris check out the long term cost effectiveness. The board took no action.Superintendent Reports on Grounds

and FinancesSuperintendent Morris presented fig-

ures from a printout of the Kansas De-

Increased state funds and lunch prices, drug policy, grading, mascot, resignation at SB

See S. Barber Page 30


Ms. Diana Spence of Gilmer, Tex-as, along with Andy and Lee Spence of Fruitvale, Texas, are pleased to an-nounce the future wedding of their daughter, Kari Dee Spence to Rory An-drew McKenzie, son of Roger and Dr. Carole McKenzie of Alva.

The future bride is a graduate of Gilmer (Texas) High School and a grad-uate of East Texas Baptist University with a Bachelor of Science in education. Since graduation, she has served as a speech and theater teacher in East Texas school districts.

The future groom is a graduate of

Spence—McKenzie to wed in Texas

Lindale High School and a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Science in communica-tion studies. He is a speech and debate teacher.

The couple met through their work in the education system and this past July both took jobs at Royse City High School. Kari is the theater director and assistant speech and debate coach. Rory is the speech and debate coach and as-sistant theater director.

A July 14 wedding is planned in Mt. Pleasant, Texas and the couple will re-side in Rockwall, Texas.

Rory McKenzie and Kari Spence. Photo by Elizabeth Wisdom

South Barber Junior High SchoolPrincipal’s

Seventh Grade – Grant Cantrell, Spencer Kimmell, Anna Perez, Bailey Roberts, Emily Rugg, Abram Unger

Eighth Grade – Nicole Blick, Kori Leech, Anastasia Wilhelm

Honorable MentionSeventh Grade – Brian Farney, Dale

HochEighth Grade – Reiley Courson, Ta-

tum Haskins, Clay Holcomb, Caitlin Ja-cobs, Trenton Jahay, Tyler Martin

South Barber High SchoolPrincipal’s

Freshman—Riley Denton, Morgan Myers, Bryce Roberts

Sophomore—Dalton Black, Eliza-beth Miller, Courtney Roark, Amber Weve, Kiera Yates

Junior—Jessica Daughhetee, Lane Hess, Morgan Koblitz, Kelia McKitrick

Senior—Moira Kimmell, Brooke Murphy, Clarissa Murphy, Ali Thurman

Honorable MentionSophomore—Shania Farney, Saman-

tha Fulcher, Kale Girty, Lauren Hitch-cock

Junior—Lillie Fink, Keeli Hostetler, Montana McCullough, Jace Thurman

Senior—Naicee Guglemeyer, Micah Poison, Casey Williams

2011-2012 Second Semester Honor Roll Fourth Nine Weeks

By Lynn L. MartinNearly every small town of 2,000

people or larger has a nice airport on the outskirts of town. Most have paved runways and a few hangars.

Typically they also have locked terminal buildings where the rest rooms are unavailable. They are locked be-cause the community

can’t afford to pay someone to operate the airport.

Most of these airports were con-structed in the 1950’s and 1960’s when the cost of a small airplane was so low that almost anyone could choose to make flying a hobby, especially if three or four individuals went together to share the cost of a plane.

It seems to me the motorcycle hobby has replaced the flying hobby for many business people and other professionals who want a thrill-inducing diversion. The money required is about the same.

One minor advantage that small community airport can still offer is to provide a “courtesy car” for pilots who fly in. Usually it is a worn-out cop car diverted to the airport. The pilot who borrows the car understands his or her obligation is to replace the fuel they use.

Such loaner cars permit transient pi-lots to eat at local restaurants and shop at other businesses. It’s smart business


Lynn Says

Making an airport workfor the community.

The dividing line is that airports large enough to support a standard rent-al car firm won’t sabotage those tenants by providing loaner cars.

Airports not large enough to support rental car firms simply must provide al-ternative transportation in the form of loaner vehicles. Very few small towns have taxi services.

I make many fly or no-fly decisions based on ground transportation. I used to fly to Oklahoma City for business trips, but had to give it up because I couldn’t afford the minimum $70 rental car deal.

On the other hand, I flew to Tribune, Kan., last Saturday because I called ahead and learned they had a loaner ve-hicle that I could use. That reduced a 4.5 hour driving trip to 1.5 hours of flying – a total of six-hours of travel time saved in one day.

The Alva airport has been moving

up in quality of loaner cars, thanks to donations when someone interested in aviation passes and the family donates a car to the airport. Names of donors I recall include the Treadway and Bays families.

That’s actually a very good idea. Businessmen and women flying into the new Alva Regional Airport in million dollar aircraft are a little misplaced in a worn out police car with non-working air conditioning.

At the moment, the Alva airport has one nice loaner car, and then also a pickup truck typically used part-time by the airport manager and part-time as a second loaner vehicle.

Last I knew, Washburn Motors will also provide a rental-car service to busi-ness people who expect and can afford to go that route.

The Alva airport is thriving, selling $55,000 worth of fuel last month, up from about $35,000 the month before.

Due to unforseen delays and circum-stances, the Alva Friends of Play Foun-dation will be rescheduling it’s “Potluck and Play” ribbon-cutting ceremony.

The dedication was originally sched-uled for today, Wednesday, June 13, at 4:00pm, and has been rescheduled for Wednesday, June 20, at 4 p.m. The dedi-cation will take place at the South End of Hatfield Park, and after the ribbon-cutting the toys will be opened up for all of the kids to play on. Everyone is asked

to bring a dish and join the celebration.The finishing touches are being made

to the new toys and should be completed this weekend. The Foundation asks that people and kids refrain from using the South End of Hatfield Park at this time, as it is still under construction. While some surfacing has been placed, neither of the play areas are complete and should not be used. The Foundation thanks the community for their understanding and cooperation in this matter.

Ribbon-cutting ceremony delayed for Hatfield Park


Rick and Dot Tyree of Hardtner, Kan., and Brian and Cindy Severin of Goltry are pleased to announce the up-coming marriage of their children, Jor-dan Renee and Tyler Jay. Their wed-ding is planned for August 4, 2012, in Goltry.

Jordan is a 2008 graduate of Alva High School. She is attending North-western Oklahoma State University (NWOSU) in Alva and will graduate in May of 2013 with a degree in Math Education. She is employed at NWOSU in the Financial Aid Office.

Tyler is a 2008 graduate of Tim-

berlake High School. He is attending NWOSU and will graduate in May of 2013 with a degree in Health and Sports Science Education. He is farming with his family in Goltry.

Jordan is the granddaughter of Ber-nice Tyree and Charles Bird, and the late Harry Tyree of Alva, and the late Homer (Jr. Lee) and Helen Houston of Hardtner, Kan.

Tyler is the grandson of Cecil and Janice Severin of Goltry, and Delbert and Sandra Luginbill of Helena.

They will reside in Alva until gradu-ation.

Tyree–Severin announce engagement

Jordan Tyree and Tyler Severin

Principal 7th Grade – Madison Anderson,

Makaela Dungan, Alanna Nacion8th Grade – Karli Henderson, Kylie

Wilson, Miranda Sanders10th Grade – Haley Blewitt, Cidney

Thompson, Hailey Parker11th Grade – Brock Buller, Bailee

Clift, Janica Neal12th Grade – Casey Carson, Tanner

SlovacekSuperintendent

7th Grade – Kylee Fargo, Kamber Le-Force

8th Grade – April Burchfiel, Blaine Dungan, Zeb McCollum, Oakleigh Nickel, Jamie Thorp, Kaitlyn Winters

9th Grade – Cara Crain10th Grade – Kelsey Castle, Jacob

Henderson, Dakota Jantz11th Grade – Stacey Bailey, Karli Le-

Force, Kylee Severin, Levi Sanders12th Grade – Kylea Barnes, Hannah

Berg, Ashton Blewitt, Stetson Buller, Logan Campbell, Natalie Crain, Adriene Phillips, Sage Powers, Brandon Severin, Jessica Thorp, Coy Trout

Timberlake Public School Honor Roll4th 9 Weeks


ALVA STATE BANK& TRUST COMPANY

518 College Ave. - Alva, OK 73717580-327-3300

Oklahoma Association of Student Council BASIC Workshop Staff

A big welcome to Alva and NWOSU

First Row - Left to right --Justin Tomlinson, James Duncan, Jimmy Hutson, Rachel Evans-Bottom, Amanda Jones, Abbye Buckmaster, Jordie Douglas, McKenzie Hodge,Mallory Redwine, Carlie Pearson

Second Row -- Darryl Andrews, Jack Freeman, Jason Byrd, DeWayne Patterson, Jerry Rickerts, Karen Koehn, Brandon Havens, Perrin Duncan, Cory Soap, Janet Carter, Kathleen Reeves, Diana Phillips, Brian Hunter

Third Row -- Kristi Neerman, Tabbitha Kiener, Barbara Adams, Amour Wolfe, Brenda Severson, Mendi White, Kristy Cooper, Sarah Nangle, Martha Embry, Tommie Grant

There are also 213 delegates from over the state if Oklahoma.


These men are but some of the estimated 20 Kansas Highway Patrol Troopers, Barber County Sheriff’s Office, Kansas Bureau of Investigation and more who investigated a homicide in Hardtner, Kan., in the earliest morning hours Tuesday. Photo courtesy of the Hardtner Community News

By Yvonne MillerThe tiny town of Hardtner in Barber

County, Kan., was filled with law en-forcement from the county level to the Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP), Kan-sas Bureau of Investigation (KBI), a S.W.A.T. Team and more in the earliest morning hours Tuesday. Investigators remained there much of the day Tuesday investigating a homicide.

Tony Rosenbaum, age 31, was found deceased in a Hardtner residence. The house is on the west side of Main Street about three houses down from the swim-ming pool entrance. Neighbors say the house is where LeShawn Whipple re-sides.

According to the Barber County Sheriff’s press release, the first call came into dispatch at 12:24 a.m. Officers from the sheriff’s office and KHP responded in about 20 minutes. At that time there was another call to dispatch. Investiga-tors said they later determined the lady

who made that call had a non-life-threat-ening gunshot wound at the same resi-dence previously reported.

Law enforcement did not release the woman’s name, but locals alleged it was Whipple. No details about where or if she was treated nor her whereabouts were reported by law enforcement Tues-day afternoon.

Investigators were unable to deter-mine if anyone was in the house so the Highway Patrol Special Response Team was called and made entry into the house about 8 a.m., Tuesday morning. That’s when they found Rosenbaum’s body.

The KBI, KHP and Barber County Sheriff’s Office continue the investiga-tion. Their press release said there are no suspects at this time.

In the midst of all the chaos, the homes north of the residence where the shooting occurred were evacuated about 1:30 a.m. Some people went to the Hardtner Community Building and were not let back into their homes until around 8 a.m., locals said.

Throughout the morning Facebook conversations flew back and forth, a play-by-play if you will, of speculation about all the happenings in Hardtner.

Homicide in Hardtner early Tuesday morning


By Yvonne MillerThe Kiowa District Hospital (KDH)

Board held their regular May meeting immediately following the annual meet-ing at the end of May.

All members attended, including Robert Armbruster, Zack Odell, Lori Schrock, Dan Lukins and Robert Stark. Chief Executive Officer Aldeen “Van” Vandeveer sat at the board table as did Chief Finanial Officer (CFO) Janell Goodno.

Brenna May was introduced at the meeting. Later following executive ses-sion the board approved the contract with May as development coordinator of the Foundation. She recently mar-ried Jerry May and they reside in Kio-wa. She holds a marketing and public relations degree from OSU.

May will be coordinator for the Friends of Kiowa District Hospital and Manor Foundation Inc. She will also do marketing and public relations for the hospital.

The GLMV architects and MW Builder attended the meeting regarding the new hospital building project. Ar-chitect Todd Ford said Phase I (the plan/concept) is complete.

Now Phase II begins, “when you or-der bricks and structural steel,” he said.

Architect Mark McCluggage said they’ll now create the building electron-ically to confirm every minute detail.

Builder Todd Cunningham said

they’ll determine how much of the proj-ect they want to fast-track.

Board member Stark said he wants to insure shelter from storms. The archi-tect assured him the conference room is built as a storm shelter.

Vandeveer said the Environmental Protection Agency’s water/soil testing on the hospital-owned ground for the new hospital site is finished and the okay was given to build there. A va-por barrier lining is recommended. The $5,000 liner cost is already built into the cost, the architect said.

At the time of the board meeting the USDA $3 million loan to cover the GAP funding needed for the estimated $6.5 million project was not yet approved. It was since approved as detailed in a separate story. The project can now pro-ceed.

Hospital and Manor FinancesCFO Goodno said in June the dis-

trict will receive $264,263.56 in prop-erty tax money. She said that’s about $50,000 less than it should be because of oil and gas appeals.

Goodno said the hospital’s bad debt is decreasing a bit as “we are using a fairly active collection agency.”

For April the hospital had 31 total days of acute and swing-bed care which is near average. Outpatient visits were 502 which is down a bit from the aver-age. Clinic visits were also down slight-ly at 346.

In April, the hospital squeaked through in the black with $794.19.

Revenue was $220,303.43. Operat-ing expenses were $286,943.96, result-ing in a loss o $66,639.96. Auditor BKD professional fees drove up costs for April.

However tax revenue of $67,434.15 tax revenue resulted in the narrow prof-it.

The hospital’s cash was down sig-nificantly due to the cost of Nextgen for electronic health records. (EHRs) Some of that cost will be reimbursed by the government. Total cash at the end of April was $287,350.53 for April. At the end of March, cash totaled $409,772.79.

With 24 residents in April, the manor had net patient revenue of $113,855.37. Agency nursing pay was “still high” Vandeveer said at $27,380.52. Total op-erating expenses totaled $165,548.26, resulting in a loss of operations totaling $51,692.89.

With the addition of $6,833.56 of primarily tax dollars and some dona-tions, the loss was curbed to $44,859.33.

More Hospital Board Business•The mandated EHRs are installed

and going live this month.•Vandeveer said the hospital applied

for $250,000 on their tax credit applica-tion. This is to help equip the emergen-cy and procedure rooms at the new hos-pital, which has an estimated $374,000 price tag.

Goodno explained that by the eve-ning of the annual meeting they had re-ceived pledges totaling $321,000. She explained because of the rural setting, if the hospital receives more pledges, they can accept them in a 70/30 split.

•The purpose of executive session was to discuss: the monthly risk man-agement/quality assurance (RM/QA) report, non-elected personnel and a le-gal contract regarding the Foundation.

Besides hiring May as already re-ported, the board approved the RM/QA report.

Kiowa hospital building project advancing, Brenna May new development coordinator

June 6, 2012 Page 26Alva Review-Courier/Newsgram

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Members of the Burlington FFA Chapter recently attended the National FFA Organiza-tion’s 2012 Washington Leadership Conference on June 5-9.

The annual conference focuses on leadership development, personal growth and community service. More than 2,200 students – up to 340 a week – from throughout the U.S. who are FFA members will attend one of the conference’s seven week-long sessions in June and July.

“Students come to the Washing-ton Leadership Conference wanting to make a difference. They leave know-ing they can – and will,” said Dwight Armstrong, chief executive officer (CEO) of the National FFA Organiza-tion. “I believe students are generally aware of global problems like hunger and poverty but many are sheltered and disconnected from what’s happening in

the world. During their time in Wash-ington, FFA members experience real-world problems and take critical steps toward personal growth and developing leadership skills they’ll need to make a difference in people’s lives, starting in their own communities.”

Created in 1969 and held annu-ally in Washington, D.C., the confer-ence helps students develop leadership skills, identify personal strengths, de-velop awareness of societal differences and human needs and strategize how they can help others through communi-ty service. Throughout the week, each student develops a community-service initiative for his or her local commu-nity, with the intention of students re-

turning home and implementing their plans.

The conclusion of each weekly session of the Washington Leader-ship Conference is a Day of Service, where students work together on a real, hands-on community-service project. Last year, through each week’s Day of Service, students contributed a total of $85,283 worth of volunteer labor to the greater Washington, D.C. Students packed, sorted and distributed more than 29.5 tons of produce and shipped more than 100,000 meals overseas.

This year, students will volunteer more than 9,500 hours to pack and ship thousands of meals to Nicaragua to help the third-world country battle hunger.

Burlington FFA chapter attends national Washington Leadership Conference

By Josiah DarrI’m Josiah Darr, and I would like to in-

troduce myself as Waynoka FFA’s 2012-2013 reporter. My parents are Travis and Sonya Darr. I have two sisters Sarah and Hannah, and one brother Matt. I live on a family farm and ranch where I enjoy helping with my family’s cattle operation. I will be a sophomore FFA member this year and I also participate in basketball, football, baseball and FCCLA.

I have been a member of the Waynoka FFA Chapter for two years. During this time my main Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) has been showing wether meat goats. I also have been in-volved in livestock judging, meat judg-ing, ag mechanics projects and various

community service projects our chapter has been involved in.

This year, as your new Waynoka FFA reporter, my goal will be to keep club members and the public informed of our local chapter’s activities and achieve-ments. I would also like to encourage other students to join and be active in our chapter.

Meet the new reporter for Waynoka FFA

Josiah Darr

June 13, 2012 Alva Review-Courier/Newsgram Page 27

Principal 7th Grade – Madison Anderson, Makaela Dungan, Alanna

Nacion8th Grade – Kolton Fishback, Lara Latta, Zeb McCullom,

Miranda Sanders, Kylie Wilson, Jake Woodall9th Grade – Raven Bishard, Reed Nickel, Shaylinna

Frederick10th Grade – Haley Blewitt, Cidney Thompson, Hailey

Parker, Dakota Jantz11th Grade – Brock Buller, Bailee Clift, Janica Neal, Hayden

NickelSuperintendent

7th Grade – Kylee Fargo, Kamber LeForce8th Grade – April Burchfiel, Blaine Dungan, Oakleigh

Nickel, Jamie Thorp, Kaitlyn Winters9th Grade – Cara Crain10th Grade – Kelsey Castle, Jacob Henderson11th Grade – Stacey Bailey, Karlu LeForce, Kylee Severin,

Levi Sanders12th Grade – Kylea Barnes, Hannah Berg, Ashton Blewitt,

Stetson Buller, Logan Campbell, Natalie Crain, Adriene Phillips, Sage Powers, Brandon Severin, Tanner Slovacek, Jessica Thorp, Coy Trout

Timberlake Public School Honor Roll 2nd Semester



By Yvonne MillerThe Burlington Public School Board

of Education met for a special meeting Tuesday, June 5. Members present were Terry Graham, Beth Guffy, Allison Arm-bruster, Roger Allen and Aaron Smith. Others present were Superintendent Glen Elliott, Minutes Clerk Jan Hill, Brad Mennum with Mennum Insurance Agency, and Vanessa Garvie, pre-K and kindergarten teacher.

Following a 45-minute executive ses-sion at the end of the meeting, the board hired Lane Pruett as math teacher for 2012-13. Pruett previously taught math at Alva and is the husband of Kirsten Pruett, girls’ basketball coach and history teacher at Burlington.

Garvie discussed the possibility of having all-day kindergarten next year. She explained why, saying that the kids are getting farther behind by not hav-

ing all-day kindergarten. She provided statistics that showed 48,000 students in Oklahoma attended all-day kindergarten compared to 3,800 students in half-day kindergarten.

Garvie said common course standards now require children to know so much more than they used to before first grade. She noted that curriculum changed dras-tically since 2002 and again since 2010.The State Department of Education man-dates curriculum and a time-line to meet objectives.

“This will help Mrs. Feely (first grade) with students’ reading skills,” Garvie said.

Burlington expects between 18 and 20 students in p-K next fall, Garvie said.

“Child care is so hard to find in Burl-ington. All-day kindergarten will benefit families and the kids so much more,” Garvie said. “They will learn so much

more than going home to a TV.” Saying that all-day kindergarten “will

be a real asset to our kids,” Garvie rec-ommended the board implement it next fall. The board approved the request.

Roberts Bus won the bid for one 47-passenger handicapped lift bus; and three 42-passenger buses with air con-ditioning and a five-year extended war-ranty on all the buses. No cameras will be included at this time. Total cost of the bus purchase is $317,056.00.

Brad Mennum discussed and an-swered questions about the insurance quote from OSIG.

The board also voted to replace floor-ing in the high school hallways, and ta-bled painting of the inside of the ag-ed building at this time.

Elliott informed the board of the school vehicle mileage report before ad-journment.

Burlington to have all-day kindergarten, bus bids accepted, math teacher hired

partment of Education regarding the ef-fects of the increase in general state aid. The state legislature recently increased aid to school districts by approximately $40 million.

That increase equals $58 per student. For USD 255 that means $25,659 more – if enrollment remains the same.

Morris said the tax money received from Barber County totaled $850,584.67. This makes the estimated shortfall of June tax receipts $149,415.40, due to ap-peals, mainly by oil and gas companies.

• Roofing companies will be in Ki-owa June 18 to look at the elementary school roof and submit bids. So will

Rusty Roderick from P1, the group hired by the board to make improvements to that building.

• Morris said 10 school vehicles re-ceived hail damage. Insurance money received totaled $18,783. He said they still await settlement checks for the HVAC unit at the high school and bro-ken windows throughout the district.

• The FCC requires the school to up-date radios in their vehicles. Morris said they must go to narrow-band. CDS of Pratt will come to Kiowa to do the re-placement estimated at $7,970.Sewer Line Request Dies for Lack of

MotionBusinessman Justin Janda attended

the meeting to request approval to trench a sewer line across the south end of the middle school practice football field at South Barber High School.

This is to get sewer service to he and wife Megan’s Rusty Spur Lodging lo-cated directly north of D&W which is at 702 N 7th St. That’s just southwest of the school, tennis courts and football field.

Janda said this would tie their prop-erty in to the city sewer on Front St. Be-

cause of the elevation they can’t tie into the sewer line at D&W. He’s been told they can’t use a lift station because the line is too fragile.

Rusty Spur has two small log cabin type housing units. Janda said they have five hookups which would include an above-ground holding tank.

Schrock said he is opposed to allow-ing trenching of the sewer line. His con-cern is another “man camp” possibility (for oil and gas crews) and he doesn’t want it that close to the school.

When President Swartz called for a motion, the request died due to a lack of a motion.

Other Business Prior to start of the monthly meeting,

board held a brief budget hearing with no comments from the public. They ap-proved the amended budget for 2011-12 with a $1,945,000 operating budget.

• Board approved bills of just over $305,000. Board held an executive ses-sion to discuss negotiations with no ac-tion taken following.

• The board’s end-of-the-year meet-ing is June 21 at 7 a.m.

From Page 6 S. Barber

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By Marione MartinAn Alfalfa County teen lost his life in

a one-vehicle rollover Monday night. Ja-cob Ray Nickel, 19, of Aline was taken to St. Mary’s Hospital in Enid where he was pronounced dead from head, arm, leg, trunk internal and trunk external injuries.

The wreck occurred at 11:05 p.m. on Carter Road and County Road 650 on the north edge of the city limits of Helena. Nickel was the driver of the 2002 Nissan pickup, which was traveling westbound on Carter Road when it left the roadway to the north, over-corrected and then went into a broad slide south across Carter Road before impacting the west ditch of CR 650. The vehicle rolled two times, coming to rest on its wheels. Nickel was

ejected 47 feet during the second roll. Nickel and the two passengers were not wearing seat-belts.

The two passengers were taken by private vehicle to St. Mary’s Hospital in Enid. Cole Allen Carey, 19, of Fairview, was admitted in stable condition with head, arm, leg and trunk internal injuries. Coy Jordan Troutt, 18, of Helena, was treated for head, leg and arm injuries and released.

Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Rick Wallace investigated the accident and attributed its cause to inattentive driving. He was assisted at the scene by Trooper Brock Morgan, Alfalfa County Sheriff’s Department, Helena Fire and Rescue and Alfalfa County EMS.

Aline teen dies in rollover wreck

Brenna May is the new coordinator of development and public relations for the Kiowa District Hospital and Manor and for the Friends of KDH and Manor Foundation.

Brenna grew up in West, a small town in Central Texas. She spent her college years at Oklahoma State Uni-versity where she was a member of Pi Beta Phi National Women’s Fraternity. Along with enjoying Orange Pride, football recruiting, she was a member of STATEments, a student run public relations firm.

Oklahoma State is where she met her husband, Jerry May. The two were married in Stillwater, April 21 of this year. They live in Kiowa, Kan.

“I am very excited to see what I can do for the hospital, manor and founda-tion.” May said “I have a lot of ideas and cannot wait to see what we can do with them.”

For more information concerning the hospital, manor or clinic, or for in-formation on donating to the Founda-tion, please contact Brenna May. She is available by phone at 620-825-4131 ext.1023 or by e-mail at [email protected].

May named KDH coordinator of development and PR

Brenna May

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say personalized license plates on a getaway car helped lead to two Wichita men accused of robbing a fast-food restaurant.

The U.S. Attorney’s office said Mon-day that 49-year-old James Adamson and 55-year-old Paul Sifuentez are both charged with one count each of robbery and using a firearm in a violent crime.

Prosecutors say Sifuentez demanded money at gunpoint Thursday from a Kentucky Fried Chicken, then fled in a car with the personalized tag “SAVOY” registered to Adamson.

Wichita police said two officers stopped the vehicle and were met with gunfire that shattered a window on the squad car. Neither officer was hit.

U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom’s office said Monday it didn’t appear that Adam-son or Sifuentez had obtained lawyers.

Vanity plates lead police to Kan. robbery suspects


Five recent Northwestern Oklahoma State University (NWOSU) nursing graduates are beginning the final plan-ning stage for a trip to Brisbane, Austra-lia, beginning in late July, by launching a few fund-raising efforts.

The group members have been invit-ed to present their “Bio-Touch” research at the Sigma Theta Tau International Research Conference to be held July 26 through Aug. 4. Bio-Touch is a butterfly-light-touch applied to specific points on the human body. The Northwestern re-search utilized the therapy to assess ef-fects on stress and other related factors.

The graduates making the trip are Carrie Abbott, Kiowa, Kan.; Bethany Du-han, Cayla Bynum Dupy, Tasha Schaffer, all of Enid; and Shawna Stewart, Wood-ward.

“It is unprecedented for nursing stu-dents to present undergraduate research results at Sigma Theta Tau International Research Conference,” said Dr. Carole

McKenzie, chair of the Division of Nurs-ing, who will accompany the group.

“In addition, they have been accepted for a full symposium, not just a 20-min-ute presentation,” McKenzie said. “The opportunity for our students to represent not only the university, but the state and nation at an international conference such as this, gives remarkable visibility to our students and reaffirms the excellence in the nursing program.”

The conference is designed to explore innovative strategies to promote excel-lence in global nursing practice, advance the science of nursing using innovation and new technologies, explore opportu-nities for international collaboration and create an international forum for the ex-change of evidence-based practices and solutions among nurse researchers, clini-cians, educators, policy-makers and ad-ministrators.

“As you might imagine, a once-in-a-lifetime trip like this is wonderful for our

students and their research efforts, but it is expensive,” McKenzie said. “The stu-dents currently are fund-raising to help cover their costs, and we would appreci-ate support from the public.”

McKenzie said the students have had several fundraisers and have an Internet-based campaign at http://www.celebrat-inghome.com/Fundraiser/nursesrock/OnlineFundraiserHome.aspx. The site features candles, candle holders, cookie and soup mixes and other items.

There also will be a garage sale on Friday and Saturday in Enid. Anyone wishing to donate items may contact McKenzie at (580) 327-8489 or by email at [email protected].

Tax deductible gifts to the Nursing Research Fund also may be made through the Northwestern Foundation, McKenzie said. Those donations may be sent direct-ly to the Foundation or to the Division of Nursing office on the Alva campus at 709 Oklahoma Blvd., Alva, OK 73717.

Northwestern nursing grads prep for journey ‘Down Under’

Tom McDowell, of Alva, has been de-clared elected to a three-year term on the East Woods County Conservation Dis-trict Board of Directors by the Oklahoma Conservation Commission, according to Ben Pollard, Assistant Director of the Oklahoma Conservation Commission. McDowell was the only qualified person who filed a Notification and Declaration of Candidacy for this position during the recent filing period.

Two directors named to East Woods County Conservation Board

David Lyon, of Alva, has been ap-pointed to a two-year term on the East Woods County Conservation District Board of Directors by the Oklahoma Conservation Commission, according to Pollard. Lyon was recommended for ap-pointment by the current district board members.

The East Woods County Conservation District is the only local unit of govern-ment responsible for the conservation,

restoration and development of Okla-homa’s renewable natural resources. As-sistance from the district is available to individual landowners, groups, cities and towns concerned about preventing soil erosion and water pollution, upgrading wildlife and recreational areas and pre-serving nature’s beauty.

McDowell and Lyon are two of five members who serve on the board of direc-tors. The district office is located in Alva.


By Roger McKenzieKim Dale and Matt Morris, repre-

senting Friends of the Salt Plains Na-tional Wildlife Refuge, want the Alfalfa County commissioners to join a letter writing campaign to Oklahoma’s Third District U.S. Representative Frank Lu-cas to help reduce silting at the Great Salt Plains Lake.

The pair appeared before the com-missioners at their Monday meeting and made a brief presentation. They want Rep. Lucas to use the United States Department of Agriculture’s En-vironmental Quality Incentive Program (EQIP) in the watershed regions of the rivers that drain into the Lake to reduce run-off before it gets to the lake itself. Their goal is to make it feasible for the eventual dredging of the lake to return

it to being a popular recreational lake.Rep. Lucas is chairman of the U.S.

House Agriculture Committee. As such, and as a conservation proponent, Rep. Lucas wields a lot of clout and can be instrumental in determining if funding will be available for more than mere cosmetic improvements to the lake.

Dale, who is president of the Friends of the Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge, and Morris have start-ed the letter writing campaign directed to Lucas to urge him to use the EQIP program, which makes use of retaining ponds, among other tools, that can help reduce the amount of run-off and silt that reaches the lake. The two men, and many more supporters who remember what the lake was like in the 1940’s,

want to see the lake deepened. That’s not likely to happen if the rate of silting continues at its current levels.

As recently as 2010, a well-attend-ed meeting of lake supporters and the Army Corps of Engineers was held at the Alfalfa County Fairgrounds. The consensus was that, although the lake was originally created primarily to ex-pand wetlands and reduce flooding it also, in the beginning, became a tourist destination for water recreation. That’s what the lake supporters told the army engineers that they wanted to see again.

The Alfalfa Commissioners agreed to joint the campaign and send a let-ter to Rep. Lucas. The letters are being sent to: U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas, 3rd Dis-trict Office, 10952 NW Expressway, Suite B, Yukon, OK 73099.

The power of the penLetter campaign to save the Great Salt Plains Lake joined by Alfalfa Commissioners

By Roger McKenzieA large 3D seismic survey for Ches-

apeake oil and gas exploration in Alfalfa County will involve a lot of land area, but a wireless technique will be used to avoid most of the road crossings of the previous seismic survey. Allen Gray, representing McDonald Land Services, which is in charge of the survey, came to Monday’s meeting of the Alfalfa Coun-ty Commissioners to ask for a reduction in fees charged because the way the sur-vey will be done.

The county will still have to watch out for small boxes when it mows, but the commissioners approved the permit for the survey and agreed to come up with a reduced fee.

Road crossing permits approved at Monday’s meeting totaled nine, bring-ing in $11,250 in fees. District 1 had six permits ($3,000), while District 2had two permits ($7,750) and District 3 had one permit ($500).

The commissioners also had a visit from Matt Morris and Kim Dale re-questing them to join a letter writing campaign whose ultimate goal is to save the Great Salt Plains Lake and return it to being used as a water recreation destination (see story elsewhere in this issue). The commissioners agreed to submit a letter of support to Rep. Frank Lucas.

A campaign to help keep federal funds in Oklahoma for lands owned by

the state’s Indian tribes and the Bureau of Indian Affairs was also supported by the commissioners.

In other business, the commission-ers approved advertising for six-month bids for road materials. They approved a private property access agreement and re-approved the transfer of a belly dump trailer from District 3 to District 1. The re-approval of an action taken previ-ously was due to the accidental use of the wrong form required for the transfer.

Routine renewals of juvenile deten-tion contracts for the 2013 fiscal year were approved with Texas, Beckham, and Osage counties. The contracts set per diem rates that will apply if the county has to send juveniles to a site for detention.

The commissioners went into an ex-ecutive session to discuss a courthouse maintenance person. The commission-ers will be advertising to fill that posi-tion. A response date for applicants was changed to June 29.

Also approved were minutes, main-tenance and operations warrants, the consumable items report, and miscella-neous officers’ reports.

Alfalfa commissioners agree to fee reduction for seismic survey


Left to right: Kali Thompson, Kimberly Doman, Taylor Paxson, and Bryce Thompson.

The Barber County 4-H Dog project was honored to receive a grant from the South Central Community Foundation to purchase a sway bridge this year. This is the second year for the youth to be involved in showing agility which requires a minimum of 13 obstacles. Last year the club received a donation from Canyon Road Ranch and they used the money to purchase and build 11 obstacles. They were able to borrow the rest of the needed obstacles from the Kingman County 4-H dog team to put on a class at the Barber County Fair.

Some of the obstacles, like jumps, were easy to build, but the sway bridge was a little more difficult to construct so the team chose to purchase it. The project has have had great support from the parents, and the youth have had fun learning to use power tools to cut boards and PVC pipe. The favorite tool so far has probably been the nail gun.

The Barber County Dog Show will be held on Monday, July 16, 6:00 p.m. at the fairgrounds in Hardtner, Kan. The public is invited to come and watch the youth perform.

4-H Dog Project Gets New Obstacle

By Tim TalleyOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Federal

agents raided a sprawling ranch in Okla-homa and a prominent quarter horse track in New Mexico on Tuesday, alleging the brother of a high-ranking official in a Mexican drug cartel used a horse-breed-ing operation to launder money.

An indictment unsealed Tuesday ac-cused Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, a key figure in the Zetas drug operation, of setting up a horse operation that a younger brother operated from a ranch near Lexington, Okla., south of Oklaho-ma City. Millions of dollars went through the operation, which bought, trained, bred and raced quarter horses throughout the southwest United States, including the famed Ruidoso Downs track in New Mexico.

“This case is a prime example of the ability of Mexican drug cartels to estab-lish footholds in legitimate U.S. indus-

tries and highlights the serious threat money laundering causes to our financial system,” said Richard Weber, the chief of the IRS’ criminal investigation unit.

Seven of the 14 people indicted were arrested, including Jose Trevino-Morales, who operated the horse breeding com-pany Tremor Enterprises, and his wife, Zulema. Another Trevino brother was also charged.

Prosecutors asked that no bond be set for Trevino-Morales fearing he would ei-ther flee or intimidate witnesses. He de-

Feds: Horse operation was a front for cartel cash

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Although most residents in Woods County breathe easier within the comforts of home sweet home, things can turn sour in a hurry when it comes to secondhand smoke and its effect on indoor air quality.

The facts are pretty clear. Second-hand smoke is a major health hazard, especially to infants and toddlers. That is why families are strongly encouraged to declare their homes and vehicles smoke free.

“One of the major places where kids and adults are frequently exposed to sec-ondhand smoke is at home,” said Gina Peek, Oklahoma State University Coop-erative Extension housing and consumer specialist.

Oklahomans are getting some help clearing the air in public spaces. An ex-ecutive order signed by Gov. Mary Fallin in February prohibits the use of tobacco products on state property, including buildings, land and vehicles. The ban leaves families across the state free to fo-

cus on improving the air they breathe in their homes and cars.

The first step in going smoke free on the home front is to not allow anyone, including family members, guests and visitors, to smoke in the house or while riding in a family vehicle, said Karen Armbruster, Woods Co. OSU Extension Educator.

“This is a very deliberate choice,” Armbruster said. “You can choose to not smoke in your house or car and you can choose to no allow others to do the same.”

However, families do not have to stop there. Smoke-free policies can include using childcare providers who do not smoke, avoiding restaurants and other public indoor places that do allow smok-ing and teaching children to stay away from secondhand smoke.

Besides protecting loved ones, this basic strategy has a few other side ben-efits.

“Creating a smoke-free environment

at home can actually provide incentive and encouragement for smokers who are trying to quit, and help deter teens from becoming smokers,” Armbruster said.

Establishing smoke-free policies at home is not a new trend in Oklahoma, but it is one that has plenty of room to expand. According to state-specific data from the Centers for Disease Control, about 71 percent of homes in the state had smoke-free policies in 2010, compared to nearly 78 percent nationally.

Improving that number is important for a couple of reasons. Secondhand smoke from tobacco products has been linked to a host of serious and potentially fatal conditions such as asthma, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, bronchitis and pneumonia, ear infections, lung cancer and heart disease.

Approximately 700 Oklahomans die annually from causes attributed to expo-sure to secondhand smoke, according to Smoke-Free Oklahoma. That is equal to the number of people who perish in motor vehicle accidents each year.

Further, curbing the use of tobacco products inside is the only way to effec-tively combat the effect of secondhand smoke on indoor air quality. Separating smokers and nonsmokers, such as in “no smoking” sections in restaurants, reduces exposure, but does not fully eliminate it. Nor does moving to another room, open-ing a window or using fans or the air con-ditioners.

“There is no safe level of exposure. The only way to completely protect your family from the dangers of secondhand smoke is to prohibit smoking indoors,” Peek said. “It’s one of the most impor-tant commitments you can make for your family’s continued good health.”

Smoke-free policies at home protect families from dangers of secondhand smoke

clined to comment at the courthouse.Dozens of federal agents swarmed the

New Mexico race track, wearing bullet-proof vests and collecting evidence. At least two horses were taken away.

The federal government seeks the seizure of several horses, claiming they were used to further a crime. Among those sought was Mr. Piloto, the winner of the 2010 All-American Futurity.

A raid was also conducted at the ranch about 40 miles south of Oklahoma City. At least a half-dozen agents wearing fa-

tigues and baseball caps emblazoned with FBI were still at the ranch early in the af-ternoon, but they declined to comment.

The New York Times (http://nyti.ms/KqFFiY) first reported the raids and the alleged connection to the Zetas cartel on its website earlier Tuesday. The newspa-per, citing a months-long investigation and several anonymous sources, de-scribed how the horse breeding operation hid in plain sight, even naming one horse “Number One Cartel,” and quietly rose to win some of the industry’s biggest races.

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OKLAHOMA CITY – Storms the first half of the week brought varying levels of rainfall across the state accord-ing to Monday’s Oklahoma Crop Weath-er report issued by the USDA-NASS Oklahoma Field Office.

The heaviest rain fell in the South Central district, with over four inches recorded in Ringling. In the Panhandle, Boise City received 1.72 inches of mois-ture, while other stations received less than a tenth. Per the June 5th Drought Monitor, the southeastern corner of the state was downgraded to moderate drought conditions. Rain over the last week did little to alleviate the dryness in that area, as the Southeast district has only 78 percent of its normal precipita-tion for the period since March 1st.

Rain slowed the remaining wheat

USDA says planting ahead of normalharvest in the southern half of the state, but significant progress was made state-wide and harvest is now 90 percent com-plete.

Row crop planting continued, and soybean planting was ahead of normal, as the early wheat harvest allowed dou-ble-cropped acres to be planted. Topsoil moisture conditions improved slightly and half of the state was rated with ad-equate moisture. Subsoil moisture was rated 33 percent adequate and 46 percent short. There were 5.4 days suitable for field work.

Row Crops: Conditions were rated mostly good for all row crops. Sorghum planting was 84 percent complete, and 61 percent had emerged by the end of the week, 25 points ahead of normal. Soy-bean seedbed preparation was virtually complete by week’s end. Soybean plant-ing was 79 percent complete, and 69 per-cent had emerged by Sunday, 27 points ahead of normal. Peanut planting was 97 percent complete, and 83 percent of the peanut crop had emerged by the end of the week. Cotton seedbed preparation was 97 percent complete. Cotton plant-ing was 81 percent complete and 71 per-cent of the crop had emerged by Sunday.

The watermelon crop had 83 percent of plants running vines by week’s end and 17 percent was setting fruit.

Hay: Cutting of hay continued to be well ahead of normal, but varied across the state, based on recent rainfall. Alfal-fa hay was rated mostly good and other hay was rated good to fair. A second cut-ting of alfalfa was 73 percent complete by the end of the week, 34 points ahead of normal. A first cutting of other hay was 77 percent complete, and a second cutting had begun and was six percent complete by Sunday.

Pasture and Livestock: Pasture and range conditions were rated mostly good to fair. Livestock conditions continued to be rated mostly good. Prices for feed-er steers less than 800 pounds averaged $159 per cwt. Prices for heifers less than 800 pounds averaged $147 per cwt.

The entire Oklahoma report can be viewed online at: www.nass.usda.gov/ok under “Recent Reports.” The na-tional database, Quick Stats, and all US-DA-NASS reports are available on the agency’s web site: www.nass.usda.gov. For more information on NASS surveys and reports, call the USDA-NASS Okla-homa Field Office at 800-525-9226.

The Oklahoma Department of Ag-riculture, Food and Forestry (ODAFF) cautions livestock owners to be aware of rabies symptoms. Unusually aggressive behavior in cattle or other herd animals may be a symptom of rabies infection.

State Veterinarian Rod Hall, D.V.M. said, “It seems as if we’re seeing more rabies cases in livestock this year. Vet-erinarians need to be aware of this issue and educate their clients about the risks of this disease.”

Rabies is a preventable viral disease of mammals often transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the vast majority of cases reported each year occur in wild animals like skunks, bats, coyotes, rac-coons, and foxes. A dog or livestock an-imal can get the disease by being bitten or scratched by an infected wild animal.

Infected livestock may become ag-gressive toward humans and other ani-mals and exhibit an unusual amount of drooling. Saliva around the mouth may appear thick and foamy. Infected ani-mals may become hypersensitive and react violently to even slight sounds or movements.

Hall described a recent case involv-ing a large goat herd where a doe be-gan showing rabies symptoms. She was euthanized and tested positive for the disease. The owners recalled seeing a skunk near one of the doe’s newborn kids and believed the skunk killed the kid. Two weeks after the doe tested positive, one of the farm dogs became aggressive toward some of the goats, other dogs and the owner. Investigation determined that the guard dog’s rabies vaccination was not current and the dog was rabid.

The importance of properly vacci-nating dogs and farm animals is a topic veterinarians must continually share with clients. Although vaccinating an entire herd may not be economical, Hall encourages livestock owners to at least vaccinate show animals or animals they will be near for extensive periods of time.

“When you’re talking to your clients about their dogs and cats, remember to talk to them about the licensed vaccines available for many of our livestock spe-cies,” Hall said.

For additional information about ra-bies and rabies vaccines for livestock, contact any of the staff veterinarians in the ODAFF Animal Industry Division at (405) 522-6141. For additional infor-mation about human exposure to rabies, go to the CDC website at www.cdc.gov/rabies.

Livestock owners warned to watch for rabies symptoms


Alfalfa County Sheriff’s Log

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June 4, 201210:56 a.m. motorist assist 5 E of

four-way stop on Hwy 11, unit was ad-vised and enroute, they have someone from Alva coming to help.

12:43 p.m. dogs chasing animals at Jet FFA barn, respondent advised her daughter said there was a dog chasing the pig and goats, respondent advised the goat has been bitten by the dog, unit enroute to Jet, owner of dog is going af-ter dog now.

2:14 p.m. added headstones at Jet Cemetery, respondent advised some-one has put 2 headstones on graves that does not belong, was wondering if any-one has reported any stolen, respondent spoke with deputy.

2:47 p.m. minor/major accident 4 S on Coal Rd 2-3 E, St. Marys advised individual had a wreck in our county, he is at the hospital, he advised the re-spondent that the vehicle is probably gone by now, advised OHP, St. Marys advised that the individual needed to go to the Bass Pavilion for drug testing for his boss, they wanted to know if he could leave, advised OHP, trooper at hospital.

4:15 p.m. combine on fire 5 S 2 E ½ N of Jet, advised Goltry FD & JFD, grass rig & tanker enroute, fire is out and back at station.

5:48 p.m. speeder on Hwy 11 & 64, advised a truck almost ran a car off the road and was travelling 80-85 mph, headed west towards Alva, advised OHP, trooper in Alva not available, ad-vised Woods Co, will let PD know.

8:17 p.m. wheat fire 1 mile W of 4 way stop, CPD sent CFD, advised a pickup also involved, advised report taken.

8:58 p.m. speeder in Ingersoll, re-port of a white pickup almost ran a car off the road, they were headed west past Ingersoll, she was almost to Dacoma blacktop and the pickup was ahead of her, advised Woods Co, stopped pickup.

10:50 p.m. medical call to ¾ of a mile E of Amorita, individual is vom-iting, Cherokee Ambulance and A&B Rescue.

June 5, 2012 3:12 a.m. caved-in road at 5 N 2 ½

W of Helena, respondent advised a wa-ter truck is stuck because the road has caved in.

7:51 a.m. cattle out 6 W on 5th St, called possible owner, he was advised

of it, he is on his way to put them up.11:23 a.m. unwanted person at 200

block of W 8th, need an officer to lo-cation, subject is beating on the door, she was advised to just keep the door locked until officer gets there.

12:20 p.m. reckless driver coming into Cherokee, a semi is all over the road coming into Cherokee from the south, name on tanker, CPD was ad-vised.

1:30 p.m. reckless driver at 4-way stop, a white Tahoe is eastbound from Ingersoll, almost caused 3 wrecks, just went through 4-way stop but it went through the southbound lane that goes west, unit was advised, the Tahoe is al-ready gone.

10:43 p.m. medical call to 3 N of Jet last camp site, individual fell in the camp site, burnt right ankle and foot, is dark but can see blisters and skin peel-ing, advised Jet Fire & Rescue & Hel-ena EMS.

11:34 p.m. possible problems in Carmen, request extra patrol around the pool tonight, they had to kick some kids out today, afraid they may come back and cause problems, unit advised.

June 6, 201212:56 a.m. medical call to 200 block

of W 5th in Helena, individual has fall-en, hit her head and possibly injured her arm, her daughter is enroute, paged Helena FD advised Life Ambulance re-quested.

11:01 a.m. motorist assist on Hwy 64 & CR 490, a truck is broken down, they need assistance with traffic while they pull the truck out, OHP was ad-vised, it is in Woods Co.

12:35 p.m. motorist assist 1 S of North Folk of Eagle Chief on Hwy 281, there is a semi sitting cross the road, Woods Co was advised.

4:23 p.m. medical call to 200 block of S D St in Carmen, advised Helena Ambulance, they are transporting pa-tient to Alva.

June 7, 20127:26 a.m. minor accident 1 W of

Nash on Hwy 64, doesn’t think anyone is injured, needs a trooper, Grant Co SO was advised.

2:32 p.m. rocks in road S of Man-chester, a load of rocks in the road, someone is going to hit it, Grant Co was advised.

3:39 p.m. accident 1-2 miles W of Medford, advised a truck crossed the

center line and hit his trailer, the oth-er truck was a utility truck and it kept going, utility truck was headed E into Medford and he was westbound, re-spondent could not get truck off the road so he was directing traffic, advised Grant Co on phone since man was di-recting traffic.

5:27 p.m. man living in horse trailer 2 miles E of Vining Church, respondent wanted us to know that the man they ran off of Sandy Beach was on the Jet water pump well ground, his horse was graz-ing on county property, does not want an officer out because he did not know where subject went, just wanted us to know subject is trying to find a place to move in on in case we had other prob-lems with him, just as an FYI.

9:18 p.m. young man kicked out in Goltry, respondent advised her nephew gets kicked out by his dad every so of-ten and then takes him back, nephew has autism, usually stays with her moth-er but she is in OKC, her mother asked her to pick nephew up, needs an officer to call, it will get physical, respondent’s brother is mean to the boy, advised the dad has calmed down, going to stay there but if it got worse he would call.

10:02 p.m. possible intoxicated driver heading S out of Cherokee, OHP advised, trooper advised followed a pickup matching description, could not find a reason for stopping it.

11:29 p.m. 2 horses out on CR 440 & Hwy 11 close to Alva, advised it was in Woods Co and gave him the number to Woods Co.

June 8, 20121:50 a.m. possible heart attack at

Carmen Park, advised Helena & Car-men Rescue, Carmen back at station, Helena enroute to Bass, patient’s mom called, gave her number to Bass, EMTs called and asked to talk to an officer, ad-vised unit.

6:45 a.m. cattle out W of Grant/Al-falfa Co line on Hwy 11, cannot find an owner, called land owner going to have someone check it out, cattle belongs to another person, he has gotten them but still has 14 head missing, oil people left them out.

10:07 a.m. 2 head of cattle out at house on Lambert blacktop, left mes-sage for possible owner.

12:47 p.m. medical call to Cherokee

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From Page 46 SheriffCity Hall, patient is pregnant, pain is 90 seconds apart, ambulance enroute to Enid, Cherokee Ambulance requested Helena to meet them at Helena Grocery stop, they are having problems with am-bulance and need Helena to take lady to hospital.

1:13 p.m. accident, serious unknown E of county barn in Byron, there is a truck sitting in a wheat field, person is moving in the truck, unit advised and enroute, Owner of property was there, driver hit a pothole, went in ditch then in field, no damage no report.

1:52 p.m. fire N of the Carmen turn-off, CFD was paged out, sent 2nd page to Carmen FD, advised individual has controlled burn in that area, going to check it out, advised controlled burn.

2:24 p.m. welfare check at house in Carmen, request officer to go to loca-tion and check to see if person is doing hard drugs, respondent advised subject will not let him have the kids for his visitation, neither one has custody, unit was advised.

2:38 p.m. harvesters are on roadway with headers on, taking up both lanes of road on Hwy 64 between Jet/Nash, ACSO advised OHP.

3:49 p.m. individual causing trouble at 400 block of N 6th in Carmen, respon-dent advised her daughter was throwing her flowers all over the yard, wanted her gone and not to come back at all, unit advised and enroute, subject has been advised not to go back to her mother’s house, if she does it is criminal trespass-ing and she will be arrested and taken to jail.

4:15 p.m. vandalism at 400 block of W Elm in Aline, request deputy to call him, vandalism may have been done the same time as the other vandalism was done in Aline on 6-2-12, advised has damage at his rent house, unit advised.

June 9, 20129:28 a.m. medical call to 300 block

of S Oklahoma, patient may have ripped a suture from her surgery last week, ad-vised CPD.

1:40 p.m. theft 2 ½ S of 11 & 38 Jct, respondent advised a welding trailer and welder were missing along with some other stuff off his property, ad-vised unit.

2:07 p.m. minor accident 1 mile E of 8 & 45 Jct, a chemical truck is in the

ditch, advised OHP.2:38 p.m. theft at 8 ½ W of Lambert

Rd, someone took his monitor out of his tractor, would like to make a report, ad-vised unit.

3:18 p.m. medical call to 1300 block of 7th in Dacoma, might have had a light stroke, sick to stomach and head, ad-vised Woods Co.

4:15 p.m. kicked door in Aline, re-spondent went to their house in Aline and someone tried to kick in the front door, no report needed, is taking a pic-ture of the shoe print on the glass, just wanted us to be aware, will be in Mon or Tues to visit with officers.

5:09 p.m. fall victim at end of North Trail, need rescue, victim is in his 70’s, has hurt ribs, Nescatunga Rescue with brush rig & 3 individuals responding, need ambulance, ambulance left and headed to hospital.

8:08 p.m. threatening calls at 700 block of W Broadway, subject has been sending harassing & threatening calls, texts & emails to her, subject is mad cause she believes respondent told in-dividual she cashed a check of another person while he was out of town, sub-ject has threatened to beat her up and that she better watch her back, wants to know what she can do about the calls, texts and emails, advised unit.

11:31 p.m. locked keys in car, ad-vised respondent that they don’t have an officer that has the tools to get her car unlocked.

11:52 p.m. domestic in Helena, respondent advised individual was brought into the ER at Bass in Enid, he does not wish to press charges, individ-ual’s uncle that lives in Helena had hit him in the face, patient lives in Cleo.

June 10, 201212:12 a.m. 911 call, individual got

really drunk and is having bad seizures, advised Cherokee Ambulance, ambu-lance enroute to Share Medical Center.

3:55 a.m. hit & run on Hwy 11, re-spondent advised he had to move over to the ditch to avoid getting hit by an-other tuck that had crossed the center line, the truck hit the truck behind him and took the mirror off, truck kept go-ing, did not need an officer, was told to call and make a report.

9:25 a.m. cattle out at 720 & Jack-son, advised possible owner.

9:30 a.m. people can’t get back on boat in the middle of the lake, re-spondent advised they let some guys off the boat to do some kayaking, the wind picked up and now the guys can’t get back on the boat, advised units & GSPL, respondent advised everyone has made it to shore.

10:59 a.m. minor accident at 10th & Penn, advised unit & OHP.

3:09 p.m. fire at 3 W of 4-way stop, building is on fire behind house, advised CPD & unit, respondent called, they got it out, CFD headed back in.

4:16 p.m. cattle out 2 ½ miles S of Helena on E side of Hwy 58, advised possible owner.

4:25 p.m. woman in kayak could not get it back to shore, she was head-ed west, her sister was trying to swim behind her to catch her, was afraid she would run out of air before she got to the island, could still see heads and they were almost to island, advised units are headed to the north shore now, 2 res-cuers were there, advised so far every-thing is receiving well.

4:49 p.m. semi blocking traffic at 4-way stop, rock truck was in the mid-dle of the road and traffic was backing up, trooper tied up on minor accident would not be available for awhile, ad-vised truck off roadway, someone as-sisting him.

6:27 p.m. officer assist at 400 block of N 5th in Carmen, needs an officer to go with her to her sister’s house to get some items for her grandmother, ad-vised unit to call respondent, is going to set up a civil standy.

7:29 p.m. 5 baby skunks in Carmen, respondent advised they found 5 baby skunks that would fit in her hand in the flower bed at a house in Carmen, did not want them killed, was trying to figure out what to do with them, unit advised to put them back if still there tomorrow will take them to vet, would call unit to see if there was somewhere they could be taken.

7:49 p.m. 2 head of cattle out 1 mile E of Dacoma Rd on 5th, advised pos-sible owner.

8:04 p.m. reckless driver on Hwy 11/64, white Mack truck with trailer, advised truck turned towards Cherokee, advised officer not able to get to them at this time.


Alfalfa County Court FilingsAccording to the affidavits and peti-

tions on file, the following individuals have been charged. An individual is in-nocent of any charges listed below until proven guilty in a court of law. All in-formation is a matter of public record and may be obtained by anyone dur-ing regular hours at the Alfalfa County Courthouse. The Alva Review-Courier will not intentionally alter or delete any of this information. If it appears in the courthouse public records, it will appear in this newspaper.

Civil FilingsMidland Funding LLC vs. Dennis

Frisk: Indebtedness for an amount more

than $2,000.Divorce Filings

Terry Morgan vs. Rachel Morgan: Divorce ($208.70).

Marriage FilingsEarl Dean Horner, 56, Enid and Jen-

nifer Jane Tooman, 53, Enid: Marriage ceremony performed by judge ($60).

Traffic FilingsThomas Alan Ginther, 50, Luray,

Kan: Failure to keep right on road of suf-ficient width ($211.50).

Tyler James Earl Daniell, 22, Enid: Operate vehicle loaded in excess of reg-istered laden ($211.50).

The following individuals received a

citation for speeding:William E. Wright, 66, Manchester:

11-14 over ($226.50); Brett Thomas Rawdon, 26, OKC: 1-10 over ($188.50); Francisco Loera Ballin, 60, Austin, Tex-as: 1-10 over ($188.50); Von L. Howard, 23, Tinley Park, IL: 1-10 over ($188.50); Roderick N. Gambrell Jr., 31, Atoka: 16-20 over ($241.50); Billy Darrel Marris, 53, Clayton: 1-10 over ($188.50).

The following individuals received a citation for failure to wear seatbelt ($20 fine):

Wayne Dean Keen, 53, Morrison; Victoria Elizabeth Perez, 19, Lanagan, MO; Derek Lee Martin, 20, Cherokee.

Alfalfa County Real Estate TransactionsStart Book 680, page 842

Real Estate TransfersTimothy A. Hays aka Tim Hayes

an Jaime Hays to Bruce E. Haddock and Casey T. Haddock: Lots 1 through 17, inclusive, in Block 47; and Lots 1 through 6, inclusive, Lots 14 through 16, inclusive, and Lots 19-24, Block46; and a track of land as described in the North Half of Section 27, Township 24 North, Range 9 WIM; warranty deed.

Jimmy Donald Gilliland to Kelly Foster: Lots 7, 8, and 9, in Block 70, the Original Town of Goltry; warranty deed..

Ingersoll Washout, LLC to Deb’s

Enterprises, Inc. (OK): a tract of land in the Northwest Quarter, Section 28, Township 27 North, Range 11 WIM; quit claim deed.

Rick Graham aka Ricky Dale Graham to the Jack Parr Living Trust and Juanita Parr Living Trust: Lots 13 through 18, in Block 13, Amorita Original; quitclaim deed.

MortgagesBruce E. Haddock and Casey T.

Haddock:to Bank of the West (CA): Lots 1 through 17, inclusive, in Block 47; and Lots 1 through 6, inclusive, Lots 14 through 16, inclusive, and Lots 19-24, Block46; and a track of land as described in the North Half of Section 27, Township 24 North, Range 9; $75,000.

Kelly Foster to the United States of America, acting through the Rural Housing Service or its successor agency, the United States Department of Agriculture; $35,000.

Chad D. Wilson and Lydia to

Farmers Exchange Bank (Cherokee, OK): a tract of land as described located in the Southwest Quarter of Section 11, Township 26 North, Range 11 WIN; $96,000.

Stephen Taylor Carson and Jessica Carson to American Financial Resources, Inc. (N.J.): a tract of land as described in the Southeast Quarter of Section 21, Township 24 North, Range 10 WIM; $187,132.

Freddy M. Buck and Lawrene Buck to Farmers Exchange Bank (Cherokee, OK); a tract of land as described in the West Half of the Southeast Quarter of Section 23, Township 26 North, Range 11 WIM; $104,500.

Sunny L. Shepard and Melissa D. Shepard to Farm Credit of Enid, FLCA: the Southwest of Section 14, Township 23 North, Range 10 WIM; and the South Half of the Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of Section 14, Township 23 North, Range 10 WIM; $126,000.

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Barber County Sheriff’s Log

Barber County Court Filings

06-04-12 Medicine Lodge Ambu-lance transported patient from Sharon to Medicine Lodge Hospital.

06-04-12 Sharon, Hazelton, and Ki-owa Rural Volunteer Fire Departments responded to a wheat field fire north-west of Hazelton.

06-05-12 Kiowa Ambulance trans-ferred patient from Kiowa Hospital to Wichita.

06-05-12 Medicine Lodge Ambu-lance transported patient from Washing-

ton Street to Medicine Lodge Hospital.06-06-12 Deputy English investigat-

ed a theft reported at Lake Arrowhead.06-09-12 Medicine Lodge Ambu-

lance transported patient from First Street to Medicine Lodge Hospital.

During the week officers received 11 reports of cattle out; one report of goats out; performed 12 Public Assists; and assisted 6 other agencies.

Arrests: 06-07-12 William F Terwort, Pratt,

W/M, 28. Arrest by KHP. Charge: Give Worthless Check. Released 06-08-12 on $500 Surety Bond.

06-09-12 Shane A Flyingout, Sha-ron, W/M, 32. Arrest by KHP. Charge: DUI. Released 06-09-12 on $750 Cash Bond.

06-10-12 Christopher L Jones, Baton Rouge, La., B/M, 28. Arrest by BASO. Charges: Drive while DL Suspended 2. Speeding. Released 06-10-12 on $500 Surety Bond.

Criminal FilingsDallas E. Summers, 1991, Kiowa:

(1) Transporting an open container; (2) Liquor; Purchase/consumption alcoholic liquor/CMB by minor.

Gerod Alan Kimball, 1984, Medicine Lodge: (1) Interference with LEO; Ob-struct or resist in misdemeanour case; (2) Domestic battery; Knowing or reck-less bodily harm to family member; (3) Disorderly conduct; Fighting words or noisy conduct to cause resentment.

Charles M. Clymer, 1969, Medicine Lodge: Giving a worthless check; Value < $1,000.

Limited Civil FilingsMedicine Lodge Memorial Hospital

& Physicians Clinic vs. David L. & Mi-chelle West: Indebtedness for an amount more than $4,500.

Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospi-tal & Physicians Clinic vs. Karlynne & Taylor Armstrong: Indebtedness for an amount more than $300.

Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital & Physicians Clinic vs. Jerry F. & Cathy Drake: Indebtedness for an amount more than $500.

Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital & Physicians Clinic vs. Frieda & Wesley P. Stangl: Indebtedness for an amount more than $900.

Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital & Physicians Clinic vs. Richard Price: Indebtedness for an amount more than $650.

Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital vs. Sharon & Dale Swope: Indebtedness for an amount more than $1,500.

Kiowa District Hospital vs. Maranda M. Barnes: Indebtedness for an amount more than $4,500.

Small Claims FilingsShryl Jean Bell vs. Carl D. & Gary

Balding: Recovery of described property for an estimated value of $4,000.

Domestic Relations FilingsHarry W. Menkhoff III vs. Debra L.

Menkhoff: Divorce.Vickie L. McDonald vs. Robert D.

McDonald: Divorce.Holly Wolgast vs. Dewayne L. Wol-

gast: Divorce.Marriage Filings

Travis Glenn McCauley, 22, Medi-cine Lodge and Candice Joyce Marie Rawlings, 19, Medicine Lodge.

Traffic FilingsJoshua M. Fishgrab, 23, Sharon:

Driving on right side of roadway re-quired ($173).

The following individuals were cited for speeding:

Eric S. Duncan, 37, Woodward, Okla: 82 in 65 ($185).

Anna L. Farias, 22, Tonkawa, Okla: 82 in 65 ($185).

Delmer W. Humphrey, 70, Arvada, Colo: 89 in 65 ($239).

Walter J. Mcgann III, 24, Blairsville, Pa: 82 in 65 ($185).

Erin P. Merklein, 19, Kiowa: 82 in 65 ($160).

Katy A. Pruitt, 30, Duncan, Okla: 78 in 65 ($161).

Danny J. Arnett, 51, Attica: 72 in 55 ($185).

Brett Allen Hopt, 25, Salem, Ore: 91 in 65 ($257).

Meriah M. Leis, 17, Cheney: 76 in 65 ($149).

Dakota W. Meyers, 23, Pond Creek, Okla: 75 in 55 ($203).

Dustin S. Robinson, 33, Fairview, Okla: 70 in 55 ($173).

Kathryn D. Schumacher, 73, Gaith-ersburg, Md: 82 in 65 ($185).

Larry D. Stockton, 59, Ponca City, Okla: 83 in 65 ($191).

Rebecca A. White, 38, Coffeyville: 76 in 65 ($149).


Start in Book 135, page 516Real Estate Transfers

Owen Wayne Sill and Wanda L. Sill to Adam W. Miller: Lot 20, in Block 2, in Regnier’s Amended Revised Second Additionto the City of Medicine Lodge; general warranty deed.

Terry P. Danahy to Jon F. McDon-ald, and Angela J. McDonald: a tract of land as described in the Northwest cor-ner of Regnier’s Lakeview Addition to the City of Medicine Lodge; warranty deed.

Wilma L. Stone to Vickie Bernice Gantt: the North 75 feet of Lots 7, 8, 9 in Block 136 in the Town Company’s Addition to the City of Kiowa; quit claim deed.

Wilma |L. Stone, Trustee of the Wal-ter K. and Wilma L. Stone Revocable Trust, dated July 6, 1990, to Sheri L. Hurley: All of Lot 7 and the west 35 feet of Lot 8, in Block 137, in the Town Company’s Addition to the City of Kio-wa; quit claim deed.

Russell Oestereich and Joleen A. Oestereich; and Gerald L. Black and Deitra D. Black to Greg Stierwalt: Lot 19, in Block 2, in the Town or Sun City; quit claim deed.

Barber County Sheriff Tommy J. Tomson, after District Court judgement for Steven Grossman and against Andy W. Baker and Marguerite G. Baker, to Steven Grossman: Lots 6 and 7 and the South Half of Lot 8 on South Oak Stree, in Simmon’s Addtion to the City of Medicine Lodge; sheriff’s deed.

The People’s Bank (Pratt, KS), as Custodian for Ricky L. Pyle IRA, aka Ricky L. Pyle Self Directed Roll Over IRA, to Lawrence D. Rausch: Lots 1 and 2 in Block 21 in Henton’s Addition to the City of Sharon; corporation gen-eral warranty deed.

Donnamae Williams to Ronald

Domnick: Lots 4 and 5 in Block 22, in the City of Kiowa, aka 414 Campbell Street in Kiowa; quit claim deed.

Tyler McNett and Gayle E. McNett to Donald L Silcott and Jenny R. Sil-cott: Lot 7 in Block 91 in the City of Hardtner; warranty deed.

Robert P. Mease, aka Robert Paul Mease, and Linda M. Mease to Sandra Mease and Don Henry Mease, Trustees of the Sandra Mease Trust, dated July 31, 2009: an undivided two-thirds inter-est in and to the Southeast Quarter of Section 8, Township 30 South, Range 11 West of the 6th P.M.; warranty deed.

James G. Payton, Jr., and Greg Pay-ton III and Paula Payton Jabara and Larry Jabara to Sandra Mease and Don Henry Mease, Trustees of the San-dra Mease Trust, dated July 31, 2009: an undivided one-sixth interest in and to the Southeast Quarter of Section 8, Township 30 South, Range 11 West of the 6th P.M.; warranty deed.

Robert P. Mease, aka Robert Paul Mease convey and warrant the follow-ing: An Undivided Two-Thirds interest in and to the North Half of the North-west Quarter of Section 9, Township 30 South, Range 11 West of the 6th P.M. to (1) James G. Payton, Jr – one-half; (2) Greg Payton III – one-fourth; (3) Janice Jabara – one-fourth; warranty deed.

Robert P. Mease, aka Robert Paul Mease convey and warrant the follow-ing: an undivided one-sixth interest in and to the North Half of the North-west Quarter of Section 9, Township 30 South, Range 11 West of the 6th P.M. to (1) James G. Payton, Jr – one-half; (2) Greg Payton III – one-fourth; (3) Janice Jabara – one-fourth; warranty deed.

James G. Payton, Jr., and Greg Peyton III and Paula Payton, and Jan-ice Jabara and Larry Jabara to Rob-ert P. Mease and Linda M. Mease: an undivided one-tenth interest in and to the Northwest Quarter of Section 16, Township 30 South, Range 11 West of the 6th P.M.; and an undivided one-tenth interest in and to the Southwest Quarter of Section 9, Township 30 South, Range 11 West of the 6th P.M.; and an undivid-ed one-sixth interest in and to the South Half of the Northwest Quarter of Sec-tion 9, Township 30 South, Range 11 West of the 6th P.M.; warranty deed.

Sandra Mease and Don Henry Mease, Trustees of the Sandra Mease Trust, dated July 31, 2009, to Robert

P. Mease and Linda M. Mease: an un-divided one-sixth interest in and to the South Half of the Northwest Quarter of Section 9, Township 30 South, Range 11 West of the 6th P.M.; and an undivid-ed three-tenths interest in and to South-west Quarter of Section 9, Township 30 South, Range 11 West of the 6th P.M.; and an undivided three-tenths interest in and to Northwest Quarter of Section 16, Township 30 South, Range 11 West of the 6th P.M.; warranty deed.

MortgagesBeginning Book 204 Page 451John M. Fisher & Andrea C. Fisher

to the United States of America acting through the Farm Service Agency for the United States Department of Agri-culture: the West Half and the West Half of the Southeast Quarter and the South-west Quarter of the Northeast Quar-ter of Section 15, Township 32 South, Range 12, WPM; (2) the East Half of Lot 3 and all of Lots 4 & 5 in Block 5 of Standiford & Co’s Revised Addition to the City of Medicine Lodge: $276,000.

Thomas N. Crowdis & Paula Crow-dis to Haviland State Bank: the South-west Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Section 5 and the Northwest Quarter and the West Half of the East Half of Section 8, Township 30 South, Range 13, WPM: $162,000.

Jacob A. Etheridge & Meagan M. Etheridge to The Peoples Bank: Be-ginning at the Southeast corner of Sec-tion 19, township 32 South, Range 10, WPM, thence North 534 feet, thence West 585 feet, thence South 534 feet, thence East 585 feet to the place of be-ginning: $107,500.

Timothy G. Turner & Charla A. Turner, Durwin C. Wolgamott and Lau-ra A. Drebot to Community Bank: Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 in Block 94 in the City of Hardtner: $25,000.

Edward W. Doherty & Stacy L. Doherty to JPMorgan Chase Bank: Lot 24 of the Amended Plat of Lots 1 & 2 in Block B and Lots 23 & 24 in Block A of Forsyth Addition to the City of Medi-cine Lodge, filed in Survey Record 3, Page 119, SUBJECT to easements, re-strictions, rights of way and zoning reg-ulations: $91,001.

Corner Stop LLC to Banccentral National Association: the South 65 feet of Lots 7 & 8 and all of Lots 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 & 19 in Block 33 in the City of Kiowa: $157,350.76.

Barber County Real Estate Transactions

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Animals and Pets

Misty’s Dog Grooming

Weekdays, evenings and Sat. Call Misty 580-327-6653 lv msg

For Sale

3 Registered Angus Bulls. Tested Feedlot Bulls weighing 1300-1400 pounds. These are yearling potential herd buyers that will produce the added (bonus) you desire. Their ETD numbers predict they are the kind that will come easy, grow fast, and top the market at harvest. They are semen checked, trick tested, wormed and ready for your cows. Call 580-761-0260 Lon Hawkins

For Sale

2 Male Boxer Puppies. 580-732-0242.

Free to Good Home

Big Mama Dog (spayed) and 6 month old pups. Need to be on farm. 580-596-6336

For Sale

Chicks. Over 80 baby chickens to choose from. Several types. Bantams and Standards $5/each. Also some adult chickens. Many varieties $10/Each. 580-884-0514

Automotive

For Sale

1996 Ford Winstar van. Good condition. 580-435-2331.

For Sale

2007 Chevy Equinox. 78,000 miles single owner. $7500. Call 430-6800.

For Sale

‘60 Ford F600 Truck. 16ft wood floor. Steel sides. New carburetor, new front tires. Hoist and plummed for Hydraulic Auger. $3000. 580-829-1720

Business Services

Massages

Call Vanna today to book your Massage or Foot Detox appointment. Evening & Weekend appointments available. 580-727-5209 or 327-HEAT.

Welcome Home

Tired of mowing, raking/scrubbing??? Move to the Homestead and let us take care of all that! Call for a tour 580-327-4080

You Need Mattresses?

We have them at G & G Home Furnishings starting at $179. 2107 College Blvd. S Hwy 281 in Alva. 580-327-6635. Come and see us today!

Guns-Buy and Sell

Cleaning and light gunsmithing. Will be your dealer to receive guns bought elsewhere. Federal Licensed. Glen Hasty. Aline, OK 580-430-5400


Tag Office

The Alva Tag Office will be closed Thurs. June 14th for a tag meeting.

Carpentry

Interior-Exterior improvements. Room additions. Plaster Repair & Painting. Handicap Upgrades. Will also accommodate Farm & Ranch. 580-307-4598 or 620-825-4285.

Soapweeds & Cactus

Soapweeds & Cactus in Enid carries a full line of Western, Southwest, Rustic and Lodge Furniture. 122 N. Independence in Downtown Enid. 580-242-2233

Pasture Tree Clearing

Save moisture and Grass. Let me clear trees in your pasture. Skid Steer and Marshall Tree Saw. Ed Grover. 580-474-2465 or 580-542-0298

Healthy Weight Loss

Dr. Elizabeth Kinzie introduces “Leap into Health” a community support group for weight loss. Wednesdays at 6:30pm in the Alva Methodist Church Fellowship Hall (basement). “Leap into Health” features weekly weigh-ins and discussion of what is important to maintain a healthy lifestyle. “Leap into Health” lasts 12 weeks and Everyone is Welcome. (No meeting July 4 or 18.) Call 580-430-3366

Gene O’s BBQ is Back

Thurs-Sat Lunch. Thur and Fri Dinner. Free Delivery! Drive Thru BBQ. 580-370-5532. Look for Yellow Trailer across from Sonic

Krob’s Tree Service

Tree Trimming, Removal, Stump Grinding, Pasture Clearing with Free Estimates. 580-922-0165, 580-747-4256

Huge Sale

Don’t miss out! Busy B 524 Flynn. Monday-Saturday 10-5.

For Your Const Needs

From A-Z, New Construction, Roofing, Additions, Remodeling, Siding, Windows, Int/Ext, Painting, All Work Guaranteed. Improve the value of your home. Call 580-732-1028

Alva Sewing Center

June 14-16, Thur thru Sat, Thur and Fri 9am-9pm, Sat 9am-6pm. Road To Oklahoma Shop Hop. www.roadtooklahomashophop.com. Have your passport stamped at all seven shops and you will be entered into a drawing for Gift Certificates! First Baptist Church of Alva is taking a bus Friday. 10 seats left!. Call 580-327-2633 to Reserve

New Releases

New on DVD and BluRay this week at Rialto Video; “Good Deeds,” “Ghost Rider 2” and “Sherlock Holmes 2.”

Candy Bouquet

will be closed 6/8/12 through 6/24/12

Kasie Mae’s Cafe

Now serving ice cream and real fruit shakes! Closing for vacation on June 18th thru the 26th. Come stop by Kasie Mae’s Cafe in Cleo Springs, OK,1 block west of the bank. 412 N. Park Street. 580-438-2259


Depot Bar & Grill

Wed Lunch Special-Minute Steak, Mashed Potatoes & Gravy, Green Beans, Orange Supreme Cake. Thurs- Barbeque Chicken, Baked Beans, Potato Salad, Cookies & Creme Pie. Fri-Chicken Fry, Mashed Potatoes, Gravy, Corn, Roll, Peach Cobbler. Full menu everyday. Carry-Out available. 580-327-2212.

Beautiful Bathroom

and Walk-In Shower Remodels by A1. 580-327-4000 or 620-825-4300

Dad’s Day Man Cave

If you don’t have one, you should. We can make it happen for you. WFM Total Construction, LLC. 580-327-7935. www.wfmtotalconstruction.com

Freeman’s Garden Market

All plant inventory will be 50% off starting June 1. 1407 College Blvd. 580-327-3522

Massage Therapist

Tammy Hawley at Hair on the Square will honor gift certificates! Contact 580-327-0258

DUI Schools

New Hope Counseling. Current classes 10/Hour DUI School, 24/Hour DUI School, 6 and 12 Week Substance Abuse Groups, Victim’s Impact Panels and ADSAC, SAPP and Drug and Alcohol Assessments. 580-748-0692 for appointments and info

New Laundry

Open 24-7. 6 new washers, 6 new dryers. Open to the public 7 days a week, 24 hrs a day! Aspen Apartments, 602 Hart, Alva.

Conceal & Carry

One day class (in Cherokee) June 2, 9 and 16. Call for registration 580-541-7425.

Pony Boy Lures

600 Mimosa, Alva, OK. 580-327-1233, 580-430-5547. Special-Alabama Rigs $14/each. Buy and Sell Guns, Live Worms

Professional Upholstery

with all types of furniture. Over 55 yrs experience. Goltry, OK. 580-496-2351

Employment

Truck Drivers Needed

Local Water Transport Company. Great Pay. Home Every Day. CDL Tanker Endorsement Required. Experience Preferred. Call Dennis at 580-542-8016

Now Taking Applications

Vantage Plane Plastics, one of the top producers of plastic replacement parts for all types of single and twin engine aircraft is looking to fill marketing/sales management position. Benefits include; paid holidays, vacation and sick time, life insurance, medical, dental and vision insurance, flex plan, 401K and ESOP. Come by and pick up and app at 3161 College Blvd. Alva. at the south end of the airport

Help Wanted

Full-Time Car Wash Equipment Maintenance. $15 per hour with experience. Apply at Tidal Wave Car Wash, 423 Okla Blvd, Alva, OK. Call 580-327-8021

Drivers Needed

Class A CDL Hazmat. 580-737-2030

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Now Taking Applications

Vantage Plane Plastics, one of the top producers of plastic replacement parts for all types of single and twin engine aircraft, is looking to fill two full time positions in the production and sales departments. Benefits included. Come by and pick up an applications at 3161 College Blvd. Alva, OK, at the south end of the airport

Help Wanted

Share Medical Center job openings. Housekeeping Techs, Laundry Techs, Certified Nurse Aides. Applications available at 800 Share Drive in Alva. Call 580-327-2800 for more information

Help Wanted

Part-Time on-call Advocate. Please mail or bring Resume to 1330 Okla Blvd, Alva, OK 73717

Personally Looking

for small offices to clean 1-2 evenings per week. 580-822-1661

Top Pay!

Vacuum Truck Drivers needed in Alva area. Must have 2 years driving experience, Hazmat Endorsement, with good driving record and able to pass drug test. Call 580-327-3237 or 936-590-9961

Help Wanted

Experienced full time cook with 1 yr exp minimum. Apply between 10am-3pm Monday thru Friday. 30108 US Highway 281. 405-305-3284.

Nicholas Services

Now Hiring Class A Drivers for all shifts. Earn over $1500/Weekly. $17/$19.50 Hourly. Excellent Benefits. Over 30 years in Business. Come be a valued member of our growing company that takes pride in our equipment and provides extensive oilfield training. Drug Testing Required. 620-930-7511

Help Wanted

Looking for experienced Farm and Ranch Hand. 620-886-0567

Garage Sales

Garage Sale

Friday, June 15 7am-?In the alley of 813 Flynn

Large Garage Sale

8am to 4pm Several Families Large Garage Sale Thurs, Fri, Sat. Small kitchen appliances, antiques, quilts, blankets, sheets & pillow cases, clothes, shoes, toys, etc. Too much to mention. Come see what you have missed. 121 S. Fairoak in Cherokee, OK.

Garage Sale

Friday evening 5pm-? and Saturday 7am-? Misc household items, baby items, etc.913 2nd St.

Multi-Family Sale

43579 Harper Road (Cushenbery Storage Warehouse); Friday, June 15, 5:30-? & Saturday, June 16, 8:30-?

Moving Sale

829 Center Fri 3-7pm; Sat 8-3.

Garage Sale

1324 Flynn. Fri 3-6pm. Sat 8-11am. Lots of baby/kids items and clothes. Lots of misc

Lawn Care

Mowing Service

Reasonable Rates! Call anytime. 580-603-1605

Miscellaneous

Beat the Heat!

Stop by the Rialto and cool off with one of our new ICEE drinks, available in Cherry or Coco-Cola

Book Signing

at Cherokee Strip Museum June 16 from 2-4pm by Beverly Kinzie on her new book Experiences on the Prairie:The story of Andrew and Jeannie

Yard of the Month

We were honored to be selected and would like to thank the Garden Clubs for the award!

Advanced Vehicle

Extrication Class Sat. June 16, 2012 7am-7pm and Sunday, June 17, 2012 1pm-5pm at Northwest Technology Center Alva. No cost for the class. Call Northwest Technology Center 580-327-0344.


For Sale

Carports, RV Shelters, Wood and Metal Buildings. 580-430-6052

80th Birthday Party

Surprise celebration for Lucy Arndt, hosted by her children Saturday, June 16th, 1pm - 3pm at The Wesley House; 1027 8th St. Alva.

For Rent

In Cherokee - truck or equipment parking. Call 580-884-1632.

For Sale

Ladies and Mens New Shake Weights $10/each. Small Dog House $15. 4-QT Elec Ice Cream Freezer $5. 580-748-1258

For Sale

Home Tanning Bed. 1 yr old. $1500. Serious Inquiries Only! 580-748-1496

For Sale

Kitchenaid Side-by-Side refrig. Water and Ice in door. Almond color. 25 cuft. 580-327-2070

Books For Sale

Early Woods County and Experiences on the Prairie. The Story of Andrew and Jeannie available for purchase at Graceful Arts and Cherokee Strip Museum or from Beverly Kinzie 580-327-1612

Covered RV Storage

4580-430-6052

For Sale

Tomatoes. 580-829-1359

Farewell Reception

for Terry Condor. 3:30-4:30pm at AMS Library on Tuesday June 19

Real Estate

For Rent

Small office space. $350/Month. Please call 580-327-6648

5th Wheel for Sale

38ft, 3 slides, 50 amp service, 2 ac, 2 heaters, microwave, stove, new refrig, new carpet, 2 new leather recliners, large walk-in shower, separate toilet, queen size bed, oak cabinets, 4 holding tanks, ready to live in. Located in Alva. New $70,000, Asking $16,000 580-748-0466

Open Now!

Bonderosa RV Park. Byron, OK. 50amp elec. Water. Sewer. 580-474-2649 or 580-732-0313. Martin and Judy Bond

RV Park

Now Open in Cherokee OK. 580-603-9060 or 580-596-2621

RV Space

All Hook-ups. 580-732-0475

First Time Home Buyer

Own your own home. Zero Down! 100% Financing. Bankruptcy okay. Free Credit Report and Repair. Low Fixed Interest Rates. 620 Credit Score required. Immediate Pre-Approval. USDA Approved Lender. John Angleman, Founders Mortgage, Inc. 580-222-8862. Visit www.foundersmortgage.com. Lic #208765

For Rent

RV Spaces in Carmen, OK. All bills paid. 580-541-3540

For Rent

RV Park. Full Hook-Ups. Spots avail. 580-829-1069

For Lease

Normandy Apt. 405-659-4199

Farmer’s Please Help!

64 Yr old looking for a hunting lease for deer. Preferably on river system. Will pay top price for good place. 580-554-0999

For Sale by Owner

3bdrm, 2bth. 2 living. 2200 sqft. Hot Tub, Above Ground Pool. Exc Location. 545 Lake Drive. 580-727-5275

House For Sale

1234 Locust, corner lot, 3200 sqft mol. 4-5 bdrm, 3bth, fireplace, 2 living areas, kitchen remodeled in 2011, privacy fence. 580-748-1496

For Rent

1bdrm, 1bth duplex with appliances. Water paid. Avail July 10. $750/Month. 580-515-8280

Special Gov’t Program!

Own Land/Family Land. Zero Down! New and Repo Homes avail. E-z qualify by phone. Top Dollar for your Trade in. $2000 furniture allowance with purchase. 405-631-7600 or 405-602-4526. WAC

For Sale

5 acres between Alva and Cherokee with nice 3bdrm Home with CH/A. New steel roof. 2 car garage with shop. Barns and corrals. Call 580-884-7447

For Sale

Secluded country home, approx 2500 sf on 2 acres. Detached2 car garage. Kaw Lake area. $175,000. 580-362-3134.

For Lease

7500 sqft Comm’l retail prop on Hwy 281 next to Wal Mart in Alva. 580-327-2554

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