Big Basin Herald (Newspaper) - December 14, 1972, Muldrow, Oklahoma BIG BASIN HERALD OKLAHOMA TEN CENTS DECEMBER 14, 1972 VOLUME 8 NUMBER 25 Saturday Parade Traffic Fatalities In Muldrow Up Over 1971 Do It Proclaimed WHATS BAKIN IN KG BASIN At the very beginning let us make it very ' clear that we think every elderly person over 65 and regardless of who are REALLY are entitled to receive but we are not sympathetic to those Freeloaders who have made it their OCCUPATION to draw a monthly We notice where in Oklahoma a Legal Aid Attorney paid by tne has filed a suit against the Department of public on behalf of two clients in Oklahoma on One is buying a the other a 000 Both are One is divorced and the information says the father absent from the in the other The type homes they want to purchase is FHA Title 235, a low payment know of one real nice the payment is per The fare Department usually allows per month for rent or if their payments were they have another good thing profit each And they are getting the payments GIVEN TO We hope this Legal Aid Attorney gets his beat in We seriously doubt if majority of those who work to get this money to Oklahoma City each month for this kind of live in of May we never see day when those who don't some won't fare better than those who are we already seeing May we never see the day when it is ' more profitable for the father to be from the home than it is for the Rancher to be in his feed are we already seeing i Singing Set The regular ira Saturday night gospel singing will be held December 16, at the Lee's Chapel The singing Kimes family from will be the featured The ing will begin at 7:30 Everyone is invited to Kimes family is widely known in this area for their good gospel singing and you want to miss this Booster Club Selling Trees The Roland Booster club will be selling Christmas trees until Christmas They are located on Highway 64 and the Roland They have beautiful trees at reasonable DON'T floats and even Old Santa Claus is going to be in Muldrow The anual Christmas parade will begin at 1:00 pm in downtown Muldrow and proceed to Eastern with a number of beautiful and colorful floats scheduled to be in the ' Several of the the as the the athletic department will 1 have The anual affair is sponsored by the Muldrow Chamber of Ed Ma bray is parade Attractive prizes will be given this first place * float will receive a cash second and third And just for entering each float will be given To enter your float call Everett Woodward at 776-3130. There will be plenty of candy for compliments of. the Chamber of and local businessmen Sponsor Lighting Contest The Muldrow Jaycees will again sponsor a Christmas Lighting Contest in Judging will take place on December 23rd. First prize will be second and third prize will be Charles Chairman of the lighting says that all entries must be submitted before Thursday December 21. Entry Blanks can be found on page two of this edition of the Big Basin Gov. Asks For Teacher Raise In an announcement made last Governor Hall will ask the when it convenes in to approve a million increase in the budget in order to guarantee every Oklahoma School teacher a raise for the next two The Oklahoma Education association has asked for more money than the but the Governor feels confident their differences may be worked If the states million revenue sharing Hall wants million of this diverted tp Oklahoma's common Ambulance Co. To Quit Mr. Jim owner of Twin City Ambulance of Ft. announced Monday that Twin City will no longer make runs into the rural areas of Sebastian and Crawford Counties in Arkansas and in Sequoyah or Le Flore Counties in - Effective January 1973 Twin City services will be confined to the corporate limits of Ft. Grimm During the first 11 of 1972, traffic deaths in Oklahoma exceeded the same period of 1971 by 16. state public safety quickly defended the work of the state patrol and cited the fact that this increase was a result of accidents occured inside city limits which is normally not in the During the first 11 months of 1971, 759 deaths were reported for the period in 1972, the figure was given as 775. Vian Band To Present Concert The Vian School Symphonic Band will its annual Christmas Concert Monday December 18, at 7:00 p.m. in the high school The band is under the direction of Mr. Phil a 1970 graduate of Arkansas Poly technic This is his first year at having taught previously in the Oklahoma school 3yatem. Along with the there will be the coronation of this year's band who is Miss Leta the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Show of Some of the music to be performed at the concert Includes by and by W. Francis from by Issac and de by This should prove to ve a very enjoy bale evening of entertainment and old as the selections of music are quite varied in style and SS Schedule The Social Security representative will be in Sallisaw at the Old Welfare Building Between - 9 a.m. and 12 noon December 21. The representative will be glad assist you in filing your claim ' for social security and medicare benefits or with information you might need regarding your social Revenue Funds Amounts Given The Revenue Sharing has now become a It has been tossed about for quite sometime and finally it was passed upon and now the coffers of all Sequoyah County town Treasury's will get a According to figures released recently the Sequoyah County government will receive and the amounts allocated of the county are 995, 266, Marble paradise paul Campaign Chairman of the Sequoyah County Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease has proclaimed December 15, as It in the Haynes pointed out that It is the day for putting good intentions into This day is set aside to remind all county residents who haven't answered their Christmas Seal letter to do so. It gives emphasis to the fact that the success of the organization's program depends largely upon the Seal The Christmas Seal official went on to say that the county has reached or 71% of last year's Christmas Seal dollars from the county Oklahoma are used for medical and public health education on and other respiratory Funds year round medical research and case detection and Carl Puckett Professorship of Pulmonary Disease at the University of Oklahoma School of Haynes added that chronic and other respiratory diseases are at an almost unbelievable leaving in their wake thousands of disabled The number of new emphysema cases has doubled every five years since 1960. Heart Chairman Selected Shirley Knoke has been selected chairman of the 1973 Heart Fund Drive for Sequoyah Mrs. Knoke was appointed by Mrs. J. Howard widow of the former Mrs. Edmondson is serving as chairman for the State Heart disease is Oklahoma's biggest health problem and I'm sure that through Mrs. Knoke's leadership in Sequoyah the residents of this area will join together to help fight this state's biggest Mrs. Edmondson said in announcing the The Sequoyah County chairman has been an active Heart In accepting the she urged support of all residents of Sequoyah Mrs. Knoke proceeds from the February Fund Drive will go to further the work of the Oklahoma Hea rt Association through education and community Last year more than was spent in Oklahoma for use by research physicians in studying Heart Disease through funds from the Oklahoma Heart Fund Sequoyah County Chairman is Director of Education at Sequoyah Memorial She is a member of the National Emergency Department and is graduate of Ohio Valley General Mrs. Knoke has two 14 and 11. Pair Charged With Charges of murder were filed Wednesday against Olen and Lloyd Kennedy by the district attorney's office of Sequoyah The charges were filed in connection with the December 4 4, - disappearance and alleged r of Ted a 65-year old service station owner from The victim's body was recovered early December 5th in a well at an abandoned farm site near Marble A phone call to the Sequoyah C Sheriff s Office Monday night triggered off the search for the missing station Investigators were called to the Marble City area later in the The two brothers one at the home Of a relative and the other in a cabin near his The body was found about 10:00 a.m. Tuesday Both Kennedy men have been taken to the Muskogee County Jail where they remain in Bond has been preliminary hearings in the incident have been set for Jan. 4, 1973. Investigation continues in the Committeemen Elected Farmers of Sequoyah County have elected a total of 15 ASC community committeemen and alternates in a mail election conducted earlier last according to Wade Chairman of the County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation ASC community committees assist the County ASC Committee in administering farm programs in Sequoyah such as acreage ' feed grain bases shares and REAP They also help keep local producers informed of farm program provisions and In the ASC community committees have an important responsibility in the near future in filling vacancies on the County ASC Committee and determining the chairman and vice-chairman for the coming Vaughan The new ASC community committeemen convened December 12. Ice Storm Crips Area All of Sequoyah the state in has been gripped in one of the worst ice storms of the Traffic from all directions has been virtually at a A number of traffic occured during the storm but no were The weather bureau has forecast somewhat better conditions for the area within the next lew
