Muldrow Herald (Newspaper) - February 26, 1970, Muldrow, Oklahoma HUD ISSUES WORK ORDERS FOR MULDROW WATER PROJEC The Department of Housing and Urban Development have announced that they have issued the work orders to the contractors who were successful in bidding on the new Muldrow water A total of calendar been set for the completion ofthe Work started right after the completion of the sewer and lake projected in 1965, toward getting a grant loan to build a new treatment distribution tank and Two sections of a wall in the stillway collapsed some time back and HUD held up the project until arrangements were made and they were assured that the two sections would be Travis Assistant Regional Administrator for Metropolitan Development of HUD notified Mayor Jim Cook late last week that the work orders have been sent to the The project is broken down into with three construction firms receiving the four The Northside construction company was awarded sometime the contract for the water distribution system upon their bid of Their contract calls for the laying oi all the new water lines in the project None of the obsolete line will be Northside has 250 calendar days to finish this A 200 gallon per minute water treatment plant II he built by the James Cf Company for a total ui The work order issued called for its completion by November 14. 1970. The storage tank and the to be built by the Chicago Bridge and Iron Company be finished by October 27 of this A bid of 340.00 was accepted for the new tank and on the The treatment plant the will be built just west of the present treatment A new site has been purchased for the water storage It will be located about halfway up on Page COUNTY'S NEWEST LECiA L NEWSPAPER Oklahoma 74948 2<,, 1970 mber 35 ens haw Atte nds MULDROW WINS DISTRIC Annual Conference HEADS FOR REGIONA The annual conference of the United States was held at Convention Hall in Atlantic New Jersey with Muldrow's superintendent of Mr. MR. A. Approximately 17,000 school administrators from across the including 200 from attended the The administrators met to discuss the critical needs in education and hear noted speakers talk on these One of these noted speakers was Dr. Trillingham who was the of the schools at St. Kansas when Mr. Henshaw graduated from that He is now retired after having become the superintendent of schools in Los One heard the Henry Fields and the Soldiers Mrw Henshaw left February 13 for the On February 18, he left for D.C. and a meeting with Ed Carl John Happy Camp and Fred He returned to Muldrow on February 19. BAND BOOSTER INCH TOWARD NEED BEFORE MARCH 2, 1970 The Muldrow Band Boosters inched closer to their goal last Saturday when they made from their bake boosters thank each and everyone for their participation in the They also received recently donations Pete Jr. SCHOOL ELECTION HAS BEEN SET MARCH 24 The annual Muldrow school election will be held March 24 with the voters of the Muldrow school district electing a new member to serve on the school for five The filing period is open March fourth and closes at 5 p.m. March 14. The election will be held March 24 with the polls open from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Anyone wishing to file should contact Don the school board There is not a filing The Band Boosters appreciate all the contributions and participation in their but the Boosters still need to pay for the new band This amount is due on or before March 2. All persons wishing to assist the Band Boosters in their time of need should contact or mail their contributions to Lowell the president of the club or to Jack Shermer who takes care of the on this Consider the project and the value of it to our community and send in your contribution ROLAND GIRLS TO PLAY TOURNAMENT The Girls Basketball Tournament is being held at The Roland Girls will be playing Oklahoma February 26, at 7:30 p.m. at Should the Roland girls win they will be playing the winner of Heavener and February 28, at 2:30 p.m. at BULLDOGS DOWN 74-60 The Muldrow although trailing most of the first half of the District 2A Basketball went on to win over the Sallisaw Black Diamonds by the score of 74-60. The the hard playing Vian Wolverines the previous night with a score of 63-45. Half time score was 33-21, Muldrow's Sallisaw got the ball at the start of the but Muldrow failed their attempt for 2 and became first to get on the Muldrow led for a while but Sallisaw rallied to take the - Muldrow settled down to start taking the lead from the Black By the halftime the Bulldogs had grabbed the lead with a score of 40-30. The Bulldogs kept the pressure on with some spectacular shooting and With 1:55 minutes remaining in the Muldrow led the Black Diamonds 72i-51. Both teams ran in their substitutes for the of the The final score was COMMITTEE TO GO TO OKLAHOMA CITY FOR PRELIMINARY JUDGING A committee from the Muldrow Chamber of Commerce went to Oklahoma City Wednesday for the preliminary judging for the state wide civic improvement contest that Muldrow has The contest is sponsored by the Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce and is based on a town made during Muldrow is competing -in a class with towns under 2,500 The Muldrow Rev. Roy Lind presented all of achievements to the con- test who will send a committee to Muldrow at a later A general cleanup is planned by the Muldrow C of C in the near future to have Muldrow ready for the visit from the MULDROW WINS REGIONAL BERTH The basketball team beat out Roland Saturday to bring home the trophy for the district Muldrow met Sallisaw in their first game of the and beat them 65-56. Betty Cherry led s scoring With 36 Roland guards attempted to slow Muldrow in but with little Roland came from 10 points behind to come to within 3 points late in the second The halftime score was Muldrow 25 and Roland 22. Muldrow's lead was threatened several times in the third and fourth quarters when Roland pulled within 1 point of Muldrow's But they could never quite get a strong enough rally going to gain the was presented the after they won the gams 60-59. MEET Jay will meet Monday March 2 at the Jay Hut at 7;30 p.m. All members should be present in order to be informed of the projects now being MULDROW CITY COUNCIL TO MEET The Muldrow City council will meet Monday March 2 at the Muldrow City REGIONAL START TONIGHT AT VIAN The Class 2A Regionals for this area will be held Thursday through Saturday nights with the to be played at Vian and the finals at The Checotah girls start off the regionals with a game at 7:30 p.m. Thursday The Muldrow and Spiro girls will tangle at 8:50 p.m. Checotah are scheduled to meet at 7:30 p.m. Friday Muldrow and Spiro will play at 8:50 p.m. The to be held at will start at 7:30 p.m. with the girls game and the at 8:50._________................ The state tournament will be held next MULDROW LOSES STARTING GUARD Muldrow's starting Dixie will be unable to play anymore this season announced Muldrow James Eads Dixie received a knee injury in the game at the district tournament Friday February 20. JAYCEE JANES TO MEET TONIGHT The Muldrow Jaycee Jaynes will meet Thursday February 26, at 7:30 p.m. in die of Mrs Gary CONTEST PLANNED FOR MARCH 14 An old Contest will be held at the Muldrow High School gym Saturday March 14, at 7:30 p.m. All area young and old fiddlers are invited to enter this There is not a charge for entering the Everyone wanting to enter should contact Lowell Churchill at 776-3524. Trophies will be a warded to the After the contest the audience will enjoy a musical by the Arkansas a 6-piece combo with two vocalists who in country Admission will be for adults and 50 cents for The concession stand will be open with Mabray in All band boosters may contact Mrs. Mabray
