Residents of Byng Seek Incorporation to Improve Services
Byng area residents push to form a town of about 400 to gain FHA loans for sewer and lagoon systems and reduce fire insurance costs. Marvin Stokes, school superintendent, says incorporation enables grants covering up to 75 percent and allows revenue bonds for the rest. A volunteer fire department with old army surplus equipment is proposed to cut premiums. Community pride and better access to services motivate the move.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naomi Knickmeyer
Byng School
Marvin Stokes
Byng
Stokes
Resi
Ada
Jim Cook
Oklahoma water plan maps vast but distant supply network
A 1966 Bureau of Reclamation appraisal outlines a proposed Oklahoma water conveyance system linking 117 reservoirs with two canals to move water from Northeast and Southeast regions to the Panhandle and central western areas. The plan envisions 89 pumping plants, 580 miles of pipe, tunnels and siphons, and potential irrigation growth to 2.1 million acres, with significant land inundation near new reservoirs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Water Resources Board
U. S. Corps of Engineers
Bureau of Reclamation
Oklahoma
U. S. Department of the Interior
Bue Bureau
Bureau
Boise City
Panhandle
Union Reservoir
Oklahoma City
Surroun
California State Water Project
Fort Gibson
Tahlequah Reservoir
Cherokee County
Arkansas
Red River
Farm Mech Show Set for April in Oklahoma City
The Oklahoma Farm Mech Show arrives April 7 9 in Oklahoma City at Northwest 10th and Portland. Nearly 300 exhibit spaces with about 150 exhibitors will feature hundreds of farm machines from tractors to irrigation equipment. Demonstrations will run daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. with free admission and parking, at the OSU Extension Center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Northwest 10Th
Portland
OSU Extension Center
John Wartchow Named to Angus Association Junior Member
John Wartchow age 12 of Fitzhugh was granted a junior membership in the American Angus Association at St. Joseph Missouri. The status allows registration of purebred Angus at regular rates and association privileges until age 21, with a path to lifetime membership later. Last month 172 youths nationwide received junior memberships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Wartchow
Fitzhugh
American
Former Roff man wins swine honors at Houston show
Joe Don Ray formerly of Roff and now of Madill earned top honors at the Houston Livestock Show as a Chester White breeder. His entries won grand champion gilt reserve champion gilt and reserve champion boar plus the premier sire award for his placements across divisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Don Ray
Houston
Soviet Wheat Prospects Spur Talk of New Grain Deal
Washington officials weigh potential U S action as reports cite severe winter damage in the Soviet 1972 wheat crop and prior Soviet purchases. An ERS report notes 5 1/2 million tons in new deals last year and a US feed grain sale, with Nixon’s Moscow visit in late May looming. Broiler demand also supports a modest summer production rise.
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Washington
Soviet Union
Nixon
U.S
Moscow
Agriculture Department
Economic Research Service
Fletcher Pope Jr
Donald Chrisler
Europe
ERS
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Angus Association
Pennington Creek
Joe Sims
Homer
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