July 2014 Publisher - Oklahoma Press Association

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The Oklahoma Publisher
Official Publication of the Oklahoma Press Association
Vol. 85, No. 7
16 Pages • July 2014
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Jeff Funk new president of OPA
Jeff Funk, publisher of the Enid News
& Eagle, is the new president of the Oklahoma Press Association.
Funk, who directs operations of the
seven-day daily newspaper and the EnidNews.com digital news sites, was elected at the June 12, 2014, OPA Convention to a one-year term beginning July 1.
Other officers elected to a one-year term
were Robby Trammell, news editor at The
Oklahoman, as vice president; Gloria Trotter, co-publisher of The Countywide &
Sun, as treasurer; and Jeff Mayo, associate
publisher of the Sequoyah County Times,
as past president.
Newly elected to serve a two-year term
as a director was Mike Strain, news editor
at the Tulsa World. John Denny Montgomery, assistant editor at The Purcell Register,
was elected to a new three-year term as
director, and Ted Streuli, executive editor
of The Journal Record, was elected to his
second three-year term on the board.
Other members serving on the OPA
Board of Directors are Dayva Spitzer, Sayre
Record & Beckham County Democrat;
Brian Blansett, Shawnee News-Star, and
Ray Dyer, El Reno Tribune. Mark Thomas
is the executive vice president of the OPA.
“I look forward to working with other
newspaper publishers throughout Oklahoma to make our industry stronger and
better,” said Funk. “I’m encouraged by the
ongoing and strong interest Oklahomans
have in their communities and community
news. Newspapers do absolutely the best
job of feeding that interest with accurate
and timely information.
“I’m excited about the future of the news
business.”
Funk joined the Enid News & Eagle
as executive editor in July 2001. He was
named general manager in May 2002 and
became publisher in November 2002. He
is a 38-year newspaper veteran, previously
holding news and management positions
with daily newspapers in Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska.
His interest in newspapers began when
he worked for his aunt and uncle’s weekly
newspaper in Audubon, Iowa. After earning a bachelor’s degree in journalism and
mass communications, Funk went on to
work at newspapers in Hutchinson and
Parsons, Kan.; and in Beatrice, North Platte
and Grand Island, Neb. In Grand Island,
he developed the newspaper’s six-person
Internet team that produced newspaper,
community and commercial websites and
HuskersHQ.com.
In Enid, Funk has enjoyed participating
in community activities, including serving
as president of the United Way and as an
officer of the Enid Community Foundation,
the Greater Enid Chamber of Commerce,
Enid Rotary Club, Enid Public School
Foundation, David Allen Memorial Ballpark
board and Willow View United Methodist
Church. Funk and his wife, LynnDe, are
longtime amateur baseball fans and are part
of a local group working to host national
and regional baseball tournaments in Enid.
In addition to his role at the News & Eagle,
Funk also serves as publisher of the Stillwater News Press and as a team leader
for Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.
assisting with nine other Oklahoma publications.
Funk is a Kansas native and a graduate
of Kansas State University. He and his wife
have two children – JoLynn, a professional
photographer in North Platte, Neb., and
Justin, an optometrist in Enid – and two
grandsons.
2014 postal form to include electronic subscriptions
This year’s postal form will allow publishers to include electronic subscriptions
on the same form as print subscribers.
The National Newspaper Association
recently confirmed that PS Form 3526,
Statement of Ownership, Management
and Circulation, is scheduled for release
in hard copy in September for the Oct. 1
filing date.
The form will also be available on
PostalOne! postage payment system computers.
Brad Hill, president of Interlink Software, said the August PostalOne! “Release
38” contains the change that is scheduled
for use on Sept. 7, 2014.
The 3526-X form that was required in
2012 and 2013 to report electronic subscriptions as an addendum will not be a
third page of the previous 3526 form. The
3526-X will cease to exist.
Hardcopy forms are already posted on
the Postal Explorer website. To access the
form, scroll down the left blue toolbar to
“Postage Statements,” then “Periodicals
forms” and you will see the updated 3526
dated 7-2014.
The new form allows combining the
total paid print and electronic copies for
both “Issue closest to filing date” and
“Average copies for previous 12 months.”
This achieves NNA’s goal to get recognition for electronically-fulfilled subscriptions or requester copies added for
newspapers that use the Statement of
Ownership as their legal proof of circulation for advertisers, advertising agencies
and public notices.
In other news, the NNA is working on
a new proposal to eliminate the “marked
copy” for Periodicals. Instead, publishers
would be able to keep their marked copies
on file for later audit.
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analysis
by OPA President JEFF FUNK, Publisher of the Enid News & Eagle
NEWSPAPERS –
we have a great story to tell
“What doesn’t kill you
makes you stronger.”
That paraphrase of a quote by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche
seems a tad harsh, but it colorfully
makes the point that we grow through
adversity.
In the news business, we face adversity daily. Competition, really. Competition for readers’ attention. Competition
for advertising dollars. Competing ideas.
Competition for time.
As we in the newspaper world fight
those sometimes-subtle battles, we need
to get better at selling ourselves, at telling readers and advertisers and marketing minds and news sources of the world
why we are good. Telling them why we
are the best.
WE know why we are important to
people. We live it every day. But do
THEY know why we should be valued?
Do our readers and prospective readers
know why we are valuable to them?
Each day as we drive across town we
are bombarded with information and
marketing messages. That continues
and increases when we sit down at
home, or when we go about our daily
work. The competition is everywhere.
So, what makes us stand out?
We threw that question to a group of
men and women sitting around a table in
Enid one afternoon. The responses were
enlightening and may stimulate your
own thinking. So, why subscribe to your
hometown paper?
• It makes you smarter – keeps you up
on current events and keeps you in
the conversation. When people start
talking in the checkout line, during
break time at work or during coffee
hour at church, do others look to you
because you know what’s going on?
Your newspaper can help with that.
• It saves you time. It’s a convenient
source of LOTS of information.
There’s no anchorman or announcer
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to filter the news for you. YOU decide
what you want to read. Your newspaper tells you what’s happening, when
and where.
• It saves you money – coupons and
discounts each week, plus just knowing where to find the best prices on
food, vehicles, clothing, insurance …
whatever you need. In fact, most
subscribers discover what they save
more than pays for the cost of the
newspaper.
• It’s permanent. Clip it. Save it. Share
it. Keep it for the kids. Save that
story or ad as a reminder of something you want to do later.
• It’s always there when you need it,
not just when “the news is on” or
the commercial is aired. No need to
start up, download or plug in. Too
busy this morning? It waits for you.
No time today? The newspaper won’t
be offended if you leave it under the
table until you need the grocery ads
or want to read more about what the
guys were talking about at work.
• It entertains you – comics to crosswords, Sudoku to celebrity gossip.
• It’s news about people you know,
people who live around here.
• It makes you a better citizen, a betterinformed voter, and a better source
of accurate information and influence
with others.
• It exposes you to other opinions, and
let’s you share your opinions with others.
• It lets you follow your team.
Wow, your hometown newspaper provides all of that value and for just a few
quarters per issue. Better yet, we’ll even
deliver it to you!
So, those were the answers we came
up with. Perhaps you have some more.
If so, e-mail me at [email protected].
Learn more about video storytelling,
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Aug. 22-23.
Registration – just $75 for two full
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Instructors for the workshop are:
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MEG DOWNEY, former managing editor of The Tennessean in Nashville. She
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KATHY KIELISZEWSKI, director of
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efficient video story forms for digital
platforms and provide tips to shoot more
effective video on your smartphone.
PAUL OVERBERG, database editor for
USA Today. He will demystify data journalism, including directing you to data
and documents in your community that
will translate into enterprising stories.
SHAZNA NESSA, former deputy managing editor of editorial products and
innovations at The Associated Press.
She will help you apply the research on
what makes content go viral and also
get ready for the next big disruptive
changes in news.
Three Oklahoma newspapers sold
New Media Investment Group Inc.
acquired the Southwest newspaper operations of American Consolidated Media,
which consist of five dailies, nine weekly
newspapers and a shopper group.
Included in the sale are three Oklahoma newspapers – Miami News-Record,
Grove Sun and the Delaware County
Journal
Dirks, Van Essen & Murray, a merger
and acquisition firm based in Santa Fe,
New Mexico, represented American
Consolidated Media in the sale.
The transaction represents the final
divestiture for American Consolidated
Media. Earlier this year the company
sold its newspaper operations in Mary-
land, Ohio, Minnesota and Wisconsin to
Adams Publishing Group.
New Media is the owner of GateHouse Media, LLC, a large publisher of
locally-based print and online media in
the United States. The newspapers will
be managed by GateHouse Media.
Cheryl Franklin, publisher of the
Miami News-Record, said the daily newspaper has been Miami’s news source
since 1989. The News-Record launched
its website in 2011.
“We are looking forward to being a
part of GateHouse Media and taking
advantage of the resources and expertise they have available for our newsrooms, our advertising projects and our
employees,” Franklin said.
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State high school students attend week-long
journalism workshop on OU campus in Norman
The Gaylord College of Journalism
and Mass Communication hosted 16
high school students from across the
state for the annual Oklahoma Institute
of Diversity in Journalism workshop.
Created in 2004, the workshop provides opportunities for promising high
school students who would otherwise
lack access to journalism training or
who face other barriers to pursuing
careers in journalism.
The students came from diverse
areas and represent schools from urban
areas like south Oklahoma City to tiny,
rural towns like Forgan in the Oklahoma
Panhandle.
Student journalists who attended
were Lauren Szmutko, Bartlesville MidHigh School; Destiny Smith, Capitol Hill
High School; Destiny Washington, Classen School of Advanced Studies; Maria
Chaves, Deer Creek High School; Chase
Bryer, Forgan Public School; Shekinah
Rodriguez, Grant High School; Camila
Gonzalez, Harding Charter Preparatory
High School; Caitlyn Minton, Kingfisher
High School; Dyneisha Kornegay, Ronnie Rhodes and Teagan Halbrooks, Lawton High School; Micah Roberts and
Ashley Cooks, MacArthur High School;
Richelle Hallows, Norman High School;
Mariela Claudio, Santa Fe South High
School, and Jordan Evans, Yukon High
School.
Melanie Wilderman, managing director of the workshop and assistant professor of journalism at Gaylord College on
the University of Oklahoma campus in
Norman, said the goal of the workshop
is to give students a solid introduction to
the media field while letting them share
their voices on issues and topics that
matter to them.
“We are giving them a weeklong
experience of a multimedia newsroom.
They are writing stories, shooting video
and photos and designing graphics,”
Wilderman said.
At the end of the workshop, each student should have two completed stories.
Their work will be published on www.
oidj.org.
More than a dozen faculty and professionals served as teachers and mentors
to the students.
The Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation awarded a grant of
$39,000 to fund the program.
“We are thankful for the incredible
generosity of the Ethics and Excellence
in Journalism Foundation for sponsoring such an important program,” said
Wilderman.
Column garners
award for Wylie
Two Oklahoma newspapers receive awards
in National Newspaper Association contest
The International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors recently named
Faith Wylie, co-publisher of the Oologah
Lake Leader, as a Golden Dozen Award
winner for a column she wrote.
Wylie’s humorous column, “Getting
smashed with the girls,” promoted mammogram testing for breast cancer. The
column also was chosen as the 2013
Sweepstakes Award winner at the OPA
Annual Convention.
Wylie’s prize from the ISWNE included a plaque, a full-page story including
the judges’ comments in the professional Grassroots Journal and a $525
scholarship to the ISWNE conference.
ISWNE represents the world’s English-language community newspapers,
including members throughout the
United States, Canada, Australia and
England.
Two Oklahoma newspapers won
national awards in the National Newspaper Association’s Better Newspaper
Contest. Winners were announced in
June.
The McAlester News-Capital, with
help from Oklahoma Watch, won first
place for Best Investigative or InDepth Story or Series for their story,
“Prison Riot Anniversary.”
NNA said the stories, published
last July 28, were noteworthy for their
thorough, informative insights on a
subject that’s often described as one
of the most destructive riots in U.S.
prison history.
“It is always a pleasure to partner
with another journalistic group like
Oklahoma Watch,” said Amy Johns,
publisher of the News-Capital. “It is an
honor to be recognized for the work
Burch named as official
photographer for 2014
baseball tournament
Considering a sale?
Becky Burch, a photographer for the
Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, has
been chosen as the official photographer
of the 2014 Sandy Koufax 14-and-under
World Series Baseball tournament.
The event is planned for Aug. 6-10 in
Bartlesville.
Burch has been chronicling news and
sports events for more than 25 years and
has published one book of her works.
She has earned local, state and national awards each year.
we do right here in our hometown.
As always, I am so proud of my news
team.”
Judges applauded the anniversary
stories for comparing the overcrowding, squalid cells and other issues that
caused the riot with today’s reduced
inmate population and stricter internal
controls over inmate movement.
The Hennessey Clipper took second place for Best Humorous Column,
“Rubber Gloves are style at our house”
by Barb Walter.
The judges loved Walter’s story telling techniques and her use of description and said, “the first part definitely
hooks the reader.”
There were 1,862 entries in the Better Newspaper Contest from papers
across the U.S.
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OPA OFFICERS
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Enid News & Eagle
Robby Trammell, Vice President
The Oklahoman
Gloria Trotter, Treasurer
The Countywide & Sun
Mark Thomas,
Executive Vice President,
Oklahoma City
OPA DIRECTORS
Jeff Mayo, Past President
Sequoyah County Times
Dayva Spitzer, Sayre Record &
Beckham County Democrat
Brian Blansett,
Shawnee News-Star
Ted Streuli, The Journal Record
Ray Dyer, El Reno Tribune
Mike Strain, Tulsa World
John Denny Montgomery,
The Purcell Register
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Recipients selected
for ONF scholarships
Blayklee Buchanan
Megan Deaton
The Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation selected the recipients of the 20142015 ONF Scholarships and Breeden
Scholarship on March 17.
The three $1,500 ONF Scholarships go to juniors or seniors at Oklahoma Universities each year; the $1,000
Breeden Scholarship goes to a senior at
the University of Oklahoma. Each recipient must be majoring in journalism or an
equivalent degree.
The ONF Scholarship Committee
Jacob McGuire
Arianna Pickard
selected Blayklee Buchanan, Megan
Deaton and Jacob McGuire to receive
the three ONF Scholarships, and
selected Arianna Pickard to receive the
Breeden Scholarship.
Buchanan is a professional writing
and English senior at the University of
Oklahoma. She said she wants as much
field experience in her majors as possible in order to achieve her career goals.
“I would like to be a journalism or
writing professor who also serves as an
adviser,” she said. “Between now and
then, I need to become a better resource
for my future students.”
Buchanan has served as both editorin-chief and managing editor for The
Oklahoma Daily, and has interned for
World Literature Today. This summer
she will intern at the Tulsa World.
Deaton, an online journalism major,
is also a senior at the University of
Oklahoma. She has been an editor and
reporter for The Oklahoma Daily since
her freshman year.
“I have been active at OU’s student
newspaper,” she said. “I believe the
experience I have gained there has truly
equipped me to reach my goals.”
Deaton is pursuing a journalism
degree hoping to become a writer, but
has developed an interest in design and
multimedia content as well. She hopes to
become an editor at an esteemed newspaper or magazine, and is looking for
internships to help her get there.
“I would like to be an editor because
it would give me the freedom to manage
content as well as give suggestions for
design.”
McGuire is a communications senior
attending the University of Science and
Arts of Oklahoma in Chickasha. He is a
writer and editor for The USAO Trend,
and after graduation hopes to start a
small newspaper before moving to bigger papers.
“I plan on achieving this by keeping
myself focused on school and by taking
advantage of any and every opportunity
I have to better myself as a communicator,” he said. “Whether it is covering
small town football games or doing features of leadership conferences at our
school.”
Pickard, who received the Breeden
Scholarship, is an online journalism
senior at the University of Oklahoma.
Her experience reporting for The Oklahoma Daily and The Norman Transcript
has given her a good idea of what she
wants to do in the future.
“After graduation I plan to work on
the online desk for a newspaper, managing the publication’s online and social
media presence as well as periodically
writing in-depth and human-interest
pieces for the publication,” she said.
Pickard is a continuous news editor
for The Oklahoma Daily, and is interning at The Oklahoman as a web editor
for the summer.
More information on ONF’s scholarships and how to apply is available at
http://www.okpress.com/scholarships.
Norman Transcript celebrates anniversary with block party
The Norman Transcript celebrated
its 125th anniversary on July 11 with
an open house, building tours, refreshments, food trucks and giveaways.
“We wanted to celebrate our birthday
by having an open house, which then
turned into a block party for the community,” publisher Mark Millsap said.
Families and friends were invited to
participate in the celebration.
The Transcript’s first edition was published July 13, 1889, less than three
months after the April 22, 1889, land run
that populated the city.
Ed Ingle, a Purcell newspaperman,
rode the train from Purcell and staked
a claim in the area of what is now Main
Street and Santa Fe in downtown Norman and set up shop.
At one time, Ingle was publisher of
four newspapers, including The Tran-
script, the Moore Journal, Purcell Register and the Oklahoma School Herald.
The Transcript is the successor of 10
other Norman papers: Norman Advance,
the People’s Voice, the Norman Democrat, the Norman Topic, the Norman
Needle, the Democrat — Topic, the Norman Independent, the Norman Record,
the Cleveland County Enterprise and the
Democrat News.
Ingle had an interest in The Transcript until 1902 when he sold out to J.J.
Burke. Burke sold his interest to H.H.
Herbert, director of the OU School of
Journalism, and Tucker E. Miller in
1918. Later that year, Herbert and Miller
sold to Burke and R.H. Parham and J.
Guy Hardie, publishers of the Purcell
Register. Fox sold his interest to Parham
and Hardie in 1919.
In 1922, Parham and Hardie sold a
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one-third interest to Fred E. Tarman.
Tarman served as publisher/editor until
his retirement in January 1969.
Hardie sold his interest to Parham, Tarman, Alfred Sloan and Harold Belknap in 1927. When Parham
was killed in an automobile accident in
1929, Tarman became editor and pub-
lisher. Belknap became business manager. When Tarman retired in 1969,
Belknap became publisher. He hired
Don Frensley, who became publisher
upon Belknap’s death in 1985.
The newspaper was sold in 1985 to
Donrey Media Co. and to Community
Newspaper Holdings Inc. in 1998.
Charges filed against Edmond newspaper employee
An Edmond Sun employee has been
charged with multiple counts of possessing scores of child pornography images.
Jared Ethan Horton, 29, has worked
at The Sun for five years as a graphic
designer.
He was booked into the Seminole
County Jail with two counts of aggravated child pornography and 10 counts
of possession of child pornography.
“We were very surprised by the
course of events and didn’t have any
indication that something like this was
happening,” said Karen Ediger, publisher of The Edmond Sun.
Horton was terminated from the
paper when Ediger became aware of the
child porn investigation.
Journalism students get real-life experience
during internships at Oklahoma newspapers
C
ollege journalism students will
get help starting their careers
this summer through the Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation internship
program.
A group of ONF trustees selected 24
newspapers to receive funding to hire
interns. Thirty-five newspapers applied
to the program. Forty-two students
submitted applications for the selected
papers to choose from, but the papers
could also choose interns from elsewhere.
The following 21 students and papers
are receiving 2014 ONF summer internship funding.
Timothy S. Ahrens is a sports media
sophomore at Oklahoma State University. He will intern with the Stillwater
News Press this summer, utilizing the
editing and reporting skills he learned
at The Daily O’Collegian and Times
Record News in Texas.
The Duncan Banner selected Charlene Jo Belew, a communications junior
from Cameron University, as their summer intern. Belew works for the Cameron Collegian as a staff writer, student
life editor and sports editor.
Rachel Brocklehurst is a journalism
junior at the University of Central Oklahoma. She has experience writing for
The Vista, and will intern with The Hennessey Clipper this summer.
The Oklahoman hired Paris Burris as
an intern this summer. Burris is a journalism junior at Oklahoma City Community College, and has experience editing
and writing for the OCCC Pioneer. She
also interned for the Department of the
Interior in Washington D.C.
Miles Clements, a senior at OSU, will
intern at The Lawton Constitution. Clements is a multimedia journalism major.
He has served as an editor, reporter
and photographer for OSU’s paper, The
O’Colly.
This summer will be Amanda
Corbin’s first internship. Poteau Daily
News chose Corbin as their ONF summer intern. Corbin is an English senior
at Carl Albert State College.
Megan Deaton, a University of Oklahoma senior, will intern at the Enid
News and Eagle. Deaton is an online
journalism major and a reporter and editor for The Oklahoma Daily.
Hannah Franklin attends Carl Albert
State College. She is a general studies
major with experience as a writer and
photographer for Stigler News-Sentinel,
where she will intern this summer.
Wyatt Freeman works for The Journal at East Central University, where
he is majoring in communication and
performance studies. Freeman will take
on an internship at The Ardmoreite for
the summer.
The Countywide & Sun picked news
and information junior Devon Hale
through the internship program. Hale
attends Oklahoma Baptist University,
and was the editor-in-chief of the OBU
Bison during the 2013-2014 school year.
OSU’s Kassie McClung will take on
an internship at South County Leader.
McClung is a multimedia journalism
sophomore, and is a reporter for The
O’Colly.
Murphy Mitchell is majoring in multimedia journalism and political science at
OSU. He is a reporter and editor for The
O’Colly, and he interned last summer for
The Drumright Gusher. This summer,
he will intern at Tulsa World.
Mustang News chose OSU sophomore Patrick Osborne as their intern.
Osborne is a sports media major, a previ-
ous volunteer for Mustang News, and a
member of OSU Media Club.
Caele Pemberton has worked for The
O’Colly and University of Missouri’s The
Maneater, and edited Harding Charter
Prep School’s The Marionette. She is
currently a multimedia journalism sophomore at OSU, and will intern at The
Journal Record over the summer.
The Norman Transcript hired Kelly
Rogers, a professional writing sophomore at the University of Oklahoma.
Rogers is a campus reporter for The
Oklahoma Daily, where she previously
served as assistant online editor.
Taryn Sanderson is a reporter for
The O’Colly and previously interned for
The Katy Times in Texas. Sanderson is a
sophomore in multimedia journalism at
OSU, and will intern at The Grove Sun
through the internship program.
News and information junior Sophia
Stanley will intern for the summer at
The Shawnee News-Star. Stanley attends
Oklahoma Baptist University, where she
writes and edits for the OBU Bison student newspaper.
The Claremore Daily Progress
selected Kristy Sturgill as its summer
intern. Sturgill, an Oral Roberts University student, is a staff writer for the
school’s paper, the Oracle. Sturgill is
a media major with a concentration in
convergence journalism, and previously
interned for Cherokee Nation business.
Savannah Survil is a sports media
and Spanish junior at OSU. She has freelanced for FOX Sports Oklahoma and
ESPN Oklahoma, and works for Pioneer
Media and The O’Colly. Survil will be
interning at the Drumright Gusher.
Larry Max Terrell attends the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma.
He is a communications junior, opinion
editor for The USAO Trend online and
freelances for the Express-Star. He will
intern at The Newcastle Pacer.
Weatherford Daily News hired Juan
Manuel Ramírez Velázquez as an ONF
summer intern. Velázquez was assistant
program director for the Westcentral
Oklahoma Literacy Coalition, and is a
marketing junior at Southwestern Oklahoma State University.
Of the 24 selected papers, 18 of the
internship salaries were funded by a
grant from the Ethics and Excellence in
Journalism Foundation. Additional funding is provided by ONF.
More information on internships, and
how papers and students can apply, is
available at http://www.okpress.com/
internships.
2014 ONF INTERNSHIPS
Timothy S. Ahrens
Stillwater News Press
Charlene Jo Belew
The Duncan Banner
Rachel Brocklehurst
The Hennessey Clipper
Paris Burris
The Oklahoman
Miles Clements
The Lawton Constitution
Amanda Corbin
Poteau Daily News
Megan Deaton
Enid News and Eagle
Hannah Franklin
Stigler News-Sentinel
Wyatt Freeman
The Ardmoreite
Devon Hale
The Countywide & Sun
Kassie McClung
South County Leader
Murphy Mitchell
Tulsa World
Patrick Osborne
Mustang News
Caele Pemberton
The Journal Record
Kelly Rogers
The Norman Transcript
Taryn Sanderson
The Grove Sun
Sophia Stanley
The Shawnee News-Star
Savannah Survil
Drumright Gusher
Larry Max Terrell
The Newcastle Pacer
Juan Manuel
Ramírez Velázquez
Weatherford Daily News
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June
meeting
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A donation to the
Oklahoma Newspaper
Foundation will support
its efforts to improve the
state’s newspaper industry
and quality of journalism.
ONF’s programs include
training and education for
professional journalists,
The Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation Board of Trustees met June 12,
2014, at the Reed Center in Midwest
City.
Officers attending were president
Steve Booher, Cherokee Messenger &
Republican; vice president Ray Lokey,
Johnston County Capital-Democrat; and
treasurer Gloria Trotter, The Countywide & Sun.
Trustees attending were Terry Clark,
University of Central Oklahoma; Carolyn Estes, Oologah Lake Leader; John
Hruby, Marlow Review; John D. Montgomery, Purcell Register; Tom Muchmore, Ponca City News; Mike Strain,
Tulsa World; Wayne Trotter, Countywide & Sun; Barbara Vice, Drumright
Gusher; Barb Walter, Hennessey Clipper; and Joe Worley, Tulsa World.
OPA board members who also are
ONF trustees attending were Jeff Mayo,
Sequoyah County Times; Jeff Funk,
Enid News & Eagle; and Jeff Shultz,
Garvin County News Star. OPA staff at
the meeting was Mark Thomas, executive vice president-secretary, and Lisa
Potts, member services director.
Absent from the meeting were Sean
Dyer, El Reno Tribune; Rusty Ferguson,
Cleveland American; Kim Lehenbauer,
Norman Transcript; Derek Manning,
Elk City, Okla.; John Denny Montgomery, Purcell Register; Stu Phillips, Seminole Producer; Jerry Pittman, Washita
Valley Weekly; and Jerry Quinn, Bartlesville, Okla.
After calling the meeting to order,
students, and Newspaper in
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to fund these programs.
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ONF OFFICERS ELECTED
Trustees elected ONF officers for
2014-15. Elected by acclimation were
Ray Lokey as president, John Hruby as
vice president, Gloria Trotter as treasurer, and Mark Thomas as secretary.
Officers serve a one-year term from July
1, 2014, to June 30, 2015.
Thomas said the OPA Board of Directors approved the renewal of three-year
terms for Trustees Clark, Dyer, Estes,
Hruby, Lokey, Montgomery, Muchmore
and Vice. The OPA Nominating Committee recommended three new appointments, which were also approved by the
board. They are Vicki Gourley, OKC
Friday; Maria Laubach, Okeene Record;
and Jeff Shultz, Garvin County News
Star. Each will serve a three-year term
beginning July 1, 2014. Current trustees
Strain and John Denny Montgomery will
resign their positions on the ONF Board
after being elected to the OPA Board of
Directors beginning July 1, 2014.
INTERNS SELECTED
An internship selection committee
comprised of Estes, Hruby and Strain
met by conference call on Jan. 27 to
select host newspapers to receive internship funding for the 2014 summer term.
The 2013-14 grant from the Ethics and
Excellence in Journalism Foundation
funds 18 internship positions. The ONF
board and selection committee agreed
to fund additional positions to guarantee
the success of the program and use all
grant funds in case a few interns end
their employment early. Potts said 21
interns are currently working at OPA
member newspapers.
A grant application to the Ethics and
Excellence in Journalism Foundation for
the 2014-15 internship year was submitted June 2. The grant requested funding
in the amount of $50,000 for 18 internships.
Continued on Page 7
DEATHS
scholarship and internship
programs for journalism
Booher resigned his position as ONF
president. Booher, who has accepted a
traveling consultant position with the
Oklahoma Press Association, said he
was proud of the work ONF has done
in recent years. Vice President Lokey
received the gavel and conducted the
remainder of the meeting.
Minutes of the Nov. 14, 2013, meeting were reviewed and approved by the
board.
Trustees also reviewed and acknowledged receipt of ONF expense summaries for the period ending April 30, 2014.
Trustees also reviewed a list of 110
Pages-for-Tomorrow participants for
2014. Thomas reported that one ad had
been sold and inserted in 24 papers,
with a donation value of $15,160.
The board also reviewed and acknowledged receipt of the financial statements
and investment report for the period
ending April 30, 2014.
In activity reports, Potts said many
online webinars are available to members at a low cost. Staff still plans to produce four instructional videos in 2014.
GLENN PHILLIP BRADLEY,
a former
reporter for The Norman Transcript
and The Daily Oklahoman, died June 23,
2014, in Santa Fe, N.M.
Bradley, who was born Oct. 14, 1921,
moved to Norman with his family in
1935. He graduated from Norman High
School in 1939. He continued his education at the University of Oklahoma
where he was a member of ROTC and
the university’s nationally recognized
glee club. He was called to the service
during World War II prior to completing
his degree. After the war, he returned to
OU to complete his degree in journalism.
Bradley worked for The Norman
Transcript where he earned the nickname “Scoop” and then went on to
work for The Daily Oklahoman and The
University Press as sales manager. He
retired later in life after representing a
group of publishing companies throughout the southwestern United States. His
love for the southwest led Bradley and
his wife, Marjorie, to build a home in
Santa Fe, N.M.
He is survived by his daughter, Janet
Bruce and her husband Richard C. Ribich of Santa Fe, N.M.; a sister, Margaret
L. Smith of Norman, Okla.; brother Joe
A. Bradley of Denver, Colo.; three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
MORRIS ‘MOE’ GLAZER, former editor
Korean Conflict before earning his B.A.
in journalism at the University of Oklahoma. In 1951, he married Steva Miller.
Glazer often volunteered his journalistic, comedic and public speaking
skills to the Jewish community. In 1989,
he was stage manager for the musical
theater production, “Joseph’s Dream.”
The female lead was played by his preNavy sweetheart, Harriet Hyman. Glazer and Hyman were married in 1990.
He is survived by his children Ann
Dee Lee and Chris Lee; Kim Glazer and
Kelly Howe; Jon and Starla Glazer; Adam
and Michele Ritholz; Emily Ritholz and
Timothy Reusing; and six grandsons.
for the Henryetta Free-Lance, died June
23, 2014, in Tulsa, Okla.
Glazer was born in Tulsa on May
24, 1925. He graduated from Tulsa Central High School where he worked for
the school newspaper. He served in the
U.S. Navy during both WWII and the
In Memory of Our Friends & Colleagues
Don Graham
June 14, 2013
John Taylor
June 14, 2013
Mildred Ladner Thompson
June 25, 2013
Nathan Lee Hutcheson
July 2, 2013
Linda Ann Sigler
July 5, 2013
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OPA board of directors meeting held
at Midwest City during OPA Convention
The Oklahoma Press Association
board of directors met June 12, 2014, at
the Reed Center in Midwest City during
the annual OPA Convention.
Officers attending were President
Jeff Mayo, Sequoyah County Times;
Vice President Jeff Funk, Enid News &
Eagle; and Treasurer Gloria Trotter, The
Countywide & Sun. Directors attending
were Past President Jeff Shultz, The
Garvin County News Star; Robby Trammell, The Oklahoman; Dayva Spitzer,
Sayre Record & Beckham County Democrat; Brian Blansett, Shawnee NewsStar; Mike Brown, Neighbor News; Ted
Streuli, The Journal Record; and Ray
Dyer, El Reno Tribune. Staff at the meeting was Mark Thomas, executive vice
president/secretary; Lisa Potts, member services director; and Michael Minnis, OPA attorney.
Guests attending were director nominees Mike Strain, Tulsa World, and John
Denny Montgomery, The Purcell Register; and OPA/MEBT Administrator and
Trustee Sean Dyer and OPA/MEBT
Legal Counsel Jerry Sokolosky.
After calling the meeting to order,
Mayo asked the board to review the minutes of the April 3, 2014, meeting. The
minutes were approved as presented.
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
OPA and LSP financial statements and
investment reports for the period ending
April 30, 2014, also were reviewed at the
meeting.
Thomas reviewed an executive summary of budget discrepancies and yearend projections for OPA and LSP in
2013-14. OPA is scheduled to incur a
small loss due to unexpected building
expenses and marketing campaign promotional items, said Thomas. LSP is
expected to have a small profit for the
year.
Board members reviewed the current list of 49 sustaining members and
11 associate members. For-profit sus-
taining members pay annual dues of
$400; non-profit and individual sustaining members pay $200; and associate
members pay $65.
The board acknowledged receipt of
the OPA and LSP financial statements,
consolidated cash report, investment
reports, 2013-14 year-end projections
and membership dues of the sustaining
and associate membership list.
SUSTAINING MEMBERSHIP APPROVED
The board unanimously approved the
sustaining membership application of
Burchett Media, Inc., located in Smyrna,
Tenn., which produces church directories. The company is owned by Wally
Burchett, a former publisher of the Poteau Daily News.
Committee activity reports also were
reported at the meeting. The Education
Committee reported that about 290 people were registered to attend the annual
OPA Convention.
The Government Relations Committee report included a review by Thomas
of the status of bills at the conclusion
of the 2014 legislative session. Thomas
said it was a very good session for transparency.
The LSP committee report included
proposed language to provide reimbursement of legal fees up to $2,500
paid to a defense attorney in the event
of an arrest or formal criminal charge
against an employee of a plan member.
After discussing the language, the board
approved a motion to send it back to the
committee for clarification of offenses
that would or would not be eligible for
reimbursement.
The Marketing Committee approved
a set of preliminary house ads with a
theme of “It matters in the paper.” In
addition to the house ads, promotional
items have been ordered to distribute to
members this year. Some of those items
were available to all registrants at the
convention.
ONF board meeting
Continued from Page 6
SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS
The ONF Scholarship committee met
by conference call on March 17 to review
the 14 applications received for ONF’s
$1,500 scholarships and to select three
recipients for 2014-15. Scholarships
were awarded to Blayklee Buchanan
and Megan Deaton, University of Oklahoma, and Jacob McGuire, University
of Science and Arts of Oklahoma. Five
The board also reviewed the Nominating Committee report. Nominees for
the 2014-15 year, which was presented
during the annual business meeting at
the convention, were: President – Jeff
Funk, Enid News & Eagle; Vice President – Robby Trammell, The Oklahoman; Treasurer – Gloria Trotter, The
Countywide & Sun; Immediate Past
President – Jeff Mayo, Sequoyah County
Times; renewal of a three-year director term for Ted Streuli, The Journal
Record; new director for a two-year term
for Mike Strain, Tulsa World; and new
director for a three-year term for John
Denny Montgomery, The Purcell Register. Mike Brown previously notified the
board that he could not accept a second
three-year term because he was moving
to Arkansas. The board unanimously
acknowledged receipt of the nominating
report.
The Nominating Committee also recommended to the OPA board appointments to the ONF Board of Trustees for
the 2014-15 year. The committee recommended renewal of three-year terms for
Terry Clark, University of Central Oklahoma; Sean Dyer, El Reno Tribune; Carolyn Estes, Oologah Lake Leader; John
Hruby, The Marlow Review; Ray Lokey,
Johnston County Capital-Democrat; John
D. Montgomery, The Purcell Register;
Tom Muchmore, The Ponca City News;
and Barbara Vice, Drumright Gusher.
Also, new appointments were recommended for Vicki Gourley, OKC Friday;
Maria Laubach, The Okeene Record/
Trail Miller Co.; and Jeff Shultz, The
Garvin County News Star. The board
unanimously approved the appointment
of the recommended nominees to the
ONF Board of Trustees.
Dissolution of the OPA MemberEmployee Benefit Trust (OPA/MEBT)
was discussed at the meeting. The
trust, established in 1986, ceased offering insurance on Nov. 30, 2011. After
meeting in executive session with legal
counsel, the board reported a revised
dissolution resolution will be discussed
by the board at a future date.
In other business, Mayo thanked outgoing past president Jeff Shultz for his
many years of service to OPA and OPS.
OPS BOARD MEETING
At the OPS Board meeting, minutes of
the April 3, 2014, meeting were approved
as presented. The board reviewed and
acknowledged receipt of OPS financial
statements for the period ending April
30, 2014, as well as the 2013-14 year-end
projections.
A report on advertising included the
Did-Not-Run Advertising report for April
and May 2014. Staff reported there were
28 DNRs from 21 papers. Thomas said
staff consultant Steve Booher is discussing DNR problems with newspapers
when he visits their offices.
In a clipping bureau report, Thomas
said clipping manager Keith Burgin is
still working out issues with Tecnavia.
In other business, Thomas told board
members that Chris and Sharon Blackburn of Childress, Texas, recently combined their four newspapers into one
paper, entitled the Red River Sun, published out of Childress, Texas. Three
of the four papers were previously published in northern Texas; the fourth
paper, The Hollis News, was published
in Harmon County in southwest Oklahoma. Thomas said there needs to be
clarification on the status of legal newspapers for Harmon County.
Following the management review,
the board expressed its appreciation to
Thomas for the way OPA handled its
legislative affairs this year.
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Fourth of July events brighten Oklahoma newspapers
The Alva Review-Courier was one of
many state newspapers bursting with
red, white and blue photos of community firework activities. The full-page
photo on page one of the Review-Courier
was shot by publisher Lynn Martin.
July 11, 2014
Other newspapers featured on this
page are the Sand Springs Leader, The
Express-Star in Chickasha, The Oklahoman, Enid News & Eagle, The Journal
in Vinita, and the Stillwater News Press.
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A 17-year Sand Springs tradition lit up
the sky Thursday, July 3, at River City
Park.
The Sand Springs Sertoma Club, in
conjunction with “Air Solutions.com”,
presented annual Independence Day
fireworks show. The fireworks show
was held on July 3, so that it wouldn’t
be over-shadowed by other area fireworks display, organizers say.
“We think it is important to have community events like this,” Gayla Wonders, with Sertoma, said. “This is a way
to bring the community together.”
Cindy Phillips, also with Sertoma, said
the event also promotes Sand Springs.
“We have people from around the
area who come here and say ‘We didn’t
know Sand Springs had something like
this (the River City Parks complex),’”
Phillips said.
Concessions were available and a DJ
played patriotic music.
Patron sponsors are American Heritage Bank, BancFirst, A Better Smile,
Pilot Club, and IBC Bank.
Also contributing are Sand Springs
Area Chamber of Commerce, Crescent Cafe, Dixon Auto Glass, Keystone
Chevrolet, Tracey McCorkle, Chere’s
Hallmark, American Legion Auxiliary,
Green Country Federal Credit Union,
and the City of Sand Springs.
Michael Coulter provided the sound
and recorded music prior to the fireworks show.
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Sand Springs residents were treated to an
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Shannon Springs Park was alight with activity all day on July 4. During the morning and afternoon, eight local teams from Chickasha played volleyball to support the Festival of Light. The
Chickasha Area Arts Council had live music at the amphitheater to support the 2014 Rock Island Arts Festival. The evening rounded out with a colorful display of fireworks over the pond.
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SATURDAY, JULY 5, 2014
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REACHING MORE THAN 475,000 PEOPLE EACH DAY
BLOOD MONEY
BY JENNIFER PALMER
Staff Writer
[email protected]
Close to half a million dollars worth of
donated blood is at the heart of a lawsuit
between Oklahoma Blood Institute and a
Minneapolis-based blood broker.
But it’s the details revealed in court filings and interviews about the high-dollar
market for human blood and blood prod-
ucts that may come as a shock to donors,
who give away the valuable product for
free.
Donors often believe their blood is
given to local hospitals, and all donations
stay in the community — neither of which
is true. A pint of blood in America sells to
hospitals for $180 to $300, depending on
the market, and expired blood often is
sold to research laboratories, said Ben
Bowman, chief executive of General
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As the summer progresses into July, the temperatures have climbed into the triple digits.
The heat index for this week is 100 to 105 degrees,
Dale Thompson, Grady County Emergency Management Director said at the Grady County Commissioners meeting. There was a heat advisory on Monday,
which could be a trend this week.
The Fourth of July usually leaves in its wake several reports of fire due to firecracker mishaps. While
there were a few calls due to the holiday hazard, there
were not as many as in past years, Thompson said.
This is likely due to the recent rain which has put
some moisture back in the soil and allowed the grass
to green back up, Thompson said. The drought monitor has moved most of the county back up to "abnormally dry" from the "severe" category.
There were a few fires due to control burns getting
out of control, a lawnmower accident, some grass
fires and a structure fire that took a family's home in
Alex. The cause of the latter has yet to be determined
at the time of this report.
Those who want to participate in the safe room
program should attend one of the two meetings this
Friday, July 11 at the Canadian Valley Technology
Center in Room B. The public meeting will take
place at noon and again at 7 p.m. It is only necessary
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Emma's Essentials has more
than 50 vendors, but owner Jessica Williams wants her customers to walk away with more than
Bedre chocolates and shabby
chic decor.
As the new Chair of Promotions and Marketing for the
Chickasha Main Street Association, Williams will be serving the
board by drawing from her natural talents as well as a contagious
enthusiasm for her hometown.
According to Williams, it's her
mission to advocate Chickasha,
specifically but not limited to the
historical Chickasha Avenue.
Williams said she averages
JESSICA LANE / EXPRESS-STAR
about 30 to 50 tourists a week. Jessica Williams, Chair of Promotions and Marketing for the Chickasha Main Street
These tourists are people who Association, points to the American Tea and Coffee Company on a mural of old
walk through the doors of her Chickasha Ave. Emma's Essentials is currently located where the American Tea and
store on Chickasha Ave. on a Coffee company shop used to be.
daily basis. They might be some- to eat, shop and stay in Chicka- Emma's Essentials on May 20,
one stopping en route to Lawton, sha.
2013.
oil field wives from all over the
The two women would be
While her affection for ChickUnited States and many others asha is certainly life affirming, going through Moore to catch a
who find themselves in the heart this trait may have even saved flight. Williams, like many native
of downtown Chickasha. Wil- the lives of two tourists from Oklahomans, felt the chill and
liams advises tourists on where California who wandered into
See WILLIAMS, Page 3
Legal tussle between institute,
out-of-state broker exposes
the business behind donations
Blood, the blood broker engaged in a legal
tussle with Oklahoma City-based OBI.
Bowman’s company, formed four years
ago, acts as a middleman between blood
suppliers, like blood donation centers,
and buyers such as hospitals and research
laboratories.
It’s an unusual industry because the
product is completely dependent on donors, who aren’t paid for their donation.
Yet selling the blood — which technically
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is a pharmaceutical product — makes
millions of dollars for nonprofit entities
such as Oklahoma Blood Institute.
“We have a charitable side, which is
trying to motivate people to do an amazing thing to help their fellow man or
woman,” said Dr. John Armitage, OBI’s
chief executive officer. “You turn that
around: We are providing a drug. On the
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WELCH
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Chaney honored by
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HEALTH
Craig County Health
Dept. details first
case of chikungunya
fever in Oklahoma.
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By Jessica Miller
Staff Writer
Several Oklahomans, from various communities, made their annual Independence
Day trip to Enid on Friday to perform with
the Enid Symphony Orchestra.
Thresa Swadley’s first Enid Symphony
Orchestra concert was an Independence Day
concert 17 years ago.
“Basically, the Fourth of July concert
(has) been a family tradition for my family
for 17 years,” she said, noting that her children are in college now. “We would load up
the whole family and bring them up ... to
(Meadowlake Park) for the picnic, and the
concert and fireworks.”
Swadley plays the cello.
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Please See Fire, Page 12
Stillwater celebrates the Fourth
By Mark Rountree
The annual
Boomer Blast got
started early Friday morning with
a fishing tournment.
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D-Vinita. “Which pollutes the
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EDMOND — Henry Arnett
was 10 years old the first
time he got his hands on a
trumpet, and he hasn’t
looked back since.
While he was at a parade
as a boy, Arnett, now 83,
saw trumpets go by in a
marching band. Then and
there, he decided he had to
have one of his own, he
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A family tradition was
observed Friday night at
Boomer Lake.
For the 14th straight
year, Steve Wohnhas
and his family and
friends sat on blankets
in a grassy area alongside the lake to eat fried
chicken and watch the
night sky light up on the
Fourth of July.
“It’s always been a
good show,” said Wohnhas, one of hundreds of
people who attended the
annual Boomer Blast
Fireworks Show at
Boomer Lake Park.
PHOTOS BY MARK ROUNTREE/STILLWATER NEWS PRESS
“I love seeing the fireKaelynn Gegen, 2, sits with her mother on a blanket at Boomer Lake Park before the fireworks display at
works and eating fried
the annual Boomer Blast. Kaelynn dressed for the occasion, wearing a red, white and blue outfit.
chicken,” said Reid
Wohnhas, Steve’s 12year-old son.
Spectators who didn’t
bring their dinner had a
culinary choice of a
dozen food trucks that
lined the road.
“This is good for Stillwater,” said food truck
owner Dan Purdy.
“Events like this help
build community in
Stillwater. You come to
an event like this, they
have the bouncy castles,
the music, the activities
for the kids, and then
you line up some food
trucks, this is a family
event. Anybody would
want to come out here.”
The day began with an
early-morning fishing
tournament at Boomer
Lake. People began
Annie Matthews, 9, of Cushing, laughs with Judy Doty as Jan Strickler prepares a balloon at the Hillcrest
Baptist Church booth Friday at Boomer Blast.
See ➤ Blast, page A5
Right: Chloe Sodowsky, 7, waves
an American flag
Friday during the
LibertyFest parade in Edmond.
PHOTO BY NATE BILLINGS,
THE OKLAHOMAN
Safer roads target of challenge
By Megan Sando
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A law enforcement
initiative intends to
make roads safer by
challenging local departments.
The Oklahoma Law
Enforcement Chiefs
Challenge will score
agencies of different
sizes based on the best
traffic safety programs.
Challenge Coordina-
tor Ernie Tye said he is
getting the word out
now but the application period doesn’t
start until Jan. 1.
“Winning departments will be recognized at the State
Chief ’s Conference in
June next year,” he
said.
Tye is a retired police
officer and works with
the Oklahoma Association of Chiefs of Police.
Departments compete in four main categories – municipal
agencies, sheriff ’s departments, campus
and tribal police and
state troopers. Municipal agencies and sheriff ’s departments are
separated further by
size.
Each agency will be
scored with up to 200
See ➤ Chiefs, page A2
MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THE COMMUNITY
Tips to save
money on
energy bill
Ray Chambers, commercial energy advisor
for CREC, explains how to
conserve energy and
keep utility bills down in
the summer months
while still living comfortably.
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said. The instrument’s appeal needs no explanation,
he said.
“Who can beat ‘The
Stars and Stripes Forever’
SEE FOURTH, PAGE 2A
Fireworks (above left) reflect in the lake at
Meadowlake Park during the annual Fourth of
July fireworks extravaganza Friday night.
Juliana Overmier, Elizabeth Allen and Becky Buller
(above, from left) play piccolo during the Enid
Symphony Orchestra performance at Meadowlake.
Kody Allison, 3, (far left) glances at his two-time
turtle race champion at Leonardo’s Children’s
Museum Hometown Celebration at Adventure
Quest Friday Friday. Sam (left center), a patriotic
turtle owned by Cheyenne Daniel, competes during
the turtle race. A young lady’s tractor (left) sports
U.S.A. red, white and blue decorations during the
Wilderness Cove neighborhood parade.
Turn to Page A3 and Page B5 for additional Fourth
of July activities photos.
Hundreds turn
out for annual
Boomer Blast
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were the key to funding
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raised was $14,610, which
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folks were pleased with
the overall show, but were
wondering what happened.
The gates opened at 6
p.m., and the chamber sold
Photo by David Burgess out of barbecue sandwiches
Fireworks explode above Memorial Stadium last Thursday night during the second annual Bob McSpadden and hot dogs.
Please See Show, Page 12
Memorial Fireworks Show.
BY SILAS ALLEN
Staff Writer
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“I was looking for professional opportunities,” she said, prior to an open rehearsal
on Friday afternoon at Symphony Hall. “It’s
just been a great fit for me to play here. I’ve
played with Fort Smith and Oklahoma City
Philharmonic, but this is the orchestra that
I’ve stayed the most constant with — just
because it’s worked well for me and my
family, and it’s just a great group to work
with.”
Jeff Ketch, of Guthrie, has been a part of
the Enid Symphony Orchestra for seven or
eight years.
“I wasn’t even a string player until I got
to college,” he said. “This is something that
I just kind of fell into.
JULY FOURTH CELEBRATIONS
RING OUT ACROSS METRO AREA
Above: A crowd
gathers in Bricktown on Friday to
watch the Fourth
of July fireworks
over Chickasaw
Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma
City.
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cars break down;
gadgets lose their
appeal; but Your love
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EPS seeks 2 new board members Injunction threat: New Cherokee
By Phyllis Zorn
Staff Writer
Enid Public Schools
Board of Education is
seeking two new school
board members after the
soon-to-be-tendered resignations of Molly Helm and
Cheryl Patterson.
Amber Fitzgerald, human resources and communications director for
Cheryl Patterson
Enid Public Schools, said
state Sen. Patrick Anderson recently appointed
Patterson as the next Garfield County Election
Board secretary.
ambulance building plans proceed
“Oklahoma law precludes one person from
holding two elected or appointed offices,”
Fitzgerald said.
Helm’s resignation is
due to her sister’s intention
to return to the school district as a teacher. Cathy
Benge has been offered a
teaching position at Longfellow Middle School.
State law prohibits the
employment of a board
member’s relative, Fitz- Molly Helm
gerald said.
Additionally, the school board will have to
falfa County Commissioner Chad
The District
Roach said. “We put that board in
Attorney’s office
place because we believe in them
Plans for a new ambulance was consulted
and have great people on there, and
building in Cherokee are proceed- and encouraged
we feel they know more about what
ing, despite threats of injunction the county to
they need than we did.”
move forward
from one bidder on the project.
The lowest bidder on the project
Alfalfa County Commissioners with plans.
was Cedar Ridge Construction, of
accepted bids on the 3,875-squareWoodward. The company bid
foot facility in May and requested a recom- $609,439.45, with a completion time of 15
mendation from the Ambulance Board.
weeks, while Henson Construction bid
“We told them to review the bids and give $693,722, and a completion time of 22 weeks.
us a recommendation. They unanimously
picked Henson Construction,” District 2 AlSee AMBULANCE BUILDING, Page A5
By Jessica Miller
Staff Writer
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Speed Topics was a new session debuted at this year’s OPA Convention. It’s sort of like speed dating
for newspaper employees. Each table had a set topic and participants spent 10 minutes at the table
before moving to a new table. The best ideas from each session was written on large sticky notes.
We brought the notes back to share with you. On these two pages are the best tips from each session
with the topic name and the session moderator.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Louise Red Corn, The Bigheart Times
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Use different angles
Wait for the unexpected moment
Close-up photos
Use light creatively
Get the best reaction
Avoid tired shots (i.e. big checks, etc.)
Get wide angle or tight angle
Shoot many pictures to get one good one
TWITTER
Terry Clark, UCO & Journalism Hall of Fame
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News stories break there – USE IT
Content is more important than follower count
Twitter is a modern day news source
Use Twitter as a teaser for stories
Re-tweets are important
A search engine using # (hashtags)
Make posts 140 characters
Ray Dyer, El Reno Tribune, listens as Louise Red Corn, The Bigheart Times, discusses how to take good photographs
SPECIAL SECTIONS BRAINSTORMING
SOCIAL MEDIA
OPINION WRITING
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• Like the Facebook pages of the biggest
people in your community and tag them
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Kim Noe Lehenbauer, The Norman Transcript
Digital only special sections
Treasure hunts
Magazine specialty topic sections
Sponsored sections instead of ad filled
Brainstorming with staff to determine how to
do special sections in fresh, funky, new ways
(not the same old, same old)
• The sky is the limit when brainstorming,
don’t be afraid to get creative
• Use kids to design ads and write stories from
their perspective
• Breathe new life into old special sections
Mike Strain, Tulsa World
Bill Newell, retired OPA Postal Consultant and Steve Booher, OPA Consultant
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Discussed sampling and how to do it
Submit postal report online instead of taking to post office by setting up business customer
account
Rod Serfoss, The Clinton Daily News
The lighter, the better
White comes out gray
Gray comes out black
Photos don’t have borders
Turn the blue keys down
Test until you find the resolution that works
the best on your press
HOW TO DO MORE WITH LESS
Barbara Vice, Drumright Gusher
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Ask for email submissions
Use forms for submitted news
Use Facebook to get news tips, current events, see
what the “hot” topics are, get info
Sports recap forms can be adapted to other events
Editorial does not have the author’s name
It is the opinion of the paper
POSTAL ISSUES
PRESS AND PRE-PRESS ISSUES
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Ted Streuli, The Journal Record
OPA members participating in a speed topic session.
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Terry Clark, University of Central Oklahoma, Jeff Shultz, The Garvin County News Star, David Fritze, Oklahoma Watch and John Ferguson, Broken Arrow Ledger.
LEGAL QUESTIONS AND FOI ISSUES
Mike Minnis and Doug Dodd, OPA attorneys
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Facebook comments – keep, delete but don’t edit!
Records – juvenile tickets
Keep notes 2+ years
FBI- FOIA
Prisons -- DOC housing convicts from other states
CIRCULATION
Bailey Dabney, Claremore Daily Progress
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Sell subscriptions by ALL MEANS AVAILABLE
Inserts, kiosks, door, direct mail, digital
John Hruby, The Marlow Review, Chris Rush, Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, and Jerry Perkins, The Elk City
Daily News
FINDING STORY IDEAS
FEATURE WRITING
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Carolyn Estes, Oologah Lake Leader
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Use social media as a source for ideas
(Facebook – check your sources)
Senior citizen lunches
Listen
Historical features
Little League pitcher
Animal Shelters
Follow-ups
Always have a camera
AD SALES AND
EFFECTIVE AD DESIGN
Kim Noe Lehenbaur,
The Norman Transcript
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Carolyn Estes, Oologah Lake Leader
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Use a consultive approach to selling
Utilize online sales training tools
Develop good market tools, update rate
cards
Sell campaigns (not a la carte) to meet
business objectives
Look for inspiration everywhere for ad
design ideas
Open PDFs in Photoshop at
800-1000 resolution.
Inspect the ad, save as EPS
Terry Clark, UCO & Journalism Hall of Fame
Uniqueness
Detail
Relatability
Description
Grab Attention
The fun part
Write the story once without notes
Use he/she “said”
Use several short sentences
Facebook call out – email return
Ask yourself, “This is a story about ______
and it’s interesting because ____.”
• Make a list: who are my readers, what are
their hobbies, professions
• Don’t worry about technique. Tell the story
• Write about whos/whats
SPORTS COVERAGE
Mike Sherman, The Oklahoman
• Utilize high school or local college students
as stringers and interns
• Train them on five things to watch for in
tonight’s game
• Use students from all schools your paper
covers
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Clark’s Critique
by Terry Clark
Journalism Professor,
University of Central Oklahoma,
[email protected]
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FATAL FLAWS: PART 1 OF 3 | TULSAWORLD.COM/EXECUTIONS
O K L A H O M A
You don’t have to read the New York
Times or the Washington Post to find
solid investigative journalism helping
protect and inform the public.
Four recent examples in Oklahoma
caught my attention this month, underlining the power and importance of
newspaper journalism.
First was the Tulsa World’s coverage
of the botched execution at McAlester.
Written by Cary Aspinwall and Ziva
Branstetter, the three-part series probed
all aspects of the disaster, headlined
“Paths to Death” and “Lethal Lessons.”
First head was by Design Editor James
Royal and the second was by Ziva, enterprise editor. Joe Worley commented,
“Headline writing for big projects are
always a community proposition here.
We ask all copy editors, some reporters
and some editors to give it their best
head. Two-word headlines are a real
challenge.”
Second blockbuster was by M. Scott
Carter of The Journal Record exposing
a legislator’s plan to gut the department
of Environmental Quality’s budget, with
the help of two DEQ staffers. Headline,
by Ted Streuli, “Sex & Sabotage.” Carter has a knack for bombshell scoops,
including in the past, the Sardis Lake
controversy and the Veterans Affairs
mess.
About the same time, Clifton Adcock
of Oklahoma Watch exposed “dark
money” helping T.W. Shannon’s Senate
campaign, and others. David Fritze and
Warren Vieth of Oklahoma Watch say
they have a backlog of stories they need
to dig into. Here’s the link: http://oklahomawatch.org/2014/06/20/electionrecords-dark-money-campaign-groupshave-close-connections/
A story I’ve seen nobody else cover
appeared on the front page of The Hennessey Clipper, courtesy of solid reporting by Barb Walter. “Farmers are angry
with oil companies” probes several
instances of near violence, as landown-
journalrecord.com
SERVING NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA SINCE 1905
Paths
to
death
POLL
U.S.
U
S Senate - Republican primary
For the unexpired term of Sen. Tom
Coburn.
James Lankford
T.W. Shannon
Randy Brogdon
Other
Don’t know/refused
38%
41%
16%
3%
2%
(Numbers have been rounded)
Lankford,
Shannon
run close
in polling
BY RANDY KREHBIEL
World Staff Writer
Fifth District Congressman
James Lankford held a narrow lead
over former Oklahoma Speaker of
the House T.W. Shannon heading
into the final week of their U.S.
Senate primary campaign, according to the latest Oklahoma Poll.
Lankford led Shannon 41 percent to 38 percent in a survey of
415 likely voters in Tuesday’s election. The survey was conducted
June 14-18 by SoonerPoll.com and
has a 4.81 percent margin of error.
Former state Sen. Randy Brogdon
SEE SENATE A8
OKC Fest organizers
note support of inaugural
country music event OKC
Fest Production Consultant
Victor Sansone has been
putting together country
music festivals since 1987.
The festivals he usually
works on have established
budgets, annual ticket sales
and venues. OKC Fest has
nothing like that. Organizers only decided to put it
together in October. p2
Number of flights at
Wiley Post drops Traffic at
Wiley Post Airport in
Oklahoma City fell 14 percent for the first five months
of the year. p3
BY CARY ASPINWALL | WORLD STAFF WRITER AND ZIVA BRANSTETTER | WORLD ENTERPRISE EDITOR
Clayton Lockett left
Stephanie Neiman to
die in a ditch off a dirt
road. Fifteen years later,
Oklahoma led Lockett
to his own death.
FATAL FLAWS:
How Oklahoma’s lethal injection system went wrong
This is the first story in a three-part series on problems with Oklahoma executions revealed in the wake of the April 29 botched
execution of Clayton Lockett. While the execution caused an
outcry over pain Lockett may have felt, this article tells the story
of Lockett’s victim and the heinous crime that led to his death
sentence. The story was compiled using the transcript from Lockett’s murder trial and other public records, his 1999 police interrogation video, archived news reports and interviews. Jane Doe is
a pseudonym for the female victim who was raped by Lockett. The
Tulsa World does not identify victims of sex crimes.
Coming Monday: Problematic protocol
Tuesday: Autopsies rare
W
hen her muddy grave was ready, one
of the killers held down a barbed-wire
fence so Stephanie Neiman could climb
over it, down into the shallow hole where she
would die.
From his perch on the
dirt road’s shoulder above
the fenced pasture, Clayton
Lockett loaded the sawed-off
shotgun and fired. Kickback
caused the gun to flip out of
his hand and the shot to stray;
shell fragments blasted into
Stephanie’s shoulder.
Forced to her knees, her
mouth still duct-taped, she
cried as Lockett dug for the
weapon in the waist-high
Johnsongrass lining the gravel
road. He darted back to the
truck to find a tool to unjam
the shotgun.
Lockett reloaded, leaned
over the fence and fired again.
Stephanie stopped wailing.
Lockett told his two accomplices: “It’s done, I think she
dead.”
He racked the shell out of
the shotgun and put it back in
Coming Monday
City to review Chesapeake employee rolls
before payment Oklahoma
City officials plan to talk
with Chesapeake Energy this
week about whether the
company will receive the full
benefit of a $3.5 million
incentives package for new
jobs. The review comes in
light of the company’s fluctuating employee base. p8
TULSAWORLD.COM
Follow the path of a murder
Watch a video that traces the path
Stephanie Neiman’s killers took
from Perry to Kay County and
see Clayton Lockett describe his
crimes in cold detail.
tulsaworld.com/executions
one of the two pickups used to
drive their three young victims
to his “old stomping grounds”
between the oil refineries and
ranches of Kay County.
This is where they planned
to kill and dump Stephanie
and her friends, Bobby Bornt
and Jane Doe.
Somewhere along the
30-minute drive out there, the
killers changed their minds
Debt holder seeks
receiver for hotels A second debt holder has sought
a receiver for two Emerald
Hospitality hotels. p9
These Walls: Dental 32
As more apartments and
homes are added in downtown Oklahoma City, the area
is taking on a community
feel. Dr. Steve Truong
noticed this trend and decided to take advantage of the
population growth by opening Dental 32 in the Clark
Building at 16 NE Second St.
in Deep Deuce. p1B
SEE PATHS A7
Stephanie Neiman was shot twice by Clayton Lockett and buried while
still alive near this gravel road in Kay County. CORY YOUNG/Tulsa World
Read the state schools superintendent poll results.
Voters to pick
favorites
on Tuesday
Follow the news
all day at
journalrecord.com
BY BARBARA HOBEROCK
A pair of DEQ
staffers
conspired
with a state
legislator to
torpedo agency
funding
GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION BY BRYAN M. RICHTER
BY M. SCOTT CARTER
THE JOURNAL RECORD
OKLAHOMA CITY – A state
representative who oversaw the
Oklahoma
De part ment
of
Environmental Quality’s budget
appropriation conspired with
two DEQ staff members to gut
the agency’s funding this year.
One staff member had been
demoted and the other transferred, documents obtained by
The Journal Record show.
Emails and text messages
show that state Rep. Don Armes,
R-Faxon, removed more than $21
million from DEQ’s budget with
the help of DEQ attorney Mista
Burgess and Wendy Caperton,
who had been demoted from her
post as the agency’s director of
policy and planning.
Burgess and Caperton al legedly sought to dramatically
RELATED
Cut in DEQ
budget means
fewer cleanup
projects p22
See SABOTAGE, PAGE 22
World Capitol Bureau
Voters will head to the polls
Tuesday to consider a host of primaries, including hotly contested
Republican races for U.S. Senate
and state superintendent.
Polls statewide are open from
7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
In a high-profile statewide race,
5th District Congressman James
Lankford faces former House
Speaker T.W. Shannon, R-Lawton,
in the GOP primary for the U.S.
Senate seat being vacated by Tom
Coburn.
Also on the Republican ballot
are Jason Weger, of Norman; Kevin
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ers object to ruined corps, speeding
trucks, accidents and more. In fact,
some armed farmers have confronted oil
worker and call themselves “The Wolf
Pack.”
This should be a national story,
because the energy boom and fracking
has effects that the oil company PR guys
don’t talk about.
One hint of that is the investigative
story and headline in the Bartlesville
Examiner-Enterprise, “Oil, gas and earthquakes.” Though written by a Los Angeles Times reporter, Bartlesville deserves
kudos for printing it. It’s a shame Oklahoma news media didn’t do the story.
A tip of the hat also goes to the McAlester News-Capital, who, with Oklahoma
Watch, just earned a first place investigative/in-depth NNA award for last year’s
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Record. On next page are the Midwest City Beacon, Watonga
Republican, The Ada News, Okeene Record and The Seminole
Producer.
story about the McAlester riots 40 years
ago.
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The OPA convention is a treasure
trove of ideas, and as I thumb through
the award winners, I’m always amazed
at the continual flood of good journalism
of all kinds.
The two best ideas for readership
and service I saw were in the Watonga
Republican, on an inside page. Editor
Eric Warsinskey wrote about flag day
from the viewpoint of his grandparents who served in WWII. Then Carla
Schultz told the story of Vietnam vets.
The idea really grabbed me as one
of the best readership builders I’ve ever
seen. The paper is publishing stories
and letters home from and about veterans. This one was a letter informing parents of the death of their son. Powerful.
An idea everyone could use to engage
readers and tell stories of veterans.
The other terrific idea was Watonga
Republican’s full page coverage of the
Red Earth Festival, with photos and
story by Darrel James, the newspaper’s
Native News Editor. Sure makes sense
in Oklahoma, doesn’t it?
Coverage of July 4: The Okeene Record
had students write about what patriotism
means. The Seminole Producer carried
the story of a local medal of honor winner, “Leave no one behind.” Ada News’
front page grabbed readers.
Scott Rains of The Lawton Constitution told the story of the first Comanche
killed in action on D-Day, with a ceremony for his nephew. “Echoes of D-Day.”
The Mangum Star-News interviewed old
veterans about what freedom means.
“Price of freedom.”
Other items: Strong front page in The
Midwest City Beacon. The Mountain View
News carried the story of a Mountain
View-Gotebo grad serving aboard Old
Ironsides, the USS Constitution.
Intern Erikka Branscum at the Owasso Reporter reported a story that can be
localized anywhere about the increased
cost of servicing air conditioners, “Freon
is far from free.”
Jessica Lane at The Express-Star featured “The sonogram fairy,” about a
woman in the business. Her lead: “Walking into Bubbie Bebes is like walking
into a corner of Neverland.” Sydney
Van Wyk at the Tahlequah Daily Press
reported on a snake hunting family.
HEAD’EM UP AWARDS. Too many to
rank, along with all those above. Here
Continued on Page 13
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Clark’s Critique Continued from Page 12
are a few: Kiowa County Democrat, about
a 30 pound visitor to town, “Traveling
terrapin traipses through town”; Cherokee Messenger & Republican, “Cotter
building remains a thorn in city’s side”
(anyone with absentee landlords can
follow up on this story); The Bigheart
Times, on a Louise Red Corn story about
a recaptured jail escapee, “1 day out,
10 more years”; The Purcell Register,
“NO Show---Purcell fireworks a dud this
year.”
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LOCAL
Tribute to
Liberty July 4
-File photo
Midwest City will host its
annual Tribute to Liberty celebration July 4 at Joe B. Barnes
Regional Park. The event
includes live music, food and
fireworks. See page 3A
June 27, 2014
14 pages
Vol. 108, Issue 42
Deadly housefire sparks police probe
By Jeff Harrison
Managing Editor
Midwest City police are investigating the deaths of two
people found inside a burning house Saturday morning.
The fire was reported at a
home in the 1400 block of
Maple Drive by a passerby.
Smoke and flames were visible from the northwest corner
of the house.
Fire Maj. David Richardson said they received the call
about 5:30 a.m. It took crews
about 20 minutes to extinguish the blaze. Richardson
said the home was filled with
smoke but the fire was primarily contained to one room.
Sgt. Jeff McNeil was the
first on scene and kicked the
front door in to clear the
residence, but the heat and
smoke were too intense to enter. The fire department was
able to knock the fire down
quickly and at that point, a
male and female—both in
their 30, were found dead.
The cause of the fire and
deaths are still under investigation.
Investigators are still working to identify the victims.
“A tremendous amount of
manpower has been dedicated to this case since the inception,” Chief Brandon Clabes
said. “If anyone has information that would assist in this
investigation, I encourage
-Staff photo by Jeff Harris
them to contact our agency at Two people died in a house fire Saturday mornin
739-1306.”
in the 1400 block of Maple Drive.
TRIAD Senior
Prom
By Carla Schultz
-Photo by Maxine Wheelan
Midwest City senior citizens enjoyed the TRIAD Senior Prom last
week at the Oklahoma History
Center. See page 5A
Flying high again
Record crowd welcomes return of Star Spangled Salute Air Show
By Jeff Harrison
Managing Editor
-Staff photo by Jeff Harrison
The Carl Albert and Midwest
City baseball teams are
wrapping up their summer
seasons. See page 1B
I was with your son on the
20th of June when he was
killed in action on the Eastern
Front here in China. The Japs
were retreating fast and we
were on reconnaissance. Due
to faulty information we ran
into a Jap road block covered
by machine gun and rifle fire.
We quickly jumped in a ditch
alongside the road, but the
Japs kept us under heavy fire.
Sgt. Glaesman was killed right
beside me by machine gun and
rifle fire-how I was spared I
don’t know. Later, after three
of our party were killed and
one wounded, the Japs closed
in on us and I was taken pris-
Living in Fear and Holding on
to Hope During Vietnam War
LOCAL
SPORTS
Baseball
winding down
95th Sta. Hosp. China
Sunday, July 22, 1945
My Dear Mr. and Mrs.
Glaesman,
oner along with
one
other
American
and
two Chinese officers, one of whom
was badly wounded.
The Japs treated us very badly
and I took a slender chance to
escape three days
later. Again God
was with me and I
made it back to
our lines three
weeks later. I
have been recovering here in the
hospital for one
week and have
been trying to
write you since I
got back but just
haven’t felt like it Clarence Glaesman (above) was
inducted into the U.S. Army on July 1,
until today.
I thought very 1943. Glaesman was a good man who
highly of your son gave his all in World War II.
and you can rest
If I can be of any help to
assured he was a mighty fine
man and soldier. I would you please write me at the
gladly have given my life if he FATC APO 627.
I’m quite sure that the officould only been spared and
returned to you alive and well. cial War Department notice
It is very difficult to see has already reached you. If,
sometimes why some of us through delay, it has not,
are taken and others come out please write the War
Department Personnel Section
without too much injury.
Sgt. Glaesman’s body was for information.
Please remember your son
recovered by the Americans
and it was shipped back here as I saw him last - cheerful,
to be placed beside the other willing, efficient and one of
brave officers and men who the very best soldiers it has
have lost their lives over here. been my privilege to be assoPlease accept my deepest ciated with.
sympathy over your great loss
Sincerely,
and believe me, my regret is
second only to yours that we
Garrison B.. Conerdale
should lose such a fine man.
Col. F.A. AP.O, 627
The Star Spangled Salute Air Show
has drawn some large crowds to Tinker
Air Force Base in the past. But last
weekend’s turnout may have been the
biggest yet.
More than 160,000 spectators visited
the two-day event which featured aerial
demonstrations, aircraft displays, tours
and more, according to Tinker officials.
This was the first time the base has
hosted the Star Spangled Salute since
2010. The air show was grounded in
recent years due to federal budget cuts.
That long layoff caused the public’s
appetite to grow.
“We normally have it every couple
years and in 2012 we decided to cancel
it because of the sequestration,” spokesman Kenneth LaFayette said. “And I
think folks were anxious to see it again.”
The show was open Saturday and
Sunday. The displays, vendors and children’s area opened at 9 a.m. The flying
demonstrations started at 11 a.m.
The aerial exhibitions included performances from the Air Force Academy
Wings of Blue precision parachute
team, Randy Ball and the MIG-17,
See AIR SHOW, page 2A
Join Us On
Banz wins sixth
term in a landslide
Midwest City
Mayor Jack
Fry greets
supporters
Tuesday night
at Spencer’s
Smokehouse
& BBQ during
an election
watch party.
Fry won the
state Senate
District 42
Republican
primary election.
Midwest City Republican receives
82.7 percent in primary election
By Jeff Harrison
Managing Editor
-Staff photo by
Jeff Harrison
Fry wins state Senate primary
By Jeff Harrison
Managing Editor
Jack Fry has been a favorite among city
voters for years. On Tuesday, the Midwest
City mayor proved his popularity extends
beyond city limits.
Fry won the Republican nomination
for State Senate District 42 on Tuesday,
defeating Greg Childers in the party’s primary election.
The primary election was decided by
557 votes. Fry won with 2,967 (55.2 perSee STATE SENATE, page 8A
State Rep. Gary Banz will serve
two more years in the Oklahoma
Legislature.
-Provided ph
The incumbent lawmaker easily won reelection Tuesday after State Rep. Gary Ban
defeating A.J. Bailey in the Dis- won a sixth term in
trict 101 Republican primary. No office Tuesday by
Democratic or Independent can- defeating AJ Bailey
in the GOP primary
didates filed for the seat.
Banz won with 3,059 votes or
82.7 percent. Bailey received 641 votes (17.3 percen
Banz said the landslide victory helped energize hims
for the final two years in office.
The story of war is not just
about combat and conquests.
It’s also about the families that
were left behind to fight their
own battles.
It’s the story of Delma
Watson McDaniels who
shared compellingly that three
brothers fought for this country at the same time in the
conflict-ridden Vietnam War.
She and the family would find
themselves in a relentless
cycle of fear and stress,
always watching the TV for
those killed and searching for
loved ones in the fight.
William M. Watson and
Larry L. Watson were drafted
to serve in the Army. Earnest
Watson volunteered and
joined the Navy. “Larry and
William were not in the same
division, but were in the same
place. They got to see each
other (in Vietnam)” said
Delma. “At home we were
always on the edge.” She
remembers that it was really
hard on her parents Robert
and Lucile Watson who raised
11 children nine miles west of
Greenfield, OK.
“There were letters and
gifts that brought news home,
but they were scarce at times
and we were always looking
for any news. The worst was
not hearing from them when
two brothers were on the
ground in Vietnam and one
fighting navy battles serving
this country all at the same
time’ said Delma. “The saving
grace was that Ernest was not
on the ground. “We didn’t
think they would draft two
brothers to serve at the same
time. Ernest and William are
twins.”
“It was very emotional
when the town (Greenfield)
gathered when another came
back home from Nam who
was killed in action. Billy
Wilson joined in May and his
life ended in July. Dead in
three months and he was
about the same age as one of
my brothers. Quite a few didn’t make it. We feared anyone
in uniform coming to the
house. “
It was a gut-wrenching
moment when a uniformed
man arrived at the house.
Delma can’t remember what
was said or why he was there,
but does recall that it was a
very scary time.
Delma was a pre-teen when
they left. She remembers one
scarf that Ernest sent her that
she kept for a very long time.
Every now and then they
would get a holiday
phone call. It was hard,
but she is very thankful
that they all returned
home.
William and Larry are
both disabled and have
been diagnosed with the
effects of Agent Orange.
Ernest has a job and family and served some-time
in the reserves after
returning.
“We were fortunate to
grow up in an area where
they didn’t protest the
war” said Delma. We
sang patriotic songs and
said the pledge in school.
We learned to be appreciative of our rights and U.S. soldiers on a search-andthe importance of free- destroy patrol in Phuoc Tuy
dom. Life was hard province, South Vietnam, June
growing up, but good. 1966.
We had a home, food,
heat, clothes. It was our
its southern allies, known as
faith that kept us going.”
the Viet Cong, against South
Delma is the only one left in Vietnam and its principal ally,
this area.
She married the United States. The divisive
Roderick
McDaniels war, increasingly unpopular at
September
29,
1991. home, ended with the withRoderick also joined the drawal of U.S. forces in 1973
Army for active duty in and the unification of Vietnam
Vietnam. After serving 4 under Communist control two
years in the Army he then years later. More than 3 miljoined U.S. Marines for lion people, including over
another four years. Upon his 58,000 Americans, were
return home, Vietnam War killed in the conflict.
protestors shouted insults and
The Vietnam War, like all
held signs condemning the other wars affects not only
war. They chanted anti -war soldiers in combat, but those
slogans and threw tomatoes, who remain at home. June 14,
eggs and other items.
2014 is our National Flag Day
Clearly, the Vietnam War and the U.S. Army birthday.
was unpopular in America Take time to reflect on those
during this time. It was a that have sacrificed so much
long, long, costly armed con- to preserve our way of life and
flict that pitted the communist what our U.S. Flag represents.
regime of North Vietnam and
Ada Fourth of July
Celebration
Friday, July 4, 2014
Wintersmith Park, Ada
Sponsored by Ada Kiwanis Club
Schedule of Events
Valorie Pyatt Watonga Republican
The Blaine County DHS office for child abuse prevention held an event for local children on Fri.
June 6, 2014.
Stolen Car Recovered in Kingfisher
Watonga Area Blaine County Sheriff’s Office/Fire/EMS/Animal
Control Officer Blotter
By Eric Warsinskey
Editor
tact the Blaine County
Sheriff’s Office at (580) 6235111.
Blaine County
Sheriff’s Office
On May 30, 2014 a Blaine
County Sheriff’s Deputy discovered a stolen trailer that
was also loaded with stolen
pipes. The flatbed trailer was
found in Okeene at Cimarron
Valley Apartments. The
stolen pipe was taken
between Tues. May 27, 2014
and Thurs. May 29, 2014 and
as previously mentioned it
was discovered on the stolen
trailer the evening of Fri. May
30, 2014. The stolen piping
has since been identified by an
area oilfield company as
theirs. The Blaine County
Sheriff’s Office is trying to
locate the original owner of
the 2013 Highline flatbed
trailer car hauler. If you have
any information on the case
please contact the Blaine
County Sheriff’s Office at
(580) 623-5111.
On May 31, 2014 a Blaine
County Sheriff’s Deputy took
a report of a stolen vehicle.
The vehicle, a 2003 white
Nissan Sentra was stolen
from a residence 8 miles east
of Watonga. The stolen vehicle was recovered the evening
of June 5th in Kingfisher. The
driver is in Kingfisher County
Custody on charges of possession of stolen property. The
Blaine County Sheriff’s Office
is asking that if anyone knows
anything about the vehicle or
the alleged theft to please con-
Watonga
Fire/EMS
On May 29, 2014 at 12:12
p.m. Fire officials responded
to report of a fire, multi-vehicle accident and hazmat 1 ½
miles south of Greenfield on
Highway 270. Two vehicles
were involved.
On May 30, 2014 at 9:43
p.m. Fire/EMS officials
responded to a call for medical assistance at a residence
on the 500 block of S. Weigle
Ave. in Watonga. EMS officials transported 1 occupant
to an area hospital for further
medical assistance.
On June 1, 2014 at 7:14
a.m. Fire/EMS officials
responded to a call for lift
assistance at a residence on
the 200 block of N. Newer
Ave. in Watonga.
On June 1, 2014 at 1:00
responded to report of a
multi-vehicle accident on
Highway 51 at Payne’s
Corner, 1 west of Watonga.
On June 2, 2014 at 4:30
a.m. Fire/EMS officials
responded to a call for medical assistance at the Blaine
County Sheriff’s Office in
Watonga. EMS officials
transported 1 occupant to an
area hospital for further medical assistance.
On June 2, 2014 at 2:01
Watonga Animal
Control Officer
On June 1, 2014 at 4:00
p.m. a male pit bull mix dog of
black and white color was
captured by the Animal
Control Officer after he was
found abandoned at large at
the old Dairy Kream in
Watonga. The dog was not
wearing a collar or a tag.
On June 6, 2014 at 8:15
a.m. a female blue healer mix
dog of black and gray color
was captured by the Animal
Control Officer after she was
found at large near the Blaine
County
Courthouse
in
Watonga. The dog was wearing a collar but no tag.
Eric Warsinskey can be
reached at [email protected]
Commissioners Pass on Burn Ban
Blaine County Board of Commissioners Roundup
By Eric Warsinskey
Editor
No action was taken on the
burn ban by the Blaine County
Board of Commissioners during their regularly scheduled
meeting last Mon. June 2,
2014. The ban, expired last
Wed. at midnight after
Governor Mary Fallin also
chose to not extend the ban.
Present for the June 2nd
meeting were Chairman of the
Board, Melba Nance, member
Jonathon Cross, member
Raymond Scheffler and Della
Wallace, County Clerk.
The meeting began with a
couple of quick votes first it
was a vote to approve the
June 2nd meeting’s agenda.
Which was approved by a
vote of 3-0.
Second, was a motion by
Vice Chairman Jonathon
Cross to approve the May 27,
2014 meeting’s minutes. The
motion was approved unanimously by a vote of 3-0.
Here are some quick hits on
items that were voted on during the “New Business” portion of the meeting’s agenda:
• Jonathon Cross made a
motion to approve a number
of Appropriations for June,
2014. The motion was
approved unanimously by a
vote of 3-0.
•
Jeff Raley of The
Floyd Law Firm gave a
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Wewokan Shot In Drive-by At Dairy Cup
Lou Armour
City Editor
At about 2:30 a.m., on Saturday, June 28, Tyree McFadden,
31, of Wewoka was gunned
down by one of two suspects
in front of Willis’s Dairy Cup
at the corner of N. Harvey Rd.
and E. Broadway.
Witnesses at the Dairy Cup
called 911 and alerted the
police to the shooting incident.
Seminole Police Detective
Branon Bowen said that witnesses at the store claimed
McFadden about to enter the
The
store when one of the Oakleys
called him out to the northeast
corner and he was shot there.
Seminole Police Lieutenant
Michael Burnett and Officers
Jason Null and Clay Yeubanks
arrived on scene in response to
the call.
McFadden had already been
taken by his companion to the
Seminole Emergency Room by
the time they arrived.
Burnett and officers cordoned off the crime scene and
did a preliminary search for
evidence.
They found one spend shell
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Bowen was called to ER
and found McFadden with a
single gunshot wound.
He was further transferred
to the Trauma Center at OU
Medical in Oklahoma City,
where he was pronounced dead
shortly after arrival at about 4
or 4:30 a.m.
Witnesses at the scene
described the assailants and
their vehicle to the officers.
According to the police,
one witness positively identified one of the suspects, which
led the Seminole officers to
look for Tony Oakley, 32,
and Elliott Oakley, 28, both of
Seminole.
(See Fatality on Page 10)
Wewokan Tyree McFadden died at OU Medical
Center after being fatally
shot early Saturday morning in from the Dairy Cup at
the intersection of N. Harvey
Road and E. Broadway.
(photo right provided by
Facebook) Seminole Police
Officer Jason Null and Police
Lieutenant Michael Burnett
search the crime scene area
for clues and any evidence
to the killing of McFadden.
(photo left)
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Come Celebrate an Old Fashion 4th of July in Okeene!
Schedule of Events
Thursday, July 4th
FREE Swim @ Okeene Swimming Pool 1-5 p.m. Swim Races & Money Dive 4-5 p.m. PICNIC 6-7:30 p.m. Entertainment: Live Local Talent
Registration & Kiwanis Races 7 p.m. Turtles, Bikes, Trikes, Feet — In regards to turtles, we will race water & land turtles ONLY, no snappers please!
FIREWORKS at 9:30 p.m. Outside fireworks will NOT be allowed at the celebration and the airport hanger area will need to be clear of any unauthorized
personnel during the fireworks show. The city ordinance states you may discharge fireworks in city limits July 2, 3, and 4 from 9 a.m. until 10:30 p.m.
The Okeene Chamber of Commerce wishes everyone a safe 4th of July and reminds you to always supervise and use caution when handling fireworks.
Hope to see you on the 4th!
Area 4th of July events on page 6
What Patriotism means to me
The Ladies V.F.W. Auxiliary sponsors a patriotic essay contest each school year. Essay contest chairman, Cindy Lamle, announced the winners of the
2013-2014 school year as follows: 1st Place-Brycen DeMoss, 2nd Place-Cashen Graham, 3rd Place-Holly Boeckman, 4th Place-Alek Winters.
1st Place
By Brycen DeMoss
Patriotism is a love for your country, your freedom, and your respect
for the men and women who fight
for our country. Every day people
live their lives taking for granted our
freedoms we have. These freedoms
include being able to vote, being
able to have any job we would like to
work to have, shopping anywhere we
want, hunting and being able to do
other recreational things, and having
plenty of food to eat. If it wasn’t for
the patriots of today and yesterday,
we wouldn’t have the freedom we
have today.
In the United States Americans
have the ability to go shopping at the
mall, eat at Taco Bell, and drive their
own car. We take these freedoms
for granted because we have had
them all our lives. We forget about
the people who have fought in wars
and have sacrificed to give us these
freedoms. In some foreign countries
the people do not have the right to
shop anywhere they want, eat at any
restaurant, or even learn to drive let
along own their own car. It is sad
that this is true. I’m glad we have
the patriots we have so we can enjoy
these freedoms.
Personally I like our freedom to
hunt. We have this right because we
have the right to bear arms which is
found in our constitution. This right
also allows us to protect our friends,
family and our country. In some
countries the ability to buy a fire arm
is limited because of the lack of resources or strict gun laws.
The United States is known for
its abundant food supply. We are
blessed with a lot of grain, wild
game, livestock and fresh water fish.
In other countries there is famine,
over population and poor economy.
These things many take for granted
were given up to us by our founding
father. And the men and women who
have fought and died for our freedom. Patriotism is loving my country and willing to do die to keep it in.
In the world that seems like it could
as much as to be. But it is still in the
hearts of our country.
Brycen is a seventh grader at
Okeene Public Schools.
2nd Place
By Cashen Graham
What do you feel when you wear
the red, white, and blue? That great
feeling is patriotism. Knowing that
you’re part of a great national just
makes you feel blessed is a part of it.
Singing the national anthem shows
the pride and commitment you have
for the country. You hear all the kids
telling you what they want to be
when they grow up.
Well the truth is kids are great
mimickers and what they see they
mostly start doing it so why not show
them patriotism and what it means to
be an American and how Americans
show their pride. We can show that
it is great to be one and no one will
judge you for it.
Be all you can be and stand
strong. That means leave no man behind even when things get rough. We
will be there for you through thick
and thin. Everyone wants their family members to come back and be
home. But they are fighting for us
and it’s a great cause.
H.L.R. is what I learned. Hustle
and get the job done. Be loyal to
your family you’re fighting the war
with. Respect each other and don’t
get into any flights. Tell me, what
are you prepared to do for our great
country. What difference are you
going to make. I hope you make a
great difference in our nation. Fight
for something you think is right and
needs to be seen or heard. So go tell
everyone what you’ve learned today.
Show them what it means to be a
patriot. Remember, stand strong and
unite as one!
Cashen is an eighth grader at

Is the Fourth of July two days late?
By Stephen Lamar
The Fourth of July is a time we enjoy spending with
family and friends celebrating our country’s independence. The only problem is, we’re celebrating it on the
wrong day.
Independence Day in America has been a tradition
since our country’s early years as a new nation. The
day was made a paid federal holiday in 1941 and communities and families have celebrated the Fourth of
July ever since. However, the order of events that took
place in July of 1776 reveals that our Independence
Day should actually take place on another date.
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted
to approve a resolution to declare independence from
Great Britain. On July 3, 1776, John Adams wrote a
letter to his wife, Abagail, stating: “The Second of July,
1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary
Festival.”
If our independence was declared on July 2 then
why, one may ask, do we celebrate Independence Day
on July 4? The answer is a document known as the
Declaration of Independence.
The document was approved and adopted by the
Continental Congress on July 4. The approval of the
document is in fact the only event that took place on
the fourth. The document wasn’t even signed until August 2 with the final delegate signing in 1777, according to many historians.
The document was printed on July 4 on the Dunlap
Broadsides and sent throughout the country. Because
July 4 was the date it was distributed and printed, that
date has become associated with the document. The
death of both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson on
July 4, 1826, the 50 year anniversary of the declaration’s approval, may have also helped solidify the
date’s importance.
The declaration’s approval was celebrated in the city
of Philadelphia (the country’s capital at the time) on
Continued to page 3
3rd Place
By Holly Boeckman
Patriotism to me is having a deep
respect for your country and fellow
Americans who give you the freedom you enjoy every day. There
should be a strong, proud feeling in
your heart; a feeling so powerful you
know that it’s pride. It’s understanding that we are a free country and
knowing the hardships and losses
young men and women have gone
through just to protect us and give
us freedom. They risk their lives
for ours and it’s our privilege to be
proud of being an American.
When my teacher told my English class, “It’s time for the patriotic
essay,” mostly everyone groaned
and hung their heads. I know it’s
not meant intentionally, but it seems
honoring our country is no as important as it should be to some of the
younger generation. We Americans
are courageous, independent, determined human beings. We fight for
what we believe in and risk everything to do it. In God we trust and
we respect others with our best attitudes. When we salute the flag, we
salute with all our heart and soul out
of respect of our country.
When I salute the flag, I think of
soldiers marching and sacrificing
themselves for the sake of freedom.
One by one they fall, and others shed
a tear, but no matter what, they keep
on marching. I visualize soldiers
carrying their friends to safety and
then going back into battle. Then, I
picture troops coming home to see
their proud and anxiously awaiting
families.
Our country is very privileged
with so many opportunities such
as freedom of speech, freedom of
press, freedom to vote and women
are treated equally to men. We have
the right to do whatever we want as
long as we abide by the laws. I pray
that all Americans truly understand
how lucky we are.
Holly is an eighth grader at
4th Place
By Alek Winter
Boom! The earth shakes, dirt
goes flying everywhere. You are in
the Vietnam War. Your military base
is being ambushed! There is nothing
left to do but fight – fight for your
country’s freedom. That is what I
think patriotism is about.
I have a friend named bob Ford.
He is the best example of a patriot I
can think of. He fought in the Vietnam War. He flew in Hueys. He isn’t
only patriotic in the battlefield, he is
also a patriot in town. Every Saturday he cleans the streets. He always
speaks to the school on Veteran’s
Day.
When my mom was in high
school, her two best friends were her
aunt and Alison Ford, Bob Ford’s
daughter. So I know Bob Ford pretty
well. He has a trunk full of pictures
that third graders draw for him every year for Veteran’s Day. He is my
hero.
Anyway, there are many ways to
show patriotism. First you can fly
the U.S. flag at your house. Or you
could salute the veterans at a parade.
My favorite is you could pray for
men and women proudly fighting for
our country now. They can always
use your prayers and support.
Now that I have explained patriotism, try some of these things at
home. Veteran or not, you have still
bee part of the fight for freedom.
Even though you are not overseas
fighting you still fight right there
in your home. All you have to do
is believe. Believe in your country,
the men and women fighting for it,
and the families who lost those brave
men and women.
Patriotism has so many different
definitions for each individual. Just
keep believing in your country and
praying for the fighters. If everyone
believed strongly for their country and aced upon those feelings
wouldn’t this place be an awesome
place to live?
Using Fireworks In City Limits Is Not Allowed
Lou Armour
City Editor
Fire and Police departments
throughout the county are
reminding Countians and visitors that the use of fireworks
within city limits is forbidden.
City and Town ordinances
may vary, but the fire and
police chiefs of Seminole,
Wewoka and Konawa have
confirmed that their city ordinances make the use of fireworks within city limits can
be punishable by fines of up to
$200, plus court costs.
Seminole Fire Chief Bryant
Baker said, “While the sale of
fireworks are permitted within
the city limits, each stand has
a sign prominently posted
advising buyers that fireworks
cannot be used with the city
limits.”
“The unsupervised use of
fireworks can lead to personal
Oklahoma City – Fireworks, parades and picnics
are favorite Independence Day
activities.
But with the Fourth of
July holiday just days away,
the Oklahoma Association
of Optometric Physicians
(OAOP) is reminding Oklahomans to practice eye safety
when dealing with fireworks.
An estimated 9,000 fireworks injuries occur each year
in the United States.
Nearly half of those are to
children age 15 and under.
Eyes are among the most
injured body parts, with one in
six fireworks-related injuries
resulting in permanent vision
Shirlene Cofer
Junior Editor
ment, training or provide
financial support for important
safety-related projects,” said
Diane Englet, senior director
of Community Relations for
CenterPoint Energy.
“We are proud to support
and enhance the well-being of
the communities in which we
live and work.”
Over the past 12 years,
CenterPoint Energy has contributed over $1 million dollars in donations through its
Community Partnership Grant
Program to communities for
safety initiatives.
To see what Center-
the city.
Seminole Police Chief
Shane Marshall said, “Our
officers will be enforcing the
city’s ordinances and will issue
citations.”
Anyone caught using fireworks within the city will have
(See Fireworks on Page 10)
loss or blindness.
According to the Consumer
Product Safety Commission,
firecrackers, sparklers, bottle
rockets and reloadable shells
are to blame for causing the
most injuries.
There are several things
you can do to better protect
yourself and your family from
being injured while handling
and watching fireworks displays.
* Discuss firework safety
with children and teens prior to
the Fourth of July holiday.
* Do not allow kids to
handle fireworks and never
leave them unsupervised near
fireworks.
* Wear protective eyewear
when lighting and handling
fireworks of any kind.
* Store fireworks, matches
and lighters in a secure place
where children won’t find
them.
* Refrain from purchasing
sparklers, which can heat up to
2,000 degrees or hotter.
* Be aware of your surroundings and only light fireworks when family, friends
and children are at a safe
distance.
“The statistics on fireworksrelated injuries are alarming,
but with a few simple safety
precautions we can all take
(See Safety on Page 10)
Seminole County Today
birthdays
Bellows
City of Seminole Receives
$1,500 Community Grant
Houston – CenterPoint
Energy’s Community Partnership Grant Program awards
grants to local communities to
fund safety-related equipment
and projects.
The company recently
awarded the City of Seminole
a $1,500 grant for assistance
with the purchase and installation of a new storm siren to
serve the community.
“At CenterPoint Energy
our number one priority is
safety. Through our grant
program, we are able to help
cities leverage local funds to
purchase needed safety equip-
However, certain areas
within the city or town may
have exceptions as directed by
their respective councils and
mayors.
Central Dispatch and Seminole Police have noticed a
sharp increase in calls regarding fireworks being lit off in
OAOP Encourages Eye Safety
With the Holiday’s Fireworks
Former CNA
Honored with
National Award
“She was a wonderful person, a great friend,
and an excellent CNA,” said Heather Berryhill,
director of Seminole Care and Rehabilitation
Center.
“She” is Rosie Bellows, former CNA at Seminole Care and Rehabilitation Center (SCRC)
in Seminole. She had worked at the center for
approximately two years, prior to her death.
Bellows was recently awarded Member of the
Year by the National Association of Health Care
Assistants.
However, the award is bittersweet for those
who worked with Bellows, as she passed away
unexpectedly last May.
Those who worked with Bellows remember
her as someone who took exceptional pride in her
work and truly loved her job.
“The residents felt the compassion Rosie had
for her job on a daily basis,” said Berryhill.
“She always had a smile on her face, showed
such warmth and compassion towards them, and
(See Rosie on Page 10)
injury as well as hazards to
others and damage to property,” he said.
Parents and guardians of
minors who are caught using
fireworks may be charged.
City limits in some cases
may include the annexed portions of the lakes in their area.
Point Energy is doing in
the community, please visit
CenterPointEnergy.com/Community.
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.,
headquartered in Houston,
Texas, is a domestic energy
delivery company that includes
electric transmission & distribution, natural gas distribution
and energy services operations.
The company serves more
than five million metered customers primarily in Arkansas,
Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas.
(See Grant on Page 10)
Those celebrating birthdays
today include Mike Bowman,
Justin Brown, Nikki Chamberlain, Brandon Deere, Marshall
Dillon, Bobbye Dodgen, Thelma
Douglas, Elizabeth Hayhurst,
Jennifer Henson, Hal Hulbutta,
April Jonson, Kenneth Lee,
Sherry Lee, Leaine Leewright,
Pauline Newman, Linda Norman,
Corene Nutter, Bob Rounsaville,
Fred Roy, Roger Stanfill, J.R.
Watkins & Shanna Wells.
anniversaries
Those celebrating anniversaries today include Charles
and Mae Cane, Jim and Genny
Guthrie, Bob and Ruby Lovelady, Mark and Amy Smith,
Mr. and Mrs. Loyal Streater,
Randall and Lea Streetman &
Mr. and Mrs. Buster Wilcox.
slants
Dillon Wallace checking off
his list of 4th of July duties…
Wilma Douglas looking forward
to family visits… Rachel Morgan
looking pretty in green…
wednesday
Seminole High School
Alumni Association meeting,
12 noon at Lunch-N-Such in
Seminole. All graduates of
SHS are invited to attend.
Edmond hosts LibertyFest
a week-long Independence
Day celebration with 11 total
events. Fourth of July parade
begins at 9 a.m. on July 4 in
downtown Edmond with ParkFest beginnings at 6:30 on the
UCO campus and fireworks
display at 10 p.m.
patriotic music for their annual
Red, White & Boom celebration. Begins at 8:30 p.m. with
fireworks show at 10 p.m.
Gates open at 6:30 p.m. bring
your lawn chairs.
Edmond hosts LibertyFest
a week-long Independence
Day celebration with 11 total
events. Fourth of July parade
begins at 9 a.m. on July 4 in
downtown Edmond with ParkFest beginnings at 6:30 on the
UCO campus and fireworks
display at 10 p.m.
Miss Your Paper?
thursday
Seminole Nation Constitution Revision committee will
meet at 6 p.m. at the Council
House at the Mekusukey Mission.
Oklahoma City Philharmonic at State Fair Park free
concert featuring popular and
We’l bring you one!
Call 382-1100
Weekdays until 5pm
In Wewoka 380-2051
New staff member at McAlester
The McAlester News Capital recently
welcomed Parker Perry as crime and
courts beat writer.
Perry moved to McAlester from Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated from the
Top right: Calli Faulk, center, competes in a hula hoop contest during the 2013 Kiddie Olympics, part of the annual
Independence Day activities in Wintersmith Park.
University of Akron with a bachelor’s in
arts and sciences in May.
Perry said he is intrigued by McAlester’s big city issues and news that happens within the confines of a small town.
See Fourth of July activities map
inside on page 8
Feds stop sending surplus equipment to rural fire
departments; 800 Oklahoma fire stations impacted
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A True Soldiers Story
In May, 1943, I boarded a
ship (Louis Pasteur Troop
Ship) in New York. On board
the ship were several thousand
soldiers. On the third day out
in the middle of the Atlantic
Ocean, sewing kits were handed out to the soldiers.
Guess who prepared mine the Watonga American Red
Cross Chapter of Watonga,
responded to report of a vehicle fire on the 800 block of
Kelli Dr. in Watonga. The fire
was extinguished by fire officials upon arrival.
On June 4, 2014 at 9:48
responded to report of a semi
on fire on the 700 block of
Clarence Nash Blvd. in
Watonga. The fire was extinguished by fire officials upon
arrival.
On June 5, 2014 at 8:02
p.m. Fire officials responded
to report of a grass/brush fire
on the 800 block of Kelli Dr.
in7 W of 8.5 S of Watonga.
The fire was a controlled
burning and was extinguished
along the perimeter.
Photos
os and fireworks graphic
graphic by Richard R. Barron
Above: Her hair done up in patriotic pom-poms
pom-poms,, Capri Faulk
tries to blow a bubble duing the 2013 biggest
est bubble con
contest at Kiddie Olympics during Independence Day festiv
estivities
itie
at Wintersmith Park.
7:30 to 9:30 a.m. Fireball Classic 5
and 10K run and family walk
9:30 to 11:15 a.m. Kiddie Olympics
(Ada Lions Club)
9:30 a.m. Turtle Races
9:45 a.m. Balloon Games & Races
10 a.m. Big Foot Stomp Game
10:15 a.m. Crazy Races: Skin the
Snake & Coin Toss
10:30 a.m. Hula-Hoop Contest
10:45 a.m. Peel the Banana Line
11:15 a.m. Watermelon Seed
Spitting Contest & Gauntlet
10 a.m. - 2 p.m. National Guard
Nerf Cannon Wars
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Martial Arts
Demonstrations
1:30-3:30 p.m. Church Youth presents Family Olympic Games
1:30 p.m. Egg Toss
2 p.m. Egg Games
2:30 p.m. Toe-Sack Races
3 p.m. Tug of War
3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Ada Fire Dept.
Waterworks Games
3:30 p.m. Waterworks Games
4 p.m. Fireman's Challenge
9:30 p.m. Fireworks Display
All Day Event: Kiwanis Club Fun
Park at Wintersmith Park
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Inside the Beacon
The patriotic holidays are
special, and memories both
cheerful and sad, resurface as
“we remember” and honor
those who have served or are
serving this Nation to preserve our way of life.
So that others may know
what Old Glory stands for, and
to pay homage to those who
have given so much while
serving in the U.S. Armed
Forces, we are publishing stories and letters to remind us
that freedom isn’t free.
Josie Nault of Watonga
brought in this letter to share a
story about her brother
Clarence Glaesman , T/4 U.S.
Army from Hitchcock, Ok
who didn’t make it home from
his tour in China during
WWII.
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In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall
direct thy paths.
—Proverbs 3:6
"The Constitution only
gives people
the right to
pursue happiness. You
have to catch
it yourself."
—Benjamin
Franklin
The City of Ada will be closed tomorrow
with the exception of emergency offices
in observance of the Independence Day
holiday. The Ada News will also be closed
tomorrow so that the staff can spend
the Fourth of July holiday with their
families. The newspaper will not be published on Friday, July 4, but there will be
a Sunday, July 6, edition.
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New releases coming soon to a computer near you
Computer Notes
from the road
by Wilma Melot
[email protected]
Adobe just released its new version of
Creative Cloud 2014.
Although CS6 is still on their site and
available as a download, it’s not easy to
find. You can get there if you dig around,
but let’s look at what’s new.
One big change Adobe made to InDesign is how it handles tables. They’ve
ramped up the options and given us the
ability to put photos and other backgrounds inside cells, rows and columns.
Typekit fonts are available from
Adobe for Creative Cloud members.
This library of fonts is available to be
installed directly to your computer. For
example, let’s say a customer sends you
a document with a font you don’t have. If
it’s an Adobe Typekit font, it will install
directly to your computer. Of course this
means Adobe has access to your computer all the time. But when you start
using the Creative Cloud, this is almost
a given.
Adobe managed to fix the problem of
losing your preferences every time an
upgrade is released. Now the program
lets you sync preferences between computers.
Some new features were added to
each software program that are more
like mobile apps for your phone. These
apps remind me of Paint and Draw,
which were used in the early days of
computers.
There’s also a stylus and ruler that
works with the iPad so you can draw on
the screen. The $200 price tag may seem
high but it’s in line for most Adobe/
Apple products. If you’re interested, the
product is called Adobe Ink and Slide.
iPhones, iPads and computers. A cloud
drop box for your paper is self-controlled
for sharing large files or just backing
them up when moving between home
and work.
The simple find file (spotlight) will
now look for information on the Web
using the Bing search engine. I hope
this is simply an option that we can turn
on and off.
Safari has this function built into the
URL bar. By the way, Safari received a
makeover so it looks and works differently, and is much faster.
AirDrop can now do peer-to-peer file
sharing with your Mac. Phone-to-computer makes AirDrop a more useful
feature for the newspaper work environment.
As of yet, I have not read or heard of
any complaints for CS6 users running
this beta version of 10.10 software. I’m
hopeful that we won’t encounter many
problems.
QUESTIONS FROM THE ROAD
Several newspapers moved from
PageMaker to InDesign CS6 in the last
couple of months. Moving to any new
software has its challenges. Here’s one
that is causing some of them problems.
One real change is how InDesign
deals with underlines versus PageMaker.
One of the easiest ways to deal with
underlines in InDesign is to create a
Paragraph Style and then it can be easily
used wherever you need it.
Here’s how to set up a paragraph
style for underlines:
1. Type something on the page
2. Select font, size and justification.
3. Select it with the text tool.
NEW APPLE SYSTEM
Here we go again. OSX Yosemite,
Apple’s new operating system, is scheduled to be released this fall.
OSX 10.10 follows the iPhone look
with its flatter button appearance and
more translucency in all windows.
Personally, I miss the curves in the
old look, but that’s another story. Let’s
look at some of the new features.
The notifications center has been
improved so it takes over more of your
screen space, if you let it. Pictures show
up inside notifications to grab your
attention.
The new Mail Drop feature lets you
move 5GB files over the iCloud, bypassing small space file transfers of local
Internet providers. That could be very
useful for reporters sending large photos and videos back to the paper. The
iCloud drive shows up like any other
network drive and can be accessed from
4. Go to Paragraph Styles, then to the
flyout menu and select new style.
5. Give it a name such as “underline
text.”
6. Select Paragraph Rules on the left.
7. Choose Rule Below and make a check
in the Rule On line
8. Click the Preview button so you can
see what is happening on screen.
9. Select text for width option.
10. Set the offset and see if it looks good
on screen, then say OK.
It helps to use the preview button in
these boxes to see your changes in real
time.
The Character Dialog box also allows
you to create underlines with the Underline Options.
Find/Change can be your best friend
when you’re trying to set styles on copy
brought in from the Internet – or for any
document with peculiar formatting. Give
it a try and see if you can save yourself
time with this useful feature.
There’s even an option to underline just the words, and not the spaces
between the words by selecting Gap
Color.
Here’s how to set up characters using
the Character Styles menu (under the
Type menu). Only use this if you have
a lot of copy that needs to be underline.
PHOTOSHOP CUTOUTS
1. Select the text you want underlined
and go to the Character Styles flyout
menu and New Character Style. Name
it “with lines”.
2. Now select text without an underline and go to Character Styles, flyout
menu and New Character Style. Name
this style “no line”.
3. Copy a space without the line and go
to Edit > Find/Change. Put a normal
space in the Find what: part of the dialogue box. Paste the space without a
line in the Change to: box.
4. Under Find Format:, click the small
T at the side of the Find Format box
and choose Character style: Select the
style “with line.”
5. In the Change Format: click the small
T (at right) and choose Character
Style: (no line)
6. Click on the headline or story and
click the Change All button in the
Find/Change dialog box. This puts all
the spaces without lines in at once.
If you’re just doing a couple of lines,
it’s just as fast to use the Eyedropper
tool to copy formatting of the spaces.
I’m often asked how to cut out cars
using Photoshop. There are several
ways to do it, but here’s one that I find
easy:
1. Correct the image for the paper
before cutting it out.
2. Choose the Polygonal Lasso Tool. Go
to the options bar and use a 4 or 5
feather.
3. Surround the car by using the Dotto-dot Lasso Tool.
4. Go to select and inverse.
5. Press D on the keyboard to set the
color palettes to basic black/white.
6. Hit the delete key on the keyboard;
sometimes it helps to delete it twice.
7. Grow or soften your selection under
the Select Menu.
9. Inverse the selection again to get
only the car. Copy the car.
10. Go to File and New Document in
Photoshop. Be sure transparent is
selected in the dialog box under
background contents.
11. Paste the car on the transparent
background and save as a Photoshop document. It will place in InDesign with a clear background.
12. In InDesign, create a clipping path
under object, then clipping path.
Choose Detect Edges, just to be certain it drops out the background on
the press.
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After 40 years, Dutton Peabody still matters
That InterWeb
Thing
by Keith Burgin
[email protected]
One of the great moments in the
1962 Jimmy Stewart / John Wayne
western film, “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” comes when Edmond
O’Brien’s Dutton Peabody is nominated
for territorial delegate to Washington.
Peabody, editor and publisher of The
Shinbone Star, objects, saying that he is
a newspaperman, not a politician – that
he scrutinizes politicians, that he builds
them up and tears them down but could
never be one.
Impassioned, he cries, “Good people
of Shinbone, I, I, I’m your conscience.
I’m the still small voice that thunders in
the night. I’m your watchdog that howls
against the wolves.”
Of course, Wayne’s character, Tom
Doniphon, promptly points out that Peabody is also the town drunk.
Admittedly, the character and the
portrayal are both a bit over-the-top,
but I love Dutton Peabody and here’s
what I love: he believes in the watchdog
mission of the press and he believes
he stands for something greater than
himself.
At one point in the film, Peabody
quite literally takes a beating for what
he prints.
Independence Day prompted me
to think about The Shinbone Star and
Dutton Peabody and just how much
news gathering and dissemination have
changed since the days of telegraph
and pony express… and just how much
hasn’t changed. And I thought about
how important the Dutton Peabodys of
the world are.
Today we have more access to more
research, more opinion, and more raw
information than at any time in our history. We can fact-check in seconds and
locate follow-up sources in minutes. We
can track stories from all over the state,
country and world from any spot that
has Internet access.
With a smartphone, we can record
video of world events and upload it
directly to the Web for consumption.
With Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest and Google+ we can network with others, sharing images, video,
text and audio from all over the globe.
Massive amounts of data can be
emailed from sources to reporters,
exposing corruption and government
overreach.
Computers, the Internet, wireless
access, websites, and social media have
certainly given newspapers and news
media in general more reach and more
power with which to protect us – our
liberties, freedoms and way of life.
And we’re lucky here in America. The
right of the working press to do its job is
protected.
Here, we can ask questions, chal-
lenge answers, request documents and
invoke FOIA when denied. We can publish – and shed light.
In other parts of the world, those
protections don’t exist – or exist only
theory.
For example, Egypt’s government
recently sentenced three Al Jazeera
reporters to prison for daring to do their
jobs. In other countries, members of
the press are routinely assaulted, raped,
beaten, imprisoned or outright murdered – sometimes by governments.
I think that’s why Independence Day
brought Dutton Peabody to mind. When
I think about the freedoms we enjoy
here, I start with freedom of speech
and freedom of the press and I wonder
if people realize just how rare and precious those freedoms are. I wonder
whether the average person knows just
how central newspapers and the media
are to protecting those rights.
And like the person who enjoys the
smell of that steak or hamburger or
chicken on the grill but never considers the source of the meat, I wonder
if the person who doesn’t subscribe to
the local paper even knows that there’s
a Dutton Peabody out there chasing
all the stories he reads on Twitter or
Facebook.
The watchdog (with an iPad) that
howls against the wolves…
This month, ponder those freedoms
and liberties, won’t you? And join me in
saying, “Woof.”
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Suggestions from two news gurus
By ED HENNINGER, Design Consultant
I recently had the distinct pleasure of
sharing a full workday with news guru
Kevin Slimp.
Kevin calls himself “the news guru.”
I too, have been called a “guru” occasionally. And, yes, I’ve been called many
other things, too!
Kevin had been asked by the publisher of a group of papers in New Jersey
to take a look at his papers and offer his
suggestions for improvement.
Kevin and I had already done a couple
of presentations jointly and he invited
me along to help out. So, on a day in
early May, we met a bit west of Asheville, N.C., to spend the day together
reviewing 10 papers.
It was a delight working with Kevin
and discovering that we shared many of
the same thoughts about what we were
seeing.
What follows is a brief look at key
points we suggested. I believe many of
you can find a few of these will apply to
your publication.
TEXT TYPE: Throughout these papers,
text was in a face that was too light, a bit
too condensed—and way too small.
PHOTOS: Many were poorly cropped
and some were muddy and dark. Often,
there were too many in a package and
none was dominant.
STORIES: Far too long. Remember,
readers will only give you 12”-15” before
they quit a story.
STANDING HEADS: Not well designed
and inconsistent.
PAGE LABELS: Too strong and often
competed for attention with the lead
headline on the page.
HEADLINES: Often the same font and
size, page after page after page. Definitely need to use other fonts in the family for more contrast.
ORGANIZATION: Some events listings
packages jumped from page to page to
page—occasionally to more than 8 or 9
pages.
NAMEPLATES: All needed tweaking,
some were badly in need of complete
redesign.
We did find that editors in most of the
papers were trying their best to offer a
package that was comfortable and easy
to read.
We appreciate those efforts. But
there’s a sense that some of those editors are “swimming upstream” because
of a lack of design training.
It was fun working with Kevin and
we’re planning to do more of these
evaluations as time goes by.
ED HENNINGER, an independent newspaper consultant and director of Henninger Consulting, offers
comprehensive newspaper design services including
redesigns, workshops, design training and design
evaluations. Contact Henninger at www.henningerconsulting.com, email edh@henningerconsulting.
com or phone (803) 327-3322.
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Understanding the choice for peace
My mother died in a hospital bed in her and my father’s
Florida living room. At 69 years old, she had decided to
accept a natural death rather than a second operation
less than five months after the first surgery to remove an
aggressive brain tumor. Her decision not to live confused
me. We all loved her, so why wasn’t she fighting for her
life?
For a few months, I flew back and forth to visit my parents
and witnessed the deterioration of my mother’s mind and
body, and my father’s spirit as he cared for her. My mother
knew what was coming and tried to comfort us. She told
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told us it would come fast, we insisted she would be well
again. She had accepted her own mortality even though
her family could not. Finally, the tumor stopped her words
altogether and she couldn’t help us understand. Her heart
beat on.
My brother drove down from New York as I trundled
southeast from Oklahoma. We kept a death vigil for seven
days with hospice ever present. I spent most of that time
sitting by her side, holding her hand with its tissue-paper
skin while recalling a lifetime of wonderful memories.
In her morphine-induced painlessness she smiled
as I thanked her for loving me from infancy through
adolescence and puberty into womanhood. It could not
have been easy. I asked for her forgiveness for anything I
ever did to disappoint her … and I know there was plenty. I
forgave her for banning Christmas from our home after her
youngest son was killed at age 20 and buried on Christmas
Eve. I told her I loved her … and then, I told her good bye.
She smiled again with her eyes closed, breathing deep and
slow enough to scare me. I still wasn’t ready.
During this time, hospice nurses ministered to all of us,
and I was grateful. Even though I asked, there was no
expectation as to when death would come, except that it
would come. And by my mother’s choice, it would come
gently and unobtrusively. I was grateful again.
It’s taken twelve years for me to finally realize that family
and friends of a dying loved one tend to place too much
hope on the über-technology that prolongs life far past the
time when our bodies are ready for it to be over … and
my mother was ready. For five months the neurons in her
brain ceased to snap, one by one, eventually giving way
to nothingness. She died a hundred tiny deaths as her
speech, balance, independence, memory and personality
dropped away. She’d made her choice, and yet again, I
was grateful. Not because she was dying, but because
she was dying with dignity. She was the strongest person
I knew in life; she became the strongest person I knew in
death.
It has taken me so many years to fully comprehend that
final and most important decision of my mother’s life.
She chose not to prolong life with another invasive and
extremely debilitating surgery. She chose not to die in a
cold hospital cubicle plugged into churning machines. She
chose not to put my father through years of care giving
turmoil as the tumor took her intelligence and led her into
the depths of constant confusion and dementia. While still
capable, she chose a natural death in the home she loved
with her family surrounding her. My mother chose peace.
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