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Tracking risk from Facebook; Gmail makes a changeBy Lynn L. Martin

Don’t forget the April 6 deadline to purchase tickets to attend the speech by

oil man Tom Ward. You’ve got about five days. The Kiwanis and Rotary clubs are hosting the event at the NWOSU ball-room at 11:30 a.m. April 9. A meal is being prepared by the NWOSU food ser-vice firm Chartwells,

and they need a head count. The menu is chicken-fried steak with appropriate sides for $10.

About 30 general-public people have purchased tickets available at the news-paper office. Ward’s speech ought to be a must-see for those interested in the oil business in this area. Changes ARE hap-pening and those of us who are affected may want a preview as to what he thinks the future will hold.

***Google announced last week that

they are modifying their Gmail product to allow it to manage email from al-most any provider. Microsoft’s Outlook

permits something similar. Most people have several accounts. One may be for your business, one might be for family, one might be for online purchases, etc. Gmail will allow those to funnel into one portal. That sounds pretty handy.

Facebook Criticized on Tracking Activities

A new report claims that Facebook se-cretly installs tracking cookies on users’ computers, allowing them to follow us-ers around the Internet even after they’ve left the website, deleted their account and requested to no longer be followed.

Academic researchers said that the report showed that the company was breaking European law with its track-ing policies. The law requires that users be told if their computers are receiving cookies except for specific circumstanc-es.

Facebook’s tracking – which it does so that it can tailor advertising – involves putting cookies or small pieces of soft-ware on users’ computers so that they can then be followed around the Internet. Such technology is used by almost ev-ery website, but European law requires that users be told if they are being giv-en cookies or being tracked. Companies

don’t have to tell users if the cookies are required to connect to a service or if they are needed to give the user information that they have specifically requested.

But Facebook’s tracking policy al-lows it to track users if they have simply been to a page on the company’s domain, even if they weren’t logged in. That in-cludes pages for brands or events, which users can see whether or not they have an account.

Facebook disputes the accusations of the report, it told The Independent.

“This report contains factual inaccu-racies,” a Facebook spokesperson said. “The authors have never contacted us, nor sought to clarify any assumptions upon which their report is based. Neither did they invite our comment on the report before making it public.”

The report does not have any legal standing, and was written by indepen-dent academics.

Facebook has a page on its site that gives users information about cookies and how they are used on the network. The company makes clear that cookies are used for the purposes of advertising and other functions, and that users can opt out of such tracking if they wish to.

Superintendent’s 9th Grade – Kacee Hostetler11th Grade – Nicole Blick, Cameron

Diel, Anastasia Wilhelm12th Grade – Paige Koblitz

Principal’s7th Grade – Adrienne Allison,

Trevor Rocks, Georgiana Wilhelm8th Grade – Brandon Baysinger,

Brent Grisner, Katie Holcolm, Savannah Hughbanks, Antonio Mendez-Espinoza, Taylor Pollock, Morgan Polson

9th Grade – Slater Blick, Joseph Bowden, Natalie Odell, Trae Rathgeber, Idallis Shaffer, Kylee Wright

10th Grade – Sabrina Hughbanks, Spencer Kimmell, Anna Perez, Bailey

Roberts, Emily Rugg11th Grade – Clay Holcomb, Trenton

Jahay, Kolton Pavlu12th Grade – Anya Anderson,

Riley Denton, Bryce Roberts, Alexis Ahaffer, Peyton Yandel

Honorable Mention7th Grade – Takira Blick, Anna

Unger, Makenzie Watts8th Grade – Kassidy Cloyd,

Cole Coggins, Haylie Drake, Neal Gugelmeyer, Ishan Patel, Bryn Rathgeber

9th Grade – Kolby Pavlu, Kaleigh Velasquez, Dakota Vickers

10th Grade – Andraia McKitrick11th Grade – Kori Leech12th Grade – Domini Grasz,

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ObituariesMARK ALLEN MORRISON, SR.

Memorial services for Mark Morrison Sr. were held at 2 p.m. on Monday, March 20, 2015, at Carmen City Park Pavilion. He was cremated at his request. Arrangements were under the direction of Wentworth Mortuary LLC of Carmen.

REBECCA ANN WEEDMANSFIELD, Texas – Rebecca Ann

Weed, 65, of Mansfield passed away Friday, March 27, 2015.

Funeral services will be Thursday, April 2, 2015, at the Hopeton Church in Hopeton, Oklahoma. Burial will follow in Pleasant View Cemetery (4 miles

west and 1 mile south of Dacoma, Oklahoma). Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, April 1, 2015, at Emerald Hills Funeral Home, 500 Kennedale Sublett Road, Kennedale, Texas. Online condolences may be made at www.emeraldhillsfuneralhome.com.

Becky was a loving wife, mother, sister and grandmother. She was compassionate, caring, hardworking, patient and never complained during her illnesses. She loved to cook and everyone enjoyed her meals. Becky was a member of First Baptist Church of Mansfield for many years and enjoyed her time teaching the children. She was employed by what is now known as Chase Bank starting as a clerk and working her way up the ladder to a supervisor and trainer. Becky was known to always have a smile on her face and to be positive no matter the situation. She will be dearly missed by all who knew her and leaves behind a great legacy for her family to follow.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Leslie and Hazel Eckels, and one brother.

She is survived by her loving husband of 33 years, Michael Weed; son, Stephen Weed; stepson, Michael Weed Jr.; stepdaughter, Christy Adams; brother, Dean Eckels; grandchildren, Brittnee, Catherine, Michael, Dylan and Natalie; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Friday, April 17, is the last day to apply for voter registration in order to be eligible to vote in the May 12 special municipal election for the Town of Jet, Alfalfa County Election Board Secretary Kelly Stein said today.

Only voters registered to vote inside the geographical boundaries of the Town of Jet are eligible to vote in Precinct 330 at the Jet Community Building.

People who have never been registered to vote before or who are not currently registered in the county of their residence and people who are registered but who need to change their registration information may apply by filling out and mailing an Oklahoma

voter registration application form in time for it to be postmarked no later than midnight Friday, April 17.

Stein explained that applications postmarked after that time still will be accepted and processed; however, the applications will not be approved until after May 12.

The county election board responds in writing to every person who submits an application for voter registration. The response is either a voter identification card listing the new voter’s precinct number and polling place location or a letter that explains the reason or reasons the application for voter registration was not approved. Stein said that any person who has submitted a voter registration application and who has not received a response within 30 days should contact the county election board office.

Oklahoma voter registration application forms are available at the county election board office and at most post offices, tag agencies and public libraries in the county. Stein said that applications also are available at www.elections.ok.gov, and voters can check their registration status at http://www.ok.gov/elections/Voter_Info/Online_Voter_Tool/.

Jet special election voter registration deadline April 17



The balance of the hospital’s gross accounts receivable (AR) is $751,702. Odell said, “One-third of our AR are in collections.” Total net patient AR is $338,702, according to the balance sheet.

The hospital’s portion of uncollected taxes from the county totals $483,856, Goodno said. KDH is to receive that money in June.

The balance sheet shows the combined current year earnings for the hospital/manor is $171,722. Total cash in all funds is $516,462.

For February the hospital’s net patient revenue was $545,774. Of that total, $252,170 was total contractual adjustments. Total operating revenue was $549,247.

Discussing expenses, Goodno said repairs and maintenance totaled $10,968, which is nearly $7,500 more than budgeted. The reason for the increase is purchases were held off toward the end of the year and made in February.

Total operating expenses were $440,945 in February. Net from operations was $108,302. With the addition of mainly tax revenue of $98,5354, the hospital was in the black $206,837. Goodno said of the amount, “That was basically our cost report entry.”

Giving hospital statistics, Goodno said, “February was very busy for swing bed.” There were 83 total days of acute and swingbed care.

Total February outpatient visits were 509. Clinic visits totaled 376.

DON Courson told the board the hospital is currently in the middle of a survey. She said, “We are close to having

Grismer to research the cost and other aspects involved with a municipal election. She said there’s no cost to the hospital if they participate in an existing election. However, a special election would cost the hospital district from $3,000 to $4000, Grismer said after checking with the county clerk.

Exact details of future municipal election dates are not certain until Kansas Senate Bill 171 is decided, Grismer said.

All board members attended the meeting called to order by Odell, including Parker, Chantae Simpson, May and Schrock. Also present were CEO Grismer, hospital CFO Janell Goodno, Manor Administrator Kim Balding, Dr. Paul Wilhelm, Dr. Christie Leal, D.O., Melissa Stroh, P.A., Director of Nurses Heidi Courson, and Foundation President Judy Schrock.

Hospital Finances and StatisticsGoodno happily reported that after

the Medicare cost report was completed, KDH is no longer in a payable status to Medicare. In fact the balance sheet for the hospital and manor shows $208,627 is due to KDH from Medicare. She added that the $210,000 loan payment due to USDA (for the new hospital) is to be paid.

By Yvonne MillerOnly one seat on the Kiowa District

Hospital Board is officially up for reelection at the May 20 annual meeting. That seat is held by board president Zack Odell who announced a few months ago that he would not seek reelection.

However, at the March meeting last Wednesday evening, board member Lori Schrock announced she will not complete her term that expires in May 2016. She plans to resign at the end-of-April board meeting. So the board will appoint someone to fill Schrock’s unexpired term. If interested, contact a member of the board’s nominating committee, Jim Parker or Brenna May. People wishing to run for the seat held by Odell are also encouraged to contact the nominating committee.

Odell asks that district patrons “take up the passion” shown at the annual hospital board meeting last May and run for a seat on the hospital board.

It’s the board’s intent to have hospital board positions decided in a municipal election instead of at the annual meeting. The board asked hospital CEO Margaret

Two seats now open on Kiowa hospital boardKDH Health Fair April 11

See Hospital Page 24


Brian HillA lifelong Kiowan, Brian Hill is a

farmer/rancher and welder. His wife Tammy is a nurse at the Kiowa District Hospital.

Hill previously served one term as a city councilman. He feels qualified to again serve on the council since he is already familiar with city business.

Hill list his top three priorities for Kiowa as “trying to keep utility rates as low as possible while properly maintaining city infrastructure. Also, bringing business to town.”

Why is he running for the city council? Hill said, “To bring ideas in to help reduce unnecessary budget expenditures.”

Russell MolzRussell Molz has called Kiowa home

all his life. He is a farmer and rancher in the area. His wife Carol is a registered nurse at the Kiowa District Hospital. Their three grown sons are Blake, Kendall and Dylon.

“Because I’ve lived in Kiowa all my life, I feel like I have a good perspective of the community and the need to continue to provide decisions to support growth for the town,” Molz said.

Just finishing his first term as councilman, Molz said, “I feel like I listen to the people and take their concerns back to the council.”

Molz lists his top three priorities for Kiowa as “ensure future stability and growth of our city; street improvements; water and drainage issues.”

Faun RichardsonFaun Richardson is a bookkeeper/

secretary at Simpson’s Hardware Store. Her husband Nephi is a Barber County deputy sheriff. The couple has two children: Cade, age 5 in Pre-K; and Bentley, six months.

The Richardsons have called Kiowa home just over one year. Although she’s not served on a city council, Richardson was the financial director for the Western Shoshone Department of Public Safety in Elko, Nevada, and presented financial reports monthly. She was involved in grants used by the public safety board

answers in alphabetical order. Dan Countryman

Countryman said he lived in Kiowa from 1979 until 1989 when his job transferred him.

“I always enjoyed living in Kiowa and wanted to come back. In 2006 I had the opportunity to move back in the area,” Countryman said.

He feels qualified to serve as, Countryman said, “I have plenty of experience through all the years of owning, running a business and positions I have held.”

When asked about volunteerism and organization memberships, Countryman listed being a Mason, Shriner, member of the Moose Lodge, American Legion and a volunteer firefighter.

Countryman lists his top three priorities for Kiowa as “budgeting, community growth, youth opportunities and the future of Kiowa.”

He’s running for city council because “Kiowa is a wonderful community and I would like for everyone to be as proud of it as I am. The way to having a wonderful community is by being involved.”

By Yvonne MillerNext Tuesday, April 7, are the

municipal elections in Kansas. Five people are running for three seats on Kiowa’s City Council.

The three open seats are currently held by Russell Molz, who has served one term and is eligible for another; Bill Watson, who has served one term and part of an unexpired term so is eligible for another term; and Mark Lambert, who has served two terms so is ineligible for another at this time. (Lambert is running as a write-in for the South Barber School Board USD 255.) The USD 255 candidates were featured individually in the Newsgram last week.

The other city council candidates are: Dan Countryman, Brian Hill and Faun Richardson.

Each candidate answered a questionnaire supplied by the Newsgram. The following are the candidates’

Meet Kiowa’s five city council candidatesThree open seats in April 7 election

See Kiowa Page 45



Tammy Williams and Sheryl Gahr.Nine candidates filed for the three seats on the board of trustees; all are four-year terms. Filing are Harvey L. Curry, Tammy Pruitt, Gwen L. Bailey, Travis Ryel, Ron Kephart, Buddy Veley, Lonnie Morris, Jeff Scribner and Kevin Irwin. The three garnering the most votes will win.

Cherokee: Two races have developed for city council seats in Cherokee. Only those living in the candidate’s wards will be able to vote. Donna Irvin and Tyler Rice filed for the Ward 2 seat. The Ward 4 contest will be between David Collins and Nick Campbell.

Goltry: Filing for the two board of trustees positions in Goltry were Vernon Sanders, Jr., Betty Powers and Jimmy D. Nichols.

Helena: Filing for the two regular four-year positions on the board of trustees were Christopher Swindler, Don Frech, Aaron Shepard and Garett Powell. Four people also filed for the two two-year unexpired terms. They are Everett Grace, Neal Wallace, Paula Burkes and Raymond Stonehocker.

City election is TuesdayAline-Cleo School District to vote on two propositions

election board spokesperson said that whoever has the most votes will win. The only city council race is between Nancy Hardy Wilder and incumbent Wes Miller filed for Ward 3, Seat 2. All registered voters in the Alva City limits will be able to vote for mayor and the Ward 3 council seat.

Waynoka: Two men have filed for the mayor’s seat in Waynoka: Michael Duval and Harold Oliver. Duval is currently on the city council. All registered voters in the Waynoka city limits will vote in that race.

Alfalfa CountySome Alfalfa County towns have

numerous candidates filing for each position. The Town of Jet had to cancel their election because a required notice of election was not published in a timely manner. A special election has been scheduled in Jet for May 12.

Carmen: Carmen voters will have 11 names on their ballots on April 7. Filing for town clerk-treasurer were

By Marione MartinAfter weeks of campaigning, it’s

nearly time for voters to decide who will represent them in governing their cities and towns. The regular municipal elections for Oklahoma will be held Tuesday, April 7, with polls open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Voters in the Aline-Cleo Public School District, located in Major County but overlapping other counties, will be voting on two propositions. Proposition 1 is for a $285,000 bond issue for school buildings, furniture and equipment. Proposition 2 is for a $365,000 indebtedness for transportation equipment.

Woods CountySeveral positions have already been

decided with only one person filing for each office. In Woods County, there will elections in Alva and Waynoka.

Alva: Filing for mayor of Alva are Jennifer Chaffin, Roger Hardaway, Kelly Parker and Steve Valencia. An

they had never felt the need to fix it. The fire department could respond to fires faster if they didn’t have to stop to unlock the door or wait for someone with a key to arrive.

Irwin said He first noticed things were out of place on March 6. He found one of the glow stick traffic wands in his yard but just thought it fell off the rescue truck.

On March 14 at 8:30 a.m. Alfalfa County Deputy Sheriff Gary Mast was recovering some of the stolen property from the earlier arrest of Lloyd Brown. In the property was one orange stethoscope clearly marked “ALINE” with a black magic marker. Also recovered was a steel Aline First Responders run book which is used for patient information and was clearly marked Aline First Responders.

was filed on March 19.According to court records, the

March 19 charge involves the theft of numerous items including a number of metal diecast cars from the home of Harry Rob Ward who is deceased.

In the latest charge, the Alfalfa County Sheriff’s Department received a call from Mike Irwin who said someone had broken into the fire department in Aline. Irwin said a blue bag containing miscellaneous first aid equipment had been taken from one of the rescue trucks. Among its contents were digital blood pressure cuffs, two glow stick traffic wands, a blood glucose meter, pulse ox, three stethoscopes and miscellaneous bandages and splints.

Irwin said the lock on the door had been broken for some time, but

Second felony burglary charge against Aline manBy Marione Martin

An Aline man already facing a second degree burglary charge in Alfalfa County now has another burglary charge against him. On March 24, Lloyd Pressley Brown, 39, was charged with felony second degree burglary. The earlier charge



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Jet special election is May 12By Marione Martin

The Town of Jet will hold a special election for their board of trustees on May 12. Filing for the municipal offices was March 23-25 in Alfalfa County.

The election had to be rescheduled because the town failed to publish a legal notice of election within the designated time period for the April 7 election.

Last week Wanda Gray was the only person filing for Jet Town Clerk. There are three positions open on the Board of Trustees with six people filing. Those filing are Stephanie Carson, Pamela Sands, Deann K. Miller, Rene’ Christine, Rory Lovely and Jim Blackledge.

CorrectionAlva Holy Week services information

published in the Friday, March 27, Alva Review-Courier were incorrect. The story listed services at 6 p.m. each evening this week. There are no evening services. The only service is a morning devotional each morning through Friday at 6:45 a.m. at the Alva Church of God. We regret the error.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Doc-tors in Oklahoma would be required to check a new prescription drug da-tabase before prescribing certain ad-dictive drugs under a bill signed into law by Gov. Mary Fallin.

After the Senate voted 35-10 on Tuesday for the bill, Fallin held an impromptu signing ceremony for the measure that has been a priority of hers for several years. It the first bill

she has signed this legislative ses-sion, and it will take effect Nov. 1.

A similar proposal last year was opposed by the Oklahoma State Med-ical Association, which was con-cerned it would place a new unfund-ed mandate on health care providers. But the association worked with leg-islators this year on a compromise measure and ultimately endorsed its passage.

Gov. Fallin signsOklahoma prescription drug database bill

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A re-cent report says that Oklahoma Indian gaming revenue increased more than $60 million in 2013, but the amount of tribal fees paid to the state has decreased by more than $3.1 million.

The Oklahoman (http://bit.ly/1NAcDb8 ) reports the 2015 edition of Casino City's Indian Gaming Industry Report released Monday revealed the revenue disparity and notes that it may be due to the change in types of gaming machines found in Indian casinos.

Oklahoma tribes are required to pay the state exclusivity fees based on the amount of revenue they generate from operating Class III games like slot ma-chines or roulette. The report noted the number of Class II games, which tribes

Oklahoma Indian gaming revenues rise while state fees fall

do not have to pay state fees for, has in-creased from 34 percent in 2008 to 42 percent in 2013, while the percentage of Class III games has declined from 66 percent to 58 percent.

"This trend toward more Class II machines in recent years is interesting and its starting point (2009) coincides with the withdrawal of restrictive Class II gaming machine regulations that were originally proposed by the NIGC (Na-tional Indian Gaming Commission) in May 2006 and ultimately withdrawn in September 2008," the report by econo-mist Alan Meister noted.

Mesiter told the paper that not hav-ing to pay exclusivity fees may be just one factor in the economic consider-ations that tribes make when changing from Class III to Class II games.

Choctaw Nation spokeswoman Judy Allen said her tribe likes to offer a va-riety of games to its customers so there has always been a mix of Class II and Class III games in their casinos.

The report said revenue reached nearly $3.8 billion in 2013, but the state's fee revenue dropped from $127.8 million in 2012 to $124.7 million in 2013, providing less money for educa-tion, mental health services and general operations.





By Julie WatsonSAN DIEGO (AP) — In a move

that could heighten the hurdles faced by states attempting to execute prisoners, a leading association for U.S. pharmacists has officially discouraged its members from providing drugs for use in lethal injections.

The policy adopted by American Pharmacists Association delegates at their annual meeting Monday makes an ethical stand against providing such drugs, saying they run contrary to the role of pharmacists as health care pro-viders.

The association lacks legal authori-ty to bar its more than 62,000 members from selling execution drugs, but its pol-icies set pharmacists' ethical standards.

Pharmacists now join doctors in having national associations with ethics codes that restrict credentialed members from participating in executions.

"Now there is unanimity among all health professions in the United States who represent anybody who might be asked to be involved in this process," said association member Bill Fassett,

who voted in favor of the policy.Compounding pharmacies, which

make drugs specifically for individual clients, only recently became involved in the execution-drug business.

Prison departments turned to made-to-order execution drugs from com-pounding pharmacies because pharma-ceutical manufacturers refused to sell the drugs used for decades in lethal injections after coming under pressure from death penalty opponents.

But now the compounded version is also becoming difficult to come by, with most pharmacists reluctant to expose themselves to possible harassment.

Texas' prison agency scrambled this month to find a supplier to replenish its inventory before getting drugs from a compounding pharmacy it won't identi-fy.

Texas Department of Criminal Jus-tice spokesman Jason Clark said Mon-day that he had no comment when told about the ruling.

After a troubling use of a two-drug method last year, Ohio said it will use compounded versions of either pento-

barbital or sodium thiopental in the fu-ture, though it doesn't have supplies of either and hasn't said how it will obtain them. All executions scheduled this year were pushed to 2016 to give the state more time to find the drugs.

Other states are turning to alternative methods.

Tennessee has approved the use of the electric chair if lethal-injection drugs aren't available, while Utah has reinstat-ed the firing squad as a backup method if it can't obtain the drugs. Oklahoma is considering legislation that would make it the first state to allow the use of nitro-gen gas as a potential execution method.

Fassett, a professor emeritus of pharmacy law and ethics at Washington State University, said the united front by health professionals might force people to finally face the death penalty's harsh realities.

Lethal injections have created a ster-ile setting for executions, he said.

"It's like we're not really executing. We're sort of like taking Spot to the vet. We're just putting him to sleep, and that's not true," he said.

Pharmacist group says members shouldn’t aid in executions

around the state range from $2.10 per gallon in Wagoner to $2.46 in Alva. Mo-torists in Tulsa are paying an average of $2.21 per gallon while those in Oklaho-ma City are paying $2.26.

Oklahoma has the 16th lowest state-wide average price in the nation. New Jersey is lowest at $2.16 per gallon while California is the most expensive at $3.20 per gallon.

Average gas price rises apenny per gallon in Oklahoma

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The average price for a gallon of gasoline in Oklahoma has increased by a penny during the past week.

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By Sean MurphyOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — More

than 7,000 educators, parents and schoolchildren rallied at the state Cap-itol on Monday seeking a big boost in funding for public schools, but that goal will be a challenge for legislators facing a $611 million hole in the state budget.

Wearing T-shirts from their home-town schools, attendees wandered the halls of the Capitol and congregated out-side legislators' offices to talk about the importance of more education money.

"They all seem to be pro-education," Suzie Woods, a teacher at Will Rogers Junior High School in Claremore, said of the lawmakers, "but the proof is in the pudding."

Sen. Clark Jolley, the chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Com-

mittee, said lawmakers intend to shield education from cuts as much as possible, but that will lead to bigger reductions for other state agencies.

"Common education represents $2.4 billion out of a $7.1 billion budget, so clearly it is the biggest commitment of funding in the state," the Edmond Re-publican said.

A year ago, an estimated 25,000 at-tended a similar rally seeking a big boost in funding for public schools and an end to tax cuts that were cutting into avail-able state revenue. They received nei-ther.

"They ignored your demands for change," House Democratic Leader Rep. Scott Inman told the cheering crowd, urging them to hold politicians account-able at the ballot box. "You must make

them listen."Among the anti-education bills that

the Del City Democrat pointed to was a measure approved by the Oklahoma Senate last week and sent to Gov. Mary Fallin that prohibits school districts from deducting union dues from teach-ers' checks. Supporters of the bill say the state shouldn't be in the business of collecting dues, but many opponents say the measure is aimed at limiting teach-ers' ability to organize.

Fallin was invited to speak at the event, but was not able to attend because of a previous engagement, press secre-tary Michael McNutt said.

Rep. Lee Denney, R-Stillwater, drew boos and was heckled repeatedly after she mentioned charter schools in her speech. Charter schools receive public funding but operate independently of most state mandates.

This year, attendees are hoping law-makers will help address a shortage of teachers, who are among the lowest paid in the nation. The average starting sal-ary for a teacher in Oklahoma is about $31,000. Educators also are seeking a reduction in the number of mandatory tests each year.

Organizers had expected as many as 50,000 attendees, but Oklahoma High-way Patrol Maj. Rusty Rhoades said a preliminary estimate placed the crowd number at between 7,000 and 8,000.

Many educators during last year's rally openly opposed then-state Super-intendent Janet Barresi, a Republican who pushed for education reforms such as high-stakes reading tests for third graders and an A-F grading system for schools that were unpopular with rank-and-file teachers.

Barresi lost in a GOP primary to new Superintendent Joy Hofmeister, who is pushing for increased salaries for teach-ers and replacing high-stakes, end-of-in-struction tests for high school seniors with the ACT test used for college ad-mission.

"It's a new day," Hofmeister told the crowd. "It's not about party. It's not about Democrats. It's not about Republicans.

"It's about results for kids. That's why we stand here together."

Thousands rally at Oklahoma Capitol for education funding



a full nursing staff at the manor. This will eliminate agency (the more costly nursing service).”

Manor Financials and StatisticsManor Administrator Balding said they

are continuing their revitalization project to make improvements to the inside of the facility and outdoor flowerbeds, etc.

“We have donors and need more,” Balding said. The manor has a specific list of needs in a book kept at the nurses station for people interested in helping.

The manor census in February was 21. Net patient revenue was $100,935 with total operating revenue of $102,668. Expenses were $135,628. This made a loss of $32,961. The addition of $5,000 tax revenue curbed the loss to $27,961.

At the end of February, the manor’s overall loss YTD was $37,362. That is better than the same time last year when the loss was $70,569.

KDH Health Fair April 11 and More Board Business

To celebrate the one year anniversary of the KDH’s new home on the south end of Kiowa, KDH hosts their first annual Health Fair April 11 from 7 to 11 a.m. A variety of health care services will be offered at a discounted rate. Staff recommends that you come fasting for the most accurate results.

After discussing election changes and others to the bylaws, the board approved revisions to the KDH bylaws.

DON Courson presented a hospital annual program evaluation for 2014, which received board approval.

Staff discussed the need to update anesthesia equipment with the board. The anesthesiologist who comes to KDH had an offer for the board to consider. Until further research, the board tabled the subject.

JCH Pharmacy Consulting (John Hagood) has resigned as the hospital’s contracted pharmacy. The board and Grismer will evaluate a future agreement

with another consultant.The Southern Plains Health Network

(SPHN) is KDH’s critical access network agreement with Pratt Regional Medical Center.

Monday KDH hosted SPHN for the network’s regular quarterly meeting. Grismer also invited the group (including Medicine Lodge, Pratt, Coldwater, Greensburg and Stafford) to the KDH’s new facility for the meeting.

This group and Via Christi are researching telemedicine and how that service could have a positive impact on small rural hospitals.

Medical staff appointments received board approval. They are for Dr. Shouying Du, pathology, and Dr. John Bukaty, family practice.

Following an executive session to discuss non-elected personnel, contract/legal and strategic planning, the board approved the risk management/quality assurance monthly reports.

From Page 8 Hospital



By John RogersLOS ALAMITOS, Calif. (AP) —

Seven-year-old Faith Lennox never thought much about putting a prosthet-ic limb where her missing left hand had once been.

Not until the little girl learned she could design her own, strap it on easily and then jump on her bike and pedal away at speeds previously only imag-ined.

With family members occasionally shouting "Be careful" and "Watch out for that car," Faith firmly placed her new hand's bright blue and pink fin-gers on her bike's left handlebar and took off for a seemingly endless so-journ around the Build It Workspace on Tuesday morning. Inside, just a short time before, that hand had rolled off a 3D printer that built it overnight.

"I don't think we'll ever get her off it," said her mother, Nicole, smiling with resignation as she watched her daughter continue to circle the parking lot in this Orange County suburb.

The prosthetic that had just made such a task immediately easy rep-resents a breakthrough in small, light-weight hands that are economical and easy for children to use. It weighs only a pound and costs just $50 to construct out of the same materials used to make

drones and automobile parts.When Faith outgrows it in six

months or a year, a replacement can be made just as cheaply and easily, said Mark Muller, a prosthetics professor at California State University, Domin-guez Hills, who helped with the design. He said a heavier adult model with sensors attached to a person's muscles would run $15,000 to $20,000.

Faith manipulates her hand with-out sensors. Instead, as she happily demonstrated over and over after the bike ride, she moves her upper arm back and forth.

That in turn opens and closes its blue and pink fingers — "my favorite colors," she noted with a smile — that she uses to grasp objects like the fa-vored plush toy she brought with her.

The oldest of three children, Faith had compartment syndrome when her position during childbirth cut off the flow of blood to her left forearm, ir-reparably damaging tissue, muscle and bone. After nine months of trying to save the limb, doctors determined they had to amputate just below the elbow.

She had tried a couple more tradi-tional — and more expensive — pros-thetics over the years but found them bulky, heavy and hard to use.

Her parents were working with the nonprofit group E-Nable to get her a 3-D-printed hand, but the technology is so new there's a waiting list, her mother said. Then she learned of what Build It Workspace could do from a friend whose son visited with his Scout troop. The small studio teaches people to use high-tech printers, provides ac-cess to them for projects and does its

own commercial printing.Although the company, founded

less than a year ago by mechanical engineer Mark Lengsfeld, has printed out everything from pumps for oil and gas companies to parts for unmanned aerial vehicles, this was the first hand Lengsfeld and his employees had built.

So he used E-Nable's open-source technology and called in Cal State, Dominguez Hills' experts for guid-ance.

When Faith quickly strapped on their new creation and headed out to ride Tuesday morning, as TV cameras captured the moment, Lengsfeld ad-mitted he was nervous. After being up all night finishing the hand, he wanted to test it himself to be sure it worked.

"But she did fine with it," he said, chuckling.

She noted it did fine by her as well."I didn't have to lean so much," she

said of the difficulty of navigating and steering a bike with just one hand.

Afterward, as more than a dozen reporters and photographers, as well as school and city officials, family friends and others, crowded into Build It's small studio, the little girl sat shyly in front of a huge poster reading "Hand It To Faith" that Lengsfeld had made for her.

But when asked to demonstrate how she can use the hand to help with things like schoolwork, she got busy. She placed her new hand firmly on a piece of paper, holding it in place as she drew a picture.

And just what did she draw? Her new hand, of course, complete with robot fingers in perfect detail.

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By Darlene SupervilleWASHINGTON (AP) — President

Barack Obama on Tuesday shortened the prison sentences of nearly two doz-en drug convicts, including eight serving life in prison, in an act the White House said continues Obama's push to make the justice system fairer by reducing harsh sentences that were handed down under outdated guidelines.

The effort could lead Obama to grant clemency more often as his second and final term in office winds down.

In December, Obama issued his first round of commutations under new guide-lines that were put in place to cut costs by reducing the growing prison popu-lation and grant leniency to nonviolent drug offenders sentenced to yearslong terms of confinement away from society. A commutation leaves the conviction in place and ends the punishment.

Neil Eggleston, the White House counsel, said many of the 22 people whose federal sentences will be cut short by Obama's action would already have served their time and paid the debt they owed society had they been sentenced under current laws and policies.

"Because many were convicted un-der an outdated sentencing regime, they served years — in some cases more than a decade — longer than individu-als convicted today of the same crime," Eggleston said in a post on the White House blog. The 22 individuals were sentenced between 1992 and 2006.

Eggleston said Tuesday's commuta-tions underscore Obama's "commitment to using all the tools at his disposal to bring greater fairness and equity to our

Obama commutes sentences of 22 people in federal prison

justice system."Obama has now approved a total of

43 commutations during more than six years in office. Eggleston noted that Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, had commuted 11 sentences during his two terms.

In a letter, Obama urged each indi-vidual to take advantage of the second chance he is giving them. The White House said it was the first time Obama had sent such letters.

"I am granting your application be-cause you have demonstrated the poten-tial to turn your life around. Now it is up to you to make the most of this opportu-nity," he wrote. "It will not be easy, and you will confront many who doubt peo-ple with criminal records can change. Perhaps even you are unsure of how you will adjust to your new circumstances.

"But remember that you have the ca-pacity to make good choices," Obama said.

The 22 individuals whose sentences will expire on July 28 are:

—Terry Andre Barnes, East Moline, Illinois. Conspiracy to distribute cocaine base; violation of supervised release. Sentenced to 246 months imprisonment.

—Theresa Brown, Pompano Beach, Florida. Conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine. Sentenced to life in prison.

—Donel Marcus Clark, Dallas. Conspiracy; use of a communication facility; distribution and/or possession of cocaine or manufacturing in or near a school facility, aiding and abetting. Sentenced to 420 months in prison, later amended to 360 months.

—Ricky Bernard Coggins, Tallahas-

see, Florida. Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base. Sen-tenced to life imprisonment.

—Samuel Pasqual Edmondson, of Junction City, Kansas. Conspiracy to possess methamphetamine with intent to distribute; possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Sentenced to life in prison.

—Amado Garcia, Fresno, Califor-nia. Conspiracy to possess with the in-tent to distribute methamphetamine; aiding and abetting the possession of methamphetamine; aiding and abetting the possession of heroin. Sentenced to 240 months in prison.

—Dwight Anthony Goddard, Deca-tur, Georgia. Possession with intent to distribute cocaine base. Sentenced to 235 months in prison.

—Lionel Ray Hairston, of Ridge-way, Virginia. Distribution of cocaine base. Sentenced to 262 months in pris-on.

—Francis Darrell Hayden, Loretto, Kentucky: Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 1,000 or more mari-juana plants or 1,000 or more kilograms of marijuana; manufacture of 1,000 or more marijuana plants. Sentenced to life imprisonment.

—Harold Kenneth Herring, Havana, Florida: Possession of a firearm by a convicted felon; possession with intent to distribute cocaine base. Sentenced to life imprisonment.

—Tommie Lee Hollingshed, Mem-phis, Tennessee. Distribution of a con-trolled substance. Sentenced to 324 months imprisonment.

—Derrick DeWayne Johnson, Bir-mingham, Alabama. Conspiracy to pos-sess with intent to distribute cocaine; possession with intent to distribute co-caine. Sentenced to 360 months impris-onment.

—Robert Martinez-Gil, San Anto-nio, Texas. Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and heroin. Sentenced to life imprisonment.

—David Navejar, Brooksville, Flor-ida. Conspiracy to distribute and to pos-sess with intent to distribute 500 grams

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Monsanto Co., whose popular weed killer Roundup has been partly blamed by critics for knocking out monarch butterflies' habi-tat, said Tuesday it is committing $4 million to efforts to stem the worrisome decline of the black-and-orange insects.

The St. Louis-based company said that of $3.6 million it is donating to the Nation-al Fish and Wildlife Foundation's Monarch Butterfly Conservation Fund, one-third of that money matches what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is contributing. The remaining funds will be set aside to mirror what other federal agencies plan to offer over the next three years.

Monsanto also intends to contribute $400,000 to experts and groups working on behalf of the butterfly, which is being considered for federal protection because its numbers have plunged by more than 90

Monsanto donates $4M toeffort to save monarch butterflies

percent in the past two decades.The decline of the monarchs, which are

found throughout the continental U.S., wor-ries environmentalists and scientists. Much of the decline is blamed on destruction of habitat that includes milkweed, on which monarchs lay their eggs and provides the sole source of food for caterpillars that later develop into the distinctive butterflies.

Some monarch populations migrate thousands of miles from breeding and wintering grounds in California and Mex-ico. But along the route, there is less of the milkweed — widely attributed to increas-ing acreage for corn and soybeans, logging, construction and a drought that peaked in 2012.

Environmentalists say the butterfly's de-cline has coincided with the rise of Monsan-to's weed killer Roundup, and an increase of acreage planted in its herbicide-resistant Roundup Ready crops.

In announcing Tuesday that Monsanto is opening its checkbook, a top company of-ficial said "it is clear that sufficient progress cannot be made without action."

"Monsanto is committed to preserv-ing and protecting the biodiversity of our planet," Monsanto President and Chief Operating Officer Brett Begemann said. "While weed management has been a factor in the decline of milkweed habi-tat, the agricultural sector can absolutely be part of the solution in restoring it."

Monsanto said its grants will go to monarch-related initiatives that include the nonprofit Monarch Watch conser-vation-and-research program based at the University of Kansas, the Iowa Monarch Conservation Consortium, Pheasants Forever, the University of Illinois-Chicago's Energy Resources Center and the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.

By Kimberly HeflingWASHINGTON (AP) — Pamela Hunt

is so overwhelmed by her $56,000 in stu-dent loans for what she considers a worth-less criminal justice master’s degree that she’s joined others on a “debt strike” and refusing to pay back the money.

Loan recipients on ‘strike’ meet with federal officials

On Tuesday, she walked out of a meet-ing with officials from the Consumer Fi-nancial Protection Bureau and the Edu-cation Department she and other former students from for-profit colleges attended on behalf of the “Corinthian 100” feeling cautiously optimistic about the burden be-ing eased.

“I think it can go either way,” said Hunt, 55, who works in home health care in Ledyard, Connecticut. She obtained her degree online through Everest College.

The group’s name comes from troubled

Corinthian Colleges, Inc., which operated Everest College, Heald College and Wyo-Tech before agreeing last summer to sell or close its 100-plus campuses. About 100 current and former students are refusing to pay back their loans, according to the Debt Collective group behind the strike. The former students argue that the department should have done a better job regulating the schools and informing students that they were under investigation.

“I know they heard us but I don’t know if they actually understand the significance of what a lot of us are going through,” said Hunt, describing former students unable to take out car loans and on the verge of going homeless.

By not paying back their loans, the for-mer Corinthian students potentially face a host of financial problems, such as poor credit ratings and greater debt because of interest accrued.

Already, the Consumer Financial Pro-tection Bureau has asked the courts to grant

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By Roxana HegemanWICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas farm-

ers are expected to plant corn on about same number of acres this spring, even though growers in other parts of the country will cut back because of lower prices, according to a report released Tuesday.

The National Agricultural Statistics Ser-vice's prospective plantings report shows Kansas farmers are expected to sow 4.05 million acres of corn this season.

But nationwide, NASS has forecast the lowest planted corn acreage since 2010 — 89.2 million acres, down 2 percent from last year. If realized, this will be the third consecutive year that U.S. corn acres have declined, the agency said.

At his farm south of Gove in northwest-ern Kansas, grower Roger Beasley has set up a crop rotation schedule and pretty much

stays with that regardless of fluctuations in prices. He plants about 1,600 to 1,800 acres each of winter wheat on one third, puts in corn or sorghum on another third and fal-lows the land on the rest.

In years past, he said he has tried to fool with the rotation if one crop was bringing a little more money than another one. Not anymore.

"I've kind of come to the conclusion, when it's all said and done, that I don't real-ly increase my net very much more than if I just stay with that rotation," Beasley said. By the time I get out of the rotation and then try to come back up with it, I am really not that far ahead."

Kansas growers are also expected to plant 2.9 million acres into sorghum, up 2 percent from a year ago. Kansas and Tex-as, the leading sorghum producing states,

account for 75 percent of the U.S. sorghum acreage, NASS said.

Farmers in Kansas are expected to buck the national trend on soybean acreage, re-ducing them to 3.8 million acres, down 5 percent from last year.

Overall, an expected record 84.6 mil-lion U.S. acres of soybeans is being driven by increased acreages in 21 of the 31 major producing states. If realized, soybean plant-ings would be the largest ever in Kentucky, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

The revised estimate for winter wheat acres planted last fall in Kansas is now at 9.4 million acres. That is down 2 percent from the previous year.

Nationwide, the 2015 planted winter wheat acreage is estimated at 40.8 million acres, down 4 percent from a year ago.

Ag Department estimatesfarmers’ spring planting plans

relief to Corinthian students who collec-tively have taken out more than $500 mil-lion in private student loans.

Officials from the bureau agreed to the meeting Tuesday that included Ted Mitch-ell, the Education Department’s undersecre-tary. The Education Department is the for-mer students’ main target because they want the department to discharge their loans.

In a statement after the meeting, De-nise Horn, a department spokeswoman said what these students have experienced is “troubling” and it will will review every claim and “continue to investigate Corin-thian to help students as much as possible.”

Luke Herrine, an organizer with the

Debt Collective in attendance, said govern-ment officials seemed “committed to actu-ally doing something about this” and told them they would get back to the former students within 30 days.

Many of Corinthian’s troubles came to light last year after it was placed by the Education Department on heightened cash monitoring with a 21-day waiting period for federal funds. That was after the department said it failed to provide adequate paperwork and comply with requests to address con-cerns about the company’s practices, which included allegations of falsifying job place-ment data used in marketing claims and of altered grades and attendance records.

Also Tuesday, the Education Depart-ment released a list of 560 institutions — including for-profit, private and public col-leges — that had been placed on heightened cash monitoring, meaning the department’s Federal Student Aid Office is providing ad-ditional oversight of the schools for finan-cial or compliance issues. The department said the effort was done to “increase trans-parency and accountability.”

The administration has taken other steps to crack down on the for-profit college in-dustry, such as announcing a new rule last

year that would require career training programs to show that students can earn enough money after graduation to pay off their loans. The rule has been challenged in court by the for-profit education sector.

That’s not enough for Sarah Dieffen-bacher, one of the former students partic-ipating in the effort who owes more than $100,000 in federal and private loans taken out to attend Everest College in Ontario, California.

She said she doesn’t even put her stud-ies in paralegal and criminal justice on her resume because she went to apply for jobs at law firms she was told her studies didn’t count for anything. Today, she’s working in collections for a property management company and can’t afford the approximate-ly $1,500 a month she owes in loans.

She said it’s only fair that the feder-al government help them since students weren’t told the colleges were under inves-tigation.

“I would like to see them have to an-swer for why they allowed these schools to continue to take federal loans out when they were under investigation for the fraudulent activity they were doing,” said Dieffen-bacher, 37.

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By Rachel Zoll and David CraryNEW YORK (AP) — Religious free-

dom laws like the one causing an uproar in Indiana have never been successfully used to defend discrimination against gays — and have rarely been used at all, legal experts say.

However, past may not be prologue in these cases, since gays have only re-cently won widespread legalization of same-sex marriage, and religious con-servatives are now scrambling for new legal strategies to blunt the trend.

"There's an inability to look to the past as a reliable predictor of the future on this," said Robert Tuttle, a church-state expert at George Washington Uni-versity School of Law. "If what you're saying is that it can be certain it won't be used — you can't know that because this is now a different situation."

Last week, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed the state Religious Freedom Res-toration Act, giving heightened protec-tions to businesses and individuals who object on religious grounds to provid-ing certain services. The law triggered a swift and intense backlash from gay rights supporters, businesses such as Ap-ple, and some states, which barred gov-ernment-funded travel to Indiana.

Critics of the law say the intent is to discriminate against gays. They fear, for example, that caterers, florists, photog-raphers and bakers with religious objec-tions to same-sex marriage will be al-lowed to refuse to do business with gay couples. Supporters of the law say it will only give religious objectors a chance to bring their case before a judge.

On Tuesday, Pence said he wants the Legislature to present him a bill by the end of the week clarifying that the new law does not allow discrimination against gays.

Pence said he does not believe law-makers intended "to create a license to discriminate." But he added: "I can appreciate that that's become the per-ception, not just here in Indiana but all across the country."

Douglas Laycock, a constitutional scholar at the University of Virginia Law School who helped win passage of the 1993 federal Religious Freedom Resto-ration Act, said no one has ever success-fully used such laws to override non-discrimination statutes. He expressed frustration that gay rights advocates seem to be ignoring this in their attack on the Indiana law.

"I don't know if they don't know that, or whether they're pandering to their base," Laycock said.

But Eunice Rho, advocacy and poli-cy counsel for the American Civil Liber-ties Union, said the landscape shifted as gay marriage became legal in an increas-ing number of states over the past three years. Rho noted that when Indiana's bill was moving through the Legislature, its supporters rejected amendments that would have limited its potential to allow discrimination.

She also noted that Pence signed the bill at a private ceremony attended by several leaders of conservative groups that have campaigned against same-sex marriage.

"The language reflects the desire to use these laws in a certain way, to be able to discriminate and cause harm," Rho said.

The federal law was enacted in 1993 with near-unanimous bipartisan support and was aimed mainly at protecting re-ligious minorities from laws that inad-vertently infringed on their practices. Among the few recent cases to invoke the federal law: an Apache leader who protested government seizure of eagle feathers that he used in a religious cere-mony, and a Sikh woman who sued after the IRS fired her for wearing a ceremo-nial 3-inch dagger to work.

States began passing their own Re-ligious Freedom Restoration Acts after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1997 that the federal law didn't apply to the states. Twenty states now have their own Religious Freedom Restoration Acts.

Yet, the number of cases involving these laws has remained small. The laws, while of intense interest to reli-gious groups, weren't widely known, and many state judges didn't understand them or interpreted them very narrowly, so "they've been under-enforced," Lay-cock said.

"The bottom line is very few cases — and even fewer wins for the religious side," Laycock said.

Tuttle said many people assumed that the protections applied only to reli-gious nonprofits, not for-profit corpora-tions, which further limited the potential for claims under the laws. That changed last year, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Hobby Lobby case that some private businesses with religious objec-tions could opt out of the birth control coverage requirement in the Affordable Care Act.

In a key case in 2013, the New Mex-ico Supreme Court ruled that a photog-raphy studio violated the state's Human Rights Act by refusing to photograph a lesbian couple's commitment ceremony. The court rejected the studio's effort to invoke the state's Religious Freedom Restoration Act, holding that the law applied only to lawsuits against a gov-ernment agency, not to disputes between private parties.

Partly in response to that case, con-servative lawmakers in several states proposed a new wave of religious-pro-tection legislation aimed at shielding people from private discrimination law-suits if they felt that doing business with same-sex couples violated their reli-gious beliefs. Arizona passed such a law in 2014, but Republican Gov. Jan Brew-er vetoed it amid intense criticism from major corporations and political leaders from both parties.

Now similar national pressure is being applied to Indiana and Arkansas, where enactment of a religious freedom law is expected soon.

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to make the community safer. She monitored the grants and made certain guidelines were followed.

As for volunteerism and organization involvement, Richardson has volunteered in her son’s class at South Barber. She teaches in Relief Society to the ladies of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. She has a long list of previous volunteerism.

Richardson lists her top three priorities for Kiowa as “securing grants for programs within the city; being a voice for the people’s needs; making Kiowa a safer place.”

Why is she running for city council? Richardson said, “I feel that in working with the public now for just over a year, I have a fresh outlook on the community and what we need.” Involved with the people of Kiowa in her work at Simpson’s and through the school, Richardson said, “I believe I am invested

in the community on a personal level. I want to make people’s voices heard.”

Bill WatsonBill Watson has lived in Kiowa

since 1981 and is owner of Insurance Professionals Associates. He has three grown children: Emily, who is budget manager for City of Oletha; Lori who is a para at Pratt Schools; and Travis, who is custodian for Pratt Schools.

Watson currently serves on the city council and served one term as mayor in 1985.

He is a member of the Kiowa United Methodist Church; Cosmos Lodge No. 278; Midian Shrine; Barber County Firewagons; and Kiowa Chamber of Commerce. He volunteers at school events such as track meets, volleyball matches, etc. He’s videoed all the high school football games since 1998.

Watson lists his top three priorities for Kiowa as “drainage issues, streets

and water system improvements.” Why does he want to serve another

term? Watson replied, “The electric supply contract with Western Farmers expires at the end of the year. The city is currently in negotiations for renewing it. They are proposing changes which could cause our rates to increase significantly. The city is also exploring the option of another source. I would like to be a part of this process.”

“I have enjoyed serving on the city council,” Watson said. “I think I have made a positive contribution to it. I would greatly appreciate the opportunity to continue that service.”

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Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 7, for the regular municipal election for the City of Waynoka and City of Alva, and the special school election for Aline-Cleo schools. Here are some tips to make voting easier:

A valid marking, fill in the box, is shown on posters at the polling place and inside the voting booths. If voters make mistakes marking their ballots, they should not try to correct those errors. Instead, voters should return the spoiled ballots to the precinct officials, who will destroy them and issue a new ballot to the voter.

Take your voter identification cards to the polls. Voters who have no identification, whose names are not found in the precinct registry, or a voter who disagrees with the information shown in the registry may need to cast a provisional ballot. A provisional ballot is sealed in a special envelope and counted after election day if the voter’s information can be verified by the county election board.

Voters who want to get through the line quickly should vote at mid-morning or mid-afternoon, because those usually are the two slowest periods for voting during the day.

Anyone who is eligible and in line at the polling place at 7 p.m. on Tuesday will be entitled to vote. Following is a list of the precinct polling places open in the regular municipal elections in Alva and Waynoka and the special school election for Aline-Cleo.

Precinct 760001 – Northwest Technology Center

Precinct 760002 – Waynoka Housing Authority

Precinct 760003 – College Hill Church of Christ

Precinct 760005 – Alva City Hall Precinct 760007 – Greenvalley

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Felony FilingsLloyd Pressley Brown, 39, Aline:

Burglary 2nd Degree ($340.50) Out-standing warrant.

Shawn Dale Sauls, 36, Jet: Domes-tic Assault and Battery by Strangula-tion ($340.50) Outstanding warrant.

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Donald L. Metcalf vs. Chesapeake Exploration LTD and Tiptop Oil & Gas US LLC: Quiet Title ($145.70).

Midland Funding LLC vs. Shean Dunavant: Indebtedness in the sum of $984.45 plus costs ($205.70).

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Mario Humberto Rascon-Moreles, 48, Ensign, Kansas: Overweight vehi-cle (axle) ($346.50).

Theodore Barnes, 60, Woodward: Overweight vehicle (Axle) ($766.50).

William Michael Daubert, 58, Hackett, Arkansas: Operating vehicle on which all taxes due state have not been paid ($211.50).

Juan Roberto Sanchez-Espinoza, 51, Wichita, Kansas: Overweight vehi-cle (axle) ($766.50).

Ryan Todd Murphy, 25, Ponca City: Inattentive driving ($211.50).

Brandon Wayen Mustard, 21, Alva:

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

Jack Lewis Lanakila Jones, 24, Alva; Vernon D. Slovacek, 56, Helena; Ethan Scott Wills, 36, Amarillo, Tex-as; Tricia Marie Williams, 44, Meno; Brandon Lee Parmley, 27, Muskogee: Front seat passenger failure to wear seatbelt; Rachel Marie Savely, 25, Burlington.

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From Page 30 Obamaor more of methamphetamine. Sen-tenced to 240 months imprisonment.

—Rudolph Norris, Washington, D.C. Unlawful distribution of cocaine base; unlawful possession with intent to dis-tribute five grams or more of cocaine base. Sentenced to 360 months impris-

onment.—Tracy Lynn Petty, Shelby, North

Carolina. Conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base. Sentenced to 240 months impris-onment, later amended to 204 months.

—Luis Razo, Davenport, Iowa. Con-

spiracy to distribute cocaine. Sentenced to 240 months imprisonment.

—Antwon Rogers, Cleveland. Con-spiracy to possess with intent to distrib-ute 139.8 grams of cocaine base. Sen-tenced to life imprisonment.

—Herman Rosenboro, Kingsport, Tennessee. Conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute over five kilograms of cocaine and over 50 grams of cocaine base; distribution of a quantity of cocaine base; distribution of a quantity of cocaine. Sentenced to life imprisonment.

—Lawrence Elmo Scott, Lynchburg, Virginia. Distribution of crack cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school. Sentenced to 283 months imprisonment.

—Levar V. Wade, Chicago, Illinois. Possession of 50 or more grams of crack cocaine with intent to distribute. Sen-tenced to 240 months imprisonment.

—Eugene Winters, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Conspiracy to distribute cocaine base. Sentenced to 240 months in pris-on.



March 23, 20158:39 a.m. Accident, seriousness un-

known, respondent advised an SUV looks like it hit a bridge, there is a person sitting in the vehicle with the flashers on, advised deputy and Cherokee 911 to send Fire & Rescue with ambulance, ad-vised OHP, F&R and ambulance headed back, no transport at this time, advised deputy.

9:35 a.m. Transport, deputy advised prisoner in custody x1 adult male.

1:48 p.m. Grass fire, respondent ad-vised of a pasture fire 2 miles east of the four corners north of Cherokee, advised respondent I did not have any controlled burns called in that area, advised Cher-okee 911, Fire & Rescue have been dis-patched.

4:33 p.m. Grass fire, deputy called to report a fire 2 miles west of Byron, fire started as a controlled burn and jumped the road to another person’s field, By-ron en route, A&B on scene, FD wanted owner called, called owner, he is on his way, Byron FD requested officer.

7:53 p.m. Gas drive off, respondent called and reported that a person drove off gas at Carmen JT, they know who the person is and wants an officer, deputy advised and en route, deputy en route to residence of person who drove off, dep-uty advised individual paid for fuel.

8:15 p.m. Grass fire, OHP advised they had a report of a small grass fire in the ditch 4 miles west of Carmen on the north side of the road near a high line pole, advised Carmen FD, CFD en route, Carmen FD clear.

8:40 p.m. Struck deer, OHP advised that a person had struck a deer just south of the railroad tracks on SH 45 and wanted to know if we had a officer in the area to shoot the deer because deer is still alive in the ditch, advised depu-

ty location is 2 miles west of Goltry on Highway 45.

March 24, 20158:26 p.m. Harassment, Jet JT called

to report that an individual made some threats to people in the JT, respondent stated that they banned him from the store and wants to make a report, ad-vised deputy.

10:25 p.m. Information, respondent called and reported that a man that ap-peared to be homeless was in the Piz-za Hut tonight, homeless man had just bought a pop and sat for a long time, he kept watching a couple of girls that work there and making them uncomfortable, when asked to leave later he got really upset and he asked for his money back on his drink saying it wasn’t any good, when he left, he headed south toward the Sonic, respondent just wanted us to know for our info in case anyone else reports him.

March 25, 20151:30 a.m. Domestic disturbance,

CPD advised of possible domestic dis-turbance in Cherokee, notified deputy to assist officer, deputy arrived at location, left respondent’s house to assist officer in locating individual involved in dis-pute, individual could not be located.

7:25 a.m. Reckless driver, respon-dent advised he is a SGT from BJCC, he is transporting a van full of inmates to Oklahoma City to court, there is a truck that has been riding his bumper since Alva, truck tried to pass him at the 45/8 junction east of Carmen, respon-dent advised there was oncoming traffic so he got into the main lane so the guy didn’t hit anyone, respondent advised he stopped for a school bus that deployed its flashing lights while picking up a small child, the guy in the truck about hit him, the truck passed him flipping him off and tried to hit him, the truck slammed on its brakes and about caused a wreck, contacted Major County Sher-iff’s Office, respondent stayed on phone till the individual turned towards Fair-view, advised respondent I was sending the call to Major County and they have officers set up at the edge of Fairview.

8:19 a.m. Domestic disturbance, Woods County advised on Cleveland Rd a husband is beating up on his blind wife, the wife said he is punching her and threatening to kill her, she is hiding in the back and needs a deputy there ASAP,

deputy advised, deputy asked to find out what apartment she is in, respondent ad-vised she is going to come outside by the red and silver car, deputy advised everything fine, deputy requested adult protective services phone number.

March 26, 20151:50 a.m. Business alarm, respondent

advised of alarm going off at insurance agency in Goltry, key holder notified, deputy advised and en route, deputy with key holder, building checked out, all clear.

3:35 p.m. Burglary report, respon-dent advised that his TV had been stolen in the past 3 hours in Cherokee, deputy advised and en route.

9:55 p.m. Welfare check, respondent advised that she is afraid to enter her apartment due to an incident from ear-lier this morning, would like to talk to a deputy, deputy en route.

March 27, 20158:15 p.m. Livestock in roadway, re-

spondent advised of cattle out 4 ½ miles north of Highway 11 around CR 580, tried to notify possible owners, respon-dent advised that he and some other peo-ple are trying to get them off the road.

March 28, 20153:49 p.m. Medical emergency, CPD

called and wanted an amerilert sent to A&B first responders for respondent that is having trouble breathing and has slurred speech, person is on CR 640.

5:23 p.m. Reckless driver, respon-dent called and reported that individual was tearing around town in Jet again, being loud in his silver truck, deputy ad-vised.

5:25 p.m. Information, respondent called to report that they saw a light col-or supercab pickup go down beside the bridge south of the feed lot, respondent wasn’t sure what they were doing, just thought the truck was suspicious, deputy advised.

9:50 p.m. Domestic disturbance, re-spondent called and said that there are some people staying at the motel in Jet, it sounds like they are fighting, respon-dent is letting person take care of mo-tel, the people in the room is a man and woman, the woman is pregnant, advised deputy and OHP to assist, game warden also advised.

10:32 p.m. Civil matter, respondent

Alfalfa County sheriff’s log

See ACS Page 52


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Angus Bulls14-18 months old. AI Sired. Proven, predictable, genetics. BSE Tested. Ready to work. 1 simi/Angus baldy bull. 1-30 month Angus proven bull. Armbruster Cattle Co. 580-748-2828 (Alan)

Goat SaleRed Hill Boer Goat Sale. April 11 1pm. Medicine Lodge Sale Barn, KS. Dinner at Noon. For More Info Call Wes 620-930-8146 or Bill 620-886-3332.

AutomotiveFor Sale

91 Chevy MarkIII Conversion Van. 350 V8, exc condit. 136,000 miles. 2nd Owner. $3995 580-748-0175

Business ServicesDouble B Carpentry

For all your flooring and carpentry needs from remodeling, painting, drywall, texturing, siding, farm & ranch, etc. 580-748-1489

Need New Sidewalksor Driveway perhaps. Give us a call. 580-732-1028

Large In-Home Daycare2 Star facility. DHS approved. Opening for ages 0-4. 580-327-8092 or 580-327-7680

Rick’s RepairRick’s Repair & Welding, Mechanic. Shop & On-Site. Beat The Summer Rush, Get Your Spring Repairs Done Now. 25 Years Experience, References Available. 620-825-6122

Skip The MotelBed & Breakfast. 580-327-3621

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ConstructionSpring is here! Call now for estimate. 620-825-4285

Anniversary Salefor the month of April at Pettit’s House of Carpet. In stock inventory. Celebrating 49 years. Come see us at 1128 College Blvd. Alva. 580-327-3044

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Depot Bar & GrillWed Lunch Special-Chicken Wings, Potato Salad, Baked Beans, Angel Food Cake. Thur-Pork Chop, Dressing, Green Beans, Apple Pie. Fri-Chicken Fried Steak, Mashed Potatoes, Gravy, Corn, Roll, Spice Cake. Open at 11am. Full menu every day. 580-327-2212

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Halp WantedFull-Time Tractor & Farm Equipment Mechanic. Competitive Wages & Benefits. Pick-Up Application at Devery Implement. 327 Barnes, Alva

Help WantedPart-Time Station help wanted, after school & weekends with more hours over the summer. Pick-Up application t Garnett Oil Co/Conoco. 580-327-2691

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Help WantedHorse training facility needs riders to train reining horses and ground work with colts. 580-327-2600

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Clothes-bag and sack $1. Something for everyone. Be there. Phyllis Puffinbarger. 121 S Fairoak, Cherokee, OK. 580-884-8914. 9am-4pm. Fri & Sat

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Community CalendarWednesday

9 a.m. The Woods County Senior Citizens Center, 625 Barnes, Alva, is open for games and other activities. Ex-ercise is scheduled each day at 11 a.m. Transportation provided upon request.

Noon Alva Kiwanis Club meets at Champs Restaurant.

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

Thursday9 a.m. The Woods County Senior

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

Noon Alva Rotary Club meets at Champs Restaurant.


3-6 p.m. Food distribution every Thursday, Alva Wesleyan Food Bank, 818 Lane St.

5:30 p.m. Weight Watchers meets every Thursday at College Hill Church of Christ in Alva.

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

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

Friday9 a.m. The Woods County Senior

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


6-8 p.m. The First Friday Art Walk will be held in downtown Alva.

Room for RentLocated in 3400sqft house. 6bdrm, 4bth, laundry room, cleaning service, cable, wireless internet, all bills included $550/month. 719-761-8754

called and wanted individual removed from his property, subject had come with others to respondents home in Amorita, subject didn’t want to stay so he left then came back, subject does not want to come in the house, just wants to stay in one of the vehicles, subject has been drinking, weapons unknown, subject does have a pitbull but the dog is nice, deputy advised.

March 29, 20153:42 p.m. Medical emergency,

CPD called and wanted Carmen FR sent to N 2nd in Carmen, CFD en route.

5:20 p.m. Information, CPD called and advised that respondent called in a guy that looked like he is passed out in a grey Ford F150 at Highway 45 and Highway 8 junction, respondent didn’t approach the vehicle, not sure if person is hurt, deputy and OHP ad-vised, deputy advised respondent the guy was coming home from drill and got tired so he stopped to get some sleep.

7:33 p.m. Dog at large, respondent called from Amorita and advised that a dog came through her fence and at-

tacked her dog, dog is an aggressive Blue Heeler that respondent has com-plained about several times, the dog also bit her son last week, deputy ad-vised and called respondent.

9:02 p.m. Minor accident, 911 patched through a call, respondent hit a deer on Highway 8 N, no one is hurt, just damaged car, advised respondent to report it to his insurance agent, OHP only works accident when people are hurt.

9:38 p.m. Reckless driver, Woods County advised that officer is in pur-suit of a black four-door car going over 100 mph on the blacktop between Da-coma and Carmen, advised they will be entering Carmen pretty quick, ad-vised deputy that we would get an of-ficer en route, advised deputy, officer then tried to get trooper, called Woods County to see who their officer is and get an update because deputy breaking up on the radio, dispatcher advised that the officer was a deputy and that he lost the vehicle, he never could get close enough for a tag, advised deputy that officer lost vehicle.

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March 23, 2015Lake City Volunteer Fire Department

responded to a silage fire about 6 miles north of Lake City.

March 24, 2015Medicine Lodge Ambulance trans-

ported patient from north of Medicine Lodge to Medicine Lodge Hospital.

March 25, 2015Medicine Lodge Rural Volunteer Fire

Department responded to a grass fire about 7 miles west of Medicine Lodge.

Lake City Volunteer Fire Department responded to a tree fire about one mile north of Lake City.

March 28, 2015Elwood Township and Union Chap-

el Volunteer Fire Departments respond-ed to a grass fire about 7 miles north of Hardtner.

Isabel and Sharon Volunteer Fire De-partments aided Pratt County units at a grass fire northeast of Isabel.

March 29, 2015Lake City, Sun City and Deerhead/

Aetna Volunteer Fire Departments aided

Comanche County units at a grass fire east of Coldwater.

During the week officers received seven reports of cattle out, performed 11 public assists and assisted five other agencies.

ArrestsMarch 23, 2015

Nicholas O Shelton, Nashville, W/M, 30. Arrest by BASO. Court commit. Re-leased March 28, 2015, time served.

March 24, 2015Lillian M Walker, Medicine Lodge,

W/F, 60. Arrest by MLPD. Charge: DUI. Released March 25, 2015, on $750 sure-ty bond.

March 27, 2015Richard A Schwerdtfeger, Medicine

Lodge, W/M, 29. Arrest by BASO. Court commit. Released March 29, 2015, time served.

March 29, 2015John E Winchell, Medicine Lodge,

W/M, 47. Arrest by MLPD. Charge: No Registration. Released March 29, 2015, on $500 surety bond.

Barber County sheriff’s log

Real Estate TransfersBook 768, Page 769: Heath W. Pannel and/or Tammy L. Ferguson; unto Raymond J. Sidwell Marital Trust, dated Dec. 24, 2013: All of Lots 8-12 inclusive, in Block 76, in Goltry, alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Warranty deed.Book 768, Page 788: Larry D. Starks and Connie J. Starks; unto Larry Dale Starks and Connie Jo Starks as Trustees of the LC Starks Trust dated Feb. 25, 2015: N/2 of S22-29N-9W, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Warranty deed.Book 768, Page 855: Joan Mabel Burnham, and Steven H. Burnham and Leona Ferne Hudson, husband and wife; unto Lecinda Sallee and Kelly Sallee, mother and son: Lots 1-3, in Block 20 in Jet, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Warranty deed.Book 768, Page 771: Annissa Bathurst Graves and Devin S. Graves; unto Annissa Bathurst Graves, Trustee, or her successors in trust, under the Annissa Bathurst Graves Living Trust dated Jan. 6, 2015: Tract 1 – The E/2 of S17-27N-11W; and Tract 2 – The NE/4 of S4-27N-11W, all in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Quitclaim deed.Book 768, Page 792: Between Ruth J. DeVoe, Trustee of the Ruth J. DeVoe Revocable Living Trust dated Aug. 15, 1995; and Watkins Agricultur Company: S/2 NW/4 of S13-28N-9W, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Quitclaim deed.Book 768, Page 844: Between Rudy M. King; and Debra Conety: Hughes LP 2412 I-26H, S26 NE & SE T24N R12W. Quitclaim deed.

MortgagesBook 768, Page 463: Between Richard D.

Croft, II and Stacey Croft; and ACB Bank: The S. 85’ of Lot 5 in Block 4; and All of Block 5, Southgate Addition, Subdivision to the City of Cherokee, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. $203,866.53.Book 768, Page 570: Between Ronald Jenlink and Suzanne Jenlink; and Central National Bank and Trust Company of Enid: NE/4 of S12-25N-10W, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. $85,000.Book 768, Page 578: Between James C. Lamle, and John E. Lamle and Lola J. Lamle; and First National Bank in Okeene: Lots 3 and 4 and the S/2 NW/4 of

Alfalfa County real estate transactionsS5-23N-11W, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, and SE/4 of S30-24N-11W, Alfalfa County, Oklhoma; and Block 55, First Addition to the Town of Aline, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma; and Tracts NE/4 of S2-23N-12W, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. $1,232,250.Book 768, Page 846: Between John E. Lamle and Lola J. Lamle; and Central National bank and Trust Company of Enid: The Ne/4 of S31-24N-11W; The S/2 SE/4 of S1-23N-12W; and SW/4 of S16-33N-11W, all in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. $625,000.


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