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ALLEN ADVOCATEVOLUME 65 NUMBER 15 ALLEN, PONTOTOC COUNTY , OKLAHOMA 1 SECTION (USPS 543600) 50¢ THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012

Calvin Homecoming Royalty Crowned

2012 Calvin Homecoming Royalty . . . Anthony Harrison, Brooke Schumacher, king Silas Gaddy, queen Haylee Stivers, Kayla Kiogima, Clyde Collard, Emily Carter, Robert Attkisson; and, front, crown bearer L.J. Taylor and flowergirl Tavia Bear, both Kindergarten students.

Allen High School Basketball Homecoming will be celebrated this Friday evening, January 13th, before the Mustangs take on the Tupelo Tigers. Festivities will begin at 5:30 p.m.

As always the king and queen will be crowned from among the senior players. Lady Mustangs vying for the title are Aussie Riddle, Chelsea Holland, Jocee Bailey, Marissa Prentice, Amber Coody, Kaitlyn Merriman and Meghan Dohlman. The king will be chosen from among three candidates, Grant Rowsey, Brett Edens and Brady Caldwell.

Allen Homecoming 5:30 Friday

Christmas 2011 was cel-ebrated on December 31st by the Vinson family. Family and friends gathered at the homes

of Carl and June Vinson, and Lynn and Debbie Vinson.

Present for the celebration were Phillip, Charlotte, Quen-

tin, Tammy, Ireland and Quinn Vinson, and Natalie and Baylie Sommers of Cushing; Mike, Angela, Caleb, Colton and Cameron Muncy of Council Grove, Kansas; Jennifer Short of Cleveland, Oklahoma;

Johnny, Christina and Kam-bree Thompson, Chris, Alison and Ethan Vinson, Jay, Rhon-da, Josh, Travis, Brian and Margie Pachucki, Brian Lowe, Brent Dick, Thad Vinson, Jeana Fuller, Brad, Pam, Heidi, Jason and Jenny Bennett, and Stephanie, Gentry and Caleb Sharpe, all of the Oklahoma City area;

Doug, Anita, Jana, Kayla and Jon Ellingsworth of Finley, Tennessee; Randy, Brenda and Logan Vinson, Erin and Dawson Francis, and Shelby Causey of Tupelo, Missis-sippi;

Guy, Glenda, Orin, Datha and Haddie Hargrave, Justin, Ambria, Remington, Seth and Clara Dagle, and Tiffany Wright and friend, David, from Trinity, Texas; Londa and Cayna Cash of Duncan, Ron Litki of Ft. Worth, Texas; and the McNeely family and R.L. Vinson of Allen.

—O&A— Helen Pierce accompanied

son Eric and Janie Pierce to the Moss Basketball Tourna-ment this past week to watch her grandson, Jordan, play.

—O&A— Dr. James and Jan Moore

of San Angelo, Texas were out & about recently visiting their daughters, Jill and Chad Kaminski, Emily and Will, and Julie and Kenny Deaton, Jacklyn, Justin and Jeffrey.

—O&A—

Allen Public Schools has received an incentive check for $5,047.75 from Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO) for participation in PSO’s Smart Schools Program.

Smart Schools is offered by PSO to help school districts reduce operating costs by identifying and implementing energy efficiency improvement projects. The amount of the incentive is determined by the total amount of energy that will be saved through those improvements.

Allen Public Schools earned its incentive for the installation of energy efficient HVAC and lighting at the old armory building, HVAC retrofits at the elementary and high schools, and a retrofit of the cafeteria lighting. The new energy efficient equipment will conserve an estimated 22,362 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year and is expected to reduce Allen School’s annual electric bill by approximately $1,500.

“The Smart Schools program helped us identify ways we can conserve energy and save money,” said Allen Public Schools Superintendent David Lassiter. “We now have HVAC systems and lighting equipment that are better quality and more efficient, and the money we save can be reinvested directly back into our schools.”

“We identified a real need for an energy efficiency program that specifically targets schools, especially as budgets are spread thin,” said Pam Sanders, Customer Services representative for PSO. “By partnering with Allen Public Schools to reduce energy costs, their valuable resources can be used for other needed projects.”

PSO, a unit of American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP), is an electric utility company serving more than 530,000 customers in eastern and southwestern Oklahoma.

Allen School Rewarded for Energy Effienciency

PSO Representative Pam Sanders presented Allen Superintendent David Lassiter an incentive check for $5,047.75 as part of their Smart School Program.

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2011 will be remembered for many things including “boozy babies” and countless overhyped panics.

Many of you will recall that a toddler accidently got served an alcoholic drink at a Michigan Applebee’s. Not the biggest news this year, but the fact that it was a national story at all shows we can’t seem to tell the difference between one stupid accident and a terrifying trend that we must do something about immediately!

The Applebee’s saga, back in April, was just this: Some waiter grabbed a mislabeled container and poured the 15-month-old a very potent cup of juice. The parents noticed something was wrong when, the mother reported, the boy started saying “hi” to the walls.

Applebee’s went apoplectic with pro-activeness, declaring not only would it retrain its entire wait staff that instant, but from now on it would only use single-serve juices. Which is not an evil response, of course (except environmentally), but it sure is overkill. Applebee’s reacted as if serving toddlers stiff drinks had been company-wide policy.

The child’s parents, meanwhile, reacted as if the kid had been de-liberately served a plateful of steaming plutonium. Their “emotional distress” was so great that they—this will shock you—sued. Whether the individuals are mirroring corporate hysteria or vice versa, the final score was: Overreaction, 2. Common sense: 0.

This collective decision not to distinguish between rare screw-ups and systemic dangers is turning us into neurotic Nellies who worry about, warn against and, finally, outlaw very safe things. My favorite recall from the Consumer Product Safety Commission a few years back concerned a chair that had a screw protruding from the underside. While the commission reported that there had been “no reports of in-juries to humans,” there had been “one report of a dog’s fur becoming entangled in the screw.”

Call my lawyer! When a twisted tuft is enough to prompt a 20,000-chair recall, that’s setting the safety bar pretty high.

The bar gets set even higher when a human being is hurt. Consider the fact that this past year a Toronto grammar school outlawed all balls except the soft Nerf kind on its playground, after an adult was hit in the head by an errant soccer ball and suffered a concussion.

Concussions are nothing to sneeze at. Neither is the idea of kids standing around during recess. You could argue that if kids don’t get the chance to toss a ball around, they themselves are at risk of everything from depression to obesity to Kinetic Fun Deficit Disorder. (Okay, I made that one up.)

Play, like life, comes with the possibility that someone may get hurt. When we overreact to that possibility, the only acceptable activity left is to sit on a chair and wait to die. And let’s just hope that chair that doesn’t have a screw protruding underneath.

There are schools around our country that do not allow running, or tag or playing in the snow, for the same reason: Something terrible once happened to someone doing that somewhere on earth, and that’s enough to spook us.

As usual, the media are at least partly to blame, because they are the ones bringing us these awful anomalies and acting as if they’re relevant to our daily lives. The 2011 story that best illustrates this was the case of Carlina White, a 23-year-old woman finally reunited with her birth mom after being abducted as a 19-day-old baby from a New York hospital.

Despite the fact that baby abductions are exceedingly rare — CNN reports that last year a single baby was abducted from a health-care facility — that same news network felt compelled to give its viewers tip after tip on how to make sure this does not happen to them. Over-reaction or ratings grab? Same thing.

“Know who wants to steal your baby,” warned a CNN.com article that went on to explain that most baby-stealers on the maternity ward are women in their mid-20s to mid-30s—as if that doesn’t describe almost every non-baby-stealer there, too.

The piece also stated that, “The single most dangerous time is when mom goes to the bathroom,” so “Put your baby in a bassinet and roll it into the bathroom with you.”

I’m sorry, but if the chances are literally about one in 4 million that a baby is going to be abducted, the idea that a mother who has just gone through childbirth now has to drag her bassinet into the bathroom to be safe from a nearly nonexistent threat is more than ridiculous. It’s cruel.

So if you want to enjoy a happier, healthier 2012, it’s very easy. Just ignore the temptation to overreact to miniscule threats . . . and have a shot of whatever that toddler was drinking.

— Lenore Skenazy Wall Street Journal

—CC—This is the time of year when even people who hate the

gym think about going to the gym.Jean Gray writes that if you are going to a gym – or

returning to a gym after a long hibernation – consider the following:

Rules for Conquering the Gym1. A gym is not designed to make you feel instantly better about

yourself. If a gym wanted to make you feel instantly better about yourself, it would be a bar.

2. Give yourself a goal. Maybe you want to lose 10 pounds. Maybe you want to quarterback the New York Jets into the playoffs. But be warned: Losing 10 pounds is hard.

3. Develop a gym routine. Try to go at least three times a week. Do a mix of strength training and cardiovascular conditioning. After the third week, stop carrying around that satchel of fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies.

4. Don’t fall for gimmicks. The only tried-and-true method to lose 10 pounds in 48 hours is food poisoning.

5. Nope, that’s not a “recovery energy bar with antioxidant dark chocolate.” That’s a chocolate bar.

6. Avoid Unsolicited Advice Guy, who, for the small fee of boring you to death, will explain the proper method for any exercise in 45 minutes or longer.

7. You can take 10 Minute Abs, 20 Minute Abs, and 30 Minute Abs. There is also Stop Eating Pizza and Eating Sheet Cake Abs—but that’s super tough!

8. If you’re motivated to buy an expensive home exercise machine,

consider a “wooden coat rack.” It costs $40, uses no electricity and does the exact same thing.

9. If a gym class is going to be effective, it’s hard. If you’re relaxed and enjoying yourself, you’re at brunch.

10. If you need to bring your children, just let them loose in the silent meditation class. Nobody minds, and kids love candles.

11. Fancy gyms can be seduc-tive, but once you get past the modern couches and fresh flowers

and the water with lemon slices, you’re basically paying for a boutique hotel with B.O.

12. Everyone sees you se-cretly racing the old people in the pool.

13. Fact: Thinking about going

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14. A successful gym member-ship is like a marriage: If it’s good, you show up committed and ready for hard work. If it’s not good, you show up in sweatpants and watch a lot of bad TV.

15. There is no secret. Exercise and lay off the fries. The end.

— The Wall Street JournalSome people started off the

New Year at the gym. I started off with a supreme pizza from Mazzio’s and a hot fudge sundae from Braums . . . It may not have made me healthier but it sure made me happier.

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Martha Bolton writes that it’s not just the economy that sagging .

A few years ago I moved to the south. So did my body. In fact, there are several parts of me that have relocated to the deep south.

I’m not sure why, but gravity seems heavier in middle age than it did when I was younger. And therein lies the problem. You may not believe this, but gravity has gained weight. I’m still working on how to go about proving this, but I’m convinced it’s true. Just ask yourself, is it harder for you to get up from a sitting position these days? Is it harder for you to climb out of bed in the morn-ing? Is it harder for you to hold your head and shoulders back? If the answer is “yes.” Don’t be discouraged. It’s not you. It’s gravity. Gravity keeps gaining weight and we just can’t go on lifting it up anymore.

Gravity’s weight gain is the

reason behind the little flesh ava-lanches my body has been having lately. I’m convinced of it. These are parts of me that have stood faithfully at their posts decade after decade. There wasn’t a deserter among them. But now, these same parts have begun to give me the slip.

Take my eyebrows as just one example. Before hitting middle age, they used to sit firmly above my eyes. They were happy there. They didn’t have any real com-plaints. They didn’t shift to the right or to the left. They didn’t slide down or move over. They stayed perfectly in place, right where God originally designed them to be. Not once did I have to give them a second thought.

But something happened to them once I hit middle age. They let go, surrendered, they hoisted the white flag. They had held on for as long as they could, then simple gave up. They served me well, but they have now gone AWOL. At the present moment, both of my eyebrows are drooping down so low in front of my eyes, I can pluck them without using a mirror. Whenever I work at my computer now, I have to tilt my head back to keep them from slamming down on my keyboard. I can’t write this way. I need to see what letters I’m tyzping. (Sorry, that should have been “typing.” See what I mean?)

But I can’t put all the blame on my eyebrows. The little troopers have simple succumbed under the expanding weight of gravity.

A lot of me has given up and

let go lately. In addition to my

Country Commentslet go lately. In addition to my

Country Commentseyebrows, my cheeks have suf-eyebrows, my cheeks have suf-eyebrows, my cheeks have suffered substantial slippage, too, thanks to the added weight of the g-word. My cheeks used to have a firm grip on my facial bones, but not anymore. Now they’re hang-ing down like the jowls of a Saint Bernard. Even the best glamour photo can’t be touched up enough to hide something like that.

Every day I wonder what body part will become the latest ca-sualty in this seemingly uncon-trollable flesh avalanche. I’m dropping faster than the interest rates of 2003. I feel like a Mrs. Potato Head being rearranged by someone with a cruel sense of humor who’s playing around with all the parts, putting them in places they’ve never been before and do not belong.

Without a doubt, gravity has had the biggest effect on my skin. To put it bluntly, my skin has been my downfall. Menopausal skin is like pantyhose that start out at your waist in the morning and work their way down to your ankles by noon. You end up look-ing like you’re wearing slouch socks when you’re not.

But there’s not a lot we can do about any of this. Gravity is well past its middle age. If it’s going to gain weight, this is the time that it would be happening. Still it makes you wish that we could have been handed some sort of a

warranty at out birth, something

Country Commentswarranty at out birth, something

Country Commentsthat would cover us in middle age when we begin suffering signifi-cant body-part movement. Our homes are covered for foundation slippage. Why not our bodies? When you think about it, it’s not that far-fetched a concept. Both Betty Grab le and Mary Hart had their legs insured for a million dollars. Others have insured dif-dollars. Others have insured dif-dollars. Others have insured different parts of their bodies, too. Why couldn’t there be a Skin Slippage clause or a Falling Eye-Brow indemnity policy?

Another life-changing idea Country Comments

Another life-changing idea Country Comments

from just one middle-aged author. I’m going to have to buy a big-ger house just to display all the Nobels.

But I’m afraid until Lloyd’s of London or State Farm or some other insurance company finds a way to make this kind of policy affordable for everyday people, it’ll have to remain just another good idea. We’ll have to deal with the damages caused by Flesh Falls all on our own, and try our best not to trip over our ankles.

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MondayBreakfast — Breakfast Pizza, Fruit, Cereal, Milk, JuiceLunch — Sandwiches, Chips, Salad, Fruit, Milk

TuesdayBreakfast — Pancakes, Fruit, Cereal, Milk, JuiceLunch — Beef Tacos, Mexican Salad, Refried Beans, Fruit, Cinnamon

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FridayBreakfast — Biscuit & Gravy, Fruit, Cereal, Milk, JuiceLunch — Pizza, Salad, Green Beans, Fruit, Chocolate Cake, Milk

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MondayClosed

TuesdayCrispitoes with Chili Sauce, Mexicali Corn, Tossed Green Salad, Corn-

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WednesdayChicken Salad Sandwich on Wheat Bread, Lettuce, Tomato & Onion,

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Grace Laden and Taylor Johnson play the school song during the Mustangs game Tuesday. The two are in the Pep Band that plays at some home basketball games.


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I may never learn to use the ipod, the iphone, the ipad, Skype, and all the new things that have been introduced in this new world, or even enjoy the monthly magazines as I used to. Everything is changing. Even cursive writing is going by the wayside. Check out notes left by the new generation; the writing is very large and unless it is printed, may be hard to read. Noboby writes letters. Did you notice how few Christmas cards you received this year? I received

my first greeting cards by email. There was even a new program sold this year for computers to send out ecards.

I cancelled my long time subscription to the Reader’s Digest recently. There are no stories. Just small sections, sometimes four to a page, stating short facts about vari-ous subjects. Everything in it looks like an advertisement. You have to really begin to read what is written in order to determine that it is not, in fact, an ad.

Several years ago I bought

a group of magazines that were in a garage sale that the Frank Johnsons had. The dates of these magazines (mostly McCalls and Saturday Eve-ning Post) are all in the year 1960’s. The reason I bought those magazines is the fact that Phylece was born in 1961 and I wanted to have something from those years to see how life was in the world at that time. I picked up one today and thumbed through it Listed was a story of twenty-nine pages entitled The Doctor. In each magazine, there are several long, and very good, fictional stories. Each magazine has over 200 pages and are of a large size.

An article in one of the mag-azines was by Louella Parsons, the Hollywood gossip col-umnist. Her article was listed as her private story, entitled The First To Know, and she wrote about Grace Kelly, Judy Garland, Hedda Hopper, Joan Crawford’s marriages, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Doris

Day, Marlon Brando and every big star in Hollywood at the time.

Eleanor Roosevelt, Claire Booth Luce and Wallis, Duch-ess of Windsor were regu-lar monthly writers for these magazines.

There were also many ads in beautiful color. Each ad was a full page, or sometimes two. Many were for mink coats or

stoles. You will never see an ad for a mink coat in any of the magazines today. These were in the issues published during the winter months. The magazines are a work of art in themselves, compared to the magazines today. I am glad I bought and have saved them. They make interesting reading and are great reminders as to how life was in the 1960’s.

George “Bud” Wesley Ma-this, 72 of Holdenville, Okla-homa passed away on January 7, 2012 in Holdenville, Okla-homa.

Funeral ser-vices were 2:00 PM on Tuesday, January 10th, at the First Baptist Church of Hold-enville. Ronnie Mayfield and David Cranfield officiated. Pall-bearers were Steve Foster, Billy Weaver, Jay Greenlee, Dale Ramsey, Robert Morgan, and David Carter. Honorary pallbearers were Jeff Ledbet-ter, Ed Walker, and Chris Booth. Interment followed at Holdenville Cemetery in Holdenville, Oklahoma.

George Mathis was born on September 7, 1939 to Guss Dean Mathis and Eupha Glee Chaffin in Atwood, Oklahoma. He graduated from Calvin Public Schools and went on to graduate from Southeastern Oklahoma State University with Bachelor of Arts degree.

Bud later married Carolyn Jones on February 14, 1959 at the First Baptist Church of Holdenville, Oklahoma. Bud’s

hobbies included riding four-wheelers, hunting and loved to read. Bud was self-employed

as a real estate appraiser in the Holden-ville area. He was a long t ime resident of H o l d e n -v i l l e a n d First Baptist Church.

Bud is preceded in death by his parents, sis-ter Barbara

River and brother Jerry Ma-this. Bud is survived by his wife Carolyn; sons Gregory Keith Mathis and wife Stacy of Durant, and Steven Everrett Mathis of Holdenville; brothers, Sam Mathis and wife Francine of Atwood, Ben Mathis of Calvin, Troy Mathis and wife Dena of Eufaula, Joel Mathis and wife Debbie of Calvin; sister Marsha Mathis of Atwood; grandchildren Bryan Mathis, Jami Mathis, Joseph Mathis, Bailey Mathis, Justin Mathis; and great-granchild Mylee Mathis; as well as a host of other family and friends.

Service held forBud Mathis

Services for Wanda Charline Spann, 82, Ada, were 2:00 p.m. Monday, January 9th, at Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, the Rev. Bob Langston officiating. Burial follows at Allen Cemetery.

Mrs. Spann died Friday, January 6, 2012, at a Denton, Texas, hospital. She was born February 21, 1929, at Allen to Charlie and Dean Triplett Walker.

She graduated from Allen High School and attended East Central University.

She married Orval Spann in September 1949. He died in 1980. Mrs. Spann was a homemaker and later a checker at Dicus Gro-cery Store, retiring in 2000 after 20 years of service.

Survivors include a son, Robert Spann and his wife Masumi of Fort Collins, Colorado; three daughters, Susan Croley and her husband David of Talala, Sally Shippey of Hickory Creek, Texas, and Melissa Rollins and her husband Gary of Ada; two sisters, Kay Jared and her husband Ron of Bartlesville, and Joan Vandegriff and her husband Bob of Owasso; 10 grandchildren, Ruhi Spann, Ella Harry, Olinga Spann, Nabil Spann, Jeff Lamb, Jennifer Revard, Mike Shippey, Chris Shippey, Eric Rollins and Stephanie Ekal; and seven great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; three brothers, Aaron Walker, Leo Walker and Richard Walker; and one sister, Sue Clark. Her grandsons served as bearers.

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Cheetah died last week. His best friend and caregiver hauled the 140 pound dead chimp around on a cart so the other primates he lived with could say goodbye. Cheetah spent his last years at a road-side celebrity zoo near Tarpon Springs, Florida. Cheetah was later cremated with his remains placed in an attractive burial box for the memorial services. Over 60 people attended the old Tarzan movie chimp’s funeral bidding him a fond farewell as they buried him in a celebrity grave. Cheetah was 80 years old.

Those who were alive and going to movies back in the 40s and 50s remember just how important Cheetah was. Some of Tarzan’s survivors are leery of whether this is the same Cheetah and whether a chimp can even live this long. Experts are divided on this. Johnny Weissmuller himself, the best remembered of the Tarzan actors and who

was fired because he got too fat, didn’t like Cheetah. The chimp didn’t like him either and bit him several times while filming took place. Often times a Tarzan movie would replace a Friday-Saturday Western over at the Main Theater in Stonewall causing some con-troversy. Was it even proper to substitute a Tarzan movie in place of say, The Durango Kid? Eventually the Tarzan movies were booked to play on Wednesday and Thursday nights leaving the prime-time spots on the weekend to the beloved westerns.

After a Tarzan movie hit Stonewall it was just common to hear local kids personally rendering the Tarzan Yodel. Arguments sometimes erupted in the grade school about just who could do it best and thus school ground auditions and “concerts” were not uncom-mon to settle claims. My next door neighbor, Claude Crabtree Jr. broke his arm after one of the Tarzan movies dem-

onstrating his ability to swing from limb to limb on the giant trees in front of his house at the NE corner of Broadway and 8th —while yodeling. It was spectacular—both the Tarzan yell and the acrobatics not to mention the fall.

So Cheetah got a nice funeral but he was a movie star. Pity the less fortunate 20 head of cattle that died a horrendous death near Chicago recently in a gory cattle truck wreck on the interstate. PETA (Persons for Ethical Treatment of Animals) members officially petitioned the highway commission of Illinois to erect a memorial to the hapless-dead Bovines but a heartless highway official said that the only one who can re-quest such a memorial is a next of kin and so far no word from any of them. PETA wanted to draw attention to the inhumane way cows are treated and to the barbaric concept of actually raising helpless animals for the sole purpose of eating them.

Oddly enough, I recently heard a group of grownups discuss whether animals can go to heaven or not. Seems the talk was triggered by the stated intentions of one lady to be buried with her dog. “Sure, someone said, pets go to heaven.” “God made them too, didn’t he?” The argument fell into nothing since those that wanted their pets with them in Heaven believed they would go and those who said there was no scripture for such a thing (like me) would just as soon to do Heaven without all those dogs and cats. I’d hate to meet up with a certain big

black dog in heaven—the one I had to shoot for killing chick-ens and sucking eggs. But he probably wouldn’t have made the cut anyway.

Perhaps only good dogs and cats go to heaven—or not. We’ll find out one of these days. Meanwhile take care of yourselves these cold winter days and remember spring is just around the corner. I hope. Be sure and go to Church this Sunday. Maybe they’ll know about dogs and cats…and heaven.

Wayne Bullard, Pharm. D.

[email protected]

Back in the Wild West, a young gunfighter came to town to challenge the famous old shooter who resided there. As he entered the town, he passed the barn where the aging gun-man practiced his marksman-ship. On the walls of the barn,

there were several hundred little circles about two inches in circumferences, and every one had a bullet hole which was perfectly centered in each circle. The young man left town without even confronting the veteran gunman. What the young gun did not know was that the old gunfighter would fire a bullet into the barn and then draw a circle around the bullet hole as if he had per-fectly hit his target.

It seems that many people handle life as did the old gun-fighter. For example, why are you where you are in life? Have you simply drawn a circle around where you found yourself and claimed to have hit your target? Why do you live where you do? Have you

simply found yourself located where you are, drawn a circle around the place and said, “I have hit my target.” Why are you doing the work you do? Is it the job you wanted or were you simply offered the job right out of college, so you drew a circle around it, saying you had hit your target?

Why are you practicing the religion to which you belong? Was it the faith believed by your parents? Did you draw a circle around it and claim to have hit your target? Or, did you find a religious faith that pleased you, draw a circle around it and say, “This is the will of God.” Can we live as we please, worship as we please and serve God as we please and then say, “This is God’s will?” Jesus said, “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do as I say? (Luke 6:46)Lorissa Skelton of Allen is one of eleven recent graduates

of the Murray State College Occupational Therapy Assistant Program. A Pinning Ceremony was held on December 18th to mark the occasion with family and friends.

While at MSC, Lorissa was a model student and a great leader in the OTA program, serving as the Vice President of the Stu-dent Occupational Therapy Assistant Club. As Vice-President, she took a leadership role in club activities such as the club’s volunteer work at the Johnston County Health Fair, the Diabetes Coalition’s Annual Johnston County Diabetes Conference, and the Tishomingo Elementary School’s Jello Jamboree.

Lorissa served four fieldwork affiliations in the area. Her final two, eight-week affiliations were with Unity Health Center in Shawnee, under the supervision of Mr. Josiah Hadsall, OTR and with OT Solutions in Ada, under the supervision of MSC adjunct instructor Ms. Stephanie Whitney, OTA.

Those who have worked with Lorissa consider her a very promising candidate for certification as an Occupational Therapy Assistant and believe she will thrive in the profession.

Lorissa follows in the footsteps of her family as she gradu-ates from MSC. Her two older sisters graduated from the PTA program, Lacey in 2006 and Amber in 2002.

Lorissa Skelton Graduates from Murray State Program

The Allen Chamber of Commerce has begun their 2012 Membership Drive. Any business or individual wishing to become a member of this organization is invited to join.

The Chamber also offers an annual Flag Service and will place the U.S. flag at the location of your choice, within the city limits of Allen, for a fee of $15 per year.

For more information or to become a member contact Charles and Betty Speir at 857-2456.

Chamber Membership Drive

THE ALLEN ADVOCATE, JANUARY 12, 2012 - PAGE 6

LEGAL NOTICEIN THE DISTRICT COURT

IN AND FORPONTOTOC COUNTYSTATE OF OKLAHOMA

Case No. PB-2012-1IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ANNA LUPINSKI, DECEASED

COMBINED NOTICE TO CREDITORSAND

NOTICE OF HEARINGTO: All Persons Interested in the Estate of Anna Lupinski, Deceased. You are hereby notified that on January 3, 2012, the Petitioner, Rudolph Paul Lupinski,

filed in the District Court of Pontotoc County a Petition for Summary Administration. The Petitioner has alleged that Anna Lupinski died on December 25, 2011. The Decedent was domiciled a resident of Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, and the total value of the Decedent’s property in Oklahoma is less than One Hundred Seventy-Five Thousand Dollars ($175,000.00).

Pursuant to the Order for Combined Notice entered on January 3, 2012, all creditors having claims against Anna Lupinski, Deceased, are required to present the same with a description of all security interest and other collateral, if any, held by each creditor with respect to such claim to the Petitioner, Rudolph Paul Lupinski, c/o Denver N. Davison, P.O. Box 326, Ada, OK 74821-0326, on or before the presentment date of February 3, 2012, or the same will be forever barred.

Notice is hereby given that a hearing will be held on February 29, 2012 at 2:00 o’clock p.m. at the Pontotoc County Courthouse, Ada, Oklahoma, before the Judge of the District Court. At the hearing, the Court will decide whether to approve the Peti-tion for Summary Administration and the final account and petition for determination of heirs, legatees and devisees and distribution of the estate by the Petitioner. The final account and petition for determination of heirs, legatees and devisees and distribution will be filed herein on or before February 9, 2012.

You are hereby advised that you must file objections to the Petition for Summary Administration and the final account and petition for determination of heirs, legatees and devisees and distribution at least ten (10) days before the hearing and send a copy to the Petitioner, c/o Petitioner’s attorney, Denver N. Davison, P.O. Box 326, Ada, OK 74821-0326, or you will be deemed to have waived any objections. If you have no objections, you need not appear at the hearing nor make any filing with the Court.

If an objection is filed at least ten (10) days before the hearing, the Court will determine at the hearing whether the Will attached to the Petition shall be admitted to probate, whether summary proceedings are appropriate and, if so, whether the estate will be distributed and to whom the estate will be distributed.

s/Denver N. DavisonDENVER N. DAVISON, OBA #2229

Attorney for PetitionerP.O. Box 326

Ada, OK 74821 (Published in The Allen Advocate on January 5 and 12, 2012)

LEGAL NOTICEIN THE DISTRICT COURTOF PONTOTOC COUNTY

STATE OF OKLAHOMANo. P-2011-58

In the Matter of the Estate of MARY VIVIAN JARED, Deceased.NOTICE OF HEARING FIRST AND FINAL ACCOUNT, PETITION FOR DECREE

OF DISTRIBUTION, APPROVAL OF ATTORNEYS’ FEES, COSTS AND EXPENS-ES, APPROVAL OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE’S FEES AND DISCHARGE

OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE Notice is hereby given that Frank Jared, the duly appointed and qualified Personal

Representative of the Estate of Mary Vivian Jared, Deceased, has filed his Final Account, Petition for Decree of Distribution, Approval of Attorneys’ Fees, Costs and Expenses, Approval of Personal Representative’s fee and Discharge of Personal Representative. A hearing has been fixed by the Judge of the Court for January 30, 2012, at 9:00 a.m., in the District Courtroom, Pontotoc County Courthouse, Ada, Oklahoma, and all persons interested in the estate are notified to appear and show cause, if any they have, why the Account should not be settled and allowed, the Estate distributed, the Attorneys’ Fees, Costs, and Expenses approved, the Personal Representative’s fee approved and the Personal Representative discharged.

DATED this 3rd day of January, 2012.Thomas S. Landrith

Judge of the District Courts) Deresa GrayOBA#19110Attorney for Personal RepresentativeP.O. Box 1463 - Ada, OK 74820580/272-9300 - 580/272-9301 FAX (Published in The Allen Advocate on January 5 and 12, 2012)

FARMSERVICE AGENCY

Surplus Property AuctionThe Farm Service agency will sell a brick home and

62.08 acres located at 6630 E 138 Rd., Spaulding, OK, in Hughes County.

TRACT: Land consists of approximately 29 acres native pasture and 33 acres timber. The house is 1,480 sq. ft., and is older and in need of repair.

LEGAL DESCRIPTION: The SW4 NW4 NE4 and the E2 NW4 NE4 and all that part of the W2 SW4 NE4 and the NE4 SW4 NE4 of Section 10, Township 6 North, Range 8 East of I.M.,

lying North and West of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Right of Way; and all that part of the NE4 NE4 of Section 10, Township 6 North, Range 8 East of I.M., lying North and West of St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Right of Way, LESS AND EXCEPT a tract containing 3/4 of an acre, more or less, lying in the NE comer of said NE4 NE4 of said Section 10, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at NE corner of said NE4 NE4 of said Section 10; thence running West along Section line a distance of 210 feet; thence running at right angle in a Southerly direction to the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Right of Way; thence running in an Northeasterly direction to the East Section line of said Section 10; thence running North to the point of beginning, LESS AND EXCEPT all interest in and to all minerals and mineral rights, including oil and gas.

TERMS OF THE SALE: CASH ONLY. The successful bidder must furnish a 10% deposit in the form of a cashier’s check, certifi ed check, postal or bank money order or bank draft payable to FSA by close of business on the date of sale with the balance due at closing.

AUCTION: January 31, 2012, at 1:30 p.m., at the Hughes County Farm Service Agency offi ce, 419 E Highway St., Holdenville, OK 74848

OPEN HOUSE: January 26,2012, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon

Persons must agree, as a condition of the sale, to comply with the conditions of the Natural Resources Conservation Service conservation plan and any restrictions placed on the property by the Fish and Wildlife Service.

The Government reserves the right to cancel the sale at any time, and the right to reject any or all bids.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination in all its pro-grams and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, and marital or family status. (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.) Persons with disabilities who require altemative means for communication of program information (Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.) should contact USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TDD). To fi le a complaint of discrimination, write USDA, Director, Offi ce of Civil Rights, Room 326-W, Whitten Building, 14th and Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250-9410 or call (202) 720-5964 (voice or TDD). USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, contact the FSA Offi ce at:

Pontotoc County Farm Service Agency1328 Cradduck Rd.

Ada, OK 74820580-332-3070 X 2

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System . . . . . . putting people in motion since 1974

WHEREAS, In an effort to maximize coordination efforts, rural public transit systems in the nation receiving Section 5311 monies from the Federal Transit Administration are now required to conduct public meetings and/or open forums to solicit input into our trans-portation plans.

WHEREAS, Invitees must include all city/county govern-ments, private sector including interstate carriers, other public transportation providers, hu-man services organizations and Indian Tribes.

THEREFORE, you are in-vited to our Public Meeting, Wednesday, January 25 th, 2012 at the Pontotoc County Annex # 1 at 13th & Broadway, County Commissioners’ Of-fice, Ada, Oklahoma come and go from

10am to 11am. IF, you are unavailable at

that time, please send another representative.

OR, par t ic ipate in our Open Forum at our facility on Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 come and go from

12pm-3pm. Driving directions are South

on State Highway 1, one-half mile passed Holcim Cement Co., turn right (West) onto second street passed the bridge where you will see us in two white metal buildings surrounded by chain link fenc-ing.

THUS, we hope to see you soon.

Both the Pontotoc County Annex # 1 and our transit fa-cility are disabled accessible.

Thank you, Machelle Epperly

Tami Baker580-332-7056

(Published in The Allen Ad-vocate on January 12, 2012)


IN AND FORPONTOTOC COUNTYSTATE OF OKLAHOMA

Case No. P-09-44In the Matter of the Estate of LUCAS BOWDY WAINSCOTT, Deceased.NOTICE OF HEARING FIRST AND FINAL ACCOUNT AND PETITION FOR DE-

TERMINATION OF HEIRS, DISTRIBUTION, AND DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given that Carol Ann Wainscott, Administrator of the above Estate,

has presented for settlement and filed in said Court the First and Final Account and Petition for Determination of Heirs, Distribution, and Discharge, and that the 30th day of January 2012, at 3:00 o’clock p.m. in the District Court of Pontotoc County, Ada, Oklahoma, has been duly appointed by the Court for settlement of said account and for hearing said Petition, at which time and place any person interested may then and there show cause, if any they have, why said account should not be settled and allowed, the heirs determined and said Estate distributed as by law provided, and the Administrator discharged.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 10th day of January, 2012.

s) Thomas S. LandrithJudge of the District Court

Jerry L. Colclazier, OBA#13814Colclazier & Associates404 North Main StreetSeminole, OK 74868Telephone: (405) 382-1212Facsimile: (405) 382-1214Attorney for Administrator (Published in The Allen Advocate on January 12, 2012)

National Mentoring Month is being held in January as an opportunity to raise public awareness of the importance of mentoring, recognize the dedicated individuals who serve mentors, and encourage more citizens to help build a brighter future for Allen, Oklahoma’s youth through mentoring.

The Allen chapter of the Family Career and Commu-nity Leaders of America (FC-CLA) has begun a mentoring program between Allen High School students and Allen Elementary students in our community. The high school students meet with their ele-mentary students once a month where they spend time educat-ing them on a variety of impor-

tant life skills including self esteem, nutrition, teamwork, and succeeding in school. Dur-ing their monthly visits, they also spend one-on-one time listening and encouraging the students they work with. In honor of National Mentoring Month, we want to recognize the Allen FCCLA chapter for their contribution and service to our community.

As a highlight of National Mentoring Month, Thank Your Mentor Day™ will also be celebrated on January 26. On that day, Americans are en-couraged to reach out to thank or honor those individuals who encouraged and guided them,

and had a lasting, positive im-pact on their lives.

NOW, THEREFORE, I , Dianna Branna, Mayor of Allen, Oklahoma proclaim January 2012 as Mentoring Makes a Difference Month, and call upon the people of the Allen to recognize the importance of mentoring, to look for opportunities to serve as mentors in their communities, and to observe this month with appropriate activities and programs.

s) Dianna BrannanAllen Mayor

s) Crissy FenwickAllen FCCLA Mentoring

Project Chairmans) Shelby Merriman

Allen FCCLA Mentoring Project Chairman

Mentoring Makes a Difference Month Proclaimed for Allen Oklahoma


By HERMAN BROWNAllen Mustang correspon-

dent

The Allen Mustangs won two of three games during last weekend’s annual Moss Invita-tional Basketball Tournament. The effort was good enough to secure a third-place plaque at Moss.

Coach Greg Mills beat Kio-wa on Thursday, lost to Depew on Friday, and finished with a win over Bowlegs on Saturday. Allen came away from the Moss High School tournament with two blowout wins and one 3-point loss.

On Thursday, the Mus-tangs had no trouble notch-ing a 63-34 triumph over the Kiowa Cowboys. Coach Mills’ squad outscored Kiowa in all four quarters en route to the 29-point victory.

Allen led 20-11 after one quarter and 35-19 going into halftime. The Mustangs then outscored the Cowboys 13-5 in the third quarter and 15-10 in the fourth. The result was a one-side decision in the opener.

Three of the Mustangs scored in double figures. Lane Mills and Grant Rowsey were tops with 16 points. Connor Johnson joined them in double digits with 11 points.

Brady Caldwell led the others with 7 points. Zayne Erickson was right behind with 6 and Brett Edens added 5. Dakota Nickell finished with 2 points.

By winning, Allen advanced on to the semi-finals on Fri-day.

The Mustangs then played a see-saw game against the Depew Hornets in the second round game.

Allen led 10-7 after one quarter. Depew then rallied to a 22-19 halftime advantage. The Mustangs countered in the third quarter to re-take the lead. They outscored the Hor-nets 19-9 for a 38-31 cushion. However, Allen saw the cush-ion evaporate when Depew responded with a 28-point

scoring explosion in the fourth quarter. The Hornets were able to slip ahead and win 59-56.

The outcome was decided by 3-point scoring. Allen con-nected on four treys for 12 points. Depew drilled nine treys for 27 points. That was a 15-point advantage from behind the arc in a game they won by only three points.

Brett Edens scored a game-high 21 points. Edens produced the points with five field goals, two treys and a near-perfect 5 for 6 from the free throw line.

Two others joined Edens in double figures, including Grant Rowsey with 15 points and Lane Mills with 12. Brady Caldwell added 5 points and Connor Johnson chipped in 3.

The loss to Depew dropped Allen into the third place game on Saturday. Once there, they made the most of the opportu-nity. The Mustangs crushed the Bowlegs Bison 70-29.

The Mustangs trailed 13-10 after one quarter of play. However, they surged back to outscore Bowlegs 18-7 in the second quarter, 23-4 in the third, and 19-5 in the fourth.

The combined advantage in scoring over the last three peri-ods was 60-16. That clinched a 70-29 victory.

Three Mustangs ended the game in double-digit scoring. Brady Caldwell poured in a game-high 19 points. Lane Mills was second on the chart with 13 points. Connor John-son tossed in 12 points.

Joseph Hopper just missed double-digits with 9 points. Grant Rowsey and Brett Edens contributed 6 points each. Zayne Erickson added 3 points and Logan Dennis had 2.

The weekend win over the Bison sent Allen home with third-place honors.

Allen is now 10-2 on the season. The Mustangs won the Pontotoc Conference tourna-ment in December and took third in the Moss tournament.

---MOSS TOURNAMENT

First RoundAllen 63, Kiowa 34

Mustangs lock up third place in tournamentTHE ALLEN ADVOCATE, JANUARY 12, 2012

Mustangs lock up third place in tournamentTHE ALLEN ADVOCATE, JANUARY 12, 2012 - PAGE 7

Mustangs lock up third place in tournament - PAGE 7

Allen crushes Bowlegs Bison 70-29 in Saturday showdown at MossKHS – 11 – 8 – 5 – 10 –

(34)AHS – 20 – 15 – 13 – 15 –

(63)Allen scoring: Lane Mills

16, Grant Rowsey 16, Connor Johnson 11, Brady Caldwell 7, Zayne Erickson 6, Brett Edens 5, and Dakota Nickell 2.

---SemifinalsDepew 59, Allen 56

DHS – 7 – 15 – 9 – 28 – (59)

AHS – 10 – 9 – 19 – 18 – (56)

Allen scoring: Brett Edens 21, Grant Rowsey 15, Lane Mills 12, Brady Caldwell 5, and Connor Johnson 3.

---Third Place GameAllen 70, Bowlegs 29BHS – 13 – 7 – 4 – 5 –

(29)AHS – 10 – 18 – 23 – 19 –

(70)Allen scoring : Brady

Caldwell 19, Lane Mills 13, Connor Johnson 12, Joseph Hopper 9, Grant Rowsey 6, Brett Edens 6, Zayne Erickson 3, and Logan Dennis 2.

By HERMAN BROWNAllen Mustang correspon-

dentThe Allen Lady Mustangs

earned fourth place in the recent Moss Invitational Bas-ketball Tournament. The AHS girls were ranked fifth heading into the event. However, they won the opener and ended up ahead of the predicted finish.

On Thursday, Allen faced the Stonewall Lady Longhorns in the first game of the tourna-ment. Coach Jeremy Strong’s girls started off strong with a double-digit victory over Stonewall.

The Lady Mustangs got hot in the second quarter and turned an 8-6 lead into a 22-12 halftime advantage. After the break, Allen outscored SHS 9-5 to extend the lead to 31-17. Stonewall managed a 12-10 edge in the fourth quarter. Even so, that was not enough to threaten the Lady Mustangs. They kept the final margin to double figures at 41-29.

Marissa Prentice was once again Allen’s leading scorer with 10 points. She was the only Lady Mustang to pro-duce double-digit scoring. Aussie Riddle was next in the balanced attack with 7 points. Kaitlyn Merriman and Amber Coody added 6 points each while Jocee Bailey and Beyla Skelton followed with 5 points each. Cheyenne Nickell rounded out the attack with 2 points each.

Allen’s win over Stonewell sent the Lady Mustangs into the tournament semi-finals on Friday. Waiting for them there were the high-powered New Lima Falconettes.

New Lima seized control from the opening tip and never looked back. The Falconettes led 19-2 after one quarter. However, Allen showed life over the second and third quarters by outscoring New Lima in each of those frames. The Lady Mustangs shaded the Falconettes 13-9 in the second period to make it a 28-15 half-time score. AHS then edged New Lima 10-9 in the third stanza to cut the deficit to 37-25. Any hopes of a comeback faded down the stretch. Allen was outscored 9-8 to end up on the short end of a 46-33 final score.

The Lady Mustangs were led in scoring by Jocee Bailey and Amber Coody with eight points each. Beyla Skelton was next with seven points. Aussie Riddle chipped in five points. Erin Warren finished with three points. Marissa Prentice completed the list with two points.

The loss Friday dropped the Allen girls into the third/fourth

place game on Saturday. The Lady Mustangs met the Kiowa Cowgirls in the Moss High School gym.

Allen started off the contest with a solid 22-11 lead in the first quarter. The Lady Mus-tangs were still on top, 36-29, going into the mid-game inter-mission.

The Cowgirls outscored AHS 19-7 during the third quarter. In doing so, Kiowa stormed into a 48-53 lead. Allen then matched KHS’ 10 points in the fourth quarter. However, the Lady Mustangs were un-able to overtake Kiowa. Allen ended up on the short end of a 58-53 final score. The verdict earned Kiowa third place and left the Lady Mustangs with fourth place.

In a rare situation, four Al-len girls scored 11 points in the game. The four double-digit scorers with 11 each were Jocee Bailey, Marissa Prentice, Aussie Riddle and Amber Coody. The other two scorers were Cheyenne Nickell with 5 points and Kaitlyn Merriman with 4.

The second consecutive loss by the Allen girls left their re-cord at 10-2 on the season.

---Moss Tournament

First roundAllen 41, Stonewell 29SHS - 6 - 6 - 5 - 12 - (29)AHS - 8 - 14 - 9 - 10 - (41)

Allen scoring: M. Prentice 10, A. Riddle 7, K. Merriman 6, and Amber Coody 6, J. Bailey 5, B. Skelton 5 and C. Nickell 2.

---SemifinalsNew Lima 46, Allen 33NL - 19 - 9 - 9 - 9 - (46)AHS - 2 - 13 - 10 - 8 - (33)

Allen scoring: J. Bailey 8, A. Coody 8, B. Skelton 7, A. Riddle 5, E. Warren 3, and M. Prentice 2.

---Third Place gameKiowa 58, Allen 53KHS - 11 - 18 - 19 - 10 - (58)AHS - 22 - 14 - 7 - 10 - (53)

Allen scoring: J. Bailey 11, M. Prentice 11, A. Riddle 11, A. Coody 11, C. Nickell 5, and K. Merriman 4.

Lady Mustangs take fourth at Moss tourneyAllen girls down Stonewall before falling to New Lima and Kiowa

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Senior Jocee Bailey gets between the goal and the Stonewall player. Tupelo comes to town Friday for a Homecoming contest.

Brady Caldwell and the Mustangs brought home the third place trophy in the tough Moss Tournament.

The annual Atwood Alumni Reunion, always held the last Saturday before the 4th of July, was held this year on July 2nd. It was well attended and enjoyed by all those present. A potluck meal and a short business meeting were the highlights of the evening, plus lots and lots of visiting.

Those attending were: Velda Paylor Gordon, Don and Cole-na Huffstutler, Ralph and Jim-mie Nell Turpin, Jim and Hilda Wilkerson, Merle Wilkinson, Don and Nina Hassel, Myron and Laverne January, J D Gray, Barbara French, Jan French Hannah, L O and Marilyn Harrington, J R Lively, Larry and Betty Mckinzie, Barbara Whisenhunt, Ron Watson, Norma Hayes Deal, Harold and Betty Phillips, Otto and Imogene Harrington,

Haskell and Thelma Golden, Alene Borders, Karen Holman, T J and Patsy Mitchell, Frank Kelly, Wendell and Gail Pierce, Bobby Perkins, Bill and Jean Milner, Ron Hall, Jerry and Donna Shepherd, Margie Mer-riman, Carolyn Sue Osmond, Harold West and Dianne, Jay Rowsey, Dick Wilkerson, Lar-ry and Jo Ellen Goddard, Rob-ert Phillips, Bill Cates, Joyce Woodell, Lawanda Thornton, Glenn Gibson,

Sallie Stafford, Coy West, Ann Barton, Barbara Stew-art Wilson, Benny and Anita Wilkerson, Bently and Glenda Singleton, Doyle and Carolyn Cooper, Mary Chaffin Allred, and Ozell Youngblood.

Atwood Reunion Only 6 Months AwayTHE ALLEN ADVOCATE, JANUARY 12, 2012 - PAGE 8

Bobbie and Clifford Wilson attended the 2011 Atwood School Reunion this past July.

These hard working ladies registered guests and help set up the 2011 Atwood Reunion. Pictured, left to right, are Donna Fleming Shepherd, Imogene Leach Harrington, Patsy McKenzie Mitchell and Anita Douglas Wilkerson.

Donnie Huffstutlar and Dick Wilkerson share a visit at the 2011 Atwood School Reunion.

Enjoying the 2011 Atwood School Reunion were Coy West, Sally (Brown) Stafford

Wendell and Gail Pierce enjoyed seeing friends and former classmates at the Atwood School Reunion.

Regular attendees of the annual Atwood School Reunion are Mr. & Mrs. Bentley Singleton.

Our precious mother, Mimi Maria Massad, peacefully went to be with her Lord on January 9, 2012 surrounded by her five chil-dren at her home in Holdenville, Oklahoma. Mimi was born on May 30, 1926 in Bologna, Italy to John and Maria Neri. She had six brothers and one sister all from Italy.

At the age of 15 she went to Paris, France where she sang in the French Opera House a l o n g s i d e Charles Boy-er and lived with a Count and Count-ess during WWII. She then met and married Col-onel George H. Massad. Mimi then came to the United States a s a w a r bride. When they landed in New York, they set out in an Army Jeep and traveled to Tyler, Texas to stay with her brother-in-law.

Our parents then started suc-cessful businesses and a family of five and made their home in Holdenville, Oklahoma. You could always find her at Mas-sad’s Vogue sitting for hours and telling her stories to the custom-ers. She was always dressed so elegantly and wearing her 3” heels and sparkling jewelry. One of her passions was crocheting and she made many beautiful dresses and blankets of which she gave to family and friends. Our mother never met a stranger and always gave to others in need. She was very devoted to her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren and loved them all dearly.

She is preceded in death by her

parents, John and Maria Neri, her husband, Col. George H. Massad, and five brothers of France and Italy.

She is survived by one brother, Pachi Neri of Corsica, France and one sister Rosetta Neri of Paris, France; her five children, Georgia Massad-Herdlitchka, Linda Massad, Jeanette Ander-son, George Massad Jr., and John

Massad; her grand-children, Kristi Milligan, Heather Wahlquist, Da-vanee Wahlquist, Justin Anderson, Michael Ander-son, Eric Massad, Michael Massad, Broderic Massad, Madison Massad, and Shandra Mas-sad; her great-grandchildren, Kaitlin Milligan, Maci Milligan, Barbarella Cas-s a v e t e s , a n d Brody Massad.

P a l l -bearers will be her

grandsons, Michael Anderson, Justin Anderson, Eric Massad, Broderic Massad, Michael Mas-sad, Michael Milligan, and Nick Cassavetes. Honorary pallbear-ers, Walter Bishop, Jerry Hoover, Terry Swazye, Chuck Spreyer, Bill Robinson, Ty Hignite, and Josh Rollins.

She will be remembered most for the love she had for God, her family, her two poodles, and the kindness she always showed toward others.

Services are scheduled for 1:00 PM on Friday, January 13th, at the Barnard Memorial Methodist Church in Holdenville, Okla-homa. Interment will follow at Fairview Cemetery in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Services are under the direction of Hudson-Phillips Funeral Home in Holdenville, Oklahoma.

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Zelda Lee Morris passed from this life January 9, 2012 at the Holdenville General Hospital at the age of 91. She was the first of ten children born to Ira J. Blackburn and Agnes P. Gardner Blackburn at Atwood, Oklahoma on N o v e m b e r 16, 1920.

Preceding her in death are her husband Carl Morris of W e t u m k a , three brothers, Boise Dale, Glen Austin, and David Ray Blackburn, a sister Janet Treat, and a granddaughter Charla Jean Moody.

After graduating high school, Zelda attended East Central State College in Ada where she obtained her teaching certificate and Masters Degree in Education. She taught elementary grades in Wetumka and several nearby communities for thirty two years. When asked a couple of years ago, she said she remembered every one of her students. She was a lifetime member of the First Baptist Church in Wetumka and a strong supporter of the youth camp at Falls Creek. She loved God and God’s children.

Survivors include two

children, Donna Vee Moose of Tulsa and John Michael Kirby of Wewoka; her sisters, Alene Borders of Dennison, Texas, Anna Lou Hayes of Oklahoma City, Peggy Merriman of Atwood, Carolyn Sue Osmond

of Bixby, and Margie Merriman and husband J.C. of Holdenville; t h r e e grandchildren, Kirby Lynn Moose of Kilgore, Texas and Erika Findley and Tennille Taylor of Wewoka; five great grandchildren, Josiah Moody,

Cailin Taylor, Dalton Findley, Madysin Taylor, and Morgan Findley; along with several nieces, nephews, other relatives and many friends.

Funeral services will be Friday, January 13th, at 2:00 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in Wetumka with Rev. Claude Butler, pastor, officiating. Pallbearers will be Josiah Moody, Kirby Moose, Brad Moody, Dalton Findley, Allen Carter, and Steve Palladino. Honorary bearers will be Kenneth Fields, Bob Collins, and Bill Hudspeth. Interment will be in the Wetumka Cemetery under the direction of Williamson-Spradlin Funeral Home.

Service Friday for Zelda Morris

Rail Line Project still hopefulBy Bob Melton

Holdenville NewsAlthough most people still

consider it a long shot, a group of supporters are still convinced that the old rail line between McA-lester and Shawnee will still be reopened in the near future after shutting down over twenty years ago. If this project does become a reality, Holdenville will have

an especially strong potential for development since it would serve as a crossroads between the new Arkansas-Oklahoma Railroad line and the already existing BNSF Railroad line.

One of the strongest supporters is Oklahoma House Speaker Kris Steele, who has stated that he is fully dedicated to doing what he

can to ensure that this rail line is replaced and functional as soon as possible. Many companies and other groups have also expressed interest in getting the line open again, offering rail access from Shawnee through Seminole, We-woka, Holdenville, Calvin and McAlester.

David Donoley, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Arkansas-Oklahoma Railroad Co. explains that the family owned and operated rail line is already serving customers along a 118 mile corridor between Howe, Ok. and McAlester; and from Shaw-nee to Midwest City.

Donoley had applied for a Transportation Investment Gen-erating Economic Recovery (TI-GER) grant in October that would have pumped $15 million into the project. Unfortunately, he learned in late December that the application has been denied. The grant would have been used to repair the rail line from Shawnee

to Wewoka. Donoley and Steele remain optimistic that they will be able to secure a similar grant later this year after receiving an endorsement for the project from the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT). There is a specific study the federal government relies on for informa-tion regarding economic recovery grants, and ODOT has agreed to fund this study, according to Steele.

Shawnee City Manager Brian McDougal said the biggest thing

about the railroad that he and the city of Shawnee are looking forward to is the potential for it to create a lot of industrial jobs. He notes that the city of Shawnee has received letters of support from Oklahoma Governor Mary Fal-lin’s office, Oklahoma Congress-man James Lankford’s office, and Speaker Steele’s office all stating they are in favor of the project.

Although there have been many false starts in the past, it is starting to appear that this latest effort just might be the one that succeeds.

Students who are on the PRESI-DENT’S HONOR ROLL, with a perfect 4.0 grade point average, are listed by hometowns with their majors:

ALLEN – Sierra Nicole Barn-hart, elementary education; Leah A. Chermack, business adminis-tration (management information systems); Kaci Beth Johnson, elementary education; Samantha Jane Manuel, English (teacher certificate).

ATWOOD – Oneta L. Frazier, business administration (manage-ment information systems).

CALVIN – Ashlan Mae Wilson, family & consumer sciences edu-cation.

Students on the DEANS’ HON-OR ROLL, with at least 12 credit hours and a 3.33 grade point average, are listed by their home-towns:

ALLEN – Felicia Renae Gil-liam, nursing; Kaitlyn Cheyenne Hatton, English; Cassie Marie Johnson, business administration (general business); Samantha D. McKay, social work; Caitlin Eliz-abeth Spencer, English (teacher certificate).

CALVIN – Derek Colten An-derson, pre-engineering; Kaleb Brent Blaylock, accounting; Corby Todd King, cartography (geography); Felisha Kayann Ring, English (teacher certifi-cate).

ECU Honor Roll Released


These Atwood grads enjoyed being together again at the 2011 school reunion. Pictured are (back) Frank Kelly and T.J. Mitchell; and (front) Otto Harrington, and Haskell and Thelma (Wright) Golden.


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Affiant further states that this action is brought for a dissolution of marriage and that it is one of the first class of cases prescribed by the Statutes of the State of Oklahoma, in which service by publication maybe had.

Affiant further states that the Respondent resides out of the State of Oklahoma, and is a non-resident of this State and that Petitioner cannot, with due diligence, secure service of summons upon the said Respondent within the State of Oklahoma.

Affiant further states that the present residence and the present address of the Respondent is unknown to this Petitioner and that the last known address and place of residence of said Respondent is also unknown, and that Petitioner wishes to obtain service upon the said Respondent by publication.

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NAH! Just Beta Sigma Phi sisters carpooling to Ada!

Members Cindy Davis, Lyn Anderson, Rhonda Skelton, Tammy Fredrick, Jennifer Smith, Jill Kaminski and Cindi Sanders met at the home of hostess Pat Johnson where they enjoyed a menu of chicken and rice casserole, green beans, fiesta corn, broccoli salad, a

cheese ball with crackers and, for dessert, banana pudding and a wonderful chocolate caramel cake. Everyone en-joyed, discussing the Wal Mart Flash Mob, attending the Beta Sigma Phi convention in July, costumes for the Mystery Din-ner, and relaxing. It was a fun time.

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There has been a half hour change in our schedule this year. Prayer Meeting and Youth Group time on Wednesday evenings has been changed to 6:30. The Bible Study and prayer time for the Old Group is still being held in the old fellowship hall and Youth Group meets in the new Fellowship Hall.

Sunday-go-to-meeting times are still 10:00 A.M. for Sunday School, 11:00 A.M. for Morning Worship Service, and 5:00 P.M. for the Eve-ning Bible Study and Youth Groups. You are invited to attend all of these services that you can.

The chariot van is leaving from the church at 5:00 P.M. on Sunday evening, January 15th, headed for the Associational Worship Service and Youth Rally at FBC in Seminole. You are welcome to ride along in the van or take your own, but either way you’ll be glad you at-tended.

Saturday, on January 21st at 6:00 P.M. is when the pancake supper and movie night is scheduled. The movie is Courageous, which was #1 at the box office for several weeks.

On January 22nd at 2:00 in the afternoon our church will be holding deacon ordination services for James Hammonds. Everyone is invited to join us for this important occasion.

Work on the inside of the parsonage is almost finished. A couple of cabinets and some trim that weren’t installed before Christmas are scheduled to be installed this week. Then a few more things need to be completed on the outside as the weather and everyone’s schedule permits. Our Atwood neighbors will be glad to know that the remod-eling debris will eventually be hauled off to the dump--that is unless we take a notion to use it for a creative yard art contest.

On Sunday morning Tom Spillman, accompanied by Wyatt Deaton on guitar, sang “When my Savior Reached Down for Me” as the special music selection. We’re glad Tom and Margie are both feeling better after their round with the winter cold and flu miseries and that Tom feels up to singing again.

Rev. Karch’s message was titled “Steps to Spreading the Gospel” and was taken from the sixth chapter of Isaiah.

Like Isaiah, we can begin by recognizing the glory of God. A good place to begin is by observing God’s power and glory in all that He has created. We can, at the very least, mention these things that we see in nature to the people around us.

Second, like Isaiah, we are to be cleansed by accepting Jesus as our Lord and Savior. If we are Christians who have strayed, we can ask for forgiveness and begin to live consistently as a Christian.

Third, we should be willing to sacrifice our own selfish interests to do God’s work. We must develop a heart to receive God’s directives each day and do as we feel He is leading us.

This leads to the fourth step, which is that our life is to be such that people see God through us. Then we are in a position to share the gospel message with them.

Fifth, there is no time limit on how long we can serve. God does not discriminate against older people.

We are challenged to begin following Isaiah’s example immediately and think about what we can do to serve God.

We started the day off with our monthly breakfast. We appreciate the good cooks that we have in the church.

We had our Sunday School classes and learned about Abraham and the trials and blessings that he had in his life. During the worship service we talked about the answers to prayer and prayed for the many on our prayer list.

Our special was sung by Jeremy Beck and was entitled “That’s Just the Way He Was Raised.” It’s good to have our young adults singing for us.

Bro. Larry’s sermon was taken from Psalm 29:1-11 and entitled “Give Glory to God.” We are all too often overly concerned with “My Own Little World.” Not that we don’t care about others. We just know our own situation so much better. It is very difficult for us to stop and consider the awesome nature of God. The Psalmist is challenging us to do just that.

Consider and meditate upon these truths about God. He is glorious, powerful, worthy of all our praise and He is holy. And He is in control. We live in a chaotic world. Everywhere we look we see corruption, greed, cruelty, indifference and pain. We need to be reminded that what we see is not all there is. God created this world and is still concerned about it.

When was the last time you felt like giving up? What drained you of your strength or robbed you of your joy? Remember this, when our strength is gone, His is just beginning. You and I do not have to be strong in ourselves. We have One upon whom we can lean. Perhaps the greatest blessing that God gives us is the promise of peace. He does not promise to keep hardship and trials way from us. But He does promise us that we will never be alone.

We invite you and your family to worship with us.

We started the day off with our monthly breakfast. We appreciate the good cooks that we have in the church.

We had our Sunday School classes and learned about Abraham and the trials and blessings that he had in his life. During the worship service we talked about the answers to prayer and prayed for the many on our prayer list.

Our special was sung by Jeremy Beck and was entitled “That’s Just the Way He Was Raised.” It’s good to have our young adults singing for us.

Bro. Larry’s sermon was taken from Psalm 29:1-11 and entitled “Give Glory to God.” We are all too often overly concerned with “My Own Little World.” Not that we don’t care about others. We just know our own situation so much better. It is very difficult for us to stop and consider the awesome nature of God. The Psalmist is challenging us to do just that.

Consider and meditate upon these truths about God. He is glorious, powerful, worthy of all our praise and He is holy. And He is in control. We live in a chaotic world. Everywhere we look we see corruption, greed, cruelty, indifference and pain. We need to be reminded that what we see is not all there is. God created this world and is still concerned about it.

When was the last time you felt like giving up? What drained you of your strength or robbed you of your joy? Remember this, when our strength is gone, His is just beginning. You and I do not have to be strong in ourselves. We have One upon whom we can lean. Perhaps the greatest blessing that God gives us is the promise of peace. He does not promise to keep hardship and trials way from us. But He does promise us that we will never be alone.

We invite you and your family to worship with us.

Atwood FBC News

Atwood Nazarene Church News

Harmony Missionary News


David and Vickie Randall of Ada were out & about Monday evening, enjoying dinner with his sister and family, Beth and Paul Evett and Jennie.

—O&A— Jearl and Linda Knighten vis-

ited with Mazie Knighten and Ruth Ashby this last Thursday evening in the Valley View Regional Hospital, Ada.

—O&A— D.J. and Jane Cassell enjoyed

holiday visits from Dwayne Cassell of Elmore City, and Noel and Ashley Arnold and Jax of Edmond.

—O&A— Attending the New Year’s

Eve celebration at the First Baptist Church were Chad

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—O&A— Holiday guests at the home of

Tom and Agnes Taylor includ-ed Tommy and Casey Long of Ada; Garrett and Michaela Wright, Thomas and Aiden of Tribune, Kansas; Monte and Carol Taylor of Moore; Pres-ton and Dani Marshall of Ada; Chris and Lindy Taylor of El Reno; George and Ethol Qual-los of Euless, Texas; Greg and Leigh-Anna Qualls, Abby and Anna, of Euless, Texas; and

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Don Olivo and Marilyn Coulson enjoyed Christmas visits from her sons, Matthew and Michael Coulson, both of Yukon.

The four were holiday guests in the home of Terry and Tacy Olivo and family.

—O&A— Mike Summers of Haflin,

Louisiana was out & about for three days last week visiting his mother, Jan Luna.

This past Monday, Jan had the privilege of baby-sitting with granddaughter, Diamond Summers, while her son, Terry and Rhonda Summers shopped in the area.

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12 pkcans

Pillbury Grands

Saltine CrackersPremium

Miracle Whip or Mayonaise

5$

U.S. #1

5$10 LbBag

16.3 oz Can

TenderloinRoastLean Boneless Pork

30 oz Jar

Ice CreamShurfine

Lb

79¢

299$2 LbBox

1$

Pork Chops

Thin Cut Breakfast

99¢BIG 24 oz Loaf

299$

DetergentSun Liquid

199$45 oz Bottle

2 for 5$

2 Liter Bottle

Corn King

249$Lb 2

Russet Potatoes

399Lb

$4$216 oz

Box

Original or Unsalted Tops

original only

original or diet

assorted $3.89varieties

99144 ozPail

Gal259$3$2 9-10 oz box

TeaRed Diamond

Sweet - Unsweetor Sugar Free

2all varieties14-16 oz Pkgs

3$1 LbPkg2289$

12 ozcan 2 10 oz

can

Chicken Noodle or Tomato

Rib Eye Steak

original or hot

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